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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1) Introduction
2) New combined list of traditonal acronyms
3) List of ATT related acronyms
4) List of slightly non-traditional acronyms
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1) INTRODUCTION
A while back I posted a list of acronyms(first edition) with
expansion/definitions along with a request that I wanted more.
Below is a compilation of what I had, and what people sent me.
I would like to thank the following people for contributing:
Roger R. Gowland hvmga!rgowland
Carl Deitrick iham1!cbd
Dave Curry pur-ee!davy
Rick Heli ucdavis!groucho:ccrrick
Lynn Ihlenfeldt mmm!lynn
?????? elsie!sck
Kevin Koch dec-elgar!koch
Greg Noel ncr-tp!greg
Maurice trwrba!suhre
Lum Johnson osu-eddie!lum
?????? lsuc!msb
Marty Olevitch wuphys!marty
Mike D. Jones wuphys!mike
Jack Applin hpfclg!jack
Craig Werner aecom!werner
Here are some random comments in no particular order:
Several people suggested some books of precompiled acronym listngs.
As I was to repost the second edition of the list to the net, I turned
down the offers to avoid copyright entanglements.
One person(lsuc!msb) sent me about 120 corrections (typos and spelling)
to the first edition (I doubt that I will ever know how to spell missile).
For a machine readable list of acronyms, it was unconscionable to
forget to include CS.
A couple of people mentioned that some of the entries are really
abriviations or word (laser, etc). Maybe I should ammend the
subject line to include abbreviations. And since I have seen AAAAAA
in several places now, whether it was real or fake originally, it is
now real.
I added another 100+ to the list.
If people wish to send me more acronyms (please not a bounce-back of
the first edition list), I may(?) get around to doing a third edition
(if there are plenty of responses).
I hope people don't flame about this in net.sources. I take sources
to mean general knowlege listings (which in a CS environ means programs).
It is also in net.misc to followup on the original posting/request.
If this really does offend people's sensibilities, send mail.
Much thanks to everyone,
Scott Barthelmy ihnp4!wuphys!scott "I am a child of the unixverse."
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2) ACRONYMS (2nd edition)
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 Assinine 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 Cataloguing Rules
AB - ABle seaman
ABA - American Bar Association
ABA - American Basketball Association
ABA - American Booksellers Association
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
ACBL - American Contract Bridge League
ACBL - American Contract Bridge League
ACE - Automatic Calibration and Equalization
ACM - Association for Computing Machinery
ACTS - Advanced Communications Technology Satellite
ACW - Alternating Continuous Waves
AD - After Date
AD - Anno Domini (in the year of our Lord)
ADC - Analog to Digital Converter
ADF - Automatic Direction Finder
ADM - ADMiral
ADP - Adenosine Di-Phosphate
ADT - Atlantic Daylight Time
AEC - Atomic Energy Commission
AEF - American Expeditionary Force (see BEF)
AF - Air Force
AF - Audio Frequency
AFB - Air Force Base
AFC - American Football Conference
AFC - Automatic Flight Control
AFC - Automatic Frequency Control
AFIPS - American Federation of Information Processing Societies
AFLCIO - American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
AFSC - Air Force Systems Command
AFTRA - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
AG - Adjutant General
AG - Attorney General
AGCT - Army General Classification Test
AH - Avalon Hill (major wargame manufacturer)
AHL - American Hockey League
AHQ - Air HeadQuaters
AI - Artificial Intelligence
AIAA - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
AID - Agency for International Development
AIDS - Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrom
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
ALGOL - ALGOrithmic Language
ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit
AM - Amplitude Modulation
AM - Ante Meridiem (before noon)
AMA - American Medical Association
AMBA - Association of Master of Business Administration
AMC - Albany Medical College
AMD - Advanced Micro Devices
AMORC - Ancient Mystic Order Rosae Crucis
AMP - Adenosine MonoPhosphate
AMP - Adenosine MonoPhosphate
AMPAS - Acedemy 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
ANC - Army Nurse Corps
ANG - Air National Guard
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)
AP - Additional Premium
AP - Associated Press
APB - All Points Bulletin
APO - Army Post Office
APR - Annual Percentage Rate (as in loan interest)
AQ - Accumulator-Quotient register
AR - Address Register
ARC - American Red Cross
ARCNET - Attached Resource Computer local area NETwork
ARO - After Receipt of Order
ARPA - Advanced Research Projects Agency
ARRL - Amateur Radio Relay League
ARV - American Revised Version
ASAP - As Soon As Possible
ASCAP - American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASDIC - Anti-Submarine Detection Investigation Committee (British for sonar)
ASHRAE - Amer. Soc. of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-cond. Engineers, inc.
ASIC - Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASSR - Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
AST - Atlantic Standard Time
ASV - American Standard Version
AT - Atlantic Time
AT&T - American Telephone & Telegraph
ATB - Advanced Technology Bomber (stealth bomber)
ATC - Air Traffic Control
ATF - Advanced Technology Fighter
ATP - Adenosine TriPhosphate
AUS - Army of the United States
AWACS - Airborne Warnings And Control Systems
AWK - al Aho, peter Weinberger, brian Kernighan (pattern scanning language)
AWOL - Absent WithOut Leave (also Absent Without Official Leave) (see AOL)
ApJ - Astrophysical Journal - Ap J
BA - Bachelor of Arts
BASIC - Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BB - Bases on Balls
BB - Best of Breed
BBA - Bachelor of Business Administration
BBB - Better Business Bureau
BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation
BBN - Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
BC - Before Christ
BC - British Columbia
BCD - Bad Conduct Discharge
BCD - Binary Coded Decimal
BCD - Binary Coded Decimal
BCDIC - Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
BCE - Before the Common Era (substitute for BC)
BCS - Bachelor of Commercial Science
BD - Bachelor of Divinity
BD - Bank Draft
BD - Bills Discounted
BE - Bill of Exchange
BEF - British Expeditionary Force (see AEF)
BEM - Bug Eyed Monster
BENELUX - BElgium, NEtherlands, and LUXembourg
BER - Bit Error Rate
BF - Brought Forward
BFA - Bachelor of Fine Arts
BHP - Brake HorsePower
BID - Bis In Die (twice a day)
BIOS - Basic Input Output System
BLT - Bacon Lettuce & Tomato
BLT - Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato
BLT - Becon, Lettuce and Tomato
BM - Basal Metabolism
BM - Bowel Movement
BMA - Bank Marketing Association
BMEWS - Ballistic Missile Early Warning
BMO - Ballistic Missile Office
BMR - Basal Metabolism Rate
BO - Body Odor
BO - Branch Office
BO - Buyer's Option
BOQ - Bachelor Oficers' Quarters
BP - Blood Pressure
BP - British Pharmacopoeia
BPI - Bits Per Inch
BPOE - Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
BR - Bills Receivable
BR - British Rail
BRS - Bibliographic Retrival Service
BS - Bachelor of Science
BS - Bill of Sale
BSA - Birmingham Small Arms
BSA - Boy Scouts of America
BSD - Berkeley Software Distribution
BSN - Bachelor of Science in Nursing
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
BV - Blessed Virgin
BWI - Baltimore-Washington Internationmal (airport)
BWI - British West Indies
BX - Base eXchange (see PX)
Bit - BInary digiT
C/O - in Care Of
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 - Computer Aided Engineering
CAM - Computer Aided Manufacturing (sometimes seen as CAD/CAM)
CAM - Content Addressable Memory
CAP - Civil Air Patrol
CATV - Community Antenna TeleVision
CAVU - Ceiling And Visability Unlimited
CBC - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CBD - Cash Before Delivery
CBS - Columbia Broadcasting System
CBW - Chemical and Biological Warfare
CC - Carbon Copy
CC - Carbon Copy
CCA - Computer Corporation of America
CCC - Canadian Committee on Cataloguing
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 Consoles, Incorporated
CCIP - Continuously Computed Impact Point
CCITT - Comite' de Consultatif von Telegraphique et Telephonique
CCRP - Continuously Computed Release Point
CCTV - Closed Circuit TeleVision
CD - Certificate of Deposit
CD - Civil Defense
CD - Compact Disk
CDC - Control Data Corporation, inc.
