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EFA

EFA is the initialism of essential fatty acid.

EFA is the initialism of exploratory factor analysis.

Meaning of essential fatty acid

Noun

essential fatty acid (plural essential fatty acids)

  1. any fatty acid required for human metabolism that cannot be synthesized by the body and must be present in the diet; originally designated as vitamin F

Forms of EFA

pluralEFAs

Questions about EFA

What is EFA the initialism of?
EFA is the initialism of essential fatty acid.

Words near EFA in the dictionary

  1. EEZs
  2. EEZT
  3. ef
  4. EF-Tu
  5. EF-Tus
  6. EFA
  7. Efail Isaf
  8. efalizumab
  9. efaproxiral
  10. efarinose
  11. efaroxan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: EFA (page history and authors); essential fatty acid (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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