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[6]
ADR
American Depositary Receipt
[3]
[1]
Asset Depreciation Range (finance)
—Alternative dispute resolution
[4]
[3]
AP
B[edit]
BAU – Business As Usual
[3]
[1]
Access Point
[2]
[2]
BRU
Business-to-business
[3]
[1]
B2C
Business to Consumer
[3]
[1]
Business-to-Consumer
[5]
[4]
Business to Customer
[6]
[5]
B2G
Business-to-government
[3]
[1]
BUSI
Break Even Point
[3]
[1]
CAO
Chief Administrative Officer
[3]
[1]
CAGR
Capital Expenditures
[3]
[1]
CFO
Chief Financial Officer
[3]
[1]
CFS
Certified Internal Auditor
[3]
[1]
cubic feet per second
[4]
[3]
CIF
Certified Information Systems Auditor
[3]
[1]
CIP
Carriage and Insurance Paid
[3]
[1]
Critical Infrastructure Protection (US)
—see also EPCIP European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection
[4]
[3]
CMA
Committee on monetary, finance and balance of payments statistics
[3]
[1]
CMO
Chief Marketing Officer
[3]
[1]
Current Mode of Operation
[5]
[4]
COB
Close of Business
[3]
[1]
Close Of Business.
[6]
[5]
COGS
Cost of Goods Sold
[3]
[1]
Corp.
Chief Operating Officer
[3]
[1]
CPA
Consumer Price Index
[3]
[1]
California Power Authority
[4]
[3]
Cell Processor Architecture
[5]
[4]
CPU
Cost per Unit
[3]
[1]
Central Processing Unit
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
CSI
Continual Service Improvement
[3]
[1]
Common System Interface
[5]
[4]
CSO
Chief Security Officer
[3]
[1]
CSR
Corporate social responsibility
[3]
[1]
CRM
Customer Relationship Management
[3]
[2]
[5]
[1]
[2]
[4]
CVP
Consumer-to-business
[3]
[1]
CTO
Chief Technology Officer
[3]
[1]
C&F
Customer Experience
[3]
[1]
CKM
Cost to company
[3]
[1]
DDA
Department
[3]
[1]
DI
Director
[3]
[1]
disc.
Delivery service provider
[3]
[1]
DTP
Do this please
[3]
[1]
Desktop Publishing
[5]
[4]
DVP
Delivery versus payment
[3]
[1]
DSO
Days Sales Outstanding
[3]
[1]
Distribution system operator (regarding electricity distribution)
[4]
[3]
DPO
Days Payable Outstanding
[3]
[1]
ECS
Electronic Clearing Service
[3]
[1]
Effective annual rate
[3]
[1]
EAY
Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
[3]
[1]
ECB
Electronic Data Interchange
[3]
[1]
EFSM
Enterprise Resource Planning
[3]
[1]
ETA
Estimated Time of Arrival
[3]
[1]
Estimated time of arrival
[6]
[5]
ETD
Estimated Time of Delivery
[3]
[1]
EMI
Equated Monthly Installment
[3]
[1]
EPC
Export Promotion Council
[3]
[1]
ECGC
Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India
[3]
[1]
EXW
Ex Works , Ready at Warehouse
[3]
[1]
FAB
Feature Advantage Benefits
[3]
[1]
FDP
Finance Department
[3]
[1]
FOB
Freight On Board
[3]
[1]
FIFO
Finance Minister
[3]
[1]
First In First Out
[5]
[4]
Fin Min
Finance Minister
[3]
[1]
FL
Financial leverage
[3]
[1]
Function Level
[5]
[4]
FOMC
Financial Information Exchange
[3]
[1]
FSA
For Your Information
[3]
[1]
FOC
Free Of Cost
[3]
[1]
FYA
For Your Action
[3]
[1]
FTE
Full Time Equivalent
[3]
[1]
GAAP
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
[3]
[1]
GAAS
Gross Domestic Product
[3]
[1]
GDR
General Ledger
[3]
[1]
GMV
Gross Merchandise Volume
[3]
[1]
GP
Gross Profit
[3]
[1]
GPO
Goods Receipt Not Invoiced
[3]
[1]
GSV
Global Value Chain
[3]
[1]
GMROII
Gross Margin Return on Inventory Investment
[3]
[1]
G&A
General and Administration expense. expenditures related to the day-to-day operations of a business.
[3]
[1]
HR
Human Resources
[3]
[1]
HQ
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
[3]
[1]
IAS
International Accounting Standards
[3]
[1]
ICB
International Financial Reporting Standard
[3]
[1]
ILCLP
Internet of Things
[3]
[1]
IPO
Initial Public Offering
[3]
[1]
Inter Procedural Optimization
[5]
[4]
IR
Interest Rate - typically referring to an IR derivative product
[3]
[1]
Intermediate Representation
[5]
[4]
IRS
Institute of Supply Management
[3]
[1]
IYR
Item Per Transaction
[3]
[1]
J
Just in time
[3]
[1]
JIS
Just in sequence
[3]
[1]
JST
Joint Supervisory Team
[3]
[1]
K
Karachi Interbank Offered Rate
[3]
[1]
KPI
L[edit]
LBO – Leveraged Buyout
[3]
[1]
LC
London Interbank Offered Rate
[3]
[1]
LE
Limited Liability Company
[3]
[1]
Logical Extents
[5]
[4]
LME
Limited Company
[3]
[1]
LTV
Loan to Value
[3]
[1]
MBS
mortgage-backed security
[3]
[1]
Macro economic Budget Support
[4]
[3]
mfg.
Management
[3]
[1]
MIC
Month on Month / Month over Month
[3]
[1]
MOQ
Memorandum Of Understanding
[3]
[1]
MPC
Maintenance, Repair, and Operations
[3]
[1]
MRP
Maximum Retail Price
[3]
[1]
MSOD
Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price
[3]
[1]
MTD
Month-to-date
[3]
[1]
MWC
N[edit]
NAV – Net asset value
[3]
[1]
Mobile World Congress
[5]
[4]
NCBO
Non-Circumvent and Non-Disclosure
[3]
[1]
NDA
Non-Disclosure Agreement
[3]
[1]
NII
Net Interest Income
[3]
[1]
NIM
Net Operating Assets
[3]
[1]
No Internal Message
[5]
[4]
NOI
Net Operating Income
[3]
[1]
Notice of Intent or Notice of Inquiry or Notice of Investigation
[4]
[3]
NOPAT
Non-performing loan
[3]
[1]
NPV
Net Present Value
[3]
[4]
[1]
[3]
NTE
Not To Exceed
[3]
[1]
NYMEX
O[edit]
OC – Opportunity Cost
[3]
[1]
New York Mercantile Exchange
[4]
[3]
OCF
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
[3]
[1]
OEM
Original Equipment Manufacturer
[3]
[5]
[1]
[4]
original equipment manufacturers
[4]
[3]
OIBDA
Operating Income Before Depreciation And Amortization
[3]
[1]
OPEX
Over-the-counter (finance)
[3]
[1]
OOO
Out of Office
[3]
[1]
PA
Purchasing agent
[3]
[1]
Promotional Activity
[3]
[1]
Planning Authority
—Programmatic Agreement
[4]
[3]
PAT
Profit After Tax
[3]
[1]
PBT
Profit Before Tax
[3]
[1]
P/E
Price-to-earnings ratio
[3]
[1]
PEG
to-earnings growth ratio
[3]
[1]
P&L
Profit and Loss
[3]
[1]
PI
Professional Indemnity (insurance coverage)
[3]
[1]
pip
Period Moving Average Cost
[3]
[1]
PO
Purchase Order
[3]
[1]
POS
Property, plant, and equipment
[3]
[1]
Piece of shit, or parent over shoulder.
[6]
[5]
PPP
Public-private partnership
[3]
[1]
Q[edit]
QC – Quality control or Quality costs
[3]
[1]
Point-to-Point Protocol
[5]
[4]
QoQ
Quarter on quarter
[3]
[1]
q/q
Quarter-to-date
[3]
[1]
RBI
Retained Earnings
[3]
[1]
RFI
Request for Proposal
[3]
[1]
Request for Interchange
[4]
[3]
Radio Frequency Interference
[5]
[4]
RFQ
Request for Quotation
[3]
[1]
RFX
Return On Capital Employed
[3]
[1]
ROE
Return on Equity
[3]
[1]
Return of Equity (finance)
[4]
[3]
ROI
Return on Investment
[3]
[4]
[1]
[3]
ROIC
Return on Invested Capital
[3]
[1]
RONA
Return on Sales
[3]
[1]
RR
Research and Development
[3]
[1]
St
Sales and operations planning
[3]
[1]
SAAS
as-a-Service
[3]
[1]
SCM
Supply Chain Management
[3]
[1]
Software Configuration Management
[5]
[4]
Source Code Management
[5]
[4]
SCBA
Securities and Exchange Commission
[3]
[1]
SG&A
Small and Medium Enterprises
[3]
[1]
SOHO
Small Office/Home Office
[3]
[5]
[1]
[4]
SOX
Sarbanes-Oxley
[3]
[1]
SROI
Social return on investment
[3]
[1]
SOP
Standard Operating Procedure
[3]
[1]
SOW
Statement Of Work
[3]
[1]
SLA
Service Level Agreement
[3]
[1]
Specific leakage area
[4]
[3]
SUA
Start Up Agreement
[3]
[1]
TCO
Total Cost of Ownership
[3]
[1]
TCV
Total Shareholder Return
[3]
[1]
TB
To Be Completed
[3]
[1]
TeraByte
[5]
[4]
TQM
Total Quality Management
[3]
[1]
TOTW
Time Off for Time Worked
[3]
[1]
TTM
Trailing Twelve Months
[3]
[1]
USP
V[edit]
VAD – Value-Added Distributor
[3]
[1]
VAT
Value-Added Tax
[3]
[1]
VAR
Added Reseller
[3]
[1]
VC
Venture Capital
[3]
[1]
VaR
W[edit]
WACC – Weighted average cost of capital
[3]
[1]
WC
work
[3]
[1]
wo
weighted average selling price
[3]
[1]
WLL
With Limited Liability
[3]
[1]
w.r.t
With Respect To
[3]
[1]
WTI
Withdraw Voucher Note
[3]
[1]
West Texas Intermediate (US)
[4]
[3]
WHT
Withholding Tax
[3]
[1]
WTO
World Trade Organization
[3]
[1]
WTD
Week-To-Date
[3]
[1]
YTD
Year-to-date
[3]
[1]
YTG
Year-to-go
[3]
[1]
YOY
Year-over-year
[3]
[1]
YTC
Yet-To-Confirm
[3]
[1]
FYF
Z[edit]
zcyc – Zero Coupon Yield Curve
[3]
[1]
ZOPA
Zone of Possible Agreement
[3]
[1]
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Business acronyms and abbreviations
[3]
[1]
FPS
Frames Per Second
[2]
[2]
Firm peaking service. See Peaking power plant
[4]
[3]
Floating Point Systems
[5]
[4]
HD
High Definition,Half Duplex
[2]
[2]
High Density
[5]
[4]
SMTP
Simple Mail Transport Protocol
[2]
[2]
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
[5]
[4]
DNS
Domain Name Server
[2]
[2]
Domain Name System
[5]
[4]
WDS
Wireless Distribution System
[2]
[2]
DFS
Dynamic Frequency Selection
[2]
[2]
Depth-First Search
[5]
[4]
Distributed File System
[5]
[4]
TDMA
Time Division Multiple Access
[2]
[2]
Time-Division Multiple Access
[5]
[4]
GM
Game Master
[2]
[2]
IRC
Internet Relay Chat
[2]
[5]
[6]
[2]
[4]
[5]
ISO / RTO Council (electricity)
[4]
[3]
RSS
Rich Site Summary
[2]
[2]
Radio Service Software
[5]
[4]
Rich Site Summary, RDF Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication
[5]
[4]
API
Application Programming Interface
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
American Petroleum Institute (oil)
[4]
[3]
VPS
Virtual Private Server
[2]
[2]
SVN
Subversion
[2]
[2]
URL
Uniform Resource Locator
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
HTTP
Hypertext Transport Protocol
[2]
[2]
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
[5]
[4]
HTML
HyperText Markup Language
[2]
[2]
Hypertext Markup Language
[5]
[4]
WoW
World of Warcraft
[2]
[2]
MAC
Media Access Control address
[2]
[2]
Mandatory Access Control
[5]
[4]
Media Access Control
[5]
[4]
FTP
File Transfer Protocol
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
FUP
Fair User Policy
[2]
[2]
VPN
Virtual Private Network
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
CDMA
Code Division Multiple Access
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
XML
eXtensible Markup Language
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
VNC
Virtual Network Computing
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
Content-Scrambling System
[5]
[4]
Closed Source Software
[5]
[4]
Cross-Site Scripting
[5]
[4]
OS
Operační Systém
[2]
[2]
Open Source
[5]
[4]
Operating System
[5]
[4]
Operating system
[6]
[5]
ATX
Advanced Technology eXtended
[2]
[2]
RTSP
Real Time Streaming Protocol
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
RAM
Random Access Memory
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
CSV
Comma-separated Values
[2]
[2]
Comma-Separated Values
[5]
[4]
GPS
Global Positioning System
[2]
[2]
VCS
Version Control System
[2]
[2]
SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol,
[2]
[2]
Simple Object Access Protocol
[5]
[4]
Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program
[5]
[4]
AJAX
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
[2]
[2]
SQL
Server Query Language
[2]
[2]
Structured Query Language
[5]
[4]
JSON
JavaScript Object Notation
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
NTP
Network Time Protocol
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
NFS
Network File System
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
ACL
Access Control List
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
Active Current Loop
[5]
[4]
SCP
Secure copy
[2]
[2]
Secure Copy
[5]
[4]
ISP
Internet Service Provider
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
SSL
Secure Sockets Layer
[2]
[2]
Secure Socket Layer
[5]
[4]
EDGE
Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
[2]
[2]
Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution
[5]
[4]
HSDPA
High-Speed Downlink Packet Access
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
USB
Universal Serial Bus
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
MTU
Maximum Transmission Unit
[2]
[5]
[2]
[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]
CVS
Concurrent Version Control
[2]
[2]
Concurrent Versioning System
[5]
[4]
KVM
Keyboard Video Mouse
[2]
[2]
Keyboard, Video, Mouse
[5]
[4]
PCI
Peripheral Component Interconnect
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
PCIe
Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
[2]
[2]
PCI Express
[5]
[4]
PC
Personal Computer
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
BIOS
Basic Input Output System
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
ECC
Error-correcting code memory
[2]
[2]
Elliptic Curve Cryptography
[5]
[4]
IP
Internet Protocol
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
Intellectual Property
[5]
[4]
TDP
Thermal Design Power
[2]
[2]
SAS
Serial-Attached SCSI
[2]
[2]
Serial attached SCSI
[5]
[4]
SATA
Serial AT Attachment
[2]
[2]
Serial ATA
[5]
[4]
LXC
LinuX Containers
[2]
[2]
SDK
Software Development Kit
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
UDP
User Datagrap Protocol
[2]
[2]
User Datagram Protocol
[5]
[4]
OFX
Open Financial Exchange
[2]
[2]
IPTV
Internet Protocol Television
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
OSA
Ochranný svaz autorský
[2]
[2]
DVB-T
Digital Video Broadcast - Terrestrial
[2]
[2]
BGP
Border Gateway Protocol
[2]
[5]
[2]
[4]
AS
Autonomous System
[2]
[2]
Access Server
[5]
[4]
SSD
Solid State Drive
[2]
[2]
Software Specification Document
[5]
[4]
Solid-State Drive
[5]
[4]
AAQS
Ambient Air Quality Standards (environment) (US)
[4]
[3]
AAU
Assigned amount units (measurement)
[4]
[3]
ABT
Availability based tariff (electricity)
[4]
[3]
ABF
Aquatic Base Flow (Hydropower) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
AC
Alternating current
[4]
[3]
Acoustic Coupler
[5]
[4]
Alternating Current
[5]
[4]
ACA
Annual Charge Adjustment (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Acc.