CDR - CommanDeR
CDT - Central Daylight Time
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 Athority
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
CF - Carry Forward
CFD - Computational Fluid Dynamics
CFI - Cost, Freight, and Insurance
CFL - Canadian Football League
CG - Coast Guard
CG - Commanding General
CH - ClearingHouse
CH - CourtHouse
CH - Customs House
CHP - California Highway Patrol
CIA - Central Intelligence Agency
CID - Central Institute for the Deaf
CID - Charge Injection Device (see CCD)
CID - Computer Integrated Design
CIM - Computer Integrated Manufacturing
CIT - California Institute of Technology
CIT - Case Institute of Technology (part of CWRU, Cleveland, OH)
CLU - Chartered Life Underwriter
CM - Congregation of the Mission
CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (see MOS)
CMRR - Common Mode Rejection Ratio
CMSgt - Chief Master Sergeant
CN - Canadian National (railways)
CNN - Cable News Network
CNO - Chief of Naval Operations
CNR - Canadian National Railways
CNR - Carrier to Noise Ratio
CNS - Central Nervous System
CNS - Central Nervous System
CO - Cash Order
CO - Central Office (telephony)
CO - Commanding Officer
CO - Conscientious Objector
COBOL - COmmon Business Oriented Language
COD - Collect On Delivery; Cash On Delivery
CP - Canadian Pacific
CP - Chemically Pure
CP - Command Post
CP - the Canadian Press
CPA - Certified Public Accountant
CPFF - Cost Plus Fixed Fee
CPM - Control Program Monitor (sometimes CP/M)
CPO - Chief Petty Officer
CPO - Chief Post Office
CPR - Canadian Pacific Railway
CPT - CaPTain
CPU - Central Processor Unit
CPW - Certified Public Weigher
CQ - Change of Quarters
CQ - Charge of Quarters
CRC - Cyclical Redundancy Character
CRT - Cathode Ray Tube (also generic refernce to a terminal)
CRTC - Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
CS - Civil Servant
CS - Computer Science
CS - Computer Science; Computing Science
CS - County Seat
CSA - Confederate States of America
CSM - Command Sergeant Major
CSOC - Consolidated Space Operatons Center (at Colorado Springs)
CST - Central Standard Time
CT - Central Time
CTC - Canadian Transport Commission
CTC - Centralized Traffic Control (railways)
CTIO - Cerro Tololo Inter-american Observatory
CTV - Canadian TeleVision network
CU - Close-Up
CV - Curriculum Vitae
CW - Chemical Warfare
CW - Child Welfare
CW - Churdwarden
CW - Continuous Wave
CWO - Cash With Order
CWO - Chief Warrant Officer
CWRU - Case Western Reserve University
CYO - Catholic Youth Organization
CZ - Canal Zone
D/A - Digital to Analog converter
D/F - Direction Finding
DA - Days after Acceptance
DA - Department of Agriculture
DA - Deposit Account
DA - District Attorney
DA - Don't Answer
DAC - Digital to Analog Converter
DAR - Daughters fo the American Revolution
DARPA - Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency
DATA - Defense Air Transport Administration
DAV - Disabled American Veterans
DB - DataBase
dbms - DataBase Management System (rdbms for Relational ...)
