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Geylang Methodist Secondary School

Geylang Methodist School (Secondary) (Abbreviation: GMS(S)) is a co-ed school located in Aljunied, Singapore.

Guild of Jewellery Professionals and Artisans

The Guild of Jewellery Professionals and Artisans (Abbreviation: GJPA) is a not-for-profit society based in Singapore whose aim is to provide the jewellery and accessories industries in the region with much-needed support at the “Designer Jewellery” level by ensuring high standards in education, materials, workmanship and service as well as a strong community of experts and aficionados to direct the future of these industry segments.

Samarinda International Airport

Samarinda International Airport (Abbrev.: BSB) is the future main airport in Samarinda.

Singapore Institute of Architects

The Singapore Institute of Architects (Abbreviation: SIA; Chinese: 新加坡建筑师学会) is a professional organization established in 1961 with the objective to promote the architectural profession and the built environment in Singapore.


.bz

Many websites in Italy use this domain, because of the abbreviation of Bolzano (de. Bozen) and the fact that the official abbreviation of the province of South Tyrol is BZ.

.za

None of the official names for South Africa can be abbreviated to ZA, which is an abbreviation of the Cape Dutch Zuid-Afrika.

1971 Maryville 200

Abbreviation of the Cup Series schedule was the "order of the day" in the 1970s as the new sponsors wanted NASCAR to have a schedule that was structured closer to that of the National Football League.

1974–75 Kansas City Scouts season

Initially, the franchise chose MO-hawks as their nickname to reflect a Missouri-Kansas union, an attempt to appeal to both Kansas and Missouri residents (the Kansas City metropolitan area spills across both states) and incorporating Missouri's postal abbreviation with the Kansas Jayhawker nickname, but the name was vetoed by the Chicago Black Hawks.

Air cycle machine

Boeing, Airbus, Embraer, Bombardier and Lockheed use the term as an abbreviation of package, applied to both pneumatic and non-pneumatic systems.

Aizat Amdan

Aizat began his music career as a contestant in the reality TV singing contest Akademi Fantasia 5 or better known by its abbreviation AF.

Alpha taxonomy

Thus the common buttercup is Ranunculus acris L., where the 'L' is the standardised abbreviation for Linnaeus.

Apartheid

The best-publicised forced removals of the 1950s occurred in Johannesburg, when 60,000 people were moved to the new township of Soweto (an abbreviation for South Western Townships).

Bundesstraße 244

Bundesstraße 244 (abbreviation: B 244) is a federal road in Germany that branches off the B 4 west of Dedelstorf towards the east and runs through Wittingen, Brome, Rühen, Velpke, Helmstedt, Schöningen, Dardesheim, Wernigerode to Elbingerode, where it ends at the B 27.

Campaign Against Homophobia

Campaign Against Homophobia (original name: Kampania Przeciw Homofobii, abbreviation: KPH) is a Polish LGBT organisation, which aims to promote legal and social equality for people outside the heteronorm.

Ccoms

Ccoms, an abbreviation for "chat commands", is any program that employs text-based commands typed into an AOL chat room to control a third-party program, usually an mp3 player or password cracker.

Championing Community Children

Championing Community Children, also known by its members by its abbreviation, C3, is an organization founded by International Children’s Peace Prize laureate Kesz Váldez, who has started the organization in around 2006 in the desire to help children who live in the streets.

Chapman code

They can however be useful for disambiguation by postal services where a full county name or traditional abbreviation is not supplied after a place name which has more than one occurrence, a particular problem where these are post towns such as Richmond.

Colegio del Sagrado Corazon de Jesus

The Colegio del Sagrado Corazon de Jesus (fondly called "Sagrado", Abbreviation: CSCJ; Mandarin Chinese: 圣心学院; Pinyin: Shèng Xīn Xué Yuàn) is a private, Catholic, co-educational institution of learning owned and administered by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul located at General Hughes St. Iloilo City, Philippines.

Data pack

Common data packs may include abbreviations, acronyms, dictionaries, lexicons and technical data, such as country codes, RFCs, filename extensions, TCP and UDP port numbers, country calling codes.

Eser

ESER, a German abbreviation for a Comecon computer standard

Faxian

The Shih which often precedes it is an abbreviation of the name of Buddha as Sakyamuni, "the Sakya, mighty in Love, dwelling in Seclusion and Silence," and may be taken as equivalent to Buddhist.

Himi, Toyama

:HIMI is also the official abbreviation for Heard Island and McDonald Islands

HVJ Gas Pipeline

HVJ an abbreviation for Hazira-Vijaipur-Jagdishpur (also known as HBJ where B stands for Bijeypur, another name of Vijaipur) is India's first cross country gas pipeline.

Hyl

, standard abbreviation for the name of the botanist Nils Hylander

IVG

Abortion, in languages such as French, Italian, and Portuguese where "voluntary interruption of pregnancy" translates with this abbreviation

JasPer

The name "JasPer" has simultaneous connotations with Canada's Jasper National Park, with the semi-precious gemstone, jasper, and with "JP" as an abbreviation of the JPEG-2000 standard.

