[ACRO-NYMS] - ☯✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨🚀*THE 2ND NATURE*🚀

-as of [22 JUNE 2024]–

*the ideal acronym forms an ‘easily pronouncable word’*

(a ‘word’ that has not yet been assigned a ‘meaning’*)

(are all ‘words’ required to have a ‘meaning’ in order to be classified as ‘word’?)

*otherwise it is a ‘sound’ / ‘symbol’*

(technically, it is only an ‘acronym’ if the abbreviation is pronounced like a ‘word’)

(as in “UNICEF”)

(it is an ‘initialism’ if you pronounce each letter)

(as in “ACLU”)

-OUR [ACRONYMS]-

*’ACRONYM WIKI-LIST’*

*NUMBERS*

*3GPP*

(“third generation partnership project”)

(group of mobile tele-communications standards organization)

*5G*

(“fifth generation”)

(mobile phones)

*6G*

(“sixth generation”)

(mobile phones)

*LETTERS*

1 – *LETTER A*

*AA*
“alcoholix anonymous”

*AAA*
“american auto-mobile association”

*AAC*

*advanced audio coding”

-AARCH64-

(“ARM ARCHITECTURE 64-BIT”)

(aka ‘ARM64’)

*ABN*

(“algemene bank netherland”)

*AC*
“air conditioning”
“alternating current”

*ACC*
(accessories?)
(when used on ‘circuit breakers’)

*ACH*
(“automated clearing house”)

*ADME*
(‘ABSORPTION’ / ‘DISTRIBUTION’ / ‘METABOLISM’ / ‘EXCRETION’)

*AE*
(“automatic exposure”)

*AFAIK*
(“as far as i know’)

*AFC*
(“american football conference”)

*AG*

Aktiengesellschaft

(german for “one which is owned by its share-holders”)

*AIFF*
(“audio inter-change file format”)

*AJAX*
(“a-synchronous java-script and XML”)

“AMA”
(“ask me anything”)

‘AMPA’

α-AMino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolePropionic Acid

(‘am’ stands for ‘amino’)

(because it is an ‘amino acid’)

“propionic, eh?”

-AMR-“
“adaptive multi-rate audio”
(the ‘codec’)

.*APFS*

(“apple file system”)

(do we interpret ‘p’ as the 2nd letter of the preceding ‘apple’ reference?)

*API*
(“application programming interface”)

-AR-

(“augmented reality”)

-ARA-

(“audio random access”)

-ARM-

(“advanced RISC machines”)

(aka ‘AARCH64’)

*ASMR*
(“autonomous sensory meridian response”)

-ATM-
(“automated teller machine”)

*ATP*

(“adenosine tri-phosphate”)

*ATSC*

“advanced television systems committee”

*AUC*
(“anno urbis conditae”)
(latin for “from the founding of the city”)
(in reference to ‘rome’)
(which is set at ’21 april 753 BCE’)
(in terms of the ‘modern calendar’)
(the founding date was defined by ‘marcus terentius varro’)
(the roman writer)
(‘116 BCE’ – ’27 BCE’)

*AVC*
“advanced video coding”

*AVI*

“audio video inter-leave(d)”

*AWB*

(“automatic white balance”)

2 – *LETTER B*

*BB KING*

(born ‘riley b king’)

(to mississippi sharecroppers)

(’16 september 1925′)

(first nicknamed “beale street blues boy”)

(after the ‘memphis street’)

(shortened to “blues boy”)

(shortened to “BB”)

(when was he officially coronated?)

(when did ‘BB’ become ‘king’?)

