MRF

English

Etymology

Initialism.

Pronunciation

• (recycling plant): IPA^(key): /mɜː(ɹ)f/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)f

Noun

MRF (plural MRFs)

1. Materials recovery facility (or materials reclamation facility, materials recycling facility, multi-reuse facility): a waste recycling plant.
   • 2009 February 26, Leo Hickman, “The truth about recycling”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     They pass through Walsall and on to neighbouring Aldridge where they visit a former foundry that was recently converted - "recycled", according to its owners - into the country's largest "materials recovery facility"(MRF, pronounced "merf").

2. Metals retention factor.
3. Markov random field
4. Myogenic regulatory transcription factors
   • 2008 January 23, Sophie B Chargé, Andrew S Brack, with Stéphanie A Bayol and Simon M Hughes, “MyoD- and nerve-dependent maintenance of MyoD expression in mature muscle fibres acts through the DRR/PRR element”, in BMC Developmental Biology‎^[2]:

     Myogenic regulatory transcription factors (MRFs) are essential for skeletal myogenesis during embryonic development and for proper muscle regeneration.

Proper noun

MRF (uncountable)

1. (India) Initialism of Madras Rubber Factory.

Anagrams

• Frm., Mfr., fmr, fmr., mfr