List of

ACRONYMS..

Although this list is not complete, it should get you into the right ballpark. If an entry is blank, it means that I’ve come across the acronym before, but still haven't been able to find out what it means!

 

3G        3rd Generation

4G        4th Generation (WiMax?)

802.11 WiFi wireless standard

802.16 WiMax Standard protocols

802.16d WiMax Standard for fixed inst

802.16e WiMax Standard for Mobile inst.

- A

AAA    Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting  

AAS     Advanced Antenna Systems

ABIOS Advanced Basic Input Output System

ABR     Area Border Router

ABR Auxilliary Bass Radiator

AC Alternating Current

ACATS Advisory Committee on Advanced TV Service

ACE Access Control Entry

ACIA Asynchronous Communications Interface Adapter

ACL Access Control list

ACL Asynchronous ConnectionLess

ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface

A/D Analogue to Digital

ADC Analogue to Digital Convertor

ADMD Administrative Management Domain

ADSC Asymetrical Digital Subscriber line ?

ADSI Active Directory Services Interfaces

ADSL Assymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

AES Advanced Encryption Standard

AFC Automatic Frequency Control

AFSDB Andrew File System DataBase

AH Authentication Header

AGC Automatic Gain Control

AGP Accelerated Graphics Port

a.k.a. Also Known As

ALC Automatic Level Control

AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone Service

API Application Programming Interface

APIPA Automatic Private IP Addressing

APM Advanced Power Management

ARC Advanced RISC Computing

ARIN American Registry for Internet Numbers

ARP Address Resolution Protocol

ARQ Automatic Repeat Request

AS Authentication Server

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASDL Asynchronous Data Line ?

ASN Access Services Network

ASP Active Server Pages

ASP Application Service Provider

ATA Advanced Technology Attachment (=IDE)

ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode

ATM Automatic Teller Machine

ATRN Authenticated TuRN

ATS Abstract Test Suite

ATSC Advanced Television Systems Committee (Digital TV USA)

ATV Advanced TV

ATX Advanced Technology Extended

AVR Automatic Voltage Regulator

AXFR Full Zone Transfer (DNS Zones)

- B -

B2B Business to Business

B2C Business to Client

BACP Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol

BAP Bandwidth Allocation Protocol

BCP Best Common Practice

BDC Backup Domain Controller

BHP Brake Horse Power

BINL Boot Information Negotiation Layer

BMP BitMaP ( picture file format )

BNC British Navy Connector

BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol

BPS Bits Per Second

BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying

BSI British Standards Institute

BWA Broadband Wireless Access | spectrum

- C -

CA Certification Authority

CAD Computer Aided Design

CAL Client Access Licence

CAN Controller Area Network / Car Area Network

CAO Computer Account Objects

CAS Column Address Strobe

CAST (protocol)

CBCP Call Back Control Protocol

CCD Charge Coupled Device

CCK Complementary Coded Keying

CCIR International Radio Consultative Committee

CCITT Comite Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique

CCP Compression Control Protocol

CCTV Closed Circuit TV

CDMA Code Division Multiple Access

CDO Collaboration Data Objects

CDP Cisco Discovery Protocol

CD-R Compact Disk Recordable

CD-RW Compact Disk Rewritable

CGI Common Gateway Interface

CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol

CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Router

CIFS Common Internet File System

CIR Committed Information Rate

CLEC Competitive Local Exchange Carrier

CLIP Classical IP over ATM

CLK Clock signal

CLNP ConnectionLess Network Protocol

CMC Common Mail Call

CMS Content Management System

CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

CNAME Canonical Name Records

CNR Communications and Network Riser (slot in PC)

COM Component Object Model

CPE Consumer/Customer Premise Equipment

CPU Central Processing Unit

CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check

CRL Certification Revocation List

CRS Certificate Request Syntax

CSA Canadian Standards Association.

