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Computer Acronyms and Abbreviations: A Complete List – 2023

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Computer-Acronyms-and-Abbrevaitaions

A computer abbreviation is also popularly known as a computer acronym or a computer full-form. These short forms are used in the computer industry to represent certain terms, phrases, or commands. The following are the most frequently used abbreviations.

Computer Acronyms and Abbreviations That starts with A to Z

  1. AI – Artificial Intelligence
  2. API – Application Programming Interface
  3. ACPI – Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
  4. ATA – Advanced Technology Attachment
  5. ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange
  6. AES – Advanced Encryption Standard
  7. ARP – Address Resolution Protocol
  8. AJAX – Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
  9. AMD – Advanced Micro Devices
  10. ASP – Active Server Pages
  11. APM – Advanced Power Management
  12. ADSL – Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
  13. AWT – Abstract Window Toolkit
  14. AVR – Automatic Voltage Regulator
  1. ACL – Access Control List
  2. AJAX – Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
  3. ANSI – American National Standards Institute
  4. AMD64 – Advanced Micro Devices 64-bit
  5. ADFS – Active Directory Federation Services
  6. AD – Active Directory
  7. ADC – Analog to Digital Converter
  8. APIPA – Automatic Private IP Addressing
  9. AES – Advanced Encryption Standard
  10. AMOLED – Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode
  11. A-GPS – Assisted Global Positioning System
  12. ASP.NET – Active Server Pages .NET
  13. ATA – Advanced Technology Attachment
  14. ATX – Advanced Technology eXtended
  1. AVC – Advanced Video Coding
  2. AVI – Audio Video Interleave
  3. ARP – Address Resolution Protocol
  4. AGP – Accelerated Graphics Port
  5. AAC – Advanced Audio Coding
  6. ASIO – Audio Stream Input/Output
  7. AEC – Acoustic Echo Cancellation
  8. ADF – Automatic Document Feeder
  9. ADSL – Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
  10. AES-256 – Advanced Encryption Standard 256-bit
  11. AJAX – Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
  12. AMR – Adaptive Multi-Rate
  13. ASN.1 – Abstract Syntax Notation One
  14. ATM – Asynchronous Transfer Mode
  15. AVR – Automatic Voltage Regulator
  16. AOD – Always-On Display
  17. ACID – Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability
  18. ARGB – Alpha-Red-Green-Blue.
  1. ARM – Advanced RISC Machines
  2. ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange
  3. AFS – Andrew File System
  4. AML – ACPI Machine Language
  5. APIPA – Automatic Private IP Addressing
  6. APM – Advanced Power Management
  7. AR – Augmented Reality
  8. ARPU – Average Revenue Per User
  9. ASP – Active Server Pages
  10. ATAPI – Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface
  11. ATE – Automatic Test Equipment
  12. ATM – Adobe Type Manager
  13. AVC-Intra – Advanced Video Codec-Intra Frame
  14. AWG – American Wire Gauge
  15. AC – Alternating Current
  16. ACL – Access Control List
  17. AES-NI – Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions
  18. AF – Auto Focus
  19. A-GNSS – Assisted Global Navigation Satellite System
  20. AHCI – Advanced Host Controller Interface.
  1. AIFF – Audio Interchange File Format
  2. AIO – All-In-One
  3. AJAX – Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
  4. ALE – Address Latch Enable
  5. AMOLED – Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode
  6. AMP – Accelerated Mobile Pages
  7. APIC – Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
  8. ARPANET – Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
  9. ASIC – Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
  10. ASP.NET – Active Server Pages .NET
  11. AT – Advanced Technology
  12. ATSC – Advanced Television Systems Committee
  13. AUI – Attachment Unit Interface
  14. AV – Audio-Visual
  15. A/D – Analog to Digital
  16. ACID-compliant – Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability compliant
  17. ADR – Automatic Dialogue Replacement
  18. ADS – Alternate Data Streams
  19. AESA – Active Electronically Scanned Array
  20. AFM – Atomic Force Microscopy
  21. AGP Pro – Accelerated Graphics Port Pro
  22. AIX – Advanced Interactive eXecutive
