MGF may stand for:
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MG F, a 1995 mid-engined, rear wheel drive roadster manufactured by the Rover Group
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Machine Gun Fellatio, an Australian alternative band
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Magnesium fluoride (chemical formula MgF
2)
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Malagasy franc
The franc (ISO 4217 code ''MGF'') was the currency of Madagascar until January 1, 2005. It was subdivided into 100 centimes. In Malagasy the corresponding term for the franc is ''iraimbilanja'', and five Malagasy francs is called ''ariary''.
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, the former currency of Madagascar in ISO 4217 code
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Mechano growth factor
Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1), also called somatomedin C, is a hormone similar in molecular structure to insulin which plays an important role in childhood growth, and has anabolic effects in adults.
IGF-1 is a protein that in humans is ...
, a peptide hormone produced in muscles in response to training, considered an isoform of
IGF-1
Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1), also called somatomedin C, is a hormone similar in molecular structure to insulin which plays an important role in childhood growth, and has anabolic effects in adults.
IGF-1 is a protein that in humans is ...
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Moment-generating function, in probability and statistics
* .mgf, (for ''Mascot generic format'') a data file format used by
Mascot
A mascot is any human, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or brand name. Mascots are also used as fi ...
mass spectrometry software
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Mask generation function
A mask generation function (MGF) is a cryptographic primitive similar to a cryptographic hash function except that while a hash function's output has a fixed size, a MGF supports output of a variable length. In this respect, a MGF can be viewed as ...
, a function generating an arbitrary number of bits for a given input (for example MGF1 from
PKCS 1
In cryptography, PKCS #1 is the first of a family of standards called Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS), published by RSA Laboratories. It provides the basic definitions of and recommendations for implementing the RSA algorithm for publ ...
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