# Abbreviations (A-E)

*2D
2D is an abbreviation for 2-Dimensional
3D
3D is an abbreviation for 3-Dimensional

3M
3M is an abbreviation for Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing

4GL
4GL is an abbreviation for Fourth Generation Language

4H
4H is an abbreviation for Head, Heart, Hands, Health

4WD
4WD is an abbreviation for Four wheel Drive (see also FWD)

A
A is an abbreviation for Aftermath

A&A
A&A is an abbreviation for Astronomy and Astrophysics

A&M
A&M is an abbreviation for Agricultural and Mechanical

A/D
A/D is an abbreviation for Analog to Digital converter (see ADC)

A/P
A/P is an abbreviation for Accounts Payable

A/R
A/R is an abbreviation for Accounts Receivable

AA
AA is an abbreviation for Affirmative Action committee; Alcoholics Anonymous; Antiaircraft Artillery; Associate in Accounting; Automobile Association

AAA
AAA is an abbreviation for American Automobile Association

AAAL
AAAL is an abbreviation for American Academy of Arts and Letters

AAAS
AAAS is an abbreviation for American Association for the Advancement of Science

AAII
AAII is an abbreviation for American Association of Individual Investors

AAMSI
AAMSI is an abbreviation for American Association for Medical Systems Informatics

AAO
AAO is an abbreviation for Anglo-Australian Observatory

AAP
AAP is an abbreviation for Affirmative Action Program

AAR
AAR is an abbreviation for Automatic Alternate Routing

AARC
AARC is an abbreviation for Anglo-American Cataloging Rules

AARN
AARN is an abbreviation for Australian Academic Research Network

AARP
AARP is an abbreviation for American Association of Retired Persons

AAS
AAS is an abbreviation for American Astronomical Society

AAVSO
AAVSO is an abbreviation for American Association of Variable Star Observers

AB
AB is an abbreviation for ABle seaman

ABA
ABA is an abbreviation for American Bar Association; American Basketball Association; American Booksellers Association

ABBR
ABBR is an abbreviation for ABBReviation

ABC
ABC is an abbreviation for American Broadcasting Company

AC
AC is an abbreviation for Alternating Current (see also DC); Ante Christum (before Christ); Ante Cibum (before meals)

ACAA
ACAA is an abbreviation for Agricultural Conservation and Adjustment Administration

ACAWS
ACAWS is an abbreviation for Advisory, Caution, And Warning System

ACBL
ACBL is an abbreviation for American Contract Bridge League

ACC
ACC is an abbreviation for Argonne Code Center

ACCS
ACCS is an abbreviation for Army Command and Control System

ACD
ACD is an abbreviation for Automatic Call Distributor

ACE
ACE is an abbreviation for Advanced Composition Explorer; Advanced Computing Environments; Automatic Calibration and Equalization

ACF
ACF is an abbreviation for Advanced Communications Function

ACHEFT
ACHEFT is an abbreviation for Automated Clearing House Electronic Funds Transfer

ACK
ACK is an abbreviation for ACKnowledge

ACL
ACL is an abbreviation for Advanced Cmos Logic

ACLU
ACLU is an abbreviation for American Civil Liberties Union

ACM
ACM is an abbreviation for Association for Computing Machinery

ACRV
ACRV is an abbreviation for Assured Crew Return Vehicle or Astronaut Crew Rescue Vehicle

ACS
ACS is an abbreviation for Advanced Communications System

ACSE
ACSE is an abbreviation for Association Control Service Entity (ISO/CCITT layer 7)

ACT
ACT is an abbreviation for Action for Children's Television; American Conservatory Theater

ACTS
ACTS is an abbreviation for Advanced Communications Technology Satellite; Automatic Coin Telephone Service

ACU
ACU is an abbreviation for Alarm Control Unit; Automatic Call Unit

ACW
ACW is an abbreviation for Alternating Continuous Waves

AD
AD is an abbreviation for After Date; Anno Domini (in the year of our Lord) the recognised symbol for the Christian era; Application Development; African Descent (referring to black soldiers in the American Civil War)

Ad Astra
Ad Astra is an abbreviation for To the stars

AD&D
AD&D is an abbreviation for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

ADAP
ADAP is an abbreviation for Alzheimer's disease-associated protein; American Discount Auto Parts

ADB
ADB is an abbreviation for A DeBugger; Apple Desktop Bus

ADC
ADC is an abbreviation for Analog to Digital Converter

ADCI
ADCI is an abbreviation for Automatic Display Call Indicator

ADF
ADF is an abbreviation for Automatic Direction Finder

ADM
ADM is an abbreviation for ADMiral

ADP
ADP is an abbreviation for Adenosine Di-Phosphate; Administrative Data Processing; Advanced Data Processing

ADPCM
ADPCM is an abbreviation for Pulse Code Modulation with Adaptive Quantization

ADS
ADS is an abbreviation for Application Development System

ADSR
ADSR is an abbreviation for Attack Decay Sustain Release

ADT
ADT is an abbreviation for Abstract Data Type; Atlantic Daylight Time

AE
AE is an abbreviation for Application Execution

AEA
AEA is an abbreviation for American Electronics Association

AEC
AEC is an abbreviation for Atomic Energy Commission

AEF
AEF is an abbreviation for American Expeditionary Force (see BEF)

AEGIS
AEGIS is an abbreviation for Advanced Electronic Guidance and Instrumentation System

AF
AF is an abbreviation for Adventures in Fantasy; Air Force; Audio Frequency

AFADS
AFADS is an abbreviation for Automatic Force Adjustment Data System

AFATDS
AFATDS is an abbreviation for Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System

AFB
AFB is an abbreviation for Air Force Base

AFC
AFC is an abbreviation for American Football Conference; Automatic Flight Control; Automatic Frequency Control

AFCAC
AFCAC is an abbreviation for Air Force Computer Acquisition Center

AFCC
AFCC is an abbreviation for Air Force Communications Command

AFGE
AFGE is an abbreviation for American Federation of Government Employees

AFIPS
AFIPS is an abbreviation for American Federation of Information Processing Societies

AFL
AFL is an abbreviation for American Federation of Labor; American Football League

AFLCIO
AFLCIO is an abbreviation for American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

AFNOR
AFNOR is an abbreviation for Association Francaise de NORmalization

AFP
AFP is an abbreviation for Appletalk Filing Protocol

AFS
AFS is an abbreviation for Andrew File System

AFSC
AFSC is an abbreviation for Air Force Systems Command

AFSCME
AFSCME is an abbreviation for American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees

AFTRA
AFTRA is an abbreviation for American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

AFV
AFV is an abbreviation for Armoured Fighting Vehicle

AG
AG is an abbreviation for Adjutant General; Arcade Game; Attorney General

AGCT
AGCT is an abbreviation for Army General Classification Test

AGN
AGN is an abbreviation for Active Galactic Nucleus

AH
AH (anno Hegirae in the year of Hegirae more properly Hijra) is the recognised symbol for the Muslim era as AD is for the Christian era.

