| 3COM |
COMputer, COMmunication, COMpatibility |
| 3M |
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing |
| 4-H |
Head, Heart, Hands, and Health |
| A&P |
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company |
| AA |
Alcoholics Anonymous |
| AAA |
American Automobile Association |
| AARP |
American Association of Retired Persons |
| ABC |
American Broadcasting Company |
| ABR |
Available Bit Rate |
| ADP |
Automated Data Processing |
| AfDB |
African Development Bank |
| AFL-CIO |
American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations |
| AGP |
Accelerated Graphics Port |
| AI |
Artificial Intelligence |
| AKA |
Also Known As |
| AL |
Arab League |
| ALGOL |
ALGOrithmic Language |
| AMD |
Advanced Micro Device |
| AM/FM |
Amplitude Modulation/Frequency Modulation |
| AMOCO |
AMerican Oil COmpany |
| ANSI |
American National Standards Institute |
| ANZUS |
Australia-New Zealand-United States Security Treaty |
| APEC |
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation |
| ASAP |
As Soon As Possible |
| ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| AsDB |
Asian Development Bank |
| ASEAN |
Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
| AT |
Advanced Technology |
| AT&T |
American Telephone and Telegraph |
| ATF |
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms |
| ATM |
Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| ATM |
Automated Teller Machine |
| ATP |
Adenine Triphosphate |
| AWOL |
Absent Without Leave |
| BASF |
Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (German chemical products company) |
| BASIC |
Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code |
| BB |
Ball-Bearing |
| BBC |
British Broadcasting Corporation |
| BFD |
Big F**king Deal |
| BIOS |
Basic Input/Output System |
| BLT |
Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato |
| BMW |
Bavarian Motor Works (на немецком: Bayrische Motor Werken) |
| BPOE |
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks |
| BRB |
(I'll) Be Right Back (chat) |
| BVD |
Bradley, Voorhies, and Day |
| BYOB |
Bring Your Own Beer |
| CAD |
Computer-Aided Design |
| CARE |
Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere |
| CAT |
Computerized Axial Tomography |
| CATV |
CAbel TeleVision |
| CB |
Citizen's Band |
| CBR |
Constant Bit Rate |
| CBS |
Columbia Broadcasting System |
| CCC |
Customs Cooperation Council |
| CCD |
Charge-Coupled Device |
| CD |
Compact Disc |
| CD-I |
Compact Disc - Interactive |
| CD-R |
Compact Disc - Recordable |
| CD-ROM |
Compact Disc - Read-Only Memory |
| CD-RW |
Compact Disc - ReWritable |
| CE |
Council of Europe |
| CEI |
Central European Initiative |
| CEO |
Chief Executive Office |
| CERN |
European Organization for Nuclear Research |
| CGI |
Common Gateway Interface |
| CGM |
Computer Graphic Metafile |
| CIO |
Chairman-in-Office |
| CIS |
Commonwealth of Independent States (по-русски СНГ) |
| CMY |
Cyan+Magenta+Yellow |
| CMYK |
Cyan+Magenta+Yellow+blacK |
| CNN |
Cable News Network |
| COBOL |
COmmon Business-Oriented Language |
| COCOM |
Coordinating Committee on Export Controls |
| CONCACAF |
Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football
(Soccer) |
| CONELRAD |
CONtrol of Electronic-magnetic RADiations |
| CONUS |
Continental United States |
| CPR |
CardioPulmonary Resuscitation |
| CPSU |
Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| CPU |
Central Processing Unit |
| CSS |
Cascading Style Sheets |
| CVS |
Consumer Value Service |
| CY |
Calendar Year |
| DAT |
Digital Audio Tape |
| DB |
DataBase |
| DC |
developed country |
| DDT |
Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane |
| DEC |
Digital Equipment Corporation |
| DECT |
