Technology Abbreviations

Comprehensive list of technology terms from A to Z

1. AI – Artificial Intelligence
2. ACL – Access Control List
3. ADC – Analog to Digital Converter
4. AD – Active Directory
5. AI – Artificial Intelligence
6. ALU – Arithmetic Logic Unit
7. API – Application Programming Interface
8. AR – Augmented Reality
9. ARP – Address Resolution Protocol
10. ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange
11. ASP – Active Server Pages
12. ATM – Asynchronous Transfer Mode
13. ADSL – Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
14. AES – Advanced Encryption Standard
15. AGP – Accelerated Graphics Port
16. APK – Android Package Kit
17. ANSI – American National Standards Institute
18. AIO – All In One (computer)
19. AIoT – Artificial Intelligence of Things
20. ATA – Advanced Technology Attachment
1. BIOS – Basic Input Output System
2. BCC – Blind Carbon Copy
3. Bit – Binary Digit
4. BPS – Bits Per Second
5. BPM – Business Process Management
6. BGP - Border Gateway Protocol
7. BLE - Bluetooth Low Energy
8. BYOD - Bring Your Own Device
1. CPU – Central Processing Unit
2. CAD – Computer Aided Design
3. CD-ROM – Compact Disc Read-Only Memory
4. CSS – Cascading Style Sheets
5. CRM – Customer Relationship Management
6. CDN - Content Delivery Network
7. CLI - Command Line Interface
8. CMS - Content Management System
9. CAPTCHA - Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
1. DNS – Domain Name System
2. DDR – Double Data Rate
3. DSL – Digital Subscriber Line
4. DTP – Desktop Publishing
5. DBMS – Database Management System
6. DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
7. DDoS - Distributed Denial of Service
8. DMA - Direct Memory Access
9. DPI - Dots Per Inch
1. EEPROM – Electrically Erasable Programmable ROM
2. ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning
3. ESD – Electrostatic Discharge
4. EFS – Encrypting File System
5. EIDE – Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics
6. E2EE - End-to-End Encryption
7. EDI - Electronic Data Interchange
8. EDR - Endpoint Detection and Response
9. EPUB - Electronic Publication
1. FTP – File Transfer Protocol
2. FAT – File Allocation Table
3. FOSS – Free and Open Source Software
4. FHD – Full High Definition
5. FPGA – Field Programmable Gate Array
6. FIFO - First In, First Out
7. FIDO - Fast Identity Online
8. FQDN - Fully Qualified Domain Name
1. GUI – Graphical User Interface
2. GIF – Graphics Interchange Format
3. GPRS – General Packet Radio Service
4. GPS – Global Positioning System
5. GSM – Global System for Mobile Communications
6. GPU - Graphics Processing Unit
7. GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation
8. GIGO - Garbage In, Garbage Out
1. HTML – HyperText Markup Language
2. HTTP – HyperText Transfer Protocol
3. HDD – Hard Disk Drive
4. HDMI – High-Definition Multimedia Interface
5. HTTPs – HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure
6. HCI - Human Computer Interaction
7. HDFS - Hadoop Distributed File System
8. HSM - Hardware Security Module
1. IP – Internet Protocol
2. ISP – Internet Service Provider
3. IDE – Integrated Development Environment
4. ISO – International Organization for Standardization
5. ICT – Information and Communication Technology
6. IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service
7. ICMP - Internet Control Message Protocol
8. IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol
9. IoT - Internet of Things
1. JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group
2. JDK – Java Development Kit
3. JVM – Java Virtual Machine
4. JSON – JavaScript Object Notation
5. JSP – Java Server Pages
6. JRE - Java Runtime Environment
7. JWT - JSON Web Token
1. KB – Kilobyte
