"EFA" meaning in English

See EFA in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: EFAs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} EFA (plural EFAs)
  1. Initialism of essential fatty acid. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: essential fatty acid
    Sense id: en-EFA-en-noun-iOQHYwEC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 85 15
  2. (statistics) Initialism of exploratory factor analysis. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: exploratory factor analysis Categories (topical): Statistics

Inflected forms

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