AFP most often refers to: *

Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France. Founded in 1835 as Havas, it is the world's oldest news agency. AFP has regional headquarters in Nicosia, Montevideo, Hong Kong and Washington, D.C ...

, an international news agency *

Australian Federal Police The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is the national and principal federal law enforcement agency of the Australian Government with the unique role of investigating crime and protecting the national security of the Commonwealth of Australia. Th ...

AFP or afp may also refer to:

Media

* Advertiser-funded programming, a television funding model *

American Family Publishers American Family Publishers was an American company that sold magazine subscriptions. Founded in 1977, American Family Publishers (AFP) was one of America's leading marketers of magazine subscriptions. AFP was jointly owned by TAF Holdings, Inc. (a ...

, a magazine subscription company *, a recording industry association in Portugal

Publications

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American Free Press The ''American Free Press'' is a weekly newspaper published in the United States. The newspaper's direct ancestor was ''The Spotlight'', which ceased publication in 2001 when its parent organization, Liberty Lobby, was forced into bankruptcy. On ...

'', a weekly newspaper *''

American Family Physician ''American Family Physician'' (''AFP'') is the editorially independent, peer-reviewed and evidence-based medical journal published by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Published continuously since 1950, each issue delivers concise, easy-t ...

'', a peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Family Physicians *'' Australian Family Physician'', a peer-reviewed journal of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

Television

* ''AFP'' (TV series), a 2011 Australian factual television series *'' AFP: American Fighter Pilot'', a 2002 American television reality show

Organizations

Armed Forces of the Philippines The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) ( fil, Sandatahang Lakas ng Pilipinas) are the military forces of the Philippines. It consists of three main service branches; the Army, the Air Force, and the Navy (including the Marine Corps). The P ...

Politics

Alliance of the Forces of Progress (Senegal) The Alliance of the Forces of Progress (french: Alliance des forces de progrès) is a political party in Senegal. In the parliamentary election held on 29 April 2001, the party won 16.1% of the popular vote and 11 out of 120 seats. The party's fo ...

, a social-democratic political party in Senegal *

America First Party (disambiguation) The America First Party is the name of two US political parties: * America First Party (1943), an isolationist political party founded in 1943 *America First Party, another name for the Populist Party (United States, 1984) See also *America First ...

America First Party (1944) The America First Party was an isolationist political party which was founded on January 10, 1943. Its leader, Gerald L. K. Smith, was the party's presidential candidate in the 1944 U.S. presidential election. Background The America First Part ...

, an isolationist political party in 1944, renamed the Christian Nationalist Crusade in 1947 ** America First Party, another name for the

Populist Party (United States, 1984) The Populist Party was a political party in the United States between 1984 and 1996. It was conservative and often white nationalist in its ideology. The party was unrelated to the original American Populist Party or other American parties tha ...

(1984–96) *

Americans for Prosperity Americans for Prosperity (AFP), founded in 2004, is a libertarian conservative political advocacy group in the United States funded by Charles Koch and formerly his brother David. As the Koch brothers' primary political advocacy group, it is one ...

, a Washington, D.C.-based political advocacy group, one of the most influential conservative organizations in the U.S. *

Anarchist Federation of Poland The Anarchist Federation of Poland (AFP) was an anarchist organization the operated underground in the Second Polish Republic. History The AFP was created from a merger of a group of Zionist youth - the remnants of the United Jewish Socialist Wo ...

, an anarcho-syndicalist organization that operated in Poland from 1926 to 1939 *

Australia First Party The Australia First Party (NSW) Incorporated, often shortened to the Australia First Party (AFP), is an Australian far-right political party founded in 1996 by Graeme Campbell. The policies of Australia First have been described as ultranat ...

, a far-right political party in Australia * Australian Federation Party, an Australian political party

Science and medicine

* Air-filled

porosity Porosity or void fraction is a measure of the void (i.e. "empty") spaces in a material, and is a fraction of the volume of voids over the total volume, between 0 and 1, or as a percentage between 0% and 100%. Strictly speaking, some tests measure ...