Accession countries (to the European Union) (government)
[4]
[3]
ACE
Area Control Error (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Advanced Computing Environment
[5]
[4]
ACEEE
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
[4]
[3]
ACRS
Accelerated Cost Recovery System (finance)
[4]
[3]
ADITC
Accumulated Deferred Investment Tax Credit (policy)
[4]
[3]
AEP
American Electric Power (electricity)
[4]
[3]
AESO
Alberta Electric System Operator
[4]
[3]
AFE
Authority for Expenditure or Authorization for Expenditure
[4]
[3]
AFUDC
allowance for funds used during construction
[4]
[3]
AFV
Alternative fuel vehicle
[4]
[3]
AGA
American Gas Association
[4]
[3]
AGC
Automatic generation control
[4]
[3]
AGD
Associated Gas Distributors (US)
[4]
[3]
AIEE
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
[4]
[3]
AIMA
Agricultural Impact Mitigation Agreement (US)
[4]
[3]
ALJ
Administrative law judge
[4]
[3]
AMBO
Armenia, Macedonia, Bulgaria Oil pipeline
[4]
[3]
AMI
Advanced metering infrastructure
[4]
[3]
AMR
Automated meter reading also known as Automatic Meter Reading
[4]
[3]
Audio Modem Riser
[5]
[4]
AMRA
Automatic Meter Reading Association
[4]
[3]
ANGTA
Alaskan Natural Gas Transportation Act of 1977 to build the Alaska gas pipeline
[4]
[3]
ANGTS
Alaskan Natural Gas Transportation System
[4]
[3]
ANSI
American National Standards Institute
[4]
[5]
[3]
[4]
AOS
Authorized Overrun Service
[4]
[3]
APA
Administrative Procedure Act
—Alaska Power Administration
[4]
[3]
APE
Area of potential effect (electricity)
[4]
[3]
APPA
American Public Power Association (electricity)
[4]
[3]
APR
Actual peak reduction (e.g. in demand response systems) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Apache Portable Runtime
[5]
[4]
AQCR
Air Quality Control Region (US) (environment)
[4]
[3]
ARA
(in shipping) ports of Amsterdam – Rotterdam – Antwerp (oil)
[4]
[3]
ARR
Auction Revenue Rights (electricity)
[4]
[3]
ASCC
Alaskan System Coordination Council
[4]
[3]
ASE
Alliance to Save Energy
[4]
[3]
ASTM
American Society for Testing and Materials
[4]
[3]
ATC
Available transfer capability
[4]
[3]
AVR
Automatic Voltage Regulator (electricity)
[4]
[3]
BA
Balancing Authority
[4]
[3]
Biological Assessment
[4]
[3]
BACT
Best Available Control Technology
[4]
[3]
BBL/D
Barrel per day
[4]
[3]
BBL/SD
Barrel per day, on stream days
[4]
[3]
BBL
barrel (42 gallons)
—Balgzand Bacton Line (BBL Pipeline)
[4]
[3]
BCD
Barrel per day, on calendar days
[4]
[3]
Binary Coded Decimal
[5]
[4]
Boot Configuration Data
[5]
[4]
BCF
billion cubic feet
[4]
[3]
BCP
Blackstart Capability Plan
[4]
[3]
BES
Bulk electric system (Electricity transmission)
[4]
[3]
BfP
Bureau Fédéral du Plan (Belgium). (Has responsibilities over economic, social and environmental policy
[4]
[3]
bhp
Brake horsepower
[4]
[3]
BIA
Bureau of Indian Affairs (US)
[4]
[3]
bl
Barrel
[4]
[3]
BLM
Bureau of Land Management of United States Department of the Interior
[4]
[3]
BLS
Bureau of Labor Statistics of United States Department of Labor
[4]
[3]
BOE
Barrel of oil equivalent (international)
[4]
[3]
BPA
Bonneville Power Administration (US)
[4]
[3]
BPL
Broadband over power line
[4]
[3]
Broadband over Power Lines
[5]
[4]
BPS
Bulk Power System (Electricity transmission)
[4]
[3]
BTMG
Behind The Meter Generation
[4]
[3]
BTU
British thermal unit(s)
[4]
[3]
BTX
from BTX process, a mixture of benzene, toluene, and xylene (oil)
[4]
[3]
BuRec
United States Bureau of Reclamation (government)
[4]
[3]
BWR
Boiling water reactor (nuclear)
[4]
[3]
C&I
Commercial and industrial customers (Electricity transmission)
[4]
[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).
[4]
[3]
Computer architecture
[5]
[4]
CAA
Clean Air Act (US)
[4]
[3]
CAEM
Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets (US)
[4]
[3]
CAFE
Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards (US)
[4]
[3]
CAISO
California Independent System Operator Corporation, a regional transmission organization. (US)
[4]
[3]
CAP
Capacity market programs
—Climate Action Plan
[4]
[3]
CAPM
Capital asset pricing model
[4]
[3]
CARB
California Air Resources Board
[4]
[3]
CBL
Customer Baseline Load
[4]
[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]
CCGT
Combined cycle gas turbine electricity generator
[4]
[3]
CCLIP
Conditional Credit Line for Investment Projects
[4]
[3]
CCN
Certificate of Convenience and Necessity (utilities regulation)
[4]
[3]
CCPG
Colorado Coordinated Planning Group
[4]
[3]
CCPP
Combined cycle power plant
[4]
[3]
CD
Contract Demand
[4]
[3]
Compact Disc
[5]
[4]
CDD
Cooling degree day, a qualitative index used to reflect the demand for energy to cool a business
[4]
[3]
CDM
Clean Development Mechanism
[4]
[3]
CEA
Country Environmental Analysis
[4]
[3]
CEC
California Energy Commission
—Commission for Environmental Cooperation
[4]
[3]
CEEC
Central and Eastern European Countries
[4]
[3]
CEMS
Continuous emissions monitoring system
[4]
[3]
CEP
Country Environmental Profile
—Clean Energy Partnership, a joint hydrogen-project in Europe.
[4]
[3]
CEPS
Centre for European Policy Studies
[4]
[3]
CEPII
Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales Economics think tank
[4]
[3]
CEQ
Council on Environmental Quality
[4]
[3]
CER
Certified Emission Reduction
[4]
[3]
CERA
Cambridge Energy Research Associates
[4]
[3]
CERCLA
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act "Superfund" (US)
[4]
[3]
CERCLIS
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System (US)
[4]
[3]
CERTS
Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions sposored by the United States Department of Energy and California Energy Commission (US)
[4]
[3]
CfD
Contract for difference
[4]
[3]
CFTC
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
[4]
[3]
CH4
Methane
[4]
[3]
CHP
Combined heat and power
[4]
[3]
CIAC
Contributions in Aid of Construction
[4]
[3]
CMVE
Competitive Market Value Estimate
[4]
[3]
CNG
Compressed natural gas
[4]
[3]
Cryptographic Next Generation
[5]
[4]
Cryptography Next Generation
[5]
[4]
CO
Carbon monoxide
[4]
[3]
CO2
Carbon dioxide
[4]
[3]
COC
Cost of capital
[4]
[3]
COE
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
[4]
[3]
CP
Coincident Peak
—Certificate Proceeding
[4]
[3]
CPI
Consumer Price Index
[4]
[3]
CPP
Critical Peak Pricing
[4]
[3]
CPP-F
Critical peak fixed
[4]
[3]
Critical peak variable
[4]
[3]
CPS
Control Performance Standard
—Cycles per second (hertz)
[4]
[3]
characters per second
[5]
[4]
CPUC
California Public Utilities Commission
[4]
[3]
CREF
Caribbean Renewable Energy Facility
[4]
[3]
CRP
Conservation Reserve Program (US)
[4]
[3]
CRT
Capacity Reservation Tariff
[4]
[3]
Cathode Ray Tube
[5]
[4]
CSD
Commission for Sustainable Development (UN)
[4]
[3]
CSEM
Center for the Study of Energy Markets (US)
[4]
[3]
CSP
Country Strategy Paper
—Curtailment service provider
[4]
[3]
Cloud Service Provider
[5]
[4]
Communicating Sequential Processes
[5]
[4]
CT
Combustion turbine (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Computerized Tomography
[5]
[4]
CZMA
Coastal Zone Management Act
[4]
[3]
DADRP
Day Ahead Demand Response Program
[4]
[3]
DANIDA
Danish International Development Agency
[4]
[3]
DA-RTP
RTP Day ahead real time pricing (regarding Electricity metering)
[4]
[3]
DC
Direct current
[4]
[3]
DCLM
Direct control load management
[4]
[3]
DCS
Disturbance Control Standard
[4]
[3]
Distributed Control System
[5]
[4]
DEFG
Distributed Energy Financial Group (US)
[4]
[3]
DEIS
Draft Environmental Impact Statement (US)
[4]
[3]
DER
Distributed Energy Resources
[4]
[3]
DF
Distribution Factor
[4]
[3]
DG
Distributed generation (electricity)
—Directorate-General (EU) (government)
[4]
[3]
DIIS
Danish Institute for International Studies (organization)
[4]
[3]
DLC
Direct load control (regarding Load management)
[4]
[3]
DME
Disturbance Monitoring Equipment
[4]
[3]
DO
Dissolved oxygen
[4]
[3]
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]
DOT
United States Department of Transportation (government)
[4]
[3]
DP
Distribution point
[4]
[3]
Dot Pitch
[5]
[4]
DR
Demand response
[4]
[3]
Disaster Recovery
[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]
DRR
Demand Response resources
[4]
[3]
DRRC
Demand Response Research Center (California)
[4]
[3]
DSM
Demand side management
[4]
[3]
Dth
Dekatherm (defined as 1 million British thermal units, also written "MMBtu") (measurement)
[4]
[3]
DTW
dealer tank wagon (as in, "oil companies setting regional dealer tank wagon pricing") (Oil)
[4]
[3]
E&D
Exploration and development expenses
[4]
[3]
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]
EAR
Estimated additional resources, as in considering reserves of uranium deposits
[4]
[3]
EC
European Commission
[4]
[3]
ECAR
East Central Area Reliability Coordination Agreement (US)
[4]
[3]
EPCIP
European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection
[4]
[3]
ECPA
Electric Consumers Protection Act (US)
[4]
[3]
EDC
Electric Distribution Company (electricity)
[4]
[3]
EdF
Electricité de France
[4]
[3]
EDRP
Emergency demand response program
[4]
[3]
EE
Energy efficiency
[4]
[3]
EEI
Edison Electric Institute
[4]
[3]
EF
Earth Fault
[4]
[3]
energy factor (clothes washers)
[4]
[3]
EHV
Extra high voltage
[4]
[3]
EIA
Energy Information Administration (US)
—Environmental impact assessment (international)
[4]
[3]
EIB
European Investment Bank
[4]
[3]
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]
ELCON
Electricity Consumers Resources Council
[4]
[3]
EMF
Electro magnetic field
[4]
[3]
EMP
Environmental Management Plan
[4]
[3]
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]
EPRI
Electric Power Research Institute (US)
[4]
[3]
EPSA
Electric Power Supply Association
[4]
[3]
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]
ERGEG
European Regulators Group for Electricity and Gas
[4]
[3]
ERIS
Energy Resource Interconnection Service (electricity)
[4]
[3]
ERO
Electric Reliability Organization. The US designated NERC as its ERO.
[4]
[3]
ERoEI
Energy returned on energy invested
[4]
[3]
ERRA
Energy Regulators Regional Association
[4]
[3]
ESCO
Energy service company
[4]
[3]
ESI
Environmental Sustainability Index
[4]
[3]
ESMAP
Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme
[4]
[3]
ESP
Electrostatic precipitator
[4]
[3]
ESS
Energy Storage System, as in grid energy storage (electricity)
[4]
[3]
ETBE
ethyl tertiary butyl ether
[4]
[3]
ETSO
European Transmission System Operators association
[4]
[3]
EU
European Union
[4]
[3]
EUEF
European Union Energy Facility
[4]
[3]
EUEI
European Union Energy Initiative
[4]
[3]
FAC
Fuel Adjustment Clause
[4]
[3]
FACTS
Flexible Alternating Current Transmission System
[4]
[3]
FASB
Financial Accounting Standards Board
[4]
[3]
FBR
fast breeder reactor
[4]
[3]
FCITC
First Contingency Incremental Transfer Capability
[4]
[3]
FEIS
Final Environmental impact statement (US)
[4]
[3]
FELCC
Firm Energy Load Carrying Capability
[4]
[3]
FERC
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (U.S.)
[4]
[3]
FGD
Flue-gas desulfurization
[4]
[3]
FINESSE
Financing Energy Services for Small Scale Users
[4]
[3]
Fishway
Fish ladder
[4]
[3]
FLPMA
Federal Land Policy and Management Act (US)
[4]
[3]
FME
Free market economics
[4]
[3]
FONSI
Finding of no significant impact. See Environmental impact statement (US)
[4]
[3]
FPA
Federal Power Act (US)
[4]
[3]
FPC
Federal Power Commission (US)
[4]
[3]
FRCC
Florida Reliability Coordinating Council (US)
[4]
[3]
FRS
Financial Reporting System
[4]
[3]
FT
Firm Transportation Service
[4]
[3]
FTC
Federal Trade Commission (US)
[4]
[3]
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]
FUA
The Fuel Use Act (US)
[4]
[3]
FUCO
Foreign Utility Company
[4]
[3]
FWPA
Federal Water Power Act (US)
[4]
[3]
G&T
Generation and transmission utility cooperative (electricity)
[4]
[3]
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]
GDP
gross domestic product (economics)
[4]
[3]
GEF
Global Environmental Facility (environment)
[4]
[3]
Genco
Any company doing electricity generation (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
GFN
Global Footprint Network
[4]
[3]
GFSE
Global Forum on Sustainable Energy (organization)
[4]
[3]
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]
GISB
Gas Industry Standards Board (now NAESB) (US) (natural gas)
[4]
[3]
GLDF
Generator to Load Distribution Factor. See Load balancing (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Gm3
Billion cubic metres (measurement – gas)
[4]
[3]
GMO
Genetically modified organism
[4]
[3]
GMP
Green Mountain Power (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
GNP
gross national product (economics)
[4]
[3]
GNSED
Global Network for Sustainable Energy Development
[4]
[3]
GRI
Gas Research Institute (US) (natural gas)
[4]
[3]
GridCo
Any company running a transmission grid (electricity). Also known as a TransCo (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
GSF
Generator to Load Distribution Factor. See Load balancing (electricity)
[4]
[3]
GSR
Gas Supply Realignment (natural gas)
[4]
[3]
Gt
Gigaton (1 billion tons) (measurement)
[4]
[3]
GTCC
Gas Turbine Combined Cycle (electricity)
[4]
[3]
GTI
Gas Technology Institute (US)
[4]
[3]
Gtoe
One billion tons of oil equivalent(EU) (measurement- oil)
[4]
[3]
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]
Gwh
Gigawatt hour (one billion watt hours) (measurement- elect)
[4]
[3]
GWP
global warming potential (climate)
[4]
[3]
HCA
Host Control Area (electricity)
[4]
[3]
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]
HERS
Home energy rating standard (conservation)
[4]
[3]
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]
hp
Horsepower (measurement)
[4]
[3]
HTGR
high temperature gas cooled reactor (nuclear)
[4]
[3]
HVAC
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (conservation)
—High voltage alternating current (electricity)
[4]
[3]
HVAR
Highly Valued Aquatic Resource
[4]
[3]
HVDC
High Voltage Direct Current
[4]
[3]
I/C
Interruptible /Curtailable (electricity)
[4]
[3]
ICAP
Installed Capacity (electricity)
[4]
[3]
ICAP-SCR
Installed capacity special case resources (electricity)
[4]
[3]
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]
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]
IEA
International Energy Agency (Paris)
[4]
[3]
IEM
Internal electricity market (electricity)
[4]
[3]
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
[4]
[5]
[3]
[4]
IEPE
Institute of Energy Policy and Economics (France)
[4]
[3]
IER
Incremental Energy Rate
[4]
[3]
IET
International emission trading (policy)
[4]
[3]
IGCC
Integrated coal gasification combined cycle
[4]
[3]
IGIC
Interim gas inventory charge (natural gas)
[4]
[3]
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]
IIASA
International Institute for Applied System Analysis
[4]
[3]
IJC
International Joint Commission
[4]
[3]
ILP
Integrated Licensing Process
[4]
[3]
INGAA
Interstate Natural Gas Association of America
[4]
[3]
IOS
Interconnected Operations Services (electricity)
[4]
[3]
IOU
Investor owned utility (electricity)
[4]
[3]
IPAA
Independent Petroleum Association of America (oil)
[4]
[3]
IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (climate)
[4]
[3]
IPP
Independent Power Producer (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Internet Printing Protocol
[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]
IROL
Interconnection Reliability Operating Limit (electricity)
[4]
[3]
IRP
Integrated Resource Planning
[4]
[3]
I/O Request Packet
[5]
[4]
IRR
Internal Rate of Return (finance)
[4]
[3]
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]
ISS
Interruptible Sales Service
[4]
[3]
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]
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]
JRC
Joint Research Centre
[4]
[3]
JREC
Johannesburg Renewable Energy Coalition
[4]
[3]
koe
One kilogram oil equivalent (EU) (measurement)
[4]
[3]
kV
Kilovolt (one thousand volts) (measurement)
[4]
[3]
kVA
One thousand volt Ampere (measurement)
[4]
[3]
kvar
one thousand vars (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]
LaaR
Load acting as a resource (ERCOT category) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
LBA
Local Balancing Authority (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Logical Block Addressing
[5]
[4]
LBNL
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
[4]
[3]
LDC
Local distribution company (electricity)
[4]
[3]
LEVP
Low Emissions Vehicle Program
[4]
[3]
LHV
lower heating value
[4]
[3]
LIHEAP
Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program
[4]
[3]
LIPA
Long Island Power Authority (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
LLF
Load-loss factor (electricity)
[4]
[3]
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]
LODF
Line Outage Distribution Factor (electricity)
[4]
[3]
LOLE
Loss of Load Expectation (electricity)
[4]
[3]
LPG
liquefied petroleum gas
[4]
[3]
LPN
Lender Participation Notes
[4]
[3]
LRG
liquefied refinery gases
[4]
[3]
LSE
Load serving entity
[4]
[3]
LSF
Load Shift Factor
[4]
[3]
lsfo
Low sulfur fuel oil
[4]
[3]
LWR
light water reactor
[4]
[3]
MAAC
Mid Atlantic Area Council (US- geographically within PJM)
[4]
[3]
MADRI
Mid Atlantic Distributed Resources Initiative (US)
[4]
[3]
MAIN
Mid America Interconnected Network (US)
[4]
[3]
MAOP
Maximum allowable operating pressure
[4]
[3]
MAPP
Mid Continent Area Power Pool (US)
[4]
[3]
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]
Mcf
Roman numeral "M" for one thousand cubic feet (measurement of natural gas)
[4]
[3]
MDAS
Meter Data Acquisition System
[4]
[3]
MDD
Maximum Daily Delivery Obligations
[4]
[3]
MDDQ
Maximum Daily Delivery Quantity
[4]
[3]
MDM
Meter Data Management
[4]
[3]
MDQ
Maximum Daily Quantities
[4]
[3]
MECS
Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey
[4]
[3]
MEDREP
Mediterranean Renewables Energy Partnership
[4]
[3]
MER
Maximum efficient rate
[4]
[3]
MERC
Mobile Emission Reduction Credit (MERC) (US)
[4]
[3]
MFV
Modified fixed variable rate
[4]
[3]
MISO
Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. A regional transmission organization. (US)
[4]
[3]
MLP
Maximum lawful price
[4]
[3]
MLRA
Major Land Resource Areas
[4]
[3]
MM
Used to denote million in gas usage
[4]
[3]
MMbbl/d
one million barrels of oil per day
[4]
[3]
MMBtu
1 million British thermal units, same as dekatherm
[4]
[3]
MMC
Market Monitoring Center
[4]
[3]
Microsoft Management Console
[5]
[4]
MMCF
one million cubic feet (measurement of natural gas)
[4]
[3]
MMCFD
one million cubic feet per day
[4]
[3]
MMGAL
one million gallons
[4]
[3]
MMGAL/D
one million gallons per day
[4]
[3]
MMS
Minerals Management Service (US)
[4]
[3]
MMST
one million short tons
[4]
[3]
MODFLOW
model of groundwater flow
[4]
[3]
MOU
Memorandum of Understanding
[4]
[3]
MOX
mixed oxide fuel (nuclear)
[4]
[3]
MPG
Miles per gallon
[4]
[3]
MRO
Midwest Reliability Organization (US)
[4]
[3]
MSA
metropolitan statistical area
[4]
[3]
Mail Submission Agent
[5]
[4]
MSHA
Mine Safety and Health Administration (US)
[4]
[3]
msl
Mean sea level
[4]
[3]
MSW
Municipal solid waste
[4]
[3]
Mt
one million tons (ambiguous as to whether short tons or metric tons)
—one Metric ton
[4]
[3]
MTBE
methyl tertiary butyl ether
[4]
[3]
MTEF
Medium Term Expenditure Framework
[4]
[3]
MTEP
Midwest ISO Transmission Expansion Plan 2005 (US)
[4]
[3]
Mtoe
One million tons of oil equivalent(EU)
[4]
[3]
Muni
Municipality
[4]
[3]
MVA
Megavolt amperes (one million volt amperes)
[4]
[3]
MW
Megawatt (one million watts)
[4]
[3]
MWE
megawatt electric
[4]
[3]
MWh
Megawatt hour (one million watt hours)
[4]
[3]
N2O
nitrous oxide
[4]
[3]
NAAQS
National Ambient Air Quality Standards (US)
[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]
NAP
National Renewable Energy Action Plan
[4]
[3]
Network Access Protection
[5]
[4]
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]
NASPI
North American Synchrophasor Initiative
[4]
[3]
NASUCA
National Association of Utility Consumer Advocates(US)
[4]
[3]
NATC
Non Recallable Available Transfer Capability
[4]
[3]
NBS
National Bureau of Standards (US)
[4]
[3]
NCD
Non coincidental Demand
[4]
[3]
NCEP
National Council on Electricity Policy (US) [2]
[4]
[3]
NCSL
National Conference of State Legislatures (US)
[4]
[3]
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]
NEPA
National Environmental Policy Act (US)
[4]
[3]
NEPOOL
New England Power Pool
[4]
[3]
NERC
North American Electric Reliability Council
[4]
[3]
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]
NGV
Natural gas vehicle
[4]
[3]
NHPA
National Historic Preservation Act (US)
[4]
[3]
NIETC
National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor (US)
[4]
[3]
NITC
Normal Incremental Transfer Capability
[4]
[3]
NIMBY
Not in my backyard regarding siting of energy generation and transmission infrastructure.
[4]
[3]
NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
[4]
[3]
NOC
National Oil Company
[4]
[3]
Network Operations Center
[5]
[4]
NOPR
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (US)
[4]
[3]
NORDEL
association of Nordic electric system operators, comprising Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden
[4]
[3]
NOx
nitrogen oxides
[4]
[3]
NPCC
Northeast Power Coordinating Council (US)
[4]
[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]
NSA
Noise sensitive area
[4]
[3]
Network Security Appliance
[5]
[4]
NTAC
Northwest Transmission Assessment Committee (US)
[4]
[3]
NUG
Non Utility Generator
[4]
[3]
NURE
national uranium resource evaluation (US)
[4]
[3]
NYDER
New York Department of Environmental Resources
[4]
[3]
NYISO
New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (US)
[4]
[3]
NYPSC
New York Public Service Commission
[4]
[3]
NYSERDA
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
[4]
[3]
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]
OATT
Open Access Transmission Tariff (US)
[4]
[3]
OCS
Outer Continental Shelf (oil)
[4]
[3]
OCSLA
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (oil)
[4]
[3]
OECD
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
[4]
[3]
OFO
Operational Flow Order
[4]
[3]
OMP
Operation and Maintenance Plan
[4]
[3]
Ontario
IESO Ontario Independent Electricity System Operator (Canada)
[4]
[3]
OPEC
Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries (oil)
[4]
[3]
OPRG
oxygenated fuels program reformulated gasoline (oil)
[4]
[3]
ORNL
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S.) (nuclear)
[4]
[3]
OSHA
U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration
[4]
[3]
OTAG
Ozone Transport Assessment Group
[4]
[3]
OTDF
Outage Transfer Distribution Factor
[4]
[3]
OTEC
ocean thermal energy conversion (electricity)
[4]
[3]
PADD
Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts (US)
[4]
[3]
PBR
pebble bed reactor (nuclear)
[4]
[3]
PCB
polychlorinated biphenyl
[4]
[3]
Printed Circuit Board
[5]
[4]
Process Control Block
[5]
[4]
PCM
Project Cycle Management
[4]
[3]
Pulse-Code Modulation
[5]
[4]
PCT
Programmable Communicating Thermostat (electricity)
[4]
[3]
PD
Preliminary Determination
[4]
[3]
Public Domain
[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]
PEM
Proton Exchange Membrane
[4]
[3]
PFC
perfluorocarbons
[4]
[3]
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]
PHA
Production Handling Agreement
[4]
[3]
PHFFU
Plant held for future use
[4]
[3]
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]
PJM
PJM Interconnection, LLC, a regional transmission organization. (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
PLC
Power line communication (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Power Line Communication
[5]
[4]
Programmable Logic Controller
[5]
[4]
PLMA
Peak Load Management Association (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
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]
PMU
Phasor measurement unit (electricity)
[4]
[3]
PNNL
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE) (US)
[4]
[3]
POD
Point of Delivery
[4]
[3]
PoE
Power over Ethernet
[4]
[5]
[3]
[4]
POLES
Prospective On Long Term Energy Systems
[4]
[3]
POLR
Provider of last resort (electricity)
[4]
[3]
PPA
Power Purchase Agreement (electricity)
[4]
[3]
PPI
producer price index
[4]
[3]
Pixels Per Inch
[5]
[4]
ppmv
Parts Per Million by Volume
[4]
[3]
ppp
Purchasing power parity
[4]
[3]
PPR
Potential peak reduction
[4]
[3]
PREP
Pacific Regional Energy Programme
[4]
[3]
PRESSEA
Promotion of Renewable Energy Sources in South East Asia (PRESSEA)
[4]
[3]
Prim
Primary (electricity) nuclear, hydro, geothermal, wind, solar
[4]
[3]
PSC
Public Service Commission
[4]
[3]
PSD
Prevention of Significant Deterioration
[4]
[3]
PSE
Puget Sound Energy (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
PTDF
Power Transfer Distribution Factor (electricity)
[4]
[3]
PTP
Point to Point Transmission Service (electricity)
[4]
[3]
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]
PWR
pressurized water reactor (nuclear)
[4]
[3]
PX
Power exchange
[4]
[3]
QF
qualifying facility
[4]
[3]
QSE
Qualifying scheduling entity
[4]
[3]
QUAD
1015 Btu (a quadrillion in the short scale)
[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]
RAP
Regulatory Assistance Project
[4]
[3]
RAR
Reasonable assured resources
[4]
[3]
RAS
Remedial Action Scheme
[4]
[3]
Reliability, Availability and Serviceability
[5]
[4]
Remote Access Service
[5]
[4]
RATC
Recallable Available Transmission Capability
[4]
[3]
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]
RDF
refuse derived fuel (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Resource Description Framework
[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]
RER
Renewable Energy Rider
[4]
[3]
RES
Renewable energy source
[4]
[3]
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]
RFP
Request for proposals
[4]
[3]
RGGI
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
[4]
[3]
RGS
Renewable Generating System
[4]
[3]
RM
Rulemaking
[4]
[3]
RMATS
Rocky Mountain Area Transmission Study (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
RMR
Reliability Must Run (electricity)
[4]
[3]
RMU
Removal Units
[4]
[3]
ROA
Return of Assets (finance)
[4]
[3]
ROFR
Right of First Refusal (finance)
[4]
[3]
ROW
Right of Way
[4]
[3]
RRO
Regional reliability organization (US)
[4]
[3]
RSE
Revenue Stream Estimate (finance)
[4]
[3]
relative standard error
[4]
[3]
RTBM
Real-Time Balancing Market (electricity)
[4]
[3]
RTEP
Regional transmission expansion plan
[4]
[3]
RTG
Regional Transmission Group (US)
[4]
[3]
RTO
Regional transmission organization (US)
[4]
[3]
RTP
Real time Pricing
[4]
[3]
Real-time Transport Protocol
[5]
[4]
RTU
Remote Terminal Unit
[4]
[3]
RUS
Rural Utilities Service
[4]
[3]
RVP
Reid vapor pressure
[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]
SCE
Southern California Edison (US)
[4]
[3]
SCE&G
South Carolina Electric & Gas (US)
[4]
[3]
scf
Standard cubic foot
[4]
[3]
SCO
Stranded Cost Obligation (finance)
[4]
[3]
SCR
Special Case Resources (US- NYISO category)
[4]
[3]
Selective Catalytic Reduction
[4]
[3]
SDG&E
San Diego Gas & Electric (US)
[4]
[3]
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]
SEIA
Sustainable Energy Industry Association
[4]
[3]
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]
SFV
Straight Fixed Variable
[4]
[3]
SGR
State game refuge (US)
[4]
[3]
Select Graphic Rendition
[5]
[4]
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]
SMPs
Special Marketing Programs
[4]
[3]
SNG
Synthetic Natural Gas or Substitute Natural Gas
[4]
[3]
SO2
Sulfur dioxide
[4]
[3]
SOL
System Operating Limit
[4]
[3]
SPCC
Spill Prevention, Containment and Countermeasure Plan
SPM—Synchronized phasor measurement- a WAMS network with synchrophasor sensors (PMUs). (electricity)
[4]
[3]
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]
SR
Speculative resources For example, regarding uranium deposits. (nuclear)
[4]
[3]
SRP
Salt River Agricultural Improvement & Power District (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
SSG
WI PWG Seams Steering Group of Western Interconnection PlanningWork Group (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
SSM
Synchronized system measurement-a WAMS with synchronous sensors in addition to PMUs. See Phasor networks.
