PF

PF

PF may refer to:

Contents

Computer science

  • Page fault, a type of exception (error) in computer programming
  • Page file, a file used as an extension for computer memory
  • PF (firewall), OpenBSD's stateful packet filter
  • PF keys, a type of function keys on old keyboards
  • Playfish, a developer of free social network games

Geography

Physics

  • Power factor, or cos phi, of an AC electric power system
  • Purple fringing, a type of chromatic aberration in photography
  • Phenol formaldehyde resin, the earliest synthetic polymer
  • Picofarad (pF) or petafarad (PF), multiples of farad, the SI unit of electric capacitance (petafarads rarely if ever used)
  • Photon Factory, a synchrotron located at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan

Organizations

  • Pheasants Forever, a non-profit habitat conservation organization
  • Brazilian Federal Police (Polícia Federal), in Brazil
  • Patients' Front, a late 1960s – early 1970s West German pro-illness movement
  • South Vietnamese Popular Force, a local defense militia formed by South Vietnam during the Vietnam War
  • Patriotic Front (disambiguation), name of a political party in several countries

Other uses

  • Phonetic form, a level of syntactic representation in linguistics
  • Personal foul (disambiguation), a type of foul in several sports
  • P&F, a Point and figure chart in the technical analysis of securities
  • Position Fix, a position derived from measuring external reference points
  • Power forward (disambiguation)
  • Pink Floyd, an English rock band
  • Pianoforte, full original name of the piano instrument
  • Palestinian Airlines, IATA airline designator
  • Paul Frank, an artist and fashion designer
  • Public forum debate, a debate sanctioned by the National Forensic League
  • Procurator Fiscal, the public prosecutor in Scotland
  • Pepperidge Farm, food company
  • PF Flyers, a brand of shoes
  • Project Fanboy, a comic book news website
  • Provident Fund (disambiguation)
  • P/F, Partafelag, the abbreviation used for corporations in the Faroe Islands
  • Pathfinder (periodicals), supplements to Dungeons & Dragons and the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
  • Pfennig, a unit of currency formerly used in Germany
  • Plantar fasciitis, an inflammatory injury in the midfoot

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