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(programming) Initialism of one true brace style. [(programming, informal) A source code formatting preference resembling K&R style, but where functions have their opening braces on the same line separated by a space, and the braces are not omitted for a control statement with only a single statement in its scope.]
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(programming) Initialism of application programming interface. [(computing, programming) A set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications, which makes it possible for software components to interact with one another, leading to the ability to share data over a network.]
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(databases) Acronym of binary large object. (a data type that allows storage of binary data often of indeterminate length).
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(computing, manufacturing) The combination of computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing.
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(computer languages) Acronym of Categorical Abstract Machine Language, a dialect of ML.
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(music) Abbreviation of clarinet(s).
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(computing) Initialism of command-line interpreter. [(computing) A computer program that reads lines of text entered by a user and interprets them in the context of a given operating system or programming language.]
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(programming) Initialism of CLIPS Object-Oriented Language.
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(databases) Acronym of Database as a Service.
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(computing) A dialect of dBASE for Microsoft Windows
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Initialism of diversity, equity and inclusion. [The quality of being diverse or different; difference or unlikeness.]
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(programming) Acronym of dependency inversion principle. [(object-oriented programming) Design principle that states that (1) High- and low-level modules should both depend on abstractions and (2) instead of abstractions depending upon details, details should depend upon abstractions.]
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(computing) Initialism of ECMAScript for XML (the ECMA-357 standard)
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Initialism of European Article Numbering: a barcode symbology whose main variant, EAN-13, encodes thirteen digits, differing from UPC-A in that three of the digits in the left half are reversed so as to encode an additional digit.
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(desktop publishing) Acronym of element definition document (a file format for Adobe FrameMaker).
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(music) Initialism of electronic dance music. [(music) A field of modern popular music, encompassing house, techno and other genres of percussive dance music.]
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(accounting, operations, computing) Acronym of first in first out. [(accounting) A method of inventory accounting that values items withdrawn from inventory at the cost of the oldest item assumed to remain in inventory.]
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(computing, Unix) Acronym of group identifier.
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Abbreviation of Identification or identity documentation.
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(Internet, slang) Abbreviation of indeed. [(modal) Truly; in fact; actually.]
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(US, military) Abbreviation of indoctrination. [The act of indoctrinating, or the condition of being indoctrinated]
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Initialism of Internet Protocol Storage Area Network., a SAN that is transports its SCSI packets over a TCP/IP network.
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(Java programming language, JavaFX) A scripting language that forms a part of the JavaFX family of technologies on the Java Platform.
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(computing) Abbreviation of just enough operating system: one customised to the needs of a specific application, with other features excluded.
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(computer languages) Initialism of JavaScript Object Notation, a data format used to represent structured data. It is based on JavaScript syntax.
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(computer languages) Initialism of JavaScript Object Notation with Padding, a technique for requesting data in JSON format by loading an HTML script element.
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(computing) Initialism of JavaScript Syntax eXtension.
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Abbreviation of kilometres per hour.
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(software) Initialism of Look-Ahead LR. (used for parsers)
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(computing) Initialism of Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl: an interoperable group of open-source software for serving websites. [An open-source computer operating system kernel.]
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(computing) last in last out (see FIFO)
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(mathematics, computing) Abbreviation of mathematical markup language.
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(countable, computing) Initialism of message queue. [(computing) A queue onto which messages may be placed for delivery between components as part of interprocess communication.]
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(computing) Initialism of object-oriented language. [(programming) Any programming language that encapsulates the state and operations inside objects that support inheritance.]
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(Internet) Initialism of original poster; the person who started a thread.
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Initialism of Open Source Development Labs.
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(linguistics) Object Subject Verb
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(computer languages) Initialism of Web Ontology Language. [(computing, Internet) A formal language (or family of languages) used to draw inferences from a large data set, especially from the Semantic Web]
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(computing) Initialism of Professional Graphics Adapter, a video interface card for computers, made obsolete in 1987 by the VGA adapter.
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Alternative form of Pg Dn [(computing, on a keyboard) page down (used to scroll down in a window)]
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Initialism of Public Key Infrastructure (A computerised form of message encryption using two keys (small files). One is public and used by the sender to encrypt the message; the other is private and used by the recipient to decrypt it.)
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Initialism of point of view. [A position from which something is seen; outlook; standpoint.]
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Initialism of perfect passive participle. [(grammar) A participle, prominent in some languages (e.g. Latin, Greek) but less common in English, describing something that happened to a noun (the subject) in the past.]
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(education) Parent-teacher conference.
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(computing) An extension of XHTML, designed to allow both humans and machines to find resources associated with a given namespace.
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(Internet) Initialism of Rich Site Summary / Really Simple Syndication (“mechanism to follow updates on other websites such as news, music, blogs, etc.”).
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(software) Initialism of Standard Generalized Markup Language.
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(sports) Initialism of shut out.
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(computer languages, databases) Initialism of Structured Query Language.
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(Internet slang) Abbreviation of screenshot. [(computing) An image of computer or smartphone screen output at a given moment in time.]
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Alternative form of TOD [(video) A digital video format by JVC.]
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Alternative form of TOD [(video) A digital video format by JVC.]
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(Internet) Initialism of XMLHttpRequest object.
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(computing) Initialism of extended module: a tracker music file format
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(computer languages) Initialism of Extensible Markup Language (a flexible text format for creating structured computer documents in machine-readable form.) [(computer languages) A set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form.]
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(computing) A malicious XML file designed to consume a lot of memory as a result of the expansion of entities within the markup during parsing.
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(computing) A query language for selecting nodes from an XML document, developed by the W3C.
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(Internet) Initialism of extensible messaging and presence protocol: a communications protocol for message-oriented middleware based on XML.
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(grammar, X-bar theory) Initialism of X Phrase. (a phrase which consists of either: (1) an optional specifier and an X-bar phrase, or (2) a conjunction sandwiched between two other XPs. The X is a "pro-letter" which can be substituted by letters such as N for noun, V for verb, P for preposition, I for inflectional, etc.)
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(computing) Abbreviation of XML Path Language. [(computing) A query language for selecting nodes from an XML document, developed by the W3C.]
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(computing) Abbreviation of Cross-Platform Component Object Model. (component of the Mozilla Project)
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(computing, XML) A system designed to address structural and positional aspects of XML.
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(computing) A query language designed to query collections of XML data
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(computing, Internet) Initialism of XML Schema Definition.
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(computing) Extensible stylesheet language, any of a family of languages in which code can be written to describe how XML files are to be transformed.
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(computer security) Initialism of cross-site request forgery. [(computer security) An exploit of a website where unauthorised commands are transmitted from a user that the website trusts.]
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(computer security, Internet) Initialism of cross-site scripting. [(computer security) An exploit that involves tricking a victim into executing a malicious script in a target website.]
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