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ATIS Atherton Tools Interface Specification ATIS Automatic Terminal Information Service ATIS Automatic Transmitter Identification System ATK Alliant Techsystems Inc. ATK Alliant Techsystems, Inc. ATK Andrew ToolKit ATL Another Three Letter acronym ATL Atlanta, Georgia airport ATLA Another Three Letter Acronym ATLAS Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science ATM Able Toastmaster ATM Adobe Type Manager ATM Adobe Typeface Manager ATM Amateur Telescope Maker ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode ATM Automated Teller Machine ATM Automatic Teller Machine ATM automated teller machines ATM automatic teller machines ATM automated teller machines ATM automatically transferring money ATM-DXI Asynchronous Transfer Mode-Data eXchange Interface ATMDXI ATM Data eXchange Interface ATMS Automated Trunk Measurement System ATN Automated Test Network ATO Abort To Orbit ATOMICMAIL A Trademark On MAGICMAIL is Impossible; Clearly Monikers Are Inhibited by Legalisms ATOMS AT&t Optimized Materials Simulator ATP Adenosine TriPhosphate ATP Airline Transport Pilot ATP All Tests Pass ATP Appletalk Transaction Protocol ATP2 AppleTalk Phase 2 ATPCO Airline Tariff Publishing COmpany ATR Alternate Trunk Routing ATR Automatic Target Recognition ATR Automatic Terminal Recognition ATRS Automated Trouble Reporting System ATS Abstract Test Suite ATS Administrative Terminal System ATS Apple Terminal Services ATS Automated Test System ATS automated trading system ATSDR Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry ATSR Along Track Scanning Radiometer ATT American Telephone & Telegraph ATTC American Towing Tank Conference ATTC Automatic Transmission Test and Control circuit ATTCOM American Telephone & Telegraph COMmunications ATTGIS AT&T/Global Information Solutions ATTIS American Telephone and Telegraph Information Systems ATTN Attention ATTRIB Attribute ATV All Terrain Vehicle ATWT As The World Turns AU Arithematic Unit AU Astronomical Unit AU Australia AUB American University of Beirut - Beirut, Lebanon AUDI Auto Union Deutscher Industrie AUDIT Automated Data Input Terminal AUDIX AUDio Information eXchange AUFORA The Alberta UFO Research Association AUI Attached Unit Interface AUI Attachment Unit Interface AUI Attachment Universal Interface AUP Acceptable Use Policy AUP Appropriate Use Policies AURA Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy AURI Agricultural Utilization Research Institute AUS Army of the United States AUS Australia AUSIT Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators AUT Austria AUTO Automatic AUTODIN AUTOmatic DIgital Network AUTOSEVCOM AUTOmatic SEcure Voice COMmunications AUTOVON AUTOmatic VOice Network AUX Apple UniX AUX Auxiliary AUXF AUXillary Frame AV AudioVisual AVA Audio Visual Authoring AVC American Veterans Committee AVC American Veterans Committee AVC Audio Visual Connection AVCC Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee AVCC Australian Vive-Chancellors'Committee AVCS American Veterinary Computer Society AVD Alternate Voice Data AVG Average AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer AVI Audio Visual Interleaved AVLIS Atomic Vapor Laser Isotope Separation AVMA American Veterinary Medical Association AVO Amperes-Volts-Ohms AVO Australian Valuation Office AVSSCS Audio-Visual Service-Specific Convergence Sublayer AW Another World AW Aruba AW&ST Aviation Week and Space Technology AWACS Airborne Warnings And Control Systems AWB Afrikaner Weerstand Beweging AWEA American Wind Energy Association AWG American Wire Gauge AWGTGTATA Are We Going To Go Through All This Again? AWIS Association for Women in Science AWK Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan AWK al Aho, peter Weinberger, brian Kernigham AWOC Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee AWOC Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee AWOL Absent WithOut Leave AWOL Absent WithOut official Leave AWOS Automated Weather Observing System AWPA American Wire Producers Association AWS Advanced Workstations and Systems AWST Aviation Week and Space Technology AWWA American Water Works Association AX Architecture Extended AX Automatic Transmission AX25 Amateur Radio X25 AXAF Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility AXBT Airborne eXpendable BathyThermograph AXP Advanced architecture Processor AY Arther Young AYNIL Attack Your Nose, It's Leaking AZ Arizona AZ Azerbaijan AZE Azerbaijan Access Accessory AceNET Appalachian Cooperative Economics Network Acronym A Concise Reduction of Nomenclature Yielding Mnemonics Alcoa Aluminum Co. of America Alcoa Aluminum Company of America Alcoa Aluminum Corporation of America Alfa Anonima Lombardia Fabbrica Automobili, SpA B Book B Byte B bit B&W Babcock & Wilcox B-ISDN Basic Integrated Servcies Digital Network B-ISDN Basic rate Integrated Servcies Digital Network B-ISDN Broadband - Integrated Services Digital Network B.U. Boston University B.V. breakup value B/B Back-to-Back B/F Background/Foreground B2X Binary To Hexadecimal B5 Babylon 5 B6ZS Bipolar with 6 Zero Subsitution B8ZS Binary 8 Zero Substitution B911 Basic 911 BA Bachelor of Arts BA Bosnia And Herzegovina BA Butler Aviation BA BA Acquisition BA Butler Aviation BAA British Airports Authority BABCOM Babylon 5 Communication system BACH Business Alliance for Commerce in Hemp BAFO Best And Final Offer BAGNET Bay Area Gigabit NETwork BAH Booz-Allen and Hamilton BAK Binary Adaption Kit BAL Basic Assembly Language BALUN BALanced to UNbalanced BAM Boyan Action Module BAM Brooklyn Academy of Music BAM Brooklyn Academy of Music BAM the Brooklyn Academy of Music BAMAF BELLCORE AMA Format BANCS Bell Administrative Network Communications System BAPCO Bellsouth Advertising & Publishing COmpany BAR Browning Automatic Rifle BARCO Belgian American Radio Corporation BARD Bodleian Access to Remote Databases BARRNET Bay Area Regional Research Network BART Bay Area Rapid Transit BART Bay Area Rapid Transport BART Bay Area Rapid Transit BART the Bay Area Rapid Transit BARTS Bell Atlantic Regional Timesharing BASEBALL Boys Always Swing Easy; Boys Also Live Longer BASF Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik BASH Bourne-Again SHell BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code BASIC Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instuction Code BASM Built-In Assembler BATF Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms BATNEEC best available techniques not entailing excessive costs BATSE Burst And Transient Source Experiment BAV Bundesdeutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft fur Veranderliche BAe British Aerospace BB Barbados BB Bases on Balls BB Best of Breed BB Bunnies and Burrows BBA Bachelor of Business Administration BBB Better Business Bureau BBB Better Business Bureau BBB Better Business Bureaus BBB Better Business Bureaus BBC Bergen Brunswig Corp. BBC British Broadcasting Corp BBC British Broadcasting Corp. BBC British Broadcasting Corporation BBC Bergen Brunswig Corp. BBC British Broadcasting Corp. BBFN Bye-Bye For Now BBIAB Be Back In A Bit BBIAW Be Back In A While BBL Barrel BBL Be Back Later BBN Bolt, Beranek, and Newman Inc. BBN Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc. BBP Baseband Processor BBS Bulletin Board System BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBXRT Broad-Band X-Ray Telescope BC Battlecars BC Before Christ BC British Columbia BC/BS Blue Cross/Blue Shield BCA Billiards Congress of America BCA Billiards Congress of America BCA the Billiards Congress of America BCBS Blue Cross/Blue Shield BCC Blank Carbon Copy BCC Blind Carbon Copy BCC Block Check Character BCC Blocked Call Cleared BCCI Bank of Credit and Commerce International BCD Bad Conduct Discharge BCD Binary Coded Decimal BCD Blocked Call Delayed BCD binary-coded-decimal BCDIC Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code BCE Before the Common Era BCE Bell Canada Enterprises BCL Batch Command Language BCMA British Columbia Medical Association BCNU Be Seeing You BCP Binary Communications Protocol BCP Bulk Copy Program BCP Byte Controlled Protocols BCPL Basic Combined Programming Language BCPL Basic Computer Programming Language BCR Bell Communications Research BCR Byte Count Register BCS Bachelor of Commercial Science BCS Batch Change Supplement BCS Binary Compatibility Standard BCS Boston Computer Society BCS British Computer Society BCSC British Columbia Systems Corporation BCWP Budgeted Cost of Work Performed BCWS Budgeted Cost of Work Scheduled BD Bachelor of Divinity BD Bangladesh BD Bank Draft BD Bills Discounted BD&D Basic Dungeons & Dragons BDA Battle Damage Assessment BDA Bomb Damage Assessment BDC Boston Development Center BDD Basic Dungeons & Dragons BDDN Broadband Data Dissemination Network BDDP Boulet Dru Dupuy Petit BDDP Boulet Dru Dupuy Petit BDF Bidirectional Distribution Function BDF Binary Distribution Format BDF Bitmap Description Format BDF Bitmap Distribution Format BDI Burundi BDOS Basic Disk Operating System BDSM Bondage & Domination, Sado-Masochism BDT Billing Data Transmitter BDT Bulk Data Transfer BDU Brain Dead User BE Back End BE Belgium BE Below or Equal BE Bill of Exchange BEA Bureau of Economic Analysis BEAV Binary Editor And Viewer BEBC Big European Bubble Chamber BEBC Big European Bubble Chamber BECAUSE BEnchmark of Concurrent Architectures for their Use in Scientific Engineering BED Hanscom Field, Bedford MA BEF Band Elimination Filter BEF British Expeditionary Force BEI Banque Europeenne d'Investissement BEI European Investment Bank BEL Belgium BEL Bell BELCORE BELL COmmunications REsearch BELLCORE BELL COmmunications REsearch BEM Bug Eyed Monster BEM Bug-Eyed Monster BEN Benin BENELUX BElgium, NEtherlands, and LUXembourg BER Basic Encoding Rules BER Bit Error Rate BERKOM Berliner Kommunikationssystem BERT Bit Error Rate Test BERT Bit Error Rate Tester BEST Borland Enhanced Support and Training BET Black Entertainment Television BETRS Basic Exchange Telecommunications Radio Service BF Bad Flag BF Brought Forward BF Burkina Faso BFA Bachelor of Fine Arts BFA Burkina Faso BFD Big Fucking Deal BFD Boulder Fire Department BFD Bristol Fire DEpartment BFE Bum Fuck Egypt BFG Big Friendly Giant BFG Big Fucking Gun BFHD Big Fat Hairy Deal BFL Buffered FET Logic BFO Beat Frequency Oscillator BFPO British Forces Posted Overseas BFR Biennial Flight Review BFT Binary File Transfer BG Bulgaria BGC BubbleGum Crisis BGD Bangladesh BGE Branch if Greater or Equal BGP Border Gateway Protocol BGP-4 Border Gateway Protocol 4 BGP4 Border Gateway Protocol version 4 BGR Bulgaria BGT Branch if Greater Than BH Bahrain BH Black Hole BH Boot Hill BHA Butylated HydroxyAnisole BHC Busy Hour Calls BHI Branch if Higher BHIS Branch if Higher or Same BHP Brake HorsePower BHP Broken Hill Proprietary BHP Broken Hill Proprietary BHR Bahrain BHS Bahamas BHT Butylated HydroxyToluene BHUSD Beverly Hills Unified School District BI Backplane Interconnect BI Bibliographic Instruction BI Binary Input BI Burundi BI Bus Interconnect BIABH Bringing It All Back Home BIBLE Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth BICMOS BIpolar Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor BICS Building Industry Consulting Services BICSI Building Industry Consulting Service International BID Bis In Die BID Inter-American Development Bank BID Twice a day BIDS Bath Information & Data Services BIDS Bath Information and Data Services BIF Before I Forget BIF Binary Information File BIG Bond Investors Group BIG Bond Investors Group BIG Bond Investors Guaranty BIH Bosnia And Herzegovina BILBO Built-In Logic Block Observer BIM Beginning of Information Marker BIMA Berkeley Illinois Maryland Array BIMOS BiPolar Metal Oxide Semicondutor Transistor BINAC Binary Automatic Computer BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIOC Break Into Other Computers BIONICS BIOlogical ElectroNICS BIOS Basic Input Output System BIOS Basic Input/Output System BIOS Bioregional On-line Information Service BIOSIS BioSciences Information Service BIP Books in Print BIP Banque Internationale de Placement BIP Banque Internationale de Placement BIS Boundary Intermediate System BIS Business Information System BISA Book Industry Systems Advisory Committee BISDN Broadband - Integrated Services Digital Network BISDN Broadband ISDN BISP Business Information System Program BIST Built-In Self Test BISYNC Binary Synchronous Communications BIT Binary digIT BIT Bipolar Integrated Technology Inc BITNET Because-It's-There Network BITS Biotechnology Information Toolkit Software BITS Building Integrated Timing System BIU Bus Interface Unit BIX Byte Information Exchange BJ Benin BK Burger King BK Burger King BKS bosonic knotted string BKS bosonic knotted string BKSP Backspace BL Backlit BL Bill of Loading BL Burnham Lambert BLAISE British Library Automated Information Service BLAS Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines BLAST Basic Local Alignment Search Tool BLAST Blocked Asynchronous Transmission BLDC LoaD a Bit to the Carry bit BLDS Busy Line/Don't Answer BLE Branch if Less or Equal BLER Block Error Rate BLERT BLock Error Rate Test BLEU Belgium Luxemburg Economic Union BLF Busy Lamp Field BLF Busy Line Field BLIS Brunel Library and Information Service BLK Block BLM Bureau of Land Management BLM Bureau of Land Management BLMC Buried Logic Macrocell BLOB Binary Large Object BLOBS Binary Large OBjectS BLOS Branch if Lower Or Same BLR Belarus BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics BLS Business Listing Service BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics BLS the Bureau of Labor Statistics BLT BLock Transfer BLT BLock Transfer Instruction BLT Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato BLV Busy Line Verification BLZ Belize BM Basal Metabolism BM Bermuda BM Bowel Movement BM Boyer-Moore BM Breakdown Maintenance BMA Bank Marketing Association BMA Business Men 's Assurance BMC Bell Mueller Cannon BMC Bell Mueller Cannon BMDO Ballistic Missile Defense Organization BMEWS Ballistic Missile Early Warning BMEWS Ballistic Missile Early Warning System BMFSOB Big Mother Fucking Son Of a Bitch BMG Bloomington, IN BMI Branch if Minus BMI Broadcast Music Inc. BMIC BusMaster Interface Controller BMISPMIANR Bite Me. I Shall Prevail. Mine Is A Noble Race. BMJ British Medical Journal BMM Borrowed Military Manpower BMO Ballistic Missile Office BMOC Big Man On Campus BMP Batch Message Processing Program BMP Benchmark Plan BMP bone morphogenetic protein BMP bone morphogenetic protein-1 BMR Basal Metabolism Rate BMRC British Medical Research Council BMT Beam Management Terminal BMU Bermuda BMUG Berkeley Macintosh User Group BMUG Berkeley Macintosh Users' Group BMW Bavarin Motor Works BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke AG BMW Bayerische MotorenWerke BMW Bayerische MotorenWerke AG BMWMOA BMW Motorcycle Owners of America BMWRA BMW Riders Association International BN Brunei Darussalam BNA Blackwell North America Inc. BNA Blackwell North America, Inc. BNA Bureau of National Affairs BNC Bayonet Navy Connector BNC Bayonet Neill Concelman BNC Berkley Nucleonics Corporation BNC British Naval Connectors BNCC Base Network Control Center BNE Branch if Not Equal BNET Berkeley NETworking BNF Bachus-Naur Form BNFL British Nuclear Fuels Ltd BNP Banque Nationale de Paris BNR Bell-Northern Research BNRCVUUCP Batch News ReCeive Via UUCP BNS Billed Number Screening BNSC British National Space Centre BNU Basic Networking Utilities BO Binary Output BO Body Odor BO Bolivia BO Branch Office BO Buyer's Option BOA Ban On Acronyms BOB Blonde on Blonde BOC Bell Operating Company BOC British Oxygen Company BOCES Board Of Cooperative Educational Services BOCES Board of Cooperative Educational Servcies BOCES Bureau of Cooperative Education and Service BOD Board Of Directors BOF Birds Of a Feather BOFH Bastard Operators From Hell BOHICA Bend Over Here It Comes Again BOHICA Bend Over, Here It Comes Again BOJ Bank of Japan BOKU Universitat fur Bodenkultur Wien BOL Bolivia BOM Beginning Of Message BOM Bill Of Materials BOM Book Of Mormon BONDING Bandwidth ON Demand INteropability Group BOOM Binocular Omni-Oriented Monitor BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol BOQ Bachelor Officers' Quarters BOR Basic Output Report BORPQU Borland Pro Quattro BORQU Borland Quattro BORSCHT Battery, Overvoltage, Ringing, Supervision, Coding, Hybrid Test BOS Basic Operating System BOS Boston MA BOS Business Office Supervisor BOSIX Biin Open System Interface eXtension BOSS Billing and Order Support System BOSS Business Online Scheduling System BOT Beginning Of Tape BOYBBF Bend Over You Bohemian Butt Fucker BP BP Petroleum BP Base Pointer BP Blood Pressure BP British Petroleum BP British Pharmacopoeia BP British Petroleum BPA Bonneville Power Administration BPA Bonneville Power Administration BPB BIOS Parameter Block BPC Battery Park City BPC BPCA President and CEO BPC Battery Park City BPC the Battery Park City BPCA Battery Park City Authority BPCA Battery Park City Authority BPCA the Battery Park City Authority BPEO Best Practical Environmental Options BPEO Best Practical Environmental Options BPI Bits Per Inch BPI Blocks Per Inch BPI Bytes Per Inch BPL Branch if PLus BPM Beats Per Minute BPM Beats per Minute BPOC Bell Point Of Contact BPOE Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks BPPS Basing-Point Pricing System BPR Business Process Re-engineering BPR Business Process Reengineering BPS Bits Per SEcond BPS Bytes Per Second BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying BPSS Basic Packet-Switching Service BR Bad Register BR Bills Receivable BR Brazil BR British Rail BRA Boston Redevelopment Authority BRA Brazil BRAC Bangladesh Rural Assistance Committee BRAC Base Realignment And Closure committee BRAC Base Realignment and Closure BRAT Business Residence Account Tracking system BRB Barbados BRB Be right back. BRC Business Reply Card BRCS Business Residence Custom Service BRDF Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function BRGC Binary Reflected Gray Code BRI Basic Rate Interface BRI Brain Response Interface BRI basic-rate-interface BRIEF Basic Reconfigurable Interactive Editing Facility BRL Ballistics Research Lab BRL army Ballistic Research Laboratory BRM Basic Remote Module BRN Brunei Darussalam BRS Bibliographic Retrieval Service BS Bachelor of Science BS Back Space BS Bahamas BS Banded Signaling BS Bethlehem Steel BS Bill of Sale BS British Standards BS Bethlehem Steel BSA Basic Serving Arrangements BSA Birmingham Small Arms BSA Bovine Serum Albumin BSA Boy Scouts of America BSAM Basic Sequential Access Method BSBH Busy Season Busy Hour BSC Bachelor of SCience BSC Binary Synchronous Communications BSC Business Service Center BSCM BiSynchronous Communications Module BSCS Bachelor of Science in Computer Science BSD Berkeley Software Distribution BSD Berkeley Software Distributions BSD Berkely Standard Distribution BSDI Berkeley Software Design Inc BSDI Berkeley Software Design, Inc BSDR British Society for Dental Research BSE Basic Service Element BSF Bell Shock Force BSF Bit Scan Forward BSI British Standards Institute BSI British Standards Institution BSMTP Batched SMTP BSN Bachelor of Science in Nursing BSOC Bell Systems Operating Company BSOM Beats the Shit Outa Me BSOOM Beats the Shit out of Me BSOTWU Bad Spellers Of The World Untie! BSP Bell System Practice BSPP British Society for Plant Pathology BSPP Burma Socialist Program Party BSPP Burma Socialist Program Party BSPP Burma Socialist Program Party BSR Bit Scan Reverse BSRFS Bell System Reference Frequency Standard BSS Basic Synchronized Subset BSS Block Started by Symbol BSSDF Bidirectional Surface-Scattering Distribution Function BST Basic Services Terminal BSTC STore the Carry bit to a Bit BSTJ Bell System Technical Journal BSV BASIC Bsave Graphics BSW Boston Software Works BSY Busy BSYNC Binary Synchronous Communications BT Bankers Trust BT Bhutan BT Bit Test BT British Telecom BT Bus Terminator BT Bankers Trust BTAM Basic Telecommunications Access Method BTB Branch Target Buffer BTC Bit Test and Complement BTCS BiberTel Consulting Services BTDF Bidirectional Transmission Distribution Function BTDT Been There, Done That BTEC Business and Technology Education Council BTHOOM Beats The Hell Out Of Me BTHU British Thermal Unit BTL Backplane Transceiver Logic BTL Bell Telephone Laboratories BTL backplane-transceiver-logic BTN Bhutan BTN Billing Telephone Number BTO Bachman Turner Overdrive BTOL Better Than Open Look BTP Batch Transfer Program BTPON Business Telephony on Passive Optical Network BTR Bit Test and Reset BTRON Business TRON BTS Bit Test and Set BTS Board Tracking System BTSOOM Beats the shit out of me BTU British Thermal Unit BTU British thermal unit BTU British thermal unit BTW By The Way BTX Bildschirm-TeXt BTX BildschirmTeXt BU Boston University BU Brunel University BU Bushido BU Business Units BUAF Big Ugly Ascii Font BUBL BUlletin Board for Libraries BUF Big Ugly Fellow BUF Buffer BUFF Big Ugly Fat Fellow BUFORA The British UFO Research Association BUMS Brunel University Mountaineering Society BURP Big Ugly Rock Piece BURP Brewers United for Real Potables BUS Basic Utility System BUSU Brunel University Students Union BUT Board Under Test BUTT Part of the body used for sitting and going to the bathroom BV Blessed Virgin BV Bouvet Island BVA Billing Validation Application BVC Billing Validation Center BVI British Virgin Islands BVI British Virgin Islands BVI the British Virgin Islands BVT Bouvet Island BVY Beverly MA BW Biological warfare BW Botswana BW Business Wire BWA Botswana BWC BandWidth Compression BWI Baltimore-Washington International BWI British West Indies BWM Block-Write Mode BWM Broadcast Warning Message BWT Broadcast Warning TWX BWTS BandWidth Test Set BX Base eXchange BY Belarus BY Byelorussian Ssr BYOB Bring Your Own Beer BYOB Bring Your Own Book BYOB Bring Your Own Booze BYOB Bring Your Own Bottle BYS Byelorussian Ssr BYTE Binary Element String BYU Brigham Young University BZ Belize BZD BenZoDiazepine BZW Barclays de Zotte Wedd BZW BeZiehungsWeise BiDi Bidirectional BiSYNC Binary Synchronous Communications BitBlt Bit BLock Transfer BoB Break-out Box BoB Bureau of the Budget C C Programming Language C Copper C programming language C&P Chesapeake & Potomac C&S Chivalry & Sorcery C&T Chips and Technologies C&T Communications & Tracking C-CASE component-CASE C.A.I.P. Catholic Association for International Peace C/D Control Data C/O in Care Of C/S Client Server C/S Client/Server C2D Character To Decimal C2X Character To Hexadecimal C3I Command Control Communications & Intelligence C3I Command, Control, Communication and Intelligence C3I Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence C4I Command, Control, Communication, Computers and Intelligence CA CAble CA California CA Canada CA Central America CA Chartered Accountant CA Chief Accountant CA Chronological Age CA Collision Avoidance CA chromosomal aberrations CA chromosomal aberrations CAA Civil Aviation Authority CAA Clean Air Act CAA Creative Artists Agency CAAC Civil Aviation Administration of China CAAC Civil Aviation Administration of China CAASHHE Canadian Association Against Sexual Harassment in Higher Education CAB Civil Aeronautics Board CABG Coronary Artery Bypass Graft CABS Carrier Access Billing System CAC Calling-card Authorization Center CAC Carrier Access Code CAC Circuit Administration Center CAC Climate Analysis Center CAC Climate Analysis Center of NOAA CAC Connection Admission Control CAC Customer Administration Center CACCl Climate Analysis Center CACCl Climate Analysis Center of NOAA CACM Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery CACS Center for Advanced Computer Studies CAD Computer Aided Design CAD Computer Aided Design CAD Computer-Aided Design CAD Computer-Aided Dispatch CAD computer-aided-design CADD Computer-Aided Design and Drafting CADV Combined Alternate Data/Voice CAE Common Applications Environment CAE Computer-Aided Education CAE Computer-Aided Engineering CAE computer-aided-engineering CAF Central African Republic CAFE Corporate Average Fuel Economy CAFF the program for the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna CAFFU Combined Allied Forces Fuck Up CAG Column Address Generator CAGD Computer-Aided Geometric Design CAGE Commercial And Government Entity CAGR Compound Annual Growth Rate CAI Call Assembly Index CAI Computer Aided Instruction CAI Computer Application Inc CAI Computer Assisted Instruction CAIS Colocated Automatic Intercept System CAIS Common Apse Interface Specification CAJ Canadian Association of Journalists CAL Calendar CAL Computer Aided Learning CALL Computer Assisted Language Learning CALL computer aided language learning CALRS Centralized Automatic Loop Reporting System CALS Commerce At Light Speed CALS Continuous Acquisition and Life cycle Support CAM Common Access Method CAM Competency Acquisition and Maintenance CAM Computer-Aided Manufacturing CAM Content Addressable Memory CAM Contents Addressable Memory CAMA Centralized Automatic Message Accounting CAMAC Computer Automated Measurement And Control CAMEO Computer-Aided Management of Emergency Operations CAMIS Center for Advanced Medical Informatics at Stanford CAMM Computer Assisted Material Management CAMP Campaign Against Marijuana Planting CAMRA CAMpaign for Real Ale CAMS Competency Acquisition & Maintenance System CAMS Computer Aided Manufacturing Systems CAMS Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron CAN Campus Area Network CAN Canada CAN Cancel CANOLA CANada Oil Low Acid CANOPUS Canadian Auroral Network for the Open Program Unified Study CAO Chief Administrative Officer CAOS City of Austin Open Systems CAP Central Arbitration Point CAP Civil Air Patrol CAP Columbia Appletalk Package CAP Communication Application Platform CAP Competency Acquisition Program CAP Computer Aided Publishing CAPCOM CAPsule COMmunicator CAPCOM CAPsule COMmunicator - the person in charge of all voice comms from ground to a space vehicle CAPD Computing To Assist Persons With Disabilities CAPP Computer Aided Process Planning CAPS Capitals CAPS Cassette Programming System CAPSE Computer Aided Parallel Software Engineering CAPTAIN Character And Pattern Telephone Access Information Network CAR Central African Republic CAR Computer Access & Retrieval CAR Contents of the Address part of the Register CARAS Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences CARDS Comprehensive Approach to Reusable Defense Software CARE Committee on American Relief in Europe CARL California Academic and Research Librarians CAROT Centralized Automatic Reporting On Trunks CARP California Air Resources Board CARS Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy CART Championship Auto Racing Teams CAS Circuit Associated Signaling CAS Column Address Select CAS Communicating Application Specification CAS Communications Application Specification CAS Computer Aided Styling CAS Computerized Autodial System CASA Chinese-American Students Association CASA the Contemporary A cappella Society of America CASE Common Application Service Element CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering CASE Computer-aided-software-engineering CASE computer-aided-software-engineering CASE computer-aided-software-engineering CASI Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute CASI Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager CASL Crosstalk Application Scripting Language CASMAC Core Australian Specification for Management and Administrative Computing CASS Computer Assisted Search Service CASSCF Complete Active-Space Self-Consistent Field CASSIS Classification and Search Support Information System CASSIS Classified and Search Support Information System CAST Centre d'Appui Scientifique et Technologique CAT California Achievement Test CAT Computer Aided Tomography CAT Computer Aided Transcription CAT Computer Assisted Typesetter CAT Computer-Aided Tomography CAT Craft Access Terminal CAT Customer Acceptance Test CAT conCATenate CAT California Achievement Test CATF Commander Amphibious Task Force CATI Computer Aided Telephone Interviewing CATIS Common Applications and Tools Integration Services CATLAS Centralized Automatic Trouble Locating and Analysis System CATS Computer Assisted Training System CATV Cable Television CATV Community Antenna TeleVision CAU Connection Arrangement Unit CAUS Citizens Against UFO Secrecy CAV Constant Angular Velocity CAVEAT Citizens Against Violence Everywhere Advocating its Termination CAVU Ceiling And Visibility Unlimited CAW Canadian Auto Workers Union CB Citizens Band radio CB Consolidated Bathurst CBBS Computer Bulletin Board System CBC Canadian Broadcasting Corp CBC Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC Carolina Bird Club CBC Complete Blood Count CBC Canadian Broadcasting Corp CBCR Channel Byte Count Register CBD Cash Before Delivery CBD Central Business District CBD Commerce Business Daily CBEMA Computer & Business Equipment Manufacturers Association CBEMA Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association CBERS China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite CBGB Country BlueGrass and Blues CBGB Country music and Blue Grass Blues CBGB Country, Blue Grass and Blues CBI Computer Based Instruction CBI Confederation of British Industry CBI Confederation of British Industry CBI the Confederation of British Industry CBIS Cincinnati Bell Information Systems CBJ City and Borough of Juneau CBJ City and Borough of Juneau Alaska CBL Computer Based Learning CBLA Carolina Brown Lung Association CBM Commodore Business Machines CBOE Chicago Board Options Exchange CBOE Chicago Board Options Exchange CBOE the Chicago Board Options Exchange CBOT Chicago Board Of Trade CBOT Chicago Board of Trade CBP Coded Block Pattern CBR Case-Based Reasoning CBR Chemical, Biological, Radiological warfare CBR Constant Bit Rate CBR Cosmic Background Radiation CBS Columbia Broadcasting System CBS CrossBar Switching CBT Center for Building Technology CBT Center for Building Technology CBT Computer Based Training CBT Core Based Tree CBW Chemical and Biological Warfare CBW Convert Byte to Word CBX Computer-Controlled Branch Exchange CBX Computerized Branch eXchange CC Carbon Copy CC Center Conductor CC Central Control CC Cluster Controller CC Cocos Islands CC Common Control CC Cost Center CC Country Code CC Keeling Islands CC continuous-composite CCA Computer Corporation of America CCAFS Cape Canaveral Air Force Station CCC Canadian Committee on Cataloging CCC Central Control Complex CCC Ceramic Chip Carriers CCC Civil Conservation Corps CCC Civilian Conservation Corps CCC Command, Control, and Communications CCC Computer Control Center CCC Concourse Computer Center CCCCM CCC CounterMeasures CCCI Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence CCCT Canadian Centre for Creative Technology CCD Charge Coupled Device CCD Charged-Coupled Device CCD Computer-Controlled Display CCDS Centers for the Commercial Development of Space CCF Hundred Cubic Feet CCFT Cold Cathode Fluorescent Tube CCH Connections per Circuit per Hour CCHFA Canadian Committee on Health Facilities Accreditation CCHSE Canadian College of Health Service Executives CCI Computer Carrier Interrupt CCI Computer Consoles Incorporated CCI Computer Consoles, Incorporated CCIM Certified Commercial Investment Member CCIP Continuously Computed Impact Point CCIR Comite' Consultatif International des Radio Communications CCIRN Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networks CCIS Common Channel Interoffice Signaling CCITT Comite' Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique CCITT Consultative Committee for International Telegraph and Telephone CCITT International Consultative Committee for Telegraphy and Telephony CCK Cocos Islands CCK Computers by Constantin Kyriazopoulos CCK Keeling Islands CCL Console Command Language CCNC Common Channel Network Controller CCNC Communications Network Center CCNC Computer Network Center CCP Colombian communist party CCP Colombian communist party CCP Console Command Processor CCP crypt cell proliferation CCP crypt cell proliferation CCR Commitment, Concurrency, and Recovery CCR Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions CCR Creedence Clearwater Revival CCR Customer-Controlled Reconfiguration CCRI Community College of Rhode Island CCRP Continuously Computed Release Point CCS Combat Control System CCS Common Channel Signaling CCS Common Command Set CCS Common Communications Support CCS Continuous Composite Servo CCS Hundred Call Seconds CCS7 Common Channel Signalling version #7 CCSA Common Control Switching Arrangement CCSD Canadian Council on Social Development CCT Central Control Terminal CCT Computer & Communication Technology CCTA Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency CCTAC Computer Communications Trouble Analysis Center CCTV Closed Circuit TeleVision CCU COLT Computer Unit CCV Calling Card Validation CCW Counter ClockWise CD Carrier Detect CD Certificate of Deposit CD Certificate of deposit CD Change Directory CD Civil Defense CD Collision Detection CD Color Display CD Compact Disk CD certificate of deposit CD certificates of deposit CD certificates of deposits CD circular dichroism CD circular dichroism CD compact-disk CD-I CD-Interactive CD-I Compact Disk - Interactive CD-I Compact-Disc Interactif CD-MO Compact Disk - Magneto Optical CD-R Compact Disk - Recordable CD-RDx Compact Disk - Read Only Memory Data Exchange Standard CD-ROM Compact Disk Read Only Memory CD-ROM Compact Disk Read-Only Memory CD-RTOS Compact Disk - Real Time Operating System CD-V Compact Disk - Video CD-WO Compact Disk - Write Once CD-XA Compact Disk - Extended Architecture CDA Call Data Accumulator CDA Canadian Dental Association CDA Coin Detection and Announcement CDA Compound Document Architecture CDAR Customer Dialed Account Recording CDB Command Descriptor Block CDB Customer Distributed Buglist CDBG Community Development Block Grant CDBG Community Development Block Grant CDBG Community Development Block Grant CDC California Democratic Council CDC Centers for Disease Control CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC Control Data Corp. CDC Control Data Corporation Inc. CDC Control Data Corporation, Inc. CDCF Cumulative Discounted Cash Flow CDDA CD-ROM Direct Access CDDI Copper Distributed Data Interface CDE Complex Data Entry CDEV Control panel DEVice CDF Combined Distributing Frame CDF Context-Dependent File CDG Control Dependence Graph CDI CD-interactive CDI Circle Digit Identification CDI Course Deviation Indicator CDIAC Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center CDIF Case Data Interchange Format CDL City Development Ltd. CDL Computer Design Language CDL City Development Ltd. CDM Cold Dark Matter CDMA Code Division Multiple Access CDMA code division multiple access CDMO Centre de Droit Maritime et Oceanique CDO Community Dial Office CDOCS Classified Document Control System CDOS Concurrent Disk Operating System CDP Career Development Program CDP Certificate in Data Processing CDPD Cellular Digital Packet Data CDPR Customer Dial Pulse Receiver CDPX ChlorDiazePoXide CDR Call Detail Recording CDR Call Dial Rerouting CDR CommanDeR CDR Contents of the Decrement part of the Register CDR Critical Design Review CDRH Center for Devices and Radiological Health CDRH Center for Devices and Radiological Health CDRL Contract Data Requirements List CDROM Compact Disk Read Only Memory CDS Craft Dispatch System CDS Current Directory Structure CDSF Commercially Developed Space Facility CDT Call Data Transmitter CDT Central Daylight Time CDT computer-driven trading CDT computer-driven trading CDU Christian Democratic Union CDU Control Display Unit CDU Christian Democratic Union CDV Cell Delay Variation CDW Charge Density Wave CDW Charge Density Wave CDW Collision Damage Waiver CDW Computer Discount Warehouse CD_CHRDY Card Channel Ready CDint Computing Devices International CE Cache Enable CE Chemical Engineer CE Chip Enable CE Civil Engineer CE Collision Elimination CE Common Era CE Convert Enable CE Corps of Engineers CE Coulomb-Explosion CE Coulomb-Explosion CE Customer Engineer CEA Center For EUV Astrophysics CEA Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique CEA Council of Economic Advisors CEA County Education Authority CEC Commission of the European Communities CED Committee for Economic Development CEDEFOP European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training CEDEX Courrier d'Entreprise Distribution Exceptionelle CEDR Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource CEEM Center for Electrical and Electro-optic Materials CEERT Coalition for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies CEES Center for Environmental and Estuarine Studies CEF Cable Entrance Facility CEFMS Corps of Engineers Financial Management System CEG Continuous Edge Graphics CEGB Central Electricity Generating Board CEGB Central Electricity Generating Board CEGEP College D'Enseignement General Et Professionnel CEGEP College d'Enseignement General et Professionnel CEI Comparably Efficient Interconnection CEI Conducted Electromagnetic Interference CEI Connection Endpoint Identifier CELP Code Excited Linear Prediction CELSS Controlled Ecological Life Support System CEN Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires CENELEC Comite European de Normalisation Electronique CENELEC Comite Europeen de Normalisation Electrotechnique CENELEC Comite Europeen de Normalisation eLeCtrotechnique CENELEC Comite Europeenne pour la Normalisation Electrotechnique CENELEC Conseil Europeen pour la Normalisation eLeCtricite CENELEC European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation CENS Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Seclay CENTO CENtral Treaty Organization CEO Chief Executive Officer CEO chief executive officer CEO chief executive officer CEOS Committee on Earth Observation Satellites CEPT Conference European des Postes et Telecommunications CEPT Conference Europeene de Postes and Telecommunications CEPT Conference Europeenne des Administrations des Postes et des Telecomm. 