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Questions tagged [abbreviation]
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What is MOJO in Maven?
I'm reading about Maven right now and everywhere in a text I see this word (mojo). I approximately understand what it means, but I would not refuse from a good explanation. I tried to google, but found only non-maven explanations.
POJO - ok, but…
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What does "nit" mean in hacker-speak?
When someone writes "nit: removed whitespace" on a commit, what does "nit" mean? I've also seen it capitalized as if it were an abbreviation (i.e. NIT). For an example usage see this post:
Of course there is a difference between a comment saying:…
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What does `hl` stand for?
Various Google API endpoints and webpages use a hl= parameter in the query string to set the language.
Example
hl=en
or
hl=no
What does hl stand for?
Nam G VU
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What does /p mean in set /p?
What does /p stand for in set /p=? I know that / enables a switch, and I'm fairly sure that I know /a is for arithmetic. I've heard numerous rumours, some saying /p is for prompt, others stating it stands for print. The only reason I slightly doubt…
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Naming convention for upper case abbreviations
Should a method that returns an XML stream be called
public Stream getXmlStream();
or instead
public Stream getXMLStream();
What's your opinion about that? What's considered best practice?
user321068
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What does "ctx" mean?
I have seen it used twice already in different libraries as an abbreviation, but I can't wrap my head around what it should mean.
For example here:
static int reformat_string(void * ctx, const unsigned char * stringVal,
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Why is "internationalization" shortened to "i18n"?
When people discuss about internationalization, they use the word "i18n" more often. For first time I didn't get what they are referring to by "i18n", then I came to know that it means "internationalization".
So wanted to know why…
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What do top %cpu abbreviations mean?
Does anyone know what the 2-letter abbreviations mean in the %CPU line in the header above the top table of processes? Here's a sample output from running top.
top - 15:10:34 up 8 days, 5:11, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 3.80, 26.82
Tasks: 1…
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Python - How to intuit word from abbreviated text using NLP?
I was recently working on a data set that used abbreviations for various words. For example,
wtrbtl = water bottle
bwlingbl = bowling ball
bsktball = basketball
There did not seem to be any consistency in terms of the convention used, i.e.…
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Split string into sentences
I have written this piece of code that splits a string and stores it in a string array:-
String[] sSentence = sResult.split("[a-z]\\.\\s+");
However, I've added the [a-z] because I wanted to deal with some of the abbreviation problem. But then my…
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What does MR version stand for?
Today I got Android ICS update. The system shows version "Ice Cream Sandwich MR1". I know alpha, beta, rc, rtm, etc. but I was wandering what MR stands for.
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Using HTML tag to explain content
Is it bad form to use the tag to explain words that are not actually abbreviations but to produce a "hover over" explanation of content?
If it is, why is it bad form, and what is a good HTML alternative?
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Get Military Time Zone Abbreviation
I have a org.joda.time.DateTime object and I need to retrieve the military time zone abbreviation (e.g. T for UTC-07:00, U for UTC-08:00, Z for UTC±00:00).
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_time_zones
Here's how I'm currently doing…
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How can I get all the abbreviations of vim's options?
Such as I can use
:set nu
as
:set number
Where can I get the whole list of this kind of mapping (number -> nu)?
Or can I define new abbreviations?
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What does SGBD mean?
As I could not find the answer anywhere else:
What is SGBD? Is it "Système de Gestion de Bases de
Données" (Database management system)?
E.g. it is used in responses to these
two Stack Overflow questions:
Trip time calculation in relational…
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