Source Code 1992 March/Source_Code_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_March_1992.iso/usenet/altsrcs/2/2626

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From: [e-mail] (Dave Sill)
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Subject: Acronym database
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Date: 29 Jan 91 19:37:20 GMT

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2D    - 2-Dimensional
3D    - 3-Dimensional
3M    - Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing
4GL    - Fourth Generation Language
4H    - Head, Heart, Hands, Health
A    - Aftermath
A&M    - Agricultural and Mechanical
A/D    - Analog to Digital converter (see ADC)
A/P    - Accounts Payable
A/R    - Accounts Receivable
AA    - Affirmative Action committee
AA    - Alcoholics Anonymous
AA    - Antiaircraft Artillery
AA    - Associate in Accounting
AA    - Automobile Association (in England)
AAA    - American Automobile Association
AAAAAA    - the Association for the Abolition of Abused Abbreviations and Asinine Acronyms
AAAL    - American Academy of Arts and Letters
AAAS    - American Association for the Advancement of Science  -  A.A.A.S
AAII    - American Association of Individual Investors
AAMSI    - American Association for Medical Systems Informatics
AAP    - Affirmative Action Program
AARC    - Anglo-American Cataloging Rules
AB    - ABle seaman
ABA    - American Bar Association
ABA    - American Basketball Association
ABA    - American Booksellers Association
ABBR    - ABBReviation
ABC    - American Broadcasting Company
AC    - Alternating Current (ac, see also DC)
AC    - Ante Christum (before Christ)
AC    - Ante Cibum (before meals)
ACAA    - Agricultural Conservation and Adjustment Administration
ACAWS    - Advisory, Caution, And Warning System
ACBL    - American Contract Bridge League
ACC    - Argonne Code Center
ACCS    - Army Command and Control System
ACD    - Automatic Call Distributing system
ACE    - Automatic Calibration and Equalization
ACHEFT    - Automated ClearingHouse Electronic Funds Transfer
ACK    - ACKnowledge
ACL    - Advanced Cmos Logic
ACM    - Association for Computing Machinery
ACO    - Acronym Control Officer
ACS    - Advanced Communications System
ACTS    - Advanced Communications Technology Satellite
ACTS    - Automatic Coin Telephone Service
ACU    - Alarm Control Unit
ACW    - Alternating Continuous Waves
AD    - After Date
AD    - Anno Domini (in the year of our Lord)
AD    - Application Development
AD&D    - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
ADB    - A DeBugger
ADB    - Apple Desktop Bus
ADC    - Analog to Digital Converter
ADCI    - Automatic Display Call Indicator
ADF    - Automatic Direction Finder
ADM    - ADMiral
ADP    - Adenosine Di-Phosphate
ADP    - Administrative Data Processing
ADP    - Advanced Data Processing
ADS    - Application Development System
ADS    - Automatic Voice System
ADSR    - Attack Decay Sustain Release
ADT    - Abstract Data Type
ADT    - Atlantic Daylight Time
AE    - Application Execution
AEA    - American Electronics Association
AEC    - Atomic Energy Commission
AEF    - American Expeditionary Force (see BEF)
AEGIS    - Advanced Electronic Guidance and Instrumentation System
AF    - Adventures in Fantasy
AF    - Air Force
AF    - Audio Frequency
AFADS    - Automatic Force Adjustment Data System
AFATDS    - Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System
AFB    - Air Force Base
AFC    - American Football Conference
AFC    - Automatic Flight Control
AFC    - Automatic Frequency Control
AFCAC    - Air Force Computer Acquisition Center
AFCC    - Air Force Communications Command
AFGE    - American Federation of Government Employees
AFIPS    - American Federation of Information Processing Societies
AFL    - American Federation of Labor
AFL    - American Football League
AFLCIO    - American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
AFNOR    - Association Francaise de NORmalization
AFP    - Appletalk Filing Protocol
AFS    - Andrew File System
AFSC    - Air Force Systems Command
AFSCME    - American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
AFTRA    - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
AG    - Adjutant General
AG    - Arcade Game
AG    - Attorney General
AGCT    - Army General Classification Test
AH    - Avalon Hill (major war game manufacturer)
AHL    - American Hockey League
AHQ    - Air HeadQuarters
AI    - Artificial Intelligence
AIAA    - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
AIC    - Automatic Intercept Center
AID    - Agency for International Development
AIDDE    - Ames' Interactive Dynamic Display Editor
AIDS    - Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome
AIOD    - Automatic Identification Outward Dialing
AIS    - Automatic Intercept System
AIX    - Advanced Interactive eXecutive (unix)
AK    - Alaska
AKA    - Also Known As
AL    - Alabama
AL    - American League (baseball)
ALA    - American Library Association
ALA    - Automobile Legal Association
ALBM    - Air-to-Land Ballistic Missile
ALC    - Automatic Load Control
ALGOL    - ALGOrithmic Language
ALU    - Arithmetic Logic Unit
AM    - Amplitude Modulation
AM    - Ante Meridiem (before noon)
AMA    - American Medical Association
AMA    - Automatic Message Accounting
AMARC    - Automatic Message Accounting Recording Center
AMBA    - Association of Master of Business Administration
AMC    - Albany Medical College
AMD    - Advanced Micro Devices
AMEX    - AMerican EXpress
AMORC    - Ancient Mystic Order Rosae Crucis
AMP    - Adenosine MonoPhosphate
AMPAS    - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
AMRAAM    - Advanced Medium Range Air-To-Air Missile
AMSAT    - radio AMateur SATellite corp.
AMU    - Atomic Mass Unit
AMVET    - AMerican VETeran
ANA    - American Nurses Association
ANC    - All Number Calling
ANC    - Army Nurse Corps
ANDF    - Architecture-Neural Distribution Format
ANF    - Automatic Number Forwarding
ANG    - Air National Guard
ANI    - Automatic Number Identification
ANL    - Argonne National Laboratory
ANOVA    - ANalysis Of VAriance
ANPA    - American Newspaper Publishers Association
ANSI    - American National Standards Institute
ANZUS    - Australia, New Zealand, United States
AO    - Account Of
AOL    - Absent Over Leave (see AWOL)
AOS    - Academic Operating System
AP    - Additional Premium
AP    - All Points
AP    - Associated Press
APA    - All Points Addressable
APB    - All Points Bulletin
APDA    - Apple Programmers and Developers Association
API    - Application Programming Interface
APICS    - American Production and Inventory Control Society
APO    - Army Post Office
APP    - Applications Portability Profile
APPC    - Advanced Peer-to-Peer Communications
APR    - Annual Percentage Rate (as in loan interest)
APSE    - Ada Programming Support Environment
AQ    - Accumulator-Quotient register
AR    - Address Register
AR    - Arkansas
ARC    - American Red Cross
ARCNET    - Attached Resource Computer local area NETwork
ARO    - After Receipt of Order
ARPA    - Advanced Research Projects Agency
ARPANET    - Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork
ARRL    - Amateur Radio Relay League
ARV    - American Revised Version
AS    - Anglo-Saxon
ASA    - Acetyl Salicylic Acid
ASAP    - As Soon As Possible
ASC    - Accredited Standards Committee
ASCAP    - American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
ASCC    - Automatic Sequence-Controlled Calculator
ASCII    - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASDIC    - Anti-Submarine Detection Investigation Committee (British for sonar)
ASDSP    - Application-Specific Digital Signal Processor
ASG    - Automated Sciences Group
ASHRAE    - Amer. Soc. of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-cond. Engineers, inc.
ASIC    - Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASME    - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASP    - Aggregated Switch Procurement
ASSR    - Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
AST    - Atlantic Standard Time
ASV    - American Standard Version
AT    - Atlantic Time
AT&T    - American Telephone & Telegraph
ATA    - Automatic Trouble Analysis
ATACC    - Advanced Tactical Air Command Central
ATB    - Advanced Technology Bomber (stealth bomber)
ATC    - Air Traffic Control
ATF    - Advanced Technology Fighter
ATIS    - Atherton Tools Interface Specification
ATM    - Automatic Teller Machine
ATOMS    - AT&t Optimized Materials Simulator
ATP    - Adenosine TriPhosphate
ATPCO    - Airline Tariff Publishing COmpany
ATTIS    - American Telephone and Telegraph Information Systems
ATV    - All Terrain Vehicle
AUS    - Army of the United States
AUTODIN    - AUTOmatic DIgital Network
AUTOVON    - AUTOmatic VOice Network
AV    - AudioVisual
AVLIS    - Atomic Vapor Laser Isotope Separation
AWACS    - Airborne Warnings And Control Systems
AWEA    - American Wind Energy Association
AWK    - al Aho, peter Weinberger, brian Kernighan (pattern scanning language)
AWOL    - Absent WithOut Leave (also Absent Without Official Leave) (see AOL)
AZ    - Arizona
ApJ    - Astrophysical Journal   -    Ap J
B    - Book
BA    - Bachelor of Arts
BACH    - Business Alliance for Commerce in Hemp
BAFO    - Best And Final Offer
BASIC    - Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BB    - Bases on Balls
BB    - Best of Breed
BB    - Bunnies and Burrows
BBA    - Bachelor of Business Administration
BBB    - Better Business Bureau
BBC    - British Broadcasting Corporation
BBL    - Barrel
BBN    - Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
BC    - Battlecars
BC    - Before Christ
BC    - British Columbia
BC/BS    - Blue Cross/Blue Shield
BCD    - Bad Conduct Discharge
BCD    - Binary Coded Decimal
BCDIC    - Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
BCE    - Before the Common Era (substitute for BC)
BCP    - Byte Controlled Protocols
BCPL    - Basic Combined Programming Language
BCS    - Bachelor of Commercial Science
BCS    - Binary Compatibility Standard
BCS    - Boston Computer Society
BCS    - British Computer Society
BD    - Bachelor of Divinity
BD    - Bank Draft
BD    - Bills Discounted
BD&D    - Basic Dungeons & Dragons
BDF    - Binary Distribution Format
BDT    - Billing Data Transmitter
BE    - Bill of Exchange
BEF    - British Expeditionary Force (see AEF)
BELCORE    - BELL COmmunications REsearch
BEM    - Bug Eyed Monster
BENELUX    - BElgium, NEtherlands, and LUXembourg
BER    - Bit Error Rate
BEST    - Borland Enhanced Support and Training
BF    - Brought Forward
BFA    - Bachelor of Fine Arts
BFD    - Big F***ing Deal
BFHD    - Big Fat Hairy Deal
BH    - Boot Hill
BHP    - Brake HorsePower
BICS    - Building Industry Consulting Services
BID    - Bis In Die (twice a day)
BIOC    - Break Into Other Computers
BIOS    - Basic Input Output System
BIS       - Business Information System
BLAST    - BLocked ASynchronous Transmission
BLF       - Busy Line Field
BLT    - BLock Transfer
BLT    - Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato
BM    - Basal Metabolism
BM    - Bowel Movement
BMA    - Bank Marketing Association
BMEWS    - Ballistic Missile Early Warning
BMO    - Ballistic Missile Office
BMOC    - Big Man On Campus
BMR    - Basal Metabolism Rate
BNF    - Bachus-Naur Form
BO    - Body Odor
BO    - Branch Office
BO    - Buyer's Option
BOC       - Bell Operating Company
BOD    - Board Of Directors
BOF    - Birds Of a Feather
BOM    - Bill Of Materials
BOQ    - Bachelor Officers' Quarters
BOS       - Business Office Supervisor
BOSIX    - Biin Open System Interface eXtension
BP    - Blood Pressure
BP    - British Pharmacopoeia
BPI    - Bits Per Inch
BPOE    - Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
BPS    - Bits Per Second
BR    - Bills Receivable
BR    - British Rail
BRIEF    - Basic Reconfigurable Interactive Editing Facility
BRL    - army Ballistic Research Laboratory
BRS    - Bibliographic Retrieval Service
BS    - Bachelor of Science
BS    - Bill of Sale
BSA    - Birmingham Small Arms
BSA    - Boy Scouts of America
BSC       - Binary Synchronous Communication
BSD    - Berkeley Software Distribution
BSN    - Bachelor of Science in Nursing
BSS    - Block Started by Symbol
BSTJ    - Bell System Technical Journal
BSc    - Bachelor of SCience
BTL    - Bell Telephone Laboratories
BTO    - Bachman Turner Overdrive
BTU    - British Thermal Unit
BTW    - By The Way
BThU    - British Thermal Unit
BU    - Bushido
BV    - Blessed Virgin
BWI    - Baltimore-Washington International (airport)
BWI    - British West Indies
BX    - Base eXchange (see PX)
Bit    - BInary digiT
C    - programming language, successor to BCPL
C&S    - Chivalry & Sorcery
C/O    - in Care Of
CA    - California
CA    - Chartered Accountant
CA    - Chief Accountant
CA    - Chronological Age
CAB    - Civil Aeronautics Board
CACM    - Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery
CAD    - Computer Aided Design (sometimes seen as CAD/CAM)
CAE    - Common Applications Environment
CAE    - Computer Aided Engineering
CAIS    - Common Apse Interface Specification
CALS    - Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistics Support
CAM    - Computer Aided Management
CAM    - Computer Aided Manufacturing (sometimes seen as CAD/CAM)
CAM    - Content Addressable Memory
CAMA    - Centralized Automatic Message Accounting
CAMP    - Campaign Against Marijuana Planting
CAP    - Civil Air Patrol
CAP    - Columbia Appletalk Package
CAR    - Contents of the Address part of the Register
CASE    - Computer Aided Software Engineering
CASSIS    - Classification and Search Support Information System
CAT    - Computer-Aided Tomography
CATIS    - Common Applications and Tools Integration Services
CATV    - Community Antenna TeleVision
CAVU    - Ceiling And Visibility Unlimited
CB    - Citizens Band radio
CBC    - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CBD    - Cash Before Delivery
CBD    - Commerce Business Daily
CBEMA    - Computer & Business Equipment Manufacturers Association
CBR    - Chemical, Biological, Radiological warfare
CBS    - Columbia Broadcasting System
CBW    - Chemical and Biological Warfare
CC    - Carbon Copy
CCA    - Computer Corporation of America
CCC    - Canadian Committee on Cataloging
CCC    - Civil(ian) Conservation Corps
CCC    - Command, Control, and Communications
CCCCM    - CCC CounterMeasures (sometimes C^3CM)
CCCI    - Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence
CCD    - Charge Coupled Device (see CID)
CCI    - Computer Carrier Interrupt
CCI    - Computer Consoles, Incorporated
CCIP    - Continuously Computed Impact Point
CCIS    - Common Channel Interoffice Signaling
CCITT    - Comite' Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique
CCR    - Commitment, Concurrency, and Recovery
CCR    - Creedence Clearwater Revival
CCRP    - Continuously Computed Release Point
CCSA    - Common Control Switching Arrangement
CCTA    - Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency
CCTV    - Closed Circuit TeleVision
CD    - Certificate of Deposit
CD    - Civil Defense
CD    - Compact Disk
CD-ROM    - Compact Disk Read Only Memory
CDA    - Call Data Accumulator
CDA    - Compound Documents Architecture
CDC    - Centers for Disease Control
CDC    - Control Data Corporation, inc.
CDEV    - Control panel DEVice
CDIAC    - Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
CDO    - Community Dial Office
CDR    - CommanDeR
CDR    - Contents of the Decrement part of the Register
CDT    - Central Daylight Time
CDU    - Control Display Unit
CE    - Chemical Engineer
CE    - Civil Engineer
CE    - Common Era (substitute for AD)
CE    - Corps of Engineers
CE    - Customer Engineer
CEA    - Council of Economic Advisors
CEA    - County Education Authority
CEC    - Commission of the European Communities
CED    - Committee for Economic Development
CENS    - Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Seclay
CENTO    - CENtral Treaty Organization
CEO    - Chief Executive Officer
CERN    - organisation (formerly Conseil) Europeenne pour la Recherche Nucleaires
CERT    - Computer Emergency Response Team
CEVI    - Common Equipment Voltage Indicator
CF    - Carry Forward
CF    - Coin First payphone
CFC    - Chloro-FluoroCarbon
CFC    - Combined Federal Campaign
CFD    - Computational Fluid Dynamics
CFI    - Cost, Freight, and Insurance
CFL    - Canadian Football League
CFO    - Chief Financial Officer
CG    - Coast Guard
CG    - Commanding General
CG&E    - Cincinnati Gas & Electric
CGA    - Color Graphics Adapter
CGCT    - Compagnie Generale de Constructions Telephoniques
CGE    - Compagnie Generale d'Electricite
CH    - Cardboard Heroes
CH    - ClearingHouse
CH    - CourtHouse
CH    - Customs House
CHA    - Champions
CHAP    - CHAnnel Processor
CHI    - Chill:  Adventures into the Unknown
CHOTS    - Corporate Headquarters Office Technology System
CHP    - California Highway Patrol
CI    - Cubic Inches
CIA    - Central Intelligence Agency
CICA    - Competition in Contracting Act
CICS    - Customer Information Control System
CID    - Central Institute for the Deaf
CID    - Charge Injection Device (see CCD)
CID    - Computer Integrated Design
CIDIN    - Common Icao Data Interchange Network
CIM    - Computer Integrated Manufacturing
CIO    - Chief Information Officer
CISC    - Complex Instruction Set Computer
CIT    - California Institute of Technology
CIT    - Case Institute of Technology (part of CWRU, Cleveland, OH)
CLASP    - Comprehensive Logistics Automated Support Program
CLI    - Command Line Interpreter
CLR    - Combined Line and Recording
CLRC    - Circuit Layout Record Card
CLU    - Chartered Life Underwriter
CLUT    - Color LookUp Table
CM    - Congregation of the Mission
CMC    - Communication Machinery Corp.
CMD    - Centralized Message Distribution
CML    - Current Model Logic
CMMU    - Cache/Memory Management Unit
CMOS    - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (see MOS)
CMRR    - Common Mode Rejection Ratio
CMS    - Circuit Maintenance System
CMSgt    - Chief Master Sergeant
CMU    - Carnegie-Mellon University
CMYK    - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK
CN    - Canadian National (railways)
CN/A    - Customer Name / Address
CNN    - Cable News Network
CNO    - Chief of Naval Operations
CNR    - Canadian National Railways
CNR    - Carrier to Noise Ratio
CNS    - Central Nervous System
CO    - Cash Order
CO    - Central Office
CO    - Central Office (telephony)
CO    - Colorado
CO    - Commanding Officer
CO    - Conscientious Objector
COB    - Close Of Business
COBOL    - COmmon Business Oriented Language
COC    - Call of Cthulhu
COD    - Collect On Delivery; Cash On Delivery
CODEC    - COder-DECoder
COER    - Central Office Equipment Report
COLA    - Cost-Of-Living Allowance
COMAS    - Central Office Maintenance and Administration System
COMPACT    - COMmercial Product ACquisition Team
CONS    - Connection-Oriented Networking Session
CORE    - COntrolled Requirement Expression
CORN    - COmputer Resource Nucleus
COS    - Corporation for Open Systems
COSMIC    - COmmon System Main InterConnecting frame
COSMIC    - COmputer Software Management and Information Center
COSMOS    - COmputer System for Mainframe OperationS
CP    - Canadian Pacific
CP    - Chemically Pure
CP    - CoPy
CP    - Command Post
CP    - Command Processor
CP    - the Canadian Press
CPA    - Certified Public Accountant
CPFF    - Cost Plus Fixed Fee
CPI    - Characters Per Inch
CPI    - Common Programming Interface
CPL    - Combined Programming Language
CPM    - Control Program for Microcomputers (sometimes CP/M)
CPO    - Chief Petty Officer
CPO    - Chief Post Office
CPO    - Customer Premises Equipment
CPR    - Canadian Pacific Railway
CPS    - Characters Per Second
CPSR    - Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
CPT    - CaPTain
CPU    - Central Processor Unit
CPW    - Certified Public Weigher
CQ    - Change of Quarters
CQ    - Charge of Quarters
CR    - Carriage Return (ASCII 15 octal)
CRAM    - Card Random Access Memory
CRC    - Chemical Rubber Company
CRC    - Cyclical Redundancy Character
CREG    - Concentrated Range Extension with Gain
CRT    - Cathode Ray Tube (also generic reference to a terminal)
CRTC    - Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
CS    - Civil Servant
CS    - Computer Science; Computing Science
CS    - County Seat
CSA    - Confederate States of America
CSAB    - Computing Sciences Accreditation Board
CSACS    - Centralized Status, Alarm and Control System
CSC    - Computer Sciences Corporation
CSDC    - Circuit Switched Digital Capability
CSF    - Critical Success Factor
CSI    - Commercial Systems Integration
CSIS    - Canadian Security and Intelligence Service
CSL    - Coin Supervising Link
CSM    - Command Sergeant Major
CSMA/CD    - Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection
CSO    - Central Services Organization
CSOC    - Consolidated Space Operations Center (at Colorado Springs)
CSP    - Control Switching Point
CSR    - Control and Status Register
CSRG    - Computer Systems Research Group
CSRS    - civil Service Retirement System
CSS    - Customer Switching System
CST    - Central Standard Time
CT    - Central Time
CT    - Connecticut
CTC    - Canadian Transport Commission
CTC    - Centralized Traffic Control (railways)
CTD    - Computing and Telecommunications Division
CTIO    - Cerro Tololo Inter-american Observatory
CTNE    - Compania Telefonica Nacional de Espana
CTS    - Compatible Timesharing System
CTV    - Canadian TeleVision network
CU    - Close-Up
CUA    - Common User Access
CV    - Curriculum Vitae
CW    - Car Wars
CW    - Chemical Warfare
CW    - Child Welfare
CW    - Churchwarden
CW    - Continuous Wave
CWO    - Cash With Order
CWO    - Chief Warrant Officer
CWRU    - Case Western Reserve University
CXI    - Common X-windows Interface
CY    - Calendar Year
CYO    - Catholic Youth Organization
CZ    - Canal Zone
D    - Depth
D&D    - Dungeons & Dragons
D/A    - Digital to Analog converter
D/F    - Direction Finding
DA    - Days after Acceptance
DA    - Department of Agriculture
DA    - Deposit Account
DA    - Directory Assistance (/C = computerized, /M = Microfilm)
DA    - District Attorney
DA    - Don't Answer
DAC    - Digital to Analog Converter
DACCS    - Digital Access Cross Connect System
DAD    - Draft ADdendum
DAR    - Daughters of the American Revolution
DARPA    - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DASD    - Direct Access Storage Device
DAT    - Digital Audio Tape
DATA    - Defense Air Transport Administration
DAV    - Disabled American Veterans
DB    - DataBase
DB    - DeciBels
DBF    - DBase Format
DBME    - DataBase Managment Environment
DBMS    - DataBase Management System (rdbms for Relational ...)
