Glossary F

Deutsch: Finanzverwaltung / Español: Administración Financiera / Português: Administração Financeira / Français: Administration Financière / Italiano: Amministrazione Finanziaria

In the industrial and industry context, Financial Administration encompasses the strategic planning, organizing, directing, and controlling of financial undertakings within an organization. It involves managing the company's financial resources to achieve its business objectives and maximize efficiency and profitability. Financial administration covers a broad range of activities, including budgeting, investment analysis, risk management, cash flow management, and financial reporting. This function is crucial for ensuring the financial health and sustainability of the company, enabling it to fund operations, capitalize on opportunities, and create value for shareholders.

Deutsch: Befiederung / Español: Emplumado / Português: Emplumação / Français: Empennage / Italiano: Impennaggio

Fletching in the industrial context generally refers to the process of attaching vanes or feathers to the back end of arrows. This term, while traditionally associated with archery and sport, can also relate to certain manufacturing practices in industries where small, aerodynamic stabilizing components are attached to objects to influence their flight characteristics, such as in some types of darts or miniature projectiles.

Deutsch: Filtration / Español: Filtración / Português: Filtração / Français: Filtration / Italiano: Filtrazione

Filtration in the industrial and industry context refers to the process of separating solids from liquids or gases using a filter medium that allows only the fluid to pass through while retaining the solid particles. This process is essential in various sectors for purifying, clarifying, and processing materials, contributing significantly to product quality, environmental compliance, and operational efficiency.

Function generator: defines as a piece of test equipment that produces audio test tones from DC to well beyond human hearing.

Front-projection television is described as a television display system that uses a projector and a screen, much like a movie theater. Front projectors can produce the largest video pictures.

First Day Covers refer to envelope on which a stamp is placed and cancelled on the first day of issue of that stamp. Likewsie it is an an envelope with a new stamp and cancellation showing the date the stamp was issued.
Typically a cachet is applied to the left side of the envelope describing the stamp's issue.

Deutsch: Brandmauer / Español: Cortafuegos / Português: Firewall / Français: Pare-feu / Italiano: Firewall /

A firewall is a security system for protecting against illegal entry to a local area network which is connected to the Internet (Computers).

- Fire cured (tobacco) : Fire cured is a kind of tobacco, as in kentucky fire-cured tobacco which is stalk-Cured under controlled humidity in barns with a series of gentle smoldering hardwood fires throughout. Considerable care is taken to achieve proper yellowing; firing requires considerable skill so as not to burn the tobacco or cause tobacco rot through too high humidity.