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Схема чипсета
Список сокращений
2D - 2-Dimensional
3D - 3-Dimensional
3M - Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing
4GL - Fourth Generation Language
4H - Head, Heart, Hands, Health
A - Aftermath
A&M - Agricultural and Mechanical
A/D - Analog to Digital converter (see ADC)
A/P - Accounts Payable
A/R - Accounts Receivable
AA - Affirmative Action committee
AA - Alcoholics Anonymous
AA - Antiaircraft Artillery
AA - Associate in Accounting
AA - Automobile Association (in England)
AAA - American Automobile Association
AAAAAA - the Association for the Abolition of Abused Abbreviations and Asinine Acronyms
AAAL - American Academy of Arts and Letters
AAAS - American Association for the Advancement of Science - A.A.A.S
AAII - American Association of Individual Investors
AAMSI - American Association for Medical Systems Informatics
AAP - Affirmative Action Program
AARC - Anglo-American Cataloging Rules
AB - ABle seaman
ABA - American Bar Association
ABA - American Basketball Association
ABA - American Booksellers Association
ABBR - ABBReviation
ABC - American Broadcasting Company
AC - Alternating Current (ac, see also DC)
AC - Ante Christum (before Christ)
AC - Ante Cibum (before meals)
ACAA - Agricultural Conservation and Adjustment Administration
ACAWS - Advisory, Caution, And Warning System
ACBL - American Contract Bridge League
ACC - Argonne Code Center
ACCS - Army Command and Control System
ACD - Automatic Call Distributing system
ACE - Automatic Calibration and Equalization
ACHEFT - Automated ClearingHouse Electronic Funds Transfer
ACK - ACKnowledge
ACL - Advanced Cmos Logic
ACM - Association for Computing Machinery
ACO - Acronym Control Officer
ACS - Advanced Communications System
ACTS - Advanced Communications Technology Satellite
ACTS - Automatic Coin Telephone Service
ACU - Alarm Control Unit
ACW - Alternating Continuous Waves
AD - After Date
AD - Anno Domini (in the year of our Lord)
AD - Application Development
AD&D - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
ADB - A DeBugger
ADB - Apple Desktop Bus
ADC - Analog to Digital Converter
ADCI - Automatic Display Call Indicator
ADF - Automatic Direction Finder
ADM - ADMiral
ADP - Adenosine Di-Phosphate
ADP - Administrative Data Processing
ADP - Advanced Data Processing
ADS - Application Development System
ADS - Automatic Voice System
ADSR - Attack Decay Sustain Release
ADT - Abstract Data Type
ADT - Atlantic Daylight Time
AE - Application Execution
AEA - American Electronics Association
AEC - Atomic Energy Commission
AEF - American Expeditionary Force (see BEF)
AEGIS - Advanced Electronic Guidance and Instrumentation System
AF - Adventures in Fantasy
AF - Air Force
AF - Audio Frequency
AFADS - Automatic Force Adjustment Data System
AFATDS - Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System
AFB - Air Force Base
AFC - American Football Conference
AFC - Automatic Flight Control
AFC - Automatic Frequency Control
AFCAC - Air Force Computer Acquisition Center
AFCC - Air Force Communications Command
AFGE - American Federation of Government Employees
AFIPS - American Federation of Information Processing Societies
AFL - American Federation of Labor
AFL - American Football League
AFLCIO - American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
AFNOR - Association Francaise de NORmalization
AFP - Appletalk Filing Protocol
AFS - Andrew File System
AFSC - Air Force Systems Command
AFSCME - American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
AFTRA - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
AG - Adjutant General
AG - Arcade Game
AG - Attorney General
AGCT - Army General Classification Test
AH - Avalon Hill (major war game manufacturer)
AHL - American Hockey League
AHQ - Air HeadQuarters
AI - Artificial Intelligence
AIAA - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
AIC - Automatic Intercept Center
AID - Agency for International Development
AIDDE - Ames' Interactive Dynamic Display Editor
AIDS - Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome
AIOD - Automatic Identification Outward Dialing
AIS - Automatic Intercept System
AIX - Advanced Interactive eXecutive (unix)
AK - Alaska
AKA - Also Known As
AL - Alabama
AL - American League (baseball)
ALA - American Library Association
ALA - Automobile Legal Association
ALBM - Air-to-Land Ballistic Missile
ALC - Automatic Load Control
ALGOL - ALGOrithmic Language
ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit
AM - Amplitude Modulation
AM - Ante Meridiem (before noon)
AMA - American Medical Association
AMA - Automatic Message Accounting
AMARC - Automatic Message Accounting Recording Center
AMBA - Association of Master of Business Administration
AMC - Albany Medical College
AMD - Advanced Micro Devices
AMEX - AMerican EXpress
AMORC - Ancient Mystic Order Rosae Crucis
AMP - Adenosine MonoPhosphate
AMPAS - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
AMRAAM - Advanced Medium Range Air-To-Air Missile
AMSAT - radio AMateur SATellite corp.
AMU - Atomic Mass Unit
AMVET - AMerican VETeran
ANA - American Nurses Association
ANC - All Number Calling
ANC - Army Nurse Corps
ANDF - Architecture-Neural Distribution Format
ANF - Automatic Number Forwarding
ANG - Air National Guard
ANI - Automatic Number Identification
ANL - Argonne National Laboratory
ANOVA - ANalysis Of VAriance
ANPA - American Newspaper Publishers Association
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
ANZUS - Australia, New Zealand, United States
AO - Account Of
AOL - Absent Over Leave (see AWOL)
AOS - Academic Operating System
AP - Additional Premium
AP - All Points
AP - Associated Press
APA - All Points Addressable
APB - All Points Bulletin
APDA - Apple Programmers and Developers Association
API - Application Programming Interface
APICS - American Production and Inventory Control Society
APO - Army Post Office
APP - Applications Portability Profile
APPC - Advanced Peer-to-Peer Communications
APR - Annual Percentage Rate (as in loan interest)
APSE - Ada Programming Support Environment
AQ - Accumulator-Quotient register
AR - Address Register
AR - Arkansas
ARC - American Red Cross
ARCNET - Attached Resource Computer local area NETwork
ARO - After Receipt of Order
ARPA - Advanced Research Projects Agency
ARPANET - Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork
ARRL - Amateur Radio Relay League
ARV - American Revised Version
AS - Anglo-Saxon
ASA - Acetyl Salicylic Acid
ASAP - As Soon As Possible
ASC - Accredited Standards Committee
ASCAP - American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
ASCC - Automatic Sequence-Controlled Calculator
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASDIC - Anti-Submarine Detection Investigation Committee (British for sonar)
ASDSP - Application-Specific Digital Signal Processor
ASG - Automated Sciences Group
ASHRAE - Amer. Soc. of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-cond. Engineers, inc.
ASIC - Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASP - Aggregated Switch Procurement
ASSR - Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
AST - Atlantic Standard Time
ASV - American Standard Version
AT - Atlantic Time
AT&T - American Telephone & Telegraph
ATA - Automatic Trouble Analysis
ATACC - Advanced Tactical Air Command Central
ATB - Advanced Technology Bomber (stealth bomber)
ATC - Air Traffic Control
ATF - Advanced Technology Fighter
ATIS - Atherton Tools Interface Specification
ATM - Automatic Teller Machine
ATOMS - AT&t Optimized Materials Simulator
ATP - Adenosine TriPhosphate
ATPCO - Airline Tariff Publishing COmpany
ATTIS - American Telephone and Telegraph Information Systems
ATV - All Terrain Vehicle
AUS - Army of the United States
AUTODIN - AUTOmatic DIgital Network
AUTOVON - AUTOmatic VOice Network
AV - AudioVisual
AVLIS - Atomic Vapor Laser Isotope Separation
AWACS - Airborne Warnings And Control Systems
AWEA - American Wind Energy Association
AWK - al Aho, peter Weinberger, brian Kernighan (pattern scanning language)
AWOL - Absent WithOut Leave (also Absent Without Official Leave) (see AOL)
AZ - Arizona
ApJ - Astrophysical Journal - Ap J
B - Book
BA - Bachelor of Arts
BACH - Business Alliance for Commerce in Hemp
BAFO - Best And Final Offer
BASIC - Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BB - Bases on Balls
BB - Best of Breed
BB - Bunnies and Burrows
BBA - Bachelor of Business Administration
BBB - Better Business Bureau
BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation
BBL - Barrel
BBN - Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
BC - Battlecars
BC - Before Christ
BC - British Columbia
BC/BS - Blue Cross/Blue Shield
BCD - Bad Conduct Discharge
BCD - Binary Coded Decimal
BCDIC - Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
BCE - Before the Common Era (substitute for BC)
BCP - Byte Controlled Protocols
BCPL - Basic Combined Programming Language
BCS - Bachelor of Commercial Science
BCS - Binary Compatibility Standard
BCS - Boston Computer Society
BCS - British Computer Society
BD - Bachelor of Divinity
BD - Bank Draft
BD - Bills Discounted
BD&D - Basic Dungeons & Dragons
BDF - Binary Distribution Format
BDT - Billing Data Transmitter
BE - Bill of Exchange
BEF - British Expeditionary Force (see AEF)
BELCORE - BELL COmmunications REsearch
BEM - Bug Eyed Monster
BENELUX - BElgium, NEtherlands, and LUXembourg
BER - Bit Error Rate
BEST - Borland Enhanced Support and Training
BF - Brought Forward
BFA - Bachelor of Fine Arts
BFD - Big F***ing Deal
BFHD - Big Fat Hairy Deal
BH - Boot Hill
BHP - Brake HorsePower
BICS - Building Industry Consulting Services
BID - Bis In Die (twice a day)
BIOC - Break Into Other Computers
BIOS - Basic Input Output System
BIS - Business Information System
BLAST - BLocked ASynchronous Transmission
BLF - Busy Line Field
BLT - BLock Transfer
BLT - Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato
BM - Basal Metabolism
BM - Bowel Movement
BMA - Bank Marketing Association
BMEWS - Ballistic Missile Early Warning
BMO - Ballistic Missile Office
BMOC - Big Man On Campus
BMR - Basal Metabolism Rate
BNF - Bachus-Naur Form
BO - Body Odor
BO - Branch Office
BO - Buyer's Option
BOC - Bell Operating Company
BOD - Board Of Directors
BOF - Birds Of a Feather
BOM - Bill Of Materials
BOQ - Bachelor Officers' Quarters
BOS - Business Office Supervisor
BOSIX - Biin Open System Interface eXtension
BP - Blood Pressure
BP - British Pharmacopoeia
BPI - Bits Per Inch
BPOE - Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
BPS - Bits Per Second
BR - Bills Receivable
BR - British Rail
BRIEF - Basic Reconfigurable Interactive Editing Facility
BRL - army Ballistic Research Laboratory
BRS - Bibliographic Retrieval Service
BS - Bachelor of Science
BS - Bill of Sale
BSA - Birmingham Small Arms
BSA - Boy Scouts of America
BSC - Binary Synchronous Communication
BSD - Berkeley Software Distribution
BSN - Bachelor of Science in Nursing
BSS - Block Started by Symbol
BSTJ - Bell System Technical Journal
BSc - Bachelor of SCience
BTL - Bell Telephone Laboratories
BTO - Bachman Turner Overdrive
BTU - British Thermal Unit
BTW - By The Way
BThU - British Thermal Unit
BU - Bushido
BV - Blessed Virgin
BWI - Baltimore-Washington International (airport)
BWI - British West Indies
BX - Base eXchange (see PX)
Bit - BInary digiT
C - programming language, successor to BCPL
C&S - Chivalry & Sorcery
C/O - in Care Of
CA - California
CA - Chartered Accountant
CA - Chief Accountant
CA - Chronological Age
CAB - Civil Aeronautics Board
CACM - Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery
CAD - Computer Aided Design (sometimes seen as CAD/CAM)
CAE - Common Applications Environment
CAE - Computer Aided Engineering
CAIS - Common Apse Interface Specification
CALS - Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistics Support
CAM - Computer Aided Management
CAM - Computer Aided Manufacturing (sometimes seen as CAD/CAM)
CAM - Content Addressable Memory
CAMA - Centralized Automatic Message Accounting
CAMP - Campaign Against Marijuana Planting
CAP - Civil Air Patrol
CAP - Columbia Appletalk Package
CAR - Contents of the Address part of the Register
CASE - Computer Aided Software Engineering
CASSIS - Classification and Search Support Information System
CAT - Computer-Aided Tomography
CATIS - Common Applications and Tools Integration Services
CATV - Community Antenna TeleVision
CAVU - Ceiling And Visibility Unlimited
CB - Citizens Band radio
CBC - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CBD - Cash Before Delivery
CBD - Commerce Business Daily
CBEMA - Computer & Business Equipment Manufacturers Association
CBR - Chemical, Biological, Radiological warfare
CBS - Columbia Broadcasting System
CBW - Chemical and Biological Warfare
CC - Carbon Copy
CCA - Computer Corporation of America
CCC - Canadian Committee on Cataloging
CCC - Civil(ian) Conservation Corps
CCC - Command, Control, and Communications
CCCCM - CCC CounterMeasures (sometimes C^3CM)
CCCI - Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence
CCD - Charge Coupled Device (see CID)
CCI - Computer Carrier Interrupt
CCI - Computer Consoles, Incorporated
CCIP - Continuously Computed Impact Point
CCIS - Common Channel Interoffice Signaling
CCITT - Comite' Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique
CCR - Commitment, Concurrency, and Recovery
CCR - Creedence Clearwater Revival
CCRP - Continuously Computed Release Point
CCSA - Common Control Switching Arrangement
CCTA - Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency
CCTV - Closed Circuit TeleVision
CD - Certificate of Deposit
CD - Civil Defense
CD - Compact Disk
CD-ROM - Compact Disk Read Only Memory
CDA - Call Data Accumulator
CDA - Compound Documents Architecture
CDC - Centers for Disease Control
CDC - Control Data Corporation, inc.
