EF or ef may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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Ef (band), a post-rock band from Sweden
* ''
Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two.'', a Japanese adult visual novel series by Minori, or its anime adaptations
Businesses and organizations
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Eagle Forum
Eagle Forum is a conservative interest group in the United States founded by Phyllis Schlafly in 1972 and is the parent organization that also includes the Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund and the Eagle Forum PAC. The Eagle Forum has ...
, an anti-feminist conservative interest group
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Earth First! movement, in environmentalism
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Eastern Fare
The Eastern Fare Music Foundation is a music school, as well as a production and publishing house in Guwahati, Assam, India. The institute provides training for instrumental music in Western Classical music, Carnatic music and contemporary style ...
, a music institution and production house in Bangalore, India
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EF Education First an international education organization
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The Elias Fund
The Elias Fund is a nonprofit organization funding community development and education for Zimbabwean youth.
Overview
The Elias Fund began with a simple purpose - help one man raise his children. Today EF empowers Zimbabwean communities to buil ...
, a non-profit organization
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Far Eastern Air Transport
FAT Taiwan Inc., () doing business as Far Eastern Air Transport (FAT), was an airline with its head office in Songshan District, Taipei, Taiwan (Republic of China).
Established in 1957, it operated domestic services from Taipei and Kaohsiung ...
(IATA code EF)
Linguistics
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Ef (Cyrillic)
Ef or Fe (Ф ф; italics: ) is a Cyrillic letter, commonly representing the voiceless labiodental fricative , like the pronunciation of in "fill, flee, or fall". The Cyrillic letter Ef is romanized as . In some languages it is known as F ...
(Ф, ф), a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet
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F, a Latin letter
Science
Biology and psychology
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Ejection fraction
An ejection fraction (EF) is the volumetric fraction (or portion of the total) of fluid (usually blood) ejected from a chamber (usually the heart) with each contraction (or heartbeat). It can refer to the cardiac atrium, ventricle, gall bladder, ...
, in cardiovascular physiology
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Elongation factors, proteins that are important in protein synthesis
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Executive functions
In cognitive science and neuropsychology, executive functions (collectively referred to as executive function and cognitive control) are a set of cognitive processes that are necessary for the cognitive control of behavior: selecting and succe ...
, a theorized cognitive system in psychology that controls and manages other cognitive processes
Physics
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Electric field
An electric field (sometimes E-field) is the physical field that surrounds electrically charged particles and exerts force on all other charged particles in the field, either attracting or repelling them. It also refers to the physical field fo ...
, in physics
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Exafarad, an SI unit of electric capacitance
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Fermi energy or
Fermi level
The Fermi level of a solid-state body is the thermodynamic work required to add one electron to the body. It is a thermodynamic quantity usually denoted by ''µ'' or ''E''F
for brevity. The Fermi level does not include the work required to remove ...
(''E''
F), both concepts in quantum mechanics
Other sciences
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Ecological footprint
The ecological footprint is a method promoted by the Global Footprint Network to measure human demand on natural capital, i.e. the quantity of nature it takes to support people or an economy. It tracks this demand through an ecological accounti ...
, the measure of the demand the population has on the environment
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Enhanced Fujita scale (EF scale), an improved version of the Fujita scale used to rate the intensity of tornadoes
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Ice cap climate
An ice cap climate is a polar climate where no mean monthly temperature exceeds . The climate covers areas in or near the high latitudes (65° latitude) to polar regions (70–90° north and south latitude), such as Antarctica, some of the northe ...
, which is abbreviated to EF in the Köppen climate classification
Technology
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Canon EF camera
The Canon EF is a manual focus 35mm 35 mm may refer to:
* 135 film, a type of still photography format commonly referred to as 35 mm film
* 35 mm movie film, a type of motion picture film stock
* 35MM 35 mm may refer to:
* 135 fil ...
, a manual focus 35mm SLR
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Canon EF lens mount, Canon's auto-focus lens mount
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Entity Framework, an object-relational mapping (ORM) framework for the .NET Framework
Other uses
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Extraordinary Form, a phrase used to describe the Catholic liturgy of the 1962 Roman Missal
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Era Fascista, the Italian fascist calendar
* Extra fine, a
condition of a coin
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Eurofurence
Eurofurence (commonly abbreviated EF) is a furry convention held in changing places in Europe every year (in Berlin, Germany since 2014 and will remain there for the time being). It was originally started in 1995 as a private gathering by ninet ...
, a furry convention in Berlin, Germany
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