DBRAD    - Data Base Relational Application Directory
DC    - Direct Current (dc, see also AC)
DC    - District of Columbia
DCA    - Defense Communications Agency
DCA    - Distributed Communication Architecture
DCA    - Document Content Architecture
DCC    - Descriptive Cataloging Committee
DCCO    - Defense Commercial Communications Office
DCE    - Data Communication Equipment
DCL    - Digital Command Language
DCP    - Distributed Communications Processor
DCTS    - Dimension Custom Telephone Service
DD    - Daredevils
DD    - Data Dictionary
DD    - Days after Date
DD    - Demand Draft
DD    - Dishonorable Discharge
DD    - Disk Drive
DD    - Doctor of Divinity
DDC    - Digital Data Converter
DDD    - Direct Distance Dial(ing)
DDL    - Document Description Language
DDN    - Defense Data Network
DDP    - Distributed Data Processing
DDS    - Doctor of Dental Science
DDS    - Doctor of Dental Surgery
DE    - Delaware
DEA    - Drug Enforcement Agency
DEAR    - Department of Energy Acquisition Regulation
DEC    - Digital Equipment Corporation
DES    - Data Encryption Standard
DEW    - Distant Early Warning (as in DEW Line)
DF    - Damage Free
DF    - Direction Finding
DFC    - Distinguished Flying Cross
DFD    - Data Flow Diagram
DFE    - Data Flow Editor
DFM    - Distinguished Flying Medal
DFS    - Depth-First Search
DFW    - Dallas-Ft.Worth (regional airport)
DG    - Dei Gratia (by the grace of God)
DG    - Director General
DGSC    - Defense General Supply Center
DHHS    - Department of Health and Human Services
DHSS    - british Department of Health and Social Security
DIA    - Document Interchange Architecture
DIAD    - (magnetic) Drum Information Assembler / Dispatcher
DIAL    - Direct Information Access Line
DIAS    - Defense Automatic Integrated System
DID    - Direct Inward Dialing
DIF    - Document Interchange Format
DIN    - Deutsches Institut fur Normung
DIRE    - Dire Is Really Emacs
DIS    - Draft International Standard (ISO)
DISOSS    - DIStributed Office Support System
DIY    - Do It Yourself
DJ    - Disc Jockey
DLA    - Defense Logistics Agency
DLL    - Dial Long Line equipment
DLO    - Dead Letter Office
DM    - Dungeon Master
DMA    - Direct Memory Access
DMD    - Doctor of Dental Medicine
DME    - Distance Measuring Equipment
DMOS    - Diffusion Metal Oxide Semiconductor (see MOS)
DMV    - Department of Motor Vehicles
DMZ    - DeMilitarized Zone
DNA    - DeoxyriboNucleic Acid
DNA    - Digital Network Architecture
DNHR    - Dynamic NonHierarchical Routing
DNIC    - Data Network Identification Code
DNL    - Director of Naval Laboratories
DNR    - Dialed Number Recorder
DOA    - Dead On Arrival
DOB    - Date Of Birth
DOC    - Dynamic Overload Control
DOD    - Department Of Defense
DOE    - Department of Energy
DOMAIN    - Distributed Operating Multi Access Interactive Network (Apollo)
DOS    - Disk Operating System
DOT    - Department Of Transportation
DOT&E    - Director, Operational Test and Evaluation
DP    - Data Processing
DP    - Dial Pulse
DP    - Displaced Persons (expelled from native land)
DP    - Display Postscript
DP    - Double Play
DP    - Draft Proposal
DPA    - Delegation of Procurement Authority
DPANS    - Draft Proposed American National Standard
DPI    - Dots Per Inch
DPS    - Display PostScript
DQ    - Dairy Queen
DQ    - Dragon Quest
DQL    - Database Query Language
DR    - Dead Reckoning
DR    - Dining Room
DRAM    - Dynamic Random Access Memory (as opposed to static RAM)
DRD    - Data Reading Device
DRE    - Directional Reservation Equipment
DRG    - Democratic Republic of Germany (East Germany)
DRI    - Digital Research, Incorporated
DS    - Double-Sided
DSA    - Dial System Assistance
DSE    - Data Structure Editor
DSEE    - Domain Software Engineering Environment
DSM    - Distinguished Service Medal
DSO    - Distinguished Service Order
DSP    - Decessit Sine Prole (died without issue)
DSP    - Digital Signal Processing
DSRI    - Digital Standard Relational Interface
DSS    - Decision Support System
DSS    - Direct Station Selection
DST    - Daylight Saving Time
DSTN    - Double SuperTwisted Nematic
DT    - Delirium Tremens
DTE    - Data Terminal Equipment
DTF    - Dial Tone First payphone
DTMF    - Dial Tone Multi Frequency
DTP    - DeskTop Publishing
DTR    - Data Terminal Ready
DUI    - Driving Under the Influence
DUT    - Device Under Test
DV    - Deo Vo lente (God willing)
DVM    - Digital Volt Meter
DVM    - Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
DWAPS    - Defense Warehousing Automated Processing System
DWI    - Driving While Intoxicated
DWIM    - Do What I Mean
DX    - Distance (as in long distance radio communication)
DXT    - Data eXtractT facility
E    - East
E    - Espionage
E&EO    - Errors and Omissions Excepted
E-MAIL    - Electronic MAIL
EADASS    - Engineering and Administrative Data AcquiSition System
EAS    - Extended Area Service (or Engineering Admin. System)
EBCDIC    - Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
ECAFE    - Economic Commission for Africa and the Far East
ECASS    - Electronically Controlled Automatic Switching System
ECASS    - Export Control Automated Support System
ECC    - Error Correction Code
ECCM    - Electronic Counter-CounterMeasures
ECDO    - Electronic Community Dial Office
ECG    - ElectroCardioGram
ECL    - Emitter Coupled Logic (see also TTL)
ECM    - Electronic Counter Measure
ECM    - European Common Market
ECO    - Electronic Central Office
ECO    - Engineering Change Order
ECT    - ElectroConvulsive Therapy
ED&D    - Expert Dungeons & Dragons
EDGAR    - Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval
EDI    - Electronic Data Interchange
EDIF    - Electronic Design Interchange Format
EDP    - Electronic Data Processing
EDS    - Electronic Data Systems
EDT    - Eastern Daylight Time
EDTA    - Ethylene Diamine Tetraacetic Acid
EDTCC    - Electronic Data Transmission Communications Central
EE    - Electrical Engineer
EE    - Electrical or Electronics Engineer
EEC    - European Economic Community
EEG    - ElectroEncephaloGram
EEL    - Epsilon Extension Language
EEPROM    - Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EGA    - Enhanced Graphics Adapter
EHF    - Extremely High Frequency (30-300GHz)
EINE    - EINE Is Not Emacs
EISA    - Extended Industry-Standard Architecture
EISS    - European Intelligence Support System
EKG    - ElectroKardioGramm (see ECG)
EL    - ElectroLuminescent (as in display)
ELF    - Extremely Low Frequency
ELO    - Electric Light Orchestra
ELP    - Emerson, Lake and Palmer (or Powell)
EM    - Enlisted Man (see EW)
EMA    - Electronic Mail Association
EMACS    - Editor MACroS
EMACS    - Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping
EMF    - ElectroMotive Force
EMI    - ElectroMagnetic Interference
EMP    - Electromagnetic Pulse
EMPRESS    - EnvironMental Pulse Radiation Environment Simulator for Ships
EMR    - ElectroMagnetic Response
EMS    - Electronic Message System
EMS    - Extended Memory Specification
EMT    - Emergency Medical Technician
EMU    - ElectroMagnetic Unit
ENIAC    - Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator
ENS    - ENSign
EO    - End Office
EO    - Erasable Optical
EOF    - End Of File
EOM    - End Of Month
EP    - Experience Points
EP    - Extended Play
EPA    - Environmental Protection Agency
EPOS    - Engineering and Project-management Oriented Support system
EPRI    - Electric Power Research Institute
EPROM    - Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EPS    - Encapsulated PostScript
EPT    - Empire of the Petal Throne
EQ    - Educational Quotient (see IQ)
ER    - Emergency Room
ERA    - Earned Run Average
ERA    - Entity-Relationship-Attribute
ERA    - Equal Rights Amendment
ERD    - Entity-Relation Diagram
ERE    - Entity Relationship Editor
ES    - Expert System
ESA    - European Space Agency
ESAC    - Electronic Systems Assistance Center
ESDI    - Enhanced Standard Device Interface
ESE    - East South East
ESM    - Electronic Support Measures
ESO    - European Southern Observatory
ESP    - Extra Sensory Perception
ESPS    - Entropic Signal Processing System
ESS    - Electronic Switching System
ESSEX    - Experimental Solid State EXchange
EST    - Eastern Standard Time
ET    - Eastern Time
ET    - ExtraTerrestrial
ETA    - Estimated Time of Arrival
ETC    - Et cetera, and so on...
ETD    - Estimated Time of Departure
ETFD    - Electronic Toll Fraud Device
ETH    - Eidgnoessiche Techniche Hochschule
ETS    - Electronic Translator System
ETV    - Education TeleVision
EUUG    - European Unix User Group
EVA    - ExtraVehicular Activity
EVX    - Electronic Voice eXchange
EW    - Electronic Warfare
EW    - Enlisted Woman (see EM)
EWOS    - European Workshop for Open Systems
FA    - Football Association (British soccer--a word derived from Association)
FAA    - Federal Aviation Agency
FACD    - Foreign Area Customer Dialing
FAO    - Food and Agriculture Organization of the united states
FAR    - Federal Acquisition Regulations
FAS    - Foreign Agricultural Service
FAS    - Free Alongside Ship
FASST    - Flexible Architecture Standard System Technology
FAT    - Foreign Area Translation
FAX    - FAcsimile
FB    - Freight Bill
FBI    - Federal Bureau of Investigation
FCC    - Federal Communication Commission
FCC    - Federal Computer Conference
FDA    - Food and Drug Administration
FDDI    - Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FDHD    - Floppy Drive High Density
FDIC    - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FDM    - Frequency Division Multiplexing
FDR    - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
FEA    - Finite Element Analysis
FEDSIM    - FEDeral Systems Integration and Management center
FEMA    - Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEPC    - Fair Employment Practices Commission
FERS    - Federal Employees Retirement System
FET    - Federal Excise Tax
FET    - Field Effect Transistor
FFA    - Future Farmers of America
FFT    - Fast Fourier Transform
FHA    - Federal Home Administration
FHA    - Future Homemakers of America
FIB    - Focused Ion Beam
FICA    - Federal Insurance Contributions Act
FIDO    - Fog Investigation Dispersal Operation
FIFO    - First In First Out (as in registers and buffers)
FILO    - First In Last Out (see also FIFO)
FIMS    - Forms Interface Management System
FINE    - FINE Is Not Emacs
FIO    - Frequency In and Out
FIPS    - Federal Information Processing Standard
FIR    - Finite Impulse Response
FIRMR    - Federal Information Resource Management Regulation
FIT    - Federal Information Technologies, inc.
