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Slashdot
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100B-FX
100BASE-FX
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100B-T
100BASE-T
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100B-TX
100BASE-TX
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100BVG
100BASE-VG
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10B-F
10BASE-F
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10B-FB
10BASE-FB
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10B-FL
10BASE-FL
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10B-FP
10BASE-FP
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10B-T
10BASE-T
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10B2
10BASE-2
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10B5
10BASE-5
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10q
Thank you
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10x
Thanks
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1337
From the word Leet, derived from the word elite
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1GL
First-Generation Programming Language
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1NF
First Normal Form
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2
too, or to
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286
Intel 80286 processor
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2B1Q
2 Binary 1 Quaternary
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2GL
Second-Generation Programming Language
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2NF
Second Normal Form
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386
Intel 80386 processor
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3DPD
3-Dimensional Pig Disgusting, denotes two dimensions are superior to reality
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3GL
Third-Generation Programming Language
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3GPP
mobile broadband "3G" Partnership Project
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3NF
Third Normal Form
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4
For
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486
Intel 80486 processor
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4B5BLF
4 Byte 5 Byte Local Fiber
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4GL
Fourth-Generation Programming Language
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4NF
Fourth Normal Form
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5GL
Fifth-Generation Programming Language
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5NF
Fifth Normal Form
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6NF
Sixth Normal Form
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8B10BLF
8 Byte 10 Byte Local Fiber
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<3
Love
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A C?
AH! SI?
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AAA
Authentication Authorization, Accounting
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AABB
Axis Aligned Bounding Box
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AAC
Advanced Audio Coding
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AAF
As A Friend
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AAL
ATM Adaptation Layer
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AALC
ATM Adaptation Layer Connection
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AAQS
Ambient Air Quality Standards (environment) (US)
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AARP
AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol
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AAU
Assigned amount units (measurement)
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ABAC
Attribute-Based Access Control
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ABCL
Actor-Based Concurrent Language
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ABF
Aquatic Base Flow (Hydropower) (electricity)
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ABI
Application Binary Interface
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ABM
Asynchronous Balanced Mode
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ABR
Area Border Router
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Auto Baud-Rate detection
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Available Bitrate
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Average Bitrate
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ABT
Availability based tariff (electricity)
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AC
Alternating current
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Acoustic Coupler
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Alternating Current
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ACA
Annual Charge Adjustment (electricity)
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ACD
Automatic Call Distributor
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ACE
Area Control Error (electricity)
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Advanced Computing Environment
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ACEEE
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
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ACID
Atomicity Consistency Isolation Durability
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ACK
ACKnowledgement
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Amsterdam Compiler Kit
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ACL
Access Control List
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Active Current Loop
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ACM
Association for Computing Machinery
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ACME
Automated Classification of Medical Entities
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ACP
Airline Control Program
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ACPI
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
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ACR
Allowed Cell Rate
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Attenuation to Crosstalk Ratio
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ACRS
Accelerated Cost Recovery System (finance)
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AD
Active Directory
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Administrative Domain
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ADAD
Another Day Another Dollar
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ADB
Apple Desktop Bus
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ADC
Analog-to-Digital Converter
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Apple Display Connector
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ADCCP
Advanced Data Communications Control Procedures
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ADIH
Another Day In Hell
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ADIP
Another Day in Paradise
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ADITC
Accumulated Deferred Investment Tax Credit (policy)
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ADO
ActiveX Data Objects
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ADR
American Depositary Receipt
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Asset Depreciation Range (finance)
—Alternative dispute resolution
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ADSL
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
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ADT
Abstract Data Type
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AE
Adaptive Equalizer
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AEAP
As Early As Possible
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AEP
American Electric Power (electricity)
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AES
Advanced Encryption Standard
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AESO
Alberta Electric System Operator
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AF
Anisotropic Filtering
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AFAICR
As far as I can recall / remember
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AFAICS
As far as I can see
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AFAICT
As far as I can tell
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AFAIK
As far as I know
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AFAIR
As far as I remember
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AFAP
As Far As Possible
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AFE
Authority for Expenditure or Authorization for Expenditure
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AFK
Away from keyboard
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AFP
Apple Filing Protocol
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AFUDC
allowance for funds used during construction
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AFUE
annual fuel utilization efficiency
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AFV
Alternative fuel vehicle
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AGA
American Gas Association
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AGC
Automatic generation control
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AGD
Associated Gas Distributors (US)
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AGP
Accelerated Graphics Port
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AH
Active Hub
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AI
Artificial Intelligence
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AIMA
Agricultural Impact Mitigation Agreement (US)
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AIX
Advanced Interactive eXecutive
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AJAX
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
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AL
Active Link
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Access List
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ALAC
Apple Lossless Audio Codec
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ALGOL
Algorithmic Language
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ALJ
Administrative law judge
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ALOL
Actually laughing out loud
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ALSA
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
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ALU
Arithmetic and Logical Unit
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AM
Access Method
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Active Matrix
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Active Monitor
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Allied Mastercomputer
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Amplitude Modulation
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AMBO
Armenia, Macedonia, Bulgaria Oil pipeline
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AMD
Advanced Micro Devices
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AMI
Advanced metering infrastructure
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AMOLED
Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode
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AMQP
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol
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AMR
Automated meter reading also known as Automatic Meter Reading
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Audio Modem Riser
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AMRA
Automatic Meter Reading Association
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ANGTA
Alaskan Natural Gas Transportation Act of 1977 to build the Alaska gas pipeline
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ANGTS
Alaskan Natural Gas Transportation System
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ANN
Artificial Neural Network
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ANSI
American National Standards Institute
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ANT
Another Neat Tool
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AOP
Aspect-Oriented Programming
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AOS
Authorized Overrun Service
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AP
B[edit]
BAU – Business As Usual
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Access Point
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APA
Administrative Procedure Act
—Alaska Power Administration
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APCI
Application-Layer Protocol Control Information
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APE
Area of potential effect (electricity)
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API
Application Programming Interface
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American Petroleum Institute (oil)
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APIC
Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
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APIPA
Automatic Private IP Addressing
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APL
A Programming Language
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APPA
American Public Power Association (electricity)
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APR
Actual peak reduction (e.g. in demand response systems) (electricity)
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Apache Portable Runtime
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AQCR
Air Quality Control Region (US) (environment)
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ARA
(in shipping) ports of Amsterdam – Rotterdam – Antwerp (oil)
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ARC
Adaptive Replacement Cache
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Advanced RISC Computing
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ARIN
American Registry for Internet Numbers
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ARM
Advanced RISC Machines
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AROS
AROS Research Operating System
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ARP
Address Resolution Protocol
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ARPA
Address and Routing Parameter Area
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Advanced Research Projects Agency
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ARPANET
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
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ARR
Auction Revenue Rights (electricity)
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AS
Autonomous System
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Access Server
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ASAP
As soon as possible
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ASCC
Alaskan System Coordination Council
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ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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ASE
Alliance to Save Energy
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ASET
Automated Security Enhancement Tool
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ASG
Abstract Semantic Graph
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ASIC
Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
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ASIMO
Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility
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ASL or A/S/L
Age / sex / location
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ASLP or A/S/L/P
Age, sex, location, picture
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ASLR
Address Space Layout Randomization
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ASM
Algorithmic State Machine
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ASMP
Asymmetric Multiprocessing
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ASN.1
Abstract Syntax Notation 1
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ASP
Active Server Pages
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Application Service Provider
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ASR
Asynchronous Signal Routine
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ASSP
Application-Specific Standard Product
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AST
Abstract Syntax Tree
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ASTM
American Society for Testing and Materials
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AT
Advanced Technology
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Access Time
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Active Terminator
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ATA
Advanced Technology Attachment
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ATAG
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
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ATAPI
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface
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ATB
All the best
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ATC
Available transfer capability
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ATEOTD
At The End of the Day
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ATM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
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At the moment
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ATX
Advanced Technology eXtended
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AVC
Advanced Video Coding
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AVI
Audio Video Interleaved
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AVR
Automatic Voltage Regulator (electricity)
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AWK
Aho Weinberger Kernighan
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AWOL
Absent Without (Official) Leave
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AWT
Abstract Window Toolkit
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AYBABTU (also abbreviated as AYB)
all your base are belong to us (from the video game Zero Wing)
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Acc.
Accession countries (to the European Union) (government)
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Ajax
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
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AoE
ATA over Ethernet
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B TAM
Basic Telecommunications Access Method
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B2B
Business-to-Business
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Business to Business
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B2C
Business to Consumer
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Business-to-Consumer
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Business to Customer
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B2G
Business-to-government
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B4
Before
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BA
Balancing Authority
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Biological Assessment
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BACT
Best Available Control Technology
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BAL
Basic Assembly Language
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BAM
Block Availability Map
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BASIC
Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
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BBIAB
Be back in a bit
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BBL
barrel (42 gallons)
—Balgzand Bacton Line (BBL Pipeline)
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BBL/BBS
Be back later / shortly / soon
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BBL/D
Barrel per day
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BBL/SD
Barrel per day, on stream days
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BBP
Baseband Processor
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BBQ
Barbecue. While not Internet slang in itself, it is often combined with other initialisms as a point of satire, absurdity, or a non-sequitur. For example OMG WTF BBQ.
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BBS
Bulletin Board System
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BCD
Barrel per day, on calendar days
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Binary Coded Decimal
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BCF
billion cubic feet
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BCNF
Boyce–Codd normal form
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BCNU
Be seein' you
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BCP
Blackstart Capability Plan
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BEEP
Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol
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BER
Bit Error Rate
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BES
Bulk electric system (Electricity transmission)
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BFD
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
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Binary File Descriptor
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BFF
Best Friends Forever
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BFN
Bye For Now
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BFS
Breadth-First Search
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BFT
Byzantine Fault Tolerant
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BGP
Border Gateway Protocol
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BI
Business Intelligence
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BIA
Bureau of Indian Affairs (US)
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BINAC
Binary Automatic Computer
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BIND
Berkeley Internet Name Domain
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BIOS
Basic Input Output System
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BJT
Bipolar Junction Transistor
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BLM
Bureau of Land Management of United States Department of the Interior
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BLS
Bureau of Labor Statistics of United States Department of Labor
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BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
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BNC
Bayonet Neill-Concelman
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BOE
Barrel of oil equivalent (international)
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BOFH
Bastard operator from hell
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BOINC
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
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BOM
Byte Order Mark
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BOOTP
Bootstrap Protocol
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BPA
Bonneville Power Administration (US)
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BPDU
Bridge Protocol Data Unit
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BPEL
Business Process Execution Language
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BPL
Broadband over power line
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Broadband over Power Lines
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BPM
Business Process Management
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Business Process Modeling
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BPS
Bulk Power System (Electricity transmission)
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BRB
Be right back
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BRM
Business Reference Model
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BRMS
Business Rule Management System
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BRR
Business Readiness Rating
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BRU
Business-to-business
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BSA
Business Software Alliance
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BSB
Backside Bus
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BSD
Berkeley Software Distribution
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BSOD
Blue Screen of Death
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BSS
Block Started by Symbol
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BSoD
Blue Screen of Death
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BT
BitTorrent
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Bluetooth
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BTDT
Been there done that
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BTL
building tightness limit (building tightness)
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BTMG
Behind The Meter Generation
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BTTT
Back to the top
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BTU
British thermal unit(s)
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BTW
By the way
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BTX
from BTX process, a mixture of benzene, toluene, and xylene (oil)
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BUSI
Business
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BW
Bandwidth
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BWR
Boiling water reactor (nuclear)
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BYOD
Bring Your Own Device
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Bash
Bourne-again shell
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BfP
Bureau Fédéral du Plan (Belgium). (Has responsibilities over economic, social and environmental policy
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BiDi
Bi-Directional
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Blob
Binary large object
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Blog
Web Log
[5]
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BuRec
United States Bureau of Reclamation (government)
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[3]
C&F
Customer Experience
[3]
[1]
C&I
Commercial and industrial customers (Electricity transmission)
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[3]
CA
Carbon Abatement- increasing carbon neutrality
—Control area (EU) – The portion of the generation and transmission system controlled by a single transmission system operator. (See also TSO).
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Computer architecture
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CAA
Clean Air Act (US)
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CAD
Computer-Aided Design
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CAE
Computer-Aided Engineering
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CAEM
Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets (US)
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CAFE
Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards (US)
[4]
[3]
CAGR
Capital Expenditures
[3]
[1]
CAI
Computer-Aided Instruction
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[4]
CAID
Computer-Aided Industrial Design
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CAISO
California Independent System Operator Corporation, a regional transmission organization. (US)
[4]
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CAM
Computer-Aided Manufacturing
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[4]
CAO
Chief Accounting Officer
[3]
[1]
CAP
Capacity market programs
[4]
[3]
CAPM
Capital asset pricing model
[4]
[3]
CAPTCHA
Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
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CAQ
Computer-Aided Quality Assurance
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CARB
California Air Resources Board
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CASE
Computer-Aided Software Engineering
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CAT
Computer-Aided Translation
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CBL
Customer Baseline Load
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[3]
CBM
Capacity Benefit Margin
[4]
[3]
CBOB
Conventional Gasoline Blendstock for Oxygenate Blending (Motor Gasoline Blending Component)
[4]
[3]
CC
Combined cycle see also CCPP and CCGT
[4]
[3]
Combined cycle Gas turbine electricity generator
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[3]
CCLIP
Conditional Credit Line for Investment Projects
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[3]
CCN
Certificate of Convenience and Necessity (utilities regulation)
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[3]
CCPG
Colorado Coordinated Planning Group
[4]
[3]
CCPP
Combined cycle power plant
[4]
[3]
CD
Contract Demand
[4]
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Compact Disc
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CD-R
CD-Recordable
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CD-ROM
CD Read-Only Memory
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CD-RW
CD-Rewritable
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CDD
Cooling degree day, a qualitative index used to reflect the demand for energy to cool a business
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CDE
Common Desktop Environment
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CDH
cooling degree hours (climate)
[4]
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CDM
Clean Development Mechanism
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CDMA
Code Division Multiple Access
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[2]
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CDN
Content Delivery Network
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CDP
Continuous Data Protection
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CDSA
Common Data Security Architecture
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CEA
Country Environmental Analysis
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CEC
California Energy Commission
—Commission for Environmental Cooperation
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CEEC
Central and Eastern European Countries
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CEMS
Continuous emissions monitoring system
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CEP
Country Environmental Profile
—Clean Energy Partnership, a joint hydrogen-project in Europe.
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[3]
CEPII
Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales Economics think tank
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CEPS
Centre for European Policy Studies
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CEQ
Council on Environmental Quality
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CER
Certified Emission Reduction
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CERA
Cambridge Energy Research Associates
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CERCLA
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act "Superfund" (US)
[4]
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CERCLIS
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System (US)
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[3]
CERT
Computer Emergency Response Team
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[4]
CERTS
Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions sposored by the United States Department of Energy and California Energy Commission (US)
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[3]
CES
Consumer Electronics Show
[5]
[4]
CF
Compact Flash
[5]
[4]
CFD
Computational Fluid Dynamics
[5]
[4]
CFG
Context-Free Grammar
[5]
[4]
Control Flow Graph
[5]
[4]
CFL
compact fluorescent light
[4]
[3]
CFO
Chief Financial Officer
[3]
[1]
CFS
Certified Internal Auditor
[3]
[1]
cubic feet per second
[4]
[3]
CFTC
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
[4]
[3]
CG
Computer Graphics
[5]
[4]
CGA
Color Graphics Array
[5]
[4]
CGI
Common Gateway Interface
[5]
[4]
Computer-Generated Imagery
[5]
[4]
CGT
Computational Graph Theory
[5]
[4]
CH4
Methane
[4]
[3]
CHAP
Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol
[5]
[4]
CHP
Combined heat and power
[4]
[3]
CHS
Cylinder-Head-Sector
[5]
[4]
CIAC
Contributions in Aid of Construction
[4]
[3]
CIDR
Classless Inter-Domain Routing
[5]
[4]
CIF
Committee on monetary, finance and balance of payments statistics
[3]
[1]
CIFS
Common Internet Filesystem
[5]
[4]
CIM
Common Information Model
[5]
[4]
Computationally Independent Model
[5]
[4]
CIO
Chief Information Officer
[5]
[4]
CIP
Critical Infrastructure Protection (US)
—see also EPCIP European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection
[4]
[3]
CIR
Committed information rate
[5]
[4]
CISC
Complex Instruction Set Computer
[5]
[4]
CJK
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
[5]
[4]
CJKV
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese
[5]
[4]
CLI
Command Line Interface
[5]
[4]
CLR
Common Language Runtime
[5]
[4]
CM
Configuration Management
[5]
[4]
Content Management
[5]
[4]
CMIIW
Correct me if I'm wrong.
[6]
[5]
CMMI
Capability Maturity Model Integration
[5]
[4]
CMO
Chief Marketing Officer
[3]
[1]
CMOS
Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
[5]
[4]
CMS
Content Management System
[5]
[4]
CMVE
Competitive Market Value Estimate
[4]
[3]
CN
Canonical Name
[5]
[4]
Common Name
[5]
[4]
CNC
Computer Numerical Control
[5]
[4]
CNG
Compressed natural gas
[4]
[3]
CNR
Communications and Networking Riser
[5]
[4]
CO
Carbon monoxide
[4]
[3]
CO2
Carbon dioxide
[4]
[3]
COB
Close of Business
[3]
[1]
Close Of Business.
