D Acronyms

Acronyms that start with Letter D

Acronyms

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Acronym	Meaning / Link
D2T2	Dye Diffusion Thermal Transfer
DA	Desk accessory
DAA	Data Access Arrangement or Distributed Application Architecture
DAAS	Defense Automatic Address System in telecommunications
DAC	Digital Analog Converter
DAM	Database Activity Monitoring
DAMA	Demand Assigned Multiple Access
DAMES	DAASC Automated Message Exchange System
D-AMPS	Digital - AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone System)
DARPA	Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DASD	Direct Access Storage Device
DAT	Digital Audio Tape or Dynamic Address Translation
DATU	Direct Access Testing Unit
DAVID	Digital Audio/Video Interactive Decoder
dB	Decibels or Database
DBCP	DataBase Connection Pool - software
DBI	Dynamic Bus Inversion
dBm	Decibels per Milliwatt
DBMS	DataBase Management System
DBOV	dBov is the level relative to the overload of a digital system
DBR	DOS Boot Record
DBS	Demand Broadcast System or Direct Broadcast Satellite
DC	Direct Current
DCB	Data Control Block
DCC	Direct Cable Connection or Direct Client to Client Protocol
DCD	Data Carrier Detect
DCE	Data Communications Equipment or Distributed Computing Environment or Data Circuit-terminating Equipment
DCS	Desktop Color Separation or Digital Cellular System
DCT	Discrete Cosine Transform (encoding and decoding technique)
DCX	(scanned image format)
DD	Data Definition or Definition Description (HTML) or Double Density
DDC	Display Data Channel
DDCMP	Digital Data Communications Message Protocol
DDCP	Direct-Digital Color Proof
DDD	Digital Diagnostic Diskette or Direct Distance Dial
DDE	Dynamic Data Exchange
DDES	Digital Data Exchange Specifications
DDF	Dynamic Diagram Framework or Data Dictionary File
DDial	Diversi-Dial
DDN	Defense Department or Data Network
DDR	Double Data Rate
DDR1	DDR-(1) RAM original DDR RAM
DDR2	DDR-(2) RAM
DDR-II	DDR-(2) RAM
DDR3	Next Generation DDR-3 RAM
DDRAM	Double Data Random Access Memory
DDR SDRAM	Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
DDT	Dynamic Debugging Tool
DECnet	Digital Equipment Corporation's NETwork routing
DENSY	Direct ENtry SYstem (Linotype-Hell proprietary typesetting language)
DES	Data or Defense Encryption Standard or Digital Encryption Standard
DFDSS	Data Facility Dataset Services
DFHSM	Data Facility Hierarchical Storage Manager
DFSMS	Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem
DHCP	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DI	Destination Index
DIB	Device Independent Bitmap
DID	Direct Inward Dialing
DIIG	Digital Information Infrastructure Guide
DIMM	Dual In-Line Memory Module
DIN	Deutsche Industrie Norm
DIP	Dual In-Line Package or Document Image Processing
DIS	Dynamic Impedence Stabilization or Draft International Standard
DISOSS	Distributed Office Support System
DL	Definition List
DLC	Digital Loop Carrier or Data Link Control
DLCI	Data Link Connection or Control Identifier
DLL	Dynamic Link Library or Data Link Layer
DLSw	Data Link Switching
DLT	Digital Linear Tape
DLVA	Detector Logarithmic Video Amplifier
DMA	Direct Memory Access (standard memory access procedure)
DMF	Distribution Media Floppy
DMI	Desktop Management Interface
DMM	Digital Multi-Meter
DMS	Digital Multiplex Switch or System
DMT	Discrete Multi-Tone
DMTF	Desktop Management Task Force
DN	Domain Name
DNA	DEC Network Architecture
DNCS	DAASC Network Control System in telecommunications
DNIS	Dialed Number Identification Service or Distributed Network Information Services
DNP	Distributed Network Protocol
DNR	Digital Number Recorder
DNS	Domain Name System
DNSRD	Domain Name System Resources Directory
DOC	DOCumentation - common use shorthand
DOCSIS	Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification
DOD	Dial-On-Demand or Department Of Defense or Direct Outward Dialing
DODAAD	Department of Defense Activity Address Directory telecommunications
DOS	Disk Operating System, Denial of Service (DoS)
DOW	Direct Over-Write
DP	Dual Processor
DPE	Data Parity Error
DPI	Dot Pitch Integer or Dots per inch
DPMI	Dos Protected Mode Interface Specification
DPMS	Display Power Management Signaling or DOS Protected Mode Services
DPSK	Differential Phase Shift Keying
DPT	Distributed Processing Technology
DQDB	Distributed Queue Dial Bus
DRAM	Dynamic random-access memory
DRDOS	Digital Research Disk Operating System
DRM	Dual Retention Mechanism
DS	Double Sided
DS1	Digital Signal (one, two, three and zero) North American telephony standards for synchronous digital streams
DSA	Distributed Systems Architecture or Directory System Agent
DSCP	Differential services code point or DiffServ Code Point
DSI	Digital Speech Interpolation or Delivered Source Instruction
DSL	Digital Subscriber Line
DSLAM	Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
DSP	Digital Signal Processor (specialized computer chip)
DSR	Date Set Ready or Dynamic Service Register
DSU	Digital Service Unit as in CSU / DSU in modems and routers
DT	Definition Term and Digital Television
DTA	Disk Transfer Area
DTC	Data Terminal Controller
DTD	Document Type Definition
DTE	Data Terminal Equipment
DTMF	Dual Tone Modulated or Multi Frequency
DTP	DeskTop publishing
DTR	Data Terminal Ready
DTV	DeskTop Video
DUN	Dial-Up Networking
DV	Digital Video
DVB	Digital Video Broadcasting at www.dvb.org
DVC	Digital Video Conference
DVD	Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc
DVD-R	DVD-Recorder
DVI	Digital Video Interactive
DVMRP	Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol
DVR	Digital Video Recorder
DVT	Delta Voice Terminal
DWDM	Dense wavelength division multiplexed
DXF	Drawing eXchange Format (2-D graphics CAD format)
DYLAN	DYnamic LANguage

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