CBDS |
Connectionless Broadband Data Service |
|
DPG |
Dedicated Packet Group) |
|
FOIRL |
Fiber-Optic InterRepeater Link |
|
ISO |
International Standards Organization |
|
MPOA |
MultiprotocolOver ATM |
|
PCR |
Peak Cell Rate |
|
RTP |
Routing Update Protocol |
|
TC |
Transmission Convergence sub-layer of PHY layer) |
|
0-day |
zero Dimension |
|
0KB.IN |
Free Knowledge Base of Internet |
|
100BaseT |
100 Mbps, baseband, unshielded twisted-pair |
|
100VG |
100 Voice Grade |
|
1080i |
1080 interlaced |
|
1080p |
1080 progressive |
|
10Base5 |
10 Mbps, baseband, 500 meter |
|
10BaseT |
10 Mbps, baseband, unshielded twisted-pair |
|
10GFC |
10 Gigabit Fibre Channel |
|
1FB |
Single line, Flat Business rate; |
|
1G |
First Generation |
|
1RU |
1 Rack Unit |
|
2.5G |
Second and a half generation |
|
24/7 |
Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week |
|
24p |
24 frames per second Progressive |
|
24x7 |
Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week |
|
2B1Q |
Two Binary One Quaternary |
|
2G |
Second Generation Wireless Systems |
|
2PC |
two-phase commit |
|
2PKDP |
Two-Party Key Distribution Protocol |
|
3D |
three-dimensional (geophysics) |
|
3DES |
Triple DES |
|
3DS |
3D Studio |
|
3G |
Third Generation mobile phone network |
|
3gio |
3rd Generation Input Output |
|
3GL |
third-generation language |
|
3GPP |
3rd Generation Partnership Project |
|
3I |
Investors In Industry (venture Capitalists) |
|
3M |
Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company |
|
3P |
Predictive, Proactive, and Preventive Philosophy |
|
3W |
World Wide Web |
|
4B5B |
4 Byte 5 Byte |
|
4C Entity |
Four Company Entity |
|
4G |
4th Generation |
|
4GL |
Fourth-Generation Language |
|
4gt |
4 Gigabyte Memory Tuning |
|
5ESS |
class five (5) electronic switching system |
|
5GL |
5th Generation Language |
|
6DOF |
Six Degrees of Freedom |
|
8-n-1 |
8 bits, No parity, 1 stop bit |
|
80/20 |
Eighty-twenty rule |
|
8B10B |
8 Byte 10 Byte |
|
90-90 |
Ninety-Ninety Rule |
|
9ifs |
Oracle9i Internet File System |
|
9P |
Plan 9 Filesystem Protocol |
|
A-D |
Analog to Digital |
|
A/N/K |
alphabetic, numeric, katakana |
|
a11y |
accessibility |
|
A2A |
application-to-application |
|
AA |
Anti-Aliasing |
|
AA |
Automated Attendant |
|
AAA |
authentication, authorization, and accounting |
|
AAB |
All-to-All Broadcast |
|
AAC |
Advanced Audio Coding |
|
AAC |
ATM Access Concentrator |
|
AAL |
ATM Adaptation Layer |
|
AAL5 |
ATM Adaption Layer 5 |
|
AARP |
Appletalk Address Resolution Protocol |
|
AAS |
Auto Area Segmentation |
|
AAT |
Average Access Time |
|
AAUI |
Apple Attachment Unit Interface |
|
ABAP |
Advanced Business Application Programming |
|
ABC |
activity-based costing methods |
|
ABC |
Atanasoff-Berry Computer |
|
ABEND |
Abnormal End |
|
ABI |
Application Binary Interface |
|
ABLE |
Agent Building and Learning Environment |
|
ABM |
activity-based management |
|
ABM |
Asynchronous Balance Mode |
|
ABME |
Asynchronous Balanced Mode Extended |
|
ABR |
Available Bit Rate |
|
ABR |
Automatic Baud Rate detection |
|
AC |
Access Control |
|
AC97 |
Audio CODEC 97 |
|
aca |
Australian Communications Authority's |
|
ACAP |
Application Configuration Access Protocol |
|
ACB |
Access method Control Block |
|
ACC |
Authorization Contract for Containers |
|
ACCU |
Association of C and C Users |
|
ACD |
Automatic Call Delivery |
|
ACD |
Automatic Call Distributor |
|
ACDI |
Asynchronous Communications Device Interface |
|
ACDS |
Active Control Data Set |
|
ACE |
Asynchronous Communications Element |
|
ACE |
Adobe Certified Expert |
|
ace |
Agile Communication Environment |
|
ACE |
Access Control Entry |
|
ACE |
Advanced CMOS-ECL |
|
ACEE |
Access Control Environment Element |
|
ACF |
Access Control Field |
|
ACF |
Advanced Communications Function (IBM) |
|
ACF |
Advanced Communication Facility |
|
ACF2 |
Access Control Facility 2 |
|
ACG |
adaptive code generation |
|
ACH |
Automated Clearinghouse |
|
ACI |
Access Control Information |
|
ACIA |
Asynchronous Communications Interface Adapter |
|
ACID |
Atomicity Consistency Isolation Durability |
|
ACK |
ACKnowledgment |
|
ACK |
Acknowledge (telecommunications; Cf. NAK) |
|
ACL |
Access Control List |
|
acl |
Asianet Communications Limited |
|
ACL |
Asynchronous Connectionless Link |
|
ACL |
Application Connectivity Link |
|
ACM |
Association for Computing Machinery |
|
ACMS |
Application Control and Management System |
|
ACP |
Array Control Processor |
|
ACPI |
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface |
|
ACR |
Allowed Cell Rate |
|
ACR |
attenuation-to-crosstalk ratio |
|
ACRI |
additional coding-related required information |
|
ACROSS |
Automated Cargo Release & Operations Service System |
|
ACSE |
Association Control Service Element |
|
ACSE |
Application Control Service Element |
|
ACSLS |
Automated Cartridge System Library Software |
|
ACT |
Application Control Table |
|
ACT |
access control template |
|
ACU |
abstract code unit |
|
ACU |
Automatic Calling Unit |
|
AD |
Administrative Domain |
|
AD |
Active Directory |
|
ADAPT |
Architecture, Design, Analysis and Planning Tool |
|
ADB |
Apple Desktop Bus |
|
ADC |
Analog-Digital Converter |
|
ADC |
Automated Data Collection |
|
ADC |
Advanced Direct Connect |
|
ADCCP |
Advanced Data Communications Control Procedures |
|
ADDM |
Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor |
|
ADDM |
Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping |
|
ADDMD |
Administrative Directory Management Domain |
|
ADE |
Application Development Environment |
|
ADE |
Application Data Export |
|
ADF |
Application Development Facility |
|
ADF |
Activity Decision Flow |
|
ADF |
automatic document feeder |
|
ADI |
Analog Devices, Inc. |
|
ADI |
Application Desktop Integrator |
|
ADK |
Additional Decryption Key |
|
ADL |
Advanced Distributed Learning |
|
ADM |
Application Development Manager |
|
adm |
Agile development management |
|
ADMD |
Administration Management Domain |
|
ADMF |
Asynchronous Data Mover Facility |
|
ADN |
Advanced Digital Network |
|
ADN |
application delivery networking |
|
ADO |
ActiveX Data Objects (Microsoft) |
|
ADP |
Accidental Damage Protection |
|
ADPCM |
Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation |
|
ADS |
Active Directory Service |
|
ADS |
Asynchrous Data Switching |
|
ADSI |
Analog Display Services Interface |
|
ADSI |
Active Directory Services Interface |
|
ADSL |
Asymetric Digital Subscriber Line |
|
ADSL |
Asynchrous Data Switching Line |
|
ADSL |
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Links |
|
ADSM |
ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager |
|
ADSR |
Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release (sound envelope specification) |
|
ADSTAR |
Automated Document Storage And Retrieval |
|
ADT |
application deployment template |
|
ADT |
Abstract Data Type |
|
ADT |
Admission, Discharge and Transfer Information |
|
ADTG |
Advanced Data Table Gram |
|
ADUC |
Active Directory Users and Computers |
|
AEA |
Activity End Acknowledge |
|
AEC |
Architecture, Engineering, Construction |
|
AEI |
Application Entity Invocation |
|
AES |
Advanced Encryption Standard |
|
AF |
Assured Forwarding |
|
AF |
Application Framework |
|
AF |
Audio Frequency |
|
AFC |
Antiferromagnetically-Coupled |
|
AFI |
Authority and Format Identifier |
|
AFIS |
An Automated Fingerprint Identification System |
|
AFK |
Away From Keyboard (Internet Chat Abbreviation) |
|
AFL |
Academic Free License |
|
AFM |
Atomic Force Microscope |
|
AFP |
Apple Filing Protocol |
|
AFP |
AppleTalk File Protocol |
|
AGC |
Automatic Gain Control |
|
AGP |
Accelerated Graphics Port |
|
AGP |
Accellerated Graphics Port |
|
AGS |
Advanced Graphics System |
|
AHCI |
Advanced Host Controller Interface |
|
AHP |
Analytical Hierarchy Process |
|
AI |
Artificial Intellegence |
|
AIA |
Application Integration Architecture |
|
AID |
Attention Identifier |
|
AIM |
Aol Instant Messege |
|
AIN |
Advanced Intelligent Network |
|
AIO |
All in One |
|
AIOD |
Automatic Identified Outward Dialing |
|
AIP |
Advanced Inspection and Prevention |
|
AIR |
Additive Increase Rate |
|
AIS |
Alarm Indication Signal |
|
AIT |
Advanced Intelligent Tape |
|
AIU |
Application Interface Unit |
|
AIX |
Advanced Interactive Executive (IBM) |
|
AJAX |
Asynchronous Javascript and XML |
|
AJP |
Apache JServ Protocol |
|
AL PA |
Arbitrated Loop Physical Address |
|
ALET |
Access List Entry Token |
|
ALG |
Application Layer Gateway |
|
ALGOL |
Algorithmic Language |
|
ALI |
Application Layer Interface |
|
ALM |
Asset Lifecycle Management |
|
ALM |
Application Life-cycle Management |
|
ALM |
Asynchronous Line Multiplexer |
|
ALP |
Application Layer Program |
|
ALP |
Application Layer Protocol |
|
ALSA |
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture |
|
alt |
Contralto |
|
ALT |
Application Load Table |
|
ALT |
Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres |
|
ALU |
Alcatel-Lucent |
|
ALU |
Arithmetic Logic Unit |
|
AM |
Amplitude Modulation |
|
AM |
Access Method |
|
AMA |
automatic message accounting |
|
AMANDA |
Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver |
|
AMD |
Active Matrix Display |
|
AMD |
Advanced Microchip Devices |
|
AMD |
architected model-driven |
|
AME |
Advanced Metal Evaporated |
|
AMH |
Automated Material Handling |
|
ami |
Analyze, Metricate, Improve |
|
AMI |
Advanced Metering Infrastructure |
|
AMI |
Alternate Mark Inversion |
|
AMIS |
Audio Messaging Interchange Specification |
|
AML |
Application Messaging Interface |
|
AML |
Astronomical Markup Language |
|
AMMA |
Advanced Memory Management Architecture |
|
AMP |
Ampere |
|
amp |
Amplifiers Microphone Preamplifiers |
|
AMP |
Amplifier |
|
AMP |
Asymmetric MultiProcessing |
|
AMPS |
Advanced Mobile Phone System |
|
AMR |
Automated meter reading also known as Automatic Meter Reading |
|
AMR |
Audio Modem Riser |
|
AMRF |
Action Message Retention Facility |
|
AMS |
Access Method Services |
|
AMT |
Address Mapping Table |
|
AMT |
Active Management Technology |
|
AMTA |
American Mobile Telecommunications Association |
|
ANDF |
Architecture-Neutral Distribution Format |
|
ANI |
Automatic Number Identification (Caller ID) |
|
Anon FTP |
Anonymous FTP |
|
ANOVA |
Analysis of Variance (statistics) |
|
ANR |
Automatic Network Routing |
|
ANS |
Advanced Network Services |
|
ANS |
Area Navigation System |
|
ANSI |
American National Standards Institute, Inc. |
|
ANX |
Automotive Network Exchange |
|
AOA |
Angle Of Arrival |
|
AOCE |
Apple Open Collaboration Environment |
|
AoE |
ATA Over Ethernet |
|
aof |
Advanced Open File |
|
AOF |
application object file |
|
AOL |
America Online, Inc. |
|
AOR |
Address of Record |
|
AOW |
Asian and Oceanic Workshop for open systems |
|
AP |
access point |
|
APA |
All Points Addressable |
|
APA |
all-points addressable |
|
apaas |
Application Platform as a Service |
|
APACS |
Association for Payment Clearing Services |
|
APaRT |
Automated Packet Recognition/Translation |
|
APC |
American Power Conversion |
|
APC |
Asynchronous Procedure Call |
|
APC |
Antenna Phase Center |
|
APDU |
application-layer protocol data unit |
|
APF |
Automated Purposing Framework |
|
API |
Application Programming Interface |
|
APIA |
API Association |
|
APL |
Ada Programming Language |
|
APM |
An Application Performance Management |
|
APM |
Advanced Power Management |
|
APM |
Active Policy Management |
|
APML |
Attention Profiling Markup Language |
|
APNIC |
Asia Pacific Network Information Center |
|
APO |
Advanced Planner Optimizer |
|
APOP |
Authenticated Post Office Protocol |
|
APOT |
Additional Point of Termination |
|
APOT |
Alternate Point of Termination |
|
APP |
Application Program |
|
APPC |
Advanced Program-to-Program Communication |
|
APPI |
Advanced Peer-to-Peer Internetwork |
|
APPN |
Advanced Peer-to-Peer Network |
|
APPN |
Advanced Peer to Peer Networking |
|
APR |
Apache Portable Runtime |
|
APS |
Advanced Production System |
|
APS |
Automatic Protection Switching (SONET/SDH) |
|
APS |
Advanced Planning and Scheduling |
|
APWG |
Anti-Phishing Working Group |
|
AQCB |
Automated Quote Contract Billing |
|
AR |
Attention Routine |
|
AR |
Augmented Reality |
|
AR |
Access Rate |
|
ARA |
Apple Remote Access |
|
ARAD |
Architected Rapid Application Development |
|
ARAG |
AntiReflection AntiGlare |
|
ARCNET |
Attached Resource Computer Network |
|
ARD |
Automatic Ring Down |
|
ARIA |
Accessible Rich Internet Applications |
|
ARIN |
American Registry for Internet Numbers |
|
arl |
ABLE Rule Language |
|
ARM |
Advanced RISC Machines Ltd |
|
ARM |
Asynchronous Response Mode |
|
ARP |
Address Resolution Protocol (ATM) |
|
ARPA |
Advanced Research Projects Agency (made early internet) |
|
ARPANET |
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (early internet) |
|
ARPANET |
Advance Research Projects Agency Network |
|
ARQ |
Automatic Repeat-reQuest |
|
ARS |
Action Request System |
|
ARS |
Automatic Route Selection |
|
ART |
Additional Reference Transmission |
|
ARTS |
Association for Retail Technology Standards |
|
ARU |
Audio Response Unit |
|
AS |
Autonomous System |
|
AS |
Activesync |
|
AS/400 |
Application System/400 |
|
AS2 |
Applicability Statement 2 |
|
ASA |
average speed of answer |
|
ASBR |
Autonomous System Boundary Router |
|
ASC |
Abstract Syntax Checker |
|
ASC |
Accredited Standards Committee |
|
ASCII |
American National Standard Code for Information Interchange |
|
ascl |
Asianet Satellite Communications Limited |
|
ASE |
Adaptive Server Enterprise |
|
ASE |
Application Service Element |
|
ASF |
Advanced Streaming Format |
|
ASF |
Automatic Sheet Feeder |
|
ASIC |
application-specific integration circuit |
|
ASIF |
Access Security Information Field |
|
ASIS |
access security information subfield |
|
ASK |
Anomalous State of Knowledge |
|
ASLR |
Address Space Layout Randomization |
|
ASLS |
Analog Single Line Station |
|
ASM |
Auto-sequencing memory |
|
ASM |
Automatic Storage Management |
|
ASML |
Advanced Semiconductor Materials Lithography |
|
ASN |
Autonomous System Number |
|
ASN |
Abstract Syntax Notation |
|
ASN.1 |
Abstract Syntax Notation One |
|
ASO |
Application Service Object |
|
ASO |
Address Supporting Organization |
|
ASP |
Abstract Service Primitive |
|
ASP |
Application Service Provider |
|
ASP |
Average Selling Price |
|
ASP |
Active Server Page |
|
ASPI |
Advanced SCSI Programming Interface |
|
ASPX |
Active Server Pages eXtended |
|
ASQ |
Automated Software Quality |
|
ASR |
Automatic Send and Receive |
|
ASR |
Automatic Speech Recognition |
|
ASR |
Automated System Recovery |
|
ASTs |
Asynchronous System Traps |
|
ASV |
Approved Scanning Vendor |
|
ASYNC |
Asynchronous |
|
AT |
Advanced Technology |
|
AT&T |
American Telephone and Telegraph (U.S. company, also known as "Ma Bell") |
|
ATA |
Advanced Technology Attachment |
|
ATA |
Analog Telephone Adaptor |
|
ATAG |
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines |
|
ATAPI |
AT Attachment Packet Interface |
|
ATB |
All Trunks Busy |
|
ATCA |
Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture |
|
ATG |
Art Technology Group, Inc |
|
ATI |
Allied Telesyn International |
|
ATL |
Active Template Library |
|
ATL |
Automated Tape Library |
|
ATLAS |
Authorization Token Layer Acquisition Service |
|
ATM |
Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
|
ATMP |
Ascend Tunnel Management Protocol |
|
ATO |
Assemble To Order |
|
AToM |
Any Transport Over MPLS |
|
ATP |
AppleTalk Transaction Protocol |
|
ATPCO |
Airline Tariff Publishing Company |
|
ATRAC |
Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding |
|
ATRN |
Authenticated Turn |
|
ATSC |
Advanced Television Systems Committee |
|
ATSF |
Alert Transport Service Facility |
|
ATTIS |
AT&T Information Systems |
|
ATU-C |
ADSL Transmission Unit, Central |
|
ATU-R |
ADSL Transmission Unit Remote |
|
ATUL |
ADSL Termination Unit Remote |
|
ATVEF |
Advanced TV Enhancement Forum |
|
ATX |
Advanced Technology Extended [Intel] |
|
AU |
Audio Unit |
|
AUDIT |
Automated Data Input Terminal |
|
AUI |
Attachment Unit Interface |
|
AUIML |
Abstract User Interface Markup Language |
|
AUP |
Acceptable Use Policy |
|
AUTOEXEC |
Automatic Execution |
|
AUTONEG |
Autonegotiation |
|
AUV |
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle |
|
AUX |
Auxiliary Device |
|
AV |
Audio Visual |
|
AV |
Anti-Virus |
|
AV |
Audio/Video |
|
AVD |
Alternate Voice Data |
|
AVED |
AntiVirus Emergency Discussion list |
|
AVI |
Audio/Video Interleaved Format |
|
AVK |
Application Verification Kit |
|
AVR |
Automatic Volume Recognition |
|
AVS |
Application Visualisation System |
|
AVST |
Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. |
|
AVVID |
Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data |
|
AWD |
Access Workflow Designer |
|
AWE |
Advanced WavEffects |
|
AWG |
American Wire Gauge |
|
AWS |
Advanced Wireless Services |
|
AWT |
Abstract Window Toolkit (Java) |
|
B |
Barnabites |
|
b |
Bit |
|
B |
Byte |
|
B Channel |
Bearer Channel |
|
B-HAVW |
Behavioral Heuristic Analyzer in Virtual Environments |
|
B-ISDN |
Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network |
|
B-LLI |
Broadband Low Layer Information |
|
B-NT |
Broadband Network Terminator |
|
B-TA |
Broadband Terminal Adapter |
|
B-TE |
Broadband Terminal Equipment |
|
B2B |
Business-to-Business |
|
B2C |
Business-to-Consumer |
|
b2e |
Business-to-employee electronic |
|
B8ZS |
Binary Eight Zero Substitution |
|
B8ZS |
Binary Eight Zero Suppression. |
|
BAA |
Blanket Authorization Agreement |
|
BABT |
British Approvals Board for Telecommunications |
|
BAC |
BroadCast Agent |
|
BACNET |
Building Automation and Control Network protocol |
|
BAF |
Bellcore AMA Format |
|
BAI |
Bank Administration Institute |
|
BAL |
Business Application Language |
|
BAM |
Basic Access Methods |
|
BAM |
business activity monitoring |
|
BAN |
Body Area Networks |
|
BAPI |
Business Application Programming Interface (SAP) |
|
bar file |
broker archive file |
|
BAS |
Basic Activity Subset |
|
Basel II |
Basel Capital Accord |
|
Bash |
Bourne-again shell |
|
BASIC |
Beginners Allpurpose Symbolic Instruction Code |
|
BASIC |
Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruktion Code |
|
BBC |
British Broadcasting Corporation |
|
BBCs |
buffer-to-buffer credits |
|
BBN |
Bolt, Beranek and Newman |
|
BBP |
Business-to-Business Procurement |
|
BBS |
Bulletin Board System |
|
BC4J |
Business Components for Java |
|
BCB |
Buffer Control Block |
|
BCC |
Blind Carbon Copy |
|
BCC |
Block Check Character |
|
BCD |
Binary-Coded Decimal |
|
BCE |
Bell Canada Enterprises |
|
BCEL |
Byte Code Engineering Library |
|
BCF |
Bridge Control Facility |
|
BCI |
Business Continuity Institute |
|
BCM |
Business Continuity Management |
|
BCMP |
Business Continuity Management Planning |
|
BCOCA |
Bar Code Object Content Architecture |
|
BCP |
Bulk Copy Program |
|
BCP |
Best Current Practice |
|
BCP |
Business Continuity Plan |
|
BCPL |
Basic Combined Programming Language (progenitor Of C) |
|
BCS |
Basic Content Services |
|
BCUG |
Bilateral Closed User Group |
|
BCV |
Business Continuous Volume |
|
BCX |
Basic To C Translator |
|
BD |
Blu-ray Disc |
|
BDAM |
Basic Direct Access Method |
|
BDC |
Backup Domain Controller |
|
BDF |
Building Distribution Frame |
|
BDR |
Basic Density Range |
|
BECN |
Backward Explicit Congestion Notification |
|
BEEP |
Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol |
|
Bellcore |
Bell Communications Research, Inc. |
|
BER |
Bit-Error Rate |
|
BER |
Basic Encoding Rules (ASN.1) |
|
BERT |
Bit Error Rate Tester (telecommunication) |
|
BES |
BlackBerry Enterprise Server |
|
BES |
Bursty Errored Seconds |
|
BFR |
Bona Fide Request |
|
BFT |
Binary File Transfer |
|
BGA |
Ball Grid Array [electronic Packaging] |
|
BGAN |
Broadband Global Area Network |
|
BGI |
Binary Gateway Interface |
|
BGP |
Border Gateway Protocol (routing protocol) |
|
BGP-4 |
Border Gateway Protocol-4 |
|
BHCA |
Busy Hour Call Attempt |
|
BHCC |
Busy Hour Call Completion |
|
BHLI |
Broadband High Layer Information |
|
BHMC |
Busy Hour Minutes of Capacity |
|
BHO |
Browser Help Object |
|
BHT |
Branch History Table |
|
BI |
Business Intelligence |
|
BIA |
Business Impact Analysis |
|
BIBOP |
big bag of pages |
|
BIC |
Bank Identifier Code |
|
BICI |
Broadband Inter-Carrier Interface |
|
BIDI |
Bi-Directional |
|
BIDS |
Business Intelligence Development Studio |
|
BIN |
Binary |
|
BinHex |
short for: BINary HEXadecimal |
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BIOD |
Block Input/Output Daemon |
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BIP |
Bit-Interleaved Parity |
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BIPS |
Bank Internet Payment System |
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BIRT |
Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools |
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BIST |
built-in self test |
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BISUP |
Broadband ISDN User's Part |
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BISYNC |
Binary Synchronous Communications Protocol |
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BIT |
Binary Digit (either 0 Or 1) |
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BIT7 |
Bit Seven |
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BITNET |
Because It's Time Networking |
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BITNIC |
Bitnet Network Information Center |
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BITS |
Background Intelligent Transfer Service |
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BITW |
Bump-In-The-Wire |
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BIW |
Business Information Warehouse, SAP |
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BL |
BLade Server |
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BLAST |
Basic Local Alignment Search Tool |
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BLISS |
Broadband Local Integrated Services Solution |
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BLOB |
Binary Large Object |
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BLOG |
Better Listings on Google |
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BLS |
Basic Link Service |
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BMIC |
Bus Master Interface Controller |
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BMRT |
Blue Moon Rendering Tools |
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BMS |
Basic Mapping Support |
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BMT |
Biel Mean Time |
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BNC |
British Naval Connector |
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BNF |
Backus-Naur Form (computing) |
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BNI |
Broadband Network Interface |
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BNN |
Boundary Network Node |
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BNOS |
Brocade Network OS |
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BO |
Business Object |
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BOA |
Basic Object Adapter |
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BOB |
Breakout Box |
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BOB |
Business Object Broker |
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BOBJ |
Business Objects SA |
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BOC |
BELL OPERATING COMPANIES |
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BOC |
Bell Operating Company |
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BOCU-1 |
Binary Ordered Compression for Unicode |
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BOD |
Bandwidth on Demand |
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BOD |
Business Object Document |
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BOL |
Books Online |
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BOM |
Bill of Material |
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BONDING |
Bandwidth On Demand Interoperability Group |
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BOOT |
BOOTstrap |
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BOOTP |
Bootstrap Protocol |
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BOPS |
Billions of Processes per Second |
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BOT |
Build-operate-transfer [an Agreement Or Contract] |
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BOT |
Begin Of Tape |
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botnet |
Robot Network |
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BP |
Base Pointer |
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BPA |
Business Process Automation |
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BPA |
Business Process Analysis |
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BPAM |
Basic Partitioned Access Method |
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BPC |
Business Planning and Consolidation |
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BPDM |
Business Process Definition Metamodel |
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BPDU |
Bridge Protocol Data Unit |
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BPEL |
Business Process Execution Language |
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BPEL4WS |
Business Process Execution Language for Web Services |
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BPI |
Bytes Per Inch |
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bpi |
bits per inch |
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BPL |
Broadband over power line |
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BPM |
business process management |
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BPON |
Broadband Passive Optical Network (SBC) |
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BPOS |
Business Productivity Online Standard Suite |
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BPP |
Bluetooth Basic Printing |
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BPP |
Bridge Port Pair |
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BPP |
Business Process Platform |
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BPPM |
BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management |
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BPS |
Bites per Second |
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bps |
bits per second |
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BPV |
Bipolar Violation |
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BRA |
Basic Rate Access |
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BRAN |
Broadband Radio Access Network |
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BRAS |
Broadband Remote Access Server |
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BRE |
Business rule engines |
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BREW |
Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless |
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BRF |
Benchmark Report Format |
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BRI |
Basic Rate Interface |
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BROUTER |
Bridge-Router |
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BRR |
Business Readiness Rating |
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BRZ |
Bipolar Return-to-Zero |
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BS |
British Standard |
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BS 7799 |
British Standard 7799 |
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BSA |
Business Software Alliance |
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BSA |
Basic Service Area |
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BSAM |
Basic Sequential Access Method |
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BSC |
Binary Synchronous Communication |
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BSD |
Berkeley Software Distribution |
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BSDI |
Berkeley Software Design, Inc. |
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BSDS |
BootStrap Data Set |
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BSE |
Basic Service Elements |
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BSM |
Business Service Management |
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BSNL |
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited |
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BSOD |
Blue Screen Of Death |
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BSP |
Board Support Package |
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BSS |
Business Support System |
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BSS |
Basic Synchronous Subset |
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BSSID |
Basic Service Set Identifier |
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BST |
Binary Search Tree |
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BT |
BlueTooth |
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BT |
British Telecommunications |
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BTA-ES |
Basic Teleprocessing Access Method - Extended Storage |
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BTAC |
Branch Target Address Cache |
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BTAG |
Beginning Tag |
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BTAM |
Basic Telecommunications Access Method |
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BTAM |
Basic Teleprocessing Access Method |
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BTM |
business transaction monitoring |
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BTM |
Benchmark Timing Methodology |
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BTO |
Business Technology Optimization |
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BTS |
Bits Per Second |
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BTW |
By The Way |
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BTX |
Balanced Technology Extended |
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BUS |
Broadcast and Unknown Server |
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BVD |
Basic Virtual Disk |
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BW |
Bandwidth |
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BYOD |
Bring Your Own Device |
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C |
C Plus Plus |
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C&SI |
consulting and system integration |
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C-GREX |
Chaos Game Representation Explorer |
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C/kT |
carrier-to-receiver noise density |
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C/R |
Command/Response Indicator or bit |
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c2a |
Click-to-Action |
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C4S |
Command, Control, Communications, and Computer Systems |
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C64/128 |
Commodore 64/128 |
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CA |
Computer Associates International Inc. |
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CA |
Collision Avoidance |
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CAA |
Computer Aided Architecture |
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CaaS |
Communications-as-a-Service |
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CAC |
Connection Admission Control (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) |
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CAD |
Computer-Aided Design |
