ADF

See also: adf

Translingual

Etymology 1

Symbol

ADF

1. (international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Adıyaman Airport, which serves Adıyaman, Turkey.

Etymology 2

Symbol

ADF

1. (international standards, historical) Unofficial non-ISO 4217 currency code for the former Andorran franc; a currency used from 1990 to 2003.

English

Noun

ADF (plural ADFs)

1. (aviation) Initialism of automatic direction finder.
2. Initialism of automatic document feeder.
3. (software) Initialism of Application Development Framework (of Oracle)

Proper noun

ADF

1. (US) Initialism of African Development Foundation.
   • 2017 May 23, Gregory Krieg and Will Mullery, “Trump’s budget by the numbers: What gets cut and why”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     “The Budget proposes to eliminate the African Development Foundation (ADF) and the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) in order to streamline functions across Government. The funding included in the Budget reflects close-out costs for ADF and IAF, particularly to pay severance costs.

2. Initialism of Alliance Defending Freedom.
   • 2018 August 8, Laura Jarrett, “Sessions: Group that backed baker who turned away gay couple not a ‘hate group’”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     “When I spoke to ADF last year, I learned that the Southern Poverty Law Center had classified ADF as a ‘hate group,’ ” Sessions said. “They have used this designation as a weapon and they have wielded it against conservative organizations that refuse to accept their orthodoxy.”

See also

• INS
• MLS
• ILS
• VOR

References

• ADF on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• F.D.A., DFA, FDA, AfD, fad, FAD, DAF, D.F.A., daf