Garbage in, gospel out is a more recent expansion of the acronym.

The expansion of the IMAP acronym also changed to the Internet Message Access Protocol

The length of a VLB slot, and the difficult installation that resulted from it, led to an alternate expansion of the acronym: Very Long Bus.

) But redundant acronyms are more common with technical ( e. g. computer ) terms where well-informed speakers recognize the redundancy and consider it silly or ignorant, but mainstream users might not, since they may not be aware or certain of the full expansion of an acronym like " RAM ".

It is often used for an alternate language ( hence giving the facetious " Spanish audio program " expansion to the acronym ), or for the Descriptive Video Service ( DVS ) offered in the U. S. by PBS, along with broadcasting the local NOAA Weather Radio service or a local National Public Radio station at times where translation or DVS is not needed.

TACA, originally an acronym of Transportes Aéreos Centroamericanos ( Central American Air Transport ), now stands for Transportes Aéreos del Continente Americano ( Air Transport of the American Continent ), reflecting its expansion to North, Central, South America and the Caribbean.

The spelled-out form of an acronym or initialism ( that is, what it stands for ) is called its expansion.

Early personal computers like the Apple II and the IBM PC integrated an internal backplane for expansion cards.

In 1992, the production of the A600 seemed like a backward move ; it replaced the A500, yet it removed the numeric keypad, Zorro expansion slot, SCSI capability, and other functionality in favor of PCMCIA and a theoretically cost-reduced design.

The Help Desk Institute was officially renamed to HDI in 2004 to reflect the maturing of the support industry and the expansion of technical support to include functions like desktop support as well as support centers that provided technical support for the organization's customers.

Detractors note that the expansion was fueled by undesirable sectors like gaming, prisons, medical treatment, and credit card use.

Much like his father, Jahangir was dedicated to the expansion of Mughal held territory through conquest.

Prior to the Bantu expansion, it is likely that Khoisan languages, or languages like them, were spread throughout southern and eastern Africa.

In the upcoming Heart of the Swarm expansion, a mecha called the Battle Hellion is introduced, which can transform into jeep like vehicle named the Hellion.

Mehrgarh Periods II and III are also contemporaneous with an expansion of the settled populations of the borderlands at the western edge of South Asia, including the establishment of settlements like Rana Ghundai, Sheri Khan Tarakai, Sarai Kala, Jalilpur, and Ghaligai.

This is studied in chemical thermodynamics, which sets limits on quantities like how far a reaction can proceed, or how much energy can be converted into work in a combustion engine and which provides links between properties like the thermal expansion coefficient and change of rate in entropy with pressure for a gas or a liquid.

Because of the expansion of form ( those elements pertaining to form, key, instrumentation and the like ) within a typical composition, and the growing idiosyncrasies and expressiveness of the new composers from the new century, it thus became easier to identify an artist based on his work or style.

During 1925, however, Scott, like many of his contemporaries / competitors, began an ambitious expansion program designed to make the company more competitive with other automobile manufacturers by offering cars in different price ranges.

Large metropolises like Rotterdam, London, Montreal, Paris, New York City, Buenos Aires, Shanghai, Tokyo, Chicago, and Hong Kong owe their success in part to their easy accessibility via water and the resultant expansion of trade.

Although Wessex had now effectively been subsumed into the larger kingdom which its expansion had created, like the other former kingdoms, it continued for a time to have a distinct identity which periodically found renewed political expression.

In 2001, Metacritic quoted Worms World Party reviews with comments like " it's virtually nothing more than an expansion pack for Worms Armageddon " and, as ActionTrip's Dejan Grbavcic put it, " And I thought that only Eidos was impertinent enough to keep selling the same game with a slightly different name ...".

Many factors, including the success of brands like Lindemans ( part of Foster's Group ) and Jacob's Creek in the UK, as well as Rosemount in the US and UK, were responsible for a dramatic expansion of plantings during the 1980s and 1990s ; a similar trajectory occurred in California.

Therefore, a temporary surge of infrastructure investment yields an expansion of output, and vice versa that dwindling infrastructure, like in the 1970s, hamper longer-term movement in productivity.

The Liberal Manifesto is a general outlook on the direction of the party would like to mirror itself and is an expansion of the party's foundational principles.

Desktops have several standardized expansion slots, like Conventional PCI or PCI express, while laptops only tend to have one mini PCI slot and one PC card slot ( or ExpressCard slot ).

The urban expansion of Pamplona exceeded the administrative limits of the city and involved municipalities like Barañáin, Burlada, Villava, Ansoain, Berriozar, Noain or Huarte in a larger metropolitan area.

