NFC

English

Etymology

Initialism

• (unicode): in the Unicode sense, a compound of NF (“Normalization Form”) +‎ C (“Canonical Decomposition, followed by Canonical Composition”).

Proper noun

NFC

1. (American football) Initialism of National Football Conference.
   • 2022 February 12, Harry Enten, “Cincinnati Bengals vs. Los Angeles Rams: The unluckiest sports teams and other Super Bowl musings”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     By random chance alone, 99 times out of 100, the Lions should have won an NFL or NFC championship. Worse for arguably the league’s unluckiest fan base, the Lions haven’t really been competitive.

Noun

NFC (countable and uncountable, plural NFCs)

1. (communication, mobile telephony) Initialism of near field communication.
2. (materials science) Initialism of natural fiber composite.
3. Initialism of Norwegian forest cat
   • 1998 January 21, hillary gorman <hillary@hillary.net>, “Re: Cat gained 10lbs in 2 months after falling from tree”, in alt.animals.felines‎^[2] (Usenet), via Google Groups, archived from the original on 17 February 2026:

     see [link excised] for more info, and a link to the NFC FAQ

   • 2009 August, M. Peterschmitt, F. Grain, B. Arnaud, G Deléage, V. Lambert, “Mutation in the melanocortin 1 receptor is associated with amber colour in the Norwegian Forest Cat”, in Animal Genetics, volume 40, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, page 547:

     Three-dimensional models were built and showed electrostatic potential modification in the mutant receptor. With these results and together with those in the scientific literature, we can conclude that amber colour in NFCs is caused by a single MC1R allele called e, which has never been documented.

   • 2015, Imke März, Lois J Wilkie, Norelene Harrington, Jessie R Payne, Ruthnea A L Muzzi, Jens Häggström, Ken Smith, Virginia Luis Fuentes, “Familial cardiomyopathy in Norwegian Forest cats”, in Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery, volume 17, number 8, →DOI, →ISSN, page 681:

     The aim of this preliminary study was to report the features of NFC cardiomyopathy based on prospective echocardiographic screening of affected family groups; necropsy findings; and open-source breed screening databases.

Noun

NFC (countable and uncountable, plural NFCs)

1. (Unicode) Initialism of Normalization Form: (Canonical) Composition.

See also

• (in Unicode): NFD, NFKC, NFKD

References

• Unicode Consortium, Unicode Standard Annex #15, revision 41 (2014-06-05), § 1.2, table 1: “Normalization Forms”

Further reading

• near field communication on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• FNC, CNF, FCN, CFN, fnc