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This is a list of [[initialism]]s, [[acronym]]s that are pronounced as a series of the names of the constituent letters (but, there is disagreement on some; eg RBOC as "are-bock"). |
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* AA - [[Alcoholics Anonymous]] / Automobile Association |
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* [[AAA]] - American Automobile Association |
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* AAD - analogue analogue digital<!--re CD quality--> - [[Australian Antarctic Division]] |
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* [[ABC]] - alcoholic-beverage commission - [[phantom cats|alien big cat]] - Always Be Careful - [[Chinese American|American-Born Chinese]] - [[American Broadcasting Company]] - [[anti-lock braking system|anti-lock brake controller]] - [[Associated British Corporation]] - [[Atanasoff Berry Computer]] - [[Atlantic Baptist University|Atlantic Baptist College]] - Atomic Biological Chemical (see NBC) - [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |
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* [[ABM]] - [[anti-ballistic missile]] - [[Asynchronous Balanced Mode]] - [[automatic teller machine|automated banking machine]] |
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* [[ABS]] - [[acrylonitrile butadiene styrene]] - [[anti-lock braking system]] |
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* [[AC]] - adriamycin-cyclophosphamide (chemotherapy) - [[alternating current]] - [[Anonymous Coward]] - ante christum - [[air conditioning]] - [[Albert Champion]] |
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* ACL - Access Control List |
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* [[ACLU]] - American Civil Liberties Union |
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* [[ACM]] - ''see [[ACM|entry]]'' |
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* [[AD]] - [[Latin language|Latin]] "[[Anno Domini]]" (In the year of our [[God|Lord]]) |
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* ADA - [[American Dental Association]] |
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* ADD - analogue digital digital<!--re CD quality--> - [[Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder|attention-deficit disorder]] |
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* ADHD - [[Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder]] |
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* ADHS - [[Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder|attention-deficit hyperactivity syndrome]] |
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* ADL - [[Anti-Defamation League]] |
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* ADM - [[Archer Daniels Midland]] |
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* ADS - [[Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder|attention-deficit syndrome]] |
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* ADT - Atlantic Daylight Time (UTC-3 hours) |
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* AFACT - As far as I can tell |
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* AFAIK - As far as I know |
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* AFAIR - As far as I remember |
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* AFJ - April Fool's Joke |
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* AFK - Away from keyboard |
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* [[AFL]] - American Federation of Labor - [[American Football League]] - [[Arena Football League]] - [[Australian Football League]] |
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* [[AGM]] - Annual General Meeting |
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* AI - [[Amnesty International]]; [[Artificial Intelligence]] |
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* AIC - [[African Independent Church]] |
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* [[AIDS]] - Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome |
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* AIM - [[AOL Instant Messenger]], among others |
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* aka - also known as |
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* AKDT - [[Alaska]] Standard Daylight Saving Time (UTC-8 hours) |
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* AKST - [[Alaska]] Standard Time (UTC-9 hours) |
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* ALS - [[Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis]] |
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* [[AM]] - ''see [[AM|entry]]'' |
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* AMA - [[American Medical Association]] |
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* [[AMD]] - Advanced Micro Devices |
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* AMS - American Mathematical Society |
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* ANSI - [[American National Standards Institute]] |
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* [[AOL]] - America Online |
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* AP - [[Associated Press]] |
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* apm - [[Advanced Power Management]] |
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* [[ASA]] - Acete[[salicylic acid]] - [[American National Standards Institute|American Standards Association]] - [[Army Security Agency]] - [[Atlantic Southeast Airlines]] |
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* [[ASCII]] - American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
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* ASIO - [[Australian Security Intelligence Service]] |
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* [[ASL]] - American Sign Language |
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* ASP - Application service provider |
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* [[ASP]] - Active Server Pages |
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* AST - Atlantic Standard Time (UTC-4 hours) |
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* [[AT&T]] - American Telephone and Telegraph Company |
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* [[ATM]] - [[automated teller machine]] - [[asynchronous transfer mode]] |
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* ATV - All-Terrain Vehicle |
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* [[AUC]] - 1. [[Latin language|Latin]] "[[Ab Urbe Condita|AB URBE CONDITA]]" (from the founding of the city (of [[Rome]]) or "ANNO URBIS CONDITAE" (in the [[year]] from the founding of the city (of [[Rome]]) 2. "area under the curve" in the concentration time curve ([[medicine]]) |
