Meanings
- abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Canadian Football League.
Scenarios were floated that the CFL and WLAF would merge or that the CFL would revert to a fall schedule and become a farm league for the NFL.
2005, Steve O'Brien, The Canadian Football League, →ISBN
plural CFLs
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of compact fluorescent lamp.
1 more example
“Now is the right time to transition from CFL to LED,” said John Strainic, chief operating officer of consumer and conventional lighting at GE Lighting. […] Halogen dominates standard bulb shipments, the association reported, representing almost half of the total, followed by CFLs at about 27 percent, a share that is on the decline.
2016 February 1, Diane Cardwell, “G.E. to Phase Out CFL Bulbs”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2016 - abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of context-free language.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablenatural sciencesInitialism of color–flavor locking.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounfluorescent light bulb that is energy-saving
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
French LCF
- LCFCanadian Football League
Cite this entry
CFL. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/CFL
“CFL.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/CFL. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “CFL,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/CFL.
Source: CFL on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.