Computer Terms & Abbreviations

Terms	Full Form	Definition
VOIP	Voice Over Internet Protocol	VOIP is a methodology and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet.
VRAM	Video Random Access Memory	VRAM is a dual-ported variant of dynamic RAM (DRAM), which was once commonly used to store the framebuffer in some graphics adapters.
VPN	Virtual Private Network	VPN is a virtualized extension of a private network across a public network, such as the Internet. It enables users to send and receive data across shared or public networks as if their computing devices were directly connected to the private network
VRML	Virtual Reality Modeling Language	VRML is a standard file format for representing 3-dimensional (3D) interactive vector graphics, designed particularly with the World Wide Web in mind
WAN	Wide Area Network	WAN is a telecommunications network or computer network that extends over a large geographical distance.
WAP	Wireless Application Protocol	WAP is a technical standard for accessing information over a mobile wireless network. A WAP browser is a web browser for mobile devices such as mobile phones that uses the protocol.
WBMP	Wireless Bitmap Image	WBMP is a monochrome graphics file format optimized for mobile computing devices.
WLAN	Wireless Local Area Network	WLAN is a wireless computer network that links two or more devices using a wireless distribution method within a limited area such as a home, school, computer laboratory, or office building.
WMV	Windows Media Video	WMV is the name of a series of video codecs and their corresponding video coding formats developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Windows Media framework.
WML	Wireless Markup Language	WML is a markup language intended for devices that implement the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) specification, such as mobile phones.
WINS	Windows Internet Name Service	WINS is Microsoft’s implementation of NetBIOS Name Service (NBNS), a name server and service for NetBIOS computer names.
WMA	Windows Media Audio	WMA is the name of a series of audio codecs and their corresponding audio coding formats developed by Microsoft.
XT	Extended Technology
XMF	Extensible Music File	XMF is an audio file container format developed by the MIDI Manufacturers Association.
XML	Extensible Markup Language	XML is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. The W3C’s XML 1.0 Specification and several other related specifications—all of them free open standards—define XML.
XMS	Extended Memory Specification	The term is mainly used under the DOS and Windows operating systems. DOS programs, running in real mode or virtual x86 mode, cannot directly access this memory, but are able to do so through an application programming interface called the eXtended Memory Specification (XMS).
XHTML	Extensible Hypertext Markup Language	XHTML is part of the family of XML markup languages. It mirrors or extends versions of the widely used Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the language in which Web pages are formulated.
XSL	Extensible Style Language	XSL is a language for expressing style sheets. An XSL style sheet is, like with CSS, a file that describes how to display an XML document of a given type. XSL shares the functionality and is compatible with CSS2.
Yahoo	Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle	Yahoo is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995.
YB	YOTTA BYTE	It is a measure of theoretical storage capacity 1 YB = 1012 TB
YiB	YOBI BYTE	It is a measure of theoretical storage capacity 1 YiB = 1.20893 YB
ZB	ZETTA BYTE	It is a measure of theoretical storage capacity 1 ZB = 109 TB
ZiB	Zebi Byte	It is a measure of theoretical storage capacity 1 ZiB = 1.18059 ZB