[4]
[3]
STEP
Southwest Transmission Expansion Plan group (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
SVC
Static VAR compensator (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Scalable Video Coding
[5]
[4]
SWAT
Southwest Area Transmission (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
SWU
Separative work unit
[4]
[3]
TAME
Tertiary amyl methyl ether
[4]
[3]
TAPS
Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (natural gas)
[4]
[3]
TBA
tertiary butyl alcohol
[4]
[3]
TBL
Transmission business line (electricity)
[4]
[3]
TBS
Town border station
[4]
[3]
Tcf
Trillion cubic feet (measurement)
[4]
[3]
TCR
Transition Cost Recovery (Mechanism)
[4]
[3]
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]
TLR
Procedures Transmission Line Loading Relief Procedures (electricity)
[4]
[3]
TO
Transmission owner (electricity)
[4]
[3]
toe
Ton of oil equivalent (EU)
[4]
[3]
TOP
Transmission Operator (electricity)
[4]
[3]
TOU
Time of use (rate) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Transco
Transmission Company (US) (electricity)
—Transcontinental Pipeline (US) (natural gas)
[4]
[3]
TRM
Transmission Reliability Margin (electricity)
[4]
[3]
TSO
Transmission System Operator) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Time Sharing Option
[5]
[4]
TSR
Transmission Service Request (electricity)
[4]
[3]
Terminate and Stay Resident
[5]
[4]
TTC
Total Transfer Capability (electricity)
[4]
[3]
TVA
Tennessee Valley Authority (US) (electricity)
[4]
[3]
TW
terawatt (one trillion watts) (measurement)
[4]
[3]
TWH
terawatt-hour (one trillion watt hours)
[4]
[3]
T&D
Transmission & Distribution
[4]
[3]
U.S.C.
United States Code
[4]
[3]
U3O8
triuranium octaoxide (nuclear)
[4]
[3]
UAE
United Arab Emirates (oil)
[4]
[3]
UCAP
Unforced Capacity (electricity)
[4]
[3]
UCTE
Union for the Coordination of the Transport of Electricity, the power transmission system of continental Europe
[4]
[3]
UF6
uranium hexaflouride (nuclear)
[4]
[3]
UFLS
Under frequency load shedding (electricity)
[4]
[3]
UHVAC
Ultra High Voltage Alternating Current (electricity)
[4]
[3]
UHVDC
Ultra High Voltage Direct Current (electricity)
[4]
[3]
ULCC
Ultra Large Crude Carrier (oil)
[4]
[3]
UMTRA
Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (US)
[4]
[3]
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]
URR
Ultimate Recoverable Resources
[4]
[3]
USBR
United States Bureau of Reclamation
[4]
[3]
USCE
United States Army Corps of Engineers
[4]
[3]
US DOE
United States Department of Energy
[4]
[3]
USGS
United States Geological Survey
[4]
[3]
UVLS
Under voltage load shedding (electricity)
[4]
[3]
V
Volt (measurement)
[4]
[3]
VA
Volt-ampere (measurement)
[4]
[3]
var
Volt-ampere reactive (measurement)
[4]
[3]
variable
[5]
[4]
VAWT
vertical axis wind turbine (wind)
[4]
[3]
VIN
vehicle identification number (US) (transportation)
[4]
[3]
VLCC
very large crude carrier (oil)
[4]
[3]
VMT
vehicle miles traveled (transportation)
[4]
[3]
VOC
volatile organic compound
[4]
[3]
VPP
Variable peak pricing (electricity)
[4]
[3]
VSA
Voltage stability analysis
[4]
[3]
W
Watt
[4]
[3]
WACOG
weighted average cost of gas
[4]
[3]
WAMS
Wide area measurement system- see description in phasor measurement unit article. (electricity)
[4]
[3]
WCMC
World Conservation Monitoring Centre
[4]
[3]
WCRE
World Commission on Renewable Energy
[4]
[3]
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]
WH
watthour (measurement)
[4]
[3]
WHO
World Health Organisation
[4]
[3]
WIRAB
Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (US)
[4]
[3]
WRI
World Resources Institute
[4]
[3]
WSCC
Western Systems Coordinating Council (US)
[4]
[3]
WSPP
Western Systems Power Pool (US)
[4]
[3]
WSSD
World Summit on Sustainable Development
[4]
[3]
WTG
Wind turbine generator (wind)
[4]
[3]
Way to go
[6]
[5]
WTP
Willingness to pay
[4]
[3]
WY
Water Year (measurement)
[4]
[3]
AFUE
annual fuel utilization efficiency
[4]
[3]
BTL
building tightness limit (building tightness)
[4]
[3]
CDH
cooling degree hours (climate)
[4]
[3]
CFL
compact fluorescent light
[4]
[3]
COP
coefficient of performance
[4]
[3]
CRI
color rendering index
[4]
[3]
EEM
Energy Efficient Mortgage
[4]
[3]
EER
energy efficiency ratio
[4]
[3]
ERV
energy-recovery ventilator
[4]
[3]
HRV
heat-recovery ventilator
[4]
[3]
HSPF
heating seasonal performance factor
[4]
[3]
HVI
Home Ventilating Institute
[4]
[3]
IECC
International Energy Conservation Code
[4]
[3]
K-value
thermal conductance
[4]
[3]
Low-e
low emissivity
[4]
[3]
LEED
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, standard for Green Building design
[4]
[3]
MEF
modified energy factor (clothes washers)
[4]
[3]
MINHERS
Mortgage Industry National Home Energy Rating Systems Standards
[4]
[3]
MVG
minimum ventilation guideline (building tightness)
[4]
[3]
MVL
minimum ventilation level (building tightness)
[4]
[3]
NAECA
National Appliance Energy Conservation Act
[4]
[3]
ODS
oxygen depletion sensor
[4]
[3]
RESNET
Residential energy services network
[4]
[3]
R-value
thermal resistance
[4]
[3]
SC
shading coefficient (windows)
[4]
[3]
SHGC
solar heat gain coefficient
[4]
[3]
SIR
savings-to-investment ratio (energy conservation investments)
[4]
[3]
SPB
Simple Payback (energy conservation investments)
[4]
[3]
SSE
steady-state efficiency
[4]
[3]
Streaming SIMD Extensions
[5]
[4]
U-value
thermal transmittance (also called U-factor)
[4]
[3]
WF
water factor (clothes washers)
[4]
[3]
#!
Shebang
[5]
[4]
/.
Slashdot
[5]
[4]
1GL
First-Generation Programming Language
[5]
[4]
1NF
First Normal Form
[5]
[4]
10B2
10BASE-2
[5]
[4]
10B5
10BASE-5
[5]
[4]
10B-F
10BASE-F
[5]
[4]
10B-FB
10BASE-FB
[5]
[4]
10B-FL
10BASE-FL
[5]
[4]
10B-FP
10BASE-FP
[5]
[4]
10B-T
10BASE-T
[5]
[4]
100B-FX
100BASE-FX
[5]
[4]
100B-T
100BASE-T
[5]
[4]
100B-TX
100BASE-TX
[5]
[4]
100BVG
100BASE-VG
[5]
[4]
286
Intel 80286 processor
[5]
[4]
2B1Q
2 Binary 1 Quaternary
[5]
[4]
2FA
Two-factor authentication
[5]
[4]
2GL
Second-Generation Programming Language
[5]
[4]
2NF
Second Normal Form
[5]
[4]
3GL
Third-Generation Programming Language
[5]
[4]
3GPP
3rd Generation Partnership Project—'3G comms
[5]
[4]
3GPP2
3rd Generation Partnership Project 2
[5]
[4]
3NF
Third Normal Form
[5]
[4]
386
Intel 80386 processor
[5]
[4]
486
Intel 80486 processor
[5]
[4]
4B5BLF
4 Byte 5 Byte Local Fiber
[5]
[4]
4GL
Fourth-Generation Programming Language
[5]
[4]
4NF
Fourth Normal Form
[5]
[4]
5GL
Fifth-Generation Programming Language
[5]
[4]
5NF
Fifth Normal Form
[5]
[4]
6NF
Sixth Normal Form
[5]
[4]
8B10BLF
8 Byte 10 Byte Local Fiber
[5]
[4]
802.11
Wireless LAN
[5]
[4]
AAA
Authentication Authorization, Accounting
[5]
[4]
AABB
Axis Aligned Bounding Box
[5]
[4]
AAC
Advanced Audio Coding
[5]
[4]
AAL
ATM Adaptation Layer
[5]
[4]
AALC
ATM Adaptation Layer Connection
[5]
[4]
AARP
AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol
[5]
[4]
ABAC
Attribute-Based Access Control
[5]
[4]
ABCL
Actor-Based Concurrent Language
[5]
[4]
ABI
Application Binary Interface
[5]
[4]
ABM
Asynchronous Balanced Mode
[5]
[4]
ABR
Area Border Router
[5]
[4]
Auto Baud-Rate detection
[5]
[4]
Available Bitrate
[5]
[4]
Average Bitrate
[5]
[4]
ACD
Automatic Call Distributor
[5]
[4]
ACID
Atomicity Consistency Isolation Durability
[5]
[4]
ACK
ACKnowledgement
[5]
[4]
Amsterdam Compiler Kit
[5]
[4]
ACM
Association for Computing Machinery
[5]
[4]
ACME
Automated Classification of Medical Entities
[5]
[4]
ACP
Airline Control Program
[5]
[4]
ACPI
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
[5]
[4]
ACR
Allowed Cell Rate
[5]
[4]
Attenuation to Crosstalk Ratio
[5]
[4]
AD
Active Directory
[5]
[4]
Administrative Domain
[5]
[4]
ADC
Analog-to-Digital Converter
[5]
[4]
Apple Display Connector
[5]
[4]
ADB
Apple Desktop Bus
[5]
[4]
ADCCP
Advanced Data Communications Control Procedures
[5]
[4]
ADO
ActiveX Data Objects
[5]
[4]
ADSL
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
[5]
[4]
ADT
Abstract Data Type
[5]
[4]
AE
Adaptive Equalizer
[5]
[4]
AES
Advanced Encryption Standard
[5]
[4]
AF
Anisotropic Filtering
[5]
[4]
As fuck
[6]
[5]
AFP
Apple Filing Protocol
[5]
[4]
AGP
Accelerated Graphics Port
[5]
[4]
AH
Active Hub
[5]
[4]
AI
Artificial Intelligence
[5]
[4]
AIX
Advanced Interactive eXecutive
[5]
[4]
Ajax
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
[5]
[4]
AL
Active Link
[5]
[4]
Access List
[5]
[4]
ALAC
Apple Lossless Audio Codec
[5]
[4]
ALGOL
Algorithmic Language
[5]
[4]
ALSA
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
[5]
[4]
ALU
Arithmetic and Logical Unit
[5]
[4]
AM
Access Method
[5]
[4]
Active Matrix
[5]
[4]
Active Monitor
[5]
[4]
Allied Mastercomputer
[5]
[4]
Amplitude Modulation
[5]
[4]
AMOLED
Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode
[5]
[4]
AMD
Advanced Micro Devices
[5]
[4]
AMQP
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol
[5]
[4]
ANN
Artificial Neural Network
[5]
[4]
ANT
Another Neat Tool
[5]
[4]
AoE
ATA over Ethernet
[5]
[4]
AOP
Aspect-Oriented Programming
[5]
[4]
APCI
Application-Layer Protocol Control Information
[5]
[4]
APIC
Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
[5]
[4]
APIPA
Automatic Private IP Addressing
[5]
[4]
APL
A Programming Language
[5]
[4]
ARC
Adaptive Replacement Cache
[5]
[4]
Advanced RISC Computing
[5]
[4]
ARIN
American Registry for Internet Numbers
[5]
[4]
ARM
Advanced RISC Machines
[5]
[4]
AROS
AROS Research Operating System
[5]
[4]
ARP
Address Resolution Protocol
[5]
[4]
ARPA
Address and Routing Parameter Area
[5]
[4]
Advanced Research Projects Agency
[5]
[4]
ARPANET
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
[5]
[4]
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
[5]
[4]
AuthIP
Authenticated Internet Protocol
[5]
[4]
ASET
Automated Security Enhancement Tool
[5]
[4]
ASG
Abstract Semantic Graph
[5]
[4]
ASIC
Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
[5]
[4]
ASIMO
Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility
[5]
[4]
ASLR
Address Space Layout Randomization
[5]
[4]
ASM
Algorithmic State Machine
[5]
[4]
ASMP
Asymmetric Multiprocessing
[5]
[4]
ASN.1
Abstract Syntax Notation 1
[5]
[4]
ASP
Active Server Pages
[5]
[4]
Application Service Provider
[5]
[4]
ASR
Asynchronous Signal Routine
[5]
[4]
AST
Abstract Syntax Tree
[5]
[4]
ASSP
Application-Specific Standard Product
[5]
[4]
AT
Advanced Technology
[5]
[4]
Access Time
[5]
[4]
Active Terminator
[5]
[4]
ATA
Advanced Technology Attachment
[5]
[4]
ATAG
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
[5]
[4]
ATAPI
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface
[5]
[4]
ATM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
[5]
[4]
At the moment
[6]
[5]
AV
Antivirus
[5]
[4]
AVC
Advanced Video Coding
[5]
[4]
AVI
Audio Video Interleaved
[5]
[4]
AWK
Aho Weinberger Kernighan
[5]
[4]
AWT
Abstract Window Toolkit
[5]
[4]
AWFL
Acronym With Four Letters
[5]
[4]
B2B
Business-to-Business
[5]
[4]
Business to Business
