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  inf

  abbreviation

  infimum.
• INF
  INF

  noun

  European-based U.S. nuclear weapons that were capable of striking the Soviet Union and Soviet ones that could hit Western Europe (usually used attributively).
• Inf.
  Inf.

  abbreviation

  infantry.

inf

¹ American  

abbreviation

1. Mathematics. infimum.

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INF ² American  

[inf] / ɪnf /

noun

1. European-based U.S. nuclear weapons that were capable of striking the Soviet Union and Soviet ones that could hit Western Europe (usually used attributively).

   INF missiles;

   the 1987 INF Treaty.

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Inf. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. infantry.

2. infuse.

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inf ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. infinitive

2. informal

3. infra

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INF ² British  

abbreviation

1. intermediate-range nuclear forces: land-based missiles and aircraft with a range between 500 and 5000 km

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Etymology

Origin of INF²

First recorded in 1980–85; abbreviation of I(ntermediate-range) N(uclear) F(orces)

Origin of Inf.³

Inf. ( def. 2 ) < Latin infunde

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Example Sentences

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inf INF Inf.

She received two letters, one from the prisoners' camp in Libya, the other marked "War Prison inf Italy."

From Time Magazine Archive

"Well, I mean, that when us Earth people came, you Martians did inf ... infan ..."

From One Martian Afternoon by Tom Leahy

Volitive subjunctive, 272 f. volnus, spelling, 9, 1. volō, 130; —— with inf.,

From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett

For the formally entitled Contes et Nouvelles and the collection headed by Ilka, v. inf.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

P. campan. exp. tumid, glabrous, pale bay, edge split here and there; g. free, remote from stem; s. bent, base thickened, ring inf.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

Asked for comment about its deal with Indosat, INF said it doesn’t do any research with military applications and complies with U.S. export controls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

Indosat added in a statement that INF has no physical access to its chips.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

“The number could grow the longer INF is put in place,” the official said, using the acronym for immediate needs funding.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2023

Guardians: Rookie INF Gabriel Arias will miss the final four games with a small, non-displaced fracture in his right hand.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

—The Reagan-Gorbachev INF treaty was signed on December 8, 1987, exactly seven years after John Lennon was killed.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

March 1, 2010 8:53 am Link I served two years in the Vietnam war, in both the 198th Inf. and the 11th Armored Cav.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2010

Previously, Private Paul Crouch, No. 6,346,392, Service Co., 21st Inf., had been sentenced to dishonorable discharge and 40 years at hard labor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another band departed from the said destruction, to wit Antenor, who was one of the greatest lords of Troy, and was brother of Priam, and Inf. xxxii.

From Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani by Giovanni Villani

And afterwards, in the following September of the said year, the Popolo of Florence seized the abbot of Vallombrosa, which was a gentleman of the lords of Inf. xxxii.

From Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani by Giovanni Villani

And note that it is Inf. xv. 73-78.

From Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani by Giovanni Villani

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