PowerShell/data/abbr/computing.csv

1	ABBR	MEANING
2	.7z	Common filename extension for archive files in 7z format
3	.bat	Common filename extension for Batch script files
4	.bz2	Common filename extension for archive files in bzip2 format
5	.c	Common filename extension for C source code files
6	.cpp	Common filename extension for C++ source code files
7	.csv	Common filename extension for comma-separated value files
8	.cfg	Common filename extension for configuration files
9	.dll	Common filename extension for dynamic-link library files on Windows
10	.exe	Common filename extension for executable files on Windows
11	.gif	Common filename extension for GIF image files
12	.gz	Common filename extension for archive files in gzip format
13	.h	Common filename extension for C/C++ header files
14	.hpp	Common filename extension for C++ header files
15	.ilk	Common filename extension for incremental linking files on Windows
16	.jar	Common filename extension for Java archive files
17	.jfif	Common filename extension for JPEG image files
18	.jpeg	Common filename extension for JPEG image files
19	.jpg	Common filename extension for JPEG image files
20	.lib	Common filename extension for static library files on Windows
21	.m3u	Common filename extension for audio playlists
22	.md	Common filename extension for Markdown files
23	.mp3	Common filename extension for MPEG layer 3 audio files
24	.pdb	Common filename extension for program debug database files on Windows
25	.ps1	Common filename extension for PowerShell script files
26	.psd1	Common filename extension for PowerShell data files
27	.psm1	Common filename extension for PowerShell module files
28	.psxml	Common filename extension for PowerShell XML files
29	.sh	Common filename extension for script files
30	.sln	Common filename extension for MSBuild solution files
31	.tar	Common filename extension for archive files in tar format
32	.txt	Common filename extension for text files
33	.vcxproj	Common filename extension for Visual Studio project files
34	.xml	Common filename extension for XML files
35	.xz	Common filename extension for archive files in XZ format
36	.zip	Common filename extension for archive files in Zip format
37	1NF	First Normal Form
38	2.5D	Two-And-A-Half-Dimensional
39	286	Intel 80286 processor
40	2B1Q	2 Binary 1 Quaternary
41	2FA	Two-factor authentication
42	2GL	Second-Generation Programming Language
43	2KB	2,000 Bytes
44	2NF	Second Normal Form
45	3-D	three dimensions or three-dimensional
46	3270	Information Display System
47	386	Intel 80386 processor
48	3BL	triple bottom line
49	3DCG	Three-Dimensional Computer Graphics
50	3DS	Nintendo 3DS or 3 Dual Screen
51	3G	third generation of mobile telephony
52	3GL	Third-Generation Programming Language
53	3GPP	3rd Generation Partnership Project
54	3LS	3rd Level Support
55	3NF	Third Normal Form
56	3PL	third-party logistics
57	3PV	Peak Player Production Values
58	3Vs	volume, variety and velocity
59	4-D	printing four-dimensional printing
60	40GbE	40 Gigabit Ethernet
61	42	the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything (from 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' by Douglas Adams)
62	486	Intel 80486 processor
63	4B5BLF	4 Byte 5 Byte Local Fiber
64	4G	Fourth Generation
65	4GL	Fourth-generation Programming Language
66	4NF	Fourth Normal Form
67	5GL	Fifth-Generation Programming Language
68	5NL	Fifth Normal Form
69	6NF	Sixth Normal Form
70	7W	seven wastes
71	8-VSB	8-level vestigial sideband
72	802.11	Wireless LAN
73	8B10BLF	8 Byte 10 Byte Local Fiber
74	A+	A Plus
75	A.I.	Airborne Internet
76	A/m	Oe, oersted ampere per meter
77	A11Y	Accessibility
78	AA	modem lights
79	AAA	Authentication,Authorization,Accounting
80	AABB	Axis Aligned Bounding Box
81	AAC	Advanced Audio Coding
82	AACS	Advanced Access Content System
83	AAI	Applied Artificial Intelligence
84	AAM	Automatic Acoustic Management
85	AAR	Apple Authorized Reseller
86	AARP	AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol
87	AAS	as a service
88	AAS	Auto Area Segmentation
89	AAUI	Apple attachment unit interface
90	ab	W abohm
91	abA	abampere
92	ABAP	Advanced Business Application Programming
93	ABB	activity-based budgeting
94	ABBH	average bouncing busy hour
95	abC	abcoulomb
96	ABC	activity-based costing
97	ABC	Atanasoff-Berry Computer
98	abend	abnormal end
99	abF	abfarad
100	abH	abhenry
101	ABIOS	Advanced BIOS
102	ABM	activity-based management
103	ABP	AdBlock Plus
104	ABP	Microsoft Exchange Address Book Policy
105	ABR	AutoBaud Rate or Available Bit Rate
106	abS	absiemens
107	abV	abvolt
108	ABVS	Automated Best Value System
109	abW	abwatt
110	AC	Alternating Current
111	AC-3	Dolby Digital
112	ACCT	Account
113	ACD	Automatic Call Distributor
114	ACE	Access Control Entry
115	ACeS	Asia Cellular Satellite System
116	ACF2	Access Control Facility
117	ACH	Automated Clearing House
118	ACH	fraud Automated Clearing House fraud
119	ACID	Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability
120	Ack	Acknowledgement
121	ACL	Access Control List
122	ACM	Association for Computing Machinery
123	ACO	accountable care organization
124	ACPI	Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
125	ACR	Absolute Cell Reference
126	ACR	attenuation-to-crosstalk ratio
127	ACT	Application Compatibility Toolkit
128	ACTA	America's Carriers Telecommunications Association
129	ACTS	Automatic Coin Telephone System
130	ACV	all commodity volume
131	AD	Active Directory
132	ADAT	Alesis Digital Audio Tape
133	ADatP	Automated Data Processing
134	ADC	Analog-to-Digital Converter
135	ADC	automated data collection
136	ADE	qutomated data entry
137	ADF	Automatic Document Feeder
138	ADO	ActiveX Data Objects
139	ADP	Automatic Data Processing
140	ADPCM	adaptive differential pulse-code modulation
141	ADS	Alternate Data Stream
142	ADSI	Analog Display Services Interface
143	ADSL	Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
144	ADSM	ADSTAR Distributed Storage Management
145	AES	Advanced Encryption Standard
146	AET	advanced evasion technique
147	AF	audio frequency
148	AFC	antiferromagnetically-coupled
149	AFIS	Automated Fingerprint Identification System
150	AFM	atomic force microscopy
151	AFP	Advanced Function Printing
152	AFP	Apple Filing Protocol
153	AFS	Andrew file system
154	aglet	agile applet
155	AGP	Accelerated Graphics Port
156	AGI	Artificial General Intelligence
157	AHA	Accelerated Hub Architecture
158	AHCI	Advanced Host Controller Interface
159	AHIMA	American Health Information Management Association
160	AHRQ	Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
161	AHT	average handle time
162	AI	Artificial Intelligence
163	AIBO	Artificial Intelligence roBOt
164	AICPA	American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
165	AID	automatic identification
166	AIDC	Automatic Identification and Data Capture
167	AIFF	Audio Interchange File Format
168	AIM	application integration middleware
169	AIMS	agile infrastructure for manufactured systems
170	AIN	Advanced Intelligent Network
171	AIT	advanced intelligent tape
172	AIX	Advanced Interactive eXecutive
173	Ajax	Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
174	AKO	Army Knowledge Online
175	AL	access list
176	ALE	Application Link Enabling
177	ALM	application lifecycle management
178	ALPR	Automated License Plate Recognition
179	alt.	alternate newsgroup
180	ALU	Arithmetic Logic Unit
181	AMD	Advanced Micro Devices
182	AMD-V	AMD virtualization
183	AMI	advanced metering infrastructure
184	AMI	Amazon Machine Image
185	AMIA	American Medical Informatics Association
186	AML	anti-money laundering software
187	AMPS	Advanced Mobile Phone Service
188	AMR	ambulatory medical record
189	AMR	Audio/Modem Riser or AMR slot
190	AMR	automated meter reading
191	AMT	advanced manufacturing technology
192	AMTOR	amateur teleprinting over radio
193	ANI	Automatic Number Identification
194	ANQP	Access Network Query Protocol
195	ANSI	American National Standards Institute
196	AoE	ATA over Ethernet
197	AOI	automated optical inspection
198	AOP	aspect-oriented programming
199	AOSP	Android Open Source Project
200	AP	accounts payable
201	AP	Adaptive Planning
202	Apache Hadoop YARN	Yet Another Resource Negotiator
203	APAR	authorized program analysis report
204	API	Application Programming Interface
205	APICS	American Production and Inventory Control Society
206	APIPA	Automatic Private IP Addressing
207	APL	a programming language
208	APM	Advanced Power Management, Application Performance Monitoring, Application Portfolio Management
209	APO	Advanced Planner and Optimizer, advanced planning and optimization
210	AppBlast	Project AppBlast
211	APPC	Advanced Program-to-Program Communication or LU 6.2
212	APPN	Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking
213	APQP	advanced product quality planning
214	APS	Advanced Planning and Scheduling
215	APT	Advanced Persistent Threat
216	APU	Accelerated Processing Unit
217	AR	Accounts Receivable
218	AR	Augmented Reality
219	ARAX	Asynchronous Ruby and XML
220	ARIN	American Registry of Internet Numbers
221	ARJ	Archive Robert Jung
222	ARP	Address Resolution Protocol
223	ARPA	Advanced Research Projects Agency
224	ARPU	average revenue per user or average revenue per unit
225	ARQ	Automatic Repeat Request
226	ARRA	American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
227	ARRL	American Radio Relay League
228	AS	Autonomous System
229	AS/400	IBM iSeries, AS/400e, eServer iSeries/400
230	AS1	Applicability Statement 1
231	AS2	Applicability Statement 2
232	ASAP	AcceleratedSAP
233	ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
234	ASD	Agile Software Development
235	ASE	Adaptive Server Enterprise
236	ASF	Apache Software Foundation
237	ASHRAE	American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers
238	ASIC	Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
239	ASIO	Audio Stream Input/Output
240	ASLR	address space layout randomization
241	ASN	advanced shipping notice
242	ASN.1	Abstract Syntax Notation One
243	ASP+	ASP.NET
244	ASP	Active Server Page
245	ASP	Application Service Provider
246	ASP	authorized service provider
247	ASPI	Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
248	ASPIC	Application Service Provider Industry Consortium
249	ASQ	American Society for Quality
250	ASR	automated speech recognition
251	ASRS	automated storage retrieval systems
252	ASSP	application-specific standard product
253	AST	automated storage tiering
254	ASTM	American Society for Testing and Materials
255	ASUG	Americas' SAP Users' Group
256	ATA	Advanced Technology Attachment
257	ATA	American Telemedicine Association
258	ATA	analog telephone adapter
259	ATAPI	AT Attachment Packet Interface
260	ATE	automated test equipment
261	ATL	Active Template Library
262	ATM	Asynchronous Transfer Mode
263	ATO	assemble to order
264	ATP	advanced technology program
265	ATR	automated trouble reporting
266	ATS	applicant tracking system
267	ATSC	Advanced Television Systems Committee
268	ATU-R	ADSL Terminal Unit - Remote
269	ATV	advanced television
270	ATVEF	Advanced Television Enhancement Forum
271	ATX	Advanced Technology eXtended (a form factor for motherboards and power supplies)
272	AUI	attachment unit interface
273	AUP	acceptable use policy
274	AV	audio/video
275	AVA	anonymous video analytics
276	AVI	Audio Video Interleaved
277	AVL	approved vendor list
278	AVL	automatic vehicle locator
279	AVR	Audio/Video Receiver
280	AWG	American Wire Gauge
281	AWIS	Alexa Web Information Service
282	AWS	Amazon Web Services
283	AWT	Abstract Window Toolkit
284	AXI	automated X-ray inspection
285	AXT	alien crosstalk
286	B8ZS	bipolar 8-zero substitution, binary 8-zero substitution, clear channel, clear 64
287	BA	business agility
288	BA	business analytics
289	BAA	broad agency announcement
290	BAA	HIPAA business associate agreement
291	BAL	Basic Assembler Language
292	BAL	branch-and-link
293	BAM	Bottleneck Allocation Methodology
294	BAM	business activity monitoring
295	BAPI	Business Application Programming Interface
296	Bash	Bourne-Again Shell
297	BASIC	Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
298	BBCs	buffer credits or buffer-to-buffer credits
299	BBS	bulletin board system
300	BC	Set Business Configuration Set
301	BCBS	Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
302	BCC	Blind Carbon Copy
303	Bcc	blind carbon copy or blind courtesy copy
304	BCDR	Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
305	BCI	brain-computer interface
306	BCM	business continuity management
307	BCMA	Bar Coded Medication Administration
308	BDaaS	big data as a service
309	BEDO	Burst Extended Data Output
310	BER	bit error rate
311	BES	BlackBerry Enterprise Server
312	BEST	Business / Enterprise State Transfer
313	BEx	Business Explorer
314	BGAN	Broadband Global Area Network
315	BGP	Border Gateway Protocol
316	BHIE	Bidirectional Health Information Exchange
317	BI	business intelligence
318	BIA	business impact analysis
319	BIC	bank identifier code, Best In Class, business information center
320	BICC	Bearer Independent Call Control
321	BICC	business intelligence competency center
322	BIOS	Basic Input/Output System
323	BISDN	Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network
324	BIST	Built In Self Test
325	bit	binary digit
326	BLE	Bluetooth Low Energy
327	BLOB	Binary Large OBject
328	BMAN	Broadband Metropolitan Area Network
329	BMC	baseboard management controller
330	BMP	Best Manufacturing Practices
331	BMP	Bitmap
332	BMS	battery management system
333	BNC	Bayonet Neil-Concelman or British Naval Connector
334	BOB	branch office box
335	BOC	Bell operating company
336	BOH	Balance On Hand
337	BOL	beginning of life
338	BOM	Bill Of Materials
339	BOOTP	Bootstrap Protocol
340	BP&F	budgeting, planning and forecasting
341	BPA	business process automation
342	BPaaS	Business Process as a Service
343	BPCS	Business Planning and Control System
344	BPEL	Business Process Execution Language
345	BPI	business process improvement
346	BPL	Broadband over Power Line
347	BPM	business process management
