CDF

The acronym CDF may mean any one of the following:

in Science, Mathematics and Computing:

• Collider Detector at Fermilab, an international collaboration of around 600 physicists studying high-energy particle collisions
• Cumulative distribution function (or just distribution function), a function in probability theory and statistics
• Common Data Format, a library and toolkit developed by the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) at NASA, as an interface for the storage and manipulation of multi-dimensional data sets
• Compound Document Format, a set of W3C standard describing electronic document file formats
• Computable Document Format, a file format designed to allow easy authoring of dynamically-generated interactive content
• Channel Defintion Format, an XML file format
• .CSV (comma-separated values or character-separated values), file format formerly referred to as comma delimited format
• .CDF, the ANDI/netCDF file format, used for chromatography and mass spectrometry data
• Cohen-Daubechies-Feauveau wavelet, a type of biorthogonal wavelet that may be used for image data compression

Organizations:

• Ceylon Defence Force, one of the predecessor organizations of the Sri Lanka Army
• Ciskei Defence Force, a military unit in South Africa during the Cold War
• Chief of the Defence Force, a position in multiple countries
• Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, an organization responsible for promulgating and defending Catholic doctrine
• Cooperative Development Foundation, a charitable organization engaged in cooperative development in the US
• Constituency Development Fund, a Kenyan fund aiming to support constituency-level grass-roots development projects
• Children's Defense Fund, an American child advocacy and research organization
• California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (also CAL FIRE), an agency responsible for fire protection and administration of forests in the State of California
• Canal del Fútbol, a privately-owned cable television channel in Chile
• Crypto Developers Forum, an organization that promotes the global interests of the UK crypto development industry

miscellaneous:

• Cardiff, the capital and largest City (and county) of Wales in the UK
• Cardiff Central railway station, with the National Rail Station code of CDF
• Cortina Airport, an airport in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Veneto in Italy, with the IATA code of CDF
• Chesapeake Detention Facility (formerly the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center), a prison in Baltimore, Maryland in the US
• Concurrent Design Facility, the main assessment center for future space missions and industrial review of the European Space Agency
• CDF Croisières de France, a cruise line catering to the French cruise market
• Congolese franc, the currency of the Democratic Republic of Congo, with the ISO 4217 currency code of CDF
• Constructive Developmental Framework, a theoretical framework for psychological assessment based on empirical research
• Clostridium difficile, a species of bacteria that may be established in the human colon and cause colitis

List of books: CDF