Concept cluster: Graphics and sound > Acronyms
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(theater) Initialism of Henry VI., by William Shakespeare.
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(journalism) Initialism of who, what, when, where, why, how. (the facts of the matter) [A person under discussion; a question of which person.]
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Abbreviation of Aid and Attendance (additional pension funding provided to certain United States war veterans)
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Initialism of abbreviations and acronyms or acronyms and abbreviations.
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Initialism of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company: an American chain of grocery stores that operated from 1859 to 2015.
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Initialism of Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation.
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Initialism of American Academy of Physician Assistants.
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(military) Initialism of antiaircraft.
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Acronym of anti-access area denial. [network-on-network warfare.]
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Initialism of accumulated adjustments account, in US Federal Income Tax
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American Association for the Advancement of Atheism
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Initialism of American Afro-Asian Educational Exchange.
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Initialism of American Academy of Allergy and Immunology.
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Initialism of Antiaircraft Artillery Intelligence Service.
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Initialism of American Association of Applied Nutrition.
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Initialism of Antiaircraft Artillery Operations Center.
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Initialism of Association for the Advancement of Aging Research.
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(military) Initialism of anti-aircraft battery.
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Initialism of Antique Automobile Club of America.
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Initialism of American Academy of Crown and Bridge Prosthodontics.
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Initialism of American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry.
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Initialism of American Association of Cleft Palate Rehabilitation.
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Initialism of Airborne Astrographic Camera System.
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(military) Acronym of anti-aircraft cooperation unit.
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(military) Initialism of area air defense commander.
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Initialism of army air defense command post.
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(military, US) Acronym of Army and Air Force Exchange Service.
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Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (India)
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(military) Initialism of air-to-air missile. [(military) A missile that is fired from an aircraft to attack another aircraft.]
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Initialism of American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
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Initialism of Australian Associated Press.
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Initialism of Asian American or Pacific Islander.
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(anthropology) Initialism of Australian Anthropological Society.
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(military) Abbreviation of air assault.
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(military) Initialism of Assault Amphibious Vehicle.
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(military) Initialism of airspace coordination area.
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Initialism of American contract bridge league.
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(business) action-centred leadership
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(aviation) Initialism of aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance. [A vehicle capable of atmospheric flight due to interaction with the air, such as buoyancy or lift]
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Initialism of Anxiety Disorders Association of America.
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(aerospace) Abbreviation of air defense center or aerospace defense center.
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(networking, Internet) The protocol used to translate IP addresses into MAC addresses to support communication on a LAN.
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Initialism of (United States) Atomic Energy Commission.
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(computing) Initialism of application enrollment token.
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(military, aviation) Initialism of air force base.
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(US, military, dated) Initialism of auxiliary floating drydock barge.
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(aviation, parachuting) Initialism of accelerated freefall.
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Acronym of Airborne Flight Information System, an avionics system proprietary to Honeywell Aerospace
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(Australian rules football) Initialism of Australian Football League Germany.
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(economics) Initialism of adjusted gross income.
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(military, aviation) Abbreviation of air-to-ground missile.
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(Canada, health, medicine, government) Initialism of Alberta Health Services.
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Initialism of American Institute for Cancer Research.
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Initialism of air-launched cruise missile.
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Initialism of assisted living facility.
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(aviation, countable) Initialism of approach lighting system.
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(computing) Acronym of Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.
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Initialism of American Motors Corporation.
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(stock ticker symbol) Initialism of Amgen.
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(military) Initialism of advanced medium-range air-to-air missile.
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(military, US) Acronym of Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company.
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(US, Navy) Abbreviation of auxiliary oiler. [(US, Navy) A naval oil tanker with the ability to perform underway replenishment of fuel oil or ship oil to ships of the fleet.]
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(Australia) Initialism of Australian Public Service (“the Australian federal civil service”).
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(banking) Initialism of annual percentage yield.
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Initialism of American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Initialism of Association for Science Education.
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(military) Abbreviation of antisubmarine warfare.
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(US military) Initialism of Army Tactical Missile System, a type of surface-to-surface missile.
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(rail transport) Initialism of automatic train control.
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(US, military, nautical) Initialism of auxiliary tugboat fleet.; a naval fleet tugboat, a fleet tug that can keep up with a fleet on operations
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(military) Acronym of ammunition technical officer.
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Initialism of arbitrary waveform generator.
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(aviation) Acronym of automated weather observing system.
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Initialism of Building and Housing.
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Initialism of British Amusement Catering Trade Association.
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Abbreviation of British Chambers of Commerce.
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(computing) Initialism of Boot Configuration Data.
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(software engineering) Initialism of business-driven development.
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(software engineering) Initialism of Big Design Up Front.
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(databases, Microsoft) Acronym of Business Intelligence Development Studio.
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(US) Initialism of Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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(electronics) Initialism of battery management system.
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Initialism of benefit of the doubt. [A favorable judgement given in the absence of full evidence.]
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(computing, countable) Initialism of BIOS parameter block.
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Initialism of Blue River virus.
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Initialism of Better Sleep Council.
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Initialism of bilateral sagittal split osteotomy.
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(computing, graph theory) Initialism of binary search tree.
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(Singapore) Initialism of build-to-order. [(Singapore) of or relating to a public housing system in flats are built according to demand.]
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(Singapore English, transport, countable) Initialism of Basic Theory Test. A computerised knowledge test on the Singapore road rules held at a driving center.
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Initialism of Baylor University.
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Initialism of Burrows-Wheeler transform. [An algorithm used in data compression that rearranges a character string into runs of similar characters.]
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Initialism of black woman, white man: an interracial romance novel genre
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(Canada, politics) Initialism of Canadian Alliance, Conservative-Reform Alliance Party, Reform-Conservative Alliance Party
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Initialism of Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation.
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Initialism of Canadian Aviation Electronics, a Canadian maker of flight simulators.
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Initialism of Community of All Hallows.
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(medicine) Initialism of cyclic AMP.
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(Ireland) Initialism of Central Applications Office, the official body tasked with handling applications for students' first year of college.
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(aviation) Initialism of calibrated airspeed. [(aviation) An aircraft's indicated airspeed corrected for errors introduced by instrument variations and by the position on the aircraft of the sensors of the aircraft's pitot-static system.]
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(US) Initialism of Congressional Black Caucus.
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(software engineering) Initialism of component-based development.
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Acronym of content-based visual image retrieval.
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(automotive) Initialism of carbon ceramic brake.
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(Oxford University) Initialism of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
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Initialism of Caroline Chisholm Catholic College, Melbourne, Australia
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Initialism of cold-cathode fluorescent lamp.
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(business) Initialism of chief compliance officer.
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Initialism of Camden City School District, New Jersey
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(automotive) Initialism of Capacitor Discharge Ignition.
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(programming) Initialism of content of decrement of register; cdr.
