The term ephemeris time ( often abbreviated ET ) can in principle refer to time in connection with any astronomical ephemeris.

The term first past the post ( abbreviated FPTP or FPP ) was coined as an analogy to horse racing, where the winner of the race is the first to pass a particular point ( the " post ") on the track ( in this case a plurality of votes ), after which all other runners automatically and completely lose ( that is, the payoff is " winner-takes-all ").

The average molecular mass ( sometimes abbreviated as average mass ) is another variation on the use of the term molecular mass.

Political correctness ( adjectivally, politically correct ; both forms commonly abbreviated to PC ) is a term which denotes language, ideas, policies, and behavior seen as seeking to minimize social and institutional offense in occupational, gender, racial, cultural, sexual orientation, certain other religions, beliefs or ideologies, disability, and age-related contexts, and, as purported by the term, doing so to an excessive extent.

But across the country the term p. c., as it is commonly abbreviated, is being heard more and more in debates over what should be taught at the universities.

In gaming culture, such a character was called Ageless, Faceless, Gender-Neutral, Culturally Ambiguous Adventure Person, abbreviated as AFGNCAAP ( pronounced " afgan-cap "); a term that originated in Zork: Grand Inquisitor where it is used satirically to refer to the player.

Right ascension ( abbreviated RA ; symbol α ) is the astronomical term for one of the two direction coordinates of a point on the celestial sphere in the equatorial coordinate system, usually combined with declination.

* Success Academy Charter Schools, term commonly abbreviated to ' Success Academy '

In mathematics, the infimum ( plural infima ) of a subset S of some partially ordered set T is the greatest element of T that is less than or equal to all elements of S. Consequently the term greatest lower bound ( also abbreviated as glb or GLB ) is also commonly used.

The term trace is a calque from the German Spur ( cognate with the English spoor ), which, as a function in mathematics, is often abbreviated to " Sp ".

The term almost everywhere is abbreviated a. e.

The term is not used in all countries, and outside North America the terms " off-road vehicle ", " four-wheel drive " or " four-by-four " ( abbreviated to " 4WD " or " 4x4 ") or simply use of the brand name to describe the vehicle like " Jeep " or " Land Rover " are more common.

The term transmitter is often abbreviated " XMTR " or " TX " in technical documents.

* A Sweepstakes is an old-fashioned term ( now usually abbreviated to " Stakes ") for a race in which the winner wins, or " sweeps " the entry fees paid by all the other horses entered.

* Brevet ( military ), a military term sometimes abbreviated Bt ( although more often Bvt )

However, arrangements in UK were also called ' anti-aircraft ', abbreviated as AA, a term that remained in general use into the 1950s.

Important non-English terms for air defence include German flak ( from the German Fliegerabwehrkanone, aircraft defence cannon ; also cited as Flugzeugabwehrkanone or Flugabwehrkanone ) and the Russian term Protivovozdushnaya oborona ( Cyrillic: Противовоздушная оборона ), a literal translation of " anti-air defence ", abbreviated as PVO.

Hyper-threading ( officially Hyper-Threading Technology or HT Technology, abbreviated HTT or HT ) is Intel's term for its simultaneous multithreading implementation first appearing in February 2002 on its Xeon server processors and in November 2002 on its Pentium 4 desktop CPUs.

* While the term " Esquire ", abbreviated " Esq.

* January 14-First documented use of the abbreviated term " Rock ' n ' Roll " to promote Alan Freed's Rock ' n ' Roll Jubillee, held at St. Nicholas Arena in New York, New York.

Baal teshuva or ba ' al teshuvah (; for a woman, בעלת תשובה, baalat teshuva ; plural, בעלי תשובה, baalei teshuva ), sometimes abbreviated to BT, is a term that often refers to a Jew who turns to embrace Orthodox Judaism.

The term numerical quadrature ( often abbreviated to quadrature ) is more or less a synonym for numerical integration, especially as applied to one-dimensional integrals.

Somatotropin ( STH ) refers to the growth hormone 1 produced naturally in animals, whereas the term somatropin refers to growth hormone produced by recombinant DNA technology, and is abbreviated " HGH " in humans.

The abbreviated derogatory term Futzies was applied to citizens in 2000 AD stories ( mainly in the Judge Dredd universe ) who had been driven insane by Future Shock.

Dungeons & Dragons ( abbreviated as D & D or DnD ) is a fantasy role-playing game ( RPG ) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. ( TSR ).