DC - Direct Current (dc, see also AC)
DC - District of Columbia
DCC - Descriptive Cataloguing Committee
DD - Days after Date
DD - Demand Draft
DD - Dishonourable Discharge
DD - Doctor of Divinity
DDC - Digital Data Converter
DDD - Direct Distance Dial(ing)
DDN - Defense Data Network
DDS - Doctor of Dental Science
DDS - Doctor of Dental Surgery
DEC - Digital Equipment Corporation
DEW - Distant Early Warning (as in DEW Line)
DF - Damage Free
DF - Direction Finding
DFC - Distinguished Flying Cross
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
DHHS - Department of Health and Human Services
DHSS - british Department of Health and Social Security
DID - Direct Inward Dialing
DIY - Do It Yourself
DJ - Disc Jockey
DJ - Disc Jockey
DLA - Defense Logistics Agency
DLO - Dead Letter Office
DMA - Direct Memory Access
DMD - Doctor of Dental Medicine
DME - Distance Measuring Equipment
DMOS - Diffussion Metal Oxide Semiconductor (see MOS)
DMV - Department of Motor Vehicles (Calif)
DMZ - DeMilitarized Zone
DNA - DeoxyriboNucleic Acid
DNA - Digital Network Architecture
DOA - Dead On Arrival
DOB - Date Of Birth
DOD - Department Of Defense
DOS - Disk Operating System
DOT - Department Of Transportation
DP - Data Processing
DP - Displaced Persons (expelled from native land)
DP - Double Play
DR - Dead Reckoning
DR - Dining Room
DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory (as opposed to static RAM)
DRG - Democratic Republic of Germany (East Germany)
DRI - Digital Research, Incorporated
DSM - Distinguished Service Medal
DSO - Distinguished Service Order
DSP - Decessit Sine Prole (died without issue)
DSP - Digital Signal Processing
DST - Daylight Saving Time
DT - Delirium Tremens
DTR - Data Terminal Ready
DUT - Device Under Test
DV - Deo Vo lente (God willing)
DVM - Digital Volt Meter
DVM - Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
DWI - Driving While Intoxicated
DX - Distance (as in long distance rado communication)
E - East
E&EO - Errors and Omissions Excepted
EBCDIC - Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
ECAFE - Economic Commission for Africa and the Far East
ECC - Error Correction Code (corrects error in memory or transmission)
ECCM - Electronic Counter-CounterMeasures
ECG - ElectroCardioGram
ECL - Emitter Coupled Logic (see also TTL)
ECM - Electronic Counter Measure
ECM - European Common Market
ECO - Engineering Change Order
ECT - ElectroConvulsive Therapy
EDP - Electronic Data Processing
EDT - Eastern Daylight Time
EE - Electrical Engineer
EE - Electrical or Electronics Engineer
EEC - European Economic Comunity
EEG - ElectroEncephaloGram
EEPROM - Electrically erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EHF - Extremely High Frequency (30-300GHz)
EKG - ElectroKardioGramm (see ECG)
EL - ElectroLuminescent (as in display)
ELF - Extremely Low Frequency
ELP - Emerson, Lake and Palmer (the rock band)
EM - Enlisted Man (see EW)
EMF - ElectroMotive Force
EMR - ElectroMagetic Response
EMT - Emergency Medical Technician
EMU - ElectroMagnetic Unit
ENS - ENSign
EP - Extended Play
EPA - Environmental Protection Agency
EPROM - Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EQ - Educational Quotient (see IQ)
ER - Emergency Room
ERA - Earned Run Average
ESA - European Space Agency
ESE - East South East
ESM - Electronic Support Measures
ESO - European Southern Observatory
ESP - Extra Sensory Perception
EST - Eastern Standard Time
ET - Eastern Time
ET - ExtraTerrestial
ETA - Estimated Time of Arrival
ETD - Estimated Time of Departure
ETV - Education TeleVision
EVA - ExtraVehicular Activity
EW - Electronic Warfare
EW - Enlisted Woman (see EM)
FA - Football Association (British soccer--a word derived from Association)
FAA - Federal Aviation Agency
FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the united states
FAS - Free Alongside Ship
FAX - FAcsimile
FB - Freight Bill
FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation
FCC - Federal Communication Commission
FDA - Food and Drug Administration
FDIC - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FDM - Frequency Division Multiplexing
FEPC - Fair Employment Practices Commission
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
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)
FIO - Frequency In and Out
FLOP - FLoating point Operations Per Second
FLOPS - FLoating-point OPerations per Second
FM - Frequency Modulation
FMB - Federal Maritime Board
FMCS - Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
FO - Foreign Office
FO - Forward Observer
FOB - Free On Board
FOC - Free Of Charge
FOR - Free On Rail
FORTRAN - FORmula TRANslation
FOT - Free On Truck
FOV - Field Of View
FPC - Fish Protein Concentrate
FPHA - Federal Public Housing Athority
FPLA - Field Programmable Logic Array (see PLA)
FPM - Feet Per Minute
FPO - Feild Post Office
FPO - Fleet Post Office
FPS - Feet Per Second
FRG - Federal Republic of Gernmany (West Germany)
FRS - Federal Reserve System
FSK - Frequency Shift Keying
FSLIC - Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
FSW - Forward Swept Wings
FTC - Federal Trade Commission
FUBAR - F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition
FWD - Front Wheel Drive
FWHM - Full Width at Half Maximum
FYI - For Your Information
FYI - For Your Information
GA - Gamblers Anonymous
GA - General Assembly
GA - General Average
GA - General of the Army
GAAP - Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
GAR - Grand Army of the Republic
GATT - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GAW - Guarenteed Annual Wage
GB - Great Britain
GBIP - General Purpose Interface Bus
GC - Garbage Collection (LISP)
GC - Gas Chromatograph (or Chromatography
GCA - Ground Controlled Approach
GCD - Ground Controlled Descent
GCM - General Court Martial
GCR - Group-Coded Recording (magnetic tape, 6250 bpi)
GCT - Greenwich Civil Time
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
GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out
GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out
GISS - Goddard Institute for Space Studies
GKS - Graphics Kernel System
GM - General Manager
GM - General Motors
GM - Guided Missile
GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
GNP - Gross National Product
GP - General Practitioner
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 (UNIX command)
GRO - Gamma Ray Observatory
GS - Glide Slope
GSA - General Services Adminstration
GSA - Girl Scouts of America
GSFC - Goddard Space Flight Center
GT - Gross Ton
GTE - General Telephone and Electric
GWEN - Ground Wave Emergency Network
HAL - Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer (2001)
HBM - Her British Majesty; His British Majesty
HBO - Home Box Office
HC - Holy Communion
HC - House of Commons
HCL - High Cost of Living
HD - Heavy Duty
HDA - Head Disk Assembly (in winchester disk drives)
HDLC - High-level Data Link Control (IBM network stuff)
HDTV - High Definition Television
HE - His Eminence; His Excellency
HEAO - High Energy Astronomical Observatory
HF - High Frequency (3-30MHz)
HMOS - High preformance Metal Oxide Semiconductor (see MOS)
HMS - His/Her Majesty's Ship
HP - Hewlett Packard, inc.
HP - High Pressure
HP - Higher Power (sort of an AA "in" term, usually God)
HP - HorsePower
HPGe - High Purity Germanium
HQ - HeadQuarters
HR - House of Representatives
HRH - Her Royal Highness
HRH - His Royal Highness
HS - High School
HST - Hawaiian Standard Time
HT - High Tension (as in electric power transmission)
HUAC - House Unamerican Activities Committee
HUD - Heads Up Display
HUD - Housing and Urban Development
Hb - HemogloBin
Hz - HertZ (unit of frequency, cycles per second)
IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency
IATA - International Air Transport Association
IBM - International Business Machines, inc.
