CSF explained

CSF may refer to:

Biology and medicine

• Cerebrospinal fluid, clear colorless bodily fluid found in the brain and spine
• Colony-stimulating factor, secreted glycoproteins
  • Macrophage colony-stimulating factor, "CSF-1"
  • Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor, "CSF-2"
  • Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, "CSF-3"
• Cancer slope factor, estimate the risk of cancer
• Classical swine fever, contagious disease of pigs
• Contrast sensitivity function, relationship of contrast threshold vs angular frequency for an observer

Military

• Central Security Forces (CSF), an Egyptian paramilitary force
• Comprehensive Soldier Fitness
• Coalition Support Fund, US military aid to countries
• Thomson-CSF of Thales Group

Education

• California Scholarship Federation
• California State University, Fullerton, a university in Southern California
• Collège de la Sainte Famille, a Jesuit school in Cairo, Egypt
• Colorado Shakespeare Festival, a Shakespeare Festival each summer at the University of Colorado at Boulder
• College of Santa Fe, a private art centric college in Santa Fe New Mexico
• Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique, a public school board in British Columbia, Canada
• Christian Student Fellowship, a Christian campus ministry at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky
• Curriculum and Standards Framework

Computing

• Connected Services Framework, a service aggregation SOA platform from Microsoft
• NIST Cybersecurity Framework

Sport

• CONMEBOL or CSF (Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol)
• CSF CFR Timișoara, a Romanian amateur association football club
• CSF Group-Navigare, an Irish professional cycling team

Other uses

• Caesium fluoride (cesium fluoride), a chemical compound
• Capsize screening formula
• Catholic Secular Forum of Mumbai, India
• Commercial Spaceflight Federation, a non-profit trade association of businesses and organizations working to make commercial human spaceflight a reality
• Community of St. Francis. an Anglican Order of nuns
• Compagnie générale de la télégraphie sans fil, a French telecommunications company
• China Securities Finance, a Chinese quasi-central bank for brokerage firms
• Community-supported fishery
• Configuration state function
• Critical success factor
• Crowd-sourced funding