Update Various.csv

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@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ ACA-Affordable Care Act, shorthand for the Patient Protection and Affordable Car
 ACARS, Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System
 ACAS- Aboriginal Children's Advancement Society,Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
 ACB, Asociación de Clubes de Baloncesto (Spanish for "Association of Basketball Clubs")
-ACC- U.S. Air Combat Command,Air Component Commander,Alpine Club of Canada,Altocumulus castellanus,Area Control Center,Atlantic Coast Conference,Automatic climate control
 ACCA- The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants,Automatic Cloud Cover Assessment
 ACCAC, Awdurdod Cymwysterau, Cwricwlwm ac Asesu Cymru (Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales)
 ACCD,American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities
@@ -100,7 +99,6 @@ ACCS, Air Communications and Control Squadron
 ACDA, Arms Control & Disarmament Agency
 ACDC- Alternating Current Direct Current,the name of an Australian rock music band,a term for a bisexual person,A/Cdre,Air Commodore
 ACDT- Apple Certified Desktop Technician, Australian Central Daylight Time
-ACE- Air Combat Emulator (computer game),Allied Command Europe,Armored Combat Earthmover,Automatic Computing Engine
 ACES- Aerolíneas Centrales de Colombia (Spanish, "Central Colombian Airlines"),Auxiliary Campus Enterprises and Services of Alfred State College
 ACF- Administration for Children and Families,American Car and Foundry,American Culinary Federation
 ACHT, Average Call Hold Time
@@ -134,7 +132,6 @@ ACTF- (U.S.) Army Constructive Training Federation,Australian Children's Televis
 ACTU, Australian Council of Trade Unions
 ACU, American Conservative Union
 ACUF- BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features, American Conservative Union Foundation
-ACV, Armoured Combat Vehicle
 AD, Air Defence, Andorra (ISO 3166 digram), Anno Domini (Latin, "In the year of our Lord")
 ADA, Air Defence Artillery,American Dental Association,Assistant District Attorney,Americans with Disabilities Act (see also the similar but non-acronymic Ada programming language)
 ADAC,(a/i) Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club (German, "General German Automobile Club")
@@ -146,7 +143,6 @@ ADatP, Automated Data Processing
 ADATS, Agricultural Development and Training Society,Air Defence Anti-Tank System,Australian Defence Air Traffic System
 ADB, Asian Development Bank
 ADC, Aide De Camp,U.S. Air Defense Command (1946-1992),Apple Display Connector,Program Against Digital Counterfeiting of Currency
-ADCTS, Advanced Distributed Combat Training System
 ADD, Analog Digital Digital (CD quality),Attention-Deficit Disorder,Administration on Developmental Disabilities
 ADDIE, Analyze Design Develop Implement and Evaluate
 ADDNS, Advanced Deployable Day/Night Simulation
@@ -299,7 +295,6 @@ ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis,Automatic Landing System
 ALSHS, Abraham Low Self-Help Systems
 ALSP, Aggregate Level Simulation Protocol
 ALTE, Association of Language Testers in Europe
-ALTACS, Automated decision Logic Tactical Air Combat Simulation
 am- Amharic language (ISO 639-1 code),Attometre
 Am, Americium
 AM-many, including Amplitude Modulation and Ante Meridiem; see entry, Armenia (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
@@ -309,7 +304,6 @@ AMAPS, Aircraft, Missile, Avionics Performance Simulation
 AMC- Adaptive modulation and coding (digital communications),U.S. Air Mobility Command,American Motors Corporation,American Movie Classics (TV network; now known simply by the initials),U.S. Army Materiel Command
 AMCB, U.S. Army/Marine Corps Board
 AMD- Advanced Micro Devices,Age-related Macular Degeneration, Armenian dram (ISO 4217 currency code)
-AMF, Afghan Military Force
 AMFOM, Advanced Missile Fly Out Model ("am-fomm")
 AMFR- Age-specific Marital Fertility Rate,Amplitude Modulation Following Response
 AMFRS- Advanced Multi-Function Radio Frequency System,Automatic Multisensor Feature-based Recognition System
@@ -427,7 +421,6 @@ asbl, association sans but lucratif (French "Non-profit organisation")
 ASBO, Anti-Social Behaviour Order
 ASCAP, American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
 ASCC, Army Service Component Commander,Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator,Air Standardization Coordinating Committee
-ASCIET, All Services Combat Identification Evaluation Team
 ASCII, American Standard Code for Information Interchange
 ASD, (U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense,autism spectrum disorder
 ASDIC, Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee (Sonar)
@@ -529,7 +522,6 @@ AWC, Air Warfare Centre
 AWD,many, including All Wheel Drive; see entry
 AWE,(i/a) Advanced Warfighting Experiment
 AWG, Aruban guilder (ISO 4217 currency code)
-AWOL, Absent Without Official Leave / Absent WithOut Leave (military jargon)
 AWP, Awaiting Parts (SM&R code)
 AWSIM, Air Warfare SIMulation
 AWST, Australian Western Standard Time
@@ -558,12 +550,8 @@ BBYO,B'nai B'rith Youth Organization
 BC- Before Christ,Blind Copy (in emailers),Boston College, Botswana (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Bechuanaland),British Columbia (postal symbol)
 BCA- Bachelor of Computer Application,Black Coaches & Administrators,BCC -  Blind Carbon Copy
 BCCI- Bank of Credit and Commerce International,Board of Control for Cricket in India,BCD -  Binary-Coded Decimal
-BCE- Banque centrale européenne (French, "European Central Bank"),Battlefield Co-ordination Element,BC Electric, a former name for BC Hydro,Before Common Era,BCER -  British Columbia Electric Railway,BCFG -  Patchy Fog (METAR Code),BCIS (fratricide avoidance system) -  Battlefield Combat Identification System,BCLL -  Bibliography of Celtic Latin Literature,BCPL -  Basic Combined Programming Language (progenitor of C)
-BCS- Bachelor of Computer Science,Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer superconduction theory,Bowl Championship Series (US college football),BCT -  Brigade Combat Team,BD[edit],BD -  Bangladesh (ISO 3166 digram) - Bermuda (FIPS 10-4 territory code),BDA -  British Dental Association,BDD -  Body Dysmorphic Disorder - British Defence Doctrine,Bde -  Brigade,BDFL -  Benevolent Dictator For Life,BDI -  Burundi (ISO 3166 trigram),BDNF -  Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor,BDO -  Battle Dress Overgarment,BDOS -  Basic Disk Operating System; part of CP/M,BDS -  - Bachelor of Dental Surgery,BDSM -  Bondage and Discipline, Domination and Submission, Sadism and Masochism,BDT -  Bangladeshi taka (ISO 4217 currency code) -  Bureau de développement des télécommunications (Telecommunication Development Bureau, became ITU-D),BDTA -  British Dental Trade Association,BDU -  Battle-Dress Uniform,BE[edit],be -  Belarusian language (ISO 639-1 code),Be -  Beryllium,BE -  Belgium (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
 BEA- Banque extérieure d'Algérie,British European Airways (ancestor of British Airways),British Electricity Authority,bel -  Belarusian language (ISO 639-2 code),BEL -  Belgium (ISO 3166 trigram),BEM -  British Empire Medal - Bug-Eyed Monster,ben -  Bengali language (ISO 639-2 code),BEN -  Benin (ISO 3166 trigram),BEO -  Banquet Event Order,BERC -  Business Environmental Resource Center,BER -  Bit Error Rate
-BES- Budget Estimate Submission, Caribbean Netherlands (ISO 3166 trigram; from the entity's alternate name of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba),BESS -  Business, Education, and Social Sciences,BET - (a/i) Black Entertainment Television,BETS -  Bradley Embedded Training System,BF[edit],BF -  The Bahamas (FIPS 10-4 country code) - Burkina Faso (ISO 3166 digram),b/f -  before,BFA -  Burkina Faso (ISO 3166 trigram),BfArM -  Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte, German governmental institute for drugs and medical devices,BFI -  British Film Institute,BFR -  Biennial flight review,BFR -  Brominated Flame Retardant,BFSA -  Blue Force Situation Awareness,BFT -  Blue Force Tracking,BFF -  Best Friends Forever,BFS -  Belfast International Airport (IATA airport code),BFX -  Bioinformatics,BG[edit],bg -  Bulgarian language (ISO 639-1 code),BG -  Bangladesh (FIPS 10-4 country code) -  Battle Group - Body Guard -  Brigadier General -  Bulgaria (ISO 3166 digram),BGA -  Ball Grid Array - Brandy and Ginger Ale (alcoholic beverage),BGD -  Bangladesh (ISO 3166 trigram),BGN -  U.S. Board on Geographic Names -  Bulgarian lev (ISO 4217 currency code),BGR -  Bulgaria (ISO 3166 trigram),BGS -  Bristol Grammar School - British Geographical Survey,BGWG -  Battle Group Wargame (military simulation; "big wig"),BH[edit],bh -  Bihari languages (ISO 639-1 code),Bh -  Bohrium
 BH- Bahrain (ISO 3166 digram),Belize (FIPS 10-4 country code),BHD -  Bahraini dinar (ISO 4217 currency code),BHR -  Bahrain (ISO 3166 trigram)