CSC Customer Support Centre

CSIR Consumer Standards Institute for Research

CSMA/CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance

CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection = Ethernet

CSNW Client Services For Netware

CSP Cryptographic Service Provider

CSR Client Server Subsystem

CSS Cascading Style Sheet

CSV Comma Separated Values

CTD Charge Transfer Device

CTI Computer-Telephony Integration

CTL Certificate Trust Lists

CWG C Working Group

- D -

D/A Digital to Analogue

DACL Discretionary Access Control List

DAC Digital to Analogue Converter

DAP Directory Access Protocol

dB Decibel

dBm dB with reference to 1mW

dBu dB with reference to 1uV

DC Direct Current

DCC Digital Content Creation

DCD Data Carrier Detect

DCE Data Communications Equipment

DCE Data Circuit terminating Equipment

DCE Distributed Computing Environment

DCF Distributed Control Function

DCOM Distributed Component Object Model

DCS Digital Cellular System

DDE Dynamic Data Exchange

DDF Data Decryption Field

DDNS Dynamic Domain Name System

DDR Double Data Rate (SDRAM)

DEC Digital Equipment Corporation

DES Data/Digital Encryption Standard

DES-CBC Data Encryption Standard - Cipher Chaining

DESX Data Encryption Standard X

DFS Distributed File System

DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DIB Directory Information Base

DIL Dual In Line

DIMM Dual Inline Memory Module (RAM)

DIN German Standards Institute (Deutshe Instituut von Norme)

DIT Directory Infromation Tree

DivX Digital Video Express = MPEG4

DL Distribution List

DLC Data Link Control

DLL Dynamic Link Libraries

DMA Direct Memory Access

DN Distinguished Name

DNS Domain Name Service

DOD Dial On Demand

DPA Data Protection Act

DPA Differential Power Analysis

DPC Deferred Procedure Calls

DPDT Double Pole Double Throw (switch)

DPMS Display Power Management Signalling.

DPST Double Pole Single Throw

DRAM Dynamic Random Access memory

DRF Data Recovery Field

DS Directory Service

DSA Digital Structure Algorithm

DSA Directory System Agent

DSDM DDE Share Database Manager

DSL Digital Subscriber Line

DSLAM Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer

DSMN Directory Service Manager for Netware

DSN Data Source Name

DSP Digital Signal Processor

DSR Data Set Ready

DSS Digital Signed Standard

DSSS Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum

DTD Document Type Definition.

DTE Data Terminal Equipment

DTL Diode Transistor Logic

DTMF Dual Tone Multi Frequency

DTV Digital TV

\'----- SD Standard Definition

ED Enhanced definition

HD High Definition

DUN Dial Up Networking

DVB Digital Video Broadcasting (Europe std)

DVB-T Digital Video Broadcast Terrestrial

DVB-S Digital Video Broadcast Satellite

DVB-C Digital Video Broadcast Cable

DVB-H Digital Video Broadcast Handheld

DVD Digital Video Disk / Versatile Disk

DVI Digital Visual Interface

DXA Directory Synchronisation Agent

- E -

EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol

EAROM Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory

ECC Error Correction Code

ECL Emitter Coupled Logic

ECSA Engineering Council of South Africa

ED Enhanced Definition (Digital TV)

EDCA Enhanced Distributed Control Access

EDI Electronic Data Interchange

EDO Extended Data Out (RAM)

EDRP Encrypted Data Recovery Policy

ED-VO Enhanced Version - Data Only (Data Optimised)

EFD Exchange Forms Designer

EFP Exchange Forms Project

EFS Encrypting file system

EGP Exterior Gateway Protocol

EHT Extremely High Tension (voltage)

EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture

EMF ElectroMotive Force (Voltage)

EPROM Erasable Programmable ROM

EPS Encapsulated Postscript

ERD Emergency Recovery Disk

EROM Erasable ROM

ERP Effective Radiated Power

ERP Enterprise Resource Planning

ESE Extensible Storage Engine

ESMR Enhanced Specialised Mobile Radio

ESP Encapsulating Security Payload

ETRN Extended TuRN (~=SMTP) protocol

ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute

- F -

FCB File Control Block

FC Fibre Channel (Hard drives)

