RPF
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RPF is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:
- Railway Protection ForceRailway Protection ForceThe Railway Protection force is an Indian Central Armed Police Force charged with protecting the Indian Railways.The strength of RPF is about 65,000.The duties of the Railway Protection Force include:...
, India - Rassemblement du Peuple Français, a former French political party
- Rassemblement pour la France, a French political party
- Real person fictionReal person fictionReal person fiction is a type of fan fiction featuring celebrities or other real people. In the past, terms such as actorfic were used to distinguish such stories from those based on fictional characters from movies or television series....
, a literary genre - Reformatorische Politieke Federatie, a former Dutch political party
- Regenerative Particulate Filter, see Diesel particulate filter
- Registered Professional Forester, A license in the State of California
- The Rehabilitation Project ForceRehabilitation Project ForceThe Rehabilitation Project Force, or RPF, is a controversial program set up by the Church of Scientology Sea Organization, intended to rehabilitate members of the Sea Organization who have not lived up to the Church expectations or have violated certain policies...
of the Church of Scientology - Renal plasma flow, in medicine
- Retroperitoneal fibrosisRetroperitoneal fibrosisRetroperitoneal fibrosis or Ormond's disease is a disease featuring the proliferation of fibrous tissue in the retroperitoneum, the compartment of the body containing the kidneys, aorta, renal tract and various other structures. It may present with lower back pain, renal failure, hypertension, deep...
, a disease - Reverse path forwardingReverse path forwardingReverse path forwarding is a technique used in modern routers for the purposes of ensuring loop-free forwarding of multicast packets in multicast routing and to help prevent IP address spoofing in unicast routing.- Multicast RPF :...
, for both Unicast and Multicast routing - Rich Pixel Format, a type of computer graphics file which can store many types of channels, including RGBA, Z-Depth, Velocity, and Material ID's. It is derived from RLARLARLA may refer to any of the following:* Residual Life Assessment, in power plant.* Railway Labor Act, an American law governing labour relations in the railway and airline industries....
. - Raster Product Format, a series of file formats used in digital mapping (MIL-STD-2411). See GIS file formatsGIS file formatsA GIS file format is a standard of encoding geographical information into a file. They are created mainly by government mapping agencies or by GIS software developers.Metadata often includes:...
- Richard P. Feynman, physicist, drummer, artist
- Rwandan Patriotic FrontRwandan Patriotic FrontThe Rwandan Patriotic Front abbreviated as RPF is the current ruling political party of Rwanda, led by President Paul Kagame. It governs in a coalition with other parties...
, political party responsible for the rebel incursion which ended the Rwandan GenocideRwandan GenocideThe Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass murder of an estimated 800,000 people in the small East African nation of Rwanda. Over the course of approximately 100 days through mid-July, over 500,000 people were killed, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate...