C Character Abbreviations

’C’  CHARACTER ABBREVIATIONS
C	C Programming Language
CA	Collision Avoidance
CAD	Computer Aided Design
CADD	Computer Aided Design and Drafting
CADE	Client/server Application Development Environment
CAE	Client Application Enabler
CAEX	Computer Aided Exploration
CAG	Column Address Generator
CAI	Computer Aided Instruction
CAL	Calendar or Computer Aided Learning
CAM	Common Access Method or Computer Aided Manufacturing
CAN	Cancel
CAPD	Computing To Assist Persons with Disabilities
CAPS	Capitals
CARL	Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
CAS	Column Address Select
CASE	Computer Aided Software Engineering
CASL	Crosstalk Application Scripting Language
CASS	Computer Assisted Search Service
CASSIS	Classified and Search Support Information System
CAT	Computer Aided Testing or Computer Aided Tomography
CATS	Computer Assisted Training System
CATV	Community Antenna Television
CAU	Controlled Access Unit
CAV	Constant Angular Velocity
CBC	Cipher Block Chaining
CBCR	Channel Byte Count Register
CBEMA	Computer and Business Equipment
CBGA	Ceramic Ball Grid Array
CBI	Computer Based Instruction
CBL	Computer Based Learning
CBMS	Computer-Based Mail System
CBR	Constant Bit Rate
CBT	Computer Based Training
CBW	Convert Byte to Word
CBX	Computer-Controlled Branch Exchange
CC	Cluster Controller
CC:	Carbon Copy
CCD	Charged-Coupled Device
CCFT	Cold Cathode Fluorescent Tube
CCI	Common Client Interface
CCL	Connection Control Language
CCP	Console Command Processor
CCS	Common Command Set or Common Communications Services
CCSD	Cellular Circuit-Switched Data
CD	Carrier Detect or Change Directory or Color Display or Compact Disk
C/D	Control Data
C2D	Character to Decimal
CDA	Compound Document Architecture
CDC	Control Data Corporation
CD-DA	Compact Disk -Digital Audio
CDDI	Copper Distributed Data Interface
CDE	Common Desktop Environment or Complex Data Entry
CDFS	Compact Disc File System
CD+G	Compact Disk plus Graphics
CD-I	Compact Disk - Interactive
CDIA	Certified Document Imaging Architect
CDL	Computer Design Language
CDMA	Code Division Multiple Access
CDMF	Commercial Data Masking Facility
CD-MO	Compact Disk - Magneto Optical
CDOS	Concurrent Disk Operating System
CDPD	Cellular Digital Packet Data
CDR	Call Detail Record or Call Detail Recording
CD-R	Compact Disk - Recordable
CDRL	Contract Data Requirements List
CD-ROM	Compact Disk - Read Only Memory
CD-RTOS	Compact Disk - Real Time Operating System
CDS	Current Directory Structure
CD-V	Compact Disk - Video
CD-WO	Compact Disk - Write Once
CD-XA	Compact Disk - Extended Architecture
CEG	Continuous Edge Graphics
CEI	Conducted Electromagnetic Interference
CEMS	Constituent Electronic Mail System
CEOP	Conditional End of Page
CERT	Computer Emergency Response Team
CFB	Cipher Feedback or Configurable Function Block
.CFG	Configuration
CFM	Code Fragment Manager
CFR	Computerized Facial Recognition
CFS	Common File System
CFV	Call For Votes [Bitnet]
CGA	Color Graphics Adapter
CGE	Common Graphics Environment
CGI	Common Gateway Interface or  Computer Generated Images
CHAP	Challenge Authentication Protocol
CHAR	Character
CHAT	Conversational Hypertext Access Technology
CHCK	Channel Check
CHCP	Change Code Page
CHDIR	Change Directory
CHFN	Change Finger
CHGRP	Change Group
CHKDSK	Check Disk
CHMOD	Change Mode
CHOWN	Change Owner
CHP	Chapter
CHR	Character
CHRP	Common Hardware Reference Platform
CHS	Cylinder Head Sector
CIA	Current Instruction Address
CICS/VS	Customer Information Control System
CIDR	Classless Inter Domain Routing
CIM	CompuServe Information Manager
CIO	Chief Information Officer
CIOCS	Communication Input/ Output Control System
CIP	Command Interface Port
CIR	Committed Information Rate
CIRC	Circular Reference
CIS	Card Information Structure or Client Information System
CISC	Complex Instruction Set Computing
CIT	Computer-Integrated Telephony
CIX	Commercial Internet Exchange
CJLI	Command Job Language Interpreter
CKD	Count Key Data
CLAR	Channel Local Address Register
CLC	Clear Carry Flag
CLD	Clear Direction Flag
CLI	Call-Level Interface or Clear Interrupt Flag
CLIST	Command List
CLK	Clock
CLNP	Connectionless Network Protocol
CLP	Cell Loss Priority or Constraint Logic Programming
CLS	Clear Screen
CLTP	Connectionless Transport Protocol
CLTS	Clear Task Switch Flag
CLUI	Command Line User Interface
CLUT	Color Look-Up Table
CLV	Constant Linear Velocity
CM	Centimeter or Control Mark or Corrective Maintenance
CMA	Concert Multi-thread Architecture
CMC	Common Mail Calls or Common Messaging Calls
CMF	Creative Music Format
CNIDR	Clearinghouse for Network Information and
CMIP	Common Management Information Protocol
CMIS	Common Management Information Services/System
CML	Conceptual Modeling Language
CMM	Capability Maturity Model
