CFA may refer to:
Agreements
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Canadian Football Act
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Ceasefire
A ceasefire (also known as a truce), also spelled cease-fire (the antonym of 'open fire'), is a stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions often due to mediation by a third party. Ceasefires may b ...
agreement
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Compact of Free Association
The Compacts of Free Association (COFA) are international agreements establishing and governing the relationships of free association between the United States and the three Pacific Island sovereign states of the Federated States of Micronesia ( ...
, between the US, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and Palau
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Conditional fee agreement, a payment agreement also known as "no win no fee"
Medicine
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Common femoral artery
The femoral artery is a large artery in the thigh and the main arterial supply to the thigh and leg. The femoral artery gives off the deep femoral artery and descends along the anteromedial part of the thigh in the femoral triangle. It enters an ...
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Complete Freund's adjuvant, an immunopotentiator
* Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis, an archaic term for
idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) synonymous with cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis is a rare, progressive illness of the respiratory system, characterized by the thickening and stiffening of lung tissue, associated with the formation of scar ...
Organizations
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California Faculty Association, a union for the California State University system
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Campaign for Accountability, a US ethics watchdog group
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China Futures Association
The China Futures Association (CFA) is a membership organization under the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), which regulates and supervises the futures industry in China. It is established as a nonprofit organization in which all Ch ...
, a financial regulation group
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Consumer Federation of America
The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) is a non-profit organization founded in 1968 to advance consumer interests through research, education and advocacy.
The CFA's website states that its members are nearly 300 consumer-oriented non-profits, ...
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Consumers' Federation of Australia
The Consumers' Federation of Australia (CFA) is Australia's umbrella consumer advocacy group.
As an organisation, CFA has over 30 organisational members ranging from large national organisations like Choice (Australian consumer organisation), CH ...
* Campus Freethought Alliance, formerly the
Center for Inquiry On Campus, a skeptics' group
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CFA Institute
The CFA Institute is a global, not-for-profit professional organization that provides investment professionals with finance education. The institute aims to promote standards in ethics, education, and professional excellence in the global investme ...
, an organization for finance professionals
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Canadian Forestry Association
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Canadian Fraternal Association
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Carinthian Farmers' Association, a political party in Austria
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Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts
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Cat Fanciers' Association
The Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA) was established in the United States in 1906. The CFA is currently the world's largest registry of pedigreed cats. Originally headquartered in Manasquan, New Jersey, the CFA moved to Alliance, Ohio in 2010. ...
, a registry of pedigreed cats
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Catfish Farmers of America, a party to the
Catfish Dispute
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Country Fire Authority
The Country Fire Authority (CFA) is a Volunteer fire department, volunteer fire service responsible for fire suppression, rescues, and response to other accidents and hazards across most of the state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia ...
, in Victoria, Australia
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Code for America
Code for America is a 501(c)(3) civic tech non-profit organization that was founded by Jennifer Pahlka in 2009, "to promote ‘civic hacking’, and to bring 21st century technology to government." Federal, state, and local governments often lack ...
, a nonprofit civic technology organization
Sports
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Championnat de France Amateur
The Championnat National 2, commonly known as National 2 and formerly known as Championnat de France Amateur (CFA), is a football league competition. The league serves as the fourth tier of French football league system behind Ligue 1, Ligue 2 ...
, a French football competition
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Championnat de France Amateur (1935–1971), a French former football competition
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College Football Association The College Football Association (CFA) was a group formed by many of the American colleges with top-level college football programs in order to negotiate contracts with TV networks to televise football games. It was formed in 1977 by 63 schools from ...
, a defunct group which negotiated American football TV contracts
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County football association, governing bodies for local football in England
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Cyprus Football Association
The Cyprus Football Association (CFA) (, ) is the governing body of football in Cyprus and is based in Nicosia. It organises Cyprus's football championships, whose top league is the Cypriot First Division. It also organises the Cypriot Cup, the ...
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Chinese Football Association
The Chinese Football Association (), abbreviated as CFA (), is the governing body for association football, beach soccer and futsal in the People's Republic of China (Mainland China). The CFA organizes the men's and women's national teams an ...
* City Football Academy, part of
Etihad Campus
Etihad Campus is an area of Sportcity, Manchester which is mostly owned and operated by Manchester City F.C., Manchester City. The campus includes the City of Manchester Stadium, Etihad Stadium, the Academy Stadium, City Football Academy (CFA) ...
and the training base for Manchester footballers in England
Science and technology
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Color filter array
In digital imaging, a color filter array (CFA), or color filter mosaic (CFM), is a mosaic of tiny color filters placed over the pixel sensors of an image sensor to capture color information.
