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1 S.NO SHORT NAME FULL NAME S.NO 1 LED LIGHT EMITTING DIODE 21 HDD 2 LCD LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY 22 MBPS 3 TFT THIN FILM TRANSISTORS 23 ALU 4 MAN METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORK 24 WAP 5 WAN WIDE AREA NETWORK 25 CU 6 LAN LOCAL AREA NETWORK 26 CPU 7 FTP FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL 27 TCP 8 ISP INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER 28 UVPROM 9 WWW WORLD WIDE WEB 29 SRAM 10 USB UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS 30 EEPROM 11 SMPS SWITCHED MODE POWER SUPPLY 31 IP 12 RAM RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY 32 FDD 13 ROM READ ONLY MEMORY 33 VLSI 14 PROM PROGRAMMABLE READ ONLY MEMORY 34 ENIAC 15 EPROM ERASABLE PROGRAMMABLE READ ONLY MEMORY 35 EDVAC 16 UPROM ULTRA VOLITE PROGRAMMABLE READ ONLY MEMORY 36 BASIC SHORT NAME HARD DISK DRIVE MEGA BYTES PER SECOND ARITHMETIC LOGIC UNIT WIRELESS APPLICATION PROTOCOL CONTROL UNIT CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL ULTRA VIOLET PROGRAMMABLE READ ONLY MEMORY STATIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY ELECTRICALLY ERASABLE PROGRAMMABLE READ ONLY MEMORY INTERNET PROTOCOL FLOPPY DISK DRIVE VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION ELECTRONIC NUMERICAL INTEGRATOR AND COMPUTER ELECTRONIC DISCREATE VARIABLE AUTOMATIC COMPUTER BEGINNER'S ALL PURPOSE SYMBOLIC INSTRUCTION CODE

2 37 DRAM DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY 52 COMPUTER 38 OMR OPTICAL MARK RECOGNITION 53 EAPROM 39 STD STANDARD TRUNK DIALLING 54 IC COMMONLY OPERATED MACHIN PARTICULARLY USED IN TECHNICAL AND EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH. ELECTICALLY ALTERABLE PROGRAMMABLE READ-ONLY MEMORY INTEGRATED CIRCUIT 40 ISD INTERNATIONAL SUBSCRIBER DIALLING 55 LSIC LARGE-SCALE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT 41 PCO PUBLIC CALL OFFICE 56 KIPS 42 ATM AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINE 57 EBCDIC 43 ICU INTENSIVE CARE UNIT 58 MIPS 44 DOS DISK OPERATING SYSTEM 59 BIOS 45 ICICI INDUSTRIAL CREDIT AND INVESTMENT CORPORATION OF INDIA 60 CID 46 PIN POSTAL INDEX NUMBER 61 MICR KILO INSTRUCTIONS PER SECOND EXTENDED BINARY CODED DICIMAL INTERCHANGE CODE MILLION INSTRUCTIONS PER SECOND BASIC INPUT/OUTPUT SYSTEM CRIME INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT MAGNETIC INK CHARACTER RECOGNITION 47 OCR OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION 62 AMD 48 TFT THIN FILM TRANSISTORS 63 ASCII 49 HTML HYPER TEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE 64 AT 50 URL UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR 65 ATA 51 PDF PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT 66 ATM ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES AMERICAN STANDARD CODE FOR INFORMATION INTERCHANCE. ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY. ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ATTACHMENT. ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE.

