CTF may refer to:

Organizations and associations

  • Cambridge Theological Federation, association of colleges etc. in Cambridge, England
  • Canadian Taxpayers Federation
  • Canadian Teachers' Federation
  • Child Trust Fund, a UK child savings scheme
  • Children's Tumor Foundation, United States, supports those with neurofibromatosis/schwannomatosis
  • Clean Technology Fund
  • Cyprus Tennis Federation
  • Chow Tai Fook, Hong Kong based conglomerate

Science and technology

  • Capture the flag (cybersecurity), an educational exercise in computer security
  • Charge trap flash
  • Chlorine trifluoride, a highly corrosive chemical
  • Collaborative Translation Framework, a platform designed by Microsoft to improve machine translation through (possibly crowdsourced) user contributions
  • Computer to film, an imaging technology used in lithographic printing
  • Contrast threshold function, in physiological imaging
  • Contrast transfer function, in general imaging
  • Controlled thermonuclear fusion
  • CTF, an undocumented Windows protocol involved with the Microsoft Text Services Framework
  • Cut-through forwarding, a methodology used in network hardware

Transport

  • Catford railway station (National Rail station code), London, England
  • Coatepeque Airport (IATA code), Guatemala

Other uses

  • Canadian Television Fund
  • Capture the flag, a traditional outdoor game often played by children
  • Colorado tick fever
  • Combined Task Force
  • Commander, Task force
  • Controlled Traffic Farming, a soil protection driving strategy
  • Correctional Training Facility at Soledad, California
  • Counter terrorism financing