What Is Full Form Of - ?

@thebigk • Oct 26, 2024

Oct 26, 2024

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Here's a thread dedicated to the 'full form' of the most common abbreviations used in daily life and in professional world. I'm quite sure, over a period of time, it will become a very resourceful thread. I'll begin -

HSBC : Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation

Keeping the spirit of the thread, please share at the most 2-3 full forms in your post. It's easy to copy the full forms from other websites and paste them here; but that's not a good thing to do. Let's build our own full form thread.

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Abhishek Rawal

@abhishek-fg9tRh • Oct 19, 2012

IEEE-SA » Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers Standards Association.

GNU » GNU's Not Unix

GNU GPL » GNU General Public License
pikachu1994

@pikachu1994-UcQIIJ • Oct 19, 2012

BIS - Bureau of Indian Standards
MASER-Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
WILL-Wireless In Local Area Loop
ZBB-Zero Based Budgeting
Ankita Katdare

@abrakadabra • Oct 19, 2012

SIGGRAPH—Special Interest Group on Graphics
GNOME—GNU Network Object Model Environment
DLNA—Digital Living Network Alliance
FTTH—Fiber To The Home
Jeffrey Arulraj

@jeffrey-xA7lUP • Oct 21, 2012

DTH Direct To Home
MMS Multimedia messaging Service
BIT BInary digiT
MIPS Million Instruction Per Minute
Pensu

@pensu-8tNeGU • Oct 21, 2012

GNU - GNU's Not Unix
RPM - RPM Package Manager (Don't you just love the recursive abbreviations!)
CSV - Comma Separated values
IDE - Integrated Development Environment
Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Oct 21, 2012

PHP: Earlier it was called "Personal Home Page", but now the most accepted full form of PHP is "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor"
Abhishek Rawal

@abhishek-fg9tRh • Oct 22, 2012

sudo -> SuperUser Do

UNICS -> UNiplexed Information Computing System (also known as UNIX)

FOSS -> Free and Open Source Software

PLC -> Programmable Logic Controller

BIOS -> Basic Input Output System

FPGA -> Field Programmable Gate Array
Saandeep Sreerambatla

@saandeep-sreerambatla-hWHU1M • Oct 22, 2012

SOA : Service Oriented Achitecture.
Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Oct 24, 2012

AT&T: American Telephone & Telegrapgh Systems. I wonder whether they continue to use the 'telegraphs' though. I didn't know the full form until now 😁
Abhishek Rawal

@abhishek-fg9tRh • Oct 24, 2012

TRAI -> Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

GPRS -> General Packet Radio Service

EDGE -> Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution

GSM -> Global System for Mobile
Jeffrey Arulraj

@jeffrey-xA7lUP • Oct 24, 2012

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vinod1993

@vinod1993-r3yTlk • Oct 25, 2012

ESPN - Entertaining Sports and Programming Network.!
VAT- Value Added Tax.!
CAT- Common Admission Test
JEE- Joint Entrance Examination
BBC- British Broadcasting Corporation
Umesh Kumar Rai

@umesh-kumar-rai-BBwnLk • Nov 27, 2012

HDFC: Housing Development Finance Corporation.
ICICI: Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India
IDBI: Industrial Development Bank of India
PLA: Progammable Logic Array.
PLC: ProgammableLogic Controller.
HCI: Human Computer Interface.
FDDI: Fibre Distributed Data Interface.
sweet_honey

@sweet-honey-areuMs • Nov 27, 2012

UNDP: United Nations Development Program
UNEP: United Nations Environment Program
UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
UNHRC: United Nations Human Rights Commision
UNICEF: United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
UNIDO: United Nations Industrial Development Organisation
UNRRA: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
vinod1993

@vinod1993-r3yTlk • Jul 6, 2023

e.g: Exempli Gratia
etc.: etcetera
i.e: Id Est
SAT: No full form at all( neither scholastic aptitude test nor Scholastic assessment test). It's called a no acronym word.
Chess(game)-Chariot,Horse,Elephant,SoldierS.
A.D-Anno Domini
a.m.-ante meridiem(p-Post in p.m.)
cap.-capitulus(chapter)
M.A.-Megister Artium(Master of Arts)
N.B.-Nota Bene(Note well)
Per-Cent-Per centum(for every hundred)
viz-Videlicet
That's all I can remember. 😀