Abbreviations and Acronyms
A
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AAA |
Asian Athletics Association |
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AAFI |
The Amateur Athletics Federation of India |
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AC |
Ante Christum (Before Christ), Ashok Chakra, Air Conditioner |
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ADB |
Asian Development Bank |
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AFI |
Athletics Federation of India |
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AFMC |
Armed Forces Medical College |
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AI |
Artifical Intelligence, Air India |
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AICTE |
All India Council for Technical Education |
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AIFF |
All India Football Federation |
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AIIMS |
All India Institute of Medical Science |
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AITUC |
All India Trade Union Congress |
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ALGOL |
Algebric Oriented Language |
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AM |
Ante Meridiem (before Noon), Amplitude Modulation |
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APEC |
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation |
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ARPANET |
Advanced Research Project Agency Network |
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ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
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ASEAN |
Association of South East Asian Nations |
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ASLV |
Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle |
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AT&T |
American Telegraphic and Telephone Co. Ltd. |
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ATC |
Air Traffic Control |
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ATM |
Automated Teller Machine |
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AVSM |
Ati Vishisht Seva Medal |
B
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B2B |
Busines to Business |
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B2C |
Business to Consumer |
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BARC |
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre |
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BBC |
British Broadcasting Corporation |
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BBS |
Bulletin Board Service |
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BC |
Before Christ |
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BHEL |
Bharat Heavy Electri-cals Ltd |
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BIOS |
Basic Input Output System |
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BIT |
Binary Digit |
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BPL |
Below Poverty Line |
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BPO |
Business Process Outsourcing |
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BPR |
Business Process Re-engineering |
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bps |
bytes per second |
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BSE |
Bombay Stock Exchange |
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BSF |
Border Security Force |
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BSNL |
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited |
C
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C2C |
Consumer to Consumer |
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CA |
Chartered Accountant |
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CAD |
Computer Aided Design |
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CAT |
Common Admission Test |
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CBI |
Central Bureau of Investigation |
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CBSE |
Central Board of Secondary Education |
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CDAC |
Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing |
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CDMA |
Code Division Multiple Access |
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CEO |
Chief Executive Officer |
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CFSL |
Central Forensic Science Laboratory |
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CGI |
Common Gateway Interface |
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CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency |
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CID |
Criminal Investigation Department |
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CISC |
Complex instruction-set computing |
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CITU |
Centre of Indian Trade Unions |
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CNN |
Cable News Network |
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COMSAT |
Communications Satellite Corporation |
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COPRA |
Consumer Protection Act |
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CORBA |
Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
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CPI(M) |
Communist Party of India / Marxist |
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CPWD |
Central Public Works Department |
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CRIS |
Centre for Railway Information System |
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CSIR |
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |
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CTBT |
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty |
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CYMK |
Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, Kinda |
D
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D.Litt. |
Doctor of Literature |
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D.Phil. |
Doctor of Philosophy |
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D.Sc |
Doctor of Science |
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DC |
Direct Current |
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DIG |
Deputy Inspector General |
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DMA |
Direct Memory Access |
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DMK |
Dravida Munetra Kazhagam |
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DNA |
Deoxyribo-nucleic Acid |
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DTP |
Desktop Publishing |
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DVC |
Damodar Valley Corporation |
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DVD |
Digital Versatile/Video Disc |
E
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E & OE |
Errors and Omissions Excepted |
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EDI |
Electronic Data Interchange |
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EIS |
Executive Information System |
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Electronic Mailing |
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EMI |
Equated Monthly Instalments |
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ENIAC |
Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator |
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ENT |
Ear, Nose and Throat |
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EOF |
end of file |
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EOT |
Eastern Daylight Time |
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EPABX |
Electronic Private Automatic Branch Exchange |
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ERNET |
Educational and Research Network |
F
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FAQ |
Frequently Asked Question |
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FBI |
Federal Bureau of Investigation |
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FBT |
Fringe Benefit Tax |
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FBTR |
Fast Breeder Test Reactor |
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FBW |
Fly-By-Wire |
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FCI |
Food Corporation of India; Fertilizer Corporation of India |
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FDI |
Foreign Direct Investment |
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FEMA |
Foreign Exchange Management Act |
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FICCI |
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry |
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FIFA |
International Football Federation (Federation International de Football Association) |
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FIR |
First Information Report |
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FM |
Frequency modulation |