In telecommunications, a T-carrier, sometimes abbreviated as T-CXR, is the generic designator for any of several digitally multiplexed telecommunications carrier systems originally introduced by Bell Labs and 1970 and used in North America, Japan ( Kyoto ), and South Korea.

" Three Rivers " As it is abbreviated by locals, was the brainchild of two local teachers, one of whom had originally been teaching a small private school by the name of Thomas More Preparatory School.

* On German-language maps, a double breve is often used in abbreviated placenames that end in, short for-burg, a common suffix originally meaning “ castle ”.

Mixed-member proportional representation, also termed mixed-member proportional voting and commonly abbreviated to MMP, is a voting system originally used to elect representatives to the German Bundestag, and nowadays adopted by numerous legislatures around the world.

* Manius was originally abbreviated with an archaic five-stroke M ( ), borrowed from the Etruscan alphabet ( from which the Latin alphabet was derived ) but not otherwise used in Latin.

It is abbreviated as HS ( originally IIS ).

WD-40, abbreviated from the phrase " Water Displacement, 40th formula ," was originally designed to repel water and prevent corrosion, and later was found to have numerous household uses.

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, originally titled The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale, though often abbreviated to Rasselas, is an apologue about happiness by Samuel Johnson.

Neue Deutsche Welle ( New German Wave, often abbreviated NDW ) is a genre of German music originally derived from punk rock and New Wave music.

The 1st Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade was created on 1 September 1943 when the 1st Czechoslovak Independent Brigade ( itself originally formed as 1st Czechoslovak Mixed Brigade in July 1940 from remnants of the French Army's 1st Czechoslovak Division ) converted to armour and was redesignated as the 1st Czechoslovak Independent Armoured Brigade Group ( this was often simplified to 1st Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade or abbreviated 1st CSIABG ).

Sobelair was founded as a charter airline on 30 July 1946, originally ( only during the initial months ) known as Société d ' Etude et de Transports Aériens, abbreviated SETA.

Castle Falkenstein ( abbreviated CF ) is a steampunk-themed fantasy role-playing game ( RPG ) designed by Mike Pondsmith and originally published by R. Talsorian Games.

, commonly abbreviated as, is a Japanese role-playing video game metaseries which was originally based on the novel series Digital Devil Story by Aya Nishitani ( taking its name from the title of the first of those novels ) and has gone to become one of the major franchises of the genre in its native country.

Aorist (; abbreviated ) is a philological term originally from Indo-European studies, referring to verb forms of various languages that are not necessarily related or similar in meaning.

The ioctl system call was originally supported only on terminal devices, also known as TTY ; for this reason, the name of the error for " using the ioctl system call to a device that is not a TTY " was abbreviated as ENOTTY.

Hyperimmunoglobulinemia D with recurrent fever ( commonly abbreviated as HIDS ) is a periodic fever syndrome originally described in 1984 by the internist Prof. Jos van der Meer, then at Leiden University Medical Centre.

The Beetle also had a short-lived spunky kid sidekick in the form of Sparkington J. Northrup ( Sparky ), who originally wore an abbreviated version of the Beetle's costume but later went into action wearing his regular clothes.

The delative case ( abbreviated ; from Latin deferre " to bear or bring away or down ") in the Hungarian language can originally express the movement from the surface of something ( e. g. " off the table "), but it is used in several other meanings ( e. g. " about people "), some of them related to the original ( e. g. " from the post office ").

The term sublative case ( abbreviated ) is used to refer to grammatical cases expressing different situations: In Hungarian, it expresses the destination of the movement, originally to the surface of something ( e. g. sit down on the ground, climb the tree ), but in other figurative meanings as well ( e. g. to university, for two nights ), while in Tsez and other Northeast Caucasian languages it denotes a movement towards the bottomsides or the area under an object.

The UEFA Intertoto Cup, also abbreviated as UI Cup and originally called the International Football Cup, was a summer football competition for European clubs that had not qualified for one of the two major UEFA competitions, the Champions League and the UEFA Cup.

The name and background of the castle have inspired Castle Falkenstein ( abbreviated CF ), a steampunk-themed fantasy role-playing game ( RPG ) designed by Mike Pondsmith and originally published by R. Talsorian Games.

Twenty20, often abbreviated to T20, is a form of cricket originally introduced in England and Wales for professional inter-county competition by the England and Wales Cricket Board ( ECB ), in 2003.

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology ( State University ) (), abbreviated MIPT, MIPT ( SU ) or informally Phystech ( alternative transliterations: MFTI, Fizteh, Fiztek ; ) is a leading Russian university, originally established in the Soviet Union.