[6]
[5]
B2E
Business-to-Employee
[5]
[4]
BAL
Basic Assembly Language
[5]
[4]
BAM
Block Availability Map
[5]
[4]
Bash
Bourne-again shell
[5]
[4]
BASIC
Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
[5]
[4]
BBP
Baseband Processor
[5]
[4]
BBS
Bulletin Board System
[5]
[4]
BCNF
Boyce–Codd normal form
[5]
[4]
BEEP
Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol
[5]
[4]
BER
Bit Error Rate
[5]
[4]
BFD
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
[5]
[4]
Binary File Descriptor
[5]
[4]
BFS
Breadth-First Search
[5]
[4]
BFT
Byzantine Fault Tolerant
[5]
[4]
BI
Business Intelligence
[5]
[4]
BiDi
Bi-Directional
[5]
[4]
bin
binary
[5]
[4]
BINAC
Binary Automatic Computer
[5]
[4]
BIND
Berkeley Internet Name Domain
[5]
[4]
BJT
Bipolar Junction Transistor
[5]
[4]
bit
binary digit
[5]
[4]
Blob
Binary large object
[5]
[4]
Blog
Web Log
[5]
[4]
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
[5]
[4]
BNC
Bayonet Neill-Concelman
[5]
[4]
BOINC
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
[5]
[4]
BOM
Byte Order Mark
[5]
[4]
BOOTP
Bootstrap Protocol
[5]
[4]
BPDU
Bridge Protocol Data Unit
[5]
[4]
BPEL
Business Process Execution Language
[5]
[4]
BPM
Business Process Management
[5]
[4]
Business Process Modeling
[5]
[4]
bps
bits per second
[5]
[4]
BRM
Business Reference Model
[5]
[4]
BRMS
Business Rule Management System
[5]
[4]
BRR
Business Readiness Rating
[5]
[4]
BRS
Broadband Radio Service
[5]
[4]
BSA
Business Software Alliance
[5]
[4]
BSB
Backside Bus
[5]
[4]
BSD
Berkeley Software Distribution
[5]
[4]
BSoD
Blue Screen of Death
[5]
[4]
BSS
Block Started by Symbol
[5]
[4]
BT
BitTorrent
[5]
[4]
Bluetooth
[5]
[4]
B TAM
Basic Telecommunications Access Method
[5]
[4]
BW
Bandwidth
[5]
[4]
BYOD
Bring Your Own Device
[5]
[4]
Byte
By eight (group of 8 bits)
[5]
[4]
CAD
Computer-Aided Design
[5]
[4]
CAE
Computer-Aided Engineering
[5]
[4]
CAID
Computer-Aided Industrial Design
[5]
[4]
CAI
Computer-Aided Instruction
[5]
[4]
CAM
Computer-Aided Manufacturing
[5]
[4]
CAPTCHA
Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
[5]
[4]
CAT
Computer-Aided Translation
[5]
[4]
CAQ
Computer-Aided Quality Assurance
[5]
[4]
CASE
Computer-Aided Software Engineering
[5]
[4]
cc
C Compiler
[5]
[4]
CDE
Common Desktop Environment
[5]
[4]
CDFS
Compact Disk File System
[5]
[4]
CDN
Content Delivery Network
[5]
[4]
CDP
Cisco Discovery Protocol
[5]
[4]
Continuous Data Protection
[5]
[4]
CD-R
CD-Recordable
[5]
[4]
CD-ROM
CD Read-Only Memory
[5]
[4]
CD-RW
CD-Rewritable
[5]
[4]
CDSA
Common Data Security Architecture
[5]
[4]
CERT
Computer Emergency Response Team
[5]
[4]
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]
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]
CHAP
Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol
[5]
[4]
CHS
Cylinder-Head-Sector
[5]
[4]
CIDR
Classless Inter-Domain Routing
[5]
[4]
CIFS
Common Internet Filesystem
[5]
[4]
CIM
Common Information Model
[5]
[4]
Computationally Independent Model
[5]
[4]
CIO
Chief Information Officer
[5]
[4]
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]
CMDB
Configuration Management Database
[5]
[4]
CMMI
Capability Maturity Model Integration
[5]
[4]
CMOS
Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
[5]
[4]
CMS
Content Management System
[5]
[4]
CN
Canonical Name
[5]
[4]
Common Name
[5]
[4]
CNC
Computer Numerical Control
[5]
[4]
CNR
Communications and Networking Riser
[5]
[4]
COBOL
Common Business-Oriented Language
[5]
[4]
COM
Component Object Model or communication
[5]
[4]
CORBA
Common Object Request Broker Architecture
[5]
[4]
COTS
Commercial Off-The-Shelf
[5]
[4]
CPAN
Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
[5]
[4]
CP/M
Control Program/Monitor
[5]
[4]
CPRI
Common Public Radio Interface
[5]
[4]
CR
Carriage Return
[5]
[4]
CRAN
Comprehensive R Archive Network
[5]
[4]
CRC
Cyclic Redundancy Check
[5]
[4]
CRLF
Carriage Return Line Feeds
[5]
[4]
CRS
Computer Reservations System
[5]
[4]
CRUD
Create, Read, Update and Delete
[5]
[4]
CS
Cable Select
[5]
[4]
Computer Science
[5]
[4]
CSE
Computer Science and Engineering
[5]
[4]
CSM
Compatibility Support Module
[5]
[4]
CSMA/CD
Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection
[5]
[4]
CSRF
Cross-Site Request Forgery
[5]
[4]
CTAN
Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
[5]
[4]
CTCP
Client-To-Client Protocol
[5]
[4]
CTI
Computer Telephony Integration
[5]
[4]
CTFE
Compile Time Function Execution
[5]
[4]
CTL
Computational Tree Logic
[5]
[4]
CTM
Close To Metal
[5]
[4]
CTS
Clear To Send
[5]
[4]
CTSS
Compatible Time-Sharing System
[5]
[4]
CUA
Common User Access
[5]
[4]
DAC
Digital-To-Analog Converter
[5]
[4]
Discretionary Access Control
[5]
[4]
DAL
Database Abstraction Layer
[5]
[4]
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]
DCC
Direct Client-to-Client
[5]
[4]
DCCP
Datagram Congestion Control Protocol
[5]
[4]
DCCA
Debian Common Core Alliance
[5]
[4]
DCL
Data Control Language
[5]
[4]
DCMI
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
[5]
[4]
DCOM
Distributed Component Object Model
[5]
[4]
DD
Double Density
[5]
[4]
DDE
Dynamic Data Exchange
[5]
[4]
DDI
DNS DHCP & IP Address management
[5]
[4]
DDL
Data Definition Language
[5]
[4]
DDoS
Distributed Denial of Service
[5]
[4]
DDR
Double Data Rate
[5]
[4]
DEC
Digital Equipment Corporation
[5]
[4]
DES
Data Encryption Standard
[5]
[4]
dev
development
[5]
[4]
DFA
Deterministic Finite Automaton
[5]
[4]
DFD
Data Flow Diagram
[5]
[4]
DGD
Dworkin's Game Driver
[5]
[4]
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
[5]
[4]
DHTML
Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language
[5]
[4]
DIF
Data Integrity Field
[5]
[4]
DIMM
Dual Inline Memory Module
[5]
[4]
DIN
Deutsches Institut für Normung
[5]
[4]
DIP
Dual In-line Package
[5]
[4]
DISM
Deployment Image and Service Management Tool
[5]
[4]
DIVX
Digital Video Express
[5]
[4]
DKIM
Domain Keys Identified Mail
[5]
[4]
DL
Download
[5]
[4]
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]
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]
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]
DOM
Document Object Model
[5]
[4]
DoS
Denial of Service
[5]
[4]
DOS
Disk Operating System
[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-DOS
Digital Research - Disk Operating System
[5]
[4]
DRI
Direct Rendering Infrastructure
[5]
[4]
DRM
Digital Rights Management
[5]
[4]
Direct Rendering Manager
[5]
[4]
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]
DSN
Database Source Name
[5]
[4]
Data Set Name
[5]
[4]
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]
DTR
Data Terminal Ready or Data transfer rate
[5]
[4]
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]
DVR
Digital Video Recorder
[5]
[4]
DW
Data Warehouse
[5]
[4]
EAI
Enterprise Application Integration
[5]
[4]
EAP
Extensible Authentication Protocol
[5]
[4]
EAS
Exchange ActiveSync
[5]
[4]
EBCDIC
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
[5]
[4]
EBML
Extensible Binary Meta Language
[5]
[4]
ECMA
European Computer Manufacturers Association
[5]
[4]
ECN
Explicit Congestion Notification
[5]
[4]
ECOS
Embedded Configurable Operating System
[5]
[4]
ECRS
Expense and Cost Recovery System
[5]
[4]
EDA
Electronic Design Automation
[5]
[4]
EDI
Electronic Data Interchange
[5]
[4]
EDO
Extended Data Out
[5]
[4]
EDSAC
Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator
[5]
[4]
EDVAC
Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
[5]
[4]
EEPROM
Electronically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
[5]
[4]
EFF
Electronic Frontier Foundation
[5]
[4]
EFI
Extensible Firmware Interface
[5]
[4]
EFM
Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation
[5]
[4]
Ethernet in the First Mile
[5]
[4]
EFS
Encrypting File System
[5]
[4]
EGA
Enhanced Graphics Array
[5]
[4]
E-mail
Electronic mail
[5]
[4]
EGP
Exterior Gateway Protocol
[5]
[4]
eID
electronic ID card
[5]
[4]
EIDE
Enhanced IDE
[5]
[4]
EIGRP
Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
[5]
[4]
EISA
Extended Industry Standard Architecture
[5]
[4]
ELF
Extremely Low Frequency
[5]
[4]
Executable and Linkable Format
[5]
[4]
ELM
ELectronic Mail
[5]
[4]
EMACS
Editor MACroS
[5]
[4]
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]
EOS
End OF Support
[5]
[4]
EPIC
Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing
[5]
[4]
EPROM
Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
[5]
[4]
ERD
Entity-Relationship Diagram
[5]
[4]
ERM
Entity-Relationship Model
[5]
[4]
eSATA
external SATA
[5]
[4]
ESB
Enterprise service bus
[5]
[4]
ESCON
Enterprise Systems Connection
[5]
[4]
ESD
Electrostatic Discharge
[5]
[4]
ESR
Eric Steven Raymond
[5]
[4]
ETL
Extract, Transform, Load
[5]
[4]
ETW
Event Tracing for Windows
[5]
[4]
EUC
Extended Unix Code
[5]
[4]
EULA
End User License Agreement
[5]
[4]
EWMH
Extended Window Manager Hints
[5]
[4]
EXT
EXTended file system
[5]
[4]
FAP
FORTRAN Assembly Program
[5]
[4]
FASM
Flat ASseMbler
[5]
[4]
FAT
File Allocation Table
[5]
[4]
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
[5]
[4]
Frequently Asked Question(s)
[6]
[5]
FBDIMM
Fully Buffered Dual Inline Memory Module
[5]
[4]
FC-AL
Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop
[5]
[4]
FCB
File Control Block
[5]
[4]
FCS
Frame Check Sequence
[5]
[4]
FDC
Floppy Disk Controller
[5]
[4]
FDS
Fedora Directory Server
[5]
[4]
FDD
Frequency-Division Duplexing
[5]
[4]
Floppy Disk Drive
[5]
[4]
FDDI
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
[5]
[4]
FDM
Frequency-Division Multiplexing
[5]
[4]
FDMA
Frequency-Division Multiple Access
[5]
[4]
FEC
Forward Error Correction
[5]
[4]
FEMB
Front-End Motherboard
[5]
[4]
FET
Field Effect Transistor
[5]
[4]
FHS
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
[5]
[4]
FICON
FIber CONnectivity
[5]
[4]
FIPS
Federal Information Processing Standards
[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]
FMC
Fixed Mobile Convergence "Mobile UC or Unified Communications over Wireless"
[5]
[4]
FMO
Future Mode of Operation
[5]
[4]
FOLDOC
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
[5]
[4]
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]
FPGA
Field Programmable Gate Array
[5]
[4]
FPU
Floating Point Unit
[5]
[4]
FRU
Field Replaceable Unit
[5]
[4]
FS
File System
[5]
[4]
FSB
Front Side Bus
[5]
[4]
fsck
File System Check
[5]
[4]
FSF
Free Software Foundation
[5]
[4]
FSM
Finite State Machine
[5]
[4]
FTTA
Fiber To The Antenna
[5]
[4]
FTTC
Fiber To The Curb
[5]
[4]
FTTH
Fiber To The Home
[5]
[4]
FTTP
Fiber To The Premises
[5]
[4]
FQDN
Fully Qualified Domain Name
[5]
[4]
FUD
Fear Uncertainty Doubt
[5]
[4]
Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (the purposeful spread of misinformation)
[6]
[5]
FWS
Folding White Space
[5]
[4]
FXP
File eXchange Protocol
[5]
[4]
FYI
For Your Information
[5]
[4]
For your information
[6]
[5]
FVEK
Full Volume Encryption Key
[5]
[4]
G11N
Globalization
[5]
[4]
