RF
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Etymology 1 edit
Various etymologies.
Noun edit
RF (countable and uncountable, plural RFs)
- Initialism of right foot.
- (photography) Initialism of range finder.
- (electronics, physics) Initialism of radio frequency.
- (pathology) Initialism of rheumatoid factor.
- (military, engineering, slang) Initialism of ratfuck (“dirty rick or act of sabotage or interference”).
- 1997, Chuck Carlock, Firebirds: A Harrowing Firsthand Account of Helicopter Combat in Vietnam, Bantam, →ISBN, page 300:
- If battalion staff were involved, we generally called the insertion an RF, Romeo Foxtrot, or Rat Fuck.
- 2003, Guy T. Saperstein, Civil Warrior: Memoirs of a Civil Rights Attorney:
- Thinking they actually were supporting the demonstrators, I went up to them and asked why. “No, we're not supporting them. This is just an RF (short for “Rat Fuck”). We're keeping the money," they told me, laughing.
- (baseball) Initialism of right field or right fielder.
- (optics, imaging, photography) Abbreviation of radiance field.
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radiance field
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radiance field
Proper noun edit
RF
- Initialism of Russian Federation.
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Russian Federation
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Etymology 2 edit
Combination of prefix F and prefix modifier R
Noun edit
- (US, military, aviation) reconnaissance fighter; an unarmed fighter modified for photo-reconnaissance (prefix)
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RF
- RF (“radiofrequency”) Initialism of radiofréquence.