Computer abbreviations are the most used terms nowadays and it’s increasing. We should introduce ourselves with these computer abbreviations and acronyms. For that reason we provide a large number of abbreviations and acronyms of the computer below:
Computer abbreviations
SL Abbreviations Full Meaning 1 3GL Third Generation Language 2 4GL Fourth Generation Language
Computer Abbreviations (A)
SL Abbreviations Full Meaning 1 ACD Automatic Call Distributor 2 ACK Acknowledgement 3 ADT Abstract Data Type 4 ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line 5 AGP Advanced Graphics Port 6 AI Artificial Intelligence 7 ALGOL Algorithmic Language 8 ALU Arithmetic Logic Unit 9 AM Amplitude Modulation 10 AMD Advanced Micro Devices 11 AMP Asymmetric Multi-Processing 12 ANSI American National Standards Institute 13 APDU Application Protocol Data Unit 14 API Application Program Interface 15 APT Automatically Programmed Tools 16 ARPANET Advanced Research Project Agency Network 17 ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange 18 AT Advanced Technology 19 AT & T American Telephone and Telegraph 20 ATM Automatic Teller Machine, Asynchronous Transmission Mode
Computer abbreviations
Computer Abbreviations (B)
SL Abbreviations Full Meaning 1 BASIC Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code 2 BBS Bulletin Board System 3 BCD Binary Coded Decimal 4 BCS Bangladesh Computer Society Bangladesh Computer Samity 5 BERNET Bangladesh Education and Research Network 6 BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain 7 BIOS Basic Input-output System 8 BIP Business information 9 BISDN Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network 10 Bit Binary digit 11 BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol 12 bps Bits per second
Computer Abbreviations (C)
SL Abbreviations Full Meaning 1 CAD Computer-Aided Design 2 CADMAT Computer-Aided Design Manufacture and testing 3 CAI Computer-aided information 4 CAL Computer-aided Learning 5 CAM Computer-Aided Manufacturing 6 CAS Content Addressable storage 7 CASE Computer-Aided Software Engineering 8 CATV Community Antenna Television 9 CBT Computer-Based Training 10 CCD Charge-Coupled device 11 CCITT Consultative Committee of International Telegraphy and Telephony (Now called ITU-T) 12 CD Compact Disk 13 CD-ROM Compact Disk-Read Only Memory 14 CGA Color Graphics Adapter 15 CISC Complex Instruction set Computer 16 CMMU Cache Memory Management Unit 17 CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor 18 COBOL Common Business Oriented Language 19 CODASYL Committee on Data Systems Language 20 COMDEX COMputer Dealers Exposition 21 CP/M Control Program for Microcomputers 22 CPI Characters Per Inch 23 CPU Central Processing Unit 24 CR Carriage Return 25 CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check 26 CREN Consortium for research and Education Network 27 CRT Cathode Ray Tube 28 CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision 29 CSPDN Circuit Switched Public Data network 30 CSR Connected Speech Recognition 31 CU Control Unit 32 CWR Connected Word Recognition
Computer Abbreviations (D)
SL Abbreviations Full Meaning 1 DASD Direct Access Storage Devices 2 DAT Digital Audio Tape 3 DAV Digital Audio Video 4 DBA Data Base Administration 5 DBMS Data Base Management System 6 DCA Document Content Architecture 7 DCE Data Circuit-termination Equipment 8 DCL Data Control language 9 DDE Direct Data Entry, Dynamic Data Exchange 10 DDL Data Description Language, Dynamic Data Library 11 DDS Digital Data Service 12 DEC Digital Equipment Corporation 13 DFD Data Flow Diagram 14 DIP Dual In-Line Package 15 DLC Data Link Control 16 DMA Direct Memory Access 17 DML data Manipulation Language 18 DMS Digital Metropolitan Service 19 DNS Domain Name System 20 DOS Disk Operating System 21 DP Data Processing 22 dpi dots per inch 23 DQDB Distributed Que Dual Bus 24 DR Data Register 25 DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory 26 DSL Data Sub-Language 27 DSP Digital Signal Processor 28 DSS Decision Support System 29 DTE Data Terminal Equipment 30 DTP Desk Top Publishing
