Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Abbreviations (Full Forms)

HDFC
Housing Development Finance Corporation
ICICI
Industrial Credit & Investment Corporation of India
ONGC
Oil & Natural Gas Corporation
HSBC
Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation
IBP
Indian British Petroleum
IFFCO
Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative
UNICEF
United Nations Children's Fund (it was formerly United Nations International Children's Emergency)
CRY
Child Relief & You
IDBI
Industrial Development Bank of India
BARC
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
MBBS
Bachelor of Medicine; Bachelor of Surgery
PhD
Doctor of Philosophy
SAP
System analysis and program
DLF
Delhi Land & Finance (Real Estate)
GPRS
General Packet Radio Service
GSM
Global System for Mobile Communications
CDMA
Code Division Multiple Access
IVRS
Interactive Voice Response System
BMW
Bavarian Motor Works
ATM
Automated Teller Machine
AIDS
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
AM
Ante Meridian
PM
Post Meridian
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning
BPO
Business Process Outsourcing
BPL
British Physical Laboratories
LASER
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
RADAR
Radio Detection and Ranging
CTC
Cost To Company
CT Scan
Computerized Tomography Scan
MRI
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
SIM
Subscriber’s Identification Module
STD
Subscriber Trunk Dialling
ISD
International Subscriber Dialling
PCO
Public Call Office
DHL
Dalsey, Hillblom and Lynn
EPABX
Electronic Private Automatic Branch Exchange
SAARC
South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation
URL
Uniform Resource Locator
HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
USB
Universal Serial Bus
CBSE
Central Board of Secondary Education
CBD Belapur
Central Business District Belapur
USP
Unique Selling Proposal
FMCG
Fast Moving Consumer Goods
FAX
Far Away Xerox, FAX is the shortened form for 'facsimile'
FICCI
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
VAT
Value Added Tax
GRE
Graduate Record Examination
GMT
Greenwich Mean Time
PDF
Portable Document Format
PNR
Passenger Name Record
PhD
Doctor of Philosophy
PING
Packet Internet Groper
PVR
Priya Village Roadshow
NEWS
North,East,West,South
NIFTY
National Stock Exchange's Fifty
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NASSCOM
National Association of Software and Service Companies
NGO
Non Governmental Organisation
NIIT
National Institute of Information Technology
NRI
Non-Resident Indian
MPEG
Moving Picture Experts Group
GIF
Graphic Interchange Format
JPEG
Joint Photographic Experts Group
RSS
Really Simple Syndication
WI-FI
Wireless Fidelity
WWF
World Wildlife Fund
LLP
Limited Liability Partnership
LED
Light Emitting Diode
LCD
Liquid Crystal Display
CRT
Cathode Ray Tube
ITC
Imperial Tobacco Company
ESPN
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network