3 67 CCTV CLOSED CIRCUIT TELEVISION 85 ATX 68 MMS 69 HDFC MULTIMEDIA MESSAGING SERVICE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FINANCE CORPORATION BASIC BIOS ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY EXTENDED. BEGINNER'S ALL-PURPOSE SYMBOLIC INSTRUCTION COCE. BASIC INPUT/OUTPUT SYSTEM 70 BMP BITMAP. 88 CAI 71 CAI COMPUTER AIDED INSTERUCTION. 89 CBT 72 CBT COMPUTER BASED TEACHING 90 CD-R 73 CD-R COMPACT DISC-TECORDABLE. 91 CD-RW 74 CD-ROM COMPACT DISC-TEAD ONTY MEMORY. 92 COMS 75 CD-ROM COMPACT DISC-TEWRITABLE. 93 COBOL 76 CDMA CODE DIVISISION MULTIPLEACCESS. 94 CTFT 77 CMOS COMPLEMETARY METAL-OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR 95 DDRSDRAM 78 COBOL COMMON BUSINESS-ORIENTED LANGUAGE. 96 DIMM 79 CTFT COLOR THIN FILM TRANSISTOR. 97 EGA COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION. COMPUTER BASED TEACHING COMPACT DISC-RECORDABLE COMPACT DISC-REWRITABLE COMPLEMENTARY MENTAL-OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR COMMON BUSINESS-ORIENTED LANGUAGE COLOR THIN FILM TRANSISTOR. DOUBLE DATA RATE SYNCHRONOUS DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY DUAL INLINE MEMORY MOUDLE ENHANCED GRAPHICS ADAPTER. 80 DDR SDRAM DOUBLE DATA RATE SYNCHERONOUS DYNAMIC RNDOM ACCESS MEMORY. 98 EIDE ENHANCED INTEGRATED DRIVE ELECTRONICS 81 DIMM DUAL INLINE MEMORY MODULE. 99 FAT FILE ALLOCATION TABLE, 82 DOS DISK OPERATING SYSTEM. 100 FORTRAN FORMULA TRANSLATION. 83 DVD DIGITAL VERSATILE DISC. 101 HDTV 84 EGA ENHANCED GRAPHICS ADAPTER. 102 HT HIGH-DEFINITION TELEVISION HYPER THREADING

4 103 EIDE ENHANCED INTEGRATED DRIVE ELECTRONICS. 123 I/O 104 IDE INTERGRATED DRIVE ELECTRONICS 124 POST 105 JPEG JOINT PHOTO GRAPHIC EXPERTS GROUP 125 RDRAM 106 LSI LARGE SCALE INTGRATION 126 RIMM 107 MIPS MILLION INSTRUCTIONS PER SECOND. 127 RTF 108 MODEM MODULATOR DEMODULATOR 128 SATA 109 MS-DOS MICROSOFT DISK OPERATING SYSTM 129 SCSI 110 NEAT NEW ENHANCED ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY 130 SIMM 111 NIC NETWORK INTERFACE CARD. 131 STP 112 NTFS NEW TECHNOLOGY FILE SYSTEM 132 SVGA 113 OEM ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER 133 TCP/IP 114 OLE OBJECT LINKING AND EMBEDDING 134 TDMA 115 OS OPERITING SYSTEM 135 UI 116 P3 PENTIUM UNIVAC 117 P4 PENTIUM4 137 UPS 118 P4EE PENTIUM 4 EXTREME EDITION 138 UTP 119 PCI-X PERIPHERAL COMPONENT INTERCONNECT-EXTENDED 139 UXGA 120 PCMCIA PERSONAL COMPUTER MEMORY CARD INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION 140 VFAT 121 PDA PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSOSTANT 141 VGA 122 PNP PLUG AND PLAY 142 VLSI INPUT/OUTPUT POWER ON SELF TEST RAMBUS DRAM RAMBUS INLINE MEMORY MODULE RICH TEXT FORMAT SERIAL ATA SMALL COMPUTER SYSTEM INTERFACE SINGLE INLINE MEMORY MODULE SHIELDED TWISTED PAIR SUPER VIDEO GRAPHICS ARRAY. TRAMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL/INTERNET PROTOCOL TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS USER INTERFACE UNIVERSAL AUTOMATIC COMPUTRER UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SUPPLY. UNSHIELDED TWISTED PAIR ULTRA EXTENDED GRAPHIC ARRAY VIRTUAL FILE ALLOCATION TABLE VIDEO GRAPHIC ARRAY VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION

5 143 W2K WINDOWS XP 144 W3C WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM 157 GSM 145 WI-FI WIRELESS FIDELITY 158 GIGO 146 WORM WRITE ONCE READ MANY 159 CVT XTREME PROGRAMMING GLOBAL SATELLITE MEDIUM GARBAGE IN GARBAGE OUT CONSTANT VOLTAGE TRANSFORMER 147 XA EXTENDED ARCHITECTURE NON IMPACT IJP, LP 148 XGA EXTENDED GRAPHICS ARRAY 161 IJP 149 XML EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE 162 LP 150 Y2K YEAR PLOTTERS 151 PRINGER 1. IMPACT PRINTERS 2. NON IMPACT PRINTERS 164 FBP IMPACT DMP, DWP, LP 165 DP INK JET PRINTER LASER PRINTER 1. FLAT BED PLOTTER 2. DRUM PLOTTER FLAT BED PLOTTER DRUM PLOTTER 153 DMP 154 DWP 155 LP DOT MATRIX PRINTER DAISY WHEEL PRINTER LINE PRINTER

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