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SOH Start Of Header, ASCII control character (dec=01,control-A) SOHIO Standard Oil of oHIO [Corporate name] SOHO SOlar Heliospheric Observatory [Space] SOL Short on Landing (or, colloquially, Shit Out of Luck) SONAR SOund Detection And Ranging SONET Synchronous Optical Network [Telephony] SOP Standard Operating Procedure SOS Save Our Souls (International standard distress call, Morse ...---...) SOS Silicon On Sapphire SOS Son of Stopgap (editor) [DEC] SP Shore Patrol SP Short Play (VHS VCR) s.p. sine prole (Latin: without issue) [Genealogy] SP Southern Pacific [Corporate name, Railroading] SP Stack Pointer SP Star Patrol SPA Software Publishers Association SPAG Standards Promotion and Applications Group SPAN Space Physics and Analysis Network [NASA] (DECnet) SPAN Space Physics and Analysis Network [Space] SPAR Stock Points Adp Replacement SPARC Scalable Processor ARChitecture SPARC Standards, Planning, And Requirements Committee SPAWAR naval SPAce and WARfare command SPC Software Productivity Consortium SPCA Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals SPCC Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children SPDM Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator [Space] SPEC Systems Performance Evaluation Cooperative SPITBOL SPeedy ImplemenTation of snoBOL SPNI Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel SPOT Systeme Probatoire pour l'Observation de la Terre [Space] SPS Solar Power Satellite [Space] SPUR Systech Pluraxial Unplug Repeater SQE Signal Quality Error (IEEE 802.3, eqv to D/I/X "Collision Presence Test") [Ethernet] SQIID Simultaneous Quad Infrared Imaging Device (at NOAO) SQL Structured Query Language SQUID Superconducting QUantum Interference Device SRAM Short Range Attack Missile SRAM Static RAM SRB Solid (fuel) Rocket Booster [Space] SRG Short and Ring Ground (test) [Telephony] SRI Stanford Research Institute SRM Solid Rocket Motor [Space] SRO Standing Room Only SS7 Signalling System #7 [Telephony] SSA Social Security Administration [US Government] SSB Single Side Band SSC Superconducting Super Collider SSE South-SouthEast SSF Space Station Fred (er, Freedom) [Space] SSF Space Station Freedom [NASA, Space] SSFF Showcase Software Factory of the Future SSG Staff SerGeant SSI Small Scale Integration SSI Solid-State Imager (on Galileo) [Space] SSI Space Services Incorporated [Corporate name, Space] SSI Space Studies Institute [Space] SSI Supplemental Security Income SSME Space Shuttle Main Engine [Space] SSPF Space Station Processing Facility [Space] SSPS Satellite Solar Power Station [Space] SSR Secondary Surveillance Radar SSR Soviet Socialist Republic SSRMS Space Station Remote Manipulator System [Space] SST Spectroscopic Survey Telescope [Space] SST SuperSonic Transport [Space] SSTO Single Stage To Orbit [Space] SSTV Slow Scan TeleVision SSW South-SouthWest ST Short Ton STARS Software Technology for Adaptable, Reliable Systems STD Sacrae Theologiae Doctor (doctor of sacred theology) STD Sexually Transmitted Disease (replaces VD) STD State Transition Diagram STD Subscriber Trunk Dialing (British, and elsewhere; equiv. DDD in USA) STI Standard Tape Interconnect [DEC] STILO Scientific and Technical Intelligence Liaison Office STIS Space Telescope Imaging Spectrometer (to replace FOC and GHRS) [Space] STL St. Louis (airport designation) STN SuperTwisted Nematic STOL Short TakeOff and Landing STP Shielded Twisted Pair [Telecom, Networking] STP Software Through Pictures STP Standard Temperature and Pressure (see NTP) STRPG Star Trek: The Role-Playing Game STS Space Transportation System (space shuttle) [NASA] STScI Space Telescope Science Institute [Space] STV Single Transferable Vote STV Space Transfer Vehicle [Space] SUM Symantec Utilities for Macintosh SUN Stanford University Network SUN SUN MicroSystems Computer (not an