348	BPMI	Business Process Management Initiative
349	BPML	Business Process Modeling Language
350	BPMN	Business Process Modeling Notation
351	BPMS	Business process management suite
352	BPO	business process outsourcing
353	BPR	Business Process Reengineering
354	bps	bit/sec bits per second
355	BPS	bulk power system
356	BRE	business rules engine
357	BREW	Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless
358	BRI	Basic Rate Interface
359	BSA	Bank Secrecy Act
360	BSA	Business Software Alliance
361	BSD	Berkeley Software Distribution
362	BSOD	Blue Screen of Death
363	BSP	business service provider
364	BT	business technology
365	BTF	Build To Forecast
366	BTM	business technology management
367	BTO	Build To Order
368	BTOP	Broadband Technology Opportunities Program
369	BTP	Business Transaction Protocol
370	BTS	Build To Stock
371	Btu	British thermal unit
372	BTX	Balanced Technology eXtended (a form factor for personal computer motherboards)
373	BU	backup utility
374	BURN-Proof	Buffer Under Run Error Proof
375	burst SRAM	SynchBurst SRAM
376	BYOA	Bring Your Own Apps
377	BYOC	Bring Your Own Cloud
378	BYOD	Bring Your Own Device
379	BYOE	Bring Your Own Encryption
380	BYOI	Bring Your Own Identity
381	BYON	Bring Your Own Network
382	BYOT	bring your own technology
383	BYOx	bring your own everything
384	C&C	server command-and-control server
385	C2C	Client to Client
386	CA	cellular automaton
387	CA	certificate authority
388	CaaS	Communications as a Service
389	CAC	call admission control
390	CAC	common access card
391	CACS	computer assisted coding system
392	CAD	Computer-Aided Design
393	CAD/CAM	computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing
394	CADE	Corporate Average Data center Efficiency
395	CAE	Computer-Aided Engineering
396	CAES	compressed air energy storage
397	CAFC	Container on Flat Car
398	CAFE	Corporate Average Fuel Economy
399	CAGR	Compound Annual Growth Rate
400	CAIV	Cost As (An) Independent Variable
401	CALEA	Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
402	CALS	Continuous Acquisition and Life-Cycle Support
403	CAM	Computer-Aided Manufacturing
404	CAM	corporate account manager
405	CAM-I	Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing -- International
406	CAMM	Common Assurance Maturity Model
407	CAMU	Computerized Assembly Mock Up
408	CAN	Campus Area Network
409	CAN	corporate area network
410	CAP	carrierless amplitude/phase
411	CAP	theorem Brewer's theorem
412	Capex	capital expenditure
413	CAPI	Common Application Programming Interface
414	CAPM	cloud application performance management
415	CAPOSS	CApacity Planning and Operation Sequence Scheduling
416	CAPP	Computer-aided process planning
417	CAPTCHA	Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
418	CAS	channel-associated signaling
419	CAS	Client Access Server
420	CAS	content-addressed storage
421	CASA	Computer and Automated Systems Association
422	CASE	computer-aided software engineering
423	CASE	Computer-Aided System Engineering
424	CATT	Computer Aided Test Tool
425	CATV	community access television
426	CAVE	Cave Automatic Virtual Environment
427	CB	Citizen's Band Radio
428	CBA	cost-benefit analysis
429	CBC	cipher block chaining
430	CBSA	Component Based Solution Assembly
431	CBT	Changed Block Tracking
432	CBT	Computer-Based Training
433	CC	Common Criteria
434	CCB	Change Control Board
435	CCD	Charge-Coupled Device, Continuity of Care Document
436	CCEVS	Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme for IT Security
437	CCIE	Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert
438	CCITT	ITU-T Telecommunication Standardization Sector of the International Telecommunications
439	CCJ	collaborative citizen journalism
440	CCK	Complementary Code Keying
441	CCM	Color Changing Material
442	CCMM	cloud computing maturity model
443	CCMP	Counter Mode with Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code Protocol
444	CCNA	Cisco Certified Network Associate
445	CCNP	Cisco Certified Network Professional
446	CCO	chief customer officer
447	CCO	Corporate or Chief Compliance Officer
448	CCR	Central Contractor Registration
449	CCR	Continuity of Care Record
450	CCS	common channel signaling
451	CCS	hundred call second or centum call second
452	CCSP	Cisco Certified Security Professional
453	CCTV	closed circuit television
454	CD	cardholder data
455	CD	Continuous Delivery
456	CD	Compact Disc
457	CD-i	Compact Disc - interactive
458	CD-MO	CD-Magneto Optical
459	CD-R	compact disc, recordable
460	CD-ROM XA	Compact Disc - read-only-memory, extended architecture
461	CD-RW	compact disc, rewriteable
462	CDA	Clinical Document Architecture
463	CDC	change data capture
464	CDD	contract delivery date
465	CDDI	Copper Distributed Data Interface
466	CDE	cardholder data environment
467	CDE	Common Desktop Environment
468	CDF	Channel Definition Format
469	CDI	customer data integration
470	CDMA	Code-Division Multiple Access
471	CDN	content delivery network
472	CDO	chief data officer
473	CDO	Chief Digital Officer
474	CDO	Collaboration Data Objects
475	CDP	clean desk policy
476	CDPD	Cellular Digital Packet Data
477	CDR	call detail record
478	CDR	Computed Dental Radiography
479	CDSL	Consumer Digital Subscriber Line
480	CDSS	clinical decision support system
481	CdTe	cadmium telluride
482	CEBP	communications-enabled business processes
483	CELL	Cell processor
484	CEM	customer experience management
485	CEMS	Contract Electronic Manufacturing Services
486	CEP	complex event processing
487	CERCLA	Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Litigation Act
488	CERN	Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire
489	CERT	Computer Emergency Readiness Team
490	CES	Consumer Electronics Show
491	CF	CompactFlash card
492	CFAA	Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
493	CFAR	Collaboration Forecasting and Replenishment
494	CFB	ciphertext feedback
495	CFD	Computational Fluid Dynamics
496	CFI	custom factory integration
497	CFL	compact fluorescent light bulb
498	CFM	Continuous Flow Manufacturing
499	CFML	ColdFusion Markup Language
500	CFO	Chief Financial Officer
501	CFR	call failure rate
502	CG	Consumer Goods
503	CGDC	Computer Game Developers Conference (became GDC in 1998)
504	CGF	Computer-Generated Forces (Simulation)
505	CGI	common gateway interface
506	CGM	Computer Graphics Metafile
507	CGMP	Current Good Manufacturing Practices
508	CGO	Chief Green Officer
509	CHAP	Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol
510	CHDR	Clinical Data Repository/Health Data Repository
511	CHI	Computer-Human Interaction
512	CHI	Consolidated Health Informatics
513	CHIME	College of Healthcare Information Management Executives
514	CHKDSK	check disk
515	chmod	change mode
516	CHRO	chief human resources officer
517	CHTML	Compact HTML
518	CI	competitive intelligence
519	CI	Continuous Improvement
520	CI	continuous integration
521	CI	customer intelligence
522	CIA	confidentiality, integrity, and availability
523	CICS	Customer Information Control System
524	CIDM	Customer-Integrated Decision Making
525	CIDR	Classless Inter-Domain Routing or supernetting
526	CIDR	supernetting or Classless Inter-Domain Routing
527	CIFS	Common Internet File System
528	CIM	Common Information Model
529	CIO	Chief Information Officer
530	CIPE	Compressed Integrated Product Engineering
531	CIR	committed information rate
532	CIS	Center for Internet Security
533	CIS	cloud-integrated storage
534	CISA	Certified Information Systems Auditor
535	CISC	complex instruction set computer or computing
536	Cisco IOS	Cisco Internetwork Operating System
537	Cisco LISP	Location Identifier Separation Protocol
538	CISM	certified information security manager
539	CISO	chief information security officer
540	CISP-PCI	Cardholder Information Security Program - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
541	CISPA	Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011
542	CISS	Cisco Information Security Specialist
543	CISSP	Certified Information Systems Security Professional
544	CIW	Certified Internet Webmaster
545	CIW	Computer Intensive Workload
546	CKO	chief knowledge officer
547	CL	cluster log
548	CLASS	Capacity Loading and Operation Sequence Scheduling
549	CLEC	competitive local exchange carrier
550	CLI	command line interface
551	CLI	Command Line Interpreter
552	CLI	Common Language Infrastructure
553	CLM	Council For Logistics Management
554	CLO	chief learning officer
555	CLOB	Character Large OBject
556	CLOS	Common Lisp Object System
557	CLR	Common Language Runtime
558	CM	configuration management
559	CM	content management
560	CM	Contract Manufacturer
561	CMA	content management application
562	CMDB	configuration management database
563	CMDM	Collaborative Master Data Management
564	CMIO	Chief Medical Information Officer
565	CMIP	Common Management Information Protocol
566	CMIS	Content Management Interoperability Services
567	CMM	Capability Maturity Model
568	CMO	chief marketing officer
569	CMOS	Complementary Metal–Oxide–Semiconductor
570	CMOx	conductive metal-oxide
571	CMR	customer-managed relationship
572	CMRP	Capacitated Material Requirements Planning
573	CMS	Content Management System, Cisco Meeting Server, Conversational Monitor System
574	CMTS	cable modem termination system
575	CMYK	cyan, magenta, yellow, key
576	CNA	converged network adapter
577	CNC	Computer Numerical Control
578	CNG	comfort noise generator
579	CNO	cluster name object
580	CNO	Computer Network Operations
581	CNR	Communication and Networking Riser
582	CO	capacity optimization
583	CO	central office
584	COA	chart of accounts
585	COA	cloud-oriented architecture
586	COA	Continuous Ordering Agreement
587	COB	Chip On Board
588	COBOL	Common Business Oriented Language
589	COD	capacity on demand
590	Codec	Coder-Decoder / Compressor-Decompressor / Compression-Decompression algorithm
591	COGS	Cost of Goods Sold
592	CoIP	communications over Internet Protocol
593	COLA	comp.os.linux.announce
594	COLD	Computer Output to Laser Disk
595	colo	colocation
596	COM	Component Object Model
597	CompTIA	Computing Technology Industry Association
598	CONUS	continental United States
599	COO	Cell of Origin
600	COO	Chief Operating Officer
601	COO	Cost of Ownership
602	COPE	corporate-owned, personally-enabled
603	COPPA	Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
604	COPS	Common Open Policy Service Protocol
605	CORBA	Common Object Request Broker Architecture
606	CoS	Class of Service
607	COTS	commercial off-the-shelf
608	CP	configuration profile
609	CP	control plane
610	CP	Cost Performance
611	CPCA	California Primary Care Association
612	CPE	customer premises equipment
613	CPG	consumer packaged goods
614	CPIM	Certified in Production and Inventory Management
615	CPIO	Chief Process and Innovation Officer
616	CPL	computer pidgin language
617	CPM	Certified Purchasing Manager
618	CPM	corporate performance management
619	CPM	critical path method
620	CPNI	Customer Proprietary Network Information
621	CPO	Chief Procurement Officer
622	CPOE	computerized physician order entry
623	CPPS	Cost Performance Products Sector
624	CPRM	Content Protection for Removable Media
625	CPS	cycles per second
626	CPT	Current Procedural Terminology
627	CPU	Central Processing Unit
628	CPW	Commercial Processing Workload
629	CQA	Certified Quality Auditor
630	CQE	Certified Quality Engineer
631	CR	cognitive radio
632	CRA	customer relationship analysis
633	CRAC	computer room air conditioning unit
634	CRAH	computer room air handler
635	CRAM	challenge-response authentication mechanism
636	CRC	Cyclic Redundancy Check
637	CRL	Certificate Revocation List
638	CRM	citizen relationship management
639	CRM	Customer Relationship Management
640	CRO	Chief Risk Officer
641	CRP	Capacity Requirements Planning
642	CRT	cathode ray tube
643	CRT	Current Reality Tree
644	CRUSH	Controlled Replication Under Scalable Hashing
645	CSA	Cloud Security Alliance
646	CSAT	customer satisfaction
647	CSBB	Client Side Browser Based
648	CSC	common short code
649	CSC	customer service chat
650	CSD	circuit switched data
651	CSI	Customer Satisfaction Index
652	CSIRT	Computer Security Incident Response Team
653	CSMA	Carrier Sense Multiple Access
654	CSO	Chief Security Officer
655	CSO	Chief Strategy Officer
656	CSP	Commerce Service Provider
657	CSR	Certificate Signing Request, Carrier Sensitive Routing, corporate social responsibility
658	CSS	Cascading Style Sheets, Content Scrambling System, customer self-service, customer service and support
659	CSV	Cluster Shared Volumes
660	CSV	Comma Separated Values (a file format)
661	CTC	click-to-talk
662	CTC	community technology center
663	CTCI	Computer-to-computer interface
664	CTD	cumulative trauma disorder
665	CTE	Committee on Trade and the Environment
666	CTFT	color thin film transistor
667	CTG	Council for Trade in Goods
668	CTI	computer-telephony integration
669	CTO	Chief Technology Officer
670	CTO	Configure To Order
671	CTOps	team counterthreat operations team
672	CTP	Capability To Promise
673	CTP	CloudTrust Protocol
674	CTP	common test platform
675	CTR	clickthrough rate
676	CUE	carbon usage effectiveness
677	CULV	consumer ultra-low voltage
678	CVC	Calibrated Vectored Cooling
679	CVE	Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
680	CVO	chief visionary officer
681	CVS	Concurrent Versions System
682	CVV	card verification value
683	CWDM	coarse wavelength division multiplexing
684	CWE	Common Weakness Enumeration
685	CWF	common working file
686	CWNP	Certified Wireless Networking Professional
687	CX	consumer experience
688	CXO	chief experience officer
689	D-AMPS	Digital-Advanced Mobile Phone Service
690	D-VHS	Digital Video Home System
691	D2D	Disk to Disk
692	D2D2C	Disk to Disk to Cloud
693	D2D2T	Disk to Disk to Tape
694	DA	data analytics
695	DAA	Data Access Arrangement
696	DaaS	Desktop as a Service
697	DAB	Digital Audio Broadcasting
698	DAC	digital-to-analog conversion
699	DAC	Microsoft Dynamic Access Control
700	DAFS	Direct Access File System
701	DAG	database availability group
702	DAI	Dynamic ARP Inspection
