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Last updated: July 15, 2012

«I'm sitting in a coffee shop in Milford, NH. In the booth next to me are two men, a
father and a son. Over coffee, the father is asking his son about modems, and the son is
holding forth pretty well on the subject of fax compatibility, UART requirements, and
so on. But he's little out of date: The father asks, "So should I get one with a DSP?"
"A what?" says the son.
You just can't get far if you're not up on the lingo. You might squeak by in your
company of technological nonexperts, but even some of them will surprise you. These
days, technical acronyms quickly insinuate themselves into the vernacular.»
Raphael Needleman
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A/P: Accounts Payable
0-9 A
A/PC: Auto Personal Computer
µ (mu): Micro (Hardware)
Prefix for 10 power -6
A/R: Accounts Receivable
1GL: 1st Generation Language
A/UX: Apple UniX
Machine language (Software)
(Operating systems) (Apple)
24/7: 24 hours a day/7 days a week
AA: Advertising Agent
2D: 2-Dimensional
AA: Anti-Aliasing
2D: Double Density Method for removing jagged edges
(Hardware)
AA: Auto Answer
2G: 2nd Generation
AAA: Asp Application Aggregator
Mobile telecommunication network allowing 14.4 kbps transfer
rates (Communication) AAA: Authentication, Authorization and
2GL: 2nd Generation Language Accounting
Assembler and other low-level languages (Software) A term for a framework for intelligently controlling access to
computer resources, enforcing policies, auditing usage, and
2HD: 2 sides, High Density providing the information necessary to bill for services. These
(Hardware) combined processes are important for effective network
management (Security)
2PC: 2-Phase Commit
AAB: All-to-All Broadcast
Protocol to allow replicated data to be modified at multiple sites
AAC: Advanced Audio Coding
2S: 2 Sides
(Hardware) AAC: Authorization and Access Control
(Security)
2S2D: 2 Sides, Double Density
(Hardware) AACS: Advanced Access Content System
Standard for content distribution and digital rights
2SHD: 2 Sides, High Density
management, intended to restrict access to and copying of the
(Hardware) "next generation" of optical discs and DVDs
3D: 3-Dimensional AAF: Advanced Authoring Format
3DES: Triple Data Encryption Standard AAL: Atm Adaption Layer
(Security) Layer 3 of the ATM architecture. Adapts user traffic into/from
3G: 3rd Generation ATM 48-byte payloads (Communication)
Mobile telecommunication network allowing 300-400 kbps AAM: Automatic Acoustic Management
transfer rates (Communication) Feature that allows the host to request that the drive modify its
3GIO: 3rd Generation Input Output acoustic behavior (Hardware)
(Hardware) (Intel) AAP: Applications Access Point
3GL: 3rd Generation Language (DEC)
High level programming languages (Software) AARP: Appletalk Address Resolution Protocol
3GPP: Third Generation Partners Project (Network) (Apple)
See http://www.3gpp.org/ (Organizations) AAS: All-to-All Scatter
4G: 4th Generation AAS: Auto Area Segmentation
Mobile telecommunication network allowing 10Mbit/s transfer Scanner technology which detects and optimizes text and
rates (Communication) graphics on the same page (Hardware) (Epson)
4GL: 4th Generation Language AASP: Ascii Asynchronous Support Package
Database access languages (Software)
AAT: Average Access Time
4GT: 4 Gigabyte memory Tuning
AATP: Authorized Academic Training Program
5GL: 5th Generation Language (Microsoft)
Artificial intelligence languages (Software)
ABA: Address Book Archive
6DOF: Six Degrees Of Freedom Filename extension
ABAP: Advanced Business Application
A Programming
A: Ampere Powerful programming language created specifically for
developing SAP applications. ABAP Objects is the new object-
Current measurement unit
oriented generation of this language, designed to respond to
A: Anchor the needs of SAP's future strategies and environments
HTML tag (Software)
a: atto ABC: Atanasoff-Berry Computer

Prefix for 10 power -18 First digital calculating machine that used vacuum tubes
Å: Ångstrom ABEL: Advanced Boolean Expression Language

Length measurement unit corresponding to 10 power -10 ABEND: ABnormal END
meters (Software)
A/D: Analog/Digital
(Hardware)
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ABI ACS
ABI: Application Binary Interface ACE: Apacer Compression Explorer

A Defines the binary system interface between compiled
applications and the operating system on which they run
ACE: Ascii Compatible Encoding
(Software) ACE: Automatic Computing Engine
ABIOS: Advanced Basic Input Output System ACF: Access Control Field
ABIST: Automatic Built-In Self-Test ACF: Advanced Communications Function
(IBM)
ACH: Automated Clearing House
ABLE: Adaptive Battery Life Extender
ACIA: Asynchronous Communication Interface
ABLE: Agent Building and Learning Environment Adapter
(IBM)
ACIAS: Automated Calibration Interval Analysis
ABM: Asynchronous Balanced Mode System
HDLC data transfer mode (Network)
ACID: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and
ABNF: Augmented Backus Naur Form Durability
Syntax description for programming languages (Software)
ABNF: Augmented Backus Naur Form ACIS: American Committee for Interoperable
Systems
ABR: Available Bit Rate
One of five ATM Forum defined service types. Supports variable ACK: ACKnowledge
bit rate data traffic with flow control, a minimum guaranteed A transmission control character transmitted by a station as an
data transmission rate and specified performance parameters affirmative response to the station with which the connection
(Communication) has been set up. (Communication)
ABRS: Automated Book Request System ACL: Access Control List
ABS: ABSolute For granting or denying access to computer resources
(security) (Operating systems)
ABS: Address Book Synchronization
ACL: Advanced Cmos Logic
(IBM)
ACL: Asynchronous ConnectionLess
ABS: Auto Balance System
(Communication)
System to reduce vibration and noise in a peripheral
(Hardware) ACM: Abstract Control Model
ABS: Automatic Backup System (Software)
ABT: ABorT ACM: Afp Conversion Module

(Software)
ABTS: Ascii Block Terminal Services
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
AC: Access Customer (Organizations)
(Communication)
ACM: Audio Compression Manager
AC: Alternate Current (Microsoft)
AC: Audio Codec ACMS: Application Control Management System
(Hardware)
ACNM: Application Centric Network Management
AC: Authentication Center (Software)
AC: AutoCheck ACO: Alternate Checksum Option
AC: Automatic Computer (Network)
ACAP: Application Configuration Access Protocol ACP: Active Code Page

Designed to support remote storage and access of program ACP: Ancillary Control Program
option, configuration and preference information
ACP: Auxiliary Control Process
ACC: ACCumulator
ACPI: Advanced Configuration and Power
ACC: Authorization Contract for Containers
Interface
Specification (JSR-115) that defines new
(Hardware)
java.security.Permission classes to satisfy the Java 2 Platform,
Enterprise Edition (J2EE) authorization model (Software) (Sun) ACR: Advanced Communication Riser
ACD: Automatic Call Distribution (Hardware)
ACDI: Asynchronous Communications Device ACR: Allowed Cell Rate

Interface ACROSS: Automated Cargo Release and
ACE: Access Control Encryption Operations Service System
ACE: Access Control Entry ACS: Access Control Server

An entry in an Access Control List (ACL). An ACE contains a set ACS: Access Control Set
of access rights and a security identifier (SID) that identifies a
trustee for whom the rights are allowed, denied, or audited ACS: Access Control System
(Operating systems)
ACS: Admission Control Service
ACE: Adobe Certified Expert (Network) (Microsoft)
(Adobe)
ACS: Advanced Computer System
ACE: Advanced Computing Environment (IBM)
ACE: Adverse Channel Enhancements ACS: Anti Curl System

ACS ADR
ACS: Asynchronous Communication Server ADD: Adapter Device Driver

ACS: Automatic Class Selection ADD: Automatic Document Detection A
ACS: Automatic Contrast Selection ADE: Application Data Export
(Databases) (Oracle)
ACSE: Association Control Service Element
The method used in International Organization for ADF: Adapter Description File
Standardization's open systems interconnection (OSI) for File name extension
establishing a call between two applications.
ADF: Application Developer Framework
ACSI: American Customer Satisfaction Index Productivity layer for J2EE developers which simplifies
ACSM: Application Centric Storage Management application-building as a set of business services with Web,
Wireless, and Rich Client interfaces (Software)
(Software)
ADF: Automatic Document Feeder
ACSS: Aural Cascading Style Sheets
Scanner device (Hardware)
ACT: Application Compatibility Toolkit
ADF: Automatically Defined Function
(Software) (Microsoft)
ADI: Application Desktop Integrator
ACTS: Advanced Communication Technology
Satellite Spreadsheet-based extension of Oracle Applications. It
provides full-cycle accounting within the comfort and
(Communication) (NASA) familiarity of a spreadsheet for General Ledger and Oracle
ACTS: Automated Computer Time Server Assets (Software) (Oracle)
ACTT: Advanced Communication and ADI: AutoCad Device Interface

Timekeeping Technology Driver
ACU: Automatic Calling Unit ADK: Additional Decryption Key

Key to be able to decrypt data even if the private key owner is
ACVC: Ada Compiler Validation Capacity unwilling to provide the private key (Security)
AD: Acpi Disassembler ADK: Appliance Development Kit
AD: Active Directory (Software)
(Operating systems) ADL: Address Data Latch
ADA: ADA ADL: Architecture Description Language
Programming language named after Augusta Ada Lovelace (Software)
(Software)
ADLAT: ADaptive LATtice filter
ADA: Adobe Developers Association
(Organizations) ADLC: Asynchronous Data Link Control
ADA: Automatic Data Acquisitions ADM: Application Distribution and Management
ADAPT: Architecture, Design, Analysis and ADMACS: Apple Document Management And
Planning Tool Control System
ADB: Apple Desktop Bus ADMD: ADministrative Management Domain

Bus architecture (Hardware) (Apple) ADML: Application Description Markup Language
ADBS: Advanced Data Broadcast System (Software)
(Communication) ADML: Architecture Description Markup Language
ADC: Active Directory Connector (Software)
(Operating systems) ADMS: Adstar Distributed Management System
ADC: Adaptive Data Compression ADMT: Active Directory Migration Tool
(Hayes) Provides an integrated toolset to facilitate migration and
ADC: ADd with Carry restructuring tasks in an Active Directory infrastructure
ADC: Advanced Data Connector
ADO: Activex Data Object
(Databases) (Microsoft)
ADC: Analog to Digital Converter
ADODB: Activex Data Object DataBase
A device that translates analog signals to digital signals.
Contrast with digital-to-analog converter (DAC). (Hardware)
ADC: Apple Developer Connection ADP: Access Database Project
Filename extension (Software) (Microsoft)
(Apple)
ADC: Apple Display Connector ADP: Aol Dynamic Pages
(Software)
(Hardware) (Apple)
ADC: Application Delete Certificate ADP: Automatic Data Processing
ADC: Application Development Consultant ADPCM: Adaptive Differential Pulse Code

Modulation
ADCAP: ADvanced CAPability Communication protocol (Communication)
Used to refer to advanced capability, cuttin edge technology,
also in military applications (e.g. ADCAP missile) ADR: ADdRess
ADCCP: Advanced Data Communication Control ADR: Advanced Digital Recording

Procedures (Hardware)
(Communication)

ADR2 AFP
ADR2: Advanced Digital Recording 2nd generation AES: Advanced Encryption Standard
A (Hardware) (Security)
ADS: Active Directory Service AESA: Atm End System Address
Windows 2000 network objects database that stores each (Communication)
specific network item in a central database and that may be
replicated (Operating systems) (Microsoft) AF: Anisotropic Filtering
A method of enhancing the image quality of textures on
ADS: Advanced Digital System surfaces that are far away and steeply angled with respect to
the camera (Hardware)
ADS: Application Development Solutions
(AT&T) AF: Assured Forwarding
Using AF, a provider may offer different levels of service for IP
ADS: Application Development System
packets received from a customer domain. Each AF class is
ADS: Automatic Distribution System allocated a specified amount of buffer space and bandwidth
(Network)
ADS/O: Application Development System / Online
AF: Auto Focus
ADSC: Adobe Document Structuring Conventions (Hardware)
ADSI: Active Directory Service Interface AFA: Accelerated File Access
(Network)
AFAIC: As Far As I'm Concerned
ADSI: Analog Display Services Interface (Net lingo)
ADSL: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line AFAICT: As Far As I Can Tell
Communication infrastructure (Communication) (Net lingo)
ADSM: Adstar Distributed Storage Manager AFAIK: As Far As I Know
(Databases) (IBM) (Net lingo)
ADSM: Advanced Data Storage Management AFAIR: As Far As I Remember
(IBM) (Net lingo)
ADSP: Appletalk DataStream Protocol AFAIUI: As Far As I Understand It
(Apple) (Net lingo)
ADSR: Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release AFC: AntiFerromagnetically-Coupled
ADT: Abstract Data Type Multilayer coating expected to permit hard-disk drives to store
100 billion bits (gigabits) of data per square inch of disk area
ADT: Access Developer Toolkit (Hardware) (IBM)
AFC: Application Foundation Classes
ADT: Advanced Dram Technology (Software) (Microsoft)
(Hardware)
AFC: Automatic Font Change
ADT: Application Data Type
AFC: Automatic Frequency Control
ADT: Atlantic Daylight Time
AFD: Automatic File Distribution
Timezone: GMT -4:00
AFDW: Active Framework for Data Warehousing
ADTG: Advanced Data Table Gram
(Microsoft)
Proprietary binary format for storing database data (Databases)
(Microsoft) AFFS: Amiga Fast File System
ADU: Automatic Dialing Unit (Operating systems)
ADUC: Active Directory Users and Computers AFI: Authority and Format Identifier
A snap-in in the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) AFII: Association for Font Information
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) Interchange
ADW: Advanced Docking Window AFIRM: Automated Fingerprint Image Reporting
(Software) and Match
ADW: Alfresco Dynamic Website AFIS: Automated Fingerprint Identification
Provides a robust, enterprise-class web site assembly System
framework that aims to go above and beyond the solutions
offered by proprietary companies (Software) AFK: Away From Keyboard
(Net lingo)
ADW: Application Development Workbench
(Software) AFLCD: AntiFerroelectric Liquid Crystal Display
(Hardware)
AE: Above or Equal
AFM: Adobe Font Metrics
AeA: America Electronics Association
File name extension (Adobe)
(Organizations)
AFP: Advanced Function Presentation
AEB: Analog Expansion Bus
(IBM)
(Dialogic)
AFP: Advanced Function Printing
AEC: Architecture, Engineering, Construction
Suite of electronic printing solutions to turn your invoices,
A computer graphics market requiring specialized applications letters, policies, statements and reports into high-quality, cost-
that facilitate efficient planning, design, drafting, and analysis. effective documents (Software) (IBM)
AEGIS: Advanced Electronic Guidance and AFP: Appletalk Filing Protocol
Instrumentation System (Communication) (Apple)
AEI: Application Enabling Interface

AFPL ALIWEB
AFPL: Alladin Free Public License AIR: Architecture Implementation Review

AFR: Alternate Frame Rendering AIS: Alarm Indication Signal A
(Hardware)
AIS: Automated Information System
AFR: Annualized Failure Rate
AISB: Association of Imaging Service Bureaus
(Hardware)
AISI: As I See It
AFS: Andrew File System
(Net lingo)
AFT: Adapter Fault Tolerance
AISP: Association of Information Systems
(Intel) Professionals
AFT: Authenticated Firewall Traversal AIT: Advanced Intelligent Tape
(Security) (Hardware)
AFTP: Anonymous File Transfer Protocol AIX: Advanced Interactive eXecutive
AGA: Advanced Graphics Adapter IBM's Unix (Operating systems) (IBM)
AGA: Advanced Graphics Architecture AJAX: Asynchronous Javascript Technology and

Graphics architecture for Amiga computers Xml
Using JavaScript technology, an HTML page can
AGARAS: AntiGlare AntiReflective AntiStatic asynchronously make calls to the server from which it was
AGC: Automatic Gain Control loaded and fetch XML documents. The XML documents may
then be used by the JavaScript technology to update or modify
(Hardware)
the DOM of the HTML page (Software)
AGE: Amorphium Graphics Engine
AJDT: AspectJ Development Tools
AGLR: Anti-Glare, Low Reflection Provides Eclipse platform based tool support for Aspect
(Hardware) Oriented Software Development (AOSD) with AspectJ. See
http://www.eclipse.org/ajdt/ (Software)
AGP: Accelerated Graphics Port
(Hardware)
AJP: Apache JServ Protocol
Binary, packet-oriented protocol bridging the web server with
AGU: Address Generation Unit the servlet container. The web server attempts to maintain
persistent TCP connections to the servlet container, and to
Ah: Ampere Hour reuse a connection for multiple request/response cycles
Rechargable battery charge measurement unit (Hardware) (Software)
AH: Authentication Header aka: Also Known As
(Network) (Net lingo)
AHA: Adaptec Host Adapter ALAT: Advanced Load Address Table
(Hardware) (Adaptec)
ALB: Advanced Load Balancing
AHDL: Analog Hardware Description Language
ALC: Airline Link Control
AHDT: Alaska-Hawaii Daylight Time Service protocol (Network)
Timezone: GMT -10:00
ALC: Application Load Certificate
AHIG: Apple's Human Interface Guidelines
ALC: Arithmetic and Logic Circuits
(Software) (Apple)
ALC: Automatic Level Control
AHS: Abstract Handle Specification
ALDC: Adaptive Lossless Data Compression
AHST: Alaska-Hawaii Standard Time
(IBM)
ALE: Account Level Equivalence
AI: Analog Input
ALE: Address Latch Enable
AI: Artificial Intelligence
ALE: Application Launch and Embedding
AIA: Applications Integration Architecture
(Software)
(DEC)
ALE: Application Linking Enabling
AIC: Aixwindows Interface Composer
(IBM) ALEC: Alternative Local Exchange Carrier
(Communication)
AID: Application IDentifier
ALEP: Advanced Language Engineering Platform
AIFF: Audio Interchange File Format
(Apple) ALG: Application Layer Gateway
Used in conjuction with Network Address Translation (NAT) to
AIIM: Association for Information and Image
allow IP address translation (Network)
Management
ALGOL: ALGOrithmic Language
AIM: Aol Instant Messenger
Programming language (Software)
AIM: Application Integration Module
ALIBI: Adaptive Location of Internetworked
AIM: Application Interface Module Bases of Information
AIN: Advanced Intelligent Network ALICE: Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer
Entity
AIO: All In One
ALINK: Active LINK
AIP: Application Infrastructure Provider
ALIWEB: Archie Like Indexing in the WEB
AIP: Asp Infrastructure Provider

ALM AOT
ALM: Application Lifecylcle Management AMR: Adaptive Multi-Rate

A (Software) Audio Codec. GSM/AMR is an audio standard widely used for
audio in GPRS and W-CDMA networks (Communication)
ALM: Asynchronous Line Multiplexer
A device that connects multiple terminals or other serial AMR: Audio Modem Riser
interface devices to Sun network file servers or workstations. Slot for an internal modem (Hardware)
Also known as "multiple terminal interface."
AMS: Advanced Microcomputer System
ALN: Asynchronous Learning Network (Hardware) (Siemens-Nixdorf)
ALOM: Advanced Lights Out Management Amstrad: Alan Michael Sugar TRADing
(Hardware) (Sun) Eurpean based company that built the first sub $1000 IBM
compatible PCs in the mid 1980's
ALP: Apple List Price
Recommended retail price for Apple Macintosh equipment AMT: Active Management Technology
(Hardware) (Apple) Allows the IT team to better discover, heal, and protect their
networked computing assets (Hardware) (Intel)
ALP: Application Layer Program (or Process)
A program or process at the Application Layer (Network) ANDF: Architecture-Neutral Distribution Format
ALP: Application Layer Protocol ANI: ANImated cursor
Any network protocol at the application layer (Network) File name extension (Microsoft)
ALP: Automatic Language Processing ANI: Automatic Number Identification
ALR: Advanced Logic Research ANN: ANNotations
File name extension (IBM)
ALSA: Architectures of Large Systems of Agents
ALT: ALTernate ANN: Artificial Neural Network
ANS: Advanced Networking Services
ALU: Arithmetic Logic Unit
(Network)
Device in a CPU performing arithmetic operations (Hardware)
ANS: American National Standard
AM: Amplitude Modulation
ANSI: American National Standard Institute
AMA: Automatic Message Accounting
An organization that reviews and approves product standards
AMASS: Archival Management And Storage in the United States. (Organizations)
System
ANT: Advanced Network Tools
Manufacturer
ANT: Another Neat Tool
AMD: Active Matrix Display
Ant is a Java based build tool. In theory it is kind of like make
AMD: Advanced Micro Devices without make's wrinkles. See http://jakarta.apache.org/ant
CPU Manufacturer (AMD) (Software)
AME: Advanced Metal Evaporation ANX: Automotive Network eXchange

Recording media technology (Hardware) AO: Analog Output
AMG: All Music Guide AO/DI: Always On/Dynamic Isdn
AMHA: Advanced Macro Heuristic Analysis AOCE: Apple Open Collaborative Environment
(Dr. Solomon) (Apple)
AMHIK: Ask Me How I Know AOCN: Administrative Operating Company
(Net lingo) Number
AMI: Alternate Mark Inversion (Communication)
AMI: American Megatrends, Inc. AOE: Application Operating Environment

(AT&T)
AMI: Application Messaging Interface
AoE: Ata Over Ethernet
AML: Acpi Machine Language Network protocol designed for simple, high-performance
AMLCD: Active-Matrix Liquid Crystal Display access of SATA storage devices over Ethernet networks. It
gives the possibility to build SANs with low-cost, standard
(Hardware)
technologies (Hardware)
AMMA: Advanced Memory Management AOL: Alert On Lan
Architecture
(Network)
AMP: Alfresco Module Package
AOL: America OnLine
File format. Collection of code, XML, images, CSS, etc. that
(Network)
collectively extend the functionality or data provided by the
standard Alfresco repository (Software) AOP: Aspect-Oriented Programming
AMP: Asymmetric MultiProcessing (Software)
System architecture that uses different types of processors in a AOP: Association of Online Professionals
multi-processor system (Hardware) (Organizations)
AMP: Attached Media Processor AOS: Add Or Subtract
(Hardware)
AOSD: Aspect-Oriented Software Development
AMPS: Advanced Mobile Phone System (Software)
(Communication)
AOT: Ahead Of Time
AMQRS: Audio Master Quality Recording System Programs compilation technique (Software)
(Hardware)

AOW AR
AOW: Asia and Oceania Workshop APPC: Advanced Program to Program

One of the three regional OSI implementors workshops. Communication A
AP: Access Point APPCM: Access Protection and Priority Control
(Hardware) Mechanism
AP: Access Provider APPEL: A P3p Preference Exchange Language
(Communication) APPI: Advanced Peer-to-Peer Internetworking
AP: Application Processor (Network)
AP: Application Protocol APPN: Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking

(Software) (Network) (IBM)
APA: Adaptive Packet Assembly APR: Advanced Port Replicator

(Hardware)
APA: All Points Addressable
APR: Apache Portable Runtime
APA: Arithmetic Processing Accelerator
Its mission is to provide a free library of C data structures and
APAR: Authorized Program Analysis Report routines, forming a system portability layer to as many
(IBM) operating systems as possible, including Unices, MS Win32,
BeOS and OS/2 (Software)
APC: American Power Conversion
APRP: Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing
APCUG: Association of Personal Computer User
Groups APS: Active Pixel Sensor
APCVG: Association of Personal Computer Users APS: Advanced Photo System

Group APS: Advanced Printing Service
(Organizations) (IBM)
APDU: Application Protocol Data Unit APS: Analog Protection System
APE: Application Performance Explorer APS: Asynchronous Protocol Specification
APS: Automatic Protection Switching
APF: Apple Filing Protocol A mean for automatically detecting and signalling a
(Apple) transmission link failure (Communication)
APF: Automated Purposing Framework APSE: Ada Programming Support Environment

Collection of scripts and utilities that enable you to consistently (Software)
and reliably prepare computer hardware (BIOS, mass storage)
and install the Windows operating system and layered products
APSL: Apple Public Source License
on one or more build computers (Microsoft) Software license (Apple)
API: Application Programming Interface APSO: Audio Precision System One

A set of calling conventions defining how a service is invoked (Hardware)
through a software package. (Software)
APSTNDP: All People Seem To Need Data
APIC: Advanced Programmable Interrupt Processing
Controller An acronym used to remember the order of the OSI layer
(Hardware) (From layer 7 to layer 1) 7) Application, 6) Presentation, 5)
Session, 4) Transport, 3) Network, 2) Data link, 1) Physical
APIPA: Automatic Private Internet Protocol layer. (Communication)
Addressing
APT: Address Pass Through
(Network)
APT: Advanced Package Tool
APIS: Advanced Passenger Information System
Software download/installation tool for Debian GNU/Linux
APL: A Programming Language (Operating systems)
(Software) APT: Advanced Parallel Technology
APL: Applied Physics Laboratory APT: Automatically Programmed Tools
Advanced research facility in Skaggsville, MD.
APTC: Authorized Prometric Testing Center
APL: Average Picture Level
Sylvan Prometric is a division of Sylvan Learning Systems. It is
Monitor quality parameter (Hardware) the global leader in computer-based testing for academic
APLSF: A Programming Language with Shared assessment, professional licensure, and certification.
Files APTM: Application Program to Transaction
APM: Advanced Power Management Manager
APM: Application Performance Management APU: Audio Processing Unit

(Hardware)
APN: Access Point Name
APWG: Anti Phishing Working Group
Used on GPRS as access information (Communication)
See http://www.antiphishing.org/ (Organizations)
APNIC: Asia-Pacific Network Information Center
AQ: Advanced Queueing
APOP: Authenticated Post Office Protocol (Databases) (Oracle)
APP: Applecare Protection Plan AR: Access Rate
Extended warranty (Apple) The data rate of the user access channel. The rate (maximum)
APP: APPlication at which access devices can offer data to the frame relay
network (Communication)
File name extension

AR ASD
AR: Application Requester ARQ: Automatic Repeat reQuest

A (IBM) (Communication)
ARA: Appletalk Remote Access ARS: Activity Reporting System
(Communication) (Apple)
ART: Adaptive Resonance Theory
ARAG: AntiReflective, AntiGlare
ART: Average Response Time
ARAP: Appletalk Remote Access Protocol
ARTA: Apple Real Time Architecture
ARAS: AntiReflective, AntiStatic
ARTIC: A Real-Time Interface Coprocessor
ARB: Architecture Review Board (IBM)
ARC: Advanced Risc Computer ARTS: Asynchronous Remote Takeover Server
(Hardware)
ARTT: Asynchronous Remote Takeover Terminal
ARC: ARChive
ARU: Audio Response Unit
File name extension
ARX: Autocad Runtime eXtensions
ARCA: Advanced Risc Computing Architecture
(Software) (Autodesk)
ARCnet: Attached Resource Computer NETwork
AS: Advanced Server
AREQIPA: Application REQuested Internet
AS: Application Server
Protocol over Atm
(IBM)
(Network)
AS: Authentication Service
ARF: Abort, Retry, Fail
AS: Autonomous System
ARIN: American Registry for Internet Numbers
A self-connected set of networks that are generally operated
(Organizations) within the same administrative domain (Network)
ARIS: Architecture of Integrated Information AS/400: Application System/400
Systems (IBM)
ARIS: Attack Registry & Intelligence Service AS/U: Advanced Server for Unix
(Security)
AS3AP: Ansi Sql Standard Scalable And Portable
ARL: Access Rights List Database benchmark (Databases)
ARL: Adjusted Ring Length ASA: Active Server Application
ARLL: Advanced Run Length Limited (Network) (Microsoft)
ARM: Advanced Risc Machine ASA: Adaptive Security Appliance

(Hardware) (Cisco)
ARM: Annotated Reference Manual
ASA: American Standards Association
ARM: Application Response Measurement
(Network) ASA: Architectures of Systems of Agents
ARM: Asynchronous Response Mode ASAI: Adjunct Switch Application Interface
HDLC data transfer mode (Network) (AT&T)
ARMA: Association of Records Managers and ASAP: As Soon As Possible

Administrators (Net lingo)
ARMD: Atapi Removable Media Device ASAP: Automatic Switching And Processing
ATAPI devices with removable media that can appear as either
ASB: Advanced System Buffering
a super-floppy or a hard drive to the operating system. These
can be supported as bootable devices by a BIOS complying (Hardware) (Intel)
with the ATAPI Removable Media Device BIOS Specification ASC: Accredited Standards Committee
(Hardware)
ASC: ASCii text
ARMS: Architecture for Reliable Managed Storage
File name extension
ARO: Adaptec Raidport Option
ASC: Authorized Support Centers
(Hardware) (Adaptec)
ASC: Autonomous System Confederation
AROM: Alterable Read Only Memory
(Network)
ARP: Address Resolution Protocol
ASCB: Address Space Control Block
The Internet protocol used to dynamically map Internet
Used in IBM Mainframe OS's Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS) -
addresses to physical (hardware) addresses on local area
z/OS (Operating systems) (IBM)
networks. Limited to networks that support hardware
broadcast. (Network) ASCC: Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator
ARPA: Advanced Research Projects Agency (IBM)
Now called Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ASCI: Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative
(DARPA), the U.S. government agency that funded the
ARPANET. (Organizations) ASCII: American Standard Code for Information
Interchange
ARPANET: Advanced Research Projects Agency
The standard binary encoding of alphabetical characters,
NETwork
numbers, and other keyboard symbols (7 bit character code.)
A packet switched network developed in the early 1970s. The
"grandfather" of today's Internet. ARPANET was ASD: Application Structure Database
decommissioned in June 1990. (Microsoft)
ARPL: Adjust Requested Privilege Level

ASD ASTRAL
ASD: Automatic Skip Driver ASMP: ASymmetric MultiProcessing

(Operating systems) (Microsoft) System architecture that uses different types of processors in a
multi-processor system (Hardware)
A
ASDSP: Application-Specific Digital Signal
Processor ASN: Abstract Syntax Notation
The International Organization for Standardization's open
ASE: Active Storage Element systems interconnection (OSI) language for describing abstract
ASE: Adaptive Server Enterprise syntax.
(Databases) (Sybase) ASN: Autonomous System Number
ASE: Alladin Smartcard Environment ASO: Advanced Security Option
ASET: Automated Security Enhancement Tool Encryption option used to safeguard sensitive data and address
regulatory compliance requirements (Databases) (Oracle)
A tool that allows a user to specify an overall system security
level (low, medium, or high) and automatically maintain ASO: Automated Systems Operations
systems at those levels.
ASOG: Access Service Ordering Guideline
ASF: Active Streaming Format
(Microsoft) ASP: Active Server Pages
Dynamic web pages engine (Software) (Microsoft)
ASF: Advanced Streaming Format
ASP: Advanced Signal Processing
ASF: Alert Standard Format
ASP: Appletalk Session Protocol
ASF: Apache Software Foundation
(Organizations) ASP: Application Service Provider
(Software)
ASF: Applied Science Fiction
Manufacturer (ASF) ASP: Association of Shareware Professionals
(Organizations)
ASH: Active Session History
Consists of session performance view snapshots over time, ASP: Authorized Service Provider
which are often used to simplify performance tuning ASP: Auxiliary Storage Pool
(IBM)
ASI: Asynchronous Scsi Interface
ASP: Average Selling (or Street) Price
ASI: Automatic System Installation
ASPEN: Automatic System for Performance
ASIC: Application-Specific Integrated Circuit Evaluation of the Network
A gate array or other non-standard chip design for proprietary
ASPI: Advanced Scsi Programming Interface
use. (Hardware)
ASPN: ActiveState Programmer Network
ASID: Address Space IDentifier
(Software)
ASIT: Advanced Security and Identification
Technology ASPS: Advanced Signal Processing System
ASK: Amplitude Shift Keying ASPX: Active Server Pages eXtended

Dynamic web pages engine for the Microsoft .NET framework
ASL: Acpi Source Language (Software) (Microsoft)
ASL: Adaptive Speed Leveling ASQ: Automated Software Quality
ASL: Age? Sex? Location? (Software)
Used to get to know people better (Net lingo) ASR: Access Service Request
ASL: Apache Software License ASR: Address Space Register
ASL: Arithmetic Shift Left ASR: Arithmetic Shift Right
(Software) (Software)
ASLB: Accelerated Server Load Balancing ASR: Automatic Send-Receive
ASLM: Apple Shared Library Manager (Communication)
(Apple) ASR: Automatic Server Recovery
ASLT: Advanced Solid Logic Technology (Operating systems)
ASM: Advanced Server Manager ASR: Automatic Speech Recognition

(Operating systems) (Acer) ASR: Automatic System Recovery
ASM: Advanced System Management ASSM: Automatic Segment Space Management
(IBM) A new way Oracle manages space inside a block. Instead of
trying to track the exact space inside a block, Oracle marks the
ASM: ASseMbler block as one of five types, tracked by a bitmap. This eliminates
File name extension the need of a freelist (Databases) (Oracle)
ASM: Automatic Storage Management AST: AST research, inc.
Oracle 10g database feature that provides the database Company named from first initials of the founders: Albert
administrator with a simple storage management interface that Wong, Safi Qureshey, Thomas Yuen
is consistent across all server and storage platforms
(Databases) (Oracle) AST: Atlantic Standard Time
Timezone: GMT -4:00
ASMM: Automatic Shared Memory Management
Collective name for the dynamic memory allocation ASTRAL: Alliance for Strategic Token Ring
technologies added in Oracle 9i and improved with each Advancement and Leadership
subsequent release. This reduces the amount of manual
configuration required (Databases) (Oracle)

ASV AU
ASV: Advanced Super View ATLAS: Authorization Token Layer Acquisition

A LCD display technology (Hardware) Service
Describes the service needed to acquire authorization tokens to
ASVD: Analog Simultaneous Voice & Data
access a target system using the CSIv2 protocol. This design
(Communication) defines a single interface with which a client acquires an
ASX: Asf Stream Redirector authorization token
File format (Microsoft) ATM: Adobe Type Manager
ASYNC: ASYNchronous Communication (Software) (Adobe)
Communication protocol (Communication) ATM: Air Traffic Management
AT: Advanced Technology ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode
an IBM personal computer. Also a motherboard's form factor A standard for switching and routing all types of digital
(IBM) information, including video, voice, and data. With ATM, digital
information is broken up into standard-sized packets, each with
AT: ATtention the "address" of its final destination. (Communication)
Modem command prefix. Defined by the modem command set
developed by the Hayes company for use on its modems and ATM: At The Moment
now used on most modems (Communication) (Net lingo)
AT: Azores Time ATM: Automatic Teller Machine
Timezone: GMT -2:00
ATMS: Assumption based Truth Maintenance
AT&T: American Telephone And Telegraph System
ATA: Advanced Technology Attachment ATN: Australian Technology Network
Peripheral bus architecture (Hardware)
ATOB: Ascii TO Binary
ATAG: Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines ATOMM: Advanced super Thinlayer and high-
W3C recommendation that explains how to develop authoring Output Metal Media
tools that make it easier to produce accessible Web pages that
conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) ATP: Appletalk Transaction Protocol
ATAPI: Advanced Technology Attachment Packet (Communication) (Apple)
Interface ATP: Application Transaction Program
(Hardware)
ATP: Available To Promise
ATC: Address Translation Controller
ATP2: AppleTalk Phase 2
ATC: Advanced Transfer Cache
ATPS: AppleTalk Printing Services
(Hardware)
(Apple)
ATDM: Asynchronous Time Division Multiplexer
ATR: Advanced Telecommunication Research
ATDNet: Advanced Technology Demonstration (Organizations)
NETwork
ATR: Answer To Reset
(Network)
ATR: Automatic Terminal Recognition
ATE: Asynchronous Terminal Emulation
ATRAC: Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding
ATE: Atm Terminating Equipment
Audio compression algorithm, introduced by Sony for its Mini
ATE: Automatic Test Equipment Disk, which relies on the masking of low-amplitude frequency
components by temporaly adjacent high-amplitude components
ATEC: Authorized Technical Education Center (Sony)
(Microsoft)
ATS: Abstract Test Suite
ATF: Ajax Toolkit Framework (Communication)
Provides an extensible framework and exemplary tools for
building IDEs for the many different AJAX runtime offerings ATS: Administrative Terminal System
(Dojo, Zimbra, Rico, etc) in the market (Software)
ATS: Apple Terminal Services
ATF: Automated Test Facility
ATS: Automatic Tuning and troubleshooting
ATG: Advanced Technology Group System
Binary reoptimization and recompilation tool that can be used
ATI: Allied Telesyn International
for tuning and troubleshooting applications (Software) (Sun)
Networking hardware manufacturer (Hardware)
ATTN: ATTeNtion
ATIP: Absolute Time In Pregroove
ATU: Adsl Transceiver Unit
ATIS: Alliance for Telecommunication Industry
Commonly referred to as a DSL "modem" (Hardware)
Solutions
Sett http://www.atis.org/ (Organizations) ATU-C: Adsl Transceiver Unit - Central
In a DSL loop, the line card plugged into the DSLAM (Hardware)
ATK: Accessibility ToolKit
ATU-R: Adsl Transceiver Unit - Remote
ATL: Active Template Library
Commonly referred to as a DSL "modem" (Hardware)
(Microsoft)
ATVEF: Advanced TeleVision Enhancement Forum
ATL: Adaptive Threshold Learning
(Organizations)
ATL: Automated Tape Library
ATX: Advanced Technology eXtended
(Hardware)
Motherboard format (Hardware) (Intel)
AU: AUdio
File name extension

AUC BALUN
AUC: AUthentication Center AWDE: Artus Wireless Data Enhancer

AUDIT: AUtomated Data Input Terminal (Communication) (Nokia) A
AWE: Address Windowing Extensions
AUI: Attachment Unit Interface
AUI: Audible User Interface
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) B
AWE: Advanced Wave Effects
AUP: Acceptable User Policy (Creative Labs)
AUT: Application Under Test AWG: American Wire Gauge
AUTODIN: AUTOmatic DIgital Network AWK: Aho, Weinberger and Kernighan
AUTOVON: AUTOmatic VOice Network Unix language named after its authors: Al Aho, Peter
Weinberger and Brian Kernighan
AUX: Apple UniX
AWR: Automatic Workload Repository
AUX: AUXiliary Built-in repository which persists system workload information
AV: Access Violation to disk at regular intervals (Databases) (Oracle)
(Software) AWS: Advanced Workstations and Systems
AV: Anti Virus (IBM)
AV: Audio Video AWT: Abstract Windows Toolkit

(Software) (Sun)
AV: Authenticity Verification
AX: Architecture eXtended
AVA: Audio Visual Authoring
(IBM)
AXI: American eXpress Interactive
AVA: Avaya Certified Associate

B
AVATAR: Advanced Video Attribute Terminal
b: Bit
Assembler and Recreator
B: Bold
AVC: Advanced Visual Computing
HTML tag
(SGI)
B: Byte
AVC: Audio Visual Connection
(IBM) B&W: Black & White
AVD: Alternating Voice and Data B/F: Background/Foreground
AVE: Autocad Visualization Extension B2B: Business to Business
AVG: AVeraGe B2C: Business To Customer
AVGA: Advanced Video Graphic Array B2E: Business To Employee
AVI: Audio Video Interleaved B2G: Business to Government
File Format E-commerce model
AVK: Application Verification Kit B2X: Binary To heXadecimal

Tool intended to help developers test their applications for (IBM)
correct use of J2EE APIs and portability across J2EE compatible
application servers, and to help developers avoid inadvertently B8ZS: Binary 8 Zero Substitution
writing non-portable code (Software) (Sun) Replaces strings of zeroes by pattern with pulses
(Communication)
AVP: Attribute-Value Pair
BA: Bell Atlantic
AVR: Automatic Voice Recognition
BA: Brokering Agent
AVR: Automatic Voltage Regulation
(Hardware) BACP: Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol
(Communication)
AVS: Adult Verification Service
BAD: Broken As Designed
AVSEQ: Audio Video SEQuence
Multimedia file format, probably compatible with the MPEG-1
BAFUG: Bay Area Freebsd Users Group
format (Organizations)
AVT: Applied Voice Technology BAI: Bank Administration Institute

File / report format used in financial services industry
AVT: Attribute Value Template (Software)
(Software)
BAID: Bios Aware Ipl Device
AVTK: Anti Virus ToolKit (Hardware)
(Software)
BAK: BAcKup
AVVID: Architecture for Voice, Video and File name extension
Integrated Data
(Communication) (Cisco) BAK: Binary Adaptation Kit
(Microsoft)
AWAC: Audio Waveform Amplifier and Converter
BAKOM: BundesAmt für KOMmunikation
AWC: Advanced Web Creations
Swiss regulatory Organisation (Organizations)
AWD: Access Workflow Designer BAL: Basic Assembly Language
Organize and track information (Microsoft)
BALUN: BALanced UNbalanced

BAM BCV
BAM: Bidirectional Associative Memory BCC: Blind Carbon Copy

BAM: Boyan Action Module BCC: Block Check Character
In longitudinal redundancy checking and cyclic redundancy
BAP: Bandwidth Allocation Protocol
B BAPI: Business Application Programming
checking, a character transmitted by the sender after each
message block and compared with a block-check character
Interface computed by the receiver to determine if the transmission was
successful.
(Software)
BCD: Binary-Coded Decimal
BAR: Base Address Register
Character encoding scheme
BARB: Board ARBiter
BCDBS: Broadband Connectionless Data Bearer
Part of the bus arbitration system (Hardware) (Sun)
Service
BARRNET: Bay Area Regional Research NETwork
BCDIC: Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
BART: Basic Application RunTime
BCEL: Byte Code Engineering Library
BARTS: Bell Atlantic Regional TimeSharing Library intended to give users a convenient possibility to
analyze, create, and manipulate (binary) Java class files
BAS: BASic
(Software)
File name extension
BCF: Base station Control Function
BAS: Borland AppServer
(Borland) BCF: Busy Call Forwarding
BASDA: Business and Accounting Software BCL: Base Class Library

Developers Association (Software) (Microsoft)
(Organizations) BCL: Batch Command Language
BASH: Bourne Again SHell BCN: Backbone Concentrator Node
BASIC: Beginners All-purpose Symbolic BCNF: Boyce/Codd Normal Form
Instruction Code
BCNU: Be Seeing You
(Net lingo)
BASM: Built-in ASseMbler
BCP: Basic Call Process
BAT: Baby Advanced Technology
A type of system board (Hardware)
BCP: Best Current Practice
Means that a certain manner of proceeding is in general the
BAT: BATch most logical choice - a de facto standard of sorts
File name extension
BCP: Binary Communications Protocol
BAT: Block Address Translation
BCP: Bridging Control Protocol
BAWUG: Bay Area Wireless Users Group
BCP: Bulk Copy Program
(Organizations)
BCP: Byte Control Protocol
BB: BridgeBoard
(Communication)
BBB: Better Business Bureau
BCPL: Basic Computer Programming Language
(Organizations)
BCR: Best Cost Routing
BBB: Bit By Bit
(Communication)
BBIALB: Be Back In A Little Bit
BCR: Byte Count Register
(Net lingo)
BCRC: Business Component Request Center
BBL: Be Back Later
(Software)
BBLT: Bus BLock Transfer
BCS: Banking Communication Standard
BBR: Back Bone Ring
BCS: Bar Code Sorter
BBS: Be Back Soon
BCS: Basic Catalog Structure
(Net lingo)
(Operating systems) (IBM)
BBS: Bios Boot Specification
BCS: Basic Content Service
(Hardware)
(Software)
BBS: Bulletin Board System
BCS: Binary Compatibility Standard
(Communication)
BCS: British Computer Society
BC: Base Code
BCSM: Basic Call Sate Model
BC: Business Component
(Software) BCSP: BlueCore Serial Protocol
Host controller interface (HCI) procotol (Communication)
BC4J: Business Components For Java
Java 2 platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) framework that helps BCU: Bios Configuration Utility
developers quickly construct high-performance J2EE
BCU: Bus Controller Unit
applications following industry-standard design patterns
(Software) (Oracle) BCV: Boot Connection Vector
BCA: BroadCast Agent A field in the Plug and Play (PnP) header for a device with an
associated option ROM (Hardware)
Business Objects broadcast agent. See also
http://www.businessobjects.com/products/bca/ (Software)

BD BIDS
BD: Blu-ray Disc BEV: Boot Entry Vector

Name of a next-generation optical disc format jointly A field in the Plug and Play (PnP) Header of a device with an
developed by thirteen leading consumer electronics and pc associated option ROM. Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE)
companies (Hardware) is implemented as a BEV option ROM (Hardware)
BDA: Bios Data Area BF: Bad Flag B
BDAV: Blu-ray Disc Audio/Visual BFC: BrieFCase
(Hardware) Filename extension (Software) (Microsoft)
BDB: Berkeley DataBase BFE: Bum F*** Egypt
(Databases) A remote unknown location (Net lingo)
BDC: Backup Domain Controller BFF: Binary File Format
Secondary to the PDC, provides user/computer domain (IBM)
authentication (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
BFN: Bye For Now
BDCP: Blu-ray Disc Content Protection (Net lingo)
(Hardware)
BFRS: Base File Record Segment
BDD: Business Desktop Deployment
BFS: Business Forecasting Software
BFT: Binary File Transfer
BDE: Borland Database Engine
(Databases) (Borland) BFTP: Batch File Transfer Protocol
BDF: Bitmap Description Format BGA: Ball-Grid Array
Integrated circuit (IC) packaging that uses half-spherical
BDK: Bean Development Kit
contacts versus pins (Hardware)
(Software) (Sun)
BGAN: Broadband Global Area Network
BDLC: Burroughs Data Link Control
(Network)
BDLS: BiDirectional Loop Switching
BGE: Branch if Greater or Equal
BDM: Background Debug Mode
BGI: Borland Graphics Interface
(Hardware)
File name extension
BDMV: Blu-ray Disc MoVie
BGP: Border Gateway Protocol
(Hardware)
An Internet routing protocol used to pass routing information
BDOS: Basic Disk Operating System between different administrative routing domains or
(Operating systems) Autonomous Systems. BGP does not pass explicit topology
information and is often used between Internet service
BDR: Bus Device Request providers (Network)
BD-R: Blu-ray Disc Recordable BGT: Branch if Greater Than

(Hardware) BHI: Branch if HIgher
BD-RE: Blu-ray Disc REwritable BHIS: Branch if HIgher or Same
(Hardware)
BHLI: Broadband High Layer Information
BDSL: Broadband Digital Subscriber Line
(Communication) BHO: Browser Helper Object
BE: Below or Equal
BI: Binary Input
BECN: Backward Explicit Congestion Notification
A bit sent by a frame relay network to notify an interface BI: Business Intelligence
device (DTE) that congestion avoidance procedures should be BIA: Burned-In Address
initiated by the sending device (Communication)
A.k.a. MAC Address; unique identifier coded into every NIC
BEDO: Burst Data Extended Output (Network)
(Hardware) BIAB: Band-In-A-Box
BEEP: Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol BIB: Back In Business
BEL: BELl Usually said after saying BRB (Be Right Back) to say that
Control character you're back (Net lingo)
BELLCORE: BELL COmmunications REsearch BIB: BIBliography

File name extension
BER: Basic Encoding Rules
Standard rules for encoding data units described in ASN.1. BICI: Broadband InterCarrier Interface
Sometimes incorrectly lumped under the term ASN.1, which BiDi: BIDIrectional
properly refers only to the abstract syntax description
language, not the encoding technique. BIDS: Borland International Data Structures
BER: Bit Error Rate BIDS: Business Intelligence Development Studio
(Communication) IDE from Microsoft used for developing data analysis and
Business Intelligence solutions utilizing the Microsoft SQL
BERT: Bit Error Rate Test Server Analysis Services, Reporting Services and Integration
(Communication) Services (Microsoft)
BEST: Borland Enhanced Support and Training
BET: Bit Enhancement Technology
(Hardware)

BIF BMC
BIF: Benchmark Interchange Format BITNET: Because It's Time NETwork

In computer graphics, a standardized file structure for Academic computer network based originally on IBM
specifying the geometry of a particular data set from a mainframe systems interconnected via leased 9600 bps lines.
particular application as well as the user interactions to be
BITNIC: BITnet Network Information Center
B performed.
BIFET: BIpolar Field Effect Transistor BITS: Background Intelligent Transfer Service
Enables developers to write client applications that transfer
BIFF: Binary Interchange File Format files asynchronously between a client and server. BITS
automatically resumes file transfers after network disconnects
BIFS: BInary Format for Scenes
and machine reboots (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
BIG: Business Information Guide
BITS: Bump-In-The-Stack
Data warehousing (Databases)
Configuration where IPsec is implemented "underneath" an
BIM: Beginning of Information Marker existing implementation of an IP protocol stack, between the
native IP and the local network drivers. This approach, when it
BIM: Broadband Interface Module is adopted, is usually employed in hosts (Network)
BIN: BINary BITW: Bump-In-The-Wire
File name extension Configuration where IPsec is implemented through the use of
an outboard crypto processor. Such implementations may be
BINAC: BINary Automatic Computer
designed to serve either a host or a gateway (or both)
BIND: Berkeley Internet Name Daemon (Network)
(Network) BIU: Bus Interface Unit
BINHEX: BINary HEXadecimal (Hardware)
BINL: Boot Information Negotiation Layer BIW: Business Intelligence Warehouse

(Operating systems) BIX: Byte Information eXchange
BIOML: BIOpolymer Markup Language Byte's bulletin board system
XML language designed to be used for the annotation of BJ: Bubble Jet
biopolymer sequence information. BIOML allows the full
(Hardware) (Canon)
specification of all experimental information known about
molecular entities composed of biopolymers, for example, BJC: Bubble Jet Color
proteins and genes (Hardware) (Canon)
BIOS: Basic Input/Output System BKM: Best Known Method
The program a personal computer's microprocessor uses to get Based on previous experience, the prefered method for
the computer system started after you turn it on completing a task
BIP: Bit Interleaved Parity BKSP: BacKSPace
BIPM: Bureau International des Poids et des BL: BackLit
Mesures
(Organizations) BL: Bit Line
BIPS: Bank Internet Payment System BLAST: BLocked ASynchronous Transmission

The BIPS specification includes a protocol for sending payment Protocol
instructions to banks safely over the Internet and a payment BLE: Branch if Less or Equal
server architecture for processing those payment instructions
BLER: BLock ERror
BIPV: Bit Interleaved Parity Violation
BLERT: BLock Error Rate Test
BIRT: Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools
(Communication)
Open source, Eclipse-based reporting system that integrates
with your application to produce compelling reports for both BLISS: Broadband Local Integrated Services
web and PDF. See also http://www.eclipse.org/birt/ (Software) Solution
BIS: Boot Integrity Service Allows service providers to offer a bundle of packet-based
services including local and long distance voice services and
BIS: Business Information System high-speed data (Network) (Cisco)
BISDN: Broadband Integrated Services Digital BLK: BLocK
Network
BLL: Business Logic Layer
(Communication)
BLLI: Broadband Low Layer Information
BISP: Business Information System Program
BLMC: Buried Logic MacroCell
BISSI: Broadband Inter-Switching System
Interface BLOB: Binary Large OBject
(Databases)
BIST: Built-In Self Test
BLOG: weB LOG
BISYNC: BInary SYNchronous Communications
BLOS: Branch if LOwer Or Same
BIT: Binary digIT
BLT: Baghdad Local Time
BIT: Binary Improvement Tool
Timezone: GMT +3:00
Works directly with SPARC binaries to instrument, optimize,
and analyze them for performance or code coverage (Software) BLT: BLock Transfer
(Sun)
BMC: Baseboard Management Controller
BitBLT: BIT BLock Transfer Specialized microcontroller embedded on the motherboard of
A raster operation that moves a block of bits representing many computers, especially servers. The BMC is the
some portion of an image or scene from one location in the intelligence in the IPMI architecture. The BMC manages the
frame buffer to another. interface between system management software and platform
hardware (Hardware)

BMI BPL
BMI: Branch if MInus BOFH: Bastard Operator From Hell

A system administrator or technician with very little patience
BMIC: BusMaster Interface Controller
who frequently does evil things to users (Net lingo)
(Intel)
BOGOF: Buy One Get One Free
BML: Bean Markup Language
Denotes cheap stuff that usually comes in bundled or packaged
B
BML: Business Management Layer form; connotation is "low quality" (Net lingo)
BMOS: Bipolar Metal Oxide Semiconductor BOHICA: Bend Over, Here It Comes Again
(Net lingo)
BMP: Basic Multilingual Plane
First 16-bit subset of the universal character set (UCS). Also BOI: Business Object Interface
known as Plane 0 (Software)
BMP: Batch Message Processing BOL: Books OnLine
BMP: Bean-Managed Persistence (Microsoft)
(Software) BOM: Basic Online Memory
BMP: BitMaP (IBM)
File Format for bitmapped images BOM: Beginning Of Message
BMR: Ballistic Magneto-Resistive BOM: Byte Order Mark
Hard disk head technology (Hardware)
BOND: Bandwidth ON Demand
BMS: Basic Mapping Support
BONE: BeOs Networking Environment
BMS: Broadcast Message Server (Operating systems)
BMU: Bmc Management Utility BONM: Business-Oriented Network Management
BMUG: Berkeley Macintosh User Group BOOTP: BOOTstrap Protocol
BN: Backbone Network A legacy remote booting protocol developed originally for use
with UNIX (Network)
Large network to which many networks within an organization
are connected (Network) BOP: Bit-Oriented Protocol
BNC: Bayonet Neill-Concelman (Communication)
Connector (Hardware) BOPS: Billion Operations Per Second
BNC: Bayonet Nut Connector BOPS: Billions of Processes Per Second
(Hardware) Processing speed (Hardware)
BNC: British Naval Connector BOR: Business Objects Repository
Connector (Hardware) (Software)
BNE: Branch if Not Equal BOS: Basic Operating System
BNF: Backus Naur Form BOT: Beginning Of Table
Syntax description for programming languages
BOT: Beginning Of Tape
BNP: Broadband Network Premises (Hardware)
BNS: Backbone Network Service BOT: Build, Operate and Transfer
(Network)
BOT: roBOT
BNU: Basic Networking Utilities
BP: BackPropagation
BO: Binary Output
BP: Base Pointer
BO: Business Object Processor register (Hardware) (Intel)
(Software)
BP: Business Planner
BOA: Basic Object Adapter (Software) (Microsoft)
BoB: Break-Out Box BPB: Bios Parameter Block
BOC: Basic Operator Console BPCS: Business Planning and Control System
BOC: Bell Operating Company An ERP/MRP program (Software)
More commonly referred to as RBOC for "regional Bell BPDU: Bridge Protocol Data Unit
operating company." The local telephone company in each of
the seven U.S. regions. BPEL: Business Process Execution Language
(Software)
BOCA: Borland Object Component Architecture
BPEL4WS : Business Process Execution Language
BOCS: Business Object Component Set For Web Services
BOD: Bandwidth On Demand BPF: Berkeley Packet Filter
(Network)
bpi: Bits Per Inch
BOF: Beginning Of File Recording Density
BOF: Bird Of a Feather BPI: Business Process Integration
Small conference
BPL: Branch if Plus
BoF: Buffer OverFlow
(Security) BPL: Broadband over Power Lines
(Network)

Bpl BTA
Bpl: Bytes Per Line BSC: Boyan SCript

File name extension
BPM: Business Process Management
Knowledge between management and information technology, BSC: Bus State Controller
B encompassing methods, techniques and tools to design, enact,
control, and analyze operational business processes (Software)
(Hardware)
BSCM: Binary Synchronous Communications
BPN: Business Partner Network Module
BPO: Business Process Outsourcer BSCS: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
bpp: Bits Per Pixel BSD: Berkeley Software Distribution
BPR: Business-Process Reengineering UNIX versions developed at the University of California at
Berkeley. (Operating systems)
bps: Bits Per Second
Transfer speed (Communication) BSDL: Boundary Scan Description Language
A subset of VHDL, it describes how JTAG is implemented in a
Bps: Bytes Per Second particular device. (Hardware)
Transfer speed (Communication)
BSDS: BootStrap Data Set
BPSK: Binary Phase-Shift Keying
BSE: Bladecenter Storage Expansion
BPSS: Business Process Specification Schema (Hardware)
(Software)
BSF: Bean Scripting Framework
BPU: Branch Processing Unit Architecture for incorporating scripting into Java applications
and applets (Software)
BPV: BiPolar Violation
T1 line code error with AMI encoding (Communication) BSF: Bit Scan Forward
BR: Bad Register BSI: Bentley Systems, Incorporated
BR: BReak BSI: BiSynchronous Interface
HTML tag (Network)
BRAN: Broadband Radio Access Networks BSI: British Standards Institute
An ETSI project, it provides telecommunications services the BSM: Basic Storage Module
middle ground between mobile systems and the wired access
world. BRAN is working on radio systems to meet the new (IBM)
requirements of the information age (Communication) BSM: Business System Management
BRB: Be Right Back (Software)
(Net lingo) BSML: Bioinformatic Sequence Markup Language
BRD: Blue Ray Disk BSOD: Blue Screen Of Death
(Hardware) (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
BRF: Benchmark Report Format BSP: Binary Space Partitioning
In computer graphics, a standard format for reporting
benchmark results. This format provides the purchaser with a BSP: Bulk Synchronous Parallelism
consistent data-tracking system for comparing hardware
BSP: Business Service Provider
platforms.
BSR: Bit Scan Reverse
BRGC: Binary Reflected Gray Code
BSRAM: Burst Static Random Access Memory
BRI: Basic Rate Interface
(Hardware)
One of the standard ISDN interfaces defined by the CCITT
protocols. BRI consists of two B channels (64 kbps) and one D BSS: Basic Service Set
channel (16 kbps). (Communication)
(Communication)
BRI: Brain Response Interface BSS: Block Started by Symbol
BRIEF: Basic Reconfigurable Interactive Editing BSS: Broadband Switching System
Facility
BSS: Business Support System
BRS: Big Red Switch
Network management software to monitor performance and
BRT: Be Right There resources (Software)
(Net lingo) BSSID: Basic Service Set IDentifier
BRU: Backup/Restore Utility (Communication)
(Software) BSSMAP: Base Station System Management
BS: BackSpace Application Part
BS: Banded Signaling BST: Binary Search Tree
BS: Base Station BST: British Summer Time

Timezone: GMT +0:00
BS: BullSh**
You say this when you think someone is lying (Net lingo) BSV: Boot Sector Virus
BSA: Business Software Alliance BSY: BuSY
BSAM: Basic Sequential Access Method BT: Bit Test
BSC: Base Station Controller BT: Bus Terminator
BSC: Binary Synchronous Communication BTA: But Then Again

Communication protocol (Communication) (Net lingo)

BTAM CAIRN
BTAM: Basic Tape Access Method BWBM: BandWidth Balancing Mechanism

BTAM: Basic Telecommunication Access Method BWL: Black Wing Lair
(IBM) A 40 man raid dungeon is World of Warcraft. (Games)
BTB: Branch Target Buffer BWM: Block-Write Mode B
(Hardware)
BYOB: Bring Your Own Beer
BTC: Bit Test and Complement (Net lingo) C
BTI: Business Type Identifier BYORL: Bring Your Own Rocket Launcher
(Net lingo)
BTL: Bell Telephone Laboratories
BZR: Bit Zone Recording
BTLB: Block Translation Look-aside Buffer
BTM: Benchmark Timing Methodology
C
In computer graphics, a method of measuring how long it takes
to run the purchaser's benchmark interchange format program. C: C
BTO: Built To Order Programming language
BTOA: Binary TO Ascii C&T: Chips And Technologies

C/D: Control Data
BTP: Batch Transfer Program
C/S: Client/Server
BTR: "Bet The Ranch"
BTR: Bit Test and Reset C2D: Character To Decimal
(IBM)
BTS: Base Transceiver Station
C2T: Cable Changing Technology
BTS: Bit Test and Set
C2X: Character To heXadecimal
BTSOOM: Beats The S**t Out Of Me (IBM)
(Net lingo)
CA: Certification Authority
BTT: Back To the Top
CA: Chromatic Aberration
Used in an on-line discussion forum to bump a topic back to
the top of the page where more people can see it (Net lingo) CA: Collision Avoidance
BTU: Basic Transmission Unit CAAD: Computer Aided Architectural Design
BTU: British Thermal Unit CAB: CABinet
A unit of thermal energy File name extension (Microsoft)
BTW: By The Way CAB: Compressed Application Binary
(Net lingo) (Microsoft)
BTX: Balanced Technology eXtended CABS: Carrier Access Billing System
Motherboard form factor, designed to replace ATX (Hardware)
CAC: Connection Admission Control
BTX: BildschirmTeXt
CACP: Central Arbitration Control Point
BU: Bluetooth Unit
CAD: Computer-Aided Design
(Hardware)
Use of computer graphics technology to design electronic and
BU: Branch Unit mechanical parts and machinery.
BU: Bulk Update CAD: Custom Application Developer
Updating many rows in a table in a single operation (Databases)
CADD: Computer-Aided Design and Drafting
BUBL: BUlletin Board for Libraries
CADE: Client/server Application Development
BUF: BUFfer Environment
BUI: BUs Interface CADE: Computer-Aided Document Engineering
BURN: Buffer UnderRuN CAE: Client Application Enabler
(Hardware) CAE: Common Application Environment
BUS: Broadcast and Unknown Server CAE: Computer Aided Education
(Network)
CAE: Computer-Aided Engineering
BVCP: Banyan Vines Control Protocol
CAEN: Chemically-Assembled Electronic
BVH: Base Video Handler Nanocomputer
BVO: Business Value Orientation (Hardware)
BVT: Behavioral Verification Technology CAEX: Computer Aided EXploration

(IBM) CAG: Column Address Generator
BVT: Build Verification Test CAGR: Compound Annual Growth Rate
BW: Bus Watcher CAI: Computer Associates International
Mechanism that converts XDBus signals to XBus signals and (CAI)
passes them to the Module XBus Cache Controller (Hardware)
(Sun) CAI: Computer-Aided Instruction
BWA: Broadband Wireless Access CAIRN: Collaborative Advanced Interagency
(Communication) Research Network

CAIS CATS
CAIS: Common Apse Interface Specification CAR: Courtesy Amount Recognition

CAL: CALendar CARB: Central ARBiter
On Sun servers, a system of central arbiters (one CARB on the
CAL: Client Access License
control board) and a board arbiter (BARB) (one on every
CAL: Computer Aided Logistics system board) determine which processor on which system
board controls the system bus at any given time. (Hardware)
CAL: Computer-Assisted Learning
C (Sun)
CALL: Computer-Aided Language Learning CARCAS: Computer Aided aRchiving and Change
CALS: Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Accounting System
Support CARL: Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
CAM: Common Access Method CARP: Cache Array Routing Protocol
(Communication) (Microsoft)
CAM: Computer-Aided Manufacturing CARP: Common Address Redundancy Protocol
CAM: Content-Addressable Memory Allows multiple hosts on the same local network to share a set
of IP addresses among them (Network)
Special type of computer memory used in certain very high
speed searching applications (Hardware) CART: Computer-Assisted Radar Tomography
CAMAC: Computer Automated Measurement And CAS: Central Authentication Service
Control Authentication system originally created by Yale University to
provide a trusted way for an application to authenticate a user.
CAMM: Computer Assisted Material Management
See also http://www.jasig.org/cas (Security)
CAMMU: CAche/Memory Management Unit
CAS: Channel Associated Signaling
(Hardware)
CAS: Code Access Security
CAN: CANcel
(Operating systems) (Microsoft)
CAN: Controller Area Network
CAS: Column Address Select
CANBUS: Controller Area Network BUS
CAS: Column Address Strobe
(Network)
CAS: Communication Applications Specification
CAO: Computer Account Object
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) CAS: Computer Algebra System
CAO: Computer Aided Office CAS: Computer-Aided Styling
CAP: CAPture CAS: Computerized Autodial System
File name extension CASE: Computer-Aided Software Engineering
CAP: Carrierless Amplitude and Phase modulation CASL: Crosstalk Application Scripting Language
(Communication)
CASS: Computer Assisted Search Service
CAP: Central Arbitration Point
CASSIS: Classified and Search Support
CAP: Communication Application Platform Information System
CAP: Competitive Access Provider CAT: CATalog
CAP: Computer-Aided Planning File name extension
CAP: Computer-Aided Publishing CAT: CATegory

Short term used to refer to different types of cabling (ie.
CAP: Converted APplet CAT5.) (Hardware)
(Software)
CAT: Central Alaska Time
CAPD: Computing to Assist Persons with Timezone: GMT -10:00
Disabilities
CAT: Common Authentication Technology
CAPE: Concurrent Art-to-Product Environment
CAT: Computer Adaptive Test
CAPI: Common Application Programming
Interface CAT: Computer Aided Tomography
(Communication) CAT: Computer Aided Transcription
CAPP: Computer Aided Process Planning CAT: Computer-Aided Telephony
CAPS: CAPitalS CAT: Computer-Aided Testing
Uppercase letters
CAT: Computer-Assisted Training
CAPS: CAssette Programming System
CAT: Computer-Assisted Translation
CAPTCHA: Completely Automated Public Turing Indicates the use of a series of data processing tools aimed at
test to tell Computers and Humans Apart assisting the translator on a level of coherency (consistency) of
Pronounced as "KAP.chuh", it's a computer-generated test that the text and in terms of working speed
humans can pass but computer programs cannot. For more
CATIA: Computer Aided Three-dimensional
information, see http://www.captcha.net/,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha or
Interactive Application
http://www.wordspy.com/words/captcha.asp CAD/CAM program from Dassault Systems
CAQ: Computer Aided Quality CATID: CATegory IDentifier

(Software)
CAR: Committed Access Rate
(Cisco) CATS: Computer Assisted Training System

CATV CCI
CATV: CAble TeleVision CBR: Constant Bit Rate

(Hardware) A class of service defined by ATM. Multimedia streams—audio
and video—are examples of CBR applications, since they send
CATV: Community Antenna TeleVision at a relatively steady data rate with constant bandwidth
(Hardware) allocations (Network)
CAU: Cable Access Unit CBT: Canon Buffer Transmission
(Hardware)
CBT: Computer Based Training C
CAU: Controlled Access Unit
CBT: Core Based Tree
CAV: Constant Angular Velocity (Network)
(Hardware)
CBW: Convert Byte to Word
CAVE: Computer-Assisted Virtual Environment
CBWFQ: Class-Based Weighted Fair Queueing
CAVERN: Computer-Assisted Virtual Environment Extends the standard WFQ functionality to provide support for
Research Network user-defined traffic classes. For CBWFQ, you define traffic
classes based on match criteria including protocols, access
CAVIT: Convergence of Audio/Video Information control lists (ACLs), and input interfaces (Network) (Cisco)
Technology
CBX: Computer-controlled Branch Exchange
CAWE: Computer-Aided Web Engineering
CC: Call Control
CBA: Can't Be Arsed (Communication)
For when you can't be bothered (Net lingo)
CC: Carbon Copy
CBBS: Computer Bulletin Board System
CC: Cascade Correlation
CBC: Cipher Block Chaining
CC: Cluster Controller
CBCR: Channel Byte Count Register
CC: Control Channel
CBCS: Computer Based Conversation System (Communication)
CBD: Component-Based Development CC: Credit Card
(Software)
CC: Cross Connector
CBDO: Chief Business Development Officer
CC/PP: Composite Capability/Preference Profile
CBDS: Connectionless Broadband Data Service
CCA: Cardholder Certification Authority
CBEMA: Computer and Business Equipment
Manufacturers Association CCA: Citrix Certified Administrator
Entry to mid level certification for IT professionals who want to
CBGA: Ceramic Ball Grid Array “demonstrate product expertise on Citrix platform products
(Citrix MetaFrame XP Presentation Server, Citrix MetaFrame
CBI: Computer Based Instruction
1.8 for Windows, or Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server for
CBIOS: Compatibility Basic Input Output System UNIX)
CBIR: Committed Rate Information Burst CCAF: Call Control Agent Function
The rate above the Committed Information Rate (CIR) up to CCC: Chaos Computer Club
which the frame relay network can transmit (Communication)
CCC: Computer Control Center
CBL: CoBoL
File name extension CCC: Cordless Computer Connection
(Hardware) (IBM)
CBL: Common Business Library
CCD: Charge Coupled Device
CBL: Composite Blocking List
(Hardware)
Takes its source data from very large spamtraps/mail
infrastructures, and only lists IPs exhibiting characteristics CCDA: Cisco Certified Design Associate
which are specific to open proxies of various sorts which have Introductory to mid-level certification for IT professionals who
been abused to send spam, worms/viruses that do their own can design routed and switched network infrastructures
mail transmission involving LAN, WAN, and dial access services for businesses
and organizations (Cisco)
CBL: Computer Based Learning
CCDP: Cisco Certified Design Professional
CBLT: Character BLock Transfer
Mid to advanced-level certification for IT professionals who can
CBM: Commodore Business Machines design routed and switched networks involving LAN, WAN, and
Company; among the first home computer manufacturers (PET, dial access services (Cisco)
VIC20, C64, C128, Amiga)
CCEA: Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator
CBMS: Computer-Based Mail System Mid level certification for IT professionals who want to expand
their knowledge of Citrix products and give them even more
CBO: Cost-Based Optimizer extensive experience installing and administering the Citrix
For a given query, the CBO calculates the cost (in system MetaFrame suite of products
resources) of several possible execution plans and selects the
one with the lowest cost (Databases) (Oracle) CCF: Cold-Cathode Fluorescent
(Hardware)
CBQ: Class-Based Queuing
A public domain QoS methodology for classifying packets and CCF: Common Connector Framework
queuing them according to criteria defined by an administrator (Software) (IBM)
to provide differential forwarding behavior for each traffic class
(Network) CCF: Connection Control Function
CBR: Case Based Reasoning CCFT: Cold Cathode Fluorescent Tube

CCI: Common Client Interface

CCIC CD
CCIC: Committee on Computing, Information and CCP: Command Console Processor

Communications
CCP: Compression Control Protocol
(Organizations)
Used for establishing and configuring data compression
CCIE: Cisco Certified Internet Expert algorithms over PPP, is responsible for configuring, enabling,
Advanced-level certification for IT professionals who have the and disabling data compression algorithms on both ends of the
training, experience and confidence to tackle the most point-to-point link. See
C challenging problems in their field (Cisco) http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/ccp.htm
(Network)
CCIN: Coordinating Committee of International
CCP: Console Command Processor
Networks
CCR: Commitment, Concurrency and Recovery
CCIP: Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional
An International Organization for Standardization's open
Mid-level certification for IT professionals who have a detailed
systems interconnection (OSI) application service element
understanding of networking technologies in the service
used to create atomic operations across distributed systems.
provider arena including IP routing, IP QoS, BGP, and MPLS
(Software)
(Cisco)
CCRMA: Center for Computer Research in Music
CCIR: Comité Consultatif International de la Radio
and Acoustics
A treaty organization, part of the International
Telecommunications Union (ITU), responsible for obtaining CCS: Color Calibration System
international agreement on standards for radio and television
transmission and the international exchange of programs. CCS: Common Channel Signaling
(Communication)
CCIS: Common Channel Interoffice Signaling
CCS: Common Command Set
CCITT: Comité Consultatif International de
SCSI command set
Télégraphique et Téléphonique
Now it's called ITU (Organizations) CCS: Common Communications Support
(IBM)
CCK: Client Customization Kit
Set of tools that help distributors customize and distribute the CCS: Continuous Composite Servo
client. Support is provided for creating CD and download
CCS: Cryptographic CheckSum
installers. Wizards are provided to simplify customization,
installation, and ISP signup (Security)
CCK: Complementary Code Keying CCS7: Common Channel signaling System 7

(Communication) CCSA: Checkpoint Certified Security Administrator
CCKM: Cisco Centralized Key Management Checkpoint's initial security certification. Stage 2 is the CCSE
(Security)
Using CCKM authenticated client devices can roam from one
access point to another without any perceptible delay during CCSD: Cellular Circuit-Switched Data
reassociation (Network) (Cisco)
CCSE: Checkpoint Certified Security Expert
CCL: Common Command Language
Checkpoint Certification. Stage 2 after completing the CCSA
CCL: Connection Control Language (Security)
CCL: Console Command Language CCSID: Coded Character Set IDentification
CCM: Change Configuration Management CCSP: Cisco Certified Security Professional

Advanced-level certification for IT professionals who are
CCM: Comprehensive Client Manager actively involved in developing business solutions and
CCM: Concurrency Control Mechanism designing and delivering multiple levels of security
departments (Cisco)
(Databases)
CCT: China Coast Time
CCM: Corba Component Model
Timezone: GMT +8:00
CCMSE: Checkpoint Certified Managed Security
CCT: Compuserve Communication Toolbox
Expert
(CompuServe)
Advanced certification for security professionals implementing
Check Point's VPN-1/FireWall-1 and Provider-1 Internet ccTLD: Country Code Top Level Domain
security solutions (Network)
CCN: Computer Communication Network CCU: Cache Control Unit
CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate CCW: Channel Command Word
Introductory-level certification for IT professionals who can (Hardware) (IBM)
install, configure, and operate LAN, WAN, and dial access
services for small networks (100 nodes or fewer) (Cisco) CCW: Com Callable Wrapper
CCNA: Customer Carrier Name Abbreviation (Software) (Microsoft)
(Communication) CCXML: Call Control eXtensible Markup Language
CCNC: Common Channel Network Controller Is designed to provide telephony call control support for
VoiceXML or other dialog systems. CCXML has been designed
CCNC: Computer/Communications Network to complement and integrate with a VoiceXML interpreter
Center CD: Carrier Detect
CCNP: Cisco Certified Network Professional Serial port signal (Communication)
Intermediate-level certification for IT professionals who can CD: Change Directory
install, configure, and troubleshoot local and wide area
networks for enterprise organizations with networks from 100 CD: Collision Detect
to more than 500 nodes (Cisco) (Communication)
CCP: Certified Computing Professional CD: Color Display

CD CDRL
CD: Compact Disk CDIF: Case Data Interchange Format

(Hardware) Family of standards that lays out a single architecture for
exchanging information between modelling tools, and between
CD+G: Compact Disk Plus Graphics repositories, and defines the interfaces of the components to
CD+MIDI: Compact Disk Plus Musical implement this architecture
Instruments Digital Interface CDK: Content Development Kit
CDA: Communications Decency Act (Software) (Microsoft)
C
CDA: Compact Disk Audio CDK: Control Development Kit
Filename extension for CD audio tracks (Software) (Microsoft)
CDA: Compound Document Architecture CDL: Computer Design Language

(DEC) CDM: Common Diagnostic Model
CDBS: Connectionless Data Bearer Service Specification widely used within the industry to evaluate the
health of computer systems in multi-vendor environments
CDBT: Compact Disk-Based Training
CDM: Control Development Module
CDC: Connected Device Configuration
CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access
Provides a virtual machine and basic class libraries to support
Java language applications on consumer electronic and (Communication)
embedded devices such as smart communicators, pagers, CDMF: Commercial Data Masking Facility
PDAs, and interactive, digital television set-top boxes (Sun)
(IBM)
CDC: Control Data Corporation
CDML: Claris Dynamic Markup Language
CDDA: Compact Disc Digital Audio (Claris)
Format of the audio CD files
CD-MO: Compact Disk Magneto Optical
CD-DA: Compact Disk Digital Audio
CD-MRW: Compact Disk-Mount rainier
CDDI: Copper Distributed Data Interface ReWriteable
CDDL: Common Development and Distribution Standard that enables native OS support of data storage on CD-
RW. This makes the technology far easier to use and allows the
License replacement of the floppy. See http://www.mt-rainier.org/
(Sun) (Hardware)
CDDLM: Configuration Description, Deployment, CDN: Content Delivery Network
and Lifecycle Management
CDO: Collaboration Data Objects
Open Grid Forum (OGF) standard for the management,
deployment and configuration of Grid Service lifecycles or inter- CDONTS: Collaboration Data Objects for windows
organization resources New Technology Server
CDE: Certified Directory Engineer (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Network) (Novell) CDOS: Concurrent Disk Operating System
CDE: Common Desktop Environment CDP: Certificate in Data Processing
A graphical user interface running on UNIX. (Operating One of the first certifications for computer professionals
systems)
CDP: Cisco Discovery Protocol
CDE: Complex Data Entry
Used by Cisco Routers (Network) (Cisco)
CDE: Cooperative Development Environment
CDP: Crl Distribution Point
CD-E: Compact Disc Erasable (Security)
(Hardware)
CDPD: Cellular Digital Packed Data
CDF: Channel Definition Format (Communication)
Is an application of the eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
designed for push technology
CD-PROM: Compact Disk Programmable Read
Only Memory
CDF: Comma Delimited Format (Hardware) (Kodak)
File name extension
CDR: Call Detail Record
CDF: Compound Document Formats (Communication)
Combination mechanism for XML-based languages. Therefore,
all conformant compound documents have an XML-based root CDR: Clock and Data Recovery
document (Hardware)
CDFS: Compact Disk File System CDR: Common Data Representation

(Operating systems) CDR: Corel DRaw
CDI: Customer Data Integration Filename extension
Bringing together business information relating to customers CD-R: Compact Disk Recordable
from multiple sources
(Hardware)
CD-I: Compact Disk Interactive
CDRA: Character Data Representation
(Hardware)
Architecture
CDIA: Certified Document Imaging Architect (IBM)
CDID: Compact Disk Image Designer CDRAM: Cache Dynamic Random Access Memory
(Hardware)
CD-RDx: Compact Disk - Rom Data eXchange
CDRL: Contract Data Requirements List

CD-ROM CES
CD-ROM: Compact Disk Read Only Memory CEF: Cisco Express Forwarding
A form of storage characterized by high capacity (roughly 600 Advanced, Layer 3 IP switching technology. It optimizes
megabytes) and the use of laser optics rather than magnetic network performance and scalability for networks with large
means for reading data. (Hardware) and dynamic traffic patterns, such as the Internet, on networks
characterized by intensive Web-based applications, or
CD-RTOS: Compact Disk - Real Time Operating interactive sessions (Network) (Cisco)
System
CEF: Common Executable Format
C CD-RW: Compact Disk-ReWriteable Format that allows a single executable to be produced to run
(Hardware) on all Pocket PC devices, regardless of processor (Software)
CDS: Cell Directory Service CEG: Continuous Edge Graphics
CDS: Correlated Double Sampling CEH: Certified Ethical Hacker
Technology to clean the image signal during scanning Certification in IT security issued by The International Council
(Hardware) of Electronic Commerce Consultants (EC-Council) (Security)
CDS: Current Directory Structure CEI: Conducted Electromagnetic Interference
CDSA: Common Data Security Architecture CEI: Connection Endpoint Identifier
CDSL: Consumer Digital Subscriber Line CELP: Card Edge Low Profile
(Communication) (Intel)
CDT: C/C++ Development Tools CELP: Code Excited Linear Prediction
Eclipse subproject working towards providing a fully functional
C and C++ Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the CEMA: Consumer Electroinics Manufacturers
Eclipse platform (Software) Association
(Organizations)
CDT: Cambridge Display Technology
CEMF: Cisco Element Management Framework
CDT: Center for Democracy and Technology
Collects fault information from various sources.Network
(Organizations) elements, such as routers or switches, may report fault
CDT: Central Daylight Time conditions as SNMP traps, Syslog messages, and so on
(Software) (Cisco)
Timezone: GMT -6:00
CEMM: Consumer Electronics Manufacturers
CDT: Corel Draw Template
Association
File name extension
(Operating systems) (Compaq)
CDV: Cell Delay Variation
CEMS: Constituent Electronic Mail System
In an ATM network, the variation in cell delay through the
network (Network) CENELEC: Comité Européen de Normalisation
ELECtrotechnique
CD-V: Compact Disk - Video
CENTR: Council of European National Top level
CDW: Computer Discount Warehouse
domain Registries
Computer store
(Organizations)
CDW: Copy Database Wizard
CEO: Chief Executive Officer
CEOP: Conditional End Of Page
CD-WO: Compact Disk - Write Once
CEPT: Conference of European Postal and
CDX: CompounD indeX
Telecommunications
File name extension (Microsoft)
(Organizations)
CD-XA: Compact Disk - eXtended Architecture
CER: Canonical Encoding Rules
CE: Cache Enable
CER: Cell Error Ratio
CE: Chip Enable In an ATM network, ratio of errored cells to transmitted cells.
Measures the accuracy of cell transmission (Network)
CE: Collision Elimination
CER: Corporate Error Reporting
CE: Compact Edition
Tool that allows IT Administrators to manage error reports and
CE: Convert Enable error messages created by the Windows Error Reporting client
(WER) in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 and error-
CE: Customer Edge reporting clients included in other Microsoft programs
(Network) (Software) (Microsoft)
CE: Customer Engineer CERFNET: California Educational and Research
Federation NETwork
CEA: Cisco Enterprise Accounting
(Cisco) CERN: Centre Européen pour la Recherche
Nucléaire
CEA: Consumer Electronic Association
(Organizations) CERT: Computer Emergency Response Team
(Organizations)
CEBIT: CEntrum Büro Information
Telekommunikation CERT/CC: Computer Emergency Response Team
Coordination Center
CEBUS: Consumer Electronics BUS
(Organizations)
(Hardware)
CES: Circuit Emulation Service
CEC: Certified E-commerce Consultant
CES: Consumer Electronic Show