Acronym) [Corporate name] SUNOCO SUN Oil COmpany [Corporate name] SUNY State University of New York SURAnet Southeastern Universities Research Association Network SVID System V Interface Definition SW South West SW SuperWorld SWAS Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite [Space] SWBT South Western Bell Telephone [Telephony] SWF ShortWave Fading [Space] SWIFT Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Communications SWS Scientific Workstation Support SXS Step by Step switching [Telephony] T Traveler T1 1.544Mbps [Telephony], one of the basic signalling systems 24x64Kb T3 45Mbps (eq 28 T1 channels) [Telephony] TA Teaching Assistant TAC Tactical Air Command (see SAC) TAC Terminal Access Controller [ARPANET/MILNET] (replaced TIP) TACACS Terminal Access Controller Access Control System [ARPANET/MILNET] TACCS Tactical Army Combat service support Computer System TAE Transportable Applications Environment TAL Trans-Atlantic Abort Landing [NASA, Shuttle] TAL Transatlantic Abort Landing (Shuttle abort plan) [Space] TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch TAR Tape ARchiver TASI Time Assign{ment,ed} Speech Interpolation [Telephony] TAU Thousand Astronomical Units [Space] TB TuBerculosis TBA To Be Announced TBD To Be Determined TBD To Be Done TC Teachers College TCA Terminal Controlled Airspace TCP Transmission Control Protocol TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol TCS Thermal Control System [Space] TCSEC Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (orange book) TCT To Challenge Tomorrow TD Tardive Dyskinesia TD TouchDown TD Treasury Department TDCC Transportation Data Coordinating Committee TDE Transition Diagram Editor TDI Trusted Database Interpretation TDM Time-Division Multiplexer TDR Time Domain Reflectometer TDRS Tracking and Data Relay Satellite [Space] TDRSS Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System [Space] TDY Temporary DutY TECO Tape Editor and COrrector TECO Text Editor and COrrector TEFLON polyTEtraFLuOrethyleNe TES Thermal Emission Spectrometer (on Mars Observer) [Space] TFP Tops Filing Protocol TFS Translucent File System TFT The Fantasy Trip TFT Thin Film Transistor TG Thieves' Guild TGV Tres Grande Vitesse (French, Very High Speed) [Railroading] TGV Two Guys and a VAX (humorous variant) [Corporate name] THIEF THief Isn't Even Fine THIEF This Here Isn't Even Fine THOR Tandy High-intensity Optical Recording TI Texas Instruments TIA Thanks In Advance [Net jargon] TIA Transient Ischemic Attack TIC TermInfo Compiler TID Ter In Die (three times a day) TID Transaction ID TIFF Tag Image File Format TIP Terminal Interface Processor [ARPANET/MILNET] (replaced by TAC) TIS Trusted Information Systems [Corporate name] TISN Tokyo International Science Network (Japan) TKO Technical Knock Out [Boxing] TL Total Loss TLA Three Letter Acronym TLC Tender Loving Care TLI Transort-Level Interface TM TradeMark TMA Tycho Magnetic Anomaly (movie 2001) TMAC Treasury department's Multiuser Acquisition Contract TMIS Telecommunications Management Information System TMO Telephone Money Order TMRC Tech Model Railroad Club [MIT] TMRC Transportation Modeling Research Center (TMRC {above} alter ego) TN Tennessee TN Twisted Nematic TNC Threaded Neill Concelman (connector) [Electronics] (see also BNC) TNF Tumor Necrosis Factor [Biology, Medicine] TNP Tech Nickel Plate (RR) [TMRC] TNT TriNitro Toluene TO Telegraph Office TO Turn Over TODS Transactions on Database Systems (ACM) TOMS Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer [Space] TOMS Transactions on Mathematical Software (ACM) TOOIS Transactions on Office Information Systems (ACM) TOP Technical Office Protocol TOPLAS Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (ACM) TOPS Traffic Operator Position System [Telephony] TOPSMP Traffic Operator Position System Multipurpose [Telephony] TORES Text ORiented Editing System