NFL

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See also: N.F.L. and Nfl.

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛn ɛf ɛl/
    • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛl

Proper noun

NFL

  1. (American football) Initialism of National Football League.
  2. (American football, humorous, derogatory) Initialism of National Felon League.
  3. (American football, humorous, derogatory, ethnic slur) Initialism of Negro Felon League.
  4. Initialism of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Noun

NFL (uncountable)

  1. (mathematics) Initialism of no free lunch: applied to various restricting theorems.
    • 2002, William A. Dembski, No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot be Purchased Without Intelligence, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 204:
      First off, let us be clear that the No Free Lunch theorems that underwrite the displacement problem apply with perfect generality—NFL applies to any information that might supplement a blind search, and not just to fitness functions.

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