CHF may refer to:
Organizations
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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
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Chi Heng Foundation, a Hong Kong-based non-governmental organisation dedicated to addressing children impacted by AIDS
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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
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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
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Children's Hunger Fund, a Christian non-profit organization that empowers local churches to meet the needs of impoverished community members
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Commando Helicopter Force, a unit of the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm
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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
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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 disease when the heart is unable to pump sufficiently to maintain blood flow to meet the body's needs
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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
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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
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Central hydraulic fluid, used in automobile power steering
* Chemical formula of
hafnium(IV) carbide (CHf)
Other uses
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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 Melbourne ...
, a position in Australian rules football
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Chung Fu stop, a Light Rail stop in Hong Kong
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Swiss franc, by ISO 4217 code, currency of Switzerland and Liechtenstein
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