CODE | ABBREVIATION |
P&L | Profit and Loss |
P&P | Peace and Protection |
P&S | Publish and Subscribe |
P.S | Post Scriptum |
P.S. | Post Scriptum |
P/AR | Peak-to-Average Radio |
P/F | Poll / Final bit |
P/H/A | Phreakers / Hackers / Anarchists |
PA | Power Alarm / Precision Architecture (RISC) / Program Address / Public Address |
PAA | Peer Access Approved |
PABG | Pack a Big Gun |
PABX | Private Automatic Branch Exchange |
PAC | Point-And-Click / Pricing and Announcement Committee / Privilege Access Certificate |
PACCEPT | Presentation Accept |
PACE | Program for Arrangement of Cables and Equipment |
PACS | Personal Access Communications System / Picture Archiving and Communication System |
PACT | Prefix Access Code Translator |
PAD | Packet Assembler-Disassembler / Packet Assembly/Disassembly |
PADSX | Partially Automated Digital Signal Cross-Connect |
PAE | Page Address Extensions / Peer Access Enforcement |
PAEB | Pan - American EDIFACT Board |
PAG | Phreaks Against Geeks |
PAGODA | Profile Alignment Group for Office Document Architecture |
PAIN | Pirating Artistically Intrepid Newsmongers |
PAL | Phase Alteration Standard / Phase Alternating Line / Programmable Array Logic |
PAM | Peachtree Accounting - Macintosh / Pulse Amplitude Modulation |
PAN | Peripheral Area Network / Personal Account Number |
PANS | Pretty Advanced New Stuff |
PAP | Password Authentication Protocol / Practical Applications of Prolog / Printer Access Protocol |
PAPAG | Phreaks Against Phreaks Against Geeks |
PAR | Peak-to-Average Ratio / Positive Acknowledgment with Retransmission |
PARADISE | Piloting A Researcher's Directory Service in Europe |
PARC | Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) |
PAS | Public Announcement Service/System / Public Available Standards / Publicly Available Submitter |
PASI | Production Availability Shipments |
PAT | Power Alarm Test |
PATS | Parameterized Abstract Test Suite |
PAW | Peachtree Accounting for Windows / Pirates Analyze Warez |
PAX | Private Automatic Exchange |
PB | Pacific Brigade |
PBC | Peripheral Bus Computer / Pipelined Burst Cache / Processor Bus Controller |
PBD | Pacific Bell Directory |
PBGA | Plastic Ball Grid Array |
PBIS | Peachtree Business Internet Suite |
PBKAC | Problem Between Keyboard and Chair |
PBM | Product Business Manager |
PBMS | Pacific Bell Mobile Services |
PBNI | Pacific Bell Network Integration |
PBS | Portable Base Station |
PBT | Profit Before Tax |
PBU | Product Business Unit |
PBX | Personal/Private/Product/Public Branch Exchange |
PC | Personal Computer / Politically correct / Primary Center / Priority Control / Production Control / Protocol Control |
PCA | Peachtree Complete Accounting / Performance and Coverage Analyzer |
PCAMI | Personal Computing Asset Management Institute |
PCB | Printed Circuit Board |
PCD | Page Cache Disable (pins) |
PCDA | Program Controlled Data Acquisition |
PCDOS | Personal Computer Disk Operating System |
PC-DOS | Personal Computer Disk Operating System |
PCE | Presentation Connection Endpoint |
PCEI | Presentation Connection Endpoint Identifier |
PCEO | Personal Computer Enhancement Operation |
PCEP | Presentation Connection EndPoint |
PCFC | Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Councils |
PCH | Parallel CHannel |
PCI | Peripheral Component Interconnect / Presentation Context Identifier / Program Controlled Interruption / Personal Computer Interface / Protocol Control Information |
PCL | Printer Control Language |
PCM | Plug Compatible Manufacturer / Product Capacity Manager / Profit Contribution Margin / Pulse Code Modulation |
