| CODE | ABBREVIATION |
|
C
| Celsius / Centigrade / Committee / Country |
|
C&B
| Crash & Burn |
|
C&G
| Chuckle and Grin |
|
C&ISM
| Consultant and Information Systems Marketing Group |
|
C/SCC
| (IEEE Computer Society) Computer / Standards Coordinating Committee |
|
C:-)
| Big brain |
|
C|:-)
| Wearing a Bowler Hat |
|
C=:-)
| Chef |
|
C4I
| Command/Control/Comp/Comm/Intel |
|
C4N
| ciao for now |
|
CA
| CAble / Cell Arrival / Certificate Authority / Collision Avoidance / Computer Associates / Computer Animation |
|
CAA
| Chaotic Ansi Artists |
|
CABS
| Carrier Access Billing System |
|
CAC
| Calling-card Authorization Center / Canadian Advisory Committee / Carrier Access Code / Circuit Administration Center / Customer Administration Center / Connection Admission Control / |
|
CACH
| Call Appearance Call Handling |
|
CACHE
| Can't Admit Computers hang Empty |
|
CACHEKTS
| Call Appearance Call Handling Electronic Key Telephone Service |
|
CACP
| Central Arbitration Control Point |
|
CACS
| Customer Administration Communication System |
|
CAD
| Computer Aided Design/Drafting/Dispatch / Control-Alternate-Delete |
|
CAD/CAM
| Computer-Aided Design / Computer-Aided Manufacturing |
|
CADD
| Computer Aided Design Development |
|
CADV
| Combined Alternate Data/Voice |
|
CAE
| California Association of Employers / Client Application Enabler (SQL) / Command Application Environment / Common Application Environment / Computer-Aided Engineering |
|
CAEM
| Computer Aided Engineering and Manufacturing |
|
CAF
| Call Attach Facility |
|
CAFD
| Controllers Automatic Message Accounting Format Description |
|
CAFM
| Computer Aided Facilities Management |
|
CAGR
| Compound Annual Growth Rate |
|
CAI
| Call Assembly Index / Common Air Interface / Computer Assisted Instruction |
|
CAIA
| Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications |
|
CAIS
| Collocated Automatic Intercept System |
|
CAL
| Computer Aided Learning |
|
CALC
| CALCulate / Carrier Access Line Charge / Customer Access Line Charge |
|
CALIM
| Consortium of Academic Libraries in Manchester |
|
CALRS
| Centralized Automatic Loop Reporting System |
|
CALS
| Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistic Support |
|
CAM
| Channel Access Method / Common Access Method Computer Aided Machining/Manufacturing / Computer AIDS Ministries |
|
CAMA
| Centralized Automatic Message Accounting |
|
CAN
| Campus Area Network / Controller Area Network |
|
CAP
| Carrierless Amplitude and Phase / Competitive Access Provider |
|
CAROT
| Centralized Automatic Reporting On Trunks |
|
Carrier
| Access Code / Connection Admission Control |
|
CAS
| Centralized Attendent Service / Channel Associated Signaling / Circuit Associated Signaling / Column Address Strobe/Select / Communicating Application Specification / Computerized Autodial System / Customer Administrative Services |
|
CASE
| Common Application Service Element / Computer Aided/Assisted Software Engineering |
|
CASS
| Coding Accuracy Support System |
|
CAT
| Common Authentication Technology / Computer Aided Test / Craft Access Terminal |
|
CATANET
| Concatanated Network |
|
CATCH
| Come Again? That Can't Help! |
|
CATLAS
| Centralized Automatic Trouble Locating & Analysis System |
|
CATNIP
| Common Architecture for the Internet Protocol |
|
CATV
| Cable Television / Community Antenna TeleVision |
|
CAU
| Computer Anarchists Underground / Controlled Access Unit |
|
CAU/LAM
| Controlled Access Unit / Lobe Attachment Module |
|
CAV
| Constant Angular Velocity |
|
CB
| Citizens Band / Component Broker |
|
CBBS
| Computerized Bulletin Board System |
|
CBC
| Cipher Block Chaining |
|
CBD
| Component Based Development |
|
CBDB
| Currency and Banking DataBase |
|
CBDS
| Connectionless Broadband Data Service |
|
CBE
| Certified Banyan Engineer |
|
CBEMA
| Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers' Association |
|
CBI
| Computer-based Instruction |
|
CBL
| Computer Based Learning |
|
CBM
| Commodore Business Machines |
|
CBMS
| Computer - Based Messaging System |
|
CBO
| Continuous Bitstream Oriented |
|
CBPXI
| Computer Private Branch Exchange Interface |
|
CBQ
| Class Based Queuing |
|
CBR
| Constant Bit Rate / Continuous Bit Rate |
|
CBS
| Certified Banyan Specialist / Common Bom System / CrossBar Switching |
|
CBSD
| Component-Based Software Development |
|
CBT
| Computer Based Training |
|
CBX
| Computerized Branch/Business Exchange |
|
CC
| Calling Card / Carbon Copy / Central Control / Clearing Center / Cluster Controller / Committee Chairman / Common Control / Connect Confirm / Connection Confirm / Continuity Cell / Controller Card / Cost Center / Country Code / Courtesy Copy / Credit Card |
|
CCA
| Conceptual Communications Area |
|
CCAPH
| Communications and Computer Applications in Public Health |
|
CCB
| Command Control Block |
|
CCBS
| Completion of Call to Busy Subscriber |
|
CCC
| Central Control Complex / Ceramic Chip Carrier / Chaos Computer Club / Clear Channel Capability / Community Computer Center / Computer Control Center |
|
CCD
| Cash Concentration and Disbursement / Charge-Coupled Device / Customer Configuration Document |
|
