RIF
Appearance
RIF may refer to:
RIF as an initialism
- Realistic Imitation Firearm, A replica, often an airsoft gun that realistically portrays a firearm. import and sale of these is prohibited in the United Kingdom under the VCRA (Violent crimes reduction act) unless an individual is entitled to a specific defence such as being an airsoft skirmisher. See Legal issues in airsoft for more.
- Reconnaissance in force, a type of military operation used specifically to probe an enemy's disposition
- Reading Is Fundamental, an organization promoting children's literacy
- Reduction in Force, a large-scale ending of employment
- Reichsstelle für industrielle Fettversorgung meaning of the initials on bars of soap purported to have been made of human fat
- Renju International Federation, Renju is the professional variant of board game Gomoku
- Requirements Interchange Format
- Resistance is futile, a catchphrase in Star Trek
- Retrieval-induced forgetting, a phenomenon in memory
- Rifampicin, the antibiotic, abbreviated
- Right iliac fossa, part of the surface of the human abdomen
- Routing information field, a source routing-related field in the token ring network frame header
- The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's), an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1881
- Rule Interchange Format, a W3C recommendation-track effort
- Russian Internet Forum
- Radical Islamic Fundamentalist
Other uses
Rif may refer to:
- Isaac Alfasi, Rabbi Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi (1013—1103), was a Talmudist and posek
- Rif (island), in the Netherlands
- Rif, a region in Morocco
- Riffian people, inhabitants of the Rif Region
- Riff languages, a grouping of languages spoken in the Rif area
- Rif (GTPase)
- A riff in music
- Rif, a village in Iceland