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2 |
Too Add |
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AA |
Automobile Association (UK) |
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AAA |
American Automobile Association |
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AC |
annual closing |
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AC |
Alternating Current |
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ACCT |
Account |
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ACE |
Access Control Entry |
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ACK |
Acknowledge (telecommunications; Cf. NAK) |
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ACLU |
American Civil Liberties Union |
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ACME |
A Company that Makes Everything :-) |
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ACPT |
Accept |
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ACRONYM |
Abbreviation by CROping Names that Yield Meaning |
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ACU |
Army Combat Uniform |
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AD |
Air Defense |
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ADN |
Advanced Digital Network |
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ADSL |
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line |
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AFAIR |
As Far As I Recall |
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AFOT |
Ass Fucked on Tinder |
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AGC |
Automatic Gain Control |
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AGP |
Advanced Graphics Port |
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AGP |
Accelerated Graphics Port |
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|
AIM |
AOL Institutent Messenger |
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|
AIM |
Aol Instant Messege |
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|
AIW |
As It Were |
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AIW |
As It Was |
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|
AK |
Alaska |
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ALCON |
All Concerned |
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ALT |
Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres |
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|
ALU |
Arithmetic Logic Unit |
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AM |
Ante Meridian |
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AM |
Amplitude Modulation |
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|
AMD |
An Air Movement Device |
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AMD |
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (producer of computer chips) |
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AMP |
Ampere |
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AMP |
Amplifier |
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|
ANC |
African National Congress |
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AOM |
Age of Mythology |
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AP |
Associated Press |
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APB |
All Points Bulletin |
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APC |
Armoured personnel carrier |
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API |
Application Programming Interface |
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APP |
Application |
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|
ARPA |
Advanced Research Projects Agency (made early internet) |
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|
ARPANET |
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (early internet) |
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|
ASAP |
As Soon As Possible (pronounced AY-sap) |
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|
AT&T |
American Telephone & Telegraph |
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ATA |
Actual Time of Arrival |
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ATC |
Air traffic control |
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|
ATK |
Attack |
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ATK |
Attack Tool Kit |
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|
