List of computing and IT abbreviations

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This is a list of computing and IT acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations.

## Contents

* 1 0–9
* 2 A
* 3 B
* 4 C
* 5 D
* 6 E
* 7 F
* 8 G
* 9 H
* 10 I
* 11 J
* 12 K
* 13 L
* 14 M
* 15 N
* 16 O
* 17 P
* 18 Q
* 19 R
* 20 S
* 21 T
* 22 U
* 23 V
* 24 W
* 25 X
* 26 Y
* 27 Z
* 28 See also
* 29 References
* 30 External links

## 0–9

* 1GL—First-Generation Programming Language
* 1NF—First Normal Form
* 10B2—10BASE-2
* 10B5—10BASE-5
* 10B-F—10BASE-F
* 10B-FB—10BASE-FB
* 10B-FL—10BASE-FL
* 10B-FP—10BASE-FP
* 10B-T—10BASE-T
* 100B-FX—100BASE-FX
* 100B-TX—100BASE-TX
* 100BVG—100BASE-VG
* 286—Intel 80286 processor
* 2B1Q—2 Binary 1 Quaternary
* 2FA—Two-factor authentication
* 2GL—Second-Generation Programming Language
* 2NF—Second Normal Form
* 3GL—Third-Generation Programming Language
* 3GPP—3rd Generation Partnership Project – 3G comms
* 3GPP2—3rd Generation Partnership Project 2
* 3NF—Third Normal Form
* 386—Intel 80386 processor
* 486—Intel 80486 processor
* 4B5BLF—4-bit 5-bit Local Fiber
* 4GL—Fourth-Generation Programming Language
* 4NF—Fourth Normal Form
* 5GL—Fifth-Generation Programming Language
* 5NF—Fifth Normal Form
* 6NF—Sixth Normal Form
* 8B10BLF—8-bit 10-bit Local Fiber
* 802.11—Wireless LAN

## A

* AAA—Authentication Authorization, Accounting
* AABB—Axis Aligned Bounding Box
* AAC—Advanced Audio Coding
* AAL—ATM Adaptation Layer
* AALC—ATM Adaptation Layer Connection
* AARP—AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol
* ABAC—Attribute-Based Access Control
* ABCL—Actor-Based Concurrent Language
* ABI—Application Binary Interface
* ABM—Asynchronous Balanced Mode
* ABR—Area Border Router
* ABR—Auto Baud-Rate detection
* ABR—Available Bitrate
* ABR—Average Bitrate
* ABR—Adaptive Bitrate (Streaming)
* AC—Acoustic Coupler
* AC—Alternating Current
* ACD—Automatic Call Distributor
* ACE—Advanced Computing Environment
* ACID—Atomicity Consistency Isolation Durability
* ACK—ACKnowledgement
* ACK—Amsterdam Compiler Kit
* ACL—Access Control List
* ACL—Active Current Loop
* ACM—Association for Computing Machinery
* ACME—Automated Classification of Medical Entities
* ACP—Airline Control Program
* ACPI—Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
* ACR—Allowed Cell Rate
* ACR—Attenuation to Crosstalk Ratio
* AD—Active Directory
* AD—Administrative Domain
* ADC—Analog-to-Digital Converter
* ADC—Apple Display Connector
* ADB—Apple Desktop Bus
* ADCCP—Advanced Data Communications Control Procedures
* ADO—ActiveX Data Objects
* ADSL—Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
* ADT—Abstract Data Type
* AE—Adaptive Equalizer
* AES—Advanced Encryption Standard
* AF—Anisotropic Filtering
* AFP—Apple Filing Protocol
* AGP—Accelerated Graphics Port
* AH—Active Hub
* AI—Artificial Intelligence
* AIX—Advanced Interactive eXecutive
* Ajax—Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
* AL—Active Link
* AL—Access List
* ALAC—Apple Lossless Audio Codec
* ALGOL—Algorithmic Language
* ALSA—Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
* ALU—Arithmetic and Logical Unit
* AM—Access Method
* AM—Active Matrix
* AMOLED—Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode
* AM—Active Monitor
* AM—Allied Mastercomputer
* AM—Amplitude Modulation
* AMD—Advanced Micro Devices
* AMQP—Advanced Message Queuing Protocol
* AMR—Audio Modem Riser
* ANN—Artificial Neural Network
* ANSI—American National Standards Institute
* ANT—Another Neat Tool
* AoE—ATA over Ethernet
* AOP—Aspect-Oriented Programming
* APCI—Application-Layer Protocol Control Information
* API—Application Programming Interface
* APIC—Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
* APIPA—Automatic Private IP Addressing
* APL—A Programming Language
* APR—Apache Portable Runtime
* ARC—Adaptive Replacement Cache
* ARC—Advanced RISC Computing
* ARIN—American Registry for Internet Numbers
* ARM—Advanced RISC Machines
* AROS—AROS Research Operating System
* ARP—Address Resolution Protocol
* ARPA—Address and Routing Parameter Area
* ARPA—Advanced Research Projects Agency
* ARPANET—Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
* AS—Access Server
* ASCII—American Standard Code for Information Interchange
* AuthIP—Authenticated Internet Protocol
* ASG—Abstract Semantic Graph
* ASIC—Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
* ASIMO—Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility
* ASLR—Address Space Layout Randomization
* ASM—Algorithmic State Machine
* ASMP—Asymmetric Multiprocessing
* ASN.1—Abstract Syntax Notation 1
* ASP—Active Server Pages
* ASP—Application Service Provider
* ASR—Asynchronous Signal Routine
* AST—Abstract Syntax Tree
* AT—Advanced Technology
* AT—Access Time
* AT—Active Terminator
* ATA—Advanced Technology Attachment
* ATAG—Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
* ATAPI—Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface
* ATM—Asynchronous Transfer Mode
* AuthN—Authentication
* AuthZ—Authorization
* AV—Antivirus
* AVC—Advanced Video Coding
* AVI—Audio Video Interleaved
* AWK—Aho Weinberger Kernighan
* AWS—Amazon Web Services
* AWT—Abstract Window Toolkit

## B

* B2B—Business-to-Business
* B2C—Business-to-Consumer
* B2E—Business-to-Employee
* BAL—Basic Assembly Language
* BAM—Block Availability Map
* Bash—Bourne-again shell
* BASIC—Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
* BBP—Baseband Processor
* BBS—Bulletin Board System
* BC—Business Continuity
* BCC—Blind Carbon Copy
* BCD—Binary Coded Decimal
* BCD—Boot Configuration Data
* BCNF—Boyce–Codd normal form
* BCP—Business Continuity Planning
* BE—Backend
* BEEP—Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol
* BER—Bit Error Rate
* BFD—Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
* BFD—Binary File Descriptor
* BFS—Breadth-First Search
* BFT—Byzantine Fault Tolerant
* BGP—Border Gateway Protocol
* BI—Business Intelligence
* BiDi—Bi-Directional
* bin—binary
* BINAC—Binary Automatic Computer
* BIND—Berkeley Internet Name Domain
* BIOS—Basic Input Output System
* BJT—Bipolar Junction Transistor
* bit—binary digit
* Blob—Binary large object
* Blog—Web Log
* BMP—Basic Multilingual Plane
* BNC—Baby Neill Constant
* BOINC—Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
* BOM—Byte Order Mark
* BOOTP—Bootstrap Protocol
* BPDU—Bridge Protocol Data Unit
* BPEL—Business Process Execution Language
* BPL—Broadband over Power Lines
* BPM—Business Process Management
* BPM—Business Process Modeling
* bps—bits per second
* BRM—Business Reference Model
* BRMS—Business Rule Management System
* BRR—Business Readiness Rating
* BRS—Broadband Radio Service
* BSA—Business Software Alliance
* BSB—Backside Bus
* BSD—Berkeley Software Distribution
* BSoD—Blue Screen of Death
* BSS—Block Started by Symbol
* BT—BitTorrent
* BT—Bluetooth
* B TAM—Basic Telecommunications Access Method
* BW—Bandwidth
* BYOD—Bring Your Own Device
* Byte—By eight (group of 8 bits)

