| 3COM |
COMputer,
COMmunication, COMpatibility |
| 3M |
Minnesota Mining
and Manufacturing |
| 4-H |
Head, Heart, Hands,
and Health |
| A&P |
The Great Atlantic
& Pacific Tea Company |
| AA |
Alcoholics Anonymous |
| AAA |
American Automobile
Association |
| AARP |
American Association
of Retired Persons |
| ABC |
American Broadcasting
Company |
| ABR |
Available Bit
Rate |
| ADP |
Automated Data
Processing |
| AFL-CIO |
American Federation
of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations |
| AGP |
Accelerated Graphics
Port |
| AI |
Artificial Intelligence |
| AKA |
Also Known As |
| ALGOL |
ALGOrithmic Language |
| AMD |
Advanced Micro
Device |
| AM/FM |
Amplitude Modulation/Frequency
Modulation |
| AMOCO |
AMerican Oil COmpany |
| ANSI |
American National
Standards Institute |
| ASAP |
As Soon As Possible |
| ASCII |
American Standard
Code for Information Interchange |
| AT |
Advanced Technology |
| AT&T |
American Telephone
and Telegraph |
| ATF |
Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms |
| ATM |
Asynchronous Transfer
Mode |
| ATM |
Automated Teller
Machine |
| ATP |
Adenine Triphosphate |
| AWOL |
Absent Without
Leave |
| BASF |
Baden Aniline
and Soda Factory |
| BASIC |
Beginner's All-Purpose
Symbolic Instruction Code |
| BB |
Ball-Bearing |
| BBC |
British Broadcasting
Corporation |
| BFD |
Big F**king Deal |
| BIOS |
Basic Input/Output
System |
| BLT |
Bacon, Lettuce,
Tomato |
| BMW |
Bavarian Motor
Works (на немски език: Bayrische Motor Werken) |
| BPOE |
Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks |
| BVD |
Bradley, Voorhies,
and Day |
| BYOB |
Bring Your Own
Beer |
| CAD |
Computer-Aided
Design |
| CARE |
Cooperative for
American Relief Everywhere |
| CAT |
Computerized Axial
Tomography |
| CATV |
CAbel TeleVision |
| CB |
Citizen's Band |
| CBR |
Constant Bit Rate |
| CBS |
Columbia Broadcasting
System |
| CCD |
Charge-Coupled
Device |
| CD |
Compact Disc |
| CD-I |
Compact Disc -
Interactive |
| CD-R |
Compact Disc -
Recordable |
| CD-ROM |
Compact Disc -
Read-Only Memory |
| CD-RW |
Compact Disc -
ReWritable |
| CEO |
Chief Executive
Office |
| CGI |
Common Gateway
Interface |
| CGM |
Computer Graphic
Metafile |
| CIO |
Chairman-in-Office |
| CMY |
Cyan+Magenta+Yellow |
| CMYK |
Cyan+Magenta+Yellow+blacK |
| CNN |
Cable News Network |
| COBOL |
COmmon Business-Oriented
Language |
| CONELRAD |
CONtrol of Electronic-magnetic
RADiations |
| CONUS |
Continental United
States |
| CPR |
CardioPulmonary
Resuscitation |
| CPSU |
Communist Party
of the Soviet Union |
| CPU |
Central Processing
Unit |
| CSS |
Cascading Style
Sheets |
| CVS |
Consumer Value
Service |
| DAT |
Digital Audio
Tape |
| DB |
DataBase |
| DDT |
Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane |
| DEC |
Digital Equipment
Corporation |
| DECT |
Digital European
Cordless Telecommunications |
| DEW |
Distant Early
Warning |
| DMA |
Direct Memory
Access |
| DNA |
DeoxyriboNucleic
Acid |
| DNA |
Digital Network
Architecture |
| DNS |
Domain Name System |
| DOA |
Dead On Arrival |
| DOS |
Disk Operating
System |
| dpi (d.p.i.) |
Dots Per Inch |
| DTP |
DeskTop Publishing |
| DRAM |
Dynamic Random
Access Memory |
| DVD |
Digital Versatile
Disc |
| EAN |
European Article
Numering |
| EC |
European Community |
| EDP |
Electronic Data
Processing |
| EMU |
Extravehicular