CDEV - Control panel DEVice
CDIAC - Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
CDO - Community Dial Office
CDR - CommanDeR
CDR - Contents of the Decrement part of the Register
CDT - Central Daylight Time
CDU - Control Display Unit
CE - Chemical Engineer
CE - Civil Engineer
CE - Common Era (substitute for AD)
CE - Corps of Engineers
CE - Customer Engineer
CEA - Council of Economic Advisors
CEA - County Education Authority
CEC - Commission of the European Communities
CED - Committee for Economic Development
CENS - Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Seclay
CENTO - CENtral Treaty Organization
CEO - Chief Executive Officer
CERN - organisation (formerly Conseil) Europeenne pour la Recherche Nucleaires
CERT - Computer Emergency Response Team
CEVI - Common Equipment Voltage Indicator
CF - Carry Forward
CF - Coin First payphone
CFC - Chloro-FluoroCarbon
CFC - Combined Federal Campaign
CFD - Computational Fluid Dynamics
CFI - Cost, Freight, and Insurance
CFL - Canadian Football League
CFO - Chief Financial Officer
CG - Coast Guard
CG - Commanding General
CG&E - Cincinnati Gas & Electric
CGA - Color Graphics Adapter
CGCT - Compagnie Generale de Constructions Telephoniques
CGE - Compagnie Generale d'Electricite
CH - Cardboard Heroes
CH - ClearingHouse
CH - CourtHouse
CH - Customs House
CHA - Champions
CHAP - CHAnnel Processor
CHI - Chill: Adventures into the Unknown
CHOTS - Corporate Headquarters Office Technology System
CHP - California Highway Patrol
CI - Cubic Inches
CIA - Central Intelligence Agency
CICA - Competition in Contracting Act
CICS - Customer Information Control System
CID - Central Institute for the Deaf
CID - Charge Injection Device (see CCD)
CID - Computer Integrated Design
CIDIN - Common Icao Data Interchange Network
CIM - Computer Integrated Manufacturing
CIO - Chief Information Officer
CISC - Complex Instruction Set Computer
CIT - California Institute of Technology
CIT - Case Institute of Technology (part of CWRU, Cleveland, OH)
CLASP - Comprehensive Logistics Automated Support Program
CLI - Command Line Interpreter
CLR - Combined Line and Recording
CLRC - Circuit Layout Record Card
CLU - Chartered Life Underwriter
CLUT - Color LookUp Table
CM - Congregation of the Mission
CMC - Communication Machinery Corp.
CMD - Centralized Message Distribution
CML - Current Model Logic
CMMU - Cache/Memory Management Unit
CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (see MOS)
CMRR - Common Mode Rejection Ratio
CMS - Circuit Maintenance System
CMSgt - Chief Master Sergeant
CMU - Carnegie-Mellon University
CMYK - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK
CN - Canadian National (railways)
CN/A - Customer Name / Address
CNN - Cable News Network
CNO - Chief of Naval Operations
CNR - Canadian National Railways
CNR - Carrier to Noise Ratio
CNS - Central Nervous System
CO - Cash Order
CO - Central Office
CO - Central Office (telephony)
CO - Colorado
CO - Commanding Officer
CO - Conscientious Objector
COB - Close Of Business
COBOL - COmmon Business Oriented Language
COC - Call of Cthulhu
COD - Collect On Delivery; Cash On Delivery
CODEC - COder-DECoder
COER - Central Office Equipment Report
COLA - Cost-Of-Living Allowance
COMAS - Central Office Maintenance and Administration System
COMPACT - COMmercial Product ACquisition Team
CONS - Connection-Oriented Networking Session
CORE - COntrolled Requirement Expression
CORN - COmputer Resource Nucleus
COS - Corporation for Open Systems
COSMIC - COmmon System Main InterConnecting frame
COSMIC - COmputer Software Management and Information Center
COSMOS - COmputer System for Mainframe OperationS
CP - Canadian Pacific
CP - Chemically Pure
CP - CoPy
CP - Command Post
CP - Command Processor
CP - the Canadian Press
CPA - Certified Public Accountant
CPFF - Cost Plus Fixed Fee
CPI - Characters Per Inch
CPI - Common Programming Interface
CPL - Combined Programming Language
CPM - Control Program for Microcomputers (sometimes CP/M)
CPO - Chief Petty Officer
CPO - Chief Post Office
CPO - Customer Premises Equipment
CPR - Canadian Pacific Railway
CPS - Characters Per Second
CPSR - Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
CPT - CaPTain
CPU - Central Processor Unit
CPW - Certified Public Weigher
CQ - Change of Quarters
CQ - Charge of Quarters
CR - Carriage Return (ASCII 15 octal)
CRAM - Card Random Access Memory
CRC - Chemical Rubber Company
CRC - Cyclical Redundancy Character
CREG - Concentrated Range Extension with Gain
CRT - Cathode Ray Tube (also generic reference to a terminal)
CRTC - Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
CS - Civil Servant
CS - Computer Science; Computing Science
CS - County Seat
CSA - Confederate States of America
CSAB - Computing Sciences Accreditation Board
CSACS - Centralized Status, Alarm and Control System
CSC - Computer Sciences Corporation
CSDC - Circuit Switched Digital Capability
CSF - Critical Success Factor
CSI - Commercial Systems Integration
CSIS - Canadian Security and Intelligence Service
CSL - Coin Supervising Link
CSM - Command Sergeant Major
CSMA/CD - Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection
CSO - Central Services Organization
CSOC - Consolidated Space Operations Center (at Colorado Springs)
CSP - Control Switching Point
CSR - Control and Status Register
CSRG - Computer Systems Research Group
CSRS - civil Service Retirement System
CSS - Customer Switching System
CST - Central Standard Time
CT - Central Time
CT - Connecticut
CTC - Canadian Transport Commission
CTC - Centralized Traffic Control (railways)
CTD - Computing and Telecommunications Division
CTIO - Cerro Tololo Inter-american Observatory
CTNE - Compania Telefonica Nacional de Espana
CTS - Compatible Timesharing System
CTV - Canadian TeleVision network
CU - Close-Up
CUA - Common User Access
CV - Curriculum Vitae
CW - Car Wars
CW - Chemical Warfare
CW - Child Welfare
CW - Churchwarden
CW - Continuous Wave
CWO - Cash With Order
CWO - Chief Warrant Officer
CWRU - Case Western Reserve University
CXI - Common X-windows Interface
CY - Calendar Year
CYO - Catholic Youth Organization
CZ - Canal Zone
D - Depth
D&D - Dungeons & Dragons
D/A - Digital to Analog converter
D/F - Direction Finding
DA - Days after Acceptance
DA - Department of Agriculture
DA - Deposit Account
DA - Directory Assistance (/C = computerized, /M = Microfilm)
DA - District Attorney
DA - Don't Answer
DAC - Digital to Analog Converter
DACCS - Digital Access Cross Connect System
DAD - Draft ADdendum
DAR - Daughters of the American Revolution
DARPA - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DASD - Direct Access Storage Device
DAT - Digital Audio Tape
DATA - Defense Air Transport Administration
DAV - Disabled American Veterans
DB - DataBase
DB - DeciBels
DBF - DBase Format
DBME - DataBase Managment Environment
DBMS - DataBase Management System (rdbms for Relational ...)
DBRAD - Data Base Relational Application Directory
DC - Direct Current (dc, see also AC)
DC - District of Columbia
DCA - Defense Communications Agency
DCA - Distributed Communication Architecture
DCA - Document Content Architecture
DCC - Descriptive Cataloging Committee
DCCO - Defense Commercial Communications Office
DCE - Data Communication Equipment
DCL - Digital Command Language
DCP - Distributed Communications Processor
DCTS - Dimension Custom Telephone Service
DD - Daredevils
DD - Data Dictionary
DD - Days after Date
DD - Demand Draft
DD - Dishonorable Discharge
DD - Disk Drive
DD - Doctor of Divinity
DDC - Digital Data Converter
DDD - Direct Distance Dial(ing)
DDL - Document Description Language
DDN - Defense Data Network
DDP - Distributed Data Processing
DDS - Doctor of Dental Science
DDS - Doctor of Dental Surgery
DE - Delaware
DEA - Drug Enforcement Agency
DEAR - Department of Energy Acquisition Regulation
DEC - Digital Equipment Corporation
DES - Data Encryption Standard
DEW - Distant Early Warning (as in DEW Line)
DF - Damage Free
DF - Direction Finding
DFC - Distinguished Flying Cross
DFD - Data Flow Diagram
DFE - Data Flow Editor
DFM - Distinguished Flying Medal
DFS - Depth-First Search
DFW - Dallas-Ft.Worth (regional airport)
DG - Dei Gratia (by the grace of God)
DG - Director General
DGSC - Defense General Supply Center
DHHS - Department of Health and Human Services
DHSS - british Department of Health and Social Security
DIA - Document Interchange Architecture
DIAD - (magnetic) Drum Information Assembler / Dispatcher
DIAL - Direct Information Access Line
DIAS - Defense Automatic Integrated System
DID - Direct Inward Dialing
DIF - Document Interchange Format
DIN - Deutsches Institut fur Normung
DIRE - Dire Is Really Emacs
DIS - Draft International Standard (ISO)
DISOSS - DIStributed Office Support System
DIY - Do It Yourself
DJ - Disc Jockey
DLA - Defense Logistics Agency
DLL - Dial Long Line equipment
DLO - Dead Letter Office
DM - Dungeon Master
DMA - Direct Memory Access
DMD - Doctor of Dental Medicine
DME - Distance Measuring Equipment
DMOS - Diffusion Metal Oxide Semiconductor (see MOS)
DMV - Department of Motor Vehicles
DMZ - DeMilitarized Zone
DNA - DeoxyriboNucleic Acid
DNA - Digital Network Architecture
DNHR - Dynamic NonHierarchical Routing
DNIC - Data Network Identification Code
DNL - Director of Naval Laboratories
DNR - Dialed Number Recorder
DOA - Dead On Arrival
DOB - Date Of Birth
DOC - Dynamic Overload Control
DOD - Department Of Defense
DOE - Department of Energy
DOMAIN - Distributed Operating Multi Access Interactive Network (Apollo)
DOS - Disk Operating System
DOT - Department Of Transportation
DOT&E - Director, Operational Test and Evaluation
DP - Data Processing
DP - Dial Pulse
DP - Displaced Persons (expelled from native land)
DP - Display Postscript
DP - Double Play
DP - Draft Proposal
DPA - Delegation of Procurement Authority
DPANS - Draft Proposed American National Standard
DPI - Dots Per Inch
DPS - Display PostScript
DQ - Dairy Queen
DQ - Dragon Quest
DQL - Database Query Language
DR - Dead Reckoning
DR - Dining Room
DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory (as opposed to static RAM)
DRD - Data Reading Device
DRE - Directional Reservation Equipment
DRG - Democratic Republic of Germany (East Germany)
DRI - Digital Research, Incorporated
DS - Double-Sided
DSA - Dial System Assistance
DSE - Data Structure Editor
DSEE - Domain Software Engineering Environment
DSM - Distinguished Service Medal
DSO - Distinguished Service Order
DSP - Decessit Sine Prole (died without issue)
DSP - Digital Signal Processing
DSRI - Digital Standard Relational Interface
DSS - Decision Support System
DSS - Direct Station Selection
DST - Daylight Saving Time
DSTN - Double SuperTwisted Nematic
DT - Delirium Tremens
DTE - Data Terminal Equipment
DTF - Dial Tone First payphone
DTMF - Dial Tone Multi Frequency
DTP - DeskTop Publishing
DTR - Data Terminal Ready
DUI - Driving Under the Influence
DUT - Device Under Test
DV - Deo Vo lente (God willing)
DVM - Digital Volt Meter
DVM - Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
DWAPS - Defense Warehousing Automated Processing System
DWI - Driving While Intoxicated
DWIM - Do What I Mean
DX - Distance (as in long distance radio communication)
DXT - Data eXtractT facility
E - East
E - Espionage
E&EO - Errors and Omissions Excepted
E-MAIL - Electronic MAIL
EADASS - Engineering and Administrative Data AcquiSition System
EAS - Extended Area Service (or Engineering Admin. System)
EBCDIC - Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
ECAFE - Economic Commission for Africa and the Far East
ECASS - Electronically Controlled Automatic Switching System
ECASS - Export Control Automated Support System
ECC - Error Correction Code
ECCM - Electronic Counter-CounterMeasures
ECDO - Electronic Community Dial Office
ECG - ElectroCardioGram
ECL - Emitter Coupled Logic (see also TTL)
ECM - Electronic Counter Measure
ECM - European Common Market
ECO - Electronic Central Office
ECO - Engineering Change Order
ECT - ElectroConvulsive Therapy
ED&D - Expert Dungeons & Dragons
EDGAR - Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval
EDI - Electronic Data Interchange
EDIF - Electronic Design Interchange Format
EDP - Electronic Data Processing
EDS - Electronic Data Systems
EDT - Eastern Daylight Time
EDTA - Ethylene Diamine Tetraacetic Acid
EDTCC - Electronic Data Transmission Communications Central
EE - Electrical Engineer
EE - Electrical or Electronics Engineer
EEC - European Economic Community
EEG - ElectroEncephaloGram
EEL - Epsilon Extension Language
EEPROM - Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EGA - Enhanced Graphics Adapter
EHF - Extremely High Frequency (30-300GHz)
EINE - EINE Is Not Emacs
EISA - Extended Industry-Standard Architecture
EISS - European Intelligence Support System
EKG - ElectroKardioGramm (see ECG)
EL - ElectroLuminescent (as in display)
ELF - Extremely Low Frequency
ELO - Electric Light Orchestra
ELP - Emerson, Lake and Palmer (or Powell)
EM - Enlisted Man (see EW)
EMA - Electronic Mail Association
EMACS - Editor MACroS
EMACS - Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping
EMF - ElectroMotive Force
EMI - ElectroMagnetic Interference
EMP - Electromagnetic Pulse
EMPRESS - EnvironMental Pulse Radiation Environment Simulator for Ships
EMR - ElectroMagnetic Response
EMS - Electronic Message System
EMS - Extended Memory Specification
EMT - Emergency Medical Technician
EMU - ElectroMagnetic Unit
ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator
ENS - ENSign
EO - End Office
EO - Erasable Optical
EOF - End Of File
EOM - End Of Month
EP - Experience Points
EP - Extended Play
EPA - Environmental Protection Agency
EPOS - Engineering and Project-management Oriented Support system
EPRI - Electric Power Research Institute
EPROM - Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EPS - Encapsulated PostScript
EPT - Empire of the Petal Throne
EQ - Educational Quotient (see IQ)
ER - Emergency Room
ERA - Earned Run Average
ERA - Entity-Relationship-Attribute
ERA - Equal Rights Amendment
ERD - Entity-Relation Diagram
ERE - Entity Relationship Editor
ES - Expert System
ESA - European Space Agency
ESAC - Electronic Systems Assistance Center
ESDI - Enhanced Standard Device Interface
ESE - East South East
ESM - Electronic Support Measures
ESO - European Southern Observatory
ESP - Extra Sensory Perception
ESPS - Entropic Signal Processing System
ESS - Electronic Switching System
ESSEX - Experimental Solid State EXchange
EST - Eastern Standard Time
ET - Eastern Time
ET - ExtraTerrestrial
ETA - Estimated Time of Arrival
ETC - Et cetera, and so on...
ETD - Estimated Time of Departure
ETFD - Electronic Toll Fraud Device
ETH - Eidgnoessiche Techniche Hochschule
ETS - Electronic Translator System
ETV - Education TeleVision
EUUG - European Unix User Group
EVA - ExtraVehicular Activity
EVX - Electronic Voice eXchange
EW - Electronic Warfare
EW - Enlisted Woman (see EM)
EWOS - European Workshop for Open Systems
FA - Football Association (British soccer--a word derived from Association)
FAA - Federal Aviation Agency
FACD - Foreign Area Customer Dialing
FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the united states
FAR - Federal Acquisition Regulations
FAS - Foreign Agricultural Service
FAS - Free Alongside Ship
FASST - Flexible Architecture Standard System Technology
FAT - Foreign Area Translation
FAX - FAcsimile
FB - Freight Bill
FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation
FCC - Federal Communication Commission
FCC - Federal Computer Conference
FDA - Food and Drug Administration
FDDI - Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FDHD - Floppy Drive High Density
FDIC - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FDM - Frequency Division Multiplexing
FDR - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
FEA - Finite Element Analysis
FEDSIM - FEDeral Systems Integration and Management center
FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEPC - Fair Employment Practices Commission
FERS - Federal Employees Retirement System
FET - Federal Excise Tax
FET - Field Effect Transistor
FFA - Future Farmers of America
FFT - Fast Fourier Transform
FHA - Federal Home Administration
FHA - Future Homemakers of America
FIB - Focused Ion Beam
FICA - Federal Insurance Contributions Act
FIDO - Fog Investigation Dispersal Operation
FIFO - First In First Out (as in registers and buffers)
FILO - First In Last Out (see also FIFO)
FIMS - Forms Interface Management System
FINE - FINE Is Not Emacs
FIO - Frequency In and Out
FIPS - Federal Information Processing Standard
FIR - Finite Impulse Response
FIRMR - Federal Information Resource Management Regulation
FIT - Federal Information Technologies, inc.
