Appendix Acronyms A

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Acronyms - A

2D 2-Dimensional

3D 3-Dimensional

3M Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing

4GL Fourth Generation Language

4H Head, Heart, Hands, Health

4WD Four wheel Drive (see also FWD)

A Aftermath

AA Affirmative Action committee

AA Alcoholics Anonymous

AA Antiaircraft Artillery

AA Associate in Accounting

A&A Astronomy and Astrophysics [Space]

AA Automobile Association [United Kingdom]

AAA American Automobile Association

AAAL American Academy of Arts and Letters

AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science

AAII American Association of Individual Investors

AAMSI American Association for Medical Systems Informatics

AAO Anglo-Australian Observatory [Space]

AAP Affirmative Action Program

AARC Anglo-American Cataloging Rules

AARN Australian Academic Research Network [Networking]

AARP American Association of Retired Persons

AAS American Astronomical Society [Space]

AAVSO American Association of Variable Star Observers [Space]

AB ABle seaman

ABA American Bar Association

ABA American Basketball Association

ABA American Booksellers Association

ABBR ABBReviation

ABC American Broadcasting Company [Corporate name]

AC Alternating Current (ac, see also DC)

AC Ante Christum (before Christ)

AC Ante Cibum (before meals)

ACAA Agricultural Conservation and Adjustment Administration

ACAWS Advisory, Caution, And Warning System

ACBL American Contract Bridge League

ACC Argonne Code Center

ACCS Army Command and Control System

ACD Automatic Call Distributor [Telephony]

ACE Advanced Composition Explorer [Space]

ACE Advanced Computing Environments [Corporate name]

ACE Automatic Calibration and Equalization

ACHEFT Automated ClearingHouse Electronic Funds Transfer

ACK ACKnowledge

ACL Advanced Cmos Logic

ACLU American Civil Liberties Union

ACM Association for Computing Machinery

ACRV Assured Crew Return Vehicle (or) Astronaut Crew Rescue Vehicle [Space]

ACS Advanced Communications System

ACSE Association Control Service Entity (ISO/CCITT layer 7)

ACT Action for Children's Television (in Cambridge, MA)

ACT American Conservatory Theater

ACTS Advanced Communications Technology Satellite

ACTS Automatic Coin Telephone Service [Telephony]

ACU Alarm Control Unit

ACU Automatic Call Unit [Telephony]

ACW Alternating Continuous Waves

AD After Date

A/D Analog to Digital converter (see ADC)

AD Anno Domini (in the year of our Lord)

AD Application Development

Ad Astra To the stars [Latin, Space]

ADAP Alzheimer's disease-associated protein

ADAP American Discount Auto Parts [Corporate name]

ADB A DeBugger

ADB Apple Desktop Bus

ADC Analog to Digital Converter

ADCI Automatic Display Call Indicator

AD&D Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

ADF Automatic Direction Finder

ADM ADMiral

ADP Adenosine Di-Phosphate

ADP Administrative Data Processing

ADP Advanced Data Processing

ADPCM Pulse Code Modulation with Adaptive Quantization

ADS Application Development System

ADSR Attack Decay Sustain Release

ADT Abstract Data Type

ADT Atlantic Daylight Time

AE Application Execution

AEA American Electronics Association

AEC Atomic Energy Commission

AEF American Expeditionary Force (see BEF)

AEGIS Advanced Electronic Guidance and Instrumentation System

AF Adventures in Fantasy

AF Air Force

AF Audio Frequency

AFADS Automatic Force Adjustment Data System

AFATDS Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System

AFB Air Force Base

AFC American Football Conference

AFC Automatic Flight Control

AFC Automatic Frequency Control

AFCAC Air Force Computer Acquisition Center

AFCC Air Force Communications Command

AFGE American Federation of Government Employees

AFIPS American Federation of Information Processing Societies

AFL American Federation of Labor

FL American Football League

AFLCIO American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

AFNOR Association Francaise de NORmalization

AFP Appletalk Filing Protocol

AFS Andrew File System

AFSC Air Force Systems Command

AFSCME American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees

AFTRA American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

AG Adjutant General

AG Arcade Game

AG Attorney General

AGCT Army General Classification Test

AGN Active Galactic Nucleus [Space]

AHL American Hockey League

AHQ Air HeadQuarters

AI Artificial Intelligence

AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics [Space]

AIC Automatic Intercept Center

AID Agency for International Development

AIDDE Ames' Interactive Dynamic Display Editor

AIDS Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome

AIOD Automatic Identification Outward Dialing

AIS Automatic Intercept System

AIX Advanced Interactive eXecutive (IBM's name for UNIX)

AJ Astronomical Journal [Space]

AK Alaska

AKA Also Known As

AL Alabama [US state postal designation]

AL American League (baseball)

ALA American Library Association

ALA Automobile Legal Association

ALBM Air-to-Land Ballistic Missile

ALC Automatic Load Control

ALGOL ALGOrithmic Language

ALIT Automatic Line Insulation Testing [Telephony]

ALPO Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers [Space]

ALS Advanced Launch System [Space]

ALU Arithmetic Logic Unit

A&M Agricultural and Mechanical

AM Amplitude Modulation

AM Ante Meridiem (before noon)

AMA American Medical Association

AMA Automatic Message Accounting [Telephony]

