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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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IE7 acronym underline in a fieldset legend

I have an acronym inside of a fieldset/legend:
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In Firefox this gets rendered with a dotted underline to signal the user that there is something there if they mouseover…
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is there a string method to capitalize acronyms in python?

This is good: import string string.capwords("proper name") Out: 'Proper Name' This is not so good: string.capwords("I.R.S") Out: 'I.r.s' Is there no string method to do capwords so that it accomodates acronyms?
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Smart search for acronyms in Salesforce

In Salesforce's Service Cloud one can enable the out of the box search function where the user enters a term and the system searches all parts of the database for a match. I would like to enable smart searching of acronyms so that if I spell an…
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Checking if input's characters match the ones given in Python

I'm in a Python course for beginners. We have to create a code that turns input of maximum 6 words into an acronym. Before creating an acronym, it has to check if the words contain only characters from given set, but I can't just check if it's in…
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AutoCompleteTextview with acronym

I am VietNamese and i use Autocomplete TextView for my app with my language. I want to make AutoComplete TextView how can when i type in to AutoComplete TextView: "ban", it understand that i want to find: "bạn" or "bán" or "bàn". that mean: "a"…
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Is there a way to match acronyms with their extended names in Lucene?

I'm indexing people's tweets and their location using Lucene, but people put so weird names as location...however... Is there a way to match these (in indexing time or in query time)? 1) USA 2) United States of America 3) United States 1)…
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Naming Convention for constant Acronyms

Naming convention according to StyleCop for constants is Pascal. For example private const double InchToMm= 2.54; What about naming convention for acronym? private const int Dpi = 96; or private const int DPI = 96;
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Recommendation on using abbreviations in CamelCase from Code Complete

In the latest code review I was asked, why did I change the method name from GetHDRFrame to GetHdrFrame, while HDR is an abbreviation. I'm pretty sure there was such recommendation in Code Complete: when using abbreviations in CamelCase names, treat…
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Inflection acronym not working well

I have a problem using inflections.acronym in my project because they have almost the same name Basically, I have 2 Controllers: SEController and TSEController. They are completelly different. I added the following lines im my…
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What does 'COB' mean in programming?

Is it 'Callback OBject'? I keep bumping into this acronym when learning Apache Thrift. Thanks in advance.
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Acronym, do you use them? And Why?

Personally I think it's a bad practice in software development (See Clean Code by Robert C. Martin). But I'm curious to know why people still use them. I'm talking about acronyms in filenames, variable names, class names, function names, etc. If…
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What does the GRG in Excel Solver's GRG Non Linear Optimization stand for?

Just curious, I can't seem to find any information about this effective optimization method.
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Acronyms with Full stops python

I have code which reads a text file and outputs the amount of TLA's in the text as a percentage out of how many lines contain text. import re total_lines = 0 matched_lines = 0 for line in open("sentences.txt"): total_lines += 1 matched_lines…
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Looking for a tool to search acronyms and find their alternative funny meanings

I'm searching for a tool or library that can help me search for acronyms in general and find their alternative funny meanings. For example, the tool should be able to recognize "BBC" as an acronym and suggest a funny meaning like "Big Black Cock"…
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How can i get a hash into an array, state and acronym?

Array = [{:acronym => "AC", :fullname => "Acre"}, {:acronym => "AL", :fullname => "Alagoas"}, {:acronym => "AP", :fullname => "Amapá"}, {:acronym => "AM", :fullname => "Amazonas"}, {:acronym => "BA", :fullname => "Bahia"}, {:acronym => "CE",…
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