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Acronym Finder (AF) is a free, online, searchable dictionary and database of abbreviations (acronyms, initialisms, and others) and their meanings. The entries are classified into categories such as Information Technology, Military/Government, Science, Slang / Pop Culture etc. It also contains a database of the United States and Canadian postal ...
acronym noun. ac·ro·nym | \ˈa-krə-ˌnim\. Definition of acronym. : a word (such as NATO, radar, or laser) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term. also : an abbreviation (such as FBI) formed from initial letters : initialism. ^ "Acronym".
Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln. = "solution", sup. = "superior").
Acronyms and initialisms are types of abbreviations. An acronym is formed when you combine the first letters of a phrase to create a new word (think LASER) An initialism is formed when you ...
LAL – (catalog) LALande, a historical catalog of stars. LAMOST – (telescope) Large sky Area Multi-Object fiber Spectroscopic Telescope. LANL – (organization) Los Alamos National Laboratory. LASCO – (instrumentation) Large Angle and Spectrometric COronagraph, an instrument on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.
e. This guideline covers the use of abbreviations —including acronyms and initialisms, contractions, and other shortenings —in the English Wikipedia . Maintaining a consistent abbreviation style allows Wikipedia to be read, written, edited, and navigated more easily by readers and editors. The style should always be consistent within a page.
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FOSDEM —Free and Open-source Software Developers' European Meeting. FOSI —Formatted Output Specification Instance. FOSS —Free and Open-Source Software. FP —Function Programming. FP —Functional Programming. FPGA —Field Programmable Gate Array. FPS —Floating Point Systems. FPU —Floating-Point Unit. FRU —Field-Replaceable Unit.