Tech Acronyms Flashcards

(86 cards)

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MPEG

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Moving Picture Experts Group

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MP3

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MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III

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ISO

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International Organisation for Standardization

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IEC

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International Electrotechnical Commission

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IEEE (I-Triple E)

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

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MIDI

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Musical Instrument Digital Interface

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DRM

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Digital Rights Management

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BBC

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British Broadcasting Corporation

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AOL

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previously American Online

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

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OCR

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Optical Character Recognition

Conversion of images of text into characters.

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SQL

A

Structured Query Language

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DML

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Data Manipulation Language (subset of SQL)

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DDL

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Data Definition Language

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XML

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Extensible Markup Language

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W3C

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World Wide Web Consortium

The main international standards organization for the World Wide Web.

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MIT

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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RSS

A

Rich Side Summary

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PDF

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Portable Document Format

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MIME

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Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

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IBM

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International Business Machines Corporation

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HTML

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HyperText Markup Language

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CSS

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Cascading Style Sheets

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SVG

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Scalable Vector Graphics

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JPEG

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Joint Photographic Experts Group

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PNG
Portable Network Graphics
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GIF
Graphics Interchange Format
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DOS
Disk Operating System
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ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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BSD
Barkeley Software Distribution
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POSIX
Portable Operating System Interface
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WYSIWYG
What You See is What You Get
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CGI
Computer Generated Imagery
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HDMI
High-Definition Multimedia Interface
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JSON
JavaScript Object Notation
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K&R
Kernighan and Ritchie
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LCD
Liquid Cristal Display
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LED
Light Emitting Diode
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MPL
Mozila Public Licene
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MSDN
Microsoft Developer Network
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PnP
Plug and Play
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PoE
Power over Ethernet
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PCI
Peripheral Component Interconnect
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P2P
Peer-To-Peer
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QA
Quality Assurance
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QoS
Quality-of-Service
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RDBMS
Relational Database Management System
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RDM
Relational Data Model
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RFC
Request For Comments
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RMI
Remote Method Invocation
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RTC
Real Time Clock
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SAX
Simple API for XML
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SDL
Simple DirectMedia Layer
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SGI
Silicon Graphics, Incorporated
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SMS
Short Message System
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SNTP
Simple Network Time Protocol
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SPARC
Scalable Processor Architecture
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SSD
Solid-State Drive
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SSL
Secure Socket Layer
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SVGA
Super Video Graphics Array
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Tcl
Tool Command Language
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TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
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TTF
TrueType Font
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UML
Unified Modelling Language
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URI
Uniform Resource Identifier
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URL
Uniform Resource Locator
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USB
Universal Serial Bus
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UTC
Coordinated Universal Time
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UTF
Unicode Transformation Format
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VGA
Video Graphics Array
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VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol
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WAN
Wide Area Network
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WAP
Wireless Application Protocol | Wireless Access Point
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WEP
Wired Equivalent Privacy (security algorithm for IEEE 802.11 wireless networks)
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WLAN
Wireless Local Area Network
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WPAN
Wireless Personal Arean Network
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Y2K
Year 2000
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YACC
Yet Another Compiler Compiler
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AIX
Advanced Interactive Executive
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ELF
Extensible Linking Format
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IMAP2
Interim Mail Access Protocol 2
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NFS
Network File System
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NTP
Network Time Protocol
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TIFF
Tagged Image File Format
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ASP.NET
Active Server Pages
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LAN
Local Area Network
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MAC address
Media Access Control address