CCDN
| Corporate Consolidated Data Network |
|
CCEP
| Commercial Communications Endorsement Program / Commercial COMSEC Endorsement Program |
|
CCFT
| Cold Cathode Fluorescent Tube |
|
CCH
| Connections per Circuit per Hour |
|
CCH/SP
| Harmonization Coordination Committee Permanent Secretariat |
|
CCI
| Cyber Crime International |
|
CCIA
| Computer and Communication Industry Association |
|
CCIC
| Committee on Computing Information and Communications |
|
CCIP
| (IEEE) Committee on Communications and Information Policy |
|
CCIR
| Comite Consultif Internationale de Radiocommunications / International Consultative |
|
CCIRN
| Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networks |
|
CCIS
| Common Channel Interoffice Signaling |
|
CCITT
| Comitt‚‚ Consultatif International Telegraphique et T‚l‚phonique (the Consultative Committee on International Telegraphy and Telephony) |
|
CCM
| Customer Control Management |
|
CCNC
| Common Channel Network Controller / Computer Communications Network Center |
|
CCNR
| Completion of Call on No Reply |
|
CCNUMA
| Cache Coherent NonUniform Memory Architecture (usually as ccNUMA) |
|
CCOO
| Comprehensive Cost of Ownership |
|
CCP
| Certified Computing Professional |
|
CCR
| Commitment Concurrency and Recovery / Current Cell Rate / Customer Controlled Reconfiguration |
|
CCRMA
| Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics |
|
CCRSE
| Commitment Concurrency and Recovery Service Element |
|
CCS
| Calling Card Service / Centum (hundreds) Call Seconds / Common Channel Signaling / Common Command Set / Common Communications Support |
|
CCS7
| Common Channel Signaling |
|
CCSA
| Common Central Switching Arrangement |
|
CCSS
| Common Channel Signaling System |
|
CCSS7
| Common Channel Signaling System 7 |
|
CCT
| Central Control Terminal / CNMA Conformance Testing / Cumulative Cycle Time |
|
CCTA
| Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency |
|
CCTAC
| Computer Communications Trouble Analysis Center |
|
CCTV
| Closed Circuit Television |
|
CCU
| COLT Computer Unit |
|
CCUTF
| Corrupt Computer Underground Taskforce |
|
CCV
| Calling Card Validation |
|
CD
| (modem) Carrier Detect / Call Deflection / Capability Data / Compact Disk / Change Directory (DOS) / Collision Detection / Committee Draft / Current Data / |
|
CDA
| Call Data Accumulator / Capability Data Acknowledgment / Coin Detection and Announcement / Communications Decency Act / Compound Document Architecture / Crash Dump Analyzer |
|
CDAR
| Customer Dialed Account Recording |
|
CDC
| Clark Development Company / Control Data Corporation / Cult of the Dead Cat (Virus) / Cult of the Dead Cow (Text) / Current Data Checking |
|
CDCCP
| Control Data Communications Control Procedure |
|
CDCF
| Cumulative Discounted Cash Flow |
|
CDCI
| Cult of the Dead Cat Inc. |
|
CDD
| Common Data Dictionary |
|
CD-DA
| Compact Disc - Digital Audio |
|
CDDA
| Compact Disc Digital Audio (red book) |
|
CD-DA
| Compact Disc Digital Audio (red book) |
|
CDDI
| Copper Distributed Data Interface |
|
CDE
| Common Desktop Environment |
|
CDF
| Channel Definition Format / Combined Distributing Frame |
|
CDFS
| CD-ROM File System / Compact Disk File System |
|
CDI
| Circle Digit Identification / Compact Disc digital Interactive (green book) |
|
CD-I
| Compact Disc digital Interactive (green book) |
|
CDIA
| Certified Document Imaging Architect |
|
CDIF
| CASE Data Interchange Format |
|
CDIP
| Ceramic Dual In-line Package |
|
CDM
| Custom Device Module |
|
CDMA
| Code Division Multiple Access |
|
CDO
| Community Dial Office |
|
CDOE
| Common Desktop Operating Environment |
|
CDPD
| Cellular Data Packet Data / Cellular Digital Packet Data |
|
CDPR
| Customer Dial Pulse Receiver |
|
CDR
| Call Detail Recording / Call Dial Routing |
|
CD-R
| Compact Disc - Recordable |
|
CDR
| Compact Disc Reader / Compact Disc Recordable |
|
CDRAM
| Cache Dynamic Random Access Memory |
|
CDRH
| Center for Devices and Radiological Health |
|
CD-ROM
| Compact Disc - Read Only Memory / Consumer Device Rendered Obsolete in Months |
|
CD-RW
| Compact Disc - Re-Writable |
|
CDRW
| Compact Disc Re-Writable |
|
CDS
| Cell Directory Service / Circuit Design System / Compound Document Service / Conceptual Data Store / Craft Dispatch System |
|
CDSA
| Common Data Security Architecture |
|
CDSL
| Consumer Digital Subscriber Line |
|
CDT
| Cell Delay Tolerance |
|
CDUGD
| Computer Down UnderGround Digest |
|
CDV
| Cell Delay Variation |
|
CDVT
| Cell Delay Variation Tolerance |
|
CE
| Consumer Electronics (as in the version of Windows CE) / Communications Entity / Creative Editing |
|
CEB
| Consumer Electronic Bus |
|
CEC
| Commission of European Communities |
|
CEF
| Cable Entrance Facility |
|
CEI
| Comparably Efficient Interconnection |
|
CELP
| Code Excited Linear Predictive Coding |
|
CEN
| Comite Europeen de Normalisation (European Committee for Standardization) |
|
CENELEC
| Comit‚ Europ‚en de Normalisation Electrotechnique (the European Electrotechnical Standards Committee) |
|
CENTREX
| CENTRal EXchange |
|
CEO
| Chief Executive Officer |
|
CEP
| Canon Express Protocol / Connection EndPoint |
|
CEPI
