Abbrevations
0-9 :
/. - Slashdot
1GL - First-Generation Programming Language
10B2 - 10 Base2
10B5 - 10 Base5
10B-F - 10 Base-F
10B-FB - 10 Base-FB
10B-FL - 10 Base-FL
10B-FP - 10 Base-FP
10B-T - 10 Base-T
100B-FX - 100 Base-FX
100B-T - 100 Base-T
100B-TX - 100 Base-TX
100BVG - 100 BaseVG
286 - Intel 80286 processor
2B1Q - 2 Binary 1 Quaternary
2GL - Second-Generation Programming Language
3GL - Third-Generation Programming Language
386 - Intel 80386 processor
486 - Intel 80486 processor
586 - Intel Pentium processor
686 - Any of the Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, and Pentium 4 processors
4B5BLF - 4 Byte 5 Byte Local Fiber
4GL - Fourth-Generation Programming Language
5GL - Fifth-Generation Programming Language
8B10BLF - 8 Byte 10 Byte Local Fiber
A :
AA - Anti-Aliasing
AAA - Authentication Authorization, Accounting
AABB - Axis Aligned Bounding Box
AAC - Advanced Audio Coding (audio compression format defined by the MPEG-2 standard)
AAL - ATM Adaptation Layer
AALC - ATM Adaptation Layer Connection
AARP - AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol
ABI - Application Binary Interface
ABM - Asynchronous Balanced Mode
ABR - Area Border Router
ABR - Auto Baud - Rate Detect
ABR - Available Bit Rate
AC - Alternating Current
AC - Acoustic Coupler
ACD - Automatic Call Distributor
ACF - Advanced Communications Function
ACF NCP - Advanced Communications Function - Network Control Program
ACID - Atomicity Consistency Isolation Durability
ACK - ACKnowledgement
ACL - Access Control List
ACL - Active Current Loop
ACM - Association for Computing Machinery
ACME - Automated Classification of Medical Entities
ACPI - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
ACR - Allowed Cell Rate
ACR - Attenuation to Crosstalk Ratio
AD - Active Directory
AD - Administrative Domain
ADC - Analog-To-Digital Converter
ADC - Apple Display Connector (DVI variant)
ADB - Apple Desktop Bus
ADCCP - Advanced Data Communications Control Protocol/Procedures
ADO - ActiveX Data Objects
ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (variant of DSL)
ADT - Abstract Data Type
AE - Adaptive Equalizer
AES - Advanced Encryption Standard
AF - Anisotropic Filtering
AFP - Apple Filing Protocol
AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port (sometimes used with a suffix indicating the port's bandwidth, like AGP4x)
AH - Active Hub
AI - Artificial Intelligence
AIX - Advanced Interactive Executive
Ajax - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
AL - Active Link
AL - Access List
ALGOL - Algorithmic Language
ALSA - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
ALU - Arithmetic and Logical Unit
AM - Active Matrix
AM - Access Method
AM - Active Monitor
AM - Amplitude Modulation
AMD - Advanced Micro Devices
AMR - Audio Modem Riser
ANN - Artificial Neural Network
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
ANT - Another Neat Tool
AoE - ATA over Ethernet
AOP - Aspect-Oriented Programming
APCI - Application-Layer Protocol Control Information
API - Application Programming Interface
APIC - Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
APIPA - Automatic Private IP Addressing
APL - A Programming Language
APS - Accunet Packet Service
APR - Apache Portable Runtime
ARC - Advanced RISC Computing
ARIN - American Registry for Internet Numbers
ARM - Advanced RISC Machines
ARP - Address Resolution Protocol
ARPA - Address and Routing Parameter Area
ARPA - Advanced Research Projects Agency (see also DARPA)
ARPANET - Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
AS - Access Server
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASG - Abstract Semantic Graph
ASIC - Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASLR - Address Space Layout Randomization
ASMP - Asymmetric Multiprocessing
ASN.1 - Abstract Syntax Notation 1
ASP - Application Service Provider
ASP (MS ASP) - Active Server Pages
ASR - Asynchronous Signal Routine
AST - Abstract Syntax Tree
ASSP - Application Specific Standard Product
AT - Advanced Technology
AT - Access Time
AT - Active Terminator
ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment
ATAG - Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
ATAPI - Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface
ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode
AVC - Advanced Video Coding
AVI - Audio Video Interleaved
AWT - Abstract Windowing Toolkit
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B - Letter Abbreviations
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B :
B2B - Business-to-Business
B2C - Business-to-Consumer
Bash - Bourne-again shell
BASIC - Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BBP - Baseband Processor
BBS - Bulletin Board System
BCD - Binary Coded Decimal
BEEP - Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol
BER - Bit Error Rate
BFD - Binary File Descriptor
BFS - Breadth-First Search
BGP - Border Gateway Protocol
BiDi - Bi-Directional
bin - binary
