Abbreviations "C" ( All the "C" Character ).

                         

Abbreviations

                  C

Short Name �� Full Name or Abbreviations

C         C Programming Language

.C        C source code (file name extension) [C]

CA        Collision  Avoidance

CAD       Computer Aided Design

CADD      Computer Aided Design and Drafting

CADE      Client/server Application Development Environment

CAE       Client Application Enabler +

          Common Applications Environment + Computer Aided Engineering

CAEX      Computer Aided Exploration

CAG       Column Address Generator

CAI       Computer Aided Instruction

CAL       Calendar + Computer Aided Learning

CAM       Common Access Method + Computer Aided Manufacturing +

          Contents Addressable Memory

CAN       Cancel

CAP       Carrierless Amplitude and Phase-Modulation +

          Central Arbitration Point +

          Communication Application Platform +

          Computer Aided Publishing

.CAP      Capture (file name extension)

CAPD      Computing To Assist Persons With Disabilities [Johns

          Hopkins University]

CAPS      Capitals (Upper Case Letters) +

          Cassette Programming System

CARL      Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries [Internet]

CAS       Column Address Select +

          Communications Application Specification +

          Computer Aided Styling

CASE      Computer Aided Software Engineering

CASL      Crosstalk Application Scripting Language [DCA]

CASS      Computer Assisted Search Service

CASSIS    Classified and Search Support Information System

CAT       Computer Aided Testing + Computer Aided Tomography +

          Computer Aided Transcription + Concatenate

.CAT      Catalog (file name extension)

CATS      Computer Assisted Training System

CAT SCAN  Computerized Axial Tomography Scan

CATV      Community Antenna Television (this was the original

          name for what is now known as Cable TV)

CAU       Controlled Access Unit

CAV       Constant Angular Velocity

CBC       Cipher Block Chaining

CBCR      Channel Byte Count Register

CBEMA     Computer and Business Equipment

          Manufacturers Association

CBGA      Ceramic Ball Grid Array

CBI       Computer Based Instruction

CBL       Computer Based Learning

.CBL      COBOL source code (file name extension)

CBMS      Computer-Based Mail System

CBR       Constant Bit Rate

CBT       Computer Based Training

CBW       Convert Byte to Word

CBX       Computer-Controlled Branch Exchange

CC        Cluster Controller

CC:       Carbon Copy

CCD       Charged-Coupled Device

CCFT      Cold Cathode Fluorescent Tube

CCI       Common Client Interface

CCITT     Comite Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique/

          Consultative Committee for International Telegraph and Telephone

CCL       Connection Control Language

CCP       Console Command Processor

CCS       Common Command Set + Common Communications Services +

          Common Communications Support +

          Continuous Composite Servo

.CCS      Color Calibration System (file name extension)

CCSD      Cellular Circuit-Switched Data

CD        Carrier Detect + Change Directory +

          Collision Detection + Color Display + Compact Disk

C/D       Control Data

C2D       Character To Decimal [REXX]

CDA       Compound Document Architecture [DEC]

CDC       Control Data Corporation

CD_CHRDY  Card Channel Ready [IBM]

CD-DA     Compact Disk -Digital Audio

CDDI      Copper Distributed Data Interface

CDE       Common Desktop Environment + Complex Data Entry

CD-E      Compact Disk - Erasable

.CDF      Comma Delimited Format (file name extension)

CDFS      Compact Disc File System [Microsoft]

CD+G      Compact Disk plus Graphics

CD-I      Compact Disk - Interactive

CDIA      Certified Document Imaging Architect

CDL       Computer Design Language

CDMA      Code Division Multiple Access

CDMF      Commercial Data Masking Facility [IBM]

