BAF or Baf may refer to:

Biology

Barrier-to-autointegration factor In molecular biology, barrier-to-autointegration factor (BAF) is a family of essential proteins that is Conservation (genetics), highly conserved in metazoan evolution, and which may act as DNA-bridging proteins. BAF Binding (molecular), binds di ...

, a family of proteins * BRG1, or hbrm-associated factors, a family of proteins; see

SWI/SNF In molecular biology, SWI/SNF (SWItch/Sucrose Non-Fermentable), is a subfamily of ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complexes, which is found in eukaryotes. In other words, it is a group of proteins that associate to remodel the way DNA is packa ...

re BAF complex

Military

Bagram Airfield Bagram Airfield-BAF, also known as Bagram Air Base , is located southeast of Charikar in the Parwan Province of Afghanistan. It is under the Ministry of Defense (Afghanistan), Afghan Ministry of Defense. Sitting on the site of the ancient town ...

Balkan Air Force The Balkan Air Force (BAF) was an Allied air formation operating in the Balkans during World War II. Composed of units of the Royal Air Force and South African Air Force under the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces command, it was active from 7 Jun ...

, a late-World War II Allied air formation *

Bangladesh Air Force The Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) () is the aerial warfare branch of the Bangladesh Armed Forces. The air force is primarily responsible for air defence of Bangladesh's sovereign territory as well as providing air support to the Bangladesh Army a ...

* Belgian Air Force, previous name of the

Belgian Air Component The Belgian Air and Space Component (, ) is the Air force, air arm of the Belgian Armed Forces, and until January 2002 it was officially known as the Belgian Air Force (; ). It was founded in 1909 and is one of the world's oldest air services. ...

, ICAO code *

Benefield Anechoic Facility Benefield Anechoic Facility (BAF) is an anechoic chamber located at the southwest side of the Edwards Air Force Base main base. It is currently the world's largest anechoic chamber. The BAF supports installed systems testing for avionics test prog ...

, installed systems for avionics test programs *

Bolivian Air Force The Bolivian Air Force (BAF; or 'FAB') is the air force of Bolivia and branch of the Bolivian Armed Forces. History By 1938 the Bolivian air force consisted of about 60 aircraft ( Curtiss Hawk fighters, Curtiss T-32 Condor II and Junkers ...

* Bophuthatswana Air Force, the aviation branch of the military forces of Bophuthatswana *

British Armed Forces The British Armed Forces are the unified military, military forces responsible for the defence of the United Kingdom, its British Overseas Territories, Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies. They also promote the UK's wider interests ...

, the military of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland *

Bulgarian Air Force The Bulgarian Air Force () is one of the three branches of the Military of Bulgaria, the other two being the Bulgarian Navy and Bulgarian land forces. Its mission is to guard and protect the sovereignty of Bulgarian airspace, and jointly with ...

Other uses

* Baca language (ISO 639:b), a Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon * .baf, a proprietary data format used by Bruker mass spectrometers *

Baptistina family The Baptistina family ( FIN: 403) is an asteroid family of more than 2500 members that was probably produced by the breakup of an asteroid across 80 million years ago following an impact with a smaller body. The two largest presumed remnants ...

, an asteroid family *

Barnes Municipal Airport Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport is a joint civil-military airport in Hampden County, Massachusetts, three miles (6 km) north of Westfield and northwest of Springfield. It was formerly Barnes Municipal Airport; the National Plan of Integ ...

, IATA airport code *

Basal area Basal area is the cross-sectional area of trees at breast height (1.3m or 4.5 ft above ground). It is a common way to describe stand density. In forest management, basal area usually refers to merchantable timber and is given on a per hectare ...

factor, used in forestry to calculate tree cover over land * Belarus Athletic Federation * Brigade d'autodéfense du français (BAF), an activist grouping in Quebec in defense of French language *

British Academy of Fencing The British Academy of Fencing (BAF) is a membership organisation for those involved in coaching and coach education in the sport of fencing in the United Kingdom. The Academy claims to trace its roots to the reign of Henry VII and the Company ...

British Air Ferries British United Air Ferries (BUAF) was a wholly private, British independentindependent from government-owned corporations air ferry, car and passenger ferry airline based in the United Kingdom during the 1960s. It specialised in cross-English C ...

, a former airline * Building a Future, an organization concerned with child poverty in Latin America *

Bunker adjustment factor Bunker adjustment factor, bunker surcharge or BAF refers to the floating part of sea freight charges which represents additions due to oil prices. BAF charges used to be determined by Carrier Conferences to be applicable for a certain period on a ...

, sea freight charges which represents additions due to oil prices * The Turkish name for

Paphos Paphos, also spelled as Pafos, is a coastal city in southwest Cyprus and the capital of Paphos District. In classical antiquity, two locations were called Paphos: #Old Paphos, Old Paphos, today known as Kouklia, and #New Paphos, New Paphos. It i ...

, Cyprus {{disambiguation