Meaning of SF | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of science fiction or speculative fiction, often used to avoid having to choose between the two.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
2. Initialism of San Francisco.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
3. a book size one sixty-fourth of the size of a standard uncut sheet of paper (less 7.5 cm (3") in height)
4. Initialism of square feet.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
5. Initialism of Sinn Féin; an Irish political party.
   Ireland, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
6. Abbreviation of significant figure(s).
   abbreviation, alt-of
7. Initialism of spontaneous fission.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
8. Initialism of Street Fighter.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
9. Initialism of small forward.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
10. Initialism of Super Formula.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
11. Abbreviation of semifinal.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
12. Initialism of single female.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

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Examples

“But some discussion of the complex relationship between “allohistory” and sf is appropriate here, as the genres overlap in certain ways. Classical allohistory— such as Trevelyan's "What if Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo?" and Churchill's "If Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg" —is a rigorously consistent thought-experiment in historical causality.”

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