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Art Fund (formerly the National Art Collections Fund) is an independent membership-based British charity, which raises funds to aid the acquisition of artworks for the nation. It gives grants and acts as a channel for many gifts and bequests, as well as lobbying on behalf of museums and galleries and their users.
Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.
DOS – (a) Denial of Service (DoS, cf. DDoS) – Density of State – Disk Operating System; DOT – (i) Department of Transportation (U.S. federal or state) – Damage Over Time (common in World of Warcraft) DOTA – short-form for DEFENSE OF THE ANCIENTS a popular online epic game; DotD – (i) Deal of the Day (marketing gimmick)
Service mark symbol. The service mark symbol ℠ (the letters SM in small capitals and superscript style), is a symbol used in the United States and some other jurisdictions to provide notice that the preceding mark is a service mark. This symbol may be used for service marks not yet registered with the relevant national authority.
including C 1, 25 July 1952. This manual supersedes FM 100–5, 15 June 1944. This manual supersedes FM 100–5, 15 June 1944. including C 1, 16 September 1942; C 2, 12 November 1942; and C 3, 26 April 1943. These regulations supersede FM 100–5, Tentative Field Service Regulations, Operations, October 1, 1939.
The "Elephant and Castle" motif below his head is the symbol of the Royal African Company, Britain's foremost slave trading company. [63] The RAC transported the gold used in the coin from West Africa to England after purchasing it from African merchants in the Guinea region , who in turn sourced it from the Ashanti Empire .
Example of 15th-century Latin manuscript text with scribal abbreviations. An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning "short" [1]) is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method including shortening, contraction, initialism (which includes acronym) or crasis.
Glossary of mathematical symbols. A mathematical symbol is a figure or a combination of figures that is used to represent a mathematical object, an action on mathematical objects, a relation between mathematical objects, or for structuring the other symbols that occur in a formula. As formulas are entirely constituted with symbols of various ...