FL    - Florida
FLACC    - Full Level Algol Checkout Compiler
FLOPS    - FLoating-point OPerations per Second
FLRA    - Federal Labor Relations Authority
FM    - Frequency Modulation
FMB    - Federal Maritime Board
FMCS    - Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
FMS    - Financial Management Service (Treasury Dept)
FMS    - Forms Management System
FO    - Foreign Office
FO    - Forward Observer
FOAC    - Federal Office Automation Center
FOB    - Free On Board
FOC    - Free Of Charge
FOIA    - Freedom Of Information Act
FOIMS    - Field Office Information Management System
FOOBAR    - See FUBAR
FOR    - Free On Rail
FORCS    - Faa's Operational Reporting Communication System
FORD    - Fix Or Repair Daily
FORD    - Found On Road Dead
FORTRAN    - FORmula TRANslator
FOSE    - Federal Office Systems Exposition
FOT    - Free On Truck
FOV    - Field Of View
FPA    - Floating Point Accelerator
FPC    - Fish Protein Concentrate
FPE    - Floating Point Engine
FPHA    - Federal Public Housing Authority
FPLA    - Field Programmable Logic Array (see PLA)
FPM    - Feet Per Minute
FPO    - Field Post Office
FPO    - Fleet Post Office
FPS    - Feet Per Second
FRACTAL    - FRACTional dimensionAL
FRED    - Fred Resembles Emacs Deliberately
FRG    - Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)
FROG    - Free Rocket Over Ground
FRPG    - Fantasy Role Playing Game
FRS    - Federal Reserve System
FSF    - Free Software Foundation
FSK    - Frequency Shift Keying
FSLIC    - Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
FSS    - Federal Supply Service
FSW    - Forward Swept Wings
FT    - Foot
FTAM    - File Transfer And Management
FTC    - Federal Trade Commission
FTL    - Faster Than Light
FTP    - File Transfer Protocol
FTS    - Federal Telephone System
FUBAR    - F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition
FW    - Fringeworthy
FWD    - Front Wheel Drive
FWHM    - Full Width at Half Maximum
FX    - Foreign eXchange
FY    - Fiscal Year
FYI    - For Your Information
GA    - Gamblers Anonymous
GA    - General Assembly
GA    - General Average
GA    - General of the Army
GA    - Georgia
GAAP    - Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
GAN    - Global Area Network
GAR    - Grand Army of the Republic
GATT    - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GAW    - Guaranteed Annual Wage
GB    - Gangbusters
GB    - GigaByte
GB    - Great Britain
GBIP    - General Purpose Interface Bus
GC    - Garbage Collection (LISP)
GC    - Gas Chromatograph (or Chromatography)
GCA    - Ground Controlled Approach
GCC    - Gnu C Compiler
GCD    - Ground Controlled Descent
GCL    - Graphics Command Language
GCM    - General Court Martial
GCR    - Group-Coded Recording (magnetic tape, 6250 bpi)
GCT    - Greenwich Civil Time
GDB    - Gnu DeBugger
GE    - General Electric
GEM    - Graphics Environment Manager
GHQ    - General HeadQuarters
GHz    - Giga HertZ (unit of frequency, 1,000,000,000 cycles per second)
GI    - Galvanized Iron
GI    - Gastro Intestinal (as in upper GI)
GI    - General Issue
GI    - Government Issue
GIF    - Graphics Interchange Format
GIGO    - Garbage In Garbage Out
GIN    - Graphics INput
GISS    - Goddard Institute for Space Studies
GKS    - Graphical Kernel Standard
GM    - Game Master
GM    - General Manager
GM    - General Motors
GM    - Guided Missile
GMBH    - Gesellschaft Mit Beschraenkter Haftung
GMT    - Greenwich Mean Time
GNP    - Gross National Product
GNU    - GNU's Not Unix
GOES    - Geostationary Orbiting Environmental Satellites
GOSIP    - Government OSI Profile
GP    - General Practitioner
GPI    - Graphics Programming Interface
GPIB    - General-Purpose Interface Bus
GPO    - General Post Office
GPO    - Government Printing Office
GPS    - Global Positioning System
GQ    - General Quarters
GRB    - Gamma Ray Burst(er)
GREP    - Global Regular Expression Print, g/re/p, (UNIX command)
GRO    - Gamma Ray Observatory
GS    - General Schedule
GS    - Glide Slope
GSA    - General Services Administration
GSA    - Girl Scouts of America
GSBCA    - General Services administration Board of Contract Appeals
GSFC    - Goddard Space Flight Center
GSTS    - Ground-based Surveillance and Tracking System
GT    - Gross Ton
GTE    - General Telephone and Electric
GTSI    - Government Technology Services, inc.
GUI    - Graphical User Interface
GW    - Gamma World
GWEN    - Ground Wave Emergency Network
H    - Harn
H    - Height
HACD    - Home Area Customer Dialing
HAL    - Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer (2001)
HAM    - Hold And Modify
HBM    - Her British Majesty; His British Majesty
HBO    - Home Box Office
HC    - Holy Communion
HC    - House of Commons
HCFA    - Health Care Financing Administration
HCL    - High Cost of Living
HD    - Hard Disk
HD    - Heavy Duty
HDA    - Head Disk Assembly (in winchester disk drives)
HDBV    - Host Data Base View
HDL    - High Density Lipoprotein
HDLC    - High-level Data Link Control (IBM network stuff)
HDTV    - High Definition Television
HE    - His Eminence; His Excellency
HEAO    - High Energy Astronomical Observatory
HEMP    - Help End Marijuana Prohibition
HERO    - Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance
HF    - High Fantasy
HF    - High Frequency (3-30MHz)
HFE    - Human Factors Engineering
HFS    - Hierarchical File System
HI    - Hawaii
HIIPS    - Hud Integrated Information Processing Services
HLL    - High-Level Language
HMOS    - High performance Metal Oxide Semiconductor (see MOS)
HMS    - His/Her Majesty's Ship
HMT    - His/Her Majesty's Transport
HNPA    - Home Numbering Plan Area
HOBIS    - HOtel Billing Information System
HOL    - High-Order System
HP    - Hewlett Packard, inc.
HP    - High Pressure
HP    - Higher Power (sort of an AA "in" term, usually God)
HP    - Hit Points
HP    - HorsePower
HPGe    - High Purity Germanium
HPL/T    - High-Productivity Languages/Tools
HQ    - HeadQuarters
HR    - House of Representatives
HRH    - Her Royal Highness
HRH    - His Royal Highness
HS    - High School
HSB    - Hue, Saturation, Brightness
HST    - Hawaiian Standard Time
HT    - High Tension (as in electric power transmission)
HTK    - Hits To Kill
HUAC    - House Unamerican Activities Committee
HUD    - Heads Up Display
HUD    - Housing and Urban Development
HVAC    - Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning
HW2000    - Highway 2000
HWM    - High-Water Mark
Hb    - HemogloBin
Hz    - HertZ (unit of frequency, cycles per second)
I/O    - Input/Output
IAEA    - International Atomic Energy Agency
IATA    - International Air Transport Association
IBM    - International Business Machines, inc.
IC    - Integrated Circuit
ICB    - Interstate Computer Bank
ICBM    - InterContinental Ballistic Missile
ICE    - In-Circuit Emulator
ICI    - Imperial Chemical Industries
ICJ    - International Court of Justice
ICL    - International Computers Ltd.
ICP    - Integrated Channel Processor
ICP    - Inventory Control Points
ICRC    - International Cosmic Ray Conference
ID    - IDentification
ID    - Idaho
IDA    - Intercommunication Data Areas
IDA    - International Development Association
IDDD    - International Direct Distance Dialing
IDE    - Interactive Development Environments, inc
IDF    - Intermediate Distributing Frame
IE    - Indo-European
IEE    - Institute of Electrical Engineers (UK)
IEEE    - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IF    - Intermediate Frequency (as in IF stage)
IFB    - Invitation For Bids
IFC    - International Finance Corporation
IFC    - International Freighting Corporation
IFF    - Identification - Friend or Foe
IFF    - Interchange File Format
IFLA    - International Federation of Library Associations
IGES    - Initial Graphics Exchange Standard
IGY    - International Geophysical Year
IHP    - Indicated HorsePower
IHS    - Integrated Hospital Support
IIA    - Information Industry Association
IIE    - Institute of Industrial Engineers
IIHF    - International Ice Hockey Federation
IIL    - Integrated Injection Logic
ILO    - International Labor Organization
ILS    - Instrument Landing System
IMF    - International Monetary Fund
IMHO    - In My Humble Opinion
IMP    - Interface Message Processor (ARPAnet)
IMSL    - International Mathematical Subroutine Library
IN    - Indiana
INADS    - INitialization and ADministration System
INRA    - Iesus Nazerenus Rex Iudaeorum (Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews)
INRIA    - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique
INS    - Immigration and Naturalization Service
INSTITUTE    - INSTITUTE's Name Shows That It's Totally Unrelated To EMACS
INTAP    - INteroperability Technology Association for information Processing
INWATS    - INward Wide Area Telephone Service
IO    - Input/Output (sometimes I/O)
IOD    - Identified Outward Dialing
IOOF    - International Order of Odd Fellows
IOU    - I Owe you (U)
IP    - Innings Pitched
IP    - Intermediate Point
IPC    - Inter-Process Communication
IPE    - Integrated Programming Environment
IPMS    - InterPersonal Message Services
IPS    - Information Processing Standards
IPSE    - Integrated Project-Support Environment
IQ    - Intelligence Quotient (see EQ)
IR    - Index Register
IRA    - Individual Retirement Account
IRA    - Irish Republican Army
IRAS    - Infrared Astronomical Satellite
IRBM    - Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile
IRDS    - Information Resource Dictionary Standard
IRDS    - InfraRed Detection Set
IRE    - Institute of Radio Engineers (old name for the now IEEE, which see)
IRM    - Information Resources Management
IRMS    - Information Resources Management Service
IRS    - Internal Revenue Service
IS    - Information Systems
IS    - International Standard
ISA    - Industry-Standard Architecture
ISAM    - Indexed Sequential Access Method
ISBD    - International Bibliographic Description
ISC    - Information Services Center
ISC    - International Switching Center
ISCH    - Interstitial-Cell-Stimulating Hormone (same as LH)
ISDN    - Integrated Services Digital Network
ISDT    - Integrated Systems Development Tool
ISEE    - International Sun Earth Explorer (usually ISEE-3)
ISF    - Information Systems Factory
ISFUG    - Integrated Software Federal User Group
ISO    - International Standards Organization
ISOO    - Information Security Oversight Office
ISPM    - International Solar Polar Mission
ISR    - Institute of Snow Research
ISRG    - Independent Space Research Group
ISV    - Independent Software Vendor
IT    - Industrial Technology
IT    - Information Technology
ITC    - Inter-Task Communication
ITS    - Incompatible Timesharing System
ITT    - International Telephone and Telegraph
ITU    - International Telecommunications Union
ITUSA    - IT Users Standards Association
IUS    - Inertial Upper Stage
JACM    - Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery
JBS    - John Birch Society
JC    - Jesus Christ
JC    - Joint Compound (plumbing)
JC    - Julius Caesar
JC    - Junior College
JCA    - Jewelry Crafts Association
JCAC    - Joint Civil Affairs Committee
JCAE    - Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
JCEE    - Joint Council on Economic Education
JCET    - Joint Council on Educational Television
JCS    - Joint Chiefs of Staff
JD    - Justice Department
JDS    - John Dewey Society
JES    - John Ericsson Society
JFK    - John F. Kennedy (international airport)
JFMIP    - Joint Financial Management Improvement Program
JGR    - Journal of Geophysical Research
JI    - Justice, Inc.
