List of Technical Abbreviations You would Love to Know

Do you know the difference between Kb and KB, Gb and GB?
Do you know the meaning of UPS which we use in day-to-day life?
Do you even know the meaning for JPG and GIF?

There are too many technical abbreviations which move around us and we use them daily but we don't know the meanings for most.

So let's discover some abbreviations today. It might be very difficult to learn all these in a day, but as time move on you'll get to learn all of them, because these are very general things and easy to remember.

A

Abbreviation
	Definition
AAC	Advanced Audio Coding
AC	Alternating Current
ADB	Apple Desktop Bus
AF	Anisotropic Filtering
AMOLED	Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode
AMD	Advanced Micro Devices
ANSI	American National Standards Institute
API	Application Programming Interface
ARC	Advanced RISC Computing
ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange

B

Abbreviation
	Definition
BIOS	Basic Input Output System
bit	binary digit
Blog	Web Log

C

Abbreviation
	Definition
CD	Compact Disk
CD-R	CD-Recordable
CD-ROM	CD Read-Only Memory
CD-RW	CD-Rewritable
COMPUTER	Common Operating Machine Particularly Used for Trade, Education, and Research
CPU	Central Processing Unit
CSS	Cascading Style Sheets

D

Abbreviation
	Definition
DBMS	Database Management System
DDR	Double Data Rate
DDoS	Distributed Denial of Service
DNS	Domain Name System
DoS	Denial of Service
DOS	Disk Operating System
DPI	Dots Per Inch
DVD	Digital Versatile Disc
DVD-R	DVD-Recordable
DVD-ROM	DVD-Read Only Memory
DVD-RW	DVD-Rewritable
DVR	Digital Video Recorder

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