Cf

cf, Cf or CF may refer to:

Business

• Catelli i Fiorani, a defunct Italian motorcycle maker bought by Fusi
• CF, the IATA code for City Airline
• Consolidated Freightways, a former trucking company in the United States

Economics

• Cash flow, the ability of a business to fulfil its obligations
• Conversion Factor, a synonym for Exposure at default (EAD) in Basel II

Language

• cf., an abbreviation for the Latin word confer, meaning "compare" or "consult"

Military

• Chaplain to the Forces; in Britain and some Commonwealth nations, "CF" are post-nominal initials for army chaplains
• Canadian Forces, armed forces of Canada

Science

Chemistry

• Californium, a radioactive chemical element
• Conductivity factor, the level of dissolved salts in a solution

Medicine

• Cardiac failure, the inability of the heart to work as a pump
• Cerebrospinal fluid, a clear bodily fluid found around and inside the brain
• Cystic fibrosis, a hereditary disease affecting the exocrine (mucus) glands

Places

• Cardiff: CF is the United Kingdom post code for the region in southern Wales served by Cardiff
• Central African Republic, 2-letter ISO country code
• Congo français ("French Congo"), FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO country code for Republic of the Congo

Sports

• Calgary Flames, NHL ice hockey team
• Canopy formation, a discipline in parachuting
• Center field(er), a defensive position in baseball
• Centre forward (Striker), an attacking position in Association football
• Club de Fútbol, a common part of names of Football teams/clubs from Spain and Latin America

Technologies

Computing

• .cf, the Top-Level Domain for Central African Republic
• .NET Compact Framework, a version of the .NET Framework for mobile and embedded devices
• ATI CrossFire, a method for combining graphic cards
• Carry flag, indication of arithmetic carry on processors
• ColdFusion, a WWW programming language
• Collaborative filtering, a method of making predictions by collecting information from many users
• CompactFlash, a type of memory card
• Consolidation function that is used in computer science
• Core Foundation, a C application programming interface (API) in Mac OS X
• Coupling Facility, an IBM mainframe feature
• Cross Fusion, in the Mega Man videogame series
• Freescale ColdFire, a Motorola 68000 family microcontroller
• NetCDF#Climate Forecast metadata conventions for earth science data
• Computerforum.com, an online computing messageboard

Equipment

• Carbon fiber, a strong, lightweight material used in many applications
• Carboxyfluorescein, a fluorescent dye
• CF card, a sort of digital media storage in small dimension
• Color filter, a way to color light
• Compact fluorescent lamp
• Vacuum flange#CF (Conflat), a type of flange commonly used in high and ultra high vacuum systems

Other

• Cantus firmus, in musical compositions
• Captain Falcon, a Nintendo character
• Captain Flamingo, a Canadian animated television series
• Carpathian Forest, a Norwegian black metal band
• Celtic Frost, a Swiss heavy metal band
• CF, an International Telecommunications Union callsign prefix for Canada
• Child Foundation, an international charity institute
• Childfree, denotes people who do not have, and do not desire, children
• Codice Fiscale (fiscal code), an Italian tax identification number
• "Commercial Filming", a term commonly used for celebrity endorsements of commercial products in Korea
• Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives, a Pennsylvania free market think tank
• Conservative Future, youth movement of the British Conservative Party
• Future GPX Cyber Formula, a Japanese anime series
• Cubital fossa, the hollow seen in the anterior part of the elbow, colloquially known as the "elbow pit".
• CrossFire, an online multiplayer first-person shooter game.