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DNF

DNF is the initialism of did not finish.

DNF is the initialism of did not find.

DNF is the initialism of do not follow.

DNF is the initialism of disjunctive normal form.

DNF is the initialism of Digital National Framework.

Meaning of disjunctive normal form

Noun

disjunctive normal form

  1. The form of a boolean formula that the formula has if the formula is a disjunction of conjunctions of literals, such as “(A and B and C) or (D and E and not F)”.

Verb

DNF (third-person singular simple present DNFs, present participle DNFing, simple past and past participle DNFed or DNF'ed)

  1. To fail to finish, as a sporting event or a piece of media.
    • While I used to love them, now I keep DNFing superhero movies.
    • He'd DNFed and could have gone home an hour earlier, but he wanted to see me win.2014, Phil Gaimon, Pro Cycling on $10 a Day: From Fat Kid to Euro Pro, VeloPress, →ISBN

Noun

DNF (plural DNFs)

  1. A failure to finish something, such as a sporting event.

Forms of DNF

Verb
third-person singular presentDNFs
present participleDNFing
past participleDNFed
pastDNFed
past participleDNF'ed
pastDNF'ed
Noun
pluralDNFs

Questions about DNF

What does DNF mean?
DNF means to fail to finish, as a sporting event or a piece of media.
What is DNF the initialism of?
DNF is the initialism of did not finish.
What part of speech is DNF?
DNF can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of DNF?
The past tense of DNF is DNFed.

Words near DNF in the dictionary

  1. DNE
  2. Dneiper
  3. Dneipr
  4. Dnepr
  5. Dnepropetrovsk
  6. DNF
  7. DNF'ed
  8. DNFed
  9. DNFing
  10. DNFs
  11. DNFTT

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: DNF (page history and authors); disjunctive normal form (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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