Full Forms List

There are given a list of full forms on different topics. These terms can be categorized in
educational, organizational, finance, IT, technology, science, computer, and general categories.
To get complete knowledge of each term, visit the links of each acronym.

A to Z Full Forms List

A Full Forms
Acronym Full-Form

AAI Airport Authority of India

ABG Arterial Blood Gas

ABP Ananda Bazaar Patrika News

ABM Anti Balistic Missile

ABS Anti-lock Braking System

AC Alternating Current

ACD Automatic Call Distributor

ACC Associated Cement Companies

ACP Assistant Commissioner of Police

ACS American Chemical Society

ACU Asian Currency Union

AD Anno Domini

ADB Asian Development Bank

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 ADIDAS Adolf “Adi” Dassler

ADHD Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

ADR American Depository Receipt

AHRC Asian Human Rights Commission

AIAAA American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

AICTE All India Council for Technical Education

AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

AJAX Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

ALS Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

AM and PM AM: Anti Meridiem, PM: Post Meridiem

AMC Annual Maintenance Contract, American Motors Corporation

AMIE Associate Member of the Institution of Engineers

AML Acute Myeloid Leukemia

AMUL Anand Milk Union Limited

AMW Asian Motors Limited

ANM Auxiliary Nurse Midwifery

API Application Programming Interface

APJ Abdul Kalam Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam

APK Android Application Package

ARMD Age Related Macular Degeneration

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 ARDS Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

ASAP As Soon As Possible

ASAT Anti-satellite weapons

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations

ASLV Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle

ASP Active Server Page

ASR Automated Speech Recognition

ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials

ATA Advanced Technology Attachment

AT&T American Telephone & Telegraph Company

ATM Automated Teller Machine

ATP Adenosine Triphosphate

ATS Anti-Terrorism Squad

AWACS Airborne Warning and Control System

AWACS Airborne Warning and Control System

AWS Amazon Web Services

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B Full Forms
Acronym Full-Form

BA Bachelor of Arts

BAE Before Anyone Else

BAMS Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery

BARC Bhaba Atomic Research Center

BASIC Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BBA Bachelor of Business Administration

BBC British Broadcasting Corporation

BCA Bachelor of Computer Applications

BCCI Board of Control of Cricket in India

BCE Before Common Era

BCG Bacillus Calmette-Guerin

B.Com Bachelor of Commerce

BDO Block Development Officer

BDS Bachelor of Dental Surgery

B.Ed Bachelor of Education

BE Bachelor of Engineering

BFSI Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance

BHIM Bharat Interface for Money

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 BHMS Bachelor of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery

BIFR Board of Industrial and Financial Reconstruction

BIOS Basic Input Output System

BIS Bureau of Indian Standards

BKU Bhartiya Kisan Union

BLOB Binary Large Object

BMC Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation

BMD Bone Mineral Density

BMI Body Mass Index

BMR Basal Metabolic Rate

BMS Bachelor of Management Studies & Business Management System

BMT Bone Marrow Transplant

BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke

BOB Bank of Baroda

BODMAS Bracket, of, Division, Multiplication, Addition, and Subtraction

BPL Below Poverty Line & British Physical Laboratories Group

BPO Business Process Outsourcing

BRB Be Right Back

BRICS Brazil Russia India China And South Africa

BRO Border Road Organization

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 BSC Bachelor of Science, Base Station Controller

BSF Border Security Force

BTC Bodo Territorial Council

B.Tech Bachelor of Technology

BTS Bangtan Sonyeondan

BUN Blood Urea Nitrogen

C Full Forms
Acronym Full Form

CA Chartered Accountant

CAA Citizenship Amendment Act

CCA City Compensatory Allowance

CABG Coronary Artery Bypass Graft

CAD Computer Aided Design

CAG Comptroller and Auditor General of India

CAIIB Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers

CAGR Compound Annual Growth Rate

CAT Common Admission Test

CBC Complete Blood Count

CBI Central bureau of Investigation & Central Bank of India

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 CBSE Central Board of Secondary Education

