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Abbreviations

3GP 3rd Generation Partnership project

A Ampère

A2DP Advanced Audio Distribution Profile

AA Auto-Answer

AAC Advanced Audio Coding

AACS Advanced Access Content System

AC Alternating Current

AC Auxiliary Carry

AC3 Audio Coding 3

AC/DC Alternating Current / Direct Current

ACE Asynchronous Comunications Element

ACK ACKnowledge

ACL Access Control List

ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface

ACSEL Association pour le Commerce et les Services En Ligne

AD Auto-Dial

A/D Analog to Digital

ADA Advanced Driver Assistant

ADA Association de Défense des Audionautes

ADC Analog to Digital Converter

ADF Automatic Document Feeder

ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

ADSR Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release

AEB Auto Exposure Bracketing

AES Advanced Encryption Standard

AFA Association Française des fournisseurs d'Accès et de services InterNet

AFAS Association Française des Auteurs de Sharewares

AFC AntiFerromagnetically-Coupled

AFNIC Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération

AFORS Association Française de Réseaux et de Services télécom

AFP Apple File Protocol

AFR Alternate Frame Rendering

AFUL Association Francophone des Utilisateurs de Linux et des logiciels libres

AGL Atelier de Génie Logiciel

AGM Alternative Graphics Mode

AGP Accelerated Graphic Port

AGP Advanced Graphic Port

A-GPS Assisted Global Positioning System

AHCI Advanced Host Controller Interface

AIDE Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment

AIFF Audio Interchange File Format

AIM America On Line Instant Messenger

AIPS Astronomical Image Processing System

AIR Automatic Image Refinement

AJAX Asynchronous JavaScript And XML

ALDIL Association Lyonnaise de Développement de l'Informatique Libre

ALGOL ALGOrithmic Language

ALM Absolute Load Module

ALPA Association de Lutte contre le Piratage Audiovisuel

ALSA Advanced Linux Sound Architecture

ALU Arithmetic and Logic Unit

AMOLED Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode

amp ampere

Abbreviations

AMR Adaptative Multi-Rate codec

AMR Audio Modem Riser

AMS Advanced Memory Specification

ANSI American National Standards Institute

ANTIOPE Acquisition Numérique et Télévisualisation d'Images Organisées en Pages d'Ecriture

AOL America On Line

APC Alternative PHP Cache

API Application Programming Interface

APIC Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller

APOM Association des Producteurs d'Oeuvres Multimédias

APM Advanced Power Management

APN Appareil Photo Numérique

APP Agence pour la Protection des Programmes

APPC Advanced Program to Program Communication

APRIL Association pour la Promotion et la Recherche en Informatique Libre

APS Advanced Photo System

APT Advanced Packaging Tool

APU Accelerated Processing Unit

APU Audio Processing Unit

ARCEP Autorité de Régulation des Communications Électroniques et des Postes

ARM Advanced Risk Machine

ARMT Autorité de Régulation des Mesures Techniques

ARP Address Resolution Protocol

ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Administration Network

ARQ Automatic Re-send reQuest

ART Autorité de Régulation des Télécommunications

AS Anticipatory Schedular

ASA American Standards Association

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASF Advanced Streaming Format

ASF Advanced Systems Format

ASO Area of Safety Operation

ASP Advanced Signal Processing

ASPI Advanced SCSI Programming Interface

AT Advanced Technology

ATA Advanced Technology Attachment

ATI Assistant Technique Informatique

ATICA Agence pour les Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication dans l'Administration

ATM Adobe Type Manager

ATM/IP Asynchronous Transfer Mode / Internet Protocol

ATX Advanced Technology eXtended

AuC Authentification Center

AVC Advanced Video Coding

AVCHD Advanced Video Codec High Definition

AVI Audio Video Interleaved for MS-Windows

AVSR Audio Video Speech Recognition

AXI AuXiliary Input

AXIOM Advanced eXpress Input/Output Module

AXO AuXiliary Output

B2B Business to Business

B2C Business to Consumer

BA Bus Available

BAL Boîte Aux Lettres

Abbreviations

BAS Broadband Access Server

BASH Bourne Again Shell

BASIC Beginner's All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BCD Binary Coded Decimal

BCD Boot Configuration Data (données de configuration d'amorçage)

BD Base de Données

BDMV Blu-Ray Disc MoVie

BEL Bell

BF Basse Fréquence

BGA Business Graphics Array

BHO Browser Hijack Object

BIF Blinker Incremental File

BIM Bit Image Mode

BIOS Basic Input Output Software

BIOS Basic Input Output System

BIT Binary digIT

BITS Background Intelligent Transfer Service

BLE Boucle Locale Electrique

BLR Boucle Locale Radio

BOB Break-Out Box

BOF Bottom Of Form

BP Base Pointer

BPB BIOS Parameter Block

BPI Bits Per Inch

BPI British Phonographic Industry

BPS Bits Per Second

BR Baud Rate

BRD Blu-Ray Disc

BS Back Space

BSA Business Software Alliance

BSI BlackSide Illuminated

BSC Base Station Controller

BSoD Blue Screen of Death

BSP Backup Storage Providers

BT Basse Tension

BT British Telecom

BTS Base Transceiver Station

BTX Balanced Technology eXtended

BW Black and White

ca courant alternatif

CAD Computer-Aided Design

CAF Contrôle Automatique de Fréquence

CAM Conditional Access Module

CAN CANcel

CAN Convertisseur Analogique/Numérique

CAO Conception Assistée par Ordinateur

CAPS CAPital letterS

CAPTCHA Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart

CAV Constant Angular Velocity

CBR Constant Bit Rate

cc courant continu

Cc Carbon Copy

Cci Carbon Copy Invisible

Abbreviations

CCD Charged Couple Device

CCIR Comité Consultatif International des Radiocommunications

CCITT Comité Consultatif International Télégraphique et Téléphonique

CCMB Centre de Commutation des Messages Bancaires

CCR Condition Code Register

CCRI Comité Consultatif de la Recherche en Informatique

ccTLD country code Top Level Domains

cd candela

CD Communication Driver

CD Compact Disc

CDDB Compact Disc Data Base

cd/m2 candelas par mètre carré

CD-MRW Compact Disc Mount Rainier reWrite

CD-R Compact Disc Recordable

CD-ROM Compact Disc Read Only Memory

CD-RW Compact Disc Read Write

CDS Counterfeit Detterence Systems

CDT Center for Democracy and Technology

CD-V Compact Disc Video

CE Chip Enable

CE Condition d'Entrée

CERN Centre Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire

CERSA Centre d'Étude et de Recherche de Science Administrative

CERT Computer Emergency Response Team

CERTA Centre d'Expertise gouvernemental de Réponse et de Traitement des Attaques informatiques