JIC    - Joint Intelligence Center
JIC    - Just in Case
JIM    - Job Information Memorandum
JINTACCS    - Joint INteroperability of TActical Command and Control Systems
JIS    - Japan Industrial Standards
JISC    - Japanese Industrial Standards Committee
JIT    - Just In Time
JMS    - John Milton Society
JO    - Job Order
JO    - Junior Officer
JOVE    - Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs
JOVIAL    - Jules Own Version of the International Algorithmic Language
JPL    - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JRC    - Junior Red Cross
JSC    - Johnson Space Center
JSD    - Jackson System Development
JSRC    - Joint Services Review Committee
JTIDS    - Joint Tactical Information Distribution Systems
JV    - Junior Varsity
K&R    - Kernighan and Ritchie, the c programming language
K9    - canine (K9 corps - army dogs)
KB    - KiloByte
KC    - King's Counsel (QC when queen reigning)
KC    - Knights of Columbus
KD    - Kiln Dried
KD    - Knocked Down
KDCI    - Key Display Call Indicator
KERMIT    - Kl-10 Error-free Reciprocal Micro Interconnect over Tty lines
KHz    - Kilo HertZ (unit of frequency, 1000 cycles per second)
KI    - Kiwanis International
KIA    - Killed In Action
KIAS    - Knot Indicated Air Speed
KO    - Knock Out
KP    - Key Pulse
KP    - Kitchen Police
KPNO    - Kitt Peak National Observatory
KPO    - KeyPunch Operator
KQC    - King's College London
KS    - King's Scholar
KSC    - Kennedy Space Center
KSU    - Key Service Unit
KTS    - Key Telephone System
KTU    - Key Telephone Unit
KWIC    - Key Word In Context
KY    - Kentucky
LA    - Los Angeles
LA    - Louisiana
LA    - Low Altitude
LADAR    - LAser Detection And Ranging
LAM    - Master of Liberal Arts
LAMA    - Local Automatic Message Accounting
LAN    - Local Apparent Noon
LAN    - Local Area Network
LAR    - Local Acquisition Radar
LASER    - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
LAT    - Local Apparent Time
LATA    - Local Access Transport Area
LAX    - Los Angeles International Airport
LB    - Light Bomber
LB    - pound (LiBra)
LBHS    - Long Beach High School
LBL    - Lawrence Berkeley Labs
LC    - inductor-Capacitor circuit (as in filters, L is symbol inductance)
LCD    - Liquid Crystal Display
LCD    - Lowest Common Denominator
LCDR    - Lieutenant Commander
LCM    - Life Cycle Management
LCT    - Landing Craft Tanks
LDEF    - Long Duration Exposure Facility
LDL    - Low Density Lipoprotein
LDX    - Long Distance eXtender
LEAP    - Low-power Enhanced At Portable
LED    - Light Emitting Diode
LEM    - Lunar Excursion Module
LF    - Low Frequency (30-300KHz)
LH    - Left Hand
LH    - Lower Half
LH    - Luteinizing Hormone (same as ISCH)
LHD    - Litterarum Humaniorum Doctor (doctor of human letters)
LHS    - Left Hand Side
LI    - Long Island
LIFIA    - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale et d'Intelligence Artificielle
LIFO    - Last In First Out (see FIFO)
LINC    - Laboratory INstrument Computer
LISP    - LISt Processing Language
LIU    - Line Interface Unit
LL    - Late Latin
LL    - Long Lines
LLAMA    - Logic Lacking A Meaningful Acronym
LLB    - Legum Baccalaureus (bachelor of laws)
LLD    - Legum doctor (doctor of laws)
LLN    - Line Link Network
LLNL    - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
LLP    - Line Link Pulsing
LM    - Life Master (Contract Bridge ranking)
LM    - Lunar Module
LMC    - Large Magellanic Cloud (see SMC)
LMOS    - Line Maintenance Operations System
LNG    - Liquified Natural Gas
LOA    - Lands of Adventure
LOOPS    - Lisp Object Oriented Programming System
LOP    - Lines Of Position
LOTS    - Low Overhead Timesharing System
LP    - Long Playing record
LP    - Low Pressure
LPC    - Linear Predictive Coding (speech processing)
LPDA    - Link Problem Determination Aid
LPF    - League for Programming Freedom
LPG    - Liquified Petroleum Gas
LPG    - Low Pressure Gas
LPN    - Licensed Practical Nurse
LPP    - Licensed Program Products
LPR    - Line PrinteR
LRBM    - Long Range Ballistic Missile
LRC    - Longitudinal Redundancy Character
LRU    - Line Replaceable Unit
LS    - Left Side
LS    - Letter Signed
LS    - Locus Sigilli (place of seal)
LSB    - Least Significant Bit; Least Significant Byte
LSC    - LightSpeed C
LSD    - Least Significant Digit
LSD    - LySergic acid Diethylamide
LSD    - pounds (Libra), shillings (Sestertii), and (old) pence (Denarii)
LSI    - Large Scale Integration
LSP    - LightSpeed Pascal
LSS    - Life Support System
LSS    - Loop Switching System
LSSD    - Level-Sensitive Scan Detection
LT    - Long Ton
LT    - Low Tension
LTC    - Lieutenant Colonel
LTJG    - Lieutenant Junior Grade
LTL    - Less than Truckload Lot
LUG    - Local Users Group
LUT    - Look-Up Table
LWM    - Low-Water Mark
LZ    - Landing Zone
M    - Miniatures
MA    - Massachusetts
MAAP    - Maintenance And Administration Panel
MAC    - Military Air Command
MACSYMA    - project MAC's SYmbolic MAnipulation System
MAD    - Mutual Assured Destruction
MADD    - Mothers Against Drunk Driving
MAG    - Magazine
MAN    - Metropolitan Area Network
MAP    - Manufacturing Automation Protocol
MARBI    - MAchine Readable form of Bibliographic Information
MARC    - MAchine Readable card Catalog
MARS    - Multiuser Archival and Retrieval System
MASC    - Multiple Award Schedule Contract
MASER    - Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
MASH    - Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
MAST    - Multi-Application SOnar Trainer
MAT-CALS    - Marine Air Traffic-Control And Landing System
MAU    - Math Acceleration Unit
MB    - MegaByte
MBA    - Master Business Administration
MC    - Master of Ceremonies
MCA    - Micro Channel Architecture
MCAE    - Mechanical Computer Aided Engineering
MCC    - Master Control Console
MCC    - Microelectronics and Computer technology Corporation
MCP    - Master Control Program
MCP/AS    - Master Control Program/Advanced System
MCPO    - Master Chief Petty Officer
MD    - Maryland
MD    - Medical Doctor
MD    - Months after Date
MDAS    - Magnetic Drum Auxiliary Sender
MDE    - Modular Design Environment
MDF    - Main Distribution Frame
MDT    - Mean Down Time
ME    - Maine
ME    - Mechanical Engineer
MERP    - Middle-Earth Role Playing
MEd    - Master of EDucation
MF    - Medium Frequency (300-3000KHz)
MF    - Middle French
MF    - Multi-Frequency
MFA    - Master Fine Arts
MFLOPS    - Million FLoating-point OPerations per Second
MFM    - Modified Frequency Modulation
MFS    - Macintosh File System
MG    - Machine Gun
MG    - Major General
MG    - Military Government
MGH    - Massachusetts General Hospital
MGM    - Metro-Goldwyn Mayer
MHD    - MagnetoHydroDynamics
MHz    - Mega HertZ (unit of frequency, 1,000,000 cycles per second)
MI    - Michigan
MI    - Military Intelligence
MIA    - Missing In Action
MIDI    - Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIFASS    - Marine Integrated Fire And Support System
MILNET    - MILitary NETwork
MIM    - Morality In Media
MIMD    - Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data
MINCE    - MINCE Is Not Complete Emacs
MIPS    - Million Instructions Per Second
MIRV    - Multiple Independently-Targetable Reentry Vehicle
MIS    - Management Information Systems
MIT    - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ML    - Middle Latin
MLA    - Member of Legislative Assembly (see MPP)
MLD    - Minimum Lethal Dose
MLS    - Microwave Landing System
MLS    - Multi-Level Security
MM    - Maryknoll Missioners
MMES    - Martin Marietta Energy Systems
MMFS    - Manufacturing Message Format Standard
MMM    - see 3M
MMU    - Memory Management Unit
MN    - Minnesota
MNA    - Member of National Assembly (Quebec)
MNP    - Microcom Networking Protocol
MO    - Mail Order
MO    - Medical Officer
MO    - Missouri
MO    - Modus Operandi
MO    - Money Order
MOR    - Middle-Of-the-Road
MOS    - Metal Oxide Semiconductor
MOSFET    - Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
MOTIS    - Message-Oriented Text Interchange System
MOU    - Memorandum Of Understanding
MOUSE    - Minimum Orbital Unmanned Satellite of Earth
MP    - Melting Point
MP    - Member of Parliament
MP    - Metropolitan Police
MP    - Military Police(man)
MPG    - Miles Per Gallon
MPH    - Miles Per Hour
MPP    - Member of Provincial Parliament (Canada; also MLA)
MPW    - Macintosh Programmer's Workshop
MR    - Miniatures Rules
MRP    - Manufacturing Requirements Planning
MS    - ManuScript
MS    - Master of Science
MS    - Military Science
MS    - Motor Ship
MS    - Multiple Sclerosis
MS-DOS    - MicroSoft DOS
MSB    - Most Significant Bit; Most Significant Byte
MSC    - MicroSoft C
MSCP    - Mass Storage Control Protocol
MSD    - Most Significant Digit
MSE    - Mobile Subscriber Equipment
MSG    - MonoSodium Glutamate
MSH    - Marvel Super Heroes
MSL    - Mean Sea Level
MSPE    - Mercenaries, Spies & Private Eyes
MSS    - Management Support System
MSS    - ManuScriptS
MSS    - Mass Storage System
MST    - Mountain Standard Time
MT    - Metric Ton
MT    - Mountain Time
MTA    - Message Transfer Agent
MTA    - Metropolitan Transportation Authority
MTBF    - Mean Time Between Failures
MTR    - Magnetic Tape Recording
MTSO    - Mobile Telephone Switching Office
MTTF    - Mean Time To Failure
MTV    - Music TeleVision
MUF    - Maximum Usable Frequency (max freq during sunspot activity)
MULTICS    - MULTiplex Information Computer Services
MUMPS    - Mgh Utility MultiProgram System
MUNG    - Mung Until No Good (see the hacker's dictionary)
MUX    - MUltipleXor
MVA    - MegaVolt Ampere
MX    - Missile eXperimental
MeV    - Million Electron Volts
N    - North
N    - Notice
NA    - Narcotics Anonymous
NA    - North America
NA    - Not Applicable
NAACP    - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NAAS    - North American Automated Systems co.
NAB    - National Association of Broadcasters
NABISCO    - NAtional BIScuit COmpany
NACS    - National Advisory Committee on Semiconductors
NAD    - Network Access Device
NADGE    - NATO Air Defense Ground Environment
NAG    - Numerical Algorithms Group
NAGE    - National Association of Government Employees
NAK    - Negative AcKnowledge
NAPAP    - National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program
NAR    - Nuclear Acoustic Resonance
NARDAC    - NAvy Regional Data Automation Center
NAS    - National Academy of Sciences
NAS    - National Advanced Systems
NASA    - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA/GSFC    - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NATO    - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NAVDAC    - NAVal Data Automation Command
NAVSWC    - NAV Surface Weapons Center
NB    - New Brunswick
NB    - Nota Bene
NBA    - National Basketball Association
NBC    - National Broadcasting Company
NBFM    - NarrowBand Frequency Modulation
NBO    - Network Build Out
NBS    - National Bureau of Standards
NBVM    - Narrow Band Voice Modulation
NC    - No Charge
NC    - North Carolina
NCA    - Network Control Analysis
NCC    - National Computer Conference
NCDC    - National Climatic Data Center
NCE    - New Catholic Edition
NCGA    - National Computer Graphics Association
NCIC    - National Cartographic Information Center
NCO    - Non-Commissioned Officer
NCP    - Network Control Program
NCR    - National Cash Register
NCS    - Network Computing System
NCSA    - National Center for Supercomputing Applications
NCSC    - National Computer Security Center
NCTL    - National Computer and Telecommunications Laboratory
NCV    - No Commercial Value
ND    - No Date
ND    - North Dakota
NDA    - Non-Disclosure Agreement
NDDL    - Neutral Data Definition Language
NDE    - News Development Environment
NDEA    - National Defense Education Act
NDL    - Network Database Language
NDP    - New Democratic Party (Canada)
NDSL    - National Direct Student Loan
NDT    - Newfoundland Daylight Time
NE    - New England
NE    - North East
NEAR    - National Electronic Accounting and Reporting system
NEB    - New English Bible
NEC    - Nippon Electric Company
NEI    - Not Elsewhere Included
NES    - National Energy Strategy
NES    - Not Elsewhere Specified
NESC    - National Energy Software Center
NET    - NETwork
NET    - National Educational Television
NEWS    - Network extensible Window System
NEXRAD    - NEXt generation weather RADar
NF    - No Funds
NFC    - National Football Conference
NFFE    - National Federation of Federal Employees
NFL    - National Football League
NFS    - Network File System
NG    - National Guard
NG    - No Good
NH    - New Hampshire
NHI    - National Health Insurance
NHL    - National Hockey League (the "nation" is Canada, BTW)
NIC    - Network Information Center (ARPAnet)
NIH    - National Institutes of Health
NIH    - Not Invented Here
NIM    - Nuclear Instrumentation Module (an electronic instr. standard)
NIMH    - National Institute of Mental Health
NIS    - Network Information System (formerly yp)
NISO    - National Information Standards Organization
NIST    - National Institute of Standards and Technology (formerly NBS)
NJ    - New Jersey
NL    - National League (baseball)
NLM    - National Library of Medicine
NLP    - Natural Language Processing
NLRB    - National Labor Relations Board
NLS    - Network License Server
NM    - Nautical Mile
NM    - New Mexico
NM    - Night Message
NM    - No Mark; Not Marked
NMOS    - N channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor (N-MOS) (see MOS)
NMR    - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
NNE    - North North East
NNTP    - Net News Transfer Protocol
NNW    - North North West
NOA    - NSWC Office Automation
NOAA    - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NORAD    - NORth American Defense Command
NORML    - National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
NOS    - Not Otherwise Specified
NOSC    - Naval Ocean Systems Center
NOTIS    - Network Operator Trouble Information System
NP    - No Protest
NP    - Nondeterministic-Polynomial
NP    - Notary Public
NP    - Noun Phrase
NPA    - Number Plan Area
NPC    - Non-Player Character (see PC)
NPL    - Non-Procedural Language
NPN    - Negative-Positive-Negative (transistor)
NPN    - NonProtein Nitrogen
NPR    - National Public Radio
NQS    - Network Queuing System
NRA    - National Rifle Association
NRC    - National Research Council
NRC    - Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRE    - Non-Recurring Engineering (as in NRE costs)
NRL    - Naval Research Labs
NRO    - National Reconnaissance Office
NRZ    - Non-Return to Zero
NRZI    - Non-Return to Zero Indicates
NRZI    - Non-Return to Zero Inverted (magnetic tape, 800 bpi)
NS    - Not Specified
NS    - Nova Scotia
NS    - Nuclear Ship
NSA    - National Security Agency
NSC    - National Security Council
NSE    - Network Software Environment
NSF    - National Science Foundation
NST    - Newfoundland Standard Time
NSW    - New South Wales
NSWC    - Naval Surface Warfare Center
NSWC    - Naval Surface Weapons Center
NT    - New Testament
NT    - Newfoundland Time
NT    - Northern Territory
NTEU    - National Treasury Employees Union
NTIS    - National Technical Information Service
NTN    - Neutralized Twisted Nematic
NTP    - Normal Temperature and Pressure (see STP)
NTSB    - National Transportation Safety Board
NTSC    - National Television Standards Committee
NTSC    - Never The Same Color
NTT    - Nippon Telephone & Telegraph
NU    - Name Unknown
NURBS    - NonUniform Rational B-Spline
NUSC    - Naval Underwater Systems Command
NV    - Nevada
NW    - North West
NWS    - National Weather Service
NWT    - North West Territories
NY    - New York
NYC    - New York City
NYSE    - New York Stock Exchange
NZ    - New Zealand
NZUSUGI    - New Zealand Unix System User Group, Inc.