-BHS- British Home Stores, The Bahamas (ISO 3166 trigram),BI[edit],bi -  Bislami language (ISO 639-1 code),Bi -  Bismuth,BI -  Burundi (ISO 3166 digram),BIAP -  Baghdad International Airport -  Biafran pound,BICS - (i/a) Battlefield Information and Communication System,BID -  bis in die (Latin, "twice a day"),BIDST -  British Institute of Dental and Surgical Technologists,BIF -  Burundian franc (ISO 4217 currency code),bih -  Bihari languages (ISO 639-2 code),BIH -  Bosnia and Herzegovina (ISO 3166 trigram),BIOS -  Basic Input/Output System - British Institute of Organ Studies,BIP -  Battlefield Interoperability Programme (ancestor of MIP) - Broadcast incremental power algorithm,bis -  Bislami language (ISO 639-2 code),BISEPS -  Battlefield Identification System Environment Performance Simulation,BIST -  Built-In Self-Test,BIT -  Bilateral Investment Treaty - Built-In Test,BITE -  Built-In Test Equipment,BJ[edit],BJ -  Benin (ISO 3166 digram) -  Blowjob (oral sex),BJJ -  Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu,BJP -  Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People's Party),BJT -  Bipolar Junction Transistor,BK[edit],Bk -  Berkelium,BK -  Burger King -  Bankrupt (most often seen as "gone BK") -  Bosnia and Herzegovina (FIPS 10-4 country code),BKN -  Broken Sky (METAR Code),BL[edit],BL -  Bolivia (FIPS 10-4 country code) -  British Leyland,BLCSE -  Battle Laboratory Constructive Simulation Environment,BLDU -  Blowing Dust (METAR Code),BLEVE -  Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion ("blevy"),BLOB -  Binary Large OBject,BLR -  Belarus (ISO 3166 trigram),BLSA -  Blowing Sand (METAR Code),BLRSI - Battle Lab Reconfigurable Simulator (U.S. Army),BLSN -  Blowing Snow (METAR Code),BLT -  Bacon Lettuce Tomato (sandwich),BLUFOR -  Blue Force (military),BLUI - (a/i) Body Language User Interface ("blooie"),BLZ -  Belize (ISO 3166 trigram),BM[edit],bm -  Bambara language (ISO 639-1 code),BM -  Battle Management -  Bermuda (ISO 3166 digram) - Myanmar (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Burma),BMA -  British Medical Association,BMCC -  Borough of Manhattan Community College,BMD -  Ballistic Missile Defence -  Bermudian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code) -  Boyevaya Mashina Desanta (Russian Боевая Машина Десанта, "Combat Vehicle Airborne") †[2] - British Military Doctrine,BMDG -  British Military Doctrine Group,BMDO -  (U.S.) Ballistic Missile Defense Organization ("bim-do"),BME -  Biomedical Engineering -  Black and Minority Ethnic group - Body Modification E-zine,BMEWS - (a/i) Ballistic Missile Early Warning System ("bee-mews"),BMI -  Body Mass Index - Broadcast Music Incorporated,BMG -  Bertelsmann Music Group,BML -  Battle Management Language,BMNT -  Begin Morning Nautical Twilight,BMP -  Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoti (Russian Боевая Машина Пехоты, "Combat Vehicle for the Infantry") †[2],BMR -  Basal metabolic rate - Bronirovannaya Mashina Razminirovaniya (Russian Бронированная Машина Разминирования, "Armoured Vehicle for Mine-Clearing") †[2],BMU -  Bermuda (ISO 3166 trigram),BMW -  Bayerische Motoren Werke (German, "Bavarian Motor Works"),BMX -  Bicycle/Bike Moto (r) Cross,BN[edit],bn -  Bengali language (ISO 639-1 code),Bn -  Battalion,BN -  Brunei (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code),BND -  Brunei dollar (ISO 4217 currency code),BnF -  Bibliothèque nationale de France (French, "National Library of France")
 BNF- Backus-Naur Form (computing),British National Formulary,BNICE -  Biological, Nuclear, Incendiary, Chemical, and Explosive Agents
 BNP- British National Party,Banque Nationale de Paris, a predecessor to today's BNP Paribas,BNS -  Bank of Nova Scotia,BNSF - (i/s) Burlington Northern Santa Fe (also AAR reporting mark),BO[edit],bo -  Tibetan language (ISO 639-1 code)
 BO- Back Orifice, Belarus (FIPS 10-4 country code), Biarritz Olympique (French rugby union club), Bolivia (ISO 3166 digram), Body odor,BO2k -  Back Orifice 2000,BOAC -  British Overseas Airways Corporation (predecessor of British Airways)
@@ -578,7 +566,6 @@ BP- Battle Position,British Petroleum (today, BP does not officially stand for a
 BPV- Battlefield Planning Visualization,Bovine papillomavirus,BQ[edit]
 BQ- British Antarctic Territory (former ISO 3166 digram; merged with AQ in 1979),Caribbean Netherlands (current ISO 3166 digram; based on the entity's alternate name of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba),Navassa Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code),BR[edit],br -  Breton language (ISO 639-1 code),Br -  Bromine
 BR- Brazil (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code) - Bihar (Indian state code), British Rail,Break Ranks (marching band term),BRA -  Brazil (ISO 3166 trigram),BRAG -  Bicycle Ride Across Georgia,BRASS - Breathe, Relax, Aim, Sight, Squeeze (Acronym for using a rifle)
-BRB- Barbados (ISO 3166 trigram), "Be Right Back" (Internet chat abbreviation),BRDM -  Boyevaya Razvedyvatelnaya Dosornaya Mashina (Russian Боевая Разведывательная Дозорная Машина, "Combat Reconnaissance Patrol Vehicle") †[2],bre -  Breton language (ISO 639-2 code),BRFSS -  Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System ("burf-us", a CDC health survey covering the U.S. and its territories),BRI -  Bathroom ers Institute (publishers of series of "Uncle John's Bathroom ers" books),BRIC -  Brazil, Russia, India and China,BRICS -  Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa,BRIMS -  Behavior Representation In Modeling and Simulation (conference),BRL -  Brazilian real (ISO 4217 currency code),BRM -  Boyevaya Razvedyvatelnaya Mashina (Russian Боевая Разведывательная Машина, "Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle") †[2]
 BRN- Bahrain (IOC trigram, but not FIFA or ISO 3166), Brunei (ISO 3166 trigram),BRSB -  Battlefield Reasoning System Brianna,BRU -  Brunei (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166),BS[edit],bs -  Bosnian language (ISO 639-1 code)
 BS- The Bahamas (ISO 3166 digram),Bassas da India (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Bachelor of Science degree,British subject
 Bullshit-
@@ -627,7 +614,6 @@ CAN, Canada (ISO 3166 trigram)
 CANA, Convulsive Antidote, Nerve Agent
 CANDU, CANada Deuterium Uranium (nuclear reactor design)
 Canola, Canadian oil, low acid (referring to a specific cultivar of rapeseed bred to have a low erucic acid content)
-CAP- Combat Air Patrol,Civil Air Patrol,Common [Operating/Operational] Air Picture,Crisis Action Procedures,Common Agricultural Policy (European Union)
 CAPES- CAPability Evaluation System, Combined Arms Planning and Execution System
 CARE- Citizens Association for Racial Equality (former New Zealand organisation), Community database on Accidents on the Roads in Europe, Cooperative for Aid and Relief Everywhere (originally Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe)
 CARMONETTE, Computerized Monte Carlo Simulation
@@ -663,7 +649,6 @@ CBR, Case-Based Reasoning
 CBRN, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, or Nuclear (weapon or event)
 CBRNE, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear or [high-yield] Explosive (weapon or event)
 CBS- Columbia Broadcasting System,Corps Battle Simulation
-CBT- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Combat
 CBUS, Columbus, Ohio
 CC,many, including carbon copy; see entry
 CCA, Counter Command Activity
@@ -696,7 +681,6 @@ CCSCS, Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
 CCSIL, Command and Control Simulation Interface Language ("cecil")
 CCSK, Cyclic Code Shift Keying
 CCT, Current Commitments Team
-CCTT, Close Combat Tactical Trainer
 cd, Candela
 Cd, Cadmium
 CD,many, including Compact Disc; see entry
@@ -705,7 +689,6 @@ CDA, UK Centre for Defence Analysis
 CDC- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (originally (U.S.) Communicable Disease Center),Control Data Corporation,Cult of the Dead Cow
 CDD, Capabilities Development Document
 CDE, Chemical Defence Equipment
-CDEC, U.S. Combat Development Experimentation Center
 CDF- California Department of Forestry [and Fire Protection],Common Data Format, Democratic Republic of Congo franc congolais (ISO 4217 currency code)
 CDIAC, Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center ("see-dee-ack")
 CDipAF, Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance
@@ -738,7 +721,6 @@ CERN, Centre européen pour la recherche nucléaire (French, "European Organizat
 CERT, Computer Emergency Response Team
 ces, Czech language (ISO 639-2 code)
 CESS, Centre for Earth Science Studies (India)
-CEV- Combat Engineer Vehicle,Confédération européenne de volleyball (French, "European Volleyball Confederation"),Crew Exploration Vehicle
 CEWC,(a/i) Council for Education in World Citizenship
 Cf, Californium
 CF- Canadian Forces, Central African Republic (ISO 3166 digram),Republic of the Congo (FIPS 10-4 country code)
@@ -792,7 +774,6 @@ CHN, China (ISO 3166 trigram)
 CHOGM, Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
 CHP, California Highway Patrol,Combined Heat and Power
 CHPSO, California Hospital Patient Safety Organization
-CHS, Combat Health Support
 CHT, Certified Hand Therapist
 chu, Old Church Slavonic language (ISO 639-2 code)
 chv, Chuvash language (ISO 639-2 code)
@@ -804,16 +785,13 @@ CIAO- Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office,Component-Integrated ACE ORB
 CIB, Complete In Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
 CIBC, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
 CICS, Customer Information Control System (IBM mainframe software; "kicks" or "C-I-C-S")
-CID- Combat Identification, Criminal Investigation Division,Criminal Investigations Department
 CID,Certified Interior Designer,A Certified Interior Designer (CID) licensed in New York (USA) plans, designs, supervises and/or consults on various aspects of interior spaces.