CES Consumer Electronic Show

CF Carry Flag

CF Compact Flash

CFAO Création et Fabrication Assistées par Ordinateur

CFS Completely Fair Scheduler

CFQ Complete Fair Queuing

CGA Colour Graphic Adapter

CGI Common Gateway Interface

CGM Computer Graphic Metafile

CGS Continuous Grain Silicon

CGU Conditions Générales d'Utilisation

CI Common Interface

CIE Commission Internationale de l'Éclairage

CIF Common source Intermediate Format

CIFS Common Internet File System

CII Compagnie Internationale pour l'Informatique

CIS Commentator Information System

CIS Contact Image Sensor

CISC Complex Instruction Set Computer

CISI Compagnie Internationale de Services en Informatique

CISS Canadian Internetworked Scientific Supercomputer

CLI Command Line Interpreter

CLUF Contrat de Licence Utilisateur Final

CLUSIF CLUb de la sécurité des Systèmes d'Information Français

CLUT Color Look-Up Table

CLV Constant Linear Velocity

CMAO Création Musicale Assistée par Ordinateur

CMF Content Managing Framework

Abbreviations

CMF Counter Match Flag

CMI Counter Match Interrupt

CMJN Cyan, Magenta, Jaune, Noir

C-MOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

CMS Code Management System

CMSS Creative Multi Speaker Surround

CMY Cyan, Magenta, Yellow

CMYK Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK

CNA Convertisseur Numérique/Analogique

CNET Centre National d'Etudes des Télécommunications

CNIL Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés

COBOL COmmon Business Orientated Language

CODASYL Conference On DAta SYstems Languages

CODEC COdeur/DECodeur

COFF Common Object File Format

COMMS COMMunicationS

CON CONsole

CONIBI CONsortium Industriel Bureautique et Informatique

CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture

CPE Customer Premises Equipment

CPI Characters Per Inch

CPL Caractères Par Ligne

CPL Courants Porteurs en Ligne

CP/M Control Program for Microprocessor

CPP Customer Preview Program

CPS Caractères Par Seconde

CPS Cycles Per Second

CPU Central Processing Unit

CR Carriage Return

CRAN Comprehensive R Archive Network

CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check (Code de Redondance Cyclique)