[6]
[5]
COBOL
Common Business-Oriented Language
[5]
[4]
COC
Cost of capital
[4]
[3]
COE
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
[4]
[3]
COGS
Cost of Goods Sold
[3]
[1]
COM
Component Object Model or communication
[5]
[4]
COP
coefficient of performance
[4]
[3]
CORBA
Common Object Request Broker Architecture
[5]
[4]
COTS
Commercial Off-The-Shelf
[5]
[4]
CP
Coincident Peak
—Certificate Proceeding
[4]
[3]
CP/M
Control Program/Monitor
[5]
[4]
CPA
Consumer Price Index
[3]
[1]
California Power Authority
[4]
[3]
Cell Processor Architecture
[5]
[4]
CPAN
Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
[5]
[4]
CPI
Consumer Price Index
[4]
[3]
CPP
Critical Peak Pricing
[4]
[3]
CPP-F
Critical peak fixed
[4]
[3]
Critical peak variable
[4]
[3]
CPRI
Common Public Radio Interface
[5]
[4]
CPS
Control Performance Standard
—Cycles per second (hertz)
[4]
[3]
characters per second
[5]
[4]
CPU
Cost per Unit
[3]
[1]
Central Processing Unit
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
CPUC
California Public Utilities Commission
[4]
[3]
CR
Carriage Return
[5]
[4]
CRAN
Comprehensive R Archive Network
[5]
[4]
CRC
Cyclic Redundancy Check
[5]
[4]
CREF
Caribbean Renewable Energy Facility
[4]
[3]
CRI
color rendering index
[4]
[3]
CRLF
Carriage Return Line Feeds
[5]
[4]
CRM
Customer Relationship Management
[3]
[2]
[5]
[1]
[2]
[4]
CRP
Conservation Reserve Program (US)
[4]
[3]
CRS
Computer Reservations System
[5]
[4]
CRT
Capacity Reservation Tariff
[4]
[3]
Cathode Ray Tube
[5]
[4]
CRUD
Create, Read, Update and Delete
[5]
[4]
CS
Cable Select
[5]
[4]
Computer Science
[5]
[4]
CSD
Commission for Sustainable Development (UN)
[4]
[3]
CSE
Computer Science and Engineering
[5]
[4]
CSEM
Center for the Study of Energy Markets (US)
[4]
[3]
CSI
Continual Service Improvement
[3]
[1]
Common System Interface
[5]
[4]
CSMA/CD
Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection
[5]
[4]
CSO
Chief Security Officer
[3]
[1]
CSP
Country Strategy Paper
—Curtailment service provider
[4]
[3]
Cloud Service Provider
[5]
[4]
Communicating Sequential Processes
[5]
[4]
CSR
Corporate social responsibility
[3]
[1]
CSRF
Cross-Site Request Forgery
[5]
[4]
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
Content-Scrambling System
[5]
[4]
Closed Source Software
[5]
[4]
Cross-Site Scripting
[5]
[4]
CSV
Comma-separated Values
[2]
[2]
Comma-Separated Values
[5]
[4]
CT
Combustion turbine (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Computerized Tomography
[5]
[4]
CTAN
Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
[5]
[4]
CTCP
Client-To-Client Protocol
[5]
[4]
CTFE
Compile Time Function Execution
[5]
[4]
CTI
Computer Telephony Integration
[5]
[4]
CTL
Computational Tree Logic
[5]
[4]
CTM
Close To Metal
[5]
[4]
CTO
Chief Technology Officer
[3]
[1]
CTS
Clear To Send
[5]
[4]
CTSS
Compatible Time-Sharing System
[5]
[4]
CU
See you (later)
[6]
[5]
CUA
Common User Access
[5]
[4]
CVP
Consumer-to-business
[3]
[1]
CVS
Concurrent Version Control
[2]
[2]
Concurrent Versioning System
[5]
[4]
CYA
See ya OR Cover Your Ass
[6]
[5]
CZMA
Coastal Zone Management Act
[4]
[3]
CfD
Contract for difference
[4]
[3]
Corp.
Chief Operating Officer
[3]
[1]
D/L
Download
[6]
[5]
DA-RTP
RTP Day ahead real time pricing (regarding Electricity metering)
[4]
[3]
DAC
Digital-To-Analog Converter
[5]
[4]
Discretionary Access Control
[5]
[4]
DADRP
Day Ahead Demand Response Program
[4]
[3]
DAL
Database Abstraction Layer
[5]
[4]
DANIDA
Danish International Development Agency
[4]
[3]
DAO
Data Access Object
[5]
[4]
Data Access Objects
[5]
[4]
Disk-At-Once
[5]
[4]
DAP
Directory Access Protocol
[5]
[4]
DARPA
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
[5]
[4]
DAT
Digital Audio Tape
[5]
[4]
DB
Database
[5]
[4]
DBA
Database Administrator
[5]
[4]
DBCS
Double Byte Character Set
[5]
[4]
DBMS
Database Management System
[5]
[4]
DC
Direct current
[4]
[3]
DCC
Direct Client-to-Client
[5]
[4]
DCCA
Debian Common Core Alliance
[5]
[4]
DCCP
Datagram Congestion Control Protocol
[5]
[4]
DCL
Data Control Language
[5]
[4]
DCLM
Direct control load management
[4]
[3]
DCMI
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
[5]
[4]
DCOM
Distributed Component Object Model
[5]
[4]
DCS
Disturbance Control Standard
[4]
[3]
Distributed Control System
[5]
[4]
DD
Double Density
[5]
[4]
DDA
Department
[3]
[1]
DDE
Dynamic Data Exchange
[5]
[4]
DDL
Data Definition Language
[5]
[4]
DDR
Double Data Rate
[5]
[4]
DDoS
Distributed Denial of Service
[5]
[4]
DEC
Digital Equipment Corporation
[5]
[4]
DEFG
Distributed Energy Financial Group (US)
[4]
[3]
DEIS
Draft Environmental Impact Statement (US)
[4]
[3]
DER
Distributed Energy Resources
[4]
[3]
DES
Data Encryption Standard
[5]
[4]
DF
Distribution Factor
[4]
[3]
DFA
Deterministic Finite Automaton
[5]
[4]
DFD
Data Flow Diagram
[5]
[4]
DFS
Dynamic Frequency Selection
[2]
[2]
Depth-First Search
[5]
[4]
Distributed File System
[5]
[4]
DFTBA
Don't forget to be awesome
[6]
[5]
DFTT
Don't feed the trolls
[6]
[5]
DG
Distributed generation (electricity)
—Directorate-General (EU) (government)
[4]
[3]
DGAF
Don't give a fuck
[6]
[5]
DGD
Dworkin's Game Driver
[5]
[4]
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
[5]
[4]
DHTML
Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language
[5]
[4]
DI
Director
[3]
[1]
DIAF
Die in a fire
[6]
[5]
DIF
Data Integrity Field
[5]
[4]
DIIS
Danish Institute for International Studies (organization)
[4]
[3]
DILLIGAF/D/S
Does it look like I give a flip / fuck / damn / shit
[6]
[5]
DIMM
Dual Inline Memory Module
[5]
[4]
DIN
Deutsches Institut für Normung
[5]
[4]
DIP
Dual In-line Package
[5]
[4]
DIVX
Digital Video Express
[5]
[4]
DKIM
Domain Keys Identified Mail
[5]
[4]
DL
Download
[5]
[4]
DLC
Direct load control (regarding Load management)
[4]
[3]
DLL
Dynamic Link Library
[5]
[4]
DLNA
Digital Living Network Alliance
[5]
[4]
DLP
Data loss protection
[5]
[4]
DMA
Direct Memory Access
[5]
[4]
DMCA
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
[5]
[4]
DME
Disturbance Monitoring Equipment
[4]
[3]
DMI
Direct Media Interface
[5]
[4]
DML
Data Manipulation Language
[5]
[4]
Definitive Media Library
[5]
[4]
DMR
Dennis M. Ritchie
[5]
[4]
DMZ
Demilitarized Zone
[5]
[4]
DN
Distinguished Name
[5]
[4]
DND
Drag-and-Drop
[5]
[4]
Do not disturb
[6]
[5]
DNS
Domain Name Server
[2]
[2]
Domain Name System
[5]
[4]
DO
Dissolved oxygen
[4]
[3]
DOA
Dead on Arrival
[5]
[4]
Dead on arrival. Refers to hardware that is broken on delivery.
[6]
[5]
DOCSIS
Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification
[5]
[4]
DOE
United States Department of Energy (government)
[4]
[3]
DOE/FE
United States Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy (government)
[4]
[3]
DOI
United States Department of the Interior (government)
[4]
[3]
DOM
Document Object Model
[5]
[4]
DOS
Disk Operating System
[5]
[4]
DOT
United States Department of Transportation (government)
[4]
[3]
DP
Dot Pitch
[5]
[4]
DPC
Deferred Procedure Call
[5]
[4]
DPI
Deep Packet Inspection
[5]
[4]
Dots Per Inch
[5]
[4]
DPMI
DOS Protected Mode Interface
[5]
[4]
DPMS
Display Power Management Signaling
[5]
[4]
DR
Demand response
[4]
[3]
DR-DOS
Digital Research - Disk Operating System
[5]
[4]
DRAM
Demand Response and Advanced Metering Coalition
[4]
[3]
Dynamic Random-Access Memory
[5]
[4]
DRB
Demonstrated reserve base
[4]
[3]
DRCC
Demand Response Coordinating Council (coalition)
[4]
[3]
DRI
Direct Rendering Infrastructure
[5]
[4]
DRM
Digital Rights Management
[5]
[4]
Direct Rendering Manager
[5]
[4]
DRR
Demand Response resources
[4]
[3]
DRRC
Demand Response Research Center (California)
[4]
[3]
DSA
Digital Signature Algorithm
[5]
[4]
DSDL
Document Schema Definition Languages
[5]
[4]
DSDM
Dynamic Systems Development Method
[5]
[4]
DSL
Digital Subscriber Line
[5]
[4]
Domain-Specific Language
[5]
[4]
DSLAM
Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
[5]
[4]
DSM
Demand side management
[4]
[3]
DSN
Database Source Name
[5]
[4]
Data Set Name
[5]
[4]
DSO
Days Sales Outstanding
[3]
[1]
Distribution system operator (regarding electricity distribution)
[4]
[3]
DSP
Digital Signal Processor
[5]
[4]
DSSSL
Document Style Semantics and Specification Language
[5]
[4]
DTD
Document Type Definition
[5]
[4]
DTE
Data Terminal Equipment or data transfer rate
[5]
[4]
DTP
Do this please
[3]
[1]
Desktop Publishing
[5]
[4]
DTR
Data Terminal Ready or Data transfer rate
[5]
[4]
DTW
dealer tank wagon (as in, "oil companies setting regional dealer tank wagon pricing") (Oil)
[4]
[3]
DVB-T
Digital Video Broadcast - Terrestrial
[2]
[2]
DVD
Digital Versatile Disc
[5]
[4]
DVD-R
DVD-Recordable
[5]
[4]
DVD-ROM
DVD-Read Only Memory
[5]
[4]
DVD-RW
DVD-Rewritable
[5]
[4]
DVI
Digital Visual Interface
[5]
[4]
DVP
Delivery versus payment
[3]
[1]
DVR
Digital Video Recorder
[5]
[4]
DW
Data Warehouse
[5]
[4]
DoS
Denial of Service
[5]
[4]
Dth
Dekatherm (defined as 1 million British thermal units, also written "MMBtu") (measurement)
[4]
[3]
E&D
Exploration and development expenses
[4]
[3]
E-mail
Electronic mail
[5]
[4]
E85
E85 fuel: A fuel containing a mixture of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline
[4]
[3]
E95
like E85 fuel but with less gasoline. A fuel containing a mixture of 95 percent ethanol and 5 percent gasoline
[4]
[3]
EA
Environmental assessment as in an Environmental impact assessment
[4]
[3]
EACs
Effective annual rate
[3]
[1]
EAI
Enterprise Application Integration
[5]
[4]
EAP
Extensible Authentication Protocol
[5]
[4]
EAR
Estimated additional resources, as in considering reserves of uranium deposits
[4]
[3]
EAY
Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
[3]
[1]
EBCDIC
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
[5]
[4]
EBML
Extensible Binary Meta Language
[5]
[4]
EC
European Commission
[4]
[3]
ECAR
East Central Area Reliability Coordination Agreement (US)
[4]
[3]
ECB
Electronic Data Interchange
[3]
[1]
ECC
Error-correcting code memory
[2]
[2]
Elliptic Curve Cryptography
[5]
[4]
ECGC
Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India
[3]
[1]
ECMA
European Computer Manufacturers Association
[5]
[4]
ECN
Explicit Congestion Notification
[5]
[4]
ECOS
Embedded Configurable Operating System
[5]
[4]
ECPA
Electric Consumers Protection Act (US)
[4]
[3]
ECRS
Expense and Cost Recovery System
[5]
[4]
EDA
Electronic Design Automation
[5]
[4]
EDC
Electric Distribution Company (electricity)
[4]
[3]
EDGE
Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
[2]
[2]
EDI
Electronic Data Interchange
[5]
[4]
EDO
Extended Data Out
[5]
[4]
EDRP
Emergency demand response program
[4]
[3]
EDSAC
Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator
[5]
[4]
EDVAC
Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
[5]
[4]
EE
Energy efficiency
[4]
[3]
EEI
Edison Electric Institute
[4]
[3]
EEM
Energy Efficient Mortgage
[4]
[3]
EEPROM
Electronically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
[5]
[4]
EER
energy efficiency ratio
[4]
[3]
EF
Earth Fault
[4]
[3]
energy factor (clothes washers)
[4]
[3]
EFF
Electronic Frontier Foundation
[5]
[4]
EFI
Extensible Firmware Interface
[5]
[4]
EFM
Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation
[5]
[4]
EFSM
Enterprise Resource Planning
[3]
[1]
EGA
Enhanced Graphics Array
[5]
[4]
EGP
Exterior Gateway Protocol
[5]
[4]
EHV
Extra high voltage
[4]
[3]
EIA
Energy Information Administration (US)
—Environmental impact assessment (international)
[4]
[3]
EIB
European Investment Bank
[4]
[3]
EIDE
Enhanced IDE
[5]
[4]
EIGRP
Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
[5]
[4]
EIM
Energy Imbalance Market (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Energy Improvement Mortgage
[4]
[3]
EIPP
Eastern Interconnection Phasor Project
[4]
[3]
EIS
Environmental Impact Statement (US)
[4]
[3]
EISA
Extended Industry Standard Architecture
[5]
[4]
ELCON
Electricity Consumers Resources Council
[4]
[3]
ELF
Extremely Low Frequency
[5]
[4]
Executable and Linkable Format
[5]
[4]
ELM
ELectronic Mail
[5]
[4]
EMACS
Editor MACroS
[5]
[4]
EMF
Electro magnetic field
[4]
[3]
EMI
Equated Monthly Installment
[3]
[1]
EMP
Environmental Management Plan
[4]
[3]
EMS
Expanded Memory Specification
[5]
[4]
ENIAC
Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer
[5]
[4]
EOD
End of Day
[5]
[4]
EOF
End of File
[5]
[6]
[4]
[5]
EOL
End of Line
[5]
[4]
End of Life (device or hardware that is at the end of its product life cycle) OR End of Line.
[6]
[5]
EOM
End Of Message
[5]
[4]
End of Message
[6]
[5]
EOR
Enhanced oil recovery
[4]
[3]
EPA
United States Environmental Protection Agency
[4]
[3]
EPAct
Energy Policy Act of 1992 (US)
—Energy Policy Act of 2005 (US)
[4]
[3]
EPC
Export Promotion Council
[3]
[1]
EPCIP
European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection
[4]
[3]
EPIC
Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing
[5]
[4]
EPRI
Electric Power Research Institute (US)
[4]
[3]
EPROM
Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
[5]
[4]
EPSA
Electric Power Supply Association
[4]
[3]
EQ
EverQuest
[6]
[5]
EQR
Electric Quarterly Report
[4]
[3]
ERA
Economic Regulatory Administration (part of United States Department of Energy
[4]
[3]
ERCOT
Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc, a regional transmission organization. (US)
[4]
[3]
ERD
Entity-Relationship Diagram
[5]
[4]
ERGEG
European Regulators Group for Electricity and Gas
[4]
[3]
ERIS
Energy Resource Interconnection Service (electricity)
[4]
[3]
ERM
Entity-Relationship Model
[5]
[4]
ERO
Electric Reliability Organization. The US designated NERC as its ERO.