FCC Federal Communications Commission

FDD Frequency Division Duplexing

FDX Full Duplex

FEC Forward Error Correction

FEK File Encryption Key

FET Field Effect Transistor

FHSS Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum

FM Frequency Modulation

FPNW File and Print Services for Netware

FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name

FROG Fully Reliant On God

FRS File Replication Service

FSD Full Scale Deflection

FSK Frequency Shift Keying

FSMO Flexible Single Master Operations

FTP File Transfer Protocol

FWA Fixed Wireless Access

- G -

GAL Global Address List

GDI Graphics Device Interface

GIF Graphics Interchange Format

GINA Graphical Identification and Authentication

GPF General Protection Fault

GPO Group Policy Object

GPRS General Packet Radio Services

GPS Global Positioning System

GRE Generic Routing Encapsulation

GSM Global System for Mobile communication

GSNW Gateway Services For Netware

GUID Globally Unique Identifier

GWART GateWay Address Routing Table

- H -

HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer

HARQ Hybrid ARQ (Auto Repeat Request)

HCL Hardware Compatibility List

HD High Definition (Digital TV)

HDCD High Definition Compatible Digital

HDCP High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection

HDLC High Level Data Link Control

HDMI High Definition Multimedia Interface 1.0 - 1.3b

HDTV High Definition TV

HINFO Host INFOrmation record

HIPERMAN High Performance Metropolitan Area Network

HMAC Hash Message Authentication Code

HMP Host Monitoring Protocol

HPFS High Performance File System

HTML Hypertext Markup Language

HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HTTPS Secure HTTP

HUMAN High Speed Unlicenced Metropolitan Area Network

Hz Hertz (Cycles per second)

- I -

IAB Internet Activities Board

IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

IAS Internet Authentication Service

IC Integrated Circuit

ICM Intergrated Colour Management

ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol

ICS Internet Connection Sharing

ICV Integrity Check Value

IDC Internet Database Connector

iDEN Integrated Digital Enhanced Network

IDP Information Device Profile

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

IETF Internet engineering Task Force

IF Intermediate Frequency

IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol

IIL Integrated Injection Logic

IIS Internet Information Server

IKE ISAKMP/Oakley Key Management System

ILEC Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier

ILS Internet Locator Server

IMAP4 Internet Message Access Protocol 4

IMS Internet Mail Service

INS Internet News Service

IOCTL Input/Output Control for devices

IP Internet Protocol

IPC Interprocess Control/ Communication

IPCP Internet Protocol Control Protocol

IPM Interpersonal Messaging

IPSec Internet Protocol Security

IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange

IRC Internet Relay Chat

IrDA Internal Infrared Data Association

IS Information Store

IS Interim Standard

ISAKMP Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol

ISAM Indexed Sequential Access Method

ISAPI Internet Server Application Programming Interface

ISDB (Japanese Digital TV standard)

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network

ISM Internet Service Manager

ISM Industrial, Scientific and Medical

ISO International Standards Organisation

ISP Internet Service Provider

ISV Independent Software Vendors

ITU International Telegraph/Telecommunications Union

IXFR Incremental Zone Transfer (DNS Zones)

- J -

JBIG Joint Bi-Level Image Experts Group

JDK Java Development Kit

JEDEC Joint Electronic Device Engineering Council

JFET Junction Field Effect Transistor

JPEG Joint Picture Experts Group

JVM Java Virtual Machine

- K -

KCC Knowledge Consistency Checker

KD Kernel Debugger

KDC Key Distribution Centres

KKDC Kerberos Key Distribution Centre

KM Key Management

KMS Knowledge Management System

KYFC Keep Your Fingers Crossed!

