The title is an acronym dedication to the film star Humphrey Bogart ("2HB" = "To Humphrey Bogart").
The world's largest organization for Advanced Chess on the Internet is the Advanced Chess Organization - CCO (this organization used to be known as Computer Chess Organization, and therefore kept the acronym CCO for historical reasons).
A meeting of Defence Chiefs of Staff was held in Brazzaville in October 2003, at which it was decided that a brigade-size peacekeeping force, the Central African Multinational Force (French acronym FOMAC) would be created in order to intervene in unstable Central African areas.
:For other uses of the word, or the acronym, see AIS.
On 20 July 1999, just over a month after the elections, Tsinker and Roman Bronfman left the party to establish a new Knesset faction; six days later it was renamed "Mahar" (a Hebrew acronym for Party for Society and Reforms), and in October adopted the name "Democratic Choice".
Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners, an organization of forensic scientists (preferred acronym AFTE)
In late December 2011, after exhausting all non-court remedies to rectify the situation, BBM Canada has asked Research in Motion to cease using the BBM acronym to describe the BlackBerry Messenger service, or finance the cost for BBM Canada to change their branding in exchange for the use of the BBM, or face further legal action.
The reason for the common use of the three-letter acronym, בס"ד (BS"D), is probably because it does not contain the Hebrew letter Hei ('ה), that is used to imply the name of God, and for this reason, a page which contains the letters בס"ד (BS"D) without any other Torah content does not require Genizah (a process for writings that contain the name of God), and thus can be thrown away without a fear of desecration.
BiRaCo stands for the acronym of Bismuth, Radium, and Cobalt.
As an acronym, BOLM has been used (with BOLMI) for Bread of Life Ministries International
BROG, acronym for the (We)blog Research on Genre project
Child development-5, for five-year old children, a more developmentally appropriate acronym for kindergarten
DART was created on August 13, 1983 as a regional replacement for the DTS (Although the name "Dallas Area Rapid Transit" was intended to reflect the new agency's coverage of the greater Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, its acronym DART almost immediately evoked comparisons to San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit system, known as BART).
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.
Deletions of the 22q11.2 have been associated with a wide range of developmental defects (notably DiGeorge syndrome, velocardiofacial syndrome, conotruncal anomaly face syndrome and isolated conotruncal cardiac defects) classified under the acronym CATCH 22.
Direct-view bistable storage tube (DVBST) was an acronym used by Tektronix to describe their line of storage tubes.
An acronym for Erieye Ground Interface Segment, military software package which is part of the Erieye radar system and is sometimes confused with the Aegis combat system.
(b) Integral equation methods, e.g., the CHNC, an acronym for the classical-map hyper-netted-chain method, or the Fermi hyper-netted-chain method.
Model names for Electronika-branded Nintendo Game & Watch clones start with IM (ИМ — Игра Микропроцессорная, Russian acronym for "microprocessor game").
After launch, the satellite was renamed Ajisai (the Japanese name for the Hydrangea plant), but it is most commonly known by the acronym EGP.
The phrase "What you see is what you get" was often used by Wilson's Geraldine character and inspired researchers at PARC and elsewhere to create the acronym WYSIWYG.
The acronym FOAF was coined by Rodney Dale and used in his 1978 book The Tumour in the Whale: A Collection of Modern Myths.
:For other uses of the acronym, see GBF.
G2B is an acronym for Government-to-business.
The corresponding acronym, GUBU, was coined by Conor Cruise O'Brien, and both it and the phrase are still occasionally used in Irish political discourse to describe notorious scandals.
GUCH, an acronym for Grown Ups with Congenital Heart defects
Sharing a very similar name, and the acronym IMA, it should not be confused with the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, a professional body for mathematicians in the UK.
In 1968 Domengeaux accepted an appointment from Louisiana Governor John J. McKeithen, his fellow Democrat, to preside over a new state-charted organization called the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana, commonly known by the acronym CODOFIL.