[4]
[3]
ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
ERRA
Energy Regulators Regional Association
[4]
[3]
ERV
energy-recovery ventilator
[4]
[3]
ERoEI
Energy returned on energy invested
[4]
[3]
ESAD
eat shit and die
[6]
[5]
ESB
Enterprise service bus
[5]
[4]
ESCO
Energy service company
[4]
[3]
ESCON
Enterprise Systems Connection
[5]
[4]
ESD
Electrostatic Discharge
[5]
[4]
ESI
Environmental Sustainability Index
[4]
[3]
ESMAP
Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme
[4]
[3]
ESP
Electrostatic precipitator
[4]
[3]
ESR
Eric Steven Raymond
[5]
[4]
ESS
Energy Storage System, as in grid energy storage (electricity)
[4]
[3]
ETA
Estimated Time of Arrival
[3]
[1]
Estimated time of arrival
[6]
[5]
ETBE
ethyl tertiary butyl ether
[4]
[3]
ETD
Estimated Time of Delivery
[3]
[1]
ETL
Extract, Transform, Load
[5]
[4]
ETSO
European Transmission System Operators association
[4]
[3]
EU
European Union
[4]
[3]
EUC
Extended Unix Code
[5]
[4]
EUEF
European Union Energy Facility
[4]
[3]
EUEI
European Union Energy Initiative
[4]
[3]
EULA
End User License Agreement
[5]
[4]
EWMH
Extended Window Manager Hints
[5]
[4]
EXT
EXTended file system
[5]
[4]
EdF
Electricité de France
[4]
[3]
F9
Fine
[6]
[5]
FAB
Feature Advantage Benefits
[3]
[1]
FAC
Fuel Adjustment Clause
[4]
[3]
FACTS
Flexible Alternating Current Transmission System
[4]
[3]
FAP
FORTRAN Assembly Program
[5]
[4]
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
[5]
[4]
Frequently Asked Question(s)
[6]
[5]
FASB
Financial Accounting Standards Board
[4]
[3]
FASM
Flat ASseMbler
[5]
[4]
FAT
File Allocation Table
[5]
[4]
FBDIMM
Fully Buffered Dual Inline Memory Module
[5]
[4]
FBR
fast breeder reactor
[4]
[3]
FC-AL
Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop
[5]
[4]
FCB
File Control Block
[5]
[4]
FCITC
First Contingency Incremental Transfer Capability
[4]
[3]
FCS
Frame Check Sequence
[5]
[4]
FDC
Floppy Disk Controller
[5]
[4]
FDD
Floppy Disk Drive
[5]
[4]
FDDI
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
[5]
[4]
FDMA
Frequency-Division Multiple Access
[5]
[4]
FDP
Finance Department
[3]
[1]
FDS
Fedora Directory Server
[5]
[4]
FEC
Forward Error Correction
[5]
[4]
FEIS
Final Environmental impact statement (US)
[4]
[3]
FELCC
Firm Energy Load Carrying Capability
[4]
[3]
FEMB
Front-End Motherboard
[5]
[4]
FERC
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (U.S.)
[4]
[3]
FET
Field Effect Transistor
[5]
[4]
FFS
For fuck's sake
[6]
[5]
FGD
Flue-gas desulfurization
[4]
[3]
FHS
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
[5]
[4]
FICON
FIber CONnectivity
[5]
[4]
FIFO
Finance Minister
[3]
[1]
First In First Out
[5]
[4]
FINESSE
Financing Energy Services for Small Scale Users
[4]
[3]
FIPS
Federal Information Processing Standards
[5]
[4]
FL
Financial leverage
[3]
[1]
Function Level
[5]
[4]
FLAC
Free Lossless Audio Codec
[5]
[4]
FLOPS
FLoating-Point Operations Per Second
[5]
[4]
FLOSS
Free/Libre/Open Source Software
[5]
[4]
FLPMA
Federal Land Policy and Management Act (US)
[4]
[3]
FMC
Fixed Mobile Convergence "Mobile UC or Unified Communications over Wireless"
[5]
[4]
FMCDH
From My Cold Dead Hands
[6]
[5]
FME
Free market economics
[4]
[3]
FML
Fuck my life.
[6]
[5]
FOAD
Fuck off and die
[6]
[5]
FOAF
Friend of a friend
[6]
[5]
FOB
Freight On Board
[3]
[1]
FOC
Free Of Cost
[3]
[1]
FOLDOC
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
[5]
[4]
FOMC
Financial Information Exchange
[3]
[1]
FONSI
Finding of no significant impact. See Environmental impact statement (US)
[4]
[3]
FOSDEM
Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting
[5]
[4]
FOSI
Formatted Output Specification Instance
[5]
[4]
FOSS
Free and Open Source Software
[5]
[4]
FP
Function Programming
[5]
[4]
FPA
Federal Power Act (US)
[4]
[3]
FPC
Federal Power Commission (US)
[4]
[3]
FPGA
Field Programmable Gate Array
[5]
[4]
FPS
Frames Per Second
[2]
[2]
Firm peaking service. See Peaking power plant
[4]
[3]
Floating Point Systems
[5]
[4]
FPU
Floating Point Unit
[5]
[4]
FQDN
Fully Qualified Domain Name
[5]
[4]
FRCC
Florida Reliability Coordinating Council (US)
[4]
[3]
FRS
Financial Reporting System
[4]
[3]
FRU
Field Replaceable Unit
[5]
[4]
FS
File System
[5]
[4]
FSA
For Your Information
[3]
[1]
FSB
Front Side Bus
[5]
[4]
FSF
Free Software Foundation
[5]
[4]
FSM
Finite State Machine
[5]
[4]
FT
Firm Transportation Service
[4]
[3]
FTC
Federal Trade Commission (US)
[4]
[3]
FTE
Full Time Equivalent
[3]
[1]
FTFY
Fixed that for you
[6]
[5]
FTL
For the loss
[6]
[5]
FTP
File Transfer Protocol
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
FTR
Firm Transmission Rights
—Financial Transmission Rights. See explanation in electricity markets.
[4]
[3]
For the record
[6]
[5]
FTS
Firm transportation service
[4]
[3]
FTTC
Fiber To The Curb
[5]
[4]
FTTH
Fiber To The Home
[5]
[4]
FTTP
Fiber To The Premises
[5]
[4]
FTW
For the win
[6]
[5]
FTW?
Can be construed as "Fuck the what?" (reversal of WTF?, implies increased confusion)
[6]
[5]
FU
Fuck you
[6]
[5]
FUA
The Fuel Use Act (US)
[4]
[3]
FUBAR
Fucked up beyond all recognition / repair (from military slang; pronounced "foo-bar")
[6]
[5]
FUCO
Foreign Utility Company
[4]
[3]
FUD
Fear Uncertainty Doubt
[5]
[4]
Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (the purposeful spread of misinformation)
[6]
[5]
FUP
Fair User Policy
[2]
[2]
FWIW
For what it's worth
[6]
[5]
FWPA
Federal Water Power Act (US)
[4]
[3]
FWS
Folding White Space
[5]
[4]
FXP
File eXchange Protocol
[5]
[4]
FYA
For Your Action
[3]
[1]
FYF
Z[edit]
zcyc – Zero Coupon Yield Curve
[3]
[1]
FYI
For Your Information
[5]
[4]
For your information
[6]
[5]
Fin Min
Finance Minister
[3]
[1]
Fishway
Fish ladder
[4]
[3]
G&T
Generation and transmission utility cooperative (electricity)
[4]
[3]
G11N
Globalization
[5]
[4]
GAAP
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
[3]
[1]
GAAS
Gross Domestic Product
[3]
[1]
GADS
Generating Availability Data System (electricity)
[4]
[3]
GAL
gallon (measurement)
[4]
[3]
GAO
Government Accountability Office (General Accounting Office) (US) (government)
[4]
[3]
GATT
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (government)
[4]
[3]
GB
Gigabyte
[5]
[4]
GBTW
Get back to work
[6]
[5]
GCC
GNU Compiler Collection
[5]
[4]
GCJ
GNU Compiler for Java
[5]
[4]
GCR
Group Code Recording
[5]
[4]
GDB
GNU Debugger
[5]
[4]
GDI
Graphics Device Interface
[5]
[4]
GDP
gross domestic product (economics)
[4]
[3]
GDR
General Ledger
[3]
[1]
GEF
Global Environmental Facility (environment)
[4]
[3]
GF
Great/good fight
[6]
[5]
GFDL
GNU Free Documentation License
[5]
[4]
GFN
Global Footprint Network
[4]
[3]
GFSE
Global Forum on Sustainable Energy (organization)
[4]
[3]
GFU
Good for you
[6]
[5]
GFY
Go fuck yourself
[6]
[5]
GG
Good game, used at or near the conclusion of a gaming match
[6]
[5]
GGS
Good games
[6]
[5]
GHC
Gross Inland (energy) Consumption (EU) (energy)
[4]
[3]
GHG
Greenhouse gas (climate)
[4]
[3]
GIA
Generator Interconnection Agreement (electricity)
[4]
[3]
GIC
Gas Inventory Charge (natural gas)
[4]
[3]
GIF
Graphics Interchange Format
[5]
[4]
GIGO
Garbage In, Garbage Out
[5]
[4]
GIMP
GNU Image Manipulation Program
[5]
[4]
GIMPS
Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
[5]
[4]
GIS
Geographic Information System
[5]
[4]
GISB
Gas Industry Standards Board (now NAESB) (US) (natural gas)
[4]
[3]
GIYF;
H
HAND
have a nice day
[6]
[5]
GJ
Good job, often used in online gaming when a teammate performs an act benefitting his team, such as killing an opponent or enabling that kill
[6]
[5]
GL
Good luck, used before commencing a game
[6]
[5]
GLDF
Generator to Load Distribution Factor. See Load balancing (electricity)
[4]
[3]
GLUT
OpenGL Utility Toolkit
[5]
[4]
GM
Game Master
[2]
[2]
GML
Geography Markup Language
[5]
[4]
GMO
Genetically modified organism
[4]
[3]
GMP
Green Mountain Power (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
GMROII
Gross Margin Return on Inventory Investment
[3]
[1]
GMTA
Great minds think alike
[6]
[5]
GMV
Gross Merchandise Volume
[3]
[1]
GNOME
GNU Network Object Model Environment
[5]
[4]
GNP
gross national product (economics)
[4]
[3]
GNSED
Global Network for Sustainable Energy Development
[4]
[3]
GNU
GNU's Not Unix
[5]
[4]
GOMS
Goals, Operators, Methods, and Selection rules
[5]
[4]
GP
Gross Profit
[3]
[1]
GPASM
GNU PIC ASseMbler
[5]
[4]
GPFS
General Parallel File System
[5]
[4]
GPG
GNU Privacy Guard
[5]
[4]
GPGPU
General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units
[5]
[4]
GPIB
General-Purpose Instrumentation Bus
[5]
[4]
GPL
General Public License
[5]
[4]
General-Purpose Language
[5]
[4]
GPO
Global Value Chain
[3]
[1]
GPRS
General Packet Radio Service
[5]
[4]
GPS
Global Positioning System
[2]
[2]
GPT
GUID Partition Table
[5]
[4]
GPU
Graphics Processing Unit
[5]
[4]
GR
Good Race
[6]
[5]
GRI
Gas Research Institute (US) (natural gas)
[4]
[3]
GRUB
Grand Unified Boot-Loader
[5]
[4]
GSF
Generator to Load Distribution Factor. See Load balancing (electricity)
[4]
[3]
GSM
Global System for Mobile Communications
[5]
[4]
GSR
Gas Supply Realignment (natural gas)
[4]
[3]
GTCC
Gas Turbine Combined Cycle (electricity)
[4]
[3]
GTFO
Get the fuck out
[6]
[5]
GTG or G2G
'Got to go' or 'Good to go'
[6]
[5]
GTI
Gas Technology Institute (US)
[4]
[3]
GTK+
GIMP Toolkit
[5]
[4]
GUI
Graphical User Interface
[5]
[4]
GUID
Globally Unique IDentifier
[5]
[4]
GVEP
Global Village Energy Partnership (organization)
[4]
[3]
GVW
gross vehicle weight (transportation)
[4]
[3]
GW
Gigawatt (one billion watts) (measurement- elect)
[4]
[3]
GWE
Gigawatt of electric energy (measurement- elect)
[4]
[3]
GWP
global warming potential (climate)
[4]
[3]
GWT
Google Web Toolkit
[5]
[4]
GYR
IT Networking
[5]
[4]
Gas
GNU Assembler
[5]
[4]
Gb
Gigabit
[5]
[4]
Genco
Any company doing electricity generation (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Gm3
Billion cubic metres (measurement – gas)
[4]
[3]
Godwin's law
Dictates that the longer a thread, the more likely someone will post a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler
[6]
[5]
GridCo
Any company running a transmission grid (electricity). Also known as a TransCo (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Gt
Gigaton (1 billion tons) (measurement)
[4]
[3]
Gtoe
One billion tons of oil equivalent(EU) (measurement- oil)
[4]
[3]
Gwh
Gigawatt hour (one billion watt hours) (measurement- elect)
[4]
[3]
HA
High Availability
[5]
[4]
HAL
Hardware Abstraction Layer
[5]
[4]
HASP
Houston Automatic Spooling Priority
[5]
[4]
HBA
Host Bus Adapter
[5]
[4]
HCA
Host Control Area (electricity)
[4]
[3]
HCI
Human Computer Interaction
[5]
[4]
HCL
Hardware Compatibility List
[5]
[4]
HD
High Definition,Half Duplex
[2]
[2]
High Density
[5]
[4]
HD DVD
High Definition DVD
[5]
[4]
HDD
Heating degree days a qualitative index used to reflect the demand for energy to heat a business (conservation)
[4]
[3]
heating degree day
[4]
[3]
Hard Disk Drive
[5]
[4]
HDL
Hardware Description Language
[5]
[4]
HDMI
High-Definition Multimedia Interface
[5]
[4]
HERS
Home energy rating standard (conservation)
[4]
[3]
HF
High Frequency
[5]
[4]
Have fun
[6]
[5]
HFS
Hierarchical File System
[5]
[4]
HHD
Hybrid Hard Drive
[5]
[4]
HHI
Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (markets)
[4]
[3]
home heating index
[4]
[3]
HID
high intensity discharge (electricity)
[4]
[3]
high-intensity discharge
[4]
[3]
Human Interface Device
[5]
[4]
HIG
Human Interface Guidelines
[5]
[4]
HIRD
Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth
[5]
[4]
HLASM
High Level ASseMbler
[5]
[4]
HLS
HTTP Live Streaming
[5]
[4]
HMA
High Memory Area
[5]
[4]
HP
Hewlett-Packard
[5]
[4]
HPC
High-Performance Computing
[5]
[4]
HPFS
High Performance File System
[5]
[4]
HQ
I[edit]
IAS – International Accounting Standards
[3]
[1]
HR
Human Resources
[3]
[1]
HRV
heat-recovery ventilator
[4]
[3]
HSDPA
High-Speed Downlink Packet Access
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
HSM
Hierarchical Storage Management
[5]
[4]
HSPF
heating seasonal performance factor
[4]
[3]
HT
Hyper Threading
[5]
[4]
HTC
High-Throughput Computing
[5]
[4]
HTGR
high temperature gas cooled reactor (nuclear)
[4]
[3]
HTH
Hope this / that helps
[6]
[5]
HTM
Hierarchical Temporal Memory
[5]
[4]
HTML
HyperText Markup Language
[2]
[2]
Hypertext Markup Language
[5]
[4]
HTTP
Hypertext Transport Protocol
[2]
[2]
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
[5]
[4]
HTTPd
Hypertext Transport Protocol Daemon
[5]
[4]
HTX
HyperTransport eXpansion
[5]
[4]
HURD
Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons
[5]
[4]
HVAC
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (conservation)
—High voltage alternating current (electricity)
[4]
[3]
HVAR
Highly Valued Aquatic Resource
[4]
[3]
HVD
Holographic Versatile Disc
[5]
[4]
HVDC
High Voltage Direct Current
[4]
[3]
HVI
Home Ventilating Institute
[4]
[3]
Hz
Hertz
[5]
[4]
I/C
Interruptible /Curtailable (electricity)
[4]
[3]
I/F
Interface
[5]
[4]
I/O
Input/output
[5]
[4]
I18N
Internationalization
[5]
[4]
IANA
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
[5]
[4]
IANAL
I am not a lawyer
[6]
[5]
IBM
International Business Machines
[5]
[4]
IBTL
In before the lock
[6]
[5]
IC
Integrated Circuit
[5]
[4]
ICANN
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
[5]
[4]
ICAP
Installed Capacity (electricity)
[4]
[3]
ICAP-SCR
Installed capacity special case resources (electricity)
[4]
[3]
ICB
International Financial Reporting Standard
[3]
[1]
ICCP
Inter-Control Center Communications Protocol (electricity)
[4]
[3]
ICE
Internal combustion engine (transportation)
[4]
[3]
In-Circuit Emulator
[5]
[4]
Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics
[5]
[4]
ICMP
Internet Control Message Protocol
[5]
[4]
ICP
Internet Cache Protocol
[5]
[4]
ICT
Independent Coordinator of Transmission (US) (electricity)
—Information and Communication Technology
[4]
[3]
Information and Communication Technology
[5]
[4]
IDC
Interchange Distribution Calculator (electricity)
[4]
[3]
IDE
Integrated Development Environment
[5]
[4]
Integrated Drive Electronics
[5]
[4]
IDF
Intermediate Distribution Frame
[5]
[4]
Intermediate Data Format
[5]
[4]
IDK
I don't know
[6]
[5]
IDL
Interface Definition Language
[5]
[4]
IDS
Intrusion Detection System
[5]
[4]
IE
Internet Explorer
[5]
[4]
IEA
International Energy Agency (Paris)
[4]
[3]
IEC
International Electrotechnical Commission
[5]
[4]
IECC
International Energy Conservation Code
[4]
[3]
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
[4]
