Acronyms
Used in this website
General
AFAIK - As Far As I Know
CBD - Central Business District
CSR - Customer Service Representative
DUA!NWK!WYM! - Don't Use Acronyms! Nobody Will Know What You Mean!
F&SF - Fantasy and Science Fiction
FORD - see FORD.htm
IE - Internet Explorer
tLotR - The Lord of the Rings
NA - North America, also Not Applicable
PC - Personal Computer, also Politically Correct
SF - see F&SF
WRT (or wrt) - With Respect To, i.e., in regards to
YAHR - Yet Another Humorless Rant
Scientific - Technical
CRC - Cyclic Redundancy Check (code)
CRT - Chinese Remainder Theorem
DSP - Digital Signal Processing
FTL - Faster Than Light
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (http://www.ieee.org)
IFF - "If and only if" - means that the converse is also true.
ISP - Internet Service Provider
MAC - Message Authentication Code, also Media Access Control (layer)
NAV - Norton Antivirus
PGP - Pretty Good Privacy
RNS - Redundant Number System(s) (such as signed digits)
-Residue Number System(s)
According to Wikipedia, an acronym is a word made up from initials,
whereas an "initialism" is just a concatenation of initials that are
spelled out separately whenever spoken. Thus, most of the above (as of
Sept 3, 2005) are really initialisms (for those who care).
See also: http://www.acronymfinder.com/
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Revision History:
Updated May 7, Apr 23, 9, 2006; Dec 23, Sept 4, 3, July
11,
May 23, 2005; first
posted
April 27,
2003.