| Acronym | Meaning |
| DSR | Data Set Ready |
| CWM | Common Warehouse Metadata |
| HDTV | High-Definition Television |
| OOP | Object-Oriented Programming |
| VDT | Video Display Terminal |
| OC | Optical Carrier |
| AIFF | Audio Interchange File Format |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| VMS | Virtual Memory System |
| XMI | XML Metadata Interchange |