MAF may refer to:

Military

Myanmar Air Force The Myanmar Air Force (, ) is the aerial branch of the Tatmadaw, the armed forces of Myanmar. The primary mission of the Myanmar Air Force (MAF) since its inception has been to provide transport, logistical, and close air support to the Myanm ...

Malaysian Armed Forces The Malaysian Armed Forces (: MAF; ; Jawi alphabet, Jawi: ), are the armed forces of Malaysia, consists of three branches; the Malaysian Army, Royal Malaysian Navy and the Royal Malaysian Air Force. The number of MAF active personnel is 113,000 ...

* Marine Amphibious Force, a former name for

Marine Expeditionary Force A Marine expeditionary force (MEF), formerly known as a Marine amphibious force, is the largest type of a Marine air-ground task force. A MEF is the largest building block of United States Marine Corps combat power. __TOC__ Structure A MEF is l ...

, a type of U.S. Marine Corps task force

Organizations

Majid Al Futtaim Group Majid Al Futtaim Holding () is an Emirati holding company based in Dubai. The family-owned conglomerate owns and operates shopping malls, retail, and hotel establishments in the Middle East and North Africa. The firm was established by M ...

Move America Forward Move America Forward is a nonprofit military charity based in Sacramento, California. Howard Kaloogian, Melanie Morgan and Sal Russo established the organization in 2004. The organization supports front-line United States Armed Forces troops s ...

Mission Aviation Fellowship Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) is an Evangelical Christian organization that provides aviation, communications, and learning technology services to more than 1,000 Christian and humanitarian agencies, as well as thousands of isolated mission ...

Science

MAF (gene) Transcription factor Maf, also known as proto-oncogene c-Maf or V-maf musculoaponeurotic fibrosarcoma oncogene homolog, is a transcription factor that in humans is encoded by the ''MAF'' gene. Types One type, ''MafA'', also known as ''RIPE3b1'', ...

Minor allele frequency Minor allele frequency (MAF) is the frequency at which the ''second most common'' allele occurs in a given population. They play a surprising role in heritability since MAF variants which occur only once, known as "singletons", drive an enormous amo ...

in genetics *

Methoxyacetylfentanyl Methoxyacetylfentanyl, commonly known as MAF is an opioid analgesic that is an analog of fentanyl and has been sold online as a designer drug. Side effects Side effects of fentanyl analogs are similar to those of fentanyl itself, which include ...

, an opioid analgesic *

Macrophage-activating factor A macrophage-activating factor (MAF) is a lymphokine or other receptor based signal that primes macrophages towards cytotoxicity to tumors, cytokine secretion, or clearance of pathogens. Similar molecules may cause development of an inhibitory, re ...

* Moisture and Ash Free, a measure of moisture and ash content as used in ranking coals or the heat-content of wood * Million

acre-foot The acre-foot is a non- SI unit of volume equal to about commonly used in the United States in reference to large-scale water resources, such as reservoirs, aqueducts, canals, sewer flow capacity, irrigation water, and river flows. An acre- ...

, MAF, a unit of volume commonly used in the United States in reference to large-scale water resources

Sports

Malaysia Athletics Federation The Malaysia Athletics Federation () is the governing body for the sport of athletics in Malaysia, is a member of the World Athletics. Formerly known as Malaysia Amateur Athletic Union (MAAU). Championships Malaysia Athletics Federation organis ...

Metin-Ali-Feyyaz Metin-Ali-Feyyaz (also called Metin Ali Feyyaz, shortly MAF) is a combination of the first names of three Turkey, Turkish Football (soccer), footballers: Metin Tekin, Ali Gültiken, and Feyyaz Uçar, who served Turkish club Beşiktaş J.K., Beşik ...

, Turkish football trio who constituted attacking line of Turkish sports club Beşiktaş J.K. *

Marc-André Fleury Marc-André Fleury (; born November 28, 1984) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey goaltender. Drafted out of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) first overall by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2003 NHL entry draft, Fleury p ...

(born 1984), Canadian ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League

Technology

Mass airflow sensor A mass (air) flow sensor (MAF) is a sensor used to determine the mass flow rate of air entering a fuel-injected internal combustion engine. The air mass information is necessary for the engine control unit (ECU) to balance and deliver the corr ...

, used to find the mass flowrate of air entering a fuel-injected internal combustion engine *

MAFless Tuning MAFless tuning is a method of operating the fuel injection system on a gasoline-powered motor vehicle whereby the mass airflow meter, or MAF, is removed. The MAF The MAF is a component in a vehicle's intake system through which air flows pa ...

, a method of operating the fuel injection system on a gasoline-powered motor vehicle whereby the mass airflow meter is removed *

Markranstädter Automobilfabrik The Markranstädter Automobilfabrik is a former producer of automobiles from Markranstädt, Germany, which was active between 1909 and 1923. Hugo Ruppe founded the Markranstädter car factory in 1909, producing cars that were sold under t ...

, a German car-brand built from 1909 to 1923 in Markranstädt *

Mozilla Archive Format The Mozilla Archive Format (MAFF) is a legacy Web archive file format that was provided by Firefox through an extension, used to store one or more web pages with their associated audio, video, and other related web resources to a single file. ...

, a format for archiving web pages and also an add-on of the same name for Mozilla Firefox *

Magnetic field-assisted finishing Magnetic field-assisted finishing, sometimes called magnetic abrasive finishing, is a surface finishing technique in which a magnetic field is used to force abrasive particles against the target surface.D.K. Singh, V.K. Jain, V. Raghuram (2003Supe ...

* Microsoft Access Form, a file format associated with

Microsoft Access Microsoft Access is a database management system (DBMS) from Microsoft that combines the relational database, relational Access Database Engine (ACE) with a graphical user interface and software-development tools. It is a member of the Microsof ...

, bearing the file extension .maf

Other

New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (in Māori, ''Te Manatu Ahuwhenua, Ngāherehere'') was a state sector organisation of New Zealand which dealt with matters relating to agriculture, forestry and biosecurity. It was commonly known by its ...

Saint Martin (France) The Collectivity of Saint Martin (), commonly known as simply Saint Martin (, ), is an overseas collectivity of France in the West Indies in the Caribbean, on the northern half of the Saint Martin (island), island of Saint Martin, as well as so ...

, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code * Midland International Airport, whose IATA code is MAF *

Michoud Assembly Facility The Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) is an industrial complex for the manufacture and assembly line, structural assembly of aerospace vehicles and components. It is owned by NASA and located in Eastern New Orleans, New Orleans East, a section of N ...

, a NASA manufacturing facility 14 miles outside New Orleans, Louisiana {{disambiguation