| Connection EndPoint Identifier / Comite Europeen des Administrations des Postes et des Telecommunications (European) |
|
CER
| Cell Error Ratio |
|
CERFNET
| California Educational Research Network |
|
CERN
| Centre de Reseau Nucleare |
|
CERT
| Certified Order / Computer Emergency Response Team |
|
CES
| Circuit Emulation Service / Circuit Emulation Specification / Computer Election Systems |
|
CET
| Computer - Enhanced Telephony |
|
CEU
| Continuing Education Unit |
|
CEV
| Control Environmental Vault / Controlled Environment Vault |
|
CF
| Carrier Flag / Coin First / Conversion Facility |
|
CFAC
| Call Forwarding All Calls |
|
CFB
| (K-bit) Cipher Feedback / Call Forwarding Busy / Color Frame Buffer |
|
CFCA
| Communications Fraud Control Association |
|
CFD
| call for discussion |
|
CFM
| Cubic Feet per Minute |
|
CFNR
| Call Forwarding No Reply |
|
CFO
| Chief Financial Officer |
|
CFP
| (Conference on) Computers Freedom and Privacy |
|
CFR
| Code of Federal Regulations |
|
CFU
| Call Forwarding Unconditional |
|
CFV
| Call For Votes/Voting |
|
CG
| Chassis Ground |
|
CGA
| Color Graphics Adapter |
|
CGCM
| Certified Graphic Communications Manager |
|
CGI
| Common Gateway Interface / Computer Graphics Interface |
|
CGM
| Computer Graphics Metafile (usually as .CGM) |
|
CGMIF
| Computer Graphics Metafile Interchange Format |
|
CGN
| Concentrator Group Number |
|
CGS
| Constructive Solid Geometry (modelers) |
|
CGSA
| Cellular Geographic Serving Area |
|
CHAP
| Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol |
|
CHCP
| CHange Code Page (Novell DOS) |
|
CHDIR
| Change Directory (DOS) |
|
CHEAD
| Conference for Higher Education in Art and Design |
|
CHEST
| Combined Higher Education Software Team |
|
CHILL
| CCITT HIgh Level Language (programming language) |
|
CHINA
| Communist Hackers In North America |
|
CHIPS
| Clearing House Interbank Payments System |
|
CHRP
| Common Hardware Reference Platform |
|
CHS
| Cylinder-Head-Sector addressing |
|
CHT
| Call Holding Time |
|
CI
| Call Intrusion / Cluster Interconnect / Computer Interconnect / Congestion Indicator / Connect Indication / Copy Inhibit |
|
CI$
| Compu$erve Information Service |
|
CIA
| Central Intelligence Agency |
|
CIAO
| Goodbye |
|
CIB
| Channel Input/output Bus |
|
CIBYAD
| Can I buy you a drink? |
|
CIC
| Carrier Identification Codes / CSNET Information Center |
|
CICO
| Coffee In Coffee Out |
|
CICS
| Computer Information Control System |
|
CICSPARS
| Customer Information Control System Performance Analysis Reporting System |
|
CID
| Crying In Disgrace |
|
CIDR
| Classless Inter-Domain Routing |
|
CIE
| Commission Internationale de l'Eclairaqe / Customer-Initiated Entry |
|
CIESIN
| Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network |
|
CIF
| Cells In Frames |
|
CIFS
| Common Internet File System |
|
CIG
| Commercial Internet Exchange |
|
CIGOS
| Canadian Interest Group on Open Systems |
|
CII
| Call Identity Index |
|
CIM
| #NAME? |
|
CIMAP
| Circuit Installation Maintenance Access Package |
|
CIMITI
| Center for Information Management and Information Technology Innovation |
|
CIMT
| Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Technology |
|
CINT
| Call Interception |
|
CIO
| Chief Information Officer |
|
CIP
| Carrier Identification Parameter / Channel Interface Processor |
|
CIR
| Committed Information Rate / Computer Integrated Research |
|
CIRU
| Computer Industry Research Unit |
|
CIS
| #NAME? |
|
CISA
| Certified Information Systems Auditor |
|
CISC
| Complex Instruction Set Computer/Computing / Complex Instruction Set Code |
|
CISSD
| Canadian International Society for Social Deviancy |
|
CIT
| Computer Integrated Telephony |
|
CITTM
| Corporate Information Technology Training Manager (Council) |
|
CIU
| Communications Interface Unit |
|
CIX
| Commercial Internet Exchange (Association) |
|
CKO
| Chief Knowledge Officer |
|
CKS
| Celestial Knights |
|
CL
| Connectionless |
|
CLASS
| Centralized Local Area Selective Signaling / Custom Local-Area Signaling Services |
|
CLB
| Common Logic Board |
|
CLDN
| Calling Line Directory Number |
|
CLE
| Customer Located Equipment |
|
CLEC
| Competetive Local Exchange Carrier |
|
CLEI
| Common Language Equipment Identification |
|
CLI
| (SQL) Call Level Interface / Calling Line Ident / Command Line Interface |
|
CLID
| Calling Line IDentification |
|
CLIP
| Calling Line Identification Presentation |
|
CLIR
| Calling/Connected Line Identification Restriction |
|
CLLI
| Common Language Location Identification |
|
CLLM
| Consolidated Link-Layer Management |
|
CLM
| Career Limiting Move |
|
CLNAP
| Connectionless Network Access Protocol |
|
CLNP
| Connectionless Network Protocol |
|
CLNS
| Connectionless Network Services |
|
CLP
| Cell Loss Priority / Country List Price |
|
CLR
| Cell Loss Ratio |
|
CLS
| Call Logging System / CLear Screen (DOS BASIC) / Connectionless Server |
|
CLSF
| Connectionless Service Function |
|
CLSID
| CLasS Identifier |
|
CLTK
| CLaim ToKen |
|
CL-TK
| Claim Token |
|
CLTP
| Connectionless Transport Protocol |
|
CLTS
| Connectionless Transport Service |
|
CLU
| Command Line Utility |
|
CLV