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Civil Engineering Department
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Initialism of Central European Initiative.
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Acronym of Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering.
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Center for Employee Services.
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Initialism of Common Entrance Test.
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(business) Initialism of Controlled Foreign Corporation.
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Initialism of context-free language. [(formal theory) A language generated by a context-free grammar.]
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Initialism of A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. (1985)
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(physics, standardisation) Initialism of General Conference on Weights and Measures. (French abbreviation)
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(espionage) Initialism of CounterIntelligence.
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(UK) Initialism of Charitable incorporated organisation.
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(medicine) Initialism of congenital insensitivity to pain. [(medicine) A rare inborn disorder, the sufferers of which cannot feel pain.]
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(physics, standardisation) Initialism of International Committee for Weights and Measures. (French abbreviation)
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(US) Initialism of Critical Incident Response Group.
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(graphical user interface) Acronym of custom look and feel.
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(computing, typography) Initialism of Common Locale Data Repository: a project of the Unicode Consortium to provide locale data in the XML format for use in computer applications.
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(computing) Acronym of common Lisp object system.
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(computing) Initialism of Common Language Specification (specification for .NET) [(programming) A subset of the base Common Type System comprising the rules to which any CLS-compliant language targeting the Common Language Infrastructure should conform.]
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(US) Initialism of Center for Mental Health Services.
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(Indo-Aryan linguistics) Initialism of Central Middle Indo-Aryan.
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Initialism of computerized maintenance management system.
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(computing) Initialism of content management system. [(computing) A computer software system for organizing and facilitating collaborative creation of documents and other content, especially for loading to a website]
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(business, Siemens) Initialism of communication, media and technology. [The act or fact of communicating anything; transmission.]
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Initialism of Consumer News and Business Channel, an American television channel.
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Initialism of Christina Noble Children's Foundation.
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(humorous, derogatory, US politics) Initialism of Clinton News Network. [(derogatory) CNN.]
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Initialism of conflict of interest. [(law) A situation in which an individual or legal entity in a position of trust (such as an attorney, investment advisor, broker, politician, executive, director, scientist or physician) has competing professional or personal interests.]
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(Internet) Acronym of Computational Infrastructure for Operations Research.
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(military) Initialism of common operational picture.
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(Britain) Initialism of county primary or community primary (school)
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(US) Initialism of Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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(astronomy, countable) Abbreviation of circumplanetary disc.
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Initialism of Consumer Price Index.
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Initialism of Centre for Public Interest Litigation. (in India)
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(automotive) Initialism of Certified Pre-Owned. (referring to a used car with a manufacturer's warranty)
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(rail transport, Canada, US) Initialism of Canadian Pacific Railway.
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(prisons) Initialism of custodial release date.
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(distributed computing) Initialism of conflict-free replicated data type.
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(clinical science) Initialism of case report form.
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(medicine) Initialism of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumonia.
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(biology) Initialism of circumsporozoite.
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(Northern Ireland) Initialism of Central Services Agency.
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Initialism of Canadian Society for Civil Engineering.
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(microelectronics) Initialism of Customer-Specified Integrated Circuit.
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Initialism of Center for Science in the Public Interest.
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(finance) Initialism of cheapest to deliver.
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(finance) Initialism of confidential treatment order.
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(medicine) Initialism of central venous access device.
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Initialism of compact video cassette.
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(electronics manufacturing) Initialism of chemical vapor/vapour deposited.
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(medicine) Initialism of central venous pressure.
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(stock ticker symbol) Abbreviation of Chevron Corporation.
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(text messaging) Initialism of complete waste of time.
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Initialism of Department of the Army.
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(Australian rules football) Initialism of Danish Australian Football League.
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(web development, video) Acronym of Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP.
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(computer hardware) Initialism of data circuit-terminating equipment.
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Initialism of Diploma in Child Health.
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A distributed control system.
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(countable) Initialism of directional control valve.
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(computing) Initialism of Dynamic Data Exchange.
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(telecommunications) Initialism of direct dial-in.
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(Incoterm) Initialism of Delivered Duty Paid. [(Incoterm) Meaning the seller pays for the all transportation to a named place in the country of import.]
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(computing) Initialism of data distribution service.
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(Philippines, historical) Acronym of Department of Education, Culture, and Sports.
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(US) Initialism of Department of Health and Human Service.
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(US) Initialism of Department of Homeland Security.
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Initialism of direct inward dialing. [The ability to make an external telephone call to an internal extension within an organization.]
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(military, US) Initialism of Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System.
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(film) Initialism of digital imaging technician.
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(video games) Initialism of Donkey Kong Country 2.
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(computing) Initialism of Dimensional Markup Language.
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Initialism of Dynamic-maturational model of attachment and adaptation.
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(military) Initialism of Destroyer Minesweeper.
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Initialism of dilution of precision (in GPS)
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(film) Initialism of director of photography. [Synonym of cinematographer]
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(Canada) Initialism of Defence Production Act.
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(electronics) Initialism of digital pre-distortion. [(electronics) A technique utilized to increase linearity or compensate for nonlinearity in power amplifiers.]
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(communication, electronics) Initialism of dedicated physical data channel.
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(computing) Initialism of DOS Protected Mode Interface.
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data protection officer
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(electronics) Initialism of direct Polar RF Power.
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(nautical) Initialism of dynamically positioned vessel.
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(computing) Initialism of Delta RPM Package Manager.
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(music) Initialism of dal segno.
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(cryptography) Initialism of Digital Signature Algorithm.
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(Malaysia, politics) Initialism of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (“Malaysian politician and Prime Minister”).
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(cartography) Initialism of digital surface model.
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(Internet) Initialism of digital subscriber network.
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(computing) Initialism of dynamic shared object.
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(nautical, submarines) Initialism of deep submergence vehicle.
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Initialism of destination time of arrival.
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Initialism of Digital Video Broadcasting.
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Initialism of digital video compression.
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(physics) Initialism of deeply virtual Compton scattering.
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(Britain) Initialism of Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre.
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Initialism of Dalvik Virtual Machine.
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Initialism of Deutsche Welle.
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(forestry) Initialism of down woody debris.
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(countable) Initialism of durable water repellent.
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Initialism of distribute website locator.
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(law) Initialism of environmental assessment. [An assessment of the environmental consequences of a plan, policy, or project prior to the decision to move forward.]
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Initialism of Employee Assistance Program.
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Initialism of East Asia Summit.
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(US) Initialism of Employee Benefits Security Administration (a division of the Department of Labor)
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(international law) Initialism of European Communities (1965-1993), a forerunner of the European Union.
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Initialism of Eastern College Athletic Conference.
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(medicine) Initialism of expanded-criteria donor.
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(cell biology, physiology) Initialism of extracellular fluid.
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(music) Acronym of East Coast Music Association.
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(medicine) Initialism of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
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(space science) Initialism of European Cooperation for Space Standardization.