Gas
GNU Assembler
[5]
[4]
Gb
Gigabit
[5]
[4]
GB
Gigabyte
[5]
[4]
GCC
GNU Compiler Collection
[5]
[4]
GCJ
GNU Compiler for Java
[5]
[4]
GCR
Group Coded Recording
[5]
[4]
GDB
GNU Debugger
[5]
[4]
GDI
Graphics Device Interface
[5]
[4]
GFDL
GNU Free Documentation License
[5]
[4]
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]
GLUT
OpenGL Utility Toolkit
[5]
[4]
GML
Geography Markup Language
[5]
[4]
GNOME
GNU Network Object Model Environment
[5]
[4]
GNU
GNU's Not Unix
[5]
[4]
GOMS
Goals, Operators, Methods, and Selection rules
[5]
[4]
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]
GPRS
General Packet Radio Service
[5]
[4]
GPT
GUID Partition Table
[5]
[4]
GPU
Graphics Processing Unit
[5]
[4]
GRUB
Grand Unified Boot-Loader
[5]
[4]
GERAN
GSM EDGE Radio Access Network
[5]
[4]
GSM
Global System for Mobile Communications
[5]
[4]
GTK+
GIMP Toolkit
[5]
[4]
GUI
Graphical User Interface
[5]
[4]
GUID
Globally Unique IDentifier
[5]
[4]
GWT
Google Web Toolkit
[5]
[4]
GYR
IT Networking
[5]
[4]
HA
High Availability
[5]
[4]
HAL
Hardware Abstraction Layer
[5]
[4]
HASP
Houston Automatic Spooling Priority
[5]
[4]
HBA
Host Bus Adapter
[5]
[4]
HCI
Human Computer Interaction
[5]
[4]
HCL
Hardware Compatibility List
[5]
[4]
HD DVD
High Definition DVD
[5]
[4]
HDL
Hardware Description Language
[5]
[4]
HDMI
High-Definition Multimedia Interface
[5]
[4]
HF
High Frequency
[5]
[4]
Have fun
[6]
[5]
HFS
Hierarchical File System
[5]
[4]
HHD
Hybrid Hard Drive
[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]
HTC
High-Throughput Computing
[5]
[4]
HSM
Hierarchical Storage Management
[5]
[4]
HT
Hyper Threading
[5]
[4]
HTM
Hierarchical Temporal Memory
[5]
[4]
HTTPd
Hypertext Transport Protocol Daemon
[5]
[4]
HTTPS
HTTP Secure
[5]
[4]
HTX
HyperTransport eXpansion
[5]
[4]
HURD
Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons
[5]
[4]
HVD
Holographic Versatile Disc
[5]
[4]
Hz
Hertz
[5]
[4]
I²C
Inter-Integrated Circuit
[5]
[4]
I²S
Integrated Interchip Sound
[5]
[4]
I18N
Internationalization
[5]
[4]
IANA
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
[5]
[4]
iBCS
Intel Binary Compatibility Standard
[5]
[4]
IBM
International Business Machines
[5]
[4]
IC
Integrated Circuit
[5]
[4]
ICANN
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
[5]
[4]
ICH
I/O Controller Hub
[5]
[4]
ICMP
Internet Control Message Protocol
[5]
[4]
ICP
Internet Cache Protocol
[5]
[4]
ICS
Internet Connection Sharing
[5]
[4]
IDE
Integrated Development Environment
[5]
[4]
Integrated Drive Electronics
[5]
[4]
IDF
Intermediate Distribution Frame
[5]
[4]
Intermediate Data Format
[5]
[4]
IDL
Interactive Data Language
[5]
[4]
Interface Definition Language
[5]
[4]
IDS
Intrusion Detection System
[5]
[4]
IE
Internet Explorer
[5]
[4]
IEC
International Electrotechnical Commission
[5]
[4]
IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force
[5]
[4]
IFL
Integrated Facility for Linux
[5]
[4]
IGMP
Internet Group Management Protocol
[5]
[4]
IGRP
Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
[5]
[4]
IHV
Independent Hardware Vendor
[5]
[4]
IIOP
Internet Inter-Orb Protocol
[5]
[4]
IIS
Internet Information Services
[5]
[4]
IKE
Internet Key Exchange
[5]
[4]
IL
Intermediate Language
[5]
[4]
IM
Instant Messaging
[5]
[4]
IMAP
Internet Message Access Protocol
[5]
[4]
IME
Input Method Editor
[5]
[4]
INFOSEC
Information Systems Security
[5]
[4]
I/O
Input/output
[5]
[4]
IoT
Internet of Things
[5]
[4]
IPAM
IP Address Management
[5]
[4]
IPC
Inter-Process Communication
[5]
[4]
IPL
Initial Program Load
[5]
[4]
IPMI
Intelligent Platform Management Interface
[5]
[4]
IPS
In-Plane Switching
[5]
[4]
Instructions Per Second
[5]
[4]
Intrusion Prevention System
[5]
[4]
IPsec
Internet Protocol security
[5]
[4]
IPv4
Internet Protocol version 4
[5]
[4]
IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6
[5]
[4]
IPX
Internetwork Packet Exchange
[5]
[4]
IrDA
Infrared Data Association
[5]
[4]
IRI
Internationalized Resource Identifier
[5]
[4]
I/F
Interface
[5]
[4]
IRQ
Interrupt Request
[5]
[4]
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]
ISATAP
Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol
[5]
[4]
ISC
Internet Storm Center
[5]
[4]
iSCSI
Internet Small Computer System Interface
[5]
[4]
ISDN
Integrated Services Digital Network
[5]
[4]
iSNS
Internet Storage Name Service
[5]
[4]
ISPF
Interactive System Productivity Facility
[5]
[4]
ISR
Interrupt Service Routine
[5]
[4]
ISV
Independent Software Vendor
[5]
[4]
ITIL
Information Technology Infrastructure Library
[5]
[4]
ITL
Interval Temporal Logic
[5]
[4]
ITU
International Telecommunication Union
[5]
[4]
IVRS
Interactive Voice Response System
[5]
[4]
IVCR
Interactive Virtual Classroom
[5]
[4]
J2EE
Java 2 Enterprise Edition
[5]
[4]
J2ME
Java 2 Micro Edition
[5]
[4]
J2SE
Java 2 Standard Edition
[5]
[4]
JAXB
Java Architecture for XML Binding
[5]
[4]
JAX-RPC
Java XML for Remote Procedure Calls
[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]
JEE
Java Enterprise Edition
[5]
[4]
JES
Job Entry Subsystem
[5]
[4]
JDS
Java Desktop System
[5]
[4]
JFC
Java Foundation Classes
[5]
[4]
JFET
Junction Field-Effect Transistor
[5]
[4]
JFS
IBM Journaling File System
[5]
[4]
JINI
Jini Is Not Initials
[5]
[4]
JIT
Just-In-Time
[5]
[4]
JME
Java Micro Edition
[5]
[4]
JMX
Java Management Extensions
[5]
[4]
JMS
Java Message Service
[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]
JRE
Java Runtime Environment
[5]
[4]
JS
JavaScript
[5]
[4]
JSE
Java Standard Edition
[5]
[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&R
Kernighan and Ritchie
[5]
[4]
KB
Keyboard
[5]
[4]
Kilobyte
[5]
[4]
Knowledge Base
[5]
[4]
Kb
Kilobit
[5]
[4]
KiB
Kibibyte
[5]
[4]
KDE
K Desktop Environment
[5]
[4]
kHz
Kilohertz
[5]
[4]
KM
Knowledge Machine
[5]
[4]
KRL
Knowledge Representation Language
[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]
LB
Load Balancer
[5]
[4]
LCD
Liquid Crystal Display
[5]
[4]
LCR
Least Cost Routing
[5]
[4]
LCOS
Liquid Crystal On Silicon
[5]
[4]
LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
[5]
[4]
LED
Light-Emitting Diode
[5]
[4]
LF
Line Feed
[5]
[4]
Low Frequency
[5]
[4]
LFS
Linux From Scratch
[5]
[4]
LGPL
Lesser General Public License
[5]
[4]
LIB
LIBrary
[5]
[4]
LIF
Low Insertion Force
[5]
[4]
LIFO
Last In First Out
[5]
[4]
LILO
Linux Loader
[5]
[4]
LISP
LISt Processing
[5]
[4]
LKML
Linux Kernel Mailing List
[5]
[4]
LM
Lan Manager
[5]
[4]
LOC
Lines of Code
[5]
[4]
LPC
Lars Pensjö C
[5]
[4]
LPI
Linux Professional Institute
[5]
[4]
LPT
Line Print Terminal
[5]
[4]
LRU
Least Recently Used
[5]
[4]
LSB
Least Significant Bit
[5]
[4]
Linux Standard Base
[5]
[4]
LSI
Large-Scale Integration
[5]
[4]
LTE
Long Term Evolution
[5]
[4]
LTL
Linear Temporal Logic
[5]
[4]
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]
LZW
Lempel-Ziv-Welch
[5]
[4]
LGA
Land Grid Array
[5]
[4]
MAN
Metropolitan Area Network
[5]
[4]
MANET
Mobile Ad-Hoc Network
[5]
[4]
MAPI
Messaging Application Programming Interface
[5]
[4]
Mb
Megabit
[5]
[4]
MB
Megabyte
[5]
[4]
MBCS
Multi Byte Character Set
[5]
[4]
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]
MCPC
Multiple Channels Per Carrier
[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]
MDD/MDSD
Model-Driven (Software) Development
[5]
[4]
MDF
Main Distribution Frame
[5]
[4]
MDI
Multiple Document Interface
[5]
[4]
ME
Microsoft Edge
[5]
[4]
[Windows] Millennium Edition
[5]
[4]
MF
Medium Frequency
[5]
[4]
MFC
Microsoft Foundation Classes
[5]
[4]
MFM
Modified Frequency Modulation
[5]
[4]
MGCP
Media Gateway Control Protocol
[5]
[4]
MHz
Megahertz
[5]
[4]
MIB
Management Information Base
[5]
[4]
MICR
Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
[5]
[4]
MIDI
Musical Instrument Digital Interface
[5]
[4]
MIMD
Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data
[5]
[4]
MIMO
Multiple-Input Multiple-Output
[5]
[4]
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]
MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
[5]
[4]
MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
[5]
[4]
MMDS
Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service
[5]
[4]
Mortality Medical Data System
[5]
[4]
MMI
Man Machine Interface.
[5]
[4]
MMIO
Memory-Mapped I/O
[5]
[4]
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]
MMF
Multi-Mode (optical) Fiber
[5]
[4]
MMU
Memory Management Unit
[5]
[4]
MMX
Multi-Media Extensions
[5]
[4]
MNG
Multiple-image Network Graphics
[5]
[4]
MoBo
Motherboard
[5]
[4]
MOM
Message-Oriented Middleware
[5]
[4]
MOO
MUD Object Oriented
[5]
[4]
MOP
Meta-Object Protocol
[5]
[4]
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]
MOUS
Microsoft Office User Specialist
[5]
[4]
MOV
Apple QuickTime Multimedia File
[5]
[4]
MPAA
Motion Picture Association of America
[5]
[4]
MPEG
Motion Pictures Experts Group
[5]
[4]
MPL
Mozilla Public License
[5]
[4]
MPLS
Multiprotocol Label Switching
[5]
[4]
MPU
Microprocessor Unit
[5]
[4]
MS
Memory Stick
[5]
[4]
Microsoft
[5]
[4]
MSB
Most Significant Bit
[5]
[4]
MSN
Microsoft Network
[5]
[4]
MS-DOS
Microsoft DOS
[5]
[4]
MT
Machine Translation
[5]
[4]
MTA
Mail Transfer Agent
[5]
[4]
Microsoft Technology Associate
[5]
[4]
MTBF
Mean Time Between Failures
[5]
[4]
MSDN
Microsoft Developer Network
[5]
[4]
MSI
Medium-Scale Integration
[5]
[4]
Message Signaled Interrupt
[5]
[4]
Microsoft Installer
[5]
[4]
MUA
Mail User Agent
[5]
[4]
MUD
Multi-User Dungeon
[5]
[6]
[4]
[5]
MVC
Model-View-Controller
[5]
[4]
MVP
Most Valuable Professional
[5]
[4]
MVS
Multiple Virtual Storage
[5]
[4]
MX
Mail exchange
[5]
[4]
MXF
Material Exchange Format
[5]
[4]
NACK
Negative ACKnowledgement
[5]
[4]
NAK
Negative AcKnowledge Character
[5]
[4]
NaN
Not a Number
[5]
[4]
NASM
Netwide ASseMbler
[5]
[4]
NAT
Network Address Translation
[5]
[4]
NCP
NetWare Core Protocol
[5]
[4]
NCQ
Native Command Queuing
[5]
[4]
NCSA
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
[5]
[4]
NDIS
Network Driver Interface Specification
[5]
[4]
NDPS
Novell Distributed Print Services
[5]
[4]
NDS
Novell Directory Services
[5]
[4]
NEP
Network Equipment Provider
[5]
[4]
NetBIOS
Network Basic Input/Output System
[5]
[4]
NetBT
NetBIOS over TCP/IP
[5]
[4]
NEXT
Near-End CrossTalk
[5]
[4]
NFA
Nondeterministic Finite Automaton
[5]
[4]
NFC
Near field communication
[5]
[4]
NGSCB
Next-Generation Secure Computing Base
[5]
[4]
NI
National Instruments
[5]
[4]
NIC
Network Interface Controller
[5]
[4]
NIO
New I/O
[5]
[4]
NIST
National Institute of Standards and Technology
[5]
[4]
NLP
Natural Language Processing
[5]
[4]
NLS
Native Language Support
[5]
[4]
NMI
Non-Maskable Interrupt
[5]
[4]
NNTP
Network News Transfer Protocol
[5]
[4]
NOP
No OPeration
[5]
[4]
NOS
Network Operating System
[5]
[4]
NP
Nondeterministic Polynomial time
[5]
[4]
No problem
[6]
[5]
NPL
Netscape Public License
[5]
[4]
NPTL
Native POSIX Thread Library
[5]
[4]
NPU
Network Processing Unit
[5]
[4]
NS
Netscape
[5]
[4]
Nice shot. Used in online gaming.