FL - Florida
FLACC - Full Level Algol Checkout Compiler
FLOPS - FLoating-point OPerations per Second
FLRA - Federal Labor Relations Authority
FM - Frequency Modulation
FMB - Federal Maritime Board
FMCS - Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
FMS - Financial Management Service (Treasury Dept)
FMS - Forms Management System
FO - Foreign Office
FO - Forward Observer
FOAC - Federal Office Automation Center
FOB - Free On Board
FOC - Free Of Charge
FOIA - Freedom Of Information Act
FOIMS - Field Office Information Management System
FOOBAR - See FUBAR
FOR - Free On Rail
FORCS - Faa's Operational Reporting Communication System
FORD - Fix Or Repair Daily
FORD - Found On Road Dead
FORTRAN - FORmula TRANslator
FOSE - Federal Office Systems Exposition
FOT - Free On Truck
FOV - Field Of View
FPA - Floating Point Accelerator
FPC - Fish Protein Concentrate
FPE - Floating Point Engine
FPHA - Federal Public Housing Authority
FPLA - Field Programmable Logic Array (see PLA)
FPM - Feet Per Minute
FPO - Field Post Office
FPO - Fleet Post Office
FPS - Feet Per Second
FRACTAL - FRACTional dimensionAL
FRED - Fred Resembles Emacs Deliberately
FRG - Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)
FROG - Free Rocket Over Ground
FRPG - Fantasy Role Playing Game
FRS - Federal Reserve System
FSF - Free Software Foundation
FSK - Frequency Shift Keying
FSLIC - Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
FSS - Federal Supply Service
FSW - Forward Swept Wings
FT - Foot
FTAM - File Transfer And Management
FTC - Federal Trade Commission
FTL - Faster Than Light
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
FTS - Federal Telephone System
FUBAR - F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition
FW - Fringeworthy
FWD - Front Wheel Drive
FWHM - Full Width at Half Maximum
FX - Foreign eXchange
FY - Fiscal Year
FYI - For Your Information
GA - Gamblers Anonymous
GA - General Assembly
GA - General Average
GA - General of the Army
GA - Georgia
GAAP - Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
GAN - Global Area Network
GAR - Grand Army of the Republic
GATT - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GAW - Guaranteed Annual Wage
GB - Gangbusters
GB - GigaByte
GB - Great Britain
GBIP - General Purpose Interface Bus
GC - Garbage Collection (LISP)
GC - Gas Chromatograph (or Chromatography)
GCA - Ground Controlled Approach
GCC - Gnu C Compiler
GCD - Ground Controlled Descent
GCL - Graphics Command Language
GCM - General Court Martial
GCR - Group-Coded Recording (magnetic tape, 6250 bpi)
GCT - Greenwich Civil Time
GDB - Gnu DeBugger
GE - General Electric
GEM - Graphics Environment Manager
GHQ - General HeadQuarters
GHz - Giga HertZ (unit of frequency, 1,000,000,000 cycles per second)
GI - Galvanized Iron
GI - Gastro Intestinal (as in upper GI)
GI - General Issue
GI - Government Issue
GIF - Graphics Interchange Format
GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out
GIN - Graphics INput
GISS - Goddard Institute for Space Studies
GKS - Graphical Kernel Standard
GM - Game Master
GM - General Manager
GM - General Motors
GM - Guided Missile
GMBH - Gesellschaft Mit Beschraenkter Haftung
GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
GNP - Gross National Product
GNU - GNU's Not Unix
GOES - Geostationary Orbiting Environmental Satellites
GOSIP - Government OSI Profile
GP - General Practitioner
GPI - Graphics Programming Interface
GPIB - General-Purpose Interface Bus
GPO - General Post Office
GPO - Government Printing Office
GPS - Global Positioning System
GQ - General Quarters
GRB - Gamma Ray Burst(er)
GREP - Global Regular Expression Print, g/re/p, (UNIX command)
GRO - Gamma Ray Observatory
GS - General Schedule
GS - Glide Slope
GSA - General Services Administration
GSA - Girl Scouts of America
GSBCA - General Services administration Board of Contract Appeals
GSFC - Goddard Space Flight Center
GSTS - Ground-based Surveillance and Tracking System
GT - Gross Ton
GTE - General Telephone and Electric
GTSI - Government Technology Services, inc.
GUI - Graphical User Interface
GW - Gamma World
GWEN - Ground Wave Emergency Network
H - Harn
H - Height
HACD - Home Area Customer Dialing
HAL - Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer (2001)
HAM - Hold And Modify
HBM - Her British Majesty; His British Majesty
HBO - Home Box Office
HC - Holy Communion
HC - House of Commons
HCFA - Health Care Financing Administration
HCL - High Cost of Living
HD - Hard Disk
HD - Heavy Duty
HDA - Head Disk Assembly (in winchester disk drives)
HDBV - Host Data Base View
HDL - High Density Lipoprotein
HDLC - High-level Data Link Control (IBM network stuff)
HDTV - High Definition Television
HE - His Eminence; His Excellency
HEAO - High Energy Astronomical Observatory
HEMP - Help End Marijuana Prohibition
HERO - Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance
HF - High Fantasy
HF - High Frequency (3-30MHz)
HFE - Human Factors Engineering
HFS - Hierarchical File System
HI - Hawaii
HIIPS - Hud Integrated Information Processing Services
HLL - High-Level Language
HMOS - High performance Metal Oxide Semiconductor (see MOS)
HMS - His/Her Majesty's Ship
HMT - His/Her Majesty's Transport
HNPA - Home Numbering Plan Area
HOBIS - HOtel Billing Information System
HOL - High-Order System
HP - Hewlett Packard, inc.
HP - High Pressure
HP - Higher Power (sort of an AA "in" term, usually God)
HP - Hit Points
HP - HorsePower
HPGe - High Purity Germanium
HPL/T - High-Productivity Languages/Tools
HQ - HeadQuarters
HR - House of Representatives
HRH - Her Royal Highness
HRH - His Royal Highness
HS - High School
HSB - Hue, Saturation, Brightness
HST - Hawaiian Standard Time
HT - High Tension (as in electric power transmission)
HTK - Hits To Kill
HUAC - House Unamerican Activities Committee
HUD - Heads Up Display
HUD - Housing and Urban Development
HVAC - Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning
HW2000 - Highway 2000
HWM - High-Water Mark
Hb - HemogloBin
Hz - HertZ (unit of frequency, cycles per second)
I/O - Input/Output
IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency
IATA - International Air Transport Association
IBM - International Business Machines, inc.
IC - Integrated Circuit
ICB - Interstate Computer Bank
ICBM - InterContinental Ballistic Missile
ICE - In-Circuit Emulator
ICI - Imperial Chemical Industries
ICJ - International Court of Justice
ICL - International Computers Ltd.
ICP - Integrated Channel Processor
ICP - Inventory Control Points
ICRC - International Cosmic Ray Conference
ID - IDentification
ID - Idaho
IDA - Intercommunication Data Areas
IDA - International Development Association
IDDD - International Direct Distance Dialing
IDE - Interactive Development Environments, inc
IDF - Intermediate Distributing Frame
IE - Indo-European
IEE - Institute of Electrical Engineers (UK)
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IF - Intermediate Frequency (as in IF stage)
IFB - Invitation For Bids
IFC - International Finance Corporation
IFC - International Freighting Corporation
IFF - Identification - Friend or Foe
IFF - Interchange File Format
IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations
IGES - Initial Graphics Exchange Standard
IGY - International Geophysical Year
IHP - Indicated HorsePower
IHS - Integrated Hospital Support
IIA - Information Industry Association
IIE - Institute of Industrial Engineers
IIHF - International Ice Hockey Federation
IIL - Integrated Injection Logic
ILO - International Labor Organization
ILS - Instrument Landing System
IMF - International Monetary Fund
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
IMP - Interface Message Processor (ARPAnet)
IMSL - International Mathematical Subroutine Library
IN - Indiana
INADS - INitialization and ADministration System
INRA - Iesus Nazerenus Rex Iudaeorum (Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews)
INRIA - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique
INS - Immigration and Naturalization Service
INSTITUTE - INSTITUTE's Name Shows That It's Totally Unrelated To EMACS
INTAP - INteroperability Technology Association for information Processing
INWATS - INward Wide Area Telephone Service
IO - Input/Output (sometimes I/O)
IOD - Identified Outward Dialing
IOOF - International Order of Odd Fellows
IOU - I Owe you (U)
IP - Innings Pitched
IP - Intermediate Point
IPC - Inter-Process Communication
IPE - Integrated Programming Environment
IPMS - InterPersonal Message Services
IPS - Information Processing Standards
IPSE - Integrated Project-Support Environment
IQ - Intelligence Quotient (see EQ)
IR - Index Register
IRA - Individual Retirement Account
IRA - Irish Republican Army
IRAS - Infrared Astronomical Satellite
IRBM - Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile
IRDS - Information Resource Dictionary Standard
IRDS - InfraRed Detection Set
IRE - Institute of Radio Engineers (old name for the now IEEE, which see)
IRM - Information Resources Management
IRMS - Information Resources Management Service
IRS - Internal Revenue Service
IS - Information Systems
IS - International Standard
ISA - Industry-Standard Architecture
ISAM - Indexed Sequential Access Method
ISBD - International Bibliographic Description
ISC - Information Services Center
ISC - International Switching Center
ISCH - Interstitial-Cell-Stimulating Hormone (same as LH)
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
ISDT - Integrated Systems Development Tool
ISEE - International Sun Earth Explorer (usually ISEE-3)
ISF - Information Systems Factory
ISFUG - Integrated Software Federal User Group
ISO - International Standards Organization
ISOO - Information Security Oversight Office
ISPM - International Solar Polar Mission
ISR - Institute of Snow Research
ISRG - Independent Space Research Group
ISV - Independent Software Vendor
IT - Industrial Technology
IT - Information Technology
ITC - Inter-Task Communication
ITS - Incompatible Timesharing System
ITT - International Telephone and Telegraph
ITU - International Telecommunications Union
ITUSA - IT Users Standards Association
IUS - Inertial Upper Stage
JACM - Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery
JBS - John Birch Society
JC - Jesus Christ
JC - Joint Compound (plumbing)
JC - Julius Caesar
JC - Junior College
JCA - Jewelry Crafts Association
JCAC - Joint Civil Affairs Committee
JCAE - Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
JCEE - Joint Council on Economic Education
JCET - Joint Council on Educational Television
JCS - Joint Chiefs of Staff
JD - Justice Department
JDS - John Dewey Society
JES - John Ericsson Society
JFK - John F. Kennedy (international airport)
JFMIP - Joint Financial Management Improvement Program
JGR - Journal of Geophysical Research
JI - Justice, Inc.
