Even if they are a little hard to figure out, almost everybody knows the full form of BCCI – Board of Control for Cricket in India, of AMD – Advanced Micro Devices, and of IBM – International Business Machines. But what about the full form of ICICI or ATM or SIM or GSM or ISI or …? Refer below for some of such tough to figure out but used here and there quite often short forms and their full forms:
ATM – automated teller machine
HDFC – Housing Development Finance Corporation
IDBI – Industrial Development Bank of India
UCO - United Commercial Bank
ICICI – Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India
ISI (Pakistan) – Inter-Services Intelligence
ISI (of ISI mark) – Indian standard institutes
ISO (of ISO 9000 standard) – International Organization for Standardization
ISRO – Indian Space Research Organisation
NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration
SMS – Short Message Service
MMS – Multimedia Messaging Service
PDA – personal digital assistant
SIM – subscriber identity module
CDMA – Code division multiple access
W-CDMA – WideBand Code division multiple access
GSM – Global System for Mobile Communications: originally from Groupe Spécial Mobile
EDGE – Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution or Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution
GPRS – General packet radio service
EGPRS – Enhanced GPRS
HSPA – High-Speed Packet Access
HSDPA – High-Speed Downlink Packet Access
UMTS – Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
3G – 3rd Generation
GRE – Graduate Record Examination
GMAT – Graduate Management Admission Test
TOEFL – Test of English as a Foreign Language
IELTS – International English Language Testing System
PhD – Doctor of Philosophy
MBBS – Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
FRCS – Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons
RMP – Remote Medical Practitioner
If you need any more full forms indicate them in the comments and I will try to answer.