[6]
[5]
NSI
Network Service Interface
[5]
[4]
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]
NTFS
NT Filesystem
[5]
[4]
NTLM
NT Lan Manager
[5]
[4]
NUMA
Non-Uniform Memory Access
[5]
[4]
NURBS
Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline
[5]
[4]
NVR
Network Video Recorder
[5]
[4]
NVRAM
Non-Volatile Random Access Memory
[5]
[4]
OAT
Operational Acceptance Testing
[5]
[4]
OBSAI
Open Base Station Architecture Initiative
[5]
[4]
ODBC
Open Database Connectivity
[5]
[4]
OES
Open Enterprise Server
[5]
[4]
OFDM
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
[5]
[4]
OFTC
Open and Free Technology Community
[5]
[4]
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]
OMG
Object Management Group
[5]
[4]
Oh my god
[6]
[5]
OMR
Optical Mark Reader
[5]
[4]
OO
Object-Oriented
[5]
[4]
OpenOffice
[5]
[4]
OOE
Out-of-Order Execution
[5]
[4]
OOM
Out Of Memory
[5]
[4]
OOo
OpenOffice.org
[5]
[4]
OoOE
Out-of-Order Execution
[5]
[4]
OOP
Object-Oriented Programming
[5]
[4]
OOTB
Out of the box
[5]
[4]
OPML
Outline Processor Markup Language
[5]
[4]
ORB
Object Request Broker
[5]
[4]
ORM
Object-Relational Mapping
[5]
[4]
OSCON
O'Reilly Open Source CONvention
[5]
[4]
OSDN
Open Source Development Network
[5]
[4]
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]
OUI
Organisationally Unique Identifier
[5]
[4]
P2P
Peer-To-Peer
[5]
[4]
Peer to peer, or pay to play
[6]
[5]
PaaS
Platform as a Service
[5]
[4]
PAN
Personal Area Network
[5]
[4]
PAP
Password Authentication Protocol
[5]
[4]
PARC
Palo Alto Research Center
[5]
[4]
PATA
Parallel ATA
[5]
[4]
PBS
Portable Batch System
[5]
[4]
PC DOS
Personal Computer Disc Operating System
[5]
[4]
PCL
Printer Command Language
[5]
[4]
PCMCIA
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
[5]
[4]
PCRE
Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
[5]
[4]
PDA
Personal Digital Assistant
[5]
[4]
PDF
Portable Document Format
[5]
[4]
PDH
Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy
[5]
[4]
PDP
Programmed Data Processor
[5]
[4]
PE
Physical Extents
[5]
[4]
PERL
Practical Extraction and Reporting Language
[5]
[4]
PFA
Please Find Attachment
[5]
[4]
PG
Peripheral Gateway
[5]
[4]
PGO
Profile-Guided Optimization
[5]
[4]
PGP
Pretty Good Privacy
[5]
[4]
PHP
Hypertext Preprocessor
[5]
[4]
PIC
Peripheral Interface Controller
[5]
[4]
Programmable Interrupt Controller
[5]
[4]
PID
Proportional-Integral-Derivative
[5]
[4]
Process ID
[5]
[4]
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]
PKCS
Public Key Cryptography Standards
[5]
[4]
PKI
Public Key Infrastructure
[5]
[4]
PLD
Programmable Logic Device
[5]
[4]
PL/I
Programming Language One
[5]
[4]
PL/M
Programming Language for Microcomputers
[5]
[4]
PL/P
Programming Language for Prime
[5]
[4]
PLT
Power Line Telecommunications
[5]
[4]
PMM
POST Memory Manager
[5]
[4]
PNG
Portable Network Graphics
[5]
[4]
PnP
Plug-and-Play
[5]
[4]
PNRP
Peer Name Resolution Protocol
[5]
[4]
POID
Persistent Object Identifier
[5]
[4]
POJO
Plain Old Java Object
[5]
[4]
POP
Point of Presence
[5]
[4]
POP3
Post Office Protocol v3
[5]
[4]
POSIX
Portable Operating System Interface, formerly IEEE-IX
[5]
[4]
POST
Power-On Self Test
[5]
[4]
PPC
PowerPC
[5]
[4]
PPPoA
PPP over ATM
[5]
[4]
PPPoE
PPP over Ethernet
[5]
[4]
PPTP
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
[5]
[4]
PR
Pull Request
[5]
[4]
PS
PostScript
[5]
[4]
PS/2
Personal System/2
[5]
[4]
PSA
Professional Services Automation
[5]
[4]
PSM
Platform Specific Model
[5]
[4]
PSU
Power Supply Unit
[5]
[4]
PSVI
Post-Schema-Validation Infoset
[5]
[4]
PTS-DOS
PhysTechSoft - Disk Operating System
[5]
[4]
PVG
Physical Volume Group
[5]
[4]
PVR
Personal Video Recorder
[5]
[4]
PXE
Preboot Execution Environment
[5]
[4]
PXI
PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation
[5]
[4]
QDR
Quad Data Rate
[5]
[4]
QA
Quality Assurance
[5]
[4]
QFP
Quad Flat Package
[5]
[4]
QoS
Quality of Service
[5]
[4]
QOTD
Quote of the Day
[5]
[4]
Qt
Quasar Toolkit
[5]
[4]
QTAM
Queued Teleprocessing Access Method
[5]
[4]
QSOP
Quarter Small Outline Package
[5]
[4]
qWave
Quality Windows Audio/Video Experience
[5]
[4]
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]
RAII
Resource Acquisition Is Initialization
[5]
[4]
RAIT
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Tapes
[5]
[4]
RARP
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
[5]
[4]
RCS
Revision Control System
[5]
[4]
RD
Remote Desktop
[5]
[4]
rd
remove directory
[5]
[4]
RDBMS
Relational Database Management System
[5]
[4]
RDC
Remote Desktop Connection
[5]
[4]
RDM
Relational Data Model
[5]
[4]
RDOS
Real-time Disk Operating System
[5]
[4]
RDP
Remote Desktop Protocol
[5]
[4]
RDS
Remote Data Services
[5]
[4]
REFAL
Recursive Functions Algorithmic Language
[5]
[4]
REST
Representational State Transfer
[5]
[4]
regex
Regular Expression
[5]
[4]
regexp
Regular Expression
[5]
[4]
RFID
Radio Frequency Identification
[5]
[4]
RGB
Red, Green, Blue
[5]
[4]
RGBA
Red, Green, Blue, Alpha
[5]
[4]
RHL
Red Hat Linux
[5]
[4]
RHEL
Red Hat Enterprise 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]
RLE
Run-Length Encoding
[5]
[4]
RLL
Run-Length Limited
[5]
[4]
rmdir
remove directory
[5]
[4]
RMI
Remote Method Invocation
[5]
[4]
RMS
Richard Matthew Stallman
[5]
[4]
Ride me sideways
[6]
[5]
ROM
Read Only Memory
[5]
[4]
ROMB
Read-Out Motherboard
[5]
[4]
ROM-DOS
Read Only Memory - Disk Operating System
[5]
[4]
RPC
Remote Procedure Call
[5]
[4]
RPG
Report Program Generator
[5]
[4]
RRAS
Routing and Remote Access Service
[5]
[4]
RSA
Rivest Shamir Adleman
[5]
[4]
RSI
Repetitive Strain Injury
[5]
[4]
RTAI
Real-Time Application Interface
[5]
[4]
RTC
Real-Time Clock
[5]
[4]
RTE
Real-Time Enterprise
[5]
[4]
RTEMS
Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems
[5]
[4]
RTL
Right-to-Left
[5]
[4]
RTOS
Real-Time Operating System
[5]
[4]
RTS
Ready To Send
[5]
[4]
RTTI
Run-time Type Information
[5]
[4]
RWD
Responsive Web Design
[5]
[4]
SaaS
Software as a Service
[5]
[4]
SAM
Security Account Manager
[5]
[4]
SAN
Storage Area Network
[5]
[4]
SAX
Simple API for XML
[5]
[4]
SBOD
Spinning Beachball of Death
[5]
[4]
SBP-2
Serial Bus Protocol 2
[5]
[4]
sbin
superuser binary
[5]
[4]
SBU
Standard Build Unit
[5]
[4]
SCID
Source Code in Database
[5]
[4]
SCPC
Single Channel Per Carrier
[5]
[4]
SCPI
Standard Commands for Programmable Instrumentation
[5]
[4]
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]
SDH
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
[5]
[4]
SDI
Single Document Interface
[5]
[4]
SDIO
Secure Digital Input Output
[5]
[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]
SEI
Software Engineering Institute
[5]
[4]
SEO
Search Engine Optimization
[5]
[4]
SFTP
Secure FTP
[5]
[4]
Simple File Transfer Protocol
[5]
[4]
SSH File Transfer Protocol
[5]
[4]
SGI
Silicon Graphics, Incorporated
[5]
[4]
SGML
Standard Generalized Markup Language
[5]
[4]
SHA
Secure Hash Algorithm
[5]
[4]
SHDSL
Single-pair High-speed Digital Subscriber Line
[5]
[4]
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]
SISD
Single Instruction, Single Data
[5]
[4]
SISO
Single-Input and Single-Output
[5]
[4]
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]
SME
Subject Matter Expert
[5]
[4]
SMF
Single-Mode (optical) Fiber
[5]
[4]
SPM
Software project management
[5]
[4]
SPMD
Single Program, Multiple Data
[5]
[4]
SMA
SubMiniature version A
[5]
[4]
SMB
Server Message Block
[5]
[4]
SMBIOS
System Management BIOS
[5]
[4]
SMIL
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
[5]
[4]
S/MIME
Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
[5]
[4]
SMP
Supplementary Multilingual Plane
[5]
[4]
Symmetric Multi-Processing
[5]
[4]
SMPS
Switch Mode Power Supply
[5]
[4]
SMS
Short Message Service
[5]
[4]
System Management Server
[5]
[4]
SMT
Simultaneous Multithreading
[5]
[4]
SNA
Systems Network Architecture
[5]
[4]
SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol
[5]
[4]
SNTP
Simple Network Time Protocol
[5]
[4]
SOA
Service-Oriented Architecture
[5]
[4]
SOPA
Stop Online Piracy Act
[5]
[4]
SoC
System-on-a-Chip
[5]
[4]
SO-DIMM
Small Outline DIMM
[5]
[4]
SOE
Standard Operating Environment
[5]
[4]
SOI
Silicon On Insulator
[5]
[4]
SP
Service Pack
[5]
[4]
SPA
Single Page Application
[5]
[4]
SPF
Sender Policy Framework
[5]
[4]
SPI
Serial Peripheral Interface
[5]
[4]
Stateful Packet Inspection
[5]
[4]
SPARC
Scalable Processor Architecture
[5]
[4]
SRAM
Static Random Access Memory
[5]
[4]
SSA
Static Single Assignment
[5]
[4]
SSDP
Simple Service Discovery Protocol
[5]
[4]
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]
SSP
Supplementary Special-purpose Plane
[5]
[4]
SSSE
Supplementary Streaming SIMD Extensions
[5]
[4]
SSSP
Single Source Shortest Path
[5]
[4]
SSTP
Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol
[5]
[4]
su
superuser
[5]
[4]
SUS
Single UNIX Specification
[5]
[4]
SUSE
Software und System-Entwicklung
[5]
[4]
SVG
Scalable Vector Graphics
[5]
[4]
SVGA
Super Video Graphics Array
[5]
[4]
SVD
Structured VLSI Design
[5]
[4]
SWF
Shock Wave Flash
[5]
[4]
SWT
Standard Widget Toolkit
[5]
[4]
Sysop
System operator
[5]
[4]
TAO
Track-At-Once
[5]
[4]
TAPI
Telephony Application Programming Interface
[5]
[4]
TASM
Turbo ASseMbler
[5]
[4]
Tcl
Tool Command Language
[5]
[4]
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
[5]
[4]
TCU
Telecommunication Control Unit
[5]
[4]
TFT
Thin-Film Transistor
[5]
[4]
TFTP
Trivial File Transfer Protocol
[5]
[4]
TI
Texas Instruments
[5]
[4]
TLA
Three-Letter Acronym
[5]
[4]
TLD
Top-Level Domain
[5]
[4]
TLS
Thread-Local Storage
[5]
[4]
Transport Layer Security
[5]
[4]
TLV
Type-length-value
[5]
[4]
tmp
temporary
[5]
[4]
TNC
Terminal Node Controller
[5]
[4]
Threaded Neill-Concelman connector
[5]
[4]
TPF
Transaction Processing Facility
[5]
[4]
TPM
Trusted Platform Module
[5]
[4]
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]
TSP
Traveling Salesman Problem
[5]
[4]
TTA
True Tap Audio
[5]
[4]
TTF
TrueType Font
[5]
[4]
TTL
Transistor-Transistor Logic
[5]
[4]
Time To Live
[5]
[4]
TTS
Text-to-Speech
[5]
[4]
TTY
Teletype
[5]
[4]
TUCOWS
The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software
[5]
[4]
TUG
TeX Users Group
[5]
[4]
TWAIN
Technology Without An Interesting Name
[5]
[4]
UAAG
User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
[5]
[4]
UAC
User Account Control
[5]
[4]
UART
Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
[5]
[4]
UAT
User Acceptance Testing
[5]
[4]
UCS
Universal Character Set
[5]
[4]
UDDI
Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration
[5]
[4]
UDMA
Ultra DMA
[5]
[4]
UEFI
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
[5]
[4]
UHF
Ultra High Frequency
[5]
[4]
UI
User Interface
[5]
[4]
UL
Upload
[5]
[4]
ULA
Uncommitted Logic Array
[5]
[4]
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]
UMTS
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
[5]
[4]
UNC
Universal Naming Convention
[5]
[4]
UNIVAC
Universal Automatic Computer (By MKS)
[5]
[4]
UPS
Uninterruptible Power Supply
[5]
[4]
URI
Uniform Resource Identifier
[5]
[4]
URN
Uniform Resource Name
[5]
[4]
usr
user
[5]
[4]
USR
U.S. Robotics
[5]
[4]
UTC
Coordinated Universal Time
[5]
[4]
UTF
Unicode Transformation Format
[5]
[4]
UTP
Unshielded Twisted Pair
[5]
[4]
UTRAN
Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network
[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]
UWP
Universal Windows Platform
[5]
[4]
UX
User Experience
[5]
[4]
VAX
Virtual Address eXtension
[5]
[4]
VCPI
Virtual Control Program Interface
[5]
[4]
VR
Virtual Reality
[5]
[4]
VRML
Virtual Reality Modeling Language
[5]
[4]
VB
Visual Basic
[5]
[4]
VBA
Visual Basic for Applications
[5]
[4]
VBS
Visual Basic Script
[5]
[4]
VDM
Virtual DOS machine
[5]
[4]
VDSL
Very High Bitrate Digital Subscriber Line
[5]
[4]
VESA
Video Electronics Standards Association
[5]
[4]
VFAT
Virtual FAT
[5]
[4]
VHD
Virtual Hard Disk
[5]
[4]
VFS
Virtual File System
[5]
[4]
VG
Volume Group
[5]
[4]
VGA
Video Graphics Array
[5]
[4]
VHF
Very High Frequency
[5]
[4]
VLAN
Virtual Local Area Network
[5]
[4]
VLSM
Variable Length Subnet Mask
[5]
[4]
VLB
Vesa Local Bus
[5]
[4]
VLF
Very Low Frequency
[5]
[4]
VLIW
Very Long Instruction Word
[5]
[4]
VLSI
Very-Large-Scale Integration
[5]
[4]
VM
Virtual Machine
[5]
[4]
Virtual Memory
[5]
[4]
VMM
Virtual Machine Monitor
[5]
[4]
VOD
Video On Demand
[5]
[4]
VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol
[5]
[4]
VPU
Visual Processing Unit
[5]
[4]
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]
VRAM
Video Random Access Memory
[5]
[4]
W3C
World Wide Web Consortium
[5]
[4]
WWDC
Apple World Wide Developer Conference
[5]
[4]
WAFS
Wide Area File Services
[5]
[4]
WAI
Web Accessibility Initiative
[5]
[4]
WAIS
Wide Area Information Server
[5]
[4]
WAN
Wide Area Network
[5]
[4]
WAP
Wireless Access Point
[5]
[4]
Wireless Application Protocol
[5]
[4]
WASM
Watcom ASseMbler
[5]
[4]
WBEM
Web-Based Enterprise Management
[5]
[4]
WCAG
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
[5]
[4]
WCF
Windows Communication Foundation
[5]
[4]
WDM
Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
[5]
[4]
WebDAV
WWW Distributed Authoring and Versioning
[5]
[4]
WEP
Wired Equivalent Privacy
[5]
[4]
WFI
Wait For Interrupt
[5]
[4]
WiMAX
Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
[5]
[4]
WinFS
Windows Future Storage
[5]
[4]
WinRT
Windows RunTime
[5]
[4]
WINS
Windows Internet Name Service
[5]
[4]
WLAN
Wireless Local Area Network
[5]
[4]
WMA
Windows Media Audio
[5]
[4]
WMI
Windows Management Instrumentation
[5]
[4]
WMV
Windows Media Video
[5]
[4]
WNS
Windows Push Notification Service
[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]
WPAD
Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol
[5]
[4]
WPAN
Wireless Personal Area Network
[5]
[4]
WPF
Windows Presentation Foundation
[5]
[4]
WS-D
Web Services-Discovery
[5]
[4]
WSDL
Web Services Description Language
[5]
[4]
WSFL
Web Services Flow Language
[5]
[4]
WUSB
Wireless Universal Serial Bus
[5]
[4]
WWAN
Wireless Wide Area Network
[5]
[4]
WWID
World Wide Identifier
[5]
[4]
WWN
World Wide Name
[5]
[4]
WWW
World Wide Web
[5]
[4]
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]
XAG
XML Accessibility Guidelines
[5]
[4]
XAML
eXtensible Application Markup Language
[5]
[4]
XDM
X Window Display Manager
[5]
[4]
XDMCP
X Display Manager Control Protocol
[5]
[4]
XCBL
XML Common Business Library
[5]
[4]
XHTML
eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language
[5]
[4]
XILP
X Interactive ListProc
[5]
[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]
YAML
YAML Ain't Markup Language
[5]
[4]
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]
ZOI
Zero One Infinity
[5]
[4]
ZOPE
Z Object Publishing Environment
[5]
[4]
ZMA
Zone Multicast Address
[5]
[4]
ZPL
Z-level Programming Language
[5]
[4]
1337
From the word Leet, derived from the word elite
[6]
[5]
2
too, or to
[6]
[5]
3DPD
3-Dimensional Pig Disgusting, denotes two dimensions are superior to reality
[6]
[5]
4
For
[6]
[5]
10q
Thank you
[6]
[5]
10x
Thanks
[6]
[5]
A C?
AH! SI?
[6]
[5]
AAF
As A Friend
[6]
[5]
ADAD
Another Day Another Dollar
[6]
[5]
ADIH
Another Day In Hell
[6]
[5]
ADIP
Another Day in Paradise
[6]
[5]
AEAP
As Early As Possible
[6]
[5]
AFAICR
As far as I can recall / remember
[6]
[5]
AFAICS
As far as I can see
[6]
[5]
AFAICT
As far as I can tell
[6]
[5]
AFAIK
As far as I know
[6]
[5]
AFAIR
As far as I remember
[6]
[5]
AFAP
As Far As Possible
[6]
[5]
AFK
Away from keyboard
[6]
[5]
ALOL
Actually laughing out loud
[6]
[5]
ASAP
As soon as possible
[6]
[5]
ASL or A/S/L
Age / sex / location
[6]
[5]
ASLP or A/S/L/P
Age, sex, location, picture
[6]
[5]
ATEOTD
At The End of the Day
[6]
[5]
ATB
All the best
[6]
[5]
AWOL
Absent Without (Official) Leave
[6]
[5]
AYBABTU (also abbreviated as AYB)
all your base are belong to us (from the video game Zero Wing)
[6]
[5]
B4
Before
[6]
[5]
BBIAB
Be back in a bit
[6]
[5]
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.
[6]
[5]
BBL/BBS
Be back later / shortly / soon
[6]
[5]
BCNU
Be seein' you
[6]
[5]
BFF
Best Friends Forever
[6]
[5]
BFN
Bye For Now
[6]
[5]
blog
Also known as web log or an online journal
[6]
[5]
BOFH
Bastard operator from hell
[6]
[5]
bot
Any type of automated software in chatrooms and web-cataloging software
[6]
[5]
BRB
Be right back
[6]
[5]
BSOD
Blue Screen of Death
[6]
[5]
BTDT
Been there done that
[6]
[5]
BTTT
Back to the top
[6]
[5]
BTW
By the way
[6]
[5]
bump
Increment (for example, C's ++ operator.) or a backronym for "Bring Up My Post"
[6]
[5]
CMIIW
Correct me if I'm wrong.
[6]
[5]
crawl
To retrieve a web page along with the hyperlinks that reference it
[6]
[5]
crapplet
A poorly written computer application
[6]
[5]
crapware
Unwanted software that is often installed with another program
[6]
[5]
CU
See you (later)
[6]
[5]
CYA
See ya OR Cover Your Ass
[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]
DFTT
Don't feed the trolls
[6]
[5]
DFTBA
Don't forget to be awesome
[6]
[5]
DGAF
Don't give a fuck
[6]
[5]
DIAF
Die in a fire
[6]
[5]
DILLIGAF/D/S
Does it look like I give a flip / fuck / damn / shit
[6]
[5]
D/L
Download
[6]
[5]
ELI5
Explain like I'm Five
[6]
[5]
ESAD
eat shit and die
[6]
[5]
F9
Fine
[6]
[5]
FFS
For fuck's sake
[6]
[5]
flamer
Someone who makes inflammatory, abusive or directly offensive comments. Similar to, but not quite the same as an Internet troll.
[6]
[5]
FMCDH
From My Cold Dead Hands
[6]
[5]
FML
Fuck my life.
[6]
[5]
FOAD
Fuck off and die
[6]
[5]
FOAF
Friend of a friend
[6]
[5]
FTFY
Fixed that for you
[6]
[5]
FTL
For the loss
[6]
[5]
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]
FUBAR
Fucked up beyond all recognition / repair (from military slang; pronounced "foo-bar")
[6]
[5]
FWIW
For what it's worth
[6]
[5]
GBTW
Get back to work
[6]
[5]
GF
Great/good fight
[6]
[5]
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]
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]
GMTA
Great minds think alike
[6]
[5]
Godwin's law
Dictates that the longer a thread, the more likely someone will post a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler
[6]
[5]
gratz
Congratulations
[6]
[5]
GTFO
Get the fuck out
[6]
[5]
GTG or G2G
'Got to go' or 'Good to go'
[6]
[5]
GR
Good Race
[6]
[5]
GIYF;
H
HAND
have a nice day
[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]
HTH
Hope this / that helps
[6]
[5]
IANAL
I am not a lawyer
[6]
[5]
IBTL
In before the lock
[6]
[5]
IDK
I don't know
[6]
[5]
IHT
I had to
[6]
[5]
IONO
I don't know
[6]
[5]
IIRC
If I recall / remember correctly
[6]
[5]
IIUC
If I understand correctly
[6]
[5]
ILY
I love you
[6]
[5]
IMAO
In my arrogant opinion
[6]
[5]
IMO
In my opinion
[6]
[5]
IMHO
In my humble / honest opinion
[6]
[5]
IMNSHO
In my not so humble opinion
[6]
[5]
information superhighway
The Internet (AKA: I-way, infobahn)
[6]
[5]
IOW
In other words
[6]
[5]
IRL
In real life
[6]
[5]
ISTM
It seems to me
[6]
[5]
ITYM
I Think You Mean
[6]
[5]
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]
IZI
Easy (French-speaking, from the group 92i)
[6]
[5]
jaggy
aliased computer graphics
[6]
[5]
JAS
Just a sec
[6]
[5]
JFTR
Just for the record
[6]
[5]
JK or j/k
Just kidding, or joke
[6]
[5]
JFGI;
K
k or kk
OK
[6]
[5]
KISS
Keep it simple stupid.
[6]
[5]
r
kms: kill myself
[6]
[5]
KOS
Kill on sight
[6]
[5]
KTHX
OK, thanks
[6]
[5]
kthxbye
OK, thanks, goodbye, used either to cut short a conversation or to express displeasure with being cut short
[6]
[5]
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]
LFG
Looking for group
[6]
[5]
LFM
Looking for more
[6]
[5]
LMAO
Laughing my ass off
[6]
[5]
LMBO
Laughing my butt off
[6]
[5]
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]
LOL
Laughing out loud, laugh out loud
[6]
[5]
LTNS
Long time no see
[6]
[5]
lulz
Corruption of LOL
[6]
[5]
lurker
Someone who frequents a community or group without participating in discussions
[6]
[5]
LYLAB
Love you like a brother.
[6]
[5]
LYLAS
Love you like a sister.
[6]
[5]
MFW
My face when (Usually accompanied by an image)
[6]
[5]
MMO
Massive Multi-player Online [game]
[6]
[5]
MTFBWY
May The Force be with you
[6]
[5]
MUSH
Multi-User Shared Hallucination
[6]
[5]
MYOB
Mind your own business
[6]
[5]
M8
Mate
[6]
[5]
N1
Nice one, used mostly often in gaming
[6]
[5]
NE1
"Anyone"
[6]
[5]
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]
NIFOC
Naked In Front Of Computer
[6]
[5]
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]
namewaster
person who abandons an account shortly after its creation
[6]
[5]
n0rp
Alternate form of pr0n, intentional misspelling of porn
[6]
[5]
NSOH
No sense of humor.
[6]
[5]
NSFW
Not safe for work. Warning about content that may get the viewer in trouble with his employer or co-workers.
[6]
[5]
NVM, NVMD, or nm
Nevermind, not much
[6]
[5]
O RLY
Oh really?
[6]
[5]
OIC
Oh, I see
[6]
[5]
OFN
Old freaking news
[6]
[5]
OMFG
Oh my fucking god
[6]
[5]
OMGWTF
Oh my God what the fuck
[6]
[5]
OMGWTFBBQ
Oh my God what the fuck barbecue
[6]
[5]
OMW
On my way or Oh my word
[6]
[5]
ONOZ
Oh, no
[6]
[5]
OP
Original poster / Operator / Outpost / Overpowered
[6]
[5]
OT
Off topic
[6]
[5]
OTB
Off to bed
[6]
[5]
OTOH
On the other hand
[6]
[5]
OTP
On the phone or One true pairing or On The Piss
[6]
[5]
PAW
Parents are watching
[6]
[5]
PEBKAC/PEBCAK
Problem exists between keyboard and chair
[6]
[5]
PITA
Pain in the arse / ass
[6]
[5]
PLMK
Please let me know
[6]
[5]
PMSL
Pissing myself laughing
[6]
[5]
POTS
Plain old telephone service
[6]
[5]
POV
Point of view
[6]
[5]
PL
Powerleveling, used in online games.
[6]
[5]
PPL
People
[6]
[5]
PTKFGS
Punch the Keys For God's Sake
[6]
[5]
pr0n
Intentional misspelling of porn
[6]
[5]
PW
Persistent World (gaming)
[6]
[5]
pwned
Intentional misspelling of owned
[6]
[5]
QFT
Quoted for truthiness—either to show satire or agreement with something satiric.
[6]
[5]
QWP
(texting) Quit Whining, Please. (gaming) equip verb / equipment noun.
[6]
[5]
rehi (or merely re)
Hello again
[6]
[5]
RL
Real Life
[6]
[5]
ROFL/ROTFL
Rolling on (the) floor laughing
[6]
[5]
ROFLCOPTER
Indicate extreme amusement
[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]
RSN
Real soon now (used sarcastically)
[6]
[5]
RTFB
Read the fucking binary (or book)
[6]
[5]
RTFS
Read the fucking source
[6]
[5]
RTFM/RTM
Read the (fucking/fine) manual or reboot the (fucking) machine
[6]
[5]
SCNR
Sorry, could not resist
[6]
[5]
SFW
Safe for Work, see NSFW
[6]
[5]
sk8/sk8r/sk8er
skate/skater
[6]
[5]
smiley
Another name for emoticons
[6]
[5]
SMH
Shaking my head
[6]
[5]
SNAFU
Situation normal: all (fucked/fouled) up
[6]
[5]
snail mail
Normal paper mail service
[6]
[5]
SOHF
Sense of humor failure
[6]
[5]
SOS
Someone (watching) Over Shoulder
[6]
[5]
spider
The program behind a search engine
[6]
[5]
STFU
Shut the fuck up
[6]
[5]
STFW
Search the fucking web
[6]
[5]
TANSTAAFL
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch, a quote originally from Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
[6]
[5]
TBF
Time between failures
[6]
[5]
TBH
To be honest
[6]
[5]
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]
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TIA
Thanks in advance
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TIL
Today I learned
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TIMWTK
This inquiring mind wants to know
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TINC
There Is No Cabal, a term discouraging conspiracy theories
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s
TINS: There is no spoon
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TL;DR
Too Long; Didn't Read
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TMI
Too much information
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toobs
Internets (refering to the Internet as a series of tubes)
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TOS
Terms of service
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TTBOMK
To the best of my knowledge
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TTFN
Ta ta for now
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TTYL
Talk to you later (also spelled TTUL, T2UL or T2YL)
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TTYN
Talk to you never
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TTYS
Talk to you soon
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tweedler
One who has deep love for all computer related technology and gadgets
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TY
Thank you
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TYT
Take your time
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TYVM
Thank you very much
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U
You
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UTFSE
Use the fucking search engine
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UGO
You got Owned
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URS
You Really Suck
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w00t, w00T or WOOT
First two express exuberance, the last is a backronym for the term "We Own the Other Team".
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W/ or W/O
With or without
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WB
Welcome back
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WBU
What (a)bout you
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W/E
Whatever
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Weekend
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WRT
With respect / regard to
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WTB
Want to buy
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WTF
What the fuck
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WTH
What the hell
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WTS
Want to sell
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WTT
Want to trade
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WUG
What you got?
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WUBU2
What (have) you been up to?
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WUU2
What (are) you up to?
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W8
Wait
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YAGNI
You Ain't Gonna Need It.
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YAGTOH
you are going to own him.
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YGM
You've Got Mail.
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YHBT
You have been trolled.
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YKW
You know what?
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YMMV
Your mileage may vary.
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YOLO
You Only Live Once.
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YOYO
You're On Your Own.
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YTMND
You're The Man Now, Dog
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YW
You're welcome.
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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
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<3
Love
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