CIF
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CIF is an abbreviation that may stand for:
- California Interscholastic FederationCalifornia Interscholastic FederationThe California Interscholastic Federation is the governing body for high school sports in the state of California. It mirrors similar governing bodies in other states; however, it differs from some of the others in that it covers most high schools in the state of California, both public and...
, the governing body for high school sports in California - Caltech Intermediate FormCaltech Intermediate FormCaltech Intermediate Form is a file format for describing integrated circuits.CIF provides a limited set of graphics primitives that are useful for describing the two-dimensionalshapes on the different layers of a chip....
, geometry language for VLSI design, in which the primitives are coloured rectangles (similar to GDSII) - Canada India FoundationCanada India FoundationThe Canada India Foundation also referred to as CIF, is a Canadian non-profit, non-partisan, non-governmental organization established in 2007...
, Canadian lobbying organization - CFTR inhibitory factorCFTR inhibitory factorThe CFTR inhibitory factor is a protein virulence factor secreted by the Gram-negative bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Discovered at Dartmouth Medical School, Cif is able to alter the trafficking of select ABC transporters in eukaryotic epithelial cells, such as the cystic fibrosis...
(Cif), a virulence factor secreted by Pseudomonas aeruginosa - China International FundChina International FundChina International Fund is a Chinese-owned officially private company based in Hong Kong that describes its major businesses as including "large-scale national reconstruction projects and infrastructure construction in developing countries". The CIF and its associated companies in Hong Kong and...
, Chinese company that funds large-scale national projects in developing countries - Climate Investment FundsClimate Investment FundsThe Climate Investment Funds were designed by developed and developing countries and are implemented with the multilateral development banks to bridge the financing and learning gap between now and the next international climate change agreement...
- Coming into forceComing into forceComing into force or entry into force refers to the process by which legislation, regulations, treaties and other legal instruments come to have legal force and effect...
, the process of legislation becoming effective - Comment is Free (CiF), online comment section of The Guardian newspaper
- Common Intermediate FormatCommon Intermediate FormatCIF , also known as FCIF , is a format used to standardize the horizontal and vertical resolutions in pixels of YCbCr sequences in video signals, commonly used in video teleconferencing systems. It was first proposed in the H.261 standard.CIF was designed to be easy to convert to PAL or NTSC...
, a video format common in video teleconferencing - Community Infrastructure FundCommunity Infrastructure FundCommunity Infrastructure Fund is a UK government initiative created as a joint venture by the Department for Transport and the Department for Communities and Local Government., it was created following the recommendation of the Barker Review of Housing Supply.CIF was created to fund transport...
(CIF), a method of UK government funding for transport infrastructure - Cost, Insurance and Freight - a sales contract term indicating that price includes cost, insurance and freight
- Crystallographic Information FileCrystallographic Information FileCrystallographic Information File is a standard text file format for representing crystallographic information, promulgated by the International Union of Crystallography . CIF was developed by the IUCr Working Party on Crystallographic Information in an effort sponsored by the IUCr Commission on...
, a standard text file format for representing crystallographic information promulgated by the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) - and the closely related Crystallographic Information Framework - Cumulative incidence functionCumulative incidenceCumulative incidence or incidence proportion is a measure of frequency, as in epidemiology, where it is a measure of disease frequency during a period of time...
, in epidemiology statistics, an expression of the probability of disease up to a given time
See also
- CifCifCif is a brand of household cleaning products by Unilever, known as Jif in Australia, New Zealand, Middle East and the Nordic countries. Cif is the largest selling abrasive cleaner product in the world.-History:...
- ITU-TITU-TThe ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector is one of the three sectors of the International Telecommunication Union ; it coordinates standards for telecommunications....
for "Comité consultatif international des communications téléphoniques à grande distance"