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Last updated: February 19, 2017

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 But he's little out of date: The father asks, "So should I get one with a DSP?"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ACS ADR
ACS: Asynchronous Communication Server ADCCP: Advanced Data Communication Control

ACS: Automatic Class Selection
Procedures A
(Communication)
ACS: Automatic Contrast Selection
ADD: Adapter Device Driver
ACSE: Association Control Service Element
ADD: Automatic Document Detection
The method used in International Organization for
Standardization's open systems interconnection (OSI) for ADE: Application Data Export
establishing a call between two applications. (Databases) (Oracle)
ACSI: American Customer Satisfaction Index ADF: Adapter Description File
ACSM: Application Centric Storage Management File name extension
(Software) ADF: Application Developer Framework
ACSS: Aural Cascading Style Sheets Productivity layer for J2EE developers which simplifies
application-building as a set of business services with Web,
ACT: Application Compatibility Toolkit Wireless, and Rich Client interfaces (Software)
(Software) (Microsoft)
ADF: Automatic Document Feeder
ACTS: Advanced Communication Technology Scanner device (Hardware)
Satellite
ADF: Automatically Defined Function
(Communication) (NASA)
ADI: Application Desktop Integrator
ACTS: Automated Computer Time Server
Spreadsheet-based extension of Oracle Applications. It
ACTT: Advanced Communication and provides full-cycle accounting within the comfort and
Timekeeping Technology familiarity of a spreadsheet for General Ledger and Oracle
Assets (Software) (Oracle)
ACU: Automatic Calling Unit
ADI: AutoCad Device Interface
ACVC: Ada Compiler Validation Capacity Driver
AD: Acpi Disassembler ADK: Additional Decryption Key
AD: Active Directory Key to be able to decrypt data even if the private key owner is
(Operating systems) unwilling to provide the private key (Security)
ADA: ADA ADK: Appliance Development Kit

Programming language named after Augusta Ada Lovelace (Software)
(Software) ADL: Address Data Latch
ADA: Adobe Developers Association ADL: Architecture Description Language
(Organizations)
(Software)
ADA: Automatic Data Acquisitions ADLAT: ADaptive LATtice filter
ADAPT: Architecture, Design, Analysis and ADLC: Asynchronous Data Link Control
Planning Tool
ADM: Application Distribution and Management
ADB: Android Debug Bridge
Versatile command line tool that lets you communicate with an ADMACS: Apple Document Management And
emulator instance or connected Android-powered device Control System
ADB: Apple Desktop Bus ADMD: ADministrative Management Domain
Bus architecture (Hardware) (Apple) ADML: Application Description Markup Language
ADBS: Advanced Data Broadcast System (Software)
(Communication) ADML: Architecture Description Markup Language
ADC: Active Directory Connector (Software)
(Operating systems) ADMS: Adstar Distributed Management System
ADC: Adaptive Data Compression ADMT: Active Directory Migration Tool
(Hayes) Provides an integrated toolset to facilitate migration and
ADC: ADd with Carry restructuring tasks in an Active Directory infrastructure
ADC: Advanced Data Connector
ADO: Activex Data Object
(Databases) (Microsoft)
ADC: Analog to Digital Converter
ADODB: Activex Data Object DataBase
A device that translates analog signals to digital signals.
Contrast with digital-to-analog converter (DAC). (Hardware) (Databases) (Microsoft)
ADC: Apple Developer Connection ADP: Access Database Project

(Apple) Filename extension (Software) (Microsoft)
ADC: Apple Display Connector ADP: Aol Dynamic Pages

(Hardware) (Apple) (Software)
ADC: Application Delete Certificate ADP: Automatic Data Processing
ADC: Application Development Consultant ADPCM: Adaptive Differential Pulse Code

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

ADR AFP
ADR: Advanced Digital Recording AEC: Architecture, Engineering, Construction

A (Hardware) A computer graphics market requiring specialized applications
that facilitate efficient planning, design, drafting, and analysis.
ADR2: Advanced Digital Recording 2nd generation
(Hardware) AEGIS: Advanced Electronic Guidance and
Instrumentation System
ADS: Active Directory Service
Windows 2000 network objects database that stores each AEI: Application Enabling Interface
specific network item in a central database and that may be AES: Advanced Encryption Standard
replicated (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Security)
ADS: Advanced Digital System
AESA: Atm End System Address
ADS: Application Development Solutions (Communication)
(AT&T)
AF: Anisotropic Filtering
ADS: Application Development System A method of enhancing the image quality of textures on
surfaces that are far away and steeply angled with respect to
ADS: Automatic Distribution System
the camera (Hardware)
ADS/O: Application Development System / Online AF: Assured Forwarding
ADSC: Adobe Document Structuring Conventions Using AF, a provider may offer different levels of service for IP
packets received from a customer domain. Each AF class is
ADSI: Active Directory Service Interface allocated a specified amount of buffer space and bandwidth
(Network) (Network)
ADSI: Analog Display Services Interface AF: Auto Focus
ADSL: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (Hardware)
Communication infrastructure (Communication) AFA: Accelerated File Access
ADSM: Adstar Distributed Storage Manager AFAIC: As Far As I'm Concerned
(Databases) (IBM) (Net lingo)
ADSM: Advanced Data Storage Management AFAICT: As Far As I Can Tell
(IBM) (Net lingo)
ADSP: Advanced Digital Signal Processor AFAIK: As Far As I Know
(Hardware) (Net lingo)
ADSP: Appletalk DataStream Protocol AFAIR: As Far As I Remember
(Apple) (Net lingo)
ADSR: Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release AFAIUI: As Far As I Understand It
ADT: Abstract Data Type (Net lingo)
ADT: Access Developer Toolkit AFC: AntiFerromagnetically-Coupled

(Software) (Microsoft) Multilayer coating expected to permit hard-disk drives to store
100 billion bits (gigabits) of data per square inch of disk area
ADT: Advanced Dram Technology (Hardware) (IBM)
(Hardware) AFC: Application Foundation Classes
ADT: Application Data Type (Software) (Microsoft)
ADT: Atlantic Daylight Time AFC: Automatic Font Change

Timezone: GMT -4:00 AFC: Automatic Frequency Control
ADTG: Advanced Data Table Gram AFD: Automatic File Distribution
Proprietary binary format for storing database data
(Databases) (Microsoft) AFDW: Active Framework for Data Warehousing
(Microsoft)
ADU: Automatic Dialing Unit
AFFS: Amiga Fast File System
ADUC: Active Directory Users and Computers
(Operating systems)
A snap-in in the Microsoft Management Console (MMC)
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) AFI: Authority and Format Identifier
ADW: Advanced Docking Window AFII: Association for Font Information
(Software) Interchange
ADW: Alfresco Dynamic Website AFIRM: Automated Fingerprint Image Reporting
Provides a robust, enterprise-class web site assembly and Match
framework that aims to go above and beyond the solutions
offered by proprietary companies (Software)
AFIS: Automated Fingerprint Identification
System
ADW: Application Development Workbench
(Software)
AFK: Away From Keyboard
(Net lingo)
AE: Above or Equal
AFLCD: AntiFerroelectric Liquid Crystal Display
AeA: America Electronics Association (Hardware)
(Organizations)
AFM: Adobe Font Metrics
AEB: Analog Expansion Bus File name extension (Adobe)
(Dialogic)
AFP: Advanced Function Presentation
(IBM)

AFP ALE
AFP: Advanced Function Printing AIM: Aol Instant Messenger

Suite of electronic printing solutions to turn your invoices,
letters, policies, statements and reports into high-quality, cost-
AIM: Application Integration Module A
effective documents (Software) (IBM) AIM: Application Interface Module
AFP: Appletalk Filing Protocol AIN: Advanced Intelligent Network
(Communication) (Apple)
AIO: All In One
AFPL: Alladin Free Public License
AIP: Application Infrastructure Provider
AFR: Alternate Frame Rendering
AIP: Asp Infrastructure Provider
(Hardware)
AIR: Architecture Implementation Review
AFR: Annualized Failure Rate
(Hardware) AIS: Alarm Indication Signal
AFS: Andrew File System AIS: Automated Information System
AFT: Adapter Fault Tolerance AISB: Association of Imaging Service Bureaus
(Intel) AISI: As I See It
AFT: Authenticated Firewall Traversal (Net lingo)
(Security) AISP: Association of Information Systems
AFTP: Anonymous File Transfer Protocol Professionals
AGA: Advanced Graphics Adapter AIT: Advanced Intelligent Tape
(Hardware)
AGA: Advanced Graphics Architecture
Graphics architecture for Amiga computers AIX: Advanced Interactive eXecutive
IBM's Unix (Operating systems) (IBM)
AGARAS: AntiGlare AntiReflective AntiStatic
AJAX: Asynchronous Javascript Technology and
AGC: Automatic Gain Control
Xml
(Hardware)
Using JavaScript technology, an HTML page can
AGE: Amorphium Graphics Engine asynchronously make calls to the server from which it was
loaded and fetch XML documents. The XML documents may
AGLR: Anti-Glare, Low Reflection then be used by the JavaScript technology to update or modify
(Hardware) the DOM of the HTML page (Software)
AGP: Accelerated Graphics Port AJDT: AspectJ Development Tools

(Hardware) Provides Eclipse platform based tool support for Aspect
Oriented Software Development (AOSD) with AspectJ. See
AGU: Address Generation Unit http://www.eclipse.org/ajdt/ (Software)
Ah: Ampere Hour AJP: Apache JServ Protocol
Rechargable battery charge measurement unit (Hardware) Binary, packet-oriented protocol bridging the web server with
AH: Authentication Header the servlet container. The web server attempts to maintain
persistent TCP connections to the servlet container, and to
(Network) reuse a connection for multiple request/response cycles
AHA: Adaptec Host Adapter (Software)
(Hardware) (Adaptec) aka: Also Known As
AHCI: Advanced Host Controller Interface (Net lingo)
Technical standard defined by Intel that specifies the operation ALAC: Apple Lossless Audio Codec
of Serial ATA (SATA) host bus adapters in a non- Audio codec developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data
implementation-specific manner (Hardware) compression of digital music (Software) (Apple)
AHDL: Analog Hardware Description Language ALAT: Advanced Load Address Table
AHDT: Alaska-Hawaii Daylight Time ALB: Advanced Load Balancing
Timezone: GMT -10:00
ALC: Airline Link Control
AHIG: Apple's Human Interface Guidelines Service protocol (Network)
(Software) (Apple)
ALC: Application Load Certificate
AHS: Abstract Handle Specification
ALC: Arithmetic and Logic Circuits
AHST: Alaska-Hawaii Standard Time
ALC: Automatic Level Control
AI: Analog Input ALDC: Adaptive Lossless Data Compression

(IBM)
AI: Artificial Intelligence
ALE: Account Level Equivalence
AIA: Applications Integration Architecture
(DEC)
ALE: Address Latch Enable
AIC: Aixwindows Interface Composer ALE: Apple Lossless Encoder

(IBM) Audio codec developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data
compression of digital music (Software) (Apple)
AID: Application IDentifier
ALE: Application Launch and Embedding
AIFF: Audio Interchange File Format (Software)
(Apple)
ALE: Application Linking Enabling
AIIM: Association for Information and Image
Management

ALEC AoE
ALEC: Alternative Local Exchange Carrier AMMA: Advanced Memory Management

A (Communication) Architecture
ALEP: Advanced Language Engineering Platform AMP: Alfresco Module Package
File format. Collection of code, XML, images, CSS, etc. that
ALG: Application Layer Gateway
collectively extend the functionality or data provided by the
Used in conjuction with Network Address Translation (NAT) to standard Alfresco repository (Software)
allow IP address translation (Network)
AMP: Asymmetric MultiProcessing
ALGOL: ALGOrithmic Language
System architecture that uses different types of processors in a
Programming language (Software) multi-processor system (Hardware)
ALIBI: Adaptive Location of Internetworked AMP: Attached Media Processor
Bases of Information (Hardware)
ALICE: Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer AMPS: Advanced Mobile Phone System
Entity (Communication)
ALINK: Active LINK AMQRS: Audio Master Quality Recording System
ALIWEB: Archie Like Indexing in the WEB (Hardware)
ALM: Application Lifecylcle Management AMR: Adaptive Multi-Rate

(Software) Audio Codec. GSM/AMR is an audio standard widely used for
audio in GPRS and W-CDMA networks (Communication)
ALM: Asynchronous Line Multiplexer
A device that connects multiple terminals or other serial AMR: Audio Modem Riser
interface devices to Sun network file servers or workstations. Slot for an internal modem (Hardware)
Also known as "multiple terminal interface."
AMS: Advanced Microcomputer System
ALN: Asynchronous Learning Network (Hardware) (Siemens-Nixdorf)
ALOM: Advanced Lights Out Management Amstrad: Alan Michael Sugar TRADing
(Hardware) (Sun) Eurpean based company that built the first sub $1000 IBM
compatible PCs in the mid 1980's
ALP: Apple List Price
Recommended retail price for Apple Macintosh equipment AMT: Active Management Technology
(Hardware) (Apple) Allows the IT team to better discover, heal, and protect their
networked computing assets (Hardware) (Intel)
ALP: Application Layer Program (or Process)
A program or process at the Application Layer (Network) ANDF: Architecture-Neutral Distribution Format
ALP: Application Layer Protocol ANI: ANImated cursor
Any network protocol at the application layer (Network) File name extension (Microsoft)
ALP: Automatic Language Processing ANI: Automatic Number Identification

ALR: Advanced Logic Research ANN: ANNotations
File name extension (IBM)
ALSA: Architectures of Large Systems of Agents
ANN: Artificial Neural Network
ALT: ALTernate
ANS: Advanced Networking Services
ALU: Arithmetic Logic Unit
(Network)
Device in a CPU performing arithmetic operations (Hardware)
ANS: American National Standard
AM: Amplitude Modulation
ANSI: American National Standard Institute
AMA: Automatic Message Accounting
An organization that reviews and approves product standards
AMASS: Archival Management And Storage in the United States. (Organizations)
System ANT: Advanced Network Tools
Manufacturer
ANT: Another Neat Tool
AMD: Active Matrix Display
Ant is a Java based build tool. In theory it is kind of like make
AMD: Advanced Micro Devices without make's wrinkles. See http://jakarta.apache.org/ant
(Software)
CPU Manufacturer (AMD)
AME: Advanced Metal Evaporation ANX: Automotive Network eXchange
Recording media technology (Hardware) AO: Analog Output
AMG: All Music Guide AO/DI: Always On/Dynamic Isdn
AMHA: Advanced Macro Heuristic Analysis AOCE: Apple Open Collaborative Environment
(Dr. Solomon) (Apple)
AMHIK: Ask Me How I Know AOCN: Administrative Operating Company
(Net lingo) Number
(Communication)
AMI: Alternate Mark Inversion
AOE: Application Operating Environment
AMI: American Megatrends, Inc.
(AT&T)
AMI: Application Messaging Interface
AoE: Ata Over Ethernet
AML: Acpi Machine Language Network protocol designed for simple, high-performance
AMLCD: Active-Matrix Liquid Crystal Display access of SATA storage devices over Ethernet networks. It
gives the possibility to build SANs with low-cost, standard
(Hardware) technologies (Hardware)

AOL APTC
AOL: Alert On Lan APLSF: A Programming Language with Shared

(Network) Files A
AOL: America OnLine APM: Advanced Power Management
(Network) APM: Application Performance Management
AOP: Aspect-Oriented Programming APN: Access Point Name
(Software)
Used on GPRS as access information (Communication)
AOP: Association of Online Professionals APNIC: Asia-Pacific Network Information Center
(Organizations)
APOP: Authenticated Post Office Protocol
AOS: Add Or Subtract
APP: Applecare Protection Plan
AOSD: Aspect-Oriented Software Development Extended warranty (Apple)
(Software)
APP: APPlication
AOT: Ahead Of Time
File name extension
Programs compilation technique (Software)
APPC: Advanced Program to Program
AOW: Asia and Oceania Workshop Communication
One of the three regional OSI implementors workshops.
APPCM: Access Protection and Priority Control
AP: Access Point Mechanism
(Hardware)
APPEL: A P3p Preference Exchange Language
AP: Access Provider
APPI: Advanced Peer-to-Peer Internetworking
(Communication)
(Network)
AP: Application Processor
APPN: Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking
AP: Application Protocol (Network) (IBM)
(Software)
APR: Advanced Port Replicator
APA: Adaptive Packet Assembly (Hardware)
APA: All Points Addressable APR: Apache Portable Runtime
APA: Arithmetic Processing Accelerator Its mission is to provide a free library of C data structures and
routines, forming a system portability layer to as many
APAR: Authorized Program Analysis Report operating systems as possible, including Unices, MS Win32,
(IBM) BeOS and OS/2 (Software)
APC: American Power Conversion APRP: Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing

APCUG: Association of Personal Computer User APS: Active Pixel Sensor
Groups APS: Advanced Photo System
APCVG: Association of Personal Computer Users APS: Advanced Printing Service
Group
(IBM)
(Organizations)
APS: Analog Protection System
APDU: Application Protocol Data Unit
APS: Asynchronous Protocol Specification
APE: Application Performance Explorer
(Software) (Microsoft) APS: Automatic Protection Switching
A mean for automatically detecting and signalling a
APF: Apple Filing Protocol transmission link failure (Communication)
(Apple)
APSE: Ada Programming Support Environment
APF: Automated Purposing Framework (Software)
Collection of scripts and utilities that enable you to consistently
and reliably prepare computer hardware (BIOS, mass storage) APSL: Apple Public Source License
and install the Windows operating system and layered products Software license (Apple)
on one or more build computers (Microsoft)
APSO: Audio Precision System One
API: Application Programming Interface (Hardware)
A set of calling conventions defining how a service is invoked
through a software package. (Software) APSTNDP: All People Seem To Need Data
Processing
APIC: Advanced Programmable Interrupt An acronym used to remember the order of the OSI layer
Controller (From layer 7 to layer 1) 7) Application, 6) Presentation, 5)
(Hardware) Session, 4) Transport, 3) Network, 2) Data link, 1) Physical
layer. (Communication)
APIPA: Automatic Private Internet Protocol
Addressing APT: Address Pass Through
(Network) APT: Advanced Package Tool
APIS: Advanced Passenger Information System Software download/installation tool for Debian GNU/Linux
(Operating systems)
APL: A Programming Language
(Software) APT: Advanced Parallel Technology
APL: Applied Physics Laboratory APT: Automatically Programmed Tools

Advanced research facility in Skaggsville, MD. APTC: Authorized Prometric Testing Center
APL: Average Picture Level Sylvan Prometric is a division of Sylvan Learning Systems. It is
the global leader in computer-based testing for academic
Monitor quality parameter (Hardware)
assessment, professional licensure, and certification.

APTM ASC
APTM: Application Program to Transaction ARP: Address Resolution Protocol

A Manager The Internet protocol used to dynamically map Internet
addresses to physical (hardware) addresses on local area
APU: Audio Processing Unit networks. Limited to networks that support hardware
(Hardware) broadcast. (Network)
APWG: Anti Phishing Working Group ARPA: Advanced Research Projects Agency
See http://www.antiphishing.org/ (Organizations) Now called Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA), the U.S. government agency that funded the
AQ: Advanced Queueing
ARPANET. (Organizations)
(Databases) (Oracle)
ARPANET: Advanced Research Projects Agency
AR: Access Rate NETwork
The data rate of the user access channel. The rate (maximum) A packet switched network developed in the early 1970s. The
at which access devices can offer data to the frame relay "grandfather" of today's Internet. ARPANET was
network (Communication) decommissioned in June 1990.
AR: Application Requester ARPL: Adjust Requested Privilege Level
(IBM)
ARQ: Automatic Repeat reQuest
ARA: Appletalk Remote Access
(Communication)
ARS: Activity Reporting System
ARAG: AntiReflective, AntiGlare
ART: Adaptive Resonance Theory
ARAP: Appletalk Remote Access Protocol
ART: Average Response Time
ARAS: AntiReflective, AntiStatic
ARTA: Apple Real Time Architecture
ARB: Architecture Review Board
ARTIC: A Real-Time Interface Coprocessor
ARC: Advanced Risc Computer (IBM)
(Hardware)
ARTS: Asynchronous Remote Takeover Server
ARC: ARChive
File name extension ARTT: Asynchronous Remote Takeover Terminal
ARCA: Advanced Risc Computing Architecture ARU: Audio Response Unit
ARCnet: Attached Resource Computer NETwork ARX: Autocad Runtime eXtensions

(Software) (Autodesk)
AREQIPA: Application REQuested Internet
Protocol over Atm AS: Advanced Server
(Network) AS: Application Server
ARF: Abort, Retry, Fail (IBM)
ARIN: American Registry for Internet Numbers AS: Authentication Service

(Organizations) AS: Autonomous System
ARIS: Architecture of Integrated Information A self-connected set of networks that are generally operated
Systems within the same administrative domain (Network)
ARIS: Attack Registry & Intelligence Service AS/400: Application System/400

(Security) (IBM)
ARL: Access Rights List AS/U: Advanced Server for Unix
ARL: Adjusted Ring Length AS3AP: Ansi Sql Standard Scalable And Portable
Database benchmark (Databases)
ARLL: Advanced Run Length Limited
ASA: Active Server Application
ARM: Advanced Risc Machine (Network) (Microsoft)
ARM: Annotated Reference Manual ASA: Adaptive Security Appliance
ARM: Application Response Measurement (Hardware) (Cisco)
(Network) ASA: American Standards Association
ARM: Asynchronous Response Mode ASA: Architectures of Systems of Agents
HDLC data transfer mode (Network)
ASAI: Adjunct Switch Application Interface
ARMA: Association of Records Managers and (AT&T)
Administrators
ASAP: As Soon As Possible
ARMD: Atapi Removable Media Device (Net lingo)
ATAPI devices with removable media that can appear as either
a super-floppy or a hard drive to the operating system. These ASAP: Automatic Switching And Processing
can be supported as bootable devices by a BIOS complying
with the ATAPI Removable Media Device BIOS Specification
ASB: Advanced System Buffering
(Hardware) (Hardware) (Intel)
ARMS: Architecture for Reliable Managed Storage ASC: Accredited Standards Committee
ARO: Adaptec Raidport Option ASC: ASCii text

(Hardware) (Adaptec) File name extension
AROM: Alterable Read Only Memory ASC: Authorized Support Centers

ASC ASR
ASC: Autonomous System Confederation ASM: Advanced Server Manager

(Network) (Operating systems) (Acer) A
ASCB: Address Space Control Block ASM: Advanced System Management
Used in IBM Mainframe OS's Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS) - (IBM)
z/OS (Operating systems) (IBM)
ASM: ASseMbler
ASCC: Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator File name extension
(IBM)
ASM: Automatic Storage Management
ASCI: Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative Oracle 10g database feature that provides the database
administrator with a simple storage management interface that
ASCII: American Standard Code for Information
is consistent across all server and storage platforms
Interchange (Databases) (Oracle)
The standard binary encoding of alphabetical characters,
numbers, and other keyboard symbols (7 bit character code.) ASMM: Automatic Shared Memory Management
Collective name for the dynamic memory allocation
ASD: Application Structure Database technologies added in Oracle 9i and improved with each
(Microsoft) subsequent release. This reduces the amount of manual
configuration required (Databases) (Oracle)
ASD: Automatic Skip Driver
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) ASMP: ASymmetric MultiProcessing
System architecture that uses different types of processors in a
ASDSP: Application-Specific Digital Signal
multi-processor system (Hardware)
Processor
ASN: Abstract Syntax Notation
ASE: Active Storage Element
The International Organization for Standardization's open
ASE: Adaptive Server Enterprise systems interconnection (OSI) language for describing abstract
(Databases) (Sybase) syntax.
ASE: Alladin Smartcard Environment ASN: Autonomous System Number
ASET: Automated Security Enhancement Tool ASO: Advanced Security Option

A tool that allows a user to specify an overall system security Encryption option used to safeguard sensitive data and address
level (low, medium, or high) and automatically maintain regulatory compliance requirements (Databases) (Oracle)
systems at those levels. ASO: Automated Systems Operations
ASF: Active Streaming Format ASOG: Access Service Ordering Guideline
(Microsoft)
ASP: Active Server Pages
ASF: Advanced Streaming Format Dynamic web pages engine (Software) (Microsoft)
ASF: Alert Standard Format ASP: Advanced Signal Processing
ASF: Apache Software Foundation ASP: Appletalk Session Protocol
(Organizations)
ASP: Application Service Provider
ASF: Applied Science Fiction (Software)
Manufacturer (ASF)
ASP: Association of Shareware Professionals
ASH: Active Session History (Organizations)
Consists of session performance view snapshots over time,
which are often used to simplify performance tuning ASP: Authorized Service Provider
ASP: Auxiliary Storage Pool
ASI: Asynchronous Scsi Interface (IBM)
ASI: Automatic System Installation ASP: Average Selling (or Street) Price
ASIC: Application-Specific Integrated Circuit ASPEN: Automatic System for Performance
A gate array or other non-standard chip design for proprietary Evaluation of the Network
use. (Hardware)
ASPI: Advanced Scsi Programming Interface
ASID: Address Space IDentifier
ASPN: ActiveState Programmer Network
ASIT: Advanced Security and Identification (Software)
Technology
ASPS: Advanced Signal Processing System
ASK: Amplitude Shift Keying
ASPX: Active Server Pages eXtended
ASL: Acpi Source Language Dynamic web pages engine for the Microsoft .NET framework
ASL: Adaptive Speed Leveling (Software) (Microsoft)
ASL: Age? Sex? Location? ASQ: Automated Software Quality

(Software)
Used to get to know people better (Net lingo)
ASL: Apache Software License ASR: Access Service Request
ASL: Arithmetic Shift Left ASR: Address Space Register

(Software) ASR: Arithmetic Shift Right
ASLB: Accelerated Server Load Balancing (Software)
ASLM: Apple Shared Library Manager ASR: Automatic Send-Receive

(Communication)
(Apple)
ASLT: Advanced Solid Logic Technology ASR: Automatic Server Recovery
(Operating systems)

ASR ATU
ASR: Automatic Speech Recognition ATIP: Absolute Time In Pregroove

A ASR: Automatic System Recovery ATIS: Alliance for Telecommunication Industry
Solutions
ASSM: Automatic Segment Space Management
Sett http://www.atis.org/ (Organizations)
A new way Oracle manages space inside a block. Instead of
trying to track the exact space inside a block, Oracle marks the ATK: Accessibility ToolKit
block as one of five types, tracked by a bitmap. This eliminates
the need of a freelist (Databases) (Oracle) ATL: Active Template Library
(Microsoft)
AST: AST research, inc.
Company named from first initials of the founders: Albert ATL: Adaptive Threshold Learning
Wong, Safi Qureshey, Thomas Yuen
ATL: Automated Tape Library
AST: Atlantic Standard Time (Hardware)
Timezone: GMT -4:00
ATLAS: Authorization Token Layer Acquisition
ASTRAL: Alliance for Strategic Token Ring Service
Advancement and Leadership Describes the service needed to acquire authorization tokens to
access a target system using the CSIv2 protocol. This design
ASV: Advanced Super View defines a single interface with which a client acquires an
LCD display technology (Hardware) authorization token
ASVD: Analog Simultaneous Voice & Data ATM: Adobe Type Manager
(Communication) (Software) (Adobe)
ASX: Asf Stream Redirector ATM: Air Traffic Management
File format (Microsoft)
ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ASYNC: ASYNchronous Communication A standard for switching and routing all types of digital
Communication protocol (Communication) information, including video, voice, and data. With ATM, digital
information is broken up into standard-sized packets, each
AT: Advanced Technology with the "address" of its final destination. (Communication)
an IBM personal computer. Also a motherboard's form factor
(IBM) ATM: At The Moment
(Net lingo)
AT: ATtention
Modem command prefix. Defined by the modem command set ATM: Automatic Teller Machine
developed by the Hayes company for use on its modems and ATMS: Assumption based Truth Maintenance
now used on most modems (Communication)
System
AT: Azores Time
ATN: Australian Technology Network
Timezone: GMT -2:00
ATOB: Ascii TO Binary
AT&T: American Telephone And Telegraph
ATOMM: Advanced super Thinlayer and high-
ATA: Advanced Technology Attachment
Output Metal Media
Peripheral bus architecture (Hardware)
ATP: Appletalk Transaction Protocol
ATAG: Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
W3C recommendation that explains how to develop authoring
tools that make it easier to produce accessible Web pages that ATP: Application Transaction Program
conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
ATP: Available To Promise
ATAPI: Advanced Technology Attachment Packet
Interface ATP2: AppleTalk Phase 2
(Hardware) ATPS: AppleTalk Printing Services
(Apple)
ATC: Address Translation Controller
ATR: Advanced Telecommunication Research
ATC: Advanced Transfer Cache
(Organizations)
(Hardware)
ATDM: Asynchronous Time Division Multiplexer ATR: Answer To Reset
ATDNet: Advanced Technology Demonstration ATR: Automatic Terminal Recognition

NETwork ATRAC: Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding
(Network) Audio compression algorithm, introduced by Sony for its Mini
Disk, which relies on the masking of low-amplitude frequency
ATE: Asynchronous Terminal Emulation components by temporaly adjacent high-amplitude
ATE: Atm Terminating Equipment components (Sony)
ATE: Automatic Test Equipment ATS: Abstract Test Suite

(Communication)
ATEC: Authorized Technical Education Center
(Microsoft) ATS: Administrative Terminal System
ATF: Ajax Toolkit Framework ATS: Apple Terminal Services

Provides an extensible framework and exemplary tools for ATS: Automatic Tuning and troubleshooting
building IDEs for the many different AJAX runtime offerings System
(Dojo, Zimbra, Rico, etc) in the market (Software)
Binary reoptimization and recompilation tool that can be used
ATF: Automated Test Facility for tuning and troubleshooting applications (Software) (Sun)
ATG: Advanced Technology Group ATTN: ATTeNtion

ATI: Allied Telesyn International ATU: Adsl Transceiver Unit
Networking hardware manufacturer (Hardware) Commonly referred to as a DSL "modem" (Hardware)

ATU-C BAI
ATU-C: Adsl Transceiver Unit - Central AVTK: Anti Virus ToolKit

In a DSL loop, the line card plugged into the DSLAM (Hardware) (Software) A
ATU-R: Adsl Transceiver Unit - Remote AVVID: Architecture for Voice, Video and
Commonly referred to as a DSL "modem" (Hardware) Integrated Data
(Communication) (Cisco)
B
ATVEF: Advanced TeleVision Enhancement Forum
(Organizations) AWAC: Audio Waveform Amplifier and Converter
ATX: Advanced Technology eXtended AWC: Advanced Web Creations
Motherboard format (Hardware) (Intel) AWD: Access Workflow Designer
AU: AUdio Organize and track information (Microsoft)
File name extension AWDE: Artus Wireless Data Enhancer
AUC: AUthentication Center (Communication) (Nokia)
AUDIT: AUtomated Data Input Terminal AWE: Address Windowing Extensions

(Operating systems) (Microsoft)
AUI: Attachment Unit Interface
AWE: Advanced Wave Effects
AUI: Audible User Interface
(Creative Labs)
AUP: Acceptable User Policy
AWG: American Wire Gauge
AUT: Application Under Test
AWK: Aho, Weinberger and Kernighan
AUTODIN: AUTOmatic DIgital Network Unix language named after its authors: Al Aho, Peter
Weinberger and Brian Kernighan
AUTOVON: AUTOmatic VOice Network
AWR: Automatic Workload Repository
AUX: Apple UniX
Built-in repository which persists system workload information
AUX: AUXiliary to disk at regular intervals (Databases) (Oracle)
AV: Access Violation AWS: Advanced Workstations and Systems
(Software) (IBM)
AV: Anti Virus AWT: Abstract Windows Toolkit
(Software) (Sun)
AV: Audio Video
AX: Architecture eXtended
AV: Authenticity Verification
AXI: American eXpress Interactive
AVA: Audio Visual Authoring
(IBM)
B
AVA: Avaya Certified Associate
b: Bit
AVATAR: Advanced Video Attribute Terminal
Assembler and Recreator B: Bold
HTML tag
AVC: Advanced Visual Computing
(SGI) B: Byte
AVC: Audio Visual Connection B&W: Black & White
(IBM) B/F: Background/Foreground
AVD: Alternating Voice and Data B2B: Business to Business
AVE: Autocad Visualization Extension B2C: Business To Customer
AVG: AVeraGe B2E: Business To Employee
AVGA: Advanced Video Graphic Array B2G: Business to Government
AVI: Audio Video Interleaved E-commerce model
File Format B2X: Binary To heXadecimal
AVK: Application Verification Kit (IBM)
Tool intended to help developers test their applications for B8ZS: Binary 8 Zero Substitution
correct use of J2EE APIs and portability across J2EE compatible
Replaces strings of zeroes by pattern with pulses
application servers, and to help developers avoid inadvertently
(Communication)
writing non-portable code (Software) (Sun)
AVP: Attribute-Value Pair BA: Bell Atlantic
AVR: Automatic Voice Recognition BA: Brokering Agent
AVR: Automatic Voltage Regulation BACP: Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol

(Communication)
(Hardware)
AVS: Adult Verification Service BAD: Broken As Designed
AVSEQ: Audio Video SEQuence BAFUG: Bay Area Freebsd Users Group
(Organizations)
Multimedia file format, probably compatible with the MPEG-1
format BAI: Bank Administration Institute
AVT: Applied Voice Technology File / report format used in financial services industry
(Software)
AVT: Attribute Value Template
(Software)

BAID BCS
BAID: Bios Aware Ipl Device BC: Base Code

(Hardware)
BC: Business Component
BAK: BAcKup (Software)
B File name extension
BC4J: Business Components For Java
BAK: Binary Adaptation Kit Java 2 platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) framework that helps
(Microsoft) developers quickly construct high-performance J2EE
applications following industry-standard design patterns
BAKOM: BundesAmt für KOMmunikation (Software) (Oracle)
Swiss regulatory Organisation (Organizations)
BCA: BroadCast Agent
BAL: Basic Assembly Language Business Objects broadcast agent. See also
http://www.businessobjects.com/products/bca/ (Software)
BALUN: BALanced UNbalanced
BCC: Blind Carbon Copy
BAM: Bidirectional Associative Memory
BCC: Block Check Character
BAM: Boyan Action Module
In longitudinal redundancy checking and cyclic redundancy
BAP: Bandwidth Allocation Protocol checking, a character transmitted by the sender after each
message block and compared with a block-check character
BAPI: Business Application Programming computed by the receiver to determine if the transmission was
Interface successful.
(Software)
BCD: Binary-Coded Decimal
BAR: Base Address Register Character encoding scheme
BARB: Board ARBiter BCDBS: Broadband Connectionless Data Bearer
Part of the bus arbitration system (Hardware) (Sun) Service
BARRNET: Bay Area Regional Research NETwork BCDIC: Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
BART: Basic Application RunTime BCEL: Byte Code Engineering Library
BARTS: Bell Atlantic Regional TimeSharing Library intended to give users a convenient possibility to
analyze, create, and manipulate (binary) Java class files
BAS: BASic (Software)
File name extension BCF: Base station Control Function
BAS: Borland AppServer BCF: Busy Call Forwarding
(Borland)
BCL: Base Class Library
BASDA: Business and Accounting Software (Software) (Microsoft)
Developers Association
(Organizations) BCL: Batch Command Language
BASH: Bourne Again SHell BCN: Backbone Concentrator Node
BASIC: Beginners All-purpose Symbolic BCNF: Boyce/Codd Normal Form

Instruction Code BCNU: Be Seeing You
Programming language (Software) (Net lingo)
BASM: Built-in ASseMbler BCP: Basic Call Process
BAT: Baby Advanced Technology BCP: Best Current Practice
A type of system board (Hardware) Means that a certain manner of proceeding is in general the
most logical choice - a de facto standard of sorts
BAT: BATch
File name extension BCP: Binary Communications Protocol
BAT: Block Address Translation BCP: Bridging Control Protocol
BAWUG: Bay Area Wireless Users Group BCP: Bulk Copy Program
(Organizations)
BCP: Byte Control Protocol
BB: BridgeBoard (Communication)
BBB: Better Business Bureau BCPL: Basic Computer Programming Language
(Organizations)
BCR: Best Cost Routing
BBB: Bit By Bit (Communication)
BBIALB: Be Back In A Little Bit BCR: Byte Count Register
(Net lingo)
BCRC: Business Component Request Center
BBL: Be Back Later (Software)
BBLT: Bus BLock Transfer BCS: Banking Communication Standard
BBR: Back Bone Ring BCS: Bar Code Sorter
BBS: Be Back Soon BCS: Basic Catalog Structure
(Net lingo) (Operating systems) (IBM)
BBS: Bios Boot Specification BCS: Basic Content Service
(Hardware) (Software)
BBS: Bulletin Board System BCS: Binary Compatibility Standard
(Communication)
BCS: British Computer Society

BCSM BIB
BCSM: Basic Call Sate Model BER: Basic Encoding Rules

Standard rules for encoding data units described in ASN.1.
BCSP: BlueCore Serial Protocol
Sometimes incorrectly lumped under the term ASN.1, which
Host controller interface (HCI) procotol (Communication) properly refers only to the abstract syntax description
BCU: Bios Configuration Utility language, not the encoding technique. B
BCU: Bus Controller Unit BER: Bit Error Rate
(Communication)
BCV: Boot Connection Vector
A field in the Plug and Play (PnP) header for a device with an
BERT: Bit Error Rate Test
associated option ROM (Hardware) (Communication)
BD: Blu-ray Disc BEST: Borland Enhanced Support and Training

Name of a next-generation optical disc format jointly BET: Bit Enhancement Technology
developed by thirteen leading consumer electronics and pc
(Hardware)
companies (Hardware)
BEV: Boot Entry Vector
BDA: Bios Data Area
A field in the Plug and Play (PnP) Header of a device with an
BDAV: Blu-ray Disc Audio/Visual associated option ROM. Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE)
(Hardware) is implemented as a BEV option ROM (Hardware)
BDB: Berkeley DataBase BF: Bad Flag

(Databases) BFC: BrieFCase
BDC: Backup Domain Controller Filename extension (Software) (Microsoft)
Secondary to the PDC, provides user/computer domain BFE: Bum F*** Egypt
authentication (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
A remote unknown location (Net lingo)
BDCP: Blu-ray Disc Content Protection
BFF: Binary File Format
(Hardware)
(IBM)
BDD: Business Desktop Deployment
BFN: Bye For Now
(Net lingo)
BDE: Borland Database Engine
BFRS: Base File Record Segment
(Databases) (Borland)
BFS: Business Forecasting Software
BDF: Bitmap Description Format
BFT: Binary File Transfer
BDK: Bean Development Kit
(Software) (Sun) BFTP: Batch File Transfer Protocol
BDLC: Burroughs Data Link Control BGA: Ball-Grid Array
Integrated circuit (IC) packaging that uses half-spherical
BDLS: BiDirectional Loop Switching contacts versus pins (Hardware)
BDM: Background Debug Mode BGAN: Broadband Global Area Network
(Hardware) (Network)
BDMV: Blu-ray Disc MoVie BGE: Branch if Greater or Equal
(Hardware)
BGI: Borland Graphics Interface
BDOS: Basic Disk Operating System File name extension
(Operating systems)
BGP: Border Gateway Protocol
BDR: Bus Device Request An Internet routing protocol used to pass routing information
BD-R: Blu-ray Disc Recordable between different administrative routing domains or
Autonomous Systems. BGP does not pass explicit topology
(Hardware)
information and is often used between Internet service
BD-RE: Blu-ray Disc REwritable providers (Network)
(Hardware) BGT: Branch if Greater Than
BDSL: Broadband Digital Subscriber Line BHI: Branch if HIgher
(Communication)
BHIS: Branch if HIgher or Same
BE: Below or Equal
BHLI: Broadband High Layer Information
BECN: Backward Explicit Congestion Notification
BHO: Browser Helper Object
A bit sent by a frame relay network to notify an interface
device (DTE) that congestion avoidance procedures should be (Software) (Microsoft)
initiated by the sending device (Communication) BI: Binary Input
BEDO: Burst Data Extended Output BI: Business Intelligence
(Hardware)
BIA: Burned-In Address
BEEP: Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol A.k.a. MAC Address; unique identifier coded into every NIC
BEL: BELl (Network)
Control character BIAB: Band-In-A-Box
BELLCORE: BELL COmmunications REsearch BIB: Back In Business
Usually said after saying BRB (Be Right Back) to say that
you're back (Net lingo)
BIB: BIBliography
File name extension

BICI BLOS
BICI: Broadband InterCarrier Interface BIT: Binary Improvement Tool

Works directly with SPARC binaries to instrument, optimize,
BiDi: BIDIrectional
and analyze them for performance or code coverage (Software)
BIDS: Borland International Data Structures (Sun)
B BIDS: Business Intelligence Development Studio BitBLT: BIT BLock Transfer
IDE from Microsoft used for developing data analysis and A raster operation that moves a block of bits representing
Business Intelligence solutions utilizing the Microsoft SQL some portion of an image or scene from one location in the
Server Analysis Services, Reporting Services and Integration frame buffer to another.
Services (Microsoft)
BITNET: Because It's Time NETwork
BIF: Benchmark Interchange Format Academic computer network based originally on IBM
In computer graphics, a standardized file structure for mainframe systems interconnected via leased 9600 bps lines.
specifying the geometry of a particular data set from a
BITNIC: BITnet Network Information Center
particular application as well as the user interactions to be
performed. BITS: Background Intelligent Transfer Service
BIFET: BIpolar Field Effect Transistor Enables developers to write client applications that transfer
files asynchronously between a client and server. BITS
BIFF: Binary Interchange File Format automatically resumes file transfers after network disconnects
and machine reboots (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
BIFS: BInary Format for Scenes
BITS: Bump-In-The-Stack
BIG: Business Information Guide
Configuration where IPsec is implemented "underneath" an
Data warehousing (Databases) existing implementation of an IP protocol stack, between the
BIM: Beginning of Information Marker native IP and the local network drivers. This approach, when it
is adopted, is usually employed in hosts (Network)
BIM: Broadband Interface Module
BITW: Bump-In-The-Wire
BIN: BINary Configuration where IPsec is implemented through the use of
File name extension an outboard crypto processor. Such implementations may be
designed to serve either a host or a gateway (or both)
BINAC: BINary Automatic Computer (Network)
BIND: Berkeley Internet Name Daemon BIU: Bus Interface Unit
(Network) (Hardware)
BINHEX: BINary HEXadecimal BIW: Business Intelligence Warehouse
BINL: Boot Information Negotiation Layer BIX: Byte Information eXchange
(Operating systems) Byte's bulletin board system
BIOML: BIOpolymer Markup Language BJ: Bubble Jet
XML language designed to be used for the annotation of (Hardware) (Canon)
biopolymer sequence information. BIOML allows the full
specification of all experimental information known about BJC: Bubble Jet Color
molecular entities composed of biopolymers, for example, (Hardware) (Canon)
proteins and genes
BKM: Best Known Method
BIOS: Basic Input/Output System Based on previous experience, the prefered method for
The program a personal computer's microprocessor uses to get completing a task
the computer system started after you turn it on
BKSP: BacKSPace
BIP: Bit Interleaved Parity
BL: BackLit
BIPM: Bureau International des Poids et des
Mesures BL: Bit Line
(Organizations) BLAST: BLocked ASynchronous Transmission
BIPS: Bank Internet Payment System Protocol
The BIPS specification includes a protocol for sending payment BLE: Branch if Less or Equal
instructions to banks safely over the Internet and a payment
server architecture for processing those payment instructions BLER: BLock ERror
BIPV: Bit Interleaved Parity Violation BLERT: BLock Error Rate Test
(Communication)
BIRT: Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools
Open source, Eclipse-based reporting system that integrates BLISS: Broadband Local Integrated Services
with your application to produce compelling reports for both Solution
web and PDF. See also http://www.eclipse.org/birt/ (Software) Allows service providers to offer a bundle of packet-based
BIS: Boot Integrity Service services including local and long distance voice services and
high-speed data (Network) (Cisco)
BIS: Business Information System
BLK: BLocK
BISDN: Broadband Integrated Services Digital
BLL: Business Logic Layer
Network
(Communication) BLLI: Broadband Low Layer Information
BISP: Business Information System Program BLMC: Buried Logic MacroCell
BISSI: Broadband Inter-Switching System BLOB: Binary Large OBject
Interface (Databases)
BIST: Built-In Self Test BLOG: weB LOG

BISYNC: BInary SYNchronous Communications BLOS: Branch if LOwer Or Same
BIT: Binary digIT

BLT BPEL4WS
BLT: Baghdad Local Time BOD: Bandwidth On Demand

Timezone: GMT +3:00 (Network)
BLT: BLock Transfer BOF: Beginning Of File
BMC: Baseboard Management Controller BOF: Bird Of a Feather B
Specialized microcontroller embedded on the motherboard of Small conference
many computers, especially servers. The BMC is the
intelligence in the IPMI architecture. The BMC manages the BoF: Buffer OverFlow
interface between system management software and platform (Security)
hardware (Hardware)
BOFH: Bastard Operator From Hell
BMI: Branch if MInus A system administrator or technician with very little patience
who frequently does evil things to users (Net lingo)
BMIC: BusMaster Interface Controller
(Intel) BOGOF: Buy One Get One Free
Denotes cheap stuff that usually comes in bundled or packaged
BML: Bean Markup Language form; connotation is "low quality" (Net lingo)
BML: Business Management Layer BOHICA: Bend Over, Here It Comes Again
BMOS: Bipolar Metal Oxide Semiconductor (Net lingo)
BMP: Basic Multilingual Plane BOI: Business Object Interface

First 16-bit subset of the universal character set (UCS). Also (Software)
known as Plane 0
BOL: Books OnLine
BMP: Batch Message Processing (Microsoft)
BMP: Bean-Managed Persistence BOM: Basic Online Memory
(Software) (IBM)
BMP: BitMaP BOM: Beginning Of Message
File Format for bitmapped images
BOM: Byte Order Mark
BMR: Ballistic Magneto-Resistive
BOND: Bandwidth ON Demand
Hard disk head technology (Hardware)
BONE: BeOs Networking Environment
BMS: Basic Mapping Support
(Operating systems)
BMS: Broadcast Message Server
BONM: Business-Oriented Network Management
BMU: Bmc Management Utility
BOOTP: BOOTstrap Protocol
BMUG: Berkeley Macintosh User Group A legacy remote booting protocol developed originally for use
with UNIX (Network)
BN: Backbone Network
Large network to which many networks within an organization BOP: Bit-Oriented Protocol
are connected (Network) (Communication)
BNC: Bayonet Neill-Concelman BOPS: Billion Operations Per Second
Connector (Hardware)
BOPS: Billions of Processes Per Second
BNC: Bayonet Nut Connector Processing speed (Hardware)
(Hardware)
BOR: Business Objects Repository
BNC: British Naval Connector (Software)
Connector (Hardware)
BOS: Basic Operating System
BNE: Branch if Not Equal
BOT: Beginning Of Table
BNF: Backus Naur Form
BOT: Beginning Of Tape
Syntax description for programming languages
(Hardware)
BNP: Broadband Network Premises
BOT: Build, Operate and Transfer
BNS: Backbone Network Service
BOT: roBOT
(Network)
BP: BackPropagation
BNU: Basic Networking Utilities
BP: Base Pointer
BO: Binary Output
Processor register (Hardware) (Intel)
BO: Business Object
BP: Business Planner
(Software)
BOA: Basic Object Adapter
BPB: Bios Parameter Block
BoB: Break-Out Box
BPCS: Business Planning and Control System
BOC: Basic Operator Console An ERP/MRP program (Software)
BOC: Bell Operating Company BPDU: Bridge Protocol Data Unit
More commonly referred to as RBOC for "regional Bell
operating company." The local telephone company in each of
BPEL: Business Process Execution Language
the seven U.S. regions. (Software)
BOCA: Borland Object Component Architecture BPEL4WS : Business Process Execution Language
For Web Services
BOCS: Business Object Component Set
(Software)
(Software)

BPF BST
BPF: Berkeley Packet Filter BS: BullSh**

You say this when you think someone is lying (Net lingo)
bpi: Bits Per Inch
Recording Density BSA: Business Software Alliance
B BPI: Business Process Integration BSAM: Basic Sequential Access Method
BPL: Branch if Plus BSC: Base Station Controller
BPL: Broadband over Power Lines BSC: Binary Synchronous Communication
(Network) Communication protocol (Communication)
Bpl: Bytes Per Line BSC: Boyan SCript
File name extension
BPM: Business Process Management
Knowledge between management and information technology, BSC: Bus State Controller
encompassing methods, techniques and tools to design, enact, (Hardware)
control, and analyze operational business processes (Software)
BSCM: Binary Synchronous Communications
BPN: Business Partner Network Module
BPO: Business Process Outsourcer BSCS: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
bpp: Bits Per Pixel BSD: Berkeley Software Distribution
BPR: Business-Process Reengineering UNIX versions developed at the University of California at
Berkeley. (Operating systems)
bps: Bits Per Second
Transfer speed (Communication) BSDL: Boundary Scan Description Language
A subset of VHDL, it describes how JTAG is implemented in a
Bps: Bytes Per Second particular device. (Hardware)
Transfer speed (Communication)
BSDS: BootStrap Data Set
BPSK: Binary Phase-Shift Keying
BSE: Bladecenter Storage Expansion
BPSS: Business Process Specification Schema (Hardware)
(Software)
BSF: Bean Scripting Framework
BPU: Branch Processing Unit Architecture for incorporating scripting into Java applications
and applets (Software)
BPV: BiPolar Violation
T1 line code error with AMI encoding (Communication) BSF: Bit Scan Forward
BR: Bad Register BSI: Bentley Systems, Incorporated
BR: BReak BSI: BiSynchronous Interface
HTML tag (Network)
BRAN: Broadband Radio Access Networks BSI: British Standards Institute

An ETSI project, it provides telecommunications services the BSM: Basic Storage Module
middle ground between mobile systems and the wired access
world. BRAN is working on radio systems to meet the new (IBM)
requirements of the information age (Communication) BSM: Business System Management
BRB: Be Right Back (Software)
(Net lingo) BSML: Bioinformatic Sequence Markup Language
BRD: Blue Ray Disk BSOD: Blue Screen Of Death
(Hardware) (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
BRF: Benchmark Report Format BSP: Binary Space Partitioning
In computer graphics, a standard format for reporting
benchmark results. This format provides the purchaser with a BSP: Bulk Synchronous Parallelism
consistent data-tracking system for comparing hardware
BSP: Business Service Provider
platforms.
BRGC: Binary Reflected Gray Code BSR: Bit Scan Reverse
BSRAM: Burst Static Random Access Memory
BRI: Basic Rate Interface
(Hardware)
One of the standard ISDN interfaces defined by the CCITT
protocols. BRI consists of two B channels (64 kbps) and one D BSS: Basic Service Set
channel (16 kbps). (Communication) (Communication)
BRI: Brain Response Interface BSS: Block Started by Symbol
BRIEF: Basic Reconfigurable Interactive Editing BSS: Broadband Switching System
Facility
BSS: Business Support System
BRS: Big Red Switch
Network management software to monitor performance and
BRT: Be Right There resources (Software)
(Net lingo) BSSID: Basic Service Set IDentifier
BRU: Backup/Restore Utility (Communication)
(Software) BSSMAP: Base Station System Management
BS: BackSpace Application Part
BS: Banded Signaling BST: Binary Search Tree
BS: Base Station

BST CAE
BST: British Summer Time BUS: Broadcast and Unknown Server

Timezone: GMT +0:00 (Network)
BSV: Boot Sector Virus BVCP: Banyan Vines Control Protocol
BSY: BuSY BVH: Base Video Handler B
BT: Bit Test BVO: Business Value Orientation
BT: Bus Terminator BVT: Behavioral Verification Technology C
(IBM)
BTA: But Then Again
(Net lingo) BVT: Build Verification Test
BTAM: Basic Tape Access Method BW: Bus Watcher
Mechanism that converts XDBus signals to XBus signals and
BTAM: Basic Telecommunication Access Method
passes them to the Module XBus Cache Controller (Hardware)
(IBM) (Sun)
BTB: Branch Target Buffer BWA: Broadband Wireless Access
(Hardware) (Communication)
BTC: Bit Test and Complement BWBM: BandWidth Balancing Mechanism
BTI: Business Type Identifier BWL: Black Wing Lair
BTL: Bell Telephone Laboratories A 40 man raid dungeon is World of Warcraft. (Games)
BTLB: Block Translation Look-aside Buffer BWM: Block-Write Mode

BTM: Benchmark Timing Methodology BYOB: Bring Your Own Beer
In computer graphics, a method of measuring how long it (Net lingo)
takes to run the purchaser's benchmark interchange format
BYORL: Bring Your Own Rocket Launcher
program.
(Net lingo)
BTO: Built To Order
BZR: Bit Zone Recording
BTOA: Binary TO Ascii
BTP: Batch Transfer Program C
BTR: "Bet The Ranch" C: C
BTR: Bit Test and Reset Programming language
BTS: Base Transceiver Station C&T: Chips And Technologies
BTS: Bit Test and Set C/D: Control Data
BTSOOM: Beats The S**t Out Of Me C/S: Client/Server

(Net lingo) C2D: Character To Decimal
BTT: Back To the Top (IBM)
Used in an on-line discussion forum to bump a topic back to C2T: Cable Changing Technology
the top of the page where more people can see it (Net lingo)
C2X: Character To heXadecimal
BTU: Basic Transmission Unit (IBM)
BTU: British Thermal Unit CA: Certification Authority
A unit of thermal energy
CA: Chromatic Aberration
BTW: By The Way
CA: Collision Avoidance
(Net lingo)
BTX: Balanced Technology eXtended CAAD: Computer Aided Architectural Design
Motherboard form factor, designed to replace ATX (Hardware) CAB: CABinet
BTX: BildschirmTeXt File name extension (Microsoft)
CAB: Compressed Application Binary
BU: Bluetooth Unit
(Microsoft)
(Hardware)
BU: Branch Unit CABS: Carrier Access Billing System
BU: Bulk Update CAC: Connection Admission Control

Updating many rows in a table in a single operation CACP: Central Arbitration Control Point
(Databases)
CAD: Computer-Aided Design
BUBL: BUlletin Board for Libraries Use of computer graphics technology to design electronic and
mechanical parts and machinery.
BUF: BUFfer
BUI: Browser User Interface CAD: Custom Application Developer
Method of interacting with an application, typically hosted on a CADD: Computer-Aided Design and Drafting
remote device, via controls presented within a web browser
(Software) CADE: Client/server Application Development
Environment
BUI: BUs Interface
CADE: Computer-Aided Document Engineering
BURN: Buffer UnderRuN
(Hardware)
CAE: Client Application Enabler
CAE: Common Application Environment

CAE CAT
CAE: Computer Aided Education CAPI: Common Application Programming

Interface
CAE: Computer-Aided Engineering
(Communication)
CAEN: Chemically-Assembled Electronic
CAPP: Computer Aided Process Planning
Nanocomputer
(Hardware) CAPS: CAPitalS
C CAEX: Computer Aided EXploration Uppercase letters
CAPS: CAssette Programming System
CAG: Column Address Generator
CAPTCHA: Completely Automated Public Turing
CAGR: Compound Annual Growth Rate
test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
CAI: Computer Aided Instruction Pronounced as "KAP.chuh", it's a computer-generated test that
humans can pass but computer programs cannot. For more
CAI: Computer Associates International
information, see http://www.captcha.net/,
(CAI) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha or
CAI: Computer-Aided Instruction http://www.wordspy.com/words/captcha.asp
CAIRN: Collaborative Advanced Interagency CAQ: Computer Aided Quality

Research Network CAR: Committed Access Rate
CAIS: Common Apse Interface Specification (Cisco)
CAL: CALendar CAR: Courtesy Amount Recognition
CAL: Client Access License CARB: Central ARBiter

On Sun servers, a system of central arbiters (one CARB on the
CAL: Computer Aided Logistics control board) and a board arbiter (BARB) (one on every
system board) determine which processor on which system
CAL: Computer-Assisted Learning
board controls the system bus at any given time. (Hardware)
CALL: Computer-Aided Language Learning (Sun)
CALS: Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle CARCAS: Computer Aided aRchiving and Change
Support Accounting System
CAM: Common Access Method CARL: Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
(Communication) CARP: Cache Array Routing Protocol
CAM: Computer-Aided Manufacturing (Microsoft)
CAM: Content-Addressable Memory CARP: Common Address Redundancy Protocol

Special type of computer memory used in certain very high Allows multiple hosts on the same local network to share a set
speed searching applications (Hardware) of IP addresses among them (Network)
CAMAC: Computer Automated Measurement And CART: Computer-Assisted Radar Tomography

Control CAS: Central Authentication Service
CAMM: Computer Assisted Material Management Authentication system originally created by Yale University to
provide a trusted way for an application to authenticate a user.
CAMMU: CAche/Memory Management Unit See also http://www.jasig.org/cas (Security)
(Hardware)
CAS: Channel Associated Signaling
CAN: CANcel
CAS: Code Access Security
CAN: Controller Area Network (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
CANBUS: Controller Area Network BUS CAS: Column Address Select
(Network)
CAS: Column Address Strobe
CAO: Computer Account Object
CAS: Communication Applications Specification
CAS: Computer Algebra System
CAO: Computer Aided Office
CAS: Computer-Aided Styling
CAP: CAPture
File name extension CAS: Computerized Autodial System
CAP: Carrierless Amplitude and Phase modulation CASE: Computer-Aided Software Engineering
(Communication) CASL: Crosstalk Application Scripting Language
CAP: Central Arbitration Point CASS: Computer Assisted Search Service
CAP: Communication Application Platform CASSIS: Classified and Search Support
CAP: Competitive Access Provider Information System
CAP: Computer-Aided Planning CAT: CATalog
File name extension
CAP: Computer-Aided Publishing
CAT: CATegory
CAP: Converted APplet
Short term used to refer to different types of cabling (ie.
(Software) CAT5.) (Hardware)
CAPD: Computing to Assist Persons with CAT: Central Alaska Time
Disabilities
CAPE: Concurrent Art-to-Product Environment CAT: Common Authentication Technology
CAT: Computer Adaptive Test

CAT CCDA
CAT: Computer Aided Tomography CBLT: Character BLock Transfer

CAT: Computer Aided Transcription CBM: Commodore Business Machines
Company; among the first home computer manufacturers (PET,
CAT: Computer-Aided Telephony
VIC20, C64, C128, Amiga)
CAT: Computer-Aided Testing
CBMS: Computer-Based Mail System
CAT: Computer-Assisted Training
CBO: Cost-Based Optimizer C
CAT: Computer-Assisted Translation For a given query, the CBO calculates the cost (in system
Indicates the use of a series of data processing tools aimed at resources) of several possible execution plans and selects the
assisting the translator on a level of coherency (consistency) of one with the lowest cost (Databases) (Oracle)
the text and in terms of working speed
CBQ: Class-Based Queuing
CATIA: Computer Aided Three-dimensional A public domain QoS methodology for classifying packets and
Interactive Application queuing them according to criteria defined by an administrator
CAD/CAM program from Dassault Systems to provide differential forwarding behavior for each traffic class
(Network)
CATID: CATegory IDentifier
CBR: Case Based Reasoning
(Software)
CBR: Constant Bit Rate
CATS: Computer Assisted Training System
A class of service defined by ATM. Multimedia streams—audio
CATV: CAble TeleVision and video—are examples of CBR applications, since they send
(Hardware) at a relatively steady data rate with constant bandwidth
allocations (Network)
CATV: Community Antenna TeleVision
CBT: Canon Buffer Transmission
(Hardware)
CAU: Cable Access Unit CBT: Computer Based Training
(Hardware) CBT: Core Based Tree
CAU: Controlled Access Unit (Network)
CAV: Constant Angular Velocity CBW: Convert Byte to Word

(Hardware) CBWFQ: Class-Based Weighted Fair Queueing
CAVE: Computer-Assisted Virtual Environment Extends the standard WFQ functionality to provide support for
user-defined traffic classes. For CBWFQ, you define traffic
CAVERN: Computer-Assisted Virtual Environment classes based on match criteria including protocols, access
Research Network control lists (ACLs), and input interfaces (Network) (Cisco)
CAVIT: Convergence of Audio/Video Information CBX: Computer-controlled Branch Exchange

Technology CC: Call Control
CAWE: Computer-Aided Web Engineering (Communication)
CBA: Can't Be Arsed CC: Carbon Copy

For when you can't be bothered (Net lingo) CC: Cascade Correlation
CBBS: Computer Bulletin Board System CC: Cluster Controller
CBC: Cipher Block Chaining CC: Control Channel
CBCR: Channel Byte Count Register (Communication)
CBCS: Computer Based Conversation System CC: Credit Card

CBD: Component-Based Development CC: Cross Connector
(Software) CC/PP: Composite Capability/Preference Profile
CBDO: Chief Business Development Officer CCA: Cardholder Certification Authority
CBDS: Connectionless Broadband Data Service CCA: Citrix Certified Administrator
CBEMA: Computer and Business Equipment Entry to mid level certification for IT professionals who want to
Manufacturers Association “demonstrate product expertise on Citrix platform products
(Citrix MetaFrame XP Presentation Server, Citrix MetaFrame
CBGA: Ceramic Ball Grid Array 1.8 for Windows, or Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server for
UNIX)
CBI: Computer Based Instruction
CCAF: Call Control Agent Function
CBIOS: Compatibility Basic Input Output System
CCC: Chaos Computer Club
CBIR: Committed Rate Information Burst
The rate above the Committed Information Rate (CIR) up to CCC: Computer Control Center
which the frame relay network can transmit (Communication) CCC: Cordless Computer Connection
CBL: CoBoL (Hardware) (IBM)
File name extension CCD: Charge Coupled Device
CBL: Common Business Library (Hardware)
CBL: Composite Blocking List CCDA: Cisco Certified Design Associate

Takes its source data from very large spamtraps/mail Introductory to mid-level certification for IT professionals who
infrastructures, and only lists IPs exhibiting characteristics can design routed and switched network infrastructures
which are specific to open proxies of various sorts which have involving LAN, WAN, and dial access services for businesses
been abused to send spam, worms/viruses that do their own and organizations (Cisco)
mail transmission
CBL: Computer Based Learning

CCDP ccTLD
CCDP: Cisco Certified Design Professional CCN: Computer Communication Network

Mid to advanced-level certification for IT professionals who can
CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate
design routed and switched networks involving LAN, WAN, and
dial access services (Cisco) Introductory-level certification for IT professionals who can
install, configure, and operate LAN, WAN, and dial access
CCEA: Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator services for small networks (100 nodes or fewer) (Cisco)
Mid level certification for IT professionals who want to expand
CCNA: Customer Carrier Name Abbreviation
C their knowledge of Citrix products and give them even more
extensive experience installing and administering the Citrix (Communication)
MetaFrame suite of products CCNC: Common Channel Network Controller
CCF: Cold-Cathode Fluorescent CCNC: Computer/Communications Network
(Hardware) Center
CCF: Common Connector Framework CCNP: Cisco Certified Network Professional
(Software) (IBM) Intermediate-level certification for IT professionals who can
CCF: Connection Control Function install, configure, and troubleshoot local and wide area
networks for enterprise organizations with networks from 100
CCFT: Cold Cathode Fluorescent Tube to more than 500 nodes (Cisco)
CCI: Common Client Interface CCP: Certified Computing Professional

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

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

Advanced-level certification for IT professionals who are
CCM: Comprehensive Client Manager actively involved in developing business solutions and
CCM: Concurrency Control Mechanism designing and delivering multiple levels of security
departments (Cisco)
(Databases)
CCT: China Coast Time
CCM: Corba Component Model
Timezone: GMT +8:00
CCMSE: Checkpoint Certified Managed Security
CCT: Compuserve Communication Toolbox
Expert
(CompuServe)
Advanced certification for security professionals implementing
Check Point's VPN-1/FireWall-1 and Provider-1 Internet ccTLD: Country Code Top Level Domain
security solutions (Network)

CCU CDR
CCU: Cache Control Unit CDF: Compound Document Formats

Combination mechanism for XML-based languages. Therefore,
CCW: Channel Command Word
all conformant compound documents have an XML-based root
(Hardware) (IBM) document
CCW: Com Callable Wrapper CDFS: Compact Disk File System
(Software) (Microsoft) (Operating systems)
CCXML: Call Control eXtensible Markup Language CDI: Customer Data Integration C
Is designed to provide telephony call control support for Bringing together business information relating to customers
VoiceXML or other dialog systems. CCXML has been designed from multiple sources
to complement and integrate with a VoiceXML interpreter
CD-I: Compact Disk Interactive
CD: Carrier Detect
(Hardware)
Serial port signal (Communication)
CDIA: Certified Document Imaging Architect
CD: Change Directory
CDID: Compact Disk Image Designer
CD: Collision Detect
(Communication) CDIF: Case Data Interchange Format
Family of standards that lays out a single architecture for
CD: Color Display exchanging information between modelling tools, and between
CD: Compact Disk repositories, and defines the interfaces of the components to
implement this architecture
(Hardware)
CDK: Content Development Kit
CD+G: Compact Disk Plus Graphics
CD+MIDI: Compact Disk Plus Musical
CDK: Control Development Kit
Instruments Digital Interface
CDA: Communications Decency Act
CDL: Computer Design Language
CDA: Compact Disk Audio
CDM: Client Deployment Manager
Filename extension for CD audio tracks
CDM: Common Diagnostic Model
CDA: Compound Document Architecture
Specification widely used within the industry to evaluate the
(DEC)
health of computer systems in multi-vendor environments
CDBS: Connectionless Data Bearer Service CDM: Control Development Module
CDBT: Compact Disk-Based Training
CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access
CDC: Connected Device Configuration (Communication)
Provides a virtual machine and basic class libraries to support
CDMF: Commercial Data Masking Facility
Java language applications on consumer electronic and
embedded devices such as smart communicators, pagers, (IBM)
PDAs, and interactive, digital television set-top boxes (Sun) CDML: Claris Dynamic Markup Language
CDC: Control Data Corporation (Claris)
CDDA: Compact Disc Digital Audio CD-MO: Compact Disk Magneto Optical
Format of the audio CD files CD-MRW: Compact Disk-Mount rainier
CD-DA: Compact Disk Digital Audio ReWriteable
Standard that enables native OS support of data storage on CD-
CDDI: Copper Distributed Data Interface RW. This makes the technology far easier to use and allows the
CDDL: Common Development and Distribution replacement of the floppy. See http://www.mt-rainier.org/
(Hardware)
License
(Sun) CDN: Content Delivery Network
CDDLM: Configuration Description, Deployment, CDO: Collaboration Data Objects
and Lifecycle Management
CDONTS: Collaboration Data Objects for windows
Open Grid Forum (OGF) standard for the management,
New Technology Server
deployment and configuration of Grid Service lifecycles or inter-
organization resources (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
CDE: Certified Directory Engineer CDOS: Concurrent Disk Operating System

(Network) (Novell) CDP: Certificate in Data Processing
CDE: Common Desktop Environment One of the first certifications for computer professionals
A graphical user interface running on UNIX. (Operating CDP: Cisco Discovery Protocol
systems) Used by Cisco Routers (Network) (Cisco)
CDE: Complex Data Entry CDP: Crl Distribution Point
CDE: Cooperative Development Environment (Security)
CD-E: Compact Disc Erasable CDPD: Cellular Digital Packed Data

CDF: Channel Definition Format CD-PROM: Compact Disk Programmable Read

Is an application of the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) Only Memory
designed for push technology (Hardware) (Kodak)
CDF: Comma Delimited Format CDR: Call Detail Record
File name extension (Communication)

CDR CER
CDR: Clock and Data Recovery CE: Customer Edge

CDR: Common Data Representation CE: Customer Engineer
CDR: Corel DRaw CEA: Cisco Enterprise Accounting
Filename extension (Cisco)
C CD-R: Compact Disk Recordable CEA: Consumer Electronic Association

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

Tool that allows IT Administrators to manage error reports and
CE: Collision Elimination error messages created by the Windows Error Reporting client
CE: Compact Edition (WER) in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 and error-
reporting clients included in other Microsoft programs
CE: Convert Enable (Software) (Microsoft)

CERFNET CI
CERFNET: California Educational and Research CFR: Computerized Facial Recognition

Federation NETwork
CFRM: Coupling Facility Resource Management
CERN: Centre Européen pour la Recherche (Databases)
Nucléaire
CFS: Caching File System
CERT: Computer Emergency Response Team
CFS: Common File System
(Organizations)
CFV: Call For Votes C
CERT/CC: Computer Emergency Response Team
Coordination Center CG: Computer Generated
(Organizations) CG: Computer Graphics
CES: Circuit Emulation Service CG: Control Gate
CES: Consumer Electronic Show CGA: Color Graphics Adapter
CET: Central European Time Video specification for a resolution of 320x200 pixels in 16
Timezone: GMT +1:00 colors (Hardware)
CF: ColdFusion CGE: Common Graphics Environment

(Software) CGI: Common Gateway Interface
CF: Compact Flash A common method for transferring information between a web
server and a back-end application (Network)
Add-in expansion cards (Hardware)
CF: Coupling Facility CGI: Computer Generated Images
(Databases) CGI: Computer Graphics Interface
CFA: Color Filter Array CGM: Computer Graphics Metafile
In digital imaging, CFAs assign a separate primary color to File name extension
each pixel by placing a filter of that color over the pixel. . As
photons pass through the filter to reach the pixel, only CGMP: Cisco Group Multicast Protocol
wavelengths of that primary color will pass through (Hardware) A form of Internet Group Multicast Protocol (IGMP) snooping
that lets the switch send multicasts only to the ports on a VLAN
CFA: CompactFlash Association that are participating in the multicast (Network) (Cisco)
(Organizations)
CGMS: Copy Generation Management System
CFB: Call Forward Busy
CGS: Continuous-Grain Silicon
CFB: Cipher FeedBack (Hardware)
CFB: Configurable Function Block CHAP: Challenge Handshake Authentication
CFC: ColdFusion Component Protocol
(Software) A security tool offered in point-to-point protocol (PPP) based
on encrypted password exchange. (Network)
CFCC: Coupling Facility Control Code
CHAR: Character
(Databases)
CHAT: Conversational Hypertext Access
CFD: Call For Discussion
Technology
CFD: Computational Fluid Dynamics
CHCK: CHannel ChecK
CFDJ: ColdFusion Developer's Journal
CHCP: CHange Code Page
CFDP: Coherent File Distribution Protocol
CHDIR: CHange DIRectory
(Network)
CHFI: Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator
CFF: Compact Font Format
Certification in IT security issued by The International Council
(Adobe) of Electronic Commerce Consultants (EC-Council) (Security)
CFG: ConFiGuration CHFN: CHange FiNger
File name extension
CHGRP: CHange GRouP
CFM: Code Fragment Manager
(Apple) CHILL: Ccitt HIgh Level Language
CFM: ConFiguration Management CHIPS: Clearinghouse Interbank Payments

System
CFM: Cubic Feet Per Minute
CHKDSK: CHecK DiSK
CFML: ColdFusion Markup Language
(Allaire)
CHM: Compressed HtMl
Microsoft's format for help files (Software) (Microsoft)
CFMN: Client For Microsoft Networks
32-bit, protected-mode network client for Windows 9x that
CHMOD: CHange MODe
provides the redirector and other software components for CHOWN: CHange OWNer
Microsoft networking (Network) (Microsoft)
CHP: CHaPter
CFO: Chief Financial Officer
CHR: CHaRacter
CFO: Compaq Factory Outlet
(Compaq) CHRP: Common Hardware Reference Platform
CFP: Call For Papers CHS: Cylinder, Head, Sector
CFQ: Class-based Fair Queuing CHTML: Compressed HyperText Markup Language

(Network) CI: Coded Information

CI CIVR
CI: Competitive Intelligence CIM: Computer Integrated Manufacturing

CI: Component Interface CIM: Cox Interactive Media
CI: Configuration Item CIM: Customer Information Management
(Software)
CIO: Chief Information Officer
CI: Congestion Indication
CIOCS: Communication Input/Output Control
C CI: Content Inspection System
CI/O: Comprehensive Input/ Output CIP: Command Interface Port
Refers to Adaptec's RAID management software. (Hardware) CIP: Commerce Interchange Pipeline
(Adaptec)
(Microsoft)
CIA: Current Instruction Address
CIP: Common Indexing Protocol
CIAC: Computer Incident Advisory Capability
CIP: Computer Integrated Processing
(Organizations)
CIPM: Commerce Interchange Pipeline Manager
CIB: Computer Integrated Business
CIC: Carrier Identification Code
CIPS: Canadian Information Processing Society
CIC: Cisco Info Center Accredits academic programs in technology, certifies
A service-level monitoring and diagnostics tool that provides practitioners, and has a code of conduct for professional
network fault and performance monitoring, trouble isolation, behavior. See also http://www.cips.ca/ (Organizations)
and real-time service-level management for large networks
(Software) (Cisco)
CIPSO: Commercial Internet Protocol Security
Option
CIC: Coordination and Information Center (Security)
CICA: Center of Innovative Computer Applications CIR: Committed Information Rate
CICS: Customer Information Control System A minimum access rate the service provider commits to
(IBM) providing the customer (Communication)
CICS/VS: Customer Information Control System CIR: Consumer InfraRed

/ Virtual Storage (Hardware)
CID: Charge-Injection Device CIRC: Cross-Interleaved Reed-solomon Code
CID: Configuration, Installation, Distribution CIS: Card Information Structure
CIDL: Component Implementation Definition CIS: Client Information System

Language CIS: Com+ Internet Service
The semantics of the CORBA Components Model (CCM) (Software) (Microsoft)
CIDMID: Content-ID and Message-ID CIS: Component Interaction Service
(Network) (Databases)
CIDR: Classless Inter-Domain Routing CIS: Compressed Image Sequence
Solution that allows more scalability in the Internet under the The XIL library's compressors store (generally related)
current IP version 4 addressing scheme. It provides an interim compressed video frames in structures called CIS buffers. The
solution until IP version 6 is put into place (Network) images may represent frames in a movie, pages in a
document, and so on.
CIE: Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage
A standard means for specifying the color of an object or light CIS: Compuserve Information Service
source in terms of (x,y) coordinates. (CompuServe)
CIF: Common Interchange Format CIS: Computer Information Systems
CIF: Common source Intermediate Format CIS: Contact Image Sensor
A video format in which frames are 360 pixels wide and 288 Scanner device (Hardware)
pixels high (one half of the CCIR 601 frame size). Each pixel
has its own luminance value. CIS: Customer Information System
CIF: Component Implementation Framework CIS: Customer Interaction Software
Defines the programming model for constructing component CISA: Certified Information System Auditor
implementations
CISC: Complex Instruction Set Computer
CIF: Crystallographic Information File
CPU architecture (Hardware)
File name extension
CISSP: Certified Information Systems Security
CIF: Customer Information File
Professional
CIFF: Camera Image FIle Format
CIT: Computer-Integrated Telephony
CIFS: Common Internet File System
CIT: Court of International Trade
(Organizations)
CIL: Common Intermediate Language
CITO: Communications and Information
CIL: Computer Integration Laboratories Technology Ontario
(Organizations)
CIM: Common Information Model
Provides a common definition of management information for CIVIC: Cyclone Integrated Video Interfaces
systems, networks, applications and services, and allows for Controller
vendor extensions
CIVR: Computer and Interactive Voice Response
CIM: Compuserve Information Manager

