Short Name |
Full Form or Abbreviations |
3G |
Third Generation |
AAA |
Asian Athletics Association |
AAFI |
The Amateur Athletics Federation of India |
AC |
Ante Christum (Before Christ), Ashok Chakra, Air Conditioner |
ADB |
Asian Development Bank |
AFI |
Athletics Federation of India |
AFMC |
Armed Forces Medical College |
AI |
Artifical Intelligence, Air India |
AICTE |
All India Council for Technical Education |
AIFF |
All India Football Federation |
AIIMS |
All India Institute of Medical Science |
AITUC |
All India Trade Union Congress |
ALGOL |
Algebric Oriented Language |
AM |
Ante Meridiem (before Noon), Amplitude Modulation |
APEC |
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation |
ARPANET |
Advanced Research Project Agency Network |
ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
ASEAN |
Association of South East Asian Nations |
ASLV |
Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle |
AT&T |
American Telegraphic and Telephone Co. Ltd. |
ATC |
Air Traffic Control |
ATM |
Automated Teller Machine |
AVSM |
Ati Vishisht Seva Medal |
B2B |
Busines to Business |
B2C |
Business to Consumer |
BARC |
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre |
BBC |
British Broadcasting Corporation |
BBS |
Bulletin Board Service |
BC |
Before Christ |
BHEL |
Bharat Heavy Electri-cals Ltd |
BIOS |
Basic Input Output System |
BIT |
Binary Digit |
BPL |
Below Poverty Line |
BPO |
Business Process Outsourcing |
BPR |
Business Process Re-engineering |
bps |
bytes per second |
BSE |
Bombay Stock Exchange |
BSF |
Border Security Force |
BSNL |
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited |
C2C |
Consumer to Consumer |
CA |
Chartered Accountant |
CAD |
Computer Aided Design |
CAT |
Common Admission Test |
CBI |
Central Bureau of Investigation |
CBSE |
Central Board of Secondary Education |
CDAC |
Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing |
CDMA |
Code Division Multiple Access |
CEO |
Chief Executive Officer |
CFSL |
Central Forensic Science Laboratory |
CGI |
Common Gateway Interface |
CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency |
CID |
Criminal Investigation Department |
CISC |
Complex instruction-set computing |
CITU |
Centre of Indian Trade Unions |
CNN |
Cable News Network |
COMSAT |
Communications Satellite Corporation |
COPRA |
Consumer Protection Act |
CORBA |
Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
CPI(M) |
Communist Party of India / Marxist |
CPWD |
Central Public Works Department |
CRIS |
Centre for Railway Information System |
CSIR |
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |
CTBT |
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty |
CYMK |
Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, Kinda |
D.Litt. |
Doctor of Literature |
D.Phil. |
Doctor of Philosophy |
D.Sc |
Doctor of Science |
DC |
Direct Current |
DIG |
Deputy Inspector General |
DMA |
Direct Memory Access |
DMK |
Dravida Munetra Kazhagam |
DNA |
Deoxyribo-nucleic Acid |
DTP |
Desktop Publishing |
DVC |
Damodar Valley Corporation |
DVD |
Digital Versatile/Video Disc |