IC - Integrated Circuit
ICBM - Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
ICJ - International Court of Justice
ICRC - International Cosmic Ray Conference
IDA - International Development Association
IDDD - International Direct Distance Dial
IE - Indo-European
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IF - Intermediate Frequency (as in IF stage)
IFC - International Finance Corporation
IFC - International Freighting Corporation
IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations
IGY - International Geophysical Year
IHP - Indicated HorsePower
IIHF - International Ice Hockey Federation
IIL - Integrated Injection Logic
ILO - International Labor Organization
ILS - Instrument Landing System
IMF - International Monetary Fund
IMP - Interface Message Processor (ARPAnet)
IMSL - International Mathematics and Statistics Library
INRA - Iesus Nazerenus Rex Iudaeorum (Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews)
INWATS - INward Wide Area Telephone Service
IO - Input Output (sometimes I/O)
IOOF - International Order of Odd Fellows
IOU - I Owe you(U)
IP - Innings Pitched
IQ - Intelligence Quotient (see EQ)
IR - Index Register
IRA - Individual Retirement Account
IRA - Individual Retirement Account
IRA - Irish Republican Army
IRAS - Infrared Astronomical Satellite
IRBM - Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile
IRDS - InfraRed Detection Set
IRE - Institute of Radio Engineers (old name for the now IEEE, which see)
IRS - Internal Revenue Service
ISBD - International Bibliographic Description
ISCH - Interstitial-Cell-Stimulating Hormone (same as LH)
ISEE - International Sun Earth Explorer (usually ISEE-3)
ISO - International Standards Organization
ISPM - International Solar Polar Mission
ISRG - Independent Space Research Group
ITU - International Telecommunications Union
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)
JGR - Journal of Geophysical Research
JIC - Joint Intelligence Center
JIC - Just in Case
JMS - John Milton Society
JO - Job Order
JO - Junior Officer
JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JRC - Junior Red Cross
JSC - Johnson Space Center
JSRC - Joint Services Review Committee
JTIDS - Joint Tactical Information Distribution Systems
JV - Junior Varsity
K9 - canine (K9 corps - army dogs)
KC - King's Counsel (QC when queen reigning)
KC - Knights of Columbus
KD - Kiln Dried
KD - Knocked Down
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 - Kitchen Police
KPNO - Kitt Peak National Observatory
KPO - KeyPunch Operator
KS - King's Scholar
KSC - Kennedy Space Center
LA - Los Angeles
LA - Low Altitude
LADAR - LAser Detection And Ranging
LAM - Master of Liberal Arts
LAN - Local Apparent Noon
LAN - Local Area Network
LAR - Local Acquisition Radar
LASER - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
LAT - Local Apparent Time
LAX - Los Angeles International Airport
LB - Light Bomber
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
LCT - Landing Craft Tanks
LDEF - Long Duration Exposure Facility
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
LIFO - Last In First Out (see FIFO)
LISP - LISt Processing Language
LL - Late Latin
LLB - Legum Baccalaureus (bachelor of laws)
LLD - Legum doctor (doctor of laws)
LM - Life Master (Contract Bridge ranking)
LM - Lunar Module
LM - Lunar Module
LMC - Large Magellanic Cloud (see SMC)
LNG - Liquefied Natural Gas
LOP - Lines Of Position
LP - Long Play(ing)
LP - Long Playing record
LP - Low Pressure
LPC - Linear Predictive Coding (speech processing)
LPG - Liquefied Petroleum Gas
LPG - Low Pressure Gas
LPN - Licensed Practical Nurse
LRBM - Long Range Ballistic Missile
LRC - Longitudinal Redudancy Character
LRC - Longitudinal Redundancy Character
LRU - Line Replaceable Unit
LS - Left Side
LS - Letter Signed
LS - Locus Sigilli (place of seal)
LSB - Least Signficant Bit; Least Significant Byte
LSD - Least Signficant Digit
LSD - LySergic acid Diethylamide
LSD - pounds (Libra), shillings (Sestertii), and (old) pence (Denarii)
LSI - Large Scale Integration
LSS - Life Support System
LT - Long Ton
LT - Low Tension
LTC - Lieutenant Colonel
LTJG - Lieutenant Junior Grade
LTL - Less than Truckload Lot
LUG - Local Users Group
LZ - Landing Zone
Laser - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
MAC - Military Air Command
MACSYMA - project MAC's SYmbolic MAnipulation System
MAD - Mutual Assured Destruction
MADD - Mothers Against Drunk Driving
MARBI - MAchine Readable form of Bibliographic Information
MARC - MAchine Readable card Catalog
MASH - Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
MAST - Multi-Application SOnar Trainer
MAT-CALS- Marine Air Traffic-Control And Landing System
MBA - Master Business Adminstration
MC - Master of Ceremonies
MCPO - Master Chief Petty Officer
MD - Doctor of Medicine
MD - Medical Doctor
MD - Months after Date
MDT - Mean Down Time
ME - Mechanical Engineer
MEd - Master of EDucation
MF - Medium Frequency (300-3000KHz)
MF - Middle French
MFA - Master Fine Arts
MFLOPS - Million FLoating-point OPerations per Second
MG - Machine Gun
MG - Major General
MG - Military Government
MGM - Metro-Goldwyn Mayer
MHD - MagnetoHydroDynamics
MHz - Mega HertZ (unit of frequency, 1,000,000 cycles per second)
MI - Military Intelligence
MIA - Missing In Action
MIMD - Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data
MIPS - Million Instructions Per Second
MIRV - Multiple Independently-Targetable Reentry Vehicle
MIS - Microcomputer Information Services
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ML - Middle Latin
MLA - Member of Legislative Assembly (see MPP)
MLD - Minimum Lethal Dose
MLS - Microwave Landing System
MLS - Microwave Landing System
MM - Maryknoll Missioners
MMU - Memory Management Unit
MNA - Member of National Assembly (Quebec)
MO - Mail Order
MO - Medical Officer
MO - Modus Operandi
MO - Money Order
MOS - Metal Oxide Semiconductor
MOSFET - Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
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 - Mile Per Hour
MPH - Miles Per Hour
MPP - Member of Provincial Parliament (Canada; also MLA)
MS - ManuScript
MS - Master of Science
MS - Military Science
MS - Motor Ship
MS - Multiple Sclerosis
MSB - Most Signficant Bit; Most Significant Byte
MSD - Most Signficant Digit
MSG - MonoSodium Glutimate
MSL - Mean Sea Level
MSS - ManuScriptS
MST - Mountain Standard Time
MT - Metric Ton
MT - Mountain Time
MTBF - Mean Time Between Failures
MTV - Music TeleVision
MUF - Maximum Usable Frequency (max freq during sunspot activity)
MUNG - Mung Until No Good (see the hacker's dictionary)