CC Cubic Capacity/ Cubic Centimeter, Carbon Copy

CCC Course on Computer Concepts

CCIL Clearing Corporation of India Limited

CCTV Closed Circuit Television

CD Compact Disc

CDMA Code Division Multiple Access

CEO Chief Executive Officer

CFA Chartered Financial Analyst

CFL Compact fluorescent lamp

CFT Complement Fixation Test

CFO Chief Financial Officer

CGI Computer Generated Imagery

CGL Combined Graduate Level

CGPA Cumulative Grade Point Average

CHF Congestive Heart Failure

CIA Central Intelligence Agency

CIBIL Credit Information Bureau (India) Limited

CIF Customer Information File

CID Crime Investigation Department

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 CII Confederation of Indian Industry

CISF Central Industrial Security Force

CMA Credit Monitoring Analysis

CML Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia

CMO Chief Medical Officer

CMS Content Management System

CMV Cytomegalovirus

CNC Computerized Numerical Control

CNG Compressed Natural Gas

COB Close of Business

COBOL Common Business Oriented Language

COO Chief Operating Officer

COPD Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

COVID 19 Corona Virus disease of 2019

CPCB Central Pollution Control Board

CPM Cost per Mile

CPO Central Police Organisation

CPR Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation

CPT Common Proficiency Test

CPU Central Processing Unit

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 CRISIL Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited

CRM Customer Relationship Management

CRP C-reactive protein

CRPF Central Reserve Police Force

CRR Cash Reserve Ratio

CRT Cathode Ray Tube

CS Company Secretary & Computer Science

CSC Common Service Centre

CSE Computer Science Engineering

CSIR Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

CSR Corporate Social Responsibility

CSS Cascading Style Sheet

CST Central Sales Tax, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Central Standard Time

CTBT Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

CTC Cost To Company

CTO Chief Technology Officer

CTS Cheque Truncation System & Clear to Send

CV Curriculum Vitae

CVA Cerebral Vascular Accident or Cerebrovascular Accident

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 No, but can be termed as Common Operating Machine Purposely Used for
COMPUTER
Technological and Educational Research

D Full Forms
Acronym Full-Form

DC Data Compression & Direct Current

DCB Development Credit Bank

DDT DichloroDiphenylTrichloroethane

DEAF Depositor Education and Awareness Fund

DCA Diploma in Computer Application

DGP Director-General of Police

DHL Dalsey Hillblom Lynn

DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DHT Dihydrotestosterone

DIG Deputy Inspector General

DIY Do it Yourself

DJ Disc Jockey

DJD Degenerative Joint Disease

DLF Delhi Land and Finance

DNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid

DNB Diplomate of National Board

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 DNS Domain Name System

DPI Dots Per Inch

DRDO Defense Research and Development Organization

DSC Digital Signature Certificate

DSL Digital Subscriber Line

DSLR Digital single-lens reflex

DSP Deputy Superintendent of Police

DST Department of Science & Technology

DTP Desk-Top Publishing, Distributed Transaction Processing

DVC Damodar Valley Corporation

DVD Digital Video Disc, Digital Versatile Disc

DVT Deep Vein Thrombosis

DP Display Picture & Data Processing

DS Group Dharampal Satyapal Group

E Full Forms
Acronym Full-Form

EBRT External Beam Radiation Therapy

EBV Epstein – Barr virus

ECC Excise Control Code

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 ECE Electronic and Communication Engineering

ECG Electrocardiogram

ECR Emigration Check Required

ECS Electronic Clearing Service

ECT Electroconvulsive Therapy

ED Enforcement Directorate

EDGE Enhanced Data Rates for GSM (Global System for Mobile) Evolution

EDI Electronic Data Interchange

EDP Electronic Data Processing

EDTA Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid

EEE Electrical and Electronics Engineering

EEG Electroencephalogram

EJB Enterprise Java Bean

ELSS Equity-linked Saving Scheme

EMG Electromyogram

EMI Equated Monthly Installment

ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer

ENT Ear Nose Throat

EOD End of the Day

EPABX Full Form Electronic Private Automatic Branch Exchange

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 EPC Engineering, Procurement and Construction