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cad |
Computer Aided Designer |
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CAD/CAM |
Computer Aided Design/Computer Aided Manufacturing |
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CADIS |
Computer Aided Design Interactive System |
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CAH |
Computer Aided Handling |
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CAI |
Computer Aided Instruction = CIM CAO |
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CAI |
Common Air Interface |
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CAISE |
Computer Aided Integrated Software Engineering |
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CAL |
Client Access License |
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CALEA |
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act |
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CALS |
Computer Aided Acquisition and Logistic Support |
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CAM |
computer aided manufacturing |
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CAM |
Channel Access Method |
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CAM |
Computer-Aided Manufacturing |
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CAM |
Capital Asset Management |
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CAMA |
Centralized Automatic Message Accounting |
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CAMAC |
Computer Automated MeAsurement Control |
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CAMEL |
Customized Application for Mobile networks Enhanced Logic |
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CAN |
Campus Area Network |
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CAN |
Controller–area network |
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CAN |
Cancel Character |
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CAN-SPAM |
Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 |
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CAO |
Computer Aided Office |
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CAP |
Capture |
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CAP |
Carrierless Amplitude/Phase Modulation |
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CAPA |
CA Productivity Accelerator |
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CAPE |
concurrent art-to-product environment |
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CAPI |
Common Application Programming interface |
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CAPI |
Computer Assisted Programming Interface |
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CAPI |
Computer Assisted Personal Interview |
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CAPPC |
Computer Aided Production Planning and Control |
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caps |
capital letters |
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CAPSC |
Computer Aided Production Scheduling and Control |
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CAPTCHA |
Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart |
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CAR |
committed access rate |
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CARE |
Customer Account Record Exchange |
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CAROT |
Centralized Automatic Reporting on Trunks |
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CARP |
Common Address Redundancy Protocol |
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CART |
command and response token |
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CAS |
Computer Algebra System |
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CASE |
Computer-Aided Software Engineering |
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CAT |
Computer-Assisted Translation |
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CAT |
Computer Aided Testing |
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CAT |
Communications Authority of Thailand |
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CAT n |
Category n |
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CATI |
computer-aided telephone interviewing |
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CATIA |
Computer Aided Three-dimensional Interactive Application |
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CATP |
Caffeine Access Transport Protocol |
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CATS |
Calling Card & Third Number Settlement |
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CATV |
Community Antenna Television |
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CAV |
Constant Angular Velocity |
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CB |
C-Beautifier |
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CBC |
cipher block chaining |
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CBDS |
Connectionless Broadband Data Service |
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CBEMA |
Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers'Association |
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CBL |
Composite Blocking List |
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CBN |
Common Bonding Network |
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CBP |
Certifed Biometrics Professional |
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CBQ |
Class-Based Queuing |
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CBR |
Constant Bit Rate |
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CBR |
Content Based Routing |
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cbr files |
Comic Book Archive |
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CBT |
Computer Based Training |
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CBWFQ |
Class-Based Weighted Fair Queueing |
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CC |
Closed Captioning |
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CC |
Carbon Copy |
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CCA |
Citrix Certified Administrator |
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CCAs |
composite content applications |
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CCC |
Clear Channel Capability |
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CCD |
Charge Coupled Device - a device for the movement of electrical charge. |
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CCD |
Cash Concentration and Disbursement plus addenda |
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CCF |
Call Control Functional |
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CCH |
Connections per Circuit Hour |
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CCHIT |
Certification Commission for Health Information Technology |
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CCI |
Controlled Cryptographic Item |
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CCI |
Carrier-to-Carrier Interface |
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CCIE |
Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert |
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CCIR |
Comite Consultatif International des Radio Communications |
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CCIS |
common-channel interoffice signaling |
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CCITT |
Consultative Committee International Telegraph & Telephone |
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CCITT |
Comite Consultatif International de Telegraphique et Telephonique (International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee) [now ITU-T] |
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CCITT |
Comite Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique |
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CCL |
Communications Control Language |
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ccna |
Cisco Certified Network Associated |
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CCNSO |
Country Code Names Supporting Organization |
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CCOW |
Clinical Context Object Workgroup |
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CCP |
Certified Computer Professional |
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CCPM |
Critical Chain Project Management |
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CCR |
Commitment, Concurrency and Recovery |
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CCR |
Channel Command Retry |
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CCR |
Continuity of Care Record |
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CCR |
Committment, Concurrency and Recovery |
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CCR |
Cluster Continuous Replication |
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CCR |
Current Cell Rate (ATMF) |
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CCS |
Centum Call Seconds |
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CCS |
Common Communication Support |
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CCS |
Coded Character Set |
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CCS |
Common Channel Signaling |
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ccs |
Control Compliance Suite |
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CCSA |
Common Control Switching Arrangement |
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CCSE |
Checkpoint Certified Security Expert |
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CCTA |
Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency |
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ccTLD |
country code Top Level Domain |
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CCTV |
Closed-circuit television |
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CCU |
Communication Control Unit |
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CCW |
Channel Command Word |
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CD |
current density |
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CD |
Compact Disc |
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CD Table |
change-data table |
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CD-R |
Compact Disc—Recordable |
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CD-ROM |
compact disc-read only memory |
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CD-RW |
Compact disc-rewritable |
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CDB |
capacity database |
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CDB |
Command Descriptor Block |
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CDC |
Century Date Change (See Y2K) |
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CDC |
Call Data Channel |
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CDDI |
Copper Data Distribution Interface |
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CDDI |
Copper Distributed Data Interface |
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CDE |
Common Desktop Environment |
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CDF |
Channel Definition Format |
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CDF |
combined distribution frame |
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CDFS |
Compact Disc File System |
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CDG |
Compact Disk - Graphic |
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CDH |
Customer Data Hub |
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CDI |
Compact Disk Interactive |
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CDI |
client device identification |
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CDI |
Customer Data Integration |
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CDMA |
Code Division Multiple Access (voice/data transmission) |
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CDN |
content-delivery network |
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CDO |
Care Delivery Organization |
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CDP |
Cisco Discovery Protocol |
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CDP |
Continuous Data Protection |
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CDPD |
Cellular Digital Packet Data |
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CDR |
Clinical Data Repository |
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CDR |
call detail recording |
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CDR |
Copy Density Range |
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CDROM |
Compact Disk ROM |
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CDS |
Correlated Double Sampling |
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CDT |
C/C Development Tools |
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CDTV |
Commodore Total Vision |
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CDV |
Cell Delay Variation(ATM) |
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CDXA |
Copmact Disk EXtended Architecture |
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CE |
Connection Endpoint |
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CE router |
Customer edge router |
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CEA |
Consumer Electronics Association |
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CEAP |
cloud-enabled application platforms |
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CEBP |
communication-enabled business process |
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CEC |
Commission of European Communities (see EC, EEC) |
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CeCILL |
Cea Cnrs Inria Logiciel Libre |
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CEF |
Cisco Express Forwarding |
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CEF |
Character Encoding Form |
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CEFIC |
Conseil Européen des Federations de l'Industrie Chimique |
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CEH |
Certified Ethical Hacker |
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CEI |
comparably efficient interconnection |
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CEI |
Common Event Infrastructure |
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CEIM |
Common Enterprise Information Model |
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CELL/B.E. |
Cell Broadband Engine |
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cellphone |
Cellular Telephone |
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CELP |
Code Excited Linear Prediction |
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CELP |
code-excited linear prediction |
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CEM |
Customer Experience Management |
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CEMF |
Cisco Element Management Framework |
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CEO |
Comprehensive Electronic Office |
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CEP |
complex event processing |
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CEPS |
Common Electronic Purse Standard |
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CEPT |
Conference on European Post & Telegraph |
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CEPT |
Conference Européenne des Administrations des Postes etdes Telecommunications |
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CER |
Corporate Error Reporting |
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CERN |
Conseil Europeen Pour La Recherche Nucleaire |
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CERT |
Computer Emergency Response Team |
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CES |
Consumer Electronics Show |
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CES |
Character-Encoding Scheme |
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CESID |
Caller's Emergency Service Identification |
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CEVA |
Content-Enabled Vertical Application |
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CF |
Compact Flash |
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CFA |
Color Filter Array |
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CFA |
Circuit Facility Assignment |
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CFB |
Ciphertext feedback |
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CFM |
Cubic Feet per Minute |
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CFM |
Code Fragment Manager |
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cfmd |
Certified for Microsoft Dynamics |
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CFMN |
Client For Microsoft Networks |
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CFV |
Call For Vote(s) |
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CG |
Computer Graphics |
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CGA |
Colour Graphics Adapter |
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CGA |
Colour Graphics Adaptor |
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CGI |
Conseillers en Gestion et Informatique |
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CGI |
Common Gateway Interface |
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CGM |
Consumer-Generated Media |
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CGM |
Computer Graphics Metafile |
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cGMP |
Cisco Group Multicast Protocol |
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CHAP |
Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol (PPP) |
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CHAP |
Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (ATM) |
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Charset |
character set |
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CHAT |
Conversational Hypertext Access Technology |
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CHIPS |
Clearing House Interbank Payments System |
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CHL-I |
CHanneL Interface |
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CHPID |
Channel Path Identifier |
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ChR |
Channel Reliability |
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cHTML |
Compact Hypertext Markup Language |
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CIA |
Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability |
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CIAM |
Computer Integrated and Automated Manufacturing |
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CIB |
Computer Integrated Business |
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CIC |
Customer Interaction Center |
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CIC |
Circuit Identification Code |
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CIC |
Cisco Info Center |
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CICS |
Customer Information Control System (IBM Mainframe Software; Kicks Or C-I-C-S) |
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CID |
Configuration, Installation and Distribution |
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CIDR |
Classless Internet Domain Routing |
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CIE |
Color Model = Commission Internationale De L'Eclairage Color Model |
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CIFS |
Common Internet File System |
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CIK |
crypto-ignition key |
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CIM |
Common Information Model |
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CINDER |
Cyber Insider Threat |
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CIO |
Computer Integrated Office |
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CIO |
Chief Information Officer |
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CIP |
Common Industrial Protocol |
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CIPA |
Childrens Internet Protection Act |
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CIR |
Committed Information Rate (Frame Relay) |
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CiR |
Circuit Reliability |
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CIS |
Clinical Information System |
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CIS |
Card Information Structure |
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CIS |
CompuServe Information Service |
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CISC |
Complex Instruction Set Computer |
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CISO |
Chief Information Security Officer |
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CISSP |
Certified Information Systems Security Professional |
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CIT |
Computer Integrated Telephony |
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CIV |
Conversation Verb Interface |
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CIX |
Commercial Internet Exchange |
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CJK |
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean |
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CJKV |
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Vietnamese |
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CKD |
Count Key Data |
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CKO |
Chief Knowledge Officer |
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CL |
Connectionless |
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CLA |
Corporate License Agreement |
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CLASS |
Custom Local Area Signaling Services |
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CLEC |
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier |
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CLI |
Command line Interface (Cabletron) |
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CLI |
Calling Line Identification |
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CLIM |
Compaq/Lotus/Intel/Microsoft |
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CLIPS |
C Language Integrated Production System |
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CLLI |
Common Language Location Identifier |
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CLLM |
Consolidated Link Layer Management |
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CLM |
Contract Lifecycle Management |
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CLNP |
Connectionless Layer Network Protocol |
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CLNS |
Connectionless Network Service |
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CLOB |
Character Large Object |
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CLR |
Common Language Runtime |
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CLR |
Cell Loss Ratio |
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CLSF |
ConnectionLess Server Function |
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CLTP |
Connectionless Transport Protocol |
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CLUSRCVR |
cluster-receiver channel |
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CLUSSDR |
cluster-sender channel |
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CLUT |
Color Lookup Table |
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CLV |
Constant Linear Velocity |
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CM/2 |
Communication Manager / 2 |
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CMA |
Circular Mil Area |
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CMC |
computer-mediated communication |
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CMC |
communication management configuration |
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CMDB |
Configuration Management Database |
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CME |
Common Malware Enumeration |
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CMEA |
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance |
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CMIP |
Common Management Information Protocol (ATM) |
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CMIP |
Common Management Interface Protocol |
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CMIS |
Common Management Information Service |
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CMIS |
Content Management Interoperability Services |
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CMISE |
CMIS Element |
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CMM |
Capability Maturity Model |
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CMOS |
Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor |
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CMOT |
Common Management Information Protocol Over TCP/IP |
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CMOT |
CMIP over TCP/IP |
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CMR |
Communications Resource Manager |
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CMRR |
common-mode rejection ratio |
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CMRS |
Commercial Mobile Radio Service |
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CMS |
Content Management System |
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CMS |
Color Management System |
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CMS |
Conversational Monitor System |
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CMT |
Connection Management |
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CMTS |
Cable Modem Termination System |
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CMYK |
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black |
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CN |
Corporate Network |
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CNA |
Converged Network Adapter |
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CNAM |
Caller ID with Name |
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CNAME |
Canonical Name |
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CNE |
Certified Network Engineer |
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CNGI |
China's Next Generation Internet |
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CNLP |
Connectionless Network Protocol |
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CNM |
Communication Network Management |
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CNMA |
Communication Network for Manufacturing Applications |
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CNMS |
Customer Network Management System |
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CNN |
composite network node |
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cnn |
Cable News Network's |
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CNR |
Carrier to Noise Ration |
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CNR |
combat-net radio |
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CNR |
Carrier-to-Noise-Ratio |
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CO |
Central Office |
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COA |
Care-Of Address |
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COAM |
Customer Owned And Maintained |
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COAX |
Coaxial |
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COAX |
Coaxial Cable |
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COBIT |
Control Objectives for Information and related Technologies |
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COBOL |
COmmon Business Orientated Language. Acronym-derived name for the early computer language. (Ack RL) See also BASIC. |
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COCF |
Connection-Oriented Convergence Function |
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COCOM |
Coordinating Comittee on Multilateral Export Controls |
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COCOMO |
COnstructive COst MOdel |
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cod |
Confirm on Delivery |
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COD |
Connection Oriented Data |
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COD |
Call of Duty |
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CoDA |
Context Delivery Architecture |
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CODASYL |
COnference on DAta SYstems Languages |
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Codec |
Coder/decoder |
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COE |
Component Object modEl |
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CoEs |
Centers of Excellence in Women's Health |
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COFF |
Common Object File Format |
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COIN |
Community of Interest Network |
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COLD |
computer output to laserdisc |
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COLO |
Co-Location |
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COMAL |
Common Algorithmic Language |
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COMDEX |
Computer Dealers Exposition |
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COMDEX |
Computer Dealers Expo |
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COMPAQ |
COMPatibilty And Quality |
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COMPARE |
Compliance Progress and Readiness |
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COMREG |
Communication Region |
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COMSAT |
Communications Satellite Corporation |
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CONS |
Connection-Oriented Network Service |
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COOL |
C Object Oriented Language |
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COOP |
Continuity of Operations |
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COPPA |
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 |
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COPS |
Communications Outsourcing and Professional Services |
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COPS |
Common Open Policy Service |
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COR |
Central Outdoor Router |
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CORBA |
Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
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CORE |
COMPARE Operational Readiness Evaluation |
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CORS |
Continuously Operating Reference Stations |
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COS |
Class Of Service |
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COS |
Corporation for Open Systems |
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cos |
Cloud Optimized Storage |
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COSE |
Common Open Software Environment |
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COSINE |
Cooperation for OSI Networking in Europe |
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COSS |
Cross Operating System Service |
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COTS |
Commercial Off the Shelf Software |
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COW |
Copy-On-Write |
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CP-SVR |
