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The OED (Oxford English Dictionary) defines acronym this way: a word formed from the initial letters of other words: e.g. LASER. It defines initialism as an abbreviation formed of initial letters pronounced separately: e.g. BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). So it seems that initialisms are a subset of acronyms. Here I refer to both as acronyms.

Here as a list of all the acronyms used on this website, not just the Java glossary.

Acronyms used on the mindprod.com website
Acronyms used on the mindprod.com website
Acronym	Meaning
2M4M	2 million Men 4/for Marriage
4G	4th Generation
5G	5th Generation
A-GPS	Assisted Global Positioning System
AA	Alcoholics Anonymous
AAC	Advanced Audio Coding
AB	Adult Baby
AB	Alberta
ABA	Australian Business Access
ABC	American Broadcasting Corporation
ABM	Anti-Balistic Missile
AC	Alternating Current
ACE	Asynchronous Communications Element
ACID	Atomicity, Consistency, I and Durability
ACK	Acknowledge
ACL	Access Control List
ACLJ	American Center for Law and Justice
ACLU	American Civil Liberties Union
ACPI	Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
ADC	Apple Development Connection
ADSL	Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line technology
AEC	Atomic Energy Commission
AES	Advanced Encryption Standard
AFAICS	As Far As I Can See
AFAIK	As Far As I Know
AFC	Application Foundation Classes
AFGE	Another F*cking Growth Experience
AGP	Accelerated Graphics Port
AHCI	Advanced Host Controller Interface
AI	Artificial Intelligence
AIB	Active Information Banner
AIDS	Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
AIF	Audio Interchange File
AIFF	Audio Interchange File Format
AIG	American International Group
AIM	America Online Instant Messenger
AIPAC	American Israel Public Affairs Committee
AIX	Advanced Interactive eXecutive
AJAX	Asynchronous JavaScript And Xml
AKA	Also Known As
ALS	Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
AMA	American Medical Association
AMD	Advanced Micro Devices
AMI	American Megatrends Inc
AMI	Advanced Metering Infrastructure
AMR	Audio Modem Riser
ANGA	America’s Natural Gas Alliance
ANSI	American National Standards Institute
ANT	A Neat Tool
ANTLR	Another Tool for Language Recognition
ANWR	Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
ANZAC	Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
AOL	America Online
AOT	Ahead Of Time
AP	Associated Press
APA	American Psychological Association
API	Application Programming Interface
APL	A Programming Language
APN	Agent Premium Newsgroups
APNG	Animated Portable Network Graphics
APP	Atom Publishing Protocol
APRS	Automatic Position Reporting System
ARIN	American Registry for Internet Numbers
ARQ	Automatic Repeat Request
ARROW	Active Resistance to the Roots of War
ASAP	As Soon As Possible
ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASL	American Sign Language
ASM	Assembler
ASN.1	Abstract Syntax Notation 1
ASO	Advanced System Optimiser
ASP	Association of Shareware Professionals
ASP	Active Server Page
ASPCA	American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
ASPI	Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
AT	Advanced Technology
AT&T	American Telephone & Telegraph
ATA	Advanced Technology Attachment
ATA	Analog Terminal Adapter
ATAPI	Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface
ATF	Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
ATI	Array Technology Inc
ATI	Alternative Terrestrial Intelligence
ATM	Automated Teller Machine
ATM	Adobe Type Manager
ATM	Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATSC	Advanced Television Systems Committee
ATV	All Terrain Vehicle
ATX	Advanced Technology Extended
AUV	Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
AV	Anti-Virus
AVC	Advanced Video Coding
AVI	Audio Video Interleave
AWOL	Away Without Leave
AWS	Amazon Web Services
AWT	Advanced Windowing Toolkit
AWT	Abstract Windowing Toolkit
AWT	Another Windowing Toolkit
AZW	Amazon Word
BASH	Bourne Again Shell
BAT	Batch
BB	Bare Back
BB	Body Builder
BBB	Better Business Bureau
BBC	British Broadcasting Corporation
BBL	Big Black Lady
BBL	Be Back Later
BBS	Bulletin Board System
BC	British Columbia
BCCLA	British Columbia Civil Liberties Association
BCD	Binary Coded Decimal
BCD	Boot Configuration Data
BCEL	Byte Code Engineering Library
BD	Bondage & Discipline
BD-J	Blu-ray Disc Java
BD	Bondage and Dominance
BDK	Bean Development Kit
BE	Business Edition
BEL	Bell
BER	Basic Encoding Rules
BFO	Big Faceless Organisation
BGM	Brain Generated Music
BGR	Blue Green Red
BING	Boot-It Next Generation
BIOS	Basic Input Output System
BIPM	Bureau International des Poids et Measures
BIT	Binary digit
BITBLT	BIT Block Transfer
BIX	Byte Information Exchange
BMP	Bitmap
BMP	Breach Marine Protection
BMW	Bavarian Motor Works
BNC	Bayonet Neill-Concelman connector
BNF	Backus-Naur Form
BoC	Bank Of Canada
BOM	Byte Order Mark
BOMP	Bill Of Materials Processor
BPS	Bits Per Second
BQM	Business Quality Monitoring
BRB	Be Right Back
BRG	Blue Red Green
BRP	Bombardier Recreational Products
BS	Backspace
BS	bullshit
BSD	Berkeley Software Distribution
BSF	Bean Scripting Framework
BSO	Bi Significant Other
BSOD	Blue Screen Of Death
BST	British Summer Time
CA	Certificate Authority
CA	Canada
CA	California
CAB	Cabinet file
CAC	Common Access Card
CAD	Canadian currency
CAFC	Canadian Antifraud Centre
CAI	Computer Assisted Instruction
CAN	Cancel
CANDU	Canada Deuterium Uranium
CANI	Constant And Never-ending Improvement
CAPTCHA	Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
CAQ	Commonly Asked Question
CAS	Central Authentication Service
CASL	Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation
CAT	Computerised Axial Tomography
CB	Citizens’ Band radio
CBC	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CBC	Cipher Block Chaining mode
CBDTPA	Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act
CBF	Compact Binary Format
CBS	Columbia Broadcasting System
CBT	Cock and Ball Torture
CC	Cosmic Consciousness
CCCB	Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
CCF	Composite Container Format
CCF	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
CCITT	Comité Consultatif International Téléphonique et Télégraphique
CCRAP	Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance Party
CCS	Carbon Capture Storage
CD-R	Compact Disc — Recordable
CD-ROM	Compact Disc — Read Only Memory
CD-RW	Compact Disc Re-Writeable
CD/DVD	Compact Disc/Digital Video Disc
CD	Change Directory
CD	Compact Disc
CD	Carrier Detect
CDATA	Character DATA
CDC	Connected Device Configuration
CDC	Centers for Disease Control
CDC	Control Data Corporation
CDD	Change Disk and Directory
CDMA	Code Division Multiple Access
CDN	Content Delivery Network
CDRAM	Cache Dynamic RAM
CDROM	Compact Disc Read Only Memory
CDW	Compact Disc — Writeable