CMMS	Computerized Maintenance Management Software
CMMU	Cache/Memory Management Unit
CMOS	Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
CMOV	Conditional Move
CMP	Compare or Computer
CMPS	Compare word String
CMS	Code Management System or Compiler Monitor System
CMVC	Configuration Management Version Control
CMW	Compartmented Mode Workstation
CMYK	Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black
CNA	Certified NetWare Administrator
CNAPS	Co-Processing Node Architecture for Parallel Systems
CNC	Computerized Numerical Control
CNE	Certified NetWare Engineer
CNI	Certified Novell Instructor
CNIDR	Clearinghouse for Networked Information and Retrieval
CNN	Composite Network Node
CNSS	Core Nodal Switching Subsystem
.CNT	Contents
CNV	Conventional
CNVT	Convert
CNX	Certified Network Expert
CO	Central Office or Command Output or Convert Out
COB	Chip-On-Board
.COB	COBOL source code
COBOL	Common Business-oriented Language
CODASYL	Conference on Data System Languages
CODE	Client-Server Open Development Environment
CODEC	Coder/Decoder or Compression/Decompression
COEM	Commercial Original Equipment Manufacturer
COFF	Common Object File Format [Unix]
COGO	Coordinate Geometry (Programming Language)
COL	Collision or Computer Oriented Language
COLD	Computer Output to Laser Disk
COLL	Collision
COM	Commercial
COM1	First serial Port
COM2	Second serial Port
COM3	Third serial Port
COM4	Fourth serial Port
COMDEX	Computer Dealers Exposition
COMET	Cornell Macintosh Terminal Emulator
COMP	Compare or Communications
COMP.	Computers
COMSAT	Communications Satellite Corporation
CON	Console
COND	Condition
CONS	Connection-Oriented Network Service
CORBA	Common Object Request Broker Architecture
COREN	Corporation for Research and Enterprise Network
COS	Compatible Operating System
COSE	Combined Office Standard Environment
Common	Open Software/Systems Environment
COSMIC	Computer Software Management and Information
COSMOS	Computer System for Mainframe Operations
COTS	Commercial Off-The-Shelf
CP	Copy Protected
CPA	Certified Public Accountant
CPC	Constant Point Calculation
CPCS	Check Processing Control System
CPE	Central Processing Element or Customer Premise Equipment
CPG	Clock Pulse Generator
CPI	Characters per Inch or Clock per Instruction
CPI-C	Common Programming Interface for Communications
CPIO	Copy In and Out
CPL	Current Privilege Level
.CPL	Control Panel
CP/M	Control Program for Microcomputers
CPS	Characters per Second or Cycles per Second
CPT	Command Pass Through
CPU	Central Processing Unit
CR	Carriage Return
CRAM	Cyber spatial Reality Advancement Movement
CRC	Cyclic Redundancy Check
CREN	Computer Research Education Network
CRF	Cable Retransmission Facility or Cross Reference File
CRI	Color Reproduction Indices
CR/LF	Carriage Return/Line Feed
CROM	Control Read Only Memory
CRT	Cathode Ray Tube
CRTC	CRT Controller
CS	Chip Select or Clear to Send or Code Segment
C/S	Client/Server
CSA	Calendaring and Scheduling API
CSAR	Channel System Address Register
CSD	Circuit-Switched Data
CSDS	Packet Switched Data Service
CSE	Certified System Engineer
CSFI	Communication Subsystem for Interconnection
CSG	Constructive Solid Geometry
CSI	Command Sequence Introducer or CompuServe Incorporated
CSID	Call Subscriber ID
CSL	Computer Sensitive Language
CSLIP	Compressed Serial Line Interface Protocol
CSM	Communications Services Manager
CSMA/CA	Carrier Sense Multiple Access/with Collision Avoidance
CSMA/CD	Carrier Sense Multiple Access/with Collision Detection
CSMS	Customer Support Management System
CSN	Card-Select Number
CSNET	Computer Science Network
CSO	Central Services Organization
CSP	Certified Systems Professional
CSPDN	Circuit Switched Public Data Network
CSS *	Continuous System Simulator
CSS	Contact Start-Stop
CSSM	Client-Server Systems Management
CSTA	Computer-Supported Telephony Applications
CSU	Channel Service Unit
CSV	Circuit-Switched Voice
Comma	-Separated Value/Variable or Common Services Verbs
C&T	Chips and Technologies
CTB	Cipher Type Byte
CTC	Channel To Channel
CTCP	Client-To-Client Protocol
CTI	Computer-Telephone Integration
CTOS	Computerized Tomography Operating System
CTPA	Coax-to-Twisted-Pair Adapter
CTRL	Control
CTS	Clear To Send
CTSS	Compatible Time Sharing System
CUA	Common User Access
CUB	Cursor Backward
CUD	Cursor Down
CUE	Custom Updates and Extras
CUF	Cursor Forward
CUI	Character-Oriented User Interface
CUP	Cursor Position
CUPID	Completely Universal Processor I/O Design
CUT	Control Unit Terminal
CUTE	Clarkston University Terminal Emulator
CUU	Cursor Up
CVF	Compressed Volume File
CVGA	Color Video Graphics Array
CVIA	Computer Virus Industry Association
CVT	Convert
CVW	CodeView for Windows
CWD	Convert Word to Double Word
C2X	Character to Hexadecimal
CYL	Cylinder
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