BINAC - Binary Automatic Computer
BIND - Berkeley Internet Name Daemon
BIOS - Basic Input Output System
BJT - Bipolar Junction Transistor
bit - binary digit
Blob - Binary large object
Blog - Web Log
BMP - Basic Multilingual Plane
BNC - Bayonet Neill-Concelman
BOINC - Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
BOM - Byte Order Mark
BOOTP - Bootstrap Protocol
BPDU - Bridge Protocol Data Unit
BPEL - Business Process Execution Language
BPL - Broadband over Power Lines
bps - bits per second
BRR - Business Readiness Rating
BSA - Business Software Alliance
BSD - Berkeley Software Distribution (Unix variant)
BSoD - Blue Screen of Death
BSS - Block Started by Symbol
BT - BitTorrent
BT - Bluetooth
BTAM - Basic Telecommunications Access Method (an IBM OS/360 API)
BW - Bandwidth
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C - Letter Abbreviations
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C :
CA - Certificate Authority
CAD - Computer-Aided Design
CAE - Computer-Aided Engineering
CAID - Computer Aided Industrial Design
CAI - Computer-Aided Instruction
CAM - Computer-Aided Manufacturing
CAPTCHA - Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
CAT - Computer-Aided Translation
CAQ - Computer Aided Quality
CASE - Computer-Aided Software Engineering
cc - C Compiler
CD - Compact Disc
CDE - Common Desktop Environment
CDMA - Code Division Multiple Access
CDN - Content Delivery Network
CDP - Continuous Data Protection
CD-R - CD-Recordable
CD-ROM - CD Read-Only Memory
CD-RW - CD-Rewritable
CDSA - Common Data Security Architecture
CERT - Computer Emergency Response Team
CFWS - Comment and/or Folding White Space
CES - Consumer Electronics Show
CF - Compact Flash
CFD - Computational Fluid Dynamics
CFG - Context-Free Grammar
CFG - Control Flow Graph
CG - Computer Graphics
CGA - Color Graphics Array
CGI - Common Gateway Interface
CGI - Computer-Generated Imagery
CGT - Computational Graph Theory
CHAP - Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol
CHS - Cylinder-Head-Sector
CIFS - Common Internet Filesystem
CIM - Common Information Model
CISC - Complex Instruction Set Computer
CJK - Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
CJKV - Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese
CLI - Command Line Interface
CLR - Common Language Runtime
CM - Configuration Management
CM - Content Management
CMOS - Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
CMS - Content Management System
CN - Canonical Name
CN - Common Name
CNC - Computer Numerical Control
CNR - Communications and Networking Riser
COBOL - Common Business-Oriented Language
COM - Component Object Model
CORBA - Common Object Request Broker Architecture
COTS - Commercial Off-The-Shelf
CMMI - Capability Maturity Model Integration
CPA - Cell Processor Architecture
CPA - Control Panel Applet
CPA - Converged Packet Access
CPAN - Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
CP/M - Control Program/Monitor
cps - characters per second
CPU - Central Processing Unit
CR - Carriage Return
CRAN - Comprehensive R Archive Network
CRC - Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRLF - Carriage Return Line Feed
CRM - Customer Relationship Management
CRT - Cathode Ray Tube
CS - Cable Select
CS - Computer Science
CSE - Computer Science and Engineering
CSI - Common System Interface
CSRF - Cross-Site Request Forgery
CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
CSS - Content-Scrambling System
CSS - Closed Source Software
CSS - Cross-Site Scripting
CSV - Comma-Separated Values
CT - Computerized Tomography
CTAN - Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
CTCP - Client-To-Client Protocol
CTI - Computer Telephony Integration
CTL - Computational Tree Logic
CTM - Close To Metal
CTS - Clear To Send
CTSS - Compatible Time-Sharing System
CUA - Common User Access
CVS - Concurrent Versioning System
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D - Letter Abbreviations
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D :
DAC - Digital-To-Analog Converter
DAC - Discretionary Access Control
DAO - Data Access Objects
DAO - Disk-At-Once
DAP - Directory Access Protocol
DARPA - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DAT - Digital Audio Tape
DB - Database
DBA - Database Administrator
DBCS - Double Byte Character Set
DBMS - Database Management System
DCC - Direct Client-to-Client
DCCA - Debian Common Core Alliance
DCL - Data Control Language
DCMI - Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
DCOM - Distributed Component Object Model
DD - Double Density
DDE - Dynamic Data Exchange
DDL - Data Definition Language
DDoS - Distributed Denial of Service
DDR - Double Data Rate
DEC - Digital Equipment Corporation
DES - Data Encryption Standard
dev - development
DFA - Deterministic Finite Automaton
DFD - Data Flow Diagram
DFS - Depth-First Search
DFS - Distributed File System
DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DHTML - Dynamic HTML
