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CFL en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of compact fluorescent lamp.
    • “Now is the right time to transition from CFL to LED,” said John Strainic, chief operating officer of consumer and conventional lighting at GE Lighting. […] Halogen dominates standard bulb shipments, the association reported, representing almost half of the total, followed by CFLs at about 27 percent, a share that is on the decline. 2016 February 1, Diane Cardwell, “G.E. to Phase Out CFL Bulbs”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2016:
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of context-free language.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of color–flavor locking.

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CCFL

Source: en.wiktionary, “CFL” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

CFL en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Canadian Football League.
    • Scenarios were floated that the CFL and WLAF would merge or that the CFL would revert to a fall schedule and become a farm league for the NFL. 2005, Steve O'Brien, The Canadian Football League, →ISBN:

Translations (1)

fr LCF (Canadian Football League)