CIW CLS
CIW: Certified Internet Webmaster CLGA: Ceramic Land Grid Array

(Hardware)
CIW: Client Installation Wizard
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) CLI: Call Level Interface
CIX: Commercial Internet eXchange CLI: Calling Line Identification
(Communication)
CIX: Compulink Information eXchange
C-JDBC: Clustered Java DataBase Connectivity
CLI: Clear Interrupt Flag C
Open source (LGPL) database cluster middleware that allows CLI: Client Library Interface
any Java application (standalone application, servlet or EJB
container, ...) to transparently access a cluster of databases CLI: Command Line Interface
through JDBC. See also http://c-jdbc.objectweb.org/ CLI: Command Line Interpreter
(Databases)
CLI: Common Language Interface
CJK: Chinese, Japanese and Korean
(Software) CLIB: C LIBrary
CJLI: Command Job Language Interpreter CLID: Calling Line IDentification
(Communication)
CKD: Count Key Data
CLIE: Communication, Link, Information and
CKE: Commercial Key Escrow
Entertainment
(Software)
(Hardware) (Sony)
CKM: Customer Knowledge Management
CLIM: Common Lisp Interface Manager
CKO: Chief Knowledge Officer
CLIPS: C Language Integrated Production System
CL: Cas Latency Productive development and delivery expert system tool which
Number of clock cycles it takes before data starts to flow once provides a complete environment for the construction of rule
a command is received. Low CAS latency is faster than high and/or object based expert systems (Software)
CAS latency (Hardware)
CLIST: Command LIST
CL: Common Lisp
CLK: CLocK
Programming language (Software)
(Hardware)
CL: ConnectionLess
CLL: ConnectionLess Layer
(Communication)
CLLI: Common Language Location Identification
CLAR: Channel Local Address Register
(Communication)
CLASS: Centralized Local Area Selective Signaling
CLNAP: ConnectionLess Network Access Protocol
CLASS: CLient Access to Systems and Services
CLNP: ConnectionLess Network Protocol
CLASS: Cooperative Library Agency for Systems The International Organization for Standardization's open
and Services systems interconnection (OSI) protocol for providing the OSI
Connectionless Network Service (datagram service). CLNP is
CLASS: Custom Local Area Signaling Services the OSI equivalent to Internet IP, and is sometimes called ISO
IP.
CLC: Certified Local Carrier
(Communication) CLNS: ConnectionLess Network Service
CLC: CLear Carry flag CLO: Chief Learning Officer
CLC: Color Laser Copier CLOB: Character Large OBject
(Hardware) (Canon) (Databases)
CLC: Command Line Console CLOS: Common Lisp Object System
(Software)
CLCC: Ceramic Leadless Chip Carrier
(Hardware) CLP: Cell Loss Priority
In ATM cells, a bit that specifies whether a cell can be
C-LCD: Cholesteric Liquid Cristal Display
discarded, if necessary; for example, if network congestion or
(Hardware) policing occurs (Communication)
CLD: Clear Direction Flag CLP: CLiPboard
CLDC: Connected Limited Device Configuration File name extension
Is the foundation of the Java runtime environment that targets CLP: Command Line Processor
small, resource-constrained devices, such as mobile phones,
mainstream personal digital assistants, and small retail CLP: Command Line Protocol
payment terminals (Sun)
CLP: Constraint Logic Programming
CLDR: Common Locale Data Repository
CLR: Cell Loss Ratio
http://www.unicode.org/cldr/index.html
In an ATM network, the ratio of lost ATM Cells to transmitted
CLEC: Competitive Local Exchange Carrier cells; measures the percentage of cells lost between two points
A telephone company that competes with other local phone in the network. Cell loss is typically caused by severe network
companies within an exchange, or calling area, to provide local congestion; it can also result from bit errors in the cell header
telephone service (Communication) (Network)
CLEI: Common Language Equipment CLR: Common Language Runtime

Identification (Software) (Microsoft)
CLF: Common Log File CLR: Compensating Log Record

(Network) CLS: CLear Screen

CLS CMTS
CLS: Closed Loop Solution CMISE: Common Management Information

Service Element
CLS: Common Language Specification
(Software) CML: Chemical Markup Language
CLSID: CLaSs IDentifier CML: Computer Managed Learning
(Software) CML: Conceptual Modelling Language
C CLT: Cairo Local Time CML: Current Mode Logic
Timezone: GMT +2:00
CMM: Capability Maturity Model
CLTP: ConnectionLess Transport Protocol Strategy for improving the software process, irrespective of the
Provides for end-to-end Transport data addressing (via actual life-cycle model used (Software)
Transport selector) and error control (via checksum), but
cannot guarantee delivery or provide flow control. CMM: Conceptual Modeling Language
CLTS: Clear Task Switch Flag CMMF: Certificate Management Message Format
A PKIX format used to convey certificate requests and
CLTV: Constant Linear Time Velocity revocation requests from end entities to certificate authorities
CLUI: Command Line User Interface and to send a variety of information from certificate authorities
to end entities
CLUT: Color LookUp Table
CMMS: Computerized Maintenance Management
The color options in a graphics system, arranged by index
number. Typically, the system has a default color map. The Software
index of colors in the color map can be reallocated, however, CMOL: CMip Over Llc
depending on the application.
CMOS: Coats-Mellon Operational Specification
CLV: Constant Linear Velocity
(Hardware) CMOS: Complementary Metal Oxide
Semiconductor
CLVM: Cluster Logical Volume Manager
Semiconductor manufacturing technology (Hardware)
Provides a cluster-wide version of LVM2. CLVM provides the
same capabilities as LVM2 on a single node, but makes the CMOS: Configuration Memory Operating System
volumes available to all nodes in a Red Hat cluster (Operating
systems) CMOT: CMip Over Tcp
An effort to use the International Organization for
CM: Communication Manager Standardization's open systems interconnection (OSI) network
(Communication) management protocol to manage TCP/IP networks. (Network)
CM: Configuration Managment CMOV: Conditional MOVe
(Software)
CMP: Cellular MultiProcessing
CM: Content Management Computer architecture (Hardware)
CM: Control Mark CMP: Certificate Management Protocol
CM: Corrective Maintenance CMP: Chip MultiProcessor
(Hardware)
CM2: Communication Manager/2
CMP: CoMPare
CMA: Concert Multi-thread Architecture
CMP: Container-Managed Persistence
CMAK: Connection Manager Administration Kit
(Software)
(Microsoft)
CMP: Cooperative Marketing Partner
CMB: Comment Me Back
(Net lingo) CMPS: CoMPare word String
CMC: Calypso Message Center CMR: Cell Mis-insertion Rate
In an ATM network, the total number of misinserted cells
CMC: Common Mail Calls
observed during a specified time interval divided by the time
CMC: Common Messaging Call interval duration (Network)
CMC: Communication Management Configuration CMR: Common Mode Rejection

CMC: Complement Carry Flag CMRR: Common Mode Rejection Ratio
CMC: Computer-Mediated Communication CMS: Call Management Server
CMD: Circuit Mode Data CMS: Code Management System
CMD: CoMmanD CMS: Color Matching System
File name extension CMS: Compiler Monitor System
CMF: Creative Music Format CMS: Content Management System
CMGM: Cisco Media Gateway Manager (Software)
(Software) (Cisco) CMS: Conversational Monitor System
CMI: Control and Management Interface CMS: Cryptographic Message Syntax
(Communication)
CMT: Connection ManagemenT
CMIP: Common Management Information
Protocol CMTL: Computer Memory Test Labs
The International Organization for Standardization's open (Organizations)
systems interconnection (OSI) network management protocol. CMTS: Cable Modem Termination System
(Communication)
(Network)
CMIS: Common Management Information System

CMU COG
CMU: Carnegie Mellon University CNV: CoNVentional

(Organizations)
CNVT: CoNVerT
CMVC: Configuration Management Version Control
CNX: Certified Network eXpert
(IBM)
CO: Central Office
CMW: Compartmented Mode Workstation
CO: Command Output
CMY: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow C
The CMY color model subtracts percentages of cyan, magenta, CO: Connection Oriented
and yellow to yield the desired colors. Subtracting 0 percent of (Communication)
all three colors results in white; subtracting 100 percent of all
three colors results in black. (Hardware) CO: Convert Out
CMYK: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK CoA: Care Of Address

Color encoding scheme. The black provides deeper colors, Temporary IP Address used by a mobile user when roaming
expecially full black, compared with the CMY color model. onto a foreign IP network. It is used within mobile IP and can
either be leased from the HA (Home Agent) or FA (Foreign
CN: Common Name Agent) (Network)
The name used for objects in a directory. COAST: Cache On A STick
CNA: Certified Novell Administrator (Hardware)
(Novell) COAST: Computer Operations, Audit, and Security
CNA: Communications Network Application Technology
Laboratory in computer security research in the Computer
CNAPS: Co-processing Node Architecture for Sciences Department at Purdue University
Parallel Systems
COB: Chip-On-Board
CNB: Connected Network Backup
On-line storage service COB: Connected Online Backup
(Software)
CnC: Command aNd Control
(Security) COBOL: COmmon Business-Oriented Language
CNC: Computerized Numerical Control
COCOMO: COnstructive COst MOdel
CND: Caller Number Delivery
A technique for estimating the effort and duration of a software
CNE: Certified Novell Engineer project based on its estimated size created by Barry Boehm
(Software)
(Novell)
CNF: CoNFiguration COCOT: Customer Owned Coin Operated
Telephone
File name extension
CNG: CalliNG COD: Cash On Delivery
CODASYL: Conference On DAta SYstem Languages
CNI: Certified Novell Instructor
(Organizations)
(Novell)
CODCF: Central Office Data Connecting Facility
CNI: Common Network Interface
CODE: Campaign for an Open Digital Environment
CNIDIR: Coalition for Networked Information
DIRectories International coalition of civil liberties groups and consumer
rights initiatives to protect the public's rights, innovation, and
CNIDR: Clearinghouse for Network Information competition against the proposed European Union Directive on
and Discovery and Retrieval the Enforcement of Intellectual Property
CNM: Communications Network Management CODE: Client/server Open Development

Environment
CNM: Customer Network Management
CODEC: COder/DECoder
CNMA: Communications Network for
Manufacturing Applications CoE: Center Of Excellence
Group of subject matter experts (Organizations)
CNMS: Compaq Netelligent Management Software
(Compaq) COE: Central Office Equipment
CNMS: Cylink Network Management System COE: Common Operating Environment
CNN: Composite Network Node COE: Consistent Office Environment
CNR: Carrier to Noise Ratio COEES: Central Office Equipment Engineering

System
CNR: Communication and Networking Riser
(Hardware) COEM: Commercial Original Equipment
Manufacturer
CNR: Communication Network Riser
(Hardware)
COFA: Change Of Frame Alignment
(Communication)
CNS: Complimentary Network Service
COFDM: Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division
CNSS: Core Nodal Switching Subsystem Multiplexing
CNT: CoNTents (Communication)
File name extension COFF: Common Object File Format
CNTFET: Carbon NanoTube Field-Effect Transistor COG: Chip On Glass
(Hardware) (Hardware)

COG CPCS
COG: Component Obsolescence Group COS: Card Operating System

Advisory group connected with the maintence of older elctronic (Operating systems)
hardware including computer systems for specialist functions.
See also http://www.cog.org.uk/ (Organizations) CoS: Class Of Service
A category based on type of user, type of application, or some
COGO: COordinate GeOmetry other criteria that QoS systems can use to provide
Programming Language differentiated classes of service (Network)
C COL: COLlision COS: Common Object Service
COL: Computer Oriented Language COS: Compatible Operating System
COLD: Computer Output to Laser Disc COS: Corporation for Open Systems
A vendor and user group for conformance testing, certification,
COLT: Connection Optimized Link Technology
and promotion of International Organization for
(Communication) Standardization's open systems interconnection (OSI) products.
COLUG: Central Ohio Linux Users Group COSE: Combined Office Standard Environment
See www.colug.net (Organizations)
COSE: Common Open Software Environment
COM: COMmand
File name extension
COSIC: COmputer Security and Industrial
Cryptography
COM: COMmunication port (Organizations)
Serial port (Communication)
COSINE: Cooperation for Open Systems
COM: Component Object Model Interconnection Networking in Europe
COM: Computer Output Microfilm A program sponsored by the European Commission, aimed at
using open systems interconnection (OSI) to tie together
COMDEX: COMputer Dealers EXposition European research networks.
COMET: COrnell Macintosh Terminal Emulator COSMIC: COmon Software Measurement
(Software) International Consortium
Metric for software complexity evaluation. See
COMP: Compare
http://www.cosmicon.com (Organizations)
COMPAQ: COMPatibilty And Quality COSMIC: COmputer Software Management and
Used to refer to the fact that their computers were both IBM PC Information Center
compatible and very reliable
(NASA)
COMSAT: COMmunications SATellite corporation
COSMOS: COmputer System for Mainframe
COMTI: Component Object Model Transaction OperationS
Integrator
COSS: Common Object Services Specification
(Microsoft)
COT: Central Office Terminal
CON: Console
Usually include keyboard and screen COTS: Commercial Off-The-Shelf
Software or hardware products that are ready-made and
CONCERT: COmmunications for North Carolina available for sale to the general public. They are often used as
Education, Research and Technology alternatives to in-house developments (Software)
CONS: Connection-Oriented Network Service COTS: Connection-Oriented Transport Service
CONTAC: Central Office NeTwork ACcess COW: Cluster Of Workstations
COO: Chief Operating Officer (Hardware)
COO: Cost Of Ownership COW: Computer On Wheels
COOL: Cobol Object Orientated Language CP: Connection Processor

(Hardware)
COP: Character-Oriented Protocol
CP: Control Panel
COPA: Children Online Protection Act
CP: Control Point
COPICS: Communications Oriented Production
Information and Control System CP: Copy Protected
(IBM) CP: Customer Premises
COPP: Certified Output Protection Protocol (Communication)
COPPA: Child Online Privacy Protection Act CP/M: Control Program for Microprocessors
(Operating systems)
COPS: Common Open Policy Service
An IETF proposed standard defining a simple protocol for CPA: Certified Public Accountant
provisioning QoS by outsourcing policy-based admission
CPA: Cost Per Action
control over requests for network resources (Network)
CPA: Crown Print Auditor
COR: Common Object Runtime
(Hardware) (QMS)
(Operating systems)
CPAN: Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
CORBA: Common Object Request Broker
Architecture CPC: Constant Point Calculation
COREN: COrporation for Research and Enterprise CPC: Cost Per Click
Network
CPCS: Check Processing Control System
COS: Camera Operating System (IBM)
(Operating systems)

CPCS CRFVP
CPCS: Common Part Convergence Sublayer cps: Characters Per Second

Printing engine speed
CPD: Conseal Provate Desktop
Personal firewall (Network) CPS: Cycles Per Second
CPE: Central Processing Element CPSI: Configurable PostScript Interpreter
CPE: Conseal Private Desktop CPSR: Computer Professionals for Social
(Hardware) Responsibility C
CPE: Cover Page Editor CPT: Command Pass Through
File name extension CPTWG: Copyright Protection Technical Working
CPE: Customer Premises Equipment Group
(Organizations)
CPEX: Customer Profile EXchange
CPU: Central Processing Unit
CPFR: Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and
The part of the computer in which calculations and
Replenishment
manipulations take place. (Hardware)
(Software)
CPU: Critical Patch Updates
CPG: Clock Pulse Generator
Collections of security fixes for Oracle products, available to
CPH: Cost Per Hour customers with valid support contracts (Software) (Oracle)
cpi: Characters Per Inch CPW: Commercial Processing Workload

(IBM)
CPI: Clock Per Instruction
CQA: Certified Quality Analyst
CPI: Code Page Information
File name extension (Microsoft) CR: Candidate Recommendation
CPI: Common Part Indicator CR: Card Reader

(Hardware)
CPI: Common Programming Interface
(IBM) CR: Carriage Return
Usually used as a control code or a terminator
CPI: Communication Programming Interface
(Communication) CR: Command Register
(Hardware)
CPI: Computer Private branch exchange Interface
CR: Content Redirection
CPIC: Common Programming Interface for
Communications CR/LF: Carriage Return/Line Feed
(IBM) CRAM: Card Random Access Memory
CPI-C: Common Programming Interface for (Hardware)
Communications CRAM: Challenge-Response Authentication
(IBM) Mechanism
CPIO: CoPy In/Out (Operating systems)
CPL: Combined Programming Language CRAM: Computerized Reliability Analysis Method

(Software)
CPL: Common Public License
CRAM: Cyberspatial Reality Advancement
CPL: Compressed Printer Language
Movement
(Hardware)
CRAS: Cable Repair Administrative System
CPL: Control PaneL
Control panel extension (Microsoft) CRAYON: CReAte Your Own Newspaper
CPL: Conversational Programming Language CRC: Cyclic Redundancy Check

An error check in which the check key is generated by a cyclic
CPL: Current Privilege Level algorithm. (Communication)
CPLD: Complex Programmable Logic Device CRCG: Center for Research in Computer Graphics
CPM: Cost Per Minute CRD: CaRDfile
CPM: Critical Path Method File name extension
CPML: Call Policy Markup Language CRDL: Character Repertoire Description Language
(Network) Describes a collection of characters defined in ISO/IEC 10646
or Unicode or default grapheme clusters defined in UAX#29
CPN: Compuserve Packet Network
CREN: Computer Research Education Network
CPO: Chief Privacy Officer
CREN: Corporation for Research and Education
CPP: C Plus Plus (C++) Networking
Object-oriented programming language based on C. Also,
filename extension. (Software) CRF: Cable Retransmission Facility
CPP: Corporate Preview Program CRF: Commit-Reconcile and Fences

(Microsoft) Mechanism-oriented memory model (Software)
CPRM: Content Protection for Recordable Media CRF: Cross Reference File
CPS: Certification Practice Statement CRFVC: Connection Related Function Virtual

(Verisign) Channel
CRFVP: Connection Related Function Virtual Path

CRI CSMA
CRI: Color Reproduction Indices CSA: Common Scrambling Algorithm

encryption algorithm used in the DVB digital television
CRI: Cray Research, Inc.
broadcasting for encrypting video streams
CRIMM: Continuity Rambus Inline Memory Module
CSA: Communications Streaming Architecture
A type of system RAM (Hardware)
Directly connects the Memory Controller Hub to the network
C-RIMM: Continuity - Rambus Inline Memory controller. With CSA-based motherboards, network data can be
C Module transferred at a much higher rate with lower latency
(Hardware) (Intel)
(Hardware)
CSAPI: Common Speller Application Program
CRIN: Centre de Recherche en Informatique de
Interface
Nancy
CSAR: Channel System Address Register
CRISC: Complex-Reduced Instruction Set
Computer CSC: Computer Sciences Corporation
Company Name
CRISP: Complex-Reduced Instruction Set
Processor CSCC: Concurrent SuperComputing Consortium
CRL: Certificate Revocation List CSCW: Computer Supported Cooperative Work
(Security)
CSD: Circuit-Switched Data
CRM: Customer Relationship Management
CSD: Computer Services Department
CRME: Certified Remote Management Engineer
CSD: Corrective Service Diskette
CRMF: Certificate Request Message Format (IBM)
A PKIX format used for messages related to life-cycle
CSDC: Circuit Switched Digital Capability
management of X.509 certificates. This format is a subset of
CMMF CSDS: Circuit Switched Data Service
CROM: Control Read-Only Memory CSE: Certified System Engineer
(Hardware)
CSER: Consortium for Software Engineering
CRP: Common Reference Platform Research
CRPC: Comprehensive Remote Personal (Organizations)
Computing C-SET: Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Display
CRS: Can't Remember Stuff CSFI: Communication Subsystem For
(Net lingo) Interconnection
CRS: Cell Relay Service CSG: Constructive Solid Geometry
CRS: Computerized Reservation System CSG: Consulting Services Group
CRS: Content Replication Service (Lotus)
(Microsoft) CSH: C SHell
CRT: Cathode Ray Tube Unix shell
The CRT operates by firing an electron beam that strikes the CSH: Complementary Software House
inside of the monitor's display surface, which is coated with
phosphor. The phosphor glows briefly when excited by the CSI: Command Sequence Introducer
beam. (Hardware)
CSI: CompuServe Incorporated
CRTC: Canadian Radio-television and
CSI: Computer Security Institute
Telecomunications Commission
(Organizations)
(Organizations)
CSID: Calling Subscriber IDentification
CRTC: Cathode Ray Tube Controller
(Hardware) CSIRO: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organization
CRU: Customer Replaceable Unit
(Hardware) CSIRT: Computer Security Incident Response
Team
CRUD: Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete
(Security)
CS: Cable Select
CSIv2: Common Secure Interoperability Version 2
Allows drives to determaine whether they are master or slave
Addresses the requirements of CORBA security for
according to their position along the bus (Hardware)
interoperable authentication, delegation, and privileges
CS: Chip Select
CSL: Computer Sensitive Language
(Hardware)
CSLIP: Compressed Serial Line Interface Protocol
CS: Code Segment
CPU register (Hardware) (Intel) CSM: Cluster Systems Management
(Operating systems) (IBM)
CS: Computer Science
CSM: Code Set Map
CS: Counter-Strike
See http://www.counter-strike.net/ (Games) CSM: Communications Services Manager
CS/SS: Card Service/Socket Service CSM: Control Strip Module

CS1: Capability Set 1 CSMA: Carrier Sense Multiple Access
(Communication)
CSA: Calendaring and Scheduling Api
(IBM)

CSMA/CA CTCP
CSMA/CA: Carrier Sense Multiple CSS: Content Scrambling System

Access/Collision Avoidance Copy protection scheme used for example with DVDs (Digital
(Communication) Video Discs)
CSMA/CD: Carrier Sense Multiple CSS: Content Services Switch

Access/Collision Detect (Hardware) (Cisco)
The access method used by local area networking technologies CSS: Continuous System Simulator
such as Ethernet. (Network) C
CSS: Cross-Site Scripting
CSMS: Customer Support Management System
(Software)
CSN: Card-Select Number
CSS: Customizable Starter Site
CSN: Compaq Service Network (Microsoft)
(Compaq)
CSS: Cybermedia Support Server
CSN: Corporate Service Network
CSS2: Cascading Style Sheet 2
CSNET: Computer Science NETwork
CSSM: Client-Server Systems Management
Computer+Science Network. A large computer network, mostly
in the U.S. but with international connections. CSNET sites (IBM)
include universities, research labs, and some commercial CST: Central Standard Time
companies. Now merged with BITNET to form CREN.
Timezone: GMT -6:00
CSNW: Client Services for NetWare
CST: Consolidated Service Test
Enhances the way IBM tests and recommends maintenance
CSO: Central Services Organization packages for z/OS and OS/390 software, including the major
subsystems (IBM)
CSO: Cold Start Only
In ISDN is a capability of a Network Terminator 1 (NT1)
CSTA: Computer-Supported Telephony
(Network) Applications
CSP: Certified Systems Professional CSTB: Computer Science and

Telecommunications Board
CSP: Chip-Scale Packaging (Organizations)
CSP: Commercial Service Provider CSTE: Certified Software Test Engineer
CSP: Commercial Subroutine Package (Software)
CSP: Communicating Sequential Processes CSTN: Color SuperTwist Nematic

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

CTD CVIA
CTD: Cell Transfer Delay CTTC: Cartridge Tape Transport Controller

In an ATM network, measures the peak and mean delay that
CTTY: Change TeleTYpewriter
cells experience while traveling from one point in the network
to another (Network) MS-DOS command (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
CTE: Charge Transfer Efficiency CTW: Catch The Werb

(Hardware) Web organizer (Software)
C CTE: Customer Termination Equipment CTY: Catch The Web

(Network) CU: Control Unit
CTEC: Certified Training and Education Centre (Hardware)
CTERM: Command TERMinal CUA: Calendar User Agent

(Software)
CTF: Capture, Transform, and Flow
Data warehousing (Databases) CUA: Common Used Acronym
CTFT: Color Thin Film Transistor CUA: Common User Access

LCD manufacturing technology (Hardware) CUA: Common User Application
CTG: Cics Transaction Gateway CUB: CUrsor Backward
CICS programs provide Web Services via the CTG (IBM)
CUD: CUrsor Down
CTI: Computer Telephony Integration
CUE: Custom Updates and Extras
(Microsoft)
CUF: CUrsor Forward
CTL: Certificate Trust List
CUG: Closed User Group
CTL: Complex Text Layout
(Network)
CTM: Component Transaction Monitor
CUI: Character-oriented User Interface
(Software)
CUI: Common User Interface
CTN: Can't Talk Now
(IBM)
(Net lingo)
CUL: See You Later
CTO: Chief Technical Officer
Will get in touch later on (Net lingo)
CTOS: Cassette Tape Operating System
CUP: CUrsor Position
CTOS: Computerized Tomography Operating
CUPID: Completely Universal Processor I/o
System
Design
CTOS: Convergent Technologies Operating System (AST)
CTP: Capable To Promise CUPS: Common Unix Printing System
CTP: Community Technology Preview Provides a portable printing layer for UNIX-based operating
systems. It is developed and maintained by Easy Software
CTP: Convergence Technologies Professional Products to promote a standard printing solution and is the
Vendor-neutral certification for IT professionals who have the standard printing system in MacOS X and most Linux
core knowledge and skills required by equipment distributions (Operating systems)
manufacturers, their channel partners, and end-users to sell
CUR: CURsor
and service convergence technologies
File name extension
CTPA: Coax-to-Twisted-Pair Adapter
CUSI: Configurable Unified Search Interface
CTR: Common Technical Regulations
CUSIP: Committee for Uniform Security
CTRCO: Calculating, Tabulating, Recording Identification Procedures
COmpany
CUSP: Commonly Used System Program
The name of this company was changed to "International
Business Machines" by Thomas J. Watson, Sr. CUT: Control Unit Terminal
CTRL: ConTRoL CUTE: Clarkston University Terminal Emulator
CTS: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome CUTS: Cassette User Tape System
CTS: Clear To Send (Hardware)
RS-232 signal (Communication) CUU: CUrsor Up
CTS: Common Type System CV: CodeView
CTS: Compatibility Test Suite Microsoft's format for debug indormation, embedded in the
object file or executable (Software) (Microsoft)
(Software)
CV: Curriculum Vitæ
CTS: Component Transaction Server
CVE: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
CTS: Computer Telephony Solution
(Security)
CTS: Customer Telephone System
CVF: Compressed Volume File
CTSS: Compatible Time Sharing System
CVGA: Color Video Graphics Array
CTSS: Cray Time Sharing System
CVIA: Computer Virus Industry Association
CTT: Care To Text
(Net lingo)
CTT: Cartridge Tape Transport

CVM DAM
CVM: C Virtual Machine D/S: Dhrystone per Second

Is a Java 2 virtual machine designed for devices needing the
D2C: Decimal To Character
functionality of the Java 2 virtual machine feature set, but with
a smaller footprint (Sun) (IBM)
CVP: Content Vectoring Protocol D2D: Developer To Developer
CVS: Computer Vision Syndrome D2T2: Dye Diffusion Thermal Transfer
CVS: Concurrent Version System

Printing technology C
Tool for keeping programs sources under control (Software) D2X: Decimal To heXadecimal
CVT: ConVerT
(IBM) D
D3D: Direct 3D
CVW: CodeView for Windows
(Microsoft)
CW: Control Word DA: Data Administrator
CWA: Competitive Web Analysis DA: Desk Accessory
CWD: Change Working Directory (Software) (Apple)
CWD: Convert Word to Double word DA: Destination Address

CWDM: Coarse Wavelength-Division Multiplexing DA: Differential Analyzer
(Communication) A computer that uses interconnected integrators to solve
differential equations.
CWIS: Campus Wide Information System
DA: Directory Agent
CWIS: Community Wide Information System
(Network) (Novell)
CWM: Common Warehouse Metamodel DAA: Data Access Arrangement
Standard interfaces that can be used to enable easy
interchange of warehouse and business intelligence metadata DAA: Decimal Adjust for Addition
between warehouse tools, warehouse platforms and warehouse
metadata repositories in distributed heterogeneous
DAA: Digest Access Authentication
environments DAB: Digital Audio Broadcasting
CWNA: Certified Wireless Network Administrator (Communication)
Entry-level certification is for those IT professionals who are DAC: Data Acquisition and Control
new to wireless networking but who want to come up to speed
quickly. DAC: Device Access Code
CWNP: Certified Wireless Network Professional DAC: Digital to Analog Converter
An electronic device used to convert discrete digital numbers
CWO: Chief Web Officer
to continuous analog signals. In contrast with Analog-to-Digital
CWSP: Certified Wireless Security Professional Converter (ADC). (Hardware)
Mid-level certification is for IT professionals who understand DAC: Discretionary Access Control
how to secure a wireless LAN from hackers and who know how
to protect the valuable information DAC: Dual Attachment Concentrator
CXI: Common X-windows Interface DACL: Discretionary Access Control List
A list used by the operating system's directory to control
cXML: Commerce eXtensible Markup Language
access to its objects. A DACL consists of a list of security
Standard for setting up interactive online catalogs for different identifiers (which identify users) and specific permissions for
buyers, where the pricing and product offerings are company each (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
specific. Includes mechanisms to handle purchase orders,
change orders, status updates, and shipping notifications DACS: Digital Access Control System
CYA: Cover Your A** DAD: Desktop Application Director
(Net lingo) (Borland)
CYA: See YA DAE: Digital Audio Extraction
(Net lingo)
DAE: Disk Array Enclosure
CYL: CYLinder (Hardware) (Dell)
CYMK: Cyan-Yellow-Magenta-Black daemon: Disk And Execution MONitor
Color model (Operating systems)
DAF: Dynamic Authentication Filter
D
DAFS: Direct Access File System
D&D: Drag & Drop (Operating systems)
(Software)
DAI: Distributed Artificial Intelligence
D&I: Drop And Insert
DAL: Data Abstraction Layer
Refers to the cross connecting of Time-Division Multiplexing
(TDM) circuits. It allows you to take 64Kb DS0 channels from DAL: Data Access Language
one T1 and digitally cross connect them to 64Kb DS0 channels
on another T1 (Communication) DAL: Data Access Layer
D&M: Design & Modeling DAL: Disk Access Lockout
D/A: Digital/Analog DAM: Data Acquisition and Monitoring
(Hardware) DAM: Deferred Action Message
D/L: DownLoad (Software) (Microsoft)
D/R: Direct/Reverse DAM: Digital Asset Management

DAM DbC
DAM: Direct Access Mode DASH: Desktop and mobile Architecture for
System Hardware
DAM: Distributed Abstract Machine
Suite of specifications that takes full advantage of the
DAM: Distributed Associative Memory DMTFâ??s Web Services for Management (WS-Management)
(Hardware) specification â?? delivering standards-based Web services
management for desktop and mobile client systems
DAML: Darpa Agent Markup Language
DASH: Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over Http
Language, developed as an extension to XML and the Resource
Description Framework (RDF), designed to facilitate the (Network)
concept of the Semantic Web. See also http://www.daml.org/ DASL: DAv Searching & Locating
D DAML: Digital Added Main Line Application of HTTP/1.1 forming a lightweight search protocol
(Communication) to transport queries and result sets and allows clients to make
use of server-side search facilities
DAMPS: Digital Advanced Mobile Phone System
DASP: Drive Active, Slave Present
D-AMPS: Digital Advanced Mobile Phone System
DASP: Dynamic Adaptive Speculative
Second Generation (2G) mobile phone system once prevalent
in Americas. Now considered end-of-life and mostly replaced Preprocessor
by GSM/GPRS and CDMA2000. (Communication) (Hardware)
DAMQAM: Dynamically Adaptive Multicarrier DASS: Distributed Authentication Security Service

Quadrature Amplitude Modulation DAT: DATa
DAN: Disk Area Network File name extension
DAO: Data Access Object DAT: Digital Audio Tape

(Software) (Microsoft) (Hardware)
DAO: Disk-At-Once DAT: Disk Array Technology
CD recording methodology (Hardware) DATEX: DATa EXchange
DAP: Data Access Page DAV: Data AVailable
(Hardware)
DAP: Developer Assistance Program DAV: Digital Audio-Video
DAP: Directory Access Protocol DAV: Distributed Authoring and Versioning
(Network)
Extension of the HTTP/1.1 protocol
DAP: Dynamic Application Partitioning DAVIC: Digital Audio/VIdeo Council
DAPIE: Developers Application Programming (Organizations)
Interface Extensions
DAVID: Digital Audio Video Interactive Decoder
DAQ: Data AcQuisition
DAW: Digital Audio Workstation
(Hardware)
A computer whose function is devoted primarily to digital
DARI: Database Application Remote Interface audio recording and production (Hardware)
(IBM) DAX: Developer Api eXtension
DARMS: Digital Alternate Realization of Musical DB: Data Buffer
Symbols
DB: DataBase
DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects (Databases)
Agency
The U.S. government agency that funded the ARPANET. DB: DataBus
(Organizations) Computer port (Hardware)
DART: Digital Audio Reconstruction Technology dB: DeciBel

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

DBC DCF
DBC: Device Bay Controller DC: Data Communication

(Communication)
DBCC: DataBase Consistency Checks
(Databases) DC: Data Compression
DBCLOB: Double-Byte Character Large OBject DC: Data Control
(Databases)
DC: Device Context
DBCP: DataBase Connection Pool (Operating systems)
(Software)
DC: Device Control
DBCS: Delivery Bar Code Sorter DC: Direct Current D
DBCS: Double-Byte Character Set
DC: Domain Controller
DBD: DataBase Driver (Network)
(Databases)
DCA: Defense Communications Agency
DBF: DataBase File The government agency responsible for the defense data
File name extension network (DDN). (Organizations)
DBF: DataBase Format DCA: Digital Communications Associates

(Databases) DCA: Distributed Communication Architecture
DBI: DataBase Interface DCA: Document Content Architecture
(Databases) Describes how a document is organized (tabulator, headers,
DBIF: DataBase InterFace footers, ...) so it appears the same on different systems
(Databases) DCA: Dynamic Cache Architecture
DBIS: Dun & Bradstreet Information Services DCAF: Distributed Console Access Facility
DBK: DocBooK (IBM)
File name extension DCAM: Digital CAMera
DBLIB: DataBase LIBrary (Hardware)
(Databases) (Microsoft) DCAM: Direct Chip Attach Module
DBM: DataBase Manager DCB: Device Control Block
(Databases)
DCB: Disk Coprocessor Board
DBME: DataBase Managment Environment (Novell)
DBMS: DataBase Management Environment DCC: Data Country Code
A software system facilitating the creation and maintenance of
DCC: Digital Command Control
a data base and the execution of programs using the data base.
DBNL: Dial Backup Network Link DCC: Digital Compact Cassette
(Hardware) (Philips)
(Network)
DBO: DataBase Owner DCC: Digital Content Creation
(Databases) DCC: Direct Cable Connection
DBP: DataBase Publishing (Hardware)
DBPSK: Differential Binary Phase Shift Keying DCC: Direct Client Connection
(Communication) DCC: Display Combination Code
dBr: DeciBel Relative DCCP: Datagram Congestion Control Protocol
Audio intensity measurement unit Implements reliable connection setup, teardown, Explicit
Congestion Notification (ECN), congestion control, and feature
DBR: Dos Boot Record negotiation
DBRAD: Data Base Relational Application DCCS: DisContiguous Shared Segments
Directory
DCD: Data Carrier Detect
DBRM: DataBase Request Module
DCD: Database Connector Descriptor
DBS: DataBase System (Databases) (Oracle)
(Databases)
DCD: Document Content Description
DBS: Direct Broadcast Satellite
(Communication) DCE: Data Circuit-terminating Equipment
DBS: Duplex Bus Selector DCE: Data Communication Equipment

A type of hardware, such as a modem, that is responsible for
DBTG: DataBase Task Group encoding a digital signal for delivery to a compatible DCE
Subcommittee of CODASYL (Organizations) connected by a data link. In contrast with Data Terminal
Equipment (DTE) (Communication)
DBV: Digital Broadcast Video
DCE: Distributed Computing Environment
DBWR: DataBase WRiter
(Databases) (Oracle) DCED: Distributed Computing Environment
Daemon
DC: Data Cartridge
(Hardware) DCF: Data Communication Facility
(IBM)
DC: Data Collection
DCF: Data Compression Facility

DCF DDP
DCF: Data Count Field DDA: Digital Differential Analyzer

(IBM) A differential analyzer (DA) that uses digital representations for
analog quantities.
DCF: Design rule for Camera Filesystem
DDA: Distributed Data Access
DCF: Distributed Coordination Function
(Communication) DDA: Domain-Defined Attribute
DCF: Driver Configuration File DDAP: Digital Distribution of Advertising for
(Lotus) Publications
User-driven organization working towards enabling the
D DCI: Data Capture Interface universal exchange of digital ads throughopen process
DCI: Display Control Interface integration and the use of accredited standards. See
http://www.ddap.org (Organizations)
DCL: Data Control Language
DDB: Device Dependent Bitmap
DCL: DeCLaration
DDB: Device Descriptor Block
DCL: Device CLear
DDBMS: Distributed DataBase Management
DCL: Digital Command Language System
(DEC) (Databases)
DCL: Digital Control Logic DDC: Digital Data Channel
DCLU: Digital Carrier Line Unit DDC: Display Data Channel
DCLZ: Data Compression Lempel-Ziv DDCMP: Digital Data Communications Message
Protocol
DCM: Digital Carrier Module
(DEC)
DCML: Dynamic Configuration Markup Language
DDCS: Distributed Data Connection Services
DCNA: Data Communication Network Architecture (IBM)
DCO: Device Configuration Overlay DDD: Direct Distance Dialing
Allows system vendors to purchase HDDs from different
manufacturers with potentially different sizes, and then DDE: Direct Data Entry
configure all HDDs to have the same number of sectors DDE: Dynamic Data Exchange
(Hardware)
Interprocess communication mechanism (Software) (Microsoft)
DCO: Digitally Controlled Oscillator
DDEML: Dynamic Data Exchange Manager Library
(Hardware)
(Microsoft)
DCOM: Distributed Component Object Model
DDF: Data Decryption Field
(Microsoft)
DCP: Device Color Profile
DDF: Distributed Data Facility
(Software)
DDF: Dynamic Data Formatting
DCP: Device Control Protocol
(IBM)
DCS: Data Control System
DDI: Device Driver Interface
DCS: Desktop Color Separation An interface that facilitates driver portability across different
(Software) UNIX system versions on SPARC hardware. (Operating
systems) (Sun)
DCS: Digital Cellular System
DDI: Digital Document Interchange
DCS: Digital Cross-connect System
DDI: Direct Dial In
DCS: Distributed Control System
DDIM: Device Driver Initialization Model
DCT: DiCTionary
File name extension DDK: Driver Development Kit
(Software)
DCT: Discrete Cosine Transform
Mathematical function used by video encoders to achieve a DDL: Data Definition Language
high compression ratio. (Software) DDL: Document Description Language
DCT: Display Compression Technology DDM: Distributed Data Management
DCU: Data Cache Unit (IBM)
DCU: Delphi Compiled Unit DDMA: Distributed Direct Access Memory

(Software) (Borland) DDML: Document Definition Markup Language
DD: Data Definition DDN: Defense Data Network
(Databases) Comprises the MILNET and several other Department of
DD: Data Dictionary Defense networks. (Network)
DD: Definition Description DDNS: Dynamic Domain Name System

HTML Tag (Network)
DD: Digital Display DDoS: Distributed Denial Of Service

(Network)
DD: Double Density
DDP: Datagram Delivery Protocol
DDP: Distributed Data Processing

DDP DFD
DDP: Document-Driven Programming DELSTR: DELete STRing

(Software) (IBM)
DDR: Dance Dance Revolution DELTA: Developing European Learning through
The most awesomest dance simulator around (Software) (Sony) Technology Advance
DDR: Dial on Demand Routing DELUA: Digital Ethernet Lowpower Unibus
(Network) network Adapter
DDR: Double Data Rate DELUG: DEutsche Linux User Group
Memory access architecture that supports data transfers on
both edges of each clock cycle, which doubles the memory
DEMARC: Distributed Enterprise Managemant
ARChitecture
D
chip's data throughput. DDR also consumes less power, which
makes it well-suited for use with notebook computers DEMPR: Distributed Enterprise Management
(Hardware) ARChitecture
DDR: Dynamic Desktop Router DEN: Directory Enabled Networking
DDR: Dynamic Document Review The DEN Initiative (see www.dtmf.org) is an effort to build
(Software) (Symantec) intelligent networks and networked applications that can
associate users and applications to services available from the
DDR-SDRAM: Double Data Rate - Synchronous network according to a consistent and rational set of policies
Dynamic Random Access Memory (Network)
(Hardware) DEN: Document Enabled Networking
DDR-SMII: Double Data Rate - Serial Media (Novell)
Independent Interface DENIM: Directory Enabled Net Infrastructure
(Network) Model
DDS: Data Description Specification (Network) (Novell)
DDS: Design Data Sheet DEP: Data Execution Prevention

Operating system feature that's new in Windows 2003 SP1 &
DDS: Digital Data Storage Windows XP SP2. It serves to prevent viruses and other
DDS: Digital Dataphone Service malicious code from ever executing (Operating systems)
(Microsoft)
(AT&T)
DEPCA: Digital Ethernet Personal Computer-bus
DDS: Distributed Database Services
Adapter
DDS: Distributed Directory Service
DEQNA: Digital Ethernet Q-bus Network Adapter
DDSA: Digital Data Service Adapter
DER: Distinguished Encoding Rules
DDT: Dynamic Debugging Tool
DEREP: Digital Ethernet REPeater
DDWG: Digital Display Working Group
DES: Data Encryption Standard
(Organizations)
A commonly used algorithm developed by the U.S. National
DDX: Digital Data eXchange Bureau of Standards for encrypting and decrypting data.
DE: Device End DES: Data Entry Sheet

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

DFDL DIME
DFDL: Data Format Description Language DGP: Dissimilar Gateway Protocol

Modeling language from the Open Grid Forum (OGF) for
DGR: Dynamic Growth and Reconfiguration
describing general text and binary data
(Artecon)
DFDR: Digital Flight Data Recorder
DGUX: Data General UniX
(Hardware)
DH: Diffie-Hellman
DFDSM: Data Facility Distributed Storage
Management SSL key exchange method
DFDSS: Data Facility Data Set Services DHCF: Distributed Host Command Facility
D (Software) (IBM) DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
A system that assigns different IP addresses to devices each
DfE: Designed For Environment
time they connect to the network. DHCP can support a mix of
DFE: Desktop Functional Equivalent static and dynamic IP addresses (Network)
(Compaq) DHL: Dynamic Head Loading
DFHSM: Data Facility Hierarchical Storage DHP: Dr. Halo Picture
Manager File name extension
(IBM)
DHTML: Dynamic HyperText Markup Language
DFI: Digital Facility Interface
DI: Data In
DFM: Design For Manufacturability
(IBM) DI: Destination Index
Processor register (Hardware) (Intel)
DFM: Device Fault Manager
Provides real-time fault analysis for Cisco devices (Software) DIA: Document Interchange Architecture
(Cisco) DIANE: DIrect Access Network for Europe
DFN: Dedicated Frogans Network DIB: Device Independent Bitmap
See http://www.frogans.com/ (Software) File format for raster bitmaps (Microsoft)
DFN: Deutsches ForschungsNetz DIB: Directory Information Base
DFP: Data Facility Product DIB: Dual Independent Bus
DFP: Digital Flat Panel (Hardware)
(Hardware) DIBOL: DIgital Business Oriented Language
DFP: Distributed Functional Plane DIC: DICtionary
DFPI: Digital Flat Panel Initiative File name extension
DFR: Double Frequency Recording DIC: Digital Interface Controller

(Hardware) DICE: Dolby's Interactive Content Encoding
DFS: Direct File System DICE: Dynamic Internet Configuration
DFS: Distributed File System Environment
(Operating systems) DID: Direct Inward Dialing
DFS: Domino Fax Server DIDS: Distributed Intrusion Detection System
(Software) (Lotus)
DIF: Data Interchange Format
DFS: Dynamic File System
DiffServ: DIFFerential SERVices
(Operating systems) (Sun)
Allows providers to allocate different levels of service to
DFSMS: Data Facility Storage Management System different users of the Internet (Network)
(IBM)
DIFMOS: Double Injection Floating gate Metal
DFT: Design For Testability Oxyde Semiconductor
DFT: Diagnostic Function Test DIFS: Dcf Inter-Frame Spacing
DFT: Discrete Fourier Transform (Communication)
DFT: Distributed Function Terminal DIG: Domain Internet Groper

(Network)
DFU: Data File Utility
DII: Dynamic Invocation Interface
DG: Data Guard (Software)
The overall term or infrastructure for Oracle Standby Database
management, both logical and physical. DG has its own DIIP: Direct Interrupt Identification Port
command line interface (Databases) (Oracle) DIL: Dual In Line
DGA: Direct Graphics Access Pin organization in ICs (Hardware)
A method of arbitrating access to the display between XGL and DILLIGAF: Do I Look Like I Give A F***?
X11/NeWS server. This allows XGL to talk directly to the frame
buffer, which results in maximum performance. Sometimes used by tech support people (Net lingo)
DGC: Data General Corporation DILLIGAF: Does It Look Like I Give A F**ck
Data General produced minicomputers and was featured in the (Net lingo)
book "Soul of a New Machine" by Tracey Kidder (Organizations) DIME: Desktop Integrated Media Environment
DGC: Distributed Garbage Collection DIME: Direct Internet Message Encapsulation
(Software)
DGIS: Direct Graphics Interface Standard

DIME DLSW
DIME: DIrect Memory Execute DKI: Driver Kernel Interface

(Hardware) An interface between the UNIX system kernel and different
types of drivers. DKI consists of a set of driver-defined
DIME: Dual Independent Map Encoding functions that are called by the kernel. These functions are
DIMM: Dual In line Memory Module entry points into a driver. (Operating systems)
(Hardware) DKMS: Dynamic Kernel Module Support
DIN: Deutsche Industrie Norm Designed to create a framework where kernel dependent
module source can reside so that it is very easy to rebuild
German standards organization (Organizations) modules as you upgrade kernels (Operating systems) (Dell)
DIO: Data Input-Output DL: Definition List D
DIP: Datacenter Infrastructure Provider HTML Tag
DIP: Dialup Internet Protocol DL: Distribution List

DIP: Digital Imaging Processing DL: DownLoad
DIP: Directory Integration Platform DL: Dual Layer
Part of Oracle Internet Directory (OID) product. Provides (Hardware)
directory synchronization tools for synching OID to non-Oracle
repositories. Also used to build OID into a meta-directory
DL/1: Data Language 1
(Databases) (Oracle) (IBM)
DIP: Document Image Processing DL/1: Data Language/1

DIP: Dual Inline Pin DLA: Drive Letter Access
Refers to the physical geometry of an integrated circuit or (HP)
other electronic package; rectangular, with pins on the two
DLB: Dynamic Load Balancing
longer sides (Hardware)
DLC: Data Line Card
DIPP: Dual Inline Pin Package
(Hardware)
Refers to the physical geometry of an integrated circuit or
other electronic package; rectangular, with pins on the two DLC: Data Link Control
longer sides (Hardware)
DLC: Digital Loop Carrier
DIR: DIRectory (Hardware)
DIS: Draft International Standard DLCI: Data Link Connection Identifier
DIS: Dynamic Impedance Stabilization Identifies the Permanent Virtual Circuit (PVC) connections from
the user to the frame relay cloud. Assigned by the service
DISA: Data Interchange Standards Association provider (Communication)
DISA: Direct Inward System Access DLD: Display List Driver
DISI: Directory Information Services DLE: Data Link Escape
Infrastructure
DLL: Dynamic Link Library
(Network)
DISM: Digital Interface Standards for Monitors
(Hardware)
DLL: Dynamic Link Loader
DISOSS: DIStributed Office Support System DLM: Distributed Lock Manager

(IBM) DLM: Dynamic Link Module
DISP: DISPlacement DLNA: Digital Living Network Alliance
DISP: Domino Internet Starter Pack Non-profit collaborative trade organization established by Sony
in June 2003, and has more than 250 member companies [3]
(IBM) in the mobile, consumer electronics, PC, and service provider
DISP: Dutch Independent Shareware Programmer industries (Organizations)
DIT: Directory Information Tree DLP: Digital Light Processing

A graphical display of an organization's directory structure, DLP: Discrete Logarithmic Problem
sites, and servers, shown as a branching structure. The top-
level (root) directory usually represents the organization level DLPI: Data Link Provider Interface
The SVR4 STREAMS-based kernel-level interface that supports
DIU: Digital Interface Unit the services of the Data Link Layer for both connection-mode
DIV: DIVide and connectionless-mode services. (Network)
DIVE: Direct Interface Video Extension DLR: Dos Lan Requester

(IBM) DLR: Dynamic Link Routine
Divx: DIgital Video eXpress (Software)
(Hardware) DLS: Data Link Switching
DIW: D-Inside Wire (IBM)
(AT&T) DLS: Dos Lan Services
DIX: Dec, Intel, Xerox (Network)
DIY: Do It Yourself DLS: DownLoadable Sample

(Net lingo) DLSCAP: Data Link Switching Client Access
DIZ: Description In Zip Protocol
File name extension (Network)
DLSW: Data Link SWitching

DLT DNA
DLT: Digital Linear Tape DML: Data Manipulation Language

(Hardware) (Databases)
DLU: Dynamic Local User DMM: Digital MultiMeter
(Network) (Novell) (Hardware)
dLVQ: Dynamic Learning Vector Quantizer DMM: Direct Mail Manager
DLZ: Digital Lempel-Ziv
Compression algorithm DMMS: Dynamic Memory Management System
D DM: Delta Modulation DMO: DirectX Media Objects

DM: Desktop Management
DMO: Distributed Management Object
DM: Disconnect Mode
This OLE server exposes representations of SQL Server
DM: Distributed Memory database objects (tables, stored procedures, server properties,
and so on), many of which are usually modified through
DM: Document Management Transact-SQL (Databases) (Microsoft)
DMA: Digital Music Aggregator DMOS: Double-diffused Metal Oxide
DMA: Dimensional Media Associates Semiconductor
(Hardware)
DMA: Direct Memory Access
The transfer of data directly into memory without supervision DMP: Dot Matrix Printer
of the processor. The data is passed on the bus directly
DMP: DuMP
between the memory and another device. In contrast with
Direct Virtual Memory Access (DVMA). (Hardware) File format for the memory dump (Operating systems)
(Microsoft)
DMA: Document Management Alliance
DMPC: Distributed Memory Parallel Computer
DMAC: Direct Memory Access Controller
DMPP: Distributed Memory Parallel Processor
(Hardware)
DMQS: Display Mode Query and Set
DMACS: Distributed Manufacturing Automation &
Control Software (IBM)
DMAPI: Dictation Macro Application Programming DMS: Data Management Software

Interface DMS: Defense Messaging System
(Software) Global messaging system used for transfer of non-classified
and classified data (for example, encrypted emails) (Software)
DMB: Dhtml Menu Builder
Used to idetify a DHTML/Javascript menu building tool called DMS: Desktop Management Suite
DHTML Menu Builder. Also used in the extension of the (Seagate)
application's project files (Software)
DMS: Digital Multiplexed System
DMB: Digital Multimedia Broadcasting
DMS: Distributed Media Services
DMB: Domain Master Browser
(Network)
DMS: Document Management System
DMC: Desktop Multimedia Conferencing DMSCMS: Display Management System
DMCA: Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMSD: Digital MultiStandard Decoding
DMD: Device Manager Driver DMSDK: Digital Media Software Development Kit
(Software) (SGI)
DMD: Digital Micromirror Device
(Hardware) (TI)
DMSS: Distributed Mass Storage System
DMD: Directory Management Domain DMT: Data Migration Tool
DMDF: Distributed Management Data Facility DMT: Discrete MultiTone
DME: Dictionary Module Editor DMTF: Distributed Management Task Force

The DMTF is the industry organization that is leading the
(CAI)
development, adoption and unification of management
DME: Direct Memory Execution standards and initiatives for desktop, enterprise and Internet
environments (Organizations)
DME: Distributed Management Environment
DMU: Data Manipulation Unit
DMF: Digest Message Format
DMVT: Dynamic Video Memory Technology
DMF: Distribution Media Format (Hardware) (Intel)
(Microsoft)
DMY: Day Month Year
DMG: Data Management Group
The department that manages data. DMZ: De-Militarized Zone
LAN segment between two firewalls (Network)
DMI: Definition of Management Information
DN: Distinguished Name
DMI: Desktop Management Interface
DN: DowN
DMI: Digital Multiplexed Interface
DNA: Digital Network Architecture
DMIF: Delivery Multimedia Integration Framework (DEC)
DMK: Dynamic Management Kit DNA: Distributed interNet Application
(Sun)
(Microsoft)

DNAfs DPC
DNAfs: Distributed interNet Application for DOD: Direct Outward Dialing

Financial Services (Communication)
(Microsoft)
DOE: Distributed Objects Environment
DNC: Direct Numerical Control
DOE: Distributed Objects Everywhere
DNC: Dynamic Network Controller (Operating systems) (Sun)
DNCP: DecNet Control Protocol DOI: Domain Of Interpretation
DNCRI: Division of Networking and DOIP: Dial Other Internet Providers
Communication Research and Infrastructure (IBM) D
DnD: Do Not Disturb DOIT: Disabilities, Opportunities,
Used in chat rooms (Net lingo) Internetworking and Technology
DnD: Drag aNd Drop DO-IT: Disabilities, Opportunities,
(Software) Internetworking and Technology
DNHR: Dynamic Non Hierarchical Routing DOJ: Department Of Justice
(Organizations)
DNI: Decnet Network Interface
DNIC: Data Network Identification Code DOLAP: Desktop OnLine Analytical Processing
DOM: Document Object Model
DNIS: Dialed Number Identification Service
Popular, standardized way of manipulating XML data
DNJ: Developer Network Journal
DOMAIN: Distributed Operating Multi Access
(Microsoft)
Interactive Network
DNLC: Directory Name Lookup Cache
DOMF: Distributed Object Management Facility
Unix file cache (Operating systems) (Sun)
(HP)
DNM: Distributed Network Management
DOOM: Decentralized Object-Oriented Machine
(Software)
DoS: Denial Of Service
DNP: Distributed Network Protocol
(Network)
DNR: Digital Noise Reduction
DOS: Disk Operating System
(Hardware)
(Operating systems)
DNR: Domain Name Resolver
DoSBS: Denial Of Service By Service
(Network)
The practice of making large numbers of legal accesses to a
DNS: Digital Nervous System computer's public interface (i.e. web site) with the intention of
(Microsoft) slowing or crashing the system. Hence Denial of Service By
Service - the serving computer cannot keep up with the
DNS: Domain Name System demands (Network)
The process that translates Internet domain names (such as
DOSEM: Disk Operating System EMulation
www.acronyms.ch) into IP addresses (Network)
DNSBL: Domain Name System Black List DOT: Design Oriented Technology
DNSSEC: Domain Name System SECurity DOT: DOcument Template

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

DPDT DRM
DPDT: Double Pole Double Throw DQL: Data Query Language

DPE: Distributed Processing Environment DQP: Distributed Query Processor
(Databases)
DPI: Data Processing Information
DQPSK: Differential Quadrature Phase Shift
DPI: Digital Phone Interface
Keying
DPI: Distributed Protocol Interface (Communication)
dpi: Dots Per Inch DR: Data Received
Resolution Measurement
D DPKG: Debian PacKaGe
DR: Disaster Recovery
Process or plan by which a business would recover it's IT
Binary software package for installation on Debian GNU/Linux. systems in the case or a major incident (disaster)
Also, the software installation program (Operating systems)
DR.BOND: Dial-up Router Bandwidth ON Demand
DPKT: Dynamic Public Key Technology (NEC)
DPL: Descriptor Privilege Level DRAC: Dell Remote Assistant Card
DPL: Distributed Program Link Interface card from Dell Inc that provides out-of-band
management facilities. The controller has its own processor,
(IBM)
memory, battery, network connection, and access to the
DPM: Defects Per Million system bus (Hardware) (Dell)
DPM: Demand Planning Module DRAM: Dynamic Random Access Memory

(Software) A type of semiconductor random-access memory that stores
information in integrated circuits that contain capacitors.
DPM: Digital Panel Meter Because capacitors lose their charge over time, the dynamic
(Hardware) RAM must be periodically "refreshed" or recharged. (Hardware)
DPMA: Data Processing Management Association DRAS: Dynamic Remote Access Service
(Organizations) (Microsoft)
DPMI: Dos Protected Mode Interface DRAW: Direct Read After Write
(Operating systems) DRB: Dram Row Boundary
DPMS: Display Power Management Signaling DRC: Design Rule Checks
(Hardware)
DRD: Data Reading Device
DPMS: Dos Protected Mode Services
DRD: Digital Ruggedized Display
DPNPH: Data Packet Network-Packet Handler (Hardware)
DPO: Data Phase Optimization DRDA: Distributed Relational Database
DPOF: Digital Print Order Format Architecture
(Databases)
DPP: Distributed Parallel Processing
DRDAAS: Distributed Relational Database
DPRAM: Dual-Ported Random Access Memory
Architecture Application Server
A type of random access memory that allows multiple reads or
writes to occur at the same time (Hardware) DR-DOS: Digital Research Disk Operating System
DPRG: Dallas Personal Robotics Group DRDRAM: Direct Rambus Dynamic Random
United States' oldest club involved in amateur robotics Access Memory
(Organizations) (Hardware)
DPROP: Data PROPagator DRDW: Direct Read During Write
(IBM)
DRE: Document Rendering Engine
DPS: Desktop Purchasing System Collection of Java classes that can be used to define an
Buy-side electronic commerce system which supports the abstract document and render it in PDF or HTML. A document
procurement process of indirect goods and services consists of a collection of elements such as text, lists (bulleted,
numbered, plain), tables, images, fonts, color, etc. (Software)
DPS: Digital Pixel Sensor (IBM)
(Hardware)
DREN: Defense Research and Engineering
DPS: Display PostScript Network
DPS: Document Processing System (Network)
DPSK: Differential Phase Shift Keying DRF: Data Recovery Field

(Communication) In NTFS file encryption keys are stored there (Operating
systems) (Microsoft)
DPST: Double Pole Single Throw
DRI: Declarative Referential Integrity
DPT: Distributed Processing Technology (Databases)
(DPT)
DRI: Defense Research Internet
DPtoTP: Display Coordinates TO Tablet
DRI: Digital Research Incorporated
Coordinates
Coordinates conversion DRK: Devnet Resource Kit
(Software) (Macromedia)
DPV: Distributed Partitioned View
Joins horizontally partitioned data from a set of member tables DRM: Destination Release Mechanism
across one or more servers, making the data appear as if from
one table (Databases) (Microsoft) DRM: Digital Rights Management
Copy-protection scheme
DQDB: Distributed Queue Dual Bus

DRM DSI
DRM: Distributed Resource Management DS/PPM: Direct Sequence/Pulse Position

Modulation
DRMAA: Distributed Resource Management
(Hardware)
Application Api
High-level API specification for the submission and control of DS0: Digital Signaling Zero
jobs to one or more Distributed Resource Management (Communication)
Systems (DRMS) within a Grid architecture (Software)
DS3D: DirectSound 3D
DRMOS: Digital Rights Management Operating (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
System
DSA: Digital Signature Algorithm
DRMS: Distributed Resource Management System D
DSA: Digital Storage Architecture
DRMU: Digital Remote Measurement Unit
DSA: Directory System Agent
DRO: Data Request Output
The software that provides the X.500 directory service for a
DRO: Destructive Read-Out portion of the directory information base. Generally, each DSA
is responsible for the directory information for a single
DRP: Decnet Routing Protocol organization or organizational unit.
DRP: Distribution and Replication Protocol DSA: Distributed Systems Architecture
The goal of the DRP protocol is to significantly improve the
DSA: Dynamic Scalable Architecture
efficiency and reliability of data distribution over HTTP
DRS: Data Replication Service DSAP: Destination Service Access Point
Service to move data between members of a server cluster DSAV: Dr. Solomon's Anti Virus
(Software) (Software)
DRS: Document Registration System DSBAM: Double-SideBand Amplitude Module
DRS: Driver ReSource DSBM: Designated Subnet Bandwidth Manager
File name extension A device on a managed subnetwork that acts as the Subnet
DRU: Disc Remastering Utility Bandwidth Manager for the subnetwork to which it is attached
(Network)
Tool designed to create a customized copy of the Ubuntu Linux
Distribution (Operating systems) DSC: Digital Still Camera
DRV: device DRiVer (Hardware)
File name extension DSC: Document Structuring Convention
DRV: DRiVe DSC: Document Structuring Conventions
DRW: Drawing DSCP: Differentiated Services Code Point
File name extensions (Network)
DRY: Don't Repeat Yourself DSD: Data Stream Direct
There is no duplicated logic; a change should match a single
DSD: Data Structure Diagram
place in your code (Software)
DS: Data Segment DSDD: Double Sided, Double Density
CPU register (Hardware) (Intel) DSDL: Document Schema Definition Language
DS: Data Send Its goal is to bring together different validation-related tasks
and expressions to form a single extensible framework that
DS: Data Server allows technologies to work in series or in parallel to produce a
single or a set of validation results
DS: Data Strobe
(Hardware) DSDM: Drop Site Database Manager
A process (not the sending client) responsible for maintaining a
DS: Database Server registry or database of potential drop sites for drag and drop
(Databases) operations.
DS: Differentiated Service DSDP: Device Software Development Platform

A IETF standard for a small, well-defined set of per-packet Provides an extensible, standards-based platform to support all
building blocks from which a variety of services may be built, phases of the device software (embedded) development
thereby providing a framework for delivering quality of service process, including hardware bring-up, platform software
(QoS) in networks (Network) development, and embedded application software development
(Software)
DS: Digital Science
(Hardware) (Kodak) DSE: Data Storage Equipment
DS: Digital Services DSE: Directory Services Environment

Contains a list of Naming Contexts and Application Partitions
DS: Digital Signal maintained by a Domain Controller (Operating systems)
DS: Digital Studio (Microsoft)
(Sony) DSEA: Display Station Emulation Adapter
DS: Directory Service DSF: Dispersion Shifted Fibre
(Network) Optical fiber type (Communication)
DS: Direct-Sequence DSHD: Double Sided, High Density
IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN access method (Communication)
DSI: Defense Simulation Internet
DS: Distribution Service
DSI: Distributed Storage Infrastructure
DS: Double-Sided
(Hardware)

DSI DTAP
DSI: Dynamic Systems Initiative DSP: Digital Signal Processor

Microsoft's technology strategy for products and solutions that A computer oriented toward math-intensive applications, often
help businesses enhance the dynamic capability of its people, a single chip or small chip set. (Hardware)
process, and IT infrastructure using technology (Microsoft)
DSP: Digital Sound Processor
DSIG: Digital SIGnature (Hardware)
(Security)
DSP: Directory Synchronization Protocol
DSIMM: Dual Single Inline Memory Module (Lotus)
DSIS: Distributed Support Information Standard DSP: Document Services for Printing
D DSL: Dialogue Scripting Language DSP: Domain-Specific Part
DSL: Digital Subscriber Line (Network)
(Communication) DSPT: Display Station Pass-Thru
DSL: Distributed Service Logic (IBM)
DSL: Domain Specific Language DSQD: Double Sided, Quad Density

A programming languge created to solve a specific type of DSR: Data Set Ready
problem (Software)
DSL: Dual Stress Liner DSR: Device Status Register
Technology by AMD and IBM to strain silicon chips to enhance
their performance (Hardware) DSR: Device Status Report
DSL: Dynamic Simulation Language DSRI: Digital Standard Relational Interface
DSL2: Downloadable Sounds Level 2 DSRL: Document Schema Renaming Language
(Hardware) Provides a mechanism whereby users can assign locally
meaningful names to XML elements, attributes and entities
DSLAM: Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer without having to completely rewrite the DTD or schema to
(Hardware) which they are required to conform
DSLCP: Dynamically Switched Link Control DSS: Decision Support System
Protocol
DSS: Digital Signature Standard
(Network)
DSS: Direct Station Selector
DSLR: Digital Single-Lens Reflex
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
DSS: Distributed Security Service
DSM: Directory Service Migration
DSSI: Digital Standard Systems Interconnect
DSM: Discrete Sequence Modulation
(DEC)
DSM: Distributed Shared Memory
DSSLL: Differentiated Services over Specific Link
(Hardware)
Layers
DSMA: Digital Sense Multiple Access A system for mapping between Differentiated Services and
other bandwidth-management protocols such as 802.1p and
DSM-CC: Digital Storage Media - Command and ATM (Network)
Control
DSSS: Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
DSML: Directory Services Markup Language (Communication)
DSMN: Directory Service Manager for Netware DSSSL: Document Style Semantic and
(Operating systems) Specification Language
DSN: Data Source Name International standard for associating processing with SGML
(Databases) documents
DSN: Delivery Service Notification DST: Daylight Saving Time
DSN: Developer Support News DSTN: Double-layer SuperTwist Nematic

DSN: Distributed Systems Network
DSU: Data Service Unit
DSO: Data Source Object
(Databases)
DSU: Digital Service Unit
DSO: Decision Support Object DSVD: Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data
(Communication)
DSO: Digital Storage Oscilloscope
An oscilloscope with a built-in memory used to store electronic
DSW: Data Status Word
waveforms (Hardware) DSW: Device Status Word
DSO: Dynamic Shared Object DSX: Digital Signals Cross-connect
(Software)
DT: Definition Term
DSOM: Distributed System Object Model HTML Tag
(Operating systems) (IBM)
DT4DTD: DataTypes For Document Type Definition
DSP: Development Service Provider
DTA: Direct Tape Access
DSP: Dictionary Server Protocol (Seagate)
(Network)
DTA: Disk Transfer Area
DTAP: Direct Transfer Application Part

DTB DVD-MMVFF
DTB: Data Transfer Bus DTR: Dedicated Token Ring

Part of the VMEbus specification that contains data and address (Network)
pathways and associated control signals. Functional modules
called DTB masters and DTB slaves use the DTB to transfer DTR: DeskTop Reproduction
data between each other. (Hardware) DTR: Draft Technical Report
DTC: Design-Time Control (or Component) DTS: Data Transformation Service
(Software) (Databases)
DTC: DeskTop Conferencing DTS: Developer Technical Support
DTC: Distributed Transactions Coordinator (Software) (Sun) D
(Databases) (Microsoft) DTS: Digital Theater Surround
DTCP: Digital Transmission Content Protection DTS: Distributed Time Service
DTD: Document Type Definition DTS: Distributed Traffic Shaping
DTE: Data Terminal Equipment (Cisco)
That part of a data station that serves as a data source, data DTSS: Dartmouth Time Sharing System
sink, or both, and provides for the data communication control
function according to protocols. In contrast with Data DTU: Demand Transmission Unit
Communication Equipment (DCE). (Communication)
DTV: DeskTop Video
DTE: Dumb Terminal Emulator
DTV: Digital TeleVision
DTF: Distributed Test Facility (Hardware)
DTL: Dialogue Tag Language DTVC: DeskTop Video Conferencing
(IBM)
DU: Disk Usage
DTL: Diode Transistor Logic
DUA: Directory User Agent
The software that accesses the X.500 directory service on
DTLB: Dual Translation Lookaside Buffer behalf of the directory user. The directory user may be a
person or another software element.
DTLL: Data Type Library Language
Specifies libraries of datatypes using an XML language. The DUAT: Direct User Access Terminal
schema for this language is defined in This International
DUL: Dialup Users List
Standard using the compact syntax of the RELAX NG schema
language, as defined by Annex C of ISO 19757:2 Project to encourage good e-mail behaviour and accountability
without denying regular e-mail. See http://mail-abuse.org/dul/
DTLS: Datagram Transport Layer Security
DUN: Dial-Up Networking
Allows datagram-based applications to communicate in a way
that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or (Network)
message forgery (Security) DUNCE: Dial Up Network Connection
DTM: Deterministic Turing Machine Enhancement
(Network)
DTM: Digital Terrain Mapping
DUP: DUPlex
DTM: Distributed Transaction Monitor
Used in SCSI interface for split backplane (Hardware)
DTM: Document Table Model
DUT: Device Under Test
Interface to a document model designed specifically for the
needs of Apache's XPath and XSLT implementations. The DUW: Distributed Unit of Work
motivation behind this model is to optimize performance and (IBM)
minimize storage (Software)
DV: Digital Video
DTMF: Dual Tone MultiFrequency
Use of two simultaneous voice-band tones for dial (such as DVB: Digital Video Broadcasting
touch tone) (Hardware) (Communication)
DTML: Document Template Markup Language DVC: Desktop Video Conferencing
DTMS: Data Transformation Management System DVC: Digital Video Camera
DTO: Data Transfer Object (Hardware)
An "envelope" used to transport any kind of data between tiers DVD: Deutsche Vereinigung für Datenschutz
of systems (Software)
DVD: Digital Video (or Versatile) Disk
DTO: Day-Time Organizer (Hardware)
(Software)
DVD+MRW: Digital Video (or Versatile) Disk-
DTP: Data Tools Platform Mount rainier ReWritable
Provides extensible frameworks and exemplary tools, enabling Standard that enables native OS support of data storage on
a diverse set of plug-in offerings specific to particular data- DVD+RW. This makes the technology far easier to use and
centric technologies and supported by the DTP ecosystem allows the replacement of the floppy. See http://www.mt-
(Software) rainier.org/ (Hardware)
DTP: DeskTop Publishing DVD+RW: Digital Video (or Versatile) Disk-
DTP: Distributed Transaction Processing ReWritable
(Hardware)
DTR: Data Terminal Ready
DVD-A: Digital Video (or Versatile) Disk-Audio
(Hardware)
DTR: Data Transfer Rate
DVD-MMVFF: Digital Versatile Disc MultiMedia
Video File Format

DVD-R EA
DVD-R: Digital Video Disk-Recordable DWF: Design Web Format

Fast, efficient way to distribute design data to anyone who
DVD-RAM: Digital Versatile Disk - Random Access
needs it. With Autodesk Express Viewer, a small, free,
Memory downloadable application, you can view and print that rich data
A read-write DVD (Hardware) (Software) (Autodesk)
DVD-ROM: Digital Versatile Disk - Read Only DWG: DraWinG
Memory File name extension
A read only DVD (Hardware)
DWM: Diskless Workstation Management
DVD-RW: Digital Video (or Versatile) Disk-
D ReWritable DWMT: Discrete Wavelet MultiTone
(Hardware) DWR: Direct Web Remoting
E DVE: Digital Video Effect See also http://java.net/projects/dwr/ (Software)
D-VHS: Digital Video Home System DWT: Discrete Wavelet Transform
DVI: DeVice Independent DX: DirectX

File name extension
DVI: Diagonal Viewable Image DX: DupleX
(Communication)
(Hardware)
DVI: Digital Video Interactive DXB: Drawing eXchange Binary
File name extension (Autodesk)
DVI: Digital Video Interface
DXC: Data eXchange Control
Specification to interface digital flat panels with host PCs
(Hardware) DXF: Data eXchange File
DVI-A: Digital Video Interface-Analog DXF: Drawing Exchange Format
(Hardware) File name extension
DVI-D: Digital Video Interface-Digital DXI: Data eXchange Interface
(Hardware) An interface to frame relay networks (Communication)
DVI-I: Digital Video Interface-Integrated DXL: Domino Xml Language
(Hardware) (IBM)
DVI-V: Digital Video Interface-Vga DXPC: Differential X Protocol Compressor
(Hardware)
Dxr: Dynamic eXtended Resolution
DVL: Digital Video Link (Hardware) (Creative Labs)
DVM: Digital Volt Meter DXTC: DirectX Texture COmpression
(Hardware) (Microsoft)
DVMA: Direct Virtual Memory Access DXVA: DirectX Video Acceleration
A mechanism to enable a device on the SBus to initiate data (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
transfers between it and other SBus
devices, such as system memory. Contrast with Direct Memory DYE: Damn Your Eyes
Access (DMA). (Hardware) (Net lingo)
DVMRP: Distance Vector Multicast Routing DYNSLT: DYNamic SeLecT
Protocol (IBM)
(Network)
DVOF: Digital Video Over Fiber E
DVR: device DriVeR E: Exa
File name extension Prefix for 10 power 18 (or, in IT parlance, 2 power 60)
DVR: Digital Video Recorder E&M: Ear & Mouth
(Hardware) Trunking arrangement generally used for two-way switch-to-
switch or switch-to-network connections (Hardware)
DVRMP: Distance Vector Multicast Routing
Protocol E2E: End-To-End
(Network) The ability of a network to deliver service needed by a specific
network application from end-to-end, with the ability to
DVX: Digital Voice eXchange provide both class of service and reserved bandwidth for
different types of network traffic (Network)
DW: Data Warehouse
(Databases) E3: Electronic Entertainement Expo
DW: Display Write E4X: Ecmacript For Xml
Word Processor (Software) (IBM) set of programming language extensions adding native XML
support to ECMAScript. See also http://www.ecma-
DW: Double Word international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-357.htm
Four consecutive bytes (32 bits) (Software)
DWA: Data Warehousing Alliance EA: Effective Address
EA: Enterprise Agreement
DWC: Data Warehouse Catalog Licensing scheme (Microsoft)
Data warehousing (Databases)
EA: Escrowed Authenticator
DWDM: Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
(Communication)

EA ECB
EA: Extended Attribute EAX: Environmental Audio eXtensions

(IBM) (Hardware) (Creative Labs)
EAB: Enterprise Application Builder EB: ExaByte
(Software) 1024 petabytes
EADAS: Engineering and Administrative Data EBASIC: Extended Beginners All-purpose
Acquisition System Symbolic Instruction Code
EADASNM: Engineering and Administrative Data
Acquisition System Network Management EBC: Eisa Bus Controller
EADT: East Australian Daylight Time EBCDIC: Extended Binary Coded Decimal
Timezone: GMT +10:00 Interchange Code
E-ADT: Extended Abstract Data Type Charachter encoding scheme (IBM) E
(Software) EBCT: Electron Beam Computed Tomography
Character encoding scheme
EAGLES: Expert Advisory Group on Language
Engineering Standards EBD: Emergency Boot Disk
EAI: Enterprise Application Integration EBDI: Enhanced Background Debug Interface
EAM: Enterprise Asset Management (Hardware) (Motorola)
(Software) EBDS: Enhanced Background Debug Software
EAM: Evanescent Access Method EBF: Emergency Bug Fix
EAN: European Article Number (Software)
Bar code standards family EBF: Engineering Bug Fix
EAP: Early Adopter Program (Sybase)
EAP: Enterprise Application Platform EBI: Equivalent Background Input

(Software) EBI: Extended Background Investigation
EAP: Extensible Authentication Protocol EBI: External Bus Interface
(Security) (Hardware)
EAPI: Extended Application Programming EBIP: Enterprise Business Intelligence Portal
Interface
EBKAC: Error Between Keyboard And Chair
(Software)
Pronounced 'ebb-kak', is used to describe user errors --
EAPoL: Extensible Authentication Protocol Over "obviously an EBKAC error" (Net lingo)
Lan
EBML: Extensible Binary Meta Language
(Security)
Simple, XML-like binary language for describing data in
EAR: Enterprise ARchive structured style. See http://ebml.sourceforge.net/
Filename extension (Software) EBNF: Extended Backus-Naur Form
EAR: External Access Register EBPP: Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment
EARL: Enhanced Address Recognition Logic Allows customers of commerce institutions to view and pay
their bills online
Is a custom Catalyst 5000 family switch component similar to
the learning bridge or content-addressable memory (CAM) of EBROM: Electronic Book Read Only Memory
other types of network switches and routers (Hardware) (Cisco)
EBS: E-Business Suite
EARN: European Academic Research Network
Oracle's original application suite (Oracle)
A network using BITNET technology connecting universities
and research labs in Europe. (Network) EBSS: Extended Basic Service Set
Wireless network with more than one wireless access point
EAROM: Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory
(Network)
(Hardware)
EBT: Electronic Benefits Transfer
EARS: Electronic Access to Reference Services
ebXML: Electronic Business eXtensible Markup
EARS: Electronic Authoring and Routing System Language
(DEC) This standard aims at creating a modular electronic business
EARS: Explicit Archive and Retrieval System framework using XML. It is the product of a joint initiative by
the United Nations (UN/CEFACT) and the Organization for the
EAS: Enterprise Access Server Advancement of Structured Information Systems (OASIS)
EAS: Enterprise Agreement for S/390 EC: Electronic Commerce
(Software) (IBM)
EC: Error Control
EASI: Enhanced Asynchronous Scsi Interface
EC: European Community
EAST: East Australian Standard Time
EC: Exchange Carrier
Timezone: GMT +10:00
(Communication)
EAT: End Around Test
ECAF: European Certification Authority Forum
Also known as a wrap test, returns output signal to input line
(Hardware) ECAL: Enjoy Computing And Learn
EATA: Enhanced Advanced Technology bus ECAT: Electronic Card Assembly and Test
Attachment (IBM)
ECB: Electronic CodeBook

