"IDF" meaning in English

See IDF in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-prop}} IDF
  1. (military) Initialism of Iceland Defense Force. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Iceland Defense Force Categories (topical): Military Categories (place): Iceland
    Sense id: en-IDF-en-name-jjGdjsHI Disambiguation of Iceland: 47 43 6 4 Categories (other): English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks Topics: government, military, politics, war
  2. (military) Initialism of Irish Defence Forces. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Irish Defence Forces Categories (topical): Military Categories (place): Iceland, Ireland
    Sense id: en-IDF-en-name-26Wotbn~ Disambiguation of Iceland: 47 43 6 4 Disambiguation of Ireland: 14 70 10 7 Categories (other): English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 64 10 6 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 21 51 21 8 Topics: government, military, politics, war
  3. (military) Initialism of Israel Defense Forces. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Israel Defense Forces Categories (topical): Military Categories (place): Israel Translations (Israel Defense Forces): الْجَيْش الْإِسْرَائِيلِيّ (al-jayš al-ʔisrāʔīliyy) [masculine] (Arabic), الْجَيْش الدِّفَاع الْإِسْرَائِيلِيّ (al-jayš ad-difāʕ al-ʔisrāʔīliyy) [masculine] (Arabic), Tsahal [masculine] (French), Zahal [masculine] (German), צה״ל (tsáhal) [masculine] (Hebrew), ЦАХА́Л (CAXÁL) [masculine] (Russian), ЦА́ХАЛ (CÁXAL) [masculine] (Russian), FDI [feminine, plural] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-IDF-en-name-EmoPjnzh Disambiguation of Israel: 3 14 79 4 Categories (other): English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks Topics: government, military, politics, war Disambiguation of 'Israel Defense Forces': 21 18 61

Noun

Forms: IDFs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} IDF (plural IDFs)
  1. (statistics) Initialism of inverse document frequency. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: inverse document frequency Categories (topical): Statistics Derived forms: TF-IDF
    Sense id: en-IDF-en-noun-p8k4s9YT Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics

Inflected forms

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