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* AVO - Apprehended Violence Order |
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* [[AZT]] - azidothymidine<!--probably not an init'ism--> |
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* B&W - black and white - Babcock & Wilcox |
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* [[B2B]] - [[Business]] to Business |
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* B2C - Business to Customer |
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* B2E - [[Business]] to Employee |
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* BART - [[Bay Area Rapid Transit]] |
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* BATF - Bureau of Alchohol, Tobacco, and Firearms |
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* BB - [[Brigitte Bardot]] ([[actress]]) / Boys' Brigade (Christian youth organisation) |
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* [[BBC]] - British Broadcasting Corporation |
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* BBQ - Barbeque |
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* BC - Before Christ / Blind Copy (in emailers) |
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* BCC - Blind Carbon Copy |
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* BCE - Before Common Era - British Columbia Electric |
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* BDA - British Dental Association |
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* BDU - battle-dress uniform |
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* BFE - Beyond/Butt F*****' [[Egypt]] (colloquial for "quite far away") |
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* BMI - [[Broadcast Music Incorporated]] / [[Body mass index]] |
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* [[BMW]] - Bayerische Motoren Werke/Bavarian motor-works |
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* [[BMX]] - [[Bicycle]] Motor Cross |
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* BNS - [[Bank of Nova Scotia]] |
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* BO2K - [[Back Orifice 2000]] |
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* [[BOFH]] - Bastard operator from [[hell]] |
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* BP - British Petroleum (today, BP doesn't officially stand for everything) |
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* bpm - Beats per minute |
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* BRB - Internet chat abbreviation, "be right back" |
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* BSA - [[Boy Scouts of America]] |
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* BSD - [[Berkeley Software Distribution]] (distinct from BSoD) |
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* BSE - [[Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy]], better known as Mad Cow disease |
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* BSL - [[British Sign Language]] |
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* BSoD - [[Blue screen of death]] (distinct from BSD) |
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* [[BST]] - [[bovine somatatotrophin hormone]] - [[Blended Sales Tax]] - [[British Summer Time]] |
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* BT - British Telecommunications plc |
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* BTO - Built to Order |
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* BTU - [[British thermal unit]] |
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* BTW - By the way |
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* BWR - [[boiling-water reactor]] |
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* BYOB - Bring your own beverages/bottle |
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* CB - [[citizens' band radio]] |
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* [[CBC]] - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
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* CC - carbon copy |
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* CCCP - Cyrillic letters corresponding SSSR, see USSR |
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* CCD - [[charge-coupled device]] |
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* [[CD]] - [[Compact disc]] |
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* [[CDC]] - Centre for Disease Control and prevention - [[Control Data Corporation]] |
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* [[CE]] - Common (or Christian) Era (cf. AD) |
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* [[CEPT]] - Conference Européenne des administration des Postes et des Télécommunications (European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations) |
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* ''cf.'' - Latin ''confer'' (compare, or see also) |
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* CFG - [[Context-free grammar]], [[Control flow graph]] |
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* CIA - [[Central Intelligence Agency]] - [[Culinary Institute of America]] |
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* [[CID]] - Criminal Investigations Department |
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* [[CIO]] - [[Chief information officer]] - [[Congress of Industrial Organisations]] |
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* [[CIS]] - Commonwealth of Independent States (former [[Soviet Union]] |
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* [[CLEC]] - [[Competitive Local Exchange Carrier]] |
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* CMHC - Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation |
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* [[CMM]] - Capability Maturity Model |
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* CMR - Coaxial Main Rotors (helicopter type) |
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* [[CMYK]] - cyan magenta yellow key (colour model) |
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* [[CND]] - Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament |
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* [[CNN]] - Cable News Network |
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* CO - Central Office (Phone Company office or POP) |
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* COD - cash on delivery |
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* [[CPA]] - Certified Practicing Accountant |
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* [[CQD]] - come quick, distress (?) |
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* [[CRC]] - Christian Reformed Church - [[Cyclic redundancy check]] - Chemical Rubber Company |
