Fast

Fast may refer to:

Language

• Fast as in high speed or velocity, may be used with anything that has a speed.
• Fasting, abstaining from food

People

• Alexia Fast (born 1992), Canadian actress
• Howard Fast (1914–2003), American novelist and television writer
• Jonathan Fast (born 1948), American author, son of Howard Fast
• Molly Jong-Fast (born 1978), American author, daughter of Jonathan Fast

Sports

• Nacional Fast Clube, a Brazilian football club
• Fast bowling, a practice in cricket
• A speed racing for dirt horse racetracks
• Farmington Area Swim Team
• Fifteen and Send Time, a type of dog agility competition

Companies and products

• Fast Enterprises, an American company that produces tax software
• Fast Search & Transfer, a Norwegian company focusing on data search technologies
• Fast Product, a record label
• Fast, an independent 2010 film starring Charlyne Yi and Steve Clemmons
• The NASDAQ symbol for Fastenal company
• Fairfield and Suisun Transit

Banking

• Fast And Secure Transfers, a real time fund transfers service that allows customers to transfers SGD funds in Singapore

Library and information science

• Faceted Application of Subject Terminology, a thesaurus of subject headings

Music

• "Fast", an album by the musician Custom
• Brian Leiser, nicknamed Fast, a musician in the band Fun Lovin' Criminals

Science

FAST may stand for:

• Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer, one in the series of NASA's Small Explorer spacecraft
• Facilitated Access to the Space Environment for Technology Development and Training, a NASA program
• Farnborough Air Sciences Trust
• Farpoint Asteroid Search Team, an asteroid search team located at the Farpoint Observatory
• Fatigue Avoidance Scheduling Tool
• Features from accelerated segment test, computer vision method for corner detection
• Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, the world's largest single-dish radio telescope (China)
• Focused assessment with sonography for trauma, an ultrasound used to examine the abdomen of a trauma patient
• Foundation for Advancement of Science and Technology, Pakistan
• Fourier amplitude sensitivity testing, a variance-based global sensitivity analysis method
• Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology
• Future Attribute Screening Technology
• FAST (stroke), (Face, Arm, Speech, and Time) a proposed method to detect the beginning of a stroke
• Fuel And Sensor Tactical (FAST) Packs, a type of Conformal Fuel Tank developed for the F-15.

Software and computing

• FAST Enterprise Search Platform (ESP), a product of the Fast Search & Transfer division of Microsoft
• FAST protocol, an adaptation of the FIX protocol, optimized for streaming
• Feedback Arc Set in Tournaments, a computational problem in graph theory
• Federation Against Software Theft, a UK organization that pursues those who illegally distribute software
• USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
• Facilitated Application Specification Techniques, a team-oriented approach for requirement gathering
• FAST TCP, a TCP congestion avoidance algorithm
• FAST Corner Detection, see Interest point detection and AST-based Corner detection

Organizations

• Firefighter Assist and Search Team, a team of firefighters dedicated to the rescue of other firefighters
• Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade
• Free and Secure Trade, a Canada-United States program to facilitate faster cross border trade

Military

• Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team, a branch of the United States Marine Corps