, the proportion of a soil's volume that is filled with air at a given time *

Alpha-fetoprotein Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP, α-fetoprotein; also sometimes called alpha-1-fetoprotein, alpha-fetoglobulin, or alpha fetal protein) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''AFP'' gene. The ''AFP'' gene is located on the ''q'' arm of chromosome 4 ...

, a molecule produced in the developing embryo and fetus *

Antifreeze protein Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) or ice structuring proteins refer to a class of polypeptides produced by certain animals, plants, fungi and bacteria that permit their survival in temperatures below the freezing point of water. AFPs bind to small i ...

, a class of proteins that protect from ice damage in certain vertebrates, plants, fungi, and bacteria *

Antifungal protein The antifungal protein family is a protein family, with members sharing a structure consisting of five antiparallel beta strands which are highly twisted creating a beta barrel stabilised by four internal disulphide bridges. A cationic site adjace ...

, a family of proteins with fungicidal activity *

Atypical facial pain Atypical facial pain (AFP) is a type of chronic facial pain which does not fulfill any other diagnosis. There is no consensus as to a globally accepted definition, and there is even controversy as to whether the term should be continued to be use ...

Acute flaccid paralysis Flaccid paralysis is a neurological condition characterized by weakness or paralysis and reduced muscle tone without other obvious cause (e.g., trauma). This abnormal condition may be caused by disease or by trauma affecting the nerves associate ...

, a clinical manifestation characterized by paralysis and reduced muscle tone * ''

Archive of Formal Proofs The Isabelle automated theorem prover is a higher-order logic (HOL) theorem prover, written in Standard ML and Scala. As an LCF-style theorem prover, it is based on a small logical core (kernel) to increase the trustworthiness of proofs withou ...

'', a mathematics journal

Technology

Active fire protection Active fire protection (AFP) is an integral part of fire protection. AFP is characterized by items and/or systems, which require a certain amount of motion and response in order to work, contrary to passive fire protection. Categories of active fi ...

* , a German gunboat of World War II, a derivative of the *

Automated fiber placement Automated fiber placement (AFP), also known as advanced fiber placement, is an advanced method of manufacturing composite materials. These materials, which offer lighter weight with equivalent or greater strength than metals, are increasingly u ...

, a method of manufacturing with composite materials

Computing

Advanced Function Presentation Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) is a presentation architecture and family of associated printer software and hardware that provides for document and information presentation independent of specific applications and devices. Using AFP, users c ...

Apple Filing Protocol The Apple Filing Protocol (AFP), formerly AppleTalk Filing Protocol, is a proprietary network protocol, and part of the Apple File Service (AFS), that offers file services for macOS and the classic Mac OS. In Mac OS 9 and earlier, AFP was the ...

, an Apple remote file access protocol * Advanced Flexible Processor, a CDC Cyber computer system

People

* A.F.P. Hulsewé (1910–1993), Dutch professor *

Amanda Palmer Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer (born April 30, 1976) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and performance artist who is the lead vocalist, pianist, and lyricist of the duo The Dresden Dolls. She performs as a solo artist and was also a ...

(born 1976), sometimes known as Amanda Fucking Palmer, a punk cabaret artist formerly in the duo The Dresden Dolls

Other uses

* ', a fully funded capitalization system run by private sector pension funds in Chile; See

Pensions in Chile The Chile pension system (Spanish: ''Sistema Previsional'') refers to old-age, disability and survivor pensions for workers in Chile. The pension system was changed by José Piñera, during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, on November 4, 1980 from ...

Tapei language Tapei is an Arafundi language of Papua New Guinea. It is close to Nanubae; the name ''Alfendio'' was once used for both. Locations Kassell, et al. (2018) list Imanmeri, Wambrumas, and Yamandim as the villages where Nanubae is spoken. Additiona ...

(ISO 639-3 code: afp)