## C

* CA—Computer Accountancy
* CAD—Computer-Aided Design
* CAE—Computer-Aided Engineering
* CAID—Computer-Aided Industrial Design
* CAI—Computer-Aided Instruction
* CAM—Computer-Aided Manufacturing
* CAP—Consistency Availability Partition tolerance (theorem)
* CAPTCHA—Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
* CAT—Computer-Aided Translation
* CAQ—Computer-Aided Quality Assurance
* CASE—Computer-Aided Software Engineering
* cc—C Compiler
* CC—Carbon Copy
* CD—Compact Disc
* CDE—Common Desktop Environment
* CDFS—Compact Disk File System
* CDMA—Code-Division Multiple Access
* CDN—Content Delivery Network
* CDP—Cisco Discovery Protocol
* CDP—Continuous Data Protection
* CD-R—CD-Recordable
* CD-ROM—CD Read-Only Memory
* CD-RW—CD-Rewritable
* CDSA—Common Data Security Architecture
* CERT—Computer Emergency Response Team
* CES—Consumer Electronics Show
* CF—Compact Flash
* CFD—Computational Fluid Dynamics
* CFG—Context-Free Grammar
* CFG—Control-Flow Graph
* CG—Computer Graphics
* CGA—Color Graphics Array
* CGI—Common Gateway Interface
* CGI—Computer-Generated Imagery
* CGT—Computational Graph Theory
* CHAP—Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol
* CHS—Cylinder-Head-Sector
* CIDR—Classless Inter-Domain Routing
* CIFS—Common Internet Filesystem
* CIM—Common Information Model
* CIM—Computationally Independent Model
* CIO—Chief Information Officer
* CIR—Committed information rate
* CISC—Complex Instruction Set Computer
* CJK—Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
* CJKV—Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese
* CLI—Command Line Interface
* CLR—Common Language Runtime
* CM—Configuration Management
* CM—Content Management
* CMDB—Configuration Management Database
* CMMI—Capability Maturity Model Integration
* CMOS—Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
* CMO—Current Mode of Operation
* CMS—Content Management System
* CN—Canonical Name
* CN—Common Name
* CNC—Computer Numerical Control
* CNG—Cryptographic Next Generation
* CNG—Cryptography Next Generation
* CNR—Communications and Networking Riser
* COBOL—Common Business-Oriented Language
* COM—Component Object Model or communication
* CORBA—Common Object Request Broker Architecture
* CORS—Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
* COTS—Commercial Off-The-Shelf
* CPA—Cell Processor Architecture
* CPAN—Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
* CP/M—Control Program/Monitor
* CPRI—Common Public Radio Interface
* CPS—characters per second
* CPU—Central Processing Unit
* CQS—Command–query separation
* CQRS—Command Query Responsibility Segregation
* CR—Carriage Return
* CRAN—Comprehensive R Archive Network
* CRC—Cyclic Redundancy Check
* CRLF—Carriage Return Line Feeds
* CRM—Customer Relationship Management
* CRS—Computer Reservations System
* CRT—Cathode-Ray Tube
* CRUD—Create, Read, Update and Delete
* CS—Cable Select
* CS—Computer Science
* CSE—Computer Science and Engineering
* CSI—Common System Interface
* CSM—Compatibility Support Module
* CSMA/CD—Carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection
* CSP—Cloud Service Provider
* CSP—Communicating Sequential Processes
* CSRF—Cross-Site Request Forgery
* CSS—Cascading Style Sheets
* CSS—Content-Scrambling System
* CSS—Closed Source Software
* CSS—Cross-Site Scripting
* CSV—Comma-Separated Values
* CT—Computerized Tomography
* CTAN—Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
* CTCP—Client-To-Client Protocol
* CTI—Computer Telephony Integration
* CTFE—Compile-time function execution
* CTL—Computational Tree Logic
* CTM—Close To Metal
* CTS—Clear To Send
* CTSS—Compatible Time-Sharing System
* CUA—Common User Access
* CVE—Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
* CVS—Concurrent Versioning System
* CX—Customer Experience

## D

* DAC—Digital-To-Analog Converter
* DAC—Discretionary Access Control
* DAL—Database Abstraction Layer
* DAO—Data Access Object
* DAO—Data Access Objects
* DAO—Disk-At-Once
* DAP—Directory Access Protocol
* DARPA—Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
* DAS—Direct Attached Storage
* DAT—Digital Audio Tape
* DB—Database
* DSKT—Desktop
* DBA—Database Administrator
* DBCS—Double Byte Character Set
* DBMS—Database Management System
* DCC—Direct Client-to-Client
* DCCP—Datagram Congestion Control Protocol
* DCCA—Debian Common Core Alliance
* DCL—Data Control Language
* DCS—Distributed Control System
* DCMI—Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
* DCOM—Distributed Component Object Model
* DD—Double Density
* DDE—Dynamic Data Exchange
* DDI—DNS DHCP & IP address management
* DDL—Data Definition Language
* DDoS—Distributed Denial of Service
* DDR—Double Data Rate
* DEC—Digital Equipment Corporation
* DES—Data Encryption Standard
* dev—development
* DFA—Deterministic Finite Automaton
* DFD—Data Flow Diagram
* DFS—Depth-First Search
* DFS—Distributed File System
* DGD—Dworkin's Game Driver
* DHCP—Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
* DHTML—Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language
* DIF—Data Integrity Field
* DIMM—Dual Inline Memory Module
* DIN—Deutsches Institut für Normung
* DIP—Dual In-line Package
* DISM—Deployment Image and Service Management Tool
* DIVX—Digital Video Express
* DKIM—Domain Keys Identified Mail
* DL—Download
* DLL—Dynamic Link Library
* DLNA—Digital Living Network Alliance
* DMA—Direct Memory Access
* DMCA—Digital Millennium Copyright Act
* DMI—Direct Media Interface
* DML—Data Manipulation Language
* DML—Definitive Media Library
* DMR—Dennis M. Ritchie
* DMZ—Demilitarized Zone
* DN—Distinguished Name
* DND—Drag-and-Drop
* DNS—Domain Name System
* DOA—Dead on Arrival
* DOCSIS—Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification
* DOM—Document Object Model
* DORA—Discover, Offer, Request, Acknowledge
* DoS—Denial of Service
* DOS—Disk Operating System
* DP—Dot Pitch
* DPC—Deferred Procedure Call
* DPI—Deep Packet Inspection
* DPI—Dots Per Inch
* DPMI—DOS Protected Mode Interface
* DPMS—Display Power Management Signaling
* DR—Disaster Recovery
* DRAM—Dynamic Random-Access Memory
* DR-DOS—Digital Research – Disk Operating System
* DRI—Direct Rendering Infrastructure
* DRM—Digital Rights Management
* DRM—Direct Rendering Manager
* DSA—Digital Signature Algorithm
* DSDL—Document Schema Definition Languages
* DSDM—Dynamic Systems Development Method
* DSL—Digital Subscriber Line
* DSL—Domain-Specific Language
* DSLAM—Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
* DSN—Database Source Name
* DSN—Data Set Name
* DSP—Digital Signal Processor
* DSSSL—Document Style Semantics and Specification Language
* DTD—Document Type Definition
* DTE—Data Terminal Equipment or data transfer rate
* DTO—Data Transfer Object
* DTP—Desktop Publishing
* DTR—Data Terminal Ready or Data transfer rate
* DVD—Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc
* DVD-R—DVD-Recordable
* DVD-ROM—DVD-Read-Only Memory
* DVD-RW—DVD-Rewritable
* DVI—Digital Visual Interface
* DVR—Digital Video Recorder
* DW—Data Warehouse

