NFL

See also: N.F.L., and Nfl.

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛl

Proper noun

NFL

1. (American football) Initialism of National Football League.

Alternative forms

• N.F.L.

Noun

NFL (uncountable)

1. (mathematics) Initialism of no free lunch: applied to various restricting theorems.
   • 2002, William A. Dembski, No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot be Purchased Without Intelligence, Rowman & Littlefield (→ISBN), page 204:

     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.

Anagrams

• FLN, LFN