Kobro, Strzemiński, painter Henryk Stażewski and poets January Brzękowski and Julian Przyboś then founded the group a.r., an acronym that is usually interpreted as "Revolutionary Artists" or "Real Avant-Garde".
Kopkamtib, an acronym for Komando Operasi Pemulihan Keamanan dan Ketertiban or "Operational Command for the Restoration of Security and Order", was a secret police operation in Indonesia's "New Order" that continued issues arising from the transition to the New Order.
KREEP, an acronym built from the letters K (the atomic symbol for potassium), REE (Rare Earth Elements) and P (for phosphorus), is a geochemical component of some lunar impact breccia and basaltic rocks.
The German expression Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft (English: Agricultural Production Cooperative), or — more commonly — its acronym LPG was the official designation for large, collectivised farms in the former East Germany, corresponding to Soviet Kolkhoz.
Rabbi Sholom Mordechai Schwadron known by the acronym "Marsham" which is the Hebrew abbreviation of the initials Moreinu Rav Sholom Mordechai)
Mosik is the acronym for the international collective of talents More Strangers in Kreuzberg.
Developed by McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems (through their acquisition of Hughes Helicopters), the name is an acronym derived from the phrase no tail rotor.
:This article is about a rock group named NYCO, but NYCO is also the acronym of the New York City Opera as well as NYCO Synthetic Lubricants and is also a textile made up of a mix of nylon and cotton.
The Ontario Health Insurance Plan (in French: Assurance-Santé de l'Ontario, and commonly known in both languages by the acronym OHIP, pronounced "oh-hip") is the government-run health insurance plan for the Canadian province of Ontario.
The name Pootle is an acronym for PO-based Online Translation / Localization Engine, but it is also a character in the BBC children's program The Flumps.
After the 1964 season, Kohl resigned his position as the head coach at Eastern Illinois to accept a job a scout for BLESTO, an NFL scouting combine that was an acronym for the Bears, Lions, Eagles and Steelers Talent Organization.
Nissim of Gerona, Rabbi Nissim ben Reuven (RaN, the Hebrew acronym of his name, ר"ן)
The School Day of Non-violence and Peace (or DENIP, acronym from Catalan-Balearic: Dia Escolar de la No-violència i la Pau), is an observance founded by the Spanish poet Llorenç Vidal Vidal in Majorca in 1964 as a starting point and support for a pacifying and non-violent education of a permanent character.
It is also given a Midrashic interpretation as an acronym, standing for "Guardian of the Doors of Israel" (Hebrew: שׁוֹמֶר דְלָתוֹת יִשְׂרָאֶל), which is commonly found as carvings or writings upon the mezuzah, a vessel which houses a scroll of parchment with Biblical text written on it, that is situated upon all the door frames in a home or establishment.
Toyota Motor Manufacturing France S.A.S., or better known under its acronym TMMF, is the French automobile manufacturing division of Japanese automaker Toyota located in Onnaing near the city of Valenciennes.
In 1973, roommates Kiyoshi Aki and Tsuneo Kusunoki founded the company AMVIC, an acronym of the phrase, "for AMbition and VICtory."
Underwood International College (acronym: UIC) was founded in 2006 as a constituent college of Yonsei University, based in Seoul and Incheon, South Korea.
UTRA-TDD HCR, an acronym for UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access(UTRA)-Time Division Duplex(TDD) High Chip Rate(HCR), is a 3GPP standardized channel access method based on a combination of TDMA and CDMA (known as TD-CDMA).
Both the specific name, "vrijeuni", and the acronym in the common name, "VUB", refer to Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Free University of Brussels.
It alternatively bore the name of "CAM", an acronym for "Cybernetic Anthropomorphous Machine", as seen in a segment of the Walter Cronkite-hosted The 21st Century in 1968.
It was created by an international agreement as the International Office of Epizootics (still known by its French acronym Office International des Epizooties – OIE) on 25 January 1924.
The phrase "What you see is what you get", from which the acronym derives, was a catchphrase popularized by Flip Wilson's drag persona "Geraldine" (from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in the late 1960s and then on The Flip Wilson Show until 1974).