AHL
AHL is an abbreviation for American Hockey League

AHQ
AHQ is an abbreviation for Air HeadQuarters

AI
AI is an abbreviation for Artificial Intelligence

AIA
AIA is an abbreviation for Associate of the Institute of Actuaries

AIAA
AIAA is an abbreviation for American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

AIC
AIC is an abbreviation for Automatic Intercept Center

AID
AID is an abbreviation for Agency for International Development

AIDDE
AIDDE is an abbreviation for Ames' Interactive Dynamic Display Editor

AIDS
AIDS is an abbreviation for Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome

AIOD
AIOD is an abbreviation for Automatic Identification Outward Dialing

AIS
AIS is an abbreviation for Automatic Intercept System

AIX
AIX is an abbreviation for Advanced Interactive eXecutive

AJ
AJ is an abbreviation for Astronomical Journal

AK
AK is an abbreviation for Alaska

AKA
AKA is an abbreviation for Also Known As

AL
AL is an abbreviation for Alabama; American League (baseball)

ALA
ALA is an abbreviation for American Library Association; Automobile Legal Association

ALB
ALB is an abbreviation for Analog LoopBack

ALBM
ALBM is an abbreviation for Air-to-Land Ballistic Missile

ALC
ALC is an abbreviation for Automatic Load Control

ALGOL
ALGOL is an abbreviation for ALGOrithmic Language

ALIT
ALIT is an abbreviation for Automatic Line Insulation Testing

ALPO
ALPO is an abbreviation for Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers

ALS
ALS is an abbreviation for Advanced Launch System

ALU
ALU is an abbreviation for Arithmetic Logic Unit

AM
AM is an abbreviation for Amplitude Modulation; Ante Meridiem (before noon)

AMA
AMA is an abbreviation for American Medical Association; Automatic Message Accounting

AMARC
AMARC is an abbreviation for Automatic Message Accounting Recording Center

AMBA
AMBA is an abbreviation for Association of Master of Business Administration

AMC
AMC is an abbreviation for Albany Medical College; American Motors Corporation; Appalachian Mountain Club

AMD
AMD is an abbreviation for Advanced Micro Devices

AMEX
AMEX is an abbreviation for AMerican EXpress

AMI
AMI is an abbreviation for Alternate Mark Inversion (see also NRZ, NRZI, B8ZS)

AMORC
AMORC is an abbreviation for Ancient Mystic Order Rosae Crucis

AMP
AMP is an abbreviation for Adenosine MonoPhosphate

AMPAS
AMPAS is an abbreviation for Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Acedemy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

AMRAAM
AMRAAM is an abbreviation for Advanced Medium Range Air-To-Air Missile

AMROC
AMROC is an abbreviation for American Rocket Company

AMSAT
AMSAT is an abbreviation for radio AMateur SATellite corp.

AMU
AMU is an abbreviation for Atomic Mass Unit

AMVET
AMVET is an abbreviation for AMerican VETeran

ANA
ANA is an abbreviation for American Nurses Association

ANAC
ANAC is an abbreviation for Automatic Number Announcemnt Circuit

ANC
ANC is an abbreviation for All Number Calling; Army Nurse Corps

ANDF
ANDF is an abbreviation for Architecture-Neural Distribution Format

ANF
ANF is an abbreviation for Automatic Number Forwarding

ANG
ANG is an abbreviation for Air National Guard

ANI
ANI is an abbreviation for Automatic Number Identification (see also: CLID)

ANL
ANL is an abbreviation for Argonne National Laboratory

ANOVA
ANOVA is an abbreviation for ANalysis Of VAriance

ANPA
ANPA is an abbreviation for American Newspaper Publishers Association

ANSI
ANSI is an abbreviation for American National Standards Institute

ANZUS
ANZUS is an abbreviation for Australia, New Zealand, United States

AO
AO is an abbreviation for Account Of

AOA
AOA is an abbreviation for Abort Once Around (Shuttle abort plan); Abort Once Around

AOL
AOL is an abbreviation for Absent Over Leave (see AWOL)

AOS
AOS is an abbreviation for Academic Operating System; Alternate Operator Service

AP
AP is an abbreviation for Additional Premium; All Points; Associated Press

Ap.J
Ap.J is an abbreviation for Astrophysical Journal

APA
APA is an abbreviation for All Points Addressable; American Psychological Association

APB
APB is an abbreviation for All Points Bulletin

APDA
APDA is an abbreviation for Apple Programmers and Developers Association

API
API is an abbreviation for Application Programming Interface

APICS
APICS is an abbreviation for American Production and Inventory Control Society

APL
APL is an abbreviation for A Programming Language; acute promyelocytic leukemia

APO
APO is an abbreviation for Alpha Phi Omega, service fraternity; Army Post Office

APP
APP is an abbreviation for Applications Portability Profile

APPC
APPC is an abbreviation for Advanced Peer-to-Peer Communications

APR
APR is an abbreviation for Annual Percentage Rate

APSE
APSE is an abbreviation for Ada Programming Support Environment

APU
APU is an abbreviation for Auxiliary Power Unit

AQ
AQ is an abbreviation for Accumulator-Quotient register

AR
AR is an abbreviation for Address Register; Arkansas

ARC
ARC is an abbreviation for AIDS-related complex; American Red Cross; Ames Research Center

ARCNET
ARCNET is an abbreviation for Attached Resource Computer local area NETwork

ARISE
ARISE is an abbreviation for Associates for Research Into the Science of Enjoyment.

ARO
ARO is an abbreviation for After Receipt of Order

ARP
ARP is an abbreviation for Address Resolution Protocol

ARPA
ARPA is an abbreviation for Advanced Research Projects Agency

ARPANET
ARPANET is an abbreviation for ARPA NETwork

ARRL
ARRL is an abbreviation for Amateur Radio Relay League

ARV
ARV is an abbreviation for American Revised Version

AS
AS is an abbreviation for Anglo-Saxon

ASA
ASA is an abbreviation for Acetyl Salicylic Acid

ASAP
ASAP is an abbreviation for As Soon As Possible

ASC
ASC is an abbreviation for Accredited Standards Committee

ASCAP
ASCAP is an abbreviation for American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers

ASCC
ASCC is an abbreviation for Automatic Sequence-Controlled Calculator

ASCII
ASCII is an abbreviation for American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASDIC
ASDIC is an abbreviation for Anti-Submarine Detection Investigation Committee

ASDSP
ASDSP is an abbreviation for Application-Specific Digital Signal Processor

ASG
ASG is an abbreviation for Automated Sciences Group

ASHRAE
ASHRAE is an abbreviation for Amer. Soc. of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-cond. Engineers, inc.

ASIC
ASIC is an abbreviation for Application Specific Integrated Circuit

ASME
ASME is an abbreviation for American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ASN
ASN is an abbreviation for Abstract Syntax Notation One (ISO/CCITT ASN.1)

ASP
ASP is an abbreviation for Aggregated Switch Procurement

ASRM
ASRM is an abbreviation for Advanced Solid Rocket Motor

ASSR
ASSR is an abbreviation for Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

AST
AST is an abbreviation for Atlantic Standard Time

ASV
ASV is an abbreviation for American Standard Version

AT
AT is an abbreviation for Atlantic Time

AT&T
AT&T is an abbreviation for American Telephone & Telegraph

ATA
ATA is an abbreviation for Automatic Trouble Analysis

ATACC
ATACC is an abbreviation for Advanced Tactical Air Command Central

ATB
ATB is an abbreviation for Advanced Technology Bomber (stealth bomber)

ATC
ATC is an abbreviation for Air Traffic Control

ATDRS
ATDRS is an abbreviation for Advanced Tracking and Data Relay Satellite

ATF
ATF is an abbreviation for Advanced Technology Fighter

ATIS
ATIS is an abbreviation for Atherton Tools Interface Specification

ATLAS
ATLAS is an abbreviation for Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science

ATM
ATM is an abbreviation for Amateur Telescope Maker; Asynchronous Transfer Mode; Automatic Teller Machine

ATO
ATO is an abbreviation for Abort To Orbit (Shuttle abort plan); Abort To Orbit

ATOMS
ATOMS is an abbreviation for AT&t Optimized Materials Simulator

ATP
ATP is an abbreviation for Adenosine TriPhosphate

ATPCO
ATPCO is an abbreviation for Airline Tariff Publishing COmpany

ATT
ATT is an abbreviation for American Telephone & Telegraph (normally written AT&T when separate)

ATTIS
ATTIS is an abbreviation for American Telephone and Telegraph Information Systems

ATV
ATV is an abbreviation for All Terrain Vehicle

AU
AU is an abbreviation for Astronomical Unit (93,000,000 miles); Astronomical Unit

AUI
AUI is an abbreviation for Attachment Universal Interface

AURA
AURA is an abbreviation for Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy

AUS
AUS is an abbreviation for Army of the United States

AUTODIN
AUTODIN is an abbreviation for AUTOmatic DIgital Network

AUTOVON
AUTOVON is an abbreviation for AUTOmatic VOice Network

AV
AV is an abbreviation for AudioVisual

AVD
AVD is an abbreviation for Alternate Voice Data

AVLIS
AVLIS is an abbreviation for Atomic Vapor Laser Isotope Separation

AVUS
AVUS is an abbreviation for Automobil Verkehrs und Ubungs Strasse (motor traffic and practice road).

