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Abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms are likely to be ambiguous, needing disambiguation. Thus abbreviations should usually be expanded (see Naming conventions (abbreviations)) beforehand.
For two- and three-letter combinations, there is generally a list detailing a few or many possible uses.