* ATLAS is an acronym for Association for Tourism and Leisure Education, a European educational project

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

* AOTUS is also the acronym for the Archivist of the United States

ACN is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:

The Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración ( the Latin American Integration Association ; known as ALADI or, occasionally, by the English acronym LAIA ) is a Latin American trade integration association, based in Montevideo.

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 ).

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.

The acronym is tied to the name of an unpublished paper by Thomas Kurtz and is not a backronym.

" 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 name itself is an acronym, a pun, and a description.

Capitalised, BASIC is sometimes taken as an acronym that stands for British American Scientific International Commercial.

The global youth movement is known as NOAM ( an acronym for No ' ar Masorti ); its North American chapter is called the United Synagogue Youth.

Its name is an acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language, defining its primary domain in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.

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.

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

* CNS is a short acronym in musical jargon to reference the catalog numbering systems for single records

* ( Hanukkah ) is also the Hebrew acronym for — " Eight candles, and the halakha is like the House of Hillel ".

The acronym, ' DIN ,' is often incorrectly expanded as (" German Industry Standard ").

Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications ( Digital European Cordless Telecommunications ), usually known by the acronym DECT, is a digital communication standard, which is primarily used for creating cordless phone systems.

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.

The acronym is sometimes also fancifully expanded as Rabban Shel YIsrael ( Teacher of Israel ), or as Rabbenu SheYichyeh ( Our Rabbi, may he live ).

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 ).

In this context, the term " hop " is sometimes said to be an acronym for " hand-over point ".

This acronym was difficult to say and remember, and was sometimes jokingly referred to as " People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms ".

It is also sometimes given as an acronym standing for Please Log Off, Net Kook, though this is likely a backronym.

The name of this program is sometimes seen as " CORONA ", but its actual name " Corona " was a codeword, not an acronym for anything.

Although the acronym " PTK " is sometimes used informally, it is heavily discouraged by the society and is not permitted for official business.

* In macroeconomic theory, TB is sometimes used as an acronym for Trade Balance instead of NX ( Net Exports ), for instance in the ISLM model

The name is sometimes considered an acronym for " For Us By Us ", implying the product line was produced for a primarily African-American market.

Use of the prefix identifier is sometimes thought to be an acronym, but the various acronyms proposed do not fit with the wide range of programs it is used to identify.

In western literature it is sometimes incorrectly written STAVKA in uppercase, although the word is not an acronym.

Also, " extended three letter acronym " is sometimes abbreviated to " XTLA ".

* acronym: considered to be a " word " in its original sense formed from the initials of one or more words that is pronounceable like a normal word, such as NATO, sometimes in distinction to initialism ; reflecting a historical development from its component word initials

Pave or PAVE is sometimes used as an acronym for precision avionics vectoring equipment ; literally, electronics for controlling the speed and direction of aircraft.

* Israel Prison Service: Sherut Batei ha-Sohar: The Israel Prison Service ( IPS ), sometimes called by its acronym SHABAS, is a security organization which is an integral part of Israel ’ s system of law enforcement.

* End Of Discussion, an acronym sometimes used in text messaging

The Brian Setzer Orchestra ( sometimes going by the acronym BSO ) is a swing and jump blues band formed in 1990 by Stray Cats frontman Brian Setzer.

The term PLOKTA ( sometimes rendered in lowercase, plokta ) / plok't */ is an acronym for Press Lots Of Keys To Abort, and essentially means pressing random keys in an attempt to get some response from a ( computer ) system.

The acronym BBMMORPGs has sometimes been used to describe these as browser-based.

This process is sometimes referred to as D2D2T, an acronym for Disk to Disk to Tape.