"SFT" meaning in English

See SFT in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-prop}} SFT
  1. Initialism of Supreme Federal Tribunal, the supreme court of Brazil. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Supreme Federal Tribunal (extra: the supreme court of Brazil)
    Sense id: en-SFT-en-name-o0Pku~YP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English words spelled without vowels, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Brazil Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 35 28 Disambiguation of English words spelled without vowels: 48 27 26 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 44 21 34 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 41 32 27 Disambiguation of Brazil: 87 8 5

Noun

Forms: SFTs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} SFT (plural SFTs)
  1. (mathematics) Initialism of sparse Fourier transform. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: sparse Fourier transform Hypernyms: DFT
    Sense id: en-SFT-en-noun-SVUGnW7Z Categories (other): Mathematics, English entries with incorrect language header, Functions Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 35 28 Disambiguation of Functions: 31 46 22 Topics: mathematics, sciences
  2. (machine learning) Initialism of supervised fine-tuning. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: supervised fine-tuning
    Sense id: en-SFT-en-noun-FqPpoWew Categories (other): Machine learning, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 35 28

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