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Abbreviations & Acronyms


Short Name

Full Form or Abbreviations

3G

Third Generation

AAA

Asian Athletics Association

AAFI

The Amateur Athletics Federation of India

AC

Ante Christum (Before Christ), Ashok Chakra, Air Conditioner

ADB

Asian Development Bank

AFI

Athletics Federation of India

AFMC

Armed Forces Medical College

AI

Artifical Intelligence, Air India

AICTE

All India Council for Technical Education

AIFF

All India Football Federation

AIIMS

All India Institute of Medical Science

AITUC

All India Trade Union Congress

ALGOL

Algebric Oriented Language

AM

Ante Meridiem (before Noon), Amplitude Modulation

APEC

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation

ARPANET

Advanced Research Project Agency Network

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASEAN

Association of South East Asian Nations

ASLV

Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle

AT&T

American Telegraphic and Telephone Co. Ltd.

ATC

Air Traffic Control

ATM

Automated Teller Machine

AVSM

Ati Vishisht Seva Medal

B2B

Busines to Business

B2C

Business to Consumer

BARC

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre

BBC

British Broadcasting Corporation

BBS

Bulletin Board Service

BC

Before Christ

BHEL

Bharat Heavy Electri-cals Ltd

BIOS

Basic Input Output System

BIT

Binary Digit

BPL

Below Poverty Line

BPO

Business Process Outsourcing

BPR

Business Process Re-engineering

bps

bytes per second

BSE

Bombay Stock Exchange

BSF

Border Security Force

BSNL

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited

C2C

Consumer to Consumer

CA

Chartered Accountant

CAD

Computer Aided Design

CAT

Common Admission Test

CBI

Central Bureau of Investigation

CBSE

Central Board of Secondary Education

CDAC

Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing

CDMA

Code Division Multiple Access

CEO

Chief Executive Officer

CFSL

Central Forensic Science Laboratory

CGI

Common Gateway Interface

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency

CID

Criminal Investigation Department

CISC

Complex instruction-set computing

CITU

Centre of Indian Trade Unions

CNN

Cable News Network

COMSAT

Communications Satellite Corporation

COPRA

Consumer Protection Act

CORBA

Common Object Request Broker Architecture

CPI(M)

Communist Party of India / Marxist

CPWD

Central Public Works Department

CRIS

Centre for Railway Information System

CSIR

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

CTBT

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

CYMK

Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, Kinda

D.Litt.

Doctor of Literature

D.Phil.

Doctor of Philosophy

D.Sc

Doctor of Science

DC

Direct Current

DIG

Deputy Inspector General

DMA

Direct Memory Access

DMK

Dravida Munetra Kazhagam

DNA

Deoxyribo-nucleic Acid

DTP

Desktop Publishing

DVC

Damodar Valley Corporation

DVD

Digital Versatile/Video Disc



Short Name

Full Form or Abbreviations

E & OE

Errors and Omissions Excepted

EDI

Electronic Data Interchange

EIS

Executive Information System

E-MAIL

Electronic Mailing

EMI

Equated Monthly Instalments

ENIAC

Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator

ENT

Ear, Nose and Throat

EOF

end of file

EOT

Eastern Daylight Time

EPABX

Electronic Private Automatic Branch Exchange

ERNET

Educational and Research Network

FAQ

Frequently Asked Question

FBI

Federal Bureau of Investigation

FBT

Fringe Benefit Tax

FBTR

Fast Breeder Test Reactor

FBW

Fly-By-Wire

FCI

Food Corporation of India; Fertilizer Corporation of India

FDI

Foreign Direct Investment

FEMA

Foreign Exchange Management Act

FICCI

Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry

FIFA

International Football Federation (Federation Internationale de Football Association)

FIR

First Information Report

FM

Frequency modulation

FRCP

Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians

FRCS

Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons

FRCS

Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

FRS

Fellow of the Royal Society

G7

Group of Seven (US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, japan and Canada) G8 includes G7 plus Russia

GATE

Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering

GATS

General Agreement on Trade and Services

GDP

Gross Domestic Product

GMAT

Graduate Management Admission Test

GMT

Greenwich Mean Time

GSLV

Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle

GSM

Global System for Mobile Communications

GSP

Generalised System Preference

GUI

Graphical User Interface

HAL

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.

HIV

Human Immunodeficiency Virus

HMI

Himalayan Mountaineering Institute

HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language

HUDCO

Housing and Urban Development Corp.

HVAC

Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning

i.e.

id est (that is)

