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Crosswords: MAF |
| Specialty definitions using "MAF": Automated Listing and Mapping Instrument ♦ Macrophage Activation, Macrophage-Activating Factors, Master Address File, Master Address File Quality Improvement Program, Master Address File Update File ♦ Targeted 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. |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MAF | Danish | Makrofagaktiverende faktor | Medicine |
MAF | English | Moist Ash-Free | N/A |
MAF | French | Facteur d'activation des macrophages | Medicine |
MAF | German | Makrophagenaktivierender Faktor | Medicine |
MAF | Greek | πρόσθετη λειτουργία κινητού σταθμού | Computing |
MAF | Italian | Fattore attivante i macrofagi | Medicine |
MAF | Portuguese | Factor activador dos macrófagos | Medicine |
MAF | Swedish | Makrofagaktiverande faktor | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & 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. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| Country | Name |
| USA | MAF Bancorp Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
maf sensor | 38 |
c l maf | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 41 46 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- ..-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01000001 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M A F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0041 0046 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)473540 |
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