sf

sf

1. (music) sforzando; an indication to play a section of music with an initial attack.

sf

1. (dated) Alternative form of SF (science fiction)
   • 2011 February 1, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction‎, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, pages 102–103:

     But some discussion of the complex relationship between “allohistory” and sf is appropriate here, as the genres overlap in certain ways. Classical allohistory— such as Trevelyan's "What if Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo?" and Churchill's "If Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg" —is a rigorously consistent thought-experiment in historical causality.

2. Abbreviation of significant figure(s).

• F's, FS, Fs, F♭s, F♯s, f's, fs

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛf/
  • Conventional anglicization: sef

 m

1. yesterday [since the Pyramid Texts]

1. yesterday [since the Pyramid Texts]

• Akhmimic Coptic: ⲥⲉϥ (sef)
• Bohairic Coptic: ⲥⲁϥ (saf)
• Fayyumic Coptic: ⲥⲉϥ (sef)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲥⲁϥ (saf)

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 113.2–113.16
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 95.