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* CRM - [[Customer_relationship_management|Customer Relationship Management]] |
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* CRT - [[cathode ray tube]] - [[Chinese remainder theorem]] |
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* CRTC - [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]] |
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* [[CSA]] - [[Confederate States of America]] - Canadian Standards Association - [[Canadian Space Agency]] - Child Support Agency - Czech Airlines - [[Community Supported Agriculture]] |
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* [[CSICOP]] - [[Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal]] |
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* CSIS - [[Canadian Security Intelligence Service]] - Center For Strategic & International Studies |
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* CUPE - Canadian Union of Public Employees |
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* CUPW - Canadian Union of Postal Workers |
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* [[CV]] - ''see [[CV|entry]]'' |
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* CVR - Cockpit voice recorder |
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* CWC - [[Chemical Weapons Convention]] |
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* DC - da capo - [[Italy|Italian]] [[Democrazia Cristiana]] - [[direct current]] - [[District of Columbia]] - [[Douglas Aircraft Company]] - [[Dublin Core]] - [[duty cycle]] |
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* DDD - digital digital digital<!--re CD quality--> - [[Data Display Debugger]] |
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* DDS - Doctor of Dental Surgery |
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* [[DDT]] - dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (insecticide) |
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* [[DEA]] - Drug Enforcement Agency |
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* DH, DD, DS - dear husband, dear daughter, dear son (increasingly prevalent on social mailing lists, blogs, and bulletin boards) |
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* DHSS - Department of Health and Social Security |
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* [[DIY]] - do it yourself |
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* DMZ - [[demilitarized zone]] |
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* [[DNA]] - DeoxyriboNucleic Acid - [[Douglas Adams]] |
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* DND - Do Not Disturb - Department of National Defense |
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* DOA - Dead On Arrival |
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* DPDT - [[switch|double-pole double-throw]] |
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* DPST - [[switch|double-pole single-throw]] |
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* DTRA - [[Defence Threat Reduction Agency]] |
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* [[DUI]] - [[drunk driving|Driving Under the Influence]] - Data Use Identifier - Data Use Institute - Davis Unified Ignition - Diving Unlimited International - Documento Único de Identidad - Documento Unico de Importación - Duke University Improv |
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* [[DVD]] - Digital Versatile Disk (was Digital Video Disk) |
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* [[DWI]] - [[drunk driving|Driving While Intoxicated/Impaired]] - [[Dance With Intensity]] - [[Danish West Indies]] - Diffusion-weighted imaging - Direct water injection - Disaster Welfare Inquiry - Drinking Water Inspectorate |
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* [[EBCDIC]] - Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code |
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* EBE - extraterrestrial biological entity |
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* [[EEC]] - European Economical Community |
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* eg - example gratis (Latin, roughly "for example") |
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* [[ELF]] - [[Earth Liberation Front]] - [[Endangered Language Fund]] - [[Eritrean Liberation Front]] - [[Executable and Linkable Format]] - [[Extremely Low Frequencies]] |
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* EMF - electromotive force |
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* EMO - emergency-measures organisation |
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* EMP - electromagnetic pulse |
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* ENE - east northeast |
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* [[ESA]] - [[European Space Agency]] |
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* ESE - east southeast |
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* ESP - Extra-Sensory Perception |
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* ETA - estimated time of arrival; [[ETA|Euzkadi Ta Azkatasuna]] |
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* etc - latin "et cetera" (and remaining) |
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* ETLA - Extended [[TLA]] |
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* EU - [[European Union]] |
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* [[EULA]] - End-User License Agreement |
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* EVA - [[extra-vehicular activity]] |
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* [[FAO]] - Food and Agriculture Organization |
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* FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions |
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* [[FBI]] - Federal Bureau of Investigation |
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* FCM - [[Fogarty's Cove Music]] - [[Federation of Canadian Municipalities]] |
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* FDR - [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] / Flight data recorder |
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* FEMA - [[Federal Emergency Management Agency]] |
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* FLIR - [[forward looking infrared]] |
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* FLK - Funny-Looking Kid (medical diagnosis in-joke) |
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* FM - [[frequency modulation]] |
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* FMSF [[False Memory Syndrome Foundation]] |
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* FPS - [[First person shooter]] |