Computer Abbreviations (E)
SL Abbreviations Full Meaning 1 E-mail Electronic Mail 2 EAR Entity-Attribute-Relationship 3 EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code 4 ECMA Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce, and Transport 5 EDP Electronic Data Processing 6 DEVAC Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer 7 EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory 8 EFT Electronic Funds Transfer 9 EFTPOS Electronic Funds Transfer at POint of Sale 10 EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter 11 EIA Electronic Industries Association 12 EISA Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture 13 EMI Electro-Magnetic Interference 14 EMS Expanded Memory Specification 15 ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator 16 EOF End-of-File 17 EPROM Erasable and Programmable Read Only Memory 18 ESDI Enhanced Small Device Interface 19 EU End-User 20 EWP Electronic White Page
Computer Abbreviations (F)
SL Abbreviations Full Meaning 1 F.Keys Function Keys 2 FAQ Frequently Asked Questions 3 FAST Federation Against Software Theft 4 FAT File Allocation Table 5 FAX Facsimile 6 FCC Federal Communications Commission 7 FCS Frame Check Sequence 8 FDC Floppy Disk Controller 9 FDD Floppy Disk Drive, Fixed Disk Drive 10 FDDI Fibre Distributed Data Interface 11 FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing 12 FEA Finite Element Analysis 13 FEP Front-End Processor 14 FF Form Feed, Flip-Flop 15 FGL Fourth Generation Language 16 FIFO First In First Out 17 FM Frequency Modulation 18 FORTRAN FORmula TRANslation 19 FRAM Ferromagnetic Random Access Memory 20 FSK Frequency Shift Keying 21 FTP File Transfer Protocol
Computer Abbreviations (G)
SL Abbreviations Full Meaning 1 GB GigaByte 2 GHz Giga Herz 3 GIGO Garbage in Garbage Out 4 GIS Geographic Information System 5 GUI Graphical User Interface 6 GW-BASIC Gee Whiz! Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
Computer Abbreviations (H)
SL Abbreviations Full Meaning 1 H-Zone Hyphenation-Zone 2 HCI Human Computer Interface 3 HD High Density 4 HDC Hard Disk Controller 5 HDD Hard Disk Drive 6 HDLC High-Level Data Link Control 7 HGC Hercules Graphics Card 8 HIPO CHART Hierarchical Input-Process-output Chart 9 HMA Higher Memory Block 10 HMI Horizontal Motion Index 11 HTML HyperText Markup Language 12 HWD Height/Width/Depth 13 Hz Hertz
Computer Abbreviations (I)
SL Abbreviations Full Meaning 1 I/O Input/Output 2 IAB Internet Architecture Board 3 IAR Instruction Address Register 4 IBG Inter Block Gap 5 IBM International Business Machines 6 IC Integrated Circuit 7 ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol 8 IDE Integrated Drive Electronics 9 IDN Integrated Digital Network 10 IEE Institution of Electrical Engineers 11 IEEE Institute o Electrical and Electronics Engineers 12 IEN Internet Experiment Note 13 IETF Internet Engineering Task Force 14 IIL Integrated Injection Logic 15 IP Internet Protocol, Information processing 16 IPR Intellectual property Right 17 IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange 18 IR Instruction Register 19 IRC Internet Relay Chart 20 IRG Inter Record Gap 21 IRQ Interrupt ReQuest 22 ISA Industry Standard Architecture 23 ISAM Index Sequential Access Mode 24 ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network 25 ISO International Standards Organization 26 ISOC Internet Society 27 IT Information Technology 28 ITU-T International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication 29 IWR Isolated Word Recognition
