3COM |
COMputer, COMmunication, COMpatibility |
3M |
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing |
4-H |
Head, Heart, Hands, and Health |
A&P |
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company |
AA |
Alcoholics Anonymous |
AAA |
American Automobile Association |
AARP |
American Association of Retired Persons |
ABC |
American Broadcasting Company |
ABR |
Available Bit Rate |
ADP |
Automated Data Processing |
AfDB |
African Development Bank |
AFL-CIO |
American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations |
AGP |
Accelerated Graphics Port |
AI |
Artificial Intelligence |
AKA |
Also Known As |
AL |
Arab League |
ALGOL |
ALGOrithmic Language |
AMD |
Advanced Micro Device |
AM/FM |
Amplitude Modulation/Frequency Modulation |
AMOCO |
AMerican Oil COmpany |
ANSI |
American National Standards Institute |
ANZUS |
Australia-New Zealand-United States Security Treaty |
APEC |
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation |
ASAP |
As Soon As Possible |
ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
AsDB |
Asian Development Bank |
ASEAN |
Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
AT |
Advanced Technology |
AT&T |
American Telephone and Telegraph |
ATF |
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms |
ATM |
Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
ATM |
Automated Teller Machine |
ATP |
Adenine Triphosphate |
AWOL |
Absent Without Leave |
BASF |
Baden Aniline and Soda Factory |
BASIC |
Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code |
BB |
Ball-Bearing |
BBC |
British Broadcasting Corporation |
BFD |
Big F**king Deal |
BIOS |
Basic Input/Output System |
BLT |
Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato |
BMW |
Bavarian Motor Works (на немецком: Bayrische Motor Werken) |
BPOE |
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks |
BVD |
Bradley, Voorhies, and Day |
BYOB |
Bring Your Own Beer |
CAD |
Computer-Aided Design |
CARE |
Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere |
CAT |
Computerized Axial Tomography |
CATV |
CAbel TeleVision |
CB |
Citizen's Band |
CBR |
Constant Bit Rate |
CBS |
Columbia Broadcasting System |
CCC |
Customs Cooperation Council |
CCD |
Charge-Coupled Device |
CD |
Compact Disc |
CD-I |
Compact Disc - Interactive |
CD-R |
Compact Disc - Recordable |
CD-ROM |
Compact Disc - Read-Only Memory |
CD-RW |
Compact Disc - ReWritable |
CE |
Council of Europe |
CEI |
Central European Initiative |
CEO |
Chief Executive Office |
CERN |
European Organization for Nuclear Research |
CGI |
Common Gateway Interface |
CGM |
Computer Graphic Metafile |
CIO |
Chairman-in-Office |
CIS |
Commonwealth of Independent States (по-русски СНГ) |
CMY |
Cyan+Magenta+Yellow |
CMYK |
Cyan+Magenta+Yellow+blacK |
CNN |
Cable News Network |
COBOL |
COmmon Business-Oriented Language |
COCOM |
Coordinating Committee on Export Controls |
CONELRAD |
CONtrol of Electronic-magnetic RADiations |
CONUS |
Continental United States |
CPR |
CardioPulmonary Resuscitation |
CPSU |
Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
CPU |
Central Processing Unit |
CSS |
Cascading Style Sheets |
CVS |
Consumer Value Service |
CY |
Calendar Year |
DAT |
Digital Audio Tape |
DB |
DataBase |
DC |
developed country |
DDT |
Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane |
DEC |
Digital Equipment Corporation |
DECT |
Digital European Cordless Telecommunications |
DEW |
Distant Early Warning |
DMA |
Direct Memory Access |
DNA |
DeoxyriboNucleic Acid |
DNA |
Digital Network Architecture |
DNS |
Domain Name System |
DOA |
Dead On Arrival |
DOS |
Disk Operating System |
dpi (d.p.i.) |
Dots Per Inch |
DTP |
DeskTop Publishing |
DRAM |
Dynamic Random Access Memory |
DVD |
Digital Versatile Disc |
EADB |
East African Development Bank |
EAN |
European Article Numering |
EBRD |
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
EC |
European Community |
ECOSOC |
Economic and Social Council |