ECB EDC
ECB: Event Control Block ECO: Engineering Change Order

A data structure used to control sending and receiving of Hardware minor revisions, usually in the days of
packets in a Novell Network (Operating systems) (Novell) minicomputers, where a change wasn't made to the PCB layout
(which would probably carry the major revision number/letter),
ECC: Electrical Connectivity Checks e.g. to correct a problem found in operation and approved and
ECC: Elliptic Curve Cryptography recorded by HQ staff (Hardware)
Technology for public key cryptosystems, providing the highest ECOM: Electronic Computer Originated Mail
security-to-key size ratio (Security)
ECOOP: European Conference on Object
ECC: Error Checking and Correction Orientated Programming
The detection, in the processing unit, and correction of all
single-bit errors, plus the detection of double-bit and some ECP: Enhanced Communication Protocol
multiple-bit errors.
E ECC: Error Correction Code
ECP: Extended Capabilities Port
(Hardware)
ECD: Enhanced Color Display ECPA: Electronic Communication Privacy Act

ECD: Enhanced Compact Disk ECPP: Enterprise Collaborative Processing Portal
ECDHE: Elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman Exchange ECR: Enterprise Content Repository
An anonymous key agreement protocol that allows two parties, ECR: Enterprise Customer Resource
each having an elliptic curve public-private key pair, to
establish a shared secret over an insecure channel (Security) eCRM: Electronic Customer Relationship
ECDL: European Computer Driving Licence Management
A complete view of customer interactions, stored in electronic
The ECDL Foundation works to promote an International
format for review and data manipulation (Software)
certification of industry-standard computing skills. See
http://www.ecdl.com (Organizations) ECS: Element Construction Set
ECF: Enhanced Connectivity Facilities Java API for generating elements for various markup languages
it directly supports HTML 4.0 and XML, but can easily be
ECHO: European Commission Host Organization extended to create tags for any markup language (Software)
ECHS: Extended Cylinders, Heads, Sectors ECS: Enhanced Chip Set
Enables use of hard drives up to 8.4 GB in size (Hardware)
ECS: Enterprise Control Station
ECHT: European Conference on Hypermedia
ECS: Event Communication Service
Technology
ECSA: Exchange Carriers Standards Association
ECI: External Call Interface
(IBM) ECTF: Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum
Brings together the best industry thinkers on the planet to
ECL: EClectic Language
deliver on a shared vision in the computer telephony industry
ECL: Emitter Coupled Logic to allow for open access to a diversity of communications
products and services. See also http://www.ectf.org/
(Organizations)
ECLF: Extended Common Log Format
ECTL: Electronic Communal Temporal Lobe
(Network)
ECTS: European Consumer Trade Show
ECM: Electronic Control Module
ECU: Eisa Configuration Utility
ECM: Electronic Counter Measures
(Hardware) ED: End Delimiter
ECM: Endpoint Congestion Management ED: Enhanced Density
(Network) ED: Erase Display
ECM: Enterprise Commerce Management ED: Extra-high Density
ECM: Enterprise Content Management 2.88 MB floppy disk (Hardware)
ECM: Entity Coordination Management EDA: Electronic Design Automation

ECM: Error-Correction Mode EDA: Embedded Document Architecture
ECMA: European Computer Manufacturing EDA: Event Driven Architecture
Association Software architecture pattern promoting the production,
(Organizations) detection, consumption of, and reaction to events (Software)
ECML: Electronic Commerce Modeling Language EDAC: Electromechanical Digital Adapter Circuit
ECMP: Equal Cost Multipath Protocol EDB: Embedded DataBase

(Network) EDB: External Data Bus
ECN: Electronic Communications Network (Hardware)
ECN: European Counter Network EDC: Easy Data Communication

(Communication)
ECN: Explicit Congestion Notification
Extension to the Internet Protocol and to the Transmission EDC: Electronic Digital Computer
Control Protocol and is defined in RFC 3168 (2001). ECN allows EDC: Enhanced Data Correction
end-to-end notification of network congestion without dropping
packets (Network) EDC: Error Detection and Correction
ECNE: Enterprise Certified Netware Engineer EDC: Error Detection Code
(Novell)

EDD EFL
EDD: Enhanced Disk Drive EDSF: Electronic Document Systems Foundation

Mechanism to match x86 BIOS device names (e.g. int13 device See www.edsf.org (Organizations)
80h) to Linux device names (e.g. /dev/sda, /dev/hda). EDD is
a project of a T13 committee (Operating systems) EDSRA: Earth Data System Reference Application
EDDC: Extended Distance Data Cable EDT: Eastern Daylight Time

Timezone: GMT -5:00
EDE: Encrypt-Decrypt-Encrypt
EDT: Event Dispatching Thread
EDFA: Erbium Doped Fibre Amplifier Background thread used in Java to process events from the
(Communication) Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) graphical user interface event
queue (Software)
EDGAR: Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and
Retrieval EDTV: Enhanced Definition TeleVision
EDGE: Enhanced Data-rate for Gsm Evolution (Hardware) E
EDI: Electronic Data Interchange EDU: Engine Dispatchable Unit
(Databases)
EDI: Electronic Document Interchange
EDVAC: Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic
(DEC)
Computer
EDID: Extended Display Identification Data First stored-program digital computer
(Hardware)
EDW: Enterprise Data Warehouse
EDIF: Electronic Design Interchange Format
EE: Extended Edition
A standard file format for exchanging CAD data.
(IBM)
EDIFACT: Electronic Data Interchange For
Administration Commerce and Transport EEA: Extended Enterprise Applications
(Software)
EDIINT: Electronic Data Interchange-Internet
INTegration EEC: Extended Error Correction
Standard detailing a set of protocols and requirements to EEG: ElectroEncephaloGram
package, secure, communicate and authenticate transactions
over the Internet in an interoperable manner EEI: Equipment to Equipment Interface
EDIT: Emulsion Direct Imaging Technology EEL: Epsilon Extension Language
(Hardware) EEM: External Expansion Module
EDL: Edit Decision List EEMA: European Electronic Messaging Association
EDLC: Ethernet Data Link Control (Organizations)
EDM: Electronic Document Management EEMAC: Electrical & Electronic MAnufacturers of

Canada
EDM: Engineering Data Management
EEMS: Enhanced Expanded Memory Specification
EDM: Enterprise Data Model
(Operating systems)
Data warehousing
EEP: Entry Exit Procedure
EDM: Environmental Descriptor Manager
(Databases) EEPRO: Ethernet Express PRO
Network interface card (Hardware) (Intel)
EDMS: Electronic Document Management System
EEPROM: Electrically Erasable Programmable
EDO: Extended Data Output Read Only Memory
Memory manufacturing technology (Hardware)
A non-volatile PROM that may be written to as well as read
EDOC: Enterprise Distributed Object Computing from. (Hardware)
EDODRAM: Extended Data Out Dynamic Random EES: Escrow Encryption Standard
Access Memory EESP: Enterprise Extended Services Portal
(Hardware)
EET: Eastern European Time
EDOS: Enhanced Disk Operating System Timezone: GMT +1:00
Mmeory manufacturing technology
EF: Expedited Forwarding
EDP: Electronic Data Processing A Per-Hop Behavior in the Differentiated Service standard,
EDP: Extended Dos Partition used to create a virtual leased line service (Network)
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) EFA: Extended File Attribute
EDPM: Electronic Data Processing Machine EFCI: Explicit Forward Congestion Indication
EDPS: Electronic Data Processing System EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation
EDPT: Enhanced fixed Disk Parameter Table EFI: Electromechanical Frequency Interference
(Hardware)
EFI: Electronics For Imaging
EDR: External Developer Release
EFI: Extensible Firmware Interface
EDRAM: Extended Dynamic Random Access Specification that defines a new model for the interface
Memory between operating systems and platform firmware
(Hardware) EFI: External Functional Interface
EDS: Electronic Data Systems EFIGS: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish
EDSAC: Electronic Delay Storage Automatic EFL: Emitter Follower Logic
Computer
(Hardware)

EFM EMA
EFM: Eight to Fourteen Modulation EISA: Extended Industry Standard Architecture

PC bus architecture (Hardware)
EFM: Ethernet First Mile
(Network) EISE: Extended Intergration Support Environment
ADA project aimed to provide a real-time simulation of a
E-FORM: Electronic FORM
generic aircraft, together with the significant environmental
EFS: Encrypting File System factors
(Operating systems) EISS: Europaeisches Institut für SystemSicherheit
EFSP: Enhanced Fax Service Provider EIST: Enhanced Intel Speedstep Technology
EFT: Electronic Funds Transfer Power and thermal management technology developed by
Intel. EIST was introduced as a means of enabling high
EFT: Euro FileTransfer performance while meeting the power-saving needs of a
E EFTPoS: Point Of SaleElectronic Funds Transfer at
mobile computer system (Hardware) (Intel)
Point Of Sale EITAAC: Electronic and Information Technology
Access Advisory Committee
EFTS: Electronic Funds Transfer at Point Of Sale
(Organizations)
EGA: Enhanced Graphics Adapter
EJB: Enterprise Java Bean
Video specification for a resolution of 640x350 pixels in 16
colors (Hardware) (Software) (Sun)
EGP: Exterior Gateway Protocol EJC: Electronic Journal of Communication

A reachability routing protocol used by gateways in a two-level EKP: Enterprise Knowledge Portal
internet. EGP is used in the Internet core system. (Network) (IBM)
EGREP: Extended Global Regular Expression Print EL: ElectroLuminescent
EGS: Enhanced Graphics System (Hardware)
EGSM: Extended Global System for Mobile EL: Erase Line

communications EL1: Extensible Language One
(Communication)
ELAN: Emulated Local Area Network
EHCI: Enhanced Host Controller Interface
(Hardware) ELC: Embedded Linking and Control
EHF: Encoding Header Field ELD: Electronic License Distribution
EHF: Extreme High Frequency ELEC: Enterprise Local Exchange Carrier
EHLLAPI: Emulator High-Level Language ELF: Electronic Location Finder

Application Programming Interface ELF: Executable and Linking Format
EIA: Electronic Industries Alliance (Software)
High-tech association that represents the full spectrum of U.S. ELF: Extremely Low Frequency
electronics and high-tech industry manufacturers. See also
(Hardware)
http://www.eia.org (Organizations)
ELH: Entity Life History
EIAJ: Electronic Industry Association of Japan
(Organizations) ELI: Embedded Lisp Interpreter
EiB: ExbIByte ELIC: Electronic Library Information Center
Unit of measurement, introduced by the International ELINT: ELectronic INTelligence
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), correspondig to 1024 PiB
ELK: Extension Language Kit
EICAVR: European Institute for Computer Anti-
Virus Research ELLIS: EuLisp LInda System
EIDE: Enhanced Integrated Drive (or Device) ELM: ELectronic Mail
Electronics (Network)
Bus architecture (Hardware)
ELOD: Erasable Laser Optical Disk
EIGRP: Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing
ELP: Equational Logic Programming
Protocol
Cisco proprietary routing protocol loosely based on their ELS: Entry Level System
original IGRP. EIGRP is an advanced distance-vector routing
ELSA: ELektronische SAchen
protocol, with optimizations to minimize both the routing
instability incurred after topology changes (Network) (Cisco) German hardware manufacturer (Hardware)
EIM: Electronic Image Management ELSNET: European Language and Speech NETwork
EIO: Enhanced Input/Output EM: ElectroMagnetic
EIP: Enterprise Information Portal EM: Electronic Mail

(IBM) EM: EMphasis
EIR: Equipment Identity Register HTML tag
A database containing a list of all valid IMEIs on the network EM: End of Medium
(Communication)
EM: Enterprise Management
EIS: Enterprise Information System
EM: Expanded Memory
EIS: European Information System
EM: Extensions Manager
EIS: Executive Information System
EMA: Electronic Mail Association

EMA EOM
EMA: Enterprise Management Architecture EMS: Entrust Messaging Server

(Security)
EMA: Enterprise Memory Architecture
(Operating systems) EMS: Expanded Memory Specification
(Software)
EMACS: Editing MACroS
EMSAPI: Extended Messaging Services
E-MAIL: Electronic MAIL
Application Programming Interface
EMB: Enhanced Master Burst
EMSC: Electronic Mail Standards Committee
EMB: Extended Memory Block
EMT: Eastern Mediterranean Time
EMBARC: Electronic Mail Broadcast to A Roaming Timezone: GMT +2:00
Computer
EMBM: Environment-Mapped Bump Mapping
EMV: Europay, Mastercard and Visa E
EMWAC: European Microsoft Windows nt
EMC: ElectroMagnetic Compatibility Academic Centre
EMC: E-Mail Connection EMX: Enterprise Messaging eXchange
EMC: Emergency Management Card (Lotus)
(Hardware) (Intel) EN: Europa Norm
EMC: Enhanced Memory Chip ENA: Electronic Networking Association
EMC: Extended Math Coprocessor ENA: Extended Network Addressing
EMEA: Europe, Middle East and Africa ENC: ENCoded
EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework File name extension
Modeling framework and code generation facility for building ENC: Enterprise Naming Context
tools and other applications based on a structured data model.
See also http://www.eclipse.org/emf/ (Software) ENDC: European Network Design Center
EMF: ElectroMagnetic Field ENDEC: ENcoder/DECoder
EMF: Enhanced MetaFile ENDS: END of Segment
File format for graphics (Microsoft) ENIAC: Electronic Numerical Integrator And
EMF: Extensible Message Format Computer
First fully electronic digital computer
EMI: ElectroMagnetic Interference
ENL: EndNote Library
EMI: Enhanced Multilayer Image
File extension for EndNote Program used in bibliographies
Cisco's multicast routing implentation permits any host to send (Software)
a packet but only members of the multicast group to receive it
if "EMI" is enabled on the Stack Master. (Network) (Cisco) ENQ: ENQuiry
EML: Element Management Layer ENS: Enterprise Network Services
EML: EMaiL ENSS: Exterior Nodal Switching Subsystem
Filename extension used by MS Outlook Express (Software)
ENT: Enterprise Network Tools
(Microsoft)
EO: Europe Online
EMM: Expanded Memory Manager
EOA: End Of Address
EMM: Extended Memory Management
(Communication)
EMMA: European MultiMedia Award
EOB: End Of Block
EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation (Communication)
Markup language intended for use by systems that provide
semantic interpretations for a variety of inputs, including but EOC: End Of Character
not necessarily limited to, speech, natural language text, GUI EOC: End Of Conversion
and ink input. See also http://www.w3.org/TR/emma/
EOD: End Of Data
EMMP: Enterprise Mission Management Portal
EOD: Erasable Optical Disk
EMO: Exchange Messaging Outlook
EOF: End Of File
EMP: ElectroMagnetic Pulse
A particular character, usually a Control-D, that tells the
(Hardware) system it has reached the end of the file.
EMR: ElectroMagnetic Radiation EOF: Enterprise Object Framework
EMR: Electronic Medical Record (Software) (Apple)
(Software) EOI: End Of Input
EMR: Enhanced Metafile Record EOI: End Of Interrupt
EMS: Electronic Mail System EOI: End Or Identify
EMS: Electronic Messaging Service EOJ: End Of Job
EMS: Element Management System EOL: End Of Line
(Software)
EOL: End Of List
EMS: Energy Management System
EOM: End Of Message
EMS: Enhanced Message Service (Communication)

EON ERM
EON: Edge Of Network EPM: Enterprise Process Management

(Network) (IBM) (IBM)
EON: Extranet Object Network EPO: Electronic Public Offering
(Network)
ePO: EPolicy Orchestrator
EOP: End Of Procedure McAfee tool that delivers real-time information and application
integration for network, desktop, and server security (Security)
EOR: Electro-Optical Reconnaissance
EPOS: Electronic Point Of Sale
EOR: Exclusive OR
Electronic cash registers and their software used in stores
Also XOR
EPP: Enhanced Parallel Port
EOS: Earth Observing System
(Hardware)
E (NASA)
EPR: EndPoint Reference
EOS: Ecc On Simm
Combination of Web services elements that define the address
(Hardware) for a resource in a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
EOS: Electrical OverStress header (Software)
Electrically overstressing and damaging a device or component EPRI: Electric Power Research Institute
by too much voltage or current (Hardware) (Organizations)
EOS: End Of String EPROM: Erasable Programmable Read Only
EOS: Extended Operating System Memory
A non-volatile memory chip that is programmed
EOSDIS: Earth Observing System Data and after they it is manufactured. EPROMs differ from PROMs in
Information System that they can be erased (generally by exposing the
(NASA) semiconductor material to the ultraviolet light) and can be
reprogrammed after having been erased. (Hardware)
EOT: End Of Table
EPRPI: Enhanced Primary Rate Peripheral
EOT: End Of Tape Interface
(Hardware)
EPS: Encapsulated PostScript
EOT: End Of Text A file format for graphics and text supported by several
EOT: End Of Transmission graphics drawing applications. (Adobe)
(Communication) EPSF: Encapsulated PostScript Files
EoU: Ease Of Use EPSI: Encapsulated PostScript Interchange
EOUG: European Oracle User Group A version of the encapsulated PostScript format that describes
an image using a standard text file. (Adobe)
EoVDSL: Ethernet Over Very high bit rate Digital
Subscriber Line EQD: English Query Domain
Filename extension (Databases) (Microsoft)
(Communication)
EP: ElectroPhotographic EQP: EQuiPment
Laser printing technology (Hardware) ER: Entity Relationship
EP: Exchange Provider ER: Error Resilience
(Communication) Technique that make systems more robust against errors
EPA: Enhanced Performance Architecture ER: Explicit cell Rate
EPA: Environmental Protection Agency ER/RC: Extended Result/Response Code
(Organizations)
ERA: Extended Registry Attributes
EPAC: Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder
ERA/O: Embedded Remote Access Option
EPD: Early Packet Discard (Hardware) (Dell)
(Network)
ERAS: Electronic Routing and Approval System
EPIC: Eclipse PlugIn Central
ERD: Emergency Repair Disk
(Software)
ERD: Entity-Relationship Diagram
EPIC: Electronic Privacy Information Center
ERE: Extended Regular Expression
EPIC: Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing
(Software)
EPL: Effective Privilege Level
ERI: Emergency Recovery Information
EPL: Electronic switching system Programming Provides an alternative for recovery if a challenge response
Language mechanism is unfeasible due to the cost of helpdesk operatives
for small companies or implementation challenges
EPLD: Electrically Programmable Logic Device
(Hardware) ERIC: Educational Resources Information Center
EPM: Enhanced editor for Presentation Manager ERIN: Environmental Resources Information
(IBM)
Network
EPM: Enterprise Print Manager ERLL: Enhanced Run Length Limited

An OS/390 software solution for management of printers and ERM: Enterprise Relationship Management
print jobs in addition to the various printing functions. The host
data, AFP as well as line data, are converted into printer data ERM: Enterprise Resource Management
streams such as PCL5 and PostScript (Software) (Software)
ERM: Entity-Relationship Model

ERMA ESS
ERMA: Electronic Recording Method, Accounting ESI: End System Identifier

ERMS: Email Response Management System ESI: Enhanced Serial Interface
Communication specification (Hayes)
EROM: Erasable Read Only Memory
ESIS: End System to Intermediate System
EROS: Earth Resources Observation System
ES-IS: End System to Intermediate System
ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning
The International Organization for Standardization's Open
Integrates all data and processes of an organization into a
Systems Interconnection (OSI) protocol by which end systems
unified system. Although the initialism ERP originated in the
announce themselves to intermediate systems.
manufacturing environment, today's use of the term ERP
systems has much broader scope ESM: Enterprise Security Manager
ERR: ERRor Scalable security policy compliance and host-based
ERU: Emergency Recovery Utility

vulnerability assessment tool (Software) (Symantec) E
ESM: Enterprise System Management
(Microsoft)
ESM: European Satellite Multimedia
ES: Enterprise Suite
(Software) ESM: External Storage Module
A Sun external unit that contains disk or tape drives and that
ES: Extended Services
can be connected to a desktop SPARCstation system.
ES: Extra Segment (Hardware) (Sun)
CPU register (Hardware) (Intel) ESMA: Extended Server Memory Architecture
ESA: Enterprise Systems Architecture (Operating systems)
(IBM) ESMD: Embedded Storage Module Disk
ESA: European Space Agency ESMD: Enhanced Storage Module Device
(Organizations)
ESME: External Short Message Entity
eSATA: External Serial Advanced Technology (Communication)
Attachment
Bus interface for connecting external storage devices. It is an ESMR: Enhanced Specialized Mobile Radio
extension of the serial advanced technology attachment (SATA ESMTP: Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
or serial ATA) standard. It is designed to enable the SATA
drive to be attached externally (Hardware) ESN: Electronic Security Number
ESB: Enterprise Service Bus ESN: Electronic Serial Number
ESC: Eisa System Component ESN: Electronic Switched Network
ESC: ESCape ESNET: Energy Sciences NETwork
ESC/P: Epson Standard Code for Printers ESO: Equipment Superior to Operator
(Epson) (Net lingo)
ESCD: Extended System Configuration Data ESP: Emulation Sensing Processor
ESCM: Extended Services Communications ESP: Encapsulated Security Payload
Manager (Network)
(IBM)
ESP: Enhanced Serial Port
ESCON: Enterprise System CONnection (Hardware)
Architecture (IBM)
ESP: Enhanced Service Provider
ESCSI: Embedded Small Computers System
ESP: Enterprise System Platform
Interface
Bus architecture (Hardware) ESP: Estimated Street Price
ESD: Electronic Software Distribution ESP: Ethernet Serial Port
ESD: ElectroStatic Discharge ESP: Eudora Sharing Protocol
(Hardware) ESP: Expert Searching and Pricing
ESD: Emergency Startup Disk ESPRIT: European Strategic Program of Research
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) and development in Information Technology
ESDI: Enhanced Small Device Interface ESR: Event Service Routine
ESDRAM: Enhanced Synchronous Dynamic ESRB: Entertaining Software Rating Board
Random Access Memory (Organizations)
(Hardware)
ESRO: Efficient Short Remote Operation
ESDS: Entry Sequenced Data Set (Network)
ESE: Exchange Server Enterprise ESS: Electronic Switching System
(Microsoft)
ESS: Enterprise Storage Server
ESE: Extensible Storage Engine (IBM)
Stores all active directory objects (Operating systems)
(Microsoft) ESS: Enterprise Survivable Server
Allows customers to place backup ESS servers at key locations
ESF: Extended SuperFrame throughout their enterprise. An ESS server is capable of taking
ESI: Edge Side Include over for the entire enterprise or, just a portion of the
enterprise in the event that some type of outage has occurred
(Software)

ESS EWS
ESS: Extended Service Set ETTb: Ethernet To The Business

(Communication) Telecommunications carrier service providing Ethernet to a
business subscriber. See also ETTh and ETTx.
ESSID: Extended Service Set IDentifier (Communication)
(Communication)
ETTh: Ethernet To The Home
ESSL: Engineering and Scientific Subroutine Telecommunications carrier service providing Ethernet to a
Library home subscriber. See also ETTb and ETTx. (Communication)
(Software) (IBM)
ETTx: Ethernet To The X
ESSO: Enterprise Single Sign-On Telecommunications carrier service providing Ethernet to a
Extends Oracle Identity Management's single sign-on capability business subscriber (ETTb) or home subscriber (ETTh). See
to non-web applications (Oracle) also ETTb and ETTh. (Communication)
E EST: Eastern Standard Time ETX: End of TeXt
Timezone: GMT -5:00 (Communication)
ESTO: Equipment Superior To Operator EU: Execution Unit

When a computer seems to have a mind of its own. For EUC: End User Computing
example, when you watch it spam all 800 people in your
contact list and you can't stop it (Net lingo) EUC: Extended Unix Code
ESTT: E-mail Server Test Tool An encoding scheme that allows up to four codesets to coexist
in one data stream. EUC supports one primary character set
Ziff-Davis labs test suite for email servers
and three supplementary character sets. (Operating systems)
ESU: ElectroStatic Unit EUI: End-User Interface
ESX: Elastic Sky X EULA: End User License Agreement
Was created from the term Elastic Sky, a marketing label that
was created but not used by Vmware (Operating systems) EUNET: European Unix NETwork
ET: Enhancement Technology Euro CASE: EUROpean Council of Applied
Sciences and Engineering
ETACS: Extended Total Access Communication
(Organizations)
System
(IBM) EUUG: European Unix Users Group
(Organizations)
ETANN: Electrically Trainable Analog Neural
Network EUV: Extreme Ultra Violet
Chip (Intel) (Hardware)
ETB: End of Transmission Block EUVL: Extreme UltraViolet Lithography
(Hardware)
ETC: Electronic Toll Collection
EVA: Economic Value Added
ETC: Enhanced Throughput Cellular
Cellular modem protocol (AT&T) Ev-DO: Evolution-Data Only (or Optimized)
Wireless radio broadband data standard adopted by many
etc: Essential Text Configuration
CDMA mobile phone service providers
In any unix (and variants like linux) system the /etc directory
(Operating systems) EVE: Extensible Vax Editor
ETF: Enriched Text Format EVGA: Extended Video Graphics Adapter
ETFTP: Enhanced Trivial File Transfer Protocol EVGA: Extended Video Graphics Array
ETIS: European Telecommunications Information EVLIW: Encapsulated Very Long Instruction Word
Service (Hardware)
ETL: Extract, Transform and Load EVM: Embedded Virtual Machine
(Databases)
EVR: Enhanced Video Renderer
ETLA: Extended Three Letter Acronym (Hardware)
ETML: Extract, Transform, Move, and Load EVS: Economic Value Sourced
(Databases)
EW: Electronic Warfare
ETOM: Electron-Trapping Optical Memory
EWAN: Emulator Without A Name
ETPL: Endorsed Tempest Products List
EWN: Enterprise Wide Network
ETR: Early Token Release A computer network that links all the computers in an
organization (Network)
ETR: Etsi Technical Report
EWOS: European Workshop for Open Systems
ETS: Econometric Time Series
The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Implementors
ETS: Ethernet Terminal Servers workshop for Europe.
(Hardware) EWS: Early Warning Status
ETS: European Telecommunications Standard System that alerts the host system if drive performance
approaches unacceptable reliability levels (Hardware)
ETSI: European Telecommunication Standards
Institute EWS: Employee Written Software
(Organizations) (IBM)
EWS: Exchange Web Services
(Microsoft)

ExCA FCFS
ExCA: EXchangeable Card Architecture FAST: File And Settings Transfer

(Intel) The FAST wizard helps you transfer files in windows XP
EXE: Executable
File name extension FAST: First Application System Test
EXE2BIN: EXEcutable To BINary FAT: File Allocation Table

EXIF: EXchangeable Image File format
Standard for storing interchange information in image files, FAT12: File Allocation Table 12 bits
especially those using JPEG compression. Most digital cameras Every entry in the table is 12 bits wide (Operating systems)
now use the EXIF format. See also http://www.exif.org/ (Microsoft)
EXP: EXPonent FAT16: File Allocation Table 16 bits
EXSLT: Extensions to eXtensible Stylesheet Every entry in the table is 16 bits wide (Operating systems) E
(Microsoft)
Language Transformation
EXT: EXTernal
FAT32: File Allocation Table 32 bits F
Every entry in the table is 32 bits wide (Operating systems)
EXTRA: EXecutionTRace Analyzer (Microsoft)
EXTRN: EXecution TRace Analyzer FATA: Fiber channel AT Attachment

(Hardware)
EXUG: European X Users Group
FAX: FACSimile
E-ZINE: Electronic magaZINE
Also a file name extension
F FAZAM: Full Armor Zero AdMinistration
f: femto FB: Fiber optic Backbone

Prefix for 10 power -15 FBA: Fair Buffer Allocation
F/T: Full Time (Network)
F/V: Frequency to Voltage converter FBA: Form Based Authentication

F/W SCSI: Fast/Wide Small Computers System FBC: Find By Content

Interface FBD: Fully Buffered Dimm
(Hardware) Memory technology which can be used to increase reliability,
speed and density of memory subsystems (Hardware)
FA: Foreign Agent
Node in a mobile IP network that enables roamed users to FBGA: Fine Ball-Grid Array
register on the foreign network. The FA will communicate with Integrated circuit (IC) packaging that uses half-spherical
the HA (Home Agent) to enable IP datagrams to be transferred contacts versus pins (Hardware)
between the home network and the roamed user on the foreign
network (Network) FBRAM: Frame Buffer Random Access Memory
A special type of Dynamic RAM (DRAM) used in high-speed
FAB: FABrication plant frame buffers. Similar to Video RAM (VRAM), FBRAM is
Usually referred to chip fabrication plants specifically designed for use in high-speed frame buffers and
graphics accelerators. (Hardware)
FAC: File Access Code
FC: Fiber Channel
FACE: Framed Access Command Environment
(Hardware)
FACS: Facility fir Access Control and Security
FC: Frame Control
FAIL: Fast Artificial Intelligence Language
FC: Functional Component
FAMOS: Floating gate Avalanche Metal Oxide (Software)
Semiconductor
FC/AL: Fiber Channel/Arbitrated Loop
(Hardware)
FC/EL: Fiber Channel/Enhanced Loop
FANS: Future Air Navigation System
FAP: File Access Protocol FCA: Flow Control Acknowledge
FAP: Format And Protocol FC-AL: Fiber Channel - Arbitrated Loop

(Hardware)
FAPI: Family Application Programming Interface
FCB: File Control Block
FAQ: Frequently Asked Question
FCBS: File Control BlockS
FAR: Fixed Alternative Routing
FCC: Federal Communications Commission
FARE: Film Automatic Retouching and (Organizations)
Enhancement
Film scanner technology (Hardware) (Canon)
FCC: File Carbon Copy
FARNET: Federation of American Research FCCSET: Federal Coordinating Council for Science,
NETworks Engineering and Technology
(Organizations) FC-EL: Fiber Channel - Enhanced Loop
FASIC: Function and Algorithm-Specific (Hardware)
Integrated Circuit FCFS: First Come, First Served
FASMI: False Analysis of Shared Multidimensional Process or thread scheduling (Operating systems)
Information

FCHBA FEC
FCHBA: Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter FDDI: Fiber Digital Device Interface
Host bus adapter over optical fibers (Hardware) (Hardware)
FCI: Fibre Channel Interface FDDI: Fiber Distributed Data Interface
An emerging high-speed networking standard. The underlying
FCI: File Classification Infrastructure
medium is fiber optics, and the topology is a dual-attached,
Provides insight into your data to help you manage your data counter-rotating token ring (Hardware)
more effectively, reduce costs and mitigate risks by providing
a built-in solution for file classification (Operating systems) FDDITPPMD: Fiber Distributed Data Interface
(Microsoft) Twisted Pair-Physical layer, Medium Dependent
FCI: Flow Control Indicator FDE: Full Disk Encryption
FCI: Flux Changes per Inch (Security)
FCIF: Flexible Computer Interface Form FDE: Full Duplex Ethernet

(Communication) FDF: Forms Data Format
F FCIF: Full Common Intermediate Format (Adobe)
Video Teleconferencing standard FDFS: File Descriptor File System
FCIP: Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol A pseudo file system that provides explicit names for opening
files using file descriptors. (Operating systems)
FCIP mechanisms enable the transmission of Fibre Channel
(FC) information by tunneling data between storage area FDI: Feeder Distribution Interface
network (SAN) facilities over IP networks; this capacity Similar to a DSLAM Cross-Connect box (Communication)
facilitates data sharing over a geographically distributed
enterprise (Network) FDII: Feeder Distribution Interface Interconnect
FCL: Fibre Channel Loop (Communication)
FCL: Framework Class Library FDL: File Definition Language

A collection of classes which are part of Microsoft's .NET FDL: Free Documentation License
platform. (Software) (Microsoft) Its purpose is to make a manual, textbook, or other functional
FCO: First Class Object and useful document "free" in the sense of freedom: to assure
everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with
(Software) or without modifying it, either commercially or
FCO: Flow Control Operator bits noncommercially
FCoE: Fibre Channel Over Ethernet FDM: Frequency-Division Multiplexing

Mapping of Fibre Channel frames over full duplex IEEE 802.3 FDMA: Frequency-Division Multiple Access
networks. This allows Fibre Channel to leverage 10 Gigabit
Ethernet networks while preserving the Fibre Channel protocol FDOCA: Formatted Data Object Content
(Network) Architecture
(IBM)
FCP: Fibre Channel Protocol
FDPT: Fixed Disk Parameter Table
FC-PGA: Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array
(Hardware)
IC pins organization (Hardware)
FDSL: Fractional Digital Subscriber Line
FCPH: Fibre Channel PHysical and signaling
interface (Communication)
FCR: FIFO Control Register FDSL: Free Digital Subscriber Line

(Communication)
FCRAM: Fast-Cycle Random Access Memory
FDTE: Female Data Terminal Equipment
(Hardware)
RS-232 adapter (Hardware)
FCS: Fiber Channel Standard
FDx: Full DupleX
FCS: First Customer Ship (Communication)
FCS: Frame Check Sequence FE: Family Edition
The standard 16-bit cyclic redundancy check used for HDLC (Software)
and frame relay frames. The FCS detects bit errors occurring in
the bits of the frame between the opening flag and the FCS FE: Fast Ethernet
(Communication) (Network)
FD: Flat Display FE: Functional Entity
(Hardware) (Sony)
FEA: Finite Element Analysis
FD: Floppy Disk Engineering stress analysis with a computer (Software)
FD: Full Duplex FEA: Functional Entity Action
FDBMS: Federated Database Management System FEAR: False Emotions Appearing Real
(Databases) (Net lingo)
FDC: Floppy Disk Controller FEBE: Far End Block Error
(Hardware)
FEC: Fast EtherChannel
FDCN: Financial Data Cast Network (Hardware) (Cisco)
FDCT: Forward Discrete Cosine Transform FEC: Fetch Execute Cycle
(Software)
FEC: Forward Error Correction
FDD: Floppy Disk Drive Sending redundant data so that if data loss occurs, data
(Hardware) recovery is possible without retransmission (Communication)

FECN FLA
FECN: Forward Explicit Congestion Notification FGA: Fine-Grained Authorization

A bit sent by a frame relay network to notify an interface (Security)
device (DTE) that congestion avoidance procedures should be
initiated by the receiving device (Communication) FGREP: Fixed Global Regular Expression Print
FED: Field Emitting Display FH: Frequency Hopping

FEFO: First-Ended, First-Out FHS: Fan Heat-Sink
FEK: File Encryption Key FHS: File Hierarchy Standard

(Operating systems) (Microsoft) (Operating systems)
FEM: Finite Elements Method FHSS: Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum

(Communication)
FEP: Front End Processor
FIA: File Integrity Assessment
FEPI: Front End Programming Interface
FEPROM: Flash Erasable Programmable Read
FIB: Forwarding Information Base F
Function to find the proper interface to which the input
Only Memory interface should send a packet to be transmitted by the router
FER: Forward Error Correction FICON: FIber CONnection
FeRAM: FErroelectric Random Access Memory (IBM)
(Hardware) FID: Filtering IDentifier
FERC: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Communication)
(Organizations) FIF: Fractal Image Format
FESDK: Far East Software Development Kit FIFO: First In First Out
(Microsoft) (Hardware)
FET: Field-Effect Transistor FIFOFS: First In First Out File System
A type of transistor in which the flow of current between the Named pipe files that give processes common access to data.
source and the drain is modulated by application of a (Operating systems)
transverse electric field between two gate electrodes.
(Hardware) FILO: First In Last Out
FF: Flip-Flop FIM: Financial Information Management

FF: ForFait FIN: Functional Identification Number

Used in online gaming (Games) FIOC: Frame Input/Output Controller
FF: Form Feed FIP: Facility Interface Processor
A printer command that tells a printer to move to the top of
the next page. In the ASCII character set, the form-feed FIP: File Processor Buffering
character has the decimal value 12. Also known as the page FIPA: Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents
eject character.
(Organizations)
FF: Friendly Fire
FIPS: Federal Information Processing Standard
Used in online First Person Shooter (FPS) games (Games)
The FIPS PUB is the National Bureau of Standards’ guide to the
FFA: Free For All standards it issues.
FFDC: First Failure Data Capture FIR: Fast InfraRed

(IBM) FIR: Finite Impulse Response
FFI: Foreign Function Interface FIRST: ForschungsInstitut fër Rechnerarchitektur
A facility make calls from one computer language to another und SoftwareTechnik
(Software)
FIRST: Forum of Incident Response and Security
FFIF: File Format for Internet Fax
Teams
FFJ: Forte For Java
FIS: Frontline Information System
Java integrated development environment (IDE) (Software)
(Sun) FIST: ForschungsInstitut für Rechnerarchitektur
und SoftwareTechnik
FFOL: Fddi Follow-On-LAN
FITS: Flexible Image Transport System
FFS: Fast FileSystem
FIU: Fingerprint Identification Unit
FFS: Fast Filing System
(Hardware)
FFS: For F***'s Sake
FIX: Federal Internet eXchange
(Net lingo)
FK: Foreign Key
FFST: First Failure Support Technology
(Databases)
(IBM)
FK: Forward Kinematics
FFT: Fast Fourier Transform
Used in 3D Animation (Autodesk)
FFT: Final Form Text
FL: Fiberoptic Link
(IBM)
FLA: Five Letters Acronym
FG: Floating Gate
FLA: Four Letters Acronym

FLAC FPCE
FLAC: FLorida Automatic Computer FO: F*** Off

Early 1950's digital computer used at Cape Canaveral (Net lingo)
FLAC: Free Lossless Audio Codec FO: Fiber Optic
Audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio
FO: Formatting Object
is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. See also
http://flac.sourceforge.net/ FOA: Formatted Object Authoring
FLACC: Full Level Algol Checkout Compiler Java application that gives users a graphical interface to author
XSL-FO stylesheets. With FOA you can generate pages and
FLAG: Fiber-optic Link Around the Globe page sequences, and fill them with content provided from one
(Network) or more XML files (Software)
FLC: Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal FOAD: F*** Off And Die

(Net lingo)
FLD: FieLD
FOC: Fiber Optic Cable
FLEA: Four Letter Extended Acronym
F FLGA: Fine Land Grid Array
FOCUS: FOrum of Control data USers
Integrated circuit (IC) packaging that uses small flat contacts FOD: Fax On Demand
versus pins (Hardware)
FOD: Flexible Optical Disk
FLL: Foxpro Link Library FOG: First Osborne Group
(Microsoft)
FOIP: Fax Over Internet Protocol
FLOPS: FLoating-point Operations Per Second
A measure of the speed at which a computer can operate. FOIRL: Fiber Optic Inter Repeater Link
(Hardware) FOLDOC: Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing
FLTK: Fast Light Toolkit FOLED: Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode
Pronounced "fulltick", is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for
(Hardware)
UNIX/Linux (X11), Microsoft Windows® and MacOS X. FLTK
provides modern GUI functionality without the bloat and FOMAU: Fiber Optic Media Access Unit
supports 3D graphics via OpenGL and its built-in GLUT
emulation (Software) FON: Fiber Optics Network
FM: Fault Management FON: FONt
A series of information flows at the physical and ATM layer File name extension
designed to identify the location and cause of a fault within the
FOOBAR: Ftp Operation Over Big Address Records
network (Communication)
FOOT: Forum for Object Oriented Technology
FM: Frequency Modulation
FOP: Formatting Objects Processor
FMA: Fused Multiply-Add
Output-independent print formatter driven by XSL formatting
CPU instruction type
objects. It is a Java application that reads a formatting object
FMD: Fluorescent Multilayer Disk tree and then renders the resulting pages to a specified output.
(Hardware) See http://xml.apache.org/fop/ (Software)
FMD-ROM: Fluorescent Multilayer Disk - Read FOR: FORtran

Only Memory File name extension
(Hardware) FORTRAN: FORmula TRANsactor
FMH: Function Management Header Programming language
FMRI: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging FOSE: Federal Office Systems Exposition
FMS: File Management System FOSI: Format Option Specification Instance
FMS: Flash Media Server FOSSIL: Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface

(Software) (Adobe)
Layer
FMT: ForMaT FOT: Fiber Optic Transceiver
FMV: Full Motion Video FOX: Field Operational X.500
FN: FunctioN FP: Floating Point
FNC: Federal Networking Council FP: Foundation Profile

The body responsible for coordinating networking needs (Software)
among U.S. federal agencies. (Organizations) FP: Frame Pointer
FNC: Frogans Network Certificate Processor register (Hardware)
See http://www.frogans.com/ (Software) FPA: Floating Point Accelerator
FNI: File Not Identified A device (board or integrated circuit - IC) that speeds up
Used primarily for software scanning applications (asset floating-point calculations. (Hardware)
management) (Software) FPA: Function Point Analysis
FNS: Frogans Network System A method used to determine the complexity of a program
See http://www.frogans.com/ (Software) (Software)
FNSL: Frogans Network System Language FPC: Floating Point Calculation

See http://www.frogans.com/ (Software) FPC: Floating Point Coprocessor
FNT: FoNT FPCE: Floating-Point C Extension
File name extension Specification

FPD FSB
FPD: Flat Panel Display FRAM: Ferroelectric Random-Access Memory

(Hardware)
FRAP: Frame Relay Access Probe
FPD: Full Page Display (Network)
(Hardware)
FRC: Frame Rate Control
FPDU: Ftam Protocol Data Unit (Hardware)
FPE: Floating Point Engine FRC: Functional Redundancy Checking
FPGA: Field Programmable Gate Array FRED: Fair Random Early Detection
An integrated circuit containing an array of logic circuits in A variation of Random Early Detection (RED) (Network)
which the connections between the individual circuits can be
programmed after manufacture, typically at the time of FRED: FRame EDitor
installation (in the field). (Hardware) FRED: FRont-End to Dish
FPI: Floating-Point Interface FRF: Floating point Register File
FPI: Formal Public Identifier FRF: Frame Relay Forum
F
FPIM: Fax Profile for Internet Messaging An association of corporate members consisting of vendors,
Defines how fax messages can be encoded as SMTP/MIME carriers, users and consultants committed to the
messages (Communication) implementation of Frame Relay in accordance with national
and international standards (Organizations)
FPLA: Field Programmable Logic Array
FRICC: Federal Research Internet Coordinating
An array of logic elements. Its interconnections are
programmable after manufacture (Hardware)
Committee
Now replaced by the Federal Networking Council (FNC).
FPLMTS: Future Public Land Mobile (Organizations)
Telecommunications System
FRL: Frame Representation Language
FPLS: Field Programmable Logic Sequencer
FRM: Forward Resource Management
(Hardware)
FRPI: Flux Reversals Per Inch
FPM: Fast Packet Multiplexing
A multiplexing technique that sends data packets over the FRR: False Rejection Rate
network and requires error detection/correction only at the Measure of the likelihood that the biometric security system
destination node (Communication) will incorrectly reject an access attempt by an authorized user
(Security)
FPM: Fast Page Mode
(Hardware) FRR: Functional Recovery Routine
FPMPMI: Flat Panel Monitor Physical Mounting FRS: Family Radio Service
Interface Wireless communication and networking service
FPNW: File and Print services for NetWare FRS: File Record Segment
(Operating systems) FRS: File Replication Service
FPO: Frame Pointer Omission (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
Technique that gives a debugger enough information to find FRS: Flexible Route Selection
the next function information on the stack without using frame
pointers (Software) FRSM: Frame Relay Service Module
(Network) (Cisco)
FPP: Fixed Path Protocol
FRU: Field-Replaceable Unit
FPP: Floating Point Processor
An assembly replaced in its entirety when any one of its
FPR: Floating-Point Register components fails. (Hardware)
FPS: Fast Packet Switching FRUNI: Frame Relay User Network Interface
(Network)
FPS: Favorite Picture Selection
FPS: First Person Shooter FS: File Separator
Game genre (Games) FS: File System
fps: Frames Per Second FS: Frame Status
Motion images reproduction speed
FS: Free Software
FPSE: FrontPage Server Extensions (Software)
FSA: Fluidic Self-Assembly
FPT: Forced Perfect Termination LCD manufacturing technology (Hardware)
FPU: Floating-Point Unit FSAA: Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing
FPX: FlashPiX FSAG: Free Software Association of Germany
Filename extension (Kodak)
FSAM: Federated Storage Area Management
FQDN: Fully Qualified Domain Name A naturally scalable environment of pooled, federated (i.e.,
(Network) available when needed), modular, multivendor storage
resources (HP)
FRAD: Frame Relay Access Device
FSB: Front Side Bus
FRAD: Frame Relay Assembler/Disassembler The bus within a microprocessor that connects the CPU with
FRAG: FRAGment main memory (Hardware)

FSCK FXO
FSCK: File System Consistency checK FTL: Flash Transition Layer

(Intel)
FSD: File System Driver
(Operating systems) FTL: For The Loss
(Net lingo)
FSDL: Frogans Slide Description Language
See http://www.frogans.com/ (Software) FTM: Flat Tension Mask
FSE: Full Screen Editor FTOS: File Transfer Osi Support
FSF: Free Software Foundation FTP: File Transfer Protocol
(Organizations) The Internet protocol (and program) used to transfer files
between hosts. (Network)
FSIOP: File System Input/Output Processor
(Hardware) FTP: Foiled Twisted Pair
FSK: Frequency-Shift Keying FTPD: File Transfer Protocol Daemon
F (Communication) FTR: Full Text Retrieval
FSL: Function Selection via the Line FTS: Federal Telecommunication System
Created by I-Data to support special printing needs
FTS: Fidonet Technical Standard
FSM: Finite-State Machine
FTS: Full Text Search
FSMO: Flexible Single Master Operation
FTSC: Fidonet Technical Standard Conference
FSMT: File Server Management Toolkit FTTB: Fiber To The Basement
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) FTTC: Fiber To The Curb
FSN: Full Service Network FTTH: Fiber To The Home
FSP: Fax Service Provider (Communication)
FSP: File Service Protocol FTTN: Fiber To The Neighborghood
FSP: Full Service Provider FTTP: Fiber To The Premise

(Network)
FSQ: Flow Service Quality
FTW: For The Win
FSR: Free System Resources (Net lingo)
FSR: Full Scale Range FTX: Fault Tolerant uniX
FSRM: File Server Resource Manager FUBAB: F***ed Up Beyond All Belief
Application Programming Interface (API) used in Windows (Net lingo)
Server 2003 R2 that allow administrators to manage data on
servers (Software) (Microsoft) FUBAR: F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition
(Net lingo)
FSS: Fast System Switch
FUD: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt
FSS: Field Support Service
A group of technical engineers providing short-term assistance FUEL: Fatwire UpdateEngine Library
and product knowledge to customers that are deploying, (Software)
developing, and maintaining Lotus environments (Lotus)
FUI: File Update Information
FST: Finite State Technology
(Software) FUJABA: From Uml to Java And Back Again
(Software)
FST: Flat Square Tube
(Hardware) FUUG: Finnish Unix User Group
(Organizations)
FST: French Summer Time
Timezone: GMT +1:00 FVT: Full Video Translation
FSTN: Film-compensated SuperTwisted Nematic FW: FirmWare

LCD display technology (Hardware) FWH: Firmware Hub
FT: Fault Tolerant (Hardware) (Intel)
FT: Field Test FWIW: For What It's Worth

(Net lingo)
FTA: Floptical Technology Association
FWSM: FireWall Services Module
FTAM: File Transfer Access and Management High-speed, integrated firewall module for Cisco switches
The International Organization for Standardization's Open routers (Security) (Cisco)
Systems Interconnection (OSI) remote file service and
protocol. (Network) FWT: French Winter Time
Timezone: GMT +1:00
FTAM: File Transfer and Access Method
FWTK: FireWall ToolKit
FTC: Federal Trade Commission
(Security)
(Organizations)
FX: eFfeCTS
FTE: Fault-Tolerant Ethernet
Multimedia - audio/video editing and processing
(Network)
FXO: Foreign eXchange Office
FTFM: F*** The F***ing Manual
An FXO interface connects to the Public Switched Telephone
(Net lingo) Network's (PSTN) central office and is the interface offered on
a standard telephone (Hardware)

FXP GDOS
FXP: File eXchange Protocol GBDE: Geom Based Disk Encryption

Strong cryptographic facility for denying unauthorised access
FXS: Foreign eXchange Station
to data stored on a "cold" disk for decades and longer. GBDE
An FXS interface connects directly to a standard telephone and operates on the disk(-partition) level allowing any type of file
supplies ring, voltage, and dial tone (Hardware) system or database to be protected (Operating systems)
FXU: FiXed point Unit GbE: GigaBit Ethernet
FY: Financial Year (Network)
FY: Fiscal Year GBIC: GigaBit Interface Converter

A transceiver that converts between electrical and optical
FYI: For Your Information signals for high-speed networking (Hardware)
(Net lingo)
GBP: Group Buffer Pool
(Databases)
G
Gbps: Giga Bits Per Second
G: Giga
Transfer Speed (Communication) F
Prefix for 10 power 9 (or, in IT parlance, 2 power 30)
GBps: Giga Bytes Per Second
G.SHDSL: Giga Single-pair High bit rate Digital
Subscriber Line
Transfer Speed (Communication) G
(Communication) GC: Global Catalog
Active directory's caching system (Operating systems)
G/L: General Ledger
GC: Graphics Context
G2G: Got To Go
The storage of various information for graphics output, such as
(Net lingo) foreground pixel, background pixel, line width, clipping region,
G2H: Gilat-To-Home and so on. (Operating systems)
Two-way broadband satellite access GCA: General Communications Architecture
G4U: Good For yoU GCC: Gnu C Compiler
(Net lingo) (Software)
GA: General Availability GCCD: Glass-passivated Ceramic Chip Diode
Typicaly used when software is release to a public audience
(Software) GCL: Graphics Command Language
GAAP: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles GCOS: General Comprehensive Operating System
GAC: Global Assembly Cache GCR: Group Coded Recording

Microsoft .NET assembly cache (Software) (Microsoft) (Hardware)
GAIA: Gui Application Interoperability GCRA: Generic Cell Rate Algorithm

Architecture GCS: Group Control System
GAIN: German Advanced Integrated Network GD: God Damn
GAL: Generic Array Logic (Net lingo)
(Hardware) GDA: Global Data Area
GAL: Global Address List GDA: Global Directory Agent
GALPAT: GALlopping PATtern GDA: Gnome Data Access
Memory test technique
GDAP: Government Document Application Profile
GALSA: Governed Architectures of Large Systems
of Agents GDB: Gnu DeBugger
(Software)
GAM: Global Allocation Map
GDBM: Gnu DataBase Manager
(Databases)
GAN: GALloping PATtern GDD: Gesellschaft für Datenschutz und
Datensicherung
GAN: Global Area Network
GDDM: Graphical Data Display Manager
(Network)
(Software)
GAP: Generic Access Profile
GDDR: Graphics Double Data Rate
GAPI: Gateway Application Programming A type of DDR SDRAM memory designed to keep up with the
Interface heavy demands of graphics processing. While consuming less
power compared to standard DDR memory, the clock speed
GARO: Graphics Art language with Raster and bandwidth are adjusted to further excel in graphics tasks
Operations (Hardware)
Printer language (Canon)
GDG: Generation Data Group
GARP: Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (IBM)
(Communication)
GDI: Graphics Device Interface
GART: Graphic Address Remapping Table (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Hardware)
GDLC: Generic Data Link Control
GATT: Graphics Address Translation Table (IBM)
Gb: GigaBit GDMO: Guidelines for the Definition of Managed
GB: GigaByte Objects
1024 megabytes GDOS: Graphics Device Operating System

GDP GKMP
GDP: Graphic Draw Primitive GFY: Go Fuck Yourself

(Net lingo)
GD-ROM: Giga Disk Read-Only Memory
Proprietary optical disc format used by the Dreamcast games GFY: Good For You
console, as well as its arcade counterparts and the (Net lingo)
Sega/Nintendo/Namco Triforce arcade system (Hardware)
GG: Good Game
GDS: General Data Stream Said during online play (Games)
GDS: Global Directory Service GGP: Gateway to Gateway Protocol
GDS: Global Document Storage GGP: Gotta Go Pee
(Software)
(Net lingo)
GDT: Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing GGSN: Gateway Gprs Support Node
GDT: Global Descriptor Table Gateway between the GPRS network and public data networks
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) such as IP and X.25. GGSNs also connect to other GPRS
networks to facilitate GPRS roaming (Communication)
GDT: Graphics Development Toolkit
GH: Getting Hard
G GE: Greater than or Equal
(Software)
(Net lingo)
GHOST: General Hardware-Oriented System
GEAR: Gigabyte Enhanced Agp Riser Transfer
Used to provide AGP support for PCI-E motherboards Cloning software (Software) (Symantec)
(Hardware)
GHTSTN: Guest Host Technique SuperTwisted
GECOS: General Electric Comprehensive Nematic
Operating System
GHz: GigaHertZ
GEF: Graphical Editor Framework
Allows developers to take an existing application model and GI: Gesellschaft für Informatik
easily create a rich graphical editor (Software) GIAC: Global Information Assurance Certification
GEIS: General Electric Information Service Certification programs designed to serve the people who are or
will be responsible for managing and protecting important
GEM: Global Enterprise Manager information systems and networks. See also
http://www.giac.org/
GEM: Grain Equalization and Management
Film scanner technology GiB: GibIByte
Unit of measurement, introduced by the International
GEM: Graphics Environment Manager
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), correspondig to 1024 MiB
(Software) (Digital Research)
GID: Group IDentifier
GENIE: General Electric Network for Information
The number used by the system to control access to accounts
Exchange owned by other users. (Operating systems)
GEO: Geosynchronous Earth Orbit GIF: Graphical Interchange Format
GEOS: Graphic Environment Operating System File format for bitmapped images (CompuServe)
GET: Get Execute Trigger GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out

GFAK: Go Fly A Kite GII: Global Information Infrastructure
(Net lingo) GILS: Government Information Locator Service
GFC: Generic Flow Control GIMP: Gnu Image Manipulation Program
(Communication) Freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as
GFDL: Gnu Free Documentation License photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
See www.gimp.org (Software)
(GNU)
GIMPS: Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
GFI: General Format Identifier
GINA: Graphical Identification aNd Authentication
GFI: Ground-Fault Interceptor
GIOP: General Inter-Orb Protocol
GFLOPS: Giga FLoating point Operations per
Second Gips: Giga Instructions Per Second
Processing speed
GIS: Geographic Information System
GFP: Global Functional Plane A graphic application using a database of specialized
information, such as geographical and demographic data.
GFS: Global File System (Software)
Cluster file system that allows a cluster of nodes to
simultaneously access a block device that is shared among the GIS: Global Information Solutions
nodes. GFS is a native file system that interfaces directly with (AT&T)
the VFS layer of the Linux kernel file-system interface
(Operating systems) (Rational) GIT: Gnu Interactive Tools
Free and open source, distributed version control system
GFS: Grandfather, Father, Son designed to handle everything from small to very large
Backup methodology projects (Software)
GFSK: Gaussian Frequency-Shift Keying GIX: Global Internet eXchange
GFTD: Gone For The Day GJ: Good Job
(Net lingo) (Net lingo)
GFU: Good For yoU GKMP: Group Key Management Protocol
(Net lingo) (Security)

GKS GRASP
GKS: Graphical Kernel System GOLP: Government Open License Program

An international standard 2-D graphics library consisting of a The Microsoft Government Open License Program is designed
set of defined graphic primitives and a tool set for application to provide a simple volume-licensing solution and is a cost-
developers. effective way for qualified government entities needing as few
as five licenses to purchase software (Software) (Microsoft)
GL: Graphics Language
(Software) GOSIP: Government Open Systems
Interconnection Profile
GLA: Good Luck All
Used in online gaming (Games) GP: Gas Plasma
GLIS: Global Land Information System GP: General Purpose
GLM: General Linear Models GP: Gold Plated

(Hardware)
GLOBE: Global Learning by Observations to
Benefit the Environment GPC: General-Purpose Computation
GLTY: Good Luck To You GPC: Graphics Performance Characterization

(Net lingo) GPCI: Graphics Processor Command Interface
GLUE: Grid Laboratory Uniform Environment GPE: Graphics Picture Enhancement G
Technology-agnostic information model for a uniform (Hardware) (Sony)
representation of Grid resources
GPF: General Protection Fault
GLUT: openGL Utility Toolkit
Common error in 16-bits Windows (Software) (Microsoft)
Is a window system independent toolkit for writing OpenGL
programs. It implements a simple windowing application GPFS: General Parallel File System
programming interface (API) for OpenGL (Software) (Operating systems) (IBM)
GLY: GLossarY GPI: Graphics Programming Interface
File name extension (Microsoft) (Software)
GM: General Midi GPIB: General Purpose Interface Bus
GMCH: Graphics and Memory Controller Hub Bus architecture (Hardware)
(Hardware) (Intel) GPIO: General Purpose Input Output
GMDI: Gigabit Media-Dependent Interface GPL: General Public License
GMI: Generic Management Information (GNU)
GMII: Gigabit Media Independent Interface GPL: Graphics Programming Language

(Network) GPM: Group Policy Manager
GML: Generalized Markup Language (Operating systems)
GMP: Global Mobile Professional GPO: Group Policy Object

(Operating systems)
GMR: Giant Magneto-Resistive
Hard disk head technology (Hardware) GPP: Generic Packetized Protocol
GMRAE: Geometric Mean Relative Absolute Error GPR: General Purpose Register
(Hardware)
GMRP: Garp Multicast Registration Protocol
It allows a device to declare membership of a Layer 2 multicast GPRC: Glass Passivated Rectifier Chip
group GPRS: General Packet Radio Service
GMS: Global Management System (Communication)
GMS: Global Messaging Service GPS: Global Positioning System

(Novell) GPS: Global Product Specification
GMT: Greenwich Mean Time GPSI: Graphics Processor Software Interface
Also called UTC
GPSS: General Purpose Simulation System
GMTA: Great Minds Think Alike
(Net lingo) GPT: Guid Partition Table
GNA: Global Network Academy
GPU: Graphics Processing Unit
GNBD: Global Network Block Device (Hardware)
Provides block-level storage access over an Ethernet LAN
(Operating systems) GPV: General Public Virus
GND: GrouND GQL: Graphical Query Language
(Hardware) GQoS: Generic Quality of Service
GNN: Global Network Navigator (Network)
(Network) GRADD: GRaphics Adapter Device Driver
GNOME: Gnu Network Object Model Environment (IBM)
GNU: Gnu's Not Unix GRAM: Global Resource Allocation Manager

GOAD: Gnome Object Activation Directory GRASP: General Responsibility Assignment
Software Patterns
GOCA: Graphic Object Content Architecture
(Software)
GOD: Global OutDial

GRDDL H
GRDDL: Gleaning Resource Descriptions from GT: Greater Than

Dialects of Languages (Software)
Specification that introduces markup for declaring that an XML
GTD: Getting Things Done
document includes gleanable data and for linking to an
algorithm, typically represented in XSLT, for gleaning the Software systems that implement David Allen's "Getting Things
resource descriptions from the document Done" methodology (Software)
GRE: Generic Routing Encapsulation GTDM: Group Time Division Multiplexing

Protocol for encapsulation of an arbitrary network layer GTE: General Telephone Electronics
protocol over another arbitrary network layer protocol
(Network) GTF: Generalized Timing Format
GRE: GRaphics Engine GTFO: Get The F**k Out
To ask someone to leave now (Net lingo)
GREP: Global Regular Expression Print
GTG: Got To Go
GRIC: Global Reach Internet Connection
(Net lingo)
(Communication)
GTK: Gimp ToolKit
GRINS: GRaphical INterface to Smil
Set of libraries to create graphical user interfaces. It has a C-
G gRMS: G Root Mean Square based object-oriented architecture that allows for maximum
Measurement unit used to quantify a vibration; "g" is the flexibility (Software) (GNU)
H gravitational acceleration constant (Hardware) GTL: Gunning Transceiver Logic

GRP: Group gTLD: Generic Top Level Domain
File name extension
(Network)
GRS: General Retention Schedule GTM: Gnome Transfer Manager
Length of time archived data is to be kept in an archive
database GTO: Guide To Operations
(IBM)
GRUB: GRand Unified Bootloader
(Operating systems) GTP: Geometry Theorem Prover
GS: General Synthesis GTS: Generic Traffic Shaping
(Hardware) (Roland) (Cisco)
GS: Group Separator GUI: Graphical User Interface

The pictorial point of interaction between you and the
GSDS: Genealogy Software Distribution System
computer and its special applications, usually with a mouse or
GSE: Giac Security Expert other selection device. (Operating systems)
GSI: General Server Interface GUID: Globally Unique IDentifier
GSI: Grid Security Infrastructure GUIDE: Graphical User Interface Design Editor
GSM: Global Shared Memory GUUG: German Unix User Group
GSM: Global System for Mobile communications GVPN: Global Virtual Private Network
(Communication) (Network)
GSMP: General Switch Management Protocol GVT: Global Virtual Time

(Network) GVU: Graphic, Visualization, and Usability
GSNW: Gateway Service for NetWare GWAPI: Go Webserver Application Programming
(Microsoft) Interface
GSP: Generic Server Passer (Software) (Lotus)
GSP: Global Service Provider GWART: GateWay Address Routing Table
GSR: Gigabit Switch Router GW-BASIC: Gee Whiz Beginners All-purpose

(Hardware)
Symbolic Instruction Code
GSS: Generic Security Service GWE: Global Write Enabled

(Hardware)
GSSAP: Generic Security Service Application
Protocol GWES: Graphics, Windowing and Events
(Security)
Subsystem
GSSAPI: Generic Security Services Application
Programming Interface GWIA: GroupWare Internet Agent
(Software) (Novell)
GSSM: General Service Subscription Management GWT: Google Web Toolkit

For managing value added services in mobile/cellular networks Open source Java software development framework that makes
(Communication) writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for
developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second
GSTN: General Switched Telephone Network language (Software)
GSTS: Ground-based Surveillance and Tracking
System H
GSX: Ground Storm X H: Header
(Operating systems) File name extension

H&J HDSL
H&J: Hyphenation And Justification HCSDS: High-Capacity Satellite Digital Service

(Software)
HCSS: High Capacity Storage System
H/PC: Hand-held Personal Computer
HCTDS: High-Capacity Terrestrial Digital Service
(Hardware)
HCU: Home Computer User
H/V: Horizontal/Vertical
HD: Hard Disk
H/W: HardWare
(Hardware)
HA: Header Authentication
HD: High Definition
HA: High Availability
HD: High Density
HA: Home Agent HDA: Head Disk Assembly
Component for mobile IP applications that run on home or
private networks (Network) HDB3: High-Density Bipolar 3
(Communication)
HACMP: High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing
(IBM) HDC: Hard Disk Controller
HACN: Home Agent Control Node HDC: High Dependability Computing
(Network) HD-CD: High Definition Compact Disk
HAD: Holographic Autostereoscopic Display
Simple conversion of LCD technology, replacing the LCD's
HDCP: High-Definition Content Protection H
Specification developed by the Intel Corporation to control
backlight with an HOE (holographic optical element)
digital audio and video content as it travels across Digital
(Hardware)
Visual Interface (DVI) or High Definition Multimedia Interface
HAGEO: High Availability GEOgraphic cluster (HDMI) connections
(Software) (IBM) HDD: Hard Disk Drive
HAI: Hardware Accelerator Interface (Hardware)
(Hardware) HDDL: High-level Dialogue Definition Language
HAL: Hard Array Logic (Software) (Philips)
HAL: Hardware Abstraction Layer HD-DVD: High Definition Digital Video (or
Versatile) Disk
HAL: Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic (Hardware)
Computer
HDF: Hierarchical Data Format
HAL: Home Automated Living
HDH: Hdlc Distant Host
HAL: House-programmed Array Logic
HDI: Head to Disk Interference
HALO: High Altitude Long Operation
Communication aircraft (Communication) HDI: Hoops Device Interface
HAND: Have A Nice Day HDL: Hardware Description Language

(Net lingo) HDLC: High-level Data-Link Control
HAP: Host Access Protocol A generic link-level communications protocol developed by the
International Standards Organization. HDLC manages
HAS: Home Automation System synchronous, code-transparent, serial information transfer over
a link connection (Communication)
HASP: Houston Automatic Spooling Priority
HDLP: High-Level Data Link Protocol
HAT: Hashed Address Table
HDM: Hardware Device Module
HAT: Heap Analysis Tool
(Hardware)
Tool for tracking down heap problems in Java programs
(Software) (Sun) HDMI: High-Definition Multimedia Interface
See http://www.hdmi.org/ (Hardware)
HAWK: Hostile Activity Watch Kernel
HDML: Handheld Device Markup Language
HBA: Host Bus Adapter
A controller board connecting the I/O expansion bus to the HDMOS: High Density Metal Oxide Semiconductor
SCSI subsystem. (Hardware)
HDP: Hard Disk Password
HBCI: Home Banking Computer Interface (Security)
HBI: Horizontal Blanking Interval HDR: HeaDeR
(Hardware)
HDR: High Data Rate
HCA: Hich-Contrast Addressing (Communication)
(Hardware) (Sharp)
HDR: High Dynamic Range
HCG: High-Contrast Addressing
HDR: Host Data Replicator
HCI: Host Controller Interface (Databases)
BlueTooth technology (Communication)
HD-ROM: High Density Read Only Memory
HCL: Hardware Compatibility List (Hardware)
HCL: Host Control Links HDSC: High Density Signal Carrier
HCR: Huffman Codeword Reordering (DEC)
MPEG-4 Audio Error Resilience (ER) technique that avoids error HDSL: High bit rate Digital Subscriber Line
propagation within spectral data
(Communication)

HDSM HLT
HDSM: Heterogeneous Distributed Shared Memory HIF: Hyper-g Interchange Format

(Hardware) File name extension
HDSS: Holographic Data Storage System HiFD: HIgh-capacity Floppy Disk
(Hardware) (Sony)
HDT: Hawaii Daylight Time
Timezone: GMT -10:00 HIFI: Hypertext Interface For Information
HDT: Host Digital Terminal HIL: Human Interface Link
(HP)
HDTP: Handheld Device Transport Protocol
(Communication) HIMEM: HIgh MEMory
HDTS: High Density Thumb Screw HIP: Hardware Instrumentation Package
SCSI connector with manually screwable screws (Hardware) (Hardware)
(HP)
HIP: Host Identity Protocol
HDTV: High-Definition TeleVision Host identification technology for use on Internet Protocol (IP)
(Hardware) networks
HDVD: High Definition Volumetric Display HIPERLAN: HIgh-PErformance Radio Local Area
Network
HDW: HarDWare
(Network)
H HDx: Half DupleX
(Communication)
HIPPI: HIgh Performance Parallel Interface
(Hardware)
HE-AAC: High Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding
HIPS: Host Intrusion Prevention System
Lossy data compression scheme for streaming audio. It
combines three techniques: Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), (Security)
Spectral Band Replication (SBR), and Parametric Stereo (PS) HIRD: Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth
HEC: Header Error Check (Operating systems) (GNU)
(Communication) HITS: Hypertext-Induced Topic Search
HEL: Hardware Emulation Layer HJB: HotJava Browser
HEP: Horizontal Enterprise Portal (Sun)
HEPNET: High Energy Physics NETwork HKCC: HKey_Current_Config

Windows NT Registry key (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
HES: Home Entertainment System
(Hardware) HKCR: HKey_Classes_Root
HEX: HEXadecimal
HKCU: HKey_Current_User
HF: High Frequency
HF: Human Factors
HKDD: HKey_Dyn_Data
HFC: Hybrid Fiber-Coaxial Windows NT Registry key (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Hardware)
HKLM: HKey_Local_Machine
HFEP: Host - Front End Protocol Windows NT Registry key (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Network)
HKU: HKey_Users
HFS: Hierarchical File System Windows NT Registry key (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Operating systems) (Apple)
HLB: Horny Little Bastard
HFT: High Function Terminal (Net lingo)
(IBM)
HLCO: High Low Close Open
HFT: Host Function Table
HLD: Height, Length, Depth
(Software)
HLHSR: Hidden-Line, Hidden-Surface Removal
HGA: Hercules Graphics Adapter
HLL: High-Level Language
HGC: Hercules Graphics Card
(Software)
(Hardware)
HLLAPI: High-Level Language Application
HGCP: Hercules Graphics Card Plus
Programming Interface
HGML: Hyper Graphics Markup Language (Software)
HHT: Hand-Held Terminal HLP: HeLP
Hand-held programming terminal to communicate with a File name extension
programmable logic controller (PLC) on the fly (Hardware)
HLQ: High Level Qualifier
HIC: Hybrid Integrated Circuit
HLR: Home Location Register
HID: High-Intensity Discharge
HLS: Hue, Luminance, Saturation
Light bulb technology used mainly in projectors (Hardware)
Color model
HID: Human Interface Device
HLSL: High-Level Shading Language
(Hardware)
DirectX 9 feature that abstracts low-level details such as
HIDS: Host-based Intrusion Detection System register allocation, register read-port limits, instruction co-
(Security) issuing and so on (Games) (Microsoft)
HLT: HaLT

HMA HPSB
HMA: High Memory Area HP: HoneyPot

Method to access the first 64kB segment above the 1MB An Internet-attached server that acts as a decoy, luring in
boundary in DOS/Windows 16-bits (Microsoft) potential hackers in order to study their activities and monitor
how they are able to break into a system (Security)
HMA: Hub Management Architecture
HP/UX: Hewlett-Packard UniX
HMAC: Hash Message Authentication Code
(Operating systems) (HP)
(Security)
HPA: High Performance Addressing
HMC: Hardware Management Console
(IBM) HPA: Host Protected Area
Sometimes referred to as hidden protected area, is an area of
HMC: Hardware Management Console a hard drive that is not normally visible to an operating system
(IBM) (OS) (Hardware)
HMC: Highspeed Memory Controller HPAS: Hypermedia Presentation and Authoring
HMD: Head Mounted Display System
HMFIC: Head Mother Fucker in Charge HP-AS: Hewlett-Packard Application Server

(HP)
Another name for the boss (Net lingo)
HMI: Host Micro Interface HPB: High Ping Bastard
Network multiplayer games attribute (Software)
(CompuServe)
HMI: Html Mail Interface HPC: High-Performance Computing H
(Microsoft) HPCA: High Performance Computer Architecture
HMI: Human-Machine Interface (Hardware)
HMM: Hidden Markov Model HPCC: High-Performance Computing and

Communications
HMMP: HyperMedia Management Protocol
HPDJ: Hewlett-Packard Desk Jet
HMMU: Hardware Memory Management Unit
HPF: High Performance Fortran
(Hardware)
HPFS: High Performance File System
HMOS: High performance Metal Oxide
Semiconductor (Operating systems) (IBM)
HMP: Host Monitoring Protocol HPG: Hewlett-Packard Graphics
H-MUX: Hybrid MUltipleXer HPGL: Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language

Language to describe vector graphics (usually for plotters)
HNET: Holographic NEural Technology (Software) (HP)
HNP: Host Negotiation Protocol HPIB: Hewlett Packard Interface Bus
(Hardware) Is a version of GPIB (also known as IEEE.488) and was used
on Hewlett Packard (Now Aligent Technologies) lab equipment.
HOAP: Humanoid for Open Architecture Platform Early versions used a different connector (Hardware) (HP)
HOAS: Hold On A Second HP-IB: Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus
(Net lingo) (Hardware) (HP)
HOB: High-Order Byte HP-IL: Hewlett-Packard Interface Loop
HOD: Host-On-Demand A serial communications interface, expecially for small
calculators, i.e. 41C (Communication) (HP)
HO-DSP: Higher Order Domain-Specific Part
(Network) HPLJ: Hewlett-Packard Laser Jet
HOE: Holographic Optical Element HPLT: High Productivity Languages/Tools

(Hardware) HPNA: Home Phoneline Networking Alliance
HOL: High Order Language (Organizations)
HOLAP: Hybrid On-Line OnLine Analytical HPOFS: High Performance Optical File System
Processing HPOM: Home Page Object Model
HOOPS: Hierachical Object Orientated Picture (Microsoft)
System HPPA: Hewlett-Packard Precision Architecture
HOPS: Hierarchical Object Orientated Picture HPPCL: Hewlett-Packard Printer Control Language
System
HPPE: High Performance Processing Element
HOSED: Hardware Or Software Error Detected (Hardware)
General error not yet diagnosed. If ignored, progressed to
SNAFU and then FUBAR (Net lingo) HPPI: High-Performance Peripheral Interface
HOTT: Hot Off The Tree HPPN: Hewlett-Packard Proactive Notification
Electronic newsletter (HP)
HOTW: Hot Off The Web HPR: High Performance Routing

Web organizer (Software) (IBM)
HOTW: Hot Off The Wire HPSA: High Parallel System Architecture
(Hardware)
HOV: High Occupancy Vehicle
HPSB: High-Performance Serial Bus
HP: Hewlett-Packard
Also known as FireWire (Hardware)

HPUX HTX
HPUX: Hewlett-Packard UniX HSM: Hierarchical Storage Management

HP-VUE: Hewlett-Packard Visual User HSM: Hitachi System Manager
Environment
HSMOS: High Speed Metal Oxide Semiconductor
HPW: High Performance Workstation
HSP: High Speed Printer
(Sun)
HSR: Horizontal Scan Rate
HQ: HeadQuarter
(Hardware)
HR: High-Rate
HSRP: Hot Standby Router Protocol
IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN access method (Communication)
Allows hosts to appear to use a single router and to maintain
HR: Horizontal Rule connectivity even if the actual first hop router they are using
HTML Tag fails (Network) (Cisco)
HR: Human Resource HSSDS: High Speed Switched Digital Service
HRAA: High Resolution Anti Aliasing HSSI: High Speed Serial Interface
Technology found in the nVidia GeForce3 Chip (Hardware) HST: Hawaii Standard Time
(nVidia) Timezone: GMT -10:00
HRAD: Hosted Rapid Application Development HST: High Speed Technology
H HRC: Hybrid Ring Control (3Com)
HREF: Hypertext REFerence HST: HiSTory

HRG: High Resolution Graphics HST: HoST
HRIS: Human Resource Information System HSV: Hue, Saturation, Value
HRMS: Human Resource Management System HSYNC: Horizontal SYNChronization
(Hardware)
HRTF: Head-Related Transfer Function
HT: Horizontal Tab
HS: Heat Sink
(Hardware) HT: Hyper-Threading
A technology started with Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor at 3.06
HS: High Speed that enables the processor to execute two thread in parallel, so
HSB: Hue, Saturation, Brightness the software can run more efficiently and the user can
multitask more effectively (Hardware) (Intel)
Color model
HT: HyperTransport
HSC: Help and Support Center
Technology is a high-speed, low latency, point-to-point link
designed to increase the communication speed between
HSC: Hierarchical Storage Controller integrated circuits in computers, servers, embedded systems,
and networking and telecommunications equipments up to 48
HSC: High Speed Channel times faster (Hardware) (AMD)
HSCSD: High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data HTA: HyperText Application
For the Global System for Mobile (GSM) (Communication) (Network)
HSD: High Speed Data HTCPCP: Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol
HSDPA: High Speed Downlink Packet Access (Network)
Enhanced 3G (third generation) mobile telephony HTDM: Hybrid Time Division Multiplexing
communications protocol in the High-Speed Packet Access
(HSPA) family. (Network) HTH: Hope This Helps
(Net lingo)
HSF: Heat Sink and Fan
Common combination of a fan attached to a heat sink that is HTL: High Threshold Logic
placed in contact with a microprocessor that needs to be (Hardware)
cooled. (Hardware)
HTML: HyperText Markup Language
HSFS: High Sierra File System A file format, based on SGML, for hypertext documents on the
(Operating systems) Internet. It is simple and enables the embedding of images,
sounds, video streams, form fields, and basic text formatting.
HSI: High Speed Interface
HTPC: Home Theater Personal Computer
HSI: Hue, Saturation, Intensity
(Hardware)
Color model
HTT: Hyper-Threading Technology
HSIL: Host Side Igmp Library
Implementation of simultaneous multithreading on Intel
(Network) (Cisco) Pentium 4, Mobile Pentium 4, and Xeon processors (Intel)
HSL: High Speed Link HTTP: HyperText Transport (or Transfer) Protocol
(IBM) The Internet protocol that fetches hypertext objects from
HSL: Hue, Saturation, Luminance remote hosts. It is based on TCP/IP.
Color model (Hardware) HTTPD: HyperText Transfer Protocol Daemon
HSLAN: High Speed Local Area Network HTTP-NG: HyperText Transfer Protocol - Next
HSLN: High Speed Local Network Generation
HSM: Hardware Security Module HTTPS: HyperText Transport (or Transfer)