## E

* EAI—Enterprise Application Integration
* EAP—Extensible Authentication Protocol
* EAS—Exchange ActiveSync
* EBCDIC—Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
* EBML—Extensible Binary Meta Language
* ECC—Elliptic Curve Cryptography
* ECMA—European Computer Manufacturers Association
* ECN—Explicit Congestion Notification
* ECOS—Embedded Configurable Operating System
* ECRS—Expense and Cost Recovery System
* ECS—Entity-Component-System
* EDA—Electronic Design Automation
* EDGE—Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution
* EDI—Electronic Data Interchange
* EDO—Extended Data Out
* EDSAC—Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator
* EDVAC—Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
* EEPROM—Electronically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
* EFF—Electronic Frontier Foundation
* EFI—Extensible Firmware Interface
* EFM—Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation
* EFM—Ethernet in the First Mile
* EFS—Encrypting File System
* EGA—Enhanced Graphics Array
* E-mail—Electronic mail
* EGP—Exterior Gateway Protocol
* eID—electronic ID card
* EIDE—Enhanced IDE
* EIGRP—Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
* EISA—Extended Industry Standard Architecture
* ELF—Extremely Low Frequency
* ELF—Executable and Linkable Format
* ELM—ELectronic Mail
* EMACS—Editor MACroS
* EMS—Expanded Memory Specification
* ENIAC—Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer
* EOD—End of Day
* EOF—End of File
* EOL—End of Life
* EOL—End of Line
* EOM—End of Message
* EOS—End of Support
* EPIC—Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing
* EPROM—Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
* ERD—Entity–Relationship Diagram
* ERM—Entity–Relationship Model
* ERP—Enterprise Resource Planning
* eSATA—external SATA
* ESB—Enterprise service bus
* ESCON—Enterprise Systems Connection
* ESD—Electrostatic Discharge
* ESI—Electronically Stored Information
* ESR—Eric Steven Raymond
* ETL—Extract, Transform, Load
* ETW—Event Tracing for Windows
* EUC—Extended Unix Code
* EULA—End User License Agreement
* EWM—Enterprise Work Management
* EWMH—Extended Window Manager Hints
* EXT—EXTended file system
* ETA—Estimated Time of Arrival

## F

* FAP—FORTRAN Assembly Program
* FASM—Flat ASseMbler
* FAT—File Allocation Table
* FAQ—Frequently Asked Questions
* FBDIMM—Fully Buffered Dual Inline Memory Module
* FC-AL—Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop
* FCB—File Control Block
* FCS—Frame Check Sequence
* FDC—Floppy-Disk Controller
* FDS—Fedora Directory Server
* FDD—Frequency-Division Duplexing
* FDD—Floppy Disk Drive
* FDDI—Fiber Distributed Data Interface
* FDM—Frequency-Division Multiplexing
* FDMA—Frequency-Division Multiple Access
* FE—Frontend
* FEC—Forward Error Correction
* FEMB—Front-End Motherboard
* FET—Field Effect Transistor
* FHS—Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
* FICON—FIber CONnectivity
* FIFO—First In First Out
* FIPS—Federal Information Processing Standards
* FL—Function Level
* FLAC—Free Lossless Audio Codec
* FLOPS—FLoating-Point Operations Per Second
* FLOSS—Free/Libre/Open-Source Software
* FMC—Fixed Mobile Convergence "Mobile UC or Unified Communications over Wireless"
* FMO—Future Mode of Operation
* FOLDOC—Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
* FORTRAN—Formula Translation
* FOSDEM—Free and Open-source Software Developers' European Meeting
* FOSI—Formatted Output Specification Instance
* FOSS—Free and Open-Source Software
* FP—Function Programming
* FP—Functional Programming
* FPGA—Field Programmable Gate Array
* FPS—Floating Point Systems
* FPU—Floating-Point Unit
* FRU—Field-Replaceable Unit
* FS—File System
* FSB—Front-Side Bus
* fsck—File System Check
* FSF—Free Software Foundation
* FSM—Finite State Machine
* FTTA—Fiber To The Antenna
* FTTC—Fiber To The Curb
* FTTH—Fiber To The Home
* FTTP—Fiber To The Premises
* FTP—File Transfer Protocol
* FQDN—Fully Qualified Domain Name
* FUD—Fear Uncertainty Doubt
* FWS—Folding White Space
* FXP—File eXchange Protocol
* FYI—For Your Information
* FVEK—Full Volume Encryption Key

## G

* G11N—Globalization
* Gas—GNU Assembler
* Gb—Gigabit
* GB—Gigabyte
* Gbps—Gigabits per second
* GCC—GNU Compiler Collection
* GCJ—GNU Compiler for Java
* GCP—Google Cloud Platform
* GCR—Group Coded Recording
* GDB—GNU Debugger
* GDI—Graphics Device Interface
* GFDL—GNU Free Documentation License
* GIF—Graphics Interchange Format
* GIGO—Garbage In, Garbage Out
* GIMP—GNU Image Manipulation Program
* GIMPS—Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
* GIS—Geographic Information System
* GLUT—OpenGL Utility Toolkit
* GML—Geography Markup Language
* GNOME—GNU Network Object Model Environment
* GNU—GNU's Not Unix
* GOMS—Goals, Operators, Methods, and Selection rules
* GPASM—GNU PIC ASseMbler
* GPFS—General Parallel File System
* GPG—GNU Privacy Guard
* GPGPU—General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units
* GPIB—General-Purpose Instrumentation Bus
* GPL—General Public License
* GPL—General-Purpose Language
* GPRS—General Packet Radio Service
* GPT—GUID Partition Table
* GPU—Graphics Processing Unit
* GRUB—Grand Unified Boot-Loader
* GERAN—GSM EDGE Radio Access Network
* GSM—Global System for Mobile Communications
* GTK/GTK+—GIMP Toolkit[1]
* GUI—Graphical User Interface
* GUID—Globally Unique IDentifier
* GWT—Google Web Toolkit
* GYR—IT Networking

