PAF
Encyclopedia
In computers
- Personal Ancestral FilePersonal Ancestral FilePersonal Ancestral File is free-of-cost genealogy software provided by FamilySearch, a website operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
, a program to collect genealogical information. - .PAF, filename extension of Personal Ancestral FilePersonal Ancestral FilePersonal Ancestral File is free-of-cost genealogy software provided by FamilySearch, a website operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
databases - .PAF, filename extension of PortableApps files (portable application installation packages)
- PME Aggregation FunctionPME Aggregation FunctionPME Aggregation Function is a mechanism defined in Clause 61 of IEEE 802.3, which allows one or more Physical Medium Entities to be combined together to form asingle logical Ethernet link....
, a networking technology. - Postcode Address FilePostcode Address FileThe Postcode Address File is a database which contains all known "Delivery Points" and postcodes in the United Kingdom. Buildings which contain several flats or businesses but only one external front door, will only have the external front door listed; the full addresses which include flat...
, a collection of UK postal addresses and postcodes, available from the British Post Office. - Programmation Automatique des FormulesProgrammation Automatique des FormulesProgrammation Automatique des Formules is a programming language designed in 1957-1959 by Dimitri Starynkevitch at SEA, a small French computer company. PAF was similar to FORTRAN. It ran on a drum computer, the CAB500. The title is French for Automatic Programming of Formulae.-External links:*...
, (Automatic Programming of Formulae) a French programming language similar to FortranFortranFortran is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing...
, designed in 1957-59 and implemented on the CAB500CAB500The CAB500 was a French transistor-based drum computer, designed at SEA around 1957It had an incremental compiler for a language, PAF similar to Fortran, designed by Dimitri Starynkevitch in 1957-1959. CAB 500's first model was delivered in February, 1961 , and more than a hundred examples were...
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In the military
- Palestinian Arab FrontPalestinian Arab FrontPalestinian Arab Front is a minor Palestinian Arab Nationalist faction. PAF is a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization.-History:...
- Protestant Action Force
Air forces:
- Pakistan Air ForcePakistan Air ForceThe Pakistan Air Force is the leading air arm of the Pakistan Armed Forces and is primarily tasked with the aerial defence of Pakistan with a secondary role of providing air support to the Pakistan Army and the Pakistan Navy. The PAF also has a tertiary role of providing strategic air transport...
- Patrouille de FrancePatrouille de FranceThe Patrouille Acrobatique de France , also known as the Patrouille de France or PAF, is the precision aerobatic demonstration team of the French Air Force. Originating in 1931, it is one of the world's oldest and most skilled demonstration teams...
- aerobatic team of the French Air ForceFrench Air ForceThe French Air Force , literally Army of the Air) is the air force of the French Armed Forces. It was formed in 1909 as the Service Aéronautique, a service arm of the French Army, then was made an independent military arm in 1933... - Philippine Air ForcePhilippine Air ForceThe Philippine Air Force is the air force of the Republic of the Philippines, and one of the three main services of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Its official name in Filipino is Hukbong Himpapawid ng Pilipinas....
- the air arm of the Armed Forces of the PhilippinesArmed Forces of the PhilippinesThe Armed Forces of the Philippines is composed of the Philippine Army, Philippine Navy and Philippine Air Force...
(AFP). - Polish Air ForcePolish Air ForceThe Polish Air Force is the military Air Force wing of the Polish Armed Forces. Until July 2004 it was officially known as Wojska Lotnicze i Obrony Powietrznej...
- Portuguese Air ForcePortuguese Air ForceThe Portuguese Air Force is the air force of Portugal. Formed on July 1, 1952, with the Aeronáutica Militar and Aviação Naval united in a single independent Air Force, it is one of the three branches of the Portuguese Armed Forces and its origins dates back to 1912, when the military aviation...
In science
- Paroxysmal atrial fibrillationAtrial fibrillationAtrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia . It is a common cause of irregular heart beat, identified clinically by taking a pulse. Chaotic electrical activity in the two upper chambers of the heart result in the muscle fibrillating , instead of achieving coordinated contraction...
- Platelet-activating factorPlatelet-activating factorPlatelet-activating factor, also known as a PAF, PAF-acether or AGEPC is a potent phospholipid activator and mediator of many leukocyte functions, including platelet aggregation and degranulation, inflammation, and anaphylaxis...
In Human Resources Management
- Personal Action Form, a form which needs to be maintained by Human Resources Department which shows the employment record and changes during his/her employment.
Miscellaneous
- Performing Arts FestivalPerforming Arts FestivalThe Performing Arts Festival, abbreviated as PAF, is the biggest inter-hostel cultural competition in the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay located at Powai in Mumbai...
of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay - Phineas and FerbPhineas and FerbPhineas and Ferb is an American animated television comedy series. Originally broadcast as a preview on August 17, 2007, on Disney Channel, the series follows Phineas Flynn and his English stepbrother Ferb Fletcher on summer vacation. Every day the boys embark on some grand new project, which...
, a Popular TV show - PAF (pickup)PAF (pickup)P.A.F. or just PAF is the world's first humbucker guitar pickup, invented by Seth Lover in 1955 as an engineer for Gibson and began use in mass production guitars in 1956 or 1957. However Rickenbacker and Gretsch had developed humbucking pickups also...
, a famous first humbucker guitar pickup - Ålands PenningautomatföreningPAF (gambling monopoly)Ålands Penningautomatförening or PAF is a Finnish company that operates a legal gambling monopoly on the Åland Islands, Finland. PAF also has an Internet-based gambling and gaming operation, in addition to operating and maintaining casino and gaming activities on a large number of cruiseferrys...
, Finnish gambling company - Pakuba AirportPakuba AirportPakuba Airport is an airport serving Pakuba, in Amuru District in northern Uganda. Pakuba Airport has one runway measuring in length. It is a small civilian airport that serves Murchison Falls National Park....
, IATA airport code: PAF