0 Glossary, Collection of 10.

000 Abbreviations
0 collected & edited by +Roger Wolf, Dd.-Ing., iur., Munich, DE
0 Last edit 13.11.2008; if you can provide your collection write me
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1001 Acetylen
1002 Atemluft, Luft verdichtet
1072 Sauerstoff
1202 Diesel
1202 Diesel, Dieselkraftstoff
1203 Benzin, Otto-Kraftstoff
1219 Scheibenklar, Isopropanol
1263 Farbe
1268 Petroleum
1950 Farbspray, Druckgaspackung
1965 Propan, Kohlenwasserstoffgas, verflüssigt, n.a.g
.tau.-Code TAU: Triangular, Adaptive, Upwind (FVM-Variante)
2B1Q 2 Binary 1 Quaternity
2c4y two crazy for you
2D Two-Dimensional
2DEG Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
2G Second Generation (Telekommunikation)
2nite to night
2R Receive, Reshape (optische Telekommunikation)
2WR Two Way Radio
3D Three-Dimensional
3DCRT 3-Dimensional Conformal Radiotherapy
3G Third Generation (Telekommunikation)
3G.IP 3G Mobile Internet (Telekommunikation)
3G3P Third Generation Patents Platform Partnership (Telekommunikation)
3GL Third Generation Language
3GPP Third Generation Partnership Project
3GPP Drittes Generation Partnerschafts-Projekt (Telekommunikation)
3R Retime, Reshape and Regenerate (or: Reshaping, Retiming, Reamplification)
3R Reamplification,
(optische Reshaping, and Retiming
Datenübertragung)
4B5B 4 Bit / 5 Bit (line code)
4G Fourth Generation
4G Fourth Generation Telecommunication System
8B10B 8 Bit / 10 Bit
8PSK 8 Phase Shift Keying (Modulation)
A
A Atomar
A Aerea
A Adenin (DNA-Base)
A.D. Anno Dominum
a.k.a. also known as
A/A Air to Air
A/C Aircraft
A/C Aircraft
A/G Air to Ground
A/O All Optical (optische Telekommunikation)
AA Atomic Absorption
AA Automatic (or: Automated) Attendant [Facility] (Telekommunikation)
AA Automobile Association (UK)
AAA Anti Aircraft Artillery
AAA Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (server)
AAA Aerospace Auxiliary Equipment
AAA Akademisches Auslandsamt
AAA Austrian Acoustics Association
AAA Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (Telekommunikation)
AAAA Alps-Adria Acoustic Association (since Sept. 2002)
AAAA Authentication, Authorization, Accounting and Auditing (Telekommunikation)
AAAF [französische Aeroakustische Gesellschaft]
AAAI American Association for Artificial Intelligence
AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science
AAC Advanced Audio Coding
AACG American Association for Crystal Growth
AAE American Association of Engineers
AAES American Association of Engineering Societies
AAF Army Air Field
AAFS Afrikanisch-Asiatische Studentenförderung e.V. (Göttingen)
AAH Advanced Attack Helicopter
AAID American Academy of Implant Dentisty
AAL ATM Adaptation Layer
AAL5 ATM Adaptation Layer5
AAM Air to Air Missile
AAM Average Annual Aircrew Pay
aaO am Angegebenen Ort
AAP Air to Air Refueling
AAP Associated Access Point
AAPA Applicant's Admitted Prior Art
AAPM American Association of Physicists in Medicine
AAPOS American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmogoly and Strabismus (Medical)
AAPPS Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies
AAPT American Association of Physics Teachers
AAR Altitude Attitude Retention System
AARS Anti-Air Warfare
AAS Advanced Automation System
AAS American Astronautical Society
AAS American Astronomical Society
AAS Atomic Absorption Spectrometry, Atom-Absorptions-Spektrometrie
AATSR Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ENVISAT)
AAV adeno-assoziierte Viren
AAW Air Base
AB Abvanced Blade Concept
AB Allowable Bandwidth
ABB Asea Brown Boveri AG (Mannheim)
ABC ABDR Aircraft Battle Damage Repair
ABC Atanasoff-Berry Computer (Iowa State College, 1938-1942)
ABC Atomary Biologically Chemically
ABDO Allgemeine Bestimmungen für Diplomprüfungsordnungen
ABDR Aircraft Based Infrared Detection
ABE Amtliche Betriebserlaubnis (Typprüfung Kfz)
ABET Accrediting Board of Engineering and Technology (USA)
ABIRD Aerodrome Beacon
ABM Advanced Buffer Material
ABM Anti-Ballistic Missile
ABN Air Conditioner
ABR Available Bit Rate
ABRIXAS A Broad-Band Imaging X-Ray All-Sky Survey (Satellit 1999, gescheitert)
ABS Acrylnitril-Butadien-Styrol
ABS Alternate Billing Service
ABS Antiblockiersystem; Anti-Lock Braking System (Kfz)
ABS Associated Base Station
ABT Ausschuss für Begutachtertraining (DAR, Normungsarbeit)
ABU Asia(-Pacific) Broadcasting Union
AC Alternating Current
AC All Composite Aircraft Programme
AC Admission Control (Telekommunikation)
AC Alternating Current (Wechselstrom)
AC Access Controler
AC Associated Controller
AC Autokorrelation
ACA Academic Cooperation Association (europäische Organisation)
ACA American Crystallographic Association
ACAP Active Cyclic Controller
A-CBC Akkreditierungsagentur für die Studiengänge Chemie, Biochemie und
ACC Chemieingenieurwesen
Area Conrol Center an Universitäten und Fachhochschulen
ACC Active Cyclic and Collective Controllers
ACCC Allied Command Europe
ACCU Advisory Committee of CERN Users
ACD Advanced Chemistry Development
ACD Automatic Call Distribution
ACE Aft Cabin Floor
ACE Advanced Computing Environment
ACE American Council on Exercise
ACE Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme
ACE Application Creation Environment (Telekommunikation)
ACE Atmospheric Compensation Experiment (adaptive Optik)
ACE Community Action for Cooperation in the Field of Economics (EU)
ACELP Adaptive Code-Excited Linear Prediction
ACES Optimal Acoustic Equivalent Source Descriptors for Automotive Noise
ACES Modelling
Atlantic Coral Ecosystem Study
ACESA Advanced Composites with Embedded Sensors and Actuators
ACF Aircraft Configuration List
ACIA Asynchronous Communication Interface Adapter
ACK Acknowledege(ment) (Datentransfer)
ACK Acknowledge
ACL Additional Crewmember
ACL Access Control List (Telekommunikation)
ACL Agent Communication Languages
ACL Asynchronous Connectionless Link (Telekommunikation)
ACLR Adjacent Channel Leakage Power Ratio (Telekommunikation)
ACM Adress Complete Message (Telecommunication)
ACM Airborne Command Post
ACM Association for Computing Machinery
ACMP American College of Medical Physics
ACP Air Cycle System
ACP Advanced Computing Project (Fermilab, etwa 1980)
ACP American Center of Physics (College Park, MD)
ACPS Advection-Dominated Accretion Flow (Astrophysik)
ACRV Assured Crew Return Vehicle (Raumfahrt)
ACS Active Control System
ACS Active Control Technology
ACS American Chemical Society
ACSI Atari Computer System Interface
ACSR Active Control of Structural Response
ACT Air Combat Training
ACT Air Cushion Vehicle
ACT Active Control Technology (Flugzeug)
ACTH Adrenocorticotropes Hormon
ACTS Advanced Communication Technologies and Services (EC)
ACV Air Data Converter
AD Army Digital Avionics System
AD Administration Module
AD ante dominum
ADANO Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Audiologen und Neurootologen
ADAS Air Data Computer
ADC Air Data Converter
ADC Advance Drawing Change Notice
ADC Analog-to-Digital Converter
ADC Automatic Development Chamber
ADC Automotive Distance Control
ADCN Advanced Diagnostic Engine Monitoring Systems
ADEA Age Discrimination in Employment Act (USA)
ADEHS Air Defense Exercise Area
ADEXA Automatic Direction Finder
ADF Attitude Direction Indicator
ADHD Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
ADI Air Defense Identification Zone
ADIZ Advanced Development Objective
AdL Akademie der Landwirtschaftswissenschaften (DDR)
ADL All-Digital Loop (Telekommunikation)
ADLC Adaptive Liquid-Crystal Lens
ADM Add/Drop Multiplexer (Telekommunikation)
ADM Area Dimensional Model (Lärmbewertung)
ADN Ammoniumdinitramid (Sprengstoff)
ADO Advanced Digital Optical Control System
ADOCS Automatic Data Processing (Information System)
ADOCS Advanced Digital Optical Control System (Flugzeug)
ADONIS Acoustic Daylight Ocean Noise Imaging System
ADP Adenosindiphosphat
ADP Ammoniumdihydrogenphosphat
ADP Avalanche Photodiode
ADP(IS) Advanced Document Revision Notice
ADPA American Defense Preparedness Association
ADPCM Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation
ADR Adress
ADR Adverse Drug Reaction (Phrama)
ADR Accumulated Doppler Range (Satellitenortungsverfahren)
ADRC Adaptic Dynamic Range Coding
ADRCS Automatic Data Recording and Control System
ADRN Air Data System
ADS Active Dipping Sonar
ADS Air Distribution System
ADS Air Defense Suppression
ADS Accessory Drive System
ADSB Auto Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (Flugverkehr)
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
ADSL Asymmetric(al) Digital Subscriber Loop (or: Line)
ADSR Attack Decay Sustain Release (stages of Envelope of a sound)
ADTM [Fraunhofer-]Arbeitsgruppe für Drahtlose Kommunikations- und
ADTV Multimediatechnik
Advanced Definition (Erlangen)
Television
ADU Air Data Unit
ADUC Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher Universitätsprofessoren für Chemie
AdW Akademie der Wissenschaften (DDR)
AE Acoustic Emission
AE Astronomische Einheit (Entfernung Erde-Sonne = 1,49 × 10^11 m)
AEC Architecture/Engineering/Construction (Industry)
AEC Atomic Energy Commission (USA)
AECL Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd.
AEE Office of Environment and Energy (FAA)
AEF Normenausschuss Einheiten und Formelzeichen
AEG Aircraft Engine Group
AEG Allgemeine Elektrizitätsgesellschaft
AEI Automatic Equipment Identification
AEL Accessible Emission Limit
AEM Area Equivalent Method (Lärmbewertung)
AEMT (Fraunhofer-)Arbeitsgruppe für Elektronische Medientechnologie
AEO All Engines Operating
AEP Akustisch evozierte Potentiale
AEPI Atmospheric Emissions Photometric Imaging
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
AES Application Environment Services
AES Associate Executive Secretary
AES Audio Engineering Society
AES Auger-Elektronen-Spektroskopie / Auger Electron Spectroscopy
AESS Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society
AEV FhAZ für Entsorgungs- und Verkehrslogistik (Wildau, Brandenburg)
AEW Airborne Early Warning
AEWA [Afrikanisch-Eurasisches Regionalabkommen zur Erhaltung der Wasservögel]
AF Application Function
AF Assured Forwarding
AF Assured Forwarding (Datentransfer)
AF Air Field
AF Audio Frequency
AFAL Air Force Astronautics Laboratory
AFAS Abteilung für Angewandte Systemanalyse (Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe)
AFB Air Force Base (USA)
AFC Aramidfibre composite
AFC Alkali Fuel Cell
AFC Automatic Frequenz Control
AFC(S) Automatic Flight Control (System)
AFCC Automatic Flight Control Computer
AFCENT Allied Forces Central Europe
AFD Anticipatory Failure Determination
AFE Analog Front End (Telekommunikation)
AFFDL Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio,
AFFF USA
Aqueous Film Forming Foam
AFIS Aerodrom Flight Information Service
AFLS Approach Flashlighting System
AFM Atomic Force Microscope
AFNM Arbeitsgemeinschaft Fachdidaktik der Naturwissenschaften und der
AFO Mathematik
Auftragsforschung [und -entwicklung] Ost (BMFT)
AFOSR Air Force Office of Scientific Research (USA)
AFOTEC US Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center
AFRPL Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory (Edwards Air Force Base, CA, USA)
AFS Advanced Freephone Service
AFS Aluminum Foam Sandwich
AFTE Automated Functinal Test Equipment
AFTN Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunication Network
Ag Argentum (Silver)
AG Aktiengesellschaft
AG Arbeitsgruppe
AG Astronomische Gesellschaft e.V.
AGA Aerodrome Ground Aids
AGA Automatic Gain Amplifier
AGARD Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research and Development
AGARD Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research and Development, North Atlantic
AGASA Treaty
Akeno Organization
Giant Air Shower Array (Japan, zum Nachweis kosmischer Strahlung)
AGASP Arctic Gas and Aerosol Sampling Program
AGB Accessory Gear Box
AGB Asymptotic Giant Branch (Astronomie)
AGB Automatische Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung (Kfz)
AG-BL Arbeitsgemeinschaft Forschungseinrichtungen Blaue Liste
AGC Automatic Gain Control
AGC [Fraunhofer-] Anwendungszentrum für Computergraphik in Chemie und
AGC Pharmazie
Automatic Gain Controller
AGE Aircraft Ground Equipment
AGEG Arbeitsgemeinschaft Europäischer Grenzregionen
AGF Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Großforschungseinrichtungen
AGIC Acitve Gearbox Interface Control
AGIL Arbeitsgemeinschaft Internet und Linguistik (Göttingen)
AGKr Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kristallographie
AGL Above Ground Level
AGM Air to Ground Missile
AGN Active Galactic Nuclei
A-GPS Assisted Global Positioning System
AGS Alternating Gradient Synchrotron
AGTY Agility
AGU American Geophysical Union
AGV Automatic Guided Vehicle
AGW Access Gateway (Telekommunikation)
AH Attack Helicopter
AH Artifical Horizon
AH Adaptive Hypermedien
AHAM Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (USA)
AHDI Atari Hard Disk Interface
AHG Ad-hoc Group
AHG Auro Heli Goldstyne
AHIH Higher Authorities In Heaven
AHIP Army Helicopter Improvement Programme
AHRS Attidude and Heading Reference System
AHS American Helicopter Society
AHS Alfred Herrhausen Stiftung
AHSUM Adaptable High-Speed Undersea Munition
AHU Air Handling Unit (HVAC)
AI Altitude Indicator
AI [IASTED International Conference on] Applied Informatics
AI Articulation Index (Psychoakustik)
AI Artificial Intelligence
AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
AIAE [Spanische Aeroakustische Gesellschaft]
AIC Aeronautical Information Circular
AICB Association internationale contre le bruit
AICD automatische implantierte Cardio-Defibrillatoren
AID Aktiver Informationsdienst (EU)
AIDAA [Italienische Aeroakustische Gesellschaft]
AIDC Automotive Industry Developing Center (Südafrika, mit FhG-Unterstützung)
AIDS Aircraft Integrated Data System
AIDS Accident Investigation Data System
AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AIE Abbreviation in Engineering
AIEE American Institute of Electrical Engineers
AIEM Admiral of the IEM
AiF Arbeitsgemeinschaft industrieller Forschungsvereinigungen ,,Otto von
AIF Guericke'' e.V. (Köln)
(Dateinamenerweiterung: Video-Datei)
AILU Association of Industrial Laser Users (UK)
AIM Advanced Informatics in Medicine
AIM Advanced Interface Module (Telekommunikation)
AIMD Additive Increase, Multiplicative Decrease (Telekommunikation)
AIML Astronomical Instrument Markup Language
AIMS Aircraft Integrated Monitoring System
AIN Advanced Intelligent Network
AIP Airman's Information Publication
AIP Aeronautical Information Publication
AIP The American Institute of Physics
AIP Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam
AIR Automatic Image Refinement (Canon-Laserdrucker)
AIRAC Aeronautical Information Regulation and Control
AIRSAR Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar
AIRTO Association of Independent Research and Technology Organisations (GB)
AIS Aeronautical Information Service
AIS Abbreviated Injury Scale
AIS [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Autonome Intelligente Systeme (St. Augustin, früher
GMD)
AISG Antenna Interface Standards Group
AITRAM Advanced Integrated Training in Aeronautics Maintenance
AIV Assembly, Integration and Validation
AIZ Ausschuss für internationale Zusammenarbeit (DAR, Normungsarbeit)
AK Alaska (US-Staat)
AKE Arbeitskreis Energie (DPG)
AKF Arbeitskreis Festkörperphysik (DPG)
AKO Arbeitskreis ,,Optionen für die Zukunft'' (DPG)
AKS Akademische Software Kooperation
AKU Auxiliary Keyboard Unit
AKW Atomkraftwerk
AL Alabama (US-Staat)
AL Artificial Life
AL Astronautics Laboratory (formerly: AFRPL)
ALADIN Algorithm for Learning and Architecture Determination
ALC Automatic Level Control
ALCM Air-Launched Cruise Missile
ALF Antenna Lenght Factor
ALF Außerirdische Lebens-Formen
ALFA alternative faserfreie Schallabsorber
ALFA América-Latina - Formación Académica (EU)
ALG Application Level Gateway (Firewall)
ALG Application Layer Gateway
ALGOL Algorithmic Language
ALI ATM Link Interconnect
ALI Autofahrer-Leit- und Informationssystem
ALICE A Large Ion Collision Experiment (CERN)
ALK automatisierte Liegenschaftskarte
ALLEA All European Academies
ALMA Atacama Large Millimeter Array (Radioteleskop, geplant für 2011)
ALMA Atacama Large Millimeter Array
ALP Acoustic Localization Plot
ALS Approach Light System
ALS Advanced Light Source (LBNL)
ALT Alternative
ALT Altitude
ALT Alternator
ALU Arithmetic Logic Unit
AM Amplitude Modulation
AM Acquire Mode
AM Amplitudenmodulation, Amplitude Modulation
AM Availability Manager
A-MAN ATM Metropolitan Area Network (Telekommunikation)
AMANDA Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector (or: Detection) Array
AMC Aircraft Management Computer
AMC Avionics Management Computer
AMC Adaptive Modulation and Coding
AMCD Annular Momentum Control Device
AMCM Avionics Management Computer (Master)
AMCS Avionics Management Computer (Slave)
AMD Advanced Micro Devices (Sunnyvale, CA, USA)
AMD Age Related Macula Degeneration (Sehschwäche)
AMD Altersbedingte Makula-Degeneration (Medical)
AMDB Aircraft Management Date Bus
AMEL Active Matrix Electroluminescence (Display)
AMG Access Media Gateway
AMHS Automated Material Handling System
AMI American Megatrends Inc.
AMI Alternate Mark Inversion
AMLCD Active-Matrix Liquid Crystal Display
AMOP Arbeitskreis ,,Atome, Moleküle, Quantenoptik und Plasmen'' (DPG)
AMOP Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
AMP Adenosinmonophosphat
AMP FhAZ für Metallpulvererzeugung (Clausthal)
AMPD Atomic and Molecular Physics Division
AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone System (Telekommunikation)
AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone Services
AMPTE Artificial Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Experiment
AMR Adaptive Multirate (Telekommunikation)
AMS Aeronautical Material Specificatio
AMS Aircraft Management System
AMS Aircraft Management Subsystem
AMS Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
AMS American Mathematical Society
AMS ATM Main Switch
AMSCP Aircraft Management System Control Panel
AMSE Aircraft Maintenance Support Equipment
AMSS Aricraft Management System Software
AMST Association for Maximum Service Television, Inc. (USA)
AMSU Aircraft Motion Sensor
AN Access Node (Rechnernetz)
AN/AS Airforce-Navy-Aeronautical-Standards
ANBR Acrylo-Nitrile Styrene-Butadiene Rubber
ANC Active Noise Control
ANC Antenna Networks (Telekommunikation)
ANCF Active Noise Control Fan (NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH,
ANDF USA)
Architecture-Neutral Distribution Format
ANFO Ammonium Nitrate plus Fuel Oil (Sprengstoff)
ANGIS Australian National Genomic Information Service
ANI Automatic Number Identification (Datennetz)
ANKA Angströmquelle Karlsruhe
ANM Answer Message (Telecommunication)
ANN Artificial Neural Network
ANORS Anticipated Mot Operationally Ready Supply
ANORS Alert Not Operational Ready for Spares
ANOVA Analysis of Variance (statistischer Test)
a-NPD bis[(N-naphtyl)-N-phenyl]benzidine (hole transport layer)
ANRU Antenna Receiver for UMTS (Telekommunikation)
ANS Advanced Neutron Source (Oak Ridge)
ANS American Nuclear Society
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ANT ADSL Network Termination (Telekommunikation)
ANTS Airborne Night Television System
ANU Australian National University (Canberra)
ANX American Network Exchange
AO Arctic Oscillation (athmosphärische Zirkulation)
AOA Angle of Attack
AOA Angle of Arrival
AOBS Accurate Output Bit Stream
AOC Advanced Operational Capability
AOCS Altitude and Orbit Control System
AOD Aerosol Optical Depth
AODI Always On/Dynamic ISDN
AOF Authority on the Fly
AOG Aircraft on Ground
AOI Automatic (or: Automated) Optical Inspection
AOL America Online (Internet Provider)
AOLS All-Optical Label Swapping (optische Telekommunikation)
AON All Optical Network (optische Telekommunikation)
AOP Aircraft Operationg Procedures
AOV Angle-of-View (liquid crystal displays)
AOWC All-Optical Wavelength Converter (optische Telekommunikation)
AP Autopilot
AP Armor-Piercing
AP Alternating Projection (Algorithmus)
APA Administrative Procedure Act (Congress, USA)
APA American Psychological Association
APAC Asia Pacific (Region)
APC Adaptive Predictive Coding
APC Advanced Process Control
APCI Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionisation
APCM Adaptive Pulse Code Modulation
APCVD Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition
AP-CVD Atmospheric Pressure CVD
APD Avalanche Photodiode (or: Photo Detector)
APDU Application Protocol Data Units
APE Advanced Production Engineering
APEC Applied Power Electronics Conference [and Exposition]
APEC Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (asiatischer Handelsblock)
APF Adaptive Prediction Filter
APG Alkylpolyglycosid
APHV Allgemeiner Postwertzeichen-Händlerverband (seit 8.3.1949)
API Air Position Indicator
API Application Program(ming) Interface
APIAN Advanced Propulsion Installation Aerodynamics and Noise (EU-
APIS Forschungsprojekt)
Application Interface Programm Server
APLD Approach, Landing
APM Attached Pressurized Module (Raumfahrt)
APN Access Point Name
APO Arbeitsplatzorientierte Weiterbildung
APO außerparlamentarische Opposition
APOLT APON Line Termination
APON ATM Passive Optical Network
APONT APON Network Termination
APP Approach Control Office
APP Approach
APP A Priori Probability
APS Active Pixel Sensors (Bildwandler)
APS Advanced Photon Source (Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA)
APS Air Traffic Planning System (DLR)
APS The American Physical Society
APS Automatic Protection Switching
APS/PCC Apartment (US Mail)
APT Auto-Protection Switching/Protection Control Channel
APT Asia Pacific Telecommunity
APTP Asia-Pacific Technology Program
APU Auxiliary Power Unit
APXS Alpha-Proton-Röntgenstrahlenspektrometer
AQAP Allied Quality Assurance Publications
AQF Adaptive Quantization with Forward estimation
AR Autorotation
AR Arkansas (US-Staat)
AR Augmented Reality
AR Autoregressive (Filter)
ARA Advanced Rotor Aeroeleasticity
ARA Airborne Radar Approach
ARA Ausfall-Raten-Analyse
ARAC African Aquacultural Center (Port Hartcourt, Nigeria)
ARAGO Advanced Robotic Agile Observatory (Astrophysik)
ARC Archive, (Dateinamenerweiterung: Archivdatei mit komprimierten Inhalten)
ARC Anti Reflective Coating
ARD Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Rundfunkanstalten Deutschlands
ARDS Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (medicine)
ARDU Aircraft Research and Development Unit (Australien)
ARES Actively Reacting Flexible Structure (DLR)
ARF Autoregressive Filter
ARGOS Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite
ARGS Anti-Radar Guidance Sensors
ARH Aerial Reconnaissance Helicopter
ARI Autofahrer-Rundfunk-Informationssystem
ARIB Association of Radio Industries and Business (Japan)
ARIMA Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (Modelling)
ARINC Aeronautical Radio Incorporated
ARIS Aggregate Route-Based IP Switching (Telekommunikation)
ARIS Augmented Reality Image Synthesis
ARL Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung (Hannover)
ARL Applied Research Laboratory (Pennstate)
ARL Association of Research Libraries (USA)
ARLO Acoustic Research Letters Online (JASA)
ARM Acess Resource Manager
ARM Anti Radar Missile
ARM or (RAM) Availability, Reliability, Maintainability
ARMA Autoregressive Moving Average (Filter)
ARMAX ARMA process with Auxiliary Input
ARMD Age-Related Macular Degeneration
ARO Army Research Office (USA)
ARP Aerodrom Refernce Point
ARP Address Resolution Protocol (Telekommunikation)
ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency (USA)
ARPANET ARPA Network (Vorgänger des Internet)
ARPES Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy
ARPU Average Revenue per User (Telekommunikation)
ARQ Automatic Repeat Request (Datenübertragung)
ARRS Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service
ARS Advanced Rescue System
ART Advanced Rotorcraft Transmission
ART Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie
ARTEMIS Automatic Retrieval of Text from Europe's Multinational Information Service
ARU Aft Remote Unit
AS Access Stratum
AS Anti Surface
AS Alarm Surveillance (Telekommunikation)
AS American Samoa (US Mail)
AS Application Server (Telekommunikation)
AS Autonomous System
AS Availability Server
AS Application Server
ASA The Acoustical Society of America
ASA Air Services Australia
ASA American Standards Association
ASAC Active Structural Acoustic Control
ASAM Advanced Services Access Manager (Telekommunikation)
ASAM ATM Subscriber Access Multiplexer (Telekommunikation)
ASANCA Advanced Study for Active Noise Control in Aircraft (CEC)
ASAP As Soon As Possible
ASAP Alarm Severity Assignment Profile
ASAP as soon as possible
ASAR Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar
ASC Automatic Stop Distance Available
ASC Aeroacoustics Specialists' Committee (in CEAS)
ASC American Society for Composites (seit 1985)
ASC American Superconductor Corporation
ASCA Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics (Japan 1993)
ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers
ASCI Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (DoE, USA)
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASDEX Axial-Symmetric Divertor Experiment (Fusionsreaktortechnik, Garching)
ASDL Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line
ASDS Air Self Defense System
ASE Automatic Stabilization Equipment
ASE Aircraft Survivability Equipment
ASE Amplified Spontaneous Emission (Röntgenlaser)
ASE ATM Switching Element
ASE siehe ESA
ASEAN (Südostasiatische regionale Zusammenarbeit)
ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations
ASEE American Society of Enginering Education
ASEM (asiatisch-europäisches Gipfeltreffen)
ASEPS-O Astronomical Studies of Extrasolar Planetary Systems (Mount Palomar, CA,
ASF Advanced Systems Format
USA)
ASHA American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
ASHRAE American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers
ASI Airspeed Indicator
ASI Aircraft-Sensor Interface
ASI Agenza Spaziale Italiane
ASI Amorph-Silizium-Glasmodule (Photovoltaik)
ASI Asynchronous Serial Interface (Telekommunikation)
ASIC Anwender-(Anwendungs-)spezifischer IC, Application-Specific Integrated
ASIM Circuit
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Simulation in der Gesellschaft für Informatik
ASJ Acoustical Society of Japan
ASK Akademische Software Kooperation (Universität Karlsruhe)
ASK Amplitude Shift Keying (Digitales Modulationsverfahren)
ASL Above Sea Level
ASL American Sign Language (Taubstummen-Gebärdensprache)
ASM Anti Ship Missile
ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASMW Amt für Standardisierung, Messwesen und Warenprüfung (DDR)
ASN Airborne Special Type Navigational Aids
ASN ATM Switching Network
ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation 1
ASNAP as soon as possible
ASNE American Society of Naval Engineers
ASOC Air Support Operations Center
ASP Adaptive Signal Processing
ASP Application Service Provider (Telekommunikation)
ASP application server processes
ASPEC Audio Spectral Perceptual Entropic Coding
ASQC American Society for Quality Control
ASR Air Staff Requirement
ASR Airport Suveillance Radar
ASR Antischlupfregelung (Kfz)
ASR Automatic (or: Advanced) Speech Recognition
ASRAAM Advanced Short Range Air to Air Missile
ASROC Anti-Submarine Rocket
ASS Acetylsalicylsäure
ASSI Akkreditierungsagentur für Studiengänge der Ingenieurwissenschaften und
ASSP der Informatik
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (IEEE)
ASSP Application Specific Standard Products
ASST Anti-Ship Surveillance and Targeting
ASSW Anti-Surface Ship Warfare
AST Air Staff Target
AST FhAZ für Systemtechnik (Illmenau, Thüringen)
AStA Allgemeiner Studentenausschuss
ASTAR Arctic Study of Tropospheric Aerosol and Radiation
ASTER Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (Erd-
ASTIA Fernerkundung)
Armed Services Technical Informations Agency (USA)
ASTM American Society for Testing Materials
ASTM American Society of Testing Materials
ASTRID Aarhus Storage Ring, Denmark
ASTV Aeroassisted Space Transfer Vehicle (Raumfahrt)
ASU Abgas-Sonder-Untersuchung
ASU ATM Service Unit
ASURA Advanced Speech Understanding and Rendering System of ATR (Japan)
ASUW Anti-Surface Unit Warfare
ASVP Application Specific Standard Products
ASW Anti-Submarine Warfare
AT Austria (im Internet und Patentwesen)
AT Accelerated Time
AT&T American Telephone and Telegraph Company
ATA Actual Time of Arrival
ATA Air Transport Association
ATA Allen Telescope Array
ATAP Authorized to Transport Additional Passengers
ATAS Air to Air Self Defense Armament System
ATB Institut für Agrartechnik Bornim (Potsdam-Bornim)
ATC Air Traffic Control
ATC Advanced Technology Component
ATC Abstract Test Case (Telekommunikation)
ATC Adiabatic Toroidal Compressor (Fusionsreaktortechnik, PPPL)
ATC Air Traffic Control (Luftverkehrssteuerung)
ATC American Television and Communications Corporation
ATC ATM Transfer Capabilities (Telekommunikation)
ATD Actual Time of Departure
ATDMA Advanced TDMA
ATE Automatic Test Equipment
ATF Accelerator Test Facility
ATF Advanced Tactical Fighter (USA, Flugzeug)
ATI Above-Threshold Ionization
ATI Automatic Telephony Interpretation (CAIR, Korea)
ATIP Asian Technology Information Program (US organization)
ATKIS Amtliches Topographisch-Kartographisches Informations-System
ATLAS A Toroidal LHC Apparatus (CERN)
ATLAS Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science
ATM Anti-Tank Missile
ATM Air Traffic Management
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode (Datennetz)
ATM Attached Pressurized Module (Raumfahrt)
ATM Automated Teller Machine (Bankwesen)
ATMF ATM Forum
ATMF ATM user connected via optical Fiber
ATMOS Air Traffic Management and Operations Simulator (DLR)
ATMT [Fraunhofer-] Arbeitsgruppe für Telekommunikation und Multimediatechik
ATOC Allied Tactical Operation Center
ATP Allied Tactical Publication
ATP Adenosintriphosphat
ATP Advanced Technology Program (USA, Department of Commerce)
ATP Advanced Turbo-Prop (Flugzeug)
ATR Attenuated Total Reflection (chem. Analyse-Verfahren)
ATS Air Traffic Services
ATS Abstract Test Suite (Telekommunikation)
ATS Automated Tuner System
ATSC Advanced Television Systems Committee
ATSE Antenna Technology Shuttle Experiment (NASA)
ATST Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (geplant)
ATT Advanced Transport Telematics
ATTA Atom Trap Trace Analysis
ATTAS Advanced Technology Testing Aircraft System (DLR)
ATTC Advanced Television Test Center, Inc. (USA)
ATTHeS Advanced Technology Testing Helicopter System (DLR)
ATU Access Termination Unit (Telekommunikation)
ATU ADSL Terminal Unit
ATV Automatisches Transfervehikel (Raumfahrt)
ATVEF Advanced Television Enhancement Forum
Au Aurum
AU Australia (im Internet)
AUG Augmentation
AURA Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (USA)
AUT Association of University Teachers (GB)
AUW All Up Weight
AV Air Vehicle
AV Audio- und Video-(Anschluss)
AVA Aerodynamische Versuchsanstalt (Göttingen, 1907)
AVE Avenue (US Mail)
AvH Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (Fernerkundung)
AVI Akkreditierungsverbund für Ingenieurstudiengänge e.V.
AVI Automatic Vehicle Identification
AVI (Dateinamenerweiterung: Videodatei)
AVIM Aviation Intermidiate Maintenance
AVK FhAZ für Verkehrslogistik und Kommunikationstechnik (Nürnberg)
A-VLAN Authenticated VLAN (Telekommunikation)
AVO Astronomical Virtual Observatory (Europe)
AVRADA Avionics Research and Development Activity
AVRODCON Army Aviation Research and Development Command
AVS Audio Video System
AVS Advanced Visual Systems
AVS American Vacuum Society
AVS Anti-Viren-Software
AVSAR(II) Avionic System Architecture (Investigation)
AVV FhAZ für Verarbeitungsmaschinen und Verpackungstechnik (Dresden)
AW/FC Air Worthiness and Flight Characteristics
AWACS Airborne Warning and Control System
AW-CDM Adaptive Weighted CDM
AWE Arbeitsplatz-Wiedergabe-Einheit (digitales Sprachübertragungssystem)
AWG American Wire Gauge
AWG Arrayed Waveguide Grating (Filter, Photonik)
AWI Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung (Bremerhaven)
AWO Arbeiterwohlfahrt
AWO Auftragsforschung-West-Ost (BMFT)
AXAF Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (Satellit, USA)
AZ Arizona (US-Staat)
Azipod Azimuthing Electric Podded Propulsion (Schiffsantrieb)
B
B Bacteriological
B Blue = 4,4'-bis(2,2'-diphenyl vinyl)biphenyl (blue color)
B. IEM Bachelor of IEM
B.A.U.M. Bundesdeutscher Arbeitskreis für umweltbewusstes Management e.V.
B.Sc. Bachelor of Science
b.w. bitte wenden (engl.: p.t.o.)
B/C Biological/Chemical
B/U Back Up
B2B Business-to-Business
B2C Business-to-Consumer
B3G beyond third generation mobile network
B6ZS Bipolar with 6 Zero Substitution
B8ZS Bipolar with 8 Zero Substitution
BA Bleed Air
BACODINE Batse Coordinates Distribution Network (Astrophysik)
BACS Bleed Air Cycle System
BAe British Aerospace
BAföG Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz
BAGMO Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Motorrad
BAH Bundesverband der Arzeimittelhersteller (Pharma)
BAI Beratender Ausschuss der Industriephysiker (in der DPG)
BAK Backup, (Dateinamenerweiterung: Sicherungskopie)
BAL Balance, Balanced, Symmetrical
BALK Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft leitender Krankenpflegepersonen e.V.
BAM Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (Berlin)
BAME Bayerische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mikroelektronik
BAMI Bipolar-Alternate Mark Inversion
BAN Body Area Network
BAPT Bundesamt für Post und Telekommunikation
BARC Bottom Anti-reflective Coating (semiconductor)
BARC Bay Area Research Center (Microsoft-Forschungszentrum)
BARN Bayer-Alzheimer Research Network
BAS Broadband Access Server
BAS Broadband Access Server (Telekommunikation)
BASF Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik
BASIC Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BASYS Baltic Sea System Study
BAT Battery
BAT Bandwidth Allocation Threshold (Datennetz)
BAT Biologische Arbeitsstofftoleranz(werte)
BAT Bonquet Association Table
BAT British Antarctic Territory
BAT Bundesangestelltentarif
BAT (Dateinamenerweiterung: Batchdatei)
BATSE Burst and Transient Source Experiment (GRO)
BB Bandwidth Broker
BB Baseband (Telekommunikation)
BB Broadband
BBAW Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
BBC Brritih Broadcasting Company
BBC Broadband Coupler (Datennetz)
BBE Broadband Entertainment
BBGW Broadband Gateway
BBiG Berufsbildungsgesetz
BBM Back Beam Mode
BBN Bolt, Beranek & Newman (USA)
BBP Base Band Part
BBRAN Broadband Remote Access Network (or: Node)
BBRAS Broadband Remote Access Server
BBS Behavioral and Brain Science (Zeitschrift)
BBS Bulletin Board System (Internet)
BBS Base Band Stage
BBS Base Band Signal
BBS Bulletin Board Service (Internet)
BBS Base Band Signals
BBSO Big Bear Solar Observatory (Big Bear Lake, CA, USA)
BBW Bundesverband der Brand- und Wasserschadenbeseitiger e.V.
BC Bus Controller
BC Before Christ
BC Balanced Coding ("1" and "0" are equally present)
BCAR British Civiel Airworthines Regulations
bcc blind carbon copy (Durchschlag, ohne Nachricht an andere Adressaten)
BCC Buffer Congestion Control (Telekommunikation)
BCD Binary Coded Decimal
BCE Beacon
BCGF Breakout Gateway Control Function
BCIS Biodiversity Conservation Information System
BC-MS Broadcast/Multicast Service Center
BCP Burst Control Packet
BCP Bidirectional Communication Protocol (see UCP)
BCR Bureau Communautaire de Référence
BCRU British Committee on Radiation Units and Measurement
BCS Back up Control System
BCS Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (Supraleitungstheorie)
BCSD Business Council for Sustainable Development
BD Binary Decimal
BD Business Division
BD Blue Ray Disk
BD Binary data
BD Block Diagram
BDA Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände
BDC Binary Decimal Code
BDI Belief, Desire, Intent
BDI Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e.V. (Köln)
BDNF Brain-Derived Nerve Growth Factor
BDRM/P Battle Damage Repair Manual/Plan
BDSL Boundary-Scan-Description Language
BDVD Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus
BEC Backward Error Correction (Datenübertragung)
BEC Bose-Einstein Condensation
BED Basic Engineering Development
BED Back End Decoder
BEEM Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy
BEF Best Effort Forwarding (Telekommunikation)
BEHD Best Estimate Hard Decision
BEIR Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation
Bellcore Bell Communications Research
BEM Big Emerging Market (Welthandel)
BEM Boundary element method
BEO Biologie, Energie, Ökologie (KfK Jülich, Projektträger)
BEPC Beijing Electron Positron Collider
BER Bit Error Rate
BER Binary Encoding Rule (ASN.1)
BER Bit Error Ratio
BERP British Experimental Rotor (System) Programme
BES Beijing Spectrometer
BESSY Berliner Elektronen-Speicherring für Synchrotronstrahlung
BEW Basic Empty Weight
BfA Bundesanstalt für Arbeit
BfArM Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte (Bonn)
bFGF Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor (basischer Fibroblasten-Wachstumsfaktor)
BFH Bundesfinanzhof
BFIO Büro für Führungskräfte zu internationalen Organisationen (Frankfurt/M)
BFO Beat Frequency Oscillator
BFP Blue Fluorescent Protein
BG Border Gateway (Telekommunikation)
BG Berry Goon
BGA Ball Grid Array, Kugelgitteranordnung (Chipgehäuse)
BGA Ball Grid Array
BGB Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch
BGO Bismuth Germinate (Gammastrahlen-Detektor)
BGP Border Gateway Protocol (Telekommunikation)
BGVV Bundesanstalt für gesundheitlichen Verbraucherschutz und Veterinärmedizin
BH Buried Heterostructure (Laser)
BHCA Busy Hour Call Attempt (Telekommunikation)
BHI Bearing and Heading Indicator
BHKW Blockheizkraftwerk
BHKW Blockkraftwerk
BIAS Bremer Institut für Angewandte Strahltechnik
BIBB Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (Bonn)
BICC Bearer Independent Call Control (Telekommunikation)
BICI Broadband Inter-Carrier Interface (Datennetz)
BiCMOS bipolar CMOS
BIDS Biological Integrated Detection System
BIE Boundary Integral Equation
BIE Boundary integral equation
BIEM Brotherhood of the IEM
BIFS Binary Format for Scenes (Digitals Fernsehen)
BIM Blade Indicator Method
BImschG Bundes-Immissions-Schutzgesetz
BIOS Basic Input/Output System
BIP Bruttoinlandsprodukt
BIPM Bureau International des Poids et Mésures (Sèvres, Paris)
Bi-SAR Bistatic SAR
B-ISDN Broadband ISDN
BIST Built In Test (Equipment)
BIT Binary Digit
BIT(E) Build-in Self Test
BITNET Because It's Time Network
Bixel two dimensional bit Pixel (= Bi-xel)
BJU Bus Junction Unit
BKA Bundeskriminalamt
BKS Bohr-Kramers-Slater (-Theorie) (1924)
BL Butt Line
BL Blaue Liste (Deutsche Forschungsinstitute)
BLC Back Light Compensation (Video-Kamera: Gegenlicht-Blendenvergrößerung)
BLDC Brushless d.c. (Elektromotor)
BLER Block Error Rate (Telekommunikation)
BLER Block Error Rate
BLK Bund-Länder-Kommission für Bildungsplanung und Forschungsförderung
BLOS Beyond Line of Sight
BLOS Below Line of Sight
BLS Bucerius Law School (Hamburg)
BLSR Bidirectional Line Switching Ring
BLTP Bogoljubow Laboratory of Theoretical Physics (VIK, Dubna, Russland)
BLVD Boulevard (US Mail)
BM Broadband Manager
BM Bilderberger Meeting
BM Bit Mapping
BMB Baltic Marine Biologists
BMBF Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie
BMBW Bundesministerium für Bildung und Wissenschaft
BMBWFT Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie
BMC Benchmarking Center (am IIS, Außenstelle Nürnberg)
BMC Broadcast/Multicast Control (Telekommunikation)
BMC Burst Mode Controller (Datennetz)
BME Basic Mass Empty
BMFT Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie
BMG Bundesministerium für Gesundheit
BMGS Bundesministerium für Gesundheit und Soziale Sicherung
BMI Body Mass Index (siehe KMI)
BMLG Binaural Masking Level Difference
BMP Bone Morphogenetic Protein
BMP Bitmap (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)
BMR Ballistic Magnetoresistance
BMS Business Management System
BM-SC Broadcast Multicast Service Center
BM-SC Broadcast/Multicast Service Center (Telekommunikation)
BMU Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit
BMV Bundesministerium für Verkehr
BmVg Bundesministerium der Verteidigung
BMW Bavarian Motor Works (automotive manufacturer)
BMWi Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft
BMZ Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung
BNC Berkeley Nucleonics Corporation
BNI Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin (Hamburg)
BNL Brookhaven National Laboratory
BNP Brain Natriuretic Peptide
BNSC British National Space Centre
BNV Belgische Natuurkundige Vereniging
BoD Bandwidth on Demand (Telekommunikation)
BODS Binary Output Data Stream
BOM Bill of Material
BOM Bill of Materials
BONT Broadband Optical Network Termination
BOOMERANG Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geomagnetics
BOOTP Boot Program
BOS Behörden und Organisationen mit Sicherheitsaufgaben
BOST Basic Open Sea Training
BOT Bottle
BOT Build, Operate and Transfer (Telekommunikation)
BPF Blade Pass Frequency (Propeller)
BPM Beats per Minutes
BPM Beam propagation Method
BPON Broadband Passive Optical Network (optische Telekommunikation)
BPR Bypass Rotation
BPR Business Process Reengineering
BPS The Bulgarian Physical Society
BPSG Boron Phosphat Silicate Glass
BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying
BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying (Modulation, Binäre Phasenumtastung)
BPSR Bidirectional Path Switched Ring (Telekommunikation)
BPTI Bovine Pancreatic Trypsin Inhibitor
BPX Burning Plasma Experiment (Fusionsreaktortechnik, PPPL)
BQB Bluetooth Qualification Body (Telekommunikation)
BQTF Bluetooth Qualification Test Facility
bR Bacteriorhodopsin
BR Basic Research (ESPRIT)
BR Biosphärenreservat (Naturschutz)
BR Border Router
BR Bayrischer Rundfunk
Br. Brother
BRA Basic Rate Access (ISDN)
BRAHMS Broad Range Hadron Spectrometer (RHIC)
BRAN Broadband Radio Access Network (Telekommunikation)
BRAS Broadband Remote Access Server
BRAS Broadband Remote Access Server (Telekommunikation)
BRE Bistatic Radar Equation
BRG Bearing Between Waypoint Pair
BRH Bearingless Rotor Hub
BRIM Broadband Resource Interface Management (System)
BRITE Basic Research in Industrial Technologies for Europe
BRK Breaker
BRS Buried Ridge Stripe (Telekommunikation)
BRSL Bomb Release Safety Lock
BRT Bruttoregistertonne
BS Billing System
BS Base Station (Telekommunikation)
BS British Standard
BS Broadcast Satellite (Digital broadcast)
BSB 2,5-bis[4-[N-(4-methoxyphenyl)-N-phenylamino]]styrylbenzene-1,4-
BSC dicarbonitrile (red color) (Telekommunikation)
Base Station Controller
BSCCO Barium-Strontium-Calcium-Copper Oxide, Barium-Strontium-Calcium-Kupfer-
Oxid (HTSL)
BSDL Boundary-Scan Description Language
BSE Bonn European School of Economics e.V.
BSE Best Symbol Estimate
BSE Bovine spongiforme Enzephalopathie, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
BSF (Rinderwahnsinn)
Bootstraping Server Function
BSF Back Surface Field (Solarzellen)
BSG Bundessozialgericht
BSH (Medikament zur Tumorbehandlung mit Neutroneneinfangtherapie)
BSI British Standard Institute
BSI British Standards Institute
BSML Biosequence Markup Language
BSNR Blurred Signal-to-Noise Ratio (Bildunschärfe)
BSP Bruttosozialprodukt
BSR Board of Standards Review (USA)
BSR Bottom Simulating Reflector (Ozeanologie)
BSR Baseline Surface Radiation Network
BSRN bootstrap routine, Startroutine, (to bootstrap, aus dem Sumpf ziehen)
BSS Base Station Subsystem (Telekommunikation)
BSS Broadcasting Satellite Service
BST Band Segmented Transmission (Digital broadcast)
BT Business Telecommunications (TC im ETSI)
BT Bluetooth
BTA Broadcasting Technical Association (Japan)
BTag Bundestag
BTC Block Truncation Coding
B-TID Bootstraping Transaction Identifier
BTPG Boundary-Scan-Test-Program Generation
BTS Base Transceiver Station
BTS (Base Transceiver Station)
BTS Base Transceiver Station (Telekommunikation)
BTS Broadcast Television Systems GmbH (Darmstadt)
BTSV Best Transmit Symbol Vector
BTV Broadcast Television
BTW by the way
Btx Bildschirmtext
BU Branching (or: Business) Unit (Rechnernetze) (Telekommunikation)
BUCS Backup-Instruments
BUF Band Utilization Factor
BUI Buffer zone
Bull. P&I T.I.T. Bulletin of Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of
BUND Technology (Yokohama,
Bund für Umwelt Japan) Deutschland e.V.
und Naturschutz
BuxWV Buxdehude Werkeverzeichnis
BVP Boundary Value Problem
BVPN Broadband Virtual Private Network
BVW Betriebliches Vorschlagswesen
BWA Broadband Wireless Access
B-WiN Breitband-Wissenschaftsnetz (Datennetz, bis 155 Mbit/s)
BWL Beriebswirtschaftslehre
BWV Bach Werke Verzeichnis
BZ Baro Altimeter
BZ Brennstoffzelle (= FC)
C
C Chemical
C Cytosin (DNA-Base)
C&D Control and Display System
C&F Cost and Freight (Handelsverkehr)
C.B.R. Chemical/Biological/Radiological
C.I.F. Cost, Insurance, Freight (Handelsverkehr)
C.L.E. Club zur ländlichen Elektrifizierung
C/L Center Line
C/N Carrier-to-Noise [Ratio]
C/O(G) Certification/Qualification (Group)
C3 Command, Control and Communication (System)
C3 Cleaved-Coupled Cavity (Laser)
C3I Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence (Militärisch)
C6 Alq3 mixed with 1 vol% of Coumarin6 (green color)
CA Conditional Access
CA Call Agent
CA Calling Agent
CA Calibrated Airspeed
CA California (US-Staat)
CA Call Agent (Telekommunikation)
CA Canada (im Internet)
CA Cancer (Krebs)
CA Cellular Automata
CA Code Acquisition
CA Computer Algebra
CA Computer-Animation
CA Conditional Access (Telekommunikation)
CA Cryptographic Algorithm
CAA Civil Aviation Authority
CAA Civil Aviation Authority (UK)
CAAT Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (Johns Hopkins University,
CABS Carrier Access
Baltimore, MD, Billing
USA) System
CAC Call Admision Control
CAC Chanel Access Client
CAC Call Acceptance (or: Admission) Control (Telekommunikation)
CACSD Computer Aided Control System Design
CAD Computer Aided Design
CAD (AM) Computer Aided Design (and Manufacturing)
CADE Computer Algebra and Differential Equations (Programm bei der GMD)
CAE Computer Aided Engineering
CAESAR Center for Advanced European Studies and Research (Bonn)
CAFE Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (or: Economy)
CAG Computer Aided Gage (or: Gaging) (computerunterstützte Kfz-Schaltung)
CAGR Compound Annual Growth Rate
CAI Computer-Aided (or: Assisted) Instruction
CAIB Columbia Accident Investigation Board
CAIR Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (Korea)
CAL Calibration
CAL Computer-Aided (or: Assisted) Learning
CAM Computer Aided Manufacturing
CAM Career Asset Manager (IEEE)
CAM Computer Aided Manufacturing
CAM Crew Assistand System for Military Aircraft
CAMA Code Adjustification Mechanism
CAMEL Customized Application for Mobile Network Enhanced Logic
CAMEL Cellular Automata Environment for Systems Modelling
CAMEL Customized Applications for Mobile Network Enhanced Logic
CAMEO (Telekommunikation)
Computer Aided Mechanistic Evaluation of Organic Reactions
CAMP Channel Amplifier
cAMP cyclisches Adenosintriphosphat
CAN Control Area Network
CAN Customer Access Network
Cand. Dr.-Ing. Candidatus Doctorem ingenium
CANIF Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in Forest Soils
CAO Computer Aided Optimization
CAP CAMEL Application Part
CAP Combat Air Parol
CAP Camel Applications Part (Telekommunikation)
CAP Canadian Association of Physics
CAP Carrierless Amplitude Phase (Modulation)
CAP Committee on Applied Physics (APS)
CAP Computer Aided Painting (Lackier-Roboter)
CAP Council of the American Physical Society
CAPE Computer Assisted Process Engineering
CAPEX Captial Expenditure
CAPEX Capital Expenditure
CAPRA Concept to Amplify Plutonium Reduction in Advanced Fast Reactors (CEA)
CAPS Call Attempts per Second (Telekommunikation)
CARAT Computer Aided Radio and Television
CARE Comprehensive Approach for Recycling of Electronics
CARIS Combat Active Passive Radar
CARL Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
CARMA Combined Array for Research in Millimeter Astronomy (Kalifornien, USA)
CARPET Cellular Programming Environment
CARROUSO Creating, Assessing and Rendering in Real Time of High Quality Audio-Visual
CARS Environments (3D-Klangverfahren)
Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy (or: Scattering)
CAS Condition Access System
CAS Chiefs of Air Staffs
CAS Close Air Support
CAS Control Augmentation System
CAS Collision Avoidance System
CAS Commandable Active Sonobuoys
CAS Calibrated Air Speed
CAS Calorimetric Absorption Spectroscopy
CAS Channel Associated Signaling
CAS Chemical Abstracts Service (Datenbank)
CAS Committee on Assurance of Supply
CAS Complex Adaptive Systems
CAS Conditional Access System (Digital broadcast)
CAS Controlled Access Service
CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering
CASI Canadian Aeronautic and Space Institute
CASIPS Close to Application Study in Polymer Science (IAP-Förderprogramm)
CASP Competitive Access Service Provider (Telekommunikation)
CAST Cardiac Arrythmia Suppression Trial
CAST [Competence] Center for Applied Security Technology
CAT Collaborative Access Team (beim APS, Argonne)
CAT Computer-Aided Teaching
CAT Computerized Axial Tomography
CAT Conditional Access Table (Telekommunikation)
CATI Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing
CATV Cable Television
CATV Coaxial Television
CATV Community (or: Common) Antenna Television
CAVE Cave Automatic Virtual Environment
CAVOK Clouds and Visibility O.K.
CAVU Ceiling and Visibility Unlimited
CB Code Breaking
CB Cellular Broadcast
CB Control Burst (Telekommunikation)
CBC Cell Broadcast Center
CBC Crow Bar Circuit
CBDS Connectionless Broadband Data Service
CBE Cell Broadcast Entitiers
CBI Cosmic Background Imager (Radioteleskop-Array in Chile)
CBIT Continuous BIT
CBLS Carrier Bomb Light Stores
CBN Crystal Boron Nitride
CBO Congressional Budget Office (USA)
CBQ Class Based Queuing (Telekommunikation)
CBR Chemical, Biological & Radiological
CBR Constant Bit Rate (Datentransfer)
CBS Cell Broadcast Service
CBS Costs Break Down Structure
CBSDM Component-Based Scene Description Model
CBT Computer Based Training
CC Configuration Control
CC Center Cabin
CC Call Control (Layer 3)
CC Capital Cost
cc Carbon Copy (Durchschlag)
CC Competence Center (Rechnernetze)
CC Connection Coordinator
CC Connection Close
CC Control Character
CC Control Change
CC Communication Connection
CC Computational Complexity
CC/M Channel Coder/Modulator
CCA Continuum Computer Architecture
CCB Customer Care and Billing (Telekommunikation)
CCBS Customer Care and Billing System
CCBS Customer Care and Billing System (or: Service) (Telekommunikation)
CCD Cursor Control Device
CCD Cursor Control Display
CCD Cockpit Control Display
CCD Charge Coupled Device - Ladungsspeicherelementanordnung
CCD Charge-Coupled Device
CCDL Computer Computer Data Link
CCDM Consultive Committee for the Definition of the Metre
CCDS Comité Consultatif pour la Definition de la Seconde
CCE Comité Consultatif d'Electricité
CCF Credit Control Function, Charging Collection Function
CCF Center Cabin Floor
CCF Call Control Function (Telekommunikation)
CCF Charging information Collecting Function
CCFL Cold-Cathode Fluorescent Lamp
CCG Carl Cranz Gesellschaft (DLR Standort OP)
CCIP Continous Computed Impact Point
CCIR Comité Consultatif International des Radiocommunications
CCIR/ITU-R Consultative Committee for International Radiocommunication
CCITT Comité Consultatif International pour la Télégraphie et le Téléphone
CCITT Consultative Committee for International Telephones & Telegraph
CCLD Constant Current Line Drive (Konstantstromversorgung)
CCLRC Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (UK)
CCM Cross Channel Monitor
CCM Comité Consultatif pour la Masse et les Grandeurs Apparantées
CCM CORBA Component Model (Telekommunikation)
CCPCH Common Control Physical Channel (Telekommunikation)
CCPR Comité Consultatif de Photométrie et Radiométrie
CCRF Configuration Control Rcord File
CCRP Continous Computed Release Point
CCRT Colour Cathode Ray Tube
CCS Communications Control System
CCS Common Channel Signaling
CCT Cyclic Corrosion Test, zyklischer Korrosionstest
CCTV Closed Circuit Television
CCU Central Control Unit
CCV Candidate Constellation Value
CCV Control Configured Vehicles
CCV Control-Configured Vehicle (Flugzeug)
CCVC Capacitively Coupled Voltage Contrast
CCW Counter-clockwise
CCW counterclockwise
CCXML Call Control Extensible Markup Language (Telekommunikation)
CD Chromatic Dispersion (Glasfaser)
CD Compact Disc
CD Channel Decoder
CD/P Engineering Development & Production
CDA (Dateinamenerweiterung: CD-Titel auf Musik-CD)
CDC Cell Division Cycle
CDC Center for Disease Control (Atlanta, GA, USA)
CDC China Development Corporation (Taiwan)
CDC Control Data Corporation
CDD Control and Data Display
CDDI Copper Distributed Data Interface
CDE Control Display Electronic
CDE Common Desktop Environment
CDE Component Development Environment (Telekommunikation)
CDF Channel Definition Format
CDF Collider Detector at Fermilab
CDF Cumulative Density Function
CDG Carl-Duisberg-Gesellschaft
CDG Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation
CDH Completely Detached H-Regime (Fusionsreaktortechnik)
CDI Course Deviation Indicator
CD-I Compact Disc-Interactive
CDK Cyclin Dependent Kinase (Medizin)
CDM Clean Development Mechanism (Umweltschutz)
CDM Code Division Multiplex(ing)
CDM Cold Dark Matter (Kosmologie)
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CDMA collision detect multiple access
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access (Mobilfunk)
CDMA2000 Code Division Multiple Access 2000
CDMS Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (Astrophysik, USA)
CDN Content Delivery (or: Distribution) Network (Telekommunikation)
cDNA Complementary DNA
CDP Critical Degign Point
CDP Critical Decision Point
CDP Code Domain Power (Telekommunikation)
CDPD Cellular Digital Packet Data
CDPD Cellular Digital Packet Data
CdPNo Called Party Number
CDR Critical Design Review
CDR Call Detail Record (Telekommunikation), Verbindungsdetail-Datensatz
CDR Call Data Record (Telekommunikation), Verbindungsdaten-Datensatz
CDR Clock Division Recovery (Telekommunikation)
CDR (Dateinamenerweiterung: Corel Draw-Graphikdatei)
CDRL Contract Data Requirement List
CD-ROM Compact Disc Read-Only Memory
CDS Control and Display Electronic
CDS Control and Display Subsystem
CDS Chromatography Data System
CDS Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (an Bord von SOHO)
CDS Crosspoint Development System
CDT Conformal Deposition Technique
CDU Cockpit Display Unit
CDU Central Display Unit
CDV Cell Delay Variation
CDV Cardiovascular disease (Medical)
CDVT Cell Delay Variation Tolerance
CE Channel Estimator
CE Communication Equipment
CE Customer Edge Router
CE Casualty Evacuation
CE Circuit Emulation (Telekommunikation)
CE Communauté (or: Conformité) Européenne
CE Customer Edge (Telekommunikation)
CE Kapillarelektrophorese
CE conducted emissions
CE Collection Entity (Telecom)
CE Compromising Emanations
CEA Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics (Berkeley, CA, USA)
CEA Commisariat à l'Energie Atomique (Fontenay aux roses, Frankreich)
CEAS Confederation of European Aerospace Societies
CEBAF Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (Newport News, VA, USA)
CeBIT Centrum für Büro- und Informationstechnik (Messe, Hannover)
CEC Commission of the European Communities
CEC Countries of Central Europe (ehem. Ostblockländer)
CECS Center for Energy and Climate Solutions (Annadale, VA, USA)
CEEES Committee of European Environmental Engineering Societies (am ICT,
CEET Pfinztal)
Clean and Efficient Energy Technologies
CEI Central European Initiative
CEIC Committee on Electronic Information and Communication
CELIAS Charge, Element and Isotope Analyses System (an Bord von SOHO)
CELP Code-Excited Linear Prediction
CEM Channel Electron Multiplier
CEM computational electromagnetics
CEMA Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association
CEN Centre d'études nucléaires (Bordeuax-Gradignan, Frankreich)
CEN Comité Européen de Normalisation [European Committee for Standardization,
CEN Europäisches Komiteeoffor
European Committee Normung]
Standardization
CENELEC Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
CENELEC European Committee of Electrotechnical Standardization
CeNS Center for NanoScience (LMU, München)
Centrex Central Office Exchange Services
Centrex Central Office Exchange Services
CEO Chief Executive Officer
CEOCT Confocal Enhanced Optical Coherence Tomography
CEOS Committee on Earth Observing Systems
CEP Circular Error Probability
CEPI Confocal Fabry-Perot Interferometer
CEPSTRUM the fourier transform of the log of the fourier transform of a signal
CEPT Conference of European Posts and Telegraphs
CEPT Conférence Européenne des Postes et (des) Télécommunications
CEPT European Conference for Posts and Telecommunications
CERC Customer Edge Route Community
CEREQ Centre d'Etude de Recherche sur les Qualifications
CERES Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (Satelliten-Erd-
CERN Fernerkundung)
Conseil Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire (jetzt: Organisation
CERRO Européenne ...) Regional Research Organization
Central European
CERT Computer Emergency Response Team
CES Cambridge Engineering Selector [Database] (UK)
CES Circuit Emulation Services
CESI China Electronics Standardization Institute
CESRA Community of European Solar Astronomers
CEST C Expert System Tools
CETA Center of Excellence for Advanced Technology
CETHEDEC Centre d'études théoriques de la détection et des communications (France)
CETIM Centre technique des industries mécaniques (France)
CEV Channel Estimation Value
CF Centrifugal Force
CF Crossfade (Kreuzüberblenden)
CF Cystische Fibrose (Mukoviszidose)
CF Cholesky´s Factorization
CFC Carbon Fiber Reinforced Carbon
CFC Carbonfibre Composite
CFC Chlorofluorocarbon
CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics, scherzhaft auch: Colorful Fluid Dynamics
CFFL Columbus Free Flying Laboratory (Raumfahrt)
CFG (Dateinamenerweiterung: Konfigurationsdatei)
CFHT Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (Mauna Kea)
CFI Canada Foundation for Innovation (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)
CFL CAD Framework Laboratory
CFM Confirm
CFO Chief Financial Officer
CFP Contention Free Period (Telekommunikation)
CFR Cell Framing Procedure
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
CFRP Carbon-Fiber Reinforced Plastic
CFV Call for Votes (Rechnernetz)
CG Centre of Gravity
CG Charging Gateway
CG Charging Gateway
CG Congrats
CGA Color Graphics Adapter
CGD Coplaner Grid Detector
CGE Compagnie Générale d'Electricité
CGF Charging Gateway Function
CGF Charging Gateway Functionality
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CGI Common Gateway Interface (Telekommunikation)
CGI Cruise Guide Indicator
CGIAR Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research
CGM Computer Graphics Metafile (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)
CGMS Copy Generation Management System
CGPM Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures
CGRO Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
cgs Centimeter - Gramm - Sekunde (Maßsystem)
CGS Continuous Grain Silicon (Halbleitertechnologie)
CGS Corporate GSM Server (Telekommunikation)
CGW Charging Gateway
CH Compass Heading
CH Confederatio Helveticae, Switzerland (im Internet)
CHAP Challenge Access Control
CHARM CERN, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Rom, Moskau (Kernphysik-Kollaboration)
CHARM Comprehensive Human Animation Resource Model
CHC Chlorinated Hydrocarbon
CHDM Cold + Hot Dark Matter (Kosmologie)
CHE Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung (Gütersloh)
CHELS Cargo Helicopter External Load System
CHEMFET [FET mit chemischem Sensor als Gate-Elektrode]
CHEOPS Chemistry of Ozone in the Polar Stratosphere
CHF Congestive Heart Failure (Herzinsuffizienz)
CHILIAS Children's Library - Information - Animation - Skills
CHMM Call Handling MultiMedia (Telekommunikation)
CHORUS CERN Hybrid Oscillation Research Apparatus
CI Chemical Ionisation (Massenspektrometer)
CI Configuration Item
CIA Central Intelligence Agency (oberste US-Geheimdienstbehörde)
CIC Center for International Cooperation (Bonn)
CIC Command Information Centre
CIC Conseil Internationale de la Chasse et de la Conservation du Gibier
CICQ Combined Input and Central Queuing (Telekommunikation)
CICS Customer Information Control System (Telekommunikation)
CID Carrier Internetworking Division (Telekommunikation)
CID Charge-Injection Device
CID Collision-Induced Dissociation
C-ID Charging Identification
CIDL Configuration Item Data List
CIDL Configuration Item Data List (Telekommunikation)
CIDR Classless Interdomain Routing (Internet)
CIE Commission Internationale d'Eclairage
CIEM Copyright of the IEM
CIESIN Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
CIF Common Intermediate Format (Datennetz)
CIG Cell Interconnection Gateway (Datennetz)
CIG Computer Image Generation
CIGS Copper Indium Gallium Diselenide
CIL Configuration Identification Index
CILSMO Central Integrated Logistic Support Management Organisation
CIM Computer-integrated manufacturing
CIM Corporate Information Management (USA)
CIM Channel Inverse Matrix
CIMD Computer Interface Message Delivery
CIME Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Engineering
CIMS Computer Integrated Manufacturing System
CIMSS Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (VPI & SU, Blacksburg,
CIOQ VA, USA) Input- and Output-Queued (Telekommunikation)
Combined
CIP3 International Cooperation for Integration of Prepress, Press and Postpress
CIPAP (Druckindustrie)
Change Itinerary Proceed to Additional Places
CIPM Comité International des Poids et Mésures
CIPT Computer Integrated Public Transportation
CIR Carrier to Interference Ratio (Telekommunikation)
CIR Channel Impulse Response
CIR Circle (US Mail)
CIR Committed Information Rate (Datennetz)
CIR Computer Integrated Railroading
CIR Cylindrical Internal Reflection (ATR-Technik)
CIS Card Information Structure
CIS Commonwealth (or: Confederation) of Independent States (= GUS)
CIS Compensated Image System (adaptive Optik)
CIS Kupferindiumdiselenid, Copper Indium Selenide
CISC Complex Instruction Set Computer
CISL Contractual Index and Status List (Telekommunikation)
CISM [International Centre for Mechanical Sciences], Udine, Italien
CISPR (International Special Committee on Radio Interference)
CISPR International Special Committee on Radio Interference
CIST [Moskau-Fraunhofer] Institut für Chemische Technologie Pfinztal
CITEL InterAmerican Telecom Commission (Telekommunikation)
CITES Convention of the International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and
CIVA Flora (Internationale
Charge-Induced Übereinkunft
Voltage Alterationzum Handel mit bedrohten Arten)
CJD Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease
CJK Creutzfeld-Jakob-Krankheit
CK Ciphering Key
CK Clock (Telekommunikation)
CKL Check-List
CKW chlorierte Kohlenwasserstoffe
CL Carrier Load
CL Center Line
CL Connectionless (Internet)
CL Controlled Load
Cl. Classification (Patentliteratur)
CL20 Hexanitro-Isowurtzitan (Sprengstoff)
CLC Computer Loadable Code
CLDC Connected Limited Device Configuration
CLE Customer Located Edge (Telekommunikation)
CLEC Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (Telekommunikation)
CLEO Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
CLEOPATRA Cloud Experiment Oberpfaffenhofen and Transport
CLFA Coopération Laser Franco-Allemande
Clg Ceiling
CLI Calling Line Identification (Telekommunikation)
CLIC CERN Linear Collider
CLID Command Line Interface (Telekommunikation)
CLIP Calling Line Identification Presentation (Telekommunikation)
CLORA Club des Organismes de Recherche Associés (Frankreich)
CLOS Common LISP Object System
CLP (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)
CLP Computer Loadable Program
CLR Connection Loudness Rating (Telephon)
CLS Call Server (Telekommunikation)
CLS Canadian Light Source (Synchrotron-Strahlungsquelle am CFI)
CLS Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope
CLSM Confocal Laser-Scanning Microscope
CM Configuration Management
CM Connection Management
CM Control Manager
CM Countermeasures
CM Covariance Matrix
CM Channel Matrix
CM Covariance Matrix
CMAC Cerebellar Model Arithmetic Computer
CMAD Conference of National Armaments Directors
CMAM [Fraunhofer-] Center for Manufacturing and Advanced Materials (Newark, DE,
CMB USA)
[Fraunhofer-] Center for Molecular Biotechnology (Newark, DE, USA)
CMB Cosmic Microwave Background
CMC Carboxymethylcellulose
CMD Command
CMD Condensed Matter Division (der EPS)
CME Coronal Mass Ejection (Astrophysik)
CMEM [International] Conference on Computational Methods and Experimental
CMIP Measurements
Common Management Information Protocol (Telekommunikation)
CMIS Common Management Information Services (Telekommunikation)
CMISE Common Management Information Services (or: System) Element
CML (Telekommunikation)
Chemical Markup Language
CML Current Mode Logic (Schaltungstechnik)
CMM Capability Maturity Model
CMM Chassis Management Modulus
CMM Coordinate Measuring Machine
CMMI® Capability Maturity Model® Integration
CMN Call Mediation Node
CMN Cerous Magnesium Nitrate (Temperaturnormal)
CMOS Capacity-Coupled Metal-Oxide Silicon Device
CMOS Complementary Metal Oxyd Semiconductor
CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (Feldeffekt-Transistor)
CMP Central Maintenance Panel
CMP Chemical-Mechanical Polishing
CMPP China Mobilie Peer to Peer
CMR Colossal Magnetoresistance
CMRR Common-Mode Rejection Ratio
CMS Cambridge Materials Selector [Database] (UK)
CMS Cluster Management System (Telekommunikation)
CMS Compact Muon Solenoid (CERN)
CMS Condensed Matter Science
CMS Content Management System
CMS Content-Management System (Wissensmanagement)
CMS Corporate Mobile Server (Telekommunikation)
CMT Criticality Management Tool
CMTR Computer
CMTS Cable Modem Termination System (Telekommunikation)
CMTS Cable Termination Modem System
CMU Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
CMU Cockpit Mock-up
CN Core Network
CN Core Network (Telekommunikation)
CNAM Cable Network Alliance
CNAM Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers (Paris)
CNC Computer Numerical Control (Werkzeugmaschinen)
CNEL Community Noise Equivalent Level
CNES Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (Frankreich)
CNET Centre National d'Etudes des Télécommunications
CNI Communication, Navigation, Identifcation
CNM Customer Network Management (Telekommunikation)
CNR Carrier-to-Noise Ratio
CNR National Research Council (Kanada)
CNRS Centre national de la recherche scientifique (Frankreich)
CNS Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (Frankreich)
CNS Communication, Navigation, Surveillance
CNS Conseil nationale de la science (Frankreich)
CNT Carbon Nano Tube
CO Central Office
CO Central Office (Rechnernetze)
CO Colorado (US-Staat)
CO Connection-Oriented (Internet)
COB Chip-On-Board
COB Collected Operating Bases
COBE Cosmic Background Explorer (Satellit)
COBOL Common Business-Oriented Language (Programmiersprache)
COBRA Common Object Request Broker Architecture (Telekommunikation)
CoBRA Computerized Bibliographic Record Actions
COCOM Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls
COCOSDA International Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and Speech I/O
CODAC Systems Assessment
Cosmic Dust Aggregation Experiment
CODAR Correlation Direction and Recording
CoDAS Condensed Matter Direct Alerting Service (Datenbank)
CODATA Committee on Data for Science and Technology (seit 1966)
CODEC Coder-Decoder
CODEST Committee for the Development of European Science and Technology
COE Center of Excellence
COEHC Coalition on Effective Hearing Conservation (USA)
COF Columbus Orbit Facility (Weltraumlabor)
CoF Construction of Facilities
COFDM Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex(ing)
COFEE Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor
COHO Coherent Heterodyne (receiver)
COIL Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser
COISACA Combined Ordered Interference Suppression and Cancellation Approach
COLL Collective
COLL Collision
COLTRIMS Cold Target Recoil Momentum Spectroscopy
COM (Dateinamenerweiterung: ausführbares Programm)
com [Commercial Organization] (Internet, USA)
COM Committee on Minorities in Physics (APS)
COM Component Object Model
COMCOMP Compound Helicopter Computer Program
COMD Command
COMET C++ OSI Management Extended Toolchain
COMETT Community Program for Education and Training in Technology
COMINT Communication Intelligence
COMM Communication
COMP Cartilage Oligomatrix Protein
COMPENDEX Computerized Engineering Index (Datenbank)
COMPLAN Communication Planning
COMPTEL Imaging Compton Telescope
COMSAT Communications Satellite Corporation (USA)
COMSEC Communications Security
ConCap Constant Capacitance (Sensorik-Verfahren)
CONDX dx Conditions
CONNFFESSIT Calculation of Non-Newtonian Flow: Finite Elements and Stochastic
Simulation Technique
COP Coefficient of Performance
COP Connection Oriented Protocol
COPS Common Open Policy Service (Telekommunikation)
CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture (Telekommunikation)
CORDIS Community Research and Development Information Service (EU)
CORE Combat Rescue
CoS Class of Service
CoS Class(es) of Service(s)
COS Constellation of Symbols
COS Constellation of Symbols
COSEPUP Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (National Academy,
COSINE USA)
Cooperation for Open Systems Interconnection in Europe
COSIS Copernicus Online Service and Information System
COSPAR Committee on Space Research
COST Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research (EC),
COSTEP Coopération
Comprehensive Européenne dansand
Suprathermal la domaine deParticle
Energetic la recherche scientifique
(an Bord von SOHO)et
COSV technique
Change Over Solenoid Value
COSY Cooler Synchrotron (Jülich)
COSY Correlation Spectroscopy
COTS Components (or: Commercial, or: Commodity) Off-The-Shelf
COV Calculus of Variation
COVER Covariance Equivalent Realization
COX Cyclo-Oxygenase
CP Constellation Point
CP Circular Polarisation
CP Cockpit
CP Conference Proceedings (NASA etc.)
CP Connection Performer
CP Content Provider (Telekommunikation)
CP Contention Period (Telekommunikation)
CP Copilot
CP Cruise Power
CP Customer Premises (Rechnernetz)
CP Cyclic Prefix
CP Cellular Phone
CP Conditional Probability
CPA Chirped Pulse Amplification (optische Pulskompression)
CPA Critical Path Analysis
CPA Considerable Performance Advantage
CPAN Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
CPB Constant Percentage Bandwidth (Frequenzanalyse)
CPC Collaborative Product Commerce
CPCT Center for Photoinduced Charge Transfer (Rochester, NY, USA)
CPD Certified Priority Document
CPE Common Phase Error (Telekommunikation)
CPE Customer Premises Equipment
CPE Customer Premises Equipment (Internet)
CPF Cockpit Floor
CPG Computational Physics Group (EPS)
CPI Crash Position Indicator
CPICH Common Pilot Channel (Telekommunikation)
CPL Call Processing Language (Telekommunikation)
CPLD Complex Programmable Logical Device
CPM Cathode Pulse Memory
CPM Cycles Per Minute
CPN Customer Premises Network (Rechnernetz)
CPO Certification Programme Outline
CPO Complete Provisions only
CPP Cockpit Panel
CPR Cabin/Cockpit Preasure
CPR Contingency Power Rating (2,5 min OEI)
CPS Chinese Physical Society
CPS Cycles per Second
CPS The Czech Physial Society
CPT Charge, Parity, Time (Invarianz gegen ...umkehr)
CPU Central Processing Unit (Computer)
CPVS Central Payload Video System
CPW Coplanar Waveguide (Leitungstheorie)
CPX Control Panel Extension
CQI Channel Quality Indication
CR Carriage Return (Printer)
CR Cell Relay (Telekommunikation)
CR Combat Ready
CR Cosmic Rays
CR Crash Recorder
CR Channel Response
Cr. Condor
Cr. IEM Condor of the IEM
CR/W Controller Read/Write
CRADA Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (or: Award) [with private
CRAFT companies]
Cooperative(USA, staatl.
Research Förderungsprogramm)
Action For Technology (EU)
CRC Collaborative Research Centre (DFG)
CRC Control and Reporting Center
CRC Corporate Research Center
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check (Telekommunikation)
CRCC Combined Rescue Coordination Center
CRCG [Fraunhofer-] Center for Research in Computer Graphics (Providence, RI,
CRC-ICE USA)
Cyclic Resynthesis Condition for Intelligent Cybernetic Environments
CRD card
CRDF Civilian Research and Development Foundation (USA)
CRES Corrosion Resistant Steel
CRESST Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers
CREST Comité de la recherche scientifique et technique (EU)
CRF Charging Rule Function
CRFS Crash Resistant Fuel System
CRG Collaborating Research Group
CRH Corticotropin-Releasing Hormon
CRIS Center for Research on Innovation and Society (Santa Barbara, CA, USA, und
CRL Berlin)
Communications Research Laboratory
CR-LDP Constraint-based Label Distribution Protocol
CRM Certified Reference Material
CRM Customer Relations Management (Telekommunikation)
CRN Committee of a Regulatory Nature (EU)
CRNC Controling Radio Network Controller (Telecom)
CroBIT Cross Border Information Technology
CRP Compulsory Reporting Point
CRP C-reactive Protein (medicine)
CRP C-reaktives Protein
CRR Charging Rule Request
CRS Compulsory Reportig Sequence
CRS Course (Desired Track) or Acitve Leg
CRS Cruise
CRSQA Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance (Augenchirurgie, USA)
CRT Cathod Ray Tube
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CRT Conformal Radio Therapy
CRT Cosmic-Ray-Tracking Project
CRU Combined Rotating Unit
CRV Crew Return Vehicle (Raumfahrt)
CRYRING Cryebis Storage Ring (Stockholm)
CS Call Server (Telekommunikation)
CS Carrier Signals
CS Circuit Switched
CS Circuit-Switched (Telekommunikation)
CS Communication Subsystem
CS Communications Satellite
CS compound semiconductors
CS conducted susceptibility
cs consuetudines
cs creasy speed
CS Communication Standard
CS Cellular Service
CS Cellular System
CS Candidate Signal
CS Connection Start
CSAR Combat Search and Rescue
CSAR Cryogenic Solar Absolute Radiometer
CSAS Command and Stability Augmentation System
CSAS Control and Stability Augmentation System
CSB Charge Symmetry Breaking (Elementarteilchenphysik)
CSBU Communication Services Business Unit (Telekommunikation)
CSC Combat Support Center
CSC Computer Software Component
CSCC Concurrent Supercomputing Consortium (USA)
CSCF Call Session Control Function
CSCF Call State Control Function (Telekommunikation)
CSCGV Circularly Symmetric Complex Gaussian Variables
CSCI Computer Software Configuration Item
CSCL Computer-Supported Cooperative Learning
CSCS/SCSC Swiss Centre for Scientific Computing
CSCW Computer Supported Cooperative Working
CSCW Computer Supported Cooperative/Colaborative Work
CSD Chemical Solution Deposition
CSD Circuit Switched Data (Telecommunication)
CSD Constant Speed Drive
CSDP Customer Specific Development Process
CSELT Centro studi e laboratori telecomunicazioni (Italien)
CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique (Zürich)
CSG Computer Symbol Generator
CSI Channel Select Indicator
CSI Control-Structure Interaction
CSI Channel State Information
CSIR Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (Südafrika)
CSIS Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, DC, USA)
CSLI Center for the Study of Language and Information (Stanford, CA, USA)
CSLP (Fraunhofer-)Center for Surface and Laser Proceessing (Peoria, IL, USA)
CSM Central Strength Member (Rechnernetz)
CSM Client-Server Mode
CSM Communication Session Manager
CSM Component and Supplier Management
CSM Connection Session Management
CSM Customer Service Management (Telekommunikation)
CSMA/CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance (Datennetze)
CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection (Datennetze)
CSN Circuit Switched Network (Telekommunikation)
CSN Connectivity Service Network
CSP Chip-Scale Package (gedruckte Schaltung)
CSPF Constraint Shortest Path First (Telekommunikation)
CSR Cell Switch Router (Telekommunikation)
CSR Customer Service Representatives (Telekommunikation)
CSS Cascading Style Sheets
CSS Content Scramble System
CSTA Computer Supported Telecommunication(s) (or: Telephony) Application
CSTI (Telekommunikation)
Civil Space Technology Initiative (NASA)
CSU Colorado State University (USA)
CSU Computer Software Unit
CSV Candidate Signal Vector
CSV Comma Separated Value
CSV Complete Sent Vector
CSVE Chinese Society for Vibration Engineering
CSW Core Switch
CSWP Committee on the Status of Women in Physics (APS)
CT Computed Tomography, Computer-Tomographie (Röntgentechnik)
CT Connecticut (US-Staat)
CT Cordless Telecommunications
CT Court (US Mail)
CTA Control Area
CTAN Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
CTB Composite Triple Beat (Verzerrung 3. Ordnung)
CTBT Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (Atomwaffenteststoppvertrag 1996)
CTBTO Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisation (Wien)
CTC Chase the Chasing
CTC Crew Training Complex (DLR, Köln, Porz-Wahnheide)
CTD Common Technical Document
CTE Coefficient of Thermal Expansion
CTH Chalmers Tekniske Högskola (Göteborg, Schweden)
CTI Colour Transient Improvement (Kontourverbesserung beim TV-Bild)
CTI Computer Telephony Interface (Telekommunikation)
CTI Computer-Telephony Integration (Telekommunikation)
CTI Critical Technologies Institute (USA)
CTIO Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (Chile)
CTIR Center for Intelligent Transportation Research (Ohio State University)
CTO Chief Technical Officer
CTP Combat Training Program
CTP Computer-to-Plate, Computer-to-Press, Computer-to-Paper (Drucktechnik)
CTP Cytisintriphosphat
CTR Center
CTR Center (US Mail)
CTR Common Technical Regulation(s)
CTR Control Zone
CTRANC Crosstalk-Resistant Adaptive Noise Canceller
CTS Central Tactical System
CTS Concept to Speech (Sprachsynthese)
CTS Cost Time Share
CTU Control Tower Unit
CTV Crew Transfer Vehicle (Raumfahrt)
CU Central Unit
CU Control Unit
CU Cancelation Unit
CUAGN see you again
CUF Channel Utilization Factor
CUG Closed User Group (Telekommunikation)
CUL Computer-unterstütztes Lernen
CUL see you later
CULATL see you later at the litigator
CUNY City University of New York
CUPLE Comprehensive Unified Physics Learning Environment
Cuspea China-US Physics Examination and Application Program
CUTCP Clarkson University-TCP (Rechnernetz)
CUTE Clarkson University Terminal Emulator (Rechnernetz)
CV Cartellverband [der Katholischen Deutschen Studentenverbindungen]
CV Central Value
CV Constellation Value
CV Column Vector
CV Complex Value
CVC Common Vision Concept
CVCP Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals (UK)
CVD Chemical Vapor Deposition
CVE Collaborative Virtual Environment
CVP Chemical Vapor Disposition
CVR Cockpit Voice Recorder
CVSD Continuously Variable Slope Delta
CVT Continuously Variable Transmission (Getriebe)
cw Carrier Wave
Cw Clockwise
CW Clockwise
cw Continuous Wave
CW Continuous Wave
CW Control Word
CWAP Coution Warning Alert Panel
CWDM Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (Telekommunikation)
CWP(S) Caution and Warning Panel (System)
CWP(S) Central Warning Panel (System)
CWS Central Warning System
CWS Chemical Warfare Service
CXO Chandra X-Ray Observatory (Röntgensatellit)
CZ Combat Zone
CZ Convergence Zone
D
D&D(P) Design and Development (Phase)
D/A Digital-Analog
D2B Domestic Digital Bus (Faseroptik)
DA Decision Altitude
DA Density Altitude
DA Differential Amplifier
DA Digital Amplifier
DA Drift Angle
DA/H Decision Altitude/Height
DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst e.V.
DAAK Deutsch-Amerikanisches Akademisches Konzil
DAB Digital Audio Broadcast
DAB Digital Audio Broadcasting
DAC Digital-to-Analog Converter
DACH Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle Chemie GmbH
DACS Distributed Airborne Communications System
DACT Dissimiliar Air Combat Training
DAF Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Familientherapie
DAGA Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Akustik
DAGV Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vakuum
DAHC Deutschsprachiges Apple-Hochschul-Consortium
DAI Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (Bonn)
DAI Distributed Artificial Intelligence
DAL Deutscher Arbeitsring für Lärmbekämpfung e.V.
DAM Deutsche Akademie für Metrologie (München)
DAMA Dark Matter Search (Astrophysik, Gran Sasso-Labor, Italien)
DAMA Demand Assignment (or: Assigned) Multiple Access (Telekommunikation)
DAMOP Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (APS)
D-AMPS Digital Advanced Mobile Phone System (Telekommunikation)
DANA Data Application Network Adapter
DAP Deutsches Akkreditierungssystem Prüfwesen (Normungsarbeit)
DAP Display Adjustment Panel
DAR Deutscher Akkreditierungsrat (Normungsarbeit)
DARA Deutsche Agentur für Raumfahrtangelegenheiten GmbH (1989-1997)
DARC Data Radio Channel
DARHT Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic (Test) Facility (Los Alamos, NM, USA)
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (USA)
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DARS Digital Audio Radio Service
DART Data Acquisition in Real Time
Darwin Detection and Analysis of Remote Worlds by Interferometric Nulling
DAS Dansk Akustisk Selskab
DAS Distributed Antenna Systems (Telekommunikation)
DASH Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter
DASI Degree Angular Scale Interferometer
DASMIN Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle Mineralöl
DASS Defensive Aid Subsystem
DAST Drones for Aerodynamic and Structural Testing (NASA, Flugzeug)
DAT Digital Audio Tape
DATech Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle Technik
DAtF Deutsches Atomforum
DAU Data Acquisition Unit
DAU Data Alignment Unit
DAUD Destination State Audit
DAVA Destination Available
DAVIC Digital Audiovisual Council
DAWS Digital Advanced Wireless Services (Telekommunikation)
DB Data Base
dB Dezibel
DB Diffusion Boarding
DBA Data Base Administrator
DBA Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (Telekommunikation)
DBC Data Bus Coupler
DBF (Dateinamenerweiterung: dBase Datenbank-Datei)
DBF Distributed Feedback (Laser)
DBG Deutsche Bunsengesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie
DBI Deutsches Bibliotheksinstitut (Berlin)
DBM Deutsches Bergbau-Museum (Bochum)
DBM Double Beam Modulation
DBMS Database Management System (Telekommunikation)
DBP Division of Biological Physics (APS)
DBR Distributed Bragg Reflector (Laser)
DBS Direct Broadcast(ing) (by) Satellite
DBS Data Bit Stream
DC Developing Countries
DC Digital Concentrator (Telekommunikation)
DC Direct Current
DC Direct Current (Gleichstrom)
DC District of Columbia (US-Staat)
DC Dünnschichtchromatographie
DC 60 Distorsion Indicator
DC2DL Direct Current to Day Light (Frequency Range)
DCA Document Contents Architecture
DCA Document File Standard
DCC Digital Compact Cassette
DCE Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment (Telekommunikation)
DCE Data Communications Equipment
DCE Distributed Computing Environment
DCF Digital Controlled Filter
DCF Dispersion Compensating Fiber (Glasfaser)
DCF Distributed Coordination Function (Telekommunikation)
DCG Dichromated gelatin
DCG Dispersion-Compensating Grating (optische Telekommunikation)
DCH Dedicated Channel (Telekommunikation)
DCM Dispersion Compensation Module (Telekommunikation)
DCMP Division of Condensed Matter Physics (APS)
DCN Data Communication Network (Telekommunikation)
DCOM Distributed Component Object Model
DCOMP Division of Computational Physics (APS)
DCP Division of Chemical Physics (APS)
DCP Dual Core Processor
DCP Duplex Communication Protocol (see SCP)
DCPN Domestic Customer Premises Network
DCS Digital Cellular System
DCS Digital Crossconnect (or: Communication) System (Telekommunikation)
DCS Distributed Control System
DCT Disrete Cosine Transform
DCU Data Capture Utility
DCU Down Conversion Unit
Dd. Doctorand, doctorant
DDB Die Deutsche Bibliothek
DDC Digital Demodulation Circuit
DDCE Dolby Digital Consumer Encoder
DDD Directly Doubled Diode (Laser)
DDE Dynamic Data Exchange
DDEC Data-Driven Echo Canceller
DDGI Deutscher Dachverband für Geo-Information
ddI Didesoxyinosin
DDI Direct Dialing-In (Telephon)
DDI Drug-Drug-Interaction (Pharama)
DDK Dialog Development Kit
DDM Differential Depth Modulation
DDN Defense Data Network (USA)
DDOE Detailed Description of the Embodiments
DDoS Distributed Denial-of-Service (Telekommunikation)
DDP Design Declaration, of Performance
DDR Deutsche Demokratische Republik
DDR Dual Data Rate
DDS Direct Digital Synthesis (I/O Board)
DDS Direct Digital Synthesizer
DDT Dichlordiphenyltrichlorethan
DDU Display Driver Unit
DDV Deutscher Dart-Verband
DDV Direct Drive Valve
DE Delaware (US-Staat)
DE Discard Eligibility (Telekommunikation)
DE Germany (im Internet)
DECHEMA Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chemisches Apparatewesen, chemische Technik
DECT und Biotechnologie
Digital e.V. European) Cordless Telecommunication (or:
Enhanced (früher:
DECU Telephone)
Digital Engine Control Unit
DEDIG Deutsche EDI-Gesellschaft e.V.
DEE Daten-Endeinrichtung (Telekommunikation)
DEGA Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V.
DEGREE Diversity Effects in Grassland Ecosystems of Europe
DEI Diffraction-Enhanced Imaging
DEK Data Entry Keybord
DEKITZ Deutsche Koordinierungsstelle für IT-Normenkonformitätsprüfung und
DELTA -zertifizierung
Dortmunder Elektronen Testspeicherring Anlage
DeM Deus ex Machina
DEMFT Domain of the Electro Magnetic Field Theory
DeMuX De-Multiplexer
DE-NIC Network Information Center für Deutschland (Karlsruhe)
DEP Depression
DERA Defense Evaluation & Research Agency (MOD, GB)
DES Data Encryption Standard (or: System)
DES Department of Electrical Science (NPL, UK)
DES Diethylstilbestrol (Östrogen-Derivat)
DEST Destination
DESY Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (Hamburg)
Det Detachment
DET Detector
DETRESFA Distress Phase
DEU Display Electronic Unit
DEXA Dual Energy X-ray Absorptionmetry (medicine)
DEZ Diethylzink (-Verfahren zur Papierkonservierung)
DF Default Value
DF Direction Finder
DFA Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Lebensmittelchemie (Garching)
DFB Distributed Feedback (Laser)
DFCS Digital Flight Control System
DFD Data Flow Diagram
DFD Deutsches Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum (Oberpfaffenhofen)
DFD Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS)
DFDR Digital Flight Data Recorder
DFE Digital Front End (Telekommunikation)
DFE Decision-Feedback Equalizer
DFF Data Flow Filter
DFF Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DDR)
DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
DFH Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Hubschrauber und Vertikalflugtechnik
DFI Diabetes-Forschungsinstitut (Düsseldorf)
DFJW Deutsch-Französisches Jugendwerk
DFKI Deutsches Forschungszentrum für künstliche Intelligenz (Saarbrücken)
DFL Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luftfahrt (Braunschweig, 1936) Deutsche
DFN Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und
Deutsches Forschungsnetz Raumfahrt e.V. (Braunschweig, 1962)
(Datennetz)
DFO Defined Flying Object
DFS Dansk Fysisk Selskap
DFS Dynamic Frequency Selection
DFS Dynamic Frequency Selection (Telekommunikation)
DFT Discrete Fourier Transform
DFT Discrete Fourier Transform, diskrete Fouriertransformation
DFÜ Datenfernübertragung
DFVLR Deutsche Forschungs- und Versuchsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt (1969-
DFWM 1989, danach:
Degenerate DLR)
Four Wave Mixing (Entartete Vier-Wellen-Mischung)
DG Directional Gyro
DG Diversity Gain
DGaO Deutsche Gesellschaft für angewandte Optik
DGE Dynamic Gain-Equalizer (optische Telekommunikation)
DGF Deutsche Gesellschaft für Flugwissenschaften e.V. (1959)
DGfB Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biophysik
DGfE Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft
DGfS Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft
DGG Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft
DGG Deutsche Glastechnische Gesellschaft e.V.
DGHS Deutsche Gesellschaft für humanes Sterben
DGK Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kristallographie
DGLM Deutsche Gesellschaft für Lasermedizin
DGLR Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt
DGM Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde e.V.
DGMK Deutsche Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Erdöl, Erdgas und Kohle e.V.
DGMP Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Physik
DGPI Deutsche Gesellschaft für Produktinformationen mbH
DGPs Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie
DGPS Differential Global Positioning System
DGQ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Qualität
DGS Deutsche Gebärdensprache
DGS Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie
DGW Data Gateway
DGWK Deutsche Gesellschaft für Warenkennzeichnung mbH
DHB Digital Hot Bench
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (Telekommunikation)
DHF Deformed Helix Ferroelectrics
DHN Digital Home Network
DHS Demographic and Health Surveys
DHS Department of Homeland Security (USA, seit 2002)
DHTML Dynamic HTML
DHU Data Handling Unit (Telekommunikation)
DHV Deutscher Hochschulverband e.V.
DHvSS Die Herren vom Schwarzen Stein
DHVZ Danger High Voltage Zone
DI Data Item
DI Deliverable Item
DI Direct Input
DIAL Differential Absorption Lidar
DIANE Direct Information Access Network for Europe
DIB Deutsches Institut für Betriebswirtschaft
DIBS Digital In-Band Broadcasting System
DICASS Directional Command Active Sonobuoys System
DICOM Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
DID Data Item Description
DID Destination ID
DID Direct Inward Dialing (Telephon)
DIF Data Interchange Format
DIFAR Dirction Finder and Ranger
DIfE Deutsches Institut für Ernährungsforschung (Potsdam)
DIFF Deutsches Institut für Fernstudien (Tübingen)
DiffServ Differentiated Services
Diff-Serv Differentiated Service
DIHT Deutscher Industrie- und Handelstag
DIII Doublet III (Fusionsreaktortechnik, General Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA)
DIII-D Doublet III-D (Fusionsreaktortechnik, General Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA)
DIL Dual In-Line (Telekommunikation, Chip-Technology)
DIM Design Instruction Manual
DIMDI Deutsches Institut für Medizinische Dokumentation und Information
DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung
DINZERT Deutscher Zertifizierungsrat im DIN
DIPF Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung (Frankfurt/M)
DIPS Distributed Intelligent Piloting System
DIR Design Improvement Request
DIR Direct
DIRC Detection of Internally Reflected Cherenkov Light
DIS Disconnect
DIS Display
DIS Draft International Standard
DISCH Discharge
DISO Dual Input - Single Output (Controller, System)
DIST Distance
DITC Division of Information Technology and Computing (NPL, UK)
DITR Deutsches Informationszentrum für technische Regeln
div divergent
Div. Division
Diva Deutsches Interferometer für Vielkanalphotometrie und Astrometrie
DIW Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (Berlin)
DIY Do it yourself
Dj Diskjokey
DKD Deutscher Kalibrierdienst
DKE Deutsche Elektrotechnische Kommission (im DIN und VDE)
DKFI Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (Saarbrücken)
DKFZ Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (Heidelberg)
DKG Deutsche Keramische Gesellschaft e.V.
DKI Deutsche Kommission für Ingenieurausbildung
DKMM Deutsches Komitee für Meeresforschung und Meerestechnik
DKRZ Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (Hamburg)
DL Data Link
DLA Diffusion-Limited Aggregation
DLC Data Link Control (or: Connection) [Layer] (DECT)
DLC Diamond-like Carbon
DLC Digital Loop Carrier (Internet)
DLL (Dateinamenerweiterung: Programmdatei)
DLL Dynamic Link Library (Telekommunikation, Programming)
DLM Depot Level Maintenance
DLP Digital Light Processing
DLQ Deck Landing Qualification
DLR Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt (ab 1989, früher:
DLS DFVLR). Ab 1.10.1997:
Direct Access Deutsches
Logging System Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt
(Sprachaufzeichnungssystem, e.V.
Philips)
DLS Dynamic Light Scattering, dynamische Lichtstreuung
DLU Digital Line Unit
DLV Digital Light Valve
DM Detection Module
DM Data Manager
DM Deutsches Museum (München)
DM DOCS Monitor
DMA Direct Memory Access
DMAS Digital Multiplexed Audio System
DMCA Digital Millenium Copyright Act (USA 1998)
DMD Data management Display
DMD Digital Micromirror Device
DME Differential Manchester Encoding
DME Distance Measuring Equipment
DME Distance Measuring Equipment
DME DME Distance of Waypoint from Tacon
DME/N Distance Measuring Equipment/Normal
DME/P DME/Precision
DMEM Dulbecco's Modified Eagle Medium (Nährmedium, Zellkultur)
DMFC Direct Methanol Fuel Cell
DMFT Dynamic Mean Field Theory (Festkörperphysik)
DMG Deutsche Meteorologische Gesellschaft
DMG Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft e.V.
DMIF Delivery Multimedia Integration Framework
DML Direct Modulated Laser
DMLS Direct Metal Laser-Sintering
DMM Digital-Multimeter
DMO Direct Mode Operation (Telekommunikation)
DMOM Division of Mechanical and Optical Metrology (NPL, UK)
DMP Device Managment Platform
DMP Display Mode Panel
DMP Division of Materials Physics (APS)
DMR Digital Mobile Radio
DMS Datenmanagementsystem (Fernerkundung)
DMS Digital Moiré Subtraction (Metrologie)
DMS Direct Measurement System
DMS Document Management System (Wissensmanagement)
DMS Data Modulations Stage
DMSO Dimethyl sulfoxide
DMT Discrete Multi Tone
DMT Discrete Multi-Tone (Leitungscode, Mehrfach-Träger-Modulation)
DMT Dough Moulding Compound
DMU Digital Mock-Up (Telekommunikation)
DMU Display and Metering Unit
DMU Distance Hesuring Unit
DMV Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung e.V.
DMX Distributed Media Exchange (Telekommunikation)
DN Down
DNA Desoxyribonucleic acid
DNA Distributed Internet Architecture
DNAC DNA-Computing
DNI Day-Night-Level (Lärmpegel)
DNK Deutsches Nationales Komitee für IUPAP
DNS Data Network System (Telekommunikation)
DNS Desoxyribonucleinsäure
DNS Domain Name Service (or: System, or: Server) (Telekommunikation)
DNT Dinitrotoluol
DNW Deutsch-Niederländischer Windkanal (bei Emmeloord, NL, 1980)
DO Digital Oscillator
DOA Direction of Arrival
DOA Degree of Accuracy
DOAS Differentielle optische Absorptionsspektroskopie, Differential Optical
Dobson-Unit Absorption Spectroscopy
2,7 × 1016 Moleküle/cm3
DOC (Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft-Word-Dokument)
DOC Direct Operation Cost
DOC Dissolved Organic Carbon
DOC Distance off Course (or XTE)
Doc Document
DOCS Digital Optical Control System
DOCSIS Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (Telekommunikation)
DOD Department of Defense
DOD Department of Defense (USA)
DOE Department of Energy (USA)
DoE Design of Experiments
DOE Diffractive Optical Element
DOES differentielle optische Absorptionsspektroskopie
DOF Degree-of-Freedom
DOGF Dogflight
DOI Digital Object Identifier (Literatursuche im www)
DOK Deutsches Optisches Komitee
DOP Degree of Polarization (Glasfaser)
DOPA l-Dihydroxyphenylalanin
DORIS Doppel-Ring-Speicher (DESY)
DORIS Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositoning Integrated by Satellite (ENVISAT)
DoS Denial-of-Service (Telekommunikation)
DOS Deutsche Offenlegungsschrift (Patent)
DOS Digital Optical Switch (Telekommunikation)
DOS Disk Operating System
DOT (Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft Word-Dokumentenvorlage)
DoV Data over Voice
DP Drop Procedure
DP Decision Process
DPA Demand Priority Access (Datennetze, AT&T und HP)
D-Pad Directional Pad, n-way directional pad
D-PAF Deutsche Processing and Archiving Facility (Fernerkundung)
DPCM Differential Pulse Code Modulation
DPE Distributed Processing Environment (Telekommunikation)
DPF Distributed Packet Filtering (Telekommunikation)
DPG Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
DPGS Death per Gunshot
DPhV Deutscher Philologenverband
DPI Drittes Physikalisches Institut [der Universität Göttingen]
DPLR Doppler
DPMA Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt
DPNS Digital Private Networking System (Telekommunikation)
DPOLY Division of Polymer Physics (APS)
DPP Differential Push Pull (see EP 0745 982 A2, Optical Recording)
DPSK Differential Phase-Shift Key
DPSS(L) Diode-Pumped Solid State (Laser)
DPU Data Processing Unit
DPU Display Processing Unit
DPVBi 4,4'-bis(2,2'-diphenyl vinyl)biphenyl (blue color)
DPZ Deutsches Primatenzentrum (Göttingen)
DQDB Distributed Queue Dual Basis (or: Bus)
DQPSK Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (Modulation)
DQS Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Zertifizierung von Qualitätsmanagementsystemen
DR mbH
Data Rate
DR Deutsche Reichsbahn (Dt. Kaiserreich)
DR dielektronische Rekombination
DR Drift
DR Drive (US Mail)
DR Dynamic Range
Dr. ing. sc. el. doctorem ingenium sciences electronicae
Dr. rer. nat. doctor rerum naturalium
DRA Defence Research Agency (UK)
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
DRAW Development of Design Tools for Reduced Aerodynamic Noise WindTurbines
DR-DOS (EU-Forschungsprojekt)
Digital Research DOS
DRET Direction des Recherches, Etudes et Techniques
DRG Deutsche Röntgengesellschaft, Gesellschaft für medizinische Radiologie,
DRIC Strahlenbiologie
Defence Research und Nuklearmedizin
Information Centree.V.
(Orpington, Kent, UK)
DRIVE Dedicated Road Infrastructure for Vehicle Safety in Europe
DRM Digital Rights Management (Telekommunikation)
DRM Digital-Rights-Management (Audio/Video Media)
DRNC Drift Radio Network Controller
DRO Dielectric Resonance Oscillator
DRO Digital Read Out
DRP Design Refernce Point
DRS Daten-Relaissatellit
DRS Data Recovery Stage
DRV (Dateinamenerweiterung: Treiberdatei)
DRV Drive/r
DRW (Dateinamenerweiterung: Micrografx Designer-Graphikdatei)
DRX Discontinuous Reception
DS Data Symbols
DS Death Star
DS Definition Study
DS Detection Scheme
DS Differentiated Services (Telekommunikation)
DSA Digital Signature Algorithm
DSAL Decelerated Steep Approach and Landing
DSAU Digital Subscriber Access Unit (Telekommunikation)
DSB Digital Sound Broadcasting
DSC Digital System Controller
DS-CDMA Direct Sequence CDMA (Telekommunikation)
DSCH Downlink Shared Channel (Telekommunikation)
DSCP Differentiated Services Code Point (Telekommunikation)
DSCS Discrete Symbol Constellation Set
DSCS Defense Satellite Communications System (USA)
DSE Design Support Environment
DSF Dispersion Shifted Fiber (Glasfaser)
DSFC Direct Side Force Control
DSGV Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband
DSIR Department of Sientific and Industrial Research (UK)
DSKLR Dreiachsiges Strapdown Kurs-Lage-Referenzsystem
DSL Digital Subscriber Line (Telekommunikation)
DSLAM Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (Telekommunikation)
DSM Design Stressing Mass
DSM Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum (Bremerhaven)
DSM Distributed System Management
DSN Deep Space Network
DSO Digital Sampling Oscilloscope
DSO Digital Storage Oscilloscope
DSP Data Service Profile (Telekommunikation)
DSP Defense Support Program (USA)
DSP Digital Signal Processor
DSP Digital Signal Processor (or: Processing)
DSR Differential Spectral Responsivity
DSR Digital Satellite Radio; Digitaler Satellitenrundfunk
DSR Distributed Speech Recognition
DSS Digital Signature Standard
DSS Digital Speaker System (Lautsprecher)
DS-SS Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
DST Dispersion Supported Transmission (Telekommunikation)
DS-T Dreieck-Stern-Transf
DSTB Digital Set Top Box
DSTO Defence Science and Technology Organization (Australien)
DSU Digital Service Unit
DSU Dynamic Sensor Unit
DSV Data Source Verification
DSW Deutsche Stifung Weltbevölkerung
DS-Wert durchschnittlicher Substitutionsgrad
DT Data Terminal
DT Data Tag
DT Data Transfer
DT Data Throughput
DTA Deutsche Technische Akademie (Helmstedt)
DTAB Demountable TAB
DTAG Destination Tag
DTC Data Transmission Corporation
DTC Direct Torque Control (Elektroantrieb)
DTCH Dedicated Traffic Channel
DTD Data Transfer Device
DTD Document Type Definition
DTE Data Terminal Equipment (Telekommunikation)
DTG Distance To-Go Along Active Leg to Waypoiont (ATD)
DTG Dynamically Tuned Gyro
DTH Direct to Home (Satellitenfernsehen)
DTI Department of Trade and Industry (UK)
DTI Display Technology Incorporated (Zusammenschluss von IBM und Toshiba
DTM zur Produktion
Device von Flachbildschirmen)
Type Manager (Feldbussystem)
DTM Digital Terrain Model
DTMF Dual Tone Multifrequency (Telephon)
DTNSRDC David Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center
DTP Desktop Publishing
DTPP Desktop Program Production
DTS Distributed Temperature Sensor
DTT Down the Track
DTTB Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting (Japan)
DTTB Digital TV Terrestrial Broadcast
DTV Digital Television
DTW Dynamic Time Warp(ing)
DU Display Unit
DÜE Datenübertragungseinrichtung (Telekommunikation)
DÜI Deutsches Übersee-Institut (Hamburg)
DUMAND Deep Underwater Myon and Neutrino Detector (bei Hawaii)
DUNA Destination Unavailable
DUPU Destination User Part Unavailable
DUT Device Under Test
DUV Deep-Ultraviolet
DUZ Deutsche Universitätszeitung
DVB Digital Video Broadcast(ing)
DVB-T Terrestrial Digital Video Broadcast
DVD Digital Versatile (or: Video) Disk (CD)
DVE Digital Video Effects
DVE Digital Video Encoder
DVE Distributed Virtual Environment
DVFR Controlled VFR-Flight
DVG Deutsche Vakuumgesellschaft
DVI Direct Voice Input
DVL Deutsche Versuchsanstalt für Luftfahrt (Berlin-Adlershof, 1912)
DVO Direct Voice Output
DVOR Dopppler Very high Frequence Omnidirectional Radio Range
DVORTAC Doppler VOR and TACAN
DVP Distributed Video Production
DVPT Deutscher Verband für Post und Telekommunikation
DVS Deutscher Verband für Schweißtechnik
DVS Doppler Velocity Sensor
DVT Deep Venous Thrombosis (medicine)
DVT Deutscher Verband Technisch-Wissenschaftlicher Vereine e.V.
DWC Digital Waveform Capture (I/O Board)
DWC Direct Wireless Communication
DWDM Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (optische Telekommunikation)
DXC Digital Cross Connect (Telekommunikation)
DXF (Dateinamenerweiterung: Autodesk Autoload-Graphikdatei)
DXF Autocad Vector Graphics File Standard
DZfCh Deutscher Zentralausschuss für Chemie
E
E-... Electronic ... (-Business, -Commerce, -Economy, -Procurement etc.)
E1CAS Engine Indicating and Crew Alerting System
EA Electroabsorption
EAA European Acoustics Association
EAD(I) Electronic Attitude Director (Indicator)
EADQ [Fraunhofer-] Einrichtung für Diagnose und Qualitätssteigerung
eag (EAG) ether-à-go-go (ein Gen)
EAG Europäische Atomgemeinschaft
EAI Enterprise Application Integration (Telekommunikation)
EAL Evangelische Akademie Loccum
EALM Electro-Absorption Laser Modulator (optische Telekommunikation)
EAM Electro-Absorption Modulator (Telekommunikation)
EAM Energie-Aktiengesellschaft Mitteldeutschland (früher: Elektrizitäts-
EAN Aktiengesellschaft
European Aerospace Mitteldeutschland)
Network
EAN Europäische Artikelnummer (Strichcode)
EAP Equal Average Power
EAP Encyclopedia of Applied Physics
EAP Expandable Authentication Protocol
EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol (Telekommunikation)
EAPS Euro-Asian Physical Society
EAR Edge Aggregation Router (Telekommunikation)
EARA European Association for Research in Astronomy
EARN European Academic Research Network
EARTO European Association of Research and Technology (Brüssel)
EAS Equivalent Airspeed
EAS European Astronomical Society
EASA European Academic Software Award
EASI European Academic Supercomputing Initiative
EASInet European Academic Supercomputing Initiative Network
EASOE European Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Experiment
EAT Expected Approach Timne
EB Equivalent Bandwidth (Telekommunikation)
EBC Electronic Business Center
EBD Equalization Based Detector
EBI European Bioinformatics Institute (bei Cambridge, UK)
EBIT Earnings Before Interest and Tax
EBIT Electron Beam Ion Trap
EBITDA Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortization
E-BIZ E-Business Innovationszentrum (FhG)
EBLIDA European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations
EBN entwicklungsbegleitende Normung
EBP Error Back Propagation (Algorithmus)
EBR Electronic Beam Recorder
EBR Electronic Batch Record
EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
EBSC Embedded Software Components
EBT Electron-Beam Testing
EBU European Broadcasting Union
EC COST European Cooperation in the Field Field of Scientific and Technical
EC Research
Echo Cancelation
EC European Commission
Ec/Nt Energy per Chip to Total Noise Ratio
ECA Electronic Component Assembly
ECA European Congress on Acoustics
ECAM Electronic Centralised Aircarft Monitoring
ECC Electrochemical Concentration Cell
ECCM Electronic Counter Counter Measures
ECD Engineering Change Decision
ECDT Engineering Career Development Team (IEEE)
ECE Economic Commission of Europe (UN-Fachorganisation)
ECES Electronic Countermeasures Environment Simulator
ECFA European Committee for Future Accelerators
ECFRN European Consulting Forum for Research Networking
ECI Error Cause Identification
ECL Emitter Coupled Logic
ECM Error Covariance Martix
ECM Executive Card Manager
ECM Electronic Counter Measures
ECM Entitlement Control Message
ECM European Crystallographic Meeting
ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association
ECMA European Computers Manufacturers Association
ECMP Equal Cost Multipath (Telekommunikation)
ECMWF European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (= EZMW)
ECO Engineering Change Order
ECOC European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication
ECOLE European Collaborative Open Learning Environment
ECOPS European Committee on Ocean and Polar Sciences
ECOSA European Conference on Optical Systems and Applications
ECOSAE European Consumer Safety Organisation
ECP Engine Change Proposal
ECP Eligible Constellation Point
ECR Engineering Change Request
ECR Environmental Compliance and Restoration
ECS Enviromental Control System
ECSD Enhanced Circuit Switched Data (Telekommunikation)
ECT Explicit Call Tranfer (Telekommunikation)
ECTS European [Community Course] Credit Transfer Scheme (or: System)
ECU Electrical Control Unit
ECU Environmental Control Unit
ECU European Currency Unit
ECU European Currency Unit
ECV Estimated Constellation Value
ECVAM European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (Bologna, Italien)
ED Equalizing Device
ED Erektile Dysfunktion
ED/IR Electro-Optical Infra-Red
EDA Electronic Design Automation
EDA Engineering Design Activities (EC)
EDC Electronic Diesel Control (Kfz)
EDDO European Design and Development Objective
EDELWEISS Expérience pour Détecter les WIMPs en Site Souterrain
EDFA Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (Glasfaser)
EDGE Enhanced Data Global System for Mobilcommunication (Global System
EDGE Mobile)
Enhanced Evolution
Datarate(s) for GSM Evolution (Telekommunikation)
EDI Electronic Data (or: Document) Interchange
EDI Electronic Data Interchange
EDI Engineer Design Test
EDIF Electronic Design Interchange Format
EDIFACT Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport
EDL Edit Decision List
EDL Electronic Document Library
EDL Equipment Deviation List
EDM Electric Dipole Moment (Elementarteilchenphysik)
EDM Electrical Discharge Machining
EDNA European Data Network Agency
EDP Electronic Data Processing
EDP Event Delivery Protocol
EDP Event Detection Point
EDPI Engine Driven Pump Inlet
EDS Electronic Differential System (Kfz)
EDSAC Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer (Cambridge University, 1949)
EDT Elektrodynamisches Tether-System
EDT Efficient Decoding Technique
EDTA Ethylendiamintetraacetat
EDTA EthyleneDiamineTetraAcetic (chemical cleaning and decontamination)
edu [Educational Organization] (Internet, USA)
EDV Elektronische Datenverarbeitung
EDVAC Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (University of Pennsylvania,
EE 1950)
Equipment Engineering (TC im ETSI)
EE Estimation Error
EEA European Environmental Agency
EEC European Economic Community
EECONET European Ecological Network (Naturschutz)
EEF Erleichterung für Existentzgründungen aus Forschungseinrichtungen (Fond)
EEG Elektroenzephalogramm (-graphie)
EEIG European Economic Interest Group (in der EU)
EELS Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
EEM Electronic Engine Management (Kfz)
EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EEPROM Electricaly Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EEROM Electrically Erasable Read-Only Memory
EESS Earth Exploration Satellite Service
EET Energy Efficient Transport (Flugzeug)
EET Estimated Elapsed Time
EF Expedite Forwarding
EF Expedited Forwarding (Telekommunikation)
EFA Equipment Failure Analysis
EFA European Fighter Aircraft
EFC Ejector Flow Control Valve
EFC(S) Electonic Fuel Control (System)
EFD Event Forwarding Discriminator (Telekommunikation)
EFDA Fusionstechnik-Forschungsinstitut
EFIS Elecronic Flight Instrument System
EFM Ethernet in First Mile (Telekommunikation)
EFR Enhanced Full Rate (Vocoder)
EFTA European Free Trade Association (N, S, SF, IS, CH, A, FL)
EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter
EGA Entwicklungsgesellschaft Adlershof
EGF Epidermal Growth Factor
eGK elektronische Gesundheitskarte
EGK Extended Gate Keeper (Telekommunikation)
EGM Extraordinary General Meeting
EGNOS European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System (or: Service)
EGO (Satellitennavigation)
European Gravitational Observatory (Pisa, Italien)
EGP Exterior Gateway Protocol (Telekommunikation)
EGPRS Enhanced GPRS
EGRET Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope
EGrlE Ethylen Glycol Monomethyl Ether
EGS European Geophysical Society
EGT European Geographical Technologies
EGT Exhaust Gas Temperature
EGW Edge Gateway
EHB Elly Hölterhoff-Böcking-Stiftung
EHC European Helicopter Cooperation
EHEC enterohämorrhagische Escherichia coli
EHF Extra High Frequency (30 - 300 GHz)
EHP Equivalent Horsepower
EI Electron Impact (Massenspektrometer)
EI Engineering Information (Datenbank, Westbury, NY, USA)
EI Equiment Identity
EI Event Information
EIA Electronics Industries Association
EIA Energy Information Administration
EIB European Installation Bus
EIB European Investment Bank
EIBA European Installation Bus Association
EIC Euro Info Centre
EICTA European Information and Communication Technology Industry Association
EID Electronic Identification of Containers
EIR Excessive Information Rate (Telekommunikation)
EIRO European Intergovernmental Research Organisations
EIRP Effective (or: Equivalent) Isotropic Radiated Power (Satelliten)
EIRP equivalent isotropically radiated power
EIS Environmental Impact Statement
EIS Executive Information Service (Telekommunikation)
EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture
EISEG European In Service Goals
EISL Effektive isotrope Strahlungsleistung
EISS Europäisches Institut für Systemsicherheit
EIT Electromagnetically Induced Transparency, elektromagnetisch induzierte
EIT Transparenz
Elektrische Impedanz-Tomographie
EIT Event Information Table (Telekommunikation)
EIT Extreme-Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (an Bord von SOHO)
EITC European Information Technology Conference
EITO European Information Technology Observatory
EJ Emergency Jettison
EJB Enterprie Java Beans (Telekommunikation)
EJMC EUROBALL Joint Management Committee
EKA Expositions-Äquivalent für krebserzeugende Arbeitsstoffe
EKG Elektrokardiogramm (-graphie)
EKGS Europäische Gemeinschaft für Kohle und Stahl
EKS [Fraunhofer-] Einrichtung für Systeme der Kommunikationstechnik (München)
EKV siehe VDI-EKV
EL Echo Loss (Telekommunikation)
EL Electroluminescence, Elektrolumineszenz
EL Elektroluminescence
ELBE Elektronenbeschleuniger hoher Brillanz und geringer Emittanz (FZR,
ELDO Rossendorf)
European Launcher Development Organization (Raumfahrt)
ELEANNE Efficient Learning Algorithm for Neural Networks
ELF Extremely Low Frequency
ELF Extremely Low Frequency (0,3 - 3 kHz)
ELFE Electron Laboratory for Europe
ELFICOM Elektronische Fachinformation und Kommunikation
ELI Eurocell Library and Interfaces
ELINT Electronic Intelligence
ELISA Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
ELITE European Laboratory for Intelligent Techniques Engineering (Aachen)
ELM Element Layer Management (Telekommunikation)
ELM Event and Log Management (Telekommunikation)
ELMF European Large Magnetic Field Facility
ELN Electronic Lab Notebook
ELO Electric Light Orchestra
ELOG Epitaxially Laterally Overgrown
ELS (-Modell) nach Olin Eggen, Donald Lynden-Bell und Allan Sandage
ELS (Astronomie)
Electrincai System
ELSA Elektron-Stretcher-Anlage
ELSI Ethical, Legal, Social Issues
ELT Emergency Locator Transmitter
ELTAS Elevated Target Acquisition System
EM Electromagnetic
EM Emission
EM Equalizing Method
EM Error Multiplication
EM Event Message
EM External Memory
E-Mail Electronic Mail
E-MAN Ethernet Metropolitan Area Network (Telekommunikation)
EMBASSI Elektronische Multimediale Bedien- und Service-Assistenz
EMBI European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Heidelberg)
EMBL Europäisches Molkularbiologisches Laboratorium (Heidelberg)
EMC Electro-Magnetic Compatibility
EMC Electromagnetic Compatibility (= EMV)
EMC Electromagnetic Compliance
EMC European Muon Collaboration
emc Electro Magnetic Compatibility
EMCON Emmission Control
EMD Engineering Metal Drawing
EME Electro Magnetic Effects
EMERG Emergency
EMF (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)
EMF Electromagnetic Field
EMF European Multimedia Forum
EMG Elektromyogramm
EMHS Engine Health Monitoring System
EMI Electromagnetic Interference
EMI Electromagnetic Interference
EMI Electromagnetic Interference
EMI Ernst-Mach-Institut (Fraunhofer-Institut für Kurzzeitdynamik, Freiburg)
EMIS The European Mathematical Information Service
EMITL Electromatnetics is the law
EML Element Management Layer (Telekommunikation)
EML European Media Laboratory (Heidelberg)
EMM Entitlement Management Message
EMM Expanded Memory Management
EMM Extended Memory Management
EMMADS Electronic Master Monitor Advisory Display System
EMMI ESA Multi-Mode Instrument
EMP Electro Magnetic Pulse
EMP Electromagnetic Pulse
EMPA Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt (Dübendorf, CH)
EMPD [International Conference on] Energy Management and Power Delivery
EMPS European Mobility Scheme for Physics Students (EPS)
EMR Electromagnetic Relay
EMR Electron Magnetic Resonance
EMR Emergency Radio
EMS Electrified Monorail System
EMS Electro Magnetic Storm
EMS Electromagnetic Susceptibility
EMS Element Management System (Internet)
EMS Element Managing System
EMS Emergency Medical Service
EMS Engineering Management System
EMS European Mathematical Society
EMS Extended Memory System
EMSL Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (PNNL, USA)
EMV Elektromagnetische Verträglichkeit (= EMC)
EMVG Gesetz über die elektromagnetische Verträglichkeit von Geräten
EN Europa-Norm, Europäische Norm (CENELEC)
EN European Norm
ENAC European Network and Applications Center
ENF Equivalent Noise Floor (Telekommunikation)
ENI Ethernet Network Interface (Telekommunikation)
ENI European Neuroscience Institute
ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1945)
ENO Essentially Non-Oscillatory (numerische Rechenverfahren)
ENS Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris)
ENSO El Niño Southern Oscillation (Klima)
ENT Ear, Nose and Throat (= HNO)
ENTIRE European Network on Transport Innovation for the Rational Use of Energy
ENTRANCE Energy Savings in Transport through Innovation in the Cities of Europe
ENV Effective Noise Variance
ENVI Environment for Visualizing Images
ENVISAT Europäischer Umweltsatellit, ab 1.3.2002
ENX European Network Exchange (Telekommunikation)
EO Electro-Optic
EO Electro-Optical (Effects)
EOA Electro-optical Amplifier
EOAE evozierte otoakustische Emissionen
EOB Electronic Order of Battle
EOBT Expected Off Block Time
EOD Explosive Ordnance Disposal
EOF Empirical Orthogonal Function
EOF End of File
EOG Elektrooculogramm
EOH Equivalent Offset Hinge (rotor parameter)
EOQ Economic Order Quantity
EOR Explosive Ordnance Reconnaissance
EORTC European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer
EOS Earth Observing System (or: Satellite) (NASA)
EOS Electrical Overstress
EOS Ethernet over SONET
EOS European Optical Society
EOSDIS Earth Observing System Data Information System
EOSM Electro Optical Support Measures
EOT Element on Time
EOT Energy Optimized Tyre
EOTC European Organization for Testing and Certification
EOTD Enhanced Observed Time Difference (Telekommunikation)
E-OTDR Extended Optical Time Domain Reflectometry
EP Error Prediction
EP Europäisches Parlament
EP European Patent ...
EP Error Propagation
EP Error Propagation
EPA Environmental Protection Agency (in vielen Ländern)
EPA Europäisches Patantamt (München)
EPAD Electronically Programmable Analog Device
EPAS Electronic Power Assisted Steering (Kfz)
EPC Electronic Power Conditioner
EPC European Patent Convention (law, s. EPÜ)
EPFD Equivalent Power Flux Density (Telekommunikation)
EPFL Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
EPG Eastern Pacific Investigations of Climate
EPG Electronic Program Guide
EPG Electronic Program(ming) Guide (Digital broadcast)
EPI Echo Planar Imaging (MRI)
EPI Effective Parse Identification
EPIC European Photon Imaging Camera (XMM)
EPL Europhysics Letters
EPLD Electrically Programmable Logical Device
EPNL Effective Perceived Noise Level
EPO European Patent Office (München)
EPO European Production Objective
EPON Ethernet Passive Optical Network (Telekommunikation)
EPOS European PTT Open Learning Service
EPR Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen(-Paradoxon)
EPR Emergency Power Rating (30 sec OEI)
EPR Engineering Part Release
EPRINT Electronic Print Server for Research Information on Natural Science and
EPROM Technology
Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EPS (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)
EPS Elektropneumatische Schaltung (Kfz)
EPS Emergency Power System
EPS Encapsulated Postscript
EPS Eumetsat Polar System
EPS European Physical Society
EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK)
EPU Electrical Power Unit
EPU End-of-Pipe-Umweltschutz
EPU External Power Unit
EPÜ Europäisches Patentübereinkommen (law, s. EPC)
EQ Equalizer
EQ Equation
EQA Equipment Quality Analysis
EQEC European Quantum Electronics Conference
eQtv Ethernet-Based Qualification TV (?)
ER Estimated Reliability
ER Edge Router (Telekommunikation)
ER Extinction Ratio
ERA Eigensystem Realization Algorithm
ERA European Research Area
ERASMUS European Community Action Scheme for the Mobiliy of University Students
ERATO Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology Program (JRDC)
ERC European Research Council
ERCOFTAC European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
ERDA US Energy Research and Development Administration
ERES ESA Rams Expert System (Software)
ERF Electrorheological Fluid
ERGO European Research Gateways On-Line
ERLE Echo Return Loss Enhancement
ERM Earth Resource Mapping
ERNE Energetic and Relativistic Nuclei and Electron Experiment (an Bord von
ERO SOHO)
European Research Office (der US Army, in London)
EROS Earth Resources Observation System
ERP European Recovery Program
ERP Energy Resource Planning
ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
E-RP Engine Output RPM
ERS European Remote Sensing Satellite
ERSI Environment and Remote Sensing Institute (Harare, Simbabwe)
ERT European Round Table
ERT External Review Committee
ERV Earth Return Vehicle (bemannte Raumfahrt)
ES Emergency Status
ES Engine System
ES Equalizing Structure
ES Expert System
ES Estimation Schemes
ESA/ASE European Space Agency
ESAU Electronic Subscriber Access Unit (Telekommunikation)
ESB Environmental Specimen Bank
ESCA Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis
ESCA European Speech Communication Association
ESCON Enterprise Systems Connections (Telekommunikation)
ESCU Enhanced Services Control Unit (Telekommunikation)
ESD Electro Static Discharger
ESD Electrostatic Discharge
ESD Expert System Development
ESDA Electronic Systems Design Automation
ESF EUREKA Software Factory
ESF European Science Foundation (seit 1974)
ESFC Equivalent Specific Fuel Consumpiton
ESG Evangelische Studierenden-Gemeinde
ESHP Equivalent Shaft Horsepower
ESI Elektronenspray-Ionisation
ESK [Fraunhofer-] Einrichtung für Systeme der Kommunikationstechnik
ESL ESA Simulation Language (Software)
ES-Laser Eckige-Schraube-Laser
ESM Electronic Support Measures
ESM Electronic Surveillance Measures
E-SMF Enhanced SMF
ESO ESSI Service Organization
ESO European Southern Observatory, Europäische Organisation für astronomische
ESO Forschung in der südlichen
European Standard Hemisphäre (Garching)
Organization
ESOC European Space Operations Centre (Darmstadt)
ESOFTA Embedded Software Association
ESONE (Committee for) European Studies on Norms for Electronics
ESP Electronic Stability Program, elektronisches Stabilitätsprogramm (Kfz)
ESP Engineering Support Program
ESP Extrasensory Perception
ESPCI Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris
ESPI Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometry
ESPRIT European Strategic Programme for Research and Development in Information
ESR Technology
Electrical Substitution Radiometer
ESR Electron Spin Resonance, Elektronenspinresonanz
ESR Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate
ESR European Search Report
ESR European Staff Requirement
ESR Experimentier-Speicher-Ring (bei der GSI, Darmstadt)
ESRF European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (Grenoble, Frankreich)
ESRIN European Space Research Institute
ESRO European Space Research Organization
ESS Essentail
ESS Essential Bus
ESS European Spallation Source (Jülich)
ESSI European Software and Systems Initiative
ESSS External Store Support System
EST Eastern Standard Time (Zeitzone, USA, GMT-5)
EST estimate, estimated
EST European Staff Target
EST Expressed Sequence Tags (Genetik)
ESTA European Science and Technology Assembly
ESTB EGNOS System Test Bed
ESTEC European Space Research and Technology Centre (Noordwijk, NL)
ESTI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
ESTO European Science and Technology Observatory (EC)
ET Environment Temperature
ET Expert Team
ETA Estimated Time of Arrival
ETACS European Total Access Communication System
ETAI European Technology Assessment Infrastructue (EC)
ETAN European Technology Assessment Network (EC)
ETANN Electrically Trainable Artificial Neural Network
ETC Establish Temporary Connection
ETC Executable Test Case (Telekommunikation)
ETDM Electric(al) (or: Electronic) Time Division Multiplexing (optische
ETE Telekommunikation)
Estimated-Time-Enroute Betwenn Non-Acitve Waypoint Pair at Present
ETECAL Grounds Speed
Electronically Tunable External Cavity Laser Diode
ETG European Tripartite Group
ETH Ethernet
ETH(Z) Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Zürich)
ETI Electrotechnology Industry Database
ETI European Teraflops Initiative
ETI Elapsed Time Indicator
ETO European Telework Online
ETS Educational Testing Service (Princeton, NJ, USA)
ETS Executable Test Suite (Telekommunikation)
ETS Estimated Transmit Symbols
ETS Estimated Transmit Stream
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute (seit 1988)
ETW Europäischer Transschall-Windkanal (Köln)
EU European Union; Europäische Union
EUCAS [Europäische Konferenz zur Angewandten Supraleitung]
EUCOR Europäische Konföderation der Oberrheinischen Universitäten
EUNET European Unix Network
EUPEN European Physics Education Network (EPS)
EUPRO European Union of Physics Research Organizations
EURAB European Research Advisory Board
EURASIP European Association for Signal Processing
EURATOM European Atomic Energy Community
EURECA European Retrievable Carrier (europäisches Weltraumlabor)
EUREKA European Research Coordination Agency
Eurocontrol (Europäische Organisation für die Sicherheit im Flugverkehr)
EUROGI European Umbrella Organization for Geo Information
EuroHORCs European Union Research Organisations - Heads of Research Councils
EUROMAR (Überwachung und Schutz der europäischen Meere)
EUROMAT European Congress on Advanced Materials and Processes
Euromech European Mechanics Colloquium
EUROMET European Collaboration on Measurement Standards, European Metrology
EUROSCIENCE Organization
A European Association for the Promotion of Science and Technology
EUROSOLAR Europäische Vereinigung für Erneuerbare Energien#
EUROTRAC Erfassung von Schadstoffen in der Troposphäre
EUT Equipment Under Test
Eutelsat European Telecommunications Satellite Organization
EUV Extremes Ultraviolett (.lambda. .le. 912 Å, Lyman-Kante)
EUVE Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (Satellit)
EUVL EUV-Lithographie
EV Eigen Vector
EV Error Vector
EVA Economic Value Add
E-VIB Engine-Vibration
EVM Error Vector Magnitude (Telekommunikation)
EVOH Ethylenvinylalkohol-Copolymer
EVP Electro Voice Phenomena
EVPR External Virtual Private Router
EVR Eigenvalue Ratio
EVS Energieversorgungssystem (Satellit)
EVU Energieversorgungsunternehmen (früher:
EW Elektrizitätsversorgungsunternehmen)
Electronic Warfare
EWB Einwegbehälter
EWG Expert Working Group
EWR Europäischer Wirtschaftsraum
EWSD Electronic Warning and System Display
EWSK East-West Station Keeping (Satelliten)
EWTF East-West Task Force (EPS)
EWvK Entwicklungsgesellschaft für die Wiederverwendung von Kunststoffen
EXAFS Extended X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure
Excimer Excited Dimer (Laser)
EXE (Dateinamenerweiterung: ausführbares Programm)
EXH Exhaust
EXP Experimental
EXPY Expressway (US Mail)
EXT Extension
EXT External
EXT Extinguischer
ExWoSt Experimenteller Wohnungs- und Städtebau
EZfM Europäisches Zentrum für Medienkompetenz (Marl)
EZMW Europäisches Zentrum für mittelfristige Wettervorhersage (= ECMWF)
EZN Erfinderzentrum Norddeutschland
EZRT [Fraunhofer-] Entwicklungszentrum Röntgentechnik
F
F.A.S. Farbbild-Austast-Signal
F.O.B. Free Alongside Ship (Handelsverkehr)
F.O.R. Free on Board (Handelsverkehr)
F/W Free on Rail (Handelsverkehr)
FA Fachausschuss
FA Firewall
FA Foreign Agent
FA Frequency Allocation
FA Functional Analysis
Fa. Failure Analysis
FAA Federal Aviation Association Administration
FAA Firma
FAB Federal Aviation Administration (USA)
FAB Final Absolute Business
FAC Fast Atom Bombardment (Massenspektrometer)
FACA Forward Air Controller
FACET Federal Advisory Committee Act (USA, 1972)
FACH Forward Access Channel
FAD Future Airborne Communications Equipment and Technology
FADEC Function Access Domain (Telekommunikation)
FADEC Full Authority Digiatal Electronic Control
FAE Full Authority Digital Engine Control
FAEST Fuel-Air-Explosiv
FAF Fast A Posteriori Error Sequential Technique (Algorithmus)
FAIFC Final Approach Fix
FAL Facilitation of International Air Transport
FAL Fast Algorithms in Feedback Control (Algorithmus)
FAMOS Bundesforschungsanstalt für Landwirtschaft (Braunschweig)
FANPAC flexible automatisierte Montagesysteme
FAO Fan Noise Prediction and Control (EU-Forschungsprojekt)
FAPS Food and Agriculture Organization (UN)
FAQ [Lehrstuhl für] Fertigungsautomatisierung und Produktionssystematik
FAR (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Frequently Asked Questions
FAS Facility Associated Signaling (Telekommunikation)
FAS Fatalcoholsulfate
FAS Federal Aviation Regulations
FAS Federation of American Scientists (seit 1945, gegen Atomwaffen)
FAS Frame Alignment Signal
FASE Federation of the Acoustical Societies of Europe
FASPIS Fast Algorithms Secondary Path Integration Scheme (Algorithmus)
FAST Fast Auroral Snapshot (Satellite, USA)
FAST Forecasting and Assessment in the Field of Science and Technology
FAT File Allocation Table
FATSS Fachausschuss Technischer Schall- und Schwingungsschutz (in der DEGA)
FAU Florida Atlantic University
FAU Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (Nürnberg)
FAW Flexible Automatisierte Waferproduktion
FAX Facsimile, Faksimile
FAZ Frankfurt Allgemein Zeitung (newspaper)
FB Fachbereich
FB Fine Business
FB Function Block (Telekommunikation)
FBA Fair Buffer Allocation (Telekommunikation)
FBAS Farbbild-Austast-Synchron-Signal
FBC Flow Based Charging
FBG Fiber Bragg Grating (Glasfaser)
fBGF Fibroblast Growth Factor
FBH Ferdinand-Braun-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (Berlin)
FBL Flight By Light
FBNML Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA)
FBP Fast Back Propagation (Algorithmus)
FBR Fachbereichsrat
FBW Fly by Wire (Flugzeugsteuerung)
FBW Forschungsberichte Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Datenbank)
FBW Fractional Bandwidth
FC Fiber Connection
FC Fire Control
FC Forecast center
FC Fuel Cell (= BZ, Brennstoffzelle)
FC Functional Component
FCA Fixed Capacity Agreement (Telekommunikation)
FCA Functional Configuration Audit
FCAPS Fault Configuration, Accounting, Performance and Security
FCC Federal Communication(s) Commission (USA)
FCC Flight Control Computer
FCC Federal Communications Commission (USA)
FCCC Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN)
FCCSET Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (USA)
FCD Floating Car Data (für Verkehrslenkungssystem)
FCF Forward Cabin Floor
FCI Furnisch Charging Information
FCKW Fluorchlorkohlenwasserstoff
FCP Flight Control Panel
FCP Flight Control Processor
FCR Facility Capability Report
FCS Flight Control System
FCS Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
FCS Frame Check Sequence (Telekommunikation)
FCT Fixed Cellular Terminal (Telekommunikation)
FCT Functional Charts ?
FD Flight Director
FD Functional Organigram
FDA Food and Drug Administration (USA)
FDAU Flight Data Axquisation Unit
FDC Floppy-Disk-Controller
FDD Frequency Division Duplex (Telekommunikation)
FDD Frequency Domain Decomposition
FDDI Fiber Distributed (or: Digital) Data Interface
FDEM Frequency Dependent Electromagnetic Sensor
FDIP Fieldbus Device Implementation Package
FDL Fiber Delay Line
FDL Flight Dynamics Laboratory
FDM Finite Difference Method
FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing
FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
FDMA Frequency Division Multiplex
FDO Flight Deck Officer
FDP Failure Detection Probability
FDP Freie Demokratische Partei
FDR Final Design Report
FDRQ Floppycontroller-Data-Request
FDS Frequency Domain Spreading
FDS Flight Direction System
FDT Fieldbus Device Tool
FE Fast Ethernet (Telekommunikation)
FE Ferroelectric
Fe Ferrum, Iron
FEA Field Emitter Array (Bildwandler)
FEA Front End Analysis
FEAT Fusion Energy Advanced Tokamak (feat auch engl. "Meisterstück'')
FEBA Forward Edge of the Battle Area
FEC Fest-Elektrolyt-Coulometrie
FEC Forward Error-Correction (Datenübertragung)
FEC Forwarding Equivalence Class (Telekommunikation)
FECC Forward Error Correcting Code (Telekommunikation)
FED Field-Emission Display
FED Forum on Education (APS)
FED Front End Decoder
FEG Field Emission Gun
FEIS Final Environmental Impact Statement
FEL Free Electron Laser, Freie-Elektronen-Laser
FELASOFI Federation of Latin American Physical Societies
FELI Free Electron Laser Research Institute (Osaka, Japan)
FEM Finite Element Method
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency (USA)
FEP [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Elektronenstrahl- und Plasmaphysik
FER Frame Erasure Rate (Telekommunikation)
FER Fusion Experimental Reactor (Naka, Japan)
FERC Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (USA)
FERP Faculty Early Retirement Program (California State University)
FESAC Fusion Energy Science Advisory Committee (DoE, USA)
FET Field Effect Transistor, Feldeffekttransistor
FE-TEM Field Emission TEM
FEV Foreververb, for ever reverb
FEWS Fibre-Optic Evanescent Wave Sensing
FF First Flight
FF Foundation Fieldbus
FF&P Falsification, Fabrication of Results, Plagiarism (Fälschung und Täuschung in
FFCC der Wissenschaft)
Forward Facing Crew Cockpit
FFCC Forward Facing Crew Concept
FFCS Fire-Flight-Control System
FFR&DC Federally Funded Research and Development Centers
FFT Fast Fourier Transform
FFT Fixed Form Text
FFTB Final Focus Test Beam (SLAC)
FG Fachgremium (z. B. DPG)
FG Fristgesuch (-> RET)
FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committeee
FGF Fibroblast Growth Factor, Fibroblasten-Wachstumsfaktor
FGK Forschungsgesellschaft Kunststoffe
FGM Functionally Gradient Material (Keramik/Metall)
FGP Full Gyro Panel
FGSA Forum on Graduate Student Affairs (APS)
FGTS Fourth Generation Telecommunication System
FH Fachhochschule
FH Flight Hours
FhAZ Fraunhofer-Anwendungszentrum
FHD Flame Hydrolysis Deposition (Waferfertigung)
FhG Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
FhM Fraunhofer-Management-Gesellschaft mbH
FHP Forum on History of Physics (APS)
FHSS Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (Telekommunikation)
FHT Fachhochschule für Technik (Esslingen)
FHT Fast Hartley Transform
FHTW Fachhochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (Berlin)
FhV-.mu.E Fraunhofer-Verbund Mikroelektronik
FI Flight Idle
FI Fuel Injected
FIA Federacion Iberoamericana de Acustica
FIA Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (Genf, Schweiz)
FIA Fibreoptic Industry Association (UK)
FIA Fließinjektionsanlage (Mikrosystemtechnik)
FIAP Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics (APS, USA)
FIB Focused Ion Beam
FIB Forschungsinstitut Borstel, Institut für Experimentelle Biologie und Medizin
FIB Forwarding Information Base
FIBAA Foundation for International Business Administration Accredititation
FIBS First International Backgammon Server (Rechnernetz)
FIC Flight information center
FICON Fiber Channel Connection (optische Telekommunikation)
FID Flammen-Ionisations-Detektion
FIDO Field Integrated Design & Operations Rover (NASA, für Marslandemission)
FIEC [Verband der europäischen Bauindustrie, International European Construction
FIFO Association]
First In, First Out
FIFO First In/First Out
FIG Facility for Interactive Generation of Graphics (UNIX)
FIGE Forschungsinstitut für Geräusche und Erschütterungen (Herzogenrath (oder:
FiNut Aachen))
Frauen in Naturwissenschaft und Technik
FIP Fédération Internationale de Philatélie
FIP Forum on International Physics (APS)
FiPS Früheinstieg ins Physikstudium
FIR Far-Infrared
FIR Field Intelligence Report
FIR Finite Impulse Response
FIR Flight information region
FIR For Infrared
FIRE Fusion-Ignition Research Experiment (Alternative zu ITER, USA)
FIRST Far Infrared and Submillimetre Telescope (IR-Satellit)
FIRST Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik (Berlin)
FIS Flight information service
FIS Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Senckenberg der SNG (Frankfurt/M)
FISCO Fieldbus Intrinsically Safe Concept
FISH Fluoreszenz-in-situ-Hybridisierung
FIT Failure Identification Table
FIT Failures in Thousands of Hours
FIT Failures in Time (Kommunikation)
FiT Frauen in der Technik e.V.
FIT Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnik (St. Augustin)
FITL Fibre In The Loop
FITS [NASA-endorsed] Flexible Image Transport System
FIZ Fachinformationszentrum (Karlsruhe)
FIZCH Fachinformationszentrum Chemie (Berlin)
FIZKA FIZ Karlsruhe, Gesellschaft für wissenschaftlich-technische Information
FJC (Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen)
Freely Jointed Chain (Polymerphysik)
FKE Forschungsinstitut für Kinderernährung (Dortmund)
FKW Fluorkohlenwasserstoff (ohne Chlor)
FL Flight level
FL Floor (US Mail)
FL Florida (US-Staat)
FL Fuzzy Logic
FLAG Fibre Link Around the Globe (Glasfaser-Kabel UK-Europa-Nordafrika-Indien-
FLC Japan)
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal
FLC Flic, Dateiendung für Video Format
FLC Frequency Layer Convergence
FLCD FLC Display
FLCK First Line Check Flight
FLI Flight information Publication
FLIC Flexible Interdigital Cuff Electrode
FLIP Forward Looking Infrared
FLIR Flight Manual
FLL Fibre in the Local Loop (opt. Datenübertragung)
FLM Forward Line Of Own Troops
FLOT Forward-Looking-Radar
FLR Frequenzmodulation
FM Facilities Management (Telekommunikation)
FM Fan Maker
FM Flexible Manufacturing Cell
FM Frequency Modulation, Frequenzmodulation
FM-7 DX-7 Successor software
FMC Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
FMC Fixed-Mobile Convergence (Telekommunikation)
FMCW Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (Radar)
FM-CW Frequency Modulated - Continuous Wave
FMD Fluorescent Multilayer Disk (optischer Datenspeicher)
FMD Forward Multiplicity Detector (CERN)
FMEA Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
FMEA Fehlermöglichkeits- und Einflussanalyse, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
FMECA Failure Modes and Effects Criticality Analysis
FMI Fluorescent Microthermiographic Imaging
FMP Flow Management Protocol (Telekommunikation)
FMP Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (Berlin)
FMS Flight Management System
FMS Flight Manamgent System
FMS Flight Manual Supplement Format
FMS Foreign Military Sales
FMT Format
FNAL Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
FNC Federal Networking Council (Datennetze, USA)
FNCP Flight Navigation Control Panel
fNMR Functional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
FNSG Flight Navigation Symbol Generator
FNTF Fast Newton Transversal Filter
FOC Final Operation Clearance
FOC Full Operational Clearance
FOC Form of Coding
FOCS Fiber-Optic Current Sensor
FOCS Field of Communication System
FOCS Focus
FOD Foreign Object Damage
FOEI Friends of the Earth International (in Deutschland: BUND)
FOG Fiber Optic Gyro
FOKUS Fraunhofer-Institut für Offene Kommunikationssysteme (Berlin)
FOLANT Focusing of Laser Radiation in the Nearfield of a Tip (Nanotechnologie)
FOMA Freedom of Multimedia Access (Telekommunikation)
FONAS Forschungsverbund Naturwissenschaft, Abrüstung und internationale
FOR Sicherheit
Field of Regard
FORKAT BMFT-Förderungskatalog
FORSUPRA Forschungsverbund Hochtemperatur-Supraleiter (Bayern)
Fortran Formula Translator
FOS Faseroptischer Sensor
FOS Finnish Optical Society
FOS Frontier of Science (interdisziplinäre internationale Symposien für
FOT Jungwissenschaftler)
Frequency of optimum Transmission
FOTA Flat Optical Element Technology and Applications
FOV Field if View
FOV Field of View (Teleskop)
FÖV Forschungsinstitut für Öffentliche Verwaltung (Speyer)
FOX Fiber Optic Extender (optische Telekommunikation)
FP Fixed Part (z. B. Basestation, DECT)
FP Frame Protocol (Telekommunikation)
FPA Flat Pack Array
FPA Focal Plane Array
FPA Function Point Analysis
FPD Flat Panel Display
FPDS Feasibility/Pre-Definition-Study
FPF Fluorprotein foam
FPG Falling Pulse Generator (Circuit) (see also RPG; LPG, TPG)
FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array
FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array (Computer)
FPL Filed flight plan
FPLMTS Future Public and Land Mobile Telecommunication System
FPM Feet per Minute
FPS Forum on Physics and Society (APS)
FPS Frames per Second
FPT Fachbereichstag Physikalische Technik
FPT Fast Polynomial Transform
FPU [Enrico] Fermi-[John] Pasta-[Stanislaw] Ulam (nichtlineares
FQDN Schwingungssystem)
Fully Qualified Domain Name
FQGC(S] Fuel Quantity Gauging and Control (System) Text Unit
FQHE Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
FQI Final Qualification Test
FR Frame Relay (Datenübertragung)
fr France
FR Frankfurter Rundschau
Fr. Frater
FR/GL Frame and Guidelines
FRA Frankfurt Main
FRAD Frame Relay Access Device (Datennetz)
FRAD Frame Relay Assembly-Disessembly (Datennetz)
FRAM Ferroelectric Random Access Memory
FrAM Fraunhofer-Arbeitsschutz-Managementsystem
FRAMTEC Framework for Advanced Monitoring, Telemetry and Control
FRC Fraunhofer Resource Center (Michigan, OH, USA)
FRC-DE Fraunhofer Resource Center Delaware (Newark, DE, USA)
FRD Functional Requirements Document
FRF Frequency Response Function
FRIEM Frater of the IEM
FRISP Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf Programme
FRLS Fast Recursive Least Squares (Transversalfilter)
FRM Forschungsreaktor München
FRO For Quotation Revisable
FRP Finger Reference Point Request
FRT Fast Retrain Procedure
FRT Form Forward Remote
FRU Filter System
FS Fachverband für Strahlenschutz e.V.
FS File System
FS Fire Support
FS Founder Societies
FS Fuel System
FS Fuselage Station
FS Filtering Stage
FS Fixed Service
FS&GS Flight Systems and Ground Support
FS1R DX-7 Successor
FSA Fixed Slot Allocation (Telekommunikation)
FSAN Full Service Access Network (Telekommunikation)
FSB Fasten Seat Belt
FSC(FP) Flight Safety Critical (Failure Probability)
FSCL Fire Support Coordination Line
FSF Free Software Foundation
FSG Fluorine-doped Silicate Glass
FSII Fuel System Icing Inhibitor
FSK Frequency Shift Keying (Modulation)
FSO Free-Space Optical (communication)
FSP Fachschaftsparlament
FSR Fachschaftsrat
FSR Free Spectral Range
FSRV Fachschaftsräteversammlung
FSS Fixed Satellite Service (or: System)
FSS Fixed Satellite Service
FST Fast Sine Transform
FST Femtosekunden-Technologie
FST Finite State Transducer (Sprachsynthese)
FSU Former Soviet Union, frühere Sowjetunion
FSU Friedrich-Schiller-Universität (Jena)
FT Feet
FTAM File Transfer, Access and Management
FTAM File Transfer, Access and Management (Datennetz-Protokoll)
FTD Fluorescent Tube Display
FTDT finite difference time domain
FTE Full Time Equivalent (Telekommunikation)
FTF Fast Transversal Filter
FTFL Fault Type Fault Location
FTFL Flight Test Instrumentation
FTI Fault Type Information
FTIR Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry
FTIR Frustrated Total Internel Reflection (Lichtmodulator)
FTO Fuzz the Overridemayor
FTO-BTO Fuzz the Overridemayor by the Overlord
FTO-ITO Fuzz the Overridemayor in the Overload
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FTR Force Trim Release
FTS Festprogrammierbarer Titel-Speicher
FTS Fourier Transform Spectroscopy
FTTA Fiber to the Area
FTTB Fibre to the Building (Telefon, Glasfaser bis zum Haus)
FTTC Fibre to the Curb (Telefon, Glasfaser bis zum Kabelverzweiger)
FTTH Fibre to the Home (Telefon, Glasfaser bis ins Haus)
FTTU Fiber to the User
FTU Fortbildungszentrum für Technik und Umwelt (KfK, Karlsruhe)
FTZ Fernmeldetechnisches Zentralamt (der Bundespost)
FU Follow Up
FuE Forschung und Entwicklung
FUEG Förderung von Forschungs- und Entwicklungsgemeinschaftsvorhaben Ost
FUNET (BMBF)
Finland's University and Research Network (Rechnernetz)
FUSE Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (Satellit)
FUTOUR Förderung und Unterstützung technologieorientierter
FV Unternehmensgründungen
Fachverband (z. B. DPG) (BMBF)
FV Flight Vector
FVA Field Vector Array
FVK faserverstärkte Kunststoffe
FVM Finite Volume Method
FVS-Stiftung Freiherr-vom-Stein- [und zugleich] Friedrich-von-Schiller-Stiftung (Hamburg)
FW Field value
FW Fire Wall (Telekommunikation)
FW Firmware
FW Framework III (Tabellenkalkulation, Datenbank, Textverarbeitung;
FWA Dateiendung
Fixed WirelessFW3)
Access
FWA Fixed Wireless Access
FWD Fowarward
FWD Front-Wheel Drive
FWD Fully well done
FWG Forschungsanstalt der Bundeswehr für Wasserschall und Geophysik (Kiel)
FWHM (scherzhaft auch:
Full Width Half Flachwassergesellschaft)
Maximum (Fotofilm-Körnigkeit)
FWHM Full Width Half Maxmimum (Halbwertsbreite)
FWM Four Wave Mixing
FXC Fiber Optical (or: Switch) Cross Connect (optische Telekommunikation)
FXV Forward Flux Value
FY Fiscal Year
FY Fiscal Year
FYI for your information
FZR Forschungszentrum Rossendorf
G Green = Alq3 mixed with 1 vol% of Coumarin6
G Guanin (DNA-Base)
G
G&L Groove And Land (Optical Recording)
G. General
G/S Glide Slope
GA Global Area
Ga Charging data collection I/F between a CDR transmitting Unit (e.g. GGSN or
GA SGSN)
Geneticand a CDR receiving functionality (CGF)
Algorithm
GA Georgia (US-Staat)
GA Go Ahead
GA Go Around
GA Government Agencies
GA Grouping Algorithm
GAAM Gesellschaft für Analytik und atomspektroskopische Messtechnik
GABA .gamma.-Aminobuttersäure
GABI (deutsche "Schwester" der Human Genome Organization)
GAC General Advisory Committee (AEC)
GAEB Gemeinsamer Ausschuss Elektronik im Bauwesen
GAF T.O. German Air Force Technical Order
GAFA Internationale Gartenfachmesse (Köln)
GAFOS German-American Symposia on Frontiers of Science
GAG Georg-Agricola-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Geschichte der
GAH Naturwissenschaften und der(medicine,
Glucosamine Hydrochloride Technik e.V.
cartilage)
GAIA, Gaia Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics
GALILEO (Europäisches Satelliten-Navigationssystem, im Aufbau)
GALLEX Gallium-(Sonnen-Neutrino)-Experiment (Gran Sasso, Italien)
GAM Generalized Additive Model (Regressionsverfahren)
GAMESS General Atomic Electronic Structure Systems
GAMM Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik
GAMS Guide to Available Mathematics Software
GAN Global Area Network (Datennetze)
GANIL Grande Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (Frankreich)
GAO General Accounting Office (USA)
GAP Generic Access Profile (or: Protocol)
GARS German Antarctic Receiving Station
GARTEUR Group for Aeronautical Research and Technology in Europe
GAS Gesellschaft für Angewandte Supraleitung (KfK, Karlsruhe)
GAST Gemeinschaft Autofreier Schweizer Tourismusorte
GAST Gemeinschaftsausschuss Strahlenforschung
GAT General Air Traffic
GAT Governmental Action Team
GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GAUSS Galaktisches Ultraweitwinkel Schmidt System (Spacelab,
GB Kugelspiegelkamera)
Gigabyte
GB Good Bye
GB Great Britain
GB Great Britain
Gb IF/ between MSC and BSC
GbE Gigabyte Ethernet
GBF Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung (Braunschweig)
GbR Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts
GBS Göttinger Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft
GC Gas Chromatography
Gc I/F between GGSN and HLR
GCA Ground Controlled Approach
GCC General Communication Channel
GCC Global Climate Coalition
GCC Greatest Common Divisor (= ggT, größter gemeinsamer Teiler)
G-CDR Gateway
G-CDR Gateway General Packet Radio System Support Node - Call Detail Record
GCF GSM Certification Forum
GCI Ground Control Intercept
GCMD Global Change Master Directory (NASA)
GCOS [globales Klimaüberwachungsprogramm]
GCR Group Call Register
GCRA Generic Cell Rate Algorithm (Telekommunikation)
GCS Generalized Communication System
GCS Ground Control Station
GCSR Grating-assisted codirectional Coupler with rear Sampled Reflector (tunable
GCT laser)
Government Conducted Test
GD I/F inter SMS-GMSC and SGSN, and inter SMS-IWMSC and SGSN
GD God
GD Good Detection
GDCh Good Day
GDCP Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V.
GDM Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Chemie und Physik
GDMO Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
GDN Guidelines for Defining (or: the Definition) of Managed Objects
GDNÄ Global Development Network
GDNF Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte e.V.
GDOS Glia-Derived Neurotrophic Factor
GDP General Drawing Primitive
GDP Graphics Device Operating System
GDP Gross Domestic Product (Volkswirtschaft)
GDS Guanosindiphosphat
GdT German Air Defence Ground Environment
GDV Gemeinschaftsausschuss der Technik
GE Gesamtverband der deutschen Versicherungswirtschaft e.V.
GE Gigabit Ethernet
GE/FC Gigabit Ethernet Alliance
GEA Gigabyte Ethernet / Fiberoptic Connection
GEADGE German Military Flight Information Publication
GEF Global Environment Facility (Umweltfonds, 1990)
GefStoffV Gefahrstoff-Verordnung
GEM Gas Electron Multiplier
GEM Graphics Environment Manager
GEMA Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungsrechte
GEMILFLIP Glow Discharge Spectrometry
GEMINGA Gemini Gamma-Quelle (Neutronenstern)
GEMS Global Environment Monitoring System (Naturschutz)
GEN Generator
GENIUS Germanium Detectors in Liquid Nitrogen in an Underground Set Up
GenMAPP (Neutrinodetektor)
Gene MicroArray Pathway Profiler (Computerprogramm für genetische
GEO Analyse)
[britisch-deutscher Gravitationswellendetektor] (Ruthe bei Hannover)
GEO Geosynchronous (or: Geostationary) Earth Orbit
GEOMAR Forschungszentrum für marine Geowissenschaften (Univ. Kiel)
GERAN Enhanced Data Global System for Mobilcommunication Evolution Radio
GERAN Access
Enhanced Network
Data Global System Mobile Evolution Radio Access Network
GERAN Global System Mobile/Enhanced Data Global Evolution Radio Access Network
GERAN GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network (Telekommunikation)
GERAN GSM/EDGE RAN
GESD Global Exhausting Seraching Detector
GESIMA Geesthachter Simulationsmodell der Atmosphäre
GESIS Gesellschaft sozialwissenschaftliche Infrastruktureinrichtungen (Mannheim)
GETOL Ground Effect Take-Off and Landing
GEUmbH Gesellschaft für Energieanwendung und Umwelttechnik mbH (Leipzig)
GEW Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft
GEZ Gebühreneinzugszentrale, abschaffen
Gf I/F inter SGSN and EIR
GFA Good Faith Approach
GFC Glassfibre Composite
GFDL Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA)
GFE Government Furnished Equipment
GFE Großforschungseinrichtung
GFF Government Furnished Facilities
GFGL Good Food Good Life
GFI Government Furnished Information
GFK Glasfaser-verstärkte Kunststoffe
GFP Generic Framing Procedure (Telekommunikation)
GFP Government Furnsihed Property
GFP Green Fluorescent Protein
GFP Generic Framing Procedure
GFR Guaranteed Frame Rate (Telekommunikation)
GFRP Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastic
GFS Gemeinsame Forschungsstelle (der EU in Petten, NL)
GFSC Geophysical Forecast Subcenter
GFSK Gaussian-Filtered Frequency Shift Keying
GFZ Geoforschungszentrum (Potsdam)
GGF Glial Growth Factor (Medikament, evtl. gegen MS)
GGF Global Grid Forum
GGM Greatest Common Multiple (ggV, größtes gemeinsames Vielfaches)
GGSN Gateway General Packet Radio System Support Node
GGSN Gateway GPRS Support Node (Telekommunikation)
GGT Gesellschaft für Gerontotechnik
ggT größter gemeinsamer Teiler (= GCD)
GGVS Gefahrgutverordnung Straße
GGVS Gefahrgut-Verordnung Straße
GHRS Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph
GHZ Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger(-Zustand)
GI Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
GI Ground Idle
Gi Ref Pnt inter GPRS and an ext PDN
GIEM General of the IEM
GIF (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)
GIF German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development
GIF Graphics Interchange Format (Datenkompression, Fa. CompuServe 1987)
GigE Gigabit Ethernet
GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program
GIMS Topical Group on Instruments and Measurement Science (APS)
GIOD Globally Interconnected Object Databases
Gips Giga-Instructions per Second
GIPS Grosvenor International Property Services
GIRL German Infrared Laboratory (Astrophysik, 1985)
GIS Geo-Informationssystem, Geographic(al) Information System
GISI Göttinger Informationssystem für Intensivmedizin und OP
GISI Gruppo Imprese Strumentazione Italia (Association for Instrumentation,
GIV Control and Automation
Guard Interval Modules Companies)
GIZ Giftinformationszentrum (Göttingen)
GK Graduiertenkolleg
GK Group Key
GK Grundkurs
GKM Group Key Management
GKMP Group Key Management Protocol
GKS Grafisches Kern-System
GKSS [Forschungszentrum Geesthacht]
gl genium loci
GL Good Luck
GL Ground Loop
GL Guideline
GLA Göttinger Linguistische Abhandlungen
GLAD General Laser Analysis and Design
GLAST Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope
GLCM Ground-Launched Cruise Missile
GLD Glad
GLDV Gesellschaft für linguistische Datenverarbeitung
GLF Grundlagenforschung
GLIR Gunfire Locating Infrared System
GLM General Linear Modelling
GLOBIS Global Change and Biodiversity in Soils
GLOBUS Generating Long-Term Options by Using Simulation
GLONASS Global Navigation Satellite System (Russland)
GLP Good Laboratory Practice, gute Labor-Praxis
GLS Gateway Location Server
GLS Global Locating Sensing
GLZ Generalized Linear Modelling
GM General Motors
GM Gross Mass
GM Good Moring
GMAG Topical Group on Magnetism and Its Applications (APS)
GMax Gross Mass maximum
GmbH Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
GMD Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung
GMGO (Bonn/Darmstadt/Berlin/St.
German Military Geophysical Augustin/Birlinghofen)
Office
GMGS German Military Geophysical Service
GMLC Gateway Mobile Location Center (Telekommunikation)
GMM Global MultiMedia (Telekommunikation)
GMM GPRS Mobility Management
GMO Genetically Modified Organism
GMPLS Generalized Multi Protocol Label Switching (Telekommunikation)
GMR Giant Magnetoresistance
GMR Ground Mapping Reader
GMSC Gateway Mobile Services Switching Center
GMSC Group Mobile Switching Center
GMSK Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying (Modulation)
GMT Greenwich Mean Time
GMX Global Mind Transmitter
GN Good Night
Gn I/F inter 2 GSNs within the same PLMN
GNA Global Network Academy (Texas)
GND Ground
GNI Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface (Telekommunikation)
GNIRS Gemini Near Infrared Spectrometer (USA)
GNM Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Nürnberg)
GNO Gallex Neutrino Observatory (INFN, Gran Sasso, Italien)
GNOME GNU Object Model Environment
GNP Gross National Product (= Bruttosozialprodukt)
GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System
GNSS2 Global Navigation Satellite System, 2nd generation
GNU Gallium Neutrino Observatory (zuvor: GALLEX, Gran Sasso, Italien)
GNU GNU is not UNIX
GO Gründungsoffensive
GO/NG Go / No Go
GO/PO Geometrical Optics/Physical Optics
GoB Good or Better
GOLF Global Oscillations at Low Frequencies (an Bord von SOHO)
GOMAC Government Microcircuit Applications Conference (USA)
GOME Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (Fernerkundung, ERS 2, 1995)
GOMOS Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Star (ENVISAT)
GONG Global Oscillation Network Group (für Helioseismologie)
GOR General Opeatinal Requirement
GoS Grade of Service (Telekommunikation)
GOTS Gesellschaft für Orthopädisch/Traumatologische Sportmedizin
gov [Government] (Internet, USA)
GP Glide Path
GP Granite Plate
Gp Group
Gp I/F inter 2 GSNs in different PLMNs. The Gp I/F allows support of GPRS
GPC NetServ across areas
General Purpose served by the co-operating GPRS PLMNs.
Computer
GPCR G-Protein Coupled Receptor
GPI Ground Point of Intercept
GPIB General Purpose Interface Bus
GPIP General Purpose Input/Output Interrupt Port
GPL General (or: GNU) Public License (FSF)
GPO Government Programme Office
GPON Gigabit Passive Optical Network (Telekommunikation)
GPR Ground Penetrating Radar
GPRS General Packet Radio Standard
GPRS General Packet Radio System
GPRS Global (or: General) Packet Radio Service (or: System) (Telekommunikation)
GPS Gaussian Probability Slope
GPS Global Positioning (System/Satellite)
GPS Global Positioning System
GPTE General Purpose Test Equipment
GPWS Ground Proximity Warning System
GR Gigabit Router (Internet)
Gr I/F inter SGSN and HLR
GRA Gamma Resonance Absorption
GRAB Galactic Radiation and Background (US Aufklärungs-Satellit)
grad gradient
GRATE Generic Rules and Agent Model Test Bed Environment
GRB Gamma-Ray Burst (Astrophysik)
GRC Gordon Research Conference
GRE Generic Routing Encapsulation
GRIP Greenland Icecore Project
GRK Graduiertenkolleg (DFG, seit 1990)
GRM General Relationship Model
GRO Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (Satellit)
GRS Gamma-Ray Spectrometer
GS Glide Slope
GS Ground Speed
GS Guaranteed Service
Gs I/F inter SGSN and MSC/VLR
GSA Global Suppliers Association (Telekommunikation)
GSAG GOME Science Advisory Group
GSC Group Security Controler
GSCCM Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter (APS)
GSE Ground Support Equipment
GSE Group of Scientific Experts (Genfer Abrüstungskonferenz 1976)
GSETT-1, -2, -3 GSE Technical Test I (1984), ~ II (1991), ~ III (1995)
GSG Gesundheitsstrukturgesetz
GSI Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (Darmstadt)
GSI Group Security Intermediaries
GSM Global System for Mobil communication (Global System Mobile)
GSM Global System for Mobile Communication(s) (Telekommunikation)
GSM global system mobile
GSM Groupe Spéciale Mobile (Mobilfunk)
GSMA GSM Association (Telekommunikation)
GSMBE Gas Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy
GSMN GSM Node
GSM-OTA global system mobile - over-the-air
GSMS GPRS Short Message Service (Telekommunikation)
GSMT Giant Segmented-Mirror Telescope (geplant)
GSN Global Seismographic Network
GSN GPRS Support Node
GSNP Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (APS)
GSO Geostationary Satellite Orbit
GSTN General Switched Telefone Network
GSW Glashow-Salam-Weinberg (Neutrinotheorie)
GSZ Gaussian Spread Zone
GT Gamow-Teller
GTAP Gas Turbine Air Producer
GTD Geometrical Theory of Diffraction
GTE Ground Test Equipment
GTF Ground Test Facility
GTP General Packet Radio System Tunnelling Protocol
GTP GPRS Tunneling Protocol (Telekommunikation)
GTP Guanosintriphosphat
GTP-c GPRS Tunneling Protocol Control Plane (Telekommunikation)
GTRI Georgia Tech Research Institute (USA)
GTS Global Transmission Services (ISS)
GTV Ground Test Vehicle
GTZ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (Eschborn)
GU Guam (US Mail)
GUD Gas- und Dampfturbinen (-Kraftwerke)
GUESS General-Purpose Expert System Shell
GUI Graphical User Interface
GUID Global Unique Identifier (weltweites PC-Netz)
GUL General User Licence
GUNR Gun/Rockets
GURL General User Radio Licence
GUS Gemeinschaft unabhängiger Staaten (ehem. UdSSR)
GUT Grand Unified Theory (theoretische Physik)
GVD Group Velocity Dispersion (Leitungen)
GVE Großvieheinheit (Normrind, Masse 500 kg)
GVM Global Voice Mail (Telekommunikation)
GVP Genesis Voice Protocol (Telekommunikation)
GVPP Generic Visual Perception Processor
GW Gateway (Telekommunikation)
G-WiN Gigabit-Wissenschaftsnetz (geplant für 2000, bis 2,4 Gbit/s)
GWT Gravitations Wave Transmission
GWUP Gesellschaft für die wissenschaftliche Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften
GY Good Year
GZMB Göttinger Zentrum für Molekulare Biowissenschaften
H
H&S Hub and Spoke
H/C Helicopter
HA Hash Algorithm
HA Higher Authorities
HA Home Agent
HAA Height above aerodrome elevation
HAARP High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
HAARP High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project
HAC High Authority Control
HAC Human Artificial Chromosome
HAD Helium Abundance Detector (Galileo-Satellit 1989)
HAD Hollow Cathode Activated Deposition (dünne Schichten)
HAI Helicopter Association International
HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer (Telekommunikation)
HAL Height above landing area elevation
HAQ Health Assessment Questionaire
HARF Hyperstable Adaptive Recursive Filter
HARP High-gain Avalanche Rushing Amorphous Photoconductor
HARQ Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request
HART Highway Addressable Receiver/Transmitter (Telekommunikation)
HASASEM Haptisches Sensor-Aktor-System auf der Grundlage der Echtzeitelastographie
HASYLAB sowie von elektro-
Hamburger und magnetorheologischen Materialien
Synchrotronstrahlungs-Laboratorium (bei DESY)
HAT Height above touchdown zone elevation
HATS Helicopter Advanced Tactical System
HAV Hepatitis-A-Virus
HAZOP Hazardous Analysis and Operability (Problemlösungsmethode)
HB Helicopter Base
HB Home Base
HBA Headset Based Application (12Snap AG)
HBA Host Bus Adapter
HBCCO HgBa2Can-1CunO2n+2 (HTSL)
HBCI Homebanking Computing Interface
HBFG Hochschulbauförderungsgesetz
HBFR High Flux Beam Reactor (Brookhaven, Long Island, NY, USA)
HBT Hetero-Bipolartransistor, Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor
HBV Hepatitis-B-Virus
HCB Hexachlorbenzol
HCF High Cycle fatigue
HCH Hexachlorcyclohexan
HCM Human Capital (and) Mobility (EU)
HCMV Humanes Cytomegalovirus
HCT Hematocrit
HCTMCP Hexacyanotrimethylencyclopropanid
HCV Hepatitis-C-Virus
HD Harmonization Document (CENELEC)
HD Hardware Decision
HDA High-Density Amorphous (Ice)
HDB3 High Density Bipolar 3
HDBR Hybrid Distributed Bragg Reflector (optische Telekommunikation)
HDBT High Definition Broadcast Technology
HDCAM [vom HDTV ageleitetes Bildaufzeichnungsformat]
HDCL Hybrid Data Link Control Standard
HDCS Hard Disk Controller Select
HDD Head-down Display
HDD Helmet Down Display
HDDS Holographic Digital Data Storage
HDF Hierarchical Data Format
HDF Hubble Deep Field (Astrophysik)
HDG Heading
HDL Hardware Description Language
HDL Hardware Description Layer
HDL High Density Lipoproteins (medicine)
HDL High-Density Lipoprotein
HDL High-Density Liquid
HDL High-Power Diode Laser
HDLC High Level Data Link Control (Datenübertragung)
HDML Handheld Device Markup Language
HdO hinter dem Ohr (Hörgeräte)
HDPE High Density Polyethylene
HDRQ Harddiskcontroller-Data-Request
HDSL High-Bit-Rate (or: High Speed) Digital Subscriber Line (or: Loop)
HDTV High Definition Television (hochauf lösendes Fernsehen)
HDU Helmet Display Unit High Explosive and Incendiary
HE Hyperspace Energy
HEAO High Energy Astrophysical Observatory
HEC Header Error Control
HEE Home Entertainment Equipment
HEFC Higher Education Funding Council (UK)
HEFCE Higher Education Funding Council for England
HEI High Energie Impact
HEI High Energy Laser
HEL Helicopter Collision Avoidance Radar
HELCAR Helicopter Transport
HELCOM Helsinki Commission on Baltic Marine Protection
HELO or HELOT Hazardous Effects of Radio Frequency
HEMT High Electron Mobility Transistor
HEP Hochenergiephysik, High-Energy Physics
HEP Hochschulerneuerungsprogramm (neue Bundesländer)
HEPAP High-Energy Physics Advisory Panel (USA)
HEPnet High Energy Physics Network
HEPP High Energy and Particle Physics Division (EPS)
HER Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor
HERA Hadron-Electron Ring Accelerator, Hadron-Elektron-Ring-Anlage (DESY)
HERF Helicopter Energy and Rotor Management System
HERMES Hazard Effects of Radiation on Ordonance
HERO HEROM Hazard Electro-magnetic Radiation to Onboard Material
HERP Hazard Effects of Radiation on Personnel
HERP Hazardous Effects of Radio Pulses
HERV Humanes Endogenes Retrovirus
HES High Energy Stereoscopic System (Gamma-Strahlen-Teleskop-Array,
HES Namibia)
Home Electronic System
HET Hobby-Eberly-Telescope (Davis Mountains, TX, USA)
HETE High Energy Transient Explorer
HETP Height Equivalent to One Theoretical Plate (Maß für Trennleistung eines
HEU chemischen Analysesystems,
Highly Enriched Uranium z.B. 20 µm bei Chromatographie)
HEV Hybrid Electric Vehicle
HEW Half Energy Width (Teleskope)
HEW Hamburgische Elektricitätswerke
HF Heavyside Function
HF High Frequency
HF High Frequency (3 - 30 MHz)
HF Human Factors (TC im ETSI)
HF EMPOR High-Frequency EM Pollution Reducer
HFB Hartree-Fock-Bogoljubow
HFBR High Flux Beam Reactor (Brookhaven, Long Island, NY, USA)
HFC Hybrid Fiber Co-axial
HFC Hybrid Fibre Coax
HFEA Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
HFF Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film (München)
HFI Hostile Fire Indicator
HFIR High Flux Isotope Reactor (ORNL)
HFO Halbleiterwerk Frankfurt/Oder
HFR High-Flux Reactor (GFS, Petten, NL)
HFR Hybrid Fiber Radio
HF-SSB High Frequency Single Side Band
HG High Grade
HGAC Human Genetic Advisory Commission
HGB Hemoglobin
HGC Hercules Graphics Card
HGF Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren
HGL (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)
HGS Growing Hemispherical Grains (semiconductor)
HGS Human Genome Sciences
HGÜ Hochspannungs-Gleichstrom-Übertragung
HGV Hochgeschwindigkeitsverkehr (Schienenverkehr)
HH Higher Heavens
HHC Higher Harmonic Control
HHCC Higher tactical air navigation
HHG High Harmonic Generation (kurze Lichtimpulse)
HHI Heinrich-Hertz-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik (Berlin, neuer Name)
HHI Heinrich-Hertz-Institut für Schwingungsforschung (Berlin, alter Name)
HHMI Howard Hughes Medical Institute
HHP High Hover Point
HHS Health and Human Services (US Government Department)
HHT Hand held Terminal
HI Hawaii (US-Staat)
HI Hildesheim (Kfz Kennzeichen)
HI Hard Information
HIC Heterogeneous Interprocessor Communications and Standards
HIC Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography
HIDIF Heavy Ion Driven Intertial Fusion
HIF Hochschulinternes Fernsehen (Göttingen)
HIFI Hawaii Imaging Fabry-Pérot Interferometer (Astronomie)
HiFi High Fidelity (Unterhaltungselektronik)
HIFR Hover Inflight Refuelling
HIGE Hover in Ground Effect
HIGS High-Intensity Gamma-Ray Source
HIL Hardware-in-the-Loop
HILES HIL-Echtzeitsimulation
HIPERLAN High Performance Local Area Network
HIPPARCOS High Precision Parallax Collecting Satellite (ESA 1989)
HIRSS Hover IR Suppressor System
HIRTA High Intensity Radio Transmission Area
HIS Hochschul-Informationssystem
HITL Hardware-in-the-Loop
HITRAP Heavy Ion Trap
HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Human-Immunschwäche-Virus
HKI Hans-Knöll-Institut für Naturstofforschung (Jena)
HKIOA Hong Kong Institute of Acoustics
HKP Hochschulkooperationsprogramm (EU)
HL Hidden Layer (neuronale Netze)
HL Higher Law
HLA Human Leukocyte Antigen (Biochemie)
HLEM Higher Law of Electromagnetics
HLIEM High Lord of the IEM
HLL High-Speed Low-Voltage Low-Power (Logik-ICs)
HLP (Dateinamenerweiterung: Windows-Hilfe-Datei)
HLR Home Location Register (Telekommunikation)
HLRB Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum in Bavaria
HLRS Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart
HLRZ Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum (Jülich)
HLU Hilfe zum Lebensunterhalt (,,Sozialhilfe'')
HLW High-Level Waste (Radioaktiver Abfall)
HM Hardware Manager
HM Higher Mathematics
HM Hold Mode
HM Hybrid methods
HMC Metal-Matrix Composite
HMD Head-Mounted Display (VR)
HMD Helmet Mounted Display
HMDO Hexamethyldisiloxan
HMI Hahn-Meitner-Institut (Berlin)
HMI Human-Machine Interface
HMM Hidden Markov Model
HMN Home Management Network
HMR Home Location Register (Heimat-Datei)
HMS Health Monitoring System (Aircraft)
HMS Helicopter Managenemt System
HMS Helmet Mounted Sight
HMS Mission Management System
HMU Helmet Display Unit
HMX Tetramethylentetranitramin (Octogen, Sprengstoff)
HMXB High-Mass X-Ray Binary (Röntgendoppelstern)
HN Hauptnenner
HNM Heliport Noise Model (Lärmbewertung)
HNMC Hub Network Management Computer
HNO Hals-, Nasen- und Ohren(-Klinik oder -Kunde)
HNTS Home Network Telefone System
HNVS Helicopter Might Vision System
HO HandOver (Telekommunikation)
HOE Holographic Optical Element
HOGE Hover out of Ground Effect
HoH Heaven/s of Heaven
HoH House over House/s
HOJ Home on Jam
HOL High Order Language
HOLOMAR High-Resolution in situ Holographic Recording and Analysis of Marine
HOT Organisms and Particles
Highly Optimized (EU-Projekt)
Tolerance
HOTS Holographic Optical Telescope and Scanner
HOTW Heavy on the Wire
HP (hp) Hewlett Packard
HP High Pressure/Power
HPC High Performance Computing
HPC1 Human Prostata Cancer 1
HPCC High Performance Computing and Communication (USA)
HPCN High Performance Computing and Networking (ESPRIT)
HPF High Performance Fortran
HPGL Hewlett Packard Graphics Library
HPGL Hewlett Packard Graphics Language
HPHT High Pressure High Temperature (Diamant)
HPI Heinrich-Pette-Institut für Experimentelle Virologie und Immunologie
HPI (Hamburg)
Host Port Interface
HP-IB Hewlett Packard Interface Bus
HPLC High Performance Liquid Chromatography
HPNA Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (Telekommunikation)
HPR High Performance Radar
HPS High Purity Standard (Analytische Chemie)
HPS Human Patient Simulator
HPS The Hungarian Physical Society
HPS Horse Power
HPS High Processing Speed
HPSS High Performance Storage System
HPV Human-Papillomviren
HPVM High Performance Visual Machine
HQ Headquator
HQ High Quality
HQR Handling Quality Rating
HQS Herbert Quandt Stiftung
HRC Harmonically Related Carrier
HRD Hertzsprung-Russell-Diagramm (Astronomie)
HREEL(S) High Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
HRI High Resolution Imager (Röntgen-Satellit)
HRK Hochschulrektorenkonferenz
HRTEM Hochaufgelöste Raster-Transmissions-Elektronenmikroskopie
HRTF Head-Related Transfer Function
HS Hydraulic System
HSARPA Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (USA)
HSC High Speed Cutting
HSCSD High Speed Circuit Switched Data (Telekommunikation)
HSCSD High Speed Switched Data Mode
HSDL Hierarchical Scan Description Language
HSDPA High Speed Downlink Packet Access (code resource allocation techniques )
HS-DPCCH High Speed - Dedicated Physical Control Channel
HSE High Speed Ethernet
HSE High Surface Energy
HSFK Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
HSI High Speed Internet (Telekommunikation)
HSI Horizontal Situation Indicator
HSIU Heavy Stores Interface Unit
HSOF Human Sense of Touch (= haptic)
HSP Hitzeschock-Protein
HSP Hochschulsonderprogramm
HS-PDSCH High Speed Physical Downlink Shared Channel (code resource allocation
HS-PDSCH techniques )
High Speed-Physical Downlink Shared Channel
HSRV humanes Spuma-Retrovirus
HSS harter Schnellstahl (Werkzeuge)
HSS High Speed Switch (Datennetz)
HSS Home Subscriber Server (Telekommunikation)
HS-SCCH High Speed - Share Control Channel
HST Hubble Space Telescope
HSTU-C handshaking portion of the xDSL central terminal unit (xTU-C)
HSTU-R handshaking portion of the xDSL remote terminal unit (xTU-R)
HSV Hamburger Sport Verein
HSV Hypothetical Signal Vector
HSVA Hamburgische Schiffbau-Versuchsanstalt
HSWS Hartmann-Shack Wavefront Sensor
HT Height
HT High Temperature
HT Hydroxytyrosol (2-(3,4-Dihydroxyphenyl)ethanol)
HTB Heterobipolar-Transistor
HTDV Human Teratocarcinoma-Derived Virus
HTE High Throughput Experimentation
HTF Hub Terminal Facilities
HTG Heating
HTG Hyperschall-Technologie Göttingen (DLR)
HTLV humanes T-lymphotropes Virus
HTM Hyptertext Markup (Language), Dateinamenerweiterung: Internet-Datei
HTMC High Temperature Mechanical Testing Committee (UK)
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
HTML HyperText Markup Language (Dateinamenerweiterung: Internet-Datei)
HTMT Hybrid Technology/Multithreaded System (Supercomputer)
HTR Heater
HTS Heights (US Mail)
HTS High-Throughput Screening (z.B. bei DNA-Analyse)
HTS(C) High Temperature Superconductor (High-Tc Superconductivity)
HTS(L) Hochtemperatur-Supraleiter (High-Tc-Supraleitung)
HTTP HyperText Transfer (or Transmission) Protocol (Rechnernetz, WWW)
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS HTTP Secured
HTWLAN High Throughput Wireless Local Area Network
HU Height Unit
HU Humboldt-Universität (Berlin)
HUD Head-up Display
HUGO Human Genome Organization
HUM Health and Usage Monitoring
HV High-Velosity
HVAC Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning
HVGCS Home Video Game Console System
HVM Hyper-velocity Missile
HVR Hover
HVSD High Voltage Semiconductor Device
HW(CI) Hardware (Configuration Item)
HWC Hydrophobe Wechselwirkungschromatographie
HWY Highway (US Mail)
HYD Hydraulic
HYKAT Hydrodynamik- und Kavitationstunnel (HSVA)
HYPERLAN High Performance Radio LAN (Telekommunikation)
HYSWIM Hydrogen Switchable Mirror
HZT High-Z Supernova Search Team
I
I&C PS Industrial & Commercial Power Systems [Technical Conference]
i. n. D. in Nomine Die
I/O Input/Output
I/O Input/Output
I/P Identification of Position
IA Ingoing Access
IA Iowa (US-Staat)
IAA Internal aids approach
IAA Internationale Astronautische Akademie
IAAS Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik (Berlin)
IAB Institut für Akustik und Bauphysik (Oberursel/Ts.)
IAB Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (der Bundesanstalt für Arbeit)
IAB Internet Administration Board
IACC Interaural Cross-Correlation
IACS Integrated Aircraft/Avionics Control System
IAD Integrated Access Device
IADC Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency (Wien)
IAEO International Atomic Energy Organisation
IAESTE International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical
IAF Experience
[Fraunhofer-] Institut für Angewandte Festkörperphysik
IAF Internal approach fix
IAI Israel Aircraft Industries
IAKF Interessengemeinschaft für Autofreie Kur- und Fremdenverkehrsorte in
IAKK Bayern
interaurale Kreuzkorrelation
IAM Initial Address Message (Telecommunication)
IANUS Interdisziplinäre Arbeitsgruppe Naturwissenschaft, Technik und Sicherheit
IAO (Darmstadt)
[Fraunhofer-] Institut für Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation (Stuttgart)
IAP [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Angewandte Polymerforschung (Golm)
IAP Institut für Atmosphärenphysik (Kühlungsborn, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
IAP Instrument approach procedure
IAP Internet Access Provider
IAPP Inter-Access Point Protocol
IAS Indicated Airspeed
IAS Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ, USA)
IASI Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
IASP International Association for the Study of Pain
IASTED International Association of Science and Technology for Development
IAT Institut Arbeit und Technik (Gelsenkirchen)
IAT Institut fürArbeit und Technologie
IATA International Air Transport Association
IATG Internal Air Temperature Gauge
IAU International Astronomical Union
IAV Informations-, Anlauf- und Vermittlungsstelle (Karlsruhe)
IAW In Accordance With
IB Imperial Business
IB Investigation Brochure (Pharma)
IBA Important Bird Area (Naturschutz)
IBC Integrated Broadband Communication
IBC International Broadcasting Convention
IBE Interaktive Bildschirmexperimente
IBFM Interacting Boson Fermion Model
ibid ibidem (aaO)
IBIS Inflight Blade Inspection System
IBIT Indicated Built-in Test
IBIT Interruptive BIT
IBM Interacting Boson Model
IBM International Business Machines Corporation
IBMS In-Beam Mössbauer Spectroscopy
IBMT [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Biomedizinische Technik (St. Ingbert)
IBN Identification beacon
IBP [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Bauphysik (Stuttgart)
IBR Institut für Bioanorganische und Radiopharmazeutische Chemie (FZR)
IBRO International Brain Research Organization
IBWN In-Building Wireless Network
IC Imperial Centre
IC Integrated Circuit
IC Intercity (Bundesbahn)
IC Internal Combustion
IC Internal Combustion [Engine] (Verbrennungsmotor)
IC Ion Chromatography; Ionenchromatographie
IC Interference Cancellation
IC Line-Coupler (graphical Symbol)
ICA International Congress on Acoustics
ICaB Incoming Call Barrier
ICALEO International Conference on Applications of Lasers and Electrooptics
ICALEPCS International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics
ICAMU Control Systems
Intelligent Chanel Acess Manamgent Unit
ICAO International Civil Aviation Organisation
ICARCF International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision
ICAS International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
ICASE Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (NASA
ICASSP Langley Research Conference
IEEE International Center, Hampton, VA, USA)
on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
ICB Institute for Collaborative Biotechnology (USA)
ICBEN International Commission on the Biological Effects of Noise
ICBM Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
ICBM Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
ICBP International Council for Bird Preservation
ICC Intelligent Customer Care
ICCAD International Conference on Computer Aided Design
ICCL International Conference on Computer Languages
ICD Interface Control Document
ICDP International Continental Drilling Program (= KTB)
ICE In-Car-Entertainment (Autoradio)
ICE Intercity Express (Bundesbahn)
ICER Industry Council for Electronic Equipment (UK)
ICES International Council for Exploration of the Sea
ICF Inertial Confinement Fusion (= Trägheitsfusion) (Reaktor)
ICFA International Committee for Future Accelerators
ICG Intellectual Capital Group (Franklin, MI, USA)
ICGRG International Commission on General Relativity and Gravitation
ICGV Independend Complex Gausian Variable
ICI Integrated Communication Interface (Telekommunikation)
ICI Inter-Carrier Interference (Telekommunikation)
ICIP International Conference on Image Processing
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol (Telekommunikation)
ICMS Information Control and Management System
ICMU Intelligent Chanel Managment Unit
ICN Information and Communication Network (Siemens)
ICNIA Integrated Communication Navigation Identification Avionics
ICNN International Conference on Neural Networks
ICNP International Conference on Network Protocols
ICO International Commission for (or: on) Optics
ICO RTT ICO Radio Transmission Technology
ICOMOS International Council on Monuments and Sites
ICONIP International Conference on Neural Information Processing
ICP Inductively Coupled Plasma
ICP Infomation Service Control Part
ICP Interuniversity Cooperation Programme (Europe)
ICPNM International Certificate Program for New Media (FhG, CRCG)
ICR Ion Cyclotron Resonance
ICRM International Committee for Radionuclide Metrology
ICRP International Commission on Radiological Protection
ICRU International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements
ICS Inter Communication Subsystem
ICS Intercommunication System
ICS Intrnal Communication System
I-CSCF Interrogating CSCF
I-CSCF Interrogating-Call Session Control Function
ICSI International Computer Science Institute (Berkeley, CA, USA)
ICSOS International Conference on the Structure of Surfaces
ICSU International Council of Scientific Unions
ICSV International Conference on Sound and Vibration
ICT [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Chemische Technologie (Pfinztal bei Karlsruhe)
ICT Information and Communication Technology
ICTP International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Triest, seit 1964)
ICTS International Cellular Telephone System
ICU Inertial Control Unit
ICW Internet Call Waiting (Telekommunikation)
ID Idaho (US-Staat)
ID Identification
ID Inner Diameter
IDA Institute for Defense Analyses (USA)
IDA Interface for Distributed Automation
IDBS Interactive Data Business Solutions
IDC Insulation Displacement Connection
IDC International Data Centre, Internationales Datenzentrum (zur CTBTO)
IDC International Data Corporation
IDD Interface Design Document
IDE Integrated Development Environment
IDEA International Data Encryption Algorithm
IDEM Informations- und Dokumentationsstelle Ethik in der Medizin
IDF International Diabetes Federation
IDFT Inverse Discret Fourier Transform
IDFT Inverse Discrete Fourier Transform, inverse diskrete Fourier-Transformation
IDL Interactive Data Language
IDL Interface Definition (or: Description) Language
IDNDR International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
IDOC Intermediate Document
IDR Inter-Domain Routing (Telekommunikation)
IDRFC Internal Dynamic Rate Flow Control (Telekommunikation)
IDS Institut für Deutsche Sprache (Mannheim)
IDS Intrusion Detection System (Firewall)
IDTV Improved Definition Television (100 Hz-Bild)
IDU Ice Detector Unit
IDVM Integrated Voice Data Transmitter
IE Information Element
IE Internet Explorer
IE Initial Estimate
IEA International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IECE, IECEJ Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineers of Japan
ied. in eccelsis dei
IEDP Initial Estimate Data Points
IEE Institution of Electrical Engineers (UK)
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA)
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (USA)
IEER Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (USA)
IEICE, IEICEJ Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers of Japan
IEM D
IEM Immune Electron Microscope
IEM In Ear Monitor
IEM In Ear Monitor (Medical, Physiology)
IEM Inactive Equipment Maintenance
IEM Inborn Errors of Metabolism (molecular biology)
IEM Independent Electron Model
IEM Industrial End-user Market
IEM Industrial Engineering and Management (course/program)
IEM Industrial Entrepreneur Memoranda (Business, General)
IEM Industrial Environmental Management (Academic & Science, Academic
IEM Infinite
Degrees) Energy Magazine
IEM Information Engineering Methodology
IEM Initial Estimate of Manpower
IEM Innovative Emergency Management (Business, General)
IEM Innovative Emergency Management, Inc.
IEM Inspiration Education And Motivation (Community, Educational)
IEM Installation Equipment Management (Governmental, Military)
IEM Installation Equipment Manager/Management
IEM Institut für Erhaltung und Modernisierung
IEM Institut of Electricty and Magnetics
IEM Institute of Engineering and Management
IEM Institute of Engineering Mechanics (China)
IEM Institute of Environmental Medicine (Sweden)
IEM Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology
IEM Institution of Engineers, Malaysia
IEM Instructor Evaluation Matrix
IEM Integral Equation Method
IEM Integrated Electronics Module
IEM Integrated Elevation Model
IEM Integrated Environmental Management, Inc.
IEM Integrated Equipment Manager (Boeing Aerospace)
IEM Integrated ESM Mast
IEM Intelligent Energy Management
IEM Interdimensional Electromagnetics
IEM Interim Examination and Maintenance
IEM Internal Electricity Market
IEM International Electronic Monitoring
IEM International Equity Market (Business, General)
IEM Internet Engineering and Manufacturing
IEM Interpretative / Explanatory Material (Joint Aviation Requirements)
IEM Intrinsic Electro Magnetics
IEM Invalid End of Message
IEM Istanbul Emniyet Mudurlugu (Istanbul Security Administration)
IEMB Institut für Erhaltung und Modernisierung von Bauwerken (Berlin)
IEMFT Imperium of the Electro Magnetic Field Theory (see also DEMFT)
IEN Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale Galileo Ferraris (Turin, Italien)
IEP Initial Estimate Point
IEPE Integrated Electronic Piezoelectric
IERE Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers (London)
IESE [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Experimentelles Software Engineering
IETF (Kaiserslautern)
Internet Engineering Task Force
IETS Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy
IF Information Falsification
IF Intentional Field
IF Intermediate fix
IF Intermediate Frequency
IF/C Interfache/Computer
IFA Internationale Funkausstellung
IFAC International Federation of Automatic Control
IfADo Institut für Arbeitsphysiologie (Dortmund)
IFAM [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Fertigungstechnik und Angewandte Materialforschung
IFC (Bremen)
Industry Foundation Class (Schnittstelle)
IFD Instrument Flight Day
IFDR Integrated Flight Data Recording
IFE In-Flight Entertainment System
IfE Institut für Erdölforschung (Clausthal-Zellerfeld)
IFE Institut für Festkörperphysik und Elektronenmikroskopie
IFF [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Fabrikbetrieb und -automatisierung (Magdeburg)
IFF Identification Friend/Foe
IFF Institut für Festkörperforschung [a): am IFW, b): am KFA, Jülich]
IFF Interchange File Format (Graphikformat)
IFFT Inverse Fast Fourier Transform
IFFT Inverst Fast Fourier Transform
IFG Input Function Generator
IFG Inter Frame Gaps (Telecom)
IfH Institut für Hochenergiephysik (DDR, Zeuthen, AdW)
IFIP International Federation of Information Processing Societies und: International
IfL Federation for Information
Institut für Länderkunde Processing
(Leipzig)
IfL Institut für Leibesübungen
IFLIR Improved Foreward Looking Infrared
IFM Improved VHF-FM
IfM Institut für Meereskunde (Kiel)
IfN Institut für Neurobioogie (Magdeburg)
ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (München)
IFOR (Internationale Friedenstruppe für Bosnien)
IFORS International Federation of Operational Research Societies
IFOS Institut für Oberflächen- und Schichtanalytik (Univ. Kaiserslautern)
IfR Institut für Radiochemie (FZR)
IFR Instrument Flight Rules
IFRB International Frequency Registration Board (in Genf)
IFRB/ITU International Frequency Registration Board
IFS Institut für Festkörperanalytik und Strukturforschung (am IFW)
IfS Institut für Sicherheitsforschung (FZR)
IFS Intermediate Frequency Stage
IFS Intermediate Frequency Signal
IFSA International Forestry Students Association
IFSDR In Flight Shut Down Rate
IFSS Intermediate Frequency Sampling Stage
IFT [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Festkörpertechnologie (München)
IfT Institut für Troposphärenforschung (Leipzig)
IFT(o)MM International Federation for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms
IFU [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Atmosphärische Umweltforschung
IFU Interface Unit
IFW Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstofforschung (Dresden, seit 1992)
IfW Institut für Weltwirtschaft (Kiel)
IFX Interactive Financial Exchange
IfZ Institut für Zeitgeschichte (München)
IG Intelligence Gathering
IG Intrinsic Gettering
IGAPPI Interdivisional Group for Applied Physics and Physics in Industry (EPS)
IGB [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Grenzflächen- und Bioverfahrenstechnik (Stuttgart)
IGB Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (Berlin)
IGB Intermediate Gearbox
IGBP Internationales Geosphären-Biosphären-Programm (Ökologie)
IGBT Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (Semiconductor)
IGD [Fraunhofer-] Institut für graphische Datenverarbeitung (Darmstadt,
IGE Außenstelle in Rostock)
In Ground Effect
IGERT Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (NSF, USA)
IGES International Graphics Exchange Standards
IGK Integrated Gatekeeper (Telekommunikation)
IGLO Informal Group of RTD Liaison Officers in Brussels (EU)
IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol
IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol (Telekommunikation)
IGMP Internet Group Multicast Protocol (Telecom)
IGN Installations-Geräuschnormal (DIN 52218)
IGP Interior Gateway Protocol (Telekommunikation)
IGPD Interdivisional Group on Physics for Development (EPS)
IGS International GPS Service for Geodynamics (Satelliten-Geodäsie)
IGV Inlet Guide Vane
IGV Institut für Grenzflächenforschung und Vakuumphysik (Jülich)
IGZ Institut für Gemüse- und Zierpflanzenbau (Großbeeren und Kühnhausen bei
ih. Erfurt)
in heaven
IHADSS Integrated Helmet and Display Sight System
IHAS Integrated Helicopter Avionics System
IHES Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (bei Paris)
IHOSS:OSP Internet Hosted Octect Stream Service:Octet Stream Protocol
IHP Institut für Halbleiterphysik (Frankfurt/Oder)
IHPT Institut für Physikalische Hochtechnologie e.V. (Jena)
IHU Integrated Helmet Unit
IHWN In Home Wireless Networks
ii ingeniur
IIASA International Institute of Applied System Analysis (Laxemburg bei Wien)
IID Independent and Identically-Distributed (Data; Filtertheorie)
iiem in imperium electro magnetis
IIJ Internet Initiative Japan
IIM Institut für Ionenstrahlphysik und Materialforschung (FZR)
IIMV Internationales Institut für Management und Verwaltung
I-INCE International Institute of Noise Control Engineering
IINS Integrated Internal Navigation System
IIO International Industrial Organisation
IIR Immaging Infrared
IIR Infinite Impulse Response (Digitalfilter)
IIS [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen (Erlangen)
IITB [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Informations- und Datenverarbeitung (Karlsruhe)
IJCNN International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
IKAR (Landkarten-Datenbank) (im DBI)
IKARUS nstrumente für Klimagas-Reduktionsstrategien
IKBD Intelligent Keybord Chip
IKH Institut für Kern- und Hadronenphysik (FZR)
IKM Institut für elektronische Korrelationen und Magnetismus
IKRK Internationales Komitee vom Roten Kreuz
IKSE Internationale Kommission zum Schutz der Elbe
IKSR Internationale Kommission zum Schutz des Rheins
IKT Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien
IKTS [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Keramische Technologien und Sinterwerkstoffe
IKV (Dresden)
Institut für Kunststoffverarbeitung (Aachen)
IKZ Institut für Kristallzüchtung (Berlin-Adlershof)
IL Illinois (US-Staat)
IL Information Leakage
IL Insertion Loss (Einfügungsdämmung)
IL Increased Latency
ILA In-Line Amplifier (Glasfaserkabel)
ILA Internationale Luft- und Raumfahrtausstellung (?)
ILAF Identical Location of Accelerometer and Force
ILC International Laser Center (Staatsuniversität Moskau)
ILD Integrated Landing Device (avionics)
ILD Intelligibility Level Difference
ILD Interaural Level Difference
ILD Interlevel Dielectric Layer (semiconductor)
ILEC Incumbant Local Exchange Carrier (Telekommunikation)
ILL Institut Laue-Langevin (Grenoble)
ILM Integrated Laser Modulator (optische Telekommunikation)
ILM Intermediate Level Maintenance
ILMI Integrated Local Management Interface (Telekommunikation)
ILS Instrument Landing System
ILS Instrumentenlandesystem
ILS Intracavity Laser Spectroscopy
ILS(C/M/S) Integrated Logistic Support (Comma11 ee/Management/System)
ILSC International Laser Safety Conference
ILT [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Lasertechnik (Aachen)
ILV [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Lebensmitteltechnologie und Verpackung (München,
ILW bis 31.12.97; danach:
Intermediate-Level IVV)(Radioaktiver Abfall)
Waste
IM Imperial Mind
IM Information Management
IM Information Manager (Telekommunikation)
IM Instant Messaging (Telekommunikation)
IM Intensitätsmodulation
IM Intermodulation
IM Internal Memory
IM Identity Matrix
IMA Integrated Motor Assist
IMA Interactive Multimedia Association
IMA International Marinelife Association
IMA Inverse Multiplexing for ATM
IMACS International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
IMAGE Imager for Magnetopause to Aurora Global Exploration (NASA, Satellit)
IMAP Internet Mail (or: Message) Access Protocol (E-Mail Server)
IMB Institut für Molekulare Biotechnologie (Jena)
IMBA Institut für Molekulare Biotechnologie (Wien)
IMC IMC Instrument Meteorological Conditions
IMCC ISDN Management and Coordination Committee (TC im ETSI)
IMD Inter-Metal Dielectric (Semiconductor)
IMD Intermodulation Distortion
IMechE Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK)
IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identity
IMEKO International Measurement Confederation (Budapest)
IMG Image, Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei
IMHFH Industrial Management Committee
IMHFH Inspection Manhours per Flying Hours of System at Depot Level
IMHFH Inspection Manhours per Flying Hours of System at Intermediate Level
IMHFH Inspection Manhours per Flying Hours of System at Organisation Level
IMIS Integriertes Mess- und Informationssystem zur Überwachung der
IMK Umweltradioaktivität
[Fraunhofer-] Institut für Medienkommunikation (St. Augustin)
IMK Integrated Multifunction Keyboard
IML [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Materialfluss und Logistik (Dortmund)
IML International Microgravity Laboratory
IMM Institut für Mikrotechnik (Mainz)
I-MMS MSS Interconnection Network
IMO Institut für Mikrostrukturtechnologie und Optoelektronik (Wetzlar)
IMO International Management Office
IMO International Maritime Organization
IMP Imperial
IMP Imperium
IMP Information Service Management Part
IMP Institut für Molekulare Pathologie (Wien)
IMP Intermodulation Product
IMPATT Impact Avalanche Transit-Time (Diode)
IMPD Investigational Medicinal Product Dossier (Pharma)
IMPRS International Max Planck Research School
IMPS Institute for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Porto Novo, Benin)
IMPT Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy (Röntgentechnik)
IMRS Integrated Monitoring and Recording System
IMRT Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (Röntgentechnik)
IMS [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Mikroelektronische Schaltungen und Systeme
IMS (Dresden)
Institute for Molecular Science (Okazaki, Japan)
IMS Integrated Machining System
IMS Integrated Management Solution (Telekommunikation)
IMS Integrated Multiplex System
IMS Intelligent Manufacturing System
IMS International Monitoring System (zum CTBT)
IMS Ionen-Mikrofabrikations-Systeme (Firma in Wien)
IMS IP Multimedia Subsystem
IMS IP multimedia subsystem
IMSA Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identification
IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity
IMT Institut für Mikrostrukturtechnik (KfK)
IMT Institute of Microtechnology (Universität von Neuchâtel, CH)
IMT International Mobile Telecommunications
IMTC Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE)
IMU Inertial Measurement Unit
IMU International Mathematical Union
IMW Institut für Metallische Werkstoffe (am IFW)
IN Indiana (US-Staat)
IN Inertial Navigator
IN Intelligentes Netz, Intelligent Network
INAP Intelligent Network Application Protocol (or: Part)
INBD Inboard
INC Major NATO Commanders
Inc. Incorporated (USA, entspricht Aktiengesellschaft)
INCE Institute of Noise Control Engineering (USA)
INCEMIC International Conference on Electromagnetic Interference and Compatibility
INCO International Cooperation [Cooperation with Third Countries and International
IND Organisations]
Indicator (EC)
IND Mission Need Document
INEL Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
INES Informationsnetz Elbe-Sanierung
INES Innovative Navigation European System
INESAP International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation
INF Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces
INF Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces
INFCE International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation
INFN Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Frascati, Italien)
Ing. Ingenieur
Ing. ingenium
ingeniur ingenium iuris "®" = eingetragene Marke
INGO Intensivierte Gewässerüberwachungsorganisation
INI initial, (Dateinamenerweiterung: Programm-Initialisierungsdatei)
INIE Innovations in Nuclear Infrastructure and Education (DoE-Programm, USA)
INM Integrated (or: Intermediate) Network Management (optische
INM Telekommunikation)
Integrated Noise Model (FAA)
INMARSAT International Maritime Satellite Organisation
Inmarsat International Maritime Satellite Organization (gegr. 1979)
INOK Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie (Berlin)
INP Institut für Niedertemperatur-Plasmaphysik (Greifswald)
INPAT Integration des Patentwesens in die ingenieurmäßige wissenschaftliche
INQUA Hochschulausbildung
International Union for Quarternary Research
INRA International Research Associates
INRETS Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité (Frankreich)
INRIA Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Frankreich)
INS Inertial Navigation System
INSERM Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale
INT Intersection
INT Maintenance
Int., Intnl. International
INTAS International Association for the Promotion of Cooperation with Scientists from
INTEGRAL the New Independent
International Gamma-Ray States (Internationale
Astrophysics Assoziation
Laboratory zur für
(geplant Förderung
2001) der
INTELSAT Zusammenarbeit mit Wissenschaftlern aus der früheren
International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation Sovietunion) (Brüssel
Internoise 1993)
International Congress on Noise Control Engineering
INTOR International Tokamak Reactor (Fusionsreaktor)
INTR Interior
IntServ Integrated Services (Telekommunikation)
Int-Serv Integrated Service
INV Inverter
IOBB Input Output, Broadband (Telekommunikation)
IOC Industrial Operational Clearance
IOC Initial Operational Capability
IOC Intergovermental Oceanographic Commission (der UNESCO)
IODP Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
IOF [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Angewandte Optik und Feinmechanik (Jena)
IOM Individual Ordinary Member (EPS u.a.)
IOM Institut für Oberfläüchenmodifizierung (Leipzig)
IONDS Integrated Operational Nuclear Detection System
IOP The Institute of Physics (UK)
IOPP Institute of Physics Publishing (Bristol, UK)
IÖR Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung (Dresden)
IOT InterOperability Test (Telekommunikation)
IOTA Infrared-Optical Telescope Array (Mt. Hopkins, AZ, USA)
IOTA Institut d'Optique Théorique et Appliquée (Frankreich)
IOTA Integration of Two Access Technologies (Telecommunication)
IOW Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde (Universität Rostock)
IP Initial Point
IP Initial Provisioning
IP Intelligence Platform
IP Internet Protocol (Rechnernetz)
IP MM Internet Protocol Multimedia network
IP VPN IP Virtual Private Network(s) (Telekommunikation)
IP/PPP Internet Protocol/Point-to-Pont Protocol
IPA [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung (Stuttgart)
IPA Intelligent Pilot Assistant (DLR, Flugführung)
IPAM Interface Analysis at Atomic Level and Properties of Advanced Materials
IPAT Impact, Population, level of Affluence, Technology (Gleichung zur
IPB Beschreibung umweltschädigender
Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie Auswirkungen menschlichen Verhaltens)
(Halle/Saale)
IPC Illustrated Parts Catalogue
IPC Integrated Plastic (or: Polymer) Circuit (Elektronik)
IPC Integrated Pollution Control
IPC International Patent Classification
IPC Inter-Process Communication (Telekommunikation)
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPCC International Professional Communication Conference
IPD Institut für Polymerforschung (Dresden)
iPD interactive Phase Distortion
IPDC Internet Protocol Device Control
IPDS Institut für Phonetik und digitale Sprachverarbeitung (Kiel)
IPF Institut für Polymerforschung (Dresden)
IPF Inverse Pole Figure
IPF IOTA Packet Filter Library
IPG Industrial Project Group
IPG Information Power Grid (NASA)
IPHT Institut für Physikalische Hochtechnologie (Jena)
IPIEM Intelectual Property of the IEM
IPK [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Produktionsanlagen und Konstruktionstechnik (Berlin)
IPK Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (Gatersleben)
IPL Information-Processing Language
IPL Initial Provisioning List
IPL Ionenprojektions-Lithographie
IPM [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Physikalische Messtechnik (Freiburg)
IPM Impulses per Minute
IPMX Internet Protocol Media Exchange (Telekommunikation)
IPN Institut für die Pädagogik der Naturwissenschaften (Kiel)
IPN Interference plus Noise
IPNS Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA)
IPO Initial Public Offering
IPO Institute for Perception Research (Eindhoven, NL)
IPO International Programme Office
IPOA Internet Protocol over Asynchronous Transfer Mode
IPoA IP over ATM
IPP Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (Garching)
IPPV impulse Pay per View
IPR Intelectual Property Rights
IPR Intermediate Power Rating (30 min)
IPRC Intellectual Property Rights Committee (TC im ETSI)
IPS Information Service Process Subsystem
IPS In-Plane Switching (LCD mit beiden Pixelelektroden auf einer Seite,
IPS aufgeklappter
Instructions perKondensator)
Second
IPS Integrated Particle Separator
IPS International Plutonium Storage
IPSD Intensified Position-Sensing Detector
IPSE Integrated Project Support Environment
IPSEC Internet Protocol Security (Telekommunikation)
IPSI [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Integrierte Publikations- und Informationssysteme
IPSS (Darmstadt)
Information Processing Systems and Software (ESPRIT)
IP-SSF IP Multimedia Service Switching Function
IPT [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Produktionstechnologie (Aachen)
IPTS Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (EU, Sevilla, Spanien)
IPTV Internet Protocol television
IPv4 Internet Protocol version 4
IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6
IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange (Telekommunikation)
IQEC International Quantum Electronics Conference
IQHE Integer Quantum Hall Effect
IR Information Retrieval
IR Infrared
IR Infrared [Radiation]
IRAM Institute for Radio Astronomy at Millimeter Wavelengths (Grenoble,
IRAS Frankreich)
Infrared Astronomical Satellite
IRB [Fraunhofer-] Informationszentrum Raum und Bau
IRBM Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile
IRC Internet Relay Chat (Rechnernetz)
IRCAM Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique Musique (Paris)
IRCH Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating (Fusionsreaktortechnik)
IRD Integrated Receiver Decoder
IRDA Infrared Data Exchange
IRDAC Industrial Research and Development Advisory Committee (EU)
IRDS Infra-Red Detection System
IRDT Inflatable Reentry and Descent Technology (Raumfahrt)
IRE Institute of Radio Engineers (USA)
IRENA (Internationale Agentur für Erneuerbare Energien)
IRFU Integrated Radio Frequency Unit (Telekommunikation)
IRI Industrial Research Institute (Washington, DC, USA)
IRIDIA [Institute for] Interdisciplinary Research and Development in Artificial
IRIS Intelligence
Incorporated(Esprit, Brüssel)
Research Institutions for Seismology (USA)
IRIS Infra-Red Imaging System
IRP Integration Reference Point
IRS Inertial Reference System
IRS Infra-Red Suppressor
IRS Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung (Berlin)
IRS Interface Requirements Specification
IRS Internal Reference Specification
IRS International Revenue Service (USA)
IRS Intrusion Response System (Firewall)
IRSI Infrared Space Interferometry
IRST Infrared Search and Track (Radar)
IRSU ISDN Remote Subscriber Unit (RSU mit ISDN-Möglichkeit)
IRT Integrated Receiver-Transmitter (Telekommunikation)
IRTF Infrared Telescope Facility (Mauna Kea, Hawaii)
IRTF Internet Research Task Force
IS Input Signal
IS Identiy Spoofing
IS Information Systems
IS Integrated Services
IS Internet Security
IS Island (US Mail)
IS Interference Suppresion
is. in shalah
ISA Industry-Standard Architecture
ISA Integrated IP/SDH/ATM (or: STM/ATM) (Telekommunikation)
ISA Integrated Service Adapter (Telekommunikation)
ISA International Search Authority (Patente)
ISA International Standard Atmosphere
ISAAC Infrared Spectrometer and Array Camera (beim VLT der ESO)
ISAM Institut für Supercomputing und Angewandte Mathematik (Heidelberg)
ISAN Integrität bei der Satellitennavigation
ISAR Intelligentes System zur automatischen Radioskopie
ISARS International Society for Acoustic Remote Sensing
ISAS Institut für Spektrochemie und Angewandte Spektroskopie (Dortmund)
ISAS Institut of Space and Aeronautical Science (Japan)
ISB Intelligent Signalling Bus (Datennetz)
ISBN International Standard Book Number
ISC [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Silicatforschung (Würzburg)
ISC International Softswitch Consortium
ISD In Service Data
ISD Introduction Schedule
ISDB Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting (Telekommunikation)
ISDB-S Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Satellite (Telekommunikation)
ISDB-T Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (Telekommunikation)
ISDC Improved Signal Data Converter
ISDF Internal Software Delivery Form
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network (Telekommunikation)
ISE [Fraunhofer-] Institut für solare Energiesysteme (Freiburg)
ISE Integrated Switching Element (Telekommunikation)
ISE Intelligent Synthesis Environment (NASA)
ISEC Initial Support Equipment Cost
ISF [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Schwingungsforschung (1956, später: IITB)
ISF International Science Foundation
ISFET Ionen-sensitiver Feldeffekt-Transistor
ISFH Institut für Solarenergieforschung, Hameln
ISFM International Spent Fuel Management (Brennelement-Kontrolle)
ISG Informationszentrum für Sexualität und Gesundheit (Freiburg/Br)
ISH Internationale Fachmesse Sanitär Heizung Klima (Frankfurt/M)
ISI [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Systemtechnik und Innovationsforschung (Karlsruhe)
ISI Institut für Schicht- und Ionentechnik (Jülich)
ISI Institute for Scientific Information (Philadelphia, PA)
ISI Intersymbol Interference
ISIC International Student Identity Card
ISIN International Securities Identification Number
ISIS Intelligentes Satellitendaten-Informationssystem (Fernerkundung)
IS-IS Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System
ISIT [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Siliziumtechnologie (Itzehoe)
ISL Imperceptible Structured Light
ISL Institut Franco-Allemand de Recherches de Saint-Louis, Deutsch-
ISL Französisches
Inter Switch Link Forschungsinstitut Sant-Louis
(Telekommunikation)
ISL Inter-Satellite Link (Telekommunikation)
ISM In Situ Monitoring
ISM Industrial Scientific Medicine (433 MHz-Frequenzband) und Bluetooth: 2,45
ISM GHz-Band (lizenzfrei)
Interstellares Medium
ISMA International Symposium on Musical Acoustics
ISMA Internet Streaming Media Alliance
ISN Institut des Sciences Nucléaires (Grenoble, Frankreich)
ISNA International Symposium on Nonlinear Acoustics
ISNR Improvement in SNR (Bildbearbeitung)
ISNS Inside Science News Service (USA)
ISO Infrared Space Observatory (1995)
ISO International Standardisation Organisation
ISO International Standardization Organization
ISO International Standards Organization
ISO/SR ISO Search Retrieval
ISOL Isospin Separation Online
ISOL Isotope Separator Online
ISOLDE Innerstädtischer Service mit optimierten logistischen Dienstleistungen
ISORAC Infrared Spectroscopy of Ozone and Related Atmospheric Constituents
ISOS Internet-Spanning Operating System (noch hypothetisch)
ISP In-System Programmable (devices)
ISP Internet Service Provider
ISPRAM In Situ Processing of Aluminium Matrix Composites
ISR Initial Submission Rate (Datennetz)
ISR Integrated Switch Router (Internet)
ISR Interrupt Service Routine
ISRN International Standard Technical Report Number
ISS International Space Station
ISSA Information Service Setup Answer
ISSCC International Solid-State Circuits Conference
ISSN International Standard Series Number
ISSR Information Service Setup Request
ISSS International Society of Soil Sciences
ISST [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Software- und Systemtechnik (Berlin)
IST [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Schicht- und Oberflächentechnik (Braunschweig)
IST Internal Set Theory (Interne Mengenlehre)
ISTC International Science and Technology Center (Moskau)
ISTP Information Society Technologies Programme
ISTR Inverse Sequence-Tagged Repeat (DNA-Markertechnologie)
ISUP ISDN User Part
ISVR Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (Southampton, UK)
ISX-B Impurity Studies Experiment B (Fusionsreaktortechnik, Oak Ridge)
ISY International Space Year (1992)
IT Information Theory
IT Information Technology, Informationstechnik
IT Inherent Tradeoff
ITA [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Toxikologie und Aerosolforschung (Hannover). (Ab
ITAEG 2003: ITEM)Technology Advisory Experts Group
Information
ITB Internationale Tourismusbörse (Berlin)
itb. in the boondocks
ITC inferior-temporaler Cortex
ITC International Typeface Corporation
ITCA Initial Training Costs of Aircraft
ITCM Initial Training Costs of Maintenance Personal
ITD Interaural Time Difference
ITEA Information Technology for European Advancement
I-TEC Innovations- und Technologie-Eigenkapital (EU-Programm)
ITEM [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Toxikologie und Aerosolforschung (Hannover). (Bis
ITER 2002: ITA) Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Fusionsreaktortechnik)
International
ITF Infrared Telescope Facility (Mauna Kea, HI, USA)
ITFS Instructional TV Fixed Service
ITG Informationstechnische Gesellschaft (im VDE)
ITGS Intelligent Traffic Guidance System (Tokio)
ITiS Informations-Technik in Schiffen
ITLR Institut für Thermodynamik der Luft- und Raumfahrt (Uni Stuttgart)
ITO Indium Tin Oxide
ITO Instrument Takeoff
ITPO Initial Technical Publication Cost
ITRI Industrial Technology Research Institute (Taiwan)
ITRI Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute (Albuquerque, NM, USA)
ITS Intelligent Transportation Systems
ITS Intelligentes Tutorsystem
ITS-90 International Temperature Scale of 1990
ITSEC Information Technologies Security Evaluation Criteria (Telekommunikation)
ITSP Internet Telephony Service Provider
ITU [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Toxikologie und Umwelthygiene (München)
ITU International Telecommunication(s) Union (Genf, Schweiz)
ITU International Telecommunications Union
ITU International Telecommunictions Union
ITU-R ITU Radiocommunication Sector
ITU-R International Telecommunications Union - Radiocommunications Sector
ITU-T International Telecommunications Union
ITU-T ITU-Telecommunications
ITU-TS ITU Telecommunication Standards
ITWM [Fraunhofer-]Institut für Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik (Kaiserslautern)
Iu I/F inter the RNS and the core network. It is also considered as a Ref Pnt
IU or I/U Interface Unit
IUAES Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
IUCAF Inter-Union Commission on the Allocation of Frequencies for Radio and Space
IUCN Sciences
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
IUCr International Union of Crystallography
IUCT [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Umweltchemie und Ökotoxikologie (Schmallenberg)
IUE International Ultraviolet Explorer (Satellit)
IUGG International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
IuK Information und Kommunikation (eine Initiative der wissenschaftlichen
IUPAC Fachgesellschaften)
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
IUPAP International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
IUPUI Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianopolis
iur iurae, iuris
IUT Institut Universitaire de Technologie
IUTA Institut für Umwelttechnologie und Umweltanalytik (Duisburg)
IUTAM International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
IUVSTA International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique, and Applications
IV four (roman number)
IV Inverse Value
IV Initial Vector
IVAS Internet Value Added Services
IVF In Vitro Fertilization
IVH Institut für Verkehrswirtschaft (Hannover)
IVK Intelligente Verteilerkästen
IVM Industrie-Verband Motorrad e.V.
IVoD Interaktives Video on Demand
IVPN International Virtual Private Network (Telekommunikation)
IVR Interactive (or: Integrated) Voice Response
IVSE Information and Voice Services Environment (Telekommunikation)
IVV [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Verfahrenstechnik und Verpackung (München, ab
IWC 1.1.98,
Indirect vorher:
WirelessILV)
Communcation
IWCS Improved Wireless Communcation System
IWF Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen)
IWF Institut für Wild- und Zootierforschung (Berlin)
IWF Inter Working Function
IWF Internationaler Währungsfonds
IWH Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle
I-WLAN interworking-WLAN
IWM [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Werkstoffmechanik (Freiburg)
IWMI International Water Management Institute (Sri Lanka)
IWR Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen (Univ. Heidelberg)
IWRB International Waterfowl Research Bureau
IWS [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Werkstoff- und Strahltechnik (Dresden)
IWS Institut für Werkstoffphysik und Strukturforschung
IWTZ Internationales Wissenschafts- und Technik-Zentrum (Moskau)
IWU [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Umformtechnik (Chemnitz)
IWU Inter Working Unit
IWZ Informationszentrum Wärmepumpen und Kältetechnik
IXC Inter-Exchange Carrier (Telekommunikation)
IYPT International Young Physicists Tournament
IZB Informationszentrum Benchmarking (am IPK)
IZE Informationszentrale der Elektrizitätswirtschaft
IZF Instituut voor Zintuigfysiologie (TNO, Soesterberg, NL) (Zintuig: Sinnes...)
IZFP [Fraunhofer-] Institut für zerstörungsfreie Prüfung (Saarbrücken)
IZM [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Zuverlässigkeit und Mikrointegration (Berlin und
IZT München)
Institut für Zukunftsstudien und Technologiebewertung (Berlin)
J
J. Journal
J2EE Java 2 Enterprise Edition
J2ME Java 2 Micro Edition
J2SE Java 2 Standard Edition
JACC Joint Automatic Control Conference
JAERI Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute
JAIN JAVA for IN (Telekommunikation)
JAR Joint Airworthiness Requirement
JASA Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
JASU Jet aircraftstarting unit
JBC Java Bytecode
JBC Java Bytecode
JBOD Just a Bunch Of Disks (Difference: RAID)
JCT Joint Central Team (ITER)
JCT Junction (US Mail)
JDBC Java Data Base Connectivity, SQL-Datenbankschnittstelle in Java
JDBC Java Data Base Connectivity, SQL-Datenbankschnittstelle in Java
JDBC JAVA Database Connectivity (Telekommunikation)
JDK JAVA Development Kit
JDMK JAVA Dynamic Management Kit (Telekommunikation)
JECC Joint ETSI/ECMA Committee (TC im ETSI)
JEDEC Joint Electron Device Engineering Council
JEDEC Joint Electronic Device Engineering Council
JEIDA Japan Electronic Industry Development Association
JEP Joint European Project
JES JAVA Embedded Server
JESSI Joint European Submicron Silicon
JET Joint European Torus (Fusionsreaktortechnik, Culham, Oxford, England)
JETRO Japanese External Trade Organization
JETT Jettison
JFT-2M Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (Fusionsreaktortechnik, Tokai,
JGHF Japan)
Johann-Gottfried-Herder-Forschungsrat (Marburg)
JGOFS Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
JHP Japan Hadron Project (Protonenbeschleuniger)
JICST Japan Information Center of Science and Technology (Datenbank)
JIDM Joint Interdomain Management (Telekommunikation)
JIF (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)
JIF Joint Infrastructure Fund (UK)
JILA Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (Boulder, CO, USA)
JINR Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russland)
JIT Just-in-time compiler
JLC Japanese Linear Collider
JMS Java Message Service
JMX JAVA Management Extensions
JNLP Java Network Launch Protocol
JNX Japan Network Exchange
JOH Justification Overhead
Joides Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling (Zusammenschluss
JOSA von Meeresforschungsinstituten)
Journal of the Optical Society of America
JPEG Joint Photographic (or: Pictures) Expert Group (Bildcodierung)
JPG Joint Project Group
JPG siehe JPEG (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, CA, USA)
JPS Physical Society of Japan
JRC Joint Research Centre
JRC Joint Research Centre (EU)
JRDC Japanese Research and Development Corporation
JRS Japanese Rocket Society
JSAP The Japan Society of Applied Physics
JSASS Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences
JSC Johnson Space Center (USA)
JSME Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
JSNS Japan Spallation Neutron Source
JSP JAVA Server Pages
JSPMI Japan Society for the Promotion of Machine Industry
JSS Java Script Style
JST Japan Science and Technology Corporation
JT-60 Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (Fusionsreaktortechnik, Naka,
JTC Japan)
EBU/ETSI Joint Technical Committee (TC im ETSI)
JTEC Japanese Technology Evaluation Center
JTIDS Joint Tactical Identification and Distribution System
JTIDS Joint Tactical Information Distribution System
JVC Japanese Victor Company
JVM Java Virtual Machine
K
KAFOR (Internationale Friedenstruppe für das Kosovo)
KAI Koordinierungs- und Aufbauinitiative e.V. [für die Forschung in Berlin und den
KAI-AdW neuen Bundesländern]
Koordinierungs- und Abwicklungsstelle für die Akademie der Wissenschaften
KAIST Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
KAM-Theorie Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser-Theorie (nichtlineares Schwingungssystem),
KAS [Andrej] Kolmogorov - [Wladimir] Arnold - [Jürgen] Moser
Kanalserver
KASCADE Karlsruhe Shower Core and Array Detector (für kosmische Strahlung, seit
KATHY 1996)
Key Authentication
KAVA Kommission für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Archäologie (Bonn)
KB Knowledge Base
kbit/s kilobits per second
kbps kilobit/Sekunde (= 1024 Bits/Sekunde)
KCAS Knots Calibrated Airspeed
KDC Key-Distribution Center
KDE K Desktop Environment
KDI Keybord and Display
KDP Kaliumdihdrogenphosphat
KDT Kammer der Technik (Ostdeutsche Ingenieure)
KDV Kriegsdienstverweigerer
KE Kentucky (US-Staat)
KEG Kommission der Europäischen Gemeinschaften
KEGG Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
KEK [National Laboratory for High-Energy Physics] (Tsukuba, Japan)
KEMAR Knowles Electronics Manikin for Acoustic Research
KEOPS Krystal European in-Orbit Positioning System
KEP Kurier, Express, Paket
KET Komitee für Elementarteilchenphysik
KFA Forschungszentrum Jülich
KFC Konferenz der Fachbereiche Chemie
KfK Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe
KFN Komitee für die Forschung mit Neutronen
KFP Konferenz der Fachbereiche Physik der Deutschen Hochschulen
KfW Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau
Kfz Kraftfahrzeug
KGN Körperschall-Geräuschnormal
KGSW Known Good Software
kgV kleinstes gemeinsames Vielfaches
KHK Koronare Herzkrankheit
KHM Kunsthochschule für Medien (Köln)
KI künstliche Intelligenz
KIAS Knots Indicated Airspeed
KIE Kintetsu International Express (Übersee-Büros von KNT)
KIF Knowledge Interchange Format
KIS Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik (Freiburg)
KIS Knowbot Information Service (Rechnernetz-Service)
KIS Kontaktstellen-Informations-Service
KIS Krankenhausinformationssystem
KIST Korean Institute for Science and Technology
KKK Kryo-Kanal Köln (DLR, Köln, Porz-Wahnheide)
KKW Kernkraftwerk
KL Kathodenlumineszenz
KL künstliches Leben
KMG Koordinatenmessgerät
KMI Knowledge Media Institute (UK, Fernuniversität)
KMI Körpermasse-Index (= BMI = M/L2, M: Körpermasse, L: Körperlänge)
KMK (Optimum:Konferenz
Ständige 20 ... 25 kg/m2)
der Kultusminister der Länder in der Bundesrepublik
KMU Deutschland
kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (bis 1000 Beschäftigte) [= SME]
KNN künstliches neuronales Netz(werk)
KNT Kinki Nippon Tourist (Japanisches Tourismus-Unternehmen)
KOps Kilo-Operations
KOSEF Korea Science Engineering Foundation
KOSIMO Konfliktsimulationsmodell (Institut für Politische Wissenschaft, Heidelberg)
KOTN Knights of the Night
KOTT Knights of the Triangle
KOWI Koordinierungsstelle (EG) der Wissenschaftsorganisationen (der
KP Bundesrepublik
Key Point Deutschland) (Bonn) (EU)
KPGLB Königlich Preußische Geologische Landesanstalt und Bergakademie
KQML Knowledge, Query and Manipulation Language
KR Kommunikationsrechner
KS Kansas (US-Staat)
KS Kingstone
KSE Konventionelle Streitkräfte in Europa (Vertrag über ...)
KSTAR Korean Superconductivity Tokamak Advanced Research
KSZE (Fusionsreaktorprojekt)
Konferenz über Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit in Europa
KTAS Knots True Airspeed
KTB Kontinentales Tiefbohrprogramm der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (= ICDP)
KTBA Mean Time Betwenn Arising of System
KTG Kerntechnische Gesellschaft
KTP Kaliumtitanylphosphat
KTP Kontinentales Tiefbohrprogramm
KTS Knots Locator
KVK Krankenversicherungskarte
KVVL Kliminalle Veleinigung von Lichteln
KW II. Kaiser-Wilhelm II.
KWG Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
KWI Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut
KWIC Keyword in Context Index (,,permutierter Index'')
KWU Kraftwerk Union
L Left
L
L/M throughout D & D NH90
L2CAP Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol (Telekommunikation)
L2TP Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (Datenübertragung)
LA Local Area
LA Linear Arithmetic
LA Linear Arithmetic Synthesis
LA Local Authority
LA Lousiana (US-Staat)
LAAPD Large-Area Avalanche Photodiode
LABS Low Altitude Bobming System
LAC Low Authority Control
LACP Link Aggregation Control Protocol (Telekommunikation)
LAH Light Attack Helicopter
LAK Lymphokine Activated Killer (Zellen)
LAM Local Area Multicomputer
LAM Location Accuracy Matrix
LAMA Large-Aperture Mirror Array (of LZTs)
LAMPF Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility
LAMPS Light Airborne Multi-purpose System
LAMS Load Alleviation and Mode Stabilization (Flugzeug)
LAMS Local Anti Missile System
LAN Local Area Network (Rechnernetze)
LANE Local Area Network Emulation (Telekommunikation)
LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA)
LANSCE Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANL)
LANTIRN Low Altitude Navigation Targeting IR at Night
LAP LAN Access Point
LaRC Langley Research Center (NASA)
LARC Livermore Automatic Research Computer (1955)
LAS Lateral Active Suspension
LASCO Large Angle Spectroscopic Coronograph (an Bord von SOHO)
Laser Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
LASIK Laser-Assisted in situ Keratomileusis (Augenchirurgie)
LASSO Langfristige Anwendungen seilgefesselter Systeme im Orbit
LAT Latitude
LBA Luftfahrt-Bundesamt (German civil Certification authority)
LBD (Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft Access-Lockdatei)
LBD Link Balance Detection
LBF [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Betriebsfestigkeit (Darmstadt)
LBG Lautsprachbegleitende Gebärden
LBL Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (CA, USA)
LBNL Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, CA, USA)
LBR Laser Beam Recorder
LBS Landesbausparkasse
LBS Location-Based Services (Telekommunikation)
LBSF Local Back Surface Field (Solarzellen)
LBT Large Binocular Telescope (Steward Observatory, AZ, USA)
LC Link Control (Telekommunikation)
LC Liquid Chromatography
LC Liquid Crystal
LC Laptop Computer
LCA Large Corporate Accounts
LCA Liquid Crystal Array
LCB Logistic Configuration Baseline
LCC Life-Cycle-Costs
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
LCE liquid crystal emulsions
LCF Low Cycle Fatigue
LCLS LINAC Coherent Light Source
LCN Load Classification Number
LCNP Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy (USA)
LCOS Liquid Crystal on Silicon (Chip)
LCP Link Control Protocol
LCP Local Connection Point
LC-PCF Liquid Crystal Photonic Crystal Fibre
LCR Limited Combat Ready
LCS Line Connection Subsystem (Datennetz)
LCS Location Services (Telekommunikation)
LCT Large Coil Task (Karlsruhe)
LCT Line Coding Techniques
LCTC Low Cost Tooling for Composites
LCU Local Communications Unit
LCVD Laser Chemical Vapor Deposition
LD Laserdiode
LD letal dose
LDA Landing Distance available
LDA Laser Doppler Anemometer, Laser Doppler Anemometry
LDA Low-Density Amorphous (Ice)
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (Telekommunikation)
LDC Long Distance Call
LDD Logical Data Dictionary
LDF Local Density Functional
LDL Low-Density Lipoprotein
LDL Low-Density Liquid
LDNS Lightweight Doppler Navigation System
LDP Label Distribution Path (Telekommunikation)
LDP Landing Decision Point
LDPC Low Density Parity Check
LDPE Low Density Polyethylene
LDR Large Disployable Reflector (Satelliten)
LDR Light Dependent Resistor
LDR Location Deferred Request
LDS Lower-Data-Strobe (Atari)
LDV Laser Doppler Velocimetry
LE Light Edition
LE Linear Equation
LE Leading edge
LEAP Lasers and Electro-Optics Application Program (CLEO/LEAP)
LEAP Lightweight Extensible Agent Platform (Agenten-Plattform für Mobiltelefone)
LEAR Low Energy Antiproton Ring (CERN)
LEBU Large Eddy Break-up Device
LEC Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cell
LEC Liquid Encapsulated Czochralski (Kristallzuchtverfahren)
LEC Local Exchange Carrier (Telekommunikation)
LECIS Laboratory Equipment Control Interface Specification
LED Light emitting diode
LED Light-Emitting Diode
LEEM Low Energy Electron Microscopy
LEG Great Circle Path Joining Vaypoint Pair
LEI Laser Enhanced Iionization
LEI Local Employment Initiatives for Women (EU)
LEM Local Element Manager (Kommunikation)
LEMP Lightning Electro Magnetic Pulse
LEMS Long End Multiple System (militärisches Aufklärungssystem, USA)
LEN Laboratoire Energie Nuisances (Teil von INRETS)
LENS (Laserforschungslaboratorium, Florenz, I)
LEO Low Earth Orbit (Satellit)
LEO Low. Earth Orbit
LEOS Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (IEEE)
LEP Large Electron Positron Collider (CERN)
LEP Linear Error Prediction
LER Label Edge Router (Telekommunikation)
LES Linear Equation Solver
LESD Local Exhaustive Search Decoder
LEST Large Earth-Based Solar Telescope
LET Linear Energy Transfer
LETI (Forschungslaboratorium der CEA in Grenoble)
LEU Low-Enriched Uranium (?) (niedrig angereichertes Uran)
LF Line Feed (Printer)
LF Low Frequency
LF Low Frequency (30 - 300 kHz)
LFC Laminar Flow Control
LFD Laser Forging Device
LFM Lateral Force Microscopy
LFSR Linear Feedback Shift Register
LFUD Laser Forging Underwater Device
LFX Laser Fix
Lfz Landfahrzeug
LG Landing Gear
LGN Law of Great Numbers
LGPL Lesser General Public License
LGWS Later Generation Wireless System
LH Left Hand
LHASA Logic and Heuristics Applied to Synthetic Analysis
LHC Large Hadron Collider (CERN, geplant für 2004-2005)
LHCC LHC Committee
LHD Large Helical Device (NIFS)
LHD Left Hemisphere Damage (Hirnschäden)
LHF Local Hidden Variable (Quantentheorie)
LHOX Low and High Pressure Oxygen
LHX Light Helicopter Experimental
LIA Laser Institute of America (Toledo, OH, USA)
LIBS Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
LIC Licence
LIC Local Interstellar Cloud
LID Local Injection and Detection (Kommunikation)
LIDAR Light Detection and Ranging
LIF Laser Induced Fluorescence
LIF Location Interoperability Forum (Telekommunikation)
LIF-ENSTA-X (Laserforschungslaboratorium, Palaiseau, Frankreich)
LIGA-Verfahren Lithographie, Galvanoformung, Abformtechnik [Röntgentiefenlithographie mit
LIGO Synchrotronstrahlung,
Laser kombiniert mit
Interferometer Gravitational galvanischer
Wave Metallabscheidung
Observatory und
(Livingston, LA, USA,
LIM verschiedenen
Einweihung: Abformprozessen]
Line InterfaceNov. 1999, Messungen ab 2002)
Module
LIMS Laboratory Information Management System, Labor-Informations- und
Managementsystem (Qualitätssicherung)
LIN Linear
LINAC Linear Accelerator (50 GeV, Stanford, SLAC)
LIPS Light Intensity Pressure Sensor
LISA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (Gravitationswellendetektor aus 3
LISB Satelliten, geplant für 2011) Berlin (Verkehrsführung)
Leit- und Informationssystem
LISM Local Interstellar Medium
LISP List Programming (or: Processing)
LiST Laser-induziertes Spannungs-Trennverfahren (Glasschneiden)
LITE Lidar-in-Space Technology
LITT Laser-Induced Interstitial Tomography
LIVA Light-Induced Voltage Alteration
LIVE Liquid Inertia Vibration Eliminator
LK Lake (US Mail)
LK Leistungskurs
LKW Lastkraftwagen
LL Leased Line (Telekommunikation)
LL Leichte Löcher (Halbleiterphysik)
LL Lower Layer
LLC (Laserforschungslaboratorium, Lund, Schweden)
LLC Limited-Liability Company
LLC Logical Link Control (Telekommunikation)
LLCC Leadless Chip Carrier
LLDPE Linear Low Density Polyethylene
LLG Laser-Laboratium Göttingen
LLLTV Low Light Level Television
LLMHR Life Limited Items Rework Manhours per
LLMHR 1 Flying Hour at Depot Level
LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA, USA)
LLOSC Low-Level Computer Software Component
LLPR Log-Likelyhood Probability Ratio
LLR Log-Likelihood Ratio
LLR-BP Log-Likelihood Ratio Belief Propagation
LLRRHHR 1 per Flying Hour at Organisational Level Cost per Flying Hour of
LLRRMHR Life Limited Items and Replace Manhours .
LLSPC Life Limited Spare Parts Consumption in System
LLSPC 1
LLTP Lower Layer Transfer Protocol
LLTV Low Light Television
LLW Low-Level Waste (Radioaktiver Abfall)
LM Link Manager (Telekommunikation)
LM Linear Matrix
LMA, L.M.A. Laboratoire de la mécanique et d'acoustique (CNRS, Marseille, France)
LMDS Local Multichannel (or: Multipoint) Distribution Service(s)
LMDS Local Multi-Point Distribution System
LMIS Liquid Metal Ion Sources
LMS Least Mean Square (Algorithmus)
LMT Large Millimeter Telescope (Mexico)
LMT Local Maintenance Terminal (Telekommunikation)
LMU Local Mobile Unit (Telekommunikation)
LMU Location Measurement Unit (Telekommunikation)
LMU Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (München)
LMXB Low-Mass X-Ray Binary (Röntgendoppelstern)
LN Lane (US Mail)
LN Legal Node
LNA Low Noise Amplifier
LNB Low-Noise Block (Converter)
LNC Low-Noise Converter (Telekommunikation)
LND Low-Noise Device
LNG Liquified Natural Gas (für den Transport verflüssigtes Erdgas)
LNGS [Nationallabor Gran Sasso] (Italien)
LNK (Dateinamenerweiterung: Windows-Linkdatei)
LO Local Oscillator (Telekommunikation)
LOA Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée (Ecole Polytechnique, Frankreich)
LOAL Lock on after Launch
LOBL Lock on before Launch
LOC Lab-on-a-Chip
LOC Localizer
LOCD List of Documents relevant for the C/O in the NH90 Programme
LOCOS Local Oxidation of Silicon; Lokale Oxidation von Silizium
LOE Lasers and Optical Engineering (Conference)
LOFAR Low Frequency Analysis and Recording
LOH Light Observation Helicopter
LOKAL Leckortung durch Korrelationsanalyse
LOM List of Matrial
LONG Longetude
LOP Local Operating Procedure
LoQD List of Documents Relevant to the C/Q
LORAN Long Range Navigation
LORAS Low Range Airspeed System
LOS Line of Sight
LOS Line of Sight (Telekommunikation)
LOT Lapped Orthogonal Transform
LOTAWS Laser Obstacle Terrain Avoidance Warning Sysem
LOTIS Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System (USA)
LOTS Logistic-over-the Shore
LOVA Low Vulnerability Ammunition (Sprengstoff)
LOVER Local Verification (Atomenergie-Kontrolle)
LOX Liquid Oxygen
LP Larch Prover
LP Long Playing [record]
Lp Loop
LP Löschpanzer (Ölquelle)
LP Low Pressure
LPC Large Processing Consumption
LPC Laser Processing Consortium
LPC Linear Predictive Coding
LPCVD Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition
LPDA Logarithmisch Periodische Dipol Antenne
LPE Linear Prediction Encoding
LPE Liquid Phase Epitaxy (Waferherstellung)
LPF Low Pass Filter
LPG Leading Pulse Generator (Circuit) (see also TPG; RPG, FPG)
LPH Landing Platform Helicopter
LPI Low Probability of Intercept
LP-MOVPE Low Pressure Metalorganic Vapour Phase Epitaxy
LPOX Low pressure Oxygen
LPPP Poly(p-Phenylen)-Polymer (für Leuchtdioden)
LPS Lens Position Signal (Optical Communication, Holography)
LPS Lokales Positionssystem
LPS Low Processing Speed
LQG Linear Quadratic Gaussian (Control)
LQR Linear Quadratic Regulator (Control)
LRC Lokale realistische Theorie
LRI Line Replaceable Item
LRL Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (Berkeley, CA, USA)
LRT Laser Ray Tracing
LRTNF Long-Range Theatre Nuclear Forces
LRU Line Replaceable Unit.
LRZ Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (München)
LS Lautsprecher
LS Least Square(s)
LS Local Strategy
LS Location Service (Telekommunikation)
LS Link Search
LS & C Local Space & Communications (Telekommunikation)
LS(A/D) Logistic Support (Analysis/Date)
LSA Local Small Area
LSA Local Search Algorithm
LSA Least Square Algorithm
LSA Link State Advertisement (Telekommunikation)
LSA Logistic Support Analysis
LSB Least Significant Bit
LSB Lower Side Band
LSB Low-Surface-Brightness (Galaxien)
LSBMSDS Local Search Based Multi-Step Detection Scheme
LSDB Link State Database (Telekommunikation)
LSE Low Surface Energy
LS-GMLC Location Server-Gateway Mobile Location Center (Telekommunikation)
LSIU Light Stores Interface Unit
LSK Line Selector Key
LSM La1-xSrxMnO3 (Material für Brennstoffzelle)
LSM Laser Scanning Microscope
LSM Link Security Management (Telekommunikation)
LSND Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector
LSP Label Switch Path
LSP Label(ed) Switch(ed) Path (Telekommunikation)
LSP Line Spectral Pair (LPC-Analyse)
LSPD Link State Path Database (Telekommunikation)
LSPP Logistic Support Programme Plan
LSR Label Switched Router (Telekommunikation)
LSR Laser Range Finder
LSS Large Space Structure
LSST Large-Aperture Synoptic Survey Telescope (geplant)
LSSTP Large Space Structures Technology Program
LST Laser Scattering Tomograph
LST Low Speed Tunnel
LSW Least Signification Word
LT Line Termination (Kommunikation)
LT Lenght Throughput
LTA Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit (Mannheim)
LTA Large Tranceiver Array
LTCC Low-Temperature Co-Fired Ceramic(s)
LTD Laser Display Technology
Ltd. Limited (GB, entspricht Aktiengesellschaft oder GmbH)
LTER Long Term Ecological Research
LTG Light
LTM Lower Triangular Matrix
LTP Long-Term Potentiation (Neurologie)
LTR Long Terminal Repeats (Viren)
LTS Lights
LTS Location Tracker System
LTS Location Tracker System
LTS Low-Tc Superconductor
LTV Life Time Value
LTV Light Tactical Vehicle
LUF Lowest Usable Frequency
LULI Laboratoire Utilisation des Lasers Intense (Laboratory for the Use of High
LUN Power
LogicalLaser) (France)
Unit Number
LUPO Luminescent Polymer
LURE Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation du Rayonnement Electromagnétique (Ile de
LURE France)
Lunar Laser Ranging
LVDT Linear Variable Differential Transducer
LVDT Linear Voltage Differential Transformer
LW Longitudinal Wave
LW Linear Weigth
LWA Landesamt für Wasser und Abfall (Düsseldorf)
LWDRM Light Weight Digital Rights Management
LWFA Laser Wakefield Accelerator (Plasmabeschleuniger)
LWL Lichtwellenleiter
LWR Laser Warning Receiver
LWR Lower
LZ Landing Zone
LZB Linienzugbeeinflussung
LZF LZB-Fahrzeugeinrichtung
LZH (Dateinamenerweiterung: Archivdatei mit komprimierten Inhalten)
LZH Laser Zentrum Hannover
LZT Large Zenith Telescope (proposed, with spinning mercury mirror)
M Mode
M
M. IEM Master of IEM
M.S. Master of Science
M.Sc. Master of Science
M/S Master/Slave
M2E Mouth-to-Ear (Telekommunikation)
M2UA MTP2-User Adaptation Layer
M3UA MTP3-User Adaptation Layer
MA Massachusetts (US-Staat)
MA Mission Analysis
MA Moving Average (gleitende Mittelung, Glättungsfilter)
MA Maximum Accuracy
MAB Man and Biosphere (Naturschutz)
MAC Marine Aquatic Council (Internationale nichtkommerzielle Organisation)
MAC Medium Access Control (Layer) (DECT)
MAC Message Authenticity Check (or: Code) (Datennetz)
MAC Military Airlift Command
MACC Military area control center
MACH Multiple Active Computer-Generated Hologram
MACHO Massive Astrophysical Compact Halo Objects
MAC-hs Medium Access Control-high speed
MacOS Macintosh Operating System
MACRO Monopole, Astrophysics and Cosmic Ray Observatory (Gran Sasso, Italien)
MAD Magnetic Anomaly Detector
MAD Magnetron Activated Deposition (Dünne Schichten)
MAD Missile Approach Detector
MADCAP Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocatin Protocol (cryptography)
MADR Maximum Achievable Data Rate
MAF Maritime Amphibious Forces
MAGIC Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cerenkov Telescope (La Palma,
Maglev Kanarische Inseln)
Magnetic Levitation
MAHRSI Middle Atmosphere High Resolution Spectrograph Investigation
MAI Multilateral Agreement on Invenstion
MAISEC Material-Informationssystem für elektronische Komponenten
MAK Maximale Arbeitsplatzkonzentration
MALDI Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization
MALVINE Manuscripts and Letters via Integrated Networks in Europe
MAM Missed Approach Point
MAMI Mainzer Mikrotron (Elektronenbeschleuniger)
MAMS Master Avionic Management System
MAN Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nürnberg
MAN Metroploitan Area Networks
MAN Metropolitan Area Network
MAN Metropolitan Area Network (Rechnernetze)
MANIAC Mathematical Analyzer, Numerical Integrator, and Computer (Los Alamos,
MAO NM, USA, ca. 1950)
Methylaluminoxan (Katalysator)
MAP Aeronautical Maps and Charts
MAP Manufacturing Automation Protocol (Datennetz von GM)
MAP Medium Access Protocol
MAP Microwave Anisotropy Probe (Satellit, Astrophysik)
MAP Miniaturisierung, Automatisierung und Parallelisierung (Chemie-Forschung)
MAP Mobile Application Part (Telekommunikation)
MAP Multimedia-Arbeitsplatz
MAPL Maximum Allowable Path Loss (Telekommunikation)
MAPLE Matrix-Assisted Pulsed-Laser Evaporation
MAPOS Multi-Agent Platform for Online Services (Telekommunikation)
MAPS Maintenance Analysis Procedures System
MARAS Marine Radiometric Spectrometer
MART Mean Active Repair Time
MAS Magnetic Sensor
MAS Master of Advanced Studies
MAS MIMO Antenna System
Maser Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
MASIF Mobile Agent Systems Interoperability Facility (Telekommunikation)
MASS Master Arm Safety Switch
MAST Mega-Amp Spherical Tokamak (Culham, UK)
MATE Modular Automatic Test Equipment
MathML Mathematical Markup Language
MATLAB Matrix Laboratory (Software)
MAU Million Accounting Units (Europ. Raumfahrt; 1988: 1 MAU = 1,14 Mill.$)
MAUW Maximum Ail-Up Weight
MAW Missile Advanced warning
MAW