Acronym Soup

An initialism of the phrase "If I understand correctly..."

A military alliance of North American and European countries.

This implies that a subset of people will understand a statement because of an unexplained reference or an inside joke.

The process of testing a complete and integrated system to verify that it meets specified functional and non-functional requirements.

The study of computation, information, and automation. Consists of theoretical disciplines as well as applied disciplines across hardware and software.