Computer Abbreviations (J)
SL Abbreviations Full Meaning 1 JCL Job Control Language 2 JTM Job Transfer and Manipulation
Computer Abbreviations (K)
SL Abbreviations Full Meaning 1 KB KiloByte 2 Kb Kilobit 3 Kbps Kilobits per second 4 KPO Key Punch Operator
Computer Abbreviations (L)
SL Abbreviations Full Meaning 1 LAN Local Area Network 2 LAP Link Access protocol 3 LAPB Link Access Protocol Balanced 4 LCD Liquid Crystal Display 5 LED Light Emitting Diode 6 LF Line Feed 7 LFU Least Frequency Used 8 LHN Long Haul Network 9 LIFO Last In First Out 10 LIM-EMS Lotus Intel Microsoft-Expanded Memory Specification 11 LIS Land Information System 12 LLC Logical Link Control 13 LRC Longitudinal Redundancy Check 14 LSI Large-scale Integration
Computer Abbreviations (M)
SL Abbreviations Full Meaning 1 MAC Medium Access Control 2 MAN Metropolitan Area Network 3 MAR Memory Address Register 4 Mb Megabit 5 MB Megabyte 6 Mbps Million bits per second 7 MBR Memory Buffer Register 8 MCA Micro Channel Architecture 9 MDA Monochrome Display Adapter 10 MDR Memory Data Register 11 MFD Mini Floppy Disk 12 MFLOPS Million Floating Point Operations Per Second 13 MHS Message Handling Service 14 MHz MegaHertz 15 MIB Management Information Base 16 MICR Magnetic Ink Character Reader 17 MIMD Multiple Instruction Multiple data 18 MIPS Million Instruction per second 19 MIS Management Information System 20 MMU Memory Management Unit 21 MOS Metal Oxide Semiconductor 22 MOTIS Message Oriented Text Interchange System 23 MPU Microprocessor Unit 24 MS MicroSoft, Message store 25 MS/DOS MircorSoft-Disk Operating System 26 MSI Medium Scale Integration 27 MTA Message Transfer Agent 28 MTBF Mean Time Between Failure 29 MUX Multiplexer
Computer Abbreviations (N)
SL Abbreviations Full Meaning 1 NAK Negative Acknowledgement 2 NETBIOS NETwork Basic Input/Output System 3 NI Norton Index 4 NIC Network Information Centre, Network Interface Card 5 NL Natural Language 6 NLQ NonMaskable Interrupt 7 NMI NonMaskable interrupt 8 NOS Network Operating System 9 NPDU Network Protocol Data Unit 10 NPQ Near Photographic Quality 11 NRZ Non-return to Zero 12 ns Nanosecond 13 NSAP Network Service Access Point
Computer Abbreviations (O)
SL Abbreviations Full Meaning 1 OCR Optical Character Reader/Recognition 2 ODD Optical Disk Drive 3 OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer 4 OHP Over Head Panel 5 OLE Object Linking and Embedding 6 OMR Optical Mark Reader 7 OOD Object-Oriented Design 8 OOP Object-Oriented Design 9 OR Operation Research 10 OS/2 Operating System/2 11 OSF Open Software Foundation 12 OSI Open System Interconnection
Computer Abbreviations (P)
SL Abbreviations Full Meaning 1 PABX Private Automatic Branch Exchange 2 PAL Phase Alternate Line, Programmable Array Logic 3 PAB Private Branch Exchange 4 PC Personal Computer, Program Counter 5 PCB Printed Circuit Board 6 PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect, Protocol Information 7 PCM Pulse Code Modulation 8 PDL Page Description Language 9 PDN Public Data Network 10 PDU Protocol Data Unit 11 PERT Progress Evaluation and Review Technique 12 PIN Personal Identification Number 13 PIO Parallel Input/Output 14 PL/1 Programming language 1 15 PLA Programmable Logic Array 16 PLL Phase Locked Loop 17 PM Phase Modulation 18 PMBX Private Manual Branch Exchange 19 POP Post Office Protocol 20 POS Power On Self Test 21 ppm Page Per Minute 22 PPP Point-to-point Protocol 23 PPU Protocol Data Unit 24 PROLOG PRogramming LOGin 25 PROM Programmable Read Only Memory 26 PSDN Packet-switched data Network 27 PSK Phase Shift Keying 28 PSPDN Packet Switched Public Data Network 29 PTT Post Telegraph and Telephone
