NFL
Proper noun
  1. (American football) Initialism of National Football League
Noun

NFL (uncountable)

  1. (math) Initialism of no free lunch: applied to various restricting theorems.
    • 2002, William A. Dembski, No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot be Purchased Without Intelligence, Rowman & Littlefield (ISBN 9780742512979), page 204 ↗:
      First off, let us be clear that the No Free Lunch theorems that underwrite the displacement problem apply with perfect generality—NFL applies to any information that might supplement a blind search, and not just to fitness functions.



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