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Tech Acronyms Flashcards

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MPEG

A

Moving Picture Experts Group

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MP3

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MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III

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ISO

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International Organisation for Standardization

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IEC

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International Electrotechnical Commission

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IEEE (I-Triple E)

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

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MIDI

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Musical Instrument Digital Interface

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DRM

A

Digital Rights Management

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BBC

A

British Broadcasting Corporation

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AOL

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previously American Online

An American global brand company that develops, grows, and invests in brands and web sites.

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OCR

A

Optical Character Recognition

Conversion of images of text into characters.

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SQL

A

Structured Query Language

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DML

A

Data Manipulation Language (subset of SQL)

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DDL

A

Data Definition Language

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XML

A

Extensible Markup Language

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W3C

A

World Wide Web Consortium

The main international standards organization for the World Wide Web.

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MIT

A

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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RSS

A

Rich Side Summary

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18
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PDF

A

Portable Document Format

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MIME

A

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

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IBM

A

International Business Machines Corporation

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HTML

A

HyperText Markup Language

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CSS

A

Cascading Style Sheets

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SVG

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Scalable Vector Graphics

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JPEG

A

Joint Photographic Experts Group

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PNG

A

Portable Network Graphics

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GIF

A

Graphics Interchange Format

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DOS

A

Disk Operating System

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ASCII

A

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

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BSD

A

Barkeley Software Distribution

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POSIX

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Portable Operating System Interface

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WYSIWYG

A

What You See is What You Get

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CGI

A

Computer Generated Imagery

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HDMI

A

High-Definition Multimedia Interface

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JSON

A

JavaScript Object Notation

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K&R

A

Kernighan and Ritchie

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LCD

A

Liquid Cristal Display

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LED

A

Light Emitting Diode

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MPL

A

Mozila Public Licene

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MSDN

A

Microsoft Developer Network

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PnP

A

Plug and Play

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PoE

A

Power over Ethernet

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PCI

A

Peripheral Component Interconnect

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P2P

A

Peer-To-Peer

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QA

A

Quality Assurance

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QoS

A

Quality-of-Service

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RDBMS

A

Relational Database Management System

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RDM

A

Relational Data Model

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RFC

A

Request For Comments

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RMI

A

Remote Method Invocation

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RTC

A

Real Time Clock

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SAX

A

Simple API for XML

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SDL

A

Simple DirectMedia Layer

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SGI

A

Silicon Graphics, Incorporated

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SMS

A

Short Message System

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SNTP

A

Simple Network Time Protocol

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SPARC

A

Scalable Processor Architecture

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SSD

A

Solid-State Drive

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SSL

A

Secure Socket Layer

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SVGA

A

Super Video Graphics Array

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Tcl

A

Tool Command Language

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TCP

A

Transmission Control Protocol

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TTF

A

TrueType Font

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UML

A

Unified Modelling Language

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URI

A

Uniform Resource Identifier

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URL

A

Uniform Resource Locator

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USB

A

Universal Serial Bus

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UTC

A

Coordinated Universal Time

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UTF

A

Unicode Transformation Format

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VGA

A

Video Graphics Array

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VoIP

A

Voice over Internet Protocol

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WAN

A

Wide Area Network

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WAP

A

Wireless Application Protocol

Wireless Access Point

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WEP

A

Wired Equivalent Privacy (security algorithm for IEEE 802.11 wireless networks)

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WLAN

A

Wireless Local Area Network

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WPAN

A

Wireless Personal Arean Network

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Y2K

A

Year 2000

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YACC

A

Yet Another Compiler Compiler

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AIX

A

Advanced Interactive Executive

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ELF

A

Extensible Linking Format

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IMAP2

A

Interim Mail Access Protocol 2

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NFS

A

Network File System

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NTP

A

Network Time Protocol

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TIFF

A

Tagged Image File Format

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ASP.NET

A

Active Server Pages

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LAN

A

Local Area Network

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MAC address

A

Media Access Control address

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