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	CXF	Credential Exchange Format
679	CXO	chief experience officer
680	CXP	Credential Exchange Protocol
681	D-AMPS	Digital-Advanced Mobile Phone Service
682	D-VHS	Digital Video Home System
683	D2D	Disk to Disk
684	D2D2C	Disk to Disk to Cloud
685	D2D2T	Disk to Disk to Tape
686	DA	data analytics
687	DAA	Data Access Arrangement
688	DaaS	Desktop as a Service
689	DAB	Digital Audio Broadcasting
690	DAC	digital-to-analog conversion
691	DAC	Microsoft Dynamic Access Control
692	DAFS	Direct Access File System
693	DAG	database availability group
694	DAI	Dynamic ARP Inspection
695	DAM	database activity monitoring
696	DAMA	Design Anywhere Manufacture Anywhere
697	DAML	DARPA Agent Markup Language
698	DAO	Data Access Objects
699	DAQ	Data Acquisition
700	DARC	Defense Acquisition Regulatory Council
701	DAS	direct-attached storage
702	DAS	distributed antenna system
703	DASD	direct access storage device
704	DAT	Digital Audio Tape
705	DAW	digital audio workstation
706	DB	Database
707	DBA	database administrator
708	DBaaS	Database as a Service
709	dBc	decibels relative to carrier
710	DBCS	Double Byte Character Set
711	dBd	decibels related to dipole antenna
712	dBi	decibels relative to isotropic radiator
713	DBIR	Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report
714	dBm	decibels relative to one milliwatt
715	DBMS	Database Management System
716	dBmV	decibels relative to one millivolt
717	DBOR	database of record
718	dBr	decibels relative to reference level
719	DBS	demand-based switching
720	DBS	direct broadcast satellite
721	DC	direct current
722	DC	Distribution Center
723	DCaaS	data center as a service
724	DCB	data center bridging
725	DCCP	Datagram Congestion Control Protocol
726	DCE	Distributed Computing Environment
727	DCIE	data center infrastructure efficiency
728	DCIM	data center infrastructure management
729	DCIM	Digital Camera Images
730	DCIT	Digital Compression of Increased Transmission
731	DCM	dynamic case management
732	DCMA	Defense Contract Management Agency
733	DCML	Data Center Markup Language
734	DCO	data center outsourcing
735	DCOM	Distributed Component Object Model
736	DCOP	Desktop Communication Protocol
737	DCPA	Distributed Control Plane Architecture
738	DCPromo	Domain Controller Promoter
739	DCS	Distributed Control System
740	DDA	Digital Differential Analyzer (graphics algorithm), or Digital Differential Analyzer
741	DDB	Amazon Dynamo Database
742	DDBMS	distributed database management system
743	DDCD	Double-Density Compact Disk
744	DDD	Data Display Debugger or Digital Digital Digital (CD mastering)
745	DDDM	data-driven decision management
746	DDE	Dynamic Data Exchange
747	DDK	driver development kit
748	DDL	Digital Data Link
749	DDL	Data Definition Language
750	DDM	demand-driven manufacturing
751	DDM	direct digital marketing
752	DDoS	Distributed Denial of Service
753	DDR	double data rate
754	DEC	Digital Equipment Corporation
755	DECT	Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications
756	DECT	Digital European Cordless Telephone
757	DEM	Dynamic Enterprise Modeling
758	DEN	Directory-Enabled Networking
759	DES	Data Encryption Standard
760	DES	discrete event simulation
761	DES	Distributed Execution System
762	DFA	Design for Assembly
763	DFAA	Design for Automated Assembly
764	DFB	Distributed Feedback
765	DFD	Design for Disassembly
766	DFE	Design For Environment
767	DFL	Demand Flow Leadership
768	DFM	Demand Flow Management
769	DFM	digital footprint management
770	DFS	Distributed Factory System
771	DFS	distributed file system
772	DFSC	Design for Supply Chain
773	DFT	Demand Flow Technology
774	DG	data governance
775	DHA	directory harvest attack
776	DHCP	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
777	DICOM	Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
778	DID	Direct Inward Dialing
779	DIF	Data Interchange Format
780	DIME	Direct Internet Message Encapsulation
781	DIMM	Dual In-line Memory Module
782	direct	Telnet reverse Telnet
783	DirSync	Windows Azure Active Directory Sync
784	DISA	Defense Information Systems Agency
785	Diskpart	Disk Partition Utility
786	Divx	Digital Video Express
787	DLC	data link control
788	DLL	Dynamic Link Library
789	DLM	data life cycle management
790	DLP	data loss prevention
791	DLT	digital linear tape
792	DMA	Direct Memory Access
793	DMAIC	define, measure, analyze, improve, control
794	DMB	digital multimedia broadcasting
795	DMCA	Digital Millennium Copyright Act
796	DMD	Direct Metal Deposition
797	DMI	Desktop Management Interface
798	DMI	Digital Migration Interface
799	DMOS	Double Diffused MOS transistor
800	DMP	data management platform
801	DMP	dynamic multi-pathing
802	DMR	direct market reseller
803	DMS	Defense Message System
804	DMT	discrete multitone
805	DMTF	Distributed Management Task Force
806	DMVPN	dynamic multipoint VPN
807	DMZ	demilitarized zone
808	DNC	Direct Numerical Control
809	DNC	distributive numerical control
810	DND	Dungeons & Dragons (a computer game)
811	DNG	Digital Negative
812	DNIS	Dialed Number Identification Service
813	DNN	DotNetNuke
814	DNS	domain name system
815	DNSSEC	DNS Security Extensions
816	DNT	Do Not Track
817	DO	derived object
818	DOCSIS	Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications
819	DOD	Direct Outward Dialing
820	DOE	Department of Energy
821	DOI	Digital Object Identifier
822	DOI	digital object identifier
823	DOL	Department of Labor
824	DOLAP	Desktop OnLine Analytical Processing
825	DOLS	Domino Off-Line Services
826	DOM	Document Object Model
827	DoPa	DoCoMo Packet Transmission
828	DoS	denial of service
829	DOS	Disk Operating System
830	DOVE	IBM DOVE
831	DP	data plane
832	DP	Design Postponement
833	DPA	differential power analysis
834	DPI	deep packet inspection
835	dpi	dots per inch
836	DPL	Digital Powerline
837	DPM	data protection management
838	DPMI	DOS Protected Mode Interface
839	DR	disaster recovery
840	DRA	data recovery agent
841	DRaaS	disaster recovery as a service
842	DRAM	Dynamic Random Access Memory
843	DRBD	Distributed Replicated Block Device
844	DRC	Design Rule Checking
845	DRDRAM	Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory
846	DRIPS	data reduction in primary storage
847	DRM	device relationship management
848	DRM	Digital Rights Management
849	DROP	delivery of real-time execution information protocol
850	DRP	disaster recovery plan
851	DRP	Distribution Requirements Planning
852	DRS	Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler
853	DSB	Dispute Settlement Body
854	DSC	Digital Still Camera
855	DSL	Domain-Specific Language
856	DSLAM	Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
857	DSLR	camera digital single lense reflux
858	DSML	Directory Services Markup Language
859	DSN	data source name
860	DSN	Deep Space Network
861	DSO	data source object
862	DSO	Days Sale Outstanding
863	DSO	exploit data source object exploit
864	DSOM	Distributed System Object Model
865	DSP	Digital Signal Processing
866	DSP	Digital Signal Processor
867	DSR	Demand signal repository
868	DSR	Dynamic Source Routing
869	DSRM	Directory Services Restore Mode
870	DSRP	Demand Solutions Requirements Planning
871	DSS	Decision Support System
872	DSS	Digital Signature Standard
873	DSSS	direct sequence spread spectrum
874	DSSSL	Document Style Semantics and Specification Language
875	DST	Daylight Saving Time
876	DSTP	Data Space Transfer Protocol
877	DTD	Document Type Definition
878	DTE	Data Terminal Equipment
879	DTE	Direct-to-Edit
880	DTMF	dual tone multi frequency
881	DTN	disruption-tolerant network
882	DTP	Digital Text Platform
883	DTP	Distributed Transaction Processing
884	DTR	data transfer rate
885	DTTV	digital terrestrial television
886	DTV	digital television
887	DTX	discontinuous transmission
888	DUNDi	Distributed Universal Number Discovery
889	Duqu	W32.Duqu
890	DUT	Device Under Test
891	DVB	Digital Video Broadcasting
892	DVD	Digital Versatile Disk
893	DVD	Digital Video Disk
894	DVD-A	DVD-Audio
895	DVI	Digital Visual Interface
896	DVMRP	Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol
897	DW	Data Warehousing
898	DWDM	dense wavelength division multiplexing
899	DXL	Domino Extensible Language
900	E&M	ear and mouth
901	E&O	Excess and Obsolete
902	E-CD	enhanced CD
903	E2E	exchange-to-exchange
904	E2K	Exchange 2000
905	E911	Enhanced 911
906	EA	emotions analytics
907	EA	enterprise architecture
908	EaaS	encryption as a service
909	EaaS	Ethernet as a service
910	EAC	Exchange Administration Center
911	EAI	enterprise application integration
912	EAI	External Application Interface
913	EAM	enterprise asset management
914	EAP	employee assistance program
915	EAP	Extensible Authentication Protocol
916	EB	exabyte
917	EBCDIC	Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
918	EBIF	Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format
919	EBITDA	earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization
920	EBPP	electronic bill presentment and payment
921	EBR	Electronic Batch Record
922	ebXML	electronic business xml
923	EBXML	Electronic Business XML
924	EC	Electronic Commerce
925	EC	enterprise collaboration
926	ECASS	silence machine or Electronic Controlled Acoustic Shadow System
927	ECB	Electronic Code Book
928	ECC	Elliptic Curve Cryptography
929	ECC	Error Correction Code
930	ECCS	European Cloud Computing Strategy
931	ECDL	European Computer Driving License
932	ECM	Engineering Change Management
933	ECM	enterprise content management
934	ECMAScript	European Computer Manufacturers Association Script
935	ECN	Electronic Change Notice
936	ECO	Engineering (or Electronic) Change Order
937	ECOphlex	PHase-change Liquid EXchange
938	ECPA	Electronic Communications Privacy Act
939	ECR	Efficient Consumer Response
940	ECRC	Electronic Commerce Resource Center
941	EDA	Electronic Document Access
942	EDA	event-driven architecture
943	EDE	electronic disposal efficiency
944	EDGAR	Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval
945	EDGE	Enhanced Data GSM Environment
946	EDI	Electronic Data Interchange
947	EDIFACT	Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport
948	EDL	enhanced driver's license
949	EDM	Electrical Discharge Machine or Machining
950	EDM	Electronic Document Management
951	EDM	enterprise document management
952	EDMS	Engineering Document Management Systems
953	EDP	electronic data processing
954	EDR	enterprise data replication
955	EDRAM	enhanced dynamic random access memory
956	EDRM	electronic discovery reference model
957	EEF	Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure
958	EEOC	Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
959	EEPROM	electrically erasable programmable read-only memory
960	EES	Engineering Execution Systems
961	EES	Escrowed Encryption Standard
962	EF	sensing electric field sensing
963	EFF	Electronic Frontier Foundation
964	EFI	Electronic Freight Invoice
965	EFS	Encrypting File System
966	EFT	Electronic Funds Transfer
967	EGP	Exterior Gateway Protocol
