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[usability] A shortened form of a word or phrase which represents the whole. Abbreviations are commonly a letter or group of letters taken from the complete form of the word, such as the usage of St. in place of Street.
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2.5 Abbreviations for Town Departments
The town clerk will devise and maintain a list of two-letter abbreviations for each of the departments in the town for use in the town's automated index database.
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In Maplex for ArcGIS, a file that contains whole words and their abbreviated forms to allow automated shortening of labels.
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1. Abbreviation of the term COordinate GeOmetry. Land surveyors use COGO functions to enter survey data, to calculate precise locations and boundaries, to define curves, and so on.
Ex. Contour lines connect points of equal surface value.
PDA, abbreviation for Personal Digital Assistant, is a handheld device that combines computing, telephone/fax, Internet and networking features. A typical PDA can function as a cellular phone, fax sender, Web browser and personal organizer.
Abbreviations and Symbols. Standard abbreviations, signs, and symbols should be used in all survey notes and must be consistent with guidelines in such publications as AR 310-50 and FMs 21-31 and 101-5-1.
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Compound words
Clipping (morphology)
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Contraction (grammar)
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Border towns in the United States with portmanteau names
List of portmanteaux
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Modem: Abbreviation for MODulator and DEModulator, adevice that converts data from one form into another.
From one form usable in data processing to another form usable in telephonic transmission.
Acronyms and Abbreviations
List of acronyms
TLAs: Table of all possible TLAs from AAA to DZZ, to HZZ, to LZZ, to PZZ, to TZZ, to XZZ, to ZZZ ...
DPI is an abbreviation for dots (or pixels) per inch, a measure of the resolution of graphic displays.
DTM stands for digital terrain model, a method of transforming elevation data into a contoured surface or a three-dimensional display.
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Spatial Planning Social and political process that aims at deciding where and how in space a project should take place. Actor Person taking part or being interested in a process of spatial planning.
An abbreviation for Geographic Coding. The procedure for locating and translating geographic coordinates in x,y digits or grid cells for an object or event in space and coded in map units, lines, and points.
ANSI An abbreviation for American National Standards Institute. ANSI standards have been established for many elements of computer systems to aid research and development.
At the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (familiarly known by its German abbreviation ETH), we have developed the Atmospheric Water Vapor Tomography Software (AWATOS) for estimating humidity profiles.
Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in GIS, Cartography, and Remote Sensing—University of California at Berkeley
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FGDC Glossary—most terms are from the Spatial Data Transfer Standard (FIPS 173) ...
- The DB/UG Team scrubs the information (such as drawing scales, street names, postal abbreviations, circuits, voltage, phases) on the old maps.
- The data sources and electronic tiff images of the old ink maps are sent to JCMB.
Million years - abbreviation.
M.Y.A.:
Million years ago - abbreviation.
Mylonite:
A brecciated metamorphic rock frequently found in a fault zone. The fractured texture is thought to form by the crushing actions of fault movement.
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Most projections are supported. The PROJ.4 abbreviations for the names are used with two exceptions, viz. 'll', for latitude / longitude geographic co-ordinates, and 'stp', for the State Plane Co-ordinate system (used in the USA).
" The states are labeled with their abbreviations. States: Vermont, Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, Delaware, Arizona, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Tennessee, Louisiana, North Carolina, Maine, Connecticut, Mississippi, Arkansas, ...
Appendix 1. Units, Conversions, and Abbreviations
Appendix 2. Using Topographic Maps
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16-17: In the right column are two abbreviations: SNR and NE deltaT. What do these stand for and what do they measure? ANSWER ...
General Mapping Terms
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
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Open the table for the newly exported layer and add integer fields called mbf1994 and mbf1974 (mbf is an abbreviation for thousand board feet).
Calculate the values as the board-foot volumes in 1994 and 1974, respectively: ...
API The abbreviation for the American Petroleum Institute. API Number A unique, permanent, numeric identifier assigned for identification purposes to a wellbore. It consists of 10 digit.
I recommend "GxGyDxDy4" for map #4- the rest is an abbreviation for [Greek X Greek Y Decimal X Decimal Y]. You're going to have a lot of files by the time you're done, so it's best to keep track of them.
attribute, such as colour and intensity. 2) In remote sensing, refers to the fundamental unit of data collection. A pixel is represented in a remotely sensed image as a rectangular cell in an array of data values. The term is an abbreviation for ...
CARIS is the abbreviation of Computer Aided Resource Information System, a company based in Fredericton, New Brunswick which produces GIS and hydrographic data processing software. ...
the ROAD_NAME can be a long name for the higher resolution stamp and its abbreviation for the lower resolution), the third kind of attributes is separately defined for each stamp (e.g.
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