It was largely by this method ( mixed-race Bermudians being added to the number of Blacks, rather than added to the number of Whites or being defined as a separate demographic group ) that Coloured ( subsequently redefined in the twentieth century as Black ) Bermudians came to outnumber White Bermudians by the end of the 19th century, despite starting off at a numerical disadvantage, and despite low Black immigration prior to the latter 19th century ( other contributing factors included the scale of White relative to Black emigration in the 17th and 18th centuries, the greater mortality of Whites from disease in the late 17th century, and large-scale West Indian immigration, which began, like Portuguese immigration, in the 19th century to provide labourers for the new export agriculture industry and expansion of the Royal Naval Dockyard.

In personal defense use, concerns have arisen over whether clothing, especially heavy materials like denim, can clog the cavity of JHP bullets and cause expansion failures.

It then became Arvernis in the 3rd century ( taking its name, like other Gallic cities in this era, from the people who lived within its walls ), going through an expansion that ended in the mid 3rd century.

After the championship game, the league announced the expansion into Pittsburgh, a team later to be called the Bulls, who played at the Civic Arena, sporting the traditional Pittsburgh colors of black and gold, like the Steelers.

Another reason for the slow expansion of the Dutch fleet was a lack of suitable recruits — the Dutch navy paid lower wages than the merchant marine and did not use impressment like the Royal Navy.

In contrast, individuals with an expansion of only a single subset of the V-beta chain of the CD8 + T cells are not able to control HIV levels over time, and thus have high levels of virus six to twelve months later.

An equally promising avenue toward Atlantic community may lie through the development and expansion of the O.E.C.D..

This may be helpful in improving the competitive position of established firms through diversification and expansion or through more economical utilization of plant capacity.

SBA loans, which may be made to small manufacturers, small business pools, wholesalers, retailers, service establishments and other small businesses ( when financing is not otherwise available to them on reasonable terms ), are to finance business construction, conversion, or expansion ; ;

CPU expansion boards may provide additional custom buses.

Attempts at further expansion into the politically fractious world of Ancient Greece may have been inevitable.

In these cases, expansion buses are entirely separate and no longer share any architecture with their host CPU ( and may in fact support many different CPUs, as is the case with PCI ).

Any rational number with a denominator whose only prime factors are 2 and / or 5 may be precisely expressed as a decimal fraction and has a finite decimal expansion.

It has also been alleged that the way the categories of the DSM are structured, as well as the substantial expansion of the number of categories, are representative of an increasing medicalization of human nature, which may be attributed to disease mongering by psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies, the power and influence of the latter having grown dramatically in recent decades.

The use of tools has been interpreted as a sign of intelligence, and it has been theorized that tool use may have stimulated certain aspects of human evolution, especially the continued expansion of the human brain.

Approximate solutions may also be found by perturbation theories such as linearized gravity and its generalization, the post-Newtonian expansion, both of which were developed by Einstein.

On the ellipsoid of revolution, geodesics may be written in terms of elliptic integrals, which are usually evaluated in terms of a series expansion ; for example, see Vincenty's formulae.

He feels himself obliged to metamorphose my historical sketch of the genesis of capitalism in Western Europe into an historico-philosophic theory of the marche generale imposed by fate upon every people, whatever the historic circumstances in which it finds itself, in order that it may ultimately arrive at the form of economy which will ensure, together with the greatest expansion of the productive powers of

The cause of the Hunnic move into Europe may have been expansion of the Rouran, who had created a massive empire across the Asian continent in the mid-4th century, including the Tatar lands as well, which they took over from the Xianbei.

In the last quarter of the 10th century there had been a radical expansion of the fortifications at Gniezno and Ostrów Lednicki, which may be associated with the Polish-German war, or the expectation of such.

It has been proposed that the broad spectrum revolution of Kent Flannery ( 1969 ), associated with microliths, the use of the bow and arrow, and the domestication of the dog, all of which are associated with these cultures, may have been the cultural " motor " that led to their expansion.

Thus, the fundamental solution may be found by performing the continued fraction expansion and testing each successive convergent until a solution to Pell's equation is found.

Quetzalcoatlus had precursors in North America and its apparent rise to widespreadness may represent the expansion of its preferred habitat rather than an immigration event, as some experts have suggested.

A research project may also be an expansion on past work in the field.

It can be questioned due to the Portuguese Reconquista that had ended in 1249, and both the Castillian and Portuguese kingdoms that may have begun profiting from maritime expansion along Africa before the Jews and Moors were expelled.

The government hopes an expansion of tourism will boost economic prospects, and test drilling for oil may pave the way development of the energy sector.

Just as an expansion of a sheep population might encourage the expansion of a wolf population, an expansion of altruistic traits within a gene pool may also encourage the expansion of individuals with dependent traits.

Often they are recent immigrants, but xenophobia may be directed against a group which has been present for centuries, or became part of this society through conquest and territorial expansion.