  23. AM – Amplitude Modulation
  24. AMD-V – AMD Virtualization
  25. API Gateway – Application Programming Interface Gateway
  1. APT – Advanced Packaging Tool
  2. ARP cache – Address Resolution Protocol cache
  3. ASLR – Address Space Layout Randomization
  4. ASM – Assembly language
  5. ASR – Automatic Speech Recognition
  6. ATA RAID – Advanced Technology Attachment Redundant Array of Independent Disks
  7. ATI – Array Technology Inc.
  8. ATM switch – Asynchronous Transfer Mode switch
  9. AVCHD – Advanced Video Codec High Definition
  10. AWD – Automatic Write Distribution
  11. AES-128 – Advanced Encryption Standard 128-bit
  12. AGP texturing – Accelerated Graphics Port texturing
  13. AI accelerator – Artificial Intelligence accelerator
  14. AIS – Automatic Identification System
  15. ALU – Arithmetic Logic Unit
  16. AOD – Active On-Demand
  17. AOI – Automated Optical Inspection
  18. AP – Access Point
  19. API economy – Application Programming Interface economy
  20. APM – Application Performance Management
  21. APFS – Apple File System
  22. ARP spoofing – Address Resolution Protocol spoofing
  23. ASIO4ALL – Audio Stream Input/Output for all
  24. ASIC miner – Application-Specific Integrated Circuit miner
  25. ATX power supply – Advanced Technology eXtended power supply.
  1. A/B testing – A/B (or split) testing
  2. ACD – Automatic Call Distributor
  3. ACLs – Access Control Lists
  4. ACPI – Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
  5. ADS – Active Directory Services
  6. ADSL – Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
  7. AE – Auto Exposure
  8. ALE – Address Latch Enable
  9. ALG – Application-Level Gateway
  10. AMD – Advanced Micro Devices
  11. AMI – American Megatrends Inc.
  12. AMT – Active Management Technology
  13. AMPs – Accelerated Mobile Pages
  14. APM – Advanced Power Management
  15. APP – Advanced Power Planning
  16. APR – Apache Portable Runtime
  17. APS – Auto Power-Saving
  18. APU – Accelerated Processing Unit
  19. ARC – Audio Return Channel
  20. ARM – Advanced RISC Machines
  21. ARP – Address Resolution Protocol
  22. AS – Autonomous System
  23. ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange
  24. ASIC – Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
  25. ASLR – Address Space Layout Randomization
  26. ASP – Active Server Pages
  27. ATA – Advanced Technology Attachment
  28. ATAPI – Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface
  29. ATM – Asynchronous Transfer Mode
  30. ATP – Advanced Threat Protection
  1. BIOS – Basic Input/Output System
  2. BCD – Boot Configuration Data
  3. BGP – Border Gateway Protocol
  4. BLOB – Binary Large Object
  5. BNC – Bayonet Neill-Concelman connector
  6. BSSID – Basic Service Set Identifier
  7. BSD – Berkeley Software Distribution
  8. BSoD – Blue Screen of Death
  9. GUI – Graphical User Interface (sometimes pronounced as “gooey”)
  10. GB – Gigabyte (sometimes pronounced as “gig-a-byte”)
  11. BASH – Bourne-Again SHell
  12. BCDR – Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
  13. BYOD – Bring Your Own Device
  14. BOM – Byte Order Mark
  15. BWT – Burrows-Wheeler Transform
  16. BGP – Border Gateway Protocol
  17. BSS – Basic Service Set
  18. BIN – Binary file
  19. BOM – Beginning of Message
  20. BPM – Business Process Management
  21. BERT – Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers
  22. BIST – Built-In Self Test
  23. B-tree – Balanced Tree
  24. BLOB – Binary Large OBject
  25. BYOC – Bring Your Own Cloud
  26. BCD – Binary Coded Decimal
  27. BFT – Byzantine Fault Tolerance
  28. BIG-IP – BIG-IP Intelligent Application Switch
  29. BMR – Bare Metal Restore
  30. BADI – Business Add-In
  31. BGP-4 – Border Gateway Protocol Version 4
  32. BML – Business Markup Language
  33. BRI – Basic Rate Interface
  34. BGA – Ball Grid Array
  35. BOM – Bill of Materials
  36. BO – Business Object
  37. BOR – Business Object Repository
  38. BPMN – Business Process Model and Notation
  39. BSDL – Boundary Scan Description Language
  40. BRR – Bit Rate Reduction
  41. BWT – Block World Transformation
  42. BOM – Browser Object Model
  43. BNR – Basic Networking Rate
  44. BMT – Business Management Tool
  45. BDT – Business Desktop Terminal
  46. BCP – Batch Command Processor
  47. BFD – Binary File Descriptor
  48. BSC – Base Station Controller
  49. BPL – Broadband over Power Lines