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Alternative form of EDO RAM
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Initialism of extended data out random access memory.
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Alternative form of EDO DRAM
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Alternative form of EDO DRAM
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(historical) Initialism of European Economic Community, forerunner of the European Community (EC) and the European Union (EU).
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(medicine) Initialism of epidural electrical stimulation.
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(Internet, electronics, politics) Initialism of Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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(automotive) Initialism of electronic fuel injection.
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Initialism of encrypted for transmission only.
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Initialism of emotionally handicapped.
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Initialism of Equality and Human Rights Commission.
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Initialism of environment, health, safety. [The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.]
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Initialism of excess information rate.
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(computing) Initialism of enterprise information system.
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(US, taxation) Initialism of earned income tax credit.
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(Java programming language) Initialism of Enterprise JavaBean.
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(medicine) Abbreviation of extracorporeal life support.
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(medicine, physiology) Initialism of euglobulin lysis time. [A blood test that measures how long clots take to break down (lysis) in the blood.]
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(military, aviation) Initialism of Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System.
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(computing) Initialism of end of message.
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Acronym of Electric Reliability Council of Texas.
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(medicine) Initialism of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.
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(US, law) Acronym of Employee Retirement Income Security Act. (of 1974)
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(operations, software) Initialism of enterprise resource planning.
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Initialism of Environmental and Social Impact Assessment.
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(video games) Initialism of Entertainment Software Rating Board.
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(medicine) Initialism of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy.
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(computing, data warehousing) Initialism of extract, transform, load. [(transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.]
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Initialism of Educational Testing Service: the world's largest private nonprofit educational testing and assessment organization, founded in 1947.
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Abbreviation of endogenous viral element. [Viral DNA embedded within the genome of a non-virus organism which is left over from an ancestral infection which integrated viral DNA into the genomic heritage of the organism's ancestry.]
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Initialism of fleeing and eluding.
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Initialism of special effects.
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(soccer) Initialism of Football Association, especially the English Football Association. See also Scottish FA and Welsh FA.
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(military, nautical, aviation) Initialism of Fleet Air Arm (carrier-borne air force of the U.K.'s Royal Navy).
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(military, aviation) Initialism of Forward Air Control.
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Fixed-bit index.
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Initialism of fetal bovine serum.
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Initialism of flight control technology.
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Initialism of foreign direct investment law.
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Initialism of frequency division multiple access.
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(education) Initialism of Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
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(finance) Acronym of Fair Isaac Corporation, the first corporation to introduce credit scores.
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Initialism of Federation of International Lacrosse.
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(government, US): Initialism of Federal Information Processing Standard (a government standard of the United States of America)
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Initialism of first information report.
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(proofreading) Initialism of flush left. [(typography) Alignment of the text aligned along the left margin or gutter.]
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Initialism of feline lower urinary tract disease.
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(countable) Initialism of finance minister.
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Initialism of Friends of the Earth.
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Initialism of freedom of information (legislation) [A legal right of the general public to obtain information held by a government.]
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Initialism of Friends of the Los Angeles River.
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Initialism of follow-on maintenance.
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(law) Initialism of freedom of panorama. [(copyright law) A provision in copyright law that permits taking photographs or video footage, or creating other images (such as paintings), of buildings and sometimes artworks that are permanently located in a public place, and publishing such images without infringing copyright.]
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Initialism of flashlamp pulsed dye laser.
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Initialism of free phone service.
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(Canada) Initialism of federal, provincial, territorial. [Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations.]
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(aviation) Initialism of fuel quantity indicator.
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(US) Initialism of formerly restricted data: a classification level below RD that allows sharing among military agencies.
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(gaming) Initialism of fantasy role-playing.
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(radio) Initialism of Family Radio Service.
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Initialism of fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.
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(US) Initialism of forest service.
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(computer science) Initialism of finite-state automaton.
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Initialism of Free Territory of Trieste.
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(telecommunications) Initialism of fiber to the loop.
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(UK, census forms) Initialism of framework knitter. [The operator of a knitting machine, especially of a stocking frame]
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Abbreviation of general and administrative.
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(wikis) Initialism of good article.
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(video games) Initialism of Game Boy Advance.
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(telecommunications) Initialism of guaranteed bitrate.
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(law, England & Wales) Initialism of Graduate Diploma in Law.
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Initialism of ground fault circuit interrupt/interruptor.
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(real estate) Initialism of good-faith estimate.
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Initialism of ground fault interrupt.
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Initialism of government fiscal year.
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Initialism of gross internal product.
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Initialism of general ledger accounting code.
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Acronym of generic learning outcome.
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Initialism of good laboratory practice.
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(politics, UK) Initialism of General Management Committee. (the general committee of a constituency party of the British Labour Party.)
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Initialism of Great Man-Made River.
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(hydrology, institution) Initialism of Global Marine and Polar Programme.
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(economics, initialism) Gross national income.
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(computing, copyright law) Initialism of GNU Free Documentation License.
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Initialism of general-purpose. [for general purposes; all-purpose]
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Initialism of gallons per day.
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(motor racing) Initialism of Grand Prix Drivers Association.
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Initialism of general-purpose machine gun. ( GP + MG)
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(Israel) Initialism of government press office.
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(geology) Initialism of ground-penetrating radar.
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(Britain) Initialism of Georgius Rex. (on coins, letterboxes, etc.) The royal cypher for George V and his son George VI, kings of Great Britain
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Initialism of gender reassignment surgery.
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(politics) Initialism of global studies. [Synonym of international relations, commonly abbreviated as GS.]
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Initialism of general sales agent. The travel company having such an agreement.
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Initialism of green sulphur bacterium, green sulfur bacteria.
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Initialism of Gender and Sexual Diversity.
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(forestry) Initialism of growing stock level.
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Initialism of grams per square metre (unit for measuring the weight of paper)
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Initialism of good scientific practice.
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Initialism of gunshot residue.
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Initialism of Government Statistical Service.
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(geology) Initialism of Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point.
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(US, military) Initialism of geographically separated unit: a military unit not at the same physical location or base as its parent unit.
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Initialism of Great Trigonometric Survey.
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(gaming) Initialism of Generic Universal RolePlaying System.
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Initialism of gun violence suppression division. of the New York City Police Department
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Initialism of Holocene Era.
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(UK) Initialism of Her (His) Majesty's Stationery Office.
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Acronym of high-altitude cerebral oedema.
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Acronym of hazardous area life-support organization.
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Acronym of high-altitude pulmonary edema.
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Acronym of high-altitude pulmonary oedema.
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(medicine, countable) Initialism of healthcare professional.
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Initialism of hepatitis C virus.
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Initialism of human endogenous retrovirus.
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(video games, fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver.
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(medicine) Initialism of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. [(medicine) A rare autosomal dominant genetic disorder that leads to abnormal blood vessel formation.]