| Constant Linear Velocity |
|
CM
| Centimeter (usually as cm) / Configuration Management / Cubmaster |
|
CMA
| Communication Managers Association |
|
CMAC
| Centralized Maintenance and Administration Center |
|
CMAD
| (Workshop on) Computer Misuse And Detection |
|
CMAS
| Central Massachusetts Administrative Services |
|
CMC
| Carry-in Monthly Charge / Cellular Mobile Carrier / Construction Maintenance Center |
|
CMDF
| Combined Main Distributing Frame |
|
CMDS
| Centralized Message Data System |
|
CME
| Component Management Entity |
|
CMI
| Cable Microcell Integrator / Coded Mark Inversion |
|
CMI/HIC
| Cable Microcell Integrator / Headend Interface Converter |
|
CMIIW
| Correct me if I'm wrong |
|
CMIP
| Common Management Information Protocol / Common Management Interface Protocol |
|
CMIPDU
| Common Management Information Protocol Data Unit |
|
CMIPM
| Common Management Information Protocol Machine |
|
CMIS
| Common Management Information Service |
|
CMISE
| Common Management Information Service Element |
|
CML
| Current-Mode Logic |
|
CMM
| Capability Maturity Model |
|
CMOS
| Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor(Silicon) |
|
CMOT
| Common Management information services and protocol Over TCP/IP |
|
CMP
| Common Management Protocol / Cooperative Management Protocol / Communications Plenum Cable / Cooperative Marketing Program/Partner |
|
CMR
| Cell Misinsertion Rate / Communications Riser Cable |
|
CMS
| Call Management System / Circuit Maintenance System / Code Management System / Color Management System / Communications Management Subsystem / Conversation Monitor System |
|
CMT
| Cellular Mobile Telephone |
|
CMU
| COLT Measurement Unit |
|
CMYK
| Cyan Magenta Yellow Key / Cyan Magenta Yellow Black |
|
CN
| Change Notice / Common Name / Connect / Copy Network / Country Name / Customer Name / Customer Network |
|
CN/A
| Customer Name & Address |
|
CNA
| Certified NetWare Administrator / Certified Novell Administrator / Communications Network Application |
|
CNAB
| Customer Name - Address Bureau |
|
CNC
| Computer Numeric Control / Concentrator |
|
CNCC
| Customer Network Control Center |
|
CNCP
| Canadian National Canadian Pacific |
|
CNE
| Certified NetWare Engineer / Certified Novell Engineer / Certified Network Engineer |
|
CNET
| Centre National d'Etudes des Telecommunications (National Center for the Study of Telecommunications |
|
CNI
| Certified NetWare Instructor / Certified Novell Instructor / Coalition for Networked Information / Common Network Interface |
|
CNIP
| Calling Name Identification Presentation |
|
CNIR
| Calling/Connected Name Identification Restriction |
|
CNM
| Customer Network Management |
|
CNMA
| Communications Network for Manufacturing Applications |
|
CNMS
| Cylink Network Management System |
|
CNOS
| Computer Network Operating System |
|
CNP...
| Continued (in my) Next Post / Certified Network Professional |
|
CNR
| Complex Node Representation (ATM Forum) |
|
CNRS
| Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research) |
|
CNS
| Central Nervous System / Certified Novell Salesperson / Complimentary Network Service |
|
CO
| Call Offer / Central Office / Company / Connection Oriented / Customer Owned |
|
COA
| Certificate Of Authenticity / Council Of Administration (usually as CoA) |
|
COAM
| Customer Owned and Maintained |
|
COAST
| Cache On A STick |
|
COBOL
| COmmon Buisness Oriented Language / Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language |
|
COC
| Central Office Connections / Circuit Order Control / Corporate Operations Committee |
|
COCF
| Connection Oriented Convergence Function |
|
COCOT
| Customer Owned Coin Operated Telephone |
|
COD
| Career Opportunity Days / Cash on Delivery / Connection Oriented Data |
|
CODASYL
| Conference of Data Systems Language |
|
CODCF
| Central Office Data Connecting Facility |
|
CODE
| Crackers of Digital Equipment |
|
CODEC
| Coder / Decoder |
|
CODEC
| COder-DECoder / COMpression-DECompression |
|
CODLS
| COnnection-mode Data Link Service |
|
COE
| Central Office Equipment |
|
COEES
| Central Office Equipment Engineering System |
|
COEM
| Commercial Original Equipment Manufacturer |
|
COER
| Central Office Equipment Reports system |
|
COL
| Caldera OpenLinux |
|
COLD
| Computer Output to Laser Disk |
|
COLP
| Connected Line Identification Presentation |
|
COLT
| Central Office Line Tester / Client Object Linking Technology |
|
COM
| Commercial (usually as .com) / Common Object Model / Component Object Model / Communication (port) / Component Object Model / Computer Output MicroFilm / Continuation Of Message |
|
COMBS
| Customer Oriented Message Buffer System |
|
COMDEX
| COMmunications Development EXposition |
|
COMM
| Communication |
|
COMMA
| Common Object Methodology Metamodel Architecture |
|
COMPSAC
| Computer Software and Applications Conference |
|
COMPUSEC
| Computer Security |
|
COMSAT
| Communications Satellite |
|
COMSEC
| Communications Security |
|
COMSPEC
| Command Specifier |
|
COMSTAR
| Common System for Technical Analysis & Reporting |
|
COMTRUST
| COmpany Making Terrible Recurring Unending Security Troubles / A mis-spelling of CON TRUST |
