Nasional Berhad. In Jawi, however, initialisms differ depending on the source language. For Malay initialisms, the initial Jawi letters would be written separated...

In a written or published work, an initial is a letter at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text...

initialization in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Initialization may refer to: Booting, a process that starts computer operating systems Initialism,...

current, common, non-proprietary initialisms that are specific to information technology. Most of these initialisms appear in IT career certification...

In Linux systems, initrd (initial ramdisk) is a scheme for loading a temporary root file system into memory, to be used as part of the Linux startup process...

points in initialisms, including U.S., while The Associated Press Stylebook (primarily for journalism) dispenses with full points in initialisms, including...

Initial D (Japanese: 頭文字（イニシャル） D, Hepburn: Inisharu Dī) is a Japanese street racing manga series written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno. It was serialized...

for end-shortened words and lower-case initialisms, not for middle-shortened words and upper-case initialisms. Some British style guides, such as for...

Rentokil Initial plc is a British business services group based in Crawley, England. It was founded in 1925 as a pest-control business. It subsequently...

study of college students by Naomi Baron found that the use of these initialisms in computer-mediated communication (CMC), specifically in instant messaging...

cryptography, an initialization vector (IV) or starting variable is an input to a cryptographic primitive being used to provide the initial state. The IV...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends . For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word...

Abbreviation Term Notes IAC instrument approach chart IAF initial approach fix IAN Integrated Approach Navigation IAN approaches provide the functions...

technology initialisms Laser acronyms List of abbreviations in oil and gas exploration and production List of geographic acronyms and initialisms List of...

Reproductive initials, or gonidial initials, are filaments below the cuticle surface of algae and fungi which give rise to the bulbs of spore-producing...

In mathematics and particularly in dynamical systems, an initial condition is the initial value (often at time t = 0 {\displaystyle t=0} ) of a differential...

Republic. Initialisms are typically found in commercial, government, legal, medical, scientific and technical uses. In German, initialisms retain the...

An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also...

The initial singularity or the Big Bang singularity is a simplified model for the origin of the universe, obtained by extrapolating the Big Bang model...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter Z. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

The Initial Command is the first full-length studio album released by Canadian industrial band Front Line Assembly, released in 1987 through Belgian label...

In mathematics, an initial algebra is an initial object in the category of F-algebras for a given endofunctor F. This initiality provides a general framework...

surveying, an initial point is a datum (a specific point on the surface of the earth) that marks the beginning point for a cadastral survey. The initial point...

An initial conference is one of the first steps of the discovery process in a civil case. In the U.S. federal court system, initial conferences are governed...

punctuation mark in initialisms and to denote numerals. In initialisms, the Geresh is written after the last letter of the initialism. For example: the...

This page lists common initialisms relating to LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) people and the LGBTQ community. 2SLGBTQI+ GB – gay...

Rilo Kiley, also known as The Initial Friend EP, is the first release by Los Angeles–based rock band Rilo Kiley. It was initially released independently...

between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Initial dropping is a sound change whereby the first consonants of words are dropped...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter X. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

Resource acquisition is initialization (RAII) is a programming idiom used in several object-oriented, statically typed programming languages to describe...

In deep learning, weight initialization or parameter initialization describes the initial step in creating a neural network. A neural network contains...

COPD The prevalent way to represent plurals for medical acronyms and initialisms is simply to affix a lowercase s (no apostrophe). Example: one OCP, two...

Initial may also refer to: Initial (linguistics), part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus in phonetics and phonology Rentokil Initial,...

The initial attractiveness is a possible extension of the Barabási–Albert model (preferential attachment model). The Barabási–Albert model generates scale-free...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter J. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

three-letter acronym; it is an autological word. Most TLAs are initialisms (the initial letter of each word of a phrase), but most are not acronyms in...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter Y. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

In sign language, an initialized sign is one that is produced with a handshape(s) that corresponds to the fingerspelling of its equivalent in the locally...

Initial stability or primary stability is the resistance of a boat to small changes in the difference between the vertical forces applied on its two sides...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter A. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

name) and "N.M.I." (no middle initial) are sometimes used in formal documents in the United States, where a middle initial or name is expected but the person...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter Q. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

Initial operating capability or initial operational capability (IOC) is the state achieved when a capability is available in its minimum usefully deployable...

In computer programming, lazy initialization is the tactic of delaying the creation of an object, the calculation of a value, or some other expensive process...

Backstreet Boys came up with the name, which is a combination of established initialisms of each groups' names, NKOTB and BSB. Together they have released one...

were favored for a time as alternatives to initialisms. Camel case is often used to transliterate initialisms into alphabets where two letters may be required...

originating as acronyms, like radar, are now treated as common nouns. Initialisms are similar to acronyms, but where the letters are pronounced as a series...

This is a list of computing and IT acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations. 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also References...

Initials B.B. is a 1968 studio album by Serge Gainsbourg. It was originally released by Philips Records. In 2010, the French edition of Rolling Stone named...

(Initial Release – Unadjusted $s in Millions of $s)." Cleopatra: "Domestic Rentals: $22.1; Foreign Rentals: $18.2; Production Cost: $44.0 (Initial Release...

Initials R.B.M.E. (German: Initialen R.B.M.E.) is a ballet choreographed by John Cranko to Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2. The ballet is plotless, and features...

Initial J is the first greatest hits album by Taiwanese singer Jay Chou, released on 31 August 2005 by Sony Music Japan and Alfa Music. It features each...

Martin (born George Raymond Martin, September 20, 1948), also known by the initials GRRM, is an American author, screenwriter, and television producer. Martin...

contexts. This article attempts to give all known alternative names and initialisms for all nations, countries, and sovereign states, in English and any...

(Korean: 임진왜란; Hanja: 壬辰倭亂) was a series of two Japanese invasions of Korea: an initial invasion in 1592 also individually called the "Imjin War", a brief truce...

perceived name of the letter affects the choice of indefinite article before initialisms beginning with H: for example "an H-bomb" or "a H-bomb". The pronunciation...

component of the version number was incremented from 10 to 11, so Big Sur's initial release's version number was 11.0 instead of 10.16, making the version...

production budget which proves to be difficult to earn back during the film's initial theatrical run, or simply a lack of public interest. Extenuating circumstances...

RSVP is an initialism derived from the French phrase "répondez s'il vous plaît", meaning "please respond" (literally "respond if it pleases you"). It is...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter O. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

LGBTQ is an initialism for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer. LGBTQ and related initialisms are umbrella terms, originating in the United...

Initial interest confusion is a legal doctrine under trademark law that permits a finding of infringement when there is temporary confusion that is dispelled...

naval warfare the van is the advance ship, or fleet, that will make the initial engagement with an enemy fleet. The vanguard derives from the traditional...

channel 21—its original assigned channel on the Teleservice system—to its initial base of 365 subscribers in Wilkes-Barre. The first movie presentation shown...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter V. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

undergone Grimm's law; a native English word with an initial /p/ would reflect Proto-Indo-European initial *b, which is so rare that its existence as a phoneme...

Alluri Sitharama Raju district, also known as Alluri district and by its initials as ASR district, is a district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The...

In the mathematical discipline of category theory, a strict initial object is an initial object 0 of a category C with the property that every morphism...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter E. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

Alliteration is the repetition of syllable-initial consonant sounds between nearby words, or of syllable-initial vowels if the syllables in question do not...

Komárom, Kingdom of Hungary in the main hall of the town hall by the initialization of András Beliczay. The team's colours are purple and white. The motto...

masculine given name of Hebrew origin. Its popularity derives from the initial oral tradition (Oral Torah) and recorded use related to King David, a central...