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* FST - [[Finlands Svenska Television]] (Finland's Swedish-language television) |
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* FTL - Faster Than Light |
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* [[FUBAR]] - F****d Up Beyond All Repair/Recognition |
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* [[FUD]] - Fear Uncertainty Doubt |
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* FWIW - For What It's Worth |
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* FYI - For Your Information |
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* GCD - greatest common divisor |
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* [[GCD]] - ''see [[GCD|entry]]'' |
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* GCF - [[greatest common divisor|greatest common factor]] |
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* GE - [[General Electric]] - Genetic Engineering (see GM) |
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* GEV - Ground Effect Vehicle |
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* GFCI - ground fault circuit interrupter (aka GFI) |
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* GFDL - [[GNU Free Documentation License]] |
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* GFI - ground fault interrupter (aka GFCI) |
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* GFY - Internet chat acronym, "good for you", or "go [[fuck]] yourself", depending on the context |
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* GL - Grenade Launcher |
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* GM - GameMaster (role-playing terminology) / [[Genetically Modified]] / General Motors |
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* GmbH - Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (German, roughy "Inc" or "Ltd") |
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* [[GMO]] - Genetically modified organism |
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* GPS - [[Global Positioning System]] |
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* GT - [[Gran Turismo]] |
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* GUT - [[grand unification theory]] |
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* HCF - [[greatest common divisor|highest common factor]] |
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* HDD - [[hard disk]] drive - [[high-density disk]] |
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* HEPA - High-efficiency particulate air (filter) |
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* HKS - [[Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder|hyperkinetic syndrome]] |
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* HMCE - Her/His Majesty's Customs and Excise |
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* HMCS - Her/His Majesty's Canadian Ship |
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* [[HMO]] - Health Management Organization |
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* HMP - Her (or His) Majesty's Prison |
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* HMS - Her (or His) Majesty's Ship (see [[Royal Navy]]) |
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* HMSO - Her (or His) Majesty's Stationery Office |
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* [[HPGL]] - Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language |
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* HPIB - [[Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus]] |
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* HQ - Headquarters |
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* HRH - His/Her Royal Highness |
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* HSS - [[High-Speed Steel]] |
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* [[HST]] - ''see [[HST|entry]]'' |
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* [[HSV]] - [[herpes simplex virus]] - hue saturation value ([[HSV color space|colour model]]) |
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* [[HTML]] - Hypertext Markup Language |
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* [[IAAL]] - I am a lawyer |
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* [[IAEA]] - International Atomic Energy Agency |
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* [[IAI]] - [[International African Institute]] |
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* IANA - [[Internet Assigned Numbers Authority]] |
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* [[IANAL]] - I am not a lawyer |
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* IATA - [[International Air Transport Association]] |
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* [[ICAO]] - International Civil Aviation Organization |
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* ICBM - [[intercontinental ballistic missile]] |
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* ICC - [[International Criminal Court]] |
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* IDF - [[Israeli Defence Force]] |
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* ie - ?? (Latin, roughly "that is") |
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* IEEE - [[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]] |
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* IFO - Identified flying object |
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* IIRC - If I recall correctly |
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* [[ILC]] - International Law Commission |
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* [[ILO]] - International Labour Organisation |
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* [[IMF]] - [[International Monetary Fund]] |
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* [[IMHO]] - In My Humble Opinion |
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* IMO - [[International Maritime Organization]] - In My Opinion |
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* IMRI - [[Industrial Membrane Research Institute]] - [[Information Management Research Institute]] - [[International Market Research Information]] - [[Institut pour le Management de la Recherche et de l'Innovation]] - [[intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging]] |
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* [[INLA]] - [[Irish National Liberation Army]] |
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* INRI - Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudæorum (Latin, Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews) |
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* IPN - [[Instytut Pamieci Narodowej]] (Institute for National Memory) |
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* IR - [[infrared]] |
