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LAN
— Local Area Network
N/A
— Not Applicable
PST
— Please Send Tell
USA
— United States of America
ARPANET
— Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (early internet)
ASAP
— As Soon As Possible (pronounced AY-sap)
BBS
— Bulletin Board Service
DOB
— Date Of Birth
IT
— Information Technology
MSG
— Message
FCFS
— First Come First Served
CPU
— Central Processing Unit
POC
— Point Of Contact
IP
— Internet Protocol
IQ
— Intelligence Quotient
IYKWIM
— If You Know What I Mean
NAVY
— Never Again Volunteer Yourself
FIFO
— First In, First Out
CCTV
— Closed-circuit television
WRT
— "With respect to", especially in fields such as Mathematics.
LIFO
— Last In, First Out
POV
— Point Of View
OBTW
— Oh By the Way
AC
— Alternating Current
Y/N
— Yes/No
ALCON
— All Concerned
PS
— PostScript
CR
— Carriage Return
R&D
— Research & Development
COA
— Course Of Action
CRT
— Cathode Ray Tube (type of TV)
FAQ
— Frequently Asked Questions (sometimes Pronounced Fak)
MTBF
— Mean Time Before Failure
YABSA
— Yet Another Bloody Stupid Acronym
API
— Application Programming Interface
TQM
— Total Quality Management
BTU
— British Thermal Unit
OBEX
— Object Exchange Protocol
PW
— Password
NPV
— Net Present Value {economics}
AAA
— American Automobile Association
CEO
— Chief Executive Officer
WX
— Weather
TBD
— To Be Determined
EU
— European Union (1994; formerly referred to as the EEC or EC)
BB
— Bulletin Board
OJT
— On the Job Training
ACCT
— Account
AMD
— Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (producer of computer chips)
DOA
— dead on arrival
SME
— Subject Matter Expert
ATTN
— Attention
EST
— Eastern Standard Time
CMOS
— Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
VIP
— Very Important Person
BMW
— Bayerische Motoren Werke (Bavarian Motor Works)
CTRL
— Control
ACK
— Acknowledge (telecommunications; Cf. NAK)
JIT
— Just in time
ARPA
— Advanced Research Projects Agency (made early internet)
CAPTCHA
— Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
ALU
— Arithmetic Logic Unit
ADSL
— Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
SOW
— Statement Of Work
AMP
— Amplifier
AM
— Amplitude Modulation
EOF
— End Of File
COD
— Cash On Delivery
OBTWIAVBP
— Obligatory the World Is A Very Big Place
OT
— Overtime
NCO
— Non-Commissioned Officer
DARPA
— Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (US)
CAD
— Computer Aided Designer
AWOL
— Absent Without Leave
PVT
— Private
PGP
— Pretty Good Privacy (encryption)
BTDT
— Been There, Done That
ACE
— Access Control Entry
CD
— Compact Disc
CRM
— Customer Relationship Management
ESA
— European Space Agency
DEPT
— Department
TBC
— To Be Confirmed
SWAG
— Scientific Wild Ass Guess
BIT
— Binary Digit (either 0 Or 1)
AM
— Ante Meridian
UFO
— Unidentified Flying Object
ITR
— Internet Talk Radio
AMP
— Ampere
PLMK
— Please Let Me Know. An example of an abbreviation designed with the aim of saving time for the writer, but which often turns out to be a false economy when the reader doesn't understand the request. (Ack B Butcher)
FBI
— Federal Bureau of Investigation
NDA
— Non-Disclosure Agreement
AGC
— Automatic Gain Control
EST
— Established
SQ
— Square
ISDN
— Integrated Services Digital Network
DDOS
— Distributed Denial of Service
BBS
— Bulletin Board System
OTOH
— On The Other Hand
DHCP
— Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
CTR
— Center
CDT
— Central Daylight Time
RFC
— Request For Comment
ACLU
