Glossary of IT Terms beginning with "P"
Brian Cryer's Glossary of IT Terms with Links. Definitions and links to further information on IT related terms ...
- P&P
- Postage and Packing, details ...
- P&L
- Profit and Loss, details ...
- P2V
- Physical To Virtual, details ...
- P3P
- Platform for Privacy Preferences, details ...
- PAB
- Personal Address Book, details ...
- PAC
- Proxy Auto-Configuration (file), details ...
- PAD File
- Portable Application Description file, details ...
- PAE
- Physical Address Extension, details ...
- PAF
- Postcode Address File, details ...
- PageRank
- Google's page-rank algorithm, details ...
- PAI
- Positional Accuracy Improvement., details ...
- PAL
- Phase Alternating Line (tv standard), details ......
- Palladium
- Code name for Microsoft security initiative, details ...
- PAN
- Personal Area Network / Horizontal rotation / To move, details ...
- PAON
- Primary Addressable Object Name, details ...
- Pap
- Password Authentication Protocol, details ...
- Parallel ATA
- More commonly known as IDE, details ...
- Pastel
- A light or pale colour, details ...
- PASV
- Passive FTP mode, details ...
- PAT
- Port Address Translation / Portable Appliance Testing / Public Access Terminal / Performance Acceleration Technology, details ...
- PATA
- Parallel ATA, details ...
- Pay-Per-Click
- Pay per click, where an advertiser pays for each click through, details ...
- Pay-Per-Click Fraud
- Repetitive clicking on ads to boost website revenue, details ...
- PB
- Petabyte / Playback / Lead / Personal Best / Paper Back, details ...
- PBKAC
- Problem Between Keyboard And Chair, details ...
- PBR
- Policy Based Routing, details ...
- PBX
- Private Branch Exchange, details ...
- PC
- Personal Computer / Politically correct / Piece, details ...
- PCB
- Printed Circuit Board, details ...
- PCM
- Parallel Cache Management / Pulse Code Modulation, details ...
- PCML
- Pattern and Component Markup Language, details ...
- PCI
- Peripheral Computer Interface / Payment Card Industry / Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, details ...
- PCI DSS
- Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, details ...
- PCL
- Printer Control Language, details ...
- PDA
- Personal Digital Assistant, details ...
- PDC
- Primary Domain Controller, details ...
- Portable Document Format, details ...
- PDM
- Product Data Management., details ...
- PDP
- Personal Development Plan, details ...
- PDQ
- Pretty Darn Quick / Parallel Database Query, details ...
- PDU
- Power Distribution Unit, details ...
- PDW
- Package and Deployment Wizard, details ...
- PE
- Portable Executable, details ...
- Percentile
- Percentage with a lower score or rank / percentage with a lower or equal rank, details ...
- Perl
- Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, details ...
- Pert
- Program Evaluation Review Technique, details ...
- Pert Chart
- Chart used for project management, details ...
- Petabyte
- One million megabytes, details ...
- PFI
- Pay For Inclusion, details ...
- PFM
- Printer Font Metrics, details ...
- PFW
- Personal Firewall, details ...
- PGA
- Program Global Area, details ...
- PHB
- Dilbert's Pointy Haired Boss, details ...
- Phishing
- Attempt to steal someone's identity, details ...
- Phonetics
- The study of speech sounds, details ...
- Photogrammetry
- Measuring objects from photographs, details ...
- PHP
- A server side scripting language, details ...
- Physical Address
- MAC address, details ...
- PI
- Ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle / Primary In, details ...
- PII
- Personal Identifiable Information, details ...
- Picnic
- Problem In Chair Not In Computer, details ...
- PID
- Process ID, details ...
- PIL
- Python Imaging Library, details ...
- PIN
- Personal Identification Number / Performance Improvement Network / Prior Information Notice, details ...
- Ping
- Widely available network connectivity test utility / Time to get across a network, details ...
- Pinging
- To use ping / Data bouncing between servers, details ...
