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発音

• 韻: -æf, -ɛf

固有名詞

RAF

1. (military, aviation) Initialism of Royal Air Force, the British RAF.
   • 2023 September 5, Julian Borger, Andrew Roth, “Return of US nuclear weapons to UK would be an escalation, says Russia”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 April 2024:

     The foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova was responding to a report last week about an item in the 2024 US air force budget for building a dormitory at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk for personnel on a “potential surety mission” – military jargon for nuclear safety and security.

2. (military, rare) Initialism of Russian Armed Forces (To avoid confusing with the preceding sense, the Russian Armed Forces are more often abbreviated in other ways, like RuAF.)
   • 1998, Issues & Studies:

     This paper discusses ongoing military reforms in the Russian Armed Forces (RAF) and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and tries to determine […]

   • 2019 August 9, Yi Edward Yang, Challenges to China's Economic Statecraft: A Global Perspective, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 26:

     Russia's military intervention in the former Soviet states of Ukraine and Crimea and the Russian Armed Forces (RAF) display of military might […]

   • 2023 March 1, David Kuehn, Aurel Croissant, Routes to Reform: Civil-Military Relations and Democracy in the Third Wave, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 123:

     While the military was pulled into power conflicts between Gorbachev and his opponents inside the communist nomenclature in 1991, and between Yeltsin and the Duma in 1993, the Russian Armed Forces (RAF) did not develop an organizational […]

3. The German Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction).
4. (motor racing) Abbreviation of Russian Automobile Federation.
   1. The national identifier for Russians in international motorsport while Russia is under ban by the ruling of the Court of Arbitration for Sport supporting the ban enacted by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

      Coordinate terms: ROC, RPC, RHF

派生語

• (UK): RAFA

関連する語

• (UK): RFC, RNAS, FAA
• (UK): RAAF, RCAF, RNZAF

参考

• (Germany): Red Army Faction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

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