The World Of Acronyms

Posted by Algonkin in Blog & Internet, Everything Else on January 27, 2008 at 9:42 am


Acronyms

Did you ever want to find out what any acronym, abbreviation, or initialism stood for?

That’s what Mike Molloy, the founder and developer of AcronymFinder.com, said, when he launched the site in 1997, “I had two goals: I wanted to make available a database of abbreviations and acronyms I had collected since 1985; and I wanted to learn about web database programming. Acronym Finder wasn’t the first web-based abbreviations search site, but the day it went online, it became the largest human-edited collection available – and it still is.”

Acronym Finder is the world’s largest and most comprehensive dictionary and contains more than 4 million acronyms acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms.

You can also search for more than 850,000 US and Canadian postal codes as well as filter terms from the following categories:

Information Technology (IT): Examples: DHCP, FTP, HTTP, WWW, RSS, SDK, TCP
Military & Government: Examples: DoD, ICBM, ICE, NHS, MoD, NOAA, NSA
Science & Medicine: Examples: ACL, DNA, HEPA, LASER, MRI, PTFE

Link: AcronymFinder
Image: nalsofmichigan.org



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7 comments to "The World Of Acronyms"

  1. Kiera
    January 27th, 2008 at 11:12 am

    It even has knitting abbreviations…I’m impressed!

  2. salsa
    January 27th, 2008 at 11:19 am

    Interesting that “acronym” is now commonly used to mean “abbreviation,” which is what most of these are. An actual acronym is an abbreviation which forms a word, like NASA, FAQ, or HIPPA.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym

  3. Sid Morrison
    January 27th, 2008 at 11:28 am

    Salsa beat me to it. I get annoyed when people misuse “acronym” when they really mean “abbreviation”. It isn’t as bad as using “less” for “fewer”, but it still gets my fur up.

    Those stupid Guardasil genital warts vaccine commercials “I want to be one less” over and over drive me bonkers.

  4. Pudifoot
    January 27th, 2008 at 1:04 pm

    too bad i didn’t know about this website when Tom Cruise did his scientology vid

  5. Skipweasel
    January 27th, 2008 at 4:34 pm

    “Ten items or less” Aaaaargh! One of these days I’m going to print some stickers with “fewer” on them and go plant them over the offending word.

  6. Christophe
    January 28th, 2008 at 12:33 am

    I like WTF (World Tennis Federation) and SOB (State Office Building)…

  7. estapler
    January 28th, 2008 at 11:50 am

    NASA has 11,000 of them.


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