PCMCIA | People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms / Personal Computer Memory Card International Association |
PCN | Personal Communications Networks |
PCO | Peg Count and Overflow |
PCO | Point of Control and Observation |
PCONNECT | Presentation Connect |
PCP | PC Pursuit / Pyscho Corporate Productions |
PCPM | Programmable Call Progress Monitoring |
PCR | Peak Cell Rate / Personal Computer Rats / Post Call Ratio / Program Clock Reference / Personal Communication System / Proxy Cache Server / Personal Communications Services / Personal Conferencing Standard / Plastic Clad Silica |
PCSA | Personal Computer(ing) System Architecture |
PCSG | Personal Computing Systems Group |
PCSN | Private Circuit - Switching Network |
PCTE | Portable Common Tool Environment |
PCTR | Protocol Conformance Test Report |
PCTV | Program Controlled TransVerters |
PCU | Packet Control Unit |
PCWG | Personal Conferencing Work Group |
PCYLIHOONL | Please Cross Your Legs I Have Only One Nail Left |
PD | Packetization Delay / Peripheral Decoder / Phase-Change - Dual / Physical Delivery / Public domain |
PDA | Personal Digital Assistant / Public Display of Affection |
PDAD | Proposed Draft ADdendum |
PDAM | Proposed Draft AMendment |
PDAU | Physical Delivery Access Unit |
PDC | Primary Domain Controller |
PDES | Product Data Exchange Standard |
Portable Document File / Portable Document Format / Power Distribution Frame | |
Printer Definition File | |
PDH | Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy |
PDI | Power and Data Interface |
PDIF | Product Definition Interchange Format |
PDISP | Proposed Draft International Standardized Profile |
PDL | Page Description Language |
PDM | Pulse Duration Modulation |
PDN | Public Data Network |
PDO | Portable Distributed Object |
PDP | Parallel Data Processor / Peripheral Data Processing / Program Data Processor / Page Directory Pointers |
PDQ | Pretty Damn(ed) Quick(ly) / Peachtree Data Query |
PDR | Probe Data Register |
PDS | Please Don't Shoot / Packet Driver Specification / Parallel Data Structure / Partition DataSet / Premise Distribution System / Planetary Data System / Physical Delivery Service / Planetary Data System / Premises Distribution System / Processor Direct Slot |
PDSP | Peripheral Data Storage Processor |
PDTR | Proposed Draft Technical Report |
PDU | Packet Data Unit / Protocol Data Unit |
PE | Public Enemy / Peripheral Equipment |
PEB | PCM Expansion Bus |
PECC | Product Engineering Control Center |
PEDI | Protocol for Electronic Data Interchange |
PEG | Public Educational and Governmental |
PEL | Picture Element |
PEM | Privacy Enhanced Mail / Product Error Message |
PEN | Public Electronic Network |
PENTIUM | Produces Erroneous Numbers Through Incorrect Understanding of Mathematics |
PEP | Packet Exchange Protocol / Packetized Ensemble Protocol / Performance Enhancement Package / Personal Enrichment Program / Platform Environment Profile |
PEPM | Partial Evaluation and semantics-based Program Manipulation |
PEPY | Presentation Element Parser YACC |
PER | Packed Encoding Rules |
PERL | Practical Extraction and Reporting Language |
PET | Positron Emission Tomography |
PETS | Parameterized Executable Test Suite |
PF | Parity Flag / Poll-Final (bit) / Program Function |
PFA | Page Frame Address / Peachtree First Accounting |
PFEP | Programmable Front - End Processor |
PFM | Pure Freaking Magic / Pulse Frequency Modulation |
PFPU | Processor Frame Power Unit |
PG | Peripheral Gateway |
PGA | Pin Grid Array (socket) / Professional Graphics Adapter |
PGE | Paging Global Extensions |
PGI | Parameter Group Identifier |
PGL | Peer Group Leader (ATM Forum) |
