PMF may stand for:

Military

Paramilitary forces A paramilitary is a military that is not a part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the use of the term "paramilitary" as far back as 1934. Overview Though a paramilitary is, by definiti ...

, a semi-militarized force * Private military firm, a private company providing armed combat or security services for financial gain. *

Popular Mobilization Forces The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF; ), also known as the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), is an Iranian-backed paramilitary umbrella group that operates within Iraq. Although formally and legally part of the Iraqi Armed Forces and reportin ...

, an Iraqi state-sponsored umbrella organization

Science and technology

* Peptide mass fingerprinting, an analytical technique for protein identification *

Polarization-maintaining optical fiber In fiber optics, polarization-maintaining optical fiber (PMF or PM fiber) is a single-mode optical fiber in which linear polarization, linearly polarized light, if properly launched into the fiber, maintains a linear polarization during Wave p ...

, a type of optical fiber * Polycarbon monofluoride, a graphite compound with fluorine; also known as carbon monofluoride *

Potential of mean force When examining a system computationally one may be interested in knowing how the free energy changes as a function of some inter- or intramolecular coordinate (such as the distance between two atoms or a torsional angle). The free energy surface alo ...

, in chemistry, potential giving the average force on a particle from a set of molecules * Primary myelofibrosis, a disease affecting the bone marrow *

Probability mass function In probability and statistics, a probability mass function (sometimes called ''probability function'' or ''frequency function'') is a function that gives the probability that a discrete random variable is exactly equal to some value. Sometimes i ...

, in statistics, function giving the probability that a variable takes a particular value * Progressive massive fibrosis, an interstitial lung disease complication often seen in silicosis and pneumoconiosis * Protected Management Frames, a security feature of WiFi connections, see IEEE 802.11w-2009 *

Proton motive force Chemiosmosis is the movement of ions across a semipermeable membrane bound structure, down their electrochemical gradient. An important example is the formation of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) by the movement of hydrogen ions (H+) across a membra ...

, a measure of energy in biological reactions

Other uses

* Danish Union of Educators (Danish: ''Pædagogisk Medhjælper Forbund''), a former Danish trade union * Pacific Music Festival, an international classical music festival held annually in Sapporo, Japan *

Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb Faculty of Science (,lit. the Faculty of natural sciences and mathematics abbr: ''PMF'') is a faculty of the University of Zagreb that comprises seven departments - biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, geophysics, geography and geology. Th ...

(Croatian: ''Prirodoslovno-matematički fakultet''), a university faculty * Parma Airport, Italy (IATA airport code) *

Pierre Mendès France Pierre Isaac Isidore Mendès France (; 11 January 190718 October 1982) was a French politician who served as prime minister of France for eight months from 1954 to 1955. As a member of the Radical Party, he headed a government supported by a c ...

(1907–1982), Prime Minister of France *

Presidential Management Fellows Program The Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program was a two-year training and leadership development program at a United States government agency, administered by the Office of Personnel Management, U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), for ...

, a US government fellowship * Product/market fit, in marketing, the degree to which a product satisfies a strong market demand * Professional Medical Film, a U.S. Army designation * PMF, hacker turned as federal informant ( operation Cybersnare) * .pmf, a Sony PlayStation Portable movie file, a

proprietary format A proprietary file format is a file format of a company, organization, or individual that contains data that is ordered and stored according to a particular encoding-scheme, such that the decoding and interpretation of this stored data is easily ac ...

that can be extracted from PSP disk images {{disambig