Internet Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Internet Acronyms

• BSD — Berkeley Software (System) Distribution (Design)
• BSML — Biosequence Markup Language
• BSWD — BellSouth Intelligent Wireless Data Network
• BTW — By The Way
• CA — Certificate Authority
• CAD — Computer-Aided Design
• CAE — Computer-Aided Engineering
• CASE — Computer-Aided Software Engineering
• CAV — Constant Angular Velocity
• CBT — Computer-Based Training
• CCD — Charge-Coupled Device
• CCI — Common Content Inspection
• CCITT — Consultative Committee For International Telephony And Telegraphy
• CD — Carrier Detect
• CD-I — Compact Disc-Interactive
• CD-PROM — Compact Disc-Programmable Read Only Memory
• CD-R — Compact Disc-Recordable
• CD-ROM — Compact Disc, Read Only Memory
• CD-RW — Compact Disc-Rewritable
• CDC — Cult of The Dead Cow
• CDDI — Copper Data Distribution Interface
• CDF — Channel Definition Format
• CDFS — Compact Disk File System
• CDI — Common Data Interface
• CDIF — CASE Definition Interchange Facility
• CDMA — Code Division Multiple Access
• CDPD — Cellular Digital Packet Data
• CDRAM — Cached Dynamic Random Access Memory
• CERN — Conseil Europeen Pour Le Recherche Nucleaire
• CERT — Character Error Rate Testing (European Organization For Nuclear Research) As In, Large Hadron Collider
• CERT — The CERT Coordination Center
• CFI — Common Flash Interface
• CGA — Color Graphics Adapter
• CGI — Common Gateway Interface
• CGM — Computer Graphics Metafile
• CHAP — Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
• CHRP — Common Hardware Reference Platform
• CIDR — Classless Inter-Domain Routing
• CIE — Color Model = Commission Internationale De L’Eclairage Color Model
• CIFF — Camera Image File Format
• CIR — Committed Information Rate
• CISC — Complex Instruction-Set Computing
• CISC — Creative Integrated Solutions Consortium, LLC
• CIX — Commercial Internet Exchange Association
• CLEC — Competitive Local Exchange Carriers
• CLV — Constant Linear Velocity
• CME — Common Malware Enumeration
• CMIP — Common Management Information Protocol
• CML — Chemical Markup Language
• CMMI — Capability Maturity Model Integration
• CMOS — Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
• CMS — Color Management System
• CMS — Content Management System
• CMTS — Cable Modem Termination System
• CMYK — Cyan Magenta Yellow Black (Key)
• CNG — Calling Tone
• COBOL — Common Business Oriented Language
• CODASYL — Conference On Data Systems Languages
• CODEC — Compression/Decompression
• COM — Component Object Model
• COMDEX — Communications And Data Processing Exposition
• CORBA — Common Object Request Broker Architecture
• CP/M — Control Program For Microprocessors (Control Program/Monitor)
• CPE — Customer Premises Equipment
• CPS — Characters Per Second
• CPU — Central Processing Unit
• CR — Carriage Return
• CRAM — Card RAM
• CRAM — Computational RAM
• CRC — Cyclic Redundancy Check (Code)
• CRM — Customer Relationship Management
• CRT — Cathode-Ray Tube
• CSDGM — Content Standard For Digital Geospatial Metadata
• CSMA/CA — Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance
• CSMA/CD — Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection
• CSS — Cascading Style Sheets
• CSTN — Color Supertwist Nematic
• CSU — Channel Service Unit
• CSV — Comma-Separated Value / Variable
• CTI — Computer-Telephony Integration
• CTP — Community Technical Preview
• CTR — Click-Through Ratio
• CUA — Common User Access
• CWM — Common Warehouse Metadata
• CWR — Congestion Window Reduced
• CYA — Cover Your Ass
• CYBORG — Cybernetic Organism
• CYMK — Cyan Yellow Magenta Black (Key)
• DAC — Digital-to-Analog Converter
• DAFS — Direct Access File System
• DAFS — Document Attribute Format Specification
• DAO — Data Access Objects
• DAO — Disk At Once
• DASD — Direct Access Storage Device
• DAT — Digital Audio Tape
• DB — Database
• DB2 — Database 2
• DBMS — Database Management System
• DCC — Direct Cable Connection
• DCE — Data Communications Equipment