CET CIA
CET: Central European Time CGA: Color Graphics Adapter

Timezone: GMT +1:00 Video specification for a resolution of 320x200 pixels in 16
colors (Hardware)
CF: ColdFusion
(Software) CGE: Common Graphics Environment
CF: Compact Flash CGI: Common Gateway Interface

A common method for transferring information between a web
Add-in expansion cards (Hardware)
server and a back-end application (Network) C
CF: Coupling Facility
(Databases)
CGI: Computer Generated Images
CFA: Color Filter Array CGI: Computer Graphics Interface

In digital imaging, CFAs assign a separate primary color to CGM: Computer Graphics Metafile
each pixel by placing a filter of that color over the pixel. . As File name extension
photons pass through the filter to reach the pixel, only
wavelengths of that primary color will pass through (Hardware) CGMP: Cisco Group Multicast Protocol
A form of Internet Group Multicast Protocol (IGMP) snooping
CFA: CompactFlash Association
that lets the switch send multicasts only to the ports on a VLAN
(Organizations) that are participating in the multicast (Network) (Cisco)
CFB: Call Forward Busy CGMS: Copy Generation Management System
CFB: Cipher FeedBack CGS: Continuous-Grain Silicon
CFB: Configurable Function Block (Hardware)
CFC: ColdFusion Component CHAP: Challenge Handshake Authentication

(Software) Protocol
A security tool offered in point-to-point protocol (PPP) based on
CFCC: Coupling Facility Control Code encrypted password exchange. (Network)
(Databases)
CHAR: Character
CFD: Call For Discussion
CHAT: Conversational Hypertext Access
CFD: Computational Fluid Dynamics Technology
CFDJ: ColdFusion Developer's Journal CHCK: CHannel ChecK
CFDP: Coherent File Distribution Protocol CHCP: CHange Code Page
(Network)
CHDIR: CHange DIRectory
CFF: Compact Font Format
CHFI: Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator
(Adobe)
Certification in IT security issued by The International Council
CFG: ConFiGuration of Electronic Commerce Consultants (EC-Council) (Security)
File name extension CHFN: CHange FiNger
CFM: Code Fragment Manager CHGRP: CHange GRouP
(Apple)
CHILL: Ccitt HIgh Level Language
CFM: ConFiguration Management
CHIPS: Clearinghouse Interbank Payments
CFM: Cubic Feet Per Minute System
CFML: ColdFusion Markup Language CHKDSK: CHecK DiSK
(Allaire)
CHM: Compressed HtMl
CFMN: Client For Microsoft Networks Microsoft's format for help files (Software) (Microsoft)
32-bit, protected-mode network client for Windows 9x that
provides the redirector and other software components for CHMOD: CHange MODe
Microsoft networking (Network) (Microsoft)
CHOWN: CHange OWNer
CFO: Chief Financial Officer
CHP: CHaPter
CFO: Compaq Factory Outlet
CHR: CHaRacter
(Compaq)
CHRP: Common Hardware Reference Platform
CFP: Call For Papers
CHS: Cylinder, Head, Sector
CFQ: Class-based Fair Queuing
(Network) CHTML: Compressed HyperText Markup Language
CFR: Computerized Facial Recognition CI: Coded Information
CFRM: Coupling Facility Resource Management CI: Competitive Intelligence
(Databases) CI: Component Interface
CFS: Caching File System CI: Configuration Item
CFS: Common File System (Software)
CFV: Call For Votes CI: Congestion Indication

CG: Computer Generated CI: Content Inspection
CG: Computer Graphics CI/O: Comprehensive Input/ Output
Refers to Adaptec's RAID management software. (Hardware)
CG: Control Gate (Adaptec)
CIA: Current Instruction Address

CIAC C-JDBC
CIAC: Computer Incident Advisory Capability CIP: Common Indexing Protocol

(Organizations)
CIP: Computer Integrated Processing
CIB: Computer Integrated Business
CIPM: Commerce Interchange Pipeline Manager
CIC: Carrier Identification Code (Software) (Microsoft)
CIC: Cisco Info Center CIPS: Canadian Information Processing Society
C A service-level monitoring and diagnostics tool that provides Accredits academic programs in technology, certifies
network fault and performance monitoring, trouble isolation, practitioners, and has a code of conduct for professional
and real-time service-level management for large networks behavior. See also http://www.cips.ca/ (Organizations)
(Software) (Cisco)
CIPSO: Commercial Internet Protocol Security
CIC: Coordination and Information Center Option
CICA: Center of Innovative Computer Applications (Security)
CICS: Customer Information Control System CIR: Committed Information Rate

(IBM) A minimum access rate the service provider commits to
providing the customer (Communication)
CICS/VS: Customer Information Control System /
CIR: Consumer InfraRed
Virtual Storage
(Hardware)
CID: Charge-Injection Device
CIRC: Cross-Interleaved Reed-solomon Code
CID: Configuration, Installation, Distribution
CIS: Card Information Structure
CIDL: Component Implementation Definition
Language CIS: Client Information System
The semantics of the CORBA Components Model (CCM) CIS: Com+ Internet Service
CIDMID: Content-ID and Message-ID (Software) (Microsoft)
(Network) CIS: Component Interaction Service
CIDR: Classless Inter-Domain Routing (Databases)
Solution that allows more scalability in the Internet under the CIS: Compressed Image Sequence
current IP version 4 addressing scheme. It provides an interim The XIL library's compressors store (generally related)
solution until IP version 6 is put into place (Network) compressed video frames in structures called CIS buffers. The
CIE: Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage images may represent frames in a movie, pages in a
document, and so on.
A standard means for specifying the color of an object or light
source in terms of (x,y) coordinates. CIS: Compuserve Information Service
CIF: Common Interchange Format (CompuServe)
CIF: Common source Intermediate Format CIS: Computer Information Systems

A video format in which frames are 360 pixels wide and 288 CIS: Contact Image Sensor
pixels high (one half of the CCIR 601 frame size). Each pixel Scanner device (Hardware)
has its own luminance value.
CIS: Customer Information System
CIF: Component Implementation Framework
Defines the programming model for constructing component CIS: Customer Interaction Software
implementations CISA: Certified Information System Auditor
CIF: Crystallographic Information File CISC: Complex Instruction Set Computer
File name extension
CPU architecture (Hardware)
CIF: Customer Information File CISSP: Certified Information Systems Security
CIFF: Camera Image FIle Format Professional
CIFS: Common Internet File System CIT: Computer-Integrated Telephony
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) CIT: Court of International Trade
CIL: Common Intermediate Language (Organizations)
CIL: Computer Integration Laboratories CITO: Communications and Information

Technology Ontario
CIM: Common Information Model
(Organizations)
Provides a common definition of management information for
systems, networks, applications and services, and allows for CIVIC: Cyclone Integrated Video Interfaces
vendor extensions Controller
CIM: Compuserve Information Manager CIVR: Computer and Interactive Voice Response
CIM: Computer Integrated Manufacturing CIW: Certified Internet Webmaster
CIM: Cox Interactive Media CIW: Client Installation Wizard
CIM: Customer Information Management (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
CIO: Chief Information Officer CIX: Commercial Internet eXchange
CIOCS: Communication Input/Output Control CIX: Compulink Information eXchange

System C-JDBC: Clustered Java DataBase Connectivity
CIP: Command Interface Port Open source (LGPL) database cluster middleware that allows
any Java application (standalone application, servlet or EJB
CIP: Commerce Interchange Pipeline container, ...) to transparently access a cluster of databases
(Microsoft) through JDBC. See also http://c-jdbc.objectweb.org/
(Databases)

CJK CLTS
CJK: Chinese, Japanese and Korean CLIB: C LIBrary

(Software)
CLID: Calling Line IDentification
CJLI: Command Job Language Interpreter (Communication)
CKD: Count Key Data CLIE: Communication, Link, Information and
Entertainment
CKE: Commercial Key Escrow
(Software)
(Hardware) (Sony)
C
CLIM: Common Lisp Interface Manager
CKM: Customer Knowledge Management
CLIPS: C Language Integrated Production System
CKO: Chief Knowledge Officer
Productive development and delivery expert system tool which
CL: Cas Latency provides a complete environment for the construction of rule
Number of clock cycles it takes before data starts to flow once and/or object based expert systems (Software)
a command is received. Low CAS latency is faster than high CLIST: Command LIST
CAS latency (Hardware)
CLK: CLocK
CL: Common Lisp
(Hardware)
CLL: ConnectionLess Layer
CL: ConnectionLess
(Communication) CLLI: Common Language Location Identification
(Communication)
CLAR: Channel Local Address Register
CLNAP: ConnectionLess Network Access Protocol
CLASS: Centralized Local Area Selective Signaling
CLNP: ConnectionLess Network Protocol
CLASS: CLient Access to Systems and Services
The International Organization for Standardization's open
CLASS: Cooperative Library Agency for Systems systems interconnection (OSI) protocol for providing the OSI
and Services Connectionless Network Service (datagram service). CLNP is
the OSI equivalent to Internet IP, and is sometimes called ISO
CLASS: Custom Local Area Signaling Services IP.
CLC: Certified Local Carrier CLNS: ConnectionLess Network Service
(Communication)
CLO: Chief Learning Officer
CLC: CLear Carry flag
CLOB: Character Large OBject
CLC: Color Laser Copier (Databases)
(Hardware) (Canon)
CLOS: Common Lisp Object System
CLC: Command Line Console (Software)
CLCC: Ceramic Leadless Chip Carrier CLP: Cell Loss Priority
(Hardware) In ATM cells, a bit that specifies whether a cell can be
discarded, if necessary; for example, if network congestion or
C-LCD: Cholesteric Liquid Cristal Display
policing occurs (Communication)
(Hardware)
CLP: CLiPboard
CLD: Clear Direction Flag
File name extension
CLDC: Connected Limited Device Configuration CLP: Command Line Processor
Is the foundation of the Java runtime environment that targets
small, resource-constrained devices, such as mobile phones, CLP: Command Line Protocol
mainstream personal digital assistants, and small retail
payment terminals (Sun)
CLP: Constraint Logic Programming
CLDR: Common Locale Data Repository CLR: Cell Loss Ratio

http://www.unicode.org/cldr/index.html In an ATM network, the ratio of lost ATM Cells to transmitted
cells; measures the percentage of cells lost between two points
CLEC: Competitive Local Exchange Carrier in the network. Cell loss is typically caused by severe network
A telephone company that competes with other local phone congestion; it can also result from bit errors in the cell header
companies within an exchange, or calling area, to provide local (Network)
telephone service (Communication) CLR: Common Language Runtime
CLEI: Common Language Equipment (Software) (Microsoft)
Identification CLR: Compensating Log Record
CLF: Common Log File CLS: CLear Screen
(Network)
CLS: Closed Loop Solution
CLGA: Ceramic Land Grid Array
(Hardware) CLS: Common Language Specification
(Software)
CLI: Call Level Interface
CLSID: CLaSs IDentifier
CLI: Calling Line Identification
(Software)
(Communication)
CLT: Cairo Local Time
CLI: Clear Interrupt Flag
Timezone: GMT +2:00
CLI: Client Library Interface
CLTP: ConnectionLess Transport Protocol
CLI: Command Line Interface Provides for end-to-end Transport data addressing (via
Transport selector) and error control (via checksum), but
CLI: Command Line Interpreter cannot guarantee delivery or provide flow control.
CLI: Common Language Interface CLTS: Clear Task Switch Flag

CLTV CNA
CLTV: Constant Linear Time Velocity CMOL: CMip Over Llc

CLUI: Command Line User Interface CMOS: Coats-Mellon Operational Specification
CLUT: Color LookUp Table CMOS: Complementary Metal Oxide
The color options in a graphics system, arranged by index Semiconductor
number. Typically, the system has a default color map. The Semiconductor manufacturing technology (Hardware)
index of colors in the color map can be reallocated, however,
C depending on the application. CMOS: Configuration Memory Operating System
CLV: Constant Linear Velocity CMOT: CMip Over Tcp
(Hardware) An effort to use the International Organization for
Standardization's open systems interconnection (OSI) network
CM: Communication Manager management protocol to manage TCP/IP networks. (Network)
(Communication)
CMOV: Conditional MOVe
CM: Configuration Managment
CMP: Cellular MultiProcessing
(Software)
Computer architecture (Hardware)
CM: Content Management
CMP: Certificate Management Protocol
CM: Control Mark
CMP: Chip MultiProcessor
CM: Corrective Maintenance (Hardware)
CM2: Communication Manager/2 CMP: CoMPare
CMA: Concert Multi-thread Architecture CMP: Container-Managed Persistence
CMAK: Connection Manager Administration Kit (Software)
(Microsoft) CMP: Cooperative Marketing Partner
CMB: Comment Me Back CMPS: CoMPare word String
(Net lingo)
CMR: Cell Mis-insertion Rate
CMC: Calypso Message Center In an ATM network, the total number of misinserted cells
observed during a specified time interval divided by the time
CMC: Common Mail Calls
interval duration (Network)
CMC: Common Messaging Call CMR: Common Mode Rejection
CMC: Communication Management Configuration CMRR: Common Mode Rejection Ratio
CMC: Complement Carry Flag CMS: Call Management Server
CMC: Computer-Mediated Communication CMS: Code Management System
CMD: Circuit Mode Data CMS: Color Matching System
CMD: CoMmanD CMS: Compiler Monitor System
File name extension
CMS: Content Management System
CMF: Creative Music Format
(Software)
CMGM: Cisco Media Gateway Manager CMS: Conversational Monitor System
(Software) (Cisco)
CMS: Cryptographic Message Syntax
CMI: Control and Management Interface
(Communication) CMT: Connection ManagemenT
CMIP: Common Management Information Protocol CMTL: Computer Memory Test Labs
The International Organization for Standardization's open (Organizations)
systems interconnection (OSI) network management protocol. CMTS: Cable Modem Termination System
(Communication)
(Network)
CMIS: Common Management Information System
CMU: Carnegie Mellon University
CMISE: Common Management Information (Organizations)
Service Element
CMVC: Configuration Management Version Control
CML: Chemical Markup Language (IBM)
CML: Computer Managed Learning CMW: Compartmented Mode Workstation
CML: Conceptual Modelling Language CMY: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow
CML: Current Mode Logic The CMY color model subtracts percentages of cyan, magenta,
and yellow to yield the desired colors. Subtracting 0 percent of
CMM: Capability Maturity Model all three colors results in white; subtracting 100 percent of all
Strategy for improving the software process, irrespective of the three colors results in black. (Hardware)
actual life-cycle model used (Software)
CMYK: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK
CMM: Conceptual Modeling Language Color encoding scheme. The black provides deeper colors,
expecially full black, compared with the CMY color model.
CMMF: Certificate Management Message Format
A PKIX format used to convey certificate requests and CN: Common Name
revocation requests from end entities to certificate authorities The name used for objects in a directory.
and to send a variety of information from certificate authorities
to end entities CNA: Certified Novell Administrator
(Novell)
CMMS: Computerized Maintenance Management
Software CNA: Communications Network Application

CNAPS COMDEX
CNAPS: Co-processing Node Architecture for COB: Connected Online Backup

Parallel Systems (Software)
CNB: Connected Network Backup COBOL: COmmon Business-Oriented Language
On-line storage service Programming language (Software)
CNC: Computerized Numerical Control COCOMO: COnstructive COst MOdel
CND: Caller Number Delivery A technique for estimating the effort and duration of a software
project based on its estimated size created by Barry Boehm
C
CNE: Certified Novell Engineer (Software)
(Novell) COCOT: Customer Owned Coin Operated
CNF: CoNFiguration Telephone
File name extension COD: Cash On Delivery
CNG: CalliNG CODASYL: Conference On DAta SYstem Languages
CNI: Certified Novell Instructor (Organizations)
(Novell) CODCF: Central Office Data Connecting Facility
CNI: Common Network Interface CODE: Campaign for an Open Digital Environment
CNIDIR: Coalition for Networked Information International coalition of civil liberties groups and consumer
DIRectories rights initiatives to protect the public's rights, innovation, and
competition against the proposed European Union Directive on
CNIDR: Clearinghouse for Network Information the Enforcement of Intellectual Property
and Discovery and Retrieval
CODE: Client/server Open Development
CNM: Communications Network Management Environment
CNM: Customer Network Management CODEC: COder/DECoder
CNMA: Communications Network for CoE: Center Of Excellence
Manufacturing Applications Group of subject matter experts (Organizations)
CNMS: Compaq Netelligent Management Software COE: Central Office Equipment
(Compaq)
COE: Common Operating Environment
CNMS: Cylink Network Management System
COE: Consistent Office Environment
CNN: Composite Network Node
COEES: Central Office Equipment Engineering
CNR: Carrier to Noise Ratio System
CNR: Communication and Networking Riser COEM: Commercial Original Equipment
(Hardware) Manufacturer
CNR: Communication Network Riser COFA: Change Of Frame Alignment
(Hardware) (Communication)
CNS: Complimentary Network Service COFDM: Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division

Multiplexing
CNSS: Core Nodal Switching Subsystem
(Communication)
CNT: CoNTents
COFF: Common Object File Format
File name extension
COG: Chip On Glass
CNTFET: Carbon NanoTube Field-Effect Transistor
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
COG: Component Obsolescence Group
CNV: CoNVentional
Advisory group connected with the maintence of older elctronic
CNVT: CoNVerT hardware including computer systems for specialist functions.
See also http://www.cog.org.uk/ (Organizations)
CNX: Certified Network eXpert
COGO: COordinate GeOmetry
CO: Central Office Programming Language
CO: Command Output COL: COLlision
CO: Connection Oriented COL: Computer Oriented Language
(Communication)
COLD: Computer Output to Laser Disc
CO: Convert Out
COLT: Connection Optimized Link Technology
CoA: Care Of Address (Communication)
Temporary IP Address used by a mobile user when roaming
onto a foreign IP network. It is used within mobile IP and can COLUG: Central Ohio Linux Users Group
either be leased from the HA (Home Agent) or FA (Foreign See www.colug.net (Organizations)
Agent) (Network)
COM: COMmand
COAST: Cache On A STick File name extension
(Hardware)
COM: COMmunication port
COAST: Computer Operations, Audit, and Security Serial port (Communication)
Technology
Laboratory in computer security research in the Computer COM: Component Object Model
Sciences Department at Purdue University COM: Computer Output Microfilm
COB: Chip-On-Board COMDEX: COMputer Dealers EXposition

COMET CPI
COMET: COrnell Macintosh Terminal Emulator COSMIC: COmon Software Measurement

(Software) International Consortium
Metric for software complexity evaluation. See
COMP: Compare
http://www.cosmicon.com (Organizations)
COMPAQ: COMPatibilty And Quality COSMIC: COmputer Software Management and
Used to refer to the fact that their computers were both IBM PC Information Center
compatible and very reliable
C (NASA)
COMSAT: COMmunications SATellite corporation
COSMOS: COmputer System for Mainframe
COMTI: Component Object Model Transaction OperationS
Integrator
COSS: Common Object Services Specification
(Microsoft)
COT: Central Office Terminal
CON: Console
Usually include keyboard and screen COTS: Commercial Off-The-Shelf
Software or hardware products that are ready-made and
CONCERT: COmmunications for North Carolina available for sale to the general public. They are often used as
Education, Research and Technology alternatives to in-house developments (Software)
CONS: Connection-Oriented Network Service COTS: Connection-Oriented Transport Service
CONTAC: Central Office NeTwork ACcess COW: Cluster Of Workstations
COO: Chief Operating Officer (Hardware)
COO: Cost Of Ownership COW: Computer On Wheels
COOL: Cobol Object Orientated Language CP: Connection Processor

(Hardware)
COP: Character-Oriented Protocol
CP: Control Panel
COPA: Children Online Protection Act
CP: Control Point
COPICS: Communications Oriented Production
Information and Control System CP: Copy Protected
(IBM) CP: Customer Premises
COPP: Certified Output Protection Protocol (Communication)
COPPA: Child Online Privacy Protection Act CP/M: Control Program for Microprocessors
(Operating systems)
COPS: Common Open Policy Service
An IETF proposed standard defining a simple protocol for CPA: Certified Public Accountant
provisioning QoS by outsourcing policy-based admission
CPA: Cost Per Action
control over requests for network resources (Network)
CPA: Crown Print Auditor
COR: Common Object Runtime
(Hardware) (QMS)
(Operating systems)
CPAN: Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
CORBA: Common Object Request Broker
Architecture CPC: Constant Point Calculation
COREN: COrporation for Research and Enterprise CPC: Cost Per Click
Network
CPCS: Check Processing Control System
COS: Camera Operating System (IBM)
(Operating systems)
CPCS: Common Part Convergence Sublayer
COS: Card Operating System
CPD: Conseal Provate Desktop
(Operating systems)
Personal firewall (Network)
CoS: Class Of Service
CPE: Central Processing Element
A category based on type of user, type of application, or some
other criteria that QoS systems can use to provide CPE: Conseal Private Desktop
differentiated classes of service (Network) (Hardware)
COS: Common Object Service CPE: Cover Page Editor
COS: Compatible Operating System File name extension
COS: Corporation for Open Systems CPE: Customer Premises Equipment

A vendor and user group for conformance testing, certification, CPEX: Customer Profile EXchange
and promotion of International Organization for
Standardization's open systems interconnection (OSI) products. CPFR: Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and
Replenishment
COSE: Combined Office Standard Environment
(Software)
COSE: Common Open Software Environment
CPG: Clock Pulse Generator
COSIC: COmputer Security and Industrial
CPH: Cost Per Hour
Cryptography
(Organizations) cpi: Characters Per Inch
COSINE: Cooperation for Open Systems CPI: Clock Per Instruction
Interconnection Networking in Europe
CPI: Code Page Information
A program sponsored by the European Commission, aimed at
using open systems interconnection (OSI) to tie together
European research networks. CPI: Common Part Indicator

CPI CRP
CPI: Common Programming Interface CR: Command Register

(IBM) (Hardware)
CPI: Communication Programming Interface CR: Content Redirection
(Communication)
CR/LF: Carriage Return/Line Feed
CPI: Computer Private branch exchange Interface
CRAM: Card Random Access Memory
CPIC: Common Programming Interface for (Hardware) C
Communications
CRAM: Challenge-Response Authentication
(IBM)
Mechanism
CPI-C: Common Programming Interface for (Operating systems)
Communications
CRAM: Computerized Reliability Analysis Method
(IBM)
(Software)
CPIO: CoPy In/Out
CRAM: Cyberspatial Reality Advancement
CPL: Combined Programming Language Movement
CPL: Common Public License CRAS: Cable Repair Administrative System
CPL: Compressed Printer Language CRAYON: CReAte Your Own Newspaper
(Hardware)
CRC: Cyclic Redundancy Check
CPL: Control PaneL An error check in which the check key is generated by a cyclic
Control panel extension (Microsoft) algorithm. (Communication)
CPL: Conversational Programming Language CRCG: Center for Research in Computer Graphics
CPL: Current Privilege Level CRD: CaRDfile

File name extension
CPLD: Complex Programmable Logic Device
CRDL: Character Repertoire Description Language
CPM: Cost Per Minute
Describes a collection of characters defined in ISO/IEC 10646
CPM: Critical Path Method or Unicode or default grapheme clusters defined in UAX#29
CPML: Call Policy Markup Language CREN: Computer Research Education Network
(Network) CREN: Corporation for Research and Education
CPN: Compuserve Packet Network Networking
CPO: Chief Privacy Officer CRF: Cable Retransmission Facility
CPP: C Plus Plus (C++) CRF: Commit-Reconcile and Fences

Object-oriented programming language based on C. Also, Mechanism-oriented memory model (Software)
filename extension. (Software) CRF: Cross Reference File
CPP: Corporate Preview Program CRFVC: Connection Related Function Virtual
(Microsoft) Channel
CPRM: Content Protection for Recordable Media CRFVP: Connection Related Function Virtual Path
CPS: Certification Practice Statement CRI: Color Reproduction Indices
(Verisign)
CRI: Cray Research, Inc.
cps: Characters Per Second
Printing engine speed CRIMM: Continuity Rambus Inline Memory Module
A type of system RAM (Hardware)
CPS: Cycles Per Second
C-RIMM: Continuity - Rambus Inline Memory
CPSI: Configurable PostScript Interpreter Module
CPSR: Computer Professionals for Social (Hardware)
Responsibility CRIN: Centre de Recherche en Informatique de
CPT: Command Pass Through Nancy
CPTWG: Copyright Protection Technical Working CRISC: Complex-Reduced Instruction Set
Group Computer
(Organizations) CRISP: Complex-Reduced Instruction Set
CPU: Central Processing Unit Processor
The part of the computer in which calculations and CRL: Certificate Revocation List
manipulations take place. (Hardware)
(Security)
CPW: Commercial Processing Workload CRM: Customer Relationship Management
(IBM)
CRME: Certified Remote Management Engineer
CQA: Certified Quality Analyst
CRMF: Certificate Request Message Format
CR: Candidate Recommendation
A PKIX format used for messages related to life-cycle
CR: Card Reader management of X.509 certificates. This format is a subset of
CMMF
(Hardware)
CR: Carriage Return CROM: Control Read-Only Memory
(Hardware)
Usually used as a control code or a terminator
CRP: Common Reference Platform

CRS CSP
CRS: Can't Remember Stuff CSFI: Communication Subsystem For

(Net lingo) Interconnection
CRS: Cell Relay Service CSG: Constructive Solid Geometry
CRS: Computerized Reservation System CSG: Consulting Services Group
(Lotus)
CRS: Content Replication Service
C (Microsoft) CSH: C SHell
Unix shell
CRT: Cathode Ray Tube
The CRT operates by firing an electron beam that strikes the CSH: Complementary Software House
inside of the monitor's display surface, which is coated with
phosphor. The phosphor glows briefly when excited by the
CSI: Command Sequence Introducer
beam. (Hardware) CSI: CompuServe Incorporated
CRTC: Canadian Radio-television and CSI: Computer Security Institute
Telecomunications Commission (Organizations)
(Organizations)
CSID: Calling Subscriber IDentification
CRTC: Cathode Ray Tube Controller
(Hardware) CSIRO: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organization
CRU: Customer Replaceable Unit
(Hardware)
CSIRT: Computer Security Incident Response
Team
CRUD: Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete (Security)
CS: Cable Select CSIv2: Common Secure Interoperability Version 2
Allows drives to determaine whether they are master or slave Addresses the requirements of CORBA security for
according to their position along the bus (Hardware) interoperable authentication, delegation, and privileges
CS: Chip Select CSL: Computer Sensitive Language
(Hardware)
CSLIP: Compressed Serial Line Interface Protocol
CS: Code Segment
CSM: Cluster Systems Management
CPU register (Hardware) (Intel)
CS: Computer Science
CSM: Code Set Map
CS: Counter-Strike
CSM: Communications Services Manager
See http://www.counter-strike.net/ (Games)
CS/SS: Card Service/Socket Service CSM: Control Strip Module
CS1: Capability Set 1 CSMA: Carrier Sense Multiple Access

(Communication)
CSA: Calendaring and Scheduling Api
CSMA/CA: Carrier Sense Multiple
(IBM)
Access/Collision Avoidance
CSA: Common Scrambling Algorithm (Communication)
encryption algorithm used in the DVB digital television
broadcasting for encrypting video streams CSMA/CD: Carrier Sense Multiple
Access/Collision Detect
CSA: Communications Streaming Architecture The access method used by local area networking technologies
Directly connects the Memory Controller Hub to the network such as Ethernet. (Network)
controller. With CSA-based motherboards, network data can be
transferred at a much higher rate with lower latency CSMS: Customer Support Management System
(Hardware) (Intel)
CSN: Card-Select Number
CSAPI: Common Speller Application Program
CSN: Compaq Service Network
Interface
(Compaq)
CSAR: Channel System Address Register
CSN: Corporate Service Network
CSC: Computer Sciences Corporation
CSNET: Computer Science NETwork
Company Name
Computer+Science Network. A large computer network, mostly
CSCC: Concurrent SuperComputing Consortium in the U.S. but with international connections. CSNET sites
include universities, research labs, and some commercial
CSCW: Computer Supported Cooperative Work companies. Now merged with BITNET to form CREN.
CSD: Circuit-Switched Data CSNW: Client Services for NetWare
CSD: Computer Services Department (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
CSD: Corrective Service Diskette CSO: Central Services Organization

(IBM) CSO: Cold Start Only
CSDC: Circuit Switched Digital Capability In ISDN is a capability of a Network Terminator 1 (NT1)
(Network)
CSDS: Circuit Switched Data Service
CSP: Certified Systems Professional
CSE: Certified System Engineer
CSP: Chip-Scale Packaging
CSER: Consortium for Software Engineering
Research CSP: Commercial Service Provider
(Organizations) CSP: Commercial Subroutine Package
C-SET: Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Display CSP: Communicating Sequential Processes

CSP CTOS
CSP: Component Service Provider CSTN: Color SuperTwist Nematic

LCD display technology (Hardware)
CSP: Compucom Speed Protocol
CSTS: Computer Supported Telecommunications
CSP: Converged Service Provider
Standard
CSP: Cross System Product
CSU: Channel Service Unit
(IBM)
CSP: Cryptographic Service Provider
CSUNET: California State University NETwork C
CSV: Circuit-Switched Voice
CSP: Crystal Server Pages
A page that contains HTML/VB/JavaScript that is processed by CSV: Comma-Separated Value
the Web Component Server in the Crystal Enterprise eBusiness
Framework (Software)
CSV: Common Services Verbs
(Microsoft)
CSPDK: Cryptographic Service Provider
Developer's Kit CSV: Computer System Validation
(Software) (Microsoft) Process used mainly at pharmaceutical companies to ensure
that systems are reliable and predictable
CSPDN: Circuit Switched Public Data Network
CSW: Channel Status Word
CSPDU: Convergence Sublayer Protocol Data Unit (Hardware) (IBM)
CSPM: Cisco Secure Policy Manager CT: Computer Telephony
(Cisco) (Hardware)
CSR: Certificate Signing Request CTAN: Comprehensive Tex Archive Network
CSRAM: Custom Static Random Access Memory CTB: Cipher Type Byte
(Hardware)
CTB: Communication ToolBox
CSRG: Computer Systems Research Group
CTBS: Computer Telephony Business Solution
(Organizations)
(Hardware) (IBM)
CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
CTC: Care To Chat
CSS: Central Structure Store (Net lingo)
The CSS is an editable hierarchy of structures composed of
elements, attributes, and transformations. CSS elements are CTC: Certified Testing Center
drawing primitives such as lines and polygons and CSS CTC: Channel To Channel
attributes are qualities such as color and style.
CTC: Counter/Timer Chip
CSS: Computer Sub System
(Hardware)
CSS: Computer Systems Specialist
CTCA: Channel To Channel Adapter
CSS: Contact Start-Stop
CTCP: Client-To-Client Protocol
CSS: Content Scrambling System
CTD: Cell Transfer Delay
Copy protection scheme used for example with DVDs (Digital
Video Discs) In an ATM network, measures the peak and mean delay that
cells experience while traveling from one point in the network
CSS: Content Services Switch to another (Network)
(Hardware) (Cisco) CTE: Charge Transfer Efficiency
CSS: Continuous System Simulator (Hardware)
CSS: Cross-Site Scripting CTE: Customer Termination Equipment

(Software) (Network)
CSS: Customizable Starter Site CTEC: Certified Training and Education Centre
(Microsoft) CTERM: Command TERMinal
CSS: Cybermedia Support Server CTF: Capture, Transform, and Flow
CSS2: Cascading Style Sheet 2 Data warehousing (Databases)
CSSM: Client-Server Systems Management CTFT: Color Thin Film Transistor

(IBM) LCD manufacturing technology (Hardware)
CST: Central Standard Time CTG: Cics Transaction Gateway

Timezone: GMT -6:00 CICS programs provide Web Services via the CTG (IBM)
CST: Consolidated Service Test CTI: Computer Telephony Integration

Enhances the way IBM tests and recommends maintenance (Microsoft)
packages for z/OS and OS/390 software, including the major
subsystems (IBM)
CTL: Certificate Trust List
CSTA: Computer-Supported Telephony CTL: Complex Text Layout

Applications CTM: Component Transaction Monitor
CSTB: Computer Science and Telecommunications (Software)
Board CTN: Can't Talk Now
(Organizations) (Net lingo)
CSTE: Certified Software Test Engineer CTO: Chief Technical Officer
(Software)
CTOS: Cassette Tape Operating System

CTOS CWO
CTOS: Computerized Tomography Operating CUPID: Completely Universal Processor I/o

System Design
(AST)
CTOS: Convergent Technologies Operating System
CUPS: Common Unix Printing System
CTP: Capable To Promise
Provides a portable printing layer for UNIX-based operating
CTP: Community Technology Preview systems. It is developed and maintained by Easy Software
C CTP: Convergence Technologies Professional
Products to promote a standard printing solution and is the
standard printing system in MacOS X and most Linux
Vendor-neutral certification for IT professionals who have the distributions (Operating systems)
core knowledge and skills required by equipment
manufacturers, their channel partners, and end-users to sell CUR: CURsor
and service convergence technologies File name extension
CTPA: Coax-to-Twisted-Pair Adapter CUSI: Configurable Unified Search Interface
CTR: Common Technical Regulations CUSIP: Committee for Uniform Security
Identification Procedures
CTRCO: Calculating, Tabulating, Recording
COmpany CUSP: Commonly Used System Program
The name of this company was changed to "International
CUT: Control Unit Terminal
Business Machines" by Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
CUTE: Clarkston University Terminal Emulator
CTRL: ConTRoL
CUTS: Cassette User Tape System
CTS: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
(Hardware)
CTS: Clear To Send
CUU: CUrsor Up
RS-232 signal (Communication)
CV: CodeView
CTS: Common Type System
Microsoft's format for debug indormation, embedded in the
CTS: Compatibility Test Suite object file or executable (Software) (Microsoft)
(Software)
CV: Curriculum Vitæ
CTS: Component Transaction Server
CVE: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
CTS: Computer Telephony Solution (Security)
CTS: Customer Telephone System CVF: Compressed Volume File
CTSS: Compatible Time Sharing System CVGA: Color Video Graphics Array
CTSS: Cray Time Sharing System CVIA: Computer Virus Industry Association
CTT: Care To Text CVM: C Virtual Machine
(Net lingo) Is a Java 2 virtual machine designed for devices needing the
functionality of the Java 2 virtual machine feature set, but with
CTT: Cartridge Tape Transport a smaller footprint (Sun)
CTTC: Cartridge Tape Transport Controller CVP: Content Vectoring Protocol
CTTY: Change TeleTYpewriter CVS: Computer Vision Syndrome
MS-DOS command (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
CVS: Concurrent Version System
CTW: Catch The Werb Tool for keeping programs sources under control (Software)
Web organizer (Software)
CVT: ConVerT
CTY: Catch The Web
CVW: CodeView for Windows
CU: Control Unit
(Hardware)
CW: Control Word
CUA: Calendar User Agent CWA: Competitive Web Analysis

(Software) CWD: Change Working Directory
CUA: Common Used Acronym CWD: Convert Word to Double word
CUA: Common User Access CWDM: Coarse Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
CUA: Common User Application (Communication)
CUB: CUrsor Backward CWIS: Campus Wide Information System
CUD: CUrsor Down CWIS: Community Wide Information System
CUE: Custom Updates and Extras CWM: Common Warehouse Metamodel

Standard interfaces that can be used to enable easy
CUF: CUrsor Forward interchange of warehouse and business intelligence metadata
between warehouse tools, warehouse platforms and warehouse
CUG: Closed User Group
metadata repositories in distributed heterogeneous
(Network) environments
CUI: Character-oriented User Interface CWNA: Certified Wireless Network Administrator
CUI: Common User Interface Entry-level certification is for those IT professionals who are
new to wireless networking but who want to come up to speed
(IBM)
quickly.
CUL: See You Later
CWNP: Certified Wireless Network Professional
Will get in touch later on (Net lingo)
CWO: Chief Web Officer
CUP: CUrsor Position

CWSP DAP
CWSP: Certified Wireless Security Professional DAC: Digital to Analog Converter

Mid-level certification is for IT professionals who understand An electronic device used to convert discrete digital numbers to
how to secure a wireless LAN from hackers and who know how continuous analog signals. In contrast with Analog-to-Digital
to protect the valuable information Converter (ADC). (Hardware)
CXI: Common X-windows Interface DAC: Discretionary Access Control
cXML: Commerce eXtensible Markup Language DAC: Dual Attachment Concentrator
Standard for setting up interactive online catalogs for different
DACL: Discretionary Access Control List
C
buyers, where the pricing and product offerings are company
specific. Includes mechanisms to handle purchase orders, A list used by the operating system's directory to control
change orders, status updates, and shipping notifications access to its objects. A DACL consists of a list of security D
identifiers (which identify users) and specific permissions for
CYA: Cover Your A** each (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Net lingo)
DACS: Digital Access Control System
CYA: See YA DAD: Desktop Application Director
(Net lingo)
(Borland)
CYL: CYLinder
DAE: Digital Audio Extraction
CYMK: Cyan-Yellow-Magenta-Black
DAE: Disk Array Enclosure
Color model
(Hardware) (Dell)
daemon: Disk And Execution MONitor
D
(Operating systems)
D&D: Drag & Drop
DAF: Dynamic Authentication Filter
(Software)
DAFS: Direct Access File System
D&I: Drop And Insert
(Operating systems)
Refers to the cross connecting of Time-Division Multiplexing
(TDM) circuits. It allows you to take 64Kb DS0 channels from DAI: Distributed Artificial Intelligence
one T1 and digitally cross connect them to 64Kb DS0 channels
on another T1 (Communication) DAL: Data Abstraction Layer
D&M: Design & Modeling DAL: Data Access Language
D/A: Digital/Analog DAL: Data Access Layer
(Hardware) DAL: Disk Access Lockout
D/L: DownLoad DAM: Data Acquisition and Monitoring
D/R: Direct/Reverse DAM: Deferred Action Message
D/S: Dhrystone per Second (Software) (Microsoft)
D2C: Decimal To Character DAM: Digital Asset Management

(IBM) DAM: Direct Access Mode
D2D: Developer To Developer DAM: Distributed Abstract Machine
D2T2: Dye Diffusion Thermal Transfer DAM: Distributed Associative Memory
Printing technology (Hardware)
D2X: Decimal To heXadecimal DAML: Darpa Agent Markup Language
(IBM) Language, developed as an extension to XML and the Resource
D3D: Direct 3D Description Framework (RDF), designed to facilitate the
concept of the Semantic Web. See also http://www.daml.org/
(Microsoft)
DAML: Digital Added Main Line
DA: Data Administrator
(Communication)
DA: Desk Accessory
DAMPS: Digital Advanced Mobile Phone System
(Software) (Apple)
D-AMPS: Digital Advanced Mobile Phone System
DA: Destination Address
Second Generation (2G) mobile phone system once prevalent
DA: Differential Analyzer in Americas. Now considered end-of-life and mostly replaced
A computer that uses interconnected integrators to solve by GSM/GPRS and CDMA2000. (Communication)
differential equations. DAMQAM: Dynamically Adaptive Multicarrier
DA: Directory Agent Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
(Network) (Novell) DAN: Disk Area Network
DAA: Data Access Arrangement DAO: Data Access Object
DAA: Decimal Adjust for Addition (Software) (Microsoft)
DAA: Digest Access Authentication DAO: Disk-At-Once

CD recording methodology (Hardware)
DAB: Digital Audio Broadcasting
(Communication) DAP: Data Access Page
DAC: Data Acquisition and Control
DAP: Developer Assistance Program
DAC: Device Access Code
DAP: Directory Access Protocol
(Network)

DAP DBMS
DAP: Dynamic Application Partitioning DAW: Digital Audio Workstation

A computer whose function is devoted primarily to digital audio
DAPIE: Developers Application Programming
recording and production (Hardware)
Interface Extensions
DAX: Developer Api eXtension
DAQ: Data AcQuisition
(Hardware) DB: Data Buffer
DARI: Database Application Remote Interface DB: DataBase
(IBM) (Databases)
D DARMS: Digital Alternate Realization of Musical DB: DataBus

Symbols Computer port (Hardware)
DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects dB: DeciBel

Agency Intensity measurement unit, used mainly in the sound field
The U.S. government agency that funded the ARPANET.
DB: Device Bay
(Organizations)
DB2: DataBase 2
DART: Digital Audio Reconstruction Technology
(Databases) (IBM)
DART: Dynamic Advertising Reporting and
Targeting DBA: Data Block Address
Address of an Oracle Datablock for access purposes
DAS: Data Acquisition System (Databases) (Oracle)
(Hardware)
DBA: DataBase Administrator
DAS: Data Agent Server The person (or team) responsible for maintaining the
databases (Databases)
DAS: Decimal Adjust for Subtraction
DBA: Date Book Archive
DAS: Delegated Administration Services
Filename extension
Part of legacy OID installation (10g and earlier) providing basic
directory management tools for user password resets, dBA: DeciBel Adjusted
user/group administration, etc (Databases) (Oracle)
DBAC: DataBase Administration Center
DAS: Direct Attached Storage
DBAS: DataBase Administration System
Storage device that connects directly to a single server
DAS: Directory Assistance Service DBB: Dynamic Bass Boost
DAS: Dual-Attached Station DbC: Design By Contract

(Software)
DAS: Dynamic Allocation Scheme
DBC: Device Bay Controller
DASD: Direct Access Storage Device
DBCC: DataBase Consistency Checks
DASH: Desktop and mobile Architecture for (Databases)
System Hardware
Suite of specifications that takes full advantage of the
DBCLOB: Double-Byte Character Large OBject
DMTFâ??s Web Services for Management (WS-Management) (Databases)
specification â?? delivering standards-based Web services
DBCP: DataBase Connection Pool
management for desktop and mobile client systems
(Software)
DASL: DAv Searching & Locating
DBCS: Delivery Bar Code Sorter
Application of HTTP/1.1 forming a lightweight search protocol
to transport queries and result sets and allows clients to make DBCS: Double-Byte Character Set
use of server-side search facilities
DBD: DataBase Driver
DASP: Drive Active, Slave Present (Databases)
DASP: Dynamic Adaptive Speculative Preprocessor DBF: DataBase File
(Hardware) File name extension
DASS: Distributed Authentication Security Service DBF: DataBase Format
DAT: DATa (Databases)
File name extension DBI: DataBase Interface
DAT: Digital Audio Tape (Databases)
(Hardware) DBIF: DataBase InterFace
DAT: Disk Array Technology (Databases)
DATEX: DATa EXchange DBIS: Dun & Bradstreet Information Services

DAV: Data AVailable DBK: DocBooK
(Hardware) File name extension
DAV: Digital Audio-Video DBLIB: DataBase LIBrary

DAV: Distributed Authoring and Versioning
Extension of the HTTP/1.1 protocol DBM: DataBase Manager
(Databases)
DAVIC: Digital Audio/VIdeo Council
(Organizations) DBME: DataBase Managment Environment
DAVID: Digital Audio Video Interactive Decoder DBMS: DataBase Management Environment
A software system facilitating the creation and maintenance of
a data base and the execution of programs using the data base.

DBNL DCP
DBNL: Dial Backup Network Link DCC: Digital Compact Cassette

(Network) (Hardware) (Philips)
DBO: DataBase Owner DCC: Digital Content Creation
(Databases)
DCC: Direct Cable Connection
DBP: DataBase Publishing (Hardware)
DBPSK: Differential Binary Phase Shift Keying DCC: Direct Client Connection
(Communication)
DCC: Display Combination Code
dBr: DeciBel Relative DCCS: DisContiguous Shared Segments D
Audio intensity measurement unit
DCD: Data Carrier Detect
DBR: Dos Boot Record
DCD: Database Connector Descriptor
DBRAD: Data Base Relational Application
Directory
DCD: Document Content Description
DBRM: DataBase Request Module
DCE: Data Circuit-terminating Equipment
DBS: DataBase System
(Databases) DCE: Data Communication Equipment
A type of hardware, such as a modem, that is responsible for
DBS: Direct Broadcast Satellite encoding a digital signal for delivery to a compatible DCE
(Communication) connected by a data link. In contrast with Data Terminal
Equipment (DTE) (Communication)
DBS: Duplex Bus Selector
DCE: Distributed Computing Environment
DBTG: DataBase Task Group
Subcommittee of CODASYL (Organizations) DCED: Distributed Computing Environment
Daemon
DBV: Digital Broadcast Video
DCF: Data Communication Facility
DBWR: DataBase WRiter
(IBM)
DCF: Data Compression Facility
DC: Data Cartridge
(Hardware) DCF: Data Count Field
(IBM)
DC: Data Collection
DCF: Design rule for Camera Filesystem
DC: Data Communication
(Communication) DCF: Distributed Coordination Function
(Communication)
DC: Data Compression
DCF: Driver Configuration File
DC: Data Control
(Lotus)
DC: Device Context
DCI: Data Capture Interface
(Operating systems)
DCI: Display Control Interface
DC: Device Control
DCL: Data Control Language
DC: Direct Current
DCL: DeCLaration
DC: Domain Controller
(Network) DCL: Device CLear
DCA: Defense Communications Agency DCL: Digital Command Language
The government agency responsible for the defense data (DEC)
network (DDN). (Organizations)
DCL: Digital Control Logic
DCA: Digital Communications Associates
DCLU: Digital Carrier Line Unit
DCA: Distributed Communication Architecture
DCLZ: Data Compression Lempel-Ziv
DCA: Document Content Architecture
DCM: Digital Carrier Module
Describes how a document is organized (tabulator, headers,
footers, ...) so it appears the same on different systems DCML: Dynamic Configuration Markup Language
DCA: Dynamic Cache Architecture DCNA: Data Communication Network Architecture
DCAF: Distributed Console Access Facility DCO: Device Configuration Overlay
(IBM) Allows system vendors to purchase HDDs from different
manufacturers with potentially different sizes, and then
DCAM: Digital CAMera configure all HDDs to have the same number of sectors
(Hardware) (Hardware)
DCAM: Direct Chip Attach Module DCO: Digitally Controlled Oscillator
DCB: Device Control Block (Hardware)
DCB: Disk Coprocessor Board DCOM: Distributed Component Object Model

(Novell) (Microsoft)
DCC: Data Country Code DCP: Device Color Profile

(Software)
DCC: Digital Command Control
DCP: Device Control Protocol

DCS DE
DCS: Data Control System DDI: Device Driver Interface

An interface that facilitates driver portability across different
DCS: Desktop Color Separation
UNIX system versions on SPARC hardware. (Operating
(Software) systems) (Sun)
DCS: Digital Cellular System DDI: Digital Document Interchange
DCS: Digital Cross-connect System DDI: Direct Dial In
DCS: Distributed Control System DDIM: Device Driver Initialization Model
DCT: DiCTionary DDK: Driver Development Kit
D File name extension (Software)
DCT: Discrete Cosine Transform DDL: Data Definition Language
Mathematical function used by video encoders to achieve a
high compression ratio. (Software) DDL: Document Description Language
DCT: Display Compression Technology DDM: Distributed Data Management
(IBM)
DCU: Data Cache Unit
DDMA: Distributed Direct Access Memory
DCU: Delphi Compiled Unit
(Software) (Borland) DDML: Document Definition Markup Language
DD: Data Definition DDN: Defense Data Network

(Databases) Comprises the MILNET and several other Department of
Defense networks. (Network)
DD: Data Dictionary
DDNS: Dynamic Domain Name System
DD: Definition Description (Network)
HTML Tag
DDoS: Distributed Denial Of Service
DD: Digital Display (Network)
DD: Double Density DDP: Datagram Delivery Protocol
DDA: Digital Differential Analyzer DDP: Distributed Data Processing
A differential analyzer (DA) that uses digital representations for
analog quantities. DDP: Document-Driven Programming
(Software)
DDA: Distributed Data Access
DDR: Dance Dance Revolution
DDA: Domain-Defined Attribute
The most awesomest dance simulator around (Software) (Sony)
DDAP: Digital Distribution of Advertising for
DDR: Dial on Demand Routing
Publications
(Network)
User-driven organization working towards enabling the
universal exchange of digital ads throughopen process DDR: Double Data Rate
integration and the use of accredited standards. See Memory access architecture that supports data transfers on
http://www.ddap.org (Organizations) both edges of each clock cycle, which doubles the memory
DDB: Device Dependent Bitmap chip's data throughput. DDR also consumes less power, which
makes it well-suited for use with notebook computers
DDB: Device Descriptor Block (Hardware)
DDBMS: Distributed DataBase Management DDR: Dynamic Desktop Router

System DDR: Dynamic Document Review
(Databases)
(Software) (Symantec)
DDC: Digital Data Channel DDR-SDRAM: Double Data Rate - Synchronous
DDC: Display Data Channel Dynamic Random Access Memory
(Hardware)
DDCMP: Digital Data Communications Message
Protocol DDR-SMII: Double Data Rate - Serial Media
(DEC) Independent Interface
(Network)
DDCS: Distributed Data Connection Services
(IBM) DDS: Data Description Specification
DDD: Direct Distance Dialing DDS: Design Data Sheet
DDE: Direct Data Entry DDS: Digital Data Storage
DDE: Dynamic Data Exchange DDS: Digital Dataphone Service
Interprocess communication mechanism (Software) (Microsoft) (AT&T)
DDEML: Dynamic Data Exchange Manager Library DDS: Distributed Database Services
(Microsoft) DDS: Distributed Directory Service
DDF: Data Decryption Field DDSA: Digital Data Service Adapter
DDT: Dynamic Debugging Tool
DDF: Distributed Data Facility
DDWG: Digital Display Working Group
DDF: Dynamic Data Formatting (Organizations)
(IBM)
DDX: Digital Data eXchange
DE: Device End

DEA DFS
DEA: Data Encryption Algorithm DES: DEScription

Ffile name extension
DEA: Disposable Email Address
DES: Domino Extended Search
DEB: Digital European Backbone
(Network)
DESC: Defense Electronics Supply Center
DEBI: Dma Extended Bus Interface
(Hardware) DESPR: Digital Ethernet Single Port Repeater
DEC: DECrement DESTA: Digital Ethernet thin-wire STation Adapter
DEC: DEvice Clear DET: Device Execute Trigger D
DEC: Digital Equipment Corporation DET: Directory Entry Table
A table on every network volume that contains directory
DECNET: Digital Equipment Corporation
entries for each file on the volume. The table, stored in the
NETworking server's memory, enables quick access to the location of every
Network protocol file (Novell)
DECT: Digital Enhanced Cordless DEU: Defective End User
Telecommunications Often described by IS support personnel (Net lingo)
(Communication)
DEUNA: Digital Ethernet Unibus Network Adapter
DECUS: Digital Equipment Corporation Users
Society DEV: DEVice
DEK: Data Encryption Key DF: Data Field
DEL: Data Extraction Language DF: Destination Field
DEL: DELete DF: Device Flag
DELNI: Digital Ethernet Local Network DF: Double Flag

Interconnect DFC: Data Flow Control
DELQA: Digital Ethernet Lowpower Q-bus DFD: Data Flow Diagram
network Adapter
DFDL: Data Format Description Language
DELSTR: DELete STRing Modeling language from the Open Grid Forum (OGF) for
(IBM) describing general text and binary data
DELTA: Developing European Learning through DFDR: Digital Flight Data Recorder
Technology Advance (Hardware)
DELUA: Digital Ethernet Lowpower Unibus DFDSM: Data Facility Distributed Storage
network Adapter Management
DELUG: DEutsche Linux User Group DFDSS: Data Facility Data Set Services
DEMARC: Distributed Enterprise Managemant (Software) (IBM)
ARChitecture DfE: Designed For Environment
DEMPR: Distributed Enterprise Management DFE: Desktop Functional Equivalent
ARChitecture (Compaq)
DEN: Directory Enabled Networking DFHSM: Data Facility Hierarchical Storage
The DEN Initiative (see www.dtmf.org) is an effort to build Manager
intelligent networks and networked applications that can (IBM)
associate users and applications to services available from the
network according to a consistent and rational set of policies DFI: Digital Facility Interface
(Network)
DFM: Design For Manufacturability
DEN: Document Enabled Networking (IBM)
(Novell)
DFM: Device Fault Manager
DENIM: Directory Enabled Net Infrastructure Provides real-time fault analysis for Cisco devices (Software)
Model (Cisco)
(Network) (Novell)
DFN: Dedicated Frogans Network
DEP: Data Execution Prevention See http://www.frogans.com/ (Software)
Operating system feature that's new in Windows 2003 SP1 &
DFN: Deutsches ForschungsNetz
Windows XP SP2. It serves to prevent viruses and other
malicious code from ever executing (Operating systems) DFP: Data Facility Product
(Microsoft)
DFP: Digital Flat Panel
DEPCA: Digital Ethernet Personal Computer-bus
(Hardware)
Adapter
DFP: Distributed Functional Plane
DEQNA: Digital Ethernet Q-bus Network Adapter
DFPI: Digital Flat Panel Initiative
DER: Distinguished Encoding Rules
DFR: Double Frequency Recording
DEREP: Digital Ethernet REPeater
(Hardware)
DES: Data Encryption Standard
DFS: Direct File System
A commonly used algorithm developed by the U.S. National
Bureau of Standards for encrypting and decrypting data. DFS: Distributed File System
(Operating systems)
DES: Data Entry Sheet

DFS DISM
DFS: Domino Fax Server DID: Direct Inward Dialing

(Software) (Lotus)
DIDS: Distributed Intrusion Detection System
DFS: Dynamic File System
DIF: Data Interchange Format
(Operating systems) (Sun)
DiffServ: DIFFerential SERVices
DFSMS: Data Facility Storage Management System
Allows providers to allocate different levels of service to
(IBM) different users of the Internet (Network)
DFT: Design For Testability DIFMOS: Double Injection Floating gate Metal
D DFT: Diagnostic Function Test Oxyde Semiconductor
DFT: Discrete Fourier Transform DIFS: Dcf Inter-Frame Spacing

(Communication)
DFT: Distributed Function Terminal
DIG: Domain Internet Groper
DFU: Data File Utility
(Network)
DG: Data Guard DII: Dynamic Invocation Interface
The overall term or infrastructure for Oracle Standby Database
(Software)
management, both logical and physical. DG has its own
command line interface (Databases) (Oracle) DIIP: Direct Interrupt Identification Port
DGA: Direct Graphics Access DIL: Dual In Line
A method of arbitrating access to the display between XGL and Pin organization in ICs (Hardware)
X11/NeWS server. This allows XGL to talk directly to the frame
buffer, which results in maximum performance. DILLIGAF: Do I Look Like I Give A F***?
Sometimes used by tech support people (Net lingo)
DGC: Data General Corporation
Data General produced minicomputers and was featured in the DILLIGAF: Does It Look Like I Give A F**ck
book "Soul of a New Machine" by Tracey Kidder (Organizations) (Net lingo)
DGC: Distributed Garbage Collection DIME: Desktop Integrated Media Environment
(Software)
DIME: Direct Internet Message Encapsulation
DGIS: Direct Graphics Interface Standard
DIME: DIrect Memory Execute
DGP: Dissimilar Gateway Protocol (Hardware)
DGR: Dynamic Growth and Reconfiguration DIME: Dual Independent Map Encoding
(Artecon)
DIMM: Dual In line Memory Module
DGUX: Data General UniX (Hardware)
DH: Diffie-Hellman DIN: Deutsche Industrie Norm
SSL key exchange method German standards organization (Organizations)
DHCF: Distributed Host Command Facility DIO: Data Input-Output
DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DIP: Datacenter Infrastructure Provider
A system that assigns different IP addresses to devices each
DIP: Dialup Internet Protocol
time they connect to the network. DHCP can support a mix of
static and dynamic IP addresses (Network) DIP: Digital Imaging Processing
DHL: Dynamic Head Loading DIP: Directory Integration Platform
DHP: Dr. Halo Picture Part of Oracle Internet Directory (OID) product. Provides
directory synchronization tools for synching OID to non-Oracle
File name extension
repositories. Also used to build OID into a meta-directory
DHTML: Dynamic HyperText Markup Language (Databases) (Oracle)
DI: Data In DIP: Document Image Processing

DI: Destination Index DIP: Dual Inline Pin
Processor register (Hardware) (Intel) Refers to the physical geometry of an integrated circuit or
other electronic package; rectangular, with pins on the two
DIA: Document Interchange Architecture longer sides (Hardware)
DIANE: DIrect Access Network for Europe DIPP: Dual Inline Pin Package
DIB: Device Independent Bitmap Refers to the physical geometry of an integrated circuit or
other electronic package; rectangular, with pins on the two
File format for raster bitmaps (Microsoft)
longer sides (Hardware)
DIB: Directory Information Base DIR: DIRectory
DIB: Dual Independent Bus DIS: Draft International Standard
(Hardware)
DIS: Dynamic Impedance Stabilization
DIBOL: DIgital Business Oriented Language
DISA: Data Interchange Standards Association
DIC: DICtionary
File name extension DISA: Direct Inward System Access
DIC: Digital Interface Controller DISI: Directory Information Services

Infrastructure
DICE: Dolby's Interactive Content Encoding (Network)
DICE: Dynamic Internet Configuration DISM: Digital Interface Standards for Monitors
Environment
(Hardware)

DISOSS DMC
DISOSS: DIStributed Office Support System DLM: Dynamic Link Module

(IBM)
DLNA: Digital Living Network Alliance
DISP: DISPlacement Non-profit collaborative trade organization established by Sony
in June 2003, and has more than 250 member companies [3] in
DISP: Domino Internet Starter Pack the mobile, consumer electronics, PC, and service provider
(IBM) industries (Organizations)
DISP: Dutch Independent Shareware Programmer DLP: Digital Light Processing
DIT: Directory Information Tree DLP: Discrete Logarithmic Problem
A graphical display of an organization's directory structure,
sites, and servers, shown as a branching structure. The top-
DLPI: Data Link Provider Interface D
level (root) directory usually represents the organization level The SVR4 STREAMS-based kernel-level interface that supports
the services of the Data Link Layer for both connection-mode
DIU: Digital Interface Unit and connectionless-mode services. (Network)
DIV: DIVide DLR: Dos Lan Requester
DIVE: Direct Interface Video Extension DLR: Dynamic Link Routine
(IBM) (Software)
Divx: DIgital Video eXpress DLS: Data Link Switching
(Hardware) (IBM)
DIW: D-Inside Wire DLS: Dos Lan Services
(AT&T) (Network)
DIX: Dec, Intel, Xerox DLS: DownLoadable Sample
DIY: Do It Yourself DLSCAP: Data Link Switching Client Access
(Net lingo) Protocol
DIZ: Description In Zip (Network)
File name extension DLSW: Data Link SWitching
DKI: Driver Kernel Interface DLT: Digital Linear Tape
An interface between the UNIX system kernel and different (Hardware)
types of drivers. DKI consists of a set of driver-defined
functions that are called by the kernel. These functions are DLU: Dynamic Local User
entry points into a driver. (Operating systems) (Network) (Novell)
DKMS: Dynamic Kernel Module Support dLVQ: Dynamic Learning Vector Quantizer
Designed to create a framework where kernel dependent DLZ: Digital Lempel-Ziv
module source can reside so that it is very easy to rebuild
modules as you upgrade kernels (Operating systems) (Dell) Compression algorithm
DL: Definition List DM: Delta Modulation

HTML Tag DM: Desktop Management
DL: Distribution List DM: Disconnect Mode
DL: DownLoad DM: Distributed Memory
DL: Dual Layer DM: Document Management
(Hardware)
DMA: Digital Music Aggregator
DL/1: Data Language 1
DMA: Dimensional Media Associates
(IBM)
DMA: Direct Memory Access
DL/1: Data Language/1
The transfer of data directly into memory without supervision
DLA: Drive Letter Access of the processor. The data is passed on the bus directly
(HP) between the memory and another device. In contrast with
Direct Virtual Memory Access (DVMA). (Hardware)
DLB: Dynamic Load Balancing
DMA: Document Management Alliance
DLC: Data Line Card
DMAC: Direct Memory Access Controller
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
DLC: Data Link Control
DMACS: Distributed Manufacturing Automation &
DLC: Digital Loop Carrier Control Software
(Hardware)
DMAPI: Dictation Macro Application Programming
DLCI: Data Link Connection Identifier Interface
Identifies the Permanent Virtual Circuit (PVC) connections from (Software)
the user to the frame relay cloud. Assigned by the service
provider (Communication) DMB: Dhtml Menu Builder
Used to idetify a DHTML/Javascript menu building tool called
DLD: Display List Driver DHTML Menu Builder. Also used in the extension of the
DLE: Data Link Escape application's project files (Software)
DLL: Dynamic Link Library DMB: Digital Multimedia Broadcasting

(Software) (Microsoft) DMB: Domain Master Browser
DLL: Dynamic Link Loader (Network)
DLM: Distributed Lock Manager DMC: Desktop Multimedia Conferencing

DMCA DNSSEC
DMCA: Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMSS: Distributed Mass Storage System
DMD: Device Manager Driver DMT: Discrete MultiTone
DMD: Digital Micromirror Device DMTF: Distributed Management Task Force
(Hardware) (TI) The DMTF is the industry organization that is leading the
development, adoption and unification of management
DMD: Directory Management Domain standards and initiatives for desktop, enterprise and Internet
DMDF: Distributed Management Data Facility environments (Organizations)
DME: Dictionary Module Editor DMU: Data Manipulation Unit

D (CAI) DMVT: Dynamic Video Memory Technology
DME: Direct Memory Execution (Hardware) (Intel)
DME: Distributed Management Environment DMY: Day Month Year
DMF: Digest Message Format DMZ: De-Militarized Zone

LAN segment between two firewalls (Network)
DMF: Distribution Media Format
(Microsoft)
DN: Distinguished Name
DMG: Data Management Group DN: DowN

The department that manages data. DNA: Digital Network Architecture
DMI: Definition of Management Information (DEC)
DMI: Desktop Management Interface DNA: Distributed interNet Application

(Microsoft)
DMI: Digital Multiplexed Interface
DNAfs: Distributed interNet Application for
DMIF: Delivery Multimedia Integration Framework Financial Services
DMK: Dynamic Management Kit (Microsoft)
(Sun) DNC: Direct Numerical Control
DML: Data Manipulation Language DNC: Dynamic Network Controller
(Databases)
DNCP: DecNet Control Protocol
DMM: Digital MultiMeter
DNCRI: Division of Networking and
(Hardware)
Communication Research and Infrastructure
DMM: Direct Mail Manager
DnD: Do Not Disturb
Used in chat rooms (Net lingo)
DMMS: Dynamic Memory Management System
DnD: Drag aNd Drop
DMO: Distributed Management Object (Software)
This OLE server exposes representations of SQL Server
database objects (tables, stored procedures, server properties, DNHR: Dynamic Non Hierarchical Routing
and so on), many of which are usually modified through DNI: Decnet Network Interface
Transact-SQL (Databases) (Microsoft)
DNIC: Data Network Identification Code
DMOS: Double-diffused Metal Oxide
Semiconductor DNIS: Dialed Number Identification Service
(Hardware) DNJ: Developer Network Journal
DMP: Dot Matrix Printer (Microsoft)
DMP: DuMP DNLC: Directory Name Lookup Cache

File format for the memory dump (Operating systems) Unix file cache (Operating systems) (Sun)
(Microsoft)
DNM: Distributed Network Management
DMPC: Distributed Memory Parallel Computer (Software)
DMPP: Distributed Memory Parallel Processor DNP: Distributed Network Protocol
DMQS: Display Mode Query and Set DNR: Digital Noise Reduction
(IBM) (Hardware)
DMS: Data Management Software DNR: Domain Name Resolver
DMS: Defense Messaging System (Network)
Global messaging system used for transfer of non-classified DNS: Digital Nervous System
and classified data (for example, encrypted emails) (Software) (Microsoft)
DMS: Desktop Management Suite DNS: Domain Name System
(Seagate) The process that translates Internet domain names (such as
DMS: Digital Multiplexed System www.acronyms.ch) into IP addresses (Network)
DMS: Distributed Media Services DNSBL: Domain Name System Black List
DMS: Document Management System DNSSEC: Domain Name System SECurity

(Security)
DMSCMS: Display Management System
DMSD: Digital MultiStandard Decoding
DMSDK: Digital Media Software Development Kit
(Software) (SGI)

DNSSEC DPRAM
DNSSEC: Domain Name System SECurity DOV: Data Over Voice

extensions (Communication)
Technique for securing the Domain Name System. It is a set of
DOVBS: Data Over Voice Bearer Service
extensions to DNS, which provide end-to-end authenticity and
integrity and was designed to protect the Internet from certain (Communication)
attacks. See also http://www.dnssec.net/ DOW: Day Of Week
DNSWL: Domain Name System White List DOW: Direct OverWrite
DO: Data Out DP: Data Processing
DO: Distributed Objects DP: Defect Prevention D
(Operating systems)
(Software)
DOA: Dead On Arrival DP: Detection Point
Service to replace malfunctioning devices (Hardware)
DPA: Demand Protocol Architecture
DOA: Dead Or Alive
(3Com)
(Games)
DPA: Document Printing Architecture
DOC: Declaration Of Conformity
DPAM: Demand Priority Access Method
DOC: DOCument
File name extensions DPAREN: Data PARity ENable
DOCSIS: Data Over Cable Service Internet DPB: Drive Parameter Block
Specification DPBC: Delivery Point Bar Code
DOCSV: Data Over Circuit-Switched Voice US Mail system to speed mail sorting, increase delivery
accuracy, and reduce postage costs
DOD: Department Of Defense
(Organizations)
DPC: Deferred Procedure Call
DOD: Direct Outward Dialing DPC: Direct Program Control

(Communication) DPDT: Double Pole Double Throw
DOE: Distributed Objects Environment DPE: Distributed Processing Environment
DOE: Distributed Objects Everywhere DPI: Data Processing Information
DPI: Digital Phone Interface
DOI: Domain Of Interpretation
DPI: Distributed Protocol Interface
DOIP: Dial Other Internet Providers
dpi: Dots Per Inch
(IBM)
Resolution Measurement
DOIT: Disabilities, Opportunities,
DPKG: Debian PacKaGe
Internetworking and Technology
Binary software package for installation on Debian GNU/Linux.
DO-IT: Disabilities, Opportunities, Also, the software installation program (Operating systems)
Internetworking and Technology
DPKT: Dynamic Public Key Technology
DOJ: Department Of Justice DPL: Descriptor Privilege Level
(Organizations)
DPL: Distributed Program Link
DOLAP: Desktop OnLine Analytical Processing
(IBM)
DOM: Document Object Model
DPM: Defects Per Million
Popular, standardized way of manipulating XML data
DPM: Demand Planning Module
DOMAIN: Distributed Operating Multi Access
(Software)
Interactive Network
DPM: Digital Panel Meter
DOMF: Distributed Object Management Facility
(Hardware)
(HP)
DPMA: Data Processing Management Association
DOOM: Decentralized Object-Oriented Machine
(Organizations)
DoS: Denial Of Service
DPMI: Dos Protected Mode Interface
(Network)
(Operating systems)
DOS: Disk Operating System
DPMS: Display Power Management Signaling
(Operating systems)
(Hardware)
DoSBS: Denial Of Service By Service
DPMS: Dos Protected Mode Services
The practice of making large numbers of legal accesses to a
computer's public interface (i.e. web site) with the intention of DPNPH: Data Packet Network-Packet Handler
slowing or crashing the system. Hence Denial of Service By
Service - the serving computer cannot keep up with the DPO: Data Phase Optimization
demands (Network) DPOF: Digital Print Order Format
DOSEM: Disk Operating System EMulation DPP: Distributed Parallel Processing
DOT: Design Oriented Technology DPRAM: Dual-Ported Random Access Memory
DOT: DOcument Template A type of random access memory that allows multiple reads or
Filename extension writes to occur at the same time (Hardware)

DPRG DS
DPRG: Dallas Personal Robotics Group DRDRAM: Direct Rambus Dynamic Random
United States' oldest club involved in amateur robotics Access Memory
(Organizations) (Hardware)
DPROP: Data PROPagator DRDW: Direct Read During Write
(IBM)
DRE: Document Rendering Engine
DPS: Desktop Purchasing System Collection of Java classes that can be used to define an abstract
Buy-side electronic commerce system which supports the document and render it in PDF or HTML. A document consists
procurement process of indirect goods and services of a collection of elements such as text, lists (bulleted,
D DPS: Digital Pixel Sensor
numbered, plain), tables, images, fonts, color, etc. (Software)
(IBM)
(Hardware)
DREN: Defense Research and Engineering
DPS: Display PostScript Network
DPS: Document Processing System (Network)
DPSK: Differential Phase Shift Keying DRF: Data Recovery Field

(Communication) In NTFS file encryption keys are stored there (Operating
systems) (Microsoft)
DPST: Double Pole Single Throw
DRI: Declarative Referential Integrity
DPT: Distributed Processing Technology (Databases)
(DPT)
DRI: Defense Research Internet
DPtoTP: Display Coordinates TO Tablet
Coordinates DRI: Digital Research Incorporated
Coordinates conversion DRK: Devnet Resource Kit
DPV: Distributed Partitioned View (Software) (Macromedia)
Joins horizontally partitioned data from a set of member tables DRM: Destination Release Mechanism
across one or more servers, making the data appear as if from
one table (Databases) (Microsoft) DRM: Digital Rights Management
Copy-protection scheme
DQDB: Distributed Queue Dual Bus
DRM: Distributed Resource Management
DQL: Data Query Language
DRMAA: Distributed Resource Management
DQP: Distributed Query Processor Application Api
(Databases) High-level API specification for the submission and control of
DQPSK: Differential Quadrature Phase Shift jobs to one or more Distributed Resource Management Systems
Keying (DRMS) within a Grid architecture (Software)
(Communication) DRMOS: Digital Rights Management Operating
System
DR: Data Received
DRMS: Distributed Resource Management System
DR: Disaster Recovery
Process or plan by which a business would recover it's IT DRMU: Digital Remote Measurement Unit
systems in the case or a major incident (disaster)
DRO: Data Request Output
DR.BOND: Dial-up Router Bandwidth ON Demand
DRO: Destructive Read-Out
(NEC)
DRP: Decnet Routing Protocol
DRAC: Dell Remote Assistant Card
Interface card from Dell Inc that provides out-of-band DRP: Distribution and Replication Protocol
management facilities. The controller has its own processor, The goal of the DRP protocol is to significantly improve the
memory, battery, network connection, and access to the efficiency and reliability of data distribution over HTTP
system bus (Hardware) (Dell)
DRS: Data Replication Service
DRAM: Dynamic Random Access Memory Service to move data between members of a server cluster
A type of semiconductor random-access memory that stores (Software)
information in integrated circuits that contain capacitors.
Because capacitors lose their charge over time, the dynamic DRS: Document Registration System
RAM must be periodically "refreshed" or recharged. (Hardware)
DRS: Driver ReSource
DRAS: Dynamic Remote Access Service File name extension
(Microsoft)
DRU: Disc Remastering Utility
DRAW: Direct Read After Write Tool designed to create a customized copy of the Ubuntu Linux
Distribution (Operating systems)
DRB: Dram Row Boundary
DRV: device DRiVer
DRC: Design Rule Checks
File name extension
DRD: Data Reading Device
DRV: DRiVe
DRD: Digital Ruggedized Display
DRW: Drawing
(Hardware)
File name extensions
DRDA: Distributed Relational Database
DRY: Don't Repeat Yourself
Architecture
There is no duplicated logic; a change should match a single
(Databases)
place in your code (Software)
DRDAAS: Distributed Relational Database DS: Data Segment
Architecture Application Server
CPU register (Hardware) (Intel)
DR-DOS: Digital Research Disk Operating System

DS DSM-CC
DS: Data Send DSDL: Document Schema Definition Language

Its goal is to bring together different validation-related tasks
DS: Data Server
and expressions to form a single extensible framework that
DS: Data Strobe allows technologies to work in series or in parallel to produce a
(Hardware) single or a set of validation results
DS: Database Server DSDM: Drop Site Database Manager

(Databases) A process (not the sending client) responsible for maintaining a
registry or database of potential drop sites for drag and drop
DS: Differentiated Service operations.
A IETF standard for a small, well-defined set of per-packet
building blocks from which a variety of services may be built,
DSDP: Device Software Development Platform D
thereby providing a framework for delivering quality of service Provides an extensible, standards-based platform to support all
(QoS) in networks (Network) phases of the device software (embedded) development
process, including hardware bring-up, platform software
DS: Digital Science development, and embedded application software development
(Hardware) (Kodak) (Software)
DS: Digital Services DSE: Data Storage Equipment
DS: Digital Signal DSE: Directory Services Environment

Contains a list of Naming Contexts and Application Partitions
DS: Digital Studio maintained by a Domain Controller (Operating systems)
(Sony) (Microsoft)
DS: Directory Service DSEA: Display Station Emulation Adapter
(Network)
DSF: Dispersion Shifted Fibre
DS: Direct-Sequence Optical fiber type (Communication)
IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN access method (Communication)
DSHD: Double Sided, High Density
DS: Distribution Service
DSI: Defense Simulation Internet
DS: Double-Sided
DSI: Distributed Storage Infrastructure
(Hardware)
DSI: Dynamic Systems Initiative
DS/PPM: Direct Sequence/Pulse Position
Microsoft's technology strategy for products and solutions that
Modulation help businesses enhance the dynamic capability of its people,
(Hardware) process, and IT infrastructure using technology (Microsoft)
DS0: Digital Signaling Zero DSIG: Digital SIGnature
(Communication) (Security)
DS3D: DirectSound 3D DSIMM: Dual Single Inline Memory Module
DSIS: Distributed Support Information Standard
DSA: Digital Signature Algorithm
DSL: Dialogue Scripting Language
DSA: Digital Storage Architecture
DSL: Digital Subscriber Line
DSA: Directory System Agent (Communication)
The software that provides the X.500 directory service for a
portion of the directory information base. Generally, each DSA DSL: Distributed Service Logic
is responsible for the directory information for a single DSL: Domain Specific Language
organization or organizational unit.
A programming languge created to solve a specific type of
DSA: Distributed Systems Architecture problem (Software)
DSA: Dynamic Scalable Architecture DSL: Dual Stress Liner

Technology by AMD and IBM to strain silicon chips to enhance
DSAP: Destination Service Access Point their performance (Hardware)
DSAV: Dr. Solomon's Anti Virus DSL: Dynamic Simulation Language
(Software)
DSL2: Downloadable Sounds Level 2
DSBAM: Double-SideBand Amplitude Module (Hardware)
DSBM: Designated Subnet Bandwidth Manager DSLAM: Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
A device on a managed subnetwork that acts as the Subnet (Hardware)
Bandwidth Manager for the subnetwork to which it is attached
(Network) DSLCP: Dynamically Switched Link Control
Protocol
DSC: Digital Still Camera
(Network)
(Hardware)
DSLR: Digital Single-Lens Reflex
DSC: Document Structuring Convention
(Hardware)
DSC: Document Structuring Conventions
DSM: Directory Service Migration
DSCP: Differentiated Services Code Point
DSM: Discrete Sequence Modulation
(Network)
DSM: Distributed Shared Memory
DSD: Data Stream Direct
(Hardware)
DSD: Data Structure Diagram
DSMA: Digital Sense Multiple Access
DSDD: Double Sided, Double Density
DSM-CC: Digital Storage Media - Command and
Control

DSML DTM
DSML: Directory Services Markup Language DSSSL: Document Style Semantic and
Specification Language
DSMN: Directory Service Manager for Netware
International standard for associating processing with SGML
(Operating systems)
documents
DSN: Data Source Name DST: Daylight Saving Time
(Databases)
DSTN: Double-layer SuperTwist Nematic
DSN: Delivery Service Notification
LCD display technology (Hardware)
DSN: Developer Support News DSU: Data Service Unit
D DSN: Distributed Systems Network DSU: Digital Service Unit
DSO: Data Source Object DSVD: Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data
(Databases)
(Communication)
DSO: Decision Support Object DSW: Data Status Word
DSO: Digital Storage Oscilloscope DSW: Device Status Word
An oscilloscope with a built-in memory used to store electronic
waveforms (Hardware) DSX: Digital Signals Cross-connect
DSO: Dynamic Shared Object DT: Definition Term
(Software) HTML Tag
DSOM: Distributed System Object Model DT4DTD: DataTypes For Document Type Definition
(Operating systems) (IBM) DTA: Direct Tape Access
DSP: Development Service Provider (Seagate)
DSP: Dictionary Server Protocol DTA: Disk Transfer Area

(Network) DTAP: Direct Transfer Application Part
DSP: Digital Signal Processor DTB: Data Transfer Bus
A computer oriented toward math-intensive applications, often
Part of the VMEbus specification that contains data and address
a single chip or small chip set. (Hardware)
pathways and associated control signals. Functional modules
DSP: Digital Sound Processor called DTB masters and DTB slaves use the DTB to transfer
data between each other. (Hardware)
(Hardware)
DTC: Design-Time Control (or Component)
DSP: Directory Synchronization Protocol
(Software)
(Lotus)
DTC: DeskTop Conferencing
DSP: Document Services for Printing
DTC: Distributed Transactions Coordinator
DSP: Domain-Specific Part
(Network)
DTCP: Digital Transmission Content Protection
DSPT: Display Station Pass-Thru
(IBM) DTD: Document Type Definition
DSQD: Double Sided, Quad Density DTE: Data Terminal Equipment
That part of a data station that serves as a data source, data
DSR: Data Set Ready
sink, or both, and provides for the data communication control
Serial port signal (Communication) function according to protocols. In contrast with Data
DSR: Device Status Register Communication Equipment (DCE). (Communication)
DSR: Device Status Report DTE: Dumb Terminal Emulator
DSRI: Digital Standard Relational Interface DTF: Distributed Test Facility
DSRL: Document Schema Renaming Language DTL: Dialogue Tag Language

Provides a mechanism whereby users can assign locally (IBM)
meaningful names to XML elements, attributes and entities DTL: Diode Transistor Logic
without having to completely rewrite the DTD or schema to
Semiconductor manufacturing technology (Hardware)
which they are required to conform
DTLB: Dual Translation Lookaside Buffer
DSS: Decision Support System
DSS: Digital Signature Standard DTLL: Data Type Library Language
Specifies libraries of datatypes using an XML language. The
DSS: Direct Station Selector schema for this language is defined in This International
(Hardware) Standard using the compact syntax of the RELAX NG schema
language, as defined by Annex C of ISO 19757:2
DSS: Distributed Security Service
DTM: Deterministic Turing Machine
DSSI: Digital Standard Systems Interconnect
(DEC)
DTM: Digital Terrain Mapping
DSSLL: Differentiated Services over Specific Link DTM: Distributed Transaction Monitor
Layers DTM: Document Table Model
A system for mapping between Differentiated Services and Interface to a document model designed specifically for the
other bandwidth-management protocols such as 802.1p and needs of Apache's XPath and XSLT implementations. The
ATM (Network) motivation behind this model is to optimize performance and
minimize storage (Software)
DSSS: Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
(Communication)

