The OED (Oxford English Dictionary) defines acronym this way: a word formed from the initial letters of other words: e.g. LASER. It defines initialism as an abbreviation formed of initial letters pronounced separately: e.g. BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). So it seems that initialisms are a subset of acronyms. Here I refer to both as acronyms.
Here as a list of all the acronyms used on this website, not just the Java glossary.
| Acronyms used on the mindprod.com website | |
|---|---|
| Acronym | Meaning |
| 2M4M | 2 million Men 4/for Marriage |
| 4G | 4th Generation |
| 5G | 5th Generation |
| A-GPS | Assisted Global Positioning System |
| AA | Alcoholics Anonymous |
| AAC | Advanced Audio Coding |
| AB | Adult Baby |
| AB | Alberta |
| ABA | Australian Business Access |
| ABC | American Broadcasting Corporation |
| ABM | Anti-Balistic Missile |
| AC | Alternating Current |
| ACE | Asynchronous Communications Element |
| ACID | Atomicity, Consistency, I and Durability |
| ACK | Acknowledge |
| ACL | Access Control List |
| ACLJ | American Center for Law and Justice |
| ACLU | American Civil Liberties Union |
| ACPI | Advanced Configuration and Power Interface |
| ADC | Apple Development Connection |
| ADSL | Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line technology |
| AEC | Atomic Energy Commission |
| AES | Advanced Encryption Standard |
| AFAICS | As Far As I Can See |
| AFAIK | As Far As I Know |
| AFC | Application Foundation Classes |
| AFGE | Another F*cking Growth Experience |
| AGP | Accelerated Graphics Port |
| AHCI | Advanced Host Controller Interface |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| AIB | Active Information Banner |
| AIDS | Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome |
| AIF | Audio Interchange File |
| AIFF | Audio Interchange File Format |
| AIG | American International Group |
| AIM | America Online Instant Messenger |
| AIPAC | American Israel Public Affairs Committee |
| AIX | Advanced Interactive eXecutive |
| AJAX | Asynchronous JavaScript And Xml |
| AKA | Also Known As |
| ALS | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis |
| AMA | American Medical Association |
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices |
| AMI | American Megatrends Inc |
| AMI | Advanced Metering Infrastructure |
| AMR | Audio Modem Riser |
| ANGA | America’s Natural Gas Alliance |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| ANT | A Neat Tool |
| ANTLR | Another Tool for Language Recognition |
| ANWR | Arctic National Wildlife Refuge |
| ANZAC | Australian and New Zealand Army Corps |
| AOL | America Online |
| AOT | Ahead Of Time |
| AP | Associated Press |
| APA | American Psychological Association |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| APL | A Programming Language |
| APN | Agent Premium Newsgroups |
| APNG | Animated Portable Network Graphics |
| APP | Atom Publishing Protocol |
| APRS | Automatic Position Reporting System |
| ARIN | American Registry for Internet Numbers |
| ARQ | Automatic Repeat Request |
| ARROW | Active Resistance to the Roots of War |
| ASAP | As Soon As Possible |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASL | American Sign Language |
| ASM | Assembler |
| ASN.1 | Abstract Syntax Notation 1 |
| ASO | Advanced System Optimiser |
| ASP | Association of Shareware Professionals |
| ASP | Active Server Page |
| ASPCA | American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals |
| ASPI | Advanced SCSI Programming Interface |
| AT | Advanced Technology |
| AT&T | American Telephone & Telegraph |
| ATA | Advanced Technology Attachment |
| ATA | Analog Terminal Adapter |
| ATAPI | Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface |
| ATF | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives |
| ATI | Array Technology Inc |
| ATI | Alternative Terrestrial Intelligence |
| ATM | Automated Teller Machine |
| ATM | Adobe Type Manager |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| ATSC | Advanced Television Systems Committee |
| ATV | All Terrain Vehicle |
| ATX | Advanced Technology Extended |
| AUV | Autonomous Underwater Vehicle |
| AV | Anti-Virus |
| AVC | Advanced Video Coding |
| AVI | Audio Video Interleave |
| AWOL | Away Without Leave |
| AWS | Amazon Web Services |
| AWT | Advanced Windowing Toolkit |
| AWT | Abstract Windowing Toolkit |
| AWT | Another Windowing Toolkit |
| AZW | Amazon Word |
| BASH | Bourne Again Shell |
| BAT | Batch |
| BB | Bare Back |
| BB | Body Builder |
| BBB | Better Business Bureau |
| BBC | British Broadcasting Corporation |
| BBL | Big Black Lady |
| BBL | Be Back Later |
| BBS | Bulletin Board System |
| BC | British Columbia |
| BCCLA | British Columbia Civil Liberties Association |
| BCD | Binary Coded Decimal |
| BCD | Boot Configuration Data |
| BCEL | Byte Code Engineering Library |
| BD | Bondage & Discipline |
| BD-J | Blu-ray Disc Java |
| BD | Bondage and Dominance |
| BDK | Bean Development Kit |
| BE | Business Edition |
| BEL | Bell |
| BER | Basic Encoding Rules |
| BFO | Big Faceless Organisation |
| BGM | Brain Generated Music |
| BGR | Blue Green Red |
| BING | Boot-It Next Generation |
| BIOS | Basic Input Output System |
| BIPM | Bureau International des Poids et Measures |
| BIT | Binary digit |
| BITBLT | BIT Block Transfer |
| BIX | Byte Information Exchange |
| BMP | Bitmap |
| BMP | Breach Marine Protection |
| BMW | Bavarian Motor Works |
| BNC | Bayonet Neill-Concelman connector |
| BNF | Backus-Naur Form |
| BoC | Bank Of Canada |
| BOM | Byte Order Mark |
| BOMP | Bill Of Materials Processor |
| BPS | Bits Per Second |
| BQM | Business Quality Monitoring |
| BRB | Be Right Back |
| BRG | Blue Red Green |
| BRP | Bombardier Recreational Products |
| BS | Backspace |
| BS | bullshit |
| BSD | Berkeley Software Distribution |
| BSF | Bean Scripting Framework |
| BSO | Bi Significant Other |
| BSOD | Blue Screen Of Death |
| BST | British Summer Time |
| CA | Certificate Authority |
| CA | Canada |
| CA | California |
| CAB | Cabinet file |
| CAC | Common Access Card |
| CAD | Canadian currency |
| CAFC | Canadian Antifraud Centre |
| CAI | Computer Assisted Instruction |
| CAN | Cancel |
| CANDU | Canada Deuterium Uranium |
| CANI | Constant And Never-ending Improvement |
| CAPTCHA | Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart |
| CAQ | Commonly Asked Question |
| CAS | Central Authentication Service |
| CASL | Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation |
| CAT | Computerised Axial Tomography |
| CB | Citizens’ Band radio |
| CBC | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
| CBC | Cipher Block Chaining mode |
| CBDTPA | Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act |
| CBF | Compact Binary Format |
| CBS | Columbia Broadcasting System |
| CBT | Cock and Ball Torture |
| CC | Cosmic Consciousness |
| CCCB | Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops |
| CCF | Composite Container Format |
| CCF | Co-operative Commonwealth Federation |
| CCITT | Comité Consultatif International Téléphonique et Télégraphique |
| CCRAP | Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance Party |
| CCS | Carbon Capture Storage |
| CD-R | Compact Disc — Recordable |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disc — Read Only Memory |
| CD-RW | Compact Disc Re-Writeable |
| CD/DVD | Compact Disc/Digital Video Disc |
| CD | Change Directory |
| CD | Compact Disc |
| CD | Carrier Detect |
| CDATA | Character DATA |
| CDC | Connected Device Configuration |
| CDC | Centers for Disease Control |
| CDC | Control Data Corporation |
| CDD | Change Disk and Directory |
| CDMA | Code Division Multiple Access |
| CDN | Content Delivery Network |
| CDRAM | Cache Dynamic RAM |
| CDROM | Compact Disc Read Only Memory |
| CDW | Compact Disc — Writeable |
