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139 relations: Aam Aadmi Party, Abbreviation, Acronym, ACT (test), Aeronautical Information Service, Air navigation service provider, Air traffic control, Air traffic management, Air traffic service, Alphabet agencies, AMD, American Broadcasting Company, American Journal of Sociology, American Kennel Club, APA, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Football League, Autological word, BBC, Bharatiya Janata Party, BMW, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian Kennel Club, Cat, Central African Republic, Central Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, Central processing unit, Chief executive officer, Chief financial officer, Chinese Communist Party, Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting, Communication, navigation and surveillance, Coronary artery disease, CT scan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, DOS, Driving under the influence, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Electric Light Orchestra, English language, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Security Service, Flight information service, Franklin D. Roosevelt, GBH (band), Genetically modified organism, GNU, Heart failure, ... Expand index (89 more) »
- Abbreviations
Aam Aadmi Party
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is a political party in India.
See Three-letter acronym and Aam Aadmi Party
Abbreviation
An abbreviation (from Latin, meaning "short") is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method including shortening, contraction, initialism (which includes acronym) or crasis. Three-letter acronym and abbreviation are abbreviations.
See Three-letter acronym and Abbreviation
Acronym
An acronym is an abbreviation of a phrase that usually consists of the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation. Three-letter acronym and acronym are abbreviations and acronyms.
See Three-letter acronym and Acronym
ACT (test)
The ACT (originally an abbreviation of American College Testing) Name changed in 1996.
See Three-letter acronym and ACT (test)
Aeronautical Information Service
The Aeronautical Information Service, or AIS (French: Service de l'Information Aéronautique, SIA) is a service established in support of international civil aviation, whose objective is to ensure the flow of information necessary for the safety, regularity, and efficiency of international air navigation.
See Three-letter acronym and Aeronautical Information Service
Air navigation service provider
An air navigation service provider (ANSP) is a public or a private legal entity providing Air Navigation Services.
See Three-letter acronym and Air navigation service provider
Air traffic control
Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based air traffic controllers (people) who direct aircraft on the ground and through a given section of controlled airspace, and can provide advisory services to aircraft in non-controlled airspace.
See Three-letter acronym and Air traffic control
Air traffic management
Air Traffic Management (framed in dashed green) Air traffic management (ATM) aims at ensuring the safe and efficient flow of air traffic.
See Three-letter acronym and Air traffic management
Air traffic service
In aviation, an air traffic service (ATS) is a service which regulates and assists aircraft in real-time to ensure their safe operations.
See Three-letter acronym and Air traffic service
Alphabet agencies
The alphabet agencies, or New Deal agencies, were the U.S. federal government agencies created as part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
See Three-letter acronym and Alphabet agencies
AMD
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational corporation and fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that designs, develops and sells computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets.
See Three-letter acronym and AMD
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.
See Three-letter acronym and American Broadcasting Company
American Journal of Sociology
The American Journal of Sociology is a peer-reviewed bi-monthly academic journal that publishes original research and book reviews in the field of sociology and related social sciences.
See Three-letter acronym and American Journal of Sociology
American Kennel Club
The American Kennel Club (AKC) is a registry of purebred dog pedigrees in the United States.
See Three-letter acronym and American Kennel Club
APA
APA most often refers to.
See Three-letter acronym and APA
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.
See Three-letter acronym and Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent and only fully professional competition of Australian rules football.
See Three-letter acronym and Australian Football League
Autological word
An autological word (or homological word) expresses a property that it also possesses.
See Three-letter acronym and Autological word
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
See Three-letter acronym and BBC
Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is a political party in India and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress.
See Three-letter acronym and Bharatiya Janata Party
BMW
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, commonly abbreviated to BMW, is a German multinational manufacturer of luxury vehicles and motorcycles headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
See Three-letter acronym and BMW
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television.
See Three-letter acronym and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canadian Kennel Club
The Canadian Kennel Club (or CKC; Club canin canadien), founded in 1888 and chartered under the Animal Purebred Act, is one of the national kennel clubs of Canada.
See Three-letter acronym and Canadian Kennel Club
Cat
The cat (Felis catus), commonly referred to as the domestic cat or house cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal.
