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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 ).
Although the term Gulag originally referred to a government agency, the acronym acquired the qualities of a common noun, denoting: the Soviet system of prison-based, unfree labor — including specific labor, punishment, criminal, political, and transit camps for men, women, and children.
The term " JPEG " is an acronym for the Joint Photographic Experts Group, which created the standard.
The term " laser " originated as an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
ARM originated as an acronym for " Amalgamation of Regional Militia ", though this is not a term in current usage by the time of the Known Space novels.
The term RADAR was coined in 1941 by the United States Navy as an acronym for RAdio Detection And Ranging.
The term is derived from the acronym SABR, which stands for the Society for American Baseball Research.
Although radio frequency is a rate of oscillation, the term " radio frequency " or its acronym " RF " are also used as a synonym for radio – i. e. to describe the use of wireless communication, as opposed to communication via electric wires.
; ZIP code: The standard term in the United States and the Philippines ; ZIP is an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan.
; PIN code / pincode: The standard term in India ; PIN is an acronym for Postal Index Number.
The term ZIP, an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan, is properly written in capital letters and was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently, and therefore more quickly, when senders use the code in the postal address.
In this context, the term " hop " is sometimes said to be an acronym for " hand-over point ".
Despite the fact that LGBT does not nominally encompass all individuals in smaller communities ( see Variants below ), the term is generally accepted to include those not identified in the four-letter acronym.
The magazine Anything That Moves coined the acronym FABGLITTER ( from Fetish such as the BDSM lifestyle community, Allies or poly-Amorous as in Polyamorous couples became more used, Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Intersexed, Transgender, Transsexual Engendering Revolution or inter-Racial attraction ), although this term has not made its way into common usage.
GULag or Gulág is an acronym for the Russian term G < nowiki ></ nowiki > lavnoye U < nowiki ></ nowiki > pravleniye ispravitelno-trudovyh Lag < nowiki ></ nowiki > erey ( Главное Управление Исправительно-трудовых Лагерей ), or " Chief Administration of Corrective Labour Camps ", the bureaucratic name of the governing board of the Soviet labour camp system, and by metonymy, the camp system itself.
Scuba became the generic term for that type of open-circuit breathing set, and soon the acronym SCUBA became a noun — " scuba " — all in lower-case.
The word ' Mego ' is an acronym referring to " My Eyes Glaze Over ", an expression attributed to futurologist Herman Kahn ( the use of the term in hacker-culture is documented in the Jargon File ).
As an acronym or abbreviation, the term AAA may refer to:
Fans of Billy Milano and the band Stormtroopers of Death have often used the term mosh as an acronym for the phrase " move over shit head " during crowded shows.
Newi is an acronym for NEw World Infrastructure, a software architecture for software componentry, mostly known as Newi Business Objects which coined the term business object.
The term Great Patriotic War ( ( acronym " ВОВ "), Velíkaya Otéchestvennaya voyná ,) is used in Russia and former republics of the Soviet Union to describe the period from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945 in the many fronts of the eastern campaign of World War II between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany with its allies.
The U. S. government has stated that the term TEMPEST is not an acronym and does not have any particular meaning.
The word " yahoo " is an acronym for " Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle " The term " hierarchical " described how the Yahoo database was arranged in layers of subcategories.
Ray ( 2000 ) uses the term, with the acronym ' LV ', in this sense.

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ETA (, ), an acronym for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (; " Basque Homeland and Freedom ") is an armed Basque nationalist and separatist organization.
The highly successful BattleTech line led to a series of video games, some of the first virtual reality gaming suites, called Virtual World ( created by a subdivision of the company known at the time of development as ESP, an acronym for " Extremely Secret Project ") and a Saturday-morning animated TV series.
Symbolics ' Zmacs text editor, a variant of Emacs, was implemented in a text-processing package named " ZWEI ", an acronym for " Zwei was Eine initially "" Eine " being an acronym for " Eine Is Not Emacs " ( both recursive acronyms and puns on the German words for " One " (" Eins ", " Eine ") and " Two " (" Zwei ")).
* Sigma Tau Delta, an English honor society ( acronym for " Sincerity, Truth, and Design ")
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.
Telephony's initial idea returns to POTS, ( an acronym for " plain old telephone service ") technically called the PSTN ( public-switched telephone network ).
The word is an acronym formed from the initial Hebrew letters of the three traditional subdivisions of the Tanakh: The Torah (" Teaching ", also known as the Five Books of Moses or Pentateuch ), the Nevi ' im (" Prophets ") and the Ketuvim (" Writings ").
* Empire V ( the original Russian title Ампир В is an acronym of the word " vampire ") by Victor Pelevin ( 2006 )
tcsh ( " tee-cee-shell ", " tee-shell ", or as an acronym " tee cee ess aitch ") is a Unix shell based on and compatible with the C shell ( csh ).
* Allegedly a war cry of the Crusaders, described as an acronym for Hierosolyma est perdita ( Latin for " Jerusalem is lost ")
The show within the show, Silverstone, is about a spy who works for Mission Omega Matrix ( the acronym being a pun on the word " Mom ") in order to save the world from villains like Dr. Hypnoto and the Rat.
Nili (, an acronym of a phrase נצח ישראל לא ישקר ( I Samuel 15: 29 ; transliteration: Netzakh Yisrael Lo Yishaker, translation: " The Eternity ( GOD ) of Israel will not lie ") was a Jewish espionage network which assisted the United Kingdom in its fight against the Ottoman Empire in Palestine during World War I.
Loewe, Löwe, or Levai, ( c. 1520 – 17 September 1609 ) widely known to scholars of Judaism as the Maharal of Prague, or simply The MaHaRaL, the Hebrew acronym of " Moreinu ha-Rav Loew ," (" Our Teacher, Rabbi Loew ") was an important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, and philosopher who, for most of his life, served as a leading rabbi in the cities of Mikulov in Moravia and Prague in Bohemia.
Hamas ( an acronym of Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamat al-Islāmiyyah, meaning " Islamic Resistance Movement ") is a fundamentalist Islamist Palestinian organization with a socio-political wing and a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
Prime ( Latin for " first ") or the acronym PRIME may also refer to:
Hipparcos ( an acronym for " High precision parallax collecting satellite ") was a scientific mission of the European Space Agency ( ESA ), launched in 1989 and operated between 1989 and 1993.
Harburg's nickname " Yipsel " ( often shortened to " Yip ") came about as " Yipsel " is how people pronounced " YPSL " -- the acronym for the Young People's Socialist League of which he was a member.
This acronym was pronounced eye-pee-ell and was used as a verb (" IPL the system ") with past tense (" then we IPLed ") and present tense (" while we were IPLing ") and so forth-as well as a noun (" after the next IPL.
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.
The VPRO ( originally an acronym for Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep, or " Liberal Protestant Radio Broadcasting Company ") was established in the Netherlands in 1926 as a religious broadcasting organization.

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