In this chapter, we will discuss the different abbreviations in Computer Science. The following table lists down those abbreviations-
1.
Abbreviation Full-name
2.
A/D Analog-to-Digital
3.
ABC Atanasoff
Berry Computer
4.
ACM Association
for Computing Machinery
5.
AI Artificial Intelligence
6.
ALGOL Algorithmic
Language
7.
ALU Arithmetic
Logic Unit
8.
AMD Advanced
Micro Devices
9.
ARPANET Advanced
Research Project Agency Network
10. ASCII American Standard Code
for Information Interchange
11. BASIC Beginners All-purpose
Symbolic Instruction Code
12. BCD Binary Coded Decimal
13. BIOS Basic Inpute Output
System
14. BIPS Billions of
Instructions Per Second
15. BPI Bytes Per Inch
16. CAD Computer Aided Design
17. CAE Computer Aided
Engineering
18. CAN Campus Area Network
19. CASE Computer Aided Software
Engineering
20. CD Compact Disk
21. CDC Control Data
Corporation
22. CD-R CD-Recordable
23. CD-ROM Compact Disk Read Only Memory
24. CD-RW CD Read/Write
25. CL Command Language
26. CLI Command Line
Interface
27. COBOL Common Business Oriented
28. CODASYL Conference On Data Systems
29. CPU Central Processing
Unit
30. CRT Cathode Ray Tube
31. D/A Digital-to-Analog
32. DAT Digital Audio Tape
33. DBMS Data Base Management
System
34. DBS Demand Based Switching
35. DDL Data Definition
Language
36. DDS Digital Data Storage
37. DEC Digital Equipment
Corporation
38. DMA Direct Memory Access
39. DNA Digital Network
Architecture
40. DPI Dots Per Inch
41. DRAM Dynamic RAM
42. DSN Distributed Systems
Network
43. DTS Digital Theater
System
44. DVD Digital
Video/Versatile Disk
45. EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded
Decimal Interchange Code
46. EDSAC Electronic Delay Storage
Automatic Calculator
47. EDVAC Electronic Discrete
Variable Automatic Calculator
48. EFM Eight-to-Fourteen
Modulation
49. ENIAC Electronic Numerical
Integrator And Calculator
50. EPG Electronic Programming
Guide
51. EPIC Explicitly Parallel
Instruction Computing
52. EPROM Erasable Programmable
Read-Only Memory
53. FAT File Allocation Table
54. FDM Frequency Division
Multiplexing
55. FEP Front End Processor
56. FLOPS Floating Point Operations
Per Second
57. FM Frequency
Modulation
58. FMS File Management System
59. FORTRAN FORmula TRANslation
60. FSK Frequency Shift
Keying
61. FTP File Transfer
Protocol
62. GB Giga Bytes
63. GFLOPS Giga FLOPS
64. GHz Giga Hertz
65. GNU Gnu Not Unix
66. GPRS General Packet Radio
Service
67. GSM Global System for
Mobile communication
68. GUI Graphical User
Interface
69. HP Hewlett Packard
70. HSS Hierarchical Storage
System
71. HTML HyperText Markup
Language
72. HTTP HyperText Transport
Protocol
73. IBM International
Business Machine
74. IC Integrated Circuit
75. IDN Integrated Digital
Networks
76. IP Internet Protocol
77. IrDA Infrared Data
Association
78. ISDN Integrated Services
Digital Network
79. ISP Internet Service
Provider
80. JPEG Joint Photographic
Experts Group
81. JRE Java Runtime Engine
82. JSP Java Server Pages
83. KB Kilo Bytes
84. KHz Kilo Hertz
85. LAN Local Area Network
86. LCD Liquid Crystal
Display
87. LED Light Emitting Diode
88. LPM Line Per Minute
89. LSI Large Scael
Integration
90. MAN Metropolitan Area
Network
91. MAR Memory Address
Register
92. MB Mega Bytes
93. MBR Memory Buffer Register
94. MHz Mega Hertz
95. MIDI Musical Instrument
Digital Interface
96. MIPS Millions of
Instructions Per Second
97. MNP Microcom Network
Protocol
98. MPEG Moving Pictures Experts
Group
99. MS-DOS MicroSoft Disk Operating
System
100. MVT Multiprogramming with
Variable Tasks
101. NIC Network Interface
Card
102. NICNET National Informatics Center
NETwork
103. NOS Network Operating
System
104. OCR Optical Character
Recognition
105. OMR Optical Mark Reader
106. OS Operating System
107. OSI Open System
Interconnection
108. OSS Open Source Software
109. PAN Personal Area Network
110. PC Personal Computer
111. PDF Portable Document
Format
112. PDL Program Design
Language
113. PDP Program Data Processor
114. PIP Peripheral
Interchange Program
115. PROM Programmable Read-Only
Memory
116. QoS Quality of Service
117. RAM Random Access Memory
118. ROM Read Only Memory
119. SDLC Software Development
Life Cycle
120. SEQUEL Structured English QUEry
Language
121. SGML Syntax for Generalized
Markup Language
122. SIMM Single In-line Memory
Module
123. SNA Systems Network
Architecture
124. SNOBOL StriNg Oriented and symBOlic
Language
125. SQL Structured Query
Language
126. SRAM Static RAM
127. SSI Small Scale
Integration
128. TB Tera Bytes
129. TCP Transport Control
Protocol
130. TDM Time Division
Multiplexing
131. UDP User Datagram Protocol
132. ULSI Ultra Large Scale
Integration
133. UPC Universal Product Code
134. URL Uniform Resource
Locator
135. USB Universal Serial Bus
136. UTF Unicode
Transformation Format
137. VAN Value Added Network
138. VCR Video Cassette
Recorder
139. VDT Video Display
Terminal
140. VGA Video Graphics Array
141. VOD Video-On-Demand
142. VoIP Voice over Internet
Protocol
143. VSAT Very Small Aperture
Terminal
144. WAN Wide Area Network
145. WAP Wireless Application
Protocol
146. WiMAX Worldwide Interoperability
for Microwave Access
147. WLAN Wireless Local Area
Network
148. WLL Wireless Local Loop
149. WORM Write Once Read Many
150. WWW World Wide Web
151. XHTML eXtensible HyperText
Markup Language
152. XML eXtensible Markup
Language
153. X.400 Electronic Mail Protocol
154. X.500 Directory Server
Protocol
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