PGP | Pretty Good Privacy |
PH | Packet Handler / Parity High (bit) |
PHA | Phreakers/Hackers/Anarchists |
PHACT | Phreakers/Hackers/Anarchists/Cyberpunks/Technologists |
PHANTSY | Phantasy Magazine |
PHD | Phreak/Hacker Destroyers (usually as PhD) |
PHIGS | Programmer Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System |
PHUCK | Phone Hackers United Crash Kill |
PHUK | Phreak/Hack United Kingdom (sometimes as P-H-UK |
PHUN | Phreaker/Hackers Underground Network |
PI | Politically Incorrect / Private Investigator / Parameter Identifier / Peripherals Interface / Physical Inventory / Pirate Incorporated / Processing Instruction / Protocol Identifier |
PIA | Pain in the as* / Peripheral Interface Adapter / Plug-In Administrator / |
PIC | Politically incorrect / Personal Identification Code / Plastic Insulated Cable / Polyolefin Insulated Cables / Preferred InterExchange Carrier / Primary Inter-exchange Carrier / Primary Independent Carrier / Programmable Interrupt Controller |
PICS | Platform for Internet Content Selection / Plug-in Inventory Control System / Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement / Prgrammable Interrupt Controller |
PID | Proprietary Information Disclosure / Protocol IDentifier |
PIE | Personal Interactive Electronics |
PIF | Phase Interface Fading / Program Information File / Program Information File (usually as .PIF) / |
PIFT | Protocol Interbank File Transfer |
PIG | Product Information Guide |
PIL | Pirates In Legion |
PIM | Personal Information Manager / Personal Information Manager / Protocol Independent Multicast |
PIM | Port Interface Module |
PIMP | Personal Internet Mail Processor |
PIN | Personal Identification Number |
PINE | Program for Internet News and E-mail |
PING | Packet InterNet Groper |
PINX | Private Integrated Services Network Exchange |
PIO | Programmed Input/Output / P Internet Protocol / Packet Interface Port |
PIPE | Primary Integrated Platform Environment |
PIR | Probe Instruction Register / Protocol Independent Routing |
PIRCH | Pathetic IRC CHat |
PITA | Pain In The Ass |
PITB | Pain in the butt |
PITR | Product Inter-operation Test Report |
PITS | Pie In The Sky |
PIU | Path Information Unit |
PIXEL | Picture Element |
PIXIT | Protocol Implementation Extra Information for Testing |
PJL | Printer Job Language |
PKC | Public Key Cryptography |
PKCS | Public Key Crypto System |
PKE | Public Key Encryption |
PKI | Public - Key Infrastructure |
PL | Parity Low (bit) / Physical Layer / Presentation Layer / Private Line |
PL/1 | Programming Language / 1 |
PL/M | Programming Language for Microcomputers |
PLA | Programmed Logic Array |
PLB | Picture-Level Benchmark |
PLCC | Plastic Leaded-Chip Carrier / Plastic Leadless Chip Carrier |
PLCP | Physical Layer Convergence Procedure |
PLCP | Physical Layer Convergence Protocol |
PLD | Phase Lock Demodulator / Programmable Logic Device |
PLDI | Programming Language Design and Implementation |
PLE | Public Local Exchange |
PLILP | Programming Language Implementations Logics and Prog |
PLL | Phase Locked Loop |
PLOKTA | Press Lots Of Keys To Abort |
PLOU | Physical Layer Overhead Unit |
PLP | Packet Layer Protocol/Procedure / Packet Level Procedure |
PLS | Please / Physical Layer Signaling / Programmable Logic Sequencer |
PLSAP | Physical Layer Service Access Point |
PLU | Primary Logical Unit |
PLV | Production-Level Video |
PM | Pardon Me / Performance Management / Peripheral Module / Phase Modulation / Physical Medium / Plant Management / Private Message / Protocol Machine |
PMA | Performance Measurement Analysis / Physical Medium Attachment |
