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.
12-482: AWC is a three letter acronym that may refer to: Educational institutions [ edit ] Allegheny Wesleyan College , a private liberal arts college in Ohio Air War College , a part of Air University, at Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base, Alabama Military and Weapons [ edit ] PAF Air War College , a senior staff and war college of
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
36-585: A community college in Yuma, Arizona Arena World Championship, World of Warcraft gaming PVP tournament Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title AWC . 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=AWC&oldid=1164316246 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
48-450: 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
60-463: 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,
72-478: 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
84-590: The American Forest & Paper Association Association for Women in Communications Australian Wildlife Conservancy Other uses [ edit ] Mitsubishi AWC , a four-wheel drive system developed by Mitsubishi Motors Accept, Waiver and Consent, a FINRA Disciplinary Action Astronaut Wives Club Atlantic Wind Connection , an undersea transmission backbone for wind farms off
96-520: The East coast. Available water capacity , the range of available water that can be stored in soil and be available for growing crops Aviation Weather Center , part of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction in the U.S. Avanti West Coast , A British train operating company. Titan Airways ' ICAO airline code Alumina Limited 's ASX/NYSE code Arizona Western College ,
108-709: The Pakistan Air Force Air Warfare Centre , a Royal Air Force Unit located at RAF Waddington and several other units around the UK Air Weapons Complex , a development and production center for airborne weapons systems in Pakistan Wiesel AWC , a kind of German armoured vehicle Arctic Warfare Covert , an Accuracy International sniper rifle variant Organizations [ edit ] Afghan Women's Council American Wood Council, affiliate of
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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#1732779525044144-499: 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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