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PIE, IATA airport code and FAA location identifier for St. Pete–Clearwater International Airport, Florida; Pie, in Spanish customary units a unit of length; Pie (loa), a type of spirit in Vodun/Voodoo religion; Pie Magazine, a Canadian luxury lifestyle magazine; PIE method (Problem, Intervention, Evaluation), a method of documentation in nursing
initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee; pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
An acronym is sometimes considered to be an initialism that is pronounced as a word (e.g. NATO), as distinct from an initialism pronounced as a string of individual letters (e.g. "UN" for United Nations). In this document the term acronym includes initialisms. The term word acronym can be used to refer to acronyms which are not initialisms.
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, proof queries, marginalia , emails, message boards , and so on.
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.
An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning "short" [1]) is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method including shortening, contraction, initialism (which includes acronym) or crasis. An abbreviation may be a shortened form of a word, usually ended with a trailing period. For example: etc. is the usual abbreviation for et cetera.
Abbreviation of § Disambiguation (or disambiguate[d]) (from the Wikipedia:Disambiguation shortcut WP:DAB). Dabify To convert (typically a redirect) into a disambiguation page. Dablink, DAB link, etc. 1. Abbreviation of "disambiguation link"; a link that leads to a § Disambiguation page. 2. To disambiguate a § Link within the text of a page. 3.