* Aviation, a military acronym or shorter version

The M1 Carbine was not a shorter version of the M1 Garand, as was typical for rifles vs. carbines in the 19th century, but a wholly different design firing a smaller, less-powerful cartridge.

The United Kingdom also developed a " Jungle Carbine " version of their Lee-Enfield service rifle, featuring a shorter barrel, flash suppressor, and manufacturing modifications designed to decrease the rifle's weight.

The Old Roman Creed is an earlier and shorter version of the Apostles ' Creed.

In 1978, Hubbard released New Era Dianetics ( NED ), a revised version supposed to produce better results in a shorter period of time.

This version was shorter than any of the other versions at only 3 minutes, 27 seconds and went by the name " For The Victims Of Ravishment ".

A shorter version features on the CD single.

The English version runs 83 minutes, four minutes shorter than the Japanese version.

The American version runs two minutes shorter than the Japanese version.

This version runs 78 minutes, five minutes shorter than the Japanese print.

The North American version, with the added Raymond Burr footage, runs 87 minutes, 16 minutes shorter than the Japanese print.

The double-story version became popular when printing switched to " Roman type " because the tail was effectively shorter, making it possible to put more lines on a page.

Following criticism, especially the arguments from Richard Kirwan who thought Hutton's ideas were atheistic and not logical, Hutton published a two volume version of his theory in 1795, consisting of the 1788 version of his theory ( with slight additions ) along with a lot of material drawn from shorter papers Hutton already had to hand on various subjects such as the origin of granite.

The rolling stock is a shorter version of the one used on Paris Métro Line 14.

Informal, de facto orthographies of spoken varieties of Arabic also use ha to indicate a shorter version of alif, a usage augmented by the ambiguity of the use of ha and taa marbuta in formal Arabic orthography, and also a formal orthography in some languages that use Arabic script, such as Kurdish orthography

The sketch was later remade in a shorter version for the film And Now For Something Completely Different ; it is also available on the CD-ROM game of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.

According to the Mahabharata itself, the tale is extended from a shorter version of 24, 000 verses called simply Bhārata.

A shorter version of the opening title was used later in the series, in syndication, and on Disney Channel reruns.

The re-edited version put a new English narration by Frederic March and musical score onto a shorter edit of the existing film.

First imported from France by Lady Jersey in 1815, the Quadrille was a shorter version of the earlier cotillions.

Some female skinheads have a shorter punk-style version of the hairstyle ; almost entirely shaved, leaving only bangs and fringes at the front.

This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

In contrast, 20 of the 21 lines in the Completion Profile ( excluding center 5 for boys and 4 for girls ) are bunched and extend over a much shorter period, approximately 30 months for boys and 40 months for girls.

In general, the half-life becomes shorter as atomic number increases, though an " island of stability " may exist for undiscovered isotopes with certain numbers of protons and neutrons.

Alligators differ from crocodiles principally in having wider and shorter heads, with more obtuse snouts ; in having the fourth, enlarged tooth of the under jaw received, not into an external notch, but into a pit formed for it within the upper one ; in lacking a jagged fringe which appears on the hind legs and feet of the crocodile ; in having the toes of the hind feet webbed not more than half way to the tips ; and an intolerance to salinity, alligators strongly preferring fresh water, while crocodiles can tolerate salt water due to specialized glands for filtering out salt.

Whilst at Monmouth he was later, for a shorter period, also the Archbishop of Wales.

When the CCITT ( now ITU-T ) was standardizing ATM, parties from the United States wanted a 64-byte payload because this was felt to be a good compromise in larger payloads optimized for data transmission and shorter payloads optimized for real-time applications like voice ; parties from Europe wanted 32-byte payloads because the small size ( and therefore short transmission times ) simplify voice applications with respect to echo cancellation.

Most of the European parties eventually came around to the arguments made by the Americans, but France and a few others held out for a shorter cell length.

He taught medicine and philosophy at Cairo and at Damascus for a number of years, and afterwards, for a shorter period, at Aleppo.

This double bond is stronger than a single covalent bond ( 611 kJ / mol for C = C vs. 347 kJ / mol for C — C ) and also shorter with an average bond length of 1. 33 Angstroms ( 133 pm ).

