Acronym Finder helps you make sense of the senseless

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Acronym Finder helps you make sense of the senseless

by Brad Linder Jun 27th 2008

Ever wonder what FISA, NSA, or AFL-CIO stand for? Sure, you know they're acronyms, but each letter's supposed to mean something, right? Acronym Finder can help you figure out what acronyms mean. It's sort of like an online dictionary, but instead of typing in words and getting definitions, you type in a series of letters and get a series of words.

Of course, knowing that AFL-CIO stands for American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations doesn't necessarily help you figure out exactly what the organization does.

And like any good internet tool, you don't have to use Acronym Finder for its intended purpose. You can type in your initials and see what organizations or technical terms share a set of letters with you. There are more than 4million acronyms and abbreviations in the database.

[via MakeUseOf]

Tags: acronym-finder, acronyms

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

chris joseph said 12:47PM on 6-27-2008

didn't you mean to look up "DSL"?

Todd said 1:24PM on 6-27-2008

(D)own (L)oad (S)quad

Keifari said 2:13PM on 6-27-2008

I think they were making a joke how Download Squad wasn't one of the choices, at least that is what I thought.

chris joseph said 6:29PM on 6-27-2008

think about it guys... I was making a joke.

look up D S L

ronin691 said 1:23PM on 6-27-2008

RE: DLS - GOOG WKLY REP is FUBAR, WTF?

Todd said 1:23PM on 6-27-2008

RE: DLS - GOOG WKLY REP is FUBAR, WTF?

Chris Slaughter said 9:47PM on 6-27-2008

(D)ick (S)ucking (L)ips

EvB said 6:25AM on 7-01-2008

Only problem is that "DLS", "NSA" and the like are abbreviations, not acronyms. "FISA" is an acronym (as well as an abbreviation). What's the difference? I'll save you a trip to a good dictionary: acronyms are meant to be easily pronounceable abbreviations. Unpronounceable ones like "DLS" can't be acronyms.

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