PFS

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The three-letter abbreviation PFS can stand for:

Finance:

• The Personal Finance Society, one of the largest professional bodies for financial advisors in the United Kingdom
• Personal Financial Specialist, a special financial planning credential granted by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) to CPAs who meet certain requirements
• Primerica Financial Services, a division of Citigroup

Medicine:

• Patellofemoral Syndrome, a type of knee disorder
• Progression Free Survival, time without tumor progression in oncology

Health & Fitness:

• Precision Fitness Systems, a fitness consulting company.

Technology:

• Perfect forward secrecy, a property in cryptography
• The file format used by PFStools, .pfs files
• pfs:Write, an early PC word processor
• pfs:File, an early database
• Planetary Fourier Spectrometer, an infrared spectrometer. Used by European Space Agency on their Venus Express Mission
• Playstation File System, the filesystem used on the Playstation 2 hard drive

Other:

• Penang Free School, a well-recognized English school in Malaysia, in the state of Penang
• Picture Frame Seduction, an English punk rock band
• Piper fatigue scale, a self-report test measuring fatigue
• Plays For Sure, a marketing certification given by Microsoft to media players
• Pre Feasibility Stage, a level of study following Concept stage and prior to Detailed Feasibility Studies
• Princeton Friends School, a coeducational Quaker school in Princeton Township, New Jersey