CD-MO     Compact Disk - Magneto Optical

CDOS      Concurrent Disk Operating System

CDPD      Cellular Digital Packet Data

CDR       Call Detail Record + Call Detail Recording

CD-R      Compact Disk - Recordable

CD-RDx    Compact Disk - Read Only Memory Data Exchange Standard

CDRL      Contract Data Requirements List

CD-ROM    Compact Disk - Read Only Memory

CD-RTOS   Compact Disk - Real Time Operating System

CDS       Current Directory Structure

CDSA      Common Data Security Architecture

.CDT      Corel Draw Template (file name extension)

CD-V      Compact Disk - Video

CD-WO     Compact Disk - Write Once

.CDX      Compound Index (file name extension) [Fox Pro]

CD-XA     Compact Disk - Extended Architecture

CE        Cache Enable + Chip Enable + Collision Elimination +

          Convert Enable

CEG       Continuous Edge Graphics

CEI       Conducted Electromagnetic Interference

CEMS      Constituent Electronic Mail System

CEOP      Conditional End Of Page

CERN      The European Particle Physics Laboratory (initials

          originally from Conseil European pour la Recherche Nucleaire)

CERT      Computer Emergency Response Team

CFB       Cipher Feedback + Configurable Function Block

.CFG      Configuration (file name extension)

CFM       Code Fragment Manager [Macintosh]

CFR       Computerized Facial Recognition

CFS       Caching/Common File System

CFV       Call For Votes [Bitnet]

CG        Control Gate

CGA       Color Graphics Adapter

CGE       Common Graphics Environment

CGI       Common Gateway Interface + Computer Generated Images +

          Computer Graphics Interface

.CGM      Computer Graphics Metafile (file name extension) +

          Graph (file name extension) [Lotus 1-2-3] [LDC]

CHAP      Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol

CHAR      Character

CHAT      Conversational Hypertext Access Technology [Internet]

CHCK      Channel Check

CHCP      Change Code Page

CHDIR     Change Directory

CHFN      Change Finger [Unix]

CHGRP     Change Group

.CHK      CHKDSK (file name extension)

CHKDSK    Check Disk

CHMOD     Change Mode

CHOWN     Change Owner

CHP       Chapter

CHR       Character

CHRP      Common Hardware Reference Platform

CHS       Cylinder Head Sector

CI        Component Interface

CIA       Current Instruction Address

CIAC      Computer Incident Advisory Capability

CICS/VS   Customer Information Control System/

          Virtual Storage [IBM]

CID       Charge-Injection Device +

          Configuration/Installation/Distribution

CIDR      Classless Inter-Domain Routing

CIF       Common Interchange/Intermediate Format +

          Crystallographic Information File +

          Customer Information Feed

CIM       CompuServe Information Manager +

          Computer Integrated Manufacturing

CIO       Chief Information Offier

CIOCS     Communication Input/Output Control System

CIP       Command Interface Port

CIR       Committed Information Rate

CIRC      Circular Reference +

          Cross-Interleaved Reed-Solomon Code

CIS       Card Information Structure + Client Information System +

          CompuServe Information Service +

          Computer Information Systems + Contact Image Sensor +

          Customer Information System

CISC      Complex Instruction Set Computing

CIT       Computer-Integrated Telephony

CIX       Commercial Internet Exchange +

          Compulink Information Exchange

CJLI      Command Job Language Interpreter

CKD       Count Key Data (device)

CLAR      Channel Local Address Register

CLASS     Client Access to Systems and Services +

          Cooperative Library Agency for Systems and Services +

          Custom Local-Area Signaling Services

CLC       Clear Carry Flag

CLD       Clear Direction Flag

CLI       Call-Level Interface + Clear Interrupt Flag +

          Command Line Interface

CLIST     Command List

CLK       Clock

CLNP      Connectionless Network Protocol

CLOS      Common Lisp Object System

CLP       Cell Loss Priority + Constraint Logic Programming

.CLP      Clipboard (file name extension) [Windows]

