These browsable resources provide abbreviations and acronyms
for DoD and commercial terms.
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DoD Acronym Resources (7)
- Materials created by or of special interest to the DoD community.
Acronym Finder - With more than 600,000 human-edited definitions, Acronym Finder is the world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. Combined with the Acronym Attic, Acronym Finder contains more than 4 million acronyms and abbreviations.
Defense Acquisition Acronyms and Terms - This glossary contains most acronyms, abbreviations, and terms commonly used in the weapon systems acquisition process within the Department of Defense (DoD) and defense industries. The Defense Systems Management College (DSMC) publishes this resource.
FAS Military Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations - This searchable Military Lexicon is a composite of acronyms and definitions chosen to complement the mission of New Systems Training Office. We have called it a lexicon because the development and training of new systems for today’s Army is evolving a whole new techspeak language. This Lexicon contains abbreviations, symbols, acronyms, functional designations, letter combinations, code names, initialisms, nicknames, mnemonic devices, project names, alphabetical contractions, and general slang. This Lexicon is not official. The entries were gathered from various official and non-official [U.S.] Government sources, publications — Army, Department of Defense, contractors — and from informed contributors who provided them in out of sheer benevolence. Many of these sources disagree, even the official ones, on the proper definition or expansion of an acronym. Thus many entries will have several acronym expansions and/or differing definitions.
Google Definitions - The Google search engine offers this free service to find definitions for words, phrases and acronyms.
PC Magazine Tech Encyclopedia - This on line encyclopedia provide the capability for the viewer to enter a term and search or to browse the list, which is in alphabetical order. It claims to have 20,000 terms. The Encyclopedia is copyrighted by The Computer Language Co. Inc. Apparently, other organizations, in addition to PC magazine, provide this same encyclopedia from their web sites. The content is not maintained by PC Magazine.
TechEncyclopedia - This is a web tool, accessible from the Techweb website, that claims to have more than 20,000 IT terms defined. You enter the term and click and then it provides you with a definition if it has one. Some terms, such as ASIC, have full page definition/description while others only have a sentence.
XML Glossary from ZVON - A searchable glossary covering XML terminology, W3C specifications and other XML acronyms and languages.
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