See Three-letter acronym and Cat
Central African Republic
The Central African Republic (CAR), formerly known as Ubangi-Shari, is a landlocked country in Central Africa.
See Three-letter acronym and Central African Republic
Central Bureau of Investigation
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is the domestic crime investigating agency of India.
See Three-letter acronym and Central Bureau of Investigation
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.
See Three-letter acronym and Central Intelligence Agency
Central processing unit
A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor, or just processor, is the most important processor in a given computer.
See Three-letter acronym and Central processing unit
Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.
See Three-letter acronym and Chief executive officer
Chief financial officer
A chief financial officer (CFO), also known as a treasurer, is an officer of a company or organization who is assigned the primary responsibility for making decisions for the company for projects and its finances (financial planning, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and financial reporting, and often the analysis of data).
See Three-letter acronym and Chief financial officer
Chinese Communist Party
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
See Three-letter acronym and Chinese Communist Party
Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting
is a regional radio and television service serving Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
See Three-letter acronym and Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting
Communication, navigation and surveillance
Communication, navigation and surveillance (CNS) are the main functions that form the infrastructure for air traffic management, and ensure that air traffic is safe and efficient.
See Three-letter acronym and Communication, navigation and surveillance
Coronary artery disease
Coronary artery disease (CAD), also called coronary heart disease (CHD), ischemic heart disease (IHD), myocardial ischemia, or simply heart disease, involves the reduction of blood flow to the cardiac muscle due to build-up of atherosclerotic plaque in the arteries of the heart.
See Three-letter acronym and Coronary artery disease
CT scan
A computed tomography scan (CT scan; formerly called computed axial tomography scan or CAT scan) is a medical imaging technique used to obtain detailed internal images of the body.
See Three-letter acronym and CT scan
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.
See Three-letter acronym and Democratic Republic of the Congo
Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
Dirty Rotten Imbeciles (often abbreviated and referred to as D.R.I.) is an American crossover thrash band that formed in Houston in 1982 and would later relocate to San Francisco.
See Three-letter acronym and Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
DOS
DOS is a family of disk-based operating systems for IBM PC compatible computers.
See Three-letter acronym and DOS
Driving under the influence
Driving under the influence (DUI) is the offense of driving, operating, or being in control of a vehicle while impaired by alcohol or drugs (including recreational drugs and those prescribed by physicians), to a level that renders the driver incapable of operating a motor vehicle safely.
See Three-letter acronym and Driving under the influence
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (11 May 1930 – 6 August 2002) was a Dutch computer scientist, programmer, software engineer, mathematician, and science essayist.
See Three-letter acronym and Edsger W. Dijkstra
Electric Light Orchestra
The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) are an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1970 by songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood with drummer Bev Bevan.
See Three-letter acronym and Electric Light Orchestra
English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
See Three-letter acronym and English language
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
See Three-letter acronym and Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Security Service
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB or FSS) is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union's KGB; its immediate predecessor was the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) which was reorganized into the FSB in 1995.
See Three-letter acronym and Federal Security Service
Flight information service
A flight information service (FIS) is a form of air traffic service which is available to any aircraft within a flight information region (FIR), as agreed internationally by ICAO.
See Three-letter acronym and Flight information service
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
See Three-letter acronym and Franklin D. Roosevelt
GBH (band)
GBH (originally known as Charged GBH) are an English punk rock band which was formed in 1978 by vocalist Colin Abrahall, guitarist Colin "Jock" Blyth, bassist Sean McCarthy (replaced by Ross Lomas after two years) and drummer Andy "Wilf" Williams.
See Three-letter acronym and GBH (band)
Genetically modified organism
A genetically modified organism (GMO) is any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques.
See Three-letter acronym and Genetically modified organism
GNU
GNU is an extensive collection of free software (394 packages), which can be used as an operating system or can be used in parts with other operating systems.
See Three-letter acronym and GNU
Heart failure
Heart failure (HF), also known as congestive heart failure (CHF), is a syndrome caused by an impairment in the heart's ability to fill with and pump blood.
See Three-letter acronym and Heart failure
Heathrow Airport
Heathrow Airport, called London Airport until 1966, is the main international airport serving London, the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
See Three-letter acronym and Heathrow Airport
His Majesty's Ship
His (or Her) Majesty's Ship, abbreviated HMS and H.M.S., is the ship prefix used for ships of the navy in some monarchies.