— American Civil Liberties Union
ACME
— A Company that Makes Everything :-)
AC
— annual closing
FFT
— Fast Fourier Transform
EOL
— End Of Life
BLK
— Black
WYSIWYG
— What You See Is What You Get (pronounced Wizzy-wig. See Entry For Derived Acronyms)
DOS
— Disk Operating System
APB
— All Points Bulletin
KISS
— Keep It Simple Stupid
KIA
— Killed in Action
ATC
— Air traffic control
CMS
— Content Management System
BTR
— Better
CST
— Central Standard Time (UTC-6 Hours)
CO
— Company
DJ
— Disc Jockey
IOW
— In Other Words
OTP
— One Time Password
UOM
— Unit Of Measure
ESRB
— Entertainment Software Rating Board
PNP
— Plug aNd Play
SNAFU
— Situation Normal All Fouled Up
CPC
— Cost Per Click-through
WIP
— Work in Process
DCOM
— Distributed Component Object Model
ATA
— Actual Time of Arrival
NG
— No Good
CIR
— Committed Information Rate (Frame Relay)
CC
— Crowd Control (gaming)
AK
— Alaska
DLL
— Dynamic Link Library (computer file)
LUN
— Logical Unit Number
DNS
— Domain Name Service
BIO
— Biological
VC
— Venture Capital
APP
— Application
ACU
— Army Combat Uniform
DWI
— Driving While Intoxicated
EOT
— End Of Transmission
DSL
— Digital Subscriber Line
VM
— Voice Mail
ONNA
— Oh No Not Again
PHAT
— Pretty Hot And Tempting (warning To Others)
DZ
— Drop Zone
MIN
— Minute
SYT
— Sweet Young Thing
CLI
— Command line Interface (Cabletron)
MIPS
— Millions of Instructions Per Second
IP
— Intellectual Property
NPC
— Non-Player Character
DL
— Download
SSID
— Service set identifier (Wi-Fi)
SFMJI
— Sorry For My Jumping In
EQ
— Emotional Quotient
P2P
— Peer to Peer (as in music file sharing systems like KaZaA)
UAV
— Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
MC
— Master of Ceremonies
OOAD
— Object Oriented Analysis and Design
WILCO
— Will Comply
BAK
— Back At Keyboard
XFER
— Transfer
BB
— Big Brother
MHS
— Message Handling System (electronic)
AGP
— Accelerated Graphics Port
CNN
— Cable News Network's
CYA
— Cover Your Associates
B2B
— Business to Businesse
BOOTP
— Bootstrap Protocol
PVC
— Permanent Virtual Circuit (ATM)
DAU
— Dumb Ass User
BBC
— British Broadcasting Corporation
BO
— Body Odor
BO
— Back Off
SOHO
— Small Office Home Office
OOTB
— Out Of The Box
COA
— Certificate Of Authenticity
NRN
— No Reply Necessary
PSA
— Public Service Announcement (radio/TV Term)
CIA
— Central Intelligence Agency
TM
— Trademark
MIMO
— Multiple Input, Multiple Output
KBD
— Keyboard
CC
— Credit Card
FBW
— Fly By Wire
YACC
— Yet Another Compiler-Compiler
EOE
— Equal Opportunity Employer
AT&T
— American Telephone & Telegraph
NA
— Not Available
CDR
— Compact Disc Recordable
DBCS
— Double-Byte Character Set
DEA
— Drug Enforcement Administration (U.S. Department of Justice)
BMT
— Basic Military Training
ETD
— Estimated Time of Departure
OP
— Operator
PSP
— PlayStation Portable
ACPT
— Accept
RMB
— Right Mouse Button
RPG
— Role Playing Game
NL
— New Line
PPL
— Pay Per Lead
TOC
— Table of Contents
TIA
— Thanks in advance
CFL
— Canadian Football League
CHK
— Check
N/A
— Not Available
AV
— Anti-Virus
TTL
— Time To Live
NIMH
— Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni Is The Chemical Symbol For Nickel)
AIM
— Aol Instant Messege
WOW
— World of Warcraft
BT
— British Telecommunications
BIOS
— Basic Input Output System
UGC
— User Generated Content
BCP
— Best Current Practice
PDQ
— Pretty Damn Quick
MOTD
— Message of the Day
PTB
— Powers That Be
PM
— post meridian
ADN
— Advanced Digital Network
PMFJI
— Pardon Me For Jumping In (same As Above)
MOO
