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 includ ...
, 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
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 ...
, 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 framewor ...
(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, 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, 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
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) ( ur, ) is a federal agency under the administrative control of the Secretary to the Government of Pakistan for Aviation which is responsible for protecting the airports, facilities and the planes (on-ground ...
, 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 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 (shipbuilder), John Roach. The company was established p ...
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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 comm ...
, 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, (in Spanish known as "''Colegio Americano''") is an independent, international school in the American tradition based in Mexico City. It offers coeducational college-preparatory school for international stude ...
(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 (WS).
Events
* Asian Sailing Championship
* Sailing at the Asian Games
Sailing is an As ...
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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 850 members across 28 con ...
, 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
The Superior Auditor of the Federation ( es, Auditoría Superior de la Federación, 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 ...
( 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 ...
, food items that come from an animal source
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alt.seduction.fast
Pickup artists (PUA), self-identified as dating coaches, the seduction community or the pickup community, is a movement of men (or women) whose goal is seduction and sexual success. The community exists through Internet newsletters and blogs, mar ...
, a Usenet group
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Ashfield railway station, Glasgow, Scotland, National Rail designation
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Narimanovo Airport
Narimanovo Airport, officially Boris M. Kustodiev International Airport, (Russian: Аэропорт Нариманово) is an international airport in Astrakhan, a city in southern Russia near the Caspian Sea. It is operated by JSC "Aeropor ...
, Astrakhan, Russia, IATA code
See also
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