AW&ST
AW&ST is an abbreviation for Aviation Week and Space Technology

AWACS
AWACS is an abbreviation for Airborne Warnings And Control Systems

AWEA
AWEA is an abbreviation for American Wind Energy Association

AWG
AWG is an abbreviation for American Wire Gauge

AWK
AWK is an abbreviation for al Aho, Peter Weinberger, Brian Kernighan

AWOL
AWOL is an abbreviation for Absent WithOut Leave (also Absent Without Official Leave) (see AOL)

AXAF
AXAF is an abbreviation for Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility

AZ
AZ is an abbreviation for Arizona

B
B is an abbreviation for Book

B8ZS
B8ZS is an abbreviation for Binary 8 Zero Substitution (see also NRZ, NRZI, AMI)

BA
BA is an abbreviation for Bachelor of Arts

BACH
BACH is an abbreviation for Business Alliance for Commerce in Hemp

BAFO
BAFO is an abbreviation for Best And Final Offer

BARRNet
BARRNet is an abbreviation for Bay Area Regional Research Network

BASIC
BASIC is an abbreviation for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BATSE
BATSE is an abbreviation for Burst And Transient Source Experiment (on GRO)

BB
BB is an abbreviation for Bases on Balls; Best of Breed; Bunnies and Burrows

BBA
BBA is an abbreviation for Bachelor of Business Administration

BBB
BBB is an abbreviation for Better Business Bureau

BBC
BBC is an abbreviation for British Broadcasting Corporation

BBL
BBL is an abbreviation for Barrel

BBN
BBN is an abbreviation for Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc.

BBXRT
BBXRT is an abbreviation for Broad-Band X-Ray Telescope

BC
BC is an abbreviation for Battlecars; Before Christ; British Columbia

BC/BS
BC/BS is an abbreviation for Blue Cross/Blue Shield

BCD
BCD is an abbreviation for Bad Conduct Discharge; Binary Coded Decimal

BCDIC
BCDIC is an abbreviation for Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

BCE
BCE is an abbreviation for Before the Common Era (substitute for BC)

BCNU
BCNU is an abbreviation for Be Seeing You

BCP
BCP is an abbreviation for Byte Controlled Protocols

BCPL
BCPL is an abbreviation for Basic Combined Programming Language

BCS
BCS is an abbreviation for Bachelor of Commercial Science; Binary Compatibility Standard; Boston Computer Society; British Computer Society

BD
BD is an abbreviation for Bachelor of Divinity; Bank Draft; Bills Discounted

BD&D
BD&D is an abbreviation for Basic Dungeons & Dragons

BDF
BDF is an abbreviation for Binary Distribution Format

BDT
BDT is an abbreviation for Billing Data Transmitter

BE
BE is an abbreviation for Bill of Exchange

BECTU
BECTU is an abbreviation for Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union

BEF
BEF is an abbreviation for British Expeditionary Force (see AEF)

BELCORE
BELCORE is an abbreviation for BELL COmmunications REsearch

BEM
BEM is an abbreviation for Bug Eyed Monster; Bug-Eyed Monster

BENELUX
BENELUX is an abbreviation for Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg

BER
BER is an abbreviation for Bit Error Rate

BERT
BERT is an abbreviation for Bit Error Rate Test

BEST
BEST is an abbreviation for Borland Enhanced Support and Training

BF
BF is an abbreviation for Brought Forward

BFA
BFA is an abbreviation for Bachelor of Fine Arts

BFD
BFD is an abbreviation for Bristol (RI) Fire Department

BH
BH is an abbreviation for Black Hole; Boot Hill

BHP
BHP is an abbreviation for Brake HorsePower

BICS
BICS is an abbreviation for Building Industry Consulting Services

BID
BID is an abbreviation for Bis In Die (twice a day)

BIMA
BIMA is an abbreviation for Berkeley Illinois Maryland Array

BIOS
BIOS is an abbreviation for Basic Input Output System

BIS
BIS is an abbreviation for Business Information System

BISDN
BISDN is an abbreviation for Broadband ISDN

BiSync
BiSync is an abbreviation for Binary Synchronous Communications

Bit
Bit is an abbreviation for BInary digiT

BITNET
BITNET is an abbreviation for Because It's Time Network

BLAST
BLAST is an abbreviation for BLocked ASynchronous Transmission

BLERT
BLERT is an abbreviation for BLock Error Rate Test

BLF
BLF is an abbreviation for Busy Lamp Field

BLT
BLT is an abbreviation for BLock Transfer; Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato (sandwich); Branch Less Than

BM
BM is an abbreviation for Basal Metabolism; Bowel Movement

BMA
BMA is an abbreviation for Bank Marketing Association

BMEWS
BMEWS is an abbreviation for Ballistic Missile Early Warning

BMO
BMO is an abbreviation for Ballistic Missile Office

BMOC
BMOC is an abbreviation for Big Man On Campus

BMR
BMR is an abbreviation for Basal Metabolism Rate

BNC
BNC is an abbreviation for Bayonet Neill Concelman

BNF
BNF is an abbreviation for Bachus-Naur Form

BO
BO is an abbreviation for Body Odor; Branch Office; Buyer's Option

BOC
BOC is an abbreviation for Bell Operating Company

BOD
BOD is an abbreviation for Board Of Directors

BOF
BOF is an abbreviation for Birds Of a Feather

BOM
BOM is an abbreviation for Bill Of Materials

BOOTP
BOOTP is an abbreviation for Bootstrap Protocol

BOQ
BOQ is an abbreviation for Bachelor Officers' Quarters

BOS
BOS is an abbreviation for Business Office Supervisor

BOSIX
BOSIX is an abbreviation for Biin Open System Interface eXtension

BP
BP is an abbreviation for Blood Pressure; British Petroleum; British Pharmacopoeia

BPI
BPI is an abbreviation for Bits Per Inch

BPL
BPL is an abbreviation for Boston Public Library; Branch if PLus

BPOE
BPOE is an abbreviation for Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks

BPS
BPS is an abbreviation for Bits Per Second

BR
BR is an abbreviation for Bills Receivable; British Rail

BRA
BRA is an abbreviation for Boston Redevelopment Authority

BRI
BRI is an abbreviation for Basic Rate Interface

BRIEF
BRIEF is an abbreviation for Basic Reconfigurable Interactive Editing Facility

BRL
BRL is an abbreviation for army Ballistic Research Laboratory

BRS
BRS is an abbreviation for Bibliographic Retrieval Service

BS
BS is an abbreviation for Bachelor of Science; Bill of Sale

BSA
BSA is an abbreviation for Birmingham Small Arms; Boy Scouts of America

BSc
BSc is an abbreviation for Bachelor of SCience

BSC
BSC is an abbreviation for Binary Synchronous Communications

BSD
BSD is an abbreviation for Berkeley Software Distribution

BSN
BSN is an abbreviation for Bachelor of Science in Nursing

BSS
BSS is an abbreviation for Block Started by Symbol

BSTJ
BSTJ is an abbreviation for Bell System Technical Journal

BT
BT is an abbreviation for British Telecom

BTAM
BTAM is an abbreviation for Basic Telecommunications Access Method

BThU
BThU is an abbreviation for British Thermal Unit (BTU is preferred)

