Glossary of IT Terms beginning with "A"
Brian Cryer's Glossary of IT Terms with Links. Definitions and links to further information on IT related terms ...
- A Record
- Address Record, details ...
- AA
- Anti-Aliasing, details ...
- AAMOF
- As A Matter Of Fact, details ...
- AC
- Alternating Current / Air Conditioning / Administrator Account, details ...
- ACE
- Access Control Entry, details ...
- ACH
- Automatic Clearing House / Automatic Cheque Handling / Air Changes per Hour, details ...
- ACID
- Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability, details ...
- ACK
- Acknowledgement, details ...
- ACL
- Access Control List, details ...
- ACOP
- Approved Code Of Practice, details ...
- ACPI
- Advanced Configuration and Power Interface, details ...
- ACRU
- Active Confirmed Registered User, details ...
- ACT
- Application Centre Test, details ...
- ACWP
- Actual Cost for Work Performed, details ...
- AD
- Active Directory / Administrative Domain / Anno Domini / Advertisement / Analogue to Digital, details ...
- ADA
- A strongly typed high-level computer programming language, details ...
- Address Munging
- Method of making an email address hard to read by harvesters, details ...
- ADF
- Automatic Document Feeder, details ...
- Ad-hoc wireless network
- Wireless communication without an access point, details ...
- ADO
- Active Data Objects, details ...
- ADOX
- ADO extension library, details ...
- ADS
- Active Directory Service / Active Directory Structure / Automated Deployment Services / Alternate Data Streams, details ...
- ADSL
- Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line, details ...
- ADUC
- Active Directory Users and Computers.
- Adware
- Advertisement supported software, details ...
- AES
- Advanced Encryption Standard, details ...
- AFAICT
- As Far As I Can Tell, details ...
- AFAIK
- As Far As I Know, details ...
- AFK
- Abscent From Keyboard, details ...
- AGI
- Association for Geographic Information, details ...
- AGP
- Advanced Graphics Port, details ...
- AHCI
- Advanced Host Controller Interface, details ...
- AI
- Artificial Intelligence, details ...
- AIDC
- Automatic Identification and Data Capture, details ...
- AiG
- Answers in Genesis, details ...
- AIUI
- As I Understand It, details ...
- AJAX
- Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, details ...
- AJDS
- Ask Jeeves Desktop Search, details ...
- Aka
- Also known as, details ...
- Algorithm
- An organised method for solving a problem, details ...
- ALS
- Active Line State, details ...
- AMR
- Audio/Modem Riser, details ...
- AMS
- Acquisition Management System, details ...
- AMT
- Active Management Technology, details ...
- Analogue Modem
- A modem for use with analogue equipment (such as a phone line), details ...
- ANN
- Announcement / Artificial Neural Network, details ...
- ANSI
- American National Standards Institute, details ...
- Anti-Aliasing
- A type of image smoothing, details ...
- AOA
- Analysis of Alternatives / Assalam O Alaikum / At Or Above / Angolan Kwanza, details ...
- AOL
- Absent Over Leave / America On-Line, details ...
- AOV
- Average Order Value, details ...
- AP
- Access Point, details ...
- APC
- American Power Conversion, details ...
- API
- Application Programming Interface / Advance Passenger Information (system), details ....
- APIC
- Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller, details ...
- APIPA
- Automatic Private IP Addressing, details ...
- APP
- Asynchronous Pluggable Protocol / Application, details ...
- AppleTalk
- Macintosh networking protocol, details ...
- Application Failover
- The capability of an application to recover from a database failure by switching to another database, details ...
- APT
- Advanced Package Tool / Application Programming Toolkit, details ...
- ARC
- Advanced Risk Computer, details ...
- ARP
- Address Resolution Protocol, details ...
- ASAP
- As Soon As Possible / Application Assessment and Planning, details ...
- ASC
- Accredited Standards Committee / ASCII, details ...
- ASCII
- American Standard Code for Information Interchange, details ...
- ASDL
- Asynchronous / Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line, details ...
- ASF
- Apache Software Foundation / Advanced Systems Format, details ...
- ASFN
- Alliance for Spam Free Networks, details ...
- ASIC
- Application Specific Integrated Circuit / American Society of Irrigation Consultants, details ...
- ASIO
- Audio Stream Input/Output, details ...
- ASP
- Active Server Pages / Association of Shareware Professionals / Answer-Set Programming, details ...
- ASP.NET
- Microsoft's server based framework for running .NET code on web servers, details ...
- ASR
- Automatic Speech Recognition / Access Service Request / Automated System Recovery, details ...
- ASTA
- Anti-Spam Technical Alliance, details ...
- AT
- Advanced Technology / Windows command line task scheduler / Assistive Technologies, details ...
- ATA
- AT Attachment, details ...
- ATL
- Active Template Library, details ...
- ATM
- Asynchronous Transfer Mode / Automated Teller Machine / At The Moment, details ...
- ATMP
- Ascend Tunnel Management Protocol, details ...
- AUP
- Acceptable User Policy, details ...
- Autoproxy
- Common name for WPAD protocol, details ... ..
- AV
- Anti-virus / Access violation / Audio Visual, details ...
- Avatar
- An image used to represent an individual, details ...
- AVCHD
- Audio and Video Compression for High Definition, details ...
- AVI
- Audio Video Interleave, details ...
- AVL
- Automatic Vehicle Locator, details ...
- AVR
- Automatic Voltage Regulator / Automatic Voice Recognition, details ...
- AWE
- Address Windows Extensions / Atomic Weapons Establishment, details ...
- AWOL
- Absent Without Leave / Awake On LAN, details ...
- AWT
- Abstract Window Toolkit, details ...