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FRCP |
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians |
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FRCS |
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons |
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FRCS |
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society |
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FRS |
Fellow of the Royal Society |
G
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G7 |
Group of Seven (US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, japan and Canada) G8 includes G7 plus Russia |
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GATE |
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering |
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GATS |
General Agreement on Trade and Services |
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GDP |
Gross Domestic Product |
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GMAT |
Graduate Management Admission Test |
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GMT |
Greenwich Mean Time |
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GSLV |
Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle |
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GSM |
Global System for Mobile Communications |
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GSP |
Generalised System Preference |
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GUI |
Graphical User Interface |
H
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HAL |
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. |
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HIV |
Human Immunodeficiency Virus |
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HMI |
Himalayan Mountaineering Institute |
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HTML |
Hyper Text Markup Language |
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HUDCO |
Housing and Urban Development Corp. |
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HVAC |
Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning |
I
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i.e. |
id est (that is) |
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IAAI |
International Airport Authority of India |
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IAEA |
International Atomic Energy Agency |
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IARI |
Indian Agricultural Research Institute |
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IAS |
Indian Administrative Service |
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IATA |
International Air Transport Association |
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IBM |
International Business Machines |
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ICSE |
Indian Certificate of Secondary Education |
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ICU |
Intensive Care Unit |
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ICWA |
Indian Council of World Affairs |
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IDA |
International Development Agency |
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IDBI |
Industrial Development Bank of India |
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IEEE |
Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers |
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IELTS |
International English Language Testing System |
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IFC |
Industrial Finance Corporation, International Finance Corporation |
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IFS |
Indian Foreign Service; Indian Forest Service |
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IGNOU |
Indira Gandhi National Open University |
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IIPA |
Indian Institute of Public Administration |
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IISCO |
Indian Iron and Steel Company |
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IISS |
International Institute of Strategic Studies |
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IIT |
Indian Institute of Technology |
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ILA |
Indian Library Association |
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ILO |
International Labour Organisation |
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IMAP |
Internet Mail Access Protocol |
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IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
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INA |
Indian National Army |
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INTUC |
Indian National Trade Union Congress |
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IOC |
Indian Oil Corporation |
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IP |
Internet Protocol |
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IPC |
Indian Penal Code |
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IPCL |
Indian Petro-Chemicals Corporation Ltd |
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IPI |
International Press Institute |
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IPO |
Initial Public Offering |
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IPS |
Indian Police Service; Inter Press Service |
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IQ |
Intelligence Quotient |
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IRC |
International Red Cross |
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IRDP |
Integrated Rural Development Programme |
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IRS |
Indian Revenue Service |
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ISBN |
International Standard Book Number |
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ISDN |
Integrated Services Digital Network |
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ISI |
Indian Standards Institution; Inter Services Intelligence |
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ISKCON |
International Society for Krishna Consciousness |
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ISO |
International Standards Organisation |
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ISRO |
Indian Space Research Organisation |
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IST |
Indian Standard Time |
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ITBP |
Indo-Tibetan Border Police |
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ITES |
Information Technology enabled services |
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ITI |
Indian Telephone Industries<br> Industrial Training Institute |
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ITU |
International Telecommunication Union |
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IVF |
In-Vitro Fertilisation |
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IVM |
In-vitro Maturation |
J
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JCO |
Junior Commissioned Officer |
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JEE |
Joint Entrance Examination |
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JPEG |
Joint Photographic Expert Group |
K
L
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LASER |
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
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LCA |
Light Combat Aircraft |
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LCD |
Liquid Crystal Display<br>Least Common Denominator |
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LCM |
Lowest Common Multiple |
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LIC |
Life Insurance Corporation (of India) |
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LLB |
Bachelor of Laws |
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LMC |
Large Megallanic Cloud |
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LTTE |
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam |
M
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M.A. |
Magisiter Artium (Master of Arts) |
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M.D |
Doctor of Medicine |
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MBA |
Master of Business Administration |
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MBBS |
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery |
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MCC |
Marylebone Cricket Club |
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MCI |
Medical Council of India |
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MICR |
Magnetic ink character recognition |
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MIDI |
Musical Instrument Digital Interface |
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MIPS |
Million Instructions per Second |
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MIT |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Master Instruction Tape |
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MLA |
