* 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.

The NET acronym has since been revived twice: first in 1993 through 1997 as National Empowerment Television ( later known as " America's Voice "), a cable channel that aired news and talk programming catering to a conservative ( especially paleoconservative ) audience ; and in 2005, when Nebraska ETV and Nebraska Public Radio were united under a single name, Nebraska Educational Telecommunications.

In December 2000, Citron and Carlos Bhola, an investment banker, unveiled a new name for entity ; " Vonage .” The name borrows Pulver's " VON " acronym for " Voice on the Net " and the temporal meaning of the word " age ," combining to form " Vonage .” In January 2001, the newly incorporated Vonage moved to Edison, NJ.

Automatic Secure Voice Communications Network ( acronym AUTOSEVOCOM ): A worldwide, switched, secure voice network developed to fulfill DoD long-haul, secure voice requirements.

NetBIOS () is an acronym for Network Basic Input / Output System.

Central to the story is an Artificial Intelligence named H. A. R. L. I. E., also referred to by the proper name " HARLIE "-an acronym for Human Analog Replication, Lethetic Intelligence Engine ( originally Human Analog Robot Life Input Equivalents ).

* Due to an error by Maureen O ' Brien during recording, the acronym TARDIS is said to stand for " Time and Relative Dimensions in Space " ( rather than the singular ' Dimension ' as in An Unearthly Child ), an error which was retained throughout much of the series ' history, with occasional exceptions.

* Child development-5, for five-year old children, a more developmentally appropriate acronym for kindergarten

Often when someone takes the bait, others will point this out to them with the acronym " YHBT ", which is short for " You have been trolled ", or reply with " don't feed the trolls.

Since the acronym FAQ originated in textual media, its pronunciation varies ; " fack ", " faak ", " fax ", and " facts " are commonly heard.

Originally the name FASA was an acronym for " Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration ", a joking allusion to the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup.

An alternative pronunciation uses a hard " G " as in " graphics ", reflecting the expanded acronym.

Daniel Araoz subsequently coined the acronym " TEAM " to symbolise the subject's orientation to hypnosis in terms of " trust ", " expectation ", " attitude ", and " motivation ".

With the widespread use of the original acronym as a common noun, actual optical amplifiers have come to be referred to as " laser amplifiers ", notwithstanding the apparent redundancy in that designation.

ARM originated as an acronym for " Amalgamation of Regional Militia ", though this is not a term in current usage by the time of the Known Space novels.

POSIX ( ), an acronym for " Portable Operating System Interface ", is a family of standards specified by the IEEE for maintaining compatibility between operating systems.

While it is officially termed " Rivest Cipher 4 ", the RC acronym is alternatively understood to stand for " Ron's Code " ( see also RC2, RC5 and RC6 ).

The first Soviet " RPGs " ( RPG-40, RPG-43 and RPG-6 ) were, in fact, thrown hand grenades, and the acronym stood for ручная противотанковая граната, or " hand-held anti-tank grenade ", obviously not a launcher.

Other types of slang include SMS language used on mobile phones, and " chatspeak ," ( e. g., " LOL ", an acronym meaning " laughing out loud " or " laugh out loud " or ROFL, " rolling on the floor laughing "), which is widely used in instant messaging on the Internet.

Symbolics ' Zmacs text editor, a variant of Emacs, was implemented in a text-processing package named " ZWEI ", an acronym for " Zwei was Eine initially " — " Eine " being an acronym for " Eine Is Not Emacs " ( both recursive acronyms and puns on the German words for " One " (" Eins ", " Eine ") and " Two " (" Zwei ")).

The name is an acronym formed from the initial Hebrew letters of the Masoretic Text's three traditional subdivisions: The Torah (" Teaching ", also known as the Five Books of Moses ), Nevi ' im (" Prophets ") and Ketuvim (" Writings ")— hence TaNaKh.

The phrase " What you see is what you get ", from which the acronym derives, was a catchphrase popularized by Flip Wilson's drag persona " Geraldine " ( from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in the late 1960s and then on The Flip Wilson Show until 1974 ).

* The GNU Hurd project is named with a mutually recursive acronym: " Hurd " stands for " Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons ", and " Hird " stands for " Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth.

Online, the acronym " IRL " stands for " in real life ", with the meaning " not on the Internet ".

* " Decessit sine prole ", a Latin initialism used in genealogy to indicate that a person died without having children also abbreviated to a two letter acronym s. p.