PF

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PF may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Pianoforte, full original name of the piano instrument
Project Fanboy, a comic book news website

Businesses

PF Flyers, a brand of shoes
Palestinian Airlines (IATA airline designator)
Pell Frischmann, a multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy

Economics and finance

Point and figure chart in the technical analysis of securities
Pfennig, a unit of currency formerly used in Germany, symbol ₰
Provident Fund (disambiguation), name of various pension funds

Language

Phonetic form, a level of syntactic representation in linguistics
Voiceless labiodental affricate (⟨p͡f⟩, ⟨p͜f⟩, or ⟨pf⟩), a type of consonant sound

Organizations

Pheasants Forever, a non-profit habitat conservation organization
Federal Police Department (Polícia Federal), in Brazil
Patients' Front, a late 1960s to 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

Places

Paracel Islands, FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code
French Polynesia (Polynésie française), by ISO 3166 code
- .pf, internet country code for French Polynesia
Pforzheim and Enzkreis district, Germany (vehicle plate code PF)

Science and technology

Computing

.pf, internet country code for French Polynesia
PF (firewall), OpenBSD's stateful packet filter
PF keys, a type of function keys on old keyboards
Page fault, a type of exception (error) in computer programming
Page file, a file used as an extension for computer memory

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
Photon Factory, a synchrotron located at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan

In other sciences and mathematics

pf(A), the Pfaffian of a matrix A
Phenylphosphine, an organophosphorus compound
Plasmodium falciparum, a species of Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans
Polar front, in meteorology
Position fix, a position derived from measuring external reference points

Sports

Personal foul (disambiguation), a type of foul in several sports
Power forward (disambiguation), a type of position in several sports

Other uses

Pilot flying, in commercial aviation, a designation for the pilot in control of an aircraft
Pour féliciter, text on New Year card
Procurator fiscal, the public prosecutor in Scotland
Public forum debate, a debate sanctioned by the National Forensic League
PF grade tea

See also

PF1 (disambiguation)

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