Accronyms Irsad Mohammed

Centre for Peace Studies, Sammanthurai
Computer Acronyms Collection

Acronyms Details

1. ADSL Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line
2. AI Artificial Intelligence
3. ALU Arithmetic & Logical Unit
4. ANSI American National Standards Institute
5. API Application Program Interface
6. APPS Applications
Advanced Research Projects Agency
7. ARPANET Network
American Standard Code for Information
8. ASCII Interchange
Advanced Technology Attachment
9. ATA Automated Teller Machine
10. ATM Attribute (also ATR)
11. ATTRIB Advanced Technology Extended
12. ATX Automatic
13. AUTO Audio Visual Interleave [Microsoft]
14. AVI Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction
Code
15. BASIC Blind Carbon Copy
Binary Coded Decimal
16. BCC Background Color [HTML]
17. BCD Binary Input
18. BGCOLOR Basic Input Output System
19. BI Binary Digit
20. BIOS Backspace
21. BIT British Naval Connector
22. BKSP Bits per Inch
23. BNC Computer Aided Design
24. BPI Computer Aided Learning
25. CAD Computer Axial Tomography
26. CAL Carbon Copy
27. CAT Compact Disc
28. CC Code Division Multiple Access
29. CD Compact Disk – Recordable
30. CDMA Compact Disk - Read Only Memory
31. CD-R Compact Disk – Rewritable
32. CD-ROM Character
33. CD-RW Check Disk
34. CHAR Complex Instruction Set Computing
35. CHKDSK Command Line Interface
36. CISC Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
37. CLI
38. CMOS Page 1

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39. CMYK Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black (color model)
40. COBOL Common Business-oriented Language
41. COM Commercial
Common Oriented Machine Particularly
42. COMPUTER Used for Trade Educations and Researches
Central Processing Unit
43. CPU Cycling Redundancy Checking
44. CRC Cathode Ray Tube
45. CRT Control Unit
46. CU Digital Audio Tape
47. DAT Data Base Management System
48. DBMS Data Control Language
49. DCL Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
50. DHCP Dual-Inline Memory Module
51. DIMM Directory
52. DIR Data Manipulation Language
53. DML Domain Name Service
54. DNS Disk Operating System
55. DOS Dots per Inch
56. DPI Data Query Language
57. DQL Dynamic Random Access Memory
58. DRAM Digital Subscriber Line
59. DSL Desktop Publishing Program
60. DTP Digital Video Disk
61. DVD Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange
Code
62. EBCDIC Extended Dynamic Random Access Memory
Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic
63. EDRAM Computer
Electroencephalography
64. EDVAC Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-
Only Memory
65. EEG Electronic Fund Transfer at Point of Sale
Electronic Numerical Integrator and
66. EEPROM Computer
Electronic Point of Sale Terminal
67. EFTPOS Electrically Programmable Read Only
Memory
68. ENIAC Erasable Read Only Memory
File Allocation Table
69. EPOS Floppy Disk Drive
First-In First-Out
70. EPROM Formula Translator (Programming Language)
Free Open Source Software
71. EROM File Transfer Protocol
72. FAT Gigabyte
73. FDD
74. FIFO Page 2
75. FORTRAN
76. FOSS
77. FTP
78. GB

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79. GIGO Garbage In Garbage Out
80. GIS Geographic Information System
Global Learning by Observations to Benefit
81. GLOBE the Environment
Government Open Systems Interconnection
82. GOSIP Profile
General Packet Radio Service
83. GPRS Global Positioning System
84. GPS Global System for Mobile-Communications
85. GSM Graphical User Interface
86. GUI Hard Disk Drive
87. HDD Hypertext Markup Language
88. HTML Hypertext Transport Protocol
89. HTTP Hertz
90. Hz Input/output
91. I/O Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
92. IANA International Business Machines
(Corporation)
93. IBM Integrated Circuit
Internet Control Message Protocol
94. IC Integrated Development Environment
95. ICMP Integrated Drive Electronics Cable
96. IDE Institute of Electrical and Electronics
97. IDE Cable Engineers
Integrated Graphics Array
98. IEEE Internet Message Access Protocol
Internet Protocol
99. IGA Internet Relay Chat
100. IMAP Industry Standard Architecture
101. IP International Standard Book Number
102. IRC Integrated Services Digital Network
103. ISA International Organization for
104. ISBN Standardization
105. ISDN Internet Service Provider
Joint Photographic Experts Group
106. ISO Local Area Network
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of
107. ISP Radiation
108. JPEG Liquid Crystal Display
109. LAN Light Emitting Diode
List Processing
110. LASER Least Significant Digit
Megahertz
111. LCD Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
112. LED Musical Instrument Digital Interface
113. LISP Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
114. LSD
115. MHz Page 3
116. MICR
117. MIDI
118. MIME

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119. MIPS Million Instructions per Second
120. MIPS Million Instructions per Second
121. MODEM Modulator Demodulator
122. MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group
123. MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
124. MSD Most Significant Digit
125. MSI Medium Scale Integration
126. NIC Network Interface Card
127. NTFS New Technology File System
128. OCR Optical Character Reader
129. OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
130. OLE Object Linking and Embedding
131. OMR Optical Mark Reader
132. OOL Object-Oriented Language
133. OSI Open Systems Interconnection
134. PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
135. PDA Personal Digital Assistant
136. POP Post Office Protocol
137. POST Power On Self-Test
138. PPM Pages Per Minute
139. PROM Programmable Read Only Memory
140. PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
141. RAD Rapid Application Development
142. RAID Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks
143. RAM Random Access Memory
144. RDRAM Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory
145. RGB Red-Green-Blue
146. RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer
147. ROM Read Only Memory
148. RSVP Resource Reservation Protocol
149. SCSI Small Computer Systems Interface
Synchronous Dynamic Random Access
150. SDRAM Memory
Single In-line Memory Module
151. SIMM Short Message Service
152. SMS Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
153. SMTP Structured Query Language
154. SQL Super Video Graphics Array
155. SVGA Transmission Control Protocol
156. TCP User Datagram Protocol
157. UDP Unique Code
158. UNICODE Uninterruptible Power Supply
159. UPS Uniform Resource Locator
160. URL Universal Serial Bus
161. USB Unshielded Twisted-Pair (cable)
162. UTP Ultraviolet
163. UV
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164. VDU Visual Display Unit
165. VGA Video Graphics Array
166. VIRUS Vital Information Resources Under Siege
167. WAN Wide Area Network
168. WWW World-Wide Web
169. WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
170. XP Extra Powerful
171. *.bat Batch Processing (file name extension)
172. *.bib Bibliography (file name extension)
173. *.exe Executable (file name extension)
174. *.bmp Bitmap Image (file name extension)
175. *.swf Shockwave Flash (file name extension)
176. *.mp3 Mpeg Layer3 (file name extension)
177. *.wmv Windows Media Video (file name extension)
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