CEAA	Canadian Environmental Assessment Act
CENTOS	Community Enterprise Operating System
CEO	Chief Executive Officer
CERN	Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire
CETA	Canada-European Union: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
CFB	Cipher Feedback mode
CFC	Chlorofluorocarbon
CFL	Compact Fluorencent
CFV	Call For Votes
CFWA	Concerned Women For America
CGA	Colour Graphics Adapter
CGI	Common Gateway Interface
CGI	Computer Graphics Imaging
CHM	Compiled Hypertext Markup language help file
CHRP	Common Hardware Reference Platforms
CIA	Central Intelligence Agency
CIC	Canadian International Council
CIDA	Canadian International Development Agency
CIDR	Classless Inter-Domain Routing
CIFS	Common Internet File System
CIRA	Canadian Internet Registration Authority
CISC	Complex Instruction Set Computer
CJ	Commission Junction
CJD	Chronological Julian Date
CJK	Chinese-Japanese-Korean
CLA	Conjugated Linoleic Acid
CLDC	Connected Limited Device Configuration
CLR	Common Language Runtime
CLS	Clear Screen
CMD	Command
CMJD	Chronological Modified Julian Date
CMOS	Complementary Metal Oxide on Silicon
CMP	Canadian Mind Products
CMP	Container Managed Persistence
CMS	Content Management System
CMU	Carnegie Mellon University
CMV	Cytomegalo Virus
CMYK	Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-black
CNA	Canadian Numbering Administration
CNN	Cable News Network
CNOOC	China National Offshore Oil Corporation
COLAGE	Children Of Lesbians And Gays Everywhere
COM	Component Object Model
COMER	The Committee On Monetary and Economic Reform
CORBA	Common Object Request Broker Architecture
COTS	Commercial Off The Shelf
CPC	Cost Per Click
CPCC	Canadian Private Copying Collective
CPL	Cost Per Lead
CPL	Canadian Physicians for Life
CPM	Cost Per thousand/Mille impressions
CPM	Control Program for Microcomputers
CPP	C++
CPP	Canada Pension Plan
CPR	Canadian Pacific Railway
CPS	Characters Per Second
CPU	Central Processing Unit
CQL	Cassandra Query Language
CR	Carriage Return
CramIStab	Cramolin, Isopranol, Stabilant treatment
CRAP	Canadian Reform Alliance Party
CRC	Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRC	Class-Responsibly-Collaboration
CRCA	Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance
CRISPR	Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
CRL	Certificate Revocation List
CRT	Cathode Ray Tube
CRTC	Canadian Radio and Television Commission
CRW	Canon Raw format
CSA	Canadian Standards Association
CSA	Community Shared Agriculture
CSD	Control Structure Diagram
CSE	Computer Science and Engineering
CSI	Crime Scene Investigator
CSIS	Canadian Security Intelligence Service
CSP	Communicating Symmetric Processes
CSS	Cascading Style Sheets
CSV	Comma-Separated Value
CTC	Concurrent Technologies Corporation
CTE	Common Table Expression
CTJ	Communicating Threads for Java
CTS	Clear To Send
CTV	Canadian Television network
CUA	Common User Access
CUPW	Canadian Union of Postal Workers
CURE	Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education
CV	Condition Variable
CVD	Cifereca Videa Diskodrajvo
CVS	Concurrent Versions System
CWD	Current Working Directory
CYA	Cover Your Ass
CygWin	Cygnus Systems Windows
D.F.O.	Department of Fisheries and Oceans
DAB+	Digital Audio Broadcasting Plus
DACA	Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
DADT	Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
DAG	Directed Acyclic Graph
DAO	Disc At Once
DARPA	Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DAT	Digital Audio Tape
DBC	Design By Contract
DBF	DBase File
DBMS	DataBase Management System
DC1	Device Control 1
DC2	Device Control 2
DC3	Device Control 3
DC4	Device Control 4
DC	Direct Current
DCD	Data Carrier Detect
DCE	Data Communications Equipment
DCF	Delivery Center Facility
DCL	Data Control Language
DDC	Dideoxycytidine
DDE	Dynamic Data Exchange
DDI	Didanosine
DDL	Data Definition Language
DDNS	Dynamic Domain Name Service
DDoS	Distributed Denial of Service attack
DDR	Double Data Rate
DDR-SDRAM	Double Data Rate — Synchronous Dynamic RAM
DDT	dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
DEA	Drug Enforcement Administration
DEBE	Does Everything But Eat
DEC	Digital Equipment Corporation
DECT	Digital Enhanced Cordless Telephony
DEL	Delete
DEP	Data Execution Prevention
DER	Distinguished Encoding Rules
DES	Data Encryption Standard
DFA	Deterministic Finite Automaton
DFO	Department of Fisheries and Oceans
DFSA	Drug Facilitated Sexual Assault
DHCP	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DHTML	Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language
DIM	Deep Inner Meaning
DIMM	Dual In-line Memory Module
DIN	Deutsches Institut für Normung/German Institute for Standardisation
DIY	Do-It-Yourself
DIZ	Description In Zip
DKIM	Domain Keys Identified Mail
DLC	Democratic Leadership Council
DLE	Data Link Escape
DLL	Dynamic Link Library
DLS	Down Loadable Sounds
DLU	Dialog Units
DMA	Direct Memory Access
DMC	postal Delivery Mode Code
DML	Data Manipulation Language
DMP	Download Management Protocol
DMS	Design Maintenance System
DNA	Deoxyribonucleic Acid
DNC	Democratic National Committee
DNR	Do Not Resuscitate
DNS	Domain Name Service
DNTO	Definitely Not The Opera
DOD	Department Of Defence
DOE	Department Of Energy
DOM	Document Object Model
DOMA	Defence Of Marriage Act
DOS	Denial of Service attack
DOS	Disk Operating System
DPI	Dots Per Inch
DPMI	DOS Protected Memory Interface manager
DRAM	Dynamic RAM
DRM	Digital Restrictions/Rights Management
DRY	Don’t Repeat Yourself
DSA	Digital Signature Algorithm
DSK	Dvorak Standard Keyboard
DSL	Domain Specific Language
DSL	Digital Subscriber Loop
DSM	Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
DSM-IV	Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders
DSN	Data Set Name
DSP	Digital Signal Processor
DSR	Data Set Ready
DSS	Digital Satellite System
DST	Daylight Saving Time
DTA	Disk Transfer Area
DTC	Data Technology Corp
DTD	Document Type Definition
DTE	Data Terminal Equipment
DTR	Data Terminal Ready
DTS	Digital Theater Systems
DTV	Digital Television
DU	Depleted Uranium
DU	Download/Upload
DUI	Driving Under the Influence
DUN	Dialup Networking
DUNS	Dun & Bradstreet Universal Numbering System
DV	Digital Video
DVD	Digital Video Disc
DVI	Digital Video Interface
DVI-D	Digital Video Interface — Data
DVI-I	Digital Video Interface — Integrated
DVR	Digital Video Recorder
EAN	European Article Number
EAR	Enterprise Archive file
EC2	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
ECB	Electronic Codebook mode
ECC	Error Correcting Code
ECCO	Earth Coincidence Control Office
ECMA	European Computer Manufacturer’s Association
ECP	Enhanced Capacity Port
ECS	Element Construction Set
EDO	Extended Data Out
EDORAM	Extended Data Output RAM
EDT	Event Dispatch Thread
EDT	Eastern Daylight Time
EDT	Eiffel Development Tool
EE	Enterprise Edition
