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Abbreviation Organization or personnel CAD: Canadian Association of the Deaf: CAEP: Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians: CAG: Canadian Association of Gerontology: CAMT: Canadian Association of Music Therapy: CAMTS: Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems: CAO: Canadian Association of Optometrists: CAOT
The Billiard Association of America was known as BA of A; while this should not be written as unsourceable variations like BAofA or BAA, the awkwardness of the abbreviation to modern eyes can be reduced by replacing the full-width spaces with thin-space characters: BA{{thinsp}}of{{thinsp}}A or BA of A gives BA of A, which better ...
Association may refer to: Club (organization) , an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal Trade association , an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry
The sport's full name association football has never been widely used, although in Britain some clubs in rugby football strongholds adopted the suffix Association Football Club (A.F.C.) to avoid confusion with the dominant sport in their area, and FIFA, the world governing body for the sport, is a French-language acronym of "Fédération ...
The AAPC, previously known by the full title of the American Academy of Professional Coders, [4] is a professional association for people working in specific areas of administration within healthcare businesses in the United States. [5]
The style guides of the Modern Language Association [54] and American Psychological Association [55] [56] prohibit apostrophes from being used to pluralize acronyms regardless of periods (so "compact discs" would be "CDs" or "C.D.s"), whereas The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage requires an apostrophe when pluralizing all abbreviations ...
ASEAN: the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, a regional organisation comprising ten Southeast Asian states; ASEAN+3: the ASEAN countries, plus China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). [4] ASEAN+5: the ASEAN countries with Japan, India, Australia, South Korea and New Zealand. ASEAN+6 along with China. [5] [6] [7] [8]
An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning "short" [1]) is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method including shortening, contraction, initialism (which includes acronym) or crasis. An abbreviation may be a shortened form of a word, usually ended with a trailing period. For example: etc. is the usual abbreviation for et cetera.