DIMM - Dual Inline Memory Module
DIN - Deutsches Institut für Normung
DIP - Dual In-line Package
DIVX - Digital Video Express
DIY - Do It Yourself devices
DKIM - Domain Keys Identified Mail
DL - Download
DLL - Dynamic Link Library
DLP - Digital Light Processing
DMA - Direct Memory Access
DMCA - Digital Millennium Copyright Act
DML - Data Manipulation Language
DMR - Dennis M. Ritchie
DN - Distinguished Name
DND - Drag-and-Drop
DNS - Domain Name System
DOCSIS - Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification
DOM - Document Object Model
DoS - Denial of Service
DOS - Disk Operating System
DP - Dot Pitch
DPI - Dots Per Inch
DPMI - DOS Protected Mode Interface
DPMS - Display Power Management Signaling
DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory
DRI - Direct Rendering Infrastructure
DRM - Digital Rights Management
DRM - Direct Rendering Manager
DSDL - Document Schema Definition Languages
DSDM - Dynamic Systems Development Method
DSL - Digital Subscriber Line
DSL - Domain-Specific Language
DSLAM - Digital subscriber line access multiplexer
DSN - Database Source Name (ODBC)
DSN - Dataset Name? (OS/390)
DSP - Digital Signal Processor
DSSSL - Document Style Semantics and Specification Language
DTD - Document Type Definition
DTE - Data Terminal Equipment
DTP - Desktop Publishing
DTR - Data Terminal Ready
DVD - Digital Versatile Disc
DVD - Digital Video Disc
DVD-R - DVD-Recordable
DVD-ROM - DVD-Read Only Memory
DVD-RW - DVD-Rewritable
DVI - Digital Visual Interface
DVR - Digital Video Recorder (see also PVR)
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E - Letter Abbreviations
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E :
EAI - Enterprise Application Integration
EAP - Extensible Authentication Protocol
EBCDIC - Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EBML - Extensible Binary Meta Language
ECC - Elliptic Curve Cryptography
ECMA - European Computer Manufacturers Association
EDA - Electronic Design Automation
EDI - Electronic Data Interchange
EDO - Extended Data Out
EDSAC - Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer
EDVAC - Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
EEPROM - Electronically-Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFI - Extensible Firmware Interface
EFM - Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation
EGA - Enhanced Graphics Array
EGP - Exterior Gateway Protocol
eID - electronic ID card
EIDE - Enhanced IDE
EIGRP - Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
EISA - Extended Industry Standard Architecture
ELF - Extremely Low Frequency
ELF - Executable and Linkable Format
ELM - Electronic Mail
EMACS - Editor Macros
EMS - Expanded Memory Specification
ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer
EOF - End of File
EOL - End of Life
EOL - End of Line
EOM - End of Message
EPROM - Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning
ESCON - Enterprise Systems Connection
ESD - Electrostatic Discharge
ETL - Extract, Transform, Load
ESR - Eric Steven Raymond
EUC - Extended Unix Code
EULA - End User License Agreement
EXE - EXEcutable
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F - Letter Abbreviations
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F :
FAP - FORTRAN Assembly Program
FAT - File Allocation Table
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
FBDIMM - Fully Buffered Dual Inline Memory Module
FC-AL - Fiber Channel Arbitrated Loop
FCB - File Control Block
FDC - Floppy Disk Controller
FDS - Fedora Directory Server
FDD - Floppy Disk Drive
FDDI - Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FDMA - Frequency-Division Multiple Access
FEC - Forward Error Correction
FEMB - Front-End Motherboard
FET - Field Effect Transistor
FICON - Fiber Connectivity
FIFO - First In First Out
FHS - Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec
FLOPS - FLoating-Point Operations Per Second
FCS - Frame Check Sequence
FLOSS - Free/Libre/Open Source Software
FOLDOC - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
FOSDEM - Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting
FOSI - Formatted Output Specification Instance
FOSS - Free and Open Source Software
FPGA - Field Programmable Gate Array
FPU - Floating Point Unit
FS - File System
FSB - Front Side Bus
FSF - Free Software Foundation
FSM - Finite State Machine
FTTC - Fiber To The Curb
FTTH - Fiber To The Home
FTTP - Fiber To The Premises
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
FQDN - Fully Qualified Domain Name
FUCT - Failed Under Continuous Test
FUD - Fear Uncertainty Doubt
FWS - Folding White Space
FXP - File eXchange Protocol
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G - Letter Abbreviations
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G :
G11N - Globalization
Gb - Gigabit
GB - Gigabyte
GCC - GNU Compiler Collection (formerly GNU C Compiler)
GCJ - GNU Compiler for Java
GCR - Group Code Recording
GDB - GNU Debugger
GDI - Graphics Device Interface
