What Is Full Form Of - ?

Kaustubh Katdare

Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk Oct 26, 2024
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 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

    @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

    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 Arulraj

    @jeffrey-xA7lUP Oct 21, 2012

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

    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

    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 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

    @saandeep-sreerambatla-hWHU1M Oct 22, 2012

    SOA : Service Oriented Achitecture.
  • Kaustubh Katdare

    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 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 Arulraj

    @jeffrey-xA7lUP Oct 24, 2012

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  • vinod1993

    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

    @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

    @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

    @vinod1993-r3yTlk Jul 6, 2023

    e.g: Exempli Gratia
    etc.: etcetera
    i.e: Id Est
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    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. 😀