Search results for "Abbreviation" - New World Encyclopedia
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- just before his untimely death. In 1912, the abbreviation of "intelligence quotient" or IQ, a translation of the German Intelligenz-quotient ...35 KB (5,016 words) - 12:47, 7 February 2023
- The term "purge" in Soviet political slang was an abbreviation of the expression "CPSU purges of the Party ranks." In 1933 ...32 KB (4,761 words) - 12:20, 24 January 2023
- |Abbreviation = s=闽 |t=閩 |AbbrevPinyin = Mǐn, POJ: Bân, BUC: Mìng, MNP: Mǐn, Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Mîn |ISOAbbrev = 35 ...31 KB (4,438 words) - 07:14, 15 April 2024
- 1263-1323) wrote that kung-an is an abbreviation for kung-fu an-tu (公府之案牘, Pinyin gōngfǔ àndú, pronounced in Japanese as ko-fu ...33 KB (5,103 words) - 03:57, 4 March 2023
- actually a holdover from this practice, not an abbreviation for "common time," as popularly believed). In a similar fashion, the semibreve could ...36 KB (5,655 words) - 04:07, 9 November 2022
- |abbreviation = IN-AP |capital = Hyderabad |latd = 17.366 |longd = 78.476 |largest_city = Hyderabad |major_cities ...30 KB (4,151 words) - 20:00, 26 July 2023
- Some consider the ecosystem (abbreviation for "ecological system") to be the basic unit in ecology. An ecosystem is an ecological unit ...38 KB (5,612 words) - 18:02, 12 February 2024
- #039; catalogues, it is common to include an abbreviation such as "Crown 8vo" to indicate the paper size from which the book is made. ...32 KB (5,045 words) - 07:24, 17 November 2023
- or "Promi" (German abbreviation)). Joseph Goebbels was placed in charge of this ministry shortly after Hitler took power in 1933. ...32 KB (4,797 words) - 01:18, 12 April 2023
- Double stars are also designated by an abbreviation giving the discoverer together with an index number. Argyle, 2004, 307–308. α Centauri ...43 KB (6,669 words) - 17:43, 31 October 2023
- #039;s full family and given name, without abbreviation. The lettering must be red with a white background (shu bun), with roughly equal width lines ...36 KB (5,590 words) - 17:34, 25 January 2023
- handle rush hour traffic (Hyderabad MMTS; abbreviation for Multi Modal Transport System has mostly six coach train with a single nine coach one). One ...37 KB (5,222 words) - 13:17, 4 March 2024
- pressure. The SI unit of pressure is the pascal (abbreviation Pa), but vacuum is usually measured in torrs. A torr is equal to the displacement of a millimeter ...37 KB (5,624 words) - 20:38, 21 April 2020
- abbreviation=IN-SK | official_languages=Nepali| legislature_type=Unicameral | legislature_strength=32 | leader_title_2=Governor | leader_name_2 ...35 KB (5,094 words) - 20:10, 21 April 2023
- company states that BP was never meant to be an abbreviation of its tagline.) and redesigned its corporate logo. The British Petroleum shield that had ...36 KB (5,440 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- quot; was originally a slang abbreviation derived from "association" and is now the prevailing term in the United States, Canada, Australia ...41 KB (6,352 words) - 10:33, 10 November 2023
- manga cafés, or manga kissa (kissa is an abbreviation of kissaten) stock hundreds of manga that their customers can read while they linger over coffee. ...39 KB (5,688 words) - 21:37, 11 January 2024
- Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States of America. "D.C." is an abbreviation for the District of Columbia, the federal ...39 KB (5,697 words) - 23:11, 3 May 2023
- The modern abbreviation "KV" stands for "Kings' Valley," and the tombs are numbered in the order of 'discovery ...45 KB (7,190 words) - 20:00, 27 April 2020
- KGB (transliteration of "КГБ") is the Russian-language abbreviation for Комитет государственной безопасности ...41 KB (6,043 words) - 16:44, 14 May 2024