|
CON
| Central Office News |
|
CON
| Console |
|
CONCERT
| COmmunications for North Carolina Education Research and Technology |
|
CONN
| Connector |
|
CONP
| Connected Name Identification Presentation |
|
CONS
| Connection Oriented Network Service / COnnection-mode Network Service |
|
CONTAC
| Central Office NeTwork ACcess |
|
CONTACT
| Central Office Network Access |
|
CONUS
| Continental United States |
|
COPIS
| Corporate Planning Information System |
|
COPOL
| Council of Polytechnic Librarians |
|
COPP
| Connection Oriented Presentation Protocol |
|
COPS
| Concept Oriented Programming System / Connection Oriented Presentation Service |
|
COR
| Confirmation Of Receipt |
|
CORA
| Canadian OSI Registration Authority |
|
CORBA
| Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
|
CORDIS
| Community Research and Development Information Service |
|
CORE
| Connection Oriented Route Establishment / Criminals of Radical Extremes |
|
COREN
| Corporation for Regional and Enterprise Networking (usually as CoREN) |
|
CORISMA
| Corporate Information Systems Modeling Architecture (usually as CorISMA) |
|
CORNET
| CORperate NETwork |
|
CORP
| Creators of Revolutionary Pictures |
|
COS
| Call Originate Status / Class Of Service / Corporation for Open Systems / Cost of Service (usually as CoS) |
|
CoSAAD
| Council of Subject Associations in Art and Design |
|
COSAC
| Canadian Open Systems Applications Criteria |
|
COSE
| Common Open Software/System Environment |
|
COSHEP
| Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals |
|
COSINE
| Cooperation for Open Systems Interconnection Networking Europe |
|
COSMIC
| COmmon Systems Main InterConnection (frame system) |
|
COSMOS
| Central System for Mainframe Operations / COmputer System for Mainframe OperationS |
|
COSN
| Consortium for School Networking |
|
COSS
| Common Operational Support Services |
|
COSSS
| Committee on Open Systems Support Services |
|
CoSysOp
| Co-Systems Operator |
|
COT
| Central Office Terminal / Central Office Trunks |
|
COTFLGOHAHA
| Crawling on the Floor Laughing Guts Out and Having a Heart Attack |
|
COTP
| Connection Oriented Transport Protocol |
|
COTS
| Commercial Off The Shelf |
|
COUSNS
| Committee Of UK Subject-based Network Services |
|
COW
| Charachter-Oriented Windows (Interface) |
|
CP
| Collision Prevention / Connect Presentation / Connection Processor / Control Program / Copy Protection / Chat Post (a chat message) / Customer Premises |
|
CP/M
| Control Program for Microcomputers / Control Program Master |
|
CPA
| Centralized/Bulk Power Architecture / Connect Presentation Accept |
|
CPC
| Call Progress Characterization / Cellular Phone Company / Circuit Provisioning Center |
|
CPCS
| Common Part Convergence Sublayer |
|
CPD
| Central Pulse Distributor |
|
CPE
| Consumer Provided Equipment / Customer Premises Equipment |
|
CPFM
| Continuous Phase Frequency Modulation |
|
CPH
| Characters Per Hour / Cost Per Hour |
|
CPI
| Characters Per Inch (usually cpi) / Code Page Information (file format) / Common Part Indicator / Common Programming Interface / Computer to PABX Interface / Computer to PBX Interface / Corrupt Programming International |
|
CPIC
| Common Programming Interface for Communications |
|
CPI-C
| Common Programming Interface for Communications |
|
CPIW
| Customer Provided Inside Wiring |
|
CPL
| Characters Per Line (usually as cpl) / Combined Programming Language / Control Panel Layout / Current Privilege Level / Control Program for Microcomputers / Copies Per Minute / Cost Per Minute |
|
CPMP
| Carrier Performance Measurement Plan |
|
CPMU
| COSINE Project Management Unit |
|
CPN
| Calling Party Number |
|
CPO
| Corporate Product Operations |
|
CPODA
| Contention Priority Oriented Demand Assignment |
|
CPP
| Calling Party Pays / Corporate Planning Process |
|
CPR
| Connect Presentation Reject |
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CPS
| Characters Per Second (usually as cps) / Cycles Per Second |
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CPSR
| Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility |
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CPTWG
| Copyright Protection Technical Working Group |
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CPU
| Central Processing Unit |
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CR
| Carriage Return (ASCII) / Connect Request / Control Register |
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CRAFT
| Can't Remember A F**king Thing |
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CRAM
| Card Random Access Memory / Computational Random Access Memory |
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CRAP
| Completely Redundant Array of Pointers (programming) |
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CRAS
| Cable Repair Administrative System |
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CRBT
| Crying Real Big Tears |
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CRC
| Class Responsibility and Collaboration / Customer Record Center / Customer Return Center / Cyclic Redundancy Check / Cyclical Redundancy Checking |
