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spf

nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechneutral

Other forms: spfs

Spf is the number saying how much sun protection a cream gives. Check the spf.

It is not a scale of strength, since thirty blocks about ninety-seven per cent and fifty about ninety-eight. Spf only measures one kind of ray, which is why the label also mentions broad spectrum.

Iain Hector · CC BY 3.0

Definitions of spf

  1. 1nounspfThe number saying how much sun protection a cream gives.B2

    “The spf was fifty and he burned anyway by applying it once.”

spf is a rating.

Practised in Beauty & Cosmetics

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