MVA - MegaVolt Ampere
MX - Missile eXperimental
Maser - Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
MeV - Million Electron Volts
N - North
NA - Narcotics Anonymous
NA - North America
NA - Not Applicable
NAACP - Natioanl Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NAB - Natioanal Association of Broadcasters
NABISCO - NAtional BIScuit COmpany
NAD - Network Access Device
NADGE - NATO Air Defense Ground Environment
NAR - Nuclear Acoustic Resonance
NAS - National Academy of Sciences
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NB - New Brunswick
NB - Nota Bene
NBA - National Basketball Association
NBC - National Broadcasting Company
NBFM - NarrowBand Frequency Modulation
NBS - National Bureau of Standards
NBVM - Narrow Band Voice Modulation
NC - No Charge
NC - North Carolina
NCE - New Catholic Edition
NCO - Non-Commissioned Officer
NCR - National Cash Register
NCV - No Commercial Value
ND - No Date
ND - North Dakota
NDEA - National Defense Education Act
NDP - New Democratic Party (Canada)
NDSL - National Defense Student Loan
NDT - Newfoundland Daylight Time
NE - New England
NE - North East
NEB - New English Bible
NEC - Nippon Electric Company
NEI - Not Elsewhere Included
NES - Not Elsewhere Specified
NET - National Educational Telivision
NF - No Funds
NFC - National Football Conference
NFL - National Football League
NG - National Guard
NG - No Good
NHI - National Health Insurance
NHI - National Health Insurance
NHL - National Hockey League (the "nation" is Canada, BTW)
NIC - Network Information Center (ARPAnet)
NIH - National Institute of Health
NIM - Nuclear Instrumentation Module (an electronic instr. standard)
NJ - New Jersey
NL - National League (baseball)
NLM - National Library of Medicine
NLRB - National Labor Relations Board
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
NNW - North North West
NORAD - NORth American Defense Command (?)
NOS - Not Otherwise Specified
NP - No Protest
NP - Nondeterministic-Polynomial
NP - Notary Public
NP - Noun Phrase
NPN - Negative-Positive-Negative (transistor)
NPN - NonProtein Nitrogen
NPR - National Public Radio
NRA - National Rifle Association
NRC - National Research Council
NRE - Non-Recurring Engineering (as in NRE costs)
NRL - Naval Research Labs
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
NSF - National Science Foundation
NST - Newfoundland Standard Time
NSW - New South Wales
NT - New Testament
NT - Newfoundland Time
NT - Northern Territory
NTP - Normal Temperature and Pressure (see STP)
NTSB - National Transportation Safety Board
NU - Name Unknown
NUSC - Naval Underwater Systems COmmand
NW - North West
NWT - North West Territories
NY - New York
NYC - New York City
NYSE - New York Stock Exchange
NZ - New Zealand
OA - Office Automation
OA - Overeaters Anonymous
OAS - Organization Of American states
OBE - Order of the British Empire
OBS - Omni Bearing Selector
OC - Order of Canada
OCDM - Office of Civil Defense and Mobilization
OCLC - Online Computer Library Center (Ohio College Library Catalog)
OCS - Officer Candidate School
OD - Doctor of Optometry
OD - Oculus Dexter (right eye)
OD - Officer of the Day
OD - Over Dose
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
OJT - On the Job Training
OMV - Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle
ON - Old Norse
ONI - Office of Navel Intelligence
OP - Observation Post
OP - Order of Preachers
OP - Out of Print
OPEC - Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OR - Operatng Room
OR - Owner's Risk
OROM - Optical Read Only Memorey
OS - Oculus sinister (left eye)
OS - Ordinary Seaman
OS - Out of Stock
OSB - Order of St. Benedict
OSCAR - Orbiting Satelite Carry Amateur Radio (1st launched 12 Dec 1961)
OSF - Order of St. Francis
OSS - Office of Strategic Services (later CIA)
OT - Old Testament
OT - OverTime
OTB - Off-Track Betting
OTC - Over The Counter stocks
OTH-B - Over The Horizon - Backscatter (as in radar)
OTS - Officers' Training School
PA - Per Annum
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)
PBS - Public Broadcasting System
PBX - Private Branch eXchange (mini-telephone network system)
PC - Peace Corps
PC - PerCent; PerCentage
PC - Personal Computer
PC - Post Card
PC - Post Cibum (after meals)
PC - Privy Council
PC - Program Counter
PC - Progressive Conservative party (Canada)
PCB - PolyChlorinated Biphenyls
PCB - Printed Circuit Board
PCOE - Port Of Entry
PCS - Permanent Change of Station
PD - Per Diem
PD - Police Department
PD - Potential Difference
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
PHA - Pulse Height Analyser (or Analysis)
PHS - Public Health Service
PIT - Principal, Interest, and Taxes
PLA - Programmable Logic Array
PLL - Phase Lock Loop
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
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 - Point Of View
POC - Port Of Call
POD - Pay On Delivery
POE - Port Of Embarkation
POGO - Polar Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
POW - Prisoner Of War
PP - Parcel Post
PP - Past Participle
PPB - Parts Per Billion
PPC - Pour Prendre Conge' (to take leave)
PPM - Parts Per Million
PPN - Project Programmer #
PPN - parameterized post-Newtonianformalism for general relativity
PPT - Pulse Pair Timing
PQ - Province of Quebec
PR - PayRoll
PR - Public Relations
PR - Puerto Rico
PROM - Programmable Read Only Memory
PS - PostScript
PS - Public School
PSG - Platoon Sergeant
PSK - Phase Shift Keying
PST - Pacific Standard Time
PT - Pacific Time
PT - Patrol Torpedo (as in PT boat)
PT - Physical Therapy
PT - Physical Training
PTA - Parent-Teacher Association
PTO - Please Turn Over
PVO - Pioneer Venus Orbiter
PW - Prisoner of War (usually POW)
PX - Post eXchange (see BX)
PhysRev - Physical Review Journal - Phys Rev
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)
QID - Quater In Die (four times a day)
QM - QuarterMaster
QMC - QuarterMaster Corps
QMG - QuarterMaster General
QNS - Quantity Not Sufficient
RA - Regular Army
RA - Research Assistant
RA - Royal Academy
RAAF - Royal Australian Air Force
RADAR - RAdio Detection And Ranging
RADM - Rear ADMiral
RAF - Royal Air Force
RAM - Random Access Memory
RB - Rhythm and Blues (commonly R and B)
RBC - Red Blood Cells
RBC - Red Blood Count
RBI - Runs Batted In
RC - Red Cross
RC - Resistor-Capacitor circuit (as in filters)
RC - Roman Catholic
RCAF - Royal Canadian Air Force
RCMP - Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RD - Research and Development (commonly R and D)
RD - Rural Delivery
RDF - Radio Direction Finding
REA - Rail Express Agency
REM - Rapid Eye Movement
RF - Radio Frequency
RFC - Request For Comments
RFD - Rural Free Delivery
RFI - Radio Frequency Interference
RH - Right Hand
RHS - Right Hand Side
RIACS - Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (NASA)
RIF - Reading Is Fundamental
RIP - Rest In Peace (or Requiescat In Pace : latin)
RISC - Reduced Instruction Set Computer
RLL - Run Length Limited
RMS - Root Mean Square
RN - Registered Nurse
RN - Royal Navy
RNA - RiboNucleic Acid
RNZAF - Royal New Zealand Air Force
ROG - Receipt Of Goods
ROM - Range Of Motion (mdeical)
ROM - Read Only Memory
ROM - Rupture Of Membrane (as in birth)
ROTC - Reserve Officers' Training Corps
ROYGBIV - Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet
RPG - Role Playing Game
RPM - Revolutions Per Minute
RPN - Reverse Polish Notation
RPO - Railway Post Office
RPS - Revolutions Per Second
RPV - Remotely Piloted Vehicle
RR - RailRoad
RR - Rural Route
RS - Recording Secretary
RS - Revised Status
RS - Right Side
RS - Royal Society
RSFSR - Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic
RSV - Revised Standard Edition
RSVP - Repondez S'il Vous Plait (please reply)
RSWC - Right Side up With Care
RT - RadioTelephone
RTTY - Radio Teletype
RW - Right Worshipful
RW - Right Worthy
Radar - RAdio Detection And Ranging
S - South
SA - SOuth Africa
SA - Salvation Army
SA - Seaman Apprentice
SA - Sex Appeal
SA - Sine Anno (without date)
SA - South America
SA - Subject to Approval
SAA - South Atlantic Anomaly
SAC - Strategic Air Command (see TAC)
SADD - Students Against Drunk Driving
SAM - Surface to Air Missile
SAMTO - SpaceAnd Missile Test Organization
SAP - Second Audio Program
SASE - Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope
SAW - Surface Acoustic Wave
SBA - Small Business Administration
SC - South Carolina
SCADC - Standard Central Air Data Computer
SCUBA - Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
SCUBA - Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
SCUBA - SelfContained Underwater Breathing Aperatus
SD - South Dakota
SDI - Stategic Defence Initiative
SDO - Staff Duty Officer
SE - South East
SEATO - SouthEast Asia Treaty Organization
SEC - Security Exchange Commission
SEM - Scanning Electron Microscope
SF - San Francisco
SF - Science Fiction; Speculative Fiction
SHF - Super High Frequency (3-30GHz)
SI - Staten Island
SIAM - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
SIMD - Single Instruction, Multiple Data
SJ - Society of Jesus
SL - Salvage Loss
SLA - Special Libraries Association
SLA - Special Library 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
SLP - Super Long Play (VHS VCR)
SM - Service Mark
SMA - Sergeant Major of the Army
SMC - Small Magellanic Cloud (see LMC)
SMD - Storage Module Device (interface standard for disk drives)
SMD - Surface Mounted Devices
SMERSH - Abbr. of Russian phrase meaning "Death to the spies."
SMILS - Sonobouy Missile Impact Location System
SMM - Solar Maximum Mission
SN - Super Nova
SNA - Systems Network Architecture (IBM network)
SNAFU - Situation Normal -- All F**** Up
SNAFU - Situation Normal -- All Fouled Up (also, F*cked)
SNAFU - Situation Normal: All F***ed Up
SNCF - Societe National des Chemins de Fer (French National Railways)
SNOBOL - StriNg Oriented symbOLic Language
SNR - Signal to Noise Ratio
SO - Seller's Option
SO - Significant Other
SO - Strike Out
SOH - Start Of Header, ASCII contol character (dec=01,control-A)
SOHIO - Standard Oil of oHIO
SOL - Short on Landing (or, colloquially, Shit Out of Luck)
SOP - Standard Operating Procedure
SOS - Silicon On Saphire
SP - Shore Patrol
SP - Short Play (VHS VCR)
SP - Southern Pacific
SP - Stack Pointer
SPCA - Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
SPCC - Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
SPNI - Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel
SRAM - Short Range Attack Missile
SRB - Solid fuel Rocket Booster
SRI - Stanford Research Institute
SRO - Standing Room Only
SSA - Society Security Administration
SSB - Single Side Band
SSE - South-SouthEast
SSG - Staff SerGeant
SSI - Small Scale Integration
SSR - Secondary Surveillance Radar
SSR - Soviet Socialist Republic
SSTV - Slow Scan TeleVision
SSW - South-SouthWest
ST - Short Ton
STD - Sacrae Theologiae Doctor (doctor of sacred theology)
STD - Sexually Transmitted Disease (replaces VD)
STD - Subscriber Trunk Dialing (British for DDD)
STL - St. Louis (airport designation)
STOL - Short TakeOff and Landing
STP - Standard Temperature and Pressure (see NTP)
SUNOCO - SUN Oil COmpany
SW - South West
Sci-Fi - SCIence FIction (often used pejoratively of what really isn't)
Scuba - Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
Sonar - SOund Detection And Ranging
TA - Teaching Assistant
TAC - Tactical Air Command (see SAC)
TAC - Terminal Access Controller
TB - TuBerculosis
TBA - To Be Announced
TBD - To Be Determined
TC - Teachers College
TCA - Terminal Controlled Airspace
TD - TouchDown
TD - Treasury Department
TDY - Temporary DutY
TIA - Thanks In Advance (special to USENET)
TIA - Transient Ischemic Attack
TID - Ter In Die (three times a day)
TKO - Technical Knock Out
TL - Total Loss
TLC - Tender Loving Care
TM - TradeMark
TMA - Tycho Magnetic Anomaly (2001)
TMO - Telephone Money Order
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)
TOPLAS - Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (ACM)
TOW - Tube launched, Optically tracked, and Wire guided
TPC - The Phone Company (from classic movie: _The President's Analyst_)
TPO - Traveling Post Office
TSR - TSR (Fortune 500 Company that manufactures Dungeons & Dragons)
TTL - Transistor Transistor Logic
TTY - TeleTYpe
TV - TeleVision
TVA - Tennesee Valley Authority
TWA - Trans World Airlines
TWIMC - To Whom It May Concern
TWT - Traveling Wave Tube
TWX - TeletypeWriter eXchange
Teflon - polyTEtraFLuOrethyleNe
UA - United Artists
UAR - United Arab Republic
UART - Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter
UBA - UniBus Adapter
UBC - Universal Blibliographic Control
UCB - University of California at Berkeley
UCB - University of California at Berkeley
UCD - University of California at Davis
UCI - University of California at Irvine
UCLA - Univeristy of California at Los Angeles
UCLA - University of California at Los Angeles
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
UFO - Unidentified Flying Object
UH - Upper Half
UHF - Ultra High Frequency
UHF - Ultra High Frequency (300-3000MHz)
UK - United Kingdom
UL - Underwriters Laboratory
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)
UNIX - Not an acronym at all. Was a joke on MIT's MULTICS.