Bellwood, and Larry Ferguson. Highlander was a commercial failure on its initial theatrical release, grossing only a little less than $13 million worldwide...

running on hosts communicating via an IP network. It originated in the initial network implementation in which it complemented the Internet Protocol (IP)...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter G. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

The Initial D (頭文字（イニシャル）D) video game series, known in Japan as Initial D Arcade Stage, is an arcade racing game series developed by Sega, based on the...

This is a list of FM radio stations in the United States having call signs beginning with the letters WD through WF. Low-power FM radio stations, those...

Maharashtra is an Indian state that was formed on 1 May 1960 with 26 initial districts. Since then, 10 additional districts have been created, the most...

names of the letters are sometimes spelled out in compound words and initialisms (e.g., tee-shirt, deejay, emcee, okay, etc.), derived forms (e.g., exed...

the most successful individual film in Academy Award history. With an initial worldwide gross of over $1.84 billion, becoming the highest-grossing film...

This is a list of geographic acronyms and initialisms. That is, it's a list of the names of cities, towns, lakes, and other geographic places that are...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter M. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

Initial Records was an independent record label in Louisville, Kentucky, that was founded in 1992. The label released music by Falling Forward, Boysetsfire...

guarantee. The name "KPMG" stands for "Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler". The initialism was chosen when KMG (Klynveld Main Goerdeler) merged with Peat Marwick...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter K. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

The Initial Teaching Alphabet (ITA or i.t.a.) is a variant of the Latin alphabet developed by Sir James Pitman (the grandson of Sir Isaac Pitman, inventor...

called the early hot and dense initial state the "primeval atom" while Gamow called the material "ylem". How the initial state of the universe originated...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter I. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

programming language at Bell Labs by Ritchie between 1972 and 1973. Its initial purpose was to construct utilities running on Unix, and was later applied...

online, searchable dictionary and database of abbreviations (acronyms, initialisms, and others) and their meanings. The entries are classified into categories...

In general topology and related areas of mathematics, the initial topology (or induced topology or weak topology or limit topology or projective topology)...

(Portuguese: Cabo Verde Português) was a colony of the Portuguese Empire from the initial settlement of the Cape Verde islands in 1462 until 1975, when independence...

Initial Rock, also known as Name Rock, in the Medora Ranger District of the Little Missouri National Grassland, near Medora, North Dakota, was listed...

Marines in the Pacific theater. This dual-purpose design resulted in some initial criticism of the pattern as being less than ideal for knife fighting, but...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter H. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

Teasle. First Blood was released in the United States on October 22, 1982. Initial reviews were mixed, but the film was a box-office success, grossing $125...

Europe, organized by the European Volleyball Confederation (CEV). The initial gap between championships was variable, but since 1975 they have been awarded...

average for initial quality, a measure of problems after the first 90 days of ownership, according to J. D. Power. In J. D. Power's Initial Quality Study...

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA; named after Marie Curie) are major research fellowships created by the European Union / European Commission to...

Productions (Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies), Tom and Jerry's initial short-film titled Puss Gets the Boot proved successful in theaters and...

Deutsche Bank until 2018 where it became a separate entity through an initial public offering on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. It is currently headquartered...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter B. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

fourth foray into social networking, experienced strong growth in its initial years, although usage statistics varied, depending on how the service was...

manufacturing units in India. The company is listed on BSE and NSE since its initial public offering in 2017. Dixon Technologies was founded in 1993 by Sunil...

Thanh Vân (born 26 February 1979), also known as Veronica Ngô or by her initials NTV, is a Vietnamese-born Norwegian actress and singer. Ngô Thanh Vân was...

This is a list of FM radio stations in the United States having call signs beginning with the letters WG through WJ. Low-power FM radio stations, those...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter L. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

contractions should not be confused with crasis, abbreviations and initialisms (including acronyms), with which they share some semantic and phonetic...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter R. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

obstruents in the syllable coda or at the end of a word become voiceless. Initial voicing is a process of historical sound change in which voiceless consonants...

enables its users "to build and manage microservices applications with low initial investment for scalability," according to ISO/IEC 22123-2. Function as...

ballooning costs, and delayed deliveries, partially caused by low rate initial production during its development. As of 2024[update], the program is expected...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter U. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear...

Shinar, and Uri Levine, who are also veterans of Unit 8200. Funding for the initial project was provided by two Israeli venture capital firms, Magma and Vertex...

distinguished from a normal beached carcass by being hard to identify, at least by initial untrained observers, and by creating controversy as to its identity. The...

RTFM is an initialism and internet slang for the expression "read the fucking manual", typically used to reply to a basic question where the answer is...

Sedapatti Suryanarayana Rajendran, also known by his initials SSR (1 January 1928 – 24 October 2014), was an Indian actor, film director, film producer...

The Platform Initialization Specification (PI Specification) is a specification published by the Unified EFI Forum that describes the internal interfaces...

Initialized Capital is a venture capital fund founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco. It was founded by Alexis Ohanian, Harj Taggar, and Garry...

series ever. It holds various publishing records, including the highest initial print run for any book in Japan. In 2015 and 2022, it set the Guinness...

Initial Success is the third studio album by Scottish musician BA Robertson, released on 7 March 1980 by Asylum Records. The album peaked at number 32...

The initial crash killed all 15 crew members and 460–490 of the 509 passengers on board. An estimated 20 to 50 passengers survived the initial crash...

Caine as the character Harry Palmer that followed the characters from the initial film, The Ipcress File (1965). The third film was Billion Dollar Brain...

traditionally animated film of all time, having its initial gross remained the highest-grossing initial gross for a traditionally animated film until it...

to 2 years as it develops its products, performs initial marketing and branding, hires its initial employees, and otherwise undertakes early stage business...

This is a list of FM radio stations in the United States having call signs beginning with the letters WA through WC. Low-power FM radio stations, those...

defendant is first brought to court, the arraignment may be referred to as an "initial hearing", or "preliminary arraignment", which is different from a preliminary...

Initial D is a 2005 Hong Kong action film directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. It is a film adaptation of the Japanese manga series of the same name,...

Look up EA, ea, or ea. in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. EA is an initialism for Electronic Arts, an American video game company. EA, E.A., Ea, or ea...

skeleton warriors. Although it was a box office disappointment during its initial release, the film was critically acclaimed and later considered a classic...

information technology (IT) or biotechnology. Pre-seed and seed rounds are the initial stages of funding for a startup company, typically occurring early in its...

Word-initial ff is the digraph ⟨ff⟩ occurring at the beginning of a word. It sometimes occurs capitalized as ⟨Ff⟩, and sometimes as the lowercase ⟨ff⟩...

Initial access brokers (or IABs) are cyber threat actors who specialize in gaining unauthorized access to computer networks and systems and then selling...

Patroclus. The novel follows Patroclus' relationship with Achilles, from their initial meeting to their exploits during the Trojan War, with focus on their romantic...

Initial is the debut album from the band Person L, released on August 5, 2008. Kenny Vasoli self-recorded the album in his home studio in late 2007–2008...

hockey player Tim Horton (1930–1974) and Jim Charade (1934–2009), after an initial venture in hamburger restaurants. In 1967, Horton partnered with investor...

first high bypass ratio jet engine to power a wide-body airliner. Its initial application was the Boeing 747-100, the first "jumbo jet". It was Pratt...

Niger River. The group is referred to by both the French and English initialisms, NBA or ABN. Inspired by the Tennessee Valley Authority, the organisation...

