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T- SQL: Transact Structured Query Language
(Databases) (Microsoft)
TSR: Terminate and Stay Resident TSS: Task State Segment
TSS: The Screen Savers
Technical TV show. See also http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/
TSS: Time Sharing System
(Operating systems)
TST: TeST
File name extension
TSTN: Triple SuperTwisted Nematic TSV: Tab Separated Values
TSW: TeleSoftWare TT: Typewriter Text
TTA: Transport-Triggered Architecture TTCN: Tree and Tabular Combined Notation TTDS: Trusted Time Date Stamping
TTF: TrueType Font
File format for fonts
TTFN: Ta Ta For Now
That's all for now (Net lingo)
TTL: Time To Live
(Network)
TTL: Transistor-Transistor Logic
Semiconductor manufacturing technology (Hardware)
TTP: Thermal-Transfer Printing TTP: Trusted Third Parties
TTRP: Time Token Rotation Protocol TTRT: Target Token Rotation Time TTS: Text-To-Speech
TTS: Transaction Tracking System
(Novell)
TTS: Trouble Ticketing System TTY: TeleTYpewriter
Historically, a Teletypewriter equipment. Today, any dumb terminal that can access a computer or workstation (Hardware)
TTYL: Talk To You Later
(Net lingo)
TUC: Total User Cell
UBR TUCAA
TUCAA: The Ultimate Computer Acronyms Archive
TUCD: Total User Cell Difference
TUCOWS: The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software
TUG: Tex Users Group
TUI: Text-based User Interface
TUMS: Table Update and Management System TUP: Telephone User Path
TUT: Transistor Under Test
(Hardware)
TUT: TUTorial
File name extension
TUV: Technische Überwachungs-Verein
(Organizations)
TUX: Torvald's UniX
Name of the Linux penguin. (Operating systems)
TV: TeleVision
(Hardware)
TVD: Total Virus Defense
TVF: Table of contents Verbosely from File TVFS: Toronto Virtual File System
(IBM)
TVI: TeleVision Interference TVO: Total Value of Ownership TVOL: TeleVision On-Line TVT: TeleVision Terminal
(Hardware)
TWAIN: Toolkit Without An Important Name
Improperly expanded as shown, this term comes from Kipling's "The Ballad of East and West" - "...and never the twain shall meet...", reflecting the difficulty of connecting digital imaging devices (like scanners) to personal computers
TWIP: TWentIeth of a Point
Equal to 1/1440th of an inch.
TWP: Technical Working Procedure TWT: Travelling Wave Tube
(Hardware)
TWX: TeletypeWriter eXchange service TX: Transmit
(Communication)
TXD: Transmit Data
TXF: Tax eXchange Format
File name extension
TXT: TeXT
File name extension
TXT2STF: TeXT To Structured Text File
(Lotus)
TY: Thank You
(Net lingo)
TYIA: Thank You In Advance
(Net lingo)
TYS: Told You So
(Net lingo)
TYVM: Thank You Very Much
(Net lingo)
TZ: Time Zone
U
U: Unit
Rack-mountable devices height measurement unit corresponding to 1.75 inches (Hardware)
U2W: Ultra-2-Wide
(Hardware)
UA: Unnumbered Acknowledgement UA: User Agent
An ISO/OSI application process that acts on behalf of a user or organization in the X.400 message handling system. The UA creates, submits, and receives messages for you
UA: User Area
UAAG: User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
W3C recommendation that provides guidelines for designing user agents that lower barriers to Web accessibility for people with disabilities (visual, hearing, physical, cognitive, and neurological)
UAB: Unix Appletalk Bridge UAC: Universal Access Control
UADSL: Universal Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
(Communication)
UAE: Unrecoverable Application Error UAF: User Authorization File
UAGL: User Agent accessibility GuideLines UAM: User Authentication Method
UAN: Universal Application Network
Standards-based, service-oriented architecture that enables organizations to solve the business integration problem within and beyond the enterprise (Software)
UAP: Unified Approval Procedure UAPDU: User Agent Protocol Data Unit UAProf: User Agent PROFile
UART: Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
(Hardware)