Digital European Cordless Telecommunications |
| DEW |
Distant Early Warning |
| DMA |
Direct Memory Access |
| DNA |
DeoxyriboNucleic Acid |
| DNA |
Digital Network Architecture |
| DNS |
Domain Name System |
| DOA |
Dead On Arrival |
| DOS |
Disk Operating System |
| dpi (d.p.i.) |
Dots Per Inch |
| DTP |
DeskTop Publishing |
| DRAM |
Dynamic Random Access Memory |
| DVD |
Digital Versatile Disc |
| DVD-RW |
Digital Versatile Disc - Rewriteable |
| EADB |
East African Development Bank |
| EAN |
European Article Numering |
| EBRD |
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
| EC |
European Community |
| ECOSOC |
Economic and Social Council |
| ECS |
European Coal and Steel Community |
| EDGE |
Enhanced Data for GSM Evolution |
| EDP |
Electronic Data Processing |
| EEC |
European Economic Community |
| EFTA |
European Free Trade Association |
| EIB |
European Investment Bank |
| EMTEC |
European Multimedia Technologies (formerly BASF Magnetics; as of 2002) |
| EMU |
European Monetary Union |
| EMU |
Extravehicular Mobility Unit (Space Suit) |
| EPCOT |
Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow |
| ER |
Emergency Room |
| ESA |
European Space Agency |
| ESPN |
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network |
| ESSO |
S.O. from Standard Oil, the Rockefeller-owned oil company |
| ETA |
Estimated Time of Arrival |
| EU |
European Union |
| F1 |
Formula 1 |
| Fannie Mae (from FNMA) |
Federal National Mortgage Association |
| FAO |
Food and Agriculture Organization |
| FAQ |
Frequently Asked Questions |
| FAX |
facsimile |
| FDD |
Floppy Disk Drive |
| FDIC |
Federal Depositors Insurance Company |
| FEMA |
Federal Emergency Management Agency |
| FICA |
Federal Insurance Contributions Act |
| FIFA |
Federation Internationale de Football Association (International Federation
of Football Association; Zurich, Switzerland) |
| Flak |
FLiegerAbwehrKanonen (Lit. aircraft defense gun.) |
| FM |
Frequency Modulation |
| FORTRAN |
FORmula TRANslation |
| FSU |
Former Soviet Union |
| FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
| FUBAR |
"Fouled" Up Beyond All Recognition |
| FY |
Fiscal Year |
| FYROM |
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
| GAF |
General Aniline and Film |
| GATT |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
| GDR |
German Democratic Republic (East Germany) |
| GE |
General Electric |
| Gestapo |
GEheime STAatsPOlizei (Lit. secret state police.) |
| GIF |
Graphics Interchange Format |
| GIGO |
Garbage In, Garbage Out |
| GM |
General Motors |
| GORP |
Good Old Raisin Peanut (A camping food.) |
| GPRS |
General Packet Radio Service |
| GPS |
Global Positioning System |
| GSM |
Global System for Mobile telecommunications |
| GUI |
Graphical User Interface |
| HBO |
Home Box Office |
| HDD |
Hard Disk Drive |
| HDL/LDL |
High-Density Lipoprotein/Low-Density Lipoprotein |
| HDPE |
High Density Polyethylene |
| HDTV |
High Definition TeleVision |
| HF |
High-Frequency |
| HIV |
Human Immunodefficiency Virus |
| HP |
Hewlett Packard |
| HTML |
HyperText Markup Language |
| HTTP |
HyperText Transfer Prorocol |
| HUMVEE |
High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle |
| IAEA |
International Atomic Energy Agency |
| IBEC |
International Bank for Economic Cooperation |
| IBM |
International Business Machines |
| IBRD |
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) |
| ICANN |
Internet Corporation For Assigned
Names and Numbers |
| ICAO |
International Civil Aviation Organization |
| ICBM |
Inter-Continental Ballistics Missile |
| ICC |
International Chamber of Commerce |
| ICJ |
International Court of Justice (World Court) |
| ICRC |
International Committee for the Red Cross |