- L -

L2TP Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol

LAN Local Area Network

LCP Link Control Protocol

LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LED Light Emitting Diode

LFN Long File Name

LIPS Logical Inferences Per Second

LKG Last Known Good

LMDS Local Multipoint Distribution Service

LPC Local Proceedure Call

LPD Line Printer Daemon

LPR Line Printer Remote

LR Location Register

LS Least Squares

LSA Local Security Authority

LSI Large Scale Integration

LU Logical Unit

- M -

MAC Media Access Control

MADMAN Mail And Directory MANagement

MAN Metropolitan Area Network

MAPI Messaging Application Programming Interface

MBR Multiple Bit Rate

MBS Multicast Broadcast Service

MCI Media Control Interface

MCIS Memebership System Authentication Option

MCIS Microsoft Commercial Internet Server

MDBEF Microsoft Database Exchange Format

MHS Message Handling System

MHz Mega Hertz

MIB Management Information Base

MIC Microsoft Internet Chat

MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

MIMO Multiple Input - Multiple Output

MMC Microsoft Management Console

MMDS Multi Channel Multipoint Distribution Service

MMS Multimedia Messaging Service

MOS Metal Oxide Semiconductor

MOST Media Oriented Systems Transport

MP Multilink Point to Point Protocol (PPP)

MPDU MAC Protocol Data Unit

MPEG 1-4 Moving Picture Experts Group (see DivX)

MPPE Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption

MPR Multi Protocol Routing

MPU Microprocessor Unit

MPX MultiPleX

MRTG Multi-Router Traffic Grapher

MS Microsoft

MS Mobile Station

MS-CHAP Microsoft CHAP

MSV1-0 (Type of authentication package)

MTA Message Transfer Agent

MTS Microsoft Transaction Server

MX Mail Exchanger

- N -

NAB National Association of Broadcasters

NAMPS Narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone System

NAS Network Access Server

NAT Network Address Translation

NBFP NetBIOS Frame Protocol

NCP Network Control Protocol

NCQ Native Command Queuing

NDA Non Destructive Arbitration

NDIS Network Device Interface Specification

NDR Non Delivery Report

NDS Netware Directory Services

NetBIOS Network basic Input Output System

NetBT NetBIOS over TCP (I think)

NIC Network Interface Card

NiCad Nickel- Cadmium

NICAM Near Instantaneous Companded Audio Multiplex (TV stereo audio)

NIS Network Information Service

NJE Network Job Entry

NLM Netware Loadable Module

NLOS Non Line-Of-Sight

NMS Network Management Station

NMOS Negative Channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor

NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol

NOS Network Operating System

nrtPS QoS??

NS Name DNS record

NTDS NT Directory Service

NTFS NT File System

NTLM Windows NT Challenge/Response Authentication

NWG Network Working Group

- O -

O/R ADDRESS Originator/Recipient Address

OAB Offline Address Book

OCR Optical Character Recognition

ODBC Open Database Connectivity

ODMR On Demand Mail Relay

OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer

OFDM Orthoganal Frequency Division Multiplexing

OID Object IDentifier

OLE Object Linking and Embedding

OpenGL Open Graphics Language

OS Operating System

OS Open Source

OSF Open Software Foundation

OSPF Open Shortest Path First

OSI Open Sysytems Interconnection

OST Offline Storage Folder

OTAP Over The Air Programming

OU Organisational Unit

OUI Organisationally Unique Identifier

- P -

PAB Personal Address Book

PABX Private Automatic Branch Exchange

PAC Privelege Attribute Certificates

PAD Packet Assembler/Dissassembler

PAL Phase Alternation, Line

PAM Pulse Amplitude Modulation

PAP Password Authentication Protocol

PATA Parallel ATA (Hard drives)

PCB Printed Circuit Board

PCF Point Control Function

PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCIA Personal Communications Industry Association

