MRF

English

Etymology

Initialism.

Pronunciation
  • (recycling plant): IPA(key): /mɜː(ɹ)f/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)f

Noun

MRF (plural MRFs)

  1. Materials recovery facility (or materials reclamation facility, materials recycling facility, multi-reuse facility): a waste recycling plant.
    • 2009 February 26, Leo Hickman, “The truth about recycling”, in The Guardian‎:
      They pass through Walsall and on to neighbouring Aldridge where they visit a former foundry that was recently converted - "recycled", according to its owners - into the country's largest "materials recovery facility"(MRF, pronounced "merf").
  2. Metals retention factor.
  3. Markov random field
  4. Myogenic regulatory transcription factors
    • 2008 January 23, Sophie B Chargé, Andrew S Brack, with Stéphanie A Bayol and Simon M Hughes, “MyoD- and nerve-dependent maintenance of MyoD expression in mature muscle fibres acts through the DRR/PRR element”, in BMC Developmental Biology‎:
      Myogenic regulatory transcription factors (MRFs) are essential for skeletal myogenesis during embryonic development and for proper muscle regeneration.

Proper noun

MRF (uncountable)

  1. (India) Initialism of Madras Rubber Factory.

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