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Acronym Finder


Acronym Finder is an online database of abbreviations (acronyms, initialisms, and others) and their meanings. As of 2016 it includes over 900,000 human-edited and verified definitions, many of them related to computers, technology, telecommunications, science, medicine and the military. While the database is not open content, users can help to expand the database by submitting new definitions for review by editorial control. The website identifies those contributing more than 50 definitions. Thanks to these contributors, the site's database grows at the rate of over 6,000 new definitions each month.

The associated Acronym Attic website stores a large collection of unverified acronyms.

Acronym Finder also includes a Systematic Buzz Phrase Projector, a light-hearted tool that randomly generates jargon-like phrases and abbreviations — usually initialisms that would be unpronounceable as acronyms — and meanings from 30 cleverly chosen buzz words.

Mike Molloy founded the database in 1997, although the work that became AcronymFinder actually began in 1985. Molloy continues to develop it as of 2013. Today, it is published by Mountain Data Systems LLC.



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