Most suggest the community's name comes from an acronym for " Mining and Smelting Company of Tennessee ," while others suggest it was the name of woman's lost cat.

The name comes from BLIT, which is no acronym but usually is interpreted as BLock Image Transfer.

The name " Private Snafu " comes from the unofficial military acronym SNAFU (" Situation Normal: All Fucked Up "), with the opening narrator merely hinting at its usual meaning as " Situation Normal, All ... All Fouled Up!

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

The term derives from UFO, which is pronounced as an acronym, and the suffix-logy, which comes from the Ancient Greek λογία ( logiā ).

The name comes from SAMU ( service d ' aide médicale urgente, " emergency medical assistance service ") which in reality and by law is the French Medical Regulation of Emergencies Center based in Hospitals and which role is to regulate the medical Emergency Fluxes of demands Medicosanitary Regulation of Emergencies of a Public Health Integrated Emergency Medical System ( IEMS ) ; the acronym has become a kind of popular informal word, synonym to emergency action because it is the mark labelling Mobile Intensive Care Unit Ambulances in France.

The School of Communication ( COPU, formerly known as Comunicación Pública in Spanish, from where the acronym comes COmunicación PUblica ) was established in 1972 with a masters degree in Public Communication.

The College of Social Sciences ( CISO, Ciencias Sociales in Spanish, from where the acronym comes CIencias SOciales ) was established in 1943, with the mission of teaching universal knowledge on the social sciences, advancing the social comprehension of the nation.

The ambiguity comes from the acronym for the SSH-based SSH File Transfer Protocol having the same acronym as one of the terms referring to tunneling regular FTP connections over SSH: Secure FTP.

In Tamil, Thiru ( acronym of Thiruvalar for males ) and Thirumathi ( for females ) are used. In Telugu Chi. La. Sou ( Chiranjeevini Lakshmi Soubaghyavathi ) is commonly used by elders to mention before the names of younger people. In India honorifics mostly comes prior to the name of object.

A dubious folk etymology holds that the term comes from the acronym " Small Cod Remaining On Dock ", but it more likely comes from the obsolete Dutch schroot, piece cut off, or from scrawed, from Cornish dialect .. Other folk expressions explain that when spelled " schrod " it is a haddock, and is otherwise cod ; actually in Dutch " schrod " means " to fillet ," another possible etymology for " scrod.

Its name comes from an acronym of the three predominant clans that live in the area: Oniong, Nnung Ndem, and Awa.

Funding for Free Talk Live comes from a combination of standard on-the-show advertising, and a donation-by-subscription service known as AMP ( an acronym for Advertise, Market, and Promote ).

Another dramatic example comes from the supernova condensates, usually shortened by acronym to SUNOCON to distinguish them from other stardust condensed within stellar atmospheres.

Its name comes from its model of learning by integrating truth with life experience thus, the acronym

Enon, an English acronym for " Exciting Nova On Network " can pick up and carry roughly in its arms and comes without software.

The name Jagorawi comes from the acronym of areas which it connects which are ( Ja ) karta-Bo ( gor )-Ci ( awi ).

BASIC is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use ; the name is an acronym from Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

" BASE " is an acronym that stands for four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: buildings, antennas, spans ( bridges ), and earth ( cliffs ).

The theory that the word originated as an acronym from the names of the group of ministers is a folk etymology, although the coincidence was noted at the time and could possibly have popularized its use.

Originally written by four graduate students at the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley ( UCB ), the name originates as an acronym from Berkeley Internet Name Domain, reflecting the application's use within UCB.

The acronym BIND is for Berkeley Internet Name Domain, from a technical paper published in 1984.

Although the acronym ECU is formed from English words, écu is also the name of an ancient French coin.

" Foobar may have derived from the military acronym FUBAR and gained popularity because it is pronounced the same.

: The fluidity and wit of the witches is evident in the ever-changing acronym: the basic, original title was Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell [...] and the latest heard at this writing is Women Inspired to Commit Herstory.

Many assume his nickname is derived from KIBO, the acronym for Knowledge In, Bullshit Out, although Parry himself has repeatedly denied this.

Historically, the word " maser " is derived from the original upper-case acronym MASER, which stands for " Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation ".

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.

One very important group of protein kinases are the MAP kinases ( acronym from: " mitogen-activated protein kinases ").

The term is derived from the acronym SABR, which stands for the Society for American Baseball Research.

The word is derived via the acronym for " get away from it all ".

The name is an acronym formed from the initial Hebrew letters of the Masoretic Text's three traditional subdivisions: The Torah (" Teaching ", also known as the Five Books of Moses ), Nevi ' im (" Prophets ") and Ketuvim (" Writings ")— hence TaNaKh.

The three-part division reflected in the acronym " Tanakh " is well attested to in documents from the Second Temple period and in Rabbinic literature.

The length of a VLB slot, and the difficult installation that resulted from it, led to an alternate expansion of the acronym: Very Long Bus.

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 ).

ROBS is an acronym from the United States Internal Revenue Service for the IRS ROBS Rollovers as Business Start-Ups Compliance Project.

The name Epcot derives from the acronym EPCOT ( Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow ), a utopian city of the future planned by Walt Disney ( sometimes using the word " City " instead of " Community " when expanding the acronym ).

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

It runs from Baku via Tbilisi to Ceyhan in Turkey, therefore the acronym BTC pipeline.

It is usually referred to as FIDE (), its French acronym.

Among measures taken by Conte to try and shore up his support within the military after 2007 was the transfer of the ' popular Sékouba Konaté to Conakry to head the parachute Autonomous Battalion of Airborne Troops ( French acronym BATA ) in an attempt to calm the troops.

ICAO logo. Top: ICAO acronym in English, French / Spanish and Russian. Bottom: ICAO full name in Chinese and acronym in Arabic

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.

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.

* Point kilométrique, a French distance-measurement acronym

The name MADECH is a double acronym in the French language.

Shlomo Yitzhaki (), or in Latin Salomon Isaacides, and today generally known by the acronym Rashi (, RAbbi SHlomo Itzhaki ; February 22, 1040 – July 13, 1105 ), was a medieval French rabbi and long highly esteemed as a major contribution Ashkenazi Jewry gave to Torah study.

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization ( UNIDO ), French / Spanish acronym ONUDI, is a specialized agency in the United Nations system, headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

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.

Although there were accusations of human rights abuses, the OAS / UN International Civilian Mission in Haiti, known by the French acronym MICIVIH, found that the human rights situation in Haiti improved dramatically following Aristide's return to power in 1994.

Most students continue to a general and professional education college ( called CEGEP an acronym for the French Collège d ' enseignement général et professionel ) after high / secondary school.

* alternate acronym for the International Olympic Committee ( French: Comité international olympique )

The Political and Security Committee ( PSC or " COPS " from its French acronym ) first established as an interim body in 2000 is described by the Nice European Council Conclusions as the " linchpin " of the European Security and Defence Policy and the Common Foreign and Security Policy.

There was a related, well-organized political and ( occasionally ) military force within the Degar communities known by the French acronym, FULRO, or United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races.

There was a related, well-organized political and ( occasionally ) military force within the Dega communities known by the French acronym, FULRO, or United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races.

The Royal Lao Air Force ( French: Aviation Royale Laotienne – AVRL ), best known to the Americans by its English acronym ‘ RLAF ’, was the air force branch of the Royal Lao Armed Forces ( FAR ), the official military of the Royal Lao Government and the Kingdom of Laos during the Laotian Civil War between 1960 and 1975.

As is the case with football's FIFA, the FIA is generally known by its French name and acronym, even in non French-speaking countries, but is occasionally rendered as International Automobile Federation.

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.

Maso has said before that the name is a pun on pop singer Madonna, though the name is also a composite of Maso ( Japanese for " Masochist ") and Onna ( Japanese for " Woman ") alluding again to the fetishistic " bloody Anne " reference in the French acronym.

INSEAD ( the name was formerly an acronym for the French name " INStitut Européen d ' ADministration des Affaires ", or European Institute of Business Administration ) is an international graduate business school and research institution.

The Ontario Health Insurance Plan ( in French: Assurance-santé de l ' Ontario, and commonly known in both languages by the acronym OHIP, pronounced " oh-hip ") is the government-run health insurance plan for the Canadian province of Ontario.