CRT Cathode Ray Tube

CS Code Segment

CS Condition de Sortie

CSCE Centre de Surveillance du Commerce Electronique

CSD Circuit Switched Data

C-SET Card-Secure Electronic Transaction

CSI Conseil Supérieur de l'Internet

CSMA/CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance

CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection

CSPC Commercial Software Publisher Certificate

CSR Control/Status Register

CSS Cascading Style Sheet

CSS Central Structure Store

CSS Content Scrambling System

CTP Community Technology Preview

CTRL ConTRoL

CTS Clear To Send

CU Control Unit

CUA Common User Access

CUB CUrsor Backward

CUD CUrsor Down

CUDA Computer Unified Device Architecture

Abbreviations

CUF CUrsor Forward

CULV Consumer Ultra Low Voltage

CUP CUrsor Position

CUPS Common Unix Printing System

CUU CUrsor Up

CV Control Voltage

D/A Digital to Analog

DAC Digital to Analog Converter

DAO Dessin Assisté par Ordinateur

DAO Disc At Once

DaRC Data Radio Channel

DAS Débit d'Absorption Spécifique

DAS Direct Attached Storage

DAT Digital Audio Tape

DBA Data Base Administrator

DBF Data Base File

DC Device Control

DC Device Coordinate

DC Direct Current

DCB Décimal Codé Binaire

DCD Data Carrier Detect

DCE Data Communication Equipment

DCL Digital Command Language

DCSS DVD Content Scrambling System

DD Dictionnaire de Données

DD Double Densité

DD Double Density

DDCD Double Density CD-Rom

DDE Dynamic Data Exchange

DDK Driver Developer's Kit

DDL Data Definition Language

DDL Degré De Liberté

DDOS Distributed Denial Of Service

DDR Data Direction Register

DDR2 Double Data Rate 2

DDR-SDRAM Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory

DECT Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunication

DEEE Déchats d'Équipements Électriques et Électroniques

DEL DELete

DEP Data Execution Prevention

DES Data Encryption Standard

DF Direction Flag

DF Double Face

DFC Digital File Check

DFSG Debian Free Software Guidelines

DGT Direction Générale des Télécommunications

DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DHT Distributed Hash Table

DHTML Dynamic Hyper Text Markup Language

DI Destination Index

DIF Data Interchange Format

DIG Device Interface Group

DIGIC DIGital Imaging Core

Abbreviations

DIMM Dual Inline MeMory

DIN Deutsche Industrie-Norm

DIR DIRectory

DL Dual Layer

DLC DownLoadable Content

DLE Data Link Escape

DLL Down Line Loading

DLL Dynamic Link Library

DLNA Digital Living Network Alliance

DLP Digital Light Processing

DMA Direct Memory Access

DMD Digital (Micro)Mirror Device

DMFC Direct Methanol Fuel Cell

DNG Digital Negative Specification

DNS Domain Name Server

DNS Domain Name System

DNS Dynamic Name System

DNSSec Domain Name System Security extensions

DOCSIS Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification

DOD Drop On Demand

DOMAO Domotique Assistée par Ordinateur

DON Disque Optique Numérique

DOS Denial Of Service

DOS Disk Operating System

DP Détection Porteuse

DPB Disk Parameter Block

DPI Dots Per Inch

DPMI DOS Protected Mode Interface

DPMS DOS Protected Mode Service

DPOF Digital Print Order Format

DPSM Differential Phase Shift Modulation

DPT Disk Parameter Table

DPT Distributed Processing Technologies

DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory

DRAM-EDO Dynamic Random Access Memory - Extended Data Out

DRAM-FPM Dynamic Random Access Memory - Fast Page Mode

DR-DOS Digital Research Disk Operating System

DRI Direct Rendering Interface

DRM Digital Rights Management

DRW DRaWing

DS Data Segment

DS Double Screen

DSA Digital Signature Algorithm

DSI Directeur du (des) Système(s) d'Information

DSI Directeur (direction) des Systèmes Informatiques

DSL Digital Subscriber Line

DSLAM Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer

DSP Digital Signal Processor

DSR Data Set Ready

DSR Device Status Report

DTA Disk Transfer Address

DTA Disk Transfer Area

DTAC Dynamically Typed Access Control

Abbreviations

DTC Dispositif à Transfert de Charge

DTD Document Type Definition

DTE Data Terminal Equipment

DTF Digital Tape Format

DTMF Dual Tone Multi Frequency

DTN Disruption Tolerant Networking

DTP DeskTop Publishing

DTR Data Terminal Ready

DTS Digital Theater Sound

DTS Digital Theater System

DV Digital Video

DVB-H Digital Video Broadcast Handheld

DVB-T Digital Video Broadcast - Terrestrial

DVD DeVice Driver

DVD Digital Versatile Disc

DVD Digital Video Disc

DVD-R Digital Versatile Disc Recordable

DVD-RAM Digital Versatile Disc Random Access Memory

DVD+R DL Digital Versatile Disc Recordable Dual Layer

DVD-ROM Digital Versatile Disc Read Only Memory

DVD-RW Digital Versatile Disc ReWritable

DVI Digital Video Interactive

DVI Digital Video Interface

DVI Digital Visual Interface

DXVA DirectX Video Acceleration

EAO Enseignement Assisté par Ordinateur

EAX Environmental Audio eXtensions

EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

ECC Error Correction Code

ECP Enhanced Capabilities Port

ED Erase Display

EDGE Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution

EDO Extended Data Out

EDP Electronic Data Processing

EE Extreme Edition

EEMS Enhanced Expanded Memory Specifications

EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFI Extensible Firmware Interface

EFS Encrypting File System

EGA Enhanced Graphic Adapter

EGEE Enabling Grids for E-science

EGNOS European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service

EICC Electronics Industry Code of Conduct

EICI Enable Input Capture Interupt

E-IDE Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics

EIR Equipment Identity Register

EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture

EISA-EMB Extended Industry Standard Architecture Enhanced Master Burst

EL Erase Line

EM End of Medium

EM64T Extended Memory 64 Technology

EMB Extended Memory Block

Abbreviations

EMD External Memory Devices

EMM Expanded Memory Manager

EMP ElectroMagnetic Pulse

EMS Enhanced Messaging Services

EMS Expanded Memory Specifications

ENJMIN École Nationale du Jeu et des Médias Interactifs Numériques

ENON Exciting Nova On Network

ENQ ENQuiry

ENT Espace Numérique de Travail

EOCI Enable Output Compare Interrupt

EOF End of File

EOG Eye Of GNU Network Object Model Environment

EOI End Of Interrupt

EOT End Of Transmission

EOX End Of eXclusive

EPG Electronic Program Guide

EPN Espaces Publics Numériques

EPP Enhanced Parallel Port

EPROM Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

EPSF Encapsulated PostScript File

EQ EQualizer

ERNIE Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment

ES Extended Surround

ES Extra Segment

E/S Entrée/Sortie

ESAT École Supérieure et d'Application des Transmissions

eSATA External Serial Advanced Technology Attachment

ESC ESCape

ESDI Enhanced Small Device Interface

ESDRAM Enhanced Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory

ESIEA École Supérieure d'Informatique Électronique Automatique

ESO-MIDAS European Southern Observatory Munich Image and Data Analysis System

ESP Easy Software Products

ESP Extra Sensory Protection

ESSID Extended Service Set Identifier

ETB End of Transmission Block

ETOI Enable Timer Overflow Interrupt

ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute

ETX End of TeXt

EUCD European Union Copyright Directive

EULA End User License Agreement

EURID EUropean Registry of Internet Domain names

EVD Enhanced Versatile Disc

EVF Electronic View Finder

EVP Enhanced Virus Protection

EXIF EXchangeable Image File format

EXFAT EXtended File Allocation Table

f frequency

FAI Fournisseur d'Accès à Internet

FAO Fabrication Assistée par Ordinateur

FAQ Foire Aux Questions

FAQ Frequently Asked Questions

FARE Film Automatic Retouching and Enhancement

Abbreviations

FAT File Allocation Table

FC File Compare

FC-AL Fiber Channel-Arbitred Loop

FCB File Control Block

FCC Federal Communications Commission

FC-PGA Flip Chip Pin Grid Array

FDI Forum des Droits sur l'Internet

FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access

FED Field Emission Display

FEVAD Fédération des Entreprises de Vente À Distance

FF Form Feed

FFT Fédération Française des Télécoms

FG Frame Ground

FI Fréquence Intermédiaire

FIFO First In, First Out

FIG Facility for Interactive Generation of figures

FING Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération

FITS Flexible Image Transport System

FLA Fiduciary License Agreement

FLAC Free Lossless Audio Codec

FLOPS FLoating point Operations Per Second

FM Frequency Modulation

FORTRAN FORmula TRANslation

FPCT Flexible Image Transport System Product Conformance Tester

FPS First Person Shooter

FPS Frames Per Second

FPU Floating Point Unit

FRAM Ferro-electric Random Access Memory

FRC Free-Running Counter

FS File Separator

FS File System (système de fichiers)