[5]
[3]
[4]
IEM
Internal electricity market (electricity)
[4]
[3]
IEPE
Institute of Energy Policy and Economics (France)
[4]
[3]
IER
Incremental Energy Rate
[4]
[3]
IET
International emission trading (policy)
[4]
[3]
IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force
[5]
[4]
IFL
Integrated Facility for Linux
[5]
[4]
IGCC
Integrated coal gasification combined cycle
[4]
[3]
IGIC
Interim gas inventory charge (natural gas)
[4]
[3]
IGMP
Internet Group Management Protocol
[5]
[4]
IGRP
Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
[5]
[4]
IGSC
Interim gas supply charge (natural gas)
[4]
[3]
IGT
Institute of Gas Technology (natural gas)
[4]
[3]
IHR
Incremental Heat Rate- plant monitoring (electricity)
[4]
[3]
IHT
I had to
[6]
[5]
IHV
Independent Hardware Vendor
[5]
[4]
IIASA
International Institute for Applied System Analysis
[4]
[3]
IIOP
Internet Inter-Orb Protocol
[5]
[4]
IIRC
If I recall / remember correctly
[6]
[5]
IIS
Internet Information Services
[5]
[4]
IIUC
If I understand correctly
[6]
[5]
IJC
International Joint Commission
[4]
[3]
IL
Intermediate Language
[5]
[4]
ILCLP
Initial Public Offering
[3]
[1]
ILP
Integrated Licensing Process
[4]
[3]
ILY
I love you
[6]
[5]
IM
Instant Messaging
[5]
[4]
IMAO
In my arrogant opinion
[6]
[5]
IMAP
Internet Message Access Protocol
[5]
[4]
IME
Input Method Editor
[5]
[4]
IMHO
In my humble / honest opinion
[6]
[5]
IMNSHO
In my not so humble opinion
[6]
[5]
IMO
In my opinion
[6]
[5]
INFOSEC
Information Systems Security
[5]
[4]
INGAA
Interstate Natural Gas Association of America
[4]
[3]
IONO
I don't know
[6]
[5]
IOS
Interconnected Operations Services (electricity)
[4]
[3]
IOU
Investor owned utility (electricity)
[4]
[3]
IOW
In other words
[6]
[5]
IP
Internet Protocol
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
Intellectual Property
[5]
[4]
IPAA
Independent Petroleum Association of America (oil)
[4]
[3]
IPC
Inter-Process Communication
[5]
[4]
IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (climate)
[4]
[3]
IPL
Initial Program Load
[5]
[4]
IPO
Inter Procedural Optimization
[5]
[4]
IPP
Independent Power Producer (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Internet Printing Protocol
[5]
[4]
IPS
In-Plane Switching
[5]
[4]
Instructions Per Second
[5]
[4]
Intrusion Prevention System
[5]
[4]
IPS/UPS
Integrated Power System/United Power System, consisting of Independent Power Systems of 12 countries bordering Russia and the Unified Power System of Russia
[4]
[3]
IPTV
Internet Protocol Television
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
IPX
Internetwork Packet Exchange
[5]
[4]
IPsec
Internet Protocol security
[5]
[4]
IR
Interest Rate - typically referring to an IR derivative product
[3]
[1]
Intermediate Representation
[5]
[4]
IRC
Internet Relay Chat
[2]
[5]
[6]
[2]
[4]
[5]
ISO / RTO Council (electricity)
[4]
[3]
IRI
Internationalized Resource Identifier
[5]
[4]
IRL
In real life
[6]
[5]
IROL
Interconnection Reliability Operating Limit (electricity)
[4]
[3]
IRP
Integrated Resource Planning
[4]
[3]
I/O Request Packet
[5]
[4]
IRQ
Interrupt Request
[5]
[4]
IRR
Internal Rate of Return (finance)
[4]
[3]
IRS
Institute of Supply Management
[3]
[1]
IS
Information Systems
[5]
[4]
IS-IS
Intermediate System to Intermediate System
[5]
[4]
ISA
Industry Standard Architecture
[5]
[4]
Instruction Set Architecture
[5]
[4]
ISAM
Indexed Sequential Access Method
[5]
[4]
ISC
Internet Storm Center
[5]
[4]
ISDN
Integrated Services Digital Network
[5]
[4]
ISO
Independent System Operator (US) (see also TSO) Responsible for grid management, but does not own assets. (electricity)
[4]
[3]
NE ISO New England, Inc. (electricity)
[4]
[3]
International Organization for Standardization
[5]
[4]
ISO-NE
Independent System Operator of New England, a regional transmission organization. (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
ISP
Internet Service Provider
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
ISPF
Interactive System Productivity Facility
[5]
[4]
ISR
Interrupt Service Routine
[5]
[4]
ISS
Interruptible Sales Service
[4]
[3]
ISTM
It seems to me
[6]
[5]
ISV
Independent Software Vendor
[5]
[4]
IT
Interruptible Transportation is gas shipment via pipeline whose delivery may be interrupted in favor of "firm shipment" contracts if there is lack of capacity. (natural gas)
[4]
[3]
Information Technology
[5]
[4]
ITC
Investment tax credit (policy)
[4]
[3]
ITIL
Information Technology Infrastructure Library
[5]
[4]
ITL
Interval Temporal Logic
[5]
[4]
ITS
"Interruptible Transportation Service" is gas shipment via pipeline whose delivery may be interrupted in favor of "firm shipment" contracts if there is lack of capacity. (natural gas)
[4]
[3]
ITU
International Telecommunication Union
[5]
[4]
ITYM
I Think You Mean
[6]
[5]
IVCR
Interactive Virtual Classroom
[5]
[4]
IVRS
Interactive Voice Response System
[5]
[4]
IWSN
I want sex now
[6]
[5]
IYDMMA
If you don't mind my asking
[6]
[5]
IYKWIM
If you know what I mean
[6]
[5]
IYR
J[edit]
J – Journal
[3]
[1]
IZI
Easy (French-speaking, from the group 92i)
[6]
[5]
IoT
Internet of Things
[5]
[4]
IrDA
Infrared Data Association
[5]
[4]
I²C
Inter-Integrated Circuit
[5]
[4]
I²S
Integrated Interchip Sound
[5]
[4]
J2EE
Java 2 Enterprise Edition
[5]
[4]
J2ME
Java 2 Micro Edition
[5]
[4]
J2SE
Java 2 Standard Edition
[5]
[4]
JAS
Just a sec
[6]
[5]
JAX-RPC
Java XML for Remote Procedure Calls
[5]
[4]
JAXB
Java Architecture for XML Binding
[5]
[4]
JAXP
Java API for XML Processing
[5]
[4]
JBOD
Just a Bunch of Disks
[5]
[4]
JCE
Java Cryptography Extension
[5]
[4]
JCL
Job Control Language
[5]
[4]
JCP
Java Community Process
[5]
[4]
JDBC
Java Database Connectivity
[5]
[4]
JDK
Java Development Kit
[5]
[4]
JDS
Java Desktop System
[5]
[4]
JEE
Java Enterprise Edition
[5]
[4]
JES
Job Entry Subsystem
[5]
[4]
JFC
Java Foundation Classes
[5]
[4]
JFET
Junction Field-Effect Transistor
[5]
[4]
JFGI;
K
k or kk
OK
[6]
[5]
JFS
IBM Journaling File System
[5]
[4]
JFTR
Just for the record
[6]
[5]
JINI
Jini Is Not Initials
[5]
[4]
JIS
Just in sequence
[3]
[1]
JIT
Just in time
[3]
[1]
Just-In-Time
[5]
[4]
JK or j/k
Just kidding, or joke
[6]
[5]
JME
Java Micro Edition
[5]
[4]
JMS
Java Message Service
[5]
[4]
JMX
Java Management Extensions
[5]
[4]
JNDI
Java Naming and Directory Interface
[5]
[4]
JNI
Java Native Interface
[5]
[4]
JNZ
Jump non-zero
[5]
[4]
JPEG
Joint Photographic Experts Group
[5]
[4]
JRC
Joint Research Centre
[4]
[3]
JRE
Java Runtime Environment
[5]
[4]
JREC
Johannesburg Renewable Energy Coalition
[4]
[3]
JS
JavaScript
[5]
[4]
JSE
Java Standard Edition
[5]
[4]
JSON
JavaScript Object Notation
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
JSP
Jackson Structured Programming
[5]
[4]
JavaServer Pages
[5]
[4]
JTAG
Joint Test Action Group
[5]
[4]
JUG
Java Users Group
[5]
[4]
JVM
Java Virtual Machine
[5]
[4]
K
L[edit]
LBO – Leveraged Buyout
[3]
[1]
K&R
Kernighan and Ritchie
[5]
[4]
K-value
thermal conductance
[4]
[3]
KB
Keyboard
[5]
[4]
Kilobyte
[5]
[4]
Knowledge Base
[5]
[4]
KDE
K Desktop Environment
[5]
[4]
KISS
Keep it simple stupid.
[6]
[5]
KM
Knowledge Machine
[5]
[4]
KOS
Kill on sight
[6]
[5]
KRL
Knowledge Representation Language
[5]
[4]
KTHX
OK, thanks
[6]
[5]
KVM
Keyboard Video Mouse
[2]
[2]
Keyboard, Video, Mouse
[5]
[4]
Kb
Kilobit
[5]
[4]
L10N
Localization
[5]
[4]
L2TP
Layer two Tunneling Protocol
[5]
[4]
LACP
Link Aggregation Control Protocol
[5]
[4]
LAMP
Linux Apache MySQL Perl
[5]
[4]
Linux Apache MySQL PHP
[5]
[4]
Linux Apache MySQL Python
[5]
[4]
LAN
Local Area Network
[5]
[4]
LBA
Local Balancing Authority (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Logical Block Addressing
[5]
[4]
LBNL
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
[4]
[3]
LC
London Interbank Offered Rate
[3]
[1]
LCD
Liquid Crystal Display
[5]
[4]
LCOS
Liquid Crystal On Silicon
[5]
[4]
LCR
Least Cost Routing
[5]
[4]
LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
[5]
[4]
LDC
Local distribution company (electricity)
[4]
[3]
LE
Logical Extents
[5]
[4]
LED
Light-Emitting Diode
[5]
[4]
LEED
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, standard for Green Building design
[4]
[3]
LEVP
Low Emissions Vehicle Program
[4]
[3]
LF
Line Feed
[5]
[4]
Low Frequency
[5]
[4]
LFG
Looking for group
[6]
[5]
LFM
Looking for more
[6]
[5]
LFS
Linux From Scratch
[5]
[4]
LGA
Land Grid Array
[5]
[4]
LGPL
Lesser General Public License
[5]
[4]
LHV
lower heating value
[4]
[3]
LIB
LIBrary
[5]
[4]
LIF
Low Insertion Force
[5]
[4]
LIFFE
Limited Liability Company
[3]
[1]
LIFO
Last In First Out
[5]
[4]
LIHEAP
Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program
[4]
[3]
LILO
Linux Loader
[5]
[4]
LIPA
Long Island Power Authority (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
LISP
LISt Processing
[5]
[4]
LKML
Linux Kernel Mailing List
[5]
[4]
LLF
Load-loss factor (electricity)
[4]
[3]
LM
Lan Manager
[5]
[4]
LMAO
Laughing my ass off
[6]
[5]
LMBO
Laughing my butt off
[6]
[5]
LME
Limited Company
[3]
[1]
LMFAO
Laughing my fucking ass off
[6]
[5]
LMGTFY
Let me Google that for you
[6]
[5]
LMIRL
Let's meet in real life.
[6]
[5]
LMK
Let me know
[6]
[5]
LMP
Locational marginal price/pricing. See explanation in electricity markets.
[4]
[3]
LMR
Load Modifying Resource (electricity)
[4]
[3]
LNG
Liquified Natural Gas
[4]
[3]
LOC
Lines of Code
[5]
[4]
LODF
Line Outage Distribution Factor (electricity)
[4]
[3]
LOL
Laughing out loud, laugh out loud
[6]
[5]
LOLE
Loss of Load Expectation (electricity)
[4]
[3]
LPC
Lars Pensjö C
[5]
[4]
LPG
liquefied petroleum gas
[4]
[3]
LPI
Linux Professional Institute
[5]
[4]
LPN
Lender Participation Notes
[4]
[3]
LPT
Line Print Terminal
[5]
[4]
LRG
liquefied refinery gases
[4]
[3]
LSB
Least Significant Bit
[5]
[4]
Linux Standard Base
[5]
[4]
LSE
Load serving entity
[4]
[3]
LSF
Load Shift Factor
[4]
[3]
LSI
Large-Scale Integration
[5]
[4]
LTL
Linear Temporal Logic
[5]
[4]
LTNS
Long time no see
[6]
[5]
LTR
Left-to-Right
[5]
[4]
LUG
Linux User Group
[5]
[4]
LUN
Logical Unit Number
[5]
[4]
LV
Logical Volume
[5]
[4]
LVD
Low Voltage Differential
[5]
[4]
LVM
Logical Volume Management
[5]
[4]
LWR
light water reactor
[4]
[3]
LXC
LinuX Containers
[2]
[2]
LYLAB
Love you like a brother.
[6]
[5]
LYLAS
Love you like a sister.
[6]
[5]
LZW
Lempel-Ziv-Welch
[5]
[4]
LaaR
Load acting as a resource (ERCOT category) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Low-e
low emissivity
[4]
[3]
M8
Mate
[6]
[5]
MAAC
Mid Atlantic Area Council (US- geographically within PJM)
[4]
[3]
MAC
Media Access Control address
[2]
[2]
Mandatory Access Control
[5]
[4]
Media Access Control
[5]
[4]
MADRI
Mid Atlantic Distributed Resources Initiative (US)
[4]
[3]
MAIN
Mid America Interconnected Network (US)
[4]
[3]
MAN
Metropolitan Area Network
[5]
[4]
MANET
Mobile Ad-Hoc Network
[5]
[4]
MAOP
Maximum allowable operating pressure
[4]
[3]
MAPI
Messaging Application Programming Interface
[5]
[4]
MAPP
Mid Continent Area Power Pool (US)
[4]
[3]
MB
Megabyte
[5]
[4]
MBCS
Multi Byte Character Set
[5]
[4]
MBD
million barrels per day
[4]
[3]
Model-Based Design
[5]
[4]
MBOED
One million barrels of oil equivalent(EU)
[4]
[3]
MBR
Market based Rates
[4]
[3]
Master Boot Record
[5]
[4]
MBS
mortgage-backed security
[3]
[1]
Macro economic Budget Support
[4]
[3]
MCA
Micro Channel Architecture
[5]
[4]
Microsoft Certified Architect
[5]
[4]
MCAD
Microsoft Certified Application Developer
[5]
[4]
MCAS
Microsoft Certified Application Specialist
[5]
[4]
MCDBA
Microsoft Certified DataBase Administrator
[5]
[4]
MCDST
Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician
[5]
[4]
MCITP
Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional
[5]
[4]
MCM
Microsoft Certified Master
[5]
[4]
MCP
Microsoft Certified Professional
[5]
[4]
MCPD
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer
[5]
[4]
MCSA
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
[5]
[4]
MCSD
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer
[5]
[4]
MCSE
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
[5]
[4]
MCT
Microsoft Certified Trainer
[5]
[4]
MCTS
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
[5]
[4]
MDA
Mail Delivery Agent
[5]
[4]
Model-Driven Architecture
[5]
[4]
Monochrome Display Adapter
[5]
[4]
MDAS
Meter Data Acquisition System
[4]
[3]
MDD
Maximum Daily Delivery Obligations
[4]
[3]
MDD/MDSD
Model-Driven (Software) Development
[5]
[4]
MDDQ
Maximum Daily Delivery Quantity
[4]
[3]
MDF
Main Distribution Frame
[5]
[4]
MDI
Multiple Document Interface
[5]
[4]
MDM
Meter Data Management
[4]
[3]
MDQ
Maximum Daily Quantities
[4]
[3]
ME
[Windows] Millennium Edition
[5]
[4]
MECS
Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey
[4]
[3]
MEDREP
Mediterranean Renewables Energy Partnership
[4]
[3]
MEF
modified energy factor (clothes washers)
[4]
[3]
MER
Maximum efficient rate
[4]
[3]
MERC
Mobile Emission Reduction Credit (MERC) (US)
[4]
[3]
MF
Medium Frequency
[5]
[4]
MFC
Microsoft Foundation Classes
[5]
[4]
MFM
Modified Frequency Modulation
[5]
[4]
MFV
Modified fixed variable rate
[4]
[3]
MFW
My face when (Usually accompanied by an image)
[6]
[5]
MGCP
Media Gateway Control Protocol
[5]
[4]
MHz
Megahertz
[5]
[4]
MIB
Management Information Base
[5]
[4]
MIC
Month on Month / Month over Month
[3]
[1]
MICR
Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
[5]
[4]
MIDI
Musical Instrument Digital Interface
[5]
[4]
MIMD
Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data
[5]
[4]
MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
[5]
[4]
MIMO
Multiple-Input Multiple-Output
[5]
[4]
MINHERS
Mortgage Industry National Home Energy Rating Systems Standards
[4]
[3]
MINIX
MIni-uNIX
[5]
[4]
MIPS
Million Instructions Per Second
[5]
[4]
Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages
[5]
[4]
MIS
Management Information Systems
[5]
[4]
MISD
Multiple Instruction, Single Data
[5]
[4]
MISO
Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. A regional transmission organization. (US)
[4]
[3]
MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
[5]
[4]
MLP
Maximum lawful price
[4]
[3]
MLRA
Major Land Resource Areas
[4]
[3]
MM
Used to denote million in gas usage
[4]
[3]
MMBtu
1 million British thermal units, same as dekatherm
[4]
[3]
MMC
Market Monitoring Center
[4]
[3]
MMCF
one million cubic feet (measurement of natural gas)
[4]
[3]
MMCFD
one million cubic feet per day
[4]
[3]
MMDS
Mortality Medical Data System
[5]
[4]
MMGAL
one million gallons
[4]
[3]
MMGAL/D
one million gallons per day
[4]
[3]
MMI
Man Machine Interface.