JIC - Joint Intelligence Center
JIC - Just in Case
JIM - Job Information Memorandum
JINTACCS - Joint INteroperability of TActical Command and Control Systems
JIS - Japan Industrial Standards
JISC - Japanese Industrial Standards Committee
JIT - Just In Time
JMS - John Milton Society
JO - Job Order
JO - Junior Officer
JOVE - Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs
JOVIAL - Jules Own Version of the International Algorithmic Language
JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JRC - Junior Red Cross
JSC - Johnson Space Center
JSD - Jackson System Development
JSRC - Joint Services Review Committee
JTIDS - Joint Tactical Information Distribution Systems
JV - Junior Varsity
K&R - Kernighan and Ritchie, the c programming language
K9 - canine (K9 corps - army dogs)
KB - KiloByte
KC - King's Counsel (QC when queen reigning)
KC - Knights of Columbus
KD - Kiln Dried
KD - Knocked Down
KDCI - Key Display Call Indicator
KERMIT - Kl-10 Error-free Reciprocal Micro Interconnect over Tty lines
KHz - Kilo HertZ (unit of frequency, 1000 cycles per second)
KI - Kiwanis International
KIA - Killed In Action
KIAS - Knot Indicated Air Speed
KO - Knock Out
KP - Key Pulse
KP - Kitchen Police
KPNO - Kitt Peak National Observatory
KPO - KeyPunch Operator
KQC - King's College London
KS - King's Scholar
KSC - Kennedy Space Center
KSU - Key Service Unit
KTS - Key Telephone System
KTU - Key Telephone Unit
KWIC - Key Word In Context
KY - Kentucky
LA - Los Angeles
LA - Louisiana
LA - Low Altitude
LADAR - LAser Detection And Ranging
LAM - Master of Liberal Arts
LAMA - Local Automatic Message Accounting
LAN - Local Apparent Noon
LAN - Local Area Network
LAR - Local Acquisition Radar
LASER - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
LAT - Local Apparent Time
LATA - Local Access Transport Area
LAX - Los Angeles International Airport
LB - Light Bomber
LB - pound (LiBra)
LBHS - Long Beach High School
LBL - Lawrence Berkeley Labs
LC - inductor-Capacitor circuit (as in filters, L is symbol inductance)
LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
LCD - Lowest Common Denominator
LCDR - Lieutenant Commander
LCM - Life Cycle Management
LCT - Landing Craft Tanks
LDEF - Long Duration Exposure Facility
LDL - Low Density Lipoprotein
LDX - Long Distance eXtender
LEAP - Low-power Enhanced At Portable
LED - Light Emitting Diode
LEM - Lunar Excursion Module
LF - Low Frequency (30-300KHz)
LH - Left Hand
LH - Lower Half
LH - Luteinizing Hormone (same as ISCH)
LHD - Litterarum Humaniorum Doctor (doctor of human letters)
LHS - Left Hand Side
LI - Long Island
LIFIA - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale et d'Intelligence Artificielle
LIFO - Last In First Out (see FIFO)
LINC - Laboratory INstrument Computer
LISP - LISt Processing Language
LIU - Line Interface Unit
LL - Late Latin
LL - Long Lines
LLAMA - Logic Lacking A Meaningful Acronym
LLB - Legum Baccalaureus (bachelor of laws)
LLD - Legum doctor (doctor of laws)
LLN - Line Link Network
LLNL - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
LLP - Line Link Pulsing
LM - Life Master (Contract Bridge ranking)
LM - Lunar Module
LMC - Large Magellanic Cloud (see SMC)
LMOS - Line Maintenance Operations System
LNG - Liquified Natural Gas
LOA - Lands of Adventure
LOOPS - Lisp Object Oriented Programming System
LOP - Lines Of Position
LOTS - Low Overhead Timesharing System
LP - Long Playing record
LP - Low Pressure
LPC - Linear Predictive Coding (speech processing)
LPDA - Link Problem Determination Aid
LPF - League for Programming Freedom
LPG - Liquified Petroleum Gas
LPG - Low Pressure Gas
LPN - Licensed Practical Nurse
LPP - Licensed Program Products
LPR - Line PrinteR
LRBM - Long Range Ballistic Missile
LRC - Longitudinal Redundancy Character
LRU - Line Replaceable Unit
LS - Left Side
LS - Letter Signed
LS - Locus Sigilli (place of seal)
LSB - Least Significant Bit; Least Significant Byte
LSC - LightSpeed C
LSD - Least Significant Digit
LSD - LySergic acid Diethylamide
LSD - pounds (Libra), shillings (Sestertii), and (old) pence (Denarii)
LSI - Large Scale Integration
LSP - LightSpeed Pascal
LSS - Life Support System
LSS - Loop Switching System
LSSD - Level-Sensitive Scan Detection
LT - Long Ton
LT - Low Tension
LTC - Lieutenant Colonel
LTJG - Lieutenant Junior Grade
LTL - Less than Truckload Lot
LUG - Local Users Group
LUT - Look-Up Table
LWM - Low-Water Mark
LZ - Landing Zone
M - Miniatures
MA - Massachusetts
MAAP - Maintenance And Administration Panel
MAC - Military Air Command
MACSYMA - project MAC's SYmbolic MAnipulation System
MAD - Mutual Assured Destruction
MADD - Mothers Against Drunk Driving
MAG - Magazine
MAN - Metropolitan Area Network
MAP - Manufacturing Automation Protocol
MARBI - MAchine Readable form of Bibliographic Information
MARC - MAchine Readable card Catalog
MARS - Multiuser Archival and Retrieval System
MASC - Multiple Award Schedule Contract
MASER - Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
MASH - Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
MAST - Multi-Application SOnar Trainer
MAT-CALS - Marine Air Traffic-Control And Landing System
MAU - Math Acceleration Unit
MB - MegaByte
MBA - Master Business Administration
MC - Master of Ceremonies
MCA - Micro Channel Architecture
MCAE - Mechanical Computer Aided Engineering
MCC - Master Control Console
MCC - Microelectronics and Computer technology Corporation
MCP - Master Control Program
MCP/AS - Master Control Program/Advanced System
MCPO - Master Chief Petty Officer
MD - Maryland
MD - Medical Doctor
MD - Months after Date
MDAS - Magnetic Drum Auxiliary Sender
MDE - Modular Design Environment
MDF - Main Distribution Frame
MDT - Mean Down Time
ME - Maine
ME - Mechanical Engineer
MERP - Middle-Earth Role Playing
MEd - Master of EDucation
MF - Medium Frequency (300-3000KHz)
MF - Middle French
MF - Multi-Frequency
MFA - Master Fine Arts
MFLOPS - Million FLoating-point OPerations per Second
MFM - Modified Frequency Modulation
MFS - Macintosh File System
MG - Machine Gun
MG - Major General
MG - Military Government
MGH - Massachusetts General Hospital
MGM - Metro-Goldwyn Mayer
MHD - MagnetoHydroDynamics
MHz - Mega HertZ (unit of frequency, 1,000,000 cycles per second)
MI - Michigan
MI - Military Intelligence
MIA - Missing In Action
MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIFASS - Marine Integrated Fire And Support System
MILNET - MILitary NETwork
MIM - Morality In Media
MIMD - Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data
MINCE - MINCE Is Not Complete Emacs
MIPS - Million Instructions Per Second
MIRV - Multiple Independently-Targetable Reentry Vehicle
MIS - Management Information Systems
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ML - Middle Latin
MLA - Member of Legislative Assembly (see MPP)
MLD - Minimum Lethal Dose
MLS - Microwave Landing System
MLS - Multi-Level Security
MM - Maryknoll Missioners
MMES - Martin Marietta Energy Systems
MMFS - Manufacturing Message Format Standard
MMM - see 3M
MMU - Memory Management Unit
MN - Minnesota
MNA - Member of National Assembly (Quebec)
MNP - Microcom Networking Protocol
MO - Mail Order
MO - Medical Officer
MO - Missouri
MO - Modus Operandi
MO - Money Order
MOR - Middle-Of-the-Road
MOS - Metal Oxide Semiconductor
MOSFET - Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
MOTIS - Message-Oriented Text Interchange System
MOU - Memorandum Of Understanding
MOUSE - Minimum Orbital Unmanned Satellite of Earth
MP - Melting Point
MP - Member of Parliament
MP - Metropolitan Police
MP - Military Police(man)
MPG - Miles Per Gallon
MPH - Miles Per Hour
MPP - Member of Provincial Parliament (Canada; also MLA)
MPW - Macintosh Programmer's Workshop
MR - Miniatures Rules
MRP - Manufacturing Requirements Planning
MS - ManuScript
MS - Master of Science
MS - Military Science
MS - Motor Ship
MS - Multiple Sclerosis
MS-DOS - MicroSoft DOS
MSB - Most Significant Bit; Most Significant Byte
MSC - MicroSoft C
MSCP - Mass Storage Control Protocol
MSD - Most Significant Digit
MSE - Mobile Subscriber Equipment
MSG - MonoSodium Glutamate
MSH - Marvel Super Heroes
MSL - Mean Sea Level
MSPE - Mercenaries, Spies & Private Eyes
MSS - Management Support System
MSS - ManuScriptS
MSS - Mass Storage System
MST - Mountain Standard Time
MT - Metric Ton
MT - Mountain Time
MTA - Message Transfer Agent
MTA - Metropolitan Transportation Authority
MTBF - Mean Time Between Failures
MTR - Magnetic Tape Recording
MTSO - Mobile Telephone Switching Office
MTTF - Mean Time To Failure
MTV - Music TeleVision
MUF - Maximum Usable Frequency (max freq during sunspot activity)
MULTICS - MULTiplex Information Computer Services
MUMPS - Mgh Utility MultiProgram System
MUNG - Mung Until No Good (see the hacker's dictionary)
MUX - MUltipleXor
MVA - MegaVolt Ampere
MX - Missile eXperimental
MeV - Million Electron Volts
N - North
N - Notice
NA - Narcotics Anonymous
NA - North America
NA - Not Applicable
NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NAAS - North American Automated Systems co.
NAB - National Association of Broadcasters
NABISCO - NAtional BIScuit COmpany
NACS - National Advisory Committee on Semiconductors
NAD - Network Access Device
NADGE - NATO Air Defense Ground Environment
NAG - Numerical Algorithms Group
NAGE - National Association of Government Employees
NAK - Negative AcKnowledge
NAPAP - National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program
NAR - Nuclear Acoustic Resonance
NARDAC - NAvy Regional Data Automation Center
NAS - National Academy of Sciences
NAS - National Advanced Systems
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA/GSFC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NAVDAC - NAVal Data Automation Command
NAVSWC - NAV Surface Weapons Center
NB - New Brunswick
NB - Nota Bene
NBA - National Basketball Association
NBC - National Broadcasting Company
NBFM - NarrowBand Frequency Modulation
NBO - Network Build Out
NBS - National Bureau of Standards
NBVM - Narrow Band Voice Modulation
NC - No Charge
NC - North Carolina
NCA - Network Control Analysis
NCC - National Computer Conference
NCDC - National Climatic Data Center
NCE - New Catholic Edition
NCGA - National Computer Graphics Association
NCIC - National Cartographic Information Center
NCO - Non-Commissioned Officer
NCP - Network Control Program
NCR - National Cash Register
NCS - Network Computing System
NCSA - National Center for Supercomputing Applications
NCSC - National Computer Security Center
NCTL - National Computer and Telecommunications Laboratory
NCV - No Commercial Value
ND - No Date
ND - North Dakota
NDA - Non-Disclosure Agreement
NDDL - Neutral Data Definition Language
NDE - News Development Environment
NDEA - National Defense Education Act
NDL - Network Database Language
NDP - New Democratic Party (Canada)
NDSL - National Direct Student Loan
NDT - Newfoundland Daylight Time
NE - New England
NE - North East
NEAR - National Electronic Accounting and Reporting system
NEB - New English Bible
NEC - Nippon Electric Company
NEI - Not Elsewhere Included
NES - National Energy Strategy
NES - Not Elsewhere Specified
NESC - National Energy Software Center
NET - NETwork
NET - National Educational Television
NEWS - Network extensible Window System
NEXRAD - NEXt generation weather RADar
NF - No Funds
NFC - National Football Conference
NFFE - National Federation of Federal Employees
NFL - National Football League
NFS - Network File System
NG - National Guard
NG - No Good
NH - New Hampshire
NHI - National Health Insurance
NHL - National Hockey League (the "nation" is Canada, BTW)
NIC - Network Information Center (ARPAnet)
NIH - National Institutes of Health
NIH - Not Invented Here
NIM - Nuclear Instrumentation Module (an electronic instr. standard)
NIMH - National Institute of Mental Health
NIS - Network Information System (formerly yp)
NISO - National Information Standards Organization
NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology (formerly NBS)
NJ - New Jersey
NL - National League (baseball)
NLM - National Library of Medicine
NLP - Natural Language Processing
NLRB - National Labor Relations Board
NLS - Network License Server
NM - Nautical Mile
NM - New Mexico
NM - Night Message
NM - No Mark; Not Marked
NMOS - N channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor (N-MOS) (see MOS)
NMR - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
NNE - North North East
NNTP - Net News Transfer Protocol
NNW - North North West
NOA - NSWC Office Automation
NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NORAD - NORth American Defense Command
NORML - National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
NOS - Not Otherwise Specified
NOSC - Naval Ocean Systems Center
NOTIS - Network Operator Trouble Information System
NP - No Protest
NP - Nondeterministic-Polynomial
NP - Notary Public
NP - Noun Phrase
NPA - Number Plan Area
NPC - Non-Player Character (see PC)
NPL - Non-Procedural Language
NPN - Negative-Positive-Negative (transistor)
NPN - NonProtein Nitrogen
NPR - National Public Radio
NQS - Network Queuing System
NRA - National Rifle Association
NRC - National Research Council
NRC - Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRE - Non-Recurring Engineering (as in NRE costs)
NRL - Naval Research Labs
NRO - National Reconnaissance Office
NRZ - Non-Return to Zero
NRZI - Non-Return to Zero Indicates
NRZI - Non-Return to Zero Inverted (magnetic tape, 800 bpi)
NS - Not Specified
NS - Nova Scotia
NS - Nuclear Ship
NSA - National Security Agency
NSC - National Security Council
NSE - Network Software Environment
NSF - National Science Foundation
NST - Newfoundland Standard Time
NSW - New South Wales
NSWC - Naval Surface Warfare Center
NSWC - Naval Surface Weapons Center
NT - New Testament
NT - Newfoundland Time
NT - Northern Territory
NTEU - National Treasury Employees Union
NTIS - National Technical Information Service
NTN - Neutralized Twisted Nematic
NTP - Normal Temperature and Pressure (see STP)
NTSB - National Transportation Safety Board
NTSC - National Television Standards Committee
NTSC - Never The Same Color
NTT - Nippon Telephone & Telegraph
NU - Name Unknown
NURBS - NonUniform Rational B-Spline
NUSC - Naval Underwater Systems Command
NV - Nevada
NW - North West
NWS - National Weather Service
NWT - North West Territories
NY - New York
NYC - New York City
NYSE - New York Stock Exchange
NZ - New Zealand
NZUSUGI - New Zealand Unix System User Group, Inc.
