AFC may stand for:
Organizations
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Action for Children
Action for Children (formerly National Children's Home) is a United Kingdom, UK children's charity created to help vulnerable children and young people and their families in the UK. The charity has 7,000 staff and volunteers who operate over 4 ...
, a UK children's charity
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AFC Enterprises, the franchisor of Popeyes Chicken and Biscuits
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Africa Finance Corporation, a pan-African multilateral development finance institution
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Agenda for Change
Agenda for Change (AfC) is the current National Health Service (NHS) grading and pay system for NHS staff, with the exception of doctors, dentists, apprentices and some senior managers. It covers more than 1 million people and harmonises their ...
, the current NHS pay grade system
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Alabama Forestry Commission
* Alliance of
Forces of Freedom and Change, a 2019 Sudanese alliance of coalitions of political and rebel groups
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America First Committee
The America First Committee (AFC) was an American isolationist pressure group against the United States' entry into World War II. Launched in September 1940, it surpassed 800,000 members in 450 chapters at its peak. The AFC principally supporte ...
, historical US non-interventionist group
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Army Foundation College
The Army Foundation College (AFC) in Harrogate, England, is the sole initial military training unit for British Army recruits who enlist aged between 16 and 17.5 years.
AFC delivers two 'Phase 1' initial training courses: the 'long course' ...
, British future soldier training organization
* ''Association Française des directeurs de la photographie Cinématographique'', the
French Society of Cinematographers
The French Society of Cinematographers ( French: Association française des directrices et directeurs de la photographie cinématographique), or the AFC for short, is France's foremost professional organization of French cinematographers. Foun ...
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Australian Film Commission
The Australian Film Commission (AFC) was an Australian government agency was founded in 1975 with a mandate to promote the creation and distribution of films in Australia as well as to preserve the country's film history. It also had a product ...
, Australian government's film industry promotion commission 1975–2008
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Australian Flying Corps
The Australian Flying Corps (AFC) was the branch of the Australian Army responsible for operating aircraft during World War I, and the forerunner of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). The AFC was established in 1912, though it was not until ...
, the forerunner of the Royal Australian Air Force
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U.S. Army Futures Command
The United States Army Futures Command (AFC) is a United States Army command that runs modernization projects. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
The AFC began initial operations on 1 July 2018. It was created as a peer of Forces Command (FO ...
Sports
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Asian Football Confederation
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is the governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal in most countries and territories in Asia. The AFC was formed in 1954. It has 47 members. The Asian Ladies Football Confederation ( ...
, the governing body of association football in Asia
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Aberdeen F.C.
Aberdeen Football Club is a Scottish professional Association football, football club based in Aberdeen, Scotland. They compete in the and have List of unrelegated association football clubs, never been relegated from the top division of th ...
, a professional association football club based in Aberdeen, Scotland
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Adelaide Football Club
The Adelaide Football Club, nicknamed the Crows, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Adelaide, South Australia that was founded in 1990. The Crows have fielded a men's team in the Australian Football League (AFL) since 199 ...
, a professional Australian rules football club based in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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Aggression Fighting Championship
World Series of Fighting (Canada) formerly Aggression Fighting Championship, Aggression MMA and Armageddon Fighting Championship is a Canadian Mixed Martial Arts promotion based out of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The promotions made their debuts i ...
, formerly Aggression MMA and Armageddon Fighting Championship a Canadian mixed martial arts promotion
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Agila F.C., a professional association football club from the Philippines
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Airdrieonians F.C.
Airdrieonians Football Club is a Scottish professional football team in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, who are members of the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) and play in the . They were formed in 2002 as Airdrie United Football Club ...
, a professional association football club based in Airdrie, Scotland
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Aizawl FC, a professional association football club based in Aizawl, Mizoram, India
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Altrincham F.C., a professional association football club based in Altrincham, England
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Ambassadors F.C.
Ambassadors Football Club is an intermediate-level football club playing in the Intermediate B division of the Mid-Ulster Football League in Northern Ireland. The club, which is based in County Armagh, has three men's senior teams, a senior la ...
, an association football club based in Northern Ireland
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American Football Conference
The American Football Conference (AFC) is one of the two conferences of the National Football League (NFL), the highest level of professional American football in the United States. The AFC and its counterpart, the National Football Conference ...
