Tech Acronyms and Abbreviations
acronym; an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word.
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3D - Three-dimensional
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4IR - Fourth Industrial Revolution
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AaaS - Analytics as a Service - using web-based technologies for big data analysis
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AC - Alternating Current (electricity)
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ACES - Autonomous, Connected, Electrified and Shared vehicles
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ACK - Acknowledgement
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ADAS - Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
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AES - Advanced Encryption Standard - a specification for the encryption of electronic data
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AFM - Atomic Force Microscopy
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AGI - Artificial General Intelligence
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AGV - Automatic Guided Vehicle
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AIDC - Automatic Identification and Data Capture, also known as Auto-ID
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AIFF - Audio Interchange File Format - an audio format developed by Apple
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ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line - communications technology transmission over copper lines
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AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML - used for creating web applications
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ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit - an IC chip that specializes in arithmetic operations on integer binary numbers
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AM - Additive Manufacturing - Industrial 3D printing
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AMR - Autonomous Mobile Robot
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ANSI - American National Standards Institute
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API - Application Programming Interface - a set of tools software developers use for building software for an application. The Windows API, for example, helps programmers write Windows apps
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ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange - a character encoding standard (see chart)
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ASIC - Application Specific Integrated Circuit - an integrated circuit (IC) customized for a particular use
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ASP - Active Server Page - Microsoft server-side scripting
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ATX - Advanced Technology eXtended - a motherboard and power supply configuration for PCs
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AUV - Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
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AWS - Amazon Web Service
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