Full forms with meanings

What this site is

Full Forms is a collection of the short forms, abbreviations and acronyms that people in India actually meet: on school report cards and admission forms, on bank papers and bills, in government notices and the news, on phones and computers, and in messages. Unlike a bare list, every entry here carries a line of meaning, because knowing that NEFT is "National Electronic Funds Transfer" helps little unless you also know that it is a way of sending money between bank accounts.

Three ways to use it

• Look one up. Type it in the box above. Results appear as you type.
• Learn a subject. The subject pages put related short forms together, with an introduction to each field.
• Test yourself. The quiz asks ten at a time and explains each answer.

Explained in full

The most looked-up short forms have a page each, which goes beyond the full form to what the thing is, where you meet it and what people get wrong about it.

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Honest about the doubtful ones

Not everything in capitals is an abbreviation. Where a name has no full form, the entry says so, and popular invented expansions are collected on the page full forms that are not real.

Questions people ask