968	EHR	electronic health record
969	EI	emotional intelligence
970	EIA	Electronic Industries Association or Electronics Industries Alliance
971	EIC	Earned Income Credit
972	eICU	electronic intensive care unit
973	EIDE	Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics
974	EIGRP	Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
975	EIM	Enterprise Identity Mapping
976	EIM	enterprise information management
977	eInk	E Ink
978	EIP	enterprise information portal
979	EIS	Executive Information System
980	EISA	Extended Industry Standard Architecture
981	EJB	Enterprise JavaBeans
982	ELED	entangled light-emitting diode
983	ELF	extremely low frequency
984	ELM	event log manager
985	ELMS	Event log management software
986	ELT	Extract, Load, Transform
987	ELV	End of Life Vehicle
988	EMAS	Eco-Management and Audit Scheme
989	EMC	Exchange Management Console
990	EMCCA	EMC cloud architect certification
991	EME	moonbounce or Earth-Moon-Earth
992	EMET	Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit
993	EMF	Enhanced MetaFile
994	EMI	Early Manufacturing Involvement
995	EMI	electromagnetic interference
996	eMLC	enterprise MLC
997	EMM	enterprise mobility management
998	EMP	electromagnetic pulse
999	EMR	electronic medical record
1000	EMS	Effective Management Systems
1001	EMS	Enhanced Messaging Service
1002	EMS	Microsoft Exchange Management Shell
1003	ENISA	European Network and Information Security Agency
1004	EOF	End of File
1005	EoIP	Electricity over IP
1006	EOL	End of Life, End of Line
1007	EOM	End of Message
1008	EOP	Microsoft Exchange Online Protection
1009	EOQ	Economic Order Quantity
1010	EPA	Microsoft Exchange Server Profile Analyzer
1011	EPC	Evolved Packet Core
1012	EPD	electronic paper display
1013	EPEAT	Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool
1014	EPG	electronic program guide
1015	ePHI	electronic protected health information
1016	EPIC	Electronic Privacy Information Center
1017	EPIC	Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing
1018	EPOD	electronic publishing on demand
1019	EPOP	Ethernet point-of-presence
1020	EPP/ECP	Enhanced Parallel Port/Enhanced Capability Port
1021	EPR	endpoint reference
1022	ERA	Electronic Remittance Advice
1023	ERC	Engineering Reseach Center
1024	ERD	or ER diagram entity-relationship diagram
1025	ERM	enterprise relationship management
1026	ERM	enterprise resource management
1027	ERM	Environmental Resource Management
1028	ERM	Group Environmental Resource Management
1029	ERM	or ER model entity-relationship model
1030	ERMS	email response management service
1031	ERP	Enterprise Resource Planning
1032	ERS	Evaluated Receipt Settlement
1033	eRx	e-prescribing
1034	ESA	Enterprise Services Architecture
1035	ESB	enterprise service bus
1036	ESCD	Extended System Configuration Data
1037	ESCON	Enterprise Systems Connection
1038	ESD	ElectroStatic Discharge
1039	ESDI	Enhanced Small Device Interface
1040	ESDRAM	Enhanced Synchronous DRAM
1041	ESE	Environmentally Sustainable Electronics
1042	ESI	electronically stored information
1043	ESMR	Enhanced Specialized Mobile Radio
1044	ESMTP	Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
1045	ESP	event stream processing
1046	ESS	employee self-service
1047	ETL	extract, transform, load
1048	ETM	Enterprise Transportation Management
1049	ETO	Engineer To Order
1050	ETP	Enterprise Transportation Planning
1051	ETRN	Extended Turn
1052	ETSI	European Telecommunications Standards Institute
1053	EUC	platform end user computing platform
1054	EULA	End-User License Agreement
1055	EUTELSAT	European Telecommunications Satellite Organization
1056	EUVL	extreme ultraviolet lithography
1057	EV	Electric Vehicle
1058	EV-DO	1x Evolution-Data Optimized
1059	EVA	Economic Value Added
1060	EVM	Earned Value Management
1061	EWS	Exchange Web Services
1062	EWSD	Electronic Worldwide Switch Digital
1063	ExBPA	Exchange Best Practices Analyzer
1064	EXIF	Exchangeable Image File Format
1065	ExRCA	Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer
1066	EZ/EC	Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community
1067	FA	Flexible Automation
1068	FACTA	Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act
1069	FAR	Federal Acquisition Regulation
1070	FAS	Final Assembly Schedule
1071	FASAB	Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
1072	FAT	File Allocation Table
1073	FAWN	fast array of wimpy nodes
1074	FBE	Framework Based Environment
1075	FC-AL	Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop
1076	FC-PGA	Flip-Chip Pin Grid Array
1077	FCA	Flip Chip Assembly
1078	FCAPS	fault-management, configuration, accounting, performance, and security
1079	FCC	Federal Communications Commission
1080	FCIA	Fibre Channel Industry Association
1081	FCIP	Fibre Channel over IP
1082	FCoE	Fibre Channel over Ethernet
1083	FCP	Finite Capacity Planning
1084	FCR	first call resolution
1085	FCRA	Fair Credit Reporting Act
1086	FCS	Finite Capacity Scheduling
1087	FD	Floppy Drive or File Descriptor
1088	FDC	Floppy Disk Controller
1089	FDCC	Federal Desktop Core Configuration
1090	FDD	Floppy Disk Drive
1091	FDDI	Fiber Distributed Data Interface
1092	FDE	full-disk encryption
1093	FDHP	Full Duplex Handshaking Protocol
1094	FDI	Foreign Direct Investment
1095	FDIC	Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
1096	FDM	frequency-division multiplexing
1097	FDMA	frequency division multiple access
1098	Feat	Feature
1099	FEC	forward error correction
1100	FECN	forward explicit congestion notification
1101	FED	field emission display
1102	FedRAMP	3PAO third-party assessment organization
1103	FedRAMP	Federal Risk and Authorization Program
1104	FEM	Finite Elements Method
1105	FERC	Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
1106	FERPA	Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974
1107	FET	field-effect transistor
1108	FF	Firefox (Web browser)
1109	FFIEC	compliance Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
1110	FFT	Fast Fourier Transformation
1111	FG-D	Feature Group D
1112	FHA	Federal Health Architecture
1113	FHIE	Federal Health Information Exchange
1114	FI	Fast Infoset
1115	FICON	Fiber Connectivity
1116	FIDO	Fast Identity Online Alliance
1117	FIFO	First In, First Out
1118	FILO	First In, Last Out
1119	FIM	federated identity management
1120	FinCEN	Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
1121	FINRA	Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
1122	FiOS	Fiber Optic Service
1123	FIP	Factory Information Protocol
1124	FIP	Fair Information Practices
1125	FIPS	Federal Information Processing Standards
1126	FIS	Factory Information System
1127	FISMA	Federal Information Security Management Act
1128	FITCE	Federation of Telecommunications Engineers of the European Community
1129	FLAC	Free Lossless Audio Codec
1130	FLOPS	Floating-Point Operations Per Second
1131	FLSA	Fair Labor Standards Act
1132	FLSM	fixed-length subnet mask
1133	FLT	Fermat's Last Theorem
1134	FM	Frequency Modulation
1135	FMAC	Flexible Mandatory Access Control
1136	FMC	fixed-mobile convergence
1137	FME	Feature Manipulation Engine
1138	FMEA	Failure Mode and Effect Analysis
1139	FMP	FileMaker
1140	FMS	fixed-mobile substitution
1141	FMS	Flexible Manufacturing System
1142	FMV	Full Motion Video
1143	FNBN	For Nerds By Nerds
1144	FNEA	Full Name and E-mail Address
1145	FnR	Find and replace
1146	FNR	Format and Restore
1147	FOAD	Fuck Off And Die
1148	FOB	fresh out of the box
1149	FOIA	Freedom of Information Act
1150	FOIRL	Fiber-Optic Inter-Repeater Links
1151	FOLED	flexible organic light emitting device
1152	FOPE	Forefront Online Protection for Exchange
1153	FORTRAN	The IBM Mathematical FORmula TRANslating System (a programming language)
1154	FOSS	Free and Open-Source Software
1155	FOV	Field Of View
1156	FP&A	financial planning and analysis
1157	FP	Fat Provisioning, Finite Planning
1158	FP4	Floating Point 4-bit datatype
1159	FP8	Floating Point 8-bit datatype
1160	FP16	Floating Point 16-bit datatype
1161	FP32	Floating Point 32-bit datatype
1162	FP64	Floating Point 64-bit datatype
1163	FPCA	Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
1164	FPDS	Federal Procurement Data System
1165	FPGA	Field-Programmable Gate Array
1166	FPI	Federal Prison Industries
1167	FPM	Fast Page Mode
1168	FPM	federated presence management
1169	FpML	Financial Products Markup Language
1170	FPP	Full Packaged Product
1171	FPROM	Field Programmable Read-Only Memory
1172	FPS	First-Person Shooter
1173	fps	Frames Per Second
1174	FPT	Fine Pitch Technology
1175	FPU	Floating-Point Unit
1176	FQA	Frequently Questioned Answers
1177	FQDN	Fully Qualified Domain Name
1178	FR	Frame Relay
1179	FRA	Federal Railroad Administration
1180	FRAD	frame relay access device or frame relay assembler/dissembler
1181	FRAM	Ferroelectric RAM
1182	FRCP	Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
1183	FROG	Free Roaming On Grid
1184	FRR	fast retransmit and recovery
1185	FRT	Future Reality Tree
1186	FRU	Field Replaceable Units
1187	FS	File System
1188	FSAN	Full Services Access Network
1189	FSB	frontside bus
1190	FSF	Free Software Foundation
1191	FSK	frequency-shift keying
1192	FSML	Financial Services Markup Language
1193	FSO	free-space optics
1194	FSP	full-service provider
1195	FSRM	File Server Resource Manager
1196	FTA	Federal Transit Authority
1197	FTAM	File Transfer Access Method
1198	FTC	Federal Trade Commission
1199	FTP	File Transfer Protocol
1200	FTTC	fiber to the curb
1201	FTTH	fiber to the home
1202	FTTx	fiber to the x
1203	FUD	Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
1204	FUN	focus on user needs
1205	FYI	for your information
1206	G2G	Government to Government
1207	G2C	Government to Consumer
1208	GAAP	Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
1209	GAAP	generally accepted accounting standards
1210	GaAs	gallium arsenide
1211	GaAsFET	gallium arsenide field-effect transistor
1212	GAL	Microsoft Exchange Global Address List
1213	GALP	Good Automated Laboratory Practices
1214	GaN	gallium nitride
1215	GAN	Generic Access Network
1216	GAO	General Accounting Office
1217	GAO	Government Accountability Office
1218	GARP	Generic Attribute Registration Protocol
1219	GATE	General Architecture for Text Engineering
1220	GATS	General Agreement on Trade in Services
1221	GATT	General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
1222	GB	gigabyte
1223	GBIC	Gigabit Interface Converter
1224	Gbps	billions of bits per second
1225	Gbps	Gigabits per second
1226	GCC	GNU Compiler Collection
1227	GDDR	Graphics Double Data Rate
1228	GDI	Graphics Device Interface
1229	GDMO	Guidelines for Definition of Managed Objects
1230	GDPR	General Data Protection Regulation
1231	GEM	Generic Equipment Model
1232	GEM	Graphics Environment Manager
1233	GEOS	Graphical Environment Operating System
1234	GESTALT	Grid-based Estimation of Surface Traversability Applied to Local Terrain
1235	GFDL	GNU Free Documentation License
1236	GFEBS	General Fund Enterprise Business System