TOS Transfer Orbit Stage [Space] TOW Tube launched, Optically tracked, and Wire guided TOY Time Of Year (clock) TP Transaction Processing TP Transport Protocol (ISO/CCITT Transport Services (TP0-TP4); like TCP) TP4 Transport Protocol, class 4 [ISO] TPC The Phone Company (from classic movie: _The President's Analyst_) TPI Tracks Per Inch TPO Traveling Post Office TPP TetraarylPorPhyrin TPS Technical Publishing Software TPS TeleProcessing Services TPS Thermal Protection System [Space] TR Tech Report (at least at LCS (q.v.), maybe others) TR Technical Reference [Bell, Telephony] TRG Tip and Ring Ground (test) [Telephony] TROFF Text RunOFF, text formatter TRUSIX TRUSted unIX TRW Thompson, Ramo, and Woolridge TS Top Secret TSAP Transport Service Access Point [OSI, Networking] TSD Total System Design TSP Teleprocessing Services Program TSP Thrift Savings Plan TSP Time Synchronization Protocol TSP TriSodium Phosphate TSR TSR (Fortune 500 Company that manufactures Dungeons & Dragons) TSS Tethered Satellite System [Space] TSTO Two Stage to Orbit [Space] T&T Tunnels & Trolls TTFN Tah Tah, For Now TTL Transistor Transistor Logic TTMA Tennessee Tech Microcomputer Association TTU Tennessee Technological University TTY TeleTYpe TUNIS Toronto UNIversity System TV TeleVision TVA Tennessee Valley Authority TW Thieves' World TWA Trans World Airlines [Corporate name] TWB Terrestrial WideBand [Networking, DARPA] TWIMC To Whom It May Concern TWT Traveling Wave Tube TWX TeletypeWriter eXchange TX Texas
Tx Transmit u (representing the greek mu) - micro U Universe UA United Artists UAR United Arab Republic UAR User Action Routine UARS Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite [Space] UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter UBA UniBus Adapter [DEC] UBC Universal Bibliographic Control UBC University of British Columbia UBM Unpressurized Berthing Mechanism [Space] UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research UCB University of California at Berkeley UCD Uniform Call Distributor [Telephony] UCD University of California at Davis UCI University of California at Irvine UCL University College London UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCR University of California at Riverside UCSB University of California at Santa Barbara UCSC University of California at Santa Cruz UCSD University of California at San Diego UCSF University of California at San Francisco UDB Unified DataBase UDMH Unsymmetrical DiMethyl Hydrazine [Space] UDP User Datagram Protocol UEC User Environment Component UFO Unidentified Flying Object [Space] UGC Uppsala General Catalog [Space] UH Upper Half UHF Ultra High Frequency (300-3000MHz) UID Unique IDentifier UID User IDentification [UNIX] UIMS User Interface Management System UIT Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (Astro package) [Space] UIUC University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UK United Kingdom UKST United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope [Space] UL Underwriters Laboratory ULANA Unified Local-Area Network Architecture UMOC Ugliest Man On Campus [MIT] UMT Universal Military Training UN United Nations UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Organization UNICEF United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (now United Nat. Child. Fund) UNICS UNiplex Information Computer Services UNIX Not an acronym at all. Was a joke on MIT's MULTICS. UNMA Unified Network Management Architecture [AT&T] UNO United Nations Organization UP Union Pacific [Railroading, Corporate name] UPC Universal Product Code UPI United Press International UPI United Press International [Corporate name] UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply UPS United Parcel Service [Corporate name] UR University of Rochester URI University of Rhode Island US United States (of America) USA Union of South Africa USA United