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acronym An acronym is a type of abbreviation consisting of a phrase whose only pronounced elements are the initial letters or initial sounds of words inside that phrase. Acronyms are often spelled with the initial Letter (alphabet), letter of each wor ...

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Classical abbreviations

List of classical abbreviations A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...

(Latin abbreviations that occur in the writings and inscriptions of the Romans) *

List of Latin abbreviations This is a list of common Latin abbreviations. Nearly all the abbreviations below have been adopted by Modern English. However, with some exceptions (for example, ''versus'' or '' modus operandi''), most of the Latin referent words and phrases a ...

(Common Latin abbreviations that have been adopted by Modern English) *

List of medieval abbreviations Examples of sigla in use in the Middle Ages: A *ā—'' annus'' or ''aut.'' *á—''aut''. *Ắ—'' Antiphona''. *a'—'' antiphona'' or ''autem''. *a.—'' annus''. *A.—''Accursius'' or ''Albericus''. *A:—''Amen''. *ab.—''Abbas' ...

(Abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in various languages, including Latin, Greek, Old English and Old Norse)

English language abbreviations

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Athletics abbreviations The sports under the umbrella of athletics, particularly track and field, use a variety of statistics. In order to report that information efficiently, numerous abbreviations have grown to be common in the sport. Starting in 1948 by Bert Nelson ...

List of business and finance abbreviations A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...

List of computing and IT abbreviations This is a list of computing and IT acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations. 0–9 * 1GL—first-generation programming language * 1NF—first normal form * 10B2—10BASE-2 * 10B5—10BASE-5 * 10B-F—10BASE-F * 10B-FB—10BASE-FB * 10 ...

List of ecclesiastical abbreviations In the Roman Catholic Church, the ecclesiastical words most commonly abbreviated at all times are proper names, titles (official or customary), of persons or corporations, and words of frequent occurrence. History Between the seventh and ninth ...

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List of abbreviations in photography During most of the 20th century photography depended mainly upon the photochemical technology of silver halide emulsions on glass plates or roll film.Langford, Michael. ''Story of Photography''. Focal Press, 1998, pp. 224. . Early in the 21 ...

List of glossing abbreviations This article lists common abbreviations for grammatical terms that are used in linguistic interlinear glossing of oral languages in English. The list provides conventional glosses as established by standard inventories of glossing abbreviations su ...

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List of legal abbreviations This is a list of abbreviations used in law and legal documents. It is common practice in legal documents to cite other publications by using standard abbreviations for the title of each source. Abbreviations may also be found for common words o ...

List of medical abbreviations Abbreviations are used very frequently in medicine. They boost efficiency as long as they are used intelligently. The advantages of brevity should be weighed against the possibilities of obfuscation (making the communication harder for others ...

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Reporting mark A reporting mark is a code used to identify owners or lessees of rolling stock and other equipment used on certain rail transport networks. The code typically reflects the name or identifying number of the owner, lessee, or operator of the equip ...

(owners of rolling stock and other railway equipment) *

List of style guide abbreviations This list of style guide abbreviations provides the meanings of the abbreviations that are commonly used as short ways to refer to major style guides. They are used especially by editors communicating with other editors in manuscript queries, pr ...

* List of abbreviations used on Wikipedia for Wikipedia things

Acronyms

An acronym is a type of abbreviation formed from the initial components of the words of a longer name or phrase, *

Lists of acronyms Lists of acronyms contain acronyms, a type of abbreviation formed from the initial components of the words of a longer name or phrase. They are organized alphabetically and by field. Alphabetical * List of acronyms: 0–9 * List of acronyms: A ...

Three-letter acronym A three-letter acronym (TLA), or three-letter abbreviation is, as the phrase suggests, an abbreviation consisting of three letters. The term has a special status among abbreviations and to some is considered humorous since the term ''TLA'' is its ...

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List of government and military acronyms There are various lists of government and military acronyms, expressions and slang: * List of military slang terms * List of established military terms * List of slang terms for federal agents * Glossary of military abbreviations ;by country * ...

* List of U.S. government and military acronyms *

List of U.S. Navy acronyms The United States Navy, like any organization, produces its own acronyms and abbreviations, which often come to have meaning beyond their bare expansions. United States Navy personnel sometimes colloquially refer to these as ''NAVSpeak''. Like o ...

Other languages

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List of German abbreviations This list of German abbreviations includes abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms found in the German language. Because German words can be famously long, use of abbreviation is particularly common. Even the language's shortest words are often ab ...

List of Hebrew abbreviations This is a list of Hebrew abbreviations. This list is far from complete; you can help by expanding it. Using this list Sorting order The entries are sorted according to the Hebrew alphabet. Prefixes indicating prepositions, conjunctions and a ...

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