Common Computer related acronyms Abbreviations list with full form A - Z
Al – Artificial intelligence
ALGOL – Algorithmic Language
ARP – Address resolution Protocol.
A/D - Analog To Digital.
ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit.
ASCII - American Standard Code For Information Interchange.
ASR - Automatic Send And Receive.
ATM - Automated Teller Machine.
BINAC - Binary Automatic Computer
BCC – Blind Carbon Copy
Bin – Binary
BASIC - Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
Bit – Binary Digit
BSNL – Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
BCD - Binary Coded Decimal.
BIOS - Basic Input/Output System.
BIS - Business Information System.
BPS - Bits Per Second.
CC – Carbon Copy
CAD – Computer Aided Design
COBOL – Common Business Oriented Language
CRT – Cathode Ray Tube
CDR – Compact Disc Recordable
CDROM – Compact Disc Read Only Memory
CDRW – Compact Disc Rewritable
CDR/W – Compact Disk Read/Write
CAM - Computer-Aided Manufacturing.
CASE - Computer-Aided Software Engineering.
CD - Compact Disc.
CPS - Characters Per Second.
CPU - Central Processing Unit.
CROM - Control Read-Only Memory.
DBMS - Database Management System.
DOS - Disk Operating System.
DPI - Dots Per Inch.
DTP - Desktop Publishing.
DVD - Digital Versatile Disk.
DRAM – Dynamic Random Access Memory
DVDR – DVD Recordable
DVDROM – DVD Read Only Memory
DVDRW – DVD Rewritable
DVR – Digital Video Recorder
EEPROM - Electronically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory.
EPROM - Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory.
EDP – Electronic Data Processing
ELM/e-Mail – Electronic Mail
ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
EOF - End Of File
EXE - Executable
FM - Frequency Modulation.
FORTRAN - Formula Translation.
FTP - File Transfer Protocol.
GB - Giga Byte.
GIGO - Garbage In, Garbage Out.
GUI - Graphical User Interface.
HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language.
HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.
HZ - Hertz.
I/O - Input / Output.
IP - Internet Protocol.
ISO - International Standards Organisation.
ISP - Internet Service Provider.
KB - Kilo Byte.
LAN - Local Area Network.
LCD - Liquid Crystal Display.
MAN - Metropolitan Area Network.
MB - Mega Byte.
MICR - Magnetic Ink Character Recognition.
NS - Nano Second.
NTP - Network Time Protocol
OCR - Optical Character Recognition.
OMR - Optical Mark Reader.
OS - Operating System.
POST - Power-On Self-Test
PROM - Programmable Read-Only Memory
PSU - Power Supply Unit
P2P Peer To Peer.
PAN- Personal Area Network.
PC - Personal Computer.
PCB - Printed Circuit Board.
PDF - Portable Document Format.
PIN - Personal Identification Number.
PPP - Point-To-Point Protocol.
RAM - Random Access Memory.
ROM - Read Only Memory.
SMPS - Switched-Mode Power Supply
SMS - Short Message Service
SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SSD - Solid State Drive
TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
URL - Uniform Resource Locator.
USB - Universal Serial Bus.
VDU - Visual Display Unit.
VGA - Video Graphics Array.
WAN - Wide Area Network.
Wi-Fi - Wireless Fidelity.
WWW - World Wide Web.
XML - Extensible Markup Language