General Knowledge - Scientific Abbreviations

The following table describes the major scientific terms −

Abbreviation	Explanation
ADH	Antidiuretic Hormone
AIDS	Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AMU	Atomic Mass Unit
AWACS	Airborne Warning and Control System
BASIC	Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BCG	Bacillus Calmette-Guerin
BTU	British Thermal Unit
CCTV	Closed-Circuit Television
CFC	Chloro Fluoro Carbon
CNG	Compressed Natural Gas
CNS	Central Nervous System
CRO	Cathode-Ray Oscilloscope
CRT	Cathode Ray Tube
DDT	Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane
DNA	Deoxyribonucleic Acid
EMF	Electromotive Force
FBTR	Fast Breeder Test Reactor
ICU	Intensive Care Unit
LASER	Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
LCD	Liquid Crystal Display
LED	Liquid Emitting Diode
LNG	Liquefied Natural Gas
LORAN	Long Range Navigation
LPG	Liquefied Petroleum Gas
MASER	Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
PVC	Polyvinyl Chloride
RADAR	Radio Detection and Ranging
RNA	Ribose Nucleic Acid
SARS	Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
SONAR	Sound Navigation and Ranging
STAR	Satellite for Telecommunication Applications and Research
STP	Standard Temperature and Pressure
TB	Tuberculosis
TFT	Thin Film Transistor
TNT	Tri Nitro Toulene

Computer Science Abbreviation

Abbreviation	Explanation
AGP	Accelerated Graphic Port
ALU	Arithmetic and Logic Unit
ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
BASIC	Beginner All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BIOS	Basic Input and Output System
CAN	Campus Area Network
CCNA	Cisco Certified Network Associate
CD	Compact Disk
CEH	Certified Ethical Hacking
CMD	Command
CMOS	Complimentary Metaoxide Semi-Conductor
COBOL	Common Basic Oriented Language
CPU	Central Processing Unit
CSS	Cascading Style Sheets
DBMS	Database Management System
DDOS	Distribution Denial of Service
DIR	Directory
DOC	Document
DVD	Digital Versatile Disc
EDSAC	Electronic Dialog Storage Automatic Computer
FTP	File Transfer Protocol
GHZ	Gigahertz
GUI	Graphic User Interface
HDD	Harddisk Drive
HTML	Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS	Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
IC	Integrated Circuit
ICT	Infomation Communication Technology
IDE	Integrated Drive Electronics
IP	Internet Protocol
ISP	Internet Service Provider
LAN	Local Area Network
LSIC	Large Scale Integrated Circuit
MAC	Media Access Control
MAN	Metropolitan Area Network
MHZ	Megahertz
MICR	Magnetic-Ink Character Recongnition
MOS	Metaoxide Semi-Conductor
OS	Operating System
PAN	Personal Area Network
PC	Personal Computer
PDF	Portable Document Format
PDT	Parallel Data Transmission
PHP	PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
PROM	Programmable Read Only Memory
RAM	Random Access Memory
RFI	Remote File Inclusion
ROM	Read only Memory
RW	Re-writeable
SDT	Serial Data Transmission
SEO	Search Engine Optimization
SIM	Subscriber Identification Module
SIMMs	Single in-line Memory Module
SQL	Structured Query Language
TCP	Transmission Control Protocol
UNIVAC	Universal Automatic Computer
URL	Universal Resource Locator
USB	Universal Serial Board
USSD	Unstructured Supplementary Service Data
VDU	Visual Display Unit
VGA	Visual Graphic Adaptor
VPN	Virtual Private Network
WAN	Wide Area Network
WLAN	Wide Area Network
WLAN	Wireless Local Area Network
WWW	World Wide Web
XML	Extensible Mark-up Language
XXS	Cross Site Scripting

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