Since 1998, the Casia Corporation Holland have been working on The Definitive TLA Wörterbuch to help people find their way in the ever growing intellectual chaos caused by the late-twentieth century tendency to use as many acronyms in the daily communication as possible. Especially acronyms with a length of three letters have been and continue to be immensly popular, not only in Information and Communication Technology circles, but also among people in more mundane fields of labour; a tendency that has mushroomed with the advent of mobile communication and the combined growing popularity of Short Message Services.
At present, there are 4895 (3244 distinct) TLA's in the database.
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| MAA | Minor attracted adult (paedophile) | |
| MAC | Media Access Control | |
| Mothers Against Canada | ||
| Myth of Animal Consent | ||
| MAD | Moeten Allemaal Dood | |
| Mogen Allemaal Dood | ||
| Mutually Assured Destruction | ||
| MAF | Mortgage Application Form | |
| MAG | Motorrijders Actie Groep | |
| MAL | Moeder Aller Lasagnas | |
| MAM | Management Akademie München | |
| MAO | Monoamine Oxidase | |
| MAP | Microwave Anistropy Probe | |
| Migratie Applicatie Pensioensystemen | ||
| Ministry of Aircraft Production | ||
| MAW | Met Andere Woorden | |
| MAX | Cokedealer | |
| MBA | MacBook Air | |
| Master of Business Administration | ||
| Moderne Bedrijfs Administratie | ||
| MBB | Montgomery Bus Boycott | |
| MBC | Malawi Broadcasting Corporation | |
| Middle-east Broadcasting Corporation | ||
| MBE | Member of the British Empire | |
| MBF | Moleculaire Biofysica | |
| MBI | Message-Based Interoperability | |
| MBL | Michiel Basiaan Lequin | |
| MBO | Middelbaar Beroeps Onderwijs | |
| Middelbare Beroeps Opleiding | ||
| MBR | Master Boot Record | |
| MBS | Morgage Backed Securities | |
| MBW | Metropolitan Board of Works | |
| MCA | Micro Channel Architecture | |
| MCB | Marie Curie Beurs | |
| Muslim Council of Britain | ||
| MCC | Marylebone Cricket Club | |
| Microelectronics and Computer technology Corporation | ||
| Multiversion Concurrency Control | ||
| Museo de Cetáceos de Canarias | ||
| MCD | Mentally Challenged Design | |
| MCF | Magic control file | |
| MCG | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |
| MCI | Media Control Interface | |
| MCN | Muziek Centrum Nederland | |
| MCP | Maritime Communications Partner | |
| Mexico City Pollution | ||
| Microsoft Checksum Professional | ||
| MCS | Mega Computer Services | |
| MCV | MIDI to Control Voltage | |
| Multi Convivial Vehicle | ||
| Muziekcentrum Vredenburg | ||
| MCW | Middel Class Whiners | |
| Moscone Center West | ||
| MDA | Model Driven Architecture | |
| MDC | Movement for Democratic Change | |
| MDF | Medium Density Fiberboard | |
| MDH | Milk Drinking Homo's | |
| MDI | Meldpunt Discriminatie Internet | |
| MDP | Mar Del Plaza | |
| Massive Domestic Propaganda | ||
| MDR | Memory Data Register | |
| Multiple Decoy Rockets | ||
| MDT | Mountain Daylight Time | |
| MED | Manhattan Engineer District | |
| Manhattan Engineering District | ||
| MEK | Mono-Evolver Keys | |
| MEL | Maya Embedded Language | |
| MEM | Main Electronics Module | |
| Mars Excursion Module | ||
| Maximum Entropy Method | ||
| MEO | Marine Engineering Officer | |
| MEP | Member of European Parliament | |
| MES | Maar Eens Scheren | |
| Media Encoder Service | ||
| MET | Middle European Time | |
| MEZ | Maar Eens Zetten | |
| MFB | Motional Feedback | |
| MFI | Maastricht Forensic Institute | |
| MFM | Meat Free Monday | |
| MFO | Mede Financierings Organisatie | |
| Meteorologie en Fysische Oceanografie | ||
| MFT | Master File Table | |
| MFU | Medicinal Fetal Unit | |
| MGA | Microsoft Genuine Advantage | |
| MGD | Miller Genuine Draft | |
| MGM | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |
| MGV | Musique à Grande Vitesse | |
| MIA | Missing In Action | |
| MIB | Meisjes In Bikini | |
| Men In Black | ||
| MID | Militaire Inlichtingendienst | |
| MIH | Make It Happen | |
| MIK | Mist Is Kut | |
| MIL | Microsoft Intermediate Language | |
| MIM | Make it Mine | |
| Multimedia International Market | ||
| MIR | Micro Instruction Register | |
| MIS | Major Investment Study | |
| Management information system | ||
| men in skirts | ||
| minimally invasive surgery | ||
| MIT | massachusetts institute of technology | |
| MJD | Modified Julian Date | |
| MJK | Museum JaarKaart | |
| MKB | Midden en Klein Bedrijf | |
| MKE | Maar Klanten Eerst | |
| MKZ | Meer Koffie Zetten | |
| Mond- en Klauwzeer | ||
| MLA | Mercury Laser Altimeter | |
| Micro Light Aircraft | ||
| Militaire Luchtvaart Autoriteit | ||
| Modern Language Association of America | ||
| MLB | Main Logic Board | |
| Major League Baseball | ||
| MLD | Mead Lover's Digest | |
| Mean Lethal Dose | ||
| MLK | Martin Luther King | |
| Moeilijk Lerende Kinderen | ||
| MSX LinKer | ||
| MLP | Machine Learning Pattern | |
| Meridian Lossless Packing | ||
| MLT | Marianne Louise Thieme | |
| MMA | Maine Municipal Association | |
| Mainframe Migration Alliance | ||
| Malaysian Medical Association | ||
| Maldives Monetary Authority | ||
| Malta Maritime Authority | ||
| Marine Military Academy | ||
| Maritime Museum of the Atlantic | ||
| Marketing Management Analytics | ||
| Massachusetts Maritime Academy | ||
| Massachusetts Motorcycle Association | ||
| Massachusetts Municipal Association | ||
| Media Monitoring Agency | ||
| Medical Marketing Association | ||
| Medicare Modernization Act | ||
| Medicine and Madison Avenue | ||
| Mennonite Mutual Aid | ||
| Mercy Medical Airlift | ||
| Michigan Manufacturers Association | ||
| Middle Mnagement Association | ||
| MIDI Manufacturers Association | ||
| Milde Monty Python Associatie | ||
| Ministerio de Medio Ambiente | ||
| Mixed Martial Arts | ||
| Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal | ||
| Mutuelles du Mans Assurances | ||
| MMD | Mensen Moeten Dood | |
| Mickey Mouse Diagram | ||
| MMF | Memory Mapped File | |
| Music Managers Forum | ||
| MMH | Marc-Marie Huijbregts | |
| MMM | Misdaad, Marteling en Moord | |
| Mix Master Mike | ||
| MMO | Massive Multiplayer Online | |
| MMS | Middelbare Meisjesschool | |
| MMT | Model to Model Transformations | |
| MMU | Memory Management Unit | |
| MMV | MiniMoog Voyager | |
| MNA | Maatschappij tot Nut van het Algemeen | |
| MNG | Multi-image Network Graphics | |
| MNP | Moeder Neukende Poep | |
| MNS | Minerva Network Systems | |
| MNW | Man and the Natural World | |
| MOA | Macromedia Open Architecture | |
| MOC | Meridional Overturning Circulation | |
| MOE | Maintenance of Effort | |
| MOF | Meta-Object Facility | |
| MOG | Melding Ongewenste Gebeurtenis | |
| Monsters of Grace | ||
| MOL | Meaning Of Love | |
| MOM | Message Oriented Middleware | |
| MON | Montagne Omroep Nederland | |
| MOP | Meerjaren Ontwikkelings Plan | |
| Mogelijk Ongewenst Programma | ||
| MOR | Methods Or Research | |
| MOS | Metal Oxide Semiconductor | |
| MPA | Medroxyprogeteron Acetaat | |
| MPC | Malignant Pestilent Cunts | |
| Massive Pile of Crap | ||
| Micro Program Counter | ||
| Moving Picture Company | ||
| Multipurpose Project Corantijn | ||
| MPD | Metropolitan Police DIstrict | |
| MPF | Matte Painting Fetishist | |
| MPH | Miles Per Hour | |
| MPM | Manufacturing Process Management | |
| MPP | Massive Parallel Processing | |
| MPR | Ministry of Petroleum Resources (Nigeria) | |
| MPS | Metropolitan Police Service | |
| Mozart Programming System | ||
| MPV | minimal Penis Vehicle | |
| Multi Purpose Vehicle | ||
| MQI | Message Queue Interface | |
| MQS | Message Queing System | |
| Message Queuing System | ||
| MRB | Multiple resolution bitmap graphics | |
| MRC | Middleware Resource Center | |
| MRE | Meal Ready to Eat | |
| MRF | Meat Rendering Facility | |
| MRI | Mathematical Research Institute | |
| MRL | Metaphysics Research Laboratory | |
| MRO | Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter | |
| MRP | Manufacturing Resource Planning | |
| Materials Requirements Planning | ||
| MRS | Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy | |
| MSA | Modern Standard Arabic | |
| MSB | Most Significant Bit | |
| MSC | Master of Science | |
| Missinian Salinity Crisis | ||
| MSD | Most Significant Digit | |
| Multiple Site Damage | ||
| MSE | Maximum Solar Exposure | |
| Microsoft Security Essentials | ||
| MSF | Médecins Sans Frontières | |
| MSG | Monosodium GlutoMate | |
| MSN | Microsoft Network | |
| Multiple Subscriber Number | ||
| MSP | Master Stack Pointer | |
| MSR | Main Supply Route | |
| MSS | Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf | |
| MSX | Machines with Software eXchangeability | |
| Microsoft eXtended | ||
| MTA | Mail Transport Agent | |
| MTB | motortorpedoboten | |
| MTG | Massa TLA Gekut | |
| MTM | Mijn Type Meisje | |
| MTP | MIDI Time Piece | |
| Modellerings Tool Pensioen | ||
| MTR | Magnetic Tape Recorder | |
| MTU | Maximum Transmission Unit | |
| Michigan Tech University | ||
| MTV | Music Television | |
| MTZ | Massa TLA Zooi | |
| MUC | Manchester University Computer | |
| MUI | Macromedia User Interface | |
| Magic User Interface | ||
| MUX | Multiplexer | |
| MVM | Meisjes Voor Mannen | |
| MVN | Matthijs van Nieuwkerk | |
| MVO | Maatschappelijk Verantwoord Ondernemen | |
| Member of the Royal Victorian Order | ||
| MVS | Multiple Virtual Storage | |
| MVW | Maartje van Weegen | |
| MWC | Weighted Methods per Class | |
| MWM | Married White Man | |
| Million Women March | ||
| Million Worker March | ||
| Motif Window Manager | ||
| Motoren Werke Mannheim | ||
| Moustarchindina Wal Moustarchidati | ||
| MWO | Militair-wetenschappelijke opleiding | |
| Mount Wilson Observatory | ||
| MYM | Meet Your Meat | |
| MZK | Mensen Zijn Kut | |
