ATA Advanced Technology Attachment

ANSI American National Standards Institute

AICTE All India Council Ior Technical Education
AC Alternate Current
AI ArtiIical Intelligence
AIDS Acquired Immuno DeIiciency Syndrome
AICTE All India Council Ior Technical Education
AIIMS All India Institute oI Medical Science
AITUC All India Trade Union Congress
AICTE All India Council Ior Technical Education
ASCII American Standard Code Ior InIormation Interchange
ATM Automated Teller Machine
A&A Astronomy And Astrophysics
AIAA American Institute OI Aeronautics And Astronautics
APM Atmospheric Particle Monitor
ASP Active server page
BCC Blind Carbon Copy
BLOB Binary Large Object
BIS Bureau oI Indian Standards
BBC British Broadcasting Corporation
BAE British Aerospace
BNSC British National Space Centre
BEL Bharat Electronics Limited
BIOS Basic Input Output System
BPR Business Process Re-engineering
BSE Bombay Stock Exchange
BPO Basic Input Output System
BIT Business Process Outsourcing
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CBI Central Bureau oI Investigation
CAT Common Admission Test
CAD Computer Aided Design
CID Criminal Investigation Department
CD-RW Compact Disc Re-Writable
CD-ROM Compact Disc Read-Only Memory
CD-R Compact Disc Recordable
CBSE Central Board oI Secondary Education
CSIR Council oI ScientiIic and Industrial Research
CRIS Centre Ior Railway InIormation System
CGI Common Gateway InterIace
CA Chartered Accountant
CBSE Central Board oI Secondary Education
CPWD Central Public Works Department
CGI Common Gateway InterIace
CV Circulum Vitae
COMSAT Communications Satellite
CBR Cosmic Background Radiation
DVC Damodar Valley Corporation
DTP Desktop Publishing
DC Direct Current
DBMS Database Management System
DDR Double Data Rate
DMA Direct Memory Access
DNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid
EOF End oI Iile
EDI Electronic Data Interchange
EIS Executive InIormation System
ECG Electro Cardiogram
ERNET Educational and Research Network
FBI Federal Bureau oI Investigation
FAQ Frequently Asked Question
FIFA International Football Federation
FM Frequency modulation
GATE Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering
GATS General Agreement on Trade and Services
GDP Gross Domestic Product
GSM Global System Ior Mobile Communications
GUI Graphical User InterIace
GSM Global System Ior Mobile Communications
HAL Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
HIV Human ImmunodeIiciency Virus
HMI Himalayan Mountaineering Institute
HTML Hyper Text Markup Language
ICU Intensive Care Unit
IDA International Development Agency
IEEE Institute oI Electronics and Electrical Engineers
IFC Industrial Finance Corporation
IISCO Indian Iron and Steel Company
IBM International Business Machines
IDBI Industrial Development Bank oI India
IELTS International English Language Testing System
INA Indian National Army
IELTS International English Language Testing System
INTUC Indian National Trade Union Congress
IP Internet Protocol
ISO International Standards Organisation
ITES InIormation Technology enabled services
ITU International Telecommunication Union ISO International Standards Organisation
ITI Indian Telephone Industries
ITI Industrial Training Institute
JPEG Joint Photographic Expert Group
LRSI Low-temperature Reusable SurIace Insulation
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
LCM Lowest Common Multiple
MBBS Bachelor oI Medicine and Bachelor oI Surgery
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital InterIace
MIPS Million Instructions per Second
MNC Multi National Corporation
MODEM modulator demodulator
MPEG Medical Council oI India
M.D Doctor oI Medicine
MLA Member oI Legislative Assembly
MPEG Motion Picture Experts Group
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Ad-ministration
NDA National DeIence Academy
NSUI National Students Union oI India
NTPC National Thermal Power Corporation
NASSCOM National Association oI SoItware and Service Companies
OBC Other Backward Classes
OCR Optical Character Recognition
PAN Permanent Account Number
PIN Postal Index Number
PWD Public Works Department Pc Personal Computer
RBI Reserve Bank oI India
RAW Researcha nd Analysis Wing
RNA Ribonucleic acid
ROM Read Only Memory
R&D Research and Development
RAM Random Access Memory
SCSI Small Computer Systems InterIace SMS Short Message Service
SMTP Simple Mail TransIer Protocol
STD Subscriber Trunk Dialling
SAIL Steel Authority oI India Limited SENSEX Sensitivity Index oI Share Price
SIM Subscriber InIormation Module
SLV Satellite Launch Vehicle
TOEFL Test oI English as a Foreign Language
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TFT Thin-Film Transistor
UDDI Universal Description Discovery And Integration
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UML UniIied Modeling Language
UNI United News oI India
UPSC Union Public Service Commission
URL UniIorm Resource Locator
VAT Value Added Tax
VIP Very Important Person
VIRUS Vital InIormation Resources Under Siege
VPI Virtual Path IdentiIier
VOIP Voice Over Internet Protocol
VGA Video Graphics Array
WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access
WI-FI Wireless Fidelity
WAN Wide Area Network
WHO World Health Organisation
WWW World Wide Web
XML Extensible Mark-up Language
XSLT Extensible Style Sheet Language TransIormation
XHTML Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
ZIP Zone Improvement Plan