FSAA Full Screen Anti-Aliasing

FSB Front Serial Bus

FSF Free Software Foundation

FSK Frequency Shift Keying

FTE Failure To Enroll

FTP File Transfer Protocol

FTTB Fiber To The Building

FTTH Fiber To The Home

FTTLA Fiber To The Last Amplifier

FVD Forward Versatile Disc

FX Effects

GAIN Gator Advertising and Information Network

GAP Générateur Automatique de Programme

Gb GigaByte

Gbps GigaBits Par Seconde

GDDR4 Graphics Double Data Rate, version 4

GDI Graphics Device Interface

GDM GNU Network Object Model Environment Display Manager

GDT Global Descriptors Table

GDTR Global Descriptors Table Register

GED Gestion Electronique des Documents

GEDC Georgia Electronic Design Center

Abbreviations

GEDCOM GEnealogical Data COMmunication

GHz GigaHertz

GiB gibioctet

GIF Graphics Interchange Format

GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program

GIN Global Investigators Network

GIX Global Internet eXchange

GKS Graphical Kernel System

GLI Gentoo Linux Installer

GM Graphics Manager

GMC Global Motion Compensation

GMR Giant Magneto-Resistance

GNAC GNome Audio Converter

GND GrouND

GNOME GNU Network Object Model Environment

Go Gigaoctet

GO Grandes Ondes

GPG GNU Privacy Guard

GPGPU General Purpose Computing Graphics Processing Units

GPL General Public License

GPRS General Packet Radio Services

GPS Global Positioning System

GPU Graphic Processing Unit

GPU Graphic Processor Unit

GPU Graphics Processing Unit

GRP Gentoo Reference Platform

GRUB Grand Unified Bootloader

GS Group Separator

GSM Global System for Mobile communications

gTLD generic Top Level Domains

GUI Graphical User Interface

GULL Groupe d'Utilisateurs de Logiciels Libres

GVS Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation

GWV General Word Variable

GWBV General Word/Byte Variable

HADOPI Haute Autorité pour la Diffusion des Œuvres et la Protection des droits sur Internet

HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer

HAM Hold And Modify

HAMR Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording

HBBTV Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TeleVision

HC High Capacity

HCF Highest Common Factor

HCG Hercules Graphic Card

HCI Host Controller Interface

HCSS High-Capacity Storage System

HD Haute Définition

HD Haute Densité

HD High Definition

HD High Density

HDA High Definition Audio

HDCP High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection

HDD Hybrid Hard Drive Disk

HDF Hierarchical Data Format

Abbreviations

HDLC High level Data Link Control

HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface

HDR High Dynamic Range

HDRI High Dynamic Range Imaging

HDU Header Data Unit

HDV High Definition Video

HEASARC NASA/Goddard High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center

HF Haute Fréquence

HF High Frequency

HFS Hierarchical File System

HLR Home Location Register

HLSL High Level Shader Language

HLTE HaLT Enable

HMA High Memory Area

HMC Hyper Memory Cube

HOPE Hackers On Planet Earth

HP Hewlett-Packard

HPGL Hewlett-Packard Graphic Language

HPFS High Partition Format System

HR High Rate

HSDPA High-Speed Downlink Packet Access

HSL Hue Saturation Lightness

HSPA High Speed Packet Access

HSUPA High Speed Uplink Packet Access

HT Haute Tension

HT High Tension

HT Horizontal Tabulation

HT Hyper Threading

HTML HyperText Markup Language

HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol

HTTPS HyperText Transfer Protocol over Secure socket layer

HUD Head Up Display

HV Haute Vitesse

HV High Voltage

HVD High Voltage Differential

HVD Holographic Versatile Disc

HVP Horizontal and Vertical Position

Hz Hertz

IA Intelligence Artificielle

IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

IAU International Astronomical Union

IAUFWG International Astronomical Union Flexible Image Transport System Working Group

IBM International Business Machines corporation

IC Integrated Circuit

ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

ICC International Color Consortium

ICF Input Capture Flag

ICI Input Capture Interrupt

ICR Input Capture Register

ICRA Internet Content Rating Association

ICU ISA Configuration Utility

IDE Integrated Device Electronics

IDE Integrated Drive Electronics

Abbreviations

IDE Intelligent Drive Electronics

IDF Intel Developer Forum

IDRIS Institut du Développement et des Ressources en Informatique Scientifique

IDS Intrusion Detection System

IDT Interrupt Descriptors Table

IE Internet Explorer

IEC International Electrotechnical Commission

IEDG Input EDGe

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IEM Impulsion ElectroMagnétique

IF Interrupt Flag

IFF Interchange File Format

IFPI International Federation of Phonographic Industry

IFS Iterated Function System

IGES Initial Graphics Exchange Specification

IGP Integrated Graphic Port

IGP Integrated Graphics Processor

IH-BD Intra-Hybrid Blu-ray Disc

ILS Instrument Landing System

IMA International MIDI Association

IMAP Interactive Mail Access Protocol

IMAP Interactive Message Access Protocol

IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol

IMB Interrupt Mask Bit

IMDb Internet Movie Database

IME Input Method Editor

IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identity

Imod Interferometric Modulator

IMPP Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol

IMT Internet Media Tablet

IMUG International MIDI Users Group

INES Identité Nationale Électronique Sécurisée

INRIA Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique

Internet Interconnected Networks

I/O Input/Output

IP Instruction Pointer

IP Internet Protocol

IPI Intel Product Integrator

IPP Internet Printing Protocol

IPS In-Plane Switching

IPSO Independent PSion Organiser users group

IPSS International Packet Switch Stream

IPTC International Press and Telecommunications Council

IPv4 Internet Protocol Version 4

IPv6 Internet Protocol Version 6

IPX Internet Packet eXchange

IR Index Register

IR Infra Red

IRAF Image Reduction and Analysis Facility

IRC Internet Relay Chat

IrDA InfraRed Data Association

IrDA InfraRed Device Association

IRIA Institut de Recherche d'Informatique et d'Automatique

Abbreviations

IRQ Interrupt ReQuest

ISA Industry Standard Architecture

ISBN International Standard Book Number

ISCSI Internet Small Computer System Interface

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network

ISM Industrial Scientific and Medical

ISO International Standards Organization

ISP Internet Services Provider

ISR Interrupt Service Routine

ISSCC International Solid-State Circuits Conference

ITU International Telecommunications Union

IVDR Information Versatile Disk for Removable usage

J2ME Java 2 Micro Edition

J2ME Java 2 Mobile Edition

JBOD Just a Bunch Of Disks

JEDI Joint Expeditionary Digital Information

JEOS Just Enough Operating System

JFIF Joint Photographic Experts Group File Interchange Format

JMSC Japanese MIDI Standard Committee

JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group

JRE Java Runtime Environment

Kb KiloByte

KBD KeyBoarD

Kbit Kilobit

kc kilocycle

KDE K Desktop Environment

kHz kilohertz

KiB kibioctet

KML Keyhole Markup Language

Ko Kilo-octet

KVM Keyboard, Video and Mouse

L2CAP Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol

L4G Langage de la quatrième Génération

LAMP Linux Apache MySQL PHP

LAN Local Area Network

LAP Link Access Protocol

LAS Linear Arithmetic Synthesis

LASA Laboratoire d'Algorithmes et de Systèmes d'Apprentissage (Université de Lausanne)

