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What does PAF mean? This page is about the various possible meanings of the acronym, abbreviation, shorthand or slang term: PAF.
| Term | Definition | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| PAF | Platelet Activating Factor | |
| PAF | Pakistan Air Force | |
| PAF | Personnel Action Form | |
| PAF | Postcode Address File | |
| PAF | Personal Ancestry File | |
| PAF | Patent Applied For | |
| PAF | Patient Advocate Foundation | |
| PAF | Personal Ancestor File | |
| PAF | Pakuba, Uganda | |
| PAF | Potentially Affected Fraction | |
| PAF | Personnel Authorization File | |
| PAF | Pretoria Arms Factory | |
| PAF | Permanent Air Flow | |
| PAF | Policía del Aire y las Fronteras | |
| PAF | Program Admission File | |
| PAF | Purple Alien Frogs | |
| PAF | Postal Address File | |
| PAF | The Pass Along Fanfic | |
| PAF | Point A Forward | |
| PAF | Payment Approval Form | |
| PAF | Purpose Audience and Format | |
| PAF | Power Actuated Fasteners | |
| PAF | Powder Actuated Fasteners | |
| PAF | Pan African | |
| PAF | Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation | |
| PAF | Pregnancy Assistance Fund | |
| PAF | Paralegal Association Of Florida | |
| PAF | Patient Accident and Fracture | |
| PAF | Printing Association of Florida | |
| PAF | Pacific Alaska Freightways | |
| PAF | Play among friends | |
| PAF | Population Attributable Fraction | |
| PAF | Presidential Administrative Fellowship | |
| PAF | Paolo Antonello and Furio | |
| PAF | Personal Ancestral File | |
| PAF | Personal Ancestral Ftp | |
| PAF | Portland Advertising Federation | |
| PAF | Project AIR FORCE | |
| PAF | Public Archaeology Facility | |
| PAF | Performance Assessment Framework | |
| PAF | Patient Advocate Foundation's | |
| PAF | Pacific American Foundation | |
| PAF | Pacific Athletic Foundation Sports » Athletics -- and more... | |
| PAF | Packaging Automation Forum | |
| PAF | PAF abbreviation Define | |
| PAF | Pakistani Armed Forces | |
| PAF | PARIS Audio Format | |
| PAF | Partnership Action Fund | |
| PAF | Partnership Assessment Form | |
| PAF | Patience And Fortitude | |
| PAF | Payment Authorization Form | |
| PAF | Pearl Academy of Fashion | |
| PAF | Penning Automat Forening | |
| PAF | Performance Accountability and Feedback | |
| PAF | Performing Arts Forum | |
| PAF | Personal Articles Floater | |
| PAF | Personnel Action Forms | |
| PAF | Personnel Actions Forms | |
| PAF | Phone A Friend | |
| PAF | Physician Authorization Form | |
| PAF | Pilot Auction Facility | |
| PAF | Policy Analysis and Forecasting | |
| PAF | Political Action Fund Business » Funds -- and more... | |
| PAF | Portland Air Freight | |
| PAF | Position Action Form | |
| PAF | Post Archive Faction | |
| PAF | PostgreSQL Automatic Failover | |
| PAF | Power Assisted Fuses | |
| PAF | Preliminary Application Form | |
| PAF | Preliminary Approval Form | |
| PAF | Presentation Application and Feedback | |
| PAF | Pretentious Art F*** | |
| PAF | Preventing Academic Failure | |
| PAF | Princess Alia Foundation | |
| PAF | Principal Ambassador Fellowship | |
| PAF | Problem Activity Form | |
| PAF | Process Analytics Factory | |
| PAF | Processing Acknowledgement Form | |
| PAF | Professional Activities Fund | |
| PAF | Progressive Autonomic Failure | |
| PAF | Project Automation Framework | |
| PAF | Propionic Acidemia Foundation | |
| PAF | Proposal Approval Form | |
| PAF | Protestant Action Force | |
| PAF | Public Art Fund Community » Art -- and more... | |
| PAF | Public Assembly Facility | |
| PAF | Pure Autonomic Failure | |
| PAF | Pan Am Field | |
| PAF | Payload Attach Fitting | |
| PAF | Peak Annual Funding | |
| PAF | Peer Advising Fellows | |
| PAF | Performing Arts Festival | |
| PAF | Permanent Atrial Fibrillation | |
| PAF | Philippine Air Force | |
| PAF | Phineas And Ferb | |
| PAF | Phosphodiesterase-Activating Factor | |
| PAF | Plain Abdominal Field | |
| PAF | Plant Availability Factor | |
| PAF | Platelet-Activating Factor | |
| PAF | Portable Apps Format | |
| PAF | PortableApps Format | |
| PAF | Powder Actuated Fastener | |
| PAF | Public Audit Forum (!!!) | |
| PAF | Pulmonary Arteriovenous Fistula |
What does PAF mean?
- PAF
- P.A.F. or just PAF is the world's second humbucker guitar pickup, invented by Seth Lover in 1955 as an engineer for Gibson and began use in mass production guitars in 1957. It is commonly mistaken for the first humbucker pickup due to Gibson's popularity and the earlier patent filing date. While the first humbucker pickup in use, and issued a patent, was actually the Gretsch Filter'Tron pickup prototypes, designed by Ray Butts in 1954 at the request of Chet Atkins for his Gretsch 6120. The strange name of the pickup was not intentional. Gibson and Seth Lover first filed a patent on the design on June 22, 1955. After that, Gibson Les Pauls were equipped with these new pickups, with a sticker on a bottom plate of a pickup that said Patent Applied For. A patent was eventually issued on July 28, 1959. Since it took more than four years to get a patent number, the unnamed pickup had been dubbed "PAF" by many guitarists during the period the application was pending, and this name continued even after the patent had been issued. PAF pickups can usually be identified by their look: they have two internal coil bobbins under a 1.5" x 2.75" metal cover with one bobbin having a row of six adjustable pole pieces, with the other bobbin having non-adjustable pole pieces. Standard PAF pickups had 5000 or so turns of wire on a bobbin and a DC resistance of 7.5 kΩ.
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