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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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4WD Four whell Drive (see also FWD)
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A Aftermath
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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 [England]
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AAA American Automobile Association
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AAAL American Academy of Arts and Letters
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AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science
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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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AARP American Association of Retired Persons
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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 Distributor [telephony]
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ACE Advanced Computing Environments [Corporate name]
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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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ACS Advanced Communications System
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ACSE Association Control Service Entity (ISO/CCITT layer 7)
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ACTS Advanced Communications Technology Satellite
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ACTS Automatic Coin Telephone Service
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ACTS Automatic Coin Telephone Service [telephony]
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ACU Alarm Control Unit
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ACU Automatic Call Unit [telephony]
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ACW Alternating Continuous Waves
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AD After Date
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A/D Analog to Digital converter (see ADC)
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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 Astra To the stars [Latin; Space]
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ADAP Alzheimer's disease-associated protein
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ADAP American Discount Auto Parts [Corporate name]
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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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AD&D Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
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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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ADPCM Pulse Code Modulation with Adaptive Quantization
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ADS Application Development 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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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 Syndrom
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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 (IBM's name for 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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ALIT Automatic Line Insulation Testing [telephony]
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ALS Advanced Launch System [Space]
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ALU Arithmetic Logic Unit
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A&M Agricultural and Mechanical
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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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AMA Automatic Message Accounting [telephony]
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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 [Corporate name]
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AMEX AMerican EXpress [Corporate name]
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AMI Alternate Mark Inversion (see also NRZ, NRZI, B8ZS)
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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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AMPAS Acedemy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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AMRAAM Advanced Medium Range Air-To-Air Missile
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AMROC American Rocket Company [Space]
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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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ANAC Automatic Number Announcemnt Circuit [telephony]
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ANC All Number Calling [telephony]
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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 [telephony]
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ANG Air National Guard
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ANI Automatic Number Identification (see also: CLID) [telephony]
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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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AOA Abort Once Around [NASA, Shuttle]
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AOL Absent Over Leave (see AWOL)
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AOS Academic Operating System
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AOS Alternate Operator Service [telephony]
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A/P Accounts Payable
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AP Additional Premium
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AP All Points
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AP Associated Press [Corporate name]
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APA All Points Addressable
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APA American Psychological Association
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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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ApJ Astrophysical Journal
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APO Alpha Pi (?) Omega, service fraternity
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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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APU Auxiliary Power Unit [space]
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AQ Accumulator-Quotient register
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A/R Accounts Receivable
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AR Address Register
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AR Arkansas
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ARC AIDS-related complex
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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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ARP Address Resolution Protocol
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ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency (of the DoD, see DARPA)
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ARPANET ARPA (q.v.) 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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ASN Abstract Syntax Notation One (ISO/CCITT ASN.1)
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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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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 Asynchronous Transfer Mode
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ATM Automatic Teller Machine
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ATO Abort To Orbit [NASA, Shuttle]
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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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AT&T American Telephone & Telegraph
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ATT American Telephone & Telegraph (normally written AT&T when seperate)
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ATTIS American Telephone and Telegraph Information Systems
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ATTIS American Telephone and Telegraph Information Systems [Division of AT&T?]
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ATV All Terrain Vehicle
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AU Astronomical Unit (93,000,000 miles) [Space]
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AUI Attachment Universal Interface
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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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AW&ST Aviation Week and Space Technology (a.k.a. AvLeak) [space]
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AXAF Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility [Space]
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AZ Arizona
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B Book
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B8ZS Binary 8 Zero Substitution (see also NRZ, NRZI, AMI)
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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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BARRNet Bay Area Regional Research Network (SF Bay Area)
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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, Inc. [Corporate name]
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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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BCNU Be Seeing You [Net Jargon]
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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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BERT Bit Error Rate Test
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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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BH Boot Hill
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BHP Brake HorsePower
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BICS Building Industry Consulting Services [telephony]
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BID Bis In Die (twice a day)
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BIOS Basic Input Output System
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BIS Business Information System
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BISDN Broadband ISDN (q.v.) [telephony]
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BiSync Binary Synchronous Communications (BSC is preferred) [IBM]
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Bit BInary digiT
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BITNET Because It's Time Network
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BLAST BLocked ASynchronous Transmission
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BLERT BLock Error Rate Test
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BLF Busy Lamp Field [telephony]
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BLT Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato (sandwich)
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BLT BLock Transfer
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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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BNC Bayonet Neill Concelman (connector) [electronics] (see also TNC)
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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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BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol [Internet]
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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 Petroleum
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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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BRI Basic Rate Interface (ISDN) [telephony]
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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 Bachelor of SCience
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BSC Binary Synchronous Communications (also sometimes BiSync) [IBM]
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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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BTAM Basic Telecommunications Access Method [IBM]
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BThU British Thermal Unit (BTU {q.v.} is preferred)
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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 [net jargon]
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BUF B-52 bomber ("Big Ugly Fellow") [USAF]
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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 also PX)
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C programming language (successor to B, which was based on BCPL)
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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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CA Collision Avoidance (as in CSMA/CA (q.v.))
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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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CAD Computer Aided Dispatching
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CAE Common Applications Environment
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CAE Computer Aided Engineering
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CAI Computer Aided Instruction
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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 [telephony]
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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 (LISP)
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CARE Committee on American Relief in Europe
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CARP California Air Resources Board
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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 Common Antenna TeleVision
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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 [Corporate name]
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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 (sometimes C^3)
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CCC Concourse Computer Center [MIT]
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CCCCM CCC CounterMeasures (sometimes C^3CM)
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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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CCI Computer Consoles, Incorporated
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CCIP Continuously Computed Impact Point
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CCIRN Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networking
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CCIS Common Channel Interoffice Signaling [telephony]
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CCITT Comite' Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique
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CCITT Consultative Committee on International Telephony and Telegraphy
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CCITT International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee
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CCR Commitment, Concurrency, and Recovery
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CCR Creedence Clearwater Revival
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CCRP Continuously Computed Release Point
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CCS7 Common Channel Signalling (version #7) [telephony, may be AT&T specific]
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CCSA Common Control Switching Arrangement [telephony]
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CCTA Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency
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CCTV Closed Circuit TeleVision
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CD Carrier Detect (properly DCD (q.v.))
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CD Certificate of Deposit
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CD Civil Defense
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CD Collision Detection (as in CSMA/CD (q.v.))
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CD Compact Disk
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CDA Call Data Accumulator
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CDA Compound Documents Architecture
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CDC Centers for Disease Control
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CDC Control Data Corporation, Inc. [Corporate name]
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CDEV Control panel DEVice
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CDIAC Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
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CDO Community Dial Office
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CDR CommanDeR
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CDR Contents of the Decrement part of the Register (LISP)
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CD-ROM Compact Disk Read Only Memory
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CDSF Commercially Developed Space Facility
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CDT Central Daylight Time
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CDU Control Display Unit
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CE Chemical Engineer
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CE Civil Engineer
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CE Common Era (substitute for AD)
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CE Corps of Engineers
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CE Customer Engineer
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CEA Council of Economic Advisors
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CEA County Education Authority
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CEC Commission of the European Communities
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CED Committee for Economic Development
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CELSS Controlled Ecological Life Support System [Space]
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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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CERFnet California Education and Research Federation Network
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CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research
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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) [telephony]
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CF Cystic Fibrosis [disease]
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CFC Chloro-FluoroCarbon [chemical]
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CFC Combined Federal Campaign
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CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics
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CFI Cost, Freight, and Insurance
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CFL Canadian Football League
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CFO Chief Financial Officer
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CG Coast Guard
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CG Commanding General
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CGA Color Graphics Adapter
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CGCT Compagnie Generale de Constructions Telephoniques
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CG&E Cincinnati Gas & Electric
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CGE Compagnie Generale d'Electricite
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CH Cardboard Heroes
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CH ClearingHouse
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CH CourtHouse
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CH Customs House
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CHA Champions
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CHAP CHAnnel Processor
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CHI Chill: Adventures into the Unknown
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CHOTS Corporate Headquarters Office Technology System
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CHP California Highway Patrol
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CI Cubic Inches
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CIA Central Intelligence Agency [US Government]
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CIC Carrier Identification Codes [telephony] (10XXX codes)
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CIC Committee on Institutional Cooperation
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CIC Coordination and Information Center [CSNet]
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CICA Competition in Contracting Act
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CICS Customer Information Control System [IBM]
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CID Caller ID [telephony] (see also: CLID, ANI)
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CID Central Institute for the Deaf
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CID Charge Injection Device (see CCD)
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CID Computer Integrated Design
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CIDIN Common Icao Data Interchange Network
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CIM Computer Integrated Manufacturing
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CIO Chief Information Officer
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CISC Complex Instruction Set Computer
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Cislunar The space between the Earth and the Moon
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CIT California Institute of Technology
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CIT Case Institute of Technology (part of CWRU, Cleveland, OH)
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CIT Circumstellar Imaging Telescope [Space]
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CLASP Comprehensive Logistics Automated Support Program
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CLASS Custom Local Area Signaling Service [telephony]
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CLI Command Line Interpreter
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CLID Calling Line ID [telephony] (see also: CID, ANI)
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CLR Combined Line and Recording
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CLRC Circuit Layout Record Card
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CLU Chartered Life Underwriter
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CLUT Color LookUp Table
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CM Congregation of the Mission
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CMC Communication Machinery Corp.
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CMD Centralized Message Distribution
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CMIP Common Management Information Protocol
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CMIS Common Management Information Services
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CML Current Model Logic
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CMMU Cache/Memory Management Unit
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CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (see MOS)
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CMOT Common Management Information Services and Protocol Over TCP/IP
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CMRR Common Mode Rejection Ratio
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CMS Circuit Maintenance System
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CMSgt Chief Master Sergeant
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CMU Carnegie-Mellon University
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CMYK Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK
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CN Canadian National (railroad) [Corporate name]
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CN/A Customer Name / Address [telephony]
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CNI Common Network Interface [telephony, AT&T department]
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CNN Cable News Network
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CNO Chief of Naval Operations
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CNR Canadian National Railways
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CNR Carrier to Noise Ratio
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CNRI Corporation for National Research Initiatives
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CNS Central Nervous System
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CO Cash Order
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CO Central Office [telephony]
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CO Colorado
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CO Commanding Officer
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CO Conscientious Objector
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C/O in Care Of
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COB Close Of Business
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COBOL COmmon Business Oriented Language
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COC Call of Cthulhu
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COCOT Customer Owned, Coin Operated Telephone [telephony]
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COD Collect On Delivery; Cash On Delivery
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CODEC COder-DECoder
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COER Central Office Equipment Report
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COLA Cost-Of-Living Allowance
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COM Computer Output [on] Microfiche
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COM Computer Output [on] Microfilm
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COMAS Central Office Maintenance and Administration System
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COMM Communications
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COMPACT COMmercial Product ACquisition Team
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COMSAT Communications Satellite [Space]
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CONS Connection-Oriented Networking Session
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CONS CONStruct (LISP)
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CORE COntrolled Requirement Expression
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CORN COmputer Resource Nucleus
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COS Corporation for Open Systems
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COSMIC COmmon System Main InterConnecting frame
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COSMIC COmputer Software Management and Information Center
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COSMOS COmputer System for Mainframe OperationS
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CP Canadian Pacific
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CP Chemically Pure
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CP Command Post
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CP Command Processor
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CP CoPy
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CP the Canadian Press
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CPA Certified Public Accountant
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CPE Customer Premises Equipment
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CPE Customer Provided Equipment
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CPFF Cost Plus Fixed Fee
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CPI Characters Per Inch
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CPI Common Programming Interface
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CPL Combined Programming Language
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CPM Control Program for Microcomputers (sometimes CP/M)
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CPM Control Program Monitor (sometimes CP/M)
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CPO Chief Petty Officer
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CPO Chief Post Office
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CPR Canadian Pacific Railway
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CPS Characters Per Second
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CPSR Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
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CPT CaPTain
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CPU Central Processing Unit
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CPW Certified Public Weigher
|
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CQ Change of Quarters
|
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CR Carriage Return (ASCII 15 octal)
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CRAF Comet Rendezvous/Asteroid Flyby [Space]
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CRAM Card Random Access Memory
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CRC Chemical Rubber Company
|
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CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
|
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CREG Concentrated Range Extension with Gain
|
|
CREN The Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (merge of BITNET and CSNet)
|
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CRRES Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite [NASA]
|
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CRT Cathode Ray Tube (also generic reference to a terminal)
|
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CRTC Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
|
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C&S Chivalry & Sorcery
|
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CS Civil Servant
|
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CS Computer Science; Computing Science
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CS County Seat
|
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CSA Confederate States of America
|
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CSAB Computing Sciences Accreditation Board
|
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CSACS Centralized Status, Alarm and Control System
|
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CSC Computer Sciences Corporation
|
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CSDC Circuit Switched Digital Capability
|
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CSF Critical Success Factor
|
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CSI Commercial Systems Integration
|
|
CSIS Canadian Security and Intelligence Service
|
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CSL Coin Supervising Link
|
|
CSM Command and Service Module (Apollo spacecraft) [space]
|
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CSM Command Sergeant Major
|
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CSMA Carrier Sense Multiple Access
|
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CSMA/CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance
|
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CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
|
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CSNET Computer + Science Network (merged with BITNET to make CREN)
|
|
CSO Central Services Organization
|
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CSOC Consolidated Space Operations Center (at Colorado Springs)
|
|
CSP Control Switching Point
|
|
CSR Control and Status Register
|
|
CSR Customer Service Representative [telephony]
|
|
CSRG Computer Systems Research Group
|
|
CSRS civil Service Retirement System
|
|
CSS Customer Switching System
|
|
CST Central Standard Time
|
|
CSU Channel Service Unit
|
|
CT Central Time
|
|
CT Connecticut
|
|
CTC Canadian Transport Commission
|
|
CTC Centralized Traffic Control [railroad]
|
|
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
|
|
CUL See You Later [net jargon]
|
|
CV Curriculum Vitae
|
|
CW Car Wars
|
|
CW Chemical Warfare
|
|
CW Child Welfare
|
|
CW Churchwarden
|
|
CW Churdwarden
|
|
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
|
|
DA Days after Acceptance
|
|
DA Department of Agriculture
|
|
DA Deposit Account
|
|
D/A Digital to Analog converter
|
|
DA Directory Assistance (/C = computerized, /M = Microfilm)
|
|
DA District Attorney
|
|
DA Don't Answer
|
|
DA Don't Answer [used in telephony, may be more general]
|
|
DAC Digital to Analog Converter
|
|
DACCS Digital Access Cross Connect System
|
|
DACCS Digital Access Cross Connect System [telephony] (suspect, see below)
|
|
DACS Digital Access Cross-connect System [telephony]
|
|
DAD Draft ADdendum
|
|
DAL Dedicated Access Line [telephony]
|
|
DAP Division Advisory Panel [of NSF (q.v.) DNCRI (q.v.)]
|
|
DAR Daughters of the American Revolution
|
|
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
|
|
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (of the DoD, see also ARPA)
|
|
DASD Direct Access Storage Device
|
|
DAT Digital Audio Tape
|
|
DATA Defense Air Transport Administration
|
|
DAV Disabled American Veterans
|
|
DB DataBase
|
|
db decibel(s)
|
|
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
|
|
DCD Data Carrier Detect (sometimes CD (q.v.))
|
|
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
|
|
D&D Dungeons & Dragons
|
|
DDC Digital Data Converter
|
|
DDD Direct Distance Dial(ing)
|
|
DDD Direct Distance Dialing [Telephony; principally US, elsewhere STD]
|
|
DDL Document Description Language
|
|
DDN Defense Data Network
|
|
DDP Distributed Data Processing
|
|
DDS Dataphone Digital Service [AT&T]
|
|
DDS Digital Data Service
|
|
DDS Direct Digital Service
|
|
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
|
|
DEC Digital Equipment Corporation [Corporate name]
|
|
DES Data Encryption Standard
|
|
DES Data Encryption Standard [NIST]
|
|
DEW Distant Early Warning (as in DEW Line)
|
|
DF Damage Free
|
|
D/F 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 Data General [Corporate name]
|
|
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
|
|
DHSS Department of Health and Social Security (British)
|
|
DIA Document Interchange Architecture
|
|
DIAD (magnetic) Drum Information Assembler / Dispatcher
|
|
DIAL Direct Information Access Line
|
|
DIAS Defense Automatic Integrated System
|
|
DID Direct Inward Dialing
|
|
DID Direct Inward Dialing [telephony]
|
|
DIF Document Interchange Format
|
|
DIN Deutsches Institut fur Normung
|
|
DIRE Dire Is Really Emacs
|
|
DIS Draft International Standard [ISO]
|
|
DISOSS Distributed Office Support System [IBM]
|
|
DIY Do It Yourself
|
|
DJ Disc Jockey
|
|
DLA Defense Logistics Agency
|
|
DLI Data Link Interface(?)
|
|
DLL Data Link Layer [ISO OSI]
|
|
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
|
|
DMF Probably part of an X.400 address in Europe
|
|
DMOS Diffusion Metal Oxide Semiconductor (see MOS)
|
|
DMOS Diffussion Metal Oxide Semiconductor (see MOS)
|
|
DMV Department of Motor Vehicles
|
|
DMV Department of Motor Vehicles (Calif)
|
|
DMZ DeMilitarized Zone
|
|
DNA DeoxyriboNucleic Acid
|
|
DNA Digital Network Architecture
|
|
DNA Digital Networking Architecture [DEC]
|
|
DNCRI [NSF (q.v.)] Division of Networking and Communications Research and Infrastructure
|
|
DNHR Dynamic NonHierarchical Routing
|
|
DNIC Data Network Identification Code
|
|
DNIC Data Network Identification Code [telephony]
|
|
DNIS Dialed Number Identification Service (see also DID) [telephony]
|
|
DNL Director of Naval Laboratories
|
|
DNR Dialed Number Recorder
|
|
DNR Dialed Number Recorder [telephony]
|
|
DNS Domain Name System
|
|
DOA Dead On Arrival
|
|
DOB Date Of Birth
|
|
DOC Dynamic Overload Control
|
|
DOD Department Of Defense [U.S. Government] (sometimes DoD)
|
|
DOE Department of Energy [U.S. Government]
|
|
DOMAIN Distributed Operating Multi Access Interactive Network (Apollo)
|
|
DOS Disk Operating System
|
|
DOT Department Of Transportation
|
|
DOT Department Of Transportation [U.S. Government]
|
|
DOT&E Director, Operational Test and Evaluation
|
|
DOV Data Over Voice [telephony]
|
|
DP Data Processing
|
|
DP Dial Pulse
|
|
DP Dial Pulse [telephony]
|
|
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
|
|
DQDB Distributed Queue Dual Bus (IEEE 802.6) [telephony, networking]
|
|
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 Defense Research Internet
|
|
DRI Digital Research, Incorporated
|
|
DRI Digital Research, Incorporated [Corporate name]
|
|
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
|
|
DSS Direct Station Selection [telephony]
|
|
DST Daylight Saving Time
|
|
DSTN Double SuperTwisted Nematic
|
|
DSU Digital Service Unit
|
|
DT Delirium Tremens
|
|
DTE Data Terminal Equipment
|
|
DTF Dial Tone First payphone
|
|
DTF Dial Tone First payphone [telephony]
|
|
DTMF Dial Tone Multi Frequency
|
|
DTMF Dial Tone Multi Frequency [telephony]
|
|
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
|
|
DWI Driving While Intoxicated
|
|
DWIM Do What I Mean
|
|
DX Distance (as in long distance radio communication)
|
|
DXT Data eXtractT facility
|
|
E East
|
|
E Espionage
|
|
EADASS Engineering and Administrative Data AcquiSition System
|
|
EAN Certainly part of an X.400 Address in Europe
|
|
EARN European Academic Research Network
|
|
EAS Extended Area Service (or Engineering Admin. System)
|
|
EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
|
|
EC Exchange Carrier [telephony]
|
|
ECAFE Economic Commission for Africa and the Far East
|
|
ECASS Electronically Controlled Automatic Switching System
|
|
ECASS Export Control Automated Support System
|
|
ECC Error Correction Code
|
|
ECC Error Correction Code (corrects error in memory or transmission)
|
|
ECCM Electronic Counter-CounterMeasures
|
|
ECDO Electronic Community Dial Office
|
|
ECG ElectroCardioGram
|
|
ECL Emitter Coupled Logic (see also TTL)
|
|
ECLSS Environmental Control and Life Support System [Space]
|
|
ECM Electronic Counter Measure
|
|
ECM European Common Market
|
|
ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association
|
|
ECO Ecological
|
|
ECO Electronic Central Office
|
|
ECO Engineering Change Order
|
|
ECPA Electronic Communications Privacy Act [US law]
|
|
ECT ElectroConvulsive Therapy
|
|
ECV Electric Cargo Vehicle [NASA OEXP]
|
|
ED&D Expert Dungeons & Dragons
|
|
EDGAR Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval
|
|
EDI Electronic Data Interchange
|
|
EDIF Electronic Design Interchange Format
|
|
EDO Extended Duration Orbiter [Space]
|
|
EDP Electronic Data Processing
|
|
EDS Electronic Data Systems
|
|
EDT Eastern Daylight Time
|
|
EDTA Ethylene Diamine Tetraacetic Acid
|
|
EDTCC Electronic Data Transmission Communications Central
|
|
EE Electrical Engineer
|
|
EE Electrical or Electronics Engineer
|
|
EEC European Economic Community
|
|
EEC European Economic Comunity
|
|
EEG ElectroEncephaloGram
|
|
EEL Epsilon Extension Language
|
|
E&EO Errors and Omissions Excepted
|
|
EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
|
|
e.g. ??? (Latin(?): for example)
|
|
EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter
|
|
EGP Exterior Gateway Protocol [Internet]
|
|
EHF Extremely High Frequency (30-300GHz)
|
|
EIA Electronic Industries Association
|
|
EIA Electronic Industry Association
|
|
EINE EINE Is Not Emacs
|
|
EISA Extended Industry-Standard Architecture
|
|
EISS European Intelligence Support System
|
|
EKG ElectroKardioGramm (see ECG)
|
|
EL ElectroLuminescent (as in display)
|
|
ELF Extremely Low Frequency
|
|
ELO Electric Light Orchestra
|
|
ELP Emerson, Lake and Palmer (or Powell)
|
|
ELV Expendable Launch Vehicle [Space]
|
|
E&M ``Ear and Mouth''; receive and transmit leads of a signalling system
|
|
EM Enlisted Man (see EW)
|
|
EMA Electronic Mail Association
|
|
EMACS Editor MACroS
|
|
EMACS Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping
|
|
E-MAIL Electronic MAIL
|
|
EMF ElectroMotive Force
|
|
EMF ElectroMotive Force (voltage)
|
|
EMI ElectroMagnetic Interference
|
|
EMP Electromagnetic Pulse
|
|
EMPRESS EnvironMental Pulse Radiation Environment Simulator for Ships
|
|
EMR ElectroMagetic Response
|
|
EMR ElectroMagnetic Response
|
|
EMS Electronic Message System
|
|
EMS Extended Memory Specification
|
|
EMT Emergency Medical Technician
|
|
EMU ElectroMagnetic Unit
|
|
EMU Extravehicular Mobility Unit [Space]
|
|
ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator
|
|
ENS ENSign
|
|
EO End Office
|
|
EO End Office [telephony]
|
|
EO Erasable Optical
|
|
EOF End Of File
|
|
EOM End Of Month
|
|
EOS Earth Observing System [space]
|
|
EOWG Engineering and Operations Working Group (under FNC)
|
|
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
|
|
ERT Earth Resources Technology [Space]
|
|
ES Expert System
|
|
ESA European Space Agency
|
|
ESAC Electronic Systems Assistance Center
|
|
ESDI Enhanced Standard Device Interface
|
|
ESE East South East
|
|
ESF Extended Superframe Format
|
|
ESM Electronic Support Measures
|
|
ESO European Southern Observatory
|
|
ESP Extra Sensory Perception
|
|
ESPS Entropic Signal Processing System
|
|
ESS Electronic Switching System [telephony]
|
|
ESSEX Experimental Solid State EXchange
|
|
EST Eastern Standard Time
|
|
ET Eastern Time
|
|
ET External Tank [of the US Space Shuttle]
|
|
ET Extra Terrestrial [Space]
|
|
ETA Estimated Time of Arrival
|
|
ET/ACC External Tank/Aft Cargo Carrier (see also ET) [Space]
|
|
ETC Et cetera, and so on...
|
|
ETD Estimated Time of Departure
|
|
ETFD Electronic Toll Fraud Device [telephony]
|
|
ETH Eidgnoessiche Techniche Hochschule
|
|
ETO Earth-to-Orbit [Space]
|
|
ETS Electronic Translator System
|
|
ETV Education TeleVision
|
|
EUUG European Unix User Group
|
|
EUV Extreme UltraViolet
|
|
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 [U.S. Government]
|
|
FACD Foreign Area Customer Dialing
|
|
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization [U.S. Government]
|
|
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions [space]
|
|
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 [U.S. Government]
|
|
FCC Federal Communications Commission [U.S. Government]
|
|
FCC Federal Computer Conference
|
|
FCCSET Federal Coordinating Committee for Science, Education and Technology (under OSTP) {Maybe Eng. for Edu.??}
|
|
FCS Frame Check Sequence
|
|
FDA Food and Drug Administration [U.S. Government]
|
|
FDDI Fiber Digital Data Interface
|
|
FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface
|
|
FDHD Floppy Drive High Density
|
|
FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
|
|
FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [U.S. Government]
|
|
FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing
|
|
FDR Franklin Delano Roosevelt [U.S. President]
|
|
FEA Finite Element Analysis
|
|
FEDSIM FEDeral Systems Integration and Management center
|
|
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
|
|
FEMF Foreign EMF (q.v.) (a.k.a. Cross Battery) [telephony]
|
|
FEPC Fair Employment Practices Commission
|
|
FEPG Federal Engineering Planning Group (of FNC under EOWG, originally of FRICC)
|
|
FERS Federal Employees Retirement System
|
|
FET Federal Excise Tax
|
|
FET Field Effect Transistor
|
|
FFA Future Farmers of America
|
|
FFT Fast Fourier Transform
|
|
FG-A Feature Group A [telephony:Line Side term. for LD carriers]
|
|
FG-B Feature Group B [telephony:Trunk Side term. for LD carriers (aka ENFIA B), 950 service]
|
|
FG-D Feature Group D [telephony:Trunk Side term. for LD carriers, 1+ service]
|
|
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.
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FIX Federal Inter-agency eXchange [network]
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FL Florida
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FLACC Full Level Algol Checkout Compiler
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FLL Fixed Loss Loop [telephony]
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FLOP FLoating point OPeration
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FLOPS FLoating-point OPerations per Second
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FLRA Federal Labor Relations Authority
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FM Frequency Modulation
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FMB Federal Maritime Board
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FMCS Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
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FMR Follow Me Roaming [telephony]
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FMS Financial Management Service (Treasury Dept)
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FMS Forms Management System
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FNC Federal Networking Council (formerly FRICC) [US Government, under OSTP]
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FO Foreign Office
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FO Forward Observer
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FOAC Federal Office Automation Center
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FOB Free On Board
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FOC Faint Object Camera (on HST) [space]
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FOC Free Of Charge
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FOIA Freedom Of Information Act
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FOIMS Field Office Information Management System
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FOOBAR See FUBAR
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FOR Free On Rail
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FORCS Faa's Operational Reporting Communication System
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FORD Fix Or Repair Daily
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FORD Found On Road Dead
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FORTRAN FORmula TRANslation
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FORTRAN FORmula TRANslator
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FOS Faint Object Spectrograph (on HST) [space]
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FOSE Federal Office Systems Exposition
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FOT Free On Truck
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FOV Field Of View
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FPA Floating Point Accelerator
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FPC Fish Protein Concentrate
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FPE Floating Point Engine
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FPHA Federal Public Housing Athority
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FPHA Federal Public Housing Authority
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FPLA Field Programmable Logic Array (see PLA)
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FPM Feet Per Minute
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FPO Field Post Office
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FPO Fleet Post Office
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fps Feet Per Second
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FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name [TCP/IP (DNS)]
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FR Frame Relay [telephony, networking]
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FRACTAL FRACTional dimensionAL
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FRED Fred Resembles Emacs Deliberately
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FRG Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)
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FRG Federal Republic of Gernmany (West Germany)
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FRICC Federal Research Internet Coordinating Committee (now FNC, q.v.)
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FROG Free Rocket Over Ground
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FRPG Fantasy Role Playing Game
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FRS Federal Reserve System
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FSF Free Software Foundation
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FSK Frequency Shift Keying
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FSLIC Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
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FSS Federal Supply Service
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FSW Forward Swept Wings
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FT Foot
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FTAM File Transfer And Management (ISO upscale FTP)
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FTC Federal Trade Commission
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FTL Faster Than Light
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FTP File Transfer Protocol
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FTP File Transfer Protocol [esp. of the TCP/IP suite]
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FTS Federal Telecommunications System [telephony, US Government]
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FTS Federal Telephone System [telephony, US Government]
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FTS Flight Telerobotic Servicer [Space]
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FUBAR F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition
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FUBAR Fouled (other words work also) Up Beyond All Recognition
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FW Fringeworthy
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FWD Front Wheel Drive
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FWHM Full Width at Half Maximum
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FX Foreign eXchange
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FX Foriegn eXchange [telephony]
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FY Fiscal Year
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FYI For Your Information
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G Gravity
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GA Gamblers Anonymous
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GA General Assembly
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GA General Average
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GA General of the Army
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GA Georgia
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GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
|
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GAB Group Audio Bridging [telephony]
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Gaia Earth's self-sustaining Biosphere
|
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GAN Global Area Network
|
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GAO General Accounting Office [US Government]
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GAR Grand Army of the Republic
|
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GAS Get-Away Special [space]
|
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GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
|
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GAW Guaranteed Annual Wage
|
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GAW Guarenteed Annual Wage
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GB Gangbusters
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GB GigaByte
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GB Great Britain
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GBIP General Purpose Interface Bus
|
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GC Garbage Collection (LISP)
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GC Gas Chromatograph (or Chromatography)
|
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GCA Ground Controlled Approach
|
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GCC Gnu C Compiler
|
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GCD Ground Controlled Descent
|
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GCL Graphics Command Language
|
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GCM General Court Martial
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GCR Group-Coded Recording (magnetic tape, 6250 bpi)
|
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GCT Greenwich Civil Time
|
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GDB Gnu DeBugger
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GDP Gross Domestic Product
|
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GE General Electric
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GEM Graphics Environment Manager
|
|
GEO Geosynchronous Earth Orbit [Space]
|
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GHQ General HeadQuarters
|
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GHRS Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (on HST) [space]
|
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GHz Giga HertZ (unit of frequency, 1,000,000,000 cycles per second)
|
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GI Galvanized Iron
|
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GI Gastro Intestinal (as in upper GI)
|
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GI General Issue
|
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GI Government Issue
|
|
GIF Graphics Interchange Format
|
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GIGO Garbage In Garbage Out
|
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GIN Graphics INput
|
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GISS Goddard Institute for Space Studies
|
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GKS Graphical Kernel Standard
|
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GKS Graphics Kernel System
|
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GM Game Master
|
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GM General Manager
|
|
GM General Motors
|
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GM Guided Missile
|
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GMBH Gesellschaft Mit Beschraenkter Haftung
|
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GMT Greenwich Mean Time
|
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GNP Gross National Product
|
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GNU GNU's Not Unix
|
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GOES Geostationary Orbiting Environmental Satellites [Space]
|
|
GOSIP Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile (calls for government procurement of ISO/CCITT products)
|
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GOSIP Government OSI Profile
|
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GP General Practitioner
|
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GPI Graphics Programming Interface
|
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GPIB General Purpose Interface Bus
|
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GPIB General-Purpose Interface Bus
|
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GPL GNU General Public Licence
|
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GPO General Post Office
|
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GPO Government Printing Office
|
|
GPS Global Positioning System
|
|
GPS Global Positioning System [Space]
|
|
GQ General Quarters
|
|
GRB Gamma Ray Burst(er)
|
|
GREP Global Regular Expression Print, g/re/p, (UNIX command)
|
|
GREP Global Regular Expression Print [UNIX]
|
|
GRO Gamma Ray Observatory [Space]
|
|
GS General Schedule
|
|
GS Glide Slope
|
|
GSA General Services Administration
|
|
GSA General Services Adminstration [U.S. Government]
|
|
GSA Girl Scouts of America
|
|
GSBCA General Services administration Board of Contract Appeals
|
|
GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD) [NASA]
|
|
GSM Global System Mobile
|
|
GSM Groupe Speciale Mobile (Committee Designing preceding)
|
|
GSTS Ground-based Surveillance and Tracking System
|
|
GT Gross Ton
|
|
GTE General Telephone and Electric
|
|
GTE General Telephone and Electric [Corporate name]
|
|
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)
|
|
HAL Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer [movie 2001]
|
|
HAM Hold And Modify
|
|
Hb HemogloBin
|
|
HBM Her British Majesty; His British Majesty
|
|
HBO Home Box Office
|
|
HC Holy Communion
|
|
HC House of Commons
|
|
HCFA Health Care Financing Administration
|
|
HCFC hydrochlorofluorocarbon [chemical]
|
|
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
|
|
HDLC High-level Data Link Control (IBM network stuff)
|
|
HDTV High Definition Television
|
|
HE His Eminence; His Excellency
|
|
HEAO High Energy Astronomical Observatory
|
|
HEAO High Energy Astronomical Observatory [satellite]
|
|
HEDM High Energy-Density Matter [Space]
|
|
HEMP Help End Marijuana Prohibition
|
|
HEO High Earth Orbit [Space]
|
|
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
|
|
HLC Heavy Lift Capability [Space]
|
|
HLL High-Level Language
|
|
HLV Heavy Lift Vehicle [Space]
|
|
HMOS High performance Metal Oxide Semiconductor (see MOS)
|
|
HMOS High preformance Metal Oxide Semiconductor (see MOS)
|
|
HMS His/Her Majesty's Ship
|
|
HMT His/Her Majesty's Transport
|
|
HNPA Home Numbering Plan Area
|
|
HNPA Home Numbering Plan Area [telephony]
|
|
HOBIS HOtel Billing Information System
|
|
HOL High-Order System
|
|
HOTOL HOrizontal Take-Off and Landing
|
|
HP Hewlett Packard, inc.
|
|
HP Hewlett Packard, Inc. [Corporate name]
|
|
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
|
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HRH His Royal Highness
|
|
HS High School
|
|
HSB Hue, Saturation, Brightness
|
|
HST Hawaiian Standard Time
|
|
HST Hubble Space Telescope [NASA]
|
|
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
|
|
HUD Housing and Urban Development [U.S. Government]
|
|
HVAC Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning
|
|
HW2000 Highway 2000
|
|
HWM High-Water Mark
|
|
Hz HertZ (unit of frequency, cycles per second)
|
|
IAB Internet Activities Board
|
|
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
|
|
IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA@ISI.EDU)
|
|
IATA International Air Transport Association
|
|
IBM Ingrained Batch Mentality
|
|
IBM International Business Machines [Corporate name]
|
|
IBM International Business Machines, inc.
|
|
IBM Itty Bitty Machines
|
|
IBT Illinois Bell Telephone
|
|
IC Integrated Circuit
|
|
IC Interexchange Carrier [telephony] (see also IEC, IXC)
|
|
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.
|
|
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
|
|
ICP Integrated Channel Processor
|
|
ICP Inventory Control Points
|
|
ICRC International Cosmic Ray Conference
|
|
ID Idaho
|
|
ID IDentification
|
|
IDA Intercommunication Data Areas
|
|
IDA International Development Association
|
|
IDDD International Direct Distance Dial [telephony]
|
|
IDDD International Direct Distance Dialing
|
|
IDE Interactive Development Environments, inc
|
|
IDF Intermediate Distributing Frame
|
|
IDF Intermediate Distributing Frame [telephony]
|
|
IDV Interlibrational Derived Vehicle [Space]
|
|
i.e. ???? (Latin(?): in other words (?))
|
|
IE Indo-European
|
|
IEC Inter-Exchange Carrier [telephony] (see also IC, IXC)
|
|
IEE Institute of Electrical Engineers [UK]
|
|
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
|
|
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
|
|
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
|
|
IF Intermediate Frequency (as in IF stage)
|
|
IFB Invitation For Bids
|
|
IFC International Finance Corporation
|
|
IFC International Freighting Corporation
|
|
IFF Identification - Friend or Foe
|
|
IFF Interchange File Format
|
|
IFLA International Federation of Library Associations
|
|
IGES Initial Graphics Exchange Standard
|
|
IGY International Geophysical Year
|
|
IHP Indicated HorsePower
|
|
IHS Integrated Hospital Support
|
|
IIA Information Industry Association
|
|
IIE Institute of Industrial Engineers
|
|
IIHF International Ice Hockey Federation
|
|
IIL Integrated Injection Logic
|
|
ILO International Labor Organization
|
|
ILS Instrument Landing System
|
|
ILV Industrial Launch Vehicle [Space]
|
|
IMF International Monetary Fund
|
|
IMHO In My Humble Opinion [net jargon]
|
|
IMP Interface Message Processor (ARPAnet)
|
|
IMP Interface Message Processor [ARPANET/MILNET] (replaced by PSN)
|
|
IMSL International Mathematical Subroutine Library
|
|
IN Indiana
|
|
INADS INitialization and ADministration System
|
|
INADS INitialization and ADministration System [telephony]
|
|
INRA Iesus Nazerenus Rex Iudaeorum (Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews)
|
|
INRIA Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique
|
|
INS Immigration and Naturalization Service
|
|
In-situ In Place [Latin]
|
|
INSTITUTE INSTITUTE's Name Shows That It's Totally Unrelated To EMACS
|
|
INTAP INteroperability Technology Association for information Processing
|
|
INWATS INward Wide Area Telephone Service
|
|
INWATS INward Wide Area Telephone Service [telephony]
|
|
I/O Input/Output
|
|
IO Input/Output (sometimes I/O)
|
|
IOC International Operating Center [telephony, US]
|
|
IOD Identified Outward Dialing
|
|
IOOF International Order of Odd Fellows
|
|
IOU I Owe you(U)
|
|
IP Information Provider [telephony]
|
|
IP Innings Pitched
|
|
IP Intermediate Point
|
|
IP Internet Protocol
|
|
IPC Inter-Process Communication
|
|
IPE Integrated Programming Environment
|
|
IPMS InterPersonal Message Services
|
|
IPS Information Processing Standards
|
|
IPSE Integrated Project-Support Environment
|
|
IQ Intelligence Quotient (see EQ)
|
|
IR Index Register
|
|
IR Infra-Red
|
|
IRA Individual Retirement Account
|
|
IRA Irish Republican Army
|
|
IRAS Infrared Astronomical Satellite
|
|
IRBM Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile
|
|
IRDS Information Resource Dictionary Standard
|
|
IRDS InfraRed Detection Set
|
|
IRE Institute of Radio Engineers (old name for the now IEEE, which see)
|
|
IRM Information Resources Management
|
|
IRMS Information Resources Management Service
|
|
IRS Internal Revenue Service
|
|
IRTF Internet Research Task Force
|
|
IS Information Systems
|
|
IS International Standard [ISO] (Beyond the DIS Stage)
|
|
ISA Industry-Standard Architecture
|
|
ISAM Indexed Sequential Access Method
|
|
ISBD International Bibliographic Description
|
|
ISC Information Services Center
|
|
ISC International Switching Center
|
|
ISCH Interstitial-Cell-Stimulating Hormone (same as LH)
|
|
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network [telephony]
|
|
ISDT Integrated Systems Development Tool
|
|
ISEE International Sun Earth Explorer (usually ISEE-3)
|
|
ISF Information Systems Factory
|
|
ISFUG Integrated Software Federal User Group
|
|
ISI Information Sciences Institute
|
|
ISO International Organization for Standardization
|
|
ISODE ISO Development Environment
|
|
ISOO Information Security Oversight Office
|
|
ISPM International Solar Polar Mission
|
|
ISR Institute of Snow Research
|
|
ISRG Independent Space Research Group
|
|
ISV Independent Software Vendor
|
|
IT Industrial Technology
|
|
IT Information Technology
|
|
ITC Inter-Task Communication
|
|
ITS Incompatible Timesharing System
|
|
ITT International Telephone and Telegraph
|
|
ITU International Telecommunications Union
|
|
ITUSA IT Users Standards Association
|
|
IUE International Ultraviolet Explorer [space]
|
|
IUS Inertial Upper Stage
|
|
IUS Inertial Upper Stage [Space]
|
|
IUV Interlibrational Utility Vehicle [Space]
|
|
IXC Inter-eXchange Carrier [telephony] (see also IC, IEC)
|
|
JACM Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery
|
|
JBS John Birch Society
|
|
JC Jesus Christ
|
|
JC Joint Compound (plumbing)
|
|
JC Julius Caesar
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
JILA Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics [space]
|
|
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
|
|
JvNC John von Neumann (Super Computer) Center
|
|
JvNCnet John von Neumann (Super Computer) Center network
|
|
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 Key Pulse [telephony]
|
|
KP Kitchen Police
|
|
KPNO Kitt Peak National Observatory
|
|
KPO KeyPunch Operator
|
|
KQC King's College London
|
|
K&R Kernighan and Ritchie, the c programming language
|
|
KS King's Scholar
|
|
KSC Kennedy Space Center
|
|
KSU Key Service Unit
|
|
KSU Key System Unit [telephony]
|
|
KTS Key Telephone System
|
|
KTS Key Telephone System [telephony]
|
|
KTU Key Telephone Unit
|
|
KTU Key Telephone Unit [telephony]
|
|
KWIC Key Word In Context
|
|
KY Kentucky
|
|
L1 Lagrange Point #1 35,000 Miles above moon [Space]
|
|
L2 Lagrange Point #2 40,000 Miles behind moon [Space]
|
|
L3 Lagrange Point #3 (?? 35,000 Miles below moon) [Space]
|
|
L4 Lagrange Point #4 240,000 mile Earth orbit [Space]
|
|
L5 Lagrange Point #5 240,000 mile Earth orbit [Space]
|
|
LA Los Angeles
|
|
LA Louisiana
|
|
LA Low Altitude
|
|
LADAR LAser Detection And Ranging
|
|
LAM Master of Liberal Arts
|
|
LAMA Local Automatic Message Accounting
|
|
LAMA Local Automatic Message Accounting [telephony]
|
|
LAN Local Apparent Noon
|
|
LAN Local Area Network
|
|
LANL Los Alamos (NM) National Laboratory
|
|
LAPB Link Access Procedure (Balanced)
|
|
LAPD Link Access Procedure (??)
|
|
LAR Local Acquisition Radar
|
|
LASER Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
|
|
LAT Local Apparent Time
|
|
LATA Local Access and Transport Area [telephony]
|
|
LATA Local Access Transport Area
|
|
LAX Los Angeles International Airport
|
|
LB Light Bomber
|
|
LB pound (LiBra)
|
|
LBHS Long Beach High School
|
|
LBL Lawrence Berkeley (Calif.) Labs
|
|
LBL Lawrence Berkeley Labs
|
|
LBS Pounds
|
|
LC inductor-Capacitor circuit (as in filters, L is symbol inductance)
|
|
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
|
|
LCD Lowest Common Denominator
|
|
LCDR Lieutenant Commander
|
|
LCL Lunar Cargo Lander [NASA OEXP]
|
|
LCM Least Common Multiple
|
|
LCM Life Cycle Management
|
|
LCS Laboratory for Computer Science [MIT]
|
|
LCT Landing Craft Tanks
|
|
LD Long Distance [telephony]
|
|
LDC Long Distance Carrier [telephony]
|
|
LDEF Long Duration Exposure Facility [NASA]
|
|
LDF Large Deployable Reflector [Space]
|
|
LDL Low Density Lipoprotein
|
|
LDX Long Distance eXtender
|
|
LDX Long Distance eXtender [telephony]
|
|
LEAP Low-power Enhanced At Portable
|
|
LEC Local Exchange Carrier [telephony]
|
|
LED Light Emitting Diode
|
|
LEM Lunar Excursion Module [Space]
|
|
LEO Low Earth Orbit [Space]
|
|
LEP Large Electron-Positron collider [CERN]
|
|
LF Low Frequency (30-300KHz)
|
|
LH Left Hand
|
|
LH Lower Half
|
|
LH Luteinizing Hormone (same as ISCH)
|
|
LHC Large Hadron Collider [CERN]
|
|
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
|
|
LL Long Lines [telephony]
|
|
LLB Legum Baccalaureus (bachelor of laws)
|
|
LLD Legum doctor (doctor of laws)
|
|
LLN Line Link Network
|
|
LLN Line Link Network [telephony]
|
|
LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
|
|
LLO Low Lunar Orbit [Space]
|
|
LLOX Lunar Liquid Oxygen [Space]
|
|
LLP Line Link Pulsing
|
|
LLP Line Link Pulsing [telephony]
|
|
LM Life Master (Contract Bridge ranking)
|
|
LM Lunar Module
|
|
LMC Large Magellanic Cloud (see SMC)
|
|
LMOS Line Maintenance Operations System
|
|
LMOS Line Maintenance Operations System [telephony, AT&T]
|
|
LNG Liquefied Natural Gas
|
|
LNG Liquified Natural Gas
|
|
LOA Lands of Adventure
|
|
LOFT Launch Operations Flight Test [Space]
|
|
LOOPS Lisp Object Oriented Programming System
|
|
LOP Lines Of Position
|
|
LOSF Lunar Orbit Staging Facility [Space]
|
|
LOTS Low Overhead Timesharing System
|
|
LOX Liquid Oxygen
|
|
LP Long Play(ing) (record)
|
|
LP Low Pressure
|
|
LPC Linear Predictive Coding (speech processing)
|
|
LPDA Link Problem Determination Aid
|
|
LPF League for Programming Freedom
|
|
LPG Liquefied Petroleum Gas
|
|
LPG Liquified Petroleum Gas
|
|
LPG Low Pressure Gas
|
|
LPL Lunar Personnel Lander [NASA OEXP]
|
|
LPN Licensed Practical Nurse
|
|
LPP Licensed Program Products
|
|
LPR Line PrinteR
|
|
LPT Lunar Propellant Tanker [NASA OEXP]
|
|
LPV Lunar Piloted Vehicle [NASA OEXP]
|
|
LRB Liquid Rocket Booster [Space]
|
|
LRBM Long Range Ballistic Missile
|
|
LRC Longitudinal Redundancy Character
|
|
LRU Least Recently Used
|
|
LRU Line Replaceable Unit
|
|
LS Left Side
|
|
LS Letter Signed
|
|
LS Locus Sigilli (place of seal)
|
|
LSAP Logical(?, maybe Link) Service Access Point [OSI, Networking]
|
|
LSB Least Signficant Bit; Least Significant Byte
|
|
LSB Least Significant Bit; Least Significant Byte
|
|
LSC Lecture Series Committee [MIT]
|
|
LSC LightSpeed C
|
|
LSD Least Signficant Digit
|
|
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
|
|
MA Massachusetts [US state postal designation]
|
|
MAAP Maintenance And Administration Panel
|
|
MAC Medium Access Control
|
|
MAC Military Air Command
|
|
MAC MIT interdepartmental lab (stands for many things) (renamed to LCS)
|
|
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
|
|
MAP/TOP Manufacturing Automation Protocol/Technical Office 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
|
|
MBA Master Business Adminstration
|
|
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
|
|
MCSV Mars Crew Sortie Vehicle [NASA OEXP]
|
|
MD Doctor of Medicine
|
|
MD Maryland
|
|
MD Maryland [US state postal designation]
|
|
MD Medical Doctor
|
|
MD Months after Date
|
|
MDAS Magnetic Drum Auxiliary Sender
|
|
MDC Metropolitan District Commision [Mass State Agency]
|
|
MDE Modular Design Environment
|
|
MDF Main Distrbution Frame [telephony]
|
|
MDF Main Distribution Frame
|
|
MDRE Mass Driver Reaction Engine [Space]
|
|
MDT Mean Down Time
|
|
ME Maine
|
|
ME Mechanical Engineer
|
|
MEd Master of EDucation
|
|
MERP Middle-Earth Role Playing
|
|
MeV Million Electron Volts
|
|
MF Medium Frequency (300-3000KHz)
|
|
MF Middle French
|
|
MF Multi-Frequency
|
|
MF Multi-Frequency [telephony]
|
|
MFA Master Fine Arts
|
|
MFJ Modified Final Judgment [telephony]
|
|
MFLOPS Million FLoating-point OPerations per Second
|
|
MFLOPS Million FLoating-point OPerations per Second (see also FLOPS)
|
|
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
|
|
MGM Metro-Goldwyn Mayer [Corporate name]
|
|
MHD MagnetoHydroDynamics
|
|
MHS Mail Handling System [ISO]
|
|
MHz Mega HertZ (unit of frequency, 1,000,000 cycles per second)
|
|
MI Michigan
|
|
MI Military Intelligence
|
|
MIA Missing In Action
|
|
MIB Management Information Base
|
|
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
|
|
Mir Peace [Russian]
|
|
MIRV Multiple Independently-Targetable Reentry Vehicle
|
|
MIS Management Information System
|
|
MIS Management Information Systems
|
|
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
|
|
ML Middle Latin
|
|
MLA Member of Legislative Assembly (see MPP)
|
|
MLD Minimum Lethal Dose
|
|
MLL Mars Logistics Lander [NASA OEXP]
|
|
MLS Microwave Landing System
|
|
MLS Multi-Level Security
|
|
MLV Medium Lift Vehicle [NASA OEXP]
|
|
MM Maryknoll Missioners
|
|
MMES Martin Marietta Energy Systems
|
|
MMFS Manufacturing Message Format Standard
|
|
MMM see 3M
|
|
MMU Manned Maneuvering Unit [Space]
|
|
MMU Memory Management Unit
|
|
MMW Multi-Mega Watt [Space]
|
|
MN Minnesota
|
|
MNA Member of National Assembly (Quebec)
|
|
MNP Microcom Networking Protocol
|
|
MNP Microcom Networking Protocol [product]
|
|
MO Mail Order
|
|
MO Medical Officer
|
|
MO Missouri
|
|
MO Modus Operandi
|
|
MO Money Order
|
|
MOMV Manned Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle [Space]
|
|
MOR Middle-Of-the-Road
|
|
MOS Metal Oxide Semiconductor
|
|
MOSFET Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
|
|
MOTIS Message-Oriented Text Interchange System
|
|
MOTV Manned Orbital Transfer Vehicle [Space]
|
|
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)
|
|
MPE Mission to Planet Earth [Space]
|
|
MPG Miles Per Gallon
|
|
MPH Miles Per Hour
|
|
MPP Member of Provincial Parliament (Canada; also MLA)
|
|
MPR Mars Pressurized Rover [Space]
|
|
MPV Mars Piloted Vehicle [NASA OEXP]
|
|
MPW Macintosh Programmer's Workshop
|
|
MR Miniatures Rules
|
|
MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
|
|
MRP Manufacturing Requirements Planning
|
|
MS ManuScript
|
|
MS Master of Science
|
|
MS Military Science
|
|
MS Motor Ship
|
|
MS Multiple Sclerosis
|
|
MSB Most Significant Bit; Most Significant Byte
|
|
MSC MicroSoft C
|
|
MSCP Mass Storage Control Protocol
|
|
MSD Most Significant Digit
|
|
MS-DOS MicroSoft DOS
|
|
MSE Mobile Subscriber Equipment
|
|
MSFC Marshall Space Flight Center
|
|
MSG MonoSodium Glutamate
|
|
MSG MonoSodium Glutimate
|
|
MSH Marvel Super Heroes
|
|
MSL Mean Sea Level
|
|
MSPE Mercenaries, Spies & Private Eyes
|
|
MSS Management Support System
|
|
MSS ManuScriptS
|
|
MSS Mass Storage System
|
|
MST Mountain Standard Time
|
|
MT Metric Ton
|
|
MT Mountain Time
|
|
MTA Message Transfer Agent
|
|
MTA Metropolitan Transportation Authority
|
|
MTBF Mean Time Between Failures
|
|
MTR Magnetic Tape Recording
|
|
MTSO Mobile Telephone Switching Office [telephony]
|
|
MTTF Mean Time to Failure
|
|
MTTR Mean Time to Recovery
|
|
MTTR Mean Time To Repair
|
|
MTV Music TeleVision
|
|
MUF Maximum Usable Frequency (max freq during sunspot activity)
|
|
MULTICS MULTiplex Information Computer Services
|
|
MUMPS Mgh Utility MultiProgram System
|
|
MUNG Mung Until No Good (see the hacker's dictionary)
|
|
MUX MUltipleXor
|
|
MVA MegaVolt Ampere
|
|
MVS Multiple Virtual Storage [IBM]
|
|
MX Missile eXperimental
|
|
N North
|
|
N Notice
|
|
NA Narcotics Anonymous
|
|
NA North America
|
|
NA Not Applicable
|
|
NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
|
|
NAAS North American Automated Systems co.
|
|
NAB National Association of Broadcasters
|
|
NABISCO NAtional BIScuit COmpany [Corporate name]
|
|
NACCIRN North American Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networking (see also CCIRN)
|
|
NACS National Advisory Committee on Semiconductors
|
|
NAD Network Access Device
|
|
NADGE NATO Air Defense Ground Environment
|
|
NAG Numerical Algorithms Group
|
|
NAGE National Association of Government Employees
|
|
NAK Negative AcKnowledge
|
|
NAM Name and Address Module [telephony, cellular phone changeable ROM]
|
|
NAM National Account Manager [telephony, AT&T specific?]
|
|
NAM Number Assignment Module [telephony, cellular phone changeable ROM]
|
|
NANP North American Numbering Plan
|
|
NAPAP National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program
|
|
NAR Nuclear Acoustic Resonance
|
|
NARDAC NAvy Regional Data Automation Center
|
|
NAS National Academy of Sciences
|
|
NAS National Advanced Systems
|
|
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
|
|
NASDA National Space Development Agency [Japan]
|
|
NASP National AeroSpace Plane
|
|
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
|
|
NAVDAC NAVal Data Automation Command
|
|
NAVSWC NAVal Surface Weapons Center
|
|
NB New Brunswick
|
|
NB Nota Bene
|
|
NBA National Basketball Association
|
|
NBC National Broadcasting Company [Corporate name]
|
|
NBFM NarrowBand Frequency Modulation
|
|
NBO Network Build Out
|
|
NBS National Bureau of Standards (renamed NIST) [U.S. Government]
|
|
NBVM Narrow Band Voice Modulation
|
|
NC No Charge
|
|
NC No Connection
|
|
NC North Carolina
|
|
NCA Network Control Analysis
|
|
NCC National Computer Conference
|
|
NCDC National Climatic Data Center
|
|
NCE New Catholic Edition
|
|
NCGA National Computer Graphics Association
|
|
NCIC National Cartographic Information Center
|
|
NCO Non-Commissioned Officer
|
|
NCP Network Control Program
|
|
NCR National Cash Register [Corporate name]
|
|
NCS Network Computing System
|
|
NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Applications
|
|
NCSC National Computer Security Center [NSA]
|
|
NCTL National Computer and Telecommunications Laboratory
|
|
NCV No Commercial Value
|
|
ND No Date
|
|
ND North Dakota
|
|
NDA Non-Disclosure Agreement
|
|
NDDL Neutral Data Definition Language
|
|
NDE News Development Environment
|
|
NDEA National Defense Education Act
|
|
NDL Network Database Language
|
|
NDP New Democratic Party (Canada)
|
|
NDSL National Defense Student Loan
|
|
NDSL National Direct Student Loan
|
|
NDT Newfoundland Daylight Time
|
|
NDV NASP Derived Vehicle
|
|
NE New England
|
|
NE North East
|
|
NEAR National Electronic Accounting and Reporting system
|
|
NEARnet New England Academic and Research Network
|
|
NEB New English Bible
|
|
NEC Nippon Electric Company [Corporate name]
|
|
NEI Not Elsewhere Included
|
|
NES National Energy Strategy
|
|
NES Not Elsewhere Specified
|
|
NESC National Energy Software Center
|
|
NET National Educational Television
|
|
NET NETwork
|
|
NET New England Telephone
|
|
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)
|
|
NHLBI National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (Bethesda, MD)
|
|
NIC Network Information Center (ARPAnet)
|
|
NIC Network Information Center ("The NIC" is NIC.DDN.MIL)
|
|
NIFTP (a file transfer network in the UK)
|
|
NIH National Institutes of Health
|
|
NIH Not Invented Here
|
|
NIM Nuclear Instrumentation Module (an electronic instr. standard)
|
|
NIMH National Institute of Mental Health (Rockville, MD)
|
|
NIS Network Information System (formerly yp)
|
|
NISO National Information Standards Organization
|
|
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology (formerly NBS) [U.S. Government]
|
|
NJ New Jersey
|
|
NJB New Jersey Bell [Telephony]
|
|
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 [U.S. Government]
|
|
NOAO National Optical Astronomy Observatories (Tucson, Arizona)
|
|
NOC Network Operations Center
|
|
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
|
|
NOx Nitrogen Oxides
|
|
NP No Protest
|
|
NP Nondeterministic-Polynomial
|
|
NP Notary Public
|
|
NP Noun Phrase
|
|
NPA Numbering Plan Area (area code) [Telephony]
|
|
NPC Non-Player Character (see PC) [Role-playing]
|
|
NPL National Physical Laboratory (UK)
|
|
NPL Non-Procedural Language
|
|
NPN Negative-Positive-Negative (transistor)
|
|
NPN NonProtein Nitrogen
|
|
NPR National Public Radio
|
|
NPR non-Processor Request [PDP11, UNIBUS]
|
|
NQS Network Queuing System
|
|
NRA National Reconstruction Act [FDR era US]
|
|
NRA National Rifle Association
|
|
NRC National Research Council
|
|
NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission
|
|
NRE Non-Recurring Engineering (as in NRE costs)
|
|
NREN National Research and Education Network
|
|
NRL Naval Research Labs
|
|
NRO National Reconnaissance Office
|
|
NRZ Non-Return to Zero
|
|
NRZI Non-Return to Zero Inverted (magnetic tape, 800 bpi)
|
|
NS Not Specified
|
|
NS Nova Scotia
|
|
NS Nuclear Ship
|
|
NSA National Security Agency [U.S. Government]
|
|
NSAP Network Service Access Point [OSI, Networking]
|
|
NSC National Security Council [U.S. Government]
|
|
NSE Network Software Environment
|
|
NSF National Science Foundation [U.S. Government]
|
|
NST Newfoundland Standard Time
|
|
NSTS National Space Transportation System [Space]
|
|
NSW New South Wales (Australia)
|
|
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 Network Time Protocol [Internet]
|
|
NTP Normal Temperature and Pressure (see STP)
|
|
NTSB National Transportation Safety Board [U.S. Government]
|
|
NTSC National Television Standards Committee
|
|
NTSC Never Twice Same Color
|
|
NTT Nippon Telephone & Telegraph
|
|
NU Name Unknown
|
|
NURBS NonUniform Rational B-Spline
|
|
NUSC Naval Underwater Systems Center [U.S. Government]
|
|
NV Nevada
|
|
NW North West
|
|
NWNET NorthWestNet
|
|
NWS National Weather Service
|
|
NWT North West Territories (Australia)
|
|
NXX NANP syntax for a three-digit string, {[2-9],[0-9],[0-9]} [Telephony]
|
|
NY New York
|
|
NYC New York City
|
|
NYNEX New York and New England (Telephone)
|
|
NYSE New York Stock Exchange
|
|
NYSERNet New York State Educational and Research Network
|
|
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, Inc.
|
|
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
|
|
OEXP Office of Exploration [NASA]
|
|
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 [U.S. Government]
|
|
OMD Orchestral Manouevers in the Dark
|
|
OMS Orbital Maneuvering System
|
|
OMV Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle [Space]
|
|
ON Old Norse
|
|
ONC Open Network Computing
|
|
ONI Office of Naval Intelligence
|
|
ONI Operator Number Identification
|
|
ONI Operator Number Identification [telephony]
|
|
ONR Office of Naval Research
|
|
OOP Object Oriented Programming
|
|
OOPART Out Of Place ARTifact
|
|
OOPS Object-Oriented Programming System
|
|
OP Observation Post
|
|
OP OFFICEPOWER office automation system, trademark of CCI
|
|
OP Order of Preachers
|
|
OP Out of Print
|
|
OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
|
|
OPF Orbiter Processing Facility [space]
|
|
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
|
|
OSC Orbital Sciences Corporation [Space]
|
|
OSCAR Orbiting Satelite Carry Amateur Radio (1st launched 12 Dec 1961)
|
|
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 Open Systems Foundation
|
|
OSF Order of St. Francis
|
|
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration [US Government]
|
|
OSI Open Systems Interconnection
|
|
OSI Open Systems Interconnection (per ISO; 7 layer model)
|
|
OSI/RM Open Systems Interconnection/Reference Model
|
|
OSME Open Systems Message Exchange
|
|
OSP Optical Storage Processor
|
|
OSPFIGP Open Shortest-Path First Internal Gateway Protocol [Internet]
|
|
OSS Office of Strategic Services (later CIA)
|
|
OSS Office Support System
|
|
OSS Operation Support System
|
|
OSS Operation Support System [telephony, AT&T?]
|
|
OSTP Office of Science and Technology Policy
|
|
OSTP (White House) Office of Science and Technology Policy [US Government]
|
|
OT Old Testament
|
|
OT OverTime
|
|
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)
|
|
OT&LF Open Taxi & Limousine Foundation
|
|
OTR On The Rag
|
|
OTS Officers' Training School
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OTV Orbital Transfer Vehicle [Space]
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OUTWATS OUTward Wide Area Telephone Service
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OUTWATS OUTward Wide Area Telephone Service [telephony]
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OV Orbiter Vehicle [Space]
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PA Pennsylvania
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PA Per Annum
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PA Play Aid
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PA Power of Attorney
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PA Press Agent
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PA Private Account
|
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PA Public Address
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PA Purchasing Agent
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PABX Private Automatic Branch eXchange
|
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PABX Private Automatic Branch eXchange [telephony]
|
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PACX Private Automatic Computer eXchange
|
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PAD Packet Assembler/Disassembler
|
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PAD Packet Assembler-Disassembler (for networking)
|
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PAH Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon
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PAL Phase Alternation Line-rate
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PAL Programmable Array Logic
|
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PAM Payload Assist Module [Space]
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PAM Pulse Amplification Modulation
|
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PARC Palo Alto Research Center, xerox
|
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PASS Personal Access Satellite System [NASA]
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PATROL Program for Administrative Traffic Reports On Line
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PBM Play By Mail game
|
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PBS Public Broadcasting System
|
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PBX Private Branch eXchange (mini-telephone network system)
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PBX Private Branch eXchange [telephony]
|
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PC Peace Corps
|
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PC PerCent; PerCentage
|
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PC Personal Computer
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PC Personal Computer [IBM wants you to believe a specific kind]
|
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PC Player Character (see NPC)
|
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PC Player Character (see NPC) [Role-playing]
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PC Post Card
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PC Post Cibum (after meals)
|
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PC Privileged Character
|
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PC Privy Council
|
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PC Program Counter
|
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PC Progressive Conservative party (Canada)
|
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PC/AT Personal Computer/Advanced Technology
|
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PCB PolyChlorinated Biphenyl
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PCB PolyChlorinated Biphenyls
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PCB Printed Circuit Board
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PC-DOS Personal Computer DOS
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PCI Panel Call Indicator
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PCIE President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency
|
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PCL Printer Command Language
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PCM Plug-Compatible Mainframe
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PCM Pulse Code Modulation
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PCPC Personal Computers Peripheral Corporation
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PCS Permanent Change of Station
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PCTE Portable Common Tools Environment
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PCTS Posix Conformance Test Suite
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PD Per Diem
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PD Police Department
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PD Potential Difference
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PD Public Domain
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PDAD Proposed Draft ADdendum
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PDE Partial Differential Equation
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PDES Product Data Exchange Specifications
|
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PDF Program Development Facility
|
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PDL Page Description Language
|
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PDL Program Design Language
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PDN Public Data Network
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|
PDP Plasma Display Panel
|
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PDP Programmed Data Processor
|
|
PDP Programmed Data Processor [DEC]
|
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PDQ Pretty Damned Quick
|
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PDS Premises Distribution System [AT&T]
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PDT Pacific Daylight Time
|
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PE Phase Encoded
|
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PE Physical Education
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PE Prince Edward island
|
|
PE Printer's Error
|
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PE Professional Engineer
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PE Protestant Episcopal
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PEI Prince Edward Island
|
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PEP Productivity Enhancement Project
|
|
PEPE Pepe Est Presque Emacs
|
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PERL Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister
|
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PERL Practical Extraction and Report Language
|
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PEX Phigs/phigs+ Extension to X
|
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PGA Professional Graphics Adapter
|
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PGA Pure Grain Alcohol
|
|
PHA Pulse Height Analyzer (or Analysis)
|
|
PHIGS Programmers Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System
|
|
PHS Public Health Service
|
|
PhysRev Physical Review Journal - Phys Rev
|
|
PIC Plastic/Polyethelene Insulated Cable [telephony]
|
|
PIC Position Independant Code
|
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PIF Paid In Full
|
|
PIT Principal, Interest, and Taxes
|
|
PIXEL PIcture ELement
|
|
PLA Programmable Logic Array
|
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PLATO Programmed Learning for Automated Teaching Operations [U. Ill., early '70s]
|
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PLC Programmable Logic Controller
|
|
PLCC Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier
|
|
PLL Phase Lock Loop
|
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PLL Phase-Locked Loop
|
|
PLM Programming Language for Microcomputers
|
|
PLO Palestine (sic?) Liberation Organization (?)
|
|
PLO Please Leave On
|
|
PM PayMaster
|
|
PM Police Magistrate
|
|
PM Post Meridiem
|
|
PM Post Meridiem (after noon)
|
|
PM PostMaster
|
|
PM PostMortem
|
|
PM Preventive Maintenance
|
|
PM Prime Minister
|
|
PM Provost Marshal
|
|
PMO Prime Minister's Office
|
|
PMOS P channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor (P-MOS) (see MOS)
|
|
PMT PhotoMultiplier Tube
|
|
PM/X Presentation Manager for X windows
|
|
PN Promissory Note
|
|
PNP Positive-Negative-Positive (transistor)
|
|
PO Petty Officer
|
|
PO PettyOfficer
|
|
PO Post Office
|
|
PO Postal Order
|
|
PO Purchase Order
|
|
POC Port Of Call
|
|
POD Pay On Delivery
|
|
POE Port Of Embarkation
|
|
POE Port Of Entry
|
|
POGO Polar Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
|
|
POM Phase Of Moon
|
|
POP Point of Presence [telephony]
|
|
POPS Paperless Order Processing System
|
|
POR Price On Request
|
|
POS Point Of Sale
|
|
POSI Promoting conference for OSI
|
|
POSIX Portable Operating System for unIX
|
|
POSIX Portable Operating System Interface
|
|
POTS Plain Old Telephone Service
|
|
POTV Personnel Orbit Transfer Vehicle [Space]
|
|
POV Point Of View
|
|
POW Prisoner Of War
|
|
PP Parcel Post
|
|
PP Past Participle
|
|
PP Primary Point (or dial Post Pay payphone)
|
|
PPB Parts Per Billion
|
|
PPC Pour Prendre Conge' (to take leave)
|
|
PPCS Person to Person, Collect, Special
|
|
PPCS Person to Person, Collect, Special [telephony]
|
|
PPM Parts Per Million
|
|
PPN Parameterized Post-Newtonian formalism for general relativity
|
|
PPN Project Programmer Number
|
|
PPN Project Programmer Number
|
|
PPP Point-to-Point Protocol (successor to SLIP (q.v.))
|
|
pps Packets per Second
|
|
PPS PostPostScriptum
|
|
PPT Parts Per Trillion
|
|
PPT Pulse Pair Timing
|
|
PPT Punched Paper Tape
|
|
PQ Province of Quebec
|
|
PR PayRoll
|
|
PR Public Relations
|
|
PR Puerto Rico
|
|
PRC Planning Research Corporation
|
|
PREPnet Pennsylvania Research & Economic Partnership Network
|
|
PRI Primary Rate Interface (ISDN) [telephony]
|
|
PRN pro re nata [medicine] (as needed?)
|
|
PROFS PRofessional OFfice System [IBM]
|
|
PROM Programmable Read-Only Memory
|
|
PS PicoSecond
|
|
PS PostScript
|
|
PS PostScriptum
|
|
PS Power Steering
|
|
PS Power Supply
|
|
PS Public School
|
|
PSA Problem Statement Analyzer
|
|
PSC Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center
|
|
PSC Polar Stratospheric Clouds
|
|
PSDN Public Switched Data Network
|
|
PSDS Public Switched Digital Service [telephony, AT&T?]
|
|
PSE Programming Support Environment
|
|
PSG Platoon SerGeant
|
|
PSK Phase Shift Keying
|
|
PSL Problem Statement Language
|
|
PSR "Product Specific Realizations
|
|
PSS (unknown to me, but something in the UK environment)
|
|
PST Pacific Standard Time
|
|
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
|
|
PT Pacific Time
|
|
PT Patrol Torpedo (as in PT boat)
|
|
PT Physical Therapy
|
|
PT Physical Training
|
|
PTA Parent-Teacher Association
|
|
PTD Parallel Transfer Disk
|
|
PTN Plant Test Number [telephony:actual number assigned for 800 service]
|
|
PTO Patent and Trademark Office
|
|
PTO Please Turn Over
|
|
PTO Power Take-Off
|
|
PTT Post, Telephone and Telegraph administration
|
|
PTV Passenger Transport Vehicle [Space]
|
|
PUC Public Utilities Commision
|
|
PVO Pioneer Venus Orbiter
|
|
PW Prisoner of War (usually POW)
|
|
PWG Permanent Working Group
|
|
PX Post eXchange (see also BX)
|
|
PX Post eXchange (see BX)
|
|
QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
|
|
QC Quality Control
|
|
QC Queen's Counsel
|
|
QD Quaque Die (daily)
|
|
QDA Quantity Discount Agreement
|
|
QED Quod Erat Demonstrandum (which was to be demonstrated)
|
|
QEF Quod Erat Faciendum (which was to be done)
|
|
QEI Quod Erat Inveniendum (which was to be found out)
|
|
QET Quantum Effect Transistor
|
|
QIC Quarter-Inch Cartridge
|
|
QID Quater In [medicine] Die (four times a day)
|
|
QLI Query Language Interpreter
|
|
QM QuarterMaster
|
|
QMC QuarterMaster Corps
|
|
QMF Query Management Facility
|
|
QMG QuarterMaster General
|
|
QMS Quality Micro Systems
|
|
QNS Quantity Not Sufficient
|
|
q.v. ???? (Latin(?): which see)
|
|
QWERTY first six keys from left on top alphabetic row of standard keyboard
|
|
R Rolemaster
|
|
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 (R/W)
|
|
RARDE Royal Armaments Research and Development Establishment
|
|
RARE Research Academic R(something) Europe (a Research Network)
|
|
RAS Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability
|
|
RASC Residence Account Service Center
|
|
R&B Rhythm and Blues (commonly R and B)
|
|
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 [Corporate name]
|
|
RCAF Royal Canadian Air Force
|
|
RCAS Reserve Component Automation System
|
|
RCC Radio Common Carrier
|
|
RCMP Royal Canadian Mounted Police
|
|
R&D Research and Development (commonly R and D)
|
|
RD Rural Delivery
|
|
RDA Remote Data Access
|
|
RDBMS Relational DataBase Management System
|
|
RDF Radio Direction Finding
|
|
REA Rail Express Agency
|
|
RECON Reconnaissance
|
|
REM Rapid Eye Movement
|
|
REO R. E. Olds
|
|
REO Removable, Erasable, Optical
|
|
RETMA Radio [something(equipment?)? something?] Manufacturers' Association (????)
|
|
REXX Restructured EXtended eXecutor
|
|
RF Radio Frequency
|
|
RFC Request For Comments (ala ARPA Internet)
|
|
RFD Rural Free Delivery
|
|
RFI Radio Frequency Interference
|
|
RFP Request for Proposal
|
|
RFQ Request for Quote
|
|
RFS Remote File System
|
|
RGB Red Green Blue
|
|
RGP Raster Graphics Processor
|
|
RH Right Hand
|
|
RHC Regional (Bell) Holding Company
|
|
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)
|
|
RIP Routing Interchange Protocol
|
|
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer
|
|
RITA Recognition of Information Technology Achievement award
|
|
RJE Remote Job Entry
|
|
RJE Remote Job Entry [IBM]
|
|
RLC Resistor Inductor Capacitor
|
|
RLG Research Libraries Group
|
|
RLIN Research Libraries Information Network [run by RLG (q.v.)]
|
|
RLL Run Length Limited
|
|
RMA Radio Manufacturers' Association
|
|
RMA Return Materials Authorization
|
|
RMATS Remote Maintenance Administration and Traffic System
|
|
RMATS Remote Maintenance Admistration and Traffic System [telephony]
|
|
RMS Remote Manipulator System [Space]
|
|
RMS Richard M. Stallman
|
|
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 Range Of Motion (medical)
|
|
ROM Read Only Memory
|
|
ROM Read-Only Memory
|
|
ROM Rupture Of Membrane (as in birth)
|
|
ROSAT ROentgen SATellite [space]
|
|
ROSE Remote Operations Service Entity (per ISO/CCITT layer 7)
|
|
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
|
|
RRO Rate and Route Operator [telephony]
|
|
RS Recording Secretary
|
|
RS Revised Status
|
|
RS Right Side
|
|
RS Royal Society
|
|
RSCS Remote Spooling Communications Subsystem
|
|
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
|
|
RTAC Regional Technical Assistance Center [telephony]
|
|
RTF Rich Text Format
|
|
RTFM Read The @!# Manual
|
|
RTFM Read The F***ing Manual
|
|
RTG Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
|
|
RTLS Return To Launch Site (Shuttle abort mode) [NASA, Shuttle]
|
|
RTR Reel-To-Reel
|
|
RTTY Radio Teletype
|
|
RU Receive Unit
|
|
RW Right Worshipful
|
|
RW Right Worthy
|
|
S South
|
|
S Supplement
|
|
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 Special Area Code [telephony:Area codes that are services, not places]
|
|
SAC Strategic Air Command (see TAC)
|
|
SAC Strategic Air Command [US military]
|
|
SADD Students Against Drunk Driving
|
|
SAM Surface to Air Missile
|
|
SAM Surface-to-Air Missile
|
|
SAMA Step-by-step Automatic Message Accounting
|
|
SAMA Step-by-step Automatic Message Accounting [telephony]
|
|
SAMTO Space And Missile Test Organization
|
|
SAP Second Audio Program
|
|
SAP Service Access Point [OSI, Networking]
|
|
SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar
|
|
SARTS Switched Access Remote Test System
|
|
SASE Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope
|
|
SASI Shugart Associates Systems Interface
|
|
SAT Satellite [Space]
|
|
SAW Surface Acoustic Wave
|
|
SBA Small Business Administration
|
|
SC Secondary Channel
|
|
SC Sectional Center
|
|
S&C Skull & Crossbones
|
|
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 Stategic Defence Initiative
|
|
SDI Strategic Defense Initiative
|
|
SDI Strategic Defense Initiative [US Government]
|
|
SDLC Synchronous Data Link Control
|
|
SDLC Synchronous Data Link Control [IBM]
|
|
SDM Sub-rate Data Multiplexer
|
|
SDN Software Defined Network [telephony, AT&T]
|
|
SDO Staff Duty Officer
|
|
SDSC San Diego Supercomputer Center
|
|
SDV Shuttle Derived Vehicle [Space]
|
|
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
|
|
SETI Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence [Space]
|
|
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
|
|
SIRTF Space Infrared Telescope Facility [Space]
|
|
SIS Strategic Information System
|
|
SISCOM Satellite Information System COMpany
|
|
SITA Societe Internationale Telecommunications Aeronautiques
|
|
SJ Society of Jesus
|
|
Skyhook Surface to space "elevator" transportation system [Space]
|
|
SL Salvage Loss
|
|
SL Space Launch [Space]
|
|
SLA Special Libraries Association
|
|
SLA Synchronous Line Adapter
|
|
SLAC Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
|
|
SLAN Sine Loco, Anno, (vel) Nomine (without place, year, or name)
|
|
SLAR Side Looking Airborne Radar
|
|
SLBM Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles
|
|
SLC Space Launch Complex [Space]
|
|
SLC Subscriber Loop Carrier [telephony]
|
|
SLDC Synchronous Data Link Control
|
|
SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol
|
|
SLIP Serial Line IP (sometimes SL/IP) (see also PPP)
|
|
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
|
|
SMDR Station Message Detail Recording [telephony]
|
|
SMDS Switched Multi-megabit Data Service [telephony, networking]
|
|
SME Solar Mesosphere Explorer [space]
|
|
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 (satellite 1980-1989) [space]
|
|
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
|
|
SN Science News [periodical]
|
|
SN Serial Number
|
|
SN Super Nova
|
|
SNA Systems Network Architecture [IBM]
|
|
SNA Systems Network Architecture (IBM network)
|
|
SNADS SNA Distribution Services
|
|
SNAFU Situation Normal -- All Fouled Up (also, F*cked)
|
|
SNAFU Situation Normal -- All Fouled Up (also more profane versions)
|
|
SNAP Shipboard Non-tactical Automated data Processing program
|
|
SNAP Sub Network Access Protocol [OSI, Networking]
|
|
SNCF Societe National des Chemins de Fer (French National Railways)
|
|
SNF Server-Natural Format
|
|
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
|
|
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol [TCP/IP]
|
|
SNOBOL StriNg Oriented symbOLic Language
|
|
SNPA SubNetwork Point of Attachment
|
|
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 contol character (dec=01,control-A)
|
|
SOH Start Of Header, ASCII control character (dec=01,control-A)
|
|
SOHIO Standard Oil of oHIO
|
|
SOHIO Standard Oil of oHIO [Corporate name]
|
|
SOL Short on Landing (or, colloquially, Shit Out of Luck)
|
|
SONAR SOund Detection And Ranging
|
|
SONET Synchronous Optical Network [telephony]
|
|
SOP Standard Operating Procedure
|
|
SOS Save Our Souls (International standard distress call, Morse ...---...)
