A three-letter acronym ( TLA ), or three-letter abbreviation , is as the phrase suggests an abbreviation consisting of three letters. The abbreviation for TLA, TLA, has a special status among abbreviations and to some is humorous since abbreviations that are three-letters long are very common and TLA is, in fact, a TLA.
12-690: CSH (or its styling variants Csh or csh ) is a three-letter acronym with multiple meanings: Locations [ edit ] Cecil Sharp House, home of the English Folk Dance and Song Society Chartwell Seniors Housing , a real estate investment trust in Canada Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory , a genetics laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor Cold Spring Harbor, New York ,
24-485: A Microsoft handbook. The number of possible three-letter abbreviations using the 26 letters of the alphabet from A to Z (AAA, AAB, ... to ZZY, ZZZ) is 26 × 26 × 26 = 17,576. Allowing a single digit 0-9 increases this by 26 × 26 × 10 = 6,760 for each position, such as 2FA , P2P , or WW2 , giving a total of 37,856 such three-character strings. Out of the 17,576 possible TLAs that can be created using 3 uppercase letters, at least 94% of them had been used at least once in
36-450: A dataset of 18 million scientific article abstracts. Three-letter acronyms are the most common type of acronym in scientific research papers, with acronyms of length 3 being twice as common as those of length 2 or 4. In standard English , WWW is the TLA whose pronunciation requires the most syllables —typically nine. The usefulness of a TLA typically comes from its being quicker to say than
48-578: A football club in Hong Kong Car Seat Headrest , an American band Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title CSH . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CSH&oldid=1179544806 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
60-421: A town on Long Island See also Cold Spring Harbor (disambiguation) Medicine, science and technology [ edit ] Caesium hydride , a crystalline solid with the molecular formula CsH C-S-H , calcium silicate hydrate , or calcium silicate hydrogel, the main component of hardened cement paste: the glue phase in hardened Portland cement C shell , a Unix shell Combat Support Hospital ,
72-644: A type of military field hospital Context-sensitive help , method of providing online help CSH Protocols , an on-line scientific journal for biologists Photoshop Custom Shape Object, a file format for use with Adobe Systems ' Photoshop Transport [ edit ] Carshalton railway station , London, National Rail station code CSH Cycle Superhighways , a bicycle route scheme in London Shanghai Airlines , ICAO airline designator CSH Other [ edit ] Asho Chin language (ISO 639-3 code) Canadian Subject Headings
84-463: A word) such as CAT (as in CAT scan) which is pronounced as the animal . The exact phrase three-letter acronym appeared in the sociology literature in 1975. Three-letter acronyms were used as mnemonics in biological sciences, from 1977 and their practical advantage was promoted by Weber in 1982. They are used in many other fields, but the term TLA is particularly associated with computing. In 1980,
96-600: Is a list of subject headings of Canadian topics Case Study Houses , experiments in American residential architecture from 1945 until 1966 Cash America International has the NYSE designator CSH Coalition to Save Harlem Code for Sustainable Homes Convent of the Sacred Heart (disambiguation) Coordination Syndicale Haïtienne (CSH) , a Haitian trade union Council for Secular Humanism Sun Hei SC ,
108-478: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Three-letter acronym TLA is autological . Most TLAs are initialisms (the initial letter of each word of a phrase), but most are not acronyms in the strict sense since they are pronounced by saying each letter, as in APA / ˌ eɪ p iː ˈ eɪ / AY -pee- AY . Some are true acronyms (pronounced as
120-522: The manual for the Sinclair ZX81 home computer used and explained TLA. The specific generation of three-letter acronyms in computing was mentioned in a JPL report of 1982. In 1988, in a paper titled "On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computing Science", eminent computer scientist Edsger W. Dijkstra wrote (disparagingly), "No endeavour is respectable these days without a TLA" By 1992 it was in
132-464: The phrase it represents; however saying 'WWW' in English requires three times as many syllables as the phrase it is meant to abbreviate (World Wide Web). "WWW" is sometimes abbreviated to "dubdubdub" in speech. Autological word An autological word (or homological word ) expresses a property that it also possesses. For example, the word "word" is a word, the word "English" is in English,
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#1732780540539144-499: The word "writable" is writable, and the word " pentasyllabic " has five syllables. The opposite, a heterological word , does not apply to itself. For example, the word "palindrome" is not a palindrome , "long" is a short word, "monosyllabic" has more than one syllable, "hyphenated" is not hyphenated, and, inversely, "non-hyphenated" is hyphenated. Unlike more general concepts of autology and self-reference, this particular distinction and opposition of autological and heterological words
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