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(military, nautical) Initialism of His Imperial German Majesty's Ship.. A ship prefix for a ship of the Imperial German Navy (usually for prior to the dreadnought era, prior to the buildup to WWI)
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(biology) Abbreviation of human induced pluripotent stem.
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(military, nautical) Initialism of His Imperial Russian Majesty's Ship.. A ship prefix for ships of the Imperial Russian Navy
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(dated, aviation, military) Initialism of His Majesty's Airship (ship prefix for very early military airships of the United Kingdom).
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(cryptography) Initialism of hash-based message authentication code. (a specific type of the message authentication code (MAC) involving a cryptographic hash function and a secret cryptographic key)
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(initialism, nautical, military, UK, obsolete) His Majesty's Armed Schooner
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(initialism, nautical, military, UK, historical) His/Her Majesty's Bark
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(Canada, nautical, military) Initialism of Her (or His) Majesty's Canadian Ship; ship prefix of the Royal Canadian Navy
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(UK, nautical, military) Initialism of Her (or His) Majesty's Naval Base; prefix used in the names of naval bases of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom.
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(US, medicine) Initialism of health maintenance organization.
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(UK) Initialism of Her (or His) Majesty's Prison; prefix used in the names of prisons in the United Kingdom.
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Synonym of HDMS (ship of Denmark's Royal Navy)
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Initialism of Her/Her Majesty's Tuvaluan State Ship. The designation of the sole Tuvaluan ship for sea patrol (the HMTSS Te Mataili).
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Initialism of hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy.
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(business) Initialism of head office. [The main administrative centre for a company or organisation.]
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(cardiology) Initialism of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.
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Initialism of Home Ownership Scheme.
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(aviation) Acronym of hands on throttle-and-stick.. A control methodology where one hand rests on the throttle lever, while the other rests on the control stick; and buttons, dials, and switches are placed on the throttle and stick; so that the pilot's hands need not leave the two, to command an aircraft.
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Initialism of human resources. [(management) The personnel department of an organization, dealing with the recruitment, administration, management and training of employees; abbreviated as HR.]
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Initialism of health system.
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(neurology) Initialism of highly superior autobiographical memory; hyperthymesia [Synonym of hyperthymesia]
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(military, nautical, historical) Initialism of High Seas Fleet.
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(computer graphics) Initialism of hidden-surface removal.
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(military, nautical) Initialism of His/Her Swedish Majesty's Ship; a ship prefix for a naval ship of the navy of Sweden
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(South Africa, education) Abbreviation of technical high school.
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(US, politics) Acronym of Department of housing and urban development.
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Initialism of harassment and violence program.
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Initialism of hyperventilation provocation test.
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Initialism of International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions.
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Initialism of indoor air quality.
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Initialism of International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration.
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(historical, abolished 1995) Initialism of Interstate Commerce Commission.
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(US, labor union) Initialism of International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers Union.
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(astronomy, Islam) Initialism of Islamic Crescent Observation Project.
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Initialism of infantile cerebral palsy.
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Initialism of Indochina Time.
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Initialism of International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.
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(mathematics) Initialism of inverse distance weighting.
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Initialism of Illuminating Engineering Society of North America.
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Acronym of International Fund for Agricultural Development.
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Initialism of identification friend or foe. [In a civilian aircraft: a transponder that responds by sending a code identifying itself.]
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Initialism of identified flying object.
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Initialism of intergovernmental organization AKA international governmental organization.
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(healthcare, medicine) Acronym of International Health Regulations.
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(education, India) Initialism of International Institutes of Information Technology (one of a group of nationally recognized autonomous engineering institutes of India.)
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(computing, initialism) Intermediate language
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(UK, law) Initialism of indefinite leave to remain.
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Initialism of International Mineralogical Association.
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(telecommunications) Initialism of IP Multimedia Subsystem.
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(Internet) Internet Message Support Protocol
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Initialism of integrated multi-trophic aquaculture.
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Initialism of Iglesia ni Cristo.
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(business) Initialism of interoffice communication.
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(seduction community) Initialism of indicator of interest.
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(US) Initialism of Institute of Medicine.
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International Organisation of Pension Supervisors, an independent international body representing those involved in the supervision of private pension arrangements.
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(computing) Initialism of Internet of Things (a self-configuring wireless network between objects)
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(telecommunications) Initialism of Internet Protocol private branch exchange: A business telephone system designed to deliver voice over a data network and interoperate with the normal Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).
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(climate change, UN) Initialism of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (a scientific body under the auspices of the United Nations.)
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Initialism of industrial pointed coordinated function.
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(economics) Initialism of international poverty line.
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(technology, project management) Initialism of International Project Management Association.
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Initialism of immunoproliferative small intestinal disease.
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(networking, historical) Initialism of Internetwork Packet Exchange.
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(chess) Initialism of Isolated Queen Pawn.
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Initialism of institutional review board, a committee that reviews the designs of proposed experiments to confirm whether all the methods proposed are ethical.
n
(historical) Initialism of Institute of Radio Engineers.
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(US military) Initialism of Immediate Response Force.
n
(Europe, transport) Initialism of Intelligent speed adaptation or Intelligent Speed Assistance.
n
(softball) Initialism of International Softball Federation.
n
Initialism of in situ hybridization.
n
(Pakistan) Abbreviation of Inter-Services Intelligence.
n
(RF telecommunications) Initialism of industrial scientific medical.
n
Initialism of information security management system.
n
(computing) Initialism of Interactive System Productivity Facility; An IBM mainframe online application development system
n
Initialism of International Self Realization Healing Association.
n
(linguistics, lexicography) Initialism of international scientific vocabulary. [(sciences) Words used in various languages with similar meanings and pronunciations with the purpose of internationalizing scientific progress.]
n
(informatics) Initialism of Information Technology/Operational Technology.
adj
(medicine) Initialism of in the ear. [(medicine) Describing a type of hearing aid that fits within the concha of the wearer's ear.]
n
(computing) Acronym of IT service management.
n
Initialism of International Telephone & Telegraph, a global American manufacturing company.
n
(computing) Old abbreviation for JavaSE.
n
(computing) Alternative form of JavaEE
n
(computing) Acronym of Java Platform, Standard Edition.
n
(Java programming language) Abbreviation of Java Web Start.
n
Initialism of Judicial and Bar Council (Philippines).
n
(US, education) Initialism of James Bowie High School.
n
(US) Initialism of Jewish community center.
n
Initialism of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“Iran nuclear deal”).
n
(computing) JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment: a format-specific digital object validation API written in Java.
n
(computing) Initialism of Java Native Interface.
n
(computing) Initialism of Java Persistence API.
n
(software) Initialism of JavaServer Faces.
n
(computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Java Transaction API.
n
(emergency medicine) Initialism of jugular vein distention.
n
Initialism of Kansas State University.
