Hymes constructed the acronym SPEAKING, under which he grouped the sixteen components within eight divisions:

LASER notebook: First page of the notebook wherein Gordon Gould coined the LASER acronym, and described the technology | technologic elements for constructing the device.

These are described with a word before the acronym: a " mini MPV " is derived from a supermini, a " compact MPV " is based on a small family car and a " large MPV " has about the same size as a large family car.

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 ).

It has an interface described in a machine-processable format ( specifically Web Services Description Language, known by the acronym WSDL ).

* Allegedly a war cry of the Crusaders, described as an acronym for Hierosolyma est perdita ( Latin for " Jerusalem is lost ")

An alternative view is described by the acronym LITHA, meaning Leave It The Hell Alone.

** progressive symptoms as described in the acronym

The Political and Security Committee ( PSC or " COPS " from its French acronym ) first established as an interim body in 2000 is described by the Nice European Council Conclusions as the " linchpin " of the European Security and Defence Policy and the Common Foreign and Security Policy.

RACK's tenets are best described by a deconstruction of the acronym:

The word " yahoo " is an acronym for " Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle " The term " hierarchical " described how the Yahoo database was arranged in layers of subcategories.

The Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange Program, also known by the acronym MATRIX, was a U. S. federally funded data mining system originally developed for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement described as a tool to identify terrorist subjects.

The first page of the notebook in which Gould coined the acronym LASER and described the essential elements for constructing one.

Backcrossed hybrids are sometimes described with acronym " BC ", for example, an F1 hybrid crossed with one if its parents ( or a genetically similar individual ) can be termed a BC1 hybrid, and a further cross of the BC1 hybrid to the same parent ( or a genetically similar individual ) produces a BC2 hybrid.

The name is often described as an acronym for " Best of Breed ", an award given out at dog shows.

The events are usually described as " modification " ( the data in the file was modified ), " access " ( some part of the file was read ), and " metadata change " ( the file's permissions or ownership were modified ), although the acronym is derived from the " mtime ", " atime ", and " ctime " structures maintained by Unix file systems.

WFM is a three-letter acronym with multiple meanings, as described below:

An additional way of remembering the first six dicarboxylic acids is by simply recalling the acronym OMSGAP, which is a simplification of the previously described mnemonic device.

Despite the fact that LGBT does not nominally encompass all individuals in smaller communities ( see Variants below ), the term is generally accepted to include those not identified in the four-letter acronym.

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.

Its name is an acronym based on the words " Triangle below Canal Street ": the triangle is properly bounded by Canal Street, West Street, Broadway, and Vesey Street.

The acronym, A ∴ A ∴, has been assigned many meanings ( see table below ).

The name, " Freddie Mac ", is an acronym of the company's full name that had been adopted officially for ease of identification ( see " GSEs " below for other examples ).

The acronym " mbsf " meaning " metres below the seafloor " is a convention used for depths below the seafloor.

The acronym ABCDE has been useful for helping health care providers and laypersons remember the key characteristics of a melanoma ( see " ABCDE " mnemonic below ) moles Changes ( in shape, size, color, itching or bleeding ) should be brought to the attention of a dermatologist.

The aforementioned acronym is a symbol of guarantee and good organization of the most popular twins festival around the world and contacting them in order to take part in the festival is easy as the link displayed below shows:

The term BDSM was coined as a condensed acronym in the 1990s to combine communities and practices that had a significant amount of crossover – bondage and discipline ( B & D or B / D ), dominance and submission ( D & S or D / s ), and sadomasochism or sadism and masochism ( S & M or S / M ).

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 theory that the word originated as an acronym from the names of the group of ministers is a folk etymology, although the coincidence was noted at the time and could possibly have popularized its use.

The new car's name was an acronym of the company's partners ' surnames:

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

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

The name " FUDGE " was once an acronym for Freeform Universal Donated ( later, Do-it-yourself ) Gaming Engine and, though the acronym has since been dropped, that phrase remains a good summation of the game's design goals.

Originally the name FASA was an acronym for " Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration ", a joking allusion to the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup.

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.

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 ).

Nanopoulos later that year was the first to use the acronym in a paper.

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

: The fluidity and wit of the witches is evident in the ever-changing acronym: the basic, original title was Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell [...] and the latest heard at this writing is Women Inspired to Commit Herstory.

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

In a Dáil Éireann debate, Proinsias De Rossa was less enthusiastic: The acronym IONA is a useful way of addressing the coming together of these two islands.

The acronym was coined by Kelly Johnson, lead engineer at the Lockheed Skunk Works ( creators of the Lockheed U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird spy planes, among many others ).

Mosheh ben Maimon ( משה בן מימון )‎, called Moses Maimonides and also known as Mūsā ibn Maymūn (), or RaMBaM ( רמב " ם – Hebrew acronym for " Rabbi Mosheh Ben Maimon "), was a preeminent medieval Jewish philosopher and one of the most prolific and followed Torah scholars and physicians of the Middle Ages.

The World Organisation for Animal Health is the intergovernmental organisation responsible for improving animal health worldwide and was created by an international agreement as the International Office of Epizootics ( still known by its French acronym Office International des Epizooties-OIE ) on 25 January 1924.

This acronym conflicted with that of the UK ’ s National Physical Laboratory and was

Stimulated emission was first observed in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum, giving rise to the acronym MASER for Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

The term RADAR was coined in 1941 by the United States Navy as an acronym for RAdio Detection And Ranging.

The next album, BTTB ( 1998 ) – an acronym for " Back to the Basics " – was a fairly opaque reaction to the prior year's multilayered, lushly orchestrated Discord.

Shlomo Yitzhaki (), or in Latin Salomon Isaacides, and today generally known by the acronym Rashi (, RAbbi SHlomo Itzhaki ; February 22, 1040 – July 13, 1105 ), was a medieval French rabbi and long highly esteemed as a major contribution Ashkenazi Jewry gave to Torah study.

It was founded in 1965 by Damon Knight under the name Science Fiction Writers of America, Inc. and it retains the acronym SFWA after a very brief use of the SFFWA.