GFDL - GNU Free Documentation License
GIF - Graphics Interchange Format
GIGO - Garbage In, Garbage Out
GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program
GIMPS - Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
GIS - Geographic Information System
GLUT - OpenGL Utility Toolkit
GML - Geography Markup Language
GNOME - GNU Network Object Model Environment
GNU - GNU's Not Unix
GOMS - Goals, Operators, Methods, and Selection rules
GPG - GNU Privacy Guard
GPGPU - General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units
GPIB - General-Purpose Instrumentation Bus
GPL - General Public License
GPL - General-Purpose Language
GPRS - General Packet Radio Service
GPT - GUID Partition Table
GPU - Graphics Processing Unit
GRUB - Grand Unified Boot-Loader
GSM - Global System for Mobile Communications
GTK+ - GIMP Toolkit
GUI - Graphical User Interface
GUID - Globally Unique IDentifier
GWT - Google Web Toolkit
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H - Letter Abbreviations
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H :
HAL - Hardware Abstraction Layer
HBA - Host Bus Adapter
HCI - Human Computer Interaction
HD - High Density
HDD - Hard Disk Drive
HD DVD - High Definition DVD
HDL - Hardware Description Language
HF - High Frequency
HHD - Hybrid Hard Drive
HID - Human Interface Device
HIG - Human Interface Guidelines
HIRD - Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth
HMA - High Memory Area
HP - Hewlett-Packard
HPC - High-Performance Computing
HPFS - High Performance File System
HSM - Hierarchical Storage Management
HT - Hyper Threading
HTM - Hierarchical Temporal Memory
HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPd - Hypertext Transport Protocol Daemon
HTX - HyperTransport eXpansion
HURD - Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons
HVD - Holographic Versatile Disc
Hz - Hertz
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I - Letter Abbreviations
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I :
I2C - Inter-Integrated Circuit
I18N - Internationalization
IANA - Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
iBCS - Intel Binary Compatibility Standard
IBM - International Business Machines
IC - Integrated Circuit
ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
ICE - In-Circuit Emulator
ICE - Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics
ICMP - Internet Control Message Protocol
ICP - Internet Cache Protocol
ICT - Information and Communication Technology
IDE - Integrated Development Environment
IDE - Integrated Drive Electronics
IDL - Interface Definition Language
IDS - Intrusion Detection System
IE - Internet Explorer
IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force
IFL - Integrated Facility for Linux
IGMP - Internet Group Management Protocol
IGRP - Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
IHV - Independent Hardware Vendor
IIOP - Internet Inter-Orb Protocol
IIS - Internet Information Services
IM - Instant Messaging
IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol
IME - Input Method Editor
INFOSEC - Information Systems Security
I/O - Input/Output
IP - Intellectual Property
IP - Internet Protocol
IPC - Inter-Process Communication
IPL - Initial Program Load
IPP - Internet Printing Protocol
IPS - Intrusion Prevention System
IPsec - Internet Protocol security
IPTV - Internet Protocol Television
IPX - Internetwork Packet Exchange
IRC - Internet Relay Chat
IrDA - Infrared Data Association
IRP - I/O Request Packet
IRQ - Interrupt Request
IS - Information Systems
ISA - Industry Standard Architecture
ISAM - Indexed Sequential Access Method
ISC - Internet Storm Center
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
ISO - International Organization for Standardization
ISP - Internet Service Provider
ISPF - Interactive System Productivity Facility
ISR - Interrupt Service Routine
ISV - Independent Software Vendor
IT - Information Technology
ITL - Interval Temporal Logic
ITU - International Telecommunication Union
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J & K - Letter Abbreviations
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J :
J2CE - Java 2 Cryptographic Edition
J2EE - Java 2 Enterprise Edition
J2ME - Java 2 Micro Edition
J2SE - Java 2 Standard Edition
JAXB - Java Architecture for XML Binding
JAX-RPC - Java XML for Remote Procedure Calls
JAXP - Java API for XML Processing
JBOD - Just a Bunch of Disks
JCL - Job Control Language
JCP - Java Community Process
JDBC - Java Database Connectivity
JDK - Java Development Kit
JES - Job Entry Subsystem
JDS - Java Desktop System
JFC - Java Foundation Classes
JFET - Junction Field-Effect Transistor
JFS - IBM Journaling File System
JINI - Jini Is Not Initials
JIT - Just-In-Time
JMX - Java Management Extensions
JMS - Java Message Service
JNDI - Java Naming and Directory Interface
JNI - Java Native Interface
JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group
JRE - Java Runtime Environment
