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(programming) Initialism of third-generation language.
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(artificial intelligence, economics) A period of reduced funding and interest in artificial intelligence research.
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Abbreviation of Automatic Voice Network: a worldwide US military telephone system from the 1960s to the 1990s.
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Abbreviation of blunt impact projectile.
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Broadband Integrated Service Digital Network
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(computing) Cdr of the cdr in Lisp. The remainder of a list if the first two elements are removed.
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(computing, databases) Initialism of candidate key. [(computing, databases) In the design of a database table, a column (or an irreducible group of them) able to identify every row of the table. One of the candidate keys (abbreviated CKs) will be the primary key.]
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(computing) Initialism of Common Language Infrastructure (for .NET.) [(computing) The open specification that describes the executable code and runtime environment that form the core of the Microsoft .NET Framework.]
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(software) Initialism of crash to desktop. [(computing, software) An event where a software program running on a computer with an operating system that features a graphical desktop unexpectedly terminates without showing any error or halting of the system, and instead returns the user to the desktop.]
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(databases, programming) The basic operations of a database management system; Acronym of create, update, delete.
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(computing) Abbreviation of download. [A file transfer to a given computer or device from a remote one through a network connection.]
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(computer science, mathematics) Initialism of directed acyclic graph. [(graph theory, computer science) A finite directed graph that contains no directed cycles.]
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(programming) Initialism of directed acyclic word graph. [(programming) A data structure that represents a set of strings and allows for a query operation that tests whether a given string belongs to the set in time proportional to its length (thus more efficient in some situations than a trie).]
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(television) Initialism of direct broadcast satellite. [(television) a television satellite that broadcasts directly to the final recipient/viewer, to a home satellite dish.]
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(graphical user interface) Abbreviation of dialog base unit.
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Data and Computer Communications
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Initialism of delayed ejaculation. [The occurrence of a male orgasm very late during sexual intercourse.]
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(computer hardware) Initialism of discrete graphics processing unit (a graphics processing unit which has access to dedicated graphics memory)
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(electronics) Acronym of dual in-line package.
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(computing) Download; Alternative form of DL.
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(computing) digital linear tape: a computer storage tape format having a single spooled cartridge using multitrack linear serpentine recording on a half-inch wide tape.
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(graphical user interface) Abbreviation of dialog box unit.
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(computing theory) Abbreviation of dancing links. [(computing theory) A technique for reverting the deletion of a node from a circular doubly-linked list, particularly useful for efficiently implementing backtracking algorithms.]
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Disaster Management Open Platform for Emergency Networks. A system which provides interoperability interfaces for sharing of emergency-related information to vetted emergency management agencies.
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(computer science) Acronym of description of a career. (an RDF format describing a person's professional background)
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(military) Initialism of date of service.
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(slang) Initialism of double penetration. [The simultaneous sexual penetration of one or more orifices of one person by two other people.]
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(electronics) Initialism of digital subscriber line. [A family of technologies that provides digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network. Often, this notion is used for the Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), the most commonly installed technical variety of DSL.]
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(finance) Abbreviation of dated. [Marked with a date.]
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(software) Desktop Engineering
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(object-oriented programming) Abbreviation of destructor. [One who destructs.]
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(initialism) digital video disc or digital versatile disc; an optical disc on which video is recorded in digital format, such as commercially-released movies and other video media.
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(Internet) Abbreviation of Decentralized Web.
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(computing) Initialism of floppy disk. [(computer hardware) A removable disk used for storing digital data, measuring between 2 and 8 inches diagonally and storing between 80 KB and 240 MB.]
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Initialism of Fiber Distributed Data Interface.
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(economics) Initialism of full-time employee.
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Initialism of graphics double data rate fifth generation.
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(computing) Initialism of general-purpose input/output (a pin on an integrated circuit whose behavior can be controlled by the user at run time.)
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(computing) Initialism of graphical user interface. [(computing) A type of user interface which allows people to interact with a computer through a metaphor of direct manipulation of graphical images and widgets in addition to text.]
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(computer graphics) Initialism of Hold-And-Modify, a display mode of the Commodore Amiga computer, allowing for a large number of colours on screen.
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(nonstandard) Alternative spelling of HD DVD
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(Internet) Initialism of hat tip. [A tip of the hat.]
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(computing) Initialism of Hue Whiteness Blackness (a cylindrical-coordinate representation of points in an RGB color model)
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(informatics) Initialism of information technology. [(computing) The practice of creating and/or studying computer systems and applications.]