LASER Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

LBA Logical Block Addressing

LCD Langage de Contrôle de Données

LCD Liquid Crystal Display

LCD Lowest Common Denominator

LCEN Loi pour la Confiance dans l'Economie Numérique

LCM Lowest Common Multiple

LCOS Liquid Crystal On Silicon

LDD Langage de Description de Données

LDR Low Dynamic Range

LDT Local Descriptors Table

LDTR Local Descriptors Table Register

LECAM LEcteur de CArte à Mémoire

LED Light Emitting Diode

LEN Loi sur l'Economie Numérique

Abbreviations

LF Line Feed

LF Low Frequency

LFE Low Frequency Effect

LFO Low Frequency Oscillator (oscillateur à basse fréquence)

LFS Linux File Systems (systèmes de fichiers Linux)

Li Lithium

LID Langage d'Interrogation de Données

LIFO Last In, First Out

LILO Linox Loader

LIM Lotus-Intel-Microsoft

Li-Ion Lithium Ion

LIP Large Internet Protocol

LIR Load Instruction Register

LL Leased Line

LLS Large Logical Sectors

LMD Langage de Manipulation de Données

LME Loi de Modernisation de l'Économie

LPI Lines Per Inch

LRU Least Recently Used

LSB Least Significant Bit(s)

LSI Large Scale Integration

LSM Linux Security Module

LT Low Tension

LTE Long Term Evolution

LTO Linear Tape Open

LUG Linux Users' Group

LUN Logical Unit Name

LUT Look-Up Table

LV Low Voltage

LVD/SE Low Voltage Differential/Single Ended

LVM Logical Volume Manager

LW Long Waves

LZW Lempel-Ziv-Welch

L4G Langage(s) de la quatrième Génération

MA Modulation d'Amplitude

MAC Mandatory Access Control

MAC Medium Access Control

mAh milliAmpère-heure

MALACH Multilingual Access to Large spoken ArCHives

MAN Metropolitan Area Networks

MAO Maintenance Assistée par Ordinateur

MAO Musique Assistée par Ordinateur

MASER Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiations

MASM Macro-ASseMbler

MB MegaByte

MBit Megabit

Mbps Mégabits par seconde

MBR Master Boot record

MBSA Microsoft Baseline Security Advisor

MCA Micro Channel Architecture

MCB Memory Control Block

MCD Modèle Conceptuel de Données

MCGA MultiColour Graphics Array

Abbreviations

MCP-T Media and Communications Processor Turbo

MCU MicroComputer Unit

MDA Monochrome Display Adapter

MDI Multiple Document Interface

MEDIUBUNTU Multimedia, Entertainment & Distractions in Ubuntu

MEM MEmoire Morte

MEV MEmoire Vive

MF Medium Frequency

MF Modulation de Fréquence

MF Moyenne Fréquence

MFC Microsoft Foundation Classes

MFLOPS Millions of FLoating point Operations Per Second

MFM Modified Frequency Modulation

MFT Master File Table

MGE Microstar Graphics Editor

MHS Message Handling System

MHz MegaHertz

MI Metafile Input

MIAGE Maîtrise d'Informatique Appliquée à la Gestion des Entreprises

MiB mebioctet

MIB Management Information Base

MID Mobile Internet Device

MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MIFF Magick Image File Format

MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension

MiMo Multiple Input - Multiple Output

MIPS Millions d'Instructions Par Seconde

MIPS Millions of Instructions Per Second

MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology

M-Jpeg Motion Join Picture Expert Group

MKS Mortice Kern Systems

ML Multi-Level

MLC Multi-Level Cell

MMA MIDI Manufacturers Association

MMC Microsoft Management Console

MMC MultiMedia Card

MMORPG Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game

MMS Module Management System

MMS Multimedia Messaging Services

MMS Multimedia Messaging System

MMU Memory Management Unit

MNP Microcom Network Protocol

Mo Méga-octet

MO Metafile Output

MODEM MOdulateur DEModulateur

MODS Multiplexed Optical Data Storage

MOLENE Multiplexeur Optique pour Liaisons Economiques, Numériques et en Etoile

MOS Metal Oxide Semiconductor

MP Modem Prêt

MP Multi Processor

MPAA Motion Picture Association of America

MPC Multimedia Personal Computer

MPD Music Player Daemon

Abbreviations

MP-DRAM MultiPort Dynamic Random Access Memory

MPEG Motion Picture Experts Group

MPEG Moving Pictures coding Experts Group

MPEG Moving Pictures Experts Group

MPO Multiple Picture Object

MPU Multimedia Processing Unit

MR Memory Ready

MRAM Magnetic Random Access Memory

MRE Memory Read Enable

ms milliseconde

MS MaSter

MS Memory Stick

MSB Most Significant Bit(s)