Q
SL Abbreviations Full Meaning 1 QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation 2 QBE Query By Example
Computer Abbreviations (R)
SL Abbreviations Full Meaning 1 RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks 2 RAM Random Access Memory 3 RDBMS Relational Database Management System 4 RFI Radio Frequency Interference 5 RGB Red-Green-Blue 6 RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer 7 RLL Run-Length-Limited 8 RMM Read-Mostly Memory 9 ROM Read Only Memory 10 RPG Report Programme Generator 11 RPROM ReProgrammable Read-only Memory 12 RSI Repetitive Strain Injury 13 RTS Request To Send
Computer Abbreviations (S)
SL Abbreviations 1 SAA Systems Application Architecture 2 SAP Service Access Point 3 SCR Sequence Control Register 4 SCSI Small computer system interface 5 SDLC Synchronous Data link Control 6 SIMD Single Instruction Multiple Data 7 SIMM Single in-line Memory module 8 SIPP Single in-Line Pin profile 9 SISD Single Instruction Single Data 10 SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol 11 SMP Symmetric Multiprocessing 12 SMTP Simple Mail transfer protocol 13 SNA Systems Network architecture 14 SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol 15 SONET Synchronous Optical Network 16 SPARC Scalable Processor ARChitecture 17 SPC Stored Programme Control 18 SPEC Systems Performance Evaluation Cooperative 19 SQL Structured Query Language 20 SRAM Static Random Access Memory 21 SSD Single Sided Disk 22 STP Shielded Twisted Pair 23 SVGA Super Video Graphics Array 24 SYSOP System OPerator
Computer Abbreviations (T)
SL Abbreviations Full Meaning 1 TBU Tape Back-up Unit 2 TCP Transmission Control Protocol 3 TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol 4 TDM Time Division Multiplexing 5 TE Terminal Equipment 6 TEI Terminal Endpoint Identifier 7 TIFF Tagged Image File Format 8 TMOT Thermo-Magnetic –Optic Technology 9 TPDU Transport Protocol Data Unit 10 TPI Tracks per inch 11 TSR Terminate and Stay Resident 12 TTL Transistor-Transistor Logic 13 TTY Tele TYpewriter
Computer Abbreviations (U)
SL Abbreviations Full Meaning 1 UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver-transmitter 2 UC Upward Compatibility 3 UDP User Datagram Protocol 4 UIMS User Interface Management System 5 UMB Upper Memory Block 6 UNICAC Universal Automatic computer 7 UPC Universal product code 8 UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply 9 URL Universal Resource Locator 10 USART Universal Synchronous Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter 11 UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair 12 UUCP Unix-to-Unix Copy
Computer Abbreviations (V)
SL Abbreviations Full Meaning 1 VAN Value Added Network 2 VC Virtual Circuit 3 VDE Voice Data Entry 4 VDT Visual Display terminal 5 VDU Visual Display Unit 6 VESA Video Electronics Standard Association 7 VGA Video Graphics Array 8 VLIW Very-Long-Instruction Word 9 VLSI Very Large Scale Integration 10 VM Virtual Memory 11 VRAM Video Random Access Memory 12 VRC Vertical Redundancy Check 13 VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal 14 VT Virtual Terminal
Computer Abbreviations (W)
SL Abbreviations Full Meaning 1 W3 World Wide Web 2 WAIS Wide Area Information Server 3 WAN Wide Area Network 4 WORM Write-Once-Many 5 WP Word Processing 6 WW Word Wrap 7 WWW World Wide Web 8 WYSIWYG What you see Is What You Get
Computer Abbreviations (X)
SL Abbreviations Full Meaning 1 XGA Extended Graphics Array 2 XMS Extended Memory Specification 3 XOR Exclusive OR 4 XT Extended Technology
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