The term is also used in reference to Electronic paper ...
, part of an image sensor
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CompactFlash Association
CompactFlash (CF) is a flash memory mass storage device used mainly in portable electronic devices. The format was specified and the devices were first manufactured by SanDisk in 1994.
CompactFlash became one of the most successful of the e ...
, a mass storage device trade group
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Confirmatory factor analysis
In statistics, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is a special form of factor analysis, most commonly used in social science research.Kline, R. B. (2010). ''Principles and practice of structural equation modeling (3rd ed.).'' New York, New York: Gu ...
, a statistical method
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Continuous flight augering, a drilling method
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Continuous flow analysis, a technique used in some automated analyzers
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Control flow analysis
In computer science, control-flow analysis (CFA) is a static-code-analysis technique for determining the control flow of a program. The control flow is expressed as a control-flow graph (CFG). For both functional programming languages and objec ...
, in computer science
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Crossed field antenna, a type of antenna for long and mediumwave broadcasting
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Crossed-field amplifier
A crossed-field amplifier (CFA) is a specialized vacuum tube, first introduced in the mid-1950s and frequently used as a microwave amplifier in very-high-power transmitters.
Raytheon engineer William C. Brown's work to adapt magnetron principle ...
, a specialized vacuum tube used as a microwave amplifier
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Current-feedback operational amplifier
The current-feedback operational amplifier (CFOA or CFA) is a type of electronic amplifier whose inverting input is sensitive to current, rather than to voltage as in a conventional voltage-feedback operational amplifier (VFA). The CFA was invente ...
* Component
failure analysis
Failure analysis is the process of collecting and analyzing data to determine the cause of a failure, often with the goal of determining corrective actions or liability.
According to Bloch and Geitner, ”machinery failures reveal a reaction chain ...
* The
Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
The Center for Astrophysics , Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA), previously known as the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is an astrophysics research institute jointly operated by the Harvard College Observatory and Smithsonian Astrophy ...
* .cfa, the file extension for
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Premiere Pro is a video editing application developed by Adobe Inc. and is distributed as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite. It is primarily used for producing high-quality videos across various industries.
History Original A ...
computer audio files
* Cfa, one of two symbols for the
humid subtropical climate
A humid subtropical climate is a subtropical -temperate climate type, characterized by long and hot summers, and cool to mild winters. These climates normally lie on the southeast side of all continents (except Antarctica), generally between ...
, under the Köppen climate classification
Transport
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Compagnie Française d'Aviation
Compagnie Française d'Aviation (CFA) was a French aircraft manufacturer of the 1930s and 1940s. It was established in 1936 as a division of the Salmson engine company to handle the mass production of the Salmson Cricri, Cricri light aircraft.
Man ...
, a defunct French aircraft manufacturer
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National Company for Rail Transport
The National Rail Transportation Company (, , abbreviated SNTF) is Algeria's national railway operator. The SNTF, a state-owned company, currently has a monopoly over Algeria's rail network of , although it is currently utilising only . Out of ...
or ''Chemins de fer Algériens'', the former national railway of Algeria
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Chemins de Fer Armoricains, a former railway in Brittany, France
* ICAO airline code for
China Flying Dragon Aviation
Arts and entertainment
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Canadian Film Awards
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United States Commission of Fine Arts
The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) is an independent agency of the federal government of the United States, and was established in 1910. The CFA has review (but not approval) authority over the "design and aesthetics" of all construction wit ...
Other uses
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CFA franc
CFA franc (, ) is the name of two currencies used by 210 million people (as of 2023) in fourteen African countries: the West African CFA franc (where "CFA" stands for , i.e. "African Financial Community" in English), used in eight West African c ...
, either of two currencies used in two separate groups of African countries
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Chartered Financial Analyst
The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program is a postgraduate professional certification offered internationally by the US-based CFA Institute (formerly the Association for Investment Management and Research, or AIMR) to investment and financia ...
, an investment professional designation
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Chick-fil-A
Chick-fil-A, Inc. ( , a Word play, play on the American English pronunciation of "wikt:filet#Pronunciation, filet") is an American fast food restaurant chain and the largest chain specializing in Chicken burger, chicken sandwiches. Headquarter ...
, a US fast food chain
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Call for abstracts, an invitation to submit presentation proposals to an academic conference
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Cape Field Artillery, a regiment of the South African Army
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Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal
The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (HKCFA) is the final appellate court of Hong Kong. It was established on 1 July 1997, upon the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, replacing the Judicial Committee of the Priv ...
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