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Compagnie Generale de Constructions Telephoniques CGE Cie Generale d'Electricite CGE Cincinnati Gas & Electric CGE Compagnie Generale d'Electricite CGI Common Gateway Interface CGI Computer Generated Images CGI Computer Graphics Interface CGIAR Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research CGL Center for Group Learning CGN Concentrator Group Number CGRO Compton Gamma Ray Observatory CGS Centimeter-Gram-Second CGTD Center for Global Trade Development CGX Chicago IL CH Cardboard Heroes CH ClearingHouse CH CourtHouse CH Customs House CH Switzerland CHA Champions CHADD CHildren and adults with Attention Deficit Disorder CHAM Chained Access Method CHAOS Cooperative Hedonists Against Ordered Society CHAOS university of CHicago Asyncronous Operating System CHAP CHAnnel Processor CHAP CHallenge Authentication Protocol CHAP Challenge Authentication Protocol CHAP Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol CHAR Character CHARA Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy CHARGEN 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Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce CIC Carrier Identification Code CIC Chemical Institute of Canada CIC Coordination and Information Center CICA Competition in Contracting Act CICEI Centro Informatico y de Comunicaciones de Edificio de Ingenierias CICS Customer Information Control System CICS customer information control system CICS/VS Customer Information Control System/Virtual Storage CICSVS Customer Information Control System / Virtual Storage CID Central Institute for the Deaf CID Charge Injection Device CID Computer Integrated Design CID Configuration/Installation/Distribution CIDA Canadian International Development Agency CIDAS Compusult Integrated Data Access System CIDIN Common Icao Data Interchange Network CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing CIDR Classless Internet Domain Routing CIE Commission Internationale de l'eclairage CIE Coras Iompar Eireann CIF Caltech Intermediate Form CIF Cost, Insurance and Freight CIF Crystallographic Information File CIGS Cataloguing and Indexing 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Common-Language Location Identification CLM Career Limiting Move CLNP ConnectionLess Network Protocol CLNP Connectionless-mode Network Protocol CLNS ConnectionLess-mode Network Service CLNS Connectionless-mode Network Service CLOS Common Lisp Object System CLP Cell Loss Priority CLR Cell Loss Ratio CLR Combined Line and Recording CLRC Circuit Layout Record Card CLS Clear Screen CLSI Computer Library Systems Incorporated CLSI Computer Library Systems, Incorporated CLTP Connectionless Transport Protocol CLTS Clear Task Switch Flag CLU Chartered Life Underwriter CLUT Color LookUp Table CLV Constant Linear Velocity CM Cameroon CM Centimeter CM Command Module CM Congregation of the Mission CM Control Mark CM Corrective Maintenance CM Cruise Missile CM4D Coordinate Measuring Machine Management Mechanism for Data CMA Canadian Manufacturers Association CMA Canadian Medical Association CMA Cash Management Account CMA Concert Multi-thread Architecture CMAC Centralized Maintenance and 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Systems Interconnection Networking in Europe COSMIC COmmon Systems Main InterConnection frame system COSMIC COmputer Software Management and Information Center COSMOS COmputer System for Mainframe OperationS COSS Common Object Support Services COSTAR Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement COSY Correlation Spectroscopy COT Card Or Tape COT Central Office Terminal COTS Commercial Off The Shelf COTS Connection-Oriented Transport layer Service COYOTE Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics CP Canadian Pacific CP Canadian Press CP Chemically Pure CP CoPy CP Command Post CP Command Processor CP Control Program CP Copy Protected CP CounterProliferation CP Canadian Pacific CP/M Control Program for Microcomputers CPA Certified Public Accountant CPA Certified Public Accountants CPA Communications & Public Affairs CPADAPT CounterProliferation Actd Demonstration And Planning Tool CPB Central Pacific Bank CPB Central Pacific Bank CPC Cellular Phone Company CPC Circuit Provisioning Center CPCS Check Processing Control System CPCS Common Part Convergence Sublayer CPD Central Pulse Distributor CPE Central Processing Element CPE Customer Premise Equipment CPE Customer Premises Equipment CPE Customer Provided Equipment CPE Customer-Provided Equipment CPFF Cost Plus Fixed Fee CPG Clock Pulse Generator CPH Cost Per Hour CPI Characters Per Inch CPI Clock Per Instruction CPI Common Programming Interface CPI Computer Private Interface CPI Computer Private branch exchange Interface CPI Consumer Price Index CPI consumer price index CPI consumer price index CPI-C Common Programming Interface for Communications CPIO CoPy In and Out CPIO CoPy In/Out CPL Combined Programming Language CPL Current Privilege Level CPLD Complex Programmable Logic Device CPM Continuous Phase Modulation CPM Control Program for Microcomputers CPM Cost Per Minute CPM Critical Path Method CPM Joint Catalogue of Printed Music CPMP Carrier Performance Measurement Plan CPO Chief Petty Officer CPO Chief Post Office CPO Customer Premises Equipment CPP Cable Patch Panel CPR Canadian Pacific Railway CPR Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation CPROST Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology CPRS Cloud Profiling Radar System CPS Centralized Processing System CPS Characters Per Second CPS Cycles Per Second CPSR Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility CPSU Communist Party of the Soviet Union CPT CaPTain CPT Command Pass Through CPT current perception thresholds CPU Central Processing Unit CPU Computerfreaks Play around at University CPUSA Communist Party of the United States of America CPV Cape Verde CPW Certified Public Weigher CPsychol Chartered Psychologist CQ Call to Quarter CQ Change of Quarters CQ Charge of Quarters CQ Commercial Quality CQFD Ce Q'il Fallait Demonter CQI Continuous Quality Improvement CR Carriage Return CR Costa Rica CR/LF Carriage Return/Line Feed CRA Cambridge Redevelopment Authority CRAB Coastal Research Amphibious Buggy CRADA Cooperative Research and Design Agreement CRAF Comet Rendezvous / Asteroid Flyby CRAF Comet Rendezvous/Asteroid Flyby CRAM Card Random Access Memory CRAM Computational Random Access Memory CRAM Concentrated Review of Applicable Materials CRAP Completely Redundant Array of Pointers CRAS Cable Repair Administrative System CRAYON CReAte Your Own Newspaper CRB Certified Residential Broker CRC Camera Ready Copy CRC Chemical Rubber Company CRC Civil Rights Commission CRC Customer Record Center CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check CRC Cyclical Redundancy Character CRC cyclical-redundancy-check CRD Customer Required Date CREDFACS Conduit, Raceway, Equipment Ducts & FACilitieS CREEP Committee to RE-Elect the President CREF Cross REFerence CREF Cross REference File CREFE Centre de Recherche sur l'Emploi et les Fluctuations economiques CREG Concentrated Range Extension with Gain CREN Computer Research Education Network CREN Corporation for Research and Educational Networking CRES Center of Renewable Energy Sources CREST Center for Renewable 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CRI Cray Research, Inc. CRIM Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal CRIN Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy CRIS Customer Record Information System CRISP Complex-Reduced Instruction Set Processor CRITT Central Rhode Island Telephone and Telegraph CRL Certificate Revocation List CRLF Carriage Return/Line Feed CRM Creative Retirement Manitoba CROM Control Read Only Memory CRONIC Colorado Rudimentary Operating Nucleus for Intelligent Controllers CROP CROsta Profonda CROQUE Cost- and Rule-based Optimization of object-oriented QUEries CROTCH Computerized Routine for Observing and Testing the Channel Hardware CRREL Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory CRRES Combined Release / Radiation Effects Satellite CRRES Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite CRRES Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite CRRES the Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite CRS Can't Remember Shit CRS Centralized Results System CRSAB Centralized Repair Service Answering Bureau CRSP Centro Regional de Sao Paulo CRT Cathode Ray Tube CRT Combat Results Table CRT cathode-ray-tube CRTC CRT Controller CRTC Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission CRUD Chalk River Unidentified Deposits CRY Child Relief and You CS Chip Select CS Chivalry & Sorcery CS Civil Servant CS Clear to Send CS Code Segment CS Computer Science CS Computing Science CS Context Switch CS County Seat CS Credit Suisse CS Critical Section CS Customer Service CS Czechoslovakia CS control-system CS Credit Suisse CSA Canadian Space Agency CSA Canadian Standards Association CSA Carrier Serving Area CSA Client Service Agent CSA Community Supported Agriculture CSA Confederate States of America CSA Customer Service Administration CSAA Chinese Studies Association of Australia CSAB Computing Sciences Accreditation Board CSACC Customer Service Administration Control Center CSACS Centralized Status, Alarm and Control System CSAR Centralized System for Analysis Reporting CSAR Channel System Address Register CSAR Combat Search And Rescue CSC Cell Site Controller CSC Computer Sciences Corp. CSC Computer Sciences Corporation CSC Computer Sciences Corp. CSCL Computer Supported Cooperative Learning CSCS Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico CSCW Computer Supported Cooperative Work CSD Corrective Service Diskette CSD Customer Service Division CSDC Circuit Switched Digital Capability CSE Common Subexpression Elimination CSE computational science and engineering CSEP Computational Science Education Project CSEPP Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program CSERIAC Crew system Ergonomics Information Analysis Center CSF Contrast Sensitivity Function CSF Critical Success Factor CSFB Credit Suisse-First Boston CSG Constructive Solid Geometry CSG Consulting Services Group CSH C-SHell CSHL Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory CSI Commercial Systems Integration CSI Communications Systems Inc. CSI The Construction Specifications Institute CSI Communications Systems Inc. CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigacion Cientifica CSICOP Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization CSIS Canadian Security and Intelligence Service CSK Czechoslovakia CSL Coin Supervising Link CSL Computer Sensitive Language CSLI Center for the Study of Language and Information CSLIP Compressed Serial Line Internetworking Protocol CSM Command Sergeant Major CSM Command and Service Module CSMA Carrier Sense Multiple Access CSMA-CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection CSMA/CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access/with Collision Detection CSMACA Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance CSMACD Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection CSN Computer Systems News CSNET Computer & Science Network CSNET Computer Science NETwork CSNY Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young CSO Caltech Submillimeter Observatory CSO Central Services Organization CSO Central Statistical Office CSO Central Statistical office CSO Computing Services Office CSO Central Statistical office CSOC Consolidated Space Operations Center CSP Commercial Subroutine Package CSP CompuCom Speed Protocol CSP Constraint Satisfaction Problem CSP Control Switching Point CSPAN Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network CSPP Computer Systems Policy Project CSR Control and Status Register CSR Customer Service Representative CSRG Computer Systems Research Group CSRI Computer Systems Research Institute CSRS civil Service Retirement System CSS Computer Sub-System CSS Continuous System Simulator CSS Customer Switching System CST Central Standard Time CSTA Computer-Supported Telephony Applications CSTC Consolidated Satellite Test Center CSU Channel Service Unit CSU Christlich Soziale Union CSU Cleveland State University CSU/DSU Channel Service Unit/Data Service Unit CSUBIOWEB California State University Biological Sciences World Wide Web Server CSUDSU Channel Service Unit Data Service Unit CSUF California State University Fresno CSV Comma-Separated Variables CSV Common Services Verbs CT Central Time CT Communications & Tracking CT Computed Tomography CT Connecticut CT Continuous Time CT computed tomography CTA commodity trading advisers CTA commodity trading advisers CTAB Cetyl-trimethyl-ammonium bromide CTAB Cetyl-trimethyl-ammonium bromide CTAN Comprehensive TeX Archive Network CTAPS Contingency Theater Automated Planning System CTB Comprehensive Test of Basic CTBS Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills CTBS Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills CTC Canadian Transport Commission CTC Central Test Center CTC Centralized Traffic Control CTC Chu-Itoh Techno-Science Co. 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District Attorney D.C district courts D.C. Department of Commerce D.C. District Court D.C. District of Columbia D.C. Drink Carrier D.T. Deep Thought D.U.I. Driving Under the Influence D/A Digital to Analog converter D/A digital-to-analog D/F Direction Finding D/R Direct or Reverse D2C Decimal To Character D2T2 Dye Diffusion Thermal Transfer D2X Decimal To Hexadecimal DA Days after Acceptance DA Department of Agriculture DA Deposit Account DA Desk Accessory DA Digital to Analog converter DA Directory Assistance DA District Attorney DA Don't Answer DA/C Directory Assistance/Computerized DA/M Directory Assistance/Microfilm DAA Data Access Arrangement DAA Decimal Adjust for Addition DAAM Dynamic Associative Random Access Memory DAB Digital Audio Broadcasting DAC Data Acquisition and Control DAC Design Automation Conference DAC Digital to Analog Converter DACCS Digital Access Cross Connect System DACS Digital Access Cross-connect System DACS Directory Assistance Charging System DACX Disability Action DAD Draft ADdendum DADA Democratic Alliance of Dadaist Anarchists DAE Departement d'Anthropologie et d'ecologie DAFE Designated Acronym Free Environment DAG Directed Acyclic Graph DAIS Distributed Automatic Intercept System DAL Data Access Language DAL Dedicated Access Line DAL Disk Access Lockout DAM Data Acquisition and Monitoring DAMA Data Administration Management Association DAMQAM Dynamically Adaptive Multicarrier Quadrature Amplitude Modulation DANTE Decision Aiding with New TEchnologies DANTE Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe DAP Data Access Protocol DAP Division Advisory Panel DAR Daughters of the American Revolution DARC Division Alarm Recording Center DARE Dictionary of American Regional English DARE Drug Abuse Resistance Education DARI Database Application Remote Interface DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DART Dublin Area Rapid Transit DARU Distributed automatic intercept system Audio Response Unit DAS Decimal Adjust for Subtraction DAS Department of Applied Science DAS Directory Assistance System DAS Distributor And Scanner DASA Daimler-Benz Aerospace DASA Deutsche AeroSpace Aktiengesellschaft DASA Deutsche Aerospace Agentur DASA Deutsche Aerospace Aktiengesellschaft DASA German Aerospace Inc. DASD Direct Access Storage Device DASH Daniel and Ashford DASWDT Distributor And Scanner-Watch Dog Timer DAT Digital Audio Tape DAT Disk Array Technology DAT digital audio tape DAT digital audio tape DATA Defense Air Transport Administration DATACOM Data Communications DAU Dummster Anzunehmender User DAV Data Above Voice DAV Disabled American Veterans DAY Dayton OH DB Data Base DB Data Buffer DB DataBase DB DeciBels DB Dial Box DB decibel DB decibels DB2 Database 2 DBA Data Base Administrator DBA doing business as DBAC Data Base Administration Center DBAG Deutsche Bahn Aktiengesellschaft DBAS Data Base Administration System DBC Davis , Ball & Colombatto DBCS Double-Byte Character Set DBF DBase Format DBL Drexel Burnham Lambert DBL Drexel Burnham Lambert DBM Data Base Manager DBM DataBase Manager DBME DataBase Managment Environment DBMS Data Base Management System DBMS DataBase Management System DBMS Database Management System DBOF Defense Business Operating Fund DBP Deutsche BundesPost DBP Deutsches BundesPatent DBP Di Butyl Phthalate DBRAD Data Base Relational Application Directory DBS Data Base Server DBS Direct Broadcast Satellite DBS Duplex Bus Selector DBS direct broadcast satellite DBS direct broadcast satellite DBS direct broadcast satellite DC Data Cartridge DC Data Collection DC Data Communication DC Data Control DC Device Control DC Direct Current DC District of Columbia DCA Defense Communications Agency DCA Digital Communications Associates DCA Distributed Communication Architecture DCA Document Content Architecture DCA Washington DC DCAF Distributed Console Access Facility DCB Disk Control Block DCB Disk Coprocessor Board DCC Data Country Code DCC Descriptive Cataloging Committee DCC Digital Compact Cassette DCC Display Combination Code DCCO Defense Commercial Communications Office DCCS DisContiguous Shared Segments DCD Data Carrier Detect DCE Data Circuit-terminating Equipment DCE Data Communication Equipment DCE Data Communications Equipment DCE Distributed Computing Environment DCE Distributed Computing Equipment DCF Data Communication Facility DCF Data Compression Facility DCF Data Count Field DCF Driver Configuration File DCG Definite Clause Grammar DCH D Channel Handler DCI Desktop Color Imaging DCI Drum Corps International DCIEM Defense and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine DCL DEC Command Language DCL DEC Control Language DCL Declaration DCL Device Clear DCL Digital Command Language DCL Digital Control Logic DCLU Digital Carrier Line Uint DCM Digital Carrier Module DCME Digital Circuit Multiplication Equipment DCMS Distributed Call Measurement System DCMU Digital Concentrator Measurement Unit DCN Davis Community Network DCNA Data Communication Network Architecture DCO Document Change Order DCP Distributed Communications Processor DCP Duplex Central Processor DCPR Detailed Contuing Property Record DCPSK Differential Coherent Phase-Shift Keying DCS Data Collection System DCS Data Control System DCS Desktop Color Separation DCS Digital Crosconnect System DCS Distribution Control System DCSC Defense Construction Supply Center DCT Digital Carrier Trunk DCT Discrete Cosine Transform DCTN Defense Commercial Telecommunications Network DCTS Dimension Custom Telephone Service DCW Distributed Collaborative Workbench DD Daredevils DD Data Dictionary DD Day DD Days after Date DD Demand Draft DD Digital Display DD Dishonorable Discharge DD Disk Drive DD Doctor of Divinity DD Double Density DD Dungeons & Dragons DD Dunkin ' Donuts DD double-density DDA Digital Differential Analyzer DDA Domain Defined Attribute DDA Domain-Defined Attribute DDB Device Dependent Bitmap DDC Digital Data Converter DDC Direct Department Calling DDCMP Digital Data Communications Message Protocol DDCS Distributed Database Connection Services DDCU DC-to-DC Converter Unit DDD Direct Distance Dialing DDE Direct Data Entry DDE Dynamic Data Exchange DDEML Dynamic Data Exchange Manager Library DDG Data Dependence Graph DDIF Digital Document Interchange Format DDJ Dr. Dobbs Journal DDK Device Driver Kit DDK Driver Development Kit DDL Data Definition Language DDL Data Description Language DDL Document Description Language DDLC Database Development Life Cycle DDM Distributed Data Management DDN Defense Data Network DDN Digital Data Network DDN Dotted Decimal Notation DDNNIC Defense Data Network Network Information Center DDP Datagram Delivery Protocol DDP Distributed Data Processing DDPEX Device Dependent PEX DDR Deutsche Demokratische Republik DDS Dataphone Digital Service DDS Decision Support Systems DDS Design Data Sheet DDS Digital Data Storage DDS Digital Data System DDS Digital Dataphone Service DDS Direct Digital Service DDS Doctor of Dental Science DDS Doctor of Dental Surgery DDS Document Distribution Services DDS data description specifications DDS data description specifications DDT DicholoroDiphenylTricholoroethane DDT Dynamic Debugging Technique DDX Device Dependent X DDX Device Dependent X windows DDX Digital Data eXchange DDX Distributed Data eXchange DE Delaware DE Disk Enclosure DE Germany DEA Data Encryption Algorithm DEA Drug Enforcement Administration DEA Drug Enforcement Agency DEA drug enforcement administration DEA drug enforcement administration DEAR Department of Energy Acquisition Regulation DEBNA Digital Ethernet BI Network Adapter DEBP distinctive estrogen-binding protein DEBP distinctive estrogen-binding protein DEC Decrement DEC Device Clear DEC Digital Equipment Corp. DEC Digital Equipment Corporation DEC Digital Equipment Corp. DECA Distributive Education Clubs of America DECT Digital Europian Cordless Telephony DECUS Digital Equipment Corporation Users Society DEET Department of Education, Employment and Training DEF Desktop Functional Equivalent DEK Data Encryption Key DEL Delete DELNI Digital Ethernet Local Network Interconnect DELQA Digital Ethernet Lowpower Q-bus network Adapter DELSTR Delete String DELUA Digital Ethernet Lowpower Unibus network Adapter DEMPR Digital Ethernet Multi-Port Repeater DENSA Rival club to MENSA DEPCA Digital Ethernet Personal Computer-bus Adapter DEQNA Digital Ethernet Q-bus Network Adapter DEREP Digital Ethernet REPeater DERP Defective Equipment Replacement Program DERV Diesel Engined Road Vehicle DES Data Encryption Standard DES Data Entry Sheet DESPR Digital Ethernet Single Port Repeater DESTA Digital Ethernet thin-wire STation Adapter DESY Deutches Electronen Synchrotron DESY Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DET Device Execute Trigger DEU Germany DEUNA Digital Ethernet Unibus Network Adapter DEV Device DEW Distant Early Warning DEXEC Diagnostic EXEc software DF Damage Free DF Data Field DF Degrees of Freedom DF Destination Field DF Device Flag DF Direction Finding DF Double Flag DFA Determinate Finite Autonoma DFA Deterministic Finite Automaton DFA Deterministic Finite Autonoma DFAD Digital Feature Analysis Data DFC Data Flow Control DFC Development Finance Corp. DFC Distinguished Flying Cross DFD Data Flow Diagram DFE Data Flow Editor DFE Design For the Environment DFF `D'Flip-Flop DFG Deutsche ForschungsGemeinschaft DFI Digital Facility Interface DFKI Deutsches Forschungszentrum fur Kunstliche Intelligenz GmbH DFM Distinguished Flying Medal DFMEA Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis DFMS Digital Facility Management System DFN Deutsche Forschungsnetz Verein DFRF Dryden Flight Research Facility DFS Depth-First Search DFS Distributed File System DFT Diagnostic Funtion Test DFT Discrete Fourier Transform DFT Distributed Function Terminal DFU Data File Utility DFW Dallas-Ft.Worth DG Data General DG Dei Gratia DG Deutsche Genossenschafts DG Directional Gyro DG Director General DGA Direct Graphics Access DGAC Direction Generale de l'Aviation Civile DGD Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Dokumentation DGIS Direct Graphics Interface Standard DGP Dissimilar Gateway Protocol DGPS Differential Global Positioning System DGSC Defense General Supply Center DH Diffie-Hellman DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHEA DeHydroEpiAndrosterone DHHS Department of Health and Human Services DHSS Department of Health and Social Security DI Data In DI Destination Index DIA Defence Intelligence Agency DIA Denver International Airport DIA Document Interchange Architecture DIAD Drum Information Assembler / Dispatcher DIAL Direct Information Access Line DIAS Defense Automatic Integrated System DIB Device Independent Bitmap DIB Directory Information Bases DIBOL DEC Business Oriented Language DIC Digital Interface Controller DICNAVAB DICtionary of NAVal ABreviations DICOM Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine DID Direct Inward Dialing DID direct-inward-dialing DIDS donor impurity density of states DIDS donor impurity density of states DIF Data Interchange Format DIF Digital Interface Frame DIF Document Interchange Format DIFFSENS Differential Sense DIFMOS Double Injection Floating Gate MOS DII Defense Information Infrastructure DIIP Direct Interrupt Identification Port DIL Dual InLine DILLIGAF Do I Look Like I Give A Fuck? DILOG DIstributed LOGic DIM Data In the Middle DIMDI Deutsches Institut fuer medizinische Dokumentation und Information DIMDI Deutsches Institut fur Medizinische Dokumentation und Information DIME Dual Independant Map Encoding DIMM Dual In-line Memory Module DIMS Document Image Management System DIN Deutsche Industrie Normenausschuss DIN Deutsche Industrie-Norm DIN Deutsches Institut fur Normung DINK Double Income No Kids DINKUM Dual Income, No Kids, Unbelievable Mortage DINKY Double Income No Kids Yet DIO Data Input-Output DIP Digital Imaging Processing DIP Dual In-line Pin DIP Dual Inline Package DIP Dual Inline Pin DIR Deliverly & Installation Request DIR Directory DIRE Dire Is Really Emacs DIRT Design In Real-Time DIRTFT Do It Right The First Time DIS Document Information System DIS Draft International Standard DIS Dynamic Impedance Stabilization DISA Data Interchange Standards Association DISA Defense Information Systems Agency DISA Direct Inward System Access DISCA Departament de Informatica de Sistemes, Computadors i Automatica DISN Defense Information Systems Network DISOSS Distributed Office Support System DISP Displacement DITTO Data Interfile Transfer, Testing and Operations DIU Digital Interface Unit DIV Divide DIV Division DIVE Distributed Interactive Virtual Environment DIW D-Inside Wire DIX DEC, Intel, Xerox DIX Digital, Intel and Xerox DIY Do It Yourself DJ Disc Jockey DJ Djibouti DJ Dow Jones DJ Dow Jones DJ the Dow Jones DJF Divorced Jewish Female DJI Djibouti DJIA Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA the Dow Jones Industrial Average DK Denmark ISO 2-letter country code DKB Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank DL Download DL double layer DL double layer DL/1 Data Manipulation Language 1 DLA Defense Logistics Agency DLAT Directory LookAside Table DLC Data Link Control DLC Democratic Leadership Council DLC Digital Loop Carrier DLC Driver's License Compact DLC Democratic Leadership Council DLC The Democratic Leadership Council DLCI Data Link Connection Identifier DLCU Digital Line Carrier Unit DLE Data Link Escape DLG Digital Line Graph DLI Data Link Interface DLJ Donaldson , Lufkin & Jenrette DLL Data Link Layer DLL Dial Long Lines DLL Dynamic Link Library DLM Dynamic Link Module DLMS Digital LandMass System DLO Dead Letter Office DLPI Data Link Provider Interface DLPI DataLink Provider Interface DLR DOS LAN Requester DLS Data Link Control DLS Digital Link Service DLSw Data Link Switch DLT Digital Linear Tape DLTS Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy DLTU Digital Line/Trunk Unit DLUPG Digital Line Unit-Pair Gain DM Delta Modulation DM Dialog Manager DM Distributed Memory DM District Manager DM Dominica DM Dungeon Master DMA Defense Mapping Agency DMA Direct Memory Access/Addressing DMA Dominica DMA direct-memory-access DMAC DMA Controller DMD Directory Management Domain DMD Doctor of Dental Medicine DME Distance Measuring Equipment DME Distributed Management Environment DMF Probably part of an X.400 address in Europe DMI Desktop Mangement Interface DMI Digital Multiplexed Interface DML Data Manipulation Logic DMLCS Database of Mediaeval Latin from Celtic Sources DMLCS Dictionary of Mediaeval Latin from Celtic Sources DMM Digital Multimeter DMMP Distributed Memory, Message Passing DMMS Dynamic Memory Management System DMOS Diffusion Metal Oxide Semiconductor DMOS Double-diffused Metal-Oxide Semiconductor DMP Dot Matrix Printer DMPC Distributed Memory Parallel Computer DMQS Display Mode Query and Set DMS Data Management System DMS Digital Multiplexed System DMS Diskless Management Services DMSD Digital Multistandard Decoding DMSO Defense Modeling and Simulation Office DMSO Defense Modelint & Simulation Office DMSO DiMethyl SulfOxide DMSO DiMethylSulfOxide DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program DMTF Desktop Management Task Force DMU Data Manipulation Unit DMV Department of Motor Vehicles DMY Day Month Year DMZ DeMilitarized Zone DN Directory Number DN Down DNA DeoxyriboNucleic Acid DNA Digital Network Architecture DNC Direct Numerical Control DNC Dynamic Network Controller DNCB Di Nitro Chloro Benzene DNCRI Division of Networking and Communications Research and Infrastructure DND Dungeons 'n' Dragons DND Dungeons and Dragons DNF Did not finish DNHR Dynamic NonHierarchical Routing DNI DECnet Network Interface DNIC Data Network Identification Code DNIS Dialed Number Identification Service DNK Denmark DNL Director of Naval Laboratories DNP DiNitroPhenol DNQ Did not qualify DNR Department of Natural Resources DNR Dialed Number Recorder DNS Direct Numerical Simulation DNS Domain Name System DNS Domain Naming System DNX Dynamic Network X-connect DO Data Out DO Dominican Republic DO Democratic officials DOA Dead On Arrival DOAS Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy DOB Date Of Birth DOC Department of Commerce DOC Dynamic Overload Control DOCS Display Operator Console System DOD Department Of Defense DOE Department of Energy DOE Depends On Experience DOE Distributed Objects Everywhere DOE Department of Energy DOHC Dual OverHead Camshaft DOJ Department Of Justice DOM Data On Master group DOM Dominican Republic DOMAIN Distributed Operating Multi Access Interactive Network DONSA Day Of No Scheduled Activities DOOL Days Of Our Lives DOOM Death Of One Man DOORS Distributed Object Oriented Requirements System DOQ Digital Orthophoto Quadrangle DORE Dynamic Object Rendering Environment DOS Disk Operating System DOSEM DOS Emulation DOT Department Of Transportation DOT Designated Order Turnaround DOT Designated Order Turnaround DOT&E Director, Operational Test and Evaluation DOTE Director, Operational Test and Evaluation DOTS Digital Office Timing Supply DOV Data Over Voice DOW Day Of Week DOY Day of Year DP Data Processing DP Demarcation Point DP Dial Pulse DP Direct print DP Direct print DP Director of Photography DP Displaced Persons DP Display Postscript DP Double Play DP Draft Proposal DP data-processing DPA Delegation of Procurement Authority DPA Demand Protocol Architecture DPAC Dedicated Plant Assignment Center DPANS Draft Proposed American National Standard DPAREN Data Parity Enable DPB Drive Parameter Block DPC Destination Point Code DPC Direct Program Control DPE Data Path Extender DPI Dots Per Inch DPL Descriptor Privilege Level DPM Defect Per Million DPM Digital Panel Meter DPM Directional Policy Matrix DPMA Data Processing Management Association DPMI DOS Protected Mode Interface DPNPH Data Packet Network-Packet Handler DPNSS Digital Private Network Signaling System DPO Data Phase Optimization DPP Discounted Payback Period DPR Dual port RAM DPS Decentralized Processing System DPS Display PostScript DPS Distributed Processing System DPSK Differential Phase Shift Keying DPSK Differential Phased-Shift Keying DPtoTP Display Coordinates to Tablet Coordinates DQ Dairy Queen DQ Dragon Quest DQDB Distributed Queue Dual Bus DQL Database Query Language DR Data Ready DR Data Receive DR Data Received DR Dead Reckoning DR Dining Room DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory DRAM dynamic random access memories DRAM dynamic-RAM DRAM dynamic random access memories DRAW Direct Read After Write DRD Data Reading Device DRDA Distributed Relational Database Architecture DRDO Defense Research and Development Organization DRDOS Digital Research Disk Operating System DRDOS Digital Research Disk Operating System for PCs DRDW Direct Read During Write DRE Directional Reservation Equipment DREAM Dutch Randomized Endovascular Aneurysm Management DREO Defence Research Establishment Ottawa DREV Defence Research Establishment Valcartier DRG Democratic Republic of Germany DRG East Germany DRI Defense Research Internet DRI Digital Research Incorporated DRI Digital Research, Incorporated DRI Dirty Rotten Imbeciles DRMU Digital Remote Measurement Unit DRO Data Request Output DRO Destructive Read-Out DRO Durango, Colorado DRP DECnet Routing Protocol DRP Distribution Resource Planning DRS Data Rate Select DRV Drive DS Data Segment DS Data Send DS Data Server DS Digital Signal DS Digital carrier Span DS Direct Signal DS Directory Service DS Double Sided DS Double-Sided DS Draft Standard DS data-stream DS-1 Digital Signal level 1 DS-1 Digitial Signal 1 DS-3 Digital Signal level 3 DS-3 Digitial Signal 3 DS1 Digital Signal level 1 DS1 Digitial Signal 1 DS3 Digital Signal level 3 DS3 Digitial Signal 3 DS9 Deep Space Nine DSA Democratic Socialists of America DSA Dial System Assistance DSA Digital Storage Architecture DSA Directory Service Agent DSA Directory System Agent DSAB Distributed Systems Architecture Board DSBAM Double-SideBand Amplitude Module DSC Document Structuring Conventions DSCS Defense Satellite Communications System DSD Data Structure Diagram DSD Duales System Deutschland DSDC Direct Service Dial Capability DSDD Double Sided, Double Density DSDD Double Sided, Double Density diskette DSE Data Storage Equipment DSE Data Structure Editor DSE Directorate of School Education DSEA Display Station Emulation Adapter DSECT Dummy Control Section DSEE Domain Software Engineering Environment DSG Democratic Study Group DSG Deutsche Schlafwagen- und Speisewagen-Gesellschaft DSG Democratic Study Group DSG the Democratic Study Group DSHD Double Sided, High Density DSHD Double Sided, High Density disk DSHD Double Sided, High Density diskette DSI Digital Speech Interpolation DSIR Department of Scientific and Industrial Research DSIS Distributed Support Information Standard DSK Down Stream Keyer DSL Deutsche Siedlungs ' & Landesrentenbank DSL Deutsche Siedlungs' & Landesrentenbank DSL Dynamic Simulation Language DSM Distinguished Service Medal DSN Deep Space Network DSN Digital Signal N DSN Digital Signal level N DSO Digital Storage Oscilloscope DSO Distinguished Service Order DSOM Distributed System Object Model DSP Decessit Sine Prole DSP Defense Support Program DSP Digital Signal Processing DSP Digital Signal Processor DSP Domain-Specific System DSP digital-signal-processing DSQD Double Sided, Quad Density DSQD Double Sided, Quad Density disk DSQD Double Sided, Quad Density diskette DSR Data Set Ready DSR Device Status Report DSR Digital Standard Runoff DSR Dynamic Service Register DSRI Digital Standard Relational Interface DSS Data Station Selector DSS Decision Support System DSS Digital Satellite System DSS Direct Station Selection DSSI Digital Storage Systems Interconnect DSSSL