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	Backronym
		A backronym is an acronym that looks as if its meaning was chosen to fit an existing word, whether the fit is deliberate or accidental (see contrived acronym[?]).
		NUTS - This is clearly a contrived acronym, both to play on the acronym MAD as well as assert the viewpoint that it would be mad to rely on the mutual assured destruction.
		MAD - This acronym is the same as the word meaning insane, but that might be a coincidence.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ba/Backronym.html (224 words)

	Know it all Inc. (I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A rather unique acronym, from the 18 letters elided between the initial "I" and the final "N".
		, language, database> A pictorial {query language}, an extension of {Sequel2}.
		Some ISO documents say ISO is not an acronym even though it is an anagram of the initials of the organization's name.
	artikbre.synchro.net /docs/I.html (17821 words)

	Acronym Apology
		The right acronym can make all the difference between the success and the failure of a product or idea, and for this reason considerable effort sometimes goes into creating just the right acronym.
		In other cases the acronym has good force and immediacy, but is not especially relevant to what it represents: NOW (National Organization of Women).
		In some cases no thought at all is given to the aesthetics of the acronym, resulting in one which is both pointless and clumsy: AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists); or even worse, one which carries an actively negative connotation: SAG (Screen Actors' Guild).
	www.leapforum.org /LEAP/Manifesto/article/HistoryOfLeap/split/node5.html (583 words)

	Steven Pawson - GAMICSE objectives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		GAMICSE is a somewhat contrived acronym: Global Analysis and Modeling of Ice Clouds in a Sub-synoptic Environment.
		It is a study based on the DAO's model and assimilation system, prompted by our need to understand more about the water vapor and cirrus cloud distribution for detailed studies of climate, troposphere-stratosphere exchange, and the interpretation of satellite observations of water vapor in the upper troposphere.
		A major objective of GAMICSE is to evaluate how well the analysis system positions the cirrus clouds in relation to the convective systems; since the space-based observations of cirrus are global, it is relatively straightforward to do this analysis globally, even though the main focus of CRYSTAL-FACE will be on a more restricted region.
	userpages.umbc.edu /~pawson/html_files/gamicse_obj.htm (942 words)

	Writer's Encyclopedia--Letter D (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		To succeed, dialect should be neither so contrived and complicated as to be distracting, nor so sporadic and subtle that it fails to create a consistent, distinct flavor for a character or an entire work.
		A contrivance of playwriting and staging that the audience understands is to be taken for reality.
		Some common dramatic conventions are the monologue (in real life, people do not speak so coherently at such length), the aside (in which a character gives vital information to the audience, while the other characters onstage are understood not to hear)—even the stage itself (which obviously is not really a battlefield, or a garret).
	www.writersmarket.com /encyc/D.asp (4957 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Americas \| Fact file: Moab
		This might be the key to the timing of the latest Moab test, and it is not clear how soon the experimental weapon might join the military arsenal.
		The acronym Moab was already in the US military lexicon, standing for Missile Optimized Anti-Ballistic, according to the Ballistic Missile Defence Organization glossary.
		To some the re-use of the name for a high-profile big bomb seems a little contrived - the acronym rather neatly lending itself to the "unofficial" nickname, Mother Of All Bombs.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/2843055.stm (421 words)

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		This is a common way of suggesting that someone would be better off reading the source code that supports whatever feature is causing confusion, rather than making yet another futile pass through the manuals, or broadcasting questions on Usenet that haven't attracted @{wizard@}s to answer them.
		There is a myth, not entirely implausible, that alt is acronymic for "anarchists, lunatics, and terrorists"; but in fact it is simply short for "alternative".
		There is a legend that the word was originally acronymic, standing for "Card Hole Aggregate Debris", but this has all the earmarks of a bogus folk etymology.
	www.instinct.org /texts/jargon-file/jargon-upd.lst (18672 words)

	Fwd: Re: [WEBGRRLS-SEATTLE-WA] (Job?) Looking for technically oriented groups
		I often say things like, "...in his or her opinion...", which is irritatingly awkward and requires extra typing, but I do it anyway, at least the first time I refer to the opinion.
		This acronym is not even one that is central to the daily discussion of our wireless destiny -- I don't remember even hearing it.
		I would think it is absurd that something like an acronym, that is so insignificant to you yet so significant to someone else, would be that hard to change.
	www.seattlewireless.net /pipermail/dev/2001-December/006110.html (1335 words)

	jargon, node: ice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		ice /n./ [coined by Usenetter Tom Maddox, popularized by William Gibson's cyberpunk SF novels: a contrived acronym for `Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics'] Security software (in Gibson's novels, software that responds to intrusion by attempting to immobilize or even literally kill the intruder).
		Neither term is in serious use yet as of early 1996, but many hackers find the metaphor attractive, and each may develop a denotation in the future.
		In the meantime, the speculative usage could be confused with `ICE', an acronym for "in-circuit emulator".
	www.jargon.net /jargonfile/i/ice.html (127 words)