  50. BRI – Basic Rate Interface
  51. BDM – Background Debug Mode
  52. BEA – Binary Editor and Analyzer
  53. BWT – Burrows-Wheeler Transform
  54. BPEL – Business Process Execution Language
  55. BLOB – Basic Language Object
  56. BCC – Blind Carbon Copy
  57. BLS – Basic Line Service
  58. BACnet – Building Automation and Control Networks
  59. BFT – Binary File Transfer
  60. BCDM – Binary-Coded Decimal Microcode
  61. BRAM – Block RAM
  62. BIST – Built-In Self-Test
  63. BPU – Branch Prediction Unit
  64. BWT – Block-World Transform
  65. BBWC – Battery-Backed Write Cache
  66. BGA – Ball Grid Array
  67. BVRP – BitWare Virtual Port
  68. BCS – Balanced Class Sets
  69. BRF – Block Replace Feature
  70. BEM – Boundary Element Method
  71. BFO – Beat Frequency Oscillator
  72. BIST – Boundary-Scan Insertion and Test
  73. BSS – Base Station Subsystem
  74. BFD – Block Fetch Disable
  75. BOR – Basic Output Report
  76. BIP – Bit Interleaved Parity
  77. BDL – Block Design Language
  1. CPU – Central Processing Unit
  2. CSS – Cascading Style Sheets
  3. CDN – Content Delivery Network
  4. CRT – Cathode Ray Tube
  5. CLI – Command Line Interface
  6. CAD – Computer-Aided Design
  7. CMOS – Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor
  8. CD-ROM – Compact Disc Read-Only Memory
  9. API – Application Programming Interface
  10. CISC – Complex Instruction Set Computing
  11. CGI – Common Gateway Interface
  12. CNAME – Canonical Name
  13. CAM – Content-Addressable Memory
  14. CICS – Customer Information Control System
  15. COM – Component Object Model
  16. CMS – Content Management System
  17. CTR – Click-Through Rate
  18. CRUD – Create, Read, Update, Delete
  19. CLI – Client Line Interface
  20. CSV – Comma-Separated Values
  21. CASE – Computer-Aided Software Engineering
  22. CA – Certificate Authority
  23. CPUID – CPU Identification
  24. CBT – Computer-Based Training
  25. CLOB – Character Large Object
  26. CIFS – Common Internet File System
  27. CMTS – Cable Modem Termination System
  28. CAN – Controller Area Network
  29. CRL – Certificate Revocation List
  30. CDN – Content Distribution Network
  31. CRM – Customer Relationship Management
  32. CPU socket – Central Processing Unit socket
  33. CDP – Cisco Discovery Protocol
  34. CIDR – Classless Inter-Domain Routing
  35. COTS – Commercial Off-The-Shelf
  36. CLI – Command Line Interpreter
  37. CAS – Column Address Strobe
  38. CAC – Common Access Card
  39. COBOL – Common Business Oriented Language
  40. CMYK – Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black (key)
  41. CAPTCHA – Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
  42. CDMA – Code Division Multiple Access
  43. CAD/CAM – Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing
  44. CBR – Constant Bit Rate
  45. CSSLP – Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional
  46. CAN – Campus Area Network
  47. CLI – Common Language Infrastructure
  48. CDF – Channel Definition Format
  49. CPE – Customer Premises Equipment
  50. CUA – Common User Access
  51. CIFS – Common Internet File System
  52. COA – Certificate of Authenticity
  53. CAC – Common Access Card
  54. CHAP – Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol
  55. CID – Caller ID
  56. CACM – Communications of the ACM
  57. CDA – Common Data Access
  58. CPU time – Central Processing Unit time
  59. CIE – Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage
  60. CMMI – Capability Maturity Model Integration
  1. DNS – Domain Name System
  2. DSL – Digital Subscriber Line
  3. DDoS – Distributed Denial of Service
  4. DBMS – Database Management System
  5. DOS – Disk Operating System
  6. DPI – Dots Per Inch
  7. DAW – Digital Audio Workstation
  8. DDR – Double Data Rate
  9. DHCP – Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
  10. DRM – Digital Rights Management
  11. DMA – Direct Memory Access
  12. DVI – Digital Visual Interface
  13. DVD – Digital Versatile Disc
  14. DaaS – Desktop-as-a-Service
  15. DCIM – Data Center Infrastructure Management
  16. DWDM – Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
  17. DFS – Distributed File System
  18. DLP – Data Loss Prevention
  19. DAC – Digital-to-Analog Converter
  20. DRM – Digital Rights Management
  21. DSP – Digital Signal Processor
  22. DOS – Denial of Service
  23. DAW – Digital Audio Workstation
  24. DSS – Decision Support System
