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

As an acronym, it stands for Bourne-again shell, referring to its objective as a free replacement for the Bourne shell.

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

These aspects can be emphasized by using the alternative acronym WIMP, which stands for windows, icons, menus and pointing device.

HURD is a mutually recursive acronym, standing for HIRD of Unix-replacing daemons, where HIRD stands for HURD of interfaces representing depth.

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

With computer operating systems Ping or PING stands for Packet INternet Groper but is ordinarily written as " ping " instead of the proper acronym for which it stands.

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

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

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.

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

Zinf is a recursive acronym that stands for " Zinf Is Not FreeAmp!

The acronym NEC stands for " not elsewhere classified.

The GK School District's team name is the Cogs, an acronym created from the phrase " Community of Genoa Schools " that also evokes a feeling of teamwork not unlike the cogs in a machine, however some local history states that it stands for " Consolidation of Genoa Schools ".

* Den's name is actually, according to his creator, Richard Corben, an acronym, and stands for David Ellis Norman.

There has been much speculation over the origin of the band's name, and if it stands for anything, since it is written as an acronym.

One of dredg's main influences on the album, El Cielo, was a painting by Salvador Dalí entitled Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around a Pomegranate One Second Before Awakening, which is also what the acronym in the first song on the album, " Brushstroke: dcbtfoabaaposba ", stands for.

The acronym VAST stands for Visual Audio Sensory Theater and is the main creation of singer / songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jon Crosby.

MZ an acronym, stands for Motorradwerk Zschopau ( German for motorcycle factory at Zschopau ) in the Erzgebirge region of Saxony.

Rutgers University criminologist Ronald V. Clarke says shoplifters steal " hot products " that are " CRAVED ," an acronym he created that stands for " concealable, removable, available, valuable, enjoyable and disposable.

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

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

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

* Anglo-Saxon Protestant, as part of the acronym WASP, for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

* AW, acronym for Tropical savanna climate in the Köppen classification system

* BMI, acronym for Broadcast Music, Inc., a collecting society for composers ' copyrights

COINTELPRO ( an acronym for Counterintelligence Program ) was a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) aimed at surveying, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.

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.

Using the SAFE strategy ( acronym for surgery for in-growing or in-turned lashes, antibiotics, facial cleanliness, and environmental improvements ), the World Health Organisation aims for the global elimination of trachoma by 2020 ( GET 2020 initiative ).

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 ".

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

Decca employees used to joke that DECCA was an acronym for Dedicated Englishmen Causing Chaos Abroad.

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.

When first launched, it struggled under the overhead of the software and operating system, which consumed almost 60 MB on disk, a vast sum at the time, leading some wags to suggest that the pre-announce code name for the series, PACIFIC, was actually an acronym meaning " Performance Ain't Critical If Function Is Complete ".

This name is often explained as an acronym of " If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning " ( Psalms, 137: 5 )- " אם אשכחך ירושלים, תשכח ימיני " (" Im Eshkakhekh Yerushalaiym Tishkakh Yemini ") or " Land of Israel, Torah of Israel "- " ארץ ישראל, תורת ישראל " (" Eretz YIsrael, Torat YIsrael ").

" The acronym IYDKMIGTHTKY stands for " If You Don't Kill Me I'm Going To Have To Kill You ," which is the most repeated phrase in the song, other than " Gimme That.