Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.

Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food.

Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job.

An oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See Adipose tissue, under Adipose.

Area of the disk or diskette containing information about files on the disk, clusters making these files, and free area on the disk. FAT keeps a track of all information on the disks and all relations between different pieces of information. A loss of FAT translates into loss of data, since the system will not be able to attribute data to specific files even if the data themselves will be intact.

File Allocation Table. A portion of all DOS formatted disks that contain information on the number of files and available storage space.

The File Allocation Table is a small area of the drive used as a catalogue of all existing files stored on the disk. Until recently, most systems used FAT16, but the most recent version of Windows 95 incorporates FAT32, which allows much larger drives to be formatted as a single partition.

File Allocation Table. The part of a computer's disk system that decides how and where disk storage space is allocated.

Abounding with fat

Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.

Describes a wine with mouth-filling flavor and texture.

Wine with a high-ish alcohol content.

The official record of all financial aid applications submitted to the university, all supporting materials and the awards granted.

Financial Aid Transcript. A document used by institutions to collect data about Title IV aid and other financial aid received by a student at other educational institutions. Institutions must provide completed financial aid transcripts (FAT) at no charge to students and former students.

FINANCIAL AID TRANSCRIPT. A document required from each school previously attended regardless of whether aid was received or not. Must be received by the school at which you are now applying for aid.

Financial Aid Transcript. A record of a student's financial assistance received by other institutions.

First Article Testing--When DOD buys certain goods they may perform extensive tests on the first item delivered.

Factory Acceptance Testing

Final Acceptance Test

Factory acceptance test. SCADA vendors demonstrate the software functions in the factory as specified in the system design document.

Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.

A solid triacylglycerol derived from animal sources.

Any of various soft solid or semisolid organic compounds comprising fatty acids and associated phosphatides, sterols, alcohols, hydrocarbons, ketones and related compounds. A mixture of such compounds widely occurring in organic tissue, especially in the subcutaneous connective tissue of animals and in the seeds, nuts and fruits of plants.

A slang term previously used to describe animals suitable for slaughter. This term has been removed from terminology due to the perception by consumers as 'unhealthy'.

Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; -- said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.; as, a fat take; a fat page.

Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor.

Containing or describing code of multiple instruction sets.

(aka: "chunky", "fat", "thick", "heavy", and many more) hitting the ground before the ball, usually resulting in the ball not going as far as intended.

When the club strikes the ground well behind the ball.

The club hits the ground (more so than intended) prior to striking the ball.