Computer/System Terms
Acronyms - M
- mA - milliampere (1/1000 of an ampere)
- mAH - milliampere-hour (A unit of battery capacity)
- MaaS - Monitoring-as-a-Service
- Mac - Macintosh (Macintosh personal computer.)
- macOS -Macintosh operating system
- MAC - media access control
- MAID - massive array of idle (inactive) disks
- MAN - metropolitan (or municipal) area network
- MAP - Mobile Application Part
- MathML - Mathematics Markup Language
- MAU - media access unit (multistation access unit)
- MAU - multistation access unit (media access unit)
- MB - megabyte (million bytes)
- MBps - Megabytes per second
- Mbps - Megabits per second
- MBR - master boot record
- MCM - multichip module
- MDM - Mobile Device Management
- meg - megabyte (million bytes)
- MFM - Modified Frequency Modulation (disk recording)
- MHz - megahertz (million hertz - million cycles per second) (computer clock speed)
- MiB - mebibyte (1,048,576 bytes = 1,024 kilobytes)
- MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
- MIMO - multiple input, multiple output
- MIO - multipurpose input/output (graphics display device)
- MIPS - Million Instructions Per Second (computer program speed)
- MIS - management information systems
- MM - memory manager (system architecture)
- MMX - multimedia extensions (microprocessor instructions)
- modem - modulator-demodulator (tranmission device)
- MP - megapixel (one million pixels)
- MR - magneto-resistive/resistant (read/write head design)
- ms - millisecond (one thousandth of a second)
- MS-DOS - Microsoft Disk Operating System
- mSATA - Mini-SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) (small SSD (solid-state drives) )
- MSAU - multistation access unit (Token-Ring networks)
- MTps - Million transfers per second (computer speed)
- MTU - maximum transmission unit (data size limitation)
Acronyms - N
- NAC - Network Access Control (Network Admission Control)
- NAND - Not AND flash memory
- NAP - network access point
- NAS - Network Access Server
- NAS - network attached storage
- Net - Network manager (system architecture)
- NetBIOS - Network Basic Input/Output System
- NFC - Near Field Communication (smartphone wireless networks)
- NFS - Network File System (file sharing protocol)
- NIC - network interface card
- nm - nanometer (millionth of a millimeter) (wavelength of visible light measurement)
- NMS - Network Management System
- NOC - network operations center
- NOR - Not OR (logical operator) (solid state drive flash memory)
- ns - nanosecond (billionth of a second)
- NTFS - New Technology File System
- NVRAM - nonvolatile random access memory
Acronyms - O
- OC - optical carrier
- OCR - optical character recognition
- OFB - Output Feedback mode
- OFDM - orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing
- OLED - organic light-emitting diode (non-semiconductor lighting)
- OLTP - online transaction processing
- OOP - object-oriented programming
- OS - operating system
- OTP - one-time programmable (PROM (Programmable Read Only Memory) chip)