ACF or acf may refer to:

Organizations

Africa

Active Citizen Force The South African Army is the principal Army, land warfare force of South Africa, a part of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), along with the South African Air Force, South African Navy and South African Military Health Servi ...

, temporary conscripts and volunteers in the South African Army

Asia

Adivasi Cobra Force The Adivasi Cobra Force (abbreviated ACF), also known as the Adivasi Cobra Militant Force (abbreviated ACMF), was an militant insurgent group in Lower Assam, India, with the claimed objective of protecting the Adivasi people through armed combat. ...

, 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 Australian Chess Federation (ACF) is dedicated to promoting the game of chess in Australia, and is a member of FIDE, the World Chess Federation. The ACF administers its own chess rating system for tournaments in Australia, and runs the ACF G ...

, the governing body for chess in Australia *

Australian Conservation Foundation The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) is Australia's national environmental organisation, launched in 1965 in response to a proposal by the World Wide Fund for Nature for a more co-ordinated approach to sustainability. One high-profil ...

, an Australian non-profit organisation promoting ecological sustainability

Europe

* Action contre la Faim 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 The Army Cadet Force (ACF), generally shortened to Army Cadets, is a national youth organisation sponsored by the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence and the British Army. Along with the Sea Cadet Corps and the Air Training Corps, the ACF mak ...

, 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 The Automobile Club of France (french: Automobile Club de France, links=no) (ACF) is a men's club founded on November 12, 1895 by Albert de Dion, Paul Meyan, and its first president, the Dutch-born Baron Etienne van Zuylen van Nijevelt. The Aut ...

, prestigious men's club located on Place de la Concorde in Paris

North America

Academic Competition Federation The Academic Competition Federation (ACF) is an organization, founded as the Academic Competition Foundation in 1991, that runs a national championship for collegiate quiz bowl as well as other tournaments. History During the mid-1980s, several sc ...

, unincorporated non-profit organization that runs collegiate quizbowl tournaments *

Administration for Children and Families The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is a division of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It is headed by the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Children and Families. It has a $49 billi ...

, 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 Br ...

, the collegiate ministry of the Adventist church in North America *

American Car and Foundry Company ACF Industries, originally the American Car and Foundry Company (abbreviated as ACF), is an American manufacturer of railroad rolling stock. One of its subsidiaries was once (1925–54) a manufacturer of motor coaches and trolley coaches und ...

, 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 The American Culinary Federation (ACF) was established in 1929 in New York City and is the largest professional chefs' organization in North America. It was the progeny of the combined visions of three chefs' associations in New York City, the Soci� ...

, 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 ACF2 (Access Control Facility 2) is a commercial, discretionary access control software security system developed for the MVS (z/OS today), VSE (z/VSE today) and VM (z/VM today) IBM mainframe operating systems by SKK, Inc. Barry Schrager, Eberha ...

, the prototype of the ACF2 third-party security software for IBM OS/VS * 2-Acetylfuran, 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 The IBM Network Control Program, or NCP, was software that ran on a 37xx communications controller and managed communication with remote devices. NCP provided services comparable to the data link layer and Network Layer functions in the OSI model ...

, and ACF/VTAM * Advanced Component Framework, C++ component framework providing a scalable architecture for very complex applications *

African clawed frog The African clawed frog (''Xenopus laevis'', also known as the xenopus, African clawed toad, African claw-toed frog or the ''platanna'') is a species of African aquatic frog of the family Pipidae. Its name is derived from the three short claws ...

, 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 Anisotropic conductive film (ACF), is a lead-free and environmentally friendly adhesive interconnect system that is commonly used in liquid crystal display manufacturing to make the electrical and mechanical connections from the driver electronics ...

, a conductive adhesive system used in the electronics industry *

Autocorrelation function Autocorrelation, sometimes known as serial correlation in the discrete time case, is the correlation of a signal with a delayed copy of itself as a function of delay. Informally, it is the similarity between observations of a random variable ...

, mathematical tool used frequently in signal processing

Medicine

ACF (gene) APOBEC1 complementation factor is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''A1CF'' gene. Gene Alternative splicing occurs at this locus and three full-length transcript variants, encoding three distinct isoforms, have been described. Additi ...

, human gene *

Aberrant crypt foci Aberrant crypt foci (ACF) are clusters of abnormal tube-like glands in the lining of the colon and rectum. Aberrant crypt foci form before colorectal polyps and are one of the earliest changes seen in the colon that may lead to cancer. ACF are, a ...

, a preneoplastic lesion on the mucosa of colon or rectum *

Antecubital fossa The cubital fossa, chelidon, or elbow pit, is the triangular area on the anterior side of the upper limb between the arm and forearm of a human or other hominid animals. It lies anteriorly to the elbow (Latin ) when in standard anatomical positi ...

, 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 Asymmetric crying facies (ACF), also called partial unilateral facial paresis and hypoplasia of depressor angula oris muscle, is a minor congenital anomaly caused by agenesis or hypoplasia of the depressor anguli oris muscle, one of the muscles t ...

, a minor congenital anomaly

Other uses

ACF River Basin The ACF River Basin is the drainage basin, or watershed, of the Apalachicola River, Chattahoochee River, and Flint River, in the Southeastern United States. This area is alternatively known as simply the Apalachicola Basin and is listed by t ...

, Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin in the southeastern US *

Adult Care Facility An adult is a human or other animal that has reached full growth. In human context, the term ''adult'' has meanings associated with social and legal concepts. In contrast to a " minor", a legal adult is a person who has attained the age of major ...

, such as:

nursing home A nursing home is a facility for the residential care of elderly or disabled people. Nursing homes may also be referred to as skilled nursing facility (SNF) or long-term care facilities. Often, these terms have slightly different meanings to in ...

long-term care facility A nursing home is a facility for the residential care of elderly or disabled people. Nursing homes may also be referred to as skilled nursing facility (SNF) or long-term care facilities. Often, these terms have slightly different meanings to i ...

adult daycare center An adult daycare center is typically a non-residential facility that supports the health, nutritional, social, and daily living needs of adults in a professionally staffed, group setting. These facilities provide adults with transitional care and ...

assisted living An assisted living residence or assisted living facility (ALF) is a housing facility for people with disabilities or for adults who cannot or who choose not to live independently. The term is popular in the United States, but the setting is s ...

respite care __NOTOC__ Respite care is planned or emergency temporary care provided to caregivers of a child or adult. Respite programs provide planned short-term and time-limited breaks for families and other unpaid caregivers of children with a developmenta ...

, 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