Uncategorized Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Uncategorized Acronyms

• 2.5G — Second-and-a-half-generation Mobile Telephone System
• 2D — Two
• 2G — Second
• 3D — Three
• 3G — Third
• 3I — Investors In Industry (venture Capitalists)
• 3M — Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company
• 4D — Four-dimensional (usually Three Spatial Plus One Temporal Dimension
• 4G — Fourth-generation Mobile Telephone System
• 4GL — Fourth-generation Programming Language
• 4WD — Four Wheel Drive (cf. AWD)
• A — Acro (joke Acronym)
• A — Ampere
• A — Atto
• A&S — Armament & Standardisation
• A.K.A. — Also Known As
• A/C — Air Conditioned/Conditioning – Aircraft
• A/D — Analog/Digital
• A/S — Anti-submarine
• A2ATD OR A?ATD — Anti
• A2C2 OR A?C? — Army Airspace Command And Control
• A4 — Many
• AA — Achieved Availability – Alcoholics Anonymous -Armed Forces Americas (postal Symbol) – Aruba (FIPS 10-4 Territory Code) -Assembly Area – Automobile Association- Avenue of Approach
• AA — Afar Language (ISO 639-1 Code)
• AA — Attoampere
• AAA — Administration
• AAAI — American Association For Artificial Intelligence
• AAAS — American Association For The Advancement of Science
• AAAV — Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle
• AAC — Army Air Corps (British Army)
• AAD — Analogue-Analogue-Digital (CD Quality) – Australian Antarctic Division
• AADAC — Alberta Alcohol And Drug Abuse Commission
• AADC — Area Air Defence Commander
• AADD — Atlanta Alliance On Developmental Disabilities
• AADT — Annual Average Daily Traffic Flow
• AAFC — U.S. Army Air Corps Ferrying Command (1941-1942) – All-America Football Conference (1946?1949)
• AAFES — Army And Air Force Exchange Service
• AAI — Applied Artificial Intelligence
• AAIS — Advanced Airborne Interceptor Simulator
• AAM — Air-to-Air Missile
• AAN — American Academy of Nursing
• AANEAS — Anglo-Australian Near-Earth Asteroid Survey
• AAODL — Atmospheric Aerosols And Optics Data Library
• AAP — Advanced Acquisition Plan – Allied Administrative Publication – American Academy of Pediatrics
• AAPC — Accounting And Auditing Policy Committee
• AAR — After-Action Review – Association of American Railroads
• AAR — Afar Language (ISO 639-2 Code)
• AARP — (i/s) American Association of Retired Persons (now Officially Known Only By The Initials)
• AAS — Advanced Automation System – American Astronomical Society (double-A-S)
• AASPEM — Advanced Air-to-air System Performance Evaluation Model
• AAT — Australian Antarctic Territory
• AAV — Amphibious Assault Vehicle
• AAWC — Anti-Air Warfare Commander
• AB — Able Seaman (rank)
• AB — Abkhaz Language (ISO 639-1 Code)
• ABA — American Bar Association – American Basketball Association – American Beverage Association – American Bicycle Association – American Birding Association – Australian Broadcasting Authority
• ABB — ASEA Brown Boveri (Swiss-Swedish Multinational Company)
• ABBA — Agnetha
• ABC — Abstinence
• ABCA — American Border Collie Association – American
• ABCS — (U.S.) Army Battle Command System
• ABET — Accreditation Board For Engineering And Technology
• ABIN — Ag?ncia Brasileira De Intelig?ncia (Brazilian Intelligence Agency)
• ABK — Abkhaz Language (ISO 639-2 Code)
• ABL — American Basketball League
• ABLE — AirBorne Law Enforcement (police Air Support Unit)
• ABM — Anti-Ballistic Missile – Asynchronous Balanced Mode – Automated Banking Machine
• ABMC — American Battle Monuments Commission
• ABN — Australian Business Number (a Number Issued By The Australian Government As Registration of A Business And Used For Taxation Purposes)
• ABPI — Association of The British Pharmaceutical Industry
• ABRSM — Associated Board of The Royal Schools of Music
• ABS — Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene – Anti-lock Braking System
• ABSA — Amalgamated Banks of South Africa (ab-sa)
• ABSTRIPS — Abstraction-Based STRIPS
• ABW — Aruba (ISO 3166 Trigram)
• AC — Adriamycin-Cyclophosphamide (chemotherapy) – Air Conditioning – Alternating Current – Ante Christum (Latin
• AC — Actinium
• AC — Attocoulomb
• ACA — Airspace Control Authority – Airspace Co-ordination Area – A Current Affair
• ACARS — Aircraft Communication Reporting System
• ACAS — Aboriginal Children’s Advancement Society – Advisory
• ACB — Asociaci›n De Clubs De Baloncesto (Spanish For Association of Basketball Clubs)
• ACC — U.S. Air Combat Command – Air Component Commander – Altocumulus Castellanus – Atlantic Coast Conference – Automatic Climate Control – Area Control Center
• ACCA — Automatic Cloud Cover Assessment
• ACCAC — Awdurdod Cymwysterau
• ACCD — American Coalition of Citizens With Disabilities
• ACCS — Air Communications And Control Squadron
• ACDA — Arms Control & Disarmament Agency
• ACDC — Alternating Current Direct Current
• ACE — Air Combat Emulator (computer Game) – Allied Command Europe – Armored Combat Earthmover – Automatic Computing Engine
• ACES — Aerolineas Centrales De Colombia
• ACF — American Car And Foundry – American Culinary Federation – Administration For Children And Families
• ACHT — Average Call Hold Time
• ACID — Atomicity
• ACINT — Acoustic Intelligence
• ACK — Acknowledge (telecommunications; Cf. NAK)
• ACL — Access Control List – Anterior Cruciate Ligament
• ACLOS — Automatic CLOS (missile Control System)
• ACLS — Alternate Crops And Systems Lab
• ACLU — American Civil Liberties Union