1237	GFS	Global File System or Google File System
1238	GHz	gigahertz
1239	GIA	Government Information Awareness
1240	GID	group ID or global index file
1241	GIF	Graphics Interchange Format
1242	GIF89a	Graphics Interchange Format Version 89a
1243	GIGO	Garbage In Garbage Out
1244	GII	global information infrastructure
1245	GIMP	GNU Image Manipulation Program
1246	GIMPS	Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
1247	GIS	Geographic Information System
1248	GIS	Google Image Search
1249	GIYF	Google Is Your Friend
1250	GKS	Graphical Kernel System
1251	GL	general ledger
1252	GLBA	Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
1253	GLONASS	Globalnaya Navigatsionnay Sputnikovaya Sistema
1254	GlusterFS	Gluster File System
1255	GLUT	OpenGL Utility Toolkit
1256	GLV	grating light valve
1257	GMAIL	Google Mail
1258	GML	Generalized Markup Language
1259	GMP	Good Manufacturing Practices
1260	GMPLS	Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching or Multiprotocol Lambda Switching
1261	GMROI	Gross Margin Return on Investment
1262	GNEC	Global Network Enterprise Construct
1263	GNOME	GNU Network Object Model Environment
1264	GNSS	Global Navigation Satellite System
1265	GNU	GNU's Not Unix
1266	gOS	good operating system
1267	GP	Group Policy
1268	GPF	General Protection Fault
1269	GPG	GNU Privacy Guard
1270	GPL	GNU General Public License
1271	GPMP	General Purpose Macro Processor
1272	GPO	Group Policy Object
1273	GPRS	General Packet Radio Services
1274	GPS	Global Positioning System
1275	GPT	GUID Partition Table or Generative Pretrained Transformer
1276	GPU	Graphics Processing Unit
1277	GRC	governance, risk management and compliance
1278	GRE	Generic Routing Encapsulation
1279	GRUB	GRand Unified Bootloader
1280	GSM	Global System for Mobile communication
1281	GSM	Microsoft System Center Global Service Monitor
1282	GTA	Grand Theft Auto (a computer game)
1283	GTAG	Global Tag
1284	gTLD	generic top-level domain name
1285	GTM	strategy go-to-market strategy
1286	GUA	graphical password or graphical user authentication
1287	GUI	Graphical User Interface
1288	GUID	Globally Unique Identifier (see also UUID)
1289	GUM	Global Update Manager
1290	GWAC	governmentwide acquisition contract
1291	GXA	Global XML Web Services Architecture
1292	GXF	General Exchange Format
1293	GXL	Graph eXchange Language
1294	Gy	gray
1295	HA	high availability
1296	HaaS	Hardware as a Service
1297	HAL	hardware abstraction layer
1298	HALO	High Altitude Long Operation
1299	HAMR	Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording
1300	HASA	Highly Accelerated Stress Audit
1301	HAVA	Help America Vote Act of 2002
1302	HAVi	Home Audio Visual
1303	HBA	host bus adapter
1304	HBCI	Home Banking Computer Interface
1305	HCCA	Health Care Compliance Association
1306	HCI	human-computer interaction
1307	HCI	Human-Computer Interaction/Interface
1308	HCM	human capital management
1309	HD-DVD	high-density DVD
1310	HD-ROM	High-Density - Read Only Memory
1311	HDCD	High Definition Compatible Digital
1312	HDCP	High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection
1313	HDD	hard disk drive
1314	HDFS	Hadoop Distributed File System
1315	HDLC	High-level Data Link Control
1316	HDMI	High Definition Multimedia Interface
1317	HDMI	High-Definition Multimedia Interface
1318	HDML	Handheld Device Markup Language
1319	HDR	Hard disk recorder
1320	HDSL	High bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line
1321	HDTV	High-Definition Television
1322	HFC	hybrid fiber coaxial
1323	HFT	high-frequency trading
1324	HFTP	Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals
1325	HH	Hand Held
1326	HHD	hybrid hard drive
1327	HHR	hybrid health record
1328	HHS	Health and Human Services
1329	HID	Human Interface Device
1330	HIE	health information exchange
1331	HIMR	Heat-Assisted Interlaced Magnetic Recording
1332	HIMSS	Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
1333	HIPAA	Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
1334	HIPPI	High-Performance Parallel Interface
1335	HiPPO	highest paid person's opinion, highest paid person in the office
1336	HIPS	host intrusion prevention systems
1337	HIT	Health IT
1338	HITA	Hospitality Information Technology Association
1339	HITECH	Act Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
1340	HKEY	Handle to Registry Key
1341	HLASM	High Level Assembler
1342	HLD	hardware load-balancing device
1343	HLR	Home Location Register
1344	HMAC	Hash-based Message Authentication Code
1345	HMD	Head Mounted Display
1346	HMI	Human Machine Interface
1347	HMIPv6	Hierarchical Mobile IPv6
1348	HMM	Hidden Markov Model
1349	HOLAP	hybrid online analytical processing
1350	HomeRF	home radio frequency
1351	HP	High Performance
1352	HP-GL	Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language
1353	HPC	High-Performance Computing
1354	HPCC	High Performance Computing and Communications
1355	HPFS	High Performance File System
1356	HPNA	Home Phoneline Networking Alliance
1357	HPPS	High Performance Product Sector
1358	HPSS	High Performance Storage System
1359	HPV	High Production Volume
1360	HR	Human Resources
1361	HRM	Human Resource Management
1362	HSCSD	High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data
1363	HSDPA	High-Speed Downlink Packet Access
1364	HSM	Hierarchical Storage Management
1365	HSM	Hierarchical Storage Manager
1366	HSPA	high speed packet access
1367	HSPD-7	Homeland Security Presidential Directive No. 7
1368	HSRP	Hot Standby Router Protocol
1369	HSSI	High-Speed Serial Interface
1370	HTF	Higgins Trust Framework
1371	HTML	Hypertext Markup Language
1372	HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol
1373	HTTPD	Hypertext Transfer Protocol daemon
1374	HTTPS	HTTP over SSL or HTTP Secure
1375	HUD	Heads Up Display
1376	HVAC	heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
1377	HVD	holographic versatile disc
1378	HVD	hosted virtual desktop
1379	I&T	integration testing or integration and testing
1380	I/O	Input Output
1381	I18N	internationalization
1382	IA	internal audit
1383	IaaS	Infrastructure as a Service
1384	IAB	Internet Advertising Bureau
1385	IAB	Internet Architecture Board
1386	IAM	identity access management
1387	IAM	integrated access management
1388	IANA	Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
1389	IAO	Information Awareness Office
1390	IAP	Internet access provider
1391	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)
1392	IAX	Inter-Asterisk Exchange Protocol
1393	IBM	International Business Machines
1394	IBP	integrated business planning
1395	IC	integrated circuit
1396	IC-BPMS	integration-centric business process management suite
1397	ICANN	Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
1398	ICE	In-Circuit Emulator, Information and Content Exchange
1399	IcM	incident management
1400	ICMP	Internet Control Message Protocol
1401	ICP	Internet commerce provider
1402	ICR	intelligent character recognition
1403	ICT	information and communications technology - or technologies
1404	ICT4D	Information and Communications Technologies for Development
1405	ID	intrusion detection
1406	IDaaS	identity as a Service
1407	IDE	Integrated Development Environment
1408	IDE	Integrated Drive Electronics
1409	IDEA	International Data Encryption Algorithm
1410	IDEF	Integrated Definition
1411	iDEN	Integrated Digital Enhanced Network
1412	IDF	interface device
1413	IDIS	Integrated Disbursement and Information System
1414	IDL	interface definition language
1415	IDoc	intermediate document
1416	IDS	intrusion detection system
1417	IE	Internet Explorer
1418	IEAK	Internet Explorer Administration Kit
1419	IEC	International Electrotechnical Commission
1420	IEEE	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
1421	IETF	Internet Engineering Task Force
1422	iFCP	Internet Fibre Channel Protocol
1423	IG	Inspector General
1424	IGMP	Internet Group Management Protocol
1425	IGP	Interior Gateway Protocol
1426	iHT2	Institute for Health Technology Transformation
1427	IIOP	Internet Inter-ORB Protocol
1428	IIS	Internet Information Server
1429	IKE	Internet Key Exchange
1430	ILEC	incumbent local exchange carrier
1431	ILM	information life cycle management
1432	IM	infrastructure management
1433	IMA	inverse multiplexing over ATM
1434	IMAP	Internet Message Access Protocol
1435	IMCS	nventory Management and Control System
1436	IMEI	International Mobile Equipment Identity
1437	IMS	Information Management System
1438	IMS	Intelligent Manufacturing Systems
1439	IMS	IP Multimedia Subsystem
1440	IMT	International Mobile Telephone
1441	IMTI	Integrated Manufacturing Technology Initiative
1442	IN	Intelligent Network
1443	InterNIC	Internet Network Information Center
1444	IOPS	Input/Output Operations Per Second
1445	IOS	Input/Output Supervisor
1446	IoT	Internet of Things
1447	IOTP	Internet Open Trading Protocol
1448	IOV	I/O virtualization
1449	IP	Internet Protocol
1450	IPAM	IP address management
1451	IPC	Institute for Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits
1452	IPC	interprocess communication
1453	IPFS	InterPlanetary File System
1454	IPI	Intelligent Peripheral Interface
1455	IPL	initial program load
1456	IPLC	international private leased circuit
1457	IPM	intelligent power management
1458	IPMI	Intelligent Platform Management Interface
1459	IPP	Internet presence provider
1460	IPPD	Integrated Product and Process Development
1461	IPPP	Internet presence provider and promoter
1462	IPR	Intellectual Property Rights
1463	IPS	In-Plan Switching
1464	IPsec	Internet Protocol Security
1465	IPT	Integrated Product Team
1466	IPTV	Internet Protocol television
1467	IPv4	Internet Protocol Version 4
1468	IPv6	Internet Protocol Version 6
1469	IPX	Internetwork Packet Exchange
1470	IR	infrared radiation
1471	IRC	Internet Relay Chat
1472	IrDA	Infrared Data Association
1473	IRI	Industrial Research Institute
1474	IRIS	Internet Routing in Space
1475	IRM	Integrated Resource Management
1476	IRP	incident response plan
1477	IRQ	interrupt request
1478	IRR	internal rate of return
1479	IRTF	Internet Research Task Force
1480	IRU	Indefeasible Right of Use
1481	IS	Information System
1482	IS	information system or information services
1483	IS-IS	Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System protocol
1484	ISA	Industry Standard Architecture
1485	ISAM	Indexed Sequential Access Method
1486	ISAPI	Internet Server Application Program Interface
1487	iSCSI	Internet Small Computer System Interface
1488	iSCSI	target Internet Small Computer System Interface target
1489	ISDN	Integrated Services Digital Network
1490	ISE	Cisco Identity Services Engine
1491	ISP	Internet Service Provider
1492	ISPF	Interactive System Productivity Facility
1493	ISRC	International Standard Recording Code
1494	ISRS	information storage and retrieval system
1495	ISSU	in-service software upgrade
1496	ISV	Independent Software Vendor
1497	IT	Information Technology
1498	ITAA	Information Technology Association of America