	.: Internet Ad Sales :. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Definition: : [coined by Usenetter Tom Maddox, popularized by William Gibson's cyberpunk SF novels: a contrived acronym for ‘Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics’] Security software (in Gibson's novels, software that responds to intrusion by attempting to immobilize or even literally kill the intruder).
		Hence, icebreaker : a program designed for cracking security on a system.Neither term is in serious use yet as of late 2003, but many hackers find the metaphor attractive, and each may develop a denotation in the future.
		In the meantime, the speculative usage could be confused with ‘ICE’, an acronym for in-circuit emulator.In ironic reference to the speculative usage, however, some hackers and computer scientists formed ICE (International Cryptographic Experiment) in 1994.
	www.internetadsales.com /modules/jargon/jargon-p-f.php?op=ImprDef&sid=20758 (137 words)

	Ice - Ursine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		(coined by Usenetter Tom Maddox, popularized by William Gibson's cyberpunk SF novels: a contrived acronym for ‘Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics’) Security software (in Gibson's novels, software that responds to intrusion by attempting to immobilize or even literally kill the intruder).
		Neither term is in serious use yet as of yet, but many hackers find the metaphor attractive, and each may develop a denotation in the future.
		In ironic reference to the speculative usage, however, some hackers and computer scientists formed ICE (International Cryptographic Experiment) in 1994.
	ursine.ca /Ice (158 words)

	Diary for AlanHorkan
		Some say it stands for GNU Network Object Model Enviroment which is terribly contrived and was cleary retrofitted to fit the word gnome.
		Words like scuba and radar have long since dropped the convoluted explanations for their acronyms and it is time for Gnome to drop its contrived acronym too.
		Acronyms are not clever, they are not cute, it does nothing but add another complication so lets keep it simple, please call it Gnome, okay?
	www.advogato.org /person/AlanHorkan/diary.html?start=61 (3223 words)

	Not Just Talk! Newsletter 4qtr2004
		("ASTD", of course, is a special kind acronym, called an 'initialism', or an acronym formed from initial letters.) When the article is published, I'll be sure to put a link to it in my weblog.
		ACRONYM - A Concise Recollection of Nomenclature Yielding Mnemonics
		ACRONYM - A Contrived Reduction Of Nouns Yielding Mnemonics
	www.ggci.com /NotJustTalk/volume2/number4.htm (1311 words)

	Acronym Attic search: What does ACRONYM stand for? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Enter a space after your acronym, then ~word where word is known to be in the meaning.
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		Acronym Attic is ©2005, 2006, Mountain Data Systems, All Rights Reserved.
	www.acronymattic.com /results.aspx?q=ACRONYM (67 words)

	TROA: Your Views (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		I feel the executive board and the committee, which I know spent many hours and days studying and researching the project, learned and know far better than I the value of such a change.
		When TROA was formed, we had to use the "T" for "the" to avoid confusion with the Reserve Officers Association (ROA), so the acronym was contrived.
		Finally, the acronym MOAA will be just one more of the jumble of pointless, unrecognizable acronyms floating around the Washington area.
	www.moaa.org /magazine/August2002/your_views.asp (1096 words)

	Diary for AlanHorkan
		Normally I loathe acronyms because so often they are completely unnecessary and merely allow the author to be a little bit lazier and make things more difficult for their audience to understand.
		Terms like Laser, Radar and Scuba are all fairly easily pronouncable and have come to stand on their own so much so that people are hard pressed to explain what they stand for (and even in the case of Scuba, Aqua Lung is a far more expressive term).
		They describe two signficant categories of people who are the cause of many security problems and they manage to do so using memorable acronyms that both describe the behaviours of these groups and serve as a memorable metaphor at the same time.
	www.advogato.org /person/AlanHorkan/diary.html?start=141 (3344 words)

	Welcome to the fullhyd.com discussion boards! :: View topic - Anyone For Trivia
		ACRONYM A Concise Recollection of Nomenclature Yielding Mnemonics
		ACRONYM A Contrived Reduction Of Nomenclature Yielding Mnemonics
		ACRONYM Alphabetically Condensed Representation of Neologically Yclept Magniloquence
	www.fullhyderabad.com /discussions/viewtopic.php?t=39853 (1657 words)

	Techworld.com
		This is one of the best acronyms I've heard for some time.
		My long-time favourite acronym is the police detection computer used in the Yorkshire Ripper case, called HOLMES - for Home Office Large Major Enquiry System.
		The official expansion of the acronym is as above (i.e.
	www.techworld.com /forums/msgs.cfm?msg=809&forum=99 (930 words)

	Terms and Definitions
		Ping operates by sending a packet to a designated address and waiting for a response.
		The computer acronym was contrived to match the submariners' term for the sound of a returned sonar pulse.
		Ping can also refer to the process of sending a message to all the members of a mailing list requesting an ACK (acknowledgement code).
	networking.ringofsaturn.com /Tools/terms.cgi?Action=ViewTerm&id=380 (228 words)