JS - JavaScript
JSON - JavaScript Object Notation
JSP - Jackson Structured Programming
JSP - JavaServer Pages
JTAG - Joint Test Action Group
JUG - Java Users Group
JVM - Java Virtual Machine
jwz - Jamie Zawinski
K :
K&R - Kernighan and Ritchie
KB - Keyboard
Kb - Kilobit
KB - Kilobyte
KB - Knowledge Base
KDE - K Desktop Environment
kHz - Kilohertz
KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid
KVM - Keyboard, Video, Mouse
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L - Letter Abbreviations
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L :
L10N - Localization
LAMP - Linux Apache MySQL (Perl, PHP, or Python)
LAN - Local Area Network
LBA - Logical Block Addressing
LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
LCOS - Liquid Crystal On Silicon
LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LE - Logical Extents
LED - Light-Emitting Diode
LF - Line Feed
LF - Low Frequency
LFS - Linux From Scratch
lib - library
LIF - Low Insertion Force
LIFO - Last In First Out
LILO - Linux Loader
LKML - Linux Kernel Mailing List
LM - Lan Manager
LGPL - [GNU] Lesser General Public License
LOC - Lines of Code
LPI - Linux Professional Institute
LSB - Least Significant Bit
LSB - Linux Standard Base
LSI - Large-Scale Integration
LTL - Linear Temporal Logic
LTR - Left-to-Right
LUG - Linux User Group
LUN - Logical Unit Number
LV - Logical Volume
LVD - Low Voltage Differential
LVM - Logical Volume Management
LZW - Lempel-Ziv-Welch
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M - Letter Abbreviations
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M :
MAC - Mandatory Access Control
MAC - Media Access Control
MAN - Metropolitan Area Network
MANET - Mobile Ad-Hoc Network
MAPI - Messaging Application Programming Interface
Mb - Megabit
MB - Megabyte
MBCS - Multi Byte Character Set
MBR - Master Boot Record
MCA - Micro Channel Architecture
MCSA - Microsoft Certified System Administrator
MCSD - Microsoft Certified System Developer
MCSE - Microsoft Certified System Engineer
MDA - Mail Delivery Agent
MDA - Model-Driven Architecture
MDA - Monochrome Display Adapter
MDI - Multiple Document Interface
ME - [Windows] Millennium Edition
MF - Medium Frequency
MFC - Microsoft Foundation Classes
MFM - Modified Frequency Modulation
MGPT - Machine Generated Problem Tracking
MHz - Megahertz
MIB - Management Information Base
MICR-Magnetic Ink Character Reader
MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIMD - Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data
MIMO - Multiple-Input Multiple-Output
MIPS - Million Instructions Per Second
MIPS - Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages
MIS - Management Information Systems
MISD - Multiple Instruction, Single Data
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MMDS - Mortality Medical Data System
MMI - Man Machine Interface.
MMIO - Memory-Mapped I/O
MMORPG - Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
MMU - Memory Management Unit
MMX - Multi-Media Extensions
MNG - Multiple-image Network Graphics
MoBo - Motherboard
MOO - MUD Object Oriented
MOSFET - Metal-Oxide Semiconductor FET
MOTD - Message Of The Day
MPAA - Motion Picture Association of America
MPEG - Motion Pictures (Coding) Experts Group
MPL - Mozilla Public License
MPU - Microprocessor Unit
MS - Memory Stick
MS - Microsoft
MSB - Most Significant Bit
MS-DOS - Microsoft DOS
MT - Machine Translation
MTA - Mail Transfer Agent
MTU - Maximum Transmission Unit
MSA - Mail Submission Agent
MSDN - Microsoft Developer Network
MSI - Medium-Scale Integration
MSI - Microsoft Installer
MUA - Mail User Agent
MUD - Multi-User Dungeon
MVC - Model-View-Controller
MVP - Most Valuable Professional
MVS - Multiple Virtual Storage
MX - Mail exchange
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N - Letter Abbreviations
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N :
NACK - Negative ACKnowledgement
NAK - Negative AcKnowledge Character
NAS - Network-Attached Storage
NAT - Network Address Translation
NCP - NetWare Core Protocol
NCQ - Native Command Queuing
NCSA - National Center for Supercomputing Applications
NDPS - Novell Distributed Print Services
NDS - Novell Directory Services
NEP - Network Equipment Provider
NEXT - Near-End CrossTalk
NFA - Nondeterministic Finite Automaton
GNSCB - Next-Generation Secure Computing Base
NFS - Network File System
NI - National Instruments
NIC - Network Interface Card
NIM - No Internal Message
NIO - New I/O
NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology
NLP - Natural Language Processing
NLS - National Language Support
NP - Non-Deterministic Polynomial-Time
NPL - Netscape Public License
NPU - Network Processing Unit
NS - Netscape
NSA - National Security Agency
NSPR - Netscape Portable Runtime
NMI - Non-Maskable Interrupt
NNTP - Network News Transfer Protocol
NOC - Network Operations Center
NOP - No OPeration
NOS - Network Operating System
NPTL - Native POSIX Thread Library