Mobility Unit (Space Suit) |
| EPCOT |
Experimental Prototype
Community of Tomorrow |
| ER |
Emergency Room |
| ESA |
European Space
Agency |
| ESPN |
Entertainment
and Sports Programming Network |
| ESSO |
S.O. from Standard
Oil, the Rockefeller-owned oil company |
| ETA |
Estimated Time
of Arrival |
| EU |
European Union |
| Fannie Mae (from
FNMA) |
Federal National
Mortgage Association |
| FAQ |
Frequently Asked
Questions |
| FDD |
Floppy Disk Drive |
| FDIC |
Federal Depositors
Insurance Company |
| FEMA |
Federal Emergency
Management Agency |
| FICA |
Federal Insurance
Contributions Act |
| Flak |
FLiegerAbwehrKanonen
(Lit. aircraft defense gun.) |
| FM |
Frequency Modulation |
| FORTRAN |
FORmula TRANslation |
| FSU |
Former Soviet
Union |
| FTP |
File Transfer
Protocol |
| FUBAR |
"Fouled"
Up Beyond All Recognition |
| GAF |
General Aniline
and Film |
| GATT |
General Agreement
on Tariffs and Trade |
| GE |
General Electric |
| Gestapo |
GEheime STAatsPOlizei
(Lit. secret state police.) |
| GIF |
Graphics Interchange
Format |
| GIGO |
Garbage In, Garbage
Out |
| GM |
General Motors |
| GORP |
Good Old Raisin
Peanut (A camping food.) |
| GPS |
Global Positioning
System |
| GSM |
Global System
for Mobile telecommunications |
| GUI |
Graphical User
Interface |
| HBO |
Home Box Office
|
| HDD |
Hard Disk Drive |
| HDL/LDL |
High-Density Lipoprotein/Low-Density
Lipoprotein |
| HDPE |
High Density Polyethylene |
| HDTV |
High Definition
TeleVision |
| HIV |
Human Immunodefficiency
Virus |
| HP |
Hewlett Packard |
| HTML |
HyperText Markup
Language |
| HTTP |
HyperText Transfer
Prorocol |
| HUMVEE |
High Mobility
Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle |
| IBM |
International
Business Machines |
| Internet |
INTERconnected
computer NETworks |
| ICBM |
Inter-Continental
Ballistics Missile |
| ICC |
International
Chamber of Commerce |
| ICRC |
International
Committee for the Red Cross |
| IHOP |
International
House of Pancakes |
| INRI |
Iesus Nazarenenus
Rex Iudaeorum (Lit. Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews) |
| IP |
Internetwork Protocol |
| IRA |
Individual Retirement
Account |
| IRA |
Irish Republican
Army |
| ISBN |
International
Standard Book Number |
| ISDN |
Integrated Services
Digital Network |
| ISO |
International
Standards Organization, film-speed designation, formerly ASA |
| JPEG |
Joing Photographic
Experts Group |
| JPL |
Jet Propulsion
Laboratory |
| JVC |
Japan Victor Company |
| KFOR |
Kosovo Force |
| KGB |
Komitet Gosudarstvennoy
Bezopasnosti |
| KIA |
Killed In Action |
| KISS |
Keep It Simple,
Stupid |
| KJV |
King James Version |
| KLM |
Koninklijke Luchtvaart
Maatschappij (Lit. Royal Dutch Airline.) |
| KO |
Knock-out (TKO
being a technical knock-out.) |
| LAN |
Local Area Network |
| LASER |
Light Amplification
by Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
| LCD |
Liquid Crystal
Display |
| LDPE |
Low Density Polyethylene |
| LED |
Light-Emitting
Diode |
| lpi (l.p.i.) |
Lines Per Inch |
| M&M |
Mars & Murray |
| MASER |
Microwave Amplification
by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
| MASH |
Mobile Army Surgical
Hospital |
| MCI |
Microwave Communications
of America |
| MG |
Morris & Garash |
| MIA |
Missing in Action |
| MIDI |
Musical Instrument
Digital Interface |
| MiG |
MIkoyan and Gurevich,
Soviet military aircraft designers |