Protocol Secure
Generate and/or store secrets for use in crytography,
commonly used in card payment systems (Hardware) The secure version of HTTP allowing transfer of encrypted data
HTX: HTml eXtension

HUD IANW
HUD: Heads Up Display I4DL: Interface, Inheritance, Implementation,

Installation Definition Language
HUMAN: High-speed Unlicensed Metropolitan
Area Network IA: Illustrated Audio
(Network) Sound file format
HURD: Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons IA: Information Appliance
(Operating systems) (GNU) (Hardware)
HURSE: Hasp Unit Record SErvice IA: Information Architecture
To get a punch or print of your cards (Operating systems) (IBM)
IA: Intel Architecture
HUT: Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (Hardware) (Intel)
HVC: Hue, Value, Chroma IAA: Intel's Application Accelerator
HVD: High Voltage Differential IAB: Internet Activities Board
(Hardware) The group that administrates the development of the Internet
suite of protocols (TCP/IP). The IAB has two investigative task
HVP: Horizontal and Vertical Position forces, the IRTF and the IETF. Now its called Internet
HVS: Human Visual System Architecture Board (Organizations)
HW: HardWare IAB: Internet Architecture Board

The new name of what was called Internet Activities Board
HWCP: HardWare Code Page (Organizations) H
HWD: Height, Width, Depth IAC: InterApplication Communication
HWDM: Hyperfine Wavelength-Division (Apple) I
Multiplexing IAC: Internet Application Component
(Communication) (Software)
HWG: Here We Go! IAD: Integrated Access Device
Mostly used in online gaming (Games)
IAD: Intrusion-Aware Design
HWIC: High-speed Wan Interface Card (Security)
(Hardware) (Cisco)
IADM: Internet Application Distribution
HWIH: Here's What I Have Management
(Net lingo)
IAEC: International Address Element Code
HYTEA: HYperText Environment for Authoring
IAFA: Internet Anonymous Ftp Archives
Hz: HertZ (Network)
Frequency measurement unit
IAG: Instruction Address Generation
I IAHC: Internet Ad Hoc Committee

(Organizations)
(ISC)2: International Information System
Security Certification Consortium IAI: Internet Application Integration
(Organizations) IAK: Internet Access Kit
I: Italic (IBM)
HTML tag IAL: Intel Architecture Lab
I/F: InterFace (Intel)
I/O: Input/Output IAL: International Algebraic Language

The equipment used to communicate with a computer, the data ALGOL was first called IAL
involved in that communication, the media carrying the data, IALATFTTJH: I Am Laughing At The Funny Thing
and the process of communicating that information
That Just Happend
I/T: Integration/Transformation An alternative to LOL used to represent humor (Net lingo)
Another name for Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
IAM: Identity Access Management
(Databases)
Encapsulates people, processes and products to identify and
I2: Internet 2 manage the data used in an information system to authenticate
(Network) users and grant or deny access to data and system resources.
Its goal is to provide appropriate access to enterprise
I2C: Intelligent Interface Controller resources (Security)
(Hardware)
IAM: Index Allocation Map
I2C: Inter-Integrated Circuit (Databases)
2-wire bus developed by Philips Semiconductors in the early
1980's for efficient inter-IC communications. See
IAM: Internet Answering Machine
http://www.semiconductors.philips.com/markets/mms/protocol (Software)
s/i2c/ (Hardware) (Philips)
iAMT: Intel Active Management Technology
I2-DSI: Internet 2-Distributed Storage Hardware-based technology for remotely managing and
Infrastructure securing PCs out-of-band (Intel)
(Network) IANA: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
I2O: Intelligent Input Output IANAL: I Am Not A Lawyer
I3: Innovation In Infrastructure Standard disclaimer before dispensing legal advice (Net lingo)
IANW: International Academic NetWorkshops

IAP ICE
IAP: Internet Access Policy ICA: Intelligent Console Architecture

IAP: Internet Access Provider ICA: Intra-application Communications Area
IARP: Inverse Address Resolution Protocol ICALP: International Conference on Automata,
(Network) Languages and Programming
IAS: Information Access Service ICAN: Individual Customer Access Network
IAS: Interactive Application System ICANN: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers
IAS: Internet Access Server
(Organizations)
(Network)
ICAP: Intenet Content Adaption Protocol
IAS: Internet Authentication Service
(Network)
IASS: Internet Alphaserver System Software
ICAP: Internet Calendar Access Protocol
(DEC)
(Lotus)
IAT: Import Address Table
ICAPI: Internet Connection server Application
IAT: Information Access Technology (Software) (IBM)
IAT: Internet Appliance Toolkit ICAS: Intel Communicating Applications
(Network) (QNX) Specifications
IAUG: International Aix User Group ICB: Internet Citizen's Band
I IAX: Inter-Asterisk eXchange ICC: Integration Competency Center
Protocol native to Asterisk PBX. Used to enable VoIP (Software)
connections between servers as well as client-server
communication (Communication) ICC: Intelligent Communications Control
IAYF: Information At Your Fingertips ICC: International Color Consortium

(Organizations)
IB: Interface Builder
(Software) (Apple) ICCB: Internet Configuration Control Board
(Organizations)
IBA: Intel Boot Agent
(Intel) ICCC: InterClient Communication Convention
IBC: Instrument Bus Computer ICCCM: Inter-Client Communication Conventions

Manual
iBCS: Intel Binary Compatibility Specification The document that describes the conventions for the
IBG: International Biometrics Group communication between X clients. This includes such
conventions as client-to-client, client-to-window manager,
(Security)
client-to-session manager, and color characterization
IBIP: Information Based Indicia Program communication. (Operating systems)
Bar code postage system ICCD: International Conference on Computer
IBM: International Business Machines Design
IBM-GL: International Business Machines ICCF: Interactive Computing and Control Facility
Graphics Language Program development and testing environment (Software)
(IBM)
IBN: Integrated Business Network
ICCP: Institute for the Certification of Computing
IBOC: In-Band, On-Channel Professionals
IBTL: In Before The Lock ICCS: Integrated Communications Cabling System
A cry made prior to an on-line moderator locking an
inapproprate topic on in an on-line discussion forum (Net lingo) ICD: Installable Client Driver
IBV: Information Behavior and Value ICD: International Code Designator
IC: I See ICDA: Integrated Cached Disk Array

(Net lingo) ICDL: International Computer Driving Licence
IC: Input Circuit The ICDL Foundation works to promote an International
certification of industry-standard computing skills. See
IC: Input Context http://www.ecdl.com (Organizations)
An abstraction for representing the state of a particular input
ICDS: I-data Compressed Data Stream
thread for use with an input method. Multiple ICs can be
associated with an input method. An i-data/MPI Tech architected bi-directional host-to-printer
data stream that contains both data and controls. ICDS is
IC: Integrated Circuit generated by EPM and PSS host applications
(Hardware) ICE: Image Correction and Enhancement
IC: Interexchange Carrier Film scanner technology
(Communication)
ICE: In-Circuit Emulation
IC: Internet Connector (Hardware)
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) ICE: Information and Content Exchange
IC: Interrupt Controller Protocol for use by content syndicators and their subscribers. It
focuses on automating content exchange and reuse, both in
ICA: Independent Computing Architecture traditional publishing contexts and in business-to-business
ICA: Intelligent Communication Adapter relationships

ICE IDARS
ICE: Integrated Computing Environment ICS: Incremental Change Synchronization

A mechanism to monitor, export, and import changed items
ICE: Internal Consistency Evaluator
(both hierarchy and content) between a database and an
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) information store or between two information stores
ICEM: Integrated Computer aided Engineering (Software) (Microsoft)
and Manufacturing ICS: Integrated Client Setup
ICES: Interference-Causing Equipment Standard ICS: Internet Caching System
ICF: Integrated Catalog Facility (Network)
ICF: Interactive Communication Facility ICS: Internet Conferencing System

(IBM) (Network)
ICF: Internet Connection Firewall ICS: Internet Connection Sharing

(Security) (Microsoft) (Network) (Microsoft)
ICH: I/o Controller Hub ICS: Intuitive Command Structure

(Hardware) (Intel) ICS: Iris Certificate Security
ICI: Image Component Information ICSA: International Computer Security
ICI: Inter-Cpu Interrupt Association
(Organizations)
I-C-IT: Intelligent Control Interactive Technology
ICSA: Internet Cellular Smart Access
ICL: Industrial Code and Logic
Manufacturer
ICSAPI: Internet Connection Services Application
I
ICL: Interface Clear
ICSC: Intelligent Channel/Storage Control
ICLID: Incoming Call Line IDentification
ICSE: International Conference on Software
ICM: Image Color Management Engineering
(Software)
ICSF: Internet Connection Sharing and Firewall
ICM: Image Color Matching Makes it possible for home and small office users to create and
(Kodak) manage private networks in which multiple computers share a
single connection to the Internet (Operating systems)
ICM: InComing Message (Microsoft)
ICM: Internet Call Manager ICSW: Internet Connection Sharing Wizard
ICMC: International Computer Music Conference (Network) (Microsoft)
ICMF: Integrated Coupling Migration Facility ICT: Information and Communications

Technology
ICMP: Internet Control Message Protocol
A broader definition of Information Technology (IT) including
The protocol used that handles errors and control messages at communications
the Internet Protocol layer. For example, the ping command is
an implementation of the ICMP. ICMP occurs on the IP ICTSB: Information and Communications
(network) level of the TCP/IP protocol suite. (Communication) Technology Standards Board
ICO: ICOn Initiative from the three recognized European standards
organizations with the participation of specification providers
File name extension
as partners to co-ordinate specification activities in the field of
iCOMP: Intel COmparative Microprocessor Information and Communications Technologies (ICT)
Performance (Organizations)
(Intel) ICU: Instruction-Cache Unit
ICP: Image CoProcessor ICU: Intel Configuration Utility
ICP: Independent Content Provider ICU: Interactive Chart Utility
(Network)
ICU: Internet Communication Utilities
ICP: Integrated Channel Processor (Communication)
ICP: Intelligent Communication Protocol ICU: Isa Configuration Utility
(Network)
ICW: Internet Connection Wizard
ICP: Internet Cache Protocol (Software) (Microsoft)
(Network)
ID: IDentifier
ICP: Internet Content Provider
IDA: Inernational Database Association
ICP: Internet Control Pack (Organizations)
(Network) (Microsoft)
IDA: Intelligent Drive Array
ICQ: I Seek You (Hardware)
Communication program (Software)
IDA: International Database Association
ICR: Intelligent Character Recognition
IDAPI: Independent Database Application
iCRT: Intelligent Content Recognition Technology Programming Interface
(Software) (Borland)
ICS: Ibm Cabling System
ICS: Implementation Conformance Statement IDARS: Integrated Document Archive and
Retrieval System

IDAS IEN
IDAS: Interchange DAta Structure IDNX: Integrated Digital Network eXchange

(IBM)
IDBMS: Integrated DataBase Management System
(Databases) IDP: Integrated Data Processing
IDC: Integrated Desktop Connector IDP: Internet Datagram Protocol
IDC: Inter-Device Communication IDPR: Inter-Domain Policy Routing protocol
(Network)
IDC: International Data Corporation
IDQ: Informatica Data Quality
IDC: Internet Data Center
(Databases)
IDC: Internet Database Connector
IDR: Intelligent Disaster Recovery
(Seagate)
iDCT: Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform
IDR: Intelligent Document Recognition
IDDD: International Distance Direct Dialing
IDRAM: Integrated Dynamic Random Access
(Communication)
Memory
IDDE: Integrated Development & Debugging (Hardware)
Environment
IDRC: Improved Data Recording Capacity
(Symantec)
(Hardware)
IDE: Informatica Data Explorer
IDS: Information Delivery System
(Databases)
I IDE: Integrated Development Environment
IDS: Internal Directory System
(Software) IDS: Intrusion Detection System
(Security)
IDE: Integrated Drive (or Device) Electronics
Bus architecture (Hardware) IDSL: Isdn Digital Subscriber Line
(Communication)
IDE: Interactive Design and Engineering
IDE: Interface Design Enhancement IDT: Integrated Device Technologies
(IDT)
IDEA: International Data Encryption Algorithm
IDT: Interface Design Tool
IDEA: Internet Design, Engineering, and Analysis
notes IDT: Interrupt Descriptor Table
IDEMA: International Disk drive Equipment and IDTS: I Don't Think So

Materials Association (Net lingo)
International not-for-profit trade association that represents IDU: Interface Data Unit
the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) industry and its infrastructure. See
also http://www.idema.org/ (Organizations) IDUG: International Db2 Users Group
(Databases) (IBM)
IDEN: Integrated Data Enhanced Network
(Network) IDUP-GSS-API: Independent Data Unit Protection
Generic Security Service Application
IDF: Intermediate Distribution Frame Programming Interface
IDFK: I Don't F***ing Know IDVC: Integrated Data/Voice Channel
(Net lingo)
IDX: InDeX
IDGA: International Game Developers Association
File name extension
(Organizations)
IE: Information Element
IDI: Initial Domain Identifier
(Network) IE: Information Engineering
IDIOT: Intrusion Detection In Our Time IE: Internet Explorer

Project to develop a new approach to efficient misuse detection (Software) (Microsoft)
methods. Its design made use of a new classification of IEAK: Internet Explorer Administrator Kit
intrusion methods based on complexity of matching and
temporal characteristics (Security) (Software) (Microsoft)
IDIV: Integer DIVide IEC: InterExchange Carrier
IDK: Internet Development Kit IEC: International Electrotechnical Commission

(Software) (Organizations)
IDL: Interactive Data Language IEE: Institute of Electrical Engineers
IDL: Interface Definition Language IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics

Engineers
A language-independent way to describe a module interface
(Software) (Organizations)
IDLE: International Date Line East IEF: Information Engineering Facility

Timezone: GMT +12:00 IEG: Information Exchange Group
IDLW: International Date Line West IEMSI: Interactive Electronic Mail Standard
Timezone: GMT -12:00 Identification
IDM: Integrated Document Management IEN: Internet Engineering Notes
IDN: Internationalized Domain Name IEN: Internet Experiment Notebook

IEP IIRC
IEP: Initial Experience Predictor IFT: Inverse fast Fourier Transform

IEPA: Individual Expert Participation Agreement IFX: Interactive Financial eXchange
(Sun)
IGA: Integrated Graphics Array
IESG: Internet Engineering Steering Group
IGC: Institute for Global Communications
The executive committee of the IETF (Organizations)
IGC: Integrated Graphics Controller
IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force
An engineering and protocol standards body that develops and IGES: Initial Graphics Exchange Specification
specifies protocols and Internet standards, generally in the File format for graphics interchange
network layer and above. See www.ietf.org (Organizations)
IGFET: Insulated-Gate Field Effect Transistor
IETFWG: Internet Engineering Task Force
IGFOS: International Government Forum for
Working Group
Open Systems
IEW: Information Engineering Workbench (Organizations)
IF: Information Flow IGMP: Internet Group Management Protocol
IF: Inner Firewall The TCP/IP protocol that permits Internet hosts to take part in
IP multicasting. It is an efficient means of broadcasting
(Security)
messages to groups of end-stations (Network)
IFB: Internet Free/Busy IGN: Ibm Global Network
Microsoft Outlook feature (Software) (Microsoft)
IGP: Integrated Graphics Processor
IFC: Internet Foundation Classes
(Hardware)
(Software)
IGP: Interior Gateway Protocol
I
IFCC: Internet Fraud Complaint Center
The protocol that enables the exchange or routing information
(Organizations) between collaborating routers on the Internet. Examples of
IFCM: Independent Flow Control Messages IGPs include Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and Open
Shortest Path First (OSPF) (Network) (Cisco)
iFCP: Internet Fibre Channel Protocol
IGRP: Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
Gateway to gateway network protocol standard, officially
Kind of IGP which is a distance-vector routing protocol
ratified by the Internet Engineering Task Force, which provides
invented by Cisco, used by routers to exchange routing data
Fibre Channel fabric functionality to fibre channel devices over
within an autonomous system (Network) (Cisco)
an IP network (Network)
IFD: Image File Directory IGS: Internet Go Server
IFD: Information Flow Diagram IGSN: Internet Gprs Support Node

(Communication)
i-FED: Intelligent Field Emitting Display
(Hardware)
IHA: Intel Hub Architecture
(Hardware) (Intel)
IFF: Interchange File Format
IHD: Integrated Help Desk
IFG: Incoming Fax Gateway (IBM)
IFIP: International Federation of Information IHS: Integrated Heat Spreader
Processing societies The top surface of the IHS is designed to be the interface for
IFITL: Integrated Fiber In The Loop contacting a HS/HSF. Allows more effecient heat transfer out
of the package to an attached cooling device. Transform non-
Enables Internet access through a technology known as Point-
uniform heat from the die to the top of the IHS for more
to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE). (Network)
uniform spread (Hardware)
IFMP: Ipsilon Flow Management Protocol
IHV: Independent Hardware Vendor
IFNA: International FidoNet Association A third-party hardware manufacturer (Hardware)
IFP: Instruction Fetch Pipeline IID: Interface IDentifier
(Software)
IFPI: International Federation of Phonographic
Industry IIF: Immediate IF
(Organizations) (Databases)
IFPUG: International Function Point User Group IIF: Immediate InterFace
Promotes and encourages the effective management of
III: Interstate Identification Index
application software development and maintenance activities
through the use of Function Point Analysis (FPA) and other IIIR: Integration of Internet Information
software measurement techniques (Organizations) Resources
IFR: Interleaved Frame Recording IIL: Integrated Injection Logic
IFS: Installable File System IIM: Internet Interaction Management
(Operating systems)
IIN: Integrated Information Network
IFS: Internal Field Separator
IIOP: Internet Interoperable Orb Protocol
IFS: Internal Field Seperator (Communication)
IFS: Internet File System IIR: Immediate Impulse Response
(Operating systems)
IIR: Incremental Image Rendering
IFSM: InFormation Systems Management
IIRC: If I Recall Correctly
IFSMgr: Installable File System ManaGeR (Net lingo)
(Operating systems)

IIRG IMTC
IIRG: International Information Retrieval Guild IMC: Internet Message Center

The oldest surviving hacker organization. See (Network)
http://www.iirg.org/ (Organizations)
IMDB: In-Memory DataBase
IIS: Internet Information Server (Databases)
IMDb: Internet Movie DataBase
IISP: Interim Inter-switch Signaling Protocol
IMDS: IMage Data Stream
IITF: Information Infrastructure Task Force (IBM)
IJCAI: International Joint Conference on Artificial IME: Input Method Editor
Intelligence (Software) (Microsoft)
IJORCS: International Journal Of Research in IME: Integrated Messaging Exchange
Computer Science
See http://www.ijorcs.org/
IMEI: International Mobile Equipment Identity
A code that uniquely identifies the mobile terminal hardware.
IK: Inverse Kinematics It is important in GSM for keeping a record of lost or stolen
mobile telephones. A copy of each IMEI is stored in the EIR
IKBS: Intelligent Knowledge Based System
(Communication)
IKE: Internet Key Exchange IMF: International Monetary Fund
IKMP: Internet Key Management Protocol (Organizations)
(Network) IMG: IMaGe
IKP: Internet Keyed Payment File name extension
I
IL: Intermediate Language IMHO: In My Humble Opinion
A platform-independent, compiler-generated language suitable (Net lingo)
to run on platform-specific virtual machines (Software)
IML: Initial Microcode Load
ILA: Image Light Amplifier (IBM)
ILE: Integrated Language Environment IMM: Input Method Manager
(Software) (IBM) (Software) (Microsoft)
ILEC: Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier IMM: Intel Mobile Module
Also known as primary local exchange carrier (Communication) (Hardware) (Intel)
ILLINET: ILlinois LIbrary NETwork IMM: Interactive MultiMedia
ILM: Information Lifecycle Management IMNSHO: In My Not So Humble Opinion
Not a technology, ILM is a combination of processes and (Net lingo)
technologies that determines how data flows through an
environment. By doing so, it helps end users manage data IMO: In My Opinion
from the moment it is created to the time it is no longer needed (Net lingo)
ILMI: Interim Local Management Interface IMO: Intenet Mail Only
iLO: Integrated Lights-Out Microsoft Outlook feature (Software) (Microsoft)
Remote management feature on HP servers. (Hardware) (HP) IMP: Information Management Practice
ILP: Instruction-Level Parallelism IMP: Interface Message Processor
CPU architecture (Hardware)
ILS: International Language Support IMP: Internet Mail Only
ILS: Internet Locator Service IMPA: Intelligent Multi-Port Adapter
IM: Input Method IMPP: Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol
The algorithm by which users enter the text of a language.
IMR: Internet Monthly Report
Input methods differ for each language, depending on that
language’s structure and conventions IMS: Image Management Services
IM: Instant Messaging IMS: Information Management System
IM: Interface Module (IBM)
IMA: Interactive Multimedia Association IMS: Instructional Management System
IMA: International Midi Association IMS: Intermediate Maintenance Standard
IMAC: Isochronous Media Access Control IMS: Internet Mail Service
IMACS: Image Management and Communication IMSI: International Mobile Subscriber Identity
System A unique number within the SIM card that identifies the
subscriber to the system (Communication)
IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol
(Network)
IMSO: Integrated Micro Systems Operation
IMAPI: Image Mastering Application IMSP: Internet Message Support Protocol

Programming Interface (Network)
Allows an application to stage and burn a simple audio or data IMSVS: Information Management System/Virtual
image to CD-R or CD-RW devices (Operating systems) Storage
(Microsoft)
IMTC: International Multimedia Teleconferencing
IMC: Internet Mail Connector Consortium

IMTV IOT
IMTV: Interactive Multimedia TeleVision INTEL: INTegrated ELectronics

(Intel)
IMUL: Integer MULtiply
InterNIC: INTERnet Network Information Center
IMUX: Inverse MUltipleXer
INTO: INTerrupt if Overflow occurs
IN: Individual Network
INTRAC: INtelligent Traffic Routing And Control
IN: INput
(Network)
IN: Intelligent Network
INTSERV: INTegrated SERVices
INA: Intelligent Network Architecture The transport of audio, video, real-time, and classical data
INAP: Intelligent Network Application Protocol traffic within a single network infrastructure (Network)
Allows applications to communicate between various IO: Information Orientation
nodes/functional entities of an intelligent network. The
protocol defines the operations required to be performed IO: Input/Output
between nodes/functional entities for providing intelligent IO: Internal Objects
network services
INC: INCrement
IOC: Input/Output Controller
INCITS: InterNational Committee on Information
IOC: Inter-Office Channel
Technology Standards
Organization for standardization in the field of Information and IOCC: Input/Output Channel Converter
Communications Technologies (ICT), encompassing storage,
processing, transfer, display, management, organization, and IOCC: Input/Output Controller Chip
retrieval of information (Organizations) IOCCC: International Obfuscated C Code Contest I
INCM: Intelligent Network Conceptual Model IOCP: Inter-Orb Communication Protocol
IND: INDex (Communication)
File name extension IOCS: Input/Output Control System
INET: International NETworking conference IOCtl: Input/Output ConTroL
INF: INFormation iODBC: Independent Open DataBase Connectivity
File name extension Open source, platform independent implementation of both the
INFS: Internet Network File System ODBC and X/Open specifications. It is rapidly emerging as the
industry standard for developing solutions that are language,
INGRES: INteractive Graphic REtrieval System platform and database independent. See also
http://www.iodbc.org/ (Software)
INI: INItialization
File name extension IOE: Internet Operating Environment
INIT: INITialize IOF: Infrared Optical Film
INL: Inter Node Link IONL: Internal Organization of the Network Layer
The ISO/OSI standard for the architecture of the network
INM: Integrated Network Management layer. The IONL divides the network layer into subnetworks
INM: International Neural Machines interconnected by convergence protocols (internetworking
protocols), resulting in a catenet or internet (Organizations)
INN: Inter Node Network
IOP: Input/Output Parity
INN: InterNet News (Hardware)
(Network)
IOP: Input/Output Processor
INND: InterNet News Daemon (Hardware)
(Network)
IOPL: Input/Output Privilege Level
INOC: Internet Network Operations Center
IOQD: In-Order Queue Depth
INP: Instant Network Presence (Hardware) (Intel)
(Network)
IOR: Interoperable Object Reference
INRIA: Institut National de Recherche en
IORDY: Input/Output channel ReaDY
Informatique et Automatique
(Hardware)
INS: INput String
IOREQ: Input/Output REQuest
INS: Integrated Network Server Microprocessor signal used in I/O addressing (Hardware)
INT: INTeger IORQ: Input/Output ReQuest
INT: INTernal Microprocessor signal used in I/O addressing (Hardware)
INT: INTernational IOS: Input/Output System

organization Domain name IOS: Internet Operating System
INT: INTerrupt (Operating systems)
(Software) (Intel) IOS: InterOrganizational System
INTA: INTerrupt Acknowledge IOSGA: Input/Output Support Gate Array
INTAP: Interoperability Technology Association IOT: Index-Organized Table
for Information Processing Indexed tables whose data is stored as a B*Tree index
The technical organization that officially develops Japanese structure (Databases) (Oracle)
OSI profiles and conformance tests (Organizations)

IOUG IPS
IOUG: International Oracle Users Group IPI: Inter-Processor Interrupt

See http://www.ioug.org/ (Organizations) (Hardware)
IOW: In Other Words IPIC: International Primary Interexchange Carrier
(Net lingo) (Communication)
IP: Information Provider IPL: Ibm Public License
(IBM)
IP: Instruction Pointer
CPU register (Hardware) (Intel) IPL: Information Programming Language
IP: Intellectual Property IPL: Initial Program Load
Also known as the bootstrap or boot process
IP: Intelligent Peripheral
IPL: Ion Projection Lithography
IP: Internet Protocol
The major network layer protocol in the Internet Protocol suite. IPM: Images Per Minute
IP describes the routing of packets, among its many tasks
(Network) ipm: Impressions Per Minute
Printing speed measurement unit (Hardware)
IPA: iPod/iPhone Application
(Software) (Apple) IPM: InfoPrint Manager
IBM's Info Print Manager - Creates IPDS data (IBM)
IPAM: Internet Protocol Address Management
(Network) ipm: Instructions Per Minute
IPAUTH: Internet Protocol AUTHentication IPM: Intelligent Power Module

I (Security) (Hardware)
IPBF: Installed Peripheral Base Flexibility IPM: Internet Protection Module

(Network)
IPC: Instructions Per Clock
IPM: Internetwork Performance Monitor
IPC: InterProcess Communication A network response time and availability troubleshooting
The process of sharing data between processes and, when application (Software) (Cisco)
necessary, coordinating access to the shared data (Operating
systems) IPM: InterPersonal Message
IPCE: InterProcess Communication Environment ipm: Interruptions Per Minute
IPCMOS: Interlocked Pipeline Complementary IPMB: Intelligent Platform Management Bus
Metal Oxide Semiconductor (Hardware)
Semiconductor manufacturing technology (Hardware) IPMC: Intelligent Platform Management Chassis
IPCP: Internet Protocol Control Protocol (Hardware)
(Network) IPMI: Intelligent Platform Management Interface
IPCS: Integrated Personal Computer Server Defines a set of common interfaces to a computer system
(Hardware) which system administrators can use to monitor system health
and manage the system (Hardware)
IPCS: Interactive Problem Control System
IPMI: Internet Protocol Multicast Initiative
IPD: Intelligent Printer Data (Network)
IPDC: Internet Protocol Device Control IPNG: Internet Protocol Next Generation
IPDS: Ibm Personal Dictation System (Network)
(IBM) IPO: Input, Processing and Output
IPDS: Intelligent Printer Data Stream IPO: International Purchasing Office
(IBM)
IPO: Internet Protocol over Optical
IPDU: Internet Protocol Data Unit (Network)
IPDVMRP: Internet Protocol Distance Vector IPP: Infrastructure Portal Provider
Multicast Routing Protocol
IPP: Intel Performance Primitives
IPE: Integrated Programming Environment (Hardware) (Intel)
IPF: Information Presentation Facility IPP: Internet Printing Protocol
IPF: Invalid Page Format (Network)
IPFC: Information Presentation Facility Compiler IPP: Internet Protocol Processor

(IBM) (Hardware)
IPFC: Internet Protocol over Fibre Channel IPR: Intellectual Property Rights
(Network) IPR: Interactive Photorealistic Rendering
IPI: Intelligent Peripheral Interface Used in 3D Modelling (Autodesk)
A device-generic interface used for large-capacity, high- ips: Inches Per Second
performance disks. The IPI supports disk transfer rates at
(Hardware)
3Mbyte/sec and above (Hardware)
IPI: Internet Policy Institute IPS: Information Processing Standards
A device-generic interface used for large-capacity, high- IPS: In-Plane Switching
performance disks. The IPI supports disk transfer rates at (Hardware)
3MB/sec and above (Organizations)

IPS ISA
IPS: Intrusion Prevention System IRF: Intermediate Routing Function

(Security)
IRIS: Internet Retailer Information System
iPS: Iplanet Portal Server
IRL: In Real Life
IPSE: Integrated Project Support Environment (Net lingo)
IPSec: Internet Protocol SECurity IRL: Insert Row Locking
A set of protocols that give greater IP-level security to data (Databases)
packets transmitted over Virtual Private Networks
IRL: Integer Register File
IPSI: Internet Protocol Server Interface
IRL: Interactive Reader Language
(Hardware)
IrLAN: InfraRed Local Area Network
IPSRA: Internet Protocol Security Remote Access
(Security) IrLAP: InfraRed Link Access Protocol
(Communication)
IPTC: International Press Telecommunications
Council IRLED: InfraRed Light Emitting Diode
IPTV: Internet Protocol TeleVision IrLMP: InfraRed Link Management Protocol
(Communication)
IPv4: Internet Protocol, Version 4
(Network) IRM: Information Resource Management
IPv6: Internet Protocol, Version 6 IRM: Inherent Rights Mask
(Network)
iRMC: Integrated Remote Management Controller
IPWG: Internet Privacy Working Group Implementation of a Remote Access Card (RAC) (Hardware)
I
(Organizations) (Fujitsu)
IPX: Internetwork Packet eXchange IRP: I/o Request Packet

(Network) (Novell) Data structure used by Windows to communicate to kernel-
mode device drivers. (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
IPX/SPX: Internet Packet eXchange/Sequenced
Packet eXchange IRQ: Interrupt ReQuest
A signal that a device requires CPU attention (Hardware)
IPXCP: Internetworking Packet eXchange Control
Protocol IRQL: Interrupt ReQuest Level
(Network) IRR: Internal Rate of Return
IPXODI: Internet Packet eXchange Open Datalink IRS: Internal Revenue Service
Interface
IRSG: Internet Research Steering Group
IQL: Interactive Query Language
IRTF: Internet Research Task Force
IR: InfraRed The task force of the Internet Activities Board that addresses
(Hardware) research and development of the Internet Protocol suite
(Organizations)
IR: Instruction Register
(Hardware) IRTOS: I2o Real Time Operating System
(Operating systems)
IR: Interface Repository
IRTP: Internet Reliable Transaction Protocol
IRAM: Intelligent Random Access Memory
(Hardware) IRX: Information Retrieval eXperiment
IRC: Internet Relay Chat IS: Image Stabilization
(Network) A system like this can help your digital camera take clearer
images (Hardware)
IRC: Interrupt Request Controller
(Hardware) IS: Information System
IRCA: Internet Content Rating Association IS: Interim Standard

(Organizations) Interim Standard 95 (IS-95), is the first CDMA-based digital
cellular standard pioneered by Qualcomm. The brand name for
IRCP: Internet Relay Chat Protocol IS-95 is cdmaOne. IS-95 is also known as TIA-EIA-95
(Network) (Communication)
IRD: Implementation Row Descriptor IS: Internal System

(Databases) IS: Interrupt Status
IRD: Integrated Receiver/Descrambler ISA: Industry Standard Architecture
IrDA: InfraRed Data Association PC bus architecture (Hardware)
(Organizations) ISA: Instruction-Set Architecture
IRDP: Icmp Router Discovery Protocol Part of the computer architecture related to programming,
including the native data types, instructions, registers,
(Network)
addressing modes, memory architecture, interrupt and
IRDS: Information Resource Dictionary System exception handling, and external I/O (Software)
IRET: Interrupt RETurn ISA: Interactive Services Association

IRF: Inheritance Rights Filter ISA: Internet Security and Acceleration
(Novell) (Microsoft)
IRF: Interger Register File ISA: Internet Server Application

(Software)

ISACA ISR
ISACA: Information Systems Audit and Control ISL: Inter Switch Link
Association (Hardware) (Cisco)
See http://www.isaca.org/ (Organizations)
ISL: Interactive System Language
ISAKMP: Internet Security Association Key
ISLM: Integrated Services Line Module
Management Protocol
(Network) ISLN: Integrated Services Local Network
ISAM: Indexed Sequential Access Method ISLU: Integrated Services Line Unit
ISAPI: Internet Server Application Programming ISM: Industrial, Scientific, Medical
Interface Radio frequency band (Communication)
(Software) (Microsoft) ISM: Integrated Service Module
ISBN: International Standard Book Number (Hardware)
ISC: Information Supply Chain ISM: Integrated Switch Module

(Hardware)
ISC: Instruction Set Computer
ISM: Internet Service Manager
ISC: Internet Service Center
(Microsoft)
ISC: Internet Storm Center
ISMA: Internet Streaming Media Alliance
See http://isc.sans.org/ (Organizations)
(Organizations)
ISC: Inter-System Communication
ISMF: Interactive Storage Management Facility
(IBM)
I ISCA: International Computing Security
ISN: Information Systems Network
Association ISN: Initial Sequence Number
(Organizations) Synchronization between two hosts to establish a TCP
connection. (Network)
iSCSI: Internet Small Computer System Interface
ISN: Internet School Networking
ISD: Image Section Descriptor
(Network)
ISD: Instructional Systems Design
ISN: Internet Services Network
ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network
ISN: Internet Shopping Network
A communication technology offered by telephone carriers
worldwide. ISDN combines voice and digital network services ISN-LAN: Information System Network-Local
in a single medium, offering customers digital data services Area Network
and voice connections through a single wire (Communication)
ISO: Independent System Operator
ISDN-UP: Integrated Services Digital Network
User Part ISO: International Organization for
A communications technology offered by telephone carriers
Standardization
worldwide. ISDN combines voice and digital network services An international standards body that reviews and approves
in a single medium, offering customers digital data services independently designed products for use within specific
and voice connections through a single wire industries. ISO also develops standards for information
exchange, such as the ISO/OSI model for computer networks.
ISDP: I See Dead People See http://www.iso.org/ (Organizations)
Tactical-ops, assault on terror gaming clan. See
http://www.isdp.tk/ (Games) ISO/OSI: International Standardization
Organization/Open Systems Interconnection
ISE: Integrated Software Engineering
(ISE)
ISOC: Internet SOCiety
(Organizations)
ISEN: Internet Search Environment Number
ISODE: International Standardization
Is the foundation of a portal that comprehensively catalogs the
Internet's databases. See also http://www.isen.org/ Organization Development Environment
ISF: Information Security Forum ISP: Integrated System Peripheral control

(Organizations) ISP: Interactive String Processor
ISFUG: Integrated Software Federal User Group ISP: Internet Service Provider
ISH: Information Super Highway Communications service company that provides Internet
access and services to its customers. ISPs range in size from
ISHO: Inter-System HandOver small independents serving a local calling area to large,
Transfer of 3G calls to 2G networks mid call and vice-versa established telecommunications companies (Network)
(Network)
ISP: Interrupt Stack Pointer
ISI: Information Sciences Institute
ISP: Interrupt Status Port
ISI: Internally Specified Index
ISPF: Interactive System Programming Facility
ISIS: Image and Scanner Interface Standard
ISPP: Internet Secure Payments Protocol
ISIS: Integrated Systems and Information (Security)
Services
ISQL: Interactive Structured Query Language
IS-IS: Intermediate-System to Intermediate-
ISR: Information Storage and Retrieval
System
The ISO/OSI protocol by which intermediate systems exchange ISR: Interrupt Service Routine
routing information (Operating systems)
ISKM: Internet Starter Kit for the Macintosh ISR: Interrupt Status Register

ISS ITYM
ISS: Internet Security Systems iTIP: Icalendar Transport-indendent

(Network) Interoperability Protocol
Specification that defines the format of calendar information
ISS: Internet Sharing Software
sent between calendar user agents. See also the RFC 2445
(Software)
ITLB: Instruction Tanslation Look-aside Buffer
ISSA: Information Systems Security Association
(Organizations) ITM: Instruction Translation Look-aside Buffer
ISSCC: International Solid-State Circuits ITMS: Immediate check Truth Maintenance

Conference System
ISSLL: Integrated Services over Specific Link ITN: Identification Tasking and Networking
Layers ITN: Internet Travel Network
(Network)
ITOT: Iso Transport service On top of Tcp
ISSLOW: Integrated Services System for LOW (Network)
bitrate lines
(Network)
ITP: Information Technology Practice
ISSN: Integrated Special Services Network ITP: Information Technology Project
ISSN: International Standard Serial Number ITP: Internet Transaction Processing
ISSO: Information System Security Officer ITR: Information Technology Research
IST: Immerse System Technology ITR: Input Transaction Record
IST: Initial System Test ITR: Internet Talk Radio I

IST: Intelligent Scanning Technology ITRS: International Technology Roadmap for
Semiconductors
ISTG: InterSite Topology Generator (Organizations)
Managing active directory replication (Operating systems)
(Microsoft) ITS: Incompatible Time-sharing System
An influential but highly idiosyncratic operating system written
ISUP: ISdn User Part for the PDP-6 and PDP-10 at MIT and long used at the MIT AI
Provides the signaling functions necessary to basic bearer Lab (Operating systems)
services and supplementary services for voice and non-voice
applications in the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) ITS: Intelligent Transportation System
ISV: Independent Software Vendor ITS: Internet Transaction Server

A third-party software developer (Software) ITSC: Information Technology Specialist
IT: Information Technology Certification
Certification program designed to verify the existence of those
IT: Integration/Transformation qualities and skills in a professional that enable the effective
Another name for Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) development, implementation and operation of IT solutions.
(Databases) See also http://www.opengroup.org/itsc/
ITA: Interim Type Approval ITSEC: Information Technology Security
Evaluation Criteria
ITAA: Information Technology Association of
America ITSO: International Technical Support
(Organizations) Organization
(IBM)
ITAC: Information Technology Architect
Certification ITSP: Internet Telephone Service Provider
Certification program designed to validate the existence of
ITTP: Intelligent Terminal Transfer Protocol
those qualities and skills in a professional that enable the
effective practice of IT architecture. See also (Communication) (Ericsson)
http://www.opengroup.org/itac/ ITU: International Telecommunications Union
ITB: Information Technology Branch International organization under the auspices of the United
Nations that develops radio (ITU-R) and telecommunications
ITB: Intermediate Text Block (ITU-T) standards. Prior to 1993, the ITU-T Standardization
Sector was known as the CCITT (Organizations)
ITC: Information Technology Consultant
An Information Technology (IT) position ITUG: International Telecommunications User
Group
ITC: International Typeface Corporation
ITUSA: Information Technology Users Standards
ITDI: Information Technology Pioneer
Association
International
ITU-T: International Telecommunications Union
ITE: Independent Trading Exchange
Technical standards group
ITE: Information Technology Equipment
ITU-TIES: International Telecommunications
ITF: Interactive Test Facility Union -Telecom Information Exchange Services
ITI: Information Technology Industry council ITU-TSS: International Telecommunications
Washington-based trade association representing the leading Union -Telecommunication Standards Section
U.S. providers of information technology (IT) products and
services. See also http://www.itic.org/ (Organizations) iTV: Interactive TeleVision
ITIL: Information Technology Infrastructure ITX: Intermediate Text Block

Library ITYM: I Think You Mean
(Net lingo)

IU JAX-RPC
IU: Integer Unit JAAS: Java Authentication and Authorization

Service
IUAP: Internet User Account Provider
Is a package that enables services to authenticate and enforce
IUMA: Internet Underground Music Archive access controls upon users. It implements a Java version of the
standard Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) framework,
IUP: Infrastructure Utility Provider and supports user-based authorization. (Security) (Sun)
IUP: Internet User Population JAD: Joint Application Development
(Network)
JADE: Jasmine Application Development
IUS/ITB: Interchange Unit Environment
Separator/Intermediate Transmission Block (Databases) (CAI)
IV: Initialization Vector JAE: Java Applet Environment
(Security) (Software) (Sun)
IV&V: Initialization Vector JAE: Jump if Above or Equal
IVC: Integrated Visual Computing JAF: Javabeans Activation Framework
(SGI) With JAF, Java developers can take advantage of standard
IVDS: Integrated Voice and Data Systems services to determine the type of an arbitrary piece of data,
encapsulate access to it, discover the operations available on
IVDT: Integrated Voice/Data Terminal it, and to instantiate the appropriate bean to perform said
operations (Sun)
IVIS: Interactive Video Information System
JAI: Java Advanced Imaging
IVIT: Intelligent Voice Interactive Technology
I Application programming interface (API) that enables
developers to easily incorporate high-performance, network-
IVL: Independent Vendor League
enabled, scalable, platform-independent image processing into
J IVL: Intel Verification Lab Java technology-based applications and applets (Software)
(Sun)
IVR: Interactive Voice Response
JAIN: Java for the Advanced Intelligent Network
IVS: Interactive Videodisk System
A set of Java technology based APIs which enable the rapid
IVT: InfoViewer Titles development of Next Generation telecom products and services
(Microsoft) on the Java platform (Sun)
IVT: Interrupt Vector Table JAM: Just A Minute

When your in an on-line conversation and you need to put the
IVTS: International Video Teleconferencing other person on hold while you quickly do something (Net
Service lingo)
IW: Information Warehouse JAMES: Java Apache Mail Enterprise Server
I-WAY: Information highWAY Is a 100% pure Java server, designed to be a complete and
portable enterprise mail engine solution based on currently
IWC: Inside Wire Cable available open protocols (SMTP, POP3, IMAP, HTTP)
IWF: InterWorking Function JANET: Joint Academic NETwork

A U.K. university network (Network)
IWS: Intelligent WorkStation
JAR: Java ARchive
IWS: Iplanet Web Server
JASIG: Java in Administration Special Interest
IXC: IntereXchange Carrier
Group
A long-distance carrier such as AT&T, MCI and Sprint
Consortium of educational institutions and commercial
(Communication)
affiliates sponsoring open source software projects for higher
IXF: Integration eXchange Format education. See also http://www.jasig.org (Organizations)
(IBM) JAWS: Jamming And Warning System
IYHO: In Your Humble Opinion (Hardware)
(Net lingo) JAXB: Java Architecture for Xml Binding
IYKWIM: If You Know What I Mean Architecture that provides an API and tools that automate the
(Net lingo) mapping between XML documents and Java objects (Software)
(Sun)
J JAXM: Java Api for Xml Messaging

Enables applications to send and receive document oriented
J/K: Just Kidding XML messages using a pure Java API (Software) (Sun)
(Net lingo)
JAXP: Java Api for Xml Processing
J2EE: Java 2 platform, Enterprise Edition Enables applications to parse and transform XML documents
(Software) (Sun) using a pure Java API that is independent of a particular XML
processor implementation (Software) (Sun)
J2ME: Java 2 platform, Micro Edition
(Software) (Sun) JAXR: Java Api for Xml Registries
Provides a mechanism for publishing available services in an
J2SE: Java 2 platform, Standard Edition external registry, and for consulting the registry to find those
(Software) (Sun) services (Software) (Sun)
JA: Jump Address JAX-RPC: Java Api for Xml-based Remote
Procedure Call
JA: Jump if Above
Defines a mechanism for exchanging synchronous XML-based
(Software)
messages between applications (Sun)

JAX-WS JERI
JAX-WS: Java Api for Xml Web Services JDBC: Java DataBase Connectivity
(Software) (Databases)
JBCL: Java Beans Component Library JDC: Java Developer Connection
(Software) (Sun)
JBE: Jump if Below or Equal JDE: Java Development Environment
JBI: Java Business Integration JDEE: Java Development Environment for Emacs
(Software) (Sun)
JDF: Job Description Format
JBIG: Joint Bi-level Image experts Group JDI: Java Debug Interface
This was (and is) a group of experts nominated by national
(Software) (Sun)
standards bodies and major companies to work to produce
standards for bi-level image coding. See also JDIC: Java Desktop Integration Components
http://www.jbig.org/ (Organizations) Project that aims to make Java technology-based applications
JBOD: Just a Bunch Of Disks first-class citizens of current desktop platforms without
sacrificing platform independence. Its mission is to enable
A storage subsystems using multiple independent disk drives,
seamless desktop/Java integration (Software)
as opposed to one form of RAID or another (Hardware)
JDJ: Java Developer's Journal
JBPC: Java-Based Pipeline Configurator
JDK: Java Development Kit
JC: Jump if Carry set
(Software) (Sun)
JCA: Java Card Assembly
JDMK: Java Dynamic Management Kit
(Software) (Sun)
Is the foundation for building and distributing network
JCA: Java Connector Architecture management intelligence into applications, networks and
(Software) devices. It is the first compatible implementation of the JMX
JCA: Java Cryptography Architecture

specification (Sun) J
JDNC: Java Desktop Network Components
(Software) (Sun)
Aims to provide the shortcuts required to construct desktop
JCAT: Java Coordination And Transactions applications in significantly less time by reducing the learning,
Includes (but is not limited to) the facilities required for design, and coding requirements (Software)
applications to be invoked and return results before, during or
after calls; to process call parameters or subscriber-supplied
JDO: Java Data Objects
information; and to engage in further call processing and Is an application programming interface (API) for transparent
control (Sun) database access. The programmer can write code in the Java
programming language that transparently accesses the
JCC: Java Call Control underlying data store, without using database-specific code
Includes the facilities required for observing, initiating, (Databases) (Sun)
answering, processing and manipulating calls, where a call is
JDOM: Java Document Object Model
understood to include (but is not necessarily limited to) a
multimedia, multiparty session over the underlying integrated Java-oriented API for reading and writing XML documents
network (Sun)
JDOQL: Java Data Objects Query Language
JCE: Java Cryptography Extension (Software)
Is a set of packages that provide a framework and
JDSL: Java Data Structures Library
implementations for encryption, key generation and key
agreement, and Message Authentication Code (MAC) (Software)
algorithms (Security) (Sun) JDT: Java Development Toolkit
JCK: Java Compatibility Kit Project that provides tool plug-ins that implement a Java IDE
(Software) (Sun) that supports the development of Java applications including
Eclipse plug-ins.The JDT project allows Eclipse to be a
JCL: Jakarta Commons Logging development environment for itself. See www.eclipse.org
JCL: Job Control Language JDTF: Java Device Test Framework

(Software) (Software) (Sun)
JCP: Java Community Process JDWP: Java Debug Wire Protocol

Produces high-quality specifications in "Internet time" using an (Sun)
inclusive, consensus building approach that produces a
JE: Jump if Equal
specification, a reference implementation (to prove the
specification can be implemented), and a technology JEDEC: Joint Electronic Devices Engineering
compatibility kit (Sun) Council
JCR: Java Content Repository JEIDA: Japanese Electronics Industry
Specification for a Java platform API for accessing content Development Association
repositories in a uniform manner. The content repositories are
used in content management systems to keep the content data JEITA: Japanese Electronics and Information
and also the meta-data used in CMS such as versioning meta- Technology industries Association
data (Software) (Organizations)
JCS: Java Caching System JEMS: Jboss Enterprise Middleware Suite
Distributed caching system written in java. It is intended to Extensible and scalable suite of products for creating and
speed up applications by providing a means to manage cached deploying e-business applications. JEMS offers cutting-edge
data of various dynamic natures. See also technology components which customers can mix-and-match
http://jakarta.apache.org/jcs/ (Software) and roll out into their line of business infrastructure (Software)
JCWDE: Java Card Workstation Development JEPI: Joint Electronic Payment Initiative
Environment
(Software) (Sun) JERI: Jini Extensible Remote Invocation
(Software) (Sun)

JES JPE
JES: Java Embedded Server JMI: Java Metadata Interface

(Sun) Implements a dynamic, platform-neutral infrastructure that
enables the creation, storage, access, discovery, and exchange
JES: Job Entry System of metadata (Software) (Sun)
JESI: Java Edge Side Include JMM: Java Memory Model
JESS: Java Expert System Shell JMP: JuMP
A CLIPS expert system written for Java (Software) (Software)
JET: Joint Engine Technology JMS: Java Message Service
JMSC: Japanese Midi Standard Committee
JET: Jpeg Enhancement Technology
JMX: Java Management eXtension
JFC: Java Foundation Classes Formerly known as LMAPI (Sun)
(Software)
JNA: Java Native Access
JFET: Junction Field Effect Transistor Provides Java programs easy access to native shared libraries
JFIF: Jpeg File Interchange Format (DLLs on Windows) without writing anything but Java
codeâ??no JNI or native code is required. See also
JFS: Journalized File System https://jna.dev.java.net/ (Software)
(Operating systems) JNA: Jump if Not Above
JG: Jump if Greater JNAE: Jump if Not Above or Equal
JGE: Jump if Greater or Equal JNB: Jump if Not Below
JGF: Java Graphics Format JNBE: Jump if Not Below or Equal
J JGSS: Java Generic Security Service JNDI: Java Naming and Directory Interface
(Sun) Is a standard extension to the JavaTM platform, providing Java
JIC: Just In Case technology-enabled applications with a unified interface to
multiple naming and directory services in the enterprise (Sun)
(Net lingo)
JNG: Jump if Not Greater
JIMI: Java Image Management Interface
(Sun) JNGE: Jump if Not Greater or Equal
JIPS: Janet Internet Protocol Service JNI: Java Native Interface
(Sun)
JIS: Japan Industrial Standard
JNLE: Jump if Not Less or Equal
JISC: Japanese Industrial Standards Committee
JNLP: Java Network Launching Protocol
JIT: Just In Time
(Sun)
Programs compilation technique (Software)
JNO: Jump if No Overflow
JITA: Just In Time Activation
Allows an objects to tell COM+ that its work is done and that it JNP: Jump if No Parity
can be destroyed (Software) (Microsoft)
JNS: Jump if No Sign
JITC: Just In Time Compiler
JNZ: Jump if Not Zero
JJ: Just Joking
JODE: Java Optimize and Decompile Environment
(Net lingo)
(Software)
JK: Just Kidding
JOE: Java Objects Everywhere
(Net lingo)
JOGL: Java binding for OpenGL
JKS: Java KeyStore
Provides full access to the APIs in the OpenGL 1.0 - 3.0, â?¥
(Security)
3.1, ES 1.x and ES 2.x specification as well as nearly all
JL: Jump if Less vendor extensions (Software)
JLE: Japanese Language Environment JOHNNIAC: JOHn Neumann Integrator and

Automatic Computer
JLE: Jump if Less than or Equal to
JOOP: Journal of Object Orientated Programming
JLF: Java Layered Framework
Set of Java code to provide a foundation for faster Java JOSS: Johnniac Open Shop System
software development (Software) JOSS: Joint Object Services Submission
JLIP: Joint Level Interface Protocol JOVE: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs
JLS: Java Language Specification JOVIAL: Jules Own Version of the International
(Sun) Algorithmic Language
JMAPI: Java Management Application JPA: Java Persistence Api
Programming Interface (Software)
(Sun)
JPDA: Java Platform Debugger Architecture
JMF: Java Media Framework Multi-tiered debugging architecture that allows tools
(Software) (Sun) developers to easily create debugger applications which run
portably across platforms, virtual machine (VM)
implementations and SDK versions (Software) (Sun)
JPE: Jump if Parity Even

JPEG JVS
JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group JSR: Java Specification Request

A joint venture of the CCITT and ISO that developed a Is the actual description of a proposed and final specification
standard for compressing gray-scale or color still images for the Java platform (Sun)
JPG: Joint Photographic experts Group JSS: Java Security Service
Filename extension (short for JPEG) Java interface to Network Security Service (NSS). It supports
most of the security standards and encryption technologies
JPL: Jet Propulsion Laboratory supported by NSS. JSS also provides a pure Java interface for
JPLDIS: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Display ASN.1 types and BER/DER encoding
Information System JSS: Javascript Style Sheet
JPNF: Join-Projection Normal Form JSSE: Java Secure Socket Extension
JPO: Jump if Parity Odd Is a set of Java packages that enable secure Internet
communications. It implements a Java version of SSL and TLS
JRB: Java Relational Binding protocols and includes functionality for data encryption, server
(Software) authentication, message integrity, and optional client
authentication (Software) (Sun)
JRE: Java Runtime Environment
(Software)
JST: J2ee Standard Tools
Extension to the Eclipse platform with support for building
JRI: Java Runtime Interface multi-tier J2EE applications (Software)
Native interface proposed by Netscape (Software) (Netscape)
JST: Japan Standard Time
JRMP: Java Remote Method Protocol Timezone: GMT +9:00
Protocol for looking up and referencing remote objects. It is a
JSTL: Jsp Standard Tag Library
wire level protocol running at the level under Remote Method
Invocation (RMI) and over TCP/IP (Software) JSWDK: JavaServer Web Development Kit
JRP: Joint Requirement Planning (Software) (Sun)
J
JS: JavaScript JTA: Java Transaction Api
(Software) (Netscape) (Sun)
JS: Jump if Sign JTAG: Joint Test Action Group

(Hardware)
JSA: Japanese Standards Association
JTAPI: Java Telephony Application Programming
JSAM: Java Secure Application Manager Interface
JSAPI: Java Speech Application Programming (Sun)
Interface
JTB: Jump Trace Buffer
(Software) (Sun)
JTC: Join Transitive Closure
JSC: Java Swing Connection
Allows the DBMS optimizer to consider a join order other than
(Sun) those made available explicitly by the query's WHERE clause
JSCP: Java Software CoProcessor (Databases) (Sybase)
JSDK: Java Servlet Development Kit JTC: Joint Technical Committee

(Software) JTEE: Java Toolbox for Empirical Experiments
JSDL: Job Submission Description Language Aims to develop an open source toolbox for carrying out
empirical experiments. Java is used to allow easy migration to
Extensible XML specification for the description of simple tasks various platforms. See also
to non-interactive computer execution systems. The http://sourceforge.net/projects/jtee/ (Software)
specification focuses on the description of computational task
submissions to traditional high-performance computer systems JTM: Job Transfer and Manipulation
JSDT: Java Shared Data Toolkit JTMS: Justification based Truth Maintenance
JavaTM Shared Data Toolkit System
(Software) (Sun)
JTS: Java Transaction Service
JSF: Java Server Faces
JTSIN: Joint Transmission Services Information
Technology that simplifies building user interfaces for
Network
JavaServer applications. Developers of various skill levels can
quickly build web applications by assembling reusable UI JUG: Java User Group
components in a page and connecting these components to a
data source (Software) (Sun) JUGHEAD: Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy
Excavation And Display
JSGF: JSpeech Grammar Format
JUMP: Java User Migration Path
JSML: JSpeech Markup Language
JSON: JavaScript Object Notation
JUNET: Japan Unix NETwork
Scripting language based on a subset of the JavaScript
Programming Language. The format is specified in RFC 4627. JVM: Java Virtual Machine
The official MIME Media Type for JSON is application/json
(Software) JVMDI: Java Virtual Machine Debug Interface
(Sun)
JSP: JavaServer Pages
(Software) JVMPI: Java Virtual Machine Profiler Interface
JSPA: Java Specification Participation Agreement JVMTI: Java Virtual Machine Tool Interface
(Sun) JVS: Java Validation Suite
JSPC: JavaServer Pages Compiler (Software)
(Software)

jwcid KPDL
jwcid: Java Web Component IDentifier KD: Kernel Debugger

(Software) (Operating systems)
JWS: Java Web Server KDC: Key Distribution Center
(Sun)
KDE: K Desktop Environment
JWS: Java Web Start
KDS: Knowledge Discovery Server
Gives you the power to launch full-featured applications with a
(Lotus)
single click from your Web browser. You can now download
and launch applications without going through complicated KDT: Key Definition Table
installation procedures (Software) (Sun)
KEA: Key Exchange Algorithm
JWSDL: Java Web Service Description Language (Security)
Provides a standard set of APIs for representing and
manipulating services described by Web Service Description KEFIR: KEy FIndings Reporter
Language (WSDL) documents (Sun)
KERMIT: Kl-10 Error-free Reciprocal Micro
JWSDP: Java Web Services Developer Pack Interconnect over Tty lines
The Java Web Services Developer Pack is an all-in-one
KES: Key Escrow System
download containing key technologies to simplify building of
web services using the Java 2 Platform (Software) (Sun) KFM: K FIle Manager
JXTA: JuXTApose KFX: KoFaX
Started as a research project at Sun Microsystems, its goal is File Format for fax transmission
to explore a vision of distributed network computing using
peer-to-peer topology, and to develop basic building blocks KHG: Kernel Hacking Guide
and services that would enable innovative applications for peer
KHz: KiloHertZ
groups (Software)
KI: Key Identifier
J JZ: Jump if Zero
(Security)
K KiB: KibIByte
K Unit of measurement, introduced by the International
k: Kilo Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), correspondig to 1024 bytes
KIF: Knowledge Interchange Format
K&R: Kernighan And Ritchie
KIPS: Kilo Instruction Per Second
"Traditional" or "classic" C language specification, named after
its authors, Brian Kerninghan and Dennis Ritchie (Software) Processing speed
KAM: Keep Alive Memory KIR: Kyocera Image Refinement

(Hardware)
KAS: Kiva Administrative Server
(Software) (Netscape) KIS: Knowbot Information Service
KB: KeyBoard KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid

(Hardware) KIT: Keep In Touch
kb: KiloBit (Net lingo)
kB: KiloByte KIT: Kernel software for Intelligent Terminals

1024 bytes KJS: Kiva Java Server
KB: Knowledge Base (Software) (Netscape)
KBC: KeyBoard Connector KM: Keyboard Monitoring

(Hardware) KM: Knowledge Management
KBD: KeyBoarD KMA: Kiss My A**
KBE: Knowledge Based Engineering (Net lingo)
KBMS: KeyBoard/MouSe KML: Keyhole Markup Language

Connector. It's simply a duplicate of the PS/2 ports and it's XML grammar and file format for modeling and storing
used to connect other devices that use the PS/2 without having geographic features such as points, lines, images, polygons,
to give up the keyboard and mouse, and also is convenient for and models for display in Google Earth and Google Maps. You
things that you need to mount internally (Hardware) can use KML to share places and information with other users
kbps: KiloBits Per Second KMS: Key Management Server

Transfer Speed (Communication) Mostly used in Microsoft Exchange to issue security certificates
(Security) (Microsoft)
kBps: KiloBytes Per Second
KNI: Katmai New Instruction
Transfer Speed (Communication)
(Intel)
KBS: Knowledge-Based System
KOS: Kill On Site
KCC: Knowledge Consistency Checker (Games)
A domain service that creates and modifies the replication
topology of Active Directory (Network) (Microsoft) KPA: Key Process Area
(Software)
KCS: Kansas City Standard
Recording standard (Hardware) KPCMS: Kodak Precision Color Management
System
KCS: Kiva C++ Server (Software) (Kodak)
(Software) (Netscape)
KPDL: Kyocera Page Description Language
(Hardware)

KPF LB
KPF: Kerio Personal Firewall LADDR: LAyered Device DRiver

KPI: Kernel Programming Interface LADT: Local Access Data Transport
KPI: Key Performance Indicator LAF: Look And Feel
(Software)
KQML: Knowledge Query and Manipulation
Language LALL: Longest Allowed Lobe Length
KRS: Knowledge Retrieval System LAM: Local Area Multicomputer
KSAM: Keyed Sequential Access Method LAME: Lame Ain't an Mp3 Encoder
Accessing a flat file using a simple or compound key (Software)
(Software) (HP)
LAMP: Linux, Apache, Mysql, Perl (or Php or
KSDS: Keyed Sequential Data Set Phyton)
KSE: Kernel Scheduled Entitiy Web applications platform (Software)
(Operating systems) LAN: Local Access Network
KSH: Korn SHell LAN: Local Area Network
KSN: Key Sequence Number Data communications network connecting computers and
related equipment, usually over an area not greater than 10
(Security)
km (Network)
KSPH: KeyStrokes Per Hour
LANACS: Local Area Network Asynchronous
KSR: Keyboard Send Receive Connection Server
(Hardware) LANAID: LAN Adapter Installation and Diagnostic
kVA: Kilo Volt-Ampere (Network)
Electric power measurement unit (Hardware)
LANCE: Local Area Network Controller Ethernet
kVAh: Kilo Volt Ampere Hour
Electrical energy measurement unit (Hardware)
LANDP: Local Area Network Distributed Platform K
LANE: Local Area Network Emulation
KVM: K Virtual Machine
A virtual machine designed from the ground up with the
A set of services and protocols that provide for the emulation L
of LANs, using ATM as a backbone to allow connectivity among
constraints of inexpensive mobile devices in mind (Sun) LAN and ATM attached end stations (Network)
KVM: Keyboard, Video, Mouse LAP: Link Access Procedure
(Hardware) Communication protocol (CCITT X.25) (Network)
KWIC: Key Word In Context LAP: Linux Application Platform
A permuted index offering lists of titles, with each of the major
words as the first word, and the remaining words using key LAPB: Link Access Procedure Balanced
words or phrases (Network)
KWS: Knowledge Work System LAP-B: Link Access Procedure-Balanced

KXS: Kiva eXecutive Server LAPD: Link Access Procedure-D channel
(Software) (Netscape) Communication protocol (Communication)
LAPM: Link Access Procedure for Modems
L
LAPS: Lan Adapter and Protocol Support
L&F: Look & Feel
LAR: Load Access Rights
(Software)
LART: Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool
L&H: Lernout And Hauspie
LASER: Light Amplification by the Stimulated
L1: Level 1
Emission of Radiation
(Hardware)
LASS: Local Area Signaling Service
L2: Level 2
(Hardware) LASTport: Local Area Storage TransPORT
Protocol (DEC)
L2CAP: Logical Link Control and Adaptation
Protocol LAT: Local Access Terminal
L2F: Layer 2 Forwarding LAT: Local Address Table
(Network) (Cisco) A table containing the IP address range that is inside a
firewalled network (Network) (Microsoft)
L2TP: Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
(Network) LAT: Local Area Transport
(Network)
LA: Limited Availability
LATA: Local Access and Transport Area
LAC: L2tp Access Concentrator Local telephone company's geographical area (Communication)
Device attached to the switched network or located on an end
system supporting L2TP to pass PPP traffic (Network) LATM: Local Asynchronous Transfer Mode
LACP: Link Aggregation Control Protocol LAVC: Local Area Vax Cluster
Part of an IEEE specification (802.3ad) that allows to bundle LAWN: Local Area Wireless Network
several physical ports together to form a single logical channel
(Network) LB: Local Bus
Bus architecture (Hardware)

LBA LE
LBA: Logical Block Addressing LCSAJ: Linear Code Sequence and Jump
Analysis of linear sequences of executable code. The test cases
LBL: LaBeL
are based on control flow jumps (Software)
LBM: Local Bus Master
LCSD: Laminate Chip Signal Diode
LBOT: Logical Beginning of Tape
LCT: Last Compliance Time
(Hardware)
LCU: Last Cluster Used
LBR: LiBraRian
LD: Laser Disc
LBT: Listen Before Talk
(Hardware)
LBT: Local Bus Targets
LD: Link Dead
LBX: Local Bus Accelerator When a link between two points goes dead (disconnects) (Net
lingo)
LBX: Low-Band with X
LD: LoaD
LC: Liquid Crystal
Same as MOV (move). The Zilog Z80, for instance, used LD as
(Hardware) the assembler opcode for what Intel called MOV (move)
LCA: Life-Cycle Assessment because of copyright issues (machine code was the same)
(Software)
LCA: Logic Cell Array
LDA: Local Delivery Agent
LCA: Lotus Communications Architecture Program that a mail server uses to deliver mail messages to
(Lotus) the mailboxes of users. This program is also known as local
mailer (Software)
LCC: Leadless Chip Carrier
(Hardware) LDA: Logical Device Address
LCCM: LanClient Control Manager LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

(IBM) A standardized TCP/IP protocol for access to a central X.500-
based directory that is shared by many different services. Many
LCD: Liquid Crystal Display vendors plan to use LDAP to access policy information stored
(Hardware) on third-party directories (Network)
LCD: Loss of Cell Delineation LDC: Lotus Development Corporation

L
LCD: Lowest Common Denominator LDCM: LanDesk Client Manager
LCDUI: Liquid Crystal Display User Interface LDDM: Longhorn Display Driver Model
(Software) (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
LCE: Link Control Entity LDDS: Long Distance Discount Services

(Communication) LDGW: Lotus Domino Go Webserver
LCF: Lightweight Client Framework (Software) (IBM)
LCF: Low Cost Fiber LDI: Lvds Digital Interface

(Hardware)
Lch: Luminance Chrominance Hue
Color model (Hardware) LDIF: Ldap Data Interchange Format
File format suitable for describing directory information or
LCI: Lan Connect Interface modifications made to directory information. It is typically
(Hardware) used to import and export directory information between LDAP
servers or to describe a set of changes to be applied to a
LCID: Language Code IDentifier
directory (Communication)
LCID: LoCale IDentifier
LDM: Logical Disk Manager
LCK: Library Construction Kit
LDM: Long Distance Modem
(Microsoft)
LDML: Locale Data Markup Language
LCM: Landesk Configuration Manager
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/
(Operating systems) (Intel)
LDMS: LanDesk Management Suite
LCM: Leaf Creation Method
LDP: Label Distribution Protocol
LCM: Life-Cycle Management
A fundamental concept in Multi Protocol Label Switching is that
(Software) two Label Switching Routers must agree on the meaning of the
LCN: Logical Cluster Number labels used to forward traffic between and through them
(Network)
(Operating systems)
LDP: Linux Document Project
LCOS: Liquid Crystal On Silicon
(Hardware) LDP: Loader Debugger Protocol
LCP: Link Control Protocol LDT: Lightning Data Transport
Part of the point-to-point protocol (PPP) to establish, configure, (Hardware) (AMD)
and test data link connections (Network)
LDT: Local Descriptor Table
LCR: Least Cost Routing
LE: Less than or Equal
(Network)
(Software)
LCR: Line Control Register
LE: Light Edition
LCS: Laboratory for Computer Science (Software)
MIT's department
LCS: Lotus Communication Server

LE LISP
LE: Limited Edition LGA: Land Grid Array

(Software) Integrated circuit (IC) packaging that uses small flat contacts
versus pins (Hardware)
LEA: Load Effective Address
LGA: Leadless Grid Array
LEAD: Live Early Adoption and Demonstration
Integrated circuit (IC) packaging. Synonym of Land Grid Array
LEAF: Law Enforcement Access Field (Hardware)
LEAP: Lightweight Extensible Authentication LGDT: Load Global Descriptor Table

Protocol LGPL: Lesser General Public License
(Cisco) An evolution of the Library General Public License (GNU)
LEAS: Lata Equal Access System LGPL: Library General Public License
LEC: Lan Emulation Client (GNU)
(Network) LGX: Linux/Gnu/X
LEC: Layered Error Correction LI: List Item
LEC: Local Exchange Carrier HTML Tag
Local telephone company such as Pacific Bell, Southwestern LIAS: Library Information Access System
Bell, Bell Atlantic, etc. (Communication)
LIB: LIBrary
LECS: Lan Emulation Configuration Server
File name extension
See also LES (Network)
LIC: Licensed Internal Code
LED: Light Emitting Diode
(Hardware) LIC: Line Interface Coupler
(IBM)
LEL: Link, Embed and Launch-to-edit
(Lotus) LICS: Lotus International Character Set
LEM: Language Extension Module LIDE: Light emitting diode In-Direct Exposure
Scanner technology (Hardware) (Canon)
LEN: Low Entry Networking
LIDT: Load Interrupt Descriptor Table
LEO: Low Earth Orbit
LIEP: Large Internet Exchange Packet L
LEOT: Logical End Of Tape
(Novell)
(Hardware)
LIF: Low Insertion Force
LEP: Light Emitting Polymer
(Hardware) LIFE: Logistics Interface For manufacturing
Environment
LER: Label Edge Router
(Hardware) LIFO: Last In First Out
(Hardware)
LES: Lan Emulation Server
(Network) LILO: Last In Last Out
(Hardware)
LES: Language Engineering Services
LILO: LInux LOader
LET: Leaving Early Today
(Net lingo) LIM: Lotus/Intel/Microsoft
LEX: LEXicon LIMA: Lotus/Intel/Microsoft/Ast
LF: Line Feed LIMDO: Light Intensity Modulation Direct
An instruction to a certain computer or printer to move down Overwrite
one line, without moving the cursor or print head. Also used as LIMM: Light Intensity Modulation Method
a terminator
LIMOS: Laser Intensity MOdulation System
LF: Login Facility
LIMS: Library Information Management System
LFAP: Lightweight Flow Admission Protocol
LIP: Large Internet Packet
LFH: Low Force Helix
Connector pin type (Hardware) LIPS: Lightweight Internet Person Schema
LFI: Last File Indicator LIPS: Logical Inferences Per Second
LFM: Log File Monitor LIPS: Logical Instruction Per Second
Processing Speed
LFN: Long FileName
LIR: Local Internet Registry
LFR: Logical Forms Recognition
(Network)
(Software)
LIS: Library and Information Science
LFS: Linux From Scratch
Project that provides you with the steps necessary to build LIS: Logical Ip Subnet
your own custom Linux system
LISC: Local Interconnection Service Center
LFSR: Linear-Feedback Shift Register (Communication)
LFT: Low Function Terminal LISP: LISt Processor
(IBM) Programming language (Software)
LFU: Least Frequently Used

LISP LOM
LISP: Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol LMP: Link Manager Protocol

"Map-and-encapsulate" protocol which is developed by the
LMS: Lan Management Solution
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) LISP Working Group.
See also RFC 6830 (Network) (Software) (Cisco)
LITHP: LInk Type description language for LMS: Learning Management System
HyperText Processing LMS: Library Management System
LIU: Lan Interface Unit LMS: Lotus Messaging Switch
LIW: Long Instruction Word (Lotus)
(Hardware) LMSW: Load Machine Status Word
LK: LocK LMU: Lan Management Utilities
Lock file (Operating systems) (IBM)
LKG: Last Known Good LMU: Lan Manager for Unix
LN: Load Number
LLB: Local Location Broker
LN: Logarithm Natural
LLC: Logical Link Control Base e
Token Ring link protocol (IEEE 802.2) (Network)
LN:DI: Lotus Notes:Document Imaging
LLDP: Link Layer Discovery Protocol
LNBF: Low-Noise Block receiving horns with
A vendor-neutral Layer 2 protocol that allows a network device
to advertise its identity and capabilities on the local network integrated Feeds
LLDT: Load Local Descriptor Table LNK: LiNK

File name extension
LLF: Low Level Format
LNP: Local Number Portability
LLL: Low-Level Language
(Communication)
(Software)
LNS: L2tp Network Server
LLN: Line Link Network
L LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Maintains L2TP sessions with whatever is connected to the LAC
(Network)
(IBM) LO: helLO
LM: Lan Manager (Net lingo)
(Network) (IBM) LOB: Large OBject
LM: License Manager (Databases)
LM: Link Manager LOB: Line-Of-Business

LM/X: Lan Manager for uniX LOB: Low-Order Byte
LMA: Lightspeed Memory Architecture LOC: Lines Of Code
(Hardware) (nVidia) LOC: Loop Online Control
LMAO: Laughing My A** Off LOCIS: Library Of Congress Information System
(Net lingo)
LOD: Level Of Detail
LMB: Left Mouse Button
LODSB: LOaD String Byte
LMB: Local Master Browser
(Network) LOF: Loss of Frame
(Communication)
LMBCS: Lotus Multi-Byte Character Set
(Lotus) LOFS: LOopback File System
A file system type that lets the user create a new virtual file
LMD: Last Modification Date system. The user can access files using an alternative path
name (Operating systems)
LMDS: Local Multipoint Distribution System
(Communication) LOG: LOGarithm
Base 10
LME: Layer Management Entity
LOGML: LOG Markup Language
LMFAO: Laughing My F***ing A** Off
XML application designed to describe log reports of web servers
(Net lingo)
LOL: Laughing Out Loud
LMI: Link Management Interface
(Net lingo)
LMI: Local Management Interface
LOL: Lots Of Love
LMK: Let Me Know (Net lingo)
(Net lingo)
LOL: Lots Of Love
LMKHIW: Let Me Know How It Works (Net lingo)
When sending data to someone that should fix a problem. (Net
lingo) LOM: Lan On Motherboard
This is a network device that is built onto the motherboard (or
LMM: Logical Memory Manager baseboard) of the machine (Hardware)
(Databases) (Sybase)
LOM: Lights Out Management
LMOS: Leave Mail On Server Synonym for Out Of Band (OOB) management

LON LSAS
LON: Lan On Notebook LPR: Line Printer Remote

(Hardware)
LPRA: Low Power Register Array
LON: Local Operating Network (Hardware)
LOOPE: LOOP while Equal lps: Lines Per Second
Printing speed (Hardware)
LOOPNE: LOOP while Not Equal
LPS: Low Power Schottky
LOOPNZ: LOOP while Not Zero
(Hardware)
LOOPS: Lisp Object Oriented Programming System
LPT: Line PrinTer
LOOPZ: LOOP while Zero (Hardware)
LOP: Loss of Pointer LPWA: Lucent Personalized Web Assistant
LORE: Line Oriented Editor Anonymous web browsing service
LOS: Loss of Signal LPX: Low Profile Extended

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

Reasoning LRC: Longitudinal Redundancy Check
LPAR: Logical PARtition LRF: Little Rubber Feet
(Operating systems) (IBM) Support devices for computer cases and other equipments
LPB: Local Peripheral Bus (Hardware)
LPB: Low Ping Bastard LRL: Least Recently Loaded

Network multiplayer games attribute (Software) LRM: Language Reference Manual L
LPC: Lightweight Procedure Call LRM: Least Recently used Master
(Software)
LRMP: Lightweight Reliable Multicast Protocol
LPC: Linear Predictive Coding (Network)
LPC: Local Procedure Call LRPC: Lightweight Remote Procedure Call
LPC: Low Pin Count (Software)
(Hardware) LRS: Language ReSource
LPCM: Linear Pulse Code Modulation File name extension
(Communication) LRS: Line Repeater Station
LPD: Line Printer Daemon LRSN: Log Record Sequence Number
LPDP: Line Printer Daemon Protocol (Databases)
LPDU: Logical Protocol Data Unit LRU: Least Recently Used
LPF: League for Programming Freedom LS: Laser Servo