Control Point to Server |
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CP/M |
Control Program/Monitor |
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CPA |
Cost Per Action |
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CPAN |
Comprehensive PERL Archive Network |
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cPanel |
control panel |
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CPC |
Calling Party Control |
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CPC |
Cost Per Click-through |
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CPE |
Customer Premises Equipment |
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CPF |
Cloud Provisioning Fabric |
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cpi |
characters per inch |
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CPIC |
Common Programming Interface for Communications |
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CPL |
Current Privilege Level |
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CPLD |
Complex Programmable Logic Device |
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CPM |
Corporate Performance Management |
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CPN |
calling party number |
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CPNI |
Customer Proprietary Network Information |
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CPOE |
Computerized Provider Order Entry |
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CPP |
C Plus Plus, C (programming language) |
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CPR |
Computerized Patient Record |
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CPRM |
Content Protection for Removable Media |
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CPS |
characters per second |
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CPS |
Continuous Protection Server (Symantec Inc.) |
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CPU |
Critical Patch Update |
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CPU |
Central Processing Unit |
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CPU |
Call Pick Up |
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CRACK |
Challenge/Response Authentication of Cryptographic Keys |
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CRC |
Contrôle de Redondance Cyclique (French: Cyclic Redundancy Check) |
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CRJE |
Conversational Remote Job Entry |
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CRL |
Certificate Revocation List |
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CRLF |
Carriage Return Line Feed |
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crm |
Customer Relationship Management |
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CRMB |
Customer Reference Material Database |
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cROI |
companywide ROI |
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crr |
Continuous Remote Replication |
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CRT |
Cathode Ray Tube (type of TV) |
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CRUD |
Create, Read, Update, Delete |
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Crypto |
Cryptography |
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CS |
Computer Science |
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CS |
Creative Suite (Adobe) |
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CS |
Communications Server |
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CSA |
Communications Streaming Architecture |
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CSA |
cloud service agreements |
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csa |
Composite Services Architecture |
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CSA |
Common System Area (CICS) |
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CSC |
Card Security Code |
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CSC |
Cross System Consistency |
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CSC |
Content Security and Control (Cisco) |
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CSC |
Circuit Switched Cellular |
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CSC |
Collection of Small Companies. Alternative interpretation (apparently used by staff) of the CSC company name, which properly stands for Computer Sciences Corporation. The 'Collection of Small Companies' version reflects CSC's operatianal structure, which |
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CSCF |
Call Session Control Function |
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CSCW |
computer supported co-operative work |
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CSD |
Cisco Secure Desktop |
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CSDN |
Circuit Switched Data Network |
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CSE |
Custom Search Engine |
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CSECT |
Control Section |
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CSEL |
Cable Select |
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csfs |
Critical Success Factors Simplified |
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CSG |
Communications Services Group |
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CSI |
Consolidated Software Inventory |
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CSLIP |
Compressed SLIP |
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CSMA/CA |
Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance |
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CSMA/CA |
Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance |
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CSMA/CD |
Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection |
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CSO |
Cold Start Only |
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CSO |
chief sourcing officer |
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CSP |
Communications service providers |
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CSP |
Crystal Server Pages |
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CSP |
Chip-scale packaging |
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CSPDN |
Circuit Switched Public Data Network |
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CSS |
Cascade Style Sheet |
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CSS-P |
cascading style sheet positioning |
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CST |
Consolidated Service Test |
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CST |
Computer Supported Telephony |
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CSU |
Channel Service Unit |
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CSU |
Certificate Signing Unit |
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CSW |
Channel Status Word |
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CT |
Continuous Tone |
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ct |
China Telecom |
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CT2T |
Continuous Tone to Tape |
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CTCp |
Client-To-Client-Protocol |
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CTD |
Cell Transfer Delay (ATM) |
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CTI |
computer-telephony integration |
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CTI |
Computer-to-telephony interface |
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CTO |
Chief Technology Officer |
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CTP |
Capable To Promise |
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CTRL |
Control |
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CTS |
common transport semantics |
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CTS |
Clear To Send |
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CTS-WAN |
Conformance Testing Services for WAN |
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CTT |
China Tietong Telecommunications |
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CTX |
Commited to Excellence |
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CU |
Control Unit |
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CUA |
Common User Access |
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CUG |
Closed User Group |
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CUoD |
Capacity Upgrade on Demand |
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CUPS |
Common Unix Printing System |
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CUT |
Control Unit Terminal |
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CVC |
Card Verification Code |
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CVC2 |
Card Validation Code 2 |
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CVOL |
Control Volume |
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CVP |
Content Vectoring Protocol |
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CVS |
Concurrent Versions System |
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CVS |
Computer Vision Syndrome |
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CVSD |
Continuous Variable Slope Delta (modulation) |
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CVV2 |
Card Verification Value 2 |
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CWS |
Coalition for Working Systems |
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CYMK |
cyan, magenta, yellow, black |
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D channel |
delta channel |
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D&I |
Drop and Insert |
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d-channe |
delta channel |
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d-commerce |
digital commerce |
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D/A |
Digital/Analog |
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D2D |
Disk-To-Disk |
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D2D2T |
disk-to-disk-to-tape |
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DA |
Destination Address |
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DA |
Desk Accessory |
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DAA |
Distributed Application Architecture |
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DaaS |
desktops-as-a-service |
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DAB |
Digital Audio Broadcast |
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DAC |
Digital-To-Analog Converter |
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DAC |
Discretionary Access Control |
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DACL |
Discretionary Access Control List |
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DACS |
Digital Access and Cross Connect System |
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DAE |
Disk Array Enclosure |
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DAEMON |
Disk And Execution Monitor |
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DAFS |
Direct Attached File System |
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DAI |
Distributed Artificial Intelligence |
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DAL |
Dedicated Advertiser Location |
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DAL |
Dedicated Access Line |
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DAM |
Database Activity Monitoring |
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DAM |
Direct Access Method |
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DAM |
Digital Asset Management |
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DAMA |
Demand Assigned Multiple Access |
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DAML |
DARPA Agent Markup Language |
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DAO |
Disk-At-Once |
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DAP |
Directory Access Protocol |
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DAR |
Disk Archive |
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DARPA |
Defense Advanced Research Project Agency |
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DARPA |
Defense Advanced Research Program Agency |
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DARPAnet |
Defense Advanced Research Program Agency network |
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DAS |
direct-attached storage |
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DAS |
Distributed Antenna System |
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DAS |
Dual Attachment Station |
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DASD |
Direct Access Storage Device |
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DASH |
Desktop and Mobile Architecture for System Hardware |
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DAST |
Dynamic Application Security Testing |
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DAT |
Digital Audio Tape |
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DAVID |
Digital Audio/Video Interactive Decoder |
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DB |
Database |
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DB2 |
Database 2 |
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DB9 |
D sub-miniature 9 |
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DBA |
Database Administrator |
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DBCS |
Double-Byte Character Set |
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dBm |
decibels milliwatt |
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DBMS |
Database Management System |
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DBRT |
Directed Beam Refresh Terminal |
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DBS |
Direct Broadcast Satellite |
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DCAF |
Distributed Console Access Facility |
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DCAP |
Data (Link Switching) Client Access Protocol |
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DCB |
Data Center Bridging |
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DCBU |
D-channel backup |
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DCC |
Digital Command Control |
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DCC |
Direct Client-to-Client |
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DCC |
Diskette Controller Chip |
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DCC |
Data Country Code |
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DCCP |
Datagram Congestion Control Protocol |
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DCE |
Data Communication Equipment |
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DCE |
Distributed Computing Environment |
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DCI |
Display Control Interface |
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DCL |
Digital Command Language |
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Dco |
Device Configuration Overlay |
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DCOM |
Distributed Component Object Model |
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DCS |
Digital Cross-connect System |
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DCS |
Desktop Color Separation |
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DCT |
Digital Cordless Telephone |
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DD |
Data Definition |
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DDAP |
Digital Distribution of Advertising for Publications |
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DDBMS |
Distributed Database Management System |
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DDCMP |
Digital Data Communications Message Protocol |
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DDCS |
Distributed Database Connecion Services/2 |
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DDD |
Data Display Debugger |
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DDE |
Dynamic Data Exchange (in software parlance) |
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DDES |
Digital Data Exchange Specifications |
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DDI |
Direct Dialling-In |
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DDI |
Device Driver Interface |
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DDI |
DNS, DHCP & IP address |
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DDK |
Driver Development Kit |
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DDL |
Data Definition Language |
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DDN |
Digital Data Network |
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DDN |
U.S. Defense Data Network |
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DDNS |
Dynamic Domain Name System (networking) |
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DDOS |
Distributed Denial of Service |
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DDP |
Distributed Data Processing |
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DDP |
Datagram Delivery Protocol |
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DDR |
double-data-rate |
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DDRM |
Device driver interface/Driver kernel interfaceReference Manual |
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DDS |
Digital Data Storage |
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DDS |
Digital Data Service |
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DDS |
Dataphone Digital Service (AT&T) |
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DDSA |
Digital Data Service Adapter |
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DDT |
Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape |
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DE |
Discard Eligibility (ATM) |
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DEA |
Data Encryption Algorithm |
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DEC |
Digital Equipment Corporation |
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DECT |
Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications |
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DECUS |
Digital Equipment Computer Users Society |
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DEFRAG |
Defragment |
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DEK |
Data Encryption Key |
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DEL |
Delete |
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DEMARC |
Demarcation point |
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DEMUX |
Demultiplexer |
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DEN |
Directory Enabled Network |
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DEP |
Data Execution Prevention |
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DEP |
dynamic enterprise publishing |
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DES |
Dynamic Energy Saver |
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DES |
Data Encryption Standard |
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DET |
Directory Entry Table |
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DF |
Direction Flag |
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DFC |
Distributed Coordination Function |
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DFDSS |
Data Facility Data Set Services |
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DFHSM |
Data Facility Hierarchical Storage Manager |
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DFI |
DFI Inc. (Design for Innovation) |
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dfl |
Design for Logistics |
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DFM |
Design for Manufacturability |
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DFM |
Digital Flash Media |
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DFM |
Device Fault Manager |
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DFP |
Data Facility Product |
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DFR |
Document Filing and Retrival |
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DFS |
Distributed File System |
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DFSMS |
Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem |
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DFSORT |
Data Facility Sort |
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DFT |
Distributed Function Terminal |
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DFWMAC |
Distributed Foundation Wireless Media Access Control |
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DGC |
Distributed garbage collection |
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DH |
DMPDU Header |
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DHA |
Directory Harvest Attack |
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DHCP |
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
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DHTML |
Dynamic HyperText Markup Language |
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DHX |
Diffie-Hellman Exchange |
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DI/DO |
Dispatch In/ Dispatch Out |
|
DIA |
Dedicated Internet Access |
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DIA |
data integration and access |
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DIA |
Document Interchange Architecture |
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DICOM |
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine |
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DID |
direct inward dial |
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DIF |
Directory Interoperability Forum |
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DiffServ |
Differentiated Services |
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DIFS |
Distributed coordination function InterFrame Space |
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Digerati |
digital version of literati (Italian) |
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DIIOp |
Dominio Internet Inter-Orb Protocol |
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DIMM |
Dual Inline Memory Module |
|
DIMM |
Dual In-line Memory Module (computing) |
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DIP |
Dual Inline Package |
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DIP |
Dual Interface Poll |
|
DIPP |
Dual Inline Pin Package |
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DIR |
Directory |
|
Dirid |
Directory identifier |
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DISA |
Data Interchange Standards Association |
|
DISA |
U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency |
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Disc |
DISKETTE |
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disk |
diskette |
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DISSOS |
Distributed Office Support System |
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DIT |
Directory Information Tree |
|
DITTO |
Data Interfile Transfer, Testing and Operations |
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DIVX |
Digital Video Express |
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DIX |
Digital Intel Xerox |
|
DKI |
Driver Kernel Interface |
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DKMS |
Dynamic Kernel Module Support |
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DL |
Double-Layer |
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dl |
Density Line |
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DL/1 |
Data Language 1 |
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DLBL |
Disk Label |
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DLC |
Digital Loop Carrier |
|
DLC |
Data Link Control |
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DLCI |
data link connection identifier |
|
DLCI |
Data Linc Connection Identifier |
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DLDP |
Device Link Detection Protocol |
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DLE |
Data Link Escape |
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DLL |
Dynamic Link Library (computer file) |
|
dlm |
Data Life-cycle management |
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DLOS |
Direct Line-of-sight |
|
DLOS |
Desktop Line-of-sight |
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DLP |
Data Leak Prevention |
|
DLP |
Digital Light Processing |
|
DLPBC |
Dual Loop Port Bypass Circuitry |
|
DLPI |
Data Link Provider Interface |
|
DLR |
Design Layout Record |
|
DLS |
Device Level Selection |
|
DLSE |
Device Level Selection Enhanced |
|
DLT |
Digital Linear Tape |
|
DLUR |
Dependent LU Requester |
|
DLUR/S |
Dependent LU Requester / Server |
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DLUS |
Dependent LU Server |
|
DM |
Data Mining |
|
DMA |
direct memory access (computer term) |
|
DMAA |
Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications |
|
DMB |
D Menu Builder |
|
DMCA |
Digital Millennium Copyright Act |
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DMCI |
Direct Memory Communications Interface |
|
DMD |
Directory Management Domain |
|
DME |
Distributed Management Environment (OSF) |
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DMI |
Digital Multiplexed Interface |
|
DMI |
Desktop Management Interface (computing) |
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DML |
Database Manipulation Language |
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DML |
Data Manipulation Language |
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DMNL |
Direct Multi Network Link |
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DMO |
Distributed Management Object |
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DMP |
Dot Matrix Printer |
|
DMPDU |
Derived MAC PDU |
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DMS |
Digital Multiplex Systems |
|
DMT |
Discrete Multi-Tone |
|
dmt |
Discrete Multi-tone Transmission |
|
dmt |
Discrete Multi-Tone Technology |
|
dmt |
Digital-Discrete Multi-Tone |
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DMZ |
Demilitarized Zone |
|
DN |
Distinguished Name |
|
dna |
Distributed Network Architecture |
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DNA |
Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid |
|
DNA |
Digital Network Architecture |
|
DNIC |
Data Network Identification Code |
|
DNIS |
Directory Number Information Service |
|
DNLC |
Directory Name Lookup Cache |
|
DNR |
Digital Noise Reduction |
|
DNS |
Domain Name System |
|
DNS |
Domain Name Server |
|
DNS |
Distributed Naming Service |
|
DNSBL |
DNS Based List, DNS Blacklist, or DNS Blocklist. |
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DNSSEC |
Domain Name System Security Extensions |
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DO-IT |
Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology |
|
DOA |
dead on arrival |
|
DOC |
Display Operator Console |
|
DOCSIS |
Data-over-Cable Service Interface Specifications |
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DOD |
United States Department of Defense |
|
DOE |
Distributed Objects Everywhere |
|
Dolly |
Digital Dolly |
|
DOM |
Distributed Output Management |
|
DOM |
Document Object Model |
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DOMAIN |
Distributed Operating Multi-Access Interactive Network |
|
DOMF |
Distributed Object Management Facility |
|
DOP |
Dilution Of Precision |
|
DOS |
Denial Of Service |
|
DOS |
Disk Operating System |
|
DOV |
Data-Over-Voice |
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DPA |
Document Printing Application |
|
DPC |
Destination Point Code |
|
dpf |
Database Partitioning Feature |
|
dpf |
Data Private Facility |
|
DPI |
Deep Packet Inspection |
|
DPI |
Distributed Protocal Interface |
|
DPI |
Dots per inch. |
|
DPL |
Descriptor Privilege Level |
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DPMA |
Dynamic Power Management Architecture |
|
DPMI |
DOS Protected Mode Interface |
|
DPMS |
Display Power Management Signaling |
|
DPN |
Data Packet Network |
|
DPS |
Dynamic Path Selection |
|
DPtoTP |
Display Coordinates TO Tablet Coordinates |
|
DPV |
Distributed Partitioned View |
|
DPW |
Digital Pulse Wireless |
|
DQDB |
Distributed Queue Dual Bus |
|
DQM |
Data Quality Manager |
|
DR |
Disaster Recovery |
|
DRAC |
Dell Remote Assistant Card |
|
DRAM |
Dynamic Random Access Memory (dee-ram) (computing) |
|
DRE |
Document Rendering Engine |
|
DRF |
Data Recovery Field |
|
DRI |
Disaster Recovery Institute |
|
drm |
Data Relationship Management |
|
DRM |
Digital Rights Management |
|
DROP |
delivery of real-time execution information protocol |
|
DRP |
Disaster Recovery Plan |
|
DRP |
Distribution and Replication Protocol |
|
DRQ |
Data Request |
|
DRU |
Disc Remastering Utility |
|
DRW |
Defect Remediation Window |
|
DS |
Differentiated Service |
|
DS0 |
Digital Subscriber Level Zero |
|
DS1 |
Digital Signal level 1 |
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DS3 |
Digital Signal Level 3 |
|
DSA |
Distributed Systems Architecture |
|
DSA |
Digital Signature Algorithm |
|
DSAP |
Destination Service Access Point |
|
DSBM |
Designated Subnet Bandwidth Manager |
|
DSE |
Directory Services Environment |
|
DSF |
Device Support Facility |
|
DSG |
Default Slot Generator |
|
DSL |
Direct Swift Link |
|
DSL |
Dual Stress Liner |
|
DSL |
Digital Subscriber Line |
|
DSL |
Domain-Specific Language |
|
DSLAM |
DSL Access Multiplexer |
|
DSM |
Dependency Structure Matrix |
|
DSM-CC |
Digital Storage Media Command and Control |
|
DSML |
Directory Service Markup Language |
|
DSN |
Digital Signal level N |
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DSN |
dealer software network |
|
DSNL |
Direct Swift Network Link |
|
DSO |
Data Source Object |
|
DSOM |
Distributed System Object Model |
|
DSP |
Digital Signal Processor |
|
DSR |
Data Set Ready |
|
DSR |
Dynamic Source Routing |
|
DSS |
Digital Signature Standard |
|
DSSA |
Distributed System Security Architecture |
|
DSSI |
Digital Storage Systems Interconnect |
|
DSSS |
Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum |
|
DSTN |
Double-layer Supertwist Nematic. (in Passive-matrix LCD Technology) |
|
DSTP |
Data Space Transfer Protocol |
|
DSU |
Data Service Unit |
|
DSU |
Digital Service Unit |
|
DSVD |
Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data |
|
DSX |
Digital System Cross-connect frame |
|
DT |
DMPDU trailer |
|
DTAM |
Document Transfer, Access and Manipulation |
|
DTD |
Document Type Definition (XML) |
|
DTDS |
Disaster Tolerant Disk Systems |
|
DTE |
Data Terminal Equipment |
|
DTM |
Document Table Model |
|
DTM |
Dynamic synchronous Transfer Mode |
|
DTMF |
Data Tone Multiple Frequency |
|
DTMF |
dual tone multifrequency (telephone) |
|
DTML |
Document Template Markup Language |
|
DTN |
Disruption Tolerant Networking |
|
DTP |
Desktop Publishing |
|
DTR |
Data Terminal Ready |
|
DTS |
Digital Theater Systems, Inc. |
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DTTV |
Digital Terestial Televison |
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DU |
Disk Usage |
|
DU |
Data Unit |
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DUA |
Directory User Agent |
|
DUAL |
Diffusing-Update Algorithm |
|
DUL |
Dial-Up List |
|
DUN |
Dispatch Unit Number |
|
DUN |
Dial-Up Networking |
|
DUNS |
Data Universal Numbering System |
|
DUOW |
Distributed Unit of Work |
|
DUPS |
Digital Unbundled Port Services |
|
DUV |
Data-Under-Voice |
|
DUW |