EEEEEEE	Ecological, Energy—Efficient, Earthquake-resistant, Easy to maintain, Exercise, Experimental
EEG	Electroencephalogram
EFF	Electronic Frontier Foundation
EGA	Extended Graphics Adapter
EGSM	Extended GSM
EIA	Electronic Industries Alliance
EIDE	Extended Integrated Drive Electronics
EIP	Exploration Insight Process
EISA	Extended Industry Standard Architecture
EJB	Enterprise Java Beans
ELNA	Esperanto League for North America
EM	End of Medium
EMACS	Extensible Macro System
EMBR	Extended Master Boot Record
EMDR	Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
EMF	Electro-Magnetic Fields
EMM	Expanded Memory Manager
EMS	Expanded Memory Systems
ENC	Enterprise Naming Context
ENQ	Enquiry
ENSO	El Niño Southern Oscillation events
EOF	End Of File
EOI	End Of Interrupt
EOL	End Of Line
EOL	End-of-Life
EOSL	End of Service Life
EOT	End Of Transmission
EPA	Environmental Protection Agency
EPC	Earnings Per Click
EPC	Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of Canada
EPP	Enhanced Parallel Port
EPS	Encapsulated Post Script
ePub	Electronic Publishing
ESC	Escape
ESDI	Enhanced Small-Device Interface
ESDRAM	Extended Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
ESL	English as a Second Language
ESP	Extra Sensory Perception
EST	Eastern Standard Time
EST	Erhard Seminar Training
ESV	English Standard Version
ETA	Estimated Time of Arrival
ETB	End Text Block
ETL	Extraction, Transformation & Loading
ETLA	Extended Three Letter Acronym
ETX	End of Text
EULA	End User Licence Agreement
EVSSL	Extended Verification Secure Socket Layer
FAA	Federal Aviation Administration
FAQ	Frequently Asked Questions
FARC	Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia
FAT	File Allocation Table
FAX	Facsimile
FBI	Federal Bureau of Investigation
FC-PGA	Flip Chip Pin Grid Array
FCC	Federal Communications Commission
FDA	Federal Drug Administration
FDF	Forms Data Format
FDL	Forms Development Language
FDR	Franklin Delano Roosevelt
FEAT	ftp Feature enumeration
FEMA	Federal Emergency Management Agency
FESI	Free ECMA Script Interpreter
FF	Form Feed
FF	Fist Fucking
FFT	Fast Fourier Transform
FGM	Female Genital Mutilation
FIFO	First In First Out
FIM	Facing Identification Mark
FIPA	Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act
FIPS	Federal Information Processing Standard
FIR	Fast Infrared
FLQ	Front de Libération du Québec
FLV	Flash Video
FOAF	Friend Of A Friend
FOFA	Find One Find All
FOP	Formatting Objects Processor
FOUT	Flash Of Unstyled Text
FPGA	Field Programmable Gate Array
FPS	Amazon Flexible Payments System
FQDN	Fully Qualified Domain Name
FS	File Separator
FSA	Forward Sortation Area
FSB	Front Side Bus
FSEM	Full Screen Exclusive Mode
FSK	Frequency Shift Keying
FSVO	For Suitable Values Of
FTAA	Free Trade Agreement of the Americas
FTAA	Free Trade Area of the Americas
FTC	Federal Trade Commission
FTL	Freemarker Template Language
FTM	Female To Male
FTP	File Transfer Protocol
FTPS	File Transfer Protocol over Secure Sockets Layer
FTW	From The Wilderness publications
FUBAR	Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition
FUD	Fear Uncertainty and Doubt
Fvwm	F*cking Virtual Window Manager
FWIW	For What It’s Worth
FYI	For Your Information
GAT*E	Gay Alliance Toward Equality
G.O.P	Greed Over Principal
GAA	Gay Activist Alliance
GAO	General Accounting Office
GATT	General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GAY	Got Aids Yet?
GBA	Galactic Biodiversity Agency
GBM	Gay Black Male
GBR	Green Blue Red
GC	Garbage Collection
GCD	Greatest Common Divisor
GCJ	GNU Compiler for Java
GDI	Graphics Device Interface
GDP	Gross Domestic Product
GEF	Graphical Editing Framework
GIF	Graphic Interchange Format
GIGO	Garbage In, Garbage Out
GIS	Geographic Information System
GLAD	Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders
GLB	Gay, Lesbian or Bisexual
GLBT	Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual or Transgendered
GLBTQ	Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered or Queer
GLR	Gay and Lesbian Republic
GM	Genetically Modified
GM	General Motors
GMO	Genetically Modified Organism
GMT	Greenwich Mean Time
GNI	Gross National Income
GNOME	Gnu Network Object Model Environment
GNP	Gross National Product
GNU	Gnu’ Not Unix!
GNU-RCS	GNU Revision Control System
GOP	Grand Old Party
GPL	Gnu Public Licence
GPS	Global Positioning System
GPSS	General Purpose Simulation System
GPT	Globally unique identifier Partition Table
GPTT	General Purpose Technology Transition
GPU	Graphics Processing Unit
GRB	Green Red Blue
GRC	Gibson Research Corporation
grep	Globally search Regular Expression Print
GS	Group Separator
GSL	Gnu Scientic Library
GSM	Global System for Mobile Communications
GSO	Gay Significant Other
GST	Goods and Services Tax
GST	Gouge and Screw Tax
GTK	the Gimp ToolKit
GUI	Graphic User Interface
GUID	Globally Unique Identifier
GWEV	Green World Electric Vehicles
GWM	Gay White Male
GWT	Google Web Toolkit
HAART	Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy
HAL	Heuristic Algorithmic
HANS	Health Action Network Society
HAT	Help Authoring Tool
HBO	Home Box Office
HDLC	High-level Data Link Control
HDMI	High-Definition Multimedia Interface
HDPE	High Density Polyethylene
HDTV	High Definition Television
HEU	Health care Employees Union
HFS	Hierarchical File System
HFS+	Hierarchical File System Plus
HGC	Hercules Graphics Card
HHMI	Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hi-Fi	High Fidelity
HIV	Human Immuno-deficiency Virus
HIV+	Human Immuno-deficiency Virus Positive (infected)
HIV-	Human Immuno-deficiency Virus Negative (virus free)
HMA	High Memory Area
HMAC	Hashed Message Authentication Code
HMO	Health Management Organisation
HOV	High Occupancy Vehicle
HOW	Husbands Out to Wives
HP	Hewlett Packard
HPFS	High Performance File System
HSB	Hue Saturation Brightness
HST	Harmonised Sales Tax
HT	Horizontal Tab
HTC	High Tech Computer Corporation
HTH	Hope That Helps
HTML	Hypertext Markup Language
HTML4	Hypertext Markup Language v 4
HTML5	Hypertext Markup Language v 5
HTML	Hiper Texsta Mark Lingvo
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS	Hypertext Transfer Protocol over SSL (Secure Socket Layer)
HUGS	Hope-Understanding-Growth-Support
HWP	Height Weight Proportional
HWPF	Horrible Word Processor Format
Hz	Hertz
IaaS	Infrastructure as a Service
IAC	Inter Applet Communication
IAIK	Institut für Angewandte Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikationstechnologie
IANA	Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
IAP	Internet Access Provider
IAT	International Atomic Time
IATA	International Air Transport Association
IBM	International Business Machines
ICANN	Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
ICAP	Internet Calendar Access Protocol
ICBM	Inter Continental Ballistic Missile
ICC	International Criminal Court
ICD	Instant Consciousness Doubler
ICE	Institute of Christian Economics