703	DAM	database activity monitoring
704	DAMA	Design Anywhere Manufacture Anywhere
705	DAML	DARPA Agent Markup Language
706	DAO	Data Access Objects
707	DAQ	Data Acquisition
708	DARC	Defense Acquisition Regulatory Council
709	DAS	direct-attached storage
710	DAS	distributed antenna system
711	DASD	direct access storage device
712	DAT	Digital Audio Tape
713	DAW	digital audio workstation
714	DB	Database
715	DBA	database administrator
716	DBaaS	Database as a Service
717	dBc	decibels relative to carrier
718	DBCS	Double Byte Character Set
719	dBd	decibels related to dipole antenna
720	dBi	decibels relative to isotropic radiator
721	DBIR	Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report
722	dBm	decibels relative to one milliwatt
723	DBMS	Database Management System
724	dBmV	decibels relative to one millivolt
725	DBOR	database of record
726	dBr	decibels relative to reference level
727	DBS	demand-based switching
728	DBS	direct broadcast satellite
729	DC	direct current
730	DC	Distribution Center
731	DCaaS	data center as a service
732	DCB	data center bridging
733	DCCP	Datagram Congestion Control Protocol
734	DCE	Distributed Computing Environment
735	DCIE	data center infrastructure efficiency
736	DCIM	data center infrastructure management
737	DCIM	Digital Camera Images
738	DCIT	Digital Compression of Increased Transmission
739	DCM	dynamic case management
740	DCMA	Defense Contract Management Agency
741	DCML	Data Center Markup Language
742	DCO	data center outsourcing
743	DCOM	Distributed Component Object Model
744	DCOP	Desktop Communication Protocol
745	DCPA	Distributed Control Plane Architecture
746	DCPromo	Domain Controller Promoter
747	DCS	Distributed Control System
748	DDA	Digital Differential Analyzer (graphics algorithm), or Digital Differential Analyzer
749	DDB	Amazon Dynamo Database
750	DDBMS	distributed database management system
751	DDCD	Double-Density Compact Disk
752	DDD	Data Display Debugger or Digital Digital Digital (CD mastering)
753	DDDM	data-driven decision management
754	DDE	Dynamic Data Exchange
755	DDK	driver development kit
756	DDL	Digital Data Link
757	DDL	Data Definition Language
758	DDM	demand-driven manufacturing
759	DDM	direct digital marketing
760	DDoS	Distributed Denial of Service
761	DDR	double data rate
762	DEC	Digital Equipment Corporation
763	DECT	Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications
764	DECT	Digital European Cordless Telephone
765	DEM	Dynamic Enterprise Modeling
766	DEN	Directory-Enabled Networking
767	DES	Data Encryption Standard
768	DES	discrete event simulation
769	DES	Distributed Execution System
770	DFA	Design for Assembly
771	DFAA	Design for Automated Assembly
772	DFB	Distributed Feedback
773	DFD	Design for Disassembly
774	DFE	Design For Environment
775	DFL	Demand Flow Leadership
776	DFM	Demand Flow Management
777	DFM	digital footprint management
778	DFS	Distributed Factory System
779	DFS	distributed file system
780	DFSC	Design for Supply Chain
781	DFT	Demand Flow Technology
782	DG	data governance
783	DHA	directory harvest attack
784	DHCP	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
785	DICOM	Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
786	DID	Direct Inward Dialing
787	DIF	Data Interchange Format
788	DIME	Direct Internet Message Encapsulation
789	DIMM	Dual In-line Memory Module
790	direct	Telnet reverse Telnet
791	DirSync	Windows Azure Active Directory Sync
792	DISA	Defense Information Systems Agency
793	Diskpart	Disk Partition Utility
794	Divx	Digital Video Express
795	DLC	data link control
796	DLL	Dynamic Link Library
797	DLM	data life cycle management
798	DLP	data loss prevention
799	DLT	digital linear tape
800	DMA	Direct Memory Access
801	DMAIC	define, measure, analyze, improve, control
802	DMB	digital multimedia broadcasting
803	DMCA	Digital Millennium Copyright Act
804	DMD	Direct Metal Deposition
805	DMI	Desktop Management Interface
806	DMI	Digital Migration Interface
807	DMOS	Double Diffused MOS transistor
808	DMP	data management platform
809	DMP	dynamic multi-pathing
810	DMR	direct market reseller
811	DMS	Defense Message System
812	DMT	discrete multitone
813	DMTF	Distributed Management Task Force
814	DMVPN	dynamic multipoint VPN
815	DMZ	demilitarized zone
816	DNC	Direct Numerical Control
817	DNC	distributive numerical control
818	DND	Dungeons & Dragons (a computer game)
819	DNG	Digital Negative
820	DNIS	Dialed Number Identification Service
821	DNN	DotNetNuke
822	DNS	domain name system
823	DNSSEC	DNS Security Extensions
824	DNT	Do Not Track
825	DO	derived object
826	DOCSIS	Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications
827	DOD	Direct Outward Dialing
828	DOE	Department of Energy
829	DOI	Digital Object Identifier
830	DOI	digital object identifier
831	DOL	Department of Labor
832	DOLAP	Desktop OnLine Analytical Processing
833	DOLS	Domino Off-Line Services
834	DOM	Document Object Model
835	DoPa	DoCoMo Packet Transmission
836	DoS	denial of service
837	DOS	Disk Operating System
838	DOVE	IBM DOVE
839	DP	data plane
840	DP	Design Postponement
841	DPA	differential power analysis
842	DPI	deep packet inspection
843	dpi	dots per inch
844	DPL	Digital Powerline
845	DPM	data protection management
846	DPMI	DOS Protected Mode Interface
847	DR	disaster recovery
848	DRA	data recovery agent
849	DRaaS	disaster recovery as a service
850	DRAM	Dynamic Random Access Memory
851	DRBD	Distributed Replicated Block Device
852	DRC	Design Rule Checking
853	DRDRAM	Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory
854	DRIPS	data reduction in primary storage
855	DRM	device relationship management
856	DRM	Digital Rights Management
857	DROP	delivery of real-time execution information protocol
858	DRP	disaster recovery plan
859	DRP	Distribution Requirements Planning
860	DRS	Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler
861	DSB	Dispute Settlement Body
862	DSC	Digital Still Camera
863	DSL	Domain-Specific Language
864	DSLAM	Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
865	DSLR	camera digital single lense reflux
866	DSML	Directory Services Markup Language
867	DSN	data source name
868	DSN	Deep Space Network
869	DSO	data source object
870	DSO	Days Sale Outstanding
871	DSO	exploit data source object exploit
872	DSOM	Distributed System Object Model
873	DSP	Digital Signal Processing
874	DSP	Digital Signal Processor
875	DSR	Demand signal repository
876	DSR	Dynamic Source Routing
877	DSRM	Directory Services Restore Mode
878	DSRP	Demand Solutions Requirements Planning
879	DSS	Decision Support System
880	DSS	Digital Signature Standard
881	DSSS	direct sequence spread spectrum
882	DSSSL	Document Style Semantics and Specification Language
883	DST	Daylight Saving Time
884	DSTP	Data Space Transfer Protocol
885	DTD	Document Type Definition
886	DTE	Data Terminal Equipment
887	DTE	Direct-to-Edit
888	DTMF	dual tone multi frequency
889	DTN	disruption-tolerant network
890	DTP	Digital Text Platform
891	DTP	Distributed Transaction Processing
892	DTR	data transfer rate
893	DTTV	digital terrestrial television
894	DTV	digital television
895	DTX	discontinuous transmission
896	DUNDi	Distributed Universal Number Discovery
897	Duqu	W32.Duqu
898	DUT	Device Under Test
899	DVB	Digital Video Broadcasting
900	DVD	Digital Versatile Disk
901	DVD	Digital Video Disk
902	DVD-A	DVD-Audio
903	DVI	Digital Visual Interface
904	DVMRP	Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol
905	DW	Data Warehousing
906	DWDM	dense wavelength division multiplexing
907	DXL	Domino Extensible Language
908	E&M	ear and mouth
909	E&O	Excess and Obsolete
910	E-CD	enhanced CD
911	E2E	exchange-to-exchange
912	E2K	Exchange 2000
913	E911	Enhanced 911
914	EA	emotions analytics
915	EA	enterprise architecture
916	EaaS	encryption as a service
917	EaaS	Ethernet as a service
918	EAC	Exchange Administration Center
919	EAI	enterprise application integration
920	EAI	External Application Interface
921	EAM	enterprise asset management
922	EAP	employee assistance program
923	EAP	Extensible Authentication Protocol
924	EB	exabyte
925	EBCDIC	Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
926	EBIF	Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format
927	EBITDA	earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization
928	EBPP	electronic bill presentment and payment
929	EBR	Electronic Batch Record
930	ebXML	electronic business xml
931	EBXML	Electronic Business XML
932	EC	Electronic Commerce
933	EC	enterprise collaboration
934	ECASS	silence machine or Electronic Controlled Acoustic Shadow System
935	ECB	Electronic Code Book
936	ECC	Elliptic Curve Cryptography
937	ECC	Error Correction Code
938	ECCS	European Cloud Computing Strategy
939	ECDL	European Computer Driving License
940	ECM	Engineering Change Management
941	ECM	enterprise content management
942	ECMAScript	European Computer Manufacturers Association Script
943	ECN	Electronic Change Notice
944	ECO	Engineering (or Electronic) Change Order
945	ECOphlex	PHase-change Liquid EXchange
946	ECPA	Electronic Communications Privacy Act
947	ECR	Efficient Consumer Response
948	ECRC	Electronic Commerce Resource Center
949	EDA	Electronic Document Access
950	EDA	event-driven architecture
951	EDE	electronic disposal efficiency
952	EDGAR	Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval
953	EDGE	Enhanced Data GSM Environment
954	EDI	Electronic Data Interchange
955	EDIFACT	Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport
956	EDL	enhanced driver's license
957	EDM	Electrical Discharge Machine or Machining
958	EDM	Electronic Document Management
959	EDM	enterprise document management
960	EDMS	Engineering Document Management Systems
961	EDP	electronic data processing
962	EDR	enterprise data replication
963	EDRAM	enhanced dynamic random access memory
964	EDRM	electronic discovery reference model
965	EEF	Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure
966	EEOC	Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
967	EEPROM	electrically erasable programmable read-only memory
968	EES	Engineering Execution Systems
969	EES	Escrowed Encryption Standard
970	EF	sensing electric field sensing
971	EFF	Electronic Frontier Foundation
972	EFI	Electronic Freight Invoice
973	EFS	Encrypting File System
974	EFT	Electronic Funds Transfer
975	EGP	Exterior Gateway Protocol
976	EHR	electronic health record
977	EI	emotional intelligence
978	EIA	Electronic Industries Association or Electronics Industries Alliance
979	EIC	Earned Income Credit
980	eICU	electronic intensive care unit
981	EIDE	Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics
982	EIGRP	Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
983	EIM	Enterprise Identity Mapping
984	EIM	enterprise information management
985	eInk	E Ink
986	EIP	enterprise information portal
987	EIS	Executive Information System
988	EISA	Extended Industry Standard Architecture
989	EJB	Enterprise JavaBeans
990	ELED	entangled light-emitting diode
991	ELF	extremely low frequency
992	ELM	event log manager
993	ELMS	Event log management software
994	ELT	Extract, Load, Transform
995	ELV	End of Life Vehicle
996	EMAS	Eco-Management and Audit Scheme
997	EMC	Exchange Management Console
998	EMCCA	EMC cloud architect certification
999	EME	moonbounce or Earth-Moon-Earth
1000	EMET	Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit
1001	EMF	Enhanced MetaFile
1002	EMI	Early Manufacturing Involvement
1003	EMI	electromagnetic interference
1004	eMLC	enterprise MLC
1005	EMM	enterprise mobility management
1006	EMP	electromagnetic pulse
1007	EMR	electronic medical record
1008	EMS	Effective Management Systems
1009	EMS	Enhanced Messaging Service
1010	EMS	Microsoft Exchange Management Shell
1011	ENISA	European Network and Information Security Agency
1012	EOF	End of File
1013	EoIP	Electricity over IP
1014	EOL	End of Life, End of Line
1015	EOM	End of Message
1016	EOP	Microsoft Exchange Online Protection
1017	EOQ	Economic Order Quantity
1018	EPA	Microsoft Exchange Server Profile Analyzer
1019	EPC	Evolved Packet Core
1020	EPD	electronic paper display
1021	EPEAT	Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool
1022	EPG	electronic program guide
1023	ePHI	electronic protected health information
1024	EPIC	Electronic Privacy Information Center
1025	EPIC	Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing
1026	EPOD	electronic publishing on demand
1027	EPOP	Ethernet point-of-presence
1028	EPP/ECP	Enhanced Parallel Port/Enhanced Capability Port
1029	EPR	endpoint reference
1030	ERA	Electronic Remittance Advice
1031	ERC	Engineering Reseach Center
1032	ERD	or ER diagram entity-relationship diagram
1033	ERM	enterprise relationship management
1034	ERM	enterprise resource management
1035	ERM	Environmental Resource Management
1036	ERM	Group Environmental Resource Management
1037	ERM	or ER model entity-relationship model
1038	ERMS	email response management service
1039	ERP	Enterprise Resource Planning
1040	ERS	Evaluated Receipt Settlement
1041	eRx	e-prescribing
1042	ESA	Enterprise Services Architecture
1043	ESB	enterprise service bus
1044	ESCD	Extended System Configuration Data
1045	ESCON	Enterprise Systems Connection
1046	ESD	electrostatic discharge
1047	ESDI	Enhanced Small Device Interface
1048	ESDRAM	Enhanced Synchronous DRAM
1049	ESE	Environmentally Sustainable Electronics
1050	ESI	electronically stored information
1051	ESMR	Enhanced Specialized Mobile Radio
1052	ESMTP	Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
1053	ESP	event stream processing
1054	ESS	employee self-service
1055	ETL	extract, transform, load
1056	ETM	Enterprise Transportation Management
1057	ETO	Engineer To Order
1058	ETP	Enterprise Transportation Planning
1059	ETRN	Extended Turn
1060	ETSI	European Telecommunications Standards Institute
1061	EUC	platform end user computing platform
1062	EULA	End-User License Agreement
1063	EUTELSAT	European Telecommunications Satellite Organization
1064	EUVL	extreme ultraviolet lithography
1065	EV	Electric Vehicle
