Numeronym

A Numeronym is a word that contains at least one number.

Term

After Tex Texin was the first symbol of this kind of " S12n ": the e -mail name that was given in 1985 to the employees of Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC) January Scherpenhuizen. The reason for this was that his last name was too long to be an account name; many colleagues could not pronounce this name and found it easier to just call him " S12n " to. The use of such abbreviations soon became part of the corporate culture of DEC.

Examples

• 9/11 - terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001
• 11-M - Madrid cable stops on 11 March 2004
• 24/7 - constant availability of a service or a machine
• C3 - inter alia Chaos Communication Congress
• C -3PO - character from Star Wars
• CR7 - The Portuguese soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo
• E ³ - Electronic Entertainment Expo
• E15 - inter alia Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland
• G8 - Group of Eight
• G20 - inter alia Group of Twenty major industrialized and emerging countries
• I18n - Internationalization in software development (English internationalization )
• L10n - localization in software development (English localization )
• M-19 - April 19, among other things, movement, leftist Colombian guerrilla organization
• O5 - including Austrian resistance movement against Nazism
• R2 -D2 - character from Star Wars
• RG3 - Robert Griffin III, American professional quarterback
• S9y - Serendipity (software), a weblog publishing system
• W3 - inter alia the World Wide Web
• Y2K - 2000, see Year 2000 problem
• Y2K38 - 2038, see Year 2038 problem
• B3Kat - Collaborative database of SCI ( Bavarian Library Network )