ERNET Education and Research Network

EPFO Employee Provident Fund Organization

ERP Enterprise Resource Planning

ESI Employee’s State Insurance

ESIC Employees State Insurance Corporation

ETA Estimated Time of Arrival

ETC Et cetera

EWS Economically Weaker Section

EVS Environmental Studies or Environmental Sciences

F Full Forms
Acronym Full Form

FATCA Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act

FAX Facsimile

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation

FCCB Foreign Currency Convertible Bond

FCI Food Corporation of India

FDI Foreign Direct Investment

FEMA Foreign Exchange Management Act

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 FHR Fetal Heart Rate

FICCI Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry

FIFA Federation Internationale de Football Association

FIR First Information Report

FMCG Fast-Moving Consumer Goods

FM Frequency Modulation

FOB Free on Board

FOMO Fear of Missing Out

F.O.R Freight on Road

FORTRAN FORmula TRANslation

FSSAI Food Safety and Standards Authority of India

FTP File Transfer Protocol

FUP Fair Usage Policy

FYI For Your Information

G Full Forms
Acronym Full Form

GAIL Gas Authority of India Limited

GATE Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering

GBP Great Britain Pound

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 GCC GNU Compiler Collection

GDP Gross Domestic Product

GFR Glomerular Filtration Rate

GIF Graphics Interchange Format

GIS Geographic Information System

GMO Genetically Modified Organism

GMT Greenwich Mean Time

GNM General Nursing and Midwifery

GNU GNU’s Not UNIX

GPA Grade Point Average

GPRS General Packet Radio Service

GPS Global Positioning System

GRE Graduate Record Examination

GSLV Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle

GSM Global System for Mobile communication

GST Goods and Service Tax

GTT Glucose Tolerance Test

GUI Graphical USer Interface

GOOGLE Global Organization Of Oriented Group Language Of Earth

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H Full Forms
Acronym Full Form

HCL Hindustan Computers Limited

HD High Definition

HDI Human Development Index

HDFC Housing Development Finance Corporation

HDMI High Definition Multimedia Interface

HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus

HP Hewlett-Packard

HR Human Resources

HSBC Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation

HSC Higher Secondary Certificate & Higher Secondary School Certificate

HSN Harmonized System of Nomenclature

HTC High Tech Computer

HTML Hyper Text Markup Language

HTTP Hyper Text Transfer protocol

HUDCO Housing and Urban Development Corporation Limited

HVAC Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning

HVDC High Voltage Direct Current Transmission

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I Full Forms
Acronym Full Form

IAC Internal Acoustic Canal

IAC International Administration Centre

IAS Indian Administrative Service

IATA International Air Transport Association

IB Intelligence Bureau

IBM International Business Machines

IBPS Institute of Banking Personnel Selection

IC Integrated Circuit

ICAR Indian Council of Agricultural Research

ICC International Cricket Council

ICD Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD)

ICDS Integrated Child Development Services

ICICI Credit and Investment Corporation of India

ICMR Indian Council of Medical Research

ICRA Investment Information and Credit Rating Agency

ICSE Indian Certificate of Secondary Education

ICT Information and Communications Technology

ICU Intensive Care Unit

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 ICWA Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India, Indian Child Welfare Act

ID Identity Document

IDBI Industrial Development Bank of India

IDE Integrated Development Environment & Integrated Drive Electronics

IEC International Electrotechnical Commission

IED Improvised Explosive Device

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IELTS International English Language Testing System

IES Indian Engineering Services

IDFC Infrastructure Development Finance Company

IFFCO Indian Farmers Fertilizer Cooperative Limited

IFS Indian Foreign Service

IFSC Indian Financial System Code

IG Inspector General of Police

IGST Integrated Goods and Services Tax

IIFL India Infoline Finance Limited

IIT Indian Institute of Technology

IKR I know, Right?

