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AAA

Specialty Definition: AAA

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

AAA might be an acronym or abbreviation for:
  1. American Automobile Association
  2. Analog/Analog/Analog (audio CD format, recording/mixing/mastering)
  3. Anti-Aircraft Artillery
  4. Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
  5. Access All Areas (Sony music project)
  6. Access Approval Authority
  7. Accumulated Adjustments Account (US Federal Income Tax)
  8. Aces of ANSI Art
  9. Acquisition Approval Authority
  10. Action Awareness Alert
  11. Adaptive Array Antenna
  12. Adjust for ASCII Addition (X86)
  13. Administration, Authorization, and Authentication (Software Security)
  14. Advanced Acoustic Array
  15. AEGIS Acquisition Agent
  16. Aerospace Engineering, Applied Mechanics, and Aviation
  17. Against All Authority (punk band)
  18. Age Anaesthesia Association
  19. Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
  20. Agricultural Adjustment Administration
  21. Air Avenue of Approach
  22. Airborne Array Aperture
  23. Airborne Assault Area
  24. Aircraft Alert Area
  25. Airport Airspace Analysis
  26. Alaska Activities Adventures Plus Tours
  27. Album Adult Alternative (radio format)
  28. Allocations, Assessments, and Analysis
  29. Alternate Assembly Area
  30. Amateur Athletics Association
  31. American Academy of Actuaries
  32. American Academy of Addictionology
  33. American Academy of Advertising
  34. American Academy of Audiology
  35. American Accounting Association
  36. American Airlines Arena
  37. American Allergy Association
  38. American Ambulance Association
  39. American Anthropological Association
  40. American Arbitration Association
  41. American Armwrestling Association
  42. American Association of Anatomists
  43. American Audit Associates
  44. Anesthesia Administration Assembly
  45. Angle Angle Angle (geometric proof)
  46. ANSI Artists of America
  47. Anti-Acronym Abuse
  48. Antiaircraft Antiarmor (Weapon)
  49. Anticipative Adaptive Array (frequency-hopping communications)
  50. Antique Airplane Association
  51. Antique Automobile Association
  52. Anygame Anytime Anyplace (gaming clan)
  53. AOES (Advanced Orbital Ephemeris System) Accuracy Assessment
  54. Appraisers Association of America
  55. Area Agency on Aging
  56. Arkansas Ambulance Association
  57. Army Audit Agency
  58. Aromatic Amino Acid
  59. Asociacion Anticomunista Argentina
  60. Assign Alternate Area
  61. Association of Avatar Artists
  62. Astronaut-Actuated Abort
  63. Atheist and Agnostic Association
  64. Attitude, Awareness and Accountability (ski safety program)
  65. Australian Association of Accountants
  66. Australian Automobile Association
  67. Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (Cisco)
  68. Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting
  69. Authorization Accounting Activity
  70. Authorized Accounting Activity
  71. Automated Airlift Analysis
  72. Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, Puerto Rico)
  73. Awaiting Aircraft Availability

AAA is also a standard size of dry-cell battery.

AAA is also a league in minor league baseball.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "AAA."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: AAA

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

AAA

EnglishAssociation of Attenders and Alumni of The Hague Academy of International LawN/A

AAA

FrenchAssociation des auditeurs et anciens auditeurs de l'académie de droit international de la HayeEducation, Law

AAA

SpanishAsociacion de Oyentes y Antiguos Oyentes de la Academia de Derecho Internacional de la HayaEducation, Law

AAA

SwedishTrippelAFinance

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: AAA

English words defined with "AAA": bond ratingcertifyendorse. (references)
Specialty definitions using "AAA": Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938. (references)

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Modern Usage: AAA

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Aaa Ohh Aaa Ohh (No Matta What (Party All Night); performing artist: Toya)

Movie/TV Titles

AAA bella presenza cercasi (1969)

Zeg 'ns Aaa (1981)

Las AAA son las tres armas: Carta abierta de Rodolfo Walsh a la junta militar (1979)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: AAA

DomainTitle

Books

  • AAA Spiral Guide: Aegean Greek Islands (reference)

  • Traveling with Your Pet: The AAA Petbook (reference)

  • AAA Kids Road Atlas: Activities That Educate and Entertain While You Travel! (reference)

  • Archie, Flak, Aaa, and Sam: A Short Operational History of Ground-Based Air Defense (reference)

  • AAA 2001 Britain Bed & Breakfast Guide: More Than 3,000 Inspected B&Bs in England, Scotland, Wales & Ireland (AAA Britain Bed and Breakfast) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

