Definition of "CFR"

CFR

proper noun
1. (US, law) Initialism of Code of Federal Regulations.
2. (US) Initialism of Council on Foreign Relations.
noun
countable and uncountable, plural CFRs
1. (uncountable, Incoterm) Initialism of cost and freight.
2. (countable, pathology, epidemiology, statistics) Initialism of case fatality rate.
  Quotations
  The CFR for the SARS epidemic was around 9 to 10 percent, while MERS, first identified in 2012, is around 35 percent.
  2020 March 12, Matt Stieb, “Does the Coronavirus Think I’m Old?”, in New York‎
3. (uncountable, video compression) Initialism of constant frame rate.