LIST OF ABBRIVATION OF COMMON WORD
Sr. No. Abbreviation Stands For
1 AAFI Amateur
Athletics Federation of India
2 AAPSO Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity
Organisation
3 AASU All
Assam Students Union
4 ABM Anti
Ballistic Missile
5 AC Alternate
Current OR Air Conditioner
6 ACC Ancillary
Cadet Core
7 AD Ano
Domini (After the birth of Jesus)
8 ADB Asian
Development Bank.
9 AERE Atomic
Energy Research Establishment
10 AGOC Asian
Games Organisation Committee
11 AICC All
India Congress
12 AICTE All
India Council of Technical Education
13 AIDS Acquired
Immuno Deficiency Syndrome
14 AIFE All
India Football Federation
15 AIIMS All
India Institute of Medical Sciences
16 AIL Aeronautics
India Limited
17 AIMPLB All India Muslim Personal Law Board
18 AIR All
India Radio (Broadcasting)
19 AITUE All
India Trade Union Congress
20 AM Anti
Meridian (Before Noon)
21 ANC African
National Congress
22 APEC Asia
Pacific Economic Cooperation
23 APSC Army
Postal Services Core
24 ASEAN Association of South East Asian
Nations
25 ASLV Augmented
Satellite Launch Vehicle
26 ASI Archaeological
Survey of India
27 ASSOCHAM Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry
(India)
28 ASWAC Airborne Surveillance Warning and
Control
29 ATS Anti
Tetanus Serum
30 BAMS Bachelor
of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery
31 BARC Bhabha
Atomic Research Centre
32 BBC British
Broadcasting Corporation
33 BC Before
Christ (Before the birth of Jesus)
34 BCG Bacillus
Calmette Guerin (Anti TB Vaccine)
35 BCCI Board
of Control for Cricket in India
36 BEL Bharat
Electronics Limited
37 BENELUX Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg
38 BHEL Bharat
Heavy Electronics Limited
39 BIFR Board
of Industrial Finance and Reconstruction (Formerly Industrial Reconstruction
Finance Board)
40 BIMSTEC Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka,
Thailand Economic Cooperation
41 BIS Bureau
of Indian Standards
42 B
Pharma Bachelor of Pharmacy
43 BSF Border
Security Force
44 CAD Command
Area Development
45 CAG Comptroller
and Auditor General
46 CARE Cooperative
for American Relief Everywhere
47 CASE Commission
for Alternative Sources of Energy
48 CBI Central
Bureau of Investigation
49 CBSE Central.
Board of Secondary Education
50 CCEA Cabinet
Committee on Economic Affairs
51 CCS Cabinet
Committee on Security
52 C-DAC Centre For Development of Advance
Computing
53 CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
54 CDRI Central
Drug Research Institute
55 CHOGM Commonwealth Heads of Government
Meeting
56 CID Criminal
Investigation Department
57 CIS Commonwealth
of Independent States
58 CISF Central
Industrial Security Force
59 CITU Centre
of Indian Trade Unions
60 CLAT Common
Law Admission Test (Started May 2008)
61 CNG Compressed
Natural Gas
62 COD Central
Ordnance Depot
63 COFEPOSA Conservation of Foreign Exchange and
Prevention of Smuggling Act
64 CPO Central
Passport Organisation
65 CPRI Central
Power Research Institute
66 CRPF Central
Reserve Police Force
67 CRR Cash
Reserve Ratio
68 CSIR Council
of Scientific and Industrial Research
69 CSO Central
Statistical Organisation
70 CTS Computerised
Tomography Scanner
71 CVC Central
Vigilance Commission
72 DDT Dichloro
Diphenyle Tri-chloroethane
73 DFDR ‘ Digital
Flight Data Recorder (Black box)’