IAAI

International Airport Authority of India

IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency

IARI

Indian Agricultural Research Institute

IAS

Indian Administrative Service

IATA

International Air Transport Association

IBM

International Business Machines

ICSE

Indian Certificate of Secondary Education

ICU

Intensive Care Unit

ICWA

Indian Council of World Affairs

IDA

International Development Agency

IDBI

Industrial Development Bank of India

IEEE

Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers

IELTS

International English Language Testing System

IFC

Industrial Finance Corporation, International Finance Corporation

IFS

Indian Foreign Service; Indian Forest Service

IGNOU

Indira Gandhi National Open University

IIPA

Indian Institute of Public Administration

IISCO

Indian Iron and Steel Company

IISS

International Institute of Strategic Studies

IIT

Indian Institute of Technology

ILA

Indian Library Association

ILO

International Labour Organisation

IMAP

Internet Mail Access Protocol

IMF

International Monetary Fund

INA

Indian National Army

INTUC

Indian National Trade Union Congress

IOC

Indian Oil Corporation

IP

Internet Protocol

IPC

Indian Penal Code

IPCL

Indian Petro-Chemicals Corporation Ltd

IPI

International Press Institute



Short Name

Full Form or Abbreviations

IPO

Initial Public Offering

IPS

Indian Police Service; Inter Press Service

IQ

Intelligence Quotient

IRC

International Red Cross

IRDP

Integrated Rural Development Programme

IRS

Indian Revenue Service

ISBN

International Standard Book Number

ISDN

Integrated Services Digital Network

ISI

Indian Standards Institution; Inter Services Intelligence

ISKCON

International Society for Krishna Consciousness

ISO

International Standards Organisation

ISRO

Indian Space Research Organisation

IST

Indian Standard Time

ITBP

Indo-Tibetan Border Police

ITES

Information Technology enabled services

ITI

Indian Telephone Industries
Industrial Training Institute

ITU

International Telecommunication Union

IVF

In-Vitro Fertilisation

IVM

In-vitro Maturation

JCO

Junior Commissioned Officer

JEE

Joint Entrance Examination

JPEG

Joint Photographic Expert Group

LASER

Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

LCA

Light Combat Aircraft

LCD

Liquid Crystal Display
Least Common Denominator

LCM

Lowest Common Multiple

LIC

Life Insurance Corporation (of India)

LLB

Bachelor of Laws

LMC

Large Megallanic Cloud

LTTE

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam

M.A.

Magisiter Artium (Master of Arts)

M.D

Doctor of Medicine

MBA

Master of Business Administration

MBBS

Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery

MCC

Marylebone Cricket Club

MCI

Medical Council of India

MICR

Magnetic ink character recognition

MIDI

Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MIPS

Million Instructions per Second

MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Master Instruction Tape

MLA

Member of Legislative Assembly

MNC

Multi-National Corporation

MODEM

modulator demodulator

MP

Member of Parliament; Madhya Pradesh

MPEG

Motion Picture Experts Group

MRCP

Member of the Royal College of Physicians

MTCR

Missile Technology Control Regime

MVC

Maha Vir Chakra

NAAC

National Assessment and Accreditation Council

NABARD

National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development

NAFED

National Agricultural Co-operative Marketing Federation

NALCO

National Aluminium Company Ltd.

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASDAQ

National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation

NASSCOM

National Association of Software and Service Companies

NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

NAV

Net Asset Value

NCERT

National Council of Educational Research and Training

NCSA

National Centre for Supercomputing Applications; National Computer Security Association

NDA

National Defence Academy

NOC

No Objection Certificate

NPA

Non-performing Assets

NPT

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

NRF

National Renewal Fund

NSUI

National Students Union of India

NTPC

National Thermal Power Corporation

OBC

Other Backward Classes

OCR

Optical Character Recognition

ONGC

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation

OOP

Object Oriented Programme

OPEC

Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries

OSCAR

Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio

PAN

Permanent Account Number

Ph.D.

Doctor of Philosophy (Philosophiae Doctor)

PIL

Public Interest Litigation



Short Name

Full Form or Abbreviations

PIN

Postal Index Number

PSLV

Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle

PWD

Public Works Department;

R&D

Research and Development

RADAR

Radio Detecting and Ranging

RAM

Random Access Memory

RAW

Research & Analysis Wing

RBI

Reserve Bank of India

RDX

Research Department Explosive (Cyclotrim-ethylin Trinitrate)

RISC

Reduced instruction-set computing

RNA

Ribonucleic acid

ROM

Read Only Memory

RPM

Revolutions Per Minute

RTI

Right to Information

SAIL

Steel Authority of India Limited

SARS

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

SCSI

Small Computer Systems Interface

SEBI

Securities and Exchange Board of India

SENSEX

Sensitivity Index (of Share Price)

SEZ

Special Economic Zone

SGPC

Siromani Gurudwara Prabandak Committee

SIM

Subscriber Information Module

SLV

Satellite Launch Vehicle

SMS

Short Message Service

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

STD

Subscriber Trunk Dialling; Sexually Transmitted Diseases

TADA

Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act

TCP

Transfer Call Protocol
Transmission Control Protocol

TELCO

Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company

TFT

Thin-Film Transistor

TIFR

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

TISCO

Tata Iron and Steel Company

TOEFL

Test of English as a Foreign Language

UAV

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

UGC

University Grants Commission

ULFA

United Liberation Front of Asom

UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organi-sation

UNI

United News of India

UNICEF

United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (now, 'United Nations Children's Fund')

UNU

United Nations University

UPA

United Progressive Alliance

UPSC

Union Public Service Commission

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

VAT

Value Added Tax

VCR

Video Cassette Recorder

VIP

Very Important Person

VIRUS

Vital Information Resources Under Siege

VRML

Virtual Reality Modelling Language

VRS

Voluntary Retirement Scheme

VSSC

Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

WHO

World Health Organisation

WMO

World Meteorological Organisation

WTO

World Trade Orga-nisation

WWF

World Wildlife Fund

WWW

World Wide Web

WYSIWYG

What you see is what you get

XML

Extensible Mark-up Language

YMCA

Young Men's Christian Association

ZIP

Zone Improvement Plan

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