An electric unicycle (often initialized as EUC or acronymized yuke or Uni) is a self-balancing personal transporter with a single wheel. The rider controls...

industrial warfare was defined by armored offensives, with the North's initial invasion and later by UN forces, tunnel warfare by Chinese forces, and...

This is a list of episodes for the anime series Initial D. Episodes in First Stage are numbered as Acts. Second Stage episodes are numbered by Acts, but...

polycrystalline zirconia or tetragonal zirconia polycrystal (forming the initialisms TZP or TPZ) and have the finest grain size. These grades exhibit the...

the effect of reversing any profit or loss made on the securities. The initial cash deposited by the trader, together with the amount obtained from the...

Guardians first appear in Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (January 1969). The initial roster consisted of Vance Astro, Martinex T'Naga, Captain Charlie-27, and...

with "negative" sets of initials (e.g. DIE or PIG) have, on average, a shorter lifespan than those with "positive" initials (e.g. ACE, VIP). The average...

This has led to a proliferation of new abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms. The commonest of these are listed below. Some are used in related fields...

Massachusetts. It was founded in 1947 by the Order of St. Augustine with an initial goal to educate World War II veterans. It enrolls approximately 5,700 undergraduate...

series. In all cases, the English title is given first, along with the initial release date. The Game Boy versions of Mega Man were originally released...

oscillating turret. It is estimated that over 700 have been produced, with initial deliveries in 1971 and hull production ceasing in February 2001. It shares...

composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76. Despite its initial failure, it is now one of the most popular ballets of all time. The scenario...

measures problems experienced after three years of ownership, while the Initial Quality Study (IQS) measures problems experienced within the first 90 days...

An initial reaction force (IRF), also known as an internal reaction force, or extreme reaction force (ERF) to inmates, is a type of small-scale riot squad...

French J, has a sound value quite different from /j/ (which represents the initial sound in the English language word "yet"). Such a distinctive usage emerged...

AWAL (an initialism of Artists Without a Label) is a global recording business that serves as an alternative to the traditional record label, offering...

language, ISO 639-3 language code "To Be Honest", see List of acronyms and initialisms: T .TBH files tbh (app), an anonymous social media app Tugdan Airport...

issues with subtitles; the initial BD lacked subtitles for spoken German dialogue. Optimum later rectified this, but the initial release also lacked notable...

Simulations TTP: a technology project in the Dilbert comic strip. The initials stand for "The TTP Project". GRUNGE: defined by Homer Simpson in The Simpsons...

Kehlata Hai (transl. What Is This Relationship Called?), also known by the initialism YRKKH, is an Indian Hindi-language romantic family drama television series...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter S. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

professionally as Justine Skye, is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Her initial fame from Tumblr found a career in the music industry and signed with Atlantic...

She-Ra and her rebellion against The Horde on the planet Etheria. Since its initial launch, the franchise has spawned a variety of products, including multiple...

This is a list of AM radio stations in the United States having call signs beginning with the letters WA to WF. North American call sign...

detailed explanation see Capitalization § Titles. Generally acronyms and initialisms are capitalized, e.g., "NASA" or "SOS". Sometimes, a minor word such...

Convention requires the word be repeated three times in a row during the initial emergency declaration ("Mayday, mayday, mayday"). The "mayday" procedure...

goalscorer, and in 2015, signed for Real Madrid in a transfer worth an initial €4 million (Kr. 35 million), where he set the club record for its youngest...

applying for an Indian passport, which does not usually allow initials, is the initial expanded and the name rendered in reverse order as "Nikhilesh Rajaraman"...

emphasis when boldface is not available. Acronyms (and particularly initialisms) are often written in all-caps, depending on various factors. Capitalisation...

and deterministic laws of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions. These were once thought to have completely random states of...

Gabbana (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdoltʃe e ɡɡabˈbaːna]), also known by initials D&G, is an Italian fashion house founded in 1985 in Legnano by Italian...

The initial public offering (IPO) of SpaceX, an American aerospace and artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk in 2002, occurred on June...

are usually considered acronyms or initialisms and can be found in the List of geographic acronyms and initialisms. However, there are exceptions to this...

identification of file letter followed by rank number. For example, the initial square of White's king is designated as "e1". This section contains chess...

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television channel and the flagship namesake property of the MTV Entertainment...

assistant curates is typically overseen by officers of the bishops called Initial Ministerial Education (IME) or Continuing Ministerial Development (CMD)...

The postcode area is the largest geographical unit used and forms the initial characters of the alphanumeric UK postcode. There are currently 121 geographic...

forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files. The initial description of Markdown contained ambiguities and raised unanswered questions...

a free and open‑source project that provides lightweight firmware to initialize hardware and then load an operating system. It is designed to replace...

K300 or XK21 KNIFV (Korea Next-generation Infantry Fighting Vehicle). The initial production began in 2009, with the Republic of Korea Army planning to field...

computed with different initial values. SHA-512/224 and SHA-512/256 are also truncated versions of SHA-512, but the initial values are generated using...

and more regional autonomy. The war was divided into four major stages: initial guerrilla warfare, the creation of the Anyanya insurgency, political strife...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter W. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

Pete Henry Crow-Armstrong (born March 25, 2002), also known by his initials "PCA", is an American professional baseball center fielder for the Chicago...

the United Nations-led joint group's findings in the years since their initial publication, arguing that the 4,000 figure is too low—including the Union...

the "WWF" initialism. In April 2011, the promotion ceased using its full name with the "WWE" abbreviation becoming an orphaned initialism. Also in March...

circumvent censorship and obscenity law. The term BDSM is a portmanteau of initialisms intended to encompass all of the following activities: Bondage and discipline...

an American former pornographic actress. She was one of the industry's initial contract performers with Essex Video and Vivid Entertainment and is an...

University of Pune, graduating in 1988 with a major in Marketing. Menon's initial focus was working in the advertising industry, including Kinetic Honda...

five-pointed red star inscribed with the initials "PT" in the center; a red flag with a white star also with the initials in the center; and the Workers Party's...

the s in sea or the ss in pass) when the letter representing /s/ is in initial position followed by a consonant, but not when it is followed by a dental...

the term doggy style is not known, but is presumably a reference to the initial position assumed by dogs when mating. It is described in the Kama Sutra...

close trajectories. Quantitatively, two trajectories in phase space with initial separation vector δ 0 {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\delta }}_{0}} diverge...

This is a list of AM radio stations in the United States having call signs beginning with the letters KA to KF. North American call sign...

from Abraham's and Franck's middle names, respectively, and S. A. are the initials of Abraham's daughter. The name is also meant to emulate many of the space...

Europe, organized by the European Volleyball Confederation (CEV). The initial gap between championships was variable, but since 1975 they have been awarded...

into general release in the United States on February 4, 1938. Despite initial doubts from the film industry, it was a critical and commercial success...

State Railways JSC'; previously only Ferrovie dello Stato, hence the initialism FS) is Italy's national state-owned railway holding company that manages...

château. It is one of his shortest stories, filling only two pages in its initial publication in 1842. The tale begins with an injured narrator (the story...

cambium usually consists of two types of cells: Fusiform initials (tall, axially oriented) Ray initials (smaller and round to angular in shape) The vascular...

Gmail and Outlook.com. Proton Mail received its initial funding through a crowdfunding campaign, and initial access was by invitation only, but it opened...

Infinite Jest has since sold more than a million copies worldwide. Since its initial publication it has been published with forewords by Dave Eggers, Tom Bissell...

employed as an identifying label. In a musical composition, an incipit is an initial sequence of notes, having the same purpose. The word incipit comes from...

