ASF may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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Alabama Shakespeare Festival
The Alabama Shakespeare Festival (ASF) is among the ten largest Shakespeare festivals in the world. The festival is permanently housed in the Carolyn Blount Theatre in Montgomery, Alabama.
ASF puts on 6-9 productions annually, typically includi ...
, a drama festival
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Asimov's Science Fiction'', a U.S.-based English-language science fiction magazine containing SF stories
Science and technology
Biological
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African swine fever virus
''African swine fever virus'' (ASFV) is a large, double-stranded DNA virus in the '' Asfarviridae'' family. It is the causative agent of African swine fever (ASF). The virus causes a hemorrhagic fever with high mortality rates in domestic pigs; ...
(ASFV), the causative agent of African swine fever (ASF)
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Altered Schaedler flora, a standardized consortium of gastrointestinal microbial species
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Serine/arginine-rich splicing factor 1, a protein also known as alternative splicing factor 1 (ASF)
Computing
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Advanced Synchronization Facility, a proposed extension to the x86 instruction set architecture
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Advanced Systems Format
Advanced Systems Format (formerly Advanced Streaming Format, Active Streaming Format) is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/ digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media. ASF is part of the Media Foundation framewor ...
(formerly "Advanced Streaming Format",
.asf), a Microsoft streaming format
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Alert Standard Format, a protocol for remote management and control of systems in OS-absent environments
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Anti Spam Filtering, software and hardware protection layers used to fight email spam
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Apache Software Foundation
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is an American nonprofit corporation (classified as a 501(c)(3) organization in the United States) to support a number of open source software projects. The ASF was formed from a group of developers of the A ...
, an umbrella non-profit organization that owns the Apache brandname
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APL (programming language)
APL (named after the book ''A Programming Language'') is a programming language developed in the 1960s by Kenneth E. Iverson. Its central datatype is the Array data type#Multi-dimensional arrays, multidimensional array. It uses a large range of ...
data files (file extension .asf)
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Atmel
Atmel Corporation was a creator and manufacturer of semiconductors before being subsumed by Microchip Technology in 2016. Atmel was founded in 1984. The company focused on embedded systems built around microcontrollers. Its products included micr ...
Software Framework, a set of source files, libraries and reference projects that aid in application development for Atmel microcontrollers
Other uses
* Acrylic silicone fluoropolymer, a
car wax
Auto detailing is an activity that keeps the vehicle in its best possible condition, especially cosmetic, as opposed to mechanical. This is achieved by removing both visible and invisible contaminants from the vehicle's interior, and polishing ...
chemical
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Air superiority fighter
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Alaska Satellite Facility, a NASA data center
* Amperes per square foot, a unit of
current density
In electromagnetism, current density is the amount of charge per unit time that flows through a unit area of a chosen cross section. The current density vector is defined as a vector whose magnitude is the electric current per cross-sectional ar ...
often used in electroplating
Organizations
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Acid Survivors Foundation, in Bangladesh
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Airports Security Force, an aviation security division in Pakistan
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African Standby Force
The African Standby Force (ASF) ( French: ''Force africaine en attente'') is an international, continental African, and multidisciplinary peacekeeping force with military, police and civilian contingents that acts under the direction of the African ...
, an international peace force controlled by the African Union
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The American-Scandinavian Foundation, a non-profit organization
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American Steel Foundries
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Army Service Forces
The Army Service Forces was one of the three autonomous components of the United States Army during World War II, the others being the Army Air Forces and Army Ground Forces, created on 9 March 1942. By dividing the Army into three large comman ...
, a 1940s-era US military command, distinct from the Army Air Forces or Army Ground Forces.
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ASF Mexico (American School Foundation, A.C.)
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Asian Sailing Federation
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Australian Softball Federation
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Australian Speleological Federation
Formed in 1956, the Australian Speleological Federation Inc. (ASF) is the national body representing those interested in the protection and sustainability of Australia's cave and karst environments. It has approximately 850 members across 28 con ...
, a caving body in Australia
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Avocats Sans Frontières
Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF), also known as Advocaten Zonder Grenzen or Lawyers without Borders, is an international NGO, active in the human rights and development sector. Created in 1992 by a group of Belgian lawyers, ASF’s main objective i ...
, an international non-governmental organization
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Superior Auditor of the Federation
The Superior Auditor of the Federation ( es, Auditoría Superior de la Federación, ASF) is the supreme audit institution of Mexico. A technical agency of the Chamber of Deputies, it is empowered to conduct external audits of federal, state and ...
( es, Auditoría Superior de la Federación, link=no)
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Swiss Football Association (french: Association Suisse de Football, link=no and it, Associazione Svizzera di Football, link=no)
Other uses
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Animal source foods
Animal source foods (ASF) include many food items that come from an animal source such as fish, meat, milk, eggs, honey, cheese and yogurt. Many individuals do not consume ASF or consume little ASF by either personal choice or necessity, as ASF m ...
, food items that come from an animal source
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alt.seduction.fast
Pickup artists (PUA), self-identified as dating coaches, the seduction community or the pickup community, is a movement of men (or women) whose goal is seduction and sexual success. The community exists through Internet newsletters and blogs, mar ...
, a Usenet group
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Ashfield railway station, Glasgow, Scotland, National Rail designation
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Narimanovo Airport, Astrakhan, Russia, IATA code
See also
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