| CEAA | Canadian Environmental Assessment Act |
| CENTOS | Community Enterprise Operating System |
| CEO | Chief Executive Officer |
| CERN | Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire |
| CETA | Canada-European Union: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement |
| CFB | Cipher Feedback mode |
| CFC | Chlorofluorocarbon |
| CFL | Compact Fluorencent |
| CFV | Call For Votes |
| CFWA | Concerned Women For America |
| CGA | Colour Graphics Adapter |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
| CGI | Computer Graphics Imaging |
| CHM | Compiled Hypertext Markup language help file |
| CHRP | Common Hardware Reference Platforms |
| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency |
| CIC | Canadian International Council |
| CIDA | Canadian International Development Agency |
| CIDR | Classless Inter-Domain Routing |
| CIFS | Common Internet File System |
| CIRA | Canadian Internet Registration Authority |
| CISC | Complex Instruction Set Computer |
| CJ | Commission Junction |
| CJD | Chronological Julian Date |
| CJK | Chinese-Japanese-Korean |
| CLA | Conjugated Linoleic Acid |
| CLDC | Connected Limited Device Configuration |
| CLR | Common Language Runtime |
| CLS | Clear Screen |
| CMD | Command |
| CMJD | Chronological Modified Julian Date |
| CMOS | Complementary Metal Oxide on Silicon |
| CMP | Canadian Mind Products |
| CMP | Container Managed Persistence |
| CMS | Content Management System |
| CMU | Carnegie Mellon University |
| CMV | Cytomegalo Virus |
| CMYK | Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-black |
| CNA | Canadian Numbering Administration |
| CNN | Cable News Network |
| CNOOC | China National Offshore Oil Corporation |
| COLAGE | Children Of Lesbians And Gays Everywhere |
| COM | Component Object Model |
| COMER | The Committee On Monetary and Economic Reform |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| COTS | Commercial Off The Shelf |
| CPC | Cost Per Click |
| CPCC | Canadian Private Copying Collective |
| CPL | Cost Per Lead |
| CPL | Canadian Physicians for Life |
| CPM | Cost Per thousand/Mille impressions |
| CPM | Control Program for Microcomputers |
| CPP | C++ |
| CPP | Canada Pension Plan |
| CPR | Canadian Pacific Railway |
| CPS | Characters Per Second |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| CQL | Cassandra Query Language |
| CR | Carriage Return |
| CramIStab | Cramolin, Isopranol, Stabilant treatment |
| CRAP | Canadian Reform Alliance Party |
| CRC | Cyclic Redundancy Check |
| CRC | Class-Responsibly-Collaboration |
| CRCA | Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance |
| CRISPR | Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats |
| CRL | Certificate Revocation List |
| CRT | Cathode Ray Tube |
| CRTC | Canadian Radio and Television Commission |
| CRW | Canon Raw format |
| CSA | Canadian Standards Association |
| CSA | Community Shared Agriculture |
| CSD | Control Structure Diagram |
| CSE | Computer Science and Engineering |
| CSI | Crime Scene Investigator |
| CSIS | Canadian Security Intelligence Service |
| CSP | Communicating Symmetric Processes |
| CSS | Cascading Style Sheets |
| CSV | Comma-Separated Value |
| CTC | Concurrent Technologies Corporation |
| CTE | Common Table Expression |
| CTJ | Communicating Threads for Java |
| CTS | Clear To Send |
| CTV | Canadian Television network |
| CUA | Common User Access |
| CUPW | Canadian Union of Postal Workers |
| CURE | Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education |
| CV | Condition Variable |
| CVD | Cifereca Videa Diskodrajvo |
| CVS | Concurrent Versions System |
| CWD | Current Working Directory |
| CYA | Cover Your Ass |
| CygWin | Cygnus Systems Windows |
| D.F.O. | Department of Fisheries and Oceans |
| DAB+ | Digital Audio Broadcasting Plus |
| DACA | Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals |
| DADT | Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell |
| DAG | Directed Acyclic Graph |
| DAO | Disc At Once |
| DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| DAT | Digital Audio Tape |
| DBC | Design By Contract |
| DBF | DBase File |
| DBMS | DataBase Management System |
| DC1 | Device Control 1 |
| DC2 | Device Control 2 |
| DC3 | Device Control 3 |
| DC4 | Device Control 4 |
| DC | Direct Current |
| DCD | Data Carrier Detect |
| DCE | Data Communications Equipment |
| DCF | Delivery Center Facility |
| DCL | Data Control Language |
| DDC | Dideoxycytidine |
| DDE | Dynamic Data Exchange |
| DDI | Didanosine |
| DDL | Data Definition Language |
| DDNS | Dynamic Domain Name Service |
| DDoS | Distributed Denial of Service attack |
| DDR | Double Data Rate |
| DDR-SDRAM | Double Data Rate — Synchronous Dynamic RAM |
| DDT | dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane |
| DEA | Drug Enforcement Administration |
| DEBE | Does Everything But Eat |
| DEC | Digital Equipment Corporation |
| DECT | Digital Enhanced Cordless Telephony |
| DEL | Delete |
| DEP | Data Execution Prevention |
| DER | Distinguished Encoding Rules |
| DES | Data Encryption Standard |
| DFA | Deterministic Finite Automaton |
| DFO | Department of Fisheries and Oceans |
| DFSA | Drug Facilitated Sexual Assault |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DHTML | Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language |
| DIM | Deep Inner Meaning |
| DIMM | Dual In-line Memory Module |
| DIN | Deutsches Institut für Normung/German Institute for Standardisation |
| DIY | Do-It-Yourself |
| DIZ | Description In Zip |
| DKIM | Domain Keys Identified Mail |
| DLC | Democratic Leadership Council |
| DLE | Data Link Escape |
| DLL | Dynamic Link Library |
| DLS | Down Loadable Sounds |
| DLU | Dialog Units |
| DMA | Direct Memory Access |
| DMC | postal Delivery Mode Code |
| DML | Data Manipulation Language |
| DMP | Download Management Protocol |
| DMS | Design Maintenance System |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic Acid |
| DNC | Democratic National Committee |
| DNR | Do Not Resuscitate |
| DNS | Domain Name Service |
| DNTO | Definitely Not The Opera |
| DOD | Department Of Defence |
| DOE | Department Of Energy |
| DOM | Document Object Model |
| DOMA | Defence Of Marriage Act |
| DOS | Denial of Service attack |
| DOS | Disk Operating System |
| DPI | Dots Per Inch |
| DPMI | DOS Protected Memory Interface manager |
| DRAM | Dynamic RAM |
| DRM | Digital Restrictions/Rights Management |
| DRY | Don’t Repeat Yourself |
| DSA | Digital Signature Algorithm |
| DSK | Dvorak Standard Keyboard |
| DSL | Domain Specific Language |
| DSL | Digital Subscriber Loop |
| DSM | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders |
| DSM-IV | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders |
| DSN | Data Set Name |
| DSP | Digital Signal Processor |
| DSR | Data Set Ready |
| DSS | Digital Satellite System |
| DST | Daylight Saving Time |
| DTA | Disk Transfer Area |
| DTC | Data Technology Corp |
| DTD | Document Type Definition |
| DTE | Data Terminal Equipment |
| DTR | Data Terminal Ready |
| DTS | Digital Theater Systems |
| DTV | Digital Television |
| DU | Depleted Uranium |
| DU | Download/Upload |
| DUI | Driving Under the Influence |
| DUN | Dialup Networking |
| DUNS | Dun & Bradstreet Universal Numbering System |
| DV | Digital Video |
| DVD | Digital Video Disc |
| DVI | Digital Video Interface |
| DVI-D | Digital Video Interface — Data |
| DVI-I | Digital Video Interface — Integrated |
| DVR | Digital Video Recorder |
| EAN | European Article Number |
| EAR | Enterprise Archive file |
| EC2 | Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud |
| ECB | Electronic Codebook mode |
| ECC | Error Correcting Code |
| ECCO | Earth Coincidence Control Office |
| ECMA | European Computer Manufacturer’s Association |
| ECP | Enhanced Capacity Port |
| ECS | Element Construction Set |
| EDO | Extended Data Out |
| EDORAM | Extended Data Output RAM |
| EDT | Event Dispatch Thread |
| EDT | Eastern Daylight Time |
| EDT | Eiffel Development Tool |
| EE | Enterprise Edition |
| EEEEEEE | Ecological, Energy—Efficient, Earthquake-resistant, Easy to maintain, Exercise, Experimental |
| EEG | Electroencephalogram |
| EFF | Electronic Frontier Foundation |
| EGA | Extended Graphics Adapter |
| EGSM | Extended GSM |
| EIA | Electronic Industries Alliance |
| EIDE | Extended Integrated Drive Electronics |
| EIP | Exploration Insight Process |
| EISA | Extended Industry Standard Architecture |
| EJB | Enterprise Java Beans |
| ELNA | Esperanto League for North America |
| EM | End of Medium |
| EMACS | Extensible Macro System |
| EMBR | Extended Master Boot Record |
| EMDR | Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing |
| EMF | Electro-Magnetic Fields |
| EMM | Expanded Memory Manager |
| EMS | Expanded Memory Systems |
| ENC | Enterprise Naming Context |
| ENQ | Enquiry |
| ENSO | El Niño Southern Oscillation events |
| EOF | End Of File |
| EOI | End Of Interrupt |
| EOL | End Of Line |
| EOL | End-of-Life |
| EOSL | End of Service Life |
| EOT | End Of Transmission |
| EPA | Environmental Protection Agency |
| EPC | Earnings Per Click |
| EPC | Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of Canada |
| EPP | Enhanced Parallel Port |
| EPS | Encapsulated Post Script |
| ePub | Electronic Publishing |
| ESC | Escape |
| ESDI | Enhanced Small-Device Interface |
| ESDRAM | Extended Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory |
| ESL | English as a Second Language |
| ESP | Extra Sensory Perception |
| EST | Eastern Standard Time |
| EST | Erhard Seminar Training |
| ESV | English Standard Version |
| ETA | Estimated Time of Arrival |
| ETB | End Text Block |
| ETL | Extraction, Transformation & Loading |
| ETLA | Extended Three Letter Acronym |
| ETX | End of Text |
| EULA | End User Licence Agreement |
| EVSSL | Extended Verification Secure Socket Layer |
| FAA | Federal Aviation Administration |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions |
| FARC | Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia |
| FAT | File Allocation Table |
| FAX | Facsimile |
| FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| FC-PGA | Flip Chip Pin Grid Array |
| FCC | Federal Communications Commission |
| FDA | Federal Drug Administration |
| FDF | Forms Data Format |
| FDL | Forms Development Language |
| FDR | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| FEAT | ftp Feature enumeration |
| FEMA | Federal Emergency Management Agency |
| FESI | Free ECMA Script Interpreter |
| FF | Form Feed |
| FF | Fist Fucking |
| FFT | Fast Fourier Transform |
| FGM | Female Genital Mutilation |
| FIFO | First In First Out |
| FIM | Facing Identification Mark |
| FIPA | Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act |
| FIPS | Federal Information Processing Standard |
| FIR | Fast Infrared |
| FLQ | Front de Libération du Québec |
| FLV | Flash Video |
| FOAF | Friend Of A Friend |
| FOFA | Find One Find All |
| FOP | Formatting Objects Processor |
| FOUT | Flash Of Unstyled Text |
| FPGA | Field Programmable Gate Array |
| FPS | Amazon Flexible Payments System |
| FQDN | Fully Qualified Domain Name |
| FS | File Separator |
| FSA | Forward Sortation Area |
| FSB | Front Side Bus |
| FSEM | Full Screen Exclusive Mode |
| FSK | Frequency Shift Keying |
| FSVO | For Suitable Values Of |
| FTAA | Free Trade Agreement of the Americas |
| FTAA | Free Trade Area of the Americas |
| FTC | Federal Trade Commission |
| FTL | Freemarker Template Language |
| FTM | Female To Male |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| FTPS | File Transfer Protocol over Secure Sockets Layer |
| FTW | From The Wilderness publications |
| FUBAR | Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition |
| FUD | Fear Uncertainty and Doubt |
| Fvwm | F*cking Virtual Window Manager |
| FWIW | For What It’s Worth |
| FYI | For Your Information |
| G*A*T*E | Gay Alliance Toward Equality |
| G.O.P | Greed Over Principal |
| GAA | Gay Activist Alliance |
| GAO | General Accounting Office |
| GATT | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
| GAY | Got Aids Yet? |
| GBA | Galactic Biodiversity Agency |
| GBM | Gay Black Male |
| GBR | Green Blue Red |
| GC | Garbage Collection |
| GCD | Greatest Common Divisor |
| GCJ | GNU Compiler for Java |
| GDI | Graphics Device Interface |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
| GEF | Graphical Editing Framework |
| GIF | Graphic Interchange Format |
| GIGO | Garbage In, Garbage Out |
| GIS | Geographic Information System |
| GLAD | Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders |
| GLB | Gay, Lesbian or Bisexual |
| GLBT | Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual or Transgendered |
| GLBTQ | Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered or Queer |
| GLR | Gay and Lesbian Republic |
| GM | Genetically Modified |
| GM | General Motors |
| GMO | Genetically Modified Organism |
| GMT | Greenwich Mean Time |
| GNI | Gross National Income |
| GNOME | Gnu Network Object Model Environment |
| GNP | Gross National Product |
| GNU | Gnu’ Not Unix! |
| GNU-RCS | GNU Revision Control System |
| GOP | Grand Old Party |
| GPL | Gnu Public Licence |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GPSS | General Purpose Simulation System |
| GPT | Globally unique identifier Partition Table |
| GPTT | General Purpose Technology Transition |
| GPU | Graphics Processing Unit |
| GRB | Green Red Blue |
| GRC | Gibson Research Corporation |
| grep | Globally search Regular Expression Print |
| GS | Group Separator |
| GSL | Gnu Scientic Library |
| GSM | Global System for Mobile Communications |
| GSO | Gay Significant Other |
| GST | Goods and Services Tax |
| GST | Gouge and Screw Tax |
| GTK | the Gimp ToolKit |
| GUI | Graphic User Interface |
| GUID | Globally Unique Identifier |
| GWEV | Green World Electric Vehicles |
| GWM | Gay White Male |
| GWT | Google Web Toolkit |
| HAART | Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy |
| HAL | Heuristic Algorithmic |
| HANS | Health Action Network Society |
| HAT | Help Authoring Tool |
| HBO | Home Box Office |
| HDLC | High-level Data Link Control |
| HDMI | High-Definition Multimedia Interface |
| HDPE | High Density Polyethylene |
| HDTV | High Definition Television |
| HEU | Health care Employees Union |
| HFS | Hierarchical File System |
| HFS+ | Hierarchical File System Plus |
| HGC | Hercules Graphics Card |
| HHMI | Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| Hi-Fi | High Fidelity |
| HIV | Human Immuno-deficiency Virus |
| HIV+ | Human Immuno-deficiency Virus Positive (infected) |
| HIV- | Human Immuno-deficiency Virus Negative (virus free) |
| HMA | High Memory Area |
| HMAC | Hashed Message Authentication Code |
| HMO | Health Management Organisation |
| HOV | High Occupancy Vehicle |
| HOW | Husbands Out to Wives |
| HP | Hewlett Packard |
| HPFS | High Performance File System |
| HSB | Hue Saturation Brightness |
| HST | Harmonised Sales Tax |
| HT | Horizontal Tab |
| HTC | High Tech Computer Corporation |
| HTH | Hope That Helps |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
| HTML4 | Hypertext Markup Language v 4 |
| HTML5 | Hypertext Markup Language v 5 |
| HTML | Hiper Texsta Mark Lingvo |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| HTTPS | Hypertext Transfer Protocol over SSL (Secure Socket Layer) |
| HUGS | Hope-Understanding-Growth-Support |
| HWP | Height Weight Proportional |
| HWPF | Horrible Word Processor Format |
| Hz | Hertz |
| IaaS | Infrastructure as a Service |
| IAC | Inter Applet Communication |
| IAIK | Institut für Angewandte Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikationstechnologie |
| IANA | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
| IAP | Internet Access Provider |
| IAT | International Atomic Time |
| IATA | International Air Transport Association |
| IBM | International Business Machines |
| ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers |
| ICAP | Internet Calendar Access Protocol |
| ICBM | Inter Continental Ballistic Missile |
| ICC | International Criminal Court |
| ICD | Instant Consciousness Doubler |
| ICE | Institute of Christian Economics |
| ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol |
| ICQ | Internet Chat Query |
| ICRA | Internet Content Rating Association |
| ICRC | International Committee of the Red Cross |
| IDE | Integrated Development Environment |
| IDE | Integrated Drive Electronics |
| iDEN | Integrated Digital Enhanced Network |
| IDF | Israeli Defense Force |
| IDL | Interface Definition Language |
| IDN | Internationalised Domain Name |
| IE | Internet Explorer |
| IED | Improvised Explosive Device |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IFC | Internet Foundation Classes |
| IIBR | Israel Institute of Biological Research |
| IIOP | Invocation over Internet Inter-Orb Protocol |
| IIRC | If I Recall Correctly |
| IIS | Internet Information Server |
| ILU | Inter Language Unification |
| IMAP | Internet Message Access Protocol |
| IMAX | Image Maximum |
| IMC | Internet Mail Consortium |
| IMDb | Internet Movie Data base |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| IMF | Intel Media Framework |
| IMF | Input Method Framework |
| IMH | Institute of Mental Health |
| IMHO | In My Humble Opinion |
| IMNSHO | In My Not So Humble Opinion |
| IMR | Infant Mortality Rate |
| IMT | International Military Tribunal |
| INAP | Intelligent Network Application Protocol |
| INGSOC | Inglish/English Socialism |
| INS | Immigration and Naturalisation Service |
| IOC | International Olympic Committee |
| IOCTL | Input Output Control |
| IOL | Intraocular Lens |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IPA | International Phonetic Alphabet |
| IPAM | Internet Protocol Address Management |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| IPTV | Internet Protocol Television |
| IPv4 | Internet Protocol Version 4 |
| IPv6 | Internet Protocol Version 6 |
| IPX | Internet Protocol Exchange |
| IQ | Intelligence Quotient |
| IRC | Inter Relay Chat |
| IRL | In Real Life |
| IRQ | Interrupt Request |
| IRS | Internal Revenue Service |
| IS | Islamic State |
| ISA | Industry Standard Architecture |
| ISAM | Indexed Sequential Access Method |
| ISAPI | Internet Server Application Programming Interface |
| ISBN | International Standard Book Number |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network |
| ISI | Inter-Services Intelligence |
| ISIL | The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant |
| ISIS | Islamic State of Iraq and Syria |
| ISIS | Images & Scanners Interface Standard |
| Isis | not an acronym, the name of an Egyptian goddess |
| ISO | International Standards Organisation |
| ISO-8601 | International Standards Organisation # 8601 (date/time) |
| ISO | In Search Of |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| ISTM | It Seems To Me |
| ISTR | I Seem To Recall |
| ISV | Independent Software Vendor |
| ISWYM | I See What You Mean |
| IT | Information Technology |
| ITC | International Typeface Corporation |
| ITU | International Telecommunications Union |
| ITU-TSS | International Telecommunications Union — Telecommunications Standards Sector |
| ITUT | International Telecommunications Union Telecommunications standards sector |
| ITV | Independent Television |
| IUI | Intelligent User Interface |
| IVF | In Vitro Fertilisation |
| IWC | International Whaling Commission |
| IWW | Industrial Workers of the World |
| IYKWIM | If You Know What I Mean |
| J.F.O.X. | Java Financial Object exchange |
| J2ME | Java 2 Micro Edition |
| J2SE | Java 2 platform, Standard Edition |
| JAAS | Java Authentication and Authorisation Service |
| JACC | Java Authorisation Contract for Containers |
| JAD | Java Application Descriptor |
| JAF | Java Activation Framework |
| JAI | Java Advanced Imaging |
| JAIN | Java Api for Integrated Networks |
| JAL | Java Algorithm Library |
| JASM | Java Assembler |
| Java DAO | Java Data Access Objects |
| JAWS | Java Web Start |
| JAX-RPC | Java Application programmer interface for Xml-based Remote Procedure Calls |
| JAXB | Java Api for XML data Binding |
| JAXP | Java Api for XML Processing |
| JAXR | Java Api for XML Registries |
| JBCO | Java Byte Code Obfuscator |
| JBTE | Java Byte Template Engine |
| JCA | J2EE Connector Architecture |
| JCC | Jain Call Control |
| JCD | Java Class Dissassembler |
| JCE | Java Cryptography Extension |
| JCL | Job Control Language |
| JCP | Java Community Process |
| JCP | Java Control Panel |
| jCVS | Java Concurrent Version System |
| JDB | Java Debugger |
| JDBC | Java Data Base Connectivity |
| JDC | Java Development Connection |
| JDE | Java Development Environment |
| JDEE | Java Development Environment for Emacs |
| JDIC | Java Desktop Integration Components |
| JDJ | Java Developer’s Journal |
| JDK | Java Development Kit |
| JDMK | Java Dynamic Management Kit |
| JDO | Java Data Objects |
| JDOM | Java Document Object Model |
| JDS | Java Desktop System |
| JENI | Java Enterprise Network Interface |
| JEP | Java Expression Parser |
| JESS | Java Expert System Shell |
| JET | Just Enough Time |
| JFC | Java Foundation Classes |
| JFK | John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| JGL | Java Generic Library |
| JIT | Just In Time |
| JKS | Java Key Store |
| JLEX | Java Lexer |
| JLS | Java Language Specification |
| JMC | Java Media Components |
| JME | Java Micro Edition |
| JMF | Java Media Framework |
| JML | Java Modeling Language |
| JMS | Java Messaging Service |
| JMTA | Java Multi-Threaded Analyser |
| JMX | Java Management extensions |
| JNA | Java Native Access |
| JNDI | Java Naming and Directory Interface |
| JNI | Java Native Interface |
| JNLP | Java Network Launching Protocol |
| JO | Jerking Off |
| JO | Jump on Overflow |
| JOAL | Java bindings for OpenAL |
| JODE | Java Optimise and Decompile Environment |
| JOE | Java Object Environment |
| JOGL | Java Open Graphics Library |
| JOIE | Java Object Instrumentation Environment |
| JOONE | Java Object-Oriented Neural Engine |
| JOP | Java Optimised Processor |
| JOS | Java Operating System |
| JPA | Java Persistence Api |
| JPCC | Java Post-Compile Checker |
| JPDA | Java Platform Debugger Architecture |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| JPG | Joint Photographic experts Group |
| JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| JPS | Java virtual machine Process Status tool |
| JPVM | Java Parallel Virtual Machine |
| JRE | Java Runtime Environment |
| JRF | JRelational Framework |
| JRI | Java Runtime Interface |
| JSAPI | Java Speech Application Programming Interface |
| JSC | Java Studio Creator |
| JSDK | Java Servlets Development Kit |
| JSDT | Java Shared Data Toolkit |
| JSE | Java Standard Edition |
| JSE | Java Studio Enterprise |
| JSF | Java Server Faces |
| JSON | Java Script Object Notation |
| JSP | Java Server Pages |
| JSPA | Java Specification Participation Agreement |
| JSQL | Java Standard Query Language |
| JSR | Java Specification Request |
| JSSE | Java Secure Socket Extension |
| JSSI | Java Server Side Includes |
| JSTE | Java Script Templating language |
| JSTL | Java Server Pages Standard Tag Library |
| JTA | Java Transaction Application programming interface |
| JTAPI | Java Telephony Application Programming Interface |
| JTB | Java Tree Builder |
| JTONE | Java Telephone Object Environment |
| JTS | Java Transaction Service |
| JTV | Java-enabled Television |