## H

* HA—High availability
* HAL—Hardware Abstraction Layer
* HARD—HTML Application Rapid Development
* HASP—Houston Automatic Spooling Priority
* HBA—Host Bus Adapter
* HCI—Human—Computer Interaction
* HD—High Density
* HDD—Hard Disk Drive
* HCL—Hardware Compatibility List
* HD DVD—High Definition DVD
* HDL—Hardware Description Language
* HDMI—High-Definition Multimedia Interface
* HECI—Host Embedded Controller Interface
* HF—High Frequency
* HFS—Hierarchical File System
* HHD—Hybrid Hard Drive
* HID—Human Interface Device
* HIG—Human Interface Guidelines
* HIRD—Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth
* HLASM—High Level ASseMbler
* HLS—HTTP Live Streaming
* HMA—High Memory Area
* HP—Hewlett-Packard
* HPC—High-Performance Computing
* HPFS—High Performance File System
* HSDPA—High-Speed Downlink Packet Access
* HTC—High-Throughput Computing
* HSM—Hierarchical Storage Management
* HT—Hyper Threading
* HTM—Hierarchical Temporal Memory
* HTML—Hypertext Markup Language
* HTTP—Hypertext Transfer Protocol
* HTTPd—Hypertext Transport Protocol Daemon
* HTTPS—HTTP Secure
* HTX—HyperTransport eXpansion
* HURD—Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons
* HVD—Holographic Versatile Disc
* Hz—Hertz

## I

* I²C—Inter-Integrated Circuit
* I²S—Integrated Interchip Sound
* I18N—Internationalization
* IANA—Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
* IaaS—Infrastructure as a Service
* IaC—Infrastructure as Code
* iBCS—Intel Binary Compatibility Standard
* IBM—International Business Machines
* IC—Integrated Circuit
* ICANN—Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
* ICE—In-Circuit Emulator
* ICE—Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics
* ICH—I/O Controller Hub
* ICMP—Internet Control Message Protocol
* ICP—Internet Cache Protocol
* ICS—Internet Connection Sharing
* ICT—Information and Communication Technology
* IDE—Integrated Development Environment
* IDE—Integrated Drive Electronics
* IDF—Intermediate Distribution Frame
* IDF—Intermediate Data Format
* IDL—Interactive Data Language
* IDL—Interface Definition Language
* IdP—Identity Provider (cybersecurity)
* IDS—Intrusion Detection System
* IE—Internet Explorer
* IEC—International Electrotechnical Commission
* IEEE—Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
* IETF—Internet Engineering Task Force
* IFL—Integrated Facility for Linux
* IGMP—Internet Group Management Protocol
* IGRP—Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
* IHV—Independent Hardware Vendor
* IIOP—Internet Inter-Orb Protocol
* IIS—Internet Information Services
* IKE—Internet Key Exchange
* IL—Intermediate Language
* IM—Instant Message or Instant Messaging
* IMAP—Internet Message Access Protocol
* IME—Input Method Editor
* INFOSEC—Information Systems Security
* I/O—Input/output
* IoT—Internet of Things
* IP—Intellectual Property
* IP—Internet Protocol
* IPAM—IP Address Management
* IPC—Inter-Process Communication
* IPL—Initial Program Load
* IPMI—Intelligent Platform Management Interface
* IPO—Inter Procedural Optimization
* IPP—Internet Printing Protocol
* IPS—In-Plane Switching
* IPS—Instructions Per Second
* IPS—Intrusion Prevention System
* IPsec—Internet Protocol security
* IPTV—Internet Protocol Television
* IPv4—Internet Protocol version 4
* IPv6—Internet Protocol version 6
* IPX—Internetwork Packet Exchange
* IR—Intermediate Representation
* IRC—Internet Relay Chat
* IrDA—Infrared Data Association
* IRI—Internationalized Resource Identifier
* IRP—I/O Request Packet
* IRQ—Interrupt Request
* IS—Information Systems
* IS-IS—Intermediate System to Intermediate System
* ISA—Industry Standard Architecture
* ISA—Instruction Set Architecture
* ISAM—Indexed Sequential Access Method
* ISATAP—Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol
* ISC—Internet Storm Center
* iSCSI—Internet Small Computer System Interface
* ISDN—Integrated Services Digital Network
* ISO—International Organization for Standardization
* iSNS—Internet Storage Name Service
* ISP—Internet Service Provider
* ISPF—Interactive System Productivity Facility
* ISR—Interrupt Service Routine
* ISV—Independent Software Vendor
* IT—Information Technology
* ITIL—Information Technology Infrastructure Library
* ITL—Interval Temporal Logic
* ITU—International Telecommunication Union
* IVR(S)—Interactive Voice Response (System)

## J

* J2EE—Java 2 Enterprise Edition
* J2ME—Java 2 Micro Edition
* J2SE—Java 2 Standard Edition
* JAXB—Java Architecture for XML Binding
* JAX-RPC—Jakarta XML (formerly Java XML) for Remote Procedure Calls
* JAXP—Java API for XML Processing
* JBOD—Just a Bunch of Disks
* JCE— Java Cryptography Extension
* JCL—Job Control Language
* JCP—Java Community Process
* JDBC—Java Database Connectivity
* JDK—Java Development Kit
* JEE—Java Enterprise Edition
* JES—Job Entry Subsystem
* JDS—Java Desktop System
* JFC—Java Foundation Classes
* JFET—Junction Field-Effect Transistor
* JFS—IBM Journaling File System
* JINI—Jini Is Not Initials
* JIT—Just-In-Time
* JME—Java Micro Edition
* JMX—Java Management Extensions
* JMS—Java Message Service
* JNDI—Java Naming and Directory Interface
* JNI—Java Native Interface
* JNZ—Jump non-zero
* JPEG—Joint Photographic Experts Group
* JRE—Java Runtime Environment
* JS—JavaScript
* JSE—Java Standard Edition
* JSON—JavaScript Object Notation
* JSP—Jackson Structured Programming
* JSP—JavaServer Pages
* JTAG—Joint Test Action Group
* JVM—Java Virtual Machine

## K

* K&R—Kernighan and Ritchie
* K8s-Kubernetes
* KB—Keyboard
* Kb—Kilobit
* KB—Kilobyte
* KB—Knowledge Base
* Kbps—Kilobits per second
* KiB—Kibibyte
* KDE—K Desktop Environment
* kHz—Kilohertz
* KM—Knowledge Machine
* KRL—Knowledge Representation Language
* KVM—Keyboard, Video, Mouse