74 DIG Deputy
Inspector General
75 D.
Lit. Doctor
of Literature
76 DM District
Magistrate
77 DMK Dravida
Munetra Kazhagam
78 DNA Di-oxyribo-Nucleic
Acid
79 DPAP ‘ Drought
Prone Area Programme
80 DPC Dabhol
Power Company
82 DRDO Defence
Research and Development Organisation
83 DTH Direct
to Home
84 DVD Digital
Versatile Disk
85 EAS Employment
Assurance Scheme
86 ECD European
Central Bank
87 ECG Electro
Cardiogram
88 EEC European
Economic Community
89 EEG Electro
Encephalogram
90 ELISA Enzyme
Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay
91 EMF Electromotive
Force
92 EPABX Electronic Private Automatic Branch
Exchange
93 EPZ Export
Processing Zone
94 ERDA Energy
Research and Development Administration
95 ESMA Essential
Services Maintenance Act
96 EVM Electronic
Voting Machine
97 EXIM
Bank Export-Import Bank of India
98 FAO Food
and Agriculture Organisation
99 FBI Federal
Bureau of Investigation (USA)
100 FBTR Fast
Breeder Test Reactor
101 FCI Food
Corporation of India / Fertilizer Corporation of India
102 FDR Flight
Data Recorder (Black
103 FERA Foreign
Exchange Regulation
104 FEMA Foreign
Exchange Management Act
105 FICCI Federation
of India Chambers of Commerce and Industry
106 FIPB Foreign
Investment Promotion Board
107 FIR First
Information Report
108 FRS Fellow
of the Royal
109 FTII Films
and Television Institute of India
110 FTZ Free
Trade Zone
111 GAIL Gas
Authority of India Limited
112 GATT General
Agreement on Tariff and Trade
113 GIC General
Insurance Corporation
114 GMT Greenwich
Mean Time
115 GNLF Gorkha
National Liberation Front
116 GNP Gross
National Product
117 GPF General
Provident Fund
118 GPO General
Post Office
119 GPS Global
Positioning System
120 GSI Geological
Survey of India
121 HAC Hindustan
Aluminium Corporation
122 HAL Hindustan
Aeronautics Limited
123 HCF Highest
Common Factor
124 HDFC Housing
Development Finance Corporation
125 HIV Human
Immuno-deficiency Virus
126 HMT
Machine Tools
127 HUDCO Housing and Urban Development
Corporation
128 HYVS High
Yield Variety Seeds
129 IAAI International
Airport Authority of India
130 lAC Indian
Airlines Corporation
131 IAEA International
Atomic Energy Agency
132 IARI Indian
Agricultural Research Institute
133 IBRD International
Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)
134 ICAR Indian
Council of Agricultural Research
135 ICBM Inter
Continental Ballistic Missile
136 ICC International
Cricket Council
137 ICFTU International
Confederation of Free Trade Unions
138 ICICI Industrial
Credit and Investment Corporation of India Limited
139 ICJ International
Court of Justice
140 ICMR Indian
Council of Medical Research
141 ICSI Indian
Company Secretaries Institute
142 IDA International
Development Agency
143 IDBI Industrial
Development Bank of India
144 IDO International
Defence
145 IDPL Indian
Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited
146 IFA Indian
Football Association
147 IFCI Industrial
Finance Corporation of India
148 IFFI International
Film Festival of India
149 IFFCO Indian
Farmers Fertilizers Cooperative
150 IFTU International
Federation of Trade Unions
151 IIPA Indian
Institute of Public Administration
152 IIS Indian
Institute of Sciences
153 IISCO Indian
Iron and Steel Company
154 IIT Indian
Institute of Technology
155 ILO International
Labour Organisation
156 IMA Indian
Military Academy
157 IMF International
Monetary Fund
158 INGCA Indira Gandhi Gallery for Culture and
Art
159 INS
Naval Ship
160 INSAT Indian
National Satellite
161 INTELSAT International Telecommunication Satellite
162 INTERPOL International Police Organisation