- PIO
- Programmed Input/Output, details ...
- PIP
- Packet Interception Point, details ...
- PITA
- Pain In the A***, details ...
- PIX
- Private Internet eXchange (firewall), details ...
- PJL
- Printer Job Language, details ...
- PKCS
- Public Key Cryptography Standard, details ...
- PKI
- Public Key Infrastructure, details ...
- PLC
- Programmable Logic Controller / Power Line Communications / Public Limited Company, details ...
- Pling
- Exclamation mark / Product of numbers, details ...
- Plonk
- Putting something down / Person with little or no knowledge / To kill-file, details ...
- Pls
- Please, details ...
- Plug and Play
- Automatic configuration of adapters, details ...
- PL/SQL
- Oracle's Procedural Language extension to SQL, details ...
- PMR
- Perpendicular Magnetic Recording, details ...
- PMS
- Performance Management System / Pantone Matching System, details ...
- PNG
- Portable Network Graphics, details ...
- PnP
- Plug and Play / Pen and Paper, details ...
- POA
- Price on application / Price over average, details ...
- POI
- Point of Interest / Point of Interface, details ...
- Policy
- An adopted plan or course of action / Rules controlling a system's behaviour / An insurance contract, details ...
- Polyline
- An unbroken line consisting of many points, details ......
- Polygon
- An area defined by sets of closed lines, details ...
- PON Code
- Position Oriented Navigation Code, details ...
- PONC
- PON Code / Price Of Non Conformance, details ...
- POP
- Post Office Protocol, details ...
- POP3
- POP version 3, details ...
- POST
- Power On Self Test / Act of sending a newsgroup message / To send a message, details...
- POTS
- Plain Old Telephone Service, details ...
- POV
- Point Of View / Privately Owned Vehicle, details ...
- PPC
- Pay per click, details ...
- PPL
- People / Pay per lead, details ...
- PPM
- Pence per minute / Pence per message, details ...
- PPP
- Point-to-Point Protocol, details ...
- PPPoA
- PPP over ATM, details ...
- PPPoE
- PPP over Ethernet, details ...
- PPTP
- Point To Point Tunneling Protocol, details ...
- PPV
- Pay per view, details ...
- PR
- Public Relations / Page Rank / Problem Report / Progress Report / Perpendicular Recording details ...
- PRB
- Problem / Probe, details ...
- Preemptive Multitasking
- Where an operating system controls when a process runs and for how long before another is run, details ...
- Printer Pool
- Print queue that feeds a collection of printers, details ...
- Procedure
- A method of doing something, details ...
- PROM
- Programmable Read Only Memory, details ...
- Protocol
- Agreed set of rules for the communication, details ...
- Proxy
- A system that acts on behalf of another to perform some service, details ...
- PRS
- Premium Rate Service, details ...
- PSA
- Public service agreement / Public service advert / Public service announcement / Psalms, details ...
- PSL
- Preferred supplier list / Portable standard lisp / Property Specification language / Process specification language, details ...
- PSN
- Public Switched Network / Packet Switch Node, details ...
- PSP
- Paint Shop Pro / Professional Support Partnership, details ...
- PSS
- (Microsoft) Product Support Services / Book of Psalms, details ...
- PST
- Pacific Standard Time, details ...
- PSTN
- Public Switched Telephone Network, details ...
- PSU
- Power Supply Unit, details ...
- Pull Down
- To download / To remove / To demolish, details ...
- PUP
- Potentially Unwanted Program, details ...
- PVC
- Permanent Virtual Channel / Permanent Virtual Circuit / Permanent Virtual Connection, details ...
- PVR
- Personal Video Recorder, details ...
- PWB
- Printed Wiring Board, details ...
- PWD
- Password / Print Working Directory, details ...
- PXE
- Pre-boot Execution Environment, details ...
- Pyramid Scheme
- A form of scam where more people loose money than make money, details ...
- Python
- A web scripting language, details ...