DTMF DVOF
DTMF: Dual Tone MultiFrequency DVB: Digital Video Broadcasting

Use of two simultaneous voice-band tones for dial (such as (Communication)
touch tone) (Hardware)
DVC: Desktop Video Conferencing
DTML: Document Template Markup Language
DVC: Digital Video Camera
DTMS: Data Transformation Management System (Hardware)
DTO: Data Transfer Object DVD: Deutsche Vereinigung für Datenschutz
An "envelope" used to transport any kind of data between tiers
of systems (Software) DVD: Digital Video (or Versatile) Disk
DTO: Day-Time Organizer

(Hardware) D
(Software) DVD+MRW: Digital Video (or Versatile) Disk-
Mount rainier ReWritable
DTP: Data Tools Platform Standard that enables native OS support of data storage on
Provides extensible frameworks and exemplary tools, enabling DVD+RW. This makes the technology far easier to use and
a diverse set of plug-in offerings specific to particular data- allows the replacement of the floppy. See http://www.mt-
centric technologies and supported by the DTP ecosystem rainier.org/ (Hardware)
(Software)
DVD+RW: Digital Video (or Versatile) Disk-
DTP: DeskTop Publishing ReWritable
DTP: Distributed Transaction Processing (Hardware)
DTR: Data Terminal Ready DVD-A: Digital Video (or Versatile) Disk-Audio
Serial port signal (Communication) (Hardware)
DTR: Data Transfer Rate DVD-MMVFF: Digital Versatile Disc MultiMedia

Video File Format
DTR: Dedicated Token Ring
(Network) DVD-R: Digital Video Disk-Recordable
DTR: DeskTop Reproduction DVD-RAM: Digital Versatile Disk - Random Access

Memory
DTR: Draft Technical Report A read-write DVD (Hardware)
DTS: Data Transformation Service DVD-ROM: Digital Versatile Disk - Read Only
(Databases) Memory
DTS: Developer Technical Support A read only DVD (Hardware)
(Software) (Sun) DVD-RW: Digital Video (or Versatile) Disk-
DTS: Digital Theater Surround ReWritable
(Hardware)
DTS: Distributed Time Service
DVE: Digital Video Effect
DTS: Distributed Traffic Shaping
(Cisco) D-VHS: Digital Video Home System
DTSS: Dartmouth Time Sharing System DVI: DeVice Independent

File name extension
DTU: Demand Transmission Unit
DVI: Diagonal Viewable Image
DTV: DeskTop Video
(Hardware)
DTV: Digital TeleVision
DVI: Digital Video Interactive
(Hardware)
DVI: Digital Video Interface
DTVC: DeskTop Video Conferencing
Specification to interface digital flat panels with host PCs
DU: Disk Usage (Hardware)
DUA: Directory User Agent DVI-A: Digital Video Interface-Analog

The software that accesses the X.500 directory service on (Hardware)
behalf of the directory user. The directory user may be a
DVI-D: Digital Video Interface-Digital
person or another software element.
(Hardware)
DUAT: Direct User Access Terminal
DVI-I: Digital Video Interface-Integrated
DUL: Dialup Users List (Hardware)
Project to encourage good e-mail behaviour and accountability
without denying regular e-mail. See http://mail-abuse.org/dul/ DVI-V: Digital Video Interface-Vga
(Hardware)
DUN: Dial-Up Networking
(Network) DVL: Digital Video Link
DUNCE: Dial Up Network Connection DVM: Digital Volt Meter

Enhancement (Hardware)
(Network) DVMA: Direct Virtual Memory Access
DUP: DUPlex A mechanism to enable a device on the SBus to initiate data
transfers between it and other SBus
Used in SCSI interface for split backplane (Hardware)
devices, such as system memory. Contrast with Direct Memory
DUT: Device Under Test Access (DMA). (Hardware)
DUW: Distributed Unit of Work DVMRP: Distance Vector Multicast Routing

(IBM) Protocol
(Network)
DV: Digital Video
DVOF: Digital Video Over Fiber

DVR EARL
DVR: device DriVeR

File name extension E
DVR: Digital Video Recorder E: Exa
(Hardware) Prefix for 10 power 18 (or, in IT parlance, 2 power 60)
DVRMP: Distance Vector Multicast Routing E&M: Ear & Mouth

Protocol Trunking arrangement generally used for two-way switch-to-
(Network) switch or switch-to-network connections (Hardware)
DVX: Digital Voice eXchange E2E: End-To-End

D The ability of a network to deliver service needed by a specific
DW: Data Warehouse network application from end-to-end, with the ability to
(Databases) provide both class of service and reserved bandwidth for
E DW: Display Write
different types of network traffic (Network)
Word Processor (Software) (IBM) E3: Electronic Entertainement Expo
DW: Double Word E4X: Ecmacript For Xml

Four consecutive bytes (32 bits) set of programming language extensions adding native XML
support to ECMAScript. See also http://www.ecma-
DWA: Data Warehousing Alliance international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-357.htm
(Databases) (Microsoft) (Software)
DWC: Data Warehouse Catalog EA: Effective Address

Data warehousing (Databases) EA: Enterprise Agreement
DWDM: Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing Licensing scheme (Microsoft)
(Communication) EA: Escrowed Authenticator
DWF: Design Web Format EA: Extended Attribute
Fast, efficient way to distribute design data to anyone who (IBM)
needs it. With Autodesk Express Viewer, a small, free,
downloadable application, you can view and print that rich data EAB: Enterprise Application Builder
(Software) (Autodesk) (Software)
DWG: DraWinG EADAS: Engineering and Administrative Data
File name extension Acquisition System
DWM: Diskless Workstation Management EADASNM: Engineering and Administrative Data
DWMT: Discrete Wavelet MultiTone Acquisition System Network Management
DWR: Direct Web Remoting EADT: East Australian Daylight Time

See also http://java.net/projects/dwr/ (Software) Timezone: GMT +10:00
DWT: Discrete Wavelet Transform E-ADT: Extended Abstract Data Type

(Software)
DX: DirectX
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) EAGLES: Expert Advisory Group on Language
Engineering Standards
DX: DupleX
EAI: Enterprise Application Integration
(Communication)
DXB: Drawing eXchange Binary EAM: Enterprise Asset Management
(Software)
File name extension (Autodesk)
DXC: Data eXchange Control EAM: Evanescent Access Method
DXF: Data eXchange File EAN: European Article Number

Bar code standards family
DXF: Drawing Exchange Format
EAP: Early Adopter Program
File name extension
DXI: Data eXchange Interface EAP: Enterprise Application Platform
(Software)
An interface to frame relay networks (Communication)
DXL: Domino Xml Language EAP: Extensible Authentication Protocol
(Security)
(IBM)
DXPC: Differential X Protocol Compressor EAPI: Extended Application Programming
Interface
Dxr: Dynamic eXtended Resolution (Software)
(Hardware) (Creative Labs)
EAPoL: Extensible Authentication Protocol Over
DXTC: DirectX Texture COmpression Lan
(Microsoft) (Security)
DXVA: DirectX Video Acceleration EAR: Enterprise ARchive
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) Filename extension (Software)
DYE: Damn Your Eyes EAR: External Access Register
(Net lingo)
EARL: Enhanced Address Recognition Logic
DYNSLT: DYNamic SeLecT Is a custom Catalyst 5000 family switch component similar to
(IBM) the learning bridge or content-addressable memory (CAM) of
other types of network switches and routers (Hardware) (Cisco)

EARN ECM
EARN: European Academic Research Network EBS: E-Business Suite

A network using BITNET technology connecting universities Oracle's original application suite (Oracle)
and research labs in Europe. (Network)
EBSS: Extended Basic Service Set
EAROM: Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory Wireless network with more than one wireless access point
(Hardware) (Network)
EARS: Electronic Access to Reference Services EBT: Electronic Benefits Transfer
EARS: Electronic Authoring and Routing System ebXML: Electronic Business eXtensible Markup
(DEC) Language
This standard aims at creating a modular electronic business
EARS: Explicit Archive and Retrieval System
framework using XML. It is the product of a joint initiative by
the United Nations (UN/CEFACT) and the Organization for the
EAS: Enterprise Access Server
Advancement of Structured Information Systems (OASIS) E
EAS: Enterprise Agreement for S/390
EC: Electronic Commerce
(Software) (IBM)
EASI: Enhanced Asynchronous Scsi Interface EC: Error Control
EAST: East Australian Standard Time EC: European Community

Timezone: GMT +10:00 EC: Exchange Carrier
EAT: End Around Test (Communication)
Also known as a wrap test, returns output signal to input line ECAF: European Certification Authority Forum
(Hardware)
ECAL: Enjoy Computing And Learn
EATA: Enhanced Advanced Technology bus
Attachment ECAT: Electronic Card Assembly and Test
(IBM)
EAX: Environmental Audio eXtensions
ECB: Electronic CodeBook
(Hardware) (Creative Labs)
EB: ExaByte ECB: Event Control Block
A data structure used to control sending and receiving of
1024 petabytes
packets in a Novell Network (Operating systems) (Novell)
EBASIC: Extended Beginners All-purpose
ECC: Electrical Connectivity Checks
Symbolic Instruction Code
Programming language (Software) ECC: Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Technology for public key cryptosystems, providing the highest
EBC: Eisa Bus Controller
security-to-key size ratio (Security)
EBCDIC: Extended Binary Coded Decimal ECC: Error Checking and Correction
Interchange Code
The detection, in the processing unit, and correction of all
Charachter encoding scheme (IBM) single-bit errors, plus the detection of double-bit and some
EBCT: Electron Beam Computed Tomography multiple-bit errors.
Character encoding scheme ECC: Error Correction Code
EBD: Emergency Boot Disk ECD: Enhanced Color Display
EBDI: Enhanced Background Debug Interface ECD: Enhanced Compact Disk
(Hardware) (Motorola)
ECDL: European Computer Driving Licence
EBDS: Enhanced Background Debug Software The ECDL Foundation works to promote an International
certification of industry-standard computing skills. See
EBF: Emergency Bug Fix http://www.ecdl.com (Organizations)
(Software)
ECF: Enhanced Connectivity Facilities
EBF: Engineering Bug Fix
(Sybase) ECHO: European Commission Host Organization
EBI: Equivalent Background Input ECHS: Extended Cylinders, Heads, Sectors

Enables use of hard drives up to 8.4 GB in size (Hardware)
EBI: Extended Background Investigation
ECHT: European Conference on Hypermedia
EBI: External Bus Interface Technology
(Hardware)
ECI: External Call Interface
EBIP: Enterprise Business Intelligence Portal (IBM)
EBKAC: Error Between Keyboard And Chair ECL: EClectic Language
Pronounced 'ebb-kak', is used to describe user errors --
"obviously an EBKAC error" (Net lingo) ECL: Emitter Coupled Logic
EBML: Extensible Binary Meta Language
Simple, XML-like binary language for describing data in ECLF: Extended Common Log Format
structured style. See http://ebml.sourceforge.net/ (Network)
EBNF: Extended Backus-Naur Form ECM: Electronic Control Module
EBPP: Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment ECM: Electronic Counter Measures
Allows customers of commerce institutions to view and pay (Hardware)
their bills online
ECM: Endpoint Congestion Management
EBROM: Electronic Book Read Only Memory (Network)
ECM: Enterprise Commerce Management

ECM EDOS
ECM: Enterprise Content Management EDA: Embedded Document Architecture

ECM: Entity Coordination Management EDA: Event Driven Architecture
Software architecture pattern promoting the production,
ECM: Error-Correction Mode
detection, consumption of, and reaction to events (Software)
ECMA: European Computer Manufacturing
EDAC: Electromechanical Digital Adapter Circuit
Association
(Organizations) EDB: Embedded DataBase
ECML: Electronic Commerce Modeling Language EDB: External Data Bus
(Hardware)
ECMP: Equal Cost Multipath Protocol
(Network) EDC: Easy Data Communication
E ECN: Electronic Communications Network
(Communication)
EDC: Electronic Digital Computer
ECN: European Counter Network
EDC: Enhanced Data Correction
ECN: Explicit Congestion Notification
(Network) EDC: Error Detection and Correction
ECNE: Enterprise Certified Netware Engineer EDC: Error Detection Code
(Novell) EDD: Enhanced Disk Drive
ECO: Engineering Change Order Mechanism to match x86 BIOS device names (e.g. int13 device
Hardware minor revisions, usually in the days of 80h) to Linux device names (e.g. /dev/sda, /dev/hda). EDD is
minicomputers, where a change wasn't made to the PCB layout a project of a T13 committee (Operating systems)
(which would probably carry the major revision number/letter), EDDC: Extended Distance Data Cable
e.g. to correct a problem found in operation and approved and
recorded by HQ staff (Hardware) EDE: Encrypt-Decrypt-Encrypt
ECOM: Electronic Computer Originated Mail EDFA: Erbium Doped Fibre Amplifier
ECOOP: European Conference on Object (Communication)
Orientated Programming EDGAR: Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and
ECP: Enhanced Communication Protocol Retrieval
ECP: Extended Capabilities Port EDGE: Enhanced Data-rate for Gsm Evolution
(Hardware) EDI: Electronic Data Interchange
ECPA: Electronic Communication Privacy Act EDI: Electronic Document Interchange
ECPP: Enterprise Collaborative Processing Portal (DEC)
ECR: Enterprise Content Repository EDID: Extended Display Identification Data

(Hardware)
ECR: Enterprise Customer Resource
EDIF: Electronic Design Interchange Format
eCRM: Electronic Customer Relationship A standard file format for exchanging CAD data.
Management
A complete view of customer interactions, stored in electronic
EDIFACT: Electronic Data Interchange For
format for review and data manipulation (Software) Administration Commerce and Transport
ECS: Element Construction Set EDIINT: Electronic Data Interchange-Internet

Java API for generating elements for various markup languages INTegration
it directly supports HTML 4.0 and XML, but can easily be Standard detailing a set of protocols and requirements to
extended to create tags for any markup language (Software) package, secure, communicate and authenticate transactions
over the Internet in an interoperable manner
ECS: Enhanced Chip Set
EDIT: Emulsion Direct Imaging Technology
ECS: Enterprise Control Station (Hardware)
ECS: Event Communication Service EDL: Edit Decision List
ECSA: Exchange Carriers Standards Association EDLC: Ethernet Data Link Control
ECTF: Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum EDM: Electronic Document Management
Brings together the best industry thinkers on the planet to
deliver on a shared vision in the computer telephony industry EDM: Engineering Data Management
to allow for open access to a diversity of communications
EDM: Enterprise Data Model
products and services. See also http://www.ectf.org/
(Organizations) Data warehousing
ECTL: Electronic Communal Temporal Lobe EDM: Environmental Descriptor Manager

(Databases)
ECTS: European Consumer Trade Show
EDMS: Electronic Document Management System
ECU: Eisa Configuration Utility
EDO: Extended Data Output
ED: End Delimiter
Memory manufacturing technology (Hardware)
ED: Enhanced Density
EDOC: Enterprise Distributed Object Computing
ED: Erase Display
EDODRAM: Extended Data Out Dynamic Random
ED: Extra-high Density Access Memory
2.88 MB floppy disk (Hardware) (Hardware)
EDA: Electronic Design Automation EDOS: Enhanced Disk Operating System
Mmeory manufacturing technology

EDP EIDE
EDP: Electronic Data Processing EF: Expedited Forwarding

A Per-Hop Behavior in the Differentiated Service standard,
EDP: Extended Dos Partition
used to create a virtual leased line service (Network)
EFA: Extended File Attribute
EDPM: Electronic Data Processing Machine
EFCI: Explicit Forward Congestion Indication
EDPS: Electronic Data Processing System
EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation
EDPT: Enhanced fixed Disk Parameter Table
(Hardware) EFI: Electromechanical Frequency Interference
EDR: External Developer Release EFI: Electronics For Imaging
EDRAM: Extended Dynamic Random Access EFI: Extensible Firmware Interface

Memory Specification that defines a new model for the interface E
(Hardware) between operating systems and platform firmware
EDS: Electronic Data Systems EFI: External Functional Interface
EDSAC: Electronic Delay Storage Automatic EFIGS: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish
Computer EFL: Emitter Follower Logic
EDSF: Electronic Document Systems Foundation (Hardware)
See www.edsf.org (Organizations) EFM: Eight to Fourteen Modulation
EDSRA: Earth Data System Reference Application EFM: Ethernet First Mile
EDT: Eastern Daylight Time (Network)
Timezone: GMT -5:00 E-FORM: Electronic FORM
EDT: Event Dispatching Thread EFS: Encrypting File System
Background thread used in Java to process events from the (Operating systems)
Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) graphical user interface event
queue (Software) EFSP: Enhanced Fax Service Provider
EDTV: Enhanced Definition TeleVision EFT: Electronic Funds Transfer
(Hardware) EFT: Euro FileTransfer
EDU: Engine Dispatchable Unit EFTPoS: Point Of SaleElectronic Funds Transfer at
(Databases) Point Of Sale
EDVAC: Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic EFTS: Electronic Funds Transfer at Point Of Sale
Computer
First stored-program digital computer EGA: Enhanced Graphics Adapter
Video specification for a resolution of 640x350 pixels in 16
EDW: Enterprise Data Warehouse colors (Hardware)
EE: Extended Edition EGP: Exterior Gateway Protocol
(IBM) A reachability routing protocol used by gateways in a two-level
internet. EGP is used in the Internet core system. (Network)
EEA: Extended Enterprise Applications
(Software) EGREP: Extended Global Regular Expression Print
EEC: Extended Error Correction EGS: Enhanced Graphics System
EEG: ElectroEncephaloGram EGSM: Extended Global System for Mobile
communications
EEI: Equipment to Equipment Interface
(Communication)
EEL: Epsilon Extension Language
EHCI: Enhanced Host Controller Interface
EEM: External Expansion Module (Hardware)
EEMA: European Electronic Messaging Association EHF: Encoding Header Field
(Organizations)
EHF: Extreme High Frequency
EEMAC: Electrical & Electronic MAnufacturers of
EHLLAPI: Emulator High-Level Language
Canada
Application Programming Interface
EEMS: Enhanced Expanded Memory Specification
EIA: Electronic Industries Alliance
(Operating systems)
High-tech association that represents the full spectrum of U.S.
EEP: Entry Exit Procedure electronics and high-tech industry manufacturers. See also
http://www.eia.org (Organizations)
EEPRO: Ethernet Express PRO
Network interface card (Hardware) (Intel) EIAJ: Electronic Industry Association of Japan
(Organizations)
EEPROM: Electrically Erasable Programmable
Read Only Memory EiB: ExbIByte
A non-volatile PROM that may be written to as well as read Unit of measurement, introduced by the International
from. (Hardware) Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), correspondig to 1024 PiB
EES: Escrow Encryption Standard EICAVR: European Institute for Computer Anti-
Virus Research
EESP: Enterprise Extended Services Portal
EIDE: Enhanced Integrated Drive (or Device)
EET: Eastern European Time Electronics
Timezone: GMT +1:00 Bus architecture (Hardware)

EIGRP EMP
EIGRP: Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing ELSNET: European Language and Speech NETwork
Protocol
EM: ElectroMagnetic
Cisco proprietary routing protocol loosely based on their
original IGRP. EIGRP is an advanced distance-vector routing EM: Electronic Mail
protocol, with optimizations to minimize both the routing
instability incurred after topology changes (Network) (Cisco) EM: EMphasis
HTML tag
EIM: Electronic Image Management
EM: End of Medium
EIO: Enhanced Input/Output
EM: Enterprise Management
EIP: Enterprise Information Portal
(IBM) EM: Expanded Memory
EM: Extensions Manager
E EIR: Equipment Identity Register
A database containing a list of all valid IMEIs on the network EMA: Electronic Mail Association
(Communication)
EMA: Enterprise Management Architecture
EIS: Enterprise Information System
EMA: Enterprise Memory Architecture
EIS: European Information System (Operating systems)
EIS: Executive Information System EMACS: Editing MACroS
EISA: Extended Industry Standard Architecture E-MAIL: Electronic MAIL
PC bus architecture (Hardware)
EMB: Enhanced Master Burst
EISE: Extended Intergration Support Environment
ADA project aimed to provide a real-time simulation of a EMB: Extended Memory Block
generic aircraft, together with the significant environmental EMBARC: Electronic Mail Broadcast to A Roaming
factors
Computer
EISS: Europaeisches Institut für SystemSicherheit
EMBM: Environment-Mapped Bump Mapping
EITAAC: Electronic and Information Technology
EMC: ElectroMagnetic Compatibility
Access Advisory Committee
(Organizations) EMC: E-Mail Connection
EJB: Enterprise Java Bean EMC: Emergency Management Card
(Software) (Sun) (Hardware) (Intel)
EJC: Electronic Journal of Communication EMC: Enhanced Memory Chip

EKP: Enterprise Knowledge Portal EMC: Extended Math Coprocessor
(IBM) EMEA: Europe, Middle East and Africa
EL: ElectroLuminescent EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework
(Hardware) Modeling framework and code generation facility for building
EL: Erase Line tools and other applications based on a structured data model.
See also http://www.eclipse.org/emf/ (Software)
EL1: Extensible Language One
EMF: ElectroMagnetic Field
ELAN: Emulated Local Area Network
EMF: Enhanced MetaFile
ELC: Embedded Linking and Control File format for graphics (Microsoft)
ELD: Electronic License Distribution EMF: Extensible Message Format
ELEC: Enterprise Local Exchange Carrier EMI: ElectroMagnetic Interference
ELF: Electronic Location Finder EMI: Enhanced Multilayer Image
ELF: Executable and Linking Format Cisco's multicast routing implentation permits any host to send
a packet but only members of the multicast group to receive it
(Software)
if "EMI" is enabled on the Stack Master. (Network) (Cisco)
ELF: Extremely Low Frequency
EML: Element Management Layer
(Hardware)
EML: EMaiL
ELH: Entity Life History
Filename extension used by MS Outlook Express (Software)
ELI: Embedded Lisp Interpreter (Microsoft)
ELIC: Electronic Library Information Center EMM: Expanded Memory Manager
ELINT: ELectronic INTelligence EMM: Extended Memory Management
ELK: Extension Language Kit EMMA: European MultiMedia Award

ELLIS: EuLisp LInda System EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation
Markup language intended for use by systems that provide
ELM: ELectronic Mail semantic interpretations for a variety of inputs, including but
(Network) not necessarily limited to, speech, natural language text, GUI
and ink input. See also http://www.w3.org/TR/emma/
ELOD: Erasable Laser Optical Disk
EMMP: Enterprise Mission Management Portal
ELP: Equational Logic Programming
EMO: Exchange Messaging Outlook
ELS: Entry Level System
EMP: ElectroMagnetic Pulse
ELSA: ELektronische SAchen
(Hardware)
German hardware manufacturer (Hardware)

EMR EPL
EMR: ElectroMagnetic Radiation EOF: Enterprise Object Framework

(Software) (Apple)
EMR: Electronic Medical Record
(Software) EOI: End Of Input
EMR: Enhanced Metafile Record EOI: End Of Interrupt
EMS: Electronic Mail System EOI: End Or Identify
EMS: Electronic Messaging Service EOJ: End Of Job
EMS: Element Management System EOL: End Of Line
(Software)
EOL: End Of List
EMS: Energy Management System EOM: End Of Message
EMS: Enhanced Message Service (Communication)
E
EMS: Entrust Messaging Server EON: Edge Of Network
(Security) (Network) (IBM)
EMS: Expanded Memory Specification EON: Extranet Object Network
EMSAPI: Extended Messaging Services EOP: End Of Procedure
Application Programming Interface
EOR: Electro-Optical Reconnaissance
EMSC: Electronic Mail Standards Committee
EOR: Exclusive OR
EMT: Eastern Mediterranean Time Also XOR
Timezone: GMT +2:00
EOS: Earth Observing System
EMV: Europay, Mastercard and Visa (NASA)
EMWAC: European Microsoft Windows nt EOS: Ecc On Simm
Academic Centre (Hardware)
EMX: Enterprise Messaging eXchange EOS: Electrical OverStress
(Lotus) Electrically overstressing and damaging a device or component
by too much voltage or current (Hardware)
EN: Europa Norm
EOS: End Of String
ENA: Electronic Networking Association
EOS: Extended Operating System
ENA: Extended Network Addressing
EOSDIS: Earth Observing System Data and
ENC: ENCoded
Information System
File name extension
(NASA)
ENC: Enterprise Naming Context
EOT: End Of Table
ENDC: European Network Design Center
EOT: End Of Tape
ENDEC: ENcoder/DECoder (Hardware)
ENDS: END of Segment EOT: End Of Text
ENIAC: Electronic Numerical Integrator And EOT: End Of Transmission
Computer (Communication)
First fully electronic digital computer
EoU: Ease Of Use
ENL: EndNote Library
EOUG: European Oracle User Group
File extension for EndNote Program used in bibliographies
(Software) EoVDSL: Ethernet Over Very high bit rate Digital
ENQ: ENQuiry Subscriber Line
(Communication)
ENS: Enterprise Network Services
EP: ElectroPhotographic
ENSS: Exterior Nodal Switching Subsystem Laser printing technology (Hardware)
ENT: Enterprise Network Tools EP: Exchange Provider
EO: Europe Online (Communication)
EOA: End Of Address EPA: Enhanced Performance Architecture

(Communication) EPA: Environmental Protection Agency
EOB: End Of Block (Organizations)
(Communication) EPAC: Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder
EOC: End Of Character EPD: Early Packet Discard
EOC: End Of Conversion (Network)
EOD: End Of Data EPIC: Eclipse PlugIn Central

(Software)
EOD: Erasable Optical Disk
EPIC: Electronic Privacy Information Center
EOF: End Of File
A particular character, usually a Control-D, that tells the EPIC: Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing
system it has reached the end of the file.
EPL: Effective Privilege Level

EPL ESE
EPL: Electronic switching system Programming ERIN: Environmental Resources Information

Language Network
EPLD: Electrically Programmable Logic Device ERLL: Enhanced Run Length Limited
(Hardware)
ERM: Enterprise Relationship Management
EPM: Enhanced editor for Presentation Manager
ERM: Enterprise Resource Management
(IBM)
(Software)
EPM: Enterprise Print Manager
ERM: Entity-Relationship Model
An OS/390 software solution for management of printers and
print jobs in addition to the various printing functions. The host ERMA: Electronic Recording Method, Accounting
data, AFP as well as line data, are converted into printer data
streams such as PCL5 and PostScript (Software) ERMS: Email Response Management System
E EROM: Erasable Read Only Memory
EPM: Enterprise Process Management
(IBM) EROS: Earth Resources Observation System
EPO: Electronic Public Offering ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning
ePO: EPolicy Orchestrator Integrates all data and processes of an organization into a
unified system. Although the initialism ERP originated in the
McAfee tool that delivers real-time information and application
manufacturing environment, today's use of the term ERP
integration for network, desktop, and server security (Security)
systems has much broader scope
EPOS: Electronic Point Of Sale ERR: ERRor
Electronic cash registers and their software used in stores
ERU: Emergency Recovery Utility
EPP: Enhanced Parallel Port
(Microsoft)
(Hardware)
ES: Enterprise Suite
EPR: EndPoint Reference
(Software)
Combination of Web services elements that define the address
for a resource in a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) ES: Extended Services
header (Software)
ES: Extra Segment
EPRI: Electric Power Research Institute CPU register (Hardware) (Intel)
(Organizations)
ESA: Enterprise Systems Architecture
EPROM: Erasable Programmable Read Only (IBM)
Memory
ESA: European Space Agency
A non-volatile memory chip that is programmed
after they it is manufactured. EPROMs differ from PROMs in that (Organizations)
they can be erased (generally by exposing the semiconductor ESB: Enterprise Service Bus
material to the ultraviolet light) and can be reprogrammed
after having been erased. (Hardware) ESC: Eisa System Component
EPRPI: Enhanced Primary Rate Peripheral ESC: ESCape
Interface
ESC/P: Epson Standard Code for Printers
EPS: Encapsulated PostScript (Epson)
A file format for graphics and text supported by several
graphics drawing applications. (Adobe)
ESCD: Extended System Configuration Data
EPSF: Encapsulated PostScript Files ESCM: Extended Services Communications

Manager
EPSI: Encapsulated PostScript Interchange (IBM)
A version of the encapsulated PostScript format that describes
an image using a standard text file. (Adobe) ESCON: Enterprise System CONnection
Architecture (IBM)
EQD: English Query Domain
Filename extension (Databases) (Microsoft) ESCSI: Embedded Small Computers System
Interface
EQP: EQuiPment Bus architecture (Hardware)
ER: Entity Relationship ESD: Electronic Software Distribution
ER: Error Resilience ESD: ElectroStatic Discharge
Technique that make systems more robust against errors
(Hardware)
ER: Explicit cell Rate ESD: Emergency Startup Disk
ER/RC: Extended Result/Response Code (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
ERA: Extended Registry Attributes ESDI: Enhanced Small Device Interface

ERA/O: Embedded Remote Access Option ESDRAM: Enhanced Synchronous Dynamic
(Hardware) (Dell) Random Access Memory
(Hardware)
ERAS: Electronic Routing and Approval System
ESDS: Entry Sequenced Data Set
ERD: Emergency Repair Disk
ESE: Exchange Server Enterprise
ERD: Entity-Relationship Diagram
(Microsoft)
ERE: Extended Regular Expression
ESE: Extensible Storage Engine
(Software)
Stores all active directory objects (Operating systems)
ERIC: Educational Resources Information Center (Microsoft)

ESF ETS
ESF: Extended SuperFrame ESS: Enterprise Survivable Server

Allows customers to place backup ESS servers at key locations
ESI: Edge Side Include
throughout their enterprise. An ESS server is capable of taking
(Software) over for the entire enterprise or, just a portion of the enterprise
ESI: End System Identifier in the event that some type of outage has occurred
ESI: Enhanced Serial Interface ESS: Extended Service Set

Communication specification (Hayes) (Communication)
ESIS: End System to Intermediate System ESSID: Extended Service Set IDentifier
(Communication)
ES-IS: End System to Intermediate System
The International Organization for Standardization's Open
ESSL: Engineering and Scientific Subroutine
Library
Systems Interconnection (OSI) protocol by which end systems
announce themselves to intermediate systems. (Software) (IBM)
E
ESM: Enterprise Security Manager ESSO: Enterprise Single Sign-On
Scalable security policy compliance and host-based Extends Oracle Identity Management's single sign-on capability
vulnerability assessment tool (Software) (Symantec) to non-web applications (Oracle)
ESM: Enterprise System Management EST: Eastern Standard Time
Timezone: GMT -5:00
ESM: European Satellite Multimedia
ESTO: Equipment Superior To Operator
ESM: External Storage Module
When a computer seems to have a mind of its own. For
A Sun external unit that contains disk or tape drives and that
example, when you watch it spam all 800 people in your
can be connected to a desktop SPARCstation system.
contact list and you can't stop it (Net lingo)
(Hardware) (Sun)
ESTT: E-mail Server Test Tool
ESMA: Extended Server Memory Architecture
Ziff-Davis labs test suite for email servers
(Operating systems)
ESU: ElectroStatic Unit
ESMD: Embedded Storage Module Disk
ESX: Elastic Sky X
ESMD: Enhanced Storage Module Device
Was created from the term Elastic Sky, a marketing label that
ESME: External Short Message Entity was created but not used by Vmware (Operating systems)
(Communication)
ET: Enhancement Technology
ESMR: Enhanced Specialized Mobile Radio
ETACS: Extended Total Access Communication
ESMTP: Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol System
(IBM)
ESN: Electronic Security Number
ETANN: Electrically Trainable Analog Neural
ESN: Electronic Serial Number
Network
ESN: Electronic Switched Network Chip (Intel)
ESNET: Energy Sciences NETwork ETB: End of Transmission Block
ESO: Equipment Superior to Operator ETC: Electronic Toll Collection
(Net lingo)
ETC: Enhanced Throughput Cellular
ESP: Emulation Sensing Processor Cellular modem protocol (AT&T)
ESP: Encapsulated Security Payload etc: Essential Text Configuration
(Network) In any unix (and variants like linux) system the /etc directory
(Operating systems)
ESP: Enhanced Serial Port
(Hardware) ETF: Enriched Text Format
ESP: Enhanced Service Provider ETFTP: Enhanced Trivial File Transfer Protocol
ESP: Enterprise System Platform ETIS: European Telecommunications Information
Service
ESP: Estimated Street Price
ETL: Extract, Transform and Load
ESP: Ethernet Serial Port
(Databases)
ESP: Eudora Sharing Protocol
ETLA: Extended Three Letter Acronym
ESP: Expert Searching and Pricing
ETML: Extract, Transform, Move, and Load
ESPRIT: European Strategic Program of Research (Databases)
and development in Information Technology
ETOM: Electron-Trapping Optical Memory
ESR: Event Service Routine
ETPL: Endorsed Tempest Products List
ESRB: Entertaining Software Rating Board
ETR: Early Token Release
(Organizations)
ETR: Etsi Technical Report
ESRO: Efficient Short Remote Operation
(Network) ETS: Econometric Time Series
ESS: Electronic Switching System ETS: Ethernet Terminal Servers
(Hardware)
ESS: Enterprise Storage Server
(IBM) ETS: European Telecommunications Standard

ETSI FASIC
ETSI: European Telecommunication Standards EWS: Exchange Web Services

Institute (Microsoft)
(Organizations)
ExCA: EXchangeable Card Architecture
ETTb: Ethernet To The Business (Intel)
Telecommunications carrier service providing Ethernet to a
EXE: Executable
business subscriber. See also ETTh and ETTx. (Communication)
File name extension
ETTh: Ethernet To The Home
EXE2BIN: EXEcutable To BINary
Telecommunications carrier service providing Ethernet to a
home subscriber. See also ETTb and ETTx. (Communication) EXIF: EXchangeable Image File format
ETTx: Ethernet To The X Standard for storing interchange information in image files,
especially those using JPEG compression. Most digital cameras
E Telecommunications carrier service providing Ethernet to a
business subscriber (ETTb) or home subscriber (ETTh). See
now use the EXIF format. See also http://www.exif.org/
also ETTb and ETTh. (Communication) EXP: EXPonent
F ETX: End of TeXt EXSLT: Extensions to eXtensible Stylesheet
(Communication) Language Transformation
EU: Execution Unit EXT: EXTernal
EUC: End User Computing EXTRA: EXecutionTRace Analyzer
EUC: Extended Unix Code EXTRN: EXecution TRace Analyzer
An encoding scheme that allows up to four codesets to coexist
in one data stream. EUC supports one primary character set EXUG: European X Users Group
and three supplementary character sets. (Operating systems) E-ZINE: Electronic magaZINE
EUI: End-User Interface
EULA: End User License Agreement F
EUNET: European Unix NETwork f: femto
Euro CASE: EUROpean Council of Applied
Sciences and Engineering F/T: Full Time
(Organizations) F/V: Frequency to Voltage converter
EUUG: European Unix Users Group (Hardware)
(Organizations) F/W SCSI: Fast/Wide Small Computers System
EUV: Extreme Ultra Violet Interface
EUVL: Extreme UltraViolet Lithography FA: Foreign Agent

(Hardware) Node in a mobile IP network that enables roamed users to
register on the foreign network. The FA will communicate with
EVA: Economic Value Added the HA (Home Agent) to enable IP datagrams to be transferred
between the home network and the roamed user on the foreign
Ev-DO: Evolution-Data Only (or Optimized) network (Network)
Wireless radio broadband data standard adopted by many
CDMA mobile phone service providers FAB: FABrication plant
Usually referred to chip fabrication plants
EVE: Extensible Vax Editor
FAC: File Access Code
EVGA: Extended Video Graphics Adapter
FACE: Framed Access Command Environment
EVGA: Extended Video Graphics Array
FACS: Facility fir Access Control and Security
EVLIW: Encapsulated Very Long Instruction Word
(Hardware) FAIL: Fast Artificial Intelligence Language
EVM: Embedded Virtual Machine FAMOS: Floating gate Avalanche Metal Oxide
Semiconductor
EVR: Enhanced Video Renderer
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
FANS: Future Air Navigation System
EVS: Economic Value Sourced
FAP: File Access Protocol
EW: Electronic Warfare
FAP: Format And Protocol
EWAN: Emulator Without A Name
FAPI: Family Application Programming Interface
EWN: Enterprise Wide Network
A computer network that links all the computers in an FAQ: Frequently Asked Question
organization (Network) FAR: Fixed Alternative Routing
EWOS: European Workshop for Open Systems FARE: Film Automatic Retouching and
The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Implementors Enhancement
workshop for Europe.
Film scanner technology (Hardware) (Canon)
EWS: Early Warning Status
FARNET: Federation of American Research
System that alerts the host system if drive performance
NETworks
approaches unacceptable reliability levels (Hardware)
(Organizations)
EWS: Employee Written Software
FASIC: Function and Algorithm-Specific
(IBM)
Integrated Circuit

FASMI FDCT
FASMI: False Analysis of Shared Multidimensional FCFS: First Come, First Served
Information Process or thread scheduling (Operating systems)
FAST: File And Settings Transfer FCHBA: Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter
The FAST wizard helps you transfer files in windows XP Host bus adapter over optical fibers (Hardware)
FCI: Fibre Channel Interface
FAST: First Application System Test
FCI: File Classification Infrastructure
FAT: File Allocation Table Provides insight into your data to help you manage your data
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) more effectively, reduce costs and mitigate risks by providing a
built-in solution for file classification (Operating systems)
FAT12: File Allocation Table 12 bits (Microsoft)
Every entry in the table is 12 bits wide (Operating systems)
(Microsoft) FCI: Flow Control Indicator
FAT16: File Allocation Table 16 bits FCI: Flux Changes per Inch
(Microsoft)
FCIF: Flexible Computer Interface Form F
(Communication)
FAT32: File Allocation Table 32 bits
FCIF: Full Common Intermediate Format
Video Teleconferencing standard
(Microsoft)
FATA: Fiber channel AT Attachment FCIP: Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol
FCIP mechanisms enable the transmission of Fibre Channel
(Hardware)
(FC) information by tunneling data between storage area
FAX: FACSimile network (SAN) facilities over IP networks; this capacity
Also a file name extension facilitates data sharing over a geographically distributed
enterprise (Network)
FAZAM: Full Armor Zero AdMinistration
FCL: Fibre Channel Loop
FB: Fiber optic Backbone
FCL: Framework Class Library
FBA: Fair Buffer Allocation A collection of classes which are part of Microsoft's .NET
(Network) platform. (Software) (Microsoft)
FBA: Form Based Authentication FCO: First Class Object

FBC: Find By Content FCO: Flow Control Operator bits

FBD: Fully Buffered Dimm FCoE: Fibre Channel Over Ethernet
Memory technology which can be used to increase reliability, Mapping of Fibre Channel frames over full duplex IEEE 802.3
speed and density of memory subsystems (Hardware) networks. This allows Fibre Channel to leverage 10 Gigabit
Ethernet networks while preserving the Fibre Channel protocol
FBGA: Fine Ball-Grid Array (Network)
Integrated circuit (IC) packaging that uses half-spherical
contacts versus pins (Hardware) FCP: Fibre Channel Protocol
FBRAM: Frame Buffer Random Access Memory FC-PGA: Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array
A special type of Dynamic RAM (DRAM) used in high-speed IC pins organization (Hardware)
frame buffers. Similar to Video RAM (VRAM), FBRAM is FCPH: Fibre Channel PHysical and signaling
specifically designed for use in high-speed frame buffers and
graphics accelerators. (Hardware)
interface
FC: Fiber Channel FCR: FIFO Control Register

(Hardware) FCRAM: Fast-Cycle Random Access Memory
FC: Frame Control (Hardware)
FC: Functional Component FCS: Fiber Channel Standard

(Software) FCS: First Customer Ship
FC/AL: Fiber Channel/Arbitrated Loop FCS: Frame Check Sequence
FC/EL: Fiber Channel/Enhanced Loop The standard 16-bit cyclic redundancy check used for HDLC and
frame relay frames. The FCS detects bit errors occurring in the
FCA: Flow Control Acknowledge bits of the frame between the opening flag and the FCS
(Communication)
FC-AL: Fiber Channel - Arbitrated Loop
(Hardware) FD: Flat Display
(Hardware) (Sony)
FCB: File Control Block
FD: Floppy Disk
FCBS: File Control BlockS
FD: Full Duplex
FCC: Federal Communications Commission
(Organizations) FDBMS: Federated Database Management System
(Databases)
FCC: File Carbon Copy
FDC: Floppy Disk Controller
FCCSET: Federal Coordinating Council for Science, (Hardware)
Engineering and Technology
FDCN: Financial Data Cast Network
FC-EL: Fiber Channel - Enhanced Loop
(Hardware) FDCT: Forward Discrete Cosine Transform
(Software)

FDD FG
FDD: Floppy Disk Drive FECN: Forward Explicit Congestion Notification

(Hardware) A bit sent by a frame relay network to notify an interface
device (DTE) that congestion avoidance procedures should be
FDDI: Fiber Digital Device Interface initiated by the receiving device (Communication)
(Hardware)
FED: Field Emitting Display
FDDI: Fiber Distributed Data Interface (Hardware)
An emerging high-speed networking standard. The underlying
medium is fiber optics, and the topology is a dual-attached, FEFO: First-Ended, First-Out
counter-rotating token ring (Hardware)
FEK: File Encryption Key
FDDITPPMD: Fiber Distributed Data Interface (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
Twisted Pair-Physical layer, Medium Dependent
FEM: Finite Elements Method
FDE: Full Duplex Ethernet
FEP: Front End Processor
FDF: Forms Data Format
FEPI: Front End Programming Interface
F (Adobe)
FEPROM: Flash Erasable Programmable Read
FDFS: File Descriptor File System
Only Memory
A pseudo file system that provides explicit names for opening
(Hardware)
files using file descriptors. (Operating systems)
FER: Forward Error Correction
FDI: Feeder Distribution Interface
Similar to a DSLAM Cross-Connect box (Communication) FeRAM: FErroelectric Random Access Memory
(Hardware)
FDII: Feeder Distribution Interface Interconnect
(Communication) FERC: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(Organizations)
FDL: File Definition Language
FESDK: Far East Software Development Kit
FDL: Free Documentation License
(Microsoft)
Its purpose is to make a manual, textbook, or other functional
and useful document "free" in the sense of freedom: to assure FET: Field-Effect Transistor
everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with A type of transistor in which the flow of current between the
or without modifying it, either commercially or source and the drain is modulated by application of a
noncommercially transverse electric field between two gate electrodes.
FDM: Frequency-Division Multiplexing (Hardware)
FDMA: Frequency-Division Multiple Access FF: Flip-Flop

(Hardware)
FDOCA: Formatted Data Object Content
Architecture FF: ForFait
(IBM) Used in online gaming (Games)
FDPT: Fixed Disk Parameter Table FF: Form Feed

(Hardware) A printer command that tells a printer to move to the top of the
next page. In the ASCII character set, the form-feed character
FDSL: Fractional Digital Subscriber Line has the decimal value 12. Also known as the page eject
(Communication) character.
FDSL: Free Digital Subscriber Line FF: Friendly Fire

(Communication) Used in online First Person Shooter (FPS) games (Games)
FDTE: Female Data Terminal Equipment FFA: Free For All

RS-232 adapter (Hardware) FFDC: First Failure Data Capture
FDx: Full DupleX (IBM)
(Communication) FFI: Foreign Function Interface
FE: Family Edition A facility make calls from one computer language to another
FE: Fast Ethernet FFIF: File Format for Internet Fax

(Network) FFJ: Forte For Java
FE: Functional Entity Java integrated development environment (IDE) (Software)
(Sun)
FEA: Finite Element Analysis
FFOL: Fddi Follow-On-LAN
Engineering stress analysis with a computer (Software)
FFS: Fast FileSystem
FEA: Functional Entity Action
FFS: Fast Filing System
FEAR: False Emotions Appearing Real
(Net lingo) FFS: For F***'s Sake
(Net lingo)
FEBE: Far End Block Error
FFST: First Failure Support Technology
FEC: Fast EtherChannel
(IBM)
(Hardware) (Cisco)
FFT: Fast Fourier Transform
FEC: Fetch Execute Cycle
FFT: Final Form Text
FEC: Forward Error Correction
(IBM)
Sending redundant data so that if data loss occurs, data
recovery is possible without retransmission (Communication) FG: Floating Gate

FGA FNT
FGA: Fine-Grained Authorization FLAC: FLorida Automatic Computer

(Security) Early 1950's digital computer used at Cape Canaveral
FGREP: Fixed Global Regular Expression Print FLAC: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio
FH: Frequency Hopping
is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. See also
(Communication) http://flac.sourceforge.net/
FHS: Fan Heat-Sink FLACC: Full Level Algol Checkout Compiler
FHS: File Hierarchy Standard FLAG: Fiber-optic Link Around the Globe
(Operating systems) (Network)
FHSS: Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum FLC: Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal
(Communication)
FLD: FieLD
FIA: File Integrity Assessment
FLEA: Four Letter Extended Acronym
FIB: Forwarding Information Base
FLGA: Fine Land Grid Array
F
Function to find the proper interface to which the input
interface should send a packet to be transmitted by the router Integrated circuit (IC) packaging that uses small flat contacts
(Network) versus pins (Hardware)
FICON: FIber CONnection FLL: Foxpro Link Library

(IBM) (Microsoft)
FID: Filtering IDentifier FLOPS: FLoating-point Operations Per Second

(Communication) A measure of the speed at which a computer can operate.
(Hardware)
FIF: Fractal Image Format
FLTK: Fast Light Toolkit
FIFO: First In First Out Pronounced "fulltick", is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for
(Hardware) UNIX/Linux (X11), Microsoft Windows® and MacOS X. FLTK
provides modern GUI functionality without the bloat and
FIFOFS: First In First Out File System supports 3D graphics via OpenGL and its built-in GLUT
Named pipe files that give processes common access to data. emulation (Software)
(Operating systems)
FM: Fault Management
FILO: First In Last Out A series of information flows at the physical and ATM layer
FIM: Financial Information Management designed to identify the location and cause of a fault within the
network (Communication)
(Software)
FM: Frequency Modulation
FIN: Functional Identification Number
FMA: Fused Multiply-Add
FIOC: Frame Input/Output Controller
CPU instruction type
FIP: Facility Interface Processor
FMD: Fluorescent Multilayer Disk
FIP: File Processor Buffering (Hardware)
FIPA: Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents FMD-ROM: Fluorescent Multilayer Disk - Read
(Organizations) Only Memory
FIPS: Federal Information Processing Standard (Hardware)
The FIPS PUB is the National Bureau of Standards’ guide to the FMH: Function Management Header
standards it issues.
FMRI: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
FIR: Fast InfraRed
FMS: File Management System
FIR: Finite Impulse Response
FMS: Flash Media Server
FIRST: ForschungsInstitut fër Rechnerarchitektur (Software) (Adobe)
und SoftwareTechnik
FMT: ForMaT
FIRST: Forum of Incident Response and Security
Teams FMV: Full Motion Video
FIS: Frontline Information System FN: FunctioN
FIST: ForschungsInstitut für Rechnerarchitektur FNC: Federal Networking Council

und SoftwareTechnik The body responsible for coordinating networking needs among
U.S. federal agencies. (Organizations)
FITS: Flexible Image Transport System
FNC: Frogans Network Certificate
FIU: Fingerprint Identification Unit See http://www.frogans.com/ (Software)
(Hardware)
FNI: File Not Identified
FIX: Federal Internet eXchange Used primarily for software scanning applications (asset
FK: Foreign Key management) (Software)
(Databases) FNS: Frogans Network System
FK: Forward Kinematics See http://www.frogans.com/ (Software)
Used in 3D Animation (Autodesk) FNSL: Frogans Network System Language
FL: Fiberoptic Link See http://www.frogans.com/ (Software)
FLA: Five Letters Acronym FNT: FoNT

File name extension
FLA: Four Letters Acronym

FO FRAG
FO: F*** Off FPD: Flat Panel Display

(Net lingo) (Hardware)
FO: Fiber Optic FPD: Full Page Display
(Hardware)
FO: Formatting Object
FPDU: Ftam Protocol Data Unit
FOA: Formatted Object Authoring
Java application that gives users a graphical interface to author FPE: Floating Point Engine
XSL-FO stylesheets. With FOA you can generate pages and
page sequences, and fill them with content provided from one FPGA: Field Programmable Gate Array
or more XML files (Software) An integrated circuit containing an array of logic circuits in
which the connections between the individual circuits can be
FOAD: F*** Off And Die programmed after manufacture, typically at the time of
(Net lingo) installation (in the field). (Hardware)
FOC: Fiber Optic Cable FPI: Floating-Point Interface
F FOCUS: FOrum of Control data USers FPI: Formal Public Identifier
FOD: Fax On Demand FPIM: Fax Profile for Internet Messaging
Defines how fax messages can be encoded as SMTP/MIME
FOD: Flexible Optical Disk
messages (Communication)
FOG: First Osborne Group
FPLA: Field Programmable Logic Array
FOIP: Fax Over Internet Protocol An array of logic elements. Its interconnections are
programmable after manufacture (Hardware)
FOIRL: Fiber Optic Inter Repeater Link
FPLMTS: Future Public Land Mobile
FOLDOC: Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing
Telecommunications System
FOLED: Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode
FPLS: Field Programmable Logic Sequencer
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
FOMAU: Fiber Optic Media Access Unit
FPM: Fast Packet Multiplexing
FON: Fiber Optics Network A multiplexing technique that sends data packets over the
network and requires error detection/correction only at the
FON: FONt destination node (Communication)
File name extension
FPM: Fast Page Mode
FOOBAR: Ftp Operation Over Big Address Records (Hardware)
FOOT: Forum for Object Oriented Technology FPMPMI: Flat Panel Monitor Physical Mounting
FOP: Formatting Objects Processor Interface
Output-independent print formatter driven by XSL formatting (Hardware)
objects. It is a Java application that reads a formatting object FPNW: File and Print services for NetWare
tree and then renders the resulting pages to a specified output.
See http://xml.apache.org/fop/ (Software) (Operating systems)
FOR: FORtran FPO: Frame Pointer Omission

File name extension Technique that gives a debugger enough information to find the
next function information on the stack without using frame
FORTRAN: FORmula TRANsactor pointers (Software)
Programming language FPP: Fixed Path Protocol
FOSE: Federal Office Systems Exposition FPP: Floating Point Processor
FOSI: Format Option Specification Instance FPR: Floating-Point Register
FOSSIL: Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface FPS: Fast Packet Switching
Layer
FPS: Favorite Picture Selection
FOT: Fiber Optic Transceiver
FPS: First Person Shooter
FOX: Field Operational X.500
Game genre (Games)
FP: Floating Point
fps: Frames Per Second
FP: Foundation Profile Motion images reproduction speed
(Software)
FPSE: FrontPage Server Extensions
FP: Frame Pointer (Software) (Microsoft)
Processor register (Hardware)
FPT: Forced Perfect Termination
FPA: Floating Point Accelerator
FPU: Floating-Point Unit
A device (board or integrated circuit - IC) that speeds up
(Hardware)
floating-point calculations. (Hardware)
FPA: Function Point Analysis FPX: FlashPiX
Filename extension (Kodak)
A method used to determine the complexity of a program
(Software) FQDN: Fully Qualified Domain Name
FPC: Floating Point Calculation (Network)
FPC: Floating Point Coprocessor FRAD: Frame Relay Access Device
FPCE: Floating-Point C Extension FRAD: Frame Relay Assembler/Disassembler

Specification FRAG: FRAGment

FRAM FTFM
FRAM: Ferroelectric Random-Access Memory FSCK: File System Consistency checK

FRAP: Frame Relay Access Probe FSD: File System Driver
(Network) (Operating systems)
FRC: Frame Rate Control FSDL: Frogans Slide Description Language
(Hardware) See http://www.frogans.com/ (Software)
FRC: Functional Redundancy Checking FSE: Full Screen Editor
FRED: Fair Random Early Detection FSF: Free Software Foundation
A variation of Random Early Detection (RED) (Network) (Organizations)
FRED: FRame EDitor FSIOP: File System Input/Output Processor
(Hardware)
FRED: FRont-End to Dish
FSK: Frequency-Shift Keying
FRF: Floating point Register File
FRF: Frame Relay Forum
(Communication)
F
FSL: Function Selection via the Line
An association of corporate members consisting of vendors,
carriers, users and consultants committed to the Created by I-Data to support special printing needs
implementation of Frame Relay in accordance with national and FSM: Finite-State Machine
international standards (Organizations)
FSMO: Flexible Single Master Operation
FRICC: Federal Research Internet Coordinating
Committee
Now replaced by the Federal Networking Council (FNC). FSMT: File Server Management Toolkit
(Organizations) (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
FRL: Frame Representation Language FSN: Full Service Network
FRM: Forward Resource Management FSP: Fax Service Provider
FRPI: Flux Reversals Per Inch FSP: File Service Protocol
FRR: False Rejection Rate FSP: Full Service Provider
Measure of the likelihood that the biometric security system
will incorrectly reject an access attempt by an authorized user FSQ: Flow Service Quality
(Security) FSR: Free System Resources
FRR: Functional Recovery Routine FSR: Full Scale Range
FRS: Family Radio Service FSRM: File Server Resource Manager
Wireless communication and networking service Application Programming Interface (API) used in Windows
(Communication) Server 2003 R2 that allow administrators to manage data on
FRS: File Record Segment servers (Software) (Microsoft)
FRS: File Replication Service FSS: Fast System Switch

(Operating systems) (Microsoft) FSS: Field Support Service
FRS: Flexible Route Selection A group of technical engineers providing short-term assistance
and product knowledge to customers that are deploying,
FRSM: Frame Relay Service Module developing, and maintaining Lotus environments (Lotus)
(Network) (Cisco) FST: Finite State Technology
FRU: Field-Replaceable Unit (Software)
An assembly replaced in its entirety when any one of its FST: Flat Square Tube
components fails. (Hardware)
(Hardware)
FRUNI: Frame Relay User Network Interface
FST: French Summer Time
(Network)
Timezone: GMT +1:00
FS: File Separator
FSTN: Film-compensated SuperTwisted Nematic
FS: File System LCD display technology (Hardware)
FS: Frame Status FT: Fault Tolerant
FS: Free Software FT: Field Test
(Software)
FTA: Floptical Technology Association
FSA: Fluidic Self-Assembly
FTAM: File Transfer Access and Management
LCD manufacturing technology (Hardware)
The International Organization for Standardization's Open
FSAA: Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing Systems Interconnection (OSI) remote file service and
(Hardware) protocol. (Network)
FSAG: Free Software Association of Germany FTAM: File Transfer and Access Method
FSAM: Federated Storage Area Management FTC: Federal Trade Commission

A naturally scalable environment of pooled, federated (i.e., (Organizations)
available when needed), modular, multivendor storage FTE: Fault-Tolerant Ethernet
resources (HP)
(Network)
FSB: Front Side Bus
FTFM: F*** The F***ing Manual
The bus within a microprocessor that connects the CPU with
main memory (Hardware) (Net lingo)

FTL GB
FTL: Flash Transition Layer FXP: File eXchange Protocol

(Intel)
FXS: Foreign eXchange Station
FTL: For The Loss An FXS interface connects directly to a standard telephone and
(Net lingo) supplies ring, voltage, and dial tone (Hardware)
FTM: Flat Tension Mask FXU: FiXed point Unit

FTOS: File Transfer Osi Support FY: Financial Year
FTP: File Transfer Protocol FY: Fiscal Year
The Internet protocol (and program) used to transfer files FYI: For Your Information
between hosts. (Network)
(Net lingo)
FTP: Foiled Twisted Pair
FTPD: File Transfer Protocol Daemon G
F FTR: Full Text Retrieval G: Giga
Prefix for 10 power 9 (or, in IT parlance, 2 power 30)
FTS: Federal Telecommunication System
G FTS: Fidonet Technical Standard
G.SHDSL: Giga Single-pair High bit rate Digital
Subscriber Line
FTS: Full Text Search (Communication)
FTSC: Fidonet Technical Standard Conference G/L: General Ledger
FTTB: Fiber To The Basement G2G: Got To Go
(Net lingo)
FTTC: Fiber To The Curb
G2H: Gilat-To-Home
FTTH: Fiber To The Home
Two-way broadband satellite access
(Communication)
G4U: Good For yoU
FTTN: Fiber To The Neighborghood
(Net lingo)
FTTP: Fiber To The Premise
GA: General Availability
(Network)
Typicaly used when software is release to a public audience
FTW: For The Win (Software)
(Net lingo)
GAAP: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
FTX: Fault Tolerant uniX
GAC: Global Assembly Cache
FUBAB: F***ed Up Beyond All Belief Microsoft .NET assembly cache (Software) (Microsoft)
(Net lingo)
GAIA: Gui Application Interoperability
FUBAR: F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition Architecture
(Net lingo) GAIN: German Advanced Integrated Network
FUD: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt GAL: Generic Array Logic
FUEL: Fatwire UpdateEngine Library (Hardware)
(Software) GAL: Global Address List
FUI: File Update Information GALPAT: GALlopping PATtern
FUJABA: From Uml to Java And Back Again Memory test technique
(Software) GALSA: Governed Architectures of Large Systems
FUUG: Finnish Unix User Group of Agents
(Organizations) GAM: Global Allocation Map
FVT: Full Video Translation (Databases)
FW: FirmWare GAN: GALloping PATtern

FWH: Firmware Hub GAN: Global Area Network
(Hardware) (Intel) (Network)
FWIW: For What It's Worth GAP: Generic Access Profile

(Net lingo) GAPI: Gateway Application Programming
FWSM: FireWall Services Module Interface
High-speed, integrated firewall module for Cisco switches GARO: Graphics Art language with Raster
routers (Security) (Cisco) Operations
FWT: French Winter Time Printer language (Canon)
Timezone: GMT +1:00 GARP: Generic Attribute Registration Protocol
FWTK: FireWall ToolKit (Communication)
(Security) GART: Graphic Address Remapping Table
FX: eFfeCTS (Hardware)
Multimedia - audio/video editing and processing GATT: Graphics Address Translation Table
FXO: Foreign eXchange Office Gb: GigaBit
An FXO interface connects to the Public Switched Telephone
Network's (PSTN) central office and is the interface offered on GB: GigaByte
a standard telephone (Hardware) 1024 megabytes

GBDE GFY
GBDE: Geom Based Disk Encryption GDP: Graphic Draw Primitive

Strong cryptographic facility for denying unauthorised access
GD-ROM: Giga Disk Read-Only Memory
to data stored on a "cold" disk for decades and longer. GBDE
operates on the disk(-partition) level allowing any type of file Proprietary optical disc format used by the Dreamcast games
system or database to be protected (Operating systems) console, as well as its arcade counterparts and the
Sega/Nintendo/Namco Triforce arcade system (Hardware)
GbE: GigaBit Ethernet
GDS: General Data Stream
(Network)
GDS: Global Directory Service
GBIC: GigaBit Interface Converter
A transceiver that converts between electrical and optical GDS: Global Document Storage
signals for high-speed networking (Hardware) (Software)
GBP: Group Buffer Pool GDT: Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
(Databases)
GDT: Global Descriptor Table
Gbps: Giga Bits Per Second (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
Transfer Speed (Communication)
GDT: Graphics Development Toolkit
GBps: Giga Bytes Per Second
GE: Greater than or Equal
(Software)
G
GC: Global Catalog
GEAR: Gigabyte Enhanced Agp Riser
Active directory's caching system (Operating systems)
Used to provide AGP support for PCI-E motherboards
GC: Graphics Context (Hardware)
The storage of various information for graphics output, such as GECOS: General Electric Comprehensive
foreground pixel, background pixel, line width, clipping region,
and so on. (Operating systems)
Operating System
GCA: General Communications Architecture GEF: Graphical Editor Framework

Allows developers to take an existing application model and
GCC: Gnu C Compiler easily create a rich graphical editor (Software)
(Software)
GEIS: General Electric Information Service
GCCD: Glass-passivated Ceramic Chip Diode
GEM: Global Enterprise Manager
GCL: Graphics Command Language
GEM: Grain Equalization and Management
GCOS: General Comprehensive Operating System Film scanner technology
GCR: Group Coded Recording GEM: Graphics Environment Manager
(Hardware) (Software) (Digital Research)
GCRA: Generic Cell Rate Algorithm GENIE: General Electric Network for Information
GCS: Group Control System Exchange
GD: God Damn GEO: Geosynchronous Earth Orbit

(Net lingo) GEOS: Graphic Environment Operating System
GDA: Global Data Area GET: Get Execute Trigger
GDA: Global Directory Agent GFAK: Go Fly A Kite
GDA: Gnome Data Access (Net lingo)
GDAP: Government Document Application Profile GFC: Generic Flow Control

(Communication)
GDB: Gnu DeBugger
GFDL: Gnu Free Documentation License
(Software)
(GNU)
GDBM: Gnu DataBase Manager
GFI: General Format Identifier
GDD: Gesellschaft für Datenschutz und
Datensicherung GFI: Ground-Fault Interceptor
GDDM: Graphical Data Display Manager GFLOPS: Giga FLoating point Operations per
Second
(Software)
Processing speed
GDDR: Graphics Double Data Rate
GFP: Global Functional Plane
A type of DDR SDRAM memory designed to keep up with the
heavy demands of graphics processing. While consuming less GFS: Grandfather, Father, Son
power compared to standard DDR memory, the clock speed
Backup methodology
and bandwidth are adjusted to further excel in graphics tasks
(Hardware) GFSK: Gaussian Frequency-Shift Keying
GDG: Generation Data Group GFTD: Gone For The Day
(IBM) (Net lingo)
GDI: Graphics Device Interface GFU: Good For yoU
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) (Net lingo)
GDLC: Generic Data Link Control GFY: Go Fuck Yourself
(IBM) (Net lingo)
GDMO: Guidelines for the Definition of Managed GFY: Good For You
Objects (Net lingo)
GDOS: Graphics Device Operating System

GG GOSIP
GG: Good Game GL: Graphics Language

Said during online play (Games) (Software)
GGP: Gateway to Gateway Protocol GLA: Good Luck All
Used in online gaming (Games)
GGP: Gotta Go Pee
(Net lingo) GLIS: Global Land Information System
GGSN: Gateway Gprs Support Node GLM: General Linear Models
Gateway between the GPRS network and public data networks
GLOBE: Global Learning by Observations to
such as IP and X.25. GGSNs also connect to other GPRS
networks to facilitate GPRS roaming (Communication)
Benefit the Environment
GH: Getting Hard GLTY: Good Luck To You

(Net lingo) (Net lingo)
GHOST: General Hardware-Oriented System GLUE: Grid Laboratory Uniform Environment

Transfer Technology-agnostic information model for a uniform
representation of Grid resources
Cloning software (Software) (Symantec)
GLUT: openGL Utility Toolkit
G GHTSTN: Guest Host Technique SuperTwisted
Nematic Is a window system independent toolkit for writing OpenGL
programs. It implements a simple windowing application
GHz: GigaHertZ programming interface (API) for OpenGL (Software)
GI: Gesellschaft für Informatik GLY: GLossarY

GIAC: Global Information Assurance Certification
Certification programs designed to serve the people who are or GM: General Midi
will be responsible for managing and protecting important
GMCH: Graphics and Memory Controller Hub
information systems and networks. See also
http://www.giac.org/ (Hardware) (Intel)
GiB: GibIByte GMDI: Gigabit Media-Dependent Interface

Unit of measurement, introduced by the International GMI: Generic Management Information
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), correspondig to 1024 MiB
GMII: Gigabit Media Independent Interface
GID: Group IDentifier
(Network)
The number used by the system to control access to accounts
owned by other users. (Operating systems) GML: Generalized Markup Language
GIF: Graphical Interchange Format GMP: Global Mobile Professional
File format for bitmapped images (CompuServe) GMR: Giant Magneto-Resistive
GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out Hard disk head technology (Hardware)
GII: Global Information Infrastructure GMRAE: Geometric Mean Relative Absolute Error
GILS: Government Information Locator Service GMRP: Garp Multicast Registration Protocol
It allows a device to declare membership of a Layer 2 multicast
GIMP: Gnu Image Manipulation Program
group
Freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as
photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. GMS: Global Management System
See www.gimp.org (Software)
GMS: Global Messaging Service
GIMPS: Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (Novell)
GINA: Graphical Identification aNd Authentication GMT: Greenwich Mean Time
GIOP: General Inter-Orb Protocol Also called UTC
Gips: Giga Instructions Per Second GMTA: Great Minds Think Alike
(Net lingo)
GIS: Geographic Information System
A graphic application using a database of specialized GNA: Global Network Academy
information, such as geographical and demographic data. GND: GrouND
(Software)
(Hardware)
GIS: Global Information Solutions
GNN: Global Network Navigator
(AT&T)
(Network)
GIT: Gnu Interactive Tools
GNOME: Gnu Network Object Model Environment
Free and open source, distributed version control system
designed to handle everything from small to very large projects GNU: Gnu's Not Unix
(Software)
GOAD: Gnome Object Activation Directory
GIX: Global Internet eXchange
GOCA: Graphic Object Content Architecture
GJ: Good Job
GOD: Global OutDial
(Net lingo)
GKMP: Group Key Management Protocol GOLP: Government Open License Program
The Microsoft Government Open License Program is designed
(Security)
to provide a simple volume-licensing solution and is a cost-
GKS: Graphical Kernel System effective way for qualified government entities needing as few
An international standard 2-D graphics library consisting of a as five licenses to purchase software (Software) (Microsoft)
set of defined graphic primitives and a tool set for application GOSIP: Government Open Systems
developers. Interconnection Profile

GP GTDM
GP: Gas Plasma GRE: Generic Routing Encapsulation

Protocol for encapsulation of an arbitrary network layer
GP: General Purpose
protocol over another arbitrary network layer protocol
GP: Gold Plated (Network)
(Hardware) GRE: GRaphics Engine
GPC: General-Purpose Computation GREP: Global Regular Expression Print
GPC: Graphics Performance Characterization GRIC: Global Reach Internet Connection
GPCI: Graphics Processor Command Interface (Communication)
GPE: Graphics Picture Enhancement GRINS: GRaphical INterface to Smil

(Hardware) (Sony) gRMS: G Root Mean Square
GPF: General Protection Fault Measurement unit used to quantify a vibration; "g" is the
Common error in 16-bits Windows (Software) (Microsoft) gravitational acceleration constant (Hardware)
GPFS: General Parallel File System GRP: Group

(Operating systems) (IBM) File name extension
GPI: Graphics Programming Interface GRS: General Retention Schedule G

(Software) Length of time archived data is to be kept in an archive
database
GPIB: General Purpose Interface Bus
GRUB: GRand Unified Bootloader
Bus architecture (Hardware)
(Operating systems)
GPIO: General Purpose Input Output
GS: General Synthesis
GPL: General Public License (Hardware) (Roland)
(GNU)
GS: Group Separator
GPL: Graphics Programming Language
GSDS: Genealogy Software Distribution System
GPM: Group Policy Manager
GSE: Giac Security Expert
(Operating systems)
GSI: General Server Interface
GPO: Group Policy Object
(Operating systems) GSI: Grid Security Infrastructure
GPP: Generic Packetized Protocol GSM: Global Shared Memory
GPR: General Purpose Register GSM: Global System for Mobile communications
GPRC: Glass Passivated Rectifier Chip GSMP: General Switch Management Protocol
(Network)
GPRS: General Packet Radio Service
(Communication) GSNW: Gateway Service for NetWare
(Microsoft)
GPS: Global Positioning System
GSP: Generic Server Passer
GPS: Global Product Specification
GSP: Global Service Provider
GPSI: Graphics Processor Software Interface
GSR: Gigabit Switch Router
GPSS: General Purpose Simulation System
(Hardware)
GPT: Guid Partition Table
GSS: Generic Security Service
GSSAP: Generic Security Service Application
GPU: Graphics Processing Unit
Protocol
(Hardware)
(Security)
GPV: General Public Virus
GSSAPI: Generic Security Services Application
GQL: Graphical Query Language Programming Interface
GQoS: Generic Quality of Service (Software)
(Network) GSSM: General Service Subscription Management
For managing value added services in mobile/cellular networks
GRADD: GRaphics Adapter Device Driver
(Communication)
(IBM)
GSTN: General Switched Telephone Network
GRAM: Global Resource Allocation Manager
GSTS: Ground-based Surveillance and Tracking
GRASP: General Responsibility Assignment System
Software Patterns
(Software) GSX: Ground Storm X
(Operating systems)
GRDDL: Gleaning Resource Descriptions from
Dialects of Languages GT: Greater Than
Specification that introduces markup for declaring that an XML (Software)
document includes gleanable data and for linking to an
GTD: Getting Things Done
algorithm, typically represented in XSLT, for gleaning the
resource descriptions from the document Software systems that implement David Allen's "Getting Things
Done" methodology (Software)
GTDM: Group Time Division Multiplexing

GTE HD
GTE: General Telephone Electronics HA: High Availability

GTF: Generalized Timing Format HA: Home Agent
Component for mobile IP applications that run on home or
GTFO: Get The F**k Out
private networks (Network)
To ask someone to leave now (Net lingo)
HACMP: High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing
GTG: Got To Go
(IBM)
(Net lingo)
HACN: Home Agent Control Node
GTK: Gimp ToolKit
(Network)
Set of libraries to create graphical user interfaces. It has a C-
based object-oriented architecture that allows for maximum HAD: Holographic Autostereoscopic Display
flexibility (Software) (GNU) Simple conversion of LCD technology, replacing the LCD's
backlight with an HOE (holographic optical element) (Hardware)
GTL: Gunning Transceiver Logic
HAGEO: High Availability GEOgraphic cluster
gTLD: Generic Top Level Domain
(Software) (IBM)
(Network)
HAI: Hardware Accelerator Interface
GTM: Gnome Transfer Manager
G GTO: Guide To Operations
(Hardware)
HAL: Hard Array Logic
(IBM)
H GTP: Geometry Theorem Prover
HAL: Hardware Abstraction Layer
HAL: Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic
GTS: Generic Traffic Shaping
Computer
(Cisco)
HAL: Home Automated Living
GUI: Graphical User Interface
The pictorial point of interaction between you and the HAL: House-programmed Array Logic
computer and its special applications, usually with a mouse or
other selection device. (Operating systems) HALO: High Altitude Long Operation
Communication aircraft (Communication)
GUID: Globally Unique IDentifier
HAND: Have A Nice Day
GUIDE: Graphical User Interface Design Editor
(Net lingo)
GUUG: German Unix User Group HAP: Host Access Protocol
GVPN: Global Virtual Private Network HAS: Home Automation System
(Network)
HASP: Houston Automatic Spooling Priority
GVT: Global Virtual Time
HAT: Hashed Address Table
GVU: Graphic, Visualization, and Usability
HAT: Heap Analysis Tool
GWAPI: Go Webserver Application Programming
Tool for tracking down heap problems in Java programs
Interface (Software) (Sun)
(Software) (Lotus)
HAWK: Hostile Activity Watch Kernel
GWART: GateWay Address Routing Table
HBA: Host Bus Adapter
GW-BASIC: Gee Whiz Beginners All-purpose A controller board connecting the I/O expansion bus to the
Symbolic Instruction Code SCSI subsystem. (Hardware)
GWE: Global Write Enabled HBCI: Home Banking Computer Interface
(Hardware)
HBI: Horizontal Blanking Interval
GWES: Graphics, Windowing and Events (Hardware)
Subsystem
HCA: Hich-Contrast Addressing
(Hardware) (Sharp)
GWIA: GroupWare Internet Agent
HCG: High-Contrast Addressing
(Novell)
HCI: Host Controller Interface
GWT: Google Web Toolkit
BlueTooth technology (Communication)
Open source Java software development framework that makes
writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for HCL: Hardware Compatibility List
developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second
language (Software) HCL: Host Control Links
HCR: Huffman Codeword Reordering
H MPEG-4 Audio Error Resilience (ER) technique that avoids error
propagation within spectral data
H: Header
File name extension HCSDS: High-Capacity Satellite Digital Service
H&J: Hyphenation And Justification HCSS: High Capacity Storage System
(Software) HCTDS: High-Capacity Terrestrial Digital Service
H/PC: Hand-held Personal Computer HCU: Home Computer User
(Hardware)
HD: Hard Disk
H/V: Horizontal/Vertical (Hardware)
H/W: HardWare HD: High Definition
HA: Header Authentication HD: High Density

HDA HIMEM
HDA: Head Disk Assembly HDTS: High Density Thumb Screw

SCSI connector with manually screwable screws (Hardware)
HDB3: High-Density Bipolar 3
(HP)
(Communication)
HDTV: High-Definition TeleVision
HDC: Hard Disk Controller
(Hardware)
HDC: High Dependability Computing
HDVD: High Definition Volumetric Display
HD-CD: High Definition Compact Disk
HDW: HarDWare
HDCP: High-Definition Content Protection
HDx: Half DupleX
Specification developed by the Intel Corporation to control
(Communication)
digital audio and video content as it travels across Digital
Visual Interface (DVI) or High Definition Multimedia Interface HE-AAC: High Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding
(HDMI) connections
Lossy data compression scheme for streaming audio. It
HDD: Hard Disk Drive combines three techniques: Advanced Audio Coding (AAC),
Spectral Band Replication (SBR), and Parametric Stereo (PS)
(Hardware)
HEC: Header Error Check
HDDL: High-level Dialogue Definition Language
(Communication)
(Software) (Philips)
HEL: Hardware Emulation Layer
HD-DVD: High Definition Digital Video (or
Versatile) Disk HEP: Horizontal Enterprise Portal H
(Hardware)
HEPNET: High Energy Physics NETwork
HDF: Hierarchical Data Format
HES: Home Entertainment System
HDH: Hdlc Distant Host (Hardware)
HDI: Head to Disk Interference HEX: HEXadecimal
HDI: Hoops Device Interface HF: High Frequency
HDL: Hardware Description Language HF: Human Factors
HDLC: High-level Data-Link Control HFC: Hybrid Fiber-Coaxial
A generic link-level communications protocol developed by the (Hardware)
International Standards Organization. HDLC manages
synchronous, code-transparent, serial information transfer over HFEP: Host - Front End Protocol
a link connection (Communication) (Network)
HDLP: High-Level Data Link Protocol HFS: Hierarchical File System
(Operating systems) (Apple)
HDM: Hardware Device Module
(Hardware) HFT: High Function Terminal
(IBM)
HDMI: High-Definition Multimedia Interface
See http://www.hdmi.org/ (Hardware) HFT: Host Function Table
(Software)
HDML: Handheld Device Markup Language
HGA: Hercules Graphics Adapter
HDMOS: High Density Metal Oxide Semiconductor
HGC: Hercules Graphics Card
HDP: Hard Disk Password
(Hardware)
(Security)
HGCP: Hercules Graphics Card Plus
HDR: HeaDeR
HGML: Hyper Graphics Markup Language
HDR: High Data Rate
(Communication) HHT: Hand-Held Terminal
Hand-held programming terminal to communicate with a
HDR: High Dynamic Range
programmable logic controller (PLC) on the fly (Hardware)
HDR: Host Data Replicator
HIC: Hybrid Integrated Circuit
(Databases)
HID: High-Intensity Discharge
HD-ROM: High Density Read Only Memory
Light bulb technology used mainly in projectors (Hardware)
(Hardware)
HID: Human Interface Device
HDSC: High Density Signal Carrier
(Hardware)
(DEC)
HIDS: Host-based Intrusion Detection System
HDSL: High bit rate Digital Subscriber Line
(Security)
(Communication)
HIF: Hyper-g Interchange Format
HDSM: Heterogeneous Distributed Shared Memory
File name extension
(Hardware)
HiFD: HIgh-capacity Floppy Disk
HDSS: Holographic Data Storage System
(Hardware) (Sony)
HDT: Hawaii Daylight Time
HIFI: Hypertext Interface For Information
HIL: Human Interface Link
HDT: Host Digital Terminal
(HP)
HDTP: Handheld Device Transport Protocol
HIMEM: HIgh MEMory
(Communication)

HIP HPAS
HIP: Hardware Instrumentation Package HMD: Head Mounted Display

(Hardware)
HMFIC: Head Mother Fucker in Charge
HIP: Host Identity Protocol Another name for the boss (Net lingo)
Host identification technology for use on Internet Protocol (IP)
HMI: Host Micro Interface
networks
(CompuServe)
HIPERLAN: HIgh-PErformance Radio Local Area
Network HMI: Html Mail Interface
(Microsoft)
(Network)
HIPPI: HIgh Performance Parallel Interface HMI: Human-Machine Interface
(Hardware) HMM: Hidden Markov Model
HIPS: Host Intrusion Prevention System HMMP: HyperMedia Management Protocol
(Security)
HMMU: Hardware Memory Management Unit
HIRD: Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth (Hardware)
(Operating systems) (GNU)
HMOS: High performance Metal Oxide
HITS: Hypertext-Induced Topic Search Semiconductor
HJB: HotJava Browser HMP: Host Monitoring Protocol
H (Sun) H-MUX: Hybrid MUltipleXer
HKCC: HKey_Current_Config HNET: Holographic NEural Technology
Windows NT Registry key (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
HNP: Host Negotiation Protocol
HKCR: HKey_Classes_Root
(Hardware)
Windows NT Registry key (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
HOAP: Humanoid for Open Architecture Platform
HKCU: HKey_Current_User
Windows NT Registry key (Operating systems) (Microsoft) HOAS: Hold On A Second
(Net lingo)
HKDD: HKey_Dyn_Data
Windows NT Registry key (Operating systems) (Microsoft) HOB: High-Order Byte
HKLM: HKey_Local_Machine HOD: Host-On-Demand

Windows NT Registry key (Operating systems) (Microsoft) HO-DSP: Higher Order Domain-Specific Part
HKU: HKey_Users (Network)
Windows NT Registry key (Operating systems) (Microsoft) HOE: Holographic Optical Element
HLB: Horny Little Bastard (Hardware)
(Net lingo) HOL: High Order Language
HLCO: High Low Close Open HOLAP: Hybrid On-Line OnLine Analytical
HLD: Height, Length, Depth Processing
HLHSR: Hidden-Line, Hidden-Surface Removal HOOPS: Hierachical Object Orientated Picture

System
HLL: High-Level Language
(Software)
HOPS: Hierarchical Object Orientated Picture
System
HLLAPI: High-Level Language Application
Programming Interface HOSED: Hardware Or Software Error Detected
General error not yet diagnosed. If ignored, progressed to
(Software)
SNAFU and then FUBAR (Net lingo)
HLP: HeLP
HOTT: Hot Off The Tree
File name extension
Electronic newsletter
HLQ: High Level Qualifier
HOTW: Hot Off The Web
HLR: Home Location Register Web organizer (Software)
HLS: Hue, Luminance, Saturation HOTW: Hot Off The Wire
Color model
HOV: High Occupancy Vehicle
HLSL: High-Level Shading Language
HP: Hewlett-Packard
DirectX 9 feature that abstracts low-level details such as
register allocation, register read-port limits, instruction co- HP: HoneyPot
issuing and so on (Games) (Microsoft) An Internet-attached server that acts as a decoy, luring in
HLT: HaLT potential hackers in order to study their activities and monitor
how they are able to break into a system (Security)
HMA: High Memory Area
HP/UX: Hewlett-Packard UniX
Method to access the first 64kB segment above the 1MB
boundary in DOS/Windows 16-bits (Microsoft) (Operating systems) (HP)
HMA: Hub Management Architecture HPA: High Performance Addressing
HMAC: Hash Message Authentication Code HPA: Host Protected Area