  25. DIMM – Dual In-line Memory Module
  26. DWT – Discrete Wavelet Transform
  27. DAG – Directed Acyclic Graph
  28. DHCP – Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
  29. DLP – Digital Light Processing
  30. DRAM – Dynamic Random Access Memory
  31. DSLR – Digital Single-Lens Reflex
  32. DAP – Digital Audio Player
  33. DFS – Distributed File System
  34. DFM – Design for Manufacturability
  35. DRM – Digital Rights Management
  36. DS – Data Set
  1. ECU – Electronic Control Unit
  2. EEPROM – Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
  3. EFI – Extensible Firmware Interface
  4. EFS – Encrypting File System
  5. EIDE – Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics
  6. EJB – Enterprise JavaBeans
  7. EMM – Expanded Memory Manager
  8. EMS – Expanded Memory Specification
  9. ESD – Electrostatic Discharge
  10. EULA – End-User License Agreement
  11. EVGA – Extended Video Graphics Array
  12. EVDO – Evolution-Data Optimized
  13. EXE – Executable file
  14. EXT – EXTended file system (used in Linux and Unix-like operating systems)
  15. EWS – Embedded Web Server
  1. FDD – Floppy Disk Drive
  2. FTP – File Transfer Protocol
  3. FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions
  4. FPM – Fast Page Mode
  5. FQDN – Fully Qualified Domain Name
  6. FSB – Front Side Bus
  7. FUD – Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
  8. FPGA – Field-Programmable Gate Array
  9. FAT – File Allocation Table
  10. FDX – Full Duplex
  11. FIFO – First In, First Out
  12. FPS – Frames Per Second
  13. FLOPS – Floating Point Operations Per Second
  14. FLOSS – Free/Libre and Open Source Software
  1. GUI – Graphical User Interface
  2. GPS – Global Positioning System
  3. GIF – Graphics Interchange Format
  4. GPU – Graphics Processing Unit
  5. GPRS – General Packet Radio Service
  6. GHz – Gigahertz
  7. GB – Gigabyte
  8. GNU – GNU’s Not Unix (a recursive acronym)
  9. GPL – General Public License
  10. GPT – GUID Partition Table
  11. GUI – Graphical User Interface
  12. GZIP – GNU Zip (file compression format)
  13. GPIO – General-Purpose Input/Output
  1. HTML – Hypertext Markup Language
  2. HTTP – Hypertext Transfer Protocol
  3. HTTPS – Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
  4. HDD – Hard Disk Drive
  5. HDTV – High-Definition Television
  6. HDMI – High-Definition Multimedia Interface
  7. GUI – Human-Computer Interface
  8. HP – Hewlett-Packard
  9. HPC – High-Performance Computing
  10. HFS – Hierarchical File System
  11. HIDS – Host-based Intrusion Detection System
  12. HTML5 – Hypertext Markup Language version 5
  13. Honeypot – A trap set to detect or deflect unauthorized access to information systems
  1. IP – Internet Protocol
  2. ISP – Internet Service Provider
  3. IoT – Internet of Things
  4. IMAP – Internet Message Access Protocol
  5. ICMP – Internet Control Message Protocol
  6. IDE – Integrated Development Environment
  7. IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  8. IRC – Internet Relay Chat
  9. ISO – International Organization for Standardization
  10. iOS – iPhone Operating System
  11. IMEI – International Mobile Equipment Identity
  12. IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service
  13. ICMPv6 – Internet Control Message Protocol version 6
  1. JVM – Java Virtual Machine
  2. JIT – Just-In-Time (a type of compiler used in Java)
  3. JSON – JavaScript Object Notation
  4. JRE – Java Runtime Environment
  5. JDBC – Java Database Connectivity
  6. JSP – JavaServer Pages
  7. JTAG – Joint Test Action Group (a standard for testing and debugging electronic devices)
  1. KB – Kilobyte
  2. KBPS – Kilobits per second
  3. KVM – Keyboard, Video, and Mouse (a type of switch used to control multiple computers)
  4. KLOC – Kilo Lines of Code (a measure of software size)
  5. KPI – Key Performance Indicator (a measure of how well a system or process is performing)
  6. KDE – K Desktop Environment (a popular desktop environment for Linux)
  7. Kbps – Kilobits per second (a measure of data transfer speed)
  1. LAN – Local Area Network
  2. LCD – Liquid Crystal Display
  3. LED – Light Emitting Diode
  4. LDAP – Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
  5. L1/L2/L3 Cache – Level 1/2/3 Cache (temporary storage for frequently accessed data)
  1. MAC – Media Access Control
  2. Mbps – Megabits per second
  3. MHz – Megahertz
