CRF

CRF may refer to:

Science and technology

  • Corticotropin-releasing factor family, a family of related neuropeptides in vertebrates
    • Corticotropin-releasing hormone or corticotropin-releasing factor, a polypeptide hormone
  • Chromatographic response function, a coefficient which characterizes the quality of the separation in the result of a chromatography
  • Coefficient of rolling friction, a coefficient that measures the rolling resistance
  • Cloud radiative forcing, the difference between the radiation budget components for average cloud conditions and cloud-free conditions
  • Chemotactic range fitting, a phenomenon in which organisms direct their movements according to certain chemicals
  • Controlled-release fertiliser, a solid form fertilizer
  • Coupled rangefinder camera
  • Case report form, used in clinical trial research

Computing

  • Conditional random field, in machine learning, a type of graphical model
  • Constant Rate Factor, used video encoders such as x265, and VP9, and AV1 as a bitrate control method.

Medicine

  • Cardiorespiratory fitness
  • Case report form, in a clinical trial, the document showing all the evaluated patient data
  • Cancer-related fatigue
  • Chronic renal failure, also known as chronic kidney disease (CKD)

Economics and finance

  • Capital recovery factor, a financial concept
  • Consolidated Revenue Fund, the main government bank account in many Commonwealth Nations

Organisations

  • Catholic Reaction Force, a name used by paramilitaries to issue death threats against Protestants in Northern Ireland during "The Troubles"
  • Cave Research Foundation, an American private, non-profit group dedicated to the exploration, research, and conservation of caves
  • Central Readiness Force, a military defense unit in Japan
  • Centro Ricerche Fiat, the central research organization for Fiat; see Blue&Me
  • Air Central (ICAO airline designator), an airline in Japan

Sports

Other uses

Topics referred to by the same term
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