163 INTUC Indian National Trade Union Congress
164 IOC International
Olympic Committee / Indian Oil Corporation
165 IPC Indian
Penal Code
166 IPKF Indian
Peace Keeping Force
167 IQ Intelligence
Quotient
168 IRBM Intermediate
Range Ballistic Missile
169 IRC International
Red Cross
170 IRDA Insurance
Regulatory Development Authority
171 IRDP Integrated
Rural Development Programme
172 ISB Indian
Standard Bureau
173 ISM Indian
School of Mines
174 ISO International
Organisation for Standardisation
175 ISP Internet
Services Provider
176 ISRO Indian
Space Research Organisation
177 IST Indian
Standard Time
178 ITBP Indo-Tibet
Border Police
179 ITDC Indian
Tourism Development Corporation
180 ITPO Indian
Trade Promotion Organisation
181 ITO International
Trade Organisation
182 IUCN International
Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resource
183 ITUC Indian
Trade Union Congress
184 JMM Jharkhand
Mukti Morcha
185 KG Kinder
Garten
186 LASER Light Amplification By Stimulated
Emission of Radiation
187 LIC Life
Insurance Corporation of India
188 LLB Bachelor
of Law
189 LLM Master
of Law
190 LMG Light
Machine Gun
191 LoC Line
of Control (Pakistan)
192 LoAC Line
of Actual Control (China)
193 LPG Liquefied
Petroleum Gas
194 LSD Lysergic
acid diethylamide
195 LTTE Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Elam
196 MA Master
of Arts
197 MASER Microwave Amplification by Stimulated
Emission of Radiation
198 MBA Master
of Business Administration
199 MBBS Bachelor
of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
200 MBT Main
Battle Tank
201 MCA Monetary
Compensatory Allowance / Master of Computer Application
202 MCC Melbourne
Cricket Club
203 MD Doctor
of Medicine
204 MFN Most
Favoured Nation
205 MI Military
Intelligence
206 MISA Maintenance
of Internal Security Act
207 MIT Mechachusates
Institute of Technology (USA)
208 MLA Member
of Legislative Assembly
209 MLC Member
of Legislative Council
210 MNC Multi
National Corporation
211 MRCP Member
of Royal College of Physicians
212 MRCS Member
of Royal College of Surgeons
213 MRTPC Monopoly and Restrictive Trade
Practices Commission
214 MODVAT Modified Value Added Tax
215 NABARD National Bank for Agricultural and Rural
Development
216 NACO National
AIDS Control Organisation
217 NAEP National
Adult Education Programme
218 NAFED National Agricultural and Marketing
Federation
219 NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement
220 NAPP Narora
Atomic Power Plant
221 NASA National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA)
222 NASDAQ National Association of Security Dealer’s
Active Quotation
223 NASSCOM National Association of Software &
Service Companies
224 NATO North
Atlantic Treaty Organisation
225 NCW National
Commission for Women
226 NCCR National
Council for Civil Right
227 NCERT National Council of Educational
Research & Training
228 NDA National
Defence Academy
229 NDDB National
Dairy Development Board
230 NDF National
Defence Fund.
231 NEERI National
Environment Engineering Research Institute
232 NEFA North-East
Frontier Agency
233 NEPA National
Environment Protection Authority
234 NFDC National
Film Development Corporation
235 NFL National
Fertilizer Limited
236 NHRC National
Human Rights Commission
237 NICO New
Information and Communication Order
238 NIDC National
Industrial Development Corporation
239 NIIT National
Institute of Information Technology
240 NIMHANS National Institute of Mental Health and
Neuro-Sciences
241 NITIE National
Institute for Training in Industrial Engineering
242 NMDS National
Missile Defence System (US)