| ICRM |
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement |
| ICTR |
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda |
| ICTY |
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia |
| IDA |
International Development Association |
| IEA |
International Energy Agency |
| IEV |
Kiev, Ukraine - Zhulhany (Airport Code) |
| IFAD |
International Fund for Agricultural Development |
| IFC |
International Finance Corporation |
| IHOP |
International House of Pancakes |
| IIB |
International Investment Bank |
| IKEA |
Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunaryd (Swedish home furnishings retailer) |
| ILO |
International Labor Organization |
| IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
| IMO |
International Maritime Organization |
| INRI |
Iesus Nazarenenus Rex Iudaeorum (Lit. Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews) |
| Intelsat |
International Telecommunications Satellite Organization |
| Internet |
INTERconnected computer NETworks |
| Interpol |
International Criminal Police Organization |
| IOC |
International Olympic Committee |
| IOM |
International Organization for Migration |
| IP |
Internetwork Protocol |
| IRA |
Individual Retirement Account |
| IRA |
Irish Republican Army |
| ISBN |
International Standard Book Number |
| ISDN |
Integrated Services Digital Network |
| ISO |
International Standards Organization; film-speed designation, formerly ASA |
| ITU |
International Telecommunication Union |
| JPEG |
Joing Photographic Experts Group |
| JPL |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| JVC |
Japan Victor Company |
| KBP |
Kiev, Ukraine - Borispol (Airport Code) |
| KFOR |
Kosovo Force |
| KGB |
Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti |
| kHz |
KiloHertz |
| KIA |
Killed In Action |
| KISS |
Keep It Simple, Stupid |
| KJV |
King James Version |
| KLM |
Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Lit. Royal Dutch Airline.) |
| KO |
Knock-out (TKO being a technical knock-out.) |
| KPI |
Kiev Polytechnic Institute (Ukraine) |
| KRAZ |
Kremenchuz'kiy Avtomobilny Zavod (Ukrainian Truck Manufacturer) |
| kWh |
Kilowatt-Hour |
| LAN |
Local Area Network |
| LASER |
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
| LCD |
Liquid Crystal Display |
| LDC |
Less Developed Country |
| LDPE |
Low Density Polyethylene |
| LED |
Light-Emitting Diode |
| LG |
Life's Good (electronics company, Japan, Asia) |
| LLDC |
least developed country |
| lpi (l.p.i.) |
Lines Per Inch |
| M&M |
Mars & Murray |
| MASER |
Microwave Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
| MASH |
Mobile Army Surgical Hospital |
| MCI |
Microwave Communications of America |
| MG |
Morris & Garash |
| MHz |
MegaHertz |
| MIA |
Missing in Action |
| MIDI |
Musical Instrument Digital Interface |
| MiG |
MIkoyan and Gurevich, Soviet military aircraft designers |
| MIME |
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension |
| MIPS |
Million of Instructions Per Second |
| MIRV |
Multiple Independently-targeted Re-entry Vehicle |
| MIT |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| MMX |
MultiMedia eXtension |
| MO |
Modus Operandi |
| Modem |
Modulator/Demodulator |
| MP |
Military Police |
| MP3 (MPEG3) |
Moving Picture Experts Group Layer-3 Audio (audio file format/extension)
|
| MPEG |
Motion Picture Experts Group |
| MSN |
MicroSoft Network |
| MRI |
Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| NA |
Not Available |
| NAACP |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| NAC |
North Atlantic Council |
| NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| Nazi |
NAtional soZIalist |
| NB |
Nota Bene (лат. обрати внимание) |
| NBA |