States Army USA United States of America USAF United States Air Force USAFA United States Air Force Academy (in Colorado Springs) USAN University Satellite Network USB Upper Side Band USC University of Southern California USCG United States Coast Guard USDA United States Department of Agriculture USES United States Employment Service USFL United States Football League USGS United States Geological Survey USIA United States Information Agency USM United States Mail USMC United States Marine Corps USMP United States Microgravity Payload [Space] USN United States Navy USO United Service Organizations USO Unix Software Operation USP United States Pharmacopeia USPS United States Postal Service USR User Service Routines USS United States Ship USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics USSS User Services and Systems Support USW Und So Weiter UT Universal Time (a.k.a. GMT, UTC, or Zulu Time) UT University of Tennessee UT University of Texas UT UTah
UTC Coordinated Universal Time (a.k.a. UT) UTC Universal Coordinated Time (a.k.a. UT) UTnet University of Texas Network UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair [Telecom, Networking] UUCP UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program UUG Unix User Group UV UltraViolet UVS UltraViolet Spectrometer UW UnderWriter UW Univ of Wisconsin VA Veterans Administration VA Virginia VAB Vehicle Assembly Building (formerly Vertical Assembly Building) [Space] VAFB Vandenberg Air Force Base [Space] VAN Value Added Network (e.g. Tymnet, Telenet, etc) VANS Value-Added Network Services VAR Value Added Remarketer (reseller) VASI Visual Approach Slope Indicator VAT Value Added Tax VAX Virtual Address eXtended VAXBI VAX Bus Interconnect VC Viet Cong VC Virtual Circuit Vcc Voltage (Common Cathode?) VCM Voice Coil Motor VCO Voltage Controlled Oscillator VCR VideoCassette Recorder VCU Virginia Commonwealth University VD Venereal Disease (see also STD) VDFM Virtual Disk File Manager VDI Virtual Device Interface VDM Vienna Development Method VDM Virtual Device Metafile VDT Video Display Terminal VEEGA Venus-Earth-Earth Gravity Assist (Galileo flight path) [Space] VF Video Frequency VF Voice Frequency VFO Variable Frequency Oscillator VFR Visual Flight Rules [Aviation] VFW Veterans of Foreign Wars VFW Volunteer Fire Department VG Very Good VG Vicar-General VGA Video Graphics Array Vgg Voltage (Gate to Ground?) V&H Vertical and Horizontal (CO coordinate tape) [Telephony] VHDL Vhsic Hardware Description Language VHF Very High Frequency (30-300MHz) VHS Video Home System (VCR) VHSIC Very High Speed Integrated Circuit VI VIsual editor VIABLE Vertical Installation Automation BaseLinE VILE VI Like Emacs VINE Vine Is Not Emacs VIP Very Important Person VISTA Volunteers In Service To America VITA Vme International Trade Association VJ Video Jockey VL Vulgar Latin VLA Very Large Array [Space] VLBA Very Long Baseline Array [Space] VLBI Very Long Baseline Interferometry [Space] VLF Very Low Frequency (3-30KHz) VLIW Very Long Instruction Word VLSI Very Large Scale Integration VLT Very Large Telescope [Space] VM Virtual Memory VM/CMS Virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor System VMM Virtual Memory Manager VMOS Vertical Metal Oxide Semiconductor (V-MOS) (see MOS) VMR Vertical Market Reseller VMS Vertical Motion Simulator [Space] VMS Virtual Memory System [DEC] VOA Voice Of America VOIR Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar (superseded by VRM) [Space] VOIS Voice-Operated Information System VOQ Visiting Officer's Quarters VPI&SU Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University VRC Vertical Redundancy Character VRM Venus Radar Mapper (now called Magellan) [Space] VRM Virtual Resource Manager VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal (satellite dish) VSX X/open Verification Suite VTAM Virtual Telecommunications Access Method [IBM] VTOC Volume Table Of Contents VTOL Vertical TakeOff and Landing VTR VideoTape Recorder VUP Vax Unit of Performance V&V Villains & Vigilantes VVSS Vertical Volute Spring Suspension W West W Width
