PCF

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The acronym PCF may refer to:

• Patrol Craft, Fast, a small, shallow draft water vessel
• Parti Communiste Français, the French Communist Party
• Prepaid Charging Function (telecommunication), which is used to handle the accounts of Pay As You Go (PAYG) subscribers
• President's Choice Financial
• PC Format, a monthly magazine
• Participatory Culture Foundation
• Photonic-crystal fiber
• Processed Chlorine Free, a certification for paper products which mandates that bleaching agents be free of chlorine compounds
• Pounds per Cubic Foot, a U.S. customary unit of measure of density
• "possible cofinalities", a central concept in Saharon Shelah's PCF theory, an area in the mathematical field of set theory
• Pharyngoconjunctival fever
• Post-Cancer Fatigue, a condition that may occur after cancer treatment

[edit] In computing

• Point Coordination Function, a Media Access Control technique used in Wi-Fi Wireless LANs
• Percentage Closer Filtering, a method in shadow mapping
• Programming language for Computable Functions, a simple functional programming language

[edit] File formats

• Portable Compiled Format, a file format for distributing bitmap fonts
• Portable Content Format, a file format for DVB-based interactive television
• Printer Configuration File, a file used to configure printer settings
• Profile Configuration File, a configuration file used to setup VPN connections