The acronym " B. A. S. E.

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 ).

* FSB or FB, an acronym for fire support base or fire base used by the U. S. military during the Vietnam War

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.

* Andrew S. Tanenbaum, a computer scientist ( often uses this acronym as his identifier )

The short name and the related R ( oyal ) S ( ociety ) of A ( rts ) acronym are used more frequently than the full name.

It is a model after the ancient acronym S. P. Q. R.

The U. S. government has stated that the term TEMPEST is not an acronym and does not have any particular meaning.

The main manufacturer of the Aegis combat system, Lockheed Martin, makes no mention of the name Aegis being an acronym, nor does the U. S. Navy.

Late U. S. Senator Robert Byrd, then ranking Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, referred to the coalition by the acronym COW, expressing his concern that the United States was being " milked " as a " cash cow ".

( Most do not even know that it is an acronym, and do not spell it SCUBA or S. C. U. B. A.

Sometimes rendered as an acronym M. A. S. O. N. N. A., standing for either Mademoiselle Anne Sanglante Ou Notre Nymphomanie Auréolé ( French for " Miss Bloody Anne, Or Our Aureoled Nymphomania "; the proper spelling is Auréolée.

The seven basic notes of the scale ( swaras ), in Indian music are named shadja, rishabh, gandhar, madhyam, pancham, dhaivat and nishad, and are shortened to Sa, Ri ( Carnatic ) or Re ( Hindustani ), Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha, and Ni and written S, R, G, M, P, D, N. Collectively these notes are known as the sargam ( the word is an acronym of the consonants of the first four swaras ).

It is often used for an alternate language ( hence giving the facetious " Spanish audio program " expansion to the acronym ), or for the Descriptive Video Service ( DVS ) offered in the U. S. by PBS, along with broadcasting the local NOAA Weather Radio service or a local National Public Radio station at times where translation or DVS is not needed.

( which is an acronym for the < u > M </ u > obile < u > A </ u > rmored < u > S </ u > trike < u > K </ u > ommand ), was a hybrid of popular era cartoons G. I.

Today, according to the U. S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( acronym FDIC ), " the term merchant banking is generally understood to mean negotiated private equity investment by financial institutions in the unregistered securities of either privately or publicly held companies.

The acronym V & S comes from the name Vin & Sprit, literally meaning " Wine & Spirits.

Eastern Kentucky University, commonly referred to as Eastern or by the acronym EKU, is an undergraduate and graduate teaching and research institution located in Richmond, Kentucky, U. S. A .. EKU is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools ( SACS ).

The second U. S. four-wheel-drive vehicle was built in 1908 by ( what became ) the Four Wheel Drive Auto Company ( FWD ) of Wisconsin ( not to be confused with the term " FWD " as an acronym for front-wheel drive ).

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 ).

* MENA, an acronym for the " Middle East & North Africa " region

On September 1, 2010, the Asia Pacific versions of Discovery Travel & Living was relaunched as TLC, with the acronym standing for " Travel and Living Channel ".

A & W is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:

Previously, shirts had simply been embroidered with the club's acronym ' CUFC ' or a ' Book & Ball ' badge used during the late 70's.

As a backronym, it is has been taken to stand for Digital Bibliography & Library Project, however it is now preferred that the acronym be simply a name, hence the new title " The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography ".

An acronym for ' Good Ol ' Raisins & Peanuts ' or ' Granola, Oatmeal, Raisins, and Peanuts '.

In the United States, Bunzlauer ware was often marketed under the labels of " Blue Mountain Pottery " or " Erphila ," the acronym of the Philadelphia retailer Eberling & Reuss.

The name is an acronym for " Adventure Development & Runner-Interactive Fiction Toolkit ".

White notes that " incidentally " Valentine was the middle name of Sir John V. Carden, the man who was responsible for many tank designs including that of Valentine's predecessor, the A10 .. Another version says that Valentine is an acronym for Vickers-Armstrong Ltd Elswick & ( Newcastle-upon ) Tyne.

* Later in the year Jeremy Mortimer from GreenNet helped PeaceNet Sweden ; Scott Weikart & Joanne Scott from IGC helped Nicarao in Nicaragua and Steve Frame helped Alternex ( the communications branch of IBASE, the Portuguese acronym of the Brazilian Institute for Social and Economic Analysis ) and Mike Jensen from WEB to Pegasus Australia.

After another string of shorties and returning to Circus Herman Renz on a part-time basis, Bassie & Adriaan spent 1986 taping a new series featuring the new crooks, except that Ping Poen was replaced with B2 whose poor hearing kept him in prison when B1 and BB ( acronym for Boevenbaas ) escaped.

KT & G is an acronym for Korea Tomorrow and Global, not Korea Tobacco and Ginseng.

DOTS is an acronym for Distance & Orientation Trail System.

The D. E. S. T. ( an acronym of or " German Earth & Stone Works Company "), was an SS owned company originally created to procure and manufacture building materials for state construction projects in Nazi Germany DEST was a subsidiary company of Amtsgruppe W ( Amt. W ) of SS-Wirtschafts-und Verwaltungshauptamt ( WVHA ).

The acronym REM or R. E. M.

Critics inverted his acronym, " G. O. M.

The acronym CP / M for " Control Program / Monitor " was later backronymed " Control Program for Microcomputers ".

* M. O. L., acronym for " Meaning of Life ", a DVD by Disturbed

The name AMPEX is an acronym, created by its founder, which stands for Alexander M. Poniatoff Excellence.

( an acronym for the < u > V </ u > icious < u > E </ u > vil < u > N </ u > etwork < u > o </ u > f < u > M </ u > ayhem ), with an emphasis on super-powered masks worn by the characters on the show.

< u > M </ u > eïr < u > L </ u > eibush < u > b </ u > en < u > J </ u > ehiel < u > M </ u > ichel Weiser () ( March 7, 1809 – September 18, 1879 ), better known by the acronym Malbim (), was a rabbi, Hebrew grammar master, and Bible commentator.

B. A. M. A., an acronym meaning Boyz After Money Always, is an American hip-hop group from Alabama.

In Europe, where the car was called Liana ( an acronym for Life In A New Age ), it was seen as a more affordable alternative to small family cars or to mini MPVs, introducing a new generation of Suzuki M engines, with 1. 3 L and 1. 6 L I4 engine.

Maharam ( Hebrew: מהר " ם ) is an acronym of the words ... מורנו הרב רבי מ ( Morenu Ha-Rav M ..., Our teacher the Rabbi M ...).

* B & M an acronym of Burnham & Morrill, a brand of baked beans now owned by B & G Foods

Officially, Elecbyte claims to have forgotten what the acronym M. U. G. E. N stood for, but the readme documentation states that its meaning referred to the days when the engine was meant to emulate shooting games as opposed to fighting games.

The acronym " L. A. M. F.

The name is an acronym of M Authorization Records In D.