OA - Office Automation
OA - Overeaters Anonymous
OAS - Organization of American States
OATS - Office Automation Technology and Services
OBE - Order of the British Empire
OBS - Omni Bearing Selector
OC - Order of Canada
OCDM - Office of Civil Defense and Mobilization
OCI - Out of City Indicator
OCLC - Online Computer Library Center (Ohio College Library Catalog)
OCO - Object Code Only
OCR - Optical Character Recognition
OCS - Officer Candidate School
OD - Doctor of Optometry
OD - Oculus Dexter (right eye)
OD - Officer of the Day
OD - OverDose
ODI - Optical Digital Image
ODISS - Optical Digital Image Storage System
OE - Old English
OED - Oxford English Dictionary
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
OEO - Office of Economic Opportunity
OES - Order of the Eastern Star
OF - Old French
OFM - Order of Friars Minor
OFS - Order of Free State
OG - Original Gum
OH - Ohio
OIRA - Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
OIU - Office Interface Unit
OJT - On the Job Training
OLTP - On-Line Transaction Processing
OMB - Office of Management and Budget
OMD - Orchestral Manouevers in the Dark
OMV - Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle
ON - Old Norse
ONC - Open Network Computing
ONI - Office of Naval Intelligence
ONI - Operator Number Identification
ONR - Office of Naval Research
OOP - Object Oriented Programming
OOPART - Out Of Place ARTifact
OOPS - Object-Oriented Programming System
OP - OFFICEPOWER office automation system, trademark of CCI
OP - Observation Post
OP - Order of Preachers
OP - Out of Print
OPEC - Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPM - Office of Personnel Management
OR - Operating Room
OR - Oregon
OR - Owner's Risk, Own Risk
ORNL - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
OROM - Optical Read Only Memory
OS - Oculus Sinister (left eye)
OS - Operating System
OS - Ordinary Seaman
OS - Out of Stock
OSB - Order of St. Benedict
OSCAR - Orbiting Satellite Carry Amateur Radio (1st launched 12 Dec 1961)
OSCRL - Operating System Command Response Language
OSD - Office of the Secretary of Defense
OSDIT - Office of Software Development and Information Technology
OSF - Open Software Foundation
OSF - Order of St. Francis
OSI - Open Systems Interconnection
OSI/RM - Open Systems Interconnection/Reference Model
OSME - Open Systems Message Exchange
OSP - Optical Storage Processor
OSS - Office Support System
OSS - Office of Strategic Services (later CIA)
OSS - Operation Support System
OSTP - Office of Science and Technology Policy
OT - Old Testament
OT - OverTime
OT&LF - Open Taxi & Limousine Foundation
OTA - Office of Technical Assistance
OTA - Office of Technology Assessment
OTB - Off-Track Betting
OTC - Over The Counter (stocks)
OTF - Open Token Foundation
OTH-B - Over The Horizon - Backscatter (as in radar)
OTR - On The Rag
OTS - Officers' Training School
OUTWATS - OUTward Wide Area Telephone Service
PA - Pennsylvania
PA - Per Annum
PA - Play Aid
PA - Power of Attorney
PA - Press Agent
PA - Private Account
PA - Public Address
PA - Purchasing Agent
PABX - Private Automatic Branch eXchange
PAD - Packet Assembler-Disassembler (for networking)
PAL - Phase Alternation Line-rate
PAL - Programmable Array Logic
PAM - Pulse Amplification Modulation
PARC - Palo Alto Research Center, xerox
PATROL - Program for Administrative Traffic Reports On Line
PBM - Play By Mail game
PBS - Public Broadcasting System
PBX - Private Branch eXchange (mini-telephone network system)
PC - Peace Corps
PC - PerCent; PerCentage
PC - Personal Computer
PC - Player Character (see NPC)
PC - Post Card
PC - Post Cibum (after meals)
PC - Privileged Character
PC - Privy Council
PC - Program Counter
PC - Progressive Conservative party (Canada)
PC-DOS - Personal Computer DOS
PC/AT - Personal Computer/Advanced Technology
PCB - PolyChlorinated Biphenyls
PCB - Printed Circuit Board
PCI - Panel Call Indicator
PCIE - President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency
PCL - Printer Command Language
PCM - Plug-Compatible Mainframe
PCM - Pulse Code Modulation
PCPC - Personal Computers Peripheral Corporation
PCS - Permanent Change of Station
PCTE - Portable Common Tools Environment
PCTS - Posix Conformance Test Suite
PD - Per Diem
PD - Police Department
PD - Potential Difference
PD - Public Domain
PDAD - Proposed Draft ADdendum
PDE - Partial Differential Equation
PDES - Product Data Exchange Specifications
PDF - Program Development Facility
PDL - Page Description Language
PDL - Program Design Language
PDP - Plasma Display Panel
PDP - Programmed Data Processor
PDQ - Pretty Damned Quick
PDT - Pacific Daylight Time
PE - Phase Encoded
PE - Physical Education
PE - Prince Edward island
PE - Printer's Error
PE - Professional Engineer
PE - Protestant Episcopal
PEI - Prince Edward Island
PEP - Productivity Enhancement Project
PEPE - Pepe Est Presque Emacs
PERL - Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister
PERL - Practical Extraction and Report Language
PEX - Phigs/phigs+ Extension to X
PGA - Professional Graphics Adapter
PGA - Pure Grain Alcohol
PHA - Pulse Height Analyzer (or Analysis)
PHIGS - Programmers Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System
PHS - Public Health Service
PIF - Paid In Full
PIT - Principal, Interest, and Taxes
PIXEL - PIcture ELement
PLA - Programmable Logic Array
PLC - Programmable Logic Controller
PLCC - Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier
PLL - Phase-Locked Loop
PLM - Programming Language for Microcomputers
PLO - Please Leave On
PM - PayMaster
PM - Police Magistrate
PM - Post Meridiem
PM - PostMaster
PM - PostMortem
PM - Preventive Maintenance
PM - Prime Minister
PM - Provost Marshal
PM/X - Presentation Manager for X windows
PMO - Prime Minister's Office
PMOS - P channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor (P-MOS) (see MOS)
PMT - PhotoMultiplier Tube
PN - Promissory Note
PNP - Positive-Negative-Positive (transistor)
PO - PettyOfficer
PO - Post Office
PO - Postal Order
PO - Purchase Order
POC - Port Of Call
POD - Pay On Delivery
POE - Port Of Embarkation
POE - Port Of Entry
POGO - Polar Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
POM - Phase Of Moon
POPS - Paperless Order Processing System
POR - Price On Request
POS - Point Of Sale
POSI - Promoting conference for OSI
POSIX - Portable Operating System for unIX
POV - Point Of View
POW - Prisoner Of War
PP - Parcel Post
PP - Past Participle
PP - Primary Point (or dial Post Pay payphone)
PPB - Parts Per Billion
PPC - Pour Prendre Conge' (to take leave)
PPCS - Person to Person, Collect, Special
PPM - Parts Per Million
PPN - Parameterized Post-Newtonian formalism for general relativity
PPN - Project Programmer Number
PPS - PostPostScriptum
PPT - Pulse Pair Timing
PQ - Province of Quebec
PR - PayRoll
PR - Public Relations
PR - Puerto Rico
PRC - Planning Research Corporation
PROFS - PRofessional OFfice System
PROM - Programmable Read Only Memory
PS - PicoSecond
PS - PostScript
PS - PostScriptum
PS - Power Steering
PS - Power Supply
PS - Public School
PSA - Problem Statement Analyzer
PSC - Polar Stratospheric Clouds
PSDS - Public Switched Digital Service
PSE - Programming Support Environment
PSG - Platoon SerGeant
PSK - Phase Shift Keying
PSL - Problem Statement Language
PSR - "Product Specific Realizations
PST - Pacific Standard Time
PSTN - Public Switched Telephone Network
PT - Pacific Time
PT - Patrol Torpedo (as in PT boat)
PT - Physical Therapy
PT - Physical Training
PTA - Parent-Teacher Association
PTD - Parallel Transfer Disk
PTO - Patent and Trademark Office
PTO - Please Turn Over
PTO - Power Take-Off
PVO - Pioneer Venus Orbiter
PW - Prisoner of War (usually POW)
PWG - Permanent Working Group
PX - Post eXchange (see BX)
PhysRev - Physical Review Journal - Phys Rev
