MFC may refer to:

Companies

Manulife Manulife Financial Corporation (French language, French: Financière Manuvie) is a Canadian multinational insurance company and financial services provider headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The company operates in Canada and Asia as "Manulife" ...

Financial Corporation, a Canadian multinational insurance company *

MicroFinance Centre Microfinance consists of financial services targeting individuals and small businesses (SMEs) who lack access to conventional banking and related services. Microfinance includes microcredit, the provision of small loans to poor clients; saving ...

social finance network based in Poland co-funded by the European Union *

MyFreeCams MyFreeCams (MFC) is an American website providing live webcam performances by models, typically featuring nudity and sexual activity often ranging from striptease and erotic talk to masturbation with sex toys. History MFC was launched in 2004,< ...

, an American website providing live webcam performances by models

Computing

* Mel-frequency cepstrum, a representation of sounds used in applications such as automatic speech recognition * Memory flow controller, a part of a computer architecture, e.g. in the

Cell Broadband Engine The Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) is a 64-bit multi-core processor and microarchitecture developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM—an alliance known as "STI". It combines a general-purpose PowerPC core, called the Power Processing Element (PPE), ...

* Merged From Current, a term in a development model of

FreeBSD FreeBSD is a free-software Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). The first version was released in 1993 developed from 386BSD, one of the first fully functional and free Unix clones on affordable ...

Microsoft Foundation Class Library Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) is a C++ object-oriented library for developing desktop applications for Windows. MFC was introduced by Microsoft in 1992 and quickly gained widespread use. While Microsoft has introduced alternative a ...

, a programming library for C++ *

Michael F. Cowlishaw Mike Cowlishaw is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. and sometime visiting professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick. He is a retired IBM Fellow, and was a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and ...

, a computer scientist with a 'difficult' surname and so widely known by his 'handle', ''mfc'' * Multi-Function-Centre, a series of

multifunction printer An MFP (multi-function product/printer/peripheral), multi-functional, all-in-one (AIO), or multi-function device (MFD), is an office machine which incorporates the functionality of multiple devices in one, so as to have a smaller footprint in a ...

s made by

Brother Industries is a Japanese multinational corporation, multinational electronics and electrical equipment company headquartered in Nagoya, Japan. Its products include Printer (computing), printers, multifunction printers, desktop computers, consumer and indu ...

* Multi Format Codec, an intellectual property core present within the

Samsung Exynos The Samsung Exynos (stylized as SΛMSUNG Exynos), formerly Hummingbird (), is a series of Arm-based system-on-chips developed by Samsung Electronics' System LSI division and manufactured by Samsung Foundry. It is a continuation of Samsung's e ...

SoC SOC, SoC, Soc, may refer to: Science and technology * Information security operations center, in an organization, a centralized unit that deals with computer security issues * Selectable output control * Separation of concerns, a program design pr ...

s to offer hardware accelerated encoding and decoding of video formats such as

MPEG-2 MPEG-2 (a.k.a. H.222/H.262 as was defined by the ITU) is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information". It describes a combination of lossy video compression and lossy audio data compression methods ...

MPEG-4 MPEG-4 is a group of international standards for the compression of digital audio and visual data, multimedia systems, and file storage formats. It was originally introduced in late 1998 as a group of audio and video coding formats and related ...

H.263 H.263 is a video compression standard originally designed as a low-bit-rate compressed format for videotelephony. It was standardized by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) in a project ending in 1995/1996. It is a member of the H.26x fa ...

H.264 Advanced Video Coding (AVC), also referred to as H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10, is a video compression standard based on block-oriented, motion-compensated coding. It is by far the most commonly used format for the recording, compression, and d ...

VC-1 SMPTE 421, informally known as VC-1, is a video coding format. Most of it was initially developed as Microsoft's proprietary video format Windows Media Video 9 in 2003. With some enhancements including the development of a new Advanced Profile, ...

and

VP8 VP8 is an open format, open and royalty-free Video coding format, video compression format released by On2 Technologies in 2008. Initially released as a Proprietary software, proprietary successor to On2's previous VP7 format, VP8 was released a ...

* Multicast forwarding cache,

ip addresses An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label such as that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. IP addresses serve two main functions: network interface id ...

and

routes Route or routes may refer to: * Air route, route structure or airway * GPS route, a series of one or more GPS waypoints * Route (gridiron football), a path run by a wide receiver * Route (command), a program used to configure the routing table * ...

for

IGMP The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) is a communications protocol used by hosts and adjacent routers on IPv4 networks to establish multicast group memberships. IGMP is an integral part of IP multicast and allows the network to direct m ...

and IGMP-proxy

Industry

Mass flow controller A mass flow controller (MFC) is a device used to measure and control the flow of liquids and gases. A mass flow controller is designed and calibrated to control a specific type of liquid or gas at a particular range of flow rates. The MFC can be g ...

