-[ACRONYM] DATABASE-

*LETTERS*

1 – *LETTER A*

*AA*
“alcoholix anonymous”

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*AAA*
“american auto-mobile association”

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*AAC*

*advanced audio coding”

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.AAE
(“apple adjustments/edit”)

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-AARCH64-

(“ARM ARCHITECTURE 64-BIT”)

(aka ‘ARM64’)

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*ABN*

(“algemene bank netherland”)

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*AC*
“air conditioning”
“alternating current”

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

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*ACH*
(“automated clearing house”)

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

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*AE*
(“automatic exposure”)

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*AFAIK*
(“as far as i know’)

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*AFC*
(“american football conference”)

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*AG*

Aktiengesellschaft 

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

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

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

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“AMA”
(“ask me anything”)

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‘AMPA’

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

(‘am’ stands for ‘amino’)

(because it is an ‘amino acid’)

“propionic, eh?”

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

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.*APFS*

(“apple file system”)

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

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*API*
(“application programming interface”)

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-AR-

(“augmented reality”)

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-ARA-

(“audio random access”)

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-ARM-

(“advanced RISC machines”)

(aka ‘AARCH64’)

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*ASMR*
(“autonomous sensory meridian response”)

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-ATM-
(“automated teller machine”)

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*ATP*

(“adenosine tri-phosphate”)

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*ATSC*

“advanced television systems committee”

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*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’)

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*AVC*
“advanced video coding”

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*AVI*

“audio video inter-leave(d)”

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*AWB*

(“automatic white balance”)

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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”)

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*BLOB*
(“binary large object”)

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*BP*

“blood pressure”

“british petroleum”

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“BSOD”

(“blue screen of death”)

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*BWF*
“broadcast wav format”

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3 – *LETTER C*

*CA*

(latin for ‘circa’)

(in terms of a ‘date estimate’)

(not quite an ‘acronym’)

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[.CAF]

“CORE AUDIO FORMAT”

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-CBD-

“CannaBiDiol”

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*CBR*
(“constant bitrate”)

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*CC*

(“carbon copy”)

(“continuous controller”)

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*CD*
(“compact disc”)

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*CDC*

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

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

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

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*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)

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-CFU-

“COLONY-FORMING UNIT”

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

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-CISC-

(“complex instruction set computer”)

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*CMP*

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

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*CMS*
(“content management system”)

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*CMV*
(“change my view”)

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*CMYK*

‘cyan’ / ’magenta’ / ‘yellow’ / ‘key’

(‘key’ meaning ‘black’)

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-CNBC-

(“consumer news/business channel”)

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*COP*

“Conference Of the Parties*

(the annual UN ‘climate change conference’)

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*CPM*

“cost per ‘mille’*

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*CPU*
(“central processing unit”)

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*CSS*
“CASCADING STYLE SHEETS”

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*CSV*
(“comma separated values”)

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

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*CVD*
(“Cardio Vascular Disease”)

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*CVS*
(“consumer value store”)

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4 – *LETTER D*

*DARPA*

“defense advanced research projects agency”

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*DAW*
“digital audio workstation”

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-DC-

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

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*DC-(IN)*
(“direct current (in)”)

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-[DCI-P3]-

(“DIGITAL CINEMA INITIATIVE”)
(PROTOCOL 3)

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*DEDI*
“dedicated hosting service”

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*DEET*

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

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*DIN*

“Deutsches Institut für Normung”

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

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

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*DIY*

(“do it yourself!”)

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*DJI*

(“da-jiang innovations”)

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*DM*
(“direct message”)
(instagram)

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*DMG*
“Disk iMaGe”

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*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”)

5 – *LETTER E*

-EBU-

“european broadcasting union”

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-EEG-

(‘electro’–‘encephalo’–‘graphy’)

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

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*EG*

“exempli gratia”
(take that ingrassia!)

(latin phrase meaning ‘for example’)

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*EKG*

‘ElectroKardioGraphy”
(or “cardiography”?)

“emily katherine gatti”

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

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*EPA*
(“environmental protection agency”)

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*ETA*

(“estimated time of arrival”)

(thanks christine!)