| JTWI | Java Technology for the Wireless Industry |
| JUG | Java User Group |
| JUNG | Java Universal Network Graph framework |
| JUNIT | Java Unit test |
| JVDS | Just Virtual Dedicated Servers |
| JVM | Java Virtual Machine |
| JVMPI | Java Virtual Machine Profiler Interface |
| JVMS | Java Virtual Machine Specification |
| JW | Jehovah’s Witness |
| JWS | Java Web Start |
| JWSDP | Java Web Services Developer Pack |
| KDE | K Desktop Environment |
| KFC | Kazuki Yasumatusu Foundation Classes |
| KFC | Kentucky Fried Chicken |
| KGB | Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Russian CIA) |
| KIA | Killed In Action |
| KISS | Keep It Simple Stupid |
| KJV | King James Version |
| KKC | Ken Keyes College |
| KKK | Klu Klux Klan |
| KRTLS | Kelowna Right To Life Society |
| KVM | Kilobyte Virtual Machine |
| KVM | Keyboard-Video-Mouse |
| KWIC | Keyword In Context |
| LAF | Look And Feel |
| LALR | Look Ahead Left-to-Right parse |
| LALR(1) | Look Ahead Left-to-Right parse, single token look-ahead |
| LAMP | Linux-Apache-MySQL-Php/Perl |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LAPM | Link Access Procedure for Modems |
| LASIK | Laser-in-Situ Keratomileusis |
| LBA | Logical Block Architecture |
| LBJ | Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| LCD | Liquid Crystal Display |
| LCD | Lowest Common Denominator |
| LCG | Linear Congruential random number Generator |
| LCM | Lowest Common Multiple |
| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| LDPE | Low Density Polyethylene |
| LDS | Later Day Saints |
| LDU | Local Deliver Unit |
| LED | Light-Emitting Diode |
| LEGIT | Lesbian and Gay Immigration Task force |
| LETS | Local Exchange Trading System |
| LF | Line Feed |
| LFA | Low Frequency Active sonar |
| LFEC | Low Frequency Effects Channel |
| LFN | Long File Name |
| LGBT | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual |
| LGBTQ | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual or Queer |
| LGPL | Lesser General Public License |
| LIFO | Last In First Out |
| LIM | Lotus/Intel/Microsoft |
| LISP | List Processing language |
| LL(1) | Left-to-right scan, Leftmost derivation |
| LLC | Living Love Centre |
| LLF | Low-Level Format |
| LMGTFY | Let me Google that for you |
| LMTP | Local Mail Transfer Protocol |
| LNG | Liquid Natural Gas |
| LOC | Lines Of Code |
| LOL | Laughing Out Loud |
| LP | Long Play recording |
| LR(1) | Left-to-right scan, Rightmost derivation |
| LRU | Least Recently Used |
| LSB | Least Significant Bit |
| LSD | d-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide |
| LTC | Laston Type Company |
| LTR | Long Term Relationship |
| LZMA | Lempel—Ziv—Markov chain Algorithm |
| LZV | Logistik Zentrum Verden |
| LZW | Lempel—Ziv—Welch |
| M*A*S*H | Mobile Army Surgical Hospital |
| M4M | Male For Male |
| MAC | Media Access Control |
| MAC | Apple Macintosh |
| MAC | Message Authentication Code |
| MAGA | Make America Great Again |
| MAJC | Microprocessor Architecture for Java Computing |
| MAPI | Messaging API |
| MASM | Microsoft Assembler |
| MB | Manitoba |
| MBA | Master of Business Administration |
| MBA | Machine Billet Aluminum |
| MBean | Managed Bean |
| MBps | MegaBytes per second |
| Mbps | Megabits per second |
| MBR | Master Boot Record |
| MCA | Micro-Channel Architecture |
| MCC | Metropolitan Community Church |
| MCP | Master Control Program |
| MD5 | Message Digest algorithm 5 |
| MDB | Message-Driven Bean |
| MDI | Multiple Document Interface |
| MDL | Motherboard Descriptor Language |
| MDMA | 3,4-Methylenedioxy-N-Methylamphetamine |
| MEMS | Micro Electromechanical Systems |
| MET | New York Metropolitan Opera |
| MFC | Microsoft Foundation Classes |
| MFJ | Media Framework for Java |
| MFM | Modified Frequency Modulation |
| MFM | Manchester Frequency Modulation |
| MFT | Master File Table |
| MGM | Male Genital Mutilation |
| MHR | Maximum safe Heart Rate |
| MICR | Magnetic Ink Character Recognition |
| MIDI | Musical Instrument Digital Interface |
| Midlet | Mobile Information Device applet |
| MIDP | Mobile Information Device Profile |
| MIF | Maker Interchange Format |
| MIME | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
| MIO | Masivo Integrado de Occidente |
| MIPS | Mobile Internet Phone Services |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| MixedCC | Mixed Compiler Compiler |
| MLA | Member of the Legislative Assembly |
| MMIW | Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women |
| MMIWG | Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls |
| MMS | Microsoft Media Server |
| MMT | Methycylcopentodieny Manganese Tricarbonyl |
| MMX | Multi-Media extension |
| MNG | Mixed Network Graphics |
| MNP | Microcom Network Protocol |
| MOBI | Mobile pocket eBook format |
| MOOC | Massive Open Online Course |
| MOR | Mixed Orientation Relationship |
| MOSH | Mostly Original Substrate Human |
| MOTSS | Members Of The Same Sex |
| MP | Member of Parliament |
| MP | Maintenance Pack |
| MPEG | Moving Picture Experts Group |
| MPG | Miles Per Gallon |
| MPH | Miles Per Hour |
| MRJ | Macintosh Runtime for Java |
| MRU | Maximum Receive Unit |
| MRU | Most Recently Used |
| MSB | Most Significant Bit |
| MSB | Most Significant Byte |
| MSF | Médecins Sans Frontières |
| MSIE | Microsoft Internet Explorer |
| MSM | Microsoft Instant Messenger |
| MSN | Microsoft Network |
| MSO | Mood Swing Orchestra |
| MSP | Medical Services Plan |
| MSR | Model-Specific Register |
| MTBE | Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether |
| MTBF | Mean Time Between Failures |
| MTF | Male To Female |
| MTJ | Matrix Toolkits for Java |
| MTU | Maximum Transmission Unit |
| MUD | Multi-User Dungeon |
| MUX | Multiplexor |
| MVC | Model-View-Controller |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement Of Colored People |
| NAFTA | North America Free Trade Agreement |
| NAK | Negative Acknowledbge |
| NAMBLA | North American Man Boy Love Association |
| NAMPS | Narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone System |
| NaN | Not A Number |
| NANPA | North American Numbering Plan Administrator for area codes |
| NARTH | National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality |
| NARTI | Nucleoside Analog Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor |
| NAS | Network Attached Storage |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NASCAR | National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing |
| NASRA | North American Standards and Regulatory Area |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organisation |
| NB | New Brunswick |
| NBC | National Broadcasting Corporation |
| NCE | Numeric Character Entities |
| NCR | National Cash Register |
| NCSA | National Center for Supercomputer Applications |
| NCSE | National Center for Science Education |
| NDA | Nondisclosure Agreement |
| NDE | Near Death Experience |
| NDP | New Democratic Party |
| NDS | Novell Directory Services |
| NDX | index |
| NEB | National Energy Board |
| NEC | Nippon Electric Corporation |
| NETBUI | Net BIOS extended User Interface |
| NFA | Non-deterministic Finite Automaton |
| NFB | National Film Board of Canada |
| NFC | Normalisation Form canonical Composition |
| NFC | Near Field Communication |
| NFD | Normalisation Form canonical Decomposition |
| NFKC | Normalisation Form Kompatibility Composition |
| NFKD | Normalisation Form Kompatibility Decomposition |
| NFS | Novell File System |
| NGP | Natural Governing Party |
| NHL | National Hockey League |
| NIC | Network Interface Card |
| NIH | Not Invented Here |
| NIH | National Institute of Health |
| NIO | New Input/Output |
| NIO.2 | New Input/Output version 2 |
| NIS | Network Information Service |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| NL | Newfoundland and Labrador |
| NLD | Natural Language Design |
