Since 1996, Steinway Musical Instruments has been traded at the New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE ) under the abbreviation LVB, for Ludwig van Beethoven.

* GXP is the NYSE abbreviation for Great Plains Energy

Prior to 1989, use of a copyright notice — consisting of the copyright symbol (, the letter C inside a circle ), the abbreviation " Copr.

where the symbol Δ ( the uppercase form of the Greek letter Delta ) is an abbreviation for " change in.

It was assigned the symbol Fa, but this abbreviation was revised to the current Fr shortly thereafter.

The abbreviation nm, though conflicting with the SI symbol for the nanometre, is also widely used.

: Note the difference in the style of the subscripts: k and p are abbreviations of the words kinetic and potential, whereas p ( italic ) is the symbol for the physical quantity pressure rather than an abbreviation of the word " pressure ".

The symbol dBrn or dB ( rn ) is an abbreviation for decibels above reference noise.

where the symbol Δ ( the uppercase form of the Greek letter Delta ) is an abbreviation for " change in ".

In Finnish and Swedish, the colon can appear inside words in a manner similar to the apostrophe in the English possessive case, connecting a grammatical suffix to an abbreviation or initialism, a special symbol, or a digit ( e. g., Finnish USA: n for the genitive case of " USA ", %: ssa for the inessive case of "%", or 20: een for the illative case of " 20 ").

* AUG is an abbreviation for the digital gold currency unit " grams of gold, payable in e-gold " ( AU being the chemical symbol for gold, G representing grams )

The millimetre ( American spelling: millimeter ; SI unit symbol mm ; informal abbreviation: mil ) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousandth of a metre, which is the SI base unit of length.

The modern chemical symbol for sodium, Na, is an abbreviation of that element's New Latin name natrium, which was derived from natron which refers to Wadi El Natrun or natron valley in Egypt from which natron was mined in ancient Egypt for use in burial rites.

A stock symbol or ticker symbol is an abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock on a particular stock market.

Because µ is the abbreviation for the metric system prefix micro -, the symbol is used in many word plays about the field of micro-computing.

In classical Athens, it was used as an abbreviation for the Greek θάνατος ( thanatos, “ death ”) and as it vaguely resembles a human skull, theta was used as a warning symbol of death, in the same way that skull and crossbones are used in modern times.

The apothecaries system has its own system of notation, in which the unit's symbol or abbreviation is followed by the quantity in lower case roman numerals.

This abbreviation is not to be confused with the symbol of actinium, the first element of the actinides series.

Currently there is no official symbol for the ruble, though the abbreviation руб.

* Light crude oil New York Mercantile Exchange abbreviation / symbol

* The placements of some special symbols and command keys are changed, some of special key inscriptions are changed from an abbreviation to a graphical symbol ( for example " Caps Lock " becomes a hollow arrow pointing down, " Backspace " becomes a left-pointing arrow ), and most of the other abbreviations are replaced by German abbreviations ( thus e. g. " Ctrl " for " control " is translated to its German equivalent " Strg " for " Steuerung ").

The symbol is not a C as an abbreviation for common time, but a broken circle ; the full circle at one time stood for triple time, 3 / 4.

** Millimetre length and Millilitre volume, erroneously spelled " mil " instead of the metric unit symbol " mm " and " ml " or correct abbreviation " milli ".

** proposes using the symbol π ( the Greek letter pi, as an abbreviation for perimeter ) to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.

* Michael Schumacher, used on Formula One timing and television as the driver abbreviation symbol.

In French, the period only follows an abbreviation if the last letter in the abbreviation is not the last letter of its antecedent: " M ." is the abbreviation for " monsieur " while " Mme " is that for " madame ".

Widespread use of electronic communication through mobile phones and the Internet during the 1990s allowed for a marked rise in colloquial abbreviation.

If the original word was capitalised, then the first letter of its abbreviation should retain the capital, for example Lev.

Chinese měiguórén for example, is derived from a word for the United States, měiguó, where měi is an abbreviation for Yàměilìjiā " America " and guó is " country ".

ASA as an abbreviation or initialism may stand for:

* Ark, an alternative abbreviation for Arkansas

The main recent sense of the word “ art ” is roughly as an abbreviation for creative art or “ fine art .” Here we mean that skill is being used to express the artist ’ s creativity, or to engage the audience ’ s aesthetic sensibilities, or to draw the audience towards consideration of the “ finer ” things.

* Acn, abbreviation for the orchid genus Acineta

* Ad, an abbreviation in organic chemistry for Adamantyl

* A. s. h, abbreviation for Alt. suicide. holiday, a Usenet newsgroup

* AI, the abbreviation for Appenzell Innerrhoden, a Swiss canton

Total blindness is the complete lack of form and visual light perception and is clinically recorded as NLP, an abbreviation for " no light perception.

" WIR " is both an abbreviation of Wirtschaftsring and the word for " we " in German, reminding participants that the economic circle is also a community.

The use of " Χ ," derived from Chi, the Greek alphabet initial, as an abbreviation for Christ ( most commonly in the abbreviation " Χmas ") is often misinterpreted as a modern secularization of the term.

In botany, the author abbreviation used to indicate Linnaeus as the authority for species ' names is L. In 1959, Carl Linnaeus was designated as the lectotype for Homo sapiens, which means that following the nomenclatural rules, Homo sapiens was validly defined as the animal species to which Linnaeus belonged.

There is no consensus on some terms describing carbon nanotubes in scientific literature: both "- wall " and "- walled " are being used in combination with " single ", " double ", " triple " or " multi ", and the letter C is often omitted in the abbreviation ; for example, multi-walled carbon nanotube ( MWNT ).