1066	EV-DO	1x Evolution-Data Optimized
1067	EVA	Economic Value Added
1068	EVM	Earned Value Management
1069	EWS	Exchange Web Services
1070	EWSD	Electronic Worldwide Switch Digital
1071	ExBPA	Exchange Best Practices Analyzer
1072	EXIF	Exchangeable Image File Format
1073	ExRCA	Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer
1074	EZ/EC	Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community
1075	FA	Flexible Automation
1076	FACTA	Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act
1077	FAR	Federal Acquisition Regulation
1078	FAS	Final Assembly Schedule
1079	FASAB	Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
1080	FAT	File Allocation Table
1081	FAWN	fast array of wimpy nodes
1082	FBE	Framework Based Environment
1083	FC-AL	Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop
1084	FC-PGA	Flip-Chip Pin Grid Array
1085	FCA	Flip Chip Assembly
1086	FCAPS	fault-management, configuration, accounting, performance, and security
1087	FCC	Federal Communications Commission
1088	FCIA	Fibre Channel Industry Association
1089	FCIP	Fibre Channel over IP
1090	FCoE	Fibre Channel over Ethernet
1091	FCP	Finite Capacity Planning
1092	FCR	first call resolution
1093	FCRA	Fair Credit Reporting Act
1094	FCS	Finite Capacity Scheduling
1095	FD	Floppy Drive or File Descriptor
1096	FDC	Floppy Disk Controller
1097	FDCC	Federal Desktop Core Configuration
1098	FDD	Floppy Disk Drive
1099	FDDI	Fiber Distributed Data Interface
1100	FDE	full-disk encryption
1101	FDHP	Full Duplex Handshaking Protocol
1102	FDI	Foreign Direct Investment
1103	FDIC	Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
1104	FDM	frequency-division multiplexing
1105	FDMA	frequency division multiple access
1106	Feat	Feature
1107	FEC	forward error correction
1108	FECN	forward explicit congestion notification
1109	FED	field emission display
1110	FedRAMP	3PAO third-party assessment organization
1111	FedRAMP	Federal Risk and Authorization Program
1112	FEM	Finite Elements Method
1113	FERC	Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
1114	FERPA	Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974
1115	FET	field-effect transistor
1116	FF	Firefox (Web browser)
1117	FFIEC	compliance Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
1118	FFT	Fast Fourier Transformation
1119	FG-D	Feature Group D
1120	FHA	Federal Health Architecture
1121	FHIE	Federal Health Information Exchange
1122	FI	Fast Infoset
1123	FICON	Fiber Connectivity
1124	FIFO	First In, First Out
1125	FILO	First In, Last Out
1126	FIM	federated identity management
1127	FinCEN	Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
1128	FINRA	Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
1129	FiOS	Fiber Optic Service
1130	FIP	Factory Information Protocol
1131	FIP	Fair Information Practices
1132	FIPS	Federal Information Processing Standards
1133	FIS	Factory Information System
1134	FISMA	Federal Information Security Management Act
1135	FITCE	Federation of Telecommunications Engineers of the European Community
1136	FLAC	Free Lossless Audio Codec
1137	FLOPS	Floating-Point Operations Per Second
1138	FLSA	Fair Labor Standards Act
1139	FLSM	fixed-length subnet mask
1140	FLT	Fermat's Last Theorem
1141	FM	Frequency Modulation
1142	FMAC	Flexible Mandatory Access Control
1143	FMC	fixed-mobile convergence
1144	FME	Feature Manipulation Engine
1145	FMEA	Failure Mode and Effect Analysis
1146	FMP	FileMaker
1147	FMS	fixed-mobile substitution
1148	FMS	Flexible Manufacturing System
1149	FMV	Full Motion Video
1150	FNBN	For Nerds By Nerds
1151	FNEA	Full Name and E-mail Address
1152	FnR	Find and replace
1153	FNR	Format and Restore
1154	FOAD	Fuck Off And Die
1155	FOB	fresh out of the box
1156	FOIA	Freedom of Information Act
1157	FOIRL	Fiber-Optic Inter-Repeater Links
1158	FOLED	flexible organic light emitting device
1159	FOPE	Forefront Online Protection for Exchange
1160	FORTRAN	The IBM Mathematical FORmula TRANslating System (a programming language)
1161	FOSS	Free and Open-Source Software
1162	FOV	Field Of View
1163	FP&A	financial planning and analysis
1164	FP	Fat Provisioning, Finite Planning
1165	FP4	Floating Point 4-bit datatype
1166	FP8	Floating Point 8-bit datatype
1167	FP16	Floating Point 16-bit datatype
1168	FP32	Floating Point 32-bit datatype
1169	FP64	Floating Point 64-bit datatype
1170	FPCA	Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
1171	FPDS	Federal Procurement Data System
1172	FPGA	Field-Programmable Gate Array
1173	FPI	Federal Prison Industries
1174	FPM	Fast Page Mode
1175	FPM	federated presence management
1176	FpML	Financial Products Markup Language
1177	FPP	Full Packaged Product
1178	FPROM	Field Programmable Read-Only Memory
1179	FPS	First-Person Shooter
1180	fps	Frames Per Second
1181	FPT	Fine Pitch Technology
1182	FPU	Floating-Point Unit
1183	FQA	Frequently Questioned Answers
1184	FQDN	Fully Qualified Domain Name
1185	FR	Frame Relay
1186	FRA	Federal Railroad Administration
1187	FRAD	frame relay access device or frame relay assembler/dissembler
1188	FRAM	Ferroelectric RAM
1189	FRCP	Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
1190	FROG	Free Roaming On Grid
1191	FRR	fast retransmit and recovery
1192	FRT	Future Reality Tree
1193	FRU	Field Replaceable Units
1194	FS	File System
1195	FSAN	Full Services Access Network
1196	FSB	frontside bus
1197	FSF	Free Software Foundation
1198	FSK	frequency-shift keying
1199	FSML	Financial Services Markup Language
1200	FSO	free-space optics
1201	FSP	full-service provider
1202	FSRM	File Server Resource Manager
1203	FTA	Federal Transit Authority
1204	FTAM	File Transfer Access Method
1205	FTC	Federal Trade Commission
1206	FTP	File Transfer Protocol
1207	FTTC	fiber to the curb
1208	FTTH	fiber to the home
1209	FTTx	fiber to the x
1210	FUD	Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
1211	FUN	focus on user needs
1212	FYI	for your information
1213	G2G	Government to Government
1214	G2C	Government to Consumer
1215	GAAP	Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
1216	GAAP	generally accepted accounting standards
1217	GaAs	gallium arsenide
1218	GaAsFET	gallium arsenide field-effect transistor
1219	GAL	Microsoft Exchange Global Address List
1220	GALP	Good Automated Laboratory Practices
1221	GaN	gallium nitride
1222	GAN	Generic Access Network
1223	GAO	General Accounting Office
1224	GAO	Government Accountability Office
1225	GARP	Generic Attribute Registration Protocol
1226	GATE	General Architecture for Text Engineering
1227	GATS	General Agreement on Trade in Services
1228	GATT	General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
1229	GB	gigabyte
1230	GBIC	Gigabit Interface Converter
1231	Gbps	billions of bits per second
1232	Gbps	Gigabits per second
1233	GCC	GNU Compiler Collection
1234	GDDR	Graphics Double Data Rate
1235	GDI	Graphics Device Interface
1236	GDMO	Guidelines for Definition of Managed Objects
1237	GDPR	General Data Protection Regulation
1238	GEM	Generic Equipment Model
1239	GEM	Graphics Environment Manager
1240	GEOS	Graphical Environment Operating System
1241	GESTALT	Grid-based Estimation of Surface Traversability Applied to Local Terrain
1242	GFDL	GNU Free Documentation License
1243	GFEBS	General Fund Enterprise Business System
1244	GFS	Global File System or Google File System
1245	GHz	gigahertz
1246	GIA	Government Information Awareness
1247	GID	group ID or global index file
1248	GIF	Graphics Interchange Format
1249	GIF89a	Graphics Interchange Format Version 89a
1250	GIGO	Garbage In Garbage Out
1251	GII	global information infrastructure
1252	GIMP	GNU Image Manipulation Program
1253	GIMPS	Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
1254	GIS	Geographic Information System
1255	GIS	Google Image Search
1256	GIYF	Google Is Your Friend
1257	GKS	Graphical Kernel System
1258	GL	general ledger
1259	GLBA	Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
1260	GLONASS	Globalnaya Navigatsionnay Sputnikovaya Sistema
1261	GlusterFS	Gluster File System
1262	GLUT	OpenGL Utility Toolkit
1263	GLV	grating light valve
1264	GMAIL	Google Mail
1265	GML	Generalized Markup Language
1266	GMP	Good Manufacturing Practices
1267	GMPLS	Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching or Multiprotocol Lambda Switching
1268	GMROI	Gross Margin Return on Investment
1269	GNEC	Global Network Enterprise Construct
1270	GNOME	GNU Network Object Model Environment
1271	GNSS	Global Navigation Satellite System
1272	GNU	GNU's Not Unix
1273	gOS	good operating system
1274	GP	Group Policy
1275	GPF	General Protection Fault
1276	GPG	GNU Privacy Guard
1277	GPL	GNU General Public License
1278	GPMP	General Purpose Macro Processor
1279	GPO	Group Policy Object
1280	GPRS	General Packet Radio Services
1281	GPS	Global Positioning System
1282	GPT	GUID Partition Table or Generative Pretrained Transformer
1283	GPU	Graphics Processing Unit
1284	GRC	governance, risk management and compliance
1285	GRE	Generic Routing Encapsulation
1286	GRUB	GRand Unified Bootloader
1287	GSM	Global System for Mobile communication
1288	GSM	Microsoft System Center Global Service Monitor
1289	GTA	Grand Theft Auto (a computer game)
1290	GTAG	Global Tag
1291	gTLD	generic top-level domain name
1292	GTM	strategy go-to-market strategy
1293	GUA	graphical password or graphical user authentication
1294	GUI	Graphical User Interface
1295	GUID	global unique identifier
1296	GUM	Global Update Manager
1297	GWAC	governmentwide acquisition contract
1298	GXA	Global XML Web Services Architecture
1299	GXF	General Exchange Format
1300	GXL	Graph eXchange Language
1301	Gy	gray
1302	HA	high availability
1303	HaaS	Hardware as a Service
1304	HAL	hardware abstraction layer
1305	HALO	High Altitude Long Operation
1306	HANA	SAP HANA
1307	HASA	Highly Accelerated Stress Audit
1308	HAVA	Help America Vote Act of 2002
1309	HAVi	Home Audio Visual
1310	HBA	host bus adapter
1311	HBCI	Home Banking Computer Interface
1312	HCCA	Health Care Compliance Association
1313	HCI	human-computer interaction
1314	HCI	Human-Computer Interaction/Interface
1315	HCM	human capital management
1316	HD-DVD	high-density DVD
1317	HD-ROM	High-Density - Read Only Memory
1318	HDCD	High Definition Compatible Digital
1319	HDCP	High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection
1320	HDD	hard disk drive
1321	HDFS	Hadoop Distributed File System
1322	HDLC	High-level Data Link Control
1323	HDMI	High Definition Multimedia Interface
1324	HDMI	High-Definition Multimedia Interface
1325	HDML	Handheld Device Markup Language
1326	HDR	Hard disk recorder
1327	HDSL	High bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line
1328	HDTV	High-Definition Television
1329	HFC	hybrid fiber coaxial
1330	HFT	high-frequency trading
1331	HFTP	Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals
1332	HH	Hand Held
1333	HHD	hybrid hard drive
1334	HHR	hybrid health record
1335	HHS	Health and Human Services
1336	HID	Human Interface Device
1337	HIE	health information exchange
1338	HIMSS	Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
1339	HIPAA	Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
1340	HIPPI	High-Performance Parallel Interface
1341	HiPPO	highest paid person's opinion, highest paid person in the office
1342	HIPS	host intrusion prevention systems
1343	HIT	Health IT
1344	HITA	Hospitality Information Technology Association
1345	HITECH	Act Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
1346	HKEY	Handle to Registry Key
1347	HLASM	High Level Assembler
1348	HLD	hardware load-balancing device
1349	HLR	Home Location Register
1350	HMAC	Hash-based Message Authentication Code
1351	HMD	Head Mounted Display
1352	HMI	Human Machine Interface
1353	HMIPv6	Hierarchical Mobile IPv6
1354	HMM	Hidden Markov Model
1355	HOLAP	hybrid online analytical processing
1356	HomeRF	home radio frequency
1357	HP	High Performance
1358	HP-GL	Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language
1359	HPC	High-Performance Computing
1360	HPCC	High Performance Computing and Communications
1361	HPFS	High Performance File System
1362	HPNA	Home Phoneline Networking Alliance
1363	HPPS	High Performance Product Sector
1364	HPSS	High Performance Storage System
1365	HPV	High Production Volume
1366	HR	Human Resources
1367	HRM	Human Resource Management
1368	HSCSD	High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data
1369	HSDPA	High-Speed Downlink Packet Access
1370	HSM	Hierarchical Storage Management
1371	HSM	Hierarchical Storage Manager
1372	HSPA	high speed packet access
1373	HSPD-7	Homeland Security Presidential Directive No. 7
1374	HSRP	Hot Standby Router Protocol
1375	HSSI	High-Speed Serial Interface
1376	HTF	Higgins Trust Framework
1377	HTML	Hypertext Markup Language
1378	HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol
1379	HTTPD	Hypertext Transfer Protocol daemon
1380	HTTPS	HTTP over SSL or HTTP Secure
1381	HUD	Heads Up Display
1382	HVAC	heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
1383	HVD	holographic versatile disc
1384	HVD	hosted virtual desktop
1385	I&T	integration testing or integration and testing
1386	I/O	Input Output
1387	I18N	internationalization
1388	IA	internal audit
1389	IaaS	Infrastructure as a Service
1390	IAB	Internet Advertising Bureau
1391	IAB	Internet Architecture Board
1392	IAM	identity access management
1393	IAM	integrated access management
1394	IANA	Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
1395	IAO	Information Awareness Office
1396	IAP	Internet access provider
1397	IAS	IAS machine (the first electronic computer built at the Institute for Advanced Study), Interactive Application System (a DEC PDP-11 operating system), Internet Authentication Service (a component of Windows Server)
1398	IAX	Inter-Asterisk Exchange Protocol
1399	IBM	International Business Machines
1400	IBP	integrated business planning
1401	IC	integrated circuit
1402	IC-BPMS	integration-centric business process management suite
1403	ICANN	Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
1404	ICE	In-Circuit Emulator, Information and Content Exchange