QAM - Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
QC - Quality Control
QC - Queen's Counsel
QD - Quaque Die (daily)
QDA - Quantity Discount Agreement
QED - Quod Erat Demonstrandum (which was to be demonstrated)
QEF - Quod Erat Faciendum (which was to be done)
QEI - Quod Erat Inveniendum (which was to be found out)
QET - Quantum Effect Transistor
QIC - Quarter-Inch Cartridge
QID - Quater In Die (four times a day)
QLI - Query Language Interpreter
QM - QuarterMaster
QMC - QuarterMaster Corps
QMF - Query Management Facility
QMG - QuarterMaster General
QMS - Quality Micro Systems
QNS - Quantity Not Sufficient
QWERTY - first six keys from left on top alphabetic row of standard keyboard
R - Rolemaster
R&B - Rhythm and Blues (commonly R and B)
R&D - Research and Development (commonly R and D)
RA - Regular Army
RA - Research Assistant
RA - Royal Academy
RAAF - Royal Australian Air Force
RACE - Random Access Card Equipment
RACEP - Random Access and Correlation for Extended Performance
RAD - Radiation Absorbed Dose
RAD - Rapid Access Disk
RADAR - RAdio Detection And Ranging
RADM - Rear ADMiral
RAF - Royal Air Force
RAM - Random Access Memory
RARDE - Royal Armaments Research and Development Establishment
RAS - Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability
RASC - Residence Account Service Center
RBC - Red Blood Count
RBI - Runs Batted In
RBOC - Regional Bell Operating Company
RC - Red Cross
RC - Regional Center
RC - Resistor-Capacitor circuit (as in filters)
RC - Roman Catholic
RCA - Radio Corporation of America
RCAF - Royal Canadian Air Force
RCAS - Reserve Component Automation System
RCC - Radio Common Carrier
RCMP - Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RD - Rural Delivery
RDA - Remote Data Access
RDBMS - Relational DataBase Management System
RDF - Radio Direction Finding
REA - Rail Express Agency
REM - Rapid Eye Movement
REO - R. E. Olds
REO - Removable, Erasable, Optical
REXX - Restructured EXtended eXecutor
RF - Radio Frequency
RFC - Request For Comments
RFD - Rural Free Delivery
RFI - Radio Frequency Interference
RFP - Request For Proposals
RFS - Remote File System
RGB - Red Green Blue
RGP - Raster Graphics Processor
RH - Right Hand
RHS - Right Hand Side
RI - Rhode Island
RIACS - Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (NASA)
RIAS - Radio In the American Sector, berlin
RIF - Reading Is Fundamental
RIF - Reduction In Force
RILM - Repertoire International de Literature Musicale
RIP - Rest In Peace (or Requiescat In Pace : latin)
RISC - Reduced Instruction Set Computer
RITA - Recognition of Information Technology Achievement award
RJE - Remote Job Entry
RLC - Resistor Inductor Capacitor
RLL - Run Length Limited
RMATS - Remote Maintenance Administration and Traffic System
RMS - Root Mean Square
RMS - Royal Mail Ship
RN - Registered Nurse
RN - Royal Navy
RNA - RiboNucleic Acid
RNZAF - Royal New Zealand Air Force
ROFF - Run-OFF
ROG - Receipt Of Goods
ROM - Range Of Motion
ROM - Read Only Memory
ROM - Rupture Of Membrane (as in birth)
ROTC - Reserve Officers' Training Corps
ROTS - Rotary Out Trunks Selectors
ROYGBIV - Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet
RPC - Remote Procedure Call
RPG - RePort Generator
RPG - Role Playing Game
RPM - Revolutions Per Minute
RPN - Reverse Polish Notation
RPO - Railway Post Office
RPS - Revolutions Per Second
RPV - Remotely Piloted Vehicle
RQ - RuneQuest
RR - RailRoad
RR - Route Relay
RR - Rural Route
RRO - Rate and Route Operator
RS - Recording Secretary
RS - Revised Status
RS - Right Side
RS - Royal Society
RSFSR - Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic
RSN - Real Soon Now
RSU - Remote Switching Unit
RSV - Revised Standard Edition
RSVP - Repondez S'il Vous Plait (please reply)
RSWC - Right Side up With Care
RT - RadioTelephone
RT - RealTime
RTA - Remote Trunk Arrangement
RTAC - Regional Technical Assistance Center
RTF - Rich Text Format
RTFM - Read The F***ing Manual
RTG - Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
RTR - Reel-To-Reel
RTTY - Radio Teletype
RU - Receive Unit
RW - Right Worshipful
RW - Right Worthy
S - South
S - Supplement
S&C - Skull & Crossbones
SA - Salvation Army
SA - Seaman Apprentice
SA - Service Assistant
SA - Sex Appeal
SA - Sine Anno (without date)
SA - South Africa
SA - South America
SA - Subject to Approval
SAA - South Atlantic Anomaly
SAA - Systems Application Architecture
SAC - Special Area Code
SAC - Strategic Air Command (see TAC)
SADD - Students Against Drunk Driving
SAM - Surface-to-Air Missile
SAMA - Step-by-step Automatic Message Accounting
SAMTO - Space And Missile Test Organization
SAP - Second Audio Program
SAR - Synthetic Aperture Radar
SARTS - Switched Access Remote Test System
SASE - Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope
SASI - Shugart Associates Systems Interface
SAW - Surface Acoustic Wave
SBA - Small Business Administration
SC - Sectional Center
SC - South Carolina
SC - SubCommittee
SCAD - Subsonic Cruise Armed Decoy
SCADC - Standard Central Air Data Computer
SCAME - SCreen oriented Anti-Misery Editor
SCAMP - Single-Chip A-series Mainframe Processor
SCAN - Switched Circuit Automatic Network
SCC - Switching Control Center (or Specialized Common Carriers)
SCCS - Source Code Control System
SCE - Signal Conversion Equipment
SCE - Structure Chart Editor
SCI - SpaceCraft Incorporated
SCIFI - SCIence FIction (often used pejoratively of what really isn't)
SCO - Santa Cruz Operation
SCOOPS - SCheme Object Oriented Programming System
SCOTS - Surveilance and Control Of Transmission Systems
SCSI - Small Computer Systems Interface
SCUBA - Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
SCUD - Subsonic Cruise Unarmed Decoy
SD - South Dakota
SDI - Standard Disk Interconnect
SDI - Strategic Defense Initiative
SDLC - Synchronous Data Link Control
SDO - Staff Duty Officer
SE - South East
SEATO - SouthEast Asia Treaty Organization
SEC - Security Exchange Commission
SECNAV - SECretary of the NAVy
SED - Stream EDitor
SEI - Software Engineering Institute (Carnegie Mellon)
SEL - Software Engineering Laboratory
SEM - Scanning Electron Microscope
SF - San Francisco
SF - Science Fiction; Speculative Fiction
SF - Standard Form
SF - Star Frontiers
SFRPG - Science Fiction Role Playing Game
SG - StarGuard
SG - SubGroup
SGML - Standard Generalized Markup Language
SHAPE - Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
SHAR - SHell ARchiver
SHCD - Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
SHF - Super High Frequency (3-30GHz)
SHRPG - Super Hero Role Playing Game
SI - Staten Island
SIAM - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
SIG - Special Interest Group
SIGCAT - Special Interest Group for Cd-rom Applications Technology
SIMD - Single Instruction, Multiple Data
SIMM - Single In-line Memory Module
SIMM - System Integrated Memory Module
SINE - SINE is not EINE
SIPS - Satellite Imagery Processing System
SIS - Strategic Information System
SISCOM - Satellite Information System COMpany
SITA - Societe Internationale Telecommunications Aeronautiques
SJ - Society of Jesus
SL - Salvage Loss
SLA - Special Libraries Association
SLA - Synchronous Line Adapter
SLAN - Sine Loco, Anno, (vel) Nomine (without place, year, or name)
SLAR - Side Looking Airborne Radar
SLBM - Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles
SLDC - Synchronous Data Link Control
SLIP - Serial Line Internet Protocol
SLP - Super Long Play (VHS VCR)
SM - Service Mark
SMA - Sergeant Major of the Army
SMA - Spectrum Manufacturers Association
SMC - Small Magellanic Cloud (see LMC)
SMD - Storage Module Device (interface standard for disk drives)
SMD - Surface Mounted Devices
SMEGMA - Sophisticated Modern Editor with Gloriously Magnificent Abilities
SMERSH - Abbr. of Russian phrase meaning "Death to the spies."