Sometimes referred to as hidden protected area, is an area of a
(Security)
hard drive that is not normally visible to an operating system
HMC: Hardware Management Console (OS) (Hardware)
(IBM) HPAS: Hypermedia Presentation and Authoring
HMC: Highspeed Memory Controller System

HP-AS HSSI
HP-AS: Hewlett-Packard Application Server HRAA: High Resolution Anti Aliasing

(HP) Technology found in the nVidia GeForce3 Chip (Hardware)
(nVidia)
HPB: High Ping Bastard
Network multiplayer games attribute (Software) HRAD: Hosted Rapid Application Development
HPC: High-Performance Computing HRC: Hybrid Ring Control

HPCA: High Performance Computer Architecture HREF: Hypertext REFerence
(Hardware) HRG: High Resolution Graphics
HPCC: High-Performance Computing and HRIS: Human Resource Information System
Communications
HRMS: Human Resource Management System
HPDJ: Hewlett-Packard Desk Jet
HRTF: Head-Related Transfer Function
HPF: High Performance Fortran
HS: Heat Sink
HPFS: High Performance File System (Hardware)
HS: High Speed
HPG: Hewlett-Packard Graphics
HSB: Hue, Saturation, Brightness
HPGL: Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language Color model
Language to describe vector graphics (usually for plotters)
(Software) (HP) HSC: Help and Support Center
H
HPIB: Hewlett Packard Interface Bus
Is a version of GPIB (also known as IEEE.488) and was used on HSC: Hierarchical Storage Controller
Hewlett Packard (Now Aligent Technologies) lab equipment.
HSC: High Speed Channel
Early versions used a different connector (Hardware) (HP)
HSCSD: High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data
HP-IB: Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus
For the Global System for Mobile (GSM) (Communication)
(Hardware) (HP)
HSD: High Speed Data
HP-IL: Hewlett-Packard Interface Loop
A serial communications interface, expecially for small HSDPA: High Speed Downlink Packet Access
calculators, i.e. 41C (Communication) (HP) Enhanced 3G (third generation) mobile telephony
communications protocol in the High-Speed Packet Access
HPLJ: Hewlett-Packard Laser Jet
(HSPA) family. (Network)
HPLT: High Productivity Languages/Tools
HSF: Heat Sink and Fan
HPNA: Home Phoneline Networking Alliance Common combination of a fan attached to a heat sink that is
(Organizations) placed in contact with a microprocessor that needs to be
cooled. (Hardware)
HPOFS: High Performance Optical File System
HSFS: High Sierra File System
HPOM: Home Page Object Model (Operating systems)
(Microsoft)
HSI: High Speed Interface
HPPA: Hewlett-Packard Precision Architecture
HSI: Hue, Saturation, Intensity
HPPCL: Hewlett-Packard Printer Control Language Color model
HPPE: High Performance Processing Element HSIL: Host Side Igmp Library
(Hardware) (Network) (Cisco)
HPPI: High-Performance Peripheral Interface HSL: High Speed Link
HPPN: Hewlett-Packard Proactive Notification (IBM)
(HP) HSL: Hue, Saturation, Luminance
HPR: High Performance Routing Color model (Hardware)
(IBM) HSLAN: High Speed Local Area Network
HPSA: High Parallel System Architecture HSLN: High Speed Local Network
(Hardware)
HSM: Hardware Security Module
HPSB: High-Performance Serial Bus Generate and/or store secrets for use in crytography,
Also known as FireWire (Hardware) commonly used in card payment systems (Hardware)
HPUX: Hewlett-Packard UniX HSM: Hierarchical Storage Management
HP-VUE: Hewlett-Packard Visual User HSM: Hitachi System Manager
Environment
HSMOS: High Speed Metal Oxide Semiconductor
HPW: High Performance Workstation
HSP: High Speed Printer
(Sun)
HSR: Horizontal Scan Rate
HQ: HeadQuarter
(Hardware)
HR: High-Rate
HSRP: Hot Standby Router Protocol
IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN access method (Communication)
Allows hosts to appear to use a single router and to maintain
HR: Horizontal Rule connectivity even if the actual first hop router they are using
HTML Tag fails (Network) (Cisco)
HR: Human Resource HSSDS: High Speed Switched Digital Service

HSSI: High Speed Serial Interface

HST IAA
HST: Hawaii Standard Time HVP: Horizontal and Vertical Position

HVS: Human Visual System
HST: High Speed Technology
HW: HardWare
(3Com)
HWCP: HardWare Code Page
HST: HiSTory
HWD: Height, Width, Depth
HST: HoST
HWDM: Hyperfine Wavelength-Division
HSV: Hue, Saturation, Value Multiplexing
HSYNC: Horizontal SYNChronization (Communication)
(Hardware) HWG: Here We Go!
HT: Horizontal Tab Mostly used in online gaming (Games)
HT: Hyper-Threading HWIC: High-speed Wan Interface Card

A technology started with Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor at 3.06 (Hardware) (Cisco)
that enables the processor to execute two thread in parallel, so
the software can run more efficiently and the user can
HWIH: Here's What I Have
multitask more effectively (Hardware) (Intel) (Net lingo)
HT: HyperTransport HYTEA: HYperText Environment for Authoring

H Technology is a high-speed, low latency, point-to-point link Hz: HertZ
designed to increase the communication speed between
Frequency measurement unit
integrated circuits in computers, servers, embedded systems,
I and networking and telecommunications equipments up to 48
times faster (Hardware) (AMD) I
HTA: HyperText Application (ISC)2: International Information System
(Network) Security Certification Consortium
HTCPCP: Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (Organizations)
(Network) I: Italic
HTDM: Hybrid Time Division Multiplexing HTML tag
HTH: Hope This Helps I/F: InterFace

(Net lingo) I/O: Input/Output
HTL: High Threshold Logic The equipment used to communicate with a computer, the data
involved in that communication, the media carrying the data,
(Hardware)
and the process of communicating that information
HTML: HyperText Markup Language
I/T: Integration/Transformation
A file format, based on SGML, for hypertext documents on the
Another name for Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
Internet. It is simple and enables the embedding of images,
(Databases)
sounds, video streams, form fields, and basic text formatting.
I2: Internet 2
HTPC: Home Theater Personal Computer
(Network)
(Hardware)
I2C: Intelligent Interface Controller
HTT: Hyper-Threading Technology
(Hardware)
Implementation of simultaneous multithreading on Intel
Pentium 4, Mobile Pentium 4, and Xeon processors (Intel) I2C: Inter-Integrated Circuit
HTTP: HyperText Transport (or Transfer) Protocol 2-wire bus developed by Philips Semiconductors in the early
1980's for efficient inter-IC communications. See
The Internet protocol that fetches hypertext objects from
http://www.semiconductors.philips.com/markets/mms/protocol
remote hosts. It is based on TCP/IP.
s/i2c/ (Hardware) (Philips)
HTTPD: HyperText Transfer Protocol Daemon I2-DSI: Internet 2-Distributed Storage
HTTP-NG: HyperText Transfer Protocol - Next Infrastructure
Generation (Network)
HTTPS: HyperText Transport (or Transfer) I2O: Intelligent Input Output
Protocol Secure
I3: Innovation In Infrastructure
The secure version of HTTP allowing transfer of encrypted data
I4DL: Interface, Inheritance, Implementation,
HTX: HTml eXtension Installation Definition Language
HUD: Heads Up Display IA: Illustrated Audio
HUMAN: High-speed Unlicensed Metropolitan Sound file format
Area Network
IA: Information Appliance
(Network)
(Hardware)
HURD: Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons
IA: Information Architecture
(Operating systems) (GNU)
IA: Intel Architecture
HURSE: Hasp Unit Record SErvice
(Hardware) (Intel)
To get a punch or print of your cards (Operating systems) (IBM)
IAA: Intel's Application Accelerator
HUT: Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope
HVC: Hue, Value, Chroma
HVD: High Voltage Differential
(Hardware)

IAB ICAP
IAB: Internet Activities Board IASS: Internet Alphaserver System Software

The group that administrates the development of the Internet (DEC)
suite of protocols (TCP/IP). The IAB has two investigative task
forces, the IRTF and the IETF. Now its called Internet IAT: Import Address Table
Architecture Board (Organizations) (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
IAB: Internet Architecture Board IAT: Information Access Technology

The new name of what was called Internet Activities Board IAT: Internet Appliance Toolkit
(Organizations)
(Network) (QNX)
IAC: InterApplication Communication
IAUG: International Aix User Group
(Apple)
IAX: Inter-Asterisk eXchange
IAC: Internet Application Component
Protocol native to Asterisk PBX. Used to enable VoIP
(Software) connections between servers as well as client-server
IAD: Integrated Access Device communication (Communication)
IAD: Intrusion-Aware Design IAYF: Information At Your Fingertips

(Security) IB: Interface Builder
IADM: Internet Application Distribution (Software) (Apple)
Management IBA: Intel Boot Agent
IAEC: International Address Element Code (Intel)
IAFA: Internet Anonymous Ftp Archives IBC: Instrument Bus Computer

(Network) iBCS: Intel Binary Compatibility Specification I
IAG: Instruction Address Generation IBG: International Biometrics Group
IAHC: Internet Ad Hoc Committee (Security)
(Organizations) IBIP: Information Based Indicia Program
IAI: Internet Application Integration Bar code postage system
IAK: Internet Access Kit IBM: International Business Machines

(IBM) IBM-GL: International Business Machines
IAL: Intel Architecture Lab Graphics Language
(Intel) IBN: Integrated Business Network
IAL: International Algebraic Language IBOC: In-Band, On-Channel
ALGOL was first called IAL
IBTL: In Before The Lock
IALATFTTJH: I Am Laughing At The Funny Thing A cry made prior to an on-line moderator locking an
That Just Happend inapproprate topic on in an on-line discussion forum (Net lingo)
An alternative to LOL used to represent humor (Net lingo)
IBV: Information Behavior and Value
IAM: Identity Access Management
IC: I See
Encapsulates people, processes and products to identify and
(Net lingo)
manage the data used in an information system to authenticate
users and grant or deny access to data and system resources. IC: Input Circuit
Its goal is to provide appropriate access to enterprise
resources (Security) IC: Input Context
An abstraction for representing the state of a particular input
IAM: Index Allocation Map thread for use with an input method. Multiple ICs can be
(Databases) associated with an input method.
IAM: Internet Answering Machine IC: Integrated Circuit
(Software) (Hardware)
iAMT: Intel Active Management Technology IC: Interexchange Carrier
Hardware-based technology for remotely managing and (Communication)
securing PCs out-of-band (Intel)
IC: Internet Connector
IANA: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
IANAL: I Am Not A Lawyer IC: Interrupt Controller
Standard disclaimer before dispensing legal advice (Net lingo)
ICA: Independent Computing Architecture
IANW: International Academic NetWorkshops
ICA: Intelligent Communication Adapter
IAP: Internet Access Policy
ICA: Intelligent Console Architecture
IAP: Internet Access Provider
ICA: Intra-application Communications Area
IARP: Inverse Address Resolution Protocol
(Network) ICALP: International Conference on Automata,
Languages and Programming
IAS: Information Access Service
ICAN: Individual Customer Access Network
IAS: Interactive Application System
ICANN: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
IAS: Internet Access Server and Numbers
(Network) (Organizations)
IAS: Internet Authentication Service ICAP: Intenet Content Adaption Protocol
(Network)

ICAP ICS
ICAP: Internet Calendar Access Protocol ICF: Internet Connection Firewall

(Lotus) (Security) (Microsoft)
ICAPI: Internet Connection server Application ICH: I/o Controller Hub
Programming Interface (Hardware) (Intel)
(Software) (IBM)
ICI: Image Component Information
ICAS: Intel Communicating Applications
ICI: Inter-Cpu Interrupt
Specifications
I-C-IT: Intelligent Control Interactive Technology
ICB: Internet Citizen's Band
ICL: Industrial Code and Logic
ICC: Integration Competency Center
Manufacturer
(Software)
ICL: Interface Clear
ICC: Intelligent Communications Control
ICLID: Incoming Call Line IDentification
ICC: International Color Consortium
(Organizations) ICM: Image Color Management
(Software)
ICCB: Internet Configuration Control Board
(Organizations) ICM: Image Color Matching
(Kodak)
ICCC: InterClient Communication Convention
ICM: InComing Message
ICCCM: Inter-Client Communication Conventions
Manual ICM: Internet Call Manager
I The document that describes the conventions for the ICMC: International Computer Music Conference
communication between X clients. This includes such
conventions as client-to-client, client-to-window manager, ICMF: Integrated Coupling Migration Facility
client-to-session manager, and color characterization
communication. (Operating systems) ICMP: Internet Control Message Protocol
The protocol used that handles errors and control messages at
ICCD: International Conference on Computer the Internet Protocol layer. For example, the ping command is
Design an implementation of the ICMP. ICMP occurs on the IP
(network) level of the TCP/IP protocol suite. (Communication)
ICCF: Interactive Computing and Control Facility
Program development and testing environment (Software) ICO: ICOn
(IBM) File name extension
ICCP: Institute for the Certification of Computing iCOMP: Intel COmparative Microprocessor
Professionals Performance
ICCS: Integrated Communications Cabling System (Intel)
ICD: Installable Client Driver ICP: Image CoProcessor

(Hardware)
ICD: International Code Designator
ICP: Independent Content Provider
ICDA: Integrated Cached Disk Array
(Network)
ICDL: International Computer Driving Licence ICP: Integrated Channel Processor
The ICDL Foundation works to promote an International
certification of industry-standard computing skills. See ICP: Intelligent Communication Protocol
http://www.ecdl.com (Organizations) (Network)
ICDS: I-data Compressed Data Stream ICP: Internet Cache Protocol
An i-data/MPI Tech architected bi-directional host-to-printer (Network)
data stream that contains both data and controls. ICDS is
generated by EPM and PSS host applications ICP: Internet Content Provider
ICE: Image Correction and Enhancement ICP: Internet Control Pack
Film scanner technology (Network) (Microsoft)
ICE: In-Circuit Emulation ICQ: I Seek You

(Hardware) Communication program (Software)
ICE: Information and Content Exchange ICR: Intelligent Character Recognition

Protocol for use by content syndicators and their subscribers. It iCRT: Intelligent Content Recognition Technology
focuses on automating content exchange and reuse, both in
traditional publishing contexts and in business-to-business ICS: Ibm Cabling System
relationships
ICS: Implementation Conformance Statement
ICE: Integrated Computing Environment
ICS: Incremental Change Synchronization
ICE: Internal Consistency Evaluator A mechanism to monitor, export, and import changed items
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) (both hierarchy and content) between a database and an
information store or between two information stores (Software)
ICEM: Integrated Computer aided Engineering (Microsoft)
and Manufacturing
ICS: Integrated Client Setup
ICES: Interference-Causing Equipment Standard
ICS: Internet Caching System
ICF: Integrated Catalog Facility (Network)
ICF: Interactive Communication Facility ICS: Internet Conferencing System
(IBM) (Network)

ICS IDR
ICS: Internet Connection Sharing iDCT: Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform

(Network) (Microsoft)
IDDD: International Distance Direct Dialing
ICS: Intuitive Command Structure (Communication)
ICS: Iris Certificate Security IDDE: Integrated Development & Debugging
Environment
ICSA: International Computer Security
(Symantec)
Association
(Organizations) IDE: Informatica Data Explorer
(Databases)
ICSA: Internet Cellular Smart Access
ICSAPI: Internet Connection Services Application IDE: Integrated Development Environment
Programming Interface (Software)
ICSC: Intelligent Channel/Storage Control IDE: Integrated Drive (or Device) Electronics
ICSE: International Conference on Software
Engineering IDE: Interactive Design and Engineering
ICSF: Internet Connection Sharing and Firewall IDE: Interface Design Enhancement
Makes it possible for home and small office users to create and IDEA: International Data Encryption Algorithm
manage private networks in which multiple computers share a
single connection to the Internet (Operating systems) IDEA: Internet Design, Engineering, and Analysis
(Microsoft) notes
ICSW: Internet Connection Sharing Wizard
IDEMA: International Disk drive Equipment and
Materials Association
I
International not-for-profit trade association that represents
ICT: Information and Communications Technology the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) industry and its infrastructure. See
A broader definition of Information Technology (IT) including also http://www.idema.org/ (Organizations)
communications
IDEN: Integrated Data Enhanced Network
ICTSB: Information and Communications
(Network)
Technology Standards Board
Initiative from the three recognized European standards IDF: Intermediate Distribution Frame
organizations with the participation of specification providers IDFK: I Don't F***ing Know
as partners to co-ordinate specification activities in the field of
Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) (Net lingo)
(Organizations) IDGA: International Game Developers Association
ICU: Instruction-Cache Unit (Organizations)
ICU: Intel Configuration Utility IDI: Initial Domain Identifier

(Microsoft) (Network)
ICU: Interactive Chart Utility IDIOT: Intrusion Detection In Our Time

Project to develop a new approach to efficient misuse detection
ICU: Internet Communication Utilities methods. Its design made use of a new classification of
(Communication) intrusion methods based on complexity of matching and
temporal characteristics (Security)
ICU: Isa Configuration Utility
IDIV: Integer DIVide
ICW: Internet Connection Wizard
(Software) (Microsoft) IDK: Internet Development Kit
(Software)
ID: IDentifier
IDL: Interactive Data Language
IDA: Inernational Database Association
(Organizations) IDL: Interface Definition Language
A language-independent way to describe a module interface
IDA: Intelligent Drive Array
(Software)
(Hardware)
IDLE: International Date Line East
IDA: International Database Association
Timezone: GMT +12:00
IDAPI: Independent Database Application
IDLW: International Date Line West
Programming Interface
(Software) (Borland)
IDM: Integrated Document Management
IDARS: Integrated Document Archive and
Retrieval System IDN: Internationalized Domain Name
IDAS: Interchange DAta Structure IDNX: Integrated Digital Network eXchange
(IBM)
IDBMS: Integrated DataBase Management System
(Databases) IDP: Integrated Data Processing
IDC: Integrated Desktop Connector IDP: Internet Datagram Protocol
IDC: Inter-Device Communication IDPR: Inter-Domain Policy Routing protocol
(Network)
IDC: International Data Corporation
IDQ: Informatica Data Quality
IDC: Internet Data Center
(Databases)
IDC: Internet Database Connector
IDR: Intelligent Disaster Recovery
(Seagate)

IDR IGFET
IDR: Intelligent Document Recognition IEW: Information Engineering Workbench

IDRAM: Integrated Dynamic Random Access IF: Information Flow
Memory
IF: Inner Firewall
(Hardware)
(Security)
IDRC: Improved Data Recording Capacity
IFB: Internet Free/Busy
(Hardware)
Microsoft Outlook feature (Software) (Microsoft)
IDS: Information Delivery System
IFC: Internet Foundation Classes
IDS: Internal Directory System (Software)
IDS: Intrusion Detection System IFCC: Internet Fraud Complaint Center
(Security) (Organizations)
IDSL: Isdn Digital Subscriber Line IFCM: Independent Flow Control Messages
(Communication)
iFCP: Internet Fibre Channel Protocol
IDT: Integrated Device Technologies Gateway to gateway network protocol standard, officially
(IDT) ratified by the Internet Engineering Task Force, which provides
Fibre Channel fabric functionality to fibre channel devices over
IDT: Interface Design Tool an IP network (Network)
IDT: Interrupt Descriptor Table IFD: Image File Directory
IDTS: I Don't Think So IFD: Information Flow Diagram
I (Net lingo)
i-FED: Intelligent Field Emitting Display
IDU: Interface Data Unit (Hardware)
IDUG: International Db2 Users Group IFF: Interchange File Format
(Databases) (IBM)
IFG: Incoming Fax Gateway
IDUP-GSS-API: Independent Data Unit Protection
IFIP: International Federation of Information
Generic Security Service Application
Processing societies
IFITL: Integrated Fiber In The Loop
IDVC: Integrated Data/Voice Channel
Enables Internet access through a technology known as Point-
IDX: InDeX to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE). (Network)
File name extension
IFMP: Ipsilon Flow Management Protocol
IE: Information Element
IFNA: International FidoNet Association
IE: Information Engineering
IFP: Instruction Fetch Pipeline
IE: Internet Explorer
IFPI: International Federation of Phonographic
(Software) (Microsoft) Industry
IEAK: Internet Explorer Administrator Kit (Organizations)
(Software) (Microsoft) IFPUG: International Function Point User Group
IEC: InterExchange Carrier Promotes and encourages the effective management of
application software development and maintenance activities
IEC: International Electrotechnical Commission through the use of Function Point Analysis (FPA) and other
(Organizations) software measurement techniques (Organizations)
IEE: Institute of Electrical Engineers IFR: Interleaved Frame Recording
IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics IFS: Installable File System
Engineers (Operating systems)
(Organizations)
IFS: Internal Field Separator
IEF: Information Engineering Facility
IFS: Internal Field Seperator
IEG: Information Exchange Group
IFS: Internet File System
IEMSI: Interactive Electronic Mail Standard (Operating systems)
Identification
IFSM: InFormation Systems Management
IEN: Internet Engineering Notes
IFSMgr: Installable File System ManaGeR
IEN: Internet Experiment Notebook (Operating systems)
IEP: Initial Experience Predictor IFT: Inverse fast Fourier Transform
IEPA: Individual Expert Participation Agreement IFX: Interactive Financial eXchange
(Sun)
IGA: Integrated Graphics Array
IESG: Internet Engineering Steering Group
IGC: Institute for Global Communications
The executive committee of the IETF (Organizations)
IGC: Integrated Graphics Controller
IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force
An engineering and protocol standards body that develops and IGES: Initial Graphics Exchange Specification
specifies protocols and Internet standards, generally in the File format for graphics interchange
network layer and above. See www.ietf.org (Organizations)
IGFET: Insulated-Gate Field Effect Transistor
IETFWG: Internet Engineering Task Force
Working Group

IGFOS IME
IGFOS: International Government Forum for IJORCS: International Journal Of Research in

Open Systems Computer Science
(Organizations) See http://www.ijorcs.org/
IGMP: Internet Group Management Protocol IK: Inverse Kinematics
The TCP/IP protocol that permits Internet hosts to take part in
IKBS: Intelligent Knowledge Based System
IP multicasting. It is an efficient means of broadcasting
messages to groups of end-stations (Network) IKE: Internet Key Exchange
IGN: Ibm Global Network IKMP: Internet Key Management Protocol
IGP: Integrated Graphics Processor (Network)
(Hardware) IKP: Internet Keyed Payment
IGP: Interior Gateway Protocol IL: Intermediate Language
The protocol that enables the exchange or routing information A platform-independent, compiler-generated language suitable
between collaborating routers on the Internet. Examples of to run on platform-specific virtual machines (Software)
IGPs include Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and Open
Shortest Path First (OSPF) (Network) (Cisco) ILA: Image Light Amplifier
IGRP: Interior Gateway Routing Protocol ILE: Integrated Language Environment
Kind of IGP which is a distance-vector routing protocol (Software) (IBM)
invented by Cisco, used by routers to exchange routing data
ILEC: Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier
within an autonomous system (Network) (Cisco)
Also known as primary local exchange carrier (Communication)
IGS: Internet Go Server
ILLINET: ILlinois LIbrary NETwork
IGSN: Internet Gprs Support Node I
ILM: Information Lifecycle Management
(Communication)
Not a technology, ILM is a combination of processes and
IHA: Intel Hub Architecture technologies that determines how data flows through an
(Hardware) (Intel) environment. By doing so, it helps end users manage data
from the moment it is created to the time it is no longer needed
IHD: Integrated Help Desk
(IBM) ILMI: Interim Local Management Interface
IHS: Integrated Heat Spreader iLO: Integrated Lights-Out

The top surface of the IHS is designed to be the interface for Remote management feature on HP servers. (Hardware) (HP)
contacting a HS/HSF. Allows more effecient heat transfer out of ILP: Instruction-Level Parallelism
the package to an attached cooling device. Transform non-
CPU architecture
uniform heat from the die to the top of the IHS for more
uniform spread (Hardware) ILS: International Language Support
IHV: Independent Hardware Vendor ILS: Internet Locator Service
A third-party hardware manufacturer (Hardware)
IM: Input Method
IID: Interface IDentifier The algorithm by which users enter the text of a language.
(Software) Input methods differ for each language, depending on that
language’s structure and conventions
IIF: Immediate IF
(Databases) IM: Instant Messaging
IIF: Immediate InterFace IM: Interface Module
III: Interstate Identification Index IMA: Interactive Multimedia Association
IIIR: Integration of Internet Information IMA: International Midi Association
Resources IMAC: Isochronous Media Access Control
IIL: Integrated Injection Logic IMACS: Image Management and Communication
IIM: Internet Interaction Management System
IIN: Integrated Information Network IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol
(Network)
IIOP: Internet Interoperable Orb Protocol
(Communication) IMAPI: Image Mastering Application
IIR: Immediate Impulse Response
Allows an application to stage and burn a simple audio or data
IIR: Incremental Image Rendering image to CD-R or CD-RW devices (Operating systems)
(Microsoft)
IIRC: If I Recall Correctly
(Net lingo)
IMC: Internet Mail Connector
IIRG: International Information Retrieval Guild
The oldest surviving hacker organization. See
IMC: Internet Message Center
http://www.iirg.org/ (Organizations) (Network)
IIS: Internet Information Server IMDB: In-Memory DataBase

(Network) (Microsoft) (Databases)
IISP: Interim Inter-switch Signaling Protocol IMDb: Internet Movie DataBase

IITF: Information Infrastructure Task Force IMDS: IMage Data Stream
(IBM)
IJCAI: International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence IME: Input Method Editor

IME INTSERV
IME: Integrated Messaging Exchange INAP: Intelligent Network Application Protocol

Allows applications to communicate between various
IMEI: International Mobile Equipment Identity
nodes/functional entities of an intelligent network. The protocol
A code that uniquely identifies the mobile terminal hardware. It defines the operations required to be performed between
is important in GSM for keeping a record of lost or stolen nodes/functional entities for providing intelligent network
mobile telephones. A copy of each IMEI is stored in the EIR services
(Communication)
INC: INCrement
IMF: International Monetary Fund
(Organizations) INCITS: InterNational Committee on Information
Technology Standards
IMG: IMaGe
Organization for standardization in the field of Information and
File name extension Communications Technologies (ICT), encompassing storage,
IMHO: In My Humble Opinion processing, transfer, display, management, organization, and
retrieval of information (Organizations)
(Net lingo)
INCM: Intelligent Network Conceptual Model
IML: Initial Microcode Load
(IBM) IND: INDex
File name extension
IMM: Input Method Manager
(Software) (Microsoft) INET: International NETworking conference
IMM: Intel Mobile Module INF: INFormation
(Hardware) (Intel) File name extension
IMM: Interactive MultiMedia INFS: Internet Network File System

I INGRES: INteractive Graphic REtrieval System
IMNSHO: In My Not So Humble Opinion
(Net lingo) INI: INItialization
IMO: In My Opinion File name extension
(Net lingo) INIT: INITialize
IMO: Intenet Mail Only INL: Inter Node Link
Microsoft Outlook feature (Software) (Microsoft)
INM: Integrated Network Management
IMP: Information Management Practice
INM: International Neural Machines
IMP: Interface Message Processor
(Hardware)
INN: Inter Node Network
IMP: Internet Mail Only INN: InterNet News

(Network)
IMPA: Intelligent Multi-Port Adapter
INND: InterNet News Daemon
IMPP: Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol (Network)
IMR: Internet Monthly Report INOC: Internet Network Operations Center
IMS: Image Management Services INP: Instant Network Presence
IMS: Information Management System (Network)
(IBM) INRIA: Institut National de Recherche en
IMS: Instructional Management System Informatique et Automatique
IMS: Intermediate Maintenance Standard INS: INput String
IMS: Internet Mail Service INS: Integrated Network Server
IMSI: International Mobile Subscriber Identity INT: INTeger

A unique number within the SIM card that identifies the INT: INTernal
subscriber to the system (Communication)
INT: INTernational
IMSO: Integrated Micro Systems Operation
organization Domain name
IMSP: Internet Message Support Protocol INT: INTerrupt
(Network)
(Software) (Intel)
IMSVS: Information Management System/Virtual INTA: INTerrupt Acknowledge
Storage
INTAP: Interoperability Technology Association
IMTC: International Multimedia Teleconferencing for Information Processing
Consortium
The technical organization that officially develops Japanese
IMTV: Interactive Multimedia TeleVision OSI profiles and conformance tests (Organizations)
IMUL: Integer MULtiply INTEL: INTegrated ELectronics

(Intel)
IMUX: Inverse MUltipleXer
InterNIC: INTERnet Network Information Center
IN: Individual Network
INTO: INTerrupt if Overflow occurs
IN: INput
INTRAC: INtelligent Traffic Routing And Control
IN: Intelligent Network
(Network)
INA: Intelligent Network Architecture
INTSERV: INTegrated SERVices
The transport of audio, video, real-time, and classical data
traffic within a single network infrastructure (Network)

IO IPL
IO: Information Orientation IP: Internet Protocol

The major network layer protocol in the Internet Protocol suite.
IO: Input/Output
IP describes the routing of packets, among its many tasks
IO: Internal Objects (Network)
(Software) (Microsoft) IPA: iPod/iPhone Application
IOC: Input/Output Controller (Software) (Apple)
IOC: Inter-Office Channel IPAM: Internet Protocol Address Management

(Network)
IOCC: Input/Output Channel Converter
IPAUTH: Internet Protocol AUTHentication
IOCC: Input/Output Controller Chip
(Security)
IOCCC: International Obfuscated C Code Contest
IPBF: Installed Peripheral Base Flexibility
IOCP: Inter-Orb Communication Protocol
IPC: Instructions Per Clock
(Communication)
IPC: InterProcess Communication
IOCS: Input/Output Control System
The process of sharing data between processes and, when
IOCtl: Input/Output ConTroL necessary, coordinating access to the shared data (Operating
systems)
iODBC: Independent Open DataBase Connectivity
Open source, platform independent implementation of both the IPCE: InterProcess Communication Environment
ODBC and X/Open specifications. It is rapidly emerging as the IPCMOS: Interlocked Pipeline Complementary
industry standard for developing solutions that are language,
Metal Oxide Semiconductor
platform and database independent. See also
http://www.iodbc.org/ (Software) Semiconductor manufacturing technology (Hardware) I
IOE: Internet Operating Environment IPCP: Internet Protocol Control Protocol
(Network)
IOF: Infrared Optical Film
IPCS: Integrated Personal Computer Server
IONL: Internal Organization of the Network Layer
(Hardware)
The ISO/OSI standard for the architecture of the network layer.
The IONL divides the network layer into subnetworks IPCS: Interactive Problem Control System
interconnected by convergence protocols (internetworking
protocols), resulting in a catenet or internet (Organizations)
IPD: Intelligent Printer Data
IOP: Input/Output Parity IPDC: Internet Protocol Device Control

(Hardware) IPDS: Ibm Personal Dictation System
IOP: Input/Output Processor (IBM)
(Hardware) IPDS: Intelligent Printer Data Stream
IOPL: Input/Output Privilege Level (IBM)
IOQD: In-Order Queue Depth IPDU: Internet Protocol Data Unit

(Hardware) (Intel) IPDVMRP: Internet Protocol Distance Vector
IOR: Interoperable Object Reference Multicast Routing Protocol
IORDY: Input/Output channel ReaDY IPE: Integrated Programming Environment

(Hardware) IPF: Information Presentation Facility
IOREQ: Input/Output REQuest IPF: Invalid Page Format
Microprocessor signal used in I/O addressing (Hardware)
IPFC: Information Presentation Facility Compiler
IORQ: Input/Output ReQuest (IBM)
IPFC: Internet Protocol over Fibre Channel
IOS: Input/Output System (Network)
IOS: Internet Operating System IPI: Intelligent Peripheral Interface
(Operating systems) A device-generic interface used for large-capacity, high-
performance disks. The IPI supports disk transfer rates at
IOS: InterOrganizational System 3Mbyte/sec and above (Hardware)
IOSGA: Input/Output Support Gate Array IPI: Internet Policy Institute
IOT: Index-Organized Table A device-generic interface used for large-capacity, high-
Indexed tables whose data is stored as a B*Tree index performance disks. The IPI supports disk transfer rates at
structure (Databases) (Oracle) 3MB/sec and above (Organizations)
IOUG: International Oracle Users Group IPI: Inter-Processor Interrupt

See http://www.ioug.org/ (Organizations) (Hardware)
IOW: In Other Words IPIC: International Primary Interexchange Carrier

(Net lingo) (Communication)
IP: Information Provider IPL: Ibm Public License

(IBM)
IP: Instruction Pointer
CPU register (Hardware) (Intel) IPL: Information Programming Language
IP: Intellectual Property IPL: Initial Program Load

Also known as the bootstrap or boot process
IP: Intelligent Peripheral
IPL: Ion Projection Lithography

IPM IrLAP
IPM: Images Per Minute IPTC: International Press Telecommunications

Council
ipm: Impressions Per Minute
Printing speed measurement unit (Hardware) IPTV: Internet Protocol TeleVision
IPM: InfoPrint Manager IPv4: Internet Protocol, Version 4
IBM's Info Print Manager - Creates IPDS data (IBM) (Network)
ipm: Instructions Per Minute IPv6: Internet Protocol, Version 6

(Network)
IPM: Intelligent Power Module
(Hardware) IPWG: Internet Privacy Working Group
(Organizations)
IPM: Internet Protection Module
(Network) IPX: Internetwork Packet eXchange
(Network) (Novell)
IPM: Internetwork Performance Monitor
A network response time and availability troubleshooting IPX/SPX: Internet Packet eXchange/Sequenced
application (Software) (Cisco) Packet eXchange
IPM: InterPersonal Message IPXCP: Internetworking Packet eXchange Control
Protocol
ipm: Interruptions Per Minute
(Network)
IPMB: Intelligent Platform Management Bus
IPXODI: Internet Packet eXchange Open Datalink
(Hardware)
Interface
IPMC: Intelligent Platform Management Chassis
I (Hardware)
IQL: Interactive Query Language
IR: InfraRed
IPMI: Intelligent Platform Management Interface
(Hardware)
Defines a set of common interfaces to a computer system
which system administrators can use to monitor system health IR: Instruction Register
and manage the system (Hardware) (Hardware)
IPMI: Internet Protocol Multicast Initiative IR: Interface Repository
(Network)
IRAM: Intelligent Random Access Memory
IPNG: Internet Protocol Next Generation (Hardware)
(Network)
IRC: Internet Relay Chat
IPO: Input, Processing and Output (Network)
IPO: International Purchasing Office IRC: Interrupt Request Controller
IPO: Internet Protocol over Optical (Hardware)
(Network) IRCA: Internet Content Rating Association
IPP: Infrastructure Portal Provider (Organizations)
IPP: Intel Performance Primitives IRCP: Internet Relay Chat Protocol

(Hardware) (Intel) (Network)
IPP: Internet Printing Protocol IRD: Implementation Row Descriptor

(Network) (Databases)
IPP: Internet Protocol Processor IRD: Integrated Receiver/Descrambler

(Hardware) IrDA: InfraRed Data Association
IPR: Intellectual Property Rights (Organizations)
IPR: Interactive Photorealistic Rendering IRDP: Icmp Router Discovery Protocol

Used in 3D Modelling (Autodesk) (Network)
ips: Inches Per Second IRDS: Information Resource Dictionary System

(Hardware) IRET: Interrupt RETurn
IPS: Information Processing Standards IRF: Inheritance Rights Filter
IPS: In-Plane Switching (Novell)
(Hardware) IRF: Interger Register File
IPS: Intrusion Prevention System IRF: Intermediate Routing Function
(Security)
IRIS: Internet Retailer Information System
iPS: Iplanet Portal Server
IRL: In Real Life
IPSE: Integrated Project Support Environment (Net lingo)
IPSec: Internet Protocol SECurity IRL: Insert Row Locking
A set of protocols that give greater IP-level security to data (Databases)
packets transmitted over Virtual Private Networks
IRL: Integer Register File
IPSI: Internet Protocol Server Interface
(Hardware) IRL: Interactive Reader Language
IPSRA: Internet Protocol Security Remote Access IrLAN: InfraRed Local Area Network
(Security) IrLAP: InfraRed Link Access Protocol
(Communication)

IRLED ISM
IRLED: InfraRed Light Emitting Diode ISC: Instruction Set Computer

IrLMP: InfraRed Link Management Protocol ISC: Internet Service Center
(Communication)
ISC: Internet Storm Center
IRM: Information Resource Management See http://isc.sans.org/ (Organizations)
IRM: Inherent Rights Mask ISC: Inter-System Communication
(IBM)
iRMC: Integrated Remote Management Controller
Implementation of a Remote Access Card (RAC) (Hardware) ISCA: International Computing Security
(Fujitsu) Association
IRP: I/o Request Packet (Organizations)
Data structure used by Windows to communicate to kernel- iSCSI: Internet Small Computer System Interface
mode device drivers. (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
ISD: Image Section Descriptor
IRQ: Interrupt ReQuest
A signal that a device requires CPU attention (Hardware)
ISD: Instructional Systems Design
IRQL: Interrupt ReQuest Level ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network

A communication technology offered by telephone carriers
IRR: Internal Rate of Return worldwide. ISDN combines voice and digital network services
in a single medium, offering customers digital data services
IRS: Internal Revenue Service
and voice connections through a single wire (Communication)
IRSG: Internet Research Steering Group ISDN-UP: Integrated Services Digital Network
IRTF: Internet Research Task Force User Part
A communications technology offered by telephone carriers
I
The task force of the Internet Activities Board that addresses
research and development of the Internet Protocol suite worldwide. ISDN combines voice and digital network services
(Organizations) in a single medium, offering customers digital data services
and voice connections through a single wire
IRTOS: I2o Real Time Operating System
(Operating systems) ISDP: I See Dead People
Tactical-ops, assault on terror gaming clan. See
IRTP: Internet Reliable Transaction Protocol http://www.isdp.tk/ (Games)
IRX: Information Retrieval eXperiment ISE: Integrated Software Engineering
IS: Image Stabilization (ISE)
A system like this can help your digital camera take clearer ISEN: Internet Search Environment Number
images (Hardware)
Is the foundation of a portal that comprehensively catalogs the
IS: Information System Internet's databases. See also http://www.isen.org/
IS: Interim Standard ISF: Information Security Forum

Interim Standard 95 (IS-95), is the first CDMA-based digital (Organizations)
cellular standard pioneered by Qualcomm. The brand name for ISFUG: Integrated Software Federal User Group
IS-95 is cdmaOne. IS-95 is also known as TIA-EIA-95
(Communication) ISH: Information Super Highway
IS: Internal System ISHO: Inter-System HandOver
IS: Interrupt Status Transfer of 3G calls to 2G networks mid call and vice-versa
(Network)
ISA: Industry Standard Architecture
ISI: Information Sciences Institute
PC bus architecture (Hardware)
ISI: Internally Specified Index
ISA: Instruction-Set Architecture
Part of the computer architecture related to programming, ISIS: Image and Scanner Interface Standard
including the native data types, instructions, registers,
addressing modes, memory architecture, interrupt and
ISIS: Integrated Systems and Information
exception handling, and external I/O (Software) Services
ISA: Interactive Services Association IS-IS: Intermediate-System to Intermediate-

System
ISA: Internet Security and Acceleration The ISO/OSI protocol by which intermediate systems exchange
(Microsoft) routing information
ISA: Internet Server Application ISKM: Internet Starter Kit for the Macintosh
(Software)
ISL: Inter Switch Link
ISACA: Information Systems Audit and Control (Hardware) (Cisco)
Association
ISL: Interactive System Language
See http://www.isaca.org/ (Organizations)
ISAKMP: Internet Security Association Key ISLM: Integrated Services Line Module
Management Protocol ISLN: Integrated Services Local Network
(Network)
ISLU: Integrated Services Line Unit
ISAM: Indexed Sequential Access Method
ISM: Industrial, Scientific, Medical
ISAPI: Internet Server Application Programming Radio frequency band (Communication)
Interface
ISM: Integrated Service Module
(Hardware)
ISBN: International Standard Book Number
ISM: Integrated Switch Module
ISC: Information Supply Chain (Hardware)

ISM ITP
ISM: Internet Service Manager ISSN: Integrated Special Services Network

(Microsoft)
ISSN: International Standard Serial Number
ISMA: Internet Streaming Media Alliance
ISSO: Information System Security Officer
(Organizations)
IST: Immerse System Technology
ISMF: Interactive Storage Management Facility
IST: Initial System Test
ISN: Information Systems Network
IST: Intelligent Scanning Technology
ISN: Initial Sequence Number
Synchronization between two hosts to establish a TCP ISTG: InterSite Topology Generator
connection. (Network) Managing active directory replication (Operating systems)
(Microsoft)
ISN: Internet School Networking
(Network) ISUP: ISdn User Part
Provides the signaling functions necessary to basic bearer
ISN: Internet Services Network services and supplementary services for voice and non-voice
ISN: Internet Shopping Network applications in the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)
ISN-LAN: Information System Network-Local ISV: Independent Software Vendor

Area Network A third-party software developer (Software)
ISO: Independent System Operator IT: Information Technology
ISO: International Organization for IT: Integration/Transformation

Standardization Another name for Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
I An international standards body that reviews and approves
(Databases)
independently designed products for use within specific ITA: Interim Type Approval
industries. ISO also develops standards for information
exchange, such as the ISO/OSI model for computer networks. ITAA: Information Technology Association of
See http://www.iso.org/ (Organizations) America
ISO/OSI: International Standardization (Organizations)
Organization/Open Systems Interconnection ITAC: Information Technology Architect
ISOC: Internet SOCiety Certification
Certification program designed to validate the existence of
(Organizations)
those qualities and skills in a professional that enable the
ISODE: International Standardization effective practice of IT architecture. See also
Organization Development Environment http://www.opengroup.org/itac/
ISP: Integrated System Peripheral control ITB: Information Technology Branch
ISP: Interactive String Processor ITB: Intermediate Text Block
ISP: Internet Service Provider ITC: Information Technology Consultant

Communications service company that provides Internet access An Information Technology (IT) position
and services to its customers. ISPs range in size from small ITC: International Typeface Corporation
independents serving a local calling area to large, established
telecommunications companies (Network) ITDI: Information Technology Pioneer
ISP: Interrupt Stack Pointer International
ISP: Interrupt Status Port ITE: Independent Trading Exchange
ISPF: Interactive System Programming Facility ITE: Information Technology Equipment
ISPP: Internet Secure Payments Protocol ITF: Interactive Test Facility

(Security) ITI: Information Technology Industry council
ISQL: Interactive Structured Query Language Washington-based trade association representing the leading
U.S. providers of information technology (IT) products and
ISR: Information Storage and Retrieval services. See also http://www.itic.org/ (Organizations)
ISR: Interrupt Service Routine ITIL: Information Technology Infrastructure

(Operating systems) Library
ISR: Interrupt Status Register iTIP: Icalendar Transport-indendent

Interoperability Protocol
ISS: Internet Security Systems
Specification that defines the format of calendar information
(Network) sent between calendar user agents. See also the RFC 2445
ISS: Internet Sharing Software ITLB: Instruction Tanslation Look-aside Buffer
(Software)
ITM: Instruction Translation Look-aside Buffer
ISSA: Information Systems Security Association
ITMS: Immediate check Truth Maintenance
(Organizations)
System
ISSCC: International Solid-State Circuits
ITN: Identification Tasking and Networking
Conference
ITN: Internet Travel Network
ISSLL: Integrated Services over Specific Link
Layers ITOT: Iso Transport service On top of Tcp
(Network) (Network)
ISSLOW: Integrated Services System for LOW ITP: Information Technology Practice
bitrate lines
ITP: Information Technology Project
(Network)

ITP JAE
ITP: Internet Transaction Processing IVDS: Integrated Voice and Data Systems
ITR: Information Technology Research IVDT: Integrated Voice/Data Terminal
ITR: Input Transaction Record IVIS: Interactive Video Information System
ITR: Internet Talk Radio IVIT: Intelligent Voice Interactive Technology
ITRS: International Technology Roadmap for IVL: Independent Vendor League
Semiconductors
IVL: Intel Verification Lab
(Organizations)
IVR: Interactive Voice Response
ITS: Incompatible Time-sharing System
An influential but highly idiosyncratic operating system written IVS: Interactive Videodisk System
for the PDP-6 and PDP-10 at MIT and long used at the MIT AI
IVT: InfoViewer Titles
Lab (Operating systems)
(Microsoft)
ITS: Intelligent Transportation System
IVT: Interrupt Vector Table
ITS: Internet Transaction Server
IVTS: International Video Teleconferencing
ITSC: Information Technology Specialist Service
Certification
IW: Information Warehouse
Certification program designed to verify the existence of those
qualities and skills in a professional that enable the effective I-WAY: Information highWAY
development, implementation and operation of IT solutions.
See also http://www.opengroup.org/itsc/ IWC: Inside Wire Cable
ITSEC: Information Technology Security IWF: InterWorking Function I
Evaluation Criteria IWS: Intelligent WorkStation
ITSO: International Technical Support IWS: Iplanet Web Server
J
Organization
(IBM) IXC: IntereXchange Carrier
A long-distance carrier such as AT&T, MCI and Sprint
ITSP: Internet Telephone Service Provider (Communication)
ITTP: Intelligent Terminal Transfer Protocol IXF: Integration eXchange Format
(Communication) (Ericsson) (IBM)
ITU: International Telecommunications Union IYHO: In Your Humble Opinion
International organization under the auspices of the United (Net lingo)
Nations that develops radio (ITU-R) and telecommunications
(ITU-T) standards. Prior to 1993, the ITU-T Standardization IYKWIM: If You Know What I Mean
Sector was known as the CCITT (Organizations) (Net lingo)
ITUG: International Telecommunications User
Group J
ITUSA: Information Technology Users Standards J/K: Just Kidding
Association (Net lingo)
ITU-T: International Telecommunications Union J2EE: Java 2 platform, Enterprise Edition
Technical standards group (Software) (Sun)
ITU-TIES: International Telecommunications J2ME: Java 2 platform, Micro Edition
Union -Telecom Information Exchange Services (Software) (Sun)
ITU-TSS: International Telecommunications J2SE: Java 2 platform, Standard Edition
Union -Telecommunication Standards Section (Software) (Sun)
iTV: Interactive TeleVision JA: Jump Address
ITX: Intermediate Text Block JA: Jump if Above
ITYM: I Think You Mean (Software)
(Net lingo) JAAS: Java Authentication and Authorization
IU: Integer Unit Service
Is a package that enables services to authenticate and enforce
IUAP: Internet User Account Provider access controls upon users. It implements a Java version of the
IUMA: Internet Underground Music Archive standard Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) framework,
and supports user-based authorization. (Security) (Sun)
IUP: Infrastructure Utility Provider
JAD: Joint Application Development
IUP: Internet User Population
JADE: Jasmine Application Development
(Network)
Environment
IUS/ITB: Interchange Unit (Databases) (CAI)
Separator/Intermediate Transmission Block
JAE: Java Applet Environment
IV: Initialization Vector (Software) (Sun)
(Security)
JAE: Jump if Above or Equal
IV&V: Initialization Vector
IVC: Integrated Visual Computing
(SGI)

JAF JDI
JAF: Javabeans Activation Framework JBOD: Just a Bunch Of Disks

With JAF, Java developers can take advantage of standard A storage subsystems using multiple independent disk drives,
services to determine the type of an arbitrary piece of data, as opposed to one form of RAID or another (Hardware)
encapsulate access to it, discover the operations available on
it, and to instantiate the appropriate bean to perform said JBPC: Java-Based Pipeline Configurator
operations (Sun) JC: Jump if Carry set
JAI: Java Advanced Imaging JCA: Java Card Assembly
Application programming interface (API) that enables (Software) (Sun)
developers to easily incorporate high-performance, network-
enabled, scalable, platform-independent image processing into JCA: Java Connector Architecture
Java technology-based applications and applets (Software) (Software)
(Sun)
JCA: Java Cryptography Architecture
JAIN: Java for the Advanced Intelligent Network
(Software) (Sun)
A set of Java technology based APIs which enable the rapid
development of Next Generation telecom products and services JCAT: Java Coordination And Transactions
on the Java platform (Sun) Includes (but is not limited to) the facilities required for
applications to be invoked and return results before, during or
JAM: Just A Minute
after calls; to process call parameters or subscriber-supplied
When your in an on-line conversation and you need to put the information; and to engage in further call processing and
other person on hold while you quickly do something (Net control (Sun)
lingo)
JCC: Java Call Control
JAMES: Java Apache Mail Enterprise Server
Includes the facilities required for observing, initiating,
Is a 100% pure Java server, designed to be a complete and answering, processing and manipulating calls, where a call is
portable enterprise mail engine solution based on currently understood to include (but is not necessarily limited to) a
available open protocols (SMTP, POP3, IMAP, HTTP) multimedia, multiparty session over the underlying integrated
J JANET: Joint Academic NETwork network (Sun)
A U.K. university network (Network) JCE: Java Cryptography Extension
JAR: Java ARchive Is a set of packages that provide a framework and
implementations for encryption, key generation and key
JASIG: Java in Administration Special Interest agreement, and Message Authentication Code (MAC)
Group algorithms (Security) (Sun)
Consortium of educational institutions and commercial affiliates JCK: Java Compatibility Kit
sponsoring open source software projects for higher education.
(Software) (Sun)
See also http://www.jasig.org (Organizations)
JCL: Jakarta Commons Logging
JAWS: Jamming And Warning System
(Software)
(Hardware)
JCL: Job Control Language
JAXB: Java Architecture for Xml Binding
(Software)
Architecture that provides an API and tools that automate the
mapping between XML documents and Java objects (Software) JCP: Java Community Process
(Sun) Produces high-quality specifications in "Internet time" using an
JAXM: Java Api for Xml Messaging inclusive, consensus building approach that produces a
specification, a reference implementation (to prove the
Enables applications to send and receive document oriented
specification can be implemented), and a technology
XML messages using a pure Java API (Software) (Sun)
compatibility kit (Sun)
JAXP: Java Api for Xml Processing JCR: Java Content Repository
Enables applications to parse and transform XML documents
Specification for a Java platform API for accessing content
using a pure Java API that is independent of a particular XML
repositories in a uniform manner. The content repositories are
processor implementation (Software) (Sun)
used in content management systems to keep the content data
JAXR: Java Api for Xml Registries and also the meta-data used in CMS such as versioning meta-
data (Software)
Provides a mechanism for publishing available services in an
external registry, and for consulting the registry to find those JCS: Java Caching System
services (Software) (Sun)
Distributed caching system written in java. It is intended to
JAX-RPC: Java Api for Xml-based Remote speed up applications by providing a means to manage cached
Procedure Call data of various dynamic natures. See also
http://jakarta.apache.org/jcs/ (Software)
Defines a mechanism for exchanging synchronous XML-based
messages between applications (Sun) JCWDE: Java Card Workstation Development
JAX-WS: Java Api for Xml Web Services Environment
(Software) (Sun)
(Software)
JBCL: Java Beans Component Library JDBC: Java DataBase Connectivity
(Databases)
(Software)
JBE: Jump if Below or Equal JDC: Java Developer Connection
(Sun)
JBI: Java Business Integration
JDE: Java Development Environment
(Software) (Sun)
JBIG: Joint Bi-level Image experts Group JDEE: Java Development Environment for Emacs
This was (and is) a group of experts nominated by national JDF: Job Description Format
standards bodies and major companies to work to produce
standards for bi-level image coding. See also JDI: Java Debug Interface
http://www.jbig.org/ (Organizations) (Software) (Sun)

JDIC JMX
JDIC: Java Desktop Integration Components JET: Jpeg Enhancement Technology

Project that aims to make Java technology-based applications
JFC: Java Foundation Classes
first-class citizens of current desktop platforms without
sacrificing platform independence. Its mission is to enable (Software)
seamless desktop/Java integration (Software) JFET: Junction Field Effect Transistor
JDJ: Java Developer's Journal JFIF: Jpeg File Interchange Format
JDK: Java Development Kit JFS: Journalized File System
(Software) (Sun) (Operating systems)
JDMK: Java Dynamic Management Kit JG: Jump if Greater
Is the foundation for building and distributing network
management intelligence into applications, networks and JGE: Jump if Greater or Equal
devices. It is the first compatible implementation of the JMX
JGF: Java Graphics Format
specification (Sun)
JDNC: Java Desktop Network Components JGSS: Java Generic Security Service
(Sun)
Aims to provide the shortcuts required to construct desktop
applications in significantly less time by reducing the learning, JIC: Just In Case
design, and coding requirements (Software)
(Net lingo)
JDO: Java Data Objects JIMI: Java Image Management Interface
Is an application programming interface (API) for transparent
(Sun)
database access. The programmer can write code in the Java
programming language that transparently accesses the JIPS: Janet Internet Protocol Service
underlying data store, without using database-specific code
(Databases) (Sun) JIS: Japan Industrial Standard
JDOM: Java Document Object Model JISC: Japanese Industrial Standards Committee
Java-oriented API for reading and writing XML documents
J
JIT: Just In Time
JDOQL: Java Data Objects Query Language Programs compilation technique (Software)
(Software) JITA: Just In Time Activation
JDSL: Java Data Structures Library Allows an objects to tell COM+ that its work is done and that it
(Software) can be destroyed (Software) (Microsoft)
JDT: Java Development Toolkit JITC: Just In Time Compiler

Project that provides tool plug-ins that implement a Java IDE JJ: Just Joking
that supports the development of Java applications including (Net lingo)
Eclipse plug-ins.The JDT project allows Eclipse to be a
development environment for itself. See www.eclipse.org JK: Just Kidding
(Software) (Net lingo)
JDTF: Java Device Test Framework JKS: Java KeyStore
(Software) (Sun) (Security)
JDWP: Java Debug Wire Protocol JL: Jump if Less
(Sun)
JLE: Japanese Language Environment
JE: Jump if Equal
JLE: Jump if Less than or Equal to
JEDEC: Joint Electronic Devices Engineering
Council JLF: Java Layered Framework
Set of Java code to provide a foundation for faster Java
JEIDA: Japanese Electronics Industry software development (Software)
Development Association
JLIP: Joint Level Interface Protocol
JEITA: Japanese Electronics and Information
JLS: Java Language Specification
Technology industries Association
(Sun)
(Organizations)
JMAPI: Java Management Application
JEMS: Jboss Enterprise Middleware Suite
Extensible and scalable suite of products for creating and
deploying e-business applications. JEMS offers cutting-edge (Sun)
technology components which customers can mix-and-match JMF: Java Media Framework
and roll out into their line of business infrastructure (Software)
(Software) (Sun)
JEPI: Joint Electronic Payment Initiative
JMI: Java Metadata Interface
JERI: Jini Extensible Remote Invocation Implements a dynamic, platform-neutral infrastructure that
(Software) (Sun) enables the creation, storage, access, discovery, and exchange
of metadata (Software) (Sun)
JES: Java Embedded Server
(Sun)
JMM: Java Memory Model
(Software)
JES: Job Entry System
JMP: JuMP
JESI: Java Edge Side Include (Software)
(Software)
JMS: Java Message Service
JESS: Java Expert System Shell
A CLIPS expert system written for Java (Software)
JMSC: Japanese Midi Standard Committee
JET: Joint Engine Technology JMX: Java Management eXtension

(Databases) (Microsoft) Formerly known as LMAPI (Sun)

JNA JSSE
JNA: Java Native Access JRE: Java Runtime Environment

Provides Java programs easy access to native shared libraries (Software)
(DLLs on Windows) without writing anything but Java
codeâ??no JNI or native code is required. See also JRI: Java Runtime Interface
https://jna.dev.java.net/ (Software) Native interface proposed by Netscape (Software) (Netscape)
JNA: Jump if Not Above JRMP: Java Remote Method Protocol

Protocol for looking up and referencing remote objects. It is a
JNAE: Jump if Not Above or Equal wire level protocol running at the level under Remote Method
JNB: Jump if Not Below Invocation (RMI) and over TCP/IP (Software)
JNBE: Jump if Not Below or Equal JRP: Joint Requirement Planning
JNDI: Java Naming and Directory Interface JS: JavaScript

Is a standard extension to the JavaTM platform, providing Java (Software) (Netscape)
technology-enabled applications with a unified interface to JS: Jump if Sign
multiple naming and directory services in the enterprise (Sun)
JSA: Japanese Standards Association
JNG: Jump if Not Greater
JSAM: Java Secure Application Manager
JNGE: Jump if Not Greater or Equal
JSAPI: Java Speech Application Programming
JNI: Java Native Interface
Interface
(Sun)
(Software) (Sun)
JNLE: Jump if Not Less or Equal
JSC: Java Swing Connection
JNLP: Java Network Launching Protocol (Sun)
(Sun)
JSCP: Java Software CoProcessor
J JNO: Jump if No Overflow
JSDK: Java Servlet Development Kit
JNP: Jump if No Parity (Software)
JNS: Jump if No Sign JSDL: Job Submission Description Language
JNZ: Jump if Not Zero Extensible XML specification for the description of simple tasks
to non-interactive computer execution systems. The
JODE: Java Optimize and Decompile Environment specification focuses on the description of computational task
(Software) submissions to traditional high-performance computer systems
JOE: Java Objects Everywhere JSDT: Java Shared Data Toolkit

JavaTM Shared Data Toolkit
JOGL: Java binding for OpenGL (Software) (Sun)
Provides full access to the APIs in the OpenGL 1.0 - 3.0, â?¥
3.1, ES 1.x and ES 2.x specification as well as nearly all vendor JSF: Java Server Faces
extensions (Software) Technology that simplifies building user interfaces for
JavaServer applications. Developers of various skill levels can
JOHNNIAC: JOHn Neumann Integrator and quickly build web applications by assembling reusable UI
Automatic Computer components in a page and connecting these components to a
data source (Software) (Sun)
JOOP: Journal of Object Orientated Programming
JSGF: JSpeech Grammar Format
JOSS: Johnniac Open Shop System
JOSS: Joint Object Services Submission JSML: JSpeech Markup Language
JOVE: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs JSON: JavaScript Object Notation

Scripting language based on a subset of the JavaScript
JOVIAL: Jules Own Version of the International Programming Language. The format is specified in RFC 4627.
Algorithmic Language The official MIME Media Type for JSON is application/json
(Software)
JPA: Java Persistence Api
(Software) JSP: JavaServer Pages
(Software)
JPDA: Java Platform Debugger Architecture
Multi-tiered debugging architecture that allows tools JSPA: Java Specification Participation Agreement
developers to easily create debugger applications which run (Sun)
portably across platforms, virtual machine (VM)
implementations and SDK versions (Software) (Sun)
JSPC: JavaServer Pages Compiler
(Software)
JPE: Jump if Parity Even
JSR: Java Specification Request
JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group Is the actual description of a proposed and final specification
A joint venture of the CCITT and ISO that developed a standard for the Java platform (Sun)
for compressing gray-scale or color still images
JSS: Java Security Service
JPG: Joint Photographic experts Group Java interface to Network Security Service (NSS). It supports
Filename extension (short for JPEG) most of the security standards and encryption technologies
supported by NSS. JSS also provides a pure Java interface for
JPL: Jet Propulsion Laboratory ASN.1 types and BER/DER encoding
JPLDIS: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Display JSS: Javascript Style Sheet
Information System
JSSE: Java Secure Socket Extension
JPNF: Join-Projection Normal Form
Is a set of Java packages that enable secure Internet
JPO: Jump if Parity Odd communications. It implements a Java version of SSL and TLS
protocols and includes functionality for data encryption, server
JRB: Java Relational Binding authentication, message integrity, and optional client
(Software) authentication (Software) (Sun)

JST KERMIT
JST: J2ee Standard Tools JWSDP: Java Web Services Developer Pack
Extension to the Eclipse platform with support for building The Java Web Services Developer Pack is an all-in-one
multi-tier J2EE applications (Software) download containing key technologies to simplify building of
web services using the Java 2 Platform (Software) (Sun)
JST: Japan Standard Time
Timezone: GMT +9:00 JXTA: JuXTApose
Started as a research project at Sun Microsystems, its goal is
JSTL: Jsp Standard Tag Library to explore a vision of distributed network computing using peer-
JSWDK: JavaServer Web Development Kit to-peer topology, and to develop basic building blocks and
services that would enable innovative applications for peer
(Software) (Sun) groups (Software)
JTA: Java Transaction Api JZ: Jump if Zero
(Sun)
JTAG: Joint Test Action Group K
(Hardware)
k: Kilo
JTAPI: Java Telephony Application Programming Prefix for 10 power 3 (or, in IT parlance, 2 power 10)
Interface
K&R: Kernighan And Ritchie
(Sun)
"Traditional" or "classic" C language specification, named after
JTB: Jump Trace Buffer its authors, Brian Kerninghan and Dennis Ritchie (Software)
JTC: Join Transitive Closure KAM: Keep Alive Memory
Allows the DBMS optimizer to consider a join order other than
KAS: Kiva Administrative Server
those made available explicitly by the query's WHERE clause
(Databases) (Sybase) (Software) (Netscape)
JTC: Joint Technical Committee KB: KeyBoard
JTEE: Java Toolbox for Empirical Experiments

(Hardware) J
Aims to develop an open source toolbox for carrying out kb: KiloBit
empirical experiments. Java is used to allow easy migration to kB: KiloByte K
various platforms. See also
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jtee/ (Software) 1024 bytes
JTM: Job Transfer and Manipulation KB: Knowledge Base
JTMS: Justification based Truth Maintenance KBC: KeyBoard Connector

System (Hardware)
JTS: Java Transaction Service KBD: KeyBoarD
JTSIN: Joint Transmission Services Information KBE: Knowledge Based Engineering

Network KBMS: KeyBoard/MouSe
JUG: Java User Group Connector. It's simply a duplicate of the PS/2 ports and it's
used to connect other devices that use the PS/2 without having
JUGHEAD: Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy to give up the keyboard and mouse, and also is convenient for
Excavation And Display things that you need to mount internally (Hardware)
JUMP: Java User Migration Path kbps: KiloBits Per Second

(Software) (Microsoft) Transfer Speed (Communication)
JUNET: Japan Unix NETwork kBps: KiloBytes Per Second

JVM: Java Virtual Machine
KBS: Knowledge-Based System
JVMDI: Java Virtual Machine Debug Interface
(Sun) KCC: Knowledge Consistency Checker
A domain service that creates and modifies the replication
JVMPI: Java Virtual Machine Profiler Interface
topology of Active Directory (Network) (Microsoft)
JVMTI: Java Virtual Machine Tool Interface KCS: Kansas City Standard
JVS: Java Validation Suite Recording standard (Hardware)
(Software)
KCS: Kiva C++ Server
jwcid: Java Web Component IDentifier (Software) (Netscape)
(Software)
KD: Kernel Debugger
JWS: Java Web Server (Operating systems)
(Sun)
KDC: Key Distribution Center
JWS: Java Web Start
KDE: K Desktop Environment
Gives you the power to launch full-featured applications with a
single click from your Web browser. You can now download KDS: Knowledge Discovery Server
and launch applications without going through complicated (Lotus)
installation procedures (Software) (Sun)
KDT: Key Definition Table
JWSDL: Java Web Service Description Language
Provides a standard set of APIs for representing and KEA: Key Exchange Algorithm
manipulating services described by Web Service Description (Security)
Language (WSDL) documents (Sun)
KEFIR: KEy FIndings Reporter
KERMIT: Kl-10 Error-free Reciprocal Micro
Interconnect over Tty lines

KES LAMP
KES: Key Escrow System KSE: Kernel Scheduled Entitiy

(Operating systems)
KFM: K FIle Manager
KSH: Korn SHell
KFX: KoFaX
File Format for fax transmission KSN: Key Sequence Number
(Security)
KHG: Kernel Hacking Guide
KSPH: KeyStrokes Per Hour
KHz: KiloHertZ
KSR: Keyboard Send Receive
KI: Key Identifier
(Hardware)
(Security)
kVA: Kilo Volt-Ampere
KiB: KibIByte
Electric power measurement unit (Hardware)
Unit of measurement, introduced by the International
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), correspondig to 1024 bytes kVAh: Kilo Volt Ampere Hour
KIF: Knowledge Interchange Format Electrical energy measurement unit (Hardware)
KIPS: Kilo Instruction Per Second KVM: K Virtual Machine

Processing speed A virtual machine designed from the ground up with the
constraints of inexpensive mobile devices in mind (Sun)
KIR: Kyocera Image Refinement
KVM: Keyboard, Video, Mouse
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
KIS: Knowbot Information Service
KWIC: Key Word In Context
KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid A permuted index offering lists of titles, with each of the major
KIT: Keep In Touch words as the first word, and the remaining words using key
words or phrases
(Net lingo)
KWS: Knowledge Work System
KIT: Kernel software for Intelligent Terminals
KXS: Kiva eXecutive Server
K KJS: Kiva Java Server
(Software) (Netscape)
L KM: Keyboard Monitoring L

KM: Knowledge Management L&F: Look & Feel
KMA: Kiss My A** (Software)
(Net lingo) L&H: Lernout And Hauspie
KML: Keyhole Markup Language L1: Level 1
XML grammar and file format for modeling and storing (Hardware)
geographic features such as points, lines, images, polygons,
and models for display in Google Earth and Google Maps. You L2: Level 2
can use KML to share places and information with other users (Hardware)
KMS: Key Management Server L2CAP: Logical Link Control and Adaptation
Mostly used in Microsoft Exchange to issue security certificates Protocol
(Security) (Microsoft)
L2F: Layer 2 Forwarding
KNI: Katmai New Instruction (Network) (Cisco)
(Intel)
L2TP: Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
KOS: Kill On Site (Network)
(Games)
LA: Limited Availability
KPA: Key Process Area
(Software) LAC: L2tp Access Concentrator
Device attached to the switched network or located on an end
KPCMS: Kodak Precision Color Management system supporting L2TP to pass PPP traffic (Network)
System
LACP: Link Aggregation Control Protocol
(Software) (Kodak)
Part of an IEEE specification (802.3ad) that allows to bundle
KPDL: Kyocera Page Description Language several physical ports together to form a single logical channel
KPF: Kerio Personal Firewall LADDR: LAyered Device DRiver

KPI: Kernel Programming Interface LADT: Local Access Data Transport

KPI: Key Performance Indicator LAF: Look And Feel
(Software)
KQML: Knowledge Query and Manipulation
Language LALL: Longest Allowed Lobe Length
KRS: Knowledge Retrieval System LAM: Local Area Multicomputer
KSAM: Keyed Sequential Access Method LAME: Lame Ain't an Mp3 Encoder
Accessing a flat file using a simple or compound key (Software)
(Software) (HP)
LAMP: Linux, Apache, Mysql, Perl (or Php or
KSDS: Keyed Sequential Data Set Phyton)
Web applications platform (Software)

LAN LD
LAN: Local Access Network LC: Liquid Crystal

(Hardware)
LAN: Local Area Network
Data communications network connecting computers and LCA: Life-Cycle Assessment
related equipment, usually over an area not greater than 10 km
(Network) LCA: Logic Cell Array
LANACS: Local Area Network Asynchronous LCA: Lotus Communications Architecture

Connection Server (Lotus)
LANAID: LAN Adapter Installation and Diagnostic LCC: Leadless Chip Carrier
(Network) (Hardware)
LANCE: Local Area Network Controller Ethernet LCCM: LanClient Control Manager
(IBM)
LANDP: Local Area Network Distributed Platform
LCD: Liquid Crystal Display
LANE: Local Area Network Emulation
(Hardware)
A set of services and protocols that provide for the emulation
of LANs, using ATM as a backbone to allow connectivity among LCD: Loss of Cell Delineation
LAN and ATM attached end stations (Network)
LCD: Lowest Common Denominator
LAP: Link Access Procedure
LCDUI: Liquid Crystal Display User Interface
Communication protocol (CCITT X.25) (Network)
(Software)
LAP: Linux Application Platform
LCE: Link Control Entity
LAPB: Link Access Procedure Balanced (Communication)
(Network)
LCF: Lightweight Client Framework
LAP-B: Link Access Procedure-Balanced
LCF: Low Cost Fiber
LAPD: Link Access Procedure-D channel
Lch: Luminance Chrominance Hue
Communication protocol (Communication)
Color model (Hardware)
LAPM: Link Access Procedure for Modems
LCI: Lan Connect Interface
LAPS: Lan Adapter and Protocol Support (Hardware) L
LAR: Load Access Rights LCID: Language Code IDentifier
LART: Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool LCID: LoCale IDentifier
LASER: Light Amplification by the Stimulated LCK: Library Construction Kit
Emission of Radiation (Microsoft)
LASS: Local Area Signaling Service LCM: Landesk Configuration Manager
LASTport: Local Area Storage TransPORT (Operating systems) (Intel)
Protocol (DEC) LCM: Leaf Creation Method
LAT: Local Access Terminal LCM: Life-Cycle Management
LAT: Local Address Table (Software)
A table containing the IP address range that is inside a LCN: Logical Cluster Number
firewalled network (Network) (Microsoft)
(Operating systems)
LAT: Local Area Transport LCOS: Liquid Crystal On Silicon
(Network)
(Hardware)
LATA: Local Access and Transport Area LCP: Link Control Protocol
Local telephone company's geographical area (Communication)
Part of the point-to-point protocol (PPP) to establish, configure,
LATM: Local Asynchronous Transfer Mode and test data link connections (Network)
LAVC: Local Area Vax Cluster LCR: Least Cost Routing

(Network)
LAWN: Local Area Wireless Network
LCR: Line Control Register
LB: Local Bus
Bus architecture (Hardware) LCS: Laboratory for Computer Science
MIT's department
LBA: Logical Block Addressing
LCS: Lotus Communication Server
LBL: LaBeL
LCSAJ: Linear Code Sequence and Jump
LBM: Local Bus Master
Analysis of linear sequences of executable code. The test cases
LBOT: Logical Beginning of Tape are based on control flow jumps (Software)
(Hardware) LCSD: Laminate Chip Signal Diode
LBR: LiBraRian LCT: Last Compliance Time
LBT: Listen Before Talk LCU: Last Cluster Used
LBT: Local Bus Targets LD: Laser Disc
LBX: Local Bus Accelerator (Hardware)
LBX: Low-Band with X LD: Link Dead

When a link between two points goes dead (disconnects) (Net
lingo)

LD LI
LD: LoaD LEC: Local Exchange Carrier

Same as MOV (move). The Zilog Z80, for instance, used LD as Local telephone company such as Pacific Bell, Southwestern
the assembler opcode for what Intel called MOV (move) Bell, Bell Atlantic, etc. (Communication)
because of copyright issues (machine code was the same)
(Software) LECS: Lan Emulation Configuration Server
See also LES (Network)
LDA: Local Delivery Agent
Program that a mail server uses to deliver mail messages to LED: Light Emitting Diode
the mailboxes of users. This program is also known as local (Hardware)
mailer (Software)
LEL: Link, Embed and Launch-to-edit
LDA: Logical Device Address (Lotus)
LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LEM: Language Extension Module
A standardized TCP/IP protocol for access to a central X.500-
based directory that is shared by many different services. Many
LEN: Low Entry Networking
vendors plan to use LDAP to access policy information stored LEO: Low Earth Orbit
on third-party directories (Network)
LEOT: Logical End Of Tape
LDC: Lotus Development Corporation
(Hardware)
LDCM: LanDesk Client Manager
LEP: Light Emitting Polymer
LDDM: Longhorn Display Driver Model (Hardware)
LER: Label Edge Router
LDDS: Long Distance Discount Services (Hardware)
LDGW: Lotus Domino Go Webserver LES: Lan Emulation Server
(Software) (IBM) (Network)
LDI: Lvds Digital Interface LES: Language Engineering Services
(Hardware)
LET: Leaving Early Today
LDIF: Ldap Data Interchange Format (Net lingo)
File format suitable for describing directory information or
LEX: LEXicon
L modifications made to directory information. It is typically
used to import and export directory information between LDAP LF: Line Feed
servers or to describe a set of changes to be applied to a An instruction to a certain computer or printer to move down
directory (Communication) one line, without moving the cursor or print head. Also used as
LDM: Logical Disk Manager a terminator
LDM: Long Distance Modem LF: Login Facility
LDML: Locale Data Markup Language LFAP: Lightweight Flow Admission Protocol
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/ LFH: Low Force Helix
LDMS: LanDesk Management Suite Connector pin type (Hardware)
LDP: Label Distribution Protocol LFI: Last File Indicator

A fundamental concept in Multi Protocol Label Switching is that LFM: Log File Monitor
two Label Switching Routers must agree on the meaning of the
labels used to forward traffic between and through them LFN: Long FileName
(Network)
LFR: Logical Forms Recognition
LDP: Linux Document Project (Software)
LDP: Loader Debugger Protocol LFS: Linux From Scratch
LDT: Lightning Data Transport Project that provides you with the steps necessary to build your
own custom Linux system
(Hardware) (AMD)
LFSR: Linear-Feedback Shift Register
LDT: Local Descriptor Table
LFT: Low Function Terminal
LE: Less than or Equal
(IBM)
(Software)
LFU: Least Frequently Used
LE: Light Edition
(Software) LGA: Land Grid Array
Integrated circuit (IC) packaging that uses small flat contacts
LE: Limited Edition versus pins (Hardware)
(Software)
LGA: Leadless Grid Array
LEA: Load Effective Address Integrated circuit (IC) packaging. Synonym of Land Grid Array
LEAD: Live Early Adoption and Demonstration (Hardware)
LEAF: Law Enforcement Access Field LGDT: Load Global Descriptor Table
LEAP: Lightweight Extensible Authentication LGPL: Lesser General Public License

Protocol An evolution of the Library General Public License (GNU)
(Cisco) LGPL: Library General Public License
LEAS: Lata Equal Access System (GNU)
LEC: Lan Emulation Client LGX: Linux/Gnu/X

(Network) LI: List Item
LEC: Layered Error Correction HTML Tag

LIAS LNBF
LIAS: Library Information Access System LLDT: Load Local Descriptor Table
LIB: LIBrary LLF: Low Level Format
File name extension
LLL: Low-Level Language
LIC: Licensed Internal Code (Software)
LIC: Line Interface Coupler LLN: Line Link Network
(IBM)
LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
LICS: Lotus International Character Set (IBM)
LIDE: Light emitting diode In-Direct Exposure LM: Lan Manager
Scanner technology (Hardware) (Canon) (Network) (IBM)
LIDT: Load Interrupt Descriptor Table LM: License Manager
LIEP: Large Internet Exchange Packet LM: Link Manager
(Novell)
LM/X: Lan Manager for uniX
LIF: Low Insertion Force LMA: Lightspeed Memory Architecture
LIFE: Logistics Interface For manufacturing (Hardware) (nVidia)
Environment
LMAO: Laughing My A** Off
LIFO: Last In First Out (Net lingo)
(Hardware)
LMB: Left Mouse Button
LILO: Last In Last Out
LMB: Local Master Browser
(Hardware)
(Network)
LILO: LInux LOader
LMBCS: Lotus Multi-Byte Character Set
LIM: Lotus/Intel/Microsoft (Lotus)
LIMA: Lotus/Intel/Microsoft/Ast LMD: Last Modification Date
LIMDO: Light Intensity Modulation Direct LMDS: Local Multipoint Distribution System
Overwrite (Communication) L
LIMM: Light Intensity Modulation Method LME: Layer Management Entity
LIMOS: Laser Intensity MOdulation System LMFAO: Laughing My F***ing A** Off
LIMS: Library Information Management System (Net lingo)
LIP: Large Internet Packet LMI: Link Management Interface
LIPS: Lightweight Internet Person Schema LMI: Local Management Interface
LIPS: Logical Inferences Per Second LMK: Let Me Know

(Net lingo)
LIPS: Logical Instruction Per Second
Processing Speed LMKHIW: Let Me Know How It Works
When sending data to someone that should fix a problem. (Net
LIR: Local Internet Registry lingo)
(Network)
LMM: Logical Memory Manager
LIS: Library and Information Science (Databases) (Sybase)
LIS: Logical Ip Subnet LMOS: Leave Mail On Server
LISC: Local Interconnection Service Center LMP: Link Manager Protocol
(Communication)
LMS: Lan Management Solution
LISP: LISt Processor (Software) (Cisco)
LMS: Learning Management System
LITHP: LInk Type description language for
LMS: Library Management System
HyperText Processing
LMS: Lotus Messaging Switch
LIU: Lan Interface Unit
(Lotus)
LIW: Long Instruction Word
LMSW: Load Machine Status Word
(Hardware)
LMU: Lan Management Utilities
LK: LocK
(IBM)
Lock file (Operating systems)
LMU: Lan Manager for Unix
LKG: Last Known Good
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) LN: Load Number
LLB: Local Location Broker LN: Logarithm Natural
Base e
LLC: Logical Link Control
Token Ring link protocol (IEEE 802.2) (Network) LN:DI: Lotus Notes:Document Imaging
LLDP: Link Layer Discovery Protocol LNBF: Low-Noise Block receiving horns with
A vendor-neutral Layer 2 protocol that allows a network device integrated Feeds
to advertise its identity and capabilities on the local network (Communication)
(Network)

LNK LRC
LNK: LiNK LPAR: Logical PARtition

File name extension (Operating systems) (IBM)
LNP: Local Number Portability LPB: Local Peripheral Bus
(Communication)
LPB: Low Ping Bastard
LNS: L2tp Network Server Network multiplayer games attribute (Software)
Maintains L2TP sessions with whatever is connected to the LAC
LPC: Lightweight Procedure Call
(Network)
(Software)
LO: helLO
LPC: Linear Predictive Coding
(Net lingo)
LPC: Local Procedure Call
LOB: Large OBject
(Databases) LPC: Low Pin Count
(Hardware)
LOB: Line-Of-Business
LPCM: Linear Pulse Code Modulation
LOB: Low-Order Byte
(Communication)
LOC: Lines Of Code
LPD: Line Printer Daemon
LOC: Loop Online Control
LPDP: Line Printer Daemon Protocol
LOCIS: Library Of Congress Information System
LPDU: Logical Protocol Data Unit
LOD: Level Of Detail
LPF: League for Programming Freedom
LODSB: LOaD String Byte
lpi: Lines Per Inch
LOF: Loss of Frame
LPI: Linux Professional Insitute
(Communication)
Serves the community of Linux and open source software users
LOFS: LOopback File System vendors and developers, in the interest of increasing and
A file system type that lets the user create a new virtual file supporting professional use of such software throughout world.
system. The user can access files using an alternative path See also http://www.lpi.org/ (Organizations)
name (Operating systems)
LPL: Logical Page List
L LOG: LOGarithm (Databases)
Base 10
LPL: Lotus Programming Language
LOGML: LOG Markup Language (Lotus)
XML application designed to describe log reports of web servers
lpm: Lines Per Minute
LOL: Laughing Out Loud Printing speed (Hardware)
(Net lingo)
LPM: Logical Process Manager
LOL: Lots Of Love (Databases) (Sybase)
(Net lingo)
LPN: Logical Page Number
LOL: Lots Of Love
LPP: Land Pre-Pits
(Net lingo)
Addressing aid in writing DVD-R (Hardware)
LOM: Lan On Motherboard
LPP: Licensed Program Product
This is a network device that is built onto the motherboard (or
baseboard) of the machine (Hardware) LPPL: Latex Project Public License
See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.html
LOM: Lights Out Management
Synonym for Out Of Band (OOB) management LPR: Line PRinter
LON: Lan On Notebook LPR: Line Printer Remote
(Hardware) LPRA: Low Power Register Array
LON: Local Operating Network (Hardware)
LOOPE: LOOP while Equal lps: Lines Per Second
Printing speed (Hardware)
LOOPNE: LOOP while Not Equal
LPS: Low Power Schottky
LOOPNZ: LOOP while Not Zero
(Hardware)
LOOPS: Lisp Object Oriented Programming System
LPT: Line PrinTer
LOOPZ: LOOP while Zero (Hardware)
LOP: Loss of Pointer LPWA: Lucent Personalized Web Assistant
LORE: Line Oriented Editor Anonymous web browsing service
LOS: Loss of Signal LPX: Low Profile Extended

