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Special IT Abbreviations for Everyday Science
Here I am sharing all IT related Acronyms and Abbreviations which I think will be helpful not only in Everyday science paper but also in Computer Science paper as well. So enjoy it
[A-----B] AAA - Access All Areas (a security group.) AAM - Ask A Minor (mainly used in IRC) AC - Alternating Current / Analogical Computer ACCT - Account ACD - Automatic Call Distributor ACE - Adaptive Communication Environment ACID - Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability ACID / AciD - Ansi Creators in Demand (a hacking group) ACL - Access Control List (a list containing info about which user can access which parts of, say, a hard drive) ACM - Association for Computing Machinery ACTLAB - Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory ADC - Analog-to-Digital Conversion / Advanced Disk Catalog ADFS - Advanced Disk FIling System (what new(ish))acorns and upgraded BBC's use to handle floppy disks) ADMIN - Administrator ADN - Any day now (mainly used in IRC) ADO - ActiveX Data Objects ADPCM - Adaptive Differential Pulse-Code Modulation ADPCM - Adaptive Digital Pulse Code Modulation ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line AEP - Apple talk Echo Protocol AF - Audio Frequency AFAIK - As Far As I Know (mainly used in IRC) AFK - Away From Keyboard (mainly used in IRC) AFS - Andrew File System AGNPAC - Alberta Government Packet Switched Network AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port AGP - Advanced Graphics Port AI - Artificial Intelligence AIFF - Audio Interchange File Format AIM - AOL Instant Messenger (a competitor to ICQ) AIN - Advanced Intelligent Network AIX - Advanced Interactive eXecutive (A version of UNIX) AL - Artificial Life ALGOL - ALGOrithmic Language ALRU - Automatic Line Record Update ALU - Arithmetic-Logic Unit AMPS - Advanced Mobile Phone Service AMV - Advanced Mail list Verify AN - Associated Number ANI - Automatic Number Identification ANSI - American National Standards Institute ANSIR - Awareness of National Security Issues and Response AO - Anti Online AOL - America OnLine APA - All Points Ahead API - Application Program Interface APL - A Programming Language APM - Advanced Power Management APNIC - the European and Asia Pacific registries APP - Application APPC - Advanced Program to Program Comunication APPROX - Approximately APT - About Phreakin Time ARCNet - Attached Resource Computer Network ARE - Acronym-rich environment (mainly used in IRC) ArKey / AK - Argued Key ARP - Address Resolution Protocol (gives addresses to workstations on a local network) ARPA - Advanced Research Projects Agency (see ARPANet) ARPANet - Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (a computer network that was established by the army in the late 60s for research and military purposes and eventually mutated into today's Internet, once it became open for the masses in the early 90s) ARSB - Automated Repair Service Bureau ART - Advanced Registry Tracer AS - Autonomous System / Address Strobe / Half an A-Level ASA - Advanced SCSI Architecture ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASCII -American Standard Code for Information Interchange (basically the character set your computer uses) ASCSI - Advanced Small Computer Systems Interface ASI - Asynchronous SCSI Interface ASIC - Application Specific Intergrated Circuit ASIO - Australian Security Intelligence Organization ASM / AS - Anti-Social Magazine (a well known hacking magazine) ASP - Active Server Page ASPI - Advanced SCSI Programming Interface ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment ATAPI - ATA Packet Interface ATH - Abbreviated Trouble History ATL - Active-X Template Library ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode ATP - Apple Talk transaction Protocol ATRAC - Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding ATTRIB - Attribute AUI - Attachment Unit Interface AUP - Acceptable User Policy AURP - Apple talk Update-based Routing Protocol AVI - Audio Visual Interface (an extremely lame computer video format, used mainly by Micro$oft... Surprise, surprise) AVP - Aliens Vs. Predators (an online multiplaying game) AWG - American Wire Gauge AZ - Abstract Zero (a hacking group, now in the ownership of PE (Pirated Education)) b - BIT B - Byte B4 - Before (mainly used in IRC) B4BO / B4B0 - Bah Boh (a cool hacking magazine. www.b4bo.org) B4N - Bye for now (mainly used in IRC) BAK - Back at the keyboard (mainly used in IRC) / Backup (An extension often used under DOS to mark backup copies of files) BASH - Bourne Again Shell (a Unix shell. Usually located at /bin/bash) BASIC - Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code BAT - Batch (a batch file is a plain text file that consists of commands that will be sent to the command prompt whenever the file is executed) BB - Big Brother) BBAS - Beige Box Advanced System BBIAB - Be back in a bit (mainly used in IRC) BBL - Be Back Later (mainly used in IRC) BBNW - BB for NetWare BBS - Bulletin Board System BCAS / B-CAS / BKAS / B-KAS - Because (mainly used in IRC) BDR - Bus Device Request BEDO DRAM - Burst Extended Data Output DRAM BEG - Big evil grin (mainly used in IRC) BFD - Big fucking deal (mainly used in IRC) BFN - Bye for now (mainly used in IRC) / Big Freakin' Number (mainly used in IRC) BG - Big grin (mainly used in IRC) BGP - Border Gateway Protocol BIN - Binary BIOS - Basic Input/Ouput System BIOYIOP - Blow it out your I/O port (mainly used in IRC) BIT - BInary digiT BL - Belly laughing (mainly used in IRC) BMP - BITmap (a basic image file) BNC - Bouncer BNET - Battle Net BO - Back Orifice BO2K - Back Orifice 2,000 (another version of BO by cDc) BOC - Bell Operating Company BOD - BO Detect BOE - BO Eliminator BOF - Buffer Overflow BOR - Basic Output Report BOSS - Business Office Servicing System BOTEC - Back-of-the-envelope calculation (mainly used in IRC) BPI - Bytes Per Inch BPP - Bytes Per Pixel BPS - Bytes Per Second BPX - Break Point on eXecution BRB - Be Right Back (mainly used in IRC and ICQ) BS - Black Sun (see BSRF) BSA - Business Software Alliance BSC - Binary Synchronous Communication protocol BSD - Berkeley Software Distribution BSH - Bourne Shell BSOD - Blue Screen Of Death BSRF - Black Sun Research Facility BTA - But then again... (mainly used in IRC) BTW - By The way (mainly used in IRC and ICQ) |
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CCA—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 Assurance 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 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 CIDR—Classless Inter-Domain Routing 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 CMMI—Capability Maturity Model Integration 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 CPA—Cell Processor Architecture CPA—Converged Packet Access CPAN—Comprehensive Perl Archive Network CP/M—Control Program/Monitor CPRI—Common Public Radio Interface 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 CRS—Computer Reservations System CRT—Cathode Ray Tube CRUD—Create, Read, Update and Delete CS—Cable Select CS—Computer Science CSE—Computer Science and Engineering CSI—Common System Interface CSP—Communicating Sequential Processes 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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fiza mehar (Saturday, March 26, 2011) |
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List of computing and IT abbreviations
List of computing and IT abbreviations
List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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