See Three-letter acronym and His Majesty's Ship
Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor.
See Three-letter acronym and Holy Roman Empire
Hundred Years' War
The Hundred Years' War (1337–1453) was a conflict between the kingdoms of England and France and a civil war in France during the Late Middle Ages.
See Three-letter acronym and Hundred Years' War
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.
See Three-letter acronym and IBM
Indian Premier League
The Indian Premier League (IPL), also known as the TATA IPL for sponsorship reasons, is a men's Twenty20 (T20) cricket league held annually in India.
See Three-letter acronym and Indian Premier League
ISO 4217
ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines alpha codes and numeric codes for the representation of currencies and provides information about the relationships between individual currencies and their minor units.
See Three-letter acronym and ISO 4217
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) in La Cañada Flintridge, California, Crescenta Valley, United States.
See Three-letter acronym and Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JFA (band)
JFA (Jodie Foster's Army) is an American hardcore punk band formed in 1981, with roots in Arizona and in Southern California skateboard culture.
See Three-letter acronym and JFA (band)
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
See Three-letter acronym and John F. Kennedy
JPEG
JPEG (short for Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography.
See Three-letter acronym and JPEG
KFC
KFC Corporation, doing business as KFC (also commonly referred to by its historical name Kentucky Fried Chicken), is an American fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken.
See Three-letter acronym and KFC
Liga ACB
The Liga ACB, known as Liga Endesa for sponsorship reasons, is the top professional basketball division of the Spanish basketball league system.
See Three-letter acronym and Liga ACB
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.
See Three-letter acronym and List of abbreviations in photography
List of computing and IT abbreviations
This is a list of computing and IT acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations.
See Three-letter acronym and List of computing and IT abbreviations
List of three-letter broadcast call signs in the United States
This is a list of radio and television broadcasting stations in the United States that are currently assigned three-letter call signs.
See Three-letter acronym and List of three-letter broadcast call signs in the United States
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. Three-letter acronym and Lists of acronyms are acronyms.
See Three-letter acronym and Lists of acronyms
Lists of airports
An airport is an aerodrome with facilities for flights to take off and land.
See Three-letter acronym and Lists of airports
LOL
LOL, or lol, is an initialism for laughing out loud, and a popular element of Internet slang, which can be used to indicate amusement, irony, or double meanings. Three-letter acronym and LOL are acronyms.
See Three-letter acronym and LOL
Los Angeles International Airport
Los Angeles International Airport is the primary international airport serving Los Angeles and its surrounding metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of California.
See Three-letter acronym and Los Angeles International Airport
LSD
Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD (from German Lysergsäure-diethylamid), and known colloquially as acid or lucy, is a potent psychedelic drug.
See Three-letter acronym and LSD
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.
See Three-letter acronym and Major League Baseball
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
See Three-letter acronym and Martin Luther King Jr.
Maynard James Keenan
Maynard James Keenan (born James Herbert Keenan; April 17, 1964) is an American singer, songwriter, philanthropist, record producer, and winemaker.
See Three-letter acronym and Maynard James Keenan
MC5
MC5 was an American rock band formed in Lincoln Park, Michigan, in 1963.
See Three-letter acronym and MC5
MDC (band)
MDC is an American punk rock band formed in 1979 in Austin, Texas, subsequently based in San Francisco, and currently Portland, Oregon.
See Three-letter acronym and MDC (band)
Meteorology
Meteorology is a branch of the atmospheric sciences (which include atmospheric chemistry and physics) with a major focus on weather forecasting.
See Three-letter acronym and Meteorology
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
See Three-letter acronym and Microsoft
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android, iOS and iPadOS.
See Three-letter acronym and Microsoft Excel
Mnemonic
A mnemonic device or memory device is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval in the human memory, often by associating the information with something that is easier to remember.
See Three-letter acronym and Mnemonic
Monosodium glutamate
Monosodium glutamate (MSG), also known as sodium glutamate, is a sodium salt of glutamic acid.
See Three-letter acronym and Monosodium glutamate
Motor vehicle theft
Motor vehicle theft or car theft (also known as a grand theft auto in the United States) is the criminal act of stealing or attempting to steal a motor vehicle.
