Science and Technology
- Radiative forcing, a measure of the change in balance of the energy absorbed and emitted by the Earth's atmosphere
- "Rate of flow", as in Volumetric flow rate
- Radio frequency
- RF connectors, a type of electrical connectors designed to work at radio frequencies
- Random forest, a machine learning algorithm
- Receptive field, a term used in neuroscience referring to the kinds of stimuli to which a neuron is sensitive
- Recombinant frequency, a term used in genetics to measure genetic linkage
- Register file, an array of processor registers in a CPU
- Retardation factor (or retention factor), designated as Rf, a term used in chromatography
- Reticular formation
- Rheumatoid factor, a blood test used to diagnose rheumatoid arthritis
- Roman foot, an ancient Roman unit of measurement
- Rutherfordium, a chemical element
- Release factor
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