CFA may refer to: *

CFA franc The CFA franc (french: franc CFA, , Franc of the Financial Community of Africa, originally Franc of the French Colonies in Africa, or colloquially ; abbreviation: F.CFA) is the name of two currencies, the West African CFA franc, used in eight W ...

, a currency used by fourteen African countries *

Chartered Financial Analyst The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program is a postgraduate professional certification offered internationally by the American-based CFA Institute (formerly the Association for Investment Management and Research, or AIMR) to investment and fi ...

, an international investment professional designation * Chick-fil-A, US fast food chain

Agreements

Canadian Football Act The ''Canadian Football Act'' (1974), also known in its long title as ''An Act respecting Canadian Professional Football'', was a proposed Act by the Parliament of Canada in April 1974 designed to give a government-protected monopoly over prof ...

Ceasefire A ceasefire (also known as a truce or armistice), also spelled cease fire (the antonym of 'open fire'), is a temporary stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions. Ceasefires may be between state ac ...

agreement *

Compact of Free Association The Compact of Free Association (COFA) is an international agreement 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 (F ...

, agreement between US, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and Palau * Conditional fee agreement, a legal agreement also known as "no win no fee"

Medicine

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 or profunda femoris artery and descends along the anteromedial part of the thigh in the ...

Complete Freund's adjuvant Freund's adjuvant is a solution of antigen emulsified in mineral oil and used as an immunopotentiator (booster). The complete form, Freund's Complete Adjuvant (FCA or CFA) is composed of inactivated and dried mycobacteria (usually ''M. tuberculosi ...

, an immunopotentiator composed of inactivated and dried mycobacteria * Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis, an archaic term for

idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), or (formerly) 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 tissue. It is ...

Organizations

* California Faculty Association, the union representing employees at California State University system * Call For Action, telephone help-lines of radio stations in the United States * Campaign for Accountability, a non-profit organization in the United States * Consumer Federation of America, consumer group * Consumers' Federation of Australia, consumer advocacy group * Campus Freethought Alliance, former name for Center for Inquiry On Campus, a skeptics' group * CFA Institute, formerly known as the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR) * Canadian Forestry Association *

Canadian Fraternal Association The Canadian Fraternal Association (CFA) was (see: https://www.ic.gc.ca/app/scr/cc/CorporationsCanada/fdrlCrpDtls.html?corpId=3091741) a trade association based in Waterloo, Ontario, for fraternal benefit societies in Canada which engaged in advocac ...

Carinthian Farmers' Association The Carinthian Farmers' Association (german: Kärtner Bauernbund) was a political party in Austria. History The party contested the 1919 Constitutional Assembly elections, receiving 1.1% of the national vote and two seats.Dieter Nohlen & Phili ...

, a political party in Austria * Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts, a college of Carnegie Mellon University * Cat Fanciers' Association, the world's largest registry of pedigreed cats * Catfish Farmers of America; see Catfish Dispute * Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, an American astronomy research and education institution * Country Fire Authority, a volunteer fire service in Victoria, Australia

Sports

* Championnat de France Amateur, a French football competition * Championnat de France Amateur (1935–1971), a French former football competition * College Football Association, a defunct group through which colleges negotiated American football TV contracts with networks * County football association, governing bodies for local football in England * Cyprus Football Association, the governing body of football in Cyprus * Chinese Football Association, the governing body of football in China * City Football Academy, part of Etihad Campus that is the training base for Manchester footballers in England

Science and technology

* Color filter array, a mosaic of tiny color filters placed over an image sensor to capture color information * CompactFlash Association, a mass storage device format used in portable electronic devices * Confirmatory factor analysis, statistical method used to explain variability among observed random variables * Continuous flight augering, a drilling method for concrete pilings *

Continuous flow analysis The AutoAnalyzer is an automated analyzer using a flow technique called continuous flow analysis (CFA), or more correctly segmented flow analysis (SFA) first made by the Technicon Corporation. The instrument was invented in 1957 by Leonard ...

, an automated analyzer using a special flow technique *

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 ob ...

, in computer science *

Crossed field antenna A crossed field antenna (CFA) is a controversial type of radio antenna for long and mediumwave broadcasting, patented by F. M. Kabbary and M. C. Hately in 1986, which was claimed to have the same efficiency as a conventional antenna but only one- ...

, a type of antenna for long and mediumwave broadcasting * Crossed-field amplifier, a specialized vacuum tube used as a microwave amplifier * Current-feedback operational amplifier, a type of operational amplifier * Component failure analysis, to determine the cause of a failure * .cfa, the file extension for an

Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-based and non-linear video editing software application (NLE) developed by Adobe Inc. and published as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud licensing program. First launched in 2003, Adobe Premiere Pro is a succe ...

computer audio file * Cfa, one of two symbols for the humid subtropical climate under the Köppen climate classification * CfA, the Center for Astrophysics , Harvard & Smithsonian

Transport

* Compagnie Française d'Aviation, a defunct French aircraft manufacturer * National Company for Rail Transport or ''Chemins de fer Algériens'', the former national railway of Algeria *

Chemins de Fer Armoricains The Chemins Company is a dietary supplement manufacturer based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The company, founded in 1974 by James Cameron, became embroiled in a series of criminal investigations in 1994 after a woman died and more than 100 other ...

, a former railway in Brittany, France * ICAO airline code for China Flying Dragon Aviation

Arts and entertainment

* Canadian Film Awards * United States Commission of Fine Arts, an advisory agency of the United States Government

Other uses

Call for abstracts An academic conference or scientific conference (also congress, symposium, workshop, or meeting) is an event for researchers (not necessarily academics) to present and discuss their scholarly work. Together with academic or scientific journals an ...

, a method used in academic contexts to encourage researchers to submit abstracts for conferences *

Cape Field Artillery A cape is a clothing accessory or a sleeveless outer garment which drapes the wearer's back, arms, and chest, and connects at the neck. History Capes were common in medieval Europe, especially when combined with a hood in the chaperon. The ...

, an artillery regiment of the South African Army *

Court of Final Appeal (Hong Kong) The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (HKCFA or CFA) 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 highest court of Hong Kong {{disambiguation