Computer Abbreviations
Sr.No. List of
Abbreviations
1 2G Second Generation
2 3G Third Generation
3 A/D Analog-to-Digital
4 ABC Atanasoff-Berry Computer
5 ACL Access Control List
6 AI Artificial Intelligence
7 ALGOL ALGOrithmic Language
8 ALU Arithmetic Logic Unit
9 AM Amplitude Modulation
10 AMD Advanced Micro Devices
11 ANSI American National Standards Institute
12 APL A Programming Language
13 ARPANET Advanced Research Project Agency
Network
14 ASCII American Standard Code for Information
Interchange
15 ATM Automatic Teller Machine or Asynchronous
Transfer Mode
16 BARC Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
17 BASIC Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction
Code
18 BCD Binary Coded Decimal
19 B-ISDN Board band ISDN
20 BNA Burroughs Network Architecture
21 BPI Bytes Per Inch
22 BSD Berkeley Software Division
23 BSNL Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
24 CAD Computer Aided Design
25 CAE Computer Aided Engineering
26 CAM Computer Aided Manufacturing
27 CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering
28 CD Compact Disk
29 C-DAC Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
30 CDC Control Data Corporation
31 CD-R CD-Recordable
32 CD-ROM Compact Disk Read Only Memory
33 CD-RW CD-Read/Write
34 CISC Complex Instruction Set Computer
35 CL Command Language
36 CLI Common Language Infrastructure
37 CLR Common Language Runtime
38 COBOL COmmon Business Oriented Language
39 CODASYL Conference On DAta SYstems
Languages
40 CPPM Content Protection for Prerecorded Media
41 CPS Characters Per Second
42 CPU Central Processing Unit
43 CRT Cathode-Ray Tube
44 CSCW Computer Supported Cooperative Working
45 CU Control Unit
46 D/A Digital-to-Analog
47 DAT Digital Audio Tape
48 DBMS Data Base Management System
49 DDL Data Definition Language
50 DDS Digital Data Storage
51 DEC Digital Equipment Corporation
52 DML Data Manipulation Language
53 DNA Digital Network Architecture
54 DPI Dots Per Inch
55 DRDO Defense Research And Development
Organization
56 DSN Distributed System Network
57 DTS Digital Theater System
58 DVD Digital Video/Versatile Disk
59 EBCDIC Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code
60 ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association
61 EDSAC Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator
62 EDVAC Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic
Computer
63 EEPROM Electrically EPROM
64 EFM Eight-to-Fourteen
65 ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator And
Calculator
66 EPG Electronic Programming Guide
67 EPIC Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing
68 EPROM Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
69 ERNET Education And Research NETwork
70 FAT File Allocation Table
71 FDM Frequency-Division Multiplexing
72 FEP Front-End Processor
73 FM Frequency Modulation
74 FMS File Management System
75 FORTRAN FORmula TRANslation
76 FSK Frequency Shift Keying
77 FTP File Transfer Protocol
78 GB Giga Bytes
79 GHz Giga Hertz
80 GIGO Garbage-In-Garbage-Out
81 GIS Geographical Information System
82 GNU Gnu Not Unix
83 GPL General Public License
84 GUI Graphical User Interface
85 HP Hewlett Packard
86 HTML Hyper Text Markup Language
87 HTTP Hyper Text Transport Protocol
88 Hz Hertz
89 I/O Input and Output
90 IBG Inter-Block Gap
91 IBM International Business Machines
92 IC Integrated Circuit
93 IDN Integrated Digital Networks
94 IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers
95 INSAT Indian National SATellite
96 IP Internet Protocol
97 IRG Inter-Record Gap
98 ISAM Indexed Sequential Access Method
99 ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
100 ISO International standards Organization
101 ISP Internet Service Provider
102 J2EE Java 2 Enterprises Edition
103 J2SE Java 2 Standard Edition
104 JCL Job Control Language
105 JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
106 JRE Java Runtime Engine
107 JSP Java Server Pages
108 KB Kilo Bytes
109 LAN Local Area Network
110 LCD Liquid Crystal Display
111 LED Light-Emitting Diode
112 LISP LISt Processing
113 LPM Lines Per Minute
114 LSD Least Significant Digit
115 LSI Large Scale Integration
116 MAN Metropolitan Area Network
117 MAR Memory Address Register
118 MB Mega Bytes
119 MBR Memory Buffer Register
120 MFT Multiprogramming with Fixed Tasks
121 MHz Mega Hertz
122 MICR Magnetic-Ink Character Recognition
123 MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
124 MMC Multimedia Card
125 MODEM MOdulator/DEModulator
126 MP3 MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3
127 MPEG Moving Pictures Expert Group
128 MSD Most Significant Digit
129 MS-DOS MicroSoft Disk Operating System
130 MSI Medium Scale Integration
131 MTNL Mahanager Telephone Nigam Limited
132 MVT Multiprogramming with variable Tasks
133 NIC Network Interface Card
134 NICNET National Informatics Center NETwork
135 NOS Network Operating System
136 NTSC National television Standards Committee
137 OCR Optical Character Card
138 OMR Optical Mark Reader
139 OOP Object-Oriented Programming
140 OS Operating System
141 OSI Open System interconnection
142 OSS Open Source Software
143 PAL Phase Alternation Line
144 PC Personal Computer
145 PCB Process Control Block
146 PDA Personal Digital Assistant
147 PDF Portable Document Format
148 PDL Program Design Language
149 PDP Programmed Data Processor
150 PIM Personal Information Manager
151 PL/1 Programming Language One
152 PM Phase Modulation
153 POS Point-Of-Sale
154 POTS Plain Old Telephone Service
155 PPM Pages Per Minute
156 PRIMENET PRIME Computers NETwork
157 PROM Programmable Read-Only Memory
158 PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
159 PVC Poly Vinyl Chloride
160 QBE Query By Example
161 QIC Quarter Inch Cartridge
162 QoS Quality Of Service
163 RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
164 RAM Random Access Memory
165 RGB Red, Green and Blue
166 RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer
167 ROM Read Only Memory
168 RPG Report Program Generator
169 SD Secure Digital
170 SDK Software Development Kit
171 SEQUEL Structured English OUEry Language
172 SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language
173 SIMM Single In-line memory Module
174 SNA Systems Network Architecture
175 SNOBOL StriNg Oriented symBOlic Language
176 SSI Small Scale Integration
177 TB Tera Bytes
178 TCP Transport Control Protocol
179 TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet
Protocol
180 TDM Time-Division Multiplexing
181 UDP User Datagram Protocol
182 UDT User Data Type
183 ULSI Ultra Large Scale Integration
184 UNIVAC UNIVersal Automatic Computer
185 UPC Universal Product Code
186 URL Uniform Resource Locator
187 USB Universal serial Bus
188 UTF Unicode Transformation Format
189 UTP Unshielded Twisted-Pair
190 UVEPROM Ultra Violet EPROM
191 VAN Value Added Network
192 VCR Video Cassette Recorder
193 VDT Video Display Terminal
194 VLSI Very Large Scale Integration
195 VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol
196 VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminals
197 VSNL Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited
198 WAN Wide Area Network
199 WAP Wireless Application Protocol
200 WiMAX Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave
Access
201 WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
202 WLL Wireless Local Loop
203 WMA Windows Media Audio
204 WORM Write-Once Read Many
205 WWW World Wide Web
206 WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
207 X.400 Electronic Mail Protocol
208 X.500 Directory Server Protocol
209 XHTML eXtensible Hyper Text Markup Language
210 XML eXtensible Markup Language