BTL
BTL is an abbreviation for Bell Telephone Laboratories

BTO
BTO is an abbreviation for Bachman Turner Overdrive

BTU
BTU is an abbreviation for British Thermal Unit

BTW
BTW is a computer-speak abbreviation for By The Way

BU
BU is an abbreviation for Boston University

BUF
BUF is an abbreviation for B-52 bomber ("Big Ugly Fellow")

BV
BV is an abbreviation for Blessed Virgin

BWI
BWI is an abbreviation for Baltimore-Washington International; British West Indies

BX
BX is an abbreviation for Base eXchange (see also PX)

C
C is an abbreviation for centi- (metric 1/100)

C&S
C&S is an abbreviation for Chivalry & Sorcery

C&T
C&T is an abbreviation for Communications & Tracking

C/O
C/O is an abbreviation for in Care Of

CA
CA is an abbreviation for California; Chartered Accountant; Chief Accountant; Chronological Age; Collision Avoidance (as in CSMA/CA)

CAB
CAB is an abbreviation for Civil Aeronautics Board

CACM
CACM is an abbreviation for Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery

CAD
CAD is an abbreviation for Computer Aided Design (sometimes seen as CAD/CAM); Computer Aided Dispatching

CAE
CAE is an abbreviation for Common Applications Environment; Computer Aided Engineering

CAI
CAI is an abbreviation for Computer Aided Instruction

CAIS
CAIS is an abbreviation for Common Apse Interface Specification

CALS
CALS is an abbreviation for Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistics Support

CAM
CAM is an abbreviation for Computer Aided Management; Computer Aided Manufacturing (sometimes seen as CAD/CAM); Content Addressable Memory

CAMA
CAMA is an abbreviation for Centralized Automatic Message Accounting

CAMP
CAMP is an abbreviation for Campaign Against Marijuana Planting

CAP
CAP is an abbreviation for Civil Air Patrol; Columbia Appletalk Package

CAR
CAR is an abbreviation for Contents of the Address part of the Register

CARE
CARE is an abbreviation for Committee on American Relief in Europe

CARP
CARP is an abbreviation for California Air Resources Board

CASE
CASE is an abbreviation for Computer Aided Software Engineering

CASSIS
CASSIS is an abbreviation for Classification and Search Support Information System

CAT
CAT is an abbreviation for Computer-Aided Tomography

CATIS
CATIS is an abbreviation for Common Applications and Tools Integration Services

CATV
CATV is an abbreviation for Common Antenna TeleVision; Community Antenna TeleVision

CAVU
CAVU is an abbreviation for Ceiling And Visibility Unlimited

CB
CB is an abbreviation for Citizens Band radio

CBC
CBC is an abbreviation for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

CBD
CBD is an abbreviation for Cash Before Delivery; Commerce Business Daily

CBEMA
CBEMA is an abbreviation for Computer & Business Equipment Manufacturers Association

CBR
CBR is an abbreviation for Chemical, Biological, Radiological warfare

CBS
CBS is an abbreviation for Columbia Broadcasting System

CBW
CBW is an abbreviation for Chemical and Biological Warfare

CC
CC is an abbreviation for C Compiler; Carbon Copy; Cricket Club

CCA
CCA is an abbreviation for Computer Corporation of America

CCAFS
CCAFS is an abbreviation for Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

CCC
CCC is an abbreviation for Canadian Committee on Cataloging; Civilian Conservation Corps; Command, Control, and Communications; Concourse Computer Center

CCCCM
CCCCM is an abbreviation for CCC CounterMeasures

CCCI
CCCI is an abbreviation for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence

CCD
CCD is an abbreviation for Charge Coupled Device (see CID); Charge-Coupled Device

CCDS
CCDS is an abbreviation for Centers for the Commercial Development of Space

CCF
CCF is an abbreviation for Hundred Cubic Feet

CCI
CCI is an abbreviation for Computer Carrier Interrupt; Computer Consoles, Incorporated

CCIP
CCIP is an abbreviation for Continuously Computed Impact Point

CCIRN
CCIRN is an abbreviation for Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networking

CCIS
CCIS is an abbreviation for Common Channel Interoffice Signaling

CCITT
CCITT is an abbreviation for Comite' Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique; Consultative Committee on International Telephony and Telegraphy; International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee

CCR
CCR is an abbreviation for Commitment, Concurrency, and Recovery; Creedence Clearwater Revival

CCRI
CCRI is an abbreviation for Community College of Rhode Island

CCRP
CCRP is an abbreviation for Continuously Computed Release Point

CCS
CCS is an abbreviation for Hundred Call Seconds

CCS7
CCS7 is an abbreviation for Common Channel Signalling

CCSA
CCSA is an abbreviation for Common Control Switching Arrangement

CCTA
CCTA is an abbreviation for Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency

CCTV
CCTV is an abbreviation for Closed Circuit TeleVision

CCU
CCU is an abbreviation for Communications Concentrator Unit.

CD
CD is an abbreviation for Carrier Detect (properly DCD ) (EIA RS-232-C); Certificate of Deposit; Civil Defense; Collision Detection (as in CSMA/CD); Compact Disk

CD-ROM
CD-ROM is an abbreviation for Compact Disk Read Only Memory; Compact Disk Read-Only Memory

CDA
CDA is an abbreviation for Call Data Accumulator; Compound Documents Architecture

CDC
CDC is an abbreviation for Centers for Disease Control; Control Data Corporation, Inc.

CDEV
CDEV is an abbreviation for Control panel DEVice

CDIAC
CDIAC is an abbreviation for Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center

CDO
CDO is an abbreviation for Community Dial Office

CDP
CDP is an abbreviation for Community Development Project

CDR
CDR is an abbreviation for Commander; Contents of the Decrement part of the Register

CDSF
CDSF is an abbreviation for Commercially Developed Space Facility

CDT
CDT is an abbreviation for Central Daylight Time

CDU
CDU is an abbreviation for Control Display Unit

CE
CE is an abbreviation for Chemical Engineer; Civil Engineer; Common Era (substitute for AD); Corps of Engineers; Customer Engineer (see also FE, SE)

CEA
CEA is an abbreviation for Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (Frenc Atomic Energy Commision); Council of Economic Advisors; County Education Authority

CEC
CEC is an abbreviation for Commission of the European Communities

CED
CED is an abbreviation for Committee for Economic Development

CELSS
CELSS is an abbreviation for Controlled Ecological Life Support System

CENS
CENS is an abbreviation for Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Seclay

CENTO
CENTO is an abbreviation for CENtral Treaty Organization

CEO
CEO is an abbreviation for Chief Executive Officer

CERFnet
CERFnet is an abbreviation for California Education and Research Federation Network

CERN
CERN is an abbreviation for European Organization for Nuclear Research; organisation (formerly Conseil) Europeenne pour la Recherche Nucleaires

CERT
CERT is an abbreviation for Computer Emergency Response Team

CEVI
CEVI is an abbreviation for Common Equipment Voltage Indicator

CF
CF is an abbreviation for Carry Forward; Coin First (payphone); Cystic Fibrosis

CFA
CFA is an abbreviation for Center For Astrophysics

CFC
CFC is an abbreviation for Chloro-FluoroCarbon; Combined Federal Campaign

CFD
CFD is an abbreviation for Computational Fluid Dynamics

CFHT
CFHT is an abbreviation for Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

CFI
CFI is an abbreviation for Cost, Freight, and Insurance

CFL
CFL is an abbreviation for Canadian Football League

CFO
CFO is an abbreviation for Chief Financial Officer

CG
CG is an abbreviation for Coast Guard; Commanding General

CG&E
CG&E is an abbreviation for Cincinnati Gas & Electric

CGA
CGA is an abbreviation for Color Graphics Adapter

CGCT
CGCT is an abbreviation for Compagnie Generale de Constructions Telephoniques

CGE
CGE is an abbreviation for Compagnie Generale d'Electricite

CH
CH is an abbreviation for Cardboard Heroes; ClearingHouse; CourtHouse; Customs House

CHA
CHA is an abbreviation for Champions

CHAP
CHAP is an abbreviation for CHAnnel Processor

CHARA
CHARA is an abbreviation for Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy

CHI

CHI is an abbreviation for Chill: | Adventures into the Unknown

CHOTS

CHOTS is an abbreviation for Corporate Headquarters Office Technology System

CHP
CHP is an abbreviation for California Highway Patrol

CI
CI is an abbreviation for Cubic Inches

CIA
CIA is an abbreviation for Central Intelligence Agency; Culinary Institute of America (Hyde Park, NY)

CIC
CIC is an abbreviation for Carrier Identification Codes; Committee on Institutional Cooperation; Coordination and Information Center

CICA
CICA is an abbreviation for Competition in Contracting Act

CICS
CICS is an abbreviation for Customer Information Control System

CID
CID is an abbreviation for Caller ID (see also: CLID, ANI); Central Institute for the Deaf; Charge Injection Device (see CCD); Computer Integrated Design; Criminal Investigation Department (C.I.D.)