 CIEF, Comité international d'enregistrement des fréquences (International Frequency Registration Board)
 CIF, Cost, Insurance, and Freight (Paid) (shipping)
-CIMIC, Civil-Military Co-operation
 CIMMYT,(a/i) Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz Y Trigo (Spanish, "International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center")
 CINC, Commander in Chief
 CINEOS, Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey
 CIO- Chief information officer,Congress of Industrial Organizations
-CIP, Combat Identification Panel
 CIPE, (European) Centre for International Political Economy
 CIR, (Commander's) Critical Information Requirements
 CIR, Corotating Interaction Region
@@ -823,7 +801,6 @@ CISB, Complete In Sealed Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
 CISPR, Comité international spécial des perturbations radioélectriques (Special International Committee on Radio Interference)
 CISSP, Certified Information Systems Security Professional
 CITES, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (of Wild Fauna and Flora) ("sigh-tease")
-CITS, Combat Identification Training System
 CIV, Côte d'Ivoire (ISO 3166 trigram)
 CIVETS, Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey, South Africa (economics)
 CIVPOP, Civilian Population
@@ -867,11 +844,8 @@ CMLL, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (Spanish, "Worldwide Wrestling Council"—M
 CMM, Capability Maturity Model
 CMMC, Corps Materiel Management Centre
 CMML- Chronic MyeloMonocytic Leukemia,Continuous Media Markup Language
-CMO, Civil-Military Operations
-CMOC, Civil-Military Operations Centre
 CMOS- Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society,(The) Chicago Manual of Style,Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
 CMP, Common [Operating/Operational] Maritime Picture
-CMP, Canadian Military Pattern truck (World War II)
 CMPD, Chronic Myeloproliferative Disease
 CMPD, Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department
 CMR- Cameroon (ISO 3166 trigram), Coaxial Main Rotors (helicopter type)
@@ -890,39 +864,25 @@ CNI, Communications, Navigation and Identification
 CNI, Clinical Nursing Intern
 CNN- Cable News Network,Cellular Nonlinear Network
 CNO, Computer Network Operations
-CNR- Canadian National Railway,Combat Net Radio
 CNV, Copy-Number Variable (genetics)
 CNY, Chinese yuan renminbi (ISO 4217 currency code)
 co, Corsican language (ISO 639-1 code)
 Co, Cobalt
-CO,many, including Central Office (phone company); see entry, Colorado (postal symbol), Commanding Officer (military)
-COA, Certificate/Concept Of Analysis,Course Of Action (military)
 COB, Close Of Business [day]
 COBRA,Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985
-COCOM, Combatant Command (military)
 COD, Cash On Delivery, Democratic Republic of the Congo (ISO 3166 trigram)
 CoDA, Co-Dependents Anonymous
 codec, Coder-Decoder / Compressor-Decompressor / Compression-Decompression algorithm
-COE, Cab Over Engine (see truck),Common Operating Environment (military)
-COEA, Cost Operational Effectiveness Analysis (military)
-COEIA, Combined Operational Effectiveness and Investment Appraisal (military)
-COFT, Conduct Of Fire Trainer (military)
-COG, Centre Of Gravity,Current Operations Group (military), Republic of the Congo (ISO 3166 trigram)
 COGENT, Cognitive Objects within a Graphical EnviroNmenT
 COIL, Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser
-COIN, Counter-Insurgency (military)
 COK, Cook Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
 COL, Colombia (ISO 3166 trigram)
 COLA, comp.os.linux.announce,Cost Of Living Adjustment
-COLT, Combat Observation and Lasing Team (military)
 COM, Comoros (ISO 3166 trigram), Component Object Model
 COMECON, Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (economic counterpart of the Warsaw Pact, 1949-1991)
-COMMZ, Communications Zone (military)
-COMSEC, Communications Security (military)
 CONAD, U.S. Continental Air Defense Command
 CONCACAF, Confederation Of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football
 CONMEBOL, Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol or Confederação Sul-Americana de Futebol (respectively Spanish and Portuguese for "South American Football Confederation")
-CONOPS, Concept of Operations (military)
 CONUS, Continental United States
 COO, Chief Operating Officer
 COP, Colombian peso (ISO 4217 currency code), Common Operating/Operational Picture
@@ -932,15 +892,12 @@ cor, Cornish language (ISO 639-2 code)
 CORBA, Common Object Request Broker Architecture
 CORD,(i/a) Common Operational Requirements Document
 CORE, Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education
-CORG, (U.S.) Combat Operations Research Group
 COROT, COnvection, ROtation and planetary Transits
 cos, Corsican language (ISO 639-2 code),Cosine
 COS, Cooper Ornithological Society
-COSCOM, Corps Support Command (military)
 COSER, COoperative SERvice
 CoT, Car of Tomorrow (former NASCAR race car design)
 COTS, Commercial Off The Shelf
-Coy, Company (military unit)Cow
 CP, Canadian Pacific,Check Point,Command Post,Club Penguin
 CPA, Certified Public Accountant
 CPAC, Conservative Political Action Conference,Cable Public Affairs Channel ("see-pack")
@@ -983,11 +940,8 @@ CRT- Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy,Cathode Ray Tube,Chinese Remainder Theore
 CRTC, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
 cs, Czech language (ISO 639-1 code)
 Cs, Caesium
-CS- Combat Support,Computer Scientist, Costa Rica (FIPS 10-4 country code),Serbia and Montenegro (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete since 2006)
 CSA- Canadian Soccer Association,Canadian Space Agency,Canadian Standards Association,Child Support Agency,Command Staff Advisor,Community-supported agriculture,Confederate States of America,Corps Storage Area, Czech Airlines,C/S/A, CINC, Service, and Agency
-CSAR, Combat Search and Rescue ("seessar")
 CSC- Closed Spacelike Curve (relativity),Compact system camera,Computer Sciences Corporation,Computer Security Centre,CSCC Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists
-CSEAL,(i/a) Combat Systems Engineering and Analysis Laboratory ("see-seal")
 CSERIAC, (U.S. DoD) Crew Systems Ergonomics Information Analysis Center
 CSG, Corps Support Group
 CSI,see entry
@@ -1001,13 +955,10 @@ CSR, Control Supply Rate
 CSR, Corporate Social Responsibility [1]
 CSRC, Conflict Studies Research Centre
 CSRF, Cross-Site Request Forgery
-CSS- Cascading Style Sheets,Catalina Sky Survey,Central Security Service,Combat Service Support,Confederate States Ship,Content-scrambling system,Cross-site scripting
-CSSCS, Combat Service Support Control System
 CST, Central Standard Time (UTC−6 hours)
 CT, Computed tomography (medical scan also known as a CAT scan),Central Time zone,Chrono Trigger (Computer/Video games), Connecticut (postal symbol),Canterbury (postal symbol),Chhattisgarh (Indian state code)
 CTA- Central African Republic (FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166 or IOC), Chicago Transit Authority, Comando-Geral de Tecnologia Aerospacial (Portuguese, [Brazilian] "General Command for Aerospace Technology")
 CTBT, Comprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty
-CTC, Closed Timelike Curve (relativity),(U.S.) Combat Training Center
 CTDB, Compact Terrain Data Base (file format)
 CTE- Canton and Enderbury Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1984), Chronic traumatic encephalopathy
 CTGF, connective tissue growth factor
@@ -1035,11 +986,8 @@ CuW, Copper-tungsten pseudo-alloy (from the chemical symbols of the two componen
 CUW, Curaçao (ISO 3166 trigram)
 cv, Chuvash language (ISO 639-1 code)
 CV,many, including curriculum vitae (résumé); see entry
-CVCC- Combat Vehicle Command and Control,Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion (1970s Honda automobile engine technology)
 CVE, Cape Verde escudo (ISO 4217 currency code)
-CVI, Combat Vehicle Identification
 CVLL, Crypto Variable Logic Label
-CVR, Cockpit Voice Recorder,Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance
 CVS, Concurrent Versions System