| MIME |
Multipurpose Internet
Mail Extension |
| MIPS |
Million of Instructions
Per Second |
| MIRV |
Multiple Independently-targeted
Re-entry Vehicle |
| MIT |
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology |
| MMX |
MultiMedia eXtension |
| MO |
Modus Operandi |
| Modem |
Modulator/Demodulator |
| MP |
Military Police |
| MPEG |
Motion Picture
Experts Group |
| MSN |
MicroSoft Network |
| MRI |
Magnetic Resonance
Imaging |
| NAACP |
National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People |
| NAC |
North Atlantic
Council |
| NASA |
National Aeronautics
and Space Administration |
| NATO |
North Atlantic
Treaty Organization |
| Nazi |
NAtional soZIalist |
| NB |
Nota Bene (лат.
обърни внимание) |
| NBA |
National Basketball
Association |
| NBC |
National Broadcasting
Company |
| NBC |
Nuclear, Biological
and Chemical Weapons |
| NCC |
Either Naval Classification
Code or Naval Construction Contract (From Star Trek, NCC-1701) |
| NEC |
Nippon Electronics
Corporation |
| Necco |
New England Confectionery
COmpany |
| NFL |
National Football
League |
| NHL |
National Hockey
League |
| NIMBY |
Not In My BackYard |
| Nitinol |
NIckel, TItanium,
and Naval Ordinance Laboratory |
| NL |
Natural Language |
| NMT |
Nordic Mobile
Telephone |
| N.N. |
Nomen nescio (лат.
неизвестно лице) |
| NORAD |
North American
Air Defense Command |
| NORELCO |
NORth AmErican
PhiLlips COmpany |
| NOW |
National Organization
of Women |
| NPR |
National Public
Radio |
| NSA |
National Security
Administration |
| OCR |
Optical Character
Recognition |
| OLE |
Object Linking
and Embedding of objects |
| OPEC |
Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries |
| OS |
Operating System |
| OSCE |
Organisation for
Security and Cooperation in Europe |
| OSHA |
Occupational Safety
and Health Administration |
| OTAN |
Organisation du
Traite de l'Atlantique Nord (=NATO) |
| Pakistan |
Punjab, Afghan
border states, Kashmir, Sind, and BaluchisTAN |
| Pap |
George Papanicolaou,
inventor of the test |
| Parsec |
Parallax second |
| PBS |
Public Broadcasting
System |
| PDF |
Portable Document
Format |
| PDQ |
Pretty Damned
Quick |
| PfP |
Partnership for
Peace |
| PIN |
Personal Identification |
| pH |
Pourvoir Hydrogene
(Lit. power of hydrogen.) |
| PnP |
Plug and Play |
| P.O. |
Post Office |
| PO |
Private Office |
| POTS |
Plain Old Telephone
Service (Basic service used by local exchange telephone companies.) |
| POTUS |
President of the
United States |
| POW |
Prisoner of War |
| PPP |
Point to Point
Protocol |
| P.S. |
Post scriptum
(лат. след написаното) |
| PSI |
Pounds per square
inch |
| PT |
Patrol Torpedo |
| PVC |
PolyVinyl Chloride |
| PX |
Post eXchange |
| Q.E.D. |
Quod erat demonstrandum
(Lit. Which was to be demonstrated.) |
| QANTAS |
Queensland And
Northern Territory Aerial Service |
| Radar |
RAdio Detection
And Ranging |
| RAM |
Random Access
Memory |
| RCA |
Radio Corporation
of America |
| RDA |
Recommended Daily
Allowance |
| RFD |
Rural-Free Delivery |
| RGB |
Red+Blue+Green |
| Rh |
Rhesus monkey
factor |
| RKO |
Radio-Keith-Orpheum |
| RNA |
Ribonucleic Acid |
| ROM |
Read-Only Memory |
| ROTC |
Reserve Officers
Training Corps |
| ROY G. BIV |
Red Orange Yellow
Green Blue Indigo Violent (Rainbow Mnemonic) |
| RSVP |
Respondez S'il
Vous Plait |
| S.A. |
Sine Anno (лат.
