Abbreviations.com

Get instant explanation for any acronym or abbreviation that hits you anywhere on the web!
What is Abbreviations.com?
Abbreviations.com is a Chrome extension designed to help users get instant explanations for acronyms and abbreviations online. It offers hundreds of thousands of entries across various categories, expanding your knowledge as you browse the web. Simply select a word and click the extension icon for immediate definitions.

Extension stats

Users: 2,000+
Rating: 4.86 (7)
Version: 1.0.6 (Last updated: 2019-03-27)
Creation date: 2019-03-27
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • storage
  • contextMenus
Size: 1.30M

Ranking

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Other platforms

Abbreviations.com (v1.0.7)
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Extension summary

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.

User reviews

I am loving it SO FAR. After at least four minutes on that machine, I was raring to go.
by Patrick P Cosgrove, 2020-08-31

This extension is really useful when I am confronted to abbreviations which are unknown to me!
by David Blum, 2017-12-10

Super acronym dictionary! Love it...
by Shilo Ben Efraim, 2017-12-07
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Abbreviations.com requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Abbreviations.com has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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