Abbreviations

Computer, Network, Technology Related Abbreviations

AAC - Advanced Audio Coding

ABR - Average Bit Rate

ACE - Access Control Entity

A/D - Analog to Digital

ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

AFA - All Flash Array

AGP - Advanced Graphics Port

AI - Artificial Intelligence

ALGOL - Algorithmic Language

ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit

AMD - Advanced Micro Devices

AOL - America Online

API - Application Program Interface 

APT - Automatically Programmed Tooling

ARP - Address Resolution Protocol

ARPANET - Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

ARQ - Automatic Repeat Request

AS - Autonomous System

ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASP - Active Server Pages 

ASR - Automatic Send and Receive

AT - Advanced Technology

ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment

ATAPI - Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface

ATDT - Attention Dial Tone

ATM - Automated Teller Machine/Asynchronous Transfer Mode

AUI - Attachment Unit Interface

AVI - Audio Video Interleave

BASIC - Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BCC - Blank Carbon Copy

BCD - Binary Coded Decimal

BCR - Bar Code Reader

BGP - Border Gateway Protocol

BIOS - Basic Input Output System

BIS - Business Information System

BIT - Binary Digit

BIU - Bus Interface Unit

BMP - Bitmap Picture

BPS - Byte/Bits Per Second

B2B - Business to Business

B2C - Business to Consumer

CAD - Computer-Aided Design

CADD - Computer-Aided Design in Drafting 

CAI - Computer-Aided Instruction 

CAL - Computer Aided Learning

CAM - Computer-Aided Manufacturing 

CAR - Control Address Register

CC - Carbon Copy

CD - Compact Disk

CDROM - Compact Disk-Read Only Memory 

CDRW - Compact Disk Rewritable 

CDMA - Code Division Multiple Access

CGI - Common Gateway Interface

CIDR - Classless Inter Domain Routing

CISC - Complex Instructions Set Computers

CLR - Common Language Runtime

CMD - Command

CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

CMS - Content Management System

CMYK - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key

COAX - Co-axial Cable

COBOL - Common Business Oriented Language

COM - Company

COMPUTER - Commonly Operated Machine Particularly Used for Trade or Technology, Education and Research

CPI - Clock/Cycle Per Instruction

CPU - Central Processing Unit

CRC - Cycle Redundancy Check

CROM - Computerized Range of Motion 

CRT - Cathode Ray Tube 

CSS - Cascading Style Sheet

CTRL - Control Key

CUI - Character User Interface

DARPANET - Defence Advanced Research Project Agency Network

DAT - Digital Audio Tape

DBMS - Database Management System

DDL - Data Definition Language

DDR - Double Data Rate

DDR-SDRAM - Double Data Rate-Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory

DHTML - Dynamics Hyper Text Markup Language  

DML - Data Manipulation Language

DNA - Distributed Internet Architecture

DNS - Domain Name System

Doc - Document

DOC - Date Optimizing Computer 

DOS - Disk Operating System

DPI - Dots Per Inch

DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory  

DVD - Digital Versatile Disk

DVDR - Digital Versatile Disk Recordable

DVDRW - Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable

DVI - Digital Visual Interface

DVR - Digital Video Recorder

E-Commerce - Electronic Commerce

E-Mail - Electronic Mail

EB - EXAByte

EiB - EXBIByte

EDGE - Enhanced Data Rate for GSM Evolution 

EDI - Electronic Data Interchange

EDP - Electronic Data Processing

EDSAC - Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator

EDVAC - Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer

EEPROM - Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

EFS - Encrypted File System

ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator

EPROM - Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory 

EROM - Erasable Read-Only Memory

FAT - File Allocation Table

FDC - Floppy Disk Controller

FDD - Floppy Disk Drive

FLOPS - Floating Point Operations Per Second

FM - Frequency Modulation

FORTRAN - Formula Translation

FPS - Frames Per Second

FS - File System

FTP - File Transfer Protocol

3GP - 3rd Generation Project

3GPP - 3rd Generation Partnership Project

GB - GigaByte

GiB - GIBIByte

GBPS - Gigabytes/Gigabits Per Second

GDI - Graphical Device Into

GHZ - Gigahertz

GIF - Graphics Interchange Format

GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out

GML - Geography Markup Language

GOV - Government

GPRS - General Packet Radio Service

GSM - Global System For Mobile Communication 

GUI - Graphical User Interface

HD - Hard Disk

HDD - Hard Disk Drive

HDMI - High Definition Multimedia Interface

HP - Hewlett Packard/Horsepower

HPC - Handheld Personal Computer

HSDPA - High Speed Downlink Packet Access

HTML - Hypertext Markup Language 

HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol 

IBM - International Business Machines

IC - Integrated Circuit

ICT - Information Communication Technology

IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol

INFO - Information

INTEL - Integrated Electronics

IO - Input Output

IOP - Input Output Processor 

IP - Internet Protocol

IPV4 - Internet Protocol Version 4

IPV6 - Internet Protocol Version 6

ISO - International Organization for Standardization

ISP - Internet Service Provider

IT - Information Technology

J2EE - Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition

JAD - Job Application Descriptor/Development

JAR - Java Archive

JPEG - Joint Photographic Expert Group

JS - JavaScript

JSP - Java Server Page

Kbps - Kilobits/Kilobytes Per Second

KB - Kilobyte

KBD - Keyboard

LAN - Local Area Network

LCD - Liquid Crystal Display

LED - Light Emitting Diode

LLL - Low-level Language

Mp3 - MPEG Audio Layer 3

Mp4 - MPEG-4 AVC

MAN - Metropolitan Area Network

MB - Motherboard/Megabyte

MBPS - Megabits/Megabytes Per Second

MCGA - Multi Colored Graphics Adapter

MHz - Megahertz

MICR - Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

MIPS - Million Instruction Per Second

MODEM - Modulates and Demodulates

MPEG - Motion Picture Expert Group

MS Access - Microsoft Program/Access

MS DOS - Microsoft Disk Operating System

MU - Memory Unit

NAT - Network Address Translation

NIC - Network Interface Card

NIIT - National Institute of Information Technology

NTFS - New Technology File System

NTP - Network Time Protocol

OpenGL - Open Graphics Library

OMR - Optical Mark Reader/Recognition

OOP - Object-Oriented Programming

ORG - Organization

OS - Operating System

OSI - Open System Interconnection

PAN - Personal Area Network

PB - Petabyte

PiB - Pebibyte

PC - Personal Computer

PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect

PDA - Personal Digital 

PDF - Portable Document Format

PDU - Protocol Data Unit/Power Distribution Unit

PHP - Hypertext Preprocessor 

PING - Packet Internet/Internetwork Groper

PNG - Portable Network

PNP - Plug and Play

POST - Power On Self Test

PPP - Point to Point Protocol

PROLOG - Programming Logic

PROM - Programmable Read-Only Memory

PS/2 - Personal System 2

PSU - Power Supply Unit

RAID - Redundant Array of Independent Disks

RAM - Random Access Memory

RDBMS - Relational Database Management System

RDMA - Remote Direct Memory Access

RIP - Routing Information to Protocol

ROM - Read Only Memory

RPM - Revolutions Per Minute

SAM - Software Asset Management/Sequential Access Method 

SATA - Serial Advanced Technology Attachments

SDRAM - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory

SEO - Search Engine Optimization

SIM - Subscriber Identity Module

SIMM - Single In-line Memory Module

SIU - Serial Interface Unit

SMPS - Switch Mode Power Supply

SMS - Short Message Service

SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SNAP - Subnetwork Access Protocol

SNOBOL - String Oriented Symbolic Language

SQL - Structured Query

SRAM - Static Random Access Memory

SSD - Solid State Device

SSDD - Single Sided Double Density

SSHD - Single Sided High Density

SVGA - Super Video Graphics Array

SW - Software

TAPI - Telephony Application Programming Interface

TB - Terabyte

TiB - Tebibyte

TBPS - Terabytes Per Second 

TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TXT - Text

UHF - Ultra High Frequency

UI - User Interface

UMTS - Universal Mobile Telecommunication System

UNIVAC - Universal Automatic Computer

UPS - Uninterruptible Power Supply

URL - Uniform Resource Locator

USB - Universal Serial Bus

VAN - Value Added Network

VCD - Video Compact Disk

VDU - Visual Display Unit

VGA - Video Graphics Array

VHF - Very High Frequency

VIRUS - Vital Information Resource Under Seized

VLSI - Vey Large Scale Integration

VOIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol

VPN - Virtual Private Network

VR - Virtual Reality 

VRAM - Video Random Access Memory

VRML - Virtual Reality Mark-up Language

WAN - Wide Area Network

WAP - Wireless Application Protocol

WBMP - Wireless Bitmap Image

WINS - Windows Internet Name Service

WLAN - Wireless Local Area Network

WMA - Windows Media Audio

WML - Wireless Markup Language

WMV - Windows Media Video

WORM - Write Once Read Many 

WWW - World Wide Web

XHTML - Extensible Hypertext Markup Language

XMF - Extensible Music File

XML - Extensible Markup Language

XMS - Extended Memory Specification

XSL - Extensible Style Language

XT - Extended Technology

Yahoo - Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle

YB - Yottabyte

YiB - Yobibyte

ZB - Zettabyte

ZiB - Zebibyte

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