  4. MFA – Multi-Factor Authentication
  5. MIME – Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
  6. MP3 – MPEG Audio Layer 3 (a popular digital audio format)
  7. MPEG – Moving Picture Experts Group (a set of standards for digital video/audio encoding)
  8. MS-DOS – Microsoft Disk Operating System
  9. MVC – Model-View-Controller (a software design pattern)
  10. MySQL – My Structured Query Language (a popular open-source relational database system)
  11. MBR – Master Boot Record (a type of boot sector used in computers)
  12. MCU – Microcontroller Unit
  13. MTU – Maximum Transmission Unit (the largest packet size that can be transmitted over a network)
  1. NIC – Network Interface Card
  2. NIST – National Institute of Standards and Technology
  3. NAS – Network Attached Storage
  4. NAT – Network Address Translation
  5. NFS – Network File System
  6. NTFS – New Technology File System (a file system used by Windows)
  7. NTP – Network Time Protocol
  8. NNTP – Network News Transfer Protocol
  9. NUMA – Non-Uniform Memory Access
  10. npm – Node Package Manager (a package manager for Node.js)
  11. NSA – National Security Agency
  12. NVRAM – Non-Volatile Random Access Memory
  1. OS – Operating System
  2. OCR – Optical Character Recognition
  3. OOP – Object-Oriented Programming
  4. OLED – Organic Light Emitting Diode
  5. ODBC – Open Database Connectivity
  6. ORM – Object-Relational Mapping
  7. OTP – One-Time Password
  8. OLE – Object Linking and Embedding
  9. OSI – Open Systems Interconnection
  10. OpenGL – Open Graphics Library
  11. OASIS – Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
  12. OAS – Oracle Application Server
  13. OTA – Over-the-Air (referring to wireless data transfer)
  14. OEM – Original Equipment Manufacturer
  1. PC – Personal Computer
  2. PSU – Power Supply Unit
  3. PCIe – Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
  4. PCI – Peripheral Component Interconnect
  5. POP – Post Office Protocol
  1. QoS – Quality of Service
  1. RAM – Random Access Memory
  2. ROM – Read-Only Memory
  3. RAID – Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
  4. RGB – Red Green Blue (a color model used in digital imaging and video)
  5. RPC – Remote Procedure Call
  6. RTF – Rich Text Format
  7. RDBMS – Relational Database Management System
  8. RSS – Really Simple Syndication
  9. RIP – Routing Information Protocol
  10. RARP – Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
  11. RAID – Redundant Array of Independent Disks
  12. RISC – Reduced Instruction Set Computing
  13. REST – Representational State Transfer
  14. RJ45 – Registered Jack 45 (a type of connector used for Ethernet cables)
  15. RFI – Radio Frequency Interference
  16. RPM – Red Hat Package Manager (a package management system used by some Linux distributions)
  1. SSD – Solid State Drive
  2. SATA – Serial Advanced Technology
  3. SQL – Structured Query Language
  4. CSS – Cascading Style Sheets
  1. TCP/IP – Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
  1. UI – User Interface
  2. URL – Uniform Resource Locator
  3. USB – Universal Serial Bus
  4. UPS – Uninterruptible Power Supply
  5. UTP – Unshielded Twisted Pair
  1. VPN – Virtual Private Network
  2. VGA – Video Graphics Array
  3. VR – Virtual Reality
  4. VOIP – Voice over Internet Protocol
  5. VLAN – Virtual Local Area Network
  6. VDI – Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
  7. VM – Virtual Machine
  1. WAN – Wide Area Network
  2. WLAN – Wireless Local Area Network
  3. Wi-Fi – Wireless Fidelity: A technology that uses radio waves to provide wireless high-speed internet and network connections.
  4. WPA – Wi-Fi Protected Access
  5. WEP – Wired Equivalent Privacy
  6. WYSIWYG – What You See Is What You Get
  7. WWW – World Wide Web
  8. WORM – Write Once Read Many
  9. WAN/LAN – Wireless Area Network/Local Area Network
  1. XML – Extensible Markup Language
  2. XSS – Cross-Site Scripting
  3. XHR – XMLHttpRequest
  4. XPS – XML Paper Specification
  5. XaaS – Anything as a Service
  1. YAML – YAML Ain’t Markup Language
  2. Y2K – Year 2000
  3. YMMV – Your Mileage May Vary
  4. YUV – YCbCr Color Space
  1. ZIP – Zone Improvement Plan
  2. ZIF – Zero Insertion Force
  3. ZFS – Zettabyte File System
  4. ZRAM – ZRAM (previously called Compcache)
  5. ZVS – Zero Voltage Switching.

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