PMF
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PMF may stand for:
- Paramilitary forces of India, a paramilitary organization under the Indian Ministry of Internal Affairs
- Presidential Management Fellows ProgramPresidential Management Fellows ProgramThe Presidential Management Fellows program is a prestigious two year paid government fellowship sponsored by the Office of Personnel Management for recent graduate students who seek a two year fellowship in a United States government agency. Selection begins with the nomination of the student...
, a US government fellowship - Potential of mean forcePotential of mean forceThe Potential of Mean Force of a system with N molecules is strictly the potential that gives the average force over all the configurations of all the n+1...N molecules acting on a particle at any fixed configuration keeping fixed a set of molecules 1...n...
, in chemistry, potential giving the average force on a particle from a set of molecules - Probability mass functionProbability mass functionIn probability theory and statistics, a probability mass function is a function that gives the probability that a discrete random variable is exactly equal to some value...
, in statistics, function giving the probability that a variable takes a particular value - Proton motive force, a measure of energy in biological reactions
- Peptide mass fingerprintingPeptide mass fingerprintingPeptide mass fingerprinting is an analytical technique for protein identification that was developed in 1993 by several groups independently. In this method, the unknown protein of interest is first cleaved into smaller peptides, whose absolute masses can be accurately measured with a mass...
, an analytical technique for protein identification - Private military firm, a provider of specialized expertise or services of a military nature
- Polarization-maintaining optical fiberPolarization-maintaining optical fiberIn fiber optics, polarization-maintaining optical fiber is optical fiber in which the polarization of linearly polarized light waves launched into the fiber is maintained during propagation, with little or no cross-coupling of optical power between the polarization modes...
, a type of optical fiber - Pitchfork Music FestivalPitchfork Music FestivalThe Pitchfork Music Festival is an annual summer music festival organized by Pitchfork Media and held in Union Park in Chicago, IL. The festival, which is normally held over three days in July, focuses primarily on artists and bands from alternative rock, rap & hip-hop, electronica, and dance...
, an annual summer music festival in Union Park, Chicago - Pierre Mendès France (1907–1982), Prime Minister of France
- Parma AirportParma Airport-External links:*...
, Italy (IATA airport code) - Probable Maximum Flood, in hydrologyHydrologyHydrology is the study of the movement, distribution, and quality of water on Earth and other planets, including the hydrologic cycle, water resources and environmental watershed sustainability...
is a flood event which results from the most severe and reasonably possible combination of rainstorm, snow accumulation, melt rate and antecedent moisture conditions. - Progressive massive fibrosisProgressive massive fibrosisProgressive Massive Fibrosis , characterized by the development of large conglomerate masses of dense fibrosis , can complicate Silicosis and Coal worker's pneumoconiosis...
, an interstitial lung disease complication often seen in silicosis and pneumoconiosis