ALF
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ALF, A.L.F. or Alf is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below:
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[edit] Acronyms
ALF is an acronym for:
- Africa Leadership Forum.
- Alternative Liquid Fuel Industries
- American Leprosy Foundation
- American Liver Foundation
- Animal Liberation Front, a militant animal rights group
- Application Lifecyle Framework,
- Arab Liberation Front, a Palestinian group
- Assisted living facilities; providing personal and health care services and assistance for the care of adults who are aged, infirm or disabled.
- Australian Lebanese Foundation
- Australian Labour Federation
- Airborne Laser Fluorosensor
- Alternative Life Form
- American Leadership Forum
- Activated Lactoferrin
[edit] Nickname
Alf is short for the names Alfonso and Alfred.
[edit] Entertainment
- ALF was an American television sitcom and the nickname of that show's title character, where ALF is an acronym standing for "Alien Life Form" Reruns currently show on Nick at Nite in Latin America every night at 10:00 P.M. ET/PT
- There is also Alf: The Animated Series and
- Alf's Hit Talk Show.
- Alf is also the nickname of Alfie Alfredo Turnweasal, a loveable feature character on the hit 90s children's television programme, The Ziggurat.
- 'Alf' was the name of a 1980s album released by Alison Moyet, and was her nickname when she fronted 1980s electro-pop band Yazoo.
- Alf Mushpie, a fictional neo-feminist from the comic strip Bloom County.
- Alf Bicknell was the driver and roadie for The Beatles from 1964 until 1966.
[edit] Geography
- ALF is the IATA airport code for Alta Airport.
- Alf refers to both a river and a village in Germany
- The National Rail code for Alfreton railway station, United Kingdom. External links: station information; Location map; live departures and arrivals.
[edit] History
- King Alf is a character in Norse mythology
- Alf, Swedish king of the House of Yngling
- Álf is the Old Norse word for Elf.
[edit] Science and Technology
- ALF may stand for Atomic line filter, an advanced optical filter
- ALF dynamical entropy is a dynamical entropy concept introduced by Alicki, Lindblad and Fannes.
- ALF is also a programming language
- Application Layer Filtering, a firewall technology
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