ICMP	Internet Control Message Protocol
ICQ	Internet Chat Query
ICRA	Internet Content Rating Association
ICRC	International Committee of the Red Cross
IDE	Integrated Development Environment
IDE	Integrated Drive Electronics
iDEN	Integrated Digital Enhanced Network
IDF	Israeli Defense Force
IDL	Interface Definition Language
IDN	Internationalised Domain Name
IE	Internet Explorer
IED	Improvised Explosive Device
IEEE	Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
IETF	Internet Engineering Task Force
IFC	Internet Foundation Classes
IIBR	Israel Institute of Biological Research
IIOP	Invocation over Internet Inter-Orb Protocol
IIRC	If I Recall Correctly
IIS	Internet Information Server
ILU	Inter Language Unification
IMAP	Internet Message Access Protocol
IMAX	Image Maximum
IMC	Internet Mail Consortium
IMDb	Internet Movie Data base
IMF	International Monetary Fund
IMF	Intel Media Framework
IMF	Input Method Framework
IMH	Institute of Mental Health
IMHO	In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO	In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMR	Infant Mortality Rate
IMT	International Military Tribunal
INAP	Intelligent Network Application Protocol
INGSOC	Inglish/English Socialism
INS	Immigration and Naturalisation Service
IOC	International Olympic Committee
IOCTL	Input Output Control
IOL	Intraocular Lens
IP	Internet Protocol
IPA	International Phonetic Alphabet
IPAM	Internet Protocol Address Management
IPCC	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPTV	Internet Protocol Television
IPv4	Internet Protocol Version 4
IPv6	Internet Protocol Version 6
IPX	Internet Protocol Exchange
IQ	Intelligence Quotient
IRC	Inter Relay Chat
IRL	In Real Life
IRQ	Interrupt Request
IRS	Internal Revenue Service
IS	Islamic State
ISA	Industry Standard Architecture
ISAM	Indexed Sequential Access Method
ISAPI	Internet Server Application Programming Interface
ISBN	International Standard Book Number
ISDN	Integrated Services Digital Network
ISI	Inter-Services Intelligence
ISIL	The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
ISIS	Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
ISIS	Images & Scanners Interface Standard
Isis	not an acronym, the name of an Egyptian goddess
ISO	International Standards Organisation
ISO-8601	International Standards Organisation # 8601 (date/time)
ISO	In Search Of
ISP	Internet Service Provider
ISTM	It Seems To Me
ISTR	I Seem To Recall
ISV	Independent Software Vendor
ISWYM	I See What You Mean
IT	Information Technology
ITC	International Typeface Corporation
ITU	International Telecommunications Union
ITU-TSS	International Telecommunications Union — Telecommunications Standards Sector
ITUT	International Telecommunications Union Telecommunications standards sector
ITV	Independent Television
IUI	Intelligent User Interface
IVF	In Vitro Fertilisation
IWC	International Whaling Commission
IWW	Industrial Workers of the World
IYKWIM	If You Know What I Mean
J.F.O.X.	Java Financial Object exchange
J2ME	Java 2 Micro Edition
J2SE	Java 2 platform, Standard Edition
JAAS	Java Authentication and Authorisation Service
JACC	Java Authorisation Contract for Containers
JAD	Java Application Descriptor
JAF	Java Activation Framework
JAI	Java Advanced Imaging
JAIN	Java Api for Integrated Networks
JAL	Java Algorithm Library
JASM	Java Assembler
Java DAO	Java Data Access Objects
JAWS	Java Web Start
JAX-RPC	Java Application programmer interface for Xml-based Remote Procedure Calls
JAXB	Java Api for XML data Binding
JAXP	Java Api for XML Processing
JAXR	Java Api for XML Registries
JBCO	Java Byte Code Obfuscator
JBTE	Java Byte Template Engine
JCA	J2EE Connector Architecture
JCC	Jain Call Control
JCD	Java Class Dissassembler
JCE	Java Cryptography Extension
JCL	Job Control Language
JCP	Java Community Process
JCP	Java Control Panel
jCVS	Java Concurrent Version System
JDB	Java Debugger
JDBC	Java Data Base Connectivity
JDC	Java Development Connection
JDE	Java Development Environment
JDEE	Java Development Environment for Emacs
JDIC	Java Desktop Integration Components
JDJ	Java Developer’s Journal
JDK	Java Development Kit
JDMK	Java Dynamic Management Kit
JDO	Java Data Objects
JDOM	Java Document Object Model
JDS	Java Desktop System
JENI	Java Enterprise Network Interface
JEP	Java Expression Parser
JESS	Java Expert System Shell
JET	Just Enough Time
JFC	Java Foundation Classes
JFK	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
JGL	Java Generic Library
JIT	Just In Time
JKS	Java Key Store
JLEX	Java Lexer
JLS	Java Language Specification
JMC	Java Media Components
JME	Java Micro Edition
JMF	Java Media Framework
JML	Java Modeling Language
JMS	Java Messaging Service
JMTA	Java Multi-Threaded Analyser
JMX	Java Management extensions
JNA	Java Native Access
JNDI	Java Naming and Directory Interface
JNI	Java Native Interface
JNLP	Java Network Launching Protocol
JO	Jerking Off
JO	Jump on Overflow
JOAL	Java bindings for OpenAL
JODE	Java Optimise and Decompile Environment
JOE	Java Object Environment
JOGL	Java Open Graphics Library
JOIE	Java Object Instrumentation Environment
JOONE	Java Object-Oriented Neural Engine
JOP	Java Optimised Processor
JOS	Java Operating System
JPA	Java Persistence Api
JPCC	Java Post-Compile Checker
JPDA	Java Platform Debugger Architecture
JPEG	Joint Photographic Experts Group
JPG	Joint Photographic experts Group
JPL	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JPS	Java virtual machine Process Status tool
JPVM	Java Parallel Virtual Machine
JRE	Java Runtime Environment
JRF	JRelational Framework
JRI	Java Runtime Interface
JSAPI	Java Speech Application Programming Interface
JSC	Java Studio Creator
JSDK	Java Servlets Development Kit
JSDT	Java Shared Data Toolkit
JSE	Java Standard Edition
JSE	Java Studio Enterprise
JSF	Java Server Faces
JSON	Java Script Object Notation
JSP	Java Server Pages
JSPA	Java Specification Participation Agreement
JSQL	Java Standard Query Language
JSR	Java Specification Request
JSSE	Java Secure Socket Extension
JSSI	Java Server Side Includes
JSTE	Java Script Templating language
JSTL	Java Server Pages Standard Tag Library
JTA	Java Transaction Application programming interface
JTAPI	Java Telephony Application Programming Interface
JTB	Java Tree Builder
JTONE	Java Telephone Object Environment
JTS	Java Transaction Service
JTV	Java-enabled Television
JTWI	Java Technology for the Wireless Industry
JUG	Java User Group
JUNG	Java Universal Network Graph framework
JUNIT	Java Unit test
JVDS	Just Virtual Dedicated Servers
JVM	Java Virtual Machine
JVMPI	Java Virtual Machine Profiler Interface
JVMS	Java Virtual Machine Specification
JW	Jehovah’s Witness
JWS	Java Web Start
JWSDP	Java Web Services Developer Pack
KDE	K Desktop Environment
KFC	Kazuki Yasumatusu Foundation Classes
KFC	Kentucky Fried Chicken
KGB	Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Russian CIA)
