* ATLAS is an acronym for Association for Tourism and Leisure Education, a European educational project

* AOTUS is also the acronym for the Archivist of the United States

* Anglo-Saxon Protestant, as part of the acronym WASP, for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

* AW, acronym for Tropical savanna climate in the Köppen classification system

" BASE " is an acronym that stands for four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: buildings, antennas, spans ( bridges ), and earth ( cliffs ).

As an acronym, it stands for Bourne-again shell, referring to its objective as a free replacement for the Bourne shell.

Capitalised, BASIC is sometimes taken as an acronym that stands for British American Scientific International Commercial.

* BMI, acronym for Broadcast Music, Inc., a collecting society for composers ' copyrights

COINTELPRO ( an acronym for Counterintelligence Program ) was a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) aimed at surveying, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.

The global youth movement is known as NOAM ( an acronym for No ' ar Masorti ); its North American chapter is called the United Synagogue Youth.

Its name is an acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language, defining its primary domain in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.

Using the SAFE strategy ( acronym for surgery for in-growing or in-turned lashes, antibiotics, facial cleanliness, and environmental improvements ), the World Health Organisation aims for the global elimination of trachoma by 2020 ( GET 2020 initiative ).

PID is an acronym for Proportional-Integral-Derivative, referring to the three terms operating on the error signal to produce a control signal.

* CNS is a short acronym in musical jargon to reference the catalog numbering systems for single records

* ( Hanukkah ) is also the Hebrew acronym for — " Eight candles, and the halakha is like the House of Hillel ".

Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications ( Digital European Cordless Telecommunications ), usually known by the acronym DECT, is a digital communication standard, which is primarily used for creating cordless phone systems.

The acronym BIND is for Berkeley Internet Name Domain, from a technical paper published in 1984.

Decca employees used to joke that DECCA was an acronym for Dedicated Englishmen Causing Chaos Abroad.

Euphoria is an acronym for " End-User Programming with Hierarchical Objects for Robust Interpreted Applications " although there is some suspicion that this is a backronym.

FIFO is an acronym for First In, First Out, which is an abstraction related to ways of organizing and manipulation of data relative to time and prioritization.

LASER notebook: First page of the notebook wherein Gordon Gould coined the LASER acronym, and described the technology | technologic elements for constructing the device.

* Newdow, Michael, the leader of the church " First Amendment Church of True Science ", which has the acronym FACTS

* 1RXS-an acronym which is the prefix used for the First ROSAT X-ray Survey ( 1st ROSAT X-ray Survey ), a catalogue of astronomical objects visible for ROSAT in the X-ray spectrum.

* < span id =" Fnu Lnu "/> Fnu Lnu is used by authorities to identify unknown suspects, the name being an acronym for First Name Unknown, Last Name Unknown.

It is an acronym for " First In Never Out " as opposed to traditional " first in first out " ( FIFO ) and " last in first out " ( LIFO ) algorithms.

The acronym CAN-SPAM derives from the bill's full name: Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing Act of 2003.

For ships of this hull classification in the Royal Navy LPH is a direct acronym for " Landing Platform Helicopter " while the United States Navy referred to its vessels within this classification as " Amphibious Assault Ships.

APL is an abbreviation, acronym, or initialism that may refer to:

ACN is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:

The Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración ( the Latin American Integration Association ; known as ALADI or, occasionally, by the English acronym LAIA ) is a Latin American trade integration association, based in Montevideo.

The Old Testament is called by the Jews the Tanakh, an acronym formed by combining the initials of the three sections by which the Jews divide the text: the Torah, or Law ( the Pentateuch ), the Nevi ' im, or Prophets, and the Ketuvim, or Writings or Hagiographa ( with vowels added, as Hebrew is written with a consonantal script, TaNaKh ).

BASIC is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use ; the name is an acronym from Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

The acronym is tied to the name of an unpublished paper by Thomas Kurtz and is not a backronym.

The name itself is an acronym, a pun, and a description.

The theory that the word originated as an acronym from the names of the group of ministers is a folk etymology, although the coincidence was noted at the time and could possibly have popularized its use.

The acronym, ' DIN ,' is often incorrectly expanded as (" German Industry Standard ").

The highly successful BattleTech line led to a series of video games, some of the first virtual reality gaming suites, called Virtual World ( created by a subdivision of the company known at the time of development as ESP, an acronym for " Extremely Secret Project ") and a Saturday-morning animated TV series.

Less official terms also in use include,, and the English acronym AV ( for " adult video ").

The controversy stemmed from the use of the WTF internet slang acronym (" what the fuck "), a poster of a nun and goat bowing in the presence of a cup of WTF and video ads portraying sexual innuendo and bizarre or questionable conduct.

Video in video out ( usually seen as the acronym VIVO and commonly pronounced vee-voh ), is a graphics port which enables some video cards to have bidirectional ( input and output ) analog video transfer through a mini-DIN connector, usually of the 9-pin variety, and a specialised splitter cable ( which can sometimes also transfer analog audio ).

( an acronym standing for Helicopter Emergency Rescue Operation ) is a single-player video game published by Activision.