CIDIN
CIDIN is an abbreviation for Common Icao Data Interchange Network

CIE
CIE is an abbreviation for Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire.

CIM
CIM is an abbreviation for Computer Integrated Manufacturing

CIO
CIO is an abbreviation for Chief Information Officer

CIRRIS
CIRRIS is an abbreviation for Cryogenic InfraRed Radiance Instrument for Shuttle

CISC
CISC is an abbreviation for Complex Instruction Set Computer

Cislunar
Cislunar is an abbreviation for The space between the Earth and the Moon

CIT
CIT is an abbreviation for California Institute of Technology; Case Institute of Technology (part of CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio); Circumstellar Imaging Telescope

CLASP
CLASP is an abbreviation for Comprehensive Logistics Automated Support Program

CLASS
CLASS is an abbreviation for Custom Local Area Signaling Service

CLI
CLI is an abbreviation for Command Line Interpreter

CLID
CLID is an abbreviation for Calling Line ID (see also: CID, ANI)

CLNP
CLNP is an abbreviation for Connectionless-mode Network Protocol

CLNS
CLNS is an abbreviation for Connectionless-mode Network Service

CLR
CLR is an abbreviation for Combined Line and Recording

CLRC
CLRC is an abbreviation for Circuit Layout Record Card

CLU
CLU is an abbreviation for Chartered Life Underwriter

CLUT
CLUT is an abbreviation for Color LookUp Table

CM
CM is an abbreviation for Master in Surgery; centimeters; Command Module (Apollo spacecraft); Congregation of the Mission

CMC
CMC is an abbreviation for Communication Machinery Corp.

CMD
CMD is an abbreviation for Centralized Message Distribution

CMG
CMG is an abbreviation for Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.

CMIP
CMIP is an abbreviation for Common Management Information Protocol

CMIS
CMIS is an abbreviation for Common Management Information Services

CML
CML is an abbreviation for Current Model Logic

CMMU
CMMU is an abbreviation for Cache/Memory Management Unit

CMOS
CMOS is an abbreviation for Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (see MOS)

CMOT
CMOT is an abbreviation for Common Management Information Services and Protocol Over TCP/IP

CMRR
CMRR is an abbreviation for Common Mode Rejection Ratio

CMS
CMS is an abbreviation for Circuit Maintenance System

CMSgt
CMSgt is an abbreviation for Chief Master Sergeant

CMU
CMU is an abbreviation for Carnegie-Mellon University

CMYK
CMYK is an abbreviation for cyan, magenta, yellow, black

CN
CN is an abbreviation for Canadian National

CN/A
CN/A is an abbreviation for Customer Name / Address

CNI
CNI is an abbreviation for Common Network Interface

CNN
CNN is an abbreviation for Cable News Network

CNO
CNO is an abbreviation for Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen; Chief of Naval Operations

CNR
CNR is an abbreviation for Canadian National Railways; Carrier to Noise Ratio

CNRI
CNRI is an abbreviation for Corporation for National Research Initiatives

CNRS
CNRS is an abbreviation for Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (French National Center for Scientific Research)

CNS
CNS is an abbreviation for Central Nervous System

CNSR
CNSR is an abbreviation for Comet Nucleus Sample Return

CO
CO is an abbreviation for Cash Order; Central Office; Colorado; Commanding Officer; Conscientious Objector

COB
COB is an abbreviation for Close Of Business

COBE
COBE is an abbreviation for COsmic Background Explorer

COBOL
COBOL is an abbreviation for COmmon Business Oriented Language

COC
COC is an abbreviation for Call of Cthulhu

COCOT
COCOT is an abbreviation for Customer Owned, Coin Operated Telephone

COD
COD is an abbreviation for Collect On Delivery; Cash On Delivery

CODEC
CODEC is an abbreviation for Coder-Decoder

COER
COER is an abbreviation for Central Office Equipment Report

COLA
COLA is an abbreviation for Cost-Of-Living Allowance

COM
COM is an abbreviation for Computer Output (on) Microfiche; Computer Output (on) Microfilm

COMAS
COMAS is an abbreviation for Central Office Maintenance and Administration System

COMM
COMM is an abbreviation for Communications

COMPACT
COMPACT is an abbreviation for COMmercial Product ACquisition Team

COMPTEL
COMPTEL is an abbreviation for COMPton TELescope (on GRO)

COMSAT
COMSAT is an abbreviation for Communications Satellite

CONACYT
CONACYT is an abbreviation for Consejo Nacional de Cienca Y Tecnologia (Mexican National Council of Science and Technology)

CONS
CONS is an abbreviation for CONStruct; Connection-Oriented Networking Service; Connection-Oriented Networking Session

CORE
CORE is an abbreviation for COntrolled Requirement Expression

CORN
CORN is an abbreviation for COmputer Resource Nucleus

COS
COS is an abbreviation for Corporation for Open Systems

COSINE
COSINE is an abbreviation for Cooperation for Open Systems Interconnection Networking in Europe

COSMIC
COSMIC is an abbreviation for COmmon System Main InterConnecting frame; COmputer Software Management and Information Center

COSMOS
COSMOS is an abbreviation for COmputer System for Mainframe OperationS

COSTAR
COSTAR is an abbreviation for Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement

COT
COT is an abbreviation for Card Or Tape (NCR)

CP
CP is an abbreviation for Campus Police; Canadian Pacific; Chemically Pure; CoPy; Command Post; Command Processor; the Canadian Press

CPA
CPA is an abbreviation for Certified Public Accountant

CPE
CPE is an abbreviation for Customer Premises Equipment; Customer Provided Equipment

CPFF
CPFF is an abbreviation for Cost Plus Fixed Fee

CPI
CPI is an abbreviation for Characters Per Inch; Common Programming Interface

CPL
CPL is an abbreviation for Combined Programming Language

CPM
CPM is an abbreviation for Control Program Monitor (sometimes CP/M); Control Program for Microcomputers (sometimes CP/M)

CPO
CPO is an abbreviation for Chief Petty Officer; Chief Post Office

CPR
CPR is an abbreviation for Canadian Pacific Railway

CPS
CPS is an abbreviation for Characters Per Second

CPSR
CPSR is an abbreviation for Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility

CPT
CPT is an abbreviation for CaPTain

CPU
CPU is an abbreviation for Central Processing Unit

CPW
CPW is an abbreviation for Certified Public Weigher

CQ
CQ is an abbreviation for Change of Quarters

CR
CR is an abbreviation for Carriage Return (ASCII 15 octal)