NSS - Novell Storage Service
NSS - Network Security Services
NSS - Name Service Switch
NT (Windows) - New Technology
NTFS - NT Filesystem
NTLM - NT Lan Manager
NTP - Network Time Protocol
NUMA - Non-Uniform Memory Access
NURBS - Nonuniform Rational B-Spline
NVRAM - Non-Volatile Random Access Memory
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O - Letter Abbreviations
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O :
OASIS - Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
OAT - Operational Acceptance Testing
ODBC - Open Database Connectivity
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
OES - Open Enterprise Server
OFTC - Open and Free Technology Community
OLAP - Online Analytical Processing
OLE - Object Linking and Embedding
OLED - Organic Light Emitting Diode
OLPC - One Laptop per Child
OLTP - Online Transaction Processing
OMG - Object Management Group
OO - Object-Oriented
OO - Open Office
OOo - OpenOffice.org
OOP - Object-Oriented Programming
OPML - Outline Processor Markup Language
ORB - Object Request Broker
ORM - Oject-Relational Mapping
OS - Open Source
OS - Operating System
OSCON - O'Reilly Open Source Convention
OSDN - Open Source Developer Network
OSI - Open Source Initiative
OSI - Open Systems Interconnection
OSPF - Open Shortest Path First
OSS - Open Sound System
OSS - Open-Source Software
OSS - Operational Support Systems
OSTG - Open Source Technology Group (formerly OSDN)
OUI - Organizationally Unique Identifier
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P & Q - Letter Abbreviations
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P :
P2P - Peer-To-Peer
PAN - Personal Area Network
PAP - Password Authentication Protocol
PARC - Palo Alto Research Center
PATA - Parallel ATA
PC - Personal Computer
PCB - Printed Circuit Board
PCB - Process Control Block
PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCIe - PCI Express
PCL - Printer Command Language
PCMCIA - Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PCM - Pulse-Code Modulation
PCRE - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
PD - Public Domain
PDA - Personal Digital Assistant
PDF - Portable Document Format
PDP - Programmed Data Processor
PE - Physical Extents
PEBKAC - Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair
PERL - Practical Extraction and Reporting Language
PGA - Pin Grid Array
PGP - Pretty Good Privacy
PHP - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
PIC - Peripheral Interface Controller
PIC - Programmable Interrupt Controller
PID - Proportional-Integral-Derivative
PID - Process ID
PIM - Personal Information Manager
PINE - Program for Internet News & Email
PIO - Programmed Input/Output
PKCS - Public Key Cryptography Standards
PKI - Public Key Infrastructure
PLC - Power Line Communication
PLC - Programmable Logic Controller
PLD - Programmable Logic Device
PL/I - Programming Language One
PL/M - Programming Language for Microcomputers
PL/P - Programming Language for Prime
PLT - Power Line Telecoms
PMM - Personal Memory Manager
PMM - POST Memory Manager
PNG - Portable Network Graphics
PnP - Plug-and-Play
PoE - Power over Ethernet
POP - Point of Presence
POP3 - Post Office Protocol v3
POSIX - Portable Operating System Interface
POST - Power-On Self Test
PPC - PowerPC
PPI - Pixels Per Inch
PPP - Point-to-Point Protocol
PPPoA - PPP over ATM
PPPoE - PPP over Ethernet
PPTP - Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
PS - PostScript
PS/2 - Personal System/2
PSU - Power Supply Unit
PSVI - Post-Schema-Validation Infoset
PV - Physical Volume
PVG - Physical Volume Group
PVR - Personal Video Recorder
PXE - Preboot Execution Environment
PXI - PCI Extensions for Instrumentation
Q :
QDR - Quad Data Rate
QA - Quality Assurance
QFP - Quoted For Permanence.
QoS - Quality of Service
QOTD - Quote of the Day
Qt - Quasar Toolkit
QTAM- Queued Telecomunications Acess Method (an IBM OS/360 API)
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R - Letter Abbreviations
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R :
RACF - Resource Access Control Facility
RAD - Rapid Application Development
RADIUS - Remote Authentication Dial In User Service
RAID - Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RAR - Type of archive file run on WinRAR
RDM - Relations Database Management
RDS - Relations Database System
RAIT - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Tapes
RAM - Random Access Memory
RARP - Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
RC - Release Candidate
RC - DVD Region Code
RC - Run Commands
RC - Runtime Configuration
RCS - Revision Control System
RDBMS - Relational Database Management System
RDF - Resource Description Framework
REFAL - REcursive Functions Algorithmic Language
REST - Representational State Transfer
regex - Regular Expression
regexp - Regular Expression
RF - Radio Frequency
RFC - Request For Comments
RFI - Radio Frequency Interference
RFID - Radio Frequency Identification