(Communication) Motherboard format (Hardware)
LOTOS: Language Of Temporal Order Specification LQ: Letter Quality
LOV: List Of Values LQM: Link Quality Monitoring
LP: Linear Programming LR: Link Register
LP: Logical Partition LR: Logical Record
LPAR: Logic Programming and Automated LRC: Local Register Cache

Reasoning

LRC LUS
LRC: Longitudinal Redundancy Check LSNP: Loop Service with Number Portability
(Communication)
LRF: Little Rubber Feet
Support devices for computer cases and other equipments LSP: Label Switched Path
(Hardware)
LSP: License Service Provider
LRL: Least Recently Loaded An Netware Loadable Module (NLM) that responds to requests
from NetWare Licensing Services (NLS) clients and licensing
LRM: Language Reference Manual
service managers for licensing information or license units
LRM: Least Recently used Master (Novell)
LRMP: Lightweight Reliable Multicast Protocol LSR: Label Switched Router

(Network) in MPLS, LSRs function to read the incoming label, remove it,
and then based on its FEC, append a new Label to it (Network)
LRPC: Lightweight Remote Procedure Call
(Software)
LSR: Link State Routing
LRS: Language ReSource LST: Linux Support Team

File name extension LST: LiST
LRS: Line Repeater Station File name extension
LRSN: Log Record Sequence Number LT: Less Than

(Databases) (Software)
LRU: Least Recently Used LT: Local Team

As in Rational ClearCase LT (Software) (Rational)
LS: Laser Servo
(Hardware) (Compaq)
LTC: Longitudinal Time Code
LS: Library Server LTE: Line Terminating Equipment
LS: License Server LTF: Leap To Frogans

See http://www.frogans.com/ (Software)
LS: Login Server
(Security)
LTH: Low To High
Write-once Blu-ray disc format that features an organic dye
LSA: Lan and Scsi Adapter recording layer (Hardware) L
(IBM)
LTI: Lite Touch Installation
LSA: Line Sharing Adapter Interactive installation and deployment of Windows XP SP2 or
Windows Vista complete with application install and any other
LSA: Link State Advertisement
needed configuration of the final image on destination
(Network) computers (Software) (Microsoft)
LSA: Local Security Authority LTNS: Long Time No See
The Local Security Authority is the service provided to manage (Net lingo)
local security, domain authentication, and Active Directory
processes. The Security Accounts Manager, Net Logon and LTO: Linear Tape Open
Protected Storage services run within the context of lsass.exe (Hardware)
LTO: Locate-To-Order
LSAPI: License Services Application Programming
Interface LTP: Long Term Predictor
LSAS: Local Security Authentication Server LTPS: Low-Temperature PolySilicon

Verifies validity of user logons to PC/Server. (Operating (Hardware)
systems) (Microsoft) LTR: Left-To-Right
LSASS: Local Security Authority Subsystem LTR: LeTteR
Service
Provides an interface for managing local security, domain LTR: Load Task Register
authentication, and Active Directory processes. The Security LTS: Leaning Toothpick Syndrome
Accounts Manager, Net Logon and Protected Storage services
are components of LSA (Security) (Microsoft) Expresses readability in PERL regular expressions (Software)
LSB: Least Significant Bit (or Byte) LTSS: Long Term Station Statistics
LSC: Least Significant Character LU: Logical Unit
LSD: Least Significant Digit LU6.2: Logical Unit 6.2
LSE: Language Sensitive Editor LUA: Logical Unit Application
LSI: Large Scale of Integration LUG: Linux User Group

IC manufacturing integration level: it's the process of placing LUG: Local Users Group
from 3,000 to 100,000 transistors on one chip (Hardware)
LUI: Local User Input
LSL: Link Support Layer
LUIS: Library User Information Service
LSL: Load Segment Limit
LUN: Logical Unit Number
LSMS: Lucent Security Management Server SCSI subaddressing (Hardware)
(Lucent)
LUNI: Lane User Network Interface
LSN: Log Sequence Number
LUS: LookUp Service
LSN: Logical Sector Number Provides the functionality to discover and register services
(Software)

LUT MAGIC
LUT: LookUp Table

M
LUW: Logical Unit of Work
M: Mega
LV: Logical Volume
(IBM)
m: Milli
LV: Low Voltage
(Hardware)
M4IF: Mpeg-4 Industry Forum
LVCS: Logility Value Chain Solution
See http://www.m4if.org/ (Organizations)
(Software)
MA: Migration Agent
LVD: Low Voltage Differential
(Communication) (Novell)
(Hardware)
mA: Milliampere
LVDS: Low Voltage Differential Signalling
(Hardware) MAB: Multi-Architecture Binary
(Software)
LVM: Logical Volume Manager
Provides a higher-level view of the disk storage on a computer MABO: Multiplier-Arithmetic BOlton
system than the traditional view of disks and partitions. This
MAC: MACro
gives the system administrator much more flexibility in
allocating storage to applications and users (Operating File name extension
systems) MAC: Mandatory Access Control
LVM: Low Voltage Differential Signaling (Security)
(IBM) MAC: Media Access Control
LVQ: Learning Vector Quantization (Network)
LW: Lazy Write MAC: Message Authentication Code

(Security)
LW: Length Width
MAC: Move, Add, Change
LWP: LightWeight Process
Abbreviation for a specific task request (Network)
A class of processes that share resources with each other and
L therefore use fewer resources than ordinary processes MAC: Multiple Access Computers
(Operating systems)
MAC: Multiplexed Analog Component
M LWP: Lotus WordPro A color standard that transmits three color components in time-
File format for documents compressed serial analog form (Hardware)
LWT: Lightweight Windowing Toolkit MAC: Multiply ACcumulate
LWUIT: LightWeight User Interface Toolkit CPU instruction type
User interface (UI) library targeted to a wide range of mobile MACH: Multilayer ACtuator Head
devices, from mass market to high-end smart phones, and has (Epson)
now also been ported to other embedded platforms (Software)
(Sun) MACS: Mail order And Catalog System
LY: Love You MACS: Modem Access Control System
(Net lingo)
MAD: Microsoft Active Directory
LYL: Love Ya Lots (Network) (Microsoft)
(Net lingo)
MAD: Mpeg Audio Decoder
LYLAB: Love Ya Like A Brother (Software)
(Net lingo)
MADCAP: Multicast Address Dynamic Client
LYLAS: Love Ya Like A Sister Allocation Protocol
(Net lingo) Protocol that allows hosts to request multicast address
allocation services from multicast address allocation servers.
LZ: Landing Zone This protocol is part of the Multicast Address Allocation
(Hardware) Architecture being defined by the Multicast Address Allocation
Working Group (Communication)
LZ: Lempel-Ziv
MADD: Multiply-ADD
LZH: Lempel-Ziv-Haruyasu
CPU instruction type
Compression algorithm derived from the LZSS scheme with a
sliding window and additional compression applied to the MADE: Manufacturing and Automated Design
output of the LZSS compressor by dynamic Huffman coding Engineering
(Software)
MADYMO: MAthematical DYnamic MOdeling
LZMA: Lempel-Ziv Modified Algorithm
Compression algorithm (Software) MAE: Macintosh Application Environment
LZS: Lempel-Ziv-Stac MAE: Merit Access Exchange

Compression algorithm (Software) MAE: Metropolitan Area Exchange
LZSS: Lempel-Ziv-Storer-Szymanski maen: Morning Afternoon Evening Night
Compression algorithm (Software) "Good maen" is used as a universal greeting on the Internet to
wish good morning, good afternoon, good evening or good
LZW: Lempel-Ziv-Welch
night, all rolled into one (Net lingo)
Compression algorithm (Software)
MAGIC: Multi-dimensional Applications Gigabit
LZX: Lempel-Ziv eXtended Internetworking Consortium
Compression algorithm (Software)
(Organizations)

MAGMA MBS
MAGMA: Minimal Architecture for Generalized MAS: Microsoft Authorized Support

Markup Applications (Microsoft)
mAh: MilliAmpere per Hour MAS: Multi-Agent System
MAI: Multiple Applications Interface (Software)
MAJC: Microprocessor Architecture for Java MASM: Macro ASseMbler

Computing (Software) (Microsoft)
(Sun) MASS: Maximum Availability and Support
MAM: Memory Allocation Map Subsystem
MAME: Multi-Arcade Machine Emulator MAT: Maintenance Access Terminal
MAN: MANual MAT: Memory Analyzer Tool

File name extension Fast and feature-rich Java heap analyzer that helps you find
memory leaks and reduce memory consumption. See also
MAN: Metropolitan Area Network http://www.eclipse.org/mat/ (Software)
Between a LAN and WAN in size and scope (Network) MathML: MATHematical Markup Language
MANIAC: Mathematical Analyzer Numerical XML application for describing mathematical notation and
Integrator And Computer capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is
to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed
MAO: Machine Account Object on the Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text
MAU: Media Attachment Unit
MAOS: Multiple Application Operating System (Network)
(Operating systems)
MAU: Multistation Access Unit
MAP: Maintenance Analysis Procedures (Network)
MAP: Management and Administration Platform MAVDM: Multiple Application Virtual Dos Machine
MAP: Manufacturing Automation Protocol MAVICA: MAgnetic VIdeo CAmera
MAP: Microsoft Assessment and Planning (Hardware) (Sony)
(Software) (Microsoft) MAW: Microsoft At Work
MAP: Migration Assistance Program MAX: MAssively parallel uniX
MAP: Mobile Application Part MAX: MAXimum M
Adds functionality for mobile text applications to the Public
MAXML: Multichannel Accessible eXtensible
Land Mobile Network (PLMN). MAP handles numerous services
for text messaging to and from mobile terminals, for example Markup Language
Short Message Service Centres in GSM Networks MB: Medium Business
MAP/TOP: Manufacturing Automation Protocol Mb: MegaBit
Technical Office Protocol
MB: MegaByte
MAPE: Mean Absolute Percentage Error
1024 kilobytes
MAPI: Messaging Application Programming MB: MotherBoard
Interface
(Hardware)
(Microsoft)
MBASIC: Microsoft Beginners All-purpose
MAPICS: Manufacturing, Accounting and Symbolic Instruction Code
Production Information Control System
(Microsoft)
(IBM)
MBCS: Multi-Byte Character Set
MAPOS: Multiple Access Protocol Over Sonet/sdh
(Network) MbD: Management by Delegation
(Software)
MAPP: Microsoft Active Protections Program
To improve security protections for customers, Microsoft MBGP: Multicast Border Gateway Protocol
provides vulnerability information to major security software Based on RFC 2283 (Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4), it
providers in advance of each monthly security update release offers a method for providers to distinguish which prefixes they
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) will use for performing multicast reverse path forwarding (RPF)
checks (Network)
MAPS: Mail Abuse Prevention System
MBO: Management By Objectives
MAPS: Mcis Administration and Provisioning
Service MBONE: Multicast backBONE
MAR: Memory Address Register Mbps: MegaBits Per Second

(Hardware) Transfer speed (Communication)
MARC: MAchine Readable Cataloging MBps: MegaBytes Per Second

MARC: Multitechnology Automated Reader Card
MBQ: Message-Based Queueing
MARS: Multicast Address Resolution Server
(Network) MBR: Master Boot Record
MARVEL: Machine-Assisted Realization of the MBS: Maximum Burst Size
Virtual Electronic Library

MBSA MDA
MBSA: Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer MCP: Microsoft Certified Professional

Scans for missing hotfixes and vulnerabilities in some Microsoft (Microsoft)
products (Security) (Microsoft)
MCP: Multiport Communication Processor
MBX: MailBoX
MCP: Myrinet Control Program
MC: Model Coordinates (Network)
The coordinate system used for describing a single object (a
graphics entity). When each object is described in its own MCP/AS: Master Control Program/Advanced
model coordinate space, all are mapped to one world System
coordinate space
MCPC: Multi Channel Per Carrier
MCA: Merchant Certification Authority
MC-PGA: Metallized Ceramic - Pin Grid Array
erchant Certification Authority
IC pins organization
MCA: Micro Channel Architecture
MCPS: Microsoft Certified Product Specialist
Bus architecture (Hardware) (IBM)
(Microsoft)
MCAD: Mechanical Computer-Aided Design
MC-QFP: Metalized Ceramic - Pin Grid Array
A specialized computer graphics program for the design of
mechanical structures, such as automobiles, airplanes, and MCR: Main Communications Room
their parts (Software) A network closet in an enterprise where the main internet,
MCAD: Microsoft Certified Application Developer private line or fibre, phone, cable, comes in along with CPE
appliances, routers, switches, and firewalls; also used as
Mid-level certification for professional developers who build central termination for ethernet or fibre runs throughout
powerful applications using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and building
Web services (Microsoft)
MCR: Maximum Cell Rate
MCAV: Modified Constant Angular Velocity
MCR: Modem Control Register
MCB: Memory Control Block
M-CRM: Mobile Customer Relationship
MCBF: Mean Cycle Between Failure
Management
MCC: Manchester Code Converter
MCS: Material Control System
MCC: Manchester Computing Centre
MCS: Multichannel Communications System
MCC: Memory Controller Chip
MCSA: Microsoft Certified System Administrator
(Hardware)
M MCDBA: Microsoft Certified DataBase
(Microsoft)
MCSD: Microsoft Certified Solution Developer
Administrator
(Microsoft)
(Microsoft)
MCSE: Microsoft Certified System Engineer
MCF: Meta-Content Framework
(Microsoft)
(Netscape)
MCSP: Microsoft Certified Solution Provider
MCGA: MultiColor Graphic Adapter
(Microsoft)
(Hardware)
MCT: Microsoft Certified Trainer
MCGAM: Mixer Conformant Global Address
(Microsoft)
Mapping
(Network) MCTS: Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
(Microsoft)
MCH: Memory Controller Hub
(Hardware) MCU: MicroController Unit
MCI: Media Control Interface MCU: Multi-Chip Unit
(DEC)
MCI: Microwave Communications, Inc.
Now MCI Communications corporation MCU: Multipoint Control Unit
MCIS: Microsoft Commercial Internet System MD: Make Directory
(Network) (Microsoft) MD: Message Digest
MCL: Microsoft Compatibility Labs (Network)
(Microsoft) MD: MicroDrive
MCL: Much Clown Love (Hardware) (IBM)
Used by icp fans also known as juggalos (Net lingo) MD: Mini Disk
MCM: MultiChip Module (Sony)
MCN: Metropolitan Campus Network MD: Monochrome Display

MCNE: Master Certified Novell Engineer MD5: Message Digest 5
(Novell) Cryptographically strong message digest, see RFC 1321
(http://www.iesg.org/rfc/rfc1321.txt) (Security)
MCNS: Multimedia Cable Network System
(Hardware) (Cisco) MDA: Mail Delivery Agent
One of the programs that handle email (see also MTA and MUA)
MCP: Master Control Program (Software)
MCP: Media and Communications Processor MDA: Market Development Agreement
(Hardware)
MDA: Medicated Digest Authentication
MCP: Message Content Protection
(Security)

MDA MESI
MDA: Model Driven Architecture MDRAM: Multi-bank Dynamic Random Access

Standards-based approach to system development Memory
(Hardware)
MDA: Monochrome Display Adapter
(Hardware) MDRC: Manufacturing Design Rule Checker
MDA: MultiDimensional Analysis MDS: Macintosh Development System
(Software) (Apple)
MDAC: Microsoft Data Access Component
(Databases) (Microsoft) MDS: Manufacturing Design System
MDB: Message-Driven Bean MDS: Meta Data Service
(Software) (Databases)
MDB: Microsoft DataBase MDS: Metacomputing Directory Service

File format (Databases) (Microsoft) MDS: Microprocessor Development System
MDB: Multiple-Device Boot (Software)
A diskette used to boot from a CD-ROM or from a network MDSM: MultiDimensional Storage Manager
(Operating systems)
(Databases) (IBM)
MDBE: Microsoft DataBase Engine
MDT: Mechanical DeskTop
MDT: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
MDBMS: Multidimensional DataBase Management
Applications used to deploy Microsoft Windows operating
System
systems and the Microsoft Office suite (Software) (Microsoft)
(Databases)
MDT: Mobile Data Terminal
MDD: Multidimensional Discrete Data
Generic term for 1st generation wireless terminal connected to
(Databases) host computer via radio network (Hardware) (Motorola)
MDF: Main Distribution Frame MDT: Mountain Daylight Time
(Network) Timezone: GMT -7:00
MDF: Master Data File MDTE: Male Data Terminal Equipment
MDF: Menu Definition File RS-232 adapter (Hardware)
File name extension MDX: MultiDimensional eXpression
MDFE: Multilevel Decision Feedback Equalization
(Hardware)
(Databases)
M
MDY: Month Day Year
MDI: Medium Dependent Interface ME: Millenium Edition
MDI: Memory Display Interface Windows version (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
MDI: Multiple Document Interface ME: Motion Estimation

(Microsoft) MEB: Memory Expansion Board
MDI: Multiplex Device Interface MED: Management of External Data
MDIC: Manchester Decoder and Interface Chip (Databases)
(AT&T) MED: Minimum Expected Delay
MDIS: MetaData Interchange Specification MEDAPE: MEDium Absolute Percentage Error
MDK: Multimedia Developers Kit MEF: Message Exchange Format
MDL: Method Definition Language MEL: Mercury Exchange Limited
MDL: Microstation Development Language MEL: Michigan Electronic Library
MDLP: Mobile Data Link Protocol MEL: Multos Executable Language
MDLS: Member Digital Library Subscription MEM: MEMory
MDM: Machine Debug Manager MEMO: Multimedia Environment for MObiles
MDM: Media Device Manager MEMS: Micro ElectroMechanical System
MDM: Membership DIrectory Manager (Hardware) (TI)
(Microsoft) MEO: Medium Earth Orbit
MDMF: Multiple Data Message Format MERCI: Multimedia European Research
Format used to send Caller ID information (Communication) Conferencing Integration
MDN: Message Disposition Notification MERS: Most Economic Route Selection
MDPM: Multilevel Distributed Process Modeling MERVA: Message Entry and Routing with
MDR: Memory Data Register Interfaces to Various Applications
(Hardware) IBM connectivity to SWIFT network (Network) (IBM)
MDR: MetaData Repository MES: Manufacturing Execution System
MDR: MicroDesign Resources MES: Mobile Entertainment Service

Nokia's platform that allows developers to create interactive
MDR: Minimum Design Requirement games for WAP (Software) (Nokia)
MESI: Modified, Exclusive, Shared and Invalid

MEST MIDL
MEST: Middle European Summer Time MGC: Media Gateway Controller

Timezone: GMT +1:00 Provides a single management platform for fault, configuration,
performance and security management. It manages the Cisco
MET: Memory Enhancement Technology PGW 2200 PSTN Gateway and the Cisco SC2200 Signaling
(HP) Controller. Cisco MGC Node Manager integrates access to all
signaling components (Software) (Cisco)
MET: Middle European Time
Timezone: GMT +1:00 MGCP: Media Gateway Control Protocol
Controls (trunks) gateways interconnected with the Public
MEWT: Middle European Winter Time Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) with packet networks and
Timezone: GMT +1:00 controls (residential) gateways that function as network
interfaces for customer premise located equipment
MF: Multi Frequency
(Communication)
MFC: Microsoft Foundation Classes
MGDI: Multiplatform Graphics Device Interface
MFC: MultiFunction Center
MGE: Modular Gis Environment
(Hardware)
MGET: Multiple GET
MFC&T: Microsoft Foundation Classes & Templates
(Software) (Microsoft) MGML: Minimal Generalized Markup Language
MFD: MultiFunction Device MGR: ManaGeR
(Hardware) MH: Modified Huffman
MFENET: Magnetic Fusion Energy NETwork MHDL: Mimic Hardware Description Language
MFFS: Microsoft Flash File System MHEG: Multimedia and Hypermedia information
(Microsoft) coding Expert Group
MFI: MainFrame Interactive MHP: Managed Hosting Provider
MFI: Multifunction Interpreter MHPCC: Maui High Performance Computing Center
MFIOP: MultiFunction Input/Output Processor MHS: Message Handling System
(Hardware)
MHz: MegaHertZ
MFLOPS: Million Floating point Operation Per
Second MI: Management Interface
M A unit of measure of execution speed that rates the oating- MI: Multiple Inheritance
point performance of a computer (Software)
MFM: Modified Frequency Modulation MI/MIC: Mode Indicate/Mode Indicate Common
A unit of measure of execution speed that rates the floating-
point performance of a computer (Hardware) MIA: Mobile Internet Access
MFN: Main Frogans Network MIB: Management Information Base

See http://www.frogans.com/ (Software) MiB: MebIByte
MFP: MultiFunction Printer Unit of measurement, introduced by the International
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), correspondig to 1024 kiB
(Hardware)
MIB: Multimedia Integration Box
MFPI: MultiFunction Peripheral Interface
(Siemens-Nixdorf)
MFR: Multilink Frame Relay
MIC: Macro Interpretative Command
(Network)
MIC: Market Intelligence Center
MFS: Macintosh File System
(Operating systems) (Apple) MIC: Media Interface Connector
MFS: Magnetic tape Field Search MIC: Message Integrity Check
MFS: Memory File System MICE: Modular Integrated Communications
Environment
MFS: Message Format Service
MICR: Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
MFS: Modified Filing System
(Operating systems) MICS: Macro Interpretive Commands
MFT: Master File Table MID: Message IDentifier
Table containing NT's file system structure (Operating systems) MID: Mobile Information Device
(Microsoft)
(Hardware)
MFT: Mean Field Theory
MIDAS: Multi-tIer Distributed Application Service
MFT: Multiprogramming with a Fixed number of (Borland)
Tasks
MIDI: Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MFTP: Multicast File Transfer Protocol A note-oriented control language for specifying music. MIDI
data consists of codes specifying notes and timing. These
MFU: Most Frequently Used
codes can be generated by or output to MIDI-compatible
MGA: Matrox Graphics Adapter devices, such as keyboards or synthesizers (Hardware)
MGA: Monochrome Graphics Adapter MIDL: Microsoft Interface Definition Language

(Hardware) (Microsoft)

MIDP MMAPI
MIDP: Mobile Information Device Profile MIPS: Million Instructions Per Second
Is a set of Java APIs which, together with the Connected A unit of measure of execution speed that rates the
Limited Device Configuration (CLDC), provides a complete performance of a computer CPU
J2METM application runtime environment targeted at mobile
information devices, such as mobile phones and entry level MIR: Micro-Instruction Register
PDAs (Sun) MIS: Management Information System
MIE: Mobile Internet Explorer MIS: Mobile Information Server
(Software) (Microsoft) (Software) (Microsoft)
MIF: Maker Interchange Format MIS: Multimedia Information Sources
(Adobe)
MISC: MISCellaneous
MIF: Management Information File
MISD: Multiple Instruction Single Data
MIF: Management Information Format
MISF: Microsoft Information Security Framework
MIF: Minimum Internetworking Functionality (Microsoft)
MIF: Module Interconnection Facility MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIFST: Microsoft Internet Finance Server Toolkit MITACS: Mathematics of Information Technology
(Network) (Microsoft) and Complex Systems
MIG: Media Interoperability Gateway (Organizations)
MIG: Metal In Gap MIX: Member Information eXchange

MII: Media-Independent Interface MIXER: Mime Internet X.400 Enhanced Relay
A 40-pin miniature-D connector that provides the electrical (Network)
interface between some Sun systems and 10BASE-T or
MJ: Modular Jack
100BASE-T Ethernet network transceivers (Hardware) (Sun)
MII: Microsoft/IBM/Intel MJD: Modified Julian Date
MIIS: Microsoft Identity Integration Server MKDIR: MaKe DIRectory

Enables the integration and management of identity MKS: Mortice Kern Systems
information across multiple repositories, systems, and
platforms (Operating systems) (Microsoft) ML: Machine Language
MIL: Machine Interface Layer ML: Meta Language

(Software) M
MILNET: MILitary NETwork
Originally part of the ARPANET, MILNET was partitioned in MLA: Multi-Letter Abbreviation
1984 to provide military installations with reliable network Used in comedy along with TLA
service, while the ARPANET continued to be used for research
(Network)
MLAPI: MultiLingual Application Programming
Interface
MIM: Map Image Metafile
MLC: MultiLayer Ceramic
MIM: Metal-Insulator-Metal
MLC: MultiLevel Cell
(Hardware)
Memory technology (Hardware)
MIMD: Multiple Instruction Multiple Data
MLE: Multi Language Environment
MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MLE: MultiLine Editor
(Network)
MLE: MultiLine Entry field
MIMO: Multiple-Input Multiple-Output
(Communication) MLI: Multiple Link Interface
MIN: MINimum MLID: MultiLink Interface Driver
MIN: Mobile Identification Number MLM: Mailing List Manager
MIND: Microsoft INternet Developer MLP: Meridian Lossless Packing
Microsoft magazine for Web developers (Microsoft)
MLPPP: MultiLink Point-to-Point Protocol
MinLSN: MINimum recovery Log Sequence (Communication)
Number
MLS: MultiLevel Secure
(Databases)
MLT: Mechanized Line Test
MINT: Mint Is Not Tos
Determines obvious line errors or loop lenght indications
MINUET: Minnesota INternet Users Essential (Hardware)
Tools MM: Management Module
MINX: Multimedia Information Network eXchange MM: MicroMiniature
MIO: Memory Input/Output (Hardware)
MIP: Mixed Integer Programming MM: Mobile Management

MIP: Mobile Internet Protocol MM: MultiMedia
(Network) MMA: Microcomputer Managers Association
MIPS: Microprocessor without Interlocked Piped MMA: Midi Manufacturer Association
Stages
MMAPI: Mobile Media Application Programming
Interface

MMC MOP
MMC: Matched Memory Cycle MMX: Matrix Manipulation eXtensions

(Intel)
MMC: Microcomputer Marketing Council
MMX: MultiMedia eXtensions
MMC: Microsoft Management Console
(Intel)
(Microsoft)
MNG: Multiple-image Network Graphics
MMC: Microsoft Media Console
A Portable Network Graphics (PNG)-like image format
(Microsoft)
supporting multiple, animated, transparent and compressed
MMC: MultiMedia Card images
(Hardware) MNN: My Netscape Network
MMC: MultiMedia Commands MNOS: Metal Nitride Oxide Semiconductor
MMCD: MultiMedia Compact Disk MNP: Microcom Networking Protocol
MMCD-E: MultiMedia Compact Disk-Erasable MO: Magneto-Optical
MMCX: MultiMedia Communication Exchange (Hardware)
MMDS: Multichannel Multipoint Distribution MO: Managment Object

Service MO:DCA: Mixed Object Document Content
(Communication) Architecture
MMF: Make Money Fast MOB: Memory-Order Buffer
(Net lingo)
MOC: Microsoft Official Curriculum
MMF: Multi Mode Fiber (Microsoft)
(Hardware)
MOCA: Microsoft Online Crash Analysis
MMF: MultiMedia File (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
Filename extension
MOD: Magneto-Optical Disk
MMG: Massively Multiplayer Game
MOD: Microsoft Office 2000 Developer
MMI: Man-Machine Interface (Software) (Microsoft)
MMIS: Materials Manager Information System MOD: MODulus
M MML: Maker Macro Language Reminder of the integer division
MML: Music Markup Language MODEM: MOdulator/DEModulator

MMM: Mobile Media Mode MOF: Managed Object Format
(Microsoft)
MMO: Mobile MOdule
(Hardware) (Intel) MOF: Meta-Object Facility
Standard interfaces that can be used to define and manipulate
MMOD: Male MODem a set of interoperable metamodels and their corresponding
Modem adapter (Hardware) (Cisco) models
MMOG: Massively Multiplayer Online Game MOF: Microsoft Operations Framework
(Games) Provides technical guidance that enables organizations to
achieve mission-critical system reliability, availability,
MMORPG: Massive Multiplayer Online Role
supportability, and manageability of Microsoft products and
Playing Game technologies (Microsoft)
(Games)
MOG: Multiplayer Online Game
MMPM: MultiMedia Presentation Manager
MOHLL: Machine Oriented High Level Language
MMPM/2: MultiMedia Presentation Manager 2
MOLAP: Multidimensional On-Line Analytical
MMR: Modified Modified Read Processing
MMRPG: Massive Multiplayer Role Playing Game MOM: Manufacturing Operations Management
(Games)
MOM: Message-Oriented Middleware
MMS: Maximum Message Size (Software)
MMS: Merchant Management System MOM: Microsoft Operations Manager
MMS: Microsoft Media Server Provides manageability as part of the design and
implementation of Windows Server System technologies
Streaming protocol used by the Microsoft Media Server. Used
to access unicast content from a Windows Media Server to a
Windows Media Player (Network) (Microsoft) MOMA: Message-Oriented Middleware Association
MMS: Multimedia Messaging Service (Organizations)
MMSH: Microsoft Media Server over Http MONET: Multiwavelength Optical NETwork
(Network) (Microsoft) (Network)
MMST: Microsoft Media Server over Tcp MOO: Mud, Object Oriented
(Network) (Microsoft) A client used to connect to a MUD
MMU: Memory Management Unit MOP: Maintenance Operations Protocol

MMVF: MultiMedia Video FIle MOP: Meta Object Protocol

(NEC) A reflective facility of an object-oriented language (Software)

MOPA MPOA
MOPA: MultiProtocol Over Atm MP: Multilink Protocol

(Communication) Method for splitting, recombining and sequencing datagrams
across multiple logical data links. Originally designed to exploit
MOPS: Million Operations Per Second multiple bearer channels in ISDN, it's equally applicable to any
MO-ROD: Magneto Optical-Rewriteable Optical situation in which multiple PPP links connect two systems
(Network)
Disk
(Hardware) MP: MultiProtocol
MOS: Magneto-Optic Storage MP: My Pleasure
(Net lingo)
MOS: Mean Opinion Score
MP+: Multichannel Protocol Plus
MOS: Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
(Network) (Ascend)
MP3: MPeg layer 3
MOS: Microsoft Office Specialist
Sound encoding format (Software)
(Microsoft)
MP4: MPeg layer 4
MOSES: Massive Open Systems Environment
Standard Sound encoding format (Software)
MPA: Memo Pad Archive
MOSFET: Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect
Transistor Filename extension
(Hardware) MPAA: Motion Picture Association of America
MOSPF: Multicast Open Shortest Path First (Organizations)
(Communication) MPC: Mobile Productivity Center
MOSS: Microsoft Office Server System Palm cradle (Hardware)
(Software) (Microsoft) MPC: Multimedia Personal Computer
MOSS: Mime Objects Security Services Multimedia specifications
MOSTL: Microsoft Office Smart Tag List MPC: MultiPath Channel

Tool that makes it easy for Office developers to build and MPC+: MultiPath Channel Plus
update XML lists of terms to recognize (Software) (Microsoft) (IBM)
MOT: Multimedia Object Transfer MPCC: MultiProtocol Communication Controller
MOTD: Message Of The Day (Hardware) M
MOTIS: Message-Oriented Text Interchange MPCS: Mission Planning and Control Station
Systems MPDU: Message Protocol Data Unit
MOTO: Master Of The Obvious MPE: Multi-Programming Executive
(Net lingo) (HP)
MOTOS: Member Of The Other Sex MPEG: Moving Picture Experts Group
(Net lingo) A group that has developed standards for compressing moving
MOTSS: Member Of The Same Sex pictures and audio data and for synchronizing video and audio
datastreams. Also, a file format
(Net lingo)
MPI: Message Passing Interface
MOU: Memorandum of Understanding
(Sun)
MOUS: Micorsoft Office User Specialist
MPI: MultiPrecision Integer
(Microsoft)
MPI: Multiprocessor Interconnect Bus
MOV: Metal Oxide Varistor
(Hardware) MPIF: Message Passing Interface Forum
MOV: MOVe MPIF: Multi-Processor Interconnect Facility
Processor instruction A facilty to support multiple TPF complexes communicating
with each other (IBM)
MOV: MOVie
Fileformat for movies (Apple) MPIO: Multi-Path Input/Output
MOVS: Microsoft Office/Vba Solution MPK: MultiProcessing Kernel

(Microsoft) (Operating systems)
MOVS: MOVe String MPL: Message Passing Library

Processor instruction (IBM)
MO-WORM: Management Object MPL: Mozilla Public License
MP: Massively Parallel MPLS: MultiProtocol Label Switching

An architecture on the IETF standards track for integrating a
MP: Master Plan mechanism for label-swapping with Layer 3 routing to
MP: MicroProcessor accelerate packet forwarding (Network)
MP: Multi Processor MPMD: Multiple Processor/Multiple Data

A computer using two or more nearly equal processing units MPOA: Multi-Protocol Over Atm
under integrated control (Hardware) An ATM Forum standard for the routing of multiple protocols
across an ATM substrate. It enables ATM services to be
integrated with existing local-area networks that use Ethernet,
token-ring or TCP/IP protocols (Network)

MPOE MSA
MPOE: Minimum Point Of Entry MRAM: Magnetic Random Access Memory

Location phone and data lines first come into a building (Hardware)
(Communication)
MRB: Method Request Broker
MPOW: Multiple Purpose Operator Workstation
MRC: Mesh Router Chip
MPP: Massively Parallel Processing (Network)
MPP: Message Posting Protocol MRCF: Microsoft Realtime Compression Format
MPP: Message Processing Program MRCI: Microsoft Real-time Compression Interface
MPPC: Microsoft Point to Point Compression (Microsoft)
(Network) (Microsoft) MRCP: Media Resource Control Protocol
MPPD: Multi Purpose Peripheral Device Protocol specifically designed to address the need for client
control of media processing resources such as Automatic
MPPE: Microsoft Point to Point Encryption Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-To-Speech (TTS) engines
Encrypts data for Point to Point Protocol (PPP) or Point to Point
MREQ: Memory REQuest
Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) connections (Network) (Microsoft)
MPQP: Multi-Protocol Quad Port
MRI: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(IBM)
A medical imaging technique used for image capture. Tissue
MPR: MultiPart Repeater area is simultaneously subjected to electromagnetic radiation
and a magnetic field
MPR: Multi-Protocol Routing
(Network) M-RIB: Multicast Routing Information Base
(Network)
MPS: MultiPage Signal
MRJ: Macos Runtime for Java
MPS: Multiple Priority System
(Software) (Apple)
(Network)
MRM: Most Recently used Master
MPS: MultiProcessor Specification
MRNET: Minnesota Regional NETwork
MPSX: Mathematical Programming System
eXtended MRO: Maintenance, Repair and Operation
MPT: MultiPort Transceiver MRO: Multi-Region Operation
(IBM)
M MPTA: Multi Protocol Transport Architecture
MROC: Miniature Ruggedized Optical Correlator
MPTN: Multi-Protocol Transport Network
(Hardware)
MPTP: Micro Payment Transfer Protocol
MRP: Manufacturing Resource Planning
MPTS: Multi-Protocol Transport Services
MRP: Material Requirement Planning
MPTS/2: Multi Protocol Transport Services 2
MRPL: Main Ring Path Length
MPTY: More Power To You
MRS: Media Recognition System
(Net lingo)
MRS: Message Routing System
MPU: MicroProcessor Unit
(Communication)
(Hardware)
MRS: Micro Reflective Structure
MPVM: Message Parallel Virtual Machine
(Hardware) (Sharp)
(Sun)
MRS: Monitoring and Recovery Subsystem
MPW: Macintosh Programmer's Workshop
(Software) (Apple) MrSID: MultiResolution Seamless Image Database
Image compression algorithm
MQ: Message Queuing
(Software) MRT: Mean Repair Time
MQE: Managed Query Environment MRTG: Multi Router Traffic Grapher
(Databases) MRU: Maximum Receive Unit
MQH: Memory Queue Handler MRU: Most Recently Used
On Sun server systems, the device on the system board that
provides the interface between the system board SIMMs and MR-X: Magneto Resistive - eXtended
the backplane XDBus (Hardware) (Sun) (Hardware)
MQI: Message Queuing Interface MS: Memory Stick
(IBM) (Hardware) (Sony)
MR: Magneto-Resistive MS: Memory System
Hard disk head technology (Hardware)
MS: Message Store
MR: Maintenance Release
MS: MicroSoft
(Software)
ms: MilliSecond
MR: Memory Read
Time measurement unit
(Hardware)
MS: Mobile Station
MR: Modem Ready
MSA: Mail Submission Agent
MR: Modified Read
(Software)

MSA MSO
MSA: Management Services Architecture MSDR: Multiplexed Streaming Data Request

(IBM)
MSDS: MicroSoft Developer Support
MSAA: MicroSoft Active Accessibility (Microsoft)
(Software)
MSDSS: MicroSoft Directory Synchronization
MSAA: Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing Services
Anti-aliasing technique using multiple samples offset by a (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
fraction of a pixel (Hardware)
MSDTC: MicroSoft Distributed Transactions
MSACM: MicroSoft Audio Compression Manager Coordinator
(Microsoft) (Databases) (Microsoft)
MSAU: MultiStation Access Unit MSE: MicroSoft Exchange
(Network) (Software) (Microsoft)
MSAV: MicroSoft Anti Virus MsecSP: Managed SECurity Service Provider
(Microsoft)
MSEQ: MicroSoft English Query
MSB: Most Significant Bit (or Byte) (Databases) (Microsoft)
MSBD: Media Stream Broadcast Distribution MSF: Microsoft Solutions Framework
Protocol used to distribute streams between Windows Media (Microsoft)
Encoder and the Windows Media server components, and to
transfer streams between servers (Microsoft) MSFC: Multilayer Switch Feature Card
(Network)
MSBF: Mean Swaps Between Failures
MSFP: Management Service Focal Point
MSC: MicroSoft C
MSFR: Minimum Security Function Requirements
MSC: Mobile Switching Center
(IBM)
MSCDEX: MicroSoft CD-rom EXtensions
MSG: MeSsaGe
File name extension
MSCE: MicroSoft Certified Engineer
MSI: Medium-Scale Integration
(Microsoft)
The process of placing from 100 to 3,000 transistors on a chip
MSCHAP: MicroSoft Challenge Handshake (Hardware)
Authentication Protocol
(Microsoft)
MSI: MicroSoft Installer
M
MSCM: Multiple Slots on Continuation Mechanism MSIE: MicroSoft Internet Explorer
MSCP: Mass Storage Control Protocol (Software) (Microsoft)
MSCS: MicroSoft Cluster Server MSIL: MicroSoft Intermediate Language

MSCT: MicroSoft Certified Trainer
(Microsoft) MSIMN: MicroSoft Internet Mail and News
(Microsoft)
MSCTEC: MicroSoft Certified Technical Education
Center MSISDN: Mobile Station Integrated Services
(Microsoft) Digital Network
The number used to call a mobile subscriber. An MSISDN
MSD: Mass Storage Device consists of a country code, a national destination code and a
MSD: Microsoft System Diagnostics subscriber number (Communication)
(Microsoft) MS-ISDN: Mobile Station Integrated Services
MSD: Most Significant Digit Digital Network number
MSDA: MicroSoft Direct Access MSJ: Microsoft Systems Journal

(Microsoft) Microsoft magazine (Microsoft)
MSDE: MicroSoft Database Engine MSK: Minimum-Shift Keying

(Databases) (Microsoft) MSKB: MicroSoft Knowledge Base
MSDE: MicroSoft Desktop Engine (Microsoft)
(Databases) (Microsoft) MSL: Map Specification Library
MSDK: Microsoft Solutions Development Kit MSL: Microsoft Software Library
(Microsoft)
MSL: Mirrored Server Link
MSDL: MicroSoft Download Library
MSLU: MicroSoft Layer for Unicode
(Microsoft)
MSDN: Macintosh Software Distribution Network
MSMQ: MicroSoft Message Queue
MSDN: MicroSoft Developer Network (Network) (Microsoft)
(Microsoft)
MSN: MicroSoft Network
MSDOS: MicroSoft Disk Operating System (Network) (Microsoft)
MSDP: Multicast Source Directory Protocol MSN: Multiple Subscriber Number
Developed for peering between Internet service providers
(ISPs), it enables Rendezvous Points (RPs) to share information
MSNF: Multiple Systems Networking Facility
about active sources (Network) MSO: Multiple-Systems Operator

MSP MUA
MSP: Mail Submission Program MTC: Midi Time Code

(Software)
MTD: Memory Technology Drivers
MSP: Management Service Provider
MTD: Month To Date
MSP: Message Send Protocol Time series function
(Network)
MTDA: Mean Time between Data Access
MSP: Messaging Service Provider The average time before non-redundant components fail,
causing data inaccessibility without loss or corruption.
MSP: MicroSoft Paint (Hardware)
MTDL: Mean time to Data Loss
MSR: Magnetic Super Resolution The average time before the failure of an array component
(Hardware) causes data to be lost or corrupted. (Hardware)
MSR: MicroSoft Research MTDT: Moscow Time Daylight Time
(Microsoft) Timezone: GMT +3:00
MSR: MicroSoft Reserved (partition) MTE: MuTating Engine
MTF: Microsoft Tape Format
MSRN: Mobile Station Roaming Number (Hardware) (Microsoft)
MSRP: Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price MTF: Modulation Transfer Function
MSS: Managed Security Service (Hardware)
MSS: Mass Storage Subsystem MTFTP: Multicast Trivial File Transfer Protocol
An early version of the Sun pedestal disk storage system (Network)
(Hardware) (Sun) MTH: Memory Translator Hub
MSS: Multiprotocol Switched Server (Hardware)
(Hardware) (IBM) MTI: Mips Technologies Inc.
MSSP: Managed Security Service Provider MTM: Mobile Trusted Module
MST: Mountain Standard Time (Security)
Timezone: GMT -7:00 MTN: Mobile Telephone Network
MSTS: MicroSoft Terminal Server
M (Operating systems)
MTOM: Message Transmission Optimization
Mechanism
MSU: Mass Storage Unit MTP: Message Transfer Part
(Hardware)
MTP: Multicast Transport Protocol
MSU: Media Server Unit (Network)
MSU: Millions of Service Units MTRP: Maximum Transfer Rate Performance
MSU: Modem Sharing Unit MTS: Message Telephone Service
(Hardware)
MTS: Message Transfer System
MSVC: MicroSoft Visual C (Software)
MSW: Machine Status Word MTS: Michigan Terminal System
MT: Machine Translation Academic operating system (OS), 1960s-90s. Along with
Multics at MIT, it was among the first operational virtual
MT: Management Team memory operating systems in the world (Operating systems)
MTA: Message Transfer Agent MTS: Microsoft Transaction Server
An ISO/OSI application process that stores and forwards (Microsoft)
messages in the X.400 message handling system. Compare
with Internet mail agent MTS: Multichannel Television Sound
MTA: Message Transfer Architecture MTSO: Mobile Telephone Switching Office

MTA: Multimedia Terminal Adapter MTST: Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter

(Hardware) (IBM)
MTA: Multiple Terminal Access
MTST: Moscow Time Standard Time
MTA: Multi-Threaded Apartment
Timezone: GMT +3:00
A threading context in which components must handle
synchronization themselves. Under COM+ the threads that run MTT: Multi-Transaction Timer
in the MTA com from a thread pool managed by the system
(Software) (Microsoft) MTTD: Mean Time To Diagnose
MTBB: Mean Time Between Breakdowns MTTF: Mean Time To Failure

(Hardware)
MTBCF: Mean Time Between Critical Failures
MTTFF: Mean Time To First Failure
MTBF: Mean Time Between Failures
The average time a component can operate without a failure. MTTR: Mean Time To Repair
The MTBF is the number of failures divided by the number of The average time required to bring an array storage subsystem
hours the component has operated (Hardware) back to full fault tolerance. (Hardware)
MTBJ: Mean Time Between Jams MTU: Maximum Transmission Unit

MTBRP: Mean Time Between Parts Replacement MUA: Mail User Agent

MUD NACS
MUD: Multi-User Dialogue MVS/SP: Multiple Virtual Storage/System Product

MUD: Multi-User Dimensions MVS/XA: Multiple Virtual Storage/eXtended
Formerly, Multi-User Dungeon Architecture
MUD: Multi-User Dungeon MVT: Multiprogramming with a Variable number
Multi-user interactive role-playing games on the Internet of Tasks
MUG: Multi-User Game MW: Memory Write
(Hardware)
MUI: Multilanguage User Interface
(Operating systems) MW: MiddleWare
MUI: Multimedia User Interface MWFM: Mobile Wireless Fault Mediator
(Network) (Cisco)
MUL: MULtiply
MWI: Mobile Web Initiative
MULDEM: MULtiplexer-DEMultiplexer
Proposes to address issues like interoperability and usability
MULTICS: MULTiplexed Information and for mobile phones through a concerted effort of players in the
Computing Service mobile field, including authoring tool vendors, content
providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile
MULTOS: MULTiapplication-card Operating System operators
(Operating systems)
MWM: Motif Window Manager
MUMBLE: Multi User Multicast Basic Language (Operating systems)
Exchange
MWS: Matsushita White Skipping
MUMPS: Massachusetts "general hospital" Utility
MX: Mail eXchanger
Multi-Programming System
A programming language with extensive tools for the support MXCC: Module Xbus Cache Controller
of database management systems. MUMPS was originally used On Sun server systems, a device located on the processor
for medical records and is now widely used where multiple module that controls the ow of data between the XBus and the
users access the same databases simultaneously, e.g. banks, module cache RAM and processor chip (Hardware) (Sun)
stock exchanges,... (Databases)
MXF: Material eXchange Format
MUP: Multiple Unc Provider A SMPTE standard that defines a file format for AV media and
(Network) associated metadata
MUSE: Multi-User Simulated Environment MXS: Microsoft eXchange Server
MUT: Monitor Under Test On Sun server systems, a device located on the processor M
module that controls the flow of data between the XBus and
MUX: MUltipleXer the module cache RAM and processor chip (Microsoft)
MUX: Multi-User eXperience MZ: Mark Zbikowski
N
DOS executable file header identifier
mV: MilliVolt
MZAP: Multicast-scope Zone Announcement
MVA: Market Value Added
Protocol
MVA: Multi-domain Vertical Alignment Protocol for discovering the multicast administrative scope
(Hardware) (Fujitsu) zones that are relevant at a particular location. MZAP also
provides mechanisms whereby common misconfigurations of
MVB: Multimedia Viewer Book administrative scope zones can be discovered (Communication)
MVC: Model View Controller MZR: Multiple Zone Recording
MVC: Multimedia Viewer Compiler
MVCC: Multi-Version Concurrency Control N
(Databases) n: Nano
MVD: MultiValued Dependencies Prefix for 10 power -9
MVDM: Multiple Virtual DOS Machines N/I: Non-Interlaced
MVGA: Monochrome Video Graphics Array N+I: Networld + Interop

Trade conference
MVIF: Multi-Vendor Interacting Forum
NAB: National Association of Broadcasters
MVIP: MultiVendor Integration Protocol
NAB: Netscape Application Builder
MVLS: Microsoft Volume License Site (Software) (Netscape)
(Microsoft)
NAB: Not A Bug
MVNO: Mobile Virtual Network Operator Used as a reason when rejecting a bug report (Software)
MVP: Most Valuable Professional NAC: Network Adapter Card
(Microsoft)
NAC: Network Administration Center
MVP: Multimedia Video Processor
NACCB: National Association of Computer
MVP: Music Video Producer Consultant Businesses
(Software) (Organizations)
MVR: Multimedia Vehicle and Repository NACD: National Association of Computer Dealers
(Software) (IBM)
NACS: National Advisory Committee on
MVS: Multiple Virtual Storage Semiconductors
IBM Mainframe operating system (IBM)

NACS NBT
NACS: Netware Asynchronous Communication NASKER: Nasa AmeS KERnel

Server
NASL: Name/Age/Sex/Location
NACS: Network Access Control System (Net lingo)
NAD: Network Access Device NASSL: Network Accessible Services Specification
Language
NAD: Network Activity Display
(Network) NAT: Network Address Translation
A technology that enables a network to use one set of IP
NAE: Not Above or Equal
addresses for internal traffic and a second for external traffic
NAG: National Algorithms Group (Network)
NAG: Network Architecture Group NATOA: National Association of

Telecommunications Officers & Advisors
NAK: Not AcKnowledged
A control code returned by a receiving station indicating that a NAT-PT: Network Address Translation - Protocol
station with an established connection has sent incorrect Translation
information (Communication)
NAL: Novell Application Launcher NAU: Network Access Unit
(Software) (Novell) (Network)
NAM: Number Assignment Module NAU: Network Addressable Unit
NAMI: Network Adaptive Multimedia Image (Network)
NAMPS: Narrow-band Analog Mobile Phone NAUN: Nearest Active Upstream Neighbour
Service NAV: Norton Anti Virus
NAMS: National Association of Multimedia (Symantec)
Shareware NAVSTAR: NAVigation Satellite Timing And
NaN: Not A Number Ranging
A symbolic entry that is encoded in oating-point format NAWS: Negotiate About Window Size
(Software)
NBD: Next Business Day
NANAE: News.Admin.Net-Abuse.Email Support term
Usenet newsgroups
NBDD: NetBios Datagram Distribution
NAP: Network Access Point (Network)
A symbolic entry that is encoded in floating-point format
(Network) NBE: Not Below or Equal
N NAPI: Network Application Programming NBI: Nothing But Initials
Interface NBMA: Non-Broadcast Multi Access
NAPLPS: North American Presentation-Level NBNS: NetBios Name Service
Protocol Syntax
Service that keeps track of which names are in use at which IP
(Communication) addresses, thus allowing the underlying IP network to find the
NAPT: Network Address & Port Translation nodes and transport NetBIOS messages between them. The
Name Service runs on UDP port 137 (Network)
(Network)
NBO: Network Byte Order
NARP: Nbma Address Resolution Protocol
Refers to the order in which the bytes of a multi-byte number
(Network) are transmitted on a network — most significant byte first. This
NAS: Netobjects Authoring Server might be different than the order in which the number is stored
in memory, depending on the processor architecture (Network)
NAS: Netscape Application Server
NBO: Networked Business Object
(Operating systems) (Netscape)
(Software)
NAS: Network Access Server
NBP: Name Binding Protocol
(Network)
NBP: Network Bootstrap Program
NAS: Network Application Support
This is the first program that is downloaded into a machine that
(DEC)
has selected a Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) capable
NAS: Network Attached Storage device for remote boot services
(Hardware) NBS: Narrowband Socket
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space NBS: National Bureau of Standards
Administration (Organizations)
(Organizations)
NBS: Numeric BackSpace
NASAA: North American Securities
Administrators Association NBSCP: NetBios Frames Control Protocol
(Organizations) (Network)
NASDAQ: National Association of Securities NBSP: Non-Breakable SPace

Dealers Automatic Quotation NBSS: NetBios Session Service
NASI: Netware Asynchronous Services Interface (Network)
(Novell) NBT: NetBios on Tcp/ip
NASIRC: Nasa Automated Systems Internet
Response Capability

NC NEB
NC: Naming Context NCR: National Cash Registers

Part of the Active Directory configuration (replication topology
NCS: Network Computing System
and related metadata) (Network) (Microsoft)
(HP)
NC: Network Computer
NCSA: National Center for Supercomputing
(Network)
Applications
NC: Network Control The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign developers of
the original NCSA Mosaic browser (Organizations)
NC: Network Coordinator
NCSC: National Computer Security Center
NC: No Carry
(Organizations)
NC: No Connection
NCSI: Network Communications Services
(Hardware)
Interface
NC: Norton Commander
NCSL: National Computer Systems Laboratory
NC: Numerical Control
NCTE: Network Channel-Terminating Equipment
NCA: Network Communications Adapter
NCTL: National Computer and
NCA: Network Computing Architecture Telecommunications Laboratory
(Oracle)
NDA: Non Disclosure Agreement
NCAPI: Netscape Client Application Programming
NDAC: No Data ACcepted
Interface
(Software) (Netscape) NDB: Non-Directional Beacon
NCC: National Computer Conference NDC: Normalized Device Coordinates
The coordinate system between the user’s world coordinates
NCC: National Computing Center (WC) and the graphics system’s physical device coordinates in
NCC: Network Control Center the viewing pipeline
(Network) NDCC: Network Data Collection Center
NCC: Norton Control Center NDDK: Network Device Development Kit
Norton Utilities' program (Software) (Symantec)
NDDL: Neutral Data Definition Language
NCC: Novell Customer Connection
NDE: News Development Environment
(Novell)
NDEF: Not DEFined
NCCF: Network Communications Control Facility
NDIS: Network Driver Interface Specification
NCD: Network Computing Device
(Network) N
NCF: Netware Command File
NDL: Network Database Language
(Novell)
(Databases)
NCF: Network Computing Framework
NDM: Network Data Manager
(Network) (IBM)
On-line storage service
NCGA: National Computer Graphics Association
NDMP: Network Data Management Protocol
NCI: Network Computer, Inc. (Network)
Manufacturer
NDMS: Netware Distributed Management Services
NCI: Non Coded Information
NDN: Non-Delivery Notice
NCIA: Native Client Interface Architecture
NDP: Numeric Data Processor
NCIC: National Crime Information Center
NDPS: Novell Distributed Print Services
NCITS: National Committee for Information (Network) (Novell)
Technology Standards
NDR: Network Data Representation
NCMOS: N-channel Complementary Metal Oxyde (Network)
Semiconductor
NDR: Non-Delivery Report
NCMT: N-channel Complementary Metal Oxide
Semiconductor NDRO: Non Destructive ReadOut
NCN: Nixdorf Communications Network NDS: Netware Directory Service

(Network) (Novell)
NCOS: Network Computer Operating System
NDT: Non Destructive Testing
NCP: Netware Core Protocol
NE: Network Element
NCP: Network Control Program (Network)
Communication management in IBM networks (Network) (IBM)
NE: Not Equal
NCP: Network Control Protocol (Software)
(Network)
NEARNET: New England Academic and Research
NCP: Non-Carbon Paper NETwork
NCP: Not Copy Protected NEAT: Novell Easy Administration Tool
NCQ: Native Command Queuing (Novell)
Technology designed to increase performance and endurance NEB: Netscape Extension Builder
by allowing the drive to internally optimize the execution order
of workloads (Hardware)

NEC NIDS
NEC: National Electrical Code NFS: Network File System

A Sun distributed file system that provides transparent access
NEC: Nippon Electric Corporation
to remote file systems on heterogeneous networks (Operating
(NEC) systems) (Sun)
NECA: National Exchange Carrier Association NFSU2: Need For Speed: Underground 2
(Organizations) Racing game, developed and published by Electronic Arts in
NED: Nano-Emissive Display 2003. It is part of the Need for Speed computer and video
game series (Games)
(Hardware)
NFT: Network File Transfer
NEFS: Network Extensible File System
NG: NewsGroup
NEG: NEGative
Discussion forum
NELIAC: Navy Electronics Laboratory
NGE: Not Greater or Equal
International Algol Compiler
NGI: Next Generation Internet
NEMA: National Electrical Manufacturers
Association NGIO: Next Generation Input Output
NEP: Network Entry Point (Hardware) (Intel)
NEP: Network Equipment Provider NGWS: Next Generation Windows Services

NES: National Education Supercomputer
NHC: National Hurricane Center
NES: Netscape Enterprise Server
NHR: National Handwriting Recognition
NEST: Novell Embedded Systems Technology NHRP: Next Hop Resolution Protocol
(Network)
(Novell)
NetBEUI: NETwork Bios Extended User Interface NHSE: National Hpcc Software Exchange
(Network) NI: New Instructions
NetBIOS: NETwork Basic Input Output System (Hardware) (Intel)
(Network) NI: No Increase
NETBLT: NETwork BLock Transfer NI: Non Interlaced
(Hardware)
NETCDF: NETwork Common Data Format
NETMON: NETwork MONitor NIA: Next Instruction Address
N NEWS: Netware Early Warning System NIAM: Natural language Information Analysis
Method
NEWS: Network Extensible Window System
NIC: Network Information Center
A window system based on PostScript that Sun developed and
licenses (Operating systems) (Sun) Originally, a single NIC at SRI International served the
ARPANET (and later the defense data network [DDN]
NEWT: NEWs Terminal community) (Network)
NEXT: Near-End CrossTalk NIC: Network Interface Card
(Hardware)
NeXT: NEw eXtended Technology
NIC: New Internet Computer
NF: Naturally Flat
(Hardware)
Crt technology (Hardware) (Mitsubishi)
NIC: Numeric Intensive Computing
NFAS: Non-Facility Associated Signaling
In ISDN, a single D-channel can control multiple PRIs NiCd: NIckel-CaDmium
(Network) Rechargable battery technology
NFE: Net Future Expectation NICE: Narrative, Immersive, Collaborative
NFF: No Fault Found Environment
Rechargeable battery technology
NFI: Near Field Imaging
Touch screen where the screen itself is the sensor. NFI uses a NICE: Network Information and Control Exchange
sophisticated sensing circuit that can detect a conductive NICE: Novell Internet Connection Expert
object - a finger or conductive stylus - through a layer of glass,
(Network) (Novell)
as well as through gloves or other potential barriers (Hardware)
NFI: No F***ing Idea NICOLAS: Network Information Center OnLine
Aid System
(Net lingo)
(NASA)
NFM: No Further Messages
NID: Network Interface Device
End of script, ie: you dont want to talk to this person anymore
(Net lingo) (Hardware)
NFR: Near Field Recording NID: New Interactive Display

(Hardware) (NEC)
NFS: Need For Speed NID: Next IDentifier

Racing computer and video games by Electronic Arts released NIDL: Network Interface Definition Language
on platforms including personal computers, Nintendo, Xbox, (Network)
Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable consoles
(Games) NIDS: Network Intrusion Detection System
(Security)

NIFC NMH
NIFC: Netscape Internet Foundation Classes NJ: Nice Job

(Software) (Netscape) (Net lingo)
NIH: Not Invented Here NJE: Network Job Entry
(IBM)
NIHCL: National Institute of Health Class Library
NJM: Native Java Microprocessor
NII: National Information Infrastructure
(Hardware)
NIIT: National Information Infrastructure Testbed
NL: New Line
NIIT: National Institute of Information
Technology NLA: Network Location Awareness
(Organizations) Enables Windows Sockets 2 applications to identify the logical
network to which a Windows computer is attached and to which
NILO: Network Interface LOader physical network interface a given application has saved
Boot Linux, FreeBSD, Windows 95/98/NT4 and support the specific information (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
Intel PXE standard, and is suitable for burning into ROM. It is NLANR: National Laboratory for Applied Network
an evolution of the previous Etherboot and Netboot projects.
Research
See http://www.nilo.org/
NLB: Network Load Balancing
NIM: Network Installation Management
(IBM)
NLDM: Network Logical Data Manager
NiMH: NIckel-Metal Hydride
Rechargable battery technology NLE: Not Less or Equal
NIMS: Novell Internet Messaging System NLM: Netware Loadable Module
(Novell) (Operating systems) (Novell)
NIO: Native Input/Output NLM: Nfs Lock Manager
Rechargeable battery technology (Operating systems)
NIO: New Input/Output NLP: Natural Language Processing
Java's new I/O subsystem (Software) (Sun)
NLPID: Network Layer Protocol IDentifier
NIPR: Non-secure Internet Protocol Router
NLQ: Near Letter Quality
(Network)
NLS: National Language Support
NIPS: Network I/os Per Second
(Operating systems)
NIPS: Network Intrusion Prevention System
NLS: Netware Licensing Service
(Security)
NIR: Network Information Retrieval
(Novell)
N
NLS: Network License Server
(Network)
NLSFUNC: National Language Support FUNCtion
NIS: Network Information Service
A distributed network database containing key information NLSP: Netware Link Services Protocol
about the systems and the users on the network. The NIS Link-state routing protocol based on IS-IS. See also IS-IS
database is stored on the master server and all the slave
servers (Network) (Sun) NLT: Natural Language Technology
(Software)
NIS: Norton Internet Security
(Software) (Symantec) NLUUG: NetherLands Unix User Group
(Organizations)
NIS/YP: Network Information System/Yellow
Pages NLV: National Language Version
(IBM)
N-ISDN: Narrowband Integrated Services Digital
Network NLX: New Low-profile Extended
Motherboard format, evolution of LPX (Hardware)
N-ISDN: National Integrated Services Digital
Network NM: Network Management
(Network)
NISI: Network Information Services
Infrastructure NM: Nothing Much
(Network) (Net lingo)
NISO: National Information Standards NMA: Network Management Architecture

Organization NMC: Network Management Center
NISP: Networked Information Services Project NME: Norton Mobile Essentials
NIST: National Institute of Standards and (Software) (Symantec)
Technology
NMEA: National Marine Electronics Association
(Organizations)
Organization that developed (among other things) the NMEA
NITC: National Information Technology Center interface standard for data exchange between marine electronic
devices, also used today in most Global Positioning Systems
NITOL: Norway-net with IT for Open Learning (GPSs) (Organizations)
NIU: Network Interface Unit NMF: Network Management Forum
NIW: Network Installation Wizard NMH: Not Much Here
(Software) (Microsoft) (Net lingo)
NIXL: Nas Interface eXchange Language
(Network)

NM-HDV ns
NM-HDV: Network Module - High Density Voice NOYB: None Of Your Business
(Hardware) (Cisco) (Net lingo)
NMI: Native Method Invocation NP: No Problem
(Software) Answer when someone says ty/thank you (Net lingo)
NMI: Non-Maskable Interrupt NP: Nondeterministic Polynomial time
(Hardware)
NP: Number Portability
NML: Network Management Layer (Communication)
NML: Nonconfirmed Mailing List NPA: Network Printer Alliance
Database of Internet Protocol addresses (IP addresses) which
NPA: Numbering Plan Address
have been demonstrated to be the sources of mailing lists
which do not fully verify the email addresses on their list. See NPDA: Network Problem Determination Aid
http://mail-abuse.org/nml/
NPE: Null Pointer Exception
NMLI: Native Mode Lan Interconnection A NPE happens when trying to access data from a null memory
Is an IntraLATA high speed transport service used to location (Software)
interconnect LANs at geographically separated sites (Network)
NPH: No Parse Headers
NMM: Netware Management Map
(Novell) NPI: Network Printer Interface
NMM: Network Management Module NPL: Netscape Public License

(Network) (Netscape)
NMOS: Negative Channel Metal-Oxide NPL: Non-Procedural Language

Semiconductor (Software)
NMP: Network Management Protocol NPM: Network Printer Manager

(AT&T) (Software)
NMPA: National Music Publishers Association NPMS: Named Pipes/Mail Slots

(Organizations) NPP: Network Payment Protocol
NMPF: Network Management Productivity Facility NPS: Novell Productivity Specialist
NMR: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (Novell)
NMS: Netelligent Management Software NPSI: Network Protocol Service Interface

(Network) NPT: Non-Programmable Terminal
N NMS: Network Management System (Hardware)
NMT: Nordic Mobile Telephone NPTN: National Public Telecomputing Network

Pre-GSM mobile telephone network in the nordic countries NPU: Natural Processing Unit
(Communication)
NPU: Network Processing Unit
NMU: Network Management Unit (Communication)
(Hardware)
NPX: Numeric Processor eXtension
NN: Network Node
NQS: Network Queing System
NN: Neural Network
NRC: National Research Council
NN: No News (Organizations)
NNI: Network-Node Interface NREN: National Research and Education Network
(Communication)
NRFD: Not Ready For Data
NNM: Network Node Manager (Communication)
(Network)
NRL: Namespace Routing Language
NNSC: Nsf Network Service Center
NRM: Network Resource Manager
NNTP: Network News Transport Protocol
(Communication) NRM: Normal Response Mode
HDLC data transfer mode (Network)
NOC: Network Operation Center
A center that operates a production network. Tasks include NRN: No Response Needed
monitoring and control, troubleshooting, and user assistance (Net lingo)
(Network)
NROFF: New Run-OFF
NOP: No OPeration
NRP: Node Route Processor
(Hardware)
(Hardware) (Cisco)
NOPAC: Network On-line Public Access Catalog
NRZ: Non Return to Zero
NORA: Non-Obvious Relationship Awareness Data transmission using +/- voltage levels or carrier offsets
(Hardware)
NORMA: NO Remote Memory Access
NRZI: NonReturn to Zero Inverted
NOS: Network Operating System
NRZL: NonReturn to Zero Level
NOTA: None Of The Above
For multiple choice answers (Net lingo) NS: Name Server
NOW: Network Of Workstations ns: NanoSecond
(Hardware) Time measurement unit

NS NTSC
NS: National Semiconductor NSTL: National Software Testing Labs

NS: Network Series NT: Network Terminator
(Hardware)
NT: New Technology
NS: Network Supervisor (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
NS: Non Stop NT: Nice Try
(Net lingo)
NSA: National Security Agency
(Organizations) NT: No Text
(Net lingo)
NSA POLY: National Security Agency POLYgraph
NT: Nome Time
NSAP: Network Services Access Point
(Network)
NT-1: Network Terminator type 1
NSAPI: Netscape Server Application Programming
Interface NTAS: New Technology Advanced Server
(Software) (Netscape) (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
NSB: Netware for Small Business NTCR: New Technology Challenge/Response
(Operating systems) (Novell) (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
NSC: Network Service Center NTDS: New Technology Directory Service
NSC: Norton System Center (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Software) (Symantec) NTE: New Technology Embedded
NSERC: National Sciences and Engineering (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
Research Council NTF: No Trouble Found
NSF: National Science Foundation NTFS: New Technology File System
NSfIP: NextStep For Intel Processors NTHQ: New Technology Hardware Qualifier
NSFNET: National Science Foundation NETwork Hardware troubleshooting program (Operating systems)
(Microsoft)
NSI: Nasa Science Internet
NTIA: National Telecommunications and
NSI: Network Solutions, Inc Information Administration
Manages .com, .net, .org, .edu top level domains (Organizations)
(Organizations)
NSIS: National Schengen Information System
NTIS: National Technical Information Service N
NTK: Newton ToolKit
NSIS: Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
Tool that allows programmers to create quick and user friendly
NTLDR: New Technology LoaDeR
installers for Windows. It is released under an open source Bootstrap loader for Microsoft Windows NT-based operating
license and is completely free for any use. See also systems (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ (Software)
NTLM: New Technology Lan Manager
NSM: Netscape Server Manager (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Netscape)
NTO: Network Terminal Operator
NSM: Network and System Management (Network)
NSN: Nasa Science Network NTONC: National Transparent Optical Network
Consortium
NSP: Native Signal Processing
(Organizations)
NSP: Network Service Provider
NTOP: New Technology Option Pack
NSP: Network Services Protocol (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
NSPR: NetScape Portable Runtime NTP: Network Time Protocol
Provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system (Communication)
facilities, including threads, thread synchronization, normal file
and network I/O, interval timing and calendar time, basic NTRAS: New Technology Remote Access Services
memory management (malloc and free) and shared library
NTRK: New Technology Resource Kit
linking (Netscape)
NSS: Network Security Service
NTRU: Number Theory is Really Useful
Set of libraries designed to support cross-platform
development of security-enabled server applications. Technology for high speed, low footprint public key
Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2 and v3, TLS, cryptography, based on the mathematics of lattice reduction.
PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME, X.509 v3 (Marketed by NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc,
certificates, and other standards http://www.ntru.com/) (Security)
NSS: Network Storage Solutions NTS/2: Network Transport Services 2

Company NTSA: Netware Telephony Services Architecture
NSS: Nodal Switching Subsystem (Novell)
NSS: Novell Storage Services NTSC: National Television Systems Committee

(Novell) The group that proposed a method of composite color encoding
based on quadrature modulation of I and Q color difference
NSSC: Nasa Standard Spacecraft Computer components onto a color subcarrier and adding the resulting
chroma signal to luminance (Organizations)
NSTC: National Science and Technology Council

NTSD OAS
NTSD: New Technology Symbolic Debugger NVSIMM: Non-Volatile Single In line Memory
(Microsoft) Module
A nonvolatile single inline memory module (SIMM) that
NTSL: National Software Testing Laboratories
incorporates a battery on the device to prevent data loss in a
(Organizations) power failure. Battery current is shared among a group of
NTT: Nippon Telephone & Telegraph NVSIMMs. This feature prevents memory failure if one battery
fails (Hardware)
NTU: Network Termination Unit
NVT: Network Virtual Terminal
NTWS: New Technology WorkStation
NVT: Novell Virtual Terminal
(Novell)
NUA: Network User Address
NWFS: NetWare File System
NUB: Network Utility Box (Operating systems) (Novell)
(Hardware)
NWNet: NorthWestern states NETwork
NUI: Network User Identification
NWS: Netware Web Server
(Network)
(Novell)
NUI: Network User Interface
NX: No eXecute
(Operating systems)
Technology used in CPUs to segregate areas of memory for use
NUI: Notebook User Interface by either storage of processor instructions (or code) or for
storage of data, a feature normally only found in Harvard
NUL: NULl architecture processors (Hardware) (Intel)
An invisible character with an internal code of 0 that occupies
no space if printed. Not to be confused with a blank, which is NXD: Native Xml Database
invisible but occupies a space (Databases)
NUMA: NonUniform Memory Access NYSERNet: New York State Education and
Research NETwork
NURB: Non Uniform Rational B-spline
NZDSF: Non-Zero Dispersion Shifted Fibre
NURBS: Non Uniform Rational B-Spline
Optical fiber type (Communication)
A curve definition method based on the B-spline curve, which
offers additional exibility through knots along the spline. Some NZT: New Zealand Time
knots can have more weight added (like a magnet) to pull the Timezone: GMT +12:00
curve toward those knots
NZUSUGI: New Zealand Unix System User Group,
NURMS: Non Uniform Rational MeshSmooth Inc.
Method of tesselation used by 3D Studio MAX (Software)
N NUUG: Norwegian Unix User Group O
(Organizations)
O&O: Over & Out
O NV: No oVerflow When leaving an on-line conversation permanently (Net lingo)
A curve definition method based on the B-spline curve, which
offers additional flexibility through knots along the spline. O/R: Originator/Recipient
Some knots can have more weight added (like a magnet) to OA: Office Automation
pull the curve toward those knots
OAAM: Oracle Adaptive Access Manager
NVDL: Namespace-based Validation Dispatching
Provides soft multi-factor authentication (OAAM Adaptive
Language Strong Authenticator or OAAM-ASA) and powerful risk
Allows specifying sections of XML documents to be validated management/anti-fraud analysis (OAAM Adaptive Risk Manager
against different schemas thus enabling the creation of or OAAM-ARM) (Oracle)
complex documents containing multiple languages
OAB: Offline Address Book
NVDM/2: NetView Distribution Manager 2 (Microsoft)
NVE: Network Visible Entity OAB: One-to-All Broadcast
A network addressable service (ie. protocol socket) that acts as
a network service process (not a node.) (Network) (Apple) OAD: Open Architecture Driver
NVM: Non Volatile Memory OAD: Over-the-Air Downloading
(Hardware) OAG: Official Airline Guide
NVML: NaVigation Markup Language OAG: Online Air Guide
NVOD: Near-Video On Demand OAI: Open Applications Interface
NVP: Network Voice Protocol OAM: Operations, Administation, and
NVP: Nominal Velocity of Propagation Management
A set of network management functions for ATM similar to
NVRAM: Non-Volatile Random Access Memory those in OA&M and OAM&P. Special cells, called OAM cells, are
A type of RAM that retains information when power is removed used to carry OAM related information (Communication)
from the system (Hardware)
OAM: Oracle Access Manager
NVS: Non-Volatile Storage used for authentication and web single sign-on (SSO). Version
(Hardware) 10g and earlier included a delegated management service
(OAM Identity) not to be confused with Oracle Identity
Manager (OIM) or legacy Oracle Identity Management (OID,
OSSO, DIP and DAS) (Oracle)
OARNet: Ohio Academic Resources NETwork
OAS: Office Automation System

OAS ODE
OAS: One-to-All Scatter OCI: Oracle Call Interface

C-language data access API which provides a low-level
OAS: Oracle Application Server
programmatic interface to the Oracle database (Databases)
(Software) (Oracle) (Oracle)
OASIS: Open Access Same-time Information OCIA: Optically Coupled Interface Adapter
System Interface in many other respects similar to RS232. It is used
OASIS: Organization for the Advancement of extensively on Point Of Sale (POS) equipments (Hardware)
Structured Information Standards OCL: Object Constraint Language
(Organizations)
OCL: Operator Control Language
OASLM: Optically Addressed Spatial Light
Modulator OCL: Os/2 Class Library
(Hardware) OCLC: Online Computer Library Center
OASYS: Office Automation SYStem OCM: Oracle Certified Master
OAW: Optically Assisted Winchester Advanced-level certification that is targeted toward Oracle9i
DBA OCPs with 3 - 4 years of professional Oracle experience
(Hardware) (Oracle)
OBD: On Board Diagnostics OCN: Operating Company Number
OBD: Online Bugs Database (Communication)
OBEX: OBject EXchange OCP: Open-Closed Principle

Set of protocols allowing objects such as vCard contact Object-oriented principle that states that software entities
information and vCalendar schedule entries to be exchanged should be open for extensions but closed for modifications
using either IrDA or Bluetooth (Software)
OBI: Open Buying on the Internet OCP: Oracle Certified Professional

(Organizations) Mid-level certification for IT professionals who manage large-
scale databases or develop applications that are used
OBJ: OBJect enterprise-wide (Oracle)
File name extension
OCR: Optical Character Recognition
Obj-C: OBJective-C
OCS: Object Compatibility Standard
Programming Language (Software)
OCS: On-Card Sequencer
OBOE: Off-By-One Error
Logical error involving the discrete equivalent of a boundary OCS: Open Content Syndication
condition. It often occurs in computer programming when an
iterative loop iterates one time too many or too few (Software)
OCS: Oracle Collaboration Suite
Oracle's mail/calendar solution (Software) (Oracle)
OBS: Old Backup Server
OCSP: Online Certificate Status Protocol
OBV: Object By Value A PKIX protocol used for determining the current status of a O
(Software) digital certificate
OBVI: Object-Based Video Interface OCTAVE: Operationally Critical Threat, Asset, and
OBZ: One Big Zip Vulnerability Evaluation
(Net lingo) Approach for self-directed risk evaluations that puts
organizations in charge, balances critical information assets,
OC: Optical Carrier business needs, threats, and vulnerabilities and measures the
organization against known or accepted good security practices
OC-3: Optical Carrier level 3 (Security)
OC4J: Oracle Containers For Java OCX: Ole Control eXtension
(Software) (Oracle) (Software) (Microsoft)
OCA: Online Crash Analysis OD: Optical Disk
ODA: Open Data Access
OCA: Oracle Certified Associate (Software)
Certification for apprentice skill level IT professionals who have
have a foundation of knowledge that will allow them to act as a ODA: Open Document Architecture
junior team member (Oracle) ODAPI: Open DataBase Application Programming
OCCI: Oracle C++ Call Interface Interface
Object-oriented data access API for C++ which provides a (Software)
programmatic interface to the Oracle database (Databases)
ODBC: Open DataBase Connectivity
(Oracle)
OCD: Out-of-Cell Delineation
ODBMS: Object DataBase Management System
OCE: Open Collaborative Environment (Databases)
(Apple)
ODCI: Oracle Data Cartridge Interface
OCF: Object Component Framework Extends the capabilities of the Oracle server by taking
(Software) (Borland) advantage of the Oracle Extensibility Architecture framework
(Oracle)
OCF: OpenCard Framework
ODD: Optical Disk Drive
OCFS: Oracle Cluster File System
Computer CD-Rom, DVD-Rom, DVD-Writer, etc (Hardware)
(Oracle)
ODE: Object Database and Environment

ODE OGSS
ODE: Office 97 Developer Edition OEDB: Operating Experience DataBase

(Software) (Microsoft) Nuclear power plants use a common database of operating
information
ODE: Orchestration Director Engine
Apache project to develop an open-source implementation of OEL: Oracle Enterprise Linux
the WS-BPEL 1.1 and WS-BPEL 2.0 specifications. Ode is a Oracle's Linux distribution (Operating systems) (Oracle)
choreography engine allowing you to develop processes to call
services in a well-defined manner. See also OEM: Oracle Enterprise Manager
http://ode.apache.org/ (Software) Comprehensive management tool which provides a top-to-
bottom monitoring solution for Oracle software (Oracle)
ODF: Open Document Format
Open document file format for saving and exchanging editable OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer
office documents (Software) A manufacturer that sells equipment for resale under an end-
equipment manufacturer’s trademark or name (Hardware)
ODI: Open Data-link Interface
(Network) OEP: Operand Execution Pipeline
ODI: Open Device Interconnect OEP: Original Entry Point

(Novell) (Software)
ODIF: Open Document Interchange Format OES: Oracle Entitlement Server

Provides fine-grained authorization (FGA) capabilities as an
ODISS: Optical Digital Image Storage System embeddable authorization engine (Oracle)
ODL: Object Definition Language OF: Outer Firewall
ODM: Object Data Manager (Security)
(IBM) OF: Overflow Flag
ODM: Optimized Distribution Model OFA: Optimal Flexible Architecture
(Compaq)
OFB: Output FeedBack
ODM: Original Design Manufacturing
OFC: Open Financial Connectivity
ODMA: Open Distributed Management
Architecture OFCOM: Office Fédéral de la COMmunication
Swiss regulatory Organisation (Organizations)
ODMA: Open Document Management Api
OFDM: Orthogonal Frequency Division
ODMG: Object Data Management Group Multiplexing
See http://www.odmg.org/ (Organizations) (Communication)
ODMG: Object Database Management Group OFMT: Output ForMaT
ODP: On-Demand Producer OFP: Organizational Fitness Profiling
Multimedia authoring program (Software)
OFS: Object File System
O ODP: Open Data Path (Operating systems)
Provide a way for more than one program in the same job to
share the same file status information (Software) (IBM) OFS: Output Field Separator
ODP: Open Distributed Processing OFTP: Odette File Transfer Protocol

Defined by the RFC 2204, it's a protocol that supports both
ODP: OverDrive Processor direct communication between installations and indirect
communication via a third party clearing centre (Network)
ODPS: On Demand Packaging Service
Intranet Software distribution solution by IBM (Software) (IBM) OFX: Open Financial eXchange
ODQL: Object Database Query Language OGF: Open Grid Forum
(Databases) Community of users, developers, and vendors leading the
global standardization effort for grid computing. It was formed
ODR: Optimized Dynamic Routing in 2006 in a merger of the Global Grid Forum and the
ODS: Open Data Services Enterprise Grid Alliance. See also http://www.ogf.org/
(Organizations)
(Microsoft)
OGL: Open Graphics Language
ODS: Operational Data Store
Single, vendor-independent Application Programming Interface
ODS: Overhead Data Stream (API) for the development of 2D and 3D graphics applications
(Software) (SGI)
ODSI: Open Directory Services Interface
OGNL: Object Graph Navigation Language
ODT: Open DeskTop
Powerful expression language that is useful for identifying
ODTUG: Oracle Development Tools User Group properties within Java objects (Software)
OE: Operating Environment OGSA: Open Grid Services Architecture

Describes an architecture for a service-oriented grid computing
OE: Outlook Express environment for business and scientific use. OGSA is based on
(Software) (Microsoft) several other Web service technologies, notably WSDL and
SOAP, but it aims to be largely agnostic (Software)
OE: Output Enable
(Hardware) OGSI: Open Grid Services Infrastructure
Takes the statelessness issues (along with others) into account
OECD: Organization for Economic Cooperation by essentially extending Web services to accommodate grid
and Development computing resources that are both transient and stateful
(Organizations) (Software)
OGSS: Ordered Grid Super Sampling
Full-scene anti-aliasing technique (Hardware)

OHCI ONI
OHCI: Open Host Controller Interface OMA: Object Management Architecture

(Microsoft)
OIA: Operator Information Area
OMA: Outlook Mobile Access
OIC: Oh, I See
(Net lingo)
OMAC: One-key cipher block chaining Message
OID: Object IDentifier
Authentication Code
OID: Oracle Internet Directory (Security)
Oracle's LDAP-enabled directory server product. Part of
Oracle's "legacy" Identity Management. Legacy IDM refers to OMAP: Open Multimedia Applications Platform
an installation option for pre-10g installations where an OMCA: OpenManage Client Administrator
installation option for "Identity Management" installed OID and
(Dell)
OSSO (Oracle)
OIDL: Object Interface Definition Language OMCI: OpenManage Client Instrumentation
OIF: Oracle Identity Federation OME: Open Messaging Environment