PCM Pulse Code Modulation

PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

PCS Personal Communications Services

PDA Personal Digital Assistant

PDC Primary Domain Controller

PDU Protocol Data Unit

PHS Personal Handyphone System

PHY Physical Data Layer

PICS Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement

PIF Programme Information File

PIM Personal Information Manager

PIN Personal Identification Number

PKI Public Key Infrastructure

PKCS Public Key Cryptography Server

PKCS Public Key Cryptography Standards

PLA Programmable Logic Array

PLL Phase Lock Loop

PLM Product Lifecycle Management

PMP ?? to do with wireless access

PMOS Positive Channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor

PNG Portable Network Graphics

PoP Point of Presence

POP3 Post Office Protocol

POSIX Portable Operating System Interface

POTS Plain Old Telephone Service

PPM Peak Programme Meter

PPP Point to Point Protocol

PPTP Point to Point Tunneling Protocol

PRMD Private Management Domain

PRF Pulse Repitition Frequency

PROFS Professional Office System

PROM Programmable ROM

PSP Play Station Portable.

PSS Packet Switch Stream

PST Personal Storage Folder

PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network

PSU Power Supply Unit

PTFE PolyTetraFlouroEthelene

PU Physical Unit

PUJT Progammable UniJunction Transistor

PVR Personal Video Recorder.

PWS Peer Web Services

PXE Pre-boot Execution Environment

- Q -

x-QAM x-level Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

QoS Quality of Service

QED Quite Easily Done

QPSK Quadrature Phase Shift Keying

- R -

R&D Research and Development

RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks

RADIUS Remote Authentication Dial In User Service

RADSL Rate Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line

RAM Random Access Memory

RAP Remote Access Policy

RAS Remote Access Service

RC4 Ron.s Code 4

RDN Relative Distinguished Names

RDP Reliable Datagram Protocol

RDP Remote Desktop Protocol

RDR Windows NT Redirector

RDRAM Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory.

REXEC Remote Execution (UNIX)

RF Radio Frequency

RFC Request For Comments

rfc Radio Frequency Choke

RGB Red Green Blue (Video signals)

RID Relative IDentifier

RIMM Rambus Inline Memory Module

RIP Routing Information Protocol

RIS Remote Installation Services

RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computing

RMS Root Mean Square

ROM Read Only Memory

RPC Remote Proceedure Call

RRAS Routing and Remote Access Service

RRD Round Robin Database

RSA Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (algorithm)

RSH Remote Shell (UNIX)

RSL Registry Size Limit

RSM Removable Storage Management

RSVP Resource Reservation Setup Protocol

RTF Rich Text Format

rtPS QoS ??

RTL Resistor Transistor Logic

RVD MIT Remote Virtual Disk

R/W Read/ Write

RX Receiver

- S -

SA System Attendant

SACL System Access Control List

SAM Security Accounts Manager

SAP Service Advertising Protocol / Service Access Point

SASL Simple Authentication and Security Layer

SCO Synchronous Connection Oriented

SCR Silicone Controlled Rectifier

SCSI Small Computer System Interface

SD Secure Digital (digital camera memory card)

SD Standard Definition (Digital TV)

SDP Software Distribution Point

SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory

SDU Service Data Units

SFM Services For MacIntosh

SGC Server Gated Cryptography

SGML Standard Generalised Markup Language

SHF Super High Frequency

SI International System of Units

SID Security ID

SIM Subscriber Identity Module

SIMM Single Inline Memory Module.

SIS Single Instance Store

SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol

SMB Server Message Block

SME Small to Medium Enterprize

SMP Symmetric MultiProcessing

SMR Specialised Mobile Radio

SMS Short Messaging Service

SMS Systems Management Server

SMTP Simple Mail Transport Protocol

S/N Signal to Noise ratio

SNA System Network Architecture

SNADS Systems Network Architecture Distribution Services

SNAP SubNetwork Access Protocol

SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol

SOA Start Of Authority

SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol

SOHO Small Office Home Office

SONET Synchronous Optical Network Interface

SPAP Shiva Password Authentication Protocol

SPL Sound Pressure Level

SPDT Single Pole Double Throw (switch)

SPST Single Pole Single Throw (switch)

SPX Sequenced Packet Exchange

SQL Structured Query Language

SS7 Signalling System 7

SSI Server Side Includes

SSI Small Scale Integration

SSL Secure Sockets Layer

SSPI Security Support Provider Interface

SWG Standard Wire Gauge

SWR Standing Wave ratio

- T -

T&L Transform, Clipping and Lighting (graphics)

