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 | |
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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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