Protocol
Product for browser-based cross-domain SSO using standards
including SAML 1.x/2.x, WS-Federation, ID-FF, etc (Oracle) OMF: Object Management Framework
OIL: Operator Identification Language OMF: Object Module Format
OIM: Open Information Model (Microsoft)
Set of standard object models which define how applications OMF: Observation Markup Format
can create exchangeable metadata
Is an application of XML used to encode weather observation
OIM: Oracle Identity Manager reports
Formerly Xellerate, acquired with purchase of Thor OMF: Open Media Framework
Technologies, is Oracle's strategic product for user account
provisioning and identity administration (Oracle) OMF: Open Message Format
OIS: Office Information System OMFG: Oh My F***ing God
(Net lingo)
OIW: Osi Implementors Workshop
OMFI: Open Media Framework Interchange
OJI: Open Jvm Integration
Project extending the plug-in architecture to allow Java virtual OMG: Object Management Group
machines to be plugged into Mozilla-based browser releases (Organizations)
OKC: Online Knowledge Community OMG: Oh My God (or Gosh)
OL: Ordered List (Net lingo)
HTML Tag OMI: Open Management Interface
OLAM: Optimal Linear Associative Memory OMI: Open Messaging Interface
OLAP: On-Line Analytical Processing OMI: Open Microprocessor Initiative
O
A category of software tools that provides analysis of data
stored in a database (Databases)
OMI-STN: Optical Mode Interface-SuperTwisted
Nematic
OLB: Object Language Bindings
OML: Object Manipulation Language
(Databases)
(Software)
OLCP: On-Line Complex Processing
OMR: Optical Mark Recognition
OLE: Object Linking and Embedding
OMS: Object Management System
OLED: Organic Light Emitting Diode OMSA: OpenManage Server Administrator
Suite of tools provided by Dell for managing an individual
(Hardware)
server. See the official OpenManage site,
OLE-DB: Object Linking and Embedding-DataBase http://dell.com/openmanage/ (Hardware) (Dell)
COM-based data access objects (Databases) (Microsoft) OMT: Object Modeling Technique
OLGA: OnLine Guitar Archive (Software)
OLI: Optical Line Interface OMW: On My Way

(AT&T) (Net lingo)
OLIT: Open Look Intrinsics Toolkit ON: Online Network

An X Window system-based widget set and library used to ONA: Open Network Architecture
create applications using the OPEN LOOK graphical user
interface (Operating systems) ONAC: Operations Network Administration Center
OLMC: Open Look Intrinsic Toolkit ONAL: Off Network Access Line
OLSP: On-Line Service Provider ONC: Open Network Computing
O-LTM: Optical Line Terminating Multiplexer (Network) (Sun)
OLTP: OnLine Transaction Processing ONDS: Open Network Distribution Services

(IBM)
OM: Object Manager
ONE: Open Network Environment
OM: Object Model (Sun)
(Software)
ONI: Operator Number Identification

ONL OQS
ONL: ONLine OO-TP: Object-Oriented Transaction Processing

(Net lingo) (Software)
ONMS: Open Network Management System OOUI: Object-Oriented User Interface
ONS: Open Networking System OOXML: Office Open eXtensible Markup Language
XML-based file format for electronic documents such as
ONU: Optical Network Unit
spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing
OO: Object Oriented documents. See ISO/IEC DIS 29500 and ECMA 376 (Software)
OOA: Object-Oriented Analysis OP: OPeration

OOAD: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design OPA: Open Publishing Architecture
OOB: Out Of Band OPAC: On-line Public Access Catalog
Technical term with different uses in communications and OPAS: Online Performance Appraisal System
telecommunication. It refers to communications which occur
(Oracle)
outside of a previously established communications method or
channel (Communication) OPC: Ole for Process Control
OOBE: Object-Oriented Business Engineering OPC: Open Process Control
OOBE: Out-Of-Box Experience OPC: Optical PhotoConductor
What happens when you first open the box containing your new
computer OPC: Organic Photoconducting Cartridge
(Hardware)
OOCASE: Object Oriented Computer Aided
Software Engineering OPCODE: OPerational CODE
OOCTG: Object-Oriented Cobol Task Group OPD: OPeranD
OOD: Object-Oriented Design OpenGL: OPEN Graphics Language

Single, vendor-independent Application Programming Interface
OODB: Object-Oriented DataBase (API) for the development of 2D and 3D graphics applications
OODBMS: Object-Oriented DataBase Management (Software) (SGI)
System OPES: Open Pluggable Edge Services
OODL: Object-Oriented Dynamic Language (Network)
OODS: Object-Oriented Data Source OPI: Open Press Interface

(Software)
OOF: Out Of Frame
State that occurs when several consecutive Synchronous OPI: Oracle Programmatic Interface
Digital Hierarchy (SDH) frames are received with invalid The server-side complement to OCI (Databases) (Oracle)
(errored) framing patterns (Communication)
OPL: Opaque Device Library
O OOFS: Object-Oriented File System
(Operating systems)
OPL: OpenContent License
Licensing scheme for content. See also
OOL: Object-Oriented Language http://opencontent.org/opl.shtml
OOo: OpenOffice.org OPM: Operations Per Minute

Free productivity suite compatible with all major office suites. OPML: Outline Processor Markup Language
See also http://www.openoffice.org/ (Software)
XML-based format that allows exchange of outline-structured
OOO: Out Of Office information between applications running on different
(Net lingo) operating systems and environments
OOOE: Out Of Order Execution OPOS: Ole for Point Of Sale

Processor level architecture feature (Hardware) OPP: Order Processing Pipeline
OOOS: Object-Oriented Operating System (Network) (Microsoft)
OOP: Object-Oriented Programming OPROM: Optical Programmable Read Only Memory

OOPL: Object-Oriented Programming Language OPS: Off Premise Station

(Software) A PBX station in a location separated from the location of the
main PBX (Communication)
OOPS: Object-Oriented Programming System
OPS: Open Profiling Standard
OOPSLA: Object-Oriented Programming Systems (Netscape)
and Language Architecture
ops: Operations Per Second
OOPSTAD: Object-Oriented Programming for
SmallTalk Application Development association OPS: Oracle Parallel Server
(Oracle)
OOS: Object-Oriented Systems
OPT: Open Protocol Technology
OOS: Off-line Operating Simulator
OPT: OPTions
OOS: Out Of Service File name extension
OOSA: Object-Oriented System Analysis OPUS: Octal Program Updating System
OOSE: Object-Oriented Software Engineering OQL: Object Query Language
OOSH: Object-Oriented SHell OQS: Object Query Service
OOT: Object-Oriented Technology (Software)

OR OSP
OR: OverRun OSD: Open Software Description

(Hardware) An application of the eXtensible Markup Language (XML), is a
vocabulary used for describing software packages and their
ORB: Object Request Broker dependencies for heterogeneous clients
ORBS: Open Relay Behaviour-modification System OSD: Open Source Definition
ORBZ: Open Relay Blackhole Zone The definition of the "open source" concept. See also
http://opensource.org/docs/osd
ORDB: Open Relay DataBase
A service to fight against spam or unsolicited commercial email
OSD: Operating System Deployment
(UCE). See http://www.ordb.org/ (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
ORDBMS: Object Relational DataBase OSDL: Open Source Development Lab

Management System Non-profit, global consortium of leading technology companies
(Databases) dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux. See
http://www.osdl.org/ (Organizations)
ORDVAC: ORDnance Variable Automatic Computer
OSDN: Open Source Development Network
ORI: Online Retrieval Interface (Software)
ORK: Office Resource Kit OSDS: Operating System for Distributed Switching
OSE: Office Server Extension
ORM: Object Role Modeling (Software) (Microsoft)
(Databases)
OSE: Open Systems Environment
ORM: Object/Relational Mapping
OSES: Oracle Secure Enterprise Search
Technique of mapping a data representation from an object
model to a relational data model with a SQL-based schema Secure search access to all of your organization's data sources
(Software) (Oracle)
ORM: Optical Remote Module OSF: Open Software Foundation

(Organizations)
ORMS: Operating Resource Management System
(Software) OSF: Operation System Function
OROM: Optical Read Only Memory OSGi: Open Services Gateway Initiative
(Hardware) Independent, non-profit corporation working to define and
promote open specifications for the delivery of managed
O-ROM: Optical Read Only Memory broadband services to networks in homes, cars and other
environments. See also http://www.osgi.org (Organizations)
ORPC: Object Remote Procedure Call
(Software) OSHA: Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
ORS: Output Record Separator
(Organizations)
ORSS: Optical Recognition System Simulator OSI: Open Source Initiative O
OS: Operating System See http://opensource.org/
A collection of programs that monitor the use of the system OSI: Open Systems Interconnection
and supervise the other programs executed by it (Operating
systems) 7-layer hierarchical reference structure developed by the
International Standards Organization for defining, specifying,
OS/2: Operating System 2 and relating communications protocols; not a standard or a
(Operating systems) (IBM) protocol (Communication)
OS/360: Operating System/360 OSI/RM: Open Systems

Interconnection/Reference Model
OS/400: Operating System/400
OSIG: Online Special Interest Group
OS/E: Operating System/Environment
OSM: On-Screen Manager
OS-9: Operating System-9 (Hardware) (NEC)
OSA: Open Scripting Architecture OSM: On-Screen Menu
OSA: Open System Architecture OSM: Operating system-Specific Module
OSAF: Open Source Applications Foundation OSM: Optical Storage Manager
Organization that aims to create and gain wide adoption of
Open Source application software of uncompromising quality OSME: Open Systems Message Exchange
and to build an innovative, sustainable alternative application
OSN: Office System Node
despite market inertia. See also
http://www.osafoundation.org/ (Organizations) OSN: Open Service Node
OSCE: OfficeScan Corporate Edition (Communication)
OSCML: OSChooser Markup Language OSN: Open Systems Network

(Operating systems) (Microsoft) OSP: Ole db Simple Provider
OSCRL: Operating System Command Response (Databases) (Microsoft)
Language OSP: Online Service Provider
OSD: On-Screen Display Companies that offer an extensive online array of services of
(Hardware) their own apart from the rest of the Internet. Connecting to the
Internet through an OSP is usually an alternative to connecting
through an Internet Service Provider (ISP)
OSP: On-Screen Programming

OSP p
OSP: Operations Service Provider OTPROM: One-Time Programmable Read Only

Memory
OSP: Optical Signal Processing
(Hardware) OTS: Object Transaction Service
OSP: Optical Storage Processor OU: Organizational Unit
OSPF: Open Shortest Path First OUCL: Oxford University Computing Laboratory
An Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) specified by the Internet OUG: Occam User Group
Engineering Task Force (IETF) (Network)
OUI: Organizationally Unique Identifier
OSPM: Operating System-directed Power
24-bit number purchased from the Institute of Electrical and
Management
Electronics Engineers, Incorporated (IEEE) Registration
With OSPM, the operating system determines when to do Authority. This identifier uniquely identifies a vendor,
power management and the BIOS determines how to do power manufacturer, or other organization globally or worldwide
management. The two pieces work in concert to provide
maximum power savings OURS: Open User Recommended Solutions group
OSQL: Object Structured Query Language OUTS: OUTput String
OSR: Oem Service Release OV: OVerflow
OSS: Open Source Software OVAL: Object-based Virtual Application Language
(Software) OVD: Oracle Virtual Directory
OSS: Operating System-Specific Provides directory virtualization and LDAP firewalling/proxying
(Oracle)
OSS: Operations Support System
OVF: Open Virtualization Format
OSSIM: Open Source Security Information
Standard format for packaging and describing virtual machines
Management and applications for deployment across heterogeneous
Distribution of open source products that are integrated to virtualization platforms
provide an infrastructure for security monitoring. See also
http://www.ossim.net/ (Security) OVL: OVerLay
File name extension
OSSO: Oracle Single Sign-On
In-house developed web single sign-on product. Required for OVR: OVeRlay
many Oracle application integrations for interoperability with File name extension
some other Oracle apps or third-party web SSO systems. OSSO
is expected to be replaced by OAM 11g (Security) (Oracle) OWA: Outlook Web Access
OST: Offline STorage
OWASP: Open Web Application Security Project
OSTA: Optical Storage Technology Association
Worldwide free and open community focused on improving the
(Organizations) security of application software. See also
OSW/L2: Operating System-9 Windows/Level 2 http://www.owasp.org/ (Organizations)
O OWC: Office Web Component
OSX: Operating System Ten
Collection of COM controls designed to bring interactive
P Apple's unix operating system (Operating systems) (Apple)
spreadsheet modeling, database reporting, and data
OT: Object Technology visualization to a number of control containers (Software)
(Microsoft)
OT: Off Topic
(Net lingo) OWG: Optical WaveGuide
OTA: Office of Technology Assessment OWL: Object Windows Library

OTA: Operation-Triggered Architecture
OWL: Web Ontology Language
OTDR: Optical Time Domain Reflectometer Semantic markup language for publishing and sharing
OTF: Open Token Foundation ontologies on the World Wide Web. OWL is developed as a
vocabulary extension of RDF (the Resource Description
OTI: Object Technology International Framework) and is derived from the DAML+OIL Web Ontology
Language
OTM: Object Transaction Monitor
(Software) O-WORM: Optical Write Once Read Many
OTM: Optical Translation Measurement OWSM: Oracle Web Services Manager

(Hardware) Product for web-services security. Part of the SOA suite (Oracle)
OTML: Offline Tagging Markup Language OWT: Open source Windowing Toolkit
OTN: Oracle Technology Network OXC: Optical Cross Connect

(Oracle) (Communication)
OTOH: On The Other Hand

(Net lingo)
P
OTP: One-Time Password authentication P: Paragraph
(Security) HTML tag
OTP: One-Time Programmable P: Peta

OTP: Open Trading Protocol
The Internet Open Trading Protocol (OTP) provides an
p: Pico
interoperable framework for Internet commerce. It is payment Prefix for 10 power -12
system independent and encapsulates payment systems such
as SET, Mondex, CyberCash, DigiCash, GeldKarte, etc.

P&D PAT
P&D: Plug & Display PAL: Processor Abstraction Layer

(Hardware) Contains the code necessary to initially boot the processor and
includes error recovery and processor self-test routines
P&M: Personalization & Membership (Hardware) (Intel)
(Microsoft)
PAL: Programmable Array Logic
P&S: Point And Shoot (Hardware)
Digital camera type (Hardware)
PAL: Programmable Assembly Language
P&S: Publish & Subscribe
PAL: Publication Access List
P/N: Part Number SQL Server replication security mechanism (Databases)
P/PC: Palm Personal Computer (Microsoft)
(Hardware) PALC: Parallel-Aligned Liquid crystal Spatial Light
P/T: Part Time Modulator
Display technology
P2C2: Pantone Personal Color Calibrator
PALS: Principles of the Alphabet Literacy System
(Pantone)
P2P: Peer To Peer PAL-SLM: Parallel-Aligned Liquid crystal Spa tial
Light Modulator
P2P: People To People (Hardware)
P2P: Point To Point PAM: Paging Area Memory
P2SC: Power 2 Super Chip PAM: Pluggable Authentication Module
IBM's Deep Blue processor (Hardware) (IBM) With the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) framework,
multiple authentication technologies can be added without
P3P: Platform for Privacy Preferencies Project
changing any of the login services, thereby preserving existing
PA: Platform for Privacy Preferences Project system environments (Security)
(Hardware) (HP) PAM: Presence and Availability Management
PAB: Personal Address Book Java APIs to disseminate and manage presence information
securely across heterogeneous networks and applications. See
PABX: Private Automatic Branch eXchange also http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=123 (Software)
(Hardware)
PAM: Primary Access Method
PAC: Perceptual Audio Coder
PAM: Programmable Attribute Map
(Hardware)
PAM: Pulse-Amplitude Modulation
PAC: Platform Adaptor Component
(Communication)
PAC: Privilege Attribute Certificate
PAMR: Public Access Mobile Radio
PAC: Programme Advisory Committee
PAN: Personal Account Number
(Communication)
PAN: Personal Area Network
PACE: Priority Access Control Enabled
(3Com)
(Network)
P
PAP: PAcket-level Procedure
PACS: Picture Archiving and Communication
System PAP: Password Authentication Protocol
A security provision in point-to-point protocol (PPP) (Network)
PACS-L: Public Access Computer Systems List
PAP: Printer Access Protocol
PAD: Packet Assembler/Disassembler
An access device to an X.25 network (Communication) PAP: Protected Audio Path
Initiative under investigation for how to provide encryption of
PADS: Pen Application Development System
audio over user accessible buses
PAE: Physical Addressing Extension
PAP: Push Access Protocol
Extension for Windows 2000/2003 Advanced Server to address
more than 4 GB of memory (Operating systems) (Microsoft) PAR: Parallel
PAF: Postal Address File PAR: Personal Animation Recorder
PAIH: Public-Access Internet Host PAR: Personal Audio Recorder
(Hardware)
PAIS: Public-Access Internet Site
PAR: Project Authorization Request
PAK: PAcKed
File name extension PARC: Palo Alto Research Center
(Organizations) (Xerox)
PAL: PALette
File name extension PA-RISC: Precision Architecture Reduced
Instruction Set Computer
PAL: Paradox Application Language
(HP)
(Databases) (Borland)
PAS: PAScal
PAL: Phase Alternate Line
File name extension
European TV standard. A composite color standard similar to
NTSC, except that the v-axis subcarrier reference signal inverts PAS: Publicly Available Specification
in phase at the horizontal line rate
PAS/2: Personal Application System/2
PAL: Privileged Architecture Library
PAT: PATtern
File name extensions

PAT PCMIM
PAT: Performance Acceleration Technology PCAV: Partial Constant Angular Velocity

Speeds data flow between the processor and system memory (Hardware)
to increase performance. Introduced with the Intel 875P
chipset (Hardware) (Intel) PCB: Printed Circuit Board
(Hardware)
PAT: Port Address Translation
(Communication) PCB: Program Control Block
PATA: Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment PCBC: Plain Cipher Block Chaining
Peripheral bus architecture (Hardware) PCBO: Personal Computer Branch Office
PATN: Port Access Telephone Number (IBM)
PAV: Parallel Access Volumes PCD: Photo Compact Disc

File format for digitized photos (Kodak)
PAWS: Protect Against Wrapped Sequences
(Network) PCDA: Program Controlled Data Acquisition
PAX: Portable Archive eXchange PC-DOS: Personal Computer - Disk Operating

System
PB: PetaByte (IBM)
2 to the 50th power bytes. Is equal to 1024 terabytes
PCEB: PCi to Eisa Bridge
PB: Pipeline Burst (Intel)
Cache memory architecture (Hardware)
PCF: Packet Control Function
PBA: Printed Board Assembly (Communication)
PBC: Port Bypass Circuit PCFS: Personal Computer FIle System
(Hardware) A file system specification that provides the capability to read
PBCAK: Problem Between Chair And Keyboard and write files in DOS format on the SPARC (Operating
systems) (Sun)
It's when the problem is the computer user (Net lingo)
PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect
PBD: PowerBuilder Dynamic library
A 32-bit bus providing a maximum 132 Mbyte/sec data transfer
(Databases) (Sybase)
rate. PCI devices have autoconfiguration capabilities and do
PBE: Prompt By Example not have to be configured by users (Hardware)
PBGA: Plastic Ball Grid Array PCI: Protocol Control Information

(Hardware) PC-I/O: Program Controlled Input/Output
PBI: Phone Based Interface PCIC: Pc-Card Interrupt Controller
PBM: Play By Mail PCI-E: Peripheral Component Interconnect -
PBOT: Physical Beginning of Tape Express
(Hardware) New interface replacing PCI and AGP, max bandwidth of
500MB/sec (Hardware)
PBR: Policy-Based Routing
PCI-E: Peripheral Component Interconnect
P (Cisco)
Express
PBX: Private Branch eXchange Evolution of the PCI bus that allows faster trasfers (Hardware)
Privately owned central switching office (Communication)
PCL: Portable Common Loops
PC: Personal Computer
PCL: Printer Control Language
PC: Pipeline Clock (HP)
Used to specify the memory's speed. Example PC 800
(Hardware) PCL: Process Control Language
PC: Printed Circuit PCL: Programmable Command Language
PC: Program Counter PCM: Personal Computer Manufacturer

A CPU register that contains the address (location) of the PCM: Physical Connection Management
instruction to be executed next in the program sequence
PCM: Printer Cartridge Metric
PC: Programmable Controller (HP)
A slightly smart electronic circuit, usually for industrial
processes; acronym quickly changed to PLC after IBM brought PCM: Process Change Management
out its Personal Computer (Hardware) (Software)
PC/IXF: Personal Computer Intergrated PCM: Pulse Code Modulation
eXchange Format (Communication)
PC/SC: Personal Computer Smart Card PCMA: Paired Carrier Multiple Access
(Hardware)
PCMC: Pci, Cache and Memory Controller
PC/TCP: Personal Computer Integrated eXchange (Intel)
Format
PCMCIA: Personal Computer Memory Card
PCA: Payment gateway Certification Authority International Association
PCA: Personal internet Client Architecture An organization that supports several standards for a compact
hardware interface that accepts a variety of devices
(Intel) (Organizations)
PCA: Power Calibration Area PCMIM: Personal Computer Media Interface
PCACIAS: Personal Computer Automated Module
Calibration Interval Analysis System

PCMS PDSS
PCMS: Project and Configuration Management PDES: Product Data Exchange Specification
System
PDF: Package Definition File
PCN: Personal Computer Network
PDF: Portable Document Format
PCN: Public Communications Network File format for document interchange (Adobe)
PCNFS: Personal Computer Network File System PDF: Printer Description File
PCO: Point of Control and Observation File name extension (Borland)
PCR: Packet Cell Rate PDF: Processor Defined Function
PCR: Processor Configuration Register PDF: Program Development Facility
PCS: Patchable Control Store PDH: Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy

(Communication)
PCS: Personal Communication Service
PDI: Personal Data Interchange
PCS: Personal Computing System (Software)
(Hardware)
PDI: Power and Data Interface
PCS: Personal Conferencing Specification
PDIAL: Public Dialup Internet Access List
PCS: Physical Code Sublayer
(Network)
PDK: Product Development Kit
(Network) (Intel)
PCS: Planning Control Sheet
PDL: Page Description Language
PCS: Print Contrast Signal
PDL: Program Description Language
PCS: Process Control Systems
PDL: Program Design Language
PCS: Program Counter Store
PDM: Product Data Management
PCS: Project Control System
PDM: Program Development Manager
PCSA: Personal Computing Systems Architecture
PDN: Public Data Network
PCT: PiCTure (Network)
File name extension
PDO: Portable Distributed Objects
PCT: Private Communication Technology (Operating systems)
(Communication)
PDOM: Persistent Document Object Model
PCTE: Portable Common Tool Environment
PDP: Parallel Data Processing
PCX: PiCture eXchange
PDP: Plasma Display Panel
File name extension
(Hardware)
PD: Personal Display
(Hardware)
PDP: Policy Decision Point
PD: Phase change Dual

The point where policy decisions are made, responsible for
handling policy decisions on behalf of PEPs (Network) P
Optical recording system (Hardware) (Matsushita)
PDP: Primary Dos Partition
PD: Portable Device (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Hardware)
PDP: Programmable Data Processor
PD: Public Domain
PDQ: Parallel Data Queries
PDA: Personal Digital Assistant
PDQ: Pretty Darn Quick
PDB: Palm DataBase (Net lingo)
File name extension
PDR: Personal Digital Recorder
PDB: Program DataBase (Hardware)
Microsoft's format for debug indormation, not embedded in the
object file or executable (Software) (Microsoft)
PDS: Packet Driver Specification
PDC: Personal Digital Cellular PDS: Partitioned Data Set

(Databases) (IBM)
(Hardware)
PDC: Primary Domain Controller PDS: Planetary Data System
Provides user/computer domain authentication (Operating PDS: Portable Document Software
PDS: Processor Direct Slot
PDC: Professional Developer Conference (Apple)
(Microsoft)
PDS: Professional Developer's Summit
PD-CD: Phase-change Dual Compact Disk (Microsoft)
(Hardware)
PDSN: Packet Data Serving Node
PDD: Physical Device Driver Provides access to the Internet, intranets and applications
PDD: Portable Digital Document servers for mobile stations utilizing a cdma2000 Radio Access
Network (RAN)
PDE: Plug-in Development Environment
PDSP: Peripheral Data Storage Processor
Project extending the Platform and the JDT to provide views
and editors that make it easier to build plug-ins for Eclipse. PDSS: Post Development and Software Support
See www.eclipse.org (Software)

PDT PFB
PDT: Pacific Daylight Time PEBKAC: Problem Exists Between Keyboard And
Timezone: GMT -8:00 Chair
An answer to problems with inexperienced computer users (Net
PDT: Performance Diagnostic Tool
lingo)
(IBM)
PEC: Program Execution Control
PDT: Pliable Display Technology
(Hardware) PECL: Php Extension Community Library
See http://pecl.php.net (Software)
PDT: Programmable Drive Table
PEEK: Partners Early Experience Kit
PDU: Plug Distribution Unit
PEEL: Programmable Electrically Erasable Logic
PDU: Protocol Data Unit
(Hardware)
The ISO/OSI term for packet. A PDU is a data object
exchanged by protocol machines (entities) within a given layer. PEL: Picture ELement
PDUs consist of both protocol control information (PCI) and (IBM)
user data
PEM: Port Expander Module
PDW: Package and Deployment Wizard
(Microsoft)
PEM: Privacy-enhanced Electronic Mail
(Security)
PDX: ParaDoX
File name extension (Borland)
PEOT: Physical End Of Tape
(Hardware)
PDX: Phone Data eXchange
(Hardware)
PEP: Packet Exchange Protocol
PDX: Printer Description eXtension PEP: Packetized Ensemble Protocol
PE: Parallel Environment PEP: Point-Edge-Polygon

(Operating systems) (IBM) Type of graphics editor (Software)
PE: Parity Error PEP: Policy Enforcement Point

(Hardware) A port on a network device where the policy decisions are
actually enforced (Network)
PE: Parity Even
PERC: Portable Environment for Real-time Control
PE: Personal Edition (Operating systems)
(Software)
PERC: PowerEdge Raid Controller
PE: Phase Encoding (Hardware) (Dell)
PE: Portable Executable PERL: Practical Extraction Report Language
File format for Win32 programs (Software) (Microsoft) A flexible programming language especially designed for
processing text (Software)
PE: Preinstallation Environment
Lightweight version of Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, PERM: Pre-Embossed Rigid Magnetic
Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008 R2 that is (Hardware)
P used for the deployment of workstations and servers
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) PEROM: Programmable Erasable Read Only
Memory
PE: Processing Element
(Hardware) PERT: Program Evaluation and Review Technique
PE: Professional Edition PES: Packetized Elementary Stream

(Software) (Communication)
PE: Protect Enable PES: Positioning Error Signal
PE: Provider Edge PES: Processor Enhancement Socket

(Network) PES: Proposed Encryption Standard
PEA: Pocket Ethernet Adapter PET: Personal Electronic Transactor
PEAP: Protected Extensible Authentication Commodore's first personal computer (Hardware)
Protocol PET: Platform Event Trap
A protocol proposed by Microsoft, Cisco and RSA Security for Provides advance warning of possible system failures;
securely transporting authentication data, including passwords, generated by systems with Alert Standard Format (ASF) or an
over 802.11 wireless networks (Security) IPMI baseboard management controller (Hardware)
PEAR: Php Extension and Application Repository PET: Print Enhancement Technology
See http://pear.php.net (Software) (Compaq)
PEARL: Process and Experiment Automation PET: Progressive Educational Technology
Realtime Language
PEU: Pci Expansion Unit
PEBCAC: Problem Exists Between Chair and (Hardware)
Computer
Tech support types sometimes use this to explain to each other PEX: Phigs Extension to X
that the user is incompetent (Net lingo) A protocol for 3-D graphics in a network window system that
supports both PHIGS and PHIGS PLUS features
PEBCAK: Problem Exists Between Chair And
Keyboard PFA: Predictive Failure Analysis
Describes the location of many computer glitches (Net lingo) PFB: Printer Font Binary
File name extension

PFC PID
PFC: Power Factor Correction PHIGS: Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive

Feature included in some power supply boxes that reduces the Graphics Standard
amount of reactive power generated (Hardware) An international standard 3-D graphics library consisting of a
graphical tool set for application developers. PHIGS uses
PFC: Powerbuilder Foundation Class
hierarchical data structures. You can create, alter, manipulate,
(Software) (Sybase) and store objects dynamically
PFE: Programmer's File Editor PHIGS PLUS: Programmer's Hierarchical
PFM: Printer Font Metrics Interactive Graphics Standard Plus Lumiere Und
File name extension
Surfaces
An extension to PHIGS that includes additional capabilities,
PFN: Page Frame Number such as lighting from single and multiple sources, depth-
cueing, NURBS, and complex geometric primitives
PFPU: Processor Frame Power Unit
PHOLED: PHosphorescent Organic Light Emitting
PFR: Portable Font Resource
Diode
PFR: Power Fail Restart (Hardware)
PFS: Page Free Space PHP: Personal Home Pages
(Databases) Now is Perl Hypertext Preprocessor
PFS: Parallel File System PHP: Php: Hypertext Preprocessor
(Operating systems) Open-source general-purpose server-side scripting language
that is especially suited for Web development and can be
PFX: Personal inFormation eXchange
embedded into HTML. See also http://www.php.net/ (Software)
(Microsoft)
PHS: Personal Handphone System
PFY: Pimple Faced Youth
Young assistant to Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH) (Net PHY: PHisical laYer
lingo) PI: PHysical laYer
PGA: Pin Grid Array PIA: Peripheral Interface Adapter
IC pins organization (Hardware) (Hardware)
PGA: Professional Graphics Adapter PiB: PebIByte
(IBM) Unit of measurement, introduced by the International
PGA: Program Global Area Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), correspondig to 1024 TiB
Private memory area for program use (Oracle) PIBKAC: Problem Is Between Keyboard And Chair
PGA: Programmable Gate Array Typical cause of most computer errors (Net lingo)
(Hardware) PIC: Personal Information Carrier
PGC: Program Group Control PIC: Personal Intelligent Communicator
(Microsoft)
PIC: Point In Call
PGD: Planar Gas Discharge
PIC: Primary Interexchange Carrier
Display technology (Hardware)
(Communication) P
PGDN: PaGe DowN
PIC: Priority Interrupt Controller
PGL: Professional Graphics Language (Hardware)
PGM: Portable GrayMap PIC: Programmable Interrupt Controller
File format for images (Software) (Hardware)
PGM: Pragmatic General Multicast PICNIC: Problem In Chair Not In Computer
Reliable multicast transport protocol for applications that (Net lingo)
require ordered, duplicate-free, multicast data delivery from
multiple sources to multiple receivers (Network) PICO: PIne COmposer
Simple, command line Unix text editor (Software)
PGM: ProGraM
PICS: Platform for Internet Content Selection
PGML: Precision Graphics Markup Language
(Adobe) PICS: Plug-in Inventory Control System
PGP: Pretty Good Privacy PICS: Protocol Implementation Conformance
Encryption program (Software) Statement
PGP: ProGram Parameter PICS/DCPR: Protocol Implementation
File name extension (Autodesk) Conformance Statement/Detailed Continuing
Property Record
PGUP: PaGe UP
PICT: PICTure
PHB: Per-Hop-Behavior
The forwarding treatment given to a specific class of traffic, PID: Personal IDentifier
based on criteria defined in the Differentiated Service field. (Software)
Routers and switches use PHBs to determine priorities for
PID: Process IDentifier
servicing various traffic flows (Network)
A unique, system-wide, identification number assigned to a
PHB: Pointy Haired Boss process. Also called process ID, process number (Operating
Taken from the Dilbert comic strip (Net lingo) systems)
PHF: Perfect Hash Function PID: Product IDentifier

(Software) PID: Proportional, Integral, Derivative

PIDL PLA
PIDL: Personalized Information Description PIP: Picture In Picture

Language (Hardware)
PIE: Presence, Identity and Edge PIP: Problem Isolation Procedure
Core constituents of peer to peer (P2P) applications
PIP: Programmable Interconnect Point
PIER: Procedures for Internet/Enterprise
PIPE: Private Internet Protocol Encapsulation
Renumbering
Extension of RFC 2003 (IP Encapsulation within IP) which
PIF: Picture Interchange Format allows to encapsulate and decapsulate private IP addresses in
File name extension the same way as described in RFC 2003, and to transfer them
across the public Internet (also referred to as "tunneling" in
PIF: Program Information File RFC 2003) (Network)
PIPO: Parallel In, Parallel Out
PII: Pentium 2
PIR: Protocol Independent Routing
(Hardware) (Intel)
PIR: Public Interest Registry
PII: Personally Identifiable Information
Registry for the .org domain name extension (Organizations)
(Security)
PIT: Point In Time
PII: Program Integrated Information
PIT: Programmable Interval Timer
PIII: Pentium 3
(Hardware)
(Hardware) (Intel)
PITA: Pain In The A**
PIIX: Pci Ide/Isa Accelerator
(Net lingo)
PILOT: Programmed Inquiry Learning Or Teaching
PITB: Pain In The Butt
PIM: Personal Information Manager (Net lingo)
PIM: Platform Independent Model PIU: Path Information Unit
PIM: Primary Interface Module PIX: Private Internet eXchange
PIM: Print Image Matching Popular IP firewall and network address translation (NAT)
appliance. It was one of the first products in this market
(Hardware) segment (Hardware) (Cisco)
PIM: Protocol Independent Multicast PJL: Printer Job Language
IP routing protocol-independent and can leverage whichever (Hardware) (HP)
unicast routing protocols are used to populate the unicast
routing table, including EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, and static routes PJPEG: Progressive Joint Photographic Experts
(Network) Group
PIM-DM: Protocol Independent Multicast-Dense Compressed images file format
Mode P-JPEG: Progressive Joint Photographic Experts
Uses a push model to flood multicast traffic to every corner of Group
the network (Network) Compressed images file format
P PIMPL: Pissing In My Pants Laughing PK: Primary Key
(Net lingo) (Databases)
PIM-SM: Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse PKC: Public Key Cryptography
Mode
Uses a pull model to deliver multicast traffic. Only network PKCS: Public Key Cryptography Standard
segments with active receivers that have explicitly requested PKE: Private Key Encryption
the data will receive the traffic (Network)
PKI: Public Key Infrastructure
PIN: Personal Identification Number
(Security)
PIN: Positive Intrinsic Negative
PKIX: Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509)
PIN: Process Identification Number A working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
that is developing Internet standards needed to support a PKI
PIN: Processor Independent Netware
based on X.509 certificates
PINE: Pine Is Not Elm PKM: Personal Knowledge Management
PING: Packet INternet Groper PL: Perl Language
(Network)
File name extension
PINX: Private Integrated services Network PL/1: Programming Language/1
eXchange
(Communication)
PL/IP: Parallel Line Internet Protocol
PIO: Parallel Input/Output
PL/M: Programming Language for
PIO: Processor Input/Output Microcomputers
PIO: Programmable Input/Output (Microsoft)
(Hardware) PL/SQL: Procedural Language/Structured Query
PIP: Pattern and Information Processing Language
PIP: Periphal Interchange Program
PLA: Programmable Logic Array
PIP: Peripheral Interchange Program
An array of logic elements. Its interconnections are
PIP: Personal Information Processor programmable after manufacture (Hardware)

PLAF PMPL
PLAF: Pluggable Look And Feel PLV: Production Level Video

(Software)
PM: Performance Monitoring
PLATO: Programmed Logic for Automatic
PM: Peripheral Module
Teaching Operations
PM: Phase Modulation
PLB: Picture Level Benchmark
In computer graphics, an industry-standard benchmark method PM: Power Management
used to measure graphics performance (Hardware)
PLBCAK: Problem Lies Between Chair And PM: Presentation Manager
Keyboard
PM: Preventative Maintenance
Describes the location of many computer glitches (Net lingo)
PM: Private Message
PLBKC: Problem Lies Between Keyboard and Chair
(Net lingo)
A Useless User (Net lingo)
PM: Process Manager
PLBSI: Picture Level Benchmark Sample
Implementation PM: Programming Model
PLC: PowerLine Communication
Technology that uses the power lines to connecto to the PM/X: Presentation Manager for X
Internet (Network)
PM6: PageMaker 6
PLC: Programmable Logic Controller Filename extension (Adobe)
(Hardware)
PMA: Photo Marketing Association
PLCC: Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier (Organizations)
(Hardware)
PMA: Physical Medium Attachment
PLCC: Plastic Leadless Chip Carrier (Network)
PLCP: Physical Layer Convergence Procedure PMA: Program Memory Area
PLD: Programmable Logic Device PMAC: Peripheral Module Access Controller
(Hardware)
PMC: Pci Mezzanine Card
PLDI: Programming Language Design and (Hardware)
Implementation
PMC: Project Management Committee
PLDS: Pilot Land Data System (Software)
(NASA)
PMD: Packet Mode Data
PLE: Programmable Logic Element
PMD: Physical Media Dependence
(Hardware)
(Network)
pLED: Polymeric Light Emitting Diode
PME: Power Management Event
(Hardware)
Feature that allows most LAN devices to wake up from standby
PLF: Pluggable Look and Feel states (S1 or S3) (Hardware) P
(Software) PMFJI: Pardon Me For Jumping In
PLIP: Parallel Line Internet Protocol (Net lingo)
(Communication)
PMI: Protected Mode Interface
PLL: Phase-Locked Loop PML: Pattern Markup Language
PLL: PreLinked Library XML-based format to describe software patterns. A pattern
File name extension represents a recurring solution to a software development
problem within a particular context (Software)
PL-LCD: PhotoLuminescent Liquid Cristal Display
(Hardware)
PML: Personal Mailing List
PLM: Product Lifecycle Management PMM: Post Memory Manager

A mechanism used by option ROMs to allocate RAM memory for
It's the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product
use during system startup (Hardware)
from its conception, through design and manufacture, to
service and disposal.It is one of the four cornerstones of a PMML: Predictive Modeling Markup Language
corporation's information technology structure
PMMU: Paged Memory Management Unit
PLMN: Public Land Mobile Network
(Hardware)
(Communication)
PMOS: Positive Channel Metal Oxide
PLO: Phase Locked Oscillator Semiconductor
(Hardware)
PMP: Performance Management Pack
PLOS: Parent Looking Over Shoulder (Operating systems) (HP)
(Net lingo)
PMP: Point to MultiPoint
PL-OU: PhotoLuminescent Liquid Crystal Display
PMP: Portable Music Player
PLS: PhysicaL Signaling (Hardware)
PLS: PLeaSe PMP: Preventive Maintenance Package
(Net lingo)
PMPL: Pi**ing My Pants Laughing
PLS: Primary Link Station (Net lingo)
PLU: Primary Logical Unit

PMR POR
PMR: Perpendicular Magnetic Recording POD: Plain Old Dos

How a hard drive records data: magnetic elements are aligned
POD: Power On Display
vertically, as opposed to longitudinally on older drives
(Hardware) POD: Problem Of the Day
PMR: Problem Management Report Today's current difficulty with software (or hardware)
(IBM) POD: Proof of Deposit
PMS: Pantone Matching System Software system used by financial institutions to verify teller
transactions. Usually consists of reader/sorter control software,
A spot color matching system used by printers. By specifying a
reject-reentry system, and reporting systems (Software)
Pantone name or number you are assured of having a known
spot color in the printed page POD: Publishing On Demand
PMS: Policy Management System PODP: Pentium OverDrive Processor
PMT: PhotoMultiuplier Tube An upgrade processor for the 486 systems intended to emulate
a Pentium (586) (Hardware) (Intel)
Scanning sensor (Hardware)
POE: Power Open Environment
PMU: PhotoMultiplier Tube
POE: Power Over Ethernet
PN: Processing Node
(Hardware)
PNA: Phoneline Networking Alliance
POEP: Primary Operand Execution Pipeline
(Organizations)
POF: Plastic Optic Fiber
PNA: Programmable Network Access
POH: Path OverHead
PNA: Progressive Networks Audio
A proprietary protocol for backward compatibility with POH: Power-On Hours
RealSystem versions 3 through 5. URLs using PNA start with
pnm:// POI: Path Overhead Indicator
PNC: Planet NetCom POI: Point Of Information

Australian internet service provider POI: Point Of Interaction
PNC: Prestige Network Commander POI: Point Of Interest
(Software) (Zyxel)
POIX: Point Of Interest eXchange
PnD: Plug aNd Display
POJO: Plain Old Java Object
(Hardware)
Term coined to denote a normal Java object that is not a
PNG: Portable Network Graphics JavaBean, an EntityBean, a SessionBean, etc., and does not
File format for graphics network transmission serve any other special role or implement any special
interfaces of any of the Java frameworks (EJB, JDBC, ...)
PNI: Prescott New Instructions (Software)
Processor core extenstion code which serves to improve thread
POL: Problem-Oriented Language
synchronization (Hardware) (Intel)
POM: Project Object Model
PNNI: Private Network to Network Interface
P PNNI: Public Network Node Interface
(Software)
PON: Purchase Order Number
PnP: Plug aNd Play
POOL: Parallel Object Oriented Language
PNRP: Peer Name Resolution Protocol
POOP: Parallel Object Oriented Programming
Secure, scalable, and dynamic name registration and name
resolution protocol first developed for Windows XP and then Programming for parallel processors in any object-oriented
upgraded in Windows Vista (Network) (Microsoft) programming language (Software)
PNS: PeaceNet Sweden POP: Package for Online Programming
PNS: Perceptual Noise Substitution POP: Picture on Picture

(Hardware)
PNW: Personal NetWare
POP: Point Of Presence
PO: Parity Odd
(Network)
PO: Purchase Order POP: Post Office Protocol
POA: Portable Object Adapter A standard protocol used for retrieving e-mail from a mail
server (Network)
POA: PostOfiice Agent
(Novell) POP: Power-On Password
(Security)
POC: Point Of Contact
POP2: Post Office Protocol 2
POC: Proof Of Concept
(Network)
POC: Protected Output Controller
POP3: Post Office Protocol 3
(Hardware)
(Network)
POCM: Portal Object Component Model
POPA: POP All registers
POCSAG: Post Office Code Standardization
POPF: POP Flags
Advisory Group
Synchronous digital paging scheme (Communication) POPL: Principles of Programming Languages
POD: Piece Of Data POR: Plan Of Record
POD: Plain Old Documentation POR: Point Of Return

POR PPS
POR: Power-On-Reset PPD: PostScript Printer Description

File name extension
POS: Packet Over Sonet
(Network) PPDS: Personal Printer Data Stream
(IBM)
POS: Parent Over Shoulder
PPGA: Plastic Pin Grid Array
POS: Persistent Object Server
IC pins organization
POS: Pick Operating System
ppi: Pixels Per Inch
Old operating system (Operating systems)
POS: Piece Of S**t PPI: Precise Pixel Interpolation
(Net lingo) PPI: Programmable Peripheral Interface
POS: Point Of Sale PPID: Parent Process IDentifier
(Hardware)
PPIT: Perpetual Point-In-Time
POS: POSitive (Fujitsu)
POS: Programmable Option Select PPL: Pcboard Programming Language
POSE: PalmOS Emulator PPL: PeoPLe
(Net lingo)
POSE: Picture-Oriented Software Engineering
PPL: Polymorphic Programming Language
POSH: Plain Old Semantic Html
POSH encapsulates the best practices of using semantic HTML ppm: Pages Per Minute
to author web pages. Semantic HTML is the subset of HTML Printing engine speed (Hardware)
4.01 (or XHTML 1.0) elements and attributes that are semantic
rather than presentational (Software) PPM: Perl Package Manager
(Software)
POSI: Promoting conference for Open System
Interconnect PPM: Portable PixelMap
File format for images (Software)
POSIX: Portable Operating System Interface
A set of standards that define the applications interface to basic PPM: Processor Power Module
system services for input/output, file system access, and (Hardware)
process management. It uses the C programming language,
which establishes standard semantics and syntax (Operating PPM: Pulse Position Modulation
systems)
PPML: Personalized Print Markup Language
POST: Power On Self Test Printer Language
Personal computer boot test
PPN: Project Programmer Number
POSTNET: POSTal Numeric Encoding Technique
P-POP: Plain-Paper Optimized Printing
Bar code
(Hardware) (Canon)
POSYBL: PrOgramming SYstem for distriButed
PPP: Point to Point Protocol
appLications
POTS: Plain Old Telephone Service
An internet protocol for host dial up connections. PPP frames
(Service Data Units) can support the transport of various
P
Basic telephone service supplying standard single line (encapsulated) Protocol Data Units (Network)
telephones, telephone lines, and access to the Public Switched PPPoA: Point-to-Point Protocol Over Atm
Telephone Network (PSTN)
(Network)
POTS: Plain Old Time Sharing
PPPoATM: Point-to-Point Protocol Over
(Operating systems)
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
POV: Point Of View High-speed switching technique used to transmit high volumes
(Net lingo) of voice, data, and video traffic. ATM operates at speeds
ranging from 25 Mbps to 622 Mbps and is used mainly in
POWDER: PrOtocol for Web DEscription Resources telephone company backbone networks (Network)
POWER: Performance Optimization With PPPoE: Point to Point Protocol Over Ethernet
Enhanced Risc (Network)
(IBM)
PPPoI: Point to Point Protocol Over Isdn
PowerPC: Performance Optimization With (Network)
Enhanced Risc Performance Computing
PPPPPP: Proper Planning Prevents Piss-Poor
PP: Parallel Port Performance
PP: Physical Partition To plan ahead (Net lingo)
PP: Physical Plane PPRC: Peer to Peer Remote Copy

Data replication (Software) (IBM)
PPA: Personal Package Archive
Extra lines added into a configuration files to add repositories PPS: Packets Per Second
in Linux systems with package managers (Operating systems) (Network)
PPA: Pixel Processing Accelerator PPS: Per-Pixel Shading
(Hardware) PPS: Power Personal Systems
PPC: PowerPC (IBM)
PPC: Program to Program Communication PPS: Precision Positioning System

PPD: Partial Packet Discard PPS: Public Packet Switching
(Network)

PPT PSCNet
PPT: PowerPoinT PRML: Partial-Response Maximum-Likelihood

File format for slide presentations (Microsoft)
PRN: Printer
PPTP: Point to Point Tunneling Protocol
PRNG: Pseudo-Random Number Generator
A system designed to help create Virtual Private Networks over
the Internet and protect the data sent over public wires PRO: PROfile
(Network) File name extension
PPVPN: Provider Provisioned Virtual Private PROC: PROCedure
Network
PROCFS: PROCess FIle System
(Network)
A type of file system that resides in memory. The PROCFS
PQ: PowerQuest contains a list of active processes, by process number, in the
Manufacturer /proc directory. Information in the /proc directory is used by
commands such as ps (Operating systems)
PQA: Palm Query Application
PROFS: PRofessional OFfice System
PQFP: Plastic Quad Flat Package (IBM)
PQO: Parallel Query Option PROG: PROGram
PQS: Persistent Query Service PROGID: PROGrammatic IDentifier
(Software) (Microsoft) (Software)
PR: Packet Radio PROLOG: PROgramming in LOGic
PR: Performance Rating Programming language (Software)
(Hardware) PROM: Programmable Read Only Memory
PR: Public Relations A permanent memory chip programmed by the user rather than
at the chip manufacturer, as is true with a ROM. You need a
PRACSA: Public Remote Access Computer PROM programmer or burner to write data onto a PROM
Standards Association (Hardware)
PRAM: Parallel Random-Access Machine PROMATS: PROgrammable MAgnetic Tape System
PRAM: Parameter Random Access Memory PROTEL: Procedure Oriented Type Enforcing
Language
P-RAM: Parameter Random Access Memory
PRS: Protective Relay System
PRC: Pilot Resource
(Hardware)
File name extension (3Com)
PRTSC: PRinT SCreen
PRC: Primary Reference Clock
Clock used in synchronous networks like SONET and SDH PS: Personal Services
(Communication) Office automation integrated programs (Software)
PRCS: Project Revision Control System PS: Pixel Shader
Front end to a set of tools that (like CVS) provide a way to deal (Software) (Microsoft)
with sets of files and directories as an entity, preserving
P coherent versions of the entire set (Software) PS: PlayStation
Game console (Hardware) (Sony)
PRD: PRinter Driver
File name extension PS: PostScript
File format for graphic printers
PReP: Powerpc REference Platform
PS: Power Supply
PREPNet: Pennsylvania Research and Economic
(Hardware)
Partnership NETwork
PS: Presentation Service
PRF: PReFerences
File name extension PS: Privilege Service
PRF: Problem Report Form PS: Proportional Spacing
PRF: Pulse Repetition Frequency PS/2: Personal System 2
IBM personal computer family (Hardware) (IBM)
PRI: Primary Rate Interface
An ISDN standard, similar to basic rate interface (BRI), defined PS2: PlayStation 2
by CCITT protocol, but providing multiple B channels (23 or Game console (Hardware) (Sony)
30) supported by a single D channel (Communication)
PSAP: Presentation Service Access Point
PRIDE: PRofitable Information by DEsign (Network)
PRISM: Parallel Reduced Instruction Set PSAPI: Presentation Space Application
Multiprocessing Programming Interface
PRISM: PhotoRefractive Information Storage PSC: Personal Super Computer
Materials
(Hardware) PSC: Primary Site Controller
PRJ: PRoJect
File name extension (Borland) PSC: Print Server Command
PRM: Partner Relationship Management PSC: Product Service Center
PRM: Private Mobile Radio PSCNet: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

NETwork
PRMD: PRivate Management Domain

PSD PTZ
PSD: PhotoShop Drawing PSRAM: PseudoStatic Random Access Memory

File name extension. Used by Photoshop and other Adobe (Hardware)
programs (Software) (Adobe)
P-SRAM: Pseudo-Static Random Access Memory
PSD: Postal Security Device
PSRG: Privacy and Security Research Group
(Hardware)
PSRT: PostScript Round Table
PSD: Programmer's Supplementary Documents
PSS: Packet Switch Services
PSDC: Public Switched Digital Capability
PSS: Print SubSystem
PSDN: Packet-Switched Data Network
Software for IBM mainframes that provides an AFP and line
(Network)
data printing solution using PCL and PostScript printers
PSDS: Packet-Switched Data Service (Software)
(Communication) PSS: Process Status Structure
PSE: Packet Switch Exchange PSS: Product Support Service
PSE: Persistent Storage Engine PSSP: Parallel System Support Program
(Databases) (Operating systems) (IBM)
PSE: Port Switched Ethernet PST: Pacific Standard Time
PSF: Permanent Swap File Timezone: GMT -8:00
PSF: Print Services Facility PST: Pakistan Standard Time

Timezone: GMT +5:00
PSfD: Premier Support For Developers
(Microsoft) PST: Public Switched Telephone
PSID: PostScript Image Data PSTN: Public Switched Telephone Network

Usually refers to the local telephone company
PSIU: Packet Switch Interface Unit
PSU: Power Supply Unit
PSK: Phase-Shift Keying
(Communication) PSU: Program Storage Unit
PSL: Problem Statement Language PSW: Program Status Word
PSL: Public Software Library PT: Page Table
PSM: Persistent Storage Manager PT: Payload Type

PSM: Persistent Stored Module PTD: Parallel Transfer Disk

(Databases) PTE: Page Table Entry
PSM: Personal Security Manager PTE: Path Terminating Equipment
Set of libraries that perform cryptographic operations on behalf
of a client application. These operations include setting up an PTF: Print To Fax
SSL connection, object signing and signature verification, Fax driver for Lotus Domino Fax Server (Software) P
certificate management, and other common PKI functions
PTF: Program Temporary Fix
PSM: Personal Software Marketing (IBM)
PSM: Platform Specific Model PTI: Packet Type Identifier
PSM: Printing Systems Manager PTMC: Pci Telecom Mezzanine Card
PSMG: Play Streaming Media Group (Hardware)
(Organizations) PTML: Proxicom Template Markup Language
PSN: Packet Switching Network PtMP: Point-To-MultiPoint
A node in the ARPANET and MILNET, formerly called an (Communication)
interface message processor (IMP) (Network)
PTOCA: Presentation Text Object Content
PSN: Processor Serial Number Architecture
(Hardware)
PtP: Point-To-Point
PSO: Personal Service Organization (Communication)
PSP: PaintShop Pro PTR: Point-in-Time Repair
(Software) Backup disaster recovery procedure (Software)
PSP: Personal Software Product PTT: Postal Telegraph and Telephone
(IBM) (Organizations)
PSP: PlayStation Portable PTT: Push To Talk
Game console (Hardware) (Sony) Functionality in the group communication terminal device. You
PSP: Preventive Service Planning have to push PTT-button to get the permission for transmission
(Communication)
(IBM)
PTW: Primary Translation Word
PSP: Program Segment Prefix
PTY: Pseudo-Terminal driver
PSPDN: Packet-Switched Public Data Network
PTZ: Pan Tilt Zoom
PSR: PowerSoft Report
Video camera controls (Hardware)

PU QDI
PU: Physical Unit PWM: Pulse-Width Modulation

PUB: PUBlic PWP: Personal Web Pages
(Microsoft)
PUC: Peripheral Unit Controller
PWPN: PowWow for Private Networks
PUC: Public Utilities Commission
Instant messaging program (Software)
PUCP: Physical Unit Control Point
PWR: PoWeR
PUMA: Protected User Mode Audio
PWS: Peer Web Services
Together with UMA, is an engine in the Windows Vista
Protected Environment that provides a safer environment for (Network) (Microsoft)
audio playback, as well as checking that the enabled outputs PWS: Personal Web Server
are consistent with what the content allows (Operating
systems) (Microsoft) (Network)
PUN: Physical Unit Number PWS: Programmable WorkStation

(Hardware)
PUP: Parc Universal Packet
Protocol
PWSCS: Programmable WorkStation
Communication Services
PUP: Potentially Unwanted Program (IBM)
PUPs include spyware, adware, and dialers, and are often
downloaded in conjunction with a program that the user wants PX: Primary indeX
(Security) (Borland)
PURL: Persistent Uniform Resource Locator PXE: Preboot eXecution Environment

Instead of pointing directly to the location of an Internet Provides a way for a system to initiate a network connection to
resource, a PURL points to an intermediate resolution service. various servers prior to loading an Operating System (OS)
The PURL resolution service associates the PURL with the
actual URL and returns that URL to the client.
Q
PUS: Processor Upgrade Socket
Q: Quotation
PUSHA: PUSH All registers HTML Tag
PUSHF: PUSH Flags Q&A: Questions & Answers
PV: Physical Volume Q/A: Questions and Answers
PVA: Personal Virtual Assistant QA: Quality Assurance
PVC: Permanent Virtual Circuit QAB: Quick As a Bunny
Dedicated end-to-end virtual circuit that is set up permanently Similar to ASAP but cuter (Net lingo)
in an ATM network (Network)
QAM: Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
PVC: PolyVinyl Chloride
(Communication)
PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine QAS: Quasi-Associated Signaling
P PVM: Pass-through Virtual Machine QAS: Quick Arbitration and Selection
(IBM) (Hardware)
Q PVM: Perc Virtual Machine QBE: Query By Example
(Operating systems)
(Databases)
PVP: Packet Video Protocol QBF: Query by Form
PVP: Parallel Vector Processing QBIC: Query By Image Content
PVP: Personal Video Player (Databases)
(Hardware) QC: Quality Control
PVP: Protected Video Path QC: Quantum Coprocessor
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
PVP-OPM: Protected Video Path - Output QC: Queued Component
Protection Management
Is a form of DRM expected to be implemented in Microsoft's QCDP: Quality Color Dithering Modus
Windows Vista (Hardware) QCIF: Quarter Common source Intermediate
PVP-UAB: Protected Video Path - User-Accessible Format
Bus A video format in which frames are 180 pixels wide and 144
Provides encryption of premium content as it passes over the pixels high (1/4 the size of the CIF format). Each pixel has its
user-accessible PCIe bus to discrete graphics cards (Hardware) own luminance value; however, blocks of 4 pixels share
chrominance values
PVR: Personal Video Recorder
QD: Querty/Dvorak
Stores video on a hard disk instead of a video tape (Hardware)
Keyboard layout
PVS: Parallel Visualization Server
QDA: Qualitative Data Analysis
PW: PassWord
QDF: Quicken Data File
PWB: Printed Wire Board File name extension (Software) (Intuit)
PWB: Programmer's WorkBench QDI: Quicken DIctionary
(Microsoft) File name extension (Software) (Intuit)
PWD: Print Working Directory

QDL RACF
QDL: Quadri Data Layer QPM: Quantitative Process Management

(Software)
QDMS: Quality Document Management System
QPSK: Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying
QDOS: Quick and Dirty Operating System
(Communication)
MS-DOS ancestor (Operating systems)
QRSL: Quad Rambus Signaling Level
QDR: Quad Data-Rate
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
QSA: Qt Script for Applications
QDT: Quicken DaTa
Multiplatform application-scripting toolkit based on Qt. See
File name extension (Intuit)
http://www.trolltech.com/ (Software)
QEA: Queued Event Architecture
QSAM: Queued Sequential Access Method
QEMM: Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager
QT: QuickTime
(Operating systems) (Quarterdeck)
File Format for movies (Apple)
QFA: Quick File Access
QTAM: Queued Teleprocessing Access Method
QFE: Quick Fix Engineering (IBM)
(Software)
QTC: QuickTime Conferencing
QFHD: Quad Full High Definition (Apple)
(Hardware)
QTD: Quarter To Date
QFP: Quad Flat Pack Time series function
QFP: Quicken Financial Planner QUARC: QUarterdeck's Antivirus Research Center
(Software) (Intuit) (Quarterdeck)
QFT: Quoted For Truth QUEL: QUEry Language
Internet slang, generally used on forums to express an
QUT: Queensland University of Technology
approval or a stance of agreement for something previously
said (Net lingo) An Australian university (Brisbane, Queensland) (Organizations)
QIC: Quality Information using Cycle time QVGA: Quarter Video Graphic Array
Video specification for a resolution of 320 X 240 pixels used by
QIC: Quarter-Inch Cartridge Pocket PCs (Hardware)
An industry-standard 1/4-inch magnetic tape cartridge used for
data backup or storage (Hardware) QXGA: Quad eXtended Graphics Array
Video specification for a resolution of 2048 X 1536 pixels
QIF: Quicken Interchange Format (Hardware)
File format for financial data (Software)
QKD: Quantum Key Distribution R
QL: Quantum Leap R&D: Research & Development
Name for an unsuccessful mid 1980's Sincliar Microcomputer
R.A.V.E.: Real Animated Vector Effects
based on the Motorola 68008 microprocessor.
QLI: Query Language Interpreter R/O: Read Only
QLLC: Qualified Logical Link Control R/T: Receive/Transmit

R/W: Read/Write
Q
QMF: Query Management Facility
(IBM) RA: Real Audio
File name extension
R
QMT: Quicken Memorized lisT
File name extension (Intuit) RA: Remote Assistance
QMU: Quarterly Maintenance Update (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(IBM) RA: Resource Adapter
(Software)
QNX: Quicken iNdeXes
File name extension (Intuit) RA: Return Authorization
QoS: Quality Of Service RAB: Raid Advisory Board
QoS can be characterized by several basic performance criteria, Industry organization of manufacturers and users of disk
including availability, response time and throughput, lost calls systems and related products whose mission is to educate
or transmissions due to network congestion, connection set-up users regarding all aspects of storage technology, and in
time, and speed of fault detection and correction (Network) particular, RAID technology. (Organizations)
QoSR: Qualiy Of Service Raouting RAC: Rambus Asic Cell
A dynamic routing protocol that has expanded its path- (Hardware)
selection criteria to include QoS parameters such as available
bandwidth, link and end-to-end path utilization, node resources RAC: Real Application Cluster
consumption, delay and latency, and induced jitter (Network) Multiple interconnected computers or servers that appear as if
they are one server to end users and applications (Databases)
QP: QuickPropagation (Oracle)
QPA: Quality Of Service Routing RAC: Remote Access Card
(Hardware) (Intel) (Hardware)
QPG: Quantum Phase Gate RACF: Resource Access Control Facility
QPL: Qualified Product List Provides improved security for an installation's data. RACF
protects your vital system resources and controls what users
can do on the operating system (Security) (IBM)

RACMan RCR
RACMan: Remote Automation Connection RARP: Reverse Address Resolution Protocol

MANager (Network)
(Network)
RAS: Random Access Storage
RAD: Rapid Access Disk
RAS: Reader Admission System
RAD: Rapid Application Development
RAS: Reliability, Availability, Serviceability
(Software)
RAS: Remote Access Service
RADAR: RAdio Detection And Ranging
(Network)
RADAR: Rights, Availabilities, Distribution
RAS: Row-Address Strobe
Analysis and Reporting
RASAPI: Remote Access Service Application
RADB: Routing Arbiter Data Base
RADIUS: Remote Authentication Dial-In User (Microsoft)
Service
RAT: Real Application Testing
RADSL: Rate Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line Database option used to capture, analyze, and replay database
(Communication) transactions in order to test workloads or upgrades with
minimal effort (Databases) (Oracle)
RAG: Row Address Generator
RAT: Register Alias Table
RAI: Rapid Application Integration
(Software) RAT: Remote Access Trojan
(Security)
RAID: Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or
Independent) Disks RATP: Reliable Asynchronous Transfer Protocol
(Hardware) RAVE: Rendering Acceleration Virtual Engine
RAIDb: Redundant Array of Inexpensive (Apple)
Databases RAW: Reconfigurable Architecture Workstation
(Databases)
RAWT: Remote Abstract Windows Toolkit
RAIS: Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Systems (Software) (Sun)
RAIT: Redundant Array of Independent Tapes RB: Right Button
(Hardware)
RBA: Relative Byte Address
RALU: Register-equipped Arithmetic Logic Unit
(Hardware)
RBBS: Remote Bulletin Board System
RAM: Random Access Memory RBCS: Remote Bar Code System

(Hardware) RBF: Random Block Filemanager
RAM: Real Audio Metafile RBH: Remote Bridge Hub
File name extension
RBL: Realtime Blackhole List
RAM: Rioport Audio Manager System for creating intentional network outages ("blackholes")
for the purpose of limiting the transport of known-to-be-
RAMAC: Raid Architecture with Multi-level unwanted mass e-mail. See http://mail-abuse.org/rbl/
Adaptive Cache
RBOC: Regional Bell Operating Company
RAMDAC: Random Access Memory Digital to
The local telephone company in each of the seven U.S. regions.
Analog Converter
R Chip on a video board that generates the analog video signals
(Communication)
(Hardware) RC: Release Candidate

Pre-release version of a program (Software)
RAMP: Remote Access Maintenance Protocol
(Network) RC: Resource Compiler
(Software)
RAMP: Risk Analysis and Management Program
RCA: Radio Corporation of America
RAN: Radio Access Network
(Organizations)
RAND: RANDom
RCA: Readers' Choice Award
RAND: Rural Area Network Design
RCC: Remote Cluster Controller
RAP: Rapid Application Prototyping
RCF: Reader's Comment Form
RAPI: Remote access Application Programming
RCI: Rectal Cranial Inversion
Interface
When someone has things a** backward (Net lingo)
RCL: Rotate Carry Left
RAPI: Rsvp Application Programming Interface
An RSVP-specific API that enables applications to interface RCP: Remote Control Panel
explicitly with an RSVP process (Network)
RCP: Remote CoPy
RAPS: Real Application on Parallel Systems
RCP: Restore Cursor Position
RAR: Resource Adapters aRchive
RCP: Rich Client Platform
RARE: Reseaux Associés pour la Recherche Minimal set of plug-ins needed to build a rich client application.
Européenne See also
The European Association of Research Networks. Now called http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Rich_Client_Platform
TERENA (Network) (Software)
RCR: Rotate Carry Right

RCS REM
RCS: Records Communications System RDL: Report Definition Language

XML-based industry standard used to define reports (Software)
RCS: Reference Color Space
(Software) RD-LAP: Radio Data Link Access Protocol
RCS: Revision Control System RDM: Reliably Delivered Message
Manages multiple revisions of files by automating the storage,
RDM: Remote Data Module
retrieval, logging, identification, and merging of revisions. It's
particularly useful for text that is revised frequently, such as RDM: Remote Deployment Manager
programs, documentation, graphics, papers, and form letters
(Software) (GNU) RDM: Remote Diagnostic Manager
(Operating systems) (Acer)
RCSS: Records Communications Switching System
RDM: Resource Description Message
RCTC: Rewritable Consumer Time Code
RDN: Relative Distinguished Name
RCW: Runtime Callable Wrapper
(Operating systems)
RDO: Remote Data Object
RD: Receive Data
(Hardware) RDOS: Real-time Disk Operating System
(Operating systems)
RD: Recursive Design
RDP: Rapid Deployment Pack
RD: Remote Desktop
(Operating systems) (HP)
RDP: Reliable Datagram Protocol
RD: Remove Directory
RDP: Remote Display (or Desktop) Protocol
RD: Rendezvous Point
Unlike source trees that have their root at the source, shared
trees use a single common root placed at some chosen point in RDR: Remote Data Recovery
the network. This shared root is called a RP (Network)
RDRAM: Rambus Dynamic Random Access
RDA: Remote Data Access Memory
RDAC: Redundant Disk Array Controller (Hardware)
Provides application-transparent protection for array controller RDS: Radio Digital System
and data path failures using a special-purpose daemon process
and kernel-resident I/O driver (Operating systems) RDS: Remote Data Service
(Databases)
RDAO: Remote Data Access Object
(Software) (Microsoft) RDSR: Receiver Data Service Request
RDB: Receive Data Buffer RDT: Radio Digital Terminal
RDB: Relational DataBase RDTO: Receive Data Transfer Offset
(Databases) (IBM)
RDB: Rigid Disk Block RDX: Realistic Display miXer

RDBMS: Relational DataBase Management System RE/TM: Rare Earth/Transition Metal
(Software) REC: RECorder
RDBMS-MIB: Relational DataBase Management File name extension
System - Management Information Base RECFM: RECord ForMat
RDC: Remote Data Control (Operating systems) (IBM) R
(Microsoft) RED: Random Early Detection
RDC: Ricoh Digital Camera A congestion-avoidance algorithm developed in the early 1990s
(Hardware) (Ricoh) built on the base-level TCP behavior of automatically slowing
transmissions when packet loss is detected (Network)
RDD: Replicable Database Driver
REF: REFerence
RDDL: Resource Directory Description Language
REG: REGister
XML-based language for describing a resource directory. A
resource directory provides a text description of some class of REGAL: Rigid Epoxy Glass Acrylic Laminate
resources and of other resources related to that class. It also
contains a directory of links to these related resources REGEX: REGular EXpression
(Software)
REGIS: REmote Graphics Instruction Set
RDE: Receive Data Enable
ReLaTe: REmote LAnguage TEaching
(Hardware)
RELAX: REgular LAnguage description for Xml
RDES: Remote Data Entry System
Uses XML syntax to express the structure relationships that are
RDF: Resource Definition Format present in a DTD, and adds the XML Datatype Schema
(Software) mechanisms, as well
RDF: Resource Description Framework RELML: Real Estate Listing Markup Language
(Netscape) RELSECT: RELative SECTor
RDI: Remote Defect Indicator REM: REMark
RDIMM: Registered Dual In-line Memory Module REM: REMote
(Hardware)
REM: Remote Equipment Module
RDL: Remote Digital Loopback
REM: Ring Error Monitor

REN RIME
REN: REName RGB: Red Green Blue

The color systems obtain their colors through a direct
REN: Ringer Equivalence Number
combination of red, green, and blue components. The range of
REP: REPeat colors that can be displayed depends on the number of bits
that have been assigned to each pixel (Hardware)
REPE: REPeat while Equal
RGC: Routing Group Connector
REPNE: REPeat while Not Equal (Microsoft)
REPNZ: REPeat while Not Zero RGMII: Reduced Gigabit Media Independent
REPZ: REPeat while Zero Interface
(Network)
REQ: REQuest
RGMP: Router-port Group Management Protocol
RES: Remote Execution Service
IP multicast constraining mechanism for router-only network
RES: RESet segments. RGMP must be enabled on the routers and on the
Layer 2 switches (Network)
RES: RESolution
RGSS: Rotated Grid Super-Sampling
RES: RESource (Hardware)
File name extension
RH: Request (or Response) Header
RES: Robots Exclusion Standard
Standard that allows web site administrators to indicate to
RHCE: Red Hat Certified Engineer
visiting robots which parts of their site should not be visited by Mid to advanced level certification for IT professionals who are
the robot able to install and configure Red Hat Linux, understand
limitations of hardware and configure basic networking and file
REST: REpresentational State Transfer systems
Style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia
systems such as the World Wide Web. The term was introduced
RHCT: Red Hat Certified Technician
in the doctoral dissertation in 2000 by Roy Fielding, one of the RHD: Removable Hard Drive
principal authors of the HTTP specification
(Hardware)
RET: Resolution Enhancement Technology
RHEL: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
(HP)
(Operating systems)
RET: RETurn
RHSBL: Right Hand Side Blacklist
RETR: RETRieve Similar to a DNSBL but it lists domain names rather than IP
addresses. The term comes from the "right-hand side" of an
REX: Relocatable EXecutable email address - the part after the @ sign - which clients look
REXEC: Remote EXECution up in the RHSBL
REXX: Restructured EXtended eXecutor RI: Reference Implementation

Programming language (IBM) (Software)
RF: Radio Frequency RI: Referential Integrity

(Communication) (Databases)
RFA: Resident Flash Array RI: Ring Indicator

RFC: Remote Function Call RIA: Rich Internet Application

(Software) Evolution of the web development and deployment model
R RFC: Request For Comments
(Software)
RIAA: Recording Industry Association of America
RFD: Request for Discussion (Organizations)
RFE: Request for Enhancement RIB: Routing Information Base
RFI: Radio Frequency Interference Stores the routes (and in some cases, metrics associated with
those routes) to particular network destinations. This
RFI: Request For Information information contains the topology of the network immediately
around it (Network)
RFID: Radio Frequency IDentification
RID: Record IDentifier
RFP: Request For Proposal
RID: Relative Identifier
RFQ: Request For Quotation
RFQ: Request For Quote
RIDE: Rapid Integrated Drive Electronics
RFS: Remote File Sharing (Hardware)
RFS: Remote File System RIFF: Resource Interchange File Format
(Operating systems) File name extension (Microsoft)
RFT: Revisable Form Text RIG: Related Interest Group
RFU: Reserved for Future Use RIM: Real-time Interaction Management
RG: Residential Gateway RIM: Remote Installation and Maintenance
RIM: Research In Motion
(Hardware)
RIME: Relaynet International Message Exchange

RIMM ROD
RIMM: Rambus Inline Memory Module RMC: Resource Monitoring and Control
(Hardware) This is the scalable, reliable backbone subsystem of RSCT. It
runs on a single machine or on each node (operating system
RIP: Raster-Image Processor image) of a cluster and provides a common abstraction for the
RIP: Remote Imaging Protocol resources of the individual system or the cluster of nodes
RIP: Routing Information Protocol
RMD: Required Markup Declaration
An Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) with Berkeley UNIX
(Network) RMDIR: ReMove DIRectory
RIPE: Reseaux Internet Protocol Européens RMI: Remote Messaging Interface
The European continental TCP/IP network operated by EUnet
(Network)
RMI: Remote Method Invocation
(Software)
RIPEM: Riordan's Internet Privacy Enhanced Mail
RMID: Resource Manager IDentifier
RIPES: Reconnaissance Imagery Processing &
Exploitation System RMM: Ring Management Module
RIPL: Remote Initial Program Load RMON: Remote MONitoring
RIPS: Raster Image Processing System RMON: Resident MONitor
RIPv2: Routing Information Protocol Version 2 RMP: Remote Maintenance Processor

Extension of the Routing Information Protocol (RIP). Its (IBM)
purpose is to expand the amount of useful information in the RMPC: Remote Management Control Protocol
RIP packets and to add security elements (Network)
RMS: Reason Maintenance System
RIR: Regional Internet Registry
(Network) RMS: Record Management System
(Operating systems) (DEC)
RIS: Remote Intallation Service
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) RMS: Root Mean Square
RISC: Reduced Instruction Set Computer RMSE: Root Mean Square Error
A computer architecture that uses fewer and less complex RMT: Raw Magnetic Tape
instructions than complex instruction set computing (CISC).
Some complex instructions performed by hardware in CISC RMT: Ring ManagemenT
computers are done by software in RISC computers (Hardware)
RMTP: Reliable Message Transport Protocol
RISLU: Remote Integrated Services Line Unit
RMW: Read, Modify, Write
RIT: Raw Input Thread
RN: Read News
(Microsoft)
RNA: Remote Network Access
RITA: Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting
Agent (Microsoft)
(Network) RNA: Ring No Answer
RJ: Registered Jack What you get when the modem you just called doesn't answer
(Communication)
Connector for phone and network cables (Hardware)
RNC: Radio Network Controller
RJE: Remote Job Entry
(Hardware)
(Network)
RND: RaNDom
RK: Resource Kit R
(Operating systems) RNG: Random Number Generator
RKRM: Rom Kernel Reference Manual RNI: Raw Native Interface
Native interface proposed by Microsoft (Software) (Microsoft)
RLD: Received Line Detect
RNOC: Regional Network Operations Center
RLE: Run Length Encoding
RNP: Regional Network Provider
RLL: Run Length Limited
Magnetic supports read/write technology (Hardware) RNR: Receive Not Ready
RLN: Remote Lan Node RNS: Run from Network Server
(Software)
RLP: Radio Link Protocol
RNUI: Remote Network User Identification
RLP: Resource Location Protocol
ROADM: Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop
RLSD: Received Line Signal Detected
Multiplexer
RLT: Remote Line Test A type of multiplexer used in optical networking (Hardware)
RM: Relay Module ROB: ReOrder Buffer
(Hardware) (Intel)
RM: Reset Mode ROC: Reconstruction Of Color
Film scanner technology
RM: Resource Management
ROD: Rewritable Optical Disk
RMA: Return Material Authorization
ROD: Rewriteable Optical Disk
RMB: Right Mouse Button
(Hardware)
RMC: Raptor Management Console
(Software) (Symantec)

ROFL RR
ROFL: Rolling On Floor Laughing ROTFLMAOASTC: Rolling On The Floor Laughing

(Net lingo) My A** Off And Scaring The Cat
(Net lingo)
ROFLKAS: Rolling On Floor Laughing, Kicking And
Screaming ROTFLMAOWTIME: Rolling On The Floor Laughing
(Net lingo) My A** Off With Tears In My Eyes
(Net lingo)
ROFLMAO: Rolling On Floor Laughing My A** Off
(Net lingo) ROTFLOL: Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud
(Net lingo)
ROFLMAOWTIME: Rolling On Floor Laughing My
A** Off With Tears In My Eyes ROTFLPMP: Rolling On The Floor Laughing,
(Net lingo) Peeing My Pants
(Net lingo)
ROFLMFAO: Rolling On Floor Laughing My
F***ing A** Off ROV: Real Option Valuation
(Net lingo)
ROX: Risc Os on X
ROFLMHO: Rolling On Floor Laughing My Head Off RISC-OS desktop environment clone for Unix/X-window
(Net lingo) (Operating systems)
ROFLOL: Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud RP: Relay Party
(Net lingo) RPC: Remote Procedure Call
ROFLOLBAG: Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Interprocess communication mechanism (Software)
Loud Busting A Gut RPCL: Remote Procedure Call Language
(Net lingo)
RPCS: Refined Printing Command Stream
ROI: Return On Investment (Hardware) (Ricoh)
ROL: ROtate Left RPF: Reverse Path Forwarding
ROLAP: Relational OnLine Analytical Processing Enables routers to correctly forward multicast traffic down the
distribution tree. It makes use of the existing unicast routing
ROM: Read Only Memory table to determine the upstream and downstream neighbors
ROM: Report Object Model RPG: Report Program Generator

Object model at the base of the Business Intelligence and Programming language (Software)
Reporting Tools (BIRT) (Software)
RPL: Remote Program Link
ROMB: Raid On MotherBoard
RPL: Remote Program Load
(Hardware)
Bootable network device protocol, developed and used mostly
ROOM: Real-time Object-Oriented Modeling by IBM
ROP: Raster OPeration RPL: Requested Privilege Level

The logical operations (called ANDs, ORs, NORs, and so on) RPL: Resident Programming Language
performed on portions of the bit planes—called bitmaps or
pixmaps—in the frame buffer. These operations perform RPM: Radio Packet Modem
fundamental movements and transfers of pixel data
RPM: Red-hat Package Manager
ROP: Remote OPeration (Operating systems)
ROP: Risc OPeration RPM: Remote Printer Management
R ROPE: Remote Object Proxy Engine (Network) (Novell)
ROPES: Rapid Object-oriented Process for rpm: Rounds (or Revolutions) Per Minute
Embedded Systems (Hardware)
(Operating systems) RPM: Route Processor Module
ROR: ROtate Right (Network) (Cisco)
ROS: Read-Only Storage RPN: Real Page Number

(IBM) RPN: Reverse Polish Notation
ROS: Return on Service RPPROM: ReProgrammable Programmable Read
ROSCOE: Remote Operating System Only Memory
Conversational Online Environment RPQ: Request for Price Quotation
ROSE: Remote Operations Service Element RPR: Relative Performance Rating
A lightweight RPC protocol used in ISO/OSI message handling,
directory, and network management application protocols RPSL: Routing Policy Specification Language
ROT: Rule Of Thumb RPT: RePeaT
ROT: Running Object Table RQBE: Relational Query By Example
ROTFL: Rolling On The Floor Laughing RQN: Real-Quick Newsletter

(Net lingo) FreeBSD newsletter (Operating systems)
ROTFLMAO: Rolling On The Floor Laughing My RR: Radio Resource

A** Off RR: Real Reality
(Net lingo)

RR RTB
RR: Register to Register RSIP: Realm Specific Internet Protocol

The class of CPU instructions (and assembler codes that go Like NAT, RSIP translates between public and private IP
with them) relating to only registers, not main memory (e.g." addresses. But instead of requiring a boundary router to
Add the contents of register A with register B, putting the translate, RSIP uses a simple protocol between a user's
result in register A") (Hardware) desktop PC and a boundary router to perform preparatory
signaling (Network)
RR: Resource Record
(Network) RSL: Request-and-Status Link
RR: Round Robin RSL: Resilient Server Link

Process or thread scheduling (Operating systems) RSM: Relational Storage Manager
RRAS: Routing Remote Access Service (Databases) (IBM)
(Network) RSM: Remote Session Manager
RRCM: Reservation Request Control Mechanism RSM: Remote Storage Management
RRDF: Remote Recovery Data Facility (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
RRDS: Relative Record Data Set RSM: Removable Storage Manager

RRIP: Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol
RSM: Route Switch Module
RRN: Relative Record Number
Basically a router on a card in the switch for routing between
RRP: Recommended Retail Price Virtual Local Area Networks (Network)
RRSHB: Resource Representation Soap Header RSN: Real Soon Now