Document Style Semantics and Specification Language DST Daylight Saving Time DST Drill Stem Test DSTN Double SuperTwisted Nematic DSTO Defence Science Technology Organisation DSTO Defence Science and Technology Organisation DSU Data Service Unit DSU Digital Service Unit DSU Disk Subsystem Unit DSW Data Status Word DSW Device Status Word DSX Digital System X-connect DT Data Transmit DT Delirium Tremens DT Di-group Terminal DTA Disk Transfer Area DTAS Digital Test Access System DTB Data Transfer Bus DTC Design To Cost DTC Di-group Terminal Controller DTC Digital Trunk Controller DTD Document Type Definition DTE Data Terminal Equipment DTE Dumb Terminal Emulator DTED Digital Terrain Elevation Data DTF Dial Tone First payphone DTFT Discrete-Time Fourier Transform DTG Direct Trunk Group DTH Dallas Times Herald DTH Dallas Times Herald DTH the Dallas Times Herald DTI Department of Trade and Industry DTIC Defense Technical Information Center DTIC Defense Technology Information Center DTIF Digital Transmission Interface Frame DTL Diode Transistor Logic DTL Diode-Transistor Logic DTMF Data Tone Multiple Frequency DTMF Dial Tone Multi Frequency DTMF Dual Tone Multifrequency DTP Desk Top Publishing DTP DeskTop Publishing DTP DocuTech Printer DTR Data Terminal Ready DTR Data Transfer Rate DTSC Digital Transit Switching Centre DTSS Dartmouth TimeSharing System DTU Demand Transmission Unit DTU Di-group Terminal Unit DTV Desktop Video DTVC Desktop Video Conferencing DTW Detroit Metropolitan Airport DU Decision Unit DU Disk Usage DUA Directory User Agent DUAT Direct User Access Terminal DUATS Direct User Access Terminal System DUI Driving Under the Influence DUT Delft University Of Technology DUT Device Under Test DUV Data Under Voice DV Deo Volente DV God willing DVACS Data Verification, Access and Control System DVB Digital Video Broadcast DVC Digital Voice Card DVI DeVice Independent DVI Digital Video Interactive DVM Digital Volt Meter DVM Doctor of Veterinary Medicine DVMA Direct Virtual Memory Access DVMRP Distance-Vector Multicast Routing Protocol DVT Deep Vein Thrombosis DVX Digital Voice eXchange DW Dead Weight DWAPS Defense Warehousing Automated Processing System DWB Documenter's WorkBench DWBH Don't Worry, Be Happy! DWG Drawing DWI Died Without Issue DWI Driving While Intoxicated DWIM Do What I Mean DWLS Driving while License is Suspended DWR Department of Water Resources DX Distance DXC Data Exchange Control DXC Digital Cross-Connect DXF Drawing Exchange Format DXM Dextromethorphan DXT Data eXtractT facility DZ Algeria DZA Algeria DeGUSSA Deutsche Gold- und SilberScheideAnstalt DoIT Division of Instructional Technologies E East E Espionage E&M Ear and Mouth E&OE Errors and Omissions Excepted E&P Electric & Power E-MAIL Electronic MAIL E-O erasable-optical E-R entity-relationship E.G.T. Eppler , Guerin & Turner E.H. Equinox House E.P.A. Environmental Protection Agency E.P.A. Environmental Protection Agency E/A/R Entity/Attribute/Relationship E/R Entity/relationship E911 Enhanced 911 EA Extended Attribute EAA Experimental Aircraft Association EACL European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics EADAS Engineering and Administrative Data Acquisition System EADASNM Engineering and Administrative Data Acquisition System/Network Management EADASS Engineering and Administrative Data AcquiSition System EADS Emergency Air Detritiation System EADS Emergency Air Detritiation System EAEO Equal Access End Office EAFB Edwards Air Force Base EAGLES Expert Advisory Group on Language Engineering Standards EAIJ Electronic Industries Association of Japan EAL European cooperation for Accreditation of Laboratories EAN European Academic Network EANAB Equally Attractive Non-Alcoholic Beverage EARN European Academic Research Network EAROM Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory EARS Electronic Access to Reference Services EAS Engineering Administration System EAS Extended Announcement System EAS Extended Area Service EASD Equal Access Service Date EASI Enhanced Asynchronous SCSI Interface EASI European Academic Supercomputer Initiative EATA Enhanced AT Bus Attachment EATA European Association of Turkish Academics EBC EISA Bus Controller EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code EBE Extraterrestrial Biological Entity EBI Equivalent Background Input EBI Extended Background Investigation EBI Extensive Background Investigations EBL Explanation Based Learning EBNF Extended Backus-Naur Form EBPI Employee Benefit Plans Inc. EBPI Employee Benefit Plans Inc. EBRSC Electronic Bulletin of the Rough Set Community EBS Esselte Business Systems EBS Esselte Business Systems EBSCO Elton B Stephens COmpany EBT Electronic Benefits Transfer EC East Coast EC Economic Community EC Ecuador EC European Commission EC European Community EC European Court EC Exchange Carrier EC Express Corp. EC European Community ECA European Coproduction Association ECA European Coproduction Association ECA The European Coproduction Association ECAC Electromagnetic Compatibility Analysis Center ECAD Electronical Computer Aided Design ECAFE Economic Commission for Africa and the Far East ECAL Enjoy Computing And Learn ECAP Electronic Customer Access Program ECASS Electronically Controlled Automatic Switching System ECASS Export Control Automated Support System ECASU East Coast Asian Student Union ECC Enter Cable Change ECC Error Check Code ECC Error Checking and Correction ECC Error Correction Codes ECCI Eastern Canada Cat Institute ECCM Electronic Counter-CounterMeasures ECCS Economic C Call Seconds ECD East Coast Division ECD Enhanced Color Display ECDO Electronic Community Dial Office ECF Enhanced Connectivity Facility ECG ElectroCardioGram ECL Emitter Coupled Logic ECL Error Correction Logic ECL emitter-coupled-logic ECLAC Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean ECLSS Environmental Control and Life Support System ECM Electronic Counter Measure ECM European Common Market ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association ECMM European Community Monitor Mission ECMO ExtraCorporealMembraneOxygenation ECMWF European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ECN Engineering Computer Network ECN Netherlands Energy Research Foundation ECNE Electric Council of New England ECO Ecological ECO Electronic Central Office ECO Engineering Change Order ECOM Electronic Computer Originated Mail ECOOP European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States ECP Enhanced Capabilities Port ECPA Electronic Communication Privacy Act ECPA Electronic Communications Privacy Act ECPA Evangelical Christian Publishers Association ECPA Evangelical Christian Publishers Association ECPA the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association ECPT Electronic Coin Public Telephone ECR Engineering Change Request ECRC European Computer-Industry Research Centre ECRH Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating ECS Electronic Crosconnect System ECS Environmental Control System ECS European Common Standard ECSA Exchange Carriers Standards Association ECSITE European Collaborative for Science Industry and Technology Exhibitions ECSS European Cooperation for Space Standardization ECT ElectroConvulsive Therapy ECTL Electronic Communal Temporal Lobe ECTSNPRA European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas ECU Ecuador ECU European Currency Unit ECU European currency unit ECU European currency unit ECV Electric Cargo Vehicle ED Erase Display ED&D Expert Dungeons & Dragons EDA Economic Development Administration EDA Electronic Design Automation EDA Embedded Document Architecture EDA electronic-design-automation EDA Economic Development Administration EDA the Economic Development Administration EDAC Electromechanical Digital Adapter Circuit EDC Enhanced Data Correction EDC Error Detection and Correction EDCM Europe Deutschland Cologne-Merzbruck EDD Expert Dungeons & Dragons EDDC Extended Distance Data Cable EDF Electricite de France EDGAR Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval EDI Electronic Data Interchange EDI Electronic Document Interchange EDI Enhanced Definition Interlaced EDI electronic document interchange EDI electronic document interchange EDIF Electronic Design Interchange Format EDIFACT EDI for Administration Commerce and Transport EDIFACT Electronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce and Transport EDILIBE Electronic Data Interchange between LIbraries and Booksellers in Europe EDLC Ethernet Data Link Control EDLIN Editor EDLIS Exchange of Dylan Lyrics - Internet Service EDLP Every Day Low Pricing EDM Engineering Data Management EDMS Engineering Data Management System, Engineering Document Management System EDO Enhanced Data Out EDO Extended Duration Orbiter EDO RAM Extended Data-Out Random Access Memory EDOS Enhanced DOS for Windows EDP Electronic Data Processing EDP Enhanced Definition Progressive EDPM Electronic Data Processing Machine EDRAM Eraseable Dynamic Random Access Memory EDS Electronic Data Systems EDS Electronic Data Systems EDSAC Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer EDSI Enhanced Small Device Interface EDSX Electronic Digital Signal X-connect EDT Eastern Daylight Time EDTA Ethylene Diamine Tetraacetic Acid EDTCC Electronic Data Transmission Communications Central EDU Education EDVAC Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer EE Electrical or Electronics Engineer EE Estonia EE environmental education EE environmental education EEA European Economic Area EEC European Economic Comunity EEC Extended Error Correction EECS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science EECT End-to-End Call Trace EED Electro-Explosive Device EEDP Expanded Electronic tandem switching Dialing Plan EEFMS Early Eyeball Fraternal and Marching Society EEG ElectroEncephaloGram EEHO Either End Hop Off EEI Equipment-to-Equipment Interface EEL Epsilon Extension Language EEM Extended Memory Management EEM External Expansion Module EEMS Enhanced Expanded Memory Specification EENet Estonian Educational and Research Network EEO Errors and Omissions Excepted EEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EEOC the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory EER extended-entity-relationship EES Escrowed Encryption Standard EF128 Electronic Frontiers Route 128 EFA Electronic Frontiers Australia EFA Extended File Attribute EFC Electronic Frontier Canada EFD Ellington Field, Houston TX EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation EFH Electronic Frontiers Houston EFI Electromechanical Frequency Interference EFI Electronic Frontiers Ireland EFI Electronics For Imaging EFJ Electronic Frontiers Japan EFL Emitter Follower Logic EFLA Extended Four Letter Acronym EFMLS Eastern Federation of Mineralogical and Lapidary Societies EFN Electronic Frontier Norway EFNH Electronic Frontiers New Hampshire EFRAP Electronic Feeder Route Analysis Program EFS Error Free Seconds EFTA European Free Trade Association EFTAM Electronic File Transfer Access Method EFTPOS Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Sale EFTS Electronic Funds Transfer System EG Egypt EG Exempla Gratiae x EG Exempli Gratia EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter EGA enhanced graphics adapter EGA enhanced graphics adapter EGP Exterior Gateway Protocol EGREP Extended GREP EGRET Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope EGY Egypt EH Western Sahara EHF Extremely High Frequency EHLLAPI Emulator High Level Language Application EHLLAPI Programming Interface EHP Error Handling Package EHPS European Health Psychology Society EHS European Hybrid Spectrometer EHS European Hybrid Spectrometer EI Environmental Illness EIA Electronic Industries Association EIA Electronics Industry Association EIA Energy Information Administration EIB Excellence In Broadcasting EIN Employer Identification Number EINE EINE Is Not Emacs EINECS European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances EIRENE The European Information Researchers Association EIS Environmental Impact Statement EIS Executive Information Systems EIS Expanded Inband Signaling EIS Extended Instruction Set EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture EISA Extended Industry-Standard Architecture EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture EISB Electronic Imaging Standards Board EISS Economic Impact Study System EISS European Intelligence Support System EITC earned-income tax credit EITC earned-income tax credit EITS Encoded Information TypeS EJASA Electronic Journal of the Astronomical Society of the Atlantic EJOR European Journal of Operational Research EK Eastman Kodak EK Eastman Kodak EKG ElectroKardioGramm EKTS Electronic Key Telephone Sets EL ElectroLuminescent EL Erase Line ELC Extra Low Cost ELF Extensible Linking Format ELF Extremely Low Frequency ELF extremely-low-frequency ELIB West Coast Environmental Legal Information Base ELICOS English Language Courses for Overseas Students ELISA Enzyme Linked Immuno-Sorption Assay ELISA Enzyme Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay ELLE Elle Looks Like Emacs ELM ELectronic Mailer ELO Electric Light Orchestra ELP Emerson, Lake and Palmer ELP Emerson, Lake and Powell ELS Entry Level System ELSNET European NETwork in Language and Speech ELT Electronic Locator Transmitter ELT Emergency Locator Transmitter ELV Expendable Launch Vehicle ELVIS Expanding Linear Visualization Information Structure EM Ear & Mouth EM Electronic Mail EM Engineering Model EM Enlisted Man EM Expanded Memory EMA Electronic Mail Association EMA Enterprise Management Architecture EMA Environmental Media Association EMA Environmental Media Association EMACS Editor MACroS EMACS Emacs Makes A Computer Slow EMACS Escape Meta Alt Control Shift EMAIL Electronic MAIL EMB Extended Memory Block EMBARC Electronic Mail Broadcast to a Roaming Computer EMBO European Molecular Biology Organization EMBRAPA EMpresa BRAsileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria EMC Electro Magnetic Compatability EMC ElectroMagnetic Compatibility EMC Electronic Media Center EMC Extended Math Coprocessor EMEP European Monitoring and Evaluation Program EMEP European Monitoring and Evaluation Program EMF ElectroMotive Force EMG ElectroMyoGram EMI ElectroMagnetic Interference EMI External Muon Identifier EMI External Muon Identifier EML Expected Measured Loss EMM Expanded Memory Manager EMP Electromagnetic Propagation EMP Electromagnetic Pulse EMPRESS EnvironMental Pulse Radiation Environment Simulator for Ships EMR Electro-Magnetic Radiation EMR ElectroMagnetic Response EMS Electronic Mail System EMS Electronic Message System EMS Element Management System EMS Emergency Medical Services EMS European Monetary System EMS Extended Memory Specification EMS European Monetary System EMS the European Monetary System EMT Emergency Medical Technician EMU ElectroMagnetic Unit EMU Extravehicular Mobility Unit EMail Electronic Mail ENDS Ends Segment ENEA Comitato Nazionale per la Ricerca e per lo Sviloppo dell' Energia Nuclaeare e delle Energie Alternative, Italy ENEL Ente Nazionale energia ELettrica ENET Ethernet ENFIA Exchange Network Facility for Interstate Access ENI Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi ENI Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator ENQ Enquiry ENS ENSign ENSS Exterior Nodal Switching Subsystem ENSTBr ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Bretagne EO End Office EO Erasable Optical EOA End of Address EOB End Of Buffer EOB End of Block EOC End of Conversion EOD Erasable Optical Disk EOE Electronic Order Exchange EOE Equal Opportunity Employer EOF End Of File EOG Enron Oil & Gas EOG Enron Oil & Gas EOI End or Identify EOJ End of Job EOL End of List EOM End Of Month EOR Exclusive OR EOS Earth Observing Satellite EOS Earth Observing System EOS Electrical OverStress EOS End of String EOS Extended Operating System EOSDIS Earth Observing Satellite Data and Information System EOSDIS Earth Observing System Data and Information System EOT End Of Transmission EOT End of Tape EOT End of Text EOTT End Office Toll Trunking EOWG Engineering and Operations Working Group EP Emulation Program EP Experience Points EP Extended Play EP electro-photographic EPA Enhanced Performance Architecture EPA Environmental Protection Agency EPA Environmental Protection Agency EPA the Environmental Protection Agency EPC Economic Policy Council EPC Economic Policy Council EPC the Economic Policy Council EPCOT Every Person Comes Out Tired EPCOT Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow EPD Entry Products Division EPFL Ecole Polytechnice Federale de Lausanne EPIRB Electronic Personal Identification Radio Beacon EPIRB Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon EPIX Emergency Preparedness Information eXchange EPL Effective Privilege Level EPL Electronic switching system Program Language EPLD Electrically Programmable Logic Device EPM Enhanced Editor for Presentation Manager EPM Enterprise Process Management EPMA Electron Probe Microanalysis EPN European Pulsar Network EPOS Engineering and Project-management Oriented Support system EPP Enhanced Parallel Port EPPS Electronic Pre-Press Systems. EPRI Electric Power Research Institute EPRI Electric Power Research Institute EPROM Electrically Programmable Read Only Memory EPROM Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory EPS Encapsulated PostScript EPSCS Enhanced Private Switched Communication Service EPSCoR Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research EPSF Encapsulated PostScript Files EPSF Encapsulated PostScript Format EPSI Encapsulated PostScript Interchange EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EPT Empire of the Petal Throne EPTS Electronic Problem Tracking System EPUB Electronic PUBlication EPW Enemy Prisoner of War EQ Educational Quotient EQUEL Embedded QUEL ER Emergency Room ER Entity-Relationship ER Error Register ER entity-relationship ERA Earned Run Average ERA Electronic Realty Associates ERA Entity-Relationship-Attribute ERA Entity-Relationship-Attribute ERA Equal Rights Amendment ERA entity/relationship/attribute ERAR Error Return Address Register ERAS Electronic Routing and Approval System ERASMUS EC Programme for Student Mobility and Higher Education Cooperation in Europe ERASMUS EuRopean community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students ERASMUS European Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students ERAU Embry Riddle Aeronautical University ERCB Energy Resources Conservation Board ERD Entity-Relation Diagram ERD Entity-Relationship Diagram ERE Entity Relationship Editor ERE Entity-Relationship Editor EREP Environmental Recording Editing and Printing ERI Entity-Relationship-Involvement ERIC Educational Research Information Centers ERIC Educational Resources Information Center ERICA Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones over the Atlantic ERICA Eyegaze Response Interface Computer Aid ERIN Environmental Resources Information Network ERISA Employee Retirement Income Security Act ERISA Employment Retirement Income Security Act ERISA Employment Retirement Income Security Act ERISA the Employment Retirement Income Security Act ERL Echo Return Loss ERLL Enhanced Run Length Limited EROM Erasable Read Only Memory ERP Effective Radiated Power ERR Error ERS Earth Resources Satellite ERT Earth Resources Technology ERU Error Return address Update ES End System ES Expert System ES Extra Segment ES Spain ES-IS end-System-to-Intermediate-System ES/IS end-system/intermediate-system ESA Enterprise Systems Architecture ESA European Space Agency ESAC Electronic Surveillance Assistance Center ESAC Electronic Systems Assistance Center ESADMF Eat Shit And Die, Mother Fucker ESB Emergency Service Bureau ESC Escape ESC/P Epson Standard Code for Printers ESC/P2 Enhanced ESC/P ESCA Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis ESCM Extended Services Communications Manager ESCON Enterprise System Connection ESD ElectroStatic Discharge ESD Electronic Software Distribution ESD Engineering Service Division ESDA Electronic System Design Automation ESDI Enhanced Small Device Interface ESDI Enhanced Standard Device Interface ESDX Environment & Safety Data Exchange ESE East South East ESEA Elementary and Secondary Education Act ESF Eureka Software Factory ESF Extended Superframe Format ESH End System Hello ESH Western Sahara ESI ElectroStatic Interference ESI End System Identifier ESI Enhanced Serial Interface ESIS End System-Intermediate System ESL Emergency Stand-Alone ESL English as a Second Language ESM Electronic Support Measures ESM External Storage Module ESMD Embeded Storage Module Disk ESMD Enhanced Storage Module Device ESMTP Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol ESN Electronic Serial Number ESN Electronic Switched Network ESNET Energy Sciences network ESO European Southern Observatory ESOP Employee Stock Ownership Plan ESOP employee stock ownership plan ESOP employee stock ownership plans ESP Emulation Sensing Processor ESP Enhanced Serial Port ESP Enhanced Service Provider ESP Exchange Stock Portfolio ESP Extra Sensory Perception ESP Spain ESP extra-sensory perception ESP extra-sensory perception ESP Exchange Stock Portfolio ESPEC Ethernet SPECification ESPN Entertainment & Sports Programming Network ESPN Entertainment Sports Programming Network ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network ESPRIT European Strategic Program of Research in Information Technologies ESPS Entropic Signal Processing System ESRD End Stage Renal Disease ESRI Environmental Systems Research Institute ESRIN European Space Research Institute ESS Electronic Switching System ESS Environmental Stress Screening ESSEX Experimental Solid State EXchange ESSX Electronic Switching Systen eXchange EST Eastern Standard Time EST Estonia ESU Electro-Static Unit ESU Enormous State University ET Eastern Time ET Ethiopia ET External Tank ET Extra Terrestrial ET ExtraTerrestrial ET/ACC External Tank/Aft Cargo Carrier ETA Estimated Time of Arrival ETACC External Tank/Aft Cargo Carrier ETANN Electrically Trainable Analog Neural Network ETAS Emergency Technical ASsistance ETB End of Transmission Block ETC Enhanced Throughput Cellular ETC Et caetera ETC Et cetera ETD Estimated Time of Departure ETDE Energy Technology Data Exchange ETF Electronic Toll Fraud ETFD Electronic Toll Fraud Device ETH Eidgnoessiche Techniche Hochschule ETH Eidgnoessiche Technische Hochschule ETH Ethiopia ETLA Extended Three Letter Acronym ETN Electronic Tandem Network ETO Earth-to-Orbit ETPL Endorsed Tempest Products List ETR Eastern Test Range ETR Employer Trip Reduction ETR Engineering Test Reactor ETR Engineering Test Reactor ETS Econometric Time Series ETS Electronic Tandem Switching ETS Electronic Translation System ETS Electronic Translator System ETSACI Electronic Tandem Switching Adminstration Channel Interface ETSI European Telecommunication Standards Institute ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute ETSI Eurpean Telecommunications Standards Institute ETSSP ETS Status Panel ETTM Electronic Toll and Traffic Management ETV Education TeleVision ETX End of Text EU European Union EU Execution Unit EUA Eastern Utilities Associates EUA Eastern Utilities Associates EUC Extended Unix Code EUCAR EUropean Council for Automotive Research and development EUCLID European Cooperation for the Long Term In Defence EUMETSAT EUropean METeorological SATellite EUMETSAT European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites EUNET European UNIX network EUSPBA Eastern United States Pipe Band Association EUUG European UNIX Users Group EUV Extreme Ultra-Violet EUV Extreme UltraViolet EUVE Extreme Ultra-Violet Explorer EUVE Extreme UltraViolet Explorer EVA ExtraVehicular Activity EVE Extensible VAX Editor EVGA Extended Video Graphics Array EVN European Vlbi Network EVVK Ei Vois Vaehempaeae Kiinnostaa EVX Electronic Voice eXchange EW Electronic Warfare EW Enlisted Woman EWO Electronic Warfare Officer EWO Engineering Work Order EWOS European Workshop for Open Systems EWS Employee Written Software EWS Engineering Work Station EXACT International EXchange of Authenticated electronic Component Technology and test data EXAFS Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure EXITE Energetic X-ray Imaging Telescope Experiment EXOSAT EXOspheric SATellite EXOSAT Extreme X-ray Observatory SATellite EXP Exponent EXPASY EXpert Protein Analysis SYstem - WWW server and expert system EXPO World Exposition EXT External EXTREM Extended Relational Model EXTRN External Reference EXUG European X User Group F.D.R. Franklin D. Roosevelt F.G. Freeman and Green F/T Full Time F2F Face to Face FA Factory Automation FA Finance Accounting FA Football Association FA Fuse Alarm FAA Federal Aviation Administration FAA Federal Aviation Agency FAA Federal Aviation Authority FAA Flexible Automatic Assembly FAA Federal Aviation Administration FAA the Federal Aviation Administration FAAQ Federation des astronomes amateurs du Quebec FAB Computer-Chip Fabrication Plant FAB Feature-Advantage-Benefit FAC Federal Advisory Council FAC File Access Code FAC Federal Advisory Council FAC the Federal Advisory Council FACD Foreign Area Customer Dialing FACE Fathers And Children for Equality FACOM Fujitsu Automatic Computer FACP Fellow, American College of Physicians FACS Facilities Assignment and Control System FADA Federal Asset Disposition Association FADA Federal Asset Disposition Association FADA the Federal Asset Disposition Association FADEC Full Authority Digital Engine Control FAE Fuel Air Explosive FAESHED Fuel Air ExploSive, HElicopter Delivered FAG Film-AG an der Universitat Hannover FAG Forced Air Gas FAI Federation Aeronautique International FALIA Fellow of the Australian Library and Information Association FAMOS Floating Gate Avalanche MOS FAN Ford and National FAO Food and Agriculture Organization FAP File Access Protocol FAP Fortran Assembly Program FAPI Family Application Program Interface FAQ Frequently Asked Questions FAQ Frequently-Asked Questions FAQL Frequently-Asked Questions List FAR Federal Acquisition Regulations FAR Federal Aviation Regulations FAR Federation of American Research FARMS Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies FARNET Federation of American Research NETworks FART Fellowship After Round Table FART French Alpine Racing Team FAS Foreign Agricultural Service FAS Free Alongside Ship FASB Financial Accounting Standards Board FASB Financial Accounting Standards Board FASB Financial Accounting Standards Board FASB the Financial Accounting Standards Board FASSP First Assistant Secretary Science Policy FASST Flexible Architecture Standard System Technology FAST Fast Auroral SnapshoT explorer FAST First Application System Test FAT File Allocation Table FAT Foreign Area Translation FAX FAcsimile FB Freight Bill FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Federation of British Industries FBI Fumbly Bumbly Idiots FBO Fixed-Base Operator FBOM Fine Business Old Man FBPS Fellow of the British Psychological Society FBR Foundation for Biomedical Research FC Full Color FCAE Facilitating Coordination in Agriculture Education FCAP Facility CAPacity FCB File Control Block FCB Foote , Cone & Belding FCC Federal Communications Comission FCC Federal Communications Commission FCC Federal Computer Conference FCC Forward Command Channel FCC Federal Communications Commission FCC The Federal Communications Commission FCCSET Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Education and Technology FCDNA Field Command/Defense Nuclear Agency FCFS First Come First Served FCG False Cross or Ground FCGR Fatigue Crack Growth Rate FCI Federation Cynologique Internationale FCI Flux Changes per Inch FCO Field Change Order FCP Flight Control Plan FCP Floating-point Co-Processor FCRC Federal Contract Research Center FCS File Control Systemction FCS First Customer Ship FCS Frame Check Sequence FCS Frame Check/Control Sequence FCT Four Corner Test FD File Descriptor FD Flexible Disk FD Flexible Diskette FD Floppy Disk FD Floppy Diskette FD Floppy Drive FD Full Duplex FDA Food And Drug Administration FDA Food and Drug Administration FDA Food and Drug Administration FDA the Food and Drug Administration FDC Federation for a Democratic China FDC Federation for a Democratic China FDC Floppy Disk Controller FDDI Fiber Digital Device Interface FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface FDDI Fiber-Distributed-Data-Interface FDDL Fiberoptic Distributed Data Link FDHD Floppy Drive High Density FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. FDIC the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. FDISK Fixed Disk FDLE Florida Department of Law Enforcement FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing FDM Frequency-Division Multiplexing FDN Nicaraguan Democratic Force FDP Field Development Program FDR Franklin Delano Roosevelt FDTD Finite Difference Time Domain FDX Full DupleX FE Field Engineer FE Format Effecters FE Front End FEA Finite Element Analysis FEA Functional Entity Actions FEANLPI Functional Entity Actions Network Layer Protocol Identifier FEAR False Evidence Appearing Real FEBA Forward Edge of Battle Area FEBA Forward Edge of the Battle Area FEC Forward Error Correction FED Far End Data FEDEX Federal Express FEDSIM FEDeral Systems Integration and Management center FEFO First-Ended, First-Out FEHQ Fluke European HeadQuarters FEL Free Electron Laser FEM Finite Element Modeling FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMF Foreign EMF FEMF Foreign Electro-Motive Force FEMS Federation of European Microbiological Societies FEP Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene FEP Front End Processor FEPC Fair Employment Practices Commission FEPG Federal Engineering Planning Group FEPS Facility and Equipment Planning System FER Fusion Experimental Reactor FER Fusion Experimental Reactor FERC Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FERC Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FERC the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FERF Far End Recive Failure FERMI Formalisation and Experimentation on the Retrieval of Multimedia Information FERS Federal Employees Retirement System FESDK Far East Software Development Kit FET Far East Trading FET Federal Excise Tax FET Field Effect Transistor FEV Far End Voice FF Flip-Flop FF Form Feed FFA Field Failure Analysis FFA Future Farmers of America FFA Future Farmers of America FFD FreeForm Deformation FFP Fat Finger Problems FFRDC Federally Funded Reseach and Development Center FFRNS Flat-Field Response, Noise Spectrum FFS Fast File System FFST First Failure Support Technology FFT Fast Fourier Transform FG-A Feature Group A FG-B Feature Group B FG-D Feature Group D FGA Feature Group A FGB Feature Group B FGC Feature Group C FGD Feature Group D FGM Functionally Graded Materials FGREP Fixed GREP FGS Fine Guidance Sensors FHA Farmers Home Administration FHA Federal Home Administration FHA Federal Housing Administration FHA Future Homemakers of America FHA Federal Housing Administration FHLBB Federal Home Loan Bank Board FHLBB Federal Home Loan Bank Board FHLBB the Federal Home Loan Bank Board FHLMC Federal Home Loan Morgtgage Corporation FHLMC Federal Home Loan Mortgage Association FHMA Federal Home Mortgage Association FHST Fixed Head Star Trackers FI Finland FIA Forest Inventory and Analysis FIARI Federation Internationale pour l'Art Revolutionnaire Independant FIAT Fabbrica Italiana Automobile Torino FIAWOL Fandom Is A Way Of Life FIB Focused Ion Beam FIBI focused ion beam implanter FIBI focused ion beam implanter FICA Federal Insurance Contributions Act FICORCA Fiji Island Commission on Oriental Rats and Caucasian Ants FIDO FInite DOmains. A constraint language implemented on top of Prolog. FIDO Fog Investigation Dispersal Operation FIDO Fuck It, Drive On. FIF Fractal Image Format FIFA Federation International de Footbal Associations FIFA Federation of Internation Football Associations FIFA Federation of International Football Associations FIFE First ISLSCP Field Experiment FIFO First In First Out FIFO First In, First Out FIFO First-In, First-Out FIFO First-In-First-Out FIFRA Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act FIGMO Forget It, Got My Orders FIGMO Fuck It, Got My Orders FIJI Phi Gamma Delta FILO First In Last Out FILO First In, Last Out FILO First-In, Last-Out FIM FInnish Mark FIMR Finnish Institute of Marine Research FIMS Forms Interface Management System FIN Field Information Notice FIN Finland FINE FINE Is Not Emacs FIO Frequency In and Out FIOC Frame Input/Output Controller FIP Facility Interface Processor FIP File Processor Buffering FIPS Federal Information Processing Standard FIR Far InfraRed FIR Field Information Report FIR Finite Impulse Response FIRE Factor Information REtrieval system FIRMR Federal Information Resource Management Regulation FIRP Federal Internetworking Requirements Panel FIRST Far Infra Red Space Telescope FIRST Fund for the Improvement and Reform of Schools and Teaching FIRST Institute for Computer Systems and Software Technology FISE Fonds International de Secours a l'Enfance FISH First In Still here FIT Factor Intervention Trial FIT Federal Information Technologies inc. FIT Federal Information Technologies, inc. FIT Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT Factor Intervention Trial FITL Fiber In The Loop FITL Fiber-In-The-Loop FITS Flexible Image Transport System FIX Federal Information Exchange FIX Federal Inter-agency eXchange FJ Fiji FJI Fiji FK Falkland Islands FKK FreiKorperKultur FKK Freie Korper Kultur FL Florida FLA Fellow of the Library Association FLA Florida Library Association FLACC Full Level Algol Checkout Compiler FLC Ferro-electric Liquid Crystal FLC Fixed Length Code FLD Field FLEA Four Letter Extended Acronym FLETC Federal Law Enforcement Training Center FLIR Forward Looking InfraRed sensor FLIR Forward Looking Infrared Radar FLIS Federal Logistics Information System FLK Falkland Islands FLL Fixed Loss Loop FLL FoxPro Link Library FLLA Four Letter Long Acronym FLOP FLoating point OPeration FLOPS FLoating-point OPerations per Second FLOPS Floating Point Operations Per Second FLRA Federal Labor Relations Authority FLS Floating License Server FLT Front Load Tape FM Frequency Modulation FM Fuckin Magic FM Micronesia FM fax machine FMAC Facility Maintenance And Control FMB Federal Maritime Board FMBSBC Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention FMC Flexible Manufacturing Cell FMC Ford Motor Co. FMCG Fast Moving Consumer Goods FMCS Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service FMEA Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMI Franklin Multi-Income FMI Franklin Multi-Income FMLA Family Medical Leave Act FMLN Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front FMLN Frente Farabundo Marti de Liberacion Nacional FMR Field Marketing Representative FMR Follow Me Roaming FMS Financial Management Service FMS Flexible Machining/Manufacturing System FMS Flight management system FMS Forms Management System FMSM Flatow Moore Shaffer McCabe FMT Format FNAL Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois FNBO First National Bank of Omaha FNC Federal Networking Council FNMA Federal National Mortgage Association FNMA Federal National Mortgage Association FNMOC Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center FNPA Foreign Numbering Plan Area FO Faroe Islands FO Forecast Order FO Foreign Office FO Forward Observer FOAC Federal Office Automation Center FOAD Fuck Off And Die FOB Federal Office Building FOB Free On Board FOC Faint Object Camera FOC Fiber Optic Communications FOC Free Of Charge FOCOL FOx Communities OnLine FOCS Foundations Of Computer Science FOCUS Forum of Control Data Users FOD Finger of Death FOG First Osborne Group FOGFEST Fat Old Greyheaded Farts Engineering Society for Tippling FOGGER Fat Old Greyheaded Grouchy Eccentric Redneck FOGLET Fat Old Greyheaded Lunatic Engineer of Tomorrow FOIA Freedom Of Information Act FOIL First, Outside, Inside, Last FOIMS Field Office Information Management System FOIRL Fiber Optic Inter Repeater Link FOKUS Institute for Open Communication Systems FOMC Federal Open Market Committee FOMC Federal Open Market Committee FOMC the Federal Open Market Committee FON Fiber Optic Network FONSI Finding of No Significant Impact FOO See FUBAR FOO.BAR See FUBAR FOOBAR FTP Operation Over Big Address Records FOOBAR See FUBAR FOR Free On Rail FORCS Faa's Operational Reporting Communication System FORD Fix Or Repair Daily FORD Found On Road Dead FORD Fucked Over, Rebuilt Dodge FORTRAN Formula Translator FOS Faint Object Spectrograph FOSE Federal Office Systems Exposition FOSI Formatting Output Specification Instance FOSSIL Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Layer FOT Fiber Optic Transceiver FOT Free On Truck FOTC Force Over the Horizon Tactical Coordiantion FOTD Friend of the Devil FOV Field Of View FOX Field Operational X.500 FP Functional Properties FPA Floating Point Accelerator FPC Fish Protein Concentrate FPC Floating Point Coprocessor FPCP Floating-Point Co-Processor FPDU FTAM Protocol Data Unit FPE Floating Point Engine FPE Foam PolyEthylene FPGA Field Programmable Gate-Array FPHA Federal Public Housing Authority FPLA Field Programmable Logic-Array FPLMTS Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunication Systems FPLMTS Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunications Service FPM Feet Per Minute FPMH Failures per Million Hours FPO Field Post Office FPO Fleet Post Office FPP Fixed Path Protocol FPP Floating Point Processor FPS Fast Packet Switching FPS Favorite Play Sequence FPS Feet Per Second FPS Foot-Pound-Second FPS Frames Per Second FPTS Forward Propogation and Troposheric Scatter FPU Floating Point Unit FPsSI Fellow of the Psychological Society of Ireland FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name FR Flat Rate FR Frame Relay FR France FRA France FRACTAL FRACTional dimensionAL FRAD Frame Relay Access Device FRAG Fragment FRAG Fragmentation FRAM Ferroelectric RAM FRAM Ferroelectric Random-Access Memory FRB Federal Reserve Board FRCPC Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada FRCSC Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada FRD Fire RetarDant FRE Full Radiance Equation FRED Frame Editor FRED Fred Resembles Emacs Deliberately FREE Fathers Rights and Equality Exchange FRG Federal Republic of Germany FRG Federal Republic of Germany FRG West Germany FRICC Federal Research Internet Coordinating Committee FRO Faroe Islands FROG Free Rocket Over Ground FRPG Fantasy Role Playing Game FRPI Flux Reversals Per Inch FRR Flight-Readiness Review FRS Federal Reserve System FRS Flexible Route Selection FRSH Fellow of the Royal Society of Health FRU Field Replacable Unit FS Field Service FS File Separator FS File System FS Floppy System FSCM Federal Supply Code for Manufactures FSD File System Driver FSDO Flight Standards District Office FSE Field Service Engineer FSF Free Software Foundation FSH follicle stimulating hormone FSH follicle stimulating hormone FSIP Fast Serial Interface Processor FSK Frequency Shift Keying FSL Forecast Systems Laboratory FSLIC Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corp. FSLIC Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp FSLIC Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. FSLIC Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation FSLIC Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. FSLN Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional FSLN Sandinista National Liberation Front FSM Micronesia FSN Full Service Network FSP Federation of Sentient Planets FSP File Service Process FSP File Service Protocol FSS Fast System Switch FSS Federal Supply Service FSS Flight Service Station FSU Florida State University FSU Former Soviet Union FSW Forward Swept Wings FT Foot FT fault-tolerant FT Financial Times-Stock FT The Financial Times-Stock FT-SE Financial Times-Stock Exchange FTAM File Transfer And Management FTAM File Transfer, Access, and Management FTC Fair Trade Commission FTC Federal Trade Commission FTC Fuser, Transfer, and Charger FTC Federal Trade Commission FTC the Federal Trade Commission FTD Florists Transworld Delivery FTE Factory Test Equipment FTG Final Trunk Group FTIR Fourier Transform InfraRed spectroscopy FTL Faster Than Light FTL Flash Translation Layer FTM Flat Tension Mask FTM flat-tension-mask FTMGACS Fuck The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland FTP Fiber Termination Point FTP File Transfer Protocol FTP Fuck The Pope FTPI Flux Transitions Per Inch FTPd File Transfer Protocol Daemon FTS Federal Telecommunication System FTS Federal Telecommunications System FTS Federal Telephone System FTS Flight Telerobotic Servicer FTSE Financial Times Share Index FTSE Financial Times Stock Exchange FTTC Fiber To The Curb FTTF Fiber-To-The-Feeder FTTH Fiber To The Home FTTH Fibre to the home FTTK Fibre to the kerb FTW File Tree Walk FTZ Free Trade Zone FUBAR Failed UniBus Address Register FUBAR Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition FUBAR Fucked Up Beyond All Repair FUBIS Fuck yoU Buddy, I'm Short FUCK For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge FUCK Fornication Under Consent of the King FUCT Failed Under Continious Testing FUD Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt FUDD Frequently Updated Distributed Data FUI File Update Information FUIFV Fuck You, I'm Fully Vested FUNC Function FURFFU This is a ROT-13 of SHESSH used on alt.folklore.urban FUS Full-Use Standard FUSE Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer FUSS full-use-of-suitable-spares FV folio verso FVP flash vacuum pyrolysis FVP flash vacuum pyrolysis FVT Full Video Translation FVWM Feeble Virtual Window Manager FW Fringeworthy FWAK Fucked Without A Kiss FWD Front Wheel Drive FWHM Full Width at Half Maximum FWIW For What It's Worth FWIW For What Its Worth FWLS Future We'd Like to See FWPCA Federal Water Pollution Control Act FWS Fish and Wildlife Service FX Foriegn eXchange FX special effects FXCH Floating-point eXCHange FY Fiscal Year FYA For Your Action FYI For Your Information FYS For Your Signature FedEx Federal Express FoLLI European foundation for LOgic, Language and computation G Gravity G-R-H Gramm-Rudman-Hollings G.O. general obligation G/L General Ledger GA Gabon GA Gamblers Anonymous GA General Assembly GA General Availability GA General Average GA General of the Army GA Georgia GA general assistance GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting Principles GAAS Gallium Arsenide GAB Gabon 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GLI Greyhound Lines Inc. GLIG Gay and Lesbian Interest Group GLIS Global Land Information System GLM General Linear Models GLOBE Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment GLOMR Global Low-Orbiting Message Relay GLOW Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling GLP Guadeloupe GM GENERAL MOTORS GM Gambia GM Game Master GM General Manager GM General Motors GM General Motors Company GM General Motors Corp. GM General Motors Corporation GM Guided Missile GM general manager GM General Motors GM-CSF granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor GMA Grocery Manufacturers of America GMA Grocery Manufacturers of America GMA Grocery Manufacturers of America GMA the Grocery Manufacturers of America GMAC General Motors Acceptance Company GMAC General Motors Acceptance Corp GMAC General Motors Acceptance Corp. GMAC General Motors Acceptance Corporation GMAC General Motors Acceptance Corp GMAT Graduate Management Aptitude Test GMB Gambia GMBH Gesellschaft Mit Beschraenkter Haftung GMC General Motors Corp. GMC Giant Molecular Cloud GMC General Motors Corp. GMD Gesellschaft fur Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung GMI General Motors Institute GMIDI General MIDI GMM Genetically Modified Microorganism GMRT Giant Meter-wave Radio Telescope GMS Global Messaging Service GMSK Gaussian prefiltered Minimum Shift Keying GMT Greenwich Mean Time GMW Give me More Windows GN Guinea GNB Guinea-Bissau GNC General Nutrition Center GNC General Nutrition Centers GND GrouND GND System Ground GNDN Goes Nowhere Does Nothing GNMA Government National Mortgage Association GNN Global Network Navigator GNP Gross National Product GNP gross national product GNP gross national product GNQ Equatorial Guinea GNS Gender Non-Specific GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System GNTO Greek National Tourist Organisation GNU GNU's Not Unix GNU Gnu is not Unix GOALS Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System GOD General On-time Delivery GOD Guaranteed Overnight Delivery GODORT GOvernment DOcuments Round Table GOES Geostationary Orbiting Environmental Satellites GOK God Only Knows GOME Global Ozone Monitoring Experimen GOMER Gentleman of Many Emergency Rooms GOMER Get Out of My Emergency Room GOP Grand Old Party GOP Group Of Pictures GOS Grade Of Service GOSIP Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile GOST Gosudarstvennyi Obshchesoyuznyi Standart GOV Government GOX Gaseous OXygen GP Gas Plasma GP General Practitioner GP General Purpose GP Grand Prix GP Graphics Processor GP Group Processor GP Guadeloupe GPA Grade Point Average GPC Gel Permeation Chromatography GPC General Purpose Computer GPCI Graphics Processor Command Interface GPD Graphics Products Division GPETE General Purpose Electronic Test Equipment GPF General Protection Fault GPI Graphics Programming Interface GPIB General Purpose Interface Bus GPIB General-Purpose Interface Bus GPL GNU General Public Licence GPL GNU Public License GPL General Public License GPL Graphics Programming Language GPM Gross Product Margin GPO General Post Office GPO Government Printing Office GPPD General Purpose Powder Diffractometer GPPD General Purpose Powder Diffractometer GPS General Problem Solver GPS Global Positioning System GPSI Graphics Processor Software Interface GPSS General Purpose Systems Simulator GPWS ground proximity warning system GQ Equatorial Guinea GQ General Quarters GQ Gentleman's Quarterly GQL Graphical Query Language GR Greece ISO 2-letter country code GRACE God's Riches At Christ's Expense GRASS Geographical Resources Analysis Support System GRB Gamma Ray Burst GRB Gamma Ray Burster GRC Gendarmerie Royale du Canada GRC Greece ISO 3-letter country code GRD GRounD GRD Grenada ISO 3-letter country code GRD Grinning, Running & Ducking GRE Graduate Record Examination GRE Graphics Engine GRE Guardian Royal Exchange GRE Guardian Royal Exchange GREP Get regular expression and print GREP Global Regular Expression and Print GRI Graduate, Realtors Institute GRIPS Government Raster Image Processing Software GRL Greenland GRO Gamma Ray Observatory GROPE Graphical representation of protocols in Estelle GRPMOD GRouP MODulator GRS Gamma Ray Spectrometer GRS Great Red Spot GS General Schedule GS Glide Slope GS Gray-Scale GS Group Separator GS/OS Apple IIgs Operating System GSA General Services Administration GSA General Services Adminstration GSA Girl Scouts of America GSA Government Services Administration GSA General Services Administration GSA the General Services Administration GSAT General telephone and electronics SATellite corporation GSBCA General Services administration Board of Contract Appeals GSC Guide Star Catalog GSD Genetically Significant Dose GSD Genetically Significant Dose GSDB Genome Sequence DataBase GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center GSI Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung GSI Goldome Strategic Investments GSI Goldome Strategic Investments GSM Global System for Mobile communications GSM Groupe Speciale Mobile GSOH Good Sense Of Humor GSOH Good Sense Of Humour GSP Generalized System of Preferences GSP Generalized System of Preferences GSP The Generalized System of Preferences GSP the Generalized System of Preferences GSTS Ground-based Surveillance and Tracking System GSUSA Girl Scouts USA GSW GunShot Wound GT Gross Ton GT Group Technology GT Guatemala GTC General Telephone Company GTD Geometrical Theory of Diffraction GTE General Telephone and Electric GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTI Graphic Technology Inc. GTM Guatemala GTN Global Transportation Network GTO Geostationary Transfer Orbit GTSI Government Technology Services inc. GTSI Government Technology Services, inc. GTT Global Title Transmission GU Guam GUBU Grotesque, Unbelievable, Bizarre and Unprecedented GUF French Guiana GUI Graphical User Interface GUI graphical-user-interface GUIDE Graphical User Interface Design Editor GUM Guam GURPS General Universal RolePlaying System GURPS Generic Universal Role Playing System GUS Guide to the Use of Standards GUUG German Unix Users Group GUY Guyana GW Gamma World GW Guinea-Bissau GW-BASIC Gee Whiz BASIC GWEN Ground Wave Emergency Network GWM Generic Window Manager GWR Great Western Railway GWS Graphics Work Station GWS Gulf War syndrome GWTW Gone With The Wind GY Guyana GZIP GNU ZIP Gb Gigabit H Harn H Height H&Q Hambrecht & Quist H-P Hewlett-Packard H.F. Haitian Folk H/V Horizontal/Vertical H/W Hardware H61R Highway 61 Revisited HA Home Automation HAB Hot Asian Babe HACCP Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points HACD Home Area Customer Dialing HACMP High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing HAL Hard Array Logic HAL Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer HAL House Programmed Array Logic HALLO Hi, Are Local Lines Open? HALO High Altitude Low Opening HAM Hold And Modify HAM RADIO Fun HAMOTS High Accuracy Multiple Object Tracking System HAND Have A Nice Day HAO High Altitude Observatory HAP Host Access Protocol HARM High-Availability, Reliability, and Maintainability HART Highway Addressable Remote Transducer HASI Huygen's Atmospheric Space Instrument HASP Houston Automated Spooling Program HASP Houston Automatic Spooling Priority HAT Hashed Address Table HAZWOPER HAZardous Waste OPerations and Emergency Response HB HemogloBin HB-FIFO Hold-Back FIFO HBA Host Bus Adapter HBJ Harcourt Brace Jovanovich HBJ Harcourt Brace Jovanovich HBM Her British Majesty HBM His British Majesty HBO Home Box Office HC Holy Communion HC House of Commons HCA Hospital Corp. of America HCA Hospital Corp. of America HCC Hillsborough Community College HCF Halt and Catch Fire HCFA Health Care Finance Administration HCFA Health Care Financing Administration HCFA Health Care Financing Administration HCFA Health Care Finance Administration HCFA the Health Care Finance Administration HCFC hydrochlorofluorocarbon HCI Human Computer Interaction HCL High Cost of Living HCL Host Control Links HCR Hodge Computer Research inc. HCR Hodge Computer Research, inc. HCSDS High-Capacity Satellite Digital Service HCTDS High-Capacity Terrestrial Digital Service HD Hard Disk HD Heavy Duty HD Henry Draper catalog entry HD High Density HD high-definition HD high-density HD high-definition HDA Head Disk Assembly HDBV Host Data Base View HDCD High Definition Compatible Digital HDD Hard Disk Drive HDF Hierarchical Data Format HDI Harley-Davidson Inc HDI Harley-Davidson Inc. HDI Harley-Davidson Incorporated HDI Head to Disk Interference HDI High Definition Interlaced HDL High Density Lipoprotein HDLC High-level Data Link Control HDLCM High Density Line Conditioning Module HDP High Defition Progressive HDPE High Density Polyethylene HDQ High Definition Quincunx HDR Header HDSC High Density Signal Carrier HDSL High-rate Digital Subscriber Link HDTV High Definition Television HDTV high-definition television HDW Hardware HDWDM High Density Wavelength-Division Multiplexing HDX Half DupleX HE His Eminence HE His Excellency HEAO High Energy Astronomical Observatory HEAP High Explosive Armour Piercing HEAP Home Energy Assistance Program HEAT High Explosive Anti Tank HEC Header Error Check HEDIS Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set HEDM High Energy-Density Matter HEHO High End Hop Off HEL HELsinki international airport HEM High-level Entity Management HEMP Help End Marijuana Prohibition HEMS High-level Entity Management System HEMT High Electron Mobility Transistor HENNA Home Executives National Networking Association HENSA Higher Education National Software Archive HENSA Higher Education National Software Archives HEO High Earth Orbit HEP High Energy Physics HEPNET High Energy Physics network HERA HErmes Robotic Arm HERC Hercules HERO Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance HETLA Highly Extended Three Letter Acronym HETP High Energy Theoretical Physics HEX Hexadecimal HF Hawthorne Farms HF High Fantasy HF High Frequency HFC Hybrid Fibre Coax HFE Human Factors Engineering HFR High Flux Reactor HFR High Flux Reactor HFR How Fucking Rude HFS Hierarchical File System HFT High Function Terminal HG Mercury HG Harvard Graduate HG the Harvard Graduate HGA Hercules Graphics Adapter HGA High Gain Antenna HGCP Hercules Graphics Card Plus HGML Hypertext General Markup Language HH Hour HHES Housing and Household Economic Statistics HHGTTG The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy HHS Health and Human Services HHS US Department of Health and Human Services HHS Health and Human Services HI Hawaii HI Hedge Inc. HI Hedge Inc. HIA Health Insurance Associate HIAA Health Insurance Association of America HIAA Health Insurance Association of America HIAA The Health Insurance Association of America HIBS Heavy Ion Beam Spectrometry HIBT Have I Been Trolled? HIC Hybrid Integrated Circuit HIFD High-Density Floppy Disk HIFO Highest-In, First-Out HIIPS Hud Integrated Information Processing Services HIL Human Interface Link HIPPARCOS HIgh Precision Position and PARallax HIPPI High Performance Parallel Interface HIRES HI-RESolution HIRLAM HIgh-Resolution Limited Area Model HIROS Hitachi Industrial Realtime Operating System HIS Honeywell Information System HISS Hospital Information Support System HIV Human Immuno-deficiency Virus HIV human immunodeficiency virus HJK Helsingin JalkapalloKlubi HK Hong Kong HK Hong Kong HK Hong Kong-based HKG Hong Kong HKI HelsinKI HLA Human Leukocyte Antigen HLAN Huge Local Area Network HLB Hydrophile-Lipophile Balance HLC Heavy Lift Capability HLCO High Low Close Open HLCO High-Low-Close-Open HLCO high-low-close-open HLHSR Hidden Line & Hidden Surface Removal HLL High Level Language HLL High-Level Language HLLAPI High Level Language Application Programming Interface HLLW High Level Liquid Wastes HLLW High Level Liquid Wastes HLQ High Level Qualifier HLR Home Location Register HLS Hue, Luminance, Saturation HLS Hue-Lightness-Saturation HLT Halt HLV Heavy Lift Vehicle HLW High Level Wastes HLW High Level Wastes HLW high level waste HLW high level waste HM Heard And Mc Donald Islands HM High-resolution Monochrome HM Homestake Mining HM Homestake Mining HMA High Memory Area HMA Hub Management Architecture HMC Halley Multicolor Camera HMD Head Mounted Device HMD Heard And Mc Donald Islands HMFIC Head Mother Fucker in Charge HMM Hidden Markov Model HMMWV High Mobility Multi-Wheeled Vehicle HMMWV High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle HMMWV Highly Mobile Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle HMO Health Maintenance Organization HMOS High Density Metal Oxide Semiconductor HMOS High Speed Metal Oxide Semiconductor HMOS High performance Metal Oxide Semiconductor HMP Host Monitoring Protocol HMS Her Majesty's Ship HMS His Majesty's Ship HMS Holonic Manufacturing Systems HMSO Her Majesty's Stationery Office HMT Her Majesty's Transport HMT His Majesty's Transport HMV His Master's Voice HN Honduras HND Honduras HNG Horny net.geek HNPA Home Numbering Plan Area HNS Hospitality Network Service HOBIC HOtel Billing Information Center HOBIS HOtel Billing Information System HOE Holographic Optical Element HOG Harley Owners Group HOL High-Order System HOL Higher-Order Logic HOLD Honest Open Logical Debate HOLIDAY Halliburton On-Line Information Discovery and Access sYstem HOM Hall Of Mirrors HORNY Heart Of Romantic NY HOTAS Hands On Throttle And Stick HOTOL HOrizontal Take-Off and Landing HOV High Occupancy Vehicle HOW Home Owners Warranty HP Hewlett Packard Inc. HP Hewlett Packard, Inc. HP Hewlett-Packard HP Hewlett-Packard HP High Pressure HP Higher Power HP Hit Points HP HorsePower HP Hewlett-Packard HP/A Hewlett-Packard/Apollo HPCC High Performance Computing and Communications HPD High Performance Division HPDJ Hewlett-Packard Desk Jet HPEL Horn Point Environmental Laboratory HPFS High-Performance File System HPFTP High Pressure Fuel Turbopump HPG Hewlett-Packard Graphics HPGE High Purity Germanium HPGL Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language HPIB Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus HPL/T High-Productivity Languages/Tools HPLC High Performance Liquid Chromatography HPLJ Hewlett-Packard Laser Jet HPLT High-Productivity Languages/Tools HPMC high pressure mini-column HPMC high pressure mini-column HPN White Plains NY HPO High Performance Option HPOTP High Pressure Oxidizer Turbopump HPPA HP Precision Architecture HPPA Hewlett-Packard Precision Architecture HPPI High Performance Parallel Interface HPR High Power Rocketry HPS HiPerformance Systems Limited HPW High Performance Workstation HQ HeadQuarters HR Croatia HR Hertzsprung-Russell HR Hierarchical Radiosity HR House of Representatives HR Human Resources HRB H&R Block Inc HRB H&R Block, Inc HREM high-resolution electron microscopy HREM high-resolution electron microscopy HRG High Resolution Graphics HRH Her Royal Highness HRH His Royal Highness HRI High Resolution Imager HRIS Human Resource Information System HRM human-resource-management HRMS Human Resource Management System HRV Croatia HS High School HS High Speed HS Home System HSB Hue, Saturation, Brightness HSC Hierarchical Storage Controller HSC High Speed Channel HSE Helsinki School Of Economics HSFS High Sierra File System HSI High Speed Interface HSI Horizontal Situation Indicator HSLN High Speed Local Network HSM Hierarchical Storage Management HSM Hierarchical Storage Manager HSP High Speed Photometer HSP High Speed Printer HSR Health Services Research HSSDS High-Speed Switched Digital Service HSSI High Speed Serial Interface HST Hawaiian Standard Time HST High Speed Technology HST Hubble Space Telescope HST HyperSonic Transport HSV Hue Saturation Value HSV Hue-Saturation-Value HT Haiti HT High Tension HT Horizontal Tab HTH Hand-to-hand HTH Hope That Helps HTH hand-to-hand combat HTI Haiti HTK Hits To Kill HTML HyperText Markup Language HTSG He, Torrance, Sillion, and Greenberg HTTL High Transistor-Transistor Logic HTTL Highspeed Transistor-Transistor Logic HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol HTTPD HyperText Transfer Protocol Daemon HU High Usage HU Hungary HUAC House Unamerican Activities Committee HUD Heads Up Display HUD Housing and Urban Development HUD heads-up-display HUGE Hewlett-packard Unsupported Gnu Emacs HUN Hungary HUPD Harvard University Police Department HUT Helsinki University of Technology HUT Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope HUTG High Usage Trunk Group HV High Voltage HVAC Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning HVP Horizontal & Vertical Position HW2000 Highway 2000 HWCP Hardware Code Page HWD Hayward CA HWD Height-Width-Depth HWM High-Water Mark HYTIME HYpermedia and TIME-based HYTIME Hypertext and time-based HZ HertZ HiMARS High Mobility Artillery Rocket System HoTMetaL Interactive editor for HTML files HyVIS Hypermedia and Visual Information Systems I Council to Outlaw Contrived and Outrageous Acronyms I-4 International Information Integrity Institute I-D Internet-Draft I.E.P. Industrial Equity ( Pacific ) I.M. International Monetary I.N.D. investigational new drug I/F Interface I/G individual/group I/O Input/Output I/O Input/Output I/O input-output I/O input/output I/S inventory-to-shipments I18N InternationalizatioN IA Inspection Authorization IAB Interactive Application Builder IAB Internet Activities Board IAB Internet Architecture Board IABC International Association of Business Communicators IABS I Am Being Sarcastic IAC Interapplication Communication IACP International Association of Chiefs of Police IACR Irish Association for Cancer Research IACT International Association of Counselors and Therapists IAD Dulles International, Washington DC IADB Inter-American Development Bank IADR International Association for Dental Research IAE In Any event IAE International Art Exchange IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency IAESTE I Am Exchanging Students To Everywhere IAESTE International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience IAFA Internet Anonymous FTP Archives IAFC International Association of Fire Chiefs IAFE International Association of Fairs and Exhibitions IAFP International Association of Financial Planners IAFP International Association of Financial Planners IAFP International Association of Financial Planners IAFP the International Association of Financial Planners IAGSDC International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs IAH Houston TX IAL International Algebraic Language IAML International Association of Music Libraries IAN Innovations and notions incorporated IAN Innoviations And Notions IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer IANALB I am not a lawyer but IAPPP International Amateur/Professional Photoelectric Photometry IAPSO International Association of the Physical Sciences of the Ocean IARC International Agency for Research on Cancer IARU International Amateur Radio Union IASCA International Auto Sound Challenge Association IAT Import Address Table IATA International Air Transport Association IATA International Air Transport Association IATA the International Air Transport Association IAU International Astronomical Union IAUC IAU Circular IAVQ Image Adaptive Vector Quantization IB Instruction Buffer IBC Instrument Bus Computer IBEW International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers IBEW International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers IBI I Believe It IBIS Interactive Body/mind Information System IBJ Industrial Bank of Japan IBM I'd Buy Macintosh IBM I've Been Moved IBM Ingrained Batch Mentality IBM International Business Machines Corp. IBM International Brotherhood of Magicians IBM International Business Machines IBM International Business Machines Inc. IBM International Business Machines, Inc. IBM It's better Manually IBM Itty Bitty Machines IBM-GL IBM Graphics Language IBMA International Bluegrass Music Association IBMM International Bluegrass Music Museum IBN Integrated Business Network IBR It's Been Real IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development IBRU International Boundaries Research Unit IBS Institute for Brewing Studies IBS International Business School IBSA International Bible Student's Association IBSA International Bible Students Association IBT Illinois Bell Telephone IBT International Brotherhood of Teamsters IBT International Brotherhood of Teamsters IBT the International Brotherhood of Teamsters IC Independent Carrier IC Input Circuit IC Integrated Circuit IC Inter-LATA Carrier IC Interexchange Carrier IC Interrupt Controller IC Ion chromatography IC Ion chromatography IC information-center IC instant-C IC integrated-circuit IC Illinois Central IC Issues Corporate ICA International Coffee Agreement ICA Intra-application Communications Area ICA international coffee agreement ICADD International Committee for Accessible Document Design ICALP International Conference on Automata, Languages, and Programming ICAN Individual Circuit ANalysis ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO The International Civil Aviation Organization ICARO Italian Computer Antivirus Research Organization ICAS Intel Communicating Applications Specifications ICB Interstate Computer Bank ICBM InterContinental Ballistic Missile ICBM InterContinental Ballistic Missle ICBVI Idaho Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired ICBW I Could Be Wrong ICC Interstate Commerce Commission ICC Interstate Commerce Commission ICCC Inter-Client Communication Convention ICCCM Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual ICCP Institute for the Certification of Computer Professionals ICD Interactive Call Distribution ICD International Code Designator ICE Illinois Computing Educators ICE In-Circuit Emulator ICE Insane Creator's Enterprises ICE Interactive Collaborative Environment ICE Internal Combustion Engine ICE International Cometary Explorer ICE Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics ICF inertial confinement fusion ICF inertial confinement fusion ICG Information Consulting Group ICG Information Consulting Group ICGA International Conference on Genetic Algorithms ICGC Inventors Connection of Greater Cleveland ICGC Inventors Connection of Greater Cleveland Inc. ICI Imperial Chemical Industries ICI Imperial Chemical Industries ICJ International Court of Justice ICL Interface Clear ICL International Computers Limited ICL International Computers Ltd. ICLID Individual Calling Line ID ICM Integrated Call Management ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol ICN intestinal crypt number ICN intestinal crypt number ICOMOS International Council on Monuments and Sites ICON Inter CONtinental ICP Integrated Channel Processor ICP Inventory Control Points ICPMS Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer ICPSR Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research ICR Intelligent Character Recognition ICRC International Cosmic Ray Conference ICRP International Commission on Radiological Protection ICS International Classification for Standards ICS Intuitive Command Structure ICSC Inter-LATA Customer Service Center ICSI International Computer Science Institute ICST Institute for Computer Science and Technology ICT In-Circuit Test ICT Interactive Consumer Terminal ICTP International Centre for Theoretical Physics ICTYBIWCYTF I Could Tell You But I Would Claim You Talked First ICTYBIWCYTF I Could Tell You But It Would Cause You To Faint ICTYBTIWHTKY I Could Tell You But Then I Would Have To Kill You ICUFOR International Committee for UFO Research ICUMSA International Commission for Uniform Methods of Sugar Analysis ICWS International CoreWar Society ID IDentification ID Idaho ID Identifier ID Indonesia IDA Industrial Development Authority IDA Integrated Digital Access IDA Intelligent Disk Array IDA Intelligent Drive Array IDA Intercommunication Data Areas IDA International Dark-sky Association IDA International Development Association IDA International Development Association IDAPI Integrated Database Application Programming Interface IDC Insulation Displacement Contact IDDD International Direct Distance Dial IDDG Intellectually Drop Dead Gorgeous IDE Imbedded Drive Electronics IDE Integrated Development Environment IDE Integrated Drive Electronics IDE Intelligent Drive Electronics IDE Interactive Design and Engineering IDE Interactive Development Environments inc IDE Interactive Development Environments, inc IDE Interface Design Enhancement IDE Interplanetary Dust Experiment IDEA International Dance Exercise Association IDEA International Data Encryption Algorithm IDEA Internet Design, Engineering, and Analysis notes IDEAS I Don't Ever 'Ave Some IDEF Integration DEfinition for Function modeling IDF Intermediate Distributing Frame IDF Intermediate Distribution Frame IDF Israel Defense Forces IDI Information Dimensions Inc IDI Initial Domain Identifier IDI Initial Domain Part IDIC Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations IDIQ Indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quanity IDIV Integer Divide IDL Interactive Data Language IDL Interface Description Language IDM Image Data Manager IDMS Integrated Data Base Management System IDN Indonesia IDNX Integrated Digital Network eXchange IDP Initial Domain Part IDP Integrated Data Processing IDP Internet Datagram Protocol IDRC International Development Research Center IDRC International Development Research Centre IDRP Inter-Domain Routing Protocol IDS Interactively Displayed Structures IDS Internal Directory System IDS interest on debt securities IDSA Industrial Designers Society of America IDT Interrupt Descriptor Table IDV Interlibrational Derived Vehicle IDVC Integrated Data/Voice Channel IE Id Est IE Indo-European IE Inter Ethernet IE Ireland IEA International Energy Agency IEC Inter-Exchange Carrier IEC InterExchange Carrier IEC International Electrotechnical Commission IEC International Electrotechnical Commission IEE Institute of Electrical Engineers IEE Institution of Electrical Engineers IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEF Information Engineering Facility IEMSI Identification IEMSI Interactive Electronic Mail Standard IEMT Intermediate Emergency Medical Technician IEN Internet Engineering Notes IEN Internet Experiment Notebook IESG Internet Engineering Steering Group IETF Internet Engineering Task Force IETM Interactive Electronic Technical Manual IF InterFace IF Intermediate Frequency IFA International Franchise Association IFA International Franchise Association IFA The International Franchise Association IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAR International Foundation for Art Research IFAR International Foundation for Art Research IFB Invitation For Bids IFC International Finance Corp. IFC International Finance Corporation IFC International Freighting Corporation IFC International Finance Corp. IFC the International Finance Corp. IFD Image File Directory IFF Identification - Friend or Foe IFF Image File Format IFF Interchange File Format IFF Iterative Function Fractal IFG Incoming Fax Gateway IFI Istituto Finanziario Industriale IFI Istituto Finanziario Industriale IFIP International Federation for Information Processing IFK Idrot Frening Kamraterna IFK Idrott- och FritidsKlubb IFLA International Federation of Library Associations IFLRY International Federation of Liberal and Radical Youth IFN Interferon IFO indirect funding of IFPS International Federation of Palynological Societies IFR Instrument Flight Rules IFRB International Frequency Registration Board IFREMER Institut FRancais de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la MER IFRPS Intercity Facility Relief Planning System IFS Installable File System IFSAR Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar IFV I'm Fully Vested IGA Integrated Graphics Array IGBP International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme IGC Institute for Global Communications IGC Integrated Graphics Controller IGD Integrated Genomic Database IGDS Interactive Graphics Design Software IGES Initial Graphics Exchange Specification IGL Index-Guided Laser IGM InterGalactic Medium IGMP Internet Group Multicast Protocol IGNN I Got No Name IGP Interior Gateway Protocol IGR Insect Growth Regulator IGRP Interior Gateway Routing Protocol IGY International Geophysical Year IHK Industrie- und Handelskammer IHMO In Hy Mumble Opinion IHOP International House of Pancakes IHP Indicated HorsePower IHS Integrated Hospital Support IHS Iowa Herpetological Society IHTFP I Hate This Fucking Place IHTFP I Have Truly Found Paradise IHTFP I Help Teach Freshman Physics IHTFP Institute Has The Finest Professors IHTFP It's Hard To Fondle Penguins II Industries Inc IIA Information Industry Association IIASA International Institute For Applied Systems Analysis IIBC International Institute of Biological Control IID Imperial Irrigation District IID Imperial Irrigation District IIE Institute of Industrial Engineers IIED Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress IIF Immediate IF IIHF International Ice Hockey Federation III Innovative Interfaces Inc IIL Integrated Injection Logic IIMA Irish Interactive Multimedia Association IIN Integrated Information Network IINREN Interagency Interim National Research and Education Network IIR Immediate Impulse Response IIR Infinite Impulse Response IIRC If I Recall Correctly IIS Internet Interface Systems IISPB Image and Information Standards Policy Board IIT Indian Institute of Technology IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence IK Inverse Kinematics IKS International Kodaly Society IL Israel IL ionization losses IL ionization losses ILA International Longshoremen 's Association ILBM Interleaved bitmap ILGARD Institute For Local Governmant And Rural Development ILGWU International Ladies Garment Workers Union ILL Inter Library Loan ILMI Interim Local Management Interface ILO International Labor Organization ILP Inductive Logic Programming ILS Instrument Landing System ILU I Love U ILV Industrial Launch Vehicle ILY I Love You IM Inside Macintosh IM Installation & Maintenance IM Interface Module IMAP Interactive Mail Access Protocol IMAP3 Interactive Mail Access Protocol - Version 3 IMAS Integrated Mass Announcement System IMC Instrument Meteorological Contitions IMC Internal Model Control IMCO In My Considered Opinion IMD Industry Marketing Development IMDS Image Data Stream IMDS Image Data Stream format IMF Institut Merieux of France IMF International Monetary Fund IMF International Monetary Fund IMF the International Monetary Fund IMG Image IMHO In My Humble Opinion IMM Input Message Manual IMMEX Interactive Multi-Media EXercises IMMEX Interactive MultiMedia EXercises IMNHO In My Not Humble Opinion IMNSHO In My Not-So-Humble Opinion IMO In My Opinion IMO International Maritime Organization IMO International Meteor Organisation IMP Interface Message Processor IMPA Intelligent Multi-Port Adapter IMPACT Inventory Management Program and Control Technique IMR Internet Monthly Report IMS Information Management System IMS Integrated Management System IMS Intermediate Maintenance Standards IMS International Measurement System IMSA Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy IMSA International Motor Sports Association IMSL International Mathematical Subroutine Library IMSO Integrated Micro Systems Operation IMSVS Information Management System/Virtual Storage IMT Image Management Terminal IMT Inter-Machine Trunk IMTS Improved Mobile Telephone Service IMTV Interactive Multimedia Television IMUL Integer Multiply IMVHAWISHIMVVVHO In My Very Humble IMVHO In My Very Humble Opinion IN India IN Indiana IN Input IN Intelligent Network IN-SITU In Place INADS INitialization and ADministration System INC Increment INC InterNational Carrier IND India IND investigational new drug IND investigational new drug IND investigational new drug INET93 International Networking Conference 1993 INFORMS Institute For Operations Research and Management Science INGRES Interactive Graphic Retrieval System INIT Initialize INL Inter Node Link INM Integrated Network Management INMARSAT INternational MARitime SATellite INMARSAT INternational MARitime SATellite organisation INMARSAT INternational MARitime SATellite organization INN Inter Node Network INOC Internet Network Operations Center INRA Iesus Nazerenus Rex Iudaeorum INRECA INduction and REasoning from CAses INREQ INformation REQuest INRI Iesus Nazerenus Rex Iudaeorum INRIA Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique INS Immigration and Naturalization Service INS Inertial Navigation System INS Information Network System INS Input String INS U.S. Dept. of Immigration and Naturalizaton INS is not supported INSEE Institut National de la Statistique et des etudes economiques INSTITUTE INSTITUTE's Name Shows That It's Totally Unrelated To EMACS INT Integer INT Internal INT International INT Interrupt INTA Interrupt Acknowledge INTAP INteroperability Technology Association for information Processing INTEL Integrated Electronics INTELSAT INternational TELecommunications SATellite consortium INTERCAL Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym INTO Interrupt if Overflow occurs INWATS INward Wide Area Telephone Service IO British Indian Ocean Territory IO Input/Output IO Inward Operator IOC Input/Output Computer IOC Input/Output Controller IOC International Olympic Committee IOC International Olympics Committee IOC International Operating Center IOC intercell ohmic contact IOC intercell ohmic contact IOC International Olympic Committee IOC the International Olympic Committee IOCC International Overseas Completion Center IOCCC International obfuscated c code contest IOCD Institute of Corporate Directors IOCS Input/Output Control System IOCTL Input/Output Control IOD Identified Outward Dialing IOH Integrated Open Hypermedia IOLS Integrated Online Library System IOLS Integrated Online Library Systems IONL Internal Organization of the Network Layer IOOF International Order of Odd Fellows IOP Input-Output Processor IOPI International Organization for Plant Information IOPL Input/Output Priviledge Level IOS Investors Overseas Services IOS Investors Overseas Services IOSGA Input/Output Support Gate Array IOT British Indian Ocean Territory IOT InterOffice Trunk IOTA Infrared-Optical Telescope Array IOTA International Occultation Timing Association IOU I Owe you IOU I owe u IOW In Other Words IP Industrial Products IP Information Provider IP Innings Pitched IP Instruction Pointer IP Intermediate Point IP Internet Protocol IPC Instructions Per Clock IPC Integrated Personal Computer IPC Inter-Process Communication IPC InterProcess Communication IPC Inventory Process Control IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCE InterProcess Communication Environment IPCP IP Control Protocol IPCP Internet Protocol Control Protocol IPCS Interactive Problem Control System IPDE Iowa Patrol of Dental Executives IPDMUG International Product Data Management Users Group IPDS Intelligent Printer Data Stream IPDU Internet Protocol Data Unit IPE Integrated Programming Environment IPEMS Integrated Production Engineering Management System IPF Information Presentation Facility IPF Internal Picket Fence IPF Internal Picket Fence IPI Initial Protocol Identifier IPI Intelligent Peripheral Interface IPL Information Programming Language IPL Initial Program Load IPL Initial Program Loader IPL Ion Projection Lithography IPL initial program load IPL initial program load IPLAN Integrated PLanning And Analysis IPM Impulses Per Minute IPM Interpersonal Message IPM Interruptions Per Minute IPMS InterPersonal Message Services IPNG Internet Protocol, the Next Generation IPNS Intense Pulsed Neutron Source IPNS Intense Pulsed Neutron Source IPO Initial Public Offering IPO International Procurement Office IPO initial public offering IPO initial public offerings IPO initial public offering IPPE International Philosophical Preprint Exchange IPS Inches Per Second IPS Inertial Pointing System IPS Information Processing Standards IPS International Paperweight Society IPSE Integrated Project Support Environment IPSE Integrated Project-Support Environment IPSI Institute for Integrated Publication and Information Systems IPSP Inhibitory Post Synaptic Potential IPT Williamsport PA IPTAY I Pay Ten A Year IPV4 Internet Protocol Version 4 IPV4 Internet Protocols Version 4 IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange IPng Internet Protocol, next generation IQ Intelligence Quotient IQ Iraq IQL Interactive Query Language IQR Inquiry IR Index Register IR Information Resource IR InfraRed IR Intermediate Representation IR Internet Registry IR Internetwork Router IR Iran IRA Individual Retirement Account IRA Individual Retirement Accounts IRA Interprocedural Register Allocation IRA Irish Republican Army IRA individual retirement account IRA individual retirement accounts IRA individual-retirement-account IRA individual retirement account IRAF Image Reduction and Analysis Facility IRAS InfraRed Astronomical Satellite IRBM Intelligent Repeater Bridge Module IRBM Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile IRC International Record Carrier IRC Internet Relay Chat IRCAM Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique IRD Investment Recovery Department IRDS Information Resource Dictionary System IRDS InfraRed Detection Set IRE Institute of Radio Engineers IRET Interrupt Return IRF International Road Federation IRG InterRecord Gap IRGB Intensity-Red-Green-Blue IRI Institutio Ricostruzioni Industriali IRI international relations institute IRI international relations institute IRI Institutio Ricostruzioni Industriali IRIG Inter-Range Instrumentation Group IRL Inter-Repeater Link IRL Interactive Reader Language IRL Ireland IRLED Infrared Light Emitting Diode IRM Information Resource Management IRM Information Resources Management IRM Intelligent Repeater Module IRMS Information Resources Management Service IRN Intermediate Routing Node IRN Iran IRNA Islamic Republic News Agency IRNA Islamic Republic News Agency IRNA Islamic Republic News Agency IROR Internal Rate Of Return IRQ Interrupt Request IRQ Iraq IRS Inertial Reference System IRS Internal Revenue Service IRS Internal Revenue Service IRS The Internal Revenue Service IRSG Internet Research Steering Group IRTF Internet Research Task Force IRX Information Retrieval Experiment IS Iceland IS Information Separator IS Information System IS Information Systems IS Information-systems IS Intermediate System IS International Standard IS Interrupt Set IS Interrupt Status IS information-system IS information-systems IS-IS Intermediate System-Intermediate System IS-IS intermediate-System-to-Intermediate-System ISA Industry Standard Architecture ISA Industry-Standard Architecture ISA Institute for Application-Oriented Software and Systems ISA Institute for Application-Oriented Software and Systems Technology ISAM Indexed Sequential Access Method ISAM Indexed Sequential-Access Management ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science ISAT Internal System Acceptance Testing ISBD International Bibliographic Description ISBN International Standard Book Number - Gives an uniq identification of every published bookhed book ISC Information Services Center ISC Instruction Set Computer ISC Interactive Systems Corporation ISC International Signal & Control ISC International Switching Center ISC International Signal & Control ISCH Interstitial-Cell-Stimulating Hormone ISD Image Section Descriptor ISD Instructional Systems Design ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network ISDN Intergrated Services Digital Nertwork ISDT Integrated Systems Development Tool ISEE International Sun Earth Explorer ISEELS Inner Shell Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy ISEP International Society for Evolutionary Protistology ISES International Solar Energy Society ISF Information Systems Factory ISFM Institute of Science and Forensic Medicine ISFUG Integrated Software Federal User Group ISG IETF Steering Group ISH Intermediate System Hello ISI ISI Systems Inc. ISI Information Sciences Institute ISI Internally Specified Index ISIS Integrated Systems and Information Services ISIS Intermediate System to Intermediate System ISL Iceland ISL Interactive System Language ISLM Integrated Services Line Module ISLSCP International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project ISLU Integrated Services Line Unit ISM InterStellar Medium ISMA International Securities Market Association ISMF Interactive Storage Management Facility ISN Information Systems Network ISN Integrated Systems Network ISNA Islamic Society of North America ISO Imperial Service Order ISO In Search Of ISO Infrared Space Observatory ISO Insurance Services Office ISO International Standards Organization ISO Insurance Services Office ISO the Insurance Services Office ISO/OSI Interconnection ISO/OSI International Standards Organization/Open Systems ISOC Internet Society ISODE ISO Development Environment ISOO Information Security Oversight Office ISOP Incentive Stock Option Plan ISP Internet Service Provider ISP Interrupt Stack Pointer ISP Interrupt Status Port ISPF Interactive System Programming Facility ISPG Institute of Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology ISPM International Solar Polar Mission ISR Information Storage and Retrieval ISR Institute of Snow Research ISR Interrupt Service Routine ISR Israel ISRG Independent Space Research Group ISRO Indian Space Research Organization ISS Integrated Switching System ISSA International Space Station Alpha ISSC Integrated Systems Solutions Corporation ISSI Information Security Systems Inc. ISSN Integrated Special Services Network ISSN International Standard Serial Number IST Initial System Test ISTAC International Institute of ISlamic Thought And Civilisation ISTEA Intermodal Surface Transportation Effeciency Act ISTR I Seem To Recall or I Seem To Remember ISUP Integrated Services User Part ISV Independent Software Vendor ISV Instantaneous Speed Variation ISWS Illinois State Water Survey ISWS Illinois State Water Survey ISY International Space Year IT Industrial Technology IT Information Technology IT Italy IT information-technology ITA Initial Teaching Alphabet ITA International TeleNursing Association ITA Italy ITAR International Traffic in Arms Regulations ITB Information Technology Branch ITB Intermediate Text Block ITC Independent Telephone Company ITC Inter-Task Communication ITC International Trade Commission ITC International Typeface Corporation ITC International Trade Commission ITCL incr tcl ITER International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor ITER International Tokamak Experimental Reactor ITESM Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey ITESM Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey ITEX Interactive TTCN Editor and Executor ITEX-DE Interactive TTCN Editor and Executor Development Environment ITF International Taekwondo Federation ITFS Instructional Television Fixed Service ITG International Trading Group ITG International Trading Group ITIL IT Infrastructure Library ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library ITM In The Mean-time ITM Information Technology Management ITO International Trade Organization ITO International Trade Organization ITRON Industrial TRON ITS Incompatible Timesharing System ITS Institute of Telecommunication Science ITS Intelligent Transport Systems ITSEC Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria ITSO Incoming Trunk Service Observation ITT International Telephone and Telegraph ITT insulin tolerance tests ITT insulin tolerance tests ITU International Telecommunication Union ITU International Telecommunications Union ITU-T ITU Telecommunications Standardization Sector ITU-T International Telecommunications Union - Telecommunications Standardisation Sector ITU-T International Telecommunications Union, Telecommunications Standardization Section ITUG International Telecommunications User Group ITUSA IT Users Standards Association ITV Interactive Television ITX Intermediate Text Block IU Integer Unit IUCN World Conservation Union IUCr International Union of Crystallography IUD intra-uterine devices IUD intra-uterine devices IUE International Ultraviolet Explorer IUMA Internet Underground Music Archive IUMS International Union of Microbiological Societies IUS Inertial Upper Stage IUV Interlibrational Utility Vehicle IV InterVarsity IV&V Independent Verification & Validation IVA Imposta sul Valore Aggiunto IVC Inspection Validation Centre IVC Inspection Validation Centre IVC Internet VoiceChat IVCF InterVarsity Christian Fellowship IVDT Integrated Voice/Data Terminal IVF in vitro fertilization IVG Industrieverwaltungsgesellschaft AG IVHS Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems IVHS Intelligent Vehicle-Highway Systems IVIS Interactive Video Information System IVP Installation Verification Program IVR Integrated Voice Response IVR Interactive Voice Response IVS Interactive Videodisk System IVT Interrupt Vector Table IVTS International Video Teleconferencing Service IWBNI It Would Be Nice If IWC Inside Wire Cable IWIK I Wish I knew IWR Interdisziplinares Zentrum fur Wissenschaftliches Rechnen IWS Intelligent Work-Station IWW International Workers of the World IX Interactive eXecutive IXC Inter-eXchange Carrier IXC IntereXchange Carrier IXI International pan-European X.25 Infrastructure IXM IntereXchange Mileage IYSWIM If You See What I Mean InterNIC Internet Network Information Center InterTel International League of Intelligence Internet Advanced Research Projects Agency Network IrDA Infrared Data Association J-PCA Japanese P.C.A J-PCA Japanese P.C.A J.C. Jones Capital J.P. Jones Professional J.P. joint proposal J.V joint venture J.V. joint ventures JA Jump Address JA Jump if Above JA Junior Achievement JACC Journal of the American College of Cardiology JACI Just Another CASE Implementation JACL Japanese American Citizens League JACM Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery JAD Joint Application Design JAE Jump if Above or Equal JAFO Just Another Fucking Observer JAI Journal of Artifical Intelligence JAL Japan Air Lines JAL Japan Airline JAL Japan Airlines JAL Japan Air Lines JALT Japan Association for Language Teaching JAM Jamaica JAM Justified Ancients of Mummu JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association JAMOT Just a Matter of Time JANET Joint Academic Network JANFU Joint Army-Navy Fuck Up JASIS Journal of the American Society of Information Science JAST Joint Advanced Strike Technology JATO Jet Assist Take Off JATO Jet-Assisted Take-Off JBE Jump if Below or Equal JBIG Joint Bilevel Image Group JBIG Joint Binary Image Group JBS John Birch Society JC Jesus Christ JC Joint Compound JC Julius Caesar JC Jump if Carry set JC Junior College JCA Jewelry Crafts Association JCAC Joint Civil Affairs Committee JCAE Joint Committee on Atomic Energy JCAHO Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations JCAHO Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Hospital Organizations JCAHO Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations JCAHO Joint Committee on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations JCALS Joint Computer-Aided Acquisition and Logistics Support JCEE Joint Council on Economic Education JCET Joint Council on Educational Television JCL Job Control Language JCMT James Clark Maxwell Telescope JCP J.C. PENNEY JCP J.C. Penney JCS Joint Chiefs of Staff JD Justice Department JDL Jewish Defense League JDS John Dewey Society JE Jump if Equal JECC Japan Electronic Computer Company JEDEC Joint Electronic Devices Engineering Council JEEP General Purpose JEIDA Japan Electronics Inderstry Development Association JEIDA Japanese Electronics Industry Development Association JEM Japanese Experiment Module JES Job Entry System JES John Ericsson Society JESSI Joint European Submicron SIlicon JESUS Job Entry System of the University of Saskatuan JET Joint European Torus JFET Junction FET JFET Junction Field Effect Transistor JFIF JPEG File Interchange Format JFK John F. Kennedy JFK John Fitzgerald Kennedy JFMIP Joint Financial Management Improvement Program JFN Job File Number JFR Just Fucking Relax JFS Next Generation of JLE JG Jump if Greater JGE Jump if Greater or Equal JGR Journal of Geophysical Research JI Justice Inc. JI Justice, Inc. JIC Joint Industry Council JIC Joint Intelligence Center JIC Just in Case JILA Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics JIM Job Information Memorandum JINTACCS Joint INteroperability of TActical Command and Control Systems JIS Japan Industrial Standards JISC Japanese Industrial Standards Committee JISC Joint Information Systems Committee JIT Just In Time JIT Just-In-Time JJ Josephson-Junction JL Jump if Less JLE Japanese Language Enveronment JLE Jump if Less than or Equal to JM Jamaica JMH Joint Mission Hardware JMP Jump JMS J Michael Straczynski JMS John Milton Society JMX Jumbogroup MultipleX JNA Jump if Not Above JNAE Jump if Not Above or Equal JNB Jump if Not Below JNBE Jump if Not Below or Equal JNG Jump if Not Greater JNGE Jump if Not Greater or Equal JNLE Jump if Not Less or Equal JNO Jump if No Overflow JNP Jump if No Parity JNS Jump if No Sign JNT Joint Network Team JNZ Jump if Not Zero JO Job Order JO Jordan JO Junior Officer JOAT Jack Of All Trades JOOC Just Out Of Curiosity JOOTT Just One Of Those Things JOR Jordan JOTD Joke Of The Day JOVE Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs JOVIAL Jules Own Version of the International Algorithmic Language JOY Jesus first, Others second, You third JP Japan JP Johnson Properties JPATS Joint Primary Aircraft Training System JPE Jump if Parity Even JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group JPI J.P. Industries JPJA Journal for Patriotic Justice in America JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPN Japan JPO Jump if Parity Odd JRC Junior Red Cross JRP Joint Relief Partnership JRT Jack Russell Terrier JS Jump if Sign JSB Japan Satellite Broadcasters Inc. JSC Johnson Space Center JSD Jackson System Development JSFC Johnson Space Flight Center JSN Junction Switch Number JSP Jackson Structured Programming JSP Japan Socialist Party JSP Japanese Socialist Party JSP Japan Socialist Party JSRC Joint Services Review Committee JST Japan Standard Time JSW Junctor SWitch JTAG Joint Test Action Group JTASC Joint Training, Analysis and Simulation Center JTIDS Joint Tactical Information Distribution Systems JTM Job Transfer and Manipulation JUGL JANET User Group for Libraries JULLS Joint Universal Lessons Learned System database JUNET Japan UNIX Network JV Junior Varsity JVC Japan Victor Corporation JVC Japanese Victor Company JVMHHB JVM Helping Hands Bindery JVNC John von Neumann Super Computer Center JVNCNET John von Neumann Super Computer Center network JWCA Joint Warfighter Capability Assessment JWH John Wesley Harding JZ Jump if Zero K Kilo- K Kilobit K&R Kernighan and Ritchie K-12 Kindergarden through twelfth grade K-12 Kindergarten through 12th grade K-H Kelsey-Hayes K12 Kindergarten through 12th grade K9 canine KA9Q KA9Q KA9Q Phil Karn's amateur radio callsign - often refers to his TCP/IP software package KADS Knowledge Acquisition and Design Support KAIST Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KAO Kuiper Airborne Observatory KAOS Killing as Organized Sport KAZ Kazakhstan KB Key Board KB Keyboard KB KiloByte KB Kilobyte KBD Keyboard KBD$ Keyboard KBPS KiloBits Per Second KBPS Kilobytes Per Second KBS Knowledge-Based System KBT Kerry Blue Terrier KC Kansas City KC Kennel Club KC King's Counsel KC Knights of Columbus KCL Kyoto Common Lisp KCMG Knight Commander of St Michael and St George KCMG Knight Commander of the Most noble order of the Garter KCMO Kansas City, Missouri KD Kiln Dried KD Knock-Down KD Knocked Down KDCI Key Display Call Indicator KDD Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co. KDT Key Definition Table KDT Keyboard Display Terminal KE Kenya KEDO Korean Energy Development Organization KEN Kenya KERMIT Kl-10 Error-free Reciprocal Micro Interconnect over Tty lines KET Kentucky Educational Television KEYBBE Foreign language KEYBoard program - Belgium KEYBBR Foreign language KEYBoard program - Brazil KEYBCF Foreign language KEYBoard program - Canadian-French KEYBCZ Foreign language KEYBoard program - Czechoslovakia KEYBDF Foreign language KEYBoard program - Denmark KEYBFR Foreign language KEYBoard program - France KEYBGR Foreign language KEYBoard program - Germany KEYBHU Foreign language KEYBoard program - Hungary KEYBIT Foreign language KEYBoard program - Italy KEYBLA Foreign language KEYBoard program - Latin America KEYBNL Foreign language KEYBoard program - Netherlands KEYBNO Foreign language KEYBoard program - Norway KEYBPL Foreign language KEYBoard program - Poland KEYBPO Foreign language KEYBoard program - Portugal KEYBSF Foreign language KEYBoard program - Swiss-French KEYBSG Foreign language KEYBoard program - Swiss-German KEYBSL Foreign language KEYBoard program - Czechoslovakia KEYBSP Foreign language KEYBoard program - Spain KEYBSU Foreign language KEYBoard program - Finland KEYBSV Foreign language KEYBoard program - Sweden KEYBUK Foreign language KEYBoard program - United Kingdom KEYBUS Foreign language KEYBoard program - United States KEYBYU Foreign language KEYBoard program - Yugoslavia KFC Kentucky Fried Chicken KFC Kentucky Fried Chicken KFT KiloFeeT KG Kyrgyzstan KGB Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopaznosti KGD Known Good Die KGF Kraft General Foods KGF Kraft General Foods KGF Kraft and General Foods KGF the Kraft General Foods KGRA Known Geothermal Resources Area KGRA Known Geothermal Resources Area KGZ Kyrgyzstan KH Cambodia KHM Cambodia KHZ KiloHertZ KI Kiribati KI Kiwanis International KIA Killed In Action KIAS Knot Indicated Air Speed KIF Key Index File KIP Kinetics IP KIPS Kawasaki Integrated Power-valve System KIR Kiribati KISS Keep it simple, stupid KITT Knight Industrial TwoThousand KITT Knight Industries Two Thousand KK Kern of KK KK a Kern of KK KKK Ku Klux Klan KKR Kohlberg Kravis Roberts KKR Kohlberg Kravis Roberts KLF Kings of the Low Frequency KLF Kopyright Liberation Front KLIPS thousands of Logical Inferences Per Second KLM Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij KLM Koninklijke Luchvaart Maatschapij KLOC thousands of Lines Of Code KM Comoros KM Kilometers KMA Kiss My Ass KMBA Kiss My Black Ass KMFA Kiss My Fat Ass KMFA Kiss My Filthy Ass KMFA Kiss My Fucking Ass KMFDM Kein Mitleid fur die Mehrheit KMFDM Kill Mother Fucking Depeche Mode KMHA Kiss My Hairy Ass KMP Knuth-Morris-Pratt KMWA Kiss My White Ass KN Saint Kitts And Nevis KNA Saint Kitts And Nevis KO Knock Out KOR Korea, Republic Of KOTL Keeper Of The List KOWC Key Word Out of Context KP Key Pulse KP Kitchen Police KP Korea, Democratic People'S Republic Of KPH Kilometers Per Hour KPI Kernal Programming Interface KPNO Kitt Peak National Observatory KPO KeyPunch Operator KQC King's College London KQML Knowledge Query and Manipulation KR Kernighan and Ritchie, the c programming language KR Korea, Republic Of KRC Kutak , Rock & Campbell KRS Knowledge Retrieval System KS King's Scholar KSC Kennedy Space Center KSF Key Success Factor KSH Korn SHell KSPH Keystrokes Per Hour KSR Keyboard Send Receive KSR Keyboard Send-Receive KSU Kansas State University KSU Kent State University KSU Key System Unit KSZE Konferenz fur Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit in Europa KTB Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary KTS Key Telephone System KTU Key Telephone Unit KUB Katholieke Universiteit Brabant KUCA Kyoto University Critical Assembly KUCA Kyoto University Critical Assembly KUKRYNIKSY Kuprijanov, Michail V. + Krylov, Porfirij N. + Sokolov, Nikolaj A. KUL Katholieke Universiteit Leuven KW Kuwait KWIC Key Word In Context KWIC KeyWord In Context KWT Kuwait KY Cayman Islands KY Kentucky KZ Kazakhstan Kbit Kilobit L&N Lomas & Nettleton L.A Los Angeles L.A. Landor Associates L.A. Lipper Analytical L.A. Los Angeles L.P Limited Partnership L.P. Limited Partnership L.P. Line Partners L.P. Lintas a Procter L.P. limited partner L.P. limited partnership L1 35,000 Miles above moon L1 Lagrange Point #1 L2 40,000 Miles behind moon L2 Lagrange Point #2 L3 35,000 Miles below moon L3 Lagrange Point #3 L4 240,000 mile Earth orbit L4 Lagrange Point #4 L5 240,000 mile Earth orbit L5 Lagrange Point #5 LA Lao People'S Democratic Republic LA Library Association LA Los Angeles LA Louisiana LA Low Altitude LA Learning AIDS LAA League Against Acronymns LAA Library Association of Australia LAAS Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture LAB Labor LAC Loop Assignment Center LACIG Library Association Cataloguing and Indexing Group LADAR LAser Detection And Ranging LADDR Layered Device Driver Architecture LADM local average density model LADM local average density model LADT Local Access Data Transport LADWP Los Angeles Department of Water and Power LADWP Los Angeles Department of Water and Power LAIS Local Automatic Intercept System LAL Local Analog Loopback LALL Longest Allowed Lobe Length LALR Look-Ahead Left-to-right scan, Rightmost derivation LAM Local Area Multicomputer LAM Master of Liberal Arts LAMA Local Automatic Message Accounting LAMPS Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System LAN Local Apparent Noon LAN Local Area Network LAN local-area-network LAN local-area-network- LANA Ligand Assisted Nucleophilic Additions LANA Ligand Assisted Nucleophilic Additions LANCE Local Area Network Controller for Ethernet LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory LANTIRN Low Altitude Navigational Targeting InfRaRed for Night LAO Lao People'S Democratic Republic LAP Link Access Procedure LAPB Link Access Procedure - Balanced LAPD Link Access Procedure Direct LAPD Link Access Procedure on the D channel LAPD Los Angeles Police Department LAPM Link Access Procedure for Modems LAR Load Access Rights LAR Local Acquisition Radar LARC Langley Research Center LARGE Looming And Really Gigantic Entity LARP Local Approval Review Program LASER Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation LASS Local Area Signaling Service LASSY Lagerverwaltungs- und StoffinformationsSYstem LASTport Local Area Storage Transport LAT Local Apparent Time LAT Local Area Transport LATA Local Access Transport Area LATIS Loop Activity Tracking Information System LAVC Local Area VAX Cluster LAWN Local Area Wireless Network LAX Los Angeles International Airport LB Lebanon LB Left Button LB Light Bomber LB libra LB pound LBFP Log-Burning FirePlace LBHS Long Beach High School LBL Label LBL Lawrence Berkeley Labs LBM Lithium Blanket Module LBM Lithium Blanket Module LBN Lebanon LBO Line Buildout LBO leveraged buy-outs LBR Liberia LBR Librarian LBS Load Balance System LBS Pounds LBT Listen Before Talk LBY Libyan Arab Jamahiriya LC Library of Congress LC Lower Case LC Saint Lucia LC inductor-Capacitor circuit LC lumped constant LC lumped constant LCA Life-Cycle Assessment LCA Logic Cell Array LCA Saint Lucia LCAMOS Loop CAble Maintenance Operation System LCAO Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals LCC Laboratory of Computer Chemistry LCC Leadless Chip Carrier LCCIS Local Common Channel Interoffice Signaling LCCL Line Card CabLe LCCLN Line Card Cable Narrative LCD Liquid Crystal Display LCD Lowest Common Denominator LCD liquid-crystal-display LCDN Last Called Directory Number LCDR Lieutenant Commander LCI Landing Craft, Infantry LCIE Lightguide Cable Interconnection Equipment LCK Library Construction Kit LCL Lunar Cargo Lander LCLOC Line Card LOCation LCM Least Common Multiple LCM Life Cycle Management LCMS Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod LCN Logical Channel Numbers LCP Link Control Protocol LCR Least Cost Routing LCRI Library of Congress Rule Interpretations LCRMKR Line Card ReMarKs, Retained LCS Laboratory for Computer Science LCSE Line Card Service and Equipment LCSEN Line Card Service and Equipment Narrative LCSH Library of Congress Subject Headings LCT Landing Craft Tanks LCT Landing Craft, Tank LCT Large Coil Task LCT Large Coil Task LCT Last Compliance Time LCT Last Conformance Time LCTF Large Coil Test Facility LCTF Large Coil Test Facility LCU Last Cluster Used LCVL Landing Craft, Vehicle, Large LD Long Distance LDA Logical Device Address LDC Linguistic Data Consortium LDC Liquid Crystal Display LDC Logical Device Coordinates LDC London Dumping Convention LDC London Dumping Convention LDC Long Distance Carrier LDC Lotus Development Corporation LDC less-developed countries LDC less-developed-country LDC lesser developed countries LDC less-developed-country LDEF Long Duration Exposure Facility LDF Large Deployable Reflector LDL Local Digital Loopback LDL Low Density Lipoprotein LDM Legacy Data Management LDM Long Distance Modem LDMTS Long Distance Message Telecommunications Service LDP Laboratory Data Products LDP Liberal Democratic Party LDP Liberal Democratic Party LDP the Liberal Democratic Party LDR Long-Distance Romance LDS Logical Data Structure LDS The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints LDT Local Descriptor Table LDX Long Distance eXtender LE Lance Ethernet LE Less or Equal LEA Load Effective Address LEA Local Education Authority LEAF Laser Environmental Airborne Fluorosensor LEAP Low-power Enhanced At Portable LEAS LATA Equal Access System LEC Local Exchange Carrier LED Light Emitting Diode LED Light-Emitting Diode LED light-emitting-diode LEGO Low End Graphics Option LEM Language Extension Module LEM Lunar Excursion Module LEN Low Entry Networking LENCL Line Equipment Number CLass LEO Low Earth Orbit LEO low earth orbit LEO low earth orbit LEP Large Electron-Positron collider LERC Lewis Research Center LES Language Engineering Services LES Large Eddy Simulation LEST Large Earth-based Solar Telescope LEX Lexicon LF Line Feed Character LF Line Finder LF Low Frequency LFACS Loop Facilties Assignment And Control System LFI Last File Indicator LFP Lisp and Functional Programming LFS Loopback File System LFS laser fluorescent spectroscopy LFS laser fluorescent spectroscopy LFSA List of Frequently Seen Acronyms LFSR Linear Feedback Shift Register LFU Least Frequently Used LGA LaGuardia International Airport LGA Low Gain Antenna LGB Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual LGB Long Beach LGBO Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual and any others we've missed LGBO* Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual and any others we've missed LGDT Load Global Descriptor Table LGM Little Green Men LGQ Life's Great Questions LGSOWG Landsat Ground Station Operators' Working Group LH Left Hand LH Liquid Hydrogen LH Lower Half LH Luteinizing Hormone LHC Large Hadron Collider LHD Litterarum Humaniorum Doctor LHS Left Hand Side LI Liechtenstein LI Long Island LIA linear induction accelerator LIA linear induction accelerator LIACS Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies LICS Lotus International Character Set LIDAR LIght Detection And Ranging LIDB Line Information DataBase LIDT Load Interrupt Descriptor Table LIE Liechtenstein LIEP Large Internet Exchange Packet LIF Low Insertion Force LIFE long-instruction-format-engine LIFIA Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale et d'Intelligence Artificielle LIFO Last In First Out LIFO Last In, First Out LII Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School LILO Last In, Last Out LIM Lotus-Intel-Microsoft LIM Lotus-Intel-Microsoft LIM Lotus/Intel/Microsoft LIM Lotus/Intel/Microsoft LIMA Lotus/Intel/Microsoft/AST LIMM Lotus Intel Microsoft Memory LIMS Laboratory Information Management System LIMS Library Information Management System LINC Laboratory INstrument Computer LIPN Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord LIPS Logical Inferences Per Second LIS Logical IP Subnetwork LISA Large Installation Systems Administration LISP LISt Processing Language LIST List-Oriented Interactive Language LISWA Library and Information Service of Western Australia LITHP Link Type description language for HyperText Processing LIU Line Interface Unit LIVE-NET London Interactive Video Educational Network LJBF Let's Just Be Friends LJH L.J. Hooker LK Sri Lanka LKA Sri Lanka LKW LastKraftWagen LL Late Latin LL Long Lines LLAD Low Level Air Defense LLAMA Logic Lacking A Meaningful Acronym LLB Legum Baccalaureus LLC Logical Link Control LLCLINK Layer Control Protocol LLD Legum doctor LLDT Load Local Descriptor Table LLN Line Link Network LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory LLO Low Lunar Orbit LLOX Lunar Liquid Oxygen LLP Line Link Pulsing LLWA Low Level Wind Shear Alert LM Lan Manager LM Life Master LM Lunar Module LM/X LAN Manager for Unix LMAA Look Ma, Another Acronym LMBCS Lotus Multibyte Character Set LMC Large Magellanic Cloud LME Layer Management Entity LME London Metal Exchange LME London Metal Exchange LME the London Metal Exchange LMF License Management Facility LMFBR Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactors LMFBR Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactors LMI Local Management Interface LMK Let Me Know LMMS Local Message Metering System LMOS Line Maintenance Operations System LMSW Load Machine Status Word LMU Ludwig-Maximilian-Universitat LMXRB Low Mass X-Ray Binary LN Logarithm LN2 Liquid N2 LNDI Lotus Notes:Document Imaging LNER London and North-Eastern Railway LNG Liquified Natural Gas LO Lake Oswego LO Leverage Out LOA Lands of Adventure LOA Leave Of Absence LOA List Of Acronyms LOB Line Of Building LOC Lines Of Code LOC Local Operating Company LOC Loop On-Line Control LOCAP LOw CAPacitance LOCIS Library of Congress Information System LODSB Load String Byte LOE Level Of Effort LOF Lock OFf-line LOFT Launch Operations Flight Test LOG Logarithm LOI Letter Of Intent LOL Little Old Lady LOMBARD Lots Of Money But A Real Dork LON Lock ON-line LOOPE Loop while Equal LOOPNE Loop while Not Equal LOOPNZ Loop while Not Zero LOOPS Lisp Object Oriented Programming System LOOPZ Loop while Zero LOP Lines Of Position LORAN Long RANge Navigation LORE Line Oriented Editor LORIA Little Orange Rotter In Asia LOS Line Of Sight LOS Los Angeles LOS Loss Of Signal LOSF Lunar Orbit Staging Facility LOTF Lord Of The Flies LOTOS Language Of Temporal Ordering Specification LOTOS Language of Temporal Order Specification LOTS Low Overhead Timesharing System LOX Liquid Oxygen LP Linear Programming LP Long Play LP Long playing LP Long playing record LP Low Pressure LPA Link Pack Area LPA Lower order Path Adaptation LPC Linear Predictive Coding LPC Local Procedure Call LPCDF Low Profile Combined Distributing Frame LPD Line Printer Daemon LPDA Link Problem Determination Aid LPF League for Programming Freedom LPG Liquefied Petroleum Gas LPG Liquified Petroleum Gas LPG Low Pressure Gas LPI Lines Per Inch LPL Lotus Programming Language LPL Louisiana Power & Light LPL Lunar Personnel Lander LPL Louisiana Power & Light LPM Lines Per Minute LPN Licensed Practical Nurse LPN Logical Page Number LPP Licensed Program Products LPR Line PrinteR LPS Low-Power Schottky LPT Line Printer LPT Lunar Propellant Tanker LPT1 First Parallel Printer Port LPT2 Second Parallel Printer Port LPT3 Third Parallel Printer Port LPV Lunar Piloted Vehicle LQ Letter Quality LQG Linear Quadratic Gaussian LQM Link Quality Monitoring LR Liberia LRAM Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music LRAP Long Route Analysis Program LRB Liquid Rocket Booster LRBM Long Range Ballistic Missile LRC Local Register Cache LRC Longitudinal Redundancy Check LRF Lantbrukarnas riksforbund LRF Little Rubber Feet LRL Least Recently Loaded LRS Line Repeater Station LRSP Long Range System Plan LRSS Long Range Switching Studies LRTAP Long Range Transport of Atmospheric Pollutants LRTAP Long Range Transport of Atmospheric Pollutants LRU Least Recently Used LRU Line Replaceable Unit LRU least-recently-used LRV Light Rail Vehicle LS Left Side LS Lesotho LS Letter Signed LS Locus Sigilli LSA Line Sharing Adapter LSAP Link Service Access Point LSAP Logical Service Access Point LSAP Long Service Access Point LSAPI License Services Application Program Interface LSAR Logistic Support Analysis Record LSB Least Significant Bit LSB Least Significant Byte LSB Lower Side Band LSC Least Significant Character LSC Lecture Series Committee LSC Legal Services Corp. LSC Legal Services Corporation LSC LightSpeed C LSC Left-Wing Services Corp LSC Legal Services Corp. LSC the Legal Services Corp. LSD Least Significant Digit LSD LySergic acid Diethylamide LSD pounds, shillings, and pence LSI Large Scale Integration LSI Litigation Sciences Inc. LSI large-scale-integration LSL Load Segment Limit LSL Logical Shift Left LSMFT Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobaccos LSO Lesotho LSP LightSpeed Pascal LSP Link State Packet LSR Local Standard of Rest LSR Logical Shift Right LSRP Local Switching Replacement Planning system LSS Life Support System LSS Loop Switching System LSSD Level-Sensitive Scan Detection LST Landing Ship, Tank LST List LSV Line Status Verifier LT Lithuania LT Long Ton LT Low Tension LTA Lighter Than Air LTAB Line Test Access Bus LTC Lieutenant Colonel LTC Local Test Cabinet LTCB Long Term Credit Bank LTCC Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic LTCL Licentiate of the Trinity College of music London LTD Local Test Desk LTF Lightwave Terminating Frame LTF Line Trunk Frame LTG Line Trunk Group LTI Linear Time Invariant LTJG Lieutenant Junior Grade LTL Less than Truckload Lot LTP Lunar Transient Phenomenon LTPD Lot Tolerance Percent Deffective LTR Left-To-Right LTR Letter LTR Load Task Register LTS Loss Test Set LTSG Laser-Triggered Spark-Gap LTU Lithuania LTV Loan To Value LTVR LTV Ratio LTX Left Teradyne at Xmas LU Logical Unit LU Luxembourg LU6.2 Logical Unit 6.2 LUA Logical Unit Application LUA Logical unit application interface LUG Local Users Group LUI Local User Input LUI Lousy User Interface LULU Locally Unwanted Land Uses LUMO Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital LUN Logical Unit Number LUT Look-Up Table LUT Lookup Table LUT Loughborough University of Technology LUX Luxembourg LV Latvia LVA Latvia LVDT Linear Variable Differential Tranformer LVDT Linear Variable Differential Transformer LWDPS Louisiana Water Discharge Permit System LWM Low-Water Mark LWP Light Weight Process LWR Lutheran World Relief LWR light water reactor LWR light water reactor LWR light-water-reactor LWR light-water-reactor LWSP Linear White-SPace LWT Last Will and Testament LWT London Weekend Television LXE Lightguide eXpress Entry LY Libyan Arab Jamahiriya LZ Landing Zone LZ Lazy Write LZW Lempel-Ziv-Walsh LZW Lempel-Ziv-Walsh LZW Lempel-Ziv-Welch LaBRI Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique LaTeX Leslie LAmport's TeX extensions Linux Linus Torvald's UNIX M Miniatures M meter M meters M&A merger and acquisition M&A mergers and acquisitions M-K Mon-Khmer M.A. Mayer Amschel M.D.C. managing director in charge M0 macrophages M0 macrophages MA Maintenance Administrator MA Massachusetts MA Morocco MAAP Maintenance And Administration Panel MAASU Midwest Asian American Student Union MAB Man And the Biosphere MAC Macau MAC Management Advisory Committee MAC Management Advisory Committee MAC Management Appeals Committee MAC Mandatory Access Control MAC Media Access Control MAC Medium Access Control MAC Military Air Command MAC Money Access Center MAC Move, Add, Change MAC Multiple Analogue Component MAC Management Appeals Committee MAC the Management Appeals Committee MACBS Multi-Access Cable Billing System MACH Multilayer Actuator Head MACHO Massive Compact Halo Object MACSYMA project 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NERSC National Energy Research Supercomputer Center NES National Energy Strategy NES Not Elsewhere Specified NESAC National Electronic Switching Assistance Center NESB New England Savings Bank NESC National Energy Software Center NESDB National Economic and Social Development Board NESS Network of European Shipbuilding Students NET NETwork NET National Educational Television NET Network NET New England Telephone NETBLT NETwork Block Transfer NETCDF NETwork Common Data Format NEWS NetWare Early Warning System NEWS Network extensible Window System NEWS Networked extensible Windowing System NEWT NeWS Terminal NEXAFS Near Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure NEXRAD NEXt generation weather RADar NEXRAD Next generation weather radar being deployed in the US NEXT Near-End Crosstalk NEXT Near-End cross-Talk NEXXVS Chilean Network NF No Funds NF Norfolk Island NFA National Futures Association NFA National Futures Association NFA the National Futures Association NFC National Football Conference NFF Neutral File Format NFF No Fault Found NFFE National Federation of Federal Employees NFG No Fucking Good NFIB National Federation of Independent Business NFIB National Federation of Independent Businesses NFIB National Federation of Independent Business NFIB the National Federation of Independent Business NFK Norfolk Island NFL National Football League NFPA National Fire Protection Association NFR Not For Resuscitation NFR Not a Functional Requirement NFS Network File System NFS Number Field Sieve NFT Network File Transfer NFW No Fucking way NG National Guard NG Nigeria NG No Good NGA Nigeria NGC New General Catalog NGDC National Geophysical Data Center NGE Not Greater or Equal NGM Nested Grid Model NH New Hampshire NHC National Hurricane Center NHES National Household Education Survey NHI National Health Insurance NHI Nelson Holdings International NHI Nelson Holdings International NHIC National Health Information Center NHL National Hockey League NHL National Hockey League NHL the National Hockey League NHLBI National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute NHLPA National Hockey League Players' Association NHR Non Hierarchial Routing NHRA National Hot Rod Association NHS National Health Service NHTSA National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA National Highway Transportation Safety Administration NHTSA National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NI Network Interface NI Nicaragua NIAID National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases NIAM Natural language Information Analysis Method NIB Not in budget NIC Network Information Center NIC Network Interface Card NIC Nicaragua NIC Numeric Intensive Computing NICA National Independent Concessionaire's Association NICAD Nickel Cadmium NICAM Near Instantaneous Companded Audio Multiplexing NICAP The National Investigation Council of Aerial Phenomena NICE Network Information and Control Exchange NICMOS Near Infrared Camera / Multi Object Spectrometer NICUFO National Investigations Committee on UFOs NID New Interactive Display NID Next ID NIFOC Naked in front of computer NIH National Institutes of Health NIH Not Invented Here NIH National Institutes of Health NIH the National Institutes of Health NIHCL National Institute of Health C Libraries NII Nuclear Installations Inspectorate NII Nuclear Installations Inspectorate NIIT National Information Infrastructure Testbed NIKHEF Niederlaendisches Institut fuer Kernphysik uns Hochenergie Physik NIM New Inside Macintosh NIM Nuclear Instrumentation Module NIMBY Not In My Back Yard NIMH National Institute of Mental Health NIMH Nickel-Metal Hydride NIMS Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer NIMS Non-Invasive Monitoring Systems NIN Nine Inch Nails NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health NIPDE National Initiative for Product Data Exchange NIPS Network I/Os Per Second NIR Near InfraRed NIR Network Information Registry NIR Networked Information Retrieval NIS Network Information System NIS Newly Independent States NISC Network Information and Support Center NISEEast NCCOSC in-service engineering division, east coast NISEWest NCCOSC in-service engineering division, west coast NISO National Information Standards Organization NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology NITC National Information Technology Center NITF Not In This Factory NIU Network Interface Unit NIU Niue NJ New Jersey NJ NJ in Jersey NJB New Jersey Bell NJE Network Job Entry NJFO Now Just Fuck Off NJLGC New Jersey Lesbian and Gay Coalition NKOTB New Kids On The Block NKS Network Knowledge Server NL National League NL Netherlands NL New Line NLA National Library of Australia NLC National Library of China NLD National League for Democracy NLD Netherlands NLDP National Launch Development Program NLE Not Less or Equal NLF National Liberation Front NLGI National Lubrication Grease Institute NLM National Library of Medicine NLM NetWare Loadable Module NLP Natural Language Processing NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming NLPID Network Layer Protocol Identifier NLQ Near Letter Quality NLQ near-letter-quality NLRB National Labor Relations Board NLRI Network Layer Reachability Information NLS National Language Support NLS Native Language Support NLS Network License Server NLSP NetWare Link State Protocol NLSP Novell Link State Protocol NM Nautical Mile NM Network Module NM New Mexico NM Night Message NM No Mark NM Not Marked NMA Newfoundland Medical Association NMBLA National Man/Boy Love Association NMC National Meteorological Center NMC Network Management Center NME National Medical Enterprises NME National Medical Enterprises NMEA National Marine Electronic Association NMEA National Marine Electronics Association NMEA National Maritime Electronics Association NMFS National Marine Fisheries Service NMI New Model Introduction NMI No Middle Initial NMI Non Maskable Interrupt NMI Non-Maskable Interrupt NMIMT New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology NMM NetWare Management Map NMNH National Museum of Natural History NMO No mutta oh-hoh NMOS N channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor NMOS Negative Channel Metal-Oxide Semiconductor NMR Nuclear Magnetic Resonance NMR Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR Nuclear magnetic resonance NMRA National Model Railroad Association NMRC National Microelectronics Research Centre NMS National Market System NMS National Market System NMS Network Management System NMS Network Monitoring Station NMS National Market System NMSQT National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test NMT New Mexico Tech NMT Nordisk Mobil Telefon NN neural-network NNC N-nitroso compounds NNC N-nitroso compounds NNE North North East NNI Network Node Interface NNN Nuke the No Nukes NNTP Net News Transfer Protocol NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol NNTR No Need To Reply NNW North North West NNX Network Numbering eXchange NO Norway NOA NSWC Office Automation NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAE No Observed Adverse Effect NOAEL No Observed Adverse Effect Level NOAH National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation NOAH Network Of Animal Health NOAO National Optical Astronomical Observatories NOAO National Optical Astronomy Observatories NOC Network Operations Center NOCD Not Our Class Dear NOCS Network Operations Center System NODES Network Operation and Design Engineering System NOE Nap Of the Earth NOE Nuclear Overhauser effect NOE Nuclear Overhauser effect NOESY Nuclear Overhauser Effect SpectroscopY NOP No OPeration NOR Norway NOR Not Or NORAD NORth American Defense Command NORAD NORth american Aerospace Defense command NORAD Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, Oslo NORDO No-radio NORGEN Network Operations Report GENerator NORM Naturally Occuring Radioactive Material NORML National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws NORPLANT NORgestrol imPLANT NORWICH kNickers Off Ready for When I Come Home NOS Network Operating System NOS Not Otherwise Specified NOSC Naval Ocean Systems Center NOSC Network Operations and Sevice Centre NOTAR NO TAil Rotor NOTIS Network Operator Trouble Information System NOW National Organization for Women NOW National Organization of Women NOW Negotiable Order for Withdrawal NOX Nitrogen Oxides NOYFB None Of Your Fucking Business NP National Pizza NP Nepal NP No Protest NP Nondeterministic-Polynomial NP Notary Public NP Noun Phrase NP Nurse Practitioner NP National Pizza NP a National Pizza NPA Network Printer Alliance NPA Network Programmers Association NPA No Power Alarm NPA Numbering Plan Area NPC Non-Player Character NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System NPDU Network Protocol Data Units NPE NonylPhenolEthoxylates NPG New Power Generation NPG New Product Group NPI Network Printer Interface NPI New Product Introduction NPL National Physical Laboratory NPL National Physical Laboratory NPL Nepal NPL Non-Procedural Language NPL Nonprocedural Language NPN Negative-Positive-Negative NPN NonProtein Nitrogen NPP Net Primary Productivity NPP nuclear power plant NPP nuclear power plant NPPA National Press Photographers Association NPR National Public Radio NPR noise-power-ratio NPRM Notice of Proposed Rulemaking NPSI Network Protocol Service Interface NPTN National Public Telecomputing Network NPU Natural Processing Unit NPV Net Present Value NPX Numeric Processor Extension NQ No Quote NQS Network Queuing System NR Nauru NRA National Recovery Administration NRA National Rifle Association NRA National Rifle Assoociation NRA National Rivers Authority NRAO National Radio Astronomy Observatory NRBQ New Rhythm and Blues Quartet NRC National Research Council NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC the Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRDC Natural Resource Defense Council NRDC Natural Resources Defense Council NRDC Natural Resources Defense Council NRDC the Natural Resources Defense Council NRE Non-Recurring Engineering NREN National Research and Education Network NRHS National Railway Historical Society NRL Naval Research Laboratory NRL Naval Research Labs NRLC National Right to Life Committee NRM Network Resource Management NRM Normal Response Mode NRM Swedish Museum of Natural History/Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet NRMA National Roads & Motorists' Association NRMA Nothing Really Matters Anymore NRN National Research Network NRN No Reply Necessary NRO National Reconnaissance Organization NROFF New ROFF NRPB National Radiological Protection Board NRPB National Radiological Protection Board NRU Nauru NRWG Neutron Radiography Working Group NRWG Neutron Radiography Working Group NRZ Non-Return to Zero NRZ Not Return to Zero NRZI Non Return to Zero Inverted NRZI Non-Return to Zero Inverted NRaD NCCOSC Research, Development, Test & Evaluation Division NS Name Server NS Nanosecond NS Network Services NS Network Supervisor NS Neutron Star NS Non Stop NS Not Specified NS Nova Scotia NS Nuclear Ship NSA National Security Agency NSA national security agencies NSA National Security Agency NSA the National Security Agency NSA POLY National Security Agency Polygraph NSAID non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug NSAP Network Service Access Point NSBU National Small Business United NSBU National Small Business United NSC National Security Council NSC Network Service Center NSC National Security Council NSC The National Security Council NSC the National Security Council NSCA National Safety Council of Australia NSCA National Systems COntractor Association NSCS Network Service Center System NSDAP Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei NSDI National Spatial Data Infrastructure NSDM National Security Decision Making NSDSSO NASA Science Data Systems Standards Office NSE Network Software Environment NSEC Network Switching Engineering Center NSEL Network Service Selector NSEM Network Software Environment NSERC Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council NSF National Science Foundation NSFNET National Science Foundation NETwork NSLS National Synchrotron Light Source NSM National Student Marketing NSM National Student Marketing NSN National Stock Number NSO National Solar Observatory NSP Network Services Protocol NSPA National Security Planning Agency NSPA National Security Planning Agency NSPA the National Security Planning Agency NSPCA National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals NSPI National Society for Performance and Instruction NSPMP Network Switching Performance Measurement Plan NSRC National Sighting Research Center NSS National speleological society NSS Nodal Switching System NSSDC National Space Science Data Center NSSN National Standards Systems Network NST Newfoundland Standard Time NSTA National Science Teachers Association NSTL National Software Testing Labs NSTN Nova Scotia Technology Network NSTS National Space Transportation System NSU Networking Support Utilities NSUG Nihon Sun User's Group NSW New South Wales NSWC Naval Surface Warfare Center NSWC Naval Surface Weapons Center NT Network Termination NT Neutral Zone NT New Technology NT New Testament NT Newfoundland Time NT Northern Telecom NT Northern Territory NTAP National Track Analysis Program NTC National Toxics Campaign NTC National Toxics Campaign NTC the National Toxics Campaign NTDB National Trade Data Bank NTDS Naval Tactical Data Systems NTEC Network Technical Equipment Center NTEU National Treasury Employees Union NTF No Trouble Found NTFP Non-timber forest product NTFS New Technology File System NTH Norges Tekniske Hoegskole NTIA National Telecommunications and Information Agency NTIS National Technical Information Service NTIS National Technical Information Service NTN Neutralized Twisted Nematic NTO Network Terminal Option NTP Network Time Protocol NTP Normal Temperature and Pressure NTPD Network Time Protocol Daemon NTR Nuclear Thermal Rocket NTR nuclear thermal rocketry NTS Network Technical Support NTS Network Test System NTS Nevada Test Site NTS Nevada Test Site NTSB National Transportation Safety Board NTSB National Transportation and Saftey Board NTSB National Transportation Safety Board NTSB The National Transportation Safety Board NTSC National Television Standards Committee NTSC National Television System Committee NTT New Technology Telescope NTT Nippon Telegraph & Telephone NTT Nippon Telephone & Telegraph NTT Nippon Telegraph & Telephone NTU Network Terminating Unit NTUA National Technical University of Athens NTZ Neutral Zone NU Name Unknown NU Niue NU Northeast Utilities NU Northeast Utilities NUA Network User Address NUFON Northern UFO Network NUI Network User Interface NUI Notebook User Interface NUL Null Device NUM National Union of Mineworkers NUM National Union of Mineworkers NUMA Non Uniform Memory Architecture NUPE National Union of Public Employees NURBS NonUniform Rational B-Spline NUSC Naval Underwater Systems Command NUTEK Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development NUWC Naval Undersea Warfare Center NV Nevada NV No Overflow NVH Noise, Vibration, Harshness NVLAP National Validation Laboratory Program NVM Non-Volatile Memory NVOD Near Video On Demand NVP Nominal Velocity of Propagation NVQ National Vocational Qualification NVRAM Non-Volatile Random Access Memory NVRAM NonVolatile Random Access Memory NW National Westminster NW Next Wave NW North West NW National Westminster NW Next Wave NWA Northwest Airline NWF National Wildlife Federation NWNET NorthWestNet NWS National Weather Service NWT North West Territories NWTC National Wind Tunnel Complex NXX NANP syntax for a three-digit string NY New York NYC New York City NYNEX New York and New England Telephone NYPD New York Police Department NYSE New York Stock Exchange NYSERNET New York State Educational and Research Network NYT New York Times NYU New York University NYU New York University NZ New Zealand NZATT New Zealand Association of Theatre, Design and Technology NZL New Zealand NZLIA New Zealand Library and Information Association NZUFOSC New Zealand UFO Research Center NZUSUGI New Zealand Unix System User Group Inc. NZUSUGI New Zealand Unix System User Group, Inc. NZZ Neue Zurcher Zeitung NetBEUI NetBIOS Extended User Interface NetBIOS Network Basic Input/Output System O&Y Olympia & York O.K. off the kid O2 Oxygen OA Office Automation OA Order Administration OA Overeaters Anonymous OAB One-to-All Broadcast OACIS Oregon Advanced Computing InStitute OAG Official Airline Guide OAG Online Air Guide OAI Open Applications Interface OAK Oakland CA OAKE Organization of American Kodaly Educators OAM Operation And Maintenance OAO Orbiting Astronomical Observatory OAS One-to-All Scatter OAS Organization of American States OAS Organization of American States OAS the Organization of American States OASIS Omnicare Advanced Strategic Information System OASIS Operational Analyses Strategic Interaction Simulator OASYS Office Automation SYStem OAT Outside Air Temperature OATS Office Automation Technology and Services OAU Organisation of African Unity OAV Original Animation Video OB Obligatory OBAFGKM Oh Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me OBAFGKM Oh Be A Fine Guy Kiss Me OBD Online Bugs Database OBE Office of Business Economics OBE Office of Business Economics OBE Order of the British Empire OBE Outcome Based Education OBJ Object OBO Or Best Offer OBS Omni Bearing Selector OBS Omnibearing Selector OBTW Oh, By The Way OC Operator Centralization OC Order of Canada OC-12 Optical Carrier 12 OC-192 Optical Carier 192 OCA Organization of Chinese Americans OCATE Oregon Center for Advanced Technology Education OCC Office Communications Cabinet OCC Options Clearing Corp. OCC Other Common Carrier OCC Options Clearing Corp. OCC the Options Clearing Corp. OCDE Organisation pour la Cooperation et le Developpement economique OCDM Office of Civil Defense and Mobilization OCE Office of Correctional Education OCE Open Collaborative Environment OCE Other Common carrier channel Equipment OCI Out of City Indicator OCL Operation Control Language OCL Operator Control Language OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. OCLI Optical Coating Labs Inc. OCO Object Code Only OCR Office for Civil Rights OCR Optical Character Recognition OCR Optical-character-recognition OCR optical-character-recognition OCS Officer Candidate School OCSEA Ohio County and State Employees Association OCST Office of Commercial Space Transportation OCU Office Channel Unit OCX Ole Control OD Doctor of Optometry OD Oculus Dexter OD Officer of the Day OD Outer Diameter OD OverDose ODA Office Document Architecture ODA Open Document Architecture ODA Overseas Development Administration ODAC Operations Distribution Administration Center ODAPI Open Database Application Programming Interface ODBC Open Database Connectivity ODBMS Object-Oriented Database Management System ODCS Open Distributed Computing Structure ODD Operator Distance Dialing ODDD Operator Direct Distance Dialing ODI Open Datalink Interface ODI Open Device Interconnect ODI Optical Digital Image ODIF Ofice Document Interchange Format ODIF Open Document Interchange Format ODISS Optical Digital Image Storage System ODMA Open Document Management Association ODOT Ohio Department of Transportation ODP Open Distributed Processing ODS Open Data Services ODS Overhead Data Stream ODT Online Debugging Technique OE Old English OE Order Entry OE output-enable OEA Organizacion de Estados Americanos OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OED Oxford English Dictionary OEEC Organization for European Economic Cooperation OEM OneEurope Magazine OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer OEM original-equipment-manufacturer OEO Office of Economic Opportunity OEOB Old Executive Office Building OEP Outdoor Education Project OERI Office of Educational Research and Improvement OES Old English Sheepdog OES Order of the Eastern Star OEXP Office of Exploration OF Old French OF Overflow Flag OFA Orthopedic Foundation for Animals OFM Order of Friars Minor OFMT Output Format for Numbers OFNPS Outstate Facility Network Planning System OFS Order of Free State OFS Output Field Separator OG Original Gum OGA Other Government Agency OGI Oregon Graduate Institute OGICSE Oregon Graduate Institute Computer Science and Engineering OGT OutGoing Trunk OH Off Hook OH Ohio OH OverHead OHP OverHead Projector OHSLA Ohio Health Sciences Libary Association OIC Officer In Charge OIDL Object Interface Definition Language OIF Opportunity Income Fund OIF Opportunity Income Fund OIF an Opportunity Income Fund OIRA Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs OIS Office Information Systems OITDA Optoelectronics Industry and Technology Development Association OIU Office Interface Unit OIW Workshop for Implementors of OSI OJCS Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff OJT On the Job Training OJT On-the-Job Training OK Oklahoma OLA Ohio Library Association OLAP Online Analytical Processing OLE Object Linking and Embedding OLI Optical Line Interface OLIT Open Look Interface Toolkit OLMC Output Logic Macrocell OLS Operation Lifeline Sudan OLS Ordinary Least Squares OLTL One Life To Live OLTM Optical Line Terminating Multiplexer OLTP On-Line Transaction Processing OLTP OnLine Transaction Processing OLWM OpenLook Window Manager OM Object Manager OM Office Management OM Oman OMA Ontario Medical Association OMAC Open Modular Architecture Controller OMB Office of Management and Budget OMD Orchestral Manouevers in the Dark OME Office of Minerals Exploration OME Office of Minerals Exploration OME Oregon Microcomputer Engineering OMF Object Module Format OMF Open Message Format OMG Object Management Group OMI Open Messaging Interface OMIM Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man OMM Output Message Manual OMN Oman OMNS Open Network Management System OMPF Operation and Maintenance Processor Frame OMR Optical Mark Recognition OMS Orbital Maneuvering System OMT Object Modeling Technique by James Rumbaugh, et al OMT Object Modelling Technique OMV Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle ON Old Norse ONA Open Network Architecture ONAC Operations Network Administration Center ONAL Off Network Access Line ONC Open Network Computing ONERA Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales ONGC Oil and Natural Gas Commission ONI Office of Naval Intelligence ONI Operator Number Identification ONR Office of Naval Research ONUSAL United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador OO Object Oriented OO object-oriented OO objected-oriented OOB Out Of Band OOBE Out Of the Body Experience OODB Object Oriented Data Base OODB Object-Oriented Database OODBS Object Oriented DataBase System OODBS Object Oriented Database System OODMS Object-Oriented Database Management System OOL Object-Oriented Language OOP Object Oriented Programming OOP Object-Oriented Programming OOP object-oriented-programming OOPART Out Of Place ARTifact OOPL Object-Oriented Programming Language OOPS Object Oriented Programming and Systems OOPS Object-Oriented Programming System OOPSLA Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages & Applications OOPSTAD Object Oriented Programming for Smalltalk Application Developers Association OOS Object-Oriented Systems OOS Off-line Operating Simulator OOSH Object-Oriented SHell OOT Object-Oriented Technology OOUI Object Oriented User Interface OP OFFICEPOWER office automation system, trademark of CCI OP Observation Post OP Operation OP Optical OP Order of Preachers OP Order-by-Phone OP Out of Print OP Output OP Outside Plant OPAC Online Public Access Catlog OPC Optical Photoconductor OPC Ordinary Portland Cement OPC Ordinary Portland Cement OPC Originating Point Codes OPCODE Operational Code OPD Operand OPDU Operation Protocol Data Units OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEOS Outside Plant planning, Engineering & construction Operations Sys OPF Orbiter Processing Facility OPI Open Prepress Interface OPM Office of Personnel Management OPM Operations Per Minute OPM Other People's Money OPM Outside Plant Module OPP Ontario Provincial Police OPS Off-Premises Station OPS Operations OPSEC OPerations SECurity OPSEC Operations Security OPSM Outside Plant Subscriber Module OPT Open Protocol Technology OPTICAL OPtometric Topography Involving the Cornea And Lens OPUS Obvious Password Utility System OPUS Octal Program Updating System OPX Off-Premises eXtension OR Operating Room OR Operation Research OR Operations Research OR Oregon OR Originating Register OR Own Risk OR Owner's Risk ORA Opportunities for Rural Areas ORACLE On-Line Inquiry and Report Generator ORAU Oak Ridge Associated Universities ORB Office Repeater Bay ORC Offshore Racing Council ORDBMS Obect Relational DataBase management System ORDLIX Organized Design for Line and Crew System ORFEUS Orbiting and Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer ORG Organization ORIF Office of Research and Inertial Fusion ORISE Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education ORM Optical Remote Module ORNAME Originator / Recipient Name ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory OROM Optical Read Only Memory ORS Orthopaedic Research Society ORS Output Record Separator ORT Ongoing Reliability Test OS Oculus Sinister OS Operating System OS Operator Service OS Ordinary Seaman OS Out of Stock OS OutState OS/2 Operating System/2 OS/E Operating System/Environment OS2 Operating System/2 OSA Open System Architecture OSAC Operator Services Assistance Center OSAP Ontario Students Assistance Program OSB Office-Services Brunschweiler OSB Order of St. Benedict OSC OSCillator OSC Ohio Supercomputer Center OSC Operator Services Center OSC Orbital Sciences Corporation OSCAR Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio OSCE Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe OSCRL Operating System Command Response Language OSD Office of the Secretary of Defense OSD Operational Service Date OSDIT Office of Software Development and Information Technology OSDS Operating System for Distributed Switching OSF Open Software Foundation OSF Operational Support Facility OSF Order of St. Francis OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSI Office of Special Investigation OSI Open Systems Interconnection OSI/RM Open Systems Interconnection/Reference Model OSINET Open Systems Interconnection Network OSIRM Open Systems Interconnection/Reference Model OSM Off-Screen Model OSME Open Systems Message Exchange OSN Office Systems Node OSN Open Systems Network OSO Originating Signaling Office OSP Optical Storage Processor OSP OutSide Plant OSPF Open Shortest Path First OSPF Open Shortest-Path First Interior Gateway Protocol OSPFIGP Open Shortest-Path First Internal Gateway Protocol OSPS Operator Service Position System OSQL Object Structured Query Language OSRAM OSmium und wolfRAM OSS Office Support System OSS Office of Strategic Services OSS Operation Support System OSS Operator Service System OSSA Office of Space Science and Applications OSSE Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment OST operator started trading OSTC Open Systems Testing Consortium OSTP Office of Science and Technology Policy OSTP White house Office of Science and Technology Policy OSU Oregon State University OSU The Ohio State University OS\ operating system OS\ operating-system OT Object Technology OT Old Testament OT Operating Thetan OT OverTime OT&LF Open Taxi & Limousine Foundation OTA Office of Technology Assessment OTA Optical Telescope Assembly OTB Off-Track Betting OTBS One True Bracketing Style OTC Output Technology Corporation OTC Over The Counter OTC over-the-counter OTDR Optical TDR OTEC Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion OTF Open Token Foundation OTH-B Over The Horizon - Backscatter OTHB Over The Horizon - Backscatter OTHB Over The Horizon Backscatter OTL Out To Lunch OTLF Open Taxi & Limousine Foundation OTM On Time Marker OTOH On The Other Hand OTP One-Time Programmable OTR On The Rag OTS Off The Shelf OTS Office of Thrift Supervision OTS Officers' Training School OTS Office of Thrift Supervision OTS The Office of Thrift Supervision OTV Orbital Transfer Vehicle OUI Organizationally Unique Identifier OUP Oxford University Press OUTS Output String OUTWATS OUTward Wide Area Telephone Service OV Orbital Vehicle OV Orbiter Vehicle OV Overflow OVA Original Video Animation OVRO Owens Valley Radio Observatory OVTIGRE Outgoing Vacuum Time-Invariant Gray Radiance Equation OW Over-Write OWHN One-Word Host Name OWL Object Windows Library OWL Open Windows Library OY OsakeYhti ObBi Obligatory Bisexual Ohio College Library Center Online database of bibliographic information P page P paragraph P pence P pennies P penny P per P peta P phosphorus P pico P&G Procter & Gamble P&H Priscaro & Hukari Advertising P-E price-earnings P-EDIT Parametric EDITor P-SRAM Pseudo-Static Random Access Memory P.Eng Professional Engineer P.M. prime minister P/AR Peak-to-Average Ratio P/E price-earning P/E price/earnings P/T Part Time P2 Interpersonal Messaging Protocol P2C2E Processes too complicated to explain P3 Protocol used by UA Entities and MTA Entities P4 The video interface bus on the 3/80 PA Panama PA Pennsylvania PA Per Annum PA Personnel Administration PA Physician's Assistant PA Physicians Assistant PA Play Aid PA Power Alarm PA Power of Attorney PA Pre-Arbitrated PA Precision Architecture PA Press Agent PA Private Account PA Process Alert PA Production Assistant PA Program Address PA Public Address PA Purchasing Agent PA protactinium PA-RISC Palo Alto Reduced Instruction Set Computer PA-RISC Precision Architecture - Reduced Instruction Set Computer PA-RISC Precision Architecture Reduced Instruction Set Computer PA-RISC Precision Architecture-Reduced Instruction Set Computer PABX Private Automatic Branch eXchange PAC Political Action Committee PAC political action committees PACAF Pacific Air Force PACCOM Pacific Computer Communications network consortium PACE Program for Arrangement of Cables and Equipment PACERS Program for the Academic and Cultural Enhancement of Rural Schools PACS Public Access Catalog Systems PACT Prefix Access Code Translator PACX Private Automatic Computer eXchange PAD Packet Assembler-Disassembler PAD Public Access Device PADS Pen Application Development System PAGAN People Against Goodness And Niceness PAH Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon PAIS Public Affairs Information Service PAIS Public Affairs Information Service PAK Pakistan PAK Product Authorization Key PAL Paradox Applications Language PAL Passive Activity Loss PAL Personal Answer Line PAL Phase Alternate Line PAL Phase Alternation Line-rate PAL Programmable Array Logic PAL Programmed Array Logic PAL Programming Assembly Language PAL Public Ada Library PALC Plasma-Addressed Liquid Crystal PALS Pediatric Advanced Life Support PALS Principles of the Alphabet Literacy System PALS Project for Automated Library Systems PAM Payload Assist Module PAM Pulse Amplification Modulation PAM Pulse-Amplitude Modulation PAM-D Payload Assist Module, Delta-class PAMD Payload Assist Module, Delta-class PAN Panama PAN Personal Account Number PANDA Passive Nondestructive Assay PANS Pretty Advanced New Stuff PAO Palo Alto CA PAP Password Authentication Protocol PAP Polskiej Agencji Prasowej PAP Printer Access Protocol PAP Parliament authorized Prime PAPI Precision Approach Path Indicator PAR Parallel PAR Peak-to-Average Ratio PAR Precision Approach Radar PAR Project Authorization Request PARA Paragraph PARC Palo Alto Research Center PARF Pennsylvania Association of Rehabilitation Facilities PAS Pro Audio Spectrum PAS Public Announcement Service PASC Phase Accurate Sub band Coding PASCAL Philips Automatic Sequence CALculator PASI Psoriasis Area and Severity Index PASS Personal Access Satellite System PAT Power Alarm Test PAT Profit After Tax PATA Pacific Area Travel Association PATROL Program for Administrative Traffic Reports On Line PAVNET Partnerships Against Violence NETwork PAWS Phased Array Warning System PAWWS Portfolio Accounting World-Wide Web Security APL PAX Private Automatic eXchange PBC Peripheral Bus Computer PBC Processor Bus Controller PBD Pacific Bell Directory PBE Prompt By Example PBGC Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation PBM Play By Mail game PBS Public Broadcasting System PBT Profit Before TAX PBX Private Branch eXchange PC Peace Corps PC PerCent PC PerCentage PC Personal Computer PC Piece of Crap PC Player Character PC Politically Correct PC Post Card PC Post Cibum PC President's Choice PC Primary Center PC Printed Circuit PC Privileged Character PC Privy Council PC Production Control PC Program Counter PC Progressive Conservative party PC personal computer PC personal computer PC personal computers PC personal-computer PC personal computing PC-DOS Personal Computer DOS PC-I/O Program Controlled I/O PC/AT Personal Computer/Advanced Technology PCA Polar Cap Absorbtion PCA Positive Controlled Airspace PCA Presbyterian Church in America PCA Printed-Circuit Assembly PCAT Personal Computer, Advanced Technology PCB PolyChlorinated Biphenyls PCB Printed Circuit Board PCB Process Control Block PCB Program Control Block PCB Protocol Control Block PCB printed-circuit-board PCC Portable C Compiler PCDA Program Controlled Data Acquisition PCDOS Personal Computer DOS PCF Portable Compiled Font PCF percentage of crypts in fission PCF percentage of crypts in fission PCH Parallel CHannel PCI Panel Call Indicator PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect PCI Protocol Control Information PCI pulverized coal injection PCI pulverized coal injection PCIE President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency PCL Printer Command Language PCL Process Control Language PCL Programmable Command Language PCM Personal Computer Manufacturer PCM Plug-Compatible Mainframe PCM Pulse Code Modulation PCM Pulse-Code Modulation PCMCIA People Can't Make Clear, Intuitive Acronyms PCMCIA People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association PCMCIA Personal Computer Miniature Communications Interface Adapter PCMCIA people cannot memorize computer industry acronyms PCMIA Personal Computer Manufacturer Interface Adaptor PCN Pitcairn Islands PCNFS Personal Computer Network File System PCO Peg Count and Overflow PCO Process Change Order PCPC Personal Computers Peripheral Corporation PCR Peak Cell Rate PCS Patchable Control Store PCS Permanent Change of Station PCS Personal Communication Services PCS Personal Communications Services PCS Planning Control Sheet PCS Print Contrast Signal PCS Process Control Systems PCS Program Counter Store PCS Programmable Drive Table PCS Project Control System PCSA Personal Computer Systems Architecture PCTE Portable Common Tools Environment PCTS Posix Conformance Test Suite PCTV Program Controlled TransVerters PD Per Diem PD Peripheral Decoder PD Police Department PD Potential Difference PD Public Domain PDA Personal Digital Assistant PDA Public Demonstration of Affluence PDA Public Demonstrations of Affection PDAD Proposed Draft ADdendum PDC Programme Delivery Control PDCA Deming's Plan-Do-Check-Act PDCA Plan-Do-Check-Act PDCA plan-Do-Check-Act PDD Physical Device Driver PDE Partial Differential Equation PDES Product Data Exchange Specifications PDF Portable Document Format PDF Power Distribution Frame PDF Printer Description File PDF Processor Defined Function PDF Program Development Facility PDG President-Directeur General PDH Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy PDH Plesisynchronous Digital Hierarchy PDI Power and Data Interface PDI Putnam Dividend Income PDI Putnam Dividend Income PDIAL Public Dialup Internet Access List PDL Page Description Language PDL Page Design Language PDL Program Description Language PDL Program Design Language PDM Product Data Management PDM Product Data Manager PDN Public Data Network PDP Plasma Display Panel PDP Progammable Data Processor PDP Programmed Data Processor PDQ Pretty Damn Quick PDQ Pretty Damned Quick PDR Physician's Desk Reference PDS Packet Driver Specification PDS Partitioned Data Set PDS Portable Display Shell PDS Premises Distribution System PDS Public Domain Software PDSP Peripheral Data Storage Processor PDSS Post Development and Software Support PDT Pacific Daylight Time PDT Programmable Drive Table PDU Product Development Unit PDU Protocol Data Unit PDU process development unit PDU process development unit PDVSA Petroles De Venezuela Sociedad Anonima PE Parity Even PE Partial Evaluation PE Peripheral Equipment PE Peru PE Phase Encoded PE Physical Education PE PolyEthylene PE Prince Edward island PE Printer's Error PE Processing Element PE Professional Engineer PE Protect Enable PE Protestant Episcopal PEA Pocket Ethernet Adapter PEBB Power Electronic Building Blocks PECC Product Engineering Control Center PEFKUSH Press Every Fucking Key Until Something Happens PEI Prince Edward Island PEKUSH Press Every Key Until Something Happens PEL Picture Element PEM Privacy Enhanced Mail PENSDK Pen Computing Software Development Kit PEOUSW Program Executive Office, UnderSea Warfare PEOUSW Program Executive Officer, UnderSea Warfare PEP Packetized Ensemble Protocol PEP Productivity Enhancement Project PEPE Pepe Est Presque Emacs PER Peru PERFECT PERFormance Evaluation for Cost-Effective Transformations PERL Practical Extraction and Report Language PERT Program Evaluation and Review Technique PES Positioning Error Signal PES Processor Enhancement Socket PES Processor Upgrade Socket PET Print Enhancement Technology PETA People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals PEX Phigs/phigs+ Extension to X PEXSI PEX Sample Implementation PF French Polynesia PF Programmed Function PF PF Flyer PFA Polyurethane Foam Association PFB Printer Font Binary PFC Plasma Fusion Center PFLAG Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays PFLAG Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays and Bisexuals PFLP Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine PFPS Plasma Fault Protection System PFPS Plasma Fault Protection System PFPU Processor Frame Power Unit PFR Power-Fail Restart PG Papua New Guinea PG Parental Guidance PG Parental Guidance suggested PG Perge Notice PG&E Pacific Gas & Electric PGA Pin Grid Array PGA Professional Golfers Association PGA Professional Graphics Adapter PGA Pure Grain Alcohol PGA pin-grid-array PGDN Page Down PGFYS Please Go Fuck Yourself PGG Project Galactic Guide PGIM Plant Growth Investigations in Microgravity PGL precursor geometry limited PGL precursor geometry limited PGM Program PGP Pretty Good Privacy PGUP Page Up PH Parity High bit PH Philippines PH Potential of Hydrogen PH Process Hold PHA Pulse Height Analysis PHA Pulse Height Analyzer PHCSG The Primary Health Care Specialist Group PHIGS Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System PHIGS Programmers Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System PHIGS Programmers' Hierarchial Interactive Graphics Standards PHILANTHROPIC philanthropic PHL Philippines PHLX Philadelphia Stock Exchange PHOENICS People, Housing, Oranges, Eugenics, and Navy Institute of Central Sudan PHOTOCD PHOTOgraphic Compact Disk PHS Public Health Service PHYSREV Physical Review Journal PHd Press Here Dummy PI Principal Investigator PI Private Investigator PI Program Interruption PI Protocol Interpreter PIA Peripheral Interface Adapter PIA Plug-In Administrator PIC Pilot In Command PIC Plastic-Insulated Cable PIC Position Independant Code PIC Primary Independent Carrier PIC Priority Interrupt Controller PIC Program Interrupt Controller PIC Prudential Investment Corp. PIC Prudential Investment Corp. PIC Prudential Investment Corp.\/Europe PIC the Prudential Investment Corp. PICA PIcture-Coding Algorithm PICO PIne COmposer PICS Plug-in Inventory Control System PICT Picture PID Process IDentifier PID Process Identification Number PID Protocol IDentifier PIF Paid In Full PIF Program Information File PIG Passive Income Generator PIK pay-in-kind PIK payment-in-kind PIK payment-in-kind PILOT Portable Inflight Landing Operations Trainer PILOT Programmed Inquiry Learning Or Teaching PILOTS Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress PILPS Project for the Intercomparison of Land Surface Parameterisation Schemes PIM Personal Information Manager PIMS Profit Impact of Marketing Strategy PIN Personal Identification Number PINE Pine Is Not Elm PING Packet InterNet Grouper PIO Parallel Input/Output PIO Processor Input/Output PIO Programmed Input/Output PIP Packet Interface Port PIP Periphal Interchange Program PIP Picture In Picture PIP Problem Isolation Procedure PIP Programmable Interconnect Point PIPO Parallel In, Parallel Out PIR Passive Infrared PIR Professional Investor Report PIR Professional Investor Report PISAM Photon Induced Scanning Auger Microscope PIT Principal, Interest, and Taxes PIT Programmable Interval Timer PITA Pain In The Ass PITI Principal, Interest, Taxes, Insurance PIV Particle Image Velocimetry PIXEL PIcture ELement PIXIT Protocol Implementation eXtra Information for Testing PJL Pajama League PK Pakistan PKB Public Key Block PKP Public Key Partners PKW PersonenKraftWagen PL Parity Low bit PL Plus PL Poland PL/1 Programming Language One PL/M Programming Language for Micros PL1 Programming Language One PLA Programmable Logic Array PLA Programmable Logic-Array PLAN Public Lands Action Network PLATO Programmed Learning for Automated Teaching Operations PLATO Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations PLB Personal Location Beacon PLC Planters LifeSavers Co. PLC Programmable Logic Controller PLCC Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier PLCC Plastic Leadless Chip Carrier PLD Programmable Logic Device PLDI Programming Language Design and Implementation PLL Phase Locked Loop PLL Phase-Locked Loop PLM Programming Language for Microcomputers PLN Prison Legal News PLO Palestine Liberation Organization PLO Please Leave On PLO Palestine Liberation Organization PLO the Palestine Liberation Organization PLS Physical Layer Signaling PLSS Portable Life Support System PLT Panduit Locking Tie PLV Production Level Video PLW Palau PM PayMaster PM Peripheral Module PM Phase Modulation PM Plant Management PM Police Magistrate PM Post Meridiem PM PostMaster PM PostMortem PM Presentation Manager PM Pressurized Module PM Preventative Maintenance PM Preventive Maintenance PM Prime Minister PM Process Manager PM Provost Marshal PM St. Pierre And Miquelon PM/X Presentation Manager for X windows PMA Physical Medium Attachment PMAC Peripheral Module Access Controller PMC Permanently Manned Capability PMD Physical Medium Dependant PMDF Pascal Memo Distribution Facility PMEG Page Map Entry Group PMEL Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory PMG Page Map Group PMI Private Mortgage Insurance PMIRR Pressure Modulated InfraRed Radiometer PMMU Paged Memory Management Unit PMO Prime Minister's Office PMOS P channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor PMOS Positive Channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor PMRC Parents' Music Resource Center PMS Policy Management System PMS Pre-Menstrual Syndrome PMT PhotoMultiplier Tube PMT Pre-Menstrual Tension PMT Printed Mechanical Transfer PMU Precision Measurement Unit PMX Presentation Manager for the X window system PN Part Number PN PeaceNet PN Pitcairn PN Processing Node PN Promissory Note PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Science PNB Pacific Northwest Bell PNC Project NatureConnect PNG Papua New Guinea PNP Plug N Play PNP Positive-Negative-Positive PNP Positive-Negative-Positive transistor PNPN Positive-Negative-Positive-Negative devices PO Parity Odd PO Petty Officer PO Post Office PO Postal Order PO Purchase Order POB Periphal Order Buffer POB Place of Birth POC Point of Contact POC Port Of Call POCS Pacific Outer Continental Shelf POCSAG Post Office Code Standardisation Advisory Group POD Pay On Delivery POD Point Of Distribution POE Port Of Embarkation POE Port Of Entry POETS Piss Off Early Tomorrow's Saturday POETS Piss Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday POF Programmable Operator Facility POGO Polar Orbiting Geophysical Observatory POH Pilot's Operating Handbook POI Point Of Information POK Power on Okey Signal POL Poland POL Problem Oriented Language POLICE Protective Organization for Life and Investment in Civil Establishment POM Phase Of Moon PON Passive Optical Network PONY Prostitutes of New York POOL Paralell Object Orientied Language POP Persistent Organic Pollutant POP Point Of Presence POP Point Of Production POP Pop from Stack POP Post Office Protocol POP Processor On Plug-in POP3 Post Office Protocol POP3 Post Office Protocol 3 POP3 Post Office Protocol version 3 POP3 Post Office Protocol, Level 3 POPA Pop All Registers POPF Pop Flags POPL Principles Of Programming Languages POPMail Post Office Protocol Mail POPS Paperless Order Processing System POQ Piss Off Quickly POR Plan Of Record POR Point Of Receive POR Price On Request POS Point Of Sale POS Positive POS Programmable Object Select POSH Port Out Starboard Home POSI Promoting conference for OSI POSIX Portable Operating System for unIX POSS Palomar Observatory Sky Survey POSSLQ Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters POST Power-On Self Test POST Public Organisation for Supression of Technology POSTNET Postal Numeric Encoding Technique POSYBL PrOgramming SYstem for distriButed appLications POTS Plain Old Telephone Service POTS Plain Old Telephone System POTV Personnel Orbit Transfer Vehicle POV Point Of View POV Privately Owned Vehicle POW Prisoner Of War POWER Performance Optimization With Enhanced Risc PP Painting Processor PP Parcel Post PP Past Participle PP Polypropylene PP Post Pay PP Primary Point PP Private Pilot PP pages PP pilot plant PP pilot plant PPA Post Pack Audit PPAA Pancake Promotions Acting Agency PPB Parts Per Billion PPBS Planning, Programming, and Budgeting Systems PPBSO Piping and Pipe Band Society of Ontario PPC Pour Prendre Conge' PPCS Person to Person, Collect, Special PPD Peripheral Pulse Distributor PPD PostScript Printer Description PPDS Personal Printer Data Stream PPI Professional Press Inc. PPI producer price index PPI producer-price index PPI producer-price index PPM Pages Per Minute PPM Parts Per Million PPM Product Portfolio Management PPN Parameterized Post-Newtonian formalism for general relativity PPN Project Programmer Number PPN Public Packet Switching PPOPP Principles and Practices of Parallel Programming PPP Point-to-Point Protocol PPP purchasing power parity PPP purchasing power parity PPS PostPostScriptum PPS Product Performance Surveys PPS Public Packet Switching network PPS probability-proportional-to-size PPSDN Public Packet-Switched Data Network PPSM Programming Practices and Standards Manual PPT Parts Per Trillion PPT Pulse Pair Timing PPT Punched Paper Tape PPV Pay Per View PQ Province of Quebec PQM Phi Quag Mire PR PayRoll PR Public Relations PR Puerto Rico PR press-release PR press release PR press releases PRA Personal Retirement Account PRA probabilistic risk assessment PRA probabilistic risk assessment PRA Personal Retirement Account PRACSA Public Remote Access Computer Standards Association PRAM Parallel Random-Access Machine PRAM Parameter Random Access Memory PRAM Programmable Random Access Memory PRC People 's Republic of China PRC People's Republic of China PRC Planning Research Corporation PRCA Puerto Rico Communications Authority PREB parametric robust empirical Bayes PREB parametric robust empirical Bayes PREMIS PREMises Information System PREMO Presentation Environment for Multimedia Objects PREPNET Pennsylvania Research & Economic Partnership network PRG PAL Programming Department PRG PROM Programming Department PRI Primary Rate Interface PRI Public Radio International PRI Puerto Rico PRIME Lab Purdue Rare Isotope Measurement Laboratory PRISM Parallel Reduced Instruction Set Multiprocessing PRK Democratic People'S Republic Of Korea PRK Phase Reversal Keying PRK Photo-Refractive Keratectomy PRK Polyteknikkojen RadioKerho ry PRMA Packet Reservation Multiple Access PRMD Private Management Domain PRMD Private Mangement Domain PRN Printer PRN pro re nata PROC Procedure PROFS PRofessional OFfice System PROG Program PROG Programmer PROLOG Programming In Logic PROM Programmable Read Only Memory PROM Programmable Read-Only Memory PROMATS PROgrammable Magnetic Tape System PROPAL Programmed PAL PROTEL PRocedure Oriented Type Enforcing Language PROUT Progressive Utilization Theory PRPG Pseudorandom Pattern Generator PRR Pennsylvania Railroad PRS Personal Response System PRSA Public Relations Society of America PRSI Public Responsibility and Social Insurance PRSS Proprietary RAID Storage Solution PRT Portugal PRTC Puerto Rico Telephone Company PRTSC Print Screen PRY Paraguay PReP PowerPC Reference Platform PS PicoSecond PS PostScript PS PostScriptum PS Power Steering PS Power Supply PS Process Stop Ship PS Program Store PS Proportional Spacing PS Public School PS Public Service PS Public Service PS/2 Programming System 2 PSA Phycological Society of America PSA Problem Statement Analyzer PSAP Public Safety Answering Point PSAT Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test PSAT Preparatory Scholastic Aptitude Test PSC Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center PSC Polar Stratospheric Clouds PSC Prime Service Contractor PSC Product Service Center PSC Public Safety Calling system PSC Public Service Commission PSD Phase Sensitive Detector PSD Power Spectral Density PSDC Public Switched Digital Capability PSDN Packet-Switched Data Network PSDN Public Switched Data Network PSDS Public Switched Digital Service PSE Packet Switch Exchange PSE Programming Support Environment PSF Permanent Swap File PSF Point Spread Function PSG Platoon SerGeant PSG Professional Service Group PSI Packet Switch Interface PSI Paul Scherrer Institute PSI Performance Systems International PSI Psychological Society of Ireland PSIU Packet Switch Interface Unit PSK Phase Shift Keying PSK Phase-Shift Keying PSL Physical Science Laboratory PSL Problem Statement Language PSM Packet Service Module PSM Position Switching Module PSM Professional Service Manager PSN Packet Switch Node PSN Packet Switched Network PSN Packet Switching Node PSN Packet-Switched Network PSO Pending Service Order PSOE Pull Some Of Each PSP Personal Software Products PSP Product Support Plan PSP Program Segment Prefix PSPN Public Switched Packet Network PSQL Platinum Software Corp. PSR Product Specific Release PSR PulSaR PSS Packet Switch Stream PSS Packet Switched Services PSS Performance Support System PST Pacific Standard Time PSTN Public Switch Telephone Network PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network PSU Program Storage Unit PSW Program Status Word PSWM PostScript Window Manager PT Pacific Time PT Page Table PT Patrol Torpedo PT Payload Type PT Physical Therapy PT Physical Training PT Portugal PT Program Timer PTA Parent-Teacher Association PTAT Private Trans Atlantic Telecommunications PTB Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt PTC Philadelphia Transportation Co. PTCA Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty PTD Parallel Transfer Disk Drive PTE Page Table Entry PTI Portable Test Instrument PTL Praise The Lord PTN Plant Test Number PTO Patent and Trademark Office PTO Please Turn Over PTO Power Take-Off PTP Point To Point PTSD Post Traumatic-Stress Disorder PTT Post, Telephone and Telegraph administration PTT Postal, Telephone, and Telegraph administration PTV Particle Tracking Velocimetry PTV Passenger Transport Vehicle PTW Primary Translation Word PTY Pseudo-Terminal Driver PU Physical Unit PU Purdue University PUB Public PUB Publish PUC Peripheral Unit Controller PUC Public Utilities Commission PUCRS Pontifecia Universidade catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil PUD Planned Unit Development PUP PARC Universal Packet protocol PURPA Public Utilities Regulatories Policies Act PUS Processor Upgrade Socket PUSHA Push All Registers PUSHF Push Flags PV PhotoVoltaic PV Photovoltaic PVC Permanent Virtual Circuit PVC Permanent Virtual Circuits PVC Polyvinyl Chloride PVDF Polyvinylidenefluoride PVM Parallel Virtual Machine PVM Pass-through Virtual Machine PVN Private Virtual Network PVO Pioneer Venus Orbiter PVT Private PW Palau PW Prisoner of War PWA Pirates With Attitudes PWB Printed Wire Board PWB Printed Wiring Board PWB Programmer's Workbench PWB Programmers Work Bench PWD Print Working Directory PWG Permanent Working Group PWLIGHCATTS People Who Live In Glass Houses Can't Afford To Throw Stones PWM Pulse Width Modulation PWM pulse-width-modulated PWR Power PWSCC primary water stress corrosion cracking PWSCC primary water stress corrosion cracking PWSCS Programmable Worstation Communication Services PX Post eXchange PY Paraguay PYF French Polynesia PZG PanzerGrenadier - German for Mechanized Infantry - i.e. 15PzG division P\/E price\/earnings Pa protactinium Q Queen's Q Question Q queen QA Qatar QA Quality Assurance QA Quality Assurance QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation QANGO Quasi Non Governmental Organization QANTAS Queensland And Northern Territories Air Service QAS Quasi-Associated Signaling QAT Qatar QB Queen's Bishop QBE Query By Example QBE Query-By-Example QBF Query by Form QBP Queen's Bishop's Pawn QC Quality Control QC Queen's Counsel QCD Quantum Chromo-Dynamics QCD Quantum ChromoDynamics QCD Quantum Chromodynamics QD Quaque Die QDA Quantity Discount Agreement QDCS Quality, Deliverly, Cost, Safety QDCS Quality, Deliverly, Cost, Service QDEL Queensland Department of Education Library QDOS Quick and Dirty Operating System QE Queen Elizabeth QE Quick Estimation QED Quantum ElectroDynamics QED Quod Erat Demonstrandum QEF Quod Erat Faciendum QEI Quod Erat Inveniendum QEMM Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager QET Quantum Effect Transistor QFA Quick File Access QFC Quaker Fabric Corp. QFC Quaker Fabric Corp. QIC Quality Information Using Cycle Time QIC Quarter-Inch Cartridge QID Quater In Die QID four times a day QIS Quality Information System QKt queen's knight QKtP queen's knights's pawn QLB Quick Like Bunnies QLI Query Language Interpreter QLLC Qualified Logical Link Control QM QuarterMaster QMC QuarterMaster Corps QMF Query Management Facility QMG QuarterMaster General QMP Quality Measurement Plan QMS Quality Micro Systems QMW Queen Mary and Westfield College QNS Quantity Not Sufficient QOTD Quote Of The Day QPN Queueing Petri Net QPSK Quadrature Phase Shift Keying QPSX Queued Packet and Synchronous eXchange QQV which see QRA Quality Reliability Assurance QRSS Quasi Random Signal Source QSA Queensland Shopkeepers Association QSA Queensland State Archives QSL Queensland State Library QSO Quasi-Stellar Object QSS Quality Surveillance System QT QuickTime QTC Quantitative Technology Corporation QTY Quantity QUANGO QUAsi Non-Governmental Organization QUANGO Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation QUANGO Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organization QUANTAS QUeensland And Northern Territory Aerial Service QUANTAS Quantas Empire Airways QUEL QUEry Language QV Quid Vide QVC Quality, Value, Convenience QWL Quality of Working Life QoS Quality of Service R Rand R Recto R Republican R Right R Ring R Rolemaster R Rontgen R Rook R&B R and B R&B Rhythm and Blues R&D Research and Development R-O Read Only R.A.F. Royal Air Force R.B. Robert Boslego R.C. Research Council R.I Rhode Island R.I. Rhode Island R/C resistor/capacitor R/M/W read/modify/write R/T Receive/Transmit R/W Read/Write RA Radium RA Regular Army RA Research Assistant RA Return Authorization RA Royal Academy RAAF Roswell Army Air Force RAAF Royal Australian Air Force RAAF Roswell Army Air Force RAAF the Roswell Army Air Force RAB Registration Authorization Board RAC Royal Armoured Corps RAC Royal Automobile Club RACE Random Access Card Equipment RACEP Random Access and Correlation for Extended Performance RACF Resource Access Control Facility RACI Royal Australian Chemical Institute RAD Radiation Absorbed Dose RAD Rapid Access Disk RAD Rapid Application Development RADAR RAdio Detection And Ranging RADAR RAdio Direction And Range RADAR Radio Association Defending Airwave Rights RADB Routing Arbiter DataBase RADIUS Remote Authentication Dial In User Service RADM Rear ADMiral RAF Royal Air Force RAG Row Address Generator RAID Redundant Arrays of Independent Drives RAID Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks RALU Register Arithmetic Logic Unit RAM Random Access Memory RAMC Royal Army Medical Corps RAMDAC Random Access Memory Digital-to-Analog Converter RAMP Ratings And Maintenance Phase RAND Random RAND Rural Area Network Design RAO Regional Accounting Office RAO Revenue Accounting Office RAP Rapid Application Prototyping RAP Remedial Action Plan RAR Return Address Register RARDE Royal Armaments Research and Development Establishment RARE European Association of Research Networks RARE Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europeenne RARP Reverse Address Resolution Protocol RARS Robot Auto Racing Simulation RAS Random Access Storage RAS Reliability, Availability and Serviceability RAS Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability RAS Row Address Select RASC Residence Account Service Center RASD Reference and Adult Services Division of the American Library Association RATFOR RATional FORtran RATS Radio Amateur Telecommunications Society RAU Rand Afrikaans University RB Rhythm and Blues RB Right Button RBBS Remote Bulletin Board System RBC Red Blood Count RBC Royal Bank of Canada RBHC Regional Bell Holding Company RBI Runs Batted In RBOC Regional Bell Operating Company RBOR Request Basic Output Report RBS Royal Bank of Scotland RBS Royal Bank of Scotland RBT Reliable Broadcast Toolkit RBTL Read Between The Lines RBWS Reflecting Beam Waveguide System RBWS Reflecting Beam Waveguide System RC Receive Clock RC Red Cross RC Regional Center RC Repair Center RC Resistance-Capacitance RC Resistor-Capacitor circuit RC Roman Catholic RCA Radio Corporation of America RCAF Royal Canadian Air Force RCAS Reserve Component Automation System RCC Radio Common Carrier RCC Remote Cluster Controller RCC Reverse Command Channel RCDD Registered Communications Distribution Designer RCDS Ring Christlich-Demokratischer Studenten RCEEF Research Centre on Employment and Economic Fluctuations RCF Remote Call Forwarding RCHA Royal Canadian Horse Artillery RCI Rodent Cage Interface RCL Rotate Carry Left RCL Runtime Control Library RCLDN Retrieval of Calling Line Directory Number RCM Remote Carrier Module RCMAC Recent Change Memory Administration Center RCMP Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCNC Royal Corps of Naval Constructors RCP Remote CoPy RCP Restore Cursor Position RCR Rotate Carry Right RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act RCS Reaction Control System RCS Records Communications Switching System RCS Revision Control System RCSB Rochester Community Savings Bank RCSB Rochester Community Savings Bank RCSC Remote Spooling Communications Subsystem RCU Radio Channel Unit RCVR ReCeiVeR RCW Revised Code of Washington RD Receive Data RD Received Data RD Remove Directory RD Research and Development RD Routing Domain RD Rural Delivery RDA Recommended Daily Allowance RDA Remote Data Access RDA Remote Database Access RDB Receive Data Buffer RDB Relational Database RDBMS Relational Database Mangement System RDC Routing Domain Confederation RDCI Routing Domain Confederation Identifier RDCLK Received Timing Clock RDCS Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer RDE rotated disc electrode RDE rotated disc electrode RDES Remote Data Entry System RDF Radio Direction Finding RDF Rapid Deployment Force RDF radio direction finder RDF Rapid Deployment Force RDF the Rapid Deployment Force RDI Routing Domain Identifier RDL Remote Digital Loopback RDM Reliably-Delivered Message RDMS Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer RDP Reliable Datagram Protocol RDS Radio Data System RDS Radio Digital System RDSR Receiver Data Service Request RDT Radio Digital Terminal RDT Research and Technological Development RE Reunion REA Rail Express Agency REC Regional Engineering Center RECON Reconnaissance REG Register REGAL Rigid Epoxy Glass Acrylic Laminate REGIS REmote Graphics Instruction Set REIT Real Estate Institute of Tasmania REIT real estate investment trust REIT real-estate investment trust REIT real estate investment trust RELSECT Relative Sector REM Rapid Eye Movement REM Rat Enclosure Module REM Rational Economic Man REM Remark REM Remote REM Remote Equipment Module REM Ring Error Monitor REM Roentgen Equivalent in Man REMBASS Remotely Monitored Battlefield Sensor System REMF Rear Echelon Mother Fucker REMM Reseau electronique du Montreal metropolitain REMOBS REMote OBservation System REN Rename REN Ring Equivalence Number REO R. E. Olds REO Removable, Erasable, Optical REP Repeat REPE Repeat while Equal REPNE Repeat while Not Equal REPNZ Repeat while Not Zero REPZ Repeat while Zero REQ Request REQSPEC REQuirements SPECification RES Remote Execution Service RES Reset RES Resolution RET Resolution Enhancement Technology RET Return RETMA Radio Electronics Television Manufacturers Association REU Reunion REX Relocatable Executable REX Remote EXecution REXX Restructured Extended Executor RF Radio Frequency RF radio-frequency RFA Republique Federal d'Allemagne RFC Request For Comments RFD Rural Free Delivery RFDF Radio Frequency Direction Finding RFE Request For Enhancement RFI Radio Frequency Interference RFID Radio Frequency Identification RFLP Read the Fucking Language Primer RFP Request For Proposals RFP Request for Proposal RFP Reversed Field Pinch RFP Reversed Field Pinch RFP Rocky Flats Plant RFP Rocky Flats Plant RFQ Request For Quotes RFS Ready For Service RFS Remote File System RFT Request For Technology RFT Revisable Form Text RFT Rich Text Format RFU Reserved For Future Use RGB Red Green Blue RGB Red-Green-Blue RGB Red-Green-Blue RGB red-green-blue RGBI Red Green Blue Intensity RGP Raster Graphics Processor RGU Radio Government/Universal RH Right Hand RHC Regional Holding Company RHIC Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider RHPS Rocky Horror Picture Show RHS Right Hand Side RHV Reid-Hillview Intergalactic, San Jose CA RI Receiving & Inspection RI Referential Integrity RI Rhode Island RI Ring Indicator RIA Royal Irish Academy RIAA Recording Industry Association of America RIAA Recording Industry Association of America RIAA the Recording Industry Association of America RIACS Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science RIAS Radio In the American Sector RICO Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations RICO Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations RICO the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations RID Remote Isolation Device RIF Reading Is Fundamental RIF Reduction In Force RIFF Resource Interchange File Format RILM Repertoire International de Literature Musicale RIM Remote Installation and Maintenance RIME RelayNet International Message Exchange RIP Raster Image Processor RIP Remote Imaging Protocol RIP Requiescat In Pace RIP Rest In Peace RIP Routing Information Protocol RIPE Reseaux IP Europeenne RIPE Reseaux IP en Europe RIPEM Riordan's Internet Privacy Enhanced Mail RIPS Raster Image Processing Systems Corp. RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computing RISC Reduced-instruction-set-computing RISC Relegate Important Stuff to the Compiler RISC reduced instruction set computing RISC reduced instruction-set computing RISC reduced-instruction set computing RISC reduced-instruction-set-computer RISC reduced-instruction-set-computer RISC reduced-instruction-set-computers RISC reduced-instruction-set-computing RISCOS Reduced Instruction Set Computer Operating System RISLU Remote Integrated Services Line Unit RISQ Regional Internet Services for Quebec RISQ Reseau Interordinateurs Scientifique Quebecois RIT Rochester Institute of Technology RIT Rochester Institute of Technology RIT the Rochester Institute of Technology RITA Recognition of Information Technology Achievement award RIVM Rijks Instituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieuhygiene RJE Remote Job Entry RJR R.J. Reynolds RKBA Right to Keep and Bear Arms RLC Resistor Inductor Capacitor RLCM Remote Line Concentrating Module RLDS The Re-organized Church of Latter-Day Saints RLE Run Length Encoded RLG Research Libraries Group RLIN Research Libraries Information Network RLL Radio Lock Loop RLL Run Length Limited RLN Remote LAN Node RLOGIN Remote Login RLP Radio Link Protocol RLSA Rugby League Supporters Association RLSD Received Line Signal Detected RLSI Ridiculously Large-Scale Integration RLT Remote Line Test RM Record Marking RM Regional Manager RM Research Machines RM Reset Mode RMA Radio Manufacturers' Association RMA Return Material Authorization RMA Return Materials Authorization RMA Return to Manufacturer Authorization RMAASC Rocky Mountain Asian American Student Coalition RMAF Royal Malaysian Air Force RMAS Remote Memory Administration System RMATS Remote Maintenance Admisistration and Traffic System RMDIR Remove Directory RMF Read Me First RMI Radio Magnetic Indicator RMON Remote Monitor RMON Remote Monitoring RMR Remote Message Registers RMR Return Material Receipt RMS Record Management Services RMS Remote Manipulator System RMS Richard M. Stallman RMS Root Mean Square RMS Royal Mail Ship RMS Royal Medical Society RMS root-mean-square RMV Registry of Motor Vehicles RMW read-modify-write RN Reference Noise RN Registered Nurse RN Royal Navy RNA RiboNucleic Acid RND Random RNGC Revised New General Catalog RNOC Regional Network Operations Center RNP Rede Nacional de Pesquisa RNR Receive Not Ready RNZAF Royal New Zealand Air Force RO Read/Only RO Receive Only RO Romania ROA Return On Assets ROAR Revolt Over Airport Relocation ROB Remote Order Buffer ROC Regional Operating Company ROCB Rolling On the Carpet Barfing ROE Rate Of Exchange ROE Return On Equity ROFF Run-OFF ROFL Rolling On Floor Laughing ROFLASTC Roll On the Floor Laughing And Scaring The Cat ROFLMAO Rolling On the Floor Laughing My Ass Off ROFLOL Rolling On the Floor Laughing Out Loud ROG Receipt Of Goods ROH Receiver Off Hook ROI Region Of Interest ROI Return On Investment ROL Rotate Left ROLW Record of Lodoss Wars ROM Range Of Motion ROM Read Only Member ROM Read Only Memory ROM Read-Only Memory ROM Romania ROM Rupture Of Membrane RONA Return on Net Assets RONABIT Return On Asset Before Income Tax ROR Rotate Right ROSAT ROentgen SATellite ROSE Real-time Object-oriented Simulation Environment ROSE Remote Operations Service Entity ROTBA Reality On The Blink Again ROTC Reserve Officer Traing Corp ROTC Reserve Officers' Training Corps ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing ROTFL Rolls on the floor laughing ROTFLABTC Rotate On The Floor, Laughting, And Biting The Carpet ROTFLASTC Rolling On The Floor Laughing And Scaring The Cat ROTFLASTC Rolling on the floor laughing and scaring the cat ROTFLBTC Rotate On The Floor, Laughting, Biting The Carpet ROTFLMAO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off ROTFLMFHO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Fucking Head Off ROTFLOL Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud ROTFLaBiTC Rolling On The Floor Laughing and Biting Into The Carpet ROTL Remote Office Test Line ROTS Rotary Out Trunks Selectors ROUS Rodents Of Unusual Size ROW Rest Of World ROW Rest Of the World ROYGBIV Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet RP Rolling Plan RPC Real Procedure Call RPC Remote Procedure Call RPCNA Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America RPCV Returned Peace Corps Volunteer RPG RePort Generator RPG Report Program Generator RPG Role Playing Game RPI Real Polytechnic Institute RPI Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute RPI Rolling Plan Indices RPL Requested Privilege Level RPL Resident Programming Language RPM Remote Process Management RPM Removable Peripheral Module RPM Resales Price Maintenance RPM Revolutions Per Minute RPN Reverse Polish Notation RPO Railway Post Office RPPROM Reprogrammable PROM RPQ Request for Price Quotation RPS Revolutions Per Second RPS Rotational Positional Sensing RPT Repeat RPV Remotely Piloted Vehicle RQ RuneQuest RQBE Relational Query By Example RQS Rate/Quote System RQSM Regional Quality Service Management RR RailRoad RR Rate & Route RR Real Reality RR Receive Ready RR Resource Record RR Route Relay RR Rural Route RRIP Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol RRO Rate and Route Operator RRO Reports Receiving Office RRSP Registered Retirement Savings Plan RS Radio Shack RS Recommended Standard RS Record Separator RS Recording Secretary RS Reed-Solomon RS Request to Send RS Revised Status RS Right Side RS Royal Society RS232 Digital Communication Standard RSA Repair Service Attendant RSA Rivest, Shamir, Adelman RSA Rivest-Shamir-Adelman RSADSI RSA Data Security Inc RSADSI RSA Data Security, Inc RSAREF Rivest, Shamir, Adelman Reference Implementation RSB Repair Service Bureau RSC Remote Switching Center RSC Residence Service Center RSCS Remote Source Control System RSCS Remote Spooling Communications Subsystem RSD RoadSide Delivery RSE Research & Systems Engineering RSFSR Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic RSH Remote Shell RSH Restricted Shell RSH Royal Society of Health RSIS Relocatable Screen Interface Specification RSL Random Street Lunatic RSL Request-and-Status Link RSLE Remote Subscriber Line Equipment RSLM Remote Subscriber Line Module RSM Remote Switching Module RSN Real Soon Now RSNA Radiological Society of North America RSP Required Space Character RSPCA Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals RSPCA Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals RSS Remote Switching System RST Reset RST Restart RST rotary separator turbine RST rotary separator turbine RSTS Resource Sharing Time Sharing RSTS Resource System Time Sharing RSTSE Resource System Time Sharing/Enhanced RSU Remote Switching Unit RSV Revised Standard Edition RSVP Reach Strategic Venture Partners RSVP Repondez S'il Vous Plait RSVP please reply RSWC Right Side up With Care RSX Real Time Resource Sharing Executive RT RadioTelephone RT Real Time RT RealTime RT Risc Technology RT Run Time RTA Remote Trunk Arrangement RTAC Regional Technical Assistance Center RTAM Remote Terminal Access Method RTC Real Time Composition RTC Real-Time Clock RTC Resolution Trust Corp RTC Resolution Trust Corp. RTC Right To Copy RTC Resolution Trust Corp. RTC the Resolution Trust Corp. 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SGDL Societe des Gens de Lettres de France SGDT Store Global Descriptor Table SGEN Signal Generator SGEN System Generator SGI Silicon Graphics Incorporated SGM Society for General Microbiology SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language SGP Singapore SGR Set Graphics Rendition SH St. Helena SHA Society for Historical Archaeology SHAFE Supreme Headquarters Allied Forces Europe SHAPE Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe SHAR SHell ARchiver SHAR Shell Archive SHARE Students Having a Reading Experience SHARP Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice SHAZAM Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles and Mercury SHCD Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective SHF Super High Frequency SHG second harmonic generation SHG second harmonic generation SHG second-harmonic-generation SHIT Sure Happy It's Thursday SHL Shift Logical Left SHN St. Helena SHR Shift Logical Right SHRPG Super Hero Role Playing Game SHSAA Sequoia High School Alumni Association SHTTP Secure Hypertext Transport Protocol SI Slovenia SI Source Index SI Staten Island SI Status Indicator SI System Information SI System Integrater SIA Securities Industry Association SIA Securities Industry Association SIA the Securities Industry Association SIAE Societa Italiana degli Autori ed Editori SIAM Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics SIC Second In Command SIC Silicon Integrated Circuit SIC Standard Industrial Classification SIC Standard Industrial Classification SICK Single Income, Coupla' Kids SICS Swedish Institute of Computer Science SID Station Identification SID Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance SID Symbolic Interactive Debugger SID System IDentification SIDA Syndrome d'Immunodeficit Acquerie SIDC Sunspot Index Data Center SIDS Standard Interoperable Datalink System SIDS Sudden Infant Death Syndrome SIDT Store Interrupt Descriptor Table SIFF Seattle International Film Festival SIG Special Interest Group SIGCAT Special Interest Group on CD-ROM Applications and Technology SIGCHI Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction SIGGRAPH Special Interest Group on Graphics SIGMET Significant Meteorological Information SIGMOD Special Interest Group on Management of Data SIGPLAN Special Interest Group Programming LaNguages SIGPLAN Special Interest Group: Programming Languages SIGS Special Interest GroupS SII Systems Intergrators Inc. 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SIM Simulator SIMA Shore Intermediate Maintenance Activities SIMBAD Set of Identifications, Measurements and Bibliography for Astronomical Data SIMD Single Instruction Multiple Data Stream SIMD Single Instruction Multiple Data Stream processor SIMD Single Instruction, Multiple Data SIMD single-instruction-multiple-data SIMM Single In-line Memory Module SIMM Single Inline Memory Module SIMM System Integrated Memory Module SIMPLE Semi-Implicit Method for Pressure-Linked Equations SIMPLER Semi-Implicit Method for Pressure-Linked Equations Revised SIMULA Simulation language SINE SINE is not EINE SINTEF Selskapet for INdustriell og TEknisk Forskning ved norges tekniske hoegskole SINTOMA Sensor INTegration and artifical intelligence for an Optimal setup of MAchine Tools SIO Serial Input/Output SIP Single In-line Package SIP Single Inline Pin SIPB Student Information Processing Board SIPC Securities Investment Protection Corporation SIPO Serial In, Parallel Out SIPP Single In-line Pin Package SIPP Strategic Industry Partners Program SIPS Satellite Imagery Processing System SIR Shuttle Imaging Radar SIRDS Single Image Random Dots Stereogram SIRTF Shuttle InfraRed Telescope Facility SIRTF Space InfraRed Telescope Facility SIS Software Information Services SIS Strategic Information System SISAL Streams and Iteration in a Single-Assignment Language SISCOM Satellite Information System COMpany SISO Serial In, Serial Out SIT Special Information Tones SIT Swiss Institute of Technology SITA Societe Internationale Telecommunications Aeronautiques SITA Suppression Of Immoral Traffic Act SITD Still In The Dark SIVC Simple Internet Version Control SJ Society of Jesus SJ Svalbard And Jan Mayen Islands SJC San Jose CA SJE airport shorthand for San JosE, california SJM Svalbard And Jan Mayen Islands SK Seymour Kahn SK Seymour Kahn SKU Stock Keeping Unit SKYHOOK Surface to space elevator transportation system SL Salvage Loss SL Sierra Leone SL Space Launch SL SpaceLab SL/IP serial line internet protocol SL/IP serial line ip SLA Special Libraries Association SLA Symbionese Liberation Army SLA Synchronous Line Adapter SLAA Sex and Love Addiction Annonimous SLAC Stanford Linear Accelerator Center SLACAD School Library Association of Canberra and District SLALOM Scalable Language-independent Ames Laboratory One-minute Measurement SLAM Standoff Land Attack Missile SLAN Sine Loco, Anno, vel Nomine SLANT School Library Association of the Northern Territory SLAPP Strategic Litigation Against Protesting People SLAQ School Library Association of Queensland SLAR Side Looking Airborne Radar SLASA School Library Association of South Australia SLAV School Library Association of Victoria SLAWA School Library Association of Western Australia SLB Solomon Islands SLBM Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles SLC Space Launch Complex SLC Subscriber Loop Carrier SLC Super Low Cost SLDC Synchronous Data Link Control SLDT Store Local Descriptor Table SLE Screening Line Editor SLE Sierra Leone SLE Systemic Lupus Erythematosus SLEAF Scanning Laser Environmental Airborne Fluorosensor SLED Single Large Expensive Drive SLIC Subscriber Line Interface Circuit SLIC System Link and Interrupt Controller SLIM Subscriber Line Interface Module SLIP Serial Line IP SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol SLMR Silly Little Modem Reader SLORC State Law and Order Restoration Council SLORC State Law and Order Restoration Council SLORC State Law and Order Restoration Council SLORC the State Law and Order Restoration Council SLOSH Sea, Lake and Overland Surge from Hurricane SLP Super Long Play SLR Single Lens Reflex SLS Space Life Sciences SLS Spacelab Life Sciences SLSI Super Large-Scale Integration SLSS Systems Library Subscription Service SLSYL So Long and See You Later SLTI Surgical Laser Technologies Inc. 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Traveler T tera- T tesla T ton T tonne T tonnes T tons T tritium T&T Tunnels & Trolls T.D. 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TCI TeleCommunication Interface TCIP TeleCommunications Interface Protocol TCL Think Class Library TCL/TK Tool Command Language TCM Time Compression Multiplexer TCM Total Cost Management TCM Trellis Coded Modulation TCM Trellis-Coded Modulation TCMP Taxpayer Compliance Measurement Program TCMP Taxpayer Compliance Measurement Program TCN Train Communication Network TCP Transmission Control Protocol TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol TCPIP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol TCR Transient Call Record TCS Technical and Computing Services TCS Thermal Control System TCS Traction Control System TCSEC Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria TCT Time Critical Target TCT To Challenge Tomorrow TCT Toll Connecting Trunk TD Chad TD TouchDown TD Transmit Data TD Treasury Department TD Twin Disc TD Twin Disc TDAS Traffic Data Administration System TDC Tape Data Controller TDC Terrestrial Data Circuit TDCC Transportation Data Coordinating Committee TDD Telecommunications Device for Deaf TDD Telephone Device for the Deaf TDE Terminal Display Editor TDE Time Delay Estimation TDE Transition Diagram Editor TDI Trusted Database Interpretation TDL Test Description Language TDM Time Division Multiplexing TDM Time-Division Multiplexer TDM Time-Division Multiplexing TDMA Time Division Multiple Access TDMA Time Domain Multiple Access TDMA Time-Division Multiple Access TDMS Terminal Display Management System TDO Table of Denial Orders TDR Time Domain Reflectometry TDR Tropical Diseases Research TDR UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases TDRS Tracking and Data Relay Satellite TDRSS Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System TDSR Transmitter Data Service Request TDWG Taxinomic Dadabases Working Group TDY Temporary DutY TDY Temporary Duty TDtoDP Tablet Coordinates to Display Coordinates TE Technology Education TE Telecom Eireann TE Terminal Equipment TE Transverse Electric TE/2 Terminal Emulator/2 TEA Texas Education Agency TEAM Technologies Enabling Agile Manufacturing TEAM Transfemoral Endovascular Aneurysm Management TEATIME TEATIME Enables A Team to Interactively Manage and Edit objects TEB Teterboro NJ TEC Technology Exchange Company TEC Tokyo Electronics Corporation TEC thermal-expansion coefficient TEC thermal-expansion coefficient TECO Tape Editor and COrrector TECO Text Editor and COrrector TED Tiny Editor TEFLON polyTEtraFLuOrethyleNe TEHO Tail End Hop Off TEI Text Encoding Initiative TELACU The East Los Angeles Community Union TELEX TELetypewriter EXchange TELSAM TELephone Service Attitude Measurement TEM transmission electron microscopy TEM transmission electron microscopy TEMA Tubilar Exchanger Manufacturers Association TEML Turbo Editor Macro Language TEMPEST Transient Electro-Magnetic Pulse Emanation STandard TEMPO Technical Military Programming Organization TEP Tucson Electric Power TEP Tucson Electric Power TER Technical Education Resources TER Thermal Eclipse Reading TERENA Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association TERM TERMinal TERMPWR Terminator Power TES Thermal Emission Spectrometer TEXEL TEXture Element TF French Southern Territories TF toroidal field TF toroidal field TFC Total Full Color TFDD Text File Device Driver TFEL Thin-Film Electroluminescent TFLAP T-carrier Fault-Locating Applications Program TFP Tops Filing Protocol TFS Translucent File System TFS Trunk Forecasting System TFSO Terms For Separation Option TFSO Transition Financial Support Option TFT The Fantasy Trip TFT Thin Film Transistor TFT Thin-Film Transistor screens TFT Thin-film-transistor TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol TFTR Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor TFTR Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor TG Thieves' Guild TG Throbbing Gristle TG Togo TGC Terminal Group Controller TGIF Thank God It's Friday TGIF Thank Goddess It's Friday TGN Trunk Group Number TGO Togo TGV Two Guys and a VAX TH Thailand TH Trouble History THA Thailand THAAD Theater High Atlitude Area Defense THC Teen Hunter Clubs THD Total Harmonic Distortion THES Times Higher Education Supplement THF TetraHydroFuran THG third harmonic generation THG third harmonic generation THIEF This Here Isn't Even Fine THOR THermal Optical Recording THOR Tandy High-Performance Optical Recording THOR Tandy High-intensity Optical Recording THRUSH Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesireables and Subjugation of Humanity THX Tom Holman Xover TI Texas Instruments TI Texas Instruments Inc. TI Texas Instruments, Inc. TI Toastmasters International TI Transport Independent TI transport-independent TI Texas Instrument TI Texas Instruments TIA Tactical Information Assistant TIA Telephone Information Access TIA Thanks In Advance TIA The Internet Adapter TIA Transient Ischemic Attack TIAA Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association TIAC The Internet Access Company TIC TermInfo Compiler TIC Three Initial Corporation TIC Tongue In Cheek TICSA I'm still looking for it. TID Target ID TID Ter In Die TID Transaction ID TIE-in Take It Easy - It's Nothing TIEIN Take It Easy In Nebraska TIES Time Independent Escape Sequence TIFF Tag Image File Format TIFF Tagged Image File Format TIGA Texas Instruments Graphics Architecture TIGER Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing TIGRE Time-Invariant Gray Radiance Equation TIMOTHY Timely Information and Messaging Online To serve You TIMS Technical Information Management System TINA TINA Is Not an Acronym TINA Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture TINA This Is Not an Acronym TINA-C Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture Consortium TINT Tint Is Not TeX TIP Team Improvement Program TIP Terminal Interface Processor TIP To Insure Promptness TIPP TImed Processes and Performance evaluation TIPP TImed Processes for Performance Evaluation TIPSI Transport Independent Printer System Interface TIRKS Trunk Integrated Record Keeping System TIROS Television InfraRed Observation Satellite TIS Trusted Information Systems TISN Tokyo International Science Network TISWAS This Is Saturday Watch And See TITOS Technological Interface To Our Senses TJ Tajikistan TJK Tajikistan TK Tokelau TKK Teknillinen KorkeaKoulu TKL Tokelau TKM Turkmenistan TKO Technical Knock Out TKT Instite for Telecooperation Technolgy TKWWW a World Wide Web browser based on the TK graphical interface TKY Teknillinen Korkeakoulun Ylioppilaskunta TL Total Loss TL&EH True Love and Eternal Happiness TLA Three Letter Acronym TLA three letter acronym TLB Translation lookaside buffer TLC Tender Loving Care TLC The Learning Channel TLG Thesaurus Linguae Graecae TLH Thesaurus Linguarum Hiberniae TLI Transport Layer Interface TLI Transport Level Interface TLI Transport-Level Interface TLM Trouble Locating Manual TLN Trunk Line Network TLOK The Lord Only Knows TLP Transmission Level Point TLTP Trunk Line and Test Panel TLU Table Lookup TLV Type, Length, Value TLV Type, Length, Value encoding TM TradeMark TM Transverse Magnetic TM Turkmenistan TMA Tycho Magnetic Anomaly TMAC Treasury department's Multiuser Acquisition Contract TMBG They Might Be Giants TMD Theater Missile Defense TMDA Too Many Damn Acronyms TMDF Trunk Main Distributing Frame TMIS Telecommunications Management Information System TML Transmanche-Link TMLMTBGB Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind TMMS Telephone Message Management System TMN Telecommunications Management Network TMO Telephone Money Order TMOS Telecommunications Management Operations Support TMP East Timor TMP Temporary TMP The Morrow Project TMR Transient Memory Record TMRC Tech Model Railroad Club TMRC Transportation Modeling Research Center TMRS Traffic Measurement and Recording System TMRS Traffic Metering Remote System TMS Time-Multiplexed Switch TMSC Tape Mass Storage Control TN Telephone Number TN Tennessee TN Transaction Number TN Tunisia TN Twisted Nematic TNC Terminal Node Controller TNC Threaded Navy Connector TNC Threaded Neill Concelman TNC Threaded Neill Concelman connector TNCC Trauma Nurse Core Curiculum TNDS Total Network Data System TNF Tumor Necrosis Factor TNF tumor-necrosis factor TNF tumor-necrosis factor TNG The Newspaper Guild TNG Thomson L.A. News Group TNMS Telphony Network Management System TNN The Nashville Network TNN Total News Network TNN Trunk Network Number TNN Total News Network TNN the Total News Network TNOP Total Network Operation Plan TNP Tech Nickel Plate TNPC Traffic Network Planning Center TNRCC Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission TNT The NeWS Toolkit TNT TriNitro Toluene TNT TriNitroToluene TNT Turner Network Television TO Telegraph Office TO Tonga TO Turn Over TOC Table Of Contents TOC total organic carbon TOC total organic carbon TOCOTOX TOo COmplicated TO eXplain TOD Time-Of-Day TODS Transactions on Database Systems TOEFL Test Of English as a Foreign Language TOF Time Of Flight TOGA-COARE Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Research Experiment TOIX Turn Over Initial X-ray TOMS Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer TOMS Transactions on Mathematical Software TON Tonga TOO Target Of Opportunity TOOIS Transactions on Office Information Systems TOP Technical Office Protocol TOP Technical and Office Protocol TOP Technical/Office Protocol TOPEX Ocean Topography Experiment TOPICS Total On-Line Program and Information Control System TOPLAS Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems TOPMS Telemarketing Operations Management System TOPS Timesharing OPerating System TOPS Traffic Operator Position System TOPS Transcendental OPerating System TOPSMP Traffic Operator Position System Multipurpose TORES Text ORiented Editing System TOS Transfer Orbit Stage TOW Tube Launched Optically Tracked Wire Command Link Missile Weapon System TOW Tube launched, Optically tracked, Wire guided missile TOY Time Of Year TP East Timor TP Test Plan TP Third Party TP Time Pass TP Toll Point TP Transaction Processing TP Transport Protocol TP Twisted Pair TP from TP0 and TP4 TP transaction-processing TP twisted-pair TP0 OSI Transport Protocol Class 0 TP4 OSI Transport Protocol Class 4 TP4 Transport Protocol, class 4 TPC The Phone Company TPC Tokyo PC Users Group TPC Transaction Processing Performance Council TPE Twisted Pair Ethernet TPI Tracks Per Inch TPIS Turning Point Information Services Inc. TPIS Turning Point Information Services, Inc. TPL Table Producing Language TPM Third-Party Maintenance TPM Total Productive Maintenance TPM Transactions Per Minute TPMP Total network data system Performance Measurement Plan TPO Traveling Post Office TPORT Twisted Pair Port Transceiver TPP TetraarylPorPhyrin TPS Technical Publication Software TPS Technical Publishing Software TPS TeleProcessing Services TPS Thermal Protection System TPS Trailer Park Slattern TPS Transaction Processing System TPS Transactions Per Second TPT Twisted Pair Transceiver TPW Turbo Pascal for Windows TQC Total Quality Control TQM Total Quality Management TR Technical Reference TR Terminal Ready TR Test Register TR Token Ring TR Transfer Register TR Turkey TR. Theodore Roosevelt TRAC Total Risk Analysis Calculation TRADIC Transistorized Airborne Digital Computer TRANSLIS Transforming our Libraries and Information Services TREAT Trouble Report Evaluation Analysis Tool TRG Tip and Ring Ground TRHA Texas Residence Hall Association TRI Telecommunications Resources Incorporated TRIB Transfer Rate of Information Bits TRMTR TRamsMiTteR TRO temporary restraining order TROFF Text RunOFF TROFF Typsetter new ROFF TRON The Real-Time Operating System Nucleus TRON The Realtime Operating system Nucleus TROS Televisie Radio Omroep Stichting TRR Tip-Ring Reverse TRR Token Ring Repeater TRSA Terminal Radar Service Area TRSI Tristar Red Sector Incorporated TRSI Tristar Red Sector, Incorporated TRUSIX TRUSted unIX TRW Thompson, Ramo, and Woolridge TS Top Secret TS Transsexual TS/SI Top Secret/Sensitive Information TSA Technical Support Alliance TSAP Transport Service Access Point TSB Termination Status Block TSCA Toxic Substances Control Act TSCPF Time Switch and Call Processor Frame TSD Total System Design TSDU Transport Service Data Unit TSE Technical Support Engineer TSE Toronto Stock Exchange TSEL Transport Service Selector TSFTPOULA The Society For The Prevention Of Unusually Long Acronyms TSH thyroid-stimulating hormone TSH thyroid-stimulating hormone TSI Time Slot Interchanger TSIA Title Says It All TSM Tech Support Manager TSN trend-seasonal-noise TSO Technical Standard Order TSO Time Sharing Option TSORT Transmission System Optimum Relief Tool TSP Teleprocessing Services Program TSP Test SuPervisor TSP Thrift Savings Plan TSP Time Synchronization Protocol TSP Touch Screen Program TSP Traffic Service Position TSP TriSodium Phosphate TSPS Traffic Service Position System TSR TSR TSR Terminate and Stay Resident TSR Terminate-and-Stay-Resident TSR Terminate-stay-resident TSR Test Summary Report TSR terminate-and-Stay-Resident TSR terminate-and-stay-resdent TSR terminate-and-stay-resident TSR terminate-stay-resident TSS Task State Segment TSS Tethered Satellite System TSS Time Sharing System TSS Time-Sharing System TSS Trunk Servicing System TSS-1 Tethered Satellite System TSSAM Tri-service Standoff Attack Missile TSST Time-Space-Space-Time network TST Time-Space-Time network TST Traveling-Wave Tube TSTN Triple Supertwisted Nematic TSTO Two Stage to Orbit TSTS Time-Space-Time-Space network TSU T1 Service Unit TSVQ Tree-Structured Vector Quantization TT Trinidad And Tobago TT Trunk Type TT Tunnels & Trolls TTC Telecommunications Technology Council TTC Terminating Toll Center TTCN Tree and Tabular Combined Notation TTD Things To Do TTFN Ta Ta For Now TTFN Tah Tah, For Now TTHG Two-Term Henyey-Greenstein TTL Time to Live TTL Transistor Transistor Logic TTL Transistor-Transistor Logic TTMA Tennessee Tech Microcomputer Association TTO Trinidad And Tobago TTP Telephone Twisted Pair TTP Trunk Test Panel TTS Transaction Tracking System TTS Trunk Time Switch TTTN Tandem Tie Trunk Network TTU Tennessee Technological University TTUL Talk to U later TTY TeleTYpe TTY TeleTYpewriter TTYC TTY Controller TTYL Talk to you Later TTYTT To tell you the truth TUBA Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association TUE Technische Universiteit Eindhoven TUI Text-Based User Interface TULIP Total depravity Unconditional election Limited attonement Irresistable grace Perseverence of the saints TULIPS Tsukuba University Library Information Processing System TUM Technische Universitat Munchen TUN Tunisia TUNIS Toronto UNIversity System TUPS Trinity University PlayerS TUR Traffic Usage Recording TUR Trunk Utilization Report TUR Turkey TUTLA Totally Useless Three Letter Acronym TUV Tuvalu TV TeleVision TV Transvestite TV Tuvalu TVA Tennessee Valley Authority TVA Tennessee Valley Authority TVI Television Interference TVP Textured Vegetablec Protein TVTWM Tom's Virtual TWM TW Taiwan, Province Of China TW Thieves' World TWA Trans World Airlines TWAIN Tool Without An Interesting Name TWAIN Toolkit Without An Interesting Name TWAS Third World Academy of Sciences TWB Terrestrial WideBand TWG The Wollongong Group TWIMC To Whom It May Concern TWM Tab Window Manager TWM Tom's Window Manager TWN Taiwan, Province Of China TWP The Wacko Programmer TWSTIAC The Tactical Warfare Simulation and Technology Information Analysis Center TWT Traveling Wave Tube TWTA Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier TWTA Trveling Wave Tube Amplifier TWX Teletypewriter Exchange Service TX Texas TX Transmit TX Transuction TXD Transmitted Data TXID Transuction Identifier TXT Text TXT2STF Text To Structured File TYPE Tug Your Pants Effectively TZ United Republic Of Tanzania TZA United Republic Of Tanzania TerKko Terveystieteiden keskuskirjasto U Universe U micro U unified atomic mass unit U uranium U-B Ungermann-Bass U-I Universal-International U.K United Kingdom U.K. United Kingdom U.N United Nations U.N. United Nation U.N. United Nations U.S United States U.S. Uncle Sam U.S. United Savings U.S. United Scientific U.S. United States U.S. United Steel U.S. Universal Studios U.S. University School U.S. University of Sussex U.S. Unlisted Securities U.S. undesirable situation U.S. unfriendly Seattlites U.S. uptown sex U.S. usual slackening U.S.S.R. unable to spend its scarce resources U/L universal/local UA Ukraine UA Ukrainian Ssr UA United Artists UA University of Antwerp UA User Agent UA User Area UAB UNIX Appletalk Bridge UAE United Arab Emerates UAE United Arab Emirates UAE Unrecoverable Application Error UAE United Arab Emirates UAE the United Arab Emirates UAL United Air Lines UAL United Airlines UAP Union des Assurances de Paris UAPA United Aerial Phenomenon Agency UAPDU User Agent Protocol Data Unit UAR United Arab Republic UAR User Action Routine UARS Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter UAUG United Amstrad User Group UAV Unmanned Air Vehicle UAW UNITED AUTO WORKERS UAW United Auto Workers UAW United Auto Workers Union UAW UNITED AUTO WORKERS UAZ Sika-Kiikku Van UB Ungermann-Bass UB University of Bristol UBA UniBus Adapter UBC Universal Bibliographic Control UBC University of British Columbia UBM Unpressurized Berthing Mechanism UBS Union Bank of Switzerland UC University of California UC University of Cincinnati UC upper case UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research UCB University of California at Berkeley UCC Uniform Code Council UCC Uniform Commercial Code UCC Uniroyal Chemical Co. UCC United Church of Christ UCC University College Cork UCC Uniroyal Chemical Co. UCCB University College Of Cape Breton UCD Uniform Call Distribution UCD University College Dublin UCD University of California at Davis UCEA Universities and Colleges Employers Association UCG University College Galway UCI University of California at Irvine UCL Underwater Sound Laboratory UCL Universal Communications Language UCL University College London UCLA University of California Los Angeles UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCNW University College of North Wales UCOP University of California, Office of the President UCR University of California at Riverside UCS UCS User Coordinate System UCS Universal Character Set UCS University Computing Services 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 UCT University of Cape Town UCUDAL Universidad Catolica del Uruguay, Damaso Antonio Larranaga UCW Union of Commnication Workers UDAG Urban Development Action Grant UDAG Urban Development Action Grant UDAG Urban Development Action Grant UDB Unified DataBase UDC User Defined Commands UDE Universal Data Exchange UDF User Defined Functions UDMH Unsymmetrical DiMethyl Hydrazine UDP Usenet Death Penalty UDP User Datagram Protocol UDSSR Union Der Sovietischen Sozialistischen Republiken UDT User Defined Type UEA Universala Esperanto-Asocio UEBP unusual estrogen-binding protein UEBP unusual estrogen-binding protein UEC User Environment Component UEP United Egg Producers UEP the United Egg Producers UFF Ulster Freedom Fighters UFL University of FLorida UFN User Friendly Naming UFO Unidentified Flying Object UFOCCI UFO Contact Center International UFOIL UFO Investigators League UFOIRC UFO Information Retrieval Center UFP United Federation of Planets UFS Universal File System UFS Unix File System UG Micro-Grip UG Uganda UG User Group UGA Uganda UGC Uppsala General Catalog UGF United Givers Fund UGLi Undergraduate Library UGS Unattended Ground Sensor UH Upper Half UH UH HUH UHF Ultra High Frequency UHU Ultramicroscopic Human Udders UHV Ultra High Vacuum UI Unix International UI User Interface UI User-Interface UIA Universitaire instelling Antwerpen UIC Union Internationale des Chemins-de-Fer UIC United Industrial Corp. UIC User Identification Code UID Unique IDentifier UID User IDentity UID User Identifier UIF Unemployment Insurance Fund UIL User Interface Language UIMS User Interface Management System UIO Universitetet i Oslo UIP User Interface Program UIST User Interface Software and Technology UIT Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope UITP Universal Information Transport Plan UIUC University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UJA UJA an organization, United Jewish Appeal UK United Kingdom UKC United Kennel Club UKERNA United Kingdom Education and Research Networking Association UKIRT United Kingdom Infra Red Telescope UKIRT United Kingdom InfraRed Telescope UKOLN UK Office for Library Networking UKR Ukraine UKR Ukrainian Ssr UKST United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope UL Underwriters Laboratories UL Underwriters Laboratory UL University of Limerick UL Upload ULA Uncommitted Logic Array ULANA Unified LAN Architecture ULANA Unified Local-Area Network Architecture ULCC University of London Computing Centre ULI Urban 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Voice Response System VRTX Versatile Real-Time eXecutive VRTX Virtual Real Time eXecutive VRU Voice Response Unit VS VAXStation VS Virtual Storage VSAM Virtual Sequential Access Method VSAM Virtual Storage Access Method VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal VSB Vestigial SideBand modulation VSE Virtual Storage Extended VSF Vertical Scanning Frequency VSLI Very Large Scale Integration VSM Virtual Shared Memory VSM Virtual Storage Management VSOP Very Special Old Pale VSOP Very Special Old Product VSOS Virtual Storage Operating System VSP Vector/Scalar Processor VSR Voice Storage and Retrieval VSS Voice Storage System VSSP Voice Switch Signaling Point VSWR Voltage Standing Wave Ratio VSX X/open Verification Suite VSYNC Vertical Sync VT Virtual Terminal VTAM Virtual Telecommunications Access Method VTI Virtual Terminal Interface VTIGRE Vacuum Time-Invariant Gray Radiance Equation VTLS Virginia Tech Library System VTOC Volume Table Of Contents VTOL Vertical TakeOff and Landing VTP Virtual 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WB Water Ballast WB WayBill WB Workbench WB World Bank WB write-back WBC White Blood Cells WBQA World Bible Quiz Association WBS Wednesday Business School WBS Work Breakdown Structure WC Water Closet WC Wire Center WC Without Charge WC Word Count WCELA West Coast Environmental Law Association WCELRF West Coast Environmental Law Research Foundation WCG Western Contact Group WCG Worldwide Church of God WCL Widget Creation Library WCM World Class Manufacturing WCMC World Conservation Monitoring Centre WCPC Wire Center Planning Center WCRP World Climate Research Program WCS Writable Control Store WCSU Western Connecticut State University WCTU Women's Christian Temperance Union WD White Dwarf WD Working Draft WDB world dollar base WDB world dollar base WDC Washington, District of Columbia WDC Work Distribution Chart WDI Walt Disney Imagineering WDM Wavelength-Division Multiplexing WDT Watch Dog Timer WDW Walt Disney World WECO Western Electric Company WEEB Western European EDIFACT Board WELL Whole Earth Lectronic Link WEPN Worldwide Electronic Publishing Network Inc. 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WFE What Fucking Ever WFO Wide Fucking Open WFPC Wide Field / Planetary Camera WFPCII Replacement for WFPC WFRP Warhammer Fantasy RolePlay WFS World Future Society WFW Windows For Workgroups WG Working Group WGAS Who Gives A Shit WGBH PBS television station in Boston, MA WGN World's Greatest Newspaper WGS Work Group System WGS WorkGroup System WH WarHammer WHBL World Home Bible League WHCA White House Communications Agency WHO World Health Organization WHOI Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WHP Wellhead Protection WHPA Wellhead Protection Area WHSE Warehouse WHSGNASBN We Have Some Good News And Some Bad News WHYCOS World Hydrological Cycle Observing System WI Wisconsin WIAS Wow! I Am Stupid WIC Western International Communications WICI Women in Communications Inc. WICI Women in Communications, Inc. WILLOW Washington Information Looker-upper Layered Over Windows WILMA Wissensbasiertes LAN Management WIMP Windows/Icons/Mouse Programming WIN World International Network WIN World International Network WINForum Wireless Information Networks Forum WINS Wollongong Integrated Networking Solutions WINWORD Word For Windows WIP Work-In-Process WIPE the Worldwide Institute for the Preservation of Everything WIPP Waste Isolation Pilot Plant WIRE Women In Real Estate WIS WWMCCS Information System WISCON WISsensbasiertes monitoring und CONtrol WISE WordPerfect Information System Environment WITS Washington Interagency Telecommunications System WIYN Wisconsin / Indiana / Yale / NOAO telescope WKRP The call sign of a radio station in a fictional USA sitcom WKS Well Known Services WLAN Wireless Local Area Network WLF Wallis And Futuna Islands WLF Washington Legal Foundation WLF Washington Legal Foundation WLF the Washington Legal Foundation WLL Wireless Local Loop WLN Western Library Network WM Work Manager WMO World Meteorological Organization WMO World Meteorological Organization WMSCR Weather Message Switching Center Replacement WNIC Wide-Area Network Interface Co-Processor WNIM Wide-Area Network Interface Module WNN Watashi no Namae ha Nakajima desu. WNT Windows New Technology WO Write Only WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment WOFTAM Waste Of Fucking Time And Money WOLOGOMBA WithOut Loss Of Generality, One May Be Assured that WOM Write Only Memory WOMBAT Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time WOP WithOut Papers WOPR War Operations Planned Response WORM Write Once, Read Many times WOSA Windows Open Services Architecture WOSA Windows Open Systems Architecture WOTAN WOrkstations der Technischen Universitaet Berlin Am Netz WOTC Wizards Of The Coast WOW Worlds of Wonder WP Word Processing WP WordPerfect WP Working Paper WP Write Protected WPA Works Progress Administration WPHD Write-Protect Hard Disk WPI Wannabe Polytechnic Institute WPI Worcester Polytechnic Institute WPM Words Per Minute WPPSS Washington Public Power Supply System WPPSS Washington Public Power Supply System WPS Windows Printing System WPS Wisconsin Public Service WPS Word Processing Software WPS Workplace Shell WPS Wisconsin Public Service WRC Webster Research Center, xerox WRI Wolfram Research Inc WRI Wolfram Research, Inc WRM World Reference Model WRT With Respect To WRTH World Radio TV Handbook WS Samoa WS WordStar WS Work Sampling WS Work Station WS Workstation WSD Work Station Division WSI Wafer Scale Integration WSJ Wall Street Journal WSL Wireless Systems Limited WSM Samoa WSMR White Sands Missile Range WSN Wirth Syntax Notation WSP Work Simplification Program WSPS Wire Strike Protection System WSW West-SouthWest WT Write Through WTB Wanted To Buy WTB Wanted to Buy WTF What The Fuck WTF What the Fuck WTF World Taekwondo Federation WTI West Texas Intermediate WTI West Texas Intermediate WTO World Trade Organization WTR Western Test Range WTV Wound-tumor virus WU Washington University WU Western Union WUPPE Wisconsin Ultraviolet PhotoPolarimter Experiment WUSA Western United States of America WV West Virginia WW World War WW Woodrow Wilson WW World War WW the Woodrow Wilson WW2 World War II WWDSHEX Weather Working Days, Sundays and Holidays Excluded WWFO World Wide Field Operations WWI World War I WWII World War II WWMCCS World-Wide Military Command and Control System WWOPS World-Wide Operations WWW World Wide Web WY Wyoming WYGIWYAF What You Get Is What You Asked For WYLASOMTGWTC Would You Like A Saucer Of Milk To Go With That Comment? 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