LETTER 'C' COMPUTER ABBREVIATIONS

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
    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
    CMMI—Capability Maturity Model Integration
    CMOS—Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
    CMS—Content Management System
    CN—Canonical Name
    CN—Common Name
    CNC—Computer Numerical Control
    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
    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

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