[5]
[4]
MMIO
Memory-Mapped I/O
[5]
[4]
MMO
Massive Multi-player Online [game]
[6]
[5]
MMORPG
Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
[5]
[4]
MMO + RPG (Massive Multi-player Online Role-Playing Game). The most frequent genre of MMO.
[6]
[5]
MMS
Minerals Management Service (US)
[4]
[3]
MMST
one million short tons
[4]
[3]
MMU
Memory Management Unit
[5]
[4]
MMX
Multi-Media Extensions
[5]
[4]
MMbbl/d
one million barrels of oil per day
[4]
[3]
MNG
Multiple-image Network Graphics
[5]
[4]
MODFLOW
model of groundwater flow
[4]
[3]
MOM
Message-Oriented Middleware
[5]
[4]
MOO
MUD Object Oriented
[5]
[4]
MOP
Meta-Object Protocol
[5]
[4]
MOQ
Memorandum Of Understanding
[3]
[1]
MOS
Microsoft Office Specialist
[5]
[4]
MOSFET
Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
[5]
[4]
MOTD
Message Of The Day
[5]
[4]
Message of the day
[6]
[5]
MOU
Memorandum of Understanding
[4]
[3]
MOUS
Microsoft Office User Specialist
[5]
[4]
MOV
Apple QuickTime Multimedia File
[5]
[4]
MOX
mixed oxide fuel (nuclear)
[4]
[3]
MPAA
Motion Picture Association of America
[5]
[4]
MPC
Maximum Retail Price
[3]
[1]
MPEG
Motion Pictures Experts Group
[5]
[4]
MPG
Miles per gallon
[4]
[3]
MPL
Mozilla Public License
[5]
[4]
MPLS
Multiprotocol Label Switching
[5]
[4]
MPU
Microprocessor Unit
[5]
[4]
MRO
Midwest Reliability Organization (US)
[4]
[3]
MS
Memory Stick
[5]
[4]
Microsoft
[5]
[4]
MS-DOS
Microsoft DOS
[5]
[4]
MSA
metropolitan statistical area
[4]
[3]
Mail Submission Agent
[5]
[4]
MSB
Most Significant Bit
[5]
[4]
MSDN
Microsoft Developer Network
[5]
[4]
MSHA
Mine Safety and Health Administration (US)
[4]
[3]
MSI
Medium-Scale Integration
[5]
[4]
Message Signaled Interrupt
[5]
[4]
Microsoft Installer
[5]
[4]
MSOD
Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price
[3]
[1]
MSW
Municipal solid waste
[4]
[3]
MT
Machine Translation
[5]
[4]
MTA
Mail Transfer Agent
[5]
[4]
Microsoft Technology Associate
[5]
[4]
MTBE
methyl tertiary butyl ether
[4]
[3]
MTBF
Mean Time Between Failures
[5]
[4]
MTD
Month-to-date
[3]
[1]
MTEF
Medium Term Expenditure Framework
[4]
[3]
MTEP
Midwest ISO Transmission Expansion Plan 2005 (US)
[4]
[3]
MTFBWY
May The Force be with you
[6]
[5]
MTU
Maximum Transmission Unit
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
MUA
Mail User Agent
[5]
[4]
MUD
Multi-User Dungeon
[5]
[6]
[4]
[5]
MUSH
Multi-User Shared Hallucination
[6]
[5]
MVA
Megavolt amperes (one million volt amperes)
[4]
[3]
MVC
Model-View-Controller
[5]
[4]
MVG
minimum ventilation guideline (building tightness)
[4]
[3]
MVL
minimum ventilation level (building tightness)
[4]
[3]
MVP
Most Valuable Professional
[5]
[4]
MVS
Multiple Virtual Storage
[5]
[4]
MW
Megawatt (one million watts)
[4]
[3]
MWC
N[edit]
NAV – Net asset value
[3]
[1]
Mobile World Congress
[5]
[4]
MWE
megawatt electric
[4]
[3]
MWh
Megawatt hour (one million watt hours)
[4]
[3]
MX
Mail exchange
[5]
[4]
MXF
Material Exchange Format
[5]
[4]
MYOB
Mind your own business
[6]
[5]
Mb
Megabit
[5]
[4]
Mcf
Roman numeral "M" for one thousand cubic feet (measurement of natural gas)
[4]
[3]
MoBo
Motherboard
[5]
[4]
Mt
one million tons (ambiguous as to whether short tons or metric tons)
—one Metric ton
[4]
[3]
Mtoe
One million tons of oil equivalent(EU)
[4]
[3]
Muni
Municipality
[4]
[3]
N1
Nice one, used mostly often in gaming
[6]
[5]
N2O
nitrous oxide
[4]
[3]
NAAQS
National Ambient Air Quality Standards (US)
[4]
[3]
NACK
Negative ACKnowledgement
[5]
[4]
NAECA
National Appliance Energy Conservation Act
[4]
[3]
NAESB
North American Energy Standards Board (formerly GISB)
[4]
[3]
NAFTA
North American Free Trade Agreement
[4]
[3]
NAICS
North American Industry Classification System
[4]
[3]
NAK
Negative AcKnowledge Character
[5]
[4]
NAP
National Renewable Energy Action Plan
[4]
[3]
NARUC
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (US) [1]
[4]
[3]
NAS
United States National Academy of Sciences
[4]
[3]
Network-Attached Storage
[5]
[4]
NASM
Netwide ASseMbler
[5]
[4]
NASPI
North American Synchrophasor Initiative
[4]
[3]
NASUCA
National Association of Utility Consumer Advocates(US)
[4]
[3]
NAT
Network Address Translation
[5]
[4]
NATC
Non Recallable Available Transfer Capability
[4]
[3]
NBS
National Bureau of Standards (US)
[4]
[3]
NCBO
Non-Circumvent and Non-Disclosure
[3]
[1]
NCD
Non coincidental Demand
[4]
[3]
NCEP
National Council on Electricity Policy (US) [2]
[4]
[3]
NCP
NetWare Core Protocol
[5]
[4]
NCQ
Native Command Queuing
[5]
[4]
NCSA
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
[5]
[4]
NCSL
National Conference of State Legislatures (US)
[4]
[3]
NDA
Non-Disclosure Agreement
[3]
[1]
NDPS
Novell Distributed Print Services
[5]
[4]
NDS
Novell Directory Services
[5]
[4]
NE1
"Anyone"
[6]
[5]
NEA
The National Energy Act of 1978 (US)
[4]
[3]
NEB
National Energy Board (Canada)
[4]
[3]
NEDRI
New England Distributed Resources Initiative (US)
[4]
[3]
NEP
Network Equipment Provider
[5]
[4]
NEPA
National Environmental Policy Act (US)
[4]
[3]
NEPOOL
New England Power Pool
[4]
[3]
NERC
North American Electric Reliability Council
[4]
[3]
NEXT
Near-End CrossTalk
[5]
[4]
NFA
Nondeterministic Finite Automaton
[5]
[4]
NFC
Near field communication
[5]
[4]
NFS
Network File System
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
NGA
Natural Gas Act (US)
[4]
[3]
NGAA
Natural Gasoline Association of America (US)
[4]
[3]
NGL
natural gas liquids
[4]
[3]
aNGeL
[5]
[4]
Not gonna lie
[6]
[5]
NGPA
Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 (US)
[4]
[3]
NGPL
Natural gas plant liquids
[4]
[3]
NGPSA
Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 (US)
[4]
[3]
NGSA
Natural Gas Supply Association (US)
[4]
[3]
NGSCB
Next-Generation Secure Computing Base
[5]
[4]
NGV
Natural gas vehicle
[4]
[3]
NHPA
National Historic Preservation Act (US)
[4]
[3]
NI
National Instruments
[5]
[4]
NIC
Network Interface Controller
[5]
[4]
NIETC
National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor (US)
[4]
[3]
NIFOC
Naked In Front Of Computer
[6]
[5]
NII
Net Interest Income
[3]
[1]
NIM
Net Operating Assets
[3]
[1]
No Internal Message
[5]
[4]
NIMBY
Not in my backyard regarding siting of energy generation and transmission infrastructure.
[4]
[3]
NIO
New I/O
[5]
[4]
NIST
National Institute of Standards and Technology
[5]
[4]
NITC
Normal Incremental Transfer Capability
[4]
[3]
NLP
Natural Language Processing
[5]
[4]
NLS
Native Language Support
[5]
[4]
NM
(Sometimes written N/M) Not much, Never mind or no message, used on message boards or in e-mails to indicate that everything is already said in the subject line.
[6]
[5]
NMI
Non-Maskable Interrupt
[5]
[4]
NNTP
Network News Transfer Protocol
[5]
[4]
NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
[4]
[3]
NOC
National Oil Company
[4]
[3]
Network Operations Center
[5]
[4]
NOI
Net Operating Income
[3]
[1]
Notice of Intent or Notice of Inquiry or Notice of Investigation
[4]
[3]
NOP
No OPeration
[5]
[4]
NOPAT
Non-performing loan
[3]
[1]
NOPR
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (US)
[4]
[3]
NORDEL
association of Nordic electric system operators, comprising Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden
[4]
[3]
NOS
Network Operating System
[5]
[4]
NOx
nitrogen oxides
[4]
[3]
NP
Nondeterministic Polynomial time
[5]
[4]
No problem
[6]
[5]
NPCC
Northeast Power Coordinating Council (US)
[4]
[3]
NPL
Netscape Public License
[5]
[4]
NPTL
Native POSIX Thread Library
[5]
[4]
NPU
Network Processing Unit
[5]
[4]
NPV
Net Present Value
[3]
[4]
[1]
[3]
NRC
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (US)
[4]
[3]
NRCS
National Resource Conservation Service (US)
[4]
[3]
NRECA
National Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives (US)
[4]
[3]
NREPA
National Resource and Environmental Protection Act (US)
[4]
[3]
NRI
National Rivers Inventory (US)
[4]
[3]
NRIS
Network Resource Interconnection Service (electricity)
[4]
[3]
NS
Netscape
[5]
[4]
Nice shot. Used in online gaming.
[6]
[5]
NSA
Noise sensitive area
[4]
[3]
National Security Agency
[5]
[4]
NSFW
Not safe for work. Warning about content that may get the viewer in trouble with his employer or co-workers.
[6]
[5]
NSOH
No sense of humor.
[6]
[5]
NSPR
Netscape Portable Runtime
[5]
[4]
NSS
Novell Storage Service
[5]
[4]
Network Security Services
[5]
[4]
Name Service Switch
[5]
[4]
NT
New Technology
[5]
[4]
NTAC
Northwest Transmission Assessment Committee (US)
[4]
[3]
NTE
Not To Exceed
[3]
[1]
NTFS
NT Filesystem
[5]
[4]
NTLM
NT Lan Manager
[5]
[4]
NTP
Network Time Protocol
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
NUG
Non Utility Generator
[4]
[3]
NUMA
Non-Uniform Memory Access
[5]
[4]
NURBS
Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline
[5]
[4]
NURE
national uranium resource evaluation (US)
[4]
[3]
NVM, NVMD, or nm
Nevermind, not much
[6]
[5]
NVR
Network Video Recorder
[5]
[4]
NVRAM
Non-Volatile Random Access Memory
[5]
[4]
NYDER
New York Department of Environmental Resources
[4]
[3]
NYISO
New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (US)
[4]
[3]
NYMEX
O[edit]
OC – Opportunity Cost
[3]
[1]
New York Mercantile Exchange
[4]
[3]
NYPSC
New York Public Service Commission
[4]
[3]
NYSERDA
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
[4]
[3]
NaN
Not a Number
[5]
[4]
NetBIOS
Network Basic Input/Output System
[5]
[4]
O RLY
Oh really?
