List of 59 Most Commonly Used Technical Abbreviations and Acronyms

 

Shashwat Doshi | Below is the list of  59 most commonly used technical abbreviations and acronyms used in our daily routine with their full forms. These should help you cracking some of the most commonly asked technical  interview questions or a college viva where full forms of these words are asked so often. So let us start enlightening ourselves,

1.) GOOGLE - Global Organization Of Oriented Group Language Of Earth.
2.) YAHOO - Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.
3.) WINDOW - Wide Interactive Network Development for Office work Solution.
4.) COMPUTER - Common Oriented Machine Particularly United and used under Technical and Educational Research.
5.) VIRUS - Vital Information Resources Under Siege.
6.) UMTS - Universal Mobile Telecommunicati ons System.
7.) AMOLED - Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode.
8.) OLED - Organic light-emitting diode.
9.) IMEI - International Mobile Equipment Identity.
10.) ESN - Electronic Serial Number.
11.) UPS - Uninterruptible power supply.
12. HDMI - High-Definition Multimedia Interface.
13.) VPN - Virtual private network.
14.) APN - Access Point Name.
15.) SIM - Subscriber Identity Module.
16.) LED - Light emitting diode.
17.) DLNA - Digital Living Network Alliance.
18.) RAM - Random access memory.
19.) ROM - Read only memory.
20.) VGA - Video Graphics Array.
21.) QVGA - Quarter Video Graphics Array.
22.) WVGA - Wide video graphics array.
23.) WXGA - Widescreen Extended Graphics Array.
24.) USB - Universal serial Bus.
25.) WLAN - Wireless Local Area Network.
26.) PPI - Pixels Per Inch.
27.) LCD - Liquid Crystal Display.
28.) HSDPA - High speed down-link packet access.
29.) HSUPA - High-Speed Uplink Packet Access.
30.) HSPA - High Speed Packet Access.
31.) GPRS - General Packet Radio Service.
32.) EDGE - Enhanced Data Rates for Globa Evolution.
33.) NFC - Near field communication.
34.) OTG - On-the-go.
35.) S-LCD - Super Liquid Crystal Display.
36.) O.S - Operating system.
37.) SNS - Social network service.
38.) H.S - HOTSPOT.
39.) P.O.I - Point of interest.
40.) GPS - Global Positioning System.
41.) DVD - Digital Video Disk.
42.) DTP - Desk top publishing.
43.) DNSE - Digital natural sound engine.
44.) OVI - Ohio Video Intranet.
45.) CDMA - Code Division Multiple Access.
46.) WCDMA - Wide-band Code Division Multiple Access.
47.) GSM - Global System for Mobile Communications.
48.) WI-FI - Wireless Fidelity.
49.) DIVX - Digital internet video access.
50.) APK - Authenticated public key.
51.) J2ME - Java 2 micro edition.
52.) SIS - Installation source.
53.) DELL - Digital electronic link library.
54.) ACER - Acquisition Collaboration Experimentation Reflection.
55.) RSS - Really simple syndication.
56.) TFT - Thin film transistor.
57.) AMR- Adaptive Multi-Rate.
58.) MPEG - moving pictures experts group.
59.) IVRS - Interactive Voice Response System
This list is contributed by Shashwat Doshi.

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