Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
FAA	Federal Aviation Administration
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IP	Internet Protocol
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
nginx	Popular HTTP server

Jargon	Definition
Raptor	Methane-fueled rocket engine under development by SpaceX

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