- Braai (abbreviation of braaivleis, Afrikaans for "meat grill") originated with the Afrikaner people of Southern Africa.Fran Osseo-Asare ...43 KB (6,886 words) - 08:03, 20 September 2023
- | abbreviation = | motto = | formation = 1800s | extinction = | type = Religious | status = | purpose = ...48 KB (6,849 words) - 14:17, 28 April 2023
- A note marked pizz. (abbreviation for pizzicato) in the written music is to be played by plucking the string with a finger of the right hand ...45 KB (7,281 words) - 20:27, 3 May 2023
- Following the abbreviation for the piece is a symbol for the type of move: – for a simple move, x for a capture, or * for a drop. ...60 KB (9,463 words) - 14:25, 27 January 2023
- abbreviation=IN-GA | official_languages=Konkani↑| legislature_type=Unicameral | legislature_strength=40 | leader_title_1=Governor | ...39 KB (5,868 words) - 08:05, 24 January 2023
- Hence "George W. Bush" may be an abbreviation for "the current President of the United States and son of George H.W. Bush." Definite ...51 KB (7,646 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- (or "sf") is "the preferred abbreviation within the community of sf writers and readers.""SF" (article by Peter Nicholls ...54 KB (7,938 words) - 02:35, 21 April 2023
- While the crack in the bell appears to end at the abbreviation "Philada" in the last line of the inscription, that is merely the 19th ...54 KB (8,496 words) - 11:03, 7 March 2023
- "Oz" was derived from the common abbreviation for "ounce", used for denoting quantities of gold and silver. last = Jensen ...56 KB (8,538 words) - 21:33, 6 June 2023
- |abbreviation = IN-KA |official_languages = Kannada |legislature_type = Bicameral |legislature_strength = 224 + 75 ...50 KB (6,914 words) - 20:25, 4 January 2024
- The main recent sense of the word “art” is roughly as an abbreviation for "creative art" or “fine art.” Here we mean that skill ...53 KB (8,177 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- German word for submarine, U-Boot, itself an abbreviation for Unterseeboot (“undersea boat”). Submarines encompass one of the largest ranges ...65 KB (10,100 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- Mātrika (alphabet) is abbreviated. This abbreviation is called Pratyāhara. Kashinath V. Abhyankar, A Dictionary of Sanskrit Grammar (Baroda: ...71 KB (10,080 words) - 03:16, 23 December 2022
- |abbreviation = IN-KL |official_languages = Malayalam |legislature_type = Unicameral |legislature_strength = 141‡ |leader_title_1 ...79 KB (10,302 words) - 22:30, 3 March 2023
- specific need in a given device. CIS is an abbreviation for general chalcopyrite films of copper indium selenide (CuInSe2), CIGS mentioned below is a ...90 KB (13,568 words) - 15:08, 27 April 2023
- The colloquial abbreviation coon sometimes used for the common raccoon is used in words like coonskin for fur clothing and in phrases like old ...75 KB (11,261 words) - 20:56, 26 October 2023
- de México". Since 2013, the abbreviation "CDMX" (Ciudad ... defeños (deriving from the postal abbreviation of the Federal District ...184 KB (26,093 words) - 20:54, 1 February 2024
- as anti-fascist, usually use the abbreviation Antifa and regard the historical Antifaschistische Aktion of the early 1930s as an inspiration ...100 KB (13,503 words) - 18:35, 7 July 2020
- official documents, where a three-letter abbreviation "СПб" (SPb) was very widely used as well. [[File:St Petersburg port entrance ...163 KB (21,399 words) - 17:45, 1 February 2024
- October Revolution, known as Proletkult, an abbreviation for "Proletarskie kulturno-prosvetitelnye organizatsii" (Proletarian Cultural and ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
- Hagia Sophia ( lk=yes 'Holy Wisdom'; Ayasofya ; Ἁγία Σοφία|Hagía Sofía ; Sancta Sapientia ), officially the Hagia Sophia ...227 KB (32,955 words) - 20:31, 5 May 2024