## L

* L10N—Localization
* L2TP—Layer two Tunneling Protocol
* LACP—Link Aggregation Control Protocol
* LAMP—Linux Apache MySQL Perl
* LAMP—Linux Apache MySQL PHP
* LAMP—Linux Apache MySQL Python
* LAN—Local Area Network
* LBA—Logical Block Addressing
* LB—Load Balancer
* LCD—Liquid Crystal Display
* LCR—Least Cost Routing
* LCOS—Liquid Crystal On Silicon
* LDAP—Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
* LE—Logical Extents
* LED—Light-Emitting Diode
* LF—Line Feed
* LF—Low Frequency
* LFS—Linux From Scratch
* LGA—Land Grid Array
* LGPL—Lesser General Public License
* LIB—LIBrary
* LIF—Low Insertion Force
* LIFO—Last In First Out
* LILO—Linux Loader
* LIP—Loop Initialization Primitive
* LISP—LISt Processing
* LKML—Linux Kernel Mailing List
* LM—Lan Manager
* LOC—Lines of Code
* LPC—Lars Pensjö C
* LPI—Lines Per Inch
* LPI—Linux Professional Institute
* LPT— Line Print Terminal
* LRU—Least Recently Used
* LSB—Least Significant Bit
* LSB—Linux Standard Base
* LSI—Large-Scale Integration
* LTE—Long Term Evolution
* LTL—Linear Temporal Logic
* LTR—Left-to-Right
* LUG—Linux User Group
* LUN—Logical Unit Number
* LV—Logical Volume
* LVD—Low Voltage Differential
* LVM—Logical Volume Management
* LZW—Lempel-Ziv-Welch

## M

* MAC—Mandatory Access Control
* MAC—Media Access Control
* MAC—Message authentication code
* MANET—Mobile Ad-Hoc Network
* MAN—Metropolitan Area Network
* MAPI—Messaging Application Programming Interface
* MBCS—Multi Byte Character Set
* MBD—Model-Based Design
* MBR—Master Boot Record
* Mb—Megabit
* MB—Megabyte
* Mbps—Megabits per second
* MCAD—Microsoft Certified Application Developer
* MCAS—Microsoft Certified Application Specialist
* MCA—Micro Channel Architecture
* MCA—Microsoft Certified Architect
* MCDBA—Microsoft Certified DataBase Administrator
* MCDST—Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician
* MCITP—Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional
* MCM—Microsoft Certified Master
* MCPC—Multiple Channels Per Carrier
* MCPD—Microsoft Certified Professional Developer
* MCP—Microsoft Certified Professional
* MCSA—Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
* MCSD—Microsoft Certified Solution Developer
* MCSE—Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
* MCTS—Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
* MCT—Microsoft Certified Trainer
* MDA—Monochrome Display Adapter
* MDA—Mail Delivery Agent
* MDA—Model-Driven Architecture
* MDD/MDSD—Model-Driven (Software) Development
* MDF—Main Distribution Frame
* MDI—Multiple-Document Interface
* MDM—Master Data Management
* ME—Microsoft Edge
* ME—[Windows] Millennium Edition
* MFA—Multi-factor authentication
* MFC—Microsoft Foundation Classes
* MFM—Modified Frequency Modulation
* MF—Medium Frequency
* MGCP—Media Gateway Control Protocol
* MHz—Megahertz
* MIB—Management Information Base
* MICR—Magnetic Ink Character Recognition or Magnetic Ink Character Reader
* MIDI—Musical Instrument Digital Interface
* MIMD—Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data
* MIME—Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
* MIMO—Multiple-Input Multiple-Output
* MINIX—MIni-uNIX
* MIPS—Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages
* MIPS—Million Instructions Per Second
* MISD—Multiple Instruction, Single Data
* MIS—Management Information Systems
* MIT—Massachusetts Institute of Technology
* ML—Machine Learning
* MMC—Microsoft Management Console
* MMDS—Mortality Medical Data System
* MMDS—Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service
* MMF—Multi-Mode (optical) Fiber
* MMIO—Memory-Mapped I/O
* MMI—Man Machine Interface.
* MMORPG—Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
* MMS—Multimedia Message Service
* MMU—Memory Management Unit
* MMX—Multi-Media Extensions
* MNG—Multiple-image Network Graphics
* MoBo—Motherboard
* MOM—Message-Oriented Middleware
* MOO—MUD Object Oriented
* MOP—Meta-Object Protocol
* MOSFET—Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
* MOS—Microsoft Office Specialist
* MOTD—Message Of The Day
* MOUS—Microsoft Office User Specialist
* MOV—Apple QuickTime Multimedia File
* MPAA—Motion Picture Association of America
* MPEG—Motion Pictures Experts Group
* MPLS—Multiprotocol Label Switching
* MPL—Mozilla Public License
* MPU—Microprocessor Unit
* MS-DOS—Microsoft DOS
* MSA—Mail Submission Agent
* MSB—Most Significant Bit
* MSDN—Microsoft Developer Network
* MSI—Medium-Scale Integration
* MSI—Message Signaled Interrupt
* MSI—Microsoft Installer
* MSN—Microsoft Network
* MS—Microsoft
* MS—Memory Stick
* MTA—Mail Transfer Agent
* MTA—Microsoft Technology Associate
* MTBF—Mean Time Between Failures
* MTU—Maximum Transmission Unit
* MT—Machine Translation
* MUA—Mail User Agent
* MUD—Multi-User Dungeon
* MU—Memory Unit
* MVC—Model-View-Controller
* MVP—Most Valuable Professional
* MVS—Multiple Virtual Storage
* MWC—Mobile World Congress
* MXF—Material Exchange Format
* MX—Mail exchange

## N

* NAC—Network Access Control
* NACK—Negative ACKnowledgement
* NAK—Negative AcKnowledge Character
* NaN—Not a Number
* NAP—Network Access Protection
* NAS—Network-Attached Storage
* NASM—Netwide ASseMbler
* NAT—Network Address Translation
* NCP—NetWare Core Protocol
* NCQ—Native Command Queuing
* NCSA—National Center for Supercomputing Applications
* NDIS—Network Driver Interface Specification
* NDPS—Novell Distributed Print Services
* NDS—Novell Directory Services
* NEP—Network Equipment Provider
* NetBIOS—Network Basic Input/Output System
* NetBT—NetBIOS over TCP/IP
* NEXT—Near-End CrossTalk
* NFA—Nondeterministic Finite Automaton
* NFC—Near-field communication
* NFS—Network File System
* NGL—aNGeL
* NGSCB—Next-Generation Secure Computing Base
* NI—National Instruments
* NIC—Network Interface Controller or Network Interface Card
* NIM—No Internal Message
* NIO—Non-blocking I/O
* NIST—National Institute of Standards and Technology
* NLE—Non-Linear Editing system
* NLP—Natural Language Processing
* NLS—Native Language Support
* NMI—Non-Maskable Interrupt
* NNTP—Network News Transfer Protocol
* NOC—Network Operations Center
* NOP—No OPeration
* NOS—Network Operating System
* NP—Nondeterministic Polynomial time
* NPL—Netscape Public License
* NPTL—Native POSIX Thread Library
* NPU—Network Processing Unit
* NS—Netscape
* NSA—Network Security Appliance
* NSI—Network Service Interface
* NSPR—Netscape Portable Runtime
* NSS—Novell Storage Service
* NSS—Network Security Services
* NSS—Name Service Switch
* NT—New Technology
* NTFS—NT Filesystem
* NTLM—NT Lan Manager
* NTP—Network Time Protocol
* NUMA—Non-Uniform Memory Access
* NURBS—Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline
* NVR—Network Video Recorder
* NVRAM—Non-Volatile Random-Access Memory