SMILS - Sonobuoy Missile Impact Location System
SMM - Solar Maximum Mission
SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SN - Super Nova
SNA - Systems Network Architecture (IBM network)
SNADS - SNA Distribution Services
SNAFU - Situation Normal -- All Fouled Up (also, F*cked)
SNAP - Shipboard Non-tactical Automated data Processing program
SNCF - Societe National des Chemins de Fer (French National Railways)
SNF - Server-Natural Format
SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol
SNOBOL - StriNg Oriented symbOLic Language
SNR - Signal to Noise Ratio
SO - Seller's Option
SO - Significant Other
SO - Space Opera
SO - Strike Out
SOAP - Symbolic Optimizing Assembler Program
SOH - Start Of Header, ASCII control character (dec=01,control-A)
SOHIO - Standard Oil of oHIO
SOL - Short on Landing (or, colloquially, Shit Out of Luck)
SONAR - SOund Detection And Ranging
SOP - Standard Operating Procedure
SOS - Silicon On Sapphire
SP - Shore Patrol
SP - Short Play (VHS VCR)
SP - Southern Pacific
SP - Stack Pointer
SP - Star Patrol
SPA - Software Publishers Association
SPAG - Standards Promotion and Applications Group
SPAR - Stock Points Adp Replacement
SPARC - Scalable Processor ARChitecture
SPARC - Standards, Planning, And Requirements Committee
SPAWAR - naval SPAce and WARfare command
SPC - Software Productivity Consortium
SPCA - Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
SPCC - Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
SPEC - Systems Performance Evaluation Cooperative
SPITBOL - SPeedy ImplemenTation of snoBOL
SPNI - Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel
SPUR - Systech Pluraxial Unplug Repeater
SQL - Structured Query Language
SQUID - Superconducting QUantum Interference Device
SRAM - Short Range Attack Missile
SRAM - Static RAM
SRB - Solid fuel Rocket Booster
SRI - Stanford Research Institute
SRO - Standing Room Only
SSA - Social Security Administration
SSB - Single Side Band
SSE - South-SouthEast
SSFF - Showcase Software Factory of the Future
SSG - Staff SerGeant
SSI - Small Scale Integration
SSI - Supplemental Security Income
SSR - Secondary Surveillance Radar
SSR - Soviet Socialist Republic
SSTV - Slow Scan TeleVision
SSW - South-SouthWest
ST - Short Ton
STARS - Software Technology for Adaptable, Reliable Systems
STD - Sacrae Theologiae Doctor (doctor of sacred theology)
STD - Sexually Transmitted Disease (replaces VD)
STD - State Transition Diagram
STD - Subscriber Trunk Dialing (British for DDD)
STILO - Scientific and Technical Intelligence Liaison Office
STL - St. Louis (airport designation)
STN - SuperTwisted Nematic
STOL - Short TakeOff and Landing
STP - Software Through Pictures
STP - Standard Temperature and Pressure (see NTP)
STRPG - Star Trek: The Role-Playing Game
STV - Single Transferable Vote
SUM - Symantec Utilities for Macintosh
SUNOCO - SUN Oil COmpany
SUNY - State University of New York
SVID - System V Interface Definition
SW - South West
SW - SuperWorld
SWIFT - Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Communications
SWS - Scientific Workstation Support
T - Traveler
T&T - Tunnels & Trolls
TA - Teaching Assistant
TAC - Tactical Air Command (see SAC)
TAC - Terminal Access Controller
TACCS - Tactical Army Combat service support Computer System
TAE - Transportable Applications Environment
TAR - Tape ARchiver
TB - TuBerculosis
TBA - To Be Announced
TBD - To Be Determined
TC - Teachers College
TCA - Terminal Controlled Airspace
TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TCSEC - Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (orange book)
TCT - To Challenge Tomorrow
TD - TouchDown
TD - Treasury Department
TDCC - Transportation Data Coordinating Committee
TDE - Transition Diagram Editor
TDI - Trusted Database Interpretation
TDY - Temporary DutY
TECO - Tape Editor and COrrector
TECO - Text Editor and COrrector
TEFLON - polyTEtraFLuOrethyleNe
TFP - Tops Filing Protocol
TFS - Translucent File System
TFT - The Fantasy Trip
TFT - Thin Film Transistor
TG - Thieves' Guild
THIEF - THief Isn't Even Fine
THIEF - This Here Isn't Even Fine
THOR - Tandy High-intensity Optical Recording
TI - Texas Instruments
TIA - Thanks In Advance (special to USENET)
TIA - Transient Ischemic Attack
TIC - TermInfo Compiler
TID - Ter In Die (three times a day)
TIFF - Tag Image File Format
TKO - Technical Knock Out
TL - Total Loss
TLA - Three Letter Acronym
TLC - Tender Loving Care
TLI - Transort-Level Interface
TM - TradeMark
TMA - Tycho Magnetic Anomaly (2001)
TMAC - Treasury department's Multiuser Acquisition Contract
TMIS - Telecommunications Management Information System
TMO - Telephone Money Order
TMP - The Morrow Project
TN - Tennessee
TN - Twisted Nematic
TNT - TriNitro Toluene
TO - Telegraph Office
TO - Turn Over
TODS - Transactions on Database Systems (ACM)
TOMS - Transactions on Mathematical Software (ACM)
TOOIS - Transactions on Office Information Systems (ACM)
TOP - Technical/Office Protocol
TOPLAS - Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (ACM)
TORES - Text ORiented Editing System
TOW - Tube launched, Optically tracked, and Wire guided
TP - Transaction Processing
TPC - The Phone Company (from classic movie: _The President's Analyst_)
TPI - Tracks Per Inch
TPO - Traveling Post Office
TPS - Technical Publishing Software
TPS - TeleProcessing Services
TROFF - Text RunOFF, text formatter
TRUSIX - TRUSted unIX
TRW - Thompson, Ramo, and Woolridge
TS - Top Secret
TSD - Total System Design
TSP - Teleprocessing Services Program
TSP - Thrift Savings Plan
TSP - Time Synchronization Protocol
TSP - TriSodium Phosphate
TSR - TSR (Fortune 500 Company that manufactures Dungeons & Dragons)
TTFN - Tah Tah, For Now
TTL - Transistor Transistor Logic
TTMA - Tennessee Tech Microcomputer Association
TTU - Tennessee Technological University
TTY - TeleTYpe
TUNIS - Toronto UNIversity System
TV - TeleVision
TVA - Tennessee Valley Authority
TW - Thieves' World
TWA - Trans World Airlines
TWIMC - To Whom It May Concern
TWT - Traveling Wave Tube
TWX - TeletypeWriter eXchange
TX - Texas
U - Universe
UA - United Artists
UAR - United Arab Republic
UAR - User Action Routine
UART - Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter
UBA - UniBus Adapter
UBC - Universal Bibliographic Control
UCB - University of California at Berkeley
UCD - University of California at Davis
UCI - University of California at Irvine
UCLA - University of California at Los Angeles
UCR - University of California at Riverside
UCSB - University of California at Santa Barbara
UCSC - University of California at Santa Cruz
UCSD - University of California at San Diego
UCSF - University of California at San Francisco
UDB - Unified DataBase
UDP - User Data Protocol
UEC - User Environment Component
UFO - Unidentified Flying Object
UH - Upper Half
UHF - Ultra High Frequency (300-3000MHz)
UIMS - User Interface Management System
UK - United Kingdom
UL - Underwriters Laboratory
ULANA - Unified Local-Area Network Architecture
UMT - Universal Military Training
UN - United Nations
UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Organization
UNICEF - United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (now United Nat. Child. Fund)
UNICS - UNiplex Information Computer Services
UNIX - Not an acronym at all. Was a joke on MIT's MULTICS.
UNO - United Nations Organization
UP - Union Pacific
UPC - Universal Product Code
UPI - United Press International
UPS - Uninterruptible Power Supply
UPS - United Parcel Service
UR - University of Rochester
USA - Union of South Africa
USA - United States Army
USA - United States of America
USAF - United States Air Force
USAFA - United States Air Force Academy (in Colorado Springs)
USC - University of Southern California
USCG - United States Coast Guard
USDA - United States Department of Agriculture
USES - United States Employment Service
USFL - United States Football League
USGS - United States Geological Survey
USIA - United States Information Agency
USM - United States Mail
USMC - United States Marine Corps
USN - United States Navy
USO - United Service Organizations
USO - Unix Software Operation
USP - United States Pharmacopeia
USPS - United States Postal Service
USR - User Service Routines
USS - United States Ship
USSR - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
USSS - User Services and Systems Support
USW - Und So Weiter
UT - UTah
UT - Universal Time
UT - University of Tennessee
UT - University of Texas
UTC - Universal Coordinated Time
UUCP - Unix-to-Unix CoPy
UUG - Unix User Group
UV - UltraViolet
UW - UnderWriter
UW - Univ of Wisconsin
V&V - Villains & Vigilantes
VA - Veterans Administration
VA - Virginia
VAN - Value Added Network (e.g. Tymnet, Telenet, etc)
VANS - Value-Added Network Services
VAR - Value Added Remarketer (reseller)
VASI - Visual Approach Slope Indicator
VAT - Value Added Tax
VAX - Virtual Address eXtended
VAXBI - VAX Bus Interconnect
VCM - Voice Coil Motor
VCO - Voltage Controlled Oscillator
VCR - VideoCassette Recorder
VCU - Virginia Commonwealth University
VD - Venereal Disease (see also STD)
VDFM - Virtual Disk File Manager
VDI - Virtual Device Interface
VDM - Vienna Development Method
VDM - Virtual Device Metafile
VDT - Video Display Terminal
VF - Video Frequency
VFO - Variable Frequency Oscillator
VFW - Volunteer Fire Department
VG - Very Good
VG - Vicar-General
VGA - Video Graphics Array
VHDL - Vhsic Hardware Description Language
VHF - Very High Frequency (30-300MHz)
VHS - Video Home System (VCR)
VHSIC - Very High Speed Integrated Circuit
VI - VIsual editor
VIABLE - Vertical Installation Automation BaseLinE
VILE - VI Like Emacs
VINE - Vine Is Not Emacs
VIP - Very Important Person
VISTA - Volunteers In Service To America
VITA - Vme International Trade Association
VJ - Video Jockey
VL - Vulgar Latin
VLA - Very Large Array radio telescope in Arizona or New Mexico
VLF - Very Low Frequency (3-30KHz)
VLIW - Very Long Instruction Word
VLSI - Very Large Scale Integration
VM - Virtual Memory
VM/CMS - Virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor System
VMM - Virtual Memory Manager
VMOS - Vertical Metal Oxide Semiconductor (V-MOS) (see MOS)
VMR - Vertical Market Reseller
VMS - Vertical Motion Simulator
VMS - Virtual Memory System
VOA - Voice Of America
VOIS - Voice-Operated Information System
VOQ - Visiting Officer's Quarters
VPI&SU - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
VRC - Vertical Redundancy Character
VRM - Virtual Resource Manager
VSAT - Very Small Aperture Terminal, satellite dish
VSX - X/open Verification Suite
VTAM - Virtual Telecommunications Access Method
VTOC - Volume Table Of Contents
VTOL - Vertical TakeOff and Landing
VTR - VideoTape Recorder
VUP - Vax Unit of Performance
VVSS - Vertical Volute Spring Suspension
W - West
W - Width
WA - Washington
WA - Western Australia
WAC - Womens Air Corps
WAN - Wide Area Network
WARC - World Administrative Conference
WATS - Wide Area Telephone Service
WB - Water Ballast
WB - WayBill
WBC - White Blood Cells
WC - Water Closet
WC - Without Charge
WCTU - Women's Christian Temperance Union
WG - Working Group
WH - WarHammer
WHBL - World Home Bible League
WI - Wisconsin
WIS - WWMCCS Information System
WITS - Washington Interagency Telecommunications System
WMSCR - Weather Message Switching Center Replacement
WOPR - War Operations Planned Response (from "Wargames" movie)
WORM - Write Once, Read Many time
WOW - Worlds of Wonder
WP - Word Processing
WP - Working Paper
WSI - Wafer Scale Integration
WSW - West-SouthWest
WU - Washington University
WV - West Virginia
WW - World War
WWI - World War I
WWII - World War II
WWMCCS - World-Wide Military Command and Control System
WY - Wyoming
WYSIWIS - What You See Is What I See
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get
XCF - eXperimental Computing Facility
XD - without Dividend
XDR - eXternal Data Representation
XINU - XINU Is Not UNIX
XL - eXtra Large
XMTR - transMiTteR (the X is for trans)
XNS - Xerox Network Service
XO - eXecutive Officer
XOR - eXclusive OR (logical function)
XSECT - cross SECTion
XTAL - crysTAL (another version of x for crys, see XMTR)
XUI - X-windows User Interface
YA - Yet Another
YACC - Yet Another Compiler Compiler
YB - YearBook
YMCA - Young Mens Christian Association
YMHA - Young Mens Hebrew Association
YOB - Year Of Birth
YP - Yellow Pages
YRS - Ysgarth Rules System
YST - Yukon Standard Time
YT - Yukon Territory
YT - Yukon Time
YTD - Year To Date
YWCA - Young Womens Christian Association
YWHA - Young Womens Hebrew Association
Z - Zenith
Z - Zero
ZB - Zero Beat
ZETA - Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly
ZGS - Zero Gradient Synchrotron
ZI - Zonal Index
ZIP - Zone Improvement Plan (post office code)
ZK - barrage balloon (navy symbol)
ZMRI - Zinc Metals Research Institute
ZPG - Zero Population Growth
ZPRSN - Zurich Provisional Relative Sunspot Number
ZST - Zone Standard Time
ZT - Zone Time
ZWEI - Zwei Was Eine Initially