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| | Acronym and initialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | When an acronym is part of a function in computing that is conventionally written in lowercase, it is common to use an apostrophe to pluralize or otherwise conjugate the token. | | | In computer lingo, it is common to use the name of a computer program, format, or function, acronym or not, as a verb; for example "Sam zipped the files" or "Sam zip’ed the files" means that Sam used a computer program to combine and/or compress the files in the ZIP format. | | | Nonetheless, earlier examples of acronyms in other languages exist. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initialism
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| | Neon Twilight Lexicon |
| | acronym for PSeudo-Intelligence, referring to any form of software mimicry which can reasonably pass for human intelligence, but which is not actually intelligent. | | | Also known by the older name of Artificial Intelligence. |
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http://members.tripod.com/kryp/lexicon.html
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| | Pseudo-acronym - definition of Pseudo-acronym in Encyclopedia |
| | The instant messaging system called ICQ, for instance, was chosen as a play on the words "I Seek You". | | | Some argue that DVD became a pseudo-acronym when its original expansion - Digital Video Disk - became inadequate; officially, it is now an acronym for Digital Versatile Disk. | | | A pseudo-acronym, also sometimes referred to as an anti-acronym, is an acronym which officially doesn't stand for anything. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Pseudo-acronym
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| | PRNG - Bots-United Wiki |
| | Pseudo because we cannot compute random numbers on deterministic machines such as our PCs, so we use an algorithm instead, which will try to be as random as possible. | | | PRNG is an acronym for Pseudo Random Number Generator. |
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http://wiki.bots-united.com/index.php/PRNG
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| | Pseudo-acronym - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The instant messaging system called ICQ was chosen as a play on the words "I Seek You". | | | The SAS System, which originally stood for the Statistical Analysis System programming language, has now outgrown its acronym and officially stands for nothing. | | | An anti-acronym is an acronym or other abbreviation which officially stands for something, but pretends not to, such as phrases which paradoxically deny their own existence. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-acronym
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| | neologisms |
| | AIQ: [AI + IQ portmanteau acronym] measurement of artificial intelligence as in the results of a Turing test | | | jootsy: [“jumping out of the system” acronym + -y] referring to mathematics which can switch from Roman numerals to words to numbers at any time or literature in which a character can switch to the writer or reviewer (Van Veen in Ada or John Ray in foreword of Lolita both by Vladimir Nabokov,) | | | She was not done, after line one, but one more's all she could do. |
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http://untilheaven.tripod.com/andre_joyce_s_coined_words.htm
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| | Pseudo-acronym: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic |
| | Wysiwym (what you see is what you mean) is the paradigm created for lyx.... | | | An apronym is an acronym or backronym which is also a real word - or a homophone for a real word - meaning something relevant to the expanded term it stands... | | | Spqr is an acronym for the latin phrase senatus populusque romanus.... |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/p/ps/pseudo-acronym.htm
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| | YKK Forum - YKK it may be staring us in the face... |
| | The accepted Pseudo-acronym used in the 1990's for the "Year 2000" as it related to a digital bug in the computer clock of equipment and software the world over was, in fact, stated as Y2K. | | | All I was doing was drawing a parallel between the "name" Y2K as a harbinger of the "end of the world as we know it" and the acronym created by the title of this series as seen from the context of the 1990's when it was started. | | | I guess I don't see what a semantics issue (over what is an accepted and documented "name" for a potential event) has to do with my theory... |
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http://ykk.misago.org/Forum?cmd=show&id=2804&replies=13
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| | Accessify Forum: Screen Readers and CAPS |
| | If you notice rather bizarre typos, it's because I'm not typing but using Voice Recognition software. | | | Whilst I appreciate that there has to be a point when, as authors, we can not support browser behaviour that runs contrary to the specs, this is a browser that has at least 70% of the graphical browser market and which is also the recommended rendering engine for the most common screen reader. | | | BBC is not an acronym, it's an abbreviation (more specifically as initialism, but there's no separate element type for those). |
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http://www.accessifyforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=1788
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| | 15 Seconds : An Examination of Visual Basic's Random Number Generation |
| | PRNG is not a new Visual Basic statement, feature, referenced class, nor a new kind of potato chip. | | | Some PRNGs are better than others are and there are actually ways to measure their (pseudo) randomness. | | | The three places you will likely see PRNGs used are Security, Statistics, and Games. |
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http://www.15seconds.com/issue/051110.htm
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| | LangaList Std Edition 2001-03-29 |
| | Fred, Your item regarding the what does ICQ mean made me think of this handy site for your readers. | | | But people still asked what "GNU" stood for, so they defined it as "GNU's Not UNIX." So what does the "GNU" in "GNU's Not UNIX" stand for? | | | They bill themselves as "The web's most comprehensive database of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms" and I agree. |
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http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2001/2001-03-29.htm
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| | Bokardo » The Web 2.o Naming Backlash |
| | We do need standards when it comes to Web, naming is an important key to this path. | | | If your comment contains links, or if it is your destiny, your comment may not show up immediately. | | | XHTML: You can use these tags: title=""> |
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http://bokardo.com/archives/the-web-2o-naming-backlash
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| | Acronym dictionaries available in print and on the WWW. | | | Looks for expansion in a window 2x the number of letters in acronym. |
