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.
12-1024: TGS is a three-letter acronym which may refer to: Educational establishments [ edit ] Tadcaster Grammar School , North Yorkshire , England Takapuna Grammar School , Auckland , New Zealand The Geneva School , Winter Park, Florida Thetford Grammar School , Norfolk , England Think Global School , New York City , United States The Graduate School at Northwestern University . Illinois Tiffin Girls' School , Kingston upon Thames , England Tonbridge Grammar School , Tonbridge , England Toowoomba Grammar School , Toowoomba , Australia Tottenham Grammar School , London , England Townsville Grammar School , Townsville , Australia Trinity Grammar School , Melbourne , Australia Trinity Grammar School , Sydney , Australia Companies [ edit ] TGS Management , American quantitative hedge fund Transportadora de Gas del Sur ,
24-427: A Canadian rock band Tokyo Girls' Style , a Japanese girl group Science [ edit ] Triglycine sulfate , a material used in infrared sensors Transcriptional gene silencing , a type of gene expression regulator Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title TGS . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
36-643: A Southern Natural Gas Transportation Company in Argentina TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company , a Norwegian geoscience data, software and service provider Computing [ edit ] The Great Giana Sisters Media [ edit ] Teen Girl Squad , a subcartoon from the Homestar Runner website cartoons Tokyo Game Show , a video game trade show held in Tokyo Taipei Game Show ,
48-582: 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 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
60-503: A property that it also possesses. For example, the word "word" is a word, the word "English" is in English, 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"
72-676: A video game trade show held in Taipei Toulouse Game Show , a video game trade show held in Toulouse, France The Gathering Storm (novel) , by Robert Jordan, of the Wheel of Time series The Gamer Studio , a video gaming website. The Girlie Show (fictional show) , a fictional show in the television series 30 Rock The Greatest Showman , a 2017 musical film The Glass Scientists , an independent webcomic Music [ edit ] The Glorious Sons ,
84-420: Is hyphenated. Unlike more general concepts of autology and self-reference, this particular distinction and opposition of autological and heterological words is uncommon in linguistics for describing linguistic phenomena or classes of words, but is current in logic and philosophy where it was introduced by Kurt Grelling and Leonard Nelson for describing a semantic paradox, later known as Grelling's paradox or
96-421: Is respectable these days without a TLA" By 1992 it was in 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
108-462: 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 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
120-455: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TGS&oldid=1179754260 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description 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
132-412: The most syllables —typically nine. The usefulness of a TLA typically comes from its being quicker to say than 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
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#1732775730415144-600: Was promoted by Weber in 1982. They are used in many other fields, but the term TLA is particularly associated with computing. In 1980, 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
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