List of acronyms: 0–9
List of acronyms/initialisms (add your own, in alphabetical order)
- AA - Alcoholics Anoynmous / Automobile Association / Anti-Aliasing
- AAA - American Automobile Association
- AABB - Axis aligned bounding box
- AAC - Advanced Audio Coding (audio compression format defined by the MPEG-2 standard)
- ACL - Access Control List
- ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union
- ACPI - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
- ADC - Apple Display Connector (DVI variant)
- ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line, variant of DSL
- ADT - Atlantic Daylight Time (UTC-3 hours)
- AFAIK - As far as I know
- AFAIR - As far as I remember
- AFJ - April Fool's Joke
- AFK - Away from keyboard
- AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port, sometimes used with a suffix indicating the port's bandwidth, like APG4x
- AI - Amnesty International; Artificial Intelligence
- AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
- AIM - AOL Instant Messenger
- aka - also known as
- AKDT - Alaska Standard Daylight Saving Time (UTC-8 hours)
- AKST - Alaska Standard Time (UTC-9 hours)
- AMD - Advanced Micro Devices
- AMR - Audio Modem Riser
- ANSI - American National Standards Institute
- AOL - America Online
- AP - Associated Press
- API - Application Programming Interface
- apm - Advanced Power Management
- ASAP - as soon as possible
- ASCAP
- ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- ASL - American Sign Language
- ASP - Application service provider
- ASP - Active Server Pages
- AST - Atlantic Standard Time (UTC-4 hours)
- AT&T - American Telephone and Telegraph Company
- AVI - Audio Video Interleaved
- AWACS - Airborne Warning and Control System
- B2B - Business to Business
- B2C - Business to Customer
- BASIC - Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, acronym was added later, originally it was simply Basic
- BB - Brigitte Bardot (actress)
- BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation
- BBQ - Barbeque
- BBS - Bulletin Board System
- BCC - Blind Carbon Copy
- BFE - Beyond/Butt F****** Egypt (colloquial for "quite far away")
- BIND - Berkeley Internet Name Domain
- BIOS - Basic Input Output System
- BMX - Bicycle Motor Cross
- BO2K - Back Orifice 2000
- BOFH - Bastard operator from hell
- bpm - Beats per minute
- BSA - Business Software Alliance
- BSD - Berkeley Software Distribution (Unix variant)
- BSE - Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, better known as Mad Cow disease
- BSOD - Blue Screen of Death (MS Windows specific)
- BST - British Summer Time (UTC+1 hour)
- BT - British Telecom
- BP - British Petroleum
- BTO - Built to Order
- BTW - By the way
- BYOB - Bring your own beverages/bottle
- CAD - Computer Aided Design
- CD - Compact Disc
- CLEC - Competitive (?) Local Exchange Carrier
- CO - Central Office (Phone Company office or POP)
- CRM - Customer Relations Management
- CSS - Cascading Style sheets
- DND - Do Not Disturb
- FIFO - First In First Out
- FUBAR - F****d Up Beyond All Repair/Recognition
- FWIW - For What It's Worth
- GNU - GNU's Not Unix
- GT - Gran Turismo
- HMS - Her (or His) Majesty's Ship (see Royal Navy)
- HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
- HTTP - Hypertext Transport Protocol
- IANAL - I am not a lawyer
- IIRC - If I recall correctly
- IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
- IMO - In My Opinion
- IPN - Polish Institute for National Memory (Instytut pamieci narodowej)
- IRA - Irish Republican Army
- JATO - Jet Assisted Takeoff Unit
- KKK - Ku Klux Klan
- LASER - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
- LATA - Local Access Transport Area
- LEC - Local Exchange Carrier
- LIFO - Last In First Out
- LOL - Laughing Out Loud
- MASER - Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
- MHz - Megahertz
- NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NATO - North-Atlantic Treaty Organization
- NLP - Natural Language Processing or Neuro Linguistic Programming
- PABX - Private Automated Branch Exchange (company phone system)
- PBX - Private Branch Exchange (company phone system)
- plc - (British) public limited company
- POP - Point of Presence
- POTS - Plain Old Telephone Service
- Quango - (British) quasi non-governmental organisation
- Quasar - quasi-stellar radio source
- radar - radio detection and ranging
- RBOC - Regional Bell Operating Company ("Baby Bell")
- RPN - Reverse Polish Notation
- SCUBA - Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
- SMDR - Station Message Detail Recording
- SNAFU - Situation Normal All F****d Up
- SOL - S**t Out of Luck
- TLA - Three-Letters Acronym
- UFO - Unidentified Flying Object
- UN - United Nations
- UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund, originally United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
- WTO - World Trade Organization
- YMMV - Your Mileage May Vary
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