MSC Mobile services Switching Center

MSDL Manchester Scene Description Language

MS-DOS MicroSoft Disk Operating System

MSRT Malicious Software Removal Tool

MST MaSTer

MSW Machine Status Word

MTA Mail Transport Agent

MTBF Mean Time Between Failures

MTC MIDI Time Code

MTP Media Transfer Protocol

MTP Mesures Techniques de Protection

MVA Multidomain Vertical Alignment

MVC Modèle-Vue-Contrôleur

MVNO Mobile Virtual Network Operator

MVR Multi-Domain Vertical alignment

mW milli-watt

MW Medium Wave

MXM Mobile PCI eXpress Module

N/A Numérique/Analogique

NAB Nom ABrégé

NAK Negative AcKnowledge

NAPLPS North American Presentation Layer Protocol Syntax

NAS Network Attached Storage

NAS Network Attachement Server

NAT Network Address Translation

NCEG Numerical C Extension Equivalences

NCP Network Control Protocol

NDC Normalized Device Coordinate

NDMP Network Data Management Protocol

NDPS Novell Distributed Print Service

NDS Netware Directory Services

NED Nano Emissive Display

NED Nanotube Electroluminescent Display

NET Normes Européennes de Télécommunications

NetBEUI NetBIOS Extended User Interface

NetCDF Network Common Data Form

NFC Near Field Communication

NFS Networks File System

NGSCB Next Generation Secure Computing Base

NIC Network Information Center

Abbreviations

NiCd Nickel Cadmium

NiMH Nickel-Metal Hydrure

NLM Netware Loadable Modules

NLQ Near Letter Quality

NMI Non-Maskable Interrupt

NMS Netware Management Services

NNTP News Network Transfer Protocol

NOAO National Optical Astronomy Observatories

NOS Network Operating System

NOST NASA/Science Office of Standards and Technology

NRAO National Radio Astronomy Observatory

NS Notification Server

NSV NullSoft Video

NT New Technology

NTFS New Technology File System

NTIC Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication

NTSC National Television System Committee

NTSI National Institute of Standard and Technology

NUL NULl

NVM Non-Volatile Memory

NVMHCI Non Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface

NX No eXecute

O Ohm

OASIS Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards

OBEX OBject EXchange

OC Ondes Courtes

OCA Online Crash Analysis

OCF Output Compare Flag

OCI Output Compare Interrupt

OCLCTIC Office Central de Lutte contre la Criminalité aux Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication

OCR Optical Character Recognition

OCR Output Compare Register

ODBC Open Data Base Connectivity

ODF Open Document Format

ODI Open Desktop Initiative

ODMS Open Digital Media Systems

ODU OutDoor Unit

OE Output Enable

OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer

OES Open Enterprise Server

OF Overflaw Flag

OFDM Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing

OFSET Organization for Free Software in Education and Teaching

OLE Object Linking and Embedding

OLED Organic Light Emitting Diode

OLED Organic Light Emitting Display

OLPC One Laptop Per Child

OLT Optical Line Terminal

OOGL Object Oriented Graphics Library

OOXML Office Open eXtensible Markup Language

OPC Optimum Power Control

OPL Organiser Programming Language

ORB Object Request Broker

Abbreviations

ORFE OverRun/Framing Error

OS Operating System

OSD On Screen Display

OSE Open Source Edition

OSI Open Systems Interconnect

OSR Original equipment manufacturer Service Release

OSS Open Sound System

OTG On The Go

OTN Oracle Technology Network

OTS Open Text Summarizer

OUM Ovonic Unified Memory

OWApp Office Web Application

P2P Peer-to-Peer

PABX Private Automatic Branch eXchange

PAL Phase Alternating Line

PAM Pluggable Authentication Modules

PAN Personal Area Network

PAO Publication Assistée par Ordinateur

PAP Picture And Picture

PARC Palo Alto Research Center

PARIX PARis Internet eXchange

PASM Program, Aperture, Speed, Manual

P-ATA Parallel-Advanced Technology Attachment

PAV Point d'Accès VidéoTex

PAW Physics Analysis Workstation

pbm+ Extended Portable Bitmap Toolkit

PBP Picture By Picture

PC Personal Computer

PC Program Counter

PCA Personal Internet Client Architecture

PCB Printed Circuit Board(s)

PC-DOS Personal Computer Disk Operating System

PCI Payment Card Industry

PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCI SIG Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group