(or “ball bearing”)

(as in “BB gun”)

*BLOB*
(“binary large object”)

*BP*

“blood pressure”

“british petroleum”

“BSOD”

(“blue screen of death”)

*BWF*
“broadcast wav format”

3 – *LETTER C*

*CA*

(latin for ‘circa’)
(in terms of a ‘date estimate’)
(not quite an ‘acronym’)

-CBD-

“CannaBiDiol”

*CBR*
(“constant bitrate”)

*CC*

(“carbon copy”)

(“continuous controller”)

*CD*
(“compact disc”)

*CDC*

(*centers for ‘disease control/prevention’*)

*CERN*
*european organization for ‘nuclear research’*

(derived from the french name Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire)

*CF*

(short for the latin confer/conferatur)

(both meaning ‘compare’)

(used in writing to refer the reader to other material to make a comparison with the topic being discussed)

(it is used to form a ‘contrast’)

(for example…)

(“abbott (2010) found supportive results in her memory experiment, unlike those of previous work (cf. zeller & williams / 2007))

(it is recommended that cf. be used only to suggest a comparison, and the word see be used to point to a source of information)

*CGI-bin*
(“common gateway interface”)

-CISC-

(“complex instruction set computer”)

*CMP*

“meeting of the parties”?
(the annual UN ‘climate change conference’)
(“kyoto protocol”)

*CMS*
(“content management system”)

*CMV*
(“change my view”)

*CMYK*

‘cyan’ / ’magenta’ / ‘yellow’ / ‘key’

(‘key’ meaning ‘black’)

-CNBC-

(“consumer news/business channel”)

*COP*

“Conference Of the Parties*

(the annual UN ‘climate change conference’)

*CPM*

“cost per ‘mille’*

*CPU*
(“central processing unit”)

*CSS*
“CASCADING STYLE SHEETS”

*CSV*
(“comma separated values”)

*CUDA*
(“COMPUTE UNIFIED DEVICE ARCHITECTURE”)
(an ‘API’)

*CVD*
(“Cardio Vascular Disease”)

*CVS*
(“consumer value store”)

4 – *LETTER D*

*DARPA*

“defense advanced research projects agency”

*DAW*
“digital audio workstation”

-DC-

(“district of columbia”)
(“document cloud”)

*DC-(IN)*
(“direct current (in)”)

-[DCI-P3]-

(“DIGITAL CINEMA INITIATIVE”)
(PROTOCOL 3)

*DEDI*
“dedicated hosting service”

*DEET*

*N,N-Di-ethyl-meta-toluamide*

*DIN*

“Deutsches Institut für Normung”

*german for “German Institute for Standardisation Registered Association”*

*original ‘standardizer’ of ‘DIN connectors’*
(in the early 70s)

*DIY*

(“do it yourself!”)

*DJI*

(“da-jiang innovations”)

*DM*
(“direct message”)
(instagram)

*DMG*
“Disk iMaGe”

*DM;HS*

(“doesn’t matter…had sex…”)

(or is it “DIDN’T matter”?)

(as in someone recounting a story of his time with a pretty girl covered in feces)

(???)

(PS – “i HATE semi-colons”)

*DMT*
(“di methyl tryptamine”)

*DNA*

“DeoxyriboNucleic Acid“

*DNG*

(“digital negative”)
(an adobe ‘image file format’)

‘DNR’

“does not rhyme”
(used to mark lyrics)

“do not resuscitate”
(first learned this phrase through “the sopranos”)

*DNS*
(“domain name system”)

‘DPA’
(“danish pro audio”)

*DR*
(“dynamic range”)

*DRM*
(“digital rights management”)

“DS_STORE”
(“desktop services store”)

*DSLR*
(“digital single-lens reflex”)

*DSP*
(“digital signal processing”)

*DV*
“digital video”

*DVD*
(“digital video (or ‘versatile’?) disc”)

5 – *LETTER E*

*EBU*

“european broadcasting union”

*EEG*

(‘electro’–‘encephalo’–‘graphy’)

*EEPROM*
“electrically erasable programmable read-only memory”

*EG*

“exempli gratia”
(take that ingrassia!)

(latin phrase meaning ‘for example’)

*EKG*

‘ElectroKardioGraphy”
(or “cardiography”?)

“emily katherine gatti”

*ELI5*
(“explain like i’m 5 (years old)”)
(or so i yam told)

*EPA*
(“environmental protection agency”)

*ETA*

(“estimated time of arrival”)

(thanks christine!)

