Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mrf

/mɜː(ɹ)f/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.18 in modern English

Syllables: mrf
IPA: /mɜː(ɹ)f/

8

Scrabble Score

3

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Initialism of materials recovery facility (or materials reclamation facility, materials recycling facility, multi-reuse facility): a waste recycling plant.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Metals retention factor.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Markov random field

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Myogenic regulatory transcription factors

Countable; Uncountable

name

Initialism of Madras Rubber Factory.

Indian usage

Example Sentences

"They pass through Walsall and on to neighbouring Aldridge where they visit a former foundry that was recently converted - "recycled", according to its owners - into the country's largest "materials recovery facility"(MRF, pronounced "merf")."
"Myogenic regulatory transcription factors (MRFs) are essential for skeletal myogenesis during embryonic development and for proper muscle regeneration."

Etymology

Initialism.

Usage

Inflected Forms

MRFs (plural)

Rhymes With

earth perth surf turf smurf dearth nerf perf murph serf erf terf

Questions

How do you pronounce mrf?: The recorded pronunciation is /mɜː(ɹ)f/.
What does mrf mean?: Initialism of materials recovery facility (or materials reclamation facility, materials recycling facility, multi-reuse facility): a waste recycling plant.
Where does mrf come from?: Initialism.

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