Distributed Unit of Work |
|
DV |
Digital Video |
|
DVB-H |
Digital Video Broadcasting - Handhelds |
|
DVB-SH |
Digital Video Broadcasting - Satellite services to Handhelds |
|
DVBMHP |
Digital Video Broadcasting Multimedia Home Platform |
|
DVCD |
Double Video CD |
|
DVD |
Digital Versatile Disc |
|
DVMRP |
Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol |
|
DVRs |
Digital Versatile recorders |
|
DVRs |
Digital Video Recorders |
|
DVST |
Direct View Bistable Storage |
|
DWDM |
dense wave division multiplexing |
|
DWF |
Design Web Format |
|
DWM |
Desktop Windows Manager |
|
DWS |
Dialable Wideband Service |
|
DX |
Direct X |
|
DXC |
Digital Cross-Connect |
|
dxdiag |
directx diagnostics |
|
DXF |
Drawing Interchange Format |
|
DXI |
Data Exchange Interface |
|
dyld |
dynamic link editor |
|
E Phone |
Emergency Phones. |
|
E&M |
recEive and transMit |
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e- |
Electron |
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e-discovery |
Electronic discovery |
|
e-paper |
Electronic paper |
|
E1 |
2,048 Mbps |
|
E1 |
European Transmission Level 1 |
|
E2E |
End-to-End |
|
E3 |
Electronic Entertainment Expo |
|
E3 |
34 Mbps |
|
E3 |
European Transmission Level 3 |
|
EA |
Enterprise Agreement |
|
EA |
Extended Address Field Bit |
|
EA |
Electronic Arts Inc (NASDAQ Stock Exchange [NASDAQ]) |
|
EAB |
Enterprise Address Book |
|
EAI |
Enterprise Application Integration |
|
EAL |
Evaluation Assurance Level |
|
EAM |
Event Aggregation Module |
|
EAP |
Extensible Authentication Protocol |
|
EAR |
Emergency Assistance Request |
|
EARL |
Enhanced Address Recognition Logic |
|
EARN |
European Academic and Research Network |
|
EAS |
Enterprise Application Server |
|
EASDAQ |
European Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation |
|
EAT |
End-Around Test |
|
EAX |
Environmental Audio Expansion |
|
EAX |
Environmental Audio Extension |
|
EAX |
Environmental Audio Experience |
|
EB |
Exabyte |
|
EBAM |
Electronic Beam-Addressable Memory |
|
EBCD |
Extended Binary Coded Decimal |
|
EBCDIC |
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (pronounced Eb-see-dik) (cf. BCD) |
|
EBIF |
Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format |
|
EBML |
Extensible Binary Meta Language |
|
EBPP |
Electronic Bill Presentation and Payment |
|
EBS |
E-Business Suite |
|
EC2 |
Elastic Compute Cloud |
|
ECB |
Electronic Code Book |
|
ECB |
Event Control Block |
|
ECC |
Elliptic Curve Cryptography |
|
ECC |
Error Correction Code (Error Checking And Correction) |
|
ECE |
Economische Commissie voor Europa (United Nations) (Dutch: Economic Commission for Europe) |
|
ecem |
Enterprise Carbon and Energy Management |
|
ECF |
Enhanced Connectivity Facility |
|
ECHS |
Extended Cylinders, Heads, Sectors |
|
eCI |
eCommerce Integrator |
|
ECITC |
European Committee fo IT Testing and Certification |
|
ECKD |
Extended Count-Key Data |
|
ECM |
Enterprise Content Management |
|
ECMA |
European Computer Manufacturer's Association |
|
ECMP |
Equal Cost Multipath Routing |
|
ECN |
Explicit Congestion Notification |
|
ECO |
Engineering Change Order |
|
ECP |
Electronic Check Presentment |
|
ECS |
Extended Character Set |
|
ECSA |
Exchange Carriers Standards Association |
|
ECTF |
Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum |
|
ECTUA |
European Counsil for Telecommunications Users Association |
|
ED |
End Delimiter |
|
ED2K |
eDonkey2000 |
|
EDA |
Event-Driven Architecture |
|
EDC |
Enterprise Database Connectivity |
|
EDC |
Electronic Data Capture |
|
EDF |
Execution Diagnostic Facility |
|
EDG |
Electronic Dot Generation |
|
EDGE |
Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution |
|
EDI |
Electronic Data Interchange |
|
EDICON |
EDI Community for the Construction Industry |
|
EDIF |
Electronic Design Interchange Format |
|
EDIFACT |
Electronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce andTransport |
|
EDIFACT |
Electronic Data Interchange for Administration Commerce and Transport |
|
EDIM |
Electronic Data Interchange Message |
|
EDIMS |
EDI Messaging System |
|
EDM |
Engineering Data Management |
|
EDM |
Electronic Document Management |
|
EDO |
Extended Data Output |
|
EDP |
Electronic Data Processing Plc (London Stock Exchange [LSE]) |
|
EDR |
Early Device Release |
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edress |
e-mail address |
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EDS |
Electronic Data Systems Corporation |
|
EDW |
Enterprise Data Warehouse |
|
EEMA |
European Electronic Mail Association |
|
eeprom |
Electric Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory |
|
EF |
Expedited Forwarding |
|
EFI |
Extensible Firmware Interface |
|
EFM |
Enterprise fraud and misuse management |
|
EFS |
Encrypting File System |
|
EFS |
Error Free Seconds |
|
EFT |
Electronic Funds Transfer |
|
EGA |
Enhanced Graphics Adapter |
|
EGL |
Enterprise Generation Language |
|
EGNOS |
European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service |
|
EGP |
Exterior Gateway Protocol |
|
EGRP |
Exterior Gateway Routing Protocol |
|
EH&S |
Environmental Health and Safety |
|
EHA |
Ethernet Hardware Address (MAC address) |
|
EHLLAPI |
Emulator High Level Language Applications Programming Interface |
|
EHR |
Electronic Health Record |
|
EIA |
Extended Interaction Amplifier |
|
EIA |
Enterprise Information Architecture |
|
EIA |
Electronic Industries Alliance (Association) |
|
EIB |
Execute Interface Block (CICS) |
|
EIGRP |
Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol |
|
EII |
enterprise integration information |
|
EIM |
Enterprise Identity Mapping (IBM) |
|
EIM |
Enterprise Information Management |
|
EIP |
Execute Interface Program |
|
EIR |
Excess Information Rate |
|
EIRP |
Effective Isotropic Radiated Power |
|
EIS |
Enterprise Information System |
|
EISA |
Extended Industry Standard Architecture |
|
EIST |
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology |
|
EIT |
Encoding Information Type |
|
EIUF |
European ISDN User Forum |
|
EJB |
Enterprise JavaBeans |
|
EKTS |
Electronic Key Telephone Set |
|
ELAN |
Emulated Local Area Network |
|
ELM |
Expertise location and management |
|
ELT |
extract, load, and transform |
|
EM |
End of Medium |
|
EMA |
Enterprise Management Architecture |
|
EMA |
Enterprise Management Alliance |
|
EMC |
Electromagnetic Compatibility |
|
EMF |
Electromagnetic Field |
|
EMF |
Electromotive Force |
|
EMI |
Electromagnetic interface |
|
EMI |
Enhanced Multilayer Image |
|
EMOTICON |
Emotion Icon |
|
EMPI |
Enterprise Master Patient Index |
|
EMR |
Electronic Medical Record |
|
EMS |
Expanded Memory Specification |
|
ems |
Enterprise Messaging System |
|
EMS |
Enhanced Messaging Service |
|
EMUG |
European MAP Users Group |
|
EMV |
Europay-MasterCard-Visa |
|
ENE |
Enterprise Network Event |
|
ENIW |
Web-enabled Ethernet Networking Interface |
|
ENP |
Enable Presentation |
|
ENQ |
ENQUIRY CHARACTER |
|
ENQ |
Enquiry Control Character |
|
ENQ |
Enquiry |
|
ENS |
Enterprise Nervous System |
|
ENTL |
Electronic New Hire/Termination/Leave of Absence |
|
ENUM |
Electronic Number Mapping system |
|
ENX |
European Network Exchange |
|
EO |
Eight Ones |
|
EOB |
End Of Block |
|
EOC |
End of Cylinder |
|
EOF |
End Of File |
|
EOF |
end-of-file |
|
EOJ |
End Of Job |
|
EOL |
End Of Life |
|
EOM |
End Of Message |
|
EOP |
End of Procedure |
|
EOS |
Ethernet Over SONET |
|
EoSDH |
Ethernet Over SDH |
|
EOT |
End Of Transmission |
|
EOV |
End Of Volume |
|
EP |
Emulation Program |
|
EPABX |
Electronic Private Automatic Branch Exchange |
|
ePC |
Electronic Product Code |
|
EPDE |
Electronic Product Data Exchange |
|
EPG(s) |
electronic program guides |
|
EPGs |
electronic program guides |
|
EPIC |
Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing |
|
EPL |
Ethernet Private Line |
|
EPM |
Enterprise Performance Management |
|
EPN |
Extended Port Network |
|
EPO |
Emergency Power Off |
|
ePO |
ePolicy Orchestrator |
|
EPOC |
Electronic Piece of Cheese |
|
EPOW |
Emergency Power Off Warning |
|
epp |
Enterprise Portal Platform |
|
EPP |
Enhanced Parallel Port (PC) |
|
EPR |
Electronic Patient Record |
|
EPR |
Endpoint Reference |
|
EPROM |
Eraseable Programable Read Only Memory |
|
EPS |
Events per Second |
|
EPS |
Encapsulated Postscript |
|
EPSF |
Encapsulated PostScript Format |
|
EPU |
Energy Processing Unit |
|
ER |
Entity Relationship |
|
ERDS |
Error Recording Data Set |
|
EREP |
Environmental Record Editing and Printing program |
|
ERL |
Echo Return Loss |
|
ERMS |
electronic records management systems |
|
ERP |
Error Recovery Procedure |
|
ERP |
Emergency Response Plan |
|
ERR |
Error |
|
eRX |
e-Prescribing |
|
ES |
End System |
|
ES |
Errored Second |
|
ES-IS |
End System to Intermediate System protocol |
|
ESA |
Enthusiast System Architecture |
|
ESA |
Extended Service Area |
|
ESB |
Enterprise Service Bus |
|
ESCD |
Extended System Configuration Database |
|
ESCON |
Enterprise Systems Connection |
|
ESCON |
Enterprise System Connection Architecture |
|
ESDI |
Enhanced Small-Device Interface |
|
ESDS |
Entry Sequenced Data Set |
|
ESE |
Extensible Storage Engine |
|
ESF |
Extended SuperFrame |
|
ESG |
Enterprise Strategy Group |
|
ESI |
Edge Side Includes |
|
ESL |
electronic shelf labels |
|
ESM |
Enterprise Security Manager |
|
ESN |
Electronic Serial Number |
|
ESP |
Estimated Street Price |
|
ESP |
Encapsulated Security Payload |
|
ESPN |
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network |
|
ESPRIT |
European Strategic Programme for Research and development inInformation Technology |
|
ESQA |
Extended System Queue Area |
|
ESRB |
Entertainment Software Rating Board |
|
ESS |
Extended service set (Wi-Fi group) |
|
ess |
Employee Self-Service System |
|
ETA |
Embedded Transport Acceleration |
|
ETAS |
Encrypted Transaction Audit System |
|
ETB |
End of Transmission Block |
|
etc |
Essential Text Configuration |
|
ETC |
Enhanced Throughput Cellular protocol |
|
ETCOM |
European Testing and Certification for Office and Manufacturing protocols |
|
ETL |
Extract, Transform and Load |
|
ETN |
Electronic Tandem Network |
|
ETRN |
Extended Turn |
|
ETS |
European Telecommunication Standard |
|
ETSI |
European Telecommunication Standards Institute's |
|
ETSI |
European Telecommunications Standard Institute |
|
ETTB |
Ethernet to the Business |
|
ETTH |
Ethernet to the Home |
|
ETX |
End of Text |
|
EUC |
Extended Unix Code |
|
EUEM |
end user experience monitoring |
|
EULA |
End-User License Agreement (you-lah) |
|
EUP |
Enterprise Unified Process |
|
Eutelsat |
European Telecommunications Satellite Organization |
|
EUUG |
European Unix User Group |
|
EVA |
Enterprise Virtual Array |
|
EvDO |
Evolution Data Only |
|
EvDO |
Evolution Data Optimized |
|
EvI |
EVent Information |
|
EWOS |
European Workshop for Open Systems |
|
EWS |
Early Warning Status |
|
EX |
Exchange |
|
EXCP |
Execute Channel Program |
|
EXE |
Executable |
|
EXIF |
Exchangeable Image File |
|
EZ |
Excessive Zeros |
|
E_D_TOV |
error detect timeout value |
|
E³ |
Electronic Entertainment Exposition |
|
F/STP |
Foil STP |
|
FA |
Foreign Agent |
|
FACCH |
Fast Associated Control Channel |
|
FAN |
File Area Network |
|
FAQ |
Frequently Asked Questions (sometimes Pronounced Fak) |
|
FAR |
False Acceptance Rate |
|
FARE |
Film Automatic Retouching and Enhancement |
|
FASS |
Fast Access Station Switching |
|
FAST |
Federation Against Software Theft |
|
FAST |
File And Settings Transfer |
|
FAT |
File Allocation Table |
|
favicon |
favorites icon |
|
FAW |
Frame Alignment Word |
|
FAX |
Facsimile |
|
FBA |
fixed-block architecture |
|
FBD |
Fully Buffered DIMM |
|
FBGA |
Fine-Pitch Ball Grid Array |
|
FBM |
Fix Block Modus |
|
FBSS |
Fast Base Station Switching |
|
FC |
File Control |
|
FC |
Fibre Channel |
|
FC-AL |
Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop |
|
FCB |
Format Control Buffer |
|
FCC |
Federal Communications Commission (US) |
|
FCCH |
Frequency Correction Channel |
|
FCD |
Floating Car Data |
|
FCH |
Frame Control Header |
|
FCIP |
Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol |
|
FCL |
Framework Class Library |
|
FCoE |
Fibre Channel over Ethernet |
|
FCP |
Fibre Channel Protocol |
|
FCP |
File Control Program |
|
FCPGA |
Flip Chip Pin Grid Array |
|
FCS |
Frame check sequence (Ethernet) |
|
FCS |
Fibre Channel Standard |
|
FCS |
Frame-Check Sequence |
|
FCS |
Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy |
|
FCSI |
Fibre Channel Systems Initiative |
|
FCT |
File Control Table |
|
FDD |
Fixed Disk Drive |
|
FDD |
Frequency Division Duplex |
|
FDDI |
Fiber Distributed Data Interface |
|
FDDI-II |
Fiber Distributed Data Interface Version II |
|
FDE |
Full-disk encryption |
|
FDM |
Frequency Division Multiplex |
|
FDM |
Feature Download Management |
|
FDM |
fused deposition modeling |
|
FDS |
Fraud Detection System |
|
FDX |
Full Duplex |
|
FE |
Field Engineer |
|
FE |
Fast Ethernet |
|
FEAL |
Fast Data Encipherment Algorithm |
|
FEBE |
Far End Block Error (SONET) |
|
FEC |
Forward Error Correction |
|
FEC |
Fast EtherChannel |
|
FECN |
Forward Explicit Congestion Notification (ATM) |
|
FEFO |
First Ended, First Out |
|
FEMA |
Failure mode and effects analysis |
|
FEP |
Front-End Processor |
|
FER |
Frame Error Rate |
|
FER |
Frame Erasure Rate |
|
FERF |
Far End Reporting Failure |
|
FERPA |
Family Education and Right to Privacy Act |
|
FET |
Field Effect Transistor |
|
FEXT |
Far-End Cross Talk |
|
FF |
Formfeed |
|
FFD |
Flicker Free Display |
|
FFPF |
Fairly Fast Packet Filter |
|
FFT |
Fast Fourier Transform |
|
FGA/B/C/D |
feature group A/B/C/D |
|
FH |
Frame Handler |
|
FHS |
Fan Heat-Sink |
|
FHSS |
Frequency Hopped Spread Spectrum |
|
FICON |
Fiber Connection |
|
FIDNet |
Federal Intrusion Detection Network |
|
FIFO |
First In, First Out |
|
FIGS |
Figures Shift |
|
FIM |
Federated Identity Management |
|
FINDDEST |
Find Destination |
|
FINRA |
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority |
|
FiOS |
Fiber Optic Services |
|
FIPS |
Federal Information Processing Standard |
|
FIR |
Finite Impulse Response |
|
FIRST |
Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (CERT) |
|
FISMA |
Federal Information Security Management Act |
|
FIX |
Financial Information EXchange Protocol |
|
FLAC |
Free Lossless Audio Codec |
|
FLAG |
Fiber Link Around the Globe |
|
FLOGI |
Fabric Login |
|
FLOPS |
FLoating-Point Operations Per Second |
|
FM |
frequency modulation |
|
FM-200 |
Firemaster / Fire Master 200 |
|
FMA99 |
Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 |
|
FMC |
fixed-mobile convergence |
|
FMEA |
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis |
|
FMH |
Function Management Header |
|
FMLI |
Forms and Menu Language Interpreter |
|
FMV |
Full-Motion Video |
|
FOB |
Form Overlay Buffer |
|
FOC |
Field Oriented Control |
|
FOIP |
Fax Over Internet Protocol |
|
FOIRL |
FiberOptic InterRepeater Link |
|
FOMA |
Freedom of Mobile Multimedia Access:brand name for the 3G services offered by Japanese mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo |
|
FOND |
Font family descriptor |
|
FOP |
Formatting Objects Processor |
|
Fortran |
FORmula TRANslator |
|
FORTRAN |
FORmula TRANslation (a computer language) |
|
FOSS |
Free and Open Source Software |
|
FOSSIL |
Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Layer |
|
FOT |
Fiber Optic Terminal |
|
FOTS |
Fiber-Optic Transmission System |
|
FPA |
Function Point Analysis |
|
FPA |
Floating Point Accelerator |
|
fpe |
Forefront Protection for Exchange |
|
FPGA |
Field-Programmable Gate Array |
|
FPM |
Fast Page Mode (DRAM) |
|
FpML |
Financial Products Markup Language |
|
FPP |
Full Product Package |
|
FPS |
Frames per second. |
|
FPS |
Flexible Payments Service |
|
FPU |
Floating Point Unit |
|
FQDN |
Fully Qualified Domain Name |
|
FR |
Frame Relay |
|
FRAD |
Frame Relay Access Device |
|
FRAG(21) |
Financial Reporting & Auditing Group Guidelines |
|
FRDS |
Failure Resistant Data Systems |
|
FRED |
Fair Random Early Detection |
|
FreeBSD |
Free Berkeley Software Distribution |
|
freeware |
free software |
|
FROM |
Factory ROM |
|
FRR |
Fast Retransmit and Recovery |
|
FRS |
File Replication Service |
|
FRU |
Field Replaceable Unit |
|
FRU |
field-replaceable unit |
|
FS |
Frame Status field |
|
FSAA |
Full Screen Anti-Aliasing |
|
FSAM |
Federated Storage Area Management |
|
FSB |
Frontside Bus |
|
FSF |
Free Software Foundation |
|
FSK |
Frequency Shift Keying |
|
FSM |
Finite State Machine |
|
FSML |
Financial Services Markup Language |
|
FSN |
Full-Service Network |
|
FSPF |
fibre channel shortest path first |
|
fss |
File System Server |
|
FSSS |
Fast Serving Station Switching |
|
FSTC |
Financial Services Technology Consortium |
|
FT |
Fault Tolerant |
|
FT1 |
Fractional T1 |
|
FTA |
Failure to Acquire |
|
FTAM |
File Transfer and Access Method |
|
FTAM |
File Transfer Access and Management |
|
FTBFS |
fails to build from source |
|
FTDS |
Failure Tolerant Data Systems |
|
FTL |
Flash Translation Layer |
|
ftns |
Fixed Telecommunication Network Services |
|
FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
|
FTTB |
Fiber To The Building |
|
FTTC |
Fibre To The Curb |
|
FTTH |
Fibre To The Home |
|
FTTN |
Fiber-To-The-Neighborhood |
|
FTTP |
Fibre To The Building |
|
FUD |
Fear, uncertainty and doubt |
|
FUP |
Funktionsplan |
|
FUSC |
Fully Used SubChannel |
|
FW |
Firewall |
|
FWA |
Fixed Wireless Access |
|
FX |
Foreign Exchange |
|
FXO |
Foreign Exchange Office |
|
fxp |
Foreign Exchange Protocol |
|
FXP |
File Exchange Protocol |
|
FXS |
Foreign Exchange Station |
|
G |
Giga- |
|
G2C |
Government to Citizen |
|
GAIA |
GUI Application Interoperability Architecture |
|
GAMS |
General Algebraic Modeling System |
|
GAP |
Groups, Algorithms and Programming |
|
GAPE |
Google Apps Premier Edition |
|
GARP |
Generic Address Resolution Protocol |
|
GAS |
GNU ASsembler |
|
gatf |
Graphic Arts Technical Foundation's |
|
GB |
Gigabyte |
|
gb |
Giga bit |
|
GBIC |
GigaBit Interface Converter |
|
Gbit |
Gigabits |
|
GBP |
Group Buffer Pool |
|
GBps |
Gigabits per second |
|
GCC |
GNU Compiler Collection |
|
GCD |
Grand Central Dispatch |
|
GCG |
Grey Component Replacement |
|
GCGID |
graphic character global identifier |
|
GCI |
General Communication Inc. |
|
GCR |
Group Coded Recording |
|
GD&T |
Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing |
|
GDB |
GNU Debugger |
|
GDG |
Generation Data Group |
|
GDI |
Graphics Device Interface |
|
GDM |
Global Delivery Model |
|
GDP |
Gateway Discovery Protocol |
|
GDPS |
Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex |
|
GDS |
Global Data Synchronization |
|
GDS |
Global Directory Service |
|
GDSN |
Global Data Synchronization Network |
|
GDT |
Global Descriptor Table |
|
GDTR |
Global Descriptor Table Register |
|
gdts |
Global Data Types |
|
GE |
Graphic Escape |
|
GEAR |
Gigabyte Enhanced Agp Riser |
|
GEDCOM |
GEnealogical Data COMmunication |
|
GEMMS |
Global Enterprise Manufacturing Management System |
|
GEnie |
General Electric Network for Information Exchange |
|
GEO |
Geo-Stationary Earth Orbit System |
|
GEOS |
Graphic Environment Operating System |
|
GEOS |
Geo-Stationary Earth Orbit System |
|
GERAN |
GSM(GPRS)/EDGE Radio Access Network |
|
GETVIS |
GET VIrtual Storage |
|
GFC |
Generic Flow Control (ATM) |
|
GFI |
General Format Identifier |
|
GFID |
General Format Identifier |
|
gfortran |
GNU Fortran compiler |
|
GFP |
Generic Framing Procedure |
|
GFS |
Grandfather Father Son |
|
GGP |
Gateway-Gateway Protocol |
|
GGSN |
Gateway GPRS Support Node |
|
GHC |
Glasgow Haskell Compiler |
|
Ghost |
General Hardware-Oriented Software Transfer |
|
GIAC |
Global Information Assurance Certification |
|
GiB |
Gibibyte |
|
GID |
group identification number |
|
GIF |
Graphic Interchange Format |
|
GIFT |
GNU Image-Finding Tool |
|
GIGO |
Garbage In Garbage Out (computing) |
|
GIMP |
GNU Image Manipulation Program |
|
GINA |
Graphical Identification and Authentication |
|
GINI |
Gateway Interface for Network Initialization |
|
GIOP |
General Inter-ORB Protocol |
|
GIS |
Generalized Information System |
|
GIS |
Geographic Information System |
|
GIX |
Global Internet Exchange |
|
GKS |
Graphical Kernel System |
|
GKTMP |
Gatekeeper Transaction Message Protocol |
|
GLA |
Generic Log Adapter |
|
GLB |
Gramm-Leach-Bliley (aka Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999) |
|
GLBA |
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 |
|
GLONASS |
Global Navigational Satellite System |
|
GLPK |
GNU Linear Programming Kit |
|
GLUT |
OpenGL Utility Toolkit |
|
GMA |
Gmail Drive |
|
GML |
Generalized Markup Language |
|
GMM |
GPRS Mobility Management |
|
GMR |
Giant Magneto Resistance |
|
GMRP |
GARP Multicast Registration Protocol |
|
GMRS |
General Mobile Radio Service |
|
GMS |
General MIDI Standard |
|
GMS |
Generalized Main Scheduling |
|
GMS |
Google Message Security |
|
GMS |
Global Messaging Service |
|
GMSK |
Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying |
|
GMX |
Global Mail eXchange |
|
GNAT |
Gnu Nyu Ada Translator |
|
GNN |
Global Network Navigator |
|
GNOME |
GNU Network Object Model Environment |
|
GNSO |
Generic Names Supporting Organization |
|
GNU |
GNU's Not UNIX (a Recursive Acronym) |
|
GOCA |
Graphic Object Content Architecture |
|
GOLC |
Growth Opportunity License Charge |
|
GOMS |
Goals, Operators, Methods and Selection Rules |
|
GOPS |
Giga Operations Per Second |
|
GOS |
Grade Of Service |
|
GOSIP |
Government Open System Interconnection Profile |
|
GOW |
God of War (Game) |
|
GP |
General Protection |
|
GPF |
General Protection Fault |
|
GPIB |
General-Purpose Interface Bus |
|
GPIO |
general-purpose I/O |
|
GPL |
General Public License |
|
GPO |
Group Policy Object |
|
GPRS |
General Packet Radio Service |
|
GPS |
GNAT Programming Studio |
|
GPS |
Global Positioning System (ex-NAVSTAR) |
|
GPSL |
General Purpose Scripting Language |
|
GPSS |
General Purpose Simulation System |
|
GPU |
Graphics Processing Unit |
|
GPWW |
Group Practice Without Walls |
|
GRC |
governance, risk and compliance |
|
GRC.SQ |
Governance, Risk Management, Compliance, Security, and Data Quality |
|
GRCM |
GRC management |
|
GRE |
Generic Routing Encapsulation |
|
grep |
global-regular-expression-print |
|
GROW |
GNU Remote Operations Web |
|
GRS |
Global Resource Serialization |
|
GRT |
Granular Recovery Technology |
|
GSAM |
Generalized Sequential Access Method |
|
GSC |
Gecko System Connect |
|
GSI |
Gigascale Integration |
|
gsk |
Global Security Kit |
|
GSM |
Global System for Mobile Communications |
|
GSO |
global sign-on |
|
GSR |
Gigabit Switch Router |
|
GTF |
Generalized Trace Facility |
|
GTL |
Gunning Transceiver Logic |
|
GTM |
Global Trade Management |
|
GTM |
Global Traffic Manager |
|
GTP |
GPRS Tunneling Protocol |
|
GTS |
Generic Traffic Shaping |
|
GTT |
Global Title Translation |
|
gua |
Graphical User Authentication |
|
GUI |
Graphical User Interface (goo-ey) |
|
GUID |
Globally Unique Identifier |
|
GUIP |
Graphical User Interface for Blind people |
|
GUTBN |
Globally Unique Time Based Number |
|
GVN |
Global Value Numbering |
|
GVPN |
Global Virtual Network Service |
|
GVRP |
Generic VLAN Resolution Protocol |
|
GVU |
Graphic, Visualization, and Usability |
|
GWEN |
Ground Wave Emergency Network |
|
GWT |
Google Web Toolkit |
|
GXA |
Global XML Web Services Architecture |
|
GXS |
Global Exchange Services |
|
GZIP |
GNU Zip |
|
h&h |
Hoot & Holler |
|
H&J |
Hyphenation and Justification |
|
h-menu |
Hierarchical menu |
|
H/S LAN |
High-Speed Local-Area Network |
|
H3C |
Huawei Technologies—3Com |
|
HA |
High Availability (reliable computer system) |
|
HAAT |
Height Above Average Terrain |
|
HACMP |
High-Availability Cluster Multi-Processing |
|
Hactivism |
from "hack" and "activism" |
|
HAD |
Holographic Autostereoscopic Display |
|
HADA |
High Availability Disk Array |
|
HADR |
High Availability Disaster Recovery |
|
HAE |
Height Above Ellipsoid |
|
HAL |
Hardware Abstraction Layer |
|
HAN |
Home Area Network |
|
HARC |
Hitachi Asynchronous Remote Copy |
|
HARQ |
Hybrid Automatic-Repeat-Request |
|
HASP |
Houston Automatic Spooling Program |
|
HAT |
Heap Analysis Tool |
|
HAVi |
Home Audio Video Interoperability |
|
HBA |
Host Bus Adapter |
|
HCI |
Human-Computer Interaction |
|
HCL |
Hardware Compatibility List |
|
HCM |
Human Capital Management |
|
HCO |
High-Capacity Optical |
|
HCR |
Huffman Codeword Reordering |
|
HCS |
Header Check Sequence |
|
HCT |
Hardware Compatibility Test |
|
HD |
Half-Duplex |
|
HD DVD |
high-density DVD |
|
HDA |
Head-Disk Assembl |
|
HDA |
Head Disk Assembly |
|
HDBV |
Host Data Base View |
|
HDCP |
High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection |
|
HDD |
Hard Disk Drive |
|
HDLC |
High Level Data Link Communications |
|
HDLC |
High-Level Data Link Control |
|
HDMI |
High-Definition Multimedia Interface |
|
HDML |
Handheld Device Markup Language |
|
HDR |
Header Label |
|
HDS |
Hitachi Data Systems (A vendor) |
|
HDSL |
High-bit rate Digital Subscriber Loop |
|
HDSL |
High bitrate Digital Subscriber Line |
|
HDTP |
Handheld Device Transport Protocol |
|
HDTV |
High Definition Television |
|
HDTV |
High Definition TV |
|
HDX |
Half Duplex |
|
HE-AAC |
High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding |
|
HEC |
Header Error Control |
|
HEL |
Hardware Emulation Layer |
|
HEP |
Horizontal Enterprise Portal |
|
HERF |
High Energy Radio Frequency |
|
HFC |
Hybrid Fiber Coaxial |
|
HFS |
Hierarchical File System |
|
HGC |
Hercules Graphics Card |
|
HGFS |
Host-Guest File System |
|
HGML |
Hypertext General Markup Language |
|
hho |
Hard Hand Off |
|
HHT |
Hand-Held Terminal |
|
HIC |
Host Interface Computer |
|
HID |
high intensity discharge (electricity) |
|
HID |
Human Interface Device |
|
HIDAM |
Hierarchical Indexed Direct Access Method |
|
HIDS |
Host-based Intrusion Detection System |
|
HiFD |
HIgh-capacity Floppy Disk |
|
HighMAT |
High-performance Media Access Technology |
|
HIL |
Hardware-in-the-Loop |
|
HIMEM |
HIgh MEMory |
|
HIP |
Host Identity Protocol |
|
HIPAA |
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 |
|
HiPerLinks |
High-Performance Links |
|
Hiperspace |
High-Performance Space |
|
HIPPI |
High-Performance Parallel Interface |
|
HIS |
Healthcare Information System |
|
HISAM |
hierarchical indexed sequential access method |
|
HITECH |
Health Information for Economic and Clinical Health |
|
HIToolbox |
Human Interface Toolbox |
|
HKCC |
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG |
|
HKLM |
Hkey_Local_Machine |
|
HL7 |
Health Level 7 (a not-for-profit ANSI-accredited standards-developing organization (SDO) |
|
HLA |
High Level Architecture |
|
HLL |
High Level Language |
|
HLLAPI |
High Level Language Application Programming Interface |
|
HLR |
Home Location Register |
|
HLS |
Hue-Lightness-Saturation |
|
HMA |
High Memory Area |
|
HMD |
Head-Mounted Display |
|
HMD |
Head Mounted Display |
|
HMMP |
Hypermedia Management Protocol |
|
HMMS |
Hypermedia Management Schema |
|
HMP |
Hybrid Multiprocessing |
|
HOB |
Head Of Bus |
|
Honeynet |
A network of honeypots. |
|
HOSED |
Hardware or Software Error Detected |
|
HP |
Hewlett-Packard Development Company |
|
HPA |
High Performance Addressing |
|
HPB |
High Ping Bastard |
|
HPC |
High Performance Computing |
|
HPCL |
Hewlett-Packard Control Language |
|
HPF |
High Pass Filter |
|
HPFS |
High Performance File System |
|
HPGL |
Hewlett-Packard Graphical Language |
|
HPGL |
Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language |
|
HPIB |
Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus |
|
HPNA |
Home Phoneline Networking Alliance |
|
HPR |
High-Performance Routing |
|
HPR |
High Performance Routing |
|
HR |
Horizontal Rule |
|
HR/DSSS |
High Rate/Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Physical Layer |
|
HRAA |
High Resolution Anti Aliasing |
|
hrc |
Hitachi Remote Copy |
|
HRMS |
Human Resource Management System |
|
HRPD |
High Rate Packet Data |
|
HSB |
Hue, Saturation, Brightness |
|
HSB |
Hue-saturation-brightness |
|
HSCSD |
High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data |
|
HSD |
High Speed Data |
|
HSDPA |
High-Speed Downlink Packet Access |
|
HSELAN |
High Speed ELAN |
|
HSF |
High Sierra Format |
|
HSF |
Heat Sink Fan |
|
HSI |
Hue-Saturation-Intensity |
|
HSIL |
Host Side Igmp Library |
|
HSM |
Hierarchical Storage Management |
|
HSM |
Hardware Security Module |
|
HSO |
Hot Spot Operator |
|
HSRP |
Hot Standby Routing Protocol |
|
HSSI |
High-Speed Serial Interface |
|
HSSI |
High Speed Serial Interface (IBM) |
|
HSV |
Hue-Saturation-Value |
|
HSV |
Hue Saturation Value |
|
HTML5 |
HyperText Markup Language 5 |
|
HTT |
Hyper-Threading Technology |
|
HTTP |
Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
|
HTTP |
Hypertext Trasfer Protocol |
|
HTTP |
Hypertext Transport Protocol |
|
HTTPS |
HTTP Over SSL |
|
HUD |
Head-Up Display |
|
HURSE |
Hasp Unit Record SErvice |
|
HWS |
High Watermark Setup |
|
HXRC |
Hitachi EXtended Remote Copy |
|
Hz |
cycles per second (hertz) |
|
I-DEAS |
Integrated-Design Engineering Analysis Software |
|
I-MAC |
Isochronous Media Access Control |
|
I-Net |
Intranet |
|
I-PNNI |
Integrated Private Network-Network Interface |
|
I/O |
Input/Output |
|
I2 |
Internet2 |
|
I2C |
Inter-Integrated Circuit |
|
IA-32/64 |
Intel Architecture - 32/64 |
|
IA5 |
International Alphabet Five |
|
IAAS |
Integration as a Service |
|
IAB |
Internet Architecture Board |
|
IAB |
Internet Activities Board |
|
IAD |
Integrated Access Device |
|
IAM |
Identity and Access Management |
|
iAMT |
Intel Active Management Technology |
|
IANA |
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
|
IAP |
Internet Access Provider |
|
IAS |
Internet Authentication Service |
|
IAT |
Inside Air Temperature |
|
IB |
Interface Bus |
|
IBG |
Interblock Gap |
|
IBM |
International Business Machines Corporation |
|
IBO |
industry business unit |
|
IBR |
intelligent browser referencing |
|
IBS |
Internet Banking System Group |
|
IBSG |
Internet Business Solutions Group |
|
IBT |
Internet-Based Training |
|
IBT |
IntelliLight Broadband Transport |
|
IC |
Integrated Circuit |
|
IC |
I See |
|
ICA |
Independent Computing Architecture |
|
ICA |
International Compliance Association |
|
ICANN |
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers |
|
ICC |
Internet Commerce Corporation |
|
ICCs |
integration competency centers |
|
ICDL |
International Computer Driving Licence |
|
ICE |
Information and Content Exchange |
|
ICE |
In-Circuit Emulator |
|
ICE |
Interactive Connectivity Establishment |
|
ICEM |
Integrated Computer Engineering and Manufacturing |
|
ICF |
Isochronous Convergence Function |
|
ICF |
Internet Connection Firewall |
|
ICI |
Interexchange Carrier Interface |
|
ICI |
Information-centric infrastructure |
|
ICIP |
Inter-Carrier Interface Protocol |
|
ICM |
Incentive Compensation Management |
|
ICMP |
Internet Control Message Protocol |
|
ICMS |
Incentive Compensation Management System |
|
ICP |
Internet Content Provider |
|
ICPP |
Intel Channel Partner Program |
|
ICQ |
I Seek You (Instant Messaging Program) |
|
ICRA |
Internet Content Rating Association |
|
ICS |
Incremental Change Synchronization |
|
ICS |
Internet Connection Sharing |
|
ICSA |
International Computer Security Association |
|
ICSI |
Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement |
|
ICT |
Information and Communication Technology |
|
ICU |
International Components for Unicode |
|
Id |
IDentifier |
|
IDA |
(Verizon) Internet Dedicated Access |
|
IDARS |
Integrated Document Archive and Retrieval System |
|
IDC |
Internet Data Center |
|
IDD |
International Direct Dial |
|
IDE |
Integrated Development Environment |
|
IDE |
Integrated Drive Electronics |
|
IDEA |
International Data Encryption Algorithm |
|
IDEMA |
International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association |
