CFL

English

Proper noun

CFL

  1. Initialism of Canadian Football League.
    • 2005, Steve O'Brien, The Canadian Football League, →ISBN:
      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.

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Noun

CFL (plural CFLs)

  1. Initialism of compact fluorescent lamp.
    • 2016 February 1, Diane Cardwell, “G.E. to Phase Out CFL Bulbs”, in The New York Times[1], archived from the original on 6 February 2016:
      “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.
  2. Initialism of context-free language.
  3. (physics) Initialism of color–flavor locking.
  • CCFL (cold-cathode fluorescent lamp)

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