Acronym |
Meaning / Link |
CABS |
Carrier Access Billing System |
CACP |
Central Arbitration Control Point |
CAD |
Computer-aided design |
CAM |
Common Access Method or Computer Aided Manufacturing or Content Addressable Memory |
CAN |
Campus Area Network |
CAP |
Communications Alternative Provider/Carrierless Amplitude Phase Modulation |
CAPTCHA |
Completely Automated Public turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart |
CAS |
Column-Address Strobe |
CASE |
Computer Aided Software Engineering |
CATANET |
Concatanated Network |
CATV |
Cable Television |
CAV |
Constant Angular Velocity |
CB |
Citizens Band OR Component Broker |
CBR |
Constant Bit Rate |
CBT |
Computer Based Training |
CBX |
Common Branch eXtender |
CC |
Carbon Copy |
CCB |
Command Control Block |
CCD |
Charge-coupled device |
CCITT |
Comite Consulatif Internationale de Telegraphie et Telephonie (communications standards
organization based in Switzerland) |
CCCP0 |
3CP0 - Robot from movie "Star Wars" |
CCS |
Common Channel Signaling or Common Command Set |
CCTV |
Closed Circuit Television |
CD |
Compact Disc or Carrier Detect |
CD-DA |
Compact Disc - Digital Audio |
CDDI |
Copper Distributed Data Interface |
CDFS |
CD-ROM File System |
CDI |
Compact Disc Interactive |
CDIA |
Certified Document Imaging Architect |
CDMA |
Code Division Multiple Access |
CDPD |
Cellular Digital Packet Data wireless format |
CD-R |
CD-Recorder or Compact Disc - Recordable |
CDR |
Copy Density Range or Call Detail Record |
CD-ROM |
Compact disc read-only memory |
CD-RW |
Compact Disc Re-Writable or Read-Write |
CDSA |
Common Data Security Architecture |
CEPS |
Color Electronic Prepress System |
CERT |
Computer Emergency Response Team |
CF |
Carry Flag |
CFs |
Critical Fixpacks (software) |
CFP |
Computers, Freedom and Privacy or Call For Papers |
CGA |
Color graphics adapter (video display standard) |
CGI |
Computer Graphics Interface or Common Gateway Interface |
CGM |
Computer Graphics Metafile (file format) |
CHAP |
Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol |
CHS |
Cylinders / Heads / Sectors |
CIC |
Cable In the Classroom or Computing, Information and Communications |
CICS |
Customer Information Control System,
Compact Integrated Communications System |
CID |
Caller IDentification |
CIDR |
Classless Inter-Domain Routing |
CIE |
Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage |
CIF |
Common Intermediate Format |
CIM |
Common Information Model or Computer Integrated Manufacturing |
CIO |
Chief Information Officer |
CISC |
Complex Instruction Set Computing |
CKI |
Chair Keyboard Interface (tech jargon for user is the problem) |
CLA |
Carry Look-ahead Adder |
CLE |
Customer Located Equipment |
CLEC |
Competing Local Exchange Carrier |
CLI |
Command Line Interface |
CLID |
Caller Line IDentification for CID (Caller ID) |
CLS |
Circuit Location Addresses or Close a Loop circuit (fiber) |
CLV |
Constant Linear Velocity |
CMI |
Cable Microcell Integrator |
CMI/HIC |
Cable Microcell Integrator / Headend Interface Converter |
CMIP |
Common Management Information Protocol |
CMOS |
Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
CMP |
Communications Plenum Cable |
CMR |
Communications Riser Cable |
CMS |
Code Management System or Color Management System |
CMTS |
Cable Modem Termination System |
CMYK |
Cyan, magenta, yellow, and key black (ink colors for printing) |
CN |
Common Name or Canonical Name |
CNA |
Certified Network Administrator |
CNAM |
Caller
NAMe |
CNC |
Computer Numeric Control or Collaborative Networked Communication |
CNE |
Certified Network Engineer |
CNPS |
Computer Noise Prevention System |
CNR |
Communications and Network Riser |
CO |
Central Office |
COA |
Certificate Of Authenticity |
COAST |
Cache On A Stick |
COBOL |
Common Business Oriented Language |
CODEC |
Coder / Decoder Compression / Decompression |
COLD |
Computer Output to Laser Disc |
COM |
Component Object Model, .COM - COMmercial web site
(See our list of TLDs here) |
COMDEX |
Communications Development Exposition |
COOP |
As in .coop - COOPerative web site
(See our list of TLDs here) |
COPS |
Concept Oriented Programming System |
CORA |
Computer Oriented Reproducer Assembly (Linotype-Hell proprietary typesetting language, also, the name of the principle programmer's wife) |
CORBA |
Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
CoS |
Class Of Service |
COSMOS |
Computer System for Mainframe Operations |
CoSysOp |
Co-Systems Operator |
COW |
Character-Oriented Windows Interface |
CPC |
Cost-Per-Click (banner ad jargon) |
CPE |
Customer Premises Equipment |
CP/M |
Control Program / Microcomputer |
CPI |
Clocks Per Instruction |
CPM |
Cost-Per-iMpression (banner ad jargon) |
CPS |
Characters Per Second or Conversational Programming System |
CPSS |
CP SoftSwitch |
CPU |
Central Processing Unit |
CQFP |
Ceramic Quad Flat Pack |
CR |
Carriage Return |
CRC |
Cyclical Redundancy Checking |
CRIMM |
Continuity
Rambus Inline Memory Module |
CRIS |
Cosmic Ray Isotope Spectrometer, Construction Risk and
Insurance Specialist, Current Research Information System, Community Refugee and
Immigration Services |
CRM |
Customer Relationship Management |
CRQ |
Command Response Queue |
CRT |
Cathode Ray Tube |
CS |
Chip Select |
C-SCANS |
Client-Systems Computer Access NetworkS |
CSD |
Corrective Service Diskettes |
CSID |
Calling Station IDentification or character set identifier |
CSLIP |
Compressed Serial Line Internet Protocol |
CSMA |
Carrier Sense Multiple Access |
CSMA/CD |
Carrier Sense Multiple Access - Collision Detection |
CSNET |
Computer Science NETwork |
CSP |
CompuCom Speed Protocolor or Communicating Sequential Processes |
CSR |
Command Status Register |
CSS |
Cascading Style Sheets |
CSTA |
Computer Supported Telephony Application (CSTA) is a standard for Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) put forth by the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) |
CSU |
Channel Service Unit as in
CSU
/ DSU
in modems and routers |
CT |
Continuous tone |
CT2T |
Continuous tone to tape |
CTI |
Computer-Telephony Integration |
CTS |
Clear To Send Signal |
CTTC |
Copper To The Curb |
CTTH |
Copper To The Home |
CTTY |
Console TeleTYpe |
CUI |
Centre Universitaire d'Informatique |
CUT |
Control Unit Terminal |
CVF |
Compressed Volume File |
CW |
Continuous Wave or Call Waiting |
CWCID |
Call Waiting Caller IDentification |
CWT |
Call WaiTing |
CYBORG |
CYBernetic ORGanism |
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