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This is a list of acronyms, expressions, euphemisms, jargon, military slang, and sayings in common or formerly common use in the United States Marine Corps.Many of the words or phrases have varying levels of acceptance among different units or communities, and some also have varying levels of appropriateness (usually dependent on how senior the user is in rank [clarification needed]).
Military parlance is the vernacular used within the military and embraces all aspects of service life; it can be described as both a "code" and a "classification" of something. Like many close and closed communities, the language used can often be full of jargon and not readily intelligible to outsiders—sometimes this is for military ...
GRUB 2, elilo and systemd-boot serve as conventional, full-fledged standalone UEFI boot managers (a.k.a. bootloader managers) for Linux. Once loaded by a UEFI firmware, they can access and boot kernel images from all devices, partitions and file systems they support, without being limited to the EFI system partition.
EFI Automotive, a French automotive company; Efik language; Electronics for Imaging, an American digital printing company; Enrico Fermi Institute, at the University of Chicago; Enterprise Florida, an American economic development organization; Environmentalist Foundation of India, a wildlife conservation group
NSS—Novell Storage Service; NSS—Network Security Services; NSS—Name Service Switch; NT—New Technology; NTFS—NT Filesystem; NTLM—NT Lan Manager; NTP—Network Time Protocol; NUMA—Non-Uniform Memory Access; NURBS—Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline; NVR—Network Video Recorder; NVRAM—Non-Volatile Random-Access Memory
Two Australian Army soldiers enjoy some recreation time at a sandbagged Navy Army Air Force Institute (NAAFI) in Korea, 1952. The Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI / ˈ n æ f iː /) is a company created by the British government on 9 December 1920 to run recreational establishments needed by the British Armed Forces, and to sell goods to servicemen and their families.
According to Bark.us, a company that decodes teen slang, "mid" is "a term used to describe something that is average, not particularly special, 'middle of the road.'"
The EDK (EFI Developer Kit) includes an NT32 target, which allows EFI firmware and EFI applications to run within a Windows application. But no direct hardware access is allowed by EDK NT32. This means only a subset of EFI application and drivers can be executed by the EDK NT32 target. In 2008, more x86-64 systems adopted UEFI.