243 NMEP National
Malaria Eradication Programme
244 NOIDA New Okhla Industrial Development
Authority
245 NPC National
Productivity Council
246 NPP National
Population Policy
247 NPT Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty
248 NRDC National
Research and Development Corporation
249 NREP National
Rural Employment Programme
250 NRI Non
Resident Indian
251 NSC National
Security Council
252 NSSO National
Sample Survey Organisation
253 NTC National
Textile Corporation
254 NTPC National Thermal Power Corporation
255 OGL Open General Licence
256 OIL Oil India
257 OK All Correct
258 ONGC Oil and Natural Gas
Commission
259 OPEC Organisation of Petroleum
Exporting
260 PCI Press Council of India
261 PCS Provincial Civil Services
262 Ph.
D Doctor of ‘Philosophy
263 PIN Postal lndex Number
264 PLO Palestine Liberation
Organisation
265 PM Post Meridian / Prime Minister
266 POTA Prevention of Terrorism Act
267 PSLV Polar. Satellite Launch Vehicle
268 PTI Press Trust of India
269 PRO Public Relations Officer
270 PTO Please Turn Over
271 PVC Poly Vinyl Chloride / Paramvir
Chakra
272 PVSM Param Vishisht Seva Medal
273 PWD Public Work’s Department
274 PWG People’s War Group
275 QED Quod Erat Demonstrandum (Which was
to be proved)
276 QEF Quod Erat Faciendum (Which was
to be done)
277 QEI Quod Erat Inveniendum (Which
was to be found)
278 QMG Quarter Master General
279 RADAR Radio Angle Direction and Range
280 RAW Research and Analysis Wing
281 R
& D Research and
Development
282 RBI Reserve Bank of India
283 RCC Reinforced Cement Concrete
284 RDX Research Developed Explosive
285 RIMC Rashtriya Indian Military College
286 RMS Railway Mail Service
287 RLEGP Rural Landless Employment Guarantee
Programme
288 RNA Ribonucleic Acid
289 RPM Revolutions Per Minute
290 RSS Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
291 RTO Transport Officer
292 SAARC South Asian Association for Regional
Cooperation
293 SAC Space Application Centre
294 SAFTA South Asian Free Trade
295 SAI Sports Authority of India
296 SAIL Steel Authority of India Limited
297 SAPTA South Asian Preferential Trade
Arrangement
298 SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
299 SC Security Council/Supreme
Court
300 SCI Shipping Corporation of India
301 SCOPE Standing Conference of Public
Enterprises
302 SCRA Special Class Railway Apprentice
303 SDR Special Drawing Rights
304 SEBI Security Exchange Board of India
305 SGPC Siromani Gurudwara Prabandhak
Committee
306 SHAR Shri Harikota Range
307 SIDBI Small Industries Development Bank
of India
308 SIS Secret Intelligence Service
(U.K)
309 SITA Suppression of .Immoral Traffic
in Women and Girls Act
310 SLV Satellite Launch Vehicle
311 SPCA Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty of Animals
312 SPICMC Society for the Promotion of Indian
Classical music and culture
313 STARS Satellite Tracking and Ranging
Station
314 STD Subscribers Trunk Dialing
315 STPI Software Technology Parks of
316 SWAPO South West African People’s
Organisation
317 TA Travelling Aliowance /
Territorial Anmy
318 TELCO Tata Engineering and Locomotive
Company
319 TELEX Teleprinter Exchange
320 TISCO Tata Iron and Steel
Company Limited
321 TNT Tri-nitro-toluene
322 TOEFL Test of English as a Foreign
Language
323 TRAI Telecom Regulatory Authority of
India
324 TRIPS Trade Related Intellectual Property
Rights
325 TTE Travelling Ticket Examiner
326 TTFI Table Tennis Federation of India
327 TWA Trans World Airlines (USA)
328 UDC Upper Division Clerk
329 UFO Unidentified Flying Object
330 UGC University Grants Commission
331 UHT Ultra High Temperature
332 ULFA United Liberation Front of Assam
333 UNASUR Union of South American Nations (Spanish:
Unión de Naciones Suramericanas)
334 UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development
335 UNDP United Nations Development
Programme
336 UNEF United Nations Emergency Force