2. Kbps – Kilobits per second
3. KVM – Kernel-based Virtual Machine
4. K8s - Kubernetes
5. KPI - Key Performance Indicator
1. LAN – Local Area Network
2. LCD – Liquid Crystal Display
3. LED – Light Emitting Diode
4. LTE – Long-Term Evolution
5. LPT – Line Print Terminal
6. LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
7. LLM - Large Language Model
8. LSTM - Long Short-Term Memory
1. MIDI – Musical Instrument Digital Interface
2. MAC – Media Access Control
3. Mbps – Megabits Per Second
4. MPEG – Moving Picture Experts Group
5. MBR – Master Boot Record
6. MFA - Multi-Factor Authentication
7. ML - Machine Learning
8. MQTT - Message Queuing Telemetry Transport
9. MVC - Model View Controller
1. NIC – Network Interface Card
2. NAND – Not AND
3. NOS – Network Operating System
4. NFC – Near Field Communication
5. NTFS – New Technology File System
6. NAT - Network Address Translation
7. NLP - Natural Language Processing
8. NVMe - Non-Volatile Memory Express
1. OCR – Optical Character Recognition
2. OLED – Organic Light Emitting Diode
3. OS – Operating System
4. OSS – Open Source Software
5. OOP – Object Oriented Programming
6. OAuth - Open Authorization
7. OCI - Open Container Initiative
8. ORM - Object Relational Mapping
9. OTP - One-Time Password
1. PDF – Portable Document Format
2. PHP – Hypertext Preprocessor
3. POST – Power On Self Test
4. PNG – Portable Network Graphics
5. PCI – Peripheral Component Interconnect
6. PaaS - Platform as a Service
7. PoE - Power over Ethernet
8. PWA - Progressive Web App
1. QoS – Quality of Service
2. QWERTY – Standard Keyboard Layout
3. QR – Quick Response (code)
4. QLED - Quantum Dot Light Emitting Diode
1. RAM – Random Access Memory
2. ROM – Read Only Memory
3. RDBMS – Relational Database Management System
4. RFID – Radio Frequency Identification
5. RAID – Redundant Array of Independent Disks
6. RDP - Remote Desktop Protocol
7. REST - Representational State Transfer
8. RSA - Rivest-Shamir-Adleman
1. SQL – Structured Query Language
2. SSL – Secure Socket Layer
3. SaaS – Software as a Service
4. SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
5. SSD – Solid State Drive
6. SDK - Software Development Kit
7. SDN - Software Defined Networking
8. SSH - Secure Shell
9. SSO - Single Sign-On
1. TCP – Transmission Control Protocol
2. TB – Terabyte
3. TFT – Thin Film Transistor
4. TLS – Transport Layer Security
5. TLD – Top Level Domain
6. TOTP - Time-Based One-Time Password
7. TTL - Time To Live
1. URL – Uniform Resource Locator
2. USB – Universal Serial Bus
3. UPS – Uninterruptible Power Supply
4. UART – Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter
5. UAT - User Acceptance Testing
6. UI - User Interface
7. URI - Uniform Resource Identifier
8. UX - User Experience
1. VPN – Virtual Private Network
2. VDU – Visual Display Unit
3. VGA – Video Graphics Array
4. VDI - Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
5. VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network
6. VM - Virtual Machine
7. VoIP - Voice over Internet Protocol
1. Wi-Fi – Wireless Fidelity
2. WAN – Wide Area Network
3. WWW – World Wide Web
4. WEP – Wired Equivalent Privacy
5. WAF - Web Application Firewall
6. WLAN - Wireless Local Area Network
7. WPA - Wi-Fi Protected Access
8. WSDL - Web Services Description Language
1. XML – eXtensible Markup Language
2. XSS – Cross-Site Scripting
3. XHR - XMLHttpRequest
4. XMPP - Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
5. XPath - XML Path Language
1. Y2K – Year 2000 Problem
2. YAML - YAML Ain't Markup Language
1. ZIP – Zone Information Protocol
2. ZIF – Zero Insertion Force
3. ZFS - Zettabyte File System
4. ZTA - Zero Trust Architecture
5. Z-Wave - Wireless Communication Protocol