“the ‘gift’ that keeps on ‘giving’…”

*EUREKA*

“EXCEPTIONAL UNCONVENTIONAL RESEARCH ENABLING KNOWLEDGE ACCELERATION”

6 – *LETTER F*

*FLOPS*

(‘floating point operations’ per ‘second’)

(5 LETTERS)
(shortest acronym?)
(longest acronym?)

(although this example leaves out the 2nd word ‘point’)
(and replaces it with the 2nd letter of the 1st word ‘floating’)

(“FLOPS” / NOT “FPOPS”)

(because attempts to pronounce “FP” into the ‘O’ vowel would yield wildly varying sonic results)

?🤷‍♀️😕🤷‍♂️?

*FOSS*
*”free’/’open-source’ software”*

*FPS*
“frames per second”

*FTFY*
(“fixed that for you…”)

*FTP*
(“file transfer protocol”)

7 – *LETTER G*

*GDP*
(“gross domestic product”)

*GI*
(‘gastro-intestinal tract’)

(or a short form of “american soldier”)

(originally stood for ‘galvanized iron’)
(which was used to identify ‘logistics services’ in the ‘american air force’)

(became wide-spread after implementation of ‘selective service system’ (aka ‘draft’) by the ‘american federal government’ in 1940)

*GIF*

“grafix interchange format”

“guinea airlines”
(ha!)

*GIMP*
(“GNU image manipulation program”)

*GNU*

*GNU’s not ‘unix’*
(a ‘re-cursive acronym’)

*GPL*

(“general public license”)

*GPU*

“graphics processing unit”

*GERD*
(“gastro-esophageal reflux disease”)

*GmbH*

Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung

(german for “company with limited liability”)

-GOP-

“grand old party”

“group of pictures”

*GSP*
(“gross state product”)

*GUID*

(“globally unique identifier”)

8 – *LETTER H*

*HD*

“high definition”

*HDD*
“hard disk drive”

*HDMI*
“high-definition multi-media inter-face”

*HDPE*

(“High Density Poly Ethylene”)

(to make ‘water bottles’)

*HDR*
(“high dynamic range”)

*HD V *

“high definition video”

*HEAT*

“harmonically enhanced algorithm technology”

*HEIC*
(“high efficiency image container”)

*HEIF*
(“high efficiency image file format”)

*HEVC*
(“high efficiency video coding”)

‘HIRES’
(“high resolution fly’s eye”)

*HLG*

(“hybrid log-gamma”)

*HP*
(“hewlitt packard”)

-HSB-

(HUE / SATURATION / BRIGHTNESS)

(also called ‘HSV’)

(HUE / SATURATION / VALUE)

-HSL-

(HUE / SATURATION / LIGHTNESS)

*HTML*
“hypertext markup language”

*HTTP(S)*
(“hyper-text transfer protocol”)
(the first part of all URLs)
(an “s” means the URL is “secure”)

*HUD*
(“department of Housing and Urban Development”)

*HVAC*
(‘heat’ / ‘ventilation’ / ‘air conditioning’)

9 – *LETTER I*

*IAFD*
(“internet adult film database”)

*IANAD*
(“i am not a doctor…”)
(to guard against any potential lawsuits)
(good song title)

*IANAL*
(“i am not a lawyer…”)
(see above)
(another good song title)

*ICS*

*’INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION’ ON ‘STRATIGRAPHY’*

*ID*

(“identity document”)

*IEC*
(“international electro-technical commission”)

*IETF*

(“internet engineering task force”)

*IG*
(“instagram”)

*IGTV*
(insta gram tele vision)

*IMAP*
(“internet message access protocol”)

*IMF*
(“international monetary fund”)

*.INI*
(“initialization file”)
(a type of ‘configuration file’)

-INN-

“international non-proprietary name”

(a drug name assigned by the ‘world health organization’)

*IN(H)O*
“in my (humble) opinion”

*IP*
“internet protocol”

*IPCC*
“inter-governmental panel on climate change”

*IQ*
“intelligence quotient”

*IRE*

(“institute of radio engineers”)
(a ‘standard unit’ used in ‘video editing/limiting’)

*ISBN*
(“international standard book number”)