 CVSD, Continuous Variable Slope Delta (modulation)
 CVT, Continuously Variable Transmission
@@ -1054,7 +1002,6 @@ CY, Calendar year, Cyprus (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
 cym, Welsh language (ISO 639-2 code)
 CYM, Cayman Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
 CYP, Cyprus (ISO 3166 trigram),Cyprus pound (ISO 4217 currency code)
-CZ, Combat Zone, Czech Republic (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
 CZE, Czech Republic (ISO 3166 trigram)
 CZK, Czech koruna (ISO 4217 currency code)
 CZF, (Christian Zombie Fan)
@@ -1064,7 +1011,6 @@ D, Deuterium
 da, Danish language (ISO 639-1 code),deca
 DA, Denmark (FIPS 10-4 country code), Debtors Anonymous, U.S. Department of the Army,District Attorney
 DAB,Digital Audio Broadcasting
-DACT, Data Automated Communications Terminal,Dissimilar Air Combat Training
 DADVSI, Loi sur le droit d’auteur et les droits voisins dans la société de l’information (French, "Law on copyrights and related rights in the information society")
 DAES, Defence Acquisition Executive Summary,(UK MoD) Directorate of Analysis, Experimentation and Simulation
 DAF, Dissolved Air Flotation, a technique used in water treatment
@@ -1091,7 +1037,6 @@ DBCS, Double Byte Character Set
 DBDO, Desert BDO
 DBE, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
 DBF, Detection By Fire (weapon launch signature)
-DBM, De Bellis Multitudinis (miniature wargaming rules),Detection By Movement (military target)
 DBR, De Bellis Renationis (miniature wargaming rules)
 DBRA, Davis-Bacon Related Acts
 DBS, Direct Broadcast Services (television)
@@ -1100,14 +1045,12 @@ DCA, Defensive Counter Air,Drum Corps Associates, DiChloroAcetate, Ronald Reagan
 DCAA, (U.S.) Defense Contract Audit Agency
 DCAS, Devon and Cornwall Archery Society
 DCC, Dallas Christian College
-DCC, Digital Command Control (model railroading),Direct Client-to-Client (Internet Relay Chat),Dismounted Close Combat
 DCCP, Datagram Congestion Control Protocol
 DCD, [Organ] Donation after Cardiac Death
 DCE, Data Communication Equipment
 DCFC, Death Cab for Cutie
 DCI, Detection, Classification and Identification,Drum Corps International,Duellists' Convocation International, now known simply by the initials
 DCIM, Digital Camera Images
-DCIMS, Dental Classification Information Management System,Dismounted Combat Identification Marking System
 DCL,Disney Cruise Line
 DCN,Deacon
 DCOM,Disney Channel Original Movie
@@ -1131,7 +1074,6 @@ DEA, Drug Enforcement Administration
 DEA, Drug Enforcement Agency
 DEC,(a/i) Department of Environmental Conservation,Digital Equipment Corporation,Disasters Emergency Committee
 DeCA, (U.S.) Defense Commissary Agency
-DECSIM, Model DEComposition and SIMulation algorithm,Directed Energy Combat SIMulation
 DECT, Digital European Cordless Telephone
 DEFCON, Defence readiness condition
 DEFRA, (UK) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
@@ -1172,8 +1114,6 @@ DIA, U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency
 DIAC, Department of Immigration and Citizenship (Australia) [1]
 DiC,Design Island Centre (computing usually used in a teaching situation)
 DICASS, DIrectional Command Activated Sonobuoy System
-DILLIGAD, Do I Look Like I Give A Damn? (military shorthand, slightly less offensive than the following)
-DILLIGAF, Do I Look Like I Give A Fuck? (military shorthand)
 DIF, Data Interchange Format
 DIFAR, DIrectional Frequency Analysis and Recording
 DIME, Dense Inert Metal Explosive
@@ -1254,7 +1194,6 @@ DOE,(i/a) U.S. Department of Energy
 DOHC, Dual-OverHead-Cam engine
 DOI, Digital Object Identifier,U.S. Department of the Interior
 DOM, Deo optimo maximo (Latin, "to God, the best and greatest"), Document Object Model, Dominican Republic (ISO 3166 trigram)
-DOMS, (U.S.) Director of Military Support
 DOP, Dominican peso (ISO 4217 currency code)
 DORA, Defence of the Realm Act
 DOS, Denial of Service (DoS, cf. DDoS),Density of State,Disk Operating System
@@ -1311,7 +1250,6 @@ DSL, Digital Subscriber Line
 DSLR, Digital single-lens reflex (camera)
 DSM, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
 DSN, Deep Space Network
-DSO, Distinguished Service Order (British military decoration)
 dsp, decessit sine prole (Latin, "died without issue"),genealogy short-hand
 dspl, decessit sine prole legitima (Latin, "died without legitimate issue")
 dspm, decessit sine prole mascula [superstite] (Latin, "died without surviving male issue" )
@@ -1360,7 +1298,6 @@ DVP,various meanings (disambiguation page)
 dvp, decessit vita patris (Latin, "died in the lifetime of the father")
 dvu, decessit vita uxoris (Latin, "died in the lifetime of spouse")
 DW, Drum Workshop
-DWG, Divisional Wargame (military simulation)
 DWI, Dance With Intensity,Danish West Indies,Diffusion-weighted imaging,Direct water injection,Disaster Welfare Inquiry,Drinking Water Inspectorate,Driving While Intoxicated/Impaired
 DWM, Doctor Who Magazine
 DWIM, Do What I Mean
@@ -1391,7 +1328,6 @@ EBO,(i/a) Effects Based Operations,Encyclopædia Britannica Online,European Boar
 EBSA, Employee Benefits Security Administration
 EBW, Electron Beam Welding
 EBW, Exploding BridgeWire
-EC- Ecuador (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code), Electronic Combat,European Community (see EEC), Exacoulomb
 ECB- England (and Wales) Cricket Board,European Central Bank
 ECBR, European Coalition for Biomedical Research
 ECASS, European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences [1]
@@ -1414,7 +1350,6 @@ EDA, European Defence Agency
 EDAC, Error Detection And Correction
 EDCS, Environmental Data Coding Specification
 EDD- Earliest due date,Electron-detachment dissociation,Elena Delle Donne (American basketball player),Employment Development Department (California state agency),End-diastolic dimension,Expected Date of Delivery (pregnancy)
-EDECSIM, Extended Directed Energy Combat Simulation
 EDGAR, Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings database)
 EDH, Eastman Dental Hospital
 EDS- Electronic Data Systems,Electronic Differential System
@@ -1591,7 +1526,6 @@ ewe, Ewe language (ISO 639-2 code)
 EWR, Newark Liberty International Airport (IATA airport code)
 EWSD, Elektronisches Wählsystem Digital (German, "Electronic Digital Switching System")
 EWTN, Eternal Word Television Network
-EXFOR, Experimental Force (military)
 EXREP, Expeditious Repair (SM&R code)
 EYD-Ejaan Yang Disempurnakan (Indonesian, "Perfected Spelling System", used officially in Indonesia since 1972),Eurovision Young Dancers,EZ[edit]
 EZ, Czech Republic (FIPS 10-4 country code), Extraction Zone
@@ -1628,7 +1562,6 @@ FAPA,Fellow of the American Psychological Association
 FAPHA,Fellow of the American Public Health Association
 FAQ,(a/i) Frequently Asked Questions (sometimes pronounced "fak")
 FARC, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Spanish, "Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia")
-FARDC, "Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
 FARP, Forward Arming and Refuelling Point / Forward Area Rearm/refuel Point
 fas, Persian language (ISO 639-2 code)
 FAS, Federation of American Scientists,Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
@@ -1648,16 +1581,13 @@ FBR- Fast Breeder Reactor,Foundation for Biomedical Research,Friedman, Billings,
 FBS-Federal Bureau of Statistics (Pakistan),Fetal bovine serum,Football Bowl Subdivision (U.S. college football),Fukuoka Broadcasting Corporation,FC[edit]
 fC, Femtocoulomb
 FC- Fire Control,Football Club, Funnel Cloud (METAR Code)
-FCA- Fellowship of Christian Athletes,Fiat Chrysler Automobiles,Fraction of Combat Active forces
 FCC, U.S. Federal Communications Commission
 FCE, First Certificate in English
 FCF, Financial Free Cash Flow
 FCLA,Fraud Claims Law Associate
 FCM- Federation of Canadian Municipalities,Fogarty's Cove Music
 FCO, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
-FCS- Football Championship Subdivision (U.S. college football),Future Combat System
 FCW, Florida Championship Wrestling
-FCZ, Forward Combat Zone
 FD, Falun Dafa
 FDA, Food and Drug Administration (U.S.)
