CIF, c.i.f. or Cif may refer to:

Finance

Climate Investment Funds The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) were established in 2008 as a multilateral climate fund in order to finance pilot projects in developing countries at the request of the G8 and G20. The CIF administers a collection of programs with a view of ...

, in international climate change agreements *

Community Infrastructure Fund Community Infrastructure Fund (CIF) is a UK government initiative created as a joint venture by the Department for Transport and the Department for Communities and Local Government The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (M ...

(CIF), a method of UK government funding for transport infrastructure * Cost, Insurance and Freight, (c.i.f.) a historic trade term and International Commercial Term (Incoterm) indicating that a price includes cost, insurance and freight * ''Código de identificación fiscal'', a former Spanish tax identification number for legal entities; See

Identity document An identity document (abbreviated as ID) is a documentation, document proving a person's Identity (social science), identity. If the identity document is a plastic card it is called an ''identity card'' (abbreviated as ''IC'' or ''ID card''). ...

Organizations

California Interscholastic Federation The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) is the governing body for high school sports in the U.S. state of California. CIF membership includes both public and private high schools. Unlike most other state organizations, it does not have s ...

, the governing body for high school sports in California **

CIF Central Section The California Interscholastic Federation—Central Section (CIF-CS) is the governing body of high school athletics in the central and southern portions of the San Joaquin Valley, the Eastern Sierra region, and as of the 2018/9 season, San Luis ...

CIF Central Coast Section The Central Coast Section (CCS) is the governing body of public and private high school athletics in the portion of California encompassing San Mateo County, Santa Clara County, California, Santa Clara County, Monterey County, San Benito County, ...

CIF Los Angeles City Section The CIF Los Angeles City Section (CIF-LA) is the governing body of high school athletics for public schools in the city of Los Angeles and some surrounding communities. All of these schools were once associated with the Los Angeles Unified Schoo ...

CIF North Coast Section The North Coast Section (NCS) is a part of the California Interscholastic Federation, governing the eastern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area, up along the northern coast of the state of California, from Fremont in the south to Crescent ...

CIF Northern Section CIF Northern Section (NS) is a governing body of public and private high school athletics in California. Member schools are located in the inland northeastern portion of the state roughly encompassed by the Interstate 5 in California, I-5 corrid ...

** CIF Oakland Section ** CIF Sac-Joaquin Section **

CIF San Diego Section The CIF San Diego Section (CIF-SDS) is the governing body of high school athletics for most of the two southernmost counties of California (San Diego and Imperial Counties), one of ten such sections that comprise the California Interscholastic Fed ...

CIF San Francisco Section The CIF San Francisco Section (CIF-SF), frequently shortened to SFS or just SF, is the governing body of high school sports for school for what was originally the San Francisco Unified School District. It is one of ten sections that comprise the ...

CIF Southern Section The California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section (CIF-SS) is the governing body for high school athletics in most of Southern California and is the largest of the ten sections that comprise the California Interscholastic Federation (CI ...

* Canada India Foundation, a Canadian lobbying organization *

China International Fund China International Fund (CIF) is a Chinese-owned group of Hong Kong investors that describes its major businesses as including "large-scale national reconstruction projects and infrastructure construction in developing countries". The CIF and its ...

, a Chinese company that funds large-scale national projects in developing countries

Science and technology

Caltech Intermediate Form Caltech Intermediate Form (CIF) is a file format for describing integrated circuits. CIF provides a limited set of graphics primitives that are useful for describing the two-dimensional shapes on the different layers of a chip. The format allows ...

, geometry language for VLSI design, in which the primitives are coloured rectangles (similar to GDSII) * Catch-in Focus, a function offered by SLR cameras to release the shutter automatically when the subject comes into focus * Central Instrumentation Facility, a former building at the Kennedy Space Center that housed data processing machines * CFTR inhibitory factor (Cif), a virulence factor secreted by ''Pseudomonas aeruginosa'' *

Common Intermediate Format CIF (''Common Intermediate Format'' or ''Common Interchange Format''), also known as FCIF (''Full Common Intermediate Format''), is a standardized format for the picture resolution, frame rate, color space, and color subsampling of digital video ...

, a video format common in video teleconferencing *

Crystallographic Information File Crystallographic Information File (CIF) is a standard text file format for representing crystallographic information, promulgated by the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). CIF was developed by the IUCr Working Party on Crystallographi ...

, a standard text file format

Other uses

Counter Insurgency Force The Counter Insurgency Force (CIF) is a Police tactical unit of West Bengal Police with headquarters in Garia. It was created by the West Bengal state government in 2010 along the lines of the Greyhounds in Andhra Pradesh to combat proscribed N ...

, a Police tactical unit of West Bengal Police * Cif, a brand of household cleaning products by Unilever * Cif., the standard author abbreviation for Raffaele Ciferri *

Champions Indoor Football Champions Indoor Football (CIF) was a professional indoor American football minor league created in 2014 out of the merger between the Champions Professional Indoor Football League (CPIFL) and Lone Star Football League (LSFL), plus one team fr ...

, a professional indoor American football league *

Chifeng Yulong Airport Chifeng Yulong Airport is an airport serving Chifeng, a city in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia in China. Facilities The airport has one runway which is long. Airlines and destinations See also * List of airports in China This ...

(IATA code), China *

Coming into force In law, coming into force or entry into force (also called commencement) is the process by which legislation, regulations, treaties and other legal instruments come to have legal force and effect. The term is closely related to the date of this ...

, the process of legislation becoming effective * ''

Comment is free ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, '' The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guard ...

'' (Cif), online comment section of ''The Guardian'' newspaper