1405	IcM	incident management
1406	ICMP	Internet Control Message Protocol
1407	ICP	Internet commerce provider
1408	ICR	intelligent character recognition
1409	ICT	information and communications technology - or technologies
1410	ICT4D	Information and Communications Technologies for Development
1411	ID	intrusion detection
1412	IDaaS	identity as a Service
1413	IDE	Integrated Development Environment
1414	IDE	Integrated Drive Electronics
1415	IDEA	International Data Encryption Algorithm
1416	IDEF	Integrated Definition
1417	iDEN	Integrated Digital Enhanced Network
1418	IDF	interface device
1419	IDIS	Integrated Disbursement and Information System
1420	IDL	interface definition language
1421	IDoc	intermediate document
1422	IDS	intrusion detection system
1423	IE	Internet Explorer
1424	IEAK	Internet Explorer Administration Kit
1425	IEC	International Electrotechnical Commission
1426	IEEE	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
1427	IETF	Internet Engineering Task Force
1428	iFCP	Internet Fibre Channel Protocol
1429	IG	Inspector General
1430	IGMP	Internet Group Management Protocol
1431	IGP	Interior Gateway Protocol
1432	iHT2	Institute for Health Technology Transformation
1433	IIOP	Internet Inter-ORB Protocol
1434	IIS	Internet Information Server
1435	IKE	Internet Key Exchange
1436	ILEC	incumbent local exchange carrier
1437	ILM	information life cycle management
1438	IM	infrastructure management
1439	IMA	inverse multiplexing over ATM
1440	IMAP	Internet Message Access Protocol
1441	IMCS	nventory Management and Control System
1442	IMEI	International Mobile Equipment Identity
1443	IMS	Information Management System
1444	IMS	Intelligent Manufacturing Systems
1445	IMS	IP Multimedia Subsystem
1446	IMT	International Mobile Telephone
1447	IMTI	Integrated Manufacturing Technology Initiative
1448	IN	Intelligent Network
1449	InterNIC	Internet Network Information Center
1450	IOPS	Input/Output Operations Per Second
1451	IOS	Input/Output Supervisor
1452	IoT	Internet of Things
1453	IOTP	Internet Open Trading Protocol
1454	IOV	I/O virtualization
1455	IP	Internet Protocol
1456	IPAM	IP address management
1457	IPC	Institute for Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits
1458	IPC	interprocess communication
1459	IPFS	InterPlanetary File System
1460	IPI	Intelligent Peripheral Interface
1461	IPL	initial program load
1462	IPLC	international private leased circuit
1463	IPM	intelligent power management
1464	IPMI	Intelligent Platform Management Interface
1465	IPP	Internet presence provider
1466	IPPD	Integrated Product and Process Development
1467	IPPP	Internet presence provider and promoter
1468	IPR	Intellectual Property Rights
1469	IPS	In-Plan Switching
1470	IPsec	Internet Protocol Security
1471	IPT	Integrated Product Team
1472	IPTV	Internet Protocol television
1473	IPv4	Internet Protocol Version 4
1474	IPv6	Internet Protocol Version 6
1475	IPX	Internetwork Packet Exchange
1476	IR	infrared radiation
1477	IRC	Internet Relay Chat
1478	IrDA	Infrared Data Association
1479	IRI	Industrial Research Institute
1480	IRIS	Internet Routing in Space
1481	IRM	Integrated Resource Management
1482	IRP	incident response plan
1483	IRQ	interrupt request
1484	IRR	internal rate of return
1485	IRTF	Internet Research Task Force
1486	IRU	Indefeasible Right of Use
1487	IS	Information System
1488	IS	information system or information services
1489	IS-IS	Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System protocol
1490	ISA	Industry Standard Architecture
1491	ISAM	Indexed Sequential Access Method
1492	ISAPI	Internet Server Application Program Interface
1493	iSCSI	Internet Small Computer System Interface
1494	iSCSI	target Internet Small Computer System Interface target
1495	ISDN	Integrated Services Digital Network
1496	ISE	Cisco Identity Services Engine
1497	ISP	Internet Service Provider
1498	ISPF	Interactive System Productivity Facility
1499	ISRC	International Standard Recording Code
1500	ISRS	information storage and retrieval system
1501	ISSU	in-service software upgrade
1502	ISV	Independent Software Vendor
1503	IT	Information Technology
1504	ITAA	Information Technology Association of America
1505	ITaaS	IT as a Service
1506	ITAC	International Telework Association and Council
1507	ITIL	Information Technology Infrastructure Library
1508	ITS	Intelligent Transportation System
1509	ITS	Internet Transaction Server
1510	ITS	issue tracking system
1511	ITSM	IT Service Management
1512	ITSO	International Technical Support Organization
1513	ITSS	Information Technology Solutions Shop
1514	ITU	International Technical Union
1515	ITU	International Telecommunication Union
1516	IV	initialization vector
1517	IVR	Interactive Voice Response
1518	IXC	interexchange carrier
1519	J2EE	Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
1520	J2ME	Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition
1521	JAAS	Java Authentication and Authorization Service
1522	JAD	Joint Application Development
1523	JANET	Joint Academic Network
1524	JAQL	json query language
1525	JAR	Java ARchive file
1526	JAX-RPC	Java API for XML-Based RPC
1527	JAX-WS	Java API for XML Web Services
1528	JBI	Java Business Integration
1529	JBIG	Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group
1530	JBOD	just a bunch of disks or just a bunch of drives
1531	JCE	Java Cryptography Extension
1532	JCL	job control language
1533	JDBC	Connector Java Database Connectivity Connector
1534	JDBC	Java Database Connectivity
1535	JDK	Java Development Kit
1536	JDO	Java Data Objects
1537	JEDEC	Joint Electron Device Engineering Council
1538	JeOS	just enough operating system
1539	JES	Job Entry Subsystem
1540	JFC	Java Foundation Classes
1541	JFET	Junction Field-Effect Transistor
1542	JHTML	Java within Hypertext Markup Language
1543	JIC	manufacturing just-in-case manufacturing
1544	JMS	Java Message Service
1545	JMX	Java Management Extensions
1546	JNDI	Java Naming and Directory Interface
1547	JOBS	Act Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act
1548	JOLAP	Java Online Analytical Processing
1549	JPEG	Joint Photographic Experts Group
1550	JRE	Java Runtime Environment
1551	JSML	Java Speech API Markup Language
1552	JSON	Javascript Object Notation
1553	JSP	Java Server Page
1554	JTAPI	Java Telephony Application Programming Interface
1555	JVM	Java virtual machine
1556	JXTA	juxtaposed
1557	K6	AMD-K6
1558	KB	kilobyte
1559	KBA	knowledge-based authentication
1560	KBE	Knowledge-Based Engineering
1561	Kbps	kilobits per second
1562	KBW	keyboard wedge
1563	KDE	K Desktop Environment
1564	KGD	Known Good Die
1565	KISS	Keep It Simple, Stupid
1566	KLOC	thousands of lines of code
1567	KM	knowledge management
1568	KMD	Kazaa Media Desktop
1569	KML	Keyhole Markup Language
1570	KPI	Key Performance Indicator
1571	KRI	key risk indicator
1572	KVM	kernel-based Virtual Machine
1573	KVP	key-value pair
1574	KW	Knowledge Warehouse
1575	l10n	localization
1576	L2TP	Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
1577	L2TP	Layer Two Tunneling Protocol
1578	LAMP	Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
1579	LAN	Local Area Network
1580	LAR	Large Account Reseller
1581	LATA	local access and transport area
1582	LBA	logical block addressing
1583	LBM	location-based marketing
1584	LBO	leveraged buyout
1585	LBS	location-based service
1586	LCA	Life Cycle Assessment
1587	LCC	Leadless Chip Carrier
1588	LCC	limited combustible cable
1589	LCD	Liquid Crystal Display
1590	LCL	Less Than Container Load
1591	LCP	Link Control Protocol
1592	LCPC	Life Cycle Product Cost
1593	LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
1594	LDCM	LANDesk Client Manager
1595	LDD	locked down device
1596	LDIF	Lightweight Directory Interchange Format
1597	LDMOS	Laterally Diffused MOS transistor
1598	LDQ	longest delay in queue
1599	LDSI	Laboratory Data Sharing Interoperability
1600	LEAP	Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol
1601	LEC	local exchange carrier
1602	LED	light-emitting diode
1603	LEED	Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
1604	LES	Logistics Execution System
1605	Lex	lexical analyzer generator
1606	LHC	Large Hadron Collider
1607	LI	lawful interception
1608	LI	location intelligence
1609	Li-Ion	Lithium Ion battery
1610	LIDB	line information database
1611	LILO	LInux LOader
1612	LINQ	Language Integrated Query
1613	LISP	list processing
1614	LLM	large language model
1615	LLVM	Compiler Infrastructure (Low Level Virtual Machine)
1616	LMDS	Local Multi-Point Distribution System
1617	LMGTFY	Let Me Google That For You
1618	LMOF	last mile of finance
1619	LMS	learning management system
1620	LNA	Local Noise Amplifier
1621	LNP	Local Number Portability
1622	LOB	line-of-business
1623	LOC	Lines Of Code
1624	LOINC	Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes
1625	LOM	lights-out management
1626	LP	Lean Production
1627	LPAR	logical partition
1628	LPT	line print terminal
1629	LQSR	Link Quality Source Routing
1630	LRN	Location Routing Number
1631	LSA	Local Security Authority
1632	LSB	Linux Standard Base
1633	LSI	Large Scale Integration
1634	LTC	longitudinal time code
1635	LTE	Long Term Evolution
1636	LTFS	Linear Tape File System
1637	LTL	Less Than Truckload
1638	LTO	Linear Tape-Open
1639	LTS	Long Term Support
1640	LU	logical unit
1641	LUN	logical unit number
1642	LVS	Layout Verification Systems
1643	M&A	mergers and acquisitions
1644	M&O	Management and Operations
1645	M&S	Modeling and Simulation
1646	M2M	Machine to Machine
1647	M3U	Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3
1648	MAC	mandatory access control
1649	MAC	message authentication code
1650	MAD	Mobile Active Defense
1651	MADE	Manufacturing Automation and Design Exploration
1652	MAID	massive array of idle disks
1653	MAM	mobile application management
1654	MAM	mobile application manager
1655	MAN	metropolitan area network
1656	MAPI	Messaging Application Program Interface
1657	MAU	media attachment unit
1658	MB	megabyte
1659	MBean	managed bean
1660	MBone	Multicast Internet
1661	MBps	megabytes per second
1662	Mbps	millions of bits per second or megabits per second
1663	MBR	Master Boot Record
1664	MC	Mass Customization
1665	MCA	Micro Channel Architecture
1666	MCA	Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer
1667	MCE	Microsoft Certified Educator
1668	MCL	Mesh Connectivity Layer
1669	MCM	multi-carrier modulation
1670	Mcps	megachips per second
1671	MCS	Manufacturing Control System
1672	MCSA	Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate
1673	MCSD	Microsoft Certified Solution Developer
1674	MCSE	Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
1675	MDB	multidimensional database
1676	MDD	model-driven development
1677	MDI	Multiple Document Interface
1678	MDM	master data management
1679	MDM	mobile device management
1680	MDOP	Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack
1681	MDP	Multicast Dissemination Protocol
1682	MDRAM	Multibank Dynamic RAM
1683	MDX	multidimensional expressions
1684	MEAP	mobile enterprise application platform
1685	MEMS	Micro-electromechanical Systems
1686	MEP	Manufacturing Extension Partnership
1687	MES	Manufacturing Execution System
1688	MESA	Manufacturing Execution System Association
1689	MFA	multifactor authentication
1690	MFP	multifunction peripheral
1691	MFSK	multiple frequency shift keying
1692	MFT	managed file transfer
1693	MFT	master file table
1694	MGCP	Media Gateway Control Protocol
1695	MHP	Multimedia Home Platform
1696	MIB	management information base
1697	MIC	microwave integrated circuit
1698	MICR	magnetic ink character recognition
1699	MID	mobile Internet device
1700	MIDI	Musical Instrument Digital Interface
1701	MIM	mobile information management
1702	MIME	Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions
1703	MIMO	multiple input, multiple output
1704	MIPS	million instructions per second
1705	MIS	management information systems
1706	MISO	multiple input, single output
1707	MLA	mobile location analytics
1708	MLC	multi-level cell
1709	MMC	Microsoft Management Console
1710	MMC	mobile-to-mobile convergence
1711	MMC	MultiMediaCard
1712	MMDS	Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service
1713	MMI	Man Machine Interface
1714	MMIS	Maintenance Management Information System
1715	MMP	multichassis multilink PPP
1716	MMS	Manufacturing Message Specification
1717	MMS	Multimedia Messaging Service
1718	MMU	memory management unit
1719	MO	magneto-optical drive
1720	moblog	mobile blog
1721	MOF	Microsoft Operations Framework
1722	MOL	middle of life
1723	MOLAP	multidimensional online analytical processing
1724	MOM	Manufacturing operation management
1725	MOOC	massive open online course
1726	MOS	mean opinion score
1727	MOSFET	metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor
1728	MOSH	mobile shell
1729	MOSPF	Multicast Open Shortest Path First
1730	MOSS	Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
1731	MOU	memorandum of understanding
1732	MOVE	Aruba's Mobile Virtual Enterprise
1733	MP3	MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3
1734	MPEG	Moving Picture Experts Group
1735	MPI	master patient index
1736	MPI	message passing interface
1737	MPIO	Multipath I/O
1738	MPLS	Multiprotocol Label Switching
1739	mPOS	mobile point of sale
1740	MPP	massively parallel processing
1741	MPPE	Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption
1742	MPS	managed print services
1743	MPS	Master Production Schedule
1744	MR-IOV	Multi-Root IOV
1745	MRAM	magnetoresistive random access memory
1746	MRI	magnetic resonance imaging
1747	MRP	Manufacturing Resource Planning
1748	MrSID	Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database
1749	MS-DOS	Microsoft Disk Operating System
1750	MSAU	multistation access unit
1751	MSBF	mean-swap-between-failure
1752	MSCMDM	Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager
1753	MSCS	Microsoft Cluster Server
1754	MSDOS	Microsoft Disk Operating System
1755	MSDS	Material Safety Data Sheet
1756	MSE	Microsoft Security Essentials
1757	MSP	managed service provider
1758	MSP	management service provider
