Dictionary - Definition of FDS

Specialty Definition: FDS

Domain	Definition
Aerospace	1: Flight Design and Scheduling. (references)
	2: Flight Design System. (references)
	3: Functional Design Specifications. (references)
	4: Fluid Distribution System. (references)
	5: Flight Dynamics Simulator. (references)
	6: Fire Detection and Suppression. (references)
	7: FDS stands for "Flight Data System." It is the name for the internal clock on Voyagers 1 and 2. Most Voyager observations, including images, are identified by the FDS clock time when the observation took place. Within any planetary encounter, FDS counts are unique and increase with time. However, the FDS clock was reset after the Saturn and Uranus encounters, so FDS values are sometimes re-used for different planets. (references)
Environment	Funds Distribution System (budget module of DISCAS). (references)
Information Technology	Fire direction system. (references)
Military	1: Fault detection system. (references)
	2: Fighter Director Ship. (references)
Space	Flight Data Subsystem. (references)
Technology	1: Flight Director System. (references)
	2: Field Development System. (references)
	3: FFFlight Director System. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.		Top

Abbreviations & Acronyms: FDS

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
FDS	English	Federated Department Stores	N/A
FDS	German	Verband Filmregie und Drehbuch Schweiz(1);Verband Schweizerischer Filmgestalter und Filmgestalterinnen(2)	Fine Arts, Labor
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).				Top

FDS has several meanings:

Famicom Disk System, a peripheral for the Nintendo Famicom
In computing, Fedora Directory Server, a server implementation of LDAP
Federated Department Stores, a chain of department stores in the United States
In anatomy, Flexor Digitorum Superficialis is a muscle of the forearm.
Feminine Deodorant Spray (FDS), a brand of vaginal deodorant.
In project management, a Functional Design Specification is a document that explicitly enumerates a project's requirements to allow unambiguously tracking each one throughout the project's lifetime (also, see Functional Requirements Specification).
Ferrovie dello Stato, the Italian railway company.
The ticker for FactSet Research Systems.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "FDS". Image Credit.

Topics by Level of Interest: FDS
Topics sorted by level of Interest	Level (1=low, 600=high)	Topics sorted Alphabetically	Level (1=low, 600=high)
FDS	3	FDS	3
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).