(Hardware) (Compaq)
lpi: Lines Per Inch
LS: Library Server
LPI: Linux Professional Insitute
Serves the community of Linux and open source software users
LS: License Server
vendors and developers, in the interest of increasing and LS: Login Server
supporting professional use of such software throughout world.
(Security)
See also http://www.lpi.org/ (Organizations)
LSA: Lan and Scsi Adapter
LPL: Logical Page List
(IBM)
(Databases)
LSA: Line Sharing Adapter
LPL: Lotus Programming Language
(Lotus) LSA: Link State Advertisement
(Network)
lpm: Lines Per Minute
Printing speed (Hardware) LSA: Local Security Authority
The Local Security Authority is the service provided to manage
LPM: Logical Process Manager
local security, domain authentication, and Active Directory
(Databases) (Sybase) processes. The Security Accounts Manager, Net Logon and
LPN: Logical Page Number Protected Storage services run within the context of lsass.exe
LPP: Land Pre-Pits
LSAPI: License Services Application Programming
Addressing aid in writing DVD-R (Hardware)
Interface
LPP: Licensed Program Product
LSAS: Local Security Authentication Server
LPPL: Latex Project Public License Verifies validity of user logons to PC/Server. (Operating
See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.html systems) (Microsoft)
LPR: Line PRinter

LSASS LYLAB
LSASS: Local Security Authority Subsystem LTR: LeTteR

Service
LTR: Load Task Register
Provides an interface for managing local security, domain
authentication, and Active Directory processes. The Security LTS: Leaning Toothpick Syndrome
Accounts Manager, Net Logon and Protected Storage services Expresses readability in PERL regular expressions (Software)
are components of LSA (Security) (Microsoft)
LTSS: Long Term Station Statistics
LSB: Least Significant Bit (or Byte)
LU: Logical Unit
LSC: Least Significant Character
LU6.2: Logical Unit 6.2
LSD: Least Significant Digit
LUA: Logical Unit Application
LSE: Language Sensitive Editor
LUG: Linux User Group
LSI: Large Scale of Integration
IC manufacturing integration level: it's the process of placing LUG: Local Users Group
from 3,000 to 100,000 transistors on one chip (Hardware) LUI: Local User Input
LSL: Link Support Layer LUIS: Library User Information Service
LSL: Load Segment Limit LUN: Logical Unit Number
LSMS: Lucent Security Management Server SCSI subaddressing (Hardware)
(Lucent) LUNI: Lane User Network Interface
LSN: Log Sequence Number LUS: LookUp Service
LSN: Logical Sector Number Provides the functionality to discover and register services
(Software)
LSNP: Loop Service with Number Portability
(Communication) LUT: LookUp Table
LSP: Label Switched Path LUW: Logical Unit of Work
LSP: License Service Provider LV: Logical Volume

An Netware Loadable Module (NLM) that responds to requests (IBM)
from NetWare Licensing Services (NLS) clients and licensing
L service managers for licensing information or license units
LV: Low Voltage
(Novell) (Hardware)
LSR: Label Switched Router LVCS: Logility Value Chain Solution

in MPLS, LSRs function to read the incoming label, remove it, (Software)
and then based on its FEC, append a new Label to it (Network) LVD: Low Voltage Differential
LSR: Link State Routing (Hardware)
LST: Linux Support Team LVDS: Low Voltage Differential Signalling

(Hardware)
LST: LiST
File name extension LVM: Logical Volume Manager
Provides a higher-level view of the disk storage on a computer
LT: Less Than system than the traditional view of disks and partitions. This
(Software) gives the system administrator much more flexibility in
allocating storage to applications and users (Operating
LT: Local Team
systems)
As in Rational ClearCase LT (Software) (Rational)
LVM: Low Voltage Differential Signaling
LTC: Longitudinal Time Code
(IBM)
LTE: Line Terminating Equipment LVQ: Learning Vector Quantization
LTF: Leap To Frogans LW: Lazy Write
See http://www.frogans.com/ (Software)
LW: Length Width
LTH: Low To High
Write-once Blu-ray disc format that features an organic dye LWP: LightWeight Process
recording layer (Hardware) A class of processes that share resources with each other and
therefore use fewer resources than ordinary processes
LTI: Lite Touch Installation (Operating systems)
Interactive installation and deployment of Windows XP SP2 or
Windows Vista complete with application install and any other LWP: Lotus WordPro
needed configuration of the final image on destination File format for documents
computers (Software) (Microsoft)
LWT: Lightweight Windowing Toolkit
LTNS: Long Time No See
LWUIT: LightWeight User Interface Toolkit
(Net lingo)
User interface (UI) library targeted to a wide range of mobile
LTO: Linear Tape Open devices, from mass market to high-end smart phones, and has
(Hardware) now also been ported to other embedded platforms (Software)
(Sun)
LTO: Locate-To-Order
LY: Love You
LTP: Long Term Predictor (Net lingo)
LTPS: Low-Temperature PolySilicon LYL: Love Ya Lots
(Hardware) (Net lingo)
LTR: Left-To-Right LYLAB: Love Ya Like A Brother
(Net lingo)

LYLAS MAPI
LYLAS: Love Ya Like A Sister MADCAP: Multicast Address Dynamic Client

(Net lingo) Allocation Protocol
Protocol that allows hosts to request multicast address
LZ: Landing Zone
allocation services from multicast address allocation servers.
(Hardware) This protocol is part of the Multicast Address Allocation
LZ: Lempel-Ziv Architecture being defined by the Multicast Address Allocation
Working Group (Communication)
LZH: Lempel-Ziv-Haruyasu
MADD: Multiply-ADD
Compression algorithm derived from the LZSS scheme with a
CPU instruction type
sliding window and additional compression applied to the
output of the LZSS compressor by dynamic Huffman coding MADE: Manufacturing and Automated Design
(Software) Engineering
LZMA: Lempel-Ziv Modified Algorithm MADYMO: MAthematical DYnamic MOdeling
Compression algorithm (Software)
MAE: Macintosh Application Environment
LZS: Lempel-Ziv-Stac
Compression algorithm (Software) MAE: Merit Access Exchange
LZSS: Lempel-Ziv-Storer-Szymanski MAE: Metropolitan Area Exchange

Compression algorithm (Software) maen: Morning Afternoon Evening Night
LZW: Lempel-Ziv-Welch "Good maen" is used as a universal greeting on the Internet to
wish good morning, good afternoon, good evening or good
Compression algorithm (Software)
night, all rolled into one (Net lingo)
LZX: Lempel-Ziv eXtended MAGIC: Multi-dimensional Applications Gigabit
Compression algorithm (Software) Internetworking Consortium
(Organizations)
M
MAGMA: Minimal Architecture for Generalized
M: Mega Markup Applications
mAh: MilliAmpere per Hour
m: Milli
MAI: Multiple Applications Interface
Prefix for 10 power -3
MAJC: Microprocessor Architecture for Java
L
M4IF: Mpeg-4 Industry Forum Computing
See http://www.m4if.org/ (Organizations)
(Sun) M
MA: Migration Agent MAM: Memory Allocation Map
(Communication) (Novell)
MAME: Multi-Arcade Machine Emulator
mA: Milliampere
MAN: MANual
MAB: Multi-Architecture Binary
File name extension
(Software)
MAN: Metropolitan Area Network
MABO: Multiplier-Arithmetic BOlton
Between a LAN and WAN in size and scope (Network)
MAC: MACro MANIAC: Mathematical Analyzer Numerical
File name extension Integrator And Computer
MAC: Mandatory Access Control MAO: Machine Account Object
(Security) (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
MAC: Media Access Control MAOS: Multiple Application Operating System
(Network) (Operating systems)
MAC: Message Authentication Code MAP: Maintenance Analysis Procedures
(Security)
MAP: Management and Administration Platform
MAC: Move, Add, Change
Abbreviation for a specific task request (Network) MAP: Manufacturing Automation Protocol
MAC: Multiple Access Computers MAP: Microsoft Assessment and Planning

MAC: Multiplexed Analog Component
A color standard that transmits three color components in time- MAP: Migration Assistance Program
compressed serial analog form (Hardware) MAP: Mobile Application Part
MAC: Multiply ACcumulate Adds functionality for mobile text applications to the Public
CPU instruction type Land Mobile Network (PLMN). MAP handles numerous services
for text messaging to and from mobile terminals, for example
MACH: Multilayer ACtuator Head Short Message Service Centres in GSM Networks
(Epson) MAP/TOP: Manufacturing Automation Protocol
MACS: Mail order And Catalog System Technical Office Protocol
MACS: Modem Access Control System MAPE: Mean Absolute Percentage Error
MAD: Microsoft Active Directory MAPI: Messaging Application Programming
(Network) (Microsoft) Interface
(Microsoft)
MAD: Mpeg Audio Decoder
(Software)

MAPICS MCH
MAPICS: Manufacturing, Accounting and MBASIC: Microsoft Beginners All-purpose

Production Information Control System Symbolic Instruction Code
(IBM) (Microsoft)
MAPOS: Multiple Access Protocol Over Sonet/sdh MBCS: Multi-Byte Character Set
(Network)
MbD: Management by Delegation
MAPP: Microsoft Active Protections Program (Software)
To improve security protections for customers, Microsoft
MBGP: Multicast Border Gateway Protocol
provides vulnerability information to major security software
providers in advance of each monthly security update release Based on RFC 2283 (Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4), it
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) offers a method for providers to distinguish which prefixes they
will use for performing multicast reverse path forwarding (RPF)
MAPS: Mail Abuse Prevention System checks (Network)
MAPS: Mcis Administration and Provisioning MBO: Management By Objectives
Service
MBONE: Multicast backBONE
(Microsoft)
(Network)
MAR: Memory Address Register
Mbps: MegaBits Per Second
(Hardware)
Transfer speed (Communication)
MARC: MAchine Readable Cataloging
MBps: MegaBytes Per Second
MARC: Multitechnology Automated Reader Card Transfer Speed (Communication)
MARS: Multicast Address Resolution Server MBQ: Message-Based Queueing
(Network)
MBR: Master Boot Record
MARVEL: Machine-Assisted Realization of the
MBS: Maximum Burst Size
Virtual Electronic Library
MBSA: Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
MAS: Microsoft Authorized Support
Scans for missing hotfixes and vulnerabilities in some
(Microsoft)
Microsoft products (Security) (Microsoft)
MAS: Multi-Agent System MBX: MailBoX
(Software)
MC: Model Coordinates
MASM: Macro ASseMbler The coordinate system used for describing a single object (a
M (Software) (Microsoft) graphics entity). When each object is described in its own
model coordinate space, all are mapped to one world
MASS: Maximum Availability and Support
coordinate space
Subsystem
MCA: Merchant Certification Authority
MAT: Maintenance Access Terminal
erchant Certification Authority
MAT: Memory Analyzer Tool
MCA: Micro Channel Architecture
Fast and feature-rich Java heap analyzer that helps you find
Bus architecture (Hardware) (IBM)
memory leaks and reduce memory consumption. See also
http://www.eclipse.org/mat/ (Software) MCAD: Mechanical Computer-Aided Design
MathML: MATHematical Markup Language A specialized computer graphics program for the design of
mechanical structures, such as automobiles, airplanes, and
XML application for describing mathematical notation and
their parts (Software)
capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is
to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed MCAD: Microsoft Certified Application Developer
on the Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text Mid-level certification for professional developers who build
MAU: Media Attachment Unit powerful applications using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and
Web services (Microsoft)
(Network)
MCAV: Modified Constant Angular Velocity
MAU: Multistation Access Unit
(Network) MCB: Memory Control Block
MAVDM: Multiple Application Virtual Dos Machine MCBF: Mean Cycle Between Failure
MAVICA: MAgnetic VIdeo CAmera MCC: Manchester Code Converter
(Hardware) (Sony)
MCC: Manchester Computing Centre
MAW: Microsoft At Work MCC: Memory Controller Chip
MAX: MAssively parallel uniX (Hardware)
MAX: MAXimum MCDBA: Microsoft Certified DataBase
Administrator
MAXML: Multichannel Accessible eXtensible
(Microsoft)
Markup Language
MCF: Meta-Content Framework
MB: Medium Business
(Netscape)
Mb: MegaBit
MCGA: MultiColor Graphic Adapter
MB: MegaByte (Hardware)
1024 kilobytes
MCGAM: Mixer Conformant Global Address
MB: MotherBoard Mapping
MCH: Memory Controller Hub
(Hardware)

MCI MDL
MCI: Media Control Interface MCU: Multi-Chip Unit

(DEC)
MCI: Microwave Communications, Inc.
Now MCI Communications corporation MCU: Multipoint Control Unit
MCIS: Microsoft Commercial Internet System MD: Make Directory
MD: Message Digest
MCL: Microsoft Compatibility Labs (Network)
(Microsoft)
MD: MicroDrive
MCL: Much Clown Love (Hardware) (IBM)
Used by icp fans also known as juggalos (Net lingo)
MD: Mini Disk
MCM: MultiChip Module (Sony)
MCN: Metropolitan Campus Network MD: Monochrome Display
MCNE: Master Certified Novell Engineer MD5: Message Digest 5
(Novell) Cryptographically strong message digest, see RFC 1321
(http://www.iesg.org/rfc/rfc1321.txt) (Security)
MCNS: Multimedia Cable Network System
(Hardware) (Cisco) MDA: Mail Delivery Agent
One of the programs that handle email (see also MTA and
MCP: Master Control Program MUA) (Software)
MCP: Media and Communications Processor MDA: Market Development Agreement
(Hardware)
MDA: Medicated Digest Authentication
MCP: Message Content Protection
(Security)
MDA: Model Driven Architecture
Standards-based approach to system development
MCP: Microsoft Certified Professional
(Microsoft)
MDA: Monochrome Display Adapter
(Hardware)
MCP: Multiport Communication Processor
MDA: MultiDimensional Analysis
MCP: Myrinet Control Program
(Network)
MDAC: Microsoft Data Access Component
MCP/AS: Master Control Program/Advanced
System MDB: Message-Driven Bean M
(Software)
MCPC: Multi Channel Per Carrier
MDB: Microsoft DataBase
MC-PGA: Metallized Ceramic - Pin Grid Array File format (Databases) (Microsoft)
IC pins organization
MDB: Multiple-Device Boot
MCPS: Microsoft Certified Product Specialist A diskette used to boot from a CD-ROM or from a network
(Microsoft) (Operating systems)
MC-QFP: Metalized Ceramic - Pin Grid Array MDBE: Microsoft DataBase Engine
MCR: Main Communications Room (Databases) (Microsoft)
A network closet in an enterprise where the main internet, MDBMS: Multidimensional DataBase Management
private line or fibre, phone, cable, comes in along with CPE System
appliances, routers, switches, and firewalls; also used as
(Databases)
central termination for ethernet or fibre runs throughout
building MDD: Multidimensional Discrete Data
MCR: Maximum Cell Rate (Databases)
MCR: Modem Control Register MDF: Main Distribution Frame

(Network)
M-CRM: Mobile Customer Relationship
Management MDF: Master Data File
MCS: Material Control System MDF: Menu Definition File

File name extension
MCS: Multichannel Communications System
MDFE: Multilevel Decision Feedback Equalization
MCSA: Microsoft Certified System Administrator
(Hardware)
(Microsoft)
MDI: Medium Dependent Interface
MCSD: Microsoft Certified Solution Developer
(Microsoft) MDI: Memory Display Interface
MCSE: Microsoft Certified System Engineer MDI: Multiple Document Interface
(Microsoft) (Microsoft)
MCSP: Microsoft Certified Solution Provider MDI: Multiplex Device Interface

(Microsoft) MDIC: Manchester Decoder and Interface Chip
MCT: Microsoft Certified Trainer (AT&T)
(Microsoft) MDIS: MetaData Interchange Specification
MCTS: Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist MDK: Multimedia Developers Kit
(Microsoft) (Microsoft)
MCU: MicroController Unit MDL: Method Definition Language

MDL MFS
MDL: Microstation Development Language MEL: Multos Executable Language

MDLP: Mobile Data Link Protocol MEM: MEMory
MDLS: Member Digital Library Subscription MEMO: Multimedia Environment for MObiles
MDM: Machine Debug Manager MEMS: Micro ElectroMechanical System
(Hardware) (TI)
MDM: Media Device Manager
MEO: Medium Earth Orbit
MDM: Membership DIrectory Manager
(Microsoft) MERCI: Multimedia European Research
Conferencing Integration
MDMF: Multiple Data Message Format
Format used to send Caller ID information (Communication) MERS: Most Economic Route Selection
MDN: Message Disposition Notification MERVA: Message Entry and Routing with
Interfaces to Various Applications
MDPM: Multilevel Distributed Process Modeling
IBM connectivity to SWIFT network (Network) (IBM)
MDR: Memory Data Register
MES: Manufacturing Execution System
(Hardware)
MES: Mobile Entertainment Service
MDR: MetaData Repository
Nokia's platform that allows developers to create interactive
MDR: MicroDesign Resources games for WAP (Software) (Nokia)
MDR: Minimum Design Requirement MESI: Modified, Exclusive, Shared and Invalid
MDRAM: Multi-bank Dynamic Random Access MEST: Middle European Summer Time
Memory Timezone: GMT +1:00
(Hardware) MET: Memory Enhancement Technology
MDRC: Manufacturing Design Rule Checker (HP)
MDS: Macintosh Development System MET: Middle European Time

(Software) (Apple) Timezone: GMT +1:00
MDS: Manufacturing Design System MEWT: Middle European Winter Time
Timezone: GMT +1:00
MDS: Meta Data Service
(Databases) MF: Multi Frequency
M
MDS: Metacomputing Directory Service MFC: Microsoft Foundation Classes
MDS: Microprocessor Development System
(Software) MFC: MultiFunction Center
(Hardware)
MDSM: MultiDimensional Storage Manager
(Databases) (IBM) MFC&T: Microsoft Foundation Classes &
Templates
MDT: Mechanical DeskTop
MDT: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
MFD: MultiFunction Device
Applications used to deploy Microsoft Windows operating
systems and the Microsoft Office suite (Software) (Microsoft) (Hardware)
MDT: Mobile Data Terminal MFENET: Magnetic Fusion Energy NETwork

Generic term for 1st generation wireless terminal connected to MFFS: Microsoft Flash File System
host computer via radio network (Hardware) (Motorola) (Microsoft)
MDT: Mountain Daylight Time MFI: MainFrame Interactive
Timezone: GMT -7:00
MFI: Multifunction Interpreter
MDTE: Male Data Terminal Equipment
RS-232 adapter (Hardware)
MFIOP: MultiFunction Input/Output Processor
(Hardware)
MDX: MultiDimensional eXpression
(Databases)
MFLOPS: Million Floating point Operation Per
Second
MDY: Month Day Year A unit of measure of execution speed that rates the oating-
ME: Millenium Edition point performance of a computer
Windows version (Operating systems) (Microsoft) MFM: Modified Frequency Modulation
ME: Motion Estimation A unit of measure of execution speed that rates the floating-
point performance of a computer (Hardware)
MEB: Memory Expansion Board
MFN: Main Frogans Network
MED: Management of External Data See http://www.frogans.com/ (Software)
(Databases)
MFP: MultiFunction Printer
MED: Minimum Expected Delay (Hardware)
MEDAPE: MEDium Absolute Percentage Error MFPI: MultiFunction Peripheral Interface
MEF: Message Exchange Format MFR: Multilink Frame Relay
(Network) (Network)
MEL: Mercury Exchange Limited MFS: Macintosh File System
MEL: Michigan Electronic Library (Operating systems) (Apple)

MFS MIN
MFS: Magnetic tape Field Search MICE: Modular Integrated Communications

Environment
MFS: Memory File System
MICR: Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
MFS: Message Format Service
MICS: Macro Interpretive Commands
MFS: Modified Filing System
(Operating systems) MID: Message IDentifier
MFT: Master File Table MID: Mobile Information Device
Table containing NT's file system structure (Operating (Hardware)
systems) (Microsoft)
MIDAS: Multi-tIer Distributed Application Service
MFT: Mean Field Theory (Borland)
MFT: Multiprogramming with a Fixed number of MIDI: Musical Instrument Digital Interface
Tasks A note-oriented control language for specifying music. MIDI
data consists of codes specifying notes and timing. These
MFTP: Multicast File Transfer Protocol
codes can be generated by or output to MIDI-compatible
MFU: Most Frequently Used devices, such as keyboards or synthesizers (Hardware)
MGA: Matrox Graphics Adapter MIDL: Microsoft Interface Definition Language

(Microsoft)
MGA: Monochrome Graphics Adapter
(Hardware) MIDP: Mobile Information Device Profile
Is a set of Java APIs which, together with the Connected
MGC: Media Gateway Controller Limited Device Configuration (CLDC), provides a complete
Provides a single management platform for fault, configuration, J2METM application runtime environment targeted at mobile
performance and security management. It manages the Cisco information devices, such as mobile phones and entry level
PGW 2200 PSTN Gateway and the Cisco SC2200 Signaling PDAs (Sun)
Controller. Cisco MGC Node Manager integrates access to all
signaling components (Software) (Cisco) MIE: Mobile Internet Explorer
MGCP: Media Gateway Control Protocol
Controls (trunks) gateways interconnected with the Public MIF: Maker Interchange Format
Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) with packet networks and (Adobe)
controls (residential) gateways that function as network
interfaces for customer premise located equipment MIF: Management Information File
(Communication) MIF: Management Information Format
MGDI: Multiplatform Graphics Device Interface MIF: Minimum Internetworking Functionality
M
MIF: Module Interconnection Facility
MGE: Modular Gis Environment
MIFST: Microsoft Internet Finance Server Toolkit
MGET: Multiple GET
MGML: Minimal Generalized Markup Language MIG: Media Interoperability Gateway
MGR: ManaGeR MIG: Metal In Gap
MH: Modified Huffman MII: Media-Independent Interface
MHDL: Mimic Hardware Description Language A 40-pin miniature-D connector that provides the electrical
interface between some Sun systems and 10BASE-T or
MHEG: Multimedia and Hypermedia information 100BASE-T Ethernet network transceivers (Hardware) (Sun)
coding Expert Group
MII: Microsoft/IBM/Intel
MHP: Managed Hosting Provider
MIIS: Microsoft Identity Integration Server
MHPCC: Maui High Performance Computing Center Enables the integration and management of identity
MHS: Message Handling System information across multiple repositories, systems, and
platforms (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
MHz: MegaHertZ
MIL: Machine Interface Layer
MI: Management Interface
MILNET: MILitary NETwork
MI: Multiple Inheritance Originally part of the ARPANET, MILNET was partitioned in
(Software) 1984 to provide military installations with reliable network
service, while the ARPANET continued to be used for research
MI/MIC: Mode Indicate/Mode Indicate Common (Network)
MIA: Mobile Internet Access MIM: Map Image Metafile
MIB: Management Information Base MIM: Metal-Insulator-Metal
MiB: MebIByte (Hardware)
Unit of measurement, introduced by the International MIMD: Multiple Instruction Multiple Data
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), correspondig to 1024 kiB
MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIB: Multimedia Integration Box
(Network)
(Siemens-Nixdorf)
MIMO: Multiple-Input Multiple-Output
MIC: Macro Interpretative Command
(Communication)
MIC: Market Intelligence Center MIN: MINimum
MIC: Media Interface Connector MIN: Mobile Identification Number
MIC: Message Integrity Check

MIND MMR
MIND: Microsoft INternet Developer MLPPP: MultiLink Point-to-Point Protocol

Microsoft magazine for Web developers (Microsoft) (Communication)
MinLSN: MINimum recovery Log Sequence MLS: MultiLevel Secure
Number
MLT: Mechanized Line Test
(Databases)
Determines obvious line errors or loop lenght indications
MINT: Mint Is Not Tos (Hardware)
MINUET: Minnesota INternet Users Essential MM: Management Module

Tools MM: MicroMiniature
MINX: Multimedia Information Network eXchange (Hardware)
MIO: Memory Input/Output MM: Mobile Management

MIP: Mixed Integer Programming MM: MultiMedia
MIP: Mobile Internet Protocol MMA: Microcomputer Managers Association
(Network) MMA: Midi Manufacturer Association
MIPS: Microprocessor without Interlocked Piped MMAPI: Mobile Media Application Programming
Stages Interface
MIPS: Million Instructions Per Second MMC: Matched Memory Cycle
A unit of measure of execution speed that rates the
performance of a computer CPU MMC: Microcomputer Marketing Council
MIR: Micro-Instruction Register MMC: Microsoft Management Console
(Microsoft)
MIS: Management Information System
MMC: Microsoft Media Console
MIS: Mobile Information Server
(Microsoft)
MMC: MultiMedia Card
MIS: Multimedia Information Sources
(Hardware)
MISC: MISCellaneous
MMC: MultiMedia Commands
MISD: Multiple Instruction Single Data
MMCD: MultiMedia Compact Disk
M MISF: Microsoft Information Security Framework (Hardware)
(Microsoft)
MMCD-E: MultiMedia Compact Disk-Erasable
MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MMCX: MultiMedia Communication Exchange
MITACS: Mathematics of Information Technology
MMDS: Multichannel Multipoint Distribution
and Complex Systems
Service
(Organizations)
(Communication)
MIX: Member Information eXchange
MMF: Make Money Fast
MIXER: Mime Internet X.400 Enhanced Relay (Net lingo)
(Network)
MMF: Multi Mode Fiber
MJ: Modular Jack (Hardware)
MJD: Modified Julian Date MMF: MultiMedia File
MKDIR: MaKe DIRectory Filename extension
MKS: Mortice Kern Systems MMG: Massively Multiplayer Game
ML: Machine Language MMI: Man-Machine Interface
ML: Meta Language MMIS: Materials Manager Information System

(Software) MML: Maker Macro Language
MLA: Multi-Letter Abbreviation MML: Music Markup Language
Used in comedy along with TLA
MMM: Mobile Media Mode
MLAPI: MultiLingual Application Programming
MMO: Mobile MOdule
Interface
(Hardware) (Intel)
MLC: MultiLayer Ceramic
MMOD: Male MODem
MLC: MultiLevel Cell Modem adapter (Hardware) (Cisco)
Memory technology (Hardware)
MMOG: Massively Multiplayer Online Game
MLE: Multi Language Environment (Games)
MLE: MultiLine Editor MMORPG: Massive Multiplayer Online Role
MLE: MultiLine Entry field Playing Game
(Games)
MLI: Multiple Link Interface
MMPM: MultiMedia Presentation Manager
MLID: MultiLink Interface Driver
MMPM/2: MultiMedia Presentation Manager 2
MLM: Mailing List Manager
MMR: Modified Modified Read
MLP: Meridian Lossless Packing

MMRPG MOV
MMRPG: Massive Multiplayer Role Playing Game MOLAP: Multidimensional On-Line Analytical
(Games) Processing
MMS: Maximum Message Size MOM: Manufacturing Operations Management
MMS: Merchant Management System MOM: Message-Oriented Middleware
(Software)
MMS: Microsoft Media Server
Streaming protocol used by the Microsoft Media Server. Used MOM: Microsoft Operations Manager
to access unicast content from a Windows Media Server to a Provides manageability as part of the design and
Windows Media Player (Network) (Microsoft) implementation of Windows Server System technologies
MMS: Multimedia Messaging Service
MOMA: Message-Oriented Middleware Association
MMSH: Microsoft Media Server over Http
(Organizations)
MONET: Multiwavelength Optical NETwork
MMST: Microsoft Media Server over Tcp
(Network)
MOO: Mud, Object Oriented
MMU: Memory Management Unit
A client used to connect to a MUD
(Hardware)
MOP: Maintenance Operations Protocol
MMVF: MultiMedia Video FIle
(Network)
(NEC)
MOP: Meta Object Protocol
MMX: Matrix Manipulation eXtensions
A reflective facility of an object-oriented language (Software)
(Intel)
MOPA: MultiProtocol Over Atm
MMX: MultiMedia eXtensions
(Communication)
(Intel)
MOPS: Million Operations Per Second
MNG: Multiple-image Network Graphics
A Portable Network Graphics (PNG)-like image format MO-ROD: Magneto Optical-Rewriteable Optical
supporting multiple, animated, transparent and compressed Disk
images (Hardware)
MNN: My Netscape Network MOS: Magneto-Optic Storage
MNOS: Metal Nitride Oxide Semiconductor MOS: Mean Opinion Score
MNP: Microcom Networking Protocol
M
MOS: Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
(Network) Semiconductor manufacturing technology (Hardware)
MO: Magneto-Optical MOS: Microsoft Office Specialist
MO: Managment Object MOSES: Massive Open Systems Environment
MO:DCA: Mixed Object Document Content Standard
Architecture MOSFET: Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect
MOB: Memory-Order Buffer Transistor
(Hardware)
MOC: Microsoft Official Curriculum
(Microsoft) MOSPF: Multicast Open Shortest Path First
(Communication)
MOCA: Microsoft Online Crash Analysis
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) MOSS: Microsoft Office Server System
MOD: Magneto-Optical Disk
MOSS: Mime Objects Security Services
MOD: Microsoft Office 2000 Developer
(Software) (Microsoft) MOSTL: Microsoft Office Smart Tag List
Tool that makes it easy for Office developers to build and
MOD: MODulus update XML lists of terms to recognize (Software) (Microsoft)
Reminder of the integer division
MOT: Multimedia Object Transfer
MODEM: MOdulator/DEModulator
MOTD: Message Of The Day
MOF: Managed Object Format
MOTIS: Message-Oriented Text Interchange
(Microsoft)
Systems
MOF: Meta-Object Facility
MOTO: Master Of The Obvious
Standard interfaces that can be used to define and manipulate
a set of interoperable metamodels and their corresponding (Net lingo)
models MOTOS: Member Of The Other Sex
MOF: Microsoft Operations Framework (Net lingo)
Provides technical guidance that enables organizations to MOTSS: Member Of The Same Sex
achieve mission-critical system reliability, availability,
(Net lingo)
supportability, and manageability of Microsoft products and
technologies (Microsoft) MOU: Memorandum of Understanding
MOG: Multiplayer Online Game MOUS: Micorsoft Office User Specialist
MOHLL: Machine Oriented High Level Language (Microsoft)
MOV: Metal Oxide Varistor
(Hardware)

MOV MQE
MOV: MOVe MPIO: Multi-Path Input/Output

Processor instruction
MPK: MultiProcessing Kernel
MOV: MOVie (Operating systems)
Fileformat for movies (Apple)
MPL: Message Passing Library
MOVS: Microsoft Office/Vba Solution (IBM)
(Microsoft)
MPL: Mozilla Public License
MOVS: MOVe String
MPLS: MultiProtocol Label Switching
Processor instruction
An architecture on the IETF standards track for integrating a
MO-WORM: Management Object mechanism for label-swapping with Layer 3 routing to
accelerate packet forwarding (Network)
MP: Massively Parallel
MPMD: Multiple Processor/Multiple Data
MP: Master Plan
MPOA: Multi-Protocol Over Atm
MP: MicroProcessor An ATM Forum standard for the routing of multiple protocols
MP: Multi Processor across an ATM substrate. It enables ATM services to be
integrated with existing local-area networks that use Ethernet,
A computer using two or more nearly equal processing units token-ring or TCP/IP protocols (Network)
under integrated control (Hardware)
MPOE: Minimum Point Of Entry
MP: Multilink Protocol
Location phone and data lines first come into a building
Method for splitting, recombining and sequencing datagrams (Communication)
across multiple logical data links. Originally designed to
exploit multiple bearer channels in ISDN, it's equally MPOW: Multiple Purpose Operator Workstation
applicable to any situation in which multiple PPP links connect
two systems (Network) MPP: Massively Parallel Processing
MP: MultiProtocol MPP: Message Posting Protocol
MP: My Pleasure MPP: Message Processing Program

(Net lingo) MPPC: Microsoft Point to Point Compression
MP+: Multichannel Protocol Plus (Network) (Microsoft)
(Network) (Ascend) MPPD: Multi Purpose Peripheral Device
MP3: MPeg layer 3 MPPE: Microsoft Point to Point Encryption
M Sound encoding format (Software) Encrypts data for Point to Point Protocol (PPP) or Point to Point
MP4: MPeg layer 4 Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) connections (Network) (Microsoft)
Sound encoding format (Software) MPQP: Multi-Protocol Quad Port
MPA: Memo Pad Archive (IBM)
Filename extension MPR: MultiPart Repeater
MPAA: Motion Picture Association of America MPR: Multi-Protocol Routing
(Organizations) (Network)
MPC: Mobile Productivity Center MPS: MultiPage Signal
Palm cradle (Hardware)
MPS: Multiple Priority System
MPC: Multimedia Personal Computer (Network)
Multimedia specifications
MPS: MultiProcessor Specification
MPC: MultiPath Channel
MPSX: Mathematical Programming System
MPC+: MultiPath Channel Plus eXtended
(IBM)
MPT: MultiPort Transceiver
MPCC: MultiProtocol Communication Controller
MPTA: Multi Protocol Transport Architecture
(Hardware)
MPTN: Multi-Protocol Transport Network
MPCS: Mission Planning and Control Station
MPTP: Micro Payment Transfer Protocol
MPDU: Message Protocol Data Unit
MPTS: Multi-Protocol Transport Services
MPE: Multi-Programming Executive
(HP) MPTS/2: Multi Protocol Transport Services 2
MPEG: Moving Picture Experts Group MPTY: More Power To You

A group that has developed standards for compressing moving (Net lingo)
pictures and audio data and for synchronizing video and audio MPU: MicroProcessor Unit
datastreams. Also, a file format
(Hardware)
MPI: Message Passing Interface
MPVM: Message Parallel Virtual Machine
(Sun)
(Sun)
MPI: MultiPrecision Integer
MPW: Macintosh Programmer's Workshop
MPI: Multiprocessor Interconnect Bus (Software) (Apple)
MPIF: Message Passing Interface Forum MQ: Message Queuing
MPIF: Multi-Processor Interconnect Facility (Software)
A facilty to support multiple TPF complexes communicating MQE: Managed Query Environment
with each other (IBM) (Databases)

MQH MSDE
MQH: Memory Queue Handler MR-X: Magneto Resistive - eXtended

On Sun server systems, the device on the system board that (Hardware)
provides the interface between the system board SIMMs and
the backplane XDBus (Hardware) (Sun) MS: Memory Stick
(Hardware) (Sony)
MQI: Message Queuing Interface
(IBM) MS: Memory System
MR: Magneto-Resistive MS: Message Store

Hard disk head technology (Hardware) MS: MicroSoft
MR: Maintenance Release ms: MilliSecond
(Software) Time measurement unit
MR: Memory Read MS: Mobile Station
(Hardware)
MSA: Mail Submission Agent
MR: Modem Ready (Software)
MR: Modified Read MSA: Management Services Architecture
MRAM: Magnetic Random Access Memory (IBM)
(Hardware) MSAA: MicroSoft Active Accessibility
MRB: Method Request Broker (Software)
MRC: Mesh Router Chip MSAA: Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing

(Network) Anti-aliasing technique using multiple samples offset by a
fraction of a pixel (Hardware)
MRCF: Microsoft Realtime Compression Format
MSACM: MicroSoft Audio Compression Manager
MRCI: Microsoft Real-time Compression Interface (Microsoft)
(Microsoft)
MSAU: MultiStation Access Unit
MRCP: Media Resource Control Protocol (Network)
Protocol specifically designed to address the need for client
control of media processing resources such as Automatic MSAV: MicroSoft Anti Virus
Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-To-Speech (TTS) engines (Microsoft)
MREQ: Memory REQuest MSB: Most Significant Bit (or Byte)

Microprocessor signal used in I/O addressing (Hardware) MSBD: Media Stream Broadcast Distribution
M
MRI: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Protocol used to distribute streams between Windows Media
A medical imaging technique used for image capture. Tissue Encoder and the Windows Media server components, and to
area is simultaneously subjected to electromagnetic radiation transfer streams between servers (Microsoft)
and a magnetic field MSBF: Mean Swaps Between Failures
M-RIB: Multicast Routing Information Base MSC: MicroSoft C
(Network)
MSC: Mobile Switching Center
MRJ: Macos Runtime for Java
(Software) (Apple) MSCDEX: MicroSoft CD-rom EXtensions
MRM: Most Recently used Master
MSCE: MicroSoft Certified Engineer
MRNET: Minnesota Regional NETwork (Microsoft)
MRO: Maintenance, Repair and Operation MSCHAP: MicroSoft Challenge Handshake
MRO: Multi-Region Operation Authentication Protocol
(IBM) (Microsoft)
MROC: Miniature Ruggedized Optical Correlator MSCM: Multiple Slots on Continuation Mechanism
(Hardware) MSCP: Mass Storage Control Protocol
MRP: Manufacturing Resource Planning MSCS: MicroSoft Cluster Server
MRP: Material Requirement Planning MSCT: MicroSoft Certified Trainer
MRPL: Main Ring Path Length (Microsoft)
MRS: Media Recognition System MSCTEC: MicroSoft Certified Technical Education

Center
MRS: Message Routing System
(Microsoft)
(Communication)
MSD: Mass Storage Device
MRS: Micro Reflective Structure
(Hardware) (Sharp) MSD: Microsoft System Diagnostics
(Microsoft)
MRS: Monitoring and Recovery Subsystem
MSD: Most Significant Digit
MrSID: MultiResolution Seamless Image Database
Image compression algorithm MSDA: MicroSoft Direct Access
(Microsoft)
MRT: Mean Repair Time
MSDE: MicroSoft Database Engine
MRTG: Multi Router Traffic Grapher
MRU: Maximum Receive Unit
MSDE: MicroSoft Desktop Engine
MRU: Most Recently Used (Databases) (Microsoft)

MSDK MTA
MSDK: Microsoft Solutions Development Kit MSL: Microsoft Software Library

(Microsoft)
MSL: Mirrored Server Link
MSDL: MicroSoft Download Library
MSLU: MicroSoft Layer for Unicode
(Microsoft)
MSDN: Macintosh Software Distribution Network
MSMQ: MicroSoft Message Queue
MSDN: MicroSoft Developer Network (Network) (Microsoft)
(Microsoft)
MSN: MicroSoft Network
MSDOS: MicroSoft Disk Operating System (Network) (Microsoft)
MSDP: Multicast Source Directory Protocol MSN: Multiple Subscriber Number
Developed for peering between Internet service providers
MSNF: Multiple Systems Networking Facility
(ISPs), it enables Rendezvous Points (RPs) to share
information about active sources (Network) MSO: Multiple-Systems Operator
MSDR: Multiplexed Streaming Data Request MSP: Mail Submission Program
MSDS: MicroSoft Developer Support (Software)
(Microsoft) MSP: Management Service Provider
MSDSS: MicroSoft Directory Synchronization MSP: Message Send Protocol
Services (Network)
MSP: Messaging Service Provider
MSDTC: MicroSoft Distributed Transactions
Coordinator MSP: MicroSoft Paint
MSE: MicroSoft Exchange MSR: Magnetic Super Resolution
(Hardware)
MsecSP: Managed SECurity Service Provider MSR: MicroSoft Research
(Microsoft)
MSEQ: MicroSoft English Query
MSR: MicroSoft Reserved (partition)
MSF: Microsoft Solutions Framework
M (Microsoft)
MSRN: Mobile Station Roaming Number
MSFC: Multilayer Switch Feature Card MSRP: Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price
(Network) MSS: Managed Security Service
MSFP: Management Service Focal Point MSS: Mass Storage Subsystem
MSFR: Minimum Security Function Requirements An early version of the Sun pedestal disk storage system
(Hardware) (Sun)
(IBM)
MSS: Multiprotocol Switched Server
MSG: MeSsaGe
(Hardware) (IBM)
File name extension
MSSP: Managed Security Service Provider
MSI: Medium-Scale Integration
The process of placing from 100 to 3,000 transistors on a chip MST: Mountain Standard Time
(Hardware) Timezone: GMT -7:00
MSI: MicroSoft Installer MSTS: MicroSoft Terminal Server
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) (Operating systems)
MSIE: MicroSoft Internet Explorer MSU: Mass Storage Unit
MSIL: MicroSoft Intermediate Language MSU: Media Server Unit
MSU: Millions of Service Units
MSIMN: MicroSoft Internet Mail and News
MSU: Modem Sharing Unit
(Microsoft)
(Hardware)
MSISDN: Mobile Station Integrated Services
MSVC: MicroSoft Visual C
Digital Network
The number used to call a mobile subscriber. An MSISDN MSW: Machine Status Word
consists of a country code, a national destination code and a
MT: Machine Translation
subscriber number (Communication)
MS-ISDN: Mobile Station Integrated Services MT: Management Team
Digital Network number MTA: Message Transfer Agent
MSJ: Microsoft Systems Journal An ISO/OSI application process that stores and forwards
messages in the X.400 message handling system. Compare
Microsoft magazine (Microsoft)
with Internet mail agent
MSK: Minimum-Shift Keying MTA: Message Transfer Architecture
MSKB: MicroSoft Knowledge Base (Software)
(Microsoft) MTA: Multimedia Terminal Adapter
MSL: Map Specification Library MTA: Multiple Terminal Access

MTA MVIP
MTA: Multi-Threaded Apartment MTST: Moscow Time Standard Time

A threading context in which components must handle Timezone: GMT +3:00
synchronization themselves. Under COM+ the threads that run
in the MTA com from a thread pool managed by the system MTT: Multi-Transaction Timer
(Software) (Microsoft) MTTD: Mean Time To Diagnose
MTBB: Mean Time Between Breakdowns MTTF: Mean Time To Failure
MTBCF: Mean Time Between Critical Failures (Hardware)
MTBF: Mean Time Between Failures MTTFF: Mean Time To First Failure
The average time a component can operate without a failure. MTTR: Mean Time To Repair
The MTBF is the number of failures divided by the number of
The average time required to bring an array storage subsystem
hours the component has operated (Hardware)
back to full fault tolerance. (Hardware)
MTBJ: Mean Time Between Jams
MTU: Maximum Transmission Unit
MTBRP: Mean Time Between Parts Replacement
MUA: Mail User Agent
MTC: Midi Time Code
MUD: Multi-User Dialogue
MTD: Memory Technology Drivers
MUD: Multi-User Dimensions
MTD: Month To Date Formerly, Multi-User Dungeon
Time series function
MUD: Multi-User Dungeon
MTDA: Mean Time between Data Access Multi-user interactive role-playing games on the Internet
The average time before non-redundant components fail,
causing data inaccessibility without loss or corruption.
MUG: Multi-User Game
(Hardware) MUI: Multilanguage User Interface
MTDL: Mean time to Data Loss (Operating systems)
The average time before the failure of an array component MUI: Multimedia User Interface
causes data to be lost or corrupted. (Hardware)
MUL: MULtiply
MTDT: Moscow Time Daylight Time
Timezone: GMT +3:00 MULDEM: MULtiplexer-DEMultiplexer
MTE: MuTating Engine MULTICS: MULTiplexed Information and

Computing Service
MTF: Microsoft Tape Format
(Hardware) (Microsoft) MULTOS: MULTiapplication-card Operating System M
(Operating systems)
MTF: Modulation Transfer Function
(Hardware) MUMBLE: Multi User Multicast Basic Language
Exchange
MTFTP: Multicast Trivial File Transfer Protocol
(Network)
MUMPS: Massachusetts "general hospital" Utility
Multi-Programming System
MTH: Memory Translator Hub A programming language with extensive tools for the support
(Hardware) of database management systems. MUMPS was originally used
for medical records and is now widely used where multiple
MTI: Mips Technologies Inc. users access the same databases simultaneously, e.g. banks,
MTM: Mobile Trusted Module stock exchanges,... (Databases)
(Security) MUP: Multiple Unc Provider
MTN: Mobile Telephone Network (Network)
MTOM: Message Transmission Optimization MUSE: Multi-User Simulated Environment

Mechanism MUT: Monitor Under Test
MTP: Message Transfer Part MUX: MUltipleXer
MTP: Multicast Transport Protocol MUX: Multi-User eXperience
(Network)
mV: MilliVolt
MTRP: Maximum Transfer Rate Performance
MVA: Market Value Added
MTS: Message Telephone Service
MVA: Multi-domain Vertical Alignment
MTS: Message Transfer System (Hardware) (Fujitsu)
(Software)
MVB: Multimedia Viewer Book
MTS: Michigan Terminal System
MVC: Model View Controller
Academic operating system (OS), 1960s-90s. Along with
Multics at MIT, it was among the first operational virtual MVC: Multimedia Viewer Compiler
memory operating systems in the world (Operating systems)
MVCC: Multi-Version Concurrency Control
MTS: Microsoft Transaction Server (Databases)
(Microsoft)
MVD: MultiValued Dependencies
MTS: Multichannel Television Sound
MVDM: Multiple Virtual DOS Machines
MTSO: Mobile Telephone Switching Office
(Network) MVGA: Monochrome Video Graphics Array
MTST: Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter MVIF: Multi-Vendor Interacting Forum

(Hardware) (IBM) MVIP: MultiVendor Integration Protocol

MVLS NAS
MVLS: Microsoft Volume License Site NAB: Netscape Application Builder

(Microsoft) (Software) (Netscape)
MVNO: Mobile Virtual Network Operator NAB: Not A Bug
Used as a reason when rejecting a bug report (Software)
MVP: Most Valuable Professional
(Microsoft) NAC: Network Adapter Card
MVP: Multimedia Video Processor NAC: Network Administration Center
MVP: Music Video Producer NACCB: National Association of Computer
(Software) Consultant Businesses
(Organizations)
MVR: Multimedia Vehicle and Repository
(Software) (IBM) NACD: National Association of Computer Dealers
MVS: Multiple Virtual Storage NACS: National Advisory Committee on
IBM Mainframe operating system (IBM) Semiconductors
MVS/SP: Multiple Virtual Storage/System Product NACS: Netware Asynchronous Communication
Server
MVS/XA: Multiple Virtual Storage/eXtended
Architecture NACS: Network Access Control System
MVT: Multiprogramming with a Variable number NAD: Network Access Device
of Tasks NAD: Network Activity Display
MW: Memory Write (Network)
(Hardware) NAE: Not Above or Equal
MW: MiddleWare NAG: National Algorithms Group
MWFM: Mobile Wireless Fault Mediator NAG: Network Architecture Group
(Network) (Cisco)
NAK: Not AcKnowledged
MWI: Mobile Web Initiative
A control code returned by a receiving station indicating that a
Proposes to address issues like interoperability and usability station with an established connection has sent incorrect
for mobile phones through a concerted effort of players in the information
mobile field, including authoring tool vendors, content
providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile NAL: Novell Application Launcher
M operators (Software) (Novell)
MWM: Motif Window Manager NAM: Number Assignment Module
N (Operating systems)
NAMI: Network Adaptive Multimedia Image
MWS: Matsushita White Skipping
NAMPS: Narrow-band Analog Mobile Phone
MX: Mail eXchanger Service
MXCC: Module Xbus Cache Controller NAMS: National Association of Multimedia
On Sun server systems, a device located on the processor Shareware
module that controls the ow of data between the XBus and the
module cache RAM and processor chip (Hardware) (Sun) NaN: Not A Number
A symbolic entry that is encoded in oating-point format
MXF: Material eXchange Format (Software)
A SMPTE standard that defines a file format for AV media and
associated metadata NANAE: News.Admin.Net-Abuse.Email
Usenet newsgroups
MXS: Microsoft eXchange Server
On Sun server systems, a device located on the processor NAP: Network Access Point
module that controls the flow of data between the XBus and A symbolic entry that is encoded in floating-point format
the module cache RAM and processor chip (Microsoft) (Network)
MZ: Mark Zbikowski NAPI: Network Application Programming

DOS executable file header identifier Interface
MZAP: Multicast-scope Zone Announcement NAPLPS: North American Presentation-Level
Protocol Protocol Syntax
Protocol for discovering the multicast administrative scope (Communication)
zones that are relevant at a particular location. MZAP also
NAPT: Network Address & Port Translation
provides mechanisms whereby common misconfigurations of
administrative scope zones can be discovered (Communication) (Network)
MZR: Multiple Zone Recording NARP: Nbma Address Resolution Protocol

(Network)
N NAS: Netobjects Authoring Server

n: Nano NAS: Netscape Application Server
Prefix for 10 power -9 (Operating systems) (Netscape)
N/I: Non-Interlaced NAS: Network Access Server

(Network)
N+I: Networld + Interop
Trade conference NAS: Network Application Support
(DEC)
NAB: National Association of Broadcasters

NAS NCMOS
NAS: Network Attached Storage NBP: Network Bootstrap Program

(Hardware) This is the first program that is downloaded into a machine
that has selected a Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE)
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space capable device for remote boot services
Administration
(Organizations) NBS: Narrowband Socket
NASAA: North American Securities NBS: National Bureau of Standards

Administrators Association (Organizations)
(Organizations) NBS: Numeric BackSpace
NASDAQ: National Association of Securities NBSCP: NetBios Frames Control Protocol
Dealers Automatic Quotation (Network)
NASI: Netware Asynchronous Services Interface NBSP: Non-Breakable SPace
(Novell)
NBSS: NetBios Session Service
NASIRC: Nasa Automated Systems Internet (Network)
Response Capability
NBT: NetBios on Tcp/ip
NASKER: Nasa AmeS KERnel
NC: Naming Context
NASL: Name/Age/Sex/Location Part of the Active Directory configuration (replication topology
(Net lingo) and related metadata) (Network) (Microsoft)
NASSL: Network Accessible Services Specification NC: Network Computer
Language (Network)
NAT: Network Address Translation NC: Network Control
A technology that enables a network to use one set of IP
addresses for internal traffic and a second for external traffic NC: Network Coordinator
(Network) NC: No Carry
NATOA: National Association of NC: No Connection
Telecommunications Officers & Advisors
(Hardware)
NAT-PT: Network Address Translation - Protocol NC: Norton Commander
Translation
(Communication) NC: Numerical Control
NAU: Network Access Unit NCA: Network Communications Adapter

(Network) NCA: Network Computing Architecture
NAU: Network Addressable Unit (Oracle)
N
(Network) NCAPI: Netscape Client Application Programming
NAUN: Nearest Active Upstream Neighbour Interface
NAV: Norton Anti Virus
(Symantec) NCC: National Computer Conference
NAVSTAR: NAVigation Satellite Timing And NCC: National Computing Center

Ranging NCC: Network Control Center
NAWS: Negotiate About Window Size (Network)
NBD: Next Business Day NCC: Norton Control Center

Support term Norton Utilities' program (Software) (Symantec)
NBDD: NetBios Datagram Distribution NCC: Novell Customer Connection

(Network) (Novell)
NBE: Not Below or Equal NCCF: Network Communications Control Facility
NBI: Nothing But Initials NCD: Network Computing Device
NBMA: Non-Broadcast Multi Access NCF: Netware Command File

(Novell)
NBNS: NetBios Name Service
Service that keeps track of which names are in use at which IP NCF: Network Computing Framework
addresses, thus allowing the underlying IP network to find the (Network) (IBM)
nodes and transport NetBIOS messages between them. The
Name Service runs on UDP port 137 (Network) NCGA: National Computer Graphics Association
NBO: Network Byte Order NCI: Network Computer, Inc.

Refers to the order in which the bytes of a multi-byte number Manufacturer
are transmitted on a network — most significant byte first. This NCI: Non Coded Information
might be different than the order in which the number is stored
in memory, depending on the processor architecture (Network) NCIA: Native Client Interface Architecture
NBO: Networked Business Object NCIC: National Crime Information Center
(Software)
NCITS: National Committee for Information
NBP: Name Binding Protocol Technology Standards
NCMOS: N-channel Complementary Metal Oxyde
Semiconductor

NCMT NF
NCMT: N-channel Complementary Metal Oxide NDR: Non-Delivery Report

Semiconductor
NDRO: Non Destructive ReadOut
NCN: Nixdorf Communications Network
NDS: Netware Directory Service
NCOS: Network Computer Operating System (Network) (Novell)
NCP: Netware Core Protocol NDS: Nintendo Dual Screen (or Developers'
System)
NCP: Network Control Program
32-bit dual-screen handheld game console developed and
Communication management in IBM networks (Network) (IBM)
released by Nintendo (Games)
NCP: Network Control Protocol
NDT: Non Destructive Testing
(Network)
NE: Network Element
NCP: Non-Carbon Paper
(Network)
NCP: Not Copy Protected
NE: Not Equal
NCQ: Native Command Queuing (Software)
Technology designed to increase performance and endurance
NEARNET: New England Academic and Research
by allowing the drive to internally optimize the execution order
of workloads (Hardware) NETwork
NCR: National Cash Registers NEAT: Novell Easy Administration Tool

(Novell)
NCS: Network Computing System
(HP) NEB: Netscape Extension Builder
NCSA: National Center for Supercomputing
Applications NEC: National Electrical Code
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign developers of NEC: Nippon Electric Corporation
the original NCSA Mosaic browser (Organizations)
(NEC)
NCSC: National Computer Security Center NECA: National Exchange Carrier Association
(Organizations)
(Organizations)
NCSI: Network Communications Services NED: Nano-Emissive Display
Interface
(Hardware)
NCSL: National Computer Systems Laboratory
NEFS: Network Extensible File System
NCTE: Network Channel-Terminating Equipment
NEG: NEGative
N NCTL: National Computer and
NELIAC: Navy Electronics Laboratory
Telecommunications Laboratory
International Algol Compiler
NDA: Non Disclosure Agreement NEMA: National Electrical Manufacturers
NDAC: No Data ACcepted Association
NDB: Non-Directional Beacon NEP: Network Entry Point
NDC: Normalized Device Coordinates NEP: Network Equipment Provider
The coordinate system between the user’s world coordinates NES: National Education Supercomputer
(WC) and the graphics system’s physical device coordinates in
the viewing pipeline NES: Netscape Enterprise Server
NDCC: Network Data Collection Center (Software) (Netscape)
NDDK: Network Device Development Kit NEST: Novell Embedded Systems Technology
(Novell)
NDDL: Neutral Data Definition Language
NetBEUI: NETwork Bios Extended User Interface
NDE: News Development Environment (Network)
NDEF: Not DEFined NetBIOS: NETwork Basic Input Output System
NDIS: Network Driver Interface Specification (Network)
(Network) NETBLT: NETwork BLock Transfer
NDL: Network Database Language NETCDF: NETwork Common Data Format
(Databases)
NETMON: NETwork MONitor
NDM: Network Data Manager
On-line storage service
NEWS: Netware Early Warning System
NDMP: Network Data Management Protocol NEWS: Network Extensible Window System
(Network) A window system based on PostScript that Sun developed and
licenses (Operating systems) (Sun)
NDMS: Netware Distributed Management Services
NEWT: NEWs Terminal
NDN: Non-Delivery Notice
NEXT: Near-End CrossTalk
NDP: Numeric Data Processor
NeXT: NEw eXtended Technology
NDPS: Novell Distributed Print Services
NF: Naturally Flat
(Network) (Novell)
Crt technology (Hardware) (Mitsubishi)
NDR: Network Data Representation
(Network)

NFAS NIS
NFAS: Non-Facility Associated Signaling NiCd: NIckel-CaDmium

In ISDN, a single D-channel can control multiple PRIs Rechargable battery technology
(Network)
NICE: Narrative, Immersive, Collaborative
NFE: Net Future Expectation Environment
NFF: No Fault Found Rechargeable battery technology
NFI: Near Field Imaging NICE: Network Information and Control Exchange
Touch screen where the screen itself is the sensor. NFI uses a NICE: Novell Internet Connection Expert
sophisticated sensing circuit that can detect a conductive (Network) (Novell)
object - a finger or conductive stylus - through a layer of glass,
as well as through gloves or other potential barriers (Hardware) NICOLAS: Network Information Center OnLine
Aid System
NFI: No F***ing Idea
(NASA)
(Net lingo)
NID: Network Interface Device
NFM: No Further Messages
(Hardware)
End of script, ie: you dont want to talk to this person anymore
(Net lingo) NID: New Interactive Display
NFR: Near Field Recording (NEC)
(Hardware) NID: Next IDentifier
NFS: Need For Speed NIDL: Network Interface Definition Language
Racing computer and video games by Electronic Arts released (Network)
on platforms including personal computers, Nintendo, Xbox,
Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable consoles NIDS: Network Intrusion Detection System
(Games) (Security)
NFS: Network File System NIFC: Netscape Internet Foundation Classes
A Sun distributed file system that provides transparent access (Software) (Netscape)
to remote file systems on heterogeneous networks (Operating
systems) (Sun) NIH: Not Invented Here
NFSU2: Need For Speed: Underground 2 NIHCL: National Institute of Health Class Library
Racing game, developed and published by Electronic Arts in NII: National Information Infrastructure
2003. It is part of the Need for Speed computer and video
game series (Games) NIIT: National Information Infrastructure
Testbed
NFT: Network File Transfer
NIIT: National Institute of Information
NG: NewsGroup
Discussion forum
Technology N
(Organizations)
NGE: Not Greater or Equal
NILO: Network Interface LOader
NGI: Next Generation Internet Boot Linux, FreeBSD, Windows 95/98/NT4 and support the
Intel PXE standard, and is suitable for burning into ROM. It is
NGIO: Next Generation Input Output an evolution of the previous Etherboot and Netboot projects.
(Hardware) (Intel) See http://www.nilo.org/
NGWS: Next Generation Windows Services NIM: Network Installation Management
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) (IBM)
NHC: National Hurricane Center NiMH: NIckel-Metal Hydride
NHR: National Handwriting Recognition Rechargable battery technology
NHRP: Next Hop Resolution Protocol NIMS: Novell Internet Messaging System
(Network) (Novell)
NHSE: National Hpcc Software Exchange NIO: Native Input/Output

Rechargeable battery technology
NI: New Instructions
(Hardware) (Intel) NIO: New Input/Output
Java's new I/O subsystem (Software) (Sun)
NI: No Increase
NIPR: Non-secure Internet Protocol Router
NI: Non Interlaced (Network)
(Hardware)
NIPS: Network I/os Per Second
NIA: Next Instruction Address
NIPS: Network Intrusion Prevention System
NIAM: Natural language Information Analysis (Security)
Method
NIR: Network Information Retrieval
NIC: Network Information Center
(Network)
Originally, a single NIC at SRI International served the
ARPANET (and later the defense data network [DDN] NIS: Network Information Service
community) (Network) A distributed network database containing key information
about the systems and the users on the network. The NIS
NIC: Network Interface Card
database is stored on the master server and all the slave
(Hardware) servers (Network) (Sun)
NIC: New Internet Computer NIS: Norton Internet Security
(Hardware) (Software) (Symantec)
NIC: Numeric Intensive Computing

NIS/YP NN
NIS/YP: Network Information System/Yellow NLUUG: NetherLands Unix User Group

Pages (Organizations)
N-ISDN: Narrowband Integrated Services Digital NLV: National Language Version
Network (IBM)
N-ISDN: National Integrated Services Digital NLX: New Low-profile Extended
Network Motherboard format, evolution of LPX (Hardware)
NISI: Network Information Services NM: Network Management
Infrastructure (Network)
(Network)
NM: Nothing Much
NISO: National Information Standards (Net lingo)
Organization
NMA: Network Management Architecture
NISP: Networked Information Services Project
NMC: Network Management Center
NIST: National Institute of Standards and
Technology NME: Norton Mobile Essentials
(Organizations) (Software) (Symantec)
NITC: National Information Technology Center NMEA: National Marine Electronics Association
Organization that developed (among other things) the NMEA
NITOL: Norway-net with IT for Open Learning interface standard for data exchange between marine
electronic devices, also used today in most Global Positioning
NIU: Network Interface Unit
Systems (GPSs) (Organizations)
NIW: Network Installation Wizard
NMF: Network Management Forum
NMH: Not Much Here
NIXL: Nas Interface eXchange Language
(Net lingo)
(Network)
NM-HDV: Network Module - High Density Voice
NJ: Nice Job
(Hardware) (Cisco)
(Net lingo)
NMI: Native Method Invocation
NJE: Network Job Entry
(Software)
(IBM)
NMI: Non-Maskable Interrupt
NJM: Native Java Microprocessor
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
NML: Network Management Layer
N NL: New Line
NML: Nonconfirmed Mailing List
NLA: Network Location Awareness
Database of Internet Protocol addresses (IP addresses) which
Enables Windows Sockets 2 applications to identify the logical have been demonstrated to be the sources of mailing lists
network to which a Windows computer is attached and to which do not fully verify the email addresses on their list. See
which physical network interface a given application has saved http://mail-abuse.org/nml/
specific information (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
NMLI: Native Mode Lan Interconnection
NLANR: National Laboratory for Applied Network
Is an IntraLATA high speed transport service used to
Research interconnect LANs at geographically separated sites (Network)
NLB: Network Load Balancing NMM: Netware Management Map
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) (Novell)
NLDM: Network Logical Data Manager NMM: Network Management Module
NLE: Not Less or Equal (Network)
NLM: Netware Loadable Module NMOS: Negative Channel Metal-Oxide

(Operating systems) (Novell) Semiconductor
NLM: Nfs Lock Manager NMP: Network Management Protocol
(Operating systems) (AT&T)
NLP: Natural Language Processing NMPA: National Music Publishers Association

(Organizations)
NLPID: Network Layer Protocol IDentifier
NMPF: Network Management Productivity Facility
NLQ: Near Letter Quality
NMR: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
NLS: National Language Support
(Operating systems) NMS: Netelligent Management Software
(Network)
NLS: Netware Licensing Service
(Novell) NMS: Network Management System
NLS: Network License Server NMT: Nordic Mobile Telephone
Pre-GSM mobile telephone network in the nordic countries
NLSFUNC: National Language Support FUNCtion (Communication)
NLSP: Netware Link Services Protocol NMU: Network Management Unit
Link-state routing protocol based on IS-IS. See also IS-IS (Hardware)
NLT: Natural Language Technology NN: Network Node
(Software)
NN: Neural Network

NN NSM
NN: No News NRC: National Research Council

(Organizations)
NNI: Network-Node Interface
(Communication) NREN: National Research and Education Network
NNM: Network Node Manager NRFD: Not Ready For Data
NNSC: Nsf Network Service Center NRL: Namespace Routing Language
NNTP: Network News Transport Protocol NRM: Network Resource Manager
(Communication)
NRM: Normal Response Mode
NOC: Network Operation Center HDLC data transfer mode (Network)
A center that operates a production network. Tasks include
NRN: No Response Needed
monitoring and control, troubleshooting, and user assistance
(Network) (Net lingo)
NOP: No OPeration NROFF: New Run-OFF

(Hardware) NRP: Node Route Processor
NOPAC: Network On-line Public Access Catalog (Hardware) (Cisco)
NORA: Non-Obvious Relationship Awareness NRZ: Non Return to Zero

Data transmission using +/- voltage levels or carrier offsets
NORMA: NO Remote Memory Access (Hardware)
NOS: Network Operating System NRZI: NonReturn to Zero Inverted
NOTA: None Of The Above NRZL: NonReturn to Zero Level
For multiple choice answers (Net lingo)
NS: Name Server
NOW: Network Of Workstations
ns: NanoSecond
(Hardware)
Time measurement unit
NOYB: None Of Your Business
NS: National Semiconductor
(Net lingo)
NS: Network Series
NP: No Problem
(Hardware)
Answer when someone says ty/thank you (Net lingo)
NS: Network Supervisor
NP: Nondeterministic Polynomial time
NS: Non Stop
NP: Number Portability
(Communication) NSA: National Security Agency N
(Organizations)
NPA: Network Printer Alliance
NSA POLY: National Security Agency POLYgraph
NPA: Numbering Plan Address
NSAP: Network Services Access Point
NPDA: Network Problem Determination Aid
(Network)
NPE: Null Pointer Exception
NSAPI: Netscape Server Application
A NPE happens when trying to access data from a null memory
location (Software)
NPH: No Parse Headers
NSB: Netware for Small Business
NPI: Network Printer Interface (Operating systems) (Novell)
NPL: Netscape Public License NSC: Network Service Center
(Netscape)
NSC: Norton System Center
NPL: Non-Procedural Language (Software) (Symantec)
(Software)
NSERC: National Sciences and Engineering
NPM: Network Printer Manager Research Council
(Software)
NSF: National Science Foundation
NPMS: Named Pipes/Mail Slots (Organizations)
NPP: Network Payment Protocol NSfIP: NextStep For Intel Processors
NPS: Novell Productivity Specialist NSFNET: National Science Foundation NETwork
(Novell)
NSI: Nasa Science Internet
NPSI: Network Protocol Service Interface
NSI: Network Solutions, Inc
NPT: Non-Programmable Terminal Manages .com, .net, .org, .edu top level domains
(Hardware) (Organizations)
NPTN: National Public Telecomputing Network NSIS: National Schengen Information System
NPU: Natural Processing Unit NSIS: Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
NPU: Network Processing Unit Tool that allows programmers to create quick and user friendly
installers for Windows. It is released under an open source
(Communication) license and is completely free for any use. See also
NPX: Numeric Processor eXtension http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ (Software)
NQS: Network Queing System NSM: Netscape Server Manager

(Netscape)

NSM NV
NSM: Network and System Management NTO: Network Terminal Operator

(Network)
NSN: Nasa Science Network
NTONC: National Transparent Optical Network
NSP: Native Signal Processing
Consortium
NSP: Network Service Provider (Organizations)
NSP: Network Services Protocol NTOP: New Technology Option Pack
NSPR: NetScape Portable Runtime (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
Provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system NTP: Network Time Protocol
facilities, including threads, thread synchronization, normal file (Communication)
and network I/O, interval timing and calendar time, basic
memory management (malloc and free) and shared library NTRAS: New Technology Remote Access Services
linking (Netscape)
NTRK: New Technology Resource Kit
NSS: Network Security Service (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
Set of libraries designed to support cross-platform
development of security-enabled server applications. NTRU: Number Theory is Really Useful
Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2 and v3, TLS, Technology for high speed, low footprint public key
PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME, X.509 v3 cryptography, based on the mathematics of lattice reduction.
certificates, and other standards (Marketed by NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc,
http://www.ntru.com/) (Security)
NSS: Network Storage Solutions
Company NTS/2: Network Transport Services 2
NSS: Nodal Switching Subsystem NTSA: Netware Telephony Services Architecture

(Novell)
NSS: Novell Storage Services
(Novell) NTSC: National Television Systems Committee
The group that proposed a method of composite color encoding
NSSC: Nasa Standard Spacecraft Computer based on quadrature modulation of I and Q color difference
NSTC: National Science and Technology Council components onto a color subcarrier and adding the resulting
chroma signal to luminance (Organizations)
NSTL: National Software Testing Labs
NTSD: New Technology Symbolic Debugger
NT: Network Terminator (Microsoft)
NT: New Technology NTSL: National Software Testing Laboratories
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) (Organizations)
NT: Nice Try NTT: Nippon Telephone & Telegraph
N (Net lingo)
NTU: Network Termination Unit
NT: No Text
NTWS: New Technology WorkStation
(Net lingo)
NT: Nome Time
NUA: Network User Address
NUB: Network Utility Box
NT-1: Network Terminator type 1
(Hardware)
NTAS: New Technology Advanced Server
NUI: Network User Identification
(Network)
NTCR: New Technology Challenge/Response
NUI: Network User Interface
(Operating systems)
NTDS: New Technology Directory Service
NUI: Notebook User Interface
NUL: NULl
NTE: New Technology Embedded
An invisible character with an internal code of 0 that occupies
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) no space if printed. Not to be confused with a blank, which is
NTF: No Trouble Found invisible but occupies a space
NTFS: New Technology File System NUMA: NonUniform Memory Access

(Operating systems) (Microsoft) NURB: Non Uniform Rational B-spline
NTHQ: New Technology Hardware Qualifier NURBS: Non Uniform Rational B-Spline
Hardware troubleshooting program (Operating systems) A curve definition method based on the B-spline curve, which
(Microsoft) offers additional exibility through knots along the spline. Some
knots can have more weight added (like a magnet) to pull the
NTIA: National Telecommunications and
curve toward those knots
Information Administration
(Organizations) NURMS: Non Uniform Rational MeshSmooth
Method of tesselation used by 3D Studio MAX (Software)
NTIS: National Technical Information Service
NUUG: Norwegian Unix User Group
NTK: Newton ToolKit
(Organizations)
NTLDR: New Technology LoaDeR
NV: No oVerflow
Bootstrap loader for Microsoft Windows NT-based operating
A curve definition method based on the B-spline curve, which
systems (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
offers additional flexibility through knots along the spline.
NTLM: New Technology Lan Manager Some knots can have more weight added (like a magnet) to
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) pull the curve toward those knots

NVDL OC-3
NVDL: Namespace-based Validation Dispatching OAB: Offline Address Book

Language (Microsoft)
Allows specifying sections of XML documents to be validated
OAB: One-to-All Broadcast
against different schemas thus enabling the creation of
complex documents containing multiple languages OAD: Open Architecture Driver
NVDM/2: NetView Distribution Manager 2 OAD: Over-the-Air Downloading
NVE: Network Visible Entity OAG: Official Airline Guide
A network addressable service (ie. protocol socket) that acts as
a network service process (not a node.) (Network) (Apple) OAG: Online Air Guide
NVM: Non Volatile Memory OAI: Open Applications Interface

(Hardware) OAM: Operations, Administation, and
NVML: NaVigation Markup Language Management
A set of network management functions for ATM similar to
NVOD: Near-Video On Demand those in OA&M and OAM&P. Special cells, called OAM cells, are
used to carry OAM related information (Communication)
NVP: Network Voice Protocol
OAM: Oracle Access Manager
NVP: Nominal Velocity of Propagation
used for authentication and web single sign-on (SSO). Version
NVRAM: Non-Volatile Random Access Memory 10g and earlier included a delegated management service
A type of RAM that retains information when power is removed (OAM Identity) not to be confused with Oracle Identity
from the system (Hardware) Manager (OIM) or legacy Oracle Identity Management (OID,
OSSO, DIP and DAS) (Oracle)
NVS: Non-Volatile Storage
OARNet: Ohio Academic Resources NETwork
(Hardware)
NVSIMM: Non-Volatile Single In line Memory OAS: Office Automation System
Module OAS: One-to-All Scatter
A nonvolatile single inline memory module (SIMM) that
incorporates a battery on the device to prevent data loss in a
OAS: Oracle Application Server
power failure. Battery current is shared among a group of (Software) (Oracle)
NVSIMMs. This feature prevents memory failure if one battery
OASIS: Open Access Same-time Information
fails (Hardware)
System
NVT: Network Virtual Terminal
OASIS: Organization for the Advancement of
NVT: Novell Virtual Terminal Structured Information Standards
(Novell) (Organizations)
NWFS: NetWare File System OASLM: Optically Addressed Spatial Light N
(Operating systems) (Novell) Modulator
(Hardware)
NWNet: NorthWestern states NETwork O
NWS: Netware Web Server OASYS: Office Automation SYStem
(Novell) OAW: Optically Assisted Winchester
NX: No eXecute (Hardware)
Technology used in CPUs to segregate areas of memory for use OBD: On Board Diagnostics
by either storage of processor instructions (or code) or for
storage of data, a feature normally only found in Harvard OBD: Online Bugs Database
architecture processors (Hardware) (Intel) OBEX: OBject EXchange
NXD: Native Xml Database Set of protocols allowing objects such as vCard contact
(Databases) information and vCalendar schedule entries to be exchanged
using either IrDA or Bluetooth
NYSERNet: New York State Education and
Research NETwork OBI: Open Buying on the Internet
(Organizations)
NZDSF: Non-Zero Dispersion Shifted Fibre
Optical fiber type (Communication)
OBJ: OBJect
File name extension
NZT: New Zealand Time
Timezone: GMT +12:00
Obj-C: OBJective-C
Programming Language (Software)
NZUSUGI: New Zealand Unix System User Group,
Inc. OBOE: Off-By-One Error
Logical error involving the discrete equivalent of a boundary
condition. It often occurs in computer programming when an
O iterative loop iterates one time too many or too few (Software)
O&O: Over & Out OBS: Old Backup Server
When leaving an on-line conversation permanently (Net lingo)
OBV: Object By Value
O/R: Originator/Recipient (Software)
OA: Office Automation OBVI: Object-Based Video Interface
OAAM: Oracle Adaptive Access Manager OBZ: One Big Zip
Provides soft multi-factor authentication (OAAM Adaptive (Net lingo)
Strong Authenticator or OAAM-ASA) and powerful risk
management/anti-fraud analysis (OAAM Adaptive Risk Manager OC: Optical Carrier
or OAAM-ARM) (Oracle)
OC-3: Optical Carrier level 3

OC4J ODR
OC4J: Oracle Containers For Java OD: Optical Disk

(Software) (Oracle)
ODA: Open Data Access
OCA: Online Crash Analysis (Software)
ODA: Open Document Architecture
OCA: Oracle Certified Associate
ODAPI: Open DataBase Application Programming
Certification for apprentice skill level IT professionals who Interface
have have a foundation of knowledge that will allow them to
act as a junior team member (Oracle) (Software)
OCCI: Oracle C++ Call Interface ODBC: Open DataBase Connectivity

Object-oriented data access API for C++ which provides a (Software) (Microsoft)
programmatic interface to the Oracle database (Databases) ODBMS: Object DataBase Management System
(Oracle)
(Databases)
OCD: Out-of-Cell Delineation
ODCI: Oracle Data Cartridge Interface
OCE: Open Collaborative Environment Extends the capabilities of the Oracle server by taking
(Apple) advantage of the Oracle Extensibility Architecture framework
(Oracle)
OCF: Object Component Framework
(Software) (Borland) ODD: Optical Disk Drive
Computer CD-Rom, DVD-Rom, DVD-Writer, etc (Hardware)
OCF: OpenCard Framework
ODE: Object Database and Environment
OCFS: Oracle Cluster File System
(Oracle)
ODE: Office 97 Developer Edition
OCI: Oracle Call Interface
C-language data access API which provides a low-level
ODE: Orchestration Director Engine
programmatic interface to the Oracle database (Databases) Apache project to develop an open-source implementation of
(Oracle) the WS-BPEL 1.1 and WS-BPEL 2.0 specifications. Ode is a
choreography engine allowing you to develop processes to call
OCIA: Optically Coupled Interface Adapter services in a well-defined manner. See also
Interface in many other respects similar to RS232. It is used http://ode.apache.org/ (Software)
extensively on Point Of Sale (POS) equipments (Hardware)
ODF: Open Document Format
OCL: Object Constraint Language Open document file format for saving and exchanging editable
office documents (Software)
OCL: Operator Control Language
ODI: Open Data-link Interface
OCL: Os/2 Class Library
(Network)
OCLC: Online Computer Library Center
ODI: Open Device Interconnect
OCM: Oracle Certified Master
O Advanced-level certification that is targeted toward Oracle9i
(Novell)
DBA OCPs with 3 - 4 years of professional Oracle experience ODIF: Open Document Interchange Format
(Oracle) ODISS: Optical Digital Image Storage System
OCN: Operating Company Number ODL: Object Definition Language
(Communication)
ODM: Object Data Manager
OCP: Open-Closed Principle (IBM)
Object-oriented principle that states that software entities
should be open for extensions but closed for modifications ODM: Optimized Distribution Model
(Software) (Compaq)
OCP: Oracle Certified Professional ODM: Original Design Manufacturing
Mid-level certification for IT professionals who manage large-
ODMA: Open Distributed Management
scale databases or develop applications that are used
enterprise-wide (Oracle) Architecture
OCR: Optical Character Recognition ODMA: Open Document Management Api
OCS: Object Compatibility Standard ODMG: Object Data Management Group

See http://www.odmg.org/ (Organizations)
OCS: On-Card Sequencer
ODMG: Object Database Management Group
OCS: Open Content Syndication
ODP: On-Demand Producer
OCS: Oracle Collaboration Suite Multimedia authoring program (Software)
Oracle's mail/calendar solution (Software) (Oracle)
ODP: Open Data Path
OCSP: Online Certificate Status Protocol Provide a way for more than one program in the same job to
A PKIX protocol used for determining the current status of a share the same file status information (Software) (IBM)
digital certificate
ODP: Open Distributed Processing
OCTAVE: Operationally Critical Threat, Asset, and
Vulnerability Evaluation ODP: OverDrive Processor
Approach for self-directed risk evaluations that puts ODPS: On Demand Packaging Service
organizations in charge, balances critical information assets, Intranet Software distribution solution by IBM (Software) (IBM)
business needs, threats, and vulnerabilities and measures the
organization against known or accepted good security practices ODQL: Object Database Query Language
(Security) (Databases)
OCX: Ole Control eXtension ODR: Optimized Dynamic Routing

