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Implementation is defined as a specified set of activities designed to put into practice an activity or program of known dimensions. [1] According to this definition, implementation processes are purposeful and are described in sufficient detail such that independent observers can detect the presence and strength of the "specific set of activities" related to implementation.
SMS—Short Message Service; SMS—System Management Server; SMT—Simultaneous Multithreading; SMTP—Simple Mail Transfer Protocol; SNA—Systems Network Architecture; SNMP—Simple Network Management Protocol; SNTP—Simple Network Time Protocol; SOA—Service-Oriented Architecture; SOAP—Simple Object Access Protocol; SOAP—Symbolic ...
Linguist David Wilton in Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends claims that "forming words from acronyms is a distinctly twentieth- (and now twenty-first-) century phenomenon. There is only one known pre-twentieth-century [English] word with an acronymic origin and it was in vogue for only a short time in 1886.
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An acronym is sometimes considered to be an initialism that is pronounced as a word (e.g. NATO), as distinct from an initialism pronounced as a string of individual letters (e.g. "UN" for United Nations). In this document the term acronym includes initialisms. The term word acronym can be used to refer to acronyms which are not initialisms.
The short word rule dates from the Early Modern English period. In Old English, inflections increased the length of most content words in any case. Through to the seventeenth century, before English spelling was firmly settled, short forms for some content words did occur, such as eg (egg), ey (eye), lo (low), etc.