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Title: Jargon Buster
Description: A reference guide on the jargon and acronyms used in our documentation.
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While a goal for our documentation is clarity we recognize that as engineers and technical users of our software, we speak and write in a manner that may not always be as clear to others as we would like.

One of our goals for writing documentation, is clarity. As we update our documentation we strive to bring clarity to it. But this is a work in-progress. We recognize that jargon and acronyms can cause confusion, misunderstanding and act as a barrier for those who are getting started with our software.

This guide aims to define the common jargon and acronyms used in our documentation. It contains both Chocolatey specific, and more general computer jargon and acronyms.

If you feel a definition is missing, unclear or could be better, please raise an issue on our [Documentation GitHub repository](https://github.com/chocolatey/docs).

## Jargon Busted. Acronyms Defined.

### A

* **AV**. Shorthand term for 'antivirus'. Commonly used in phrases such as 'AV software' or 'AV detections'.

### C

* **CCM**. A shorthand term for [Chocolatey Central Management](xref:central-management).
* **CCR**. Shorthands for [Chocolatey Community Repository](https://community.chocolatey.org). This is the repository that hosts community maintained Chocolatey packages.
* **Central Management**. Another shorthand term used to mean [Chocolatey Central Management](xref:central-management).
* **choco**. This is a commonly used shorthand term for [Chocolatey CLI](aref:choco) or more specifically, the Chocolatey CLI command run from the command line. For example, to install a package you would use `choco install <PACKAGE>`.
* **Chocolatey**. This is another commonly used term to refer to [Chocolatey CLI](xref:choco). It is also commonly used to refer to the Chocolatey suite of products as a whole. We now try to be clearer by referring to Chocolatey CLI specifically when we need to.
* **CLI**. This is shorthand for [Command Line Interface](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface) and refers to interacting with an application from a terminal by typing commands.

### N

* **NuGet**. Refers to the tool and framework used to install [NuGet packages](https://nuget.org). The Chocolatey packaging framework is based on the NuGet packaging framework.
* **nupkg**. A Chocolatey package file has the extension `nupkg` and this is a shorthand term referring to the package file.

### V

* **VirusTotal**. A service that scans submitted files against over [70 antivirus scanners and URL / blocklisting services](https://support.virustotal.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002126889-How-it-works). The [VirusTotal](https://virustotal.com) results for each Chocolatey Community Repository package are shown under the Virus Scan Results section.
* **VT**. Shorthand for [VirusTotal](https://virustotal.com). See the definition for VirusTotal.

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