OA    - Office Automation
OA    - Overeaters Anonymous
OAS    - Organization of American States
OATS    - Office Automation Technology and Services
OBE    - Order of the British Empire
OBS    - Omni Bearing Selector
OC    - Order of Canada
OCDM    - Office of Civil Defense and Mobilization
OCI    - Out of City Indicator
OCLC    - Online Computer Library Center (Ohio College Library Catalog)
OCO    - Object Code Only
OCR    - Optical Character Recognition
OCS    - Officer Candidate School
OD    - Doctor of Optometry
OD    - Oculus Dexter (right eye)
OD    - Officer of the Day
OD    - OverDose
ODI    - Optical Digital Image
ODISS    - Optical Digital Image Storage System
OE    - Old English
OED    - Oxford English Dictionary
OEM    - Original Equipment Manufacturer
OEO    - Office of Economic Opportunity
OES    - Order of the Eastern Star
OF    - Old French
OFM    - Order of Friars Minor
OFS    - Order of Free State
OG    - Original Gum
OH    - Ohio
OIRA    - Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
OIU    - Office Interface Unit
OJT    - On the Job Training
OLTP    - On-Line Transaction Processing
OMB    - Office of Management and Budget
OMD    - Orchestral Manouevers in the Dark
OMV    - Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle
ON    - Old Norse
ONC    - Open Network Computing
ONI    - Office of Naval Intelligence
ONI    - Operator Number Identification
ONR    - Office of Naval Research
OOP    - Object Oriented Programming
OOPART    - Out Of Place ARTifact
OOPS    - Object-Oriented Programming System
OP    - OFFICEPOWER office automation system, trademark of CCI
OP    - Observation Post
OP    - Order of Preachers
OP    - Out of Print
OPEC    - Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPM    - Office of Personnel Management
OR    - Operating Room
OR    - Oregon
OR    - Owner's Risk, Own Risk
ORNL    - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
OROM    - Optical Read Only Memory
OS    - Oculus Sinister (left eye)
OS    - Operating System
OS    - Ordinary Seaman
OS    - Out of Stock
OSB    - Order of St. Benedict
OSCAR    - Orbiting Satellite Carry Amateur Radio (1st launched 12 Dec 1961)
OSCRL    - Operating System Command Response Language
OSD    - Office of the Secretary of Defense
OSDIT    - Office of Software Development and Information Technology
OSF    - Open Software Foundation
OSF    - Order of St. Francis
OSI    - Open Systems Interconnection
OSI/RM    - Open Systems Interconnection/Reference Model
OSME    - Open Systems Message Exchange
OSP    - Optical Storage Processor
OSS    - Office Support System
OSS    - Office of Strategic Services (later CIA)
OSS    - Operation Support System
OSTP    - Office of Science and Technology Policy
OT    - Old Testament
OT    - OverTime
OT&LF    - Open Taxi & Limousine Foundation
OTA    - Office of Technical Assistance
OTA    - Office of Technology Assessment
OTB    - Off-Track Betting
OTC    - Over The Counter (stocks)
OTF    - Open Token Foundation
OTH-B    - Over The Horizon - Backscatter (as in radar)
OTR    - On The Rag
OTS    - Officers' Training School
OUTWATS    - OUTward Wide Area Telephone Service
PA    - Pennsylvania
PA    - Per Annum
PA    - Play Aid
PA    - Power of Attorney
PA    - Press Agent
PA    - Private Account
PA    - Public Address
PA    - Purchasing Agent
PABX    - Private Automatic Branch eXchange
PAD    - Packet Assembler-Disassembler (for networking)
PAL    - Phase Alternation Line-rate
PAL    - Programmable Array Logic
PAM    - Pulse Amplification Modulation
PARC    - Palo Alto Research Center, xerox
PATROL    - Program for Administrative Traffic Reports On Line
PBM    - Play By Mail game
PBS    - Public Broadcasting System
PBX    - Private Branch eXchange (mini-telephone network system)
PC    - Peace Corps
PC    - PerCent; PerCentage
PC    - Personal Computer
PC    - Player Character (see NPC)
PC    - Post Card
PC    - Post Cibum (after meals)
PC    - Privileged Character
PC    - Privy Council
PC    - Program Counter
PC    - Progressive Conservative party (Canada)
PC-DOS    - Personal Computer DOS
PC/AT    - Personal Computer/Advanced Technology
PCB    - PolyChlorinated Biphenyls
PCB    - Printed Circuit Board
PCI    - Panel Call Indicator
PCIE    - President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency
PCL    - Printer Command Language
PCM    - Plug-Compatible Mainframe
PCM    - Pulse Code Modulation
PCPC    - Personal Computers Peripheral Corporation
PCS    - Permanent Change of Station
PCTE    - Portable Common Tools Environment
PCTS    - Posix Conformance Test Suite
PD    - Per Diem
PD    - Police Department
PD    - Potential Difference
PD    - Public Domain
PDAD    - Proposed Draft ADdendum
PDE    - Partial Differential Equation
PDES    - Product Data Exchange Specifications
PDF    - Program Development Facility
PDL    - Page Description Language
PDL    - Program Design Language
PDP    - Plasma Display Panel
PDP    - Programmed Data Processor
PDQ    - Pretty Damned Quick
PDT    - Pacific Daylight Time
PE    - Phase Encoded
PE    - Physical Education
PE    - Prince Edward island
PE    - Printer's Error
PE    - Professional Engineer
PE    - Protestant Episcopal
PEI    - Prince Edward Island
PEP    - Productivity Enhancement Project
PEPE    - Pepe Est Presque Emacs
PERL    - Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister
PERL    - Practical Extraction and Report Language
PEX    - Phigs/phigs+ Extension to X
PGA    - Professional Graphics Adapter
PGA    - Pure Grain Alcohol
PHA    - Pulse Height Analyzer (or Analysis)
PHIGS    - Programmers Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System
PHS    - Public Health Service
PIF    - Paid In Full
PIT    - Principal, Interest, and Taxes
PIXEL    - PIcture ELement
PLA    - Programmable Logic Array
PLC    - Programmable Logic Controller
PLCC    - Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier
PLL    - Phase-Locked Loop
PLM    - Programming Language for Microcomputers
PLO    - Please Leave On
PM    - PayMaster
PM    - Police Magistrate
PM    - Post Meridiem
PM    - PostMaster
PM    - PostMortem
PM    - Preventive Maintenance
PM    - Prime Minister
PM    - Provost Marshal
PM/X    - Presentation Manager for X windows
PMO    - Prime Minister's Office
PMOS    - P channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor (P-MOS) (see MOS)
PMT    - PhotoMultiplier Tube
PN    - Promissory Note
PNP    - Positive-Negative-Positive (transistor)
PO    - PettyOfficer
PO    - Post Office
PO    - Postal Order
PO    - Purchase Order
POC    - Port Of Call
POD    - Pay On Delivery
POE    - Port Of Embarkation
POE    - Port Of Entry
POGO    - Polar Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
POM    - Phase Of Moon
POPS    - Paperless Order Processing System
POR    - Price On Request
POS    - Point Of Sale
POSI    - Promoting conference for OSI
POSIX    - Portable Operating System for unIX
POV    - Point Of View
POW    - Prisoner Of War
PP    - Parcel Post
PP    - Past Participle
PP    - Primary Point (or dial Post Pay payphone)
PPB    - Parts Per Billion
PPC    - Pour Prendre Conge' (to take leave)
PPCS    - Person to Person, Collect, Special
PPM    - Parts Per Million
PPN    - Parameterized Post-Newtonian formalism for general relativity
PPN    - Project Programmer Number
PPS    - PostPostScriptum
PPT    - Pulse Pair Timing
PQ    - Province of Quebec
PR    - PayRoll
PR    - Public Relations
PR    - Puerto Rico
PRC    - Planning Research Corporation
PROFS    - PRofessional OFfice System
PROM    - Programmable Read Only Memory
PS    - PicoSecond
PS    - PostScript
PS    - PostScriptum
PS    - Power Steering
PS    - Power Supply
PS    - Public School
PSA    - Problem Statement Analyzer
PSC    - Polar Stratospheric Clouds
PSDS    - Public Switched Digital Service
PSE    - Programming Support Environment
PSG    - Platoon SerGeant
PSK    - Phase Shift Keying
PSL    - Problem Statement Language
PSR    - "Product Specific Realizations
PST    - Pacific Standard Time
PSTN    - Public Switched Telephone Network
PT    - Pacific Time
PT    - Patrol Torpedo (as in PT boat)
PT    - Physical Therapy
PT    - Physical Training
PTA    - Parent-Teacher Association
PTD    - Parallel Transfer Disk
PTO    - Patent and Trademark Office
PTO    - Please Turn Over
PTO    - Power Take-Off
PVO    - Pioneer Venus Orbiter
PW    - Prisoner of War (usually POW)
PWG    - Permanent Working Group
PX    - Post eXchange (see BX)
PhysRev    - Physical Review Journal   - Phys Rev
QAM    - Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
QC    - Quality Control
QC    - Queen's Counsel
QD    - Quaque Die (daily)
QDA    - Quantity Discount Agreement
QED    - Quod Erat Demonstrandum (which was to be demonstrated)
QEF    - Quod Erat Faciendum (which was to be done)
QEI    - Quod Erat Inveniendum (which was to be found out)
QET    - Quantum Effect Transistor
QIC    - Quarter-Inch Cartridge
QID    - Quater In Die (four times a day)
QLI    - Query Language Interpreter
QM    - QuarterMaster
QMC    - QuarterMaster Corps
QMF    - Query Management Facility
QMG    - QuarterMaster General
QMS    - Quality Micro Systems
QNS    - Quantity Not Sufficient
QWERTY    - first six keys from left on top alphabetic row of standard keyboard
R    - Rolemaster
R&B    - Rhythm and Blues (commonly R and B)
R&D    - Research and Development (commonly R and D)
RA    - Regular Army
RA    - Research Assistant
RA    - Royal Academy
RAAF    - Royal Australian Air Force
RACE    - Random Access Card Equipment
RACEP    - Random Access and Correlation for Extended Performance
RAD    - Radiation Absorbed Dose
RAD    - Rapid Access Disk
RADAR    - RAdio Detection And Ranging
RADM    - Rear ADMiral
RAF    - Royal Air Force
RAM    - Random Access Memory
RARDE    - Royal Armaments Research and Development Establishment
RAS    - Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability
RASC    - Residence Account Service Center
RBC    - Red Blood Count
RBI    - Runs Batted In
RBOC    - Regional Bell Operating Company
RC    - Red Cross
RC    - Regional Center
RC    - Resistor-Capacitor circuit (as in filters)
RC    - Roman Catholic
RCA    - Radio Corporation of America
RCAF    - Royal Canadian Air Force
RCAS    - Reserve Component Automation System
RCC    - Radio Common Carrier
RCMP    - Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RD    - Rural Delivery
RDA    - Remote Data Access
RDBMS    - Relational DataBase Management System
RDF    - Radio Direction Finding
REA    - Rail Express Agency
REM    - Rapid Eye Movement
REO    - R. E. Olds
REO    - Removable, Erasable, Optical
REXX    - Restructured EXtended eXecutor
RF    - Radio Frequency
RFC    - Request For Comments
RFD    - Rural Free Delivery
RFI    - Radio Frequency Interference
RFP    - Request For Proposals
RFS    - Remote File System
RGB    - Red Green Blue
RGP    - Raster Graphics Processor
RH    - Right Hand
RHS    - Right Hand Side
RI    - Rhode Island
RIACS    - Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (NASA)
RIAS    - Radio In the American Sector, berlin
RIF    - Reading Is Fundamental
RIF    - Reduction In Force
RILM    - Repertoire International de Literature Musicale
RIP    - Rest In Peace (or Requiescat In Pace : latin)
RISC    - Reduced Instruction Set Computer
RITA    - Recognition of Information Technology Achievement award
RJE    - Remote Job Entry
RLC    - Resistor Inductor Capacitor
RLL    - Run Length Limited
RMATS    - Remote Maintenance Administration and Traffic System
RMS    - Root Mean Square
RMS    - Royal Mail Ship
RN    - Registered Nurse
RN    - Royal Navy
RNA    - RiboNucleic Acid
RNZAF    - Royal New Zealand Air Force
ROFF    - Run-OFF
ROG    - Receipt Of Goods
ROM    - Range Of Motion
ROM    - Read Only Memory
ROM    - Rupture Of Membrane (as in birth)
ROTC    - Reserve Officers' Training Corps
ROTS    - Rotary Out Trunks Selectors
ROYGBIV    - Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet
RPC    - Remote Procedure Call
RPG    - RePort Generator
RPG    - Role Playing Game
RPM    - Revolutions Per Minute
RPN    - Reverse Polish Notation
RPO    - Railway Post Office
RPS    - Revolutions Per Second
RPV    - Remotely Piloted Vehicle
RQ    - RuneQuest
RR    - RailRoad
RR    - Route Relay
RR    - Rural Route
RRO    - Rate and Route Operator
RS    - Recording Secretary
RS    - Revised Status
RS    - Right Side
RS    - Royal Society
RSFSR    - Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic
RSN    - Real Soon Now
RSU    - Remote Switching Unit
RSV    - Revised Standard Edition
RSVP    - Repondez S'il Vous Plait (please reply)
RSWC    - Right Side up With Care
RT    - RadioTelephone
RT    - RealTime
RTA    - Remote Trunk Arrangement
RTAC    - Regional Technical Assistance Center
RTF    - Rich Text Format
RTFM    - Read The F***ing Manual
RTG    - Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
RTR    - Reel-To-Reel
RTTY    - Radio Teletype
RU    - Receive Unit
RW    - Right Worshipful
RW    - Right Worthy
S    - South
S    - Supplement
S&C    - Skull & Crossbones
SA    - Salvation Army
SA    - Seaman Apprentice
SA    - Service Assistant
SA    - Sex Appeal
SA    - Sine Anno (without date)
SA    - South Africa
SA    - South America
SA    - Subject to Approval
SAA    - South Atlantic Anomaly
SAA    - Systems Application Architecture
SAC    - Special Area Code
SAC    - Strategic Air Command (see TAC)
SADD    - Students Against Drunk Driving
SAM    - Surface-to-Air Missile
SAMA    - Step-by-step Automatic Message Accounting
SAMTO    - Space And Missile Test Organization
SAP    - Second Audio Program
SAR    - Synthetic Aperture Radar
SARTS    - Switched Access Remote Test System
SASE    - Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope
SASI    - Shugart Associates Systems Interface
SAW    - Surface Acoustic Wave
SBA    - Small Business Administration
SC    - Sectional Center
SC    - South Carolina
SC    - SubCommittee
SCAD    - Subsonic Cruise Armed Decoy
SCADC    - Standard Central Air Data Computer
SCAME    - SCreen oriented Anti-Misery Editor
SCAMP    - Single-Chip A-series Mainframe Processor
SCAN    - Switched Circuit Automatic Network
SCC    - Switching Control Center (or Specialized Common Carriers)
SCCS    - Source Code Control System
SCE    - Signal Conversion Equipment
SCE    - Structure Chart Editor
SCI    - SpaceCraft Incorporated
SCIFI    - SCIence FIction (often used pejoratively of what really isn't)
SCO    - Santa Cruz Operation
SCOOPS    - SCheme Object Oriented Programming System
SCOTS    - Surveilance and Control Of Transmission Systems
SCSI    - Small Computer Systems Interface
SCUBA    - Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
SCUD    - Subsonic Cruise Unarmed Decoy
SD    - South Dakota
SDI    - Standard Disk Interconnect
SDI    - Strategic Defense Initiative
SDLC    - Synchronous Data Link Control
SDO    - Staff Duty Officer
SE    - South East
SEATO    - SouthEast Asia Treaty Organization
SEC    - Security Exchange Commission
SECNAV    - SECretary of the NAVy
SED    - Stream EDitor
SEI    - Software Engineering Institute (Carnegie Mellon)
SEL    - Software Engineering Laboratory
SEM    - Scanning Electron Microscope
SF    - San Francisco
SF    - Science Fiction; Speculative Fiction
SF    - Standard Form
SF    - Star Frontiers
SFRPG    - Science Fiction Role Playing Game
SG    - StarGuard
SG    - SubGroup
SGML    - Standard Generalized Markup Language
SHAPE    - Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
SHAR    - SHell ARchiver
SHCD    - Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
SHF    - Super High Frequency (3-30GHz)
SHRPG    - Super Hero Role Playing Game
SI    - Staten Island
SIAM    - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
SIG    - Special Interest Group
SIGCAT    - Special Interest Group for Cd-rom Applications Technology
SIMD    - Single Instruction, Multiple Data
SIMM    - Single In-line Memory Module
SIMM    - System Integrated Memory Module
SINE    - SINE is not EINE
SIPS    - Satellite Imagery Processing System
SIS    - Strategic Information System
SISCOM    - Satellite Information System COMpany
SITA    - Societe Internationale Telecommunications Aeronautiques
SJ    - Society of Jesus
SL    - Salvage Loss
SLA    - Special Libraries Association
SLA    - Synchronous Line Adapter
SLAN    - Sine Loco, Anno, (vel) Nomine (without place, year, or name)
SLAR    - Side Looking Airborne Radar
SLBM    - Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles
SLDC    - Synchronous Data Link Control
SLIP    - Serial Line Internet Protocol
SLP    - Super Long Play (VHS VCR)
SM    - Service Mark
SMA    - Sergeant Major of the Army
SMA    - Spectrum Manufacturers Association
SMC    - Small Magellanic Cloud (see LMC)
SMD    - Storage Module Device (interface standard for disk drives)
SMD    - Surface Mounted Devices
SMEGMA    - Sophisticated Modern Editor with Gloriously Magnificent Abilities
SMERSH    - Abbr. of Russian phrase meaning "Death to the spies."
