Abbreviations And Acronyms - Dell 4100 Installation And Troubleshooting Manual

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Abbreviation
or Acronym Description
A ampere(s)
AC alternating current
ADC analog-to-digital converter
ADI Autodesk Device Interface
AI artificial intelligence
ANSI American National Standards
Institute
ASCII American Standard Code for Infor-
mation Interchange
ASIC application-specific integrated cir-
cuit
BASIC Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic
Instruction Code
BIOS basic input/output system
bpi bits per inch
bps bits per second
BTU British thermal unit
BZT Bundesamt fur Zulassungen in
der Telekommunikation
C Celsius
CCFT cold cathode fluorescent tube
CD compact disc
CD-ROM compact disc read-only memory
Abbreviation
or Acronym Description
CGA color graphics adapter
cm centimeter(s)
CMOS complementary metal-oxide semi-
conductor
C.O.D. collect on delivery
cpi characters per inch
cpl characters per line
CPU central processing unit
DAC digital-to-analog converter
DASH Dell Advanced SCSI Host
DAT digital audio tape
dB decibel(s)
dBA adjusted decibel(s)
DC direct current
DIN Deutsche Industrie Norm
DIP dual in-line package
DMA direct memory access
DOC Department of Communications
(in Canada)
dpi dots per inch
DRAM dynamic random-access memory
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