RGB - Red, Green, Blue
RGBA - Red, Green, Blue, Alpha
RHL - Red Hat Linux
RHEL - Red Hat Enterprise Linux
RIA - Rich Internet Application
RIAA - Recording Industry Association of America
RIP - Raster Image Processor
RIP - Routing Information Protocol
RISC - Reduced Instruction Set Computer
RLE - Run-Length Encoding
RLL - Run Length Limited
RMI - Remote Method Invocation
RMS - Richard Matthew Stallman
ROM - Read Only Memory
ROMB - Read-Out Motherboard
RPC - Remote Procedure Call
RPG - Report Program Generator
RPM - RPM Package Manager
RSA - Rivest Shamir Adleman
RSI - Repetitive Strain Injury
RSS - Rich Site Summary, RDF Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication
RTC - Real-Time Clock
RTE - Real-Time Enterprise
RTL - Right-to-Left
RTOS - Real Time Operating System
RTS - Ready To Send
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S - Letter Abbreviations
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S :
SaaS - Software as a Service
SAN - Storage Area Network
SAR - Search And Replace[1]
SATA - Serial ATA
SAS - Statistical Analysis System
SAX - Simple API for XML
SBOD - Spinning Beachball of Death
SBP-2 - Serial Bus Protocol 2
sbin - superuser binary
SBU - Standard Build Unit
SCADA - Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
SCID - Source Code in Database
SCM - Software Configuration Management
SCP - Secure Copy
SCPI - Standard Commands for Programmable Instrumentation
SCSI - Small Computer System Interface
SD - Secure Digital
SDDL - Security Descriptor Definition Language
SDI - Single Document Interface
SDIO - Secure Digital Input Output
SDK - Software Development Kit
SDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer
SDN - Service Delivery Network
SDR - Software-Defined Radio
SDRAM - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SDSL - Symmetric DSL
SE - Single Ended
SEAL - Semantics-directed Environment Adaptation Language
SEI - Software Engineering Institute
SFTP - Secure FTP
SFTP - Simple File Transfer Protocol
SFTP - SSH File Transfer Protocol
SGI - Silicon Graphics, Incorporated
SGML - Standard Generalized Markup Language
SHA - Secure Hash Algorithm
SIGCAT - Special Interest Group on CD-ROM Applications and Technology
SIGGRAPH - Special Interest Group on Graphics
SIMD - Single Instruction, Multiple Data
SIMM - Single Inline Memory Module
SIP - Session Initiation Protocol
SIP - Supplementary Ideographic Plane
SISD - Single Instruction, Single Data
SLED - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
SLES - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SLI - Scalable Link Interface
SLIP - Serial Line Internet Protocol
SLM - Service Level Management
SLOC - Source Lines of Code
SPMD - Single Program, Multiple Data
SMA - SubMiniature version A
SMB - Server Message Block
SMBIOS - System Management BIOS
SMC - SMC Networks (company)
SMIL - Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
S/MIME - Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
SMP - Supplementary Multilingual Plane
SMP - Symmetric Multi-Processing
SMS - Short Message Service
SMS - System Management Server
SMT - Simultaneous Multithreading
SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNA - Systems Network Architecture
SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol
SOA - Service-Oriented Architecture
SOE - Standard Operating Environment
SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
SoC - System-on-a-Chip
SO-DIMM - Small Outline DIMM
SOHO - Small Office/Home Office
SOI - Silicon On Insulator
SP - Service Pack
SPA - Single Page Application
SPF - Sender Policy Framework
SPI - Serial Peripheral Interface
SPI - Stateful Packet Inspection
SPARC - Scalable Processor Architecture
SQL - Structured Query Language
SRAM - Static Random Access Memory
SSD - Software Specification Document
SSD - Solid-State Drive
SSE - Streaming SIMD Extensions
SSH - Secure Shell
SSI - Server Side Includes
SSI - Single-System Image
SSI - Small-Scale Integration
SSID - Service Set Identifier
SSL - Secure Socket Layer
SSP - Supplementary Special-purpose Plane
SSSE - Supplementary Streaming SIMD Extensions
su - superuser
SUS - Single UNIX Specification
SVC - Scalable Video Coding
SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics
SVGA - Super Video Graphics Array
SVD - Structured VLSI Design
SWT - Standard Widget Toolkit
Sysop - System operator
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T - Letter Abbreviations
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T :
TAO - Track-At-Once
TB - Terabyte
Tcl - Tool Command Language
TCP - Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TCU - Telecommunication Control Unit
TDMA - Time Division Multiple Access
temp - temporary (variable, file, directory, etc.)
TFT - Thin Film Transistor
TI - Texas Instruments
TLA - Three-Letter Acronym
TLD - Top-Level Domain
TLS - Thread-Local Storage
TLS - Transport Layer Security
tmp - temporary (variable, file, directory, etc.)
