DCF may refer to:

Medical

Data clarification form A data clarification form (DCF) or data query form is a questionnaire specifically used in Clinical trial, clinical research. The DCF is the primary data clarification tool from the trial sponsor or contract research organization (CRO) towards the ...

in clinical trials * Dénomination Commune Française, a formal French generic name for a drug

Organizations

* Child protective services, called Department of Children and Families in some U.S. states **

Connecticut Department of Children and Families The Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF) is a state agency of Connecticut providing family services. Its headquarters is in Hartford. History The Connecticut Department of Children and Youth Services was established around 1970. ...

Florida Department of Children and Families The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) is a state agency of Florida. Its headquarters are at 2415 North Monroe St., Ste. 400 in Tallahassee, Florida. The department provides social services to children, adults, refugees, domesti ...

Vermont Department for Children and Families The Vermont Department for Children and Families (DCF) is a government agency of the U.S. state of Vermont, headquartered in the Waterbury Office Complex in Waterbury. The department was formed on July 1, 2004. Divisions The divisions of DC ...

Wisconsin Department of Children and Families The Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (DCF) is an agency of the Wisconsin state government responsible for providing services to assist children and families and to oversee county offices handling those services. This includes child ...

* DCF Advertising, an American advertising agency *

Delaware Community Foundation The Delaware Community Foundation (DCF), one of more than 750 community foundations in the United States, is a nonprofit organization that establishes and manages charitable funds for individuals and organizations primarily from the state of Dela ...

, a charitable organization *

Dominion Car and Foundry Dominion Car and Foundry was a railcar maker based in Montreal and later merged to form Canadian Car and Foundry in 1909. DCF's history dates back before the company's formal incorporation in 1906. In 1902 Simplex Railway and Appliance Company of ...

, a former Canadian railcar maker *

Donors Capital Fund Donors Capital Fund is a nonprofit United States donor-advised charity that distributes grants to conservative and libertarian organizations. Donors Capital Fund is associated with Donors Trust, another donor-advised fund. Background Donors Ca ...

, a Virginia-based donor advised charity

Science

* Dichlorofluorescein, a fluorescent dye * L-dopachrome isomerase, also called dopachrome conversion factor

Technology

DCF77 DCF77 is a German longwave time signal and standard-frequency radio station. It started service as a standard-frequency station on 1 January 1959. In June 1973 date and time information was added. Its primary and backup transmitter are located ...

, time signal radio station in Germany. * Design rule for Camera File system, file system specification for digital cameras * Device Configuration File, an element of the

CANopen CANopen is a communication protocol and device profile specification for embedded systems used in automation. In terms of the OSI model, CANopen implements the layers above and including the network layer. The CANopen standard consists of an address ...

communication protocol *

Distributed coordination function Distributed coordination function (DCF) is the fundamental medium access control (MAC) technique of the IEEE 802.11-based WLAN standard (including Wi-Fi). DCF employs a carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) with the bi ...

, WLAN technique *

Double-clad fiber Double-clad fiber (DCF) is a class of optical fiber with a structure consisting of three layers of optical material instead of the usual two. The inner-most layer is called the ''core''. It is surrounded by the ''inner cladding'', which is surro ...

* Document Composition Facility, IBM software

Other uses

Canefield Airport The Canefield Airport is an airport on the west coast of the island nation of Dominica. It is north of Roseau, the capital. Construction began in early 1979 with British funding, shortly after Dominica's independence. The airport was officially ...

, Roseau, Dominica (IATA airport code) *

Dallas Christmas Festival The ''Gift of Christmas'' (GOC) is one of the largest Christmas pageants in the US, and is one of the top-rated Christmas-related events in the state of Texas. It takes place in the Worship Center of Prestonwood Baptist Church, in Plano, Texas. G ...

* Discounted cash flow, in financial analysis *

Direct Consular Filing Direct Consular Filing (DCF) is a process related to immigration to the United States whereby Form I-130 (Petition for Alien Relative), I-360 (Petition for Amerasian, Widow(er), or Special Immigrant), or I-600 (Petition to Classify Orphan as an Imm ...

, process related to immigration, US *

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award The Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (formerly the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award) annually recognizes one new American children's book selected by the vote of Vermont schoolchildren. It was inaugurated in 1957. The award is co-spon ...

, Vermont, US *

Dyneema Composite Fabric Dyneema Composite Fabric (DCF), also known as Cuben Fiber (CTF3), is a high-performance non-woven composite material used in high-strength, low-weight applications. It is constructed from a thin sheet of ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene ...

, a high-performance non-woven composite material used in high-strength, low-weight applications. *

Supervised injection site Supervised injection sites (SIS) are medically supervised facilities designed to provide a hygienic environment in which people are able to consume illicit recreational drugs intravenously and prevent deaths due to drug overdoses. The legality ...

, also called drug consumption facility * The theory of

differentially closed field In mathematics, a differential field ''K'' is differentially closed if every finite system of differential equations with a solution in some differential field extending ''K'' already has a solution in ''K''. This concept was introduced by . Differ ...

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