tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64474220823201996752012-02-13T08:20:58.514-07:00<a href="http://www.AcronymFinder.com/"> <img src="http://www.acronymfinder.com/images/aflogo.gif" border="0" height="31" width="97" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4"></a>The latest news and information about Acronym Finder and related sites. Acronym Finder is the world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of abbreviations and acronyms.Mike Molloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955457811724836435noreply@blogger.comBlogger391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6447422082320199675.post-26107535337826244532010-12-08T08:16:00.022-07:002010-12-10T20:40:19.284-07:00

I once took stock of the acronyms and abbreviations I had collected and I marveled. I had a list of about 1,000 definitions and they were in a word-processing document that I revised and reprinted periodically for my personal reference. The year was 1986, and I could never have imagined that someday that 40-page document would grow to be a 40,000-page document—1,000 times as large!On 10 Dec 2010

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On Saturday, January 31, 2009 at about 7:46pm EST, an editor reviewed and added the 750,000th meaning to the Acronym Finder database!The abbreviation added was NPQTL, which stands for "National Project on the Quality of Teaching and Learning", an Australian education project to develop and implement national teacher competency standards.Hitting the three quarters of a million milestone is pretty

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This morning, we added our 600,000th definition to the database!In case you're wondering, the definition we added to reach this milestone was "Precision Fluency Shaping Program" or PFSP.The Precision Fluency Shaping Program is a comprehensive therapy for the treatment of stuttering and was developed by Ronald L. Webster, PhD. It's now administered by Ross S. Barrett, M.A., CCC/SLP. Mr. Barrett is

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Acronym Finder, the world’s largest and most respected acronym and abbreviation search engine reaches a new content milestone. Estes Park, CO (PRWEB) January 8, 2008 – Mountain Data Systems, LLC, the publisher of Acronym Finder, the most comprehensive reference site for abbreviations and acronyms, reports that its database now contains over 200,000 unique abbreviations with over 585,000

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First, we here at Acronym Finder send our best wishes to everyone -- have a Happy Holiday season, and a wonderful 2008!We very much appreciate your contributions, suggestions, feedback, and visits to Acronym Finder during 2007. We thank you for helping us be the best, most complete database of abbreviations and acronyms on the planet!Not too long ago, we added a new abbreviation to our database,

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Yahoo! Tech's Robin Raskin mentioned Acronym Finder in her Aug 22, 2007 blog entry "Top-Notch Reference Sites for Students".We're listed with some very nice company: RefDesk, Wikipedia, eHow, The Library of Congress, and more.Thanks, Robin!

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After years of wanting a large-screen high-definition television (HDTV), we recently purchased an HDTV, a receiver/DVD/speaker system, and a media center computer. As I did the product and technology research, I was amazed at how many acronyms and abbreviations I encountered. Here's a tour of some of the most common ones I ran across, from electronics, the TV/HDTV world, and the Sony-specific

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Ben Macintyre, a columnist for The Times Online UK Edition, mentions Acronym Finder in an article about acronyms and abbreviations.With just the right touch of both seriousness and humor, he asks,"Why do we shorten world wide web to double-you double-you double-you, which has three times as many syllables?"Good question! :-)We used to list the extremely long Soviet acronym he mentions at the end

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On May 17, 2007 Acronym Finder was the Site of the Day (SOTD) at Refdesk.com, one of the mostly highly regarded news and reference portal websites.Bob Drudge has done an outstanding job with organizing and indexing the very best resources on the web. We're honored not only as a SOTD selection, but also as a Refdesk.com recommendation for acronym and abbreviation reference. Thanks, and keep up the

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Acronym Finder, the world’s largest and most trusted acronym and abbreviation reference source, celebrates its 10th year online. Estes Park, Colorado May 1, 2007 – Mountain Data Systems LLC, the publisher of Acronym Finder (www.acronymfinder.com), announced that it is marking its tenth year online as the most respected and widely-used abbreviations reference source. Mike Molloy, the

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No Name-Calling Week (NNCW), January 22-26, 2007, is an annual week of educational activities aimed at ending name-calling of all kinds and providing schools with the tools and inspiration to launch an on-going dialogue about ways to eliminate bullying in their communities.Inspired by a young adult novel entitled "The Misfits" by author, James Howe, the No Name-Calling Week Coalition was

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The new Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered programme (EDGE) takes an interesting approach to conservation. EDGE species are both Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered. Every mammal species has been scored according to the amount of unique evolutionary history it represents, and its conservation status according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and

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Acronym Finder was selected as one of the "Best Free Reference Web Sites" for 2006 by the Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of the American Library Association (ALA).The list, in its eighth year, is published in the fall issue of Reference & User Services Quarterly and recognizes outstanding reference sites on the World Wide Web.