UAS: User Application Software UAWG: Universal Adsl Working Group
(Organizations)
UBA: UniBus Adapter
UBB: Ultimate Bulletin Board
A message board (Software)
UBD: User brain damage
When a computer user does something really weird (Net lingo)
UBE: Unsolicited Bulk E-mail UBL: Universal Business Language
UBNI: Ungermann-Bass Network Interface UBR: Uddi Business Registry
(Software)
UBR: Universal Broadband Router
Router used in broadband cable systems (Communication)
T
U
UID UBR
UBR: Unspecified Bit Rate UC: UnCacheable
Video memory access method in BIOS (Hardware)
UCAA: Ultimate Computer Acronyms Archive
(Remedios)
UCAID: University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development
(Organizations)
UCB: Unit Control Block
UCE: Unsolicited Commercial Email UCF: Universal Communications Facility
(CAI)
UCITA: Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act
UCL: Universal Communications Language UCLP: Universal Commerce Language and Protocol
UCM: Unified Change Management
A Change Management (CM) concept implemented by Rational Software Corporation (Software) (Rational)
UCR: Under Color Removal
UCS: Unicode Conversion Support UCS: Universal Character Set UCS: User Coordinate System
UCSD: University of California at San Diego UCSD: User Centered Systems Design
A process for developing usable systems with user focus
UCT: Universal Coordinated Time UDA: Universal Data Access
(Databases)
UDB: Universal DataBase
(Databases) (IBM)
UDBC: Universal DataBase Connectivity
(Databases)
UDC: Universal Decimal Classification UDC: User Defined Commands
UDD: User Data Document
UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
UD-DVD: Ultra Definition Digital Video (or Versatile) Disk
(Hardware)
UDE: Universal Data Exchange
UDEC: Universal Digital Electronic Computer UDF: Uniqueness Database File
(Software) (Microsoft)
UDF: Universal Disk Format
(Hardware)
UDF: User-Defined Function UDG: User Defined Gateway
UDI: Unrestricted Digital Information
(Communication)
UDM: Unstructured Data Management
UDMA: Ultra Direct Memory Access
(Hardware)
UDO: Ultra Density Optical
Optical storage technology that increases capacities by using an extremely focused blue laser to write and read data. Hewlett-Packard (HP), Sony, and Plasmon collaborated on the UDO standard (Hardware) (HP)
UDO: User-Defined Object
(Software)
UDP: User Datagram Protocol
It is a connectionless transport mechanism for IP networks (Communication)
UDP/IP: User Datagram Protocol/Internet Protocol
UDRP: Uniform domain-name Dispute Resolution Policy
UDS: User Data Source UDT: Uniform Data Transfer UDT: User-defined Data Type UDX: Universal Data eXchange UDX: User-Defined Extension UFB: Un-F***ing-Believable
(Net lingo)
UFCOM: Ufficio Federale delle COMunicazioni
Swiss regulatory Organisation (Organizations)
UFS: Unix File System
The default disk-based file system under the Unix operating system (Operating systems)
UFST: Universal Font Scaling Technology UFT: Unsolicited File Transfer
(Network)
UG: User Group
UHA: Ultra-High Aperture
LCD display technology (Hardware)
UHCI: Universal Host Controller Interface UHE: Ultra High Efficiency
(Hardware)
UHF: Ultra-High Frequency UHL: Universal Hypertext Link UHP: Ultra-High Performance
(Hardware)
UI: Unix International
A consortium consisting of Sun, AT&T, and others that formed to advance a UNIX System V-based environment, including the Open Look GUI (Organizations)
UI: User Interface
(Operating systems)
UIC: User Identification Code UID: Unit IDentifier
UID: User IDentifier
In the Unix operating system, the number assigned to each login name. The system uses UID numbers to identify, by number, the owners of files and directories (Operating systems)
UID: User Interface Document
UPS UIL
UIL: User Interface Language
UIMS: User Interface Management System UIN: Universal Internet Number
UL: Underwriters Laboratories
(Organizations)
UL: Unordered List UL: UpLoad