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* [[IRA]] - [[Individual Retirement Account]] - [[Irish Republican Army]] |
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* IRC - [[Internet relay chat]] |
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* [[IRO]] - International Refugee Organisation |
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* [[IRS]] - Internal Revenue Service |
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* [[ISA]] - [[Individual Savings Account]] - [[industry standard architecture]] - [[instruction set|Instruction Set Architecture]] - [[International Seabed Authority]] |
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* ISO - [[International Organization for Standardization]] |
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* [[ITN]] - Independent Television News (British TV news company) |
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* [[ITU]] - International Telecommunication Union (yet to be established) |
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* JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association |
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* JCS - [[Joint Chiefs of Staff]] |
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* JDL - [[Jewish Defense League]] |
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* [[JFK]] - [[John Fitzgerald Kennedy]] |
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* JRA - [[Japanese Red Army]] |
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* JW - [[Jehovah's witness]] |
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* [[KARNAC]] - Knowledge Aided Retrieval in Activity Context |
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* [[KGB]] - Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security - Soviet Intelligence Service |
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* KIA - Killed In Action |
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* KKK - [[Ku Klux Klan]] |
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* [[LATA]] - Local Access Transport Area |
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* [[LBGT]] - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, [[Transexual]] |
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* LBJ - [[Lyndon Johnson]] - "Lady Bird" Johnson - [[Lightbulb joke]] |
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* LCM - [[least common multiple]] |
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* LDAP - [[Lightweight Directory Access Protocol]] |
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* LDS - latter-day saints |
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* LEC - Local Exchange Carrier |
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* [[LED]] - Light Emiting Diode |
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* [[LGB]] - [[Lesbian]], [[Gay]], [[Bisexual]] |
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* LGM - little green men |
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* [[LIFO]] - Last In First Out |
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* LMAO - Laughing my a** off. |
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* LMS - [[London Mathematical Society]] |
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* LOL - Laughing Out Loud |
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* [[LSD]] - Lysergic Acid Diethylamide |
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* LSE - [[London School of Economics]] - [[London Stock Exchange]] |
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* LSI - [[Large-Scale Integration]] |
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* MAA - [[Mathematical Association of America]] |
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* [[MAD]] - [[magnetic anomaly detector]] - [[mutual assured destruction]] |
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* [[MADD]] - [[Mothers Against Drunk Driving]] - [[Myoadenylate deaminase deficiency]] |
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* MASH - Mobile army surgical hospital |
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* MBTA - Massachussetts Bay Transit Authority |
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* MCD - [[Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder|minimal cerebral dysfunction]] |
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* MDF - [[main distribution frame]] - [[medium-density fibreboard]] |
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* MG - [[Machine gun]] |
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* MHz - [[Megahertz]] |
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* MIT - [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]; Milli Istihbarad Teskilati (Intelligence service of Turkey) |
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* [[MMU]] - Manned Maneuvering Unit |
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* MND - [[Motor Neurone Disease]] |
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* [[MO]] - [[modus operandi]] |
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* [[MOPE]] - Most Oppressed People Ever (politics) |
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* MRI - [[magnetic resonance imaging]] |
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* [[MS]] - [[Master of Science]] - [[Microsoft]] (sometimes M$) - [[Multiple sclerosis]] |
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* MSG - [[Monosodium glutamate]] |
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* [[MSIE]] - [[Microsoft]] Internet Explorer |
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* MTR - Main and Tail Rotor (helicopter type) |
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* [[MTV]] - Music TeleVision; MainosTeleVisio (Finnish commercial TV company) |
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* n/a - not available / Not applicable |
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* [[NAIRU]] - Non Accelerating [[Inflation]] Rate of [[Unemployment]] |
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* [[NASA]] - Nat'l Aeronautics and Space Administration - Never A Straight Answer |
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* NB - nota bene - [[New Brunswick]] |
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* NBC - Nuclear/Biological/Chemical - [[National Broadcasting Corporation]] |
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* [[NC]] - [[network computer]] - non-consensual - [[relay|normally closed]] - [[North Carolina]] |
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* NE - northeast |
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* NET - [[National Educational Television]] |
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* NFER - [[National Foundation for Educational Research]] |