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CRCG
| Common Routing Connection Group |
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CREF
| Computer Ready Electronic File (guideline) |
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CREG
| Concentrated Range Extension and/with Gain |
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CREN
| Corporation for Research and Educational Networking |
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CRF
| Cable Retransmission Facility |
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CRFMP
| Cable Repair Force Management Plan |
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CRG
| Central Resource Group |
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CRIS
| Customer Record Information System |
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CRM
| Courtesy Reply Mail |
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CRN
| Computer Reseller News |
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CRQ
| Call Request |
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CRS
| Cell Relay Service / Centralized Results System / Configuration Report Server |
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CRSAB
| Centralized Repair Service Answering Bureau |
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CRSO
| Cellular Radio Switching Office |
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CRT
| Cathode Ray Tube [the video screen] |
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CRTC
| Canadian Radio & Television Commission |
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CRUD
| Created Retrieved Updated or Deleted |
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CRUS
| Create / Retrieve / Update / Delete |
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CS
| Capability Set (One or Two) / Card Services / Carrier Selection / Code Segment / Convergence Sublayer / Coordinated Single-layer / Customer Service / Cursor Stability (isolation level) |
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CSA
| Canadian Standards Association / Carrier Servicing Area / Confederate States of America / Covenant Sword and Arm of the Lord |
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CSACC
| Customer Service Administration Control Center |
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CSAR
| Centralized System for Analysis Reporting |
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CSC
| Cell Site Controller / Computer Sciences Corporation / Customer Support Center / Customer Support Consortium |
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C-SCANS
| Client-Systems Computer Access NetworkS |
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CSCC
| (IEEE Computer Society) Computer Standards Coordinating Committee |
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CSCW
| Computer Supported Co-operative Work |
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CSD
| Circuit Switched Data / Corrective Service Diskettes |
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CSDC
| Circuit Switched Digital Capability |
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CSDN
| Chinese Software Distribution Network / Circuit - Switched Data Network |
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CSE
| Coordinated Single-layer Embedded |
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CSELT
| CŠntro Studi e Laborat•ri Telecommunicazioni (Telecommunications Study Center and Labo |
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CSFS
| Cable Signal Fault Signature |
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CSG
| Chuckle Snicker Grin / Corporate Systems Group |
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CSI
| Convergence Sublayer Indication |
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CSID
| Calling Station Identification |
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CSIM
| Client Side Image Map |
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CSL
| Computer Systems Laboratory |
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CSLIP
| Compressed Serial Line Internet Protocol |
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CSLT
| Customized System Load Tape |
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CSM
| Computer Systems Manufacturing / Corrupt Society Magazine |
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CSMA
| Carrier Sense Multiple Access |
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CSMA/CA
| Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Avoidance |
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CSMA/CD
| Carrier Sense Multiple Access - Collision Detection |
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CSMC
| Communications Services Management Council |
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CSMUX
| Carrier Switched Multiplexer |
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CS-MUX
| Carrier Switched Multiplexer |
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CSN
| Carrier Service Node |
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CSNET