*ISO*
(“international organization for standardization”)

*ISRC*
(“international standard recording code”)

*ITT*
(“in this thread”)

*ITU*
(“international tele-communications union”)

*ITU-T*
(“international tele-communications union tele-communications standardization sector”)
(terrible name for a ‘standardization body’)
(“tele-communications” is used twice)

*IVF*
(“in vitro fertilization”)

10 – *LETTER J*

*JP(E)G*
(“joint photographic experts group”)

*.JSON*
(“java-script object notation”)

11 – *LETTER K*

*KPC*

“kilo-parsec’
(an ‘astronomical unit’ of length)

*KS*
(keyboard shortcuts)

12 – *LETTER L*

*LAN*

(“local area network”)

*LASER*

(“Light Amplification from Stimulating Emission of Radiation”)

*LCD*

(“liquid-crystal display”)

*LEXISNEXIS*

(not quite an ‘acronym’)

(“lex” is latin for “law”)

(‘IS’ stands for “information services”)

(“nex” refers to ‘news databases’ for journalists)

???

*LHC*

(“large hadron collider”)

*LIDAR*

(“light detection and ranging”)

(“LI” for ‘light’?)

(OR)

(“laser imaging detection and ranging”)

*LLC*
(“limited liability company”)

*LMAO*

“laughing my ass off”

*LOL*

“laughing out loud”

*LSD*
(lysergic acid d-ethyl-amide)

*LTD*

(“limited”)

(not quite an ‘acronym’)

*LUCA*
(“last universal common ancestor”)

*LUFS*

(“Loudness Units Full Scale”)

(aka ‘LKFS’)

(“Loudness K-weighted (relative to ‘full scale’)

*LUT*
(“lookup tables”)

13 – *LETTER M*

*MAN PAGE*
(“manual page”)

*MAVEN*
“MARS ATMOSPHERE + VOLATILE EVOLUTION MISSION”

*MD5*
(“message digest”)
(version 5?)

*MDMA*
3,4-MethyleneDioxymethaMphetAmine
(aka ‘ecstasy’)

*MDS_STORES*

(“meta-data server”)

(macOS spotlight process)

*MFI*

“made for iphone/ipod/ipad*

*MH THEMES*
(company founded by “michael hebenstreit”)

*MIDI*
(“musical instrument digital inter-face”)

*MIME*
“Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extension”

*.MKV*
“majorska video file”
(“why not ‘MVF'” you may ask)
(because it’s based on a russian word?)

-MNE-
(“Morristown aNd Essex”)
(THE [NJ TRANSIT LINE])

*MP*
(mega-pixel)

*MPA(A)*
“MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION (of AMERICA)”

-MPC-

(“MUSIC PRODUCTION CENTER”)

*MPEG*
“moving picture experts group”

*MQA*

“master quality authenticated”

*MSNBC*

“microsoft national broadcasting company”

*MXL*

(“mexicali international airport”)

(also a microphone brand)

(what does it stand for in reference to the microphone brand?)

*MXF*

“material exchange format”

(you forgot the ‘e’ in ‘exchange’)

14 – *LETTER N*

*NAS*
(“network access server”)

*NBA*
(“national basketball association”)

*NBC*
(“national broadcasting company”)

*NEC*

(“NORTH EAST CORRIDOR”)

(THE [NJ TRANSIT LINE])

*NEMA*

(national electrical manufacturers association)

*NFC*

“NATIONAL FOOTBALL CONFERENCE”

*NFL*

“NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE”

*NFT*

“NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS”

-NJCL-

(“north jersey coast line”)

(NJCLL – long branch?)