## O

* OASIS—Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
* OAT—Operational Acceptance Testing
* OBSAI—Open Base Station Architecture Initiative
* OCR—Optical Character Recognition
* ODBC—Open Database Connectivity
* OEM—Original Equipment Manufacturer
* OES—Open Enterprise Server
* OFDM—Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing
* OFTC—Open and Free Technology Community
* OID—Object Identifier
* OLAP—Online Analytical Processing
* OLE—Object Linking and Embedding
* OLED—Organic Light Emitting Diode
* OLPC—One Laptop per Child
* OLTP—Online Transaction Processing
* OMF—Object Module Format
* OMG—Object Management Group
* OMR—Optical Mark Reader
* OO—Object-Oriented
* OO—OpenOffice
* OOE—Out-of-Order Execution
* OOM—Out Of Memory
* OOo—OpenOffice.org
* OoOE—Out-of-Order Execution
* OOP—Object-Oriented Programming
* OOTB—Out of the box
* OPML—Outline Processor Markup Language
* ORB—Object Request Broker
* ORM—Object–Relational Mapping
* OS—Open Source
* OS—Operating System
* OSCON—O'Reilly Open Source CONvention
* OSDN—Open Source Development Network
* OSI—Open Source Initiative
* OSI—Open Systems Interconnection
* OSPF—Open Shortest Path First
* OSS—Open Sound System
* OSS—Open-Source Software
* OSS—Operations Support System
* OSTG—Open Source Technology Group
* OTP—One-time password
* OUI—Organizationally Unique Identifier

## P

* P2P—Peer-To-Peer
* PaaS—Platform as a Service
* PAM—Privileged Access Management
* PAN—Personal Area Network
* PAP—Password Authentication Protocol
* PARC—Palo Alto Research Center
* PATA—Parallel ATA
* PBS—Portable Batch System
* PC—Personal Computer
* PCB—Printed Circuit Board
* PCB—Process Control Block
* PC DOS—Personal Computer Disc Operating System
* PCI—Peripheral Component Interconnect
* PCIe—PCI Express
* PCI-X—PCI Extended
* PCL—Printer Command Language
* PCMCIA—Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
* PCM—Pulse-Code Modulation
* PCRE—Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
* PD—Public Domain
* PDA—Personal Digital Assistant
* PDF—Portable Document Format
* PDH—Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy
* PDP—Programmed Data Processor
* PE—Physical Extents
* PERL—Practical Extraction and Reporting Language
* PFA—Please Find Attachment
* PG—Peripheral Gateway
* PGA—Pin Grid Array
* PGA—Programmable Gate Array
* PGO—Profile-Guided Optimization
* PGP—Pretty Good Privacy
* PHP—Hypertext Preprocessor
* PIC—Peripheral Interface Controller
* PIC—Programmable Interrupt Controller
* PID—Proportional-Integral-Derivative
* PID—Process ID
* PIM—Personal Information Manager
* PINE—Program for Internet News and Email
* PIM—Platform Independent Model
* PING—Packet Internet Gopher
* PIO—Programmed Input/Output
* PKCS—Public Key Cryptography Standards
* PKI—Public Key Infrastructure
* PLC—Power Line Communication
* PLC—Programmable Logic Controller
* PLD—Programmable Logic Device
* PL/I—Programming Language One
* PL/M—Programming Language for Microcomputers
* PL/P—Programming Language for Prime
* PLT—Power Line Telecommunications
* PMM—POST Memory Manager
* PNG—Portable Network Graphics
* PnP—Plug-and-Play
* PNRP—Peer Name Resolution Protocol
* PoE—Power over Ethernet
* PoS—Point of Sale
* POCO—Plain Old Class Object
* POID—Persistent Object Identifier
* POJO—Plain Old Java Object
* POP—Point of Presence
* POP3—Post Office Protocol v3
* POSIX—Portable Operating System Interface, formerly IEEE-IX
* POST—Power-On Self Test
* PPC—PowerPC
* PPI—Pixels Per Inch
* PPM—Pages Per Minute
* PPP—Point-to-Point Protocol
* PPPoA—PPP over ATM
* PPPoE—PPP over Ethernet
* PPTP—Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
* PR—Pull Request
* PROM—Programmable Read-Only Memory
* PS—PostScript
* PS/2—Personal System/2
* PSA—Professional Services Automation
* PSM—Platform Specific Model
* PSTN—Public Switched Telephone Network
* PSU—Power Supply Unit
* PSVI—Post-Schema-Validation Infoset
* PTS-DOS—PhysTechSoft – Disk Operating System
* PV—Physical Volume
* PVG—Physical Volume Group
* PVR—Personal Video Recorder
* PXE—Preboot Execution Environment
* PXI—PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation
* PRC—Procedure Remote Call

## Q

* QDR—Quad Data Rate
* QA—Quality Assurance
* QFP—Quad Flat Package
* QoS—Quality of Service
* QOTD—Quote of the Day
* Qt—Quasar Toolkit[citation needed]
* QTAM—Queued Teleprocessing Access Method
* QSOP—Quarter Small Outline Package
* qWave—Quality Windows Audio/Video Experience

## R

* RACF—Resource Access Control Facility
* RAD—Rapid Application Development
* RADIUS—Remote Authentication Dial In User Service
* RAID—Redundant Array of Independent Disks
* RAII—Resource Acquisition Is Initialization
* RAIT—Redundant Array of Inexpensive Tapes
* RAM—Random-Access Memory
* RARP—Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
* RAS—Reliability, Availability and Serviceability
* RAS—Remote access service
* RC—Region Code
* RC—Release Candidate
* RC—Run Commands
* RCA—Root Cause Analysis
* RCS—Revision Control System
* RD—Remote Desktop
* rd—remove directory
* RDBMS—Relational Database Management System
* RDC—Remote Desktop Connection
* RDF—Resource Description Framework
* RDM—Relational Data Model
* RDOS—Real-time Disk Operating System
* RDP—Remote Desktop Protocol
* RDS—Remote Data Services
* REFAL—Recursive Functions Algorithmic Language
* REP—RAID Error Propagation
* REST—Representational State Transfer
* RESV—Reservation Message
* regex—Regular Expression
* regexp—Regular Expression
* RF—Radio Frequency
* RFC—Request For Comments
* RFI—Radio Frequency Interference
* RFID—Radio Frequency Identification
* RGB—Red, Green, Blue
* RGBA—Red, Green, Blue, Alpha
* RHL—Red Hat Linux
* RHEL—Red Hat Enterprise Linux
* RIA—Rich Internet Application
* RIAA—Recording Industry Association of America
* RIP—Raster Image Processor
* RIP—Routing Information Protocol
* RIR—Regional Internet registry
* RISC—Reduced Instruction Set Computer
* RISC OS—Reduced Instruction Set Computer Operating System
* RJE—Remote Job Entry
* RLE—Run-Length Encoding
* RLL—Run-Length Limited
* rmdir—remove directory
* RMI—Remote Method Invocation
* RMS—Richard Matthew Stallman
* ROM—Read-Only Memory
* ROMB—Read-Out Motherboard
* ROM-DOS—Read-Only Memory – Disk Operating System
* RPA—Robotic Process Automation
* RPC—Remote Procedure Call
* RPG—Report Program Generator
* RPM—RPM Package Manager
* RRAS—Routing and Remote Access Service
* RSA—Rivest Shamir Adleman
* RSI—Repetitive Strain Injury
* RSS—Radio Service Software
* RSS—Rich Site Summary, RDF Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication
* RSVP—Resource Reservation Protocol
* RTAI—Real-Time Application Interface
* RTC—Real-Time Clock
* RTE—Real-Time Enterprise
* RTEMS—Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems
* RTF—Rich Text Format
* RTL—Right-to-Left
* RTMP—Real Time Messaging Protocol
* RTOS—Real-Time Operating System
* RTP—Real-time Transport Protocol
* RTS—Ready To Send
* RTSP—Real Time Streaming Protocol
* RTTI—Run-time Type Information
* RTU—Remote Terminal Unit
* RWD—Responsive Web Design

