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Public Domain Acronym/Abbreviation Dbase
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2D - 2-Dimensional
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3D - 3-Dimensional
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3M - Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing
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4GL - Fourth Generation Language
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4H - Head, Heart, Hands, Health
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A - Aftermath
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A&M - Agricultural and Mechanical
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A/D - Analog to Digital converter (see ADC)
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A/P - Accounts Payable
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A/R - Accounts Receivable
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AA - Affirmative Action committee
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AA - Alcoholics Anonymous
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AA - Antiaircraft Artillery
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AA - Associate in Accounting
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AA - Automobile Association (in England)
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AAA - American Automobile Association
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AAAAAA - the Association for the Abolition of Abused Abbreviations and Asinine A
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AAAL - American Academy of Arts and Letters
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AAAS - American Association for the Advancement of Science - A.A.A.S
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AAII - American Association of Individual Investors
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AAMSI - American Association for Medical Systems Informatics
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AAP - Affirmative Action Program
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AARC - Anglo-American Cataloging Rules
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AB - ABle seaman
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ABA - American Bar Association
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ABA - American Basketball Association
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ABA - American Booksellers Association
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ABBR - ABBReviation
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ABC - American Broadcasting Company
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AC - Alternating Current (ac, see also DC)
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AC - Ante Christum (before Christ)
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AC - Ante Cibum (before meals)
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ACAA - Agricultural Conservation and Adjustment Administration
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ACAWS - Advisory, Caution, And Warning System
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ACBL - American Contract Bridge League
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ACC - Argonne Code Center
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ACCS - Army Command and Control System
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ACD - Automatic Call Distributing system
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ACE - Automatic Calibration and Equalization
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ACHEFT - Automated ClearingHouse Electronic Funds Transfer
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ACK - ACKnowledge
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ACL - Advanced Cmos Logic
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ACM - Association for Computing Machinery
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ACO - Acronym Control Officer
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ACS - Advanced Communications System
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ACTS - Advanced Communications Technology Satellite
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ACTS - Automatic Coin Telephone Service
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ACU - Alarm Control Unit
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ACW - Alternating Continuous Waves
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AD - After Date
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AD - Anno Domini (in the year of our Lord)
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AD - Application Development
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AD&D - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
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ADB - A DeBugger
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ADB - Apple Desktop Bus
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ADC - Analog to Digital Converter
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ADCI - Automatic Display Call Indicator
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ADF - Automatic Direction Finder
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ADM - ADMiral
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ADP - Adenosine Di-Phosphate
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ADP - Administrative Data Processing
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ADP - Advanced Data Processing
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ADS - Application Development System
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ADS - Automatic Voice System
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ADSR - Attack Decay Sustain Release
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ADT - Abstract Data Type
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ADT - Atlantic Daylight Time
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AE - Application Execution
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AEA - American Electronics Association
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AEC - Atomic Energy Commission
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AEF - American Expeditionary Force (see BEF)
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AEGIS - Advanced Electronic Guidance and Instrumentation System
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AF - Adventures in Fantasy
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AF - Air Force
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AF - Audio Frequency
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AFADS - Automatic Force Adjustment Data System
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AFATDS - Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System
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AFB - Air Force Base
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AFC - American Football Conference
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AFC - Automatic Flight Control
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AFC - Automatic Frequency Control
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AFCAC - Air Force Computer Acquisition Center
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AFCC - Air Force Communications Command
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AFGE - American Federation of Government Employees
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AFIPS - American Federation of Information Processing Societies
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AFL - American Federation of Labor
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AFL - American Football League
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AFLCIO - American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
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AFNOR - Association Francaise de NORmalization
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AFP - Appletalk Filing Protocol
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AFS - Andrew File System
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AFSC - Air Force Systems Command
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AFSCME - American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
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AFTRA - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
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AG - Adjutant General
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AG - Arcade Game
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AG - Attorney General
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AGCT - Army General Classification Test
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AH - Avalon Hill (major war game manufacturer)
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AHL - American Hockey League
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AHQ - Air HeadQuarters
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AI - Artificial Intelligence
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AIAA - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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AIC - Automatic Intercept Center
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AID - Agency for International Development
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AIDDE - Ames' Interactive Dynamic Display Editor
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AIDS - Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome
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AIOD - Automatic Identification Outward Dialing
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AIS - Automatic Intercept System
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AIX - Advanced Interactive eXecutive (unix)
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AK - Alaska
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AKA - Also Known As
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AL - Alabama
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AL - American League (baseball)
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ALA - American Library Association
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ALA - Automobile Legal Association
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ALBM - Air-to-Land Ballistic Missile
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ALC - Automatic Load Control
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ALGOL - ALGOrithmic Language
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ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit
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AM - Amplitude Modulation
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AM - Ante Meridiem (before noon)
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AMA - American Medical Association
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AMA - Automatic Message Accounting
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AMARC - Automatic Message Accounting Recording Center
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AMBA - Association of Master of Business Administration
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AMC - Albany Medical College
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AMD - Advanced Micro Devices
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AMEX - AMerican EXpress
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AMORC - Ancient Mystic Order Rosae Crucis
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AMP - Adenosine MonoPhosphate
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AMPAS - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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AMRAAM - Advanced Medium Range Air-To-Air Missile
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AMSAT - radio AMateur SATellite corp.
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AMU - Atomic Mass Unit
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AMVET - AMerican VETeran
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ANA - American Nurses Association
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ANC - All Number Calling
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ANC - Army Nurse Corps
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ANDF - Architecture-Neural Distribution Format
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ANF - Automatic Number Forwarding
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ANG - Air National Guard
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ANI - Automatic Number Identification
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ANL - Argonne National Laboratory
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ANOVA - ANalysis Of VAriance
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ANPA - American Newspaper Publishers Association
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ANSI - American National Standards Institute
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ANZUS - Australia, New Zealand, United States
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AO - Account Of
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AOL - Absent Over Leave (see AWOL)
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AOS - Academic Operating System
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AP - Additional Premium
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AP - All Points
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AP - Associated Press
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APA - All Points Addressable
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APB - All Points Bulletin
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APDA - Apple Programmers and Developers Association
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API - Application Programming Interface
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APICS - American Production and Inventory Control Society
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APO - Army Post Office
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APP - Applications Portability Profile
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APPC - Advanced Peer-to-Peer Communications
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APR - Annual Percentage Rate (as in loan interest)
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APSE - Ada Programming Support Environment
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AQ - Accumulator-Quotient register
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AR - Address Register
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AR - Arkansas
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ARC - American Red Cross
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ARCNET - Attached Resource Computer local area NETwork
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ARO - After Receipt of Order
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ARPA - Advanced Research Projects Agency
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ARPANET - Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork
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ARRL - Amateur Radio Relay League
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ARV - American Revised Version
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AS - Anglo-Saxon
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ASA - Acetyl Salicylic Acid
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ASAP - As Soon As Possible
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ASC - Accredited Standards Committee
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ASCAP - American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
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ASCC - Automatic Sequence-Controlled Calculator
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ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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ASDIC - Anti-Submarine Detection Investigation Committee (British for sonar)
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ASDSP - Application-Specific Digital Signal Processor
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ASG - Automated Sciences Group
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ASHRAE - Amer. Soc. of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-cond. Engineers, inc.
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ASIC - Application Specific Integrated Circuit
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ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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ASP - Aggregated Switch Procurement
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ASSR - Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
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AST - Atlantic Standard Time
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ASV - American Standard Version
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AT - Atlantic Time
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AT&T - American Telephone & Telegraph
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ATA - Automatic Trouble Analysis
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ATACC - Advanced Tactical Air Command Central
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ATB - Advanced Technology Bomber (stealth bomber)
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ATC - Air Traffic Control
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ATF - Advanced Technology Fighter
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ATIS - Atherton Tools Interface Specification
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ATM - Automatic Teller Machine
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ATOMS - AT&t Optimized Materials Simulator
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ATP - Adenosine TriPhosphate
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ATPCO - Airline Tariff Publishing COmpany
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ATTIS - American Telephone and Telegraph Information Systems
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ATV - All Terrain Vehicle
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AUS - Army of the United States
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AUTODIN - AUTOmatic DIgital Network
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AUTOVON - AUTOmatic VOice Network
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AV - AudioVisual
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AVLIS - Atomic Vapor Laser Isotope Separation
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AWACS - Airborne Warnings And Control Systems
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AWEA - American Wind Energy Association
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AWK - al Aho, peter Weinberger, brian Kernighan (pattern scanning language)
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AWOL - Absent WithOut Leave (also Absent Without Official Leave) (see AOL)
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AZ - Arizona
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ApJ - Astrophysical Journal - Ap J
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B - Book
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BA - Bachelor of Arts
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BACH - Business Alliance for Commerce in Hemp
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BAFO - Best And Final Offer
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BASIC - Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
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BB - Bases on Balls
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BB - Best of Breed
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BB - Bunnies and Burrows
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BBA - Bachelor of Business Administration
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BBB - Better Business Bureau
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BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation
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BBL - Barrel
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BBN - Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
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BC - Battlecars
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BC - Before Christ
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BC - British Columbia
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BC/BS - Blue Cross/Blue Shield
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BCD - Bad Conduct Discharge
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BCD - Binary Coded Decimal
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BCDIC - Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
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BCE - Before the Common Era (substitute for BC)
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BCP - Byte Controlled Protocols
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BCPL - Basic Combined Programming Language
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BCS - Bachelor of Commercial Science
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BCS - Binary Compatibility Standard
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BCS - Boston Computer Society
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BCS - British Computer Society
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BD - Bachelor of Divinity
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BD - Bank Draft
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BD - Bills Discounted
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BD&D - Basic Dungeons & Dragons
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BDF - Binary Distribution Format
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BDT - Billing Data Transmitter
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BE - Bill of Exchange
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BEF - British Expeditionary Force (see AEF)
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BELCORE - BELL COmmunications REsearch
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BEM - Bug Eyed Monster
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BENELUX - BElgium, NEtherlands, and LUXembourg
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BER - Bit Error Rate
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BEST - Borland Enhanced Support and Training
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BF - Brought Forward
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BFA - Bachelor of Fine Arts
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BFD - Big F***ing Deal
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BFHD - Big Fat Hairy Deal
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BH - Boot Hill
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BHP - Brake HorsePower
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BICS - Building Industry Consulting Services
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BID - Bis In Die (twice a day)
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BIOC - Break Into Other Computers
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BIOS - Basic Input Output System
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BIS - Business Information System
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BLAST - BLocked ASynchronous Transmission
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BLF - Busy Line Field
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BLT - BLock Transfer
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BLT - Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato
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BM - Basal Metabolism
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BM - Bowel Movement
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BMA - Bank Marketing Association
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BMEWS - Ballistic Missile Early Warning
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BMO - Ballistic Missile Office
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BMOC - Big Man On Campus
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BMR - Basal Metabolism Rate
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BNF - Bachus-Naur Form
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BO - Body Odor
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BO - Branch Office
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BO - Buyer's Option
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BOC - Bell Operating Company
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BOD - Board Of Directors
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BOF - Birds Of a Feather
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BOM - Bill Of Materials
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BOQ - Bachelor Officers' Quarters
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BOS - Business Office Supervisor
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BOSIX - Biin Open System Interface eXtension
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BP - Blood Pressure
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BP - British Pharmacopoeia
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BPI - Bits Per Inch
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BPOE - Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
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BPS - Bits Per Second
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BR - Bills Receivable
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BR - British Rail
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BRIEF - Basic Reconfigurable Interactive Editing Facility
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BRL - army Ballistic Research Laboratory
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BRS - Bibliographic Retrieval Service
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BS - Bachelor of Science
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BS - Bill of Sale
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BSA - Birmingham Small Arms
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BSA - Boy Scouts of America
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BSC - Binary Synchronous Communication
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BSD - Berkeley Software Distribution
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BSN - Bachelor of Science in Nursing
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BSS - Block Started by Symbol
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BSTJ - Bell System Technical Journal
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BSc - Bachelor of SCience
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BTL - Bell Telephone Laboratories
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BTO - Bachman Turner Overdrive
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BTU - British Thermal Unit
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BTW - By The Way
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BThU - British Thermal Unit
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BU - Bushido
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BV - Blessed Virgin
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BWI - Baltimore-Washington International (airport)
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BWI - British West Indies
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BX - Base eXchange (see PX)
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Bit - BInary digiT
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C - programming language, successor to BCPL
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C&S - Chivalry & Sorcery
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C/O - in Care Of
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CA - California
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CA - Chartered Accountant
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CA - Chief Accountant
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CA - Chronological Age
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CAB - Civil Aeronautics Board
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CACM - Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery
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CAD - Computer Aided Design (sometimes seen as CAD/CAM)
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CAE - Common Applications Environment
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CAE - Computer Aided Engineering
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CAIS - Common Apse Interface Specification
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CALS - Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistics Support
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CAM - Computer Aided Management
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CAM - Computer Aided Manufacturing (sometimes seen as CAD/CAM)
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CAM - Content Addressable Memory
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CAMA - Centralized Automatic Message Accounting
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CAMP - Campaign Against Marijuana Planting
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CAP - Civil Air Patrol
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CAP - Columbia Appletalk Package
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CAR - Contents of the Address part of the Register
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CASE - Computer Aided Software Engineering
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CASSIS - Classification and Search Support Information System
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CAT - Computer-Aided Tomography
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CATIS - Common Applications and Tools Integration Services
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CATV - Community Antenna TeleVision
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CAVU - Ceiling And Visibility Unlimited
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CB - Citizens Band radio
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CBC - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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CBD - Cash Before Delivery
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CBD - Commerce Business Daily
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CBEMA - Computer & Business Equipment Manufacturers Association
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CBR - Chemical, Biological, Radiological warfare
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CBS - Columbia Broadcasting System
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CBW - Chemical and Biological Warfare
|
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CC - Carbon Copy
|
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CCA - Computer Corporation of America
|
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CCC - Canadian Committee on Cataloging
|
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CCC - Civil(ian) Conservation Corps
|
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CCC - Command, Control, and Communications
|
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CCCCM - CCC CounterMeasures (sometimes C^3CM)
|
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|
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CCCI - Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence
|
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CCD - Charge Coupled Device (see CID)
|
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CCI - Computer Carrier Interrupt
|
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|
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CCI - Computer Consoles, Incorporated
|
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CCIP - Continuously Computed Impact Point
|
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CCIS - Common Channel Interoffice Signaling
|
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|
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CCITT - Comite' Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique
|
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|
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CCR - Commitment, Concurrency, and Recovery
|
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|
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CCR - Creedence Clearwater Revival
|
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|
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CCRP - Continuously Computed Release Point
|
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|
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CCSA - Common Control Switching Arrangement
|
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|
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CCTA - Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency
|
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|
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CCTV - Closed Circuit TeleVision
|
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|
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CD - Certificate of Deposit
|
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|
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CD - Civil Defense
|
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|
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CD - Compact Disk
|
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|
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CD-ROM - Compact Disk Read Only Memory
|
|||
|
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CDA - Call Data Accumulator
|
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|
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CDA - Compound Documents Architecture
|
|||
|
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CDC - Centers for Disease Control
|
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|
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CDC - Control Data Corporation, inc.
|
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|
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CDEV - Control panel DEVice
|
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|
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CDIAC - Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
|
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|
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CDO - Community Dial Office
|
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|
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CDR - CommanDeR
|
|||
|
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CDR - Contents of the Decrement part of the Register
|
|||
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CDT - Central Daylight Time
|
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|
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CDU - Control Display Unit
|
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|
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CE - Chemical Engineer
|
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|
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CE - Civil Engineer
|
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|
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CE - Common Era (substitute for AD)
|
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|
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CE - Corps of Engineers
|
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|
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CE - Customer Engineer
|
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|
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CEA - Council of Economic Advisors
|
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|
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CEA - County Education Authority
|
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|
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CEC - Commission of the European Communities
|
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|
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CED - Committee for Economic Development
|
|||
|
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CENS - Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Seclay
|
|||
|
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CENTO - CENtral Treaty Organization
|
|||
|
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CEO - Chief Executive Officer
|
|||
|
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CERN - organisation (formerly Conseil) Europeenne pour la Recherche Nucleaires
|
|||
|
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CERT - Computer Emergency Response Team
|
|||
|
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CEVI - Common Equipment Voltage Indicator
|
|||
|
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CF - Carry Forward
|
|||
|
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CF - Coin First payphone
|
|||
|
|
CFC - Chloro-FluoroCarbon
|
|||
|
|
CFC - Combined Federal Campaign
|
|||
|
|
CFD - Computational Fluid Dynamics
|
|||
|
|
CFI - Cost, Freight, and Insurance
|
|||
|
|
CFL - Canadian Football League
|
|||
|
|
CFO - Chief Financial Officer
|
|||
|
|
CG - Coast Guard
|
|||
|
|
CG - Commanding General
|
|||
|
|
CG&E - Cincinnati Gas & Electric
|
|||
|
|
CGA - Color Graphics Adapter
|
|||
|
|
CGCT - Compagnie Generale de Constructions Telephoniques
|
|||
|
|
CGE - Compagnie Generale d'Electricite
|
|||
|
|
CH - Cardboard Heroes
|
|||
|
|
CH - ClearingHouse
|
|||
|
|
CH - CourtHouse
|
|||
|
|
CH - Customs House
|
|||
|
|
CHA - Champions
|
|||
|
|
CHAP - CHAnnel Processor
|
|||
|
|
CHI - Chill: Adventures into the Unknown
|
|||
|
|
CHOTS - Corporate Headquarters Office Technology System
|
|||
|
|
CHP - California Highway Patrol
|
|||
|
|
CI - Cubic Inches
|
|||
|
|
CIA - Central Intelligence Agency
|
|||
|
|
CICA - Competition in Contracting Act
|
|||
|
|
CICS - Customer Information Control System
|
|||
|
|
CID - Central Institute for the Deaf
|
|||
|
|
CID - Charge Injection Device (see CCD)
|
|||
|
|
CID - Computer Integrated Design
|
|||
|
|
CIDIN - Common Icao Data Interchange Network
|
|||
|
|
CIM - Computer Integrated Manufacturing
|
|||
|
|
CIO - Chief Information Officer
|
|||
|
|
CISC - Complex Instruction Set Computer
|
|||
|
|
CIT - California Institute of Technology
|
|||
|
|
CIT - Case Institute of Technology (part of CWRU, Cleveland, OH)
|
|||
|
|
CLASP - Comprehensive Logistics Automated Support Program
|
|||
|
|
CLI - Command Line Interpreter
|
|||
|
|
CLR - Combined Line and Recording
|
|||
|
|
CLRC - Circuit Layout Record Card
|
|||
|
|
CLU - Chartered Life Underwriter
|
|||
|
|
CLUT - Color LookUp Table
|
|||
|
|
CM - Congregation of the Mission
|
|||
|
|
CMC - Communication Machinery Corp.
|
|||
|
|
CMD - Centralized Message Distribution
|
|||
|
|
CML - Current Model Logic
|
|||
|
|
CMMU - Cache/Memory Management Unit
|
|||
|
|
CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (see MOS)
|
|||
|
|
CMRR - Common Mode Rejection Ratio
|
|||
|
|
CMS - Circuit Maintenance System
|
|||
|
|
CMSgt - Chief Master Sergeant
|
|||
|
|
CMU - Carnegie-Mellon University
|
|||
|
|
CMYK - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK
|
|||
|
|
CN - Canadian National (railways)
|
|||
|
|
CN/A - Customer Name / Address
|
|||
|
|
CNN - Cable News Network
|
|||
|
|
CNO - Chief of Naval Operations
|
|||
|
|
CNR - Canadian National Railways
|
|||
|
|
CNR - Carrier to Noise Ratio
|
|||
|
|
CNS - Central Nervous System
|
|||
|
|
CO - Cash Order
|
|||
|
|
CO - Central Office
|
|||
|
|
CO - Central Office (telephony)
|
|||
|
|
CO - Colorado
|
|||
|
|
CO - Commanding Officer
|
|||
|
|
CO - Conscientious Objector
|
|||
|
|
COB - Close Of Business
|
|||
|
|
COBOL - COmmon Business Oriented Language
|
|||
|
|
COC - Call of Cthulhu
|
|||
|
|
COD - Collect On Delivery; Cash On Delivery
|
|||
|
|
CODEC - COder-DECoder
|
|||
|
|
COER - Central Office Equipment Report
|
|||
|
|
COLA - Cost-Of-Living Allowance
|
|||
|
|
COMAS - Central Office Maintenance and Administration System
|
|||
|
|
COMPACT - COMmercial Product ACquisition Team
|
|||
|
|
CONS - Connection-Oriented Networking Session
|
|||
|
|
CORE - COntrolled Requirement Expression
|
|||
|
|
CORN - COmputer Resource Nucleus
|
|||
|
|
COS - Corporation for Open Systems
|
|||
|
|
COSMIC - COmmon System Main InterConnecting frame
|
|||
|
|
COSMIC - COmputer Software Management and Information Center
|
|||
|
|
COSMOS - COmputer System for Mainframe OperationS
|
|||
|
|
CP - Canadian Pacific
|
|||
|
|
CP - Chemically Pure
|
|||
|
|
CP - CoPy
|
|||
|
|
CP - Command Post
|
|||
|
|
CP - Command Processor
|
|||
|
|
CP - the Canadian Press
|
|||
|
|
CPA - Certified Public Accountant
|
|||
|
|
CPFF - Cost Plus Fixed Fee
|
|||
|
|
CPI - Characters Per Inch
|
|||
|
|
CPI - Common Programming Interface
|
|||
|
|
CPL - Combined Programming Language
|
|||
|
|
CPM - Control Program for Microcomputers (sometimes CP/M)
|
|||
|
|
CPO - Chief Petty Officer
|
|||
|
|
CPO - Chief Post Office
|
|||
|
|
CPO - Customer Premises Equipment
|
|||
|
|
CPR - Canadian Pacific Railway
|
|||
|
|
CPS - Characters Per Second
|
|||
|
|
CPSR - Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
|
|||
|
|
CPT - CaPTain
|
|||
|
|
CPU - Central Processor Unit
|
|||
|
|
CPW - Certified Public Weigher
|
|||
|
|
CQ - Change of Quarters
|
|||
|
|
CQ - Charge of Quarters
|
|||
|
|
CR - Carriage Return (ASCII 15 octal)
|
|||
|
|
CRAM - Card Random Access Memory
|
|||
|
|
CRC - Chemical Rubber Company
|
|||
|
|
CRC - Cyclical Redundancy Character
|
|||
|
|
CREG - Concentrated Range Extension with Gain
|
|||
|
|
CRT - Cathode Ray Tube (also generic reference to a terminal)
|
|||
|
|
CRTC - Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
|
|||
|
|
CS - Civil Servant
|
|||
|
|
CS - Computer Science; Computing Science
|
|||
|
|
CS - County Seat
|
|||
|
|
CSA - Confederate States of America
|
|||
|
|
CSAB - Computing Sciences Accreditation Board
|
|||
|
|
CSACS - Centralized Status, Alarm and Control System
|
|||
|
|
CSC - Computer Sciences Corporation
|
|||
|
|
CSDC - Circuit Switched Digital Capability
|
|||
|
|
CSF - Critical Success Factor
|
|||
|
|
CSI - Commercial Systems Integration
|
|||
|
|
CSIS - Canadian Security and Intelligence Service
|
|||
|
|
CSL - Coin Supervising Link
|
|||
|
|
CSM - Command Sergeant Major
|
|||
|
|
CSMA/CD - Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection
|
|||
|
|
CSO - Central Services Organization
|
|||
|
|
CSOC - Consolidated Space Operations Center (at Colorado Springs)
|
|||
|
|
CSP - Control Switching Point
|
|||
|
|
CSR - Control and Status Register
|
|||
|
|
CSRG - Computer Systems Research Group
|
|||
|
|
CSRS - civil Service Retirement System
|
|||
|
|
CSS - Customer Switching System
|
|||
|
|
CST - Central Standard Time
|
|||
|
|
CT - Central Time
|
|||
|
|
CT - Connecticut
|
|||
|
|
CTC - Canadian Transport Commission
|
|||
|
|
CTC - Centralized Traffic Control (railways)
|
|||
|
|
CTD - Computing and Telecommunications Division
|
|||
|
|
CTIO - Cerro Tololo Inter-american Observatory
|
|||
|
|
CTNE - Compania Telefonica Nacional de Espana
|
|||
|
|
CTS - Compatible Timesharing System
|
|||
|
|
CTV - Canadian TeleVision network
|
|||
|
|
CU - Close-Up
|
|||
|
|
CUA - Common User Access
|
|||
|
|
CV - Curriculum Vitae
|
|||
|
|
CW - Car Wars
|
|||
|
|
CW - Chemical Warfare
|
|||
|
|
CW - Child Welfare
|
|||
|
|
CW - Churchwarden
|
|||
|
|
CW - Continuous Wave
|
|||
|
|
CWO - Cash With Order
|
|||
|
|
CWO - Chief Warrant Officer
|
|||
|
|
CWRU - Case Western Reserve University
|
|||
|
|
CXI - Common X-windows Interface
|
|||
|
|
CY - Calendar Year
|
|||
|
|
CYO - Catholic Youth Organization
|
|||
|
|
CZ - Canal Zone
|
|||
|
|
D - Depth
|
|||
|
|
D&D - Dungeons & Dragons
|
|||
|
|
D/A - Digital to Analog converter
|
|||
|
|
D/F - Direction Finding
|
|||
|
|
DA - Days after Acceptance
|
|||
|
|
DA - Department of Agriculture
|
|||
|
|
DA - Deposit Account
|
|||
|
|
DA - Directory Assistance (/C = computerized, /M = Microfilm)
|
|||
|
|
DA - District Attorney
|
|||
|
|
DA - Don't Answer
|
|||
|
|
DAC - Digital to Analog Converter
|
|||
|
|
DACCS - Digital Access Cross Connect System
|
|||
|
|
DAD - Draft ADdendum
|
|||
|
|
DAR - Daughters of the American Revolution
|
|||
|
|
DARPA - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
|
|||
|
|
DASD - Direct Access Storage Device
|
|||
|
|
DAT - Digital Audio Tape
|
|||
|
|
DATA - Defense Air Transport Administration
|
|||
|
|
DAV - Disabled American Veterans
|
|||
|
|
DB - DataBase
|
|||
|
|
DB - DeciBels
|
|||
|
|
DBF - DBase Format
|
|||
|
|
DBME - DataBase Managment Environment
|
|||
|
|
DBMS - DataBase Management System (rdbms for Relational ...)
|
|||
|
|
DBRAD - Data Base Relational Application Directory
|
|||
|
|
DC - Direct Current (dc, see also AC)
|
|||
|
|
DC - District of Columbia
|
|||
|
|
DCA - Defense Communications Agency
|
|||
|
|
DCA - Distributed Communication Architecture
|
|||
|
|
DCA - Document Content Architecture
|
|||
|
|
DCC - Descriptive Cataloging Committee
|
|||
|
|
DCCO - Defense Commercial Communications Office
|
|||
|
|
DCE - Data Communication Equipment
|
|||
|
|
DCL - Digital Command Language
|
|||
|
|
DCP - Distributed Communications Processor
|
|||
|
|
DCTS - Dimension Custom Telephone Service
|
|||
|
|
DD - Daredevils
|
|||
|
|
DD - Data Dictionary
|
|||
|
|
DD - Days after Date
|
|||
|
|
DD - Demand Draft
|
|||
|
|
DD - Dishonorable Discharge
|
|||
|
|
DD - Disk Drive
|
|||
|
|
DD - Doctor of Divinity
|
|||
|
|
DDC - Digital Data Converter
|
|||
|
|
DDD - Direct Distance Dial(ing)
|
|||
|
|
DDL - Document Description Language
|
|||
|
|
DDN - Defense Data Network
|
|||
|
|
DDP - Distributed Data Processing
|
|||
|
|
DDS - Doctor of Dental Science
|
|||
|
|
DDS - Doctor of Dental Surgery
|
|||
|
|
DE - Delaware
|
|||
|
|
DEA - Drug Enforcement Agency
|
|||
|
|
DEAR - Department of Energy Acquisition Regulation
|
|||
|
|
DEC - Digital Equipment Corporation
|
|||
|
|
DES - Data Encryption Standard
|
|||
|
|
DEW - Distant Early Warning (as in DEW Line)
|
|||
|
|
DF - Damage Free
|
|||
|
|
DF - Direction Finding
|
|||
|
|
DFC - Distinguished Flying Cross
|
|||
|
|
DFD - Data Flow Diagram
|
|||
|
|
DFE - Data Flow Editor
|
|||
|
|
DFM - Distinguished Flying Medal
|
|||
|
|
DFS - Depth-First Search
|
|||
|
|
DFW - Dallas-Ft.Worth (regional airport)
|
|||
|
|
DG - Dei Gratia (by the grace of God)
|
|||
|
|
DG - Director General
|
|||
|
|
DGSC - Defense General Supply Center
|
|||
|
|
DHHS - Department of Health and Human Services
|
|||
|
|
DHSS - british Department of Health and Social Security
|
|||
|
|
DIA - Document Interchange Architecture
|
|||
|
|
DIAD - (magnetic) Drum Information Assembler / Dispatcher
|
|||
|
|
DIAL - Direct Information Access Line
|
|||
|
|
DIAS - Defense Automatic Integrated System
|
|||
|
|
DID - Direct Inward Dialing
|
|||
|
|
DIF - Document Interchange Format
|
|||
|
|
DIN - Deutsches Institut fur Normung
|
|||
|
|
DIRE - Dire Is Really Emacs
|
|||
|
|
DIS - Draft International Standard (ISO)
|
|||
|
|
DISOSS - DIStributed Office Support System
|
|||
|
|
DIY - Do It Yourself
|
|||
|
|
DJ - Disc Jockey
|
|||
|
|
DLA - Defense Logistics Agency
|
|||
|
|
DLL - Dial Long Line equipment
|
|||
|
|
DLO - Dead Letter Office
|
|||
|
|
DM - Dungeon Master
|
|||
|
|
DMA - Direct Memory Access
|
|||
|
|
DMD - Doctor of Dental Medicine
|
|||
|
|
DME - Distance Measuring Equipment
|
|||
|
|
DMOS - Diffusion Metal Oxide Semiconductor (see MOS)
|
|||
|
|
DMV - Department of Motor Vehicles
|
|||
|
|
DMZ - DeMilitarized Zone
|
|||
|
|
DNA - DeoxyriboNucleic Acid
|
|||
|
|
DNA - Digital Network Architecture
|
|||
|
|
DNHR - Dynamic NonHierarchical Routing
|
|||
|
|
DNIC - Data Network Identification Code
|
|||
|
|
DNL - Director of Naval Laboratories
|
|||
|
|
DNR - Dialed Number Recorder
|
|||
|
|
DOA - Dead On Arrival
|
|||
|
|
DOB - Date Of Birth
|
|||
|
|
DOC - Dynamic Overload Control
|
|||
|
|
DOD - Department Of Defense
|
|||
|
|
DOE - Department of Energy
|
|||
|
|
DOMAIN - Distributed Operating Multi Access Interactive Network (Apollo)
|
|||
|
|
DOS - Disk Operating System
|
|||
|
|
DOT - Department Of Transportation
|
|||
|
|
DOT&E - Director, Operational Test and Evaluation
|
|||
|
|
DP - Data Processing
|
|||
|
|
DP - Dial Pulse
|
|||
|
|
DP - Displaced Persons (expelled from native land)
|
|||
|
|
DP - Display Postscript
|
|||
|
|
DP - Double Play
|
|||
|
|
DP - Draft Proposal
|
|||
|
|
DPA - Delegation of Procurement Authority
|
|||
|
|
DPANS - Draft Proposed American National Standard
|
|||
|
|
DPI - Dots Per Inch
|
|||
|
|
DPS - Display PostScript
|
|||
|
|
DQ - Dairy Queen
|
|||
|
|
DQ - Dragon Quest
|
|||
|
|
DQL - Database Query Language
|
|||
|
|
DR - Dead Reckoning
|
|||
|
|
DR - Dining Room
|
|||
|
|
DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory (as opposed to static RAM)
|
|||
|
|
DRD - Data Reading Device
|
|||
|
|
DRE - Directional Reservation Equipment
|
|||
|
|
DRG - Democratic Republic of Germany (East Germany)
|
|||
|
|
DRI - Digital Research, Incorporated
|
|||
|
|
DS - Double-Sided
|
|||
|
|
DSA - Dial System Assistance
|
|||
|
|
DSE - Data Structure Editor
|
|||
|
|
DSEE - Domain Software Engineering Environment
|
|||
|
|
DSM - Distinguished Service Medal
|
|||
|
|
DSO - Distinguished Service Order
|
|||
|
|
DSP - Decessit Sine Prole (died without issue)
|
|||
|
|
DSP - Digital Signal Processing
|
|||
|
|
DSRI - Digital Standard Relational Interface
|
|||
|
|
DSS - Decision Support System
|
|||
|
|
DSS - Direct Station Selection
|
|||
|
|
DST - Daylight Saving Time
|
|||
|
|
DSTN - Double SuperTwisted Nematic
|
|||
|
|
DT - Delirium Tremens
|
|||
|
|
DTE - Data Terminal Equipment
|
|||
|
|
DTF - Dial Tone First payphone
|
|||
|
|
DTMF - Dial Tone Multi Frequency
|
|||
|
|
DTP - DeskTop Publishing
|
|||
|
|
DTR - Data Terminal Ready
|
|||
|
|
DUI - Driving Under the Influence
|
|||
|
|
DUT - Device Under Test
|
|||
|
|
DV - Deo Vo lente (God willing)
|
|||
|
|
DVM - Digital Volt Meter
|
|||
|
|
DVM - Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
|
|||
|
|
DWAPS - Defense Warehousing Automated Processing System
|
|||
|
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DWI - Driving While Intoxicated
|
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DWIM - Do What I Mean
|
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|
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DX - Distance (as in long distance radio communication)
|
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|
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DXT - Data eXtractT facility
|
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|
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E - East
|
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|
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E - Espionage
|
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|
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E&EO - Errors and Omissions Excepted
|
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|
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E-MAIL - Electronic MAIL
|
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|
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EADASS - Engineering and Administrative Data AcquiSition System
|
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|
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EAS - Extended Area Service (or Engineering Admin. System)
|
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|
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EBCDIC - Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
|
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|
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ECAFE - Economic Commission for Africa and the Far East
|
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|
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ECASS - Electronically Controlled Automatic Switching System
|
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|
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ECASS - Export Control Automated Support System
|
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|
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ECC - Error Correction Code
|
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|
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ECCM - Electronic Counter-CounterMeasures
|
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|
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ECDO - Electronic Community Dial Office
|
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|
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ECG - ElectroCardioGram
|
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|
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ECL - Emitter Coupled Logic (see also TTL)
|
|||
|
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ECM - Electronic Counter Measure
|
|||
|
|
ECM - European Common Market
|
|||
|
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ECO - Electronic Central Office
|
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|
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ECO - Engineering Change Order
|
|||
|
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ECT - ElectroConvulsive Therapy
|
|||
|
|
ED&D - Expert Dungeons & Dragons
|
|||
|
|
EDGAR - Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval
|
|||
|
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EDI - Electronic Data Interchange
|
|||
|
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EDIF - Electronic Design Interchange Format
|
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|
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EDP - Electronic Data Processing
|
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|
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EDS - Electronic Data Systems
|
|||
|
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EDT - Eastern Daylight Time
|
|||
|
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EDTA - Ethylene Diamine Tetraacetic Acid
|
|||
|
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EDTCC - Electronic Data Transmission Communications Central
|
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|
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EE - Electrical Engineer
|
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|
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EE - Electrical or Electronics Engineer
|
|||
|
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EEC - European Economic Community
|
|||
|
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EEG - ElectroEncephaloGram
|
|||
|
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EEL - Epsilon Extension Language
|
|||
|
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EEPROM - Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
|
|||
|
|
EGA - Enhanced Graphics Adapter
|
|||
|
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EHF - Extremely High Frequency (30-300GHz)
|
|||
|
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EINE - EINE Is Not Emacs
|
|||
|
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EISA - Extended Industry-Standard Architecture
|
|||
|
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EISS - European Intelligence Support System
|
|||
|
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EKG - ElectroKardioGramm (see ECG)
|
|||
|
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EL - ElectroLuminescent (as in display)
|
|||
|
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ELF - Extremely Low Frequency
|
|||
|
|
ELO - Electric Light Orchestra
|
|||
|
|
ELP - Emerson, Lake and Palmer (or Powell)
|
|||
|
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EM - Enlisted Man (see EW)
|
|||
|
|
EMA - Electronic Mail Association
|
|||
|
|
EMACS - Editor MACroS
|
|||
|
|
EMACS - Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping
|
|||
|
|
EMF - ElectroMotive Force
|
|||
|
|
EMI - ElectroMagnetic Interference
|
|||
|
|
EMP - Electromagnetic Pulse
|
|||
|
|
EMPRESS - EnvironMental Pulse Radiation Environment Simulator for Ships
|
|||
|
|
EMR - ElectroMagnetic Response
|
|||
|
|
EMS - Electronic Message System
|
|||
|
|
EMS - Extended Memory Specification
|
|||
|
|
EMT - Emergency Medical Technician
|
|||
|
|
EMU - ElectroMagnetic Unit
|
|||
|
|
ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator
|
|||
|
|
ENS - ENSign
|
|||
|
|
EO - End Office
|
|||
|
|
EO - Erasable Optical
|
|||
|
|
EOF - End Of File
|
|||
|
|
EOM - End Of Month
|
|||
|
|
EP - Experience Points
|
|||
|
|
EP - Extended Play
|
|||
|
|
EPA - Environmental Protection Agency
|
|||
|
|
EPOS - Engineering and Project-management Oriented Support system
|
|||
|
|
EPRI - Electric Power Research Institute
|
|||
|
|
EPROM - Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
|
|||
|
|
EPS - Encapsulated PostScript
|
|||
|
|
EPT - Empire of the Petal Throne
|
|||
|
|
EQ - Educational Quotient (see IQ)
|
|||
|
|
ER - Emergency Room
|
|||
|
|
ERA - Earned Run Average
|
|||
|
|
ERA - Entity-Relationship-Attribute
|
|||
|
|
ERA - Equal Rights Amendment
|
|||
|
|
ERD - Entity-Relation Diagram
|
|||
|
|
ERE - Entity Relationship Editor
|
|||
|
|
ES - Expert System
|
|||
|
|
ESA - European Space Agency
|
|||
|
|
ESAC - Electronic Systems Assistance Center
|
|||
|
|
ESDI - Enhanced Standard Device Interface
|
|||
|
|
ESE - East South East
|
|||
|
|
ESM - Electronic Support Measures
|
|||
|
|
ESO - European Southern Observatory
|
|||
|
|
ESP - Extra Sensory Perception
|
|||
|
|
ESPS - Entropic Signal Processing System
|
|||
|
|
ESS - Electronic Switching System
|
|||
|
|
ESSEX - Experimental Solid State EXchange
|
|||
|
|
EST - Eastern Standard Time
|
|||
|
|
ET - Eastern Time
|
|||
|
|
ET - ExtraTerrestrial
|
|||
|
|
ETA - Estimated Time of Arrival
|
|||
|
|
ETC - Et cetera, and so on...
|
|||
|
|
ETD - Estimated Time of Departure
|
|||
|
|
ETFD - Electronic Toll Fraud Device
|
|||
|
|
ETH - Eidgnoessiche Techniche Hochschule
|
|||
|
|
ETS - Electronic Translator System
|
|||
|
|
ETV - Education TeleVision
|
|||
|
|
EUUG - European Unix User Group
|
|||
|
|
EVA - ExtraVehicular Activity
|
|||
|
|
EVX - Electronic Voice eXchange
|
|||
|
|
EW - Electronic Warfare
|
|||
|
|
EW - Enlisted Woman (see EM)
|
|||
|
|
EWOS - European Workshop for Open Systems
|
|||
|
|
FA - Football Association (British soccer--a word derived from Association)
|
|||
|
|
FAA - Federal Aviation Agency
|
|||
|
|
FACD - Foreign Area Customer Dialing
|
|||
|
|
FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the united states
|
|||
|
|
FAR - Federal Acquisition Regulations
|
|||
|
|
FAS - Foreign Agricultural Service
|
|||
|
|
FAS - Free Alongside Ship
|
|||
|
|
FASST - Flexible Architecture Standard System Technology
|
|||
|
|
FAT - Foreign Area Translation
|
|||
|
|
FAX - FAcsimile
|
|||
|
|
FB - Freight Bill
|
|||
|
|
FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation
|
|||
|
|
FCC - Federal Communication Commission
|
|||
|
|
FCC - Federal Computer Conference
|
|||
|
|
FDA - Food and Drug Administration
|
|||
|
|
FDDI - Fiber Distributed Data Interface
|
|||
|
|
FDHD - Floppy Drive High Density
|
|||
|
|
FDIC - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
|
|||
|
|
FDM - Frequency Division Multiplexing
|
|||
|
|
FDR - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
|
|||
|
|
FEA - Finite Element Analysis
|
|||
|
|
FEDSIM - FEDeral Systems Integration and Management center
|
|||
|
|
FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency
|
|||
|
|
FEPC - Fair Employment Practices Commission
|
|||
|
|
FERS - Federal Employees Retirement System
|
|||
|
|
FET - Federal Excise Tax
|
|||
|
|
FET - Field Effect Transistor
|
|||
|
|
FFA - Future Farmers of America
|
|||
|
|
FFT - Fast Fourier Transform
|
|||
|
|
FHA - Federal Home Administration
|
|||
|
|
FHA - Future Homemakers of America
|
|||
|
|
FIB - Focused Ion Beam
|
|||
|
|
FICA - Federal Insurance Contributions Act
|
|||
|
|
FIDO - Fog Investigation Dispersal Operation
|
|||
|
|
FIFO - First In First Out (as in registers and buffers)
|
|||
|
|
FILO - First In Last Out (see also FIFO)
|
|||
|
|
FIMS - Forms Interface Management System
|
|||
|
|
FINE - FINE Is Not Emacs
|
|||
|
|
FIO - Frequency In and Out
|
|||
|
|
FIPS - Federal Information Processing Standard
|
|||
|
|
FIR - Finite Impulse Response
|
|||
|
|
FIRMR - Federal Information Resource Management Regulation
|
|||
|
|
FIT - Federal Information Technologies, inc.
|
|||
|
|
FL - Florida
|
|||
|
|
FLACC - Full Level Algol Checkout Compiler
|
|||
|
|
FLOPS - FLoating-point OPerations per Second
|
|||
|
|
FLRA - Federal Labor Relations Authority
|
|||
|
|
FM - Frequency Modulation
|
|||
|
|
FMB - Federal Maritime Board
|
|||
|
|
FMCS - Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
|
|||
|
|
FMS - Financial Management Service (Treasury Dept)
|
|||
|
|
FMS - Forms Management System
|
|||
|
|
FO - Foreign Office
|
|||
|
|
FO - Forward Observer
|
|||
|
|
FOAC - Federal Office Automation Center
|
|||
|
|
FOB - Free On Board
|
|||
|
|
FOC - Free Of Charge
|
|||
|
|
FOIA - Freedom Of Information Act
|
|||
|
|
FOIMS - Field Office Information Management System
|
|||
|
|
FOOBAR - See FUBAR
|
|||
|
|
FOR - Free On Rail
|
|||
|
|
FORCS - Faa's Operational Reporting Communication System
|
|||
|
|
FORD - Fix Or Repair Daily
|
|||
|
|
FORD - Found On Road Dead
|
|||
|
|
FORTRAN - FORmula TRANslator
|
|||
|
|
FOSE - Federal Office Systems Exposition
|
|||
|
|
FOT - Free On Truck
|
|||
|
|
FOV - Field Of View
|
|||
|
|
FPA - Floating Point Accelerator
|
|||
|
|
FPC - Fish Protein Concentrate
|
|||
|
|
FPE - Floating Point Engine
|
|||
|
|
FPHA - Federal Public Housing Authority
|
|||
|
|
FPLA - Field Programmable Logic Array (see PLA)
|
|||
|
|
FPM - Feet Per Minute
|
|||
|
|
FPO - Field Post Office
|
|||
|
|
FPO - Fleet Post Office
|
|||
|
|
FPS - Feet Per Second
|
|||
|
|
FRACTAL - FRACTional dimensionAL
|
|||
|
|
FRED - Fred Resembles Emacs Deliberately
|
|||
|
|
FRG - Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)
|
|||
|
|
FROG - Free Rocket Over Ground
|
|||
|
|
FRPG - Fantasy Role Playing Game
|
|||
|
|
FRS - Federal Reserve System
|
|||
|
|
FSF - Free Software Foundation
|
|||
|
|
FSK - Frequency Shift Keying
|
|||
|
|
FSLIC - Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
|
|||
|
|
FSS - Federal Supply Service
|
|||
|
|
FSW - Forward Swept Wings
|
|||
|
|
FT - Foot
|
|||
|
|
FTAM - File Transfer And Management
|
|||
|
|
FTC - Federal Trade Commission
|
|||
|
|
FTL - Faster Than Light
|
|||
|
|
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
|
|||
|
|
FTS - Federal Telephone System
|
|||
|
|
FUBAR - F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition
|
|||
|
|
FW - Fringeworthy
|
|||
|
|
FWD - Front Wheel Drive
|
|||
|
|
FWHM - Full Width at Half Maximum
|
|||
|
|
FX - Foreign eXchange
|
|||
|
|
FY - Fiscal Year
|
|||
|
|
FYI - For Your Information
|
|||
|
|
GA - Gamblers Anonymous
|
|||
|
|
GA - General Assembly
|
|||
|
|
GA - General Average
|
|||
|
|
GA - General of the Army
|
|||
|
|
GA - Georgia
|
|||
|
|
GAAP - Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
|
|||
|
|
GAN - Global Area Network
|
|||
|
|
GAR - Grand Army of the Republic
|
|||
|
|
GATT - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
|
|||
|
|
GAW - Guaranteed Annual Wage
|
|||
|
|
GB - Gangbusters
|
|||
|
|
GB - GigaByte
|
|||
|
|
GB - Great Britain
|
|||
|
|
GBIP - General Purpose Interface Bus
|
|||
|
|
GC - Garbage Collection (LISP)
|
|||
|
|
GC - Gas Chromatograph (or Chromatography)
|
|||
|
|
GCA - Ground Controlled Approach
|
|||
|
|
GCC - Gnu C Compiler
|
|||
|
|
GCD - Ground Controlled Descent
|
|||
|
|
GCL - Graphics Command Language
|
|||
|
|
GCM - General Court Martial
|
|||
|
|
GCR - Group-Coded Recording (magnetic tape, 6250 bpi)
|
|||
|
|
GCT - Greenwich Civil Time
|
|||
|
|
GDB - Gnu DeBugger
|
|||
|
|
GE - General Electric
|
|||
|
|
GEM - Graphics Environment Manager
|
|||
|
|
GHQ - General HeadQuarters
|
|||
|
|
GHz - Giga HertZ (unit of frequency, 1,000,000,000 cycles per second)
|
|||
|
|
GI - Galvanized Iron
|
|||
|
|
GI - Gastro Intestinal (as in upper GI)
|
|||
|
|
GI - General Issue
|
|||
|
|
GI - Government Issue
|
|||
|
|
GIF - Graphics Interchange Format
|
|||
|
|
GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out
|
|||
|
|
GIN - Graphics INput
|
|||
|
|
GISS - Goddard Institute for Space Studies
|
|||
|
|
GKS - Graphical Kernel Standard
|
|||
|
|
GM - Game Master
|
|||
|
|
GM - General Manager
|
|||
|
|
GM - General Motors
|
|||
|
|
GM - Guided Missile
|
|||
|
|
GMBH - Gesellschaft Mit Beschraenkter Haftung
|
|||
|
|
GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
|
|||
|
|
GNP - Gross National Product
|
|||
|
|
GNU - GNU's Not Unix
|
|||
|
|
GOES - Geostationary Orbiting Environmental Satellites
|
|||
|
|
GOSIP - Government OSI Profile
|
|||
|
|
GP - General Practitioner
|
|||
|
|
GPI - Graphics Programming Interface
|
|||
|
|
GPIB - General-Purpose Interface Bus
|
|||
|
|
GPO - General Post Office
|
|||
|
|
GPO - Government Printing Office
|
|||
|
|
GPS - Global Positioning System
|
|||
|
|
GQ - General Quarters
|
|||
|
|
GRB - Gamma Ray Burst(er)
|
|||
|
|
GREP - Global Regular Expression Print, g/re/p, (UNIX command)
|
|||
|
|
GRO - Gamma Ray Observatory
|
|||
|
|
GS - General Schedule
|
|||
|
|
GS - Glide Slope
|
|||
|
|
GSA - General Services Administration
|
|||
|
|
GSA - Girl Scouts of America
|
|||
|
|
GSBCA - General Services administration Board of Contract Appeals
|
|||
|
|
GSFC - Goddard Space Flight Center
|
|||
|
|
GSTS - Ground-based Surveillance and Tracking System
|
|||
|
|
GT - Gross Ton
|
|||
|
|
GTE - General Telephone and Electric
|
|||
|
|
GTSI - Government Technology Services, inc.
|
|||
|
|
GUI - Graphical User Interface
|
|||
|
|
GW - Gamma World
|
|||
|
|
GWEN - Ground Wave Emergency Network
|
|||
|
|
H - Harn
|
|||
|
|
H - Height
|
|||
|
|
HACD - Home Area Customer Dialing
|
|||
|
|
HAL - Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer (2001)
|
|||
|
|
HAM - Hold And Modify
|
|||
|
|
HBM - Her British Majesty; His British Majesty
|
|||
|
|
HBO - Home Box Office
|
|||
|
|
HC - Holy Communion
|
|||
|
|
HC - House of Commons
|
|||
|
|
HCFA - Health Care Financing Administration
|
|||
|
|
HCL - High Cost of Living
|
|||
|
|
HD - Hard Disk
|
|||
|
|
HD - Heavy Duty
|
|||
|
|
HDA - Head Disk Assembly (in winchester disk drives)
|
|||
|
|
HDBV - Host Data Base View
|
|||
|
|
HDL - High Density Lipoprotein
|
|||
|
|
HDLC - High-level Data Link Control (IBM network stuff)
|
|||
|
|
HDTV - High Definition Television
|
|||
|
|
HE - His Eminence; His Excellency
|
|||
|
|
HEAO - High Energy Astronomical Observatory
|
|||
|
|
HEMP - Help End Marijuana Prohibition
|
|||
|
|
HERO - Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance
|
|||
|
|
HF - High Fantasy
|
|||
|
|
HF - High Frequency (3-30MHz)
|
|||
|
|
HFE - Human Factors Engineering
|
|||
|
|
HFS - Hierarchical File System
|
|||
|
|
HI - Hawaii
|
|||
|
|
HIIPS - Hud Integrated Information Processing Services
|
|||
|
|
HLL - High-Level Language
|
|||
|
|
HMOS - High performance Metal Oxide Semiconductor (see MOS)
|
|||
|
|
HMS - His/Her Majesty's Ship
|
|||
|
|
HMT - His/Her Majesty's Transport
|
|||
|
|
HNPA - Home Numbering Plan Area
|
|||
|
|
HOBIS - HOtel Billing Information System
|
|||
|
|
HOL - High-Order System
|
|||
|
|
HP - Hewlett Packard, inc.
|
|||
|
|
HP - High Pressure
|
|||
|
|
HP - Higher Power (sort of an AA "in" term, usually God)
|
|||
|
|
HP - Hit Points
|
|||
|
|
HP - HorsePower
|
|||
|
|
HPGe - High Purity Germanium
|
|||
|
|
HPL/T - High-Productivity Languages/Tools
|
|||
|
|
HQ - HeadQuarters
|
|||
|
|
HR - House of Representatives
|
|||
|
|
HRH - Her Royal Highness
|
|||
|
|
HRH - His Royal Highness
|
|||
|
|
HS - High School
|
|||
|
|
HSB - Hue, Saturation, Brightness
|
|||
|
|
HST - Hawaiian Standard Time
|
|||
|
|
HT - High Tension (as in electric power transmission)
|
|||
|
|
HTK - Hits To Kill
|
|||
|
|
HUAC - House Unamerican Activities Committee
|
|||
|
|
HUD - Heads Up Display
|
|||
|
|
HUD - Housing and Urban Development
|
|||
|
|
HVAC - Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning
|
|||
|
|
HW2000 - Highway 2000
|
|||
|
|
HWM - High-Water Mark
|
|||
|
|
Hb - HemogloBin
|
|||
|
|
Hz - HertZ (unit of frequency, cycles per second)
|
|||
|
|
I/O - Input/Output
|
|||
|
|
IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency
|
|||
|
|
IATA - International Air Transport Association
|
|||
|
|
IBM - International Business Machines, inc.
|
|||
|
|
IC - Integrated Circuit
|
|||
|
|
ICB - Interstate Computer Bank
|
|||
|
|
ICBM - InterContinental Ballistic Missile
|
|||
|
|
ICE - In-Circuit Emulator
|
|||
|
|
ICI - Imperial Chemical Industries
|
|||
|
|
ICJ - International Court of Justice
|
|||
|
|
ICL - International Computers Ltd.
|
|||
|
|
ICP - Integrated Channel Processor
|
|||
|
|
ICP - Inventory Control Points
|
|||
|
|
ICRC - International Cosmic Ray Conference
|
|||
|
|
ID - IDentification
|
|||
|
|
ID - Idaho
|
|||
|
|
IDA - Intercommunication Data Areas
|
|||
|
|
IDA - International Development Association
|
|||
|
|
IDDD - International Direct Distance Dialing
|
|||
|
|
IDE - Interactive Development Environments, inc
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IDF - Intermediate Distributing Frame
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IE - Indo-European
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IEE - Institute of Electrical Engineers (UK)
|
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IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
|
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IF - Intermediate Frequency (as in IF stage)
|
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IFB - Invitation For Bids
|
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IFC - International Finance Corporation
|
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IFC - International Freighting Corporation
|
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IFF - Identification - Friend or Foe
|
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IFF - Interchange File Format
|
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IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations
|
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IGES - Initial Graphics Exchange Standard
|
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IGY - International Geophysical Year
|
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IHP - Indicated HorsePower
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IHS - Integrated Hospital Support
|
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IIA - Information Industry Association
|
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IIE - Institute of Industrial Engineers
|
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IIHF - International Ice Hockey Federation
|
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IIL - Integrated Injection Logic
|
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ILO - International Labor Organization
|
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ILS - Instrument Landing System
|
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IMF - International Monetary Fund
|
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IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
|
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IMP - Interface Message Processor (ARPAnet)
|
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IMSL - International Mathematical Subroutine Library
|
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IN - Indiana
|
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INADS - INitialization and ADministration System
|
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INRA - Iesus Nazerenus Rex Iudaeorum (Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews)
|
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INRIA - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique
|
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INS - Immigration and Naturalization Service
|
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INSTITUTE - INSTITUTE's Name Shows That It's Totally Unrelated To EMACS
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INTAP - INteroperability Technology Association for information Processing
|
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INWATS - INward Wide Area Telephone Service
|
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IO - Input/Output (sometimes I/O)
|
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IOD - Identified Outward Dialing
|
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IOOF - International Order of Odd Fellows
|
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IOU - I Owe you (U)
|
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IP - Innings Pitched
|
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IP - Intermediate Point
|
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IPC - Inter-Process Communication
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IPE - Integrated Programming Environment
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IPMS - InterPersonal Message Services
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IPS - Information Processing Standards
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IPSE - Integrated Project-Support Environment
|
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IQ - Intelligence Quotient (see EQ)
|
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IR - Index Register
|
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IRA - Individual Retirement Account
|
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IRA - Irish Republican Army
|
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IRAS - Infrared Astronomical Satellite
|
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IRBM - Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile
|
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IRDS - Information Resource Dictionary Standard
|
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IRDS - InfraRed Detection Set
|
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IRE - Institute of Radio Engineers (old name for the now IEEE, which see)
|
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IRM - Information Resources Management
|
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IRMS - Information Resources Management Service
|
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IRS - Internal Revenue Service
|
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IS - Information Systems
|
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IS - International Standard
|
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ISA - Industry-Standard Architecture
|
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ISAM - Indexed Sequential Access Method
|
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ISBD - International Bibliographic Description
|
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ISC - Information Services Center
|
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|
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ISC - International Switching Center
|
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|
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ISCH - Interstitial-Cell-Stimulating Hormone (same as LH)
|
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|
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ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
|
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|
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ISDT - Integrated Systems Development Tool
|
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|
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ISEE - International Sun Earth Explorer (usually ISEE-3)
|
|||
|
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ISF - Information Systems Factory
|
|||
|
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ISFUG - Integrated Software Federal User Group
|
|||
|
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ISO - International Standards Organization
|
|||
|
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ISOO - Information Security Oversight Office
|
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|
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ISPM - International Solar Polar Mission
|
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|
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ISR - Institute of Snow Research
|
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|
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ISRG - Independent Space Research Group
|
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|
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ISV - Independent Software Vendor
|
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|
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IT - Industrial Technology
|
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|
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IT - Information Technology
|
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|
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ITC - Inter-Task Communication
|
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|
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ITS - Incompatible Timesharing System
|
|||
|
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ITT - International Telephone and Telegraph
|
|||
|
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ITU - International Telecommunications Union
|
|||
|
|
ITUSA - IT Users Standards Association
|
|||
|
|
IUS - Inertial Upper Stage
|
|||
|
|
JACM - Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery
|
|||
|
|
JBS - John Birch Society
|
|||
|
|
JC - Jesus Christ
|
|||
|
|
JC - Joint Compound (plumbing)
|
|||
|
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JC - Julius Caesar
|
|||
|
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JC - Junior College
|
|||
|
|
JCA - Jewelry Crafts Association
|
|||
|
|
JCAC - Joint Civil Affairs Committee
|
|||
|
|
JCAE - Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
|
|||
|
|
JCEE - Joint Council on Economic Education
|
|||
|
|
JCET - Joint Council on Educational Television
|
|||
|
|
JCS - Joint Chiefs of Staff
|
|||
|
|
JD - Justice Department
|
|||
|
|
JDS - John Dewey Society
|
|||
|
|
JES - John Ericsson Society
|
|||
|
|
JFK - John F. Kennedy (international airport)
|
|||
|
|
JFMIP - Joint Financial Management Improvement Program
|
|||
|
|
JGR - Journal of Geophysical Research
|
|||
|
|
JI - Justice, Inc.
|
|||
|
|
JIC - Joint Intelligence Center
|
|||
|
|
JIC - Just in Case
|
|||
|
|
JIM - Job Information Memorandum
|
|||
|
|
JINTACCS - Joint INteroperability of TActical Command and Control Systems
|
|||
|
|
JIS - Japan Industrial Standards
|
|||
|
|
JISC - Japanese Industrial Standards Committee
|
|||
|
|
JIT - Just In Time
|
|||
|
|
JMS - John Milton Society
|
|||
|
|
JO - Job Order
|
|||
|
|
JO - Junior Officer
|
|||
|
|
JOVE - Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs
|
|||
|
|
JOVIAL - Jules Own Version of the International Algorithmic Language
|
|||
|
|
JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
|
|||
|
|
JRC - Junior Red Cross
|
|||
|
|
JSC - Johnson Space Center
|
|||
|
|
JSD - Jackson System Development
|
|||
|
|
JSRC - Joint Services Review Committee
|
|||
|
|
JTIDS - Joint Tactical Information Distribution Systems
|
|||
|
|
JV - Junior Varsity
|
|||
|
|
K&R - Kernighan and Ritchie, the c programming language
|
|||
|
|
K9 - canine (K9 corps - army dogs)
|
|||
|
|
KB - KiloByte
|
|||
|
|
KC - King's Counsel (QC when queen reigning)
|
|||
|
|
KC - Knights of Columbus
|
|||
|
|
KD - Kiln Dried
|
|||
|
|
KD - Knocked Down
|
|||
|
|
KDCI - Key Display Call Indicator
|
|||
|
|
KERMIT - Kl-10 Error-free Reciprocal Micro Interconnect over Tty lines
|
|||
|
|
KHz - Kilo HertZ (unit of frequency, 1000 cycles per second)
|
|||
|
|
KI - Kiwanis International
|
|||
|
|
KIA - Killed In Action
|
|||
|
|
KIAS - Knot Indicated Air Speed
|
|||
|
|
KO - Knock Out
|
|||
|
|
KP - Key Pulse
|
|||
|
|
KP - Kitchen Police
|
|||
|
|
KPNO - Kitt Peak National Observatory
|
|||
|
|
KPO - KeyPunch Operator
|
|||
|
|
KQC - King's College London
|
|||
|
|
KS - King's Scholar
|
|||
|
|
KSC - Kennedy Space Center
|
|||
|
|
KSU - Key Service Unit
|
|||
|
|
KTS - Key Telephone System
|
|||
|
|
KTU - Key Telephone Unit
|
|||
|
|
KWIC - Key Word In Context
|
|||
|
|
KY - Kentucky
|
|||
|
|
LA - Los Angeles
|
|||
|
|
LA - Louisiana
|
|||
|
|
LA - Low Altitude
|
|||
|
|
LADAR - LAser Detection And Ranging
|
|||
|
|
LAM - Master of Liberal Arts
|
|||
|
|
LAMA - Local Automatic Message Accounting
|
|||
|
|
LAN - Local Apparent Noon
|
|||
|
|
LAN - Local Area Network
|
|||
|
|
LAR - Local Acquisition Radar
|
|||
|
|
LASER - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
|
|||
|
|
LAT - Local Apparent Time
|
|||
|
|
LATA - Local Access Transport Area
|
|||
|
|
LAX - Los Angeles International Airport
|
|||
|
|
LB - Light Bomber
|
|||
|
|
LB - pound (LiBra)
|
|||
|
|
LBHS - Long Beach High School
|
|||
|
|
LBL - Lawrence Berkeley Labs
|
|||
|
|
LC - inductor-Capacitor circuit (as in filters, L is symbol inductance)
|
|||
|
|
LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
|
|||
|
|
LCD - Lowest Common Denominator
|
|||
|
|
LCDR - Lieutenant Commander
|
|||
|
|
LCM - Life Cycle Management
|
|||
|
|
LCT - Landing Craft Tanks
|
|||
|
|
LDEF - Long Duration Exposure Facility
|
|||
|
|
LDL - Low Density Lipoprotein
|
|||
|
|
LDX - Long Distance eXtender
|
|||
|
|
LEAP - Low-power Enhanced At Portable
|
|||
|
|
LED - Light Emitting Diode
|
|||
|
|
LEM - Lunar Excursion Module
|
|||
|
|
LF - Low Frequency (30-300KHz)
|
|||
|
|
LH - Left Hand
|
|||
|
|
LH - Lower Half
|
|||
|
|
LH - Luteinizing Hormone (same as ISCH)
|
|||
|
|
LHD - Litterarum Humaniorum Doctor (doctor of human letters)
|
|||
|
|
LHS - Left Hand Side
|
|||
|
|
LI - Long Island
|
|||
|
|
LIFIA - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale et d'Intelligence Artificielle
|
|||
|
|
LIFO - Last In First Out (see FIFO)
|
|||
|
|
LINC - Laboratory INstrument Computer
|
|||
|
|
LISP - LISt Processing Language
|
|||
|
|
LIU - Line Interface Unit
|
|||
|
|
LL - Late Latin
|
|||
|
|
LL - Long Lines
|
|||
|
|
LLAMA - Logic Lacking A Meaningful Acronym
|
|||
|
|
LLB - Legum Baccalaureus (bachelor of laws)
|
|||
|
|
LLD - Legum doctor (doctor of laws)
|
|||
|
|
LLN - Line Link Network
|
|||
|
|
LLNL - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
|
|||
|
|
LLP - Line Link Pulsing
|
|||
|
|
LM - Life Master (Contract Bridge ranking)
|
|||
|
|
LM - Lunar Module
|
|||
|
|
LMC - Large Magellanic Cloud (see SMC)
|
|||
|
|
LMOS - Line Maintenance Operations System
|
|||
|
|
LNG - Liquified Natural Gas
|
|||
|
|
LOA - Lands of Adventure
|
|||
|
|
LOOPS - Lisp Object Oriented Programming System
|
|||
|
|
LOP - Lines Of Position
|
|||
|
|
LOTS - Low Overhead Timesharing System
|
|||
|
|
LP - Long Playing record
|
|||
|
|
LP - Low Pressure
|
|||
|
|
LPC - Linear Predictive Coding (speech processing)
|
|||
|
|
LPDA - Link Problem Determination Aid
|
|||
|
|
LPF - League for Programming Freedom
|
|||
|
|
LPG - Liquified Petroleum Gas
|
|||
|
|
LPG - Low Pressure Gas
|
|||
|
|
LPN - Licensed Practical Nurse
|
|||
|
|
LPP - Licensed Program Products
|
|||
|
|
LPR - Line PrinteR
|
|||
|
|
LRBM - Long Range Ballistic Missile
|
|||
|
|
LRC - Longitudinal Redundancy Character
|
|||
|
|
LRU - Line Replaceable Unit
|
|||
|
|
LS - Left Side
|
|||
|
|
LS - Letter Signed
|
|||
|
|
LS - Locus Sigilli (place of seal)
|
|||
|
|
LSB - Least Significant Bit; Least Significant Byte
|
|||
|
|
LSC - LightSpeed C
|
|||
|
|
LSD - Least Significant Digit
|
|||
|
|
LSD - LySergic acid Diethylamide
|
|||
|
|
LSD - pounds (Libra), shillings (Sestertii), and (old) pence (Denarii)
|
|||
|
|
LSI - Large Scale Integration
|
|||
|
|
LSP - LightSpeed Pascal
|
|||
|
|
LSS - Life Support System
|
|||
|
|
LSS - Loop Switching System
|
|||
|
|
LSSD - Level-Sensitive Scan Detection
|
|||
|
|
LT - Long Ton
|
|||
|
|
LT - Low Tension
|
|||
|
|
LTC - Lieutenant Colonel
|
|||
|
|
LTJG - Lieutenant Junior Grade
|
|||
|
|
LTL - Less than Truckload Lot
|
|||
|
|
LUG - Local Users Group
|
|||
|
|
LUT - Look-Up Table
|
|||
|
|
LWM - Low-Water Mark
|
|||
|
|
LZ - Landing Zone
|
|||
|
|
M - Miniatures
|
|||
|
|
MA - Massachusetts
|
|||
|
|
MAAP - Maintenance And Administration Panel
|
|||
|
|
MAC - Military Air Command
|
|||
|
|
MACSYMA - project MAC's SYmbolic MAnipulation System
|
|||
|
|
MAD - Mutual Assured Destruction
|
|||
|
|
MADD - Mothers Against Drunk Driving
|
|||
|
|
MAG - Magazine
|
|||
|
|
MAN - Metropolitan Area Network
|
|||
|
|
MAP - Manufacturing Automation Protocol
|
|||
|
|
MARBI - MAchine Readable form of Bibliographic Information
|
|||
|
|
MARC - MAchine Readable card Catalog
|
|||
|
|
MARS - Multiuser Archival and Retrieval System
|
|||
|
|
MASC - Multiple Award Schedule Contract
|
|||
|
|
MASER - Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
|
|||
|
|
MASH - Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
|
|||
|
|
MAST - Multi-Application SOnar Trainer
|
|||
|
|
MAT-CALS - Marine Air Traffic-Control And Landing System
|
|||
|
|
MAU - Math Acceleration Unit
|
|||
|
|
MB - MegaByte
|
|||
|
|
MBA - Master Business Administration
|
|||
|
|
MC - Master of Ceremonies
|
|||
|
|
MCA - Micro Channel Architecture
|
|||
|
|
MCAE - Mechanical Computer Aided Engineering
|
|||
|
|
MCC - Master Control Console
|
|||
|
|
MCC - Microelectronics and Computer technology Corporation
|
|||
|
|
MCP - Master Control Program
|
|||
|
|
MCP/AS - Master Control Program/Advanced System
|
|||
|
|
MCPO - Master Chief Petty Officer
|
|||
|
|
MD - Maryland
|
|||
|
|
MD - Medical Doctor
|
|||
|
|
MD - Months after Date
|
|||
|
|
MDAS - Magnetic Drum Auxiliary Sender
|
|||
|
|
MDE - Modular Design Environment
|
|||
|
|
MDF - Main Distribution Frame
|
|||
|
|
MDT - Mean Down Time
|
|||
|
|
ME - Maine
|
|||
|
|
ME - Mechanical Engineer
|
|||
|
|
MERP - Middle-Earth Role Playing
|
|||
|
|
MEd - Master of EDucation
|
|||
|
|
MF - Medium Frequency (300-3000KHz)
|
|||
|
|
MF - Middle French
|
|||
|
|
MF - Multi-Frequency
|
|||
|
|
MFA - Master Fine Arts
|
|||
|
|
MFLOPS - Million FLoating-point OPerations per Second
|
|||
|
|
MFM - Modified Frequency Modulation
|
|||
|
|
MFS - Macintosh File System
|
|||
|
|
MG - Machine Gun
|
|||
|
|
MG - Major General
|
|||
|
|
MG - Military Government
|
|||
|
|
MGH - Massachusetts General Hospital
|
|||
|
|
MGM - Metro-Goldwyn Mayer
|
|||
|
|
MHD - MagnetoHydroDynamics
|
|||
|
|
MHz - Mega HertZ (unit of frequency, 1,000,000 cycles per second)
|
|||
|
|
MI - Michigan
|
|||
|
|
MI - Military Intelligence
|
|||
|
|
MIA - Missing In Action
|
|||
|
|
MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface
|
|||
|
|
MIFASS - Marine Integrated Fire And Support System
|
|||
|
|
MILNET - MILitary NETwork
|
|||
|
|
MIM - Morality In Media
|
|||
|
|
MIMD - Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data
|
|||
|
|
MINCE - MINCE Is Not Complete Emacs
|
|||
|
|
MIPS - Million Instructions Per Second
|
|||
|
|
MIRV - Multiple Independently-Targetable Reentry Vehicle
|
|||
|
|
MIS - Management Information Systems
|
|||
|
|
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
|
|||
|
|
ML - Middle Latin
|
|||
|
|
MLA - Member of Legislative Assembly (see MPP)
|
|||
|
|
MLD - Minimum Lethal Dose
|
|||
|
|
MLS - Microwave Landing System
|
|||
|
|
MLS - Multi-Level Security
|
|||
|
|
MM - Maryknoll Missioners
|
|||
|
|
MMES - Martin Marietta Energy Systems
|
|||
|
|
MMFS - Manufacturing Message Format Standard
|
|||
|
|
MMM - see 3M
|
|||
|
|
MMU - Memory Management Unit
|
|||
|
|
MN - Minnesota
|
|||
|
|
MNA - Member of National Assembly (Quebec)
|
|||
|
|
MNP - Microcom Networking Protocol
|
|||
|
|
MO - Mail Order
|
|||
|
|
MO - Medical Officer
|
|||
|
|
MO - Missouri
|
|||
|
|
MO - Modus Operandi
|
|||
|
|
MO - Money Order
|
|||
|
|
MOR - Middle-Of-the-Road
|
|||
|
|
MOS - Metal Oxide Semiconductor
|
|||
|
|
MOSFET - Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
|
|||
|
|
MOTIS - Message-Oriented Text Interchange System
|
|||
|
|
MOU - Memorandum Of Understanding
|
|||
|
|
MOUSE - Minimum Orbital Unmanned Satellite of Earth
|
|||
|
|
MP - Melting Point
|
|||
|
|
MP - Member of Parliament
|
|||
|
|
MP - Metropolitan Police
|
|||
|
|
MP - Military Police(man)
|
|||
|
|
MPG - Miles Per Gallon
|
|||
|
|
MPH - Miles Per Hour
|
|||
|
|
MPP - Member of Provincial Parliament (Canada; also MLA)
|
|||
|
|
MPW - Macintosh Programmer's Workshop
|
|||
|
|
MR - Miniatures Rules
|
|||
|
|
MRP - Manufacturing Requirements Planning
|
|||
|
|
MS - ManuScript
|
|||
|
|
MS - Master of Science
|
|||
|
|
MS - Military Science
|
|||
|
|
MS - Motor Ship
|
|||
|
|
MS - Multiple Sclerosis
|
|||
|
|
MS-DOS - MicroSoft DOS
|
|||
|
|
MSB - Most Significant Bit; Most Significant Byte
|
|||
|
|
MSC - MicroSoft C
|
|||
|
|
MSCP - Mass Storage Control Protocol
|
|||
|
|
MSD - Most Significant Digit
|
|||
|
|
MSE - Mobile Subscriber Equipment
|
|||
|
|
MSG - MonoSodium Glutamate
|
|||
|
|
MSH - Marvel Super Heroes
|
|||
|
|
MSL - Mean Sea Level
|
|||
|
|
MSPE - Mercenaries, Spies & Private Eyes
|
|||
|
|
MSS - Management Support System
|
|||
|
|
MSS - ManuScriptS
|
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MSS - Mass Storage System
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MST - Mountain Standard Time
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MT - Metric Ton
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MT - Mountain Time
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MTA - Message Transfer Agent
|
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MTA - Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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MTBF - Mean Time Between Failures
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MTR - Magnetic Tape Recording
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MTSO - Mobile Telephone Switching Office
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MTTF - Mean Time To Failure
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MTV - Music TeleVision
|
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MUF - Maximum Usable Frequency (max freq during sunspot activity)
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MULTICS - MULTiplex Information Computer Services
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MUMPS - Mgh Utility MultiProgram System
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MUNG - Mung Until No Good (see the hacker's dictionary)
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|||
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MUX - MUltipleXor
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MVA - MegaVolt Ampere
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MX - Missile eXperimental
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MeV - Million Electron Volts
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N - North
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N - Notice
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NA - Narcotics Anonymous
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NA - North America
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NA - Not Applicable
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NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
|
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NAAS - North American Automated Systems co.
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NAB - National Association of Broadcasters
|
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NABISCO - NAtional BIScuit COmpany
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NACS - National Advisory Committee on Semiconductors
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NAD - Network Access Device
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NADGE - NATO Air Defense Ground Environment
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NAG - Numerical Algorithms Group
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NAGE - National Association of Government Employees
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NAK - Negative AcKnowledge
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NAPAP - National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program
|
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NAR - Nuclear Acoustic Resonance
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NARDAC - NAvy Regional Data Automation Center
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NAS - National Academy of Sciences
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NAS - National Advanced Systems
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NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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NASA/GSFC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
|
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NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
|
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NAVDAC - NAVal Data Automation Command
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NAVSWC - NAV Surface Weapons Center
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NB - New Brunswick
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NB - Nota Bene
|
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NBA - National Basketball Association
|
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NBC - National Broadcasting Company
|
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NBFM - NarrowBand Frequency Modulation
|
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NBO - Network Build Out
|
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NBS - National Bureau of Standards
|
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NBVM - Narrow Band Voice Modulation
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NC - No Charge
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NC - North Carolina
|
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NCA - Network Control Analysis
|
|||
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NCC - National Computer Conference
|
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NCDC - National Climatic Data Center
|
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|
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NCE - New Catholic Edition
|
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NCGA - National Computer Graphics Association
|
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|
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NCIC - National Cartographic Information Center
|
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NCO - Non-Commissioned Officer
|
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NCP - Network Control Program
|
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|
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NCR - National Cash Register
|
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|
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NCS - Network Computing System
|
|||
|
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NCSA - National Center for Supercomputing Applications
|
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|
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NCSC - National Computer Security Center
|
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NCTL - National Computer and Telecommunications Laboratory
|
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|
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NCV - No Commercial Value
|
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|
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ND - No Date
|
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|
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ND - North Dakota
|
|||
|
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NDA - Non-Disclosure Agreement
|
|||
|
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NDDL - Neutral Data Definition Language
|
|||
|
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NDE - News Development Environment
|
|||
|
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NDEA - National Defense Education Act
|
|||
|
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NDL - Network Database Language
|
|||
|
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NDP - New Democratic Party (Canada)
|
|||
|
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NDSL - National Direct Student Loan
|
|||
|
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NDT - Newfoundland Daylight Time
|
|||
|
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NE - New England
|
|||
|
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NE - North East
|
|||
|
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NEAR - National Electronic Accounting and Reporting system
|
|||
|
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NEB - New English Bible
|
|||
|
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NEC - Nippon Electric Company
|
|||
|
|
NEI - Not Elsewhere Included
|
|||
|
|
NES - National Energy Strategy
|
|||
|
|
NES - Not Elsewhere Specified
|
|||
|
|
NESC - National Energy Software Center
|
|||
|
|
NET - NETwork
|
|||
|
|
NET - National Educational Television
|
|||
|
|
NEWS - Network extensible Window System
|
|||
|
|
NEXRAD - NEXt generation weather RADar
|
|||
|
|
NF - No Funds
|
|||
|
|
NFC - National Football Conference
|
|||
|
|
NFFE - National Federation of Federal Employees
|
|||
|
|
NFL - National Football League
|
|||
|
|
NFS - Network File System
|
|||
|
|
NG - National Guard
|
|||
|
|
NG - No Good
|
|||
|
|
NH - New Hampshire
|
|||
|
|
NHI - National Health Insurance
|
|||
|
|
NHL - National Hockey League (the "nation" is Canada, BTW)
|
|||
|
|
NIC - Network Information Center (ARPAnet)
|
|||
|
|
NIH - National Institutes of Health
|
|||
|
|
NIH - Not Invented Here
|
|||
|
|
NIM - Nuclear Instrumentation Module (an electronic instr. standard)
|
|||
|
|
NIMH - National Institute of Mental Health
|
|||
|
|
NIS - Network Information System (formerly yp)
|
|||
|
|
NISO - National Information Standards Organization
|
|||
|
|
NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology (formerly NBS)
|
|||
|
|
NJ - New Jersey
|
|||
|
|
NL - National League (baseball)
|
|||
|
|
NLM - National Library of Medicine
|
|||
|
|
NLP - Natural Language Processing
|
|||
|
|
NLRB - National Labor Relations Board
|
|||
|
|
NLS - Network License Server
|
|||
|
|
NM - Nautical Mile
|
|||
|
|
NM - New Mexico
|
|||
|
|
NM - Night Message
|
|||
|
|
NM - No Mark; Not Marked
|
|||
|
|
NMOS - N channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor (N-MOS) (see MOS)
|
|||
|
|
NMR - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
|
|||
|
|
NNE - North North East
|
|||
|
|
NNTP - Net News Transfer Protocol
|
|||
|
|
NNW - North North West
|
|||
|
|
NOA - NSWC Office Automation
|
|||
|
|
NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
|
|||
|
|
NORAD - NORth American Defense Command
|
|||
|
|
NORML - National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
|
|||
|
|
NOS - Not Otherwise Specified
|
|||
|
|
NOSC - Naval Ocean Systems Center
|
|||
|
|
NOTIS - Network Operator Trouble Information System
|
|||
|
|
NP - No Protest
|
|||
|
|
NP - Nondeterministic-Polynomial
|
|||
|
|
NP - Notary Public
|
|||
|
|
NP - Noun Phrase
|
|||
|
|
NPA - Number Plan Area
|
|||
|
|
NPC - Non-Player Character (see PC)
|
|||
|
|
NPL - Non-Procedural Language
|
|||
|
|
NPN - Negative-Positive-Negative (transistor)
|
|||
|
|
NPN - NonProtein Nitrogen
|
|||
|
|
NPR - National Public Radio
|
|||
|
|
NQS - Network Queuing System
|
|||
|
|
NRA - National Rifle Association
|
|||
|
|
NRC - National Research Council
|
|||
|
|
NRC - Nuclear Regulatory Commission
|
|||
|
|
NRE - Non-Recurring Engineering (as in NRE costs)
|
|||
|
|
NRL - Naval Research Labs
|
|||
|
|
NRO - National Reconnaissance Office
|
|||
|
|
NRZ - Non-Return to Zero
|
|||
|
|
NRZI - Non-Return to Zero Indicates
|
|||
|
|
NRZI - Non-Return to Zero Inverted (magnetic tape, 800 bpi)
|
|||
|
|
NS - Not Specified
|
|||
|
|
NS - Nova Scotia
|
|||
|
|
NS - Nuclear Ship
|
|||
|
|
NSA - National Security Agency
|
|||
|
|
NSC - National Security Council
|
|||
|
|
NSE - Network Software Environment
|
|||
|
|
NSF - National Science Foundation
|
|||
|
|
NST - Newfoundland Standard Time
|
|||
|
|
NSW - New South Wales
|
|||
|
|
NSWC - Naval Surface Warfare Center
|
|||
|
|
NSWC - Naval Surface Weapons Center
|
|||
|
|
NT - New Testament
|
|||
|
|
NT - Newfoundland Time
|
|||
|
|
NT - Northern Territory
|
|||
|
|
NTEU - National Treasury Employees Union
|
|||
|
|
NTIS - National Technical Information Service
|
|||
|
|
NTN - Neutralized Twisted Nematic
|
|||
|
|
NTP - Normal Temperature and Pressure (see STP)
|
|||
|
|
NTSB - National Transportation Safety Board
|
|||
|
|
NTSC - National Television Standards Committee
|
|||
|
|
NTSC - Never The Same Color
|
|||
|
|
NTT - Nippon Telephone & Telegraph
|
|||
|
|
NU - Name Unknown
|
|||
|
|
NURBS - NonUniform Rational B-Spline
|
|||
|
|
NUSC - Naval Underwater Systems Command
|
|||
|
|
NV - Nevada
|
|||
|
|
NW - North West
|
|||
|
|
NWS - National Weather Service
|
|||
|
|
NWT - North West Territories
|
|||
|
|
NY - New York
|
|||
|
|
NYC - New York City
|
|||
|
|
NYSE - New York Stock Exchange
|
|||
|
|
NZ - New Zealand
|
|||
|
|
NZUSUGI - New Zealand Unix System User Group, Inc.
|
|||
|
|
OA - Office Automation
|
|||
|
|
OA - Overeaters Anonymous
|
|||
|
|
OAS - Organization of American States
|
|||
|
|
OATS - Office Automation Technology and Services
|
|||
|
|
OBE - Order of the British Empire
|
|||
|
|
OBS - Omni Bearing Selector
|
|||
|
|
OC - Order of Canada
|
|||
|
|
OCDM - Office of Civil Defense and Mobilization
|
|||
|
|
OCI - Out of City Indicator
|
|||
|
|
OCLC - Online Computer Library Center (Ohio College Library Catalog)
|
|||
|
|
OCO - Object Code Only
|
|||
|
|
OCR - Optical Character Recognition
|
|||
|
|
OCS - Officer Candidate School
|
|||
|
|
OD - Doctor of Optometry
|
|||
|
|
OD - Oculus Dexter (right eye)
|
|||
|
|
OD - Officer of the Day
|
|||
|
|
OD - OverDose
|
|||
|
|
ODI - Optical Digital Image
|
|||
|
|
ODISS - Optical Digital Image Storage System
|
|||
|
|
OE - Old English
|
|||
|
|
OED - Oxford English Dictionary
|
|||
|
|
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
|
|||
|
|
OEO - Office of Economic Opportunity
|
|||
|
|
OES - Order of the Eastern Star
|
|||
|
|
OF - Old French
|
|||
|
|
OFM - Order of Friars Minor
|
|||
|
|
OFS - Order of Free State
|
|||
|
|
OG - Original Gum
|
|||
|
|
OH - Ohio
|
|||
|
|
OIRA - Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
|
|||
|
|
OIU - Office Interface Unit
|
|||
|
|
OJT - On the Job Training
|
|||
|
|
OLTP - On-Line Transaction Processing
|
|||
|
|
OMB - Office of Management and Budget
|
|||
|
|
OMD - Orchestral Manouevers in the Dark
|
|||
|
|
OMV - Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle
|
|||
|
|
ON - Old Norse
|
|||
|
|
ONC - Open Network Computing
|
|||
|
|
ONI - Office of Naval Intelligence
|
|||
|
|
ONI - Operator Number Identification
|
|||
|
|
ONR - Office of Naval Research
|
|||
|
|
OOP - Object Oriented Programming
|
|||
|
|
OOPART - Out Of Place ARTifact
|
|||
|
|
OOPS - Object-Oriented Programming System
|
|||
|
|
OP - OFFICEPOWER office automation system, trademark of CCI
|
|||
|
|
OP - Observation Post
|
|||
|
|
OP - Order of Preachers
|
|||
|
|
OP - Out of Print
|
|||
|
|
OPEC - Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
|
|||
|
|
OPM - Office of Personnel Management
|
|||
|
|
OR - Operating Room
|
|||
|
|
OR - Oregon
|
|||
|
|
OR - Owner's Risk, Own Risk
|
|||
|
|
ORNL - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
|
|||
|
|
OROM - Optical Read Only Memory
|
|||
|
|
OS - Oculus Sinister (left eye)
|
|||
|
|
OS - Operating System
|
|||
|
|
OS - Ordinary Seaman
|
|||
|
|
OS - Out of Stock
|
|||
|
|
OSB - Order of St. Benedict
|
|||
|
|
OSCAR - Orbiting Satellite Carry Amateur Radio (1st launched 12 Dec 1961)
|
|||
|
|
OSCRL - Operating System Command Response Language
|
|||
|
|
OSD - Office of the Secretary of Defense
|
|||
|
|
OSDIT - Office of Software Development and Information Technology
|
|||
|
|
OSF - Open Software Foundation
|
|||
|
|
OSF - Order of St. Francis
|
|||
|
|
OSI - Open Systems Interconnection
|
|||
|
|
OSI/RM - Open Systems Interconnection/Reference Model
|
|||
|
|
OSME - Open Systems Message Exchange
|
|||
|
|
OSP - Optical Storage Processor
|
|||
|
|
OSS - Office Support System
|
|||
|
|
OSS - Office of Strategic Services (later CIA)
|
|||
|
|
OSS - Operation Support System
|
|||
|
|
OSTP - Office of Science and Technology Policy
|
|||
|
|
OT - Old Testament
|
|||
|
|
OT - OverTime
|
|||
|
|
OT&LF - Open Taxi & Limousine Foundation
|
|||
|
|
OTA - Office of Technical Assistance
|
|||
|
|
OTA - Office of Technology Assessment
|
|||
|
|
OTB - Off-Track Betting
|
|||
|
|
OTC - Over The Counter (stocks)
|
|||
|
|
OTF - Open Token Foundation
|
|||
|
|
OTH-B - Over The Horizon - Backscatter (as in radar)
|
|||
|
|
OTR - On The Rag
|
|||
|
|
OTS - Officers' Training School
|
|||
|
|
OUTWATS - OUTward Wide Area Telephone Service
|
|||
|
|
PA - Pennsylvania
|
|||
|
|
PA - Per Annum
|
|||
|
|
PA - Play Aid
|
|||
|
|
PA - Power of Attorney
|
|||
|
|
PA - Press Agent
|
|||
|
|
PA - Private Account
|
|||
|
|
PA - Public Address
|
|||
|
|
PA - Purchasing Agent
|
|||
|
|
PABX - Private Automatic Branch eXchange
|
|||
|
|
PAD - Packet Assembler-Disassembler (for networking)
|
|||
|
|
PAL - Phase Alternation Line-rate
|
|||
|
|
PAL - Programmable Array Logic
|
|||
|
|
PAM - Pulse Amplification Modulation
|
|||
|
|
PARC - Palo Alto Research Center, xerox
|
|||
|
|
PATROL - Program for Administrative Traffic Reports On Line
|
|||
|
|
PBM - Play By Mail game
|
|||
|
|
PBS - Public Broadcasting System
|
|||
|
|
PBX - Private Branch eXchange (mini-telephone network system)
|
|||
|
|
PC - Peace Corps
|
|||
|
|
PC - PerCent; PerCentage
|
|||
|
|
PC - Personal Computer
|
|||
|
|
PC - Player Character (see NPC)
|
|||
|
|
PC - Post Card
|
|||
|
|
PC - Post Cibum (after meals)
|
|||
|
|
PC - Privileged Character
|
|||
|
|
PC - Privy Council
|
|||
|
|
PC - Program Counter
|
|||
|
|
PC - Progressive Conservative party (Canada)
|
|||
|
|
PC-DOS - Personal Computer DOS
|
|||
|
|
PC/AT - Personal Computer/Advanced Technology
|
|||
|
|
PCB - PolyChlorinated Biphenyls
|
|||
|
|
PCB - Printed Circuit Board
|
|||
|
|
PCI - Panel Call Indicator
|
|||
|
|
PCIE - President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency
|
|||
|
|
PCL - Printer Command Language
|
|||
|
|
PCM - Plug-Compatible Mainframe
|
|||
|
|
PCM - Pulse Code Modulation
|
|||
|
|
PCPC - Personal Computers Peripheral Corporation
|
|||
|
|
PCS - Permanent Change of Station
|
|||
|
|
PCTE - Portable Common Tools Environment
|
|||
|
|
PCTS - Posix Conformance Test Suite
|
|||
|
|
PD - Per Diem
|
|||
|
|
PD - Police Department
|
|||
|
|
PD - Potential Difference
|
|||
|
|
PD - Public Domain
|
|||
|
|
PDAD - Proposed Draft ADdendum
|
|||
|
|
PDE - Partial Differential Equation
|
|||
|
|
PDES - Product Data Exchange Specifications
|
|||
|
|
PDF - Program Development Facility
|
|||
|
|
PDL - Page Description Language
|
|||
|
|
PDL - Program Design Language
|
|||
|
|
PDP - Plasma Display Panel
|
|||
|
|
PDP - Programmed Data Processor
|
|||
|
|
PDQ - Pretty Damned Quick
|
|||
|
|
PDT - Pacific Daylight Time
|
|||
|
|
PE - Phase Encoded
|
|||
|
|
PE - Physical Education
|
|||
|
|
PE - Prince Edward island
|
|||
|
|
PE - Printer's Error
|
|||
|
|
PE - Professional Engineer
|
|||
|
|
PE - Protestant Episcopal
|
|||
|
|
PEI - Prince Edward Island
|
|||
|
|
PEP - Productivity Enhancement Project
|
|||
|
|
PEPE - Pepe Est Presque Emacs
|
|||
|
|
PERL - Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister
|
|||
|
|
PERL - Practical Extraction and Report Language
|
|||
|
|
PEX - Phigs/phigs+ Extension to X
|
|||
|
|
PGA - Professional Graphics Adapter
|
|||
|
|
PGA - Pure Grain Alcohol
|
|||
|
|
PHA - Pulse Height Analyzer (or Analysis)
|
|||
|
|
PHIGS - Programmers Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System
|
|||
|
|
PHS - Public Health Service
|
|||
|
|
PIF - Paid In Full
|
|||
|
|
PIT - Principal, Interest, and Taxes
|
|||
|
|
PIXEL - PIcture ELement
|
|||
|
|
PLA - Programmable Logic Array
|
|||
|
|
PLC - Programmable Logic Controller
|
|||
|
|
PLCC - Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier
|
|||
|
|
PLL - Phase-Locked Loop
|
|||
|
|
PLM - Programming Language for Microcomputers
|
|||
|
|
PLO - Please Leave On
|
|||
|
|
PM - PayMaster
|
|||
|
|
PM - Police Magistrate
|
|||
|
|
PM - Post Meridiem
|
|||
|
|
PM - PostMaster
|
|||
|
|
PM - PostMortem
|
|||
|
|
PM - Preventive Maintenance
|
|||
|
|
PM - Prime Minister
|
|||
|
|
PM - Provost Marshal
|
|||
|
|
PM/X - Presentation Manager for X windows
|
|||
|
|
PMO - Prime Minister's Office
|
|||
|
|
PMOS - P channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor (P-MOS) (see MOS)
|
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PMT - PhotoMultiplier Tube
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PN - Promissory Note
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PNP - Positive-Negative-Positive (transistor)
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PO - PettyOfficer
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PO - Post Office
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PO - Postal Order
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PO - Purchase Order
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POC - Port Of Call
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POD - Pay On Delivery
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POE - Port Of Embarkation
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POE - Port Of Entry
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POGO - Polar Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
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POM - Phase Of Moon
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POPS - Paperless Order Processing System
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POR - Price On Request
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POS - Point Of Sale
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POSI - Promoting conference for OSI
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POSIX - Portable Operating System for unIX
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POV - Point Of View
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POW - Prisoner Of War
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PP - Parcel Post
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PP - Past Participle
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PP - Primary Point (or dial Post Pay payphone)
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PPB - Parts Per Billion
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PPC - Pour Prendre Conge' (to take leave)
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PPCS - Person to Person, Collect, Special
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PPM - Parts Per Million
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PPN - Parameterized Post-Newtonian formalism for general relativity
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PPN - Project Programmer Number
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PPS - PostPostScriptum
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PPT - Pulse Pair Timing
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PQ - Province of Quebec
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PR - PayRoll
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PR - Public Relations
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PR - Puerto Rico
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PRC - Planning Research Corporation
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PROFS - PRofessional OFfice System
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PROM - Programmable Read Only Memory
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PS - PicoSecond
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PS - PostScript
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PS - PostScriptum
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PS - Power Steering
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PS - Power Supply
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PS - Public School
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PSA - Problem Statement Analyzer
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PSC - Polar Stratospheric Clouds
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PSDS - Public Switched Digital Service
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PSE - Programming Support Environment
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PSG - Platoon SerGeant
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PSK - Phase Shift Keying
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PSL - Problem Statement Language
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PSR - "Product Specific Realizations
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PST - Pacific Standard Time
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PSTN - Public Switched Telephone Network
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PT - Pacific Time
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PT - Patrol Torpedo (as in PT boat)
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PT - Physical Therapy
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PT - Physical Training
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PTA - Parent-Teacher Association
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PTD - Parallel Transfer Disk
|
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PTO - Patent and Trademark Office
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PTO - Please Turn Over
|
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PTO - Power Take-Off
|
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PVO - Pioneer Venus Orbiter
|
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PW - Prisoner of War (usually POW)
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PWG - Permanent Working Group
|
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PX - Post eXchange (see BX)
|
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PhysRev - Physical Review Journal - Phys Rev
|
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QAM - Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
|
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|
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QC - Quality Control
|
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QC - Queen's Counsel
|
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|
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QD - Quaque Die (daily)
|
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|
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QDA - Quantity Discount Agreement
|
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|
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QED - Quod Erat Demonstrandum (which was to be demonstrated)
|
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|
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QEF - Quod Erat Faciendum (which was to be done)
|
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|
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QEI - Quod Erat Inveniendum (which was to be found out)
|
|||
|
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QET - Quantum Effect Transistor
|
|||
|
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QIC - Quarter-Inch Cartridge
|
|||
|
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QID - Quater In Die (four times a day)
|
|||
|
|
QLI - Query Language Interpreter
|
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|
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QM - QuarterMaster
|
|||
|
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QMC - QuarterMaster Corps
|
|||
|
|
QMF - Query Management Facility
|
|||
|
|
QMG - QuarterMaster General
|
|||
|
|
QMS - Quality Micro Systems
|
|||
|
|
QNS - Quantity Not Sufficient
|
|||
|
|
QWERTY - first six keys from left on top alphabetic row of standard keyboard
|
|||
|
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R - Rolemaster
|
|||
|
|
R&B - Rhythm and Blues (commonly R and B)
|
|||
|
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R&D - Research and Development (commonly R and D)
|
|||
|
|
RA - Regular Army
|
|||
|
|
RA - Research Assistant
|
|||
|
|
RA - Royal Academy
|
|||
|
|
RAAF - Royal Australian Air Force
|
|||
|
|
RACE - Random Access Card Equipment
|
|||
|
|
RACEP - Random Access and Correlation for Extended Performance
|
|||
|
|
RAD - Radiation Absorbed Dose
|
|||
|
|
RAD - Rapid Access Disk
|
|||
|
|
RADAR - RAdio Detection And Ranging
|
|||
|
|
RADM - Rear ADMiral
|
|||
|
|
RAF - Royal Air Force
|
|||
|
|
RAM - Random Access Memory
|
|||
|
|
RARDE - Royal Armaments Research and Development Establishment
|
|||
|
|
RAS - Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability
|
|||
|
|
RASC - Residence Account Service Center
|
|||
|
|
RBC - Red Blood Count
|
|||
|
|
RBI - Runs Batted In
|
|||
|
|
RBOC - Regional Bell Operating Company
|
|||
|
|
RC - Red Cross
|
|||
|
|
RC - Regional Center
|
|||
|
|
RC - Resistor-Capacitor circuit (as in filters)
|
|||
|
|
RC - Roman Catholic
|
|||
|
|
RCA - Radio Corporation of America
|
|||
|
|
RCAF - Royal Canadian Air Force
|
|||
|
|
RCAS - Reserve Component Automation System
|
|||
|
|
RCC - Radio Common Carrier
|
|||
|
|
RCMP - Royal Canadian Mounted Police
|
|||
|
|
RD - Rural Delivery
|
|||
|
|
RDA - Remote Data Access
|
|||
|
|
RDBMS - Relational DataBase Management System
|
|||
|
|
RDF - Radio Direction Finding
|
|||
|
|
REA - Rail Express Agency
|
|||
|
|
REM - Rapid Eye Movement
|
|||
|
|
REO - R. E. Olds
|
|||
|
|
REO - Removable, Erasable, Optical
|
|||
|
|
REXX - Restructured EXtended eXecutor
|
|||
|
|
RF - Radio Frequency
|
|||
|
|
RFC - Request For Comments
|
|||
|
|
RFD - Rural Free Delivery
|
|||
|
|
RFI - Radio Frequency Interference
|
|||
|
|
RFP - Request For Proposals
|
|||
|
|
RFS - Remote File System
|
|||
|
|
RGB - Red Green Blue
|
|||
|
|
RGP - Raster Graphics Processor
|
|||
|
|
RH - Right Hand
|
|||
|
|
RHS - Right Hand Side
|
|||
|
|
RI - Rhode Island
|
|||
|
|
RIACS - Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (NASA)
|
|||
|
|
RIAS - Radio In the American Sector, berlin
|
|||
|
|
RIF - Reading Is Fundamental
|
|||
|
|
RIF - Reduction In Force
|
|||
|
|
RILM - Repertoire International de Literature Musicale
|
|||
|
|
RIP - Rest In Peace (or Requiescat In Pace : latin)
|
|||
|
|
RISC - Reduced Instruction Set Computer
|
|||
|
|
RITA - Recognition of Information Technology Achievement award
|
|||
|
|
RJE - Remote Job Entry
|
|||
|
|
RLC - Resistor Inductor Capacitor
|
|||
|
|
RLL - Run Length Limited
|
|||
|
|
RMATS - Remote Maintenance Administration and Traffic System
|
|||
|
|
RMS - Root Mean Square
|
|||
|
|
RMS - Royal Mail Ship
|
|||
|
|
RN - Registered Nurse
|
|||
|
|
RN - Royal Navy
|
|||
|
|
RNA - RiboNucleic Acid
|
|||
|
|
RNZAF - Royal New Zealand Air Force
|
|||
|
|
ROFF - Run-OFF
|
|||
|
|
ROG - Receipt Of Goods
|
|||
|
|
ROM - Range Of Motion
|
|||
|
|
ROM - Read Only Memory
|
|||
|
|
ROM - Rupture Of Membrane (as in birth)
|
|||
|
|
ROTC - Reserve Officers' Training Corps
|
|||
|
|
ROTS - Rotary Out Trunks Selectors
|
|||
|
|
ROYGBIV - Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet
|
|||
|
|
RPC - Remote Procedure Call
|
|||
|
|
RPG - RePort Generator
|
|||
|
|
RPG - Role Playing Game
|
|||
|
|
RPM - Revolutions Per Minute
|
|||
|
|
RPN - Reverse Polish Notation
|
|||
|
|
RPO - Railway Post Office
|
|||
|
|
RPS - Revolutions Per Second
|
|||
|
|
RPV - Remotely Piloted Vehicle
|
|||
|
|
RQ - RuneQuest
|
|||
|
|
RR - RailRoad
|
|||
|
|
RR - Route Relay
|
|||
|
|
RR - Rural Route
|
|||
|
|
RRO - Rate and Route Operator
|
|||
|
|
RS - Recording Secretary
|
|||
|
|
RS - Revised Status
|
|||
|
|
RS - Right Side
|
|||
|
|
RS - Royal Society
|
|||
|
|
RSFSR - Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic
|
|||
|
|
RSN - Real Soon Now
|
|||
|
|
RSU - Remote Switching Unit
|
|||
|
|
RSV - Revised Standard Edition
|
|||
|
|
RSVP - Repondez S'il Vous Plait (please reply)
|
|||
|
|
RSWC - Right Side up With Care
|
|||
|
|
RT - RadioTelephone
|
|||
|
|
RT - RealTime
|
|||
|
|
RTA - Remote Trunk Arrangement
|
|||
|
|
RTAC - Regional Technical Assistance Center
|
|||
|
|
RTF - Rich Text Format
|
|||
|
|
RTFM - Read The F***ing Manual
|
|||
|
|
RTG - Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
|
|||
|
|
RTR - Reel-To-Reel
|
|||
|
|
RTTY - Radio Teletype
|
|||
|
|
RU - Receive Unit
|
|||
|
|
RW - Right Worshipful
|
|||
|
|
RW - Right Worthy
|
|||
|
|
S - South
|
|||
|
|
S - Supplement
|
|||
|
|
S&C - Skull & Crossbones
|
|||
|
|
SA - Salvation Army
|
|||
|
|
SA - Seaman Apprentice
|
|||
|
|
SA - Service Assistant
|
|||
|
|
SA - Sex Appeal
|
|||
|
|
SA - Sine Anno (without date)
|
|||
|
|
SA - South Africa
|
|||
|
|
SA - South America
|
|||
|
|
SA - Subject to Approval
|
|||
|
|
SAA - South Atlantic Anomaly
|
|||
|
|
SAA - Systems Application Architecture
|
|||
|
|
SAC - Special Area Code
|
|||
|
|
SAC - Strategic Air Command (see TAC)
|
|||
|
|
SADD - Students Against Drunk Driving
|
|||
|
|
SAM - Surface-to-Air Missile
|
|||
|
|
SAMA - Step-by-step Automatic Message Accounting
|
|||
|
|
SAMTO - Space And Missile Test Organization
|
|||
|
|
SAP - Second Audio Program
|
|||
|
|
SAR - Synthetic Aperture Radar
|
|||
|
|
SARTS - Switched Access Remote Test System
|
|||
|
|
SASE - Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope
|
|||
|
|
SASI - Shugart Associates Systems Interface
|
|||
|
|
SAW - Surface Acoustic Wave
|
|||
|
|
SBA - Small Business Administration
|
|||
|
|
SC - Sectional Center
|
|||
|
|
SC - South Carolina
|
|||
|
|
SC - SubCommittee
|
|||
|
|
SCAD - Subsonic Cruise Armed Decoy
|
|||
|
|
SCADC - Standard Central Air Data Computer
|
|||
|
|
SCAME - SCreen oriented Anti-Misery Editor
|
|||
|
|
SCAMP - Single-Chip A-series Mainframe Processor
|
|||
|
|
SCAN - Switched Circuit Automatic Network
|
|||
|
|
SCC - Switching Control Center (or Specialized Common Carriers)
|
|||
|
|
SCCS - Source Code Control System
|
|||
|
|
SCE - Signal Conversion Equipment
|
|||
|
|
SCE - Structure Chart Editor
|
|||
|
|
SCI - SpaceCraft Incorporated
|
|||
|
|
SCIFI - SCIence FIction (often used pejoratively of what really isn't)
|
|||
|
|
SCO - Santa Cruz Operation
|
|||
|
|
SCOOPS - SCheme Object Oriented Programming System
|
|||
|
|
SCOTS - Surveilance and Control Of Transmission Systems
|
|||
|
|
SCSI - Small Computer Systems Interface
|
|||
|
|
SCUBA - Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
|
|||
|
|
SCUD - Subsonic Cruise Unarmed Decoy
|
|||
|
|
SD - South Dakota
|
|||
|
|
SDI - Standard Disk Interconnect
|
|||
|
|
SDI - Strategic Defense Initiative
|
|||
|
|
SDLC - Synchronous Data Link Control
|
|||
|
|
SDO - Staff Duty Officer
|
|||
|
|
SE - South East
|
|||
|
|
SEATO - SouthEast Asia Treaty Organization
|
|||
|
|
SEC - Security Exchange Commission
|
|||
|
|
SECNAV - SECretary of the NAVy
|
|||
|
|
SED - Stream EDitor
|
|||
|
|
SEI - Software Engineering Institute (Carnegie Mellon)
|
|||
|
|
SEL - Software Engineering Laboratory
|
|||
|
|
SEM - Scanning Electron Microscope
|
|||
|
|
SF - San Francisco
|
|||
|
|
SF - Science Fiction; Speculative Fiction
|
|||
|
|
SF - Standard Form
|
|||
|
|
SF - Star Frontiers
|
|||
|
|
SFRPG - Science Fiction Role Playing Game
|
|||
|
|
SG - StarGuard
|
|||
|
|
SG - SubGroup
|
|||
|
|
SGML - Standard Generalized Markup Language
|
|||
|
|
SHAPE - Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
|
|||
|
|
SHAR - SHell ARchiver
|
|||
|
|
SHCD - Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
|
|||
|
|
SHF - Super High Frequency (3-30GHz)
|
|||
|
|
SHRPG - Super Hero Role Playing Game
|
|||
|
|
SI - Staten Island
|
|||
|
|
SIAM - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
|
|||
|
|
SIG - Special Interest Group
|
|||
|
|
SIGCAT - Special Interest Group for Cd-rom Applications Technology
|
|||
|
|
SIMD - Single Instruction, Multiple Data
|
|||
|
|
SIMM - Single In-line Memory Module
|
|||
|
|
SIMM - System Integrated Memory Module
|
|||
|
|
SINE - SINE is not EINE
|
|||
|
|
SIPS - Satellite Imagery Processing System
|
|||
|
|
SIS - Strategic Information System
|
|||
|
|
SISCOM - Satellite Information System COMpany
|
|||
|
|
SITA - Societe Internationale Telecommunications Aeronautiques
|
|||
|
|
SJ - Society of Jesus
|
|||
|
|
SL - Salvage Loss
|
|||
|
|
SLA - Special Libraries Association
|
|||
|
|
SLA - Synchronous Line Adapter
|
|||
|
|
SLAN - Sine Loco, Anno, (vel) Nomine (without place, year, or name)
|
|||
|
|
SLAR - Side Looking Airborne Radar
|
|||
|
|
SLBM - Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles
|
|||
|
|
SLDC - Synchronous Data Link Control
|
|||
|
|
SLIP - Serial Line Internet Protocol
|
|||
|
|
SLP - Super Long Play (VHS VCR)
|
|||
|
|
SM - Service Mark
|
|||
|
|
SMA - Sergeant Major of the Army
|
|||
|
|
SMA - Spectrum Manufacturers Association
|
|||
|
|
SMC - Small Magellanic Cloud (see LMC)
|
|||
|
|
SMD - Storage Module Device (interface standard for disk drives)
|
|||
|
|
SMD - Surface Mounted Devices
|
|||
|
|
SMEGMA - Sophisticated Modern Editor with Gloriously Magnificent Abilities
|
|||
|
|
SMERSH - Abbr. of Russian phrase meaning "Death to the spies."
|
|||
|
|
SMILS - Sonobuoy Missile Impact Location System
|
|||
|
|
SMM - Solar Maximum Mission
|
|||
|
|
SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
|
|||
|
|
SN - Super Nova
|
|||
|
|
SNA - Systems Network Architecture (IBM network)
|
|||
|
|
SNADS - SNA Distribution Services
|
|||
|
|
SNAFU - Situation Normal -- All Fouled Up (also, F*cked)
|
|||
|
|
SNAP - Shipboard Non-tactical Automated data Processing program
|
|||
|
|
SNCF - Societe National des Chemins de Fer (French National Railways)
|
|||
|
|
SNF - Server-Natural Format
|
|||
|
|
SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol
|
|||
|
|
SNOBOL - StriNg Oriented symbOLic Language
|
|||
|
|
SNR - Signal to Noise Ratio
|
|||
|
|
SO - Seller's Option
|
|||
|
|
SO - Significant Other
|
|||
|
|
SO - Space Opera
|
|||
|
|
SO - Strike Out
|
|||
|
|
SOAP - Symbolic Optimizing Assembler Program
|
|||
|
|
SOH - Start Of Header, ASCII control character (dec=01,control-A)
|
|||
|
|
SOHIO - Standard Oil of oHIO
|
|||
|
|
SOL - Short on Landing (or, colloquially, Shit Out of Luck)
|
|||
|
|
SONAR - SOund Detection And Ranging
|
|||
|
|
SOP - Standard Operating Procedure
|
|||
|
|
SOS - Silicon On Sapphire
|
|||
|
|
SP - Shore Patrol
|
|||
|
|
SP - Short Play (VHS VCR)
|
|||
|
|
SP - Southern Pacific
|
|||
|
|
SP - Stack Pointer
|
|||
|
|
SP - Star Patrol
|
|||
|
|
SPA - Software Publishers Association
|
|||
|
|
SPAG - Standards Promotion and Applications Group
|
|||
|
|
SPAR - Stock Points Adp Replacement
|
|||
|
|
SPARC - Scalable Processor ARChitecture
|
|||
|
|
SPARC - Standards, Planning, And Requirements Committee
|
|||
|
|
SPAWAR - naval SPAce and WARfare command
|
|||
|
|
SPC - Software Productivity Consortium
|
|||
|
|
SPCA - Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
|
|||
|
|
SPCC - Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
|
|||
|
|
SPEC - Systems Performance Evaluation Cooperative
|
|||
|
|
SPITBOL - SPeedy ImplemenTation of snoBOL
|
|||
|
|
SPNI - Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel
|
|||
|
|
SPUR - Systech Pluraxial Unplug Repeater
|
|||
|
|
SQL - Structured Query Language
|
|||
|
|
SQUID - Superconducting QUantum Interference Device
|
|||
|
|
SRAM - Short Range Attack Missile
|
|||
|
|
SRAM - Static RAM
|
|||
|
|
SRB - Solid fuel Rocket Booster
|
|||
|
|
SRI - Stanford Research Institute
|
|||
|
|
SRO - Standing Room Only
|
|||
|
|
SSA - Social Security Administration
|
|||
|
|
SSB - Single Side Band
|
|||
|
|
SSE - South-SouthEast
|
|||
|
|
SSFF - Showcase Software Factory of the Future
|
|||
|
|
SSG - Staff SerGeant
|
|||
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SSI - Small Scale Integration
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SSI - Supplemental Security Income
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SSR - Secondary Surveillance Radar
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SSR - Soviet Socialist Republic
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SSTV - Slow Scan TeleVision
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SSW - South-SouthWest
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ST - Short Ton
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STARS - Software Technology for Adaptable, Reliable Systems
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STD - Sacrae Theologiae Doctor (doctor of sacred theology)
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STD - Sexually Transmitted Disease (replaces VD)
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STD - State Transition Diagram
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STD - Subscriber Trunk Dialing (British for DDD)
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STILO - Scientific and Technical Intelligence Liaison Office
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STL - St. Louis (airport designation)
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STN - SuperTwisted Nematic
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STOL - Short TakeOff and Landing
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STP - Software Through Pictures
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STP - Standard Temperature and Pressure (see NTP)
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STRPG - Star Trek: The Role-Playing Game
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STV - Single Transferable Vote
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SUM - Symantec Utilities for Macintosh
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SUNOCO - SUN Oil COmpany
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SUNY - State University of New York
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SVID - System V Interface Definition
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SW - South West
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SW - SuperWorld
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SWIFT - Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Communications
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SWS - Scientific Workstation Support
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T - Traveler
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T&T - Tunnels & Trolls
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TA - Teaching Assistant
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TAC - Tactical Air Command (see SAC)
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TAC - Terminal Access Controller
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TACCS - Tactical Army Combat service support Computer System
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TAE - Transportable Applications Environment
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TAR - Tape ARchiver
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TB - TuBerculosis
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TBA - To Be Announced
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TBD - To Be Determined
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TC - Teachers College
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TCA - Terminal Controlled Airspace
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TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
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TCSEC - Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (orange book)
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TCT - To Challenge Tomorrow
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TD - TouchDown
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TD - Treasury Department
|
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TDCC - Transportation Data Coordinating Committee
|
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TDE - Transition Diagram Editor
|
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TDI - Trusted Database Interpretation
|
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TDY - Temporary DutY
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TECO - Tape Editor and COrrector
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TECO - Text Editor and COrrector
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|
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TEFLON - polyTEtraFLuOrethyleNe
|
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TFP - Tops Filing Protocol
|
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TFS - Translucent File System
|
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|
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TFT - The Fantasy Trip
|
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|
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TFT - Thin Film Transistor
|
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|
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TG - Thieves' Guild
|
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|
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THIEF - THief Isn't Even Fine
|
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THIEF - This Here Isn't Even Fine
|
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|
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THOR - Tandy High-intensity Optical Recording
|
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TI - Texas Instruments
|
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|
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TIA - Thanks In Advance (special to USENET)
|
|||
|
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TIA - Transient Ischemic Attack
|
|||
|
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TIC - TermInfo Compiler
|
|||
|
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TID - Ter In Die (three times a day)
|
|||
|
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TIFF - Tag Image File Format
|
|||
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TKO - Technical Knock Out
|
|||
|
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TL - Total Loss
|
|||
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|
TLA - Three Letter Acronym
|
|||
|
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TLC - Tender Loving Care
|
|||
|
|
TLI - Transort-Level Interface
|
|||
|
|
TM - TradeMark
|
|||
|
|
TMA - Tycho Magnetic Anomaly (2001)
|
|||
|
|
TMAC - Treasury department's Multiuser Acquisition Contract
|
|||
|
|
TMIS - Telecommunications Management Information System
|
|||
|
|
TMO - Telephone Money Order
|
|||
|
|
TMP - The Morrow Project
|
|||
|
|
TN - Tennessee
|
|||
|
|
TN - Twisted Nematic
|
|||
|
|
TNT - TriNitro Toluene
|
|||
|
|
TO - Telegraph Office
|
|||
|
|
TO - Turn Over
|
|||
|
|
TODS - Transactions on Database Systems (ACM)
|
|||
|
|
TOMS - Transactions on Mathematical Software (ACM)
|
|||
|
|
TOOIS - Transactions on Office Information Systems (ACM)
|
|||
|
|
TOP - Technical/Office Protocol
|
|||
|
|
TOPLAS - Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (ACM)
|
|||
|
|
TORES - Text ORiented Editing System
|
|||
|
|
TOW - Tube launched, Optically tracked, and Wire guided
|
|||
|
|
TP - Transaction Processing
|
|||
|
|
TPC - The Phone Company (from classic movie: _The President's Analyst_)
|
|||
|
|
TPI - Tracks Per Inch
|
|||
|
|
TPO - Traveling Post Office
|
|||
|
|
TPS - Technical Publishing Software
|
|||
|
|
TPS - TeleProcessing Services
|
|||
|
|
TROFF - Text RunOFF, text formatter
|
|||
|
|
TRUSIX - TRUSted unIX
|
|||
|
|
TRW - Thompson, Ramo, and Woolridge
|
|||
|
|
TS - Top Secret
|
|||
|
|
TSD - Total System Design
|
|||
|
|
TSP - Teleprocessing Services Program
|
|||
|
|
TSP - Thrift Savings Plan
|
|||
|
|
TSP - Time Synchronization Protocol
|
|||
|
|
TSP - TriSodium Phosphate
|
|||
|
|
TSR - TSR (Fortune 500 Company that manufactures Dungeons & Dragons)
|
|||
|
|
TTFN - Tah Tah, For Now
|
|||
|
|
TTL - Transistor Transistor Logic
|
|||
|
|
TTMA - Tennessee Tech Microcomputer Association
|
|||
|
|
TTU - Tennessee Technological University
|
|||
|
|
TTY - TeleTYpe
|
|||
|
|
TUNIS - Toronto UNIversity System
|
|||
|
|
TV - TeleVision
|
|||
|
|
TVA - Tennessee Valley Authority
|
|||
|
|
TW - Thieves' World
|
|||
|
|
TWA - Trans World Airlines
|
|||
|
|
TWIMC - To Whom It May Concern
|
|||
|
|
TWT - Traveling Wave Tube
|
|||
|
|
TWX - TeletypeWriter eXchange
|
|||
|
|
TX - Texas
|
|||
|
|
U - Universe
|
|||
|
|
UA - United Artists
|
|||
|
|
UAR - United Arab Republic
|
|||
|
|
UAR - User Action Routine
|
|||
|
|
UART - Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter
|
|||
|
|
UBA - UniBus Adapter
|
|||
|
|
UBC - Universal Bibliographic Control
|
|||
|
|
UCB - University of California at Berkeley
|
|||
|
|
UCD - University of California at Davis
|
|||
|
|
UCI - University of California at Irvine
|
|||
|
|
UCLA - University of California at Los Angeles
|
|||
|
|
UCR - University of California at Riverside
|
|||
|
|
UCSB - University of California at Santa Barbara
|
|||
|
|
UCSC - University of California at Santa Cruz
|
|||
|
|
UCSD - University of California at San Diego
|
|||
|
|
UCSF - University of California at San Francisco
|
|||
|
|
UDB - Unified DataBase
|
|||
|
|
UDP - User Data Protocol
|
|||
|
|
UEC - User Environment Component
|
|||
|
|
UFO - Unidentified Flying Object
|
|||
|
|
UH - Upper Half
|
|||
|
|
UHF - Ultra High Frequency (300-3000MHz)
|
|||
|
|
UIMS - User Interface Management System
|
|||
|
|
UK - United Kingdom
|
|||
|
|
UL - Underwriters Laboratory
|
|||
|
|
ULANA - Unified Local-Area Network Architecture
|
|||
|
|
UMT - Universal Military Training
|
|||
|
|
UN - United Nations
|
|||
|
|
UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Organization
|
|||
|
|
UNICEF - United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (now United Nat.
|
|||
|
|
Child. Fund)
|
|||
|
|
UNICS - UNiplex Information Computer Services
|
|||
|
|
UNIX - Not an acronym at all. Was a joke on MIT's MULTICS.
|
|||
|
|
UNO - United Nations Organization
|
|||
|
|
UP - Union Pacific
|
|||
|
|
UPC - Universal Product Code
|
|||
|
|
UPI - United Press International
|
|||
|
|
UPS - Uninterruptible Power Supply
|
|||
|
|
UPS - United Parcel Service
|
|||
|
|
UR - University of Rochester
|
|||
|
|
USA - Union of South Africa
|
|||
|
|
USA - United States Army
|
|||
|
|
USA - United States of America
|
|||
|
|
USAF - United States Air Force
|
|||
|
|
USAFA - United States Air Force Academy (in Colorado Springs)
|
|||
|
|
USC - University of Southern California
|
|||
|
|
USCG - United States Coast Guard
|
|||
|
|
USDA - United States Department of Agriculture
|
|||
|
|
USES - United States Employment Service
|
|||
|
|
USFL - United States Football League
|
|||
|
|
USGS - United States Geological Survey
|
|||
|
|
USIA - United States Information Agency
|
|||
|
|
USM - United States Mail
|
|||
|
|
USMC - United States Marine Corps
|
|||
|
|
USN - United States Navy
|
|||
|
|
USO - United Service Organizations
|
|||
|
|
USO - Unix Software Operation
|
|||
|
|
USP - United States Pharmacopeia
|
|||
|
|
USPS - United States Postal Service
|
|||
|
|
USR - User Service Routines
|
|||
|
|
USS - United States Ship
|
|||
|
|
USSR - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
|
|||
|
|
USSS - User Services and Systems Support
|
|||
|
|
USW - Und So Weiter
|
|||
|
|
UT - UTah
|
|||
|
|
UT - Universal Time
|
|||
|
|
UT - University of Tennessee
|
|||
|
|
UT - University of Texas
|
|||
|
|
UTC - Universal Coordinated Time
|
|||
|
|
UUCP - Unix-to-Unix CoPy
|
|||
|
|
UUG - Unix User Group
|
|||
|
|
UV - UltraViolet
|
|||
|
|
UW - UnderWriter
|
|||
|
|
UW - Univ of Wisconsin
|
|||
|
|
V&V - Villains & Vigilantes
|
|||
|
|
VA - Veterans Administration
|
|||
|
|
VA - Virginia
|
|||
|
|
VAN - Value Added Network (e.g. Tymnet, Telenet, etc)
|
|||
|
|
VANS - Value-Added Network Services
|
|||
|
|
VAR - Value Added Remarketer (reseller)
|
|||
|
|
VASI - Visual Approach Slope Indicator
|
|||
|
|
VAT - Value Added Tax
|
|||
|
|
VAX - Virtual Address eXtended
|
|||
|
|
VAXBI - VAX Bus Interconnect
|
|||
|
|
VCM - Voice Coil Motor
|
|||
|
|
VCO - Voltage Controlled Oscillator
|
|||
|
|
VCR - VideoCassette Recorder
|
|||
|
|
VCU - Virginia Commonwealth University
|
|||
|
|
VD - Venereal Disease (see also STD)
|
|||
|
|
VDFM - Virtual Disk File Manager
|
|||
|
|
VDI - Virtual Device Interface
|
|||
|
|
VDM - Vienna Development Method
|
|||
|
|
VDM - Virtual Device Metafile
|
|||
|
|
VDT - Video Display Terminal
|
|||
|
|
VF - Video Frequency
|
|||
|
|
VFO - Variable Frequency Oscillator
|
|||
|
|
VFW - Volunteer Fire Department
|
|||
|
|
VG - Very Good
|
|||
|
|
VG - Vicar-General
|
|||
|
|
VGA - Video Graphics Array
|
|||
|
|
VHDL - Vhsic Hardware Description Language
|
|||
|
|
VHF - Very High Frequency (30-300MHz)
|
|||
|
|
VHS - Video Home System (VCR)
|
|||
|
|
VHSIC - Very High Speed Integrated Circuit
|
|||
|
|
VI - VIsual editor
|
|||
|
|
VIABLE - Vertical Installation Automation BaseLinE
|
|||
|
|
VILE - VI Like Emacs
|
|||
|
|
VINE - Vine Is Not Emacs
|
|||
|
|
VIP - Very Important Person
|
|||
|
|
VISTA - Volunteers In Service To America
|
|||
|
|
VITA - Vme International Trade Association
|
|||
|
|
VJ - Video Jockey
|
|||
|
|
VL - Vulgar Latin
|
|||
|
|
VLA - Very Large Array radio telescope in Arizona or New Mexico
|
|||
|
|
VLF - Very Low Frequency (3-30KHz)
|
|||
|
|
VLIW - Very Long Instruction Word
|
|||
|
|
VLSI - Very Large Scale Integration
|
|||
|
|
VM - Virtual Memory
|
|||
|
|
VM/CMS - Virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor System
|
|||
|
|
VMM - Virtual Memory Manager
|
|||
|
|
VMOS - Vertical Metal Oxide Semiconductor (V-MOS) (see MOS)
|
|||
|
|
VMR - Vertical Market Reseller
|
|||
|
|
VMS - Vertical Motion Simulator
|
|||
|
|
VMS - Virtual Memory System
|
|||
|
|
VOA - Voice Of America
|
|||
|
|
VOIS - Voice-Operated Information System
|
|||
|
|
VOQ - Visiting Officer's Quarters
|
|||
|
|
VPI&SU - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
|
|||
|
|
VRC - Vertical Redundancy Character
|
|||
|
|
VRM - Virtual Resource Manager
|
|||
|
|
VSAT - Very Small Aperture Terminal, satellite dish
|
|||
|
|
VSX - X/open Verification Suite
|
|||
|
|
VTAM - Virtual Telecommunications Access Method
|
|||
|
|
VTOC - Volume Table Of Contents
|
|||
|
|
VTOL - Vertical TakeOff and Landing
|
|||
|
|
VTR - VideoTape Recorder
|
|||
|
|
VUP - Vax Unit of Performance
|
|||
|
|
VVSS - Vertical Volute Spring Suspension
|
|||
|
|
W - West
|
|||
|
|
W - Width
|
|||
|
|
WA - Washington
|
|||
|
|
WA - Western Australia
|
|||
|
|
WAC - Womens Air Corps
|
|||
|
|
WAN - Wide Area Network
|
|||
|
|
WARC - World Administrative Conference
|
|||
|
|
WATS - Wide Area Telephone Service
|
|||
|
|
WB - Water Ballast
|
|||
|
|
WB - WayBill
|
|||
|
|
WBC - White Blood Cells
|
|||
|
|
WC - Water Closet
|
|||
|
|
WC - Without Charge
|
|||
|
|
WCTU - Women's Christian Temperance Union
|
|||
|
|
WG - Working Group
|
|||
|
|
WH - WarHammer
|
|||
|
|
WHBL - World Home Bible League
|
|||
|
|
WI - Wisconsin
|
|||
|
|
WIS - WWMCCS Information System
|
|||
|
|
WITS - Washington Interagency Telecommunications System
|
|||
|
|
WMSCR - Weather Message Switching Center Replacement
|
|||
|
|
WOPR - War Operations Planned Response (from "Wargames" movie)
|
|||
|
|
WORM - Write Once, Read Many time
|
|||
|
|
WOW - Worlds of Wonder
|
|||
|
|
WP - Word Processing
|
|||
|
|
WP - Working Paper
|
|||
|
|
WSI - Wafer Scale Integration
|
|||
|
|
WSW - West-SouthWest
|
|||
|
|
WU - Washington University
|
|||
|
|
WV - West Virginia
|
|||
|
|
WW - World War
|
|||
|
|
WWI - World War I
|
|||
|
|
WWII - World War II
|
|||
|
|
WWMCCS - World-Wide Military Command and Control System
|
|||
|
|
WY - Wyoming
|
|||
|
|
WYSIWIS - What You See Is What I See
|
|||
|
|
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get
|
|||
|
|
XCF - eXperimental Computing Facility
|
|||
|
|
XD - without Dividend
|
|||
|
|
XDR - eXternal Data Representation
|
|||
|
|
XINU - XINU Is Not UNIX
|
|||
|
|
XL - eXtra Large
|
|||
|
|
XMTR - transMiTteR (the X is for trans)
|
|||
|
|
XNS - Xerox Network Service
|
|||
|
|
XO - eXecutive Officer
|
|||
|
|
XOR - eXclusive OR (logical function)
|
|||
|
|
XSECT - cross SECTion
|
|||
|
|
XTAL - crysTAL (another version of x for crys, see XMTR)
|
|||
|
|
XUI - X-windows User Interface
|
|||
|
|
YA - Yet Another
|
|||
|
|
YACC - Yet Another Compiler Compiler
|
|||
|
|
YB - YearBook
|
|||
|
|
YMCA - Young Mens Christian Association
|
|||
|
|
YMHA - Young Mens Hebrew Association
|
|||
|
|
YOB - Year Of Birth
|
|||
|
|
YP - Yellow Pages
|
|||
|
|
YRS - Ysgarth Rules System
|
|||
|
|
YST - Yukon Standard Time
|
|||
|
|
YT - Yukon Territory
|
|||
|
|
YT - Yukon Time
|
|||
|
|
YTD - Year To Date
|
|||
|
|
YWCA - Young Womens Christian Association
|
|||
|
|
YWHA - Young Womens Hebrew Association
|
|||
|
|
Z - Zenith
|
|||
|
|
Z - Zero
|
|||
|
|
ZB - Zero Beat
|
|||
|
|
ZETA - Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly
|
|||
|
|
ZGS - Zero Gradient Synchrotron
|
|||
|
|
ZI - Zonal Index
|
|||
|
|
ZIP - Zone Improvement Plan (post office code)
|
|||
|
|
ZK - barrage balloon (navy symbol)
|
|||
|
|
ZMRI - Zinc Metals Research Institute
|
|||
|
|
ZPG - Zero Population Growth
|
|||
|
|
ZPRSN - Zurich Provisional Relative Sunspot Number
|
|||
|
|
ZST - Zone Standard Time
|
|||
|
|
ZT - Zone Time
|
|||
|
|
ZWEI - Zwei Was Eine Initially
|
|||
|
|
--leave-this-line-in-database-to-mark-end-of-master-copy--
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
There is a program available to search the database... but it's not with
|
|||
|
|
this, because you don't want it, do you? Could be an idea to take a copy and
|
|||
|
|
use it for some of those awkward questions in Pyroto...
|
|||
|
|
|