Acronym Finder.(Brief Article) IIE Solutions (12/1/2000)
http://www.acronymfinder.com TQM, SCADA, BOM, SMED ... industrial engineering is full of acronyms. Use Acronym Finder, the largest online database of its kind, to search for definitions.

An acronym whose time (unfortunately) has come American Agent & Broker (8/1/2004)
AH, THE WONDERS of the acronym! How dull or inconvenient our world would be if we had...FYI, ASAP, CYA) to those of the Internet (LOL, ROFL), acronyms both old and new grease the wheels of communication in...reply: "RTFM!" Not being familiar with that particular acronym, I plugged it into the Google ...

Why the FSA's latest acronym is a bit OTT.(Financial Services Authority)(over the top) Financial Adviser (8/5/2004)
Another week, another acronym. Last week, the FSA gave us a new one: TCF. My initial search through a database of many tens of thousands of verbal contractions came up with the phrase Tactical Combat Force. Given that the...

ASAP, WHAT'S YOUR ACRONYM IQ? The Boston Globe (5/21/1990)
...definition for all of them, give back one gold star. An acronym has really made it into the language when its capital...tendency of organizations to adopt names with meaningful acronyms (FAWN, MADD, DARE), and for that we should count our...Paranormal (CSICOP) tucked a bit of clever humor into its ...

Searching for the mother code. (numeric and acronym coding systems used in business databases) Online (7/1/1992)
Business searchers are extremely familiar with codes...are replete with numeric and acronym coding systems that business searchers must master to be proficient...codes end in a two-letter product acronym. Hoppenstedt, Kompass, Thomas...

See this site if you don't know a WYSIWYG from a WHAP: look up acronym definitions, add your own, do some research. Not bad, IMHO.(INFO SITES)(www.all-acronyms.com)(www.catalogchoice.org)(www.usaspending.gov/index.php)(Website list) Information Outlook (1/1/2008)
All Acronyms www.all-acronyms.com The number of acronyms seems to grow by the day. Use this tool, which lists over 600,000 of them, to browse and search for acronyms across many subject areas: business, government, technology, military, and...

Looking beyond the acronyms.(opinions: VIEW AND INSIGHTS FROM THE EDITORIAL STAFF AND GUEST COLUMNIST) Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News (11/6/2006)
...ways our industry uses association and organization acronyms. RSES has been around since the 1930s, when refrigeration...HARDI). Sometimes, we in the industry incorrectly use acronyms. Each winter the industry hosts a major trade show officially...with the r' missing in action when it comes to the ...

Mapping of medical acronyms and initialisms to Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) across selected systems Journal of the Medical Library Association (10/1/2006)
...the common use of acronyms and initialisms...health sciences, searchers may be entering...full phrases when searching online systems...interfaces map acronyms and initialisms...information if acronyms and initialisms are used in search strategies. INTRODUCTION An acronym is a ...

SAMS: Speaking with acronyms in mass spectrometry Spectroscopy (2/1/2002)
...acronym for Speaking with Acronyms in Mass Spectrometry (or...definitions returned from a web search for the meaning of the acronym). To search for meanings of acronyms and abbreviations, use acronym...easily off the tongue that no acronymic competitor has ...