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 includi ...
, a drama festival
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Asimov's Science Fiction
''Asimov's Science Fiction'' is an American science fiction magazine which publishes science fiction and fantasy named after science fiction author Isaac Asimov. It is currently published by Penny Publications. From January 2017, the publicatio ...
'', 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 hemorrhagic fever with high mortality rates in domestic pigs; ...
(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, a protein also known as alternative splicing factor 1 (ASF)
Computing
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Advanced Synchronization Facility, 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. ASF is part of the Media Foundation framework. ...
(formerly "Advanced Streaming Format",
.asf), a Microsoft streaming format
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Alert Standard Format, 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 mo ...
data files (file extension .asf)
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Atmel
Atmel Corporation was a creator and manufacturer of semiconductors before being subsumed by Microchip Technology in 2016. Atmel was founded in 1984. The company focused on embedded systems built around microcontrollers. Its products included mi ...
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 (or 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 primarily t ...
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Alaska Satellite Facility The Alaska Satellite Facility is a data processing facility and satellite-tracking ground station within the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The facility’s mission is to make remote-sensing data accessible Its work is ...
, 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 a ...
often used in electroplating
Organizations
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Acid Survivors Foundation, in Bangladesh
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Airports Security Force, an aviation security division in Pakistan
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African Standby Force
The African Standby Force (ASF) ( French: ''Force africaine en attente'') is an international, continental African, and multidisciplinary peacekeeping force with military, police and civilian contingents that acts under the direction of the Africa ...
, 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 Swede ...
, a non-profit organization
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American Steel Foundries
The Standard Steel Casting Company, commonly referred to as Thurlow Works, was a steel production and steel casting facility founded in Chester, Pennsylvania in 1883 by shipbuilder John Roach. The company was established primarily to supply steel ...
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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 (American School Foundation, A.C.)
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Asian Sailing Federation
Asian Sailing Federation (ASAF) is the Asia's Sport governing body, governing body for the sport of sailing recognised by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) and the World Sailing (WS).
Events
* Asian Sailing Championship
* Sailing at the Asian Ga ...
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Australian Softball Federation
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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 850 members across 28 cons ...
, a caving body in Australia
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Avocats Sans Frontières
Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF), also known as Advocaten Zonder Grenzen or 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 main objective i ...
, an international non-governmental organization
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Superior Auditor of the Federation ( es, Auditoría Superior de la Federación, link=no)
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Swiss Football Association
The Swiss Football Association (german: Schweizerischer Fussballverband, french: Association Suisse de Football, it, Associazione Svizzera di Football/Calcio, rm, Associaziun Svizra da Ballape) is the governing body of football in Switzerlan ...
(french: Association Suisse de Football, link=no and it, Associazione Svizzera di Football, link=no)
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, milk, eggs, honey, cheese and yogurt. Many individuals do not consume ASF or consume little ASF by either personal choice or necessity, as ASF m ...
, 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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