* Carina ( constellation ), astronomical constellation abbreviation " Car ", as standardized by the International Astronomical Union

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 ).

The name Capcom is an abbreviation of " Capsule Computers ", a term coined by the company to describe the arcade machines it solely manufactured in its early years, designed to set themselves apart from personal computers that were becoming widespread at that time.

(" Metro " in this case being an abbreviation of " metropolitan ", to distinguish these services from regional trains under the V / Line brand.

The name cello is an abbreviation of the Italian violoncello, which means " little violone ", referring to the violone (" big viol "), the lowest-pitched instrument of the viol family, the group of string instruments that went out of fashion around the end of the 17th century in most countries except France, where they survived another half-century or so before the louder violin family came into greater favour in that country too.

Heart of Midlothian are known as the " Jambos ", which comes from " Jam Tarts " which is the rhyming slang for " Hearts " which is the common abbreviation of the Clubs name.

All of the boys were called " Ike ", such as " Big Ike " ( Edgar ) and " Little Ike " ( Dwight ); the nickname was intended as an abbreviation of their last name.

" Doktór " is the masculine form, which retains the abbreviation Dr .; the feminine form is " Doktóra ", and is abbreviated usually as " Dra.

", the usual abbreviation for " Doctor of Philosophy " is " PhD ".

The name " Erlang ", attributed to Bjarne Däcker, has been understood as a reference to Danish mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang, and ( initially at least ) simultaneously as an abbreviation of " Ericsson Language ".

The word " honey ", along with variations like " honey bun " and the abbreviation " hon ", has become a term of endearment in most of the English-speaking world.

The earliest definition of hypnosis was given by Braid, who coined the term " hypnotism " as an abbreviation for " neuro-hypnotism ", or nervous sleep, which he opposed to normal sleep, and defined as: " a peculiar condition of the nervous system, induced by a fixed and abstracted attention of the mental and visual eye, on one object, not of an exciting nature.

The word " hypnosis " ( from the Greek hypnos, " sleep ") is an abbreviation of James Braid's ( 1841 ) term " neuro-hypnotism ", meaning " sleep of the nervous system ".

In spoken English, the abbreviation " mL " ( for millilitre ) is often pronounced as " mil ", homophonous with the colloquial term " mil ", which is intended to mean " one thousandth of a metre ", or in the United States, a thousandth of an inch.

* " Mon " is also used in slang, usually either as a means of address ( believed to be a replacement for the endearing term " man "), or as an abbreviation of " Come on " ( e. g. " Mon the Biffy ", a slogan used by rock band Biffy Clyro ).

It was originally referred to as " emocore ", an abbreviation of " emotive hardcore ".

Smoking PCP is known as " getting wet ", and a cigarette or joint which has been dipped in PCP may be referred to on the street as a " fry stick ," " sherm ," " leak ," " amp ," " lovely ," " KJ ( an abbreviation for ' Killer Joint ')," " toe tag ", " dipper ", " happy stick ," or " wet stick.

The abbreviation " IQ " comes from the German term Intelligenz-Quotient, originally coined by psychologist William Stern.

The abbreviation was coined in order to reduce the usage of " HP ", which was being used more to refer to Highland Park, Michigan, a small city located inside the Detroit city limits.

Nicknames for anti-aircraft guns include AA, AAA or triple-A, an abbreviation of anti-aircraft artillery, " ack-ack " ( from the World War I phonetic alphabet for AA ), archie ( a World War I British term probably coined by Amyas Borton and believed to derive via the Royal Flying Corps from the music-hall comedian George Robey's line " Archibald, certainly not !").

One story has it that it was coined by the popular novelist Santō Kyōden ( 1761 – 1816 ) in response to a better name for his product, Kyōden suggested tempura or tenfura, which was an abbreviation for the phrase " a homeless samurai rōnin who suddenly appears to " and sells something ( Rath 2010 ).

The term poset as an abbreviation for partially ordered set was coined by Garrett Birkhoff in the second edition of his influential book Lattice Theory.

The term " schizotypal " is derived from " schizotype ," and was coined by Sandor Rado in 1956 as an abbreviation of one phenotype of a " schizophrenic genotype ".

The term was apparently coined by Alfred Bester in his 1950 short story " Oddy and Id " and is derived from the abbreviation ESP for extrasensory perception.

The name of the file is an abbreviation of " automatic execution ", which describes its function in automatically executing commands on system startup ; the portmanteau was coined in response to the 8. 3 filename limitations of the FAT file system family.

This somewhat misleading abbreviation was coined by Richard Sullivan of Bostick & Sullivan, one of the principal suppliers of chemistry and printing supplies, who popularized the process.

) The term is properly an abbreviation rather than an acronym, but backronyms for " MOB " such as " monster or beast ", " mere ordinary beast " and " mean old bastard " have also been coined.

POSSLQ () is an abbreviation ( or acronym ) for " Persons of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters ," a term coined in the late 1970s by the United States Census Bureau as part of an effort to more accurately gauge the prevalence of cohabitation in American households.

The term " Rimpa " is an abbreviation consisting of the last syllable from " Kōrin " with the word for ( with rendaku changing this to " pa "), coined in the Meiji period.

* homo ( slang ) a colloquial, usually pejorative abbreviation for " homosexual " ( adjective or noun )

County ,' an abbreviation which is viewed as pejorative by some residents.

' Dublin 4 ' or its abbreviation, ' D4 ', is sometimes used as a pejorative adjective to describe an Irish upper class and upper-middle class attitude, based on the perceived opinions and characteristics of some residents of this area.

While they reveal their existence to some, the Tomorrow People generally operate in secrecy for fear that normal people ( whom they term " Saps ", a pejorative abbreviation for Homo sapiens ) will either fear or victimise them because of their special powers or try to exploit them for military purposes.

West Brit, an abbreviation of West British, is a pejorative term for an Irish person, stereotypically living in an affluent part of South Dublin, who is perceived by his or her countrymen as being too anglophilic in matters of culture or politics.

For example, the word abbreviation can itself be represented by the abbreviation abbr., abbrv.

In strict analysis, abbreviations should not be confused with contractions or acronyms ( including initialisms ), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term " abbreviation " in loose parlance. An abbreviation is a shortening by any method ; a contraction is a reduction of size by the drawing together of the parts.

A contraction of a word is made by omitting certain letters or syllables and bringing together the first and last letters or elements ; an abbreviation may be made by omitting certain portions from the interior or by cutting off a part.

In 1976, jurisdiction over telecommunications services, most of which were then delivered by monopoly common carriers ( for example, telephone companies ), was transferred to it from the Canadian Transport Commission although the abbreviation CRTC remained the same.

Use of the CE abbreviation was introduced by Jewish academics in the mid-19th century.

" Ray invariably mocks " Cambridge, Mah " the US Postal Service's two letter abbreviation for " Massachusetts " by pronouncing it as a word.

The International Classification of Diseases ( most commonly known by the abbreviation ICD ) is according to its publisher, the United Nations-sponsored World Health Organization " the standard diagnostic tool for epidemiology, health management and clinical purposes.

It is also known by classicists as the Origines ( the standard abbreviation being Orig .).

Lincos ( an abbreviation of the Latin phrase lingua cosmica ) is an artificial language first described in 1960 by Dr. Hans Freudenthal in his book Lincos: Design of a Language for Cosmic Intercourse, Part 1.

The second s is not simply the plural ; by an old convention, it doubles the last letter of the abbreviation to express the plural, just as pp. means " pages ".

Movement around the game environment is generally accomplished by entering the direction ( or an abbreviation of it ) in which the player wishes to move, for example typing north or just n would cause the player to exit the current area via the path to the north.