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Acronyms are a series of letters that form a word based on another word or phrase.

Acronyms are a series of letters that form a word based on another word or phrase.

Typically they are formed by taking the first letter of each word in a phrase (excluding connecting words like the, and, for, etc), ex:

  • NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • SCRAM - Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor
  • MADD - Mothers Against Drunk Driving
  • TLD - Top Level Domain

Some acronyms will use additional letters from a word in order to create an acronym that sounds or looks more like a real word, or a pun.

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How to use acronyms in Apache Solr?

I use text_general field of Solr's provided configuration for storing content of web-pages as follows:
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What's the difference between DtoD and PtoP memory copies?

While profiling application with nvprof I found both PtoP and DtoD memcpy. I am not sure about the difference between these two.
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Regex: How to find and extract acronyms and corresponding definition of acronym from a text?

I would like to do something like suggested in this question – but on a more general level: Regular Expression for Acronyms Input example: "In a seminal set of papers, Feddersen and Pesendorfer (1996, 1999), hereafter FP, incorporate ... has been…
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How do I make my preg_replace only look for the words while they are NOT within an tag?

In PHP I have a String $string and an array $acronyms (in the form "UK" => "United Kingdom"). Now I want to replace all acronyms within $string by some HTML Tags. For example Hello UK should turn into Hello
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Acronym finder which also scan characters inside a word

I am trying to make an acronym generator which can generate acronym from characters not only from the first character of word but also character inside a word. I did some programming in Java (https://github.com/hkkongou/acronym/blob/main/Trie.java),…
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Regex search of 2 or 3 words which start with a specific letter

I'm working in multiple large excel and word files and I need to search for phrases. Let's say I have the acronym "PC" and I need to search for a word that starts with "P" followed by another word which starts with "D" e.g. "Phase change"; or if I…
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How can I create hyperlink in Acronyms in latex

How can I make my acronyms such that if someone clicks on acronyms then gets redirected to the actual list where all the acronyms are…
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How to define separate file for all acronyms in latex?

Currently I am defining acronys at the start of each chapter. I want to make a separate file for all…
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What does the 'P' in JSONP stand for?

I can't seem to find a definitive answer on this -- what does the p in JSONP stand for?. The candidates I've found so far are padding and prints. Anyone know where the JSONP name came from?
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Is there a proper acronym for Sql Server Express?

I know that for the full edition of Sql Server it is readily understood as MSSQS or simply SQS, is there a corresponding acronym for the Express edition?
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Filter file alphabetically

I have a file kuerzel.tex. What is the best way to sort them alphabetically by the value in the square brackets [] or the second value inside the {} (e.g. [EU] or Europäische Union)? This should happen best automatically when I also create the latex…
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What does "DSO" stand for as in, "kernel version 460.39.0 does not match DSO version 460.56.0"?

Searching for "DSO" in the context of "nvidia" yields "Days Sales Outstanding". Looking at a comprehensive acronym list for "DSO" yields a likely candidate: "Data Source Object" but it is for some sort of Microsoft standard that would seem to be…
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Ruby: break string into words by capital letters and acronyms

I need to break a string into several strings by capital letters and acronyms, I could do this: myString.scan(/[A-Z][a-z]+/) But it works for only capital letters, in cases like: QuickFoxReadingPDF or LazyDogASAPSleep The all-capital acronyms are…
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Ruby Acronym Creator from string

I'm creating a function that takes a string and creates an acronym but am running into errors. When I input "Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor" I get "CS" in return when expecting "CMOS". Any suggestions why this might happen? I pass it plenty…
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Making acronym for every airport in Python list?

How do I create a new column, and write acronyms for each respective airport record using Python on a csv file? I have a csv file of airports and I want the names of the airports to be in acronym form so that I can display them on a map more…
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