ECS |
European Coal and Steel Community |
EDP |
Electronic Data Processing |
EEC |
European Economic Community |
EFTA |
European Free Trade Association |
EIB |
European Investment Bank |
EMU |
European Monetary Union |
EMU |
Extravehicular Mobility Unit (Space Suit) |
EPCOT |
Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow |
ER |
Emergency Room |
ESA |
European Space Agency |
ESPN |
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network |
ESSO |
S.O. from Standard Oil, the Rockefeller-owned oil company |
ETA |
Estimated Time of Arrival |
EU |
European Union |
Fannie Mae (from FNMA) |
Federal National Mortgage Association |
FAO |
Food and Agriculture Organization |
FAQ |
Frequently Asked Questions |
FAX |
facsimile |
FDD |
Floppy Disk Drive |
FDIC |
Federal Depositors Insurance Company |
FEMA |
Federal Emergency Management Agency |
FICA |
Federal Insurance Contributions Act |
Flak |
FLiegerAbwehrKanonen (Lit. aircraft defense gun.) |
FM |
Frequency Modulation |
FORTRAN |
FORmula TRANslation |
FSU |
Former Soviet Union |
FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
FUBAR |
"Fouled" Up Beyond All Recognition |
FY |
Fiscal Year |
FYROM |
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
GAF |
General Aniline and Film |
GATT |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
GDR |
German Democratic Republic (East Germany) |
GE |
General Electric |
Gestapo |
GEheime STAatsPOlizei (Lit. secret state police.) |
GIF |
Graphics Interchange Format |
GIGO |
Garbage In, Garbage Out |
GM |
General Motors |
GORP |
Good Old Raisin Peanut (A camping food.) |
GPRS |
General Packet Radio Service |
GPS |
Global Positioning System |
GSM |
Global System for Mobile telecommunications |
GUI |
Graphical User Interface |
HBO |
Home Box Office |
HDD |
Hard Disk Drive |
HDL/LDL |
High-Density Lipoprotein/Low-Density Lipoprotein |
HDPE |
High Density Polyethylene |
HDTV |
High Definition TeleVision |
HF |
High-Frequency |
HIV |
Human Immunodefficiency Virus |
HP |
Hewlett Packard |
HTML |
HyperText Markup Language |
HTTP |
HyperText Transfer Prorocol |
HUMVEE |
High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle |
IAEA |
International Atomic Energy Agency |
IBEC |
International Bank for Economic Cooperation |
IBM |
International Business Machines |
IBRD |
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)
|
ICAO |
International Civil Aviation Organization |
ICBM |
Inter-Continental Ballistics Missile |
ICC |
International Chamber of Commerce |
ICJ |
International Court of Justice (World Court) |
ICRC |
International Committee for the Red Cross |
ICRM |
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement |
ICTR |
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda |
ICTY |
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia |
IDA |
International Development Association |
IEA |
International Energy Agency |
IFAD |
International Fund for Agricultural Development |
IFC |
International Finance Corporation |
IHOP |
International House of Pancakes |
IIB |
International Investment Bank |
ILO |
International Labor Organization |
IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
IMO |
International Maritime Organization |
INRI |
Iesus Nazarenenus Rex Iudaeorum (Lit. Jesus of Nazareth, King of the
Jews) |
Intelsat |
International Telecommunications Satellite Organization |
Internet |
INTERconnected computer NETworks |
Interpol |
International Criminal Police Organization |
IOC |
International Olympic Committee |
IOM |
International Organization for Migration |
IP |
Internetwork Protocol |
IRA |
Individual Retirement Account |
IRA |
Irish Republican Army |
ISBN |
International Standard Book Number |
ISDN |
Integrated Services Digital Network |
ISO |
International Standards Organization; film-speed designation, formerly
ASA |
ITU |
International Telecommunication Union |
JPEG |
Joing Photographic Experts Group |
JPL |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
