Get instant explanation for any acronym or abbreviation that hits you anywhere on the web!

Latest Version

Version
1.0.6
Update
March 27, 2019
Size
1.24MiB
Developer
www.abbreviations.com
Category
Users
2,000+
Rating
4.85714 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
ActiveTab
Storage
ContextMenus
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Abbreviations.com Extension

Abbreviations.com is the world's largest and most comprehensive directory and search engine for acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms on the Internet. Abbreviations.com holds hundreds of thousands of entries organized by a large variety of categories from computing and the Web to governmental, medicine and business and it is expanding daily.

To use this extension simply select a word on any web page you're visiting and click on the extension icon. A pop-up window will open with all possible explanations for the selected word.

Note: The extension will not work in tabs that were open prior to installation. After installing this extension, either reload your open tabs or restart Chrome.
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Source Manifest.json

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User reviews

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Patrick P Cosgrove (ID: 0000004a6b14092f) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 08/31/2020 I am loving it SO FAR. After at least four minutes on that machine, I was raring to go.

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David Blum (ID: 0000004d06dd5fe8) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 12/10/2017 This extension is really useful when I am confronted to abbreviations which are unknown to me!

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Shilo Ben Efraim (ID: 000000880f12f6bb) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 12/07/2017 Super acronym dictionary! Love it...

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Yigal Ben Efraim (ID: 000000317dac3b22) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 12/07/2017 TTYL, BRB, CYL8ER? This dude will get you through the acronym soup!