7.10.2013

Computer Terms Full Forms


General Computer Short Term and related full form terminology as:

Short Term Full Form
ABC Atanasoff-Berry Computer
AMD Advanced Micro Devices
AI Artificial Intelligence
ALU Arithmetic and Logic Unit
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ATM Automated teller machine or Asynchronous Transfer Mode
AVI Audio Visual Interleave
BIOS Basic Input Output System
CD Compact Disk
CU Control Unit
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CGI Common Gatweay Interface
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
CPU Central Processing Unit
CAD Computer Aided Design
CUI Character User Interface
CAI Computer Aided Instruction
CAL Computer Aided Learning
CAM Computer Aided Manufacturing
CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detection
CVT constant voltage transformer!
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DIMM Dual In-line Memory Module
DMA Dynamic Memory Access
DPI Dot Per Inch
DVD Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc
EDI Electronic Data Interchange
EDO-RAM extended data output-RAM
FAT File Allocation Table
FLOPS Floating Point Instruction Per Second
FAX Far Away Xerox
FDC Floppy Disk Controller
GIGO Garbage In Garbage Out
GUI Griphical User Interface
GPL General Public Language
HD Hyper Definiation
HDD Hard Disk Drive
HDC Hard Disk Controller
IDE Integrated Development Environment
IRC Internet Relay Chat
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol
ISDN Integrated Service Digital Network
LASER Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
LED Light Emitting Diode
MICR Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
NASSCOM National Association of Software and Services Companies
NFS Network File System
NTFS New Technology File System
OCR Optical Character Recognition
OLE Object Linking and Embedding
OOP Object Oriented Programming
OMR Optical Mark Recognition
PATA Parallel advanced technology attachment
P-COMMERCE Pipe-Commerce
PDF Portable Document Format
PRM Rotate Per Minute
QOS Quality Of Service
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks or Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RAM RAndom Access Memory
ROM Read Only Memory
RJ Registered Jack
RTF Rich Text Format
SATA Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
S-D-RAM Synchronous dynamic random access memory
SIMM single in-line memory module
SMPS Switching-Mode Power Supply
UNIAC UNIVersal Automatic Computer
UPS Un-interruptable Power Supply
USB Universal Serial Bus
UUCP Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol
VGA Video Graphics Array
VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal
WAIS Wide Area Information System
WAV Waveform Audio
WI-FI Wireless Fidelity
WMF Windows Metafile Format
WORM Write Once Read More
WYSIWYG what you see is what you get
ZIP Zigzag Inline Package or zicxac inline pin




Computer images extension Short form & related full form terms:

Short Term Full Form
BMP BitMap Picture
JPEG/JPG Joint Photographic Expert Group
GIF Graphic Interchange Format
PNG Portable Networks Graphics
TIFF Tagged Image File Format


Computer Network & Internet Short form & related full form terms:

Short Term Full Form
ARPA NETAdvanced Research Projects Agency Network
DLLData Link Layer
DNSDomain Name System
HTMLHyper Text Mark-up Language
ICMPInternet Control Message Protocol
IMAPInternet Message Access Protocol
INTERNETInter Network
ISPInternet Service Provider
LLCLogical Link Control
MACMedia Access Control
NNTPNetwork News Transfer Protocol
POP-3Post Office Protocol Version-3
SMIMESecure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
SNMPSimple Mail Transfer Protocol
SSLSecure Sockets Layer
TLSTransport Layer Security
TCP/IPTransmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
FTPFile Transfer Protocol
VOIPVoice Over Internet Protocol
VPNVirtual Private Network
WWWWorld Wide Web
URLUniform Resource Locator
LANLocal Area Network
MANMetropolitan Area Network
WANWide Area Network



Computer language Short form & related full form terms:

Short Term Full Form
BASIC Beginner All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
FORTRAN FORmula TRANslation
COBOL COmmon Business Oriented Language
PHP PHP : Hypertext Preprocessor
ASP Active Server Pages
CSS Cascading Style Sheet
XML eXtensible Mark-up Language



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