|
IDEN |
Integrated Digital Enhanced Network |
|
IDIM |
Identity Information Management |
|
IDIOT |
Intrusion Detection In Our Time |
|
IDIQ |
indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity |
|
IDL |
Interface Definition Language |
|
IDL |
Interfacce Definition Language |
|
IDM |
Internet Download Manager |
|
IDOL |
Intelligent Data Operating Layer |
|
IDOM |
Integrated Document and Output Management |
|
IDQ |
Informatica Data Quality |
|
IDR |
Intelligent Disaster Recovery |
|
IDRP |
interdomain routing protocol |
|
IDS |
Intrusion Detection System |
|
IDT |
Interrupt Descriptor Table |
|
IDT |
International Discount Telecommunications |
|
IDTV |
Interactive Digital Television |
|
IdU |
Interface Data Unit (UNI 3.0) |
|
IE |
Internet Explorer |
|
IEC |
International Electrotechnical Commission |
|
IEC |
Interexchange Carrier |
|
IEE |
Institution of Electrical Engineers |
|
IEEE |
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. |
|
IEs |
Integrated Environmental Solutions |
|
IETF |
Internet Engineering Task Force |
|
IF |
Interrupt Flag |
|
IFB |
Internet Free/Busy |
|
iFCP |
Internet Fibre Channel Protocol |
|
IFF |
Interchange File Format |
|
IFIP |
International Federation of Information Processing societies |
|
IFL |
Integrated Facility for Linux |
|
iFrame |
inline frame |
|
IFRS |
International Financial Reporting Standard |
|
IGEMS |
Integrated Global Enterprise Management System |
|
IGES |
Initial Graphics Exchange Specification, a data interchange standard for CAD/CAM systems |
|
IGF |
Internet Governance Forum |
|
IGMP |
Internet Group Management Protocol |
|
IGMP |
Internet Group Membership Protocol |
|
IGP |
Interior Gateway Protocol |
|
IGRP |
Interior Gateway Routing Protocol |
|
IGS |
IBM Global Services |
|
IGS |
Interchange Group Separator |
|
IHS |
Integrated Heat Spreader |
|
IHV |
Independent Hardware Vendor |
|
II |
Interactive Interface |
|
IIOP |
Internet Inter-ORB Protocol |
|
IIS |
Internet Information Server |
|
IISP |
Interim Interswitch Signaling Protocol |
|
IKE |
Internet Key Exchange |
|
IKT |
Informatione- und Kommunikationstechnik |
|
ILC |
InterLanguage Communication |
|
ILEC |
Independent Local Exchange Carrier |
|
ILEs |
Immersive learning environments |
|
ILM |
IBM License Manager |
|
ILM |
Information Lifecycle Management |
|
ILMI |
Interim Local Management Interface (ATM) |
|
iLO |
Integrated Lights-Out (Technology) |
|
ILP |
initial loader program |
|
IM |
Instant Message |
|
IM |
Identity Management |
|
IMAC |
installations, moves, adds and changes |
|
IMAP |
Internet Message Access Protocol |
|
IMAPI |
Image Mastering Application Programming Interface |
|
IMC |
Internet Mail Consortium |
|
IMC |
Intelligent Management Center |
|
IME |
Input Method Editor |
|
Imei |
International Mobile Equipment Identifier |
|
IMPDU |
Initial MAC Protocol Data Unit |
|
IMPL |
Initial Microprogram Load |
|
IMR |
Interrupt Mask Registers |
|
IMS |
Information Management System (LTPP) |
|
IMS |
IP multimedia systems |
|
IMSI |
International Mobile Subscriber Identity |
|
IMSSI |
Inter-MAN Switching System Interface |
|
IMUX |
Inverse Multiplexer |
|
INAP |
Intelligent Network Application Protocol |
|
INC |
International Network of Crackers |
|
INFOSEC |
Information Security |
|
INI file |
initialization file |
|
Inmarsat |
International Maritime Satellite |
|
INP |
Inhibit Presentation |
|
INTAP |
Interoperability Technology Association for information Processing |
|
INTEL |
Integrated Electronics |
|
INTERNIC |
Internet Network Information Center |
|
intraLATA |
intraLocal Access Transport Area |
|
IOA |
Input/Output Adapter |
|
IOC |
ISDN Ordering Code |
|
IOCA |
Image Object Content Architecture |
|
IOCP |
Input/Output Configuration Program |
|
IOCS |
Input/Output Control System |
|
IOD |
In-Order Delivery |
|
iODBC |
Independent Open DataBase Connectivity |
|
IOGEN |
Input/Output device GENeration |
|
IOM |
Integrated Object Model |
|
IONL |
Internal Organization of the Network Layer |
|
IOPL |
Input/Output Privilege Level |
|
IOPS |
Input/Output Operations Per Second |
|
IOS |
Internetwork Operating System |
|
IOS |
Input/Output Supervisor |
|
IOS |
International Operator Services |
|
IOT |
Internet of Things |
|
IOTP |
Internet Open Trading Protocol |
|
IP |
Internet Protocol |
|
IP |
Intellectual Property |
|
IP PBX |
Internet Protocol private branch exchange |
|
IP telephony |
Internet Protocol telephony |
|
IPA |
intelligent process automation |
|
IPAM |
Intellectual Property Asset Management |
|
Ipc |
Interprocess Communication |
|
IPCP |
Internet Protocol Control Protocol |
|
IPL |
Initial Program Load |
|
IPL |
International Private Line |
|
IPLC |
International Private Leased Circuit |
|
IPM |
Internetwork Performance Monitor |
|
IPM |
Interpersonal Message |
|
IPMX |
IP management exchange |
|
IPP |
Internet Printing Protocol |
|
IPPP |
Internet presence provider and promoter |
|
Ipr |
Intellectual Property Right |
|
IPRM |
Intellectual Property Rights Management |
|
IPRR |
Intellectual property rights and royalties |
|
IPS |
Intrusion Prevention System |
|
IPSE |
Integrated Project Support Environment |
|
IPSec |
IP Security |
|
IPT |
Identity Protection Technology |
|
IPTV |
Internet Protocol Television |
|
IPV4 |
Internet Protocol Version 4 |
|
IPv6 |
Internet Protocal version 6 |
|
IPv6CP |
IPv6 PPP Control Protocol |
|
IPX |
Internetwork Packet Exchange |
|
IR |
Infrared |
|
IR |
Index Return |
|
IRC |
Internet Relay Chat |
|
IRDS |
Information Resource Dictionary System |
|
IRF |
Intelligent Resilient Framework |
|
iRMC |
Integrated Remote Management Controller |
|
IRP |
I/O Request Packet |
|
IRQ |
Interrupt Request |
|
IRS |
Interrupt Source |
|
IRS |
Interchange Recors Separator |
|
IRTF |
Internet Research Task Force |
|
IRU |
Indefeasible Right Of Use |
|
IS |
Intermediate System |
|
IS-IS |
Intermediate-System-to-Intermediate-System |
|
ISA |
Industry Standard Adapter |
|
ISA |
Internet Security and Acceleration Server |
|
ISA |
Industry Standard Architecture |
|
ISACA |
Information Systems Audit and Control Association |
|
ISAM |
Indexed Sequential Access Method |
|
ISATAP |
Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol |
|
ISC |
Internet Software Consortium |
|
ISCSI |
Internet SCSI |
|
ISDN |
Integrated Services Digital Network |
|
ISDU |
Isochronous Service Data Unit |
|
ISFMS |
Indexed Sequential File Management System |
|
ISIS |
Image and Scanner Interface Specification |
|
ISL |
Inter-Switch Link |
|
ISM |
Industrial, Scientific and Medical |
|
ISMF |
Interactive Storage Management Facility |
|
ISN |
Initial Sequence Number |
|
Iso |
International Standardization Organisation |
|
ISO |
International Organization for Standardization |
|
ISO IEC |
ISO International Electrotechnical Commitee |
|
ISOC |
Internet Society |
|
ISODE |
ISO Development Environment |
|
ISP |
Internet Service Protocol |
|
ISP |
Internet Service Provider |
|
ISPF |
Interactive System Produvtivity Facility |
|
ISPF/PDF |
ISPF Program Development Facility |
|
ISR |
Interrupt Service Routine |
|
ISS |
Internet Security Systems, Inc. |
|
ISSAC |
Information System for Advanced Academic Computing |
|
ISSE |
Intel SIMD Sreaming Extension |
|
ISSI |
Inter-Switching System Interface |
|
ISTG |
InterSite Topology Generator |
|
ISU |
Isochronous Service User |
|
ISUP |
ISDN User Part |
|
ISV |
Independent Software Vendor |
|
IT |
Indent Tab |
|
IT |
Information Technology |
|
IT |
Integrated Technology |
|
ITAD |
IT asset disposition |
|
ITAM |
IT asset management |
|
Itb |
Intermediate Transmission Block |
|
ITC |
IT consolidation |
|
ITCAM |
IBM Tivoli Composite Application Monitoring |
|
ITCM |
IT Change Management |
|
ITCS |
Intermodal Transport Control System |
|
ITES |
Information Technology Enabled Services |
|
ITIL |
Information Technology Infrastructure Library |
|
ITL |
Instructional Technology Laboratory |
|
ITLA |
Incremented Three Letter Acronym |
|
ITLD |
International Top-Level Domain |
|
ITO |
IT outsourcing |
|
ITOM |
IT operations management |
|
ITRC |
Information Technology Requirements Council |
|
ITU |
International Comunication Union |
|
ITU |
International Telecommunication Union |
|
ITWAB |
IT Workload Automation Broker Tools |
|
ITXC |
Internet Telephony Exchange Carrier |
|
IUS |
Interchange Unit Separator |
|
IVANS |
International Value Added Network Services |
|
IVDT |
Integrated Voice and Data Terminal |
|
IVIS |
in-vehicle information system |
|
IVR |
Interactive Voice Response (telephone technology) |
|
IVR |
Integrated Voice Recognition |
|
IXC |
interexchange carrier |
|
IXS |
Integrated xSeries Server |
|
I²C |
Inter-Integrated Circuit |
|
J-code |
Japan code |
|
J2EE |
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition |
|
J2ME |
Java 2 platform, Micro Edition |
|
J2SE |
Java 2 platform, Standard Edition |
|
JAAS |
Java Authentication and Authorization Service |
|
JACK |
Jack Audio Connection Kit |
|
JAD |
Joint Application Development |
|
JAMES |
Java Apache Mail Enterprise Server |
|
JAR |
Java Archive |
|
JBIG |
Joint Bi-level Image experts Group |
|
JBL |
Jame B. Lansing |
|
JBOD |
Just a Bunch Of Disks/Drives |
|
JCA |
Java Connector Architecture |
|
JCAHO |
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations |
|
JCB |
Job Control Block |
|
JCC |
Job Control Command |
|
JCL |
Job Control Language |
|
JCP |
Java Community Process |
|
JCS |
Job Control Statement |
|
JDBC |
Java Database Connectivity |
|
JDK |
Java Development Kit |
|
JECL |
Job Entry Control Language |
|
JEDEC |
Joint Electronic Devices Engineering Council |
|
JEIDA |
Japan Electronics Industry Development Association |
|
JES |
Job Entry Subsystem |
|
JFK |
Just Fast Keying |
|
JFS |
IBM Journaling File System |
|
JIA |
Joint Innovation Assessment |
|
JIT |
Just-In-Time (inventory management) |
|
JITA |
Just in Time Activation |
|
JITT |
Network for Just-In-Time Training in quality |
|
JJ |
Josephson Junction |
|
JMS |
Java Messaging Services |
|
JMX |
Java Management Extensions |
|
JNI |
Java Native Interface |
|
JOA |
Joint Opportunity Assessment |
|
JOLAP |
Java Interface for OLAP |
|
JPDL |
jBoss process definition language |
|
JPEG |
Joint Photographic Experts Group (24-bit image storage format) |
|
Jpg |
Joint Photographic Experts Group |
|
JRE |
Java Runtime Environment |
|
JS |
JavaScript |
|
JSON |
JavaScript Object Notation |
|
JSP |
Java Server Page |
|
JSR |
Java Specification Request |
|
JTAG |
Joint Test Action Group |
|
JTC |
Join Transitive Closure |
|
JTC1 |
Joint Technical Committee |
|
JTRS |
Joint Tactical Radio System (jitters) |
|
JVM |
Java Virtual Machine |
|
JVT |
job volume table |
|
K |
Kilo- |
|
K |
Kilobyte |
|
k-map |
knowledge map |
|
kaid |
Kai console daemon |
|
KB |
Kilobyte: One thousand and twenty-four bytes kbps kilo bit per second |
|
Kb |
Kilobit |
|
KBE |
knowledge-based engineering |
|
KBIT |
Kilobit |
|
KBMS |
KeyBoard/MouSe |
|
kbps |
kilobits per second |
|
KBS |
Knowledge-Based System |
|
KBW |
keyboard wedge |
|
KCC |
Knowledge Consistency Checker |
|
KDC |
Kerberos Key Distribution Center |
|
KDD |
Knowledge Discovery in Databases |
|
KDE |
K Desktop Environment |
|
KDSI |
thousand (K) Delivered Source Instructions |
|
keychan |
Key changer |
|
keygen |
Key Generator |
|
keylogging |
keystroke logging |
|
KGD |
Known Good Die |
|
KHz |
kilohertz (1000 cycles per second) |
|
KiB |
Kibibyte |
|
KIP |
Kinetics Internet Protocol |
|
KIPS |
Kilo Instructions per second |
|
KIPS |
Thousands of instructions per second |
|
KIS |
knowbot information service |
|
KISS |
Keep It Simple Stupid |
|
KL |
Key Length |
|
KLOC |
thousands of lines of code |
|
km |
Kilometers to Miles |
|
KM |
Knowledge Management |
|
KML |
Keyhole Markup Language |
|
KMS |
Key Management Server |
|
KMS |
Knowledge Management System |
|
KNI |
Katmai New Instructions |
|
knowbot |
Knowledge robots |
|
KOLs |
Key Opinion Leaders |
|
KOPS |
Kilo Operations per second |
|
KPCMS |
Kodak Precision Color Management System |
|
KPI |
Key Performance Indicator |
|
KPN |
Koninklijke PTT Nederland |
|
KPO |
Knowledge Processing Outsourcing |
|
KSAM |
Keyed Sequential Access Method file |
|
KSDS |
Key Sequenced Data Set |
|
KSH |
Korn Shell Programming |
|
KSR |
Keyboard Send/Receive |
|
KSU |
Key Service Unit |
|
KTM |
Kernel Transaction Manager |
|
KTS |
Key Telephone System |
|
KUIP |
Kernel User Interface Package |
|
KVA |
kilo Volt Ampere |
|
KVM |
K Virtual Machine |
|
KVM |
SwitchKeyboard, Video, And Mouse Switch |
|
Kw |
Kilowatt (one thousand watts) (measurement) |
|
kWh |
Kilowatt hour (one thousand watt hours) (measurement) |
|
KYC |
Know Your Customer |
|
L1/L2 cache |
level-1/2 cache |
|
L10N |
Localization |
|
L2CAP |
Logical Link and Control Adaptation Protocol |
|
L2F |
Layer 2 Forwarding (Cisco) |
|
L2S |
Layer 2 Switch |
|
L2TP |
Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol |
|
L3F |
Layer 3 Forwarding |
|
L3S |
Layer 3 Switch |
|
L3TP |
Layer Three Tunneling Protocol |
|
LA |
Load Address |
|
LAC |
L2TP Access Concentrator |
|
LACNIC |
Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry |
|
LACP |
Link Aggregation Control Protocol |
|
LADDR |
LAyered Device DRiver |
|
LAI |
Location Area Identity |
|
LAIPE |
Link And In Parallel Execute |
|
LAMP |
Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP |
|
LAN |
Local Area Network |
|
LANE |
Local Area Network Emulation |
|
LAP-B |
Link Access Procedure - Balanced |
|
LAP-F |
Link Access Procedure - Frame Mode |
|
LAPD |
Link Access Procedures on the D channel |
|
LAPS |
LAN Adapter Protocol Support Program |
|
LAS |
Logical Application Structure |
|
LASER |
Light Amplification By Stimulated Emission Of Radiation (cf. Maser) |
|
LASINT |
Laser Intelligence |
|
LAT |
Local Area Transport protocol |
|
LAT |
Local Address Table |
|
LATA |
Local Access and Transport Area |
|
LB |
Letter Ballot |
|
LBA |
Logical Block Addresses |
|
LBAC |
Label-Based Access Control |
|
Lbg |
Load Balancing Group |
|
LBO |
Line BuildOut |
|
LBS |
Location-Based Services |
|
LCC |
Limited Combustible Cable |
|
LCC |
Leaded Chip Carrier |
|
LCD |
Liquid Crystal Display |
|
LCGN |
Logical Channel Group Number |
|
LCI |
local component installer |
|
LCM |
Life Cycle Management |
|
LCN |
Local Communication Network |
|
LCO |
language context object |
|
LCOS |
Liquid Crystal on Silicone |
|
LCP |
Link Control Protocol |
|
LCR |
LIFETIME CLINICAL RECORD |
|
LCR |
Line Concentration Ratio |
|
LCR |
Local Continuous Replication |
|
LCR |
Least Cost Routing |
|
LCS |
Live Communications Server |
|
LCS |
Lotus Communication Server |
|
LCS |
Liquid Cooling System |
|
LD |
Laser Disc |
|
LDA |
Local Delivery Agent |
|
LDAP |
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (pronounced Ell-dap) |
|
LDCM |
LANDesk Client Manager |
|
Ldif |
Ldap Data Interchange Format |
|
LDM |
Limited Distance Modem |
|
LDMF |
Librarian Disc Master File |
|
LDP |
Label Distribution Protocol |
|
LDPC |
low-density parity-check code |
|
LDR |
Light Dependent Resistor |
|
LDS |
logical data stream |
|
LDS |
Linear Data Set |
|
LDT |
Lightning Data Transfer |
|
LDT |
Local Descriptor Table |
|
LE |
Low End |
|
LEAP |
Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol |
|
LEC |
Local Exchange Carrier |
|
LECS |
LAN Emulation Configuration Server |
|
LED |
law enforcement desk; light emitting diode |
|
LED |
Light-Emitting Diode |
|
LEED |
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, standard for Green Building design |
|
LEL |
Link, Embed and Launch-to-edit |
|
LEO |
Low Earth Orbit (satellite communications) |
|
LER |
Label Edge Router |
|
LES |
LAN Emulation Server |
|
LF |
Line Feed |
|
LF |
Linefeed |
|
LFB |
look-ahead-for-busy |
|
LFS |
Linux from Scratch |
|
LGA |
Land Grid Aray |
|
LGPL |
Lesser General Public License |
|
Li-ion |
Lithium-ion |
|
LIC |
Line Interface Computer |
|
LID |
Local IDentifier |
|
LIDE |
Light emitting diode In-Direct Exposure |
|
LIFO |
Last In, First Out |
|
LIM-EMS |
Lotus Intel Microsoft EMS |
|
LINAC |
Linear Accelerator |
|
LIOCS |
Logical Input/Output Control System |
|
LION |
Lower Indian Ocean Network |
|
Lion |
Lithium-ion |
|
LIP |
Loop Initialization Process |
|
LIPS |
Logical Inferences Per Second |
|
LIS |
Laboratory Information System |
|
LISP |
List Processing Language |
|
Lisp |
List Programming |
|
LKM |
Loadable Kernel Modules |
|
LL |
Local Loopback |
|
LLC |
Logical Link Control |
|
LLC2 |
Logical Link Control Layer 2 |
|
LLCC |
Leadless Chip Carrier |
|
LLDP |
Link Layer Discovery Protocol |
|
LLDP-MED |
Link Layer Discovery Protocol-Media Endpoint Discovery |
|
LLI |
Lower Layer Interface |
|
LLI |
Low Latency Interrupts |
|
LLTD |
Link Layer Topology Discovery |
|
LLU |
Local Loop Unbundling |
|
LMA |
Lightspeed Memory Architecture |
|
LMDS |
Local Multipoint Distribution Service |
|
LME |
Layer Management Entity |
|
LMI |
Local Management Interface |
|
LMP |
Link Manager Protocol |
|
LMPP |
Lighttpd/MySQL/PHP/Python |
|
LMS |
Learning management system |
|
LNA |
Launch Numerical Aperture |
|
LNIB |
Like New In Box |
|
LNO |
Loop Nest Optimization |
|
LNP |
Local Number Portability |
|
LNS |
L2TP Network Server |
|
LOB |
Line-of-Business |
|
LOB |
Large Object |
|
LOC |
Lines Of Code |
|
LOCK |
local object creator and killer |
|
LODA |
Lombardi On-Demand Assistance |
|
LOFS |
Loopback File System |
|
LOM |
LAN on Motherboard |
|
Loran |
Long-Range Radio Navigation |
|
LOS |
Local Operator System |
|
LOS |
Loss Of Sync |
|
LOS |
Line Of Sight |
|
LP |
Logical Partition |
|
LPA |
Linear Power Amplifier |
|
LPA |
Link Pack Area |
|
LPAR |
Logical Partition |
|
LPB |
Low Ping Bastard (gaming) |
|
LPC |
Linear Predictive Coding |
|
LPC |
Local Procedure Call |
|
LPD |
Line Printer Daemon |
|
Lpda |
Link Problem Determination Aid |
|
LPF |
Low-Pass Filter |
|
LPF |
League for Programming Freedom |
|
LPFM |
low-power FM radio |
|
LPI |
Linux Professional Insitute |
|
LPI |
Lines Per Inch |
|
LPP |
Land Pre-Pits |
|
LPPL |
LaTeX Project Public License |
|
lpr |
Line Print |
|
LPT |
Line Print Terminal |
|
LPTV |
low-power television |
|
LPWA |
Lucent Personalized Web Assistant |
|
lpx |
Low Profile eXtension |
|
LPX |
Low Profile Extended |
|
LQA |
Link Quality Analysis |
|
LQSR |
Link Quality Source Routing |
|
LR |
Lightroom |
|
LRC |
Longitudinal Redundancy Check |
|
LRC |
Loop Resiliency Circuit |
|
LRF |
Little Rubber Feet |
|
LRN |
Location Routing Number |
|
LRU |
Least Recently Used |
|
ls |
Loop-Start Signaling |
|
LSA |
Local Security Authority |
|
LSAP |
Link Service Access Point |
|
LSAS |
Local Security Authentication Server |
|
LSASS |
Local Security Authority Subsystem Service |
|
LSH |
Locality-Sensitive Hashing |
|
LSI |
Large Scale of Integration |
|
LSI |
Large Scale Integration -> VLSI |
|
LSM |
Linux Software Map |
|
LSM |
Local Service Manager |
|
LSP |
License Service Provider |
|
LSR |
Local Shared Resource |
|
LSR |
Line Service Request |
|
LSR |
Local Service Request |
|
LSR |
Label Switch Router |
|
LSR |
Leaf Setup Request |
|
LSSGR |
LATA Switching System Generic Requirements |
|
LT |
Line Termination |
|
LTC |
Line Traffic Coordinator |
|
LTE |
Long-Term Evolution |
|
LTE |
Lite Terminating Equipment |
|
LTF |
Leap to Frogans |
|
LTM |
Local Traffic Managers |
|
LTPA |
Lightweight Third Party Authentication |
|
LTRAN |
local transaction |
|
LTRS |
Letters Shift |
|
LTS |
Leaning Toothpick Syndrome |
|
LU |
Logical Unit |
|
LU-LU |
between two logical units |
|
LUB |
logical unit block |
|
LUF |
Lowest Usable (high) Frequency |
|
LUN |
Logical Unit Number |
|
LUNT |
Line Unit Network Termination |
|
Lus |
Lookup Service |
|
LUT |
Look Up Table |
|
LUW |
Logical Unit of Work |
|
LV |
Logical Volume |
|
LVD |
Low Voltage Differential |
|
LVDS |
Low Voltage Differential Signaling |
|
LVM |
Logical Volume Manager |
|
LVM |
Low Voltage Differential Signaling |
|
LVOL |
logical volume |
|
LVT |
Light Valve Technology |
|
LW |
Line Work |
|
LWL |
long wavelength |
|
LWP |
LightWeight Process |
|
LZ |
Lempel-Ziv |
|
LZH |
Lempel-Ziv-Haruyasu |
|
LZW |
Lempel-Ziv-Welch |
|
m |
Meter |
|
M-BUSINESS |
Mobile Business |
|
m-commerce |
mobile commerce; |
|
M/L |
Mobile-to-Land Traffic |
|
M2M |
Manufacturer-to-Manufacturer |
|
M2M |
model-to-model |
|
maa |
Mail Access Agent |
|
MAC |
Message Authentication Code |
|
MAC |
Apple Macintosh Computer |
|
MAC |
Mouse Activated Computer (suggested acronym for Apple Macintosh computer) |
|
MAC |
Mid-Atlantic Crossing |
|
MAC |
Media Access Control |
|
MADM |
Multiple Appearance Directory Number |
|
MAE |
Metropolitan Area Exchange (Ethernet) |
|
MAGs |
Multichannel access gateways |
|
mAh |
milliampere-hour |
|
MAID |
Massive Array of Idle Disks |
|
malware |
malicious software |
|
MAN |
Metropolitan Area Network |
|
MANET |
Mobile Ad Hoc Network |
|
MAP |
Manufacturing Automation Protocol |
|
MAP |
Mobile Application Part |
|
MAP |
Major Sync Point |
|
MAPI |
Messaging Application Program Interface |
|
MAPI |
Messaging Applications Programming Interface |
|
MAPP |
Microsoft Active Protections Program |
|
MAPS |
Mail Abuse Protection System |
|
MARS |
Multicast Address Resolution Server |
|
MARS |
Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines |
|
MARS |
Monitoring, Analysis and Response System |
|
MAS |
Modula-2 Algebra System |
|
maser |
Microwave Amplification by Simulated Emission of Radiation |
|
MathML |
Mathematics Markup Language |
|
MAU |
Medium Attachment Unit |
|
MAU |
Multistation Access Unit |
|
MAX |
Master Auxiliary Correction |
|
MB |
Megabyte |
|
MBCS |
Multiple Byte Character Set |
|
Mbit |
Megabits |
|
Mbps |
Megabits per second |
|
MBR |
Master Boot Record |
|
MBS |
Maximum Burst Size (ATM) |
|
MBSA |
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer |
|
MBT |
MB Technology |
|
MCA |
Micro Channel Architecture |
|
MCA |
Message Channel Agent |
|
MCBF |
Mean cycles between failures |
|
MCCM |
Multichannel Campaign Management |
|
MCCOI |
Multimedia Communications Community of Interest |
|
MCF |
MAC Convergence Function |
|
MCGA |
MultiColour Graphics Array |
|
MCI |
Microwave Communications, Inc. |
|
MCIF |
(IBM) Measured Capability Improvement Framework |
|
MCL |
Mesh Connectivity Layer |
|
MCM |
Multi-Chip Module |
|
MCMP |
Multi-channel Multi-point |
|
MCP |
Multi-Chip Package |
|
MCP |
Microsoft Certified Professional |
|
MCR |
Maximum Cell Rate |
|
MCU |
Multipoint Control Unit |
|
MD |
Management Domain |
|
MD2/4/5 |
Message Digest algorithm 2/4/5 |
|
MD5 |
Message Digest 5 |
|
MDA |
Model-Driven Architecture |
|
MDA |
Monochrome Display Adapter |
|
MDA |
model-driven approaches |
|
MDB |
Message-Driven Beans |
|
MDF |
Medium Density Fiberboard |
|
MDF |
Main Distribution Frame |
|
mdisk |
managed disk |
|
MDIX |
Medium Dependent Interface, Crossover |
|
MDM |
Meter Data Management |
|
MDM |
Master Data Management |
|
mdp |
Mobile Data Protection |
|
MDS |
Master Data Services |
|
MDX |
Multidimensional Expressions |
|
ME |
Millenium Edition |
|
MEB |
Memory Expansion Board |
|
MEMS |
micro-electromechanical system |
|
MEO |
Middle Earth Orbit |
|
MEO |
Medium-Earth Orbit |
|
MERVA |
Message Entry and Routing with Interfaces to Various Applications |
|
MES |
Mobile Entertainment Service |
|
MES |
Manufacturing Execution System |
|
MESA |
Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association International (Chandler, AZ) |
|
MFA |
Multifactor authentication |
|
MFA |
Modify Field Attribute |
|
MFC |
Microsoft Foundation Class |
|
MFD |
Multi Function Device |
|
MFKS |
Multifunktionales Konferenzsystem |
|
MFLOPS |
Million Floating-Point Operations Per Second |
|
MFM |
Modified Frequency Modulation |
|
Mfp |
Multifunction Product |
|
MFS |
Multi-Function Security |
|
MFT |
Master File Table |
|
MFT |
Managed File Transfer |
|
MFV |
Multi File Volume |
|
MFWS |
MultiFunction WorkStation |
|
MGA |
Monochrome Graphic Adapter |
|
MGAS |
mostly global address space |
|
MGC |
Multimedia Gateway Controller |
|
MH |
Mobile Host |
|
MHS |
Message Handling System (electronic) |
|
MHZ |
Megahertz (Megacycles Per Second) |
|
MI |
Multiple Inheritance |
|
MIA |
Media Interface Adapter |
|
MiB |
Mebibyte (2^20 bytes) |
|
MIB |
Management Information Base (ATM) |
|
MIB |
Management Information Database |
|
MiC |
Media Interface Connector (FDDI) |
|
MIC |
Message Integrity Check |
|
MICR |
Magnetic Ink Character Reader |
|
MICR |
Magnetic Ink Character Recognition |
|
MID |
Message IDentifier, Multiplexing IDentifier |
|
MID-II |
Management Information DataBase II |
|
MIDI |
Musical Instrument Digital Interface |
|
MIH |
Master Information Hub |
|
MII |
Microsoft/Intel/IBM |
|
MII |
Medium Independent Interface |
|
MILNET |
Military Network |
|
MIME |
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension |
|
MIMO |
Multiple Input, Multiple Output |
|
MIP |
Multum in Parvum |
|
MIPS |
Millions of Instructions Per Second |
|
MIS |
Master Index Schedule |
|
MISC |
Minimum Instruction Set Computer -> CISC, RISC |
|
MISRA |
Motor Industry Software Reliability Association |
|
MIT |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.) |
|
MITM |
Man in the Middle |
|
ml |
Modular Line |
|
MLHG |
Multi-Line Hunting |
|
MLPPP |
MultiLink PPP |
|
MLT |
Mechanized Loop Test |
|
MMC |
Microsoft Management Console (Microsoft) |
|
MMC |
MutiMedia Card |
|
MMDF |
Multi-Channel Memorandum Distribution Facility |
|
MMDS |
Multipoint Microwave Distribution System |
|
MMDS |
Multi-Megabit Data Services |
|
MMDS |
multi-megabit data service |
|
Mmf |
Multimode Fiberoptic Cable |
|
MMFS |
Manufacturing Manage Format Standard |
|
MMO |
Massively Multiplayer Online (computer Game) |
|
MMOG |
Massively Multiplayer Online Game |
|
MMORPG |
Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game |
|
MMR |
Modified Modified Read |
|
MMS |
Microsoft Media Server |
|
MMS |
Multimedia Messaging Service |
|
MMU |
Memory Management Unit |
|
MMX |
Matrix Math Extensions (Multimedia Extensions) |
|
MNP |
Microcom Networking Protocol |
|
MNP |
Microcom Network Protocol |
|
MNS |
Master of Network Science |
|
MNS |
managed network services |
|
MO |
Magneto-optic |
|
MOB |
movable object |
|
MOBO |
Motherboard |
|
MODEM |
MOdulator/DEModulator |
|
MODEM |
Modulator-Demodulator |
|
MOE |
Measures of Effectiveness |
|
MOF |
Microsoft Operations Framework |
|
MOH |
Music On Hold |
|
MOM |
Microsoft Operations Manager |
|
MOO |
MUD Object Oriented |
|
MOODLE |
Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment |
|
MOP |
Maintenance and Operation Protocol |
|
MOPS |
Mega Operations Per Second |
|
MoReq |
Model Requirements for the Management of Electronic Records |
|
MORPH |
(from) metamorphosis |
|
MOS |
Mean Opinion Score |
|
MOSFET |
Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor |
|
MOSPF |
Multicast Open Shortest Path First |
|
MOSS |
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server |
|
MoST |
mobile solutions terminal |
|
MOTD |
Message of the Day |
|
MOTIS |
Message-Oriented Text Interchange Systems |
|
MOV |
Merchant of Venice |
|
MP |
Multiprocessing |
|
MP3 |
MPEG Layer 3 |
|
MPAS |
mostly private address space |
|
MPEG |
Moving Picture Experts Group (International Standards Organisation/International Electrotechnical Commission) |
|
MPEG |
Motion Picture Experts Group |
|
MPEG |
Motion Picture Encoding Group |
|
MPI |
Master Patient Index |
|
MPIF |
Multi-Processor Interconnect Facility |
|
MPL |
Multi-Schedule Private Line |
|
MPL |
Mozilla Public License |
|
MPLS |
Multiprotocol Label Switching |
|
MPN |
Microsoft Partner Network |
|
MPOA |
MultiProtocol Over Asynchronous transfer mode |
|
MPOE |
Minimum Point of Entry |
|
MPP |
Massively Parallel Processing/Processor |
|
MPPE |
Microsoft Point to Point Encryption |
|
Mpps |
millions of packets per second |
|
MPS |
managed print services |
|
MPSD |
MultiPath Storage Director |
|
MQ |
message queue (formerly) |
|
MQT |
Materialized Query Table |
|
MRAM |
Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory |
|
MRI |
Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
|
MRO |
Maintenance, Repair, and Operations |
|
mrouter |
multicast / router |
|
MRTG |
Multi Router Traffic Grapher |
|
MRU |
Most Recently Used |
|
MS |
The Company Microsoft |
|
MS |
Message Store |
|
ms |
Millisecond |
|
MS-DOS |
Microsoft Disk Operating System |
|
MSA |
Metropolitan Statistical Area |
|
MSA |
Mobile Sales Assistant |
|
MSA |
Modular Smart Array |
|
MSAP |
Microsoft Application Platform |
|
MSB |
Most Significant Bit |
|
MSBD |
Media Stream Broadcast Distribution |
|
MSC |
Mobile Switching Center |
|
MSCS |
Microsoft Cluster Server |
|
MSD |
Most Significant Digit |
|
MSDB |
main storage database |
|
MSDE |
Microsoft Data Engine |
|
MSDN |
Microsoft Developer Network |
|
MSDP |
Multicast Source Directory Protocol |
|
MSDU |
MAC Service Data Unit |
|
MSE |
Microsoft Security Essentials |
|
MSEE |
Microsoft Equation Editor |
|
MSG |
Message |
|
MSI |
Medium-Scale Integration |
|
MSI |
Message Signal Interrupts |
|
MSI |
Microsoft Software Installer |
|
MSI |
Micro-Star International |
|
MSIL |
Microsoft Intermediate Language |
|
MSL |
Mean Sea Level |
|
MSM |
MultiSession Monitor |
|
MSM |
Mainframe Service Management |
|
MSMQ |
Microsoft Message Queuing |
|
MSN |
Microsoft Network |
|
MSNP |
Microsoft Notification Protocol |
|
MSO |
multiple-system operator |
|
MSPP |
Multiservice Provisioning Platform |
|
MSS |
Mobile Satellite Service |
|
MSS |
Maximum Segment Size (TCP/IP) |
|
MSS |
Managed Security Services |
|
MSSP |
Managed Security Service Provider |
|
MSW |
Machine Status Word |
|
MT-RJ |
Mechanical Transfer - Registered Jack |
|
MTA |
Multi-Threaded Apartment |
|
MTA |
Mail Transfer Agent |
|
MTA |
Message Transfer Agents (Internet) |
|
MTBF |
MeanTime Between Failures |
|
MTBF |
Mean Time Before Failure |
|
MTDA |
Mean Time Data Availability |
|
MTP |
Message Transfer Part |
|
MTS |
Microsoft Transaction Server |
|
MTSO |
Mobile Telephone Switching Office |
|
MTTF |
Mean Time To Failure |
|
MTTR |
Mean Time To Repair |
|
MTU |
Maximum Transfer Unit (ATM) |
|
MTU |
Maximum Transmission Unit |
|
MUA |
Mail User Agent (Internet email) |
|
MUD |
Multi-User Dungeon (gaming) |
|
MUD |
Multi-User Dimension |
|
Multics |
MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service |
|
multimedia |
multiple forms of media |
|
MULTOS |
Multi-Application Operating System |
|
MUSE |
Multi-User Simulated Environment |
|
mutex |
Mutual Exclusion |
|
MUX |
Multiplex |
|
MVNO |
Mobile Virtual Network Operator |
|
MVS |
Multiple Virtual Storage |
|
MVS |
Multiple Virtual System |
|
MVS/ESA |
Multiple Virtual System / Extended System Architecture |
|
MVS/XA |
Multiple Virtual System / Extended Architecture |
|
MVSCP |
MVS Configuration Program |
|
MW |
Middleware |
|
MWE |
multiword expression |
|
MWI |
Mobile Web Initiative |
|
MX record |
mail exchange record |
|
MXF |
Material eXchange Format |
|
NAB |
Not A Bug |
|
NAC |
Network Access Control |
|
Nac |
network adapter card |
|
NAC |
network attached connection |
|
NACHA |
National Automated Clearing House Association |
|
NAI |
Network Associates, Inc. |
|
NAK |
Not Acknowledged |
|
NAM |
Number Assignment Module |
|
NAMPS |
Narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone Service |
|
NAN |
Not A Number (computing) |
|
NANAE |
news.admin.net-abuse.email |
|
NANOG |
North American Network Operators Grou |
|
NANP |
Identifies the electrical conditions on the circuit. |
|
NANP |
North American Numbering Plan |
|
NAP |
Network Access Protection |
|
NAPS |
Network Access Points |
|
NAS |
Network Application Support |
|
NAS |
Network Access Server |
|
NAS |
Network-Attached Storage |
|
NASDAQ |
National Association for Security Dealers and Automatic Quotation |
|
NASS |
Network Attachment Subsystem |
|
NASTRAN |
NASA Stress Analysis |
|
NAT |
Network Address Translation |
|
NAU |
Network Addressable Unit |
|
NAV |
Norton Anti-Virus |
|
