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AF, aF, af or .af may stand for:


AF

Businesses, organizations and projects

  • AF, IATA airline designator for Air France
  • Abercrombie & Fitch, a North American clothing retailer
  • Alliance française
  • Astoria Financial Corporation, the stock symbol for Astoria Financial Corporation
  • A-F Records, a record label
  • Acronym Finder
  • AF, the Association of American Railroads reporting mark for Alabama and Florida Railway.

Air France (Compagnie Nationale Air France) is a subsidiary of Air France-KLM. Before its merger with KLM, it was the national airline of France, employing 71,654 people (as of January 2005). ... The Abercrombie moose. ... The Alliance française logo The Alliance française is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to promote French language and culture outside France. ... A-F Records is a record label originated by the band Anti-Flag, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. This label was created to help expose more political punk rock bands to a greater audience. ... Acronym Finder is a World Wide Web searchable database of acronyms and abbreviations and their meanings. ... The Alabama and Florida Railroad is one of several short line railroad companies owned by the Pioneer Railcorp. ...

Health, technology and science

Atrial fibrillation (AF or afib) is an abnormal heart rhythm (cardiac arrhythmia) which involves the two small, upper heart chambers (the atria). ... An anaerobic filter (AF) is a form of anaerobic digester. ... An illustration of texture filtering methods showing trilinear MIP map texture on the left and enhanced with anisotropic texture filtering on the right. ... Autofocus (or AF) is a feature of some optical systems that allow them to maintain correct focus on a target. ... An audio frequency (abbreviation: AF) is any frequency from about 20 hertz to about 20 kilohertz, which is the approximate range of sound frequencies that is audible to humans. ...

Military

The Grumman AF Guardian was the first purpose-built anti-submarine aircraft to enter service in the U.S. Navy. ... The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... An Air force is a military or armed service that primarily conducts aerial warfare. ... The armed forces of a state are its government sponsored defense and fighting forces and organizations. ...

Places

American Fork is a city located in Utah County, Utah, USA, at the foot of Mount Timpanogos in the Wasatch Range. ...

Pop culture and literature

The Addams Family is the creation of American cartoonist Charles Addams. ... After Ford (AF) is used in Aldous Huxleys novel Brave New World as a parody of AD, (Anno Domini). ... Japan, is a video game franchise developed by United States on September 15th, 2002, later being made a Players Choice game. ... Akademi Fantasiaor simply known as AF is Malaysias first reality show, which brought big changes to Malaysian entertainment scene in the year 2003, when the first season of the show aired by Astro Ria. ...

aF

Atto- (symbol a) is an SI prefix to a unit and means that it is 10-18 times this unit. ... Examples of various types of capacitors. ... Look up si, Si, SI in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Capacitance is the ability of a capacitor to store potential difference or voltage for a given amount of stored charge. ...

af

  • acre-feet, the quantity of water that covers one acre to a depth of one foot; equal to 43,560 cubic feet or 325,851 gallons
  • af, the ISO 639 code for the Afrikaans language.
  • A shortening of afro, the hairstyle

An acre foot is a unit of volume commonly used in the United States in reference to large-scale water resources, such as reservoirs, aqueducts, canals, and river flows. ... The cubic foot (symbols ft³, cu. ... The gallon (abbreviation: gal) is a unit of volume. ... Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ... An afro, sometimes called a natural or shortened to fro, is a hairstyle in which the hair extends out from the head like a halo, cloud or ball. ...

.af

[ .af is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Afghanistan. ... A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is a top-level domain used and reserved for a country or a dependent territory. ...


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