 FDC, Federal Detention Center (U.S.),Fire Direction Centre
@@ -1782,14 +1712,12 @@ FMJD, Fédération Mondiale du Jeu de Dames[2]
 FMLA, Family Medical Leave Act
 Fmr,Former (As in "Fmr. president")
 fMRI, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
-FMS- Federal Magistrates Service (an Australian federal court, now FMC), Flight Management System,Foreign Military Sales
 FMSF, False Memory Syndrome Foundation
 FMTV, Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles
 FMCG, (Fast Moving Consumer Goods)
 fN, Femtonewton
 FNA, Functional Needs Analysis
 fo, Faroese language (ISO 639-1 code)
-FO, Faroe Islands (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code), Force Operations (military),Forward Observer,Frame Optional (military symbology)
 FOAD, Fuck Off And Die
 FOAF, Friend Of A friend
 FoB, Free On Board (shipping)
@@ -1825,7 +1753,6 @@ Fr, Francium
 FR, France (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
 fra, French language (ISO 639-2 code)
 FRA- Federal Railroad Administration, France (ISO 3166 trigram)
-FRAGO, Fragmentary Order (military)
 FRAND, Fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (concept in standards-setting and intellectual property law)
 FRCP- Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
 FRICBM, Full Range ICBM
@@ -1838,7 +1765,6 @@ fry, West Frisian language (ISO 639-2 code)
 FRY, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
 fs, Femtosecond
 fS, Femtosiemens
-FS- Fire Support (military), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
 FSA- Fire Support Area,UK Food Standards Agency,Functional Solution Analysis
 FSB- Federal'naya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Rossiyskoi Federatsii (Федера́льная слу́жба безопа́сности Росси́йской Федера́ции, Russian "Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation", succeeded the FSK in 1995),Forward Support Battalion
 FSC- Federal Supply Classification, Forest Stewardship Council (ecological pressure group
@@ -1899,7 +1825,6 @@ G5, Generation Five PowerPC microprocessor, Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Public Aff
 G6, Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Information Technology, Group of 6 (France, Germany, United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Italy) (1975)
 G7, Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Training, Group of 7 (G6 + Canada) (1976)
 G8, Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Finance, Group of 8 (G7 + Russia) (1998)
-G9, Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Civil-Military Co-operation (CIMIC)
 G10, Group of 10 (G7 + Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland; numbering 11 in fact)
 G15, Group of 15 (subset of G77, formed 1989: Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Venezuela and Zimbabwe; currently numbers 17)
 G20, Group of 20 (G8 + Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey + current European Union presiding country) (1999)
@@ -2308,11 +2233,9 @@ HU, Hungary (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
 HUD,(i/a) Head-Up Display,Housing and Urban Development
 HUF, Hungarian forint (ISO 4217 currency code)
 HUHA, Head up his/her ass (Marine salute; probably a backcronym)
-HUMINT, Human Intelligence (military parlance)
 hun, Hungarian language (ISO 639-2 code)
 HUN, Hungary (ISO 3166 trigram)
 HURD, Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons (cf. Hird)
-HVU, High Value Unit (military)
 HV, Upper Volta (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1984)
 HVAC, Heating, ventilation and air conditioning Used in architecture, business and marketing; refers to a building's entire system of heating, moving, or cooling air.
 HVAP, High Velocity Armour Piercing (ammunition)
@@ -2539,7 +2462,6 @@ iq, idem quod (Latin, "the same as")
 IQ, Intelligence Quotient, Iraq (ISO 3166 digram)
 IQD, Iraqi dinar (ISO 4217 currency code)
 Ir, Iridium
-IR, Infrared,Intelligence requirement (military), Iran (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Iran Air (IATA alpha code) see entry for more
 IRA, Individual Retirement Account,Irish Republican Army (see also List of organisations known as the Irish Republican Army for groups claiming descent from this organisation)
 IRAD, Internal Research and Development
 IRAN,(I) Inspect and Repair As Necessary
@@ -2648,11 +2570,9 @@ J5, Joint Strategic Plans & Policy Directorate
 J6, Joint Information Technology Directorate (Command, Control, Communications & Computer Systems)
 J7, Joint Operational Plans & Interoperability Directorate
 J8, Joint Force Structure, Resources, & Assessment Directorate
-J9, Joint Public Affairs Directorate (Civilian-Military Cooperation)
 ja, Japanese language (ISO 639-1 code)
 JA, Japan (FIPS 10-4 country code)
 JAFT, Just A Field Test
-JAG, Judge Advocate General Corps (military law)
 JAL, Japan Airlines
 JALLC, Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre (NATO)
 JAM, Jamaica (ISO 3166 trigram)
@@ -2668,9 +2588,7 @@ JCATS, Joint Conflict And Tactical Simulation ("djay-catts")
 JCDB, Joint Common Data Base
 JCDS, Joint Chiefs of the Defence Staff
 JCIDS, Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System
-JCIET, Joint Combat Identification Evaluation Team
 JCL, Job Control Language
-JCMOTF, Joint Civil-Military Operations Task Force
 JCP, Java Community Process
 JCPM, Java Child Process Manager,Jesus Christ Prison Ministry
 JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
@@ -2908,7 +2826,6 @@ kV, Kilovolt
 KV, Kosovo
 KV, Kavminvodyavia (IATA airline designator), Kendriya Vidhyalaya (Indian school),Kliment Voroshilov (tanks),Köchel-Verzeichnis (Mozart catalogue),Valley of the Kings (originally "Kings' Valley")
 KVM, Keyboard, Video, Mouse switch
-KVT, Killer-Victim Table (military simulations)
 kw, Cornish language (ISO 639-1 code)
 kW, Kilowatt
 KW, Kuwait (ISO 3166 digram)
@@ -2922,7 +2839,6 @@ KYD, Cayman Islands dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
 KZ, Kazakhstan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
 KZN, KwaZulu-Natal
 KZT, Kazakh tenge (ISO 4217 currency code)
-L, Fifty (in Roman numerals), Label,Lap,Large,Laser (US military aircraft basic mission designation),Latin,Left, Litre, Low (transmissions)
 la, Latin language (ISO 639-1 code)
 La, Lanthanum
 LA- Laos (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Louisiana (postal symbol), Los Angeles
@@ -3156,8 +3072,6 @@ Ma, Megaannum
 MA- Madagascar (FIPS 10-4 country code), Marijuana Anonymous, Master of Arts,Massachusetts (postal symbol),Megaampere,Morocco (ISO 3166 digram)
 MAA, Mathematical Association of America
 MAAC, Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
-MAC- Macau (ISO 3166 trigram), U.S. Military Airlift Command (1966-1992),Mid-American Conference
-MACA, Military Aid to the Civil Authorities
 MACE, Multi-Agent Computing Environment
 MACHO, MAssive Compact Halo Object
 MAD- Magnetic Anomaly Detector, Moroccan dirham (ISO 4217 currency code), Mutual Assured Destruction
@@ -3184,13 +3098,11 @@ MARC- MAchine able Cataloging (often also defined as MAchine able Code),Mailing
 MARCENT, United States Marine Forces Central Command
 MARFORCC, Marine Force Component Commander
 MARRS, Martyn Young, Alex Ayuli, Rudy Tambala, Russell Smith, and Steve Young (British electronic music act)
-MAS, NATO Military Agency for Standardization
 MASAS, Monte Agliale Supernovae and Asteroid Survey
 Maser, Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
 MASH, Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
 MASINT, Measurement And Signature Intelligence
 MATREX, Modeling Architecture for Technology, Research & EXperimentation
-MATS, U.S. Military Air Transport Service (1948-1966)
 MAVS,(a/i) Mobile Artillery Vehicle System
 MAW, Malawi (IOC trigram, but not FIFA or ISO 3166)
 MAX, Meta-reasoning Architecture for "X"
@@ -3208,7 +3120,6 @@ MBT, Main Battle Tank
 MBTA, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority,Migratory Bird Treaty Act (U.S.)
 MBTI, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
 mC, Millicoulomb
-MC- Macau (FIPS 10-4 territory code), Master of Ceremonies, Megacoulomb, Military Cross (bravery award), Monaco (ISO 3166 digram), Mortar Carrier, Eleven Hundred (in Roman numerals)
 MCA- Master of Computer Applications,Micro Channel Architecture,MultiChannel Analyzer,Music Corporation of America, the original name of the now-defunct MCA Inc.
