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APPENDIX D: GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS

Here we list all the acronyms defined in the text and the section in which they are first found.

AGN: Active Galactic Nuclei, Sec. 1.
BAL: Broad Absorption Line (Quasars), Sec. 2.
BLRG: Broad-Line Radio Galaxies, Sec. 2.
CDQ: Core-Dominated Quasars, Sec. 2.
CSS: Compact-Steep Spectrum, Sec. 6.1.1 EMSS: (Einstein Observatory) Extended Medium Sensitivity Survey, Sec. 5.4.1.
FR I: Fanaroff-Riley Type I, Sec. 2.
FR II: Fanaroff-Riley Type II, Sec. 2.
FSRQ: Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars, Sec. 2.
FWHM: Full Width Half Maximum, Sec. 5.4.2.
GPS: Gigahertz-Peaked Spectrum, Sec. 6.1.1
HBL: High (-Energy Cutoff) BL Lacs, Sec. 6.2.6.
HGLS: (EXOSAT) High Galactic Latitude Survey, Sec. 6.2.1.
HPQ: Highly Polarized Quasars, Sec. 2.
KS: Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Sec. 5.3.1.
LASS: (HEAO-1) Large Area Sky Survey, Sec. 5.4.1.
LBL: Low (-Energy Cutoff) BL Lacs, Sec. 6.2.6.
LF: Luminosity Function, Sec. 5.6
NELG: Narrow-Emission-Line X-ray Galaxies, Sec. 2.
NLRG: Narrow-Line Radio Galaxies, Sec. 2.
OVV: Optically Violently Variable (Quasars), Sec. 2.
RBL: Radio (Selected) BL Lacs, Sec. 5.4.1.
SSC: synchrotron-self Compton, Sec. 4.1.
SSRQ: Steep Spectrum Radio Quasars, Sec. 2.
VLBA: Very Long Baseline Array, Sec. 8.1.3.
VLBI: Very Long Baseline Interferometry, Sec. 4.2.
XBL: X-ray (Selected) BL Lacs, Sec. 5.4.1.

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