Abbreviations

Sl No. Abbreviation Full Forms
1 3GP 3rd Generation Project
2 3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project
3 AAC Advanced Audio Coding
4 AI Artificial Intelligence
5 AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
6 ALGOL Algorithmic Language
7 ALU Arithmetic Logic Unit
8 AMU Atomic Mass Unit
9 AOL America Outline
10 API Application Program Interface
11 APT Automatically Programmed Tooling
12 ARP Address Resolution Protocol
13 ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
14 ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
15 ASP Active Server Pages
16 ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
17 AUI Attachment Unit Interface
18 AVI Audio Video Interleav
19 AWACS Airborne Warning and Control System
20 B2B Business to Business
21 B2C Business to Consumer
22 BASIC Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
23 BCC Blind Carbon Copy
24 BCD Binary Coded Decimal
25 BCG Bacillus Calmette-Guerin
26 BIOS Basic Input Output System
27 BIU Bus Interface Unit
28 BMP Bitmap
29 BPS Bytes Per Second
30 CAD Computer-Aided Design
31 CADD Computer-Aided Design in Drafting
32 CAI Computer-Aided Instruction
33 CAM Computer-Aided Manufacturing
34 CC Carbon Copy
35 CCTV Closed-Circuit Television
36 CD Compact Disk
37 CD ROM Compact Disk Read Only Memory
38 CD RW Compact Disk Rewritable
39 CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
40 CISC Complex Instructions Set Computers
41 CMD Command
42 CNG Compressed Natural Gas
43 COBOL Common Business Oriented Language
44 CPI Clock/Cycle Per Instruction
45 CPU Central Processing Unit
46 CROM Computerised Range of Motion
47 CRT Cathode Ray Tube
48 CSS Cascading Style Sheets
49 CUI Character User Interface
50 DARPANET Defence Advanced Research Project Agency Network
51 DAT Digital Audio Tape
52 DBMS Database Management System
53 DDL Data Definition Language
54 DDR Double Data Rate
55 DDR-SDRAM Double Data Rate-Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
56 DHTML Dynamics Hypertext Markup Language
57 DML Data Manipulation Language
58 DNA 1. Distributed Internet Architecture, 2. Deoxyribonucleic Acid
59 DNS Domain Name Server
60 DOC Date Optimising Computer
61 DOS Disk Operating System
62 DPI Dots Per Inch
63 DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
64 DVD Digital Versatile Disk
65 DVDR Digital Versatile Disk Recordable
66 DVDRW Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable
67 DVI Digital Visual Interface
68 DVR Digital Video Recorder
69 E-COMMERCE Electronic Commerce
70 E-MAIL Electronic Mail
71 EB EXAByte
72 EDGE Enhanced Data Rate for GSM Evolution
73 EDI Electronic Data Interchange
74 EDP Electronic Data Processing
75 EDSAC Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator
76 EDVAC Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Compute
77 EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
78 EFS Encrypted File System
79 EIB EXBIByte
80 ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator
81 EPROM Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
82 EROM Erasable Read-Only Memory
83 FAT File Allocation Table
84 FDC Floppy Disk Controller
85 FDD Floppy Disk Drive
86 FLOPS Floating Point Operations for Second
87 FM Frequency Modulation
88 FORTRAN Formula Translation
89 FPS Frames Per Second
90 FS File System
91 FTP File Transfer Protocol
92 GB Giga Byte
93 GBPS Gigabytes/Gigabits Per Second
94 GHZ Giga Hertz
95 GIF Graphics Interchangeable Format
96 GIGO Garbage in Garbage Out
97 GML Geography Markup Language
98 GPRS General Packet Radio Service
99 GSM Global System For Mobile Communication
100 GUI Graphical User Interface
101 HD Hard Disk
102 HDD Hard Disk Drive
103 HDMI High Definition Multimedia Interface
104 HP 1. Hewlett Packard 2. Horse Power
105 HPC Handheld Personal Computer
106 HSDPA High-speed Downlink Packet Access
107 HTML HyperText Markup Language
108 HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
109 HTTPS Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
110 IBM International Business Machines
111 IC Integrated Circuit
112 ICT Information Communication Technology
113 ICU Intensive Care Unit
114 IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol
115 INTEL Integrated Electronics
116 IO Input Output
117 IOP Input Output Processor
118 IP Internet Protocol