CLS       Clear Screen

CLTP      Connectionless Transport Protocol

CLTS      Clear Task Switch Flag

CLUI      Command Line User Interface

CLUT      Color Look-Up Table

CLV       Constant Linear Velocity

CM        Centimeter + Control Mark + Corrective Maintenance

CMA       Concert Multi-thread Architecture

CMC       Common Mail Calls + Common Messaging Calls +

          Communication Mangement Configuration +

          Complement Carry Flag +

          Computer-Mediated Communication [Internet]

.CMD      Command (file name extension)

CMF       Creative Music Format

CNIDR     Clearinghouse for Network Information and

          Discovery and Retrieval [Internet]

CMIP      Common Management Information Protocol

CMIS      Common Management Information Services/System

CML       Conceptual Modelling Language +

          Computer Managed Learning + Current Mode Logic

CMM       Capability Maturity Model

CMMS      Computerized Maintenance Management Software

CMMU      Cache/Memory Management Unit [Motorola]

CMOS      Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor

CMOV      Conditional Move

CMP       Compare + Computer

CMPS      Compare word String

CMS       Code Management System + Compiler Monitor System +

          Conversation Monitor System

CMVC      Configuration Management Version Control [IBM]

CMW       Compartmented Mode Workstation

CMY       Cyan-Magenta-Yellow (color model)

CMYK      Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black (color model)

CNA       Certified NetWare Administrator [Novell]

CNAPS     Co-Processing Node Architecture for Parallel Systems

CNC       Computerized Numerical Control

CNE       Certified NetWare Engineer

.CNF      Configuration (file name extension)

CNG       Calling (tone)

CNI       Certified Novell Instructor [Novell]

CNIDR     Clearinghouse for Networked Information and Retrieval

CNN       Composite Network Node

CNSS      Core Nodal Switching Subsystem [Internet]

.CNT      Contents (file name extension)

CNV       Conventional (pertaining to Memory)

CNVT      Convert

CNX       Certified Network Expert

CO        Central Office + Command Output + Convert Out

COB       Chip-On-Board

.COB      COBOL source code (file name extension)

COBOL     Common Business-oriented Language (See HLL)

.COD      Code List (file name extension)

CODASYL * Conference on Data System Languages (Group that

          designed COBOL)

CODE      Client-Server Open Development Environment

CODEC     Coder/Decoder + Compression/Decompression

COEM      Commercial Original Equipment Manufacturer

COFF      Common Object File Format [Unix]

COGO      Coordinate Geometry (Programming Language)

COL       Collision + Computer Oriented Language

COLD      Computer Output to Laser Disk

COLL      Collision

COM       Commercial (organization Domain name) [Internet] +

          Common Object Model [Microsoft]

.COM      Command (file name extension)

COM1      First serial Port (asynchronous port)

COM2      Second serial Port

COM3      Third serial Port

COM4      Fourth serial Port

COMDEX    Computer Dealers Exposition

COMET     Cornell Macintosh Terminal Emulator

COMP      Compare + Communications

COMP.     Computers [USENET Newsgroup Category]

COMSAT    Communications Satellite Corporation

CON       Console (includes Keyboard and Screen)

COND      Condition

CONFIG    Configuration

CONS      Connection-Oriented Network Service

CONTONE   Continuous Tone

CORBA     Common Object Request Broker Architecture

CoREN     Corporation for Research and Enterprise Network

COS       Compatible Operating System

COSE      Combined Office Standard Environment +

          Common Open Software/Systems Environment

COSMIC    Computer Software Management and Information

          Center [NASA]

COSMOS    Computer System for Mainframe Operations

COSS      Common Object Services Specification

COTS      Commercial Off-The-Shelf

CP        Copy Protected

CPA       Certified Public Accountant

CPC       Constant Point Calculation

CPCS      Check Processing Control System [IBM]

CPE       Central Processing Element +

          Customer Premise Equipment +

          Customer Provided Equipment

.CPE      Cover Page (file name extension)

CPG       Clock Pulse Generator

CPI       Characters Per Inch + Clock Per Instruction +

          Common Programming Interface [IBM]

.CPI      Code Page Information (file name extension) [MS-DOS]

