A Very Important List Of Abbreviations In English | Abbreviation Definition And Usage

 

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A-Z ABBREVIATIONS LIST 

What is an Abbreviation?

Both in formal and informal speech, we don’t always write the whole word or phrase and use a shortened form instead. For example, it’s common to come across an “etc.” or “i.e.” in an essay and an “OMG” or “FYI” in a text message you receive from a friend. All of these are abbreviations.

Why Do We Use Abbreviations?

The reason why abbreviations have been popular hundreds of years ago and why they still remain so today is that they help us save space and time. Obviously, it takes a lot less effort to write SARS than it would if you were to write “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome”, the whole phrase that it stands for. In addition, in the modern world, there sometimes is the need to fit as much information as possible into one message while having a limited amount of characters. For instance, Twitter doesn’t allow tweets to be longer than 280 characters. It’s natural to shorten all the words that can be shortened, to make sure that everything you want to say fits into a single tweet.

Abbreviations can take various forms, and there isn’t a rule that would strictly define how words can or can’t be shortened. One option is representing the word by its first letter or by the first few letters, e.g. v. for verb and Co. for company. Some abbreviations take the most important letters of the word, such as Ltd. that stands for limited, or Revd that stands for Reverend. A single word can also be shortened by taking only the first and the last letter, e.g. Dr. for Doctor, Rd. for road. It’s also common that first letters of the words in a phrase are used instead of a whole phrase.

Often quite a few questions arise when it comes to abbreviations. Do I use a full stop after the shortened version of the word? Do I use lowercase or uppercase letters? What do I do if I need a plural form? These are just some of those questions. However, just as it is with the majority of English grammar, practice makes perfect. If you keep using abbreviations in your writing, you soon will have no problems with them.

List of different types of abbreviations with meaning in English.

       ---- A ---                             

• ·      ABC    =    American broadcast Company ;
• ·      a/c      = air conditioning ;
• ·      A/C     =  Account ;
• ·      AC      =   Alternating Current ;
• ·      ACS    =  Assam Civil Service ;
• ·      AD     =   Anno Domini (Latin) (In the year of the Lord);
• ·      AHSEC  =    Assam Higher Secondary Education Council 
• ·      AICC   =   All India Congress Committee;
• ·       AIDC =     Assam Industrial Development Corporation;
• ·      AIR      =    All India Radio ;
• ·      AITUC  =    All India Trade Union Congress ;
• ·      A.M/a.m =   Ante meridiem (before noon/ midday) ;
• ·      AMC     =  Assam Medical College;
• ·      APCC   =   Assam Pradesh Congress Committee ;
• ·      APSC     =  Assam Public Service Commission ;
• ·      ASIDC   =  Assam Small Industries Development Corporation;

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               ---- B---

   . BA =    Bachelor of Arts ;

•        BARC   =    Bhabha Atomic Research Centre;
•         BBC   =      British Broadcasting Corporation ;
•          BC      =     Before Christ;
•       BHEL   =   Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited;
•       BJP     =    Bhatia Janata Party;
•       BRPL  =     Bangaigaon Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited;
•        Bsc       =  Bachelor of science ;
•        B Tech =    Bachelor of Technology;

           ---- C ---

·      CBI     =     Central Bureau of Investigation ;

·      CBSE   =   Central Board of Secondary Education ;

·      CIA      =    Central Intelligence Agency ;

·      CISCE =     Council for Indian School Certificate Examination;

·      C/o   =     Care of;

·      CCTV =     closed-circuit television;

·      CID   =     Criminal investigation department;

·      CNN   =     cable news network ;

·      COD    =   Cash/Collection of delivery;

                    ----D-----

·      DC      =     Deputy Commissioner/Direct current;

·      DDT =        Dichloro-diphenyl Trichloroethane ;

·      DIET    =      District Institute of Education and Training;

·      D.Litt/Dlitt/D.litt/Dlit    =   Doctor of Literature;

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·      DSc/D.Sc.    =     Doctor of Science;

·      DU         =          Dibrugarh University,

·      D U        =          Delhi University;

            ------E----

·     E.G     =    Exempli gratia =for example;

·     Etc.     =     Et cetera ;

          ----- F------

·      FAO         =        Food and Agriculture Organisation;

·      FCI         =         Food Corporation of India

·      FIFA      =        Federation International de Football Association;

·      FAQ      =      Frequently

Asked Question;

         ----- G------

·      GATT       =        General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade ;

·      GK          =       General knowledge;

·      GMT      =          Greenwich Mean Time ;

·      GMCH    =         Gauhati Medical College and Hospital;

·      GNP        =        Gross National Product ;

·      GU       =            Gauhati University;

             ----- H------

·      HPC      =        Hindustan Paper Corporation ;

·      HQ           =        Headquarters ;

·      HUDCO  =         Housing and Urban Development Corporation;

          --------I--------

·      IAS           =      Indian Administrative Service ;

·      ICAR       =        Indian Certificate of Agricultural Reaseach;

·      ICBM       =       Inter-continental Ballistic Missile ;

·      ICC          =        International Cricket Council ;

·      ICSE        =        Indian Council of Secondary Education;