, one of the two conferences of the National Football League, United States
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América Football Club América Football Club may refer to:
* América Football Club (PR), Curitiba
* América Football Club (CE), Fortaleza
* America Football Club (Rio de Janeiro), Rio de Janeiro
* América Futebol Clube (AC), Rio Branco
* América Futebol Clube ...
, various association football clubs under this name
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Amsterdamsche FC
Amsterdamsche Football Club, commonly known as AFC is a association football, football club based in Amsterdam. The team compete in the Tweede Divisie, the third level of the Dutch football league system.
History
19th century: Foundation
AFC ...
, a professional association football club based in Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Aquinas F.C.
Aquinas Football Club is a Northern Irish, intermediate football club from Belfast with senior teams playing in the Northern Amateur Football League. Its home ground is Rathmore Grammar School.
In addition to a successful Senior team section ...
, an intermediate association football club based in Northern Ireland
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Ards F.C., a semi-professional association football club based in Newtownards, Northern Ireland
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Ardstraw F.C., an association football club based in Northern Ireland
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Arsenal F.C.
The Arsenal Football Club, commonly known as simply Arsenal, is a professional football club based in Islington, North London, England. They compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. In domestic football, Arsenal h ...
, a professional association football club based in North London, England
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Football club (association football)
In association football, a football club (or association football club, alternatively soccer club) is a sports club that acts as an entity through which association football teams organise their sporting activities. The club can exist either a ...
, many association football clubs have "AFC" at the beginning or the end
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Australian Fighting Championship
Australian Fighting Championship (AFC) was an Australian mixed martial arts (MMA) organisation based in Melbourne. In 2013, AFC was described as Australia's leading MMA organisation by MMA Kanvas and was part of Sherdog's list of top 50 global ...
, a professional mixed martial arts promotion
Technology
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AFC Energy
AFC Energy PLC is a developer of hydrogen fuel cell technologies which focus on the displacement of diesel generators in stationary and maritime applications. The technology utilises hydrogen fuel for zero emission electricity generation.
Th ...
, a developer of fuel cell technology
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Alkaline fuel cell
In chemistry, an alkali (; from the Arabic word , ) is a basic salt of an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal. An alkali can also be defined as a base that dissolves in water. A solution of a soluble base has a pH greater than 7.0. The a ...
, a type of fuel cell
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Application Foundation Classes The Application Foundation Classes (AFC) were a graphical framework for building Java-based graphical user interfaces (GUIs), developed by Microsoft and shipped as part of the Microsoft SDK for Java. AFC was based on the Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT ...
, a graphical framework for building Java-based graphical user interfaces (GUIs), developed by Microsoft
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Automated fare collection systems for public transport
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Automatic frequency control
In radio equipment, Automatic Frequency Control (AFC), also called Automatic Fine Tuning (AFT), is a method or circuit to automatically keep a resonant circuit tuned to the frequency of an incoming radio signal. It is primarily used in radio re ...
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Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison test
The Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison test (AFC) is a method of identifying substantial similarity for the purposes of applying copyright law. In particular, the AFC test is used to determine whether non-literal elements of a computer program have ...
, a legal test to about the copyrightability of computer programs
Other uses
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Air Force Cross (United Kingdom)
The Air Force Cross (AFC) is a military decoration awarded to officers, and since 1993 other ranks, of the British Armed Forces, and formerly also to officers of the other Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth countries. It is granted for "an ...
, a British military decoration
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Air Force Cross (United States)
The Air Force Cross (AFC) is the United States Air Force and United States Space Force's second highest military decoration for airmen and guardians who distinguish themselves with extraordinary heroism in combat with an armed enemy force. The me ...
, an American military decoration
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Antral follicle count, ovarian health statistic
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Atlanta Financial Center, an office building complex in Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Average fixed cost
In economics, average fixed cost (AFC) is the fixed costs of production (FC) divided by the quantity (Q) of output produced. Fixed costs are those costs that must be incurred in fixed quantity regardless of the level of output produced.
AFC = ...
, economic term
See also
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AAFC (disambiguation) AAFC may refer to:
Sport
* Alexandra Athletic F.C., a defunct Scottish association football club
* All-America Football Conference, a professional American football league that challenged the established National Football League from 1946 to 1949
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