IL&FS Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services

IMA Indian Military Academy & Indian Medical Association

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 IMAO In My Arrogant Opinion

IMDb Internet Movie Database

IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identity

IMF International Monetary Fund

IMO In My Opinion & International Maritime Organization

INDIA No, but can be termed as Independent National Democratic Intelligent Area

INR Indian Rupee

INS Indian Navy Ship

INTERNET Interconnected Network

IOC International Olympic Committee

iOS iPhone Operating System

IPC Interprocess Communication

IPCC Integrated Professional Competence Course

IP Internet Protocol

IPI International Press Institute

IPL Indian Premier League

IPO Initial Public Offering

IPS Indian Police Service, In-Plane Switching, Intrusion Prevention System

IQ Intelligence Quotient

IRCTC Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation

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 Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority & Infrared DATA
IRDA
Association

IRDP Integrated Rural Development Programme

IRS Indian Revenue Service

ISC Indian School Certificate

ISD International Subscriber Dialing

ISI Indian Standards Institute

ISKCON International Society for Krishna Consciousness

ISO International Organization for Standardization

ISP Internet Service Provider

ISRO Indian Space Research Organization

ITBP Indo-Tibetan Border Police

Indian Tobacco Company, International Trade Center, Independent Telephone

ITC
Company

ITES Information Technology Enabled Services

IT Information Technology & Income Tax

ITP Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

ITI Industrial Training Institute

ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library

IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature

IUPAC International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

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 IVF IN Vitro Fertilization

IVR Interactive Voice Response

J Full Forms
Acronym Full Form

JAIIB Junior Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers

JBL James Bullough Lansing

JCB Joseph Cyril Bamford

JCV John Cunningham Virus

JEE Joint Entrance Examination

JK Tyre Juggilal Kamlapat Ji Tyres

JNU Jawaharlal Nehru University

JPG Joint Photographic Experts Group

JSF JavaServer Faces

JVD Jugular Vein Distension

JSON JavaScript Object Notation

K Full Forms
Acronym Full Form

Kbps Kilobits per second

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 KEI Krishna Electricals Industries Limited

KFC Kentucky Fried Chicken

KGF Kolar Gold Fields

KPI Key Performance Indicator

KPMG KLYNVELD PEAT MARWICK GOERDELER

KPO Knowledge Process Outsourcing

KRA Key Result Area/ Key Responsibility Area

KRPL Khushi Ram Behari Lal Limited

KTM Kraftfahrzeuge Trunkenpolz Mattighofen

KYC Know Your Customer

L Full Forms
Acronym Full Form

LASER Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

LBS Pound-Mass or Pound & Location Based Service

LCD Liquid Cristal Display

LDL Low Density Lipoprotein

LED Light Emitting Diode

LFT Liver Function Tests

LG Lieutenant Governor, Lucky Goldstar

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 LGBT Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender

LIC Life Insurance Corporation of India

LKG Lower Kindergarten

LLB Legum Baccalaureus in Latin, Bachelor of Laws

LLM Legum Magister

LLP Limited Liability Partnership

LMAO Laughing My A** Off

LMFAO Laughing My Fucking Ass Off

LOL Laughing Out Loud

LPG Liquefied Petroleum Gas

L&T Larsen and Toubro

LTE Long Term Evolution

No, but can be Life’s Only Valuable Emotion, Long Lasting Original Valuable
LOVE
Emotion

M Full Forms
—>

Acronym Full Form

MAC Media Access Control Address

MBA Master of Business Administration

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 Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (Medicinae Baccalaureus,
MBBS
Baccalaureus Chirurgiae in Latin)

MBPS Megabits per Second

MC Menstrual Cycle

MCA Master of Computer Application

MCB Miniature Circuit Breaker

MCLR Marginal Cost of Funds based Lending Rate

MCH Mean Corpuscular Haemoglobin

MD Doctor of Medicine

MGNREGA Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

MHA Ministry of Home Affairs

MICR Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

MIS Management Information System

MLA Member of Legislative Assembly

MLC Member of the Legislative Council

MMID Mobile Money Identifier

MMR Measles Mumps and Rubella

MMS Multimedia Messaging Service

MoES Ministry of Earth Sciences

MOU Memorandum of Understanding

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 MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group

MR Medical Representative

MRF Madras Rubber Factory

MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging

MRP Maximum Retail Price

MS Master of Science , Master of Surgery , MicroSoft

MSC Mobile Switching Center & Master of Science

MSME Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

MTNL Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited

MTS Microsoft Transaction Server

N Full Forms
Acronym Full Form

NAAC National Assessment and Accreditation Council

NABARD National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development

NABH National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers

NAC Network Access Control

NACH National Automated Clearing House Payment Solution

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASDAQ National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