In competitions, competitors are costumed as would be appropriate for a white tie affair, with full gowns for the ladies and bow tie and tail coats for the men ; though in American Smooth it is now conventional for the men to abandon the tailsuit in favor of shorter tuxedos, vests, and other creative outfits.

There are numerous shorter paths suitable for day walks, as well as mountain biking and cross-country skiing trails.

Third base is a shorter throw for the catcher, and thus more difficult to steal, though a right-handed batter can sometimes help by serving as an obstacle that the catcher must throw around.

They have fewer teeth and shorter skulls, with much more specialized carnassials meant for shearing meat.

The use of data coding for data compression predates the computer era ; an early example is the telegraph Morse code where more-frequently used characters have shorter representations.

From 1989, the shorter training in technology arranged by the municipal polytechnical schools in Sweden was gradually extended and moved in to the university system, from 1989 as two-year courses and from 1995 alternatively as three-year courses.

At exactly 8 laps on a standard 400 m track, this event is typically run only in American high schools along with the 1600 m. It is colloquially called the " two-mile ", as the distance is only about 19 metres shorter than two miles.

During certain periods, Mexican American children sometimes were forced to register at " Mexican schools ", where classroom conditions were poor, the school year was shorter, and the quality of education was substandard .< ref name =" autogenerated5 "> Ferg-Cadima, James A.

Independent schools, as compared with maintained schools, are generally characterised by more individual teaching ; much better pupil-teacher ratios at around 9: 1 ; longer teaching hours ( sometimes including Saturday morning teaching ) and homework, though shorter terms ; more time for organised sports and extra-curricular activities ; more emphasis on traditional academic subjects such as maths, classics and modern languages ; and a broader education than that prescribed by the national curriculum, to which state school education is in practice limited.

As the MP for Maidstone, Kent, Lubbock had a distinguished political career, with four main political agendas: promotion of the study of science in primary and secondary schools ; the national debt, free trade, and related economic issues ; protection of ancient monuments ; securing of additional holidays and shorter working hours for the working classes.

Specialized, non-hairstyling courses such as manicure, facials, or makeup art are usually of shorter duration, lasting anywhere from two weeks to six months, although the most prestigious and exclusive beauty schools may offer much longer courses.

His reputation grew when he set up a textile factory in New Lanark, Scotland, co-funded by his teacher, the utilitarian Jeremy Bentham, and introduced shorter working hours, schools for children and renovated housing.

The break originated to avoid the heat in summer, so elementary, middle, and high schools in Hokkaidō and Nagano Prefecture tend to have a shorter summer break than the rest of schools in Japan.

They have a shorter teaching programme ( about four hours a day ), the same curriculum as primary schools and also teach Quran-e-Nazira ( recitation of the Quran ).

There are also runs set up by schools of every level, often with shorter distances than the " official " ones.

Petty schools had shorter hours, mostly to allow poorer boys the opportunity to work as well.

Access to schools, the Central Business District and the suburban shopping centers is made easier for pedestrians and cyclist as the green strips are free from vehicles and the distance to be travelled is shorter.

Until the 1980s, the College only awarded its students the qualification Certificate of Advanced European Studies ( the programme also then included several shorter theses ), that was considered equivalent to a master's degree ( although it was not a degree in the strictest sense, as the College of Europe was inspired by the tradition of French elite schools such as ENA which did not award formal degrees ).

Three editions of his Welsh catechism were published for the use of his schools ( 1789, 1791 and 1794 ); an English catechism for the use of schools in Lady Huntingdon's Connection was drawn up by him in 1797 ; his shorter catechism in Welsh appeared in 1799, and passed through several editions, in Welsh and English, before 1807, when his Instructor ( still the Connectional catechism ) appeared.

Not all the teachers had a full 4-year college degree in those years, but the shorter terms of normal schools were part of the system of teacher training in both the North and the South to serve the many new communities across the frontier.

In 2008, playwright Jeanne Sakata adapted her full-length stage play into a shorter theatre-for-youth production, which would tour the schools.

This is significantly shorter than the North American Summer vacation, but Australian schools also break for two weeks at Easter, and in June and September, giving students and teachers a total of twelve weeks of annual holidays.