Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of acronyms in the Philippines. [1] They are widely used in different sectors of Philippine society. Often acronyms are utilized to shorten the name of an institution or a company.
The word acronym is formed from the Greek roots akro-, meaning 'height, summit, or tip', and -nym, 'name'. [6] [unreliable source] This neoclassical compound appears to have originated in German, with attestations for the German form Akronym appearing as early as 1921. [7]
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.
It has been a very influential and powerful tool in the Philippines, where in 2008 the average user sent 10–12 text messages a day. The same year, the Philippines alone sent on average over 1 billion text messages a day, [ 26 ] more than the annual average SMS volume of the countries in Europe, and even China and India.
Kim takes calls and dispenses advice on today's digital lifestyle, from smartphones and tablets to online privacy and data hacks. For her daily tips, free newsletters and more, visit her website.
This is the informational equivalent of two newspaper pages per person per day in 1986, and six entire newspapers per person per day by 2007. [38] Given this growth, telecommunications play an increasingly important role in the world economy and the global telecommunications industry was about a $4.7 trillion sector in 2012.
In 2002, 16 years after his last NBA coaching job, Brown, at age 69, was hired by the Memphis Grizzlies after Sidney Lowe was dismissed following an 0-8 start.
Patel also was involved in efforts to bring some of the most-wanted terrorists to the U.S. for prosecution, and worked on Trump administration efforts to return dozens of U.S. hostages back home.