Abbreviations, Full Forms, Acronyms

Often, people mess up the meaning of the words 'abbreviation' and 'full form' and use them interchangeably. This can't be attributed to grammar mistake, it's totally a change of meaning. It's like using 'boy' in place of 'girl'.

Abbreviation:

It's the shortened form of any word or a phrase. 

Full form:

Self-explanatory. 

Acronym:

An abbreviation or short form pronounced as a single word.

Real incident in an Electronic and Communication Class:

Teacher: Class, what is the abbreviation of LTE?

..........Silence Prevails......

Student 1: Long Term Efficiency.

Little Wizard(thinking): Neither the question nor the answer is correct 🙄

Teacher: Arun, I thought you would answer. 

Little Wizard: I know mam, it's Long Term Evolution. 

Teacher: Good!

Now it's clear about the difference. Here, you are gonna be provided with some full forms of the abbreviations which are quite basic and must-know.

Mobile/Communication/Network

1. GPRS=General Packet Radio Service.

Related with 2G pocket internet/mobile internet data usage. Data is sent as packets hence the name. Mostly Analog.

2. EDGE=Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution. 

2.5G mobile internet. It reduced the data charges and speed as compared to GPRS, hence the name. Digital Voice support. 

3. HSPA=High Speed Packet Acess.

Commonly known as the popular 3G network. Has 2 separate speeds for Download and Upload. HSDPA= High Speed Downlink Packet Acess, HSUPA=High Speed Uplink Packet Acess. H+ is shown on top area of a mobile phone when it works and H when it is connected to the network but not sending or receiving packets. 3G is shown when network is connected and is able to stay lively. 

4. LTE=Long Term Evolution.

4G network. Mainly used for internet access with speeds higher than HSPA. Problem of HSPA not being lively is fixed. VoLTE=Voice over LTE-provides voice support on LTE networks.

5. 3GPP=3rd Generation Partnership Project.

Project for developing mobile technology. 

6. CDMA=Code Division Multiple Acess.

Used for digital voice calls.

7. WCDMA=Wideband CDMA.

Used as 3G's technology for internet and calls at the same time. Efficient use of the spectrum. 

8. GSM=Global System for Mobile(2G).

9. ITU=International 

Telecommunication Union.

10. UMTS=Universal Mobile Telecommunication System(3G).

11. DHCP=Dynamic Host Control Protocol.

In computer networking, for assignment of IP addresses to the clients under a server. 

12. IP=Internet Protocol.

For the browsing of the web.

13. TCP=Transmission Control Protocol. 

Set of rules to transfer data over the internet. Most reliable. 

14. UDP=User Datagram Protocol.

For data transfers other than IP. Less reliable and in IP unreliable. 

15. WPS=WiFi Protected Setup.

Holding this WPS button automatically connects your phone to your WiFi router. An authentication method. 

16. TKIP=Temporal Key Integrity Protocol.

Low security protocol for WiFi networks. 

17. AES=Advanced Encryption Standard.

High security for WiFi networks. 

18. PSK=Pre Shared Key. 

Denotes the sharing of WiFi password. An authentication method for connecting to a WiFi network. 

19. WPA=WiFi Protected Access. 

Umbrella term for authentication methods for WiFi connection. 

20. MSC=Mobile Switching Centre.

21. BTS=Base Terminal Station.

22. MODEM=MOdulation DEModulation.

Acronym for a device which sends data in machine understandable and receives, displays data in man understandable language. 

23. USSD=Unstructured Supplementary Service Data.

Usage of *123# and many other similar codes for accessing supplementary Services from mobile operators. 

24. MMI=Man Machine Interface. 

The USSD codes are called MMI codes.

25. WiFi=Wireless Fidelity. 

Acronym for physically accessible acess points of internet.

26. AP=Access Point.

Point from where a device connects to the internet through the network provider to browse the web.

27. APN=Access Point Name.

Examples: bsnl internet, jio internet, airtel south gprs etc.

28. VPN=Virtual Private Network. 

Used to create a virtual network to tunnel forbidden data to any banned destination on the web.

29. DNS=Domain Name System.

System for providing corresponding names for web address in the form of IP addresses.

Example: Entering 172.217.168.193 will take you to Google India, google.co.in.

30. TLD=Top Level Domain.

.com,.in,.edu,.au,.usa etc., are TLDs.

31. URL=Uniform/Universal Resource Locator.

Simply, the web address in DNS form.

32. HTTP=Hypertext Transfer Protocol.

Protocol for transferring webpages over the internet. 

33. GPD=GamePad Digital.

Microcomputer made by Windows.

34. TPR=Togather Project Definition. 

File format.

35. SSL=Secure Sockets Layer.

Security over the internet, provides HTTPS-HTTP secure.

And there are much more!

Hope, it helps. 

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