American Heritage Abbreviations Dictionary.American Heritage Abbreviations abbreviation, in writing, arbitrary shortening of a word, usually by cutting off letters from the end, as in U.S. and Gen. (General). Contraction serves the same purpose but is understood strictly to be the shortening of a word by cutting out letters in the middle, the omission sometimes being indicated by an apostrophe, as in the word don't. Most abbreviations are followed by a period. Dictionary American Heritage Houghton Mifflin 222 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116 0618621237, $6.95 www.hmco.com Truly pocket-sized but in sturdy hardcover lending to take-along tote and shelf life is the updated third edition of the AMERICAN HERITAGE ABBREVIATIONS DICTIONARY, packing in acronyms ACRONYMS - A Common Representation Of Names You Must Shorten ACRONYMS - A Crazy Roundup of Nonsense You Must See (website) ACRONYMS - A Cryptic Rendition Of Names You Might See :-) ACRONYMS - Abbreviated Capitalized Realtime Organizational Neological Yeomanlike Memory Surrogates :-) ACRONYMS - Advanced Cryptology Rendering Obviously Non-Sensical Yet Meaningful Stuff :-) A term made up of the first letters of two or more words; for example, WP refers to "word processing." In some cases, other than first letters are used; for example, XMS stands for "eXtended memory specification." An interesting resource on the Web for acronyms of all kinds is http://acronymfinder.com., abbreviations, and even new 'cyberspeak' terms from the computer world. Here are 20,000 terms relating to everything from business to daily life or email text messaging, making for a fine quick reference in an affordable, sturdy little pocket package. |
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