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Other Abbreviations

Other 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, 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
  • 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 : Communist Party of India
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • MA : Magisiter Artium (Master of Arts)
  • MD : 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
  • 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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