ASA as an abbreviation or initialism may stand for:

ASL is a common initialism for American Sign Language, and may also refer to:

* An initialism for " age, sex, location ", commonly used either for personal advertisement or in an instant messaging conversation

AZ (), an initialism for Alkmaar Zaanstreek, is an association football club from the city of Alkmaar, Netherlands.

This includes looking for living examples of animals that are considered extinct, such as dinosaurs ; animals whose existence lacks physical evidence but which appear in myths, legends, or are reported, such as Bigfoot and Chupacabra ; and wild animals dramatically outside their normal geographic ranges, such as phantom cats or " ABCs " ( an initialism commonly used by cryptozoologists that stands for Alien Big Cats ).

In keeping with Doriot's instructions, the name was an initialism for " Programmable Data Processor ", leaving off the term " computer ".

The terminology is further blurred by the ( now rare ) synonym finite Fourier transform for the DFT, which apparently predates the term " fast Fourier transform " ( Cooley et al., 1969 ) but has the same initialism.

Conventional PCI ( PCI is an initialism formed from Peripheral Component Interconnect, part of the PCI Local Bus standard and often shortened to PCI ) is a computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer.

The Franz Joseph Blueprints, the book The Making of Star Trek and a handful of Star Trek novels state that NCC is an initialism for " Naval Construction Contract ".

The Segway PT ( PT is an initialism for personal transporter while the old suffix HT was an initialism for human transporter ) has electric motors powered by Valence Technology phosphate-based lithium-ion batteries which can be charged from household current.

The name is an initialism for Transaction Processing Facility.

UOP is an initialism that may stand for the following:

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.

Currently in its eleventh edition and published under the name Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised ( and often referred to using the initialism RONR ) it is the most widely used parliamentary authority in the United States, according to the National Association of Parliamentarians, a professional association of approximately 4, 000 members which provides education and accreditation certifications for parliamentarians.

It is commonly referred to as BWI, BWI Airport or BWI Marshall, BWI being an initialism for " Baltimore / Washington International " and the facility's IATA Airport Code.

MMX is officially a meaningless initialism trademarked by Intel ; unofficially, the initials have been variously explained as standing for MultiMedia eXtension, Multiple Math eXtension, or Matrix Math eXtension.

In Finnish and Swedish, the colon can appear inside words in a manner similar to the apostrophe in the English possessive case, connecting a grammatical suffix to an abbreviation or initialism, a special symbol, or a digit ( e. g., Finnish USA: n for the genitive case of " USA ", %: ssa for the inessive case of "%", or 20: een for the illative case of " 20 ").

In an interview with Web Techniques Magazine editor Michael Floyd, Dr. Goldfarb explains that he coined the term GML to be an initialism for the three researchers, Charles Goldfarb, Ed Mosher and Ray Lorie who worked on the project.

RAS syndrome refers to the redundant use of one or more of the words that make up an acronym or initialism with the abbreviation itself, thus in effect repeating one or more words.

The initialism has become mainstream as a self-designation and has been adopted by the majority " sexuality and gender identity-based " community centers and media in the United States and some other English-speaking countries.

Furthermore, the initialism " LGBTIH " has seen use in India to encompass the hijra third gender identity and the related subculture.

Microsoft has stated that the " CE " is not an intentional initialism, but many people believe CE stands for " Consumer Electronics " or " Compact Edition ".

Use of " TLA " spread through both industry and academia, and it has now become a generally understood initialism.

is an orphan initialism, declaring that it has no meaning at all or as what Karl Roy stated in an interview, fans of the band can freely decide in making up any meanings that fit the initials.

Dalboz calls the player " AFGNCAAP ", a satirical, politically-correct initialism for " Ageless, Faceless, Gender-Neutral, Culturally-Ambiguous Adventure Person "— a joking reference to many adventure games, such as Infocom's original Zork games, in which the player's character has no identity, name, or background.

The abbreviation or initialism SCD has several different meanings:

It has maintained this initialism through all its subsequent name and ownership changes.

Punk, however, later changed CM into an orphan initialism, declaring that it has no meaning, though when asked since he has taken to making up meanings that fit the initials, going so far as to make up long stories to explain the origins that do not match the actual origin story at all.

Originally called the Association of Cricket Statisticians, the words " and Historians " were added in 1993 but it has continued to use the initialism ACS.

The connector's name is an initialism derived from the names of three conducting parts of the plug: tip, ring, and sleeve — hence TRS.

The airport's name is an initialism formed from the names of these three communities and it is governed by a nine-member commission made up of three members from each of them.

A three-letter acronym, three-letter abbreviation, or TLA is an abbreviation, specifically an acronym, alphabetism, or initialism, consisting of three letters.

IAA is a three letter initialism that may stand for:

IHTFP is an initialism coined at MIT and is commonly used there as well as the three US service academies.

BIH is a three letter initialism that can stand for:

The initialism or three letter acronym PMG may refer to:

DSC is an initialism or abbreviation used in many fields:

In use since the 1990s, the term LGBT is an adaptation of the initialism " LGB ", which itself started replacing the phrase gay community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the community in question felt did not accurately represent all those to whom it referred.

* an initialism for many given names, including Jean-Paul and Jean-Pierre

or is a religious initialism variously derived from the similar Latin expressions verbi dei minister or verbum dei minister or verbi divini minister or even verbi divini magister, typically appended as a name suffix to a person's full name to denote his status ( sometimes self-determined ) as a " minister of the divine word ".

The name was an initialism of the " Bible Institute of Los Angeles ".

In 1993, after having split from Maurice Starr, the group shortened their name to the initialism NKOTB.

One award commonly referred to as an " MVP " award, despite the fact that its official name does not match the " MVP " initialism:

The name MBNA is an initialism that was derived as an abbreviation or acronym of Maryland Bank, National Association.

On 3 November 1990 the party in its current form was officially established, by dropping the initialism SKH from its name.

The group performed one show under the name N. W an initialism of No Worries, until it was pointed out to them that confusion may be caused performing under that name due to the 90's rap troupe N. W. A ..

Finally the crew settled on the name N-Dubz a syllabic shortening of the initialism N. W, with the W being shortened to Dub, and the addition of the z to highlight the plurality of the lack of worries.

The name is an initialism standing for Quality, Value, Convenience.

Instead of being released under the Xbox name, the Xbox 360 was released ( 2005 ), and XNA came to stand for " XNA's Not Acronymed ", which is true because XNA is an initialism, not an acronym.

AZF ( French initialism for AZote Fertilisant, i. e. nitrogen fertiliser ) was the name of a chemical factory near Toulouse, France, which exploded on 21 September 2001.

For example, some uses of the Central Intelligence Agency logo, name, and initialism are regulated under the CIA Act of 1949 ().

RPG IV ( a. k. a. RPGLE and ILE RPG ) was released in 1994 and the name, officially, was no longer an initialism.

The name LLVM was originally an initialism for Low Level Virtual Machine, but the initialism caused widespread confusion because the scope of the project is not limited to the creation of virtual machines.

* Schools which are normally known by a different contraction of their official name, or an acronym / initialism, are listed by their most common name.

The name DSM is the initialism of the English translation of the company's original Dutch name, de Nederlandse Staatsmijnen ( Dutch State Mines ).