ASAP stands for ‘as soon as possible’. It originated as U.S. Army slang in 1955, but today, it is used to imbue the most mundane requests with a military-style urgency....
1c – breathing
The acronym S.C.U.B.A stands for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus, and was coined by Dr Christian Lambertsen in 1954 – a new name for his earlier invention, the Lambertsen Amphibious Respiratory Unit (LARU).
2b – Cooperative
Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe (later modified to Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere)
3b - sound
Sonar (sound navigation and ranging or sonic navigation and ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, measure distances (ranging), communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels.
4c – possible
ASAP stands for ‘as soon as possible’. It originated as U.S. Army slang in 1955, but today, it is used to imbue the most mundane requests with a military-style urgency.
5b – Air
Navy SEALs are named after the environment in which they operate, the Sea, Air and Land, and are the foundation of Naval Special Warfare combat forces. They are organized, trained and equipped to conduct a variety of Special Operations missions in all operational environments.
6d – improvement
A ZIP Code is a postal code used by the United States Postal Service (USPS). The term ZIP is an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan; it was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently and quickly (zipping along) when senders use the code in the postal address.
7a – Rifle
A taser is an electroshock weapon used to incapacitate people, allowing them to be approached and handled in an unresisting and thus safe manner. The name was taken from an old children’s book of sci-fi gizmos, Tom A. Swift Electric Rifle.
8a – Space
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research and space research. It was established in 1958.
9c – Tactics
In the United States, a SWAT team (special weapons and tactics, originally special weapons assault team is a police tactical unit that uses specialized or military equipment and tactics. Although they were first created in the 1960s to handle riot control or violent confrontations with criminals, the number and usage of SWAT teams increased in the 1980s and 1990s during the War on Drugs and later in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
10b – Radiation
A laser, light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation.
11c - Turing
Completely Automatic Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Alan Turing was an early computer scientist with an interest in artificial intelligence.
12a - Fear of Missing Out
Fear of missing out (FoMO) is a unique term introduced in 2004 to describe a phenomenon observed on social networking sites. FoMO includes two processes; firstly, perception of missing out, followed up with a compulsive behaviour to maintain these social connections.