1499	ITaaS	IT as a Service
1500	ITAC	International Telework Association and Council
1501	ITIL	Information Technology Infrastructure Library
1502	ITS	Intelligent Transportation System
1503	ITS	Internet Transaction Server
1504	ITS	issue tracking system
1505	ITSM	IT Service Management
1506	ITSO	International Technical Support Organization
1507	ITSS	Information Technology Solutions Shop
1508	ITU	International Technical Union
1509	ITU	International Telecommunication Union
1510	IV	initialization vector
1511	IVR	Interactive Voice Response
1512	IXC	interexchange carrier
1513	J2EE	Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
1514	J2ME	Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition
1515	JAAS	Java Authentication and Authorization Service
1516	JAD	Joint Application Development
1517	JANET	Joint Academic Network
1518	JAQL	json query language
1519	JAR	Java ARchive file
1520	JAX-RPC	Java API for XML-Based RPC
1521	JAX-WS	Java API for XML Web Services
1522	JBI	Java Business Integration
1523	JBIG	Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group
1524	JBOD	just a bunch of disks or just a bunch of drives
1525	JCE	Java Cryptography Extension
1526	JCL	job control language
1527	JDBC	Connector Java Database Connectivity Connector
1528	JDBC	Java Database Connectivity
1529	JDK	Java Development Kit
1530	JDO	Java Data Objects
1531	JEDEC	Joint Electron Device Engineering Council
1532	JeOS	just enough operating system
1533	JES	Job Entry Subsystem
1534	JFC	Java Foundation Classes
1535	JFET	Junction Field-Effect Transistor
1536	JHTML	Java within Hypertext Markup Language
1537	JIC	manufacturing just-in-case manufacturing
1538	JMS	Java Message Service
1539	JMX	Java Management Extensions
1540	JNDI	Java Naming and Directory Interface
1541	JOBS	Act Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act
1542	JOLAP	Java Online Analytical Processing
1543	JPEG	Joint Photographic Experts Group
1544	JRE	Java Runtime Environment
1545	JSML	Java Speech API Markup Language
1546	JSON	Javascript Object Notation
1547	JSP	Java Server Page
1548	JTAPI	Java Telephony Application Programming Interface
1549	JVM	Java virtual machine
1550	JXTA	juxtaposed
1551	K6	AMD-K6
1552	KB	kilobyte
1553	KBA	knowledge-based authentication
1554	KBE	Knowledge-Based Engineering
1555	Kbps	kilobits per second
1556	KBW	keyboard wedge
1557	KDE	K Desktop Environment
1558	KGD	Known Good Die
1559	KISS	Keep It Simple, Stupid
1560	KLOC	thousands of lines of code
1561	KM	knowledge management
1562	KMD	Kazaa Media Desktop
1563	KML	Keyhole Markup Language
1564	KPI	Key Performance Indicator
1565	KRI	key risk indicator
1566	KVM	kernel-based Virtual Machine
1567	KVP	key-value pair
1568	KW	Knowledge Warehouse
1569	l10n	localization
1570	L2TP	Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
1571	L2TP	Layer Two Tunneling Protocol
1572	LAMP	Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
1573	LAN	Local Area Network
1574	LAR	Large Account Reseller
1575	LATA	local access and transport area
1576	LBA	logical block addressing
1577	LBM	location-based marketing
1578	LBO	leveraged buyout
1579	LBS	location-based service
1580	LCA	Life Cycle Assessment
1581	LCC	Leadless Chip Carrier
1582	LCC	limited combustible cable
1583	LCD	Liquid Crystal Display
1584	LCL	Less Than Container Load
1585	LCP	Link Control Protocol
1586	LCPC	Life Cycle Product Cost
1587	LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
1588	LDCM	LANDesk Client Manager
1589	LDD	locked down device
1590	LDIF	Lightweight Directory Interchange Format
1591	LDMOS	Laterally Diffused MOS transistor
1592	LDQ	longest delay in queue
1593	LDSI	Laboratory Data Sharing Interoperability
1594	LEAP	Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol
1595	LEC	local exchange carrier
1596	LED	light-emitting diode
1597	LEED	Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
1598	LES	Logistics Execution System
1599	Lex	lexical analyzer generator
1600	LHC	Large Hadron Collider
1601	LI	lawful interception
1602	LI	location intelligence
1603	Li-Ion	Lithium Ion battery
1604	LIDB	line information database
1605	LILO	LInux LOader
1606	LINQ	Language Integrated Query
1607	LISP	list processing
1608	LLM	Large Language Model
1609	LLVM	Compiler Infrastructure (Low Level Virtual Machine)
1610	LMDS	Local Multi-Point Distribution System
1611	LMGTFY	Let Me Google That For You
1612	LMOF	last mile of finance
1613	LMS	learning management system
1614	LNA	Local Noise Amplifier
1615	LNP	Local Number Portability
1616	LOB	line-of-business
1617	LOC	Lines Of Code
1618	LOINC	Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes
1619	LOM	lights-out management
1620	LP	Lean Production
1621	LPAR	logical partition
1622	LPT	line print terminal
1623	LQSR	Link Quality Source Routing
1624	LRN	Location Routing Number
1625	LSA	Local Security Authority
1626	LSB	Linux Standard Base
1627	LSI	Large Scale Integration
1628	LTC	longitudinal time code
1629	LTE	Long Term Evolution
1630	LTFS	Linear Tape File System
1631	LTL	Less Than Truckload
1632	LTO	Linear Tape-Open
1633	LTS	Long Term Support
1634	LU	logical unit
1635	LUN	logical unit number
1636	LVS	Layout Verification Systems
1637	M&A	mergers and acquisitions
1638	M&O	Management and Operations
1639	M&S	Modeling and Simulation
1640	M2M	Machine to Machine
1641	M3U	Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3
1642	MAC	mandatory access control
1643	MAC	message authentication code
1644	MAD	Mobile Active Defense
1645	MADE	Manufacturing Automation and Design Exploration
1646	MAID	massive array of idle disks
1647	MAM	mobile application management
1648	MAM	mobile application manager
1649	MAN	metropolitan area network
1650	MAPI	Messaging Application Program Interface
1651	MAU	media attachment unit
1652	MB	megabyte
1653	MBean	managed bean
1654	MBone	Multicast Internet
1655	MBps	megabytes per second
1656	Mbps	millions of bits per second or megabits per second
1657	MBR	Master Boot Record
1658	MC	Mass Customization
1659	MCA	Micro Channel Architecture
1660	MCA	Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer
1661	MCE	Microsoft Certified Educator
1662	MCL	Mesh Connectivity Layer
1663	MCM	multi-carrier modulation
1664	Mcps	megachips per second
1665	MCS	Manufacturing Control System
1666	MCSA	Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate
1667	MCSD	Microsoft Certified Solution Developer
1668	MCSE	Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
1669	MDB	multidimensional database
1670	MDD	model-driven development
1671	MDI	Multiple Document Interface
1672	MDM	master data management
1673	MDM	mobile device management
1674	MDOP	Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack
1675	MDP	Multicast Dissemination Protocol
1676	MDRAM	Multibank Dynamic RAM
1677	MDX	multidimensional expressions
1678	MEAP	mobile enterprise application platform
1679	MEMS	Micro-electromechanical Systems
1680	MEP	Manufacturing Extension Partnership
1681	MES	Manufacturing Execution System
1682	MESA	Manufacturing Execution System Association
1683	MFA	multifactor authentication
1684	MFP	multifunction peripheral
1685	MFSK	multiple frequency shift keying
1686	MFT	managed file transfer
1687	MFT	master file table
1688	MGCP	Media Gateway Control Protocol
1689	MHP	Multimedia Home Platform
1690	MIB	management information base
1691	MIC	microwave integrated circuit
1692	MICR	magnetic ink character recognition
1693	MID	mobile Internet device
1694	MIDI	Musical Instrument Digital Interface
1695	MIM	mobile information management
1696	MIME	Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions
1697	MIMO	multiple input, multiple output
1698	MIPS	million instructions per second
1699	MIS	management information systems
1700	MISO	multiple input, single output
1701	MLA	mobile location analytics
1702	MLC	multi-level cell
1703	MMC	Microsoft Management Console
1704	MMC	mobile-to-mobile convergence
1705	MMC	MultiMediaCard
1706	MMDS	Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service
1707	MMI	Man Machine Interface
1708	MMIS	Maintenance Management Information System
1709	MMP	multichassis multilink PPP
1710	MMS	Manufacturing Message Specification
1711	MMS	Multimedia Messaging Service
1712	MMU	memory management unit
1713	MO	magneto-optical drive
1714	moblog	mobile blog
1715	MOF	Microsoft Operations Framework
1716	MOL	middle of life
1717	MOLAP	multidimensional online analytical processing
1718	MOM	Manufacturing operation management
1719	MOOC	massive open online course
1720	MOS	mean opinion score
1721	MOSFET	metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor
1722	MOSH	mobile shell
1723	MOSPF	Multicast Open Shortest Path First
1724	MOSS	Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
1725	MOU	memorandum of understanding
1726	MOVE	Aruba's Mobile Virtual Enterprise
1727	MP3	MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3
1728	MPEG	Moving Picture Experts Group
1729	MPI	master patient index
1730	MPI	message passing interface
1731	MPIO	Multipath I/O
1732	MPLS	Multiprotocol Label Switching
1733	mPOS	mobile point of sale
1734	MPP	massively parallel processing
1735	MPPE	Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption
1736	MPS	managed print services
1737	MPS	Master Production Schedule
1738	MR-IOV	Multi-Root IOV
1739	MRAM	magnetoresistive random access memory
1740	MRI	magnetic resonance imaging
1741	MRP	Manufacturing Resource Planning
1742	MrSID	Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database
1743	MS-DOS	Microsoft Disk Operating System
1744	MSAU	multistation access unit
1745	MSBF	mean-swap-between-failure
1746	MSCMDM	Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager
1747	MSCS	Microsoft Cluster Server
1748	MSDOS	Microsoft Disk Operating System
1749	MSDS	Material Safety Data Sheet
1750	MSE	Microsoft Security Essentials
1751	MSP	managed service provider
1752	MSP	management service provider
1753	MSRP	Message Session Relay Protocol
1754	MSS	managed security services
1755	MSS	maximum segment size
1756	MSS	mobile satellite services
1757	MSSP	managed security service provider
1758	MT	medical transcription
1759	MTO	Make To Order
1760	Mtops	million theoretical operations per second
1761	MTPOD	maximum tolerable period of disruption
1762	MTS	Make To Stock
1763	MTS	medical transcription software
1764	MTS	Microsoft Transaction Server
1765	MTU	maximum transmission unit
1766	MUA	mail user agent
1767	MUD	Multi-User Dungeon
1768	Multics	Multiplexed Information and Computing Service
1769	MULTOS	Multiple Operating System
1770	mutex	mutual exclusion object
1771	MV	machine vision
1772	MVA	Microsoft Virtual Academy
1773	MVC	model-view-controller
1774	MVMC	Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
1775	MVNO	mobile virtual network operator
1776	MVP	Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
1777	MVS	Multiple Virtual Storage
1778	NaaS	network-as-a-service
1779	NAC	network access control
1780	NACHA	National Automated Clearing House Association