YouTuber, content creator, online streamer, and political commentator. His initial content focused on World of Warcraft, which has since expanded to cover...

Initial jobless claims are a data point issued by the U.S. Department of Labor as part of its weekly Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report. Initial...

an exhaustive online database of all seed-bearing plants worldwide. The initial focus was on tropical African flora, particularly flora Zambesiaca, flora...

precision strike capability. The aircraft has three notable variants: the initial production model, the revised airframe variant with new engines and thrust-vectoring...

including Artists Studio, Darlow Smithson Productions, House of Tomorrow, Initial, Remarkable Entertainment (previously Brighter Pictures and Cheetah Television)...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter P. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter C. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

pronunciation Hangul; final consonants are resyllabized to initial when followed by an initial ㅇ) → ㅇㅣㅂㅓ → ibeo In RR, hyphens can be either optional or...

Cassaday, and published by the Wildstorm imprint of DC Comics. After an initial preview issue in September 1998, the series ran for 27 issues from April...

used as just an initial, especially in combination with the middle initial (such as with H. G. Wells), and more rarely as an initial while the middle...

NBC from 1979 to 1984, Wednesdays from 8 pm to 9 pm Eastern Time. Its initial episodes aired live in the Eastern and Central time zones. Real People...

United States Navy's Officer Candidate School (abbreviated OCS) provides initial training for officers of the line and select operational staff corps communities...

in a total of 51. They are arranged in syllable blocks consisting of an initial consonant, a vowel, and an optional final consonant. The syllables can...

and offers some information concerning the Megastructure's origins and initial size, as well as the origins of Silicon Life. This story portrays Susono...

who first proposed it in 1983. The concept can also be considered as an initial condition for models of quantum cosmology. The Hartle-Hawking proposal...

HLTV, formerly an initialism of Half-Life Television, is a news website and forum which covers professional Counter-Strike 2 esports news, tournaments...

that is used to determine the correctness of an initial count. Recounts will often take place if the initial vote tally during an election is extremely close...

often used for lists and in auditory form such as short poems, acronyms, initialisms or memorable phrases. They can also be used for other types of information...

of Foreign Missions of the Assemblies of God in the United States. The initial purpose was to coordinate evangelism, but soon developed into a more permanent...

honour of his wife, Lucie Brasch, he added the initial L. to his name when he married, making the middle initial stand for Lucie. Freud was born in Vienna...

members, all of whom had some degree of professional dance experience. Their initial function was to dance and entertain the live crowds during commercial breaks...

In calculus, an initial value problem (IVP) is an ordinary differential equation together with an initial condition which specifies the value of the unknown...

made by combining the initials of an individual or a company, used as recognizable symbols or logos. A series of uncombined initials is properly referred...

phase of the Italian Wars. The war pitted Charles VIII of France, who had initial Milanese aid, against the Holy Roman Empire, Spain and an alliance of Italian...

List of abbreviations, acronyms and initials related to military subjects such as modern armor, artillery, infantry, and weapons, along with their definitions...

women's road bicycle racing events, such as the UCI Women's World Tour. The initial title sponsors were Canyon Bicycles and SRAM Corporation. At the start...

the Gold Coast—and the British Empire and its African allies. Despite initial Ashanti victories, the British ultimately prevailed in the conflicts, resulting...

the many acronyms. Alphabet soup has also been used to describe longer initialisms based on LGBT such as LGBTQQIAAP. Alphabet soup is also used to describe...

artists' representations, the modern British Shorthair is unchanged from this initial type. Selective breeding of the best examples of the type began in the...

entered service carrying VIPs. On 28 December 2021, the VH-92 achieved its Initial Operational Capability (IOC) milestone. However, the aircraft, named "Patriot"...

cash prize by losing the highest percentage of weight relative to their initial weight. Each season of The Biggest Loser begins with a weigh-in to determine...

Q.E.D. (also written as QED) is an initialism of the Latin phrase quod erat demonstrandum, meaning "that which was to be demonstrated". Literally, it states...

but without STOL performance. The Dash 8 was offered in four sizes: the initial Series 100 (1984–2005), the more powerful Series 200 (1995–2009) with 37–40...

Portuguese: [ʁafaˈɛw duz ˈɐ̃ʒus]; born 26 October 1984), also known by his initials RDA, is a Brazilian and American professional mixed martial artist. He...

well-defined formal language for calculating a function. Starting from an initial state and input, a computation occurs at each step, eventually producing...

Stern; September 28, 1960) is an American pop and rock singer. She achieved initial success during the mid-1980s with several singles and studio albums, including...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter T. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

a series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard. Beginning with 2006's initial novel of the same name, the series follows the lives of four girls—Spencer...

ended its initial run on November 11, 2003. Five additional episodes would not premiere in the United States on Nickelodeon during its initial run and would...

sexual and gender minorities." In this collective sense, it is similar to initialisms such as LGBT, serving as a shorthand descriptor for a broad range of...

to be initialized. Programming constructs which perform initialization are typically called initializers and initializer lists. Initialization is distinct...

configuration files comes from the filename extension INI, short for initialization, used in the MS-DOS operating system, which popularized this method...

This is a list of FM radio stations in the United States having call signs beginning with the letters KA through KC. Low-power FM radio stations, those...

Initiative. A film based on Zuckerberg's early career, legal troubles and initial success with Facebook, The Social Network, was released in 2010. His prominence...

1999. It was written and produced by Max Martin and Denniz Pop. In its initial release, "I Want You Back" peaked at number ten in Germany. After releasing...

Late Bronze Age evidence of migration, piracy, and destruction. While initial versions of the hypothesis regarded the Sea Peoples as a primary cause...

achieved in 2010 with The Plant List. WFO was conceived in 2012 by an initial group of four institutions; the Missouri Botanical Garden, the New York...

nasals. Initial aspiration has also likely become an optional sound for many speakers of the popular variety. Monophthongization (including the initial stage...

terror. Participants in the initial American operation, Operation Enduring Freedom, included a NATO coalition whose initial goals were to train the Afghan...

superheated volcanic gas and ash that had immediately followed and overtaken the initial landslide. The debris was transported along with the water as it returned...

series. The series was ordered by the History Channel with an eight-episode initial order. The first two episodes were directed by Lesli Linka Glatter. Six...

used here, see this page. The long s, ⟨ſ⟩, also known as the medial s or initial s, is an archaic form of the lowercase letter ⟨s⟩, found mostly in works...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter N. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

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It consisted solely of female solo artists and female-led bands. In its initial three years, Lilith Fair raised over $10 million for charity. In 1996,...

1990), known by the pseudonym Erté (from the French pronunciation of his initials: [ɛʁte]), was a Russian-born French artist and designer. He worked in several...

these incidents, often the result of prolonged or lingering effects of the initial catastrophe. This was the case particularly in such cases as exposure to...

In category theory, a branch of mathematics, an initial object of a category C is an object I in C such that for every object X in C, there exists precisely...

The Brian Setzer Orchestra (sometimes known by its initials BSO) is a swing and jump blues band formed in 1992 by Stray Cats frontman Brian Setzer. In...

progenitor star. Initial asymmetries have also been confirmed in Type Ia supernovae through observation. This result may mean that the initial luminosity of...

A BLT is a type of sandwich, named for the initials of its primary ingredients, bacon, lettuce, and tomato. It can be made with varying recipes according...

specifically classical mechanics, the three-body problem is to take the initial positions and velocities (or momenta) of three point masses orbiting each...

present. Despite there being no convincing evidence of Martian life, the initial paper and the enormous scientific and public attention caused by it are...

communications cannot be reused in replay attacks. Nonces can also be useful as initialization vectors and in cryptographic hash functions. A nonce is an arbitrary...

A Touch of Class (often shortened in initials as ATC) were an international Eurodance group based in Germany. The pop group was active from 1997 and their...

and video games. A franchise reboot is currently in development. Despite initial criticism from some parents and media watchdogs that its violent action...

service in the U.S. Army, the U.S. Army Reserve, or the Army National Guard. Initial entry training (IET) is divided into two parts: basic combat training (BCT)...

Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States. Known for its prominence in the initial exploration and development of the petroleum industry, it is located at...

Gloucestershire, who came to prominence at the beginning of the 1990s. During their initial eight-year run, from 1989 to 1997, the band released three studio albums...

This is a list of FM radio stations in the United States having call signs beginning with the letters KQ through KS. Low-power FM radio stations, those...

public company filing for an initial public offering of stock in late 2014. The offering priced on January 29, 2015; the initial price of its shares was at...

Upper Arlington (often known by its initials U.A.) is a city in Franklin County, Ohio, United States, on the northwest side of the Columbus metropolitan...

state of nature. A 2009 United Nations report also classified "peoples in initial contact" as sharing the same characteristics who transition to regularly...

Christmas special), Balamory aired on CBeebies from 2002 until 2005. Upon its initial premiere, the series was a big ratings success for the then-newly launched...

and released two albums before disbanding in 1981. Though the Soft Boys’ initial career was brief, their style of psychedelic music and retro folk-rock...

with many diverse references, such as a quartet of individuals with the initials "L.B.", namely Leonard Bernstein, Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce, and Lester...

sound occurs in both syllable initial and syllable final positions. There is a tendency toward denasalization for initial /ŋ/ as in 耳 /ŋi/ [ŋɡi] 'ear'...

A400Ms were ordered in the initial batch; the total initial purchase then dropped to twenty-two. The final aircraft in the initial order of 22 aircraft was...

respectively. The film details the duo's journey through Las Vegas as their initial journalistic intentions devolve into an exploration of the city under the...

Gibson Les Paul. It remains in production in multiple variations of the initial design. SG stands for "solid guitar". The SG design was given a double...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter D. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter F. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced...

launched in 1985 as a graphical operating system built on MS-DOS. The initial version was followed by several subsequent releases, and by the early 1990s...

regarded as the foundational event of the Kingdom of Asturias and thus the initial point of the Christian Reconquista (reconquest) of Iberia after the Umayyad...

by an industry forum called 3G.IP, formed in 1999. 3G.IP developed the initial IMS architecture, which was brought to the 3rd Generation Partnership Project...

Dastardly's most famous appearances are in the series Wacky Races (his initial appearance) and its spin-off, Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines...

sepsis. The greatest risk period for the occurrence of infection is in the initial few months after the start of new drug therapy, since many drug therapies...

Cruikshank from 2006 to 2014 and revived from 2020 to 2021. The characters' initial popularity yielded other spin-off series and a media franchise with Nickelodeon...

certain word. The traditional prohibition of word-initial /ɾ/ became a morphological rule called "initial law" (두음법칙) in the pronunciation standards of South...

open back unrounded vowel in the IPA Latin alpha was also used for the Initial Teaching Alphabet ⟨ᶐ⟩: Latin small alpha with a retroflex hook ⟨Ɐ ɐ⟩: Turned...

function f, its derivative f′, and an initial guess x0 for a root of f. If f satisfies certain assumptions and the initial guess is close, then x 1 = x 0 −...

in office. Gianni Infantino has served as the current president since initial election on 26 February 2016 and reelection on 16 March 2023. Notes Named...

theories have been put forward for both the cause of ignition and the initial fuel for the ensuing fire. The publicity shattered public confidence in...

mutual friendship between two best friends. It is often written as the initialism BFF. The term BFF describes a friendship in which the meaning of that...

workplaces and equipment used in explosive atmospheres. The name is an initialization of the term ATmosphères EXplosives (French for "explosive atmospheres")...

This is a list of FM radio stations in the United States having call signs beginning with the letters WN through WP. Low-power FM radio stations, those...

spying for their original program, against the actors who subverted their initial espionage attempt and signed them to the other side. There are no documented...

Initial €12 million plus reported €5 million bonuses Initial €10 million plus 10% sell-on clause Initial €10 million plus 10% sell-on clause Initial €10 million...

acclaim. The film won five awards, as well as two other nominations upon its initial release. Insurance adjuster Noah Render lives with his film-censor wife...

availability and intensity of sunlight, require cleaning, and have high initial costs. Solar panels are widely used for residential, commercial, and industrial...

The first season was released on 21 February 2024, beginning with the initial three episodes. It stars Noomi Rapace, Jonathan Banks, James D'Arcy, Julian...

This is a list of FM radio stations in the United States having call signs beginning with the letters KW through KZ. Low-power FM radio stations, those...

alternatively "Eocene thermal maximum 1 (ETM1)" and formerly known as the "Initial Eocene" or "Late Paleocene thermal maximum", was a geologically brief time...

HSN, Inc. an initialism of its former name Home Shopping Network, is an American free-to-air television network owned by the QVC Group (formerly Qurate...

shuttlecock's conic shape makes it aerodynamically stable. Regardless of initial orientation, it will turn to fly cork first, and remain in the cork-first...

colexicographical order (see below) is often more convenient, because all initial segments are finite, and thus the colexicographical order defines an order...

infection by the virus SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic, from its initial identification in January 2020 through the World Health Organization's...

the transfer Initial £125 million plus £5 million in possible add-ons Initial €125 million plus €15 million in possible add-ons Initial £105 million plus...

by excess growth hormone (GH) after the growth plates have closed. The initial symptom is typically enlargement of the hands and feet. There may also...

AGV (initials for "Amisano Gino Valenza") is an Italian motorcycle helmet manufacturer active in motorcycle sport. Founded in 1947 by Gino Amisano, since...

the player with the winning hand takes the pot. With the exception of initial forced bets, money is only placed into the pot voluntarily by a player...

letters of the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code and the third is usually the initial of the currency's main unit. So Japan's currency code is JPY: "JP" for...

and rapes a mother and her two underage daughters. Three years after its initial release, the game garnered international attention and controversy for...

(guitar, keyboards and backing vocals) formed the lineup for the band's initial mid- to late-1970s success period. These core members were included in...

In software engineering, the initialization-on-demand holder (design pattern) idiom is a lazy-loaded singleton. In all versions of Java, the idiom enables...

Bryan Kevin Porter Jr. (born May 4, 2000), also known by his initials KPJ, is an American professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the...

device of a country's reigning sovereign, typically consisting of the initials of the monarch's name and title, sometimes interwoven and often surmounted...

counterbalancing purpose as well. The laying of the keel is often the initial step in constructing a ship. In the British and American shipbuilding traditions...

Initialization (PI) on mainboards using their AMD64 architecture. As part of the BIOS of such mainboards, AGESA is responsible for the initialization...

2003, part of the United States Department of the Treasury, due to their initial mandate of combating counterfeiting of United States currency. The agency...

Recruits living east of the Mississippi River report there to receive initial training. Recruits living west of the Mississippi River receive training...

A Voice for Men, also known as Voices of Men Network and by initialisms VoMN, AVfM and AV4M, is a large and influential publication within the wider men's...

the cloud. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 produced an initial mushroom cloud that was formed by the nuclear fireball and its immediate...

usually "RBIs", in accordance with the usual practice for pluralizing initialisms in English; however, some sources use "RBI" as the plural, on the basis...

that make use of ligatures. For example, in writing systems that feature initial, medial and final letter-forms, such as the Persian alphabet, when a ZWNJ...

velocity of the bullet is doubled, the energy increases four times. The initial velocity of a bullet is largely dependent on the firearm. The US military...

evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input. One interacts with the Game of Life by creating an initial configuration and observing...

Batman and Robin. It is the fourth and final installment of Warner Bros.' initial Batman film series (1989–1997) and a sequel to Batman Forever (1995). Directed...

Chad Lowe, Nia Peeples, Tyler Blackburn, and Andrea Parker. After an initial order of 10 episodes, ABC Family ordered an additional 12 episodes on June...

executive Marc Benioff in March 1999, Salesforce grew quickly, making its initial public offering in 2004. Its major acquisitions included Tableau and Slack...

miniseries WandaVision and Agatha All Along as well as co-writing the initial story to the film Black Widow. Schaeffer grew up in Agoura Hills, California...

Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (also known by its initials as GLOW or G.L.O.W.) is a women's professional wrestling promotion that began in 1986 (the pilot...

applications. The application can still be adjusted for specific needs, but the initial Spring Boot project provides a preconfigured "opinionated view" of the...

title The Psychology of Everyday Things, it is often referred to by the initialisms POET and DOET. A new preface was added in 2002 and a revised and expanded...

choice). Every subordering is isomorphic to an initial segment (see § initial segments below). An initial segment, determined by an element x {\displaystyle...

This is a list of AM radio stations in the United States having call signs beginning with the letters KT to KZ. North American call sign...

This is a list of acronyms and other initialisms used in laser physics and laser applications. Contents A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P R S T U V W X Y...

ammonium nitrate (approx. 256 tonnes TNT equivalent). Fires caused by the initial explosions continued to burn uncontrolled throughout the weekend, resulting...

so that it can be used for a particular format. Can prepare a disk for initial use or erase the entire disk. Disk partitioner Divides an disk into multiple...

The Initial Upper Paleolithic (also IUP, c. 50,000–40,000 BP) covers the first stage of the Upper Paleolithic, during which modern human populations expanded...

people whose remains are elsewhere or have been lost. It can also be the initial tomb for a person who has since been reinterred elsewhere. Although the...

originally aired from January 12, 1997, to May 6, 2010. A total of 259 initial episodes were produced, spanning 13 seasons. "National Nielsen Viewership...

technology company Facebook, Inc., now known as Meta Platforms, held its initial public offering (IPO) on Friday, May 18, 2012, with shares trading on Nasdaq...

Standard Chinese has fewer tones, vowels and final consonants, but more initial consonants. Among linguists, Standard Chinese has been referred to as Standard...

and transferred to Premier League club Manchester City in 2016 for an initial £37 million fee. He was voted PFA Young Player of the Year in 2017–18,...

many ransomware affiliates purchase pre-established network access from initial access brokers (IABs), specialized threat actors who compromise organizations...

her parents. As her parents both had the initials LBJ, they named their two daughters to have these initials also. Although her father was a member of...

movement that began at the end of the 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock movement. The essential period that is most commonly cited as...

disqualified from the show and mostly edited out of the American broadcast; initial overseas screenings retained the original edit. Sherry originally placed...

April 1, 2017 when it was watched by 676,000 American households in its initial airing. On the first day of its original broadcast, "The Rickshank Rickdemption"...

assessments that incorporate the standard would be awarded a Certificate of Initial Mastery. This certificate would qualify the student to choose among going...

is one of the "Big Three" (also known as "MBB", representing the first initials of world's three largest management consulting firms by revenue) along...

Desclos did not reveal herself as the author until 1994, 40 years after the initial publication. Desclos stated she wrote the novel as a series of love letters...

Elasticsearch and Kibana on Alibaba Cloud. In June 2018, Elastic filed for an initial public offering with an estimated valuation of between $1.5 and $3 billion...

and won the Copa Libertadores in 2017. He signed for Barcelona for an initial fee of €31 million in 2018. Arthur joined Italian club Juventus in 2020...

N-Diethyl-meta-toluamide, also called diethyltoluamide or DEET (/diːt/, from DET, the initials of di- + ethyl + toluamide), is the oldest active ingredient, and one of...

of the tube blasts: initial reports had indicated that they occurred during a period of almost half an hour. This was due to initial confusion by London...

facilities located in Ibaia dedicated to training. Founded in 1920, the initial name of the club was Sport Friends, but on 23 January 1921 the name was...

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learning programs, enable labor markets to adjust to the future of work. Initial professional development (IPD) is a period of development during which...

Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. The refinery was commissioned in July 1999 with an initial installed capacity of 668,000 barrels per day (106,200 m3/d). Its current...

income has no wage earner. The survey director should request that the initials "n a" ("not applicable") be written down opposite such questions. No space...

This is a list of acronyms and initialisms associated with the Euro area crisis. ABS (Asset-backed security): financial instrument whose payments are...

which require initial value data, the size of the object file is reduced. On some platforms, some or all of the bss section is initialized to zeroes. Unix-like...

Walter Murch, added 49 minutes of material that had been removed from the initial theatrical release. It is a significant re-edit of the original version...

carrying an umbrella and parcels through a snowy wood. Tumnus thus became the initial inspiration for the entire Narnia series. Lewis describes Tumnus as having...

organization. CMMI defines five maturity levels (1 to 5) for processes: Initial, Managed, Defined, Quantitatively Managed, and Optimizing. CMMI Version...

length to twelve vehicles. The name ICx was used for the trains during the initial stages of the procurement; in late 2015 the trains were rebranded 'ICE...

hill known as the Agoraios Kolonos, also called Market Hill. The Agora's initial use was for a commercial, assembly, or residential gathering place. Stoa...

October 2006. No. 2 Initial Training School was formed as part of the Empire Air Training Scheme. New recruits were posted to an Initial Training School to...

experiences with Wally's modest humanism. Reception was largely positive upon initial release, and over time My Dinner with Andre has come to be regarded as...

plus drummer Jim Keltner. Longtime Saturday Night Live bandleader and initial lead guitar player in Dylan's Never Ending Tour G. E. Smith served as the...

A large number of authors choose to use some form of initials in their name when it appears in their literary work. This includes some of the most famous...

December 31, 2000, with extended support lasting until December 31, 2001. The initial design and planning of Windows 95 can be traced back to around March 1992...

March 2025, allowing him to return to the platform. A few days before his initial ban, he signed with the livestreaming service Kick. Adin David Ross was...

Wadhwani Foundation for economic development in emerging economies, with an initial focus on India. Romesh T. Wadhwani was born in a Sindhi family in Karachi...

syllable structure of Sinitic languages, the onset is replaced with an initial, and a semivowel or liquid forms another segment, called the medial. These...

1971), also known by his stage names J.Y. Park and The Asiansoul or the initials JYP, is a South Korean singer-songwriter, record producer, record executive...

organization was founded in 1928 by a group of European hoteliers. With 38 initial members – including Hotel Negresco in Nice, the Hôtel de Paris in Monte...

The KPV heavy machine gun (Russian: КПВ, romanized: KPV, an initialism for Крупнокалиберный пулемёт Владимирова, Krupnokaliberny pulemyot Vladimirova,...

ceased using his full name in favor of his initials. He has since ceased the use of punctuation in his initials. He is notable as the only actor to be honored...

Singh was sworn in as Prime Minister of India on 2 December 1989. His initial ministry consisted of the following Cabinet ministers and their departments...