High Tech

  • Minolta Quest Advantage 1-3 Hour Fastaa & Aaa Combo Charger Kit (reference)

  • Brother Pt-1200 Label Printer 1 Tz Tape Cutter 6 AAA Batteries (reference)

  • Duracell 12-Pack AAA Alkaline Batteries (MN2400V12) (reference)

  • Energizer NH12BP-2 AAA Nickel Rechargeable Battery (2-Pack) (reference)

  • Minolta Quest 1-3hr Q2 Charger With 12v110v Adapater & 4 Aaa Batteries (reference)

    (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

  

Consumer Goods

  • Energizer AAA Alkaline Industrial Batteries, Box Of 24 (reference)

  • Ray-O-Vac PS1R 4 Position Battery Charger for AA and AAA Renewal Batteries (reference)

  • Mag Instrument K3A016 Black Mag-Lite AAA Solitaire Flashlight (reference)

    (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: AAA

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration) committeemen talking at meeting. Eufaula, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress.

Speaker at AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration) meeting. Eufaula, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress.

W. & J. Sloane National Art Week, 5th Ave. & 47th St., New York City. AAA Trenton Antique, Bohrod. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ford V-8 economy run. Senator Reynolds congratulating driver Parker Lewis of AAA I. Credit: Library of Congress.

A.R. Clas buildings. AAA garage. Credit: Library of Congress.

Charles A. Frazer presents President Coolidge with an American Automobile Association emblem before a small gathering of AAA members on the White House lawn. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: AAA

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Its parent company GECC is rated AAA by Standard & Poor's and Aaa by Moody's. (references)

GECAL is wholly owned by General Electric Capital Corporation (GECC), a AAA rated global diversified financial service company. (references)

Excellent opportunities exist for the export of power transformers above 10,000 KVA, transformer lighting arrestors control panels, circuit breakers insulator hardware, power line carrier equipment, SCADA equipment, grounding materials ACSR drake and AAA Greeley conductors and conductor accessories and shield wire and shield wire accessories. (references)

Economic History

South Africa

AAA has 60 corporate members and owns the AAA School of Advertising, established in 1990 to address the industry's training and manpower development needs. (references)

China

The BCC signed an agreement with the American Arbitration Association (AAA) in 1992 whereby the BCC and AAA would work together in joint conciliation to resolve trade and investment disputes between U.S. and Chinese parties. (references)

Political Economy

DENMARK

For the public foreign debt, their ratings are Aaa and AA+. (references)

Travel

Latvia

U.S. drivers' licenses are not valid in Latvia, and American tourists must use a valid International Driver's License issued through the AAA. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: AAA

"AAA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 63.51% of the time. "AAA" is used about 74 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)63.51%4749,740
Noun (singular)29.73%2274,468
Noun (common)6.76%5157,705
                    Total100.00%74N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: AAA

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "AAA": aaa-rated.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: AAA

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

aaa

19,508

aaa carolinas

130

aaa travel

1,761

aaa baseball

105

aaa auto club

680

aaa vacation

103

aaa insurance

656

aaa hotel

103

aaa of michigan

539

aaa florida

101

aaa california

293

aaa colorado

99

aaa cooper

264

aaa travel agency

98

aaa auto

231

aaa discount

96

aaa map

224

aaa auto club south

95

aaa calif.com

224

aaa membership

94

aaa auto insurance

217

aaa south

92

aaa motor club

205

aaa club

91

triple aaa

201

aaa wisconsin

89

southern california aaa

184

aaa oregon

88

texas aaa

181

aaa car rental

87

aaa mid atlantic

172

aaa automobile club

84

aaa horoscope

150

aaa cincinnati

82

aaa ohio

148

aaa iowa

80

aaa arizona

146

aaa texas.com

78

aaa washington

142

aaa hotel rating

77
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: AAA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a"

-1 letter: aa.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a"
 

+2 letters: abaca, abaka, agama, asana.

 

+3 letters: abacas, abakas, abasia, acacia, agamas, agapae, agapai, alaska, albata, alpaca, amarna, anabas, arcana, argala, armada, asanas, asrama, atabal, ataman, ataxia, avatar, azalea, balata, banana, bazaar, cabala, cabana, casaba, casava, halala, hamada, jacana, kabaka, kabala, kabaya, kamala, labara, manana, maraca, nagana, pajama, panada, panama, papaya, pataca, salaam, samara, satara, tarama, zanana.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: AAA


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 41 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    .-    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000001 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#65 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0041 0041

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

353535

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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