A Acronyms

Acronyms that start with Letter A

Acronyms

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Acronym	Meaning / Link
1FB	A standard type of telephone line
AA	Author's alteration
AAD	Analog Alignment Diskette
AANS	Automatic ANSwer
AAS	Authentication and Authorization System (eGovernment)
ABC	Atanasoff-Berry Computer
ABIOS	Advanced Basic Input / Output System
ABR	Available Bit Rate
AC	Alternating Current
ACD	Automatic Call Distributor or Distribution
ACF	Advanced Communications Function
ACIS	Automatic Customer/Caller Identification Service
ACK	Acknowledgement
ACL	Access Control List
ACPI	Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
ACR	Abandon Call and Retry or Advanced Communications Riser
ACS	Automatic Class Selection
ACTA	Administrative Council for Terminal Attachments
A-D	Analog to digital
ADB	Apple Desktop Bus (Macintosh bus for input, keyboards,mice, etc.)
ADC	Analog Digital Converter
ADCCP	Advanced Data Communications Control Procedures
ADN	Additional Directory Number
ADPCM	Adoptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation
ADSC	Adobe Document Structuring Conventions
ADSI	Active Directory Services Interface
ADSL	Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
ADT	Abstract Data Type or Application Development Trends (magazine)
AE	Applications Engineer
AEC	Alternate Exchange Carrier (see CLEC)
AERO	As in .aero - Travel web site (See our list of TLDs here)
AFC	Automatic Frequency Control
AFM	Adobe Font Metrics
AFP	AppleTalk Filing Protocol (network file system from Apple)
AGC	Automatic Gain Control
AGIS	Apex Global Information Services
AGP	Accelerated Graphics Port
AI	Artificial Intelligence
AIC	Analog Interface Circuit
AIN	Advanced Intelligent Network
AIX	Advanced Interactive Executive
AICP	American Institute of Certified Planners, (Others)
AJAX	Asynchronous Javascript And Xml
AKM	Apogee Kick Motor
ALIVE	Artificial Life Interactive Video Environment
ALU	Arithmetic and Logical Unit
AM	Amplitude Modulation or Access Mediation
AMD	Advanced Micro Devices or "Air Movement Device" = IBM for a fan
AMI	Alternative Mark Inversion
AMPS	Advanced Mobile Phone System
AMR	Audio Modem Riser
ANA	Automatic Number Announcement
ANI	Automatic Number Identification
ANSI	American National Standards Institute
ANTD	Advanced Network Technologies Division
APA	All Points Addressable
APD	Aldus Printer Description file
API	Application Program Interface
APIC	Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
APM	Advanced Power Management
APPC	Advanced Program-to-Program Communications
ARC	Attached Resources Computing
ARLL	Advanced Run Length Limited
ARP	Address Resolution Protocol
ARQ	Automatic Repeat Request
ARS	Automatic Route Selection
ARTIC	Analog Receive/Transmit Interface Circuit
AS	Autonamous System
ASAP	Any Service / Any Port
ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASI	Asynchronous Serial Interface in Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)
ASIC	Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASN.1	Abstract Syntax Notation One
ASP	Active Server Pages, Application Service Provider
ASPI	Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
ASP.NET	Active Server Pages.NET MS program for application development
ASR	Automatic Send / Receive
ASSP	Anti-Spam Smtp Proxy server or Application-Specific Standard Product
AST	Asynchronous System Trap
AT	Advanced Technology, as in PC/AT; also ATtention (modem)
ATA	AT bus Attachment
ATAPI	AT Attachment Packet Interface
ATM	Adobe Type Manager; also Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATSC	Advanced Television Systems Committee
ATX	AT eXtended (motherboard architecture)
AUI	Attachment Unit Interface
AVI	Audio / Video Interleaved
AVT	Audio / Video Transport

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