List of initialisms, acronyms ("words made from parts of other words, pronounceable"), and other abbreviations used by the government and the military...

include multithreading support, generic programming support, uniform initialization, and performance. Significant changes were also made to the C++ Standard...

ω {\displaystyle \omega } ⁠ itself is an initial ordinal. The α {\displaystyle \alpha } -th infinite initial ordinal is written ω α {\displaystyle \omega...

A ripple effect occurs when an initial disturbance to a system propagates outward to disturb an increasingly larger portion of the system, like ripples...

Joseph Naso (born January 7, 1934), also known as Crazy Joe or the Double Initial Killer, is an American serial killer and serial rapist sentenced to death...

remade in 2010, spawning the 2012 sequel Wrath of the Titans. Following an initial announcement, the subsequent sequel Revenge of the Titans went undeveloped...

are primary crust, formed as plagioclase crystallized out of the Moon's initial magma ocean and floated to the top; however, it is unlikely that Earth...

initial word-level stress cued primarily by greater syllable duration and intensity of the initial syllable of a word. Georgian vowels in non-initial...

Generally speaking, the wider the beam of a ship (or boat), the more initial stability it has, at the expense of secondary stability in the event of...

Kenny Omega, Cody Rhodes, and brothers Matt and Nick Jackson serving as initial co-executive vice presidents, following the success of the independent...

P.O.D. (an initialism for Payable on Death) is an American Christian nu metal band formed in 1992 and based in San Diego, California. The band's line-up...

startup accelerator Y Combinator and a founder of the venture capital fund Initialized Capital. He previously co-founded Posterous and Posthaven. He was an...

India fought between the Maratha Empire and the Kingdom of Mysore. Though initial hostilities between the sides started in the 1760s, the last battle began...

processor, which is responsible for some hardware initialization tasks (such as DRAM initialization) in the boot process. In 2019, a Berlin-based security...

along with smokejumpers. They are qualified to provide leadership for initial-attack and extended-attack on wildland fires. Hotshots are trained and...

websites, web services, and devices. It was founded in 2009 and had its initial public offering in 2017, reaching a valuation of over $6 billion. Okta...

the company are complex, dating back to the early 20th century and the initial enterprises (Horch and the Audiwerke) founded by engineer August Horch...

Americans are an American vocal group who were popular in the 1960s. Their initial line-up consisted of John "Jay" Traynor, Howard "Howie" Kane, Kenny Vance...

List of communities in Saskatchewan List of geographic acronyms and initialisms Barry, Bill (September 2005). Geographic Names of Saskatchewan. Regina...

chassis of the Brazilian market Volkswagen Type 3. "SP" is said to be an initialism of São Paulo, where the car was built, or of "sports prototype". In its...

name "Annette". Her most notable singles are "O Dio Mio", "First Name Initial", "Tall Paul", and "Pineapple Princess". During the mid-1960s, she established...

or that of the letter w, which affected the augment when it was word-initial. In verbs with a preposition as a prefix, the augment is placed not at...

gives a set of sufficient (but not necessary) conditions under which an initial value problem has a unique solution. It is also known as Picard's existence...

numbering treats the A6 as a continuation of the Audi 100 lineage, with the initial A6 designated as a member of the C4-series, followed by the C5, C6, C7...

The C Programming Language (sometimes termed K&R, after its authors' initials) is a computer programming book written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie...

It was probably a voiceless alveolar trill and became the regular word-initial allophone of /r/ in standard Attic Greek that has disappeared in Modern...

Lionel Bart's 1960 stage musical Oliver!, originating the role in the initial London production and reprising it in the 1968 film adaptation and in West...

Player initial hand is a pair ("Perfect pairs") Player initial hand is suited, and connected, or a suited K-Q ("Royal match") Player initial hand plus...

well-known horror films. The service had its own VRV channel from its initial launch in late 2016 until mid-2019. Shudder began with an invite-only beta...

emergency squad, ambulance squad, ambulance corps, life squad or by other initialisms such as EMAS or EMARS. In most places, EMS can be summoned by members...

applications. Lumen 5.0 is the initial release of the Lumen framework, a light derivative of Laravel optimized for speed. This initial release is based on the...

Nondescripts Cricket Club (also known by its initials NCC) is a first-class cricket team based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The team plays at the Nondescripts...

people, actions, and so forth—all within a set of categories, given an initial letter, within a time limit. The game is based on a traditional game called...

Texas-based Axiom Space for commercial space activities. Axiom Space gained initial NASA approval for the venture in January 2020. Axiom Space was later awarded...

[trasˈteːvere]) is the 13th rione of Rome, Italy. It is identified by the initials R. XIII and it is located within Municipio I. Its name comes from Latin...

homes under multiple brand names. On October 13, 2011, Ubiquiti had its initial public offering (IPO) at 7.04 million shares, at $15 per share, raising...

is a Wireless LAN standard from IEEE that since June 2017 provides fast initial link setup (FILS) methods that enable a wireless LAN client to achieve...

bookstore from opening in Nyack. He has a tattoo on his left shoulder of the initials "HM" for Hannah Montana. He got the tattoo after making a pact with Miley...

particularly Chinese Buddhists, introduced to China significantly after the initial solidification of Taoist thought. One of the most translated texts in world...

Alternatives to the full name include "the United States", "America", and the initialisms "the U.S." and "the U.S.A.". It is generally accepted that the name "America"...

meaningful, and therefore easier to remember; many of them are acronyms or initialisms which reduce a lengthy set of terms to a single, easy-to-remember word...

Alexander Mikulin from 1914 onwards. The project was cancelled in 1915 after initial tests deemed the vehicle to be underpowered and vulnerable to artillery...

are overly pushy or aggressive (may involve high-pressure sales). The initial contact took place by a cold call or through a social network, a language-based...

is contested by 20 clubs. The competition was formed in 1929, with an initial format of 10 teams. Records in this section refer to La Liga from its founding...

recording that its artist, producer, or record company intends to be the initial focus of promotional efforts and radio airplay, with the aim of it becoming...

towns and cities is not needed. In the United States' military, the initialisms BMCT (begin morning civil twilight, i.e., civil dawn) and EECT (end evening...

the National September 11 Memorial & Museum alphabetically by last name initial. They are organized as such: List of victims of the September 11 attacks...

counter-attack which encircled the unsupported Russian forces and repelled the initial assault. The attack resumed on the next day with another air assault by...

and Hessian dialects, with locally varying degrees of influence of the initial dialects. Swabian is cited as "40 percent intelligible" to the speakers...

assurance and quality control - is adjoined to form QHSE or equivalent initialisms. From a safety standpoint, HSE involves creating organized efforts and...

VAP, Inc. (株式会社バップ, Kabushiki gaisha Bappu) (initials of Video & Audio Project) is a Japanese entertainment company, headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo. It...

Its behavior changes continuously with the auxiliary conditions, such as initial or boundary values. These criteria were first introduced by Jacques Hadamard...

packets. The initial request remains unprotected from active attacks if it uses an insecure protocol such as plain HTTP or if the URI for the initial request...

company, which will depend on the industry; companies that require large initial investments will generally have lower return on assets. ROAs over 5% are...

Murdoch in a three-episode mini-series, The Murdoch Mysteries, in its initial run on Canadian television, with two episodes shown in 2004 and a third...

Sztuk Walki (English: Martial Arts Confrontation), better known by its initials KSW, is widely considered to be the premier mixed martial arts organization...

The initials LHS are used for: Leumeah High School, New South Wales Lyneham High School, Australian Capital Territory Lurnea High School, New South Wales...

required for a trade, occupation or profession, training may continue beyond initial competence to maintain, upgrade and update skills throughout working life...