TAPI Telephone Application Programming Interface

TCO Total Cost of Ownership

TCP Transmission Control Protocol

TDD Time Division Duplexing

TDI Transport Driver Interface

TDM Time Division Multiplex

TDMA Time Division Multiple Access

TelCo Telephone Company

TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol

TGS Ticket Granting Service

TGT Ticket Granting Ticket

THD Total Harmonic Distortion

TID Transient Intermodulation Distortion

TIF Tagged Image File

TKIP Temporal Key Integrity Protocol

TLS Transport Layer Security

TMDS Transistion Minimised Differential Signaling

TP Transport Protocol

TSP TAPI Service Providers

TTCAN Time Triggered Controller Area Network

TTL Transistor Transistor Logic

TTL Time To Live

TTY Teletype Unit

TVI TV Interface

- U -

UAM User Authentication Module

UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter

UDF Uniqueness Database File

UDP User Datagram Protocol

UGS QoS??

UHF Ultra High Frequency

UJT Unijunction Transistor

ULA Uncommitted Logic Array

UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunication System

UNC Universal Naming Convention

U-NII Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure

UPN User Principal Name

URI Universal Resource Identifier

URL Uniform Resource Locator

USAT Ultra Small Aperture Terminal

USB Universal Serial Bus (Human Interface )

USN Update Sequence Number

USN Unique Sequence Number

UTF-8 Unicode Translation Format 8

UTP Un TWISTED PAIR

UUENCODE Unix to Unix Encode

UUID Universally Unique Identifier

- V -

VADS Value Added Data Service

VAN Value Added Network

VANS Value Added Network Service

VCA Voltage Controlled Amplifier

VCO Voltage Controlled Oscillator

VCT Voltage to Current Transactor

VDD Virtual Device Driver

VDM Virtual DOS Machine

VDU Visual Display Unit

VHF Very High Frequency (88-216MHz)

VLAN Virtual Local Area Network

VLF Very Low Frequency

VLOG Video Blog web site.

VM Virtual Machine

VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol

VoWLAN Voice over Wireless LAN

VPN Virtual Private Network

VRC Vertical Redundancy Check

VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal

VSB Vestigal SideBand

VTP Virtual Terminal Protocol

- W -

W3C World Wide Consortium

WAIS Wide Area Information Server

WAN Wide Area Network

WAP Wireless Application Protocol

WARC World Administrative Radio Conference

WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access

WebDAV Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning

WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy

W/F Wow and Flutter

WF Wait Flag

WHQL Windows Hardware Quality Labs

WiFi Wireless Fidelity (Network - see WLAN)

WiMAX Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access.

WINS Windows Internet Name Service

WISP Wireless Internet Service Provider

WKS Well Known Services (DNS)

WLAN Wireless Local Area Network

WLL Wireless Local Loop

WMAN Wireless Metropolitan Area Network

WME Wi-Fi Multimedia Extensions

WMI Windows Management Instrumentation

WOSA Windows Open Services Architecture

WOW Win16 On Win32

WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access

WPDA Wireless Partnership for Donor Awareness

WRAN Wireless Regional Area Network

WSH Windows Script Host (IIS)

WSM Wi-Fi Scheduled Multimedia

WWJD What Would Jesus Do

WWW World Wide Web

- X -

XAPIA X.400 Applications Programming Interface Association

xDSL Digital Subscriber Line (2 way)

XML eXtensible Markup Language

XNS-IDP Xerox NS IDP

x-QAM x-level Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

Xtal Crystal

- Y -

Y2K Year 2000 (Year 2 kilo)

- Z -

ZF Zero Forcing

ZIF Zero Insertion Force (socket)

ZIL Zork Implementation Language

ZZZZ I Am Asleep

 

 

 

Compiled by DP Kelly 29th April 2004

Updated: Continually up to 20th March 2008

File: ACRONYMS4.txt