ACRONYM: Acronym CReatiON for You and Me

28 Mar 2019  ·  B. A Cook ·

Each year, countless hours of productive research time is spent brainstorming creative acronyms for surveys, simulations, codes, and conferences. We present ACRONYM, a command-line program developed specifically to assist astronomers in identifying the best acronyms for ongoing projects. The code returns all approximately-English-language words that appear within an input string of text, regardless of whether the letters occur at the beginning of the component words (in true astronomer fashion).

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Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics