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Translingual
Symbol
SF
- (international standards) Indeterminately reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Finland.
- Synonym: FI (for general use)
Usage notes
This is an indeterminately reserved code, included as part of ISO 3166-1 due to its use in designating road vehicles under the 1949 Geneva Convention on Road Traffic and formerly the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Traffic, and is not endorsed for general use by the ISO. The general-purpose code for Finland is FI.
English
Noun
SF (countable and uncountable, plural SFs)
- (fiction) Initialism of science fiction or speculative fiction, often used to avoid having to choose between the two.
- Initialism of square feet.
- Initialism of spontaneous fission.
- (basketball) Initialism of small forward.
- Coordinate terms: PG, SG, PF, C
- (sports) Abbreviation of semifinal.
- Coordinate terms: QF, F, FA, FB, FC, FD
- (in personal ads) Initialism of single female.
- Coordinate terms: MF, DF
Descendants
Proper noun
SF
- Initialism of San Francisco.
- (Ireland, UK politics) Initialism of Sinn Féin; an Irish political party.
- (video games) Initialism of Street Fighter.
- (motor racing) Initialism of Super Formula.
Adjective
SF
- (in personal ads) Initialism of smoker-friendly: not objecting to people who smoke tobacco
Anagrams
German
Proper noun
SF n
- (historical, broadcasting) Initialism of Schweizer Fernsehen, the Swiss-German television channel
Japanese
Pronunciation
Noun
SF • (esuefu)
- (fiction) SF: Abbreviation of サイエンス・フィクション (“science fiction”).
Proper noun
SF (エスエフ; Esu Efu)
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- (motor racing) SF: Abbreviation of スーパーフォーミュラ (“Super Formula”).