See Three-letter acronym and Motor vehicle theft
Multi-factor authentication
Multi-factor authentication (MFA; two-factor authentication, or 2FA, along with similar terms) is an electronic authentication method in which a user is granted access to a website or application only after successfully presenting two or more pieces of evidence (or factors) to an authentication mechanism.
See Three-letter acronym and Multi-factor authentication
National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).
See Three-letter acronym and National Football League
National Rugby League
The National Rugby League (known as the NRL Telstra Premiership due to sponsorship) is a professional rugby league competition in Australasia which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand.
See Three-letter acronym and National Rugby League
National Security Agency
The National Security Agency (NSA) is an intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).
See Three-letter acronym and National Security Agency
NEC
is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered at the NEC Supertower in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
See Three-letter acronym and NEC
New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
See Three-letter acronym and New South Wales
NHK
, also known by its romanized initialism NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster.
See Three-letter acronym and NHK
Nippon Professional Baseball
is a professional baseball league and the highest level of baseball in Japan.
See Three-letter acronym and Nippon Professional Baseball
O.A.R.
O.A.R. (short for Of A Revolution) is an American rock band, founded in 1996 in Rockville, Maryland.
See Three-letter acronym and O.A.R.
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (translit; 10 March 19572 May 2011) was a Saudi Arabian-born Islamist dissident and militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011.
See Three-letter acronym and Osama bin Laden
P2P
P2P may refer to.
See Three-letter acronym and P2P
Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
See Three-letter acronym and PDF
Personal advertisement
A personal advertisement, sometimes called a contact ad, is a form of classified advertising in which a person seeks to find another person for friendship, romance, marriage, or sexual activity.
See Three-letter acronym and Personal advertisement
Postcodes in Australia
Postcodes in Australia are used to more efficiently sort and route mail within the Australian postal system.
See Three-letter acronym and Postcodes in Australia
Pound sterling
Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories.
See Three-letter acronym and Pound sterling
Premier League
The Premier League is the highest level of the English football league system.
See Three-letter acronym and Premier League
Prostate-specific antigen
Prostate-specific antigen (PSA), also known as gamma-seminoprotein or kallikrein-3 (KLK3), P-30 antigen, is a glycoprotein enzyme encoded in humans by the KLK3 gene.
See Three-letter acronym and Prostate-specific antigen
Q code
This is one of a set of articles on telegraphy. The Q-code is a standardised collection of three-letter codes that each start with the letter "Q".
See Three-letter acronym and Q code
Queensland
Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.
See Three-letter acronym and Queensland
R.E.M.
R.E.M. were an American alternative rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe, who were students at the University of Georgia.
See Three-letter acronym and R.E.M.
Random-access memory
Random-access memory (RAM) is a form of electronic computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data and machine code.
See Three-letter acronym and Random-access memory
RAS syndrome
RAS syndrome, where RAS stands for redundant acronym syndrome (making the phrase "RAS syndrome" autological) is the redundant use of one or more of the words that make up an acronym in conjunction with the abbreviated form. Three-letter acronym and RAS syndrome are acronyms.
See Three-letter acronym and RAS syndrome
Read-only memory
Read-only memory (ROM) is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers and other electronic devices.
See Three-letter acronym and Read-only memory
Recursive acronym
A recursive acronym is an acronym that refers to itself, and appears most frequently in computer programming. Three-letter acronym and recursive acronym are acronyms.
See Three-letter acronym and Recursive acronym
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
See Three-letter acronym and Republican Party (United States)
Richard Stallman
Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials, rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer.
See Three-letter acronym and Richard Stallman
Robert Downey Jr.
Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor.
See Three-letter acronym and Robert Downey Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer.
See Three-letter acronym and Robert F. Kennedy
Rocket-propelled grenade
A rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) is a shoulder-fired rocket weapon that launches rockets equipped with an explosive warhead.
See Three-letter acronym and Rocket-propelled grenade
Royal Mail Ship
Royal Mail Ship (sometimes Steam-ship or Steamer), usually seen in its abbreviated form RMS, is the ship prefix used for seagoing vessels that carry mail under contract to the British Royal Mail.
See Three-letter acronym and Royal Mail Ship
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Bader; March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020.
