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CFS

"CFS" is a plural of: cf.


Specialty Definition: CFS

DomainDefinition

Census

(Core Financial System) A modern, off-the-shelf financial system procured for all agencies within the Department of Commerce, that supports the general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable, budget execution and funds control, cost accumulation and allocation, and financial reporting requirements of each Commerce agency. The system is in the procurement process as of July 1994 and is planned to be operational at Census by October 1996. The CFS will be part of the future Commerce Administrative Management System (CAMS). (references)

Hydrologic

The flow rate or discharge equal to one cubic foot (of water, usually) per second. This rate is equivalent to approximately 7.48 gallons per second. This is also referred to as a second-foot. CFS (Cubic Feet per Second). (references)

Shipping

Abbreviation for "Container Freight Station." A shipping dock where cargo is loaded ("stuffed") into or unloaded ("stripped") from containers. Generally, this involves less than containerload shipments, although small shipments destined to same consignee are often consolidated. Container reloading from/to rail or motor carrier equipment is a typical activity. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: CFS

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CFS

DanishKronisk træthedMedicine

CFS

EnglishCentral Financial ServiceN/A

CFS

ItalianSindrome da affaticamento cronicoN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: CFS

Specialty definitions using "CFS": Container Freight Station, cubic feet per secondDRFSMCFSORFS. (references)

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Commercial Usage: CFS

DomainTitle

References

  • CFS Bancorp, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • CFS Bancshares, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Phytotherapy of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Evidence-Based and Potentially Useful Botanicals in the Treatment of Cfs (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: CFS

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Ripids in low water moving at 350 cfs in the John Day River. Credit: John Craig.

Photo in a seven series collection of a rafter on the John Day River. Raft in small rapids (350 cfs). Credit: John Craig.

Rafting at Big Windy Creek (8,000 cfs). Credit: Martin Hudson.

Rogue River - Below Rainie Falls (950 cfs), wild section. Drift boat fishing. Credit: Unknown.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: CFS

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

In some cases, CFS can persist for years. (references)

People with whom the CFS patient feels comfortable. (references)

Non-sedating antihistamines may be helpful for CFS patients. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CFS

"CFS" is generally used as a lexical verb (-s form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CFS" is used about 33 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-s form)100%3360,273

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: CFS

CountryName
USA

CFS Bancorp, Inc.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: CFS

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "CFS": thomson-cfs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CFS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cfs

361

blackmonauctions.com cfs cfscarlisle

5

cfs bank

76

cfs treatment

5

cfs loan

22

cfs hawaii.org

4

3 cfs

19

3 aircraft cfs

4

cfs education

18

cfs nova

4

cfs downloads

12

cfs missions

4

aircraft cfs

10

cfs consolidation loan

4

cfs student loan

10

cfs staffing

4

cfs 2

8

2 addons cfs

4

cfs alert

8

cfs services

4

cfs imperial

8

cfs mods

3

cfs mortgage

8

cfs inc

3

cfs symptom

7

cfs container freight station

3

cfs logistics

6

2 cfs downloads

3

addons cfs

6

cfs software

3

cfs life quality questionnaire

6

cfs cure

3

dagger cfs

6

fibromyalgia and cfs

3

cfs page yellow

5

cfs.com fms

3

cfs plane

5

cfs chronic fms pain

2

cd cfs no

5

aircraft cfs downloads

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: CFS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "c-f-s"
 

+1 letter: fisc.

 

+2 letters: cafes, caffs, calfs, chefs, clefs, coffs, coifs, coofs, cuffs, cuifs, curfs, faces, facts, feces, fecks, fices, ficus, fiscs, flics, flocs, focus, fucks, fucus, fyces, scarf, scoff, scuff, scurf.

 

+3 letters: califs, casefy, chafes, chaffs, chiefs, chufas, chuffs, clefts, cliffs, clifts, crafts, crofts, decafs, facers, facets, facias, facies, faeces, falces, farces, fasces, fascia, fauces, fences, fescue, fiasco, fiches, fichus, ficins, ficoes, fiscal, fistic, flacks, flecks, flicks, flocks, flysch, forces, fracas, francs, fresco, frocks, fucose, fucous, fustic, scarfs, sclaff, scoffs, scruff, scuffs, scurfs, scurfy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CFS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 46 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ..-.    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01000110 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#70 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0046 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

374053

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Company Usage
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Abbreviations
11. Acronyms
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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