SMILS    - Sonobuoy Missile Impact Location System
SMM    - Solar Maximum Mission
SMTP    - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SN    - Super Nova
SNA    - Systems Network Architecture (IBM network)
SNADS    - SNA Distribution Services
SNAFU    - Situation Normal -- All Fouled Up (also, F*cked)
SNAP    - Shipboard Non-tactical Automated data Processing program
SNCF    - Societe National des Chemins de Fer (French National Railways)
SNF    - Server-Natural Format
SNMP    - Simple Network Management Protocol
SNOBOL    - StriNg Oriented symbOLic Language
SNR    - Signal to Noise Ratio
SO    - Seller's Option
SO    - Significant Other
SO    - Space Opera
SO    - Strike Out
SOAP    -  Symbolic Optimizing Assembler Program
SOH    - Start Of Header, ASCII control character (dec=01,control-A)
SOHIO    - Standard Oil of oHIO
SOL    - Short on Landing (or, colloquially, Shit Out of Luck)
SONAR    - SOund Detection And Ranging
SOP    - Standard Operating Procedure
SOS    - Silicon On Sapphire
SP    - Shore Patrol
SP    - Short Play (VHS VCR)
SP    - Southern Pacific
SP    - Stack Pointer
SP    - Star Patrol
SPA    - Software Publishers Association
SPAG    - Standards Promotion and Applications Group
SPAR    - Stock Points Adp Replacement
SPARC    - Scalable Processor ARChitecture
SPARC    - Standards, Planning, And Requirements Committee
SPAWAR    - naval SPAce and WARfare command
SPC    - Software Productivity Consortium
SPCA    - Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
SPCC    - Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
SPEC    - Systems Performance Evaluation Cooperative
SPITBOL    - SPeedy ImplemenTation of snoBOL
SPNI    - Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel
SPUR    - Systech Pluraxial Unplug Repeater
SQL    - Structured Query Language
SQUID    - Superconducting QUantum Interference Device
SRAM    - Short Range Attack Missile
SRAM    - Static RAM
SRB    - Solid fuel Rocket Booster
SRI    - Stanford Research Institute
SRO    - Standing Room Only
SSA    - Social Security Administration
SSB    - Single Side Band
SSE    - South-SouthEast
SSFF    - Showcase Software Factory of the Future
SSG    - Staff SerGeant
SSI    - Small Scale Integration
SSI    - Supplemental Security Income
SSR    - Secondary Surveillance Radar
SSR    - Soviet Socialist Republic
SSTV    - Slow Scan TeleVision
SSW    - South-SouthWest
ST    - Short Ton
STARS    - Software Technology for Adaptable, Reliable Systems
STD    - Sacrae Theologiae Doctor (doctor of sacred theology)
STD    - Sexually Transmitted Disease (replaces VD)
STD    - State Transition Diagram
STD    - Subscriber Trunk Dialing (British for DDD)
STILO    - Scientific and Technical Intelligence Liaison Office
STL    - St. Louis (airport designation)
STN    - SuperTwisted Nematic
STOL    - Short TakeOff and Landing
STP    - Software Through Pictures
STP    - Standard Temperature and Pressure (see NTP)
STRPG    - Star Trek:  The Role-Playing Game
STV    - Single Transferable Vote
SUM    - Symantec Utilities for Macintosh
SUNOCO    - SUN Oil COmpany
SUNY    - State University of New York
SVID    - System V Interface Definition
SW    - South West
SW    - SuperWorld
SWIFT    - Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Communications
SWS    - Scientific Workstation Support
T    - Traveler
T&T    - Tunnels & Trolls
TA    - Teaching Assistant
TAC    - Tactical Air Command (see SAC)
TAC    - Terminal Access Controller
TACCS    - Tactical Army Combat service support Computer System
TAE    - Transportable Applications Environment
TAR    - Tape ARchiver
TB    - TuBerculosis
TBA    - To Be Announced
TBD    - To Be Determined
TC    - Teachers College
TCA    - Terminal Controlled Airspace
TCP/IP    - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TCSEC    - Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (orange book)
TCT    - To Challenge Tomorrow
TD    - TouchDown
TD    - Treasury Department
TDCC    - Transportation Data Coordinating Committee
TDE    - Transition Diagram Editor
TDI    - Trusted Database Interpretation
TDY    - Temporary DutY
TECO    - Tape Editor and COrrector
TECO    - Text Editor and COrrector
TEFLON    - polyTEtraFLuOrethyleNe
TFP    - Tops Filing Protocol
TFS    - Translucent File System
TFT    - The Fantasy Trip
TFT    - Thin Film Transistor
TG    - Thieves' Guild
THIEF    - THief Isn't Even Fine
THIEF    - This Here Isn't Even Fine
THOR    - Tandy High-intensity Optical Recording
TI    - Texas Instruments
TIA    - Thanks In Advance (special to USENET)
TIA    - Transient Ischemic Attack
TIC    - TermInfo Compiler
TID    - Ter In Die (three times a day)
TIFF    - Tag Image File Format
TKO    - Technical Knock Out
TL    - Total Loss
TLA    - Three Letter Acronym
TLC    - Tender Loving Care
TLI    - Transort-Level Interface
TM    - TradeMark
TMA    - Tycho Magnetic Anomaly (2001)
TMAC    - Treasury department's Multiuser Acquisition Contract
TMIS    - Telecommunications Management Information System
TMO    - Telephone Money Order
TMP    - The Morrow Project
TN    - Tennessee
TN    - Twisted Nematic
TNT    - TriNitro Toluene
TO    - Telegraph Office
TO    - Turn Over
TODS    - Transactions on Database Systems (ACM)
TOMS    - Transactions on Mathematical Software (ACM)
TOOIS    - Transactions on Office Information Systems (ACM)
TOP    - Technical/Office Protocol
TOPLAS    - Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (ACM)
TORES    - Text ORiented Editing System
TOW    - Tube launched, Optically tracked, and Wire guided
TP    - Transaction Processing
TPC    - The Phone Company (from classic movie: _The President's Analyst_)
TPI    - Tracks Per Inch
TPO    - Traveling Post Office
TPS    - Technical Publishing Software
TPS    - TeleProcessing Services
TROFF    - Text RunOFF, text formatter
TRUSIX    - TRUSted unIX
TRW    - Thompson, Ramo, and Woolridge
TS    - Top Secret
TSD    - Total System Design
TSP    - Teleprocessing Services Program
TSP    - Thrift Savings Plan
TSP    - Time Synchronization Protocol
TSP    - TriSodium Phosphate
TSR    - TSR (Fortune 500 Company that manufactures Dungeons & Dragons)
TTFN    - Tah Tah, For Now
TTL    - Transistor Transistor Logic
TTMA    - Tennessee Tech Microcomputer Association
TTU    - Tennessee Technological University
TTY    - TeleTYpe
TUNIS    - Toronto UNIversity System
TV    - TeleVision
TVA    - Tennessee Valley Authority
TW    - Thieves' World
TWA    - Trans World Airlines
TWIMC    - To Whom It May Concern
TWT    - Traveling Wave Tube
TWX    - TeletypeWriter eXchange
TX    - Texas
U    - Universe
UA    - United Artists
UAR    - United Arab Republic
UAR    - User Action Routine
UART    - Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter
UBA    - UniBus Adapter
UBC    - Universal Bibliographic Control
UCB    - University of California at Berkeley
UCD    - University of California at Davis
UCI    - University of California at Irvine
UCLA    - University of California at Los Angeles
UCR    - University of California at Riverside
UCSB    - University of California at Santa Barbara
UCSC    - University of California at Santa Cruz
UCSD    - University of California at San Diego
UCSF    - University of California at San Francisco
UDB    - Unified DataBase
UDP    - User Data Protocol
UEC    - User Environment Component
UFO    - Unidentified Flying Object
UH    - Upper Half
UHF    - Ultra High Frequency (300-3000MHz)
UIMS    - User Interface Management System
UK    - United Kingdom
UL    - Underwriters Laboratory
ULANA    - Unified Local-Area Network Architecture
UMT    - Universal Military Training
UN    - United Nations
UNESCO    - United Nations Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Organization
UNICEF    - United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (now United Nat. Child. Fund)
UNICS    - UNiplex Information Computer Services
UNIX    - Not an acronym at all.  Was a joke on MIT's MULTICS.
UNO    - United Nations Organization
UP    - Union Pacific
UPC    - Universal Product Code
UPI    - United Press International
UPS    - Uninterruptible Power Supply
UPS    - United Parcel Service
UR    - University of Rochester
USA    - Union of South Africa
USA    - United States Army
USA    - United States of America
USAF    - United States Air Force
USAFA    - United States Air Force Academy (in Colorado Springs)
USC    - University of Southern California
USCG    - United States Coast Guard
USDA    - United States Department of Agriculture
USES    - United States Employment Service
USFL    - United States Football League
USGS    - United States Geological Survey
USIA    - United States Information Agency
USM    - United States Mail
USMC    - United States Marine Corps
USN    - United States Navy
USO    - United Service Organizations
USO    - Unix Software Operation
USP    - United States Pharmacopeia
USPS    - United States Postal Service
USR    - User Service Routines
USS    - United States Ship
USSR    - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
USSS    - User Services and Systems Support
USW    - Und So Weiter
UT    - UTah
UT    - Universal Time
UT    - University of Tennessee
UT    - University of Texas
UTC    - Universal Coordinated Time
UUCP    - Unix-to-Unix CoPy
UUG    - Unix User Group
UV    - UltraViolet
UW    - UnderWriter
UW    - Univ of Wisconsin
V&V    - Villains & Vigilantes
VA    - Veterans Administration
VA    - Virginia
VAN    - Value Added Network (e.g. Tymnet, Telenet, etc)
VANS    - Value-Added Network Services
VAR    - Value Added Remarketer (reseller)
VASI    - Visual Approach Slope Indicator
VAT    - Value Added Tax
VAX    - Virtual Address eXtended
VAXBI    - VAX Bus Interconnect
VCM    - Voice Coil Motor
VCO    - Voltage Controlled Oscillator
VCR    - VideoCassette Recorder
VCU    - Virginia Commonwealth University
VD    - Venereal Disease (see also STD)
VDFM    - Virtual Disk File Manager
VDI    - Virtual Device Interface
VDM    - Vienna Development Method
VDM    - Virtual Device Metafile
VDT    - Video Display Terminal
VF    - Video Frequency
VFO    - Variable Frequency Oscillator
VFW    - Volunteer Fire Department
VG    - Very Good
VG    - Vicar-General
VGA    - Video Graphics Array
VHDL    - Vhsic Hardware Description Language
VHF    - Very High Frequency (30-300MHz)
VHS    - Video Home System (VCR)
VHSIC    - Very High Speed Integrated Circuit
VI    - VIsual editor
VIABLE    - Vertical Installation Automation BaseLinE
VILE    - VI Like Emacs
VINE    - Vine Is Not Emacs
VIP    - Very Important Person
VISTA    - Volunteers In Service To America
VITA    - Vme International Trade Association
VJ    - Video Jockey
VL    - Vulgar Latin
VLA    - Very Large Array radio telescope in Arizona or New Mexico
VLF    - Very Low Frequency (3-30KHz)
VLIW    - Very Long Instruction Word
VLSI    - Very Large Scale Integration
VM    - Virtual Memory
VM/CMS    - Virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor System
VMM    - Virtual Memory Manager
VMOS    - Vertical Metal Oxide Semiconductor (V-MOS) (see MOS)
VMR    - Vertical Market Reseller
VMS    - Vertical Motion Simulator
VMS    - Virtual Memory System
VOA    - Voice Of America
VOIS    - Voice-Operated Information System
VOQ    - Visiting Officer's Quarters
VPI&SU    - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
VRC    - Vertical Redundancy Character
VRM    - Virtual Resource Manager
VSAT    - Very Small Aperture Terminal, satellite dish
VSX    - X/open Verification Suite
VTAM    - Virtual Telecommunications Access Method
VTOC    - Volume Table Of Contents
VTOL    - Vertical TakeOff and Landing
VTR    - VideoTape Recorder
VUP    - Vax Unit of Performance
VVSS    - Vertical Volute Spring Suspension
W    - West
W    - Width
WA    - Washington
WA    - Western Australia
WAC    - Womens Air Corps
WAN    - Wide Area Network
WARC    - World Administrative Conference
WATS    - Wide Area Telephone Service
WB    - Water Ballast
WB    - WayBill
WBC    - White Blood Cells
WC    - Water Closet
WC    - Without Charge
WCTU    - Women's Christian Temperance Union
WG    - Working Group
WH    - WarHammer
WHBL    - World Home Bible League
WI    - Wisconsin
WIS    - WWMCCS Information System
WITS    - Washington Interagency Telecommunications System
WMSCR    - Weather Message Switching Center Replacement
WOPR    - War Operations Planned Response (from "Wargames" movie)
WORM    - Write Once, Read Many time
WOW    - Worlds of Wonder
WP    - Word Processing
WP    - Working Paper
WSI    - Wafer Scale Integration
WSW    - West-SouthWest
WU    - Washington University
WV    - West Virginia
WW    - World War
WWI    - World War I
WWII    - World War II
WWMCCS    - World-Wide Military Command and Control System
WY    - Wyoming
WYSIWIS    - What You See Is What I See
WYSIWYG    - What You See Is What You Get
XCF    - eXperimental Computing Facility
XD    - without Dividend
XDR    - eXternal Data Representation
XINU    - XINU Is Not UNIX
XL    - eXtra Large
XMTR    - transMiTteR (the X is for trans)
XNS    - Xerox Network Service
XO    - eXecutive Officer
XOR    - eXclusive OR (logical function)
XSECT    - cross SECTion
XTAL    - crysTAL (another version of x for crys, see XMTR)
XUI    - X-windows User Interface
YA    - Yet Another
YACC    - Yet Another Compiler Compiler
YB    - YearBook
YMCA    - Young Mens Christian Association
YMHA    - Young Mens Hebrew Association
YOB    - Year Of Birth
YP    - Yellow Pages
YRS    - Ysgarth Rules System
YST    - Yukon Standard Time
YT    - Yukon Territory
YT    - Yukon Time
YTD    - Year To Date
YWCA    - Young Womens Christian Association
YWHA    - Young Womens Hebrew Association
Z    - Zenith
Z    - Zero
ZB    - Zero Beat
ZETA    - Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly
ZGS    - Zero Gradient Synchrotron
ZI    - Zonal Index
ZIP    - Zone Improvement Plan (post office code)
ZK    - barrage balloon (navy symbol)
ZMRI    - Zinc Metals Research Institute
ZPG    - Zero Population Growth
ZPRSN    - Zurich Provisional Relative Sunspot Number
ZST    - Zone Standard Time
ZT    - Zone Time
ZWEI    - Zwei Was Eine Initially
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