1759	MSRP	Message Session Relay Protocol
1760	MSS	managed security services
1761	MSS	maximum segment size
1762	MSS	mobile satellite services
1763	MSSP	managed security service provider
1764	MT	medical transcription
1765	MTO	Make To Order
1766	Mtops	million theoretical operations per second
1767	MTPOD	maximum tolerable period of disruption
1768	MTS	Make To Stock
1769	MTS	medical transcription software
1770	MTS	Microsoft Transaction Server
1771	MTU	maximum transmission unit
1772	MUA	mail user agent
1773	MUD	Multi-User Dungeon
1774	Multics	Multiplexed Information and Computing Service
1775	MULTOS	Multiple Operating System
1776	mutex	mutual exclusion object
1777	MV	machine vision
1778	MVA	Microsoft Virtual Academy
1779	MVC	model-view-controller
1780	MVMC	Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
1781	MVNO	mobile virtual network operator
1782	MVP	Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
1783	MVS	Multiple Virtual Storage
1784	NaaS	network-as-a-service
1785	NAC	network access control
1786	NACHA	National Automated Clearing House Association
1787	NAHIT	National Alliance for Health Information Technology
1788	NAK	negative acknowledgment or not acknowledged
1789	NAP	Microsoft Network Access Protection
1790	NAP	network access point
1791	NAS	Network Access Server, Network-Attached Storage
1792	NAT	Network Address Translation
1793	NBA	network behavior analysis
1794	NBAD	network behavior anomaly detection
1795	NBAR	Network Based Application Recognition
1796	NBMA	non-broadcast multiple access
1797	NC	network computer
1798	NCA	native cloud application
1799	NCFA	National Call Fee Access
1800	NCM	network configuration management
1801	NCMS	National Center for Manufacturing Sciences
1802	NCQ	Native Command Queuing
1803	NCSC	National Computer Security Center
1804	NCVHS	National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
1805	NDA	non-disclosure agreement
1806	NDIS	Network Driver Interface Specification
1807	NDMP	Network Data Management Protocol
1808	NDS	Novell Directory Services
1809	NECP	National Emergency Communications Plan
1810	NED	nano-emissive display
1811	NEDSS	National Electronic Disease Surveillance System
1812	NERC	North American Electric Reliability Corporation
1813	NetBEUI	NetBIOS Extended User Interface
1814	NetBIOS	Network Basic Input/Output System
1815	NetPC	Network PC
1816	NeXT	near-end crosstalk
1817	NFC	Near Field Communication
1818	NFT	Non-Fungible Token
1819	NFR	not for resale
1820	NFS	Network File System
1821	NFTS	national file tracking system
1822	NFV	network functions virtualization
1823	NGFW	next-generation firewall
1824	NGSCB	Next Generation Secure Computing Base
1825	NHII	National Health Information Infrastructure
1826	NHIN	Nationwide Health Information Network
1827	NHRP	Next Hop Resolution Protocol
1828	NI	Network Intelligence
1829	Ni2	Net indexer 2
1830	NIAP	National Information Assurance Partnership
1831	NIC	Network Interface Card
1832	NIC	network interface card
1833	NiCd	Nickel-Cadmium battery
1834	NiMH	Nickel-Metal Hydride battery
1835	NIS	Network Information System
1836	NIST	National Institute of Standards and Technology
1837	NJE	Network Job Entry
1838	NLM	National Library of Medicine
1839	NLP	natural language processing
1840	NMTA	National Machining and Tooling Association
1841	NNI	National Nanotechnology Initiative
1842	NNM	Network Node Manager
1843	NNTP	Network News Transfer Protocol
1844	NOC	Network Operations Center
1845	noop	No Operation
1846	NOS	Network Operating System
1847	NoSQL	Not Only SQL
1848	NPC	Non-Player Character (in role-playing games)
1849	NPD	New Product Development
1850	NPE	Non-Practicing Entity
1851	NPI	National Provider Identifier
1852	NPI	New Product Introduction
1853	NPIV	N_Port ID virtualization
1854	NPV	Net present value
1855	NQF	National Quality Forum
1856	NRLA	National Labor Relations Board
1857	NRZ	non-return-to-zero
1858	NSAP	Network Service Access Point
1859	NSAPI	Netscape Server Application Programming Interface
1860	NSIS	Next Steps in Signaling
1861	NSP	network service provider
1862	NT1	network terminator 1
1863	NTIA	(U.S.) National Telecommunications and Information Administration
1864	NTFS	New Technology File System
1865	NTP	Network Time Protocol
1866	NTR	Normal Trade Relations
1867	NTS	Number Translation Service
1868	NTSC	National Television Standards Committee
1869	NTU	nuclear time unit
1870	NUI	natural user interface
1871	NUMA	non-uniform memory access
1872	NURBS	nonuniform rational B-spline
1873	NUS	network unified storage
1874	NVGRE	Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation
1875	NVLAP	National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program
1876	NVMe	non-volatile memory express
1877	NVS	nonvolatile storage
1878	NWR	NOAA Weather Radio
1879	O2O	Online to Offline
1880	OA&M	operations, administration, and management
1881	OAB	offline address book
1882	OASIS	Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
1883	OBI	Open Buying on the Internet
1884	OCC	Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
1885	OCM	organizational change management
1886	OCNCC	Oracle Communications Network Charging and Control
1887	OCR	optical character recognition
1888	OCSP	Online Certificate Status Protocol
1889	OCW	MIT OpenCourseWare
1890	OCx	Optical Carrier levels
1891	ODBC	Open Database Connectivity
1892	ODCA	Open Data Center Alliance
1893	ODF	Open Document Format
1894	ODI	Open Data-Link Interface
1895	ODIN	Open Data Center with an Interoperable Network, Open Device Identification Number
1896	ODL	Open and Distance Learning
1897	ODM	Original Design Manufacturer
1898	ODMA	Open Document Management API or Application Program Interface
1899	ODMR	On-Demand Mail Relay
1900	ODP	Open Directory Project
1901	ODS	operational data store
1902	ODS	Ozone Depleting Substance
1903	ODX	Offloaded Data Transfer
1904	OEBF	Open Electronic Book Forum
1905	OFB	output feedback
1906	OFDM	orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing
1907	OGSA	Open Grid Services Architecture
1908	OHA	Open Handset Alliance
1909	OID	object ID
1910	OLA	operational level agreement
1911	OLAP	online analytical processing
1912	OLE	Object Linking and Embedding
1913	OLPC	One Laptop Per Child
1914	OLT	optical line terminal
1915	OLTP	On Line Transaction Processing
1916	OMAP	Open Multimedia Application Platform
1917	OMG	Object Management Group
1918	OMSS	Oracle Mobile Security Suite
1919	ONF	Open Networking Foundation
1920	OODBMS	object-oriented database management system
1921	OoOE	out-of-order execution
1922	OOP	object-oriented programming
1923	OOPSLA	Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications
1924	OOXML	Office Open Extended Markup Language
1925	OPC	OLE for Process Control
1926	OpenGL	Open Graphics Library
1927	OpenNMS	Open Network Management System
1928	OpenVPN	open source virtual private network
1929	Opex	operational expenditure
1930	OPM	operational performance management
1931	OPML	Outline Processor Markup Language
1932	OPS	Open Profiling Standard
1933	OPT	Optimized Production Technology
1934	ORB	Object Request Broker
1935	ORBS	Open Relay Behavior-modification System
1936	ORM	object-relational mapping
1937	OS	operating system
1938	OSA	Open System Authentication
1939	OSBI	open source business intelligence
1940	OSD	object storage device
1941	OSDL	Open Source Development Labs
1942	OSF	Open Software Foundation
1943	OSGi	Open Service Gateway Initiative
1944	OSI	Open Systems Interconnection
1945	OSP	online service provider
1946	OSP	Open Settlement Protocol
1947	OSPF	Open Shortest Path First
1948	OSS	Online Service System, Open Source Software, Operational Support System, Off-the-shelf Software Support
1949	OTA	Over the Air
1950	OTC	order to cash
1951	OTCR	On-Time delivery performance to Customer Request Date
1952	OTFT	organic thin-film transistor
1953	OTM	Optivity Telephony Manager
1954	OTP	one-time password
1955	OU	organizational unit
1956	OVSDB	Open vSwitch Database Management Protocol
1957	OWA	Microsoft Outlook Web App
1958	OWASP	Open Web Application Security Project
1959	OWD	OneWebDay
1960	P&L	profit and loss statement
1961	P-Ink	photonic ink
1962	P2P	path to profitability,Peer to Peer,procure to pay
1963	P2T	Push to Talk
1964	P2V	physical to virtual
1965	P3P	Platform for Privacy Preferences
1966	P4	Pentium 4
1967	P4P	proactive provider participation for P2P
1968	PA	Power Amplifier
1969	PA-DSS	Payment Application Data Security Standard
1970	PaaS	Platform as a Service
1971	PABX	private automatic branch exchange
1972	PAC	Production Activity Control
1973	PACS	Personal Access Communications System
1974	PACS	picture archiving and communication system
1975	PAIR	Policy Analysis of Internet Routing
1976	PAL	Phase Alternation Line
1977	PAM	partner account manager, pulse amplitude modulation
1978	PAN	personal area network
1979	PAP	Packet-Level Procedure
1980	PAR	performance and accountability reporting
1981	PARC	Palo Alto Research Center
1982	PAT	Port Address Translation
1983	PBD	physical block device
1984	PBT	Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic
1985	PBX	private branch exchange
1986	PC	Personal Computer
1987	PC	project charter
1988	PC-DOS	Personal Computer - Disk Operating System
1989	PCAOB	Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
1990	PCB	printed circuit board
1991	PCE	Path Computation Element
1992	PCEP	Path Computation Element Protocol
1993	PCI	Peripheral Component Interconnect
1994	PCI-X	Peripheral Component Interconnect Extended
1995	PCL	Printer Control Language
1996	PCM	phase-change memory
1997	PCM	pulse code modulation
1998	PCMCIA	Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
1999	PCRF	Policy and Charging Rules Function
2000	PCS	personal cloud storage
2001	PCS	personal communications service
2002	PDA	personal digital assistant
2003	PDF	Portable Document Format
2004	PDL	page description language
2005	PDM	Product Data Management
2006	PDP-11	Programmed Data Processor-11
2007	PDU	power distribution unit
2008	PEAP	Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol
2009	PEBCAK	problem exists between chair and keyboard
2010	pel	picture element
2011	PERT	Program Evaluation Review Technique
2012	PF	prefetch folder
2013	PFC	power factor correction or power factor controller
2014	PGP	Pretty Good Privacy
2015	PHDSC	Public Health Data Standards Consortium
2016	PHI	personal health information
2017	PHOLED	phosphorescent organic light-emitting device
2018	PHP	Hypertext Preprocessor, Personal Home Page
2019	PHR	personal health record
2020	PHS	Personal Handyphone System
2021	PI	Predictive Index
2022	PI	Principal Investigator
2023	PIA	privacy impact assessment
2024	PIC	port interface card
2025	PICK	Possible, Implement, Challenge and Kill
2026	PICS	Platform for Internet Content Selection
2027	PICTIVE	Plastic Interface for Collaborative Technology Initiatives through Video Exploration
2028	PID	Problem Identification Document
2029	PID	process identifier
2030	PIFI	personally identifiable financial information
2031	PII	personally identifiable information
2032	PIM	privileged identity management, processing in memory, Product Information Management, protocol-independent multicast
2033	PIO	Programmed Input/Output
2034	PIP	Partner Integration Process, Picture in Picture
2035	PIV	personal identity verification
2036	PKCS	Public-Key Cryptography Standards
2037	PKI	public key infrastructure
2038	PL/S	Programming Language/System
2039	PL/SQL	procedural language extension to Structured Query Language
2040	PLATO	Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations
2041	PLC	packet loss concealment
2042	PLEDM	phase-state low electron drive memory
2043	PLL	phase-locked loop
2044	PLM	Product Lifecycle Management
2045	PLMN	public land mobile network
2046	PM	phase modulation
2047	PMI	plus, minus, interesting
2048	PML	Portal Markup Language
2049	PMML	Predictive Model Markup Language
2050	PMO	Project Management Office
2051	PMP	Project Management Professional
2052	PMS	package manager or package management system
2053	PN	programmable network
2054	pNFS	Parallel NFS
2055	PNG	Portable Network Graphics
2056	PnP	Plug and Play
2057	POC	Packet Order Correction
2058	POC	proof of concept
2059	PoE	Power over Ethernet
2060	PoIP	Pray over Internet Protocol
2061	POLP	principle of least privilege
2062	POM	Production/Operations Management
2063	PON	passive optical network
2064	POP	point-of-presence
2065	POP3	Post Office Protocol 3
2066	PoR	power-on reset
2067	POS	personal operating space, Point of Sale
2068	POSIX	Portable Operating System Interface
2069	POST	Power-On Self-Test
2070	POTS	plain old telephone service
2071	PP&E	Property, Plant & Equipment
2072	PPD	parallel presence detect
2073	PPD	post-processing deduplication
2074	PPD	Postscript Printer Description file
2075	PPGA	plastic pin grid array
2076	ppi	pixels per inch
2077	PPM	Pages per minute (a measurement of printing speed), Perl package manager (for software packages), Prediction by partial matching (a data compression technique), project and portfolio management
2078	PPP	Point-to-Point Protocol
2079	PPPoE	Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet
2080	PPTP	Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
2081	PR	Problem Report, Process Reengineering
2082	PRI	Primary Rate Interface
2083	PRM	partner relationship management
2084	PRNG	pseudo-random number generator
2085	PROM	programmable read-only memory
2086	PRONet	Procurement Marketing and Access Network
2087	PRS	Personal Response System
2088	PRS	Premium Rate Service
2089	PRSA	Public Relations Society of America
2090	PRT	Pre-requisite Tree
2091	PSA	professional services automation
2092	PSK	phase-shift keying
2093	PSN	processor serial number
2094	PSOD	Purple Screen of Death
2095	PSS	Personal Search Syndication
2096	PSTN	public switched telephone network
2097	PTAC	Procurement Technical Assistance Center
2098	PTF	program temporary fix
2099	PTO	Patent and Trademark Office
2100	PTT	Push to Talk
2101	PU	physical unit
