MIF

(1) (Maker Interchange Format) An alternate file format for a FrameMaker document. A MIF file is ASCII text, which can be created in another program and imported into FrameMaker.

(2) (Management Information File) A DMI file format that describes a hardware or software component used in a PC. It can contain data, code or both. See DMI.

(3) (Machine Interface Format) A proprietary language for configuring Ascend networking devices. Instead of setting up via menus one option at a time, a MIF file can be created with all the changes and uploaded to the unit.

(4) (Multiple Image Facility) The management of ESCON and FICON mainframe channels so that multiple LPARs (Logical PARtitions) may share it concurrently. See ESCON, FICON and LPAR.

MIF

[mif] migration inhibition factor; migration inhibitory factor.MIF test migration inhibitory factor test.

MIF

Abbreviation for migration-inhibitory factor.

MIF

A gene on chromosome 22q11.23 that encodes macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MMIF), a proinflammatory lymphokine involved in innate cell-mediated immunity, immunoregulation and inflammation, which regulates macrophage function in host defence by suppressing the anti-inflammatory effects of glucocorticoids.
Molecular pathology
Genetic variations of MIF have been linked to an increase in susceptibility to juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.

MIF

Acronym	Definition
MIF➣Multilateral Investment Fund
MIF➣Manchester International Festival (UK)
MIF➣Management Information Format
MIF➣Matsumae International Foundation (Japan)
MIF➣Melanoma International Foundation (est. 2003)
MIF➣Multiplayer Interactive Fiction
MIF➣Metafile Interchange Format
MIF➣Mapinfo Import File
MIF➣Maintenance Interface
MIF➣Mac Independent Function
MIF➣Multiple Image Facility
MIF➣Maker Interchange Format
MIF➣Middle Infielder (baseball)
MIF➣Micro-Immunofluorescence (chlamydia)
MIF➣Milk Industry Foundation (International Dairy Foods Association)
MIF➣Mortgage Insurance Fund (various locations)
MIF➣Migration Inhibition Factor
MIF➣Method Inheritance Factor (software)
MIF➣Multinational Interim Force
MIF➣Milk in First (British)
MIF➣Management Information File
MIF➣Multinational Interception Force
MIF➣Maritime Interception Force
MIF➣Maritime Interdiction Force
MIF➣Müllerian inhibiting factor
MIF➣Migration Impacts Forum (UK)
MIF➣Machines in Field (copier industry)
MIF➣Memory Initialization File
MIF➣Module Interconnection Facility
MIF➣Minority Issues Forum (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences)
MIF➣Malaysian Islamic Finance
MIF➣Master Index File
MIF➣Mathematical Inventions Firm (India)
MIF➣Mission Index Flying (US Air Force)
MIF➣Master Item File
MIF➣Mathematics in Finance (international conference)
MIF➣Madison Investment Fund
MIF➣Miners' International Federation (Belgium)
MIF➣Make It Fit
MIF➣Mostarski Interkulturalni Festival (Croatian: Mostar Intercultural Festival; Mostar, Bosnia Herzegovina)
MIF➣Medical Imaging Forum (Japan)
MIF➣Membership Information Form
MIF➣Multi-Lateral Interchange Fee
MIF➣Maneuver Item File
MIF➣Mackinac Island Fudge (Saginaw, MI)
MIF➣Master Inventory File
MIF➣Multicultural Initiatives Fund (Canada)
MIF➣Men in Field
MIF➣MSX Interchange Format (graphical file format)
MIF➣Misreported Information Factor (insurance)
MIF➣Missile In Flight
MIF➣Module Integration Facility
MIF➣Management Integration Framework
MIF➣MANPER Interface File
MIF➣Micrometeoroid Induced Failure (US NASA)
MIF➣Mobile Instrumentation Facility
MIF➣Malfunction Investigation File
MIF➣Marginal Importance Factor