, a device that controls gas flow * Melamine faced chipboard, construction material usually used internally for shelving * Micro fibrillated cellulose, a type of

nanocellulose Nanocellulose is a term referring to a family of cellulosic materials that have at least one of their dimensions in the nanoscale. Examples of nanocellulosic materials are microfibrilated cellulose, cellulose nanofibers or cellulose nanocry ...

Military

Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control (MFC) is one of the four core business areas for American company Lockheed Martin. MFC provides air and missile defense systems; tactical missiles and air-to-ground precision strike weapon systems; logisti ...

, a business unit *

Medical Forces Command Medical Forces Command () is the specialist corps in the Ukrainian Armed Forces responsible for providing medical services to military personnel and their families. At the beginning of February 2020, the command was established, providing for the u ...

, a specialist corps in the Ukrainian Armed Forces

Science

Microbial fuel cell Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a type of bioelectrochemical fuel cell system also known as micro fuel cell that generates electric current by diverting electrons produced from the microbial oxidation of reduced compounds (also known as fuel or ele ...

, a bio-electrochemical system that generates a current by mimicking bacterial interactions

Sports

* M'lang F.C., an association football club from the Philippines *

Macarthur FC Macarthur Football Club is an Australian professional association football, soccer club based in South Western Sydney, New South Wales. It competes in Australia's premier soccer competition, the A-League, under Professional sports league organi ...

, an Australian association football club in the A-League *

Macclesfield F.C. Macclesfield Football Club is an association football club based in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. The club currently competes in the National League North, the sixth tier of the English football league system. Macclesfield is a phoenix clu ...

, an English football club in the Northern Premier League * Makati F.C., an association football youth club from the Philippines *

Malappuram FC Malappuram Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Malappuram, Kerala, competing in the Super League Kerala. The club was founded in May 2024. Stadium Malappuram FC plays their home matches at the Malappuram District S ...

, an Indian professional football club in the Super League Kerala * Malachians F.C., an association football club from Northern Ireland *

Malaysia Futsal Cup The Malaysia Futsal Cup (abbreviated as the MFC) is an annual futsal club competition in Malaysia organized by the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM). Teams qualify for the competition based on their performance in the Malaysia Premier Futsa ...

, a sport competition in Malaysia * Maghull F.C., an English football club in the West Cheshire League Division One * Magwe F.C., an association football club from Myanmar * Manawmye F.C., an association football club from Myanmar *

Margate F.C. Margate Football Club, originally called Margate Town, is an English association football, football club based in the seaside resort of Margate, Kent. The club's first team (association football), first team play in the . The club was known du ...

, an association football club in the Isthmian League *

Marine F.C. Marine Association Football Club is an English football club based in Crosby, Merseyside. The club, which was founded in 1894, is a member of both the Liverpool County and Lancashire County Football Associations, and currently plays in the , ...

, an English football club in the Northern Premier League Premier Division *

Maximum Fighting Championship Maximum Fighting Championship was a Canadian mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion based in Edmonton, Alberta. MFC events were broadcast on The Fight Network, AXS TV (formerly HDnet) in North America and most recently TSN2. FC’s former home, in C ...

, formerly Mixed Fighting Championship, a Canadian mixed martial arts promotion *

Melbourne Football Club The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons or colloquially the Dees, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier comp ...

, an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League (AFL) * Mendiola F.C. 1991, an association football club from the Philippines * Meridian F.C., an English football club in the Kent Invicta League *

Middlesbrough F.C. Middlesbrough Football Club ( ) is a professional association football club based in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English football league system. Nicknamed the Boro, they were fo ...

, an English football club in the Football League Championship *

Millwall F.C. Millwall Football Club () is a professional football club in Bermondsey, South East London, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of English football. Founded as Millwall Rovers in 1885, the club has retained its nam ...

, an English football club in Football League Championship * Milltown F.C., a Northern Irish football club * Milltown F.C., a Canadian football club * Moneyslane F.C., a Northern Irish football club * Montrose F.C., a Scottish semi-professional football team in the Scottish Football League *

Morecambe F.C. Morecambe Football Club is a professional association football club based in Morecambe, Lancashire, England. The team currently competes in the National League, the fifth level of the English football league system. The club was founded in 1 ...

, an English football club in Football League One * Mossley F.C., an association football club in Northern Ireland * Motherwell F.C., a Scottish professional football club in the Scottish Premier League

Other uses

* Machine finished coated paper, a type of coated paper that has a basis weight of 48–80 g/m2 *

Manual fare collection Manual fare collection is the practice of collecting fares manually (without the aid of an automated machine). "Fare collection" generally refers to the collection of fares in the transport industry in return for a ticket (admission), ticket or p ...

in transport * Marginal factor cost * Master of Finance and Control, a course in finance run by the Department of Financial Studies of the University of Delhi * "MFC" (song), a Pearl Jam song * '' Music for Cars'', an EP from The 1975