AMARC Automatic Message Accounting Recording Center

AMBA Association of Master of Business Administration

AMC Albany Medical College

AMC American Motors Corporation(?) [Corporate name]

AMC Appalachian Mountain Club

AMD Advanced Micro Devices [Corporate name]

AMEX AMerican EXpress [Corporate name]

AMI Alternate Mark Inversion (see also NRZ, NRZI, B8ZS)

AMORC Ancient Mystic Order Rosae Crucis

AMP Adenosine MonoPhosphate

AMPAS Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

AMPAS Acedemy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

AMRAAM Advanced Medium Range Air-To-Air Missile

AMROC American Rocket Company [Space]

AMSAT radio AMateur SATellite corp

AMU Atomic Mass Unit

AMVET AMerican VETeran

ANA American Nurses Association

ANAC Automatic Number Announcemnt Circuit [Telephony]

ANC All Number Calling [Telephony]

ANC Army Nurse Corps

ANDF Architecture-Neural Distribution Format

ANF Automatic Number Forwarding [Telephony]

ANG Air National Guard

ANI Automatic Number Identification (see also: CLID) [Telephony]

ANL Argonne National Laboratory

ANOVA ANalysis Of VAriance

ANPA American Newspaper Publishers Association

ANSI American National Standards Institute

ANZUS Australia, New Zealand, United States

AO Account Of

AOA Abort Once Around [NASA, Shuttle]

AOA Abort Once Around (Shuttle abort plan) [Space]

AOL Absent Over Leave (see AWOL)

AOS Academic Operating System

AOS Alternate Operator Service [Telephony]

A/P Accounts Payable

AP Additional Premium

AP All Points

AP Associated Press [Corporate name]

APA All Points Addressable

APA American Psychological Association

APB All Points Bulletin

APDA Apple Programmers and Developers Association

API Application Programming Interface

APICS American Production and Inventory Control Society

Ap.J Astrophysical Journal [Space]

APL A Programming Language

APL acute promyelocytic leukemia [Disease]

APO Alpha Phi Omega, service fraternity

APO Army Post Office

APP Applications Portability Profile

APPC Advanced Peer-to-Peer Communications

APR Annual Percentage Rate (as in loan interest)

APSE Ada Programming Support Environment

APU Auxiliary Power Unit [Space]

AQ Accumulator-Quotient register

A/R Accounts Receivable

AR Address Register

AR Arkansas

ARC AIDS-related complex

ARC American Red Cross

ARC Ames Research Center (NASA) [Space]

ARCNET Attached Resource Computer local area NETwork

ARO After Receipt of Order

ARP Address Resolution Protocol

ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency (of the DoD, see DARPA)

ARPANET ARPA (q.v.) NETwork

ARRL Amateur Radio Relay League

ARV American Revised Version

AS Anglo-Saxon

ASA Acetyl Salicylic Acid

ASAP As Soon As Possible

ASC Accredited Standards Committee

ASCAP American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers

ASCC Automatic Sequence-Controlled Calculator

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASDIC Anti-Submarine Detection Investigation Committee (British for sonar)

ASDSP Application-Specific Digital Signal Processor

ASG Automated Sciences Group

ASHRAE Amer. Soc. of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-cond. Engineers, inc

ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit

ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ASN Abstract Syntax Notation One (ISO/CCITT ASN.1)

ASP Aggregated Switch Procurement

ASRM Advanced Solid Rocket Motor [Space]

ASSR Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

AST Atlantic Standard Time

ASV American Standard Version

AT Atlantic Time

ATA Automatic Trouble Analysis

ATACC Advanced Tactical Air Command Central

ATB Advanced Technology Bomber (stealth bomber)

ATC Air Traffic Control

ATDRS Advanced Tracking and Data Relay Satellite [Space]

ATF Advanced Technology Fighter

ATIS Atherton Tools Interface Specification

ATLAS Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science [Space]

ATM Amateur Telescope Maker [Space]

ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode

ATM Automatic Teller Machine

ATO Abort To Orbit [NASA, Shuttle]

ATO Abort To Orbit (Shuttle abort plan) [Space]

ATOMS AT&t Optimised Materials Simulator

ATP Adenosine TriPhosphate

ATPCO Airline Tariff Publishing COmpany

AT&T American Telephone & Telegraph [Corporate name]

ATT American Telephone & Telegraph (normally written AT&T when seperate)

ATTIS American Telephone and Telegraph Information Systems [AT&T] (Division)

ATV All Terrain Vehicle

AU Astronomical Unit (93,000,000 miles) [Space]

AU Astronomical Unit [Space]

AUI Attachment Universal Interface

AURA Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy [Space]

AUS Army of the United States

AUTODIN AUTOmatic DIgital Network

AUTOVON AUTOmatic VOice Network

AV AudioVisual

AVLIS Atomic Vapor Laser Isotope Separation

AWACS Airborne Warnings And Control Systems

AWEA American Wind Energy Association

AWK al Aho, peter Weinberger, brian Kernighan (pattern scanning language)

AWOL Absent WithOut Leave (also Absent Without Official Leave) (see AOL)

AW&ST Aviation Week and Space Technology (a.k.a. AvLeak) [Space]

AXAF Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility [Space]

AZ Arizona