“the ‘gift’ that keeps on ‘giving’…”

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-EUREKA-

“EXCEPTIONAL UNCONVENTIONAL RESEARCH ENABLING KNOWLEDGE ACCELERATION”

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-EV-

“exposure value”

“expected value”

“electric vehicle”

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6 – *LETTER F*

-FCC-
(FOOD CHEMICALS CODEX)

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*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)

?🤷‍♀️😕🤷‍♂️?

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

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*FPS*
“frames per second”

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*FTFY*
(“fixed that for you…”)

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-FTP-
(“file transfer protocol”)

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7 – *LETTER G*

*GDP*
(“gross domestic product”)

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*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)

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*GIF*

“grafix interchange format”

“guinea airlines”
(ha!)

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*GIMP*
(“GNU image manipulation program”)

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*GNU*

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

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*GPL*

(“general public license”)

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*GPU*

“graphics processing unit”

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

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*GmbH*

Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung

(german for “company with limited liability”)

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-GOP-

“grand old party”

“group of pictures”

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*GSP*
(“gross state product”)

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*GUID*

(“globally unique identifier”)

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8 – *LETTER H*

*HD*

“high definition”

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*HDD*
“hard disk drive”

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

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*HDPE*

(“High Density Poly Ethylene”)

(to make ‘water bottles’)

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*HDR*
(“high dynamic range”)

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*HDV*

“high definition video”

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*HEAT*

“harmonically enhanced algorithm technology”

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*HEIC*
(“high efficiency image container”)

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

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*HEVC*
(“high efficiency video coding”)

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‘HIRES’
(“high resolution fly’s eye”)

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*HLG*

(“hybrid log-gamma”)

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*HP*
(“hewlitt packard”)

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-HSB-

(HUE / SATURATION / BRIGHTNESS)

(also called ‘HSV’)

(HUE / SATURATION / VALUE)

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-HSL-

(HUE / SATURATION / LIGHTNESS)

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[.HTACCESS]

“hypertext access”

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*HTML*
“hypertext markup language”

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

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

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

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9 – *LETTER I*

*IAFD*
(“internet adult film database”)

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

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*IANAL*

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

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-ICAO-

“INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION”

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-ICS-

*’INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION’ ON ‘STRATIGRAPHY’*

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-ICSID-

“INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR [SETTLEMENTS] OF [INVESTMENT DISPUTES]”

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-ID-

“identity document”

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-IDA-

“international development association”

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

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-IETF-

“internet engineering task force”

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-IFC-

“international finance corporation”

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-IG-

“instagram”

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*IGTV*

(insta gram tele vision)

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-ILO-

“INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION”

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-IMAP-

“internet message access protocol”

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*IMF*
(“international monetary fund”)

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

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-INN-

“international non-proprietary name”

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

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*IN(H)O*
“in my (humble) opinion”

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*IP*
“internet protocol”

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-IPCC-

“inter-governmental panel on climate change”

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-IPTC-

“INTERNATIONAL PRESS TELE-COMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL”

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*IQ*
“intelligence quotient”

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*IRE*

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

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-ISBN-

(“international standard book number”)

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-ISO-

(“international organization for standardization”)

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-ISRC-

(“international standard recording code”)

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*ITT*
(“in this thread”)

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

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

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*IVF*
(“in vitro fertilization”)

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10 – *LETTER J*

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

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

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11 – *LETTER K*

*KPC*

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

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*KS*
(keyboard shortcuts)

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12 – *LETTER L*

*LAN*

(“local area network”)

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*LASER*

(“Light Amplification from Stimulating Emission of Radiation”)

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*LCD*

(“liquid-crystal display”)

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*LEXISNEXIS*

(not quite an ‘acronym’)

(“lex” is latin for “law”)

(‘IS’ stands for “information services”)

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

???

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-LFE-

(“low-frequency” effects)

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*LHC*

(“large hadron collider”)

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-LIDAR-

(“light detection and ranging”)

(“LI” for ‘light’?)

(OR)

(“laser imaging detection and ranging”)

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*LLC*
(“limited liability company”)

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*LMAO*

“laughing my ass off”

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*LOL*

“laughing out loud”

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

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-LTD-

“limited”

(not quite an ‘acronym’)

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-LTE-

“long term evolution”

(cellular data)

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*LUCA*
(“last universal common ancestor”)