PCL Printer Command Language

PCL Printer Control Language

PCM Pulse Coded Modulation

PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

PDA Personal Digital Assistant

PDF Portable Document Format

PDI Picture Description Instruction

PF Parity Flag

PFL Pre-Fader Listen

PGA Professional Graphics Adapter

PGCD Plus Grand Commun Diviseur

PGP Pretty Good Privacy

PHIGS Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphic System

PI Priority Inheritance

PIC Personal Internet Communicator

PIC Publisher Identity Certificate

PID Process Identifier

PIM Personal Information Manager

Abbreviations

PIM Print Image Matching

PIN Personal Identification Number

PIP Picture In Picture

PIXEL PIcture ELement

PL Programming Language

PLC Powerline Line Carrier

PLF Penguin Liberation Front

PLV Production Level Video

PMMU Paged Memory Management Unit

PMPO Peak Music Power Output

PMR Perpendicular Magnetic Recording

PND Personal Navigation Device

PNG Portable Network Graphic

PnP Plug and Play

PO Petites Ondes

POO Programmation Orientée Objet

POP Picture Out of Picture

POP Point Of Presence

POP Post Office Protocol

PP Push-Pull

PPCD Plus Petit Commun Dénominateur

PPCM Plus Petit Commun Multiple

PPGA Plastic Pin Grid Array

PPM Pages Par Minute

PPM Pages Per Minute

PPOP Pixel Processing OPerations

PPP Points Par Pouce

PPP Point to Point Protocol

PPPoE Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet

PPU Physics Processing Unit

PRAM Phase-Change Random Access Memory

PréAO Présentation Assistée par Ordinateur

PRN PRiNter

PROM Programmable Read-Only Memory

PSA Personal Satellite Assistant

PSF Photo Studio File

PSM Persistent Storage Manager

PSN Physical Sector Number

PSP Personal Software Products

PSP Préfixe de Segment de Programme

PSP Program Segment Prefix

PSS Packet Switch Stream

PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network

PUK Personal Unblocking Code

PVA Patterned Vertical Alignment

PWM Pulse Width Modulation

PWR PoWeR

QBE Query By Example

QCIF Quarter Common source Intermediate Format

QDOS Quick and Dirty Operating System

QIC Quarter-Inch Cartridge

QPL Quarter PixeL

QVGA Quarter Video Graphics Array

Abbreviations

RA Real Audio

RAB Raid Advisory Board

RAID Redundant Array of Independant Disks

RAID Redundant Array of Independant Drives

RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks

RAM Random Access Memory

RAME Random Access Memory Enable

RBAC Role Based Access Control

RC Release Candidate

RC Retour Chariot

RCA Radio Corporation of America

RCP Restore Cursor Position

RCP Rural Connectivity Platform

RD ReaDing

RD Receive Data

RD Réception Données

RDF Resource Description Framework

RDP Remote Desktop Protocol

RDR Receive Data Register

RDRAM Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory

RDRF Receive Data Register Full

RDSR Receive Data Shift Register

RE Receive Enable

RE-ADSL Reach Extended Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

REOF Receive End Of File

REOL Receive End Of Line

RFCOMM Radio Frequency Communication

RFID Radio Frequency IDentification

RGB Red, Green, Blue

RIA Rich Internet Applications

RIAA Recording Industry Association of America

RIE Receive Interrupt Enable

RISC Reduced Instructions Set Computer

RLAN Radio Local Area Network

RLE Run Length Encoding

RLL Run Length Limited

RLM Relocatable Load Module

RM Reset Mode

RMCR Rate/Mode Control Register

RMS Root Mean Square

RNIS Réseau Numérique à Intégration de Services

ROM Read-Only Memory

RPC Regional Play-back Control

RS Record Separator

RSS Really Simple Syndication

RSSI Responsable de la Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information

RTC Real Time Clock

RTC Réseau Téléphonique Commuté

RTCP Réseau Téléphonique Commuté Public

RTE Réseau de Transport Electrique

RTF Rich Text Format

RTM Release To Manufacturing

RTN ReTurN

Abbreviations

RTS Real Time Strategy

RTS Request To Send

RTV Real Time Video

RVB Rouge, Vert, Bleu

RWM Read/Write Memory

s seconde

SAA Systems Application Architecture

SACD Super Audio Compact Disc

SAK Server Appliance Kit

SAN Storage Area Network

SANE Scanner Access Now Easy

SANS System Administration and Network Security

SAO Session At Once

SAPS Spartacom Asynchronous Port Sharing

S-ATA Serial-Advanced Technology Attachment

SB SwitchBoard

SCART Syndicat des Constructeurs d'Appareils Radioélectriques et de Télévision

SCC Space Communications Corporation

SCEE Sony Computer Entertainment Europe

SCI Serial Communications Interface

SCoA Smart Compression Architecture

SCP Save Cursor Position

SCPP Société Civile des Producteurs de Phonographes

SCSI Small Computer System Interface

SD Secure Digital

SD Standard Definition

SDHC Secure Digital High Capacity

SDI Single Document Interface

SDK Software Developer's Kit

SDK Software Development Kit

SDLT Super Digital Linear Tape

SDP Service Discovery Protocol

SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory

SDRAM-DDR Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory - Double Data Rate

SDXC Secure Digital eXtended Capacity

SECAM SEquentiel Couleur Avec Mémoire

SED Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display

SED Système d'Exploitation de Disque(s)

SELL Syndicat des Éditeurs de Logiciels de Loisirs

SEPP Single Ended Push-Pull

SEQUEL Structured English QUEry Language

SET Secure Electronic Transaction

SF Sign Flag

SFR Split Frame Rendering

SFTP Secure File Transfer Protocol

SG Signal Ground

SGBD Système de Gestion de Bases de Données

SGBDR Système de Gestion de Bases de Données Relationnelles

SGF Système de Gestion de Fichiers

SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language

SGR Set Graphic Rendition

SHA Secure Hash Algorithm

SI Shift In

Abbreviations

SI Source Index

SIGB Système Intégré de Gestion de Bibliothèque

SIM Subscriber Identity Module

SIMM Single Inline Memory Module

SIP Session Initiation Protocol

SIS Silicon Integrated System

SL SLave

SLA Service Level Agreement

SLC Single-Level Cell

SLE Suse Linux Enterprise

SLI Scalable Link Interface

SLI Scan Line Interleaving

SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol

SLL Société des Logiciels Libres

SLT Single Lens Translucent

SLV SLaVe

SM Set Mode

SM Smart Media

SMB Server Message Block

SMDI Small Computer System Interface Musical Data Interchange

SMIL Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language

SMM System Management Mode

SMPTE Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

SMS Short Messaging Service

SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SNCD Syndicat National de la Communication Directe

SNIA Storage Networking Industry Association

SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol

SO Shift Out

SoC System On a Chip

Sodimm Small Outline Dual In-line Memory Module

SOH Start Of Heading

SP SPace

SP Stack Pointer

SP2 Service Pack 2

SPA Software Publishers Association

SPDIF Sony Philips Digital InterFace

SPIM SPam over Instant Messaging

SPX Sequence Packet eXchange

SQL Structured Query Language

SRAM Static Random Access Memory

SRM Storage Resource Management

SS Stack Segment

SSCI Société de Services et de Conseil en Informatique

SSD Solid-State Disk

SSD Solid State Drive

SSE Streaming SIMD Extensions

SSH Secure SHell

SSID Service Set IDentifier (identificateur de groupe de services)

SSII Société de Services en Ingénierie Informatique

SSL Secured Sockets Layer

SSS SubSurface Scattering

STA Semiconductor Technology Associates

Abbreviations

STNBY STand BY

STUR Spécifications Techniques d'Utilisation du Réseau

STX Start of TeXt

SUB SUBstitute

SuMiCon Super Mini Computer

SVCD Super Video Compact Disc

SVGA Super Video Graphic Array

S-VHS Super VHS

SW Short Wave

SWI SoftWare Interrupt

SYN SYNchronous idle

SyNAPSE Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptative Plastic Scalable Electronics

SYSOP SYStem OPerator

TAB TABulation

TAO Track At Once

TASM Turbo-ASseMbler

TBC Time Base Corrector

TCP Transmission Control Protocol

TCPA Trusted Computing Platform Alliance

TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol

TCSR Timer Control/Status Register

TD Transmission Données

TD Transmit Data

TDD Time Division Duplex

TDMA Time Division Multiple Access

TDP Thermal Design Power

TDR Transmit Data Register

TDRE Transmit Data Register Empty

TDS Téléchargement Définitif avec Sauvegarde

TDSR Transmit Data Shift Register

TE Transmit Enable

TEOF Transmit End Of File

TEOL Transmit End Of Line

TF Trap Flag

TFT Thin Film Technology

TFT Thin Film Transistor

THD Très Haut Débit

THF Très Haute Fréquence

THX Tom Holdman eXperiment

THX Tomlinson Holman eXperience

TI Texas Instruments

TIC Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication

TICE Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication dans l'Éducation