n
(aviation, countable) Initialism of large commercial aircraft.
n
(electronics, computing) Initialism of liquid crystal display. [A display device that uses liquid crystals to control luminance of each pixel or pattern.]
n
(sports, American football) Initialism of Legends Football League.
n
Initialism of Leeds General Infirmary.
n
(anatomy) Initialism of left inferior frontal gyrus.
n
(medicine) Initialism of large loop excision of the transformation zone.
n
(military, US) Initialism of Light Medium Tactical Vehicle.
n
Initialism of low-net-worth individual.
n
Initialism of letter of intent. [Something that is intended.]
n
(nautical) Initialism of landing, platform, dock. [An arrival at a surface, as of an airplane or any descending object.]
n
(computing) Initialism of local privilege escalation.
n
Initialism of licensed practical nurse.
n
(weaponry) Initialism of long range ballistic missile.
n
(electronics) Initialism of large scale integration. [(electronics) An integration type for digital circuits that contain tens of thousands of transistors providing thousands of logic gates per chip.]
n
(programming) Initialism of Liskov substitution principle, one of the SOLID programming principles. [(object-oriented programming) A principle stating that any type having a subtype should be replaceable by its subtype without altering any of the desirable properties (such as correctness, task performed, etc.) of the program.]
n
(automotive) Initialism of low-speed pre-ignition.
n
(UK) Initialism of low-traffic neighbourhood.
n
(computing) Initialism of long-term support.
n
(UK) Initialism of Land Transaction Tax.
n
(economics, political science) Initialism of labor theory of value. [(economics, political science) The theory, usually associated with Marxian economics, that freely reproducible goods get their value from socially necessary human labor time.]
n
Initialism of LaserVision.
n
Initialism of Lawyer's Weekly, an Australian newspaper for lawyers
n
(UK, television) Initialism of London Weekend Television.
n
(neurology) Initialism of microtubule-associated protein.
n
Initialism of Military Auxiliary Radio System.
n
Initialism of microarchitecture specification.
n
Initialism of Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench.
n
Initialism of Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.
n
Initialism of multiple-criteria decision-making.
n
Initialism of mobile content management.
n
Initialism of master control unit.
n
(cryptography) Initialism of Message Digest 5, a cryptographic hash function.
n
Initialism of Millennium Development Goal. [(historical) Any of a set of eight international development goals established by the United Nations in 2000, scheduled to be achieved by 2015.]
n
(law) Initialism of mandatory declassification review.
n
(fandom slang) Initialism of Mass Effect 4.
n
(education) Initialism of modern foreign languages.
n
Initialism of methylglycinediacetic acid.
n
(jargon, social media) Initialism of mental health. [One's emotional well-being, especially with reference to one's outlook on life, ability to cope with stress or the absence of a mental disorder.]
n
Initialism of middle initial.
n
(finance) Initialism of Modified internal rate of return.
n
Initialism of management information system.
n
Initialism of medium intensity steady state.
n
Initialism of Ministry of International Trade and Industry (of Japan).
n
(video games) Initialism of Mario Kart 64.
n
(sports) Initialism of Major League Eating.
n
(military) Initialism of Multiple Launch Rocket System.
n
Initialism of Major League Wrestling: a US media and entertainment company known for professional wrestling.
n
(Canada, US, politics, crime) Abbreviation of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
n
(hardware, software) Initialism of message-oriented middleware (hardware or software infrastructure supporting sending and receiving of messages between distributed systems.) [(computing) Hardware or software infrastructure supporting sending and receiving of messages between distributed systems]
n
(computer imaging) Acronym of morphable radiance field.
n
(astronomy, US) Initialism of Mars Program Planning Group.
n
Initialism of master production schedule.
n
(medicine) Initialism of magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography.
n
Initialism of member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.
n
(US military) Initialism of Meal, Ready-to-Eat: an individual field ration used by the US military
n
Initialism of Materials Research Society.
n
Initialism of multiple rounds simultaneous impact.
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(computing) Initialism of malicious (software) removal tool.
n
Initialism of Member of the Society of Automotive Engineers.
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(aviation) Initialism of minimum safe altitude warning.
n
(statistics) Initialism of mean squared deviation.
n
(US, mining) Acronym of Mine Safety and Health Administration.
n
(Internet) Initialism of Microsoft Internet Explorer, a web browser
n
(programming) Abbreviation of Microsoft Intermediate Language.
n
(networking) Initialism of Message Send Protocol.
n
(military, US) Initialism of Man-portable Surveillance and Target Acquisition Radar.
n
Initialism of media transfer protocol.
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Initialism of motor third party liability: a kind of vehicle insurance.
n
Initialism of minimum visual angle.
n
(computing, programming) Initialism of Multi-Version Concurrency Control (a concurrency control method commonly used by database management systems to provide concurrent access to the database and in programming languages to implement transactional memory.)
n
(computing) Abbreviation of Multiple Virtual Storage. - an IBM mainframe operating system
n
(linguistics) Initialism of Merriam-Webster: an American publishing company known for its dictionaries; also M-W.
n
(US) Acronym of National Foundation for Depressive Illness.
n
(US) Initialism of National Applications Office: an agent of the United States Department of Homeland Security.
n
Initialism of non-binary person of color or non-binary people of color.
n
(US) Acronym of National Center for Infectious Diseases.
n
Initialism of National Commission on Indigenous Peoples.
n
(US) Initialism of National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses.
n
(US) Initialism of National Drug Code.
n
Initialism of no deforestation, no peat, no exploitation: an ethical approach to the supply of certain natural resources
n
(electronics) Initialism of negative differential resistance.
n
Initialism of National Disease and Therapeutic Index.
n
(US) Initialism of Northeast Michigan Community Service Agency.
n
Initialism of New Economic Policy.
n
Initialism of nonerosive reflux disease.
n
(UK, historical) Initialism of National Graphical Association.
n
Initialism of National Governing Body, one of the member organizations of the US Olympic Committee (USOC) charged with governance of recognized sports.
n
(US) Initialism of National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
n
(Britain) Initialism of National Health Service.
n
(US) Initialism of National Institute on Aging.
n
Initialism of National Iranian American Council.
n
(UK) Initialism of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
n
(US) Initialism of National Intelligence Estimate.
n
(government, US) Initialism of National Institutes of Health.
n
(US) Acronym of National Institute of Mental Health.
n
(US) Acronym of National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke.
n
(US) Initialism of National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
n
Initialism of National Income and Product Accounts.
n
Initialism of noninvasive prenatal testing.
n
(US) Initialism of National Industrial Recovery Act.
n
(military, US) Initialism of National Military Command Center.
n
Initialism of New Mexico State Police.
n
(US) Initialism of National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
n
(epidemiology) Initialism of number needed to harm.
n
(US) Initialism of National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
n
Initialism of National Prescription Audit.
