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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 ...
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
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 .
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
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
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.
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
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.