WA Washington WA Western Australia WAC Womens Air Corps WAIS Wide Area Information Server WARC World Administrative Conference WATS Wide Area Telephone Service WB Water Ballast WB WayBill WBC White Blood Cells WC Water Closet WC Without Charge WCTU Women's Christian Temperance Union WD White Dwarf [Space] w.d. will dated [Genealogy] WECo Western Electric Company [AT&T] (manufacturing arm of AT&T) WFPC Wide Field / Planetary Camera (on HST) [Space] WFPCII Replacement for WFPC [Space] WG Working Group WH WarHammer WHBL World Home Bible League WHCA White House Communications Agency [US Government] WHO World Health Organization WI Wisconsin WIMP Windows/Icons/Mouse Programming(?) WIPP (nuclear) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant [DOE] WIS WWMCCS Information System WITS Washington Interagency Telecommunications System WIYN Wisconsin / Indiana / Yale / NOAO telescope [Space] WMSCR Weather Message Switching Center Replacement WOM Write Only Memory WOP WithOut Papers [Immigration] WOPR War Operations Planned Response (from "Wargames" movie) WORM Write Once, Read Many times WOW Worlds of Wonder w.p. will proved [Genealogy] WP Word Processing WP Working Paper WPI Worcester Polytechnic Institute WSI Wafer Scale Integration WSMR White Sands Missile Range [Space] WSW West-SouthWest WTR Western Test Range [Space] WU Washington University WU Western Union WUPPE Wisconsin Ultraviolet PhotoPolarimter Experiment (Astro package) [Space] WV West Virginia WW World War WWI World War I WWII World War II WWMCCS World-Wide Military Command and Control System WY Wyoming WYSIWIS What You See Is What I See WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get XCF eXperimental Computing Facility XD without Dividend XDR eXternal Data Representation XFER Transfer XINU XINU Is Not UNIX XL eXtra Large XMM X-ray Multi Mirror [Space] XMTR transMiTteR (the X is for trans) XNS Xerox Network Services XO eXecutive Officer XOR eXclusive OR (logical function) XPORT Transport XSECT cross SECTion XTAL crysTAL (another version of x for crys, see XMTR) XUI X-windows User Interface XUV eXtreme UltraViolet [Space] YA Yet Another YACC Yet Another Compiler Compiler YB YearBook YMCA Young Mens Christian Association YMHA Young Mens Hebrew Association YOB Year Of Birth YP Yellow Pages YRS Ysgarth Rules System YSO Young Stellar Object [Space] YST Yukon Standard Time YT Yukon Territory YT Yukon Time YTD Year To Date YWCA Young Womens Christian Association YWHA Young Womens Hebrew Association Z Zenith Z Zero
Z Zulu (time) ZB Zero Beat ZETA Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly ZGS Zero Gradient Synchrotron ZI Zonal Index ZIF Zero Insertion Force (connector/socket) ZIP Zone Improvement Plan (US post office code) ZK barrage balloon (navy symbol) ZMRI Zinc Metals Research Institute ZPG Zero Population Growth ZPRSN Zurich Provisional Relative Sunspot Number ZST Zone Standard Time ZT Zone Time ZWEI Zwei Was Eine Initially Directory: pub pub -> Project Scoring Template Pre-Construction Phase New Core/Branch Campus Projects pub -> Acm word Template for sig site pub -> The german unification, 1815-1870 pub -> Baltic Olympiads in Informatics: Challenges for Training Together pub -> Preparation of Papers for ieee transactions on medical imaging pub -> Forthcoming meetings and conferences pub -> Asilomar Conference on Circuits, Systems & Computers, Pacific Grove, ca, November 1978, pp. 55 58 pub -> Forthcoming meetings and conferences pub -> Harmonised compatibility and sharing conditions for video pmse in the 7 9 ghz frequency band, taking into account radar use Download 0.58 Mb. Share with your friends:
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