ODS OLE
ODS: Open Data Services OGL: Open Graphics Language

(Microsoft) Single, vendor-independent Application Programming Interface
(API) for the development of 2D and 3D graphics applications
ODS: Operational Data Store (Software) (SGI)
ODS: Overhead Data Stream OGNL: Object Graph Navigation Language
ODSI: Open Directory Services Interface Powerful expression language that is useful for identifying
properties within Java objects (Software)
ODT: Open DeskTop
OGSA: Open Grid Services Architecture
ODTUG: Oracle Development Tools User Group Describes an architecture for a service-oriented grid computing
OE: Operating Environment environment for business and scientific use. OGSA is based on
several other Web service technologies, notably WSDL and
OE: Outlook Express SOAP, but it aims to be largely agnostic (Software)
(Software) (Microsoft) OGSI: Open Grid Services Infrastructure
OE: Output Enable Takes the statelessness issues (along with others) into account
(Hardware) by essentially extending Web services to accommodate grid
computing resources that are both transient and stateful
OECD: Organization for Economic Cooperation (Software)
and Development
OGSS: Ordered Grid Super Sampling
(Organizations)
Full-scene anti-aliasing technique (Hardware)
OEDB: Operating Experience DataBase
OHCI: Open Host Controller Interface
Nuclear power plants use a common database of operating
information OIA: Operator Information Area
OEL: Oracle Enterprise Linux OIC: Oh, I See
Oracle's Linux distribution (Operating systems) (Oracle) (Net lingo)
OEM: Oracle Enterprise Manager OID: Object IDentifier
Comprehensive management tool which provides a top-to-
OID: Oracle Internet Directory
bottom monitoring solution for Oracle software (Oracle)
Oracle's LDAP-enabled directory server product. Part of
OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer Oracle's "legacy" Identity Management. Legacy IDM refers to
A manufacturer that sells equipment for resale under an end- an installation option for pre-10g installations where an
equipment manufacturer’s trademark or name (Hardware) installation option for "Identity Management" installed OID and
OSSO (Oracle)
OEP: Operand Execution Pipeline
OIDL: Object Interface Definition Language
OEP: Original Entry Point
(Software) OIF: Oracle Identity Federation
Product for browser-based cross-domain SSO using standards
OES: Oracle Entitlement Server including SAML 1.x/2.x, WS-Federation, ID-FF, etc (Oracle)
Provides fine-grained authorization (FGA) capabilities as an
embeddable authorization engine (Oracle) OIL: Operator Identification Language O
OF: Outer Firewall OIM: Open Information Model
(Security) Set of standard object models which define how applications
can create exchangeable metadata
OF: Overflow Flag
OIM: Oracle Identity Manager
OFA: Optimal Flexible Architecture Formerly Xellerate, acquired with purchase of Thor
Technologies, is Oracle's strategic product for user account
OFB: Output FeedBack
provisioning and identity administration (Oracle)
OFC: Open Financial Connectivity
OINK: Oh I Never Knew
OFCOM: Office Fédéral de la COMmunication (Net lingo)
Swiss regulatory Organisation (Organizations)
OIS: Office Information System
OFDM: Orthogonal Frequency Division
OIW: Osi Implementors Workshop
Multiplexing
(Communication) OJI: Open Jvm Integration
Project extending the plug-in architecture to allow Java virtual
OFMT: Output ForMaT machines to be plugged into Mozilla-based browser releases
OFP: Organizational Fitness Profiling OKC: Online Knowledge Community
OFS: Object File System OL: Ordered List
(Operating systems) HTML Tag
OFS: Output Field Separator OLAM: Optimal Linear Associative Memory
OFTP: Odette File Transfer Protocol OLAP: On-Line Analytical Processing
Defined by the RFC 2204, it's a protocol that supports both A category of software tools that provides analysis of data
direct communication between installations and indirect stored in a database (Databases)
communication via a third party clearing centre (Network)
OLB: Object Language Bindings
OFX: Open Financial eXchange
(Databases)
OGF: Open Grid Forum
OLC: OpenLdap Configuration
Community of users, developers, and vendors leading the
Slapd configuration prefix (Software)
global standardization effort for grid computing. It was formed
in 2006 in a merger of the Global Grid Forum and the OLCP: On-Line Complex Processing
Enterprise Grid Alliance. See also http://www.ogf.org/
(Organizations) OLE: Object Linking and Embedding

OLED OOO
OLED: Organic Light Emitting Diode OMSA: OpenManage Server Administrator

(Hardware) Suite of tools provided by Dell for managing an individual
server. See the official OpenManage site,
OLE-DB: Object Linking and Embedding-DataBase http://dell.com/openmanage/ (Hardware) (Dell)
COM-based data access objects (Databases) (Microsoft)
OMT: Object Modeling Technique
OLGA: OnLine Guitar Archive (Software)
OLI: Optical Line Interface OMW: On My Way
(AT&T) (Net lingo)
OLIT: Open Look Intrinsics Toolkit ON: Online Network
An X Window system-based widget set and library used to
create applications using the OPEN LOOK graphical user ONA: Open Network Architecture
interface (Operating systems)
ONAC: Operations Network Administration Center
OLMC: Open Look Intrinsic Toolkit
ONAL: Off Network Access Line
OLSP: On-Line Service Provider
ONC: Open Network Computing
O-LTM: Optical Line Terminating Multiplexer (Network) (Sun)
OLTP: OnLine Transaction Processing ONDS: Open Network Distribution Services
(IBM)
OM: Object Manager
ONE: Open Network Environment
OM: Object Model
(Sun)
(Software)
ONI: Operator Number Identification
OMA: Object Management Architecture
(Microsoft) ONL: ONLine
(Net lingo)
OMA: Outlook Mobile Access
(Software) (Microsoft) ONMS: Open Network Management System
OMAC: One-key cipher block chaining Message ONS: Open Networking System
Authentication Code
ONU: Optical Network Unit
(Security)
OO: Object Oriented
OMAP: Open Multimedia Applications Platform
OOA: Object-Oriented Analysis
OMCA: OpenManage Client Administrator
(Dell) OOAD: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
OMCI: OpenManage Client Instrumentation OOB: Out Of Band
Technical term with different uses in communications and
OME: Open Messaging Environment telecommunication. It refers to communications which occur
O Protocol outside of a previously established communications method or
channel (Communication)
OMF: Object Management Framework
OOBE: Object-Oriented Business Engineering
OMF: Object Module Format
(Microsoft) OOBE: Out-Of-Box Experience
What happens when you first open the box containing your
OMF: Observation Markup Format
new computer
Is an application of XML used to encode weather observation
reports OOCASE: Object Oriented Computer Aided
Software Engineering
OMF: Open Media Framework
OOCTG: Object-Oriented Cobol Task Group
OMF: Open Message Format
OOD: Object-Oriented Design
OMFG: Oh My F***ing God
(Net lingo) OODB: Object-Oriented DataBase
OMFI: Open Media Framework Interchange OODBMS: Object-Oriented DataBase Management
System
OMG: Object Management Group
(Organizations) OODL: Object-Oriented Dynamic Language
OMG: Oh My God (or Gosh) OODS: Object-Oriented Data Source
(Net lingo) OOF: Out Of Frame
OMI: Open Management Interface State that occurs when several consecutive Synchronous
Digital Hierarchy (SDH) frames are received with invalid
OMI: Open Messaging Interface (errored) framing patterns (Communication)
OMI: Open Microprocessor Initiative OOFS: Object-Oriented File System
OMI-STN: Optical Mode Interface-SuperTwisted (Operating systems)
Nematic OOL: Object-Oriented Language
OML: Object Manipulation Language OOo: OpenOffice.org
(Software) Free productivity suite compatible with all major office suites.
See also http://www.openoffice.org/ (Software)
OMR: Optical Mark Recognition
OOO: Out Of Office
OMS: Object Management System
(Net lingo)

OOOE OS/360
OOOE: Out Of Order Execution OPOS: Ole for Point Of Sale

Processor level architecture feature (Hardware)
OPP: Order Processing Pipeline
OOOS: Object-Oriented Operating System (Network) (Microsoft)
OOP: Object-Oriented Programming OPROM: Optical Programmable Read Only Memory
(Software) (Hardware)
OOPL: Object-Oriented Programming Language OPS: Off Premise Station
(Software) A PBX station in a location separated from the location of the
main PBX (Communication)
OOPS: Object-Oriented Programming System
OPS: Open Profiling Standard
OOPSLA: Object-Oriented Programming Systems
(Netscape)
and Language Architecture
ops: Operations Per Second
OOPSTAD: Object-Oriented Programming for
SmallTalk Application Development association OPS: Oracle Parallel Server
(Oracle)
OOS: Object-Oriented Systems
OPT: Open Protocol Technology
OOS: Off-line Operating Simulator
OPT: OPTions
OOS: Out Of Service
File name extension
OOSA: Object-Oriented System Analysis
OPUS: Octal Program Updating System
OOSE: Object-Oriented Software Engineering
OQL: Object Query Language
OOSH: Object-Oriented SHell
OQS: Object Query Service
OOT: Object-Oriented Technology (Software)
OO-TP: Object-Oriented Transaction Processing OR: OverRun
(Software) (Hardware)
OOUI: Object-Oriented User Interface ORB: Object Request Broker
OOXML: Office Open eXtensible Markup Language ORBS: Open Relay Behaviour-modification System
XML-based file format for electronic documents such as
spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing ORBZ: Open Relay Blackhole Zone
documents. See ISO/IEC DIS 29500 and ECMA 376 (Software) ORDB: Open Relay DataBase
OP: OPeration A service to fight against spam or unsolicited commercial email
(UCE). See http://www.ordb.org/
OPA: Open Publishing Architecture
ORDBMS: Object Relational DataBase
OPAC: On-line Public Access Catalog Management System
OPAS: Online Performance Appraisal System (Databases) O
(Oracle) ORDVAC: ORDnance Variable Automatic Computer
OPC: Ole for Process Control ORI: Online Retrieval Interface
OPC: Open Process Control ORK: Office Resource Kit
OPC: Optical PhotoConductor (Software) (Microsoft)
OPC: Organic Photoconducting Cartridge ORM: Object Role Modeling

(Hardware) (Databases)
OPCODE: OPerational CODE ORM: Object/Relational Mapping

Technique of mapping a data representation from an object
OPD: OPeranD model to a relational data model with a SQL-based schema
OpenGL: OPEN Graphics Language (Software)
Single, vendor-independent Application Programming Interface ORM: Optical Remote Module
(API) for the development of 2D and 3D graphics applications
(Software) (SGI) ORMS: Operating Resource Management System
(Software)
OPES: Open Pluggable Edge Services
(Network) OROM: Optical Read Only Memory
(Hardware)
OPI: Open Press Interface
(Software) O-ROM: Optical Read Only Memory
OPI: Oracle Programmatic Interface ORPC: Object Remote Procedure Call
The server-side complement to OCI (Databases) (Oracle) (Software)
OPL: Opaque Device Library ORS: Output Record Separator

OPL: OpenContent License ORSS: Optical Recognition System Simulator
Licensing scheme for content. See also OS: Operating System
http://opencontent.org/opl.shtml
A collection of programs that monitor the use of the system
OPM: Operations Per Minute and supervise the other programs executed by it (Operating
systems)
OPML: Outline Processor Markup Language
XML-based format that allows exchange of outline-structured
OS/2: Operating System 2
information between applications running on different (Operating systems) (IBM)
operating systems and environments
OS/360: Operating System/360

OS/400 OTA
OS/400: Operating System/400 OSM: On-Screen Manager

(Hardware) (NEC)
OS/E: Operating System/Environment
OSM: On-Screen Menu
OS-9: Operating System-9
OSM: Operating system-Specific Module
OSA: Open Scripting Architecture
OSM: Optical Storage Manager
OSA: Open System Architecture
OSME: Open Systems Message Exchange
OSAF: Open Source Applications Foundation
Organization that aims to create and gain wide adoption of OSN: Office System Node
Open Source application software of uncompromising quality
and to build an innovative, sustainable alternative application OSN: Open Service Node
despite market inertia. See also (Communication)
http://www.osafoundation.org/ (Organizations)
OSN: Open Systems Network
OSCE: OfficeScan Corporate Edition
OSP: Ole db Simple Provider
OSCML: OSChooser Markup Language (Databases) (Microsoft)
OSP: Online Service Provider
OSCRL: Operating System Command Response Companies that offer an extensive online array of services of
Language their own apart from the rest of the Internet. Connecting to the
Internet through an OSP is usually an alternative to connecting
OSD: On-Screen Display through an Internet Service Provider (ISP)
(Hardware)
OSP: On-Screen Programming
OSD: Open Software Description
OSP: Operations Service Provider
An application of the eXtensible Markup Language (XML), is a
vocabulary used for describing software packages and their OSP: Optical Signal Processing
dependencies for heterogeneous clients
(Hardware)
OSD: Open Source Definition OSP: Optical Storage Processor
The definition of the "open source" concept. See also
http://opensource.org/docs/osd OSPF: Open Shortest Path First
An Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) specified by the Internet
OSD: Operating System Deployment
Engineering Task Force (IETF) (Network)
OSPM: Operating System-directed Power
OSDL: Open Source Development Lab Management
Non-profit, global consortium of leading technology companies With OSPM, the operating system determines when to do
dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux. See power management and the BIOS determines how to do power
http://www.osdl.org/ (Organizations) management. The two pieces work in concert to provide
OSDN: Open Source Development Network maximum power savings
O (Software) OSQL: Object Structured Query Language

OSDS: Operating System for Distributed Switching OSR: Oem Service Release
OSE: Office Server Extension OSS: Open Source Software
(Software) (Microsoft) (Software)
OSE: Open Systems Environment OSS: Operating System-Specific
OSES: Oracle Secure Enterprise Search OSS: Operations Support System
Secure search access to all of your organization's data sources
(Oracle) OSSIM: Open Source Security Information
Management
OSF: Open Software Foundation Distribution of open source products that are integrated to
(Organizations) provide an infrastructure for security monitoring. See also
http://www.ossim.net/ (Security)
OSF: Operation System Function
OSSO: Oracle Single Sign-On
OSGi: Open Services Gateway Initiative
In-house developed web single sign-on product. Required for
Independent, non-profit corporation working to define and many Oracle application integrations for interoperability with
promote open specifications for the delivery of managed some other Oracle apps or third-party web SSO systems.
broadband services to networks in homes, cars and other OSSO is expected to be replaced by OAM 11g (Security)
environments. See also http://www.osgi.org (Organizations) (Oracle)
OSHA: Occupational Safety and Health OST: Offline STorage
Administration
(Organizations) OSTA: Optical Storage Technology Association
(Organizations)
OSI: Open Source Initiative
See http://opensource.org/ OSW/L2: Operating System-9 Windows/Level 2
OSI: Open Systems Interconnection OSX: Operating System Ten

7-layer hierarchical reference structure developed by the Apple's unix operating system (Operating systems) (Apple)
International Standards Organization for defining, specifying, OT: Object Technology
and relating communications protocols; not a standard or a
protocol (Communication) OT: Off Topic
OSI/RM: Open Systems (Net lingo)
Interconnection/Reference Model OTA: Office of Technology Assessment
OSIG: Online Special Interest Group OTA: Operation-Triggered Architecture

OTA PACS
OTA: Over-The-Air OWG: Optical WaveGuide

Refers to various methods of distributing new software
OWL: Object Windows Library
updates, configuration settings, and even updating encryption
keys to devices like cellphones, set-top boxes or secure voice (Software) (Borland)
communication equipment (encrypted 2-way radios) (Software) OWL: Web Ontology Language
OTDR: Optical Time Domain Reflectometer Semantic markup language for publishing and sharing
ontologies on the World Wide Web. OWL is developed as a
OTF: Open Token Foundation vocabulary extension of RDF (the Resource Description
Framework) and is derived from the DAML+OIL Web Ontology
OTI: Object Technology International
Language
OTM: Object Transaction Monitor
O-WORM: Optical Write Once Read Many
(Software)
OWSM: Oracle Web Services Manager
OTM: Optical Translation Measurement
Product for web-services security. Part of the SOA suite
(Hardware) (Oracle)
OTML: Offline Tagging Markup Language OWT: Open source Windowing Toolkit
OTN: Oracle Technology Network OXC: Optical Cross Connect
(Oracle) (Communication)
OTOH: On The Other Hand
(Net lingo) P
OTP: One-Time Password authentication P: Paragraph
(Security) HTML tag
OTP: One-Time Programmable P: Peta
OTP: Open Trading Protocol Prefix for 10 power 15 (or, in IT parlance, 2 power 50)
The Internet Open Trading Protocol (OTP) provides an p: Pico
interoperable framework for Internet commerce. It is payment Prefix for 10 power -12
system independent and encapsulates payment systems such
as SET, Mondex, CyberCash, DigiCash, GeldKarte, etc. P&D: Plug & Display
OTPROM: One-Time Programmable Read Only (Hardware)
Memory P&M: Personalization & Membership
OTS: Object Transaction Service (Microsoft)
OU: Organizational Unit P&S: Point And Shoot

Digital camera type (Hardware)
OUCL: Oxford University Computing Laboratory
P&S: Publish & Subscribe
OUG: Occam User Group
OUI: Organizationally Unique Identifier
P/N: Part Number
O
24-bit number purchased from the Institute of Electrical and
P/PC: Palm Personal Computer
Electronics Engineers, Incorporated (IEEE) Registration
Authority. This identifier uniquely identifies a vendor,
(Hardware)
P
P/T: Part Time
manufacturer, or other organization globally or worldwide
P2C2: Pantone Personal Color Calibrator
OURS: Open User Recommended Solutions group
(Pantone)
OUTS: OUTput String
P2P: Peer To Peer
OV: OVerflow
P2P: People To People
OVAL: Object-based Virtual Application Language
P2P: Point To Point
OVD: Oracle Virtual Directory
P2SC: Power 2 Super Chip
Provides directory virtualization and LDAP firewalling/proxying
(Oracle) IBM's Deep Blue processor (Hardware) (IBM)
OVF: Open Virtualization Format P3P: Platform for Privacy Preferencies Project
Standard format for packaging and describing virtual machines PA: Platform for Privacy Preferences Project
and applications for deployment across heterogeneous (Hardware) (HP)
virtualization platforms
PAB: Personal Address Book
OVL: OVerLay
File name extension PABX: Private Automatic Branch eXchange
(Hardware)
OVR: OVeRlay
File name extension PAC: Perceptual Audio Coder
(Hardware)
OWA: Outlook Web Access
(Network) (Microsoft) PAC: Platform Adaptor Component
OWASP: Open Web Application Security Project PAC: Privilege Attribute Certificate
Worldwide free and open community focused on improving the PAC: Programme Advisory Committee
security of application software. See also
(Communication)
http://www.owasp.org/ (Organizations)
OWC: Office Web Component PACE: Priority Access Control Enabled
(3Com)
Collection of COM controls designed to bring interactive
spreadsheet modeling, database reporting, and data PACS: Picture Archiving and Communication
visualization to a number of control containers (Software) System
(Microsoft)

PACS-L PC
PACS-L: Public Access Computer Systems List PAP: Protected Audio Path
Initiative under investigation for how to provide encryption of
PAD: Packet Assembler/Disassembler
audio over user accessible buses
An access device to an X.25 network (Communication)
PAP: Push Access Protocol
PADS: Pen Application Development System
PAR: Parallel
PAE: Physical Addressing Extension
Extension for Windows 2000/2003 Advanced Server to address PAR: Personal Animation Recorder
more than 4 GB of memory (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
PAR: Personal Audio Recorder
PAF: Postal Address File (Hardware)
PAIH: Public-Access Internet Host PAR: Project Authorization Request
PAIS: Public-Access Internet Site PARC: Palo Alto Research Center
(Organizations) (Xerox)
PAK: PAcKed
File name extension PA-RISC: Precision Architecture Reduced
Instruction Set Computer
PAL: PALette
(HP)
File name extension
PAS: PAScal
PAL: Paradox Application Language
File name extension
(Databases) (Borland)
PAS: Publicly Available Specification
PAL: Phase Alternate Line
European TV standard. A composite color standard similar to PAS/2: Personal Application System/2
NTSC, except that the v-axis subcarrier reference signal inverts
in phase at the horizontal line rate
PAT: PATtern
File name extensions
PAL: Privileged Architecture Library
PAT: Performance Acceleration Technology
PAL: Processor Abstraction Layer Speeds data flow between the processor and system memory
Contains the code necessary to initially boot the processor and to increase performance. Introduced with the Intel 875P
includes error recovery and processor self-test routines chipset (Hardware) (Intel)
(Hardware) (Intel)
PAT: Port Address Translation
PAL: Programmable Array Logic (Communication)
(Hardware)
PATA: Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment
PAL: Programmable Assembly Language Peripheral bus architecture (Hardware)
PAL: Publication Access List PATN: Port Access Telephone Number
SQL Server replication security mechanism (Databases)
(Microsoft) PAV: Parallel Access Volumes
PALC: Parallel-Aligned Liquid crystal Spatial Light PAWS: Protect Against Wrapped Sequences
Modulator (Network)
Display technology
P PAX: Portable Archive eXchange
PALS: Principles of the Alphabet Literacy System PB: PetaByte
PAL-SLM: Parallel-Aligned Liquid crystal Spa tial 2 to the 50th power bytes. Is equal to 1024 terabytes
Light Modulator PB: Pipeline Burst
(Hardware)
Cache memory architecture (Hardware)
PAM: Paging Area Memory PBA: Printed Board Assembly
PAM: Pluggable Authentication Module PBC: Port Bypass Circuit
With the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) framework,
(Hardware)
multiple authentication technologies can be added without
changing any of the login services, thereby preserving existing PBCAK: Problem Between Chair And Keyboard
system environments (Security) It's when the problem is the computer user (Net lingo)
PAM: Presence and Availability Management PBD: PowerBuilder Dynamic library
Java APIs to disseminate and manage presence information (Databases) (Sybase)
securely across heterogeneous networks and applications. See
also http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=123 (Software) PBE: Prompt By Example
PAM: Primary Access Method PBGA: Plastic Ball Grid Array
PAM: Programmable Attribute Map (Hardware)
PAM: Pulse-Amplitude Modulation PBI: Phone Based Interface

(Communication) PBM: Play By Mail
PAMR: Public Access Mobile Radio PBOT: Physical Beginning of Tape
PAN: Personal Account Number (Hardware)
PAN: Personal Area Network PBR: Policy-Based Routing

(Cisco)
(Network)
PAP: PAcket-level Procedure PBX: Private Branch eXchange
Privately owned central switching office (Communication)
PAP: Password Authentication Protocol
PC: Personal Computer
A security provision in point-to-point protocol (PPP) (Network)
PAP: Printer Access Protocol

PC PD
PC: Pipeline Clock PCL: Printer Control Language

Used to specify the memory's speed. Example PC 800 (HP)
(Hardware)
PCL: Process Control Language
PC: Printed Circuit
PCL: Programmable Command Language
PC: Program Counter
PCM: Personal Computer Manufacturer
A CPU register that contains the address (location) of the
instruction to be executed next in the program sequence PCM: Physical Connection Management
PC: Programmable Controller PCM: Printer Cartridge Metric
A slightly smart electronic circuit, usually for industrial (HP)
processes; acronym quickly changed to PLC after IBM brought
out its Personal Computer (Hardware) PCM: Process Change Management
(Software)
PC/IXF: Personal Computer Intergrated
eXchange Format PCM: Pulse Code Modulation
(Communication)
PC/SC: Personal Computer Smart Card
(Hardware) PCMA: Paired Carrier Multiple Access
PC/TCP: Personal Computer Integrated eXchange PCMC: Pci, Cache and Memory Controller
Format (Intel)
PCA: Payment gateway Certification Authority PCMCIA: Personal Computer Memory Card
International Association
PCA: Personal internet Client Architecture
An organization that supports several standards for a compact
(Intel)
hardware interface that accepts a variety of devices
PCA: Power Calibration Area (Organizations)
PCACIAS: Personal Computer Automated PCMIM: Personal Computer Media Interface

Calibration Interval Analysis System Module
PCAV: Partial Constant Angular Velocity PCMS: Project and Configuration Management
(Hardware) System
PCB: Printed Circuit Board PCN: Personal Computer Network

(Hardware) PCN: Public Communications Network
PCB: Program Control Block PCNFS: Personal Computer Network File System
PCBC: Plain Cipher Block Chaining PCO: Point of Control and Observation
PCBO: Personal Computer Branch Office PCR: Packet Cell Rate
(IBM)
PCR: Processor Configuration Register
PCD: Photo Compact Disc
PCS: Patchable Control Store
File format for digitized photos (Kodak)
PCDA: Program Controlled Data Acquisition
PCS: Personal Communication Service
P
PCS: Personal Computing System
PC-DOS: Personal Computer - Disk Operating
(Hardware)
System
(IBM) PCS: Personal Conferencing Specification
PCEB: PCi to Eisa Bridge PCS: Physical Code Sublayer
(Intel) (Network)
PCF: Packet Control Function PCS: Planning Control Sheet
(Communication)
PCS: Print Contrast Signal
PCFS: Personal Computer FIle System
PCS: Process Control Systems
A file system specification that provides the capability to read
and write files in DOS format on the SPARC (Operating PCS: Program Counter Store
systems) (Sun)
PCS: Project Control System
PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCSA: Personal Computing Systems Architecture
A 32-bit bus providing a maximum 132 Mbyte/sec data transfer
rate. PCI devices have autoconfiguration capabilities and do PCT: PiCTure
not have to be configured by users (Hardware) File name extension
PCI: Protocol Control Information PCT: Private Communication Technology
PC-I/O: Program Controlled Input/Output (Communication)
PCIC: Pc-Card Interrupt Controller PCTE: Portable Common Tool Environment

PCI-E: Peripheral Component Interconnect - PCX: PiCture eXchange
Express File name extension
New interface replacing PCI and AGP, max bandwidth of PD: Personal Display
500MB/sec (Hardware)
(Hardware)
PCI-E: Peripheral Component Interconnect
PD: Phase change Dual
Express
Optical recording system (Hardware) (Matsushita)
Evolution of the PCI bus that allows faster trasfers (Hardware)
PD: Portable Device
PCL: Portable Common Loops
(Hardware)

PD PE
PD: Public Domain PDQ: Parallel Data Queries

PDA: Personal Digital Assistant PDQ: Pretty Darn Quick
(Net lingo)
PDB: Palm DataBase
File name extension PDR: Personal Digital Recorder
(Hardware)
PDB: Program DataBase
Microsoft's format for debug indormation, not embedded in the PDS: Packet Driver Specification
object file or executable (Software) (Microsoft)
PDS: Partitioned Data Set
PDC: Personal Digital Cellular (Databases) (IBM)
(Hardware)
PDS: Planetary Data System
PDC: Primary Domain Controller
PDS: Portable Document Software
Provides user/computer domain authentication (Operating
systems) (Microsoft) PDS: Processor Direct Slot
PDC: Professional Developer Conference (Apple)
(Microsoft) PDS: Professional Developer's Summit
PD-CD: Phase-change Dual Compact Disk (Microsoft)
(Hardware) PDSN: Packet Data Serving Node
PDD: Physical Device Driver Provides access to the Internet, intranets and applications
servers for mobile stations utilizing a cdma2000 Radio Access
PDD: Portable Digital Document Network (RAN)
PDE: Plug-in Development Environment PDSP: Peripheral Data Storage Processor
Project extending the Platform and the JDT to provide views
PDSS: Post Development and Software Support
and editors that make it easier to build plug-ins for Eclipse.
See www.eclipse.org (Software) PDT: Pacific Daylight Time
PDES: Product Data Exchange Specification Timezone: GMT -8:00
PDF: Package Definition File PDT: Performance Diagnostic Tool

(IBM)
PDF: Portable Document Format
File format for document interchange (Adobe) PDT: Pliable Display Technology
(Hardware)
PDF: Printer Description File
File name extension (Borland) PDT: Programmable Drive Table
PDF: Processor Defined Function PDU: Plug Distribution Unit
PDF: Program Development Facility PDU: Protocol Data Unit

The ISO/OSI term for packet. A PDU is a data object
PDH: Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy exchanged by protocol machines (entities) within a given
(Communication) layer. PDUs consist of both protocol control information (PCI)
and user data
P PDI: Personal Data Interchange
(Software) PDW: Package and Deployment Wizard
(Microsoft)
PDI: Power and Data Interface
PDX: ParaDoX
PDIAL: Public Dialup Internet Access List
File name extension (Borland)
PDK: Product Development Kit
PDX: Phone Data eXchange
(Network) (Intel)
(Hardware)
PDL: Page Description Language
PDX: Printer Description eXtension
PDL: Program Description Language
PE: Parallel Environment
PDL: Program Design Language (Operating systems) (IBM)
PDM: Product Data Management PE: Parity Error
PDM: Program Development Manager (Hardware)
PDN: Public Data Network PE: Parity Even

(Network) PE: Personal Edition
PDO: Portable Distributed Objects (Software)
(Operating systems) PE: Phase Encoding
PDOM: Persistent Document Object Model PE: Portable Executable
PDP: Parallel Data Processing File format for Win32 programs (Software) (Microsoft)
PDP: Plasma Display Panel PE: Preinstallation Environment

Lightweight version of Windows XP, Windows Server 2003,
(Hardware)
Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008 R2 that is
PDP: Policy Decision Point used for the deployment of workstations and servers
The point where policy decisions are made, responsible for (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
handling policy decisions on behalf of PEPs (Network) PE: Processing Element
PDP: Primary Dos Partition (Hardware)
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) PE: Professional Edition
PDP: Programmable Data Processor (Software)

PE PGM
PE: Protect Enable PES: Proposed Encryption Standard

PE: Provider Edge PET: Personal Electronic Transactor
(Network) Commodore's first personal computer (Hardware)
PEA: Pocket Ethernet Adapter PET: Platform Event Trap
Provides advance warning of possible system failures;
PEAP: Protected Extensible Authentication
generated by systems with Alert Standard Format (ASF) or an
Protocol IPMI baseboard management controller (Hardware)
A protocol proposed by Microsoft, Cisco and RSA Security for
securely transporting authentication data, including passwords, PET: Print Enhancement Technology
over 802.11 wireless networks (Security) (Compaq)
PEAR: Php Extension and Application Repository PET: Progressive Educational Technology
See http://pear.php.net (Software)
PEU: Pci Expansion Unit
PEARL: Process and Experiment Automation (Hardware)
Realtime Language
PEX: Phigs Extension to X
PEBCAC: Problem Exists Between Chair and A protocol for 3-D graphics in a network window system that
Computer supports both PHIGS and PHIGS PLUS features
Tech support types sometimes use this to explain to each other
PFA: Predictive Failure Analysis
that the user is incompetent (Net lingo)
PFB: Printer Font Binary
PEBCAK: Problem Exists Between Chair And
Keyboard File name extension
Describes the location of many computer glitches (Net lingo) PFC: Power Factor Correction
Feature included in some power supply boxes that reduces the
PEBKAC: Problem Exists Between Keyboard And
amount of reactive power generated (Hardware)
Chair
An answer to problems with inexperienced computer users PFC: Powerbuilder Foundation Class
(Net lingo) (Software) (Sybase)
PEC: Program Execution Control PFE: Programmer's File Editor
PECL: Php Extension Community Library PFM: Printer Font Metrics
See http://pecl.php.net (Software) File name extension
PEEK: Partners Early Experience Kit PFN: Page Frame Number
PEEL: Programmable Electrically Erasable Logic PFPU: Processor Frame Power Unit
(Hardware)
PFR: Portable Font Resource
PEL: Picture ELement
PFR: Power Fail Restart
(IBM)
PFS: Page Free Space
PEM: Port Expander Module
(Databases)
PEM: Privacy-enhanced Electronic Mail
(Security)
PFS: Parallel File System
(Operating systems)
P
PEOT: Physical End Of Tape
PFX: Personal inFormation eXchange
(Hardware)
(Microsoft)
PEP: Packet Exchange Protocol
PFY: Pimple Faced Youth
PEP: Packetized Ensemble Protocol Young assistant to Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH) (Net
lingo)
PEP: Point-Edge-Polygon
Type of graphics editor (Software) PGA: Pin Grid Array
IC pins organization (Hardware)
PEP: Policy Enforcement Point
A port on a network device where the policy decisions are PGA: Professional Graphics Adapter
actually enforced (Network) (IBM)
PERC: Portable Environment for Real-time Control PGA: Program Global Area
(Operating systems) Private memory area for program use (Oracle)
PERC: PowerEdge Raid Controller PGA: Programmable Gate Array
(Hardware) (Dell) (Hardware)
PERL: Practical Extraction Report Language PGC: Program Group Control
A flexible programming language especially designed for (Microsoft)
processing text (Software)
PGD: Planar Gas Discharge
PERM: Pre-Embossed Rigid Magnetic Display technology (Hardware)
(Hardware)
PGDN: PaGe DowN
PEROM: Programmable Erasable Read Only
Memory PGL: Professional Graphics Language
PERT: Program Evaluation and Review Technique PGM: Portable GrayMap

File format for images (Software)
PES: Packetized Elementary Stream
(Communication) PGM: Pragmatic General Multicast
Reliable multicast transport protocol for applications that
PES: Positioning Error Signal require ordered, duplicate-free, multicast data delivery from
multiple sources to multiple receivers (Network)
PES: Processor Enhancement Socket

PGM PIN
PGM: ProGraM PICS: Platform for Internet Content Selection

PGML: Precision Graphics Markup Language PICS: Plug-in Inventory Control System
(Adobe)
PICS: Protocol Implementation Conformance
PGP: Pretty Good Privacy Statement
Encryption program (Software) PICS/DCPR: Protocol Implementation
PGP: ProGram Parameter Conformance Statement/Detailed Continuing
File name extension (Autodesk) Property Record
PGUP: PaGe UP PICT: PICTure
PHB: Per-Hop-Behavior PID: Personal IDentifier
The forwarding treatment given to a specific class of traffic, (Software)
based on criteria defined in the Differentiated Service field.
PID: Process IDentifier
Routers and switches use PHBs to determine priorities for
servicing various traffic flows (Network) A unique, system-wide, identification number assigned to a
process. Also called process ID, process number (Operating
PHB: Pointy Haired Boss systems)
Taken from the Dilbert comic strip (Net lingo)
PID: Product IDentifier
PHF: Perfect Hash Function
PID: Proportional, Integral, Derivative
(Software)
PIDL: Personalized Information Description
PHIGS: Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive Language
Graphics Standard
An international standard 3-D graphics library consisting of a PIE: Presence, Identity and Edge
graphical tool set for application developers. PHIGS uses Core constituents of peer to peer (P2P) applications
hierarchical data structures. You can create, alter, manipulate,
and store objects dynamically PIER: Procedures for Internet/Enterprise
Renumbering
PHIGS PLUS: Programmer's Hierarchical
Interactive Graphics Standard Plus Lumiere Und PIF: Picture Interchange Format
Surfaces File name extension
An extension to PHIGS that includes additional capabilities, PIF: Program Information File
such as lighting from single and multiple sources, depth- File name extension (Microsoft)
cueing, NURBS, and complex geometric primitives
PII: Pentium 2
PHOLED: PHosphorescent Organic Light Emitting
(Hardware) (Intel)
Diode
(Hardware) PII: Personally Identifiable Information
(Security)
PHP: Personal Home Pages
Now is Perl Hypertext Preprocessor PII: Program Integrated Information
PHP: Php: Hypertext Preprocessor PIII: Pentium 3
Open-source general-purpose server-side scripting language (Hardware) (Intel)
P that is especially suited for Web development and can be
PIIX: Pci Ide/Isa Accelerator
embedded into HTML. See also http://www.php.net/ (Software)
PHS: Personal Handphone System PILOT: Programmed Inquiry Learning Or Teaching
PHY: PHisical laYer PIM: Personal Information Manager
PI: PHysical laYer PIM: Platform Independent Model
PIA: Peripheral Interface Adapter PIM: Primary Interface Module

(Hardware) PIM: Print Image Matching
PiB: PebIByte (Hardware)
Unit of measurement, introduced by the International PIM: Protocol Independent Multicast
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), correspondig to 1024 TiB IP routing protocol-independent and can leverage whichever
PIBKAC: Problem Is Between Keyboard And Chair unicast routing protocols are used to populate the unicast
routing table, including EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, and static routes
Typical cause of most computer errors (Net lingo)
(Network)
PIC: Personal Information Carrier PIM-DM: Protocol Independent Multicast-Dense
PIC: Personal Intelligent Communicator Mode
Uses a push model to flood multicast traffic to every corner of
PIC: Point In Call the network (Network)
PIC: Primary Interexchange Carrier PIMPL: Pissing In My Pants Laughing
(Communication)
(Net lingo)
PIC: Priority Interrupt Controller PIM-SM: Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse
(Hardware) Mode
PIC: Programmable Interrupt Controller Uses a pull model to deliver multicast traffic. Only network
(Hardware) segments with active receivers that have explicitly requested
the data will receive the traffic (Network)
PICNIC: Problem In Chair Not In Computer
PIN: Personal Identification Number
(Net lingo)
PIN: Positive Intrinsic Negative
PICO: PIne COmposer
Simple, command line Unix text editor (Software) PIN: Process Identification Number

PIN PLL
PIN: Processor Independent Netware PKIX: Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509)

A working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
PINE: Pine Is Not Elm
that is developing Internet standards needed to support a PKI
PING: Packet INternet Groper based on X.509 certificates
(Network) PKM: Personal Knowledge Management
PINX: Private Integrated services Network PL: Perl Language
eXchange File name extension
(Communication)
PL/1: Programming Language/1
PIO: Parallel Input/Output Programming language (Software)
PIO: Processor Input/Output PL/IP: Parallel Line Internet Protocol
PIO: Programmable Input/Output PL/M: Programming Language for
(Hardware) Microcomputers
PIP: Pattern and Information Processing (Microsoft)
PIP: Periphal Interchange Program PL/SQL: Procedural Language/Structured Query

Language
PIP: Peripheral Interchange Program
PIP: Personal Information Processor
PLA: Programmable Logic Array
PIP: Picture In Picture An array of logic elements. Its interconnections are
(Hardware) programmable after manufacture (Hardware)
PIP: Problem Isolation Procedure PLAF: Pluggable Look And Feel

(Software)
PIP: Programmable Interconnect Point
PLATO: Programmed Logic for Automatic
PIPE: Private Internet Protocol Encapsulation Teaching Operations
Extension of RFC 2003 (IP Encapsulation within IP) which
allows to encapsulate and decapsulate private IP addresses in PLB: Picture Level Benchmark
the same way as described in RFC 2003, and to transfer them In computer graphics, an industry-standard benchmark method
across the public Internet (also referred to as "tunneling" in used to measure graphics performance
RFC 2003) (Network)
PLBCAK: Problem Lies Between Chair And
PIPO: Parallel In, Parallel Out Keyboard
PIR: Protocol Independent Routing Describes the location of many computer glitches (Net lingo)
PIR: Public Interest Registry PLBKC: Problem Lies Between Keyboard and Chair
Registry for the .org domain name extension (Organizations) A Useless User (Net lingo)
PIT: Point In Time PLBSI: Picture Level Benchmark Sample

Implementation
PIT: Programmable Interval Timer
(Hardware) PLC: PowerLine Communication
PITA: Pain In The A**

Technology that uses the power lines to connecto to the
Internet (Network)
P
(Net lingo)
PLC: Programmable Logic Controller
PITB: Pain In The Butt (Hardware)
(Net lingo)
PLCC: Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier
PIU: Path Information Unit (Hardware)
PIX: Private Internet eXchange PLCC: Plastic Leadless Chip Carrier
Popular IP firewall and network address translation (NAT)
appliance. It was one of the first products in this market PLCP: Physical Layer Convergence Procedure
segment (Hardware) (Cisco) PLD: Programmable Logic Device
PJL: Printer Job Language (Hardware)
(Hardware) (HP) PLDI: Programming Language Design and
PJPEG: Progressive Joint Photographic Experts Implementation
Group PLDS: Pilot Land Data System
Compressed images file format
(NASA)
P-JPEG: Progressive Joint Photographic Experts PLE: Programmable Logic Element
Group
(Hardware)
Compressed images file format
pLED: Polymeric Light Emitting Diode
PK: Primary Key
(Hardware)
(Databases)
PLF: Pluggable Look and Feel
PKC: Public Key Cryptography
(Software)
PKCS: Public Key Cryptography Standard
PLIP: Parallel Line Internet Protocol
PKE: Private Key Encryption (Communication)
PKI: Public Key Infrastructure PLL: Phase-Locked Loop
(Security)
PLL: PreLinked Library
File name extension

PL-LCD PnP
PL-LCD: PhotoLuminescent Liquid Cristal Display PML: Pattern Markup Language

(Hardware) XML-based format to describe software patterns. A pattern
represents a recurring solution to a software development
PLM: Product Lifecycle Management problem within a particular context (Software)
It's the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product
from its conception, through design and manufacture, to PML: Personal Mailing List
service and disposal.It is one of the four cornerstones of a
PMM: Post Memory Manager
corporation's information technology structure
A mechanism used by option ROMs to allocate RAM memory
PLMN: Public Land Mobile Network for use during system startup (Hardware)
(Communication)
PMML: Predictive Modeling Markup Language
PLO: Phase Locked Oscillator
PMMU: Paged Memory Management Unit
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
PLOS: Parent Looking Over Shoulder
PMOS: Positive Channel Metal Oxide
(Net lingo) Semiconductor
PL-OU: PhotoLuminescent Liquid Crystal Display PMP: Performance Management Pack
PLS: PhysicaL Signaling (Operating systems) (HP)
PLS: PLeaSe PMP: Point to MultiPoint

(Net lingo) PMP: Portable Music Player
PLS: Primary Link Station (Hardware)
PLU: Primary Logical Unit PMP: Preventive Maintenance Package

PLV: Production Level Video PMPL: Pi**ing My Pants Laughing
(Net lingo)
PM: Performance Monitoring
PMR: Perpendicular Magnetic Recording
PM: Peripheral Module
How a hard drive records data: magnetic elements are aligned
PM: Phase Modulation vertically, as opposed to longitudinally on older drives
(Hardware)
PM: Power Management
(Hardware) PMR: Problem Management Report
(IBM)
PM: Presentation Manager
PMS: Pantone Matching System
PM: Preventative Maintenance
A spot color matching system used by printers. By specifying a
PM: Private Message Pantone name or number you are assured of having a known
(Net lingo) spot color in the printed page
PM: Process Manager PMS: Policy Management System
PM: Programming Model PMT: PhotoMultiuplier Tube

Scanning sensor (Hardware)
P PM/X: Presentation Manager for X PMU: PhotoMultiplier Tube
PM6: PageMaker 6 PN: Processing Node

Filename extension (Adobe) PNA: Phoneline Networking Alliance
PMA: Photo Marketing Association (Organizations)
(Organizations) PNA: Programmable Network Access
PMA: Physical Medium Attachment PNA: Progressive Networks Audio
(Network) A proprietary protocol for backward compatibility with
RealSystem versions 3 through 5. URLs using PNA start with
PMA: Program Memory Area pnm://
PMAC: Peripheral Module Access Controller PNC: Planet NetCom
PMC: Pci Mezzanine Card Australian internet service provider
(Hardware) PNC: Prestige Network Commander
PMC: Project Management Committee (Software) (Zyxel)
(Software) PnD: Plug aNd Display
PMD: Packet Mode Data (Hardware)
PMD: Physical Media Dependence PNG: Portable Network Graphics

(Network) File format for graphics network transmission
PME: Power Management Event PNI: Prescott New Instructions

Feature that allows most LAN devices to wake up from standby Processor core extenstion code which serves to improve thread
states (S1 or S3) (Hardware) synchronization (Hardware) (Intel)
PMFJI: Pardon Me For Jumping In PNNI: Private Network to Network Interface

(Net lingo) PNNI: Public Network Node Interface
PMHT: Pardon My HashTag PnP: Plug aNd Play
#PMHT or #PARDONMYHASHTAG is a way of saying sorry for
hashtag dumping or general hashtag mis-use. See also
http://pardonmyhashtag.com/ (Net lingo)
PMI: Protected Mode Interface

PNRP POTS
PNRP: Peer Name Resolution Protocol POOP: Parallel Object Oriented Programming
Secure, scalable, and dynamic name registration and name Programming for parallel processors in any object-oriented
resolution protocol first developed for Windows XP and then programming language (Software)
upgraded in Windows Vista (Network) (Microsoft)
POP: Package for Online Programming
PNS: PeaceNet Sweden
POP: Picture on Picture
PNS: Perceptual Noise Substitution (Hardware)
PNW: Personal NetWare POP: Point Of Presence
PO: Parity Odd (Network)
PO: Purchase Order POP: Post Office Protocol

A standard protocol used for retrieving e-mail from a mail
POA: Portable Object Adapter server (Network)
POA: PostOfiice Agent POP: Power-On Password
(Novell) (Security)
POC: Point Of Contact POP2: Post Office Protocol 2
POC: Proof Of Concept (Network)
POC: Protected Output Controller POP3: Post Office Protocol 3

POCM: Portal Object Component Model POPA: POP All registers
POCSAG: Post Office Code Standardization POPF: POP Flags

Advisory Group POPL: Principles of Programming Languages
Synchronous digital paging scheme (Communication)
POR: Plan Of Record
POD: Piece Of Data
POR: Point Of Return
POD: Plain Old Documentation
POR: Power-On-Reset
POD: Plain Old Dos
POS: Packet Over Sonet
POD: Power On Display (Network)
POD: Problem Of the Day POS: Parent Over Shoulder
Today's current difficulty with software (or hardware)
POS: Persistent Object Server
POD: Proof of Deposit
Software system used by financial institutions to verify teller
POS: Pick Operating System
transactions. Usually consists of reader/sorter control software, Old operating system (Operating systems)
reject-reentry system, and reporting systems (Software)
POS: Piece Of S**t
POD: Publishing On Demand (Net lingo)
PODP: Pentium OverDrive Processor POS: Point Of Sale
An upgrade processor for the 486 systems intended to emulate (Hardware)
P
a Pentium (586) (Hardware) (Intel)
POS: POSitive
POE: Power Open Environment
POS: Programmable Option Select
POE: Power Over Ethernet
POSE: PalmOS Emulator
(Hardware)
POSE: Picture-Oriented Software Engineering
POEP: Primary Operand Execution Pipeline
POSH: Plain Old Semantic Html
POF: Plastic Optic Fiber
POSH encapsulates the best practices of using semantic HTML
POH: Path OverHead to author web pages. Semantic HTML is the subset of HTML
4.01 (or XHTML 1.0) elements and attributes that are semantic
POH: Power-On Hours rather than presentational (Software)
POI: Path Overhead Indicator POSI: Promoting conference for Open System
POI: Point Of Information Interconnect
POI: Point Of Interaction POSIX: Portable Operating System Interface

A set of standards that define the applications interface to
POI: Point Of Interest basic system services for input/output, file system access, and
POIX: Point Of Interest eXchange process management. It uses the C programming language,
which establishes standard semantics and syntax (Operating
POJO: Plain Old Java Object systems)
Term coined to denote a normal Java object that is not a POST: Power On Self Test
JavaBean, an EntityBean, a SessionBean, etc., and does not
Personal computer boot test
serve any other special role or implement any special
interfaces of any of the Java frameworks (EJB, JDBC, ...) POSTNET: POSTal Numeric Encoding Technique
(Software)
Bar code
POL: Problem-Oriented Language
POSYBL: PrOgramming SYstem for distriButed
POM: Project Object Model appLications
(Software) POTS: Plain Old Telephone Service
PON: Purchase Order Number Basic telephone service supplying standard single line
telephones, telephone lines, and access to the Public Switched
POOL: Parallel Object Oriented Language Telephone Network (PSTN)

POTS PRD
POTS: Plain Old Time Sharing PPPoA: Point-to-Point Protocol Over Atm
(Operating systems) (Network)
POV: Point Of View PPPoATM: Point-to-Point Protocol Over
(Net lingo) Asynchronous Transfer Mode
High-speed switching technique used to transmit high volumes
POWDER: PrOtocol for Web DEscription Resources
of voice, data, and video traffic. ATM operates at speeds
POWER: Performance Optimization With ranging from 25 Mbps to 622 Mbps and is used mainly in
Enhanced Risc telephone company backbone networks (Network)
(IBM) PPPoE: Point to Point Protocol Over Ethernet
PowerPC: Performance Optimization With (Network)
Enhanced Risc Performance Computing PPPoI: Point to Point Protocol Over Isdn
PP: Parallel Port (Network)
PP: Physical Partition PPPPPP: Proper Planning Prevents Piss-Poor

Performance
PP: Physical Plane To plan ahead (Net lingo)
PPA: Personal Package Archive PPRC: Peer to Peer Remote Copy
Extra lines added into a configuration files to add repositories Data replication (Software) (IBM)
in Linux systems with package managers (Operating systems)
PPS: Packets Per Second
PPA: Pixel Processing Accelerator
(Network)
(Hardware)
PPS: Per-Pixel Shading
PPC: PowerPC
PPS: Power Personal Systems
PPC: Program to Program Communication
(IBM)
PPD: Partial Packet Discard
PPS: Precision Positioning System
(Network)
PPS: Public Packet Switching
PPD: PostScript Printer Description
File name extension PPT: PowerPoinT
File format for slide presentations (Microsoft)
PPDS: Personal Printer Data Stream
(IBM) PPTP: Point to Point Tunneling Protocol
A system designed to help create Virtual Private Networks over
PPGA: Plastic Pin Grid Array the Internet and protect the data sent over public wires
IC pins organization (Network)
ppi: Pixels Per Inch PPVPN: Provider Provisioned Virtual Private
PPI: Precise Pixel Interpolation Network
(Network)
PPI: Programmable Peripheral Interface
PQ: PowerQuest
PPID: Parent Process IDentifier
P Manufacturer
PPIT: Perpetual Point-In-Time PQA: Palm Query Application
(Fujitsu)
PQFP: Plastic Quad Flat Package
PPL: Pcboard Programming Language
PQO: Parallel Query Option
PPL: PeoPLe
(Net lingo)
PQS: Persistent Query Service
PPL: Polymorphic Programming Language
PR: Packet Radio
ppm: Pages Per Minute
Printing engine speed (Hardware)
PR: Performance Rating
(Hardware)
PPM: Perl Package Manager
(Software)
PR: Public Relations
PPM: Portable PixelMap PRACSA: Public Remote Access Computer

Standards Association
File format for images (Software)
PRAM: Parallel Random-Access Machine
PPM: Processor Power Module
(Hardware) PRAM: Parameter Random Access Memory
PPM: Pulse Position Modulation P-RAM: Parameter Random Access Memory
PPML: Personalized Print Markup Language PRC: Pilot Resource
Printer Language File name extension (3Com)
PPN: Project Programmer Number PRC: Primary Reference Clock
Clock used in synchronous networks like SONET and SDH
P-POP: Plain-Paper Optimized Printing
(Communication)
(Hardware) (Canon)
PRCS: Project Revision Control System
PPP: Point to Point Protocol
Front end to a set of tools that (like CVS) provide a way to
An internet protocol for host dial up connections. PPP frames deal with sets of files and directories as an entity, preserving
(Service Data Units) can support the transport of various coherent versions of the entire set (Software)
(encapsulated) Protocol Data Units (Network)
PRD: PRinter Driver
File name extension

PReP PSM
PReP: Powerpc REference Platform PS: Power Supply

(Hardware)
PREPNet: Pennsylvania Research and Economic
Partnership NETwork PS: Presentation Service
PRF: PReFerences PS: Privilege Service
File name extension
PS: Proportional Spacing
PRF: Problem Report Form
PS/2: Personal System 2
PRF: Pulse Repetition Frequency IBM personal computer family (Hardware) (IBM)
PRI: Primary Rate Interface PS2: PlayStation 2
An ISDN standard, similar to basic rate interface (BRI), defined Game console (Hardware) (Sony)
by CCITT protocol, but providing multiple B channels (23 or
30) supported by a single D channel (Communication) PSAP: Presentation Service Access Point
(Network)
PRIDE: PRofitable Information by DEsign
PSAPI: Presentation Space Application
PRISM: Parallel Reduced Instruction Set Programming Interface
Multiprocessing
PSC: Personal Super Computer
PRISM: PhotoRefractive Information Storage
Materials PSC: Primary Site Controller
PRJ: PRoJect PSC: Print Server Command

File name extension (Borland) PSC: Product Service Center
PRM: Partner Relationship Management PSCNet: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
PRM: Private Mobile Radio NETwork
PRMD: PRivate Management Domain PSD: PhotoShop Drawing

File name extension. Used by Photoshop and other Adobe
PRML: Partial-Response Maximum-Likelihood programs (Software) (Adobe)
PRN: Printer PSD: Postal Security Device
PRNG: Pseudo-Random Number Generator (Hardware)
PRO: PROfile PSD: Programmer's Supplementary Documents

File name extension PSDC: Public Switched Digital Capability
PROC: PROCedure PSDN: Packet-Switched Data Network
PROCFS: PROCess FIle System (Network)
A type of file system that resides in memory. The PROCFS PSDS: Packet-Switched Data Service
contains a list of active processes, by process number, in the
(Communication)
/proc directory. Information in the /proc directory is used by
commands such as ps (Operating systems) PSE: Packet Switch Exchange
PROFS: PRofessional OFfice System
P
PSE: Persistent Storage Engine
(IBM) (Databases)
PROG: PROGram PSE: Port Switched Ethernet
PROGID: PROGrammatic IDentifier PSF: Permanent Swap File
(Software)
PSF: Print Services Facility
PROLOG: PROgramming in LOGic
PSfD: Premier Support For Developers
(Microsoft)
PROM: Programmable Read Only Memory
PSID: PostScript Image Data
A permanent memory chip programmed by the user rather
than at the chip manufacturer, as is true with a ROM. You need PSIU: Packet Switch Interface Unit
a PROM programmer or burner to write data onto a PROM
(Hardware) PSK: Phase-Shift Keying
(Communication)
PROMATS: PROgrammable MAgnetic Tape System
PSL: Problem Statement Language
PROTEL: Procedure Oriented Type Enforcing
Language PSL: Public Software Library
PRS: Protective Relay System PSM: Persistent Storage Manager
PRTSC: PRinT SCreen PSM: Persistent Stored Module

(Databases)
PS: Personal Services
Office automation integrated programs (Software) PSM: Personal Security Manager
Set of libraries that perform cryptographic operations on behalf
PS: Pixel Shader of a client application. These operations include setting up an
(Software) (Microsoft) SSL connection, object signing and signature verification,
certificate management, and other common PKI functions
PS: PlayStation
Game console (Hardware) (Sony) PSM: Personal Software Marketing
PS: PostScript PSM: Platform Specific Model
File format for graphic printers
PSM: Printing Systems Manager

PSMG PVM
PSMG: Play Streaming Media Group PTMC: Pci Telecom Mezzanine Card
(Organizations) (Hardware)
PSN: Packet Switching Network PTML: Proxicom Template Markup Language
A node in the ARPANET and MILNET, formerly called an
PtMP: Point-To-MultiPoint
interface message processor (IMP) (Network)
(Communication)
PSN: Processor Serial Number
PTOCA: Presentation Text Object Content
(Hardware)
Architecture
PSO: Personal Service Organization
PtP: Point-To-Point
PSP: PaintShop Pro (Communication)
(Software)
PTR: Point-in-Time Repair
PSP: Personal Software Product Backup disaster recovery procedure (Software)
(IBM)
PTT: Postal Telegraph and Telephone
PSP: PlayStation Portable (Organizations)
Game console (Hardware) (Sony)
PTT: Push To Talk
PSP: Preventive Service Planning Functionality in the group communication terminal device. You
(IBM) have to push PTT-button to get the permission for transmission
(Communication)
PSP: Program Segment Prefix
PTW: Primary Translation Word
PSPDN: Packet-Switched Public Data Network
PTY: Pseudo-Terminal driver
PSR: PowerSoft Report
(Databases) (Sybase) PTZ: Pan Tilt Zoom
Video camera controls (Hardware)
PSRAM: PseudoStatic Random Access Memory
(Hardware) PU: Physical Unit
(Hardware)
P-SRAM: Pseudo-Static Random Access Memory
PUB: PUBlic
PSRG: Privacy and Security Research Group
PUC: Peripheral Unit Controller
PSRT: PostScript Round Table
PUC: Public Utilities Commission
PSS: Packet Switch Services
PUCP: Physical Unit Control Point
PSS: Print SubSystem
Software for IBM mainframes that provides an AFP and line PUMA: Protected User Mode Audio
data printing solution using PCL and PostScript printers Together with UMA, is an engine in the Windows Vista
(Software) Protected Environment that provides a safer environment for
audio playback, as well as checking that the enabled outputs
PSS: Process Status Structure are consistent with what the content allows (Operating
PSS: Product Support Service systems) (Microsoft)
P PSSP: Parallel System Support Program PUN: Physical Unit Number

(Operating systems) (IBM) PUP: Parc Universal Packet
PST: Pacific Standard Time Protocol
Timezone: GMT -8:00 PUP: Potentially Unwanted Program
PST: Pakistan Standard Time PUPs include spyware, adware, and dialers, and are often
downloaded in conjunction with a program that the user wants
Timezone: GMT +5:00 (Security)
PST: Public Switched Telephone PURL: Persistent Uniform Resource Locator
PSTN: Public Switched Telephone Network Instead of pointing directly to the location of an Internet
Usually refers to the local telephone company resource, a PURL points to an intermediate resolution service.
The PURL resolution service associates the PURL with the
PSU: Power Supply Unit actual URL and returns that URL to the client.
PSU: Program Storage Unit PUS: Processor Upgrade Socket
PSW: Program Status Word PUSHA: PUSH All registers
PT: Page Table PUSHF: PUSH Flags
PT: Payload Type PV: Physical Volume
(Communication) PVA: Personal Virtual Assistant
PTD: Parallel Transfer Disk PVC: Permanent Virtual Circuit
PTE: Page Table Entry Dedicated end-to-end virtual circuit that is set up permanently
in an ATM network (Network)
PTE: Path Terminating Equipment
PVC: PolyVinyl Chloride
PTF: Print To Fax
Fax driver for Lotus Domino Fax Server (Software) PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine
PTF: Program Temporary Fix PVM: Pass-through Virtual Machine

(IBM) (IBM)
PTI: Packet Type Identifier PVM: Perc Virtual Machine

(Operating systems)

PVP QLLC
PVP: Packet Video Protocol QBE: Query By Example

(Databases)
PVP: Parallel Vector Processing
QBF: Query by Form
PVP: Personal Video Player
(Hardware) QBIC: Query By Image Content
(Databases)
PVP: Protected Video Path
(Hardware) QC: Quality Control
PVP-OPM: Protected Video Path - Output QC: Quantum Coprocessor
Protection Management (Hardware)
Is a form of DRM expected to be implemented in Microsoft's
QC: Queued Component
Windows Vista (Hardware)
PVP-UAB: Protected Video Path - User-Accessible QCDP: Quality Color Dithering Modus
Bus QCIF: Quarter Common source Intermediate
Provides encryption of premium content as it passes over the Format
user-accessible PCIe bus to discrete graphics cards (Hardware) A video format in which frames are 180 pixels wide and 144
PVR: Personal Video Recorder pixels high (1/4 the size of the CIF format). Each pixel has its
own luminance value; however, blocks of 4 pixels share
Stores video on a hard disk instead of a video tape (Hardware) chrominance values
PVS: Parallel Visualization Server QD: Querty/Dvorak
PW: PassWord Keyboard layout
PWB: Printed Wire Board QDA: Qualitative Data Analysis

PWB: Programmer's WorkBench QDF: Quicken Data File
(Microsoft) File name extension (Software) (Intuit)
PWD: Print Working Directory QDI: Quicken DIctionary

File name extension (Software) (Intuit)
PWM: Pulse-Width Modulation
(Communication) QDL: Quadri Data Layer
PWP: Personal Web Pages QDMS: Quality Document Management System
(Microsoft) QDOS: Quick and Dirty Operating System
PWPN: PowWow for Private Networks MS-DOS ancestor (Operating systems)
Instant messaging program (Software) QDR: Quad Data-Rate
PWR: PoWeR (Hardware)
PWS: Peer Web Services QDT: Quicken DaTa

(Network) (Microsoft) File name extension (Intuit)
PWS: Personal Web Server QEA: Queued Event Architecture

(Network) QEMM: Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager P
PWS: Programmable WorkStation (Operating systems) (Quarterdeck)
(Hardware) QFA: Quick File Access
Q
PWSCS: Programmable WorkStation QFE: Quick Fix Engineering
Communication Services (Software)
(IBM)
QFHD: Quad Full High Definition
PX: Primary indeX (Hardware)
(Borland)
QFP: Quad Flat Pack
PXE: Preboot eXecution Environment
Provides a way for a system to initiate a network connection to QFP: Quicken Financial Planner
various servers prior to loading an Operating System (OS) (Software) (Intuit)
QFT: Quoted For Truth
Q Internet slang, generally used on forums to express an
approval or a stance of agreement for something previously
Q: Quotation said (Net lingo)
HTML Tag
QIC: Quality Information using Cycle time
Q&A: Questions & Answers
QIC: Quarter-Inch Cartridge
Q/A: Questions and Answers An industry-standard 1/4-inch magnetic tape cartridge used for
QA: Quality Assurance data backup or storage (Hardware)
QAB: Quick As a Bunny QIF: Quicken Interchange Format

Similar to ASAP but cuter (Net lingo) File format for financial data (Software)
QAM: Quadrature Amplitude Modulation QKD: Quantum Key Distribution

(Communication) QL: Quantum Leap
QAS: Quasi-Associated Signaling Name for an unsuccessful mid 1980's Sincliar Microcomputer
based on the Motorola 68008 microprocessor.
QAS: Quick Arbitration and Selection
QLI: Query Language Interpreter
(Hardware)
QLLC: Qualified Logical Link Control

QMF RAMAC
QMF: Query Management Facility R/W: Read/Write

(IBM)
RA: Real Audio
QMT: Quicken Memorized lisT File name extension
File name extension (Intuit)
RA: Remote Assistance
QMU: Quarterly Maintenance Update (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(IBM)
RA: Resource Adapter
QNX: Quicken iNdeXes (Software)
File name extension (Intuit)
RA: Return Authorization
QoS: Quality Of Service
RAB: Raid Advisory Board
QoS can be characterized by several basic performance
Industry organization of manufacturers and users of disk
criteria, including availability, response time and throughput,
systems and related products whose mission is to educate
lost calls or transmissions due to network congestion,
users regarding all aspects of storage technology, and in
connection set-up time, and speed of fault detection and
particular, RAID technology. (Organizations)
correction (Network)
RAC: Rambus Asic Cell
QoSR: Qualiy Of Service Raouting
(Hardware)
A dynamic routing protocol that has expanded its path-
selection criteria to include QoS parameters such as available RAC: Real Application Cluster
bandwidth, link and end-to-end path utilization, node Multiple interconnected computers or servers that appear as if
resources consumption, delay and latency, and induced jitter they are one server to end users and applications (Databases)
(Network) (Oracle)
QP: QuickPropagation RAC: Remote Access Card
QPA: Quality Of Service Routing (Hardware)
(Hardware) (Intel) RACF: Resource Access Control Facility
QPG: Quantum Phase Gate Provides improved security for an installation's data. RACF
protects your vital system resources and controls what users
QPL: Qualified Product List can do on the operating system (Security) (IBM)
QPM: Quantitative Process Management RACMan: Remote Automation Connection
(Software) MANager
QPSK: Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying (Network)
(Communication) RAD: Rapid Access Disk
QRSL: Quad Rambus Signaling Level RAD: Rapid Application Development
QSA: Qt Script for Applications RADAR: RAdio Detection And Ranging
Multiplatform application-scripting toolkit based on Qt. See
http://www.trolltech.com/ (Software)
RADAR: Rights, Availabilities, Distribution
Analysis and Reporting
QSAM: Queued Sequential Access Method
RADB: Routing Arbiter Data Base
QT: QuickTime
RADIUS: Remote Authentication Dial-In User
File Format for movies (Apple)
Q QTAM: Queued Teleprocessing Access Method
Service
RADSL: Rate Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line
(IBM)
R QTC: QuickTime Conferencing
(Communication)
RAG: Row Address Generator
(Apple)
RAI: Rapid Application Integration
QTD: Quarter To Date
(Software)
RAID: Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or
QUARC: QUarterdeck's Antivirus Research Center
Independent) Disks
(Quarterdeck)
(Hardware)
QUEL: QUEry Language
RAIDb: Redundant Array of Inexpensive
QUT: Queensland University of Technology Databases
An Australian university (Brisbane, Queensland) (Organizations) (Databases)
QVGA: Quarter Video Graphic Array RAIS: Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Systems
Video specification for a resolution of 320 X 240 pixels used by
RAIT: Redundant Array of Independent Tapes
Pocket PCs (Hardware)
(Hardware)
QXGA: Quad eXtended Graphics Array
RALU: Register-equipped Arithmetic Logic Unit
Video specification for a resolution of 2048 X 1536 pixels
RAM: Random Access Memory
R (Hardware)
R&D: Research & Development RAM: Real Audio Metafile
File name extension
R.A.V.E.: Real Animated Vector Effects
RAM: Rioport Audio Manager
R/O: Read Only
RAMAC: Raid Architecture with Multi-level
R/T: Receive/Transmit
Adaptive Cache

RAMDAC RDB
RAMDAC: Random Access Memory Digital to RBOC: Regional Bell Operating Company
Analog Converter The local telephone company in each of the seven U.S.
Chip on a video board that generates the analog video signals regions. (Communication)
(Hardware)
RC: Release Candidate
RAMP: Remote Access Maintenance Protocol Pre-release version of a program (Software)
(Network)
RC: Resource Compiler
RAMP: Risk Analysis and Management Program (Software)
RAN: Radio Access Network RCA: Radio Corporation of America
RAND: RANDom (Organizations)
RAND: Rural Area Network Design RCA: Readers' Choice Award
RAP: Rapid Application Prototyping RCC: Remote Cluster Controller
RAPI: Remote access Application Programming RCF: Reader's Comment Form

Interface RCI: Rectal Cranial Inversion
(Software) (Microsoft) When someone has things a** backward (Net lingo)
RAPI: Rsvp Application Programming Interface RCL: Rotate Carry Left
An RSVP-specific API that enables applications to interface
explicitly with an RSVP process (Network)
RCP: Remote Control Panel
RAPS: Real Application on Parallel Systems RCP: Remote CoPy
RAR: Resource Adapters aRchive RCP: Restore Cursor Position
RARE: Reseaux Associés pour la Recherche RCP: Rich Client Platform

Européenne Minimal set of plug-ins needed to build a rich client
application. See also
The European Association of Research Networks. Now called
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Rich_Client_Platform
TERENA (Network)
(Software)
RARP: Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
RCR: Rotate Carry Right
(Network)
RCS: Records Communications System
RAS: Random Access Storage
RCS: Reference Color Space
RAS: Reader Admission System
(Software)
RAS: Reliability, Availability, Serviceability
RCS: Revision Control System
RAS: Remote Access Service Manages multiple revisions of files by automating the storage,
(Network) retrieval, logging, identification, and merging of revisions. It's
particularly useful for text that is revised frequently, such as
RAS: Row-Address Strobe programs, documentation, graphics, papers, and form letters
(Software) (GNU)
RASAPI: Remote Access Service Application
Programming Interface RCSS: Records Communications Switching System
(Microsoft) RCTC: Rewritable Consumer Time Code
RAT: Real Application Testing RCW: Runtime Callable Wrapper
Database option used to capture, analyze, and replay database
transactions in order to test workloads or upgrades with
minimal effort (Databases) (Oracle) RD: Receive Data R
RAT: Register Alias Table (Hardware)
RAT: Remote Access Trojan RD: Recursive Design

(Security) RD: Remote Desktop
RATP: Reliable Asynchronous Transfer Protocol (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
RAVE: Rendering Acceleration Virtual Engine RD: Remove Directory

(Apple) RD: Rendezvous Point
RAW: Reconfigurable Architecture Workstation Unlike source trees that have their root at the source, shared
trees use a single common root placed at some chosen point in
RAWT: Remote Abstract Windows Toolkit the network. This shared root is called a RP (Network)
(Software) (Sun) RDA: Remote Data Access
RB: Right Button RDAC: Redundant Disk Array Controller
RBA: Relative Byte Address Provides application-transparent protection for array controller
and data path failures using a special-purpose daemon process
RBBS: Remote Bulletin Board System and kernel-resident I/O driver (Operating systems)
RBCS: Remote Bar Code System RDAO: Remote Data Access Object
RBF: Random Block Filemanager (Software) (Microsoft)
RBH: Remote Bridge Hub RDB: Receive Data Buffer
RBL: Realtime Blackhole List RDB: Relational DataBase

System for creating intentional network outages ("blackholes") (Databases)
for the purpose of limiting the transport of known-to-be- RDB: Rigid Disk Block
unwanted mass e-mail. See http://mail-abuse.org/rbl/

RDBMS RF
RDBMS: Relational DataBase Management System RE/TM: Rare Earth/Transition Metal

(Software)
REC: RECorder
RDBMS-MIB: Relational DataBase Management File name extension
System - Management Information Base
RECFM: RECord ForMat
RDC: Remote Data Control (Operating systems) (IBM)
(Microsoft)
RED: Random Early Detection
RDC: Ricoh Digital Camera A congestion-avoidance algorithm developed in the early
(Hardware) (Ricoh) 1990s built on the base-level TCP behavior of automatically
slowing transmissions when packet loss is detected (Network)
RDD: Replicable Database Driver
REF: REFerence
RDDL: Resource Directory Description Language
XML-based language for describing a resource directory. A REG: REGister
resource directory provides a text description of some class of REGAL: Rigid Epoxy Glass Acrylic Laminate
resources and of other resources related to that class. It also
contains a directory of links to these related resources REGEX: REGular EXpression
(Software)
REGIS: REmote Graphics Instruction Set
RDE: Receive Data Enable
ReLaTe: REmote LAnguage TEaching
(Hardware)
RELAX: REgular LAnguage description for Xml
RDES: Remote Data Entry System
Uses XML syntax to express the structure relationships that are
RDF: Resource Definition Format present in a DTD, and adds the XML Datatype Schema
(Software) mechanisms, as well
RDF: Resource Description Framework RELML: Real Estate Listing Markup Language
(Netscape) RELSECT: RELative SECTor
RDI: Remote Defect Indicator REM: REMark
RDIMM: Registered Dual In-line Memory Module REM: REMote
(Hardware)
REM: Remote Equipment Module
RDL: Remote Digital Loopback
REM: Ring Error Monitor
RDL: Report Definition Language
REN: REName
XML-based industry standard used to define reports (Software)
RD-LAP: Radio Data Link Access Protocol REN: Ringer Equivalence Number
RDM: Reliably Delivered Message REP: REPeat
RDM: Remote Data Module REPE: REPeat while Equal
RDM: Remote Deployment Manager REPNE: REPeat while Not Equal
RDM: Remote Diagnostic Manager REPNZ: REPeat while Not Zero

(Operating systems) (Acer) REPZ: REPeat while Zero
RDM: Resource Description Message REQ: REQuest
RDN: Relative Distinguished Name RES: Remote Execution Service
(Operating systems)
R RES: RESet
RDO: Remote Data Object
RES: RESolution
RDOS: Real-time Disk Operating System
RES: RESource
(Operating systems)
File name extension
RDP: Rapid Deployment Pack
RES: Robots Exclusion Standard
Standard that allows web site administrators to indicate to
RDP: Reliable Datagram Protocol visiting robots which parts of their site should not be visited by
the robot
RDP: Remote Display (or Desktop) Protocol
(Network) (Microsoft) REST: REpresentational State Transfer
Style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia
RDR: Remote Data Recovery systems such as the World Wide Web. The term was
introduced in the doctoral dissertation in 2000 by Roy Fielding,
RDRAM: Rambus Dynamic Random Access
one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification
Memory
(Hardware) RET: Resolution Enhancement Technology
(HP)
RDS: Radio Digital System
RET: RETurn
RDS: Remote Data Service
(Databases) RETR: RETRieve
RDSR: Receiver Data Service Request REX: Relocatable EXecutable
RDT: Radio Digital Terminal REXEC: Remote EXECution
RDTO: Receive Data Transfer Offset REXX: Restructured EXtended eXecutor
(IBM) Programming language (IBM)
RDX: Realistic Display miXer RF: Radio Frequency

(Communication)

RFA RJ
RFA: Resident Flash Array RIA: Rich Internet Application

(Hardware) Evolution of the web development and deployment model
(Software)
RFC: Remote Function Call
(Software) RIAA: Recording Industry Association of America
(Organizations)
RFC: Request For Comments
RIB: Routing Information Base
RFD: Request for Discussion
Stores the routes (and in some cases, metrics associated with
RF-DAC: Radio-Frequency Digital-to-Analog those routes) to particular network destinations. This
Converter information contains the topology of the network immediately
around it (Network)
RFE: Request for Enhancement
RID: Record IDentifier
RFI: Radio Frequency Interference
RID: Relative Identifier
RFI: Request For Information (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
RFID: Radio Frequency IDentification RIDE: Rapid Integrated Drive Electronics
RFP: Request For Proposal (Hardware)
RFQ: Request For Quotation RIFF: Resource Interchange File Format

RFQ: Request For Quote
RIG: Related Interest Group
RFS: Remote File Sharing
RIM: Real-time Interaction Management
RFS: Remote File System
(Operating systems) RIM: Remote Installation and Maintenance
(Microsoft)
RFT: Revisable Form Text
RIM: Research In Motion
RFU: Reserved for Future Use
(Hardware)
RG: Residential Gateway RIME: Relaynet International Message Exchange
(Network)
RIMM: Rambus Inline Memory Module
RGB: Red Green Blue
(Hardware)
The color systems obtain their colors through a direct
combination of red, green, and blue components. The range of RIP: Raster-Image Processor
colors that can be displayed depends on the number of bits
that have been assigned to each pixel (Hardware)
RIP: Remote Imaging Protocol
RGC: Routing Group Connector RIP: Routing Information Protocol

(Microsoft) An Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) with Berkeley UNIX
(Network)
RGMII: Reduced Gigabit Media Independent
RIPE: Reseaux Internet Protocol Européens
Interface
The European continental TCP/IP network operated by EUnet
(Network)
(Network)
RGMP: Router-port Group Management Protocol
RIPEM: Riordan's Internet Privacy Enhanced Mail
IP multicast constraining mechanism for router-only network
segments. RGMP must be enabled on the routers and on the RIPES: Reconnaissance Imagery Processing &
Layer 2 switches (Network) Exploitation System
RGSS: Rotated Grid Super-Sampling
(Hardware)
RIPL: Remote Initial Program Load
R
RIPS: Raster Image Processing System
RH: Request (or Response) Header
RIPv2: Routing Information Protocol Version 2
RHCE: Red Hat Certified Engineer Extension of the Routing Information Protocol (RIP). Its
Mid to advanced level certification for IT professionals who are purpose is to expand the amount of useful information in the
able to install and configure Red Hat Linux, understand RIP packets and to add security elements (Network)
limitations of hardware and configure basic networking and file
systems
RIR: Regional Internet Registry
(Network)
RHCT: Red Hat Certified Technician
RIS: Remote Intallation Service
RHD: Removable Hard Drive (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Hardware)
RISC: Reduced Instruction Set Computer
RHEL: Red Hat Enterprise Linux A computer architecture that uses fewer and less complex
(Operating systems) instructions than complex instruction set computing (CISC).
Some complex instructions performed by hardware in CISC
RHSBL: Right Hand Side Blacklist computers are done by software in RISC computers (Hardware)
Similar to a DNSBL but it lists domain names rather than IP
addresses. The term comes from the "right-hand side" of an RISLU: Remote Integrated Services Line Unit
email address - the part after the @ sign - which clients look
up in the RHSBL
RIT: Raw Input Thread
(Microsoft)
RI: Reference Implementation
(Software)
RITA: Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting
Agent
RI: Referential Integrity (Network)
(Databases)
RJ: Registered Jack
RI: Ring Indicator Connector for phone and network cables (Hardware)
(Hardware)