‘NLE’

(‘non-linear editing’ (system))

*NMDA*
(n methyl d aspartate)
(a ‘glutamate receptor’ in neurons)

*NOAA*

*national oceanic / ‘atmospheric’ administration*

*NSAID*

(“non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug”)

*NSFL*

“not safe for ‘life’*
(as in ‘gory’ / ‘gross’)

*NSFW*

“not safe for work”
(as in ‘sexual content’)
(i always thought ‘it’ was ‘not SUITABLE for work’)
(but what does ‘it’ know anyway?)
(i’ll tell you what i know…)
(all i know is…)

*NTFS*

(“new technology file system”)

*NTSC*
(“national television system committee”)

*NUTS*

*’nomenclature’ of ‘territorial units’ for ‘statistics’*

*french* –> nomenclature des unités territoriales statistiques

*NV*

“naamloze vennootschap“

*NVDIMM*

(“non-volatile dual in-line memory module”)

*NVM*

(“non-volatile memory”)

*NVRAM*
(“non-volatile random access memory”)

15 – *LETTER O*

*OCR*

“optical character recognition”

*OPEN CL*
(“open computing language”)

*OS*

“operating system”

*as in ‘macOS’ (computers) / ‘iOS’ (mobile devices)*

*old style*
(as in ‘julian calendar’ dates)
(before adoption of ‘gregorian calendar’)

*OBS*

“open broad-caster software”

16 – *LETTER P*

*PAL*
(“phase alternating line”)

*PC*
(“personal computer”)

*PCM*

(“pulse code modulation”)

*PCP*

(“Phenyl Cyclo-hexyl Piperidine”)

(a ‘dissociative drug’)

-PDF-
(“portable document format”)

-pH-
(“potential hydrogen”)

*PLC*
(“public limited company”)
(under ‘british law’)

*PLIST*
(“property list”)

*PNG*
(“portable network graphics”)

*POP*
(“post office protocol”)

*PPP*
(“purchasing power parity”)

*PQ*

(“perceptual quantizer’)

*PRAM*

(“parameter random access memory”)

‘PWM’
(“probability weighted moment”)

17 – *LETTER Q*

*QR CODE*
“quick response”

*QTFF*
“quick-time file format”
(assume .mov is short for ‘movie’?)

18 – *LETTER R*

*RAM*
(“random access memory”)

*RARV*

(“raritan valley”)
(the NJ transit commuter line)

*RC*
(“release candidate”)

-REX2-

(“recycle export”)

*RF*
(“radio frequency”)

*RFC*
(“request for comments”)

*RGB*
(red / green / blue)

-RISC-

(“reduced instruction set computer”)

*RMS*
(“root mean square”)

*RNA*

(“RiboNucleic Acid”)

*RPC*

*’remote procedure call’ protocol*

*RTF*

(as of ’19 november 2020′…)

“rich text format”
(a ‘computer file format’ for ‘documents’)

“ready to fly”
(in ‘model aircraft’)

“radio-telephone”

“real-time factor”
(a standard ‘metric of performance’ in ‘automated speech recognition systems’)

“radiodiffusion-télévision française”
(french)

“russian tennis federation”
(russian)

*RTMP*
(“real time messaging protocol”)

19 – *LETTER S*

*SATA*
“serial advanced technology attachment”

*SDI*

“serial digital interface”

*SDR*

“special drawing rights”

“standard dynamic range”

*SD(TV)*
(“standard definition (tele-vision)”)

*SEO*
“search engine optimization”

*SI*
(“système international“)
(french wording of “international system of units”)

*SIG*
“susquehanna international group”

*SIM*
(“subscriber identity module”)
(as in ‘sim card’ for smartphones)

*SMC*

(“system management controller”)

*SMH*

(“shake my head”)

(as in “disapproval” to the point of ‘incredulity’)

*SMPTE*

(“society of [‘motion picture’/’television’] engineers)

*SMS*

“short message service”

*SMTP*

“simple mail transfer protocol”

‘SWIM’

(“someone who isn’t me”)

*SRC*

“sample rate conversion”

-sRGB-

(“standard red/green/blue”)

*STEREO*
(“solar terrestrial relations observatory”)

*SSD*
(solid-state drive)

*SSI*
(“supplemental security income”)

*SSL*
(“secure sockets layer”)

*SVG*
(“scalable vector graphics”)

20 – *LETTER T*

*TCP*
(“transmission control protocol”)

*TFW*

(“that feeling when”)

(emma wolin used it on ‘twitter’)

(it signals to the reader “can all y’all relate?”)

