The current name of the province, " 四川 ", is an abbreviation of " 四川路 " ( Sì Chuānlù ), or " Four circuits of rivers ", which is itself abbreviated from " 川峡四路 " ( Chuānxiá Sìlù ), or " Four circuits of rivers and gorges ", named after the division of the existing circuit into four during the Northern Song Dynasty.

Its one-character abbreviation is "" ( jì ), named after Ji Province, a Han Dynasty province ( zhou ) that included what is now southern Hebei.

* South Tyrol or Province of Bolzano, BZ being the car-license plate abbreviation of this Italian province

Its one-character abbreviation is " 辽 " ( liáo ), a name taken from the Liao River that flows through the province.

The abbreviation for this province is " 苏 " ( sū ), the second character of its name.

* Nova Scotia, as the official Canadian postal abbreviation for the province

" Gan " has become the abbreviation of the province.

* 蜀 ( Shǔ ), an abbreviation of Sichuan province of the People's Republic of China, as well as the following historical regimes that have existed in this region:

The second part is two letters, which is the postal abbreviation of the province or territory.

* The abbreviation for Firenze, the Italian province of Florence

* Province of Trento, a province in Italy, whose ISO abbreviation is " IT-TN "

* 鄂, or È is an abbreviation for the Hubei province of the People's Republic of China.

* abbreviation used for the Italian province of Forlì

For provinces, the two-letter part is an abbreviation of the province name, such as ' PG ' for Perugia, although, as an exception, the code for Medio Campidano (< tt > IT-VS </ tt >) is based on its two capitals, Villacidro and Sanluri.

* Jì ( 冀 ), abbreviation for the Hebei province of the People's Republic of China

* Jí ( 吉 ), abbreviation for the Jilin province of the People's Republic of China

* Henan ( 豫 ), the abbreviation for the Chinese province

* Hei, abbreviation for Heilongjiang province in the People's Republic of China

The National Order of Quebec, termed officially in French as l ' Ordre national du Québec, and in English abbreviation as the Order of Quebec, is a civilian honour for merit in the Canadian province of Quebec.

Bozen ) and the fact that the official abbreviation of the province of South Tyrol is BZ.

In present-day China, " Three Qins " is used as an abbreviation for Shaanxi province.

* in genetics, ADA is the abbreviation of Adenosine deaminase enzyme

APL is an abbreviation, acronym, or initialism that may refer to:

An abbreviation ( from Latin brevis, meaning short ) is a shortened form of a word or phrase.

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.

A contraction is an abbreviation, but an abbreviation is not necessarily a contraction.

In French, the period only follows an abbreviation if the last letter in the abbreviation is not the last letter of its antecedent: " M ." is the abbreviation for " monsieur " while " Mme " is that for " madame ".

Chinese měiguórén for example, is derived from a word for the United States, měiguó, where měi is an abbreviation for Yàměilìjiā " America " and guó is " country ".

* Aperture priority, Av ( Aperture value ) is a common abbreviation on a camera mode dial

Chung Feng Ming Pen ( 中峰明本 1263 – 1323 ) wrote that kung-an is an abbreviation for kung-fu an-tu ( 公府之案牘, Pinyin gōngfǔ zhī àndú, pronounced in Japanese as kōfu no antoku ), which referred to a " public record " or the " case records of a public law court " in Tang-dynasty China.

In Hong Kong, French toast, called 西多士 ( Cantonese ; jyutping: sai1 do1 si2 ; Mandarin Pinyin: xīduōshì ; " western toast ", but actually an abbreviation of " 法蘭西多士 ", " French western toast "), is available all day round but is popular for breakfast and afternoon tea in Hong Kong-style western restaurants and cha chaan tengs.

Morrison Academy ( Chinese: 馬禮遜美國學校 ; Wade-Giles: Ma-li-hsün Mei-kuo Hsüeh-hsiao ; Hanyu Pinyin: Mălĭxùn Měiguó Xuéxiào ; literally: Morrison American School ; abbreviation MCA-from Morrison Christian Academy ) was established in 1952 and offers a college-preparatory and American-based Christian affiliated education to expatriate children living in Taiwan.

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 ).

Throughout much of the academic world, the term " doctor " refers to an individual who has earned a degree of Doctor of Philosophy, or Ph. D. ( an abbreviation for the Latin Philosophiæ Doctor ; or alternatively Doctor philosophiæ, D. Phil., meaning Teacher of Philosophy ), or other research doctorate such as the Doctor of Science, or Sc. D.

( an abbreviation of ingenieur ; not to be confused with graduates of technical hogescholen, who were engineers abbreviated ing .).

There are currently three eras defined in the Phanerozoic ; the following table lists them from youngest to oldest ( BP is an abbreviation for " before present ").

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 ".

Strangely enough, besides being an abbreviation of the first names Giuseppe ( Joseph ) and Filippo ( Philip ), pippo is the Italian name of the Disney character Goofy, but it is probably used just because of its sound which is quite strange ; moreover, this name is very fast to be typed with the computer keyboard, as it involves three near keys (, and ).

: Stare decisis is the policy of the court to stand by precedent ; the term is but an abbreviation of stare decisis et non quieta movere — " to stand by and adhere to decisions and not disturb what is settled.

A compiler based on the Pascal-P4 compiler, which created native binaries, was released for the IBM System / 370 mainframe computer by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission ; it was called the " AAEC Pascal Compiler " after the abbreviation of the name of the Commission.

* On the QT, a colloquialism meaning quietly or secretly ; may be an abbreviation for " on the quiet.

Svenska Dagbladet ( common abbreviation SvD ; the title translates as " the Swedish daily paper ") is a daily newspaper in Sweden.

A millisecond ( from milli-and second ; abbreviation: ms ) is a thousandth (< sup > 1 </ sup >/< sub > 1, 000 </ sub >) of a second.

The abbreviation OST is often used to describe the musical soundtrack on a recorded medium, such as CD, and it stands for Original Soundtrack ; however, it is sometimes also used to differentiate the original music heard and recorded versus a rerecording or cover of the music.

Sometimes the term " selysche " is also used in a more general way to refer to adjacent settlements near a bigger city, including urban-type settlements ( selysche miskoho typu ) and / or villages ; however, ambiguity is often avoided in connection with urbanized settlements by referring to them using the three-letter abbreviation smt instead.

Well-known categories are denoted by a short capitalized word or abbreviation in bold or italics: examples include Set, the category of sets and set functions ; Ring, the category of rings and ring homomorphisms ; and Top, the category of topological spaces and continuous maps.

The origin of the term shill is uncertain ; it may be an abbreviation of shillaber.

A zine ( ; an abbreviation of fanzine, or magazine ) is most commonly a small circulation self-published work of original and, or appropriated texts and images usually reproduced via photocopier.

C. elegans is a species abbreviation ; it may refer to:

Ahaz (; Akhaz ; ; an abbreviation of Jehoahaz, " Yahweh has held ") was king of Judah, and the son and successor of Jotham.

The millimetre ( American spelling: millimeter ; SI unit symbol mm ; informal abbreviation: mil ) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousandth of a metre, which is the SI base unit of length.