— MUD Object Oriented
UFN
— Until Further Notice
ELO
— Electric Light Orchestra
BET
— Black Entertainment Television
ESP
— Extra Sensory Perception
THD
— Total Harmonic Distortion
D/L
— Download
DVD
— Digital Versatile Disc
CMD
— Command
QOTD
— Quote of the Day
TMTOWTDI
— There's More Than One Way To Do It (from Perl)
RTS
— Ready To Send
BLOG
— Web Log
JBOD
— Just a Bunch Of Disks/Drives
SW
— Software (SFTWE Preferred)
ISS
— International Space Station
ATK
— Attack
MGMT
— Management
EOL
— End Of Line
BER
— Beyond Economical Repair
VBR
— Variable Bit Rate (ATM)
LKG
— Last Known Good
BRS
— Big Red Switch
AIM
— AOL Institutent Messenger
ISWYM
— I See What You Mean
ALT
— Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres
SYSOP
— System Operator
MUD
— Multi-User Dungeon (gaming)
MODEM
— Modulator-Demodulator
UAE
— Unrecoverable Application Error
CES
— Consumer Electronics Show
DA
— District Attorney
ISTR
— I Seem To Recall
AD
— Air Defense
LA
— Los Angeles
RTV
— Return To Vendor
DRM
— Digital Rights Management
DOS
— Denial Of Service
PC
— Player Character
NPI
— No Pun Intended
MS
— The Company Microsoft
TTS
— Text To Speech
YT
— YouTube
BAD
— Broken as designed
DAW
— Digital Audio Workstation
LBL
— Label
MIA
— Missing In Action
BYOD
— Bring Your Own Device
DUPE
— Duplicate
ETC
— Et Cetera
CCNA
— Cisco Certified Network Associated
ACRONYM
— Abbreviation by CROping Names that Yield Meaning
AV
— Audio/Video
TANSTAAFL
— There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (coined By Author Robert A. Heinlein In His The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress)
BOF
— Birds of a Feather
FDR
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
CSS
— Cascade Style Sheet
DST
— Daylight Saving Time
EA
— Electronic Arts Inc (NASDAQ Stock Exchange [NASDAQ])
TEL
— Telephone
N/A
— Not Acceptable
CPI
— characters per inch
CO
— Commanding officer
ETX
— End of Text
POV
— Privately Owned Vehicle
OTTH
— On the Third Hand
NOP
— No Operation
DBR
— Damaged Beyond Repair
DMCA
— Digital Millennium Copyright Act
2
— Too Add
BO
— Back Office
SF
— Science Fiction
EP
— Extended Play
WORM
— Write-Once, Read-Many
NMI
— No Middle Initial
LTR
— Letter
SLR
— Single Lens Reflex
AP
— Associated Press
PMPO
— Peak Music Power Output
UART
— Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter
LTO
— Linear Tape-Open
POTS
— Plain Old Telephone System
MMORPG
— Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
TBA
— To Be Announcede
DM
— Dungeon Master
DPI
— Dots per inch.
WAB
— Windows Address Book
MRU
— Most Recently Used
BT
— BitTorrent
CG
— Computer Graphics
MFT
— Master File Table
MORF
— Male Or Female ?
AA
— Automobile Association (UK)
RC
— Remote Control
OOI
— Out of Interest
DMV
— Department of Motor Vehicles
AOM
— Age of Mythology
SERP
— Search Engine Results Positioning
DVR
— Digital Video Recorder
LRU
— Least Recently Used
AGP
— Advanced Graphics Port
LEP
— Light Emitting Polymer
SFF
— Small-Form-Factor
UCE
— Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail
DOF
— degree of freedom
EOC
— End Of Conversion
CIL
— critical items list
SITD
— Still In The Dark
TCO
— Taken Care Of
OOO
— Out Of Order
ONNTA
— Oh No, Not This Again
EDD
— Estimated Delivery Date
SFAIAA
— So Far As I Am Aware
BWQ
— Buzz Word Quotient
SEP
— Someone Else's Problem
NNTP
— Network News Transfer Protocol
MUSH
— Multi-User Shared Hallucination
WYSBYGI
— What You See Before You Get It
CDC
— Cult of the Dead Cow (hacker group)
NAND
— Not And
ED
