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FPS or fps may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• "F.P.S." (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), an episode of the TV show Law & Order: Criminal Intent
• The Fabulous Picture Show, a television show on Al Jazeera English
• Funday PawPet Show, an Internet puppet show
• FPS Magazine, a defunct magazine about animation
• Five Point Someone, a novel by Chetan Bhagat
• Front Porch Step, an American musician
• Facepunch Studios, a British video game developer
• First-person shooter, a video game genre centered around gun and other weapon-based combat in a first-person perspective

Education

• Fargo Public Schools, North Dakota, United States
• Foundation Public School, Pakistan
• French Pastry School, a cooking school in Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Future Problem Solvers, an educational competition
• Freeport Public Schools, New York, United States

Finance

• Faster Payment System (United Kingdom), a British banking initiative
• Faster Payment System (Hong Kong), a Hong Kong payment system
• Faster Payment System (Russia), a Russian 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

Sports

• France Poker Series, poker tour in France and French speaking countries
• 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

See also

• FP (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with FPS
• All pages with titles containing FPS