| NLP | Neuro Linguistic Programming |
| NMFS | National Marine Fisheries Service |
| NMR | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance |
| NMT | Not My Type |
| NMTB | Not My Type, Baby |
| NNRTI | Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor |
| NNTP | Network News Transfer Protocol |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NOC | Not Our Class |
| NOCD | Not Our Class, Dear |
| NOMA | Nonoverlapping Magisteria |
| NORAD | North American Aerospace Defence Command |
| NORML | National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws |
| NOSEY-TYJ | No Offensive Sexuality Ennywhere, Thank You Jesus! |
| NPE | Null Pointer Exception |
| NPR | National Public Radio |
| NQL | Network Query Language |
| NRA | National Rifle Association |
| NRC | National Research Council |
| NRTI | Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor |
| NS | Nova Scotia |
| NSA | National Security Agency |
| NSA | No Strings Attached |
| NSF | Not Sufficient Funds |
| NSGMLS | N? Standard Generalised Markup Language S? |
| NT | Northwest Territories |
| NTFS | New Technology File System |
| NTI | NewTech Infosystems |
| NTLM | New Technology LAN Manager protocol |
| NTP | Network Time Protocol |
| NTSB | National Transportation Safety Board |
| NTSC | National Television System Committee aka Never The Same Colour |
| NU | Nunavut |
| NUL | Null |
| NVA | North Viet Nam Army |
| NVC | Non-Violent Communication |
| NXP | Norbert Mikula’s XML Parser |
| NYC | New York City |
| NYFD | New York Fire Department |
| OATH | Open Authentication |
| OBJC | Objective C |
| OCA | Online Customer Access |
| OCD | Obsessive Compulsive Disorder |
| OCD | Other Carcass Defects |
| OCL | Object Constraint Language |
| OCR | Optical Character Recognition |
| OCR-A | Optical Character Recognition font-A |
| OCSP | Online Certificate Status Protocol |
| OCX | Object linking and embedding (OLE) Control extension |
| ODBC | Open Data Base Connectivity |
| ODL | Object Definition Language |
| ODMG | Object Database Management Group |
| ODS | Outdoor Sex |
| OEB | Open Electronic Book |
| OED | Oxford English Dictionary |
| OEM | Original Equipment Manufacturer |
| OFB | Output Feedback mode |
| OGG | Operation Good Guys |
| OGNL | Object-Graph Navigation Language |
| OIF | Operation Iraqi Freedom |
| OIF | Occasionally Intimate Friends |
| OIL | Operation Iraqi Liberation |
| OIS | Optical Image Stabilisation |
| OJ | Orenthal James Simpson |
| OLE | Object Linking & Embedding |
| OLED | Organic Light-Emitting Diode |
| OLPC | One Laptop Per Child |
| OLTP | On-Line Transaction Processing |
| OMG | Object Management Group |
| ON | Ontario |
| OO | Object Oriented |
| OOAD | Object Oriented Analysis and Design |
| OOBE | Out Of Body Experience |
| OOP | Object Oriented Programming |
| OP | Original Poster |
| OPEC | the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
| OPENGL | Open Graphics Library |
| OQL | Object Query Language |
| ORB | Object Request Broker |
| ORDBMS | Object-Oriented Relational Database Management System |
| ORGASM | Original Assembler |
| ORM | Object Relational Mapping |
| ORT | Oral Rehydration Therapy |
| OS | Operating System |
| OSF | Open Software Foundation |
| OSI | Open Software Initiative |
| OT | Off Topic |
| OTDR | Optical Time Domain Reflectometer |
| OTOH | On The Other Hand |
| OTOP | On The Other Paw |
| OTP | One Time Pad |
| OWL | Ontology Web Language |
| P3P | Platform for Privacy Preferences |
| PA-API | Product Advertising Application Programming Interface |
| PaaS | Platform as a Service |
| PABLUM | Padding Border and Margin |
| PAC | Political Action Committee |
| PAC | Pre-Authorised Chequing |
| PAD | Portable Application Description |
| PAD | Packet Assembler/Disassembler |
| PASV | Passive ftp file transfer |
| PATA | Parallel ATA |
| PBE | Password Based Encryption |
| PBS | Public Broadcasting System |
| PBX | Private Branch exchange |
| PC | Personal Computer |
| PCAN | Pacific Coast Association of Nudists |
| PCB | Polychlorinated Biphenyls |
| PCC | Provincial Capital Commission |
| PCCTS | Purdue Compiler Compiler Tool Set |
| PCI | Peripheral Component Interconnect |
| PCI-DSS | Payment Card Industry — Data Security Standard |
| PCI-E | Peripheral Component Interconnect — Express |
| PCI-X | Peripheral Component Interconnect — extended |
| PCIO | Program Controlled Input/Output |
| PCL | Printer Control Language |
| PCM | Pulse-Code Modulation |
| PCP | Pneumocystis Pneumonia |
| PCP | phenylcyclohexylpiperidine |
| PCT | Private Communication Technology |
| PDA | Personal Digital Assistant |
| PDB | Project DataBase |
| Portable Document Format | |
| PDL | Process Definition Language |
| PDT | Pacific Daylight Time |
| PE | Portable Executable |
| PE | Prince Edward Island |
| PEI | Prince Edward Island |
| PEM | Privacy Enhanced Mail |
| PER | Pack Encoding Rules |
| PETA | People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals |
| PETE | Polyethylene Terephthalate |
| PFC | Private First Class |
| PFR | Portable Font Resource |
| PGN | Portable Game Notation |
| PGP | Pretty Good Privacy |
| PHP | Pre-Hypertext Processor |
| PHP | Personal Home Page |
| PIC | Programmable Interrupt Controller |
| PICS | Platform for Internet Content Selection |
| PID | Process Identifier |
| PIM | Personal Information Manager |
| PIN | Personal Identification Number |
| PIO | Programmed Input/Output |
| PIPA | Protect Intellectual Property Act |
| PITA | Pain In The Ass |
| PKCS | Public-Key Cryptography Standards |
| PKI | Public Key Infrastructure |
| PKT | Person-Kilometre of Travel |
| PLAF | Pluggable Look And Feel |
| PMEG | Plena Manlibra de Esperanto Gramatiko |
| PMO | Prime Minister’s Office |
| PNAC | Project for the New American Century |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics |
| PnP | Plug and Play |
| PNP | Play and Party |
| POB | Post Office Box |
| POD | Persistent Object Database |
| PoE | Power over Ethernet |
| POJO | Plain Old Java Object |
| POM | Project Object Model |
| POP | Post Office Protocol |
| POP3 | Post Office Protocol version 3 |
| POS | Point Of Sale |
| POSIX | Portable Operating System Interface for Unix |
| POTS | Plain Old Telephone Service |
| Pov-Ray | Persistence Of Vision Ray |
| POW | Prisoner Of War |
| PP | Polypropylene |
| PPGA | Plastic Pin Grid Array |
| PPM | Parts Per Million |
| PPP | Point-to-Point Protocol |
| PPPoE | Point-to-Point Protocol Over Ethernet |
| PPTP | Point to Point Tunneling Protocol |
| PPV | Pay Per View |
| PR | Public Relations |
| PRC | People’s Republic of China |
| PRC | Palm Resource Code |
| PRK | Photo-Refractive Keratectomy |
| PS | Polystyrene |
| PSA | Public Service Advertisement |
| PSD | Adobe Photoshop Data |
| PSPDec | Prospero Software Products Decimal |
| PST | Pacific Standard Time |
| PST | Provincial Sales Tax |
| PTA | Personal, Tab and Address |
| PTK | Photo-Therapeutic Keratectomy |
| PTSD | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder |
| PUC | Person Under Control |
| PUHCA | Public Utilities Holding Companies Act |
| PVC | Polyvinyl Chloride |
| PVCA | Polyvinyl Chloride Acetate |
| PVCS | Polytron Version Control System |
| PVM | Parallel Virtual Machine |
| PVR | Personal Video Recorder |
| PWD | Print Working Directory |
| PWS | Living Love Pathways |
| PwSafe | PasswordSafe |
| QAF | Queer As Folk |
| QC | Québec |
| QEMM | Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager |
| QEV | Quote Entity Validator |
| QR | Quick Response |
| QRAM | Quarterdeck RAM |
| QSL | Queue Simulation Language |
| QSL | Query Station Location |
| QST | Québec Sales Tax |
| RAD | Rapid Application Development |
| RAD | Rational Application Developer |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| RAMDAC | RAM Digital-to-Analog Converter |