Block (Net lingo)
RS: Radio Shack RSoP: Resultant Set Of Policies

RS: Recommended Standard
RSP: Required Space Character
RS: Record Separator
RS-PC: Reed Solomon Product Code
RS: Reed-Solomon
Reed-Solomon codes are block-based error correcting codes RSPX: Remote Sequenced Packet eXchange
with a wide range of applications in digital communications and
RSS: Really Simple Syndication
storage. Reed-Solomon codes are used to correct errors in
many systems (Communication) Is an XML-based, universal way for developers to describe their
sites and to make their content available to others (for
RS: Register Select example, for syndication)
(Hardware)
RSS: Receive-Side Scaling
RS: Registry Service The scheduling for processing networking I/O within the
context of an ISR is routed to the same processor (Hardware)
RS: Remote Scripting
Allows code in a client page to call functions in an ASP page RSS: Relay Spam Stopper
running on the server (Microsoft) Queryable DNS-based database of spam-relaying mail servers.
See http://work-rss.mail-abuse.org/rss/
RSA: Random Scheduling Algorithm
RSS: Rich Site Summary
RSA: Remote Supervisor Adapter
Synonym of Really Simple Syndication
PCI adapter which simplifies remote system management by
providing around-the-clock remote access to the server. The RST: ReSeT
RSA monitors the server and sends out alerts to designated
recipients via LAN, pager, email or SNMP if a failure is detected RST: ReSTart R
(Hardware) (IBM)
RSTS: Resource Sharing Time Sharing
RSA: Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (DEC)
RSAC: Recreational Software Advisory Council RSTS/E: Resource System Time
(Organizations) Sharing/Enhanced
RSACI: Recreational Software Advisory Council RSU: Recommended Service Upgrade
on the Internet IBM-recommended PTFs (Program Temporary Fix) supplied as
(Organizations) part of monthly z/OS service support (Software) (IBM)
RSAT: Remote Server Administration Tools RSVP: Resource reSerVation Protocol

(Operating systems) (Microsoft) An IETF standard which allows an end device and a network to
negotiate specific QoS characteristics (Network)
RSC: Remote System Control
(Hardware) (Sun)
RSX: Realistic Sound eXperience
RSCS: Remote Spooling Communications System RSX: Realtime resource Sharing eXecutive
RSCT: Reliable Scalable Cluster Technology RT: Real-Time

Set of software components, used for AIX and Linux, to provide RT: Risc Technology
clusters with improved system availability, scalability, and
ease of use (Software) (IBM) RT: Run Time
RSD: Route Server Daemon RT/DSS: Real-Time/Decision Support Service
RSH: Remote SHell RTAM: Remote Terminal Access Method
RSI: Repetitive Stress Injury RTB: Rich Text Box


RTC RVSA
RTC: Real-Time Clock RTRR: Real-Time Remote Replication

(Hardware) Provides real-time or scheduled data replication between the
local NAS and a remote NAS, an FTP server, or an external
RTC: Rich Thin Client drive (Hardware)
All about technologies for thin client with rich functionality and
widget set, as opposed to Html clients (Software) RTS: Real-Time Strategy
Type of game
RTCP: Real-Time Control Protocol
RTS: Real-Time System
RTDM: Real-Time Data Migration
RTS: Remote Takeover System
RTEL: Reverse TELnet
RTS: Request To Send
RTF: Real Time Fifo
Serial port signal (Communication)
RTF: Rich Text Format
RTS: Run Time System
File format for documents
RTSE: Reliable Transfer Service Element
RTFA: Read The F***ing Article
A lightweight ISO/OSI application service used above X.25
Used on news sites when someone makes an ill-informed networks to handshake application PDUs across the session
comment/reply (Net lingo) service and TP0 (Network)
RTFM: Read The F***ing Manual RTSJ: Real-Time Specification for Java
FAQ by beginner (Net lingo) (Software)
RTFM: Realtime Traffic Flow Measurement RTSP: Real Time Streaming Protocol
(Network) Application-level protocol for control over the delivery of data
RTG: Real Time Geometry with real-time properties (Network)
RTI: ReTurn from Interrupt RTT: Real-Time Technology

Refers to a technology that allows a user to receive data during
RTL: Raster Transfer Language the actual time that a physical process occurs, known as real
time. Real time is measured in milliseconds or microseconds
RTL: Register Transfer Language
RTTI: Run-Time Type Information
RTL: Resistor Transistor Logic
(Software)
RTL: Right-To-Left
RTTY: Radio TeleTYpewriter
RTL: Run Time Library
RTU: Real Time Unix
RTM: Release To Manufacturing
RTU: Right To Use
RTM: Response Time Monitor The Sun software licensing, usually included in the price of the
software (Sun)
RTM: RunTime Manager
(Borland) RTV: Real-Time Video
RTMP: Real Time Messaging Protocol RTX: Run Time eXtension
Proprietary protocol developed by Macromedia (now Adobe) for RU: Request (or Response) Unit
streaming audio, video and data over the Internet, between a
Flash player and a server (Adobe) RUN: Responsible Use of the Network
RTMP: Routing Table Maintenance Protocol RUN: Rewind/UNload
RTMPE: Real Time Messaging Protocol Encrypted (IBM)
Uses Adobe's own security mechanism. While the details of the RUP: Rational Unified Process
R implementation are proprietary, the mechanism uses industry (Software)
standard cryptography primitives
RUS: Recipient Update Service
RTMPS: Real Time Messaging Protocol Secure
Microsoft Exchange Mail Server Service that generates and
RTMP over a secure SSL connection using HTTPS updates email addresses seen in the Global Address List (GAL)
RTMPT: Real Time Messaging Protocol over hTtp (Software) (Microsoft)
RTMP encapsulated within HTTP requests to traverse firewalls. RUW: Remote Unit of Work
The encapsulated session may carry plain RTMP, RTMPS, or (IBM)
RTMPE packets within
RVA: Ramac Virtual Array
RTN: Recursive Transition Network
(Network) RVA: Relative Virtual Address
RTN: ReTurN RVA: RendezVous Agent
(Network)
RTN: Reuters Transaction Network
RVD: RendezVous Daemon
RTO: Return To Office
(Network)
(Net lingo)
RVI: ReVerse Interrupt
RTOS: Real Time Operating System
(Operating systems) RVLC: Reversible Variable Length Code
MPEG-4 Audio Error Resilience (ER) technique that reduces
RTP: Rapid Transport Protocol error propagation within scale factor data
RTP: Real-time Transport Protocol RVRAD: RendezVous Relay Agent Deamon
(Communication) (Network)
RTR: Real Time Replicator RVRD: RendezVous Routing Daemon
(Network) (Network)
RVSA: Remote Variant Selection Algorithm

RW SAM
RW: Read Write SABM: Set Asynchronous Balanced Mode

Device capability to read and write its media (Hardware) (Network)
RWM: Read-Write Memory SABME: Set Asynchronous Balanced Mode
Extended
RWP: Remote Write Protocol
in ISDN, is a TEI assignment (LAPD negotiation) (Network)
(Network)
SABRE: Semi-Automatic Business Research
RWU: Remote Wake Up
Environment
(Network)
SAC: Service Access Control
RX: Receive
The Service Access Facility (SAF) master program (Operating
RXD: Receive Data systems) (Sun)
(Hardware) SAC: Simple Api for Css
RZ: Return to Zero SAC: Single Attachment Concentrator
Return to Zero
SACD: Super Audio Compact Disk
(Hardware)
S
SACK: Selective ACKnowledge
FTPS: File Transfer Protocol over Ssl
(Communication)
S: Strike-through
SACL: System Access Control List
HTML Tag
An ACL that controls the generation of audit messages for
S.u.S.E.: Software Und SystemEntwicklung attempts to access a securable object. The ability to get or set
an object's SACL is controlled by a privilege typically held only
S/H: Sample/Hold by system administrators (Operating systems)
S/MIME: Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail SAD: Security Association Database
Extensions In each IPsec implementation there is a nominal Security
An e-mail security standard that makes use of public key Association Database, in which each entry defines the
encryption (Security) parameters associated with one Security Association (Network)
S/N: Signal to Noise SAD: Streams Administrative Driver
S/PDIF: Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format A driver that provides an interface to the autopush mechanism
A standard for digital connection of consumer audio devices SADL: Structural Architecture Description
S/STP: Screened Shielded Twisted Pair Language
Intended for the definition of software architecture hierarchies
(Hardware)
that are to be analyzed formally (Software)
S/TK: Sectors per TracK
SADT: Structured Analysis and Design Techniques
S/UTP: Screened Unshielded Twisted Pair
SAF: Security Authentication Facility
(Hardware)
SAF: Service Access Facility
S1AS: Sun One Application Server
A tool provided with the SunOS 5.3 operating system that
(Sun) controls access to local and network system services, such as
S2S: Server To Server printers, modems, and terminals (Operating systems) (Sun)
(Software) SAFE: Security And Freedom through Encryption
SA: Security Association SAG: Sql Access Group
SA: Selective Availability SAGA: Simple Api for Grid Applications R
SA: Service Agent Open standard defined and maintained by the Open Grid Forum
SA: Software Assurance

(OGF) that describes an interface for high-level Grid application
programming (Software) S
Licensing scheme (Microsoft) SAIL: Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
SA: Source Address SAINT: Security Administrator's Integrated
SA: Structured Analysis Network Tool
SAA: Service Assurance Agent SAINT: Symbolic Automatic INTegrator
(Communication) SAL: Shift Arithmetic Left
SAA: Sql Access Advisor SAL: Spatial Aggregation Language
A tool that analyzes the SQL statement(s) for possible
performance enhancemnt. It's little different from STO in the SALT: Speech Application Language Tags
sense that some more recommendations like partitioning are Lightweight set of extensions to existing markup languages, in
provided here (Databases) (Oracle) particular HTML and XHTML that enable multimodal and
telephony access to information, applications and Web services
SAA: Systems Application Architecture from PCs, telephones, tablet PCs and wireless personal digital
SAAJ: Soap with Attachments Api for Java assistants
Enables developers to produce and consume messages SAM: Scsi-3 Architecture Model
conforming to the SOAP 1.1 specification and SOAP with
Attachments note (Software) (Sun) SAM: Security Accounts Manager
SAAL: Signaling Atm Adaptation Layer
(Communication) SAM: Sequential Access Method
SaaS: Software As A Service SAM: Serial Access Memory

SAM SBI
SAM: Single Application Mode SAS: Secure Attention Sequence

(Microsoft) A key sequence that begins the process of logging on or off.
The default sequence is CTRL+ALT+DEL (Operating systems)
SAM: Storage Area Management (Microsoft)
SAM: System Administration Module SAS: Serial Attached Scsi
(Operating systems) Storage connection technology (Hardware)
SAMI: Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange SAS: Server Attached Storage
SAML: Security Assertion Markup Language (Hardware)
SAN: Storage Area Network SAS: Single Attached Station

SAN: System Area Network SAS: Single Audio System
(Network) SAS: Statistical Analysis System
SANE: Standard Apple Numeric Environment SASI: Sughart Associates System Interface
(Apple) Old hard disk bus (Hardware)
SANE: System Administration and Network SASL: Simple Authentication and Security Layer
Engineering
SAT: Sim Application Toolkit
SANITI: Storage Area Network Integrated Normally terminal device commands the Subscriber Identity
Technology Initiative Module (SIM). Terminal device supporting SAT feature gives
SANS: System Administration, Networking and for SIM a feature to command terminal device (Communication)
Security institute SATA: Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
Organization that develops, maintains, and makes available at Peripheral bus architecture (Hardware)
no cost, the largest collection of research documents about
various aspects of information security, and it operates the SATAN: System Administration Tool for Analyzing
Internet's early warning system - Internet Storm Center. Networks
(Organizations) (Network)
SAO: Sector-At-Once SATF: Shared Access Transport Facility
CD recording methodology (Hardware)
SAV: Symantec AntiVirus
SAP: Second Audio Program Previously called Norton AntiVirus (NAV) (Software) (Symantec)
SAP: Secure Audio Path SAVDM: Single Application Virtual Dos Machine
SAP: Service Access Point SAX: Simple Api for Xml
The point at which the services of an OSI layer are made
available to the next higher layer. The SAP is named according
SB: Small Business
to the layer providing the services (Network) SB: Sound Blaster
SAP: Service Advertising Protocol (Creative Labs)
(Network) SB: Sound Board
SAP: Session Announcement Protocol SBA: Scene Balance Algorithm
(Communication) (Kodak)
SAP: Symbolic Assembly Program SBA: Service-Based Architecture
SAP: Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der SBAS: Satellite-Based Augmentation System
datenverarbeitung
A german company that produces the leading suite of client-
SBB: Subtract With Borrow
server business software ("Systems, Applications and Products SBC: Scsi Block Commands
in data processing").
S SAPI: Speech Application Programming Interface
SBC: Session Border Controller
An appliance that simplifies handling of VoIP at the border of a
(Software) (Microsoft) network (Communication)
SAPR: Systems Assurance Product Review SBC: Single-Board Computer
(IBM) (Hardware)
SAR: Segmentation And Reassembly SBCCS: Single Byte Command Code Set
The process of breaking packets into ATM cells and
reassembling cells back into data packets (Communication) SBCM: Small Business Customer Manager
(Microsoft)
SAR: Shift Arithmetic Right
SBCR: Smart Business Card Reader
SAR: Specific Absorbtion Rate
(Hardware)
SAR: Store Address Register
SBCS: Single-Byte Character Set
SAR: Successive Approximation Register
SBD: Same Business Day
SAR: Synthetic Aperture Radar Term defining when a service has to be delivered
SARC: Symantec's Antivirus Research Center SBF: Sequential Block Filemanager
(Symantec)
SBF: Simple Boot Flag
SARG: Search ARGument (Operating systems)
SBFM: Small Business Financial Manager
SAS: Sales Accounting System (Software) (Microsoft)
SBI: Sound Blaster Instrument

SBI SCI
SBI: Speaker Box Interface SCB: Subsystem Control Block

An interface that integrates audio capability with ISDN on the (IBM)
Sun workstation (Hardware) (Sun)
SCBCD: Sun Certified Business Component
SBL: Softbridge Basic Language Developer
(Software) (Software) (Sun)
SBL: Spamhaus Block List SCC: Scsi Controller Commands
Realtime database of IP addresses of verified spam sources
and spam operations, maintained by the Spamhaus Project
SCC: Serial Communications Controllers
team and supplied as a free service to help email SCC: Serial Controller Chip
administrators better manage incoming email streams. See
http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/ SCC: Source Code Control
(Software)
SBM: Small Business Manager
(Software) (Microsoft) SCC: Standards Council of Canada
(Organizations)
SBM: Subnet Bandwidth Manager
An IETF proposed standard for handling resource reservations SCC: SuperComputer Center
on shared and switched IEEE 802-style local-area media
(Network) SCC: Sustainable Computing Consortium
(Organizations)
SBN: Site Builder Network
(Microsoft) SCC: Synchronous Channel Check
(IBM)
SBP: Serial Bus Protocol
(Hardware) SCCI: Source Code Control Interface
(Software)
SBR: Source BRowser
File name extension (Borland) SCCM: System Center Configuration Manager
Solution to comprehensively assess, deploy, and update your
SBR: Spectral Band Replication servers, clients, and devicesâ??across physical, virtual,
Technology to enhance audio or speech codecs, especially at distributed, and mobile environments (Microsoft)
low bit rates
SCCP: Signaling Connection Control Part
SBS: Small Business Server
SCCP: Simple Conference Control Protocol
SCCS: Source Code Control System
SBS: Small Business Suite
A software development tool for tracking file versions during a
(Software) (Novell)
long, involved software development or documentation project
SBS: Smart Battery Specification (Software)
(Hardware) SCD: Service Control Device
SC: Servlet Container (Communication)
(Software) SCD: Slowly Changing Dimension
SC: Smart Card SCD: Sparc Compliance Definition
(Hardware) A formal specification of the system hardware and software to
SC: System Clock be met by manufacturers of SPARC systems to ensure that
those systems run compliant applications (Sun)
(Hardware)
SCD: Standard Color Display
SC: System Controller
(Hardware) SCDJWS: Sun Certified Developer for Java Web
Services
SCA: Scalable Computing Architecture
(Software) (Sun)
SCA: Shared Communications Area
SCDMA: Synchronous Code-Division Multiple S
SCA: Single Connector Attachment Access
(Hardware) SCE: Security Configuration Editor
SCADA: Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
Systems used in industry to monitor and control plant status SCE: Service Creation Environment
and provide logging facilities
SCE: Sniffer Certified Expert
SCAF: Service Control Agent Function
Certification for network professionals who can demonstrate an
SCAM: Scsi Configured AutoMatically in-depth understanding of Sniffer Technologies software
SCAN: Single Client Access Name SCE: Structure Chart Editor
New Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 11g Release 2 SCEA: Sun Certified Enterprise Architect
feature that provides a single name for clients to access an
Oracle Database running in a cluster. The benefit is clients (Software) (Sun)
using SCAN do not need to change if you add or remove nodes SCEF: Service Creation Environment Function
in the cluster (Databases) (Oracle)
SCF: Sequential Character Filemanager
SCART: Syndicat des Constructeurs d'Appareils
Radiorécepteurs et Téléviseurs SCF: Service Control Function
A socket standard used in Europe, named after its creator SCF: System Control Facility
company, to connect many kinds of audiovisual equipment -
sometimes also called the Peritel or Euro connector (Hardware) SCI: Scalable Coherent Interface
SCAS: SCAn String SCI: Serial Communication Interface
(Hardware)

SCI SD
SCI: Supply Chain Intelligence SCP: Sun Certified Programmer

(Sun)
SCI: System Control Interrupt
SCP: Sunlink Communications Processor
SCIL: Serial Control Interface Logic
A printed circuit board that enables multi-vendor connection
(Hardware)
with either synchronous or asynchronous operation. The SCP
SCJA: Sun Certified Java Associate works with SNA 3270 and X.25 SunLink software products
(Software) (Sun) (Hardware) (Sun)
SCJD: Sun Certified Java Developer SCP: System Control Program

(Software) (Sun) SCPC: Single Channel Per Carrier
SCJP: Sun Certified Java Programmer SCQL: Structured Card Query Language
(Sun) (Databases)
SCL: Soap Contract Language SCR: SCRipt
Specification to describe the capabilities of Web services File name extension
SCLM: Software Configuration and Library SCR: Silicon Controlled Rectifier
Management
SCR: Standard Context Routing
(IBM)
SCR: Sustainable Cell Rate
SCM: Scalable Connection Management
SCRAM: Software Configuration, Release And
SCM: Service Control Manager
Management
SCRN: SCReeN
SCM: Sniffer Certified Master
SCRS: Scalable Cluster of Risc Systems
SCM: Software Configuration Management
(Software) SCS: Sna Character String
SCM: Source Code Management SCSA: Signal Computing System Architecture
(Software) (Dialogic)
SCM: Station Class Mark SCSA: Sun Certified System Administrator

(Sun)
SCM: Supply Chain Management
SCSA: Sun Common Scsi Architecture
SCMAD: Sun Certified Mobile Application
Developer SCSE: Symantec Certified Security Engineer
(Software) (Sun) Certification is for IT professionals who focus on a single
security segment and the implementation and in depth
SCMS: Serial Copy Management System management of solutions in that segment (Symantec)
SCN: System Change Number SCSI: Small Computers System Interface
The SCN is a unique, monotonically incremented number used An industry standard for connecting etherogeneous devices
internally by Oracle to provide system-wide versioning for (disks, tapes, CD-ROMs, ...) to a workstation (Hardware)
recovery and read consistency purposes (Databases) (Oracle)
SCSIHQ: Small Computers System Interface
SCNA: Sun Certified Network Administrator Hardware Qualifier
(Sun) Hardware troubleshooting program (Operating systems)
SCO: Santa Cruz Operation (Microsoft)
SCO: Second Class Object SCSL: Sun's Community Source Licensing

(Software) (Sun)
SCO: Synchronous Connection-Oriented SCSP: Server Cache Synchronization Protocol

S (Network)
SCOM: System Center Operation Manager
End-to-end service-management product that is the best choice SCTP: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
for Windows because it works seamlessly with Microsoft SCU: System Control Unit
software and applications, helping organizations increase
efficiency while enabling greater control of the IT environment SCVP: Simple Certificate Validation Protocol
SCW: Setup Computer Wizard
SCOOPS: SCheme Object Oriented Programming (Microsoft)
System
SCWCD: Sun Certified Web Component Developer
SCOPE: Simple COmmunications Programming (Software) (Sun)
Environment
(Hayes) SCX: Specialized Communications eXchange
SCOS: Single Object Copy Store SD: Secure Digital

(Software) (Lotus) (Hardware)
SCP: Save Cursor Position SD: Send Data
SCP: Secure CoPy SD: Serial Digital

(Communication)
SCP: Service Control Point
SD: Single Density
SCP: Session Control Properties (Hardware)
(Network)
SD: Structured Design
SCP: Sniffer Certified Professional
SCP: Subsystem Control Port

SD SDR
SD: Super Density SDL: Service Description Language

(Hardware)
SDL: Specification and Description Language
SD: Symbolic Debugger
SDL: System Design Language
(Software)
SDL/GR: Specification and Description
SDA: Screen Design Aid Language/Graphical Representation,
SDA: Self-Decrypting Archive SDLC: Software Development Life Cycle
(Security)
(Software)
SDA: Software Delivery Agent SDLC: Sun DownLoad Center
SDA: Software Disk Array (Software) (Sun)
SDA: Source Data Automation SDLC: Synchronous Data Link Control

A link-level communications protocol used in an IBM SNA
SDA: System Display Architecture
network that manages synchronous, code-transparent, serial
(DEC) information transfer over a link connection (Communication)
SDAI: Standard Data Access Interface SDLP: Standard Device Level Protocol
SDAM: Single Dos Application Mode SDLT: Super Digital Linear Tape
SDAR: Satellite Digital Audio Radio (Hardware)
SDB: Symbolic DeBugger S-DLT: Super Digital Linear Tape

(Hardware)
SDD: Software Description Database
SDM: Semantic Data Model
SDD: Subscriber Data Document
SDM: Sun Download Manager
SDD: Super Density Disk
Small (less than 300 KB), 100% Java application that insures a
SDD: System Distribution Directory successful download experience (Software) (Sun)
SDDI: Shielded Distributed Data Interface SDM: System Data Mover

SDDS: Sony Dynamic Digital Sound SDM: System Development Methodology
Multi-channel (5.1 or 7.1) digital audio format, compressed SDM: System Development Multitasking
from PCM at 48 kHz. The data rate can go up to 1280 kbps
SDMC: Systems Director Management Console
SDE: Shared Data Environment
Supposedly going to replace IBM Hardware Management
To share data across different platforms Console (HMC) (Software) (IBM)
SDE: Smart Decision Engine SDMF: Single Data Message Format
SDE: Spatial Database Engine Format used to send Caller ID information (Communication)
(Databases) SDMI: Secure Digital Music Initiative
SDF: Space Delimited Format SDML: Signed Document Markup Language
File name extension
SDMM: Security Domain Membership Management
SDF: Standard Data Format Specifies the interfaces supporting the elements within a SDMM
File name extension architecture which interact via SDMM mechanisms
SDF: System Dialog Facility SDMMC: Secure Digital MultiMedia Card
SDFI: Secure Digital Forensic Imaging SDMS: Scsi Device Management System
Asynchronous method of telemedicine. It denotes a specific (NCR)
process that ensures the fast, safe and secure capture, storage
SDN: Software Defined Network
and instant delivery of digital forensic evidence
(AT&T)
S
SDH: Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
Worldwide standard for synchronous transmission systems SDN: Sun Developer Network
(typically fiber optic) (Communication) (Software) (Sun)
SDHC: Secure Digital High-Capacity SDNS: Secure Data Network Service

(Hardware) SDNSDU: Secure Domain Name System Dynamic
SDI: Selective Dissemination of Information Update
(Network)
SDI: Serial Digital Interface
(Hardware) SDO: Service Data Objects
Framework that simplifies and unifies data application
SDI: Single Document Interface development in a service oriented architecture (SOA). It
(Software) (Microsoft) supports and integrates XML and incorporates J2EE patterns
and best practices (Software)
SDI: Software Development Interface
SDI: Standard Disk Interface SDOC: Selective Dynamic Overload Controls
SDI: Storage Device Interconnect SDP: Service Discovery Protocol

SDP: Session Description Protocol
SDI: Storage Device Interface
(Network)
SDIS: Switched Digital Integrated Service
SDP: Specialized Data Point
SDK: Software Development Kit
SDR: Sensor Data Records
(Software)
(Hardware)
SDKJ: Software Development Kit for Java

SDR SETI
SDR: Single Data Rate SECAM: SEquentiel Couleur Avec Mémoire

Memory access architecture (Hardware) A composite color standard based on line-alternate U and V
color difference signals that are frequency-modulated onto a
SDR: Store Data Register color subcarrier
SDR: Streaming Data Request SECB: Severely Errored Cell Block
SDRAM: Synchronous Dynamic Random Access SECC: Sheet steel, Electrolytically coated, Cold-
Memory rolled, Commercial quality
(Hardware) Often used in describing used materials for device cases
SD-ROM: Super Density Read Only Memory (Hardware)
SDS: Short Data Service SECC: Single Edge Contact Cartridge

Data message in mobile TETRA network. Similar to Short (Hardware)
Message Service (SMS) in GSM (Communication) SED: Stream EDitor
SDS: Sudden Death Syndrome SED: Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display
Used in digital photography when your camera dies a sudden Flat panel technology jointly developed by Canon and Toshiba
death (Hardware) that uses surface conduction electron emitters for every
SDS: Sun Directory Services individual display pixel (Hardware)
(Operating systems) (Sun) SEG: SEGment
SDS: Switched Data Service SEH: Structured Exception Handling
SDS: Synchronous Data Set SEI: Service Endpoint Interface
SDS: Sysops Distribution System Java interface that declares the methods that a client can
invoke on the service (Software)
SDSC: Synchronous Data Set Controller
SEI: Software Engineering Institute
SDSCnet: San Diego Supercomputer Center Federally funded research and development center; its core
NETwork purpose is to help others make measured improvements in
their software engineering capabilities. See also
SDSL: Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line http://www.sei.cmu.edu/ (Organizations)
(Communication)
SEL: SELect
S-DSMA: Slotted Digital Sense Multiple Access
SEL: SELector byte
SDTV: StanDard Definition Television
SEM: Scanning Electron Microscope
SDU: Service Data Unit
SEM: Sql Enterprise Manager
SDU: Software Distribution Utilities (Databases) (Microsoft)
SDV: Switched Digital Video SEM: Standard Electronic Module
(AT&T)
SEM: Strategic Enterprise Management
SDX: Storage Data Acceleration
SEO: Search Engine Optimization
SDXF: Structured Data eXchange Format Increasing ranking placement on search engines
SE: Second Edition SEP: Scalable Encryption Processor
(Software) (Hardware) (Cisco)
SE: Sign Extension SEPP: Secure Encryption Payment Protocol
SE: Single Ended SEPP: Single-Edge Processor Package
S SE: Special Edition SEQUEL: Structured English QUEry Language

SE: Standard Edition SER: SERial
(Software)
SER: Service Edge Router
SEA: Self Extracting Archive (Network)
(Apple)
SERCOS: SErial Realtime COmmunications System
SEA: Standard Extended Attribute
SERDES: SERializer/DESerializer
(IBM)
(Hardware)
SEAC: Standards Eastern Automatic Calculator
SERK: Server Extensions Resource Kit
SEAL: Screening External Access Link Microsoft Frontpage server extensions additional
(DEC) documentation and software (Software) (Microsoft)
SEAL: Simple and Efficient Adaptation Layer SERM: Structured Entity Relationship Model
SEAS: Solaris Easy Access Server SES: SecureEasySetup
(Network) (Sun) A simple push-button configuration method that automates
wireless network connection setup between Linksys routers and
SEC: Single Edge Contact wireless devices (Network)
Processor package used in Pentium 2, Pentium 3 and Celeron
(Hardware) (Intel) SET: Secure Electronic Transaction
A protocol for secure electronic transactions over the Internet
SEC: Single Error Correction
SET: Softwave Engineering Technology
SETI: Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence

SETL SI/SO
SETL: SEt Theory Language SGC: Solaris Grid Compiler

Locally or remotely hosted compilation resource management
SEU: Smallest Executable Unit
system. It provides the accelerated, networked, cross-platform
SEU: Source Entry Utility processing of Makefiles and compilation commands on the
Solaris operating system (Software) (Sun)
SEV: Search Engine Visibility
Different from SEO, SEV requires the simple act of copying and
SGCP: Simple Gateway Control Protocol
pasting added informational content from business blog to SGDT: Store Global Descriptor Table
article submission websites in order to achieve backlinks which
would lead business website to be on search engine results SGEN: Signal GENerator
SF: Service Feature SGI: Silicon Graphics, Inc
Constructor (SGI)
SF: Sign Flag
SGM: Shaded Graphics Modeling
SFA: Sales Force Automation
SFA: Seach For Answers SGML: Standard Generalized Markup Language
A method of tagging a document to apply to many format
(Net lingo)
elements. This language has become popular with the
SFBI: Shared Frame Buffer Interconnect increased use of the Internet
SFC: System File Checker SGMP: Simple Gateway Management Protocol

(Operating systems) (Microsoft) The predecessor to Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP) (Network)
SFD: Start Frame Delimiter
SGR: Set Graphics Rendition
SFDR: Spurious-Free Dynamic Range
SGRAM: Synchronous Graphics Random Access
SFF: Small Form Factor Memory
SFFC: Small Form Factor Committee SGSN: Serving Gprs Support Node
(Organizations) Provides packet routing to and from the SGSN service area for
SFI: Software Fault Isolation all users in that service area (Communication)
SFN: Short FileName SHA: Secure Hash Algorithm

A hashing algorithm that generates a 160-bit hash value (SHA-
SFNW5: Services For NetWare 5 1). Used with the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) in the
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) Digital Signature Standard (DSS), among other places
(Security)
SFP: Small Form-factor Pluggable
A standard hot swappable small multi-pin conector used mostly SHAR: SHell ARchive
for fibre channel optical modules on disk array controllers. SHD: Self-Healing Driver
(Hardware)
(Operating systems)
SFPS: Secure Fast Packet Switching
SHED: Segmented Hypergraphics EDitor
SFQ: Stochastic Fair Queuing
SHF: Super High Frequency
SHG: Segmented HyperGraphics
A hash function used to map flow
to one of set of queues (Network) SHIT: So Happy It's Thursday
(Net lingo)
SFQL: Structured Full-text Query Language
SHL: Shift Logical Left
SFR: Split Frame Rendering
(Hardware) SHOE: Simple Html Ontology Extension
SFS: System File Server SHP: Super High Pressure S

Projector's lamp type (Hardware)
SFT: System Fault Tolerant
SHR: Shift Logical Right
SFTP: Secure File Transfer Protocol
Also known as File Transfer Protocol over SSH (Secure SHell) S-HTTP: Secure HyperText Transport Protocol
(Network)
SFTP: Simple File Transfer Protocol
SHV: Standard High Volume
SFU: Services For Unix
A set of tools to better integrate existing Unix and Windows SI: Semantic Interpretation
environments (Operating systems) (Microsoft) Process by which a semantic interpreter generates a semantic
result based on an utterance that matches a path through a
SFX: SelF eXtracting grammar. A semantic result typically contains information that
Archive with self extracting capabilities is more useful to the application than the text of the utterance
SFX: Sound eFfectS SI: Serial Input
File name extension (Hardware)
SG: Signal Ground SI: Shift-In
SGA: Shared Global Area SI: Source Index
SGAM: Shared Global Allocation Map Processor register (Hardware) (IBM)
(Databases) SI: System Information
SGC: Scsi Graphic Command SI: System Integrator
SGC: Server-Gated Cryptography SI/SO: Serial In/Serial Out
SI/SO: Shift In/Shift Out

SIA SIRENE
SIA: Semiconductor Industry Association SIIT: Stateless Ip/Icmp Translation algorithm

(Organizations) Translates between IPv4 and IPv6 packet headers (including
ICMP headers) in separate translator "boxes" in the network
SIA: Socially Intelligent Agent without requiring any per-connection state in those "boxes"
(Software) (Communication)
SIA: Specific Industry Application SIL: Solid Immersion Lens
Applications that are specific to an industry (Software) Compact disk head technology (Hardware)
SIB: Service Independent building Block SIM: Security Information Management
SIC: Silicon Integrated Circuit Software designed to automate the collection of event log data
from security devices and helping users make sense of it
SIC: Standard Industrial Code through a common management console (Security)
SICD: Still Image Capture Device SIM: SIMplex

(Hardware) Used in SCSI interface for a single backplane (Hardware)
SID: Sccs delta ID SIM: SIMulator

The number used to represent a specific SCCS delta (Software) SIM: Subscriber Identity Module
SID: Security IDentifier (Hardware)
SID: Serial Input Data SIM: System Image Manager

Tool used to create unattended Windows Setup answer files.
SID: Session Identifier
You can create an answer file by using information from a
Identifies an Oracle Session (Databases) (Oracle) Windows image (.wim) file and a catalog (.clg) file (Operating
SID: Sound Interface Device
(Hardware) SIM: Systems Insight Manager
SID: Station IDentification (Operating systems) (HP)
(AT&T) SIMD: Single Instruction, Multiple Data
SID: Symbolic Interactive Debugger SIMM: Single In line Memory Module
SID: System IDentification A circuit board that holds surface-mount memory chips. A
SIMM is compact and efficient (Hardware)
SID: System IDentifier
SIMS: Stalker Internet Mail Server
Uniquely identifies an Oracle database instance (Databases)
(Oracle) SIMTEL: SIMulation and TELeprocessing
SIDF: System Independent Data Format SIMULA: SIMULAtion
SIDH: System Identification for Home Systems Programming language
SIDT: Store Interrupt Descriptor Table SIN: Specification Information Note
SIE: Serial Interface Engine SIO: Serial Input/Output

Communications driver
The USB module responsible for bus protocol (Hardware)
SIF: Setup Information File SIP: Scsi-3 Interlocked Protocol
(Operating systems) SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
SIFT: Sender-Initiated File Transfer IETF standard protocol for IP-communication, enabling IP-
Telephony gateways, client endpoints, PBXs and other
(Network) communication systems or devices to communicate with each
SIFT: Stanford Information Filtering Tool other (Communication)
SIG: SIGnature SIP: Single In-line Package

The packaging of an electronic component with all leads
S SIG: Special Interest Group protruding from one side only (Hardware)
(Organizations)
SIP: Smds Interface Protocol
SIGBIT: Special Interest Group on Business
SIPC: Simply Interactive Personal Computer
Information Technology
SIGCAT: Special Interest Group on Cd-rom
Applications and Technology SIPO: Serial In, Parallel Out
SIGGRAPH: Special Interest Group for GRAPHics SIPP: Simple Internet Protocol Plus
A group sponsored by the Association for Computing SIPP: SImple Polygon Processor
Machinery. SIGGRAPH holds an annual conference on graphics
that includes vendor product displays, lectures, and graphics SIPP: Single In line Pin Package
technology courses (Organizations) (Hardware)
SIGIR: Special Interest Group on Information SIPR: Secure Internet Protocol Router
Retireval (Network)
(Organizations)
SIR: Save Instruction Recognition
SIGPLAN: Special Interest Group on
SIR: Serial InfraRed
Programming LANguages
(Communication)
SII: Static Invocation Interface
SIR: Sustained Information Rate
SIIA: Software & Information Industry
SIRDS: Single-Image Random Dot Stereogram
Association
An association for software companies. See also SIRENE: Supplementary Information REquest at
http://www.siia.net/ (Organizations) the National Entry

SIS SM
SIS: Single Instance Store SLI: Scalable Link Interface

Architecture designed to maintain duplicate files with a Brand name for a multi-GPU solution developed by Nvidia for
minimum of disk, cache, and backup media overhead linking two or more video cards together to produce a single
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) output. The name SLI was first used by 3dfx under the full
name Scan-Line Interleave (Hardware) (nVidia)
SIS: Strategic Information System
SLI: Scan Line Interleave
SIS: Supplier Information System
Method for linking two (or more) video cards or chips together
SISAL: Streams and Iteration in a Single to produce a single output. It is an application of parallel
Assignment Language processing for computer graphics, meant to increase the
processing power available for graphics (Hardware)
SISL: System Interrupt Steering Logic
SLIC: Serial Link and Interrupt Controller
SISNET: Signal in Space through the interNET
SLIC: Session Layer Interface Card
SISSL: Sun Industry Standards Source License (Hardware)
(Sun)
SLIC: Subscriber Line Interface Card
SIT: Special Information Tones Interface between home phone lines and Central Office (CO)
(Hardware)
SIT: StuffIT
File name extension (Apple) SLIC: System Level Integration Circuit
SIU: System Interface Unit SLIC: System Licensed Internal Code
(IBM)
SIV: System Integrity Verifier
SLIM: Structured Language for Internet Markup
SIVIT: SIemens VIrtual Touchscreen
(Hardware) (Siemens-Nixdorf) SLIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol
An Internet protocol used to run IP over serial lines such as
SIX: Shared with Intent eXclusive
telephone circuits or RS-232 cables interconnecting two
Database management system's locking attribute (Databases) systems. SLIP is now being replaced by PPP (Communication)
SJF: Shortest Job First SLM: Service Level Management
Process or thread scheduling (Operating systems)
SLM: Spatial Light Modulator
SJSXP: Sun Java Streaming Xml Parser (Hardware)
(Software) (Sun)
SLMR: Silly Little Mail Reader
SKIP: Simple Key management for Internet
Protocol SLO: Service Level Objective
(Network) (Network)
SKU: StockKeeping Unit SLOSH: Sea, Lake and Overland Surge from
Hurricane
SLA: Service Level Agreement
A contract between a service provider and customer defining
SLOT: Scanned Laser Output Terminal
provider responsibilities in terms of network levels, times of SLP: Service Location Protocol
availability, method of measurement, consequences if service
(Network)
levels aren't met, and all costs involved (Network)
SLP: Service Logic Program
SLAN: Secure Local Area Network
SLPD: Service Location Protocol Domain
SLB: Server Load Balancing
(Network)
SLB: Static Load Balancing
SLR: Single-Lens Reflex
SLC: Subscriber Line Concentrator (Hardware)
(Communication)
SLS: Scalable to LosslesS
SLD: Second Level Domain extension to the MPEG-4 audio standard to allow lossless audio
S
(Network) compression scalable to lossy AAC
SLDRAM: Synchronous Link Dynamic Random SLS: Softlanding Linux System
Access Memory
SLSI: Super Large Scale of Integration
(Hardware)
The process of placing from 50,000 to 100,000 circuit
SLDT: Store Local Descriptor Table components. Also, the quality of their connections (Hardware)
SLED: Single Large Expensive Disk SLSS: Systems Library Subscription Service
Refers to older mainframe hard disks that were used as a basis (IBM)
for comparison during the initial UC Berkeley RAID studies.
SLU: Secondary Logical Unit
(Hardware)
SLEE: Service Logic Execution Environment SLU: Spoken Language Understanding
SLF4J: Simple Logging Facade For Java SLU: Subscriber line Unit
(Hardware)
Intended to serve as a simple facade for various logging APIs
allowing to the end-user to plug in the desired implementation SLU: Subscriber line Usage
at deployment time. See http://www.slf4j.org/ (Software)
(Communication)
SLG: Service Level Guarantee SM: Set Mode
(Network)
SM: Shared Memory
SM: Smart Media
(Hardware)
SM: System Management

SMA SMPS
SMA: Software Migration Assistant SMI: Security Management Interface

(Software)
SMAE: System Management Application Entity
SMI: Static Memory Interface
SMAF: Service Management Agent Function
(Hardware)
SMAP: System Management Application Process
SMI: Structure of Management Information
SMAPI: Speech Manager Application The rules that define the objects that can be accessed through
Programming Interface a network management protocol (Network)
(Software)
SMI: Sun Microsystems Inc.
SMART: Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting
SMI: System Management Interrupt
Technology
Drives equipped with this feature report predicted failures SMIF: Standard Mechanical InterFace
based on threshold values determined by the manufacturer.
This allows the network manager to replace a drive before it
SMIL: Synchronized Multimedia Integration
fails. (Hardware) Language
SMASE: System Management Application Service SMIT: System Management Interface Tool
Element (IBM)
SMASH: Simple, Many And Self-Healing SMK: Software Migration Kit

Supercomputing architecture (Hardware) (IBM) (Microsoft)
SMASH: Systems Management Architecture for SMKD: Scalable Multicast Key Distribution
Server Hardware (Security)
Suite of specifications that deliver architectural semantics, SML: Service Management Layer
industry standard protocols and profiles to unify the
management of the data center SML: Shared Memory Link
SMAU: Smart Multistation Access Unit SML: Siemens Modular Link
(Network)
SML: Smart Markup Language
SMB: Server Message Block The goal of SML is to enable automation of all interactions with
A common format for sharing files, directories and devices in XML documents providing general methods to represent a set
Microsoft's operating systems (Operating systems) of smart device functions
SMB: Small-Medium Business SML: Standard Machine Language

SMBIOS: System Management Basic SML: Standard Meta Language
Input/Output System SML/NJ: Standard Meta Language/New Jersey
Specification that addresses how motherboard and system
vendors present management information about their products SMLI: Stateful Multi-Layer Inspection
in a standard format by extending the BIOS interface on x86
SMM: System Management Mode
architecture systems
(Intel)
SMBus: System Management BUS
SMM: System Manager's Manual
SMC: Scsi-3 Medium changer Command
SMOBC: Solder Mask Over Bare Copper
SMC: Solaris Management Console
SMOP: Small (or Simple) Matter Of Programming
Used to ironically indicate that a suggested feature or design
SMC: Standard Microsystems Corporation change would in fact require a great deal of effort; it often
(Organizations) implies that the person proposing the feature underestimates
its costs (Net lingo)
SMD: Storage Module Device
SMOR: Storage Manager On Rom
S An industry-standard interface used for large-capacity, high-
performance disks (Hardware) (Hardware) (DPT)
SMD: Surface-Mount Device SMP: Simple Management Protocol

(Hardware) SMP: Smart Messaging Protocol
SMDR: Station Message Detail Recording (Communication) (Nokia)
SMDR: Storage Management Data Requester SMP: Software Motion Picture

SMDS: Switched Multimegabit Data Service SMP: Symbolic Manipulation Program
An emerging high-speed networking technology to be offered SMP: Symmetric MultiProcessing
by the telephone companies in the U.S.
A form of multiprocessing in which more than one processor
SME: Small and Medium-sized Enterprises can run kernel-level code simultaneously (Hardware)
SME: Subject Matter Expert SMP: System Modification Program

(Software)
SMF: Semantic Modelling Format
XML-based language that can be used to persist English Query SMP/E: System Modification Program/Extended
model information (Databases) (Microsoft) (Software)
SMF: Service Management Facility SMPC: Shared Memory Parallel Computer
SMPP: Short Message Peer to Peer protocol
SMF: Single Mode Fiber SMPP, developed by Logica Aldiscon is intended as a way of
providing an open and generic interface between an ESME and
SMFA: Special Management Functional Element a SMSC for message transfer
SMG: Special Mobile Group SMPS: Switching Mode Power Supply

SMPTE SOH
SMPTE: Society of Motion Picture & Television SNF: Server Natural Format
Engineers
SNI: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme
(Organizations)
SNI: Site Need Index
SMRAM: System Management Random Access
Memory SNI: Sna Network Interconnection
SMS: Short Message Service SNI: Subscriber Network Interface
SMS: System Managed Storage SNIA: Storage Networking Industry Association
(Hardware) (IBM) (Organizations)
SMS: System Management Server SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol

(Microsoft) The protocol that manages networks. SNMP-enabled devices
can communicate with each other (Network)
SMSC: Short Message Service Centre
SNMPSEC: Simple Network Management Protocol
SMSW: Store Machine Status Word SECurity
SMT: Station ManagemenT (Security)
SMT: Surface-Mount Technology SNNS: Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator

(Hardware) SNOBOL: StriNg Oriented symBOlic Language
SMT: System Management Terminal Programming Language (Software)
(Software) (Zyxel) SNP: Serial Number/Password
SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol SNPP: Simple Network Paging Protocol
The Internet email protocol. Defined in RFC 821, with (Network)
associated message format descriptions in RFC 822
SNQP: Simple Nomenclator Query Protocol
SMTPE: Society of Motion Picture and Television
(Network)
Engineers
See http://www.smpte.org (Organizations) SNR: Signal to Noise Ratio
SMU: System Management Utility SNRM: Set Normal Response Mode
(Communication)
SMX: Server Macro eXpansion
SNRME: Set Normal Response Mode Extended
SN: Serial Number
(Communication)
SNA: Survivable Network Analysis
SNS: Subject Name Server
(Security)
SNTP: Simple Network Time Protocol
SNA: System Network Architecture
(Network)
The proprietary network architecture of IBM (Network) (IBM)
SO: Security Officer
SNACP: System Network Architecture Control
Protocol SO: Serial Output
(Network) (Hardware)
SNADS: System Network Architecture SOA: Service Oriented Architecture

Distribution Service Is essentially a collection of services. These services
(Network) (IBM) communicate with each other. The communication can involve
either simple data passing or it could involve two or more
SNAFU: Situation Normal All Fouled Up services coordinating some activity (Software)
(Net lingo)
SOA: Start Of Authority
SNAM: Server Net Access Manager
(Network)
SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol
(Software)
S
SNAP: Sub-Network Access Protocol
SOB: Start Of Block
SNAP: SubNetwork Attachment Point (Communication)
SNAP: System and Network Administration SOC: Separation Of Concerns
Program Software development technique used in aspect-oriented
programming (AOP) (Software)
SNAPI: Structured N-dimensional Application
Programming Interface SOC: System On a Chip
(Oracle) (Hardware)
SNAT: Secure Network Address Translation SOCKS: SOCKet Secure
Provides a secure mechanism for translating internal,
SODIMM: Small Outline Dual In-line Memory
nonroutable addresses into routable addresses. As traffic flows
out of a data center, the gateway and source address of IP Module
packets are translated and switched to the appropriate (Hardware)
upstream gateway router (Network)
SO-DIMM: Small Outline Dual In line Memory
SNCA: Solaris Network Cache and Accelerator Module
(Sun)
SOE: Standard Operating Environment
SNCP: Single Node Control Point
SOEP: Secondary Operand Execution Pipeline
SND: SouND
SOG: Service Order Gateway
File Format for music
SOH: Start Of Header
SNEWS: Secure NEWs Server
(Communication)

SOHO SPF
SOHO: Small Office/Home Office SPAG: Standards Promotion and Application

Group
SOI: Silicon On Insulator
(Hardware) SPAN: Space Physics Analysis Network
SOJ: Small-Outline J-lead SPAN: Switched Port Analyzer
(Hardware) Cisco feature that selects network traffic for analysis by a
network analyzer such as a SwitchProbe device or other
SOL: Serial Over Lan Remote Monitoring (RMON) probe (Network) (Cisco)
Mechanism that enables the input and output of the serial port
of a managed system to be redirected via an IPMI session over SPAP: Shiva Password Authentification Protocol
IP (Communication) (Security)
SOL: Simulation Oriented Language SPARC: Scalable Processor ARChitecture

Architecture based on a reduced instruction set computer
SOM: Scripting Object Model
(RISC) concept. Sun and its suppliers designed the architecture
(Software) to significantly improve price and performance (Hardware)
SOM: Self-Organizing Map (Sun)
Algorithm used to visualize and interpret large high- SPARQL: Simple Protocol And Rdf Query Language
dimensional data sets. Typical applications are visualization of
process states or financial results by representing the central SPB: Stored Procedure Builder
dependencies within the data on the map Development environment for creating, installing and testing
stored procedures (Databases) (IBM)
SOM: Start Of Message
(Communication) SPC: Scsi-3 Primary Command
SOM: Structured Object Method SPC: Small Peripheral Controller
SOM: System Object Model SPC: Software Publishing Certificate

(Operating systems) (IBM) A PKCS #7 signed-data object containing X.509 certificates
(Security)
SONAR: SOund Navigation And Ranging
SPC: Software Publishing Corp..
SONDS: Small Office Network Data System
SPC: Statistical Process Control
SONET: Synchronous Optical NETwork
SPC: Stored Program Control
North American transport standard for optical networks with
speeds from approximately 52 Mb/s (OC-1) to 10 Gb/s (OC- SPCF: Service Point Command Facility
192) (Network)
SPCS: Stored Program Controlled Switch
SOP: Small Outline Package
SPD: Security Policy Database
SOP: Standard Operating Procedure Specifies what services are to be offered to IP datagrams and
SOS: Silicon On Sapphire in what fashion (Network)
(Hardware) SPD: Serial Presence Detect
SOS: Sophisticated Operating System SPD: Software Product Description
SOS: Standard and Open System (Software)
SOTA: State Of The Art SPD: System Products Division

Proprietary AS/400 I/O bus (Hardware) (IBM)
SOW: Statement of Work
SPDL: Standard Page Description Language
SOX: Schema for Object-oriented Xml
Is a schema proposal that includes extensible data types, SPDU: Session Protocol Data Unit
namespaces, and embedded documentation SPE: System Policy Editor
S SOX: SOund eXchange It provides an administrator with the means to centrally
manage Windows desktop environments, and is a flexible
SP: Sequence Processor alternative to mandatory user profiles (Operating systems)
SP: Service Pack SPEC: Standard Performance Evaluation
Corporation
SP: Signal Processor
A group of participating computer system manufacturers that
SP: Solution Provider develops a series of accepted test programs to measure system
computing performance
SP: Stack Pointer
CPU register (Hardware) (Intel) SPECFS: SPECial File System
A pseudo file system that provides access to character special
SP: System Product and block devices (Operating systems)
SP3: Secure Portable Player Platform SPEM: Software Process Engineering Metamodel
SPA: Secure Password Authentication This metamodel is used to describe a concrete software
(Microsoft) development process or a family of related software
development processes
SPA: Service Provider Api
SPEWS: Spam Prevention Early Warning System
SPA: Software Publishers Association
SPF: Sender Policy Framework
(Organizations)
Open standard specifying a technical method to prevent sender
SPA: Sql Performance Analyzer address forgery. More precisely, the current version of SPF -
A tool in the Real Application Testing family in Oracle 11g, that called SPFv1 or SPF Classic - protects the envelope sender
allows to replay a specified set of SQLs captured earlier to address, which is used for the delivery of messages
gauge the impact of some database changes on them

SPF SPX
SPF: Shortest Path First SPM: System Performance Monitor

(Network) (IBM)
SPF: Stateful Packet Filter SPM/2: System Performance Monitor/2
(Network)
SPN: Service Principal Name
SPF: Sunbelt Personal Firewall The name by which a client uniquely identifies an instance of a
(Security) service. If you install multiple instances of a service, each
instance must have its own SPN
SPF: System Programming Facility
SPNEGO: Simple and Protected gssapi
SPGA: Staggered Pin Grid Array NEGOtiation mechanism
IC pins organization (Hardware) (Security)
SPI: Scsi Parallel Interface SPOC: Single Point Of Contact
SPI: Security Parameter Index SPOF: Single Point Of Failure
SPI: Serial Peripheral Interface SPOOL: Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On
SPI: Service Provider Interface Line
SPI: Smart Plug-In SPOT: Shared Product Object Tree

(IBM)
SPI: Stateful Packet Inspection
(Security) SPOT: Simple Performance Optimization Tool
Produces a report on the performance of an application. The
SPI: Stream Programming Interface spot report contains detailed information about various
(Software) common conditions that impact performance (Software) (Sun)
SPI: System Packet Interface SPP: Scalable Parallel Processing
(Network)
SPP: Sequenced Packet Protocol
SPI: System Programming Interface
SPP: Standard Printer Port
SPI-2: Scsi Parallel Interface - version 2
SPPS: Scalable Power Parallel System
Contains all pertinent features from SCSI-2, SPI, and Fast-20
(IBM)
plus the new features of Fast-40 and Low Voltage Differential.
SPI-2 is a complete definition of the parallel SCSI physical and SPR: Software Problem Report
protocol layers A bug report. (Software)
SPI-3: Scsi Parallel Interface - version 3 SPR: Special Purpose Register
Contains all pertinent features from SPI-2 plus the new (Hardware)
features of Fast-80 (160 MByte/Sec on 16-bit buses) and
packetized protocol. Thus SPI-3 is a complete definition of the SPR: Statistical Pattern Recognition
parallel SCSI physical and protocol layers
SPR: Symmetrical Phase Recording
SPID: Service Profile IDentifier (Hardware)
(Network)
SPREAD: Systems Programming, Research,
SPIKE: Science Planning Intelligent Knowledge- Engineering And Development
based Environment (IBM)
SPIRE: Spatial Paradigm for Information SPS: Secure Packet Shield
Retrieval and Exploration
SPS: Shock Protection System
SPIRES: Stanford Public Information REtrieval
System SPS: Standby Power System
SPKI: Simple Public Key Infrastructure SPS: Structured PostScript

(Security) That PostScript code which has been commented and S
structured in a strict way to enable filters and print spoolers to
SPKM: Simple Public-Key Mechanism manipulate it without actually processing any of the PostScript
code
SPL: Schedule Plus type Library
(Software) (Microsoft) SPS: Symantec Product Specialist
(Symantec)
SPL: Set Priority Level
SPSS: Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
SPL: SPelL checker
(Software)
File name extension
SPT: Scsi Pass Through
SPL: SPooLer
SPT: Sectors Per Track
SPL: Stored Procedure Language
(Databases) SPTI: Scsi Pass-Through Interface
SPL: Sun Public License SPTS: SharePoint Team Service

(Sun) (Software) (Microsoft)
SPL: System Programming Language SPU: System Processing Unit

(HP) SPUC/DL: Serial Peripheral Unit Controller/Data
SPLD: Simple Programmable Logic Device Link
SPM: Statistical Packet Multiplexing SPUD: Storage Pedestal Upgrade Disk

Technology to dynamically allocate bandwidth to active circuits SPX: Sequenced Packet Exchange
(Network) (Network) (Novell)

SQ SSAD
SQ: SQueezed SRM: Storage Resource Manager

(Software)
SQE: Signal Quality Error
SRM: Supplier Relationship Management
SQFP: Small Quad Flat Package
Software enabling a company or entity to better coordinate
IC package
activities and share information with suppliers (Software)
SQL: Structured Query Language
SRM: System Renewability Message
The international standard language for defining and accessing
relational databases (Databases)
SRMD: Security Risk Management Discipline
SQL/CLI: Structured Query Language/Call Level
Interface Detailed process that is useful in determining which threats and
vulnerabilities have the most potential impact on a particular
SQL/DS: Structured Query Language/Data System organization (Security) (Microsoft)
(IBM) SRM-E: Service Resource Module Enhanced
SQLJ: Structured Query Language for Java (Network) (Cisco)
(Databases) SRMP: Soap Reliable Messaging Protocol
SQM: Software Quality Management SRMP enhances SOAP by defining additional headers that
(Software) ensure reliability in application-to-application communication
(Software)
SQoS: Secure Quality Of Service
SRN: Source/Recipient Node
SQRT: SQuare RooT
SRO: Sharable and Read Only
SR: Service Release
SRP: Secure Remote Password
SR: Shift Register Secure password-based authentication and key-exchange
protocol. See also http://srp.stanford.edu/ (Security)
SR: Speech Recognition
SRP: Security Rollup Package
SR: Status Register
(Hardware)
SRP: Session Request Protocol
SRAM: Shadow Random Access Memory
(Hardware)
SRAM: Static Random Access Memory
SRP: Source Routing Protocol
(Hardware)
SRP: Suggested Retail Price
SRAPI: Speech Recognition Application
Programming Interface SRPI: Server-Requester Programming Interface
SRAT: Static Resource Affinity Table (IBM)
Can be used to describe the physical location of processors and SRQ: Service ReQuest
memory in large-scale systems, allowing threads and memory
to be grouped in an optimal manner (Operating systems) SRR: Serially Reusable Resource
(Microsoft) SRS: Screen Reader System
SRB: Source-Route Bridge SRS: Shared Registration System
SRC: SouRCe (Network)
File name extension SRS: Sound Retrieval System
SRC: System Resource Controller SRVIFS: SeRVer Installable File System
(IBM)
SS: Single-Sided
SRD: Screen ReaDer system
(Hardware)
S SRD: Support Readiness Document

Free documents that focus on installation, configuration, and
SS: Solid State
(Hardware)
common user problems related to various Java platforms and
tools (Sun) SS: Stack Segment
SRDRAM: Self-Refreshed Dynamic Random CPU register (Hardware) (Intel)
Access Memory SS/SNA: Server to Server System Network
SRE: Self Routing switch Element Architecture
SRF: Service Resource Function SS7: Signaling System 7
sRGB: Standard Red Green Blue SSA: Self Service Application

(Hardware) (Oracle)
SRGS: Speech Recognition Grammar Specification SSA: Serial Storage Architecture

Grammar intended for use by speech recognizers and other (Hardware)
grammar processors so that developers can specify the words SSA: Survivable Systems Analysis
and patterns of words to be listened for by a speech
Practical engineering process that enables you to
recognizer. See also http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-grammar/
systematically assess the survivability properties of proposed
SRL: Segmentation and Reassembly Layer systems, existing systems, and modifications to existing
systems (Security)
SRM: Security Reference Monitor
SSA: System Software Associates
SRM: Security Risk Management
Logical process that may be used to assess and quantify risk, SSAA: Super-Sample Anti-Aliasing
and provide management with cost-effective solutions to (Hardware)
security risk reduction using available resources (Security)
SSAD: Structured System Analysis and Design

SSADM SSX
SSADM: Structured System Analysis and Design SSIS: Sql Server Integration Services
Method Component of the Microsoft SQL Server database software
which can be used to perform a broad range of data migration
SSAP: Session Service Access Point tasks (Databases) (Microsoft)
(Network)
SSJS: Server-Side JavaScript
SSAP: Source Service Access Point (Software)
SSB: Single SideBand SSL: Secure Sockets Layer
SSBAM: Single SideBand Amplitude Modulation A protocol for secure network communications using a
combination of public and secret key technology (Security)
SSBP: Simple Soap Binding Profile
(Software) SSL: Synthesizer Specification Language
SSC: Scsi Stream Command SSM: Server Status Monitor

Enables you to monitor the simple up or down status of a small
SSCCE: Short Self-Contained Correct (or group of servers (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
Compilable) Example
SSM: Source Specific Multicast
Preferred form of code snippets posted in newsgroups and bug
reports. See also http://sscce.org/ (Software) Extension of IP multicast where datagram traffic is forwarded
to receivers from only those multicast sources to which the
SSCCE: Short, Self Contained, Compilable and receivers have explicitly joined (Network)
Executable
SSML: Speech Synthesis Markup Language
Example program that demonstrates a bug or to submit to
forums when asking for help (Software) Markup specification for voice browsers designed to provide a
rich, XML-based markup language for assisting the generation
SSCE: Site Server Commerce Edition of synthetic speech in Web and other applications. See also
(Microsoft) http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/
SSCF: Service Specific Coordination Function SSO: Single Sign-On

Method of access control that enables a user to authenticate
SSCOP: Service Specific Connection Orientated once and gain access to the resources of multiple software
Protocol systems (Security)
SSCP: Service Switching Control Point SSP: Security Support Provider
SSCP: System Services Control Point A dynamic-link library that implements the SSPI by making
one or more security packages available to applications. Each
SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner security package provides mappings between an application's
SSPI function calls and an actual security model's functions
SSCS: Service Specific Convergence Sublayer (Security)
SSCS: Solid-State Circuits Society SSP: Service Switching Point
(Organizations)
SSP: Silicon Switch Processor
SSD: Solid State Disk
SSP: Storage Service Provider
SSDD: Same S**t Different Day
SSP: Switch to Switch Protocol
(Net lingo)
SSP: System Stack Pointer
SSDP: Simple Service Discovery Protocol
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) SSP: System Support Program
IBM s/36 operating system (Operating systems) (IBM)
SSDU: Session Service Data Unit
SSPI: Security Support Provider Interface
SSE: Software Support Engineer
A common interface between transport-level applications, such
SSE: Streaming Simd Extensions as Remote Procedure Call (RPC), and security providers. SSPI
Xeon CPU extension to the instruction set (Hardware) (Intel) allows a transport application to call one of several security
SSEC: Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator

providers to obtain an authenticated connection (Security)
S
(IBM)
SSRP: Simple Server Redundancy Protocol
(Cisco)
SSF: Service Switching Function
SSS: System Support Station
SSFDC: Solid State Floppy Disc Card (Hardware)
Also known as SmartMedia (Hardware)
SSSD: Single Sided Single Density
SSG: Service Selection Gateway
(Network) (Cisco)
SST: Shiva Smart Tunneling
SSGA: System Support Gate Array SST: Simple Sipp Transition
SSH: Secure SHell SST: Spread-Spectrum Technology
SSH: Site Security Handbook SST: Sustained Stewardship Teraflop

(Security) (IBM)
SSI: Server-Side Include SST: Swedish Summer Time

Timezone: GMT +1:00
SSI: Single System Image
SST: Systems Services and Technology
SSI: Small-Scale Integration
The process of placing fewer than 10 components on one chip
SSTP: Shared Spanning Tree Protocol
SSID: Service Set IDentifier SSU: System Setup Utility

(Network) SSX: Small Services eXecutive
Operating system (Operating systems)

STA STTL
STA: Single Threaded Apartment STM: Scanning Tunneling Microscope

A threading context for components that require a message (Hardware)
queue or thread affinity. Access to components in an STA is by
definition synchronized (Software) (Microsoft) STM: Synchronous Transfer Mode
STA: Spanning Tree Algorithm STM: Synchronous Transport Module

(Communication)
STAR: Self-defining Text ARchival
STN: Super-Twist Nematic
STAR: Shareware Trade Association and LCD display technology (Hardware)
Resources
STN-LCD: SuperTwist Nematic Liquid Crystal
StAX: STreaming Api for Xml parsing Display
(Software)
STO: Sql Tuning Optimizer
STB: Set-Top Box
The tool that inspects the SQL statements for possible
(Hardware) performance improvement. (Databases) (Oracle)
STB: Simply The Best STONE: STructured and OpeN Environment
Name of many companies
STOS: STOre String
STB: Software Technical Bulletin
STP: Secure Transfer Protocol
STB: STroBe
STP: Service Transaction Program
STC: SeT Carry flag
STP: Shielded Twisted Pair
STC: Sub-Technical Committee (Hardware)
STD: SeT Direction flag STP: Signal Transfer Point
STD: STanDard STP: Soa Tools Platform
STD: State Transition Diagram Open source collaborative software development project
dedicated to providing a generic, extensible, standards-based
STDA: StreetTalk Directory Assistance tool platform for producing Service Oriented Architecture
(Banyan) (SOA) applications (Software)
STDAUX: STanDard AUXiliary StP: Software Through Pictures

STDERR: STanDard ERRor STP: Spanning Tree Protocol
STDIN: STanDard INput STP: Speed Test Pro
Program that monitors your internet connection, web site, cpu,
STDM: Statistical Time Division Multiplexer memory, Hard Drives, Wifi, LAN, Processes and much more all
STDOUT: STanDard OUTput in real time and will store all data recorded into an log, so it
can be easily imported into almost any application (Software)
STDPRN: STanDard PRiNter
STP: Straight Through Processing
STE: Section Terminating Equipment Ability to take a financial transaction though complete
confirmation automatically
STEP: STandard for the Exchange of Product data
Is a major International Standards Organisation (ISO) effort to STP: Synchronized Transaction Processing
standardise methods for the exchange of data from many fields
of engineering STPML: Straight Through Processing Markup
Language
STEP: Standard Template for Electronic Publishing An XML message specification designed for the financial
STF: STructured File securities trading industry to meet the requirements of straight
through processing
File name extension (Lotus)
STPP: Strategic Technology Protection Program
S STFG: Search The Friendly Google
(Net lingo)
STR: Store Task Register
STFN: Surf The F***ing Net
For those who RTFM, and still couldn't work it out (Net lingo) STR: Suspend To Ram
Power saving state
STFU: Shut The F**k Up
(Net lingo) STR: Synchronous Transmitter Receiver
STFW: Search The F***ing Web STRESS: STRuctural Engineering System Solver
Answer for easy-find questions (Net lingo) Programming language
STI: SeT Interrupt flag STRUDL: STRUctural Design Language

Programming language
STING: Software Technology INterest Group
STS: Sql Tuning Set
STIX: SmallTalk Interface to X
A group of SQL statements with a given name. STS stores
STJA: Sun Certified Java Associate these statements even if they are aged out of the shared pool.
This certification provides an ideal entry into an application STS can be used as an input to SPA or STO (Databases)
development or a software project management career using STS: Synchronous Transport Signal
Java technologies (Software) (Sun)
SONET signal (Communication)
STK: Satellite ToolKit
STT: Secure Transaction Technology
Graphical, object-oriented software for satellite and space
station orbital and sensor coverage analysis (Software) (Microsoft)
STL: Standard Template Library STTL: Standard Transistor Transistor Logic


STTS SWMBO
STTS: Simple Tree Transformation Sheets SVI: Switched Virtual Interface

Represents a VLAN of switch ports as one interface to the
STX: Start of TeXt
routing or bridging function in the system (Network)
(Communication)
SVID: System V Interface Definition
STX: Streaming Transformations for Xml
Applies to the Unix OS (Operating systems)
One-pass transformation language for XML documents. STX is
intended as a high-speed, low memory consumption SVM: System Virtual Machine
alternative to XSLT. See http://stx.sourceforge.net/ (Software) (Microsoft)
STY: STYle SVM: System Volume Mangement
File name extension
SVN: Switched Virtual Network
SU: Scalable Unit (IBM)
(Hardware)
SVP: SchemaView Plus
SUA: Single User Account Filename extension for SchemaView Plus, a program for
Allows multiple users to share a single IP address (either drawing database schemas
dynamic or static) assigned by your Internet Service Provider
(ISP) (Network) SVR: SerVeR
SUA: Subsystem for Unix-based Applications SVR4: System V Release 4

(Operating systems) (Microsoft) SVRn: System V Release n
SUB: SUBroutine Applies to the Unix OS (Operating systems)
SUB: Subscript SVS: Symmetric Virtual Servers

HTML Tag SW: SoftWare
SUB: SUBstitute SW: Status Word
SUB: SUBtract Sw/A: Soap with Attachments
SUE: Stupid User Error (Software)
(Net lingo) SWAC: Standards Western Automatic Calculator
SUG: Sun User's Group SWAG: Scientific (or Silly) Wild A** Guess
SUMA: Software Upgrade and Maintenance A term used by technical teams when establishing high level
sizings for large projects (Net lingo)
Agreement
(Software) SWAIS: Simple Wide Area Information Server
SUN: Stanford University Network SWAK: Sealed With A Kiss
SUNET: Swedish University NETwork Saying goodbye (Net lingo)
SUNVIEW: SUN's Visual Integrated Environment SWALK: Sealed With A Loving Kiss
for Workstations (Net lingo)
SUP: Superscript SWAN: Sun Wide Area Network

HTML Tag SWAP: Shared Wireless Access Protocol
SUR: Shell Update Release (Communication)
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) SWAP: Simple Workflow Access Protocol
SURAnet: Southeastern Universities Research SWAP: Stewart Warner Array Program
Association NETwork
SWAR: Simd Within A Register
SUS: Software Update Services A form of parallelism used in most microprocessors. Examples
Software update management solution (Operating systems)
(Microsoft)
include MMX, SSE, SSE2, and 3DNow instructions (Hardware) S
SWBPD: Semantic Web Best Practices and
SUSP: System Use Sharing Protocol Deployment
SUT: Socket Under Test SWDP: Sun Web Developer Pack
SUTT: Single User Test Tools Helps to leverage emerging web technologies and techniques
to create interactive and dynamic web applications for the
SVC: Switched Virtual Circuit enterprise (Software) (Sun)
Virtual connection set up only for the duration of a single SWF: ShockWave Format
communications session. In contrast, a permanent virtual
circuit remains available at all times (Network) File format
SVCD: Super Video Compact Disc SWI: SoftWare Interrupts

(Hardware) SWIFT: Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial
SVF: Schema Validation Framework Telecommunication
(Software) (Sun) SWIG: Simplified Wrapper and Interface
Generator
SVF: Simple Vector Format
SWIM: System Wide Information Management
SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics
(Network)
SVGA: Super Video Graphics Array
SWISH: Simple Web Indexing System for Humans
Video specification for a resolution of 800 X 600 pixels in 256
colors (Hardware) SWMBO: She Who Must Be Obeyed
S-VHS: Super Video Home System (Net lingo)

SWOP TAS
SWOP: Specifications for Web Offset Publications T&E: Travel And Entertainment
These specifications standardize the submission of materials (Software)
supplied to web offset publications, and areas of responsibility
for each of the involved industry segments. See T&L: Transform And Lighting
http://www.swop.org/ (Organizations) Graphics function
SWP: Simple Web Printing T/B: Top/Bottom

SWP: SWaP T/R: Transmit/Receive
File name extension T9: Typing on 9 keys
SWRL: Semantic Web Rule Language TA: Technical Assembly
Intended to be the rule language of the Semantic Web
TA: Terminal Adapter
SWS: Sun Web Server An ISDN-compatible device that converts non-ISDN
(Sun) transmission to ISDN transmission (Hardware)
SWS: Symantec Web Security TAB: Tape Automated Bonding
(Symantec) (Hardware)
SWT: Standard Widget Toolkit TAC: Technical Assistance Center
(Software) (Cisco)
SWT: Swedish Winter Time TAC: Terminal Access Controller
Timezone: GMT +1:00
TACACS: Terminal Access Controller Access-
SWTX: Server Workstation Technology eXtended Control System
A size and form factor specification for motherboards (Network)
(Hardware)
TACS: Total Access Communication System
SX: SimpleX
(Communication)
TAD: Telephone Answering Device
SXGA: Super eXtended Graphics Array TAF: Transparent Application Failover

Video specification for a resolution of 1280 X 1024 pixel A runtime failover for high-availability environments, such as
(Hardware) Oracle9i Real Application Clusters and Oracle Fail Safe, that
refers to the failover and re-establishment of application-to-
SXGA+: Super eXtended Graphics Array Plus service connections (Databases) (Oracle)
Video specification for a resolution of 1400 X 1050 pixels TAG: Technical Advisory Group
(Hardware)
TAG: Telecommunications Access Gateway
SXI: StarOffice Impress
(Communication)
Star/Open Office presentation file extension (Software)
TAL: Typed Assembly Language
SXQL: Simple Xml Query Language
(Software)
SYL: See You Later
TalAE: TALigent Application Environment
(Net lingo)
(Software)
SYLK: SYmbolic LinK
TalDE: TALigent Development Environment
SYM: SYMbols
TalOS: TALigent Object Services
File name extension
TAN: Table Area Network
SYMM: SYnchronized MultiMedia
TAN: Tape Area Network
SYMPL: SYsteM Programming Language
TAN: TransAction Number
SYN: SYNonym
S File name extension TANSTAAFL: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free
Lunch
SYNC: SYNChronous
T SYS: SYStem
(Net lingo)
TAO: Track-At-Once
SYS: SYStem configuration CD recording methodology (Hardware)
File name extension
TAP: Telelocator Alphanumeric Protocol
SYS: SYStem device driver
TAP: Terminal Access Point
File name extension
TAPCIS: The Access Program for the Compuserve
SYSADMIN: SYStem ADMINistrator Information Service
SYSGEN: SYStem GENerator TAPI: Telephony Application Programming
SYSLOG: SYStem LOG Interface
SYSMOD: SYStem MODification
TAR: Tape ARchive
SYSOP: SYStem OPerator
TARFU: Things Are Really F***ed Up
SYSREQ: SYStem REQuest
(Net lingo)
SZ: Send Zmodem
TAS: Telcom Analysis System
(Hardware)
T
TAS: Telephone Access Server
T: Tera
TAS: Total Access System

TAS TDES
TAS: Totalnet Advanced Server TCL/TK: Tool Control Language ToolKit

(Hardware) (Sun)
TCM: Technology Change Management
TASM: Turbo ASseMbler (Software)
TCM: Thermal Conduction Module
TAT: Theoretical Arrival Time
TCM: Time Compression Multiplexer
TAXI: Transparent Asynchronous Transceiver
TCM: Trellis-Coded Modulation
Interface
TCO: Tjänstemännens Central Organization
TB: TeraByte
Swedish organization establishing norms for monitor
1024 gigabytes electromagnetic emissions (Organizations)
TBAV: ThunderByte Anti Virus TCO: Total Cost of Ownership
(Software)
TCP: Tape-Carrier Package
TBBS: The Bread Board System (Hardware)
TBC: Time Base Corrector TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
TBGA: Tape Ball Grid Array A communications protocol that ensures data is sent between
(Hardware) computers on the Internet (Network)
TBH: To Be Honest TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet

(Net lingo)
Protocol
The protocol suite originally developed for the Internet. Also
TBK: ToolBooK called Internet Protocol suite (Network)
File name extension
TCPA: Trusted Computing Platform Alliance
TBMT: Transmitter Buffer eMpTy (Intel)
(Hardware)
TCP-ACO: Transmission Control Protocol
TBO: Total Benefit of Ownership Alternate Checksum Option
TBT: Technology Based Training TCPBEUI: Transmission Control Protocol Bios
Extended User Interface
TBU: Tape Backup Unit
TCPC: The Clean Personal Computer group
TC: Technical Committee
TCPLDP: Transmission Control Protocol
TC: Test Control
extensions for Long Delay Paths
TC: Transmission Control
TCPLW: Transmission Control Protocol Large
(Communication)
Windows
TC: Transmission Convergence (Network)
(Communication)
TCPSAT: Transmission Control Protocol over
TCA: Touch Count Algorithm SATellite
Buffer-cache management algorithm used by Oracle to (Network)
maximize cache efficiency (Databases) (Oracle)
TCQ: Tagged Command Queuing
TCA: Transaction Cost Analysis SCSI feature to allow multiple I/O requests
Methodology that can be used to measure the cost of individual
shopper operations such as registering, browsing, searching a TCSEC: Trusted Computer Systems Evaluation
catalog, adding an item to a shopping cart, checking out, and Criteria
so on (Microsoft)
TCSH: Trusted C SHell
TCAM: TeleCommunication Access Method
TD: Table Data
(IBM)
HTML tag
TCAM: Ternary Content Addressable Memory
TD: Transmit Data
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
T
TCAP: Transaction Capabilities Application Part
TDA: To Do Archive
Adds transaction based functionality to the Public Switch
Filename extension
Telephone Network (PSTN)
TCAV: Trend Chip Away Virus TDC: Tabular Data Control
Antivirus hardware for motherboards that blocks boot-time TDC: Tape Data Controller
viruses (Hardware)
TDC: Terrestrial Data Circuit
TCB: Trusted Code Base
TDCC: Transportation Data Coordinating
(Software)
Committee
T-CCS: Transparent Common Channel Signaling
TD-CDMA: Time Division Code Division Multiple
(Hardware) (Cisco)
Access
TCG: Trusted Computing Group (Communication)
Group that develops and promotes open, vendor-neutral,
TDD: Telecommunications Device for the Deaf
industry standard specifications for trusted computing building
blocks and software interfaces across multiple platforms. See TDE: Terminal Display Editor
also https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/ (Organizations)
TDES: Triple Data Encryption Standard
TCK: Test Compatibility Kit
(Security)
(Software) (Sun)
TCL: Tool Control Language

TDF THOR
TDF: Trace Definition File TEN: TransEuropean Network

TER: Thermal Eclipse Reading
TDF: Typeface Definition File (Sony)
File name extension
TERM: Technology Enabled Relationship
TDI: Transport Data Interface Management
TDL: Test Description Language TERMCAP: TERMinal CAPability
TDM: Technical Document Management TERMINFO: TERMinal INFOrmation
TDM: Telecom Designed Network TERMPWR: TERMinator PoWeR
TDM: Text Data Mining TESS: The Exponential Security System
(Security)
TDM: Time-Division Multiplexing
Multiplexing technique that apportions the time available on its TETRA: TErrestrial Trunked RAdio
composite link equally between its channels, interleaving data Modern digital Private Mobile Radio (PRM) and Public Access
from successive channels (Communication) Mobile Radio (PAMR) technology for police, ambulance and fire
services, security services, utilities, military etc.
TDMA: Time Division Multiple Access
(Communication)
TDMATBICPLY: This Doesn't Mean A Thing But It TFDD: Text File Device Driver
Confuses People Like You
(Net lingo) TFEL: Thin-Film ELectroluminescent
TDMS: Terminal Display Management System TFI: Terminal Facility Identifier

TDP: Tag Distribution Protocol TFM: Tagged Font Metric
File name extension
TDP: Telelocator Data Protocol
TFP: Tops Filing Protocol
TDP: Triton Data Path
TFS: Team Foundation Server
TDR: Time Domain Reflectometry
Productive and effective solution for managing change across
TDS: Tabular DataStream organizations of all sizes. It enables you to securely manage all
Database client to server communication protocol (Databases) project artifacts and source code in one repository (Software)
(Microsoft)
TDS: Tex Directory Structure
TFS: Translucent File Service
TDSR: Transmitter Data Service Request A copy-on-write file system that enables users to share file
hierarchies while providing each user with a private hierarchy
TDtoDP: Tablet Coordinates TO Display
for saving files as they are modified
Coordinates
TFT: Task File Table
TE: Terminal Equipment
An ISDN-compatible terminal device that is attached to the TFT: Thin Film Transistor
ISDN at the user interface LCD monitors manufacturing technology (Hardware)
TE/2: Terminal Emulator/2 TFTP: Trivial File Transfer Protocol
Simple version of the FTP protocol often used to transfer data
TEA: Tiny Encryption Algorithm
with diskless workstations, X-terminals and routers (Network)
(Security)
TFTPD: Trivial File Transfer Protocol Daemon
TEAMA: Taiwanese Electric Appliance
Server-side TFTP service responsible for hosting specific file
Manufacturer's Association download requests made by the client
TEB: Thread Environment Block TGA: TarGA
TEC: Tokyo Electronics Corporation File format for images
TECO: Text Editor and COrrector TGC: Terminal Group Controller
T TED: Tiny EDitor TGIF: Thank Goodness It's Friday

(Net lingo)
TED: Transient Electromagnetic Device
(Hardware) TGP: Thumbnail Gallery Post
TEDIS: Trade Electronic Data Interchange TGS: Ticket Granting Server
Systems (Security)
TEI: Terminal Endpoint Identifier TGT: Ticket Granting Ticket

(Security)
TEI: Text Encoding Initiative
TH: Table Header
TEL: Tivoli Enterprise Console
HTML tag
TELCO: TELephone Central Office
TH: Transmission Header
(Communication)
(Communication)
TeleVAS: TELEphony Value Added Service
THD: Total Harmonic Distortion
TELNET: TELephone NETwork A sound quality parameter (lower is better) (Hardware)
TEML: Turbo Editor Macro Language THEnet: Texas Higher Education NETwork
(Borland)
THOMAS: The House of representatives Open
TEMP: TEMPorary Multimedia Access System
TEMS: Tornado Electronic Messaging Service THOR: Tandy High-performance Optical Recording
(Software)

THR TMDB
THR: Transmit Holding Register TIS: Transaction Information System

THS: THeSaurus TISPAN: Telecoms & Internet converged Services
File name extension & Protocols for Advanced Networking
See http://portal.etsi.org (Communication)
THT: Token Holding Timer
TITOFET: Tunneling-In, Tunneling-Out Field
THX: Tomlinson Holman eXperiment
Effect Transistor
Certification and quality control program that applies to sound
systems and acoustics in theaters, home equipment, and TK/TK: TracK to TracK
digital mastering processes
TKIP: Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
TI: Texas Instruments (Security)
TI: Tool Interface TKPROF: Transient Kernel PROFile
(Software) (Sun) A utility available in Oracle installations that converts the trace
TI: Transport Independent files (generated by session tracing) to a human readable
manner, with formatting and sorting (Oracle)
TIA: Telecommunications Industry Association
TL1: Translation Language 1
TIA: Thank you In Advance (Communication)
(Net lingo)
TLA: Three Letters Acronym
TIA: The Internet Adapter
TLB: Translation Look-aside Buffer
TIATLG: Truly, I Am The Living God (Hardware)
(Net lingo)
TLD: Tag Library Descriptor
TIB: Tag Information Base (Software) (Sun)
TiB: TebIByte TLD: Top Level Domain
Unit of measurement, introduced by the International (Network)
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), correspondig to 1024 GiB
TLDA: Technology License and Distribution
TIC: Total Initial Cost Agreement
TID: Target IDentifier TLE: Template Language Extensions
TIES: Time Independent Escape Sequence (Software)
TIF: Tagged Image File TLI: Transport Layer Interface

