ISDN-based concurrent design. (includes related articles on the meaning of ISDN acronyms and glossary of terms) (tutorial) EDN (3/1/1991)
...network that connects anyone or any machine with access to a telephone line. Briefly (and with a minimum of acronyms-see box, ISDN acronyms and terms, pg 84), the heart and soul of the Integrated Services Digital Network is a bidirectional, 192k-b...

An acronym whose time (unfortunately) has come American Agent & Broker (8/1/2004)
AH, THE WONDERS of the acronym! How dull or inconvenient...those little shortcuts of meaning. From those gracing all office...the Internet (LOL, ROFL), acronyms both old and new grease the...I was apprised of the true meaning of the term, parts of which...did this particular Internet acronym ...

ABBREVIATED HISTORY OF THE ACRONYM The Boston Globe (2/11/2001)
...SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY. "THE WIZARD OF THE WORD CALLS RSVP AN ACRONYM?" WROTE STEVE KENDALL (FOLLOWED BY A SMALL CROWD OF LIKE-MINDED PROTESTERS). "ACCORDING TO MY DICTIONARY, AN ACRONYM IS `A WORD FORMED BY THE COMBINING OF INITIAL LETTERS...RSVP. And that's what I learned in school, too: that an ...

Engineering acronyms.(Language Corner) Swiss News (4/1/2005)
...pause, he added, casting a meaningful glance at me: ETH! Dipl.-Ing...abbreviation of 'Diplom-Ingenieur', meaning roughly 'graduate engineer...holding a diploma. Adding the acronym ETH greatly improves the status...Empa is another important acronym within the ETH domain, designating...giant can ...

APOLOGY GIVEN FOR OFFENSIVE ACRONYM The Record (Bergen County, NJ) (12/9/1993)
...12-09-1993 APOLOGY GIVEN FOR OFFENSIVE ACRONYM -- MORRIS FREEHOLDER STILL BACKS JAIL...O'Brien expressed sorrow for using the acronym BANANA and a picture of the fruit to...freeholder said he innocently took the acronym -- meaning Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near...questions about his use of ...

ASAP, WHAT'S YOUR ACRONYM IQ? The Boston Globe (5/21/1990)
...the full antecedent of an acronym only once in an article...frequency, one wonders if the acronym has not bestowed an unwarranted...of linguistic grace. When acronyms get out of hand, both grace and meaning suffer. Another recent story...The resulting clash of acronyms, pitting FAWN against ...

Mapping of medical acronyms and initialisms to Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) across selected systems Journal of the Medical Library Association (10/1/2006)
...Finder, and Ovid MEDLINE. Acronyms and initialisms were randomly...included 415 randomly selected acronyms and initialisms whose related meanings were found to be MeSH terms. Each acronym and initialism was entered...of the Greek words akros, meaning top, and onyma, meaning name [2]. ...

THE ABCs OF TLAs.(three-letter acronyms)(Column) Inside Business (3/1/2001)
Everything you wanted to know about three-letter acronyms but were afraid to ask. No field - not even my beloved but mostly forgotten mathematics - has as many three-letter acronyms as information technology. In fact, three-letter acronyms have spawned their own three-letter acronym: TLA. Some sound ...

What's your AQ?(Systems & Software Technology)(acronym quotient; computer terms)(Column) Industrial Distribution (4/1/1999)
Without a high acronym quotient, acronyms cause confusion for many Not too long...such a quantum leap in the number of acronyms used in the information technology...abbreviations, together with their meanings, can greatly enhance your standing...elements. But you don't need to use any acronyms ...