JVC |
Japan Victor Company |
KFOR |
Kosovo Force |
KGB |
Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti |
kHz |
KiloHertz |
KIA |
Killed In Action |
KISS |
Keep It Simple, Stupid |
KJV |
King James Version |
KLM |
Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Lit. Royal Dutch Airline.) |
KO |
Knock-out (TKO being a technical knock-out.) |
kWh |
Kilowatt-Hour |
LAN |
Local Area Network |
LASER |
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
LCD |
Liquid Crystal Display |
LDC |
Less Developed Country |
LDPE |
Low Density Polyethylene |
LED |
Light-Emitting Diode |
LLDC |
least developed country |
lpi (l.p.i.) |
Lines Per Inch |
M&M |
Mars & Murray |
MASER |
Microwave Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
MASH |
Mobile Army Surgical Hospital |
MCI |
Microwave Communications of America |
MG |
Morris & Garash |
MHz |
MegaHertz |
MIA |
Missing in Action |
MIDI |
Musical Instrument Digital Interface |
MiG |
MIkoyan and Gurevich, Soviet military aircraft designers |
MIME |
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension |
MIPS |
Million of Instructions Per Second |
MIRV |
Multiple Independently-targeted Re-entry Vehicle |
MIT |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
MMX |
MultiMedia eXtension |
MO |
Modus Operandi |
Modem |
Modulator/Demodulator |
MP |
Military Police |
MPEG |
Motion Picture Experts Group |
MSN |
MicroSoft Network |
MRI |
Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
NA |
Not Available |
NAACP |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
NAC |
North Atlantic Council |
NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
Nazi |
NAtional soZIalist |
NB |
Nota Bene (лат. обрати внимание) |
NBA |
National Basketball Association |
NBC |
National Broadcasting Company |
NBC |
Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons |
NC |
Nordic Council |
NCC |
Either Naval Classification Code or Naval Construction Contract (From
Star Trek, NCC-1701) |
NEA |
Nuclear Energy Agency |
NEC |
Nippon Electronics Corporation |
Necco |
New England Confectionery COmpany |
NFL |
National Football League |
NHL |
National Hockey League |
NIMBY |
Not In My BackYard |
Nitinol |
NIckel, TItanium, and Naval Ordinance Laboratory |
NL |
Natural Language |
NM |
nautical mile |
NMT |
Nordic Mobile Telephone |
N.N. |
Nomen nescio (лат. некое лицо) |
NORAD |
North American Air Defense Command |
NORELCO |
NORth AmErican PhiLlips COmpany |
NOW |
National Organization of Women |
NPR |
National Public Radio |
NSA |
National Security Administration |
OCR |
Optical Character Recognition |
OECD |
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
OLE |
Object Linking and Embedding of objects |
OPCW |
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons |
OPEC |
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
OS |
Operating System |
OSCE |
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe |
OSHA |
Occupational Safety and Health Administration |
OTAN |
Organisation du Traite de l'Atlantique Nord (=NATO) |
Pakistan |
Punjab, Afghan border states, Kashmir, Sind, and BaluchisTAN |
Pap |
George Papanicolaou, inventor of the test |
Parsec |
Parallax second |
PBS |
Public Broadcasting System |
PDF |
Portable Document Format |
PDQ |
Pretty Damned Quick |
PDRY |
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen |
PfP |
Partnership for Peace |
PIN |
Personal Identification |
pH |
Pourvoir Hydrogene (Lit. power of hydrogen.) |
PnP |
Plug and Play |
P.O. |
Post Office |
PO |
Private Office |
POTS |
Plain Old Telephone Service (Basic service used by local exchange
telephone companies.) |
POTUS |
President of the United States |
POW |
Prisoner of War |
PPP |
Point to Point Protocol |
P.S. |
Post scriptum (лат. после написанного) |
PSI |
Pounds per square inch |
PT |
Patrol Torpedo |
PVC |
PolyVinyl Chloride |
PX |
Post eXchange |
Q.E.D. |
Quod erat demonstrandum (Lit. Which was to be demonstrated.) |
QANTAS |
Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Service |
Radar |
RAdio Detection And Ranging |
RAM |
Random Access Memory |
RCA |
Radio Corporation of America |
RDA |
Recommended Daily Allowance |
RFD |
Rural-Free Delivery |
RGB |
Red+Blue+Green |
Rh |
Rhesus monkey factor |
RKO |
Radio-Keith-Orpheum |
RNA |
Ribonucleic Acid |
ROM |
Read-Only Memory |
ROTC |
Reserve Officers Training Corps |
ROY G. BIV |
Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violent (Rainbow Mnemonic) |
RSVP |
Respondez S'il Vous Plait |
S.A. |
Sine Anno (лат. без года) |
Saab |
Svenska Aeroplan Ab. (Lit. Swedish Airplanes, Inc.) |
SAM |
Surface-to-Air Missile |
SAR |
Search and Rescue |
SASE |
Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope |
SCMADS |
State County Municipal Apprehensive Data System (The computers cops
have in their cars that hold information on people.) |
SCSI |
Small Computer Serial Interface |
SCTV |
Second City TeleVision |
SCUBA |
Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus |
SDI |
Stratigic Defence Initiative (=СОИ) |
SEAL |
SEa, Air, and Land |
SETI |
Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence |
SFRY |
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
SG |
Secretary General |
SHAZAM |
из имен Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles и Mercury |
SHF |
Super-High-Frequency |
SMS |
Short Message Service |
SNAFU |
Situation Normal--All "Fouled" Up |
SOP |
Standard Operating Procedure |
S.O.S. |
неофициальное значение - Save Our Souls |
Soweto |
SOuthWEst TOwnship |
SPF |
South Pacific Forum |
SPF |
Sun Protection Factor |
SRO |
Standing Room Only |
STD |
Sexually Transmitted Disease |
STP |
Scientifically Treated Petroleum (also, Standard Temperature and
Pressure) |
SUNOCO |
SUN Oil COmpany |
SWAK |
Sealed With A Kiss |
SWAT |
Special Weapons And Tactics |
TANSTAAFL |
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch |
TARFU |
Things Are Really "Fouled" Up |
TBA |
To Be Announced |
TCP/IP |
Transfer Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
TDK |
Tokyo Denki Kogaku |
TGIF |
Thank God It's Friday |
TIFF |
Tag Image File Format |
TLA |
Three Letter Acronym ;) |
TNT |
TriNitroToluene |
TNTC |
Too Numerous To Count |
TTFN |
Ta-ta for now |
TTY |
Teletypewriter |
TWAIN |
Technology Without An Interesting Name (A computer interface to
acquire images through a device such as a scanner.) |
UAE |
United Arab Emirates |
UHF |
Ultra-High Frequency |
UK |
United Kingdom |
UN |
United Nations |
UNESCO |
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization |
UNICEF |
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund |
UNU |
United Nations University |
UPU |
Universal Postal Union |
URL |
Uniform Resource Locator |
US |
United States |
USSR |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
USSR/EE |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics/Eastern Europe |
VCR |
Video Cassette Recorder |
VHF |
Very High Frequency |
VHS |
Video Home System |
VISTA |
Volunteers In Service to America, a Great Society agency |
VSOP |
Very Superior Old Pale, a brandy rating |
WAC |
Women's Army Corps |
WADB |
West African Development Bank |
WAN |
Wide Area Network |
WAVES |
Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service |
WC |
Water Closet |
WD-40 |
Water Displacement, Formula 40 |
WEU |
Western European Union |
WFC |
World Food Council |
WFP |
World Food Program |
WFTU |
World Federation of Trade Unions |
WHO |
World Health Organisation |
WIPO |
World Intellectual Property Organization |
WMF |
Windows MetaFile |
WMO |
World Meteorological Organization |
WNL |
Within Normal Limits |
WP |
Warsaw Pact |
WTO (WTrO) |
World Trade Organization |
WToO |
World Tourism Organization |
WTC |
World Trade Center |
WYSIWYG |
What You See Is What You Get |
Y2K |
Year 2000 |
YAR |
Yemen Arab Republic |
YKK |
Yoshida Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Zipper Company) |
ZIP |
Zone Improvement Plan |