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    <title>Acronyms, initialisms &amp; abbreviations dictionary</title>
    <subTitle>a guide to more than 400,000 acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, alphabetic symbols, and similar condensed appellations</subTitle>
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    <title>Acronyms, initialisms, and abbreviations dictionary</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart> Towell ,Julie E.</namePart>
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  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart> Helen E Sheppard</namePart>
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  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart>Gale Research Company</namePart>
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  <genre authority="marc">dictionary</genre>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Gale Research Co.</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1987</dateIssued>
    <edition>: 11th ed.</edition>
    <issuance>continuing</issuance>
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    <extent>	3.volumes in ; 29 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>volumes in ; 29 cm
Contents:	v. l. Acronyms, initialisms &amp; abbreviations dictionary (pt. 1 A-F, pt. 2 G-0, pt. 3 P-Z) --
v. 2. New acronyms, initialisms &amp; abbreviations --
v. 3. Reverse acronyms, initialisms &amp; abbreviations dictionary (pt. 1 A-F, pt. 2 G-O, pt. 3 P-Z).</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">	Julie E Towell; Helen E Sheppard; Gale Research Company.</note>
  <note>	</note>
  <note>Also issued online.</note>
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    <topic>Acronyms</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Abbreviations</topic>
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    <topic>Abbreviations</topic>
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  <subject authority="fast">
    <topic>Acronyms</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="gtt">
    <topic>Afkortingen</topic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Abbreviations as Topic</topic>
    <topic>Dictionary</topic>
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  <subject authority="rvm">
    <topic>Abréviations</topic>
    <topic>Dictionnaires</topic>
    <topic>Périodiques</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc" edition="19">423 TOA 1987</classification>
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      <title>Reverse acronyms, initialisms &amp; abbreviations dictionary</title>
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      <title>New acronyms, initialisms &amp; abbreviations</title>
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  <relatedItem type="constituent">
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Acronyms, initialisms &amp; abbreviations dictionary supplement</title>
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