KIA	Killed In Action
KISS	Keep It Simple Stupid
KJV	King James Version
KKC	Ken Keyes College
KKK	Klu Klux Klan
KRTLS	Kelowna Right To Life Society
KVM	Kilobyte Virtual Machine
KVM	Keyboard-Video-Mouse
KWIC	Keyword In Context
LAF	Look And Feel
LALR	Look Ahead Left-to-Right parse
LALR(1)	Look Ahead Left-to-Right parse, single token look-ahead
LAMP	Linux-Apache-MySQL-Php/Perl
LAN	Local Area Network
LAPM	Link Access Procedure for Modems
LASIK	Laser-in-Situ Keratomileusis
LBA	Logical Block Architecture
LBJ	Lyndon Baines Johnson
LCD	Liquid Crystal Display
LCD	Lowest Common Denominator
LCG	Linear Congruential random number Generator
LCM	Lowest Common Multiple
LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LDPE	Low Density Polyethylene
LDS	Later Day Saints
LDU	Local Deliver Unit
LED	Light-Emitting Diode
LEGIT	Lesbian and Gay Immigration Task force
LETS	Local Exchange Trading System
LF	Line Feed
LFA	Low Frequency Active sonar
LFEC	Low Frequency Effects Channel
LFN	Long File Name
LGBT	Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual
LGBTQ	Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual or Queer
LGPL	Lesser General Public License
LIFO	Last In First Out
LIM	Lotus/Intel/Microsoft
LISP	List Processing language
LL(1)	Left-to-right scan, Leftmost derivation
LLC	Living Love Centre
LLF	Low-Level Format
LMGTFY	Let me Google that for you
LMTP	Local Mail Transfer Protocol
LNG	Liquid Natural Gas
LOC	Lines Of Code
LOL	Laughing Out Loud
LP	Long Play recording
LR(1)	Left-to-right scan, Rightmost derivation
LRU	Least Recently Used
LSB	Least Significant Bit
LSD	d-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
LTC	Laston Type Company
LTR	Long Term Relationship
LZMA	Lempel—Ziv—Markov chain Algorithm
LZV	Logistik Zentrum Verden
LZW	Lempel—Ziv—Welch
MAS*H	Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
M4M	Male For Male
MAC	Media Access Control
MAC	Apple Macintosh
MAC	Message Authentication Code
MAGA	Make America Great Again
MAJC	Microprocessor Architecture for Java Computing
MAPI	Messaging API
MASM	Microsoft Assembler
MB	Manitoba
MBA	Master of Business Administration
MBA	Machine Billet Aluminum
MBean	Managed Bean
MBps	MegaBytes per second
Mbps	Megabits per second
MBR	Master Boot Record
MCA	Micro-Channel Architecture
MCC	Metropolitan Community Church
MCP	Master Control Program
MD5	Message Digest algorithm 5
MDB	Message-Driven Bean
MDI	Multiple Document Interface
MDL	Motherboard Descriptor Language
MDMA	3,4-Methylenedioxy-N-Methylamphetamine
MEMS	Micro Electromechanical Systems
MET	New York Metropolitan Opera
MFC	Microsoft Foundation Classes
MFJ	Media Framework for Java
MFM	Modified Frequency Modulation
MFM	Manchester Frequency Modulation
MFT	Master File Table
MGM	Male Genital Mutilation
MHR	Maximum safe Heart Rate
MICR	Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
MIDI	Musical Instrument Digital Interface
Midlet	Mobile Information Device applet
MIDP	Mobile Information Device Profile
MIF	Maker Interchange Format
MIME	Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIO	Masivo Integrado de Occidente
MIPS	Mobile Internet Phone Services
MIT	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MixedCC	Mixed Compiler Compiler
MLA	Member of the Legislative Assembly
MMIW	Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
MMIWG	Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
MMS	Microsoft Media Server
MMT	Methycylcopentodieny Manganese Tricarbonyl
MMX	Multi-Media extension
MNG	Mixed Network Graphics
MNP	Microcom Network Protocol
MOBI	Mobile pocket eBook format
MOOC	Massive Open Online Course
MOR	Mixed Orientation Relationship
MOSH	Mostly Original Substrate Human
MOTSS	Members Of The Same Sex
MP	Member of Parliament
MP	Maintenance Pack
MPEG	Moving Picture Experts Group
MPG	Miles Per Gallon
MPH	Miles Per Hour
MRJ	Macintosh Runtime for Java
MRU	Maximum Receive Unit
MRU	Most Recently Used
MSB	Most Significant Bit
MSB	Most Significant Byte
MSF	Médecins Sans Frontières
MSIE	Microsoft Internet Explorer
MSM	Microsoft Instant Messenger
MSN	Microsoft Network
MSO	Mood Swing Orchestra
MSP	Medical Services Plan
MSR	Model-Specific Register
MTBE	Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether
MTBF	Mean Time Between Failures
MTF	Male To Female
MTJ	Matrix Toolkits for Java
MTU	Maximum Transmission Unit
MUD	Multi-User Dungeon
MUX	Multiplexor
MVC	Model-View-Controller
NAACP	National Association for the Advancement Of Colored People
NAFTA	North America Free Trade Agreement
NAK	Negative Acknowledbge
NAMBLA	North American Man Boy Love Association
NAMPS	Narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone System
NaN	Not A Number
NANPA	North American Numbering Plan Administrator for area codes
NARTH	National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality
NARTI	Nucleoside Analog Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor
NAS	Network Attached Storage
NASA	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASCAR	National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
NASRA	North American Standards and Regulatory Area
NAT	Network Address Translation
NATO	North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NB	New Brunswick
NBC	National Broadcasting Corporation
NCE	Numeric Character Entities
NCR	National Cash Register
NCSA	National Center for Supercomputer Applications
NCSE	National Center for Science Education
NDA	Nondisclosure Agreement
NDE	Near Death Experience
NDP	New Democratic Party
NDS	Novell Directory Services
NDX	index
NEB	National Energy Board
NEC	Nippon Electric Corporation
NETBUI	Net BIOS extended User Interface
NFA	Non-deterministic Finite Automaton
NFB	National Film Board of Canada
NFC	Normalisation Form canonical Composition
NFC	Near Field Communication
NFD	Normalisation Form canonical Decomposition
NFKC	Normalisation Form Kompatibility Composition
NFKD	Normalisation Form Kompatibility Decomposition
NFS	Novell File System
NGP	Natural Governing Party
NHL	National Hockey League
NIC	Network Interface Card
NIH	Not Invented Here
NIH	National Institute of Health
NIO	New Input/Output
NIO.2	New Input/Output version 2
NIS	Network Information Service
NIST	National Institute of Standards and Technology
NL	Newfoundland and Labrador
NLD	Natural Language Design
NLP	Neuro Linguistic Programming
NMFS	National Marine Fisheries Service
NMR	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
NMT	Not My Type
NMTB	Not My Type, Baby
NNRTI	Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor
NNTP	Network News Transfer Protocol
NOAA	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOC	Not Our Class
NOCD	Not Our Class, Dear
NOMA	Nonoverlapping Magisteria
NORAD	North American Aerospace Defence Command
NORML	National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
NOSEY-TYJ	No Offensive Sexuality Ennywhere, Thank You Jesus!