n
(US) Initialism of National Paint and Coatings Association.
n
(medicine) Initialism of non-pharmaceutical intervention.
n
(Hong Kong, law) Initialism of non-permanent judge. (of the Court of Final Appeal)
n
(UK, education) Initialism of National Professional Qualification for Headship.
n
(emergency medicine) Initialism of normal (rate and depth), regular rhythm, audible (breath sounds), rise and fall of chest, and pink skin color: signs of a patient with adequate breathing. [(geometry) A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.]
n
(Canada) Initialism of National Research Council.
n
(Canada) Initialism of National Research Council of Canada.
n
(medicine) Initialism of non-relapse mortality.
n
Initialism of non-state armed group.
n
Initialism of Nova Scotia Court of Appeal.
n
(computing) Initialism of National Security Whistleblowers Coalition
n
(computing) Initialism of Network Time Protocol.
adj
Initialism of not to scale.
n
Initialism of Northwest Territories Territorial Court.
n
(business) Initialism of organization and methods.
n
(Canada) Initialism of Old Age Security.
n
(sports) Initialism of Olympic best.
n
(programming, uncountable) Initialism of object-based programming. [(programming) A programming paradigm that encapsulates states and operations inside "objects" to design applications and computer programs.]
n
(computing, design) Initialism of Object Constraint Language (declarative language developed at IBM that is now part of the UML standard)
n
(computing) Initialism of Open Document Architecture.
n
(computing) Initialism of OpenDocument Presentation.
n
Initialism of Old Dominion University.
n
Initialism of office of the general counsel.
n
(Canada) Initialism of Ontario health insurance plan.
n
(religion) Initialism of Orthodox Inter-Seminary Movement.
n
(business) Initialism of objectives and key results; also OKR.
n
Initialism of Office of Management and Budget (US)
n
Initialism of optical music recognition.
n
(computing, design) Initialism of Object Model Template.
n
Initialism of Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
n
(uncountable, computing, design) Initialism of object-oriented design.
n
(computing) Acronym of Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications.
adj
(engineering) Initialism of out of specification.
n
(library science) Acronym of online public access catalog. [(library science) A computerized online publicly accessible catalog of the materials held in a library, or library system.]
n
(communication, programming) Initialism of OPC Historical Data Access (group of standards of the OPC Foundation that provides COM specifications for communicating data from devices, like databases, and applications that provide historical data.)
n
(databases, Oracle) Abbreviation of Oracle Process Management and Notification.
n
(UK, railways, historical) Initialism of Office of Passenger Rail Franchising.
n
(visual technology) Initialism of on-screen display.
n
Initialism of Operating System Embedded.
n
(company, electronics) Initialism of Onscreen Trading and Trading Connections.
n
Initialism of Ordo Templi Orientis.
n
Initialism of old-time radio.
n
Initialism of Procter & Gamble.
n
(computing) Initialism of programmable automation controller.
n
Abbreviation of Pan-American Health Organization.
n
(countable) Abbreviation of plasma arc weld. (a weld created with the PAW process)
n
(finance) Initialism of prime broker or prime brokerage.
n
Initialism of Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.
n
(video games, board games) Initialism of point blank area of effect (when the affected region is centred on the same character who is casting the spell etc.)
n
Initialism of poor bloody infantry - the infantry of the British Army
n
Initialism of public benefit organization.
n
Initialism of Professional Bull Riders, a sport, circuit, and company for bull riding
n
(Australia) Initialism of Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
n
(healthcare) Initialism of primary care physician.
n
Initialism of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
n
Initialism of positive crankcase ventilation.
n
(law) Initialism of public defender. [(law) An attorney appointed to represent people who cannot afford to hire one.]
n
(medicine) Initialism of patent ductus arteriosus.
n
Initialism of protein data bank.
n
Initialism of program delivery control.
n
Initialism of plan-do-check-act: a four-step process typically used in quality control.
n
(software) Initialism of plugin development environment.
n
(software) Initialism of Persistent Data Object (data object not lost when the application exits)
n
(fluid mechanics) Initialism of positive displacement pump. [A pump which operates by periodically changing the volume of a cavity]
n
Initialism of protocol data unit.
n
(US, military) Acronym of physical evaluation board liaison officer.
n
Initialism of Prince Edward Island Supreme Court, Appeal Division.
n
(physics) Initialism of potential energy surface.
n
(cryptography) Initialism of perfect forward secrecy.
adj
Initialism of parental guidance: suitable for viewing, reading, or listening, by minors.
n
(film) Initialism of Producers Guild of America, a trade organization representing television producers, film producers and New Media producers in the United States.
n
(law) Acronym of postgraduate diploma in legal practice. Often used after the names of those who have studied and passed the Legal Practice Course, and who have not yet attained solicitor status.
n
Initialism of postgraduate diploma in management.
n
(encryption, software) Initialism of Pretty Good Privacy. (A program using public key encryption popularly used with email.) [(computing) software that encrypts and decrypts messages, for transmission over the Internet, using public-key cryptography]
n
(US) Initialism of psychology graduate students organization.
n
Initialism of public health. [The science and practice of community hygiene; includes preventive medicine, health education, sanitation and environmental safety.]
n
(astronomy, ecology, geology) Abbreviation of potentially hazardous comet.
n
(historical, healthcare) Initialism of Public Health England: an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) in England between 2013 and 2021, formed to protect and improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities.
n
(healthcare, medicine) Acronym of Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
n
(UK, law) Initialism of public-interest immunity.
n
(sports) Initialism of penalties in minutes: the total number of penalties accrued by a player during a set time period (such as a career, a season, or a tournament).
n
(countable, aviation, travel) Initialism of property irregularity report: a form to be filled in when baggage is lost by an airline. [(aviation, travel) an official form to be filled out if checked baggage is lost or damaged by an airline.]
n
Initialism of public interest research group.
n
(uncountable, telecommunications) Initialism of packet loss concealment.
n
Initialism of Postmaster General. [A postmaster responsible for an entire mail distribution organization (usually sponsored by a national government).]
n
Initialism of postmenopausal hormone.
n
Planned maintenance system
n
(aviation, navigation) Initialism of point of no return. [(aviation) The point in an aircraft's flight when there is insufficient fuel to reverse direction and return to the place of origin.]
n
(countable, object-oriented software) Acronym of plain old CLR object.
n
(alternate history) Initialism of point of divergence. [In alternate history, the point where events diverge from real history.]
n
(Philippines) Initialism of Philippine Overseas Employment Administration.
n
(Java programming language, object-oriented software) Acronym of Plain Old Java Interface
n
(UK politics) Initialism of prospective parliamentary candidate: a candidate selected for a future election before the election campaign has officially begun.
n
Initialism of power-performance management.
n
Initialism of personal protection officer.
