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.

Decca employees used to joke that DECCA was an acronym for Dedicated Englishmen Causing Chaos Abroad.

FBI is the commonly used acronym for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in the United States.

* FSB or FB, an acronym for fire support base or fire base used by the U. S. military during the Vietnam War

The acronym GIS is sometimes used for geographical information science or geospatial information studies to refer to the academic discipline or career of working with geographic information systems.

Beginning in Naples in 1859 and spreading throughout Italy, the slogan " Viva VERDI " was used as an acronym for Viva Vittorio Emanuele Re

The acronym IRA was first used by the IRB organisation in America ( also known as the Fenian Brotherhood ).

The phrase or acronym is also occasionally used ( without code ) for a signature.

The acronym is used by many in the United States Air Force and the field of software development.

An acronym is often used, which is another popular mnemonic " Z ' MaN NaKaT.

MySQL is a popular choice of database for use in web applications, and is a central component of the widely used LAMP open source web application software stack — LAMP is an acronym for " Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl / PHP / Python.

MusicBrainz initially used Relatable's patented TRM ( a recursive acronym for TRM Recognizes Music ) for acoustic fingerprint matching.

* Potentially Shippable Increment, an acronym used in Scrum ( development )

Quango or qango is an acronym meaning quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation used chiefly in the United Kingdom and Ireland, but also elsewhere, to label an organization to which government has devolved power.

* Quality, Cost, Delivery, a three-letter acronym used in lean manufacturing

A common acronym used to help the recovery process is RICE: rest, ice, compression, and elevation.

This use of the ACAT acronym is reminiscent of another ACAT ( for Acquisition Category ) used in US Defense industry procurements, in which Risk Management figures prominently in decision making and planning.

Among Whorf's well known examples of linguistic relativity are examples of instances where an indigenous language has several terms for a concept that is only described with one word in English and other European languages ( Whorf used the acronym SAE " Standard Average European " to allude to the rather similar grammatical structures of the well-studied European languages in contrast to the greater diversity of the less-studied languages ).

Other types of slang include SMS language used on mobile phones, and " chatspeak ," ( e. g., " LOL ", an acronym meaning " laughing out loud " or " laugh out loud " or ROFL, " rolling on the floor laughing "), which is widely used in instant messaging on the Internet.

To maintain secrecy no mention of sound experimentation or quartz was made-the word used to describe the early work (' supersonics ') was changed to ' ASD ' ics, and the quartz material to ' ASD ' ivite: hence the British acronym ASDIC.

* Most recursive acronyms are recursive on the first letter, which is therefore an arbitrary choice, often selected for reasons of humour, ease of pronunciation, or consistency with an earlier acronym that used the same letters for different words, such as PHP: PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, which was originally " Personal home page ".

* CHAT, an acronym for: Codes for the Human Analysis of Transcripts, a format used by the CHILDES project

Note 3: The acronym CCS ( Centum Call Seconds ) is often used to describe 100 call-seconds.

Although radio frequency is a rate of oscillation, the term " radio frequency " or its acronym " RF " are also used as a synonym for radio – i. e. to describe the use of wireless communication, as opposed to communication via electric wires.

The Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración ( the Latin American Integration Association ; known as ALADI or, occasionally, by the English acronym LAIA ) is a Latin American trade integration association, based in Montevideo.

The Old Testament is called by the Jews the Tanakh, an acronym formed by combining the initials of the three sections by which the Jews divide the text: the Torah, or Law ( the Pentateuch ), the Nevi ' im, or Prophets, and the Ketuvim, or Writings or Hagiographa ( with vowels added, as Hebrew is written with a consonantal script, TaNaKh ).

The acronym is tied to the name of an unpublished paper by Thomas Kurtz and is not a backronym.

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.

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 ).

In federal civil procedure law, which has also been accepted by approximately 35 states ( through adoption of state civil procedure rules similar to the federal rules ), the class action must have certain definite characteristics ( often referred to by the acronym CANT ):

Originally written by four graduate students at the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley ( UCB ), the name originates as an acronym from Berkeley Internet Name Domain, reflecting the application's use within UCB.

The acronym FAQ was developed between 1982-1985 by Eugene Miya of NASA for the SPACE mailing list.

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.

Among measures taken by Conte to try and shore up his support within the military after 2007 was the transfer of the ' popular Sékouba Konaté to Conakry to head the parachute Autonomous Battalion of Airborne Troops ( French acronym BATA ) in an attempt to calm the troops.

These aspects can be emphasized by using the alternative acronym WIMP, which stands for windows, icons, menus and pointing device.

* Grand Rapids Art Museum ( popularly known by its acronym GRAM ), an art museum in Michigan

The acronym GUT was first coined in 1978 by CERN researchers John Ellis, Andrzej Buras, Mary K. Gaillard, and Dimitri Nanopoulos, however in the final version of their paper they opted for the less anatomical GUM ( Grand Unification Mass ).

The 1929 Palestine riots ( see also the Hebron Massacre ), led Ze ' ev Jabotinsky to create a right-wing militia group called the Irgun Tzvai Leumi ( National Military Organization, known in Hebrew by its acronym " Etzel ").

Founded in Sweden in 1943 by 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad, who later became one of the richest people in the world, the company's name is an acronym comprising the initials of the founder's name ( Ingvar Kamprad ), the farm where he grew up ( Elmtaryd ), and his hometown ( Agunnaryd, in Småland, South Sweden ).

IONA ( Islands of the North Atlantic ) is an acronym suggested in 1980 by Sir John Biggs-Davison to refer to a loose linkage of the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Isle of Man and Channel Islands, similar to the present day British-Irish Council.

The main environmental protection agency of the Kyrgyzstan government is the State Committee on Environmental Protection, still known by its Soviet-era acronym, Goskompriroda.

Khadamat-e Aetela ' at-e Dawlati, almost always known by its acronym KHAD ( or KhAD ), is the main security agency and intelligence agency of Afghanistan, and also served as the secret police during the Soviet occupation.

KISS is an acronym for the design principle articulated by Kelly Johnson, Keep it simple stupid !.