NPE	Null Pointer Exception
NPR	National Public Radio
NQL	Network Query Language
NRA	National Rifle Association
NRC	National Research Council
NRTI	Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor
NS	Nova Scotia
NSA	National Security Agency
NSA	No Strings Attached
NSF	Not Sufficient Funds
NSGMLS	N? Standard Generalised Markup Language S?
NT	Northwest Territories
NTFS	New Technology File System
NTI	NewTech Infosystems
NTLM	New Technology LAN Manager protocol
NTP	Network Time Protocol
NTSB	National Transportation Safety Board
NTSC	National Television System Committee aka Never The Same Colour
NU	Nunavut
NUL	Null
NVA	North Viet Nam Army
NVC	Non-Violent Communication
NXP	Norbert Mikula’s XML Parser
NYC	New York City
NYFD	New York Fire Department
OATH	Open Authentication
OBJC	Objective C
OCA	Online Customer Access
OCD	Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
OCD	Other Carcass Defects
OCL	Object Constraint Language
OCR	Optical Character Recognition
OCR-A	Optical Character Recognition font-A
OCSP	Online Certificate Status Protocol
OCX	Object linking and embedding (OLE) Control extension
ODBC	Open Data Base Connectivity
ODL	Object Definition Language
ODMG	Object Database Management Group
ODS	Outdoor Sex
OEB	Open Electronic Book
OED	Oxford English Dictionary
OEM	Original Equipment Manufacturer
OFB	Output Feedback mode
OGG	Operation Good Guys
OGNL	Object-Graph Navigation Language
OIF	Operation Iraqi Freedom
OIF	Occasionally Intimate Friends
OIL	Operation Iraqi Liberation
OIS	Optical Image Stabilisation
OJ	Orenthal James Simpson
OLE	Object Linking & Embedding
OLED	Organic Light-Emitting Diode
OLPC	One Laptop Per Child
OLTP	On-Line Transaction Processing
OMG	Object Management Group
ON	Ontario
OO	Object Oriented
OOAD	Object Oriented Analysis and Design
OOBE	Out Of Body Experience
OOP	Object Oriented Programming
OP	Original Poster
OPEC	the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPENGL	Open Graphics Library
OQL	Object Query Language
ORB	Object Request Broker
ORDBMS	Object-Oriented Relational Database Management System
ORGASM	Original Assembler
ORM	Object Relational Mapping
ORT	Oral Rehydration Therapy
OS	Operating System
OSF	Open Software Foundation
OSI	Open Software Initiative
OT	Off Topic
OTDR	Optical Time Domain Reflectometer
OTOH	On The Other Hand
OTOP	On The Other Paw
OTP	One Time Pad
OWL	Ontology Web Language
P3P	Platform for Privacy Preferences
PA-API	Product Advertising Application Programming Interface
PaaS	Platform as a Service
PABLUM	Padding Border and Margin
PAC	Political Action Committee
PAC	Pre-Authorised Chequing
PAD	Portable Application Description
PAD	Packet Assembler/Disassembler
PASV	Passive ftp file transfer
PATA	Parallel ATA
PBE	Password Based Encryption
PBS	Public Broadcasting System
PBX	Private Branch exchange
PC	Personal Computer
PCAN	Pacific Coast Association of Nudists
PCB	Polychlorinated Biphenyls
PCC	Provincial Capital Commission
PCCTS	Purdue Compiler Compiler Tool Set
PCI	Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCI-DSS	Payment Card Industry — Data Security Standard
PCI-E	Peripheral Component Interconnect — Express
PCI-X	Peripheral Component Interconnect — extended
PCIO	Program Controlled Input/Output
PCL	Printer Control Language
PCM	Pulse-Code Modulation
PCP	Pneumocystis Pneumonia
PCP	phenylcyclohexylpiperidine
PCT	Private Communication Technology
PDA	Personal Digital Assistant
PDB	Project DataBase
PDF	Portable Document Format
PDL	Process Definition Language
PDT	Pacific Daylight Time
PE	Portable Executable
PE	Prince Edward Island
PEI	Prince Edward Island
PEM	Privacy Enhanced Mail
PER	Pack Encoding Rules
PETA	People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
PETE	Polyethylene Terephthalate
PFC	Private First Class
PFR	Portable Font Resource
PGN	Portable Game Notation
PGP	Pretty Good Privacy
PHP	Pre-Hypertext Processor
PHP	Personal Home Page
PIC	Programmable Interrupt Controller
PICS	Platform for Internet Content Selection
PID	Process Identifier
PIM	Personal Information Manager
PIN	Personal Identification Number
PIO	Programmed Input/Output
PIPA	Protect Intellectual Property Act
PITA	Pain In The Ass
PKCS	Public-Key Cryptography Standards
PKI	Public Key Infrastructure
PKT	Person-Kilometre of Travel
PLAF	Pluggable Look And Feel
PMEG	Plena Manlibra de Esperanto Gramatiko
PMO	Prime Minister’s Office
PNAC	Project for the New American Century
PNG	Portable Network Graphics
PnP	Plug and Play
PNP	Play and Party
POB	Post Office Box
POD	Persistent Object Database
PoE	Power over Ethernet
POJO	Plain Old Java Object
POM	Project Object Model
POP	Post Office Protocol
POP3	Post Office Protocol version 3
POS	Point Of Sale
POSIX	Portable Operating System Interface for Unix
POTS	Plain Old Telephone Service
Pov-Ray	Persistence Of Vision Ray
POW	Prisoner Of War
PP	Polypropylene
PPGA	Plastic Pin Grid Array
PPM	Parts Per Million
PPP	Point-to-Point Protocol
PPPoE	Point-to-Point Protocol Over Ethernet
PPTP	Point to Point Tunneling Protocol
PPV	Pay Per View
PR	Public Relations
PRC	People’s Republic of China
PRC	Palm Resource Code
PRK	Photo-Refractive Keratectomy
PS	Polystyrene
PSA	Public Service Advertisement
PSD	Adobe Photoshop Data
PSPDec	Prospero Software Products Decimal
PST	Pacific Standard Time
PST	Provincial Sales Tax
PTA	Personal, Tab and Address
PTK	Photo-Therapeutic Keratectomy
PTSD	Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
PUC	Person Under Control
PUHCA	Public Utilities Holding Companies Act
PVC	Polyvinyl Chloride
PVCA	Polyvinyl Chloride Acetate
PVCS	Polytron Version Control System
PVM	Parallel Virtual Machine
PVR	Personal Video Recorder
PWD	Print Working Directory
PWS	Living Love Pathways
PwSafe	PasswordSafe
QAF	Queer As Folk
QC	Québec
QEMM	Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager
QEV	Quote Entity Validator
QR	Quick Response
QRAM	Quarterdeck RAM
QSL	Queue Simulation Language
QSL	Query Station Location
QST	Québec Sales Tax
RAD	Rapid Application Development
RAD	Rational Application Developer
RAID	Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RAM	Random Access Memory
RAMDAC	RAM Digital-to-Analog Converter
RAR	Roshal Archive
RAS	Remote Access Service
RBG	Red Blue Green
RCA	Radio Corporation of America
RCMP	Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RCS	Revision Control System
RCY	Radiocarbon Years
RD	Receive Data
RDC	Raw Data Copy
RDF	Resource Development Framework
RDQL	Resource Description Query Language
