# ASF

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**ASF** may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

- [Alabama Shakespeare Festival](/source/Alabama_Shakespeare_Festival), a drama festival
- *[Asimov's Science Fiction](/source/Asimov's_Science_Fiction)*, a U.S.-based English-language science fiction magazine containing SF stories

## Science and technology

### Biological

- [African swine fever virus](/source/African_swine_fever_virus) (ASFV), the causative agent of African swine fever (ASF)
- [Altered Schaedler flora](/source/Altered_Schaedler_flora), a standardized consortium of gastrointestinal microbial species
- [Serine/arginine-rich splicing factor 1](/source/Serine/arginine-rich_splicing_factor_1), a protein also known as alternative splicing factor 1 (ASF)

### Computing

- [Advanced Synchronization Facility](/source/Advanced_Synchronization_Facility), a proposed extension to the x86 instruction set architecture
- [Advanced Systems Format](/source/Advanced_Systems_Format) (formerly "Advanced Streaming Format", .asf), a Microsoft streaming format
- [Alert Standard Format](/source/Alert_Standard_Format), a protocol for remote management and control of systems in OS-absent environments
- [Anti Spam Filtering](/source/Antispam), software and hardware protection layers used to fight email spam
- [Apache Software Foundation](/source/Apache_Software_Foundation), an umbrella non-profit organization that owns the Apache brandname
- [APL (programming language)](/source/APL_(programming_language)) data files (file extension .asf)
- [Atmel](/source/Atmel#Microcontrollers) Software Framework, a set of source files, libraries and reference projects that aid in application development for Atmel microcontrollers

### Other uses

- Acrylic silicone fluoropolymer, a [car wax](/source/Car_wax) chemical
- [Air superiority fighter](/source/Air_superiority_fighter)
- [Alaska Satellite Facility](/source/Alaska_Satellite_Facility), a NASA data center
- Amperes per square foot, a unit of [current density](/source/Current_density) often used in electroplating

## Organizations

- [Acid Survivors Foundation](/source/Acid_Survivors_Foundation), in Bangladesh
- [Airports Security Force](/source/Airports_Security_Force), an aviation security division in Pakistan
- [African Standby Force](/source/African_Standby_Force), an international peace force controlled by the African Union
- [The American-Scandinavian Foundation](/source/The_American-Scandinavian_Foundation), a non-profit organization
- [American Steel Foundries](/source/American_Steel_Foundries)
- [Army Service Forces](/source/Army_Service_Forces), a 1940s-era US military command, distinct from the Army Air Forces or Army Ground Forces.
- [ASF Mexico](/source/ASF_Mexico) (American School Foundation, A.C.)
- [Asian Sailing Federation](/source/Asian_Sailing_Federation)
- [Australian Softball Federation](/source/Australian_Softball_Federation)
- [Australian Speleological Federation](/source/Australian_Speleological_Federation), a caving body in Australia
- [Autism Science Foundation](/source/Autism_Science_Foundation), a US non-profit organization
- [Avocats Sans Frontières](/source/Avocats_Sans_Fronti%C3%A8res), an international non-governmental organization
- [Superior Auditor of the Federation](/source/Superior_Auditor_of_the_Federation) (Spanish: *Auditoría Superior de la Federación*)
- [Swiss Football Association](/source/Swiss_Football_Association) (French: *Association Suisse de Football* and Italian: *Associazione Svizzera di Football*)

## Other uses

- [Animal source foods](/source/Animal_source_foods), food items that come from an animal source
- [alt.seduction.fast](/source/Alt.seduction.fast), a Usenet group
- [Ashfield railway station, Glasgow](/source/Ashfield_railway_station,_Glasgow), Scotland, National Rail designation
- [Narimanovo Airport](/source/Narimanovo_Airport), Astrakhan, Russia, IATA code

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