NAF or Naf may refer to:

Organizations

NAF (non-profit organization) NAF is an industry-sponsored nonprofit with a national network of public-private partnerships that support career academies within traditional high schools. Each academy focuses on a theme that addresses the anticipated future needs of local indu ...

, a U.S. education non-profit organization formerly known as National Academy Foundation *

National Abortion Federation The National Abortion Federation (NAF) is a professional association of abortion providers. NAF members include private and non-profit clinics, Planned Parenthood affiliates, women's health centers, physicians' offices, and hospitals who together ...

, a U.S. organization of abortion providers *

National Academies Forum The National Academies Forum was replaced in May 2010 by the Australian Council of Learned Academies. The National Academies Forum was established in 1995 as the peak organisation for the four Australian learned academies. It represented: * Ac ...

, the peak body for the four learned academies in Australia *

Netherland-America Foundation The Netherland-America Foundation also known as ”the NAF” is an American 501(c)(3), non-profit organization based in New York City with nine additional chapters in the United States and one chapter in the Netherlands. The mission of the foundati ...

, an organization which supports exchange between the United States and The Netherlands *

New America Foundation New America, formerly the New America Foundation, is an American Modern liberalism in the United States, liberal think tank founded in 1999. It focuses on a range of public policy issues, including national security, technology, health, gender, ...

a Washington, DC–based think tank *

Norwegian Automobile Federation Norwegian Automobile Federation (, NAF) is a Norwegian association of car owners, established in 1924, and member of Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA; ) is an international organ ...

, an association of car owners *

Norwegian Employers' Confederation The Norwegian Employers' Confederation (, NAF) was an employers' organisation in Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arct ...

Norwegian Union of General Workers The Norwegian Union of General Workers (, NAF) is a trade union in Norway. It has a membership of 33,000 and is affiliated with the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO). The union was founded on 13 April 1895, by 12 transport workers, as ...

National Arbitration Forum Forum, formerly known as the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) is an American organization that provides arbitration and mediation services to businesses, based at its Minneapolis headquarters and offices in New Jersey. The organization was founde ...

, a U.S. arbitration and mediation firm * Nordisk Andels Forbund ("Nordic Coöp Federation"), the predecessor to

Coop Norden Coop Norden was a Scandinavian retail chain. It was based in Sweden and owned by three major cooperative retail companies: Sweden's KF (42%), Denmark's FDB (38%), and Norway's Coop NKL (20%). During its years of operation, Coop Norden ran aroun ...

Defense

Nigerian Air Force The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) is the air branch of the Nigerian Armed Forces. It is the youngest branch of the Nigerian Armed Forces, established four years after the nation became independent. As at 2021, the air force is one of the largest in A ...

NATO Architecture Framework NATO Architecture Framework The aim of the NATO Architecture Framework Version 4 (NAFv4) is to provide a standard for developing and describing enterprise architectures for both military and business use. It provides a standardized way to develop ...

, an architecture framework used by NATO * Naval Air Facility, a lower-level naval air station in the United States Navy *

Naval Aircraft Factory The Naval Aircraft Factory (NAF) was established by the United States Navy in 1918 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was created to help solve aircraft supply issues which the United States Department of the Navy, Navy Department faced upon the ...

, operated in Philadelphia from 1918 to 1945 *

Numbered Air Force A Numbered Air Force (NAF) is a type of organization in the United States Air Force that is subordinate to a List of Major Commands of the United States Air Force, major command (MAJCOM) and has assigned to it operational units such as wings, squ ...

in the United States Air Force *

United Armed Forces of Novorossiya Russian separatist forces in Ukraine, primarily the People's Militias of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), were pro-Russian paramilitaries in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. They were under the o ...

, Eastern Ukrainian pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian government for independence

Science and mathematics

Negation as failure Negation as failure (NAF, for short) is a non-monotonic inference rule in logic programming, used to derive \mathrm~p (i.e. that p is assumed not to hold) from failure to derive p. Note that \mathrm ~p can be different from the statement \neg p o ...

, logic in which a statement that cannot be shown to be true is considered false rather than unknown *

Non-adjacent form The non-adjacent form (NAF) of a number is a unique signed-digit representation, in which non-zero values cannot be adjacent. For example: :(0 1 1 1)2 = 4 + 2 + 1 = 7 :(1 0 −1 1)2 = 8 − 2 + 1 = 7 :(1 −1 1 1)2 = 8 − 4 + 2 + 1 = 7 :(1 0 0 ...

, a signed-digit representation of numbers in mathematics and cryptography *

Sodium fluoride Sodium fluoride (NaF) is an inorganic compound with the formula . It is a colorless or white solid that is readily soluble in water. It is used in trace amounts in the fluoridation of drinking water to prevent tooth decay, and in toothpastes ...

, a chemical compound whose formula is NaF *

Neutrophil Neutrophils are a type of phagocytic white blood cell and part of innate immunity. More specifically, they form the most abundant type of granulocytes and make up 40% to 70% of all white blood cells in humans. Their functions vary in differe ...

-activating factor

Other uses

National Academy Foundation School National Academy Foundation School is a public secondary school located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is based on the National Academy Foundation educational design to have "small learning communities." The school was launched in 2 ...

, a public high school located in Baltimore, Maryland *

Native American flute The Native American flute is a musical instrument and flute that is held in front of the player, has open finger holes, and has two chambers: one for collecting the breath of the player and a second chamber which creates sound. The player breat ...

, an end-blown flute from North America *

North Anatolian Fault The North Anatolian Fault (NAF; ) is an active right-lateral strike-slip fault in northern Anatolia, and is the transform boundary between the Eurasian plate and the Anatolian sub-plate. The fault extends westward from a junction with the Ea ...

, Turkey *

Naf River The Naf River ( ''Naf Nodi'' ; ; ) is an international river marking part of the Bangladesh–Myanmar border, border of southeastern Bangladesh and northwestern Myanmar. Geography The Naf's average depth is , and maximum depth is . Its width ...

, a river between Bangladesh and Myanmar *

Nice As Fuck Nice as Fuck (NAF) is an all-female indie rock supergroup made up of Jenny Lewis (from Rilo Kiley), Erika Forster (of Au Revoir Simone), and Tennessee Thomas (of the Like). The band first performed at a rally for U.S. presidential candidate B ...

, an American indie rock band * Nuffle Amorical Football, fictional governing body for the fantasy football game ''

Blood Bowl ''Blood Bowl'' is a miniatures board game created by Jervis Johnson for the British games company Games Workshop as a parody of American football. The game was first released in 1986 and has been re-released in new editions since. ''Blood ...

'' *

Netherlands Antillean guilder The Netherlands Antillean guilder (; ) is a currency of Curaçao and Sint Maarten, which until 2010 formed the Netherlands Antilles along with Bonaire, Saba (island), Saba, and Sint Eustatius. It is subdivided into 100 ''cents'' (Dutch plural: ' ...

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