— Erase Display
MOSPF
— Multicast Open Shortest Path First
RT
— Real Time (R/T Preferred)
OTA
— Over The Air
SWALK
— Sealed With A Loving Kiss
SLP
— Super Long Play
SWAK
— Sealed With A Kiss
WT
— Without Thinking
UBE
— Unsolicited Bulk Email
NX
— No Execute (Microsoft)
MBM
— Magnetic Bubble Memory
CTP
— Computer to plate
SP
— Service Provider
DVI
— Digital Visual Interface
DWIM
— Do What I Mean
EAD
— Encoded Archival Description
LTR
— Letter ruling
EMS
— Emergency medical service
JAM
— Just A Minute
RTT
— Round Trip Timer
M2M
— Machine to Machine, Mobile
DCF
— Department of Children and Families
MUD
— Multi-User Dimension
AIW
— As It Was
IRMFI
— I Reply Merely for Information
WTC
— World Trade Center
BBEG
— Big Bad Evil Guy
CTF
— Capture The Flag
WNOHGB
— Where No One Has Gone Before
TEI
— Total Economic Impact
CS
— Counter-Strike (game)
CUA
— Commonly Used Acronym
CE
— Common Era (substitute for AD)
SOTA
— State Of The Art
APC
— Armoured personnel carrier
ITSM
— IT Service Management
CC
— Country Code
LIU
— LAN Interface Unit
EMP
— Electro Magnetic Pulse
NYCTMI
— Now You Come to Mention It
MG
— Machine Gun
SEP
— Signalling End Point
DMY
— Day Month Year
TNPP
— Telocator Network Paging Protocol
RTFI
— Read The Fucking Instructions
NTK
— Nice to Know
TTFF
— Time To First Fix
TNG
— The Next Generation (Star Trek)
PG
— Parental Guidance
AFAIR
— As Far As I Recall
Q
— Queue
AIW
— As It Were
LFS
— Large File Support
WTTM
— Without Thinking Too Much
ROFLMAO
— Rolling On the Floor Laughing My Ass Off
AMD
— An Air Movement Device
LWB
— Long wheel base
ROTFLBTC
— Rolling On The Floor Laughing and Biting The Carpet
BING
— But It's Not Google
SIMMS
— Single Inline Memory Modules
SPAM
— Send Phenomenal Amounts of Mail
SMOP
— Small Matter of Programming
BIO
— Biological Industry Organization
IRA
— Irish Republican Army see PIRA
BIO
— Biological Informatics Office
ANC
— African National Congress
SPKR
— Speaker
CBC
— Canadian Broadcasting Corporationration
BC
— Before Christmas
ISDN
— It Still Does Nothing
LE
— Law Enforcement
CDMA
— Code Divisionsion Multiple Access
DLTM
— Digital Line Termination Module
ATK
— Attack Tool Kit
XC
— Cross Connect
TWAIN
— Technology Without An Interesting Name
SDK
— Software Developer's Kit
SHTSI
— Somebody Had to Say It
NMN
— No Middle Name
DAU
— Dümmster Anzunehmender User
CC
— Courtesy Copy (email; for those who never used carbon paper)
BY
— Busy
TRATEOTU
— The Restaurant At the End of the Universe
LBL
— Labour Behind the Label
SF
— San Francisco
IWFM
— It Works for Me
WINDOWS
— Will Install Needless Data On Whole System. Classic ironic 'backronym'. Perhaps a little unfair, but need we say more?...
ATLA
— Another Three-Letter Acronym
TXT
— Text File (filename extension)
PPN
— Programmer Project Number
LBL
— Large Box Label
U/L
— Upload
UDIAGS
— Und Das Ist Auch Gut So
DEMMS
— DEMM'S is an acronym for Daniel Ellis, Melissa Meddaugh's
RL
— Rocket Launcher
LTUAE
— Life, the Universe and Everything
BI
— Breidbart Index
RTFF
— Read The Fine Faq
UTSL
— Use The Source, Luke
NTK
— Need-To-Know
TRT
— The Right Thing
ROFLGO
— Rolling On the Floor Laughing Guts Out
CHK
— Checkpoint kinase
ROFLASTC
— Rolling On the Floor Laughing And Scaring The Cat
AFOT
— Ass Fucked on Tinder
TERAC
— Trained Educated Responsible Armed Citizen
LC
— Landing Craft
VLAN-XC
— VLAN Cross Connect
LTR
— Letters to Rob
TOT
— Totally Off-Topic
SPAM
— Spiced Pork and hAM
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