CRA
CRA is an abbreviation for Cambridge Redevelopment Authority

CRAF
CRAF is an abbreviation for Comet Rendezvous / Asteroid Flyby

CRAM
CRAM is an abbreviation for Card Random Access Memory

CRC
CRC is an abbreviation for Chemical Rubber Company; Cyclic Redundancy Check

CREG
CREG is an abbreviation for Concentrated Range Extension with Gain

CREN
CREN is an abbreviation for The Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (merge of BITNET and CSNet)

CRRES
CRRES is an abbreviation for Combined Release / Radiation Effects Satellite; Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite

CRT
CRT is an abbreviation for Cathode Ray Tube (also generic reference to a terminal)

CRTC
CRTC is an abbreviation for Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission

CS
CS is an abbreviation for Civil Servant; Computer Science; Computing Science; County Seat

CSA
CSA is an abbreviation for Confederate States of America

CSAB
CSAB is an abbreviation for Computing Sciences Accreditation Board

CSACS
CSACS is an abbreviation for Centralized Status, Alarm and Control System

CSC
CSC is an abbreviation for Computer Sciences Corporation

CSDC
CSDC is an abbreviation for Circuit Switched Digital Capability

CSF
CSF is an abbreviation for Critical Success Factor

CSI
CSI is an abbreviation for Commercial Systems Integration

CSIS
CSIS is an abbreviation for Canadian Security and Intelligence Service

CSL
CSL is an abbreviation for Coin Supervising Link

CSM
CSM is an abbreviation for Command Sergeant Major; Command and Service Module (Apollo spacecraft)

CSMA
CSMA is an abbreviation for Carrier Sense Multiple Access

CSMA/CA
CSMA/CA is an abbreviation for Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance

CSMA/CD
CSMA/CD is an abbreviation for Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection

CSNET
CSNET is an abbreviation for Computer + Science Network (merged with BITNET to make CREN)

CSO
CSO is an abbreviation for Central Services Organization

CSOC
CSOC is an abbreviation for Consolidated Space Operations Center (at Colorado Springs)

CSP
CSP is an abbreviation for Control Switching Point

CSR
CSR is an abbreviation for Control and Status Register; Customer Service Representative

CSRG
CSRG is an abbreviation for Computer Systems Research Group

CSRS
CSRS is an abbreviation for civil Service Retirement System

CSS
CSS is an abbreviation for Customer Switching System

CST
CST is an abbreviation for Central Standard Time

CSU
CSU is an abbreviation for Channel Service Unit

CT
CT is an abbreviation for Central Time; Connecticut

CTC
CTC is an abbreviation for Canadian Transport Commission; Centralized Traffic Control

CTD
CTD is an abbreviation for Computing and Telecommunications Division

CTIO
CTIO is an abbreviation for Cerro Tololo Inter-american Observatory; Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory

CTNE
CTNE is an abbreviation for Compania Telefonica Nacional de Espana

CTS
CTS is an abbreviation for Clear To Send (EIA RS-232-C); Compatible Timesharing System

CTV
CTV is an abbreviation for Canadian TeleVision network

CU
CU is an abbreviation for Close-Up

CUA
CUA is an abbreviation for Common User Access

CUL
CUL is an abbreviation for See You Later

CV
CV is an abbreviation for Curriculum Vitae

CW
CW is an abbreviation for Car Wars; Chemical Warfare; Child Welfare; Churchwarden; Churdwarden; Continuous Wave

CWO
CWO is an abbreviation for Cash With Order; Chief Warrant Officer

CWRU
CWRU is an abbreviation for Case Western Reserve University

CXI
CXI is an abbreviation for Common X-windows Interface

CY
CY is an abbreviation for Calendar Year

CYO
CYO is an abbreviation for Catholic Youth Organization

CZ
CZ is an abbreviation for Canal Zone

D
D is an abbreviation for Depth

D&D
D&D is an abbreviation for Dungeons & Dragons

D/A
D/A is an abbreviation for Digital to Analog converter

D/F
D/F is an abbreviation for Direction Finding

DA
DA is an abbreviation for Days after Acceptance; Department of Agriculture; Deposit Account; Directory Assistance (/C = computerised, /M = Microfilm); District Attorney

DA/C
DA/C is an abbreviation for Directory Assistance/Computerized

DA/M
DA/M is an abbreviation for Directory Assistance/Microfilm

DAC
DAC is an abbreviation for Digital to Analog Converter

DACCS
DACCS is an abbreviation for Digital Access Cross Connect System (suspect, see DACS)

DACS
DACS is an abbreviation for Digital Access Cross-connect System

DAD
DAD is an abbreviation for Draft ADdendum

DAG
DAG is an abbreviation for Directed Acyclic Graph

DAL
DAL is an abbreviation for Dedicated Access Line

DAP
DAP is an abbreviation for Division Advisory Panel (of NSF DNCRI)

DAR
DAR is an abbreviation for Daughters of the American Revolution

DARE
DARE is an abbreviation for Drug Abuse Resistance Education

DARPA
DARPA is an abbreviation for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DASD
DASD is an abbreviation for Direct Access Storage Device

DAT
DAT is an abbreviation for Digital Audio Tape

DATA
DATA is an abbreviation for Defense Air Transport Administration

DAV
DAV is an abbreviation for Disabled American Veterans

Db
db is an abbreviation for decibel(s)

DB
DB is an abbreviation for DataBase

Dba
dba is an abbreviation for doing business as

DBF
DBF is an abbreviation for DBase Format

DBME
DBME is an abbreviation for DataBase Managment Environment

Dbms
dbms is an abbreviation for DataBase Management System (rdbms for Relational ...)

DBRAD
DBRAD is an abbreviation for Data Base Relational Application Directory

DC
DC is an abbreviation for Direct Current (dc, see also AC); District of Columbia

DCA
DCA is an abbreviation for Defense Communications Agency; Distributed Communication Architecture; Document Content Architecture

DCC
DCC is an abbreviation for Descriptive Cataloging Committee

DCCO
DCCO is an abbreviation for Defense Commercial Communications Office

DCD
DCD is an abbreviation for Data Carrier Detect (sometimes CD ) (EIA RS-232-C)

DCE
DCE is an abbreviation for Data Communication Equipment

DCL
DCL is an abbreviation for Digital Command Language

DCP
DCP is an abbreviation for Distributed Communications Processor

DCTS
DCTS is an abbreviation for Dimension Custom Telephone Service

DD
DD is an abbreviation for Daredevils; Data Dictionary; Days after Date; Demand Draft; Dishonorable Discharge; Disk Drive; Doctor of Divinity

DDC
DDC is an abbreviation for Digital Data Converter

DDCU
DDCU is an abbreviation for DC-to-DC Converter Unit

DDD
DDD is an abbreviation for Direct Distance Dialing (principally USA, elsewhere STD)

DDL
DDL is an abbreviation for Document Description Language

DDN
DDN is an abbreviation for Defense Data Network

DDP
DDP is an abbreviation for Distributed Data Processing

DDS
DDS is an abbreviation for Dataphone Digital Service; Digital Data Service; Direct Digital Service; Doctor of Dental Science; Doctor of Dental Surgery

DDT
DDT is an abbreviation for DEC Debugging Tape; Dynamic Debugging Technique

DE
DE is an abbreviation for Delaware

DEA
DEA is an abbreviation for Drug Enforcement Agency

DEAR
DEAR is an abbreviation for Department of Energy Acquisition Regulation

DEC
DEC is an abbreviation for Digital Equipment Corporation

DECUS
DECUS is an abbreviation for Digital Equipment Corporation Users Society

DES
DES is an abbreviation for Data Encryption Standard

DEW
DEW is an abbreviation for Distant Early Warning (as in DEW Line)

DF
DF is an abbreviation for Damage Free

DFC
DFC is an abbreviation for Distinguished Flying Cross

DFD
DFD is an abbreviation for Data Flow Diagram

DFE
DFE is an abbreviation for Data Flow Editor

DFM
DFM is an abbreviation for Distinguished Flying Medal

DFN
DFN is an abbreviation for Deutsche Forschungsnetz Verein (German Research Network Association)

DFRF
DFRF is an abbreviation for Dryden Flight Research Facility

DFS
DFS is an abbreviation for Depth-First Search

DFW
DFW is an abbreviation for Dallas-Ft.Worth (regional airport)

DG
DG is an abbreviation for Data General; Dei Gratia (by the grace of God); Director General

DGSC
DGSC is an abbreviation for Defense General Supply Center

DHHS
DHHS is an abbreviation for Department of Health and Human Services

DHSS
DHSS is an abbreviation for Department of Health and Social Security (British); british Department of Health and Social Security

DIA
DIA is an abbreviation for Document Interchange Architecture

DIAD
DIAD is an abbreviation for (magnetic) Drum Information Assembler / Dispatcher

DIAL
DIAL is an abbreviation for Direct Information Access Line

DIAS
DIAS is an abbreviation for Defense Automatic Integrated System

DID
DID is an abbreviation for Direct Inward Dialing

DIF
DIF is an abbreviation for Document Interchange Format

DIN
DIN is an abbreviation for Deutsches Institut fur Normung

DIRE
DIRE is an abbreviation for Dire Is Really Emacs

DIS
DIS is an abbreviation for Draft International Standard

DISA
DISA is an abbreviation for Data Interchange Standards Association

DISOSS
DISOSS is an abbreviation for Distributed Office Support System

DIY
DIY is an abbreviation for Do It Yourself

DJ
DJ is an abbreviation for Disc Jockey

DLA
DLA is an abbreviation for Defense Logistics Agency

DLI
DLI is an abbreviation for Data Link Interface(?)

DLL
DLL is an abbreviation for Data Link Layer; Dial Long Line equipment

DLO
DLO is an abbreviation for Dead Letter Office

DM
DM is an abbreviation for Dungeon Master

DMA
DMA is an abbreviation for Direct Memory Access

DMD
DMD is an abbreviation for Doctor of Dental Medicine

DME
DME is an abbreviation for Distance Measuring Equipment

DMF
DMF is an abbreviation for Probably part of an X.400 address in Europe

DMOS
DMOS is an abbreviation for Diffusion Metal Oxide Semiconductor (see MOS)

DMSP
DMSP is an abbreviation for Defense Meteorological Satellite Program

DMV
DMV is an abbreviation for Department of Motor Vehicles; Department of Motor Vehicles (Calif)

DMZ
DMZ is an abbreviation for DeMilitarized Zone

DNA
DNA is an abbreviation for DeoxyriboNucleic Acid; Digital Network Architecture

DNCRI
DNCRI is an abbreviation for Division of Networking and Communications Research and Infrastructure

DNHR
DNHR is an abbreviation for Dynamic NonHierarchical Routing

DNIC
DNIC is an abbreviation for Data Network Identification Code

DNIS
DNIS is an abbreviation for Dialed Number Identification Service (see also DID)

DNL
DNL is an abbreviation for Director of Naval Laboratories

DNR
DNR is an abbreviation for Dialed Number Recorder

DNS
DNS is an abbreviation for Domain Name System

DOA
DOA is an abbreviation for Dead On Arrival

DOB
DOB is an abbreviation for Date Of Birth

DOC
DOC is an abbreviation for Dynamic Overload Control

DOD
DOD is an abbreviation for Department Of Defense

DOE
DOE is an abbreviation for Department of Energy

DOHC
DOHC is an abbreviation for Dual OverHead Cams

DOMAIN
DOMAIN is an abbreviation for Distributed Operating Multi Access Interactive Network (Apollo)

DOS
DOS is an abbreviation for Disk Operating System

DOT
DOT is an abbreviation for Department Of Transportation

DOT&E
DOT&E is an abbreviation for Director, Operational Test and Evaluation

DOV
DOV is an abbreviation for Data Over Voice

DOY
DOY is an abbreviation for Day of Year

DP
DP is an abbreviation for Data Processing; Dial Pulse; Displaced Persons (expelled from native land); Display Postscript; Double Penetration; Double Play; Draft Proposal

DPA
DPA is an abbreviation for Delegation of Procurement Authority

DPANS
DPANS is an abbreviation for Draft Proposed American National Standard

DPI
DPI is an abbreviation for Dots Per Inch

DPS
DPS is an abbreviation for Display PostScript

DQ
DQ is an abbreviation for Dairy Queen; Dragon Quest

DQDB
DQDB is an abbreviation for Distributed Queue Dual Bus (IEEE 802.6)

DQL
DQL is an abbreviation for Database Query Language

DR
DR is an abbreviation for Dead Reckoning; Dining Room

DRAM
DRAM is an abbreviation for Dynamic Random Access Memory (as opposed to static RAM)

DRD
DRD is an abbreviation for Data Reading Device

DRE
DRE is an abbreviation for Directional Reservation Equipment

DRG
DRG is an abbreviation for Democratic Republic of Germany (East Germany)

DRI
DRI is an abbreviation for Defense Research Internet; Digital Research, Incorporated

DS
DS is an abbreviation for Double-Sided; Draft Standard

DSA
DSA is an abbreviation for Dial System Assistance

DSE
DSE is an abbreviation for Data Structure Editor

DSEE
DSEE is an abbreviation for Domain Software Engineering Environment

DSM
DSM is an abbreviation for Distinguished Service Medal

DSO
DSO is an abbreviation for Distinguished Service Order

DSP
DSP is an abbreviation for Decessit Sine Prole (died without issue); Digital Signal Processing

DSRI
DSRI is an abbreviation for Digital Standard Relational Interface

DSS
DSS is an abbreviation for Decision Support System; Direct Station Selection

DST
DST is an abbreviation for Daylight Saving Time

DSTN
DSTN is an abbreviation for Double SuperTwisted Nematic

DSU
DSU is an abbreviation for Digital Service Unit

DT
DT is an abbreviation for Delirium Tremens

DTE
DTE is an abbreviation for Data Terminal Equipment

DTF
DTF is an abbreviation for Dial Tone First payphone

DTMF
DTMF is an abbreviation for Dial Tone Multi Frequency

DTP
DTP is an abbreviation for DeskTop Publishing

DTR
DTR is an abbreviation for Data Terminal Ready (EIA RS-232-C)

DUI
DUI is an abbreviation for Driving Under the Influence

DUT
DUT is an abbreviation for Device Under Test

DV
DV is an abbreviation for Deo Vo lente (God willing)

DVM
DVM is an abbreviation for Digital Volt Meter; Doctor of Veterinary Medicine

DWAPS
DWAPS is an abbreviation for Defense Warehousing Automated Processing System

DWI
DWI is an abbreviation for Died Without Issue; Driving While Intoxicated

DWIM
DWIM is an abbreviation for Do What I Mean

DX
DX is an abbreviation for Distance (as in long distance radio communication)

DXT
DXT is an abbreviation for Data eXtractT facility

E
E is an abbreviation for East; Espionage

E&EO
E&EO is an abbreviation for Errors and Omissions Excepted

E&M
E&M is an abbreviation for ``Ear and Mouth''; receive and transmit leads of a signalling system

E-MAIL
E-MAIL is an abbreviation for Electronic MAIL

E.g.
e.g. is an abbreviation for example

EADASS
EADASS is an abbreviation for Engineering and Administrative Data AcquiSition System

EAFB
EAFB is an abbreviation for Edwards Air Force Base

EAN
EAN is an abbreviation for Certainly part of an X.400 Address in Europe

EARN
EARN is an abbreviation for European Academic Research Network

EAS
EAS is an abbreviation for Extended Area Service (or Engineering Admin. System)

EASI
EASI is an abbreviation for European Academic Supercomputer Initiative (of IBM)

EBCDIC
EBCDIC is an abbreviation for Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

EC
EC is an abbreviation for Exchange Carrier

ECAFE
ECAFE is an abbreviation for Economic Commission for Africa and the Far East

