CIF

CIF, c.i.f. or Cif may refer to:

Finance

• Climate Investment Funds, in international climate change agreements
• Community Infrastructure Fund (CIF), a method of UK government funding for transport infrastructure
• Cost, Insurance and Freight, (c.i.f.) a historic trade term and International Commercial Term (Incoterm) indicating that a price includes cost, insurance and freight
• Código de identificación fiscal, a former Spanish tax identification number for legal entities; See Identity document

Organizations

• California Interscholastic Federation, the governing body for high school sports in California
  • CIF Central Section
  • CIF Central Coast Section
  • CIF Los Angeles City Section
  • CIF North Coast Section
  • CIF Northern Section
  • CIF Oakland Section
  • CIF Sac-Joaquin Section
  • CIF San Diego Section
  • CIF San Francisco Section
  • CIF Southern Section
• Canada India Foundation, a Canadian lobbying organization
• China International Fund, a Chinese company that funds large-scale national projects in developing countries

Science and technology

• Caltech Intermediate Form, geometry language for VLSI design, in which the primitives are coloured rectangles (similar to GDSII)
• Catch-in Focus, a function offered by SLR cameras to release the shutter automatically when the subject comes into focus
• Central Instrumentation Facility, a former building at the Kennedy Space Center that housed data processing machines
• CFTR inhibitory factor (Cif), a virulence factor secreted by Pseudomonas aeruginosa
• Common Intermediate Format, a video format common in video teleconferencing
• Crystallographic Information File, a standard text file format

Other uses

• Counter Insurgency Force, a Police tactical unit of West Bengal Police
• Cif, a brand of household cleaning products by Unilever
• Cif., the standard author abbreviation for Raffaele Ciferri
• Champions Indoor Football, a professional indoor American football league
• Chifeng Yulong Airport (IATA code), China
• Coming into force, the process of legislation becoming effective
• Comment is free (Cif), online comment section of The Guardian newspaper

See also

• Common Internet File System (CIFS), in computer networking

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