Member of Legislative Assembly |
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MNC |
Multi-National Corporation |
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MODEM |
modulator demodulator |
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MP |
Member of Parliament; Madhya Pradesh |
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MPEG |
Motion Picture Experts Group |
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MRCP |
Member of the Royal College of Physicians |
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MTCR |
Missile Technology Control Regime |
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MVC |
Maha Vir Chakra |
N
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NAAC |
National Assessment and Accreditation Council |
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NABARD |
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development |
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NAFED |
National Agricultural Co-operative Marketing Federation |
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NALCO |
National Aluminium Company Ltd. |
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NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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NASDAQ |
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation |
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NASSCOM |
National Association of Software and Service Companies |
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NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation |
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NAV |
Net Asset Value |
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NCERT |
National Council of Educational Research and Training |
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NCSA |
National Centre for Supercomputing Applications; National Computer Security Association |
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NDA |
National Defence Academy |
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NOC |
No Objection Certificate |
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NPA |
Non-performing Assets |
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NPT |
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty |
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NRF |
National Renewal Fund |
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NSUI |
National Students Union of India |
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NTPC |
National Thermal Power Corporation |
O
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OBC |
Other Backward Classes |
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OCR |
Optical Character Recognition |
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ONGC |
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation |
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OOP |
Object Oriented Programme |
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OPEC |
Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
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OSCAR |
Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio |
P
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PAN |
Permanent Account Number |
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Ph.D. |
Doctor of Philosophy (Philosophiae Doctor) |
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PIL |
Public Interest Litigation |
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PIN |
Postal Index Number |
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PSLV |
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle |
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PWD |
Public Works Department; |
Q
R
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R&D |
Research and Development |
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RADAR |
Radio Detecting and Ranging |
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RAM |
Random Access Memory |
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RAW |
Research & Analysis Wing |
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RBI |
Reserve Bank of India |
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RDX |
Research Department Explosive (Cyclotrim-ethylin Trinitrate) |
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RISC |
Reduced instruction-set computing |
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RNA |
Ribonucleic acid |
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ROM |
Read Only Memory |
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RPM |
Revolutions Per Minute |
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RTI |
Right to Information |
S
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SAIL |
Steel Authority of India Limited |
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SARS |
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome |
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SCSI |
Small Computer Systems Interface |
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SEBI |
Securities and Exchange Board of India |
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SENSEX |
Sensitivity Index (of Share Price) |
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SEZ |
Special Economic Zone |
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SGPC |
Siromani Gurudwara Prabandak Committee |
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SIM |
Subscriber Information Module |
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SLV |
Satellite Launch Vehicle |
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SMS |
Short Message Service |
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SMTP |
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
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STD |
Subscriber Trunk Dialling; Sexually Transmitted Diseases |
T
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TADA |
Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act |
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TCP |
Transfer Call Protocol<br> Transmission Control Protocol |
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TELCO |
Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company |
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TFT |
Thin-Film Transistor |
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TIFR |
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
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TISCO |
Tata Iron and Steel Company |
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TOEFL |
Test of English as a Foreign Language |
U
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UAV |
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
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UGC |
University Grants Commission |
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ULFA |
United Liberation Front of Asom |
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UNESCO |
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organi-sation |
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UNI |
United News of India |
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UNICEF |
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (now, 'United Nations Children's Fund') |
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UNU |
United Nations University |
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UPA |
United Progressive Alliance |
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UPSC |
Union Public Service Commission |
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URL |
Uniform Resource Locator |
V
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VAT |
Value Added Tax |
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VCR |
Video Cassette Recorder |
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VIP |
Very Important Person |
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VIRUS |
Vital Information Resources Under Siege |
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VRML |
Virtual Reality Modelling Language |
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VRS |
Voluntary Retirement Scheme |
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VSSC |
Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre |
W
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WHO |
World Health Organisation |
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WMO |
World Meteorological Organisation |
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WTO |
World Trade Orga-nisation |
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WWF |
World Wildlife Fund |
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WWW |
World Wide Web |
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WYSIWYG |
What you see is what you get |
X
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XML |
Extensible Mark-up Language |
Y
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YMCA |
Young Men's Christian Association |
Z
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ZIP |
Zone Improvement Plan |