337 UNEP United Nations Environment
Programme
338 UNESCO United Nations Economic Social and
Cultural Organisation
339 UNFPA United Nations for Population
Activities
340 UNHCR United Nations High Commission for
Refugees
341 UNI United News of India
342 UNICEF United Nations International Children’s
Emergency Fund
343 UNO United Nations Organisation
344 UPS Uninterrupted Power Supply
345 UPSC Union Public Service Commission
346 USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republic
347 UTI Unit Trust of India
348 VAT Value Added Tax
349 VDIS Voluntary Disclosure of Income
Scheme
350 VC Vice-Chancellor / Victoria
Cross
351 VIP Very Important Person
352 VPP Value Payable Post
353 VRS Voluntary Retirement Scheme
354 VSNL Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited
355 VSSC Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
356 WEF World Economic Forum
357 WHO World Health Organisation
358 WILL Wireless in Local Loop
359 WMO World Meteorological
360 WWF World Wild Life Fund
361 WPI Wholesale Price Index
362 WTO World Trade Organisation
363 WWF World Wild Life Fund for Nature
364 WWW World Wide Web
365 YMCA Young Men’s Christians Association
366 YWCA Young Women’s Christians Association
367 ZBB Zero Based Budgeting
368 ZSI Zoological Survey of India
LIST OF ABBRIVATION OF DEGREE
- A -
AA - Associate in Arts
AM - Master of Arts
AS - Associate in Science
AB - Bachelor of Arts
- B -
BA - Bachelor of Arts
BABA - Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration
BD - Bachelor of Divinity
BEng - Bachelor of Engineering
BFA - Bachelor of Fine Arts
BM - Bachelor of Music
BMus - Bachelor of Music
BS - Bachelor of Science
BSc - Bachelor of Science
BSE - Bachelor of Science in Engineering
BSN - Bachelor of Science in Nursing
BSW - Bachelor of Social Work
- C -
ChB - Bachelor of Surgery (a British medical degree)
- D -
DD - Doctor of Divinity
DDS - Doctor of Dental Surgery
DMD - Doctor of Medical Dentistry
DO - Doctor of Osteopathy
DPod - Doctor of Podiatry
DSc - Doctor of Science
DVM - Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
- E -
EdD - Doctor of Education
- J -
JD - Juris Doctor
- L -
LHD - Doctor of Humane Letters*
LittB - Bachelor of Letters
LittM - Master of Letters
LittD - Doctor of Letters*
LLB - Bachelor of Laws
LLD - Doctor of Laws*
LLM - Master of Laws
- M -
MA - Master of Arts
MALS - Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
MAT - Master of Arts in Teaching
MB - Bachelor of Medicine (a British medical degree)
MBA - Master of Business Administration
MD - Medical Doctor
MDiv- Master of Divinity
MEd - Master of Education
MEM - Master of Environmental Management, Master of Engineering Management
MEng - Master of Engineering
MF - Master of Forestry
MFA - Master of Fine Arts
MHS - Master of Health Sciences
MLS - Master of Library
MM - Master of Music
MPA - Master of Public Administration
MPH - Master of Public Health
MPhil - Master of Philosophy
MPP - Master of Public Policy
MS - Master of Science
MSc - Master of Science
MSN - Master of Science in Nursing
MSW - Master of Social Work
MTh - Master of Theology
- N -
ND - Doctor of Naturopathy
- P -
PharmD - Doctor of Pharmacy
PhD - Doctor of Philosophy
PsyD - Doctor of Psychology
- S -
SB - Bachelor of Science
ScB - Bachelor of Science
ScM - Master of Science
ScD - Doctor of Science
SJD - Doctor of Juridical Science
- T -
LIST OF ABBRIVATION OF COMPUTER WORD
- A -
ADSL – Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AGP – Accelerated Graphics Port
ALI – Acer Labs, Incorporated
ALU – Arithmetic Logic Unit
AMD – Advanced Micro Devices
APC – American Power Conversion
ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASIC – Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASPI – Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
AT – Advanced Technology
ATI – ATI Technologies Inc.
