PF
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
PF may refer to:
In computer science:
- Page fault, a type of exception (error) in computer programming
- Page File, a file used as an extension for computer memory.
- PF (firewall), OpenBSD's stateful packet filter
- French Polynesia (Polynésie française), ISO 3166 internet country code .pf
In physics:
- Power factor, or cos phi, of an AC electric power system
- Purple fringing, a type of chromatic aberration in photography
- Phenol formaldehyde resin, the earliest synthetic polymer
- Picofarad (pF) or petafarad (PF), multiples of farad, the SI unit of electric capacitance (petafarads rarely if ever used)
Other:
- Pheasants Forever, a non-profit habitat conservation organization dedicated to the conservation of pheasants, quail and other wildlife through habitat improvements, public awareness, education and land management policies and programs.
- Phonetic form, a level of syntactic representation in linguistics
- Brazilian Federal Police (Polícia Federal), in Brazil
- Patients' Front, a late 1960s - early 1970s West German pro-illness movement
- Paracel Islands, FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code
- Personal foul, a type of foul in several sports
- Position Fix, the 'answer' when seeking to locate an emitter using a set of measurements and algorithms;
- Power forward, one of the basic positions in sport:
- Pink Floyd, an English rock band
- Palestinian Airlines, IATA airline designator
- Paul Frank, an artist and fashion designer
- Public forum debate, a debate sanctioned by the National Forensic League
- Procurator Fiscal, the public prosecutor in Scotland
- Pepperidge Farm, food company
- Pilot Flying, an aviation term
- PF Flyers, a brand of shoes