| Computer and Science (Research) Network / Computer Science Network |
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CSO
| Central Services Organization / Complimentary Solutions Organization |
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CSP
| Coin Sent Paid / Commerce Service Provider / Compucom Speed Protocol |
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CSPDN
| Circuit Switched Public Data Network |
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CSPP
| Computer Systems Policy Project |
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CSR
| Cell Missequenced Ratio / Centrex Station Rearrangement / Customer Service Record / CyberScout Roundtable |
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CSR-T
| Communications Standard Review - Telecommunications |
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CSS
| Cascading Style Sheets / Computer Special Systems / Computer Sub-System / Conceptual Signaling and Status / Controlled Slip Second |
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CSSE
| Computer Services System Engine |
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CSSFE
| Controlled Slip Second |
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CSSG
| Customer Service Solutions Group |
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CSSM
| Common Security Services Manager |
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CSTA
| Computer Supported Telecommunications Applications / Computer Supported Telephony Appl |
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C-STEP
| Cultural Societal Technological Economic Political |
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CSTO
| Computer Systems Technology |
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CSU
| Channel Service Unit / Careers Services Unit / Central Switching Unit |
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CSV
| Circuit Switched Voice / Comma Separated Values / Common Separated Variables |
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CSY
| Can't Stop Yawning |
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CT
| Call Transfer / Collection Time / Conformance Testing / Continuous Tone / Current Transformer / Computer Telephony / Current Transformer |
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CTAK
| Cipher Text Auto Key |
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CTB
| Cache Transfer Bus |
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CTC
| Canadian Telephone Corporation / Central Test Center |
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CTCP
| Client-To-Client-Protocol |
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CTCS
| Category Theory and Computer Science |
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CTD
| Cell Transfer Delay |
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CTERM
| Command TERMinal (protocol) |
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CTI
| Computer Telephone Integration / Computer Telephony Integration / Computers in Teaching Initiative |
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CTIA
| Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association |
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CTIP
| (Commission on) Computing Telecommunications and Information Policies |
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CTISS
| Computers in Teaching Initiative Support Service |
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CTM
| Contact Trunk Module / Cordless Terminal Mobility |
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CTMS
| Carrier Transmission Measuring System |
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CTN
| Corporate Telecommunication Network (With ETSI the acronym used is CN). |
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CTNE
| Compa¤ia Telef¢nica Nacional de Espa¤a (National Telephone Company of Spain) |
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CTO
| Call Transfer Outside / Chief Technology Officer |
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CTOS
| Convergent technologies Operating System |
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CTP
| Computer To Plate (technology) |
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CTR
| Currency Transaction Report |
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CTRG
| Collaboration Technology Research Group |
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CTS
| Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (a wrist injury caused by repetitive activity such as typing with bad posture) / Clear to Send / Clear To Send Signal / Communications Technology Satellite / Configuration Technical Specialist / Conformance Testing Service |
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CTSLAN
| Conformance Testing Service Local-Area Network |
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CTSS
| Compatible Time Sharing System / Cray Time Sharing System |
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CTSWAN
| Conformance Testing Service Wide - Area Network |
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CTT
| Cartridge Tape Transport |
