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 ).

Euphoria is an acronym for " End-User Programming with Hierarchical Objects for Robust Interpreted Applications " although there is some suspicion that this is a backronym.

Often when someone takes the bait, others will point this out to them with the acronym " YHBT ", which is short for " You have been trolled ", or reply with " don't feed the trolls.

Although not an acronym, the language's name is sometimes spelled with all capital letters as FORTH, following the customary usage during its earlier years.

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.

Standards developed jointly with ISO such as ISO / IEC 26300, Open Document Format for Office Applications ( OpenDocument ) v1. 0 carry the acronym of both organizations.

These are large reinforced buried concrete bunkers, equipped with armoured turrets containing high-precision optics that were connected with the other fortifications by field telephone and wireless transmitters ( known in French by the acronym T. S. F.

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.

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

PHD, with variations in capitalization and punctuation, is a three letter acronym that may refer to:

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 ).

A scuba set, acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, is any breathing set which is carried entirely by an underwater diver and provides the diver with breathing gas at the ambient pressure.

As with radar, the acronym scuba has become so familiar that it is generally not capitalized and is treated as an ordinary noun.

SOAP originally stood for ' Simple Object Access Protocol ' but this acronym was dropped with Version 1. 2 of the standard.

The acronym is sometimes confused with SOA, which stands for Service-oriented architecture, but the acronyms are unrelated.

Sonar ( originally an acronym for SOund Navigation And Ranging ) is a technique that uses sound propagation ( usually underwater, as in submarine navigation ) to navigate, communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels.

The word tokamak is a transliteration of the Russian word токамак, an acronym of either " тороидальная камера с магнитными катушками " ( toroidal ' naya kamera s magnitnymi katushkami )— toroidal chamber with magnetic coils, or " тороидальная камера с аксиальным магнитным полем " ( toroidal ' naya kamera s aksial ' nym magnitnym polem )— toroidal chamber with axial magnetic field.

The Vatican also conducts worldwide financial activities, the Istituto per le Opere di Religione ( also known with the acronym IOR and wrongly known as the Vatican Bank ).

A recursive acronym ( synonymous with metacronym, recursive initialism, and recursive backronym ) is an initialism that refers to itself in the expression for which it stands.

* The GNU Hurd project is named with a mutually recursive acronym: " Hurd " stands for " Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons ", and " Hird " stands for " Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth.

* 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 ".

Mr. Sparks outlined a revitalization initiative with the acronym of C. A. R. E.

The English acronym of CC is Correct Century ( コレクトセンチュリー ), in the official Japanese ∀ guide book.

The book first publicized the acronym TANSTAAFL (" There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch "), and helped popularize the constructed language Loglan, which is used in the story for precise human-computer interaction.

Another book on Aggadot published in 1911 incorporated the acronym of his name, אגרות הראיה.

The English acronym CC is in the official Japanese Turn A guide book and Correct Century in the English 2001 Correct Century A Bibliographical Study of " Black History " as the black paged introduction of Gundam Officials.

* WITS, an acronym for " Wise Information Technology Systems ", used in the book " Unusual Perspectives " by Peter G Kinnon

Nardi's book inspired the title of a UK conference Information Ecologies: the impact of new information ' species hosted, inter alia, by the UK Office of Library Networking, now known by its acronym UKOLN, and led to a keynote address by Nardi at a 1998 Library of Congress Institute on Reference Service in a Digital Age.

This group of DC Universe troublemakers made a one-panel cameo in a series exploring variations on the JLA acronym, the book in question being JLA: Justice League of Amazons.

Debra met Dr. Billinghurst later at one of his seminars and he signed a copy of his book ( Give Your Dog a Bone ) thanking her for the BARF acronym.

One fact, presented in Kelley's dissertation, about the etymology of the term in this context: Dr. Kelley did originally have a definition for the “ OZ ” acronym ( aside from the obvious parallels with the 1900 book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum ).

" By 1972 when GE and RCA were no longer in the mainframe business, the remaining five companies behind IBM became known as the BUNCH, an acronym based on their initials.

PID is an acronym for Proportional-Integral-Derivative, referring to the three terms operating on the error signal to produce a control signal.

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

The word laser started as an acronym for " light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation "; in modern usage " light " broadly denotes electromagnetic radiation of any frequency, not only visible light, hence infrared laser, ultraviolet laser, X-ray laser, and so on.

The IEEE claims trademarks on the names EUI-48 and EUI-64, in which EUI is an acronym for Extended Unique Identifier.

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.

The designation on the devices shown, GAP / R, is an acronym for the complete company name.

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.

Symbolics ' Zmacs text editor, a variant of Emacs, was implemented in a text-processing package named " ZWEI ", an acronym for " Zwei was Eine initially " — " Eine " being an acronym for " Eine Is Not Emacs " ( both recursive acronyms and puns on the German words for " One " (" Eins ", " Eine ") and " Two " (" Zwei ")).

The phrase " What you see is what you get ", from which the acronym derives, was a catchphrase popularized by Flip Wilson's drag persona " Geraldine " ( from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in the late 1960s and then on The Flip Wilson Show until 1974 ).

In July 2007, the band released the EP NWOBHM ( an acronym for New Wave of Black Heavy Metal, a take-off on the original New Wave of British Heavy Metal ) as a preview for their next album.

EPCOT is an acronym of Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, which was the name originally given by Walt Disney to a conceptual Utopian city of the future that he had wanted to build on the site that is now Walt Disney World.

On 20 December 1917, the Council of People's Commissars officially established the All-Russia Extraordinary Commission to Combat Counter-revolution and Sabotage — usually known as the Cheka ( based on the Russian acronym ВЧК ).

The acronym is derived from their capacity to operate at sea, in the air, and on land.

Online, the acronym " IRL " stands for " in real life ", with the meaning " not on the Internet ".

Soon after his death, Foucault's partner Daniel Defert founded the first national AIDS organisation in France, which he called AIDES ; a pun on the French language word for " help " ( aide ) and the English language acronym for the disease.

The program, entitled VULTURE ( an acronym for Very-high altitude, Ultra-endurance, Loitering Theater Unmanned Reconnaissance Element ), entered Phase II on September 14, 2010, with a contract signed with Boeing for development of the SolarEagle flight demonstrator.

* PAP, an acronym used on the internet to mean perverted and proud.

* Others: Maze / Mazo, Mazer ( acronym of mi zera Aharon, i. e. " from the seed of Aaron "), Azoulai ( acronym from ishah zonah ve ' challelah lo yikachu, meaning " a foreign or divorced woman he shall not take ;" prohibition binding on Kohanim ), Rappaport, Kahane