RDRAM	Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory
RDTSC	Read Time Stamp Counter
REGEN	Regenerate
REGEX	Regular Expression
RESTful	Representational State Transfer
RF	Republican Fantasy
RFC	Request For Comment
RFE	Request For Enhancement
RFI	Request For Information
RFI	Radio Frequency Interface
RFID	Radio Frequency Identification
RFP	Request For Proposal
RFS	Ready For Sending
RFU	Reserved for Future Use
RGB	Red Green Blue
RGBA	Red Green Blue Alpha
RI	Ring Indicator
RIA	Rich Internet Application
RIAA	Recording Industry Association of America
RIFF	Resource Interchange File Format
RIM	Research In Motion
RISC	Reduced Instruction Set Computer
RLL	Run Length Limited
RMA	Return Merchandise Authorisation
RMI	Remote Method Invocation
RMI-IIOP	Remote Method Invocation over Internet Inter-Orb Protocol
RMIC	Remote Method Invocation Compiler
RMP	RealPlayer Metadata Package
RMS	Root Mean Square
RNA	Ribonucleic acid
RNC	Republican National Committee
RNI	Raw Native Interface
RNIB	Royal National Institute of Blind People
ROFL	Rolling On the Floor Laughing
ROFLMAO	Rolling On the Floor Laughing My Ass Off
ROG	Republic Of Gaming
ROI	Return On Investment
ROM	Read Only Memory
ROS	Roving OS
RPC	Remote Procedure Call
RPG	Report Program Generator
RPM	Revolutions Per Minute
RPM	Red Hat Program Manager
RPN	Reverse Polish Notation
RRSP	Registered Retirement Savings Program
RRT	Rapid Resolution Therapy
RS-232C	Recommended Standard 232C
RS	Record Separator
RSA	Rivest, Shamir and Adelman
RSAC	Recreational Software Advisory Council
RSIGuard	Repetitive Stress Injury Guard
RSS	RDF Site Summary
RTALabel	Restricted To Adults Label
RTC	Real Time Clock
RTF	Rich Text Format
RTFM	Read The Fine Manual
RTI	Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor
RTMP	Real Time Messaging Protocol
RTOS	Real Time Operating System
RTP	Real-time Transport Protocol
RTR	Ready To Receive
RTS	Request To Send
RTSJ	Real Time Specification for Java
RTSP	Real Time Streaming Protocol
RUM	Real Use Monitoring
RWAR	Religious War
S&M	Sadism & Masochism
S/MIME	Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Exchange
S/PDIF	Sony/Philips Digital Interconnect Format
S3	Amazon Simple Storage Service
SAAJ	SOAP with Attachments API for Java
SaaS	Software as a Service
SAD	Seasonal Affective Disorder
SAG	Screen Actors Guild
SAIC	Science Applications International Corporation
SALT	Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
SAM	Service to Air Missile
SAM	Senvice Atingebla Memoro
SAN	Storage Area Network
SAR	Service Archive
SARS	Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
SAT	Scholastic Aptitude Test
SATA	Serial ATA
SAX	Simple API for XML
SAX	not an acronym
SCA	Society For Creative Anachronism
SCA	Secondary Request to Send
SCCS	Source Code Control System
SCE	Service Creation Environment
SCID	Source Code In Database
SCJP	Oracle Certified Java Programmer
SCM	Source Code Management
SCNR	Sorry, Could Not Resist
SCSI	Small Computer System Interface
SCTP	Stream Control Transmission Protocol
SCUBA	Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
SDK	Software Development Kit
SDL	Simple Data Language
SDLC	Synchronous Data Link Communication
SDRAM	Synchronous Dynamic RAM
SDTV	Standard Digital Television
SEAL	Navy Sea Air Land
SECC	Single Edge Contact Cartridge
SETI	Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence
SFTP	Secure File Transfer Protocol
SFX	Self-extracting executable
SG	Signal Ground
SGI	Silicon Graphics Inc
SGL	Same Gendered Loving
SGML	Standard Generalised Markup Language
SGRAM	Synchronous Graphics RAM
SHA-1	Secure Hash Algorithm 1
SI	Systèm Internationale (metric)
SI	Shift In
SIC-IAIK-TUG	Stiftung Secure Information and Communication Technologies Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications
SIDH	Supersingular Isogeny Diffie–Hellman _Key _Exchange
SIFI	Separating Interface From Implementation
SIM	Subscriber Information Module
SIMD	Single Instruction Multiple Data
SIMM	Single Inline Memory Module
SIN	Social Insurance Number
SIP	Session Initiation Protocol
SIV	Simian Immunodeficiency Virus
SK	Saskatchewan
SKU	Stock Keeping Unit
SLDRAM	Synchronous Link Dynamic RAM
SLEE	Service Logic Execution Environment
SLI	Scalable Link Interface
SLIP	Serial Line Interface Protocol
SLIP	Serial Line Interface Protocol
SMART	Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
SMB	Server Message Block
SMC	State Machine Compiler
SMF	Standard MIDI Format
SMS	Short Message Service
SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNI	Server Name Indication
SNL	Saturday Night Live
SNMP	Simple Network Management Protocol
SNTP	Simple Network Time Protocol
SO	Significant Other
SO	Shift Out
SOA	Service Oriented Architecture
SOAP	Simple Object Access Protocol
SOB	Son Of a Bitch
SOCKS	Sockets
SOH	Start Of Header
SOM	Start Of Message
SOM	System Object Model
SOPA	Stop Online Piracy Act
SOS	Sharing Of Space/Sharing Our Shit
SOTU	State Of The Union
SPA	Service Provider Api
SPASM	Stolen Postfix Assember
SPAWAR	the Space and Naval Warfare systems command
SPC	Specialist
SPCA	Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
SPDY	Speedy
SPEC	Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
SPF	Sender Policy Framework
SPI	Service Provider Interface
SPL	Simple Programming Language
SPP	Security and Prosperity Partnership
SQ	Signal Quality
SQL	Standard Query Language
SQS	Amazon Simple Queue Service
SRAM	Static Random Access Memory
SS7	Signalling System 7
SS	Site Stripping
SSA	Social Security Administration
SSCCE	Simple Self Contained Compilable Example
SSCD	Site Stripping Clock Detection
SSD	Solid State Disk
SSH	Secure Shell
SSI	Server Side Includes
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer
SSNB	Server Side Navigation Bar
SSO	Single Sign-On
SSV	Single Source Vendor
STBX	Soon To Be ex
STD	Sexually Transmitted Disease
STD	Subscriber Trunk Dialling (India)
STL	Standard Template Library
STP	Standard Temperature and Pressure
STX	Start of Text
SUB	Substitute
SUN	Stanford University Network
SUV	Sport Utility Vehicle
SVG	Scalable Vector Graphics
SVGA	Super Video Graphics Array
SVN	Subversion
SWM	Straight White Male
SWM	Single White Male
SWT	Standard Widget Toolkit
SXP	Silfide XML Parser
SYN	Synchronise
TAI	Temps Atomique International/International Atomic Time
TANG	Texas Air National Guard
TANSTAAFL	There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TAR	Tape Archive
TB	Terabytes
TB	Tuberculosis
TCAP	Transaction Capabilities Application Part
