CIF, c.i.f. or Cif may refer to:

Finance

Climate Investment Funds The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) is a multilateral fund established to finance and scale climate pilot projects in developing countries. Established in 2008 at the request of the G8 and G20, the CIF administers a collection of programs that help ...

, in international climate change agreements *

Community Infrastructure Fund Community Infrastructure Fund (CIF) is a UK government initiative created as a joint venture by the Department for Transport and the Department for Communities and Local Government., it was created following the recommendation of the Barker Revie ...

(CIF), a method of UK government funding for transport infrastructure *

Cost, Insurance and Freight The Incoterms or International Commercial Terms are a series of pre-defined commercial terms published by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) relating to international commercial law. Incoterms define the responsiblities of exporters and ...

, (c.i.f.) a historic trade term and International Commercial Term (Incoterm) indicating that a price includes cost, insurance and freight * ''Código de identificación fiscal'', a former Spanish tax identification number for legal entities; See

Identity document An identity document (also called ID or colloquially as papers) is any documentation, document that may be used to prove a person's identity. If issued in a small, standard credit card size form, it is usually called an identity card (IC, ID c ...

Organizations

California Interscholastic Federation The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) is the governing body for high school sports in the U.S. state of California. CIF membership includes both public and private high schools. Unlike most other state organizations, it does not have a s ...

, the governing body for high school sports in California **

CIF Central Section The California Interscholastic Federation—Central Section (CIF-CS) is the governing body of high school athletics in the central and southern portions of the San Joaquin Valley The San Joaquin Valley ( ; es, Valle de San Joaquín) is the ...

CIF Central Coast Section The Central Coast Section (CCS) is the governing body of public and private high school athletics in the portion of California encompassing San Mateo County, Santa Clara County, California, Santa Clara County, Monterey County, San Benito County, S ...

CIF Los Angeles City Section The CIF Los Angeles City Section (CIF-LA) is the governing body of high school athletics for public schools in the city of Los Angeles and some surrounding communities. All of these schools were once associated with the Los Angeles Unified School ...

CIF North Coast Section The North Coast Section (NCS) is a part of the California Interscholastic Federation, governing the eastern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area, up along the northern coast of the state of California, from Fremont in the south to Crescent C ...

** CIF Northern Section ** CIF Oakland Section **

CIF Sac-Joaquin Section The Sac-Joaquin Section (SJS) is the governing body of public and private high school athletics in parts of Northern San Joaquin Valley, California. Its geographic area also covers the California portion of the Lake Tahoe region; however, three ...

CIF San Diego Section The CIF San Diego Section (CIF-SDS) is the governing body of high school athletics for most of the two southernmost counties of California (San Diego and Imperial Counties), one of ten such sections that comprise the California Interscholastic Fede ...

CIF San Francisco Section The CIF San Francisco Section (CIF-SF), frequently shortened to SFS or just SF, is the governing body of high school sports for school for what was originally the San Francisco Unified School District. It is one of ten sections that comprise the C ...

CIF Southern Section The California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section (CIF-SS) is the governing body for high school athletics in most of Southern California and is the largest of the ten sections that comprise the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF ...

Canada India Foundation The Canada India Foundation is a Canadian non-profit organisation established in 2007. The main stated objective of CIF comprises promoting Canada–India relations through their active intervention in public policy, which would cover domestic po ...

, a Canadian lobbying organization *

China International Fund China International Fund (CIF) is a Chinese-owned group of Hong Kong investors that describes its major businesses as including "large-scale national reconstruction projects and infrastructure construction in developing countries". The CIF and its ...

, a Chinese company that funds large-scale national projects in developing countries

Science and technology

Caltech Intermediate Form Caltech Intermediate Form (CIF) is a file format for describing integrated circuits. CIF provides a limited set of graphics primitives that are useful for describing the two-dimensional shapes on the different layers of a chip. The format allows ...

, geometry language for VLSI design, in which the primitives are coloured rectangles (similar to GDSII) * Catch-in Focus, a function offered by SLR cameras to release the shutter automatically when the subject comes into focus *

Central Instrumentation Facility The Central Instrumentation Facility (CIF) was a building in the Kennedy Space Center industrial area that functioned as the core of instrumentation and data processing operations during the Apollo program and the early years of the Space Shuttle ...

, a former building at the Kennedy Space Center that housed data processing machines *

CFTR inhibitory factor The CFTR inhibitory factor (Cif) is a protein virulence factor secreted by the Gram-negative bacteria ''Pseudomonas aeruginosa'' and ''Acinetobacter nosocomialis''. Discovered at Dartmouth Medical School, Cif is able to alter the trafficking of s ...

(Cif), a virulence factor secreted by ''Pseudomonas aeruginosa'' *

Common Intermediate Format CIF (''Common Intermediate Format'' or ''Common Interchange Format''), also known as FCIF (''Full Common Intermediate Format''), is a standardized format for the picture resolution, frame rate, color space, and color subsampling of digital video ...

, a video format common in video teleconferencing *

Crystallographic Information File Crystallographic Information File (CIF) is a standard text file format for representing crystallographic information, promulgated by the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). CIF was developed by the IUCr Working Party on Crystallographic ...

, a standard text file format

Other uses

Counter Insurgency Force Counter Insurgency Force or (CIF) A Police tactical unit of West Bengal Police with headquarters in Garia, West Bengal was created by the West Bengal state government in 2010 on the lines of Greyhounds in Andhra Pradesh to combat proscribed Na ...

, a Police tactical unit of West Bengal Police *

Cif Cif is a French brand of household cleaning products owned by the Anglo-Dutch company Unilever, known as Jif in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Middle East and the Nordic countries. Cif was launched in France in 1965 and was marketed in competit ...

, a brand of household cleaning products by Unilever * Cif., the standard author abbreviation for Raffaele Ciferri *

Champions Indoor Football Champions Indoor Football (CIF) is a professional indoor American football minor league created in 2014 out of the merger between the Champions Professional Indoor Football League (CPIFL) and Lone Star Football League (LSFL), plus one team from ...

, a professional indoor American football league *

Chifeng Yulong Airport Chifeng Yulong Airport is an airport serving Chifeng, a city in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia in China. Facilities The airport has one runway which is long. Airlines and destinations