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BFO

BFO is the initialism of Basic Formal Ontology.

BFO is the initialism of Budapest Festival Orchestra.

BFO is the initialism of Black Forest Observatory.

BFO is the initialism of beat frequency oscillator.

BFO is the initialism of bunker fuel oil.

BFO is the initialism of boron monofluoride monoxide.

Meaning of beat frequency oscillator

Noun

beat frequency oscillator (plural beat frequency oscillators)

  1. A dedicated oscillator in a radio receiver, used to create an audio frequency signal from Morse code radiotelegraphy transmissions to make them audible.
    Synonyms:
    BFO

Forms of BFO

pluralBFOs

Questions about BFO

What is BFO the initialism of?
BFO is the initialism of Basic Formal Ontology.

Words near BFO in the dictionary

  1. BFLPEs
  2. BFLS
  3. BFM
  4. BFMs
  5. BFN
  6. BFO
  7. BFOD
  8. BFODs
  9. BFOQ
  10. BFOQs
  11. BFOs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: BFO (page history and authors); beat frequency oscillator (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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