Dibyansu Mohanty

Saturday, 29 September 2012

Tech Abbreviations (A-G) part-1



     
            Tech abbreviations part-1
                  

       A

Ø AAC - Advanced Audio Coding 
Ø ACID - Atomiticy Consistency Isolation Durability
Ø ACPI - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Ø ADF Automatic Document Feeder
Ø ADO - ActiveX Data Object
Ø ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line, variant of DSL
Ø AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port 
Ø AI - artificial intelligence
Ø AIFF- Audio Interchange File Format
Ø AIX- Advanced Interactive Executive
Ø AIM - AOL Instant Messenger
Ø AMD - Advanced Micro Devices 
ØAMI - American Megatrends ... (BIOS manufacturer)
Ø ANSI - American National Standards Institute
Ø AOL - America Online
Ø APCI - Application-Layer Protocol Control Information
Ø API - Application Programming Interface
Ø ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Ø ASP - Application Service Provider or Application Service Provider
Ø ASP -Active Server Page ATA Advanced Technology Attachment
Ø ATM- Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Ø AVI - Audio Video Interleaved
       
       B

Ø BASIC - Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, acronym was added later, originally it was simply Basic
Ø BBS - Bulletin Board System
Ø Bcc Blind Carbon Copy
Ø BIND - Berkeley Internet Name Daemon
Ø BIOS - Basic Input Output System
Ø Blob -Binary Large Object
Ø BMP- Bitmap
Ø BJT - Bipolar Junction Transistor
Ø BSA - Business Software Alliance
Ø BSD - Berkeley Software Distribution (Unix variant)
Ø BSOD - Blue Screen of Death (MS Windows specific)

    C

Ø CAD  - Computer Aided Design
Ø Cc Carbon Copy
Ø CCD- Charged Coupled Device
Ø CDMA -Code Division Multiple Access
Ø CD-R  - CD-Recordable
Ø CD-RW - CD-Rewritable
Ø CF - Compact Flash
Ø CFG - Context-free grammar - control flow graph
Ø CG - Computer Graphics
Ø CGI -Common Gateway Interface
Ø CGA - Color Graphics Array
Ø CGI - Common Gateway Interface
Ø CLI - Command Line Interface
Ø CM - Configuration Management
Ø CMOS- Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
Ø COM - Component Object Model
Ø CPAN  - Comprehensive Perl Area Network
Ø CPA -Cost Per Action
Ø CPC -Cost Per Click
Ø CPL- Cost Per Lead
Ø CPM- Cost Per 1,000 Impressions
Ø CPS -Classroom Performance System
Ø CPU  - Central Processing Unit
Ø CRC - Cyclic Redundancy Check
Ø CRT - Cathode Ray Tube
Ø CRM Customer Relationship Management
Ø CS - Computer Science
Ø CISC -Complex Instruction Set Computing
Ø CSE - Computer Science Engineering
Ø CSS  - Cascading Style Sheets
Ø CT - Computerized Tomography
Ø CVS - Concurrent Versioning System
Ø CRT -Cathode Ray Tube

   D

Ø DAO - Data Access Objects
Ø DB – database
Ø DBMS Database Management System
Ø DBA - database administrator
Ø DBMS - Database Management System
Ø DDR -Double Data Rate
Ø DDR2 -Double Data Rate 2
Ø DHCP- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
Ø DEC - Digital Equipment Company
Ø DHTML - Dynamic HTML
Ø DIMM - Dual Inline Memory Module
Ø DLL - Dynamic Load Library
Ø DMA - Direct Memory Addressing
Ø DN - Distinguished Name
Ø DND - drag and drop
Ø DNS - Domain Name Server
Ø DOM - Document Object Model
Ø DOS - Disk Operating System
Ø DPI- Dots Per Inch
Ø DRAM -Dynamic Random Access Memory
Ø DRM -Digital Rights Management
Ø DSL -Digital Subscriber Line
Ø DSLAM -Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
Ø DTD -Document Type Definition
Ø DV -Digital Video
Ø DVD -Digital Versatile Disc
Ø DVD+R- Digital Versatile Disc Recordable
Ø DVD+RW -Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable
Ø DVD-R -Digital Versatile Disc Recordable
Ø DVD-RAM -Digital Versatile Disc Random Access Memory
Ø DVD-RW- Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable

   E

Ø ECC - Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Ø EDI Electronic Data Interchange
Ø ELF - Extremely Low Frequency
Ø EOF - End of File
Ø EOL - End of Life
Ø ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning
Ø EPS -Encapsulated PostScript
Ø EUP- Enterprise Unified Process

   F

Ø FAT - File Allocation Table
Ø FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
Ø FET - Field Effects Transistor
Ø FIFO - First In First Out
Ø FiOS -Fiber Optic Service
Ø FPGA - Field Programmable Gate Array
Ø FS - file system
Ø FSB -Frontside Bus
Ø FTP - File Transfer Protocol
Ø FPU- Floating Point Unit

   G

Ø GB - Gigabyte
Ø GDB - GNU debugger
Ø GIF - Graphics Interchange Format
Ø GIGO- Garbage In Garbage Out
Ø GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program
Ø GIS -Geographic Information Systems
Ø GNOME - GNU Object Model Environment
Ø GNU - GNU's Not Unix
Ø GPG - GNU Privacy Guard
Ø GPL - GNU Public License
Ø GPS -Global Positioning System

Ø GRUB - GRand Unified Boot-loader
Ø GUI - Graphical User Interface
Ø GPU -Graphics Processing Unit
Ø GUI- Graphical User Interface

                                            

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