## S

* SaaS—Software as a Service
* SASS—Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets
* SAM—Security Account Manager
* SAN—Storage Area Network
* SAS—Serial attached SCSI
* SATA—Serial ATA
* SAX—Simple API for XML
* SBOD—Spinning Beachball of Death
* SBP-2—Serial Bus Protocol 2
* sbin—superuser binary
* sbs—Small Business Server
* SBU—Standard Build Unit
* SCADA—Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
* SCID—Source Code in Database
* SCM—Software Configuration Management
* SCM—Source Code Management
* SCP—Secure Copy
* SCPC—Single Channel Per Carrier
* SCPI—Standard Commands for Programmable Instrumentation
* SCSA—Secure Content Storage Association
* SCSI—Small Computer System Interface
* SCTP—Stream Control Transmission Protocol
* SD—Secure Digital
* SDDL—Security Descriptor Definition Language
* SDH—Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
* SDI—Single-Document Interface
* SEC—Single Edge Contact
* SDIO—Secure Digital Input Output
* SDK—Software Development Kit
* SDL—Simple DirectMedia Layer
* SDN—Service Delivery Network
* SDP—Session Description Protocol
* SDR—Software-Defined Radio
* SDRAM—Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory
* SDSL—Symmetric DSL
* SE—Single Ended
* SEI—Software Engineering Institute
* SEO—Search Engine Optimization
* SFTP—Secure FTP
* SFTP—Simple File Transfer Protocol
* SFTP—SSH File Transfer Protocol
* SGI—Silicon Graphics, Incorporated
* SGML—Standard Generalized Markup Language
* SGR—Select Graphic Rendition
* SHA—Secure Hash Algorithm
* SHDSL—Single-pair High-speed Digital Subscriber Line
* SIEM—Security information and event management
* SIGCAT—Special Interest Group on CD-ROM Applications and Technology
* SIGGRAPH—Special Interest Group on Graphics
* SIMD—Single Instruction, Multiple Data
* SIM—Subscriber Identification Module
* SIMM—Single Inline Memory Module
* SIP—Session Initiation Protocol
* SIP—Supplementary Ideographic Plane
* SISD—Single Instruction, Single Data
* SISO—Single-Input and Single-Output
* SLA—Service Level Agreement
* SLED—SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
* SLES—SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
* SLI—Scalable Link Interface
* SLIP—Serial Line Internet Protocol
* SLM—Service Level Management
* SLOC—Source Lines of Code
* SME—Subject Matter Expert
* SMF—Single-Mode (optical) Fiber
* SPM—Software project management
* SPMD—Single Program, Multiple Data
* SPOF—Single point of failure
* SMA—SubMiniature version A
* SMB—Server Message Block
* SMBIOS—System Management BIOS
* SMIL—Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
* S/MIME—Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
* SMP—Supplementary Multilingual Plane
* SMP—Symmetric Multi-Processing
* SMPS—Switch Mode Power Supply
* SMS—Short Message Service
* SMS—System Management Server
* SMT—Simultaneous Multithreading
* SMTP—Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
* SNA—Systems Network Architecture
* SNMP—Simple Network Management Protocol
* SNTP—Simple Network Time Protocol
* SOA—Service-Oriented Architecture
* SOAP—Simple Object Access Protocol
* SOAP—Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program
* SOPA—Stop Online Piracy Act
* SoC—System-on-a-Chip
* SO-DIMM—Small Outline DIMM
* SOE—Standard Operating Environment
* SOHO—Small Office/Home Office
* SOI—Silicon On Insulator
* SOLID—Single-responsibility, Open-closed, Liskov substitution, Interface segregation, Dependency Inversion
* SP—Service Pack
* SPA—Single Page Application
* SPF—Sender Policy Framework
* SPI—Serial Peripheral Interface
* SPI—Stateful Packet Inspection
* SPARC—Scalable Processor Architecture
* SQL—Structured Query Language
* SRAM—Static Random-Access Memory
* SSA—Static Single Assignment
* SSD—Software Specification Document
* SSD—Solid-State Drive
* SSDP—Simple Service Discovery Protocol
* SSE—Streaming SIMD Extensions
* SSH—Secure Shell
* SSI—Server Side Includes
* SSI—Single-System Image
* SSI—Small-Scale Integration
* SSID—Service Set Identifier
* SSL—Secure Socket Layer
* SSO—Single Sign On
* SSP—Supplementary Special-purpose Plane
* SSR—Server Side Rendering
* SSSE—Supplementary Streaming SIMD Extensions
* SSSP—Single Source Shortest Path
* SSTP—Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol
* su—superuser
* SUS—Single UNIX Specification
* SUSE—Software und System-Entwicklung
* SVC—Scalable Video Coding
* SVG—Scalable Vector Graphics
* SVGA—Super Video Graphics Array
* SVD—Structured VLSI Design
* SWF—Shock Wave Flash
* SWT—Standard Widget Toolkit
* Sysop—System operator

## T

* TAO—Track-At-Once
* TAPI—Telephony Application Programming Interface
* TASM—Turbo ASseMbler
* TB—TeraByte
* Tcl—Tool Command Language
* TCP—Transmission Control Protocol
* TCP/IP—Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
* TCU—Telecommunication Control Unit
* TDMA—Time-Division Multiple Access
* TDP—Thermal Design Power
* TFT—Thin-Film Transistor
* TFTP—Trivial File Transfer Protocol
* TI—Texas Instruments
* TIFF—Tagged Image File Format
* TLA—Three-Letter Acronym
* TLD—Top-Level Domain
* TLS—Thread-Local Storage
* TLS—Transport Layer Security
* TLV—Type—length—value
* tmp—temporary
* TNC—Terminal Node Controller
* TNC—Threaded Neill-Concelman connector
* TPF—Transaction Processing Facility
* TPM—Trusted Platform Module
* TROFF—Trace Off
* TRON—Trace On
* TRON—The Real-time Operating system Nucleus
* TRSDOS—Tandy Radio Shack – Disk Operating System
* TSO—Time Sharing Option
* TSP—Traveling Salesman Problem
* TSR—Terminate and Stay Resident
* TTA—True Tap Audio
* TTF—TrueType Font
* TTL—Transistor—Transistor Logic
* TTL—Time To Live
* TTS—Text-to-Speech
* TTY—Teletype
* TUCOWS—The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software
* TUG—TeX Users Group
* TWAIN—Technology Without An Interesting Name

