NSF

See also: nsf

English

Proper noun

NSF

  1. (US) Initialism of National Science Foundation.
    • 2021 May 28, Jeffrey Mervis, “Biden backs new NSF tech directorate, but Senate balks”, in Science‎[1]:
      Those overall numbers are in line with Schumer's year-old plan to make NSF the spearpoint of a massive federal investment in research aimed at outinnovating China.

Noun

NSF pl (plural only)

  1. (banking) Initialism of nonsufficient funds: the alert generated by a bounced check or an ACH transaction failure due to not enough money being in the account.
  2. (Internet, acronymy component) Initialism of not safe for [context] or not suitable for [context]: labels online content as being not appropriate for, and not to be clicked or displayed in, the named context; for example, NSFW (work), NSFL (life or lunch), NSFM (minors).
  3. (medicine) Initialism of Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis, a rare syndrome that involves fibrosis of the skin, joints, eyes, and internal organs.

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