Abbreviations & Meanings

These are the most useful abbreviations which we need in our daily life.

→ Abbreviation ↔ Meanings
→ ADH ↔ Anti Diuretic Hormone
→ AIDS ↔ Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
→ AJAX ↔ Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
→ ALU ↔ Arithmetic and Logic Unit
→ AMR ↔ Adaptive Multi-Rate
→ AMU ↔ Atomic Mass Unit
→ ASP ↔ Application Service Provider
→ ASCII ↔ American Standard Code for Information Interchange
→ AWACS ↔ Airborne Warning and Control System


→ BASIC ↔ Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
→ BBS ↔ Bulletin Board System
→ BCG ↔ Bacillus Calmette Guerin
→ Bit ↔ Binary Digit
→ Blog ↔ Web Log
→ BPS ↔ Bits Per Second
→ BTU ↔ British Thermal Unit
→ CCTV ↔ Closed-Circuit Television
→ CFC ↔ Chloro Fluoro Carbon
→ CGI ↔ Common Gateway Interface
→ CNG ↔ Compressed Natural Gas
→ CNS ↔ Central Nervous System
→ CPU ↔ Central Processing Unit
→ CRO ↔ Cathode Ray Oscilloscope
→ CRT ↔ Cathode Ray Tube
→ CSS ↔ Cascading Style Sheets
→ DB ↔ Data Base
→ DDT ↔ Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane
→ DHTML ↔ Dynamic HyperText Markup Language
→ DNA ↔ Deoxyribonucleic Acid
→ DNS ↔ Domain Name System / Server
→ Email ↔ Electronic Mail
→ EMF ↔ Electromotive Force
→ FAQ ↔ Frequently Asked Questions
→ FBTR ↔ Fast Breeder Test Reactor
→ FF ↔ Fire Fox
→ FM ↔ Frequency Modulator
→ FTP ↔ File Transfer Protocol
→ GB ↔ Giga Byte
→ GIF ↔ Graphic Interchange Format
→ HD ↔ High Definition
→ HF ↔ High Frequency
→ HTML ↔ Hyper Text Markup Language
→ HTTP ↔ Hypertext Transfer Protocol
→ HTTPS ↔ Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
→ ICU ↔ Intensive Care Unit
→ IM ↔ Instant Message
→ IMAP ↔ Internet Message Access Protocol
→ IP ↔ Internet Protocol
→ IRC ↔ Internet Relay Chat
→ ISP ↔ Internet Service Provider
→ IT ↔ Information Technology
→ IUPAC ↔ International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry
→ J2ME ↔ Java ME
→ JAD ↔ Java Application Descriptor
→ JAR ↔ Java Archive
→ JDK ↔ Java Development Kit
→ JPEG ↔ Joint Photographic Experts Group
→ JS ↔ Java Script
→ KB ↔ Kilobyte
→ LAN ↔ Local Area Network
→ LASER ↔ Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
→ LCD ↔ Liquid Crystal Display
→ LED ↔ Liquid Emitting Diode
→ LF ↔ Low Frequency
→ LORAN ↔ Long Range Navigation
→ LPG ↔ Liquefied Petroleum Gas
→ MASER ↔ Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
→ MB ↔ Megabyte
→ MD ↔ Medium Frequency
→ MICR ↔ Magnetic-Ink Character Recongnition
→ MIME ↔ Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
→ MODEM ↔ MOdulator, DEModulator
→ MUD ↔ Multi-User Dimension
→ NASA ↔ National Aeronautic & Space Administration
→ NIC ↔ Network Information Center
→ PDF ↔ Portable Document Format
→ PERL ↔ Practical Extraction & Report Language
→ PM ↔ Private Message
→ PNG ↔ Portable Network Graphics
→ POP ↔ Post Office Protocol
→ PS ↔ Photo Shop
→ PSP ↔ Paint Shop Pro
→ PVC ↔ Polyvinyl Chloride
→ RADAR ↔ Radio Detection and Ranging
→ RAM ↔ Random Access Memory
→ RF ↔ Radio Frequency
→ RNA ↔ Ribose Nucleic Acid
→ ROM ↔ Read only Memory
→ RSS ↔ Really Simple Syndication
→ SARS ↔ Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
→ SEO ↔ Search Engine Optimisation
→ SHEIR ↔ Society of Higher Education & Industrial Research
→ SIS ↔ Software Installation Script
→ SMTP ↔ Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
→ SONAR ↔ Sound Navigation and Ranging
→ SQL ↔ Structured Query Language
→ SSI ↔ Server Side Includes
→ SSL ↔ Secure Socket Layer
→ STAR ↔ Satellite for Telecommunication Applications and Research
→ STP ↔ Standard Temperature and Pressure
→ SUPARCO ↔ Space of Upper Atmosphere Research Committee
→ TB ↔ Tuberculosis
→ TB ↔ Terabyte
→ TCP ↔ Transmission Control Protocol
→ TFT ↔ Thin Film Transistor
→ TLD ↔ Top Level Domain
→ TNT ↔ Tri Nitro Toulene
→ UHF ↔ Ultra High Frequency
→ UDP ↔ User Datagram Protocol
→ URI ↔ Uniform Resource Identifier
→ URL ↔ Uniform Resource Locator
→ VHF ↔ Very High Frequency
→ VLF ↔ Very Low Frequency
→ VOIP ↔ Voice Over Internet Protocol
→ VPN ↔ Virtual Private Network
→ VPS ↔ Virtual Private Server
→ WAN ↔ Wide Area Network
→ WiFi ↔ Wireless Fidelity
→ WLAN ↔ Wireless Local Area Network
→ WWW ↔ World Wide Web
→ XHTML ↔ eXtensible Hyper Text Markup Language
→ XML ↔ eXtensible Markup Language
→ XUL ↔ eXtensible User-interface Language


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