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FSB

FSB is the initialism of front-side bus.

FSB is the initialism of Federation of Small Businesses.

FSB is the initialism of Fire Support Base.

Meaning of front-side bus

Noun

front-side bus (plural front-side buses or front-side busses)

  1. A bus that conducts data between a CPU and a memory controller.

Proper noun

FSB

  1. (Russia, initialism) The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.
    • Possible victims included Roman Tsepov, Putin’s bodyguard in 1990s St Petersburg, who died after drinking tea in 2004 at a local FSB office.2020 August 20, Luke Harding, “Alexei Navalny and the long history of poisoned Kremlin critics”, in The Guardian
    • Krasikov, a former high-ranking FSB colonel serving a life sentence in a German prison, was on the top of Moscow’s list of Russian prisoners it wanted to exchange.2024 August 1, Ivana Kottasová and Anna Chernova, “Who was freed in major prisoner swap between Russia and the West?”, in CNN

Forms of FSB

pluralFSBs

Origin of FSB

From Russian ФСБ (FSB), initialism of Федеральная Служба Безопасности (Federalʹnaja Služba Bezopasnosti, “Federal Security Service”).

Questions about FSB

What does FSB mean?
FSB means the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.
What is FSB the initialism of?
FSB is the initialism of front-side bus.
What part of speech is FSB?
FSB is a proper noun.

Words near FSB in the dictionary

  1. FSA
  2. FSAA
  3. FSAD
  4. FSAID
  5. FSAs
  6. FSB
  7. FSBK
  8. FSBO
  9. FSBOs
  10. FSBs
  11. FSC

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: FSB (page history and authors); front-side bus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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