PowerShell/data/dicts/computing.csv

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