 MCC- Marylebone Cricket Club,Mission Control Center,Motor Control Center,Movement Control Centre
 MCD- Minimal Cerebral Dysfunction,Minor civil division (U.S. Census term)
@@ -3220,7 +3131,6 @@ MCIS, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
 MCM, Mine Counter-Measures
 MCMV, Mine Counter-Measure Vessel
 MCNC- Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, Mixing Condensation Nucleus Counter
-MCO- Major Combat Operation, Monaco (ISO 3166 trigram), Movement Control Officer
 MCP- Maintenance Collection Point,Male Chauvinist Pig
 MCR, My Chemical Romance
 MCSF, Marine Corps Security Forces
@@ -3228,7 +3138,6 @@ MCT, Movement Control Team
 MCTIS, Mounted Co-operative Target Identification System
 MCU- Marine Corps University,Marvel Cinematic Universe,Medium close-up (camera direction in British TV scripts), Microcontroller unit, Milk clotting units,Ming Chuan University,Minimum coded unit (digital imaging),Multipoint control unit,Municipal Credit Union (New York),MD[edit]
 Md, Mendelevium
-MD- Fifteen Hundred (in Roman numerals),Maryland (postal symbol), Medicinae Doctor (Doctor of Medicine/Medical Doctor),Mentioned in Dispatches (military), Moldova (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
 MDA- Main Defensive Action/Area, Moldova (ISO 3166 trigram),Muscular Dystrophy Association
 MDF- Main distribution frame,Medium-density fiberboard
 MDG- Madagascar (ISO 3166 trigram), UN Millennium Development Goal
@@ -3240,7 +3149,6 @@ MDO, Membership Driven Organisation
 MDP, Markov Decision Process
 MDT, Mountain Daylight Time (UTC-6 hours)
 MDV, Maldives (ISO 3166 trigram)
-MDW- Chicago Midway International Airport in Chicago (IATA airport code), Military District of Washington, Minnesota, Dakota and Western Railway (AAR reporting mark),ME[edit]
 Me, Messerschmitt
 ME, Maine (postal symbol), Mechanical engineer[ing],Medical examiner,Middle East, Middle East Airlines (IATA code), Memory Effect,Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
 MEA, Maine Educational Assessment,Middle East Airlines,Millennium Ecosystem Assessment,Minimum en route altitude,Mono-ethanol Amine,Multilateral Environmental Agreement
@@ -3301,35 +3209,26 @@ MHWS, Mean High Water Springs (nautical charts)
 MHz, Megahertz
 mi, Māori language (ISO 639-1 code)
 Mi, Mebi
-MI- Malawi (FIPS 10-4 country code),Michigan (postal symbol),Midway Islands (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1986), Military Intelligence
 MIA, Missing In Action
 MIAA- Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association,Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association,Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association,Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association
 MIB- Men In Black,Mint In Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
-MIC, Military Industrial Complex
 MICLIC, Mine Clearing Line Charge
 MICOM, Missile Command
-MICV, Mechanised Infantry Combat Vehicle
 MID, Midway Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1986)
 MIDI, Musical Instrument Digital Interface
 MIDAS, Man-machine Integration Design and Analysis System
 MIDS, Multi-Function Information Distribution System
-MIFC, Military Industrial Financial Complex
 MIFG, Shallow Fog (METAR Code)
-MIFPC, Military Industrial Financial Pharmaceutical Complex
 MIKE, Monitoring of Illegal Killing of Elephants
 MIL, Man-In-the-Loop
 MILAN, Missile d´infanterie léger antichar (French, "Anti-Tank Light Infantry Missile")
 MILC, Mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera
-MILES, Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (live combat simulation)
 MILF- Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Mother I'd Like to Fuck
-MILSATCOM, Military Satellite Communications
 MILSET, Mouvement International pour le Loisir Scientifique Et Technique (French, "International Movement for Leisure Activities in Science and Technology")
-MILSTRIP, Military Standard Requisitioning and Issue Procedure DLMSO MILSTRIP Manual
 MIMAROPA, Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, Palawan (a region in the Philippines)
 MIMOSA, MIcroMeasurements Of Satellite Acceleration
 MIMPT, Member of the Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists
 MIP- Multilateral Interoperability Programme,Multiple Identity Poster
-MIPC, Military Industrial Pharmaceutical Complex
 MIRA, MILAN Infra-Red Acquisition (thermal sight)
 MIRV, Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicle
 MIS- Management Information Systems,Museum Information System
@@ -3341,17 +3240,14 @@ MITS,see entry
 mJ, Millijoule
 MJ- Megajoule, Michael Jordan
 MJD, Modified Julian Day
-MJP, Military Judgement Panel
 mk, Macedonian language (ISO 639-1 code)
 mK, Millikelvin
-MK- Air Mauritius (IATA code),Macedonia (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code), Mandalskameratene (Norwegian football club), Megakelvin, Milton Keynes,Missionary Kids,Mortal Kombat (1992 video game),Mortal Kombat (2011 video game)
 mkd, Macedonian language (ISO 639-2 code)
 MKD- Macedonian denar (ISO 4217 currency code),Republic of Macedonia (ISO 3166 trigram)
 MKG, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (American basketball player)
 MKO, Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (Persian, "People's Mujahedin of Iran")
 MKS- Metre-Kilogram-Second (system of units), MKS Inc. software company
 MKSA, Metre-Kilogram-Second-Ampere (system of units)
-MKT- Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (1865-1989),Mortal Kombat Trilogy,ML[edit]
 ml, Malayalam language (ISO 639-1 code)
 mL, Millilitre
 ML- Mali (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram), Maximum Likelihood, Megalitre
@@ -3378,7 +3274,6 @@ MLWN, Mean Low Water Neaps (nautical charts)
 MLWS, Mean Low Water Springs (nautical charts)
 mm, Millimetre
 Mm, Megametre
-MM, Military Medal, Myanmar (ISO 3166 digram),Two Thousand (in Roman numerals)
 MMA, Mixed martial arts,Moving Mechanical Assembly
 MMC, Machinist's Mate, Chief (USN rating), Materiel Management Centre
 MMCM, Machinist's Mate, Master Chief (USN rating), Magnetic Mine Counter Measure
@@ -3422,7 +3317,6 @@ MoD, Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) and various other countries
 MOD, Magneto-optical disc,Masters of Deception,Minimum Object Distance,Multiple Organ Dysfunction
 MoDAF, Ministry of Defence Architecture Framework ("moh-daff")
 modem, Modulator-Demodulator
-ModSAF, Modular Semi-Automated Forces (military simulation)
 Moe, Marvel of entertainment
 MOE, Measure Of Effectiveness
 MOF,(a/i) Ministry of Finance (Japan)
@@ -3439,13 +3333,10 @@ MoMA, Museum of Modern Art (NYC)
 mon, Mongolian language (ISO 639-2 code)
 MOND, Modified Newtonian Dynamics
 MOO, Measure Of Outcome
-MOOTW, Military Operations Other Than War ("moot-double-you")
 MOP, Macau pataca (ISO 4217 currency code), Measure Of Performance
 MOPE, Ministry of Population and Environment (Nepal),Most Oppressed People Ever (politics)
 MOPP,(i/a) Mission-Oriented Protective Posture
 MORP, Meteorite Observation and Recovery Project
-MORS, Military Operations Research Society
-MOS, Military Occupational Specialty, Mit Out Sound / Motor Only Sync, Mobile Object System,Model Output Statistics,Multiplayer Online Services, Mean Opinion Score
 MOSFET, Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor
 MOSS, MObile Submarine Simulator, Moving Object Support System
 MOT, Ministry of Transport (UK)
@@ -3453,17 +3344,14 @@ MOTA, Member of the Orthodontic Technicians Association
 MOTESS, Moving Object and Transient Event Search System
 MOTO, Mail Order / Telephone Order,Master of the obvious
 MOU, Memorandum Of Understanding
-MOUT, Military Operations in Urban[ized] Terrain
 MOVES, Modeling, Virtual Environments, and Simulation Institute
 MOW, Maintenance of way (also MW)
 MOZ, Mozambique (ISO 3166 trigram)
-MP, Magic points, Mauritius (FIPS 10-4 country code), Member of Parliament,Military Police,Missouri Pacific, Northern Mariana Islands (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram)
 mPa, Millipascal
 MPa, Megapascal
 MPA, Maritime Patrol Aircraft,Master of Public Administration
 MPAA, Motion Picture Association of America
 MPC, Minor Planet Center,Minor Planet Circular
-MPC, Military Payment Certificate
 MPEC, Minor Planet Electronic Circular
 MPEG, Motion Pictures (Coding) Experts Group
 MPEV, Multi-Purpose Engineering Vehicle
@@ -3481,7 +3369,6 @@ MRAV, Multi-Role Armoured Vehicle
 MRBM, Medium Range Ballistic Missile
 MRC, Maintenance Requirements Card
 MRD, Motorized Rifle Division
-MRE, Meal y to Eat (U.S. military rations)
 MRGO, Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal (also referred to as MR-GO or "Mr. Go")
 MRGW, Medium-Range Guided Weapon
 mri, Māori language (ISO 639-2 code)
@@ -3502,8 +3389,6 @@ msa, Malay language (ISO 639-2 code)
 MSB- Main Support Battalion,Most Significant Bit (or Byte)
 MSD, Minimum Safe Distance
 MSDB, Multi Source Data Base
-MSDE- Maryland State Department of Education, Microsoft Data[base] Engine,Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine, Military Scenario Development Environment,Mission Simulation Dynamic Engine
-MSDL, Military Scenario Definition Language
 MSE, Multiple Subscriber Element
 MSEC, Message Security Encryption Code ("emm-sec")
 MSG- MonoSodium Glutamate,Madison Square Garden (either the 1879, 1890, 1925, or current versions of the venue)
