* 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.

" 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.

The acronym comes from the French version of its name Conférence européenne des administrations des postes et des télécommunications.

The new car's name was an acronym of the company's partners ' surnames:

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.

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

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 name " FUDGE " was once an acronym for Freeform Universal Donated ( later, Do-it-yourself ) Gaming Engine and, though the acronym has since been dropped, that phrase remains a good summation of the game's design goals.

Originally the name FASA was an acronym for " Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration ", a joking allusion to the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup.

Founded in Sweden in 1943 by 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad, who later became one of the richest people in the world, the company's name is an acronym comprising the initials of the founder's name ( Ingvar Kamprad ), the farm where he grew up ( Elmtaryd ), and his hometown ( Agunnaryd, in Småland, South Sweden ).

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

The name LR is an acronym.

The name LAME is a recursive acronym for " LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder ".

His full Hebrew name is Rabbi Mosheh ben Maimon (), whose acronym forms " Rambam " ( רמב " ם ).

The Multi-Programming in the acronym of language name point to this.

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

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

It has been speculated that the name and acronym were selected in a sly reference to the movie Little Caesar, which featured a notorious gangster named Rico.

The name is an acronym for creativity, lifestyle, innovation, emotion though formerly communication, link, information and entertainment.

It was founded in 1965 by Damon Knight under the name Science Fiction Writers of America, Inc. and it retains the acronym SFWA after a very brief use of the SFFWA.

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

The acronym GUT was first coined in 1978 by CERN researchers John Ellis, Andrzej Buras, Mary K. Gaillard, and Dimitri Nanopoulos, however in the final version of their paper they opted for the less anatomical GUM ( Grand Unification Mass ).

Nanopoulos later that year was the first to use the acronym in a paper.

An extreme version of a paper candidate, is a " Name on Ballot ", often referred to by the acronym " nob ".

The descriptor " Finite-difference time-domain " and its corresponding " FDTD " acronym were originated by Allen Taflove in a 1980 paper in IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility.

In the mid 80s, economic analyst Ashish Bose coined an acronym BIMARU, in a paper submitted to then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

In the first diffusion MRI paper he introduced the ‘ b factor ’ ( from his name, “ B ” ihan ) to take into account the existence of cross-terms between applied diffusion-sensitizing and imaging gradient pulses, and the ‘ Apparent Diffusion Coefficient ’ ( acronym ADC ) concept, as “ diffusion ” measured by MRI in tissues is modulated several mechanisms ( restriction, hindrance, etc.

The provocative flyers of the K1 (" Water cannons are paper tigers ") that were signed with the acronym SDS, were a source of continual irritation.