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CTTC
| Cartridge Tape Transport Controller / Copper To The Curb |
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CTTH
| Copper To The Home |
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CTTN
| Cable Trunk Ticket Number |
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CTTY
| Console TeleTYpe |
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CTV
| Cell Tolerance Variation |
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CTY
| Console TeleType |
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CU
| See You (as in Goodbye) Cracking Up / Common Update / Computer Underground / Control Unit / Customer Unit / Computer Underground / |
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CUA
| Commonly Used Acronym(s) / Common User Access |
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CUB
| Closed User Group |
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CUCO
| Commission on University Career Opportunity |
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CUCRIT
| Capital Utilization Criteria |
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CUD
| Celerity Utilities Division / Computer Underground Digest |
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CUG
| Closed User Group |
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CUHS
| Computer Underground Historical Society |
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CUI
| Centre Universitaire d'Informatique / Common User Interface |
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CUL
| Catch You Later (Goodbye) / See you later |
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CUL(8R)
| see you later |
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CUL8er
| See You Later |
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CUL8R
| See you later |
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CUM
| Cult of the Uncircumcised Masturbater |
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CUNT
| yeah yeah - real funny - get lost |
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CUNY
| City University of New York |
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CURL
| Consortium of University Research Libraries (UK) |
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CUSI
| Configurable Unified Search Interface |
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CUT
| Control Unit Terminal |
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cuz
| because |
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CV
| Code Violation |
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CVAL&E
| Computer Viruses Artificial Life and Evolution |
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CVALE
| Computer Viruses Artificial Life and Evolution |
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CVCP
| Code Violation CP-bit Parity / Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals |
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CVCRC
| Code Violation Cyclical Redundancy Check |
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CVDQ
| Computer Virus Developments Quarterly |
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CVF
| Compressed Volume File |
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CVFE
| Code Violation Far End |
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CVO
| Commercial Vehicle Operation |
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CVP
| Code Violation "P" bit |
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CVPR
| Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
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CVR
| Compass Voice Response |
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CVSD
| Continuous Variable Slope Delta (modulation) |
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CVTC
| Conversational Voice Technologies Corporation |
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CW
| Call Waiting / Continuous Wave / Cyber Warriors |
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CWARC
| Canadian Workplace Automation Research Center |
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CWC
| City-Wide Centrex |
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CWD
| Call Waiting Deluxe |
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CWI
| Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (Center for Mathematics and Information) |
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CWIS
| Campus Wide Information System |
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CWT
| Call Waiting |
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CWYL
| Chat With You Later |
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CYA
| See Ya / Cover Your As* |
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CYAL8R
| See You Later (Seeyalata) |
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CYBORG
| CYBernetic ORGanism |
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CYMK
| Cyan Yellow Magenta Key |
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CYREC
| Cyberspace Research and Education Center |