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  2. List of English abbreviations made by shortening words

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    cab Cabernet Sauvignon cabriolet caff (UK slang) café cal calorie (in combination, especially "lo-cal") Cal or Cali California Calcutta cam camera camouflage camo camouflage Can Canada or Canadian (in combination)

  3. Lists of abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    List of abbreviations in photography; List of glossing abbreviations (grammatical terms used in linguistic interlinear glossing) List of legal abbreviations; List of medical abbreviations; List of abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel; Reporting mark (owners of rolling stock and other railway equipment) List of style guide ...

  4. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    British English meanings Meanings common to British and American English American English meanings AA The Automobile Association (US: AAA) Alcoholics Anonymous: American Airlines: A&E the accident and emergency (casualty) department of a hospital (US: emergency room, ER) [1] Arts & Entertainment (name of a television network) [1] accumulator

  5. PDF - Wikipedia

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    PDF has (as of version 2.0) 25 graphics state properties, of which some of the most important are: The current transformation matrix (CTM), which determines the coordinate system; The clipping path; The color space; The alpha constant, which is a key component of transparency; Black point compensation control (introduced in PDF 2.0)

  6. List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia

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    &name; where name is the case-sensitive name of the entity. The semicolon is required. Because numbers are harder for humans to remember than names, character entity references are most often written by humans, while numeric character references are most often produced by computer programs. [1]

  7. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks

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    This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters. For other languages and symbol sets (especially in mathematics and science), see below

  8. History of PDF - Wikipedia

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    Documents containing Adobe extended features still carry the PDF base version number 1.7 but also contain an indication of which extension was followed during document creation. [21] PDF documents conforming to ISO 32000-2 carry the PDF version number 2.0, and are known to developers as "PDF 2.0 documents".

  9. List of English words with dual French and Old English ...

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    However, there are exceptions: weep, groom and stone (from Old English) occupy a slightly higher register than cry, brush and rock (from French). Words taken directly from Latin and Ancient Greek are generally perceived as colder, more technical, and more medical or scientific – compare life (Old English) with biology ( classical compound ...