[6]
[5]
O&M
Operation and Maintenance Expenses
[4]
[3]
O3
Ozone
[4]
[3]
OASIS
Open Access Same-Time Information System
[4]
[3]
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
[5]
[4]
OAT
Operational Acceptance Testing
[5]
[4]
OATT
Open Access Transmission Tariff (US)
[4]
[3]
OBSAI
Open Base Station Architecture Initiative
[5]
[4]
OCF
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
[3]
[1]
OCS
Outer Continental Shelf (oil)
[4]
[3]
OCSLA
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (oil)
[4]
[3]
ODBC
Open Database Connectivity
[5]
[4]
ODS
oxygen depletion sensor
[4]
[3]
OECD
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
[4]
[3]
OEM
Original Equipment Manufacturer
[3]
[5]
[1]
[4]
original equipment manufacturers
[4]
[3]
OES
Open Enterprise Server
[5]
[4]
OFN
Old freaking news
[6]
[5]
OFO
Operational Flow Order
[4]
[3]
OFTC
Open and Free Technology Community
[5]
[4]
OFX
Open Financial Exchange
[2]
[2]
OIBDA
Operating Income Before Depreciation And Amortization
[3]
[1]
OIC
Oh, I see
[6]
[5]
OID
Object Identifier
[5]
[4]
OLAP
Online Analytical Processing
[5]
[4]
OLE
Object Linking and Embedding
[5]
[4]
OLED
Organic Light Emitting Diode
[5]
[4]
OLPC
One Laptop per Child
[5]
[4]
OLTP
Online Transaction Processing
[5]
[4]
OMF
Object Module Format
[5]
[4]
OMFG
Oh my fucking god
[6]
[5]
OMG
Object Management Group
[5]
[4]
Oh my god
[6]
[5]
OMGWTF
Oh my God what the fuck
[6]
[5]
OMGWTFBBQ
Oh my God what the fuck barbecue
[6]
[5]
OMP
Operation and Maintenance Plan
[4]
[3]
OMR
Optical Mark Reader
[5]
[4]
OMW
On my way or Oh my word
[6]
[5]
ONOZ
Oh, no
[6]
[5]
OO
Object-Oriented
[5]
[4]
OpenOffice
[5]
[4]
OOE
Out-of-Order Execution
[5]
[4]
OOM
Out Of Memory
[5]
[4]
OOP
Object-Oriented Programming
[5]
[4]
OOTB
Out of the box
[5]
[4]
OOo
OpenOffice.org
[5]
[4]
OP
Original poster / Operator / Outpost / Overpowered
[6]
[5]
OPEC
Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries (oil)
[4]
[3]
OPEX
Over-the-counter (finance)
[3]
[1]
OPML
Outline Processor Markup Language
[5]
[4]
OPRG
oxygenated fuels program reformulated gasoline (oil)
[4]
[3]
ORB
Object Request Broker
[5]
[4]
ORM
Object-Relational Mapping
[5]
[4]
ORNL
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S.) (nuclear)
[4]
[3]
OS
Operační Systém
[2]
[2]
Open Source
[5]
[4]
Operating System
[5]
[4]
Operating system
[6]
[5]
OSA
Ochranný svaz autorský
[2]
[2]
OSCON
O'Reilly Open Source CONvention
[5]
[4]
OSDN
Open Source Developer Network
[5]
[4]
OSHA
U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration
[4]
[3]
OSI
Open Source Initiative
[5]
[4]
Open Systems Interconnection
[5]
[4]
OSPF
Open Shortest Path First
[5]
[4]
OSS
Open Sound System
[5]
[4]
Open-Source Software
[5]
[4]
Operations Support System
[5]
[4]
OSTG
Open Source Technology Group
[5]
[4]
OT
Off topic
[6]
[5]
OTAG
Ozone Transport Assessment Group
[4]
[3]
OTB
Off to bed
[6]
[5]
OTDF
Outage Transfer Distribution Factor
[4]
[3]
OTEC
ocean thermal energy conversion (electricity)
[4]
[3]
OTOH
On the other hand
[6]
[5]
OTP
On the phone or One true pairing or On The Piss
[6]
[5]
OUI
Organisationally Unique Identifier
[5]
[4]
Ontario
IESO Ontario Independent Electricity System Operator (Canada)
[4]
[3]
OoOE
Out-of-Order Execution
[5]
[4]
P&L
Profit and Loss
[3]
[1]
P/E
Price-to-earnings ratio
[3]
[1]
P2P
Peer-To-Peer
[5]
[4]
Peer to peer, or pay to play
[6]
[5]
PA
Purchasing agent
[3]
[1]
Promotional Activity
[3]
[1]
Planning Authority
—Programmatic Agreement
[4]
[3]
PADD
Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts (US)
[4]
[3]
PAN
Personal Area Network
[5]
[4]
PAP
Password Authentication Protocol
[5]
[4]
PARC
Palo Alto Research Center
[5]
[4]
PAT
Profit After Tax
[3]
[1]
PATA
Parallel ATA
[5]
[4]
PAW
Parents are watching
[6]
[5]
PBR
pebble bed reactor (nuclear)
[4]
[3]
PBS
Portable Batch System
[5]
[4]
PBT
Profit Before Tax
[3]
[1]
PC
Personal Computer
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
PC DOS
Personal Computer Disc Operating System
[5]
[4]
PCB
polychlorinated biphenyl
[4]
[3]
Printed Circuit Board
[5]
[4]
Process Control Block
[5]
[4]
PCI
Peripheral Component Interconnect
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
PCIe
Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
[2]
[2]
PCI Express
[5]
[4]
PCL
Printer Command Language
[5]
[4]
PCM
Project Cycle Management
[4]
[3]
Pulse-Code Modulation
[5]
[4]
PCMCIA
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
[5]
[4]
PCRE
Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
[5]
[4]
PCT
Programmable Communicating Thermostat (electricity)
[4]
[3]
PD
Preliminary Determination
[4]
[3]
Public Domain
[5]
[4]
PDA
Personal Digital Assistant
[5]
[4]
PDC
Phasor data concentrator. See description in phasor measurement unit article. (electricity)
[4]
[3]
PDCI
Pacific Direct Current Intertie (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
PDF
Portable Document Format
[5]
[4]
PDH
Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy
[5]
[4]
PDP
Programmed Data Processor
[5]
[4]
PE
Physical Extents
[5]
[4]
PEBKAC/PEBCAK
Problem exists between keyboard and chair
[6]
[5]
PEG
to-earnings growth ratio
[3]
[1]
PEM
Proton Exchange Membrane
[4]
[3]
PERL
Practical Extraction and Reporting Language
[5]
[4]
PFA
Please Find Attachment
[5]
[4]
PFC
perfluorocarbons
[4]
[3]
PG
Peripheral Gateway
[5]
[4]
PG&E
Pacific Gas & Electric (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
PGA
Purchased gas adjustment
[4]
[3]
Pin Grid Array
[5]
[4]
Programmable Gate Array
[5]
[4]
PGO
Profile-Guided Optimization
[5]
[4]
PGP
Pretty Good Privacy
[5]
[4]
PHA
Production Handling Agreement
[4]
[3]
PHEK
Q[edit]
QC – Quality control or Quality costs
[3]
[1]
PHFFU
Plant held for future use
[4]
[3]
PHP
Hypertext Preprocessor
[5]
[4]
PI
Professional Indemnity (insurance coverage)
[3]
[1]
PIC
Peripheral Interface Controller
[5]
[4]
Programmable Interrupt Controller
[5]
[4]
PID
Proportional-Integral-Derivative
[5]
[4]
Process ID
[5]
[4]
PIDX
Petroleum Industry Data Exchange (oil)
[4]
[3]
PIER
Public Interest Energy Research (CEC)
[4]
[3]
PIFUA
Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978
[4]
[3]
PIM
Personal Information Manager
[5]
[4]
Platform Independent Model
[5]
[4]
PINE
Program for Internet News and Email
[5]
[4]
PIO
Programmed Input/Output
[5]
[4]
PITA
Pain in the arse / ass
[6]
[5]
PJM
PJM Interconnection, LLC, a regional transmission organization. (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
PKCS
Public Key Cryptography Standards
[5]
[4]
PKI
Public Key Infrastructure
[5]
[4]
PL
Powerleveling, used in online games.
[6]
[5]
PL/I
Programming Language One
[5]
[4]
PL/M
Programming Language for Microcomputers
[5]
[4]
PL/P
Programming Language for Prime
[5]
[4]
PLC
Power line communication (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Power Line Communication
[5]
[4]
Programmable Logic Controller
[5]
[4]
PLD
Programmable Logic Device
[5]
[4]
PLMA
Peak Load Management Association (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
PLMK
Please let me know
[6]
[5]
PLT
Power Line Telecommunications
[5]
[4]
PM
Particulate matter
[4]
[3]
PM&E
Protection, mitigation and enhancement
[4]
[3]
PMA
Power Marketing Administration or Fed. Power Marketing Agency (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
PMM
POST Memory Manager
[5]
[4]
PMSL
Pissing myself laughing
[6]
[5]
PMU
Phasor measurement unit (electricity)
[4]
[3]
PNG
Portable Network Graphics
[5]
[4]
PNNL
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE) (US)
[4]
[3]
PO
Purchase Order
[3]
[1]
POD
Point of Delivery
[4]
[3]
POID
Persistent Object Identifier
[5]
[4]
POJO
Plain Old Java Object
[5]
[4]
POLES
Prospective On Long Term Energy Systems
[4]
[3]
POLR
Provider of last resort (electricity)
[4]
[3]
POP
Point of Presence
[5]
[4]
POP3
Post Office Protocol v3
[5]
[4]
POS
Property, plant, and equipment
[3]
[1]
Piece of shit, or parent over shoulder.
[6]
[5]
POSIX
Portable Operating System Interface, formerly IEEE-IX
[5]
[4]
POST
Power-On Self Test
[5]
[4]
POTS
Plain old telephone service
[6]
[5]
POV
Point of view
[6]
[5]
PPA
Power Purchase Agreement (electricity)
[4]
[3]
PPC
PowerPC
[5]
[4]
PPI
producer price index
[4]
[3]
Pixels Per Inch
[5]
[4]
PPL
People
[6]
[5]
PPP
Public-private partnership
[3]
[1]
Purchase Requisition
[3]
[1]
Point-to-Point Protocol
[5]
[4]
PPPoA
PPP over ATM
[5]
[4]
PPPoE
PPP over Ethernet
[5]
[4]
PPR
Potential peak reduction
[4]
[3]
PPTP
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
[5]
[4]
PR
Pull Request
[5]
[4]
PREP
Pacific Regional Energy Programme
[4]
[3]
PRESSEA
Promotion of Renewable Energy Sources in South East Asia (PRESSEA)
[4]
[3]
PS
PostScript
[5]
[4]
PS/2
Personal System/2
[5]
[4]
PSA
Professional Services Automation
[5]
[4]
PSC
Public Service Commission
[4]
[3]
PSD
Prevention of Significant Deterioration
[4]
[3]
PSE
Puget Sound Energy (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
PSM
Platform Specific Model
[5]
[4]
PSU
Power Supply Unit
[5]
[4]
PSVI
Post-Schema-Validation Infoset
[5]
[4]
PTDF
Power Transfer Distribution Factor (electricity)
[4]
[3]
PTKFGS
Punch the Keys For God's Sake
[6]
[5]
PTP
Point to Point Transmission Service (electricity)
[4]
[3]
PTS-DOS
PhysTechSoft - Disk Operating System
[5]
[4]
PUC
Public Utility Commission (electricity)
[4]
[3]
PUD
Public Utility District (electricity)
[4]
[3]
PUHCA
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
PURPA
Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
PV
photovoltaic (solar)
[4]
[3]
Physical Volume
[5]
[4]
PVC
photovoltaic cell (solar)
[4]
[3]
polyvinyl chloride
[4]
[3]
PVG
Physical Volume Group
[5]
[4]
PVR
Personal Video Recorder
[5]
[4]
PW
Persistent World (gaming)
[6]
[5]
PWR
pressurized water reactor (nuclear)
[4]
[3]
PX
Power exchange
[4]
[3]
PXE
Preboot Execution Environment
[5]
[4]
PXI
PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation
[5]
[4]
PaaS
Platform as a Service
[5]
[4]
PnP
Plug-and-Play
[5]
[4]
PoE
Power over Ethernet
[4]
[5]
[3]
[4]
Prim
Primary (electricity) nuclear, hydro, geothermal, wind, solar
[4]
[3]
QA
Quality Assurance
[5]
[4]
QDR
Quad Data Rate
[5]
[4]
QF
qualifying facility
[4]
[3]
QFP
Quad Flat Package
[5]
[4]
QFT
Quoted for truthiness—either to show satire or agreement with something satiric.
[6]
[5]
QOTD
Quote of the Day
[5]
[4]
QSE
Qualifying scheduling entity
[4]
[3]
QSOP
Quarter Small Outline Package
[5]
[4]
QTAM
Queued Teleprocessing Access Method
[5]
[4]
QUAD
1015 Btu (a quadrillion in the short scale)
[4]
[3]
QWP
(texting) Quit Whining, Please. (gaming) equip verb / equipment noun.
[6]
[5]
QoQ
Quarter on quarter
[3]
[1]
QoS
Quality of Service
[5]
[4]
Qt
Quasar Toolkit
[5]
[4]
R-value
thermal resistance
[4]
[3]
R/P
Reserve on Production
—Reserves to Production
[4]
[3]
RAB
Regional Advisory Body (US)
[4]
[3]
RAC
Refiners' acquisition cost
[4]
[3]
RACF
Resource Access Control Facility
[5]
[4]
RAD
Rapid Application Development
[5]
[4]
RADIUS
Remote Authentication Dial In User Service
[5]
[4]
RAID
Redundant Array of Independent Disks
[5]
[4]
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
[5]
[4]
RAII
Resource Acquisition Is Initialization
[5]
[4]
RAIT
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Tapes
[5]
[4]
RAM
Random Access Memory
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
RAP
Regulatory Assistance Project
[4]
[3]
RAR
Reasonable assured resources
[4]
[3]
RARP
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
[5]
[4]
RAS
Remedial Action Scheme
[4]
[3]
Reliability, Availability and Serviceability
[5]
[4]
Remote Access Service
[5]
[4]
RATC
Recallable Available Transmission Capability
[4]
[3]
RBA
Retained Earnings
[3]
[1]
RBMK
Russian: Реактор Большой Мощности Канальный = "High Power Channel Type Reactor" (RU)
[4]
[3]
RBOB
reformulated gasoline blendstock for oxygenate blending
[4]
[3]
RC
Reliability Coordinator
[4]
[3]
Region Code
[5]
[4]
Release Candidate
[5]
[4]
Run Commands
[5]
[4]
RCIS
Reliability Coordinator Information System
[4]
[3]
RCRA
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (US)
[4]
[3]
RCS
Revision Control System
[5]
[4]
RDBMS
Relational Database Management System
[5]
[4]
RDC
Remote Desktop Connection
[5]
[4]
RDF
refuse derived fuel (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Resource Description Framework
[5]
[4]
RDM
Relational Data Model
[5]
[4]
RDOS
Real-time Disk Operating System
[5]
[4]
RDS
Remote Data Services
[5]
[4]
REA
Rural Electrification Administration (US)
[4]
[3]
RECS
Residential Energy Consumption Survey (US)
[4]
[3]
REEEP
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership
[4]
[3]
REFAL
Recursive Functions Algorithmic Language
[5]
[4]
RER
Renewable Energy Rider
[4]
[3]
RES
Renewable energy source
[4]
[3]
RESNET
Residential energy services network
[4]
[3]
REST
Representational State Transfer
[5]
[4]
RET/EE
IAF Renewable Energy Technology & Energy Efficiency Investment Advisory Facility
[4]
[3]
RF
Radio frequency
[4]
[3]
Radio Frequency
[5]
[4]
RFA
Regulatory Flexibility Act (US)
[4]
[3]
RFC
ReliabilityFirst Corporation (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Request For Comments
[5]
[4]
RFG
reformulated gasoline (oil)
[4]
[3]
RFI
Request for Interchange
[4]
[3]
Radio Frequency Interference
[5]
[4]
RFID
Radio Frequency Identification
[5]
[4]
RFP
Request for Proposal
[3]
[1]
Request for proposals
[4]
[3]
RGB
Red, Green, Blue
[5]
[4]
RGBA
Red, Green, Blue, Alpha
[5]
[4]
RGGI
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
[4]
[3]
RGS
Renewable Generating System
[4]
[3]
RHEL
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
[5]
[4]
RHL
Red Hat Linux
[5]
[4]
RIA
Rich Internet Application
[5]
[4]
RIAA
Recording Industry Association of America
[5]
[4]
RIP
Raster Image Processor
[5]
[4]
Routing Information Protocol
[5]
[4]
RIR
Regional Internet registry
[5]
[4]
RISC
Reduced Instruction Set Computer
[5]
[4]
RISC OS
Reduced Instruction Set Computer Operating System
[5]
[4]
RJE
Remote Job Entry
[5]
[4]
RL
Real Life
[6]
[5]
RLE
Run-Length Encoding
[5]
[4]
RLL
Run-Length Limited
[5]
[4]
RM
Rulemaking
[4]
[3]
RMATS
Rocky Mountain Area Transmission Study (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
RMI
Remote Method Invocation
[5]
[4]
RMR
Reliability Must Run (electricity)
[4]
[3]
RMS
Richard Matthew Stallman
[5]
[4]
Ride me sideways
[6]
[5]
RMU
Removal Units
[4]
[3]
ROA
Return On Capital Employed
[3]
[1]