| RAR | Roshal Archive |
| RAS | Remote Access Service |
| RBG | Red Blue Green |
| RCA | Radio Corporation of America |
| RCMP | Royal Canadian Mounted Police |
| RCS | Revision Control System |
| RCY | Radiocarbon Years |
| RD | Receive Data |
| RDC | Raw Data Copy |
| RDF | Resource Development Framework |
| RDQL | Resource Description Query Language |
| RDRAM | Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory |
| RDTSC | Read Time Stamp Counter |
| REGEN | Regenerate |
| REGEX | Regular Expression |
| RESTful | Representational State Transfer |
| RF | Republican Fantasy |
| RFC | Request For Comment |
| RFE | Request For Enhancement |
| RFI | Request For Information |
| RFI | Radio Frequency Interface |
| RFID | Radio Frequency Identification |
| RFP | Request For Proposal |
| RFS | Ready For Sending |
| RFU | Reserved for Future Use |
| RGB | Red Green Blue |
| RGBA | Red Green Blue Alpha |
| RI | Ring Indicator |
| RIA | Rich Internet Application |
| RIAA | Recording Industry Association of America |
| RIFF | Resource Interchange File Format |
| RIM | Research In Motion |
| RISC | Reduced Instruction Set Computer |
| RLL | Run Length Limited |
| RMA | Return Merchandise Authorisation |
| RMI | Remote Method Invocation |
| RMI-IIOP | Remote Method Invocation over Internet Inter-Orb Protocol |
| RMIC | Remote Method Invocation Compiler |
| RMP | RealPlayer Metadata Package |
| RMS | Root Mean Square |
| RNA | Ribonucleic acid |
| RNC | Republican National Committee |
| RNI | Raw Native Interface |
| RNIB | Royal National Institute of Blind People |
| ROFL | Rolling On the Floor Laughing |
| ROFLMAO | Rolling On the Floor Laughing My Ass Off |
| ROG | Republic Of Gaming |
| ROI | Return On Investment |
| ROM | Read Only Memory |
| ROS | Roving OS |
| RPC | Remote Procedure Call |
| RPG | Report Program Generator |
| RPM | Revolutions Per Minute |
| RPM | Red Hat Program Manager |
| RPN | Reverse Polish Notation |
| RRSP | Registered Retirement Savings Program |
| RRT | Rapid Resolution Therapy |
| RS-232C | Recommended Standard 232C |
| RS | Record Separator |
| RSA | Rivest, Shamir and Adelman |
| RSAC | Recreational Software Advisory Council |
| RSIGuard | Repetitive Stress Injury Guard |
| RSS | RDF Site Summary |
| RTALabel | Restricted To Adults Label |
| RTC | Real Time Clock |
| RTF | Rich Text Format |
| RTFM | Read The Fine Manual |
| RTI | Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor |
| RTMP | Real Time Messaging Protocol |
| RTOS | Real Time Operating System |
| RTP | Real-time Transport Protocol |
| RTR | Ready To Receive |
| RTS | Request To Send |
| RTSJ | Real Time Specification for Java |
| RTSP | Real Time Streaming Protocol |
| RUM | Real Use Monitoring |
| RWAR | Religious War |
| S&M | Sadism & Masochism |
| S/MIME | Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Exchange |
| S/PDIF | Sony/Philips Digital Interconnect Format |
| S3 | Amazon Simple Storage Service |
| SAAJ | SOAP with Attachments API for Java |
| SaaS | Software as a Service |
| SAD | Seasonal Affective Disorder |
| SAG | Screen Actors Guild |
| SAIC | Science Applications International Corporation |
| SALT | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
| SAM | Service to Air Missile |
| SAM | Senvice Atingebla Memoro |
| SAN | Storage Area Network |
| SAR | Service Archive |
| SARS | Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome |
| SAT | Scholastic Aptitude Test |
| SATA | Serial ATA |
| SAX | Simple API for XML |
| SAX | not an acronym |
| SCA | Society For Creative Anachronism |
| SCA | Secondary Request to Send |
| SCCS | Source Code Control System |
| SCE | Service Creation Environment |
| SCID | Source Code In Database |
| SCJP | Oracle Certified Java Programmer |
| SCM | Source Code Management |
| SCNR | Sorry, Could Not Resist |
| SCSI | Small Computer System Interface |
| SCTP | Stream Control Transmission Protocol |
| SCUBA | Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus |
| SDK | Software Development Kit |
| SDL | Simple Data Language |
| SDLC | Synchronous Data Link Communication |
| SDRAM | Synchronous Dynamic RAM |
| SDTV | Standard Digital Television |
| SEAL | Navy Sea Air Land |
| SECC | Single Edge Contact Cartridge |
| SETI | Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence |
| SFTP | Secure File Transfer Protocol |
| SFX | Self-extracting executable |
| SG | Signal Ground |
| SGI | Silicon Graphics Inc |
| SGL | Same Gendered Loving |
| SGML | Standard Generalised Markup Language |
| SGRAM | Synchronous Graphics RAM |
| SHA-1 | Secure Hash Algorithm 1 |
| SI | Systèm Internationale (metric) |
| SI | Shift In |
| SIC-IAIK-TUG | Stiftung Secure Information and Communication Technologies Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications |
| SIDH | Supersingular Isogeny Diffie–Hellman _Key _Exchange |
| SIFI | Separating Interface From Implementation |
| SIM | Subscriber Information Module |
| SIMD | Single Instruction Multiple Data |
| SIMM | Single Inline Memory Module |
| SIN | Social Insurance Number |
| SIP | Session Initiation Protocol |
| SIV | Simian Immunodeficiency Virus |
| SK | Saskatchewan |
| SKU | Stock Keeping Unit |
| SLDRAM | Synchronous Link Dynamic RAM |
| SLEE | Service Logic Execution Environment |
| SLI | Scalable Link Interface |
| SLIP | Serial Line Interface Protocol |
| SLIP | Serial Line Interface Protocol |
| SMART | Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology |
| SMB | Server Message Block |
| SMC | State Machine Compiler |
| SMF | Standard MIDI Format |
| SMS | Short Message Service |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SNI | Server Name Indication |
| SNL | Saturday Night Live |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SNTP | Simple Network Time Protocol |
| SO | Significant Other |
| SO | Shift Out |
| SOA | Service Oriented Architecture |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SOB | Son Of a Bitch |
| SOCKS | Sockets |
| SOH | Start Of Header |
| SOM | Start Of Message |
| SOM | System Object Model |
| SOPA | Stop Online Piracy Act |
| SOS | Sharing Of Space/Sharing Our Shit |
| SOTU | State Of The Union |
| SPA | Service Provider Api |
| SPASM | Stolen Postfix Assember |
| SPAWAR | the Space and Naval Warfare systems command |
| SPC | Specialist |
| SPCA | Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals |
| SPDY | Speedy |
| SPEC | Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation |
| SPF | Sender Policy Framework |
| SPI | Service Provider Interface |
| SPL | Simple Programming Language |
| SPP | Security and Prosperity Partnership |
| SQ | Signal Quality |
| SQL | Standard Query Language |
| SQS | Amazon Simple Queue Service |
| SRAM | Static Random Access Memory |
| SS7 | Signalling System 7 |
| SS | Site Stripping |
| SSA | Social Security Administration |
| SSCCE | Simple Self Contained Compilable Example |
| SSCD | Site Stripping Clock Detection |
| SSD | Solid State Disk |
| SSH | Secure Shell |
| SSI | Server Side Includes |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| SSNB | Server Side Navigation Bar |
| SSO | Single Sign-On |
| SSV | Single Source Vendor |
| STBX | Soon To Be ex |
| STD | Sexually Transmitted Disease |
| STD | Subscriber Trunk Dialling (India) |
| STL | Standard Template Library |
| STP | Standard Temperature and Pressure |
| STX | Start of Text |
| SUB | Substitute |
| SUN | Stanford University Network |
| SUV | Sport Utility Vehicle |
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics |
| SVGA | Super Video Graphics Array |
| SVN | Subversion |
| SWM | Straight White Male |
| SWM | Single White Male |
| SWT | Standard Widget Toolkit |
| SXP | Silfide XML Parser |
| SYN | Synchronise |
| TAI | Temps Atomique International/International Atomic Time |
| TANG | Texas Air National Guard |
