NFL
noun/ɛn ɛf ɛl/
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Mathematics, Sciences Abbreviation, Initialism Initialism of no free lunch, applied to various restricting theorems.
- First off, let us be clear that the No Free Lunch theorems that underwrite the displacement problem apply with perfect generality—NFL applies to any information that might supplement a blind search, and not just to fitness functions.2002, William A. Dembski, No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot be Purchased Without Intelligence, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 204:
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UK, Metonymically American football.
- Soon after Boston and London were over, two other dramatic races were playing out in my head [...] just as we enjoy the long term implications of a match result in baseball, NFL or soccer.2007 07, Running Times, page 64:
- In a neo-conservative era where parents have regressed by dressing their daughters as pink princesses, where toy stores segregate their merchandise according to ‘gender’, where women playing NFL in bikinis is ‘sport’, and where Miss Universe is every adolescent girl’s ambition, was I really that gullible to believe that Gen Y would radically commit engagement rings – and, hence, elaborate weddings – to the dumpster?2017 March 16, Pearl Bullivant, “Shine Bright like a Diamond”, in The Beast, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2024: