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 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 7611 TLAs in the database.
Of these, 4520 are distinct, out of 17576 possible (25.72%).
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| M | ||
| MAA | Minor attracted adult (paedophile) | |
| MAC | Media Access Control | |
| Mothers Against Canada | ||
| Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru | ||
| Myth of Animal Consent | ||
| MAD | Magnetic Anomaly Detection | |
| Military Air Distress | ||
| Moeten Allemaal Dood | ||
| Mogen Allemaal Dood | ||
| Mutually Assured Destruction | ||
| MAE | Moveable Audio Engine | |
| MAF | Mortgage Application Form | |
| MAG | Meneage Archeology Group | |
| Motorrijders Actie Groep | ||
| MAK | MSX Aktief Kampen | |
| MAL | Moeder Aller Lasagnas | |
| MAM | Management Akademie München | |
| MAO | Monoamine Oxidase | |
| MAP | Media Art Platform | |
| Microwave Anistropy Probe | ||
| Migratie Applicatie Pensioensystemen | ||
| Ministry of Aircraft Production | ||
| monoammonium phosphate | ||
| MAS | Minerva Arduino Set | |
| 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 | ||
| Multi-Band Camera | ||
| MBD | Minimal Brain Dysfunction | |
| 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 | Mohammad bin Salman | |
| Morgage Backed Securities | ||
| MBT | Main Ballast Tank | |
| MBW | Metropolitan Board of Works | |
| Monitor Brede Welvaart | ||
| MCA | Micro Channel Architecture | |
| Misuse of Civil Aviation | ||
| MCB | Marie Curie Beurs | |
| Muslim Council of Britain | ||
| MCC | Marylebone Cricket Club | |
| Mercury Control Center | ||
| Microelectronics and Computer technology Corporation | ||
| Ministeriële Commissie Crisisbeheersing | ||
| Mission Control Center | ||
| Multiversion Concurrency Control | ||
| Museo de Cetáceos de Canarias | ||
| MCD | Mentally Challenged Design | |
| MCF | Magic control file | |
| MCG | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |
| MCI | Manning's Collective Intelligence | |
| Media Control Interface | ||
| MCN | Muziek Centrum Nederland | |
| MCO | Mars Climate Orbiter | |
| MCP | Maritime Communications Partner | |
| Master Control Program | ||
| Mexico City Pollution | ||
| Microsoft Checksum Professional | ||
| MCR | Main Control Room | |
| MCS | Marine Conservation Society | |
| Mega Computer Services | ||
| MCT | Mars Colonial Transporter | |
| Ministeriële Commissie Troonswisseling | ||
| MCU | Marvel Cinematic Universe | |
| Marvel Comics Universe | ||
| MCV | MIDI to Control Voltage | |
| Multi Convivial Vehicle | ||
| Muziekcentrum Vredenburg | ||
| MCW | Middel Class Whiners | |
| Moscone Center West | ||
| MDA | Model Driven Architecture | |
| Multiple Docking Adaptor | ||
| MDC | Movement for Democratic Change | |
| MDD | Major Depressive Disorder | |
| MDF | Medium Density Fiberboard | |
| MDH | Milk Drinking Homo's | |
| MDI | Meldpunt Discriminatie Internet | |
| Multiple Document Interface | ||
| polycarbodiimide-modified diphenylmethane diisocyanate | ||
| MDO | Multidisciplinair overleg | |
| MDP | Mar Del Plaza | |
| Massive Domestic Propaganda | ||
| MDR | Medical Device Regulation | |
| Memory Data Register | ||
| Multiple Decoy Rockets | ||
| MDT | Mountain Daylight Time | |
| Muziek- Dans- en Theaterschool | ||
| MEA | Monoethanolamine | |
| MED | Manhattan Engineer District | |
| Manhattan Engineering District | ||
| MEE | Mass Extinction Event | |
| MEG | Magnetoencephalography | |
| MEK | Mono-Evolver Keys | |
| MEL | Maya Embedded Language | |
| MEM | Main Electronics Module | |
| Mars Excursion Module | ||
| Maximum Entropy Method | ||
| Micro Electro Mechanical | ||
| MEO | Marine Engineering Officer | |
| MEP | Member of European Parliament | |
| Multi-Engine Piston | ||
| MES | Maar Eens Scheren | |
| Marine Evacuation System | ||
| Media Encoder Service | ||
| MET | Middle European Time | |
| Mission Elapsed Time | ||
| MEZ | Maar Eens Zetten | |
| MFA | multi-factor authentication | |
| MFB | Motional Feedback | |
| MFE | Multithreading Finite Elements | |
| MFG | Multi Frame Generation | |
| MFH | Major Fucking Hangover | |
| MFI | Maastricht Forensic Institute | |
| MFM | Meat Free Monday | |
| MFO | Mede Financierings Organisatie | |
| Meldpunt Fouten in Overheidsregistraties | ||
| Meteorologie en Fysische Oceanografie | ||
| MFT | Master File Table | |
| Mobile Fire Team | ||
| Monocular Feature Tracking | ||
| MFU | Medicinal Fetal Unit | |
| MGA | Microsoft Genuine Advantage | |
| MGC | Magic Gravity Cock | |
| MGD | Miller Genuine Draft | |
| MGM | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |
| MGN | Mirror Group Newspapers | |
| MGV | Musique à Grande Vitesse | |
| MHC | Mile High Club | |
| MHF | Mile High Flights | |
| MHW | Museum Hoge Woerd | |
| MIA | Missing In Action | |
| MIB | Management Information Base | |
| Meisjes In Bikini | ||
| Men In Black | ||
| MIC | Machine Identification Code | |
| 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 | |
| Modernised International Reactor | ||
| MIS | Major Investment Study | |
| Management information system | ||
| men in skirts | ||
| minimally invasive surgery | ||
| Multiple Importance Sampling | ||
| 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 | ||
| Music Loudness Alliance | ||
| MLB | Main Logic Board | |
| Major League Baseball | ||
| MLC | Mid Life Crisis | |
| MLD | Mead Lover's Digest | |
| Mean Lethal Dose | ||
| Missile Launch Detection | ||
| Moon Landing Deniers | ||
| MLE | Maximum Likelihood Estimation | |
| MLF | Marshmallow Laser Feast | |
| MLK | Martin Luther King | |
| Moeilijk Lerende Kinderen | ||
| MSX LinKer | ||
| MLP | Machine Learning Pattern | |
| Meridian Lossless Packing | ||
| Mobile Launch Platform | ||
| 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 | ||
| MMB | Medium Messaging Benchmark | |
| MMC | Merchant Mariner Credential | |
| MethylMethCathinon | ||
| Microsoft Management Console | ||
| MMD | Mensen Moeten Dood | |
| Mickey Mouse Diagram | ||
| Multi Markdown | ||
| MMF | Memory Mapped File | |
| Music Managers Forum | ||
| MMH | Marc-Marie Huijbregts | |
| MMM | Misdaad, Marteling en Moord | |
| Mix Master Mike | ||
| Modern Money Mechanics | ||
| Money Making Machine | ||
| MMO | Massive Multiplayer Online | |
| MMR | measles mumps rubella | |
| MMS | Middelbare Meisjesschool | |
| Modular Mining Systems | ||
| MMT | Magic Money Tree | |
| Model to Model Transformations | ||
| Modern Monetary Theory | ||
| MMU | Memory Management Unit | |
| MMV | MiniMoog Voyager | |
| MMX | Martian Moons eXploration | |
| MNA | Maatschappij tot Nut van het Algemeen | |
| MNG | Multi-image Network Graphics | |
| MNO | Mobile Network Operator | |
| MNP | Moeder Neukende Poep | |
| MNS | Minerva Network Systems | |
| MNW | Man and the Natural World | |
| MOA | Macromedia Open Architecture | |
| MOC | Meridional Overturning Circulation | |
| My Own Creation | ||
| MOE | Maintenance of Effort | |
| MOF | Meta-Object Facility | |
| MOG | Melding Ongewenste Gebeurtenis | |
| MOI | Moment Of Inertia | |
| MOL | Manned Orbital Laboratory | |
| Meaning Of Love | ||
| Middle Of Life | ||
| MOM | Master of Malt | |
| Maximum Operating Mach | ||
| Message Oriented Middleware | ||
| MON | Montagne Omroep Nederland | |
| Motor Octane Number | ||
| MOP | Massive Ordinance Penetrator | |
| Meerjaren Ontwikkelings Plan | ||
| Mogelijk Ongewenst Programma | ||
| MOR | Mandatory Occurence Reporting | |
| Maximum Operational Range | ||
| Melding Openbare Ruimte | ||
| Methods Or Research | ||
| MOS | Metal Oxide Semiconductor | |
| MOT | ministry of transport | |
| MOU | Memorandum Of Understanding | |
| MOX | Mixed oxide fuel | |
| MPA | Master of Public Administration | |
| Medroxyprogeteron Acetaat | ||
| Mimetic Poly Alloy | ||