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 NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NBFC Non-Banking Financial Companies

NCC National Cadet Corps

NCERT National Council of Educational Research and Training

NCR National Capital Region

NDA National Defence Academy, National Democratic Alliance

NDRF National Disaster Response Force

NDTV New Delhi Television

NEET National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test

NEFT National Electronic Funds Transfer

NET National Eligibility Test

NFC Near Field Communication

NGO Non-Governmental Organization

NIA National Investigation Agency

NIC National Informatics Centre

NIFTY National Stack Exchange Fifty

NIIT National Institute of Information Technology

NOC No Objection Certificate

NOTA None of the Above

NPA Non Performing Assets

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 NPCI National Payments Corporation of India

NPR National Population Register

NRI Non-Resident Indian

NSA National Security Advisor

NSDL National Securities Depository Limited

NSE National Stock Exchange

NSUI National Students’ Union of India

NSS National Service Scheme

NTPC National Thermal Power Corporation

NTG Nitroglycerin

O Full Forms
Acronym Full Form

OP Overpowered

OCD Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

OCR Optical Character Recognition

OECD Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer

OK Olla Kalla or Oll Korrect

OMR Optical Mark Recognition

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 ONGC Oil and Natural Gas Corporation

OOTD Outfit of the Day

OPD Outpatient Department

OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

OSA Obstructive Sleep Apnea

OTP One-time Password

OTT Over the Top

P Full Forms
Acronym Full Form

PAC Provincial Armed Constabulary

PAN Permanent Account Number

PBX Private Branch Exchange

PCB Printed Circuit Board

PCC Police Clearance Certificate

PCI Press Council of India

PCO Public Call Office

PCOD Polycystic Ovarian Disease

PCR Polymerase Chain Reaction

PCS Provincial Civil Service

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 PDA Personal Digital Assistant

PDF Portable Document Format

PET Polyethylene Terephthalate

PFA Please Find Attachment, Predictive Failure Analysis

PFMS Public Financial Management System

PG Paying Guest

PGDCA Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application

PGDM Post Graduate Diploma in Management

PHD Doctor of Philosophy

PH Potential of Hydrogen

PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (earlier called, Personal Home Page)

PID Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

PIL Public Interest Litigation

PIN Personal Identification Number

PING Packet InterNet Groper

PKC Public Key Cryptography

PKD Polycystic Kidney Disease

PMS Premenstrual Syndrome

PNB Punjab National Bank

PNG Portable Network Graphics

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 PNR Passenger Name Record

PO Probationary Officer & Post Office

POC Proof of Concept

POS Point of Sale

PS Postscript

PSC Public Service Commission

PSI Pound per Square Inch & Population Services International

PSLV Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle

PSU Public Sector Undertaking, Power Supply Unit

PTO Please Turn Over & Paid Time Off

PTSD Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

PUBG Public Works Department

PUC Pollution Under Control , Pre University Course , Personal Unlock Code

PVC Poly Vinyl Chloride

PVR Priya Village Roadshow

PWD Public Works Department

Q Full Forms
QR Code Quick Response Code

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R Full Forms
Acronym Full Form

RAC Reservation Against Cancellation

RADAR Radio Detection And Ranging

RAM Random Access Memory

RAW Research and Analysis Wing

RBC Red Blood Cell

RBL Ratnakar Bank Limited

RDX Research Department Explosive / Royal Demolition Explosive

RERA Real Estate Regulatory Authority

RFID Radio Frequency Identification

RHD Rheumatic Heart Disease

RIP Rest In Peace, Routing Information Protocol

RNA Ribonucleic Acid

ROFL Rolling On Floor Laughing

RO,UV,UF Reverse Osmosis , Ultraviolet , Ultrafiltration

RPM Revolutions Per Minute

RRB Railway Recruitment Board

RSA Rivest, Shamir, Adleman

RSS Really Simple Syndication, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

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 RSVP Repondez s’il vous plait