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We were thrilled to see Acronym Finder featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) for Saturday, January 13, 2007.Read the article here.

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Acronym Finder just became a lot smarter. We've added official US Postal Service ZIP codes (over 70,000) and official Canadian postal codes (over 800,000) to our database. To search postal codes, you don't have to do anything special -- just type them into the Acronym Finder search box and you'll get a result for any valid postal code in the United States or Canada.You can search for any US

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One of the many new features of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7.0 is a convenient search box in the upper right of your browser window. This search box allows you to do web searches or other kinds of searches, and can contain a number of different search providers.You can now install Acronym Finder as one of your search providers. All you have to do is click here to install it! (Note: you must be

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Annual competition to benefit the National Center for Family Literacy October 26Estes Park, Colorado September 6, 2006 – Mountain Data Systems LLC, the publisher of Acronym Finder (www.acronymfinder.com) has logged on as a general sponsor of the Peak 10 Louisville Technology Acronym Bee (LTAB), an annual fund-raising event for the nationally recognized National Center for Family Literacy set for

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We're always amazed (and often amused) at how often an unfortunate acronym is developed to refer to a concept or organization.Last month, the US organization National Association of Local Government Auditors (NALGA), based in Lexington, Kentucky, decided to change its name to Association of Local Government Auditors (ALGA). Why the change? Well, "nalga" in Spanish means "butt" or "rump" which

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Mountain Data Systems, LLC, publisher of Acronym Finder, the world’s most respected acronym and abbreviation reference resource, announced that its dictionary has grown to more than half a million human-edited definitions.Estes Park, Colorado July 24, 2006 – The editors at Acronym Finder (www.acronymfinder.com), just added their 500,000th human-edited definition to the database.Mike Molloy,

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Each year in April, the Academy of American Poets (AAP) sponsors National Poetry Month (NPM), our featured abbreviation.The AAP's FAQ about NPM explains:"What is National Poetry Month? National Poetry Month was established by the Academy of American Poets as a month-long, national celebration of poetry. The concept was to increase the attention paid-by individuals and the media—to the art of

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If you use Google's Personalized Home Page, you may want to add our new content module (shown at right) to your home page.This content module provides a form to submit a search query to Acronym Finder, and a link to our home page.To use Google's Personalized Home Page you must be signed in to your Google Account (free). If you don't have a Google Account, click here.To add the Acronym Finder

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You can now set several Acronym Finder search defaults using our new preferences page. If you have cookies enabled in your browser, you can use the preferences page to set several search defaults: Default sort order (rank or alphabetical). If you prefer to show Acronym Finder search result sorted alphabetically instead of by rank/popularity, use this preference.Number of results per page. Use

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Google has released a beta version of their newest toolbar (only available for Internet Explorer for now). The new toolbar has many new features and supports Custom Buttons.We've created a Google Toolbar Button for Acronym Finder. Click here to install it. You must have Internet Explorer to use this beta Toolbar. If you don't have the latest Google Toolbar, clicking the install link above will

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FTIR is one of those science abbreviations that doesn't really convey what it's about, but it turns out to be very interesting. FTIR stands for Frustrated Total Internal Reflection and it's a touch-sensing technique used in biometric applications like fingerprint image acquisition.In this case, we learned that FTIR technology is being used to develop multi-touch interaction with a graphical

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Happy New Year everyone! We've just rolled out several new and improved search features for Acronym Finder.RankOne change you'll see to an acronym search result is a new column called "Rank". Rank is our measure of the relative "commonness", "popularity" or "relevance" of the meaning of an acronym. You'll see that the results are sorted by decreasing rank, which means the most commonly used

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We've improved the way you can page through our search results.In addition to the Next page and Previous page we had previously, you can now jump to any result page just by clicking on the page number. You can see the links for paging through results at the bottom of the table of acronyms/meanings.Thanks to a number of users for suggesting this feature!

