Glossary of IT Terms beginning with "H"
Brian Cryer's Glossary of IT Terms with Links. Definitions and links to further information on IT related terms ...
- H1
- Header 1 / First half of the year, details ...
- H2
- Header 2 / Second half of the year, details ...
- HAGD
- Have a good day, details ...
- HAGW
- Have a good week, details ...
- HAL
- Hardware Abstraction Layer / The computer in "2001: A Space Odyssey", details ...
- Half Duplex
- Simultaneous send and receive of data but at different speeds, details ...
- HASP
- Hardware Against Software Piracy / Health And Safety Plan, details ...
- HD
- Hard Disk / High Density / High Definition, details ...
- HDD
- Hard disk drive / Hybrid Disk Drive, details ...
- HDLC
- High-level Data Link Control, details ...
- HDMI
- High-Definition Multimedia Interface, details ...
- HDTV
- High Definition Television, details ...
- HEC
- Header Error Control / Harsh Environment Computer, details ...
- Hectare
- Metric unit of area, details ...
- Heuristic
- A rule of thumb for solving a problem, details ...
- Hex
- Hexadecimal / Hexagon, details ...
- HGP
- Human Genome Project, details ...
- HIDS
- Host based Intrusion Detection System, details ...
- Hipaa
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, details ...
- Hive
- Windows registry sub-tree, details ...
- HKCR
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, details ...- HKLM
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, details ...- HMI
- Human Machine Interface, details ...
- HOLAP
- Hybrid OLAP, details ...
- Hot Standby Server
- Second server ready to take over from a primary, details ...
- HPC
- High Performance Computing / Handheld PC, details ...
- HPFS
- High Performance File System, details ...
- HPGL
- Hewlett Packard Graphics Language, details ...
- HPGL/2
- Newer version of HPLG, details ...
- HR
- Human resources / Hour, details ...
- Hrs
- Hours, details ...
- HSB
- Hue, Saturation, Brightness, details ...
- HSDPA
- High-Speed Downlink Packet Access, details ...
- HSV
- Hue, Saturation, Value, details ...
- HT
- Abbreviation for Hyper-Threading, details ...
- HTH
- Hope This Helps, details ...
- HTML
- Hyper Text Mark-up Language, details ...
- HTTP
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol, details ...
- HTTP Proxy
- A proxy that serves up web pages from an external network (such as the internet), details ...
- HTTP-R
- Reliable HTTP, details ...
- HTTPS
- Hypertext Transmission Protocol Secure, details ...
- Hub
- Device for connecting multiple computers on a network, details ...
- Hungarian Notation
- Naming convention where variable names indicate their data type, details ...
- HVA
- High Value Asset, details ...
- HVAC
- Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning, details ...
- HW
- Hardware / Hand written, details ...
- Hyper-Threading
- Intel technology for executing parallel threads on a single processor, details ...
- HyperThreading
- Same as Hyper-Threading, details ...
- Hz
- Hertz (complete cycle), details ...