https://blogengine.ru/blogs/tags/abbreviations/ Автоматически собираемая лента заметок, написанных в блогах на Эгее ru Aegea 11.0 (v4079e) Автоматически собираемая лента заметок, написанных в блогах на Эгее no 127964 https://robertblinov.net/blog/all/acronyms/ Sun, 23 Jun 2019 18:45:47 +0500 Robert https://robertblinov.net/blog/all/acronyms/ <p><a href="https://robertblinov.net/blog/">Robert</a>:</p> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="e2-text-table"> <tr> <td><b>Acronym or abbreviation</b></td> <td><b>Full meaning</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td>AliExpress</td> <td>Alibaba Express</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Amtrak</td> <td>American track</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Gerrymandering</td> <td>Gerry salamandering</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Grade A Under A</td> <td>Grade A. Underachiever</td> </tr> <tr> <td>HBO</td> <td>Home Box Office</td> </tr> <tr> <td>HQ</td> <td>Hype Quiz</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Instagram</td> <td>Instant telegram</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pac-Man</td> <td>Program and control Man</td> </tr> <tr> <td>PCalc</td> <td>Programmer’s calculator</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pixelmator</td> <td>Pixel + mater (to mate)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Qualcomm</td> <td>Quality communications</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Skype</td> <td>Sky peer-to-peer → Skyper → Skype</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Tanzania</td> <td>Tanganyika & Zanzibar</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Uniqlo</td> <td>Unique clothing</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Velcro</td> <td>Velours crochet</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Verizon</td> <td>Veritas horizon</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Walmart</td> <td>Walton-mart</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Yandex</td> <td>Yet another indexer</td> </tr> </table> <p>The more you know.</p> 121540 https://robertblinov.net/blog/all/si-csi/ Sun, 28 Oct 2018 21:35:25 +0500 Robert https://robertblinov.net/blog/all/si-csi/ <p><a href="https://robertblinov.net/blog/">Robert</a>:</p> <p>For some weird reason the abbreviation for sine is <i>sin</i> and <i>cos</i> for cosine. This is madness compared to the beautiful and logical abbreviation for tangent and cotangent: <i>tg</i> and <i>ctg</i> respectively.</p> <p>My proposal:</p> <div class="e2-text-table"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tr> <td>sine</td> <td>si</td> </tr> <tr> <td>cosine</td> <td>csi</td> </tr> <tr> <td>tangent</td> <td>tg</td> </tr> <tr> <td>cotangent</td> <td>ctg</td> </tr> </table> </div> <p>Quite obviously, I submitted them to my local ISO representative for review.</p>