Abbreviations help us a lot by saving our precious time and efforts.
In every field like Medicine, Engineering, Computer Sciences, Social Networking, short forms for long, difficult words are used in order to explain one’s ideas in a quick way, and these are called abbreviations.
They are widely used formally as well as informally. Using abbreviations has a great effect on humans because the short text makes us read more and understand better by avoiding the same words multiple times.
It’s also a convenient way to note down conversations, lectures, etc. Here is a list of important abbreviations which are used in everyday life. A pdf file is also available free of cost to download and learn with ease.
Social Media Abbreviations
| Abbreviations | Name |
| ASL | Age/Sex/Location |
| AFAIK | As far as I know |
| BRB | Be Right Back |
| BTW | By the way |
| BCNU | Be seeing you |
| B4N | Bye for Now |
| BFF | Best Friends Forever |
| CTN | Can’t talk now |
| CYA | Cover You’re A** |
| CYE | Check your email |
| DI | Download |
| ETA | Estimated time of arrival |
| FYI | For your information |
| FBO | Facebook official |
| FWIW | For what it’s worth |
| GG | Good game |
| GR8 | Great |
| GL | Good luck |
| GMV | Got my vote |
| GTG | Got to go |
| GJ | Good job |
| HTH | Hope this helps |
| HMB | Hit me back |
| ILY | I love you |
| ISO | In search of |
| IRL | In rela life |
| IMHO | In my humble opinion |
| J/K | Just Kidding |
| LOL | laugh out loud |
| L8R | Later |
| LMAO | laughing my a** off |
| OMG | Oh my God |
| OT | Off topic |
| PPL | People |
| PC | Personal computer |
| POS | Parent over shoulder |
| PLS | Please |
| POV | Point of view |
| PTFO | Passed the f** out |
| RBTL | Read between the lines |
| RT | Real time |
| SFW | Safe work work |
| TTYN | Talk to you never |
| TY | Thank you |
| TTYS | Talk to you soon |
| TXT | Text |
| W/E | Whatever |
| W8 | Wait |
Time Abbreviations
| Abbreviations | Name |
| min | Minute |
| sec | Second |
| AM | Ante Meridiem (before noon) |
| PM | Post Meridiem (afternoon) |
| BC | Before the Year 0 |
| AD | After the Year 0 |
Title Abbreviations
| Abbreviations | Name |
| PA | Personal Assistant |
| Dpt. | Department |
| Capt. | Captain |
| Col. | Colonel |
| VP | President |
| SVP | Senior Vice President |
| Prof. | Professor |
| RN | Registered Nurse |
| CMO | Chief Marketing Officer |
| CFO | Chief Financial Officer |
| Lt. | Lieutenant |
| MD | Medical Doctor |
| Gov. | Government |
| Mgmt. | Management |
| St. | Saint |
| Sgt. | Sergeant |
| Dr. | Doctor |
| Gen. | General |
| CEO | Chief Executive Officer |
| EVP | Executive Vice President |
| Mr. | Mister |
| Sr. | Senior |
| P | President |
| Pol. | Politics |
Measurement Abbreviation
| Abbreviations | Name |
| Pt. | Pints |
| Qt. | Quarts |
| M | Meter |
| ft. | foot |
| no. | number |
| oz | ounce |
| Gal. | Gallon |
| Lb. | Pounds |
| in. | inch |
| mi. | mile |
| sq | square |
| vol. | volume |
| G | Gram |
| Kg | Kilogram |
| Cm | Centimeter |
| mph. | miles per hour |
| Mg. | milligram |
| mm | milimeter |
Medical Abbreviations
| Abbreviations | Name |
| ETOH | Alcohol |
| ECT | Electro Conclusive Therapy |
| a/g ratio | Albumin to globulin ratio. |
| b.i.d. | Twice daily |
| ICU | Intensive Care Unit |
| ITU | Intensive Therapy Unit |
| JT | Joint |
| LBP | Low Back Pain |
| M/H | Medical History |
| MVP | Mitral Valve Prolapse |
| npo | Nothing by mouth |
| NSR | Normal sinus rhythm of the heart |
| p.o. | By mouth |
| p.r.n. | As needed |
| GvHD | Graft vs. Host Disease |
| gtt | Drops |
| BP | Blood Pressure |
| C/O | Complaint of |
| in vitro | In the laboratory |
| in vivo | In the body |
| N/V | Nausea or Vomiting |
| NCP | Nursing Care Plan |
| mg | Milligrams |
| ml | Milliliters |
| PD | Progressive disease |
| p.o. | By mouth |
| p.r.n. | As needed |
| SOB | Shortness of Breath |
| T | Temperature |
| O.D. | Right eye |
| O.S. | Left eye |
| tab | Tablet |
| Wt | Weight |
| PD | Progressive disease |
| PT | Physical therapy |
| O.U. | Both eyes |
| P | Pulse |
| IU | International Units |
| q.d. | Each day |
| q2h | Every 2 hours |
| qAM | Each morning |
| qhs | At each bedtime |
| qod | Every other day |
| qPM | Each evening |
| s/p | Status post |
Computer Abbreviations
| Abbreviations | Name |
| ACM | Association for Computing Machinery |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| CD-RW | CD Read/Write |
| CL | Command Language |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| HP | Hewlett Packard |
| ALU | Arithmetic Logic Unit |
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices |
| X.400 | Electronic Mail Protocol |
| X.500 | Directory Server Protocol |
| BASIC | Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code |
| BCD | Binary Coded Decimal |
| CAN | Campus Area Network |
| CASE | Computer Aided Software Engineering |
| BPI | Bytes Per Inch |
| DTS | Digital Theater System |
| DVD | Digital Video/Versatile Disk |
| DMA | Direct Memory Access |
| DNA | Digital Network Architecture |
| EFM | Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation |
| ENIAC | Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator |
| CD-R | CD-Recordable |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disk Read Only Memory |
| HTTP | HyperText Transport Protocol |
| IBM | International Business Machine |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
| XHTML | eXtensible HyperText Markup Language |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| CRT | Cathode Ray Tube |
| JRE | Java Runtime Engine |
| JSP | Java Server Pages |
| D/A | Digital-to-Analog |
| DAT | Digital Audio Tape |
| DRAM | Dynamic RAM |
| DSN | Distributed Systems Network |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| DDL | Data Definition Language |
| DDS | Digital Data Storage |
| LPM | Line Per Minute |
| LSI | Large Scael Integration |
| EBCDIC | Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code |
| MAN | Metropolitan Area Network |
| MAR | Memory Address Register |
| MB | Mega Bytes |
| EDSAC | Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator |
| EDVAC | Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Calculator |
| ULSI | Ultra Large Scale Integration |
| UPC | Universal Product Code |
| UTF | Unicode Transformation Format |
| VAN | Value Added Network |
| NIC | Network Interface Card |
| NICNET | National Informatics Center NETwork |
| FEP | Front End Processor |
| FLOPS | Floating Point Operations Per Second |
| PAN | Personal Area Network |
| PC | Personal Computer |
| FM | Frequency Modulation |
| GB | Giga Bytes |
| GPRS | General Packet Radio Service |
| HSS | Hierarchical Storage System |
| HTML | HyperText Markup Language |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LCD | Liquid Crystal Display |
| LED | Light Emitting Diode |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| TB | Tera Bytes |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| Portable Document Format | |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| ROM | Read Only Memory |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WAP | Wireless Application Protocol |
| VCR | Video Cassette Recorder |