*THC*
“tetra-hydro-cannabinol”

*TIFF*

“tag image file format”

*TIL*
(“today i learned…”)

*TIPS*
(“treasury inflation-protected securities”)

‘TLA’
(“textile labor association”)

“TL;DR”
(“too long / didn’t read”)
(prefer the ‘forward slash’ to the ‘semi-colon’)

‘TLS’
(“transport layer security”)

*TOS*
(“terms of service”)

*TOSLink*
(“toshiba link”)

*TV*
(“tele vision”)

21 – *LETTER U*

*UBS*
*’union bank’ of ‘switzerland’*

*UFC*

“ultimate fighting championship”

*UGC*

“user-generated content”

*UHD*

“ultra-high definition”

*UHF*

“ultra-high frequency”

*UI*

“user interface”

*UNFCCC*
(*united nations framework convention on ‘climate change’*)

*UPC*
(universal product code)

*UPS*
(“UNITED PARCEL SERVICE”)

*URL*
(“UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR”)

*UTC*

“COORDINATED UNIVERSAL TIME”

22 – *LETTER V*

*VBR*
(“variable bit-rate”)

-VCA-
(“voltage-controlled amplifier”)

*VCEG*
(“video coding experts group”)

*VCR*
(“video cassette recorder”)

*VFR*
(“variable frame rate”)

*VHS*
(“video home system”)

*VLC*
(digital media player)
(used to stand for “VideoLAN Client”)
(‘LAN’ is short for “local area network”)

*VNC*

“virtual network computing*

*VOIP*
(“voice over internet protocol”)

“VPN”
(“virtual private network”)

“VPS”
(“virtual private server”)

*VR*
(“virtual reality”)

*VST*

(“virtual studio technology”)

23 – *LETTER W*

*WD*
(“western digital”)

*WEBDAV*
(“web distributed authoring/versioning”)

*WLAN*
(“wireless local area networks”)

*WPMU*
(“wordpress multi-user”)

*WWDC*
(“world wide developers conference”)

*WWW*
(“world wide web”)

*WPS*
(“wi-fi protected setup”)

24 – *LETTER X*

*XDR*

“extended dynamic range*

(or is it “expanded dynamic range”?)

*XLR*

*originally marketed as “cannon x series”*

(developed by ‘james cannon’)
(part of the prominent american ‘dynasty’ – “the cannons”)

(their company was based in ‘los angeles’)

(‘cannon electric’ was eventually purchased by ‘ITT’)

(a ‘public american corporation’)

(“INTERNATIONAL TELEPHONE + TELEGRAPH”)

(the ‘L’ in XLR refers to ‘latch’)
(introduced in ‘1950’)

(the ‘R’ in XLR refers to ‘rubber’)
(introduced in ‘1955’)

(‘female connectors’ were surrounded with a ‘synthetic rubber poly-chloroprene’ insulation)

(aka ‘neoprene’)

*XML*
(“extensible markup language”)

*XMP*
(“extensible meta-data platform”)

25 – *LETTER Y*

*YMCA*
(“young men’s christian association”)

“YMMV”
(“your mileage may vary”)

“YSK”
(“you should know…”)

26 – *LETTER Z*

*ZZ TOP*
(a nod to “BB king”)

“ZZZ”
(*”cross-linguistic onomatopoeia” for ‘snoring’*)

(the world’s longest acronym, according to the Guinness Book of World Records is…)

NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBOMONIMONKONOTDTEKHSTROMONT

*russian* –>

Нииомтплабопармбетжелбетрабсбомонимонконотдтехстромонт)

*56 ‘latin letters’ long*
(54 ‘cyrillic letters’)

it is from the Concise (ha!) Dictionary of Soviet Terminology

it means…

“the Laboratory for Shuttering, Reinforcement, Concrete and Ferroconcrete Operations for Composite-monolithic and Monolithic Constructions of the Department of Technology of Building Assembly Operations of the Scientific Research Institute of the Organization for Building Mechanization and Technical Aid of the Academy of Building and Architecture of the USSR”

“whew”!