Useful Acronyms and Abbreviations and Their Full Meaning

 In everyday life, there are words we come across and yet, we have no idea of the full meaning.  We are usually confused with the words, whenever its meaning is required.  An understanding would add value to our day to day business and help us use the words we come across more effectively in whatever industry we find ourselves.

Here is a list of some of them:

  1.  PAN
    Permanent Account Number.
  2.  PDF
    Portable Document Format.
  3. SIM
    Subscriber Identity Module.
  4.  ATM
    Automated Teller Machine.
  5. Wi-Fi
    Wireless Fidelity.
  6. GOOGLE
    Global Organization Of Oriented Group Language Of Earth.
  7. . YAHOO
    Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.
  8. WINDOW
    Wide Interactive Network Development for Office work Solution.
  9.  COMPUTER
    Common Oriented Machine. Particularly United and used under Technical and Educational Research.
  10. VIRUS
    Vital Information
    Resources Under Siege.
  11.  UMTS
    Universal Mobile Telecommunications System.
  12.  AMOLED
    Active-Matrix Organic Light- Emitting Diode.
  13.  OLED
    Organic Light-Emitting Diode.
  14. IMEI
    International Mobile Equipment Identity.
  15. ESN
    Electronic Serial Number.
  16. UPS
    Uninterruptible Power Supply.
  17. HDMI
    High-Definition Multimedia Interface.
  18.  VPN
    Virtual Private Network.
  19.  APN
    Access Point Name.
  20.  LED
    Light Emitting Diode.
  21.  DLNA
    Digital Living Network Alliance.
  22.  RAM
    Random Access Memory.
  23.  ROM
    Read-only memory.
  24. VGA
    Video Graphics Array.
  25.  QVGA
    Quarter Video
    Graphics Array.
  26.  WVGA
    Wide Video Graphics Array.
  27. WXGA
    Widescreen Extended
    Graphics Array.
  28. USB
    Universal Serial Bus.
  29.  WLAN
    Wireless Local Area Network.
  30.  PPI
    Pixels Per Inch.
  31.  LCD
    Liquid Crystal Display.
  32.  HSDPA
    High-Speed Downlink Packet Access.
  33.  HSUPA
    High-Speed Uplink Packet Access.
  34. HSPA
    High-Speed Packet Access.
  35.  GPRS
    General Packet Radio Service.
  36.  EDGE
    Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution.
  37.  NFC
    Near Field Communication.
  38.  OTG
    On-The-Go.
  39.  S-LCD
    Super Liquid Crystal Display.
  40.  O.S
    Operating System.
  41.  SNS
    Social Network Service.
  42.  H.S
    HOTSPOT.
  43. P.O.I
    Point Of Interest.
  44.  GPS
    Global
    Positioning System.
  45. DVD
    Digital Video Disk.
  46. DTP
    Desk Top Publishing.
  47.  DNSE
    Digital Natural Sound Engine.
  48.  OVI
    Ohio Video Intranet.
  49.  CDMA
    Code Division Multiple Access.
  50. WCDMA
    Wide-band Code Division Multiple Access.
  51.  GSM
    Global System for Mobile Communications.
  52. DIVX
    Digital Internet Video Access.
  53.  APK
    Authenticated Public Key.
  54.  J2ME
    Java 2 Micro Edition.
  55.  SIS
    Installation Source.
  56.  DELL
    Digital Electronic Link Library.
  57.  ACER
    Acquisition Collaboration Experimentation Reflection.
  58. RSS
    Really Simple Syndication.
  59. TFT
    Thin Film Transistor.
  60.  AMR
    Adaptive Multi-Rate.
  61.  MPEG
    Moving Pictures Experts Group.
  62. IVRS
    Interactive Voice Response System.
  63. HP
    Hewlett Packard

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