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* [[Nfld]] - [[Newfoundland and Labrador | Newfoundland]] |
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* [[NGO]] - Non-Governmental Organization |
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* NIH - [[National Institutes of Health]] - [[Not Invented Here]] |
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* NIMH - [[nickel metal hydride]] - [[National Institute of Medical Herbalists]] - [[National Institute of Mental Health]] |
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* NLP - [[Natural Language Processing]] or [[Neuro Linguistic Programming]] |
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* NNE - north northeast |
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* NNW - north northwest |
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* NO - [[relay|normally open]] |
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* NPC - Non-Player Character (roleplaying terminology) |
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* NPOV - [[Neutral point of view]] |
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* [[NPR]] - National public radio |
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* NSA - [[National Security Agency]] |
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* NW - northwest |
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* NYSE - [[New York Stock Exchange]] |
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* NZ - [[New Zealand]] |
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* OAC - on approved credit |
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* [[OAU]] - Organization for African Unity |
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* OBE - [[Order of the British Empire]] |
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* OED - [[Oxford English Dictionary]] |
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* OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer |
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* OO - [[object-oriented programming|object oriented]] - over & out |
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* OOP - [[object-oriented programming]] |
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* OSB - oriented-strand board |
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* OSI - [[Office of Strategic Influence]] / [[Ontario Swine Improvement]] / [[Open Source Initiative]] / [[Open systems interconnect]] |
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* [[OSS]] - Organization for Strategic Services (forerunner of [[CIA]]) |
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* OTOH - On The Other Hand |
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* [[PABX]] - [[Private Automated Branch Exchange]] (company phone system) |
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* PARC - Palo Alto Research Center |
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* PBS - [[Public Broadcasting Service]] |
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* [[PBX]] - [[Private Branch Exchange]] (company phone system) |
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* PC - [[Personal Computer]]; Player Character (roleplaying terminology); Politically Correct(ness) |
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* [[PCB]] - ''see [[PCB|entry]]'' |
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* PCC - [[Presidents Conference Committee]] |
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* PCMCIA - People Can't Memorise Computer-Industry Acronyms |
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* [[PCP]] - [[phencyclidine]] - [[pneumocystis carinii pneumonia]] - [[Probabilistically Checkable Proof]] |
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* PDA - [[Public display of affection]] - [[personal digital assistant]] - [[push-down automaton]] |
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* PDQ - pretty damn quick (?) |
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* PETA - [[pentaerythritol triacrylate]] - [[People Eating Tasty Animals]] - [[People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals]] |
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* PFO - Pissed, Fell Over (medical diagnosis in-joke) |
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* PINF - [[People In Need Foundation]] (Czech charitable organization) |
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* [[PLC]] - (British) public limited company |
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* [[PLO]] - Palestine Liberation Organization |
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* [[PM]] - post meridian - [[Prime Minister]] - [[phase modulation]] - [[Perry Mason]] |
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* PNAC - [[Project for the New American Century]] |
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* [[PNG]] - Portable Network Graphic |
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* [[PNP]] - [[Partido Nuevo Progresista]] - [[plug-and-play|plug 'n' play]] - [[transistor|positive negative positive]] |
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* POP - Point of Presence - Post Office Protocol |
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* [[POTS]] - [[Plain Old Telephone Service]], also PANS - Pretty Advanced (or Awsome) Network Services |
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* [[PPP]] - ''see [[PPP|entry]]'' |
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* [[PSA]] - [[Prostate specific antigen]] - Production Services Association - Paralysis Society of America - Pharmaceutical Society of Australia - Public Service Association - [[Public Service Announcement]] - pressure-sensitive adhesive |
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* PTA - [[parent-teacher association]] |
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* [[PVC]] - [[virtual circuit|permanent virtual circuit]] - [[polyvinyl chloride]] - [[premature ventricular contraction]] |
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* PWP - Plot, What Plot? (in online fiction, especially [[Fan fiction|fanfic]] or erotic fiction, to denote plotless, um, "feel-good" stories) |
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* PWR - [[pressurised water reactor]] |
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* [[QANTAS]] - Queensland And Northern Territories Air Service |
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* QC - Queen's Counsel |
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* QCA - [[Qualifications and Curriculum Authority]] - [[Quality Council of Alberta]] |
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* QCD - [[quantum chromodynamics]] |