n
(US, politics, employment, COVID-19) Initialism of paycheck protection program. A U.S. federal government business loan program to allow businesses to continue to pay fixed costs and employees, for those business adversely impacted by COVID-19.
n
Initialism of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
n
(design pattern, Web) Initialism of Post/Redirect/Get. (a design pattern for Web applications)
n
Alternative spelling of programmable read-only memory [(electronics) A type of read-only memory which can be written to once (write-once read-many memory/WORM), and thereafter becomes fixed in value.]
n
Initialism of public service announcement. [An advertisement intended to serve the public interest by raising awareness of an issue, affecting public attitudes and potentially stimulating action.]
n
(computing, initialism) program specification block (IBM)
n
Initialism of Power spectral density.
n
Initialism of phrase structure grammar.
n
(Australia) Initialism of protective services officer.
n
(UK, law) Initialism of public space protection order.
n
(telecommunications) Initialism of Public switched telephone network.
n
(military, US) Initialism of patrol torpedo.
n
(telecommunications) Initialism of postal telephone and telegraph.
n
(uncountable, medicine) Initialism of pemphigus vulgaris.
n
(uncountable, pathology) Abbreviation of pulmonary veno-occlusive disease.
n
(professional wrestling) Initialism of Pro Wrestling America.
n
Initialism of Pro Wrestling Illustrated.
n
(computing, uncountable) Abbreviation of password protection.
n
Initialism of Quebec Superior Court.
n
(UK, automotive) Initialism of Royal Automobile Club.
n
(Australia) Initialism of Royal Automobile Club of Victoria.
adj
Resembling RAM (random access memory).
n
(aviation) Abbreviation of radar approach control.
n
(Canada) Initialism of Radio Canada.
n
(Canada, politics) Initialism of Reform-Conservative Alliance Party.
n
Initialism of roller compacted concrete.
n
(physiology) Abbreviation of registered clinical exercise physiologist.
n
(UK) Initialism of Royal College of Midwives.
n
(finance) Initialism of recipient-created tax invoice.
n
(US) Initialism of research, development, test and evaluation. [(uncountable, countable in some dialects) Diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, etc.; laborious or continued search after truth.]
n
Initialism of Rio Grande Bible Institute.
n
(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Red, Green, Blue and Yellow.
n
RGSS
n
(UK, law) Initialism of Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.
n
(Mormonism) Initialism of returned missionary.
n
Initialism of risk management plan.
n
(electronics, statistics) Initialism of root mean square. [(mathematics, of a set of numbers or values) The square root of the arithmetic mean of the squares.]
n
(UK) Initialism of Royal National Institute of Blind People.
n
(business) Initialism of Rolls-Royce Deutschland.
n
Initialism of Regional Transit Authority.
n
(electronics) Initialism of real-time clock.
n
Initialism of real time factor.
n
(logistics) Initialism of returnable transport item.
n
(data recovery) Initialism of recovery time objective. [The amount of time within which a business process must be restored after a disruption in order to avoid unacceptable consequences.]
n
(telecommunications) Initialism of round-trip time. [(telecommunications) The time elapsed for a message to a remote place and back again.]
n
(space science, NASA) Initialism of Rover Sequencing and Visualization Program. (a tool that helps engineers plan the Curiosity rover's drives, modeling pebbles and bumps in the terrain)
n
Initialism of Redhouse Yacht Club.
n
(video games) Initialism of Sonic Adventure 2.
n
(computing) Acronym of Storage Area Network.
n
(Internet) Initialism of Server Application Programming Interface, an API used to interface with web servers.
n
(electricity) Initialism of stand-alone power system/supply.
n
Initialism of stamped and self-addressed envelope.
n
Initialism of small business innovation research.
n
(UK, healthcare) Initialism of specialist community public health nursing.
n
(electronics) Initialism of silicon controlled rectifier.
n
Initialism of Spatial Division Multiple Access.
n
(UK, historical) Initialism of Special Demonstration Squad.
n
(astronomy) Initialism of Sloan Digital Sky Survey: omnigalactic 3D mapping project
n
Initialism of second edition.
n
(astronautics) Acronym of secondary engine cut-off.
n
(UK, education) Initialism of special educational needs.
n
(astronautics) Initialism of sustainer engine start.
n
Initialism of Stock Exchange of Thailand., the national stock exchange of Thailand.
n
Initialism of Scottish Football Association.
n
(manufacturing) Initialism of shop floor control.
n
(philately) Initialism of Stanley Gibbons, stamp dealer and catalogue publisher.
n
Initialism of socket head cap screw.
n
(electronics) Initialism of signal integrity.
n
(marketing) acronym of social influence marketing.
n
(computer hardware) initialism of Single in-line memory module
n
Initialism of semi-knockdown.
n
(computer graphics) Initialism of Scalable Link Interface.
n
(video games) Initialism of Super Mario 3D World.
n
Southern Maryland Athletic Conference
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(video games) Initialism of Super Mario Bros. 2.
n
(video games) Initialism of Super Mario Bros. 3.
n
Initialism of sheet mould composite. (a composite made from sheet moulding compound, created by compression molding)
n
(cryptography) Initialism of socialist millionaire problem.
n
Initialism of small modular reactor.
n
(Internet) Simple Network Paging Protocol
n
(computing, electronics) Alternative form of SODIMM
n
(business) Initialism of start of business.
n
(programming) Initialism of separation of concerns. [(programming) The process of separating a computer program into distinct features that overlap functionally as little as possible.]
n
Initialism of single-point diamond interchange.
n
(cryptography) Initialism of substitution-permutation network.
n
(electricity) Initialism of smart power system/supply.
n
(networking, historical) Initialism of Sequenced Packet Exchange.
n
(electronics) Static random access memory.
n
(commerce) Initialism of suggested retail price.
n
(technology) Initialism of secondary standard dosimetry laboratory.
n
(computing) Initialism of Streaming SIMD Extensions, an extension to the x86 CPU instruction set architecture.
n
(networking) Initialism of service set identifier. [(networking) a code that identifies the network to which packets on a wireless network belong]
n
(databases, Microsoft) initialism of SQL Server Integration Services.
n
(oceanography) Initialism of sound scattering layer.
n
Initialism of start-up, shutdown or malfunction.
n
Initialism of small business technology transfer.
n
Initialism of Stanford University.
n
(aviation) Initialism of small unmanned aircraft system.
n
(nautical) sailboat; Initialism of sailing vessel.
n
Initialism of standard wire gauge.
n
(computing) Acronym of Simple Web Interface Toolset.
n
(uncountable, amateur radio) Initialism of shortwave listening.
n
(medicine) Initialism of transfusion-associated circulatory overload.
n
(US) Initialism of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
adj
(finance) Initialism of too big to fail. [(finance, economics, politics) Deemed too important to the economy or polity to be allowed to “fail”, that is to be liquidated or to go bankrupt.]
n
(initialism, Australia) Travel Compensation Fund, a government run fund to cover travel agency insolvency.
