NFL

See also: N.F.L. and Nfl.

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɛn ɛf ɛl/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛl

Proper noun

NFL

  1. (American football) Initialism of National Football League.
  2. Initialism of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Noun

NFL (uncountable)

  1. (mathematics) Initialism of no free lunch: applied to various restricting theorems.
    • 2002, William A. Dembski, No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot be Purchased Without Intelligence, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 204:
      First off, let us be clear that the No Free Lunch theorems that underwrite the displacement problem apply with perfect generality—NFL applies to any information that might supplement a blind search, and not just to fitness functions.

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