RTGS Real-Time Gross Settlement

RTI Right to Information

RTO Regional Transport Office/ Road Transport Office

S Full Forms
Acronym Full Form

SAARC South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation

SAP systems, applications and products

SAS Statistical Analysis Software

SATA Serial Advanced Technology Attachment

SAT Scholastic Aptitude Test, Scholastic Assessment Test

SBI State Bank of India

SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

SCUBA Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

SDK Software Development Kit

SDM Sub Divisional Magistrate

SDO Sub Divisional Officer

SEBI Securities and Exchange Board of India

SENSEX Stock Exchange Sensitive Index

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 SEO Search Engine Optimization

SGOT Serum Glutamic Oxaloacetic Transaminase

SGPT Serum Glutamic Pyruvic Transaminase

SHO Station House Officer

SI Sub Inspector

SIDBI Small Industries Development Bank of India

SIM Subscriber Identity Module

SIP Systematic Investment Plan

SIT Special Investigation Team

SKU Stock Keeping Unit

SLA Service Level Agreement

SLR Single Lens Reflex, Statutory Liquidity Ratio

SMART Full Form

SME Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

SMH Shake My Head

SMPS Switched-Mode Power Supply/ Switching Mode Power Supply

SMS Short Message Service

SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SONAR Sound Navigation and Ranging

SOP Standard Operating Procedure

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SP Superintendent of Police

SPG Special Protection Group

SPSS Statistical Package for the Social Sciences

SQL Structured Query Language

SSB Service Selection Board

SSC Secondary School Certificate, Staff Selection Commission

SSD Solid State Drive

SSL Secure Sockets Layer

SSLC Secondary School Leaving Certificate

STD Subscriber Trunk Dialing, Sexually Transmitted Diseases

STP Sewage Treatment Plant

SUV Sport Utility Vehicle

SWAT Special Weapons and Tactics

T Full Forms
Acronym Full-Form

TA & DA Traveling Allowance & Dearness Allowance

TAFE Tractors and Farm Equipment

TAN Tax Deduction and Collection Account Number

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 TAT Turn Around Time

TB Tuberculosis

TBI Traumatic Brain Injury

TBH To Be Honest

TBT Throwback Thursday

TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TCS Tata Consultancy Services

TDR Ticket Deposit Receipt, Term Deposit Receipt, Time Domain Reflectometer

TDS Tax Deducted at Source

TFT Thin Film Transistor

TGT Trained Graduate Teacher

TIN Taxpayer Identification Number

TLC Total Lung Capacity

TOEFL Test of English as a Foreign Language

TOI Times of India

TPA Third-Party Administrator

TRAI Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

TRP Television Rating Point

TT Tetanus Toxoid

TTYL Talk To You Later

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 TVS Thirukkurungudi Vengaram Sundram

U Full Forms
Acronym Full-Form

UAE United Arab Emirates

UCO Bank United Commercial Bank

UDP User Datagram Protoco

UGC University Grants Commission

UIDAI Unique Identification Authority of India

UKSA United Kingdom Space Agency

UML Unified Modeling Language

UNDP United Nations Development Programme

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund

UNO United Nations Organization

UPA United Progressive Alliance, United Production of America

UPI Unified Payment Interface

UPSC Union Public Service Commission

UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply

URL Uniform Resource Locator

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 USB Universal Serial Bus

USFDA or FDA United States Food and Drug Administration

USP Unique Selling Proposition

USSD Unstructured Supplementary Service Data

USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

UTI Urinary Tract Infection

V Full Forms
Acronym Full-Form

VAT Value Added Tax

VFX Visual Effects

VGA Video Graphics Array

VHDL VHSIC (Very High-Speed Integrated Circuit) Hardware Description Language

VIP Very Important Person

VIRUS Vital Information Resources Under Seize

VISA charta visa lit in Latin

VLC VideoLAN Client

Volte Voice over Long Term Evolution

VPI Virtual Path Identifier

USA United States of America

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 VTU Visvesvaraya Technological University

W Full Forms
Acronym Full-Form

WBC White Blood Cell

WEF World Economic Forum, With Effect From

WIFI Wireless Fidelity

WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization

WIPRO Western India Products

WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access

WWF World Wide Fund for Nature, World Wrestling Federation

WWW World Wide Web

X Full Forms
Acronym Full-Form

XML eXtensible Markup Language

XMPP Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol

Y Full Forms
Acronym Full-Form

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 Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle / Yet Another Hierarchically Organized
YAHOO
Oracle

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