PMAC | Packet Media Access Controller / Peripheral Module Access Controller |
PMBI | Pardon my butting in |
PMBX | Private Manual Branch Exchange |
PMCR | Probe Mode Control Register |
PMD | Physical Medium Dependent (Sublayer) / PostMaster Daemon (usually as pmd) |
PMETC | Pardon Me etc. |
PMFBI | Pardon Me For Butting In |
PMFJI | Pardon Me For Jumping In |
PMG | Product Marketing Group |
PMI | Physical Medium Independent (Sublayer) / Private Memory Interconnect |
PMIGBOM | Put Mind In Gear Before Opening Mouth |
PMJI | Pardon My Jumping In / Pardon me Jumping in |
PMMU | Paged Memory Management Unit |
PMN | Performance Monitoring |
PMOS | Pisitive-channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
PMP | Peed My Pants / Point to MultiPoint |
PMR | Poor Mans Routing |
PMS | Pantone Matching System / Paranoid Media Scrutinization / Peoples Message Service / Public Message Service |
PMT | Packet-Mode Terminal / Planning Methodology Team |
PMU | Precision Measurement Unit |
PMX | Packet Multiplexer / Private Message Exchange |
PMYMHMMFSWGAD | Pardon Me You Must Have Mistaken Me for Someone Who Gives A Damn |
PN | Personal Name / Positive Notification |
PNA | Private Network Adapter |
PNB | Pacific Northwest Bell |
PNC | Personal Number Calling |
PND | Present Next Digit |
PNG | Portable Network Graphics |
PNIC | Private Network Identification Code |
PNNI | Private Network to Network Interface / Private Network-Node Interface |
PNO | Public Network Operator |
PNP | Plug aNd Play / Plug N Play (usually as PnP) |
PNPN | Positive-Negative-Positive-Negative (devices) |
PO | Purchase Order |
POA | Power Open Association / Power of Attorney |
POAC | Probe Origin Authentication Check |
POAHF | Put On A Happy Face |
POB | Peripheral Order Buffer |
POC | Point of Contact |
POCE | Pantone Open Color Environment |
POD | Piece Of Data |
PODC | Principles Of Distributed Computing |
POF | Programmable Operator Facility |
POH | Path OverHead / Power On Hours |
POI | Point Overhead Indicator |
POM | Point of Manufacturing |
PON | Passive Optical Network |
PONSI | Program On Non-collegiate Sponsored Instruction |
POOR | Protectors Of Our Rights |
POP | Point Of Presence / Post Office Protocol / Programmable Option Select |
POP3 | Post Office Protocol version 3 |
POPL | Principles Of Programming Languages |
POPs | Points of Prescence (points of local access to the net) |
POQ | Pis* Off Quickly |
POQADCB | Pis* Off Quickly and Don't Come back |
POS | Point Of Sale / Programmable Option Select |
POSC | Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation |
POSI | Promoting OSI |
POSIX | Portable Operating System Interface eXtension |
POSSLQ | Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters |
POST | Power On - Self Test |
POT | Point Of Termination |
POTS | Plain Old Telephone Service |
POV | Point of view |
PP | Parallel Port / Post Pay / Pre Pay |
PP&E | Production Planning and Execution |
PPA | Privacy Protection Act / Professional Prepress Alliance |
PPARC | Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council |
PPC | Program - to - Program Communication / Peer - to - Pee |
PPCI | Presentation Protocol Control Information |
PPD | Peripheral Pulse Distributor / Post Script Printer Description / Post-Script Printer Description / Product Phase Down / Presentation Protocol Data Unit |
PPI | Pixels Per Inch (usually as ppi) / Programmable Peripheral Interface |
PPIC | Phose-Phree-Inner-Circle |
PPL | PeoPLe / Periodic Payment License |
PPM | Pages Per Minute (usually ppm) / Pages Per Month / Parts Per Million / Presentation Protocol Machine / Principal Period Maintenance / Pulse Position Modulation |