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http://ir.iit.edu/~dagr/IRCourse/Fall2000/Presentation/Handout_11.ppt
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| | The Choctaw Expression Okeh and the Americanism Okay |
| | Both Pyles and Mencken, for example, insist on rendering the expression as an abbreviation even in cases when that was not the intent of the original user. | | | Read's discovery of "Old Kinderhook" seems to be the first standard English language phrase reduced to the acronym "O.K" in the public record. | | | And while Heflin had argued vigorously for a cautious acceptance of the 1815 Richardson citation, it is evident in publications and private correspondence that he never ever considered the possiblity that the "OK" might have ever been anything other than an acronym for an English language expression. |
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http://www.prairienet.org/prairienations/ok.htm
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| | Creative tries to redefine "Podcast" - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) |
| | Backronym is “a type of acronym that is constructed to match the letters of a actual word appropriate in some fashion to the topic at hand”. | | | As of the day before this post was made (funny, isnt it?) Creative was not mentioned, rather “some competing mp3 player manufacturers” is used. | | | As of last October, “some writers” are credited with the name, and a footnote with links shows that the acronym in question had been around since October 2004. |
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http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/creative_tries_to_redefine_podcast.php
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| | pseudo- - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "pseudo-" is defined. | | | Pseudo- : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info] | | | pseudo- : Stedman's Online Medical Dictionary, 27th Edition [home, info] |
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http://www.onelook.com/?w=pseudo-
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| | pseudo- - definition of pseudo- by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | pseudo- - definition of pseudo- by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. | | | Then it was that we socialists reaped the fruit of Hearst's pseudo- socialistic preaching; for the great Majority of his followers came over to us. |
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/PSEUDO-
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| | Acronym Finder Definition: What does PSEUDO- stand for? |
| | All trademarks/service marks referenced on this site are properties of their respective owners. | | | The Acronym Finder is ©1988-2006, Mountain Data Systems, LLC, All Rights Reserved. | | | Acronym Finder definition for a single acronym or abbreviation |
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http://www.acronymfinder.com/acronym.aspx?rec={93763F28-89E8-11D4-8351-00C04FC2C2BF}
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| | Eric Gunnerson's C# Compendium : Eric OOF for a week... |
| | To be an acronym it must be pronounced as a word. | | | If you don't believe me, we even added a feature to manage your OOF messages into Outlook: Tools..Out Of Office Assistant, not Out of Facility Assistant... | | | I'm totally with Eric on this, OOF is an acronym for *Out of Office*. |
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http://blogs.msdn.com/ericgu/archive/2004/02/13/72701.aspx
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| | AK2 Writing Reference Files |
| | Abbreviations and acronyms are capitalized differently depending on their length. | | | If the word is four or more letters long, you have to know whether it is pronounced as a word or as separate letters. | | | If it's a word (ie an acronym or pseudo-acronym) then it gets lower-cased (Cobol, Unicef, etc). |
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http://www.uta.fi/FAST/AK2/capitals.html
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| | PsI COUNSEL |
| | Acronyms and more for newbies page, with links... | | | The list of derogatory terms about Pseudo-Skeptic-Fanatics, along with the names of most |
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http://www.psicounsel.com/why3.html
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| | TWAIN-- Standard for image acquisition devices. |
| | None were selected, but the entry "Technology Without An Interesting Name" continues to haunt the standard. | | | This led people to believe it was an acronym, and then to a contest to come up with an expansion. | | | It was up-cased to TWAIN to make it more distinctive. |
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http://www.twain.org/faq.htm
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| | Glossary |
| | Acronym for Yet Another God-Like Alien, referring to extremely powerful beings the likes of Q or Squire Trelane. | | | The term is a joking reference to the British TV series Doctor Who, the title character of which had a time travel ship called the T.A.R.D.I.S., which was huge on the inside, but appeared from the outside to be a common British police call box, the size of a telephone booth. | | | The author sincerely hopes this to be a YATI-free zone. |
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http://www.coldnorth.com/owen/game/startrek/universe/glossary.htm
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| | Eco (Coppock) |
| | Obviously this was made by Duchamp in his Dadaist period, it remained a shibboleth for the happy few, but I think CUL8R can also become a form. | | | In the longer term I think so, yes, probably. | | | You know that under the Mona Lisa of Duchamp there is this acronym -pseudo acronym, which read "L.H.O.D.O.Q." - in French this is elle à chaud au cul: "Her ass is burning". |
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http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/eco/eco.html
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| | It stands for most excellent flying machine, but I don't think that it, or it's heavier sibling the EFM were ever really meant to be called by anything but their acronyms. | | | Sort of like the band REM; while r.e.m. | | | So, what the heck does MEFM stand for? |
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http://www.kites.tug.com/Archive/kites/potpourri/whats.a.mefm
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| | American Renaissance June 1993 Issue |
| | The group is based in Washington (DC) and has chapters and affiliates in other states. | | | Although many different groups around the country agitate for reparations, the largest and best-organized is the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, which has the pseudo-African acronym of N'COBRA. | | | Transfers of this kind set a precedent for punishing today's (and tomorrow's) taxpayers for acts their governments committed in the past. |
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http://www.amren.com/936issue/936issue.html
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