ATLA |
Another Three-Letter Acronym |
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ATTN |
Attention |
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AV |
Anti-Virus |
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|
AV |
Audio/Video |
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AWOL |
Absent Without Leave |
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B2B |
Business to Businesse |
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BAD |
Broken as designed |
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BAK |
Back At Keyboard |
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BB |
Bulletin Board |
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BB |
Big Brother |
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|
BBC |
British Broadcasting Corporation |
|
|
BBEG |
Big Bad Evil Guy |
|
|
BBS |
Bulletin Board Service |
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|
BBS |
Bulletin Board System |
|
|
BC |
Before Christmas |
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|
BCP |
Best Current Practice |
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|
BER |
Beyond Economical Repair |
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|
BET |
Black Entertainment Television |
|
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BI |
Breidbart Index |
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|
BING |
But It's Not Google |
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|
bio |
Biological Informatics Office |
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|
BIO |
Biological |
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BIO |
Biological Industry Organization |
|
|
BIOS |
Basic Input Output System |
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|
BIT |
Binary Digit (either 0 Or 1) |
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BLK |
Black |
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BLOG |
Web Log |
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|
BMT |
Basic Military Training |
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|
BMW |
Bayerische Motoren Werke (Bavarian Motor Works) |
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BO |
Back Office |
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BO |
Back Off |
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BO |
Body Odor |
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|
BOF |
Birds of a Feather |
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|
BOOTP |
Bootstrap Protocol |
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BRS |
Big Red Switch |
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|
BT |
British Telecommunications |
|
|
BT |
BitTorrent |
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|
BTDT |
Been There, Done That |
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BTR |
Better |
|
|
BTU |
British Thermal Unit |
|
|
BWQ |
Buzz Word Quotient |
|
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BY |
Busy |
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|
BYOD |
Bring Your Own Device |
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|
cad |
Computer Aided Designer |
|
|
CAPTCHA |
Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart |
|
|
CBC |
Canadian Broadcasting Corporationration |
|
|
CC |
Crowd Control (gaming) |
|
|
CC |
Courtesy Copy (email; for those who never used carbon paper) |
|
|
CC |
Country Code |
|
|
CC |
Credit Card |
|
|
ccna |
Cisco Certified Network Associated |
|
|
CCTV |
Closed-circuit television |
|
|
CD |
Compact Disc |
|
|
CDC |
Cult of the Dead Cow (hacker group) |
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|
CDMA |
Code Divisionsion Multiple Access |
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|
CDR |
Compact Disc Recordable |
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|
CDT |
Central Daylight Time |
|
|
CE |
Common Era (substitute for AD) |
|
|
CEO |
Chief Executive Officer |
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CES |
Consumer Electronics Show |
|
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CFL |
Canadian Football League |
|
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CG |
Computer Graphics |
|
|
CHK |
Check |
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|
Chk |
Checkpoint kinase |
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|
CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency |
|
|
CIL |
critical items list |
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|
CIR |
Committed Information Rate (Frame Relay) |
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|
CLI |
Command line Interface (Cabletron) |
|
|
CMD |
Command |
|
|
CMOS |
Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor |
|
|
CMS |
Content Management System |
|
|
cnn |
Cable News Network's |
|
|
CO |
Company |
|
|
CO |
Commanding officer |
|
|
COA |
Course Of Action |
|
|
COA |
Certificate Of Authenticity |
|
|
COD |
Cash On Delivery |
|
|
CPC |
Cost Per Click-through |
|
|
cpi |
characters per inch |
|
|
CPU |
Central Processing Unit |
|
|
CR |
Carriage Return |
|
|
crm |
Customer Relationship Management |
|
|
CRT |
Cathode Ray Tube (type of TV) |
|
|
CS |
Counter-Strike (game) |
|
|
CSS |
Cascade Style Sheet |
|
|
CST |
Central Standard Time (UTC-6 Hours) |
|
|
CTF |
Capture The Flag |
|
|
CTP |
Computer to plate |
|
|
CTR |
Center |
|
|
CTRL |
Control |
|
|
CUA |
Commonly Used Acronym |
|
|
cya |
Cover Your Associates |
|
|
D/L |
Download |
|
|
DA |
District Attorney |
|
|
DARPA |
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (US) |
|
|
DAU |
Dümmster Anzunehmender User |
|
|
DAU |
Dumb Ass User |
|
|
DAW |
Digital Audio Workstation |
|
|
DBCS |
Double-Byte Character Set |
|
|
DBR |
Damaged Beyond Repair |
|
|
DCF |
Department of Children and Families |
|
|
DCOM |
Distributed Component Object Model |
|
|
DDOS |
Distributed Denial of Service |
|
|
DEA |
Drug Enforcement Administration (U.S. Department of Justice) |
|
|
DEMMS |
DEMM'S is an acronym for Daniel Ellis, Melissa Meddaugh's |
|
|
Dept |
Department |
|
|
DHCP |
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
|
|
DJ |
Disc Jockey |
|
|
DL |
Download |
|
|
DLL |
Dynamic Link Library (computer file) |
|
|
DLTM |
Digital Line Termination Module |
|
|
DM |
Dungeon Master |
|
|
DMCA |
Digital Millennium Copyright Act |
|
|
DMV |
Department of Motor Vehicles |
|
|
DMY |
Day Month Year |
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|
DNS |
Domain Name Service |
|
|
DOA |
dead on arrival |
|
|
DOB |
Date Of Birth |
|
|
DOF |
degree of freedom |
|
|
DOS |
Denial Of Service |
|
|
DOS |
Disk Operating System |
|
|
DPI |
Dots per inch. |
|
|
DRM |
Digital Rights Management |
|
|
DSL |
Digital Subscriber Line |
|
|
DST |
Daylight Saving Time |
|
|
DUPE |
Duplicate |
|
|
DVD |
Digital Versatile Disc |
|
|
DVI |
Digital Visual Interface |
|
|
DVR |
Digital Video Recorder |
|
|
DWI |
Driving While Intoxicated |
|
|
DWIM |
Do What I Mean |
|
|
DZ |
Drop Zone |
|
|
EA |
Electronic Arts Inc (NASDAQ Stock Exchange [NASDAQ]) |
|
|
EAD |
Encoded Archival Description |
|
|
ED |
Erase Display |
|
|
EDD |
Estimated Delivery Date |
|
|
ELO |
Electric Light Orchestra |
|
|
EMP |
Electro Magnetic Pulse |
|
|
EMS |
Emergency medical service |
|
|
EOC |
End Of Conversion |
|
|
EOE |
Equal Opportunity Employer |
|
|
EOF |
End Of File |
|
|
EOL |
End Of Line |
|
|
EOL |
End Of Life |
|
|
EOT |
End Of Transmission |
|
|
EP |
Extended Play |
|
|
EQ |
Emotional Quotient |
|
|
ESA |
European Space Agency |
|
|
ESP |
Extra Sensory Perception |
|
|
ESRB |
Entertainment Software Rating Board |
|
|
EST |
Established |
|
|
EST |
Eastern Standard Time |
|
|
ETC |
Et Cetera |
|
|
ETD |
Estimated Time of Departure |
|
|
ETX |
End of Text |
|
|
EU |
European Union (1994; formerly referred to as the EEC or EC) |
|
|
FAQ |
Frequently Asked Questions (sometimes Pronounced Fak) |
|
|
FBI |
Federal Bureau of Investigation |
|
|
FBW |
Fly By Wire |
|
|
FCFS |
First Come First Served |
|
|
FDR |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
|
|
FFT |
Fast Fourier Transform |
|
|
FIFO |
First In, First Out |
|
|
IOW |
In Other Words |
|
|
IP |
Intellectual Property |
|
|
IP |
Internet Protocol |
|
|
IQ |
Intelligence Quotient |
|
|
IRA |
Irish Republican Army see PIRA |
|
|
IRMFI |
I Reply Merely for Information |
|
|
ISDN |
It Still Does Nothing |
|
|
ISDN |
Integrated Services Digital Network |
|
|
ISS |
International Space Station |
|
|
ISTR |
I Seem To Recall |
|
|
ISWYM |
I See What You Mean |
|
|
IT |
Information Technology |
|
|
ITR |
Internet Talk Radio |
|
|
ITSM |
IT Service Management |
|
|
IWFM |
It Works for Me |
|
|
IYKWIM |
If You Know What I Mean |
|
|
JAM |
Just A Minute |
|
|
JBOD |
Just a Bunch Of Disks/Drives |