1781	NAHIT	National Alliance for Health Information Technology
1782	NAK	negative acknowledgment or not acknowledged
1783	NAP	Microsoft Network Access Protection
1784	NAP	network access point
1785	NAS	Network Access Server, Network-Attached Storage
1786	NAT	Network Address Translation
1787	NBA	network behavior analysis
1788	NBAD	network behavior anomaly detection
1789	NBAR	Network Based Application Recognition
1790	NBMA	non-broadcast multiple access
1791	NC	network computer
1792	NCA	native cloud application
1793	NCFA	National Call Fee Access
1794	NCM	network configuration management
1795	NCMS	National Center for Manufacturing Sciences
1796	NCQ	Native Command Queuing
1797	NCSC	National Computer Security Center
1798	NCVHS	National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
1799	NDA	non-disclosure agreement
1800	NDIS	Network Driver Interface Specification
1801	NDMP	Network Data Management Protocol
1802	NDS	Novell Directory Services
1803	NECP	National Emergency Communications Plan
1804	NED	nano-emissive display
1805	NEDSS	National Electronic Disease Surveillance System
1806	NERC	North American Electric Reliability Corporation
1807	NetBEUI	NetBIOS Extended User Interface
1808	NetBIOS	Network Basic Input/Output System
1809	NetPC	Network PC
1810	NeXT	near-end crosstalk
1811	NFC	Near Field Communication
1812	NFT	Non-Fungible Token
1813	NFR	not for resale
1814	NFS	Network File System
1815	NFTS	national file tracking system
1816	NFV	network functions virtualization
1817	NGFW	next-generation firewall
1818	NGSCB	Next Generation Secure Computing Base
1819	NHII	National Health Information Infrastructure
1820	NHIN	Nationwide Health Information Network
1821	NHRP	Next Hop Resolution Protocol
1822	NI	Network Intelligence
1823	Ni2	Net indexer 2
1824	NIAP	National Information Assurance Partnership
1825	NIC	Network Interface Card
1826	NIC	network interface card
1827	NiCd	Nickel-Cadmium battery
1828	NiMH	Nickel-Metal Hydride battery
1829	NIS	Network Information System
1830	NIST	National Institute of Standards and Technology
1831	NJE	Network Job Entry
1832	NLM	National Library of Medicine
1833	NLP	natural language processing
1834	NMTA	National Machining and Tooling Association
1835	NNI	National Nanotechnology Initiative
1836	NNM	Network Node Manager
1837	NNTP	Network News Transfer Protocol
1838	NOC	Network Operations Center
1839	noop	No Operation
1840	NOS	Network Operating System
1841	NoSQL	Not Only SQL
1842	NPC	Non-Player Character (in role-playing games)
1843	NPD	New Product Development
1844	NPE	Non-Practicing Entity
1845	NPI	National Provider Identifier
1846	NPI	New Product Introduction
1847	NPIV	N_Port ID virtualization
1848	NPV	Net present value
1849	NQF	National Quality Forum
1850	NRLA	National Labor Relations Board
1851	NRZ	non-return-to-zero
1852	NSAP	Network Service Access Point
1853	NSAPI	Netscape Server Application Programming Interface
1854	NSIS	Next Steps in Signaling
1855	NSP	network service provider
1856	NT1	network terminator 1
1857	NTIA	(U.S.) National Telecommunications and Information Administration
1858	NTFS	New Technology File System
1859	NTP	Network Time Protocol
1860	NTR	Normal Trade Relations
1861	NTS	Number Translation Service
1862	NTSC	National Television Standards Committee
1863	NTU	nuclear time unit
1864	NUI	natural user interface
1865	NUMA	non-uniform memory access
1866	NURBS	nonuniform rational B-spline
1867	NUS	network unified storage
1868	NVGRE	Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation
1869	NVLAP	National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program
1870	NVM	Non-Volatile Memory
1871	NVMe	Non-Volatile Memory Express
1872	NVS	nonvolatile storage
1873	NWR	NOAA Weather Radio
1874	O2O	Online to Offline
1875	OA&M	operations, administration, and management
1876	OAB	offline address book
1877	OASIS	Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
1878	OBI	Open Buying on the Internet
1879	OCC	Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
1880	OCM	organizational change management
1881	OCNCC	Oracle Communications Network Charging and Control
1882	OCR	optical character recognition
1883	OCSP	Online Certificate Status Protocol
1884	OCW	MIT OpenCourseWare
1885	OCx	Optical Carrier levels
1886	ODBC	Open Database Connectivity
1887	ODCA	Open Data Center Alliance
1888	ODF	Open Document Format
1889	ODI	Open Data-Link Interface
1890	ODIN	Open Data Center with an Interoperable Network, Open Device Identification Number
1891	ODL	Open and Distance Learning
1892	ODM	Original Design Manufacturer
1893	ODMA	Open Document Management API or Application Program Interface
1894	ODMR	On-Demand Mail Relay
1895	ODP	Open Directory Project
1896	ODS	operational data store
1897	ODS	Ozone Depleting Substance
1898	ODX	Offloaded Data Transfer
1899	OEBF	Open Electronic Book Forum
1900	OFB	output feedback
1901	OFDM	orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing
1902	OGSA	Open Grid Services Architecture
1903	OHA	Open Handset Alliance
1904	OID	object ID
1905	OLA	operational level agreement
1906	OLAP	online analytical processing
1907	OLE	Object Linking and Embedding
1908	OLPC	One Laptop Per Child
1909	OLT	optical line terminal
1910	OLTP	On Line Transaction Processing
1911	OMAP	Open Multimedia Application Platform
1912	OMG	Object Management Group
1913	OMSS	Oracle Mobile Security Suite
1914	ONF	Open Networking Foundation
1915	OODBMS	object-oriented database management system
1916	OoOE	out-of-order execution
1917	OOP	object-oriented programming
1918	OOPSLA	Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications
1919	OOXML	Office Open Extended Markup Language
1920	OPC	OLE for Process Control
1921	OpenGL	Open Graphics Library
1922	OpenNMS	Open Network Management System
1923	OpenVPN	open source virtual private network
1924	Opex	operational expenditure
1925	OPM	operational performance management
1926	OPML	Outline Processor Markup Language
1927	OPS	Open Profiling Standard
1928	OPT	Optimized Production Technology
1929	ORB	Object Request Broker
1930	ORBS	Open Relay Behavior-modification System
1931	ORM	object-relational mapping
1932	OS	operating system
1933	OSA	Open System Authentication
1934	OSBI	open source business intelligence
1935	OSD	object storage device
1936	OSDL	Open Source Development Labs
1937	OSF	Open Software Foundation
1938	OSGi	Open Service Gateway Initiative
1939	OSI	Open Systems Interconnection
1940	OSP	online service provider
1941	OSP	Open Settlement Protocol
1942	OSPF	Open Shortest Path First
1943	OSS	Online Service System, Open Source Software, Operational Support System, Off-the-shelf Software Support
1944	OTA	Over the Air
1945	OTC	order to cash
1946	OTCR	On-Time delivery performance to Customer Request Date
1947	OTFT	organic thin-film transistor
1948	OTM	Optivity Telephony Manager
1949	OTP	one-time password
1950	OU	organizational unit
1951	OVSDB	Open vSwitch Database Management Protocol
1952	OWA	Microsoft Outlook Web App
1953	OWASP	Open Web Application Security Project
1954	OWD	OneWebDay
1955	P&L	profit and loss statement
1956	P-Ink	photonic ink
1957	P2P	path to profitability,Peer to Peer,procure to pay
1958	P2T	Push to Talk
1959	P2V	physical to virtual
1960	P3P	Platform for Privacy Preferences
1961	P4	Pentium 4
1962	P4P	proactive provider participation for P2P
1963	PA	Power Amplifier
1964	PA-DSS	Payment Application Data Security Standard
1965	PaaS	Platform as a Service
1966	PABX	private automatic branch exchange
1967	PAC	Production Activity Control
1968	PACS	Personal Access Communications System
1969	PACS	picture archiving and communication system
1970	PAIR	Policy Analysis of Internet Routing
1971	PAL	Phase Alternation Line
1972	PAM	partner account manager, pulse amplitude modulation
1973	PAN	personal area network
1974	PAP	Packet-Level Procedure
1975	PAR	performance and accountability reporting
1976	PARC	Palo Alto Research Center
1977	PAT	Port Address Translation
1978	PBD	physical block device
1979	PBT	Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic
1980	PBX	private branch exchange
1981	PC	Personal Computer
1982	PC	project charter
1983	PC-DOS	Personal Computer - Disk Operating System
1984	PCAOB	Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
1985	PCB	printed circuit board
1986	PCE	Path Computation Element
1987	PCEP	Path Computation Element Protocol
1988	PCI	Peripheral Component Interconnect
1989	PCIe	Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
1990	PCL	Printer Control Language
1991	PCM	phase-change memory
1992	PCM	pulse code modulation
1993	PCMCIA	Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
1994	PCRF	Policy and Charging Rules Function
1995	PCS	personal cloud storage
1996	PCS	personal communications service
1997	PDA	personal digital assistant
1998	PDF	Portable Document Format
1999	PDL	page description language
2000	PDM	Product Data Management
2001	PDP-11	Programmed Data Processor-11
2002	PDU	power distribution unit
2003	PEAP	Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol
2004	PEBCAK	problem exists between chair and keyboard
2005	pel	picture element
2006	PERT	Program Evaluation Review Technique
2007	PF	prefetch folder
2008	PFC	power factor correction or power factor controller
2009	PGP	Pretty Good Privacy
2010	PHDSC	Public Health Data Standards Consortium
2011	PHI	personal health information
2012	PHOLED	phosphorescent organic light-emitting device
2013	PHP	Hypertext Preprocessor, Personal Home Page
2014	PHR	personal health record
2015	PHS	Personal Handyphone System
2016	PI	Predictive Index
2017	PI	Principal Investigator
2018	PIA	privacy impact assessment
2019	PIC	port interface card
2020	PICK	Possible, Implement, Challenge and Kill
2021	PICS	Platform for Internet Content Selection
2022	PICTIVE	Plastic Interface for Collaborative Technology Initiatives through Video Exploration
2023	PID	Problem Identification Document
2024	PID	process identifier
2025	PIFI	personally identifiable financial information
2026	PII	personally identifiable information
2027	PIM	privileged identity management, processing in memory, Product Information Management, protocol-independent multicast
2028	PIO	Programmed Input/Output
2029	PIP	Partner Integration Process, Picture in Picture
2030	PIV	personal identity verification
2031	PKCS	Public-Key Cryptography Standards
2032	PKI	public key infrastructure
2033	PL/S	Programming Language/System
2034	PL/SQL	procedural language extension to Structured Query Language
2035	PLATO	Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations
2036	PLC	packet loss concealment
2037	PLEDM	phase-state low electron drive memory
2038	PLL	phase-locked loop
2039	PLM	Product Lifecycle Management
2040	PLMN	public land mobile network
2041	PM	phase modulation
2042	PMI	plus, minus, interesting
2043	PML	Portal Markup Language
2044	PMML	Predictive Model Markup Language
2045	PMO	Project Management Office
2046	PMP	Project Management Professional
