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Acronyms and Abbreviations

  • Writer: Com Bird
    Com Bird
  • Dec 7, 2023
  • 2 min read

Updated: Jan 4, 2024



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CPU Central Processing Unit

RAM Random Access Memory

ROM Read-Only Memory

BIOS Basic Input/Output System

OS Operating System

GPU Graphics Processing Unit

LAN Local Area Network

WAN Wide Area Network

URL Uniform Resource Locator

HTML Hyper Text Markup Language

CSS Cascading Style Sheets

JavaScript JS (not an acronym, but commonly referred to as JS)

HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HTTPS Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

FTP File Transfer Protocol

SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

IP Internet Protocol

TCP Transmission Control Protocol

UDP User Datagram Protocol

DNS Domain Name System

ISP Internet Service Provider

SSID Service Set Identifier

VPN Virtual Private Network

PDF Portable Document Format

JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group

PNG Portable Network Graphics

GIF Graphics Interchange Format

USB Universal Serial Bus

HDD Hard Disk Drive

SSD Solid State Drive

API Application Programming Interface

GUI Graphical User Interface

CLI Command Line Interface

IDE Integrated Development Environment

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

SQL Structured Query Language

XML eXtensible Markup Language

JSON JavaScript Object Notation

POP Post Office Protocol

IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol

TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

HTML5 Hyper Text Markup Language version 5

CSS3 Cascading Style Sheets version 3

WWW World Wide Web

IoT Internet of Things

CMS Content Management System

WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get

AJAX Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

MAN Metropolitan Area Network

SDK Software Development Kit

MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol

SSH Secure Shell

SSL Secure Sockets Layer

TLS Transport Layer Security

AI Artificial Intelligence

AR Augmented Reality

VR Virtual Reality

RFID Radio-Frequency Identification

NFC Near Field Communication

ML Machine Learning

DL Deep Learning

RPA Robotic Process Automation

SaaS Software as a Service

PaaS Platform as a Service

IaaS Infrastructure as a Service

BYOD Bring Your Own Device

WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access

SSO Single Sign-On

CAPTCHA Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and
Humans Apart

QR Code Quick Response Code

DPI Dots Per Inch

DDL Data Definition Language

DML Data Manipulation Language

APIPA Automatic Private IP Addressing

RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks

BI Business Intelligence

CRM Customer Relationship Management

ERP Enterprise Resource Planning

MVC Model-View-Controller

OOP Object-Oriented Programming

UDID Unique Device Identifier

UUID Universally Unique Identifier

NoSQL Not Only SQL

CRUD Create, Read, Update, Delete

NAT Network Address Translation

MAC Address Media Access Control Address

AES Advanced Encryption Standard

DES Data Encryption Standard

OCR Optical Character Recognition

RF Radio Frequency

HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface

LTE Long-Term Evolution

DNSSEC Domain Name System Security Extensions

MIMO Multiple Input, Multiple Output

ACID Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability

PKI Public Key Infrastructure

RTOS Real-Time Operating System

WPA3 Wi-Fi Protected Access 3

UGC User-Generated Content

RAMDAC Random Access Memory Digital-to-Analog Converter

QoS Quality of Service

ICT Information and Communication Technology

SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

DLP Data Loss Prevention

DFS Distributed File System

VLAN Virtual Local Area Network

WORM Write Once, Read Many

ECC Error-Correcting Code

DDoS Distributed Denial of Service

PKCS Public Key Cryptography Standards

UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair

HaaS Hardware as a Service

VoLTE Voice over Long-Term Evolution

M2M Machine to Machine

TPM Trusted Platform Module

NTP Network Time Protocol

SAN Storage Area Network

VCS Version Control System



 
 
 

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