| Acronym | Definition |
|---|
| ADF | Automatic Direction Finder/Finding |
| ADF | Alliance Defense Fund |
| ADF | Australian Defence Force |
| ADF | Application Development Framework |
| ADF | Acid Detergent Fiber |
| ADF | Australian Drug Foundation |
| ADF | American Dance Festival |
| ADF | Ár Ndraíocht Féin (Our Own Druidism) |
| ADF | Asian Dub Foundation |
| ADF | A Druid Fellowship |
| ADF | African Development Fund |
| ADF | Augmented Dickey-Fuller (economics) |
| ADF | African Development Forum |
| ADF | Auto-Darkening Filter (glass) |
| ADF | Adapter Description File |
| ADF | Automated Document Factory |
| ADF | African Development Foundation |
| ADF | Allied Democratic Forces (Ugandan insurgents) |
| ADF | Automatic Document Feed(er) |
| ADF | Association Dentaire Française (French Dental Association) |
| ADF | African dwarf frog |
| ADF | Aeroporto Di Firenze (Firenze, Italy) |
| ADF | America's Development Foundation |
| ADF | Approved Deposit Fund (Australia) |
| ADF | Alternative Display Facility (NASD) |
| ADF | Average Daily Flow |
| ADF | Air Defense Force |
| ADF | Automotive Distribution Federation (UK) |
| ADF | Air Defense Fighter |
| ADF | Amiga Disk File |
| ADF | Annular Dark-Field |
| ADF | Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dermatologische Forschung (German Society of Experimental Dermatology) |
| ADF | Advance Disposal Fee (Florida) |
| ADF | Access Control Decision Function |
| ADF | Airline Dispatchers Federation |
| ADF | Albanian Development Fund (Tirana, Albania) |
| ADF | Automatically Defined Function |
| ADF | Application Development Facility |
| ADF | Amsterdam Density Functional package |
| ADF | Auto da Fé (band) |
| ADF | Astrophysics Data Facility |
| ADF | Application Descriptor File |
| ADF | Avian Development Facility (space station scientific payload; part of the Space Station Biological Research Project) |
| ADF | Aerospace Data Facility (USAF) |
| ADF | Airport Duty Free |
| ADF | Asymptotic Distribution Free |
| ADF | Australian Doctors' Fund |
| ADF | Average Duration of Fades |
| ADF | Ancillary Data Flag |
| ADF | Airborne Direction Finder |
| ADF | After Deducting Freight |
| ADF | Advanced Distribution Frame (Telect Inc.) |
| ADF | Add-Drop Filter |
| ADF | American Dancewheels Foundation, Inc. (Bala Cynwyd, PA) |
| ADF | Ausbildungsdienst der Formation (Swiss Army) |
| ADF | Analyse, Développement, Formation (French: Analysis, Development, Training; software development company) |
| ADF | Application Dependent Format |
| ADF | Airborne Direction-Finding |
| ADF | Auxiliary Detonating Fuze |
| ADF | Avionics Development Facility |
| ADF | Advisory File |
| ADF | Amplitude Density Function (the probability density of surface height) |
| ADF | Academy of Dance on Film (Hollywood, California) |
| ADF | Argentine Society of Cinematographers |
| ADF | Amplify-Decode-and-Forward (protocol) |
| ADF | Address Decoder Fault |
| ADF | Additional Deposit Fund (insurance) |
| ADF | Administrator's Discretionary Fund |
| ADF | Advanced Development Facility |
| ADF | Akuapem Development Foundation (Ghana) |
| ADF | Army Declassification Facility |
| ADF | Alarm Distribution Frame (Sprint) |
| ADF | Area Delimitation File |
| ADF | Allocation and Distribution of Fires |
| ADF | Activity Address File (claims) |
| ADF | Alveolar Dead Space Fraction |
| ADF | Apply Directly to Forehead (band) |
| ADF | Association Des Francophones (French: Association of French Speakers) |
| ADF | A Diversified Family (est. 2000) |