2047	PMS	package manager or package management system
2048	PN	programmable network
2049	pNFS	Parallel NFS
2050	PNG	Portable Network Graphics
2051	PnP	Plug and Play
2052	POC	Packet Order Correction
2053	POC	proof of concept
2054	PoE	Power over Ethernet
2055	PoIP	Pray over Internet Protocol
2056	POLP	principle of least privilege
2057	POM	Production/Operations Management
2058	PON	passive optical network
2059	POP	point-of-presence
2060	POP3	Post Office Protocol 3
2061	PoR	power-on reset
2062	POS	personal operating space, Point of Sale
2063	POSIX	Portable Operating System Interface
2064	POST	Power-On Self-Test
2065	POTS	plain old telephone service
2066	PP&E	Property, Plant & Equipment
2067	PPD	parallel presence detect
2068	PPD	post-processing deduplication
2069	PPD	Postscript Printer Description file
2070	PPGA	plastic pin grid array
2071	ppi	pixels per inch
2072	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
2073	PPP	Point-to-Point Protocol
2074	PPPoE	Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet
2075	PPTP	Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
2076	PR	Problem Report, Process Reengineering
2077	PRI	Primary Rate Interface
2078	PRM	partner relationship management
2079	PRNG	pseudo-random number generator
2080	PROM	programmable read-only memory
2081	PRONet	Procurement Marketing and Access Network
2082	PRS	Personal Response System
2083	PRS	Premium Rate Service
2084	PRSA	Public Relations Society of America
2085	PRT	Pre-requisite Tree
2086	PSA	professional services automation
2087	PSK	phase-shift keying
2088	PSN	processor serial number
2089	PSOD	Purple Screen of Death
2090	PSS	Personal Search Syndication
2091	PSTN	public switched telephone network
2092	PTAC	Procurement Technical Assistance Center
2093	PTF	program temporary fix
2094	PTO	Patent and Trademark Office
2095	PTT	Push to Talk
2096	PU	physical unit
2097	PUE	power usage effectiveness
2098	PUP	potentially unwanted program
2099	PVC	permanent virtual circuit
2100	PVM	Parallel Virtual Machine
2101	PVR	personal video recorder
2102	PWS	Personal Web Server
2103	PXE	Preboot Execution Environment
2104	QA	Quality Assurance
2105	QAM	quadrature amplitude modulation
2106	QB	Quality Breakdown
2107	QBE	Query by Example
2108	QC	Quality Control
2109	QD	Quantum Dots
2110	QDOS	86-DOS
2111	QFE	Quad FastEthernet
2112	QFE	Quick Fix Engineering
2113	QFP	Quad Flat Package
2114	qHD	quarter high definition
2115	QIX	NASDAQ Information Exchange protocol
2116	QoE	Quality of Experience
2117	QoS	Quality of Service
2118	QPS	queries-per-second
2119	QR	Quick Response
2120	QSA	Qualified Security Assessor
2121	QSIG	Q signaling
2122	QVGA	Quarter Video Graphics Array
2123	QXGA	Quantum Extended Graphics Array
2124	R&D	Research and Development
2125	R3	Reduce, reuse, recycle
2126	RA	registration authority
2127	RAC	Real Application Cluster
2128	RACE	Rapid Access Computing Environment
2129	RACF	Resource Access Control Facility
2130	RAD	Rapid Application Development
2131	RADIUS	Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
2132	RAF	Risk Assessment Framework
2133	RAG	Retrieval Augmented Generation
2134	RAID	Redundant Array of Independent Disks
2135	RAIN	redundant/reliable array of inexpensive/independent nodes
2136	RAM	Random Access Memory
2137	RAMAC	Random Access Method of Accounting and Control
2138	RAMDAC	Random Access Memory dDgital-to-analog Converter
2139	RAND	reasonable and nondiscriminatory
2140	RAP	Revenue Acquisition Process
2141	RARP	Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
2142	RAS	Registration,Admission and Status, or Reliability,Availability and Serviceability, or Remote Access Server, row address strobe
2143	RAT	Remote Access Trojan
2144	RBA	Risk-Based Authentication
2145	RBAC	Role-Based Access Control
2146	RBOC	Regional Bell Operating Company
2147	RCE	Remote Code Execution
2148	RCP	Rich Client Platform
2149	RD	Running Disparity
2150	RDBMS	Relational DataBase Management System
2151	RDC	Remote Deposit Capture
2152	RDF	Resource Description Framework
2153	RDM	Raw Device Mapping
2154	RDMA	Remote Direct Memory Access
2155	rDNS	Reverse DNS
2156	RDO	Remote Data Objects
2157	RDP	Remote Desktop Protocol
2158	RDRAM	Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory
2159	RDS	Amazon Relational Database Service
2160	RDS	Radio Data System
2161	RDS	Remote Desktop Services
2162	RDT&E	Research, Development, Testing & Evaluation
2163	REC	Regional Extension Center
2164	ReFS	Resilient File System
2165	regex	regular expression
2166	REST	REpresentational State Transfer
2167	RF	Radio Frequency
2168	RFC	Remote Function Call
2169	RFC	Request for Comments
2170	RFI	request for information
2171	RFID	Radio Frequency IDentification
2172	RFO	Request for Offer
2173	RFP	Request for Proposal
2174	RFQ	Request for Quotation
2175	RFR	Red Flags Rule
2176	RGB	red, green, and blue
2177	RHCVA	Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator
2178	RHEL	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2179	RHEV	Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
2180	RHIA	Registered Health Information Administrator
2181	RHIO	Regional Health Information Organization
2182	RHIT	Registered Health Information Technician
2183	RHS	Red Hat Storage
2184	RIA	Rich Internet Application
2185	RIAA	Recording Industry Association of America
2186	RIBLOE	Remote Insight Board -- Lights Out Edition
2187	RID	Relative IDentifier
2188	RIM	Records Information Management, or: Reference Information Model
2189	RIP	Raster Image Processor, or: Routing Information Protocol
2190	RIR	Regional Internet Registry
2191	RIS	Radiology Information System, or: Remote Installation Service
2192	RISC	Reduced Instruction Set Computer
2193	RJE	Remote Job Entry
2194	RMA	Return Material (or Merchandise) Authorization
2195	RMI	Remote Method Invocation
2196	RMM	Remote Monitoring & Management
2197	RMON	Remote Network Monitoring
2198	RMS	root-mean-square
2199	RNAAPP	Remote Network Access Application
2200	RNIS	Reseau Numerique a Integration de Services
2201	ROA	Resource-Oriented Architecture
2202	ROADM	Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer
2203	ROC	Report on Compliance
2204	ROD	Reuse-Oriented Model or Reuse-Oriented Development
2205	RODC	Read-Only Domain Controller
2206	RoHS	Restriction of Hazardous Substances
2207	ROI	Return On Investment
2208	ROIC	Return On Invested Capital
2209	ROKSO	Register of Known Spam Operations
2210	ROLAP	Relational Online Analytical Processing
2211	ROM	Read-Only Memory
2212	ROMI	Return On Marketing Investment
2213	RONA	Return On Net Assets
2214	ROP	Reorder Point
2215	RoR	Ruby on Rails
2216	RoT	Roots of Trust
2217	ROU	Record Of Understanding
2218	ROWE	Results-Only Work Environment
2219	RPC	Remote Procedure Call
2220	RPG	Report Program Generator, Role-Playing Game
2221	RPM	Rapid Response Manufacturing, Remote Patient Monitoring, Red Hat Package Manager
2222	RPO	Recovery Point Objective, Recruitment Process Outsourcing
2223	RPR	Resilient Packet Ring
2224	RPT	Rich Presence Technology
2225	RQ	Risk Intelligence
2226	RRAM	resistive RAM
2227	RSAT	Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools
2228	RSC	Retail Service Center
2229	RSI	requirements stability index
2230	RSNA	Radiological Society of North America
2231	RSoP	Resultant Set of Policy
2232	RSS	Really Simple Syndication (feeds)
2233	RSVP	Resource Reservation Protocol
2234	RT	retweet
2235	RTA	real-time application
2236	RTC	real-time clock, real-time communications
2237	RTCD	real-time communications dashboard
2238	RTCP	Real-Time Transport Control Protocol
2239	RTD	reconfigurable tactile display, Research and Technical Development
2240	RTF	Rich Text Format
2241	RTFM	Read The Fucking Manual
2242	RTLS	real-time location system
2243	RTM	Read The Manual
2244	RTO	recovery time objective
2245	RtOI	real-time operational intelligence
2246	RTOS	real-time operating system
2247	RTP	Real-Time Transport Protocol
2248	RTSP	Real Time Streaming Protocol
2249	RTT	round-trip time
2250	RUP	Rational Unified Process
2251	RWU	remote wakeup
2252	RZ	return-to-zero
2253	S&OP	sales and operations planning
2254	S/FTP	Screened Foil Twisted Pair
2255	S-HTTP	Secure HTTP
2256	S.M.A.R.T.	Self-Monitoring Analysis & Reporting Technology
2257	S/MIME	Secure Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions
2258	S/PDIF	Sony/Philips Digital Interface
2259	S4L	spam for life
2260	SA	Microsoft Exchange System Attendant, Microsoft Software Assurance, service assurance
2261	SAA	Systems Application Architecture
2262	SaaS	Software as a Service, Security as a Service, Storage as a Service
2263	SACD	Super Audio CD
2264	SAFE	Samsung for Enterprise
2265	SAM	Security Accounts Manager, storage area management
2266	SAML	Security Assertion Markup Language
2267	SAN	storage area network
2268	SAPI	Speech Application Program Interface
2269	SAPPHIRE	SAP User Conference
2270	SAR	Segmentation and Reassembly, Suspicious Activity Report
2271	SAS	serial-attached SCSI
2272	SASID	Self-Scanned Amorphous Silicon Integrated Display
2273	SAX	Simple API for XML
2274	SBAs	search-based applications
2275	SBC	session border controller
2276	SBIR	Small Business Innovative Research
2277	SBOM	Software bill of materials
2278	SBR	skill-based routing
2279	SC	sunk cost, supply chain
2280	SCA	service-component architecture
2281	SCADA	Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
2282	SCC	Supply Chain Council
2283	SCCP	Signalling Connection Control Part
2284	SCE	supply chain execution
2285	SCEM	supply chain event management
2286	SCI	serial communications interface
2287	SCL	spam confidence level
2288	SCM	Supply Chain Management
2289	SCOR	Supply Chain Operations Reference model
2290	SCORM	Shareable Content Object Reference Model
2291	SCP	session control protocol, supply chain planning
2292	SCR	Synchronized Customer Response
2293	SCSA	Signal Computing System Architecture
2294	SCSI	Small Computer System Interface
2295	SCSIe	SCSI Express
2296	SCTP	Stream Control Transmission Protocol
2297	SCV	supply chain visibility
2298	SD2	Sound Designer II
2299	SDA	Smart Data Access
2300	SDARS	Satellite Digital Audio Radio Service
2301	SDB	Small Disadvantaged Business
2302	SDDC	software-defined data center
2303	SDDL	Security Descriptor Definition Language
2304	SDH	Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
2305	SDI	Serial Digital Interface
2306	SDK	Software Development Kit
2307	SDL	Specification and Description Language
2308	SDLC	Synchronous Data Link Control, systems development life cycle
2309	SDMA	spatial division multiple access
2310	SDN	software-defined networking
2311	SDO	Service Data Objects
2312	SDP	Session Description Protocol
2313	SDR	software-defined radio
2314	SDRAM	synchronous DRAM
2315	SDTV	standard definition television
2316	SDWT	self-directed work team
2317	SDX	NetScaler
2318	SDXC	Secure Digital Extended Capacity card
2319	SEC	Securities and Exchange Commission
2320	SECAM	Sequential Couleur avec Memoire
