Abreviations and Acronyms

With this trivia, guild members made sure they knew their acronyms!

Date: March 5, 1999
Winner: Alieron
Participants: Alieron, Jedahs, Khradan, Kruul, Merraxyle
Author: Adelard

Single:
UV (Physics) Ultra violet
IBM (computers) International Business Machine
www (computers) World Wide Web
O (Chemical element) Oxygen
GM (Corporate) General Motors
NAFTA (economics) North American Free Trade Agreement
APC (military) armoured personnel carrier
AAA (military) anti-aircraft artillery
brb (computers) be right back

Double:
CRT (computers) cathode ray tube
SDI (military) Strategic Defense Initiative
K (chemical element) potassium
iff (math) if and only if
c (physics constant) speed of light
HMS (title) Her Majesty's Ship
GDP (economics) Gross Domestic Product
Ph. D. (title) Doctor of Philosophy
ln (math) natural logarithm
Au (chemical element) gold

Triple:
CANDU (physics) Canada Deuteurium-Uranium
laser (physics) light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
EMR (physics) electromagnetic radiation
det (math) determinant
WYSIWYG (computers) What you see is what you get
CB (Radio) Citizens Band
Sn (chemical element) Tin
radar (radio detection and ranging)
SOB (medical) Shortness of breath

Final:
QCD (physics)

Quantum Chromodynamics
The Theory of strong interactions that describes the interactions of
fundamental quarks that combine to make up protons and neutrons.

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