| Motion Picture Association | ||
| MPC | Malignant Pestilent Cunts | |
| Massive Pile of Crap | ||
| Micro Program Counter | ||
| Milk Protein Concentrate | ||
| Moving Picture Company | ||
| Multipurpose Project Corantijn | ||
| MPD | Metropolitan Police DIstrict | |
| MPF | Matte Painting Fetishist | |
| MPG | Miles Per Gallon | |
| MPH | Miles Per Hour | |
| MPI | Mass Psychogenic Illness | |
| Meeting Professionals International | ||
| Mongoloid Porn Inferno | ||
| MPM | Manufacturing Process Management | |
| Multi Processing Module | ||
| MPP | Massive Parallel Processing | |
| Meerjaren Productie Prognose | ||
| MPR | Ministry of Petroleum Resources (Nigeria) | |
| MPS | Metropolitan Police Service | |
| Mozart Programming System | ||
| MPV | minimal Penis Vehicle | |
| Multi Purpose Vehicle | ||
| Multi-Purpose Vehicle | ||
| MPX | Multi-Purpose Effects | |
| 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 | |
| Molly Rose Foundation | ||
| MRI | Mathematical Research Institute | |
| MRL | Maximum Residue Level | |
| Metaphysics Research Laboratory | ||
| MRO | Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter | |
| MRP | Manufacturing Resource Planning | |
| Materials Requirements Planning | ||
| Multilevel Regression and Poststratification | ||
| MRS | Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy | |
| Multi Reference Source | ||
| MRT | Mass Rapid Transport | |
| Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy | ||
| MSA | Middle Stone Age | |
| Modern Standard Arabic | ||
| MSB | Most Significant Bit | |
| MSC | Manned Spacecraft Center | |
| Master of Science | ||
| Missinian Salinity Crisis | ||
| Mobile Switching Centre | ||
| Mujahideen Shura Council | ||
| MSD | Most Significant Digit | |
| Multiple Site Damage | ||
| MSE | Maximum Solar Exposure | |
| Microsoft Security Essentials | ||
| MSF | Médecins Sans Frontières | |
| Microsoft Solutions Framework | ||
| MSG | Madison Square Garden | |
| Miranda Sex Garden | ||
| Monosodium GlutoMate | ||
| MSI | Microsoft Installer | |
| Movimento Sociale Italiano | ||
| MSM | MainStream Media | |
| Miami Sound Machine | ||
| MSN | Microsoft Network | |
| Multiple Subscriber Number | ||
| MSP | Master Stack Pointer | |
| MSR | Main Supply Route | |
| Molten Salt Reactor | ||
| MSS | Mobile Service Structure | |
| Model Sum of Squares | ||
| Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf | ||
| MSW | Municipal Solid Waste | |
| MSX | Machines with Software eXchangeability | |
| Microsoft eXtended | ||
| MTA | Mail Transport Agent | |
| MTB | motortorpedoboten | |
| MTG | Massa TLA Gekut | |
| MTJ | Mobile Tools for Java | |
| MTM | Mijn Type Meisje | |
| MTO | Medewerkers Tevredenheids Onderzoek | |
| Medewerkerstevredenheidsonderzoek | ||
| MTP | MIDI Time Piece | |
| Modellerings Tool Pensioen | ||
| MTR | Magnetic Tape Recorder | |
| MTS | Mars To Stay | |
| MTT | Multiple Transaction Translator | |
| MTU | Maximum Transmission Unit | |
| Michigan Tech University | ||
| MTV | Mars Transfer Vehicle | |
| Mobiel Toezicht en Veiligheid | ||
| Molecular Tumour Volume | ||
| Music Television | ||
| MTW | Megasonic Teenage Warhead | |
| Mentortrainingsweekend | ||
| MTZ | Massa TLA Zooi | |
| Miller-Tucker-Zemlin | ||
| MUC | Manchester University Computer | |
| MUI | Macromedia User Interface | |
| Magic User Interface | ||
| MUM | Mumbai | |
| MUX | Multiplexer | |
| MVC | Model View Controller | |
| Moreno Valley College | ||
| MVL | Man Voxel Land | |
| MVM | Meisjes Voor Mannen | |
| MVN | Matthijs van Nieuwkerk | |
| MVO | Maatschappelijk Verantwoord Ondernemen | |
| Member of the Royal Victorian Order | ||
| MVP | Minimal Viable Product | |
| Minimum Viable Product | ||
| MVS | Multiple Virtual Storage | |
| MVW | Maartje van Weegen | |
| MWC | Weighted Methods per Class | |
| MWE | Minimal Working Example | |
| 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 | |