·      IDBI       =         Industrial Development Bank of India;

·      i.e.        =          id est (that is);

·      IFS          =       Indian Foreign Service/ Indian Forest Service;

·      IGNOU    =      Indira Gandhi National Open University ;

·      IIT          =       Indian Institute of Technology;

·      IIM         =       Indian Institute of Management ;

·      ILO       =          International Labour Organisation ;

·      IMF        =        International Monetary Fund ;

·      IOA        =       Indian Olympic Association;

·      IPC        =          Indian Oil Corporation;

·      IPS          =        Indian police service;

·      IOC      =           Indian Penal Code ;

·      IQ          =         Intelligence Quotient ;

·      ISI        =           Indian Standard Institute;

·      IST        =          Indian Standard Time ;

·      IT         =           Information Technology;

·      ISCE     =          Indian School Certificate Examination ;

 

            ----- J------

·      JNU        =       Jawaharlal Nehru University ;

 

            ----- K------

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·      KKHSOU   =   Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University ;

·      KVS      =       Kendriya Vidyalay Sangathan ;

          ----- L------

·      Lbw      =     leg before wicket ;

·      LLB/LL.B.  =  Bachelor of Law ;

·      LLM/LL.M  =  Master of Law ;

·      LLD/LL.D  =  Doctor of Law;

·      LSD/lsd  =    Pounds Shillings Pence ;

·      LPG        =    Liquefied petroleum gas ;

          ----- M------

·      MBBS   =   Bachelor of Medicine/ Bachelor of Surgery ;

·      MCC    =     Marylebone Cricket Club ;

·      MD     =     Doctor of Medicine;

·      MISA    =   Maintenance of Internal Security Act ;

·      MIT    =      Massachusettes Institute of Technology ;

 

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·      MS    =       Master of Surgery;

·      MLA      =   Member of Legislative Assembly;

·      MNC     =    Multinational Company ;

·      MP-     =     Member of Parliament ;

·      Mr      =      Mister;

·      Mrs      =    Mistress ;

·      Ms      =   (blending of Miss and Mrs- Pronunciation/miz/)

·      M Tech   =   Master of Technology;

    ---- N------

·      NATO    =     North Atlantic Tready Organisation ;

·      NB     =   Nota bene (take special note of) ;

·      NCERT   =   National Council of Educational Research and Training;

·      NDA    =  National Defence Academy ;

·      NEC   =    North Eastern Council ;

·      NEHU    =  North Eastern Hill University;

·      NEEPCO  =   North East Electric Power Corporation;

·      NEITCO  =   North Eastern Industrial and Technical Consultancy Organisation ;

·      NHPC   =   National Hydroelectric Power Corporation ;

·      NHRC   =   National Human Rights Commission ;

·      NIT      =   National Institute of Technology ;

·      NRHM   =  National Rural Health Mission ;

·      NRI      =    Non-resident Indian ;

·      NTPC  =     National Thermal Power Corporation;

                       ----- O------

·      OED   =     Oxford English Dictionary;

·      OIGS    =   On India Government Service;

·      ONGC   =    Oil and Natural gas Commission ;

·      OPEC     =   Organisation of Petroleum Exponting Countries

           ----- P------

·      PhD/Ph. D.  =    Doctor of Philosophy ;

·      PIL      =         Public Interest Litigation;

·      PM      =       Prime Minister;

·      P.M./p.m.    =   Post meridiem; (afternoon / After midday );

·      PMO   =      Prime Minister's Office

·      POW     =    Prisoner of War ,

·      PRÒ     =     Public Relations Officer ;

·      PSU      =     Public Sector Undertaking ;

·      PTI       =      Press Trust of India ;

·      PTO       =     Please Turn Over ;

                  ----- R-----

·      RBI         =    Reserve Bank of India

·      RCC        =    Reinforced Cement Concrete ;

·      R&D      =     Research and Development

·      RMSA    =    Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan ;

                   ----- S------

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·      SBI       =    State Bank of India ;

·      SCERT  =  State Council of Educational Researth and Training ;

·      SEBA    =    Board of Secondary Education ,Assam;

·      SP       =     Superintendent of Police;

·      SSA     =     Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan ;

·      St.       =   Saint, Street ;

            ----- T------

·      TB     =      Tuberculosis ;

·      TV      =      Television ;

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              ----- U------

·      UFO       =     Unidentified Flying Object ;

·      UGC      =      University Grants Commission ;

·      UNESCO   =   United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation ;

·      UNI    =      United News of India ;

·      UNO       =   United Nations Organisation

·      UNICEF   =   United Nations International  Children's Emergency Fund ;

·      USA    =     United States of America ;

·      UPSC   =    Union Public Service Commission ;

               -----V----

·      VAT    =     Value added tax ;

·      VIP     =     Very Important Person ;

·      VPP    =     Value Payable Post ;

            ----- W------

·      WHO    =   World Health Organisation;

·      WTO    =   World Trade Organisation ;

·      WWW =   World Wide Web;

   ----- X------

 

·      Xmas    =  Christmas ;

          ----- Y------

·      YMCA   =    Young Men's Christian Association;

·      YWCA   =     Young Women's Christian Association ;

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