PMF may stand for:

Military

  • Paramilitary forces, a semi-militarized force
  • Private military firm, a private company providing armed combat or security services for financial gain.
  • Popular Mobilization Forces, an Iraqi state-sponsored umbrella organization

Science and technology

  • Peptide mass fingerprinting, an analytical technique for protein identification
  • Polarization-maintaining optical fiber, a type of optical fiber
  • Polycarbon monofluoride, a graphite compound with fluorine; also known as carbon monofluoride
  • Potential of mean force, in chemistry, potential giving the average force on a particle from a set of molecules
  • Primary myelofibrosis, a disease affecting the bone marrow
  • Probability mass function, in statistics, function giving the probability that a variable takes a particular value
  • Progressive massive fibrosis, an interstitial lung disease complication often seen in silicosis and pneumoconiosis
  • Protected Management Frames, a security feature of WiFi connections, see IEEE 802.11w-2009
  • Proton motive force, a measure of energy in biological reactions

Other uses

  • Danish Union of Educators (Danish: Pædagogisk Medhjælper Forbund), a former Danish trade union
  • Pacific Music Festival, an international classical music festival held annually in Sapporo, Japan
  • Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb (Croatian: Prirodoslovno-matematički fakultet), a university faculty
  • Parma Airport, Italy (IATA airport code)
  • Pierre Mendès France (1907–1982), Prime Minister of France
  • Presidential Management Fellows Program, a US government fellowship
  • Product/market fit, in marketing, the degree to which a product satisfies a strong market demand
  • Professional Medical Film, a U.S. Army designation
  • PMF, hacker turned as federal informant (operation Cybersnare)
  • .pmf, a Sony PlayStation Portable movie file, a proprietary format that can be extracted from PSP disk images