ASF may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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Alabama Shakespeare Festival
The Alabama Shakespeare Festival (ASF) is among the ten largest Shakespeare festivals in the world. The festival is permanently housed in the Carolyn Blount Theatre in Montgomery, Alabama.
ASF puts on 6-9 productions annually, typically includin ...
, a drama festival
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Asimov's Science Fiction
''Asimov's Science Fiction'' is an American science fiction magazine edited by Sheila Williams and published by Dell Magazines, which is owned by Penny Press. It was launched as a quarterly by Davis Publications in 1977, after obtaining Isaac ...
'', a U.S.-based English-language science fiction magazine containing SF stories
Science and technology
Biological
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African swine fever virus
African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a large, double-stranded DNA virus in the ''Asfarviridae'' family. It is the causative agent of African swine fever (ASF). The virus causes a haemorrhagic fever, hemorrhagic fever with high mortality rates i ...
(ASFV), the causative agent of African swine fever (ASF)
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Altered Schaedler flora, a standardized consortium of gastrointestinal microbial species
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Serine/arginine-rich splicing factor 1
Serine/arginine-rich splicing factor 1 (SRSF1) also known as alternative splicing factor 1 (ASF1), pre-mRNA-splicing factor SF2 (SF2) or ASF1/SF2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''SRSF1'' gene. ASF/SF2 is an essential sequence specif ...
, a protein also known as alternative splicing factor 1 (ASF)
Computing
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Advanced Synchronization Facility
Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF) is a proposed extension to the x86-64 instruction set architecture that adds hardware transactional memory support. It was introduced by AMD; the latest specification was dated March 2009. , it was still in ...
, a proposed extension to the x86 instruction set architecture
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Advanced Systems Format
Advanced Systems Format (formerly Advanced Streaming Format, Active Streaming Format) is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media
Streaming media refers to multimedia de ...
(formerly "Advanced Streaming Format",
.asf), a Microsoft streaming format
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Alert Standard Format
Alert Standard Format (ASF) (also sometimes referred to as ''Alert Standard Forum'', ''Alerting Specifications Forum'', ''Alert Specification Function'', etc.) is a DMTF standard for remote monitoring, management and control of computer systems ...
, a protocol for remote management and control of systems in OS-absent environments
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Anti Spam Filtering, software and hardware protection layers used to fight email spam
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Apache Software Foundation
The Apache Software Foundation ( ; ASF) is an American nonprofit corporation (classified as a 501(c)(3) organization in the United States) to support a number of open-source software projects. The ASF was formed from a group of developers of the ...
, an umbrella non-profit organization that owns the Apache brandname
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APL (programming language)
APL (named after the book ''A Programming Language'') is a programming language developed in the 1960s by Kenneth E. Iverson. Its central datatype is the multidimensional array. It uses a large range of special graphic symbols to represent m ...
data files (file extension .asf)
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Atmel Software Framework, a set of source files, libraries and reference projects that aid in application development for Atmel microcontrollers
Other uses
* Acrylic silicone fluoropolymer, a
car wax chemical
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Air superiority fighter
An air superiority fighter (also styled air-superiority fighter) is a fighter aircraft designed to seize control of enemy airspace by establishing tactical dominance (air superiority) over the opposing air force. Air-superiority fighters are pri ...
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Alaska Satellite Facility, a NASA data center
* Amperes per square foot, a unit of
current density
In electromagnetism, current density is the amount of charge per unit time that flows through a unit area of a chosen cross section. The current density vector is defined as a vector whose magnitude is the electric current per cross-sectional ...
often used in electroplating
Organizations
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Acid Survivors Foundation
The Acid Survivors Foundation is a Bangladeshi non-governmental organisation dedicated to raising awareness and preventing acid attacks and providing survivors with medical and legal aid.
History
The Foundation was founded in Dhaka in 1999 by ...
, in Bangladesh
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Airports Security Force
The Airports Security Force (ASF) () is a federal airport security force agency under the administrative control of the Defense Secretary of Pakistan, Secretary to the Government of Pakistan for Defense which is responsible for protecting the a ...
, an aviation security division in Pakistan
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African Standby Force, an international peace force controlled by the African Union
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The American-Scandinavian Foundation
The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) is an American non-profit foundation dedicated to promoting international understanding through educational and cultural exchange between the United States and Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Swe ...
, a non-profit organization
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American Steel Foundries
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Army Service Forces
The Army Service Forces was one of the three autonomous components of the United States Army during World War II, the others being the Army Air Forces and Army Ground Forces, created on 9 March 1942. By dividing the Army into three large comman ...
, a 1940s-era US military command, distinct from the Army Air Forces or Army Ground Forces.
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ASF Mexico
The American School Foundation, A.C, ("''Colegio Americano''" in Spanish) is an independent international school in the American tradition based in Mexico City. It offers coeducational college-preparatory school for international students aged ...
(American School Foundation, A.C.)
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Asian Sailing Federation
Asian Sailing Federation (ASAF) is the Asia's governing body for the sport of sailing recognised by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) and the World Sailing
World Sailing is the international sports governing body for sailing (sport), sailing; i ...
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Australian Softball Federation
Australia's softball history began in 1939 when Gordon Young, Director of Physical Education in NSW, began to promote the game in schools and colleges. In 1942, during World War II, US army sergeant William Duvernet organised softball as a recr ...
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Australian Speleological Federation
Formed in 1956, the Australian Speleological Federation Inc. (ASF) is the national body representing those interested in the protection and sustainability of Australia's cave and karst environments. It has approximately 950 members across 24 cavi ...
, a caving body in Australia
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Autism Science Foundation
The Autism Science Foundation (ASF) is a non-profit organization whose stated goals are to fund evidence-based autism research and support families with autistic members. The organization was founded in April 2009 by Alison Tepper Singer, a for ...
, a US non-profit organization
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Avocats Sans Frontières
Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF), also known in Dutch as Advocaten Zonder Grenzen (English: "Lawyers without Borders"), is an international NGO active in the human rights and development sector. Created in 1992 by a group of Belgian lawyers, ASF's ...
, an international non-governmental organization
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Superior Auditor of the Federation
The Superior Auditor of the Federation (, ASF) is the supreme audit institution of Mexico. A technical agency of the Chamber of Deputies, it is empowered to conduct external audits of federal, state and local governments and agencies. The ASF is ...
()
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Swiss Football Association
The Swiss Football Association (, , , ) is the governing body of football in Switzerland. It organizes the football league, the Swiss Football League and the Switzerland national football team. It is based in Bern.
It was formed in 1895, was a ...
( and )
Other uses
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Animal source foods
Animal source foods (ASF) include many food items that come from an animal source such as fish, meat, dairy, eggs and honey. Many individuals consume little ASF or even none for long periods of time by either personal choice or necessity, as A ...
, food items that come from an animal source
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alt.seduction.fast, a Usenet group
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Ashfield railway station, Glasgow, Scotland, National Rail designation
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Narimanovo Airport, Astrakhan, Russia, IATA code
See also
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