UNO - United Nations Organization
UP - Union Pacific
UPI - United Press International
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
USC - Univesity of Southern California
USCG - United States Coast Guard
USDA - United States Department of Agriculture
USES - United States Employment Service
USFL - United States Football League
USIA - United States Information Agency
USM - United States Mail
USMC - United States Marine Corps
USN - United States Navy
USO - United Service Organizations
USP - United States Pharmacopeia
USPS - United States Postal Service
USS - United States Ship
USSR - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
USW - Und so weiter
UT - Universal Time
UTC - Coordinated Universal Time
UV - UltraViolet
UW - UnderWriter
UW - Univ of Wisconsin
VA - Veterans Administration
VAR - Value Added Remarketers
VASI - Visual Approach Slope Indicator
VAT - Value Added Tax
VAX - Virtual Address eXtended
VCO - Voltage Controlled Oscillator
VCR - VideoCassette Recorder
VD - Venereal Disease (see also STD)
VF - Video Frequency
VFW - Volunteer Fire Department
VG - Very Good
VG - Vicar-General
VHF - Very High Frequency (30-300MHz)
VHS - Video Home System (VCR)
VHSIC - Very High Speed Integrated Circuit
VIP - Very Important Person
VISTA - Volunteers In Service To America
VJ - Video Jockey
VL - Vulgar Latin
VLA - Very Large Array radio telescope in Arizona or New Mexico
VLF - Very Low Frequency (3-30KHz)
VLSI - Very Large Scale Integration
VM - Virtual Memory
VMOS - Vertical Metal Oxide Semiconductor (V-MOS) (see MOS)
VOA - Voice Of America
VOQ - Visiting Officer's Quarters
VRC - Vertical Redundancy Character
VTOL - Vertical TakeOff and Landing
VTR - VideoTape Recorder
VVSS - Vertical Volute Spring Suspension
W - West
WA - Western Australia
WAC - Womens Air Corps
WARC - World Administrative Conference
WATS - Wide Area Telephone Service
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
WHBL - World Home Bible League
WORM - Write Once, Read Many time
WSI - Wafer Scale Integration
WSW - West-SouthWest
WU - Washington University
WV - West Virginia
WW - World War
XD - without Dividend
XL - eXtra Large
XMTR - transMiTteR (the X is for trans)
XO - eXecutive Officer
XOR - eXclusive OR (logical function)
XSECT - cross SECTion
XTAL - crysTAL (another version of x for crys, see XMTR)
YA - Yet Another
YB - YearBook
YMCA - Young Mens Christian Association
YMHA - Young Mens Hebrew Association
YOB - Year Of Birth
YST - Yukon Standard Time
YT - Yukon Territory
YT - Yukon Time
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
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3) ATT RELATED ACRONYM LIST
You can merge this in as you see fit. I left it separated in case
people thought that these were not general enough.
ACD - Automatic Call Distributing system
ACS - Advanced Communications System
ACTS - Automatic Coin Telephone Service
ACU - Alarm Control Unit
ADCI - Automatic Display Call Indicator
ADP - Advanced Data Processing
ADS - Automatic Voice System
AFADS - Automatic Force Adjustment Data System
AIC - Automatic Intercept Center
AIOD - Automatic Identification Outward Dialing
AIS - Automatic Intercept System
AMA - Automatic Message Accounting
AMARC - Automatic Message Accounting Recording Center
ANC - All Number Calling
ANF - Automatic Number Forwarding
ANI - Automatic Number Identification
AP - All Points
ARPANET - Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork
ATA - Automatic Trouble Analysis
ATM - Automatic Teller Machine
ATTIS - American Telephone and Telegraph Information Systems
AUTODIN - AUTOmatic DIgital Network
AUTOVON - AUTOmatic VOice Netework
BCP - Byte Controlled Protocals
BDT - Billing Data Transmitter
BELCORE - BELL COmmunications REsearch
BICS - Building Industry Consulting Services
BIOC - Break Into Other Computers
BIS - Business Information System
BLF - Busy Line Field
BOC - Bell Operating Company
BOS - Business Office Supervisor
BSC - Binary Sychronous Communication
BTL - Bell Telephone Laboratories
CAMA - Centralized Automatic Message Accounting
CCI - Computer Carrier Interupt
CCIS - Common Channel Interoffice Signaling
CCSA - Common Control Switching Arrangement
CDA - Call Data Accumulator
CDO - Community Dial Office
CEVI - Common Equipment Voltage Indicator
CF - Coin First payphone
CICS - Customer Information Control System
CLR - Combined Line and Recording
CLRC - Circuit Layout Record Card
CMD - Centralized Message Distribution
CMS - Circuit Maintenance System
CN/A - Customer Name / Address
CO - Central Office
COER - Central Office Equipment Report
COMAS - Central Office Maintenance and Administration System
COSMIC - COmmon System Main InterConnecting frame
COSMOS - COmputer System for Mainframe OperationS
CPO - Customer Premises Equipment
CREG - Concentrated Range Extention with Gain
CSACS - Centralized Status, Alarm and Control System
CSDC - Circuit Switched Digital Capability
CSL - Coin Supervising Link
CSO - Central Services Organization
CSP - Control Switching Point
CSS - Customer Switching System
DA - Directory Assistance (/C = computerized, /M = Microfilm)
DACCS - Digital Access Cross Connect System
DCTS - Dimension Custom Telephone Service
DDD - Direct Distance Dialing
DIAD - (magnetic) Drum Information Assembler / Dispatcher
DIAS - Defense Automatic Integrated System
DID - Direct Inward Dialing
DLL - Dial Long Line equipment
DNIC - Data Network Identification Code
DNR - Dialed Number Recorder
DOC - Dynamic Overload Control
DP - Dial Pulse
DRE - Directional Reservation Equipment
DSA - Dial System Assistance
DSS - Direct Station Selection
DTF - Dial Tone First payphone
DTMF - Dial Tone Multi Frequency
EADASS - Engineering and Administrative Data AcquiSition System
EAS - Extended Area Service (or Engineering Admin. System)
EBCDIC - Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
ECASS - Electronically Controlled Automatic Switching System
ECDO - Electronic Community Dial Office
ECO - Electronic Central Office
EDTCC - Electronic Data Transmission Communications Central
EMS - Electronic Message System
EO - End Office
ESAC - Electronic Systems Assistance Center
ESS - Electronic Switching System
ESSEX - Experimental Solid State EXchange
ETFD - Electronic Toll Fraud Device
ETS - Electronic Translator System
EVX - Electronic Voice eXchange
FACD - Foriegn Area Customer Dialing
FAT - Foriegn Area Translation
FTS - Federal Telephone System
FX - Foriegn eXchange
HACD - Home Area Customer Dialing
HNPA - Home Numbering Plan Area
HOBIS - HOtel Billing Information System
IDDD - International Direct Distance Dialing
IDF - Intermediate Distributing Frame
INADS - INitialization and ADministration System
INWATS - Inward Wide Area Telephone Service
IOD - Identified Outward Dialing
IP - Intermediate Point
ISC - International Switching Center
JIM - Job Information Memorandum
KDCI - Key Display Call Indicator
KP - Key Pulse
KSU - Key Service Unit
KTS - Key Telephone System
KTU - Key Telephone Unit
LAMA - Local Automatic Message Accounting
LDX - Long Distance eXtender
LIU - Line Interface Unit
LL - Long Lines
LLN - Line Link Network
LLP - Line Link Pulsing
LMOS - Line Maintenance Operations System
LSS - Loop Switching System
MAAP - Maintenance And Admistration Panel
MCC - Master Control Console
MDAS - Magnetic Drum Auxiliary Sender
MDF - Main Distrbution Frame
MF - Multi-Frequency
MILNET - MILitary NETwork
MTR - Magnetic Tape Recording
MTSO - Mobile Telephone Switching Office
NBO - Network Build Out
NCA - Network Control Analysis
NOTIS - Network Operator Trouble Information System
NPA - Number Plan Area
OCI - Out of City Indicator
OIU - Office Interface Unit
ONI - Operator Number Identification
OSS - Operation Support System
OUTWATS - OUTward Wide Area Telephone Service
PAM - Pulse Amplification Modulation
PATROL - Program for Admistrative Traffic Reports On Line
PBX - Private Branch Exchange
PCI - Panel Call Indicator
PCM - Pulse Code Modulation
PP - Primary Point (or dial Post Pay payphone)
PPCS - Person to Person, Collect, Special
PSDS - Public Switched Digital Service
RACEP - Random Access and Correlation for Extended Performance
RASC - Residence Account Service Center
RC - Regional Center
RCC - Radio Common Carrier
RJE - Remote Job Entry
RMATS - Remote Maintenance Admistration and Traffic System
ROTS - Rotary Out Trunks Selectors
RR - Route Relay
RRO - Rate and Route Operator
RSU - Remote Switching Unit
RTA - Remote Trunk Arrangement
RTAC - Regional Technical Assistance Center
RU - Receive Unit
SA - Service Assistant
SAC - Special Area Code
SAMA - Step-by-step Automatic Message Accounting
SARTS - Switched Access Remote Test System
SC - Sectional Center
SCAN - Switched Circuit Automatic Network
SCC - Switching Control Center (or Specialized Common Carriers)
SCOTS - Surveilance and Control Of Transmission Systems
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4) WEIRD ACRONYMS LIST
These came from Rick Heli and wuphys!mike (two people who must be heavily
into FRPG's). Use and enjoy!
007 - James Bond 007
2044 - Superhero 2044
A - Aftermath
AD&D - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
AF - Adventures in Fantasy
AG - Arcade Game
B - Book
BB - Bunnies and Burrows
BC - Battlecars
BD&D - Basic Dungeons & Dragons
BH - Boot Hill
BU - Bushido
C - Computer Game
C&S - Chivalry & Sorcery
CH - Cardboard Heroes
CHA - Champions
CHI - Chill: Adventures into the Unknown
COC - Call of Cthulhu
CW - Car Wars
D&D - Dungeons & Dragons
DD - Daredevils
DM - Dungeon Master
DQ - Dragon Quest
E - Espionage
ED&D - Expert Dungeons & Dragons
EP - Experience Points
EPT - Empire of the Petal Throne
FRPG - Fantasy Role Playing Game
FW - Fringeworthy
GB - Gangbusters
GM - Game Master
GW - Gamma World
H - Harn
HF - High Fantasy
HP - Hit Points
HTK - Hits To Kill
HW2000 - Highway 2000
JI - Justice, Inc.
LOA - Lands of Adventure
M - Miniatures
MAG - Magazine
MERP - Middle-Earth Role Playing
MR - Miniatures Rules
MSH - Marvel Super Heroes
MSPE - Mercenaries, Spies & Private Eyes
NPC - Non-Player Character (see PC)
PA - Play Aid
PBM - Play by Mail Game
PC - Player Character (see NPC)
R - Rolemaster
RPG - Role Playing Game
RQ - Runequest
S - Supplement
S&C - Skull & Crossbones
SF - Star Frontiers
SFRPG - Science Fiction Role Playing Game
SG - Starguard
SHCD - Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
SHRPG - Super Hero Role Playing Game
SO - Space Opera
SP - Star Patrol
STRPG - Star Trek: The Role-Playing Game
SW - Superworld
T - Traveller
T&T - Tunnels & Trolls
TCT - To Challenge Tomorrow
TFT - The Fantasy Trip
TG - Thieves' Guild
TMP - The Morrow Project
TS - Top Secret
TW - Thieves' World
U - Universe
V&V - Villains & Vigilantes
WH - Warhammer
WOW - Worlds of Wonder
YRS - Ysgarth Rules System