n
(electronics) Initialism of time-to-digital converter.
n
(computing, countable) Initialism of tabular data stream.
n
(military, aviation) Acronym of triple ejector rack.
n
(military, defence) Acronym of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense. [(military, defence) A United States Army system designed to shoot down ballistic missiles in their terminal phase.]
n
(translation studies) Initialism of translation and interpreting.
n
Initialism of Telecommunications Industry Association.
n
(computing) Initialism of type-length-value, a class of file formats that store a data type, the length of the data, and then the data itself.
n
Initialism of thirty-mile zone.
n
(US, television, historical) Initialism of The Nashville Network.
n
(networking) Initialism of trust on first use, a type of network software security model where a client requests an identification code from a remote host when establishing the first connection.
n
(ice hockey statistics) icetime; Abbreviation of time on ice.
n
(computing) Initialism of Time-based One-time Password algorithm.
n
(linguistics) Initialism of tense phrase.
n
Initialism of Transaction Processing Facility.
n
Initialism of total productive maintenance.
n
(countable) Initialism of tree preservation order.
n
(medicine) Initialism of transfusion-related acute lung injury.
n
(US) Initialism of Transportation Research Board.
n
(UK) Initialism of Transport Research Foundation.
n
(military) Abbreviation of anti-aircraft artillery.
n
(transport) Initialism of Transportation Research Thesaurus.
n
Initialism of thermostatic radiator valve.
n
Initialism of technical service bulletin.
n
(Australia, sports) Initialism of Tasmanian State League.
n
(rail transport) Initialism of temporary speed restriction.
adj
Initialism of tuberculin tested (a quality of milk in post-war Britain)
n
(computing, networking) Initialism of time to live.
n
Initialism of telephone tax payment service.
n
(computing, retronym) Initialism of text-based user interface.
n
Initialism of Ukrainian Air Force.
n
(business) Initialism of ultimate beneficial owner: Entity or group that enjoys the benefits of owning (something), the title of which is held by a custodian.
n
Abbreviation of University of Chicago.
n
Abbreviation of University of Connecticut.
n
(education, US) Initialism of University of California, San Diego.
n
(UK, law) Acronym of Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977.
n
Acronym of University of Delaware.
n
(Canada, US) Initialism of United Food and Commercial Workers.
n
Initialism of Ulster Freedom Fighters.
n
Initialism of urban heat island.
n
Initialism of University of Maryland, College Park.
n
Initialism of United Nations Development Group.
n
(military) Acronym of United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.
n
Initialism of University of Lahore.
n
Initialism of University of Queensland.
n
Former name of USAAF (“United States Army Air Force”). (now, USAF (“United States Air Force”)) Initialism of United States Army Air Corps.
n
Former name of USAAC (“United States Army Air Corps”). (now, USAF (“United States Air Force”)); Initialism of United States Army Air Service.
n
(US, military, politics) Initialism of United States Space Force. [(US, military, politics) The spaceforce of the United States. A branch of the United States of America military dedicated to outer space activities and related support activities.]
n
Initialism of University of Science and Technology of China.
n
(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon.
n
Initialism of Unitarian Universalist Association.
n
Initialism of violence against women and girls.
n
Initialism of value change dump.
n
Initialism of vacuum control unit.
n
(computing) Initialism of virtual desktop infrastructure.
n
(software, development) Initialism of Vienna Development Method.
n
Initialism of video display screen.
n
Initialism of video display terminal.
n
Initialism of virtual document exchange.
n
(US) Initialism of volunteer fire department.
n
Initialism of very fast death factor.
n
(Australia, sports) Initialism of Victorian Football League; a second-tier regional (country area) Australian rules football league operating within Victoria; derived from the historic Victorian Football Association, from which the future AFL broke in 1896.
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(classified ads) Initialism of very good condition.
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Abbreviation of volume of interest.
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(computing) Initialism of Virtual Reality Modeling Language: a computer language describing three-dimensional objects for interpretation and display by a web browser.
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(computing) Initialism of Virtual Storage Access Method.
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(motor racing) Initialism of virtual safety car. [(motor racing) A racing condition where the race steward declares that all race cars must run a similar pace and must not exceed a certain speed, so that they will appear to each follow their own personal imaginary safety car, theoretically maintaining race separations without change, and where they cannot overtake each other.]
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(computer graphics) Initialism of visible-surface determination.
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Initialism of Voluntary Service Overseas.
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(aviation, mechanical engineering) Initialism of variable stator vane.
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(astronautics) Initialism of vertical takeoff and horizontal landing.
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(grammar) Initialism of verb transitive inanimate.
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(automotive) Initialism of variable valve actuation.
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Initialism of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
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Initialism of volume-weighted average price.
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Initialism of Write Anywhere File Layout., a patented file system designed to optimize write performance in storage applications.
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Initialism of West African Monetary Zone.
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(informal, newspapers) Abbreviation of Washington Post, a newspaper from the United States.
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(US, historical) Initialism of Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service.
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(entertainment) Initialism of Warner Brothers: U.S. motion picture producer, television producer, and recording company.
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(boxing) Initialism of World Boxing Council, one of several sanctioning bodies in professional boxing.
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(software, uncountable) Initialism of Web-based Engineering.
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(proofreading) Initialism of word choice.
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(communication, mobile) Initialism of Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (air interface standard found in 3G mobile telecommunications networks)
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Initialism of word error rate.
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(computing) Initialism of Windows Workflow Foundation.
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(countable, chess) Initialism of Woman Grandmaster.
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Initialism of World Heritage Site. [A place listed by UNESCO as being of special cultural or physical significance.]
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(accounting, operations) Initialism of work in process.
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Initialism of white male.
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(computing) Initialism of Windows Metafile.
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(finance) Initialism of wealth management product.
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Abbreviation of Winter Olympic Games.
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(initialism) Alternative form of WP
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(Internet, Wi-Fi) Initialism of Wi-Fi Protected Access.
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Initialism of Wi-Fi Protected Setup.
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(computing) Initialism of Winsock Redirect Protocol.
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(Web) Initialism of Web Services Description Language (formerly Web Services Definition Language) (an XML-based language that provides a model for describing Web services.)
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Initialism of World Society for the Protection of Animals.
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Initialism of white sidewall.
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(computing, eclipse, Web) Initialism of Web Tools Platform.
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Initialism of Washington University in St. Louis.
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(pro-wrestling) Initialism of World Wrestling Entertainment: a US media and entertainment company known for professional wrestling.
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(dated, computing) Initialism of Extended Memory Specification.
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(computing) Initialism of XML Process Definition Language.
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Initialism of Yukon Territorial Court.
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Initialism of Years of life lost.
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(software design) Initialism of Zero One Infinity. (a rule of thumb in software suggesting that arbitrary limits on the number of entity instances are not allowed)

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