RJE ROP
RJE: Remote Job Entry RNC: Radio Network Controller

(Network) (Hardware)
RK: Resource Kit RND: RaNDom
(Operating systems)
RNG: Random Number Generator
RKRM: Rom Kernel Reference Manual
RNI: Raw Native Interface
RLD: Received Line Detect Native interface proposed by Microsoft (Software) (Microsoft)
RLE: Run Length Encoding RNOC: Regional Network Operations Center
RLL: Run Length Limited RNP: Regional Network Provider
Magnetic supports read/write technology (Hardware)
RNR: Receive Not Ready
RLN: Remote Lan Node
RNS: Run from Network Server
RLP: Radio Link Protocol (Software)
RLP: Resource Location Protocol RNUI: Remote Network User Identification
RLSD: Received Line Signal Detected ROADM: Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop
Multiplexer
RLT: Remote Line Test
A type of multiplexer used in optical networking (Hardware)
RM: Relay Module
ROB: ReOrder Buffer
(Hardware)
(Intel)
RM: Reset Mode
ROC: Reconstruction Of Color
RM: Resource Management Film scanner technology
RMA: Return Material Authorization ROD: Rewritable Optical Disk
RMB: Right Mouse Button ROD: Rewriteable Optical Disk
RMC: Raptor Management Console (Hardware)
(Software) (Symantec) ROFL: Rolling On Floor Laughing
RMC: Resource Monitoring and Control (Net lingo)
This is the scalable, reliable backbone subsystem of RSCT. It ROFLKAS: Rolling On Floor Laughing, Kicking And
runs on a single machine or on each node (operating system Screaming
image) of a cluster and provides a common abstraction for the
(Net lingo)
resources of the individual system or the cluster of nodes
(Operating systems) (IBM) ROFLMAO: Rolling On Floor Laughing My A** Off
RMD: Required Markup Declaration (Net lingo)
RMDIR: ReMove DIRectory ROFLMAOWTIME: Rolling On Floor Laughing My

A** Off With Tears In My Eyes
RMI: Remote Messaging Interface (Net lingo)
RMI: Remote Method Invocation ROFLMFAO: Rolling On Floor Laughing My
(Software) F***ing A** Off
RMID: Resource Manager IDentifier (Net lingo)
RMM: Ring Management Module ROFLMHO: Rolling On Floor Laughing My Head Off
R RMON: Remote MONitoring
(Net lingo)
ROFLOL: Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud
RMON: Resident MONitor
(Net lingo)
RMP: Remote Maintenance Processor
ROFLOLBAG: Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out
(IBM)
Loud Busting A Gut
RMPC: Remote Management Control Protocol (Net lingo)
RMS: Reason Maintenance System ROI: Return On Investment
RMS: Record Management System ROL: ROtate Left
(Operating systems) (DEC)
ROLAP: Relational OnLine Analytical Processing
RMS: Root Mean Square
ROM: Read Only Memory
RMSE: Root Mean Square Error (Hardware)
RMT: Raw Magnetic Tape ROM: Report Object Model
RMT: Ring ManagemenT Object model at the base of the Business Intelligence and
Reporting Tools (BIRT) (Software)
RMTP: Reliable Message Transport Protocol
ROMB: Raid On MotherBoard
RMW: Read, Modify, Write (Hardware)
RN: Read News ROOM: Real-time Object-Oriented Modeling
RNA: Remote Network Access ROP: Raster OPeration
(Microsoft) The logical operations (called ANDs, ORs, NORs, and so on)
performed on portions of the bit planes—called bitmaps or
RNA: Ring No Answer pixmaps—in the frame buffer. These operations perform
What you get when the modem you just called doesn't answer fundamental movements and transfers of pixel data
(Communication)
ROP: Remote OPeration

ROP RSA
ROP: Risc OPeration RPM: Remote Printer Management

(Network) (Novell)
ROPE: Remote Object Proxy Engine
rpm: Rounds (or Revolutions) Per Minute
ROPES: Rapid Object-oriented Process for
Embedded Systems (Hardware)
(Operating systems) RPM: Route Processor Module
ROR: ROtate Right (Network) (Cisco)
ROS: Read-Only Storage RPN: Real Page Number

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

(Microsoft)
(Software)
ROTFL: Rolling On The Floor Laughing RQN: Real-Quick Newsletter
FreeBSD newsletter (Operating systems)
(Net lingo)
ROTFLMAO: Rolling On The Floor Laughing My RR: Radio Resource
A** Off RR: Real Reality
(Net lingo)
RR: Register to Register
ROTFLMAOASTC: Rolling On The Floor Laughing The class of CPU instructions (and assembler codes that go
My A** Off And Scaring The Cat with them) relating to only registers, not main memory (e.g."
(Net lingo) Add the contents of register A with register B, putting the
result in register A") (Hardware)
ROTFLMAOWTIME: Rolling On The Floor Laughing
My A** Off With Tears In My Eyes RR: Resource Record
(Net lingo) (Network)
ROTFLOL: Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud RR: Round Robin
(Net lingo) Process or thread scheduling (Operating systems)
ROTFLPMP: Rolling On The Floor Laughing, RRAS: Routing Remote Access Service
Peeing My Pants (Network)
(Net lingo) RRCM: Reservation Request Control Mechanism
ROV: Real Option Valuation RRDF: Remote Recovery Data Facility
ROX: Risc Os on X RRDS: Relative Record Data Set
RISC-OS desktop environment clone for Unix/X-window
(Operating systems)
RRIP: Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol
RRN: Relative Record Number
RP: Relay Party
RRP: Recommended Retail Price
R
RPC: Remote Procedure Call
Interprocess communication mechanism (Software) RRSHB: Resource Representation Soap Header
RPCL: Remote Procedure Call Language Block
RPCS: Refined Printing Command Stream RS: Radio Shack

(Hardware) (Ricoh) RS: Recommended Standard
RPF: Reverse Path Forwarding RS: Record Separator
Enables routers to correctly forward multicast traffic down the
RS: Reed-Solomon
distribution tree. It makes use of the existing unicast routing
table to determine the upstream and downstream neighbors Reed-Solomon codes are block-based error correcting codes
(Network) with a wide range of applications in digital communications
and storage. Reed-Solomon codes are used to correct errors in
RPG: Report Program Generator many systems (Communication)
RS: Register Select
RPL: Remote Program Link (Hardware)
RPL: Remote Program Load RS: Registry Service
Bootable network device protocol, developed and used mostly
RS: Remote Scripting
by IBM
Allows code in a client page to call functions in an ASP page
RPL: Requested Privilege Level running on the server (Microsoft)
RPL: Resident Programming Language RSA: Random Scheduling Algorithm
RPM: Radio Packet Modem
RPM: Red-hat Package Manager
(Operating systems)

RSA RTMP
RSA: Remote Supervisor Adapter RST: ReSeT

PCI adapter which simplifies remote system management by
RST: ReSTart
providing around-the-clock remote access to the server. The
RSA monitors the server and sends out alerts to designated RSTS: Resource Sharing Time Sharing
recipients via LAN, pager, email or SNMP if a failure is (DEC)
detected (Hardware) (IBM)
RSTS/E: Resource System Time
RSA: Rivest-Shamir-Adleman
Sharing/Enhanced
RSAC: Recreational Software Advisory Council
RSU: Recommended Service Upgrade
(Organizations)
IBM-recommended PTFs (Program Temporary Fix) supplied as
RSACI: Recreational Software Advisory Council part of monthly z/OS service support (Software) (IBM)
on the Internet RSVP: Resource reSerVation Protocol
(Organizations) An IETF standard which allows an end device and a network to
RSAT: Remote Server Administration Tools negotiate specific QoS characteristics (Network)
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) RSX: Realistic Sound eXperience
RSC: Remote System Control RSX: Realtime resource Sharing eXecutive
(Hardware) (Sun)
RT: Real-Time
RSCS: Remote Spooling Communications System
RT: Risc Technology
RSCT: Reliable Scalable Cluster Technology
RT: Run Time
Set of software components, used for AIX and Linux, to
provide clusters with improved system availability, scalability, RT/DSS: Real-Time/Decision Support Service
and ease of use (Software) (IBM)
RTAM: Remote Terminal Access Method
RSD: Route Server Daemon
RTB: Rich Text Box
RSH: Remote SHell (Software) (Microsoft)
RSI: Repetitive Stress Injury RTC: Real-Time Clock
RSIP: Realm Specific Internet Protocol (Hardware)
Like NAT, RSIP translates between public and private IP RTC: Rich Thin Client
addresses. But instead of requiring a boundary router to
All about technologies for thin client with rich functionality and
translate, RSIP uses a simple protocol between a user's
widget set, as opposed to Html clients (Software)
desktop PC and a boundary router to perform preparatory
signaling (Network) RTCP: Real-Time Control Protocol
RSL: Request-and-Status Link RTDM: Real-Time Data Migration
RSL: Resilient Server Link RTEL: Reverse TELnet
RSM: Relational Storage Manager RTF: Real Time Fifo
(Databases) (IBM)
RTF: Rich Text Format
RSM: Remote Session Manager File format for documents
RSM: Remote Storage Management RTFA: Read The F***ing Article
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) Used on news sites when someone makes an ill-informed
RSM: Removable Storage Manager comment/reply (Net lingo)
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) RTFM: Read The F***ing Manual
R RSM: Route Switch Module FAQ by beginner (Net lingo)
Basically a router on a card in the switch for routing between RTFM: Realtime Traffic Flow Measurement
Virtual Local Area Networks (Network) (Network)
RSN: Real Soon Now RTG: Real Time Geometry
(Net lingo)
RTI: ReTurn from Interrupt
RSoP: Resultant Set Of Policies
RTL: Raster Transfer Language
RTL: Register Transfer Language
RSP: Required Space Character
RS-PC: Reed Solomon Product Code RTL: Resistor Transistor Logic
RTL: Right-To-Left
RSPX: Remote Sequenced Packet eXchange
RTL: Run Time Library
RSS: Really Simple Syndication
Is an XML-based, universal way for developers to describe RTM: Release To Manufacturing
their sites and to make their content available to others (for
example, for syndication) RTM: Response Time Monitor
RSS: Receive-Side Scaling RTM: RunTime Manager

The scheduling for processing networking I/O within the (Borland)
context of an ISR is routed to the same processor (Hardware) RTMP: Real Time Messaging Protocol
RSS: Relay Spam Stopper Proprietary protocol developed by Macromedia (now Adobe) for
Queryable DNS-based database of spam-relaying mail servers. streaming audio, video and data over the Internet, between a
See http://work-rss.mail-abuse.org/rss/ Flash player and a server (Adobe)
RSS: Rich Site Summary RTMP: Routing Table Maintenance Protocol

Synonym of Really Simple Syndication

RTMPE S2S
RTMPE: Real Time Messaging Protocol Encrypted RUP: Rational Unified Process
Uses Adobe's own security mechanism. While the details of the (Software)
implementation are proprietary, the mechanism uses industry
standard cryptography primitives RUS: Recipient Update Service
Microsoft Exchange Mail Server Service that generates and
RTMPS: Real Time Messaging Protocol Secure updates email addresses seen in the Global Address List (GAL)
RTMP over a secure SSL connection using HTTPS (Software) (Microsoft)
RTMPT: Real Time Messaging Protocol over hTtp RUW: Remote Unit of Work
RTMP encapsulated within HTTP requests to traverse firewalls. (IBM)
The encapsulated session may carry plain RTMP, RTMPS, or
RTMPE packets within RVA: Ramac Virtual Array
RTN: Recursive Transition Network RVA: Relative Virtual Address

(Network) RVA: RendezVous Agent
RTN: ReTurN (Network)
RTN: Reuters Transaction Network RVD: RendezVous Daemon

(Network)
RTO: Return To Office
(Net lingo) RVI: ReVerse Interrupt
RTOS: Real Time Operating System RVLC: Reversible Variable Length Code
(Operating systems) MPEG-4 Audio Error Resilience (ER) technique that reduces
error propagation within scale factor data
RTP: Rapid Transport Protocol
RVRAD: RendezVous Relay Agent Deamon
RTP: Real-time Transport Protocol (Network)
(Communication)
RVRD: RendezVous Routing Daemon
RTR: Real Time Replicator (Network)
(Network)
RVSA: Remote Variant Selection Algorithm
RTRR: Real-Time Remote Replication
RW: Read Write
Provides real-time or scheduled data replication between the
local NAS and a remote NAS, an FTP server, or an external Device capability to read and write its media (Hardware)
drive (Hardware) RWM: Read-Write Memory
RTS: Real-Time Strategy RWP: Remote Write Protocol
Type of game (Network)
RTS: Real-Time System RWU: Remote Wake Up
RTS: Remote Takeover System (Network)
RTS: Request To Send RX: Receive

Serial port signal (Communication) RXD: Receive Data
RTS: Run Time System (Hardware)
RTSE: Reliable Transfer Service Element RZ: Return to Zero

A lightweight ISO/OSI application service used above X.25 Return to Zero
networks to handshake application PDUs across the session
service and TP0 (Network)
S
RTSJ: Real-Time Specification for Java
FTPS: File Transfer Protocol over Ssl R
(Software)
S: Strike-through
RTSP: Real Time Streaming Protocol
HTML Tag S
Application-level protocol for control over the delivery of data
with real-time properties (Network) S.u.S.E.: Software Und SystemEntwicklung
RTT: Real-Time Technology S/H: Sample/Hold
Refers to a technology that allows a user to receive data during
S/MIME: Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail
the actual time that a physical process occurs, known as real
time. Real time is measured in milliseconds or microseconds Extensions
An e-mail security standard that makes use of public key
RTTI: Run-Time Type Information encryption (Security)
(Software)
S/N: Signal to Noise
RTTY: Radio TeleTYpewriter
S/PDIF: Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format
RTU: Real Time Unix A standard for digital connection of consumer audio devices
RTU: Right To Use S/STP: Screened Shielded Twisted Pair
The Sun software licensing, usually included in the price of the (Hardware)
software (Sun)
S/TK: Sectors per TracK
RTV: Real-Time Video
S/UTP: Screened Unshielded Twisted Pair
RTX: Run Time eXtension (Hardware)
RU: Request (or Response) Unit S1AS: Sun One Application Server
RUN: Responsible Use of the Network (Sun)
RUN: Rewind/UNload S2S: Server To Server

(IBM) (Software)

SA SAP
SA: Security Association SAGA: Simple Api for Grid Applications

Open standard defined and maintained by the Open Grid Forum
SA: Selective Availability
(OGF) that describes an interface for high-level Grid
SA: Service Agent application programming (Software)
SA: Software Assurance SAIL: Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Licensing scheme (Microsoft) SAINT: Security Administrator's Integrated
SA: Source Address Network Tool
SA: Structured Analysis SAINT: Symbolic Automatic INTegrator
SAA: Service Assurance Agent SAL: Shift Arithmetic Left

(Communication) SAL: Spatial Aggregation Language
SAA: Sql Access Advisor SALT: Speech Application Language Tags
A tool that analyzes the SQL statement(s) for possible Lightweight set of extensions to existing markup languages, in
performance enhancemnt. It's little different from STO in the particular HTML and XHTML that enable multimodal and
sense that some more recommendations like partitioning are telephony access to information, applications and Web services
provided here (Databases) (Oracle) from PCs, telephones, tablet PCs and wireless personal digital
SAA: Systems Application Architecture assistants
SAAJ: Soap with Attachments Api for Java SAM: Scsi-3 Architecture Model
Enables developers to produce and consume messages SAM: Security Accounts Manager
conforming to the SOAP 1.1 specification and SOAP with (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
Attachments note (Software) (Sun)
SAM: Sequential Access Method
SAAL: Signaling Atm Adaptation Layer
(Communication) SAM: Serial Access Memory
SaaS: Software As A Service SAM: Single Application Mode

(Microsoft)
SABM: Set Asynchronous Balanced Mode
(Network) SAM: Storage Area Management
SABME: Set Asynchronous Balanced Mode SAM: System Administration Module

Extended (Operating systems)
in ISDN, is a TEI assignment (LAPD negotiation) (Network) SAMI: Synchronized Accessible Media
SABRE: Semi-Automatic Business Research Interchange
Environment SAML: Security Assertion Markup Language
SAC: Service Access Control SAN: Storage Area Network
The Service Access Facility (SAF) master program (Operating
systems) (Sun) SAN: System Area Network
(Network)
SAC: Simple Api for Css
SANE: Standard Apple Numeric Environment
SAC: Single Attachment Concentrator
(Apple)
SACD: Super Audio Compact Disk
SANE: System Administration and Network
(Hardware) Engineering
SACK: Selective ACKnowledge SANITI: Storage Area Network Integrated
(Communication) Technology Initiative
SACL: System Access Control List SANS: System Administration, Networking and
An ACL that controls the generation of audit messages for
S attempts to access a securable object. The ability to get or set
Security institute
Organization that develops, maintains, and makes available at
an object's SACL is controlled by a privilege typically held only
no cost, the largest collection of research documents about
by system administrators (Operating systems)
various aspects of information security, and it operates the
SAD: Security Association Database Internet's early warning system - Internet Storm Center.
In each IPsec implementation there is a nominal Security (Organizations)
Association Database, in which each entry defines the SAO: Sector-At-Once
parameters associated with one Security Association (Network)
CD recording methodology (Hardware)
SAD: Streams Administrative Driver
SAP: Second Audio Program
A driver that provides an interface to the autopush mechanism
SAP: Secure Audio Path
SADL: Structural Architecture Description
Language SAP: Service Access Point
Intended for the definition of software architecture hierarchies The point at which the services of an OSI layer are made
that are to be analyzed formally (Software) available to the next higher layer. The SAP is named according
to the layer providing the services (Network)
SADT: Structured Analysis and Design Techniques
SAP: Service Advertising Protocol
SAF: Security Authentication Facility (Network)
SAF: Service Access Facility SAP: Session Announcement Protocol
A tool provided with the SunOS 5.3 operating system that (Communication)
controls access to local and network system services, such as
printers, modems, and terminals (Operating systems) (Sun) SAP: Symbolic Assembly Program
SAFE: Security And Freedom through Encryption
SAG: Sql Access Group

SAP SC
SAP: Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der SBAS: Satellite-Based Augmentation System

datenverarbeitung
SBB: Subtract With Borrow
A german company that produces the leading suite of client-
server business software ("Systems, Applications and Products SBC: Scsi Block Commands
in data processing").
SBC: Session Border Controller
SAPI: Speech Application Programming Interface An appliance that simplifies handling of VoIP at the border of a
(Software) (Microsoft) network (Communication)
SAPR: Systems Assurance Product Review SBC: Single-Board Computer
(IBM) (Hardware)
SAR: Segmentation And Reassembly SBCCS: Single Byte Command Code Set
The process of breaking packets into ATM cells and
SBCM: Small Business Customer Manager
reassembling cells back into data packets (Communication)
(Microsoft)
SAR: Shift Arithmetic Right
SBCR: Smart Business Card Reader
SAR: Specific Absorbtion Rate (Hardware)
SAR: Store Address Register SBCS: Single-Byte Character Set
SAR: Successive Approximation Register SBD: Same Business Day
SAR: Synthetic Aperture Radar Term defining when a service has to be delivered
SARC: Symantec's Antivirus Research Center SBF: Sequential Block Filemanager

(Symantec) SBF: Simple Boot Flag
SARG: Search ARGument (Operating systems)
(Databases) (Sybase) SBFM: Small Business Financial Manager
SAS: Sales Accounting System (Software) (Microsoft)
SAS: Secure Attention Sequence SBI: Sound Blaster Instrument

A key sequence that begins the process of logging on or off. SBI: Speaker Box Interface
The default sequence is CTRL+ALT+DEL (Operating systems)
An interface that integrates audio capability with ISDN on the
(Microsoft)
Sun workstation (Hardware) (Sun)
SAS: Serial Attached Scsi SBL: Softbridge Basic Language
Storage connection technology (Hardware)
(Software)
SAS: Server Attached Storage SBL: Spamhaus Block List
(Hardware)
Realtime database of IP addresses of verified spam sources
SAS: Single Attached Station and spam operations, maintained by the Spamhaus Project
team and supplied as a free service to help email
SAS: Single Audio System administrators better manage incoming email streams. See
http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/
SAS: Statistical Analysis System
SBM: Small Business Manager
SASI: Sughart Associates System Interface
Old hard disk bus (Hardware)
SBM: Subnet Bandwidth Manager
SASL: Simple Authentication and Security Layer
An IETF proposed standard for handling resource reservations
SAT: Sim Application Toolkit on shared and switched IEEE 802-style local-area media
Normally terminal device commands the Subscriber Identity (Network)
Module (SIM). Terminal device supporting SAT feature gives SBN: Site Builder Network
for SIM a feature to command terminal device (Communication)
SATA: Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
(Microsoft) S
SBP: Serial Bus Protocol
Peripheral bus architecture (Hardware)
(Hardware)
SATAN: System Administration Tool for Analyzing
SBR: Source BRowser
Networks
File name extension (Borland)
(Network)
SBR: Spectral Band Replication
SATF: Shared Access Transport Facility
Technology to enhance audio or speech codecs, especially at
SAV: Symantec AntiVirus low bit rates
Previously called Norton AntiVirus (NAV) (Software) SBS: Small Business Server
(Symantec)
SAVDM: Single Application Virtual Dos Machine
SBS: Small Business Suite
SAX: Simple Api for Xml (Software) (Novell)
SB: Small Business SBS: Smart Battery Specification
SB: Sound Blaster (Hardware)
(Creative Labs) SC: Servlet Container
SB: Sound Board (Software)
SBA: Scene Balance Algorithm SC: Smart Card

(Kodak) (Hardware)
SBA: Service-Based Architecture SC: System Clock

(Hardware)

SC SCO
SC: System Controller SCDJWS: Sun Certified Developer for Java Web
(Hardware) Services
(Software) (Sun)
SCA: Scalable Computing Architecture
SCDMA: Synchronous Code-Division Multiple
SCA: Shared Communications Area
Access
SCA: Single Connector Attachment
SCE: Security Configuration Editor
(Hardware)
SCADA: Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
SCE: Service Creation Environment
Systems used in industry to monitor and control plant status
and provide logging facilities SCE: Sniffer Certified Expert
SCAF: Service Control Agent Function Certification for network professionals who can demonstrate an
in-depth understanding of Sniffer Technologies software
SCAM: Scsi Configured AutoMatically
SCE: Structure Chart Editor
SCAN: Single Client Access Name
SCEA: Sun Certified Enterprise Architect
New Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 11g Release 2
feature that provides a single name for clients to access an (Software) (Sun)
Oracle Database running in a cluster. The benefit is clients SCEF: Service Creation Environment Function
using SCAN do not need to change if you add or remove nodes
in the cluster (Databases) (Oracle) SCF: Sequential Character Filemanager
SCART: Syndicat des Constructeurs d'Appareils SCF: Service Control Function
Radiorécepteurs et Téléviseurs
SCF: System Control Facility
A socket standard used in Europe, named after its creator
company, to connect many kinds of audiovisual equipment - SCI: Scalable Coherent Interface
sometimes also called the Peritel or Euro connector (Hardware)
SCI: Serial Communication Interface
SCAS: SCAn String (Hardware)
SCB: Subsystem Control Block SCI: Supply Chain Intelligence
(IBM)
SCI: System Control Interrupt
SCBCD: Sun Certified Business Component
Developer SCIL: Serial Control Interface Logic
(Hardware)
(Software) (Sun)
SCC: Scsi Controller Commands SCJA: Sun Certified Java Associate
(Software) (Sun)
SCC: Serial Communications Controllers
SCJD: Sun Certified Java Developer
SCC: Serial Controller Chip (Software) (Sun)
SCC: Source Code Control SCJP: Sun Certified Java Programmer
(Software) (Sun)
SCC: Standards Council of Canada SCL: Soap Contract Language
(Organizations) Specification to describe the capabilities of Web services
SCC: SuperComputer Center SCLM: Software Configuration and Library
SCC: Sustainable Computing Consortium Management
(Organizations) (IBM)
SCC: Synchronous Channel Check SCM: Scalable Connection Management

(IBM) SCM: Service Control Manager
S SCCI: Source Code Control Interface (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Software) SCM: Sniffer Certified Master
SCCM: System Center Configuration Manager SCM: Software Configuration Management
Solution to comprehensively assess, deploy, and update your (Software)
servers, clients, and devicesâ??across physical, virtual,
distributed, and mobile environments (Microsoft) SCM: Source Code Management
(Software)
SCCP: Signaling Connection Control Part
SCM: Station Class Mark
SCCP: Simple Conference Control Protocol
SCM: Supply Chain Management
SCCS: Source Code Control System
A software development tool for tracking file versions during a SCMAD: Sun Certified Mobile Application
long, involved software development or documentation project Developer
(Software) (Software) (Sun)
SCD: Service Control Device SCMS: Serial Copy Management System
(Communication)
SCN: System Change Number
SCD: Slowly Changing Dimension The SCN is a unique, monotonically incremented number used
SCD: Sparc Compliance Definition internally by Oracle to provide system-wide versioning for
recovery and read consistency purposes (Databases) (Oracle)
A formal specification of the system hardware and software to
be met by manufacturers of SPARC systems to ensure that SCNA: Sun Certified Network Administrator
those systems run compliant applications (Sun) (Sun)
SCD: Standard Color Display SCO: Santa Cruz Operation

SCO SDF
SCO: Second Class Object SCSL: Sun's Community Source Licensing

(Software) (Sun)
SCO: Synchronous Connection-Oriented SCSP: Server Cache Synchronization Protocol
(Network)
SCOM: System Center Operation Manager
End-to-end service-management product that is the best choice SCTP: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
for Windows because it works seamlessly with Microsoft
software and applications, helping organizations increase SCU: System Control Unit
efficiency while enabling greater control of the IT environment SCVP: Simple Certificate Validation Protocol
SCW: Setup Computer Wizard
SCOOPS: SCheme Object Oriented Programming
(Microsoft)
System
SCWCD: Sun Certified Web Component Developer
SCOPE: Simple COmmunications Programming
(Software) (Sun)
Environment
(Hayes) SCX: Specialized Communications eXchange
SCOS: Single Object Copy Store SD: Secure Digital
(Software) (Lotus) (Hardware)
SCP: Save Cursor Position SD: Send Data
SCP: Secure CoPy SD: Serial Digital
(Communication)
SCP: Service Control Point
SD: Single Density
SCP: Session Control Properties
(Hardware)
(Network)
SD: Structured Design
SCP: Sniffer Certified Professional
SD: Super Density
SCP: Subsystem Control Port
(Hardware)
SCP: Sun Certified Programmer
SD: Symbolic Debugger
(Sun)
(Software)
SCP: Sunlink Communications Processor
SDA: Screen Design Aid
A printed circuit board that enables multi-vendor connection
with either synchronous or asynchronous operation. The SCP SDA: Self-Decrypting Archive
works with SNA 3270 and X.25 SunLink software products (Security)
(Hardware) (Sun)
SDA: Software Delivery Agent
SCP: System Control Program
SDA: Software Disk Array
SCPC: Single Channel Per Carrier
SDA: Source Data Automation
SCQL: Structured Card Query Language
(Databases) SDA: System Display Architecture
(DEC)
SCR: SCRipt
File name extension SDAI: Standard Data Access Interface
SCR: Silicon Controlled Rectifier SDAM: Single Dos Application Mode
SCR: Standard Context Routing SDAR: Satellite Digital Audio Radio
SCR: Sustainable Cell Rate SDB: Symbolic DeBugger
SDD: Software Description Database
SCRAM: Software Configuration, Release And
Management
S
SDD: Subscriber Data Document
SCRN: SCReeN SDD: Super Density Disk
SCRS: Scalable Cluster of Risc Systems SDD: System Distribution Directory
SCS: Sna Character String SDDI: Shielded Distributed Data Interface
SCSA: Signal Computing System Architecture SDDS: Sony Dynamic Digital Sound
(Dialogic)
Multi-channel (5.1 or 7.1) digital audio format, compressed
SCSA: Sun Certified System Administrator from PCM at 48 kHz. The data rate can go up to 1280 kbps
(Sun) SDE: Shared Data Environment
SCSA: Sun Common Scsi Architecture To share data across different platforms
SCSE: Symantec Certified Security Engineer SDE: Smart Decision Engine

Certification is for IT professionals who focus on a single SDE: Spatial Database Engine
security segment and the implementation and in depth
(Databases)
management of solutions in that segment (Symantec)
SDF: Space Delimited Format
SCSI: Small Computers System Interface
File name extension
An industry standard for connecting etherogeneous devices
(disks, tapes, CD-ROMs, ...) to a workstation (Hardware) SDF: Standard Data Format
SCSIHQ: Small Computers System Interface File name extension
Hardware Qualifier SDF: System Dialog Facility
Hardware troubleshooting program (Operating systems)
(Microsoft)

SDFI SE
SDFI: Secure Digital Forensic Imaging SDMS: Scsi Device Management System
Asynchronous method of telemedicine. It denotes a specific (NCR)
process that ensures the fast, safe and secure capture, storage
and instant delivery of digital forensic evidence SDN: Software Defined Network
(AT&T)
SDH: Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
Worldwide standard for synchronous transmission systems SDN: Sun Developer Network
(typically fiber optic) (Communication) (Software) (Sun)
SDHC: Secure Digital High-Capacity SDNS: Secure Data Network Service

(Hardware) SDNSDU: Secure Domain Name System Dynamic
SDI: Selective Dissemination of Information Update
(Network)
SDI: Serial Digital Interface
(Hardware) SDO: Service Data Objects
Framework that simplifies and unifies data application
SDI: Single Document Interface development in a service oriented architecture (SOA). It
(Software) (Microsoft) supports and integrates XML and incorporates J2EE patterns
and best practices (Software)
SDI: Software Development Interface
SDOC: Selective Dynamic Overload Controls
SDI: Standard Disk Interface
SDP: Service Discovery Protocol
SDI: Storage Device Interconnect
SDP: Session Description Protocol
SDI: Storage Device Interface
(Network)
SDIS: Switched Digital Integrated Service
SDP: Specialized Data Point
SDK: Software Development Kit
SDR: Sensor Data Records
(Software)
(Hardware)
SDKJ: Software Development Kit for Java
SDR: Single Data Rate
SDL: Service Description Language Memory access architecture (Hardware)
SDL: Specification and Description Language SDR: Store Data Register
SDL: System Design Language SDR: Streaming Data Request
SDL/GR: Specification and Description SDRAM: Synchronous Dynamic Random Access
Language/Graphical Representation, Memory
SDLC: Software Development Life Cycle (Hardware)
(Software) SD-ROM: Super Density Read Only Memory
SDLC: Sun DownLoad Center SDS: Short Data Service
(Software) (Sun) Data message in mobile TETRA network. Similar to Short
Message Service (SMS) in GSM (Communication)
SDLC: Synchronous Data Link Control
A link-level communications protocol used in an IBM SNA SDS: Sudden Death Syndrome
network that manages synchronous, code-transparent, serial Used in digital photography when your camera dies a sudden
information transfer over a link connection (Communication) death (Hardware)
SDLP: Standard Device Level Protocol SDS: Sun Directory Services
SDLT: Super Digital Linear Tape (Operating systems) (Sun)
(Hardware) SDS: Switched Data Service
S-DLT: Super Digital Linear Tape
S (Hardware)
SDS: Synchronous Data Set
SDS: Sysops Distribution System
SDM: Semantic Data Model
SDSC: Synchronous Data Set Controller
SDM: Sun Download Manager
SDSCnet: San Diego Supercomputer Center
Small (less than 300 KB), 100% Java application that insures a
successful download experience (Software) (Sun)
NETwork
SDM: System Data Mover SDSL: Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line

(Communication)
SDM: System Development Methodology
S-DSMA: Slotted Digital Sense Multiple Access
SDM: System Development Multitasking
SDTV: StanDard Definition Television
SDMC: Systems Director Management Console
Supposedly going to replace IBM Hardware Management
SDU: Service Data Unit
Console (HMC) (Software) (IBM) SDU: Software Distribution Utilities
SDMF: Single Data Message Format SDV: Switched Digital Video
Format used to send Caller ID information (Communication) (AT&T)
SDMI: Secure Digital Music Initiative SDX: Storage Data Acceleration
SDML: Signed Document Markup Language SDXF: Structured Data eXchange Format
SDMM: Security Domain Membership Management SE: Second Edition
Specifies the interfaces supporting the elements within a (Software)
SDMM architecture which interact via SDMM mechanisms
SE: Sign Extension
SDMMC: Secure Digital MultiMedia Card

SE SFR
SE: Single Ended SEQUEL: Structured English QUEry Language

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

A composite color standard based on line-alternate U and V SEU: Smallest Executable Unit
color difference signals that are frequency-modulated onto a
color subcarrier SEU: Source Entry Utility
SECB: Severely Errored Cell Block SEV: Search Engine Visibility

Different from SEO, SEV requires the simple act of copying and
SECC: Sheet steel, Electrolytically coated, Cold- pasting added informational content from business blog to
rolled, Commercial quality article submission websites in order to achieve backlinks which
Often used in describing used materials for device cases would lead business website to be on search engine results
(Hardware)
SF: Service Feature
SECC: Single Edge Contact Cartridge
SF: Sign Flag
(Hardware)
SFA: Sales Force Automation
SED: Stream EDitor
SFA: Seach For Answers
SED: Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display
(Net lingo)
Flat panel technology jointly developed by Canon and Toshiba
that uses surface conduction electron emitters for every SFBI: Shared Frame Buffer Interconnect
individual display pixel (Hardware)
SFC: System File Checker
SEG: SEGment (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
SEH: Structured Exception Handling SFD: Start Frame Delimiter
SEI: Service Endpoint Interface SFDR: Spurious-Free Dynamic Range
Java interface that declares the methods that a client can
invoke on the service (Software) SFF: Small Form Factor
SEI: Software Engineering Institute

(Hardware) S
Federally funded research and development center; its core SFFC: Small Form Factor Committee
purpose is to help others make measured improvements in (Organizations)
their software engineering capabilities. See also
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/ (Organizations) SFI: Software Fault Isolation
SEL: SELect SFN: Short FileName
SEL: SELector byte SFNW5: Services For NetWare 5

SEM: Scanning Electron Microscope
SFP: Small Form-factor Pluggable
SEM: Sql Enterprise Manager A standard hot swappable small multi-pin conector used
(Databases) (Microsoft) mostly for fibre channel optical modules on disk array
controllers. (Hardware)
SEM: Standard Electronic Module
SFPS: Secure Fast Packet Switching
SEM: Strategic Enterprise Management
SFQ: Stochastic Fair Queuing
SEO: Search Engine Optimization
Increasing ranking placement on search engines
SEP: Scalable Encryption Processor A hash function used to map flow
(Hardware) (Cisco) to one of set of queues (Network)
SEPP: Secure Encryption Payment Protocol SFQL: Structured Full-text Query Language
SEPP: Single-Edge Processor Package SFR: Split Frame Rendering


SFS SIFT
SFS: System File Server SHP: Super High Pressure

Projector's lamp type (Hardware)
SFT: System Fault Tolerant
SHR: Shift Logical Right
SFTP: Secure File Transfer Protocol
Also known as File Transfer Protocol over SSH (Secure SHell) S-HTTP: Secure HyperText Transport Protocol
(Network)
SFTP: Simple File Transfer Protocol
SHV: Standard High Volume
SFU: Services For Unix
A set of tools to better integrate existing Unix and Windows SI: Semantic Interpretation
environments (Operating systems) (Microsoft) Process by which a semantic interpreter generates a semantic
result based on an utterance that matches a path through a
SFX: SelF eXtracting
grammar. A semantic result typically contains information that
Archive with self extracting capabilities is more useful to the application than the text of the utterance
SFX: Sound eFfectS SI: Serial Input
File name extension (Hardware)
SG: Signal Ground SI: Shift-In
SGA: Shared Global Area SI: Source Index
SGAM: Shared Global Allocation Map Processor register (Hardware) (IBM)
(Databases) SI: System Information
SGC: Scsi Graphic Command SI: System Integrator
SGC: Server-Gated Cryptography SI/SO: Serial In/Serial Out
SI/SO: Shift In/Shift Out
SGC: Solaris Grid Compiler
SIA: Semiconductor Industry Association
Locally or remotely hosted compilation resource management
system. It provides the accelerated, networked, cross-platform (Organizations)
processing of Makefiles and compilation commands on the
SIA: Socially Intelligent Agent
Solaris operating system (Software) (Sun)
(Software)
SGCP: Simple Gateway Control Protocol
SIA: Specific Industry Application
SGDT: Store Global Descriptor Table Applications that are specific to an industry (Software)
SGEN: Signal GENerator SIB: Service Independent building Block
SGI: Silicon Graphics, Inc SIC: Silicon Integrated Circuit
Constructor (SGI)
SIC: Standard Industrial Code
SGM: Shaded Graphics Modeling
SICD: Still Image Capture Device
SGML: Standard Generalized Markup Language (Hardware)
A method of tagging a document to apply to many format
elements. This language has become popular with the SID: Sccs delta ID
increased use of the Internet The number used to represent a specific SCCS delta (Software)
SGMP: Simple Gateway Management Protocol SID: Security IDentifier

The predecessor to Simple Network Management Protocol SID: Serial Input Data
(SNMP) (Network)
SID: Session Identifier
SGR: Set Graphics Rendition
Identifies an Oracle Session (Databases) (Oracle)
SGRAM: Synchronous Graphics Random Access
SID: Sound Interface Device
S Memory
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
SID: Station IDentification
SGSN: Serving Gprs Support Node
(AT&T)
Provides packet routing to and from the SGSN service area for
all users in that service area (Communication) SID: Symbolic Interactive Debugger
SHA: Secure Hash Algorithm SID: System IDentification
A hashing algorithm that generates a 160-bit hash value (SHA-
1). Used with the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) in the
SID: System IDentifier
Digital Signature Standard (DSS), among other places Uniquely identifies an Oracle database instance (Databases)
(Security) (Oracle)
SHAR: SHell ARchive SIDF: System Independent Data Format

SHD: Self-Healing Driver SIDH: System Identification for Home Systems
(Operating systems) SIDT: Store Interrupt Descriptor Table
SHED: Segmented Hypergraphics EDitor SIE: Serial Interface Engine
SHF: Super High Frequency The USB module responsible for bus protocol (Hardware)
SHG: Segmented HyperGraphics SIF: Setup Information File

(Operating systems)
SHIT: So Happy It's Thursday
(Net lingo) SIFT: Sender-Initiated File Transfer
(Network)
SHL: Shift Logical Left
SIFT: Stanford Information Filtering Tool
SHOE: Simple Html Ontology Extension

SIG SLB
SIG: SIGnature SIP: Single In-line Package

The packaging of an electronic component with all leads
SIG: Special Interest Group
protruding from one side only (Hardware)
(Organizations)
SIP: Smds Interface Protocol
SIGBIT: Special Interest Group on Business
Information Technology SIPC: Simply Interactive Personal Computer
SIGCAT: Special Interest Group on Cd-rom
Applications and Technology SIPO: Serial In, Parallel Out
SIGGRAPH: Special Interest Group for GRAPHics SIPP: Simple Internet Protocol Plus
A group sponsored by the Association for Computing SIPP: SImple Polygon Processor
Machinery. SIGGRAPH holds an annual conference on graphics
that includes vendor product displays, lectures, and graphics SIPP: Single In line Pin Package
technology courses (Organizations) (Hardware)
SIGIR: Special Interest Group on Information SIPR: Secure Internet Protocol Router
Retireval (Network)
(Organizations)
SIR: Save Instruction Recognition
SIGPLAN: Special Interest Group on
Programming LANguages SIR: Serial InfraRed
(Communication)
SII: Static Invocation Interface
SIR: Sustained Information Rate
SIIA: Software & Information Industry
Association SIRDS: Single-Image Random Dot Stereogram
An association for software companies. See also SIRENE: Supplementary Information REquest at
http://www.siia.net/ (Organizations) the National Entry
SIIT: Stateless Ip/Icmp Translation algorithm SIS: Single Instance Store
Translates between IPv4 and IPv6 packet headers (including Architecture designed to maintain duplicate files with a
ICMP headers) in separate translator "boxes" in the network minimum of disk, cache, and backup media overhead
without requiring any per-connection state in those "boxes" (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Communication)
SIS: Strategic Information System
SIL: Solid Immersion Lens
Compact disk head technology (Hardware) SIS: Supplier Information System
SIM: Security Information Management SISAL: Streams and Iteration in a Single
Software designed to automate the collection of event log data Assignment Language
from security devices and helping users make sense of it
SISL: System Interrupt Steering Logic
through a common management console (Security)
SISNET: Signal in Space through the interNET
SIM: SIMplex
Used in SCSI interface for a single backplane (Hardware) SISSL: Sun Industry Standards Source License
(Sun)
SIM: SIMulator
SIT: Special Information Tones
SIM: Subscriber Identity Module
(Hardware) SIT: StuffIT
File name extension (Apple)
SIM: System Image Manager
Tool used to create unattended Windows Setup answer files. SIU: System Interface Unit
You can create an answer file by using information from a
Windows image (.wim) file and a catalog (.clg) file (Operating SIV: System Integrity Verifier
systems) (Microsoft) SIVIT: SIemens VIrtual Touchscreen
SIM: Systems Insight Manager (Hardware) (Siemens-Nixdorf)
S
(Operating systems) (HP) SIX: Shared with Intent eXclusive
SIMD: Single Instruction, Multiple Data Database management system's locking attribute (Databases)
SIMM: Single In line Memory Module SJF: Shortest Job First

A circuit board that holds surface-mount memory chips. A Process or thread scheduling (Operating systems)
SIMM is compact and efficient (Hardware)
SJSXP: Sun Java Streaming Xml Parser
SIMS: Stalker Internet Mail Server (Software) (Sun)
SIMTEL: SIMulation and TELeprocessing SKIP: Simple Key management for Internet
SIMULA: SIMULAtion Protocol
(Network)
Programming language
SIN: Specification Information Note SKU: StockKeeping Unit
SIO: Serial Input/Output SLA: Service Level Agreement

A contract between a service provider and customer defining
Communications driver
provider responsibilities in terms of network levels, times of
SIP: Scsi-3 Interlocked Protocol availability, method of measurement, consequences if service
levels aren't met, and all costs involved (Network)
SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
IETF standard protocol for IP-communication, enabling IP- SLAN: Secure Local Area Network
Telephony gateways, client endpoints, PBXs and other SLB: Server Load Balancing
communication systems or devices to communicate with each
other (Communication) SLB: Static Load Balancing

SLC SMC
SLC: Subscriber Line Concentrator SLS: Scalable to LosslesS

(Communication) extension to the MPEG-4 audio standard to allow lossless audio
compression scalable to lossy AAC
SLD: Second Level Domain
(Network) SLS: Softlanding Linux System
SLDRAM: Synchronous Link Dynamic Random SLSI: Super Large Scale of Integration
Access Memory The process of placing from 50,000 to 100,000 circuit
(Hardware) components. Also, the quality of their connections (Hardware)
SLDT: Store Local Descriptor Table SLSS: Systems Library Subscription Service
(IBM)
SLED: Single Large Expensive Disk
Refers to older mainframe hard disks that were used as a basis SLU: Secondary Logical Unit
for comparison during the initial UC Berkeley RAID studies. SLU: Spoken Language Understanding
(Hardware)
SLU: Subscriber line Unit
SLEE: Service Logic Execution Environment
(Hardware)
SLF4J: Simple Logging Facade For Java
SLU: Subscriber line Usage
Intended to serve as a simple facade for various logging APIs
(Communication)
allowing to the end-user to plug in the desired implementation
at deployment time. See http://www.slf4j.org/ (Software) SM: Set Mode
SLG: Service Level Guarantee SM: Shared Memory
(Network)
SM: Smart Media
SLI: Scalable Link Interface (Hardware)
Brand name for a multi-GPU solution developed by Nvidia for
linking two or more video cards together to produce a single SM: System Management
output. The name SLI was first used by 3dfx under the full SMA: Software Migration Assistant
name Scan-Line Interleave (Hardware) (nVidia)
SMAE: System Management Application Entity
SLI: Scan Line Interleave
Method for linking two (or more) video cards or chips together SMAF: Service Management Agent Function
to produce a single output. It is an application of parallel
SMAP: System Management Application Process
processing for computer graphics, meant to increase the
processing power available for graphics (Hardware) SMAPI: Speech Manager Application
SLIC: Serial Link and Interrupt Controller Programming Interface
(Software)
SLIC: Session Layer Interface Card
(Hardware) SMART: Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting
Technology
SLIC: Subscriber Line Interface Card Drives equipped with this feature report predicted failures
Interface between home phone lines and Central Office (CO) based on threshold values determined by the manufacturer.
(Hardware) This allows the network manager to replace a drive before it
fails. (Hardware)
SLIC: System Level Integration Circuit
SMASE: System Management Application Service
SLIC: System Licensed Internal Code
Element
(IBM)
SMASH: Simple, Many And Self-Healing
SLIM: Structured Language for Internet Markup
Supercomputing architecture (Hardware) (IBM)
SLIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMASH: Systems Management Architecture for
An Internet protocol used to run IP over serial lines such as
Server Hardware
telephone circuits or RS-232 cables interconnecting two
S systems. SLIP is now being replaced by PPP (Communication) Suite of specifications that deliver architectural semantics,
industry standard protocols and profiles to unify the
SLM: Service Level Management management of the data center
SLM: Spatial Light Modulator SMAU: Smart Multistation Access Unit
SLMR: Silly Little Mail Reader SMB: Server Message Block
SLO: Service Level Objective A common format for sharing files, directories and devices in
Microsoft's operating systems (Operating systems)
(Network)
SMB: Small-Medium Business
SLOSH: Sea, Lake and Overland Surge from
Hurricane SMBIOS: System Management Basic
Input/Output System
SLOT: Scanned Laser Output Terminal
Specification that addresses how motherboard and system
SLP: Service Location Protocol vendors present management information about their products
(Network) in a standard format by extending the BIOS interface on x86
architecture systems
SLP: Service Logic Program
SMBus: System Management BUS
SLPD: Service Location Protocol Domain
SMC: Scsi-3 Medium changer Command
(Network)
SMC: Solaris Management Console
SLR: Single-Lens Reflex
(Operating systems) (Sun)
(Hardware)
SMC: Standard Microsystems Corporation
(Organizations)

SMD SNAFU
SMD: Storage Module Device SMOR: Storage Manager On Rom

An industry-standard interface used for large-capacity, high- (Hardware) (DPT)
performance disks (Hardware)
SMP: Simple Management Protocol
SMD: Surface-Mount Device
SMP: Smart Messaging Protocol
(Hardware)
(Communication) (Nokia)
SMDR: Station Message Detail Recording
SMP: Software Motion Picture
SMDR: Storage Management Data Requester
SMP: Symbolic Manipulation Program
SMDS: Switched Multimegabit Data Service
SMP: Symmetric MultiProcessing
An emerging high-speed networking technology to be offered
by the telephone companies in the U.S. A form of multiprocessing in which more than one processor
can run kernel-level code simultaneously (Hardware)
SME: Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
SMP: System Modification Program
SME: Subject Matter Expert (Software)
SMF: Semantic Modelling Format SMP/E: System Modification Program/Extended
XML-based language that can be used to persist English Query (Software)
model information (Databases) (Microsoft)
SMPC: Shared Memory Parallel Computer
SMF: Service Management Facility
(Operating systems) (Sun) SMPP: Short Message Peer to Peer protocol
SMPP, developed by Logica Aldiscon is intended as a way of
SMF: Single Mode Fiber providing an open and generic interface between an ESME and
a SMSC for message transfer
SMFA: Special Management Functional Element
SMPS: Switching Mode Power Supply
SMG: Special Mobile Group
SMI: Security Management Interface SMPTE: Society of Motion Picture & Television
Engineers
(Software)
(Organizations)
SMI: Static Memory Interface
SMRAM: System Management Random Access
(Hardware)
Memory
SMI: Structure of Management Information
SMS: Short Message Service
The rules that define the objects that can be accessed through
a network management protocol (Network) SMS: System Managed Storage
SMI: Sun Microsystems Inc. (Hardware) (IBM)
SMI: System Management Interrupt SMS: System Management Server

(Microsoft)
SMIF: Standard Mechanical InterFace
SMSC: Short Message Service Centre
SMIL: Synchronized Multimedia Integration
Language SMSW: Store Machine Status Word
SMIT: System Management Interface Tool SMT: Station ManagemenT

(IBM) SMT: Surface-Mount Technology
SMK: Software Migration Kit (Hardware)
(Microsoft) SMT: System Management Terminal
SMKD: Scalable Multicast Key Distribution (Software) (Zyxel)
(Security) SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
The Internet email protocol. Defined in RFC 821, with
SML: Service Management Layer
associated message format descriptions in RFC 822 S
SML: Shared Memory Link
SMTPE: Society of Motion Picture and Television
SML: Siemens Modular Link Engineers
SML: Smart Markup Language See http://www.smpte.org (Organizations)
The goal of SML is to enable automation of all interactions with SMU: System Management Utility
XML documents providing general methods to represent a set
of smart device functions SMX: Server Macro eXpansion
SML: Standard Machine Language SN: Serial Number
SML: Standard Meta Language SNA: Survivable Network Analysis
(Security)
SML/NJ: Standard Meta Language/New Jersey
SNA: System Network Architecture
SMLI: Stateful Multi-Layer Inspection
The proprietary network architecture of IBM (Network) (IBM)
SMM: System Management Mode
SNACP: System Network Architecture Control
(Intel) Protocol
SMM: System Manager's Manual (Network)
SMOBC: Solder Mask Over Bare Copper SNADS: System Network Architecture
Distribution Service
SMOP: Small (or Simple) Matter Of Programming
(Network) (IBM)
Used to ironically indicate that a suggested feature or design
change would in fact require a great deal of effort; it often SNAFU: Situation Normal All Fouled Up
implies that the person proposing the feature underestimates (Net lingo)
its costs (Net lingo)

SNAM SOS
SNAM: Server Net Access Manager SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol
(Network) (Software)
SNAP: Sub-Network Access Protocol SOB: Start Of Block
(Communication)
SNAP: SubNetwork Attachment Point
SOC: Separation Of Concerns
SNAP: System and Network Administration
Program Software development technique used in aspect-oriented
programming (AOP) (Software)
SNAPI: Structured N-dimensional Application
SOC: System On a Chip
(Hardware)
(Oracle)
SOCKS: SOCKet Secure
SNAT: Secure Network Address Translation
Provides a secure mechanism for translating internal, SODIMM: Small Outline Dual In-line Memory
nonroutable addresses into routable addresses. As traffic flows Module
out of a data center, the gateway and source address of IP (Hardware)
packets are translated and switched to the appropriate
upstream gateway router (Network) SO-DIMM: Small Outline Dual In line Memory
Module
SNCA: Solaris Network Cache and Accelerator
(Sun) SOE: Standard Operating Environment
SNCP: Single Node Control Point SOEP: Secondary Operand Execution Pipeline
SND: SouND SOFS: Scale Out File Server
File Format for music (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
SNEWS: Secure NEWs Server SOG: Service Order Gateway

SNF: Server Natural Format SOH: Start Of Header
(Communication)
SNI: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme
SOHO: Small Office/Home Office
SNI: Site Need Index
SOI: Silicon On Insulator
SNI: Sna Network Interconnection
(Hardware)
SNI: Subscriber Network Interface
SOJ: Small-Outline J-lead
SNIA: Storage Networking Industry Association (Hardware)
(Organizations)
SOL: Serial Over Lan
SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol Mechanism that enables the input and output of the serial port
The protocol that manages networks. SNMP-enabled devices of a managed system to be redirected via an IPMI session over
can communicate with each other (Network) IP (Communication)
SNMPSEC: Simple Network Management Protocol SOL: Simulation Oriented Language

SECurity
SOM: Scripting Object Model
(Security)
(Software)
SNNS: Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator
SOM: Self-Organizing Map
SNOBOL: StriNg Oriented symBOlic Language Algorithm used to visualize and interpret large high-
Programming Language (Software) dimensional data sets. Typical applications are visualization of
process states or financial results by representing the central
SNP: Serial Number/Password dependencies within the data on the map
SNPP: Simple Network Paging Protocol SOM: Start Of Message
S (Network) (Communication)
SNQP: Simple Nomenclator Query Protocol SOM: Structured Object Method
(Network)
SOM: System Object Model
SNR: Signal to Noise Ratio (Operating systems) (IBM)
SNRM: Set Normal Response Mode SONAR: SOund Navigation And Ranging
(Communication)
SONDS: Small Office Network Data System
SNRME: Set Normal Response Mode Extended
SONET: Synchronous Optical NETwork
(Communication)
North American transport standard for optical networks with
SNS: Subject Name Server speeds from approximately 52 Mb/s (OC-1) to 10 Gb/s (OC-
192) (Network)
SNTP: Simple Network Time Protocol
(Network) SOP: Small Outline Package
SO: Security Officer SOP: Standard Operating Procedure
SO: Serial Output SORBS: Spam and Open-Relay Blocking System

(Hardware) Provides free access to its DNS-based Block List (DNSBL) to
effectively block email from more than 12 million host servers
SOA: Service Oriented Architecture known to disseminate spam, phishing attacks and other forms
Is essentially a collection of services. These services of malicious email; See also http://http://www.sorbs.net/
communicate with each other. The communication can involve (Network)
either simple data passing or it could involve two or more
SOS: Silicon On Sapphire
services coordinating some activity (Software)
(Hardware)
SOA: Start Of Authority

SOS SPID
SOS: Sophisticated Operating System SPD: Software Product Description

(Software)
SOS: Standard and Open System
SPD: System Products Division
SOTA: State Of The Art
Proprietary AS/400 I/O bus (Hardware) (IBM)
SOW: Statement of Work
SPDL: Standard Page Description Language
SOX: Schema for Object-oriented Xml
SPDU: Session Protocol Data Unit
Is a schema proposal that includes extensible data types,
namespaces, and embedded documentation SPE: System Policy Editor
SOX: SOund eXchange It provides an administrator with the means to centrally
manage Windows desktop environments, and is a flexible
SP: Sequence Processor alternative to mandatory user profiles (Operating systems)
SP: Service Pack SPEC: Standard Performance Evaluation

Corporation
SP: Signal Processor
A group of participating computer system manufacturers that
SP: Solution Provider develops a series of accepted test programs to measure system
computing performance
SP: Stack Pointer
CPU register (Hardware) (Intel)
SPECFS: SPECial File System
A pseudo file system that provides access to character special
SP: System Product and block devices (Operating systems)
SP3: Secure Portable Player Platform SPEM: Software Process Engineering Metamodel
SPA: Secure Password Authentication This metamodel is used to describe a concrete software
development process or a family of related software
(Microsoft)
development processes
SPA: Service Provider Api SPEWS: Spam Prevention Early Warning System
SPA: Software Publishers Association SPF: Sender Policy Framework
(Organizations) Open standard specifying a technical method to prevent sender
SPA: Sql Performance Analyzer address forgery. More precisely, the current version of SPF -
called SPFv1 or SPF Classic - protects the envelope sender
A tool in the Real Application Testing family in Oracle 11g, that
address, which is used for the delivery of messages
allows to replay a specified set of SQLs captured earlier to
gauge the impact of some database changes on them SPF: Shortest Path First
(Network)
SPAG: Standards Promotion and Application SPF: Stateful Packet Filter
Group
(Network)
SPAN: Space Physics Analysis Network
SPF: Sunbelt Personal Firewall
SPAN: Switched Port Analyzer (Security)
Cisco feature that selects network traffic for analysis by a
SPF: System Programming Facility
network analyzer such as a SwitchProbe device or other
Remote Monitoring (RMON) probe (Network) (Cisco) SPGA: Staggered Pin Grid Array
SPAP: Shiva Password Authentification Protocol IC pins organization (Hardware)
(Security) SPI: Scsi Parallel Interface
SPARC: Scalable Processor ARChitecture SPI: Security Parameter Index
Architecture based on a reduced instruction set computer
(RISC) concept. Sun and its suppliers designed the architecture SPI: Serial Peripheral Interface
to significantly improve price and performance (Hardware)
(Sun)
SPI: Service Provider Interface S
SPI: Smart Plug-In
SPARQL: Simple Protocol And Rdf Query Language
SPI: Stateful Packet Inspection
SPB: Stored Procedure Builder
(Security)
Development environment for creating, installing and testing
stored procedures (Databases) (IBM) SPI: Stream Programming Interface
SPC: Scsi-3 Primary Command (Software)
SPC: Small Peripheral Controller SPI: System Packet Interface

(Network)
SPC: Software Publishing Certificate
SPI: System Programming Interface
A PKCS #7 signed-data object containing X.509 certificates
(Security) SPI-2: Scsi Parallel Interface - version 2
SPC: Software Publishing Corp.. Contains all pertinent features from SCSI-2, SPI, and Fast-20
plus the new features of Fast-40 and Low Voltage Differential.
SPC: Statistical Process Control SPI-2 is a complete definition of the parallel SCSI physical and
protocol layers
SPC: Stored Program Control
SPI-3: Scsi Parallel Interface - version 3
SPCF: Service Point Command Facility
Contains all pertinent features from SPI-2 plus the new
SPCS: Stored Program Controlled Switch features of Fast-80 (160 MByte/Sec on 16-bit buses) and
packetized protocol. Thus SPI-3 is a complete definition of the
SPD: Security Policy Database parallel SCSI physical and protocol layers
Specifies what services are to be offered to IP datagrams and
in what fashion (Network) SPID: Service Profile IDentifier
(Network)
SPD: Serial Presence Detect

SPIKE SRAPI
SPIKE: Science Planning Intelligent Knowledge- SPREAD: Systems Programming, Research,

based Environment Engineering And Development
(IBM)
SPIRE: Spatial Paradigm for Information
Retrieval and Exploration SPS: Secure Packet Shield
SPIRES: Stanford Public Information REtrieval SPS: Shock Protection System
System
SPS: Standby Power System
SPKI: Simple Public Key Infrastructure
SPS: Structured PostScript
(Security)
That PostScript code which has been commented and
SPKM: Simple Public-Key Mechanism structured in a strict way to enable filters and print spoolers to
manipulate it without actually processing any of the PostScript
SPL: Schedule Plus type Library code
SPS: Symantec Product Specialist
SPL: Set Priority Level (Symantec)
SPL: SPelL checker SPSS: Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
File name extension (Software)
SPL: SPooLer SPT: Scsi Pass Through
SPL: Stored Procedure Language SPT: Sectors Per Track
(Databases)
SPTI: Scsi Pass-Through Interface
SPL: Sun Public License
SPTS: SharePoint Team Service
(Sun)
SPL: System Programming Language
SPU: System Processing Unit
(HP)
SPUC/DL: Serial Peripheral Unit Controller/Data
SPLD: Simple Programmable Logic Device
Link
SPM: Statistical Packet Multiplexing
SPUD: Storage Pedestal Upgrade Disk
Technology to dynamically allocate bandwidth to active circuits
(Network) SPX: Sequenced Packet Exchange
SPM: System Performance Monitor (Network) (Novell)
(IBM) SQ: SQueezed
SPM/2: System Performance Monitor/2 SQE: Signal Quality Error
SPN: Service Principal Name SQFP: Small Quad Flat Package
The name by which a client uniquely identifies an instance of a IC package
service. If you install multiple instances of a service, each
instance must have its own SPN SQL: Structured Query Language
The international standard language for defining and accessing
SPNEGO: Simple and Protected gssapi relational databases (Databases)
NEGOtiation mechanism
(Security) SQL/CLI: Structured Query Language/Call Level
Interface
SPOC: Single Point Of Contact
SQL/DS: Structured Query Language/Data
SPOF: Single Point Of Failure System
SPOOL: Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On (IBM)
Line SQLJ: Structured Query Language for Java
S SPOT: Shared Product Object Tree (Databases)
(IBM) SQM: Software Quality Management
SPOT: Simple Performance Optimization Tool (Software)
Produces a report on the performance of an application. The SQoS: Secure Quality Of Service
spot report contains detailed information about various
common conditions that impact performance (Software) (Sun) SQRT: SQuare RooT
SPP: Scalable Parallel Processing SR: Service Release
SPP: Sequenced Packet Protocol SR: Shift Register
SPP: Standard Printer Port SR: Speech Recognition
SPPS: Scalable Power Parallel System SR: Status Register
(IBM) (Hardware)
SPR: Software Problem Report SRAM: Shadow Random Access Memory
A bug report. (Software)
SRAM: Static Random Access Memory
SPR: Special Purpose Register (Hardware)
(Hardware)
SRAPI: Speech Recognition Application
SPR: Statistical Pattern Recognition Programming Interface
SPR: Symmetrical Phase Recording
(Hardware)

SRAT SSCP
SRAT: Static Resource Affinity Table SRQ: Service ReQuest

Can be used to describe the physical location of processors and
SRR: Serially Reusable Resource
memory in large-scale systems, allowing threads and memory
to be grouped in an optimal manner (Operating systems) SRS: Screen Reader System
(Microsoft)
SRS: Shared Registration System
SRB: Source-Route Bridge (Network)
SRC: SouRCe SRS: Sound Retrieval System
File name extension
SRTP: Secure Real-time Transport Protocol
SRC: System Resource Controller defines a profile of RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol),
(IBM) intended to provide encryption, message authentication and
integrity, and replay protection to the RTP data in both unicast
SRD: Screen ReaDer system
and multicast applications (Security)
SRD: Support Readiness Document
SRVIFS: SeRVer Installable File System
Free documents that focus on installation, configuration, and
common user problems related to various Java platforms and SS: Single-Sided
tools (Sun) (Hardware)
SRDRAM: Self-Refreshed Dynamic Random SS: Solid State
Access Memory (Hardware)
SRE: Self Routing switch Element SS: Stack Segment
SRF: Service Resource Function CPU register (Hardware) (Intel)
sRGB: Standard Red Green Blue SS/SNA: Server to Server System Network
(Hardware) Architecture
SRGS: Speech Recognition Grammar Specification SS7: Signaling System 7

Grammar intended for use by speech recognizers and other SSA: Self Service Application
grammar processors so that developers can specify the words (Oracle)
and patterns of words to be listened for by a speech
recognizer. See also http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-grammar/ SSA: Serial Storage Architecture
SRL: Segmentation and Reassembly Layer (Hardware)
SRM: Security Reference Monitor SSA: Survivable Systems Analysis

Practical engineering process that enables you to
SRM: Security Risk Management systematically assess the survivability properties of proposed
Logical process that may be used to assess and quantify risk, systems, existing systems, and modifications to existing
and provide management with cost-effective solutions to systems (Security)
security risk reduction using available resources (Security)
SSA: System Software Associates
SRM: Storage Resource Manager
SSAA: Super-Sample Anti-Aliasing
(Software)
(Hardware)
SRM: Supplier Relationship Management
SSAD: Structured System Analysis and Design
Software enabling a company or entity to better coordinate
activities and share information with suppliers (Software) SSADM: Structured System Analysis and Design
SRM: System Renewability Message Method
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) SSAP: Session Service Access Point
(Network)
SRMD: Security Risk Management Discipline
Detailed process that is useful in determining which threats SSAP: Source Service Access Point
and vulnerabilities have the most potential impact on a
particular organization (Security) (Microsoft) SSB: Single SideBand S
SRM-E: Service Resource Module Enhanced SSBAM: Single SideBand Amplitude Modulation
(Network) (Cisco) SSBP: Simple Soap Binding Profile
SRMP: Soap Reliable Messaging Protocol (Software)
SRMP enhances SOAP by defining additional headers that SSC: Scsi Stream Command
ensure reliability in application-to-application communication
(Software) SSCCE: Short Self-Contained Correct (or
Compilable) Example
SRN: Source/Recipient Node
Preferred form of code snippets posted in newsgroups and bug
SRO: Sharable and Read Only reports. See also http://sscce.org/ (Software)
SRP: Secure Remote Password SSCCE: Short, Self Contained, Compilable and
Secure password-based authentication and key-exchange Executable
protocol. See also http://srp.stanford.edu/ (Security) Example program that demonstrates a bug or to submit to
forums when asking for help (Software)
SRP: Security Rollup Package
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) SSCE: Site Server Commerce Edition
(Microsoft)
SRP: Session Request Protocol
(Hardware) SSCF: Service Specific Coordination Function
SRP: Source Routing Protocol SSCOP: Service Specific Connection Orientated

Protocol
SRP: Suggested Retail Price
SSCP: Service Switching Control Point
SRPI: Server-Requester Programming Interface
(IBM) SSCP: System Services Control Point

SSCP STD
SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner SSO: Single Sign-On

Method of access control that enables a user to authenticate
SSCS: Service Specific Convergence Sublayer
once and gain access to the resources of multiple software
SSCS: Solid-State Circuits Society systems (Security)
(Organizations) SSP: Security Support Provider
SSD: Solid State Disk A dynamic-link library that implements the SSPI by making
one or more security packages available to applications. Each
SSDD: Same S**t Different Day security package provides mappings between an application's
(Net lingo) SSPI function calls and an actual security model's functions
(Security)
SSDP: Simple Service Discovery Protocol
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) SSP: Service Switching Point
SSDU: Session Service Data Unit SSP: Silicon Switch Processor
SSE: Software Support Engineer SSP: Storage Service Provider
SSE: Streaming Simd Extensions SSP: Switch to Switch Protocol

Xeon CPU extension to the instruction set (Hardware) (Intel) SSP: System Stack Pointer
SSEC: Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator SSP: System Support Program
(IBM) IBM s/36 operating system (Operating systems) (IBM)
SSF: Service Switching Function SSPI: Security Support Provider Interface
SSFDC: Solid State Floppy Disc Card A common interface between transport-level applications, such
as Remote Procedure Call (RPC), and security providers. SSPI
Also known as SmartMedia (Hardware)
allows a transport application to call one of several security
SSG: Service Selection Gateway providers to obtain an authenticated connection (Security)
(Network) (Cisco) SSRP: Simple Server Redundancy Protocol
SSGA: System Support Gate Array (Cisco)
SSH: Secure SHell SSS: System Support Station

(Hardware)
SSH: Site Security Handbook
(Security) SSSD: Single Sided Single Density
SSHD: Solid State Hybrid Drive SST: Shiva Smart Tunneling
Logical or physical storage device that combines NAND flash SST: Simple Sipp Transition
solid-state drive (SSD) with hard disk drive (HDD) technology,
with the intent of adding some of the speed of SSDs to the SST: Spread-Spectrum Technology
cost-effective storage capacity of traditional HDDs (Hardware)
SST: Sustained Stewardship Teraflop
SSI: Server-Side Include (IBM)
SSI: Single System Image SST: Swedish Summer Time
SSI: Small-Scale Integration Timezone: GMT +1:00
The process of placing fewer than 10 components on one chip SST: Systems Services and Technology
(Hardware)
SSTP: Shared Spanning Tree Protocol
SSID: Service Set IDentifier (Network)
(Network)
SSU: System Setup Utility
SSIS: Sql Server Integration Services
Component of the Microsoft SQL Server database software SSX: Small Services eXecutive
which can be used to perform a broad range of data migration Operating system (Operating systems)
S tasks (Databases) (Microsoft)
STA: Single Threaded Apartment
SSJS: Server-Side JavaScript A threading context for components that require a message
(Software) queue or thread affinity. Access to components in an STA is by
definition synchronized (Software) (Microsoft)
SSL: Secure Sockets Layer
A protocol for secure network communications using a STA: Spanning Tree Algorithm
combination of public and secret key technology (Security) STAR: Self-defining Text ARchival
SSL: Synthesizer Specification Language STAR: Shareware Trade Association and
SSM: Server Status Monitor Resources
Enables you to monitor the simple up or down status of a small StAX: STreaming Api for Xml parsing
group of servers (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Software)
SSM: Source Specific Multicast
STB: Set-Top Box
Extension of IP multicast where datagram traffic is forwarded
(Hardware)
to receivers from only those multicast sources to which the
receivers have explicitly joined (Network) STB: Simply The Best
SSML: Speech Synthesis Markup Language Name of many companies
Markup specification for voice browsers designed to provide a STB: Software Technical Bulletin
rich, XML-based markup language for assisting the generation
of synthetic speech in Web and other applications. See also STB: STroBe
http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/
STC: SeT Carry flag
STC: Sub-Technical Committee
STD: SeT Direction flag

STD SUB
STD: STanDard STP: Shielded Twisted Pair

(Hardware)
STD: State Transition Diagram
STP: Signal Transfer Point
STDA: StreetTalk Directory Assistance
(Banyan) STP: Soa Tools Platform
Open source collaborative software development project
STDAUX: STanDard AUXiliary
dedicated to providing a generic, extensible, standards-based
STDERR: STanDard ERRor tool platform for producing Service Oriented Architecture
(SOA) applications (Software)
STDIN: STanDard INput
StP: Software Through Pictures
STDM: Statistical Time Division Multiplexer
STP: Spanning Tree Protocol
STDOUT: STanDard OUTput
STP: Speed Test Pro
STDPRN: STanDard PRiNter Program that monitors your internet connection, web site, cpu,
STE: Section Terminating Equipment memory, Hard Drives, Wifi, LAN, Processes and much more all
in real time and will store all data recorded into an log, so it
STEP: STandard for the Exchange of Product data can be easily imported into almost any application (Software)
Is a major International Standards Organisation (ISO) effort to STP: Straight Through Processing
standardise methods for the exchange of data from many fields
of engineering Ability to take a financial transaction though complete
confirmation automatically
STEP: Standard Template for Electronic Publishing
STP: Synchronized Transaction Processing
STF: STructured File
STPML: Straight Through Processing Markup
File name extension (Lotus)
Language
STFG: Search The Friendly Google An XML message specification designed for the financial
(Net lingo) securities trading industry to meet the requirements of straight
through processing
STFN: Surf The F***ing Net
For those who RTFM, and still couldn't work it out (Net lingo) STPP: Strategic Technology Protection Program
STFU: Shut The F**k Up
(Net lingo) STR: Store Task Register
STFW: Search The F***ing Web STR: Suspend To Ram

Answer for easy-find questions (Net lingo) Power saving state
STI: SeT Interrupt flag STR: Synchronous Transmitter Receiver
STING: Software Technology INterest Group STRESS: STRuctural Engineering System Solver
STIX: SmallTalk Interface to X
STRUDL: STRUctural Design Language
STJA: Sun Certified Java Associate
This certification provides an ideal entry into an application
development or a software project management career using STS: Sql Tuning Set
Java technologies (Software) (Sun) A group of SQL statements with a given name. STS stores
these statements even if they are aged out of the shared pool.
STK: Satellite ToolKit STS can be used as an input to SPA or STO (Databases)
Graphical, object-oriented software for satellite and space
station orbital and sensor coverage analysis (Software) STS: Synchronous Transport Signal
SONET signal (Communication)
STL: Standard Template Library
(Software) STT: Secure Transaction Technology
(Microsoft)
STM: Scanning Tunneling Microscope S
(Hardware) STTL: Standard Transistor Transistor Logic
(Hardware)
STM: Synchronous Transfer Mode
STTS: Simple Tree Transformation Sheets
STM: Synchronous Transport Module
(Communication) STX: Start of TeXt
(Communication)
STN: Super-Twist Nematic
LCD display technology (Hardware) STX: Streaming Transformations for Xml
One-pass transformation language for XML documents. STX is
STN-LCD: SuperTwist Nematic Liquid Crystal
intended as a high-speed, low memory consumption
Display alternative to XSLT. See http://stx.sourceforge.net/ (Software)
STO: Sql Tuning Optimizer STY: STYle
The tool that inspects the SQL statements for possible File name extension
performance improvement. (Databases) (Oracle)
SU: Scalable Unit
STONE: STructured and OpeN Environment
(Hardware)
STONITH: Shoot The Other Node In The Head
SUA: Single User Account
Fencing implementation that aims to isolate failed nodes in a
Allows multiple users to share a single IP address (either
High Availability (HA) cluster (Operating systems)
dynamic or static) assigned by your Internet Service Provider
STOS: STOre String (ISP) (Network)
STP: Secure Transfer Protocol SUA: Subsystem for Unix-based Applications

STP: Service Transaction Program
SUB: SUBroutine

SUB SWT
SUB: Subscript SW: SoftWare

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

(Net lingo)
SUNVIEW: SUN's Visual Integrated Environment
for Workstations SWAN: Sun Wide Area Network
SUP: Superscript SWAP: Shared Wireless Access Protocol
HTML Tag (Communication)
SUR: Shell Update Release SWAP: Simple Workflow Access Protocol

(Operating systems) (Microsoft) SWAP: Stewart Warner Array Program
SURAnet: Southeastern Universities Research SWAR: Simd Within A Register
Association NETwork
A form of parallelism used in most microprocessors. Examples
SUS: Software Update Services include MMX, SSE, SSE2, and 3DNow instructions (Hardware)
Software update management solution (Operating systems) SWBPD: Semantic Web Best Practices and
(Microsoft) Deployment
SUSP: System Use Sharing Protocol SWDP: Sun Web Developer Pack
SUT: Socket Under Test Helps to leverage emerging web technologies and techniques
to create interactive and dynamic web applications for the
SUTT: Single User Test Tools enterprise (Software) (Sun)
SVC: Switched Virtual Circuit SWF: ShockWave Format
Virtual connection set up only for the duration of a single File format
communications session. In contrast, a permanent virtual
circuit remains available at all times (Network) SWI: SoftWare Interrupts
SVCD: Super Video Compact Disc SWIFT: Society for Worldwide Interbank
(Hardware) Financial Telecommunication
SVF: Schema Validation Framework SWIG: Simplified Wrapper and Interface
(Software) (Sun) Generator
SVF: Simple Vector Format SWIM: System Wide Information Management

(Network)
SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics
SWISH: Simple Web Indexing System for Humans
SVGA: Super Video Graphics Array
Video specification for a resolution of 800 X 600 pixels in 256 SWMBO: She Who Must Be Obeyed
colors (Hardware) (Net lingo)
S S-VHS: Super Video Home System SWOP: Specifications for Web Offset Publications
These specifications standardize the submission of materials
SVI: Switched Virtual Interface
supplied to web offset publications, and areas of responsibility
Represents a VLAN of switch ports as one interface to the for each of the involved industry segments. See
routing or bridging function in the system (Network) http://www.swop.org/ (Organizations)
SVID: System V Interface Definition SWP: Simple Web Printing
Applies to the Unix OS (Operating systems)
SWP: SWaP
SVM: System Virtual Machine File name extension
(Microsoft)
SWRL: Semantic Web Rule Language
SVM: System Volume Mangement Intended to be the rule language of the Semantic Web
SVN: Switched Virtual Network SWS: Sun Web Server
(IBM) (Sun)
SVP: SchemaView Plus SWS: Symantec Web Security
Filename extension for SchemaView Plus, a program for (Symantec)
drawing database schemas
SWT: Standard Widget Toolkit
SVR: SerVeR
(Software)
SVR4: System V Release 4
SWT: Swedish Winter Time
SVRn: System V Release n Timezone: GMT +1:00
Applies to the Unix OS (Operating systems)
SVS: Symmetric Virtual Servers