TNC - Terminal Node Controller
TNC - Threaded Neill-Concelman connector
TSO - Time Sharing Option
TSP - Traveling Salesman Problem
TSR - Terminate and Stay Resident
TTA - True Tap Audio
TTF - TrueType Font
TTL - Transistor-Transistor Logic
TTL - Time To Live
TTS - Text-to-Speech
TTY - Teletype
TUCOWS - The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software
TUG - TeX Users Group
6:27 PM
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U - Letter Abbreviations
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U :
UAAG - User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
UAC - User Account Control
UART - Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter
UAT - User Acceptance Testing
UCS - Universal Character Set
UDDI - Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration
UDMA - Ultra DMA
UDP - User Datagram Protocol
UE - User Experience
UEFI - Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
UHF - Ultra High Frequency
UI - User Interface
UL - Upload
ULA - Uncommitted Logic Array
UMA - Upper Memory Area
UMB - Upper Memory Block
UML - Unified Modeling Language
UML - User-Mode Linux
UMPC - Ultra-Mobile Personal Computer
UNC - Universal Naming Convention
UPS - Uninterruptible Power Supply
URI - Uniform Resource Identifier
URL - Uniform Resource Locator
URN - Uniform Resource Name
USB - Universal Serial Bus
usr - user
USR - U.S. Robotics
UTC - Coordinated Universal Time
UTF - Unicode Transformation Format
UUCP - Unix to Unix Copy
UUID - Universally Unique Identifier
UVC - Universal Virtual Computer
6:25 PM
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V - Letter Abbreviations
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V :
var - variable
VAX - Virtual Address eXtension
VCPI - Virtual Control Program Interface
VR - Virtual Reality
VRML - Virtual Reality Modeling Language
VB - Visual Basic
VBA - Visual Basic for Applications
VBS - Visual Basic Script
VESA - Video Electronics Standards Association
VFAT - Virtual FAT
VFS - Virtual File System
VG - Volume Group
VGA - Video Graphics Array
VGCT - Video Graphics Character Table
VHF - Very High Frequency
VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network
VLSM - Variable Length Subnet Mask
VLB - Vesa Local Bus
VLF - Very Low Frequency
VLIW - Very Long Instruction Word- uinvac
VLSI - Very-Large-Scale Integration
VM - Virtual Machine
VM - Virtual Memory
VOD - Video On Demand
VoIP - Voice over IP
VPN - Virtual Private Network
VPU - Visual Processing Unit
VSAM - Virtual Storage Access Method
VSAT - Very Small Aperture Terminal
VT - Video Terminal?
VTAM - Virtual Telecommunications Access Method
6:23 PM
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W -Letter Abbreviations
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W :
W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
WAFS - Wide Area File Services
WAI - Web Accessibility Initiative
WAIS - Wide Area Information Server
WAN - Wide Area Network
WAP - Wireless Access Point
WAP - Wireless Application Protocol
WAV - WAVEform audio format
WBEM - Web-Based Enterprise Management
WCAG - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
WCF - Windows Communication Foundation
WDM - Wavelength Division Multiplexing
WebDAV - WWW Distributed Authoring and Versioning
WEP - Wired Equivalent Privacy
Wi-Fi - Wireless Fidelity
WiMAX - Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
WinFS - Windows Future Storage
WINS- Windows Internet Naming Service
WLAN - Wireless Local Area Network
WMA - Windows Media Audio
WMV - Windows Media Video
WOL - Wake-on-LAN
WOM - Wake-on-Modem
WOR - Wake-on-Ring
WPA - Wi-Fi Protected Access
WPAN - Wireless Personal Area Network
WPF - Windows Presentation Foundation
WSDL - Web Services Description Language
WSFL - Web Services Flow Language
WUSB - Wireless Universal Serial Bus
WWAN - Wireless Wide Area Network
WWID - World Wide Identifier
WWN - World Wide Name
WWW - World Wide Web
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get
WZC - Wireless Zero Configuration
WFI - Wait For Interrupt
6:04 PM
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X,Y & Z Letter Abbreviations
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X :
XAG - XML Accessibility Guidelines
XAML - eXtensible Application Markup Language
XDM - X Window Display Manager
XDMCP - X Display Manager Control Protocol
XCBL - XML Common Business Library
XHTML - eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language
XILP - XILP Internet Links People
XML - eXtensible Markup Language
XMMS - X Multimedia System
XMPP - eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
XMS - Extended Memory Specification
XNS - Xerox Network Services
XP - Cross-Platform
XP - Extreme Programming
XPCOM - Cross Platform Component Object Model
XPI - Cross Platform Installer
XPIDL - Cross Platform IDL
XSD - XML Schema Definition
XSL - eXtensible Stylesheet Language
XSL-FO - eXtensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects
XSLT - eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
XSS - Cross-Site Scripting
XTF - Extensible Tag Framework
XUL - XML User Interface Language
Y :
Y2K - Year Two Thousand
YACC - Yet Another Compiler Compiler
YAML - YAML Ain't Markup Language
YAST - Yet Another Setup Tool
Z :
ZCAV - Zone Constant Angular Velocity
ZCS - Zero Code Suppression
ZIF - Zero Insertion Force
ZIFS - Zero Insertion Force Socket
ZISC - Zero Instruction Set Computer
ZOPE - Z Object Publishing Environment
ZMA - Zone Multicast Address
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