Kac Wawa

The Karkowski film was named in a very similar fashion, replacing the word Vegas with Wawa (which is a pejorative abbreviation for Warsaw, where the film takes place).

Los Dug Dug's

In 1964 Xippos Rock began a road trip from Durango to Tijuana and halfway through the trip,in the city of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, the name was changed to Los Dug Dug's, an abbreviation of the band's native city and state.

LXTV

Originally branded as Code.TV, and focused on web distribution, the production company´s founders rebranded themselves as "LXTV" - LX an abbreviation for Luxury - as art of a deal made with local New York channel NYC TV in which the broadcaster would air the LXTV content over the air on WNYE Channel UHF 25.

Mariss Jansons

In October 2002, Jansons was named the sixth chief conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (KCO, Dutch abbreviation) of Amsterdam, effective 1 September 2004, succeeding Riccardo Chailly.

Marsham

Rabbi Sholom Mordechai Schwadron known by the acronym "Marsham" which is the Hebrew abbreviation of the initials Moreinu Rav Sholom Mordechai)

(not to be confused with MØ), an abbreviation for Macrophages, cells produced by the differentiation of monocytes in tissues.

Nurul Fikri Boarding School

Nurul Fikri Boarding School (Pesantren Ibnu Salam, also known with the abbreviation NFBS) is a secondary and high school located in Jalan Palka, Cinangka, Serang, Banten, Indonesia.

OGD

The British medical abbreviation for oesophagogastroduodenoscopy, a diagnostic endoscopic procedure that visualizes the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract up to the duodenum.

PEAC

Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines, as an unofficial abbreviation for a Philippine airline

PM-63 RAK

The PM-63 RAK (short for Ręczny Automat Komandosów — "commandos' hand-held automatic"; the abbreviation itself means crayfish in Polish) is a Polish 9mm submachine gun, designed by Piotr Wilniewczyc in cooperation with Tadeusz Bednarski, Grzegorz Czubak and Marian Wakalski.

Polynucleotide phosphorylase

The same abbreviation (PNPase) is also used for another, otherwise unrelated enzyme, Purine nucleoside phosphorylase.

Public Transport Council

The Public Transport Council (Abbreviation: PTC; Chinese: 公共交通理事会, Pinyin: Gōnggòng Jiāotōng Lǐshìhuì; Malay: Majlis Pengangkutan Awam) is an independent regulatory statutory board under the Ministry of Transport of Singapore, established on 14 August 1987 by the Public Transport Council Act of 1987.

Rebel MC

"Conquering Lion" is an abbreviation for "The Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah", one of emperor Haile Selassie's many titles.

RegioExpress

One of the main lines which ran as a RegioExpress line (abbreviation: RX) was the Rheintal Express, from St. Gallen through Sargans to Chur (the other was the CityVogel from Zurich to Konstanz).

Rhein-Main International Montessori School

The Rhein-Main International Montessori School (abbreviation: RIMS) is a private school and one of two secondary schools in Friedrichsdorf, Hesse, Germany.

Right-hand rule

The FBI rule is easily remembered by US citizens because of the commonly known abbreviation for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Ron E Sparks

As with the name of American president Harry S. Truman, the "E" in "Ron E Sparks" does not stand for anything, and thus adding a dot after it to indicate abbreviation is arguably incorrect.

St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications

Saint Petersburg State University of Telecommunications (Abbreviation: SPbSUT) (Russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет телекоммуникаций) is one of the major research and educational centers of Russia as well as a leading technical university located in Saint Petersburg.

Swami Vivekananda Road metro station

Swami Vivekananda Road, commonly referred to by the abbreviation SV Road, is a station on the Purple Line of the Namma Metro in Bangalore, India.

T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M.

The title, which is an abbreviation for The Awesome Power of a Fully Operational Mothership, refers to the P-Funk Mothership that was first introduced in 1975 on Parliament's Mothership Connection album.

TEMA

(TEMA) is the abbreviation of the three dimensional accounting theory of Yuji Ijiri: Momentum Accounting and Triple-Entry Bookkeeping.

Townsville Institute

Townsville Institute (Abbreviation: TI; Chinese: 城景高级中学) was one of the four original centralised institutes (CI) in Singapore and one of the pre-university centres in Singapore that offers a three-year curriculum leading to the Singapore Cambridge (UCLES) General Certificate of Education Advanced Level examination.

University of San Francisco Maritime Law Journal

The University of San Francisco Maritime Law Journal (Bluebook abbreviation: U.S.F. Mar. L.J.) is a biannual law review that includes an annual survey of United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit cases pertaining to admiralty and maritime law.

WILS

Wils is also the abbreviation for the orchid genus Wilsonara.

Xubuntu

Xfce originally was an abbreviation for XForms Common Environment; ubuntu has a meaning of approximately "humanity towards others" in various Bantu languages.

York Housing Association

:This article is about the York Housing Association, for other topics related with the abbreviation "YHA", see YHA


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