COMPUTER ABBREVIATIONS

 




LIST OF COMPUTER ABBREVIATIONS:

Computer abbreviation is a shortened form of a word or phrase related to computer.

0–9

.com—Dot commercial

1GL—First-Generation Programming Language

1NF—First Normal Form

2FA—Two-factor authentication

2GL—Second-Generation Programming Language

2NF—Second Normal Form

3GL—Third-Generation Programming Language

3NF—Third Normal Form

4GL—Fourth-Generation Programming Language

4NF—Fourth Normal Form

5GL—Fifth-Generation Programming Language

5NF—Fifth Normal Form

6NF—Sixth Normal Form

802.11—Wireless LAN

A

ABI—Application Binary Interface

AC—Alternating Current

ACD—Automatic Call Distributor

ACE—Advanced Computing Environment

ACL—Access Control List

AD—Administrative Domain

ADC—Analog-to-Digital Converter

AGP—Accelerated Graphics Port

AH—Active Hub

AI—Artificial Intelligence

ALGOL—Algorithmic Language

ALU—Arithmetic and Logical Unit

AMOLED—Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode

ANSI—American National Standards Institute

API—Application Programming Interface

ARP—Address Resolution Protocol

ARPA—Advanced Research Projects Agency

ARPANET—Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

AS—Access Server

ASCII—American Standard Code for Information Interchange

AuthIP—Authenticated Internet Protocol

ASP—Application Service Provider

AT—Advanced Technology

ATM—Asynchronous Transfer Mode

AuthN—Authentication

AuthZ—Authorization

AV—Antivirus

AVC—Advanced Video Coding

AVI—Audio Video Interleaved

B

B2B—Business-to-Business

B2C—Business-to-Consumer

B2E—Business-to-Employee

BAL—Basic Assembly Language

BASIC—Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BCC—Blind Carbon Copy

BCD—Binary Coded Decimal

BER—Bit Error Rate

BFS—Breadth-First Search

bin—binary

BINAC—Binary Automatic Computer

BIOS—Basic Input Output System

bit—binary digit

Blog—Web Log

BMP—Basic Multilingual Plane

BNC—Baby Neill Constant

BOOTP—Bootstrap Protocol

bps—bits per second

BSoD—Blue Screen of Death

BT—Bluetooth

BW—Bandwidth

BYOD—Bring Your Own Device

Byte—By eight (group of 8 bits)

C

CAD—Computer-Aided Design

CAPTCHA—Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart

CAT—Computer-Aided Translation

cc—C Compiler

CC—Carbon Copy

CD—Compact Disc

CDMA—Code-Division Multiple Access

CD-R—CD-Recordable

CD-ROM—CD Read-Only Memory

CD-RW—CD-Rewritable

CF—Compact Flash

CG—Computer Graphics

CGA—Color Graphics Array

CGI—Common Gateway Interface

CISC—Complex Instruction Set Computer

CLI—Command Line Interface

CMOS—Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor

CMS—Content Management System

COBOL—Common Business-Oriented Language

CPS—characters per second

CPU—Central Processing Unit

CSP—Cloud Service Provider

CSS—Cascading Style Sheets

D

DAC—Digital-To-Analog Converter

DARPA—Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DB—Database

DBMS—Database Management System

DCC—Direct Client-to-Client

DDL—Data Definition Language

DHCP—Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DL—Download

DLL—Dynamic Link Library

DMI—Direct Media Interface

DML—Data Manipulation Language

DNS—Domain Name System

DOA—Dead on Arrival

DoS—Denial of Service

DOS—Disk Operating System

DPI—Dots Per Inch

DRAM—Dynamic Random-Access Memory

DR-DOS—Digital Research - Disk Operating System

DSL—Digital Subscriber Line

DSL—Domain-Specific Language

DSN—Database Source Name

DTP—Desktop Publishing

E

EBCDIC—Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

EDSAC—Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator

EDVAC—Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer

EEPROM—Electronically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

EFS—Encrypting File System

EGA—Enhanced Graphics Array

E-mail—Electronic mail

EGP—Exterior Gateway Protocol

eID—electronic ID card

ENIAC—Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer

EPROM—Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

EXT—EXTended file system

ETA—Estimated Time of Arrival

F

FAT—File Allocation Table

FAQ—Frequently Asked Questions

FDD—Floppy Disk Drive

FIFO—First In First Out

FIPS—Federal Information Processing Standards

FLAC—Free Lossless Audio Codec

FLOPS—FLoating-Point Operations Per Second

FORTRAN—Formula Translation

FOSS—Free and Open-Source Software

FPS—Floating Point Systems

FTTH—Fiber To The Home

FTP—File Transfer Protocol

G

G11N—Globalization

Gb—Gigabit

GB—Gigabyte

Gbps—Gigabits per second

GCP—Google Cloud Platform

GDI—Graphics Device Interface

GIF—Graphics Interchange Format

GIGO—Garbage In, Garbage Out

GIMP—GNU Image Manipulation Program

GIS—Geographic Information System

GPL—General Public License

GPRS—General Packet Radio Service

GPU—Graphics Processing Unit

GSM—Global System for Mobile Communications

GUI—Graphical User Interface

H

HCI—Human—Computer Interaction

HD—High Density

HDD—Hard Disk Drive

HCL—Hardware Compatibility List

HD DVD—High Definition DVD

HDL—Hardware Description Language

HDMI—High-Definition Multimedia Interface

HF—High Frequency

HP—Hewlett-Packard

HPC—High-Performance Computing

HTML—Hypertext Markup Language

HTTP—Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HVD—Holographic Versatile Disc

