PFA

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PFA or Pfa may refer to:

Organizations

  • Pacific Film Archive, now part of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)
  • People for Animals, Indian animal welfare organisation
  • PFA Footcare Association (Canadian Chapter)
  • Police Federation of Australia
  • Policía Federal Argentina, the Argentine Federal Police
  • Popular Flying Association, a former name of the Light Aircraft Association
  • Popular Front of Azerbaijan, forerunner of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA)
  • Professional Fraternity Association

Science, technology, and mathematics

Chemistry and materials science

  • Paraformaldehyde, a fixation solution
  • Perfluoroalkoxy alkane, a plastic or polymer resin
  • Pulverised fuel ash, a waste product of pulverised coal
  • Parafluoroamphetamine
  • Performic acid
  • See also PFAS, Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances

Computer science

  • Probabilistic finite automaton
  • .pfa, Printer Font ASCII, a file extension for PostScript Printer Font ASCII
  • Predictive failure analysis, a technology for hard disk health monitoring, the predecessor of S.M.A.R.T.
  • Portable Format for Analytics, a JSON-based file format for encoding data analytics, such as data mining models.
  • PFA, an email abbreviation for "Please Find Attached" or "Please Find the Attachment"

Mathematics and statistics

  • Prime-factor FFT algorithm, a fast algorithm for computing the discrete Fourier transform
  • Proper forcing axiom
  • Probability of False Alarm, a synonym for false positive rate which is commonly used in radar and related fields

Medicine

Sport

Other uses

Topics referred to by the same term
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