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Abbreviations and Acronyms

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Abbreviations and Acronyms Abbreviation or Acronym A AC ADC ADI AI ANSI ASCII ASIC BASIC BBS BIOS bpi bps BTU BZT C CCFT CD Description ampere(s) alternating current analog-to-digital converter Autodesk Device Interface artificial intelligence American National Standards Institute American Standard Code for Information Interchange application-specific integrated circuit Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code bulletin board service basic input/output system bits per inch bits per second British thermal unit Bundesamt fur Zulassungen in der Telekommunikation Celsius cold cathode fluorescent tube compact disc Abbreviation or Acronym CD-ROM CGA cm CMOS C.O.D. cpi cpl CPU DAC DASH DAT dB dBA DC DIN DIP DMA DOC dpi Description compact disc read-only memory color graphics adapter centimeter(s) complementary metal-oxide semiconductor collect on delivery characters per inch characters per line central processing unit digital-to-analog converter Dell Advanced SCSI Host digital audio tape decibel(s) adjusted decibel(s) direct current Deutsche Industrie Norm dual in-line package direct memory access Department of Communications (in Canada) dots per inch Abbreviations and Acronyms 1

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Abbreviations and Acronyms
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Abbreviations and Acronyms
Abbreviation
or Acronym
Description
A
ampere(s)
AC
alternating current
ADC
analog-to-digital converter
ADI
Autodesk Device Interface
AI
artificial intelligence
ANSI
American National Standards
Institute
ASCII
American Standard Code for
Information Interchange
ASIC
application-specific integrated
circuit
BASIC
Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic
Instruction Code
BBS
bulletin board service
BIOS
basic input/output system
bpi
bits per inch
bps
bits per second
BTU
British thermal unit
BZT
Bundesamt fur Zulassungen in
der Telekommunikation
C
Celsius
CCFT
cold cathode fluorescent tube
CD
compact disc
CD-ROM
compact disc read-only memory
CGA
color graphics adapter
cm
centimeter(s)
CMOS
complementary metal-oxide
semiconductor
C.O.D.
collect on delivery
cpi
characters per inch
cpl
characters per line
CPU
central processing unit
DAC
digital-to-analog converter
DASH
Dell Advanced SCSI Host
DAT
digital audio tape
dB
decibel(s)
dBA
adjusted decibel(s)
DC
direct current
DIN
Deutsche Industrie Norm
DIP
dual in-line package
DMA
direct memory access
DOC
Department of Communications
(in Canada)
dpi
dots per inch
Abbreviation
or Acronym
Description