NAVSTAR |
Navigation Satellite Timing & Ranging |
|
NBC |
National Broadcasting Company Inc. |
|
NBP |
Name Binding Protocol |
|
NBSP |
Non-Breaking Space |
|
NC |
Network Computer (PC Internet) |
|
NC |
Numeric Control |
|
NCC |
Norton Control Center |
|
NCCF |
Network Communication Control Facility |
|
NCCM |
Network Configuration and Change Management |
|
NCI |
Network Channel Interface |
|
NCP |
NetWare Core Protocol |
|
NCP |
Network Control Program |
|
NCP/VS |
Network Control Program/Virtual Storage |
|
NCQ |
Native Command Queuing |
|
NDC |
networked data center |
|
NDIS |
Network Driver Interface Specification (Microsoft Windows NT) |
|
NDM |
Network Data Mover |
|
NDMP |
Network Data Management Protocol |
|
NDP |
Neighbor Discovery Protocol |
|
NDR |
Non-Delivery Receipt |
|
NDS |
Netware Directory Services |
|
NE |
Network Element |
|
NEC |
National Electric Code |
|
NEL |
Network Element Layer |
|
NEMs |
network equipment manufacturers |
|
NES |
Nintendo Entertainment System |
|
net-J |
Internet disc jockey |
|
NetApp |
Network Appliance Inc. |
|
NETBEUI |
NetBIOS Enhanced User Interface |
|
NETBIOS |
Network Basic Input/Output System |
|
Netizen |
citizen of the Internet |
|
NetSP |
Network Security Program |
|
newbie |
New beginner |
|
NEWS |
network extensible window system |
|
NEXT |
Near-end Crosstalk |
|
NF |
Normal Forms |
|
NFC |
Near-field communication |
|
Nff |
Notes Flat File |
|
NFI |
Near Field Imaging |
|
NFNT |
New Font Numbering Table |
|
NFS |
Network File System |
|
NFs |
Normal Forms |
|
NGC |
Next Generation Communications solutions |
|
NHIN |
Nationwide Health Information Network |
|
NHM |
Next Human Network |
|
NHRP |
Next Hop Routing Protocol (ATM) |
|
NHRP |
Next Hop Resolution Protocol (ATM) |
|
NIC |
Network Information Center |
|
NIC |
Network Interface Card |
|
NiCad |
Nickel-Cadmium-Akkumulator |
|
NICAM |
Near Instantaneous Companded Audio Multiplex |
|
NICE |
Narrative, Immersive, Collaborative Environment |
|
NID |
Network Interface Device |
|
NIH |
Not Invented Here |
|
Nilo |
Network Interface Loader |
|
NIM |
Network Interface Module |
|
NIMH |
Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni Is The Chemical Symbol For Nickel) |
|
NIP |
Non-Impact Printer |
|
NIR |
Near-infrared photospectrometry |
|
NIR |
Near-Infrared Reflectance |
|
NIS |
Network Information Service |
|
NIS |
Norton Internet Security |
|
NIST |
National Institute for Standards and Technology |
|
NIST |
National Institute of Standards & Technology (US) |
|
NJE |
Network Job Entry |
|
NL |
New Line |
|
NLA |
Network Location Awareness |
|
NLB |
Network Load Balancing |
|
NLDF |
national language dependent function |
|
NLM |
NetWare Loadable Module |
|
NLM |
Network Lifecycle Management |
|
NLO |
net-liberated organization |
|
NLOS |
Near Line of Sight |
|
NLP |
Natural Language Processing |
|
NLQ |
Near Letter Quality |
|
NLS |
National Language Support |
|
NLSP |
Novell Link State Protocol |
|
NLSR |
Natural Language Speech Recognition |
|
NLT |
Nucleus Load Table |
|
nm |
Nanometer |
|
NMC |
Network Management Center |
|
NMI |
NonMaskable Interrupt |
|
NMOS |
Negative-Channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
|
NMP |
Network Management Processor |
|
NMS |
Network Monitoring System |
|
NMS |
Network Management Station |
|
NNI |
Network-to-Network Interface (ATM) |
|
NNTP |
Network News Transport Protocol (ATM) |
|
NNTP |
Network News Transfer Protocol |
|
no-op |
no operation |
|
NO/NC |
Normally Open/Normally Closed |
|
NOC |
Network Operations Center |
|
NOS |
Network Operating System |
|
NP |
Network Performance |
|
NPA |
Numbering Plan Area |
|
NPC |
North Pacific Cable |
|
Npda |
Network Problem Determination Application |
|
NPI |
National Provider Identifier |
|
NPL |
Netscape Public License |
|
NPP |
Network Payment Protocol |
|
NPSI |
nonpartitioned secondary index |
|
NPU |
Network Processor Unit |
|
NRM |
Normal Response Mode |
|
NRO |
Number Resource Organization |
|
NRZ |
Non-Return-To-Zero |
|
NRZI |
Non-return to zero inverted |
|
NS |
Nanosecond |
|
NSA |
Network Security Appliance |
|
NSA |
National Security Agency |
|
NSAP |
Network Service Access Point |
|
NSC1 |
Network Systems Cypher One |
|
NSFNET |
National Science Foundation Network |
|
NSI |
Network Solutions, Inc. (SAIC Subsidiary) |
|
NSLookup |
Name Server Lookup |
|
NSLU2 |
Network Storage Link for USB 2.0 |
|
NSM |
Network and Security Manager |
|
NSP |
Network Service Provider |
|
NSP |
Numeric Space |
|
NSR |
Non-Source Routed |
|
NSR |
nonshared resources |
|
NSS |
Network Switching Subsystem |
|
NSS |
NATURAL Security-System |
|
NT |
New Technology, also Windows NT |
|
NT |
Network Termination |
|
NTCIP |
National Transportation Communications for Intelligent Transportation System Protocol |
|
NTE |
Network Termination Equipment |
|
NTF |
No Trouble Found |
|
NTFS |
New Technology File System |
|
Nto |
Network Terminal Option |
|
NTP |
Network Time Protocol |
|
NTRU |
Number Theory is Really Useful |
|
NTS/2 |
Network Transport Services/2 |
|
NTSC |
National Television System Committee video standard |
|
NTT |
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation |
|
NTT |
network topology template |
|
NTx |
Network Termination x |
|
NUI |
Network User Identification |
|
NUI |
Natural User Interface |
|
NUMA |
Nonuniform Memory Access |
|
Nve |
Network Visible Entity |
|
NVOD |
Near Video On Demand |
|
NVRAM |
NonVolatile Random Access Memory |
|
NVS |
NonVolatile Storage |
|
NZ-DSF |
Non Zero-Dispersion-Shifted Fiber |
|
O.K.I. |
Open Knowledge Initiative |
|
O2 |
Object-Oriented |
|
OA&M |
Operations, Administation, and Management |
|
OAAM |
Oracle Adaptive Access Manager |
|
OADM |
Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer |
|
OAM |
Object Access Method |
|
OAM |
Operations, Administation, and Management |
|
OAM&P |
Operations, Administation, and Management and Provisioning |
|
OASIS |
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards |
|
OAT |
Outside Air Temperature |
|
OATH |
Object-oriented Abstract Type Hierarchy |
|
OBDR |
One Button Disaster Recovery |
|
OBEX |
Object Exchange Protocol |
|
OBI |
Open Buying on the Internet |
|
OBIEE |
Oracle BI Enterprise Edition |
|
OBM |
On-board modem |
|
OBOE |
Off-By-One Error |
|
OBU |
On Board Unit |
|
OC |
Overclock (Over Clock) |
|
OC-N |
Optical Carrier Level N |
|
OC3 |
155 Mbit/s |
|
OCIA |
Optically Coupled Interface Adapter |
|
OCL |
Object Constraint Language |
|
OCP |
Oracle Certified Professional |
|
OCP |
Open-Closed Principle |
|
OCR |
Optical Character Recognition |
|
OCSP |
Online Certificate Status Protocol |
|
OCTAVE |
Operationally Critical Threat, Asset and Vulnerability Evaluation |
|
OCX |
OLE Custom Controls |
|
OCX |
OLE Control Extension |
|
oD |
zero day |
|
ODA |
Open Document Architecture |
|
ODBC |
Open Database Connectivity |
|
ODBO |
OLE DB for OLAP |
|
ODC |
Offshore Development Center |
|
ODD |
Optical Disk Drive |
|
ODF |
OpenDocument Format |
|
ODI |
Open Data-link Interface |
|
ODM |
Original Design Manufacturer |
|
ODMR |
On-Demand Mail Relay |
|
ODOE |
On Demand Operating Environment |
|
ODP |
Open Data Path |
|
ODPS |
On Demand Packaging Service |
|
ODSI |
Open Directory Service Interfaces |
|
OEM |
Oracle Enterprise Manager |
|
OEM |
Original Equipment Manufacturer (usually in reference to car parts) |
|
OEP |
Outlook Exchange Protocol |
|
OFB |
Output Feedback |
|
OFCOM |
Office of Communications |
|
OFDM |
Orthogonal Frequency-Division multiplexing |
|
OFDMA |
Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access |
|
OFM |
Oracle Fusion Middleware |
|
OFX |
Open Finance Exchange |
|
OGL |
Open Graphics Language |
|
OGSA |
Open Grid Services Architecture |
|
OH |
Overhead |
|
OHG |
Operators Harmonization Group |
|
OI |
Object Interface |
|
OIC |
Oracle Incentive Compensation |
|
OID |
Object Identifier |
|
OLAP |
Online Analytical Processing |
|
OLE |
Object Linking and Embedding (Microsoft communication protocol) |
|
OLED |
Organic Light-Emitting Diode |
|
OLIC |
online image copy |
|
OLIVE |
On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment |
|
OLPC |
One Laptop Per Child |
|
OLTP |
On-Line Transaction Processing |
|
OMA |
Open Mashup Alliance |
|
OMG |
Object Management Group |
|
OMH |
order management hub |
|
OML |
Ontology Markup Language |
|
OMR |
Optical Mark Reader |
|
OMR |
Optical Mark Recognition |
|
OMSA |
OpenManage Server Administrator (Dell computer utility) |
|
OMT |
Object-modeling technique |
|
Ona |
Open Network Architecture |
|
ONA |
Organizational network analysis |
|
ONE |
Open Net Environment (Sun) |
|
OO |
Objektorientierung |
|
OOA |
Objektorientierte Analyse |
|
OOA&D |
Object-Oriented Analysis and Design |
|
OOB |
Out-Of-Band |
|
OODB |
Object-Oriented Data Base |
|
OOF |
Out of Frame |
|
OOo |
Openoffice.org |
|
OOP |
Objektorientierte Programmierung |
|
OOP |
Object-Oriented Programming |
|
OOPL |
Object Oriented Programming Language |
|
OOPS |
Object Oriented Programming System |
|
OOSE |
Object Oriented Software Engineering |
|
OP |
Operator Panel |
|
op-code |
Operation Code |
|
OPA |
Open Patent Alliance |
|
OPA |
Oracle Policy Automation |
|
OPAMP |
Operational Amplifier |
|
OpenCL |
Open Computing Language |
|
OpenGL |
Open Graphics Library |
|
OPI |
Open Prepress Interface |
|
OPML |
Outline Processor Markup Language |
|
OPN |
Oracle Partner Network |
|
OPOD |
Oracle Procurement On Demand |
|
OPS |
Off-Premise Station |
|
OPX |
Off-Premise Extension |
|
ORB |
Object Request Broker |
|
ORBS |
Open Relay Behaviour-modification System |
|
ORDB |
Open Relay Database |
|
ORF |
Open Reading Frame (DNA Sequence) |
|
ORFS |
Output Radio Frequency Spectrum |
|
ORM |
Object/Relational Mapping |
|
ORM |
Operational Risk Management |
|
OS |
Operating System |
|
OS/2 |
Operating System/2 |
|
OSA |
Open System Architecture |
|
OSAF |
Open Source Applications Foundation |
|
Osd |
Open Software Description |
|
OSDL |
Open Source Development Lab |
|
OSF |
Open Software Foundation |
|
OSGi |
Open Services Gateway Initiative |
|
OSI |
Open Systems Interconnection (iso Standard) |
|
OSI CLNS |
Connectionless Network System |
|
OSI/RM |
OSI Reference Model |
|
OSIRM |
OSI Reference Model |
|
OSLC |
Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration |
|
OSMINE |
Operations Systems Modification of Intelligent Network Elements |
|
OSN |
Output Sequence Number |
|
OSNS |
Open Systems Network Support |
|
OSPF |
Open Shortest Path First (ATM) |
|
OSPM |
Operating System Power Management |
|
OSS |
Open Source Software |
|
OSS |
Online Service System |
|
OSSIM |
Open Source Security Information Management |
|
OST |
Outside Surface Temperature |
|
OSTC |
Open System Testing Consortium |
|
OTA |
Over The Air |
|
OTC |
Operating Telephone Company |
|
OTDR |
Optical Time Domain Reflectometer |
|
OTFE |
On-the-fly encryption |
|
OTM |
Oracle Transportation Management |
|
OTN |
Optical Transport Network |
|
OTP |
Open Trading Protocol |
|
OTP |
one-time programmable |
|
OTP |
One Time Password |
|
OTPROM |
One Time Programable ROM |
|
OTS |
Off-the-Shelf/Over-the-Shoulder |
|
OU |
Organizational Unit |
|
OUI |
Organizationally Unique Identifier |
|
OVF |
Open Virtualization Format |
|
OVP |
Online Video Platform |
|
OWA |
Outlook Web Access |
|
OWASP |
Open Web Application Security Project |
|
OWI |
Optimized Warehouse Initiative |
|
OWL |
Object Windows Library |
|
OWL |
Web Ontology Language |
|
OXE |
OmniPCX Enterprise |
|
P&S |
Point and Shoot |
|
P-x |
Pentium - (numbers) |
|
P2MP |
Point-To-Multipoint |
|
P2P |
Peer to Peer (as in music file sharing systems like KaZaA) |
|
P2SC |
Power 2 Super Chip |
|
P3P |
The Platform for Privacy Preferences Project |
|
P4M |
Pentium 4 Processor-M |
|
PA |
Prearbitrated segment or slot |
|
PA-QSA |
Payment Application Qualified Security Assessors |
|
PaaS |
Platform-as-a-Service |
|
PABX |
private automatic branch exchange (telephone) |
|
PAC |
Proxy Auto-Configuration |
|
PACE |
pressures, action, capabilities and enablers |
|
PAD |
Packet Assembly Disassembly |
|
PAD |
Packet Assembler and Disassembler |
|
PAE |
Physical Addressing Extension |
|
PAF |
Prearbitrated Function |
|
PAL |
Processor Abstraction Layer |
|
PAL |
Publication Access List |
|
PAL |
Phase Alternate Line |
|
PAm |
Port to Application Mapping |
|
PAM |
Pluggable Authentication Modules |
|
PAm |
Partitioned Access Method |
|
PAM |
Pulse Amplifier Modulation |
|
PAM |
Performance Acceleration Module |
|
PAN |
Personal Area Network |
|
PAP |
Password Authentication Protocol (ATM) |
|
PAP |
Printer Access Protocol |
|
PARC |
Palo Alto Research Center |
|
PaRM |
Patient relationship management |
|
PASC |
Portable Applications Standards Committee |
|
PASV |
Passive (command) |
|
PAT |
Performance Acceleration Technology |
|
PAT |
Port Address Translation |
|
PAVCL |
Panda Antivirus Command-Line Scanner |
|
PB |
Petabyte |
|
PBM |
Pharmacy Benefits Management (or Manager) |
|
PBN |
Point-To-Point-Based Network OR Policy-Based Networking |
|
PBX |
Private Branch eXchange (company phone system) |
|
PC |
Personal computer (host) |
|
PCB |
printed circuit board |
|
PCCW |
Pacific Century CyberWorks |
|
PCD |
Photo Compact Disc |
|
PCI |
Peripheral Component Interconnect |
|
PCI DSS |
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard |
|
PCI-E |
Peripheral Component Interconnect Express |
|
PCIL |
Private Core Image Library |
|
PCL |
Printer Command Language |
|
PCL |
Printer Control Language |
|
PCM |
Plug Compatible Manufacturers |
|
PCM |
Pulse-Code Modulation |
|
PCMCIA |
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association |
|
PCMCIA |
People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms |
|
PCN |
Personal Communications Networks (European PCS) |
|
PCN |
Personal Communication Network |
|
PCP |
Program Control Program |
|
PCR |
Peak Cell Rate (ATM) |
|
PCRE |
Perl-compatible regular expressions |
|
PCS |
Personal Communications Services |
|
PCS |
Personal Communication Services |
|
PCT |
Private Communication Technology |
|
PD |
Public Domain |
|
PDA |
Personal Digital Assistant |
|
PDAD |
Proposed Draft Addendum |
|
PDAU |
Physical Data Access Unit |
|
PDB |
Program Database |
|
PDC |
Personal Digital Cellular |
|
PDC |
Packet Data Channel |
|
PDC |
Primary Domain Controller |
|
PDE |
Possible Duplicate Emission |
|
PDF |
Program Development Facility |
|
PDF |
Portable Document Format (created by Adobe Acrobat) |
|
PDH |
Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy |
|
PDL |
Pure Dumb Luck (Texan Punk Band) |
|
PDL |
Page Description Language |
|
PDM |
Pure Digital Monitor |
|
PDN |
Public Data Network |
|
PDN |
Primary Directory Number |
|
PDP |
Policy Decision Point |
|
PDQ |
Product Data Quality |
|
PDS |
Partitioned Data Set |
|
PDU |
Protocol data unit (such as segment, packet, frame, etc.) |
|
PDX |
Printer Description eXtension |
|
PE |
Protection Enabled |
|
PEAP |
Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol |
|
PEARL |
Processor and Experiment Automation Realtime Language |
|
PEARL |
Process and Experiment Automation Realtime Language |
|
PEF |
Preferred Executable Format |
|
PEL |
Picture Element |
|
PEM |
Privacy-Enhanced Mail |
|
PEP |
Policy Enforcement Point |
|
PEP |
program entry procedure |
|
PEP |
Partitioned Emulation Program |
|
PER |
Program Event Recording |
|
Perl |
Practical Extraction and Report Language |
|
PERT |
Program Evaluation and Review Technique |
|
PET |
Personal Electronic Transactor |
|
PF |
Parity Flag |
|
PF Key |
Program Function Key |
|
PFK |
Program Function Key |
|
PFM |
Personal Financial Management |
|
PFM |
Printer Font Metric |
|
PFS |
Public-Key Forward Secrecy |
|
PGA |
Professional graphics adapter |
|
PGI |
Premiere Global Services, Inc. |
|
PGP |
Pretty Good Privacy (encryption) |
|
PgR |
Presentation Graphics Routines |
|
pgSQL |
PostgreSQL |
|
Ph-SAP |
Physical layer SAP |
|
PHB |
Per-Hop-Behavior |
|
PHI |
Protected Health Information |
|
PHP |
Hypertext Preprocessor |
|
PHS |
Personal Handy Phone System |
|
PHY |
Physical Layer |
|
PHZIP |
Phil Katz's ZIP |
|
PiB |
Pebibyte |
|
PIB |
Program Information Block |
|
PIC |
Position-Independent Code |
|
PICNIC |
Problem in Chair Not in Computer |
|
PID |
Proportional, Integral, Derivative |
|
PID |
Protocol Identification Number |
|
PID |
Process Identification Document |
|
PIE |
Presence, Identity and Edge Resources |
|
PIFS |
Point InterFrame Space |
|
PII |
Personally Identifiable Information |
|
PIM |
Personal Information Manager |
|
PIM |
Protocol Independent Multicast |
|
PIN |
Personal Identification Number |
|
PINE |
Program for Internet News and E-mail |
|
Ping |
Packet Inter-Network Groper |
|
PIO |
Programmed Input/Output |
|
PIOCS |
Physical Input/Output Control System |
|
PIPE |
Private Internet Protocol Encapsulation |
|
PIPs |
Process Integration Packs |
|
PIR |
Protocol Independent Routing |
|
PIX |
Private Internet Exchange |
|
PIXEL |
Picture Element |
|
PKCS |
Public-Key Cryptography Standards |
|
PKI |
public-key infrastructure |
|
PL |
Procedure Library |
|
PL |
PAD Length |
|
PL/1 |
Programming Language 1 |
|
PL/SQL |
Procedural Language/Structured Query Language |
|
PLA |
Programmable Logic Array |
|
PLC |
Product Life Cycle |
|
PLC |
Powerline Communication |
|
PLCP |
Physical Layer Convergence Protocol (ATM) |
|
PLD |
Programmable Logic Device |
|
PLI |
Programming Language 1 |
|
PLL |
Phase Lock Loop |
|
PLM |
product life cycle management |
|
PLMN |
Public Land Mobile Network |
|
PLOGI |
port login |
|
PLPA |
Pageable Link Pack Area |
|
PLT |
Program List Table |
|
PLU |
Primary Logical Unit |
|
PM |
Performance Monitoring |
|
PMd |
Physical Media Dependent |
|
PMDB |
performance management database |
|
PME |
Power Management Event |
|
PMI |
Portable Management Interface |
|
PMI |
Project Management Institute |
|
PMI |
Product and manufacturing information |
|
PMI |
Privilege Management Infrastructure |
|
PMM |
Post Memory Manager |
|
PMML |
Predictive Model Markup Language |
|
PMMU |
Paged Memory Management Unit |
|
PMO |
Project Management Office |
|
PMR |
Perpendicular Magnetic Recording |
|
PMR |
Private Mobile Radio |
|
PMSM |
Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor |
|
PNFS |
Parallel Network File System |
|
PNG |
Portable Network Graphics (graphic file standard/extension) |
|
PNNI |
Private Network-to-Network Interface (ATM) |
|
PNP |
Personal Network Platform |
|
PnP |
Plug aNd Play |
|
Pnrp |
Peer Name Resolution Protocol |
|
POC |
Proof Of Concept |
|
POC |
Push-to-talk Over Cellular |
|
POC |
Program-Operator Communication |
|
POD |
Proof Of Deposit |
|
POD |
Publishing on demand |
|
POE |
power over ethernetinjector |
|
pog.com |
Play Online Games |
|
POH |
Path Overhead |
|
POI |
Path Overhead Identifier |
|
POLP |
Principle of Least Privilege |
|
PON |
Passive Optical Network |
|
POP |
Protected Object Policy |
|
POP |
Post Office Protocol |
|
POP |
Point Of Presence (Internet) |
|
POP3 |
Post Office Protocol 3 (email) |
|
POS |
Point Of Sale.Retail term, being the physical point at which products are displayed on shelves or paid for at the checkout, as in the EPOS acronym. |
|
POST |
power-on self test |
|
POTS |
Plain Old Telephone Service (FCW) |
|
POWER |
performance optimization with enhanced risc |
|
POWER |
Priority Output Writer, Execution processors and input Readers |
|
POX |
Plain Old XML |
|
PP |
Presentation Position |
|
PPD |
Postscript Printer Description |
|
PPE |
PowerPC Processor Element |
|
ppm |
pages per minute (a laser printer production rate metric) |
|
ppm |
parts per million |
|
PPN |
Primary Port Network |
|
PPP |
Public–private partnership |
|
PPP |
Point-to-Point Protocol |
|
PPPoE |
Point-to-Point Protocol Over Ethernet |
|
PPRC |
Peer-To-Peer Remote Copy |
|
PPS |
Packets Per Second |
|
PPT |
Processing Program Table |
|
PPTP |
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol |
|
PPU |
PowerPC Processor Unit |
|
PQA |
Palm Query Application |
|
PRADO |
PHP Rapid Application Development Object-oriented |
|
PRC |
Primary Reference Clock |
|
PRDMD |
Private Directory Management Domain |
|
PRI |
Primary Rate Interface (ISDN) |
|
PRINCE |
Projects In Controlled Environments |
|
PRL |
Private Relocatable Library |
|
PRMD |
Private Management Domain |
|
PROM |
Programable Read Only Memory |
|
PROM |
Programmable Read-Only Memory |
|
PRPQ |
programming request for price quotation |
|
ps |
Picosecond |
|
PS |
Photoshop |
|
PS/2 |
Personal System/2 (Microsoft) |
|
PSA |
Professional Service Automation |
|
PSB |
Program Specification Block |
|
PSD |
PhotoShop Drawing |
|
PSDN |
Packet Swiched Data Network |
|
PSIP |
Program and Systems Information Protocol |
|
Psk |
Phase Shift Key |
|
PSLC |
Parallel Sysplex License Charge |
|
PSN |
Playstation Network |
|
PSN |
Processor Serial Number |
|
PSN |
packet switch node |
|
PSP |
Personal Software Process |
|
PSP |
PlayStation Portable |
|
PSPDN |
Packet-Switched Public Data Network |
|
PSPs |
print service providers |
|
PSRAM |
Pseudo SRAM |
|
PSS |
Print SubSystem |
|
PSSL |
Private Source Statement Library |
|
PSTN |
Public Swiched Telephone Network |
|
PSTN |
Public Switched Telephone Network |
|
PSW |
Program Status Word |
|
Pt |
Payload Type (ATM) |
|
PTE |
Path-Terminating Equipment |
|
PTF |
Print To Fax |
|
PTF |
Program Temporary Fix |
|
PTR record |
Pointer record |
|
PTT |
Postal, Telephone, and Telegraph |
|
PTTs |
Post, telegraph, and telephone authorities |
|
PTZ |
pan-tilt-zoom |
|
PU |
Physical Unit (IBM) |
|
PUB |
Physical Unit Block |
|
PUMA |
Privileged user monitoring and auditing |
|
PUMA |
Protected User Mode Audio (Microsoft) |
|
PUP |
Potentially Unwanted Program |
|
PUT |
Program Update Tape |
|
PVC |
Permanent Virtual Circuit (ATM) |
|
PVC |
Polyvinyl Chloride |
|
PVP |
Packet Video Processor |
|
PVR |
Personal Video Recorder |
|
PVST |
Per-VLAN Spanning Tree |
|
PVV |
Pin Verification Value |
|
PWB |
printed wire board |
|
PWM |
Pulse width modulation |
|
PWR |
Power |
|
PWS |
Programmable WorkStation |
|
PWS |
Personal Web Server (or Peer Web Services ) |
|
PXE |
Preboot Execution Environment |
|
Qa |
Center for Quality Assurance in International Education |
|
QAF |
Queued Arbitrated Function |
|
QAM |
quadrature amplitude modulation |
|
QAT |
Quantity Above Threshold Indicator |
|
QB |
QuickBooks |
|
QBDG |
Query Based Distribution Group |
|
QBDL |
Query Based Distribution List |
|
QBE |
Query By Example |
|
QBL |
Query By Example |
|
QCIF |
Quarter Common Intermediate Format |
|
QCIF |
Quater Common Intermediate Format |
|
QD |
Queuing Delay |
|
QDF |
Quicken Data File |
|
QDOS |
Quick And Dirty Operating System (cue-doss) |
|
QDR |
Quad Data Rate |
|
QEMM |
Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager |
|
QFE |
Quick Fix Engineering |
|
QFP |
Quoted for Permanence |
|
QI |
Query Interface |
|
qic |
Quarter-Inch Cartridge |
|
QIF |
Quicken Interchange Format |
|
QIP |
Quality Improvement Process |
|
QIX |
NASDAQ Information Exchange protocol |
|
QLLC |
Qualified Logical Link Control |
|
QMF |
Query Management Facility |
|
QMS |
Quality Micro Systems |
|
Qname |
Qualified Name |
|
QOE |
Quality of Experience |
|
QoS |
Quality of Service |
|
QP |
Quantum Programming |
|
QPM |
QOS Policy Manager |
|
QPS |
Queries-per-second |
|
QPSK |
Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying |
|
QPSX |
Queued Packet and Synchronous Exchange |
|
QR code |
Quick Response code, a.k.a. matrix code, 2D barcode, 2-D bar code image, graphical tag, jag tag, black and white square |
|
QSA |
Qualified Security Assessor |
|
QSAM |
Queued Sequential Access Method |
|
QSIG |
Q signaling |
|
QT |
Quick Table |
|
QTAM |
Queued Teleprocessing Access Method |
|
QTM |
Quadratic Texture Mapping |
|
QTSS |
QuickTime Streaming Server |
|
QTVR |
QuickTime Virtual Reality |
|
QTW |
QuickTime for Windows |
|
Quagi |
quad and Yagi |
|
QVGA |
Quarter Video Graphics Array |
|
QXGA |
Quad eXtended Graphics Array |
|
R&D |
Research & Development |
|
R-NE |
remote-network element |
|
R-UIM |
Removable-User Identity Module |
|
R0 |
Record zero |
|
RAB |
Reverse-Link Activity Bit |
|
RAB |
RAID Advisory Board |
|
RAC |
Real Application Cluster |
|
RACF |
Resource Access Control Facility |
|
RACH |
Random Access Channel |
|
RACON |
Radar Beacon |
|
RAD |
Rapid Application Development |
|
RAD |
Radiation Absorbed Dose |
|
RADA |
Random Access Discrete Address |
|
RADCAB |
Relevancy Appropriateness Detail Currency Authority Bias |
|
RADIUS |
Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service |
|
RADSL |
Reverse ADSL |
|
RADVD |
Router Advertisement Daemon |
|
RAI |
remote alarm indication |
|
RAID |
Redundant Array of Independent Disks |
|
RAM |
random-access memory |
|
RAMDAC |
Random Access Memory Digital-to-Analog Converter |
|
RAN |
Radio Access Network |
|
RAPI |
RSVP Application Programming Interface |
|
RARE |
Reseaux Associés pour la Recherche Européenne |
|
RARP |
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol |
|
RAS |
Registration, Admission, Status |
|
RAT |
Remote Administration Tool |
|
RBA |
Relative Byte Adresse |
|
RBA |
Run Book Automation |
|
RBAC |
Role-Based Access Control |
|
RBL |
Real-Time Block List |
|
RBOC |
Regional Bell Operating Company (Baby Bell) |
|
RC |
Release Candidate |
|
RC2/4/5 |
Rivest Cipher 2/4/5 |
|
rCA |
Remote Control Amplifier |
|
RCC |
Radio Common Carrier |
|
RCM |
Revision and Configuration Management |
|
RCP |
Remote Communication Processor |
|
RCP |
Remote Copy Protocol |
|
RCS |
Revision Control System |
|
RCU |
Rapid Cloning Utility |
|
RDA |
Remote Data Access |
|
RDAC |
Redundant Disk Array Controller |
|
RDBA |
Remote Database Access |
|
RDBMS |
Relational Database Management System |
|
RDDL |
Resource Directory Description Language (riddle) |
|
RDF |
Resource Description Framework |
|
RDF |
radio direction-finding |
|
RDI |
Remote Defect Indicator (UNI Fault Management) |
|
RDL |
Report Definition Language |
|
RDM |
Remote Deployment Manager |
|
RDN |
Relative Distinguished Name |
|
rDNS |
Reverse DNS |
|
RDP |
Router Discovery Protocol |
|
RDP |
Remote Desktop Protocol |
|
RDR |
Rate of Defect Recurrence |
|
RDT |
Remote Digital Terminal |
|
RED |
Random Early Detection |
|
RED |
Reputation Enabled Defense |
|
REG |
range extender with gain |
|
ReGS |
Reporting Grid Services |
|
REL |
Rights Expression Language |
|
Rel |
Recorder element |
|
RELAX |
REgular LAnguage description for XML |
|
REN |
Ringer Equivalency Number |
|
RepDV |
Reputation Digital Vaccine |
|
RES |
Robots Exclusion Standard |
|
RES |
Resolution |
|
REST |
Representational State Transfer |
|
RETAIN |
Remote Technical Assistance and Information Network |
|
REVS |
Rapid Exchange of Virus Samples list. |
|
REXX |
Restructured Extended Executor Language |
|
RF |
Resume Flag |
|
RF |
Radio Frequency |
|
RFB |
Remote FrameBuffer |
|
RFC |
Request For Comment |
|
RFC |
radio-frequency choke |
|
RFCOMM |
Radio Frequency Communication |
|
RFF |
Required Form Feed |
|
RFI |
remote failure indication |
|
RFID |
Radio Frequency Identification |
|
Rfmd |
Rf Micro Devices, Inc. |
|
RFP |
Request For Proposal |
|
RFS |
Remote File System |
|
RFS |
Ready For Service |
|
RFT |
revisable-form text |
|
RFT |
Request for Technology |
|
RFU |
Ready For Use |
|
RGB |
high-resolution-red/green/blue |
|
RGM |
Red, Green, Blue (Monitor) |
|
RGMP |
Router-port Group Management Protocol |
|
RHCE |
Red Hat Certified Engineer |
|
RHCS |
Red Hat Cluster Suite |
|
RHEL |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux |
|
RHR |
Radio Horizon Range |
|
RHSBL |
Right-Hand Side Blacklist |
|
RIA |
Rich Internet Application |
|
RIFF |
Resource Interchange File Format |
|
RIM |
Research In Motion |
|
RIM |
Reference Information Model |
|
RIMM |
RAMBUS In-Line Memory Module |
|
RIP |
Raster Image Processor |
|
RIP |
Routing Information Protocol |
|
RIPE |
Réseaux IP Européens |
|
RIR |
Regional Internet Registry |
|
RISC |
Reduced Instruction Set Computer |
|
RJ11 |
Registered Jack 11 |
|
RJ45 |
Registered Jack - 45 |
|
RJE |
Remote Job Entry |
|
RL |
Relocatable Library |
|
RLC |
Radio Link Control |
|
RLD |
Relocation Dictionary |
|
RLE |
Run Length Encoded file |
|
RLE |
Run-Length Encoding |
|
RLL |
Run Length Limited |
|
RLOGIN |
Remote Login in Unix |
|
RLP |
Radio Link Protocol |
|
RMA |
Return Materials Authorization |
|
RMA |
Rate Monotonic Analysis |
|
RMC |
Resource Monitoring and Control |
|
RMC |
Raptor Management Console |
|
RME |
resource model engine |
|
RME |
Rack Mount Equipment |
|
RMF |
Resource Management Facility |
|
RMI |
Remote Method Invocation |
|
RMON |
Remote Monitoring |
|
rms |
root mean square (preferred over "RMS") |
|
RMS |
Record Management System |
|
RMS |
Right Management Service |
|
RMT |
Ring Management |
|
RMU |
Rack Mount Unit |
|
RNA |
Ribo Nucleic Acid |
|
RNA |
Ring No Answer |
|
RNC |
Radio Network Controller |
|
RNI |
Raw Native Interface |
|
RNL |
Required New Line |
|
RNR |
Receive Not Ready |
|
ROA |
Recognized Operating Agency |
|
ROADM |
reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer |
|
ROD |
Record Oriented Data |
|
RODM |
Resource Object Data Manager |
|
ROHS |
Restriction of Hazardous Substances |
|
ROI |
Return on Investment |
|
ROKSO |
Register of Known Spam Operations |
|
ROLR |
Receive Objective Loudness Rating |
|
ROM |
Report Object Model |
|
ROM |
Read-Only Memory |
|
ROOM |
Real-time Object-Oriented Modeling |
|
ROP |
Raster Operation(s) |
|
ROR |
Remote Outdoor Router |
|
ROR |
Ruby on Rails |
|
ROS |
run of site |
|
ROSE |
Remote Operations Service Element |
|
rot13 |
rotate 13 |
|
RP-SMA |
Reverse Polarity SubMiniature version A |
|
RP-TNC |
Reverse Polarity Threaded Neill-Concelman |
|
RPA |
Recursive Pyramid Algorithm |
|
RPC |
Remote Procedure Call |
|
RPF |
Reverse Path Forwarding |
|
RPG |
Role Playing Game |
|
RPG |
Report Program Generator |
|
RPI |
Rockwell Protocol Interface |
|
RPL |
Research Programming Language |
|
RPL |
Requested Privilege Level |
|
RPL |
Remote Program Load |
|
RPL |
Recognized Prior Learning |
|
RPN |
Reverse Polish Notation |
|
RPO |
Recovery Point Objective |
|
RPP |
Receiving Party Pays |
|
RPR |
Resilient Packet Rings |
|
RPS |
Rotational Position Sensing |
|
RPT |
Radio Personal Terminal |
|
RQ |
Request Counter |
|
RQN |
Real-Quick Newsletter |
|
RR |
Register to Register Instruction |
|
RR |
round-robin scheduling |
|
RR |
Repeatable Read |
|
RRDS |
Relative Record Data Set |
|
RRED |
Right Reading Emulsion Down |
|
RREU |
Right Reading Emulsion Up |
|
RRI |
Reverse Rate Indicator |
|
RRPP |
Rapid Ring Protection Protocol |
|
RRS |
round-robin scheduling |
|
RR_TOV |
resource recovery timeout value |
|
RS |
Reed-Solomon(forward error correction) |
|
RS |
Record Separator |
|
RS |
Recommended Standard |
|
RS |
Runescape |
|
RS |
Remote Scripting |
|
RS-MMC |
Reduced Size Multi-Media Card |
|
RSA |
Remote Supervisor Adapter |
|
RSA |
Rural Service Area |
|
RSA |
Rivest, Shamir, & Adleman |
|
RSA |
Register Save Area |
|
RSBAC |
Rule Set Based Access Control |
|
RSCT |
Reliable Scalable Cluster Technology |
|
Rsh |
Restricted Shell |
|
RSIP |
Realm Specific Internet Protocol |
|
RSL |
Received Signal Level |
|
RSM |
Remote Storage Management |
|
RSM |
Relational Storage Manager |
|
RSM |
Route Switch Module |
|
RSN |
Real Soon Now [which may be a long time coming] |
|
RSPAN |
Remote Switched Port Analyzer |
|
RSSI |
Relative Signal Strength Indicator |
|
RSU |
Recommended Service Upgrade |
|
RSVP |
Resource Reservation Protocol (Internet) |
|
RTC |
Rich Thin Client |
|
RTC |
Real Time Clock |
|
RTCP |
Realtime Transport Control Protocol |
|
RTD |
Real-Time Decisions |
|
RTE |
Real-Time Enterprise |
|
RTE |
round-trip engineering |
|
RTF |
Rich Text Format |
|
RTG |
Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator |
|
RTG |
Receive/transmit Transition Gap |
|
RTGS |
Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators |
|
RTK |
Real-Time Kinematic |
|
RTM |
Read the manual (meaning «don’t ask stupid questions before read existing information») |
|
RTM/SF |
Realtime Monitor / Systems Facility |
|
RTMP |
Routing Table Maintenance Protocol |
|
RTMP |
Routing and Management Protocol |
|
RTO |
Recovery Time Objective |
|
RTP |
Real-Time Transport Protocol |
|
RTP |
Realtime Transport Protocol |
|
RTPS |
Real-Time Polling Service |
|
RTS |
Request To Send |
|
RTSC |
Read The Source Code |
|
RTSE |
Reliable Transfer Service Element |
|
RTSP |
Real Time Streaming Protocol |
|
RTT |
Real-Time Technology |
|
RTT |
round-trip time |
|
RTT |
Radio Transmission Technology |
|
RTTY |
Radio Teletypewriter |
|
RTU |
Right to Use |
|
RTU |
Remote Terminal Unit |
|
RUOW |
Remote Unit Of Work |
|
RUP |
Rational Unified Process |
|
RUS |
Recipient Update Service |
|
RVI |
Reverse Interrupt |
|
RVLC |
Reversible Variable Length Code |
|
RW |
Read-Write |
|
RWI |
radio and wire integration |
|
RWM |
Read-Write Memory |
|
RWP |
Remote Write Protocol |
|
RWSI |
Remote Workstation Interface |
|
RWU |
remote wake-up |
|
Rx |
Receive |
|
RXD |
Receiving Data |
|
R_A_TOV |
resource allocation timeout value |
|
S |
Security |
|
s |
second (do NOT use "sec" for "second;" use "sec" for "secant") |
|
S-HTTP |
Secure Hypertext Transport Protocol |
|
S-Video |
Sony Video |
|
S-Video |
Super-Video |
|
S.W.I.F.T. |
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication |
|
S/N |
Signal-to-Noise ratio |
|
S/PDIF |
Sony/Philips Digital Interface |
|
S/STP |
Shielded STP |
|
S/W |
Software |
|
S3 |
Simple Storage System |
|
SA |
Set Attribute |
|
SA |
System Administrator |
|
SA |
Source-Active |
|
SA |
Source Address |
|
SAA |
Systems Application Architecture |
|
SaaS |
Software as a Service |
|
SAD |
Security Association Database |
|
SAIC |
Science Applications International Corporation |
|
salt |
Speech Application Language Tag |
|
SAM |
security account manager |
|
SAM |
Serial Access Memory |
|
SAM |
Sequential Access Methode |
|
SAM |
Software Asset Management |
|
SAML |
Security Assertion Markup Language |
|
SAN |
Storage Area Network |
|
SANS |
SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security |
|
SANS |
Storage Area Networks |
|
SANS |
System Administration, Networking, and Security Institute |
|
SAP |
Service Advertising Protocol |
|
SAP |
Serving Access Point |
|
SAP |
Secondary Audio Program |
|
SAPI |
Service Access Point Identifier |
|
SAR |
Segmentation and Reassembly (ATM) |
|
sas |
Single Attachment Station |
|
SAS 70 |
Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 |
|
SASL |
Simple Authentication and Security Layer |
|
SAST |
Static Application Security Testing |
|
Sat Nav |
Satellite navigation |
|
Sata |
Serial Ata |
|
Sav |
Symantec Antivirus |
|
SAX |
Simple API for XML |
|
SB |
Sound Blaster |
|
SBAS |
Satellite-Based Augmentation System |
|
sbb |
Storage Bridge Bay |
|
SBC |
Single-Board Computer |
|
SBCS |
Single-Byte Character Set |
|
sbcs |
Smart Business Communications Systems |
|
SBL |
Spamhaus Block List |
|
SBLOG |
spam blog |
|
SBM |
Subnet Bandwidth Manager |
|
SBS |
Small Business Server |
|
SBS |
Subscription Broadband Service |
|
SBSD |
Slow But Sure Death |
|
SC |
Storage Control |
|
SCA |
Service Component Architecture |
|
SCA |
Shared Control Array |
|
SCADA |
Supervisory Control And Data Aquisition |
|
SCAI |
Switch-to-Computer Applications Interface |
|
SCAM |
SCSI Configured Auto-Magically |
|
SCCM |
Software change and configuration management |
|
SCCP |
Signaling Connection and Control Part |
|
SCCS |
Source Code Control System |
|
SCDS |
Source Control Data Set |
|
SCI |
Scalable Coherent Interconnect |
|
SCM |
Service Control Manager |
|
SCM |
Source Configuration Management |
|
SCM |
Supply Chain Management |
|
SCM |
Source Code Management |
|
SCM |
Specifc Coverage Metric |
|
SCO |
Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. |
|
SCODL |
Scanned Conversion Object Description Language |
|
SCOM |
System Center Operation Manager |
|
scorm |
Sharable Courseware Object Reference Model |
|
SCP |
Secure Copy Protocol |
|
SCPC |
single channel per carrier |
|
SCR |
Sustainable Cell Rate |
|
SCRAM |
Static Column Random Access Memory |
|
SCSI |
Small Computer System Interface |
|
SCSL |
Sun Community Source Licensing |
|
SCTP |
Screened Twisted Pair (cable) |
|
SCTP |
Stream Control Transmission Protocol |
|
SCWCD |
Sun Certified Web Component Developer |
|
SD |
Sales and Distribution |
|
SD |
Span Destination |
|
SD |
Secure Digital |
|
SDDL |
Security Descriptor Definition Language |
|
SDDM |
source distributed data manager |
|
SDDS |
Sony Dynamic Digital Sound |
|
SDEP |
sequential dependent segment |
|
SDFI |
Secure Digital Forensic Imaging |
|
SDH |
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (ATM) |
|
SDK |
Software Development Kit (Microsoft) |
|
SDL |
System Directory List |
|
SDLC |
Software development life cycle |
|
SDLC |
Synchronous Data Link Control |
|
SDLT |
Super Digital Linear Tape |
|
SDMA |
Spatial Division Multiple Access |
|
SDN |
Secondary Directory Number |
|
SDN |
Software Defined Network |
|
SDO |
Service Data Objects |
|
SDP |
Service Delivery Platform |
|
SDP |
Session Description Protocol |
|
SDR |
Software-Defined Radio |
|
Sdram |
Synchronous Dram |
|
SDRAM |
Synchronous dynamic random access memory |
|
SDS |
Sudden Death Syndrome |
|
SDSF |
System Display and Search Facility |
|
SDSL |
Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line |
|
SDTV |
Standard Definition Television |
|
SDU |
Service Data Unit (ATM) |
|
SDVO |
Serial Digital Video Output |
|
SDX |
Storage Data Acceleration |
|
SE |
secure element |
|
SEA-ME-WE |
Southeast Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 2 |
|
SEA-ME-WE 3 |
Southeast Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 3 |
|
SEAL |
simple and efficient AAL |
|
SEAS |
SaaS-enabled application server |
|
SEC |
Siemens Enterprise Communications |
|
SECAM |
Sequential Couleur a'Memorie |
|
SECAM |
Sequential Couleur a Memoire |
|
SECC |
Single Edge Contact Connector |
|
SEG |
secure e-mail gateway |
|
SEM |
Strategic Enterprise Management |
|
SEN |
Siemens Enterprise Communications |
|
SEO |
Search Engine Optimizer |
|
SERK |
Server Extensions Resource Kit |
|
serp |
Search Engine Results Positioning |
|
SES |
SecureEasySetup |
|
SET |
Secure Electronic Transaction |
|
SET |
Software-Engineering-Technology |
|
SETI |
Search of Extraterrestrial Intelligence |
|
SEX |
Sun Users' Group & elsewhere |
|
SF |
Superframe |
|
SFA |
Sales Force Automation |
|
SFA |
Salesforce Automation |
|
SFBI |
Shared Frame Buffer Interconnect |
|
SFD |
Start-of-frame delimiter (Ethernet, HDLC, etc.) |
|
SFE |
Start Field Extended |
|
SFF |
Small-Form-Factor |
|
SFP |
Small Form-factor Pluggable |
|
SFT |
System Fault Tolerance |
|
SFTP |
Shielded Foil Twisted Pair |
|
SFTP |
SSH File Transfer Program |
|
SFTP |
SSH File Transfer Protocol |
|
sfu |
Windows Services for UNIX |
|
SGC |
Server Gated Cryptology |
|
SGF |
Structured Graphics Format |
|
SGI |
Silicon Graphics Incorporated |
|
SGML |
Standard Generalized Markup Language |
|
SGRAM |
Synchronous Graphics Random Access memory |
|
SGSN |
Service GPRS Support Node |
|
SHA |
Secure Hash Algorithm |
|
SHTTP |
Secure HTTP |
|
SHY |
Syllable Hyphen |
|
SI |
System Integration (or integrator) |
|
SID |
Security Identifier |
|
SIEM |
Security Information and Event Management |
|
SIFS |
Short InterFrame Space |
|
SIFT |
Stanford Information Filtering Tool |
|
SIG |
Special Interest Group |
|
SIG |
SMDS Interest Group |
|
Sig Block |
signature block |
|
SIIA |
Software & Information Industry Association (formerly the Software Publishers Association) |
|
SIIT |
Stateless Ip Translation algorithm |
|
SIL |
Safety Integrity Level |
|
SIM |
Service Information Message |
|
SIM |
Subscriber Identity Module |
|
SIM |
Security Information Management |
|
SIMD |
Single Instruction Multiple Data |
|
SIMM |
Single In-line Memory Module |
|
Simulcast |
simultaneous broadcast |
|
SIP |
Session Initiation Protocol |
|
SIPP |
Stable Image Platform Program |
|
SIR |
Sustained Information Rate |
|
SiS |
Silicon Integrated Systems |
|
SIS |
Student Information System |
|
SIS |
Single Instance Store |
|
SISMAPI |
Siebel Internet Session Network API |
|
SIT |
System Initialization Table |
|
SITA |
Societe Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautiques |
|
SIU |
smallest installable unit |
|
SIX |
Shared with Intent eXclusive |
|
SKMS |
Service Knowledge Management System |
|
SKU |
Stock Keeping Unit |
|
sl |
Scientific Linux |
|
SL |
Source Statement Library |
|
SLA |
Service Level Agreement |
|
SLD |
Structured Logic Design |
|
SLI |
Scalable Link Interface |
|
SLIC |
Subscriber Line Interface Card |
|
SLIP |
Serial Line Interface Protocol |
|
SLM |
Service Level Management |
|
SLP DA |
Service Location Protocol Directory Agent |
|
SLR |
Service Level Reporter |
|
SLR |
Scalable Linear Recording |
|
SLS |
Softlanding Linux System |
|
SLSI |
Super Large Scale of Integration |
|
SLU |
Secondary Logical Unit |
|
SM |
Set Mode |
|
SM/SI |
Social Mining and Social Intelligence |
|
SMART |
Self-Monitoring Analysis And Reporting Technology |
|
SMASH |
Simple, Many And Self-Healing |
|
SMATV |
Satellite Master Antenna Television |
|
SMB |
Server Message Block |
|
SMBP |
Server Message Block Protocol |
|
SMD |
Storage Module Device |
|
SMDR |
station message detail recording |
|
SMDs |
Switched Multimegabit Data Service (ATM) |
|
SMF |
Single-Mode Fiber |
|
SMF |
Semantic Modelling Format |
|
SMF |
System Management Facility |
|
SMI |
Structure of Management Information |
|
SMiShing |
SMS phishing |
|
SML |
MVS Storage Management Library |
|
SMLI |
Stateful MultiLayer Inspection |
|
SMLT |
Split Multi-Link Trunking |
|
smp |
Symetric MultiProcessing |
|
SMP |
Simple Management Protocol |
|
SMS |
Short Message Service |
|
SMS |
Storage Management Subsystem |
|
SMS |
Security Management System |
|
smsc |
Smart Mixed-Signal Connectivity |
|
SMSC |
Short Messaging Service Center |
|
SMSI |
Simplified Message Service Interface |
|
SMT |
System Management protocol |
|
SMTP |
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
|
SN |
Sequence Number |
|
SNA |
System Network Architecture |
|
SNA |
Social Network Analysis |
|
Snads |
Sna Distribution Services |
|
SNAP |
Sub-Network Access Protocol |
|
SNC |
Supply Network Collaboration |
|
SNI |
Switch Node Interface |
|
SNI |
Subscriber Network Interface |
|
SNIPS |
System & Network Integrated Polling Software |
|
SNMP |
Simple Network Management Protocol (ATM) |
|
SNOBOL |
String Oriented Symbolic Language |
|
SNS |
Social Networking Site |
|
SNT |
Sign-On Table |
|
SOA |
Start of Authority (domain name system record) |
|
SOAP |
Simple Object Access Protocol |
|
SOC |
Security Operation Centre |
|
socks |
Sockets |
|
SOD |
Service on Demand |
|
SODIMM |
Small Outline Dual Inline Memory Module |
|
SOH |
Start of Heading |
|
SOH |
Section Overhead |
|
SOH |
Start Of Header |
|
SoIP |
Storage over IP |
|
SOM |
Self-Organizing Map |
|
SOM |
System Object Model |
|
SONET |
Synchronous Optical Network |
|
SONIC |
SAC On-Line Interactive Controller |
|
SONIC |
Science Of Networks In Communities |
|
SORBS |
Spam and Open Relay Blocking System |
|
SOS |
Start of Significance |
|
SOS |
Symbian Operating System |
|
SOS |
Sophisticated Operating System |
|
SOS |
Secure Object Store |
|
SOW |
Statement Of Work |
|
SOX |
Sarbanes-Oxley |
|
sp |
Storage Processor |
|
SP |
Service-Packs |
|
SPA |
Software Publishers Association |
|
SPAN |
Switched Port Analyzer |
|
Sparc |
Scalable Processor Architecture Reduced Instruction Set Computer |
|
SPARC |
Scalar Processor ARChitecture |
|
SPB |
Stored Procedure Builder |
|
SPC |
Stored Program Control |
|
SPD |
System Products Division |
|
SPD |
Serial Presence Detect |
|
SPE |
Synergistic Processor Element |
|
SPE |
Synchronous Payload Envelope |
|
SPE |
System Policy Editor |
|
SPF |
Sender Policy Framework |
|
SPF |
Shortest Path First |
|
Sphairon |
Sphere, luminary, global and Elektron, Technology |
|
SPI |
Stateful Packet Inspection |
|
SPI |
Serial Peripheral Interface |
|
SPICE |
Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment |
|
SPIM |
Spam Over Instant Messaging |
|
SPIT |
Spam Over Internet Telephony |
|
SPL |
Sound Pressure Level |
|
SPL |
Sender Policy Framework |
|
SPM |
Statistical Packet Multiplexing |
|
SPM |
Supplier Performance Management |
|
SPM |
System Performance Monitor/2 |
|
SPML |
Service Provisioning Markup Language |
|
SPOF |
Single Point of Failure |
|
SPOI |
Signaling Point Of Interface |
|
SPOOL |
Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On Line |
|
SPOT |
Smart Personal Objects Technology |
|
SPP |
Scalable Parallel Processing |
|
SPREAD |
Systems Programming, Research Engineering and Development |
|
SPS |
Superscript |
|
SPSS |
Statistical Package for the Social Sciences |
|
SPU |
Synergistic Processor Unit |
|
SPX |
Sequenced Packet Exchange |
|
SQL |
Structured Query Language |
|
SQL PL |
SQL procedural language |
|
SQR |
Security to Quality Defect Ratio |
|
SR |
Speech Recognition |
|
SR-IOV |
Single-root I/O virtualization standards |
|
SRAM |
Static Random Access Memory (ess-ram) |
|
SRAT |
Static Resource Affinity Table |
|
SREJ |
Select Reject frame |
|
SRGS |
Speech Recognition Grammar Specification |
|
SRL |
Singing Return Loss |
|
SRM |
Storage Resource Management |
|
SRS |
Shared Registry Server |
|
SRT |
Souris River Telecommunications |
|
SRT |
Source Routing Transparent |
|
SRT |
System Recovery Table |
|
SRU |
Shared Resource Unit |
|
SRV |
Service Record |
|
SS |
Switching System |
|
SS7 |
Signaling System 7 |
|
SSA |
Social Security Administration |
|
ssa |
Survivable Systems Analysis |
|
SSAP |
Source Service Access Point |
|
SSB |
sequential store buffer |
|
SSCOP |
Service-Specific Connection Oriented Protocol |
|
SSCP |
Subsystem Service Control Point |
|
SSCS |
Service-Specific Convergence Sublayer |
|
ssd |
Solid-state drives |
|
SSE |
Streaming SIMD Extensions |
|
SSE |
Simple Sharing Extensions |
|
SSH |
Secure Shell (Unix program) |
|
SSI |
Server-Side Includes |
|
SSID |
Service set identifier (Wi-Fi) |
|
SSID |
SubSystem IDentifier |
|
SSIM |
Symantec Security Information Manager |
|
SSL |
Secure Socket Layer |
|
SSLE |
sequential systems of linear equations |
|
SSMP |
Simple Screen Management Protocol |
|
SSO |
System Security Officer |
|
sso |
Single Sign-On Once |
|
SSSCE |
Short Self-Contained Correct Example |
|
sta |
Single Threaded Apartments |
|
STE |
Section Terminating Equipment |
|
step |
Standard for the Exchange of Product |
|
stk |
Satellite Toolkit |
|
STM |
Synchronous Transport Module |
|
STM |
Synchronous Transfer Mode |
|
STM |
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy |
|
STM-n |
Synchronous Transport Module level n) |
|
STOCK |
Strategic and Operational Customer Knowledge |
|
stp |
Shielded Twisted Pairs |
|
STP |
Spanning Tree Protocol |
|
STS |
Security Token Service |
|
STS-N |
Synchronous Transport Signal Level N |
|
STS-Nc |
Concatenated Synchronous Transport Signal Level N |
|
STT |
Secure Transaction Technology |
|
STUN |
Session Traversal Utilities for NAT |
|
STX |
Start of Text |
|
SUA |
Single User Account |
|
SUB |
Substitute |
|
SUS |
Software Update Services |
|
SUT |
System Under Test |
|
SV |
Storage Violation |
|
SVA |
Shared Virtual Area |
|
SVBR |
Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules |
|
SVC |
Switched Virtual Circuit (ATM) |
|
SVD |
Secondary Virtual Disk |
|
SVG |
Scalable Vector Graphics |
|
SVGA |
Super-VGA |
|
SVGA |
Super Video Graphics Array |
|
SVPCo |
Small Value Payments Co. |
|
SW |
Software (SFTWE Preferred) |
|
SWAP |
Shared Wireless Access Protocol |
|
SWAT |
Samba Web Administration Tool |
|
SWAT |
Solutions with Advanced Technologies |
|
SWIFT |
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication International Fund Transfer |
|
SWIM |
System Wide Information Management |
|
SWL |
Short Wavelength |
|
SWOP |
Specifications for Web Offset Printing |
|
SWOP |
Specifications for Web Offset Publications |
|
SWT |
Standard Widget Toolkit |
|
SYN |
Synchronous |
|
Sync |
Synchronisation |
|
syslog |
system logging |
|
SYSOP |
System Operator |
|
SYSVOL |
System Volume |
|
T |
Time |
|
t-commerce |
television commerce |
|
T1 |
1.544 Mbit/s |
|
T2L |
TRANSISTOR-TRANSISTOR LOGIC |
|
T3 |
45 Mbit/s |
|
ta |
Terminal Adapter (ATM) |
|
TACACS |
Terminal Access Controller Access Control System |
|
tae |
Text Analysis Engine |
|
TAO |
Track-At-Once |
|
TAPI |
Telephony Application Programming Interface |
|
TAR |
Tape Archive |
|
TARGA |
Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter |
|
TAXI |
Transparent Asynchronous Transmitter/Receiver Interface |
|
Tb |
Terabit |
|
TB |
Terabyte |
|
Tbps |
Terabits Per Second |
|
TBR |
Technology Business Research |
|
TCA |
Transaction Cost Analysis |
|
TCA |
Task Control Area |
|
TCAM |
Telecommunications Access Method |
|
TCAP |
Transaction Capabilities Application Part |
|
TCB |
Trusted Computing Base |
|
TCB |
Task Control Block |
|
TCG |
Trusted Computing Group |
|
TCL |
Tool Command Language |
|
TCM |
Thermal Conduction Module |
|
TCO |
Triple Capacity Option |
|
TCO |
Total Cost of Ownership |
|
tcp |
Test Coordination Procedure |
|
TCP |
Transmission Control Protocol |
|
TCP/IP |
Transmission Control/Internet Protocol |
|
TCQ |
Tagged Command Queuing |
|
TCS |
Tata Consultancy Service |
|
TCS |
Telecommunications Systems inc |
|
TCT |
Terminal Control Table |
|
TCTTE |
Terminal Control Table Terminal Entry |
|
TCU |
Transmission Control Unit |
|
TD |
Transient Data |
|
TD-SCDMA |
Time division-synchronous code division multiple access |
|
TDC A/S |
Tele-Denmark Communications |
|
TDD/TTY |
Tone Dialing for the Deaf/Teletype |
|
TDDM |
Target Distributed Data Manager |
|
TDES |
Triple Data Encryption Standard |
|
TDIA |
Transient Data Input Area |
|
TDK |
Tokyo Denki Kagaku |
|
TDL |
time differential linking |
|
TDM |
Time Division Multiplexer |
|
TDMA |
Time Division Multiple Access |
|
TDOA |
Transient Data Output Area |
|
TDP |
Transient Data Program |
|
TDR |
Time-Domain Reflectometry |
|
TE |
Traffic Engineering |
|
TE |
Terminal Equipment |
|
TEC |
Tivoli Enterprise Console |
|
TEC |
Thermoelectric Cooler |
|
TED |
Tiered Electronic Distribution |
|
TED |
Tunnel Endpoint Discovery |
|
TED |
Torrent Episode Downloader |
|
TED |
Technology Entertainment and Design |
|
TEHO |
Tail End Hop Off |
|
TEI |
Total Economic Impact |
|
TELCO |
Telephone Company |
|
telematics |
telecommunications and informatics |
|
telephony |
Telephone technology |
|
TELNET |
Telephone Network |
|
tem |
Telephone Expense Management |
|
TEO |
Technical Electronic Office |
|
TERM |
technology-enabled relationship management |
|
TESS |
Transaction Events and Statistics Server |
|
TETRA |
TErrestrial TRunked RAdio |
|
TEXEL |
Texture Element |
|
TF |
Trap Flag |
|
TFRC |
TCP-Friendly Rate Control |
|
TFS |
Team Foundation Server |
|
TFS |
Three Finger Salute |
|
TFT |
Thin Film Transistor |
|
TFTP |
Trivial File Transfer Protocol (ATM) |
|
TGT |
ticket-granting ticket |
|
Ti |
Texas Instruments, Inc. |
|
TiB |
Tebibyte (2^40 bytes) |
|
TIC |
Technical Integrity Check |
|
TIES |
Time Independent Escape Sequence |
|
TIFF |
Tag Image File Format |
|
TIOA |
Terminal Input/Output Area |
|
TIP |
Telepresence Interoperability Protocol |
|
TISPAN |
Telecoms & Internet Converged Services & Protocols for Advanced Networks |
|
TKIP |
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol |
|
TLB |
Translation Lookaside Buffer |
|
TLBL |
Tape Label |
|
tld |
Top Level Domains |
|
TLI |
Transport Layer Interface (AT&T) |
|
TLL |
Task Library Language |
|
TLM |
Transportation Lifecycle Management |
|
TLP |
Transactional Licensing Program |
|
TLS |
Transport Layer Security |
|
TMHES |
Trend Micro Hosted Email Security |
|
TMO |
Thermo-Magneto-Optic technology |
|
TMP file |
temporary file |
|
tmrs |
TRAFFIC MEASUREMENT AND RECORDING SYSTEMS |
|
TMS |
Transportation Management System |
|
TMS |
Threat Management System |
|
TNC |
Trusted Network Connect |
|
TNEF |
Transport-Neutral Encapsulation Format |
|
TNEF |
Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format |
|
TNS |
Transaction Network Services |
|
TOA |
Time Of Arrival |
|
TOD |
Tool on Demand |
|
TOD |
time-of-day |
|
TOE |
TCP/IP Offload Engine |
|
TOP |
Technical Office Protocol |
|
TOS |
Type Of Service |
|
TOSLink |
Toshiba Link |
|
TP |
Transport Protocol |
|
TP-MIC |
Twisted-Pair Media Interface Connector |
|
TP4 |
Transport Protocol Class 4 |
|
TPF |
Transaction Processing Facility |
|
TPI |
Tracks Per Inch |
|
TPM |
Transactions Per Minute |
|
TPM |
Trusted Platform Module |
|
TPM |
Third-Party Maintenance |
|
tpms |
Transaction Processing Monitors |
|
TPS |
Transactions Per Second |
|
TPS |
Transaction Process System |
|
TPV |
Third Party Vendor |
|
TR |
Technical Report |
|
TR |
Terminal Ready |
|
tracert |
traceroute |
|
TRANSCEIVER |
Transmitter/Receiver |
|
TRIP |
Token Ring Interface Processor |
|
Trip |
Telephony Routing Over Internet Protocol |
|
TRM |
Teradata Relationship Manager |
|
TRN |
TRaNsparent |
|
TRS |
Tip, Ring, Sleeve (cable) |
|
TRUE |
task-related user exit |
|
TS |
Terminal Server |
|
TS |
Terminal Services |
|
TS-CAL |
Terminal Services—Client Access License |
|
TSAPI |
Telephony Services Application Programmers Interface |
|
TSF |
Text Services Framework |
|
TSIG |
Transaction Signature |
|
TSIOA |
Temporary Storage Input/Output Area |
|
TSM |
Tivoli Storage Manager |
|
TSM |
Trusted Service Manager |
|
tsn |
The Sierra Network |
|
TSO |
time Sharing option (of OS/360, IBM) |
|
TSOP |
Thin Small-Outline Package |
|
TSP |
Temporary Storage Program |
|
TSR |
Terminate and Stay Resident [software program] |
|
TSRM |
Tivoli Service Request Manager |
|
TSV |
Tab Separated Value (file) |
|
TTA |
Teletex Attachment |
|
TTL |
Transistor-Transistor Logic |
|
TTL |
Time To Live |
|
TTP |
Trusted Third Party |
|
TTR |
Transactional Track Record |
|
TUCOWS |
The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software |
|
TUP |
Telephone User Part |
|
TUR |
Trunk Utilization Report |
|
TVO |
Total Value of Opportunity |
|
TVT |
ThinkVantage Technology |
|
TWA |
Transaction Work Area |
|
TWAIN |
Technology Without An Interesting Name |
|
TWS |
Two-Way Simultaneous |
|
TWX |
Teletypewriter Exchange Service |
|
TX |
Telex |
|
TX |
Transmit |
|
TXT |
Trusted eXecution Technology |
|
TXT record |
Text record |
|
U2F |
Undetectable and Untraceable Fraud |
|
UA |
Upgrade Advantage |
|
UA |
User Agent |
|
UAC |
User Account Control |
|
UAE |
Unrecoverable Application Error |
|
UART |
Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter |
|
UART |
Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter |
|
UAT |
User Acceptance Test |
|
uauth |
user authentication |
|
UBE |
Unsolicited Bulk Email |
|
uBGA |
Micro Ball Grid Array |
|
UBR |
Unspecified Bit Rate |
|
UBR |
Undefined Bit Rate |
|
UBS |
Unit Backspace |
|
UC |
Unified Communications |
|
UC&C |
Unified Communications & Collaboration |
|
UC2 |
Unified Communications & Collaboration |
|
UCB |
Unit Control Block |
|
UCC |
Uniform Code Council, Inc. |
|
UCD |
User-Centered Design |
|
UCD |
Unicode Character Database |
|
UCD |
Uplink Channel Descriptor |
|
UCE |
Unsolicited Commercial Email |
|
UCM |
Universal Content Management |
|
UCM |
Unified Computing System |
|
UCM |
Use Case Map |
|
UCM |
Unified Change Management |
|
UCM |
Universal Customer Master |
|
ucp |
Ubuntu Certified Professional |
|
UCR |
Undercolor Removal |
|
UCS |
Universal Character Set |
|
UCSB |
Universal Character Set Buffer |
|
UCW |
Unit Control Word |
|
uDAPL |
User Direct Access Programming Library |
|
UDDI |
Universal Description, Discovery and Integration of business for the web |
|
UDF |
Universal Disk Format |
|
Udlp |
Unidirectional Link Protocol |
|
UDMA |
Ultra Direct Memory Access |
|
UDO |
Ultra Density Optical |
|
UDP |
User Datagram Protocol (FDDI related) |
|
UDRP |
Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy |
|
UFS |
Unix File System |
|
UGC |
User Generated Content |
|
UGS |
Unsolicited Grant Service (DOCSIS 1.1) |
|
UHF |
Ultra High Frequency (300-3000 MHz; 1m-10cm) |
|
UHV |
Ultra-High Voltage |
|
UI |
User Interface |
|
UIA |
Unified Information Access |
|
Ul |
Underwriters Laboratory |
|
ULH |
Ultra-Long-Haul |
|
ULV |
Ultra Low Voltage |
|
UM |
Unified Messaging |
|
UMA |
Upper Memory Area |
|
UMA |
Unlicensed Mobile Access |
|
UMA |
User Mode Audio |
|
UMA |
Unified-Memory Architecture |
|
UMB |
Upper Memory Block |
|
UMB |
Ultra Mobile Broadband |
|
UMC |
ultra modular computing |
|
UMID |
Unique Material Identifier |
|
UML |
Unified Modeling Language (Object Management Group, OMG) |
|
UMS |
Unfied Messaging Systems |
|
umts |
Universal Mobile Telecommunication System |
|
UNC |
Universal Naming Convention |
|
UNC |
Uniform Naming Convention |
|
UNI |
User-to-Network Interface (ATM) |
|
Unicode |
UNIversal CODE |
|
UNMA |
Unified Network Management Architecture |
|
UNR |
Ubuntu Netbook Remix |
|
UOL |
Universo Online |
|
UOW |
Unit Of Work |
|
UPA |
user printable area |
|
UPC |
Universal Product Code |
|
UPnP |
Universal Plug and Play |
|
UPS |
Uninterruptible Power Supply |
|
UPSI |
User Program Switch Indicator |
|
UPT |
Universal Personal Telecommunications |
|
UR |
Unit Record |
|
URC |
Utility Ready Computing |
|
URI |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
|
URL |
Universal Resource Locator |
|
URN |
Uniform Resource Namespace |
|
uRPF |
Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding |
|
URT |
Universal Receiver Transmitter |
|
URT |
User Registration Tool |
|
US |
Unit Separator |
|
USART |
Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter |
|
USB |
Universal Serial Bus |
|
USB |
Upper Side Band |
|
USENET |
USEr NETwork |
|
USENET |
User's Network |
|
USF |
Universal Service Fund |
|
USG |
UNIX Systems Group |
|
USHER |
United States Higher Education Root Certificate Authority |
|
USL |
UNIX System Laboratories |
|
USM |
Unifed Service Model |
|
USM |
Unsharp Masking |
|
USMT |
User State Migration Tool |
|
USO |
Universal Service Obligation |
|
USP |
Usage Sensitive Pricing |
|
USP |
Universal Storage Platform |
|
usr |
Unix System Resources |
|
USRT |
Universal Synchronous Receiver/Transmitter |
|
USRT |
Universal Synchronous Receiver-Transmitter |
|
Uss |
Unformatted System Service |
|
UT |
Upper Tester |
|
UTF-8 |
Unicode Transformation Format 8 |
|
UTM |
Universal Transverse Mercator (geographical Co-ordinate System) |
|
UTM |
Unified Threat Management |
|
UTP |
unshielded twisted pair |
|
UTSL |
Use The Source, Luke |
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UUCP |
Unix To Unix Copy Program |
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UUCP |
UNIX to UNIX Copy Package |
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UUCP |
Unix-to-Unix Copy Program |
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UUEE |
Unix-to-Unix Encode |
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UUENCODE |
UNIX-to-UNIX encoding |
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UUG |
Unix User Group |
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UUID |
Universally Unique Identifier (see Also GUID) |
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UUNET |
Unix-To-Unix Network |
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UUT |
Unit Under Test |
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UV |
Ultraviolet (Light) |
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Uwb |
Ultrawideband |
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UWIN |
Unix for WINdows |
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UXP |
User Experience |
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V H |
Vertical and horizontal grid points |
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v-mail |
Video mail |
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V2P |
Virtual to Physical |
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VA |
Virtual Assistant |
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VAD |
Value-Added Distributor |
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VAD |
Voice Activity Detection |
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VADP |
vStorage APIs for Data Protection |
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VAIO |
Video Audio Integrated Operation |
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VAN |
Value-Added Network |
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VAN |
Value Added Network |
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VAR |
Value Added Reseller |
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VAR |
Value-Added Reseller |
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VAROS |
Variable Refraction Optical System |
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VAST |
Virtual Archive Storage Technology |
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VATH |
Visual, Auditory, Tactile, Haptic |
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VAX |
Virtual Address Extension |
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VB |
Visual Basic |
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VBA |
Visual BASIC for Applications |
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VBA |
Virtual Backup Appliance |
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VBN |
Vermitteltes Breitbandnetz |
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vbns |
Very highspeed Backbone Network Service |
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VBR |
Very Busy Run |
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VBR |
Variable Bit Rate (ATM) |
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VBUG |
Voice Browser Usability Group |
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vbx |
Visual Basic Custom Control |
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VC |
Videoconference |
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VC |
Virtual Channel |
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VC |
Virtual Circuit (ATM) |
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VC-n |
Virtual Container-n |
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VC-SDRAM |
Virtual Channel SDRAM |
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VCB |
VMware Consolidated Backup |
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VCC |
Virtual Circuit Connection |
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VCC |
Voice Call Continuity |
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VCC |
Virtual Channel Connection (ATM) |
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VCD |
Video Compact Disc |
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VCDX |
VMware Certified Design Expert |
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VCI |
Virtual Channel Identifier |
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VCM |
Virtual Channel Memory |
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VCNA |
Vtam Communication Network Application |
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VCO |
voltage control oscillator |
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vcp |
Value Chain Planning |
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VCP |
VMware Certified Professional |
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VCPI |
Virtual Control Program Interface |
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VCR |
video cassette recorder/player |
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VD |
Virtual Disk |
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VDAC |
Video Digital Analog Converter |
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VDD |
Virtual Device Driver |