@@ -3525,7 +3410,6 @@ MSU- Michigan State University,Montana State University,Mountain State Universit
 mt, Maltese language (ISO 639-1 code)
 mT, Millitesla
 Mt, Meitnerium
-MT- Malta (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Megatesla,Montana (postal symbol), Motor Transport (military)
 MTA- Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Boston) (now Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority),Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York)
 MTBF, Mean time between failures
 MtF, Male-to-female transsexual
@@ -3535,7 +3419,6 @@ MTL- Maltese lira (ISO 4217 currency code), Mean Tide Level (nautical charts)* M
 MTOE, Modified Table of Organization and Equipment ("emm-toe")
 MTP- Maritime Tactical Publication,Materiel Transfer Plan,Mission Training Plan
 MTQ, Martinique (ISO 3166 trigram)
-MTR- Main and Tail Rotor (helicopter type),Mass Transit Railway (Hong Kong metro system),Military-Technological Revolution
 MTS- Maintenance Training System,Manitoba Telecom Services,Michigan Terminal/Timesharing System,Movement Tracking System,Multichannel television sound,Multi-Technical Services
 MTT, Methylthiazol tetrazolium (assay)
 MTU, Tankovei Mostoukladchik (Russian Танковый Мостоукладчик, "Tank Bridge-Layer") †
@@ -3543,7 +3426,6 @@ MTV- MainosTeleVisio (Finnish commercial TV company),Music TeleVision
 MTVL, Mobile Tracked Vehicle, Light
 MTWS, MAGTF Tactical Warfare System
 MU, Mauritius (ISO 3166 digram),Oman (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Muscat)
-MUA, Meritorious Unit Award,Military Utility Assessment
 MUR, Mauritius rupee (ISO 4217 currency code)
 MUS, Mauritius (ISO 3166 trigram)
 mV, Millivolt
@@ -3704,7 +3586,6 @@ NED, Netherlands (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
 NECTEC, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (Thailand)
 NEI, National Eye Institute,Not Enough Information,Nuclear Energy Institute
 NEMS, National Energy Modeling System (USDOE-EIA)
-NEO- Near-Earth Object,Non-combatant Evacuation Operations
 nep, Nepali language (ISO 639-2 code)
 NEPA, National Environmental Policy Act
 NER, Niger (ISO 3166 trigram)
@@ -3969,7 +3850,6 @@ OAU, Organization for African Unity
 ob, obiit (Latin, " he died")
 OB, Obedience,Obligation,Obligatory,Obsolete,Obstetrics, Ocean Beach (California),Off Break (cricket),Old Bryanstonian,Order of Battle,Outlet Box (electrical), Overbought (stock market), Oversight Board
 OBE, Officer of the Order of the British Empire
-OBJ, Objective (military parlance)
 OBS, Observation/Observer,Obsolete,Obstacle, Off Balance Sheet,Optical Burst Switching (IEEE),Organic Brain Syndrome,Organization(al) Breakdown Structure
 OBSS, Off Board Sensor Systems,Ordo Byantinus Sancti Sepulchri (Byzantine Order of the Holy Sepulchre),Orbiter Boom Sensor System (space shuttle),Origins Billion Star Survey
 OBX, Outer Banks (North Carolina)
@@ -3980,7 +3860,6 @@ OCD, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
 OCFS, Oracle Cluster File System
 OCFS2, Oracle Cluster File System Release 2
 oci, Occitan language (ISO 639-2 code)
-OCIDS, Optical Combat Identification System
 OCMCC, [2] Orchard County MCC
 OCN, Oncology Certified Nurse
 OCO, Oort Cloud Object
@@ -4343,14 +4222,11 @@ pm, picometre
 Pm, petametre,Promethium
 PM, Panama (FIPS 10-4 country code), Perry Mason,Phase Modulation,Post Meridiem (Latin "after noon"),Prime Minister,Project Manager, Saint Pierre and Miquelon (ISO 3166 digram)
 PMC, Primary Motor Cortex
-PMCS, Partial Mission Capable Supply (SM&R code),Power Management Control System,Professional Military Comptroller School
-PME, Professional Military Education
 PMI, Positive Material Identification
 PMID, PubMed Identifier
 PMMA, PolyMethylMethAcrylate
 PMOS,(i/a) P-type/Positive Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor transistor ("pee-moss")
 PMS, Premenstrual Syndrome
-PMSC, NATO Political-Military Steering Committee on Partnership for Peace
 PMSL, Piss Myself Laughing (Internet shorthand)
 PMT,Premenstrual Tension (UK) (see Premenstrual Syndrome)
 pN, piconewton
@@ -4571,7 +4447,6 @@ RATELO, Radiotelephone Operator
 Rb, Rubidium
 RB, Running Back (football)
 RBAR, Row By Agonizing Row,a derogatory way of describing a technique of scanning a set of records in a database to update or examine the contents of each one. This is the technique of last resort in most cases, since most database operations are optimized when using set based analysis instead of the RBAR method.
-RBCI, Radio Based Combat Identification
 RBI, Runs Batted In
 RBOC,(a/i) Regional Bell Operating Company ("Baby Bell")
 RC,see entry
@@ -4585,7 +4460,6 @@ RCMP, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
 RCRA, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ("reck-ra" or "rick-ra")
 RCS- Radar Cross-Section,Reaction Control System,Revision Control System
 RCT- Randomized Controlled Trial,Robotically Controlled Telescope,Rugby club toulonnais (French, "Rugby Club of Toulon")
-RCZ, Rear Combat Zone
 RD,Radio Disney
 RDA- Research, Development, and Acquisition,Recommended Daily Allowance (Nutrition)
 RDD, Radiological Dispersion Device
@@ -4611,7 +4485,6 @@ RESNA, Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North Amer
 REU, Réunion (ISO 3166 trigram)
 Rf, Rutherfordium
 RF, Radio Frequency,Receptive Field (neurophysiology)
-RFA, Restrictive Fire Area (military),Royal Field Artillery
 RFC, Request for Comments,Royal Flying Corps (WWI precursor to RAF)
 RFD, Request for Documentation
 RFE, Request for Evaluation
@@ -4620,7 +4493,6 @@ RFF, Right of First Refusal (legal term)
 RFI, y For Inspection,y For Issue,Request For Information,Radio Frequency Interference
 RFID, Radio Frequency IDentification
 RFL, Rugby Football League
-RFL, Restrictive Fire Line (military)
 RFP, Request for Proposal
 RFQ, Request for Quotation
 RFT, Request for Tender
@@ -4663,9 +4535,7 @@ RLS, Restless Leg Syndrome
 RLY, Rally Point
 RM,see separate disambiguation page
 rm, Raeto-Romansh language (ISO 639-1 code)
-RMA, Return Mailing Authorization,Revolution in Military Affairs,Rachel McAdams
 RMC, Robert Menzies College
-RMC,(ii) Royal Military College (Australia, Canada, UK)
 RMDA, Records Management and Declassification Agency
 RMP, Recognised [Operating/Operational] Maritime Picture
 RMS, Rate-Monotonic Scheduling,Richard M. Stallman,Root-Mean-Square,Royal Mail Ship (e.g. RMS Titanic)
@@ -4789,17 +4659,14 @@ SAT- formerly Scholastic Aptitude Test and Scholastic Assessment Test; now known
 SAW- Squad Automatic Weapon,Surface acoustic wave,SAWE —  Society of Allied Weight Engineers,SB[edit],Sb —  Antimony (Latin Stibium)
 SB- Sexy Bitch,Sexy Bastard,Sexy Boy (disambiguation), Solomon Islands (ISO 3166 digram), Special Warfare Boat Operator
 SBA- Santa Barbara Airport,Simulation-Based Acquisition,Sovereign Base Area,Student bar association,SBB —  German for the Swiss Federal Railways
-SBC- Sensotronic Brake Control,Single-Board Computer,Southern Baptist Convention,SBCCOM —  U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command (disbanded 2003),SBCS —  Single-Byte Character Set,SBCT —  Stryker Brigade Combat Team
 SBD- Solomon Islands dollar (ISO 4217 currency code),Silent But Deadly
 SBNO, Standing but not operating (in reference to amusement parks)
 SBP- Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (Filipino, "Basketball Federation of the Philippines"),U.S. School Breakfast Program,Society of Business Practitioners,State Bank of Pakistan
 SBS- Special Boat Service,Special Broadcasting Service,Seoul Broadcasting System
 SBW- Sonny Bill Williams (New Zealand dual-code rugby player),SC[edit],sc —  Sardinian language (ISO 639-1 code),Sc —  Scandium
 SC- Cruiser Submarine (US Navy hull classification) c Saint Kitts and Nevis (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Saint Christopher),Seychelles (ISO 3166 digram),South Carolina (postal symbol)
-SCA- Service Contract Act,Sexual Compulsives Anonymous,Society for Creative Anachronism,SCAP —  Supreme Commander Allied Powers (Allied occupation of Japan),sccm —  Standard cubic centimetre per minute (unit of measurement of fluid flow),sccs —  Standard cubic centimetre per second (unit of measurement of fluid flow),scfh —  Standard cubic foot per hour (unit of measurement of fluid flow),scfm —  Standard cubic foot per minute (unit of measurement of fluid flow),scfs —  Standard cubic foot per second (unit of measurement of fluid flow),SCG —  Serbia and Montenegro (ISO 3166 trigram; defunct since 2006),SCHIMS —  Soldier Combat Helmet Identification Marking System,SCHIP —  State Children's Health Insurance Program (U.S.; often pronounced "ess-chip"),SciFi — Science Fiction,sCJD —  Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease,SCM —  Surface Contamination Module,SCMODS —  State, County, Municipal Offender Data System,SCN —  Suprachiasmatic Nucleus,SCNT —  Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer
 SCO- Santa Cruz Operation (initials later used by SCO Group), Scotland (FIFA trigram; not eligible for an ISO 3166 or IOC trigram), Shanghai Cooperation Organization,SCOTUS —  Supreme Court of the United States,SCR —  Seychelles rupee (ISO 4217 currency code),SCRAM —  Safety Control Rod Axe Man
 SCS- Scan Correlated Shift,Soil Conservation Service