ECASS
ECASS is an abbreviation for Electronically Controlled Automatic Switching System; Export Control Automated Support System

ECC
ECC is an abbreviation for Error Correction Code; Error Correction Code (corrects error in memory or transmission)

ECCM
ECCM is an abbreviation for Electronic Counter-CounterMeasures

ECDO
ECDO is an abbreviation for Electronic Community Dial Office

ECG
ECG is an abbreviation for ElectroCardioGram

ECL
ECL is an abbreviation for Emitter Coupled Logic (see also TTL)

ECLSS
ECLSS is an abbreviation for Environmental Control and Life Support System

ECM
ECM is an abbreviation for Electronic Counter Measure; European Common Market

ECMA
ECMA is an abbreviation for European Computer Manufacturers Association

ECO
ECO is an abbreviation for Ecological; Electronic Central Office; Engineering Change Order

ECPA
ECPA is an abbreviation for Electronic Communications Privacy Act

ECS
ECS is an abbreviation for Environmental Control System

ECT
ECT is an abbreviation for ElectroConvulsive Therapy

ECV
ECV is an abbreviation for Electric Cargo Vehicle

ED&D
ED&D is an abbreviation for Expert Dungeons & Dragons

EDGAR
EDGAR is an abbreviation for Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval

EDI
EDI is an abbreviation for Electronic Data Interchange

EDIF
EDIF is an abbreviation for Electronic Design Interchange Format

EDO
EDO is an abbreviation for Extended Duration Orbiter

EDP
EDP is an abbreviation for Electronic Data Processing

EDS
EDS is an abbreviation for Electronic Data Systems

EDT
EDT is an abbreviation for Eastern Daylight Time

EDTA
EDTA is an abbreviation for Ethylene Diamine Tetraacetic Acid

EDTCC
EDTCC is an abbreviation for Electronic Data Transmission Communications Central

EE
EE is an abbreviation for Electrical Engineer; Electrical or Electronics Engineer

EEC
EEC is an abbreviation for European Economic Community; European Economic Comunity

EEG
EEG is an abbreviation for ElectroEncephaloGram

EEL
EEL is an abbreviation for Epsilon Extension Language

EEPROM
EEPROM is an abbreviation for Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

EFF
EFF is an abbreviation for Electronic Frontier Foundation

EGA
EGA is an abbreviation for Enhanced Graphics Adapter

EGP
EGP is an abbreviation for Exterior Gateway Protocol

EGRET
EGRET is an abbreviation for Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (on GRO)

EHF
EHF is an abbreviation for Extremely High Frequency (30-300GHz)

EIA
EIA is an abbreviation for Electronic Industries Association

EINE
EINE is an abbreviation for EINE Is Not Emacs

EISA
EISA is an abbreviation for Extended Industry-Standard Architecture

EISS
EISS is an abbreviation for European Intelligence Support System

EKG
EKG is an abbreviation for ElectroKardioGramm (see ECG)

EL
EL is an abbreviation for ElectroLuminescent (as in display)

ELF
ELF is an abbreviation for Extremely Low Frequency

ELO
ELO is an abbreviation for Electric Light Orchestra

ELP
ELP is an abbreviation for Emerson, Lake and Palmer (or Powell)

ELV
ELV is an abbreviation for Expendable Launch Vehicle

EM
EM is an abbreviation for Enlisted Man (see EW)

EMA
EMA is an abbreviation for Electronic Mail Association

EMACS
EMACS is an abbreviation for Editor MACroS; Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping

EMF
EMF is an abbreviation for ElectroMotive Force; ElectroMotive Force (voltage)

EMI
EMI is an abbreviation for ElectroMagnetic Interference

EMP
EMP is an abbreviation for Electromagnetic Pulse

EMPRESS
EMPRESS is an abbreviation for EnvironMental Pulse Radiation Environment Simulator for Ships

EMR
EMR is an abbreviation for ElectroMagetic Response; ElectroMagnetic Response

EMS
EMS is an abbreviation for Electronic Message System; Extended Memory Specification

EMT
EMT is an abbreviation for Emergency Medical Technician

EMU
EMU is an abbreviation for ElectroMagnetic Unit; Extravehicular Mobility Unit

ENIAC
ENIAC is an abbreviation for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator

ENS
ENS is an abbreviation for ENSign

EO
EO is an abbreviation for End Office; Erasable Optical

EOF
EOF is an abbreviation for End Of File

EOM
EOM is an abbreviation for End Of Month

EOS
EOS is an abbreviation for Earth Observing System

EOWG
EOWG is an abbreviation for Engineering and Operations Working Group (under FNC)

EP
EP is an abbreviation for Experience Points; Extended Play

EPA
EPA is an abbreviation for Environmental Protection Agency

EPOS
EPOS is an abbreviation for Engineering and Project-management Oriented Support system

EPRI
EPRI is an abbreviation for Electric Power Research Institute

EPROM
EPROM is an abbreviation for Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

EPS
EPS is an abbreviation for Encapsulated PostScript

EPT
EPT is an abbreviation for Empire of the Petal Throne

EQ
EQ is an abbreviation for Educational Quotient (see IQ)

ER
ER is an abbreviation for Emergency Room

ERA
ERA is an abbreviation for Earned Run Average; Entity-Relationship-Attribute; Equal Rights Amendment

ERD
ERD is an abbreviation for Entity-Relation Diagram

ERE
ERE is an abbreviation for Entity Relationship Editor

ERT
ERT is an abbreviation for Earth Resources Technology

ES
ES is an abbreviation for Expert System

ESA
ESA is an abbreviation for European Space Agency; European Space Agency

ESAC
ESAC is an abbreviation for Electronic Systems Assistance Center

ESDI
ESDI is an abbreviation for Enhanced Standard Device Interface

ESE
ESE is an abbreviation for East South East

ESF
ESF is an abbreviation for Extended Superframe Format

ESM
ESM is an abbreviation for Electronic Support Measures

ESnet
ESnet is an abbreviation for Energy Sciences network (DoE)

ESO
ESO is an abbreviation for European Southern Observatory; European Southern Observatory

ESP
ESP is an abbreviation for Extra Sensory Perception

ESPS
ESPS is an abbreviation for Entropic Signal Processing System

ESS
ESS is an abbreviation for Electronic Switching System

ESSEX
ESSEX is an abbreviation for Experimental Solid State EXchange

EST
EST is an abbreviation for Eastern Standard Time

ET
ET is an abbreviation for (Shuttle) External Tank; Eastern Time; Extra Terrestrial

ET/ACC
ET/ACC is an abbreviation for External Tank/Aft Cargo Carrier (see also ET)

ETA
ETA is an abbreviation for Estimated Time of Arrival

ETC
ETC is an abbreviation for Et cetera, and so on...

ETD
ETD is an abbreviation for Estimated Time of Departure

ETFD
ETFD is an abbreviation for Electronic Toll Fraud Device

ETH
ETH is an abbreviation for Eidgn\:oessiche Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)

ETLA
ETLA is an abbreviation for Extended Three Letter Acronym

ETO
ETO is an abbreviation for Earth-to-Orbit

ETR
ETR is an abbreviation for Eastern Test Range

ETS
ETS is an abbreviation for Electronic Translator System

ETV
ETV is an abbreviation for Education TeleVision

EUUG
EUUG is an abbreviation for European Unix User Group

EUV
EUV is an abbreviation for Extreme UltraViolet; Extreme UltraViolet

EUVE
EUVE is an abbreviation for Extreme UltraViolet Explorer

EVA
EVA is an abbreviation for ExtraVehicular Activity; ExtraVehicular Activity

EVX
EVX is an abbreviation for Electronic Voice eXchange

EW
EW is an abbreviation for Electronic Warfare; Enlisted Woman (see EM)

EWOS
EWOS is an abbreviation for European Workshop for Open Systems

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