Hz—Hertz

I

IaaS—Infrastructure as a Service

IaC—Infrastructure as Code

IBM—International Business Machines

IC—Integrated Circuit

ICP—Internet Cache Protocol

ICT—Information and Communication Technology

IDE—Integrated Development Environment

IDS—Intrusion Detection System

IE—Internet Explorer

I/O—Input/output

IoT—Internet of Things

IP—Intellectual Property

IP—Internet Protocol

IPL—Initial Program Load

IPO—Inter Procedural Optimization

IPv4—Internet Protocol version 4

IPv6—Internet Protocol version 6

IRC—Internet Relay Chat

IS—Information Systems

ISDN—Integrated Services Digital Network

ISO—International Organization for Standardization

ISP—Internet Service Provider

IT—Information Technology

J

JCL—Job Control Language

JCP—Java Community Process

JPEG—Joint Photographic Experts Group

K

Kb—Kilobit

KB—Kilobyte

Kbps—Kilobits per second

KiB—Kibibyte

kHz—Kilohertz

L

LAN—Local Area Network

LCD—Liquid Crystal Display

LED—Light-Emitting Diode

LGPL—Lesser General Public License

LIFO—Last In First Out

LILO—Linux Loader

LISP—LISt Processing

LSB—Least Significant Bit

LSI—Large-Scale Integration

LTE—Long Term Evolution

M

MAC—Media Access Control

MAN—Metropolitan Area Network

Mb—Megabit

MB—Megabyte

Mbps—Megabits per second

MDI—Multiple-Document Interface

MGCP—Media Gateway Control Protocol

MHz—Megahertz

MIB—Management Information Base

MICR—Magnetic Ink Character Recognition or Magnetic Ink Character Reader

MIDI—Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MIPS—Million Instructions Per Second

ML—Machine Learning

MOM—Message-Oriented Middleware

MS-DOS—Microsoft DOS

MSB—Most Significant Bit

MSDN—Microsoft Developer Network

MS—Microsoft

MU—Memory Unit

MVP—Most Valuable Professional

MVS—Multiple Virtual Storage

N

NAC—Network Access Control

NAT—Network Address Translation

NFS—Network File System

NIC—Network Interface Controller or Network Interface Card

NOS—Network Operating System

NS—Netscape

NSA—Network Security Appliance

O

OLE—Object Linking and Embedding

OLED—Organic Light Emitting Diode

OMR—Optical Mark Reader

OS—Operating System

OSS—Open-Source Software

OTP—One-time password

P

PaaS—Platform as a Service

PAN—Personal Area Network

PC—Personal Computer

PCB—Printed Circuit Board

PDA—Personal Digital Assistant

PDF—Portable Document Format

PHP—Hypertext Preprocessor

PID—Process ID

PING—Packet Internet Gopher

PNG—Portable Network Graphics

POST—Power-On Self Test

PPI—Pixels Per Inch

PPM—Pages Per Minute

PROM—Programmable Read-Only Memory

PS/2—Personal System/2

Q

QoS—Quality of Service

R

RAID—Redundant Array of Independent Disks

RAM—Random-Access Memory

RDBMS—Relational Database Management System

RGB—Red, Green, Blue

RIP—Raster Image Processor

RISC—Reduced Instruction Set Computer

rmdir—remove directory

ROM—Read-Only Memory

ROM-DOS—Read-Only Memory - Disk Operating System

S

SaaS—Software as a Service

SD—Secure Digital

SIM—Subscriber Identification Module

SISO—Single-Input and Single-Output

SMS—Short Message Service

SMTP—Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SQL—Structured Query Language

SRAM—Static Random Access Memory

SSD—Solid-State Drive

T

TB—Tera Byte

TCP/IP—Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

U

UNIVAC—Universal Automatic Computer

UPS—Uninterruptible Power Supply or Uninterrupted Power Supply

URI—Uniform Resource Identifier

URL—Uniform Resource Locator

USB—Universal Serial Bus

UTF—Unicode Transformation Format

V

VoLTE—Voice Over Long Term Evolution

VB—Visual Basic

VDU—Visual Display Unit

VGA—Video Graphics Array

VIRUS—Vital Information Resource Under Seize

VOD—Video On Demand

VoIP—Voice over Internet Protocol

VPN—Virtual Private Network

VR—Virtual Reality

W

W3C—World Wide Web Consortium

WAN—Wide Area Network

WAP—Wireless Access Point

Wi-Fi—Wireless Fidelity

WiMAX—Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access

WNS—Windows Push Notification Service

WORA—Write once, run anywhere

WORE—Write once, run everywhere

WORM—Write Once Read Many

WPA—Wi-Fi Protected Access

WWW—World Wide Web

X

XML—eXtensible Markup Language

XP—Extreme Programming

Y

Z

ZB- Zeta Byte

ZIP- Zone Information Protocol

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