|
|
JIT |
Just in time |
|
|
KBD |
Keyboard |
|
|
KIA |
Killed in Action |
|
|
KISS |
Keep It Simple Stupid |
|
|
LA |
Los Angeles |
|
|
LAN |
Local Area Network |
|
|
LBL |
Labour Behind the Label |
|
|
LBL |
Label |
|
|
LBL |
Large Box Label |
|
|
LC |
Landing Craft |
|
|
LE |
Law Enforcement |
|
|
LEP |
Light Emitting Polymer |
|
|
LFS |
Large File Support |
|
|
LIFO |
Last In, First Out |
|
|
LIU |
LAN Interface Unit |
|
|
LKG |
Last Known Good |
|
|
LRU |
Least Recently Used |
|
|
LTO |
Linear Tape-Open |
|
|
LTR |
Letter ruling |
|
|
LTR |
Letter |
|
|
ltr |
Letters to Rob |
|
|
LTUAE |
Life, the Universe and Everything |
|
|
LUN |
Logical Unit Number |
|
|
LWB |
Long wheel base |
|
|
m2m |
Machine to Machine, Mobile |
|
|
MBM |
Magnetic Bubble Memory |
|
|
MC |
Master of Ceremonies |
|
|
MFT |
Master File Table |
|
|
MG |
Machine Gun |
|
|
MGMT |
Management |
|
|
MHS |
Message Handling System (electronic) |
|
|
MIA |
Missing In Action |
|
|
MIMO |
Multiple Input, Multiple Output |
|
|
MIN |
Minute |
|
|
MIPS |
Millions of Instructions Per Second |
|
|
MMORPG |
Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game |
|
|
MODEM |
Modulator-Demodulator |
|
|
MOO |
MUD Object Oriented |
|
|
MORF |
Male Or Female ? |
|
|
MOSPF |
Multicast Open Shortest Path First |
|
|
MOTD |
Message of the Day |
|
|
MRU |
Most Recently Used |
|
|
MS |
The Company Microsoft |
|
|
MSG |
Message |
|
|
MTBF |
Mean Time Before Failure |
|
|
MUD |
Multi-User Dimension |
|
|
MUD |
Multi-User Dungeon (gaming) |
|
|
MUSH |
Multi-User Shared Hallucination |
|
|
N/A |
Not Available |
|
|
N/A |
Not Applicable |
|
|
N/A |
Not Acceptable |
|
|
NA |
Not Available |
|
|
NAND |
Not And |
|
|
NAVY |
Never Again Volunteer Yourself |
|
|
NCO |
Non-Commissioned Officer |
|
|
NDA |
Non-Disclosure Agreement |
|
|
NG |
No Good |
|
|
NIMH |
Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni Is The Chemical Symbol For Nickel) |
|
|
NL |
New Line |
|
|
NMI |
No Middle Initial |
|
|
NMN |
No Middle Name |
|
|
NNTP |
Network News Transfer Protocol |
|
|
NOP |
No Operation |
|
|
NPC |
Non-Player Character |
|
|
NPI |
No Pun Intended |
|
|
NPV |
Net Present Value {economics} |
|
|
NRN |
No Reply Necessary |
|
|
NTK |
Need-To-Know |
|
|
NTK |
Nice to Know |
|
|
NX |
No Execute (Microsoft) |
|
|
NYCTMI |
Now You Come to Mention It |
|
|
OBEX |
Object Exchange Protocol |
|
|
OBTW |
Oh By the Way |
|
|
ObTWIAVBP |
Obligatory the World Is A Very Big Place |
|
|
OJT |
On the Job Training |
|
|
ONNA |
Oh No Not Again |
|
|
ONNTA |
Oh No, Not This Again |
|
|
OOAD |
Object Oriented Analysis and Design |
|
|
OOI |
Out of Interest |
|
|
OOO |
Out Of Order |
|
|
OOTB |
Out Of The Box |
|
|
OP |
Operator |
|
|
OT |
Overtime |
|
|
OTA |
Over The Air |
|
|
OTOH |
On The Other Hand |
|
|
OTP |
One Time Password |
|
|
OTTH |
On the Third Hand |
|
|
P2P |
Peer to Peer (as in music file sharing systems like KaZaA) |
|
|
PC |
Player Character |
|
|
PDQ |
Pretty Damn Quick |
|
|
PG |
Parental Guidance |
|
|
PGP |
Pretty Good Privacy (encryption) |
|
|
PHAT |
Pretty Hot And Tempting (warning To Others) |
|
|
PLMK |
Please Let Me Know. An example of an abbreviation designed with the aim of saving time for the writer, but which often turns out to be a false economy when the reader doesn't understand the request. (Ack B Butcher) |
|
|
PM |
post meridian |
|
|
PMFJI |
Pardon Me For Jumping In (same As Above) |
|
|
PMPO |
Peak Music Power Output |
|
|
PnP |
Plug aNd Play |
|
|
POC |
Point Of Contact |
|
|
POTS |
Plain Old Telephone System |
|
|
POV |
Privately Owned Vehicle |
|
|
POV |
Point Of View |
|
|
PPL |
Pay Per Lead |
|
|
PPN |
Programmer Project Number |
|
|
PS |
PostScript |
|
|
PSA |
Public Service Announcement (radio/TV Term) |
|
|
PSP |
PlayStation Portable |
|
|
PST |
Please Send Tell |
|
|
PTB |
Powers That Be |
|
|
PVC |
Permanent Virtual Circuit (ATM) |
|
|
PVT |
Private |
|
|
PW |
Password |
|
|
Q |
Queue |
|
|
QOTD |
Quote of the Day |
|
|
R&D |
Research & Development |
|
|
RC |
Remote Control |
|
|
RFC |
Request For Comment |
|
|
RL |
Rocket Launcher |
|
|
RMB |
Right Mouse Button |
|
|
ROFLASTC |
Rolling On the Floor Laughing And Scaring The Cat |
|
|
ROFLGO |
Rolling On the Floor Laughing Guts Out |
|
|
ROFLMAO |
Rolling On the Floor Laughing My Ass Off |
|
|
ROTFLBTC |
Rolling On The Floor Laughing and Biting The Carpet |
|
|
RPG |
Role Playing Game |
|
|
RT |
Real Time (R/T Preferred) |
|
|
RTFF |
Read The Fine Faq |
|
|
RTFI |
Read The Fucking Instructions |
|
|
RTS |
Ready To Send |
|
|
RTT |
Round Trip Timer |
|
|
RTV |
Return To Vendor |
|
|
SDK |
Software Developer's Kit |
|
|
SEP |
Someone Else's Problem |
|
|
sep |
Signalling End Point |
|
|
serp |
Search Engine Results Positioning |
|
|
SF |
San Francisco |
|
|
SF |
Science Fiction |
|
|
SFAIAA |
So Far As I Am Aware |
|
|
SFF |
Small-Form-Factor |
|
|
SFMJI |
Sorry For My Jumping In |
|
|
SHTSI |
Somebody Had to Say It |
|
|
SIMMS |
Single Inline Memory Modules |
|
|
SITD |
Still In The Dark |
|
|
SLP |
Super Long Play |
|
|
SLR |
Single Lens Reflex |
|
|
SME |
Subject Matter Expert |
|
|
SMOP |
Small Matter of Programming |
|
|
SNAFU |
Situation Normal All Fouled Up |
|
|
SOHO |
Small Office Home Office |
|
|
SOTA |
State Of The Art |
|
|
SOW |
Statement Of Work |
|
|
SP |
Service Provider |
|
|
spam |
Spiced Pork and hAM |
|
|
SPAM |
Send Phenomenal Amounts of Mail |
|
|
SPKR |
Speaker |
|
|
SQ |
Square |
|
|
SSID |
Service set identifier (Wi-Fi) |
|
|
SW |
Software (SFTWE Preferred) |
|
|
SWAG |
Scientific Wild Ass Guess |
|
|
SWAK |
Sealed With A Kiss |
|
|
SWALK |
Sealed With A Loving Kiss |
|
|
SYSOP |
System Operator |
|
|
SYT |
Sweet Young Thing |
|
|
TANSTAAFL |
There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (coined By Author Robert A. Heinlein In His The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress) |
|
|
TBA |
To Be Announcede |
|
|
TBC |
To Be Confirmed |
|
|
TBD |
To Be Determined |
|
|
TCO |
Taken Care Of |
|
|
TEI |
Total Economic Impact |
|
|
TEL |
Telephone |
|
|
TERAC |
Trained Educated Responsible Armed Citizen |
|
|
THD |
Total Harmonic Distortion |
|
|
TIA |
Thanks in advance |
|
|
TM |
Trademark |
|
|
TMTOWTDI |
There's More Than One Way To Do It (from Perl) |
|
|
TNG |
The Next Generation (Star Trek) |
|
|
TNPP |
Telocator Network Paging Protocol |
|
|
TOC |
Table of Contents |
|
|
TOT |
Totally Off-Topic |
|
|
TQM |
Total Quality Management |
|
|
TRATEOTU |
The Restaurant At the End of the Universe |
|
|
TRT |
The Right Thing |
|
|
TTFF |
Time To First Fix |
|
|
TTL |
Time To Live |
|
|
TTS |
Text To Speech |
|
|
TWAIN |
Technology Without An Interesting Name |
|
|
TXT |
Text File (filename extension) |
|
|
U/L |
Upload |
|
|
UAE |
Unrecoverable Application Error |
|
|
UART |
Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter |
|
|
UAV |
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
|
|
UBE |
Unsolicited Bulk Email |
|
|
UCE |
Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail |
|
|
UDIAGS |
Und Das Ist Auch Gut So |
|
|
UFN |
Until Further Notice |
|
|
UFO |
Unidentified Flying Object |
|
|
UGC |
User Generated Content |
|
|
UOM |
Unit Of Measure |
|
|
USA |
United States of America |
|
|
UTSL |
Use The Source, Luke |
|
|
VBR |
Variable Bit Rate (ATM) |
|
|
VC |
Venture Capital |
|
|
VIP |
Very Important Person |
|
|
VLAN-XC |
VLAN Cross Connect |
|
|
VM |
Voice Mail |
|
|
WAB |
Windows Address Book |
|
|
WILCO |
Will Comply |
|
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WINDOWS |
Will Install Needless Data On Whole System. Classic ironic 'backronym'. Perhaps a little unfair, but need we say more?... |
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WIP |
Work in Process |
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WNOHGB |
Where No One Has Gone Before |
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WORM |
Write-Once, Read-Many |
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WOW |
World of Warcraft |
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WRT |
"With respect to", especially in fields such as Mathematics. |
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WT |
Without Thinking |
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WTC |
World Trade Center |
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WTTM |
Without Thinking Too Much |
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WX |
Weather |
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WYSBYGI |
What You See Before You Get It |
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WYSIWYG |
What You See Is What You Get (pronounced Wizzy-wig. See Entry For Derived Acronyms) |
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XC |
Cross Connect |
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