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A three letter acronym (commonly referred to as a TLA) is an abbreviation, an alphabetism, an initialism or an acronym consisting of three letters. TLA is most commonly used as an abbreviation of three letter acronym or three letter abbreviation, but it may also refer to: Temporal Logic of Actions, a logic used to describe behaviours of concurrent systems Temporary Lodging Allowance, a U.S. military allowance Territorial local authority, in New Zealand Test...
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Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations, such as NATO, laser, and IBM, that are formed using the initial letters of words or word parts in a phrase or name. ...
Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations formed from the initial letter or letters of words, such as NATO and XHTML, and are pronounced in a way that is distinct from the full pronunciation of what the letters stand for. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Backronym and Apronym (Discuss) Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations, such as NATO, laser, and ABC, written as the initial letter or letters of words, and pronounced on the basis of this abbreviated written form. ...
Many of the abbreviations described as "three letter acronyms" are initialisms, which some definitions of acronym do not include (See acronym and initialism). Nevertheless, "Three letter acronym" is commonly used for any set of three letters used as an abbreviation. Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations formed from the initial letter or letters of words, such as NATO and XHTML, and are pronounced in a way that is distinct from the full pronunciation of what the letters stand for. ...
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History and origins The first known use of the term "TLA" was by Texas Instruments Inc. employees in the Industrial Systems Division circa 1984. Engineers used to mock the marketing department's tendency to define new products with three-word descriptions, such as "CVU" for a product line called "Control Vision Unit" and "ACM" for "Automation Configuration Module." Due to the seemingly excessive use of three-letter abbreviations or initialisms at the company, the employees started to simply report that they were working on product "TLA" as an ironic self-reference. Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN), better known in the electronics industry (and popularly) as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, USA, renowned for developing and commercializing semiconductor and computer technology. ...
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Use of "TLA" spread through both industry and academia, and now has become a generally understood initialism. For a complete discussion of the various forms of abbreviations, acronyms and other letter substitutions, see Acronym and initialism. Look up acronym, initialism, alphabetism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Other information - Another use of TLA is "three-letter agency", referring to a law enforcement or intelligence agency with a three-letter name abbreviation, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency.
- 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. An exhaustive listing of TLAs can be found in Category:Lists of TLAs.
- In English, WWW is the longest possible TLA to pronounce, requiring nine syllables. Although in written English it is an abbreviation, in spoken English it may use more syllables than that which it is abbreviating.[1] There is more information at Pronunciation of "www".
TLA is most commonly used as an abbreviation of three letter acronym or three letter abbreviation, but it may also refer to: Temporal Logic of Actions, a logic used to describe behaviours of concurrent systems Temporary Lodging Allowance, a U.S. military allowance Territorial local authority, in New Zealand Test...
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www is an initialism for World Wide Web, most often styled in lowercase because it appears as the first component of domain names. ...
References in popular culture - As early as 1967, the musical Hair included the song "Initials", whose chorus consisted only of TLAs. Viz: "LBJ IRT USA LSD. LSD LBJ FBI CIA. FBI CIA LSD LBJ."
- In 1986 Will Shatter of the band Flipper formed a band named "Any Three Initials" (ATI), as a parody of the preponderance of hardcore punk bands with three-initial names.
- In 1998 the British band Love and Rockets released their last album, Lift, featuring the song "R.I.P. 20 C." that, apart from the refrain, consists only of three-letter abbreviations. A contest was held rewarding the first to correctly give the meanings of all 69 of them.
- In 1999 German hip-hop group Die Fantastischen Vier (The Fantastic Four) released the song "MfG" ("Mit freundlichen Grüßen" - German for "best regards", literally "with friendly regards"), also mainly consisting of TLAs.[2]
- In 1999, the author Douglas Adams remarked: "The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for."[3]
- According to the Jargon File, a journalist once asked hacker Paul Boutin what he thought the biggest problem in computing in the 1990s would be. Paul's straight-faced response was, "There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms."
- The Jargon File also mentions the term "ETLA" for "Extended Three Letter Acronym" to refer to four letter acronyms/abbreviations. Also, "Extended Three Letter Acronym" is sometimes abbreviated to "XTLA".
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Flipper is an influential punk/noise band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1979, continuing on in often erratic fashion until the mid-1990s, then reuniting in 2005. ...
Love and Rockets were an alternative rock band formed in 1985 by former Bauhaus members Daniel Ash (guitars, saxophone, and vocals), David J (bass and vocals) and Kevin Haskins (drums, synthesizers). ...
Lift is the seventh and final album by the British band Love and Rockets, released in 1998 on Red Ant. ...
Die Fantastischen Vier also known as Fanta 4 is a German hip hop group from Stuttgart, Germany. ...
Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. ...
The Jargon File is a glossary of hacker slang. ...
Paul Boutin (born 1961 in Lewiston, Maine) is a freelance magazine writer who writes about technology in a pop-culture context. ...
The Jargon File is a glossary of hacker slang. ...
See also The term RAS syndrome refers to the use of one of the words that make up an initialism or acronym as well as the abbreviation itself, thus in effect repeating that word. ...
This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends. ...
The list of all two-letter combinations includes 1352 (2 × 262) combinations. ...
There are many abbreviations associated with the computer industry — PC, IT, CPU etc. ...
This is a list of three-letter broadcast callsigns in the United States. ...
List of airports by IATA code: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z See also: List of airports by ICAO code The complete list is too large for one article. ...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) allocates three-letter country codes to all National Olympic Committees and other groups competing in the Olympic Games. ...
ISO 4217 is the international standard describing three letter codes (also known as the currency code) to define the names of currencies established by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ...
Footnotes - ^ i.e. dou-ble-u dou-ble-u dou-ble-u = 9 syllables, whereas most of the entries on WWW (disambiguation) are pronounced in 3 syllables.
- ^ Lyrics of "MfG"
- ^ Douglas Adams, The Independent on Sunday, 1999
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External links - Abbreviations.com — A directory and search engine for acronyms, initialisms, and other abbreviations.
- Acronymfinder.com — Resource to find multiple meanings of acronyms, sorted by type.
- TLA Wörterbuch - Casia TLA collection
- GTF - the GPL'ed TLA FAQ
- The Great Abbreviations Hunt - A TLA for every combination of letters
- AuctionSlanguage.com - A resource to find meanings of acronyms and abbreviations used on auction sites. Includes many TLA's like NWT and HTF.
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