-SCSI- Small Computer System Interface (“scuzzy”), Strategic and Combat Studies Institute,SCT —  Scattered Sky (METAR Code),SCTP —  Stream Control Transmission Protocol,Scuba —  Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus,SCUF — Slow Continuous Ultrafiltration,SCUFN —  Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (of GEBCO),SD[edit],sd —  Sindhi language (ISO 639-1 code)
 SD- Secure Digital (memory card format),Sheriff's department,Smoke/Decontamination, South Dakota (postal symbol),Sudan (ISO 3166 digram)
 SDC- Shaft Driven Compressor,U.S. Army Strategic Defense Command (1985-1992),SDG —  Sudanese pound (ISO 4217 currency code),SDG —  Sum Dum Goy,greasy spoon chinese restaurant,SDH —  Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
 SDHC, Secure Digital High Capacity
@@ -4827,7 +4694,6 @@ SIP- Session Initiation Protocol,State Implementation Plan,System Improvement Pr
 Siri, Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface (Apple iOS software)
 SIRI, Service Interface for Real Time Information
 SISO- Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization,Society of Independent Show Organizers,SIW —  Simulation Interoperability Workshop,SIYSS —  Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar,SJ[edit]
-SJ- Svalbard and Jan Mayen (ISO 3166 digram), Societas Iesu (Latin: The Society of Jesus, the Jesuit order), Statens Järnvägar (Swedish State Railways),SJA —  Staff Judge Advocate (military law),SJC —  Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (note: the highest court in the state of Maine is also called the Supreme Judicial Court),SJM —  Svalbard and Jan Mayen (ISO 3166 trigram),SK[edit],sk —  Slovak language (ISO 639-1 code)
 SK- Saskatchewan (postal symbol),Slovakia (ISO 3166 digram),SKC —  Clear Sky (METAR Code),SKK —  Slovak koruna (ISO 4217 currency code),SKM —  Sikkim (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1975),SL[edit],sl —  Slovene language (ISO 639-1 code)
 SL- Sierra Leone (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram), Start Line
 SLA- Service Level Agreement,Symbionese Liberation Army,SLAA —  Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous,SLAC —  Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,SLAN —  sine loco, anno, nomine (Latin, “without place, year, or name”),SLAPP —  Strategic lawsuit against public participation,SLB —  Solomon Islands (ISO 3166 trigram),SLBM —  Sea/Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile,SLC —  Scan Line Corrector,SLE —  Sierra Leone (ISO 3166 trigram),SLI/SLi,(i/s) Scan-Line Interleave,Scalable Link Interface,SLIT —  SubLingual ImmunoTherapy,slk —  Slovak language (ISO 639-2 code),SLL —  Sierra Leone leone (ISO 4217 currency code),SLO —  Slovenia (IOC trigram, but not FIFA or ISO 3166)
@@ -4836,7 +4702,6 @@ SLP- Sea Level Pressure, Super Long Play,slph —  Standard litre per hour (air
 SLT- Single Lens Translucent, Speech and language therapist, Solid Logic Technology (electronics),Swing Landing Trainer (paratroops),Secondary lymphoid tissue,slv —  Slovenian language (ISO 639-2 code),SLV —  El Salvador (ISO 3166 trigram),SM[edit],sm —  Samoan language (ISO 639-1 code),Sm —  Samarium
 SM- Sado-Masochism, San Marino (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram), Soldier's Manual, Submarine Minelayer (US Navy hull classification),SMA —  Scan Mirror Assembly,SMART —  Subject Matter And Requirements Team,SMASS —  Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey,SMCT —  Soldier's Manual of Common Tasks,SMD —  Surface Mount Device,SMDR —  Station Message Detail Recording,sme —  Northern Sami language (ISO 639-2 code)
 SME- Scan Mirror Electronics,Subject Matter Expert
-SMG- Sequential Motorsport Gearbox,SubMachine Gun,SMH —  Shaking My Head,SMil —  Sadomasochisterne i landet (Danish SM organisation),SMIL —  Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language,smo —  Samoan language (ISO 639-2 code),SMP —  Standard Military Pattern,SM&R —  Source, Maintenance, and Recoverability,SMR —  San Marino (ISO 3166 trigram),SMS — many, including: Short message service; see entry,SMTP —  Simple Mail Transfer Protocol,SMU —  Southern Methodist University
 SMX-many, including:  Server Macro Expansion, Solaris MINIX, Spatial multiplexing, Sulfamethoxazole; see entry
 SMZ-many, including:  Silver Mt. Zion, Sulfamethazine, Sulfamethoxazole; see entry,SN[edit],sn —  Shona language (ISO 639-1 code),Sn —  Tin (Latin Stannum)
 SN- Senegal (ISO 3166 digram),Singapore (FIPS 10-4 country code),Snow (METAR Code),SuperNova,Screen Name,sna —  Shona language (ISO 639-2 code),SNAFU —  “Situation Normal — All Fouled/Fucked Up”,SNAP —  Supernova/Acceleration Probe,SNCB —  Société nationale des chemins de fer de Belgique (French for “Belgian Railways National Society”, NMBS in Dutch),SNCF —  Société nationale des chemins de fer français (French for “French Railways National Society”),snd —  Sindhi language (ISO 639-2 code),SND —  Standard Nomenclature Database,SNE —  Synthetic Natural Environment,SNES — Super Nintendo Entertainment System,SNÉTA —  Syndicat national pour l'étude des transports aériens (French for “Aerial transport Study National Syndicate”, 1919-1923),SNG —  Satellite News Gathering (television)
@@ -4857,7 +4722,6 @@ SOR- State Of iness,Statement Of Requirements
 SOS- Somali shilling (ISO 4217 currency code),Save Our Souls,SOSTAR —  Stand-Off Surveillance and Target Acquisition Radar,sot —  Sotho language (ISO 639-2 code),SOUTHAG —  Southern Army Group,SOUTHCOM —  (U.S.) Southern Command,SOV —  Single Occupant Vehicle,SOW —  Statement Of Work,SOWHAT —  RESNA Subcommittee on Wheelchairs and Transportation,SOX —  Sarbanes-Oxley Act,SP[edit]
 Sp- Special,Spring tide (nautical charts), sine prole (Latin, “without offspring”)
 SP- Security Police,Self-Propelled,Shore Patrol, Spain (FIPS 10-4 country code), Start Point,Strong Point,spa —  Spanish language (ISO 639-2 code),SPAAG —  Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Gun,SPACECOM —  (U.S.) Space Command,Spaser —  Surface plasmon amplification by stimulated emission of radiation,SPC —  Secretariat of the Pacific Community,SPCO —  Single-Pole Change Over
-SPD- Shimano Pedaling Dynamics,Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Social Democratic Party of Germany),SPDT —  Single-Pole Double-Throw,SPEAC —  Stop Primate Experiments at Cambridge (later became SPEAK),SPECTRE — SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion,SPEED —  Subsistence Preparation by Electronic Energy Diffusion (early military microwave oven),SPIE —  originally the Society for Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (“SPIE — The International Society for Optical Engineering” 1981-2007, “SPIE” since 2007)
 SPL- Scottish Premier League,Superior Parietal Lobule,Sound Pressure Level,SPM —  Saint Pierre and Miquelon (ISO 3166 trigram),SPOD — (a/i) Sea Port of Debarkation,SPOE — (a/i) Sea Port of Embarkation,SPOT —  Satellite pour l'observation de la Terre (French, “Satellite for Earth Observation”),SPQR —  Senatus Populusque Romanus (Latin “The Senate and the People of Rome”),sps —  sine prole superstite (Latin, “without surviving issue”),SPS —  Standard Positioning Service (GPS),SPST —  Single-Pole Single-Throw,SQ[edit],sq —  Albanian language (ISO 639-1 code),SQ —  Sound Quality,SQ —  Standard Quality,sqi —  Albanian language (ISO 639-2 code),SQL — (i/a) Structured Query Language (“seek-well”),SQUID —  Superconducting QUantum Interference Device,SR[edit],sr —  Serbian language (ISO 639-1 code),Sr —  Strontium
 SR- Sound Reinforcement,Supply Route, Suriname (ISO 3166 digram), Sveriges Radio (Swedish Radio Ltd),SR —  Sustained release of a drug
 SRAM- Scott (King), Ray (Day), SAM (Patterson) — founders of bicycle component manufacturer SRAM Corporation, Static Random Access Memory (“ess-ram”),SR-ATGW —  Short-Range Anti-Tank Guided Weapon,SRB —  Solid Rocket Booster,SRBM —  Short-Range Ballistic Missile (cf. IRBM, ICBM),SRC —  Scheduled Removal Component,srd —  Sardinian language (ISO 639-2 code)
@@ -4907,7 +4771,6 @@ TAACOM, U.S. Theater Army Area Command
 TAADCOORD, Theatre Army Air Defence Co-ordinator
 TAAR, Trace Amine-Associated Receptor
 TAC, U.S. Tactical Air Command (1946-1992)
-TACAMO, Take Charge and Move Out (U.S. military)
 TACAN, Tactical Air Navigation
 TACC, Tactical Air Control Centre,(USAF) Tanker Airlift Control Center
 TACCO, Tactical Coordinator
@@ -4986,7 +4849,6 @@ TEETH, Tried Everything Else, Try Homeopathy (medical diagnosis in-joke)
 tel, Telugu language (ISO 639-2 code)
 TEL,(a/i) Transporter, Erector and Launcher
 TELAR, Transporter, Erector, Launcher And Radar
-TEMO, Training, Exercise, and Military Operations
 TENCAP, Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities
 TERS, Tactical Event Reporting System
 TES, Tactical Event System
@@ -5197,7 +5059,6 @@ UBC, United Baptist Church,University of British Columbia
 UBIGEO, Ubicación Geografica (Spanish for Geographical Location)
 UBS, Unbundled Bitstream Services,United Bank of Switzerland,United Banque Suisse
 UCBSA, United Cricket Board of South Africa
-UCAV,(a/i) Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle
 UCF, University of Central Florida
 UCI, Union Cycliste Internationale (French, "International Cycling Union"),University of California, Irvine
 UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles