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