See Three-letter acronym and Ruth Bader Ginsburg
SAT
The SAT is a standardized test widely used for college admissions in the United States.
See Three-letter acronym and SAT
Search and rescue
Search and rescue (SAR) is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger.
See Three-letter acronym and Search and rescue
Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ, and its annihilationist soteriology.
See Three-letter acronym and Seventh-day Adventist Church
Shah Rukh Khan
Shah Rukh Khan (born 2 November 1965), also known by the initialism SRK, is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Hindi cinema.
See Three-letter acronym and Shah Rukh Khan
Ship prefix
A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship that has historically served numerous purposes, such as identifying the vessel's mode of propulsion, purpose, or ownership/nationality.
See Three-letter acronym and Ship prefix
Shortness of breath
Shortness of breath (SOB), known as dyspnea (in AmE) or dyspnoea (in BrE), is an uncomfortable feeling of not being able to breathe well enough.
See Three-letter acronym and Shortness of breath
Southern Baptist Convention
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), alternatively the Great Commission Baptists (GCB), is a Baptist Christian denomination based in the United States.
See Three-letter acronym and Southern Baptist Convention
Steve Vickers (computer scientist)
Steve Vickers (born c. 1953) is a British mathematician and computer scientist.
See Three-letter acronym and Steve Vickers (computer scientist)
Swiss franc
The Swiss franc, or simply the franc (Swiss German; franc; franco; franc), is the currency and legal tender of Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
See Three-letter acronym and Swiss franc
Syllable
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds, typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants).
See Three-letter acronym and Syllable
Tasmania
Tasmania (palawa kani: lutruwita) is an island state of Australia.
See Three-letter acronym and Tasmania
Television broadcaster
A television broadcaster or television network is a telecommunications network for the distribution of television content, where a central operation provides programming to many television stations, pay television providers or, in the United States, multichannel video programming distributors.
See Three-letter acronym and Television broadcaster
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is the largest Latter Day Saint denomination, tracing its roots to its founding by Joseph Smith during the Second Great Awakening.
See Three-letter acronym and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
TLC (group)
TLC is an American girl group formed in 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia.
See Three-letter acronym and TLC (group)
United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.
See Three-letter acronym and United Arab Emirates
United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
See Three-letter acronym and United States
United States dollar
The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.
See Three-letter acronym and United States dollar
United States Ship
United States Ship (abbreviated as USS or U.S.S.) is a ship prefix used to identify a commissioned ship of the United States Navy and applies to a ship only while it is in commission.
See Three-letter acronym and United States Ship
Victoria (state)
Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.
See Three-letter acronym and Victoria (state)
Word play
Word play or wordplay (also: play-on-words) is a literary technique and a form of wit in which words used become the main subject of the work, primarily for the purpose of intended effect or amusement.
See Three-letter acronym and Word play
World Boxing Organization
The World Boxing Organization (WBO) is an organization which sanctions professional boxing bouts.
See Three-letter acronym and World Boxing Organization
World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
See Three-letter acronym and World War I
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
See Three-letter acronym and World War II
WWW (disambiguation)
WWW is the World Wide Web, a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.
See Three-letter acronym and WWW (disambiguation)
XTC
XTC were an English rock band formed in Swindon in 1972.
See Three-letter acronym and XTC
ZX81
The ZX81 is a home computer that was produced by Sinclair Research and manufactured in Dundee, Scotland, by Timex Corporation.
See Three-letter acronym and ZX81
See also
Abbreviations
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- Abbreviation (music)
- Acronym
- Acronym Finder
- Acronyms
- Apocope
- BRD (Germany)
- Babiniku
- Breviograph
- Canadian postal abbreviations for provinces and territories
- Cf.
- Contraction (grammar)
- Crossword abbreviations
- Ditloid
- Errors and omissions excepted
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- Hebrew abbreviations
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- Idem
- Initialisms
- Lists of abbreviations
- Loc. cit.
- National Air Pollution Monitoring Network
- Nomina sacra
- Numeronym
- OHZ
- OKR (disambiguation)
- Psc (military)
- Scribal abbreviation
- Species affinis
- TL;DR
- Three-letter acronym
- Viz.
- Xmas
References
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