List of acronyms and initialisms
(Starting with "A")
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This list contains acronyms,
initialisms, and pseudo-blends.
For the purposes of this list:
- acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as a series of constituent letters, e.g.,
SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome
- initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc
- pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters means that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or
portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
- (a) = acronym in the example: SARS - (a) Severe acute respiratory syndrome
- (i) = initialism in the example: CD - (i) Compact disc
- (p) = pseudo-blend in the example: UNIFEM - (p) United Nations Development Fund for Women
- (s) = symbol (none of the above, representing and pronounced as something else; for example: MHz - Megahertz)
WPA Wyoming Pipeline Authority, http://www.wyopipeline.com/
A
- a - (s) Atto
- A - (s) Ampere
- A - (i) acro (joke acronym)
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- A2ATD or A²ATD - (i) Anti-Armour Advanced Technology Demonstration
- A2C2 or A²C² - (i) Army Airspace Command and Control
- A4 - many, including a European standard office paper size; see entry
AA
AB
AC
- aC - (s) Attocoulomb
- Ac - (s) Actinium
- AC - (i) Adriamycin-Cyclophosphamide (chemotherapy) - Air Conditioning - Alternating Current - ante Christum (Latin, "before Christ"; see BC) - ante cibum (Latin, "before meals") - (s) Antigua and Barbuda (FIPS 10-4 country code) - (i) Associazione Calcio (Italian, "football (soccer) club") - Altocumulus
- A/C - (i) Air Conditioned/Conditioning - Aircraft
- ACA - (i) Adult Children of Alcoholics - (i) Airspace Control Authority - Airspace Co-ordination Area - A Current Affair
- ACARS - (a) Aircraft Communication Reporting System
- ACAS - (a) Aboriginal Children's Advancement Society - Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
- ACB - (i) Asociación de Clubs de Baloncesto (Spanish for "Association of Basketball Clubs")
- ACC - (i) U.S. Air Combat Command - Air Component Commander - Altocumulus castellanus - Atlantic Coast Conference - Automatic Climate Control - Area Control Center, Alpine Club of Canada
- ACCA - (i) Automatic Cloud Cover Assessment
- ACCD - American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities
- ACCAC - (a) Awdurdod Cymwysterau, Cwricwlwm ac Asesu Cymru (Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales)
- ACCS - (i) Air Communications and Control Squadron
- ACDA - (i) Arms Control & Disarmament Agency
- ACDC - (i) Alternating Current Direct Current, also the name of an Australian rock music band and a term for a bisexual person
- ACDT - (a) Apple Certified Desktop Technician - (a) Australian Central Daylight Time
- ACE - (a) Air Combat Emulator (computer game) - Allied Command Europe - Armored Combat Earthmover - Automatic Computing Engine
- ACES - (a) Auxiliary Campus Enterprises and Services of Alfred State College
- ACES - (a) Aerolineas Centrales de Colombia
- ACF - (i) American Car and Foundry - American Culinary Federation - Administration for Children and Families
- ACHT - (i) Average Call Hold Time
- ACID - (a) Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability (in databases)
- ACINT - (p) Acoustic Intelligence
- ACK - (p) Acknowledge (telecommunications; cf. NAK)
- ACL - (i) Access Control List - Anterior Cruciate Ligament
- ACLOS - (i) Automatic CLOS (missile control system)
- ACLS - (i) Alternate Crops and Systems Lab
- ACLU - (i) American Civil Liberties Union, alt. American Communist Lawyers Union by Kent Hovind
- ACM - many, including Association for Computing Machinery; see entry
- ACMC - (i) (U.S.) Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
- ACN - (i) Airborne Communications Node - Australian Company Number (number issued by the Australian government as registration of a limited liability company)
- ACO - (i) Airspace Control Order
- ACOA - Adult Children of Alcoholics