Andrew Tkaczyk. The group released a total of four studio albums in their initial run. In 2015, the band members were injured in a bus crash and forced to...

Bulletin No. 4, 2021: The 2021 St Helena Population and Housing Census: Initial Results (PDF), p. 2. St Helena Government. Retrieved from https://www.sainthelena...

significantly influenced by heat treatment processes. Solid Solution: After initial solidification, duralumin exists as a single-phase solid solution, primarily...

The Chevrolet SSR (an initialism for Super Sport Roadster) is a retro-styled pickup truck with a retractable hardtop manufactured by Chevrolet from 2003...

longtime member of the American heavy metal band Racer X during their initial run and their subsequent reformation until their 2009 breakup. As a member...

Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) use tens of acronyms and initialisms in documents relating to climate change policy. 0–9 A B C D E F G H I...

the Virgin Mary (Luke 1:36). In the Quran, his story is mentioned in the initial verse of surah Maryam (chapter Mary). According to the Gospel of Luke,...

TSC, is a Serbian professional football club based in Bačka Topola. Its initial founding date in 1913 as Topolyai Sport Club makes it currently the second-oldest...

Jason Eugene Terry (born September 15, 1977), also known by the initialism JET, is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is an...

minimizing the initial wait time for yourself. If the train is crowded, however, then you will have a slow entry after the initial action of entering...

from September 1965 to January 1971. The "DB" designation is from the initials of David Brown who built up the company from 1947 onwards. The DB6 succeeded...

inaugurated by the then Union Finance Minister Manmohan Singh. It launched its initial public offering in 1997. In 2004, IndusInd Bank completed its merger with...

famously said to resemble a butterfly. The system's extreme sensitivity to initial conditions gave rise to the popular concept of the butterfly effect—the...

western moose, Bullwinkle. Both Rocky and Bullwinkle were given the middle initial "J" as a reference to Ward. Jay Ward and partner Alex Anderson originally...

screen. iOS 5 was the subject of criticism for iPhone 4s users, as the initial release had poor battery life, failures of SIM cards, and echoes during...

and Brin the first paper about the project, describing PageRank and the initial prototype of the Google search engine, published in 1998. Shortly after...

electric album would have two songs on a side. It was kind of silly." Initial CD releases omitted one track, "Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie", for space reasons...

to find a child with the potential to be the future of dance. After the initial auditions and mega auditions, 12 contestants are selected to be competing...

Malaysia. Founded in 2002, the party was formed in the aftermath of an initial deregistration of the Sarawak National Party (SNAP). The party is a founding...

philosophical lectures, and experiments). Much of the Institution's initial funding and the initial proposal for its founding were given by the Society for Bettering...

containing namespace). Additionally, they permit lazy allocation and initialization, whereas global variables in many languages will always consume resources...

acquisition of PeopleSoft in 2005. In October 2012, Workday completed its initial public offering (IPO), which valued the company at $9.5 billion. Workday...

accepting because of his own orientation; her mother taking more time, with initial disappointment. Now her mother is a strong supporter of her career. Livingston...

in with promises of greater fuel economy and a lower price than on the initial offerings. The T100 was the first imported pickup truck that could carry...

industry in 2000 and starred in films such as Infernal Affairs (2002) and Initial D (2005). In 2008, he withdrew from the entertainment industry "indefinitely"...

all respectively the highest-rated television events at all during their initial broadcasts. "Déjà Vu" (the two-part season opener), "Who Is Don Luis Higgins"...

equipment should be used, procedures followed, or precautions taken during the initial stages of an emergency response. It is an internationally accepted safety...

DePatie–Freleng Enterprises (DFE Films) for release by United Artists. The initial 92 shorts were primarily released theatrically. These entries subsequently...

marks placed at the upper right of the base character that change the initial sound of a syllabogram. A double dot, called dakuten, indicates a primary...

and Saturday 30 September 2000. The top eight runners in each of the initial two heats automatically qualified for the final. The next four fastest...

Tesingu Rajendar (born 3 February 1983), popularly known as Simbu or by his initials as STR, is an Indian actor, filmmaker and musician who primarily works...

Celtic languages, is characterised by its initial consonant mutations. These mutations affect the initial consonant of a word under specific morphological...

Seymour, Parham was one of the two central figures in the development and initial spread of early Pentecostalism, known as Holiness Pentecostalism. It was...

YTMND, an initialism for "You're the Man Now, Dog", is an online community centered on the creation of hosted memetic web pages (known within the community...

sound appears in the beginning of the word, middle, or end of the word (initial, medial, or final). Take for example, correction of an "S" sound (lisp)...

Quisling's pro-Nazi regime and Josef Terboven's military administration The initial defence in Southern Norway, which was largely disorganised, but succeeded...

club St Cadoc's Youth Club from the Paisley, Johnstone & District League. Initial plans for the inaugural season would have seen the league operate a conference...

developed by 3M. It was first introduced by Richard Drew, who created the initial masking tape under the Scotch brand. The invention of Scotch-brand tape...

2/3 probability of winning the car, while the strategy of keeping the initial choice has only a 1/3 probability. When the player first makes their choice...

territorial courts Renominations Initial nomination expired on January 3, 2018. Subsequently renominated on January 8, 2018. Initial nomination expired on January...

manufacturers in France, West Germany and the United Kingdom signed an initial memorandum of understanding to collaborate to develop an innovative large...

Bureau of Alien Detectors (commonly initialized as BAD) is an American animated series by Saban Entertainment that aired on the UPN network's weekend-morning...

York. He claims in interviews and his memoirs that the business was an initial success; he grew his meat-selling business to employ several workers and...

Higuchi (HiguchiM) and has gone through significant upgrades since its initial creation. Its production was made as part of the VOCALOID Promotion Video...

November 1903 – 4 August 1988), usually known as Joe Vandeleur from his initials, was an Anglo-Irish British Army officer who served in the Second World...

series to be produced by Miller-Boyett Productions prior to the company's initial shutdown in 1999. Kevin Burke (Christopher Sieber) is a college professor...

etymology or folk etymology. A normal acronym is a word derived from the initial letter(s) of the words of a phrase, such as radar from "RAdio Detection...

MBNA Corporation (Initialism from Maryland Bank National Association) was a bank holding company and parent company of wholly owned subsidiary MBNA America...

week. Initial sales fell below expectations and its five singles failed to achieve significant chart success. Despite the album's low initial sales,...

application layer in the Internet Protocol Suite is RFC 1123. It provided an initial set of protocols that covered the major aspects of the functionality of...

initial symptoms of methanol exposure are usually less severe than the symptoms from the ingestion of a similar quantity of ethanol. Once the initial...

infinitive in initial position (as in (1)), followed by the auxiliary ober 'to do'. the second places the auxiliary verb bezañ 'to be' in initial position...

The initial sound rule (Korean: 두음법칙; Hanja: 頭音法則; RR: dueum beopchik) is series of changes to Hangul, the writing system for the Korean language, made...

company that would become Primerica was founded in 1981. Primerica had its initial public offering in 2010. Primerica's headquarters are located in Duluth...

zone, but are used to reinforce and resupply landing zones taken by the initial assault wave. Examples include the unarmed versions of the Mil Mi-8, Super...

generated after a long time, if the initial state is highly non-random. This happens particularly if the initial state has many zeroes. Generated results...

measured at various surface points in order to geometrically determine an initial guess as to the hypocenter. The wave reaches each station based upon how...

company may be more popular or recognizable than a private company. The initial shareholders of the company are able to share risk by selling shares to...