title: FPS
text: # FPS
  
  FPS may refer to:
  
  ## Arts and entertainment
  
  * "F.P.S." (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), an episode of the TV show Law & Order: Criminal Intent
  * FPS Magazine, a defunct magazine about animation
  * The Fabulous Picture Show, a television show on Al Jazeera English
  * Facepunch Studios, a British video game developer
  * First-person shooter, a video game which focuses typically on shooting guns from a first-person perspective
  * Five Point Someone, a novel by Chetan Bhagat
  * Front Porch Step, American musician
  * Funday PawPet Show, an Internet puppet show
  
  ## Education
  
  * Fargo Public Schools, in North Dakota, United States
  * Foundation Public School, in Pakistan
  * French Pastry School, a cooking school in Chicago, Illinois, United States
  * Future Problem Solvers, an educational competition
  
  ## Financial
  
  * Faster Payments Service, a British banking initiative
  * Faster Payment System, a Hong Kong payment system
  
  ## Government and politics
  
  * Facilities Protection Service, of the Government of Iraq
  * Federal Protective Service (Russia)
  * Federal Protective Service (United States)
  * Federal Public Service, of the Federal Government of Belgium
  * Free Party Salzburg (German: Freie Partei Salzburg), a political party in Austria
  * Freedom Party of South Tyrol (German: Freiheitliche Partei Südtirols), a defunct political party in Italy
  
  ## Science and technology
  
  ### Units of measure
  
  * Foot per second
  * Foot-pound-second system
  * Frames per second, the frequency (rate) at which consecutive images (frames) appear on a display
  
  ### Computing
  
  * FairPlay Streaming, a digital rights management technology by Apple
  * Fast packet switching, in networks
  * Fitness proportionate selection, a genetic operator used in genetic algorithms
  * Floating Point Systems, a defunct American computer hardware company
  
  ### Other uses in science and technology
  
  * Fear potentiated startle, a reflexive physiological reaction
  * Fission power system
  * Focal-plane shutter, in optical systems
  * Forties pipeline system in the North Sea
  * Frontal protection system, for vehicles
  * Sn-glycerol-3-phosphate 2-alpha-galactosyltransferase, also known as floridoside-phosphate synthase
  
  ## Sport
  
  * FPS (ice hockey), a Finnish ice hockey team
  * Frames per stop, a bowling industry term
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
  * Finchley Progressive Synagogue
  