* TARA, the acronym for the Timed Antagonistic Response Alethiometer, a type of lie detection technique

On Sunday 23 September 2007 over 1500 people met on the hill of Tara to take part in a human sculpture representing a harp and spelling out the words " SAVE TARA VALLEY " as a call for the rerouting of the M3 motorway away from Tara valley.

One pavilion houses the prehistoric TARA rock art, which was removed for its own protection to the museum after it was defaced by graffiti in its original location.

Together with the Saint Martins Action Group, Nunsthorpe TARA provided a float for the 2006 Cleethorpes carnival.

Although the recent closure of ABC Sydney's Gore Hill studios uncovered considerable quantities of film and video footage long thought to have been lost ( e. g. the complete The Aunty Jack Show ), the absence of any reference on the TARA or NFSA databases and the paucity of citations elsewhere ( e. g. IMDb ) suggest that the master recordings of these programs may no longer exist.

* Coincidentally in the scene where Willow is teaching the Computer Science class, the name " TARA " can be seen on the blackboard under " Detention " with " x2 " next to it, a coincidental reference to Willow's relationship with another Tara in the future.

* 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.

On September 1, 2010, the Asia Pacific versions of Discovery Travel & Living was relaunched as TLC, with the acronym standing for " Travel and Living Channel ".

SEALORDS is an acronym for Southeast Asia Lake, Ocean, River, and Delta Strategy.

SEARCC is an acronym for the South East Asia Regional Computer Confederation, a not-for-profit association of national computer professional associations of the Pacific Rim region.

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.

A cave automatic virtual environment ( better known by the recursive acronym CAVE ) is an immersive virtual reality environment where projectors are directed to three, four, five or six of the walls of a room-sized cube.

The name comes from SAMU ( service d ' aide médicale urgente, " emergency medical assistance service ") which in reality and by law is the French Medical Regulation of Emergencies Center based in Hospitals and which role is to regulate the medical Emergency Fluxes of demands Medicosanitary Regulation of Emergencies of a Public Health Integrated Emergency Medical System ( IEMS ) ; the acronym has become a kind of popular informal word, synonym to emergency action because it is the mark labelling Mobile Intensive Care Unit Ambulances in France.

In reality, the name Da Lat derived from the language of the local ethnic group Lạt and its original meaning is " Stream of the Lạt ," and the acronym above is in fact a backcronym.

* JOD, acronym for the SEGA game Nights: Journey of Dreams

* Common slang acronym for the game Tony Hawk's Underground

For vanilla games, prefix " v " or " V " is commonly used together with the game title acronym, e. g., VQ3 stands for " vanilla Quake 3 ".

* NERO, acronym for New England Role Playing Organization, a live action role-playing game

* Marvel Super Heroes-an acronym commonly used by comic, arcade game and role-playing fans.

Gorf is an arcade game released in 1981 by Midway Mfg., whose name was advertised as an acronym for " Galactic Orbiting Robot Force ".

Model names for Electronika-branded Nintendo Game & Watch clones start with IM ( ИМ — Игра Микропроцессорная, Russian acronym for " microprocessor game ").

Prior to its release, the term " massively multiplayer " and the acronym " MMPRPG ", " Massively Multi-Player Role-Playing Game ", emerged in meetings within 3DO ( beating out other monikers such as " large-n game "), as did the now-ubiquitous monthly subscription model.

( an acronym for First Encounter Assault Recon ) is a psychological horror video game developed by Monolith Productions and published by Vivendi Universal and the first game in the F. E. A. R.

Directed and designed by Paul Cuisset, it is the sequel to his previous game, Flashback ( the acronym of the game is F2B, indirectly addressing it to be Flashback 2 ).

" ( an acronym for " Total Recreational Interactive Production "), which follows the game's protagonists in an episodic story ; " Multi Melee ", an on-line deathmatch version of the game ; " Auto Melee ", a deathmatch with computer-driven cars ; and " Scenarios ", short free-standing adventures featuring the game's protagonists.

* Rubies of Eventide, an online game acronym

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

Nevertheless, he continually faced criticism from Durocher loyalists on the Dodgers — who claimed that Shotton was a poor game strategist and lacked Durocher's competitive intensity — and from noted New York Daily News baseball writer Dick Young, who came to refer to him in print only by the acronym KOBS, short for " Kindly Old Burt Shotton.