Risus is Latin for "laughter." Since Risus is designed primarily as a "universal comedy system," it seemed to suit, since it's short and simple and easy to remember. Very early versions of the game (circa 1988-89) had working titles like "GUCS" (Generic Universal Comedy System)! Eek. I pronounce "Risus" with an "ee" and a short "u," with emphasis on the first syllable ("REE-sus").

There are many abbreviations, specialized terms and acronyms the Division uses in documents regarding the prevention and cleanup of hazardous materials. Please refer to our Glossary/Acronyms webpage to see definitions for commonly used terms and acronyms.

The military, and the government in general just loves acronyms. HERE is a good place to see what they mean.

MARC is the acronym for MAchine-Readable Cataloging. It defines a data format that emerged from a Library of Congress-led initiative that began nearly forty years ago. It provides the mechanism by which computers exchange, use, and interpret bibliographic information, and its data elements make up the foundation of most library catalogs used today. MARC became USMARC in the 1980s and MARC 21 in the late 1990s.

SIFAT stands for Servants in Faith and Technology. SIFAT has also been known as the Southern Institute for Appropriate Technology, which is still our legal name. You can also check our staff contact page where the persons responsible for each area are listed with their email address.

Sometimes it seems the computer has unleashed a severe case of acronymitis on the world. Hardly a day goes by without some new term, usually an acronym, slipping across the radar screen. People entering a new field such as photovoltaics, may experience this to an unsettling Nth degree.

RFID stands for "Radio Frequency IDentification" which is an automatic data registration technology where tiny chips are used for the tracking of products by attaching them to the products themselves or their packaging. With these little chips, the whereabouts of objects can be detected - even through a wallet, a rucksack or a bag.

CAE Online was founded in 1983 as the Corporate Asset Exchange, and changed its name to CAE Online when we created the caeonline.com web site in 1999.

DITSCAP is the acronym for DoD Information Technology Security Certification and Accreditation Process.

The acronym "TRIPS" refers to "trade–related intellectual property issues". The TRIPS Agreement is part of the GATT-WTO system. It breaks new ground because it does not deal strictly with trade in goods. It fills the IPR gap within GATT by establishing minimum levels of protection for copyrights, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial designs, patents, plant varieties, computer chip layout designs, and trade secrets.

C of E stands for Church of England, the national church of the UK, of which HM The Queen is the head.

NAMI, the Nation's Voice on Mental Illness was founded in 1979 as the National Alliance on Mental Illness. "NAMI" was officially made our corporate name in 1997, after a vote of the membership. This was done after years of discussion that the full name was not person-first language and perpetuated the very stigma we hope to erase.

Olympic Peninsula Enological Society. "OPES ONE", the first event title, was a play on words. It reinforced our organization's acronym, and described another feature appropriate to the musically tuned Port Townsend Scene: The word "opus" is defined as "a creative work" which is numbered to indicate the order of composition, as by a musical composer.

CED stands for Capacitance Electronic Disc, which refers to the method used to encode the video and audio information on the disc surface. Capacitance can be defined as the ability of two adjacent conductors to store electric charge, and in the CED system these adjacent conductors are the carbon-loaded disc and the thin titanium electrode deposited on the diamond stylus.

CMB stands for Cosmic Microwave Background. It is also sometimes called the CBR, for Cosmic Background Radiation, although this is really a more general term that includes other cosmological backgrounds, eg infra-red, radio, x-ray, gravity-wave, neutrino. The CMB contains hugely more energy than any other cosmic radiation source, however, so it is the dominant component of the overall CBR spectrum. Other acronyms, such as CMBR, are also sometimes used!

Read The Fine FAQ, a variant of RTFM. Also RTFAQ Posters please note: Moderators are unlikely to approve follow-ups that consist solely of "RTFF".

Incurred is defined in Internal Revenue Code Section 125 as the date that that the services are provided that gave rise to the expense. Expenses are not considered to be provided at the time you are billed for or pay for the services.

It stands for "Hazardous Materials". There are signs which show its allowance or prohibition (see http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/HTM/2003r1/part2/part2b4.htm#section2B52 ). It was formerly labelled with "HC" or "Hazardous Cargo", and CA uses "HW" ("Hazardous Waste"). NJ has signs in the same vein prohibiting or allowing 102-inch-wide trucks (see the maps at http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/truck/ ).

The name "Inyo" comes from a Native American word meaning "dwelling place of the great spirit." It was used by local Native Americans to describe the local mountains, now known as the White/Inyo Range, to early settlers of the area.

it. The creditor, however, is not reimbursed the owed monies by the government. Instead, the creditor may consider the lost debt as an expense on its income tax forms, and thereby reduce its tax liability to the federal and state government.

MPR is an acronym for Multi-Protocol RFID. Specifically this is a family of multi-protocol PCMCIA Type II UHF RFID products. These units read and program EPC Class 0/0+, EPC Class 1 and EPC Class 1 Gen 2 passive RFID tags in the UHF ISM band.

Please see RTFM in the Jargon File. Posters please note: Moderators are unlikely to approve follow-ups that consist solely of "RTFM".

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GROWW is an acronym for "Grief Recovery Online (founded by) Widows & Widowers," but a support community for all bereaved.