27 Technical Short Forms We Use Every Day Without Really Knowing What They Stand For

Abbreviation means shortened form of a word or phrase, be it any organization, institute etc.

We use lot of abbreviations in our daily life, but many of us do not bother what they really stands for. Abbreviations were made to make our life easy, so that you don’t have to remember those long words.

Here we present you list of abbreviations with its full form which we use in our day to day life:

1. LAN – Local Area Network

2. Cc / Bcc – Carbon copy / Blind carbon copy

3. CCTV – Closed Circuit Television

4. CPU – Central Processing Unit

5. DSL – Digital Subscriber Line

6. DVD – Digital Video Disk

7. GIF – Graphics Interchange Format

8. GPS – Global Positioning System

9. GPU – Graphics Processing Unit

10. HDMI – High-Definition Multimedia Interface

11. HTML – Hyper Text Markup Language

12. HTTP – Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

13. I/O – Input/Output

14. IP – Internet Protocol

15. ISP – Internet Service Provider

16. JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group

17. CAPTCHA – Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers & Humans Apart

18. LCD – Liquid Crystal Display

19. MAC (address) – Media Access Control

20. MPEG – Moving Picture Experts Group

21. PDF – Portable Document Format

22. PNG (image format) – Portable Network Graphics

23. SD Card – Secure Digital Card

24. SQL – Structured Query Language

25. SSL – Secure Sockets Layer

26. URL – Universal Resource Locater

27. WWW – World Wide Web

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