Computer Abbreviations—C

Computer Abbreviations—C

C

CA: Computer architecture

CAD: Computer-Aided Design

CAE: Computer-Aided Engineering

CAID: Computer-Aided Industrial Design

CAI: Computer-Aided Instruction

CAM : Computer-Aided Manufacturing

CAPTCHA: Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart

CAT: Computer-Aided Translation

CAQ: Computer-Aided Quality Assurance

CASE: Computer-Aided Software Engineering

cc: C Compiler

CD: Compact Disc

CDE: Common Desktop Environment

CDFS :  Compact Disk File System

CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access

CDN: Content Delivery Network

CDP: Continuous Data Protection

CD-R: CD-Recordable

CD-ROM: CD Read-Only Memory

CD-RW: CD-Rewritable

CDSA: Common Data Security Architecture

CERT: Computer Emergency Response Team

CES: Consumer Electronics Show

CF: Compact Flash

CFD: Computational Fluid Dynamics

CFG: Context-Free Grammar

CFG: Control Flow Graph

CG: Computer Graphics

CGA: Color Graphics Array

CGI: Common Gateway Interface

CGI: Computer-Generated Imagery

CGT: Computational Graph Theory

CHAP: Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol

CHS: Cylinder-Head-Sector

CIDR: Classless Inter-Domain Routing

CIFS: Common Internet Filesystem

CIM: Common Information Model

CIM: Computationally Independent Model

CIO: Chief Information Officer

CIR: Committed information rate

CISC: Complex Instruction Set Computer

CJK: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

CJKV: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese

CLI: Command Line Interface

CLR: Common Language Runtime

CM: Configuration Management

CM: Content Management

CMDB: Configuration Management Database

CMMI: Capability Maturity Model Integration

CMOS: Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor

CMS: Content Management System

CN: Canonical Name

CN: Common Name

CNC: Computer Numerical Control

CNG: Cryptographic Next Generation

CNG: Cryptography Next Generation

CNR: Communications and Networking Riser

COBOL: Common Business-Oriented Language

COM: Component Object Model or communication

CORBA: Common Object Request Broker Architecture

COTS: Commercial Off-The-Shelf

CPA: Cell Processor Architecture

CPAN: Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

CP/M: Control Program/Monitor

CPRI: Common Public Radio Interface

CPS: characters per second

CPU: Central Processing Unit

CR: Carriage Return

CRAN: Comprehensive R Archive Network

CRC: Cyclic Redundancy Check

CRLF: Carriage Return Line Feeds

CRM: Customer Relationship Management

CRS: Computer Reservations System

CRT: Cathode Ray Tube

CRUD: Create, Read, Update and Delete

CS: Cable Select

CS: Computer Science

CSE: Computer Science and Engineering

CSI: Common System Interface

CSM: Compatibility Support Module

CSMA/CD: Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection

CSP: Cloud Service Provider

CSP: Communicating Sequential Processes

CSRF: Cross-Site Request Forgery

CSS: Cascading Style Sheets

CSS: Content-Scrambling System

CSS: Closed Source Software

CSS: Cross-Site Scripting

CSV: Comma-Separated Values

CT: Computerized Tomography

CTAN: Comprehensive TeX Archive Network

CTCP: Client-To-Client Protocol

CTI: Computer Telephony Integration

CTFE: Compile Time Function Execution

CTL: Computational Tree Logic

CTM: Close To Metal

CTS: Clear To Send

CTSS: Compatible Time-Sharing System

CUA: Common User Access
CVS: Concurrent Versioning System