TIE Transmit Interrupt Enable

TIFF Tagged Image File Format

TIGA Texas Instruments Graphics Architecture

TL TimeLine

TLD Top Level Domain

TLS Transport Layer Security

TMA Tierce Maintenance Applicative

TMC Traffic Message Channel

TN Twisted Nematic

TNR Terminal Numérique de Réseau

Abbreviations

TNT Télévision Numérique Terrestre

To Teraoctet

TOF Timer Overflow Flag

TOF Top Of Form

TOI Timer Overflow Interrupt

TOS Tape Operating System

TP Terminal Prêt

TPI Tracks Per Inch

TPM Trusted Platform Module

TRANSISTOR TRANsfer reSISTOR

TRC Technical Requirement Checklist

TRCSR Transmit/Receive Control/Status Register

TSF Transmission Sans Fil

TSL Teinte, Saturation, Luminance

TSR Terminate and Stay Resident

TTF True Type Font

TTL Transistor to Transistor Logic

TVHD TéléVision Haute Définition

TVSS Tactile Visual Substitution System

TWAIN Toolkit Without An Important Name

UAC User Account Control

UAL Unité Arithmétique et Logique

UAP User Account Protection

UAProf User Agent Profile

UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter

UC Unité Centrale

UCT Unité Centrale de Traitement

UDF Universal Disk Format

UDF User Define Function

UDI Unified Display Interface

UDMA Ultra Direct Memory Access

UDP User Datagram Protocol

UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface

UHF Ultra-Haute Fréquence

UHF Ultra-High Frequency

UIC User Identification Code

UIT Union Internationale des Télécommunications

Ultra ATA Ultra Advanced Technology Attachment

ULV Ultra Low Voltage

UMA Unlicensed Mobile Access

UMB Upper Memory Block

UMD Universal Media Disc

UMPC Ultra Mobile Portable Computer

UMS Universal Mass Storage

UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System

UPnP Universal Plug and Play

URI Uniform Resource Identifier

URL Universal Resource Locator

US Unit Separator

USB Universal Serial Bus

USB-IF Universal Serial Bus Implementers Forum

USM Universal SATA Module

USM UnSharp Masking

Abbreviations

USMT User State Migration Tool

USR Unix System Ressources

UV Ultra-Violet

UWB Ultra Wide Band

UXD User eXperience Design

V Volt

VA Vertical Alignment

VA Vertically Aligned

VBR Variable Bit Rate

VC-1 Video Codec 1

VCD Video Compact Disc

VDSL Very high rate Digital Subscriber Line

VDU Visual Display Unit

VESA Video Electronics Standards Association

VESA FDMI Video Electronics Standards Association Flat Display Mounting Interface standard

VGA Video Graphics Array

VHF Very High Frequency

VHS-C VHS Compact

VIA Versatile Interface Adapter

VLR Visitors Location Register

VLSI Very Large Scale Integration

VMD Versatile Multilayer Disc

VMM Virtual Memory Management

VNC Virtual Network Computing

VODHD Video On Demand High Definition

VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol

VOM Volt-Ohm-Meter

VPN Virtual Private Network (réseau privé virtuel)

VRAM Video Random Access Memory

VRC View Reference Coordinate

VRML Virtual Reality Modeling Language

VROOM Virtual Real-time Object-Oriented Memory manager

VT Vertical Tabulation

VT Virtualization Technology

W Watt

WAN Wide Area Network

WAP Wireless Application Protocol

WC World Coordinate

WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access

WD Western Digital

WDS Wireless Distribution System

WebOS Web Operating System

WECA Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance

WEI Windows Experience Index

WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy

WEP Wireless Equivalent Privacy

WGA Windows Genuine Advantage

WGAS Working Group on Astronomical Software

WHDI Wireless Home Digital Interface

WHQL Windows Hardware Quality Lab

WHS Windows Scripting Host

WiDi Wireless Display

WiFi Wireless Fidelity

Abbreviations

WIMAX Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access

WIMP Window, Icon, Mouse, Pull-down menu

WinFS Windows Future Storage

WinHEC Windows Hardware Engineering Conference

WISS Workstation Independent Segment Storage

WL WaveLength

WLAN Wireless Local Area Network

WLL Wireless Local Loop

WLM Windows Live Messenger

WMA Windows Media Audio

WMAN Wireless Metropolitan Area Network

WMF Windows MetaFile

WML Wireless Markup Language

WMP Windows Media Player

WMV Windows Media Video

WMV-HD Windows Media Video - High Definition

WORM Write Once, Read Many

WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access

WPA Wireless fidelity Protected Access

WPA Wireless fidelity Protected Area

WPAN Wireless Personal Area Network

WPF Windows Presentation Foundation

WPS Wireless fidelity Protected System

WR WRiting

WSH Windows Scripting Host

WSPP Windows Software Protection Platform

WSPR Windows System Performance Rating

WTLS Wireless Transport Security Layer

WU Wake-Up

WUBI Windows Ubuntu Installer

WUSB Wireless Universal Serial Bus

WWAN Wireless Wide Area Network

WWW World Wide Web

WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get

WYTIWYG What You Think Is What You Get

XD eXecution Disable

XDG X Desktop Group

XDR eXtreme Date Rate

X-Fi eXtreme Fidelity

XFWM X Forms Window Manager

XHTML eXtensible HyperText Markup Language

XITE X-based Image processing Tools and Environment

XML eXtented Markup Language

XMP eXtensible Metadata Platform

XMS eXtended Memory Specification

XSVCD eXtended Super Video Compact Disc

XVCD eXtended Video Compact Disc

XT eXtended Technology

YMP Yast Meta Package

ZIF Zero Insertion Force

ZF Zero Flag