2102	PUE	power usage effectiveness
2103	PUP	potentially unwanted program
2104	PVC	permanent virtual circuit
2105	PVM	Parallel Virtual Machine
2106	PVR	personal video recorder
2107	PWS	Personal Web Server
2108	PXE	Preboot Execution Environment
2109	QA	Quality Assurance
2110	QAM	quadrature amplitude modulation
2111	QB	Quality Breakdown
2112	QBE	Query by Example
2113	QC	Quality Control
2114	QD	Quantum Dots
2115	QDOS	86-DOS
2116	QFE	Quad FastEthernet
2117	QFE	Quick Fix Engineering
2118	QFP	Quad Flat Package
2119	qHD	quarter high definition
2120	QIX	NASDAQ Information Exchange protocol
2121	QoE	Quality of Experience
2122	QoS	Quality of Service
2123	QPS	queries-per-second
2124	QR	Quick Response
2125	QSA	Qualified Security Assessor
2126	QSIG	Q signaling
2127	QVGA	Quarter Video Graphics Array
2128	QXGA	Quantum Extended Graphics Array
2129	R&D	Research and Development
2130	R3	Reduce, reuse, recycle
2131	RA	registration authority
2132	RAC	Real Application Cluster
2133	RACE	Rapid Access Computing Environment
2134	RACF	Resource Access Control Facility
2135	RAD	rapid application development
2136	RADIUS	Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
2137	RAF	risk assessment framework
2138	RAID	redundant array of independent disks
2139	RAIN	redundant/reliable array of inexpensive/independent nodes
2140	RAM	Random Access Memory
2141	RAMAC	random access method of accounting and control
2142	RAMDAC	random access memory digital-to-analog converter
2143	RAND	reasonable and nondiscriminatory
2144	RAP	Revenue Acquisition Process
2145	RARP	Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
2146	RAS	registration, admission, and status
2147	RAS	Reliability, Availability and Serviceability
2148	RAS	Remote Access Server, row address strobe
2149	RAT	remote access Trojan
2150	RBA	risk-based authentication
2151	RBAC	role-based access control
2152	RBOC	regional Bell operating company
2153	RCE	remote code execution
2154	RCP	Rich Client Platform
2155	RD	running disparity
2156	RDBMS	relational database management system
2157	RDC	remote deposit capture
2158	RDF	Resource Description Framework
2159	RDM	raw device mapping
2160	RDMA	Remote Direct Memory Access
2161	rDNS	reverse DNS
2162	RDO	Remote Data Objects
2163	RDP	Remote Desktop Protocol
2164	RDRAM	Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory
2165	RDS	Amazon Relational Database Service
2166	RDS	Radio Data System
2167	RDS	Remote Desktop Services
2168	RDT&E	Research, Development, Testing & Evaluation
2169	REC	Regional Extension Center
2170	ReFS	Resilient File System
2171	regex	regular expression
2172	REST	representational state transfer
2173	RF	radio frequency
2174	RFC	Remote Function Call
2175	RFC	Request for Comments
2176	RFI	request for information
2177	RFID	radio frequency identification
2178	RFO	Request for Offer
2179	RFP	request for proposal
2180	RFQ	request for quotation
2181	RFR	Red Flags Rule
2182	RGB	red, green, and blue
2183	RHCVA	Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator
2184	RHEL	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2185	RHEV	Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
2186	RHIA	registered health information administrator
2187	RHIO	Regional Health Information Organization
2188	RHIT	registered health information technician
2189	RHS	Red Hat Storage
2190	RIA	Rich Internet Application
2191	RIAA	Recording Industry Association of America
2192	RIBLOE	Remote Insight Board -- Lights Out Edition
2193	RID	relative identifier
2194	RIM	records information management
2195	RIM	Reference Information Model
2196	RIP	Raster Image Processor
2197	RIP	Routing Information Protocol
2198	RIR	Regional Internet Registry
2199	RIS	Radiology Information System
2200	RIS	Remote Installation Service
2201	RISC	Reduced Instruction Set Computer
2202	RJE	Remote Job Entry
2203	RMA	Return Material (or Merchandise) Authorization
2204	RMA	return merchandise authorization
2205	RMI	Remote Method Invocation
2206	RMM	Remote Monitoring & Management
2207	RMON	Remote Network Monitoring
2208	RMS	root-mean-square
2209	RNAAPP	Remote Network Access Application
2210	RNIS	Reseau Numerique a Integration de Services
2211	ROA	Resource-Oriented Architecture
2212	ROADM	Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer
2213	ROC	Report on Compliance
2214	ROD	Reuse-Oriented Model or Reuse-Oriented Development
2215	RODC	Read-Only Domain Controller
2216	RoHS	Restriction of Hazardous Substances
2217	ROI	Return On Investment
2218	ROIC	Return On Invested Capital
2219	ROKSO	Register of Known Spam Operations
2220	ROLAP	Relational Online Analytical Processing
2221	ROM	Read-Only Memory
2222	ROMI	Return On Marketing Investment
2223	RONA	Return On Net Assets
2224	ROP	Reorder Point
2225	RoR	Ruby on Rails
2226	RoT	Roots of Trust
2227	ROU	Record Of Understanding
2228	ROWE	Results-Only Work Environment
2229	RPC	Remote Procedure Call
2230	RPG	Report Program Generator, Role-Playing Game
2231	RPM	Rapid Response Manufacturing, Remote Patient Monitoring, Red Hat Package Manager
2232	RPO	Recovery Point Objective, Recruitment Process Outsourcing
2233	RPR	Resilient Packet Ring
2234	RPT	Rich Presence Technology
2235	RQ	Risk Intelligence
2236	RRAM	resistive RAM
2237	RSAT	Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools
2238	RSC	Retail Service Center
2239	RSI	requirements stability index
2240	RSNA	Radiological Society of North America
2241	RSoP	Resultant Set of Policy
2242	RSS	Really Simple Syndication (feeds)
2243	RSVP	Resource Reservation Protocol
2244	RT	retweet
2245	RTA	real-time application
2246	RTC	real-time clock, real-time communications
2247	RTCD	real-time communications dashboard
2248	RTCP	Real-Time Transport Control Protocol
2249	RTD	reconfigurable tactile display, Research and Technical Development
2250	RTF	Rich Text Format
2251	RTFM	Read The Fucking Manual
2252	RTLS	real-time location system
2253	RTM	Read The Manual
2254	RTO	recovery time objective
2255	RtOI	real-time operational intelligence
2256	RTOS	real-time operating system
2257	RTP	Real-Time Transport Protocol
2258	RTSP	Real Time Streaming Protocol
2259	RTT	round-trip time
2260	RUP	Rational Unified Process
2261	RWU	remote wakeup
2262	RZ	return-to-zero
2263	S&OP	sales and operations planning
2264	S/FTP	Screened Foil Twisted Pair
2265	S-HTTP	Secure HTTP
2266	S.M.A.R.T.	Self-Monitoring Analysis & Reporting Technology
2267	S/MIME	Secure Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions
2268	S/PDIF	Sony/Philips Digital Interface
2269	S4L	spam for life
2270	SA	Microsoft Exchange System Attendant, Microsoft Software Assurance, service assurance
2271	SAA	Systems Application Architecture
2272	SaaS	Software as a Service, Security as a Service, Storage as a Service
2273	SACD	Super Audio CD
2274	SAFE	Samsung for Enterprise
2275	SAM	Security Accounts Manager, storage area management
2276	SAML	Security Assertion Markup Language
2277	SAN	storage area network
2278	SAPI	Speech Application Program Interface
2279	SAPPHIRE	SAP User Conference
2280	SAR	Segmentation and Reassembly, Suspicious Activity Report
2281	SAS	serial-attached SCSI
2282	SASID	Self-Scanned Amorphous Silicon Integrated Display
2283	SAX	Simple API for XML
2284	SBAs	search-based applications
2285	SBC	session border controller
2286	SBIR	Small Business Innovative Research
2287	SBOM	Software bill of materials
2288	SBR	skill-based routing
2289	SC	sunk cost, supply chain
2290	SCA	service-component architecture
2291	SCADA	Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
2292	SCC	Supply Chain Council
2293	SCCP	Signalling Connection Control Part
2294	SCE	supply chain execution
2295	SCEM	supply chain event management
2296	SCI	serial communications interface
2297	SCL	spam confidence level
2298	SCM	Supply Chain Management
2299	SCOR	Supply Chain Operations Reference model
2300	SCORM	Shareable Content Object Reference Model
2301	SCP	session control protocol, supply chain planning
2302	SCR	Synchronized Customer Response
2303	SCSA	Signal Computing System Architecture
2304	SCSI	Small Computer System Interface
2305	SCSIe	SCSI Express
2306	SCTP	Stream Control Transmission Protocol
2307	SCV	supply chain visibility
2308	SD2	Sound Designer II
2309	SDA	Smart Data Access
2310	SDARS	Satellite Digital Audio Radio Service
2311	SDB	Small Disadvantaged Business
2312	SDDC	software-defined data center
2313	SDDL	Security Descriptor Definition Language
2314	SDH	Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
2315	SDI	Serial Digital Interface
2316	SDK	Software Development Kit
2317	SDL	Specification and Description Language
2318	SDLC	Synchronous Data Link Control, systems development life cycle
2319	SDMA	spatial division multiple access
2320	SDN	software-defined networking
2321	SDO	Service Data Objects
2322	SDP	Session Description Protocol
2323	SDR	software-defined radio
2324	SDRAM	synchronous DRAM
2325	SDTV	standard definition television
2326	SDWT	self-directed work team
2327	SDX	NetScaler
2328	SDXC	Secure Digital Extended Capacity card
2329	SEC	Securities and Exchange Commission
2330	SECAM	Sequential Couleur avec Memoire
2331	SEI	Software Engineering Institute
2332	SEM	single-electron memory
2333	SEO	search engine optimization
2334	SerDes	serializer/deserializer
2335	SERP	search engine results page
2336	SET	Secure Electronic Transaction
2337	SETI	Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
2338	SEWP	Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement
2339	SFA	Sales Force Automation
2340	SFA	sales force automation
2341	SFA	single-factor authentication
2342	SFF	small form factor
2343	SFP	small form-factor pluggable
2344	SFS	stepless frequency control
2345	SFTP	Secure File Transfer Protocol
2346	SFX	special effects
2347	SGA	Selling, General and Administrative expenses
2348	SGF	Structured Graph Format
2349	SGI	Silicon Graphics
2350	SGML	Standard Generalized Markup Language
2351	SGRAM	Synchronous Graphics RAM
2352	Si	silicon
2353	SI	systems integrator
2354	SID	security identifier
2355	SIEM	security information and event management
2356	SIG	Special Interest Group
2357	SIGTRAN	Signaling Transport
2358	SIM	security information management
2359	SIMD	Single Instruction Multiple Data
2360	SIMM	Service Integration Maturity Model, single in-line memory module
2361	SIMO	single input, multiple output
2362	SIMPLE	SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions
2363	SIP	Session Initiation Protocol
2364	SIPOC	suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, customers
2365	SIRDS	single-image random-dot stereogram
2366	SISO	single input, single output
2367	SIV	Signal Integrity Verification
2368	SJC	Senate Judiciary Committee
2369	SKA	Shared Key Authentication
2370	SKIL	Bill Securing Knowledge, Innovation and Leadership Act
2371	SKU	Stock Keeping Units
2372	SLA	service-level agreement
2373	SLC	single level cell
2374	SLD	second-level domain
2375	SLICE	Simple Low-Cost Innovative Engine
2376	SLIP	Serial Line Internet Protocol
2377	SLP	Service Location Protocol
2378	SMART	Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology
2379	SMB	Server Message Block, small and medium-sized business, small and midsized business
2380	SMBXML	Small Business Extensible Markup Language
2381	SMDS	Switched Multimegabit Data Service
2382	SME	small to medium enterprise, Society of Manufacturing Engineers
2383	SMF	Standard MIDI File
2384	SMI-S	Storage Management Initiative Specification
2385	SMIL	Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
2386	SMM	social media marketing
2387	SMMS	Social media management software
2388	SMP	symmetric multiprocessing
2389	SMPTE	Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
2390	SMR	Specialized Mobile Radio
2391	SMS	Short Message Service
2392	SMSC	short message service center
2393	SMT	Simultaneous Multithreading
2394	SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
2395	SMWT	Self Managed Work Teams
2396	SNA	Systems Network Architecture
2397	SNAFU	situation normal, all f***ed up
2398	SNG	satellite news gathering
2399	SNMP	Simple Network Management Protocol
2400	SNOMED	Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine
2401	SNR	signal-to-noise ratio
2402	SOA	service-oriented architecture
2403	SOAP	Simple Object Access Protocol
2404	SOC	switch-on-a-chip
2405	SoC	system-on-a-chip
2406	SoD	segregation of duties
2407	SOFC	solid oxide fuel cell
2408	SOHO	Small Office Home Office
2409	SOI	service-oriented integration, Silicon-on-Insulator
2410	SOLED	stacked organic light-emitting device
2411	SoLoMo	social, local and mobile
2412	SOM	service-oriented management
2413	SoMoClo	social, mobile and cloud
2414	SONET	Synchronous Optical Network
2415	SOP	Sales and Operations Planning, Same Origin Policy
2416	SOPA	Stop Online Piracy Act
2417	SOR	system of record
2418	SoS	system of systems
2419	sosofo	specification of a sequence of flow objects
2420	SOW	Statement of Work
2421	SOX	Sarbanes-Oxley Act
2422	SP1	Service Pack 1
2423	SPAC	special purpose acquisition company
2424	SPARC	Scalable Processor Architecture
2425	SPC	Statistical Process Control
2426	SPD	Serial presence detect
2427	SPEC	Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
2428	SPF	Sender Policy Framework
2429	SPI	serial peripheral interface
2430	SPICE	Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination
2431	SPID	Service Profile Identifier
2432	SPIF	sales performance incentive fund
2433	SPIT	spam over Internet telephony
2434	SPM	sales performance management
2435	SPM	Standard Process Modules
2436	SPML	Services Provisioning Markup Language
2437	SPOF	single point of failure
2438	spool	simultaneous peripheral operations online
2439	SPS	Standard Procurement System
2440	SPX	Sequenced Packet Exchange
2441	SQL	Structured Query Language
2442	SQuID	Source Quench Introduced Delay
2443	SR-IOV	Single Root I/O Virtualization
2444	SRAM	static random access memory
2445	SRE	serious reportable event
2446	SRM	Standard Reference Material, storage resource management, supplier relationship management, sustainability risk management
