frs

4 definitions found

frs - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  FRS
      n 1: the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12
           Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and
           state-chartered commercial banks and some trust companies;
           "the Fed seeks to control the United States economy by
           raising and lowering short-term interest rates and the
           money supply" [syn: Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve
           , Fed, FRS]

frs - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  FRS
   //, n.,obs.
  
     [obs.] Abbreviation for "Freely Redistributable Software" which
     entered general use on the Internet in 1995 after years of low-level
     confusion over what exactly to call software written to be passed
     around and shared (contending terms including freeware,
  shareware,
     and sourceware were never universally felt to be satisfactory for
     various subtle reasons). The first formal conference on freely
     redistributable software was held in Cambridge, Massachussetts, in
     February 1996 (sponsored by the Free Software Foundation). The
     conference organizers used the FRS abbreviation heavily in its calls
     for papers and other literature during 1995. The term was in steady
     though not common use until 1998 and the invention of open source,
     after which it became swiftly obsolete.
  

frs - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  FRS
         Frame Relay Service (ATM, UNI)
         

  FRS
         Flexible Route Selection