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, 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 Children's Health Fund (CHF) is a nonprofit organization that provides health care to children and families on mobile medical clinics throughout the United States. CHF was founded in 1987 by singer/songwriter Paul Simon and pediatrician/advocate ...

, a non-profit organization that provides health care to children and families * Children's Hunger Fund, a Christian non-profit organization that empowers local churches to meet the needs of impoverished community members * Commando Helicopter Force, a unit of the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm * CHF International, 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, used in automobile power steering * Chemical formula of hafnium(IV) carbide (CHf)

Other uses

Centre half-forward In Australian rules football, the centre half-forward is a position on the half-forward line of a football field. The directly opposing player is a centre half-back. Royce Hart of the Richmond Football Club and Wayne Carey of the North Melbour ...

, a position in Australian rules football * Chung Fu stop, 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