What Is Full Form Of - ?

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  Abhishek Rawal

  IEEE-SA » Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers Standards Association.
  
  GNU » GNU's Not Unix
  
  GNU GPL » GNU General Public License
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  pikachu1994

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

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

  DTH Direct To Home
  MMS Multimedia messaging Service
  BIT BInary digiT
  MIPS Million Instruction Per Minute
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  vinod1993

  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. 😀
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  Pensu

  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
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  Kaustubh Katdare

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

  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
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  Saandeep Sreerambatla

  SOA : Service Oriented Achitecture.
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  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 😁
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  Abhishek Rawal

  TRAI -> Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
  
  GPRS -> General Packet Radio Service
  
  EDGE -> Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution
  
  GSM -> Global System for Mobile
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  Jeffrey Arulraj

  and so comment was removed
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  vinod1993

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

  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.
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  sweet_honey

  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