"SPUA" meaning in English

See SPUA in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /spjuːɑ/ [General-American], /spuːɑ/ [General-American] Forms: SPUAs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-proper-noun|s}} SPUA (plural SPUAs)
  1. (computing) Initialism of Supplementary Private Use Area (either of the two Unicode planes (15 and 16) reserved for private use). Wikipedia link: Private Use Areas#Assignment Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Supplementary Private Use Area (extra: (either of the two Unicode planes (15 and 16) reserved for private use)) Categories (topical): Computing Synonyms: PUP Hypernyms: PUA Hyponyms: SPUA-A, SPUA-B

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for SPUA meaning in English (1.7kB)

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