What is "maf"

MAF, an acronym or abbreviation, may refer to:

• Malaysian Armed Forces
• Malaysia Athletics Federation
• Marine Amphibious Force, a former name for Marine Expeditionary Force, a type of U.S. Marine Corps task force
• Mass airflow sensor, used to find the mass flowrate of air entering a fuel-injected internal combustion engine
• MAFless Tuning, a method of operating the fuel injection system on a gasoline-powered motor vehicle whereby the mass airflow meter is removed
• Majid Al Futtaim Group
• Metin-Ali-Feyyaz, Turkish football trio who constituted attacking line of Turkish sports club Beşiktaş J.K.
• Michoud Assembly Facility, a NASA manufacturing facility in New Orleans, Louisiana
• Million acre-foot, MAF, a unit of volume commonly used in the United States in reference to large-scale water resources
• Minor allele frequency in genetics
• Mission Aviation Fellowship
• Move America Forward
• Midland International Airport, Texas
• New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
• Marc-André Fleury (born 1984), goaltender for the NHL Pittsburgh Penguins
• Mozilla Archive Format, a format for archiving web pages and also an add-on of the same name for Mozilla Firefox
• Saint Martin (France), ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code
• Macrophage-activating factor
• MAF (gene)
• Microsoft Access Form, a file format associated with Microsoft Access, bearing the file extension .maf.
• Moisture and Ash Free, a measure of moisture and ash content as used in ranking coals or the heat-content of wood
• Markranstädter Automobilfabrik, a German car-brand built from 1909–1923 in Markranstädt
• Magnetic field-assisted finishing
• Migraine Aura Foundation
• Midland International Airport, whose IATA code is MAF

Transcription factor Maf also known as proto-oncogene c-Maf or V-maf musculoaponeurotic fibrosarcoma oncogene homolog is a transcription factor that in humans is encoded by the MAF gene.