2321	SEI	Software Engineering Institute
2322	SEM	single-electron memory
2323	SEO	search engine optimization
2324	SerDes	serializer/deserializer
2325	SERP	search engine results page
2326	SET	Secure Electronic Transaction
2327	SETI	Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
2328	SEWP	Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement
2329	SFA	Sales Force Automation
2330	SFA	sales force automation
2331	SFA	single-factor authentication
2332	SFF	small form factor
2333	SFP	small form-factor pluggable
2334	SFS	stepless frequency control
2335	SFTP	Secure File Transfer Protocol
2336	SFX	special effects
2337	SGA	Selling, General and Administrative expenses
2338	SGF	Structured Graph Format
2339	SGI	Silicon Graphics
2340	SGML	Standard Generalized Markup Language
2341	SGRAM	Synchronous Graphics RAM
2342	Si	silicon
2343	SI	systems integrator
2344	SID	security identifier
2345	SIEM	security information and event management
2346	SIG	Special Interest Group
2347	SIGTRAN	Signaling Transport
2348	SIM	security information management
2349	SIMD	Single Instruction Multiple Data
2350	SIMM	Service Integration Maturity Model, single in-line memory module
2351	SIMO	single input, multiple output
2352	SIMPLE	SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions
2353	SIP	Session Initiation Protocol
2354	SIPOC	suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, customers
2355	SIRDS	single-image random-dot stereogram
2356	SISO	single input, single output
2357	SIV	Signal Integrity Verification
2358	SJC	Senate Judiciary Committee
2359	SKA	Shared Key Authentication
2360	SKIL	Bill Securing Knowledge, Innovation and Leadership Act
2361	SKU	Stock Keeping Units
2362	SLA	service-level agreement
2363	SLC	single level cell
2364	SLD	second-level domain
2365	SLICE	Simple Low-Cost Innovative Engine
2366	SLIP	Serial Line Internet Protocol
2367	SLP	Service Location Protocol
2368	SMART	Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology
2369	SMB	Server Message Block, small and medium-sized business, small and midsized business
2370	SMBXML	Small Business Extensible Markup Language
2371	SMDS	Switched Multimegabit Data Service
2372	SME	small to medium enterprise, Society of Manufacturing Engineers
2373	SMF	Standard MIDI File
2374	SMI-S	Storage Management Initiative Specification
2375	SMIL	Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
2376	SMM	social media marketing
2377	SMMS	Social media management software
2378	SMP	symmetric multiprocessing
2379	SMPTE	Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
2380	SMR	Specialized Mobile Radio
2381	SMS	Short Message Service
2382	SMSC	short message service center
2383	SMT	Simultaneous Multithreading
2384	SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
2385	SMWT	Self Managed Work Teams
2386	SNA	Systems Network Architecture
2387	SNAFU	situation normal, all f***ed up
2388	SNG	satellite news gathering
2389	SNMP	Simple Network Management Protocol
2390	SNOMED	Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine
2391	SNR	signal-to-noise ratio
2392	SOA	service-oriented architecture
2393	SOAP	Simple Object Access Protocol
2394	SOC	switch-on-a-chip
2395	SoC	system-on-a-chip
2396	SoD	segregation of duties
2397	SOFC	solid oxide fuel cell
2398	SOHO	Small Office Home Office
2399	SOI	service-oriented integration, Silicon-on-Insulator
2400	SOLED	stacked organic light-emitting device
2401	SoLoMo	social, local and mobile
2402	SOM	service-oriented management
2403	SoMoClo	social, mobile and cloud
2404	SONET	Synchronous Optical Network
2405	SOP	Sales and Operations Planning, Same Origin Policy
2406	SOPA	Stop Online Piracy Act
2407	SOR	system of record
2408	SoS	system of systems
2409	sosofo	specification of a sequence of flow objects
2410	SOW	Statement of Work
2411	SOX	Sarbanes-Oxley Act
2412	SP1	Service Pack 1
2413	SPAC	special purpose acquisition company
2414	SPARC	Scalable Processor Architecture
2415	SPC	Statistical Process Control
2416	SPD	Serial presence detect
2417	SPEC	Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
2418	SPF	Sender Policy Framework
2419	SPI	serial peripheral interface
2420	SPICE	Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination
2421	SPID	Service Profile Identifier
2422	SPIF	sales performance incentive fund
2423	SPIT	spam over Internet telephony
2424	SPM	sales performance management
2425	SPM	Standard Process Modules
2426	SPML	Services Provisioning Markup Language
2427	SPOF	single point of failure
2428	spool	simultaneous peripheral operations online
2429	SPS	Standard Procurement System
2430	SPX	Sequenced Packet Exchange
2431	SQL	Structured Query Language
2432	SQuID	Source Quench Introduced Delay
2433	SR-IOV	Single Root I/O Virtualization
2434	SRAM	static random access memory
2435	SRE	serious reportable event
2436	SRM	Standard Reference Material, storage resource management, supplier relationship management, sustainability risk management
2437	SRS	software requirements specification
2438	SRT	Source-route transparent
2439	SRTP	Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol or Secure RTP
2440	SS7	Signaling System 7
2441	SSA	Serial Storage Architecture
2442	SSADM	Structured Systems Analysis & Design Method
2443	SSD	Solid-State Drive
2444	SSH	Secure Shell
2445	SSI	server-side include, single-system image
2446	SSID	service set identifier
2447	SSL	Secure Sockets Layer, solid-state lighting
2448	SSM	solid state module
2449	SSO	single sign-on
2450	SSP	storage service provider
2451	SSS	solid state storage
2452	SSSI	Solid-State Storage Initiative
2453	SST	Streamlined Sales Tax
2454	SSTV	slow-scan television
2455	STAR	Security, Trust and Assurance Registry
2456	STARS	Standard Accounting and Reporting System
2457	statC	statcoulomb
2458	statF	statfarad
2459	statH	stathenry
2460	statS	statsiemens
2461	statV	statvolt
2462	statW	statwatt
2463	STDM	statistical time division multiplexing
2464	STEM	science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
2465	STEP	Standard for the Exchange of Product model data
2466	STM	scanning tunneling microscope
2467	STML	Spoken Text Markup Language
2468	STONITH	Shoot The Other Node In The Head
2469	STP	spanning tree protocol
2470	STP	standard temperature and pressure
2471	STUN	Simple Traversal of UDP through NAT
2472	SVC	scalable video coding, supervisor call, switched virtual circuit
2473	SVG	Scalable Vector Graphics
2474	SVVP	server virtualization validation program
2475	SWAG	Semantic Web Agreement Group
2476	SWAN	Structured Wireless-Aware Network
2477	SWAT	Samba Web Administration Tool
2478	SWF	Shockwave Flash file
2479	Swift	Programming language released in 2014 by Apple Inc.
2480	SWIFT	Simulated Work Input and Flow Time
2481	SWOT	Strengths, Weakness, Opportunity and Threats Analysis
2482	sysadmin	system administrator
2483	sysop	system operator
2484	T&M	Tools and Methodology
2485	T/R	Transmit / Receive
2486	T9	text on nine keys
2487	TA	terminal adapter
2488	TaaS	Testing as a Service
2489	TACACS	Terminal Access Controller Access Control System
2490	TACT	Total Average Cycle Time
2491	TAPI	Telephony Application Program Interface
2492	tar	Tape ARchive
2493	TB	terabyte
2494	TCAM	ternary content-addressable memory
2495	TCB	trusted computing base
2496	TCG	Trusted Computing Group
2497	Tcl	Tool Command Language
2498	Tcl/Tk	Tool Command Language
2499	TCM	Time Critical Manufacturing
2500	TCO	total cost of ownership
2501	TCP	Transmission Control Protocol
2502	TCP/IP	Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
2503	TD-SCDMA	time division synchronous code division multiple access
2504	TDC	Total Delivered Cost
2505	TDD	Telecommunications Display Device
2506	TDD	test-driven development
2507	TDM	Team Data Manager, time-division multiplexing
2508	TDMA	time division multiple access
2509	TEE	Trusted Execution Environment
2510	telco	telephone company
2511	TETRA	Terrestrial Trunked Radio
2512	TEWE	Technology for Enterprise-Wide Engineering
2513	TFT	thin-film transistor
2514	TFTP	Trivial File Transfer Protocol
2515	TGT	authentication ticket or ticket-granting ticket
2516	TIA	Total Information Awareness
2517	TIC	Trusted Internet Connections
2518	TIFF	Tag Image File Format
2519	TIG	Technology Implementation Group
2520	TIM	Test Inspection Measurement
2521	TIN	taxpayer Identification number
2522	Tk	Tool Kit
2523	TKIP	Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
2524	TLC	flash triple level cell flash
2525	TLD	top-level domain
2526	TLS	Transport Layer Security
2527	TM	software talent management software
2528	TMN	Telecommunications Management Network
2529	TMQL	Topic Map Query Language
2530	TMS	Transportation Management System
2531	TN	display twisted nematic display
2532	TOC	Theory of Constraints
2533	TOE	TCP/IP offload engine
2534	TOE	unified field theory or Theory of Everything
2535	TOGAF	The Open Group Architecture Framework
2536	TOLED	transparent organic light-emitting device
2537	TOP	Technical Office Protocol
2538	TOPS	Team Oriented Problem Solving
2539	TOTP	time-based one-time password
2540	TP	thin provisioning
2541	TPA	Technology and Product Assurance
2542	TPC	Transaction Processing Performance Council
2543	TPI	Total Profit Improvement
2544	TPM	Total Productive Maintenance, Trusted Platform Module
2545	TPOP	Time-Phased Order Point
2546	TPS	Terminal Proxy Server
2547	TPU	Tensor Processing Unit
2548	TQC	Total Quality Control
2549	TQM	Total Quality Management
2550	TRI	Toxic Release Inventory
2551	TRILL	Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links
2552	TRON	The Real-Time Operating System Nucleus
2553	TRT	Transition Tree
2554	TSAP	Transport Services Access Point
2555	TSCA	Toxic Substances Control Act
2556	TSR	terminate and stay resident
2557	TTL	time-to-live, transistor-to-transistor logic
2558	TTS	text-to-speech
2559	TtV	time to value
2560	TTY	teletypewriter
2561	TURN	Traversal Using Relay NAT
2562	TVA	Throughput Value Added
2563	TW	tin whiskers
2564	TWG	Technology Working Group
2565	TWT	traveling-wave tube
2566	U2U	User to User
2567	UART	Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
2568	UAT	user acceptance testing
2569	UBE	unsolicited bulk email
2570	UBL	Universal Business Language
2571	UC	Unit Cost
2572	UCaaS	Unified Communications as a Service
2573	UCE	unsolicited commercial email
2574	UCS	unified computing system
2575	UDA	Universal Data Access
2576	UDDI	Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration
2577	UDF	Universal Disk Format
2578	UDID	unique device identifier
2579	UDO	ultra density optical
2580	UDP	User Datagram Protocol
2581	UEFI	Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
2582	UGC	user-generated content
2583	UHDTV	Ultra High-Definition TV
2584	UHDV	ultra high definition video
2585	UHF	ultrahigh frequency
2586	UI	user interface
2587	UIA	user installed application
2588	UID	unique identifier
2589	UIML	User Interface Markup Language
2590	ULA	Oracle Unlimited License Agreement