ATX – Advanced Technology Extended
— B —
BFG – BFG Technologies
BIOS – Basic Input Output System
BNC – Barrel Nut Connector
— C —
CAS – Column Address Signal
CD – Compact Disk
CDR – Compact Disk Recorder
CDRW – Compact Disk Re-Writer
CD-ROM – Compact Disk – Read Only Memory
CFM – Cubic Feet per Minute (ft?/min)
CMOS – Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CPU – Central Processing Unit
CTX – CTX Technology Corporation (Commited to Excellence)
— D —
DDR – Double Data Rate
DDR-SDRAM – Double Data Rate – Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
DFI – DFI Inc. (Design for Innovation)
DIMM – Dual Inline Memory Module
DRAM – Dynamic Random Access Memory
DPI – Dots Per Inch
DSL – See ASDL
DVD – Digital Versatile Disc
DVD-RAM – Digital Versatile Disk – Random Access Memory
— E —
ECC – Error Correction Code
ECS – Elitegroup Computer Systems
EDO – Extended Data Out
EEPROM – Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EPROM – Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EVGA – EVGA Corporation
— F —
FC-PGA – Flip Chip Pin Grid Array
FDC – Floppy Disk Controller
FDD – Floppy Disk Drive
FPS – Frame Per Second
FPU – Floating Point Unit
FSAA – Full Screen Anti-Aliasing
FS – For Sale
FSB – Front Side Bus
— G —
GB – Gigabytes
GBps – Gigabytes per second or Gigabits per second
GDI – Graphical Device Interface
GHz – GigaHertz
— H —
HDD – Hard Disk Drive
HIS – Hightech Information System Limited
HP – Hewlett-Packard Development Company
HSF – Heatsink-Fan
— I —
IBM – International Business Machines Corporation
IC – Integrated Circuit
IDE – Integrated Drive Electronics
IFS- Item for Sale
IRQ – Interrupt Request
ISA – Industry Standard Architecture
ISO – International Standards Organization
— J —
JBL – JBL (Jame B. Lansing) Speakers
JVC – JVC Company of America
- K —
Kbps – Kilobits Per Second
KBps – KiloBytes per second
— L —
LG – LG Electronics
LAN – Local Area Network
LCD – Liquid Crystal Display
LDT – Lightning Data Transport
LED – Light Emitting Diode
— M —
MAC – Media Access Control
MB - MotherBoard or Megabyte
MBps – Megabytes Per Second
Mbps – Megabits Per Second or Megabits Per Second
MHz – MegaHertz
MIPS – Million Instructions Per Second
MMX – Multi-Media Extensions
MSI – Micro Star International
— N —
NAS – Network Attached Storage
NAT – Network Address Translation
NEC – NEC Corporation
NIC – Network Interface Card
— O —
OC – Overclock (Over Clock)
OCZ – OCZ Technology
OEM – Original Equipment Manufacturer
OS - operating system
— P —
PC – Personal Computer
PCB – Printed Circuit Board
PCI – Peripheral Component Interconnect
PDA – Personal Digital Assistant
PCMCIA – Peripheral Component Microchannel Interconnect Architecture
PGA – Professional Graphics Array
PLD – Programmable Logic Device
PM – Private Message / Private Messaging
PnP – Plug ‘n Play
PNY – PNY Technology
POST – Power On Self Test
PPPoA – Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
PPPoE – Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet
PQI – PQI Corporation
PSU – Power Supply Unit
— R —
RAID – Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RAM – Random Access Memory
RAMDAC – Random Access Memory Digital Analog Convertor
RDRAM – Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory
ROM – Read Only Memory
RPM – Revolutions Per Minute
— S —
SASID – Self-scanned Amorphous Silicon Integrated Display
SCA – SCSI Configured Automatically
SCSI – Small Computer System Interface
SDRAM – Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SECC – Single Edge Contact Connector
SODIMM – Small Outline Dual Inline Memory Module
SPARC – Scalable Processor ArChitecture
SOHO – Small Office Home Office
SRAM – Static Random Access Memory
SSE – Streaming SIMD Extensions
SVGA – Super Video Graphics Array
S/PDIF – Sony/Philips Digital Interface
— T —
TB – Terabytes
TBps – Terabytes per second
Tbps – Terabits per second
TDK – TDK Electronics
TEC – Thermoelectric Cooler
TPC – TipidPC
TWAIN – Technology Without An Important Name
— U —
UART – Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
USB – Universal Serial Bus
UTP – Unshieled Twisted Pair
— V —
VCD – Video CD
VPN – Virtual Private Network
— W —
WAN – Wide Area Network
WTB – Want to Buy
WYSIWYG – What You See Is What You Get
— X —
XGA – Extended Graphics Array
XFX – XFX Graphics, a Division of Pine
XMS – Extended Memory Specification
XT – Extended Technology