119 IPV4 Internet Protocol Version 4
120 IPV6 Internet Protocol Version 6
121 ISO International Organisation for Standardisation
122 ISP Internet Service Provider
123 IT Information Technology
124 J2EE Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition
125 JAD Job Application Descriptor/Development
126 JAR Java Archive
127 JPEG Joint Photographic Expert Group
128 JS JavaScript
129 JSP Java Server Page
130 KB Kilobyte
131 KBPS Kilobits/Kilobytes per Second
132 LAN Local Area Network
133 LASER Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
134 LCD Liquid Crystal Display
135 LED Liquid Emitting Diode
136 LLL Low-level Language
137 LNG Liquefied Natural Gas
138 LORAN Long Range Navigation
139 LPG Liquefied Petroleum Gas
140 MAN Metropolitan Area Network
141 MASER Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
142 MB Motherboard / Megabyte
143 MBPS Megabits/Megabytes per Second
144 MHZ Mega Hertz
145 MICR Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
146 MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
147 MIPS Million Instructions for Second
148 MP3 MPEG Audio Layer 3
149 MP4 MPEG-4 AVC
150 MPEG Motion Picture Experts Group
151 NAT Network Address Translation
152 NIC Network Interface Card
153 NIIT National Institute of Information Technology
154 NTFS New Technology File System
155 NTP Network Time Protocol
156 OMR Optical Mark Reader/Recognition
157 OOP Object-Oriented Programming
158 OPENGL Open Graphics Library
159 OS Operating System
160 OSI Open Systems Interconnection
161 PAN 1. Personal Area Network / 2. Permanent Account Number
162 PB Peta Byte
163 PC Personal Computer
164 PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
165 PDA Personal Digital
166 PDF Portable Document Format
167 PDU 1. Protocol Data Unit / 2. Power Distribution Unit
168 PING Packet Internet/Internetwork Groper
169 PNG Portable Network Graphics
170 POST Power on Self Test
171 PPP Point to Point Protocol
172 PROM Programmable Read-Only Memory
173 PSU Power Supply Unit
174 RADAR Radio Detection and Ranging
175 RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks
176 RAM Random Access Memory
177 RDBMS Relational Database Management System
178 RDMA Remote Direct Memory Access
179 RIP Routing Information Protocol
180 RNA Ribose Nucleic Acid
181 ROM Read Only-Memory
182 RPM Revolutions Per Minute
183 SAM 1. Software Asset Management/ 2. Sequential Access Method / 3. Surface to Air Missile
184 SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
185 SATA Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
186 SEO Search Engine Optimisation
187 SIM Subscriber Identity Module
188 SIU Serial Interface Unit
189 SMPS Switch Mode Power Supply
190 SMS Short Message Services
191 SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
192 SNAP Subnetwork Access Protocol
193 SNOBOL String Oriented Symbolic Language
194 SONAR Sound Navigation and Ranging
195 SQL Structured Query
196 SRAM Static Random Access Memory
197 SSD Solid State Drive
198 STP Standard Temperature and Pressure
199 TAPI Telephony Application Programming Interface
200 TB Terabyte
201 TCP Transmission Control Protocol
202 TFT Thin Film Transistor
203 TNT Tri Nitro Toulene
204 TXT Text
205 UHF Ultra High Frequency
206 UI User Interface
207 UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunication System
208 UNIVAC Universal Automatic Computer
209 UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply
210 URL Uniform Resource Locator
211 USB Universal Serial Bus
212 VAN Value Added Network
213 VCD Video Compact Disk
214 VDU Visual Display Unit
215 VGA Video Graphics Array
216 VHF Very High Frequency
217 VIRUS Vital Information Resource Under Seized
218 VOIP Voice Over Internet Protocol
219 VPN Virtual Private Network
220 VR Virtual Reality
221 VRML Virtual Reality Mark-up Language
222 WAN Wide Area Network
223 WAP Wireless Application Protocol
224 WBMP Wireless Bitmap Image
225 WINS Windows Internet Name Service
226 WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
227 WMA Windows Media Audio
228 WML Wireless Markup Language
229 WMV Windows Media Video
230 WWW World Wide Web
231 XHTML Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
232 XMF Extensible Music File
233 XML Extensible Markup Language
234 XSL Extensible Style Language
235 YB Yottabyte
236 ZB Zetta Byte