ACF or acf may refer to:

Organizations

Africa

* Active Citizen Force, temporary conscripts and volunteers in the South African Army

Asia

* Adivasi Cobra Force, extremist Santal organisation in Assam *

Arab Chess Federation The Arab Chess Federation (ArabFide) ( ar, الاتحاد العربي للشطرنج) is a non-profit organization that promotes chess within the Arab world. Though unaffiliated with the Arab League, it includes 18 of the latter's member states ...

Australia

* Australian Chess Federation, the governing body for chess in Australia * Australian Conservation Foundation, an Australian non-profit organisation promoting ecological sustainability

Europe

Action contre la Faim Action Against Hunger (french: Action Contre La Faim - ACF) is a global humanitarian organization which originated in France and is committed to ending world hunger. The organization helps malnourished children and provides communities with acce ...

or Action Against Hunger, a global humanitarian organization *

ACF Fiorentina ACF Fiorentina, commonly referred to as Fiorentina (), is an Italian professional football club based in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The original team was founded by a merger in August 1926, while the actual club was refounded in August 2002 fo ...

, Associazione Calcio Fiorentina, Italian football club * Army Cadet Force, British youth organisation that offers progressive military training to boys and girls aged 12 to 18 *

Ateliers et Chantiers de France The Ateliers et Chantiers de France (ACF, Workshops and Shipyards of France) was a major shipyard that was established in Dunkirk, France, in 1898. The shipyard boomed in the period before World War I (1914–18), but struggled in the inter-war p ...

, defunct French shipyard * Automobile Club de France, prestigious men's club located on Place de la Concorde in Paris

North America

* Academic Competition Federation, unincorporated non-profit organization that runs collegiate quizbowl tournaments * Administration for Children and Families, operating unit of the US Dept of Health & Human Services *

Adventist Christian Fellowship The North American Division (NAD) of Seventh-day Adventists is a sub-entity of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, which oversees the Church's work in the United States, Canada, French possessions of St. Pierre and Miquelon, the Bri ...

, the collegiate ministry of the Adventist church in North America * American Car and Foundry Company, manufacturer of railroad rolling stock since 1899, now known as ACF Industries *

American Checker Federation English draughts (British English) or checkers (American English), also called straight checkers or simply draughts, is a form of the strategy board game checkers (or draughts). It is played on an 8×8 checkerboard with 12 pieces per side. Th ...

, a non-profit organization governing the game of American checkers in the US * American Culinary Federation, a professional chefs' organization established in 1929

South America

Associação Chapecoense de Futebol Associação Chapecoense de Futebol, commonly known as Chapecoense, is a Brazilian Association football, football club, based in the city of Chapecó in the state of Santa Catarina (state), Santa Catarina. The club was founded in 1973 with the ...

, a Brazilian football club

Science and technology

* Access Control Facility, the prototype of the ACF2 third-party security software for IBM OS/VS *

2-Acetylfuran 2-Acetylfuran is a low melting solid or high boiling liquid, depending on temperature. The solid melts at 30 °C and has a density of 1.0975 g/ml at 20 °C, while the normal boiling point of the liquid is 168–169 °C. 2-Acetyl ...

, a low melting solid or high boiling liquid * Advanced Communication Function, a family of replacement products for telecommunications programs on some IBM computers replacing IBM Network Control Program, and ACF/VTAM * Advanced Component Framework, C++ component framework providing a scalable architecture for very complex applications * African clawed frog, a species of South African aquatic frog of the genus Xenopus *

Algebraically closed field In mathematics, a field is algebraically closed if every non-constant polynomial in (the univariate polynomial ring with coefficients in ) has a root in . Examples As an example, the field of real numbers is not algebraically closed, because ...

, abbreviated ACF when considered together as a class of models * Anisotropic conductive film, a conductive adhesive system used in the electronics industry * Autocorrelation function, mathematical tool used frequently in signal processing

Medicine

* ACF (gene), human gene * Aberrant crypt foci, a preneoplastic lesion on the mucosa of colon or rectum * Antecubital fossa, part of the triangular area on the anterior view of the elbow joint of the human arm, commonly a site for cannulation * Asymmetric crying facies, a minor congenital anomaly

Other uses

* ACF River Basin, Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin in the southeastern US * Adult Care Facility, such as: nursing home, long-term care facility, adult daycare center, assisted living, respite care, etc. *

Saint Lucian Creole French Saint Lucian Creole (''Kwéyòl'' ), known locally as ''Patwa'', is the French-based Creole widely spoken in Saint Lucia. It is the vernacular language of the country and is spoken alongside the official language of English. ''Kwéyòl'' is a ...

(ISO 639:acf), a French-based creole language spoken in Saint Lucia and Dominica