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cfu

cfu is the alternative form of CFU.

Noun (1) capitalized: CFU

CFU (plural CFUs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of colony-forming unit.
    • The three water samples for total coliform bacteria were 57,000 CFUs, 43,000 CFUs and 45,000 CFUs. (Colony-forming units, or CFUs, estimate the number of bacteria or fungal cells that have the ability to multiply in a sample.)2017 September 1, Susan Scutti, “Sewage, fecal bacteria in Hurricane Harvey floodwaters”, in CNN

Noun (2) capitalized: Cfu

Cfu

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of CFU.

Forms of cfu

pluralCFUs
alternative formcfu
alternative formCfu

Questions about cfu

What is cfu the alternative form of?
Cfu is the alternative form of CFU.
What part of speech is cfu?
Cfu is a noun.
What is the plural of cfu?
The plural of cfu is CFUs.

Words near cfu in the dictionary

  1. CFSs
  2. CFT
  3. CFTC
  4. CFTR
  5. CFTs
  6. cfu
  7. CFUs
  8. CFWH
  9. CFWHs
  10. CFX
  11. CFZ

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cfu (page history and authors); CFU (page history and authors); Cfu (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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