Abbreviation (4105 bytes)
1: ...trictly a shortening, but more particularly, an ''abbreviation'' is a letter or group of letters, taken from a w...
6: ...odern English]] there are several conventions for abbreviations and the choice may be confusing. The only rule u...
9: ...ord was capitalised, then the first letter of its abbreviation should retain the capital, e.g., Lev. for Levitic...
10: ...erican English the period is usually added if the abbreviation may be interpreted as a word, though some America...
12: ** If the abbreviation retains the last letter of the original (as, for ...

Scribal abbreviation (2799 bytes)
1: ...es. They are not to be confused with the forms of abbreviation that do not use unusual marks, some of which have...
3: ...t, there were well over fourteen thousand scribal abbreviations.
5: ...nd "j". Nowadays, variant letters and the scribal abbreviations are systematically replaced with the full Latin ...
7: ...t mandated any longer. The last remaining scribal abbreviation is the [[apostrophe]], which originally looked li...
9: ...ined as being due to the [[Reformation]], scribal abbreviations disappeared.

List of U.S. states by traditional abbreviation (2788 bytes)
3: ...texts other than postal addresses. Some of these abbreviations are considerably more common than others.
7: ...tate''' || '''Traditional<br>abbreviation'''

List of U.S. states by postal abbreviation (1974 bytes)
1: ...ate]] article and the more complete [[U.S. postal abbreviations]] article.
5: | '''Abbreviation''' || '''State'''

MIC (545 bytes)
3: * In [[education]], an abbreviation for the [[Mary Immaculate College]], a college of...
5: *In [[microbiology]], an abbreviation for the '''[[minimum inhibitory concentration]]''...
7: *In [[politics]], an abbreviation for the [[Malaysian Indian Congress]].
9: *In [[Recording]], an abbreviation for [[microphone]].
11: *In [[chemistry]] an abbreviation for [[methyl isocyanate]]

Yr. (306 bytes)
1: ...iation for "[[year]]." [[Sonic Youth]] used this abbreviation for a number of their titles.

BP (disambiguation) (1163 bytes)
3: * '''[[British Pharmacopoeia|BP]]''', an abbreviation for British Pharmacopoeia
9: *In [[chemistry]], '''bp''' is an [[abbreviation]] for [[boiling point]]
10: *In [[finance]], '''bp''' is an [[abbreviation]] for [[basis point]]
11: *In [[genetics]], '''bp''' is an abbreviation for [[base pair]].
12: *In [[medicine]], '''bp''' is an abbreviation for [[blood pressure]], among others

SMF (709 bytes)
3: *'''SMF''' is the abbreviation for '''S'''ystems '''M'''anagement '''F'''acility...
6: *'''SMF''' is an abbreviation of [[Standard MIDI file]]
7: *'''SMF''' is an abbreviation for [[Service Management Framework]], an implemen...
8: *'''SMF''' is an abbreviation for [[single-molecule fluorescence]]
9: *'''SMF''' is an abbreviation for Simple Machines Forum

MC (1211 bytes)
3: * (along with '''emcee'''), as the abbreviation for [[Master of Ceremonies]]
9: * (along with '''m/c'''), as the abbreviation for [[machine]]
10: * as the abbreviation for [[Congressperson|Member of Congress]]
11: * (along with '''m/c'''), as the abbreviation for the city of [[Manchester]] in [[England]]
12: * as an abbreviation for the [[Midnight Commander]] [[file manager]], ...

FAE (299 bytes)
1: *'''FAE''' is an abbreviation of [[fuel-air explosive]].
2: *'''FAE''' is an abbreviation of [[fundamental attribution error]].
3: *'''FAE''' is an abbreviation of [[fetal alcohol effects]].

AMI (395 bytes)
1: *In computing and telecommunications, abbreviation for '''[[Alternate Mark Inversion]]''', a method ...
2: *Abbreviation of '''[[American Megatrends Incorporated]]''', a ...
3: *Abbreviation for '''acute [[myocardial infarction]]'''.

AAR (654 bytes)
3: * An [[abbreviation]] for the [[English language|English]] [[phrase]]...
4: * An abbreviation found in the [[insurance]] industry, for "against...
5: * An abbreviation used in certain [[strategy game]] discussions abo...
6: * An abbreviation for the military mission of [[Aerial refueling]]

MST (797 bytes)
2: *the abbreviation for the [[time zone]] '''[[Mountain Standard Time...
4: *the abbreviation for the [[Madison Symmetric Torus]], a [[toroid]]...
6: *the abbreviation for [[minimum spanning tree]] in [[graph theory]]
7: *the abbreviation for multiple [[spanning tree]]s in [[IEEE 802.1]]...
8: *the abbreviation for Mean Square for Treatments in [[statistics]] ...

Ras (disambiguation) (667 bytes)
3: * '''RAS''' is an abbreviation for the [[Russian Academy of Science]]
5: * '''RAS''' is an abbreviation for the Remote Access Servers.
6: * '''RAS''' is an abbreviation for [[Remote Access Service]].
7: * '''RAS''' is an abbreviation for '''row address select''', input to [[dynamic ...

FG (199 bytes)
1: The two-letter abbreviation '''FG''' has several different meanings:
3: *abbreviation for the [[Irish]] [[political party]] [[Fine Gael...

DST (432 bytes)
2: *common abbreviation for [[Daylight saving time]]
3: *abbreviation for [[Discrete sine transform]], a variant of the...
4: *abbreviation for [[Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire]...

AFS (375 bytes)
3: * common [[abbreviation]] for the [[Andrew file system]].
4: * common abbreviation for the [[AtheOS File System]].
5: * an abbreviation for [[American Field Service]], an exchange organ...

CHF (197 bytes)
3: *An abbreviation for [[Congestive heart failure]].
4: *An abbreviation for [[Cryptographic hash function]].

LPC (436 bytes)
3: * LPC is also an [[abbreviation]] for [[linear predictive coding]].
4: * LPC is also an abbreviation for [[Local Procedure Call]], a cross-address spa...
5: * LPC is also an abbreviation for [[Low Pin Count]].

GDP (380 bytes)
2: * (''in [[economics]]'') an abbreviation for [[gross domestic product|Gross Domestic Produ...
3: * (''in [[neuroscience]]'') an abbreviation for [[giant depolarizing potentials|Giant Depolar...
4: * (''in [[biochemistry]]'') an abbreviation for [[guanosine diphosphate]]

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