It stands for the "all sine tangent cosine" rule. It is intended to remind us that all trig ratios are positive in the first quadrant of a graph; only the sine and cosecant are positive in the second quadrant; only the tangent and cotangent are positive in the third quadrant; and only the cosine and secant are positive in the fourth quadrant. More @Wikipedia
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