RIF or Rif may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Renju International Federation, Renju is the professional variant of the board game Gomoku
  • R.I.F., a 2011 film
  • Rock identitaire français, a nationalistic music genre

Computing

  • Requirements Interchange Format, XML file format that can be used to exchange requirements
  • Routing information field, a source route-related field in the token ring network frame header
  • Rule Interchange Format, a W3C recommendation-track effort
  • Russian Internet Forum

Military

  • Reconnaissance in force, a type of military operation used specifically to probe an enemy's disposition
  • Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, an Irish line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1968
  • The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's), an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1881
  • Realistic imitation firearm, a replica that realistically portrays a firearm; see Legal issues in airsoft § United Kingdom
  • R-39 Rif, Soviet and Russian submarine-launched ballistic missile

People

  • The Rif, Isaac Alfasi (1013–1103), Rabbi Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi (1013—1103), Talmudist and posek
  • Riffian people, inhabitants of the Rif Region of Morocco

Places

  • Rif (sandbank), in the Netherlands
  • Rif, a mountain chain and a region in Morocco
  • The Republic of the Rif, a short-lived republic in the region which fought against Spanish rule.
  • Rif, Iceland, in the municipality of Snæfellsbær
  • Rif Airport, Iceland

Science

  • Retrieval-induced forgetting, a phenomenon in memory
  • Rif (GTPase), small signalling G protein
  • Rifampicin, an antibiotic
  • Right iliac fossa, part of the surface of the human abdomen
  • The initials on bars of soap purported to have been made of human fat in World War II
  • Realgar/Indigo Naturalis Formula, a medication used in acute promyelocytic leukemia

Other uses

  • Reading Is Fundamental, an organization promoting children's literacy
  • Reduction in force, a large-scale ending of employment
  • Riff, a brief relaxed musical phrase repeated over changing melodies
  • Riff languages, a grouping of languages spoken in the Rif area of Morocco

See also

  • Riff (disambiguation)
  • Reef (disambiguation)