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

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 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, 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, 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 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 position ...

, 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 th ...

, 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, 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