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Definition: HFC

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A fluorocarbon emitted as a by-product of industrial manufacturing.[Wordnet].

Source: WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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"HFC" is a common misspelling or typo for: HCFC.

Date "HFC" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1987. (references)

Specialty Definition: HFC

Domain Definition
Computing HFC 1. Hybrid Fiber Coax. 2. hydrofluorocarbon. (1999-11-02) Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Aerospace 1: Heat How and Convection. (references)
  2: Hydraulic Flight Control. (references)
Energy Hydrofluorocarbon. (references)
Environment Human food chain. (references)
Forestry MOF Forest Community Transition Secretariat. (references)
Information Technology Hybrid fiber-coaxial. (references)
Technology Hybrid Fiber Coax. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Common Expressions: HFC

Expressions Definition
HFC Haarlem HFC Haarlem is a Dutch football club. The club was founded in 1889. Haarlem has won the Dutch national title in 1946 and has reached five Dutch cup finals, winning in 1902 and 1912 and losing in 1911, 1914 and 1950. Haarlem has won the title in the Eerste Divisie in 1972, 1976 and 1981. In 1982, HFC Haarlem, featuring a young Ruud Gullit, qualified for UEFA Cup football, in which it was eliminated by Spartak Moscow in the second round. In 1990, Haarlem was relegated to the Eerste Divisie again, in which they have played since. The club is currently a satellite club to Ajax. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: HFC

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry Source Expression Field
HFC English Hyperfine coupling N/A
HFC French Hydrocarbure fluoré Chemistry, Environment
HFC Swedish Fluorerat kolväte N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Extended Definition: HFC

HFC

HFC may stand for:

  • Hafnium carbide
  • Heng Fa Chuen, a town located on the Eastern part of Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.
  • High fructose corn syrup
  • High Frequency Content measure
  • HydroFluoroCarbon, see haloalkane
  • Hybrid Fibre Coaxial, a telecommunications industry term for a type of broadband network
  • HFC Bank, part of HSBC Finance
  • Home Finance Company, known in Ghana as "HFC Bank"
  • Household Finance Corporation - the oldest consumer finance company in the United States
  • Halal Fried Chicken-A Pakistani franchise established during a nationwide boycott of U.S. franchises.
  • Hundred Flowers Campaign

It may also refer to one of the following football clubs:

  • Heart of Midlothian F.C. ("Hearts"), a Scottish association football club
  • Hibernian F.C. a Scottish association football club
  • Histon F.C., an English association football club
  • Hawthorn Football Club, an Australian rules football club
  • Heidelberg Football Club, an Australian rules football club

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "HFC"



Topics by Level of Interest: HFC

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
HFC Haarlem 40     1. HFC Humenné 10
1. HFC Humenné 10     HFC 3
Koninklijke HFC 4     HFC Haarlem 40
HFC 3     Koninklijke HFC 4

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

"HFC" is a common misspelling or typo for: HCFC.

Synonyms: HFC
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Noun

 hydrofluorocarbon.

Expression

 hybrid fiber coax, hybrid fiber coaxial.
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Computed Synonyms: HFC

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   1.0185   HFC     hybrid fiber coax     hybrid fiber coaxial   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Translations: HFC

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Chinese Simplified 高频电流 (hfc). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, HFC. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional 高頻電流 (hfc), 混合同軸光纖 (HFC), 光纖同軸混合網路 (HFC, hybrid fiber coax, hybrid fiber coaxial). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, HFC. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese 主辞素性規約 (head feature convention, HFC), しゅじそせいきやく (head feature convention, HFC). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, HFC. (volunteer & more translations)
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