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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

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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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