A pointed tool without any sharp edges, used in weaving or knotwork to tighten and form up weaves or complex knots; used in sailing ships to open the strands of a rope before splicing
a BAS employee down South FIDLET - a FID in training at Cambridge FIELD TRIP - working 'jollie' (see Jollie) FIRST CALL - first visit of the season to a station by a ship FLOES - stretches of thick Sea Ice
Floor Information Devices - Displays consolidated close, NYSE last sale, quotes, net change, regional ITS Quotes, ex-dividend and Dow Jones news indicators
A pin of hard wood, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing
Contraction for frame-id, the logical address of a frame The number of frames on a Pick computer is a function of how much disk is present Each frame is given a unique number between 0 (zero) and maxfid, the "last" addressable frame
Field Identifier Codes The number code assigned to denote a field in the database The correlation of FID to field name occurs in \tal\parm\fiddef lst
(Financial Institutions Duty) state duty on the receipts of financial institutions
A system-generated unique identifier for a FILE subobject in the database FID stands for File ID
Plastic or wooden tool to burnish copper foil down onto the glass Sometimes called a lathekin
Free induction decay To obtain a spectrum on an NMR spectrometer after having applied pulses to a sample, one measures the decaying planar magnetization induced by the nuclear spins as they precess The - and -components and of the magnetization as a function of time are combined to form a complex signal The record of over time is called the FID, which is Fourier-transformed to yield the spectrum