ALF
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ALF, A.L.F. or Alf is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below:
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[edit] Acronyms
ALF is an acronym for:
- Africa Leadership Forum.
- Alternative Liquid Fuel Industries
- American Leprosy Foundation
- American Liver Foundation
- Animal Liberation Front, a militant animal rights group
- Application Lifecyle Framework,
- Arab Liberation Front, a Palestinian group
- Assisted living facilities; providing personal and health care services and assistance for the care of adults who are aged, infirm or disabled.
- Australian Lebanese Foundation
- Australian Labour Federation
- Airborne Laser Fluorosensor
- Alternative Life Form
- American Leadership Forum
- Activated Lactoferrin
[edit] Nickname
Alf is short for the names Alfonso and Alfred.
[edit] Entertainment
- ALF was an American television sitcom and the nickname of that show's title character, where ALF is an acronym standing for "Alien Life Form"
- There is also Alf: The Animated Series and
- Alf's Hit Talk Show.
- Alf is also the nickname of Alfie Alfredo Turnweasal, a loveable feature character on the hit 90s children's television programme, The Ziggurat.
- 'Alf' was the name of a 1980s album released by Alison Moyet, and was her nickname when she fronted 1980s electro-pop band Yazoo.
- Alf Mushpie, a fictional neo-feminist from the comic strip Bloom County.
- Alf Bicknell was the driver and roadie for The Beatles from 1964 until 1966.
[edit] Geography
- ALF is the IATA airport code for Alta Airport.
- Alf refers to both a river and a village in Germany
- The National Rail code for Alfreton railway station, United Kingdom. External links: station information; Location map; live departures and arrivals.
[edit] History
- King Alf is a character in Norse mythology
- Alf, Swedish king of the House of Yngling
- Álf is the Old Norse word for Elf.
[edit] Science and Technology
- ALF may stand for Atomic line filter, an advanced optical filter
- ALF dynamical entropy is a dynamical entropy concept introduced by Alicki, Lindblad and Fannes.
- ALF is also a programming language
- Application Layer Filtering, a firewall technology