FWD
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FWD may refer to:
- Front-wheel driveFront-wheel driveFront-wheel drive is a form of engine/transmission layout used in motor vehicles, where the engine drives the front wheels only. Most modern front-wheel drive vehicles feature a transverse engine, rather than the conventional longitudinal engine arrangement generally found in rear-wheel drive and...
, a common method of vehicle propulsion. - FWD (Famine, War, and Drought) Campaign from USAID
- Free World DialupFree World DialupFWD is a Voice over Internet Protocol network and business venture owned by Pulver.com, Inc. and founded in 1994 by Jeff Pulver, Brandon Lucas, and Izak Jenie....
(now simply FWD), a non-commercial Voice over IPInternet ProtocolThe Internet Protocol is the principal communications protocol used for relaying datagrams across an internetwork using the Internet Protocol Suite...
network. - Falling weight deflectometerFalling weight deflectometerA falling weight deflectometer, FWD, is a testing device used by civil engineers to evaluate the physical properties of pavement. FWD data is primary used to estimate pavement structural capacity for 1) overlay design and 2) to determine if a pavement is being overloaded. Use includes highways,...
(Falling Weight Deflectometer test), a structural test on road and airport pavements. - Far Western DistrictFar Western District (BHS)Far Western District is a geographical district of the Barbershop Harmony Society.First organized in 1946, FWD encompasses the far western US states including all of California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii, and St...
A geographical district of the Barbershop Harmony SocietyBarbershop Harmony SocietyThe Barbershop Harmony Society, legally and historically named the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. , is the first of several organizations to promote and preserve barbershop music as an art form. Founded by Owen C...
. - An archaic term for four-wheel driveFour-wheel driveFour-wheel drive, 4WD, or 4×4 is a four-wheeled vehicle with a drivetrain that allows all four wheels to receive torque from the engine simultaneously...
(4WD or AWD is preferred today). - The Four Wheel DriveFour Wheel DriveThe Four Wheel Drive Auto Company, more often known as Four Wheel Drive or just FWD, was founded in 1909 in Clintonville, Wisconsin, as the Badger Four-Wheel Drive Auto Company by Otto Zachow and William Besserdich.-History:...
Auto Company of Clintonville, WisconsinClintonville, WisconsinClintonville is a city in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 4,736 at the 2000 census.- Geography :Clintonville is located at 44°37'27" North, 88°45'29" West ....
, later the FWD Corporation. - An abbreviation of "Forward", appended to the beginning of e-mail subject lines when sending a received message on to someone else ("forwardingEmail forwardingEmail forwarding generically refers to the operation of re-sending an email message delivered to one email address on to a possibly different email address...
"). - Plantinga's free will defensePlantinga's free will defenseAlvin Plantinga's version of the free will defense is an attempt to refute the logical problem of evil, the argument that to posit the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient, wholly good god in an evil world constitutes a logical contradiction...