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* QED - Latin "quid es demonstrata" (that proves it) - [[quantum electrodynamics]] |
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* QSL - [[Québec sign language]] |
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* qv - Latin "quod vide" (which see) |
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* R&B - [[Rythm and Blues]] |
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* RA - [[right ascension]] |
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* RAF - [[Royal Air Force]]; [[Red Army Faction]] |
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* [[Rap]] - Rythm and poetry |
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* RBOC - [[Regional Bell operating company]] ("Baby Bell") |
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* [[RC]] - ''see [[RC|entry]]'' |
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* RCA - [[Radio Corporation of America]] |
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* RCAF - [[Royal Canadian Air Force]] |
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* RCCO - [[Royal Canadian College of Organists]] |
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* RCMP - [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] |
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* REACT - [[REACT belt|Remote Electronically Activated Control Technology]] |
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* RGB - red green blue ([[RGB color space|colour model]]) |
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* RIAA - [[Recording Industry Association of America]] |
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* [[RIP]] - Rest in Peace (requiescant in pace) |
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* [[RMS]] - Royal Mail Ship (eg [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']]) - Root-mean-square - [[Richard Stallman]] - [[Rate-monotonic scheduling]] |
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* [[RNA]] - Ribonuclear Acid |
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* ROFL(MAO) - Rolling On the Floor Laughing (My A** Off) |
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* ROV - [[remotely operated vehicle]] |
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* RP - role-playing |
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* RPG - [[role-playing game]]; Rocket Projectile Gun/Rocket Powered Grenade |
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* rpm - Revolutions Per Minute; [[Red Hat Package Manager]] |
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* RPN - [[Reverse Polish Notation]] |
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* rps - Revolutions Per Second |
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* RUC - [[Royal Ulster Constabulary]] |
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* SA - Sturmabteilung (Storm Detachment, forerunner of SS) |
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* SAD - [[Seasonal Affective Disorder]] |
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* SALT - [[Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty]] |
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* SAR - [[Search and Rescue]] |
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* [[SARS]] - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome |
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* SAS - [[Special Air Service]]; [[Scandinavian Airline Systems]] |
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* SATB - soprano alto tenor bass |
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* [[SBS]] - Special Boat Service |
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* SCRAM - safety control rod axe man |
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* [[SCSI]] - small computer system interface |
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* [[SDI]] - ''see [[SDI|entry]]'' |
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* SDP - [[Social Democratic Party]] (European politics) |
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* SE - southeast |
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* [[SETI]] - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence |
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* SF - [[San Francisco]] - [[science fiction]] |
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* SGML - [[Standard Generalised Markup Language]] |
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* SIAM - [[Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics]] |
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* SIG - Special Interest Group |
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* SIS - [[Secret Intelligence Service]] (also known as [[MI6]]) |
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* SLA - [[Symbionese Liberation Army]] |
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* SMDR - Station Message Detail Recording |
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* SMG - [[Submachine Gun]] |
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* [[SNAFU]] - Situation Normal (All Fouled Up) |
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* SOE - [[Special Operations Executive]] (WW2 British organization) |
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* SOL - S**t Out of Luck |
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* [[SOV]] - Single occupant vehicle |
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* SPDT - [[switch|single-pole double-throw]] |
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* [[SPQR]] - [[Roman Senate|Senatus]] Populus Que Romanus |
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* SPST - [[switch|single-pole single-throw]] |
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* SRB - [[solid rocket booster]] |
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* [[SS]] - Schutzstaffel (elite guard) - [[United States Secret Service|Secret Service]] - Spanish ship - [[stainless steel]] - [[Stockholm Skins]] - Super Sport |
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* SSDD - same shit, different day |
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* SSE - south southeast |
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* [[SSRI]] - [[Social Systems Research Institute]] - [[Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor]] |
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* SSW - south southwest |
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* [[STOL]] - Short Take Off and Landing |
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* [[STOVL]] - Short Take Off and Vertical Landing |
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* STP - [[standard temperature and pressure]] |
