Nef

Nef or NEF can refer to:

Historical

• Nef (metalwork) an extravagant table-ornament in the shape of a ship
• the French word for nave of a church
• a type of large sailing ship used in the Middle Ages.

People

• Alain Nef (born 1982), Swiss footballer
• Vice Admiral Francisco Nef (1863–1931), Chilean naval officer and member of the Government Junta
• John Ulric Nef (chemist) (1862–1915) discoverer of the Nef reaction
• John Ulric Nef (economic historian), American economic historian
• Lieutenant-General Roland Nef (born 1959), chief of the Swiss Armed Forces in 2008
• Sonja Nef (born 1972), Swiss skier
• Walter Nef, Swiss mathematician, the namesake of Nef polyhedra

Places

• Nef Glacier, Chile
• Nef River, Chile

Acronyms

(NEF)

Organizations

• Nations Equipment Finance(US)]
• National Employment Fund (Cameroon)
• National Energy Foundation (UK)
• National Enrichment Facility (US)
• New Economics Foundation (UK)
• New Engineering Foundation (UK)
• Near East Foundation (US)
• National Education Foundation, India
• Network of European Foundations
• New England Firearms, part of H & R Firearms, owned by Marlin Firearms, (US)
• Norges Eiendomsmeglerforbund. (Norwegian Association of Real Estate Agents)

Mathematics

• Nef line bundle
• Natural exponential family

Biology and chemistry

• Nef (protein), Negative Regulatory Factor, a protein regulating HIV replication
• Nucleotide exchange factor
• Neurite Extension Factor, a gene also known as S100B

Other

• Nikon Electronic Format, a type of raw image format
• Notice of electronic filing, an electronic receipt issued by the US court system