| A.D. | Anno Domini |
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| a.m. | Ante Meridiem |
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| ABC | American Broadcasting Companies inc. |
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| AC | Alternating Current |
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| ADC | Apple Developer Connection |
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| AE | Automatic Exposure |
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| AF | Automatic Focus |
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| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
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| AIDS | Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome |
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| AIFF | Audio Interchange File Format |
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| AM | Amplitude Modulation |
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| API | Application Program Interface |
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| APS | Advanced Photo System |
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| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
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| AT | Automatic Transmission |
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| ATM | Adobe Type Manager |
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| ATP | Adenosine Tri-Phosphate |
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| ATRAC | Advanced TRansform Acoustic Coding |
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| ATS | Automatic Train Stop |
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| AV | Audio-Visual |
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| B.C. | Before Christ |
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| BBC | British Broadcasting Corporation |
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| BBS | Bulletin Board System |
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| bps | bit per second |
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| BSD | Berkley Software Distribution |
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| CAD | Computer Aided Design |
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| CCD | Charge Coupled Device |
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| CD | Compact Disc |
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| cf. | ConFer |
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| CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
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| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency |
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| CISC | Complex Instruction Set Computer |
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| CMYK | Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK |
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| CODEC | COmpression/DECompression |
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| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
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| CRT | Cathode Ray Tube |
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| CSS | Cascading Style Sheets |
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| CTC | Centralized Traffic Control |
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| DAT | Digital Audio Tape |
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| DC | Direct Current |
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| DCT | Dreams Come True |
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| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
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| DJ | Disc Jockey |
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| DNA | DeoxyriboNcleic Acid |
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| DPE | Developing, Printing, Enlarging |
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| dpi | Dots Per Inch |
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| DTM | DeskTop Music |
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| DTP | DeskTop Publishing |
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| DVD | Digital Versatile Disk |
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| EP | Extended Playing |
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| EPS | Encapsulated PostScript |
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| etc. | ET Cetera |
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| FAQ | Frequently Asked Question |
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| FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation |
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| FC | Football Club |
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| FF | Front engine Front drive |
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| FM | Frequently Modulation |
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| FTP | File Transform Protocol |
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| GB | Great Britain |
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| GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
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| GHQ | General HeadQuarters |
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| GIF | Graphics Interface Format |
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| GNP | Gross National Product |
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| GPS | Global Positioning System |
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| GT | Gran Turismo |
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| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
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| HB | Hard Black |
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| HFS | Hierarchical File System |
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| HIV | Human Inmmunodeficiency Virus |
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| HSB | Hue, Saturation, Brightness |
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| HTML | HyperText Markup Language |
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| http | HyperText Transfer Protocol |
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| IC | Integrated Circuit |
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| ICPO | International Criminal Police Organization |
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| ID | IDentification |
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| IE | Industrial Engineering |
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| IEEE | Institute of Electronic and Electronics Engineers |
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| ILO | International Labor Organization |
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| IM | Input Method |
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| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
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| IQ | Intelligence Quotient |
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| JAM | Judy And Mary |
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| JBS | Jump Broadcasting Station |
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| JC | Jump Comics |
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| JDK | Java Development Kit |
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| JFK | John Fizgerald Kennedy |
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| JIS | Japan Industrial Standard |
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| JJ | Jitterin' Jinn |
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| JPEG | Joint Photographic Expert Group |
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| KO | KnockOut |
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| laser | Light Application by Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
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| LD | Laser Disc |
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| LED | Light-Emitting Diode |
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| LNG | Liquefied Natural Gas |
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| LP | Long Playing |
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| LPG | Liquefied Petroleum Gas |
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| LSI | Large Scale Integration |
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| MD | Mini Disc |
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| MFi | Mac Fan Internet |
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| MIDI | Musical Instrument Digital Interface |
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| MIME | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
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| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| modem | MOdulator/DEModulator |
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| MPEG | Motion Picture Experts Group |
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| MPW | Macintosh Programmer 's Workshop |
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| MRJ | Mac OS Runtime for Java |
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| MS | ManuScript |
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| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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| NBC | National Broadcasting Company |
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| NG | No Good |
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| NHK | Nippon Hoso Kyokai |
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| NY | New York |
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| NZ | New Zealand |
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| OCR | Optical Character Reader |
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| ODA | Official Development Assistance |
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| OHP | OverHead Projector |
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| OK | Oll Korect |
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| ON | Oh/Nagashima |
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| OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
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| OS | Operating System |
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| p.m. | Post Meridiem |
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| P.S. | PostScript |
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| PCM | Pulse Code Modulation |
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| PDF | Portable Document Format |
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| PF | PianoForte |
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| PHS | Personal Handyphone System |
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| POS | Point-to-Sales |
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| PPP | Point to Point Protocol |
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| PR | Public Relations |
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| PTA | Parent-Teacher Association |
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| R&B | Rhythm and Blues |
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| RGB | Red, Green, Blue |
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| RISC | Reduced Instruction Set Computer |
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| RMC | Ribbon Mascot Comics |
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| RNA | RiboNucleic Acid |
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| SAS | Southern All Stars |
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| SCSI | Small Computer System Interface |
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| SF | Science Fiction |
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| SI | Système International d'unités |
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| SL | Steam Locomotive |
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| SN | Signal-to-Noise |
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| SOHO | Small Office Home Office |
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| SP | Standard Playing |
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| TA | Terminal Adapter |
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| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
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| TIFF | Tag Image File Format |
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| TNT | TriNitroToluene |
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| UDF | Universal Disk Format |
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| UFO | Unidentified Flying Object |
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| UHF | UltraHigh Frequency |
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| UK | United Kingdom |
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| UN | United Nations |
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| UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization |
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| UNICEF | United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund |
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| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
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| US | United States |
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| USSR | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
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| UV | UltraViolet |
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| VHF | Very High Frequency |
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| VHS | Video Home System |
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| VIP | Very Important Person |
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| VTOL | Vertical TakeOff and Landing |
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| VTR | Video Tape Recorder |
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| WC | Water Closet |
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| WHO | World Health Organization |
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| WWW | World Wide Web |
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| WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get |
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| YMCA | Young Men's Christian Association |
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