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Recently we were excited to learn of a very cool fund-raising event for the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL), based in Louisville, Kentucky.The Peak 10 Louisville Technology Acronym Bee (LTAB) is similar to the numerous successful corporate spelling bees held in communities around the nation every year. However, instead of spelling obscure words, adults participating in LTAB define

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There's a new variation of spam appearing, called splog. Splogs are blogs created purely to promote a product or website, in other words, spam.I noticed this the very first time I used Google's relatively new Blog Search. I got hundreds of hits from "blogs" that were nothing more than scraped content published in a blog. This will be a very serious problem for blog application providers, blog

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OK, who hasn't heard of UFO meaning Unidentified Flying Object? We just added a new definition for UFO today. In this case UFO stands for United Flying Octogenarians.UFO is a national organization of pilots in their eighties. The organization was started in California in 1982 with 16 charter members, who, unfortunately are no longer with us. The group currently has almost 500 members all over the

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We've added a useful new feature to Acronym Finder's search result page. Next to each acronym or abbreviation's meaning, you'll see a small link image/symbol. If you click on that image, you'll be taken to a new page showing only that single definition in a simple, uncluttered format.What's this for? If you're writing an article, message, or forum post and want to link to Acronym Finder's

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Congratulations to new Contributor Hall of Fame member Paul Monlezun!Paul hails from Ottawa, Canada and works as a Public Affairs/Government Relations Consultant.Paul has contributed an enormous number of Canadian government, associations, labour unions, political, industry groups, etc. and has a very sharp eye for finding errors to correct in our database.Our Hall of Fame is a very small and

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Recently, Acronym Finder has been mentioned in some cool places.We made The Daily home pages A-List Best of the Web for Wednesday, October 5, 2005 (archived here). Thanks to Terry Patterson for pointing this out.Stan Horzepa (WA1LOU), at the National Association for Amateur Radio (ARRL) wrote an article "Surfin': Got AAIs (Abbreviations, Acronym and Initialims)?"Finally, Acronym Finder was a USA

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If you've ever used a scanner with your computer you've probably heard of TWAIN. TWAIN is an image capture API (Application Programming Interface) for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh operating systems.Most people assume that TWAIN is just another technology acronym, but according to the TWAIN Working Group's FAQ, TWAIN isn't an acronym:Question: What is TWAIN an acronym for? Answer: An

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We've just added a new definition for HOPE to the Acronym Finder database: HUMMER Owners Prepared for Emergencies.The HOPE program is a partnership/agreement between the national HUMMER Club, Inc. and the American Red Cross. Qualified Hummer owners can get a certification as Red Cross volunteers who can be deployed by the local chapters of Red Cross to drive supplies and Red Cross personnel into

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Congratulations to one of our Hall of Fame contributors, Tom Manning, who has just passed the 15,000 submission mark!Tom has been contributing to the site regularly since 2002 and has contributed an average of over a dozen new acronyms and abbreviations each day! When he started contributing, we had "only" about 228,000 definitions in the database. We have almost 429,000 today, which means that

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Among other things, FAH stands for "Folding At Home." Folding At Home is Stanford University's distributed computing project to study and understand protein folding, protein aggregation, and related diseases.Users download and install a client program which runs on their computer when it's idle. When the program finishes a small "work unit" the results are returned to the FAH servers. So far,

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Michael Katz, a Hall of Fame contributor, has just recently surpassed 25,000 contributions to the site! We have several very dedicated contributors, but Michael is currently #1.Michael is from Canada and has only been contributing regularly to the site since early 2003 (when we had "only" 262,000 definitions). That's an average of about 25 submissions per day! This means that since he started,

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JUL stands for the Jules' Undersea Lodge in Key Largo, Florida. It has been featured on "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous", in "Sports Illustrated Swim Suit Issue", in countless magazines and newspapers, and on every major television network in the world. For the first time in history an authentic underwater research habitat is open to the average person--sport divers and even those who

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Welcome to the Acronym Blog, hosted by Mike Molloy, the publisher of Acronym Finder.This blog will supply you with the latest information and news about Acronym Finder and its family of related websites: Military Words and Acronym Attic.We will regularly publish articles about Interesting Acronyms, new site features, our contributors and other things of interest to new and regular site users.

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