|
|
SOS Silicon On Saphire
|
|
SOS Silicon On Sapphire
|
|
SP Shore Patrol
|
|
SP Short Play (VHS VCR)
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SP Southern Pacific
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SP Southern Pacific (railroad) [Corporate name]
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SP Stack Pointer
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SP Star Patrol
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|
SPA Software Publishers Association
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|
SPAG Standards Promotion and Applications Group
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|
SPAN Space Physics and Analysis Network [NASA] (DECnet)
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SPAR Stock Points Adp Replacement
|
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SPARC Scalable Processor ARChitecture
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SPARC Standards, Planning, And Requirements Committee
|
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SPAWAR naval SPAce and WARfare command
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SPC Software Productivity Consortium
|
|
SPCA Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
|
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SPCC Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
|
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SPEC Systems Performance Evaluation Cooperative
|
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SPITBOL SPeedy ImplemenTation of snoBOL
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SPNI Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel
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SPS Solar Power Satellite [Space]
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|
SPUR Systech Pluraxial Unplug Repeater
|
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SQL Structured Query Language
|
|
SQUID Superconducting QUantum Interference Device
|
|
SRAM Short Range Attack Missile
|
|
SRAM Static RAM
|
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SRB Solid (fuel) Rocket Booster [Space]
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|
SRG Short and Ring Ground (test) [telephony]
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|
SRI Stanford Research Institute
|
|
SRM Solid Rocket Motor [space]
|
|
SRO Standing Room Only
|
|
SS7 Signalling System #7 [telephony]
|
|
SSA Social Security Administration
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|
SSA Social Security Administration [U.S. Government]
|
|
SSB Single Side Band
|
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SSC Superconducting Super Collider
|
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SSE South-SouthEast
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SSF Space Station Freedom [NASA, space]
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SSFF Showcase Software Factory of the Future
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SSG Staff SerGeant
|
|
SSI Small Scale Integration
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SSI Space Services Incorporated [Space]
|
|
SSI Supplemental Security Income
|
|
SSME Space Shuttle Main Engine [space]
|
|
SSPS Satellite Solar Power Station [Space]
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|
SSR Secondary Surveillance Radar
|
|
SSR Soviet Socialist Republic
|
|
SSTO Single Stage to Orbit [Space]
|
|
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)
|
|
STD State Transition Diagram
|
|
STD Subscriber Trunk Dialing [British, and elsewhere; equiv. DDD in USA]
|
|
STD Subscriber Trunk Dialing (British for DDD)
|
|
STILO Scientific and Technical Intelligence Liaison Office
|
|
STL St. Louis (airport designation)
|
|
STN SuperTwisted Nematic
|
|
STOL Short TakeOff and Landing
|
|
STP Software Through Pictures
|
|
STP Standard Temperature and Pressure (see NTP)
|
|
STRPG Star Trek: The Role-Playing Game
|
|
STS Space Transportation System (space shuttle) [NASA]
|
|
STV Single Transferable Vote
|
|
STV Space Transfer Vehicle [Space]
|
|
SUM Symantec Utilities for Macintosh
|
|
SUN Stanford University Network
|
|
SUN SUN MicroSystems Computer [Brand name]
|
|
SUNOCO SUN Oil COmpany
|
|
SUNOCO SUN Oil COmpany [Corporate name]
|
|
SUNY State University of New York
|
|
SURAnet Southeastern Universities Research Association Network
|
|
SVID System V Interface Definition
|
|
SW South West
|
|
SW SuperWorld
|
|
SWBT South Western Bell Telephone [Telephony]
|
|
SWIFT Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Communications
|
|
SWS Scientific Workstation Support
|
|
SXS Step by Step switching [Telephony]
|
|
T Traveler
|
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T1 1.544Mbps [telephony], one of the basic signalling systems 24x64Kb
|
|
T3 45Mbps (eq 28 T1 channels) [Telephony]
|
|
TA Teaching Assistant
|
|
TAC Tactical Air Command (see SAC)
|
|
TAC Terminal Access Controller
|
|
TAC Terminal Access Controller [ARPAnet/MILNET/DDN]
|
|
TACCS Tactical Army Combat service support Computer System
|
|
TAE Transportable Applications Environment
|
|
TAL Trans-Atlantic Abort Landing [NASA, Shuttle]
|
|
TAR Tape ARchiver
|
|
TASI Time Assign{ment,ed} Speech Interpolation [Telephony]
|
|
TAU Thousand Astronomical Units [Space]
|
|
TB TuBerculosis
|
|
TBA To Be Announced
|
|
TBD To Be Determined
|
|
TC Teachers College
|
|
TCA Terminal Controlled Airspace
|
|
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
|
|
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
|
|
TCSEC Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (orange book)
|
|
TCT To Challenge Tomorrow
|
|
TD TouchDown
|
|
TD Treasury Department
|
|
TDCC Transportation Data Coordinating Committee
|
|
TDE Transition Diagram Editor
|
|
TDI Trusted Database Interpretation
|
|
TDM Time-Division Multiplexer
|
|
TDR Time Domain Reflectometer
|
|
TDRS Tracking and Data Relay Satellite [Space]
|
|
TDY Temporary DutY
|
|
TECO Tape Editor and COrrector
|
|
TECO Text Editor and COrrector
|
|
TEFLON polyTEtraFLuOrethyleNe
|
|
TFP Tops Filing Protocol
|
|
TFS Translucent File System
|
|
TFT The Fantasy Trip
|
|
TFT Thin Film Transistor
|
|
TG Thieves' Guild
|
|
THIEF THief Isn't Even Fine
|
|
THIEF This Here Isn't Even Fine
|
|
THOR Tandy High-intensity Optical Recording
|
|
TI Texas Instruments
|
|
TIA Thanks In Advance [net jargon]
|
|
TIA Thanks In Advance (special to USENET)
|
|
TIA Transient Ischemic Attack
|
|
TIC TermInfo Compiler
|
|
TID Ter In Die (three times a day)
|
|
TIFF Tag Image File Format
|
|
TKO Technical Knock Out
|
|
TL Total Loss
|
|
TLA Three Letter Acronym
|
|
TLC Tender Loving Care
|
|
TLI Transort-Level Interface
|
|
TM TradeMark
|
|
TMA Tycho Magnetic Anomaly [movie 2001]
|
|
TMAC Treasury department's Multiuser Acquisition Contract
|
|
TMIS Telecommunications Management Information System
|
|
TMO Telephone Money Order
|
|
TMP The Morrow Project
|
|
TMRC Tech Model Railroad Club [MIT]
|
|
TMRC Transportation Modeling Research Center (TMRC {above} alter ego)
|
|
TN Tennessee
|
|
TN Twisted Nematic
|
|
TNC Threaded Neill Concelman (connector) [electronics] (see also BNC)
|
|
TNF Tumor Necrosis Factor [biology, medicine]
|
|
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
|
|
TOP Technical/Office Protocol
|
|
TOPLAS Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (ACM)
|
|
TOPS Traffic Operator Position System [telephony]
|
|
TOPSMP Traffic Operator Position System Multipurpose [telephony]
|
|
TORES Text ORiented Editing System
|
|
TOS Transfer Orbit Stage [Space]
|
|
TOW Tube launched, Optically tracked, and Wire guided
|
|
TP from TP0 and TP4 (ISO/CCITT Transport Services; like TCP)
|
|
TP Transaction Processing
|
|
TP4 Transport Protocol, class 4 [ISO]
|
|
TPC The Phone Company (from classic movie: _The President's Analyst_)
|
|
TPI Tracks Per Inch
|
|
TPO Traveling Post Office
|
|
TPP TetraarylPorPhyrin
|
|
TPS Technical Publishing Software
|
|
TPS TeleProcessing Services
|
|
TR Tech Report [at least LCS (q.v.), maybe others]
|
|
TR Technical Reference [Bell, telephony]
|
|
TRG Tip and Ring Ground (test) [telephony]
|
|
TROFF Text RunOFF, text formatter
|
|
TRUSIX TRUSted unIX
|
|
TRW Thompson, Ramo, and Woolridge
|
|
TS Top Secret
|
|
TSAP Transport Service Access Point [OSI, Networking]
|
|
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)
|
|
TSS Tethered Satellite System [Space]
|
|
TSTO Two Stage to Orbit [Space]
|
|
T&T Tunnels & Trolls
|
|
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 Tennesee Valley Authority
|
|
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 (representing the greek mu) - micro
|
|
U Universe
|
|
UA United Artists
|
|
UAR United Arab Republic
|
|
UAR User Action Routine
|
|
UARS Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite [space]
|
|
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter
|
|
UBA UniBus Adapter
|
|
UBA UniBus Adapter [DEC]
|
|
UBC Universal Bibliographic Control
|
|
UBC University of British Columbia
|
|
UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
|
|
UCB University of California at Berkeley
|
|
UCB University of California, Berkeley
|
|
UCD Uniform Call Distributor [telephony]
|
|
UCD University of California at Davis
|
|
UCI University of California at Irvine
|
|
UCL University College London
|
|
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
|
|
UCSC University of California, Santa Cruz
|
|
UCSD University of California at San Diego
|
|
UCSD University of California, San Diego
|
|
UCSF University of California at San Francisco
|
|
UCSF University of California, San Francisco
|
|
UDB Unified DataBase
|
|
UDP User Data Protocol
|
|
UDP User Datagram 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
|
|
UMOC Ugliest Man On Campus [MIT]
|
|
UMT Universal Military Training
|
|
UN United Nations
|
|
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Organization
|
|
UNICEF United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (now UN Child. Fund)
|
|
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.
|
|
UNMA Unified Network Management Architecture [AT&T]
|
|
UNO United Nations Organization
|
|
UP Union Pacific
|
|
UP Union Pacific (railroad) [Corporate name]
|
|
UPC Universal Product Code
|
|
UPI United Press International
|
|
UPI United Press International [Corporate name]
|
|
UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply
|
|
UPS United Parcel Service
|
|
UPS United Parcel Service [Corporate name]
|
|
UR University of Rochester
|
|
US United States (of America)
|
|
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)
|
|
USAN University Satellite Network
|
|
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 Universal Time
|
|
UT University of Tennessee
|
|
UT University of Texas
|
|
UT UTah
|
|
UTC Coordinated Universal Time
|
|
UTC Universal Coordinated Time
|
|
UTnet University of Texas Network
|
|
UUCP Unix-to-Unix CoPy
|
|
UUCP UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program
|
|
UUG Unix User Group
|
|
UV UltraViolet
|
|
UW UnderWriter
|
|
UW Univ of Wisconsin
|
|
VA Veterans Administration
|
|
VA Virginia
|
|
VAB Vehicle Assembly Building [space]
|
|
VAFB Vandenberg Air Force Base [space]
|
|
VAN Value Added Network (e.g. Tymnet, Telenet, etc)
|
|
VANS Value-Added Network Services
|
|
VAR Value Added Remarketer (reseller)
|
|
VAR Value Added Remarketers
|
|
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
|
|
VF Voice Frequency
|
|
VFO Variable Frequency Oscillator
|
|
VFW Veterans of Foreign Wars
|
|
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
|
|
VMS Virtual Memory System [DEC]
|
|
VOA Voice Of America
|
|
VOIR Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar (superseded by VRM) [space]
|
|
VOIS Voice-Operated Information System
|
|
VOQ Visiting Officer's Quarters
|
|
VPI&SU Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
|
|
VRC Vertical Redundancy Character
|
|
VRM Venus Radar Mapper (now called Magellan) [space]
|
|
VRM Virtual Resource Manager
|
|
VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal
|
|
VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal, satellite dish
|
|
VSX X/open Verification Suite
|
|
VTAM Virtual Telecommunications Access Method
|
|
VTAM Virtual Telecommunications Access Method [IBM]
|
|
VTOC Volume Table Of Contents
|
|
VTOL Vertical TakeOff and Landing
|
|
VTR VideoTape Recorder
|
|
VUP Vax Unit of Performance
|
|
V&V Villains & Vigilantes
|
|
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
|
|
WECo Western Electric Company [AT&T manufacturing arm]
|
|
WF/PC Wide Field / Planetary Camera (on HST) [space]
|
|
WG Working Group
|
|
WH WarHammer
|
|
WHBL World Home Bible League
|
|
WHCA White House Communications Agency [U.S. Government]
|
|
WHO World Health Organization
|
|
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
|
|
WU Western Union
|
|
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
|
|
XFER Transfer
|
|
XINU XINU Is Not UNIX
|
|
XL eXtra Large
|
|
XMTR transMiTteR (the X is for trans)
|
|
XNS Xerox Network Service
|
|
XNS Xerox Network Services
|
|
XO eXecutive Officer
|
|
XOR eXclusive OR (logical function)
|
|
XPORT Transport
|
|
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)
|
|
ZIP Zone Improvement Plan (U.S. 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
|