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Vdeck |
Video Deck |
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VDI |
Video Display Interface |
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VDI |
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure |
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VDR |
virtual deal room |
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VDS |
visual data stream |
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VDS |
Variable Drop Size |
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VDSL |
Very high-speed Digital Subscriber Line |
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VDT |
Video Display Terminal |
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VDU |
Visual Display Unit |
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vep |
Vertical Enterprise Portal |
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Veronica |
Very Easy Rodent Oriented Netwide Index To Computerized Archives |
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VERONICA |
Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Netwide Index to Computerized Archives |
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VESA |
Video Electronics Standards Association |
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VF |
Voice Frequency |
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VFM |
Virtual File Manager |
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VGA |
Video Graphics Array |
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VGC |
Video Graphics Controller |
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VGF |
Voice Grade Facility |
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VGM |
Video Graphics Monitor |
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VHD |
Virtual Hard Drive |
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VHDL |
VLSI Hardware Description Language |
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VHDSL |
Very High-bit rate Digital Subscriber Loop |
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VHDTS |
Very High Density Thumb Screw |
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VHF |
Very High Frequency |
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VHLL |
Very High-Level Language |
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VHLL |
Very-High-Level Language |
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VHM |
Voice Health Monitor |
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VHS |
Video Home System |
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VIC |
Voice Interface Card |
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VIM |
Vendor-Independent Messaging |
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Vines |
VIrtual NEtwork System |
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VIO |
Virtual Input/Output |
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VIP |
VeriSign Identity Protection |
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VIPA |
Virtual IP Addressing |
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VITAL |
VHDL Initiative for the Standardization of ASIC Libraries |
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VIVO |
Video In Vide o Out |
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VLA |
Volume License Agreement |
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VLAN |
Virtual Lan Area Network |
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VLAN |
virtual local-area network |
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VLC |
VideoLAN Client |
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VLDB |
Very Large Database |
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VLE |
Virtual Learning Environment |
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VLF |
Very Low Frequency |
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vlf |
Virtual Log File |
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VLIW |
Very Long Instruction Word |
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VLK |
Volume License Key |
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VLL |
Virtual Leased Line |
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VLR |
Visitor Location Register |
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VLS |
Virtual Library Systems |
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VLSI |
Very Large Scale of Integration |
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VLSM |
Variable-length subnet masking |
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VM |
Virtual Machine |
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VMDQ |
Virtual Machine Device Queues |
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VMEbus |
VersaModule Eurocard bus |
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VMI |
vendor-managed inventory |
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VML |
Vector Markup Language |
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VMM |
Virtual Machine Monitor |
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VMS |
Virtual Memory System |
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vms |
Vocabulary Management Solution |
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VMS |
voice message service |
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VNC |
Virtual Network Computing |
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VNL |
Via Net Loss |
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VNO |
Virtual Network Operator |
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VOD |
Video On Demand |
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Vodcast |
video podcasting |
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VOIP |
Voice Over IP (Internet Protocol) |
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Voken |
virtual token |
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VOM |
Volt-ohm-milliammeter |
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VOP |
Velocity of Propagation |
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VORTAL |
Vertical Portal |
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VOX |
Voice Operated EXchange |
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VOXEL |
Volume Pixel |
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VOXML |
Voice Markup Language |
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VP |
Virtual Path (ATM) |
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VPA |
Valid Printable Area |
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VPA |
Volume Procurement Amendment |
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VPD |
Vital Product Data |
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VPDN |
Virtual Private Dial-up Network |
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VPI |
Virtual Path Identifier |
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VPLS |
Virtual Private LAN Service |
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VPN |
Virtual Private Network (ATM) |
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VPS |
Virtual Private Server |
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VPS |
Vectors per Second |
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VQF |
Vector Quantization Format |
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VR |
Virtual Reality |
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VRC |
Vertical Redundancy Check |
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VRF |
VPN routing/forwarding instance |
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VRM |
Voltage Regulator Module |
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VRML |
Virtual Reality Modeling Language |
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VRRP |
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol |
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VRS |
Virtual Reference Station |
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VRT |
Variable-Rate Technology |
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VRU |
Voice Response Unit |
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VSAM |
Virtual Storage Access Method |
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VSAM |
Virtual Sequential Access Method |
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VSAT |
Very Small Aperture Terminal (satellite service) |
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VSB |
Vestigial SideBand |
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vsd |
Visio diagram |
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VSE |
Virtual Storage Extended |
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VSELP |
Vector Sum Excited Linear Predictive |
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VSIP |
Visual Studio Industry Partners |
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VSM |
Value Stream Mapping |
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VSN |
Volume Serial Number |
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VSNL |
Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited |
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VSP |
VoIP Service Provider |
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VSR |
Vertical Scan Rate |
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VSS |
Volume Shadow Copy |
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VSS |
Vector Symbol Set |
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VSwitch |
Virtual Switch |
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VSWR |
Voltage Standing Wave Ratio |
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VT |
Virtual Tributary (ATM) |
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VTAM |
Virtual Table Access Method |
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VTAM |
Virtual Telecommunication Access Method |
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VTL |
Virtual Tape Library |
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VTOC |
Volume Table Of Contents |
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vtp |
Vlan Trunking Protocol |
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VTS |
Virtual Tape Subsystem |
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VTx |
Virtual Tributary of size x |
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VTx-Nc |
Concatenated Virtual Tributary |
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VTY |
Virtual teleTYpewriter |
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VUE |
Visual User Environment |
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VVM |
Veritas Volume Manager |
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VVR |
VERITAS Volume Replicator |
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vwe |
Virtual Work Environment |
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VWIC |
Voice/WAN Interface Card |
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VWs |
Virtual Web Server |
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VXD |
Virtual Device Driver |
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W3C |
World Wide Web Consortium |
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WAA |
Wide Area Adapter |
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WAAS |
Wide Area Augmentation System |
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WAB |
Windows Address Book |
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WAC |
Wholesale Applications Community |
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WACK |
Wait Acknowledgement |
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WADS |
write-ahead data set |
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WAE |
Wireless Application Environment |
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WAF |
Web Application Firewall |
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WAI-ARIA |
Web Accessibility Initiative - Accessible Rich Internet Applications |
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WAK |
Wait acknowledgement |
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WAL |
WATS Access Line |
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WALE |
WATS Access Line Extension |
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WAMP |
Windows, Apache, Mysql, PHP (or Perl or Phyton) |
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WAN |
Wide Area Network |
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WAP |
Wireless Application Protocol |
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WARIA |
Workflow And Reengineering International Association |
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WAS |
Web Application Server |
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WATS |
Wide Area Telecommunications Service |
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WAVE |
Wide Area Virtualization Engine |
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WBEM |
Web-Based Enterprise Management |
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WBMP |
Wireless Bitmap |
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WCF |
Windows Communication Foundation |
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WCS |
Websphere Commerce Server |
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WCS |
Web customer service |
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WD |
Western Digital |
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WDDM |
Windows Display Driver Model |
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WDDX |
Web Distributed Data Exchange |
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WDF |
Windows Driver Foundation |
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WDM |
Wavelength Division Multiplexing (fiber optics) |
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WDOG |
Watchdog protocol |
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WDS |
Wireless Distribution System |
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WDT |
WatchDOG timer |
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WEBCAM |
World Wide Web Camera |
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WebDAV |
Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning |
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webinar |
(web seminar) |
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WEEE |
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment |
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WEP |
Wired Equivalent Privacy |
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WES |
Websense Email Security |
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WFM |
Wired For Management Baseline |
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WFMC |
Workflow Management Coalition |
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WFO |
Workforce Optimization |
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WFQ |
Weighted Fair Queuing |
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WGA |
Windows Genuine Advantage |
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Whisper |
Windows Highly Intelligent Speech Recognition |
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WHQL |
Windows Hardware Quality Laboratories |
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Wi-Fi |
Wireless Fidelity |
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WIA |
Windows Image Acquisition |
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WiBro |
Wireless Broadband |
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WIC |
WAN Interface Card |
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WIKI |
What I Know Is |
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WiMax |
World Interoperability for Microwave Access |
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WIMPS |
windows, icons, menus, pointers, scroll bars |
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WINE |
Wine Is Not an Emulator |
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WinFS |
Windows Future Storage |
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Winkey |
Windows key |
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WINS |
Windows Internet Name Service |
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winsock |
short for: Windows sockets |
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Wintel |
Windows and Intel |
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WIPO |
World Intellectual Properties Organization |
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wlan |
Wireless Land Area Network |
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WLL |
Wireless Local Loop |
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WMI |
Windows Management Instrumentation |
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WML |
Website Meta Language |
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WML |
Wireless Markup Language |
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WMOS |
Warehouse Management for Open Systems |
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WMP |
Windows Media Player |
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WMS |
Warehouse Management System |
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WOA |
Web-Oriented Architecture |
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wol |
Wake On Lan's |
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wos |
Wireless Office Systems |
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wosa |
Windows Open Service Architecture |
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WOW |
World Organization of Webmasters |
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WOW |
World of Warcraft |
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WOW! |
WideOpenWest |
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WPA |
Wi-Fi Protected Access |
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WPAD |
Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol |
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WPAR |
Workload Partition |
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WPF |
Windows Presentation Foundation |
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WPLO |
Warranty Parts/Labor/Onsite |
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WPM |
speech--words per minute |
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WPN |
Worldwide Port Name |
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WQUXGA |
Wide Quad Ultra Extended Graphics Array |
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WRC |
World Radiocommunication Conference |
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WRED |
Weighted Random Early Detection |
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WRS |
Wind River Systems |
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WRT |
Weighted Risk Trend |
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WS-Secuirty |
Web Services Security |
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WSC |
Windows Security Center |
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wsd |
White Space Device |
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WSE |
Web Services Enhancements |
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wsfc |
Windows Server Failover Clustering |
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WSJ |
The Wall Street Journal |
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WSP |
Wireless Session Protocol |
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WSP |
Web Standards Project |
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WSS |
Windows Sharepoint Services |
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WTG |
Wily Transaction Generator |
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WTL |
Windows Template Library |
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WTLS |
Wireless Transport Layer Security |
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WTX |
Workstation Technology Extended |
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WUS |
Windows Update Services |
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WVA |
Wide Viewing Angle |
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WWAN |
wireless wide-area network |
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WWN |
World Wide Name |
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WWNN |
worldwide node name |
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WWPN |
worldwide port name |
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WWW |
World Wide Web |
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WYSIWYG |
What You See Is What You Get (pronounced Wizzy-wig. See Entry For Derived Acronyms) |
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WZC |
Wireless Zero Configuration |
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X3D |
Extensible 3D Graphics |
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x86 |
8086 processor |
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XaaS |
anything as a service |
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XACML |
Extensible Access Control Markup Language |
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XAF |
eXpressApplication Framework |
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XAMPP |
Cross-platform/Apache/MySQL/PHP/Perl |
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XBL |
XML Binding Language |
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XBMC |
Xbox Media Center |
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XBRL |
Extensible Business Reporting Language |
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XCP |
eXtended Copy Protection |
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XDCC |
Xabi DCC or eXtended DCC |
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xde |
Extended Development Experience |
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XDM |
X Display Manager |
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XDO |
extended data object |
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XDR |
External Data Representation |
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XDSL |
x Digital Subscriber Line |
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xe |
Express Edition |
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XFDL |
Extensible Forms Description Language |
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XFN |
XHTML Friends Network (see http://gmpg.org/xfn/) |
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xfr |
Transfer Case (drafting and design) |
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Xfr |
Transfer |
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XGA |
eXtended Graphics Array |
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XHR |
XMLHttpRequest |
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XHTML |
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language |
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XID |
exchange identification |
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Xil |
X Imaging Library |
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XLF |
Extensible Log Format |
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XLL |
Extensible Linking Language |
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XLS |
Excel Spreadsheet File |
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XMCL |
eXtensible Media Commerce Language (digital rights management cross-product metadata system) |
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XMI |
XML Metadata Interchange |
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XML |
Extensible Markup Language |
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XMLC |
Extensible Markup Language Compiler |
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XMLRPC |
XML Remote Procedure Call |
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XMP |
Extensible Metadata Platform |
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XMPP |
Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol |
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XMS |
Xirrus Management System |
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XMS |
Extended Memory Specification |
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XMT |
Exempt from Transmittal |
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XMT |
Transmit |
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XNI |
Xerces Native Interface |
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Xnrl |
Xml Namespace Related-Resource Language |
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XNS |
Xerox Network Systems |
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XO |
Crystal Oscillator |
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XOFF |
Transmitter Off |
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XoIP |
Anything Over IP |
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XON |
Transmitter On |
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XOP |
XML-binary Optimized Packaging |
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xor |
Exclusive-OR gate |
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XP |
EXperience Point (role-playing Games) |
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XP |
Experience |
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XPath |
XML Path Language |
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Xpfe |
Cross Platform Front End |
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xPGK |
xPEERience gatekeeper/proxy |
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XPL |
Carrier Private Line |
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XPLINK |
Extra Performance Linkage |
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XPS |
XML Paper Specification |
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XQL |
XML Query Language |
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XRC |
Extended Remote Copying |
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XRE |
Xul Runtime Engine |
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XrML |
Extensible Rights Markup Language |
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XRST |
extended restart |
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XSD |
XML Schema Definition |
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XSL |
eXtensible Stylesheet Language |
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XSLT |
eXtensible Style Language Transformation |
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XSS |
Cross-Site Scripting |
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XT |
Crosstalk |
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XT |
Extended Technology |
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XTI |
UNIX Transport Layer Interface |
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xtm |
Extensible Threat Management |
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XTP |
Extreme Transaction Processing |
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XTPP |
extreme transaction processing platform |
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Xul |
Extensible User-Interface Language |
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xVM |
intersection (x) of virtualization and management |
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XVT |
eXtensible Virtual Toolkit |
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Xwb |
Extend Workbench |
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XWSS |
Xml and WebServices Security |
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Y2K |
Year 2000 |
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YA- |
Yet Another |
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YACC |
Yet Another Compiler-Compiler |
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YAHU |
Yet Another Header Utility |
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YAST |
Yet Another Setup Tool |
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YB |
Yottabyte |
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Yes |
Yahoo Enterprise Solutions |
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YiB |
Yobibyte |
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YIM |
Yahoo! Instant Messenger |
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YKYBHTLW |
You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When |
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YMMV |
Your Mileage May Vary |
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YP |
Yellow Pages |
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ypn |
Yahoo Publisher's Network |
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YUB |
luminance (Y) chroma (UV) |
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YYYY-MM-DD |
Year Year Year Year - Month Month - Day Day |
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ZAPP |
Zero Assignment Parallel Processor |
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Zaw |
Zero Administration Window |
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ZB |
ZettaByte |
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ZBR |
Zero Bug Release |
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ZBR |
Zoned-bit recording |
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ZBTSI |
Zero Byte Time Slot Interchange |
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ZCAV |
Zone Constant Angular Velocity |
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ZCS |
Zero Code Suppression |
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ZCT |
Zero Count Table |
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ZDBOP |
Ziff-Davis Benchmark Operation |
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ZDL |
Zero Delay Lockout |
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ZDN |
Ziff Davis Network |
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ZDNET |
Ziff-Davis Network |
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ZDO |
Zigbee Device Object |
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ZEROCONF |
Zero Configuration Networking |
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ZFS |
zSeries File System |
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zfs |
Zettabyte File Systems |
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ZIF |
Zero Insertion Force (The device on a) |
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ZIL |
Zork Implementation Language |
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zine |
electronic magazine |
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ZINK |
Zero Ink |
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ZIP |
Zone Information Protocol |
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ZLE |
Zero-Latency Enterprise |
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ZMA |
Zone Multicast Address |
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Zna |
Zero Network Administration |
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ZOPE |
Z Object Publishing Environment |
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ZRTP |
Real-Time Transport Protocol |
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zsh |
Z shell |
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ZTE |
Zhong Xing Telecommunication Equipment |
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ZTLP |
Zero Transmission Level Point |
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ZV port |
Zoomed Video port |
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ZVP |
Zoomed Video Port |
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 DoCoMo |
Do Communication over the Mobile network |
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µBGA |
Micro Ball Grid Array |
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