* ARAD, an acronym for Associate of the Royal Academy of Dance, a dance education and training organisation

* 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.

** After World War II Lambertsen called his 1940-1944 rebreather LARU ( for Lambertsen Amphibious Respiratory Unit ) but as of 1952 Lambertsen renamed again his invention and coins the acronym SCUBA ( for " self-contained underwater breathing apparatus ").

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian tank and motorized-rifle divisions were reduced to near-cadre state, many being designated Bases for Storage of Weapons and Equipment ( Russian acronym BKhVT ).

After the Carnation Revolution of 25 April 1974, Sampaio funded Movimento de Esquerda Socialista ( MES ) ( Portuguese acronym for Socialist Left Movement ) but abandoned the political project soon after.

After that, the self called " anti-revisionist " group adopted the name of Communist Party of Brazil and the acronym of PCdoB to differentiate themselves from PCB.

After some embarrassment due to the oversight of the unfortunate acronym, the name was changed to the " Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance ", more commonly known as the Canadian Alliance.

After hearing the news about the 11 September coup MRC ( Spanish acronym for Revolutionary Campesino Movement ), a group formed with help of MIR, decided to take actions against the police station in Neltume as a first step to defend the Unidad Popular government.

After another string of shorties and returning to Circus Herman Renz on a part-time basis, Bassie & Adriaan spent 1986 taping a new series featuring the new crooks, except that Ping Poen was replaced with B2 whose poor hearing kept him in prison when B1 and BB ( acronym for Boevenbaas ) escaped.

After a brief test period proves time travel is possible, the Journeyman Project is deactivated and the Pegasus device is put under the secret watch of the Temporal Security Agency or TSA for short ( also the acronym of its base of operations, the Temporal Security Annex ).

After Psion retired from the PDA market, the project was parked until 2003 when the fledgling Symbian Developer Program released OPL to open source and the acronym was re-interpreted.

After Armand Deperdussin's bankruptcy in 1913 the company went into administration and the name was changed to Société Provisoire des Aéroplanes Deperdussin, the first name to use the SPAD acronym.

B. A. M. A., an acronym meaning Boyz After Money Always, is an American hip-hop group from Alabama.

After defining its constitution and organization in 1925, the IUBS adheres to the International Research Council ( International Council for Science ), which is now known by the acronym ICSU ( International Council of Scientific Unions ).

After this discovery, some researchers prefer the new name of glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide, while retaining the acronym " GIP.

After selling his interest in AAMCO in 1967, he founded the anagrammed acronym MAACO autobody and paint-service franchise in 1972, of which he remained the CEO until his 2008 passing.

After the end of the Cold War, a 1993 reorganization gave the Command a new acronym, USACOM, and brought United States Army Forces Command and Air Combat Command under its authority.

After adopting its current name, the channel commonly used the acronym " TSC ", which had a stylized askew-square logo.

After the fashion in rabbinic circles, Rapoport was known by an acronym " Shir ", formed by the initial letters of his Hebrew name Shelomo Yehuda Rapoport ( Shir literally means " song " in Hebrew )

After a brief period ( 1994 – 1996 ) as a subsidiary of the Ecuadorian airline SAETA when its name was LAPSA, in 1996 the majority of the stakes of LAP were sold to the Brazilian airline TAM Airlines and the current acronym was adopted.

HURD is a mutually recursive acronym, standing for HIRD of Unix-replacing daemons, where HIRD stands for HURD of interfaces representing depth.

The symbols used in the code consist of arrows that cycle clockwise to form a rounded triangle and enclosing a number, often with an acronym representing the plastic below the triangle.

The National Religious Party (, Miflaga Datit Leumit, commonly known in Israel by its Hebrew acronym Mafdal, ( Hebrew: מפד " ל )) was a political party in Israel representing the religious Zionist movement.

The Pakistan Muslim League ( N ) ( Urdu: پاکستان مسلم لیگ ن ; acronym: PML -( N ), PMN-N, and PMLN ) is a center-right, conservative political party in Pakistan, being the largest conservative political force and second largest political party, roughly representing 19. 6 % of votes in the Parliament ( both in Senate and National Assembly ), in the latest national parliamentary elections.

It includes an iconic " A " in the middle representing a design compass and the " A " s in the organization's acronym.

The community's name is an acronym for National Association of Letter Carriers Retirement, Education, Security and Training, as it was designed by and continues to be operated by the Nalcrest Foundation, Inc., a branch of the National Association of Letter Carriers, the union representing United States Postal Service city letter carriers.

The United Arab List (, al-Qā ' ima al -' Arabiyya al-Muwaḥḥada ;, Reshima Aravit Me ' uhedet ), commonly known in Israel by its Hebrew acronym Ra ' am (), is a political party representing and supported by Israeli Arabs.

The acronym NAMM originally stood for the National Association of Music Merchants, but has evolved from a national entity representing the interests of music products retailers to an international association including commercial, reseller members, affiliates and manufacturers.

Proponents of the term point out that parts of the FLOSS acronym can be translated into other languages, with for example the F representing free ( English ) or frei ( German ), and the L representing libre ( Spanish or French ), livre ( Portuguese ), or libero ( Italian ), liber ( Romanian ) and so on.

Several years later, the ELF acronym resurfaced, representing another eco-guerilla entity with similar philosophies, the Earth Liberation Front.

FFL may be an acronym representing: