Acronyms And Abbreviations Used In These Lists

An acronym or abbreviation, when used as a defined term, will be found in 'Definitions of Terms used in these Lists'.
ACRONYM OR MEANING
ABBREVIATION
ADC Analogue-to-Digital Converter
AGMA American Gear Manufacturers Association
AHRS Attitude and Heading Reference Systems
AIP Air Independent Propulsion
AISI American Iron and Steel Institute
ALE Atomic Layer Epitaxy
ALU Arithmetic Logic Unit
AMPS Aircraft Missile Protection System
APP Adjusted Peak Performance
APU Auxiliary Power Unit
ASLR Address Space Layout Randomisation
ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials
ATC Air Traffic Control
AV Antivirus
BJT Bipolar Junction Transistors
BPP Beam Parameter Product
BSC Base Station Controller
C3I Command, Communications, Control & Intelligence
C4I Command, Communications, Control, Computer & Intelligence
CAD Computer-Aided-Design
CAS Chemical Abstracts Service
CCD Charge Coupled Device
CDU Control and Display Unit
CEP Circular Error Probable
CMM Coordinate Measuring Machine
CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CNTD Controlled Nucleation Thermal Deposition
CPLD Complex Programmable Logic Device
CPU Central Processing Unit
CVD Chemical Vapour Deposition
CW Chemical Warfare
CW (for lasers) Continuous Wave
DAC Digital-to-Analogue Converter
DANL Displayed Average Noise Level
DBRN Data-Base Referenced Navigation
DDS Direct Digital Synthesizer
DEP Data Execution Prevention
DEW Directed Energy Weapon
DMA Dynamic Mechanical Analysis
DME Distance Measuring Equipment
DMOSFET Diffused Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
EB Exploding Bridge
EB-PVD Electron Beam-Physical Vapour Deposition
EBW Exploding Bridge Wire
ACRONYM OR MEANING
ABBREVIATION
ECAD Electronic Computer-Aided Design
ECM Electro-Chemical Machining
EDM Electrical Discharge Machines
EFI Exploding Foil Initiators
EIRP Effective Isotropic Radiated Power
EMCDB Elastomer Modified Cast Double Base
EMP Electromagnetic Pulse
ENOB Effective Number of Bits
ERF Electrorheological Finishing
ERP Effective Radiated Power
ESD Electrostatic Discharge
ETO Emitter Turn-Off Thyristor
ETSI TS European Telecommunications Standards Institute Technical Specification
ETT Electrical Triggering Thyristor
EUV Extreme Ultraviolet
FADEC Full Authority Digital Engine Control
FFT Fast Fourier Transform
FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array
FPIC Field Programmable Interconnect
FPLA Field Programmable Logic Array
FPO Floating Point Operation
FWHM Full-Width Half-Maximum
GAAFET Gate-All-Around Field-Effect Transistor
GDSII Geometrical Database Standard II
GSM Global System for Mobile Communications
GTO Gate Turn-off Thyristor
GVWR Gross Vehicle Weight Rating
HBT Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor
HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface
HEMT High Electron Mobility Transistor
ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization
IDS Intrusion Detection Systems
IEC International Electro-technical Commission
IED Improvised Explosive Device
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IFOV Instantaneous Field of View
IGBT Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor
IGCT Integrated Gate Commutated Thyristor
IHO International Hydrographic Organization
ILS Instrument Landing System
IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identity
IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity
IMU Inertial Measurement Unit
INS Inertial Navigation System
IP Internet Protocol
IPS Intrusion Prevention Systems
IRS Inertial Reference System
IRU Inertial Reference Unit
ACRONYM OR MEANING
ABBREVIATION
ISA International Standard Atmosphere
ISAR Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar
ISO International Organization for Standardization
ITU International Telecommunication Union
JFET Junction Field Effect Transistor
JT Joule-Thomson
JTAG Joint Test Action Group
LIDAR Light Detection and Ranging
LIDT Laser Induced Damage Threshold
LOA Length Overall
LOB Line Of Bearing
LRU Line Replaceable Unit
LTT Light Triggering Thyristor
MCT MOS Controlled Thyristors
MLS Microwave Landing Systems
MMIC Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit
MOCVD Metal Organic Chemical Vapour Deposition
MOS Metal Oxide Semiconductor
MOSFET Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
MPM Microwave Power Module
MRF Magnetorheological Finishing
MRF Minimum Resolvable Feature size
MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MTBF Mean-Time-Between-Failures
MTTF Mean-Time-To-Failure
NA Numerical Aperture
NDT Non-Destructive Test
NEQ Net Explosive Quantity
NIJ National Institute of Justice
OAM Operations, Administration or Maintenance
OSI Open Systems Interconnection
PAI Polyamide-imides
PAR Precision Approach Radar
PCL Passive Coherent Location
PDK Process Design Kit
PIN Personal Identification Number
PMAC Permanent Magnet Alternating Current
PMR Private Mobile Radio
PSP Personal Security Products
PVD Physical Vapour Deposition
QAM Quadrature-Amplitude-Modulation
QE Quantum Efficiency
QoE Quality of Experience
QoS Quality of Service
RAN Radio Access Network
RAP Reactive Atom Plasmas
RCA Riot Control Agent
RF Radio Frequency
RNC Radio Network Controller
ACRONYM OR MEANING
ABBREVIATION
ROIC Read-Out Integrated Circuit
RPV Remotely Piloted Air Vehicles
RTL Register Transfer Level
S-FIL Step and Flash Imprint Lithography
SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar
SAS Synthetic Aperture Sonar
SCR Silicon Controlled Rectifier
SDR Software Defined Radio
SFDR Spurious Free Dynamic Range
SHPL Super High Powered Laser
SLAR Sidelooking Airborne Radar
SOI Silicon-on-Insulator
SQUID Superconducting Quantum Interference Device
SRA Shop Replaceable Assembly
SRAM Static Random Access Memory
SSB Single Sideband
SSR Secondary Surveillance Radar
SSS Side Scan Sonar
TE-PVD Thermal Evaporation-Physical Vapour Deposition
TIMSI Temporary International Mobile Subscriber Identity
TIR Total Indicated Reading
TVR Transmitting Voltage Response
VJFET Vertical Junction Field Effect Transistor
VOR Very High Frequency Omni-directional Range
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
3GPP TS Third Generation Partnership Project Technical Specification