FPS
# 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