National Basketball Association |
| NBC |
National Broadcasting Company |
| NBC |
Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons |
| NBU |
National Bank of Ukraine |
| NC |
Nordic Council |
| NCC |
Either Naval Classification Code or Naval Construction Contract (From Star
Trek, NCC-1701) |
| NEA |
Nuclear Energy Agency |
| NEC |
Nippon Electronics Corporation |
| Necco |
New England Confectionery COmpany |
| NFL |
National Football League |
| NHL |
National Hockey League |
| NIMBY |
Not In My BackYard |
| Nitinol |
NIckel, TItanium, and Naval Ordinance Laboratory |
| NL |
Natural Language |
| NM |
nautical mile |
| NMT |
Nordic Mobile Telephone |
| N.N. |
Nomen nescio (лат. некое лицо) |
| NORAD |
North American Air Defense Command |
| NORELCO |
NORth AmErican PhiLlips COmpany |
| NOW |
National Organization of Women |
| NPR |
National Public Radio |
| NTUU |
National Technical University of Ukraine |
| NSA |
National Security Administration |
| OCR |
Optical Character Recognition |
| OECD |
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
| OLE |
Object Linking and Embedding of objects |
| OPCW |
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons |
| OPEC |
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
| OS |
Operating System |
| OSCE |
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe |
| OSHA |
Occupational Safety and Health Administration |
| OTAN |
Organisation du Traite de l'Atlantique Nord (=NATO) |
| Pakistan |
Punjab, Afghan border states, Kashmir, Sind, and BaluchisTAN |
| Pap |
George Papanicolaou, inventor of the test |
| Parsec |
Parallax second |
| PBS |
Public Broadcasting System |
| PDA |
Personal Digital Assistant |
| PDF |
Portable Document Format |
| PDQ |
Pretty Damned Quick |
| PDRY |
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen |
| PfP |
Partnership for Peace |
| PIN |
Personal Identification |
| pH |
Pourvoir Hydrogene (Lit. power of hydrogen.) |
| PnP |
Plug and Play |
| P.O. |
Post Office |
| PO |
Private Office |
| POTS |
Plain Old Telephone Service (Basic service used by local exchange telephone
companies.) |
| POTUS |
President of the United States |
| POW |
Prisoner of War |
| PPP |
Point to Point Protocol |
| P.S. |
Post scriptum (лат. после написанного) |
| PSI |
Pounds per square inch |
| PSP |
PlayStation Portable (Sony) |
| PT |
Patrol Torpedo |
| PVC |
PolyVinyl Chloride |
| PX |
Post eXchange |
| Q.E.D. |
Quod erat demonstrandum (Lit. Which was to be demonstrated.) |
| QANTAS |
Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Service |
| Radar |
RAdio Detection And Ranging |
| RAM |
Random Access Memory |
| RCA |
Radio Corporation of America |
| RDA |
Recommended Daily Allowance |
| RFD |
Rural-Free Delivery |
| RGB |
Red+Blue+Green |
| Rh |
Rhesus monkey factor |
| RKO |
Radio-Keith-Orpheum |
| RNA |
Ribonucleic Acid |
| ROM |
Read-Only Memory |
| ROTC |
Reserve Officers Training Corps |
| ROY G. BIV |
Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violent (Rainbow Mnemonic) |
| RSS |
Really Simple Syndication |
| RSVP |
Respondez S'il Vous Plait |
| S.A. |
Sine Anno (лат. без года) |
| Saab |
Svenska Aeroplan Ab. (Lit. Swedish Airplanes, Inc.) |
| SAM |
Surface-to-Air Missile |
| SAR |
Search and Rescue |
| SASE |
Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope |
| SCMADS |
State County Municipal Apprehensive Data System (The computers cops have in
their cars that hold information on people.) |
| SCSI |
Small Computer Serial Interface |
| SCTV |
Second City TeleVision |
| SCUBA |
Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus |
| SDI |
Stratigic Defence Initiative (=СОИ) |
| SEAL |
SEa, Air, and Land |
| SETI |
Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence |
| SFRY |
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| SG |
Secretary General |
| SHAZAM |
из имен Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles и Mercury |
| SHF |
Super-High-Frequency |
| SMS |
Short Message Service |
| SNAFU |
Situation Normal--All "Fouled" Up |
| SOP |
Standard Operating Procedure |
| S.O.S. |
неофициальное значение - Save Our Souls |
| Soweto |
SOuthWEst TOwnship |
| SPF |
South Pacific Forum |
| SPF |
Sun Protection Factor |
| SRO |
Standing Room Only |
| STD |
Sexually Transmitted Disease |
| STP |
Scientifically Treated Petroleum (also, Standard Temperature and Pressure) |
| SUNOCO |
SUN Oil COmpany |
| SWAK |
Sealed With A Kiss |
| SWAT |
Special Weapons And Tactics |
| TAFKAP |
The Artist Formerly Known As Prince |
| TANSTAAFL |
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch |
| TARFU |
Things Are Really "Fouled" Up |
| TBA |
To Be Announced |
| TCP/IP |
Transfer Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TDK |
Tokyo Denkikagaku Kogyo KK (TDK Electronics Co. Ltd., Japanese manufacturer
of recording media) |
| TGIF |
Thank God It's Friday |
| TIFF |
Tag Image File Format |
| TLA |
Three Letter Acronym ;) |
| TNT |
TriNitroToluene |
| TNTC |
Too Numerous To Count |
| TTFN |
Ta-ta for now |
| TTY |
Teletypewriter |
| TWAIN |
Technology Without An Interesting Name (A computer interface to acquire images
through a device such as a scanner.) |
| UA |
Ukraine (ISO Country Identifier) |
| UAE |
United Arab Emirates |
| UAH |
Ukrainian Hryvnia (ISO currency code) |
| UAOC |
Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church |
| UAS |
Ukrainian Academy of Sciences |
| UEFA |
Union of European Football Associations |
| UGCC |
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
| UHF |
Ultra-High Frequency |
| UK |
United Kingdom |
| UMC |
Ukrainian Mobile Communication |
| UN |
United Nations |
| UNA |
Ukrainian National Association |
| UNESCO |
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization |
| UNICEF |
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund |
| UNU |
United Nations University |
| UPU |
Universal Postal Union |
| URL |
Uniform Resource Locator |
| US |
United States |
| USSR |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| USSR/EE |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics/Eastern Europe |
| VCR |
Video Cassette Recorder |
| VHF |
Very High Frequency |
| VHS |
Video Home System (video cassette format; patented by JVC) |
| VISTA |
Volunteers In Service to America, a Great Society agency |
| VSOP |
Very Superior Old Pale, a brandy rating |
| WAC |
Women's Army Corps |
| WADB |
West African Development Bank |
| WAN |
Wide Area Network |
| WAVES |
Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service |
| WC |
Water Closet |
| WD-40 |
Water Displacement, Formula 40 |
| WEU |
Western European Union |
| WFC |
World Food Council |
| WFP |
World Food Program |
| WFTU |
World Federation of Trade Unions |
| WHO |
World Health Organisation |
| WIPO |
World Intellectual Property Organization |
| WMF |
Windows MetaFile |
| WMO |
World Meteorological Organization |
| WNL |
Within Normal Limits |
| WP |
Warsaw Pact |
| WTO (WTrO) |
World Trade Organization |
| WToO |
World Tourism Organization |
| WTC |
World Trade Center |
| WWF |
World Wide Fund (in US also known as World Widelife Fund) |
| WYSIWYG |
What You See Is What You Get |
| Y2K |
Year 2000 |
| YAR |
Yemen Arab Republic |
| YKK |
Yoshida Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Zipper Company) |
| ZAZ |
Zaporozhsky Avtomobilny Zavod (Ukrainian car manufacturer) |
| ZIP |
Zone Improvement Plan |
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