; ZIP code: The standard term in the United States and the Philippines ; ZIP is an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan.

The term ZIP code was originally registered as a servicemark ( a type of trademark ) by the U. S. Postal Service, but its registration has since expired.

The term Plymouth Meeting generally refers to most of Plymouth Township, as the township's ZIP code is congruent with that of Plymouth Meeting.

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.

; PIN code / pincode: The standard term in India ; PIN is an acronym for Postal Index Number.

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.

The acronym term " YBA " ( or " yBa ") was not coined until 1996 ( in Art Monthly magazine ).

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.

'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.

Let us not confuse the issue by labeling the objective or the method `` psychoanalytic '', for this is a well established term of art for the specific ideas and procedures initiated by Sigmund Freud and his followers for the study and treatment of disordered personalities.

I use this term to mean three things: a search for the human significance of an event or state of affairs, a tendency to look at wholes rather than parts, and a tendency to respond to these events and wholes with feeling.

Suggest the following twenty-first-century amendment: By moving the term `` Republic '' to lower case, substituting the modern phrase, `` move ahead '' for the stodgy `` keep '', and by using the Postmaster's name on every envelope ( in caps, of course, with the `` in spite '' as faded as possible ), the slogan cannot fail.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

the term of loans for working capital is 6 years.

Following the term of service in Japan, each emissary returns for a brief visit to the campus to interpret his experience to the college community.

For the near term, however, it must be realized that the industrial and commercial market is somewhat more sensitive to general business conditions than is the military market, and for this reason I would expect that any gain in 1961 may be somewhat smaller than those of recent years ; ;

Does your company have a program for selecting and developing sales and marketing management personnel for the longer term??

for, using the fact that N and N' commute Af and so when R is sufficiently large every term in this expression for Af will be 0.

The term enquetes demographiques, previously used for the supplementary investigations carried out in connection with the administrative censuses, was used for the new investigations.

no sort of pricing at all for any goods or services, and therefore no market in the economic sense of the term.

The K factor, a term used to denote the rate of heat transmission through a material ( B.t.u./sq. ft. of material/hr./*0F./in. of thickness ) ranges from 0.24 to 0.28 for flexible urethane foams and from 0.12 to 0.16 for rigid urethane foams, depending upon the formulation, density, cell size, and nature of blowing agents used.

Indeed, one school superintendent in a large city objects to the use of the term comprehensive high school for the senior high schools in his city, because these schools do not offer strictly vocational programs.

the first use of the word `` rustler '' was as a synonym for `` hustler '', becomin' an established term for any person who was active, pushin', and bustlin' in any enterprise.

Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.