NFL
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NFL
- (American football) Initialism of National Football League.
- (American football, humorous, derogatory) Initialism of National Felon League.
- (American football, humorous, derogatory, ethnic slur) Initialism of Negro Felon League.
- Initialism of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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NFL (uncountable)
- (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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