====== Velký seznam IT zkratek (500+) ====== Tento seznam slouží jako rychlá reference pro pojmy z oblasti softwarového vývoje, hardwaru, sítí a digitálního byznysu. ^ Zkratka ^ Význam ^ Oblast ^ | 1GL | First-Generation Language (strojový kód) | Programming | | 2FA | Two-Factor Authentication | Security | | 3GL | Third-Generation Language (C, Java atd.) | Programming | | 4GL | Fourth-Generation Language (SQL atd.) | Programming | | 5G | Fifth Generation Wireless | Networking | | A11Y | Accessibility (Numeronym) | Web Design | | AAC | Advanced Audio Coding | Multimedia | | ABI | Application Binary Interface | Programming | | ABM | Account Based Marketing | Business | | ACPI | Advanced Configuration and Power Interface | Hardware | | ACID | Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability | Database | | ACK | Acknowledge (potvrzení) | Networking | | ACL | Access Control List | Security | | AD | Active Directory | Administration | | ADB | Android Debug Bridge | Mobile | | ADC | Analog-to-Digital Converter | Hardware | | AES | Advanced Encryption Standard | Security | | AGP | Accelerated Graphics Port | Hardware | | AI | Artificial Intelligence | Emerging Tech | | AJAX | Asynchronous JavaScript and XML | Web Dev | | ALM | Application Lifecycle Management | DevOps | | ALU | Arithmetic Logic Unit | Hardware | | AM | Amplitude Modulation | Networking | | AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | Hardware | | AMI | Amazon Machine Image | Cloud | | AMP | Accelerated Mobile Pages | Web Dev | | ANN | Artificial Neural Network | AI/ML | | ANSI | American National Standards Institute | Standards | | ANT | Another Neat Tool (build nástroj) | Programming | | AOP | Aspect-Oriented Programming | Programming | | AP | Access Point | Networking | | API | Application Programming Interface | Web/Software | | APK | Android Package Kit | Mobile | | APM | Application Performance Monitoring | DevOps | | APT | Advanced Persistent Threat | Security | | AR | Augmented Reality | Emerging Tech | | ARM | Advanced RISC Machine | Hardware | | ARP | Address Resolution Protocol | Networking | | ASIC | Application-Specific Integrated Circuit | Hardware | | ASN | Autonomous System Number | Networking | | ASP | Active Server Pages | Web Dev | | ASIC | Application-Specific Integrated Circuit | Hardware | | ATX | Advanced Technology eXtended | Hardware | | AV | Antivirus | Security | | AVR | Audio/Video Receiver | Multimedia | | AWS | Amazon Web Services | Cloud | | B2B | Business-to-Business | Business | | B2C | Business-to-Consumer | Business | | B2G | Business-to-Government | Business | | BASH | Bourne Again SHell | Administration | | BASIC | Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code | Programming | | BCD | Binary Coded Decimal | Hardware | | BCP | Business Continuity Planning | Management | | BGP | Border Gateway Protocol | Networking | | BI | Business Intelligence | Data | | BEM | Block Element Modifier | CSS | | BIOS | Basic Input/Output System | Hardware | | BISC | Complex Instruction Set Computer | Hardware | | BLOB | Binary Large Object | Database | | BMP | Bitmap | Graphics | | BNC | Bayonet Neill–Concelman (konektor) | Networking | | BOINC | Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing | Distributed Systems | | BPM | Business Process Management | Business | | BPS | Bits Per Second | Networking | | BSD | Berkeley Software Distribution | OS | | BSSID | Basic Service Set Identifier | Networking | | BT | Bluetooth | Networking | | BYOD | Bring Your Own Device | Business/Security | | C2C | Consumer-to-Consumer | Business | | CA | Certificate Authority | Security | | CAD | Computer-Aided Design | Engineering | | CAE | Computer-Aided Engineering | Engineering | | CAP | Consistency, Availability, Partition Tolerance | Distributed Systems | | CAPTCHA | Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart | Security | | CAS | Central Authentication Service | Security | | CASE | Computer-Aided Software Engineering | Software | | CAT | Category (např. Cat5e kabel) | Networking | | CAV | Constant Angular Velocity | Hardware | | CC | Carbon Copy (u e-mailu) | Communication | | CCD | Charge-Coupled Device | Hardware | | CD | Continuous Deployment / Compact Disc | DevOps/Hardware | | CDN | Content Delivery Network | Web Dev | | CERT | Computer Emergency Response Team | Security | | CF | CompactFlash | Hardware | | CGI | Common Gateway Interface | Web Dev | | CI | Continuous Integration | DevOps | | CIDR | Classless Inter-Domain Routing | Networking | | CIO | Chief Information Officer | Management | | CISC | Complex Instruction Set Computer | Hardware | | CLI | Command Line Interface | Administration | | CLR | Common Language Runtime | Programming | | CMDB | Configuration Management Database | ITIL | | CMOS | Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor | Hardware | | CMS | Content Management System | Web Dev | | CN | Common Name | Security | | CNAME | Canonical Name | DNS | | COBOL | Common Business-Oriented Language | Programming | | CPU | Central Processing Unit | Hardware | | CR | Carriage Return | Text | | CRM | Customer Relationship Management | Business | | CRUD | Create, Read, Update, Delete | Programming | | CRT | Cathode Ray Tube | Hardware | | CS | Computer Science | Education | | CSR | Certificate Signing Request | Security | | CSRF | Cross-Site Request Forgery | Security | | CSS | Cascading Style Sheets | Web Dev | | CSV | Comma-Separated Values | Data | | CTAN | Comprehensive TeX Archive Network | Software | | CTO | Chief Technology Officer | Management | | CTR | Click-Through Rate | Marketing | | CUDA | Compute Unified Device Architecture | Hardware/GPU | | CVE | Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures | Security | | CVS | Concurrent Versions System | VCS | | DAC | Digital-to-Analog Converter | Hardware | | DAO | Data Access Object | Programming | | DAP | Directory Access Protocol | Networking | | DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | History/Research | | DAT | Digital Audio Tape | Hardware | | DB | Database | Data | | DBA | Database Administrator | Data | | DBMS | Database Management System | Data | | DC | Data Center / Direct Current | Infrastructure | | DCE | Data Communications Equipment | Networking | | DDL | Data Definition Language | Database | | DDoS | Distributed Denial of Service | Security | | DE | Desktop Environment | OS | | DER | Distinguished Encoding Rules | Security | | DES | Data Encryption Standard | Security | | DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol | Networking | | DIMM | Dual In-line Memory Module | Hardware | | DIN | Deutsches Institut für Normung (konektor) | Hardware | | DIP | Dual In-line Package | Hardware | | DLL | Dynamic Link Library | OS/Programming | | DLP | Data Loss Prevention | Security | | DMA | Direct Memory Access | Hardware | | DML | Data Manipulation Language | Database | | DMZ | Demilitarized Zone | Networking | | DNS | Domain Name System | Networking | | DOM | Document Object Model | Web Dev | | DOS | Disk Operating System / Denial of Service | OS/Security | | DP | DisplayPort | Hardware | | DPI | Dots Per Inch | Hardware | | DRAM | Dynamic Random Access Memory | Hardware | | DRY | Don't Repeat Yourself | Programming | | DSL | Digital Subscriber Line | Networking | | DSLAM | Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer | Networking | | DSN | Data Source Name | Database | | DSP | Digital Signal Processor | Hardware | | DTE | Data Terminal Equipment | Networking | | DTP | Desktop Publishing | Design | | DVI | Digital Visual Interface | Hardware | | DVR | Digital Video Recorder | Multimedia | | DW | Data Warehouse | Data | | EAI | Enterprise Application Integration | Software | | EAP | Extensible Authentication Protocol | Networking | | ECC | Error-Correcting Code | Hardware | | ECM | Enterprise Content Management | Business | | EC2 | Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS) | Cloud | | EDA | Electronic Design Automation | Engineering | | EDI | Electronic Data Interchange | Business | | EDP | Electronic Data Processing | Business | | EEPROM | Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory | Hardware | | EFI | Extensible Firmware Interface | Hardware | | EGP | Exterior Gateway Protocol | Networking | | EIDE | Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics | Hardware | | EIGRP | Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol | Networking | | ELF | Executable and Linkable Format | OS | | ELT | Extract, Load, Transform | Data | | EML | Electronic Mail | Communication | | EOF | End of File | Programming | | EOL | End of Life / End of Line | Management/Text | | EPROM | Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory | Hardware | | ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning | Business | | ESD | Electrostatic Discharge | Hardware | | ETL | Extract, Transform, Load | Data | | EULA | End User License Agreement | Legal | | FAT | File Allocation Table | OS/File System | | FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions | General | | FBDIMM | Fully Buffered Dual In-line Memory Module | Hardware | | FCC | Federal Communications Commission | Standards | | FDD | Floppy Disk Drive | Hardware | | FDDI | Fiber Distributed Data Interface | Networking | | FEC | Forward Error Correction | Networking | | FIFO | First In, First Out | Programming | | FIPS | Federal Information Processing Standards | Standards | | FLAC | Free Lossless Audio Codec | Multimedia | | FLOPS | Floating Point Operations Per Second | Performance | | FPU | Floating Point Unit | Hardware | | FQDN | Fully Qualified Domain Name | Networking | | FSB | Front Side Bus | Hardware | | FSF | Free Software Foundation | General | | FSM | Finite State Machine | Computer Science | | FTP | File Transfer Protocol | Networking | | FTTH | Fiber To The Home | Networking | | FXP | File Exchange Protocol | Networking | | G11N | Globalization | Business/Software | | GbE | Gigabit Ethernet | Networking | | GCP | Google Cloud Platform | Cloud | | GDI | Graphics Device Interface | OS | | GDDR | Graphics Double Data Rate | Hardware | | GE | Gigabit Ethernet | Networking | | GIF | Graphics Interchange Format | Graphics | | GIS | Geographic Information System | Data | | GIGO | Garbage In, Garbage Out | Computer Science | | GNU | GNU's Not Unix | OS | | GPL | General Public License | Legal | | GPRS | General Packet Radio Service | Networking | | GPU | Graphics Processing Unit | Hardware | | GPT | GUID Partition Table | OS/File System | | GRUB | Grand Unified Bootloader | OS | | GSM | Global System for Mobile communications | Networking | | GUI | Graphical User Interface | OS/Web | | GUID | Globally Unique Identifier | Computer Science | | HAL | Hardware Abstraction Layer | OS | | HDD | Hard Disk Drive | Hardware | | HDMI | High-Definition Multimedia Interface | Hardware | | HDFS | Hadoop Distributed File System | Data | | HID | Human Interface Device | Hardware | | HLS | HTTP Live Streaming | Multimedia | | HMA | High Memory Area | Hardware | | HPR | High Performance Routing | Networking | | HPC | High-Performance Computing | Infrastructure | | HSDPA | High Speed Downlink Packet Access | Networking | | HSM | Hardware Security Module | Security | | HSPA | High Speed Packet Access | Networking | | HT | Hyper-Threading | Hardware | | HTML | HyperText Markup Language | Web Dev | | HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol | Networking | | HTTPS | Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure | Networking | | HVM | Hardware Virtual Machine | Virtualization | | HZ | Hertz | Physics/Hardware | | I18N | Internationalization | Software | | IaaS | Infrastructure as a Service | Cloud | | IAM | Identity and Access Management | Security | | IC | Integrated Circuit | Hardware | | ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers | Standards | | ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol | Networking | | ICT | Information and Communications Technology | General | | IDE | Integrated Development Environment | Programming | | IDS | Intrusion Detection System | Security | | IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Standards | | IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force | Standards | | IGMP | Internet Group Management Protocol | Networking | | IIS | Internet Information Services | Administration | | IMAP | Internet Message Access Protocol | Networking | | IMEI | International Mobile Equipment Identity | Mobile | | IOT | Internet of Things | Emerging Tech | | IP | Internet Protocol / Intellectual Property | Networking/Legal | | IPC | Inter-Process Communication | OS | | IPP | Internet Printing Protocol | Networking | | IPS | Intrusion Prevention System / In-Plane Switching | Security/Hardware | | IPSEC | Internet Protocol Security | Security | | IPTV | Internet Protocol Television | Multimedia | | IPv4 | Internet Protocol version 4 | Networking | | IPv6 | Internet Protocol version 6 | Networking | | IRC | Internet Relay Chat | Communication | | IRQ | Interrupt Request | Hardware | | ISAM | Indexed Sequential Access Method | Database | | ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network | Networking | | ISO | International Organization for Standardization | Standards | | ISP | Internet Service Provider | Networking | | ISR | Interrupt Service Routine | OS | | IT | Information Technology | General | | ITIL | Information Technology Infrastructure Library | Management | | ITU | International Telecommunication Union | Standards | | IVR | Interactive Voice Response | Telephony | | J2EE | Java 2 Enterprise Edition | Programming | | JAR | Java Archive | Programming | | JDK | Java Development Kit | Programming | | JIT | Just-In-Time (compiler) | Programming | | JMS | Java Message Service | Programming | | JNDI | Java Naming and Directory Interface | Programming | | JRE | Java Runtime Environment | Programming | | JSON | JavaScript Object Notation | Data | | JSP | JavaServer Pages | Web Dev | | JVM | Java Virtual Machine | Programming | | K8S | Kubernetes | DevOps | | KB | Kilobyte / Knowledge Base | Data/Management | | KVM | Kernel-based Virtual Machine | Virtualization | | L10N | Localization | Software | | LAN | Local Area Network | Networking | | LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol | Networking | | LED | Light Emitting Diode | Hardware | | LIFO | Last In, First Out | Computer Science | | LILO | Linux Loader | OS | | LISP | List Processing | Programming | | LLM | Large Language Model | AI | | LLC | Logical Link Control | Networking | | LVM | Logical Volume Management | Administration | | MAC | Media Access Control / Mandatory Access Control | Networking/Security | | MAN | Metropolitan Area Network | Networking | | MAPI | Messaging Application Programming Interface | Communication | | MB | Motherboard / Megabyte | Hardware/Data | | MBR | Master Boot Record | OS/File System | | MC | Microcontroller | Hardware | | MDM | Mobile Device Management | Administration | | ME | Management Engine (Intel) | Hardware | | MFA | Multi-Factor Authentication | Security | | MIDI | Musical Instrument Digital Interface | Multimedia | | MIME | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions | Networking | | MIS | Management Information System | Business | | MITM | Man-In-The-Middle | Security | | ML | Machine Learning | AI | | MLC | Multi-Level Cell | Hardware | | MMU | Memory Management Unit | Hardware | | MMS | Multimedia Messaging Service | Mobile | | MOBO | Motherboard | Hardware | | MOS | Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor | Hardware | | MPEG | Moving Picture Experts Group | Multimedia | | MPLS | Multiprotocol Label Switching | Networking | | MQTT | Message Queuing Telemetry Transport | IoT | | MSB | Most Significant Bit | Computer Science | | MSDN | Microsoft Developer Network | Programming | | MSI | Message Signaled Interrupts | Hardware | | MTU | Maximum Transmission Unit | Networking | | MVC | Model-View-Controller | Programming | | MVP | Minimum Viable Product | Management | | MX | Mail Exchange (DNS record) | DNS | | NAS | Network Attached Storage | Hardware | | NAT | Network Address Translation | Networking | | NCP | NetWare Core Protocol | Networking | | NDR | Network Detection and Response | Security | | NFC | Near Field Communication | Mobile/Hardware | | NFS | Network File System | Networking | | NIC | Network Interface Card | Hardware | | NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology | Standards | | NLP | Natural Language Processing | AI | | NMI | Non-Maskable Interrupt | Hardware | | NOC | Network Operations Center | Administration | | NOS | Network Operating System | OS | | NOSQL | Not Only SQL | Database | | NPM | Node Package Manager | Programming | | NRZ | Non-Return-to-Zero | Networking | | NSA | National Security Agency | Security/Politics | | NS | Name Server | DNS | | NTFS | New Technology File System | File System | | NTP | Network Time Protocol | Networking | | NVRAM | Non-Volatile Random Access Memory | Hardware | | NVMe | Non-Volatile Memory express | Hardware | | O11Y | Observability | DevOps | | OA | Office Automation | Business | | OAuth | Open Authorization | Security | | ODBC | Open Database Connectivity | Database | | OEM | Original Equipment Manufacturer | Business | | OID | Object Identifier | Networking/SNMP | | OLA | Operating Level Agreement | ITIL | | OLAP | Online Analytical Processing | Data | | OLTP | Online Transaction Processing | Data | | ONVIF | Open Network Video Interface Forum | Security/CCTV | | OOP | Object-Oriented Programming | Programming | | OPC | Open Platform Communications | Industrial | | ORM | Object-Relational Mapping | Programming | | OS | Operating System | Software | | OSI | Open Systems Interconnection | Networking | | OSPF | Open Shortest Path First | Networking | | OSS | Open Source Software | General | | OTA | Over-The-Air | Mobile/Update | | OTG | On-The-Go (USB) | Hardware | | OTP | One-Time Password | Security | | OVF | Open Virtualization Format | Virtualization | | OWASP | Open Web Application Security Project | Security | | P2P | Peer-to-Peer | Networking | | PaaS | Platform as a Service | Cloud | | PAN | Personal Area Network | Networking | | PATA | Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment | Hardware | | PBX | Private Branch Exchange | Telephony | | PCB | Printed Circuit Board | Hardware | | PCI | Peripheral Component Interconnect | Hardware | | PCIe | PCI Express | Hardware | | PCL | Printer Command Language | Hardware | | PCM | Pulse-Code Modulation | Multimedia | | PDA | Personal Digital Assistant | Hardware/History | | PDF | Portable Document Format | Document | | PDN | Public Data Network | Networking | | PDU | Power Distribution Unit / Protocol Data Unit | Infrastructure/Networking | | PE | Portable Executable | OS | | PERL | Practical Extraction and Reporting Language | Programming | | PGA | Pin Grid Array | Hardware | | PHP | PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor | Programming | | PIO | Programmed Input/Output | Hardware | | PKI | Public Key Infrastructure | Security | | PLC | Programmable Logic Controller | Industrial | | PM | Project Manager | Management | | PNG | Portable Network Graphics | Graphics | | POE | Power over Ethernet | Networking | | POP3 | Post Office Protocol version 3 | Networking | | POS | Point of Sale | Business | | POST | Power-On Self-Test | Hardware | | POTS | Plain Old Telephone Service | Telephony | | PPM | Pages Per Minute | Hardware | | PPP | Point-to-Point Protocol | Networking | | PPTP | Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol | Networking | | PR | Pull Request | VCS | | PROM | Programmable Read-Only Memory | Hardware | | PS | PowerShell / PostScript | Administration/Graphics | | PSU | Power Supply Unit | Hardware | | PWA | Progressive Web App | Web Dev | | PXE | Preboot Execution Environment | Networking | | QA | Quality Assurance | Software | | QC | Quality Control | Software | | QEMU | Quick Emulator | Virtualization | | QOS | Quality of Service | Networking | | QR | Quick Response (Code) | General | | RAD | Rapid Application Development | Software | | RADIUS | Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service | Networking | | RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks | Hardware/Storage | | RAM | Random Access Memory | Hardware | | RDBMS | Relational Database Management System | Data | | RDP | Remote Desktop Protocol | Networking | | RE | Reverse Engineering | Security/Programming | | RE | Regular Expression (Regex) | Programming | | REST | Representational State Transfer | Web Dev | | RF | Radio Frequency | Networking | | RFC | Request for Comments | Standards | | RFID | Radio Frequency Identification | Hardware | | RGB | Red Green Blue | Graphics | | RIA | Rich Internet Application | Web Dev | | RIP | Routing Information Protocol | Networking | | RISC | Reduced Instruction Set Computer | Hardware | | RLO | Right-to-Left Override | Security/Text | | RMI | Remote Method Invocation | Programming | | RMS | Root Mean Square | Physics/Audio | | ROM | Read-Only Memory | Hardware | | RPC | Remote Procedure Call | Programming | | RPM | Red Hat Package Manager | Administration | | RSA | Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (šifra) | Security | | RSS | Really Simple Syndication | Web | | RTC | Real-Time Clock | Hardware | | RTF | Rich Text Format | Document | | RTOS | Real-Time Operating System | OS | | RTP | Real-time Transport Protocol | Networking | | RTSP | Real-Time Streaming Protocol | Multimedia | | RWD | Responsive Web Design | Web Dev | | SaaS | Software as a Service | Cloud | | SAM | Security Accounts Manager | Security | | SAN | Storage Area Network | Networking | | SAR | Specific Absorption Rate | Mobile | | SAS | Serial Attached SCSI | Hardware | | SATA | Serial Advanced Technology Attachment | Hardware | | SCADA | Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition | Industrial | | SDK | Software Development Kit | Programming | | SDLC | Software Development Life Cycle | Software | | SDN | Software-Defined Networking | Networking | | SDRAM | Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory | Hardware | | SDS | Software-Defined Storage | Infrastructure | | SEC | Security | Security | | SEO | Search Engine Optimization | Marketing | | SFTP | Secure File Transfer Protocol | Networking | | SHA | Secure Hash Algorithm | Security | | SIM | Subscriber Identity Module | Mobile | | SIMD | Single Instruction, Multiple Data | Hardware | | SIP | Session Initiation Protocol | Telephony | | SLA | Service Level Agreement | ITIL | | SLC | Single-Level Cell | Hardware | | SLO | Service Level Objective | ITIL | | SLI | Scalable Link Interface (Nvidia) | Hardware | | SM | Symmetric Multiprocessing | Hardware | | SMB | Server Message Block | Networking | | SME | Subject Matter Expert | Management | | SMPS | Switched-Mode Power Supply | Hardware | | SMS | Short Message Service | Mobile | | SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol | Networking | | SNAT | Source Network Address Translation | Networking | | SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol | Networking | | SOA | Service-Oriented Architecture | Software | | SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol | Web Dev | | SOC | System on a Chip / Security Operations Center | Hardware/Security | | SOHO | Small Office/Home Office | Business | | SOLID | Object-oriented design principles | Programming | | SONET | Synchronous Optical Networking | Networking | | SOP | Same-Origin Policy | Security | | SPA | Single Page Application | Web Dev | | SPI | Serial Peripheral Interface | Hardware | | SPIT | Spam over Internet Telephony | Telephony | | SQL | Structured Query Language | Data | | SRAM | Static Random Access Memory | Hardware | | SSD | Solid State Drive | Hardware | | SSH | Secure Shell | Networking | | SSID | Service Set Identifier | Networking | | SSL | Secure Sockets Layer | Security | | SSO | Single Sign-On | Security | | SSP | Storage Service Provider | Cloud | | SSR | Server Side Rendering | Web Dev | | STMP | Simple Text Management Protocol | Networking | | STP | Spanning Tree Protocol | Networking | | SUV | Standard Utility Vehicle (v IT kontextu výjimečně) | General | | SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics | Graphics | | SVN | Subversion | VCS | | SW | Software | General | | SWIFT | Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication | Finance | | TCO | Total Cost of Ownership | Business | | TCP | Transmission Control Protocol | Networking | | TDD | Test-Driven Development | Software | | TDM | Time-Division Multiplexing | Networking | | TDP | Thermal Design Power | Hardware | | TELNET | Teletype Network | Networking | | TFTP | Trivial File Transfer Protocol | Networking | | TI | Texas Instruments | Hardware | | TIFF | Tagged Image File Format | Graphics | | TLA | Three-Letter Acronym | Humor/General | | TLD | Top-Level Domain | DNS | | TLS | Transport Layer Security | Security | | TNC | Threaded Neill–Concelman (konektor) | Networking | | TOR | The Onion Router | Networking | | TPM | Trusted Platform Module | Security/Hardware | | TPS | Transactions Per Second | Performance | | TRACERT | Trace Route | Networking | | TTL | Time To Live | Networking | | TTY | Teletypewriter | OS | | TUX | Torvalds Unix (Linux maskot) | OS | | UA | User Agent | Web Dev | | UAC | User Account Control | OS/Security | | UART | Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter | Hardware | | UAT | User Acceptance Testing | Software | | UDP | User Datagram Protocol | Networking | | UEFI | Unified Extensible Firmware Interface | Hardware | | UI | User Interface | Design | | UID | User Identifier | OS | | UML | Unified Modeling Language | Software | | UNC | Universal Naming Convention | Administration | | UPS | Uninterruptible Power Supply | Hardware | | URI | Uniform Resource Identifier | Web Dev | | URL | Uniform Resource Locator | Web Dev | | URN | Uniform Resource Name | Web Dev | | USB | Universal Serial Bus | Hardware | | UTC | Coordinated Universal Time | Standards | | UTF | Unicode Transformation Format | Standards | | UTM | Unified Threat Management | Security | | UTP | Unshielded Twisted Pair | Networking | | UUCP | Unix-to-Unix Copy | Networking | | UUID | Universally Unique Identifier | Computer Science | | UX | User Experience | Design | | VAR | Value-Added Reseller | Business | | VB | Visual Basic | Programming | | VCS | Version Control System | VCS | | VDI | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure | Virtualization | | VDSL | Very-high-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line | Networking | | VESA | Video Electronics Standards Association | Standards | | VGA | Video Graphics Array | Hardware | | VHD | Virtual Hard Disk | Virtualization | | VLAN | Virtual Local Area Network | Networking | | VLB | VESA Local Bus | Hardware | | VLIW | Very Long Instruction Word | Hardware | | VM | Virtual Machine | Virtualization | | VMM | Virtual Machine Monitor | Virtualization | | VNC | Virtual Network Computing | Networking | | VOIP | Voice over IP | Telephony | | VPC | Virtual Private Cloud | Cloud | | VPN | Virtual Private Network | Networking | | VPS | Virtual Private Server | Cloud | | VPU | Visual Processing Unit | Hardware | | VR | Virtual Reality | Emerging Tech | | VRAM | Video Random Access Memory | Hardware | | VRRP | Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol | Networking | | VS | Visual Studio | Programming | | VTC | Video Teleconferencing | Communication | | VXLAN | Virtual Extensible LAN | Networking | | W3C | World Wide Web Consortium | Standards | | WAF | Web Application Firewall | Security | | WAI | Web Accessibility Initiative | Standards | | WAN | Wide Area Network | Networking | | WAP | Wireless Access Point / Wireless Application Protocol | Networking | | WAV | Waveform Audio File Format | Multimedia | | WDM | Windows Driver Model | OS | | WEM | Workspace Environment Management | Administration | | WEP | Wired Equivalent Privacy | Security | | WIFI | Wireless Fidelity | Networking | | WIMAX | Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access | Networking | | WININS | Windows Installer | OS | | WINS | Windows Internet Name Service | Networking | | WLAN | Wireless Local Area Network | Networking | | WMI | Windows Management Instrumentation | Administration | | WML | Wireless Markup Language | Mobile/History | | WOL | Wake-on-LAN | Networking | | WPA | Wi-Fi Protected Access | Security | | WPAN | Wireless Personal Area Network | Networking | | WSDL | Web Services Description Language | Web Dev | | WSL | Windows Subsystem for Linux | OS | | WWW | World Wide Web | Web | | WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get | Software | | XAG | XML Accessibility Guidelines | Standards | | XAML | Extensible Application Markup Language | Programming | | XHTML | Extensible HyperText Markup Language | Web Dev | | XML | Extensible Markup Language | Data | | XMPP | Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol | Communication | | XSS | Cross-Site Scripting | Security | | YAML | YAML Ain't Markup Language | Data | | Y2K | Year 2000 | History | | ZIF | Zero Insertion Force | Hardware | | ZIFS | Zero Insertion Force Socket | Hardware | | ZIP | Zone Information Protocol / Archive format | Networking/File |