Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

FN en · NOUN · etymology 1

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of footnote.
    alt of footnote

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
FNs Number=Plur lexicographic
Source: en.wiktionary, “FN” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

FN en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

Initialism of Fabrique Nationale.

Meanings

  1. (diminutive, form-of) Diminutive of FN-FAL (the NATO standard rifle)
    form of FN-FAL
  2. (diminutive, form-of) Diminutive of FN Five-seven (the pistol derivative of the FN-FAL)
    • I know your purse say D and G, holdin' my FN 2020, Moneybagg Yo, Match My Fly:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
FNs Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

FN-FAL · FAL

Source: en.wiktionary, “FN” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

FN en · PROPN · etymology 3

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of) Abbreviation of Fabrique Nationale de Herstal.
Source: en.wiktionary, “FN” (name), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

FN en · NOUN · etymology 4

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of fibronectin.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
FNs Number=Plur lexicographic
Source: en.wiktionary, “FN” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

FN en · NOUN · etymology 5

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of false negative.
    • A FN diagnosis, on the other hand, can give a patient the illusion of good health (and the patient will not get the necessary treatment). 2015 July 24, Krzysztof J. Cios, Dat T. Nguyen, “Data mining and data visualization”, in Susan J Henly, editor, Routledge International Handbook of Advanced Quantitative Methods in Nursing Research, Routledge, →ISBN, page 316:
    • From the optics of fairness, we care more about FPs than FNs because it's more unfair to put an innocent person in prison than it is to leave a guilty person in the streets. 2021 March 26, Serg Masís, Interpretable Machine Learning with Python: Learn to build interpretable high-performance models with hands-on real-world examples, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 291:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
FNs Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

FP · TP · TN

wikidata: Q135550331

Source: en.wiktionary, “FN” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

FN en · NOUN · etymology 6

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of falling number.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
FNs Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

green FN