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CFL

CFL is the initialism of Canadian Football League.

CFL is the initialism of compact fluorescent lamp.

CFL is the initialism of context-free language.

CFL is the initialism of color–flavor locking.

Meaning of compact fluorescent lamp

Noun

compact fluorescent lamp (plural compact fluorescent lamps)

  1. A type of fluorescent lamp (that may or may not contain mercury).

Meaning of context-free language

Noun

context-free language (countable and uncountable, plural context-free languages)

  1. (formal theory) A language generated by a context-free grammar.

Forms of CFL

pluralCFLs

Questions about CFL

What is CFL the initialism of?
CFL is the initialism of Canadian Football League.

Words near CFL in the dictionary

  1. CFIs
  2. CFIT
  3. CFITs
  4. CFK
  5. CFKs
  6. CFL
  7. CFlash
  8. CFLer
  9. CFLers
  10. cFLIP
  11. CFLs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: CFL (page history and authors); compact fluorescent lamp (page history and authors); context-free language (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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