First-out alarm — A first out alarm is an alarm that indicates in some manner that it was the first of a series. This is necessary in circumstances such as an automatic trip or shutdown of equipment, where many alarms will annunciate as a result of a shutdown. The … Wikipedia
First baseman — First base, or 1B , is the first of four stations on a baseball diamond which must be touched in succession by a baserunner in order to score a run for that player s team. A first baseman is the player on the team playing defense who fields the… … Wikipedia
First-come, first-served — (sometimes first come, first served or simply FCFS) is a service policy where by the requests of customers or clients are attended to in the order that they arrived, without other biases or preferences. The policy can be employed when processing… … Wikipedia
last-in first-out — adjective Date: 1934 of, relating to, or being a method of inventory accounting that values stock on hand according to costs at the time of acquisition and not according to the cost of replacement … New Collegiate Dictionary
Out-of-body experience — Artist s depiction of the separation stage of an out of body experience, which often precedes free movement. An out of body experience (OBE or sometimes OOBE) is an experience that typically involves a sensation of floating outside of one s body… … Wikipedia
Out of the Unknown — For the collection of short stories by A. E. van Vogt and E. Mayne Hull, see Out of the Unknown (collection). Out of the Unknown Format Anthology Science fiction Drama … Wikipedia
Out-of-order execution — In computer engineering, out of order execution (OoOE or OOE) is a paradigm used in most high performance microprocessors to make use of instruction cycles that would otherwise be wasted by a certain type of costly delay. In this paradigm, a… … Wikipedia
First Chechen War — Russian helicopter brought down by Chechen fighters near the capital Grozny in 1994 … Wikipedia
First they came... — First they came… is a poem attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group.HistoryAn early supporter of… … Wikipedia
First Sino-Japanese War — Japanese troops during the Sino Japanese war … Wikipedia
Out 1 — The title card to Out 1 Directed by Jacques Rivette Suzanne Schiffman (co director) … Wikipedia
