enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Spooling - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooling

    The term "spool" may originate with the Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On-Line [2] [3] (SPOOL) software; [4] this derivation is uncertain, however. Simultaneous peripheral operations on-line may be a backronym. [5] [verification needed] Another explanation is that it refers to "spools" or reels of magnetic tape, although “spool” is an ...

  3. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_forms_of_word_play

    Backronym: a phrase back-formed by treating a word that is originally not an initialism or acronym as one Replacement Backronym: a phrase back-formed from an existing initialism or acronym that is originally an abbreviation with another meaning; Anagram: rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase

  4. Backronym - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym

    A backronym is an acronym formed from an already existing word by expanding its letters into the words of a phrase. Backronyms may be invented with either serious or humorous intent, or they may be a type of false etymology or folk etymology .

  5. Spool - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spool

    Spool may refer to: Bobbin , a cylinder or reel on which a quantity of thread, yarn or wire is wound for use in a particular machine or device Cable reel , used to carry various types of electrical wires

  6. List of retronyms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_retronyms

    The logical complement of this acronym, "PANS" became a backronym for "Pretty Amazing New Services". In the telecommunications industry the term wireline is used for landline phone services, to distinguish them from wireless or mobile phone services. Wireline is clearly another retronym. LED mouse

  7. Brain (computer virus) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_(computer_virus)

    When the brothers began to receive a large number of phone calls from people in the United Kingdom, the United States, and elsewhere, demanding that they disinfect their machines, they were stunned and tried to explain to the outraged callers that their motivation had not been malicious.

  8. List of abbreviations in oil and gas exploration and production

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_abbreviations_in...

    RBS – riser base spool; RCA – root cause analysis; RCRA - Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; RCKST – rig checkshot; RCD – rotating control device; RCI – reservoir characterization instrument (for downhole fluid measurements e.g. spectrometry, density) [25] RCL – retainer correlation log; RCM – reliability-centred maintenance

  9. Talk:Backronym - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Backronym

    The current definition is misleading. The backronym is not the phrase from which the backronym is derived. The backronym is the word itself. The second sentence is good. Let me play with it again this week. Paul C. Anagnostopoulos 22:20, 21 June 2020 (UTC) I don't think the backronym is the word - it's the phrase attached to the word.