2447	SRS	software requirements specification
2448	SRT	Source-route transparent
2449	SRTP	Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol or Secure RTP
2450	SS7	Signaling System 7
2451	SSA	Serial Storage Architecture
2452	SSADM	Structured Systems Analysis & Design Method
2453	SSD	Solid-State Drive
2454	SSH	Secure Shell
2455	SSI	server-side include, single-system image
2456	SSID	service set identifier
2457	SSL	Secure Sockets Layer, solid-state lighting
2458	SSM	solid state module
2459	SSO	single sign-on
2460	SSP	storage service provider
2461	SSS	solid state storage
2462	SSSI	Solid-State Storage Initiative
2463	SST	Streamlined Sales Tax
2464	SSTV	slow-scan television
2465	STAR	Security, Trust and Assurance Registry
2466	STARS	Standard Accounting and Reporting System
2467	statC	statcoulomb
2468	statF	statfarad
2469	statH	stathenry
2470	statS	statsiemens
2471	statV	statvolt
2472	statW	statwatt
2473	STDM	statistical time division multiplexing
2474	STEM	science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
2475	STEP	Standard for the Exchange of Product model data
2476	STM	scanning tunneling microscope
2477	STML	Spoken Text Markup Language
2478	STONITH	Shoot The Other Node In The Head
2479	STP	spanning tree protocol
2480	STP	standard temperature and pressure
2481	STUN	Simple Traversal of UDP through NAT
2482	SVC	scalable video coding, supervisor call, switched virtual circuit
2483	SVG	Scalable Vector Graphics
2484	SVVP	server virtualization validation program
2485	SWAG	Semantic Web Agreement Group
2486	SWAN	Structured Wireless-Aware Network
2487	SWAT	Samba Web Administration Tool
2488	SWF	Shockwave Flash file
2489	Swift	Programming language released in 2014 by Apple Inc.
2490	SWIFT	Simulated Work Input and Flow Time
2491	SWOT	Strengths, Weakness, Opportunity and Threats Analysis
2492	sysadmin	system administrator
2493	sysop	system operator
2494	T&M	Tools and Methodology
2495	T/R	Transmit / Receive
2496	T9	text on nine keys
2497	TA	terminal adapter
2498	TaaS	Testing as a Service
2499	TACACS	Terminal Access Controller Access Control System
2500	TACT	Total Average Cycle Time
2501	TAPI	Telephony Application Program Interface
2502	tar	Tape ARchive
2503	TB	terabyte
2504	TCAM	ternary content-addressable memory
2505	TCB	trusted computing base
2506	TCG	Trusted Computing Group
2507	Tcl	Tool Command Language
2508	Tcl/Tk	Tool Command Language
2509	TCM	Time Critical Manufacturing
2510	TCO	total cost of ownership
2511	TCP	Transmission Control Protocol
2512	TCP/IP	Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
2513	TD-SCDMA	time division synchronous code division multiple access
2514	TDC	Total Delivered Cost
2515	TDD	Telecommunications Display Device
2516	TDD	test-driven development
2517	TDM	Team Data Manager, time-division multiplexing
2518	TDMA	time division multiple access
2519	TEE	Trusted Execution Environment
2520	telco	telephone company
2521	TETRA	Terrestrial Trunked Radio
2522	TEWE	Technology for Enterprise-Wide Engineering
2523	TFT	thin-film transistor
2524	TFTP	Trivial File Transfer Protocol
2525	TGT	authentication ticket or ticket-granting ticket
2526	TIA	Total Information Awareness
2527	TIC	Trusted Internet Connections
2528	TIFF	Tag Image File Format
2529	TIG	Technology Implementation Group
2530	TIM	Test Inspection Measurement
2531	TIN	taxpayer Identification number
2532	Tk	Tool Kit
2533	TKIP	Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
2534	TLC	flash triple level cell flash
2535	TLD	top-level domain
2536	TLS	Transport Layer Security
2537	TM	software talent management software
2538	TMN	Telecommunications Management Network
2539	TMQL	Topic Map Query Language
2540	TMS	Transportation Management System
2541	TN	display twisted nematic display
2542	TOC	Theory of Constraints
2543	TOE	TCP/IP offload engine
2544	TOE	unified field theory or Theory of Everything
2545	TOGAF	The Open Group Architecture Framework
2546	TOLED	transparent organic light-emitting device
2547	TOP	Technical Office Protocol
2548	TOPS	Team Oriented Problem Solving
2549	TOTP	time-based one-time password
2550	TP	thin provisioning
2551	TPA	Technology and Product Assurance
2552	TPC	Transaction Processing Performance Council
2553	TPI	Total Profit Improvement
2554	TPM	Total Productive Maintenance, Trusted Platform Module
2555	TPOP	Time-Phased Order Point
2556	TPS	Terminal Proxy Server
2557	TPU	Tensor Processing Unit
2558	TQC	Total Quality Control
2559	TQM	Total Quality Management
2560	TRI	Toxic Release Inventory
2561	TRILL	Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links
2562	TRON	The Real-Time Operating System Nucleus
2563	TRT	Transition Tree
2564	TSAP	Transport Services Access Point
2565	TSCA	Toxic Substances Control Act
2566	TSR	terminate and stay resident
2567	TTL	time-to-live, transistor-to-transistor logic
2568	TTS	text-to-speech
2569	TtV	time to value
2570	TTY	teletypewriter
2571	TURN	Traversal Using Relay NAT
2572	TVA	Throughput Value Added
2573	TW	tin whiskers
2574	TWG	Technology Working Group
2575	TWT	traveling-wave tube
2576	U2U	User to User
2577	UART	Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
2578	UAT	user acceptance testing
2579	UBE	unsolicited bulk email
2580	UBL	Universal Business Language
2581	UC	Unit Cost
2582	UCaaS	Unified Communications as a Service
2583	UCE	unsolicited commercial email
2584	UCS	unified computing system
2585	UDA	Universal Data Access
2586	UDDI	Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration
2587	UDF	Universal Disk Format
2588	UDID	unique device identifier
2589	UDO	ultra density optical
2590	UDP	User Datagram Protocol
2591	UEFI	Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
2592	UGC	user-generated content
2593	UHDTV	Ultra High-Definition TV
2594	UHDV	ultra high definition video
2595	UHF	ultrahigh frequency
2596	UI	user interface
2597	UIA	user installed application
2598	UID	unique identifier
2599	UIML	User Interface Markup Language
2600	ULA	Oracle Unlimited License Agreement
2601	UM	unified messaging
2602	UMLS	Unified Medical Language System
2603	UMS	unified messaging system
2604	UMTS	Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service, Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
2605	UNC	Universal Naming Convention
2606	UPN	User Principal Name
2607	UPnP	Universal Plug and Play
2608	UPS	uninterruptible power supply
2609	URI	Uniform Resource Identifier
2610	URL	Uniform Resource Locator
2611	URN	Uniform Resource Name
2612	USART	Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
2613	USB	Universal Serial Bus
2614	USGCB	United States Government Configuration Baseline
2615	USITC	United States International Trade Commission
2616	USP	unique selling point
2617	USR	Universal System Resources (the /usr directory in a *NIX filesystem)
2618	USSD	Unstructured Supplementary Service Data
2619	UTF	Unicode Transformation Format
2620	UTM	unified threat management
2621	UUCP	UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Protocol
2622	UUID	Universal Unique Identifier
2623	UX	user experience
2624	UXGA	Ultra Extended Graphics Array
2625	V2P	virtual to physical
2626	V2V	Virtual to virtual
2627	VAAI	vStorage APIs for Array Integration
2628	VAD	Value Added Distribution
2629	VAD	voice activation detection
2630	VAMP	vStorage API for Multipathing
2631	VAN	value-added network
2632	VAR	Value-Added Reseller
2633	VASA	vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness
2634	VAX	Virtual Address eXtension
2635	VB	Visual Basic
2636	VBI	vertical blanking interval
2637	VBN	visitor-based networking
2638	vBNS	very high-speed Backbone Network Service
2639	VBR	Vouch by Reference
2640	VC	venture capital
2641	vCAC	VMware vCloud Automation Center
2642	VCB	VMware Consolidated Backup
2643	VCD	video CD or video compact disc
2644	VCDX	VMware certified design expert
2645	vCLI	vSphere CLI
2646	VCP	VMware Capacity Planner
2647	VCP	VMware Certified Professional
2648	vCPU	virtual CPU
2649	VCR	videocassette recorder
2650	VCSEL	vertical cavity surface emitting laser
2651	vCSHB	VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
2652	VDA	Virtual Desktop Access
2653	vDGA	Virtual Dedicated Graphics Acceleration
2654	VDI	virtual desktop infrastructure
2655	VDT	video display terminal or visual display terminal
2656	VDU	video display unit
2657	VE	Value Engineering
2658	VERIS	Vocabulary for Event Recording and Incident Sharing
2659	VFAT	Virtual File Allocation Table
2660	VFIIP	Virtual Factory Information Interchange Project
2661	VFS	virtual file system
2662	vGPU	virtual GPU
2663	VHD	virtual hard disk
2664	VHDCI	Very High Density Cable Interconnect
2665	VHDX	Hyper-V virtual hard disk
2666	VHE	Virtual Home Environment
2667	VHF	very high frequency
2668	VHS	Video Home System
2669	VI3	VMware Infrastructure 3
2670	VIM	Vendor Independent Messaging
2671	Vim	Vi improved
2672	VITC	vertical interval time code
2673	VLAN	Virtual Local Area Network
2674	VLDB	Very Large Database
2675	VLE	virtual learning environment
2676	VLER	Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record
2677	VLIW	very long instruction word
2678	vlog	video blog
2679	VLSI	Very Large Scale Integration
2680	VLSM	variable-length subnet mask
2681	VM	virtual machine
2682	VMBus	Microsoft Virtual Machine Bus
2683	VMEbus	VersaModular Eurocard bus
2684	VMI	Vendor Managed Inventory
2685	VML	vector graphics rendering
2686	VML	Vector Markup Language
2687	VMLM	virtual machine lifecycle management
2688	VMM	virtual machine monitor
2689	VMO	vendor management office
2690	VMQ	Virtual Machine Queue
2691	VMS	Virtual Memory System
2692	VMUG	VMware User Group
2693	VMXNET3	VMXNET Generation 3
2694	VNC	virtual network computing
2695	vNUMA	virtual NUMA
2696	VOB	Versioned Object Base
2697	VOC	voice of the customer
2698	VoD	video on demand
2699	VoIP	voice over IP
2700	VOIPSA	Voice over IP Security Alliance
2701	VOVA	vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance
2702	VoWLAN	Voice over WLAN
2703	VoxML	Voice Markup Language
2704	VP	value proposition
2705	VPD	virtual private database
2706	VPD	vital product data
2707	VPDM	Virtual Product Data Management
2708	VPLS	virtual private LAN service
2709	VPM	Virtual Product Model
2710	VPN	Virtual Private Network
2711	VPS	Virtual Private Server
2712	VRAM	Video RAM
2713	VRF	Virtual Routing and Forwarding
2714	VRF	virtual routing and forwarding
2715	VRM	Vendor Risk Management, or Voltage Regulator Module
2716	VRM	vendor risk management
2717	VRM	voltage regulator module
2718	VRML	Virtual Reality Modeling Language
2719	VRR	Voice Recognition and Response, or Variable Refresh Rate
2720	VRRP	Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
2721	VSA	virtual SAN appliance, Virtual Storage Appliance
2722	VSAM	Virtual Storage Access Method
2723	VSAN	virtual storage area network
2724	VSAT	Very Small Aperture Terminal
2725	VSB	vestigial sideband
2726	VSE	Visual Studio Express
2727	VSM	virtual systems management
2728	VSMP	virtual symmetric multiprocessing
2729	VSP	vertical solutions provider
2730	VSP	Virtual Storage Portal
2731	VSPP	VMware Service Provider Program
2732	VSTO	Visual Studio Tools for Office or Microsoft Visual Studio Tools
2733	VSTS	Visual Studio Team System
2734	VTAM	Virtual Telecommunications Access Method
2735	VTL	Virtual Tape Library
2736	VUGM	Virtual User Group Meeting
2737	VUM	VMware vSphere Update Manager
2738	VXLAN	Virtual Extensible LAN
2739	W-CDMA	Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access
2740	W2K	Windows 2000
2741	W3C	World Wide Web Consortium
2742	WAAS	Wide Area Application Services
2743	WaaS	Windows as a Service
2744	WAE	Wide Area Ethernet
2745	WAF	write amplification factor
2746	WAFS	wide-area file services
2747	WAIS	Wide Area Information Servers
2748	WAN	Wide Area Network
2749	WAP	Wireless Application Protocol
2750	WAPI	WLAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure
2751	WARN	Workers' Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act
2752	WASC	Web Application Security Consortium
2753	WaSP	Web Standards Project
2754	WASP	wireless application service provider
2755	WATS	wide-area telephone service
2756	WAX	Wireless Abstract XML
2757	WBEM	Web-Based Enterprise Management
2758	WBI	Web Intermediaries
2759	WBMP	Wireless Bitmap
2760	WBS	Work Breakdown Schedule
2761	WBS	work breakdown structure
2762	WCET	worst-case execution time
2763	WCF	Windows Communication Foundation
2764	WCM	web content management
2765	WCM	World Class Manufacturing
2766	WCS	Warehouse control system
2767	WCS	Wireless Communications Service
2768	WDF	web development framework
2769	WDM	wavelength-division multiplexing
2770	WDS	Windows Deployment Services
2771	WDS	wireless distribution system
2772	WDSC	WebSphere Development Studio Client
2773	WDT	watchdog timer
2774	WebDAV	World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning
2775	WebOps	Web operations
2776	WebRTC	Web Real-Time Communications
2777	WEEE	Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulation
2778	WEP	Wired Equivalent Privacy
2779	WF	Windows Workflow Foundation
2780	WfM	Wired for Management, Workforce management
2781	WFO	workforce optimization
2782	WFQ	weighted fair queueing
2783	WGA	Windows Genuine Advantage
2784	WGate	Web gateway
2785	WHATWG	Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group
2786	WHQL	Windows Hardware Quality Labs
2787	WiBB	wireless broadband
2788	WIC	WAN interface card
2789	WiDEN	Wideband Integrated Digital Enhanced Network
2790	WIM	Windows Imaging Format
2791	WiMAX	Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
2792	WIMP	windows, icons, mouse, and pull-down menus
2793	WIMP	Woefully Inept Manufacturing Process
2794	WinDirStat	Windows Directory Statistics
2795	Wine	Wine is not an emulator
2796	WinFS	Windows File System
2797	WinFX	.NET 3.0
2798	WinPE	Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment
2799	WinRM	Windows Remote Management
2800	WINS	Windows Internet Naming Service
2801	WIP	Work in Process
2802	WME	World's Most Ethical
2803	WMF	Microsoft Windows Management Framework
2804	WMI	Windows Management Instrumentation
2805	WMIC	Windows Management Instrumentation Command line
2806	WML	Wireless Markup Language
2807	WMM	Wi-Fi Multimedia
2808	WMN	Wireless Mesh Network
2809	WMP	Windows Media Player
2810	WMS	Warehouse Management System
2811	WMTS	Wireless Medical Telemetry Services
2812	WORA	write once, run anywhere
2813	WORM	write once, read many
2814	WPA	Wi-Fi Protected Access
2815	WPA	Windows Product Activation
2816	WPAD	Web Proxy Autodiscovery
2817	WPAN	Wireless Prsonal Area Network
2818	WPAS	Windows Process Activation Service
2819	WPF	Windows Presentation Foundation
2820	WRAM	Window RAM
2821	WSA	Windows Subsystem for Android
2822	WSCI	Web Service Choreography Interface
2823	WSD	white space device
2824	WSDL	Web Services Description Language
2825	WSFC	Windows Server Failover Clustering
2826	WSL	Windows Subsystem for Linux
2827	WSP	Wireless Service Provider
2828	WSS	Windows Sharepoint Services
2829	WSTx	Web Services Transactions
2830	WSUS	Windows Server Update Services
2831	WTLS	Wireless Transport Layer Security
2832	WTS	Windows Terminal Server
2833	WUE	water usage effectiveness
2834	WUSB	wireless USB
2835	WWN	World Wide Name
2836	WWW	World Wide Web
2837	WYSIWYG	what you see is what you get
2838	WYSIWYP	what you see is what you print
2839	X9	ASC X9
2840	XaaS	anything as a service
2841	XACML	Extensible Access Control Markup Language
2842	XAM	eXtensible Access Method
2843	XAML	Extensible Application Markup Language
2844	XBRL	Extensible Business Reporting Language
2845	XCCDF	Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format
2846	XDMA	Xing Distributed Media Architecture
2847	XFDL	Extensible Forms Description Language
2848	XGA	Extended Graphics Array
2849	XHTML	Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
2850	XMI	XML Metadata Interchange
2851	XML	Extensible Markup Language
2852	XMPP	Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
2853	XMT	Extensible MPEG-4 Textual
2854	XNS	Extensible Name Service
2855	XORP	Extensible Open Router Platform
2856	XP	Extreme Programming
2857	XPRL	Extensible Public Relations Language
2858	XQL	XML Query Language
2859	XrML	Extensible Rights Markup Language
2860	XSD	XML Schema Definition
2861	XSL	Extensible Stylesheet Language
2862	XSLT	XSL Transformations
2863	XSRF	cross-site request forgery
2864	XSS	cross-site scripting
2865	XST	cross-site tracing
2866	XUL	Extensible User-interface Language
2867	XWM	X window manager
2868	XWN	eXtended WordNet
2869	XWS	X Window System
2870	XYZ	Internet top-level domain (.xyz) released in 2014
2871	Y2K	year 2000
2872	yacc	yet another compiler compiler
2873	YMS	yard management system
2874	YUM	Yellowdog Updater, Modified
2875	ZBR	zoned-bit recording
2876	ZBT	zero-based thinking
2877	ZIF	Zero Insertion Force
2878	Zope	Z Object Publishing Environment
2879	ZRTP	Zimmermann Real-Time Transport Protocol
2880	ZV	Zoomed Video