Acronyms Flashcards
EFT
Electronic Funds Transfer
EFTPOS
Electronic Funds Transfer Point of Sale
PIN
Personal Identification Number
ADC
Analogue-To-Digital Converter
CAL
Computer-Assisted Learning
VLE
Virtual Learning Environment
DV
Digital Video
CVC
Card Verification Code
SET
Secure Electronic Transaction
SSL
Secure Socket Layers
RSI
Repetitive Strain Injury
WEEE
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
CRT
Cathode Ray Tube
DAC
Digital-To-Analogue Converter
ELF
Electronic Funds Transfer
HMD
Head-Mounted Device
ICC
Integrated Chip Card
POS
Point of Sale
EAN
European Article Numbering
EPOS
Electronic Point of Sale
ATM
Automatic Teller Machine
LCD
Liquid Crystal Display
PDA
Personal Digital Assistant
OCR
Optical Character Recognition
OMR
Optical Mark Recognition
dpi
Dots per Inch
cps
Characters per Second
ppm
Pages per Minute
USB
Universal Serial Bus
VDU
Visual Display Unit
Bit
Binary Digit
Kb
Kilobyte
Gb
Gigabyte
Mb
Megabyte
Tb
Terabyte
CD-ROM
Compact Disk - Read Only Memory
WORM
Write Once Read Many
CD-RW
Compact Disk - ReWriteable
CD-R
Compact Disk - Recordable
DVD-R
Digital Versatile Disk - Recordable
DVD-RW
Digital Versatile Disk - ReWriteable
DAT
Digital Audio Tape
ROM
Read Only Memory
RAM
Random Access Memory
GUI
Graphical User Interface
WIMP
Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers
CPU
Central Processing Unit
Mp
Megapixels
HTML
HyperText Mark-Up Language
Portable Document Format
MIDI
Musical Instrument Digital Interface
CSV
Comma-Separated Variable
ZIP
File format used for data compression
MPEG
Movie Pictures Experts Groups
GIF
Graphic Interchange Format
JPEG
Joint Photographic Experts Group
tiff
Tagged Image File Format
RTF
Rich Text File/Rich Text Format
OMR
Optical Mark Recognition
LAN
Local Area Network
WAN
Wide Area Network
PSTN
Public Switched Telephone Network
WNIC
Wireless Network Interface Card
TCP/IP
Transmission Protocol/Internet Protocol
NAS
Network Attached Storage
DAS
Direct Attached Storage
Wi-Fi
Wireless Fidelity
3G
Third Generation
WAP
Wireless Application Protocol
WWW
World Wide Web
HTTP
HyperText Transfer Protocl
URL
Uniform Resource Locator
ISP
Internet Service Provider
ISDN
Integrated Services Digital Network
ADSL
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
Electronic Mail
Cc
Carbon Copy
Bcc
Blind Carbon Copy
FAX
Facsimile
VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol
ISP
Internet Service Provider
NIC
Network Interface Card