Return of Assets (finance)
[4]
[3]
ROE
Return on Equity
[3]
[1]
Return of Equity (finance)
[4]
[3]
ROFL/ROTFL
Rolling on (the) floor laughing
[6]
[5]
ROFLMAO/ROTFLMAO
Rolling on (the) floor laughing my ass off
[6]
[5]
ROFLMAOWPIMP/ROTFLMAOWPIMP
Rolling on (the) floor laughing my ass off while peeing in my pants
[6]
[5]
ROFLOL/ROTFLOL
Rolling on (the) floor laughing out loud
[6]
[5]
ROFR
Right of First Refusal (finance)
[4]
[3]
ROI
Return on Investment
[3]
[4]
[1]
[3]
ROIC
Return on Invested Capital
[3]
[1]
ROM
Read Only Memory
[5]
[4]
ROM-DOS
Read Only Memory - Disk Operating System
[5]
[4]
ROMB
Read-Out Motherboard
[5]
[4]
RONA
Return on Sales
[3]
[1]
ROW
Right of Way
[4]
[3]
RPC
Remote Procedure Call
[5]
[4]
RPG
Report Program Generator
[5]
[4]
RPM
Redhat Pakage Manager
[2]
[2]
Reliability Pricing Model. See explanation in electricity market#Electricity market experience. (electricity)
[4]
[3]
RPM Package Manager
[5]
[4]
RR
Research and Development
[3]
[1]
RRAS
Routing and Remote Access Service
[5]
[4]
RRO
Regional reliability organization (US)
[4]
[3]
RSA
Rivest Shamir Adleman
[5]
[4]
RSE
Revenue Stream Estimate (finance)
[4]
[3]
relative standard error
[4]
[3]
RSI
Repetitive Strain Injury
[5]
[4]
RSN
Real soon now (used sarcastically)
[6]
[5]
RSS
Rich Site Summary
[2]
[2]
Radio Service Software
[5]
[4]
Rich Site Summary, RDF Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication
[5]
[4]
RTAI
Real-Time Application Interface
[5]
[4]
RTBM
Real-Time Balancing Market (electricity)
[4]
[3]
RTC
Real-Time Clock
[5]
[4]
RTE
Real-Time Enterprise
[5]
[4]
RTEMS
Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems
[5]
[4]
RTEP
Regional transmission expansion plan
[4]
[3]
RTFB
Read the fucking binary (or book)
[6]
[5]
RTFM/RTM
Read the (fucking/fine) manual or reboot the (fucking) machine
[6]
[5]
RTFS
Read the fucking source
[6]
[5]
RTG
Regional Transmission Group (US)
[4]
[3]
RTL
Right-to-Left
[5]
[4]
RTO
Regional transmission organization (US)
[4]
[3]
RTOS
Real-Time Operating System
[5]
[4]
RTP
Real time Pricing
[4]
[3]
Real-time Transport Protocol
[5]
[4]
RTS
Ready To Send
[5]
[4]
RTSP
Real Time Streaming Protocol
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
RTTI
Run-time Type Information
[5]
[4]
RTU
Remote Terminal Unit
[4]
[3]
RUS
Rural Utilities Service
[4]
[3]
RVP
Reid vapor pressure
[4]
[3]
RWD
Responsive Web Design
[5]
[4]
S/MIME
Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
[5]
[4]
SAAS
as-a-Service
[3]
[1]
SAN
Storage Area Network
[5]
[4]
SAS
Serial-Attached SCSI
[2]
[2]
Serial attached SCSI
[5]
[4]
SATA
Serial AT Attachment
[2]
[2]
Serial ATA
[5]
[4]
SAX
Simple API for XML
[5]
[4]
SBOD
Spinning Beachball of Death
[5]
[4]
SBP-2
Serial Bus Protocol 2
[5]
[4]
SBU
Standard Build Unit
[5]
[4]
SC
shading coefficient (windows)
[4]
[3]
SCADA
Supervisory control and data acquisition a remote control and telemetry system used to monitor and control the electrical system
[4]
[3]
Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
[5]
[4]
SCBA
Securities and Exchange Commission
[3]
[1]
SCE
Southern California Edison (US)
[4]
[3]
SCID
Source Code in Database
[5]
[4]
SCM
Supply Chain Management
[3]
[1]
Software Configuration Management
[5]
[4]
Source Code Management
[5]
[4]
SCNR
Sorry, could not resist
[6]
[5]
SCO
Stranded Cost Obligation (finance)
[4]
[3]
SCP
Secure copy
[2]
[2]
Secure Copy
[5]
[4]
SCPI
Standard Commands for Programmable Instrumentation
[5]
[4]
SCR
Special Case Resources (US- NYISO category)
[4]
[3]
Selective Catalytic Reduction
[4]
[3]
SCSA
Secure Content Storage Association
[5]
[4]
SCSI
Small Computer System Interface
[5]
[4]
SCTP
Stream Control Transmission Protocol
[5]
[4]
SD
Secure Digital
[5]
[4]
SDDL
Security Descriptor Definition Language
[5]
[4]
SDG&E
San Diego Gas & Electric (US)
[4]
[3]
SDH
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
[5]
[4]
SDI
Single Document Interface
[5]
[4]
SDIO
Secure Digital Input Output
[5]
[4]
SDK
Software Development Kit
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
SDL
Simple DirectMedia Layer
[5]
[4]
SDN
Service Delivery Network
[5]
[4]
SDP
Session Description Protocol
[5]
[4]
SDR
Software-Defined Radio
[5]
[4]
SDRAM
Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
[5]
[4]
SDSL
Symmetric DSL
[5]
[4]
SE
Single Ended
[5]
[4]
SEA
Strategic Environmental Assessment
[4]
[3]
SEC
Securities and Exchange Commission (US)
[4]
[3]
Single Edge Contact
[5]
[4]
SEER
seasonal energy efficiency ratio
[4]
[3]
seasonal E efficiency ratio
[4]
[3]
SEFI
Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative
[4]
[3]
SEI
Software Engineering Institute
[5]
[4]
SEIA
Sustainable Energy Industry Association
[4]
[3]
SEO
Search Engine Optimization
[5]
[4]
SERC
Southeastern Electric Reliability Council (US)
[4]
[3]
SF6
sulfur hexafluoride
[4]
[3]
SFC
Solid oxide fuel cell (transportation)
[4]
[3]
SFEIS
Supplemental Final Environmental Impact Statement (US)
[4]
[3]
SFTP
Secure FTP
[5]
[4]
Simple File Transfer Protocol
[5]
[4]
SSH File Transfer Protocol
[5]
[4]
SFV
Straight Fixed Variable
[4]
[3]
SFW
Safe for Work, see NSFW
[6]
[5]
SG&A
Small and Medium Enterprises
[3]
[1]
SGI
Silicon Graphics, Incorporated
[5]
[4]
SGML
Standard Generalized Markup Language
[5]
[4]
SGR
State game refuge (US)
[4]
[3]
Select Graphic Rendition
[5]
[4]
SHA
Secure Hash Algorithm
[5]
[4]
SHDSL
Single-pair High-speed Digital Subscriber Line
[5]
[4]
SHGC
solar heat gain coefficient
[4]
[3]
SHPO
State Historic Preservation Office (US)
[4]
[3]
SI
International System of Units (Système international d'unités)
[4]
[3]
SIC
Standard Industrial Classification
[4]
[3]
SIGCAT
Special Interest Group on CD-ROM Applications and Technology
[5]
[4]
SIGGRAPH
Special Interest Group on Graphics
[5]
[4]
SIMD
Single Instruction, Multiple Data
[5]
[4]
SIMM
Single Inline Memory Module
[5]
[4]
SIP
Session Initiation Protocol
[5]
[4]
Supplementary Ideographic Plane
[5]
[4]
SIR
savings-to-investment ratio (energy conservation investments)
[4]
[3]
SISD
Single Instruction, Single Data
[5]
[4]
SISO
Single-Input and Single-Output
[5]
[4]
SLA
Service Level Agreement
[3]
[1]
Specific leakage area
[4]
[3]
SLED
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
[5]
[4]
SLES
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
[5]
[4]
SLI
Scalable Link Interface
[5]
[4]
SLIP
Serial Line Internet Protocol
[5]
[4]
SLM
Service Level Management
[5]
[4]
SLOC
Source Lines of Code
[5]
[4]
SMA
SubMiniature version A
[5]
[4]
SMB
Server Message Block
[5]
[4]
SMBIOS
System Management BIOS
[5]
[4]
SME
Subject Matter Expert
[5]
[4]
SMH
Shaking my head
[6]
[5]
SMIL
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
[5]
[4]
SMP
Supplementary Multilingual Plane
[5]
[4]
Symmetric Multi-Processing
[5]
[4]
SMPs
Special Marketing Programs
[4]
[3]
SMS
Short Message Service
[5]
[4]
System Management Server
[5]
[4]
SMT
Simultaneous Multithreading
[5]
[4]
SMTP
Simple Mail Transport Protocol
[2]
[2]
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
[5]
[4]
SNA
Systems Network Architecture
[5]
[4]
SNAFU
Situation normal: all (fucked/fouled) up
[6]
[5]
SNG
Synthetic Natural Gas or Substitute Natural Gas
[4]
[3]
SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol
[5]
[4]
SNTP
Simple Network Time Protocol
[5]
[4]
SO-DIMM
Small Outline DIMM
[5]
[4]
SO2
Sulfur dioxide
[4]
[3]
SOA
Service-Oriented Architecture
[5]
[4]
SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol,
[2]
[2]
Simple Object Access Protocol
[5]
[4]
Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program
[5]
[4]
SOE
Standard Operating Environment
[5]
[4]
SOHF
Sense of humor failure
[6]
[5]
SOHO
Small Office/Home Office
[3]
[5]
[1]
[4]
SOI
Silicon On Insulator
[5]
[4]
SOL
System Operating Limit
[4]
[3]
SOP
Standard Operating Procedure
[3]
[1]
SOPA
Stop Online Piracy Act
[5]
[4]
SOS
Someone (watching) Over Shoulder
[6]
[5]
SOW
Statement Of Work
[3]
[1]
SOX
Sarbanes-Oxley
[3]
[1]
SP
Service Pack
[5]
[4]
SPA
Single Page Application
[5]
[4]
SPARC
Scalable Processor Architecture
[5]
[4]
SPB
Simple Payback (energy conservation investments)
[4]
[3]
SPCC
Spill Prevention, Containment and Countermeasure Plan
SPM—Synchronized phasor measurement- a WAMS network with synchrophasor sensors (PMUs). (electricity)
[4]
[3]
SPF
Sender Policy Framework
[5]
[4]
SPI
Serial Peripheral Interface
[5]
[4]
Stateful Packet Inspection
[5]
[4]
SPM
Software project management
[5]
[4]
SPMD
Single Program, Multiple Data
[5]
[4]
SPP
Southwest Power Pool Inc., a regional transmission organization (US)
—Statewide Pricing Pilot (US-California)
[4]
[3]
SPR
Strategic Petroleum Reserve (US)
[4]
[3]
SPS
Special Protection System
[4]
[3]
SQL
Server Query Language
[2]
[2]
Structured Query Language
[5]
[4]
SR
Speculative resources For example, regarding uranium deposits. (nuclear)
[4]
[3]
SRAM
Static Random Access Memory
[5]
[4]
SROI
Social return on investment
[3]
[1]
SRP
Salt River Agricultural Improvement & Power District (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
SSA
Static Single Assignment
[5]
[4]
SSD
Solid State Drive
[2]
[2]
Software Specification Document
[5]
[4]
Solid-State Drive
[5]
[4]
SSE
steady-state efficiency
[4]
[3]
Streaming SIMD Extensions
[5]
[4]
SSG
WI PWG Seams Steering Group of Western Interconnection PlanningWork Group (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
SSH
Secure Shell
[5]
[4]
SSI
Server Side Includes
[5]
[4]
Single-System Image
[5]
[4]
Small-Scale Integration
[5]
[4]
SSID
Service Set Identifier
[5]
[4]
SSL
Secure Sockets Layer
[2]
[2]
Secure Socket Layer
[5]
[4]
SSM
Synchronized system measurement-a WAMS with synchronous sensors in addition to PMUs. See Phasor networks.
[4]
[3]
SSP
Supplementary Special-purpose Plane
[5]
[4]
SSSE
Supplementary Streaming SIMD Extensions
[5]
[4]
STEP
Southwest Transmission Expansion Plan group (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
STFU
Shut the fuck up
[6]
[5]
STFW
Search the fucking web
[6]
[5]
SUS
Single UNIX Specification
[5]
[4]
SUSE
Software und System-Entwicklung
[5]
[4]
SVC
Static VAR compensator (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Scalable Video Coding
[5]
[4]
SVD
Structured VLSI Design
[5]
[4]
SVG
Scalable Vector Graphics
[5]
[4]
SVGA
Super Video Graphics Array
[5]
[4]
SVN
Subversion
[2]
[2]
SWAT
Southwest Area Transmission (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
SWF
Shock Wave Flash
[5]
[4]
SWT
Standard Widget Toolkit
[5]
[4]
SWU
Separative work unit
[4]
[3]
SaaS
Software as a Service
[5]
[4]
SoC
System-on-a-Chip
[5]
[4]
St
Sales and operations planning
[3]
[1]
Sysop
System operator
[5]
[4]
T&D
Transmission & Distribution
[4]
[3]
TAME
Tertiary amyl methyl ether
[4]
[3]
TANSTAAFL
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch, a quote originally attributed to Robert Heinlein
[6]
[5]
TAO
Track-At-Once
[5]
[4]
TAPS
Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (natural gas)
[4]
[3]
TASM
Turbo ASseMbler
[5]
[4]
TB
To Be Completed
[3]
[1]
TeraByte
[5]
[4]
TBA
tertiary butyl alcohol
[4]
[3]
TBF
Time between failures
[6]
[5]
TBH
To be honest
[6]
[5]
TBL
Transmission business line (electricity)
[4]
[3]
TBS
Town border station
[4]
[3]
TCO
Total Cost of Ownership
[3]
[1]
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
[5]
[4]
TCR
Transition Cost Recovery (Mechanism)
[4]
[3]
TCU
Telecommunication Control Unit
[5]
[4]
TCV
Total Shareholder Return
[3]
[1]
TDMA
Time Division Multiple Access
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
TDP
Thermal Design Power
[2]
[2]
TDU
Transmission Dependent Utility (electricity)
[4]
[3]
TEFRA
Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1985
[4]
[3]
TEN
Trans-European Networks (electricity)
[4]
[3]
TFT
Thin Film Transistor
[5]
[4]
TFTP
Trivial File Transfer Protocol
[5]
[4]
TFW
That feel when
[6]
[5]
TG
That's great
[6]
[5]
TGIF
Thank God it's Friday
[6]
[5]
THX/THNX, TNX or TX
Thanks
[6]
[5]
TI
Texas Instruments
[5]
[4]
TIA
Thanks in advance
[6]
[5]
TIL
Today I learned
[6]
[5]
TIMWTK
This inquiring mind wants to know
[6]
[5]
TINC
There Is No Cabal, a term discouraging conspiracy theories
[6]
[5]
TL;DR
Too Long; Didn't Read
[6]
[5]
TLA
Three-Letter Acronym
[5]
[4]
TLD
Top-Level Domain
[5]
[4]
TLR
Procedures Transmission Line Loading Relief Procedures (electricity)
[4]
[3]
TLS
Thread-Local Storage
[5]
[4]
Transport Layer Security
[5]
[4]
TLV
Type-length-value
[5]
[4]
TMI
Too much information
[6]
[5]
TNC
Terminal Node Controller
[5]
[4]
Threaded Neill-Concelman connector
[5]
[4]
TO
Transmission owner (electricity)
[4]
[3]
TOP
Transmission Operator (electricity)
[4]
[3]
TOS
Terms of service
[6]
[5]
TOTW
Time Off for Time Worked
[3]
[1]
TOU
Time of use (rate) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
TPF
Transaction Processing Facility
[5]
[4]
TQM
Total Quality Management
[3]
[1]
TRM
Transmission Reliability Margin (electricity)
[4]
[3]
TROFF
Trace Off
[5]
[4]
TRON
Trace On
[5]
[4]
The Real-time Operating system Nucleus
[5]
[4]
TRSDOS
Tandy Radio Shack - Disk Operating System
[5]
[4]
TSO
Transmission System Operator) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Time Sharing Option
[5]
[4]
TSP
Traveling Salesman Problem
[5]
[4]
TSR
Transmission Service Request (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Terminate and Stay Resident
[5]
[4]
TTA
True Tap Audio
[5]
[4]
TTBOMK
To the best of my knowledge
[6]
[5]
TTC
Total Transfer Capability (electricity)
[4]
[3]
TTF
TrueType Font
[5]
[4]
TTFN
Ta ta for now
[6]
[5]
TTL
Transistor-Transistor Logic
[5]
[4]
Time To Live
[5]
[4]
TTS
Text-to-Speech
[5]
[4]
TTY
Teletype
[5]
[4]
TTYL
Talk to you later (also spelled TTUL, T2UL or T2YL)
[6]
[5]
TTYN
Talk to you never
[6]
[5]
TTYS
Talk to you soon
[6]
[5]
TUCOWS
The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software
[5]
[4]
TUG
TeX Users Group
[5]
[4]
TVA
Tennessee Valley Authority (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
TW
terawatt (one trillion watts) (measurement)
[4]
[3]
TWAIN
Technology Without An Interesting Name
[5]
[4]
TWH
terawatt-hour (one trillion watt hours)
[4]
[3]
TY
Thank you
[6]
[5]
TYT
Take your time
[6]
[5]
TYVM
Thank you very much
[6]
[5]
Tcf
Trillion cubic feet (measurement)
[4]
[3]
Tcl
Tool Command Language
[5]
[4]
Transco
Transmission Company (US) (electricity)
—Transcontinental Pipeline (US) (natural gas)
[4]
[3]
U
You
[6]
[5]
U-value
thermal transmittance (also called U-factor)
[4]
[3]
U.S.C.
