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Abbreviations and Letter Symbols


 * App. D.C.—District of Columbia
 * Appeal Cases
 * App. Div.—Appellate Division
 * APPR—Army package power reactor
 * approx.—approximately
 * ARC—American Red Cross
 * ARS—Agricultural Research Service
 * ASCS—Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
 * ASME—American Society of Mechanical Engineers
 * A.S.N.—Army service number
 * ASTM—American Society for Testing and Materials
 * ATM—automatic teller machine
 * AtL—Atlantic Reporter; A.2d, Atlantic Reporter, second series
 * AUS—Army of the United States
 * Ave.—avenue
 * AWACS—airborne warning and control system
 * AWOL—absent without leave
 * B.A. or A.B.—bachelor of arts
 * BBB—Better Business Bureau
 * B.C.—before Christ (1200 B.C.)
 * B.C.E.—Before Common Era
 * BCG—(bacillus Calmette-Guerin) antituberculosis vaccine
 * bf.—boldface
 * BGN—Board on (not of) Geographic Names
 * BIA—Bureau of Indian Affairs
 * BIS—Bank for International Settlements
 * Blatch. Pr. Cas.—Blatchford's Prize Cases
 * Bldg.—building
 * B. Lit(t). or Lit(t).B.—bachelor of literature
 * BLM—Bureau of Land Management
 * BLS—Bureau of Labor Statistics
 * Blvd.—boulevard
 * b.o.—buyer's option
 * B.S. or B.Sc.—bachelor of science
 * c. and s.c.—caps and small caps
 * ca.—(circa) about
 * ca—centiare
 * CACM—Central American
 * Common Market
 * CAD—computer-aided design
 * CAP—Civil Air Patrol
 * CARE—Cooperative for American Remittances to Everywhere, Inc.
 * CAT scan—computerized axial tomography
 * CCA.—Circuit Court of Appeals
 * CCC—Commodity Credit Corporation
 * CCITT—Consultative Committee for International Telegraphy and Telephony
 * CCls.—Court of Claims
 * C.Cls.R.—Court of Claims Reports
 * C.C.P.A.—Court of Customs and Patents Appeals
 * CCR—Commission on Civil Rights
 * CDC—Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
 * CE.—Common Era
 * CEA—Council of Economic Advisers
 * cf—(confer) compare or see
 * CFR—Code of Federal Regulations
 * CFR Supp.—Code of Federal Regulations Supplement
 * CHAMPUS—Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services
 * CIA—Central Intelligence Agency
 * CIC—Counterintelligence Corps
 * CT.—(corpus juris) body of law; Chief Justice