без година) |
| Saab |
Svenska Aeroplan
Ab. (Lit. Swedish Airplanes, Inc.) |
| SAM |
Surface-to-Air
Missile |
| SAR |
Search and Rescue |
| SASE |
Self-Addressed
Stamped Envelope |
| SCMADS |
State County Municipal
Apprehensive Data System (The computers cops have in their cars that hold
information on people.) |
| SCSI |
Small Computer
Serial Interface |
| SCTV |
Second City TeleVision |
| SCUBA |
Self-Contained
Underwater Breathing Apparatus |
| SDI |
Stratigic Defence
Initiative |
| SEAL |
SEa, Air, and
Land |
| SETI |
Search for ExtraTerrestrial
Intelligence |
| SG |
Secretary General |
| SHAZAM |
от имената Solomon,
Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles и Mercury |
| SNAFU |
Situation Normal--All
"Fouled" Up |
| SOP |
Standard Operating
Procedure |
| S.O.S. |
Save Our Souls
|
| Soweto |
SOuthWEst TOwnship |
| SPF |
Sun Protection
Factor |
| SRO |
Standing Room
Only |
| STD |
Sexually Transmitted
Disease |
| STP |
Scientifically
Treated Petroleum (also, Standard Temperature and Pressure) |
| SUNOCO |
SUN Oil COmpany |
| SWAK |
Sealed With A
Kiss |
| SWAT |
Special Weapons
And Tactics |
| TANSTAAFL |
There ain't no
such thing as a free lunch |
| TARFU |
Things Are Really
"Fouled" Up |
| TBA |
To Be Announced |
| TCP/IP |
Transfer Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TDK |
Tokyo Denki Kogaku |
| TGIF |
Thank God It's
Friday |
| TIFF |
Tag Image File
Format |
| TLA |
Three Letter Acronym
;) |
| TNT |
TriNitroToluene |
| TNTC |
Too Numerous To
Count |
| TTFN |
Ta-ta for now |
| TTY |
Teletypewriter |
| TWAIN |
Technology Without
An Interesting Name
(A computer interface to acquire images through a device such as a scanner.) |
| UHF |
Ultra-High Frequency |
| UN |
United Nations |
| UNESCO |
United Nations
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization |
| UNICEF |
United Nations
International Children's Emergency Fund |
| URL |
Uniform Resource
Locator |
| VCR |
Video Cassette
Recorder |
| VHF |
Very High Frequency |
| VHS |
Video Home System |
| VISTA |
Volunteers In
Service to America, a Great Society agency |
| VSOP |
Very Superior
Old Pale, a brandy rating |
| WAC |
Women's Army Corps |
| WAN |
Wide Area Network |
| WAVES |
Women Accepted
for Volunteer Emergency Service |
| WC |
Water Closet |
| WD-40 |
Water Displacement,
Formula 40 |
| WHO |
World Health Organisation |
| WMF |
Windows MetaFile |
| WNL |
Within Normal
Limits |
| WTC |
World Trade Center |
| WYSIWYG |
What You See Is
What You Get |
| Y2K |
Year 2000 |
| YKK |
Yoshida Kogyo
Kabushiki Kaisha (Zipper Company) |
| ZIP |
Zone Improvement
Plan |