2 Matching Annotations
  1. Feb 2022
    1. To satisfy the architecture of a modern process, a space sepa-rate from the usual library business is furnished, a catalog room or working memory for a central bibliographic unit. In this CBU, the program pro-cesses data contributed by various paths.

      Note here how the author creates the acronym CBU out of central bibliographic unit as a means of creating a connection to computer jargon like CPU (central processing unit). I suspect that CBU was not an acronym used at the time.

      bacrkonym?

    Tags

    Annotators

  2. Oct 2020
    1. A backronym, or bacronym, is an acronym that is assigned to a word that existed prior to the invention of the backronym.