2591	UM	unified messaging
2592	UMLS	Unified Medical Language System
2593	UMS	unified messaging system
2594	UMTS	Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service, Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
2595	UNC	Universal Naming Convention
2596	UPN	User Principal Name
2597	UPnP	Universal Plug and Play
2598	UPS	uninterruptible power supply
2599	URI	Uniform Resource Identifier
2600	URL	Uniform Resource Locator
2601	URN	Uniform Resource Name
2602	USART	Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
2603	USB	Universal Serial Bus
2604	USGCB	United States Government Configuration Baseline
2605	USITC	United States International Trade Commission
2606	USP	unique selling point
2607	USR	Universal System Resources (the /usr directory in a *NIX filesystem)
2608	USSD	Unstructured Supplementary Service Data
2609	UTF	Unicode Transformation Format
2610	UTM	unified threat management
2611	UUCP	UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Protocol
2612	UUID	Universally Unique Identifier (see also GUID)
2613	UX	user experience
2614	UXGA	Ultra Extended Graphics Array
2615	V2P	virtual to physical
2616	V2V	Virtual to virtual
2617	VAAI	vStorage APIs for Array Integration
2618	VAD	Value Added Distribution
2619	VAD	voice activation detection
2620	VAMP	vStorage API for Multipathing
2621	VAN	value-added network
2622	VAR	Value-Added Reseller
2623	VASA	vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness
2624	VAX	Virtual Address eXtension
2625	VB	Visual Basic
2626	VBI	vertical blanking interval
2627	VBN	visitor-based networking
2628	vBNS	very high-speed Backbone Network Service
2629	VBR	Vouch by Reference
2630	VC	venture capital
2631	vCAC	VMware vCloud Automation Center
2632	VCB	VMware Consolidated Backup
2633	VCD	video CD or video compact disc
2634	VCDX	VMware certified design expert
2635	vCLI	vSphere CLI
2636	VCP	VMware Capacity Planner
2637	VCP	VMware Certified Professional
2638	vCPU	virtual CPU
2639	VCR	videocassette recorder
2640	VCSEL	vertical cavity surface emitting laser
2641	vCSHB	VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
2642	VDA	Virtual Desktop Access
2643	vDGA	Virtual Dedicated Graphics Acceleration
2644	VDI	virtual desktop infrastructure
2645	VDT	video display terminal or visual display terminal
2646	VDU	video display unit
2647	VE	Value Engineering
2648	VERIS	Vocabulary for Event Recording and Incident Sharing
2649	VFAT	Virtual File Allocation Table
2650	VFIIP	Virtual Factory Information Interchange Project
2651	VFS	virtual file system
2652	vGPU	virtual GPU
2653	VHD	virtual hard disk
2654	VHDCI	Very High Density Cable Interconnect
2655	VHDX	Hyper-V virtual hard disk
2656	VHE	Virtual Home Environment
2657	VHF	very high frequency
2658	VHS	Video Home System
2659	VI3	VMware Infrastructure 3
2660	VIM	Vendor Independent Messaging
2661	Vim	Vi improved
2662	VITC	vertical interval time code
2663	VLAN	Virtual Local Area Network
2664	VLDB	Very Large Database
2665	VLE	virtual learning environment
2666	VLER	Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record
2667	VLIW	very long instruction word
2668	vlog	video blog
2669	VLSI	Very Large Scale Integration
2670	VLSM	variable-length subnet mask
2671	VM	virtual machine
2672	VMBus	Microsoft Virtual Machine Bus
2673	VMEbus	VersaModular Eurocard bus
2674	VMI	Vendor Managed Inventory
2675	VML	vector graphics rendering
2676	VML	Vector Markup Language
2677	VMLM	virtual machine lifecycle management
2678	VMM	virtual machine monitor
2679	VMO	vendor management office
2680	VMQ	Virtual Machine Queue
2681	VMS	Virtual Memory System
2682	VMUG	VMware User Group
2683	VMXNET3	VMXNET Generation 3
2684	VNC	virtual network computing
2685	vNUMA	virtual NUMA
2686	VOB	Versioned Object Base
2687	VOC	voice of the customer
2688	VoD	video on demand
2689	VoIP	voice over IP
2690	VOIPSA	Voice over IP Security Alliance
2691	VOVA	vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance
2692	VoWLAN	Voice over WLAN
2693	VoxML	Voice Markup Language
2694	VP	value proposition
2695	VPD	virtual private database
2696	VPD	vital product data
2697	VPDM	Virtual Product Data Management
2698	VPLS	virtual private LAN service
2699	VPM	Virtual Product Model
2700	VPN	Virtual Private Network
2701	VPS	Virtual Private Server
2702	VRAM	Video RAM
2703	VRF	Virtual Routing and Forwarding
2704	VRF	virtual routing and forwarding
2705	VRM	Vendor Risk Management, or Voltage Regulator Module
2706	VRM	vendor risk management
2707	VRM	voltage regulator module
2708	VRML	Virtual Reality Modeling Language
2709	VRR	Voice Recognition and Response, or Variable Refresh Rate
2710	VRRP	Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
2711	VSA	virtual SAN appliance, Virtual Storage Appliance
2712	VSAM	Virtual Storage Access Method
2713	VSAN	virtual storage area network
2714	VSAT	Very Small Aperture Terminal
2715	VSB	vestigial sideband
2716	VSE	Visual Studio Express
2717	VSM	virtual systems management
2718	VSMP	virtual symmetric multiprocessing
2719	VSP	vertical solutions provider
2720	VSP	Virtual Storage Portal
2721	VSPP	VMware Service Provider Program
2722	VSTO	Visual Studio Tools for Office or Microsoft Visual Studio Tools
2723	VSTS	Visual Studio Team System
2724	VTAM	Virtual Telecommunications Access Method
2725	VTL	Virtual Tape Library
2726	VUGM	Virtual User Group Meeting
2727	VUM	VMware vSphere Update Manager
2728	VXLAN	Virtual Extensible LAN
2729	W-CDMA	Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access
2730	W2K	Windows 2000
2731	W3C	World Wide Web Consortium
2732	WAAS	Wide Area Application Services
2733	WaaS	Windows as a Service
2734	WAE	Wide Area Ethernet
2735	WAF	write amplification factor
2736	WAFS	wide-area file services
2737	WAIS	Wide Area Information Servers
2738	WAN	Wide Area Network
2739	WAP	Wireless Application Protocol
2740	WAPI	WLAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure
2741	WARN	Workers' Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act
2742	WASC	Web Application Security Consortium
2743	WaSP	Web Standards Project
2744	WASP	wireless application service provider
2745	WATS	wide-area telephone service
2746	WAX	Wireless Abstract XML
2747	WBEM	Web-Based Enterprise Management
2748	WBI	Web Intermediaries
2749	WBMP	Wireless Bitmap
2750	WBS	Work Breakdown Schedule
2751	WBS	work breakdown structure
2752	WCET	worst-case execution time
2753	WCF	Windows Communication Foundation
2754	WCM	web content management
2755	WCM	World Class Manufacturing
2756	WCS	Warehouse control system
2757	WCS	Wireless Communications Service
2758	WDF	web development framework
2759	WDM	wavelength-division multiplexing
2760	WDS	Windows Deployment Services
2761	WDS	wireless distribution system
2762	WDSC	WebSphere Development Studio Client
2763	WDT	watchdog timer
2764	WebDAV	World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning
2765	WebOps	Web operations
2766	WebRTC	Web Real-Time Communications
2767	WEEE	Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulation
2768	WEP	Wired Equivalent Privacy
2769	WF	Windows Workflow Foundation
2770	WfM	Wired for Management, Workforce management
2771	WFO	workforce optimization
2772	WFQ	weighted fair queueing
2773	WGA	Windows Genuine Advantage
2774	WGate	Web gateway
2775	WHATWG	Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group
2776	WHQL	Windows Hardware Quality Labs
2777	WiBB	wireless broadband
2778	WIC	WAN interface card
2779	WiDEN	Wideband Integrated Digital Enhanced Network
2780	WIM	Windows Imaging Format
2781	WiMAX	Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
2782	WIMP	windows, icons, mouse, and pull-down menus
2783	WIMP	Woefully Inept Manufacturing Process
2784	WinDirStat	Windows Directory Statistics
2785	Wine	Wine is not an emulator
2786	WinFS	Windows File System
2787	WinFX	.NET 3.0
2788	WinPE	Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment
2789	WinRM	Windows Remote Management
2790	WINS	Windows Internet Naming Service
2791	WIP	Work in Process
2792	WME	World's Most Ethical
2793	WMF	Microsoft Windows Management Framework
2794	WMI	Windows Management Instrumentation
2795	WMIC	Windows Management Instrumentation Command line
2796	WML	Wireless Markup Language
2797	WMM	Wi-Fi Multimedia
2798	WMN	Wireless Mesh Network
2799	WMP	Windows Media Player
2800	WMS	Warehouse Management System
2801	WMTS	Wireless Medical Telemetry Services
2802	WORA	write once, run anywhere
2803	WORM	write once, read many
2804	WPA	Wi-Fi Protected Access
2805	WPA	Windows Product Activation
2806	WPAD	Web Proxy Autodiscovery
2807	WPAN	Wireless Prsonal Area Network
2808	WPAS	Windows Process Activation Service
2809	WPF	Windows Presentation Foundation
2810	WRAM	Window RAM
2811	WSA	Windows Subsystem for Android
2812	WSCI	Web Service Choreography Interface
2813	WSD	white space device
2814	WSDL	Web Services Description Language
2815	WSFC	Windows Server Failover Clustering
2816	WSL	Windows Subsystem for Linux
2817	WSP	Wireless Service Provider
2818	WSS	Windows Sharepoint Services
2819	WSTx	Web Services Transactions
2820	WSUS	Windows Server Update Services
2821	WTLS	Wireless Transport Layer Security
2822	WTS	Windows Terminal Server
2823	WUE	water usage effectiveness
2824	WUSB	wireless USB
2825	WWN	World Wide Name
2826	WWW	World Wide Web
2827	WYSIWYG	what you see is what you get
2828	WYSIWYP	what you see is what you print
2829	X9	ASC X9
2830	XaaS	anything as a service
2831	XACML	Extensible Access Control Markup Language
2832	XAM	eXtensible Access Method
2833	XAML	Extensible Application Markup Language
2834	XBRL	Extensible Business Reporting Language
2835	XCCDF	Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format
2836	XDMA	Xing Distributed Media Architecture
2837	XFDL	Extensible Forms Description Language
2838	XGA	Extended Graphics Array
2839	XHTML	Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
2840	XMI	XML Metadata Interchange
2841	XML	Extensible Markup Language
2842	XMPP	Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
2843	XMT	Extensible MPEG-4 Textual
2844	XNS	Extensible Name Service
2845	XORP	Extensible Open Router Platform
2846	XP	Extreme Programming
2847	XPRL	Extensible Public Relations Language
2848	XQL	XML Query Language
2849	XrML	Extensible Rights Markup Language
2850	XSD	XML Schema Definition
2851	XSL	Extensible Stylesheet Language
2852	XSLT	XSL Transformations
2853	XSRF	cross-site request forgery
2854	XSS	cross-site scripting
2855	XST	cross-site tracing
2856	XUL	Extensible User-interface Language
2857	XWM	X window manager
2858	XWN	eXtended WordNet
2859	XWS	X Window System
2860	XYZ	Internet top-level domain (.xyz) released in 2014
2861	Y2K	year 2000
2862	yacc	yet another compiler compiler
2863	YMS	yard management system
2864	YUM	Yellowdog Updater, Modified
2865	ZBR	zoned-bit recording
2866	ZBT	zero-based thinking
2867	ZIF	Zero Insertion Force
2868	Zope	Z Object Publishing Environment
2869	ZRTP	Zimmermann Real-Time Transport Protocol
2870	ZV	Zoomed Video