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FOS or Fos may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
[edit]- Fos (EP), by Elena Paparizou
- Fortress of Solitude, fictional base of Superman
Food
[edit]- French onion soup, a dish
- Fructooligosaccharide, a sweetener
Government, law and military
[edit]- Financial Ombudsman Service, in the United Kingdom
- Financial Ombudsman Service (Australia)
- Forward Operating Site, in the U.S. military
- Freedom of speech, a human right
- Future Office System, Scottish prosecutors' case system
People
[edit]- Fos Williams (1922–2001), Australian-rules footballer
- Peter J. Fos (born 1949), American academic administrator
Places
[edit]- Fos, Haute-Garonne, France
- Fos, Hérault, France
- Fos-sur-Mer, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
- Marseille-Fos Port, France
- Forrest Airport, Western Australian refuelling airfield, IATA code FOS
- French Overseas Territories, UNDP country code, see Overseas territory (France)
Science and technology
[edit]- Fabric OS, in networking
- Factor of safety, in engineering
- Feature-oriented scanning, in microscopy
- Faint Object Spectrograph, on the Hubble Space Telescope
- Fields of Science and Technology, a classification for academic statistics
- Flowers of sulfur
- Flowers of sulfur tests
Molecular biology
[edit]FOS-family transcription factors:
- c-Fos, a proto-oncogene
- FosB, a proto-oncogene
- ΔFosB, a truncated splice variant of FosB
- FOSL1, Fos-related antigen 1
- FOSL2, Fos-related antigen 2
Other uses
[edit]- Florida Ornithological Society, United States
- FOS Open Scouting, a Belgian youth organisation
- Goodwood Festival of Speed, an English hill-climbing event