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(computer hardware, serial bus) Initialism of Inter-Integrated Circuit, a standard for integrated circuit communication using two lines.
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(computing) Initialism of kilobyte virtual machine: a virtual machine derived from the Java virtual machine specification, written for small devices with limited memory.
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(telecommunications) Link Access Procedures, D channel; specified in ITU-T Q.920 and ITU-T Q.921. The second layer protocol on the ISDN protocol stack.
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(sports) Abbreviation of left defence/defense.: The left wing player defensive position
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(computing) Initialism of line feed. [On a typewriter, the action of the carriage roller to push the page up one or more lines, often simultaneously with executing a carriage return.]
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(computing) Abbreviation of machine to machine (technologies that allow both wireless and wired systems to communicate with other devices of the same type.)
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(Internet) Initialism of MIME HTML: a web page archive format that combines in a single document the HTML code and its linked resources such as images.
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(Microsoft, software) Initialism of Microsoft Developer Network.
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(software architecture) Initialism of model-view-controller (an architectural pattern used in software development.) [(software architecture) A type of computer user interface that separates the representation of information from the user's interaction.]
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(computing) Initialism of natural user interface. [(computing) A user interface for a computer that is effectively invisible, or becomes invisible to its users with successive learned interactions.]
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(pharmacology, medicine) Initialism of orally disintegrating tablet. [(pharmacology) A pill designed to disintegrate in the mouth.]
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(computing) Object-Oriented Dynamic Language
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Abbreviation of pseudobulbar affect. [a neurologic disorder characterized by episodes of uncontrollable laughing and/or crying, or other emotional displays]
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(computing) Initialism of Pascal Engine that Runs Quicker (the original meaning of the acronym PERQ)
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(computing) PostScript, a page description language
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An ISDN connection protocol somewhat similar to TCP.
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Acronym of quality without A name - in computer programming QWAN refers to a more metaphysical attribute that expresses elegancy of code
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(video games) Initialism of Speed Demos Archive.
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(Internet) Initialism of Shared Dictionary Compression over HTTP: a compression technique for the World Wide Web.
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(communication) Synchronous Data Link Control
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(computing) Abbreviation of semantic versioning. [(computing) A versioning scheme where each release is given a three-part version number of the form major.minor.patch. The major number is incremented to indicate a breaking change, minor for new non-breaking features, and patch for other non-breaking changes.]
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(databases) Initialism of star schema benchmark.
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(security, software, uncountable) Initialism of static separation of duty. [A form of separation of duties which is enforced at the user-role assignment level rather than dynamically based on previous user actions.]
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(computer languages, databases) Clipping of Transact-SQL.
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Alternative form of TOD [(video) A digital video format by JVC.]
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(software engineering) Abbreviation of technical certification requirement.: a test case that must pass before software can be certified as compliant to a given standard.
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(fetishism) Abbreviation of transformation. [The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.]
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(computing) TCP segmentation offload
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(computing) Initialism of user-defined function. [(computing) A program or subroutine, provided by the user rather than being built into the system, that may return a value and may take input parameters.]
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(computing) Initialism of user interface. [(computing) The visual part of a software application that a user sees and interacts with.]
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(computing) Initialism of unique instrument interface document.
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(computer graphics) Initialism of ultra Extended Graphics Array
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Abbreviation of voice mail.
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Abbreviation of video. [Television, television show, movie.]
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Initialism of virtual disk service.
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(computing) Initialism of virtual file allocation table: the method used by Windows 9x and Windows NT to allow the use of long filenames on FAT16 and FAT32 file systems while still providing 8.3 aliases of these filenames for backwards compatibility with systems not supporting long filenames.
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(computing) Initialism of virtual machine. [(computing) A software emulation of a computer that runs in an isolated partition of a real computer.]
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(music) Abbreviation of vocals (of a rock band). [(music) The words of a song together with other sounds sung by a vocalist]
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(electronics, physics) Alternative form of VOC; from V_(OC); Initialism of open-circuit voltage. [(electronics, physics) V_(OC) — Initialism of open-circuit voltage.]
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(phonetics) Initialism of voice, place, manner (of a vowel). [Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character]
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(business) Acronym of value, rarity, imitability, organization: four qualities used to determine the competitive potential of a resource or capability. [The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.]
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(surveillance) Virtual Security System software
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(computing, dated) Abbreviation of videotex. [Any of various early information retrieval services, such as viewdata and Teletext systems, that delivered pages of computerized text to users on request.]
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(computer graphics) Initialism of Wide Video Graphics Array
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(graphical user interface) Acronym of zero user interface.
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