PPN | Private Packet Network / Programmer Project Number; now known as ID# or UserId / Project Program Number / Public Packet Switching |
PPOPP | Principles and Practice Of Parallel Programming |
PPP | Petty Pet Peeve / Point to Point Protocol |
PPP/MP | Point-to-Point Protocol/Multilink Protocol |
PPPMP | Point-to-Point Protocol Multilink Protocol |
PPQN | Pulses Per Quarter-Note (MIDI) |
PPS | Packets Per Second / Product Performance Surveys / Public Packet Switching / Public Packet Switching Network / Pulses Per Second |
PPSDN | Public Packet - Switched Data Network |
PPSN | Public Packet - Switched Network |
PPSU | Personal Printer Spooling Utility |
PPTM | Protocol Profile Testing Methodology |
PPTP | Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol |
PQFP | Plastic Quad Flat Pack (socket) |
PR | Prepare / Path Replacement |
PRA | Parabolic Reflector Antenna / Primary Rate Access |
PRAM | Parallel Random Access Memory / Programmable Random Access Memory / Parameter Random Access Memory |
PRB | Packet Receive Buffer |
PRCA | Puerto Rico Communications Authority |
PRDMD | Private Directory Management Domain |
PRE | Prefix |
PREFUSE | Presentation Refuse |
PREMIS | PREMises Information System |
PREVIS | Previsualization |
PRG | Purge |
PRI | (ISDN) Primary Rate Interface / Primary Rate Interface |
PRID | PRotocol IDentifier |
PRIMOS | Prime Operating System |
PRM | Protocol Reference Model |
PRMD | Private Mail Domain / Private Management Domain |
PRML | Partial Response - Maximum Likelihood |
PRN | Printer |
PROFS | PRofessional OFfice System |
PROGRES | PROgramming with Graph REwriting Systems |
PROLOG | PROgramming in LOGic (programming language) |
PROM | Programmable Read-Only Memory |
PROMATS | PROgrammable MAgnetic Tape System |
PROMIS | Prosecutors Management Information Systems |
PROTEL | PRocedure Oriented Type Enforcing Language |
PRS | Personal Response System |
PRTC | Puerto Rico Telephone Company |
PRTM | Printing Response Time Monitor |
PRTSC | Print Screen (usually as PrtSc) |
PRW | Peachtree Report Writer |
PS | Personal System / Physical Sequence / Programmed Symbols / Physical Sequential / Post Scriptum / PostScript / Preferred Service / Presentation Service / Print Server / Program Store / Proposed Standard |
PS/2 | Personal System/2 |
PSAP | Presentation Service Access Point / Public Safety Answering Point (911) |
PSC | Peachtree Support Center / Prime Service Contractor / Print Server Control / Protection Switching Circuit / Public Safety Calling system / Public Service Commission |
PSD | Power Spectral Density |
PSDC | Public Switched Digital Capability |
PSDN | Packet-Switched Data Network / Public Switched Data Network |
PSDS | Public Switched Digital Service |
PSDU | Presentation Service Data Unit |
PSE | Packet Switch Exchange / Page Size Extension / Power Series Expansion |
PSEC | Picosecond (one trillionth of a second) |
PSEL | Presentation Selector |
PSF | Permanent Swap File |
PSG | Peripheral and Supplies Group / Product Shipping Guide |
PSH | Push (flag) |
PSI | Packet Switching Interface / Performance Summary Interval / Performance Systems International / Pounds per Square Inch / Process to Support Interoperability / Programmable Serial Interface |
PSIU | Packet Switch Interface Unit |
PSK | Phase-Shift Keying |
PSM | (SQL) Persistent Stored Modules / Packet Service Module / Phase Shift Modulation / Position Switching Module |
PSN | Packet Switched Network / Packet Switching Node / Public Switched Network |
PSO | Pending Service Order |
PSP | Presentation Services Process |
PSPDN | Packet Switched Public Data Network |