ULA: Uncommitted Logic Array ULANA: Unified Local Area Network Architecture
ULC: Ultra-Light Client
(Software)
ULN: Universal Link Negotiation ulp: Unit in Last Place
In binary formats, the least-significant bit of the significant, bit 0, is the unit in the last place
ULP: Upper Layer Protocol
ULSI: Ultra Large Scale Integration
The process of placing more than 100,000 components on a chip (Hardware)
ULV: Ultra Low Voltage
(Hardware)
UM: Unified Messaging UM: Universal Manageability UMA: Unified Memory Architecture UMA: Universal Management Agent
UMA: Universal Measurement Architecture UMA: Upper Memory Area
UMA: User Mode Audio
Together with PUMA, is an engine in the Windows Vista Protected Environment that provides a safer environment for audio playback, as well as checking that the enabled outputs are consistent with what the content allows (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
UMADS: Universal Measurement Architecture Data Storage
UMB: Upper Memory Block
UMC: United Microelectronics Corporation UME: Uni Management Entity
UML: Unified Modeling Language
A specification defining a graphical language for visualizing, specifying, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of distributed object systems
UMOD: Unreal MODule
Type of compressed files associated with Unreal Tournament (Games)
UMS: Unified Messaging Server UMS: Universal Management Service
(IBM)
UMS: User Mode Scheduler
UMTS: Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
(Communication)
UN/EDIFACT: United Nations Electronic Data Interchange For Administration Commerce and Transport
UN/GTDI: United Nations Guidelines for Trade Data Interchange
UNC: Universal Naming Convention UNC: Uuencoded Netnews Collator
UNCOL: UNiversal Computed Oriented Language UNDI: Universal Network Driver Interface
Architectural interface to Network Interface Cards (NICs) that provides a hardware-dependent mechanism for the Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) base code to use a NIC for network access without controlling the NIC hardware directly (Hardware)
UNE: Unbundled Network Element
(Communication)
UNEP: Unbundled NEtwork Platform UNI: Universal Network Interface UNI: User-Network Interface
The interface between the Frame Relay
Assembler/Disassembler (FRAD) and the service provider (Communication)
UNICODE: UNIversal CODE
UNICOM: UNiversal Integrated COMmunication UNII: Unlicensed National Information
Infrastructure
UNIVAC: UNIVersal Automatic Computer UNIX: UNiplexed Information and Computing Service
Modern abbreviation of UNICS. Ken Thomson and Dennis Ritchie, the original creators of UNIX, chose this name because it was a pun on MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service), the project they were working on when UNIX was born (Operating systems)
UNMA: Unified Network Management Architecture
UNO: United Nations Organization
(Organizations)
UOW: Unit Of Work UP: UniProcessor
UPC: United Pan-european Communications
Large european cable operator
UPC: Universal Product Code
(Hardware)
UPC: User Parameter Control UPG: UPGrade
UPI: Universal Peripheral Interface
(Hardware)
UPL: User Program Language UPM: Unix Programmer's Manual UPM: User Profile Management
(IBM)
UPN: User Principal Name UPnP: Universal Plug aNd Play UPS: Uninterruptible Power Supply
(Hardware)
UUID UPS
UPS: United Parcel Service UR: Uncommitted Read
(Databases)
URA: Uniform Resource Agent
(Network)
URC: Uniform Resource Characteristics URC: Uniform Resource Citation
A set of attribute/value pairs describing a resource. Some of the values may be URIs of various kinds. Others may include, for example, authorship, publisher, datatype, date, copyright status and shoe size.
URD: Url Rendezvous Directory
(Network)
UREP: Unix Rscs Emulation Protocol
Protocol
URI: Uniform Resource Identifier
The generic set of all names/addresses that are short strings that refer to resources (specified 1994; ratified as Internet Draft Standard 1998). (Network)