If
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If is a conjunction used in English conditional sentences.
If or IF may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Film and television
- if.... (1968), a Lindsay Anderson film starring Malcolm McDowell
- If... (TV series), a series of BBC drama-documentaries
- If... (Desperate Housewives), a 2010 episode of Desperate Housewives
Gaming
- IF, a fictional character in the Hyperdimension Neptunia game series
- Interactive fiction, text-based computer games featuring interactive stories and environments
- Shin Megami Tensei If..., a 1994 video game in the Shin Megami Tensei series
Literature
- If (magazine), subtitled "Worlds of Science Fiction"
- If... (comic), a political comic strip which appears in the UK newspaper The Guardian
- "If—" (published 1910), a poem by Rudyard Kipling
Music
Performers
- If (band), 1970s British progressive jazz-rock band
- I-F, stage name of Ferenc E. van der Sluijs, a Dutch producer and DJ
- In Flames, a melodic death metal band from Sweden, and a song from their album Lunar Strain
Albums
- If (Glass Hammer album)
- If (If album)
- if (Mindless Self Indulgence album), a 2008 album recorded by Mindless Self Indulgence
- If..., a 2011 orchestral concept album by Bill Ryder-Jones
Songs
- "If", a song by Bananarama, released in 2001
- "If..." (The Bluetones song), released in 1998
- "If" (Bread song), originally released in 1971 and a number one UK single by Telly Savalas in 1975
- "If", a song by The Cult from the album Ceremony
- "If...", released in 1997 by The Divine Comedy from the album A Short Album About Love
- "If" (Freemasons song), released in 2009
- "If" (French Kiss song), released in 2011
- "If", a 2013 song by Glasvegas
- "If" (Janet Jackson song), released in 1993
- "If", a Joni Mitchell song on her 2007 album Shine
- "If" (Kana Nishino song), released in 2010
- "If" (Pink Floyd song), released in 1970
- "If" (Red Hot Chili Peppers song), released in 2006
- "If (They Made Me a King)", a 1951 hit song by Perry Como
- "If", a song by Femme Fatale (band) on their self-titled 1988 debut album
Business and organizations
- If (insurance company), in the Nordic countries
- IF Metall, a trade union in Sweden
- IF? Records, a Tokyo-based electronic music label
- Illuminati Films, an Indian motion picture production, based in Mumbai
- Independent Fabrication, a bicycle manufacturer
- Intelligent Finance, a bank
- Interflug (1958–1991; IATA airline designator IF)
- International Federation, any of several world sport governing bodies
- International Forum Design (iF), a society best known for its iF design awards
- Islamic Front (Syria), Sunni Islamist rebel group involved in the Syrian Civil War
- Islas Airways (founded 2002; IATA airline designator IF)
Science and technology
Biology and medicine
- If current, a component current in the cardiac pacemaker potential
- Immunofluorescence, a form of labeling substances with fluorescent antibodies
- Initiation factor, an important component in protein synthesis
- Intermediate filament, a component of the cytoskeleton
- Interstitial fluid, the liquid outside of a cell
- Intrinsic factor, produced by the stomach
Computing and mathematics
- If-then-else, a conditional statement in computer programming
- IF (x86 flag), the Interrupt Flag in the x86 processor architecture
- Information filter, or inverse covariance filter, in Kalman filtering
- Interface (computing), a shared boundary across which components of a computer system exchange information
- Intermediate form, a type of data structure in computer programming
Other uses in science and technology
- Information filtering system, which removes redundant or unwanted information at a semantic level
- Intelligent falling, a satirical "alternative theory" of gravitation
- Intermediate frequency, in radio transmission or reception
- Internal focusing, a lens technology in which focusing occurs only with internal elements
- Iodine monofluoride, an unstable interhalogen inorganic compound
Other uses
- If, a small island in the Bay of Marseille, France; location of the Château d'If
- Impact factor, a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in scholarly journals
- Intermittent fasting, a diet having recurring periods of fasting
- Internally Flawless, a grade of diamond clarity
See also
- If and only if, iff, logical statement indicating necessary and sufficient conditions
- IFF (disambiguation)
- IFS (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles beginning with If