TCC	Take Command Command line
TCK	Technology Compatibility Kit
TCL	Tool Control Language
TCL	Transaction Control Language
TCP	Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP	Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TD	Transmit Data
TDD	Telecommunications Device for the Deaf
TED	Technology, Education and Design
TFA	Two Factor Authentication
TFTP	Trivial File Transfer Protocol
TGT	The Gay Thing
THC	Tetrahydrocannabinol
the Gimp	the GNU Image Manipulation Program
TIFF	Tagged Image File Format
TILMA	Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement
TLA	Three Letter Acronym
TLC	Tender Loving Care
TLD	Top Level Domain
TLD	Tag Library Descriptor
TLDP	The Linux Documentation Project
TLS	Transport Layer Security
TOS	Top Of Stack
TPP	Trans-Pacific Partnership
TPS	Taxe sure let Produits en Services
TROFF	Typesetting Runoff
TSA	Time Stamping Authority
TSR	Terminate and Stay Resident
TSTL	Too Stupid To Live
TTF	TrueType Font
TTL	Time To Live
TTL	Transistor-Transistor Logic
TTS	Text To Speech
TTT	Tut-Tera Teksaĵo
TVP	Television Poland
TVQ	Taxe de Vente du Québec
TWAIN	Technology Without An Important Name
TWIP	Twentieth of a Point
UAC	User Account Control
UAE	United Arab Emirates
UART	Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
UAV	Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
UBC	University of British Columbia
UBL	Ultimate Band List
UCLA	University of California, Los Angeles
UCMJ	Universal Code of Military Justice
UCS	Universal Character Set
UDDI	Universal Description Discovery and Integration
UDF	Universal Disk Format
UDMA	Ultra Direct Memory Access
UDP	User Datagram Protocol
UEFI	Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
UEL	Unified Expression Language
UFD	USB Flash Drive
UFMCC	Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches
UFO	Unidentified Flying Object
UHF	Ultra High Frequency
UI	User Interface
UL	Underwriters Laboratories
ULP	Unit in the Last Place
UML	Universal Modeling Language
UMTS	Universtal Mobile Telecommucations System
UN	United Nations
UNEP	United Nations Environment Program
UNESCO	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
UNMOVIC	AUnited Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission
UNSCOM	United Nations Special Commission
UNSUB	Unknown Subject
UPC	Universal Product Code
UPnP	Universal Plug & Play
UPS	Uninterruptible Power Supply
UPS	United Parcel Service of America
URI	Uniform Resource Indicator
URL	Uniform Resource Locator
URL	Unuforma Risurca Lokindiko
URN	Uniform Resource Number
US	Unit Separator
USB	Universal Serial Bus
USGS	United States Geological Survey
USMC	United States Marine Corps
USO	United Service Organisations
USSR	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
UTC	Coordinated Universal Time/Temps Universel Coordonné
UTF	Unicode Transformation unit
UUCP	Unix to Unix Command Processor/Protocol
UUID	Universally Unique Identifier
UV	ultraviolet
VA	Volt-Amps
VAJ	Visual Age for Java
VAMP	Venus Application Publisher
VAR	Value-Added Retailer
VAT	Value Added Tax
VAX	Virtual Address extension
VAX/VMS	Virtual Address Extension/Virtual Memory System
VBA	Visual Basic Applications
VCEG	Video Coding Experts Group
VCF	Versit Card File
VCPI	Virtual Control Program Interface
VCR	Videocassette Recorder
VCS	Version Control System
VD	Venereal Disease
VESA	Video Equipment Standards Association
VFS	Virtual File System
VFW	Veterans of Foreign Wars
VGA	Video Graphics Adapter
VGL	Very Good Looking
VHDL	Very high speed circuits Hardware Definition Language
VHF	Very High Frequency
VHS	Video Home System
VIP	Very Important Person
VLBA	Very Long Baseline Array radio telescope
VLIW	Very Long Instruction Word
VLSI	Very Large Scale Integration
VNC	Virtual Network Computing
VOD	Video On Demand
VOIP	Voice Over Internet Protocol
VP	Vice President
VPCUS	Vancouver Personal Computer User Society
VPN	Virtual Private Network
VR	Virtual Reality
VRAM	Video RAM
VRML	Virtual Reality Markup Language
VSAM	Virtual Sequential Access Method
VSS	Microsoft Visual Source Safe
VT	Vertical Tab
VTD	Virtual Token Descriptor
W3C	World Wide Web Consortium
WAAS	Wide Area Augmentation System
WAIS	Wide Area Information Server
WAN	Wide Area Network
WAP	Wireless Application Protocol
WAR	Web Archive
WBXML	Wireless Binary extensible Markup Language
WCAG	Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
WCF	Windows Communication Foundation
WCTU	Women’s Christian Temperance Union
WCWC	Western Canada Wilderness Committee
WDG	Web Design Group
WebDAV	Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning Protocols
WFWG	Windows For Work Groups
WHO	World Health Organisation
WIF	Wavelet Image Files
WiFi	Wireless Fidelity
WINE	Windows Emulator
WIPO	World Intellectual Property Organisation
WMA	Windows Media Audio
WMD	Weapon of Mass Destruction
WMF	Windows Media Format
WMF	Windows Metafile Format
WML	Website Meta Language
WMO	World Meteorological Organisation
WOFF	Web Open Font Format
WORA	Write Once, Run Anywhere
WoW	Windows On Windows
WPC	Write Precompensation Cylinder
WPM	Words Per Minute
WRAM	Windows RAM
WSDL	Web Services Description Language
WSED	Websphere Studio Enterprise Developer
WSS	Web Services Security
WTC	World Trade Centre
WTF	What The F*ck?
WTO	World Trade Organisation
WVHS	West Vancouver High School
WWF	World Wildlife Fund
WWF	World Wrestling Federation
WWI	World War I
WWII	World War II
WWIII	World War III
WWW	World Wide Web
WYSIWYG	What You See Is What You Get
XER	Xml Encoding Rules
XHTML	extensible Hypertext Markup Language
XMF	extensible Music Format
XML	extensible Markup Language
XMLC	extensible Markup Language Compiler
XMLNS	XML Name Space
XOR	exclusive OR
XOSL	extended Operating System Loader
XPI	Cross-Platform Install
XPS	XML Paper Specification
XREF	Cross Reference
XSD	XML Scheme Definition
XSL	extensible Stylesheet Language
XSLT	extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
XTP	XML Template Pages
Y, R-Y, B-Y	Yellow, Red minus Yellow, Blue minus Yellow
YACC	Yet Another Compiler Compiler
YAGNI	You Aren’t Going to Need It
YAML	Yaml Ain’t Markup Language
YAML	Yet Another Markup Language
YAWL	Yet Another Workflow Language
YBP	Years Before Present
YMCA	Young Men’s Christian Association
YML	YAML ain’t Markup Language
YMMV	Your Mileage May Vary
YRB	Yellow Red Blue
YT	Yukon Territory
YUM	Yellowdog Updater, Modified
YUV	luminance and chrominance Vectors
ZIP	Zoning Improvement Plan

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