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MAF

"MAF" is a common misspelling or typo for: mad, man, map, mar, mat, maw, may, miff.


Crosswords: MAF

Specialty definitions using "MAF": Automated Listing and Mapping InstrumentMacrophage Activation, Macrophage-Activating Factors, Master Address File, Master Address File Quality Improvement Program, Master Address File Update FileTargeted Field Address Conversion. (references)
Non-English Usage: "MAF" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Dutch (drowsy).

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

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Specialty Definition: MAF

DomainDefinition

Census

(Master Address File) The Census Bureau's permanent list of addresses for individual living quarters based on a combination of the 1990 MAF that is linked to the TIGER data base. The file will be continuously updated and maintained over the decade through partnerships with the USPS, Federal, state, regional, and local agencies, and the private sector to provide a basis for the 2000 census address control file and other Census Bureau efforts. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: MAF

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

MAF

DanishMakrofagaktiverende faktorMedicine

MAF

EnglishMoist Ash-FreeN/A

MAF

FrenchFacteur d'activation des macrophagesMedicine

MAF

GermanMakrophagenaktivierender FaktorMedicine

MAF

Greekπρόσθετη λειτουργία κινητού σταθμούComputing

MAF

ItalianFattore attivante i macrofagiMedicine

MAF

PortugueseFactor activador dos macrófagosMedicine

MAF

SwedishMakrofagaktiverande faktorMedicine

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

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Commercial Usage: MAF

DomainTitle

References

  • MAF Bancorp Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Strategic directions for fisheries operational research contracted by MAF Policy, 1994-1999 (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

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

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Photo Album: MAF

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

A missile alert facility, like the one pictured, located 60 miles south of Minot Air Force Base, N.D., burned to the ground Nov. 30. Minot AFB's 91st Space Wing owns the MAF. No one was injured in the blaze and the cause is under investigation. (Courtesy.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: MAF

SubjectTopicQuote

Trade

Korea

MAF also has its own set of standards for markings for the country of origin labeling of agricultural products. (references)

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

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Usage in Company Names: MAF

CountryName
USA

MAF Bancorp Incorporated

 (more examples...)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MAF

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

maf sensor

38

c l maf

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: MAF

Derivations

Words beginning with "MAF": maffia, maffias, maffick, mafficked, mafficking, mafficks, mafia, mafias, mafic, mafiosi, mafioso, mafiosos, maftir, maftirs. (additional references)

Words containing "MAF": chromaffin, enterochromaffin, permafrost, permafrosts, ultramafic. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: MAF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-m"

-1 letter: am, fa, ma.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-m"
 

+1 letter: fame, farm, flam, foam.

 

+2 letters: famed, fames, fanum, farms, flame, flams, flamy, fleam, foams, foamy, foram, frame, mafia, mafic.

 

+3 letters: affirm, aflame, aimful, armful, defame, defoam, family, famine, faming, famish, famous, famuli, fandom, fantom, fanums, farmed, farmer, fathom, favism, female, femora, ferbam, firman, flambe, flamed, flamen, flamer, flames, fleams, flyman, foamed, foamer, foeman, forams, formal, format, framed, framer, frames, fulham, fullam, fulmar, infamy, maffia, mafias, maftir, malfed, manful, massif, mayfly, ramify.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MAF


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

4D 41 46

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)

01001101 01000001 01000110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#65 &#70

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0041 0046

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

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

473540

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INDEX

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


  

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