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Fast

An asynchronous communications protocol used to quickly transmit files over high-quality lines. Error checking is done after the entire file has been transmitted.


fast
1. Sport (of a playing surface, running track, etc.) conducive to rapid speed, as of a ball used on it or of competitors playing or racing on it
2. Photog
a. requiring a relatively short time of exposure to produce a given density
b. permitting a short exposure time
3. Cricket (of a bowler) characteristically delivering the ball rapidly

fast [fast]
(graphic arts)
A relative term given to the speed of emulsion.

1.(body)FAST - Federation Against Software Theft.
2.(language)FAST - Fortran Automatic Symbol Translator.


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3) This division also corresponded to a morphological difference, with the fast muscles appearing white in some species, notably birds, and the slow muscles appearing red.
Nevertheless, even this test has had to be modified, albeit with some controversy, to accommodate unusually fast muscles such as the FCR, peroneus longus, and extraocular muscles.
[51-53] Yet, the histochemical reaction for myosin ATPase is often used to divide muscles into slow and fast categories, and then fast muscles are further subtyped into SO, FOG, and FG subcategories based on the intensity of the SDH reaction end-product.
 
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