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Acronyms and Abbreviations

Web Sites

• Acronym Finder - Over 560,000 entries. The world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. Also search for over 850,000 US and Canadian postal codes.
• Acronym Search: the Dr's Reference Site - More than 5,000 medical acronyms
• Acronym search.com - English language acronyms
• Acronyms and abbreviations (Akronyme und Abkürzungen) -English and German, good for science and technology
• Biomedical Acronym Resolver - Medical and scientific acronyms
• Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations- Online version of the DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
• Medilexicon- Includes medical acronyms, abbreviations, a medical dictionary and medical news
• Medindia- Excellent acronyms dictionary combined with a health encyclopedia, directories and other services. Oriented toward India.
• Military Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations - Vast coverage of armed forces acronyms
• United States Postal Service Abbreviations - Abbreviations for states, street suffixes (e.g., Ave or Blvd), and secondary unit designators (e.g., Suite/ste or Lake/lk).

Selected Sources in the Axe Library

• Acronyms, initialism & abbreviations dictionary
• Dictionary of Financial Abbreviations
• Elsevier's dictionary of cybernyms: abbreviations and acronyms used in telecommunications, electronics, and computer science in English, French, Spanish, and German, with some Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, and Finnish