CHF may refer to:

Organizations

Chemical Heritage Foundation The Science History Institute is an institution that preserves and promotes understanding of the history of science. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it includes a library, museum, archive, research center and conference center. It was fo ...

, former name of the Science History Institute, an institution that preserves and promotes understanding of the history of science *

Chi Heng Foundation The Chi Heng Foundation (CHF) is a Hong Kong-based non-governmental organisation dedicated to addressing children impacted by AIDS and also to AIDS prevention and education. Established in 1998, the NGO has offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou ...

, a Hong Kong-based non-governmental organisation dedicated to addressing children impacted by AIDS *

Chicago Humanities Festival The Chicago Humanities Festival is a non-profit organization which hosts an annual series of lectures, concerts, and films in Chicago. There are two seasons each year, including a spring festival from April through May, and a longer fall festival ...

, a foundation which organizes an annual series of lectures, concerts, and films * Children's Health Fund, a non-profit organization that provides health care to children and families *

Children's Hunger Fund Children's Hunger Fund (CHF) is a Christian non-profit organization that resources and empowers local churches in the United States and around the world to meet the needs of their impoverished community members. CHF's mission is to "deliver hope ...

, a Christian non-profit organization that empowers local churches to meet the needs of impoverished community members *

Commando Helicopter Force Commando Helicopter Force (CHF) is a unit of the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm and an element of the Joint Helicopter Command of the British Armed Forces. Its primary role is to provide Rotary-Wing support to 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines and oth ...

, a unit of the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm *

CHF International Global Communities is a global development organization that has grown to reach over 35 countries per year. The non-profit organization was founded in 1952 as the Cooperative Housing Foundation and provided affordable housing for low-income families ...

, former name of Global Communities, an international development and humanitarian aid organization * Community Health Fund, a Tanzanian health insurance scheme

Science and technology

Congestive heart failure Heart failure (HF), also known as congestive heart failure (CHF), is a syndrome, a group of signs and symptoms caused by an impairment of the heart's blood pumping function. Symptoms typically include shortness of breath, excessive fatigue, a ...

, a disease when the heart is unable to pump sufficiently to maintain blood flow to meet the body's needs *

Critical heat flux Critical heat flux (CHF) describes the thermal limit of a phenomenon where a phase change occurs during heating (such as bubbles forming on a metal surface used to heat water), which suddenly decreases the efficiency of heat transfer, thus causing ...

, the thermal limit of a phenomenon in thermodynamics *

Cryptographic hash function A cryptographic hash function (CHF) is a hash algorithm (a map of an arbitrary binary string to a binary string with fixed size of n bits) that has special properties desirable for cryptography: * the probability of a particular n-bit output re ...

, a special class of hash function that has certain properties which make it suitable for use in cryptography *

Central hydraulic fluid A power steering is a mechanical device equipped on a motor vehicle that helps drivers steer the vehicle by reducing steering effort needed to turn the steering wheel, making it easier for the vehicle to turn or maneuver at lower speeds. Hydraulic ...

, used in automobile power steering * Chemical formula of

hafnium(IV) carbide Hafnium carbide ( Hf C) is a chemical compound of hafnium and carbon. Previously the material was estimated to have a melting point of about 3,900 °C. More recent tests have been able to conclusively prove that the substance has an even hig ...

(CHf)

Other uses

* Centre half-forward, a position in Australian rules football *

Chung Fu stop Chung Fu () is an MTR Light Rail stop. It is located above the roundabout of Tin Shui Road and Tin Wah Road, next to T Town, in Tin Shui Wai, Yuen Long District. It is the only elevated Light Rail stop in Tin Shui Wai, and the distance between ...

, a Light Rail stop in Hong Kong *

Swiss franc The Swiss franc is the currency and legal tender of Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It is also legal tender in the Italian exclave of Campione d'Italia which is surrounded by Swiss territory. The Swiss National Bank (SNB) issues banknotes and the f ...

, by ISO 4217 code, currency of Switzerland and Liechtenstein {{disambiguation