SWTX TBGA
SWTX: Server Workstation Technology eXtended TACACS: Terminal Access Controller Access-
A size and form factor specification for motherboards Control System
SX: SimpleX TACS: Total Access Communication System
(Communication)
TAD: Telephone Answering Device
SXGA: Super eXtended Graphics Array
TAF: Transparent Application Failover
Video specification for a resolution of 1280 X 1024 pixel
(Hardware) A runtime failover for high-availability environments, such as
Oracle9i Real Application Clusters and Oracle Fail Safe, that
SXGA+: Super eXtended Graphics Array Plus refers to the failover and re-establishment of application-to-
Video specification for a resolution of 1400 X 1050 pixels service connections (Databases) (Oracle)
(Hardware) TAG: Technical Advisory Group
SXI: StarOffice Impress TAG: Telecommunications Access Gateway
Star/Open Office presentation file extension (Software) (Communication)
SXQL: Simple Xml Query Language TAL: Typed Assembly Language
SYL: See You Later (Software)
(Net lingo) TalAE: TALigent Application Environment
SYLK: SYmbolic LinK (Software)
SYM: SYMbols TalDE: TALigent Development Environment

File name extension TalOS: TALigent Object Services
SYMM: SYnchronized MultiMedia TAN: Table Area Network
SYMPL: SYsteM Programming Language TAN: Tape Area Network
SYN: SYNonym TAN: TransAction Number
File name extension
TANSTAAFL: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free
SYNC: SYNChronous Lunch
SYS: SYStem (Net lingo)
SYS: SYStem configuration TAO: Track-At-Once

File name extension CD recording methodology (Hardware)
SYS: SYStem device driver TAP: Telelocator Alphanumeric Protocol

File name extension TAP: Terminal Access Point
SYSADMIN: SYStem ADMINistrator TAPCIS: The Access Program for the Compuserve
SYSGEN: SYStem GENerator Information Service
SYSLOG: SYStem LOG TAPI: Telephony Application Programming
Interface
SYSMOD: SYStem MODification
SYSOP: SYStem OPerator
TAR: Tape ARchive
SYSREQ: SYStem REQuest
TARFU: Things Are Really F***ed Up
SZ: Send Zmodem (Net lingo)
TAS: Telcom Analysis System
T (Hardware)
T: Tera TAS: Telephone Access Server
S
TAS: Total Access System
T&E: Travel And Entertainment T
TAS: Totalnet Advanced Server
(Software)
(Hardware) (Sun)
T&L: Transform And Lighting
TASM: Turbo ASseMbler
Graphics function
(Software) (Borland)
T/B: Top/Bottom
TAT: Theoretical Arrival Time
T/R: Transmit/Receive
TAXI: Transparent Asynchronous Transceiver
T9: Typing on 9 keys Interface
TA: Technical Assembly TB: TeraByte
TA: Terminal Adapter 1024 gigabytes
An ISDN-compatible device that converts non-ISDN TBAV: ThunderByte Anti Virus
transmission to ISDN transmission (Hardware) (Software)
TAB: Tape Automated Bonding TBBS: The Bread Board System
(Hardware)
TBC: Time Base Corrector
TAC: Technical Assistance Center
TBGA: Tape Ball Grid Array
(Cisco)
(Hardware)
TAC: Terminal Access Controller

TBH TDMA
TBH: To Be Honest TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet

(Net lingo) Protocol
The protocol suite originally developed for the Internet. Also
TBK: ToolBooK
called Internet Protocol suite (Network)
File name extension
TCPA: Trusted Computing Platform Alliance
TBMT: Transmitter Buffer eMpTy
(Intel)
(Hardware)
TCP-ACO: Transmission Control Protocol
TBO: Total Benefit of Ownership Alternate Checksum Option
TBT: Technology Based Training TCPBEUI: Transmission Control Protocol Bios
TBU: Tape Backup Unit Extended User Interface
TC: Technical Committee TCPC: The Clean Personal Computer group
TC: Test Control TCPLDP: Transmission Control Protocol
extensions for Long Delay Paths
TC: Transmission Control
(Communication) TCPLW: Transmission Control Protocol Large
Windows
TC: Transmission Convergence
(Network)
(Communication)
TCPSAT: Transmission Control Protocol over
TCA: Touch Count Algorithm SATellite
Buffer-cache management algorithm used by Oracle to (Network)
maximize cache efficiency (Databases) (Oracle)
TCQ: Tagged Command Queuing
TCA: Transaction Cost Analysis
SCSI feature to allow multiple I/O requests
Methodology that can be used to measure the cost of individual
shopper operations such as registering, browsing, searching a TCSEC: Trusted Computer Systems Evaluation
catalog, adding an item to a shopping cart, checking out, and Criteria
so on (Microsoft)
TCSH: Trusted C SHell
TCAM: TeleCommunication Access Method
(IBM) TD: Table Data
HTML tag
TCAM: Ternary Content Addressable Memory
(Hardware) TD: Transmit Data
(Hardware)
TCAP: Transaction Capabilities Application Part
Adds transaction based functionality to the Public Switch TDA: To Do Archive
Telephone Network (PSTN) Filename extension
TCAV: Trend Chip Away Virus TDC: Tabular Data Control

Antivirus hardware for motherboards that blocks boot-time TDC: Tape Data Controller
viruses (Hardware)
TDC: Terrestrial Data Circuit
TCB: Trusted Code Base
(Software) TDCC: Transportation Data Coordinating
Committee
T-CCS: Transparent Common Channel Signaling
(Hardware) (Cisco) TD-CDMA: Time Division Code Division Multiple
Access
TCG: Trusted Computing Group
(Communication)
Group that develops and promotes open, vendor-neutral,
industry standard specifications for trusted computing building TDD: Telecommunications Device for the Deaf
blocks and software interfaces across multiple platforms. See
also https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/ (Organizations)
TDE: Terminal Display Editor
TCK: Test Compatibility Kit TDES: Triple Data Encryption Standard

T (Software) (Sun) (Security)
TCL: Tool Control Language TDF: Trace Definition File

TCL/TK: Tool Control Language ToolKit
TDF: Typeface Definition File
TCM: Technology Change Management File name extension
(Software)
TDI: Transport Data Interface
TCM: Thermal Conduction Module
TDL: Test Description Language
TCM: Time Compression Multiplexer
TDM: Technical Document Management
TCM: Trellis-Coded Modulation
TDM: Telecom Designed Network
TCO: Tjänstemännens Central Organization
Swedish organization establishing norms for monitor
TDM: Text Data Mining
electromagnetic emissions (Organizations) TDM: Time-Division Multiplexing
TCO: Total Cost of Ownership Multiplexing technique that apportions the time available on its
composite link equally between its channels, interleaving data
TCP: Tape-Carrier Package from successive channels (Communication)
(Hardware)
TDMA: Time Division Multiple Access
TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
TDMA: Tri-Diagonal Matrix Algorithm
A communications protocol that ensures data is sent between
computers on the Internet (Network) A simplified form of Gaussian elimination that can be used to
solve tridiagonal systems of equations

TDMATBICPLY TI
TDMATBICPLY: This Doesn't Mean A Thing But It TETRA: TErrestrial Trunked RAdio
Confuses People Like You Modern digital Private Mobile Radio (PRM) and Public Access
(Net lingo) Mobile Radio (PAMR) technology for police, ambulance and fire
services, security services, utilities, military etc.
TDMS: Terminal Display Management System (Communication)
TDP: Tag Distribution Protocol TFDD: Text File Device Driver
TDP: Telelocator Data Protocol TFEL: Thin-Film ELectroluminescent
TDP: Triton Data Path TFI: Terminal Facility Identifier
TDR: Time Domain Reflectometry TFM: Tagged Font Metric
TDS: Tabular DataStream File name extension
Database client to server communication protocol (Databases) TFP: Tops Filing Protocol
TDS: Tex Directory Structure TFS: Team Foundation Server
TDSR: Transmitter Data Service Request Productive and effective solution for managing change across
organizations of all sizes. It enables you to securely manage
TDtoDP: Tablet Coordinates TO Display all project artifacts and source code in one repository
Coordinates (Software) (Microsoft)
TE: Terminal Equipment TFS: Translucent File Service

An ISDN-compatible terminal device that is attached to the A copy-on-write file system that enables users to share file
ISDN at the user interface hierarchies while providing each user with a private hierarchy
for saving files as they are modified
TE/2: Terminal Emulator/2
TFT: Task File Table
TEA: Tiny Encryption Algorithm
(Security) TFT: Thin Film Transistor
LCD monitors manufacturing technology (Hardware)
TEAMA: Taiwanese Electric Appliance
Manufacturer's Association TFTP: Trivial File Transfer Protocol
Simple version of the FTP protocol often used to transfer data
TEB: Thread Environment Block with diskless workstations, X-terminals and routers (Network)
TEC: Tokyo Electronics Corporation TFTPD: Trivial File Transfer Protocol Daemon
TECO: Text Editor and COrrector Server-side TFTP service responsible for hosting specific file
download requests made by the client
TED: Tiny EDitor
TGA: TarGA
TED: Transient Electromagnetic Device File format for images
(Hardware)
TGC: Terminal Group Controller
TEDIS: Trade Electronic Data Interchange
Systems TGIF: Thank Goodness It's Friday
(Net lingo)
TEI: Terminal Endpoint Identifier
TGP: Thumbnail Gallery Post
TEI: Text Encoding Initiative
TGS: Ticket Granting Server
TEL: Tivoli Enterprise Console (Security)
TELCO: TELephone Central Office TGT: Ticket Granting Ticket
(Communication) (Security)
TeleVAS: TELEphony Value Added Service TH: Table Header
TELNET: TELephone NETwork HTML tag
TEML: Turbo Editor Macro Language TH: Transmission Header

(Borland) (Communication)
TEMP: TEMPorary THD: Total Harmonic Distortion T

A sound quality parameter (lower is better) (Hardware)
TEMS: Tornado Electronic Messaging Service
(Software) THEnet: Texas Higher Education NETwork
TEN: TransEuropean Network THOMAS: The House of representatives Open
Multimedia Access System
TER: Thermal Eclipse Reading
(Sony) THOR: Tandy High-performance Optical Recording
TERM: Technology Enabled Relationship THR: Transmit Holding Register

Management THS: THeSaurus
TERMCAP: TERMinal CAPability File name extension
TERMINFO: TERMinal INFOrmation THT: Token Holding Timer

TERMPWR: TERMinator PoWeR THX: Tomlinson Holman eXperiment
Certification and quality control program that applies to sound
TESS: The Exponential Security System systems and acoustics in theaters, home equipment, and
(Security) digital mastering processes
TI: Texas Instruments
TI: Tool Interface
(Software) (Sun)

TI TMI
TI: Transport Independent TKPROF: Transient Kernel PROFile

A utility available in Oracle installations that converts the trace
TIA: Telecommunications Industry Association
files (generated by session tracing) to a human readable
TIA: Thank you In Advance manner, with formatting and sorting (Oracle)
(Net lingo) TL1: Translation Language 1
TIA: The Internet Adapter (Communication)
TIATLG: Truly, I Am The Living God TLA: Three Letters Acronym

(Net lingo) TLB: Translation Look-aside Buffer
TIB: Tag Information Base (Hardware)
TiB: TebIByte TLD: Tag Library Descriptor

Unit of measurement, introduced by the International (Software) (Sun)
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), correspondig to 1024 GiB
TLD: Top Level Domain
TIC: Total Initial Cost (Network)
TID: Target IDentifier TLDA: Technology License and Distribution
Agreement
TIES: Time Independent Escape Sequence
TLE: Template Language Extensions
TIF: Tagged Image File
(Software)
Filename extension
TLI: Transport Layer Interface
TIFF: Tagged Image File Format
An interface that is to supersede the socket-based interprocess
File format for images
communications mechanisms as the way to access transport
TIGA: Texas Instruments Graphics Architecture services. Modeled after the industry standard ISO Transport
(Hardware) (TI) Service Definition (Communication)
TIGER: Topologically Integrated Geographic TLN: Trunk Line Network

Encoding and Referencing TLP: Transmission Level Point
TIIAP: Telecommunications and Information TLS: Thread Local Storage
Infrastructure Assistance Program Computer programming method that uses static or global
memory local to a thread (Software)
TIL: Tech Information Library
TLS: Transport Layer Security
TIM: Technical Information Memo
A protocol from the IETF based on SSL. It will eventually
(Compaq)
supersede SSL while remaining backward-compatible with SSL
TIME: Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions implementations (Security)
TIMI: Technology Independent Machine Interface TLSWG: Transport Layer Security Working Group
(IBM) (Organizations)
TIMS: Text Information Management Systems TLU: Table LookUp

TINA: Telecommunication Information TLX: TeLeX
Networking Architecture TM: TradeMark
TINA-C: Telecommunication Information TM: Traffic Management
Networking Architecture Consortium
(Communication)
TIP: Terminal Interface Processor TM: Transaction Manager
TIP: Text Input Processor TM: Transaction Monitor
(Software)
TM: Translation Memory
TIP: Transaction Internet Protocol
Also known as translation database, is a collections of entries
T TIP: Transputer Image Processing where a source text is associated with its corresponding
translation in one or more target languages
TIPHON: Telecommunications and Internet
Protocol Harmonzation Over Networks TM: Transmission and Multiplexing
ETSI Standard to support the market for voice communication (Communication)
and related voice band communication between users. It will TMA: Transparent Media Adapter
ensure that users connected to IP based networks can
Scanner add-on to acquire material on transparent media
communicate with users in Switched Circuit Networks
(Hardware)
TIS: Tools Interface Standard
TMDA: Tagged Message Delivery Agent
TIS: Transaction Information System
TMDB: Tivoli Management DataBase
TISPAN: Telecoms & Internet converged Services
TMDS: Transition-Minimized Differential Signaling
& Protocols for Advanced Networking
(Hardware)
See http://portal.etsi.org (Communication)
TME: Tivoli Management Environment
TITOFET: Tunneling-In, Tunneling-Out Field
(Tivoli)
Effect Transistor
TMF: Tivoli Management Framework
TK/TK: TracK to TracK
TMF: Transaction Monitoring Facility
TKIP: Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
(Security) TMI: Too Much Information
(Net lingo)

TML TPM
TML: TeMpLate TOF: Tiny Open Firmware

File name extension
TOGAF: The Open Group Architecture Framework
TMN: Telecommunication Management Network Industry standard architecture framework that may be used
(Communication) freely by any organization wishing to develop an information
systems architecture for use within that organization. See also
TMP: TeMPorary http://www.opengroup.org/togaf/
File name extension
TOMS: Transactions On Mathematical Software
TMPFS: TeMPorary File System
TOOIS: Transactions On Office Information
A file system type that uses local memory for disk reads and
Systems
writes (Operating systems)
TOP: Technical Office Protocol
TMR: Transient Memory Record
TOPICS: Total Online Program and Information
TMR: Triple Modular Redundancy
Control System
TMS: Thesaurus Management System
TOPLAS: Transactions On Programming
(Databases)
Languages And Systems
TMS: Time Multiplexed Switch
tops: Theoretical Operations Per Second
TMS: Traffic Management System Processing power (Hardware)
TMS: Truth Maintenance System TOPS: Timesharing OPerating System
TMSC: Tape Mass Storage Control TOS: Terms Of Service
TMX: Translation Memory eXchange TOS: The Operating System
Vendor-neutral open XML standard for the exchange of
Translation Memory (TM) data created by Computer-Assisted
TOS: Time Of Service
Translation (CAT) software ToS: Type Of Service
TN: Twisted Nematic A field within an IP header which can be used by the device
(Hardware) originating the packet, or by an intermediate networking
device, to signal a request for a specific QoS level (Network)
TNC: Terminal Node Controller
TP: Transaction Processing
TNC: Threaded Neill Concelman
TP: Turbo Pascal
TNEF: Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format
TP: Twisted Pair
Format for converting a set of MAPI properties into a serial
data stream. Primarily used by transport providers that need to TPC: Transaction Processing Council
encode MAPI message properties for transmission through a (Organizations)
messaging system that does not support those properties
directly (Software) (Microsoft) TPCP: Two Phase Commit Protocol
(Communication)
TNFS: Trusted Network File System
(Security) TPD: Tail Packet Discard
(Network)
TNG: The New Generation
(CAI) TPD: Technical Product Documentation
TNIEG: Trusted Network Interpretation TPDU: Transport Protocol Data Unit
Environmental Guideline
TPE: Twisted Pair Ethernet
(Network)
TPF: Tiny Personal Firewall
TN-LCD: Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Display
Software firewall produced byTiny Software, Inc
TNO: The Netherlands Organization (http://www.tinysoftware.com/) (Security)
TNPC: Taiwanese New Pc Consortium TPF: Transaction Processing Facility

(IBM)
TNS: Transparent Network Substrate
A foundation technology, built into the Oracle Net foundation tpi: Tracks Per Inch
T
layer that works with any standard network transport protocol Recording density (Hardware)
TPI: Transport Provider Interface
TNS: Trivial Name Server The kernel components of the Transport Layer Interface (TLI)
TNT: The News Toolkit TPL: Table Producing Language
See also NeWS (Sun)
TPL: Targeted Peripheral List
Tnx: ThanKS (Hardware)
(Net lingo)
TPL: Transaction Processing Language
TOC: Table Of Contents
TPM: Transaction Processing Manager
TOD: Time Of Day
tpm: Transactions Per Minute
TODC: Time-Of-Day Clock Processing speed
A clock module that contains the system date and time (year-
month-day-hour-minutes). (Hardware) TPM: Trusted Platform Module
Published specification detailing a secure cryptoprocessor that
TODS: Transactions On Database Systems can store cryptographic keys that protect information, as well
TOE: Tcp Off-load Engine as the general name of implementations of that specification,
often called the "TPM chip" or "TPM Security Device"
TOEFL: Test Of English as a Foreign Language

TPORT TSP
TPORT: Twisted pair PORT transceiver TS: Terminal Services

(AT&T) (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
TPOS: Transaction Processing Operating System TS: Top Secret
TPPC: Transaction Processing Performance TS: Transaction Server
Council (Software) (Microsoft)
(Organizations)
TS/SI: Top Secret/Sensitive Information
TP-PMD: Twisted Pair Physical layer Medium
TSA: Target Service Agent
Dependent
(Operating systems) (Novell)
TPR: Third-Party Relay
TSA: Technical Support Alliance
TPS: Transaction Processing System
TSA: Telephony Services Architecture
TPS: Transactions Per Second
TSAP: Transport Service Access Point
TPT: Twisted Pair Transceiver
TSAPI: Telephony Server Application
TPTP: Test & Performance Tools Platform Programming Interface
Provides powerful frameworks and services for an open (Novell)
platform upon which developers build unique test and
performance tools—both open source and commercial—that TSB: Termination Status Block
easily integrate with Eclipse (Software) TSC: Triton System Controller
TPW: Turbo Pascal for Windows TSD: Type-Specific Driver
TPx: Transport Protocol class x TSDU: Transport Service Data Unit
TQFP: Thin Quad Flat Pack The amount of user data whose identity is preserved from one
(Hardware) end of a transport connection to the other
TQM: Total Quality Management TSE: Technical Support Engineer
TR: Table Row TSE: Terminal Server Edition

HTML tag (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
TR: Technical Report TSE: The Semware Editor
TR: Terminal Ready TSF: Text Services Framework

Simple and scalable framework that enables advanced text
TR: TRavan input and natural language technologies for applications
Tape medium type (TR-3, TR-4) (Hardware) (Software) (Microsoft)
TRADIC: TRansistorized Airborne DIgital TSI: Time Slot Interchanger
Computer
TSI: Transmission Subscriber Identification
Name of first computer to be entirely transistorized
TSI: Transport Security Initiative
TRAM: TRAnsputer Module
Works in conjunction with the sysadmin and vendor
(Hardware) communities to develop the knowledge and tools to combat
TrAX: TRansformation Api for Xml the junk email problem. See http://mail-abuse.org/tsi/
TREX: Tree Regular Expressions for Xml TSID: Transmitting Subscriber IDentifier
A means of expressing validation criteria by describing a (Communication)
pattern for the structure and content of an XML document TSLM: Terminal Services License Manager
TRIB: Transfer Rate of Information Bits (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
TRIP: Telephony Routing over Internet Protocol TSM: Tivoli Storage Manager
Discovery and exchange of IP telephony gateway routing tables Protects data from hardware failures and other errors by
between providers storing backup and archive copies of data on offline storage
T TRIPS: Trade Related aspects of Intellectual
(IBM)
Property rightS TSM: Topology Specific Module

(Novell)
TRM: TeRMinal
File name extension TSM: Transaction Services Manager
TRN: Threaded Read News TSMP: True Symmetric MultiProcessor
TRN: Token Ring Network TSN: Task Sequence Number

(Network) TSO: Time Sharing Option
TRO: Total Return on Ownership Multitasking system for IBM MVS operating system (Operating
systems) (IBM)
TROLI: Token Ring Optimized Link Interface
TSO/CMS: Time Sharing Option/Conversational
TRON: The Realtime Operating system Nucleus Monitor System
TROSN: The Real-time Operating System Nucleus TSOP: Thin Small-Outline Package
TRP: Token Ring Port (Hardware)
TRPC: Transactional Remote Procedure Call TSP: Telephony Service Provider
TRR: Token Ring Repeater TSP: Time Stamp Protocol

(Security)
TRT: Token Rotation Timer
TSP: Time Synchronization Protocol

TSP TZ
TSP: Total Service Provider TUI: Text-based User Interface

TSPI: Telephony Service Provider Interface TUMS: Table Update and Management System
TUP: Telephone User Path
T-SQL: Transact Structured Query Language
TUT: Transistor Under Test
(Hardware)
TSR: Terminate and Stay Resident
TUT: TUTorial
TSS: Task State Segment File name extension
TSS: The Screen Savers TUV: Technische Überwachungs-Verein
Technical TV show. See also (Organizations)
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/
TUX: Torvald's UniX
TSS: Time Sharing System Name of the Linux penguin. (Operating systems)
(Operating systems)
TV: TeleVision
TST: TeST (Hardware)
File name extension
TVD: Total Virus Defense
TSTN: Triple SuperTwisted Nematic
TVF: Table of contents Verbosely from File
TSV: Tab Separated Values
TVFS: Toronto Virtual File System
TSW: TeleSoftWare (IBM)
TT: Typewriter Text TVI: TeleVision Interference
HTML tag
TVO: Total Value of Ownership
TTA: Transport-Triggered Architecture
TVOL: TeleVision On-Line
TTAU: Tear That A** Up
TVT: TeleVision Terminal
(Net lingo)
(Hardware)
TTC: Two-Task Common
TVT: ThinkVantage Technology
Oracle's implementation of the OSI presentation layer which
provides character set and data type conversion between the Lenovo branding for proprietary software. (Software)
client and server (Oracle) TWAIN: Toolkit Without An Important Name
TTCN: Tree and Tabular Combined Notation Improperly expanded as shown, this term comes from Kipling's
"The Ballad of East and West" - "...and never the twain shall
TTDS: Trusted Time Date Stamping meet...", reflecting the difficulty of connecting digital imaging
devices (like scanners) to personal computers
TTF: TrueType Font
File format for fonts TWIP: TWentIeth of a Point
Equal to 1/1440th of an inch.
TTFN: Ta Ta For Now
That's all for now (Net lingo) TWP: Technical Working Procedure
TTI: Two-Task Interface TWT: Travelling Wave Tube
Network interface to specific server-side functionality (Oracle) (Hardware)
TTL: Time To Live TWX: TeletypeWriter eXchange service
(Network)
TX: Transmit
TTL: Transistor-Transistor Logic (Communication)
TXD: Transmit Data
TTP: Thermal-Transfer Printing
TXF: Tax eXchange Format
TTP: Trusted Third Parties File name extension
TTRP: Time Token Rotation Protocol TXT: TeXT T
File name extension
TTRT: Target Token Rotation Time
TTS: Text-To-Speech
TXT: Trusted eXecution Technology U
Hardware extension to some of Intel's microprocessors and
TTS: Transaction Tracking System respective chipsets, intended to provide users and
(Novell) organizations (governments, enterprises, etc.) with a higher
level of trust while accessing, modifying or creating sensitive
TTS: Trouble Ticketing System data and code (Hardware) (Intel)
TTY: TeleTYpewriter TXT2STF: TeXT To Structured Text File
Historically, a Teletypewriter equipment. Today, any dumb (Lotus)
terminal that can access a computer or workstation (Hardware)
TY: Thank You
TTYL: Talk To You Later (Net lingo)
(Net lingo)
TYIA: Thank You In Advance
TUC: Total User Cell (Net lingo)
TUCAA: The Ultimate Computer Acronyms Archive TYS: Told You So
TUCD: Total User Cell Difference (Net lingo)
TUCOWS: The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock TYVM: Thank You Very Much
Software (Net lingo)
TUG: Tex Users Group TZ: Time Zone

U UDF
UBR: Unspecified Bit Rate

U
UC: UnCacheable
U: Underline Video memory access method in BIOS (Hardware)
HTML tag
UCAA: Ultimate Computer Acronyms Archive
U: Unit (Remedios)
Rack-mountable devices height measurement unit
corresponding to 1.75 inches (Hardware) UCAID: University Corporation for Advanced
Internet Development
U/W SCSI: Ultra/Wide Small Computers System (Organizations)
Interface
(Hardware) UCB: Unit Control Block
U2W: Ultra-2-Wide UCD: Unicode Character Database

(Hardware) Consists of a number of data files listing character properties
and related data along with a documentation file that explains
UA: Unnumbered Acknowledgement the organization of the database and the format and meaning
of the data in the files. See also http://www.unicode.org/ucd/
UA: User Agent
An ISO/OSI application process that acts on behalf of a user or UCE: Unsolicited Commercial Email
organization in the X.400 message handling system. The UA UCF: Universal Communications Facility
creates, submits, and receives messages for you
(CAI)
UA: User Area
UCITA: Uniform Computer Information
UAAG: User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Transactions Act
W3C recommendation that provides guidelines for designing
user agents that lower barriers to Web accessibility for people
UCL: Universal Communications Language
with disabilities (visual, hearing, physical, cognitive, and UCLP: Universal Commerce Language and
neurological) Protocol
UAB: Unix Appletalk Bridge UCM: Unified Change Management
UAC: Universal Access Control A Change Management (CM) concept implemented by Rational
Software Corporation (Software) (Rational)
UAC: User Account Control
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) UCP: Universal Connection Pool
UADSL: Universal Asymmetric Digital Subscriber
Line UCR: Under Color Removal
(Communication) UCS: Unicode Conversion Support
UAE: Unrecoverable Application Error UCS: Universal Character Set
UAF: User Authorization File UCS: User Coordinate System
UAGL: User Agent accessibility GuideLines UCSD: University of California at San Diego
UAM: User Authentication Method UCSD: User Centered Systems Design
UAN: Universal Application Network A process for developing usable systems with user focus
Standards-based, service-oriented architecture that enables UCSPI: Unix Client-Server Program Interface
organizations to solve the business integration problem within
See http://cr.yp.to/proto/ucspi.txt (Software)
and beyond the enterprise (Software)
UCT: Universal Coordinated Time
UAP: Unified Approval Procedure
UDA: Universal Data Access
UAPDU: User Agent Protocol Data Unit
(Databases)
UAProf: User Agent PROFile
UDB: Universal DataBase
UART: Universal Asynchronous (Databases) (IBM)
Receiver/Transmitter
UDBC: Universal DataBase Connectivity
(Hardware)
(Databases)
U UAS: User Application Software
UDC: Universal Decimal Classification
UAWG: Universal Adsl Working Group
(Organizations)
UDC: User Defined Commands
UBA: UniBus Adapter UDD: User Data Document
UBB: Ultimate Bulletin Board UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery and

Integration
A message board (Software)
UD-DVD: Ultra Definition Digital Video (or
UBD: User brain damage
Versatile) Disk
When a computer user does something really weird (Net lingo)
(Hardware)
UBE: Unsolicited Bulk E-mail
UDE: Universal Data Exchange
UBL: Universal Business Language
UDEC: Universal Digital Electronic Computer
UBNI: Ungermann-Bass Network Interface
UDF: Uniqueness Database File
UBR: Uddi Business Registry (Software) (Microsoft)
(Software)
UDF: Universal Disk Format
UBR: Universal Broadband Router (Hardware)
Router used in broadband cable systems (Communication)
UDF: User-Defined Function

UDG UML
UDG: User Defined Gateway UID: User IDentifier

In the Unix operating system, the number assigned to each
UDI: Unrestricted Digital Information
login name. The system uses UID numbers to identify, by
(Communication) number, the owners of files and directories (Operating systems)
UDM: Unstructured Data Management UID: User Interface Document
UDMA: Ultra Direct Memory Access UIL: User Interface Language
(Hardware)
UIMA: Unstructured Information Management
UDO: Ultra Density Optical Architecture
Optical storage technology that increases capacities by using Software systems that analyze large volumes of unstructured
an extremely focused blue laser to write and read data. information in order to discover knowledge that is relevant to
Hewlett-Packard (HP), Sony, and Plasmon collaborated on the an end user. See also http://incubator.apache.org/uima/
UDO standard (Hardware) (HP) (Software)
UDO: User-Defined Object UIMS: User Interface Management System
(Software)
UIN: Universal Internet Number
UDP: User Datagram Protocol
UL: Underwriters Laboratories
It is a connectionless transport mechanism for IP networks
(Communication) (Organizations)
UDP/IP: User Datagram Protocol/Internet UL: Unordered List

Protocol HTML Tag
UDRP: Uniform domain-name Dispute Resolution UL: UpLoad

Policy ULA: Uncommitted Logic Array
UDS: User Data Source ULANA: Unified Local Area Network Architecture
UDT: Uniform Data Transfer ULC: Ultra-Light Client
UDT: User-defined Data Type (Software)
UDX: Universal Data eXchange ULN: Universal Link Negotiation

UDX: User-Defined Extension ulp: Unit in Last Place
In binary formats, the least-significant bit of the significant, bit
UFB: Un-F***ing-Believable 0, is the unit in the last place
(Net lingo)
ULP: Upper Layer Protocol
UFCOM: Ufficio Federale delle COMunicazioni
Swiss regulatory Organisation (Organizations) ULSI: Ultra Large Scale Integration
The process of placing more than 100,000 components on a
UFS: Unix File System chip (Hardware)
The default disk-based file system under the Unix operating
system (Operating systems) ULV: Ultra Low Voltage
(Hardware)
UFST: Universal Font Scaling Technology
UM: Unified Messaging
UFT: Unsolicited File Transfer
(Network) UM: Universal Manageability
UG: User Group UMA: Unified Memory Architecture
UGA: User Global Area UMA: Universal Management Agent

A memory region in the large pool which is used for user UMA: Universal Measurement Architecture
sessions
UMA: Upper Memory Area
UHA: Ultra-High Aperture
UMA: User Mode Audio
Together with PUMA, is an engine in the Windows Vista
UHCI: Universal Host Controller Interface Protected Environment that provides a safer environment for
audio playback, as well as checking that the enabled outputs
UHE: Ultra High Efficiency
are consistent with what the content allows (Operating
(Hardware) systems) (Microsoft) U
UHF: Ultra-High Frequency UMADS: Universal Measurement Architecture
UHL: Universal Hypertext Link Data Storage
UHP: Ultra-High Performance UMB: Upper Memory Block

(Hardware) UMC: United Microelectronics Corporation
UI: Unix International UMD: Universal Media Disc
A consortium consisting of Sun, AT&T, and others that formed Optical disc medium developed by Sony for use on their
to advance a UNIX System V-based environment, including the PlayStation Portable handheld gaming and multimedia
Open Look GUI (Organizations) platform. It can hold up to 1.8 gigabytes of data and is capable
of housing video games, feature-length films, and music
UI: User Interface
(Hardware)
(Operating systems)
UME: Uni Management Entity
UIC: User Identification Code
UML: Unified Modeling Language
UID: Unit IDentifier
A specification defining a graphical language for visualizing,
specifying, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of
distributed object systems

UMOD USL
UMOD: Unreal MODule UPI: User Programmatic Interface

Type of compressed files associated with Unreal Tournament Undocumented C-language data access API used by Oracle to
(Games) interface with the Oracle database (Databases) (Oracle)
UMPC: Ultra Mobile Personal Computer UPL: User Program Language
(Hardware)
UPM: Unix Programmer's Manual
UMS: Unified Messaging Server
UPM: User Profile Management
UMS: Universal Management Service (IBM)
(IBM)
UPN: User Principal Name
UMS: User Mode Scheduler UPnP: Universal Plug aNd Play
UMTS: Universal Mobile Telecommunications
UPS: Uninterruptible Power Supply
System
(Hardware)
(Communication)
UPS: United Parcel Service
UN/EDIFACT: United Nations Electronic Data
Interchange For Administration Commerce and UR: Uncommitted Read
Transport (Databases)
UN/GTDI: United Nations Guidelines for Trade URA: Uniform Resource Agent
Data Interchange (Network)
UNC: Universal Naming Convention URC: Uniform Resource Characteristics
UNC: Uuencoded Netnews Collator URC: Uniform Resource Citation
A set of attribute/value pairs describing a resource. Some of
UNCOL: UNiversal Computed Oriented Language
the values may be URIs of various kinds. Others may include,
UNDI: Universal Network Driver Interface for example, authorship, publisher, datatype, date, copyright
Architectural interface to Network Interface Cards (NICs) that status and shoe size.
provides a hardware-dependent mechanism for the Preboot URD: Url Rendezvous Directory
eXecution Environment (PXE) base code to use a NIC for
(Network)
network access without controlling the NIC hardware directly
(Hardware) UREP: Unix Rscs Emulation Protocol
UNE: Unbundled Network Element Protocol
(Communication) URI: Uniform Resource Identifier
UNEP: Unbundled NEtwork Platform The generic set of all names/addresses that are short strings
that refer to resources (specified 1994; ratified as Internet
UNI: Universal Network Interface Draft Standard 1998). (Network)
UNI: User-Network Interface U-RIB: Unicast Routing Information Base
The interface between the Frame Relay (Network)
Assembler/Disassembler (FRAD) and the service provider
(Communication) URIBL: Uniform Resource Identifier Black List
Lists domain names and IP addresses that appear in URIs such
UNICODE: UNIversal CODE as web sites mentioned in message bodies. It contrasts with an
UNICOM: UNiversal Integrated COMmunication RHSBL which lists domain names used in e-mail addresses
UNII: Unlicensed National Information URL: Uniform Resource Locator

Infrastructure The set of URI schemes that have explicit instructions on how
to access the resource on the internet. (Network)
UNIVAC: UNIVersal Automatic Computer
URN: Uniform Resource Name
UNIX: UNiplexed Information and Computing A particular scheme which is currently under development in
Service the IETF, which should provide for the resolution using internet
Modern abbreviation of UNICS. Ken Thomson and Dennis protocols of names which have a greater persistence than that
Ritchie, the original creators of UNIX, chose this name because currently associated with internet host names or organizations.
it was a pun on MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information and (Network)
Computing Service), the project they were working on when
URT: User Registration Tool
UNIX was born (Operating systems)
U UNMA: Unified Network Management Architecture
Dynamic authorization and policy control framework that
manages access to the LAN by partitioning user traffic through
VLANs (Software) (Cisco)
UNO: United Nations Organization
(Organizations) US: Unit Separator
UOW: Unit Of Work USART: Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous
UP: UniProcessor
(Hardware)
UPC: United Pan-european Communications USB: Universal Serial Bus
Large european cable operator
(Hardware)
UPC: Universal Product Code
USBIF: Universal Serial Bus Implementers Forum
(Hardware)
(Organizations)
UPC: User Parameter Control USENET: USEr's NETwork
UPG: UPGrade USL: Unix System Laboratories
UPI: Universal Peripheral Interface (Organizations)
(Hardware)

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

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

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

UTRA: Umts Terrestrial Radio Air interface V/IP: Voice over Internet Protocol
(Communication) (Communication)
UTRAN: Umts Terestrial Radio Access Network VA: Virtual Address U
(Communication)
VA: Visual Age
UTS: Unicode Technical Standard (IBM) V
UTS: User Too Stupid VA: Volt-Ampere
Dumb user with an error caused by himself (Net lingo) Electric power measurement unit (Hardware)
UUCP: Unix to Unix Copy Program VAC: Volts Alternating Current

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

VCSEL VI
VCSEL: Vertical Cavity Side-Emitting Laser VES: Video Encoding Standard

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

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

VDI: Virtual Device Interface VGA: Video Graphic Array

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

VI VMBOX
VI: Video Input VJ++: Visual J++

(Hardware) Java development platform (Software) (Microsoft)
VI: Virtual Interface VKC: Virtual K9 Companion
(Hardware) Any of the virtual dogs in second life made by Dogland park
are called Virtual K9 Companions (Games)
VI: Visual Interactive
VKD: Virtual Keyboard Driver
VIA: Vendors Isdn Association
(Organizations) VLA: Variable Length Array
(Software)
VIA: Virtual Interface Architecture
(Network) VLAN: Virtual Local Area Network
A networking architecture that allows end-systems on
VIC: Very Inexpensive Computer topologically disconnected subnetworks to appear to be
(Hardware) connected on the same LAN. Predominately used in reference
to ATM networking. Similar in functionality to bridging
VIC: Video Interface Chip
(Network)
(Hardware)
VLB: Vesa Local Bus
VIC: Virtual Image Copy Bus architecture (Hardware)
(Databases)
VL-BUS: Vesa Local BUS
VIC: Voice Interface Card
(Hardware) (Cisco) VLC: VideoLan Client
Highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video
VID: Visual InterDev formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as
(Software) (Microsoft) well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. See also
http://videolan.org/vlc/
VIDC: VIDeo Controller
(Hardware) VLC: Volume License Customer
VIE: Virtual Information Environment VLD: Variable Length Decoder
VIF: Virtual InterFace VLE: Virtual Learning Environment

An environment in which learning (accredited or otherwise) can
VIF: Virtual Interrupt Flag be achieved from remote locations
VIM: Vendor-Independent Mail VLF: Very Low Frequency
Messaging protocol (Communication)
VLF: Virtual Log File
VIM: Video Interface Module SQL Server transaction log logical segment (Databases)
VINES: VIrtual NEtworking System (Microsoft)
(Network) VLIW: Very Long Instruction Word
VIO: Video Input/Output VLK: Volume License Key
VIO: Virtual Input/Output VLM: Very Large Memory
VIO: Voice Input/Output (Operating systems)
VIP: Variable Information Processing VLM: Virtual Loadable Module

(Operating systems)
VIP: Video Information Provider
VLR: Visitor Location Register
VIP: Video Interface Port (Hardware)
(Hardware)
VLSI: Very Large Scale of Integration
VIP: Virtual Interrupt Pending The process of placing more than 100,000 transistors on one
VIP: Visual Interactive Parser chip (Hardware)
ViP: VIsual Programming VLSIPS: Very Large Scale Immobilized Polymer

(Lotus)
Synthesis
VIPER: Verifiable Integrated Processor for VLSM: Variable Length Subnet Masking
Enhanced Reliability (Network)
VIRS: Vertical Interval Reference Signal VLT: Variable List Table

V VIRUS: Vital Information Resources Under Siege VLV: Virtual List View
VIS: Video Information System
VM: Virtual Machine
VIS: Viewable Image Size (Operating systems)
(Hardware)
VM: Virtual Memory
VIS: Visual Instruction Set
VMA: Virtual Memory Address
VIS: Voice Information System
VMAC: Virtual Media Access Control
VIS: Volumetric Imaging System
(Hardware) VMAN: Virtualization MANagement
set of specifications that address the management lifecycle of a
VITC: Vertical Interval TimeCode virtual environment
VITS: Vertical Interval Test Signal VMB: Value-Based Management
VIVO: Video In/Video Out VMB: Virtual Machine Boot
Video card connector that captures and produces video signals
(Hardware) (nVidia) VMBOX: Virtual MailBOX

VMD VQF
VMD: Versatile Multilayer Disc VOM: Volt Ohm Milliampere

VME: Versa Module Eurocard VOR: Visions Of Reality
VME: Virtual Machine Environment VOS: Virtual Object System
VME: Virtual Memory Environment
VOS: Voice Operating System
VMEBus: Versatile Modular E-BUS
Bus architecture (Hardware) VOX: Voice Operated eXchange
Voice operated transmission in radio telecommunication. When
VML: Vector Markup Language
the device detects voice the transmission is connected
XML application which defines a format for the encoding of (Communication)
vector information together with additional markup to describe
how that information may be displayed and edited VoxML: Voice Markup Language
VMM: Virtual Machine Manager VP: Vice President
(Operating systems)
VP: Virtual Path
VMM: Virtual Memory Manager
VPA: Volume Purchase Agreement
VMOS: Vertical Metal Oxide Semiconductor VPBX: Virtual Private Branch eXchange
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
VMOS: Virtual Multitasking Operating System
VPD: Virtual Printer Device
(Operating systems)
VPD: Vital Product Data
VMP: Virtual Modem Protocol
Information about a device that is stored on the device itself.
VMS: Virtual Machine Storage Typical VPD information includes a product model number, a
unique serial number, product release level, maintenance
VMS: Virtual Memory System level, and other information specific to the device type
(Operating systems) (DEC)
VPDN: Virtual Private Data Network
VMS: Voice Message System
VPDS: Virtual Private Data Service
VMT: Virtual Memory Technique
VPE: Video Port Extension
VMTP: Versatile Message Transaction Protocol (Hardware)
(Network)
VPE: Visual Programming Environment
VNA: Virtual Network Architecture
VPI: Virtual Path Indentifier
VNC: Virtual Network Computing A value in the cell header that identifies the virtual path (VP) to
A remote display system which allows you to view a computing which the cell belongs. The field is 8 bits in cells traversing an
'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is UNI circuit and 12 bits in cells traversing network circuits
running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide (Communication)
variety of machine architectures (AT&T)
VPIM: Voice Profile for Internet Messaging
VNOS: Visual Network Operating System Defines how voice messages can be encoded as SMTP/MIME
messages for transport over Internet messaging networks
VNS: Virtual Network Service (Communication)
VO: Value Object VPL: Virtual Programming Language
(Software)
VPM: Video Port Manager
VO: Video Output
(Hardware) VPM: Virtual Parallel Machine
VO: Virtual Office VPM: Vulnerability and Patch Management

VoATM: Voice Over Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Enables a router to carry voice traffic over an ATM network VPN: Virtual Page Number
(Network) VPN: Virtual Private Network
VOB: Version Object Base A network that functions as if it were private, though it exists
on public wires. Data is protected through encryption and other
VOC: VOiCe security mechanisms (Network)
File format for audio
VOD: Video On Demand
VPO: Virtual Protected Output
V
VPS: Virtual Private Server
VoD: Voice Over Data
VPS: Voice Processing System
VoDSL: Voice Over Digital Subscriber Line
VPSC: Vault, Process, Structure, Configuration
(Communication)
VPT: Virtual Print Technology
VoFR: Voice Over Frame Relay
Enables a router to carry voice traffic over an Frame Relay VPT: Virtual Project Team
network (Network)
VPU: Visual Processing Unit
VoIP: Voice Over Internet Protocol Graphics coprocessor (Hardware)
A technology for transporting integrated digital voice, video,
and data over IP networks (Network) VQ: Vector Quantization
VOL: VOLume VQ: Video Quality
VOLT: Visual Opentype Layout Tool VQF: Vector Quantization Format

(Software) (Microsoft) An audio codec similar to MP3 but less lossy and (arguably)
more intelligent. See http://www.vqf.com (Software)

VQP VUI
VQP: Vlan Query Protocol VSDT: Variable-Size Droplet Technology

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

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

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

VUP WASP
VUP: Vax Unit of Performance WADL: Web Application Description Language

XML-based file format that provides a machine-readable
VuXML: VUlnerabilities and eXposures Markup
description of HTTP-based web applications. These applications
Language are typically REST web services (Software)
Markup language designed for the documentation of security
issues within a single package collection (Security) WADT: West Australian Daylight Time
Timezone: GMT +7:00
VVDS: Vsam Volume DataSet
(Operating systems) (IBM) WAE: Wireless Application Environment
VVM: Veritas Volume Manager WAF: Web Application Firewall
Easy-to-use, online storage management tool for enterprise s and blocks HTTP traffic to and from a web application. A WAF
environments, which reduces planned and unplanned is differentiated from a regular firewall in that a WAF is able to
downtime. It ensures high availability of data and optimized filter the content of specific web applications while regular
I/O performance and offers freedom of choice in storage firewalls serve as a safety gate between servers (Security)
hardware investments
WAG: Wild A** Guess
VVR: Veritas Volume Replicator (Net lingo)
Provides the foundation for seamless availability across sites.
WAG: Wireless Applications Group
Based on VERITAS Volume Manager, it reliably, efficiently, and
consistently replicates data to remote locations over any IP (Organizations)
network when data loss and prolonged downtime cannot be WAH: Working At Home
tolerated
(Net lingo)
VWB: Visual WorkBench
WAI: Web Accessibility Initiative
(Microsoft)
WAI: Web Application Interface
VWIC: Voice/Wan Interface Card
(Netscape)
(Hardware) (Cisco)
WAIK: Windows Automated Installation Kit
VWM: Virtual Window Manager
First introduced with Windows Vista, it's a collection of tools
VXA: Variable Speed Architecture and technologies produced by Microsoft designed to assist in
(Hardware) the deployment of Windows (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
VxD: Virtual device Driver WAIPF: Web Accessibility Initiative Protocols and
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) Formats
VxD: Virtual eXtended Driver WAIS: Wide Area Information Server (or Service)
(Microsoft) (Network)
VxFS: Veritas File System WAITI: WAIT for Interrupt

(Operating systems) WAITS: Wide Area Information Transfer System
VXML: Voice eXtensible Markup Language WAL: Write Ahead Log
WAMP: Windows, Apache, Mysql, PHP (or Perl or
W Phyton)
W: Watt Web applications platform (Software)
Power measurement unit WAN: Wide Area Network
W: Word A T1, T3, broadband, or other network covering an area
Two consecutive bytes (16 bits) generally larger than a city or metropolitan area network
(Network)
W/: With
WAP: Wireless Access Point
W/E: WhatEver Centrally connects wireless network nodes similar to a hub
(Net lingo) connecting wired PCs. (Network)
W/O: WithOut WAP: Wireless Application Protocol

W2K: Windows 2000 WAPI: Workflow Application Programming
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) Interface
Workflow Management Coalition specification to enable
W3: World Wide Web interoperability between workflow management systems and
W3A: World Wide Web Applets applications (Software)
W3C: World Wide Web Consortium WAR: Web ARchive V

(Organizations) WARIA: Workflow And Reengineering
W3I: WinWhatWhere Investigator International Association
The charter of the WARIA is to identify and clarify issues that
W
System activity monitor (Operating systems)
are common to users of workflow, electronic commerce and
W3J: World Wide Web Journal those who are in the process of reengineering their
organizations. See also http://www.waria.com/ (Organizations)
W4: What-Works-With-What
WARP: Web service Aggregation, Rely and
WAAS: Wide Area Augmentation System Propagation
WAB: Windows Address Book WAS: Web Application Server
Filename extension (Software) (Microsoft) (Network) (Oracle)
WABI: Windows Application Binary Interface WAS: Web Application Stress
WAC: Web Authorization Control (Software) (Microsoft)
WASP: Wireless Application Service Provider
(Software)

WAST WEP
WAST: West Australian Standard Time WDDX: Web Distributed Data eXchange
Timezone: GMT +7:00 XML-based technology that enables the exchange of complex
data between Web programming languages, creating what
WAT: West Africa Time some refer to as 'Web syndicate networks'
Timezone: GMT -1:00
WDF: Windows Driver Foundation
WATS: Wide Area Telephone Service Strategy for the next generation of Windows drivers. WDF
WAV: WAVeform defines a single driver model that supports the creation of
object-oriented, event-driven drivers for either kernel mode or
File format for audio streams user mode (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
WB: Wide Band WDG: Web Design Group
(Communication) (Organizations)
WB: Workbench WDJ: Web Developer's Journal
Pre-PPC Amiga operating system
WDL: Windows Driver Library
WBEM: Web-Based Enterprise Management
WBI: Web Browsing Intelligence WDM: Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
WBMP: Wireless BitMaP A mechanism to allow multiple signals to be encoded into
File Format for bitmapped images suitable for WAP devices multiple wavelengths (Communication)
WBS: Work Breakdown Structure WDM: Windows Driver Model

WBT: Web-Based Training
WDP: Wireless Datagram Protocol
WBTS: Windows-Based Terminal Server
WDR: Web Description Resources
WBXML: Wap Binary eXtensible Markup Language
Vocabulary for Protocol for Web Description Resources
WC: Word Count (POWDER)
WC: World Coordinates WDRAM: Windows Dynamic Random Access

The coordinate system that is scaled so that user-defined Memory
objects can be represented in units appropriate to the WDRD: Web Description Resources Datatypes
application, such as inches, meters, and miles
WDS: Wireless Distribution System
WCA: Web Clipping Application
(Communication)
WCAG: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
WDT: Wap Developer's Toolkit
These guidelines explain how to make Web content accessible
(Software)
to people with disabilities. The guidelines are intended for all
Web content developers and for developers of authoring tools. WDU: Windows Desktop Update
The primary goal of these guidelines is to promote accessibility
WCCP: Web Cache Communications Protocol
WE: Write Enable
(Network) (Cisco)
(Hardware)
WCDMA: Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
WEA: Web-Enabled Application
W-CDMA: Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
WebDAV: WEB Distributed Authoring and
(Communication) Versioning
WCF: Windows Communication Foundation Extension of the HTTP/1.1 protocol to allow clients to publish,
Set of .NET technologies for building and running connected lock, and manage resources on the Web
systems (Software) (Microsoft) WebNFS: WEB Network File System
WCGL: Web Content accessibility GuideLines (Operating systems) (Sun)
WCI: Web-based Customer Interaction WEC: Web Extender Client

Microsoft Office 2000 protocol that is used for Web publishing,
WCM: Web Content Management
and is usually implemented through the use of Microsoft
WCS: Web Communications Server FrontPage Server Extensions (Microsoft)
(Hardware) WECA: Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance
WCS: Websphere Commerce Server (Organizations)
Software platform framework for e-commerce, including WEDJE: Widget Enabled Dom Javascript
marketing, sales, customer and order processing functionality Embedding
in a tailorable, integrated package (Software) (IBM)
(Software)
WCS: World Coordinate System
W WEDT: Western Europe Daylight Time
WCSS: Wap Cascading Style Sheets Timezone: GMT +0:00
WCTL: Web Crossing Template Language WEFT: Web Embedding Fonts Tool
WD: Western Digital (Software) (Microsoft)
(Hardware) WELL: Whole Earth eLectronic Link
WD: Working Draft WEMA: Western Electronics Manufacturers
WDA: Web-Disabled Application Association
(Organizations)
WDATAM: What Do All The Acronyms Mean
(Net lingo)
WEO: World Economic Outlook
WEP: Watchguard Event Processor

WEP WIT
WEP: Windows Entertainment Pack WIA: Windows Image Acquisition

(Software) (Microsoft) Standardized API for acquiring digital images from devices that
are primarily used to capture still images and for managing
WEP: Windows Entry Point these devices (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Software)
WIC: Wan Interface Card
WEP: Wired Equivalent Privacy (Hardware) (Cisco)
Lower level data encryption for wireless security (Network)
WIC: Whole Internet Catalogue
WEP: Wireless Encryption Protocol
(Network)
WICD: Web Integration Compound Document
Device independent foundation for Compound Document
WER: Windows Error Reporting profiles based on XHTML, CSS and SVG
WIDL: Web Interface Definition Language
WEST: Western Europe Standard Time
WIF: Wavelet Image File
Timezone: GMT +0:00
WFC: Windows Foundation Classes
Wi-Fi: WIreless FIdelity
IEEE 802.11 standard for wireless network connectivity
WFH: Working From Home (Network)
(Net lingo) WIM: Windows Image Format
WfM: Wired For Management Used by the SMS 2003 Operating System Deployment Feature
Pack (Software) (Microsoft)
WFM: Works For Me
(Net lingo) WiMAX: Worldwide Interoperability Microwave
Access
WfMC: WorkFlow Management Coalition IEEE 802.16 broadband wireless access standard
Non-profit, international organization of workflow vendors,
users, analysts and university/research groups. See also WIMP: Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointing
http://www.wfmc.org/ (Organizations) devices
WFP: Windows File Protection WIN: Wireless Information Network
Feature which prevents the replacement of essential system Win2K: WINdows 2000
files installed as part of Windows 2000 (Operating systems)
(Microsoft) (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
WFQ: Weighted Fair Queuing Win2K3: WINdows 2003

Per-flow packet scheduling in network elements that (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
automatically categorizes traffic flows into high and low WINA: Wap Interim Naming Authority
priority, based on volume of packets seen by a router or switch
(Network) WINE: Wine Is Not an Emulator
WfW: Windows For Workgroups Windows Emulator for Unix platforms (Operating systems)
(Microsoft) WINForum: Wireless Information Networks
FORUM
WG: Working Group
WinHEC: WINdows Hardware Engineering
WGA: Windows Genuine Advantage
Conference
Part of Microsoft’s on-going effort to protect its customers and
partners from counterfeit software, is a program that increases WINS: Windows Internet Name Service
customer awareness of the value of genuine Windows XP (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Microsoft)
WINSOCK: WINdows SOCKets
WGPO: WorkGroup PostOffice
(Operating systems)
WGS: WorkGroup System
Wintel: WINdows/inTEL
WH2FO: Word Html To Formatting Objects System based on Intel Processors and Microsoft Windows
Java application that processes an HTML output, created with operating system
Word 2000, and transforms it into an XML content file and an
WIP: Work In Progress
XSL stylesheet file. From these files, a standard XSLT
processor may be used to obtain a file containing only XSL-FO (Net lingo)
markup (Software) WIRE: Web/Internet Resource Executive
WHAM: Waveform Hold And Modify WIS: Wan Interface Sublayer
(Microsoft)
(Network)
WHATWG: Web Hypertext Application Technology WIS: Windows Installer Service
Working Group
W
See http://www.whatwg.org/ (Organizations)
WISC: Writeable Instruction Set Computer
WHC: Workstation Host Connection
(Hardware)
WHISPER: Windows Highly Intelligent SPEech
WISE: Web-Integrated Software metrics
Recognition
Environment
(Microsoft)
(Network)
WHQL: Windows Hardware Quality Labs
WISE: Wordperfect Information System
WHS: Windows Home Server Environment
(Microsoft) WISP: Wireless Internet Service Provider
(Network)
WIT: Web Interactive Talk

WKB WPM
WKB: WorKBook WNIM: Wide-area Network Interface Module

File name extension
WNT: Windows New Technology
WKS: WorKSheet Early acronym for NT, based on incrementing each letter of
File name extension (Lotus) VMS (the original NT designers came from DEC) in the same
way 2001's HAL came from "IBM" (Operating systems)
WL: Word Line (Microsoft)
WLAN: Wireless Local Area Network WOF: Web Objects Framework
(Network) (Network)
WLBS: Windows Load Balancing Service WOL: Wake On Lan
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) (Hardware)
WLE: WebLogic Enterprise WOLF: Web Objects for Legacy Functions
WLG: dr. Watson LoG (Software)
Filename extension (Microsoft) WOM: Wake On Modem
WLL: Wireless Local Loop (Network)
(Communication) WOM: Write-Only Memory
WLM: WorkLoad Manager (Hardware)
(Operating systems) (IBM) WOOF: Web-centric Open Object Framework
WLS: WebLogic Server WOR: Wake On Ring
WM: Windows Media (Network)
(Microsoft) WORM: Write Once Read Many
WM: Windows Messenger (Hardware)
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) WOS: Workstation Operating System
WM: Workstation Manager WOSA: Windows Open Systems Architecture
(Novell) (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
WMA: Windows Media Audio WOU: Warranty Option Upgrade
(Microsoft) (Hardware)
WMC: Wireless Mobile Communications WOW: Windows on Win32
WMC: Workflow Management Coalition WOW: WithOut Worry
WME: Windows Media Encoder (Hardware) (Xerox)
(Microsoft) WOW: World Of Warcraft
WMF: Windows Metafile Format (Games)
File format for graphics (Microsoft) WP: Word Processor
WMF: Wireless Multimedia Forum WP: WordPerfect
WMFSDK: Windows Metafile Format Software (Software) (Corel)
Development Kit WP: Write Protected
(Microsoft)
WPA: Wi-fi Protected Access
WMI: Windows Management Instrumentation Designed to improve security over the older WEP encryption
Microsoft's implementation of Web-Based Enterprise methods (Security)
Management (WBEM), which is an industry initiative to develop
a standard technology for accessing management information WPA: Windows Product Activation
in an enterprise environment (Operating systems) (Microsoft) (Software) (Microsoft)
WML: Website Meta Language WPAN: Wireless Personal Area Network

Free and extensible Webdesigner's off-line HTML generation (Network)
toolkit for Unix, distributed under the GNU General Public
WPAR: Workload PARtition
License. See also http://thewml.org/
Feature introduced with the IBM AIX® Version 6.1 operating
WML: Wireless Markup Language system. It allows running applications to move between
System p machines or System p logical partitions (LPARs)
WMLS: Wireless Markup Language Script (Operating systems) (IBM)
WMP: Windows Media Player WPD: Windows Printer Description
W (Software) (Microsoft) File name extension
WMRM: Write Many, Read Many WPD: WordPerfect Document
(Hardware) File format for documents (Corel)
WMT: Windows Media Technology WPF: Windows Presentation Foundation
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) New window system that comes pre-installed on Microsoft
WMV: Windows Media Video Windows Vista (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Microsoft) WPG: WordPerfect Graphics
WNIC: Wide-area Network Interface Coprocessor File name extension
WNILS: Whois and Network Information Lookup WPHD: Write-Protected Hard Disk
Service WPM: WordPerfect Macro
(Network) File name extension

wpm WSS
wpm: Words Per Minute WS-CDL: Web Services Choreography Description

Speech recognition processing power (Software) Language
XML-based language that describes peer-to-peer collaborations
WPOS: WorkPlace Operating System
of Web Services participants by defining their common and
WPP: Web Presence Provider complementary observable behavior; where ordered message
exchanges result in accomplishing a common business goal
Web site design, development, and deployment company
WPS: Wi-fi Protected Setup WSDD: Web Service Deployment Descriptor
(Software)
Wireless networking standard that attempts to allow easy
establishment of a secure wireless home network (Network) WSDL: Web Service Description Language
WPS: Windows Printing System An XML format for describing network services as a set of
endpoints operating on messages containing either document-
(Microsoft)
oriented or procedure-oriented information
WPS: WorkPlace Shell
WSDP: Web Services Developer Pack
(IBM)
The Java Web Services Developer Pack is an all-in-one
WPVM: Windows Parallel Virtual Machine download containing key technologies to simplify building of
web services using the Java 2 Platform (Software) (Sun)
WPW: Web Publishing Wizard
(Software) (Microsoft) WSE: Web Services Enhancements
Add-on to Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and the Microsoft .NET
WPW: WordPerfect for Windows Framework providing developers the latest advanced Web
(Software) services capabilities to keep pace with the evolving Web
services protocol specifications (Software) (Microsoft)
WQL: Wmi Query Language
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) WSF: Windows Script File
Filename extension (Software) (Microsoft)
WQXGA: Wide Quad eXtended Graphics Array
Video specification for a resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels WSH: Windows Script Host
WRAM: Window Random Access Memory WS-I: Web Services Interoperability
(Hardware) See http://www.ws-i.org (Organizations)
WRDS: Wharton Research Data Service WSIF: Web Services Invocation Framework
Simple Java API for invoking Web services, no matter how or
WRED: Weighted Random Early Detection
where the services are provided (Software)
Combines IP precedence and Random Early Detection
capabilities to provide differentiated performance WSIL: Web Services Inspection Language
characteristics for different classes of service (Network) Provides an XML format for assisting in the inspection of a site
for available services and a set of rules for how inspection
WRI: WRIte
related information should be made available for consumption
File name extension (Software)
WRK: Windows Resource Kit WSIL4J: Web Services Inspection Language For
(Microsoft) Java
WRT: With Regards To Java class library that provides an API that is can be used to
locate and process WS-Inspection documents (Software)
(Net lingo)
WSIT: Web Services Interoperability Technology
WRUD: What aRe yoU Doing?
Open-source project for Java and .Net interoperability
(Net lingo)
(Software) (Sun)
WS: Web Services
WSJ: Web Services Journal
Web-based enterprise applications that use open, XML-based
standards and transport protocols to exchange data with calling WSML: Web Services Markup Language
clients. Also used to prefix web services interoperability
applications or standards (Software) WSP: Web Standards Project
Collective effort of web developers and end users whose
WS: WordStar mission is to stop the fragmentation of the web, by persuading
the browser makers that common standards are in everyone's
WS: WorkSpace
best interest
WS: WorkStation
WSP: Wireless Session Protocol
WSA: Web Services Addressing
WSRM: Web Services Reliable Messaging
Provides transport-neutral mechanisms to address Web
Provides a standard, interoperable way to guarantee message
services and messages
delivery to applications or Web services (Software)
WSAD: Websphere Studio Application Developer
(Software) (IBM)
WS-RM: Web Services Reliable Messaging W
(Software)
WSAM: Windows Secure Application Manager
WSRP: Web Services for Remote Portlets
WSAPI: Web Site Application Programming Standard that will allow for the "plug-n-play" of portals, other
Interface intermediary web applications that aggregate content, and
(O'Reilly & Associates) applications from disparate sources (Software)
WSC: Windows Script Component WSRP4J: Web Services for Remote Portlets For
Java
Apache's java implementation of WSRP. See also
http://ws.apache.org/wsrp4j/ (Software)
WSS: WebServices Security
OASIS standard (Software)

WSS XBL
WSS: Windows Sharepoint Services WUM: Wind Up Merchant

Windows 2003 integrated portfolio of collaboration and Someone who posts messages on boards specifically to wind
communication services designed to connect people, up other users (Net lingo)
information, processes, and systems both within and beyond
the organizational firewall (Software) (Microsoft) WUS: Windows Update Services
An evolution of SUS, WUS is the update management
WS-SC: Web Services Secure Conversations component of Windows Server (Software) (Microsoft)
(Software)
WUXGA: Wide Ultra eXtended Graphics Array
WST: Web Standard Tools Display adapter capable of a resolution of 1920 X 1200 pixel
Extension to the Eclipse platform with support for building (Hardware)
multi-tier Web applications. (Software)
WV: Working Voltage
WSTK: Web Services ToolKit (Hardware)
(Software) (IBM)
WVGA: Wide Video Graphic Array
WSUI: Web Service User Interface Video specification for a resolution of 852 X 480 pixels in 256
colors (Hardware)
WSUS: Windows Server Update Service
Free patch management tool that provides a number of new WWD: Wireless Web Display
features including targeting of patches to specific groups of
machines, support for more produts and improved reporting. WWDC: WorldWide Developers Conference
Replaces Software Update Services (SUS) (Operating systems) (Apple)
(Microsoft)
WWID: World Wide IDentifier
WSVT: Web Service Validation Tools Synonym for World Wide Name (WWN) (Network)
Project that provides a set of Eclipse plugins to validate and
analyze Web services with respect to the core Web services
WWIS: World Wide Information System
specifications and their usage together (Software) WWN: World Wide Name
WSXGA: Wide Super eXtended Graphics Array Unique identifier in a Fibre Channel or Serial Attached SCSI
Display adapter capable of a resolution of 1680 X 1050 pixel storage network. Each WWN is an 8-byte number derived from
(Hardware) an IEEE OUI (for the first 3 bytes) and vendor-supplied
information (for the rest) (Network)
WT: Write Through
WWW: World Wide Web
WTA: Wireless Telephony Application The web of systems and the data in them that is the Internet
(Network)
WTAI: Wireless Telephony Application Interface
(Software) WXGA: Wide eXtended Graphics Array
Display adapter capable of a resolution of 1280 X 768 pixel
WTD: Week To Date (Hardware)
WYP: What's Your Problem?
WTF: What The F**k (Net lingo)
(Net lingo)
WYSBYGI: What You See Before You Get It
WTG: Way To Go
(Net lingo) WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get
WTK: Wireless ToolKit WZC: Wireless Zero Configuration

(Software) (Network) (Microsoft)
WTL: Windows Template Library

X
Library for developing Windows applications and UI
components. It extends ATL (Active Template Library) and X: X windows
provides a set of classes for controls, dialogs, frame windows, A windowing system developed by MIT (Operating systems)
GDI objects, and more (Software) (Microsoft)
X2B: heXadecimal To Binary
WTLS: Wireless Transport Layer Security
(IBM)
WTO: World Trade Organization
X2C: heXadecimal To Character
(Organizations)
(IBM)
WTP: Web Tools Platform
X2D: heXadecimal To Decimal
Provides a generic, extensible and standards-based platform
and set of tools for J2EE and Web-centric application (IBM)
development (Software) XA: eXtended Architecture
WTP: Wireless Transport Protocol XA: eXtended Attribute
W WTS: Web Transaction Security XACL: Xml Access Control Language
(Security) Provides XML with a sophisticated access control mechanism
that enables the initiator not only to securely browse XML
X WTS: Windows Terminal Server
(Microsoft)
documents but also to securely update each document element
X-ACT: Xml Active Content Technologies
WTX: Workstation Technology eXtended
A size (max 16.75"x14" -- 425mm x 356mm, LxW) and form XAPIA: X.400 Application Programming Interface
factor specification for motherboards. See also Association
http://www.wtx.org (Hardware) (Organizations)
WUI: Web User Interface XBL: Xml Binding Language
(Network) Markup language for describing bindings that can be attached
to elements in other documents. Bindings can be attached to
elements using either cascading stylesheets (CSS) or the
document object model (DOM)

XBM XNI
XBM: X BitMap XKMS: Xml Key Management Specification

File format for bitmapped images (Security)
XBMC: XBox Media Center XL: eXtended Length
Media player for the original Xbox game-console. XBMC can (Hardware)
play music and videos, display images and launch Xbox games
from the Xbox's DVD drive, its internal hard drive, a local XLA: eXceL Add-In
network, USB flash drive, and the internet File name extension (Microsoft)
XBRL: eXtensible Business Reporting Language XLAT: TransLATe

XCBF: Xml Common Biometric Format XLF: ExceptionaL Fortran
(IBM)
XCHG: ExCHanGe
XLF: eXtensible Log Format
XCMD: eXternal CoMmanD
(Software) (Apple) XLK: eXceL bacKup
XCP: eXtended Copy Protection
Rootkit-based copy protection scheme XLL: eXtensible Linking Language
XDE: eXtended Development Experience XLM: eXceL Macro
As in Rational Software's XDE product (Software) (Rational) File name extension (Microsoft)
XDF: Extended Density Format XLS: eXceL Spreadsheet

(IBM) File name extension (Software) (Microsoft)
XDK: Xbox Development Kit XLT: eXceL Template

(Software) (Microsoft) File name extension (Microsoft)
XDK: Xml Development Kit XLW: eXceL Workbook

(Software) File name extension (Software) (Microsoft)
XDM: X Display Manager XMA: eXtended Middleware Architecture

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

XNRL YB
XNRL: Xml Namespace Related-resource XSLTC: eXtensible Stylesheet Language

Language Transformation Compiler
HTML-based markup language designed to contain a human- Provides a compiler to compile an XSL stylesheet into a
readable description of an XML namespace as well as pointers translet (a set of Java classes) and a runtime processor to
to multiple resources related to that namespace apply the translet to an XML document and perform a
transformation (Software)
XNS: Xerox Network Services
(Network) XSMD: eXtended Storage Module Drive
XOFF: Transmitter OFF XSP: eXtensible Server Pages

XON: Transmitter ON xSP: eXternal Service Provider
Seller of services to other companies
XOP: Xml-binary Optimized Packaging.
A mean of more efficiently serializing XML Infosets (see XSS: Cross-Site Scripting
[XMLInfoSet]) that have certain types of content (Software)
XOR: eXclusive OR XSSI: eXtended Server Side Includes
XP: Cross Platform XST: Cross-Site Tracing
XP: eXPerience XT: eXtended Technology
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) (IBM)
XP: eXtreme Performance XTAL: CrysTAL
(Hardware) (Compaq)
XTCLK: eXternal Transmit CLocK
XP: eXtreme Programming
XTLA: eXtended Three Letters Acronym
(Software)
XTM: Xml Topic Map
XPCOM: Cross Platform Component Object Model
(Software) XTND: Xml Transition Network Definition
XPE: eXPerience Embedded XTR: Efficient Compact Subgroup Trace

(Operating systems) (Microsoft) Representation
A crypto system that is a particularly efficient and compact
XPFE: Cross Platform Front End implementation of the classical Diffie-Hellman scheme. See
http://www.ecstr.com (Security)
XPG: X/open Portability Guide
(Operating systems) XUL: Xml User interface Language
Mozilla's XML-based user interface language that lets you build
XPIDL: Cross Platform Interface Definition
feature rich cross-platform applications that can run connected
Language to or disconnected from the Internet (Software)
(Software)
XVGA: eXtended Video Graphics Array
XPM: X PixMap Display standard (Hardware)
File format for bitmapped images
XWB: eXtend WorkBench
XPRM: Xerox Print Resources Manager Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE) (Software)
(Xerox)
XWD: X Window Dump
XPS: Xml Paper Specification
Paginated representation of electronic paper described in an XWSS: Xml and WebServices Security
XML-based format (Microsoft) Provides message-level security that enables a JAX-WS or
SAAJ application's request and response actions to be secured
XQL: eXtensible Query Language at the level of service, port, or operation (Software) (Sun)
XR: eXternal Reset
(Hardware) Y
XRC: eXtended Remote Copy Y2K: Year 2000
XRCC: Xerox Research Centre of Canada YACC: Yet Another Compiler Compiler
(Organizations) (Xerox) Unix program (Operating systems)
XRE: Xul Runtime Engine YAGNI: You Ain't Gonna Need It
Now renamed in XULRunner, is a Mozilla runtime package that Part of the agile programmers mantra of writing only code that
can be used to bootstrap XUL+XPCOM applications that are as nees to be writing and not any that only might be needed (Net
rich as Firefox and Thunderbird. It will provide mechanisms for lingo)
installing, upgrading, and uninstalling these applications
(Software) YAHOO: Yet Another Hierarchically Officious
Oracle
XRF: eXtended Recovery Facility
(IBM)
YAHU: Yet Another Header Utility
Utilities for peeking into executables headers (Software)
X XRNS: eXtensible Resource Name System
YAI: Yet Another Isp
XRT: eXtensions for Real-Time
Y XSD: Xml Schema Definition
YAM: Yet Another Modem
XML-based grammar for describing the structure of XML

YAST: Yet Another Setup Tool
documents. A schema-aware validating parser can validate an YATE: Yet Another Terminal Emulator
XML document against an XSD schema and report any
(Software)
discrepancies
YB: YottaByte
XSL: eXtensible Style Language
1024 zetabytes
XSLT: eXtensible Stylesheet Language
Transformation

YDT ZV
YDT: Yukon Daylight Time ZSL: Zero Slot Lan

Timezone: GMT -9:00
ZV: Zoomed Video
YGDWYGD: You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do
(Net lingo)
YHBW: You Have Been Warned
(Net lingo)
YIM: Yahoo! Instant Messenger
(Software)
YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary
(Net lingo)
YST: Yukon Standard Time
Timezone: GMT -9:00
YTD: Year To Date
YUI: Yahoo! User Interface
Set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building
richly interactive web applications using techniques such as
DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX (Software)
YW: You're Welcome
(Net lingo)
Z
ZAC: Zero Administration Client
ZAI: Zero Administration Initiative
ZAK: Zero Administration Kit
(Microsoft)
ZAW: Zero Administration for Windows
(Microsoft)
ZB: ZetaByte
1024 exabytes
ZBR: Zero Bug Release
Point in the software development at which all features are
correctly implemented and have no bugs logged against them
(Software)
ZBR: Zone-Bit Recording
ZCAV: Zone Constant Angular Velocity
(Hardware)
Z-CAV: Zoned Constant Angular Velocity
ZD: Ziff-Davis
ZDBOp: Ziff-Davis Benchmark OPeration
ZDL: Zero Delay Lockout
ZDMI: Ziff-Davis Market Intelligence
ZDS: Zenith Data Systems
ZDTV: Ziff-Davis TeleVision
ZEN: Zero Effort Networking
(Novell)
ZIF: Zero Insertion Force
(Hardware)
ZIP: Zigzag Inline Package
(Hardware)
ZIP: Zone Improvement Plan
Postal code Y
ZLR: Zoom Lens Reflex
(Hardware) Z
ZNA: Zero Network Administration
(Network)
ZOPE: Z Object Publishing Environment
ZPV: Zoomed Port Video

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a: atto ABC: Atanasoff-Berry Computer

Å: Ångstrom ABEL: Advanced Boolean Expression Language

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ABI: Application Binary Interface ACE: Apacer Compression Explorer

ABT: ABorT ACM: Afp Conversion Module

ACAP: Application Configuration Access Protocol ACP: Active Code Page

ACDI: Asynchronous Communications Device ACR: Allowed Cell Rate

ACE: Access Control Entry ACS: Access Control Server

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ACS: Asynchronous Communication Server ADCCP: Advanced Data Communication Control

ADA: ADA ADK: Appliance Development Kit

ADC: Apple Developer Connection ADP: Access Database Project

ADC: Apple Display Connector ADP: Aol Dynamic Pages

ADC: Application Delete Certificate ADP: Automatic Data Processing

ADC: Application Development Consultant ADPCM: Adaptive Differential Pulse Code

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ADR: Advanced Digital Recording AEC: Architecture, Engineering, Construction

ADT: Access Developer Toolkit AFC: AntiFerromagnetically-Coupled

ADT: Atlantic Daylight Time AFC: Automatic Font Change

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AFP: Advanced Function Printing AIM: Aol Instant Messenger

AGP: Accelerated Graphics Port AJDT: AspectJ Development Tools

AI: Analog Input ALDC: Adaptive Lossless Data Compression

AIC: Aixwindows Interface Composer ALE: Apple Lossless Encoder

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ALEC: Alternative Local Exchange Carrier AMMA: Advanced Memory Management

ALM: Application Lifecylcle Management AMR: Adaptive Multi-Rate

ALP: Automatic Language Processing ANI: Automatic Number Identification

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AOL: Alert On Lan APLSF: A Programming Language with Shared

APC: American Power Conversion APRP: Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing

APL: Applied Physics Laboratory APT: Automatically Programmed Tools

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APTM: Application Program to Transaction ARP: Address Resolution Protocol

ARCA: Advanced Risc Computing Architecture ARU: Audio Response Unit

ARCnet: Attached Resource Computer NETwork ARX: Autocad Runtime eXtensions

ARIN: American Registry for Internet Numbers AS: Authentication Service

ARIS: Attack Registry & Intelligence Service AS/400: Application System/400

ARL: Access Rights List AS/U: Advanced Server for Unix

ARO: Adaptec Raidport Option ASC: ASCii text

AROM: Alterable Read Only Memory ASC: Authorized Support Centers

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ASC: Autonomous System Confederation ASM: Advanced Server Manager

ASE: Alladin Smartcard Environment ASN: Autonomous System Number

ASET: Automated Security Enhancement Tool ASO: Advanced Security Option

ASL: Age? Sex? Location? ASQ: Automated Software Quality

ASL: Arithmetic Shift Left ASR: Address Space Register

ASLM: Apple Shared Library Manager ASR: Automatic Send-Receive

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ASR: Automatic Speech Recognition ATIP: Absolute Time In Pregroove

ATDNet: Advanced Technology Demonstration ATR: Automatic Terminal Recognition

ATE: Automatic Test Equipment ATS: Abstract Test Suite

ATF: Ajax Toolkit Framework ATS: Apple Terminal Services

ATG: Advanced Technology Group ATTN: ATTeNtion

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ATU-C: Adsl Transceiver Unit - Central AVTK: Anti Virus ToolKit

AUDIT: AUtomated Data Input Terminal AWE: Address Windowing Extensions

AVR: Automatic Voice Recognition BA: Brokering Agent