Technical Terms

Computer Terms

  • AGP : Accelerated Graphics Port
  • APFS : Apple File System
  • BIOS : Basic Input Output System
  • CLI : Command Line Interface
  • CPU : Central Processing Unit
  • DDR : Double Data Rate
  • DOS : Disk Operating System
  • FAT : File Allocation Table
  • GPU : Graphics Processing Unit
  • GUI : Graphical User Interface
  • HDD : Hard Drive Disk
  • NTFS : New Technology File System
  • OS : Operating System
  • PATA : Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment
  • PCI : Peripheral Component Interconnect
  • PDF : Portable Document Format
  • RAID : Reduntant Array Of Independent Disks
  • RAM : Random Access Memory
  • SATA : Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
  • SoC : System On A Chip
  • SSD : Solid State Drive
  • USB : Universal Serial Bus
  • XMP : Extreme Memory Profile

Software

  • API : Application Programming Interface
  • ASF : Apache Software Foundation
  • OOP : Object-Oriented Programming
  • CLA : Contributor License Agreement

Software Architecture Terms

  • MVC : Model View Controller
  • MVP : Model View Presenter
  • MVT : Model View Template
  • MVVM : Model View Viewmodel

Database

  • SQL : Structured Query Language
  • DDL : Data Definition Language
  • DML : Data Manipulation Language
  • DCL : Data Control Language
  • TCL : Transaction Control Language

Graphic Terms

  • DPI : Dots Per Inch
  • EPS : Encapsuled PostScript
  • EXIF : Exchangeable Image File
  • GIF : Graphics Interchange Format
  • IFF : Interchange File Format
  • JPEG : Joint Photographic Experts Group
  • OCR : Optical Character Recognition
  • PNG : Portable Network Graphics
  • RGB : Red Green Blue
  • SVG : Scalable Vector Graphics
  • TIFF : Tagged Image File Format

Video

  • FPS : Frame Per Second

Audio

  • ADC : Analog-Digital Convertor
  • BPM : Beats Per Minute

Cyber Security

  • ATO : Account Takeover
  • OTP : One-Time Password

Web Terms

Web

  • CDN : Content Delivery Network
  • DNS : Domain Name System
  • IOT : Internet Of Things
  • LAN : Local Area Network
  • OSI : Open System Interconnection
  • SCTP : Stream Control Transmission Protocol
  • SSH : Secure Shell
  • SSL : Secure Socket Layer
  • TFTP : Trivial File Transfer Protocol
  • TLD : Top Level Domain
  • VPN : Virtual Private Network
  • VDS : Virtual Dedicated Server
  • WAN : Wide Area Network
  • WWW : World Wide Web

Protocols

  • DHCP : Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
  • FTP : File Transfer Protocol
  • HTTP : Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
  • ICMP : Internal Control Message Protocol
  • IMAP : Internet Message Access Protocol
  • IP : Internet Protocol
  • LDAP : Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
  • POP : Post Office Protocol
  • SFTP : Secure File Transfer Protocol
  • SMTP : Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
  • SNMP : Simple Network Management Protocol
  • TCP : Transmission Control Protocol
  • UDP : User Datagram Protocol
  • VoIP : Voice Over Internet Protocol

Web Security

  • CAPTCHA : Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
  • CASB : Cloud Access Security Broker
  • NGFW : Next Generation Firewall
  • SWG : Security Web Gateway
  • TLS : Transport Layer Security
  • VPN : Virtual Private Network

Web

  • JSON : Javascript Object Notation
  • URI : Uniform Resource Identifier
  • URL : Uniform Resource Locator
  • XML : eXtensible Markup Language

Web Design Terms

  • ASP : Active Server Pages
  • CSS : Cascading Style Sheet
  • DOM : Document Object Model
  • HTML : Hyper Text Markup Language
  • JS : JavaScript
  • SMIL : Synchronize Multimedia Integration Language