Filename extension An interface that is to supersede the socket-based interprocess
communications mechanisms as the way to access transport
TIFF: Tagged Image File Format services. Modeled after the industry standard ISO Transport
File format for images Service Definition (Communication)
TIGA: Texas Instruments Graphics Architecture TLN: Trunk Line Network

(Hardware) (TI) TLP: Transmission Level Point
TIGER: Topologically Integrated Geographic TLS: Thread Local Storage
Encoding and Referencing Computer programming method that uses static or global
TIIAP: Telecommunications and Information memory local to a thread (Software)
Infrastructure Assistance Program TLS: Transport Layer Security
TIL: Tech Information Library A protocol from the IETF based on SSL. It will eventually
supersede SSL while remaining backward-compatible with SSL
TIM: Technical Information Memo implementations (Security)
(Compaq)
TLSWG: Transport Layer Security Working Group
TIME: Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions (Organizations)
TIMI: Technology Independent Machine Interface TLU: Table LookUp
(IBM)
TLX: TeLeX
T
TIMS: Text Information Management Systems
TM: TradeMark
TINA: Telecommunication Information
TM: Traffic Management
Networking Architecture
(Communication)
TINA-C: Telecommunication Information
TM: Transaction Manager
Networking Architecture Consortium
TM: Transaction Monitor
TIP: Terminal Interface Processor
TM: Translation Memory
TIP: Text Input Processor
Also known as translation database, is a collections of entries
(Software)
where a source text is associated with its corresponding
TIP: Transaction Internet Protocol translation in one or more target languages
TIP: Transputer Image Processing TM: Transmission and Multiplexing

(Communication)
TIPHON: Telecommunications and Internet
Protocol Harmonzation Over Networks TMA: Transparent Media Adapter
ETSI Standard to support the market for voice communication Scanner add-on to acquire material on transparent media
and related voice band communication between users. It will (Hardware)
ensure that users connected to IP based networks can
TMDA: Tagged Message Delivery Agent
communicate with users in Switched Circuit Networks
TIS: Tools Interface Standard TMDB: Tivoli Management DataBase

TMDS TPM
TMDS: Transition-Minimized Differential Signaling TOD: Time Of Day

(Hardware)
TODC: Time-Of-Day Clock
TME: Tivoli Management Environment A clock module that contains the system date and time (year-
(Tivoli) month-day-hour-minutes). (Hardware)
TMF: Tivoli Management Framework TODS: Transactions On Database Systems

TMF: Transaction Monitoring Facility TOE: Tcp Off-load Engine
(Hardware)
TMI: Too Much Information
(Net lingo) TOEFL: Test Of English as a Foreign Language
TML: TeMpLate TOF: Tiny Open Firmware

File name extension TOGAF: The Open Group Architecture Framework
TMN: Telecommunication Management Network Industry standard architecture framework that may be used
(Communication) freely by any organization wishing to develop an information
systems architecture for use within that organization. See also
TMP: TeMPorary http://www.opengroup.org/togaf/
File name extension TOMS: Transactions On Mathematical Software
TMPFS: TeMPorary File System TOOIS: Transactions On Office Information
A file system type that uses local memory for disk reads and Systems
writes (Operating systems)
TOP: Technical Office Protocol
TMR: Transient Memory Record
TOPICS: Total Online Program and Information
TMR: Triple Modular Redundancy Control System
TMS: Thesaurus Management System TOPLAS: Transactions On Programming
(Databases) Languages And Systems
TMS: Time Multiplexed Switch tops: Theoretical Operations Per Second
TMS: Traffic Management System Processing power (Hardware)
TMS: Truth Maintenance System TOPS: Timesharing OPerating System

TMSC: Tape Mass Storage Control TOS: Terms Of Service
TMX: Translation Memory eXchange TOS: The Operating System
Vendor-neutral open XML standard for the exchange of TOS: Time Of Service
Translation Memory (TM) data created by Computer-Assisted
Translation (CAT) software ToS: Type Of Service
TN: Twisted Nematic A field within an IP header which can be used by the device
originating the packet, or by an intermediate networking
(Hardware) device, to signal a request for a specific QoS level (Network)
TNC: Terminal Node Controller TP: Transaction Processing
TNC: Threaded Neill Concelman TP: Turbo Pascal
TNEF: Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format TP: Twisted Pair
Format for converting a set of MAPI properties into a serial
data stream. Primarily used by transport providers that need to TPC: Transaction Processing Council
encode MAPI message properties for transmission through a (Organizations)
messaging system that does not support those properties
directly (Software) (Microsoft) TPCP: Two Phase Commit Protocol
(Communication)
TNFS: Trusted Network File System
(Security) TPD: Tail Packet Discard
(Network)
T TNG: The New Generation
(CAI) TPD: Technical Product Documentation
TNIEG: Trusted Network Interpretation TPDU: Transport Protocol Data Unit

Environmental Guideline TPE: Twisted Pair Ethernet
(Network)
TPF: Tiny Personal Firewall
TN-LCD: Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Display Software firewall produced byTiny Software, Inc
TNO: The Netherlands Organization (http://www.tinysoftware.com/) (Security)
TNPC: Taiwanese New Pc Consortium TPF: Transaction Processing Facility

(IBM)
TNS: Transparent Network Substrate
A foundation technology, built into the Oracle Net foundation
tpi: Tracks Per Inch
layer that works with any standard network transport protocol Recording density (Hardware)
TPI: Transport Provider Interface
TNS: Trivial Name Server The kernel components of the Transport Layer Interface (TLI)
TNT: The News Toolkit TPL: Table Producing Language
See also NeWS (Sun)
TPL: Targeted Peripheral List
Tnx: ThanKS (Hardware)
(Net lingo)
TPL: Transaction Processing Language
TOC: Table Of Contents
TPM: Transaction Processing Manager

tpm TSOP
tpm: Transactions Per Minute TRP: Token Ring Port

Processing speed
TRPC: Transactional Remote Procedure Call
TPM: Trusted Platform Module
TRR: Token Ring Repeater
Published specification detailing a secure cryptoprocessor that
can store cryptographic keys that protect information, as well TRT: Token Rotation Timer
as the general name of implementations of that specification,
often called the "TPM chip" or "TPM Security Device" (Hardware) TS: Terminal Services
TPORT: Twisted pair PORT transceiver
(AT&T) TS: Top Secret
TPOS: Transaction Processing Operating System TS: Transaction Server

TPPC: Transaction Processing Performance
Council TS/SI: Top Secret/Sensitive Information
(Organizations) TSA: Target Service Agent
TP-PMD: Twisted Pair Physical layer Medium (Operating systems) (Novell)
Dependent TSA: Technical Support Alliance
TPR: Third-Party Relay TSA: Telephony Services Architecture
TPS: Transaction Processing System TSAP: Transport Service Access Point
TPS: Transactions Per Second TSAPI: Telephony Server Application
TPT: Twisted Pair Transceiver Programming Interface
(Novell)
TPTP: Test & Performance Tools Platform
Provides powerful frameworks and services for an open TSB: Termination Status Block
platform upon which developers build unique test and TSC: Triton System Controller
performance tools—both open source and commercial—that
easily integrate with Eclipse (Software) TSD: Type-Specific Driver
TPW: Turbo Pascal for Windows TSDU: Transport Service Data Unit
TPx: Transport Protocol class x The amount of user data whose identity is preserved from one
end of a transport connection to the other
TQFP: Thin Quad Flat Pack
TSE: Technical Support Engineer
(Hardware)
TSE: Terminal Server Edition
TQM: Total Quality Management
TR: Table Row
TSE: The Semware Editor
HTML tag
TSF: Text Services Framework
TR: Technical Report
Simple and scalable framework that enables advanced text
TR: Terminal Ready input and natural language technologies for applications
TR: TRavan
Tape medium type (TR-3, TR-4) (Hardware) TSI: Time Slot Interchanger
TRADIC: TRansistorized Airborne DIgital TSI: Transmission Subscriber Identification

Computer TSI: Transport Security Initiative
Name of first computer to be entirely transistorized Works in conjunction with the sysadmin and vendor
TRAM: TRAnsputer Module communities to develop the knowledge and tools to combat the
junk email problem. See http://mail-abuse.org/tsi/
(Hardware)
TSID: Transmitting Subscriber IDentifier
TrAX: TRansformation Api for Xml
(Communication)
TREX: Tree Regular Expressions for Xml
A means of expressing validation criteria by describing a
TSLM: Terminal Services License Manager T
pattern for the structure and content of an XML document
TRIB: Transfer Rate of Information Bits TSM: Tivoli Storage Manager
Protects data from hardware failures and other errors by
TRIP: Telephony Routing over Internet Protocol storing backup and archive copies of data on offline storage
Discovery and exchange of IP telephony gateway routing tables (IBM)
between providers
TSM: Topology Specific Module
TRIPS: Trade Related aspects of Intellectual (Novell)
Property rightS
TSM: Transaction Services Manager
TRM: TeRMinal
TSMP: True Symmetric MultiProcessor
File name extension
TSN: Task Sequence Number
TRN: Threaded Read News
TSO: Time Sharing Option
TRN: Token Ring Network
Multitasking system for IBM MVS operating system (Operating
(Network)
systems) (IBM)
TRO: Total Return on Ownership TSO/CMS: Time Sharing Option/Conversational
TROLI: Token Ring Optimized Link Interface Monitor System
TRON: The Realtime Operating system Nucleus TSOP: Thin Small-Outline Package
(Hardware)
TROSN: The Real-time Operating System Nucleus

TSP TY
TSP: Telephony Service Provider TUCAA: The Ultimate Computer Acronyms Archive
TSP: Time Stamp Protocol TUCD: Total User Cell Difference
(Security)
TUCOWS: The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock
TSP: Time Synchronization Protocol Software
TSP: Total Service Provider TUG: Tex Users Group
TSPI: Telephony Service Provider Interface TUI: Text-based User Interface
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) TUMS: Table Update and Management System
T-SQL: Transact Structured Query Language TUP: Telephone User Path
TUT: Transistor Under Test
TSR: Terminate and Stay Resident (Hardware)
TSS: Task State Segment TUT: TUTorial
TSS: The Screen Savers File name extension
Technical TV show. See also TUV: Technische Überwachungs-Verein
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/
(Organizations)
TSS: Time Sharing System
TUX: Torvald's UniX
(Operating systems)
Name of the Linux penguin. (Operating systems)
TST: TeST
TV: TeleVision
File name extension
(Hardware)
TSTN: Triple SuperTwisted Nematic
TVD: Total Virus Defense
TSV: Tab Separated Values
TVF: Table of contents Verbosely from File
TSW: TeleSoftWare
TVFS: Toronto Virtual File System
TT: Typewriter Text (IBM)
HTML tag
TVI: TeleVision Interference
TTA: Transport-Triggered Architecture
TVO: Total Value of Ownership
TTAU: Tear That A** Up
TVOL: TeleVision On-Line
(Net lingo)
TVT: TeleVision Terminal
TTC: Two-Task Common
(Hardware)
Oracle's implementation of the OSI presentation layer which
provides character set and data type conversion between the TVT: ThinkVantage Technology
client and server (Oracle) Lenovo branding for proprietary software. (Software)
TTCN: Tree and Tabular Combined Notation TWAIN: Toolkit Without An Important Name
TTDS: Trusted Time Date Stamping Improperly expanded as shown, this term comes from Kipling's
"The Ballad of East and West" - "...and never the twain shall
TTF: TrueType Font meet...", reflecting the difficulty of connecting digital imaging
File format for fonts devices (like scanners) to personal computers
TTFN: Ta Ta For Now TWIP: TWentIeth of a Point

That's all for now (Net lingo) Equal to 1/1440th of an inch.
TTI: Two-Task Interface TWP: Technical Working Procedure

Network interface to specific server-side functionality (Oracle) TWT: Travelling Wave Tube
TTL: Time To Live (Hardware)
(Network) TWX: TeletypeWriter eXchange service
T TTL: Transistor-Transistor Logic TX: Transmit
Semiconductor manufacturing technology (Hardware) (Communication)
TTP: Thermal-Transfer Printing TXD: Transmit Data
TTP: Trusted Third Parties TXF: Tax eXchange Format
TTRP: Time Token Rotation Protocol File name extension
TTRT: Target Token Rotation Time TXT: TeXT

File name extension
TTS: Text-To-Speech
TXT: Trusted eXecution Technology
TTS: Transaction Tracking System
Hardware extension to some of Intel's microprocessors and
(Novell)
respective chipsets, intended to provide users and
TTS: Trouble Ticketing System organizations (governments, enterprises, etc.) with a higher
level of trust while accessing, modifying or creating sensitive
TTY: TeleTYpewriter data and code (Hardware) (Intel)
Historically, a Teletypewriter equipment. Today, any dumb
TXT2STF: TeXT To Structured Text File
terminal that can access a computer or workstation (Hardware)
(Lotus)
TTYL: Talk To You Later
TY: Thank You
(Net lingo)
(Net lingo)
TUC: Total User Cell

TYIA UD-DVD
TYIA: Thank You In Advance UBE: Unsolicited Bulk E-mail

(Net lingo)
UBL: Universal Business Language
TYS: Told You So
UBNI: Ungermann-Bass Network Interface
(Net lingo)
UBR: Uddi Business Registry
TYVM: Thank You Very Much
(Software)
(Net lingo)
UBR: Universal Broadband Router
TZ: Time Zone
Router used in broadband cable systems (Communication)
UBR: Unspecified Bit Rate
U
UC: UnCacheable
U: Underline
Video memory access method in BIOS (Hardware)
HTML tag
UCAA: Ultimate Computer Acronyms Archive
U: Unit
(Remedios)
Rack-mountable devices height measurement unit
corresponding to 1.75 inches (Hardware) UCAID: University Corporation for Advanced
U/W SCSI: Ultra/Wide Small Computers System Internet Development
Interface (Organizations)
(Hardware) UCB: Unit Control Block
U2W: Ultra-2-Wide UCD: Unicode Character Database
(Hardware) Consists of a number of data files listing character properties
and related data along with a documentation file that explains
UA: Unnumbered Acknowledgement
the organization of the database and the format and meaning
UA: User Agent of the data in the files. See also http://www.unicode.org/ucd/
An ISO/OSI application process that acts on behalf of a user or UCE: Unsolicited Commercial Email
organization in the X.400 message handling system. The UA
creates, submits, and receives messages for you UCF: Universal Communications Facility
(CAI)
UA: User Area
UCITA: Uniform Computer Information
UAAG: User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
Transactions Act
W3C recommendation that provides guidelines for designing
user agents that lower barriers to Web accessibility for people UCL: Universal Communications Language
with disabilities (visual, hearing, physical, cognitive, and
neurological) UCLP: Universal Commerce Language and
Protocol
UAB: Unix Appletalk Bridge
UCM: Unified Change Management
UAC: Universal Access Control
A Change Management (CM) concept implemented by Rational
UAC: User Account Control Software Corporation (Software) (Rational)
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) UCP: Universal Connection Pool
UADSL: Universal Asymmetric Digital Subscriber (Databases) (Oracle)
Line UCR: Under Color Removal
(Communication)
UCS: Unicode Conversion Support
UAE: Unrecoverable Application Error
UCS: Universal Character Set
UAF: User Authorization File
UCS: User Coordinate System
UAGL: User Agent accessibility GuideLines
UCSD: University of California at San Diego
UAM: User Authentication Method
UCSD: User Centered Systems Design
UAN: Universal Application Network A process for developing usable systems with user focus
Standards-based, service-oriented architecture that enables T
organizations to solve the business integration problem within UCSPI: Unix Client-Server Program Interface
and beyond the enterprise (Software) See http://cr.yp.to/proto/ucspi.txt (Software)
UAP: Unified Approval Procedure UCT: Universal Coordinated Time
U
UAPDU: User Agent Protocol Data Unit UDA: Universal Data Access
(Databases)
UAProf: User Agent PROFile
UDB: Universal DataBase
UART: Universal Asynchronous
Receiver/Transmitter (Databases) (IBM)
(Hardware) UDBC: Universal DataBase Connectivity
UAS: User Application Software (Databases)
UAWG: Universal Adsl Working Group UDC: Universal Decimal Classification

(Organizations) UDC: User Defined Commands
UBA: UniBus Adapter UDD: User Data Document
UBB: Ultimate Bulletin Board UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery and
A message board (Software) Integration
UBD: User brain damage UD-DVD: Ultra Definition Digital Video (or
When a computer user does something really weird (Net lingo) Versatile) Disk
(Hardware)

UDE UME
UDE: Universal Data Exchange UI: Unix International

A consortium consisting of Sun, AT&T, and others that formed
UDEC: Universal Digital Electronic Computer
to advance a UNIX System V-based environment, including the
UDF: Uniqueness Database File Open Look GUI (Organizations)
(Software) (Microsoft) UI: User Interface
UDF: Universal Disk Format (Operating systems)
(Hardware) UIC: User Identification Code
UDF: User-Defined Function UID: Unit IDentifier
UDG: User Defined Gateway UID: User IDentifier
UDI: Unrestricted Digital Information In the Unix operating system, the number assigned to each
(Communication) login name. The system uses UID numbers to identify, by
number, the owners of files and directories (Operating systems)
UDM: Unstructured Data Management
UID: User Interface Document
UDMA: Ultra Direct Memory Access
UIL: User Interface Language
(Hardware)
UIMA: Unstructured Information Management
UDO: Ultra Density Optical
Architecture
Optical storage technology that increases capacities by using
Software systems that analyze large volumes of unstructured
an extremely focused blue laser to write and read data.
information in order to discover knowledge that is relevant to
Hewlett-Packard (HP), Sony, and Plasmon collaborated on the
an end user. See also http://incubator.apache.org/uima/
UDO standard (Hardware) (HP)
(Software)
UDO: User-Defined Object
UIMS: User Interface Management System
(Software)
UIN: Universal Internet Number
UDP: User Datagram Protocol
It is a connectionless transport mechanism for IP networks UL: Underwriters Laboratories
(Communication) (Organizations)
UDP/IP: User Datagram Protocol/Internet UL: Unordered List
Protocol HTML Tag
UDRP: Uniform domain-name Dispute Resolution UL: UpLoad
Policy
ULA: Uncommitted Logic Array
UDS: User Data Source
ULANA: Unified Local Area Network Architecture
UDT: Uniform Data Transfer
ULC: Ultra-Light Client
UDT: User-defined Data Type (Software)
UDX: Universal Data eXchange ULN: Universal Link Negotiation
UDX: User-Defined Extension ulp: Unit in Last Place
UFB: Un-F***ing-Believable In binary formats, the least-significant bit of the significant, bit
0, is the unit in the last place
(Net lingo)
ULP: Upper Layer Protocol
UFCOM: Ufficio Federale delle COMunicazioni
Swiss regulatory Organisation (Organizations) ULSI: Ultra Large Scale Integration
The process of placing more than 100,000 components on a
UFS: Unix File System
chip (Hardware)
The default disk-based file system under the Unix operating
system (Operating systems) ULV: Ultra Low Voltage
(Hardware)
UFST: Universal Font Scaling Technology
UM: Unified Messaging
UFT: Unsolicited File Transfer
(Network) UM: Universal Manageability
UG: User Group UMA: Unified Memory Architecture
U UGA: User Global Area UMA: Universal Management Agent
A memory region in the large pool which is used for user UMA: Universal Measurement Architecture
sessions
UMA: Upper Memory Area
UHA: Ultra-High Aperture
LCD display technology (Hardware) UMA: User Mode Audio
Together with PUMA, is an engine in the Windows Vista
UHCI: Universal Host Controller Interface
Protected Environment that provides a safer environment for
UHE: Ultra High Efficiency audio playback, as well as checking that the enabled outputs
are consistent with what the content allows (Operating
(Hardware)
UHF: Ultra-High Frequency
UMADS: Universal Measurement Architecture
UHL: Universal Hypertext Link Data Storage
UHP: Ultra-High Performance UMB: Upper Memory Block
(Hardware)
UMC: United Microelectronics Corporation
UME: Uni Management Entity

UML USL
UML: Unified Modeling Language UPI: Universal Peripheral Interface

A specification defining a graphical language for visualizing, (Hardware)
specifying, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of
distributed object systems UPI: User Programmatic Interface
Undocumented C-language data access API used by Oracle to
UMOD: Unreal MODule interface with the Oracle database (Databases) (Oracle)
Type of compressed files associated with Unreal Tournament
(Games) UPL: User Program Language
UMPC: Ultra Mobile Personal Computer UPM: Unix Programmer's Manual

(Hardware) UPM: User Profile Management
UMS: Unified Messaging Server (IBM)
UMS: Universal Management Service UPN: User Principal Name

(IBM) UPnP: Universal Plug aNd Play
UMS: User Mode Scheduler UPS: Uninterruptible Power Supply
UMTS: Universal Mobile Telecommunications (Hardware)
System UPS: United Parcel Service
(Communication)
UR: Uncommitted Read
UN/EDIFACT: United Nations Electronic Data (Databases)
Interchange For Administration Commerce and
Transport URA: Uniform Resource Agent
(Network)
UN/GTDI: United Nations Guidelines for Trade
Data Interchange URC: Uniform Resource Characteristics
UNC: Universal Naming Convention URC: Uniform Resource Citation

A set of attribute/value pairs describing a resource. Some of
UNC: Uuencoded Netnews Collator the values may be URIs of various kinds. Others may include,
UNCOL: UNiversal Computed Oriented Language for example, authorship, publisher, datatype, date, copyright
status and shoe size.
UNDI: Universal Network Driver Interface
URD: Url Rendezvous Directory
Architectural interface to Network Interface Cards (NICs) that
(Network)
provides a hardware-dependent mechanism for the Preboot
eXecution Environment (PXE) base code to use a NIC for UREP: Unix Rscs Emulation Protocol
network access without controlling the NIC hardware directly
Protocol
(Hardware)
URI: Uniform Resource Identifier
UNE: Unbundled Network Element
The generic set of all names/addresses that are short strings
(Communication)
that refer to resources (specified 1994; ratified as Internet
UNEP: Unbundled NEtwork Platform Draft Standard 1998). (Network)
UNI: Universal Network Interface U-RIB: Unicast Routing Information Base

(Network)
UNI: User-Network Interface
The interface between the Frame Relay URIBL: Uniform Resource Identifier Black List
Assembler/Disassembler (FRAD) and the service provider Lists domain names and IP addresses that appear in URIs such
(Communication) as web sites mentioned in message bodies. It contrasts with an
RHSBL which lists domain names used in e-mail addresses
UNICODE: UNIversal CODE
URL: Uniform Resource Locator
UNICOM: UNiversal Integrated COMmunication
The set of URI schemes that have explicit instructions on how
UNII: Unlicensed National Information to access the resource on the internet. (Network)
Infrastructure URN: Uniform Resource Name
UNIVAC: UNIVersal Automatic Computer A particular scheme which is currently under development in
the IETF, which should provide for the resolution using internet
UNIX: UNiplexed Information and Computing protocols of names which have a greater persistence than that
Service currently associated with internet host names or organizations.
Modern abbreviation of UNICS. Ken Thomson and Dennis (Network) U
Ritchie, the original creators of UNIX, chose this name because
URT: User Registration Tool
it was a pun on MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information and
Computing Service), the project they were working on when Dynamic authorization and policy control framework that
UNIX was born (Operating systems) manages access to the LAN by partitioning user traffic through
VLANs (Software) (Cisco)
UNMA: Unified Network Management Architecture
US: Unit Separator
UNO: United Nations Organization
USART: Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous
(Organizations)
Receiver/Transmitter
UOW: Unit Of Work (Hardware)
UP: UniProcessor USB: Universal Serial Bus
UPC: United Pan-european Communications (Hardware)
Large european cable operator USBIF: Universal Serial Bus Implementers Forum
UPC: Universal Product Code (Organizations)
(Hardware) USENET: USEr's NETwork
UPC: User Parameter Control USL: Unix System Laboratories
UPG: UPGrade (Organizations)

USM VAD
USM: UnSharp Mask UUENCODE: Unix-to-Unix ENCODE

Used in digital photography, is a filter that first blurs the image Process that encodes binary data into 7-bits ASCII characters.
(mask) and then subtract that mask from original. The result is Used to exchange data across platforms, mainly via e-mails
optically sharper image (edges are with higher contrast) and newsgroup messages attachments
USM: User-based Security Model UUI: User-To-User Information
(Network) (AT&T)
USMT: User State Migration Tool UUID: Universal Unique IDentifier
Tool to migrate user files and settings during large
UUO: Unimplemented User Operation
deployments of Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows
VistaÂ® operating systems (Operating systems) (Microsoft) A DEC-10 system monitor call (originally Un-Used Operation)
(DEC)
USN: Update Sequence Number
UUT: Unit Under Test
(Operating systems)
(Hardware)
USOC: Universal Service Ordering Code
UV: UltraViolet
USQ: UnSQueezed
UW: Uncommitted Write
usr: Unix System Resources (Databases)
In any unix (and variants like linux) system the /usr directory
(Operating systems) UWB: Ultra-Wide Band
(Communication)
USR: US Robotics
Company UWIN: Unix for WINdows
Software that enables Unix software to be executed on a
USRT: Universal Synchronous Windows platform (Operating systems) (AT&T)
Receiver/Transmitter
UWR: Ultra Wideband Radio
(Hardware)
(Communication)
USSA: User Supported Software Association
UXF: Uml eXchange Format
USSD: Unstructured Supplementary Services Data XML-based model interchange format for UML (Unified
Is a means of transmitting information or instructions over a Modeling Language). UXF is a simple and well-structured
GSM network (Communication) format to encode, publish, access and exchange UML models,
and allows UML to be highly interoperable
USWC: Uncacheable Speculative Write Combining
Video memory access method in BIOS (Hardware) UXGA: Ultra eXtended Graphics Array
Display adapter capable of a resolution of 1600 X 1200 pixel
UT: Universal Time (Hardware)
UT: Unreal Tournament UY: Up Yours
See http://www.unrealtournament.com/ (Games) (Net lingo)
UT: User Terminal UYB: Up Your Butt
UTC: Coordinated Universal Time Colorful phrase denoting digusted hostility. (Net lingo)
UTF: Ucs Transformation Format

V
UTI: Universal Text Interchange
V: Volt
uTOK: User's Tree Of Knowledge
Voltage measurement unit
UTOPIA: Universal Test and Operation Physical V&V: Verification And Validation
Interface for Atm
Physical layer specification for local connectivity between ATM V.FC: Version First Class
devices (Communication) Communications standard
UTP: Unshielded Twisted Pair V/F: Voltage to Frequency converter

UTRA: Umts Terrestrial Radio Air interface V/IP: Voice over Internet Protocol
(Communication) (Communication)
U UTRAN: Umts Terestrial Radio Access Network VA: Virtual Address

(Communication)
VA: Visual Age
V UTS: Unicode Technical Standard (IBM)
UTS: User Too Stupid VA: Volt-Ampere
Dumb user with an error caused by himself (Net lingo) Electric power measurement unit (Hardware)
UUCP: Unix to Unix Copy Program VAC: Volts Alternating Current

A program that uses the UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Protocol VACM: View-based Access Control Model
UUCP: Unix to Unix Copy Protocol (Network)
A protocol for communication between consenting UNIX VACS: Vector-based Asynchronous
systems (Network)
Communication System
UUD: Unix-To-Unix Decoding
VAD: Value Added Dealer
Obtained with UUDecode, a Unix utility that decodes data from
7-bit ASCII VAD: Voice Activity Detection
UUE: Unix-To-Unix Encoding When enabled on voice port or a dial peer, silence is not
transmitted over the network, only audible speech. The sound
Obtained with UUEncode, a Unix utility that encodes data into quality is slightly degraded, but the connection uses much less
7-bit ASCII bandwidth

VADD VCS
VADD: Value Added Disk Driver VBL: Vertical Blanking Interrupt

VADD: VisualAge Developer Domain VBNS: Very high Bandwidth Network Service
(Software) (IBM) (Network)
VADSL: Very-high rate Asymmetric Digital VBNS: Very high speed Backbone Network Service
Subscriber Line (Network)
VAh: Volt Ampere Hour VBO: Virtual Back Office
Electrical energy measurement unit (Hardware) (Communication)
VAI: Video As Input VBR: Variable Bit Rate
VAIO: Video Audio Integrated Operation VBRUN: Visual Basic RUNtime
(Hardware) (Sony)
VBS: Visual Basic Script
VAIO-U: Video Audio Integrated Operation-
VBX: Visual Basic eXtension
Ubiquitous
(Hardware) (Sony)
VC: Venture Capital
VAJ: Visual Age for Java
(Software) (IBM) VC: Virtual Circuit
A logical connection between two network nodes that acts as
VAL: VALue though it is a direct physical connection even though it may
VAL: Voice Application Language physically be packet based (Network)
VAM: Virtual Access Method VC: Virtual Container

(Communication)
VAN: Value-Added Network
(Network) VC++: Visual C++
Development platform (Software) (Microsoft)
VAN: Virtual Access Network
(Network) VCBxx: Virtual Codebooks version xx
MPEG-4 Audio Error Resilience (ER) technique that detects
VANDL: VANcouver Data Language serious errors within spectral data
VAP: Value Added Provider VCC: Virtual Channel Connection
VAP: Value-Added Process (Network)
VAR: Value Added Reseller VCD: Video Compact Disc

(Hardware)
VAR: Value Added Retailer
VCD: Virtual Communications Driver
VaR: Value At Risk
(Software) VCE: Visual Composition Editor
(Software) (IBM)
VAR: Value-Added Reseller
A company that buys hardware and software, adds more VCI: Virtual Channel Identifier
features or services to it, then resells the upgraded product A 16-bit value in the ATM cell header that provides a unique
identifier for the virtual channel (VC) within the virtual path
VAR: VARiable (VP) that carries that particular cell (Communication)
VAR: Volt-Ampere Reactive VCI: Virtual Circuit Identifier
Electric power measurement unit (Hardware)
VCL: Visual Component Library
VAROS: VAriable Refraction Optical System (Software) (Borland)
Scanner technology (Hardware) (Canon)
VCM: Version and Configuration Management
VAS: Virtual Audio Server (Software)
VAST: Variable Array Storage Technology VCM: Version Conflict Manager
VAT: Value Added Tax (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
VAX: Virtual Address eXtension VCM: Version Control Management

(Hardware) (DEC) VCM: Virtual Channel Memory
VB: Variable Block (Hardware)
VB: Visual Basic VCN: Virtual Cluster Number V

Programming language (Software) (Microsoft) (Operating systems)
VBA: Visual Basic for Applications VCOS: Virtual Computer Operating System
(Software) (Microsoft) (Operating systems)
VBE/AI: Vesa Bios Extension/Audio Interface VCOS: Visual Caching Operating System
VBI: Vertical Blanking Interval VCPI: Virtual Control Program Interface
(Hardware) VCQ: Vibrant Color Quality
VBIDE: Visual Basic Integrated Development (Hardware) (Matrox)
Environment VCR: Video Cassette Recorder
(Software) (Microsoft) (Hardware)
VBIS: Value-Based Information System VCR: Voluntary Content Rating
VBITS: Visual Basic Insiders' Technical Summit VCS: Version Control System
(Microsoft)
VCS: Virus Control System

VCSEL VI
VCSEL: Vertical Cavity Side-Emitting Laser VESA: Video Electronics Standard Association
Used in high-bandwidth communication applications (Hardware) (Organizations)
VDB: Virtual DataBase VF: Virtual Floppy
(Databases)
VF: Voice Frequency
VDC: Virtual Device Coordinates
VFAT: Virtual File Allocation Table
In computer graphics, a device-independent coordinate system
(Microsoft)
that isolates the specification of view boundaries from device
coordinates VFC: Virtual FIle Cabinet
VDC: Volts Direct Current (Software)
VDD: Virtual Device Driver VFD: Vacuum Fluorescent Display

(Hardware)
VDD: Virtual Disk Drive
(Hardware) VFO: Virtual Front Office
(Communication)
VDD: Visual Database Designer
VFS: Virtual File System
VDDM: Virtual Device Driver Manager
(Operating systems)
VDE: Video Display Editor VFW: Video For Windows
VDE: Virtual Domain Environment (Microsoft)
(Network) VG: Voice Grade
VDE: Visual Development Environment (Communication)
VDI: Video Display Input VGA: Video Graphic Array

(Hardware) Video specification for a resolution of 640 X 480 pixels in 256
colors (Hardware)
VDI: Virtual Device Interface
VGC: Video Graphics Controller
VDISK: Virtual DISK
VGE: Video Graphics Enhancer
VDM: Virtual Dos Machine
(Hardware)
VDMAD: Virtual Direct Memory Access Device VGI: Visual Gateway Interface
(Microsoft)
(Software)
VDN: Vector Directory Number VHD: Virtual Hard Drive
(Communication)
File format containing the complete contents and structure
VDP: Variable Data Printing representing a Hard Disk Drive, and is used to store virtual
operating systems and their associated programs in a single
VDS: Variable Drop Size file by various virtualization programs or a virtual machine
Printing technology (Hardware) (NEC) (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
VDS: Virtual Dedicated Server VHDCI: Very High Density Cable Interconnect
Specialized software platform that provides a secured private (Hardware)
space for your hosted services
VHDL: Vhsic Hardware Description Language
VDS: Virtual Dma Services Commonly used as a design-entry language for field-
programmable gate arrays and application-specific integrated
VDSL: Very high bit rate Digital Subscriber Line circuits in electronic design automation of digital circuits
(Communication) (Hardware)
VDT: Video Dial Tone VHDTS: Very High Density Thumb Screw
VDT: Video Display Terminal 68-pin SCSI connector with manually screwable screws
(Hardware) (HP)
(Hardware)
VHF: Very High Frequency
VDU: Video Display Unit
VHG: Virtual HyperGlossary
VDWQT: Vertical Deferred Write Queue Threshold
(Databases) VHM: Voice Health Monitor
Helps system administrators and network managers determine
VEGA: Video7 Enhanced Graphics Adapter
and maintain the stability of the Voice over IP (VoIP) network
VEMM: Virtual Expanded Memory Manager within their enterprise by using a series of availability and
V VEMMI: VErsatile MultiMedia Interface
health checks (Software) (Cisco)
VHS: Very High Speed
VENUS: Very Extensive Non-Unicast Service
VHS: Video Home System
VEP: Vertical Enterprise Portal
VHS: Virtual Host Storage
VER: VERify
VHSIC: Very High Speed Integrated Circuit
VER: VERsion (Hardware)
VERONICA: Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Netwide VI: Vertical Interval
Index to Computerized Archives The raster lines that are precluded by a video signal standard
VERP: Variable Envelope Return Paths from containing a picture
VERR: VERify Read access VI: Video Input

(Hardware)
VERW: VERify Write access
VI: Virtual Interface
VES: Video Encoding Standard (Hardware)
(Oracle)

VI VME
VI: Visual Interactive VLA: Variable Length Array

(Software)
VIA: Vendors Isdn Association
(Organizations) VLAN: Virtual Local Area Network
A networking architecture that allows end-systems on
VIA: Virtual Interface Architecture
topologically disconnected subnetworks to appear to be
(Network) connected on the same LAN. Predominately used in reference
VIC: Very Inexpensive Computer to ATM networking. Similar in functionality to bridging
(Network)
(Hardware)
VLB: Vesa Local Bus
VIC: Video Interface Chip
(Hardware)
VL-BUS: Vesa Local BUS
VIC: Virtual Image Copy
(Databases) VLC: VideoLan Client
Highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video
VIC: Voice Interface Card
formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as
(Hardware) (Cisco) well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. See also
http://videolan.org/vlc/
VID: Visual InterDev
(Software) (Microsoft) VLC: Volume License Customer
VIDC: VIDeo Controller VLD: Variable Length Decoder
(Hardware)
VLE: Virtual Learning Environment
VIE: Virtual Information Environment An environment in which learning (accredited or otherwise) can
be achieved from remote locations
VIF: Virtual InterFace
VLF: Very Low Frequency
VIF: Virtual Interrupt Flag
VLF: Virtual Log File
VIM: Vendor-Independent Mail
SQL Server transaction log logical segment (Databases)
Messaging protocol (Communication) (Microsoft)
VIM: Video Interface Module VLIW: Very Long Instruction Word
VINES: VIrtual NEtworking System VLK: Volume License Key
(Network)
VLM: Very Large Memory
VIO: Video Input/Output (Operating systems)
VIO: Virtual Input/Output VLM: Virtual Loadable Module
VIO: Voice Input/Output (Operating systems)
VIP: Variable Information Processing VLR: Visitor Location Register

(Hardware)
VIP: Video Information Provider
VLSI: Very Large Scale of Integration
VIP: Video Interface Port
The process of placing more than 100,000 transistors on one
(Hardware) chip (Hardware)
VIP: Virtual Interrupt Pending VLSIPS: Very Large Scale Immobilized Polymer
VIP: Visual Interactive Parser Synthesis
ViP: VIsual Programming VLSM: Variable Length Subnet Masking
(Lotus) (Network)
VIPER: Verifiable Integrated Processor for VLT: Variable List Table

Enhanced Reliability VLV: Virtual List View
VIRS: Vertical Interval Reference Signal (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
VIRUS: Vital Information Resources Under Siege VM: Virtual Machine

(Operating systems)
VIS: Video Information System
VM: Virtual Memory
VIS: Viewable Image Size
(Hardware) VMA: Virtual Memory Address
VIS: Visual Instruction Set VMAC: Virtual Media Access Control
V
VIS: Voice Information System VMAN: Virtualization MANagement
set of specifications that address the management lifecycle of a
VIS: Volumetric Imaging System virtual environment
(Hardware)
VMB: Value-Based Management
VITC: Vertical Interval TimeCode
VMB: Virtual Machine Boot
VITS: Vertical Interval Test Signal
VMBOX: Virtual MailBOX
VIVO: Video In/Video Out
Video card connector that captures and produces video signals VMD: Versatile Multilayer Disc
(Hardware) (nVidia) (Hardware)
VJ++: Visual J++ VME: Versa Module Eurocard

Java development platform (Software) (Microsoft) VME: Virtual Machine Environment
VKD: Virtual Keyboard Driver VME: Virtual Memory Environment

VMEBus VR
VMEBus: Versatile Modular E-BUS VOS: Voice Operating System

VOX: Voice Operated eXchange
VML: Vector Markup Language Voice operated transmission in radio telecommunication. When
XML application which defines a format for the encoding of the device detects voice the transmission is connected
vector information together with additional markup to describe (Communication)
how that information may be displayed and edited
VoxML: Voice Markup Language
VMM: Virtual Machine Manager
VP: Vice President
(Operating systems)
VP: Virtual Path
VMM: Virtual Memory Manager
VPA: Volume Purchase Agreement
VMOS: Vertical Metal Oxide Semiconductor
(Hardware) VPBX: Virtual Private Branch eXchange
(Hardware)
VMOS: Virtual Multitasking Operating System
(Operating systems) VPD: Virtual Printer Device
VMP: Virtual Modem Protocol VPD: Vital Product Data

Information about a device that is stored on the device itself.
VMS: Virtual Machine Storage Typical VPD information includes a product model number, a
VMS: Virtual Memory System unique serial number, product release level, maintenance
level, and other information specific to the device type
(Operating systems) (DEC)
VPDN: Virtual Private Data Network
VMS: Voice Message System
VPDS: Virtual Private Data Service
VMT: Virtual Memory Technique
VPE: Video Port Extension
VMTP: Versatile Message Transaction Protocol
(Hardware)
(Network)
VPE: Visual Programming Environment
VNA: Virtual Network Architecture
VPI: Virtual Path Indentifier
VNC: Virtual Network Computing
A value in the cell header that identifies the virtual path (VP) to
A remote display system which allows you to view a computing which the cell belongs. The field is 8 bits in cells traversing an
'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is UNI circuit and 12 bits in cells traversing network circuits
running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide (Communication)
variety of machine architectures (AT&T)
VPIM: Voice Profile for Internet Messaging
VNOS: Visual Network Operating System
Defines how voice messages can be encoded as SMTP/MIME
VNS: Virtual Network Service messages for transport over Internet messaging networks
(Communication)
VO: Value Object
(Software) VPL: Virtual Programming Language
VO: Video Output VPM: Video Port Manager

(Hardware) VPM: Virtual Parallel Machine
VO: Virtual Office VPM: Vulnerability and Patch Management
VoATM: Voice Over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (Operating systems) (HP)
Enables a router to carry voice traffic over an ATM network VPN: Virtual Page Number
(Network)
VPN: Virtual Private Network
VOB: Version Object Base A network that functions as if it were private, though it exists
VOC: VOiCe on public wires. Data is protected through encryption and other
security mechanisms (Network)
File format for audio
VPO: Virtual Protected Output
VOD: Video On Demand
VPS: Virtual Private Server
VoD: Voice Over Data
VPS: Voice Processing System
VoDSL: Voice Over Digital Subscriber Line
(Communication) VPSC: Vault, Process, Structure, Configuration
VoFR: Voice Over Frame Relay VPT: Virtual Print Technology
V Enables a router to carry voice traffic over an Frame Relay VPT: Virtual Project Team
network (Network)
VPU: Visual Processing Unit
VoIP: Voice Over Internet Protocol
Graphics coprocessor (Hardware)
A technology for transporting integrated digital voice, video,
and data over IP networks (Network) VQ: Vector Quantization
VOL: VOLume VQ: Video Quality
VOLT: Visual Opentype Layout Tool VQF: Vector Quantization Format
(Software) (Microsoft) An audio codec similar to MP3 but less lossy and (arguably)
more intelligent. See http://www.vqf.com (Software)
VOM: Volt Ohm Milliampere
(Hardware) VQP: Vlan Query Protocol
(Network) (Cisco)
VOR: Visions Of Reality
VR: Virtual Reality
VOS: Virtual Object System
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) VR: Voltage Regulator

VRAM VuXML
VRAM: Video Random Access Memory VSIA: Virtual Socket Interface Alliance
A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) used in high-speed graphics (Organizations)
frame buffers, providing separate buses for the CPU and the
frame buffer logic (Hardware) VSIMM: Video Single In line Memory Module
A small printed circuit card that contains memory chips for
V-RATE: Vendor Risk Assessment and Threat storing video images (Hardware)
Evaluation
VSIO: Virtual Serial Input Output
(Security)
VRC: Vertical Redundancy Check VSM: Virtual Shared Memory
VRD: Virtual Retinal Display VSM: Virtual Storage Management

(Hardware) VSM: Visual System Management
(IBM)
VRE: Voltage Regulated Extended
VRF: Virtual Routing and Forwarding VSN: Volume Serial Number
Allows multiple instances of a routing table to co-exist within VSOS: Virtual Storage Operating System
the same router at the same time. Because the routing
instances are independent, the same or overlapping IP VSP: Vertical Service Provider
addresses can be used without conflicting with each other VSR: Very Short Reach
(Network)
(Communication)
VRM: Vendor Relationship Management
VSS: Visual Source Safe
VRM: Visitor Relationship Management (Software) (Microsoft)
VRM: Voltage Regulation Module VSYNC: Vertical SYNChronization
VRML: Virtual Reality Modeling Language VT: Vertical Tab
VROOMM: Virtual Real-time Object Oriented VT: Video Terminal
Memory Manager (Hardware) (DEC)
(Borland)
VT: Virtualpc-Technology
VRRP: Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (Hardware) (Intel)
Non-proprietary redundancy protocol described in RFC 3768
designed to increase the availability of the default gateway VTAM: Virtual Table Access Method
servicing hosts on the same subnet (Network) IBM operating system module (Operating systems)
VRRP: Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol VTAM: Virtual Telecommunications Access Method
Election protocol that dynamically assigns responsibility for a IBM's application program to interface with telecommunication
virtual router to one of the VRRP routers on a LAN (Network) devices (Communication) (IBM)
VRT: Voltage Regulation Technology VTAS: Voice Traffic Analysis System

(Intel) (HP)
VRU: Voice Response Unit VTF: Volunteer Task Force

Group of individuals in the anti-spam community who have
VS: Virtual Storage donated their time and expertise to assist MAPS in its mission.
(IBM) See http://mail-abuse.org/vtf/
VSA: Virtual System Architecture VTNS: Virtual Telecommunications Network
VSA: Visual Studio Analyzer Service
Is a tool to help you analyze performance, isolate faults, and VTP: Vlan Trunking Protocol
understand the structure of your distributed applications. You Layer 2 messaging protocol that mantains VLAN configuration
can use Visual Studio Analyzer with applications and systems consistency by managing the addition, deletion, and renaming
built with any of the Visual Studio tools (Software) (Microsoft) of VLANs on a network-wide basis (Network) (Cisco)
VSA: Visual Studio for Applications VTR: Video Tape Recorder
Provides a fully integrated way for customers to seamlessly (Hardware)
customize and extend the functionality of Web-based
applications using familiar tools (Software) (Microsoft) VTS: Virtual Tape System
VSAM: Virtual Storage Access Method (Hardware)
(Operating systems) (IBM) VTS: Volume Tracking Driver
VSAT: Very Small Aperture Terminal VTX: VideoTeX
V
(Communication) (Communication)
VSB: Very Small Business VTY: Virtual teleTYpewriter
VSB: Vestigial Sideband Modulation Virtual terminal for remote console access. (Network) (Cisco)
(Communication) VUI: Visual User Interface
VSD: ViSio Diagram (Operating systems)
Filename extension (Microsoft) VUI: Vocal User Interface
VSDT: Variable-Size Droplet Technology VUP: Vax Unit of Performance
Print technology (Hardware)
VuXML: VUlnerabilities and eXposures Markup
VSE: Virtual Storage Extended Language
Markup language designed for the documentation of security
VSF: Vertical Scanning Frequency
issues within a single package collection (Security)
VSI: Virtual Socket Interface

VVDS WB
VVDS: Vsam Volume DataSet WAG: Wild A** Guess

(Operating systems) (IBM) (Net lingo)
VVM: Veritas Volume Manager WAG: Wireless Applications Group
Easy-to-use, online storage management tool for enterprise (Organizations)
environments, which reduces planned and unplanned
downtime. It ensures high availability of data and optimized WAH: Working At Home
I/O performance and offers freedom of choice in storage (Net lingo)
hardware investments
WAI: Web Accessibility Initiative
VVR: Veritas Volume Replicator
WAI: Web Application Interface
Provides the foundation for seamless availability across sites.
Based on VERITAS Volume Manager, it reliably, efficiently, and (Netscape)
consistently replicates data to remote locations over any IP WAIK: Windows Automated Installation Kit
network when data loss and prolonged downtime cannot be
First introduced with Windows Vista, it's a collection of tools
tolerated
and technologies produced by Microsoft designed to assist in
VWB: Visual WorkBench the deployment of Windows (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Microsoft) WAIPF: Web Accessibility Initiative Protocols and
VWIC: Voice/Wan Interface Card Formats
(Hardware) (Cisco) WAIS: Wide Area Information Server (or Service)
VWM: Virtual Window Manager (Network)
VXA: Variable Speed Architecture WAITI: WAIT for Interrupt

(Hardware) WAITS: Wide Area Information Transfer System
VxD: Virtual device Driver WAL: Write Ahead Log
WAMP: Windows, Apache, Mysql, PHP (or Perl or
VxD: Virtual eXtended Driver Phyton)
(Microsoft) Web applications platform (Software)
VxFS: Veritas File System WAN: Wide Area Network
(Operating systems) A T1, T3, broadband, or other network covering an area
generally larger than a city or metropolitan area network
VXML: Voice eXtensible Markup Language
(Network)
WAP: Wireless Access Point
W
Centrally connects wireless network nodes similar to a hub
W: Watt connecting wired PCs. (Network)
Power measurement unit WAP: Wireless Application Protocol
W: Word WAPI: Workflow Application Programming
Two consecutive bytes (16 bits) Interface
W/: With Workflow Management Coalition specification to enable
interoperability between workflow management systems and
W/E: WhatEver applications (Software)
(Net lingo)
WAR: Web ARchive
W/O: WithOut
WARIA: Workflow And Reengineering
W2K: Windows 2000 International Association
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) The charter of the WARIA is to identify and clarify issues that
are common to users of workflow, electronic commerce and
W3: World Wide Web
those who are in the process of reengineering their
W3A: World Wide Web Applets organizations. See also http://www.waria.com/ (Organizations)
W3C: World Wide Web Consortium WARP: Web service Aggregation, Rely and
(Organizations) Propagation
W3I: WinWhatWhere Investigator WAS: Web Application Server

System activity monitor (Operating systems) (Network) (Oracle)
W3J: World Wide Web Journal WAS: Web Application Stress

V W4: What-Works-With-What
WASP: Wireless Application Service Provider
W WAAS: Wide Area Augmentation System (Software)
WAB: Windows Address Book WAST: West Australian Standard Time
Filename extension (Software) (Microsoft)
Timezone: GMT +7:00
WABI: Windows Application Binary Interface WAT: West Africa Time
WAC: Web Authorization Control Timezone: GMT -1:00
WADL: Web Application Description Language WATS: Wide Area Telephone Service
XML-based file format that provides a machine-readable WAV: WAVeform
description of HTTP-based web applications. These applications
are typically REST web services (Software) File format for audio streams
WADT: West Australian Daylight Time WB: Wide Band

Timezone: GMT +7:00 (Communication)
WAE: Wireless Application Environment

WB WEST
WB: Workbench WDL: Windows Driver Library

Pre-PPC Amiga operating system (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
WBEM: Web-Based Enterprise Management WDM: Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
A mechanism to allow multiple signals to be encoded into
WBI: Web Browsing Intelligence
multiple wavelengths (Communication)
WBMP: Wireless BitMaP
WDM: Windows Driver Model
File Format for bitmapped images suitable for WAP devices
WBS: Work Breakdown Structure
WDP: Wireless Datagram Protocol
WBT: Web-Based Training
WDR: Web Description Resources
WBTS: Windows-Based Terminal Server Vocabulary for Protocol for Web Description Resources
(POWDER)
WBXML: Wap Binary eXtensible Markup Language
WDRAM: Windows Dynamic Random Access
WC: Word Count
Memory
WC: World Coordinates
WDRD: Web Description Resources Datatypes
The coordinate system that is scaled so that user-defined
objects can be represented in units appropriate to the WDS: Wireless Distribution System
application, such as inches, meters, and miles (Communication)
WCA: Web Clipping Application WDT: Wap Developer's Toolkit
WCAG: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (Software)
These guidelines explain how to make Web content accessible WDU: Windows Desktop Update
to people with disabilities. The guidelines are intended for all (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
Web content developers and for developers of authoring tools.
The primary goal of these guidelines is to promote accessibility WE: Write Enable
WCCP: Web Cache Communications Protocol (Hardware)
(Network) (Cisco) WEA: Web-Enabled Application
WCDMA: Wideband Code Division Multiple Access WebDAV: WEB Distributed Authoring and
Versioning
W-CDMA: Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
Extension of the HTTP/1.1 protocol to allow clients to publish,
(Communication)
lock, and manage resources on the Web
WCF: Windows Communication Foundation
WebNFS: WEB Network File System
Set of .NET technologies for building and running connected
systems (Software) (Microsoft)
WEC: Web Extender Client
WCGL: Web Content accessibility GuideLines
Microsoft Office 2000 protocol that is used for Web publishing,
WCI: Web-based Customer Interaction and is usually implemented through the use of Microsoft
FrontPage Server Extensions (Microsoft)
WCM: Web Content Management
WECA: Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance
WCS: Web Communications Server
(Organizations)
(Hardware)
WEDJE: Widget Enabled Dom Javascript
WCS: Websphere Commerce Server
Embedding
Software platform framework for e-commerce, including
(Software)
marketing, sales, customer and order processing functionality
in a tailorable, integrated package (Software) (IBM) WEDT: Western Europe Daylight Time
WCS: World Coordinate System Timezone: GMT +0:00
WCSS: Wap Cascading Style Sheets WEFT: Web Embedding Fonts Tool
WCTL: Web Crossing Template Language
WELL: Whole Earth eLectronic Link
WD: Western Digital
(Hardware) WEMA: Western Electronics Manufacturers
Association
WD: Working Draft (Organizations)
WDA: Web-Disabled Application WEO: World Economic Outlook
WDATAM: What Do All The Acronyms Mean WEP: Watchguard Event Processor
(Net lingo)
WDDX: Web Distributed Data eXchange
WEP: Windows Entertainment Pack
W
XML-based technology that enables the exchange of complex
data between Web programming languages, creating what WEP: Windows Entry Point
some refer to as 'Web syndicate networks' (Software)
WDF: Windows Driver Foundation WEP: Wired Equivalent Privacy
Strategy for the next generation of Windows drivers. WDF Lower level data encryption for wireless security (Network)
defines a single driver model that supports the creation of
object-oriented, event-driven drivers for either kernel mode or WEP: Wireless Encryption Protocol
user mode (Operating systems) (Microsoft) (Network)
WDG: Web Design Group WER: Windows Error Reporting

WDJ: Web Developer's Journal WEST: Western Europe Standard Time

Timezone: GMT +0:00

WFC WLG
WFC: Windows Foundation Classes Wi-Fi: WIreless FIdelity

(Software) (Microsoft) IEEE 802.11 standard for wireless network connectivity
(Network)
WFH: Working From Home
(Net lingo) WIM: Windows Image Format
Used by the SMS 2003 Operating System Deployment Feature
WfM: Wired For Management Pack (Software) (Microsoft)
WFM: Works For Me WiMAX: Worldwide Interoperability Microwave
(Net lingo) Access
WfMC: WorkFlow Management Coalition IEEE 802.16 broadband wireless access standard
Non-profit, international organization of workflow vendors, WIMP: Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointing
users, analysts and university/research groups. See also devices
http://www.wfmc.org/ (Organizations)
WIN: Wireless Information Network
WFP: Windows File Protection
Feature which prevents the replacement of essential system Win2K: WINdows 2000
files installed as part of Windows 2000 (Operating systems) (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Microsoft)
Win2K3: WINdows 2003
WFQ: Weighted Fair Queuing (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
Per-flow packet scheduling in network elements that
automatically categorizes traffic flows into high and low WINA: Wap Interim Naming Authority
priority, based on volume of packets seen by a router or switch
WINE: Wine Is Not an Emulator
(Network)
Windows Emulator for Unix platforms (Operating systems)
WfW: Windows For Workgroups
WINForum: Wireless Information Networks
(Microsoft)
FORUM
WG: Working Group
WinHEC: WINdows Hardware Engineering
WGA: Windows Genuine Advantage Conference
Part of Microsoft’s on-going effort to protect its customers and
WINS: Windows Internet Name Service
partners from counterfeit software, is a program that increases
customer awareness of the value of genuine Windows XP (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Microsoft) WINSOCK: WINdows SOCKets
WGPO: WorkGroup PostOffice (Operating systems)
WGS: WorkGroup System Wintel: WINdows/inTEL

System based on Intel Processors and Microsoft Windows
WH2FO: Word Html To Formatting Objects
operating system
Java application that processes an HTML output, created with
Word 2000, and transforms it into an XML content file and an WIP: Work In Progress
XSL stylesheet file. From these files, a standard XSLT (Net lingo)
processor may be used to obtain a file containing only XSL-FO
markup (Software) WIRE: Web/Internet Resource Executive
WHAM: Waveform Hold And Modify WIS: Wan Interface Sublayer
WHATWG: Web Hypertext Application Technology WIS: Windows Installer Service

Working Group (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
See http://www.whatwg.org/ (Organizations) WISC: Writeable Instruction Set Computer
WHC: Workstation Host Connection (Hardware)
WHISPER: Windows Highly Intelligent SPEech WISE: Web-Integrated Software metrics

Recognition Environment
WHQL: Windows Hardware Quality Labs WISE: Wordperfect Information System

Environment
WHS: Windows Home Server
(Microsoft) WISP: Wireless Internet Service Provider
(Network)
WIA: Windows Image Acquisition
Standardized API for acquiring digital images from devices that WIT: Web Interactive Talk
are primarily used to capture still images and for managing
WKB: WorKBook
these devices (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
W WIC: Wan Interface Card
File name extension
WKS: WorKSheet
(Hardware) (Cisco)
File name extension (Lotus)
WIC: Whole Internet Catalogue
WL: Word Line
WICD: Web Integration Compound Document
WLAN: Wireless Local Area Network
Device independent foundation for Compound Document
profiles based on XHTML, CSS and SVG (Network)
WIDL: Web Interface Definition Language WLBS: Windows Load Balancing Service
WIF: Wavelet Image File
File format for images WLE: WebLogic Enterprise
WLG: dr. Watson LoG
Filename extension (Microsoft)

WLL WPVM
WLL: Wireless Local Loop WOM: Wake On Modem

(Communication) (Network)
WLM: WorkLoad Manager WOM: Write-Only Memory
(Operating systems) (IBM) (Hardware)
WLS: WebLogic Server WOOF: Web-centric Open Object Framework
WM: Windows Media WOR: Wake On Ring
WM: Windows Messenger WORM: Write Once Read Many
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) (Hardware)
WM: Workstation Manager WOS: Workstation Operating System
(Novell)
WOSA: Windows Open Systems Architecture
WMA: Windows Media Audio (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Microsoft)
WOU: Warranty Option Upgrade
WMC: Wireless Mobile Communications (Hardware)
(Hardware)
WOW: Windows on Win32
WMC: Workflow Management Coalition (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
WME: Windows Media Encoder WOW: WithOut Worry
(Microsoft) (Hardware) (Xerox)
WMF: Windows Metafile Format WOW: World Of Warcraft
File format for graphics (Microsoft) (Games)
WMF: Wireless Multimedia Forum WP: Word Processor
WMFSDK: Windows Metafile Format Software WP: WordPerfect
Development Kit (Software) (Corel)
(Microsoft)
WP: Write Protected
WMI: Windows Management Instrumentation
WPA: Wi-fi Protected Access
Microsoft's implementation of Web-Based Enterprise
Designed to improve security over the older WEP encryption
Management (WBEM), which is an industry initiative to develop
methods (Security)
a standard technology for accessing management information
in an enterprise environment (Operating systems) (Microsoft) WPA: Windows Product Activation
WML: Website Meta Language (Software) (Microsoft)
Free and extensible Webdesigner's off-line HTML generation WPAN: Wireless Personal Area Network
toolkit for Unix, distributed under the GNU General Public
(Network)
License. See also http://thewml.org/
WPAR: Workload PARtition
WML: Wireless Markup Language
Feature introduced with the IBM AIX® Version 6.1 operating
WMLS: Wireless Markup Language Script system. It allows running applications to move between
System p machines or System p logical partitions (LPARs)
WMP: Windows Media Player (Operating systems) (IBM)
WPD: Windows Printer Description
WMRM: Write Many, Read Many File name extension
(Hardware)
WPD: WordPerfect Document
WMT: Windows Media Technology File format for documents (Corel)
WPF: Windows Presentation Foundation
WMV: Windows Media Video New window system that comes pre-installed on Microsoft
(Microsoft) Windows Vista (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
WNIC: Wide-area Network Interface Coprocessor WPG: WordPerfect Graphics
WNILS: Whois and Network Information Lookup File name extension
Service WPHD: Write-Protected Hard Disk
(Network)
WPM: WordPerfect Macro
WNIM: Wide-area Network Interface Module File name extension
WNT: Windows New Technology wpm: Words Per Minute W
Early acronym for NT, based on incrementing each letter of Speech recognition processing power (Software)
VMS (the original NT designers came from DEC) in the same
way 2001's HAL came from "IBM" (Operating systems) WPOS: WorkPlace Operating System
(Microsoft)
WPP: Web Presence Provider
WOF: Web Objects Framework Web site design, development, and deployment company
(Network)
WPS: Windows Printing System
WOL: Wake On Lan (Microsoft)
(Hardware)
WPS: WorkPlace Shell
WOLF: Web Objects for Legacy Functions (IBM)
(Software)
WPVM: Windows Parallel Virtual Machine

WPW WSUI
WPW: Web Publishing Wizard WSE: Web Services Enhancements

(Software) (Microsoft) Add-on to Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and the Microsoft .NET
Framework providing developers the latest advanced Web
WPW: WordPerfect for Windows services capabilities to keep pace with the evolving Web
(Software) services protocol specifications (Software) (Microsoft)
WQL: Wmi Query Language WSF: Windows Script File
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) Filename extension (Software) (Microsoft)
WQXGA: Wide Quad eXtended Graphics Array WSH: Windows Script Host
Video specification for a resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels (Microsoft)
(Hardware)
WS-I: Web Services Interoperability
WRAM: Window Random Access Memory See http://www.ws-i.org (Organizations)
(Hardware)
WSIF: Web Services Invocation Framework
WRDS: Wharton Research Data Service Simple Java API for invoking Web services, no matter how or
WRED: Weighted Random Early Detection where the services are provided (Software)
Combines IP precedence and Random Early Detection WSIL: Web Services Inspection Language
capabilities to provide differentiated performance Provides an XML format for assisting in the inspection of a site
characteristics for different classes of service (Network) for available services and a set of rules for how inspection
WRI: WRIte related information should be made available for consumption
(Software)
File name extension
WSIL4J: Web Services Inspection Language For
WRK: Windows Resource Kit
Java
(Microsoft)
Java class library that provides an API that is can be used to
WRT: With Regards To locate and process WS-Inspection documents (Software)
(Net lingo) WSIT: Web Services Interoperability Technology
WRUD: What aRe yoU Doing? Open-source project for Java and .Net interoperability
(Net lingo) (Software) (Sun)
WS: Web Services WSJ: Web Services Journal

Web-based enterprise applications that use open, XML-based WSML: Web Services Markup Language
standards and transport protocols to exchange data with calling
clients. Also used to prefix web services interoperability WSP: Web Standards Project
applications or standards (Software) Collective effort of web developers and end users whose
mission is to stop the fragmentation of the web, by persuading
WS: WordStar the browser makers that common standards are in everyone's
WS: WorkSpace best interest
WS: WorkStation WSP: Wireless Session Protocol
WSA: Web Services Addressing WSRM: Web Services Reliable Messaging

Provides transport-neutral mechanisms to address Web Provides a standard, interoperable way to guarantee message
services and messages delivery to applications or Web services (Software)
WSAD: Websphere Studio Application Developer WS-RM: Web Services Reliable Messaging
(Software) (IBM) (Software)
WSAM: Windows Secure Application Manager WSRP: Web Services for Remote Portlets
Standard that will allow for the "plug-n-play" of portals, other
WSAPI: Web Site Application Programming intermediary web applications that aggregate content, and
Interface applications from disparate sources (Software)
(O'Reilly & Associates)
WSRP4J: Web Services for Remote Portlets For
WSC: Windows Script Component Java
(Software) (Microsoft) Apache's java implementation of WSRP. See also
http://ws.apache.org/wsrp4j/ (Software)
WS-CDL: Web Services Choreography Description
Language WSS: WebServices Security
XML-based language that describes peer-to-peer collaborations OASIS standard (Software)
of Web Services participants by defining their common and
WSS: Windows Sharepoint Services
complementary observable behavior; where ordered message
exchanges result in accomplishing a common business goal Windows 2003 integrated portfolio of collaboration and
communication services designed to connect people,
WSDD: Web Service Deployment Descriptor information, processes, and systems both within and beyond
W (Software) the organizational firewall (Software) (Microsoft)
WSDL: Web Service Description Language WS-SC: Web Services Secure Conversations
An XML format for describing network services as a set of (Software)
endpoints operating on messages containing either document-
WST: Web Standard Tools
oriented or procedure-oriented information
Extension to the Eclipse platform with support for building
WSDP: Web Services Developer Pack multi-tier Web applications. (Software)
The Java Web Services Developer Pack is an all-in-one
WSTK: Web Services ToolKit
download containing key technologies to simplify building of
web services using the Java 2 Platform (Software) (Sun) (Software) (IBM)
WSUI: Web Service User Interface

WSUS XCP
WSUS: Windows Server Update Service WWDC: WorldWide Developers Conference

Free patch management tool that provides a number of new (Apple)
features including targeting of patches to specific groups of
machines, support for more produts and improved reporting. WWID: World Wide IDentifier
Replaces Software Update Services (SUS) (Operating systems) Synonym for World Wide Name (WWN) (Network)
(Microsoft)
WWIS: World Wide Information System
WSVT: Web Service Validation Tools
WWN: World Wide Name
Project that provides a set of Eclipse plugins to validate and
analyze Web services with respect to the core Web services Unique identifier in a Fibre Channel or Serial Attached SCSI
specifications and their usage together (Software) storage network. Each WWN is an 8-byte number derived from
an IEEE OUI (for the first 3 bytes) and vendor-supplied
WSXGA: Wide Super eXtended Graphics Array information (for the rest) (Network)
Display adapter capable of a resolution of 1680 X 1050 pixel WWW: World Wide Web
(Hardware)
The web of systems and the data in them that is the Internet
WT: Write Through (Network)
WTA: Wireless Telephony Application WXGA: Wide eXtended Graphics Array

Display adapter capable of a resolution of 1280 X 768 pixel
WTAI: Wireless Telephony Application Interface (Hardware)
(Software)
WYP: What's Your Problem?
WTD: Week To Date (Net lingo)
Time series function
WYSBYGI: What You See Before You Get It
WTF: What The F**k
(Net lingo) WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get
WTG: Way To Go WZC: Wireless Zero Configuration

(Net lingo) (Network) (Microsoft)
WTK: Wireless ToolKit

X
(Software)
X: X windows
WTL: Windows Template Library
A windowing system developed by MIT (Operating systems)
Library for developing Windows applications and UI
components. It extends ATL (Active Template Library) and X2B: heXadecimal To Binary
provides a set of classes for controls, dialogs, frame windows, (IBM)
GDI objects, and more (Software) (Microsoft)
X2C: heXadecimal To Character
WTLS: Wireless Transport Layer Security
(IBM)
WTO: World Trade Organization
X2D: heXadecimal To Decimal
(Organizations)
(IBM)
WTP: Web Tools Platform
XA: eXtended Architecture
Provides a generic, extensible and standards-based platform
and set of tools for J2EE and Web-centric application XA: eXtended Attribute
development (Software)
XACL: Xml Access Control Language
WTP: Wireless Transport Protocol Provides XML with a sophisticated access control mechanism
WTS: Web Transaction Security that enables the initiator not only to securely browse XML
documents but also to securely update each document element
(Security)
X-ACT: Xml Active Content Technologies
WTS: Windows Terminal Server
(Microsoft) XAPIA: X.400 Application Programming Interface
Association
WTX: Workstation Technology eXtended
(Organizations)
A size (max 16.75"x14" -- 425mm x 356mm, LxW) and form
factor specification for motherboards. See also XBL: Xml Binding Language
http://www.wtx.org (Hardware) Markup language for describing bindings that can be attached
WUI: Web User Interface to elements in other documents. Bindings can be attached to
elements using either cascading stylesheets (CSS) or the
(Network) document object model (DOM)
WUM: Wind Up Merchant XBM: X BitMap
Someone who posts messages on boards specifically to wind File format for bitmapped images
up other users (Net lingo)
XBMC: XBox Media Center
WUS: Windows Update Services
Media player for the original Xbox game-console. XBMC can
W
An evolution of SUS, WUS is the update management play music and videos, display images and launch Xbox games
component of Windows Server (Software) (Microsoft)
WUXGA: Wide Ultra eXtended Graphics Array
from the Xbox's DVD drive, its internal hard drive, a local
network, USB flash drive, and the internet
X
Display adapter capable of a resolution of 1920 X 1200 pixel XBRL: eXtensible Business Reporting Language
(Hardware)
XCBF: Xml Common Biometric Format
WV: Working Voltage
(Hardware)
XCHG: ExCHanGe
WVGA: Wide Video Graphic Array XCMD: eXternal CoMmanD

Video specification for a resolution of 852 X 480 pixels in 256 (Software) (Apple)
colors (Hardware) XCP: eXtended Copy Protection
WWD: Wireless Web Display Rootkit-based copy protection scheme

XDE XP
XDE: eXtended Development Experience XLM: eXceL Macro

As in Rational Software's XDE product (Software) (Rational) File name extension (Microsoft)
XDF: Extended Density Format XLS: eXceL Spreadsheet
(IBM) File name extension (Software) (Microsoft)
XDK: Xbox Development Kit XLT: eXceL Template
(Software) (Microsoft) File name extension (Microsoft)
XDK: Xml Development Kit XLW: eXceL Workbook
(Software) File name extension (Software) (Microsoft)
XDM: X Display Manager XMA: eXtended Middleware Architecture
A program supplied with the OpenWindows interface that (Software)
manages X displays (Operating systems)
XMI: Xml Metadata Interchange
XDMCP: X Display Manager Connection Protocol A specification enabling easy interchange of metadata between
Protocol for connecting to XDM controlled displays (Operating modeling tools (based on the OMG-UML) and metadata
systems) repositories (OMG-MOF based) in distributed heterogeneous
environments
XDR: eXternal Data Representation
A standard for machine-independent data structures developed XMIT: TransMIT
by Sun (Sun)
XML: eXtensible Markup Language
XDR: Xml Data Reduced
XMLC: eXtensible Markup Language Compiler
XFCN: eXternal FunCtioN Converts a HTML or XML document to a Java class
XFDL: eXtensible Forms Description Language XMLDSIG: eXtensible Markup Language Digital
SIGnature
XGA: eXtended Graphics Array
(Security)
Video specification for a resolution of 1024 X 768 pixels in 256
colors (Hardware) XMLP: eXtensible Markup Language Protocol
XGMML: eXtensible Graph Markup and Modeling XML-QL: eXtensible Markup Language-Query
Language Language
XML application based on GML which is used for graph
description. XGMML uses tags to describe nodes and edges of a
XMM: eXtended Memory Manager
graph. The purpose of XGMML is to make possible the XMML: eXploration and Mining Markup Language
exchange of graphs between differents authoring and browsing
Superset of XML, specific to exploration and mining.
tools for graphs
XMP: eXtensible Metadata Platform
XHR: XmlHttpRequest
Provides Adobe applications and workflow partners with a
API that can be used by JavaScript, JScript, VBScript and other
common XML framework that standardizes the creation,
web browser scripting languages to transfer and manipulate
processing, and interchange of document metadata across
XML data to and from a web server (Software)
publishing workflows (Software) (Adobe)
XHTML: eXtensible HyperText Markup Language
XMPP: eXtensible Messaging and Presence
(Software) Protocol
XID: eXchange IDentifier IETF's formalization of the core protocols created by the Jabber
community in 1999. See also http://www.xmpp.org/
XIF: eXternal Interface File
XMS: eXtended Memory Specification
XIF: Xml Interchange Format
XIFF: eXtended Image File Format
XMSG: Xml MeSsaGing
File format for images
XNI: Xerces Native Interface
XIL: X Imaging Library
Framework for communicating a "streaming" document
The XIL is a platform programming interface for imaging and information set and constructing generic parser configurations.
video support (Operating systems) See also http://xml.apache.org
XIOS: eXtended Input/Output System XNRL: Xml Namespace Related-resource
XIP: eXecute-In-Place Language
HTML-based markup language designed to contain a human-
XIS: eXtensible Information Server readable description of an XML namespace as well as pointers
XKMS: Xml Key Management Specification to multiple resources related to that namespace
(Security) XNS: Xerox Network Services
XL: eXtended Length (Network)
(Hardware) XOFF: Transmitter OFF
X XLA: eXceL Add-In

XON: Transmitter ON
XOP: Xml-binary Optimized Packaging.
XLAT: TransLATe A mean of more efficiently serializing XML Infosets (see
[XMLInfoSet]) that have certain types of content
XLF: ExceptionaL Fortran
(IBM) XOR: eXclusive OR
XLF: eXtensible Log Format XP: Cross Platform
XLK: eXceL bacKup XP: eXPerience
File name extension (Microsoft) (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
XLL: eXtensible Linking Language

XP YUI
XP: eXtreme Performance XTAL: CrysTAL

(Hardware) (Compaq)
XTCLK: eXternal Transmit CLocK
XP: eXtreme Programming
XTLA: eXtended Three Letters Acronym
(Software)
XTM: Xml Topic Map
XPCOM: Cross Platform Component Object Model
(Software) XTND: Xml Transition Network Definition
XPE: eXPerience Embedded XTR: Efficient Compact Subgroup Trace

(Operating systems) (Microsoft) Representation
A crypto system that is a particularly efficient and compact
XPFE: Cross Platform Front End implementation of the classical Diffie-Hellman scheme. See
http://www.ecstr.com (Security)
XPG: X/open Portability Guide
(Operating systems) XUL: Xml User interface Language
Mozilla's XML-based user interface language that lets you build
XPIDL: Cross Platform Interface Definition
feature rich cross-platform applications that can run connected
Language to or disconnected from the Internet (Software)
(Software)
XVGA: eXtended Video Graphics Array
XPM: X PixMap Display standard (Hardware)
File format for bitmapped images
XWB: eXtend WorkBench
XPRM: Xerox Print Resources Manager Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE) (Software)
(Xerox)
XWD: X Window Dump
XPS: Xml Paper Specification
Paginated representation of electronic paper described in an XWSS: Xml and WebServices Security
XML-based format (Microsoft) Provides message-level security that enables a JAX-WS or
SAAJ application's request and response actions to be secured
XQL: eXtensible Query Language at the level of service, port, or operation (Software) (Sun)
XR: eXternal Reset
(Hardware) Y
XRC: eXtended Remote Copy Y2K: Year 2000
XRCC: Xerox Research Centre of Canada YACC: Yet Another Compiler Compiler
(Organizations) (Xerox) Unix program (Operating systems)
XRE: Xul Runtime Engine YAGNI: You Ain't Gonna Need It

Now renamed in XULRunner, is a Mozilla runtime package that Part of the agile programmers mantra of writing only code that
can be used to bootstrap XUL+XPCOM applications that are as nees to be writing and not any that only might be needed (Net
rich as Firefox and Thunderbird. It will provide mechanisms for lingo)
installing, upgrading, and uninstalling these applications
(Software) YAHOO: Yet Another Hierarchically Officious
Oracle
XRF: eXtended Recovery Facility
(IBM)
YAHU: Yet Another Header Utility
Utilities for peeking into executables headers (Software)
XRNS: eXtensible Resource Name System
YAI: Yet Another Isp
XRT: eXtensions for Real-Time
YAM: Yet Another Modem
XSD: Xml Schema Definition
XML-based grammar for describing the structure of XML
YAST: Yet Another Setup Tool
documents. A schema-aware validating parser can validate an YATE: Yet Another Terminal Emulator
XML document against an XSD schema and report any
(Software)
discrepancies
YB: YottaByte
XSL: eXtensible Style Language
1024 zetabytes
XSLT: eXtensible Stylesheet Language
Transformation YDT: Yukon Daylight Time
Timezone: GMT -9:00
XSLTC: eXtensible Stylesheet Language
Transformation Compiler YHBW: You Have Been Warned
Provides a compiler to compile an XSL stylesheet into a (Net lingo)
translet (a set of Java classes) and a runtime processor to YIM: Yahoo! Instant Messenger
apply the translet to an XML document and perform a
(Software)
transformation (Software)
XSMD: eXtended Storage Module Drive YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary
(Net lingo)
XSP: eXtensible Server Pages X
YST: Yukon Standard Time
xSP: eXternal Service Provider Timezone: GMT -9:00
Seller of services to other companies
YTD: Year To Date
Y
XSS: Cross-Site Scripting Time series function
(Software)
YUI: Yahoo! User Interface
XSSI: eXtended Server Side Includes Set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building
XST: Cross-Site Tracing richly interactive web applications using techniques such as
DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX (Software)
XT: eXtended Technology
(IBM)

YW ZV
YW: You're Welcome

(Net lingo)
Z
ZAC: Zero Administration Client
ZAI: Zero Administration Initiative
ZAK: Zero Administration Kit
(Microsoft)
ZAW: Zero Administration for Windows
(Microsoft)
ZB: ZetaByte
1024 exabytes
ZBR: Zero Bug Release
Point in the software development at which all features are
correctly implemented and have no bugs logged against them
(Software)
ZBR: Zone-Bit Recording
ZCAV: Zone Constant Angular Velocity
(Hardware)
Z-CAV: Zoned Constant Angular Velocity
ZD: Ziff-Davis
ZDBOp: Ziff-Davis Benchmark OPeration
ZDL: Zero Delay Lockout
ZDMI: Ziff-Davis Market Intelligence
ZDS: Zenith Data Systems
ZDTV: Ziff-Davis TeleVision
ZEN: Zero Effort Networking
(Novell)
ZIF: Zero Insertion Force
(Hardware)
ZIP: Zigzag Inline Package
(Hardware)
ZIP: Zone Improvement Plan
Postal code
ZLR: Zoom Lens Reflex
(Hardware)
ZNA: Zero Network Administration
(Network)
ZOPE: Z Object Publishing Environment
ZPV: Zoomed Port Video
ZSL: Zero Slot Lan
ZV: Zoomed Video
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a: atto ABC: Atanasoff-Berry Computer

Å: Ångstrom ABEL: Advanced Boolean Expression Language

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ABI: Application Binary Interface ACE: Apacer Compression Explorer

ABT: ABorT ACM: Afp Conversion Module

ACAP: Application Configuration Access Protocol ACP: Active Code Page

ACDI: Asynchronous Communications Device ACR: Allowed Cell Rate

ACE: Access Control Entry ACS: Access Control Server

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ACS: Asynchronous Communication Server ADD: Adapter Device Driver

ACTT: Advanced Communication and ADI: AutoCad Device Interface

ACU: Automatic Calling Unit ADK: Additional Decryption Key

ADA: Automatic Data Acquisitions ADM: Application Distribution and Management

ADB: Apple Desktop Bus ADMD: ADministrative Management Domain

ADC: Application Development Consultant ADPCM: Adaptive Differential Pulse Code

ADCCP: Advanced Data Communication Control ADR: Advanced Digital Recording

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AFPL: Alladin Free Public License AIR: Architecture Implementation Review

AGA: Advanced Graphics Architecture AJAX: Asynchronous Javascript Technology and

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ALM: Application Lifecylcle Management AMR: Adaptive Multi-Rate

AME: Advanced Metal Evaporation ANX: Automotive Network eXchange

AMI: American Megatrends, Inc. AOE: Application Operating Environment

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AOW: Asia and Oceania Workshop APPC: Advanced Program to Program

AP: Application Protocol APPN: Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking

APA: Adaptive Packet Assembly APR: Advanced Port Replicator

APCVG: Association of Personal Computer Users APS: Advanced Photo System

APF: Automated Purposing Framework APSE: Ada Programming Support Environment

API: Application Programming Interface APSO: Audio Precision System One

APM: Application Performance Management APU: Audio Processing Unit

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AR: Application Requester ARQ: Automatic Repeat reQuest

ARM: Advanced Risc Machine ASA: Adaptive Security Appliance

ARMA: Association of Records Managers and ASAP: As Soon As Possible

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ASD: Automatic Skip Driver ASMP: ASymmetric MultiProcessing

ASK: Amplitude Shift Keying ASPX: Active Server Pages eXtended

ASM: Advanced Server Manager ASR: Automatic Speech Recognition

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ASV: Advanced Super View ATLAS: Authorization Token Layer Acquisition

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AUC: AUthentication Center AWDE: Artus Wireless Data Enhancer

AV: Audio Video AWT: Abstract Windows Toolkit

AVA: Avaya Certified Associate

AVK: Application Verification Kit B2X: Binary To heXadecimal

AVT: Applied Voice Technology BAI: Bank Administration Institute

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BAM: Bidirectional Associative Memory BCC: Blind Carbon Copy

BASDA: Business and Accounting Software BCL: Base Class Library

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BD: Blu-ray Disc BEV: Boot Entry Vector

BD-R: Blu-ray Disc Recordable BGT: Branch if Greater Than

BELLCORE: BELL COmmunications REsearch BIB: BIBliography

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BIF: Benchmark Interchange Format BITNET: Because It's Time NETwork

BINL: Boot Information Negotiation Layer BIW: Business Intelligence Warehouse

BIPS: Bank Internet Payment System BLAST: BLocked ASynchronous Transmission