CPI-C     Common Programming Interface for Communications [IBM]

CPIO      Copy In and Out [Unix]

CPL       Current Privilege Level

.CPL      Control Panel (file name extension)

CP/M      Control Program for Microcomputers [Digital Research]

CPS       Characters Per Second + Cycles Per Second

CPT       Command Pass Through

CPU       Central Processing Unit

CR        Carriage Return

CRAM      Cyberspatial Reality Advancement Movement

CRC       Cyclic Redundancy Check

.CRD      Cardfile (file name extension)

CREN      Computer Research Education Network +

          Corporation for Research and Education Networking

CRF       Cable Retransmission Facility + Cross Reference File

CRI       Color Reproduction Indices

CR/LF     Carriage Return/Line Feed

CROM      Control Read Only Memory

CRT       Cathode Ray Tube

CRTC      CRT Controller

CS        Chip Select + Clear to Send + Code Segment

C/S       Client/Server

CSA       Calendaring and Scheduling API [IBM]

CSAR      Channel System Address Register

CSCW      Computer Supported Cooperative Work

CSD       Circuit-Switched Data +

          Computer Services Department +

          Corrective Service Diskette [IBM]

CSDS      Packet Switched Data Service

CSE       Certified System Engineer

CSFI      Communication Subsystem For Interconnection

CSG       Constructive Solid Geometry +

          Consulting Services Group [Lotus]

CSI       Command Sequence Introducer + CompuServe Incorporated

CSID      Call Subscriber ID

CSL       Computer Sensitive Language

CSLIP     Compressed Serial Line Interface Protocol [Internet]

CSM       Communications Services Manager

CSMA/CA   Carrier Sense Multiple Access/with Collision Avoidance

CSMA/CD   Carrier Sense Multiple Access/with Collision Detection

CSMS      Customer Support Management System

CSN       Card-Select Number

CSNET     Computer Science Network

CSO       Central Services Organization

CSP       Certified Systems Professional +

          Commercial Subroutine Package +

          CompuCom Speed Protocol [CompuCom]

CSPDN     Circuit Switched Public Data Network

CSS     * Continuous System Simulator (Language)

CSS       Cascading Style Sheets [Microsoft] +

          Contact Start-Stop

CSSM      Client-Server Systems Management [IBM]

CSTA      Computer-Supported Telephony Applications

CSU       Channel Service Unit

CSV       Circuit-Switched Voice +

          Comma-Separated Value/Variable +

          Common Services Verbs (interface) [Microsoft]

C&T       Chips and Technologies

CTB       Cipher Type Byte

CTC       Channel To Channel

CTCP      Client-To-Client Protocol

CTI       Computer-Telephony Integration

CTOS      Computerized Tomography Operating System +

          Convergent Technologies Operating System

CTPA      Coax-to-Twisted-Pair Adapter

CTRL      Control

CTS       Clear To Send

CTSS    * Compatible Time Sharing System

CUA       Common User Access [IBM]

CUB       Cursor Backward

CUD       Cursor Down

CUE       Custom Updates and Extras (card) [Egghead Software]

CUF       Cursor Forward

CUI       Character-Oriented User Interface +

          Common User Interface [IBM]

CUP       Cursor Position

CUPID     Completely Universal Processor I/O Design [AST]

.CUR      Cursor (file name extension)

CUT       Control Unit Terminal

CUTE      Clarkston University Terminal Emulator

CUU       Cursor Up

CVF       Compressed Volume File

CVGA      Color Video Graphics Array

CVIA      Computer Virus Industry Association

CVT       Convert

CVW       CodeView for Windows

CWD       Convert Word to Double Word +

          Change Working Directory [Internet]

CWIS      Campus Wide Information Service/System [Internet] +

          Community Wide Information Service/System [Internet]

C2X       Character To Hexadecimal [REXX]

CYL       Cylinder

CYMK      Cyan-Yellow-Magenta-Black (color model)

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