PSR | Probe Status Register |
PSRAM | Pseudo-Static Random Access Memory |
PSRG | Privacy and Security Research Group |
PSS | Packet Switch Stream / Packet Switched Services / Performance Support Systems / Professional Software Services |
PSS1 | Private Signalling System 1 |
PST | Pre-Structured Technology (development process) |
PSTN | Public Switched Telephone Network |
PSU | Portable Storage Unit / Program Storage Unit / Power Supply Unit |
PSW | Program Status Word |
PT | Pass Through / Payload Type / Please Token / Program Timer |
PTA | Personal Telecommunications Assistant |
PTAN | Performance Testing Alliance for Networks |
PTAT | Private Trans Atlantic Telecommunications |
PTB | Powers that be |
PTC | Part Time Crackers / Public Telephone Companies |
PTE | Packet Transport Equipment / Path Terminating Entity / Path Terminating Equipment |
PTG | Physical Technology Group |
PTI | Payload Type Identifier |
PTL | Pirates That Live / Praise The Lord |
PTM | Pulse Time Modulation |
PTMM | Please Tell Me More |
PTN | Personal Telecommunications Number |
PTNX | Private Telecommunications Network eXchange |
PTO | Public Telecommunication network Operator / Public Telephone Operator |
PTP | Peer-To-Peer / Point-To-Point |
PTR | Pointer |
PTS | Position and Trunk Scanner / Profile Test Specification |
PTSE | PNNI Topology State Element (ATM Forum) |
PTSP | PNNI Topology State Packet |
PTT | Postal Telegraph and Telephone / Postal Telephone and Telegraph |
PTTXAU | Public TeleTex Access Unit |
PTW | Primary Translation Word |
PTXAU | Public Telex Access Unit |
PU | Physical Unit |
PUC | Peripheral Unit Controller / Public Utilities Commission / Public Utility Commission |
PUCP | Physical Unit Control Point |
PUN | Physical Unit Number |
PUP | PARC Universal Packet (protocol) |
PV | Parameter Value |
PVC | Permanent Virtual Channel / Permanent Virtual Circuit(s) / Permanent Virtual Connection / Permanent Virtual Connections / Polyvinyl Chloride |
PVCC | Permanent Virtual Channel Connection |
PVI | Protected mode Vrtual Interrupts |
PVM | Parallel Virtual Machine |
PVN | Private Virtual Network |
PVPC | Permanent Virutal Path Connection |
PVT | Permanent Virtual Terminal |
PWA | Pirates With Attitude |
PWD | Present Working Directory (UNIX Command) |
PWI | Public Windows Interface |
PWM | Pulse Width Modulation |
PWS | Peer Web Services |
PWT | Page Write - Through (pins) |
PXP | Packet eXchange Protocol |
P
PACS :- Primary Agricultural Credit Society
PAFNA :- Pan African News Agency
PATA :- Pacific Asia Travel Association
PCI :- Press Council of India
PCS :- Provincial Civil Services
PEO :- Programme Evaluation Organization
Ph.D. :- Doctor of Philosophy
PIB :- Press Information Bureau
PIN :- Postal Index Number
PIOC :- Persons of Indian Origin Card
PGIMR :- Post Graduate Institute of Medical Research
PLA :- Peoples Liberation Army
PLO :- Palestine Liberation Organization
PLOTE :- Peoples Liberation Organization of Tamil Elam
PMSSY :- Pradhan Mantari Swasthya Suraksha Yojna
PM :- Post Meridian / Prime Minister
PMLA :- Peoples Movement for Liberation of Angola
PNR :- Passanger Numerical Record
POTA :- Prevention of Terrorism Act
PSLV :- Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
PSI :- Population Service International
PTI :- Press Trust of India
PTO :- Please Turn Over
PTCT :- Parents to Child Transmission
PUCC :- Pollution Under Control Certificate
PUCL :- Peoples Union for Civil Liberties
PUDR :- Peoples Union for Democratic Rights
PVC :- Poly Vinyl Chloride / Param Vir Chakra
PVSM :- Param Vishist Seva Medal
PWD :- Public Works Department
PWG :- Peoples War Group