Fast or FAST may refer to:
== Arts and entertainment == "Fast" (Juice Wrld song), 2019 "Fast" (Luke Bryan song), 2016 "Fast" (Sueco song), 2019 "Fast" (GloToven song), 2019 Fast, an album by Custom, 2002 Fast, a 2010 short film starring Charlyne Yi "Fast (Motion)", 2021 song by Saweetie Fast & Furious, an action franchise "Fast" (Demi Lovato song), 2025 ==Astronomy & astrophysics== Farpoint Asteroid Search Team, an asteroid search team located at the Farpoint Observatory Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer, one in the series of NASA's Small Explorer spacecraft Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (), a large single-dish radio telescope in Guizhou province, China ==Biology== to fast, to abstain from eating food with or not with concurrent abstention from drinking for a predetermined time period Fluorescence-activating and absorption-shifting tag, genetically encoded protein tag used in molecular biology == Computing and software == FAST protocol, an adaptation of the FIX protocol, optimized for streaming FAST TCP, a TCP congestion avoidance algorithm Facilitated Application Specification Techniques, a team-oriented approach for requirement gathering Fatigue Avoidance Scheduling Tool, software to develop work schedules Features from accelerated segment test, computer vision method for corner detection Feedback arc set in Tournaments, a computational problem in graph theory ==Criminality & law-enforcement== Future Attribute Screening Technology, a method of detection based on the correlation of bodily signals indicating the probability of intent to commit a future crime ==Food== Fast food, restaurant or cafeteria food types which have an order to service or delivery to the customer principle of least time possible == Government == Faʻatuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi (FAST), a political party in Samoa Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act, passed by the United States Congress Foreign-Deployed Advisory and Support Teams, a former program of the US Drug Enforcement Administration; see Free and Secure Trade, a Canada-United States and Mexico-United States program to facilitate faster cross border trade ===Military=== Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team, a unit of the United States Marine Corps Fuel And Sensor Tactical packs, a type of conformal fuel tank developed for the F-15 Future Assault Shell Technology helmet, an American combat helmet ==Health== ===Medicine and surgery=== FAST (stroke) (Face, Arm, Speech, and Time), a mnemonic for the symptoms of a stroke Focused assessment with sonography for trauma, an ultrasound used to examine the abdomen of a trauma patient ===Therapy=== Family System Test, a visualization method for representing cohesion and hierarchy constellations in families and similar social systems == Mathematics== Fourier amplitude sensitivity testing, a variance-based global sensitivity analysis method == Organizations == FAST Multimedia AG, former company located in Munich; vendor of graphics boards, video frame grabbers and video processing software; later consumed by Pinnacle Systems FAST and later as Fast Search & Transfer, a Norwegian company focusing on data search technologies Farnborough Air Sciences Trust, an aviation museum Federation Against Software Theft, a UK organization that pursues those who illegally distribute software Financial Alliance for Sustainable Trade Firefighter assist and search team, a team of firefighters dedicated to the rescue of other firefighters Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).