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Acronyms Archive

Last updated: March 25, 2004www.acronyms.ch

"I'm sitting in a coffee shop in Milford, NH. In the booth next to me are two men, a father and a son. Over coffee, the father is asking his son about modems, and the son is holding forth pretty well on the subject of fax compatibility, UART requirements, and so on. But he's little out of date: The father asks, "So should I get one with a DSP?" "A what?" says the son. You just can't get far if you're not up on the lingo. You might squeak by in your company of technological nonexperts, but even some of them will surprise you. These days, technical acronyms quickly insinuate themselves into the vernacular.»

Raphael Needleman

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µ (mu): Micro

Prefix for 10 power -6

1GL: 1st Generation Language

Machine language (Software)

24/7: 24 hours a day/7 days a week

2D: 2-Dimensional

2D: Double Density

(Hardware)

2G: 2nd Generation

Mobile telecommunication network allowing 14.4 kbps transfer rates (Communication)

2GL: 2nd Generation Language

Assembler and other low-level languages (Software)

2HD: 2 sides, High Density

(Hardware)

2PC: 2-Phase Commit

Protocol to allow replicated data to be modified at multiple sites

2S: 2 Sides

(Hardware)

2S2D: 2 Sides, Double Density

(Hardware)

2SHD: 2 Sides, High Density

(Hardware)

3D: 3-Dimensional

3DES: Triple Data Encryption Standard

(Security)

3G: 3rd Generation

Mobile telecommunication network allowing 300-400 kbps transfer rates (Communication)

3GIO: 3rd Generation Input Output

(Hardware) (Intel)

3GL: 3rd Generation Language

High level programming languages (Software)

3GPP: Third Generation Partners Project

See http://www.3gpp.org/ (Organizations)

4G: 4th Generation

Mobile telecommunication network allowing 10Mbit/s transfer rates (Communication)

4GL: 4th Generation Language

Database access languages (Software)

4GT: 4 Gigabyte memory Tuning

5GL: 5th Generation Language

Artificial intelligence languages (Software)

6DOF: Six Degrees Of FreedomA

A: Ampere

Current measurement unit

a: atto

Prefix for 10 power -18

Å: Ångstrom

Length measurement unit corresponding to 10 power -10 metersA/D: Analog/Digital (Hardware)

A/P: Accounts Payable

A/PC: Auto Personal Computer

(Hardware)

A/R: Accounts Receivable

A/UX: Apple UniX

(Operating systems) (Apple)

AA: Advertising Agent

AA: Anti-Aliasing

Method for removing jagged edges

AA: Auto Answer

AAA: Asp Application Aggregator

AAA: Authentication, Authorization and Accounting

A term for a framework for intelligently controlling access to computer resources, enforcing policies, auditing usage, and providing the information necessary to bill for services. These combined processes are important for effective network management (Security)

AAB: All-to-All Broadcast

AAC: Advanced Audio Coding

AAF: Advanced Authoring Format

AAL: Atm Adaption Layer

Layer 3 of the ATM architecture. Adapts user traffic into/from

ATM 48-byte payloads (Communication)

AAM: Automatic Acoustic Management

Feature that allows the host to request that the drive modify its acoustic behavior (Hardware)

AAP: Applications Access Point

(DEC)

AARP: Appletalk Address Resolution Protocol

(Network) (Apple)

AAS: All-to-All Scatter

AAS: Auto Area Segmentation

Scanner technology which detects and optimizes text and graphics on the same page (Hardware) (Epson)

AASP: Ascii Asynchronous Support Package

AAT: Average Access Time

AATP: Authorized Academic Training Program

(Microsoft)

ABA: Address Book Archive

Filename extension

ABAP: Advanced Business Application

Programming

Powerful programming language created specifically for developing SAP applications. ABAP Objects is the new object- oriented generation of this language, designed to respond to the needs of SAP's future strategies and environments (Software)

ABC: Atanasoff-Berry Computer

First digital calculating machine that used vacuum tubes

ABEL: Advanced Boolean Expression Language

ABEND: ABnormal END

(Software)

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ACSABI

ABI: Application Binary Interface

Defines the binary system interface between compiled applications and the operating system on which they run (Software)

ABIOS: Advanced Basic Input Output System

ABIST: Automatic Built-In Self-Test

(IBM)

ABLE: Adaptive Battery Life Extender

ABM: Asynchronous Balanced Mode

HDLC data transfer mode (Network)

ABNF: Augmented Backus Naur Form

ABR: Available Bit Rate

One of five ATM Forum defined service types. Supports variable bit rate data traffic with flow control, a minimum guaranteed data transmission rate and specified performance parameters (Communication)

ABRS: Automated Book Request System

ABS: ABSolute

ABS: Address Book Synchronization

(IBM)

ABS: Auto Balance System

System to reduce vibration and noise in a peripheral (Hardware)

ABS: Automatic Backup System

ABT: ABorT

ABTS: Ascii Block Terminal Services

AC: Access Customer

(Communication)

AC: Alternate Current

AC: Audio Codec

(Hardware)

AC: Authentication Center

AC: AutoCheck

AC: Automatic Computer

ACAP: Application Configuration Access Protocol

ACC: ACCumulator

ACC: Authorization Contract for Containers

Specification (JSR-115) that defines new

java.security.Permission classes to satisfy the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) authorization model (Software) (Sun)

ACD: Automatic Call Distribution

ACDI: Asynchronous Communications Device

Interface

ACE: Access Control Encryption

ACE: Access Control Entry

An entry in an Access Control List (ACL). An ACE contains a set of access rights and a security identifier (SID) that identifies a trustee for whom the rights are allowed, denied, or audited (Operating systems)

ACE: Adobe Certified Expert

(Adobe)

ACE: Advanced Computing Environment

ACE: Adverse Channel Enhancements

ACE: Automatic Computing Engine

ACF: Access Control FieldACF: Advanced Communications Function

ACH: Automated Clearing House

ACIA: Asynchronous Communication Interface

Adapter

ACIAS: Automated Calibration Interval Analysis

System

ACID: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and

Durability

(Software)

ACIS: American Committee for Interoperable

Systems

ACK: ACKnowledge

A transmission control character transmitted by a station as an affirmative response to the station with which the connection has been set up. (Communication)

ACL: Access Control List

For granting or denying access to computer resources (security) (Operating systems)

ACL: Advanced Cmos Logic

ACL: Asynchronous ConnectionLess

(Communication)

ACM: Afp Conversion Module

(Software)

ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

(Organizations)

ACM: Audio Compression Manager

(Microsoft)

ACMS: Application Control Management System

ACNM: Application Centric Network Management

(Software)

ACO: Alternate Checksum Option

(Network)

ACP: Active Code Page

ACP: Ancillary Control Program

ACP: Auxiliary Control Process

ACPI: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface

(Hardware)

ACR: Advanced Communication Riser

(Hardware)

ACR: Allowed Cell Rate

ACROSS: Automated Cargo Release and

Operations Service System

ACS: Access Control Server

ACS: Access Control Set

ACS: Access Control System

ACS: Admission Control Service

(Network) (Microsoft)

ACS: Advanced Computer System

(IBM)

ACS: Anti Curl System

ACS: Asynchronous Communication Server

ACS: Automatic Class Selection

ACS: Automatic Contrast Selection

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ACSE: Association Control Service Element

The method used in International Organization for

Standardization's open systems interconnection (OSI) for establishing a call between two applications.

ACSI: American Customer Satisfaction Index

ACSM: Application Centric Storage Management

(Software)

ACSS: Aural Cascading Style Sheets

ACT: Application Compatibility Toolkit

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