United States Code
[4]
[3]
U3O8
triuranium octaoxide (nuclear)
[4]
[3]
UAAG
User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
[5]
[4]
UAC
User Account Control
[5]
[4]
UAE
United Arab Emirates (oil)
[4]
[3]
UART
Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
[5]
[4]
UAT
User Acceptance Testing
[5]
[4]
UCAP
Unforced Capacity (electricity)
[4]
[3]
UCS
Universal Character Set
[5]
[4]
UCTE
Union for the Coordination of the Transport of Electricity, the power transmission system of continental Europe
[4]
[3]
UDDI
Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration
[5]
[4]
UDMA
Ultra DMA
[5]
[4]
UDP
User Datagrap Protocol
[2]
[2]
User Datagram Protocol
[5]
[4]
UEFI
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
[5]
[4]
UF6
uranium hexaflouride (nuclear)
[4]
[3]
UFLS
Under frequency load shedding (electricity)
[4]
[3]
UGO
You got Owned
[6]
[5]
UHF
Ultra High Frequency
[5]
[4]
UHVAC
Ultra High Voltage Alternating Current (electricity)
[4]
[3]
UHVDC
Ultra High Voltage Direct Current (electricity)
[4]
[3]
UI
User Interface
[5]
[4]
UL
Upload
[5]
[4]
ULA
Uncommitted Logic Array
[5]
[4]
ULCC
Ultra Large Crude Carrier (oil)
[4]
[3]
UMA
Upper Memory Area
[5]
[4]
UMB
Upper Memory Block
[5]
[4]
UML
Unified Modeling Language
[5]
[4]
User-Mode Linux
[5]
[4]
UMPC
Ultra-Mobile Personal Computer
[5]
[4]
UMTRA
Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (US)
[4]
[3]
UNC
Universal Naming Convention
[5]
[4]
UNCCD
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
[4]
[3]
UNDESA
UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
[4]
[3]
UNDP
United Nations Development Programme
[4]
[3]
UNECE
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
[4]
[3]
UNEP
United Nations Environment Programme
[4]
[3]
UNFCCC
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
[4]
[3]
UO2
uranium dioxide (nuclear)
[4]
[3]
UO3
uranium trioxide (nuclear)
[4]
[3]
UO4
uranyl peroxide (nuclear)
[4]
[3]
UOX
uranium oxide (nuclear)
[4]
[3]
UPS
Uninterruptible Power Supply
[5]
[4]
URI
Uniform Resource Identifier
[5]
[4]
URL
Uniform Resource Locator
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
URN
Uniform Resource Name
[5]
[4]
URR
Ultimate Recoverable Resources
[4]
[3]
URS
You Really Suck
[6]
[5]
US DOE
United States Department of Energy
[4]
[3]
USB
Universal Serial Bus
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
USBR
United States Bureau of Reclamation
[4]
[3]
USCE
United States Army Corps of Engineers
[4]
[3]
USGS
United States Geological Survey
[4]
[3]
USP
V[edit]
VAD – Value-Added Distributor
[3]
[1]
USR
U.S. Robotics
[5]
[4]
UTC
Coordinated Universal Time
[5]
[4]
UTF
Unicode Transformation Format
[5]
[4]
UTFSE
Use the fucking search engine
[6]
[5]
UTP
Unshielded Twisted Pair
[5]
[4]
UUCP
Unix to Unix Copy
[5]
[4]
UUID
Universally Unique Identifier
[5]
[4]
UUN
Universal User Name
[5]
[4]
UVC
Universal Virtual Computer
[5]
[4]
UVLS
Under voltage load shedding (electricity)
[4]
[3]
UX
User Experience
[5]
[4]
V
Volt (measurement)
[4]
[3]
VA
Volt-ampere (measurement)
[4]
[3]
VAR
Added Reseller
[3]
[1]
VAT
Value-Added Tax
[3]
[1]
VAWT
vertical axis wind turbine (wind)
[4]
[3]
VAX
Virtual Address eXtension
[5]
[4]
VB
Visual Basic
[5]
[4]
VBA
Visual Basic for Applications
[5]
[4]
VBS
Visual Basic Script
[5]
[4]
VC
Venture Capital
[3]
[1]
VCPI
Virtual Control Program Interface
[5]
[4]
VCS
Version Control System
[2]
[2]
VDSL
Very High Bitrate Digital Subscriber Line
[5]
[4]
VESA
Video Electronics Standards Association
[5]
[4]
VFAT
Virtual FAT
[5]
[4]
VFS
Virtual File System
[5]
[4]
VG
Volume Group
[5]
[4]
VGA
Video Graphics Array
[5]
[4]
Video Graphics Adapter
[5]
[4]
VHF
Very High Frequency
[5]
[4]
VIN
vehicle identification number (US) (transportation)
[4]
[3]
VLAN
Virtual Local Area Network
[5]
[4]
VLB
Vesa Local Bus
[5]
[4]
VLCC
very large crude carrier (oil)
[4]
[3]
VLF
Very Low Frequency
[5]
[4]
VLIW
Very Long Instruction Word
[5]
[4]
VLSI
Very-Large-Scale Integration
[5]
[4]
VLSM
Variable Length Subnet Mask
[5]
[4]
VM
Virtual Machine
[5]
[4]
Virtual Memory
[5]
[4]
VMT
vehicle miles traveled (transportation)
[4]
[3]
VNC
Virtual Network Computing
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
VOC
volatile organic compound
[4]
[3]
VOD
Video On Demand
[5]
[4]
VPN
Virtual Private Network
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
VPP
Variable peak pricing (electricity)
[4]
[3]
VPS
Virtual Private Server
[2]
[2]
VPU
Visual Processing Unit
[5]
[4]
VR
Virtual Reality
[5]
[4]
VRAM
Video Random Access Memory
[5]
[4]
VRML
Virtual Reality Modeling Language
[5]
[4]
VSA
Voltage stability analysis
[4]
[3]
VSAM
Virtual Storage Access Method
[5]
[4]
VSAT
Very Small Aperture Terminal
[5]
[4]
VT
Video Terminal?
[5]
[4]
VTAM
Virtual Telecommunications Access Method
[5]
[4]
VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol
[5]
[4]
W
Watt
[4]
[3]
W/ or W/O
With or without
[6]
[5]
W/E
Whatever
[6]
[5]
Weekend
[6]
[5]
W3C
World Wide Web Consortium
[5]
[4]
W8
Wait
[6]
[5]
WACC
work
[3]
[1]
WACOG
weighted average cost of gas
[4]
[3]
WAFS
Wide Area File Services
[5]
[4]
WAI
Web Accessibility Initiative
[5]
[4]
WAIS
Wide Area Information Server
[5]
[4]
WAMS
Wide area measurement system- see description in phasor measurement unit article. (electricity)
[4]
[3]
WAN
Wide Area Network
[5]
[4]
WAP
Wireless Access Point
[5]
[4]
Wireless Application Protocol
[5]
[4]
WASM
Watcom ASseMbler
[5]
[4]
WB
Welcome back
[6]
[5]
WBEM
Web-Based Enterprise Management
[5]
[4]
WBU
What (a)bout you
[6]
[5]
WCAG
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
[5]
[4]
WCF
Windows Communication Foundation
[5]
[4]
WCMC
World Conservation Monitoring Centre
[4]
[3]
WCRE
World Commission on Renewable Energy
[4]
[3]
WDM
Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
[5]
[4]
WDS
Wireless Distribution System
[2]
[2]
WEA
World Energy Assessment
[4]
[3]
WEC
World Energy Council
[4]
[3]
WECC
Western Electricity Coordinating Council (US)
[4]
[3]
WEEA
World Energy Efficiency Organization
[4]
[3]
WEP
Wired Equivalent Privacy
[5]
[4]
WF
water factor (clothes washers)
[4]
[3]
WFI
Wait For Interrupt
[5]
[4]
WH
watthour (measurement)
[4]
[3]
WHO
World Health Organisation
[4]
[3]
WHT
Withholding Tax
[3]
[1]
WINS
Windows Internet Name Service
[5]
[4]
WIRAB
Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (US)
[4]
[3]
WLAN
Wireless Local Area Network
[5]
[4]
WLL
With Limited Liability
[3]
[1]
WMA
Windows Media Audio
[5]
[4]
WMV
Windows Media Video
[5]
[4]
WOL
Wake-on-LAN
[5]
[4]
WOR
Wake-on-Ring
[5]
[4]
WORA
Write once, run anywhere
[5]
[4]
WORE
Write once, run everywhere
[5]
[4]
WPA
Wi-Fi Protected Access
[5]
[4]
WPAN
Wireless Personal Area Network
[5]
[4]
WPF
Windows Presentation Foundation
[5]
[4]
WRI
World Resources Institute
[4]
[3]
WRT
With respect / regard to
[6]
[5]
WSCC
Western Systems Coordinating Council (US)
[4]
[3]
WSDL
Web Services Description Language
[5]
[4]
WSFL
Web Services Flow Language
[5]
[4]
WSPP
Western Systems Power Pool (US)
[4]
[3]
WSSD
World Summit on Sustainable Development
[4]
[3]
WTB
Want to buy
[6]
[5]
WTF
What the fuck
[6]
[5]
WTG
Wind turbine generator (wind)
[4]
[3]
Way to go
[6]
[5]
WTH
What the hell
[6]
[5]
WTI
Withdraw Voucher Note
[3]
[1]
West Texas Intermediate (US)
[4]
[3]
WTO
World Trade Organization
[3]
[1]
WTP
Willingness to pay
[4]
[3]
WTS
Want to sell
[6]
[5]
WTT
Want to trade
[6]
[5]
WUBU2
What (have) you been up to?
[6]
[5]
WUG
What you got?
[6]
[5]
WUSB
Wireless Universal Serial Bus
[5]
[4]
WUU2
What (are) you up to?
[6]
[5]
WWAN
Wireless Wide Area Network
[5]
[4]
WWDC
Apple World Wide Developer Conference
[5]
[4]
WWID
World Wide Identifier
[5]
[4]
WWN
World Wide Name
[5]
[4]
WWW
World Wide Web
[5]
[4]
WY
Water Year (measurement)
[4]
[3]
WYSIWYG
What You See Is What You Get
[5]
[4]
What you see is what you get
[6]
[5]
WZC
Wireless Zero Configuration
[5]
[4]
WebDAV
WWW Distributed Authoring and Versioning
[5]
[4]
WiFi
Wireless Fidelity
[5]
[4]
WiMAX
Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
[5]
[4]
WinFS
Windows Future Storage
[5]
[4]
WoW
World of Warcraft
[2]
[2]
XAG
XML Accessibility Guidelines
[5]
[4]
XAML
eXtensible Application Markup Language
[5]
[4]
XCBL
XML Common Business Library
[5]
[4]
XDM
X Window Display Manager
[5]
[4]
XDMCP
X Display Manager Control Protocol
[5]
[4]
XHTML
eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language
[5]
[4]
XILP
X Interactive ListProc
[5]
[4]
XML
eXtensible Markup Language
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
XMMS
X Multimedia System
[5]
[4]
XMPP
eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
[5]
[4]
XMS
Extended Memory Specification
[5]
[4]
XNS
Xerox Network Systems
[5]
[4]
XP
Cross-Platform
[5]
[4]
Extreme Programming
[5]
[4]
XPCOM
Cross Platform Component Object Model
[5]
[4]
XPI
XPInstall
[5]
[4]
XPIDL
Cross-Platform IDL
[5]
[4]
XPS
XML Paper Specification
[5]
[4]
XSD
XML Schema Definition
[5]
[4]
XSL
eXtensible Stylesheet Language
[5]
[4]
XSL-FO
eXtensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects
[5]
[4]
XSLT
eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
[5]
[4]
XSS
Cross-Site Scripting
[5]
[4]
XTF
eXtensible Tag Framework
[5]
[4]
eXtended Triton Format
[5]
[4]
XUL
XML User Interface Language
[5]
[4]
XVGA
Extended Video Graphics Adapter
[5]
[4]
Y2K
Year Two Thousand
[5]
[4]
YAAF
Yet Another Application Framework
[5]
[4]
YACC
Yet Another Compiler Compiler
[5]
[4]
YAGNI
You Ain't Gonna Need It.
[6]
[5]
YAGTOH
you are going to own him.
[6]
[5]
YAML
YAML Ain't Markup Language
[5]
[4]
YGM
You've Got Mail.
[6]
[5]
YHBT
You have been trolled.
[6]
[5]
YKW
You know what?
[6]
[5]
YMMV
Your mileage may vary.
[6]
[5]
YOLO
You Only Live Once.
[6]
[5]
YOY
Year-Over-Year
[3]
Year-over-year
[3]
[1]
YOYO
You're On Your Own.
[6]
[5]
YTC
Yet-To-Confirm
[3]
[1]
YTD
Year-to-date
[3]
[1]
YTG
Year-to-go
[3]
[1]
YTMND
You're The Man Now, Dog
[6]
[5]
YW
You're welcome.
[6]
[5]
YaST
Yet another Setup Tool
[5]
[4]
ZCAV
Zone Constant Angular Velocity
[5]
[4]
ZCS
Zero Code Suppression
[5]
[4]
ZIF
Zero Insertion Force
[5]
[4]
ZIFS
Zero Insertion Force Socket
[5]
[4]
ZISC
Zero Instruction Set Computer
[5]
[4]
ZMA
Zone Multicast Address
[5]
[4]
ZOI
Zero One Infinity
[5]
[4]
ZOMG
An intentional misspelling of the acronym shorthand for "Oh My God" and pronounced "Zoh My God" This version is mainly used in jest or to ridicule people who use abbreviations like OMG and OMFG
[6]
[5]
ZOPA
Zone of Possible Agreement
[3]
[1]
References[edit]
External links[edit]
Business acronyms and abbreviations
[3]
[1]
ZOPE
Z Object Publishing Environment
[5]
[4]
ZPL
Z-level Programming Language
[5]
[4]
bhp
Brake horsepower
[4]
[3]
bin
binary
[5]
[4]
bit
binary digit
[5]
[4]
bl
Barrel
[4]
[3]
bldg.
Break Even Point
[3]
[1]
blog
Also known as web log or an online journal
[6]
[5]
bot
Any type of automated software in chatrooms and web-cataloging software
[6]
[5]
bps
bits per second
[5]
[4]
bump
Increment (for example, C's ++ operator.) or a backronym for "Bring Up My Post"
[6]
[5]
cc
C Compiler
[5]
[4]
crapplet
A poorly written computer application
[6]
[5]
crapware
Unwanted software that is often installed with another program
[6]
[5]
crawl
To retrieve a web page along with the hyperlinks that reference it
[6]
[5]
cyber- (prefix)
A term used to connect the subsequent word loosely to the world of computers or the Internet or sex over a computer
[6]
[5]
cyberspace
Virtual reality, the Internet, the World Wide Web, and other kinds of computer systems. Science fiction author William Gibson popularized the term in his novel Neuromancer. Gibson used the word to describe a virtual world of computer networks that his cyberpunk heroes 'jacked into'
[6]
[5]
dev
development
[5]
[4]
disc.
Delivery service provider
[3]
[1]
eID
electronic ID card
[5]
[4]
eSATA
external SATA
[5]
[4]
flamer
Someone who makes inflammatory, abusive or directly offensive comments. Similar to, but not quite the same as an Internet troll.
[6]
[5]
fsck
File System Check
[5]
[4]
gratz
Congratulations
[6]
[5]
handle
Name used in online chat, (AKA nick(name), alias, screen/user name)
[6]
[5]
haxor or H4x0r (1337)
Hacker
[6]
[5]
hit
A request made to the web server, (noun) the results of an Internet search, (verb) loading a Web page. Hits are not equivalent to visitors of a webpage.
[6]
[5]
home page
The website's introduction page, starting point, and guide. The technical term is "index"
[6]
[5]
hot list
A collection of publicly available URLs (World Wide Web site addresses), sometimes available as text files.
[6]
[5]
hp
Horsepower (measurement)
[4]
[3]
iBCS
Intel Binary Compatibility Standard
[5]
[4]
iSCSI
Internet Small Computer System Interface
[5]
[4]
iSNS
Internet Storage Name Service
[5]
[4]
information superhighway
The Internet (AKA: I-way, infobahn)
[6]
[5]
jaggy
aliased computer graphics
[6]
[5]
kHz
Kilohertz
[5]
[4]
kV
Kilovolt (one thousand volts) (measurement)
[4]
[3]
kVA
One thousand volt Ampere (measurement)
[4]
[3]
kW
Kilowatt (one thousand watts) (measurement)
[4]
[3]
kWE
kilowatt electric (measurement)
[4]
[3]
kWh
Kilowatt hour (one thousand watt hours) (measurement)
[4]
[3]
koe
One kilogram oil equivalent (EU) (measurement)
[4]
[3]
kthxbye
OK, thanks, goodbye, used either to cut short a conversation or to express displeasure with being cut short
[6]
[5]
kvar
one thousand vars (measurement)
[4]
[3]
l8r
Later, L8R also sometimes abbreviated as L8ER is commonly used in chat rooms and other text based communications as a way of saying good bye.
[6]
[5]
lag
Slang term for slow Internet speeds or high Internet latency; Lag is sometimes due to a server problem, but more frequently due to the connection between client and server. A slow or intermittent connection may often be referred to as laggy
[6]
[5]
lamer
A know-nothing, one who is lame.
[6]
[5]
leet
Often spelled as l33t or 1337. It originally meant elite
[6]
[5]
lsfo
Low sulfur fuel oil
[4]
[3]
lulz
Corruption of LOL
[6]
[5]
lurker
Someone who frequents a community or group without participating in discussions
[6]
[5]
mfg.
Management
[3]
[1]
msl
Mean sea level
[4]
[3]
n0rp
Alternate form of pr0n, intentional misspelling of porn
[6]
[5]
namewaster
person who abandons an account shortly after its creation
[6]
[5]
namewaster - person who abandons an account shortly after its creation
n0rp
Alternate form of pr0n, intentional misspelling of porn
[6]
newbie, newb, n00b
An inexperienced user of a system or game, or an annoying person. Usually a derogatory term for someone inexperienced at a game.
[6]
[5]
pip
Period Moving Average Cost
[3]
[1]
ppmv
Parts Per Million by Volume
[4]
[3]
ppp
Purchasing power parity
[4]
[3]
pr0n
Intentional misspelling of porn
[6]
[5]
pwned
Intentional misspelling of owned
[6]
[5]
q/q
Quarter-to-date
[3]
[1]
regex
Regular Expression
[5]
[4]
regexp
Regular Expression
[5]
[4]
rehi (or merely re)
Hello again
[6]
[5]
s
TINS: There is no spoon
[6]
[5]
sbin
superuser binary
[5]
[4]
scf
Standard cubic foot
[4]
[3]
sk8/sk8r/sk8er
skate/skater
[6]
[5]
smiley
Another name for emoticons
[6]
[5]
snail mail
Normal paper mail service
[6]
[5]
spider
The program behind a search engine
[6]
[5]
su
superuser
[5]
[4]
tmp
temporary
[5]
[4]
toe
Ton of oil equivalent (EU)
[4]
[3]
toobs
Internets (refering to the Internet as a series of tubes)
[6]
[5]
tweedler
One who has deep love for all computer related technology and gadgets
[6]
[5]
usr
user
[5]
[4]
var
Volt-ampere reactive (measurement)
[4]
[3]
variable
[5]
[4]
w.r.t
With Respect To
[3]
[1]
w00t, w00T or WOOT
First two express exuberance, the last is a backronym for the term "We Own the Other Team".
[6]
[5]
wo
weighted average selling price
[3]
[1]
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