	The Controversy: Who invented the alphabet, the Phoenicians or the Greeks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The motive was mnemonic, a response to the same psychological pressure that had inspired and governed the oral technique; the alphabetic signs offered a supplement to the energies required for memorization....
		This memorable researcher proved in a remarkable way that every letter of the Greek alphabet contained a consistent code meaning, which is literally introduced either exactly or metaphorically within the general meaning of the Greek word it belongs to, as a partial meaning.
		Consequently, every (ancient) Greek word is basically an acronym (similar to D(imosia) E (picheirisi) H(lektrismou) [=ΔΕΗ in Greek, or as U(nited) N(ations), in English], where every letter provides a significant or less significant notional element, and then, they all together provide the logical definition of the meaning expressed by the word.
	www.phoenicia.org /alphabetcontrov.htm (6820 words)

	PBS Scientific American Frontier:SuperPeople:Related Links:Scientific American Magazine
		The effects of space travel on the body resemble some of the conditions of aging.
		ACRONYM: A Contrived Reduction Of Nomenclature Yielding Mnemonics or Alphabetically Coded Reminder Of Names You Misremember.
		The U.S. Navy's experimental Diving Unit, NEDU, is used to test underwater diving equipment at various temperatures and pressures.
	www.pbs.org /saf/1102/resources/links-s.htm (153 words)

	Starlette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The surface was studded with 60 laser reflectors.
		Starlette boasted the somewhat contrived acronym of `Satellite de Taille adaptee avec Reflecteurs pour les etudes de la Terre'.
		It was launched on the test flight of the Diamant B P.4 from Kourou in Feb 1975.
	www.planet4589.org /space/book/programs/europe/cnes/DIAMANTPROGRAM/1975-10A.html (92 words)

	Plug and Play SCSI (SCAM)
		This protocol allows the SCSI bus to dynamically shift and reallocate IDs when a new device is added to the bus, and is called Plug and Play SCSI or alternatively, SCSI Configured AutoMatically (SCAM).
		(Yuck, what a contrived acronym.) Plug and Play SCSI also supports automatic termination of the SCSI bus.
		Note: This idea is similar in concept to "regular" Plug and Play in the overall PC system, but remember that Plug and Play SCSI is used to assign SCSI device IDs, not system resources.
	www.pcguide.com /ref/hdd/if/scsi/confSCAM-c.html (362 words)

	WWOOFing in Kerikeri, North Island New Zealand - Travel Writing from Travel Insights
		Way back in Nelson - almost a month ago - I had spent $30 to join WWOOF and I thought I should at least try to get my money's worth.
		WWOOF is a slightly contrived acronym for Willing Workers On Organic Farms and the verb "to Wwoof" is firmly embedded in the New Zealand backpacker's vocabulary.
		The idea is that you work for four hours a day in return for free food and board - a scheme that neatly circumvents the irksome working visa situation.
	www.travelinsights.org /writing/travelogues/dan/kerikeri_34.html (1223 words)

	Bumping the moral bottom (printable version)
		Our reason for going to war against Iraq, for instance, was that it posed a deadly threat.
		The pols even coined a catchphrase: WMD, an acronym so contrived it’s harder to rattle off than the term it replaces.
		The war is over, with an undisclosed number of dead Iraqis.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=43030 (401 words)

	Nest-Egg Knowledge: Creating a Pension Plan (Restaurants USA, May 1997) \| Restaurants USA \| National Restaurant ...
		Congress established an entirely new category of retirement plan last year and named it — for better or for worse — the SIMPLE plan.
		SIMPLE is a contrived acronym that stands for Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees.
		However, the name doesn't necessarily describe the nature of setting up and maintaining such a plan.
	www.restaurant.org /rusa/magArticle.cfm?ArticleID=476 (2539 words)

	Random Bytes...by Ross Rader :: Code
		News.com: "A little-known but powerful government database, which had featured information on millions of Americans, is no more.
		The Justice Department created the pilot project, which went by the contrived acronym of MATRIX (Multistate Anti-TeRrorism Information eXchange), and made it available to state and local police starting in 1998.
		Data was provided by Seisint, a data-mining firm recently embroiled in a flap over an intrusion into its databases that may have compromised the information of about 310,000 Americans.
	www.byte.org /blog/random_bytes/Code/start=2005-05-21 (1040 words)

	Here's a TIP: We don't want police state (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		But the most frightening proposal, embedded in the legislation forming the new Department of Homeland Security, is a snoopathon dubbed the Terrorism Information and Prevention System, or TIPS.
		The witless bureaucrat who thought up that contrived acronym is a mental cousin to the public relations genius who dreamed up a similarly silly name for President Gerald Ford's 1975 economic policy -- Whip Inflation Now (WIN) -- which did nothing.
		TIP had such a low profile it almost slipped unnoticed past Congress.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /opinion/80032_means26.shtml (947 words)

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