## U

* UAAG—User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
* UAC—User Account Control
* UART—Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
* UAT—User Acceptance Testing
* UB—Undefined Behavior
* UCS—Universal Character Set
* UDDI—Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration
* UDMA—Ultra DMA
* UDP—User Datagram Protocol
* UEFI—Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
* UHF—Ultra High Frequency
* UI—User Interface
* UL—Upload
* ULA—Uncommitted Logic Array
* ULSI—Ultra Large Scale Integration
* UMA—Upper Memory Area
* UMB—Upper Memory Block
* UML—Unified Modeling Language
* UML—User-Mode Linux
* UMPC—Ultra-Mobile Personal Computer
* UMTS—Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
* UNC—Universal Naming Convention
* UNIVAC—Universal Automatic Computer (By MKS)
* UPS—Uninterruptible Power Supply or Uninterrupted Power Supply
* URI—Uniform Resource Identifier
* URL—Uniform Resource Locator
* URN—Uniform Resource Name
* USB—Universal Serial Bus
* usr—User System Resources
* USR—U.S. Robotics
* UTC—Coordinated Universal Time
* UTF—Unicode Transformation Format
* UTP—Unshielded Twisted Pair
* UTRAN—Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network
* UUCP—Unix to Unix Copy
* UUID—Universally Unique Identifier
* UUN—Universal User Name
* UVC—Universal Virtual Computer
* UWP—Universal Windows Platform
* UX—User Experience

## V

* var—variable
* VoLTE—Voice Over Long Term Evolution
* VAX—Virtual Address eXtension
* VCPI—Virtual Control Program Interface
* VB—Visual Basic
* VBA—Visual Basic for Applications
* VBS—Visual Basic Script
* VDI—Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
* VDU—Visual Display Unit
* VDM—Virtual DOS machine
* VDSL—Very High Bitrate Digital Subscriber Line
* VESA—Video Electronics Standards Association
* VFAT—Virtual FAT
* VHD—Virtual Hard Disk
* VFS—Virtual File System
* VG—Volume Group
* VGA—Video Graphics Array
* VHF—Very High Frequency
* VIRUS—Vital Information Resource Under Seize
* VLAN—Virtual Local Area Network
* VLSM—Variable Length Subnet Mask
* VLB—Vesa Local Bus
* VLF—Very Low Frequency
* VLIW—Very Long Instruction Word
* VLSI—Very-Large-Scale Integration
* VM—Virtual Machine
* VM—Virtual Memory
* VMM—Virtual Machine Monitor
* VNC—Virtual Network Computing
* VOD—Video On Demand
* VoIP—Voice over Internet Protocol
* VPN—Virtual Private Network
* VPS—Virtual Private Server
* VPU—Visual Processing Unit
* VR—Virtual Reality
* VRML—Virtual Reality Modeling Language
* VSAM—Virtual Storage-Access Method
* VSAT—Very Small Aperture Terminal
* VT—Video Terminal
* VTL—Virtual Tape Library
* VTAM—Virtual Telecommunications Access Method
* VRAM—Video Random-Access Memory

## W

* W3C—World Wide Web Consortium
* WWDC—Apple World Wide Developer Conference
* WAFS—Wide Area File Services
* WAI—Web Accessibility Initiative
* WAIS—Wide Area Information Server
* WAN—Wide Area Network
* WAP—Wireless Access Point
* WAP—Wireless Application Protocol
* WASM—Watcom ASseMbler
* WBEM—Web-Based Enterprise Management
* WCAG—Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
* WCF—Windows Communication Foundation
* WDM—Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
* WebDAV—WWW Distributed Authoring and Versioning
* WEP—Wired Equivalent Privacy
* WFI—Wait For Interrupt
* Wi-Fi—Wireless Fidelity
* WiMAX—Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
* WinFS—Windows Future Storage
* WinRT—Windows RunTime
* WINS—Windows Internet Name Service
* WLAN—Wireless Local Area Network
* WMA—Windows Media Audio
* WMI—Windows Management Instrumentation
* WMV—Windows Media Video
* WNS—Windows Push Notification Service
* WOL—Wake-on-LAN
* WOR—Wake-on-Ring
* WORA—Write once, run anywhere
* WORE—Write once, run everywhere
* WORM—Write Once Read Many
* WPA—Wi-Fi Protected Access
* WPAD—Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol
* WPAN—Wireless Personal Area Network
* WPF—Windows Presentation Foundation
* WS-D—Web Services-Discovery
* WSDL—Web Services Description Language
* WSFL—Web Services Flow Language
* WUSB—Wireless Universal Serial Bus
* WWAN—Wireless Wide Area Network
* WWID—World Wide Identifier
* WWN—World Wide Name
* WWW—World Wide Web
* WYSIWYG—What You See Is What You Get
* WZC—Wireless Zero Configuration

## X

* XAG—XML Accessibility Guidelines
* XAML—eXtensible Application Markup Language
* XDM—X Window Display Manager
* XDMCP—X Display Manager Control Protocol
* XCBL—XML Common Business Library
* XHTML—eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language
* XILP—X Interactive ListProc
* XML—eXtensible Markup Language
* XMMS—X Multimedia System
* XMPP—eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
* XMS—Extended Memory Specification
* XNS—Xerox Network Systems
* XP—Cross-Platform
* XP—Extreme Programming
* XPCOM—Cross Platform Component Object Model
* XPI—XPInstall
* XPIDL—Cross-Platform IDL
* XPS—XML Paper Specification
* XSD—XML Schema Definition
* XSL—eXtensible Stylesheet Language
* XSL-FO—eXtensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects
* XSLT—eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
* XSS—Cross-Site Scripting
* XTF—eXtensible Tag Framework
* XTF—eXtended Triton Format
* XUL—XML User Interface Language
* XVGA—Extended Video Graphics Adapter

## Y

* Y2K—Year Two Thousand
* Y2K38—Year Two Thousand Thirty Eight
* YAAF—Yet Another Application Framework
* YACC—Yet Another Compiler Compiler
* YAGNI—You Aren't Gonna Need It
* YAML—YAML Ain't Markup Language
* YARN—Yet Another Resource Negotiator
* YaST—Yet another Setup Tool

## Z

* ZCAV—Zone Constant Angular Velocity
* ZCS—Zero Code Suppression
* ZIF—Zero Insertion Force
* ZIFS—Zero Insertion Force Socket
* ZIP—ZIP file archive
* ZISC—Zero Instruction Set Computer
* ZOI—Zero One Infinity
* ZOPE—Z Object Publishing Environment
* ZMA—Zone Multicast Address
* ZPL—Z-level Programming Language

## See also

* Acronym
* Internet slang
* List of file formats
* List of information technology initialisms
* Professional certification

## References

1. ↑ "LinuxWorld - Where did Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis go?". http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-01/lw-01-gimp.html.

* "Computing Acronyms and Abbreviations". All Acronyms. https://www.allacronyms.com/computing/abbreviations.

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