USEFUL ABBREVIATIONS!!

Some abbreviations that we hear, read, and use and we don't know their meanings or are too shy to ask….






GPRS
(General Packet Radio Service)


TCP/IP
(Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol)

ISP
(Internet Service Provider)

VHF
(Very High Frequency)

UHF
(Ultra High Frequency)


MPEG
(Moving Pictures Experts Group)

MP3
(MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3)

DSL
(Digital Subscriber Line)

IPO
(Initial Public Offerings)

FBI
(Federal Bureau of Investigation)

CIA
(Central Intelligence Agency)

S.W.A.T
(Special Weapons and Tactics)

GMC
(General Motors Corporation)

BMW
(Bavarian Motor Works)

HP
(Hewlett-Packard)

WWW
(World Wide Web)

HTTP
(HyperText Transfer Protocol)

URL
(Uniform resource Locator)

HTML
(HyperText Markup Language)

WAP
(Wireless Application Protocol)

PDF
(Portable Document Format)

MIDI
(Musical Instruament Digital Interface)

3GP or 3GPP
(3rd Generation Partnership Project)

AMR
(Adaptive Multi-Rate)

USB
(Universal Serial Bus)

MSN
(MicroSoft Network)

CNN
(Cable News Network)

BBC
(British Broadcasting Corporation)

NBA
(National Basketball Association)

FIFA
(in french, Federation Internationale de Football Association)
(in english, International Federation of Association Football)

UEFA
(Union of European Football Association)

NASA
(National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

OPEC
(Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries)

LNB
(Low Noise Block converter)