CIF, c.i.f. or Cif may refer to:

Finance

  • Climate Investment Funds, in international climate change agreements
  • Community Infrastructure Fund (CIF), a method of UK government funding for transport infrastructure
  • Cost, Insurance and Freight, (c.i.f.) a historic trade term and International Commercial Term (Incoterm) indicating that a price includes cost, insurance and freight
  • , a former Spanish tax identification number for legal entities; See Identity document

Organizations

  • California Interscholastic Federation, the governing body for high school sports in California
  • CIF Central Section
  • CIF Central Coast Section
  • CIF Los Angeles City Section
  • CIF North Coast Section
  • CIF Northern Section
  • CIF Oakland Section
  • CIF Sac-Joaquin Section
  • CIF San Diego Section
  • CIF San Francisco Section
  • CIF Southern Section
  • Canada India Foundation, a Canadian lobbying organization
  • China International Fund, a Chinese company that funds large-scale national projects in developing countries

Science and technology

  • Caltech Intermediate Form, geometry language for VLSI design, in which the primitives are coloured rectangles (similar to GDSII)
  • Catch-in Focus, a function offered by SLR cameras to release the shutter automatically when the subject comes into focus
  • Central Instrumentation Facility, a former building at the Kennedy Space Center that housed data processing machines
  • CFTR inhibitory factor (Cif), a virulence factor secreted by Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  • Common Intermediate Format, a video format common in video teleconferencing
  • Crystallographic Information File, a standard text file format

Other uses

  • Counter Insurgency Force, a Police tactical unit of West Bengal Police
  • Cif, a brand of household cleaning products by Unilever
  • Cif., the standard author abbreviation for Raffaele Ciferri
  • Champions Indoor Football, a professional indoor American football league
  • Chifeng Yulong Airport (IATA code), China
  • Coming into force, the process of legislation becoming effective
  • Comment is free (Cif), online comment section of The Guardian newspaper

See also

  • Common Internet File System (CIFS), in computer networking