- ACOBA - (a) Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
- ACOG - (a) American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- ACOM - (p) (U.S.) Atlantic Command
- ACORN - (a) Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
- ACP - (i) Air Control Point
- ACR - (i) Advanced Concepts and Requirements
- ACRI - (p) African Crisis Initiative
- ACRONYM - (i) Abbreviated Coded Rendition of Name Yielding Meaning
- ACS - (i) Affiliated Computer Services (NYSE ACS) - American Cancer Society - American Chemical Society - Association of Caribbean States
- ACSC - (i) Army Command and Staff College (various nations)
- ACST - (i) Australian Central Standard Time
- ACST - (i) American Cooperative School of Tunis
- ACT - (i) Adaptive Control of Thought (cognitive model) – Australian Capital Territory (postal symbol) – American College Test(ing Program), now known simply by the initials
- ACTD - (i) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration
- ACTF - (i) Australian Children's Television Foundation - (U.S.) Army Constructive Training Federation
- ACT-R - (i) ACT-Rational (cognitive model)
- ACT-R/PM - (i) ACT-R/Perceptual-Motor (cognitive model)
- ACTU - (i) Australian Council of Trade Unions
- ACU - (a) American Conservative Union
- ACUF - (i) BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features
- ACUF - (a) American Conservative Union Foundation
- ACV - (i) Armoured Combat Vehicle
AD
- AD - (i) Air Defence - (s) Andorra (ISO 3166 digram) - (i) Anno Domini (Latin, "In the year of our Lord")
- A/D - (i) Analog/Digital
- ADA - (i) Air Defence Artillery - American Dental Association - Assistant District Attorney - Americans with Disabilities Act (see also the similar but non-acronymic Ada programming language)
- ADA - Another Damn Acronym
- ADAGE - (a) Air Defense Air to Ground Engagement (simulation)
- ADAP - (i) AIDS Drug Assistance Program
- ADAS - (a/i) Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey
- ADAT - (i) Alesis Digital Audio Tape (recording format)
- ADatP - (p) Automated Data Processing
- ADATS - (i) Agricultural Development and Training Society - Air Defence Anti-Tank System - Australian Defence Air Traffic System
- ADB - (i) Asian Development Bank
- ADC - (i) Aide De Camp - U.S. Air Defense Command (1946-1992) - Apple Display Connector - Program Against Digital Counterfeiting of Currency
- ADCTS - (i) Advanced Distributed Combat Training System
- ADD - (i) Analog Digital Digital (CD quality) - Attention-Deficit Disorder - Administration on Developmental Disabilities
- ADDIE - (i) Analyze Design Develop Implement and Evaluate
- ADDNS - (i) Advanced Deployable Day/Night Simulation
- ADF - (i) Australian Defence Force - African Development Foundation
- ADHD - (i) Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- ADHS - (i) Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Syndrome
- ADI - (i) Acceptable/Allowable Daily Intake
- ADIZ - (a/i) Air Defence Identification Zone
- ADL - (i) Anti-Defamation League
- ad loc. - (p) ad locum (Latin, "to/at the place")
- ADM - (i) Administrative - (s) - Full Admiral (four stars) in the U.S. Navy, the United States Coast Guard, and the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps - Archer Daniels Midland - Assistant Deputy Minister
- ADOA - (a/i) Air Defence Operations Area
- ADP - (i) Adenosine DiPhosphate - Army Doctrine Publication (UK, Canada, Australia) - Automatic/Automated Data Processing
- ADRG - (p) Arc-second Raster Chart (ARC) Digitized Raster Graphics
- ADS - (a/i) Active Denial System - Astrophysics Data System - Attention Deficit Syndrome
- ADSR - (i) Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release (sound envelope specification)
- ADT - (i) Atlantic Daylight Time (UTC-3 hours)
- ADTB - (i) Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin
- adv. - (p) adversus (Latin, "against")
- ADW - (i) Air Defence Warning
AE
AF
AG
AH
AI
AJ
AK
AL
AM
AN
AO
AP
AQ
AR
AS
AT
AU
AV
AW
AX
AY
AZ
Published - December 2008
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