| TANSTAAFL | There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch |
| TAR | Tape Archive |
| TB | Terabytes |
| TB | Tuberculosis |
| TCAP | Transaction Capabilities Application Part |
| TCC | Take Command Command line |
| TCK | Technology Compatibility Kit |
| TCL | Tool Control Language |
| TCL | Transaction Control Language |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TD | Transmit Data |
| TDD | Telecommunications Device for the Deaf |
| TED | Technology, Education and Design |
| TFA | Two Factor Authentication |
| TFTP | Trivial File Transfer Protocol |
| TGT | The Gay Thing |
| THC | Tetrahydrocannabinol |
| the Gimp | the GNU Image Manipulation Program |
| TIFF | Tagged Image File Format |
| TILMA | Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement |
| TLA | Three Letter Acronym |
| TLC | Tender Loving Care |
| TLD | Top Level Domain |
| TLD | Tag Library Descriptor |
| TLDP | The Linux Documentation Project |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| TOS | Top Of Stack |
| TPP | Trans-Pacific Partnership |
| TPS | Taxe sure let Produits en Services |
| TROFF | Typesetting Runoff |
| TSA | Time Stamping Authority |
| TSR | Terminate and Stay Resident |
| TSTL | Too Stupid To Live |
| TTF | TrueType Font |
| TTL | Time To Live |
| TTL | Transistor-Transistor Logic |
| TTS | Text To Speech |
| TTT | Tut-Tera Teksaĵo |
| TVP | Television Poland |
| TVQ | Taxe de Vente du Québec |
| TWAIN | Technology Without An Important Name |
| TWIP | Twentieth of a Point |
| UAC | User Account Control |
| UAE | United Arab Emirates |
| UART | Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter |
| UAV | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
| UBC | University of British Columbia |
| UBL | Ultimate Band List |
| UCLA | University of California, Los Angeles |
| UCMJ | Universal Code of Military Justice |
| UCS | Universal Character Set |
| UDDI | Universal Description Discovery and Integration |
| UDF | Universal Disk Format |
| UDMA | Ultra Direct Memory Access |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
| UEFI | Unified Extensible Firmware Interface |
| UEL | Unified Expression Language |
| UFD | USB Flash Drive |
| UFMCC | Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches |
| UFO | Unidentified Flying Object |
| UHF | Ultra High Frequency |
| UI | User Interface |
| UL | Underwriters Laboratories |
| ULP | Unit in the Last Place |
| UML | Universal Modeling Language |
| UMTS | Universtal Mobile Telecommucations System |
| UN | United Nations |
| UNEP | United Nations Environment Program |
| UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation |
| UNMOVIC | AUnited Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission |
| UNSCOM | United Nations Special Commission |
| UNSUB | Unknown Subject |
| UPC | Universal Product Code |
| UPnP | Universal Plug & Play |
| UPS | Uninterruptible Power Supply |
| UPS | United Parcel Service of America |
| URI | Uniform Resource Indicator |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| URL | Unuforma Risurca Lokindiko |
| URN | Uniform Resource Number |
| US | Unit Separator |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus |
| USGS | United States Geological Survey |
| USMC | United States Marine Corps |
| USO | United Service Organisations |
| USSR | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| UTC | Coordinated Universal Time/Temps Universel Coordonné |
| UTF | Unicode Transformation unit |
| UUCP | Unix to Unix Command Processor/Protocol |
| UUID | Universally Unique Identifier |
| UV | ultraviolet |
| VA | Volt-Amps |
| VAJ | Visual Age for Java |
| VAMP | Venus Application Publisher |
| VAR | Value-Added Retailer |
| VAT | Value Added Tax |
| VAX | Virtual Address extension |
| VAX/VMS | Virtual Address Extension/Virtual Memory System |
| VBA | Visual Basic Applications |
| VCEG | Video Coding Experts Group |
| VCF | Versit Card File |
| VCPI | Virtual Control Program Interface |
| VCR | Videocassette Recorder |
| VCS | Version Control System |
| VD | Venereal Disease |
| VESA | Video Equipment Standards Association |
| VFS | Virtual File System |
| VFW | Veterans of Foreign Wars |
| VGA | Video Graphics Adapter |
| VGL | Very Good Looking |
| VHDL | Very high speed circuits Hardware Definition Language |
| VHF | Very High Frequency |
| VHS | Video Home System |
| VIP | Very Important Person |
| VLBA | Very Long Baseline Array radio telescope |
| VLIW | Very Long Instruction Word |
| VLSI | Very Large Scale Integration |
| VNC | Virtual Network Computing |
| VOD | Video On Demand |
| VOIP | Voice Over Internet Protocol |
| VP | Vice President |
| VPCUS | Vancouver Personal Computer User Society |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VR | Virtual Reality |
| VRAM | Video RAM |
| VRML | Virtual Reality Markup Language |
| VSAM | Virtual Sequential Access Method |
| VSS | Microsoft Visual Source Safe |
| VT | Vertical Tab |
| VTD | Virtual Token Descriptor |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
| WAAS | Wide Area Augmentation System |
| WAIS | Wide Area Information Server |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WAP | Wireless Application Protocol |
| WAR | Web Archive |
| WBXML | Wireless Binary extensible Markup Language |
| WCAG | Web Content Accessibility Guidelines |
| WCF | Windows Communication Foundation |
| WCTU | Women’s Christian Temperance Union |
| WCWC | Western Canada Wilderness Committee |
| WDG | Web Design Group |
| WebDAV | Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning Protocols |
| WFWG | Windows For Work Groups |
| WHO | World Health Organisation |
| WIF | Wavelet Image Files |
| WiFi | Wireless Fidelity |
| WINE | Windows Emulator |
| WIPO | World Intellectual Property Organisation |
| WMA | Windows Media Audio |
| WMD | Weapon of Mass Destruction |
| WMF | Windows Media Format |
| WMF | Windows Metafile Format |
| WML | Website Meta Language |
| WMO | World Meteorological Organisation |
| WOFF | Web Open Font Format |
| WORA | Write Once, Run Anywhere |
| WoW | Windows On Windows |
| WPC | Write Precompensation Cylinder |
| WPM | Words Per Minute |
| WRAM | Windows RAM |
| WSDL | Web Services Description Language |
| WSED | Websphere Studio Enterprise Developer |
| WSS | Web Services Security |
| WTC | World Trade Centre |
| WTF | What The F*ck? |
| WTO | World Trade Organisation |
| WVHS | West Vancouver High School |
| WWF | World Wildlife Fund |
| WWF | World Wrestling Federation |
| WWI | World War I |
| WWII | World War II |
| WWIII | World War III |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
| WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get |
| XER | Xml Encoding Rules |
| XHTML | extensible Hypertext Markup Language |
| XMF | extensible Music Format |
| XML | extensible Markup Language |
| XMLC | extensible Markup Language Compiler |
| XMLNS | XML Name Space |
| XOR | exclusive OR |
| XOSL | extended Operating System Loader |
| XPI | Cross-Platform Install |
| XPS | XML Paper Specification |
| XREF | Cross Reference |
| XSD | XML Scheme Definition |
| XSL | extensible Stylesheet Language |
| XSLT | extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations |
| XTP | XML Template Pages |
| Y, R-Y, B-Y | Yellow, Red minus Yellow, Blue minus Yellow |
| YACC | Yet Another Compiler Compiler |
| YAGNI | You Aren’t Going to Need It |
| YAML | Yaml Ain’t Markup Language |
| YAML | Yet Another Markup Language |
| YAWL | Yet Another Workflow Language |
| YBP | Years Before Present |
| YMCA | Young Men’s Christian Association |
| YML | YAML ain’t Markup Language |
| YMMV | Your Mileage May Vary |
| YRB | Yellow Red Blue |
| YT | Yukon Territory |
| YUM | Yellowdog Updater, Modified |
| YUV | luminance and chrominance Vectors |
| ZIP | Zoning Improvement Plan |
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