RIF

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RIF or Rif may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Renju International Federation, Renju is the professional variant of the board game Gomoku
• R.I.F., a 2011 film

Computing

• Requirements Interchange Format, XML file format that can be used to exchange requirements
• Routing information field, a source route-related field in the token ring network frame header
• Rule Interchange Format, a W3C recommendation-track effort
• Russian Internet Forum

Military

• Reconnaissance in force, a type of military operation used specifically to probe an enemy's disposition
• The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's), an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1881
• Realistic Imitation Firearm, a replica that realistically portrays a firearm; see Legal issues in airsoft
• R-39 Rif, Soviet and Russian submarine-launched ballistic missile

People

• Isaac Alfasi (1013–1103), Rabbi Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi (1013—1103), was a Talmudist and posek
• Riff languages, a grouping of languages spoken in the Rif area
• Riffian people, inhabitants of the Rif Region
• RIF - Russian rap artist

Places

• Rif (sandbank), in the Netherlands
• Rif, a mountain chain and a region in Morocco
  • The Republic of the Rif, a short-lived republic in the region which fought against Spanish rule.
• Rif, Iceland, in the municipality of Snæfellsbær
  • Rif Airport

Science

• Retrieval-induced forgetting, a phenomenon in memory
• Rif (GTPase), small signalling G protein
• Rifampicin, the antibiotic
• Right iliac fossa, part of the surface of the human abdomen
• The initials on bars of soap purported to have been made of human fat in World War II

Other uses

• Reading Is Fundamental, an organization promoting children's literacy
• Reduction in Force, a large-scale ending of employment
• Riff, a brief relaxed musical phrase repeated over changing melodies

See also

• Riff (disambiguation)
• Reef (disambiguation)

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