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* SUB - student-union building |
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* SVO - [[Subject Verb Object|subject, verb, object]] |
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* SW - southwest |
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* [[SWAPO]] - South West African People's Organization |
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* TATT - Tired All The Time (medical diagnosis in-joke) |
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* [[TCP]] - [[Transmission Control Protocol]] - [[trichlorophenol]] |
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* TGIF - Thank God it's Friday |
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* TGV - [[TGV|Train à Grande Vitesse]] (high-speed train) - Tanjong Golden Village - Test Generation with Verification |
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* [[TLA]] - Three-Letter Acronym |
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* TLC - tender loving care - [[The Learning Channel]] |
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* TLD - [[top-level domain]] |
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* TM - [[trademark]] - [[Turing machine]] |
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* TMR - Twin Main Rotors (helicopter type) |
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* [[TSR]] - ''see [[TSR|entry]]'' |
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* TTYL - [[Internet chat acryonym]], "talk to you later" |
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* TUNS - [[Technical University of Nova Scotia]] |
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* TWAT - [[War on Terrorism|The War Against Terror]] |
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* UBC - [[united baptist church]] - [[University of British Columbia]] |
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* [[UCK]] - acronym for two Albanian guerilla movements |
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* [[UCLA]] - University of California Los Angeles |
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* [[UFO]] - Unidentified Flying Object |
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* UHF - [[ultra high frequency]] |
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* UHMW - ultra-high molecular weight |
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* UL - [[Underwriters Laboratories]] |
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* [[UN]] - United Nations |
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* [[UNHCR]] - United Nations High Commission for Refugees |
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* UNSM - [[Union of Nova Scotian Municipalities]] |
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* [[UPI]] - United Press International |
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* [[UPS]] - [[United Parcel Service]] - [[uninterruptible power supply]] |
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* [[UPU]] - Universal Postal Union |
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* USA - [[United States of America]] |
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* USAF - [[United States Air Force]] |
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* USAPATRIOT - [[USA PATRIOT Act|Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism]] |
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* USC - [[United States Code]] |
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* USGS - [[United States Geological Survey]] |
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* USS - [[United States]] ship |
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* USSR - United Soviet Socialist Republics (ie. [[Soviet Union]]) |
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* UV - [[ultraviolet]] |
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* VAT - [[value-added tax]] |
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* VHF - [[very high frequency]] |
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* VLSI - [[Very-Large-Scale Integration]] |
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* VSO - [[Voluntary Services Overseas]] |
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* [[VTOL]] - Vertical Takeoff & Landing |
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* VV - [[Via Voice]] - <cite>[[Village Voice]]</cite> |
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* [[W3C]] - World Wide Web Convention |
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* WB - [[Warner Brothers]] |
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* WC - [[Winston Churchill]] - water closet |
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* [[WCL]] - World Confederation of Labour |
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* [[WFP]] - World Food Program |
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* [[WHO]] - World Health Organization |
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* [[WIPO]] - World Intellectual Property Organization |
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* [[WMO]] - World Meteorological Organization |
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* WNW - west northwest |
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* WRT - with respect to |
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* WSW - west southwest |
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* [[WTC]] - World Trade Center |
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* WTO - [[World Trade Organization]] |
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* WW1 (or WWI) - [[World War One]] |
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* WW2 (or WWII) - [[World War Two]] |
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* WWF - [[World Wildlife Fund]]; [[World Wrestling Federation]] |
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* WWW - [[World Wide Web]] |
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* [[YMCA]] - Young Men's Christian Association |
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* YMMV - Your Mileage May Vary |
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* [[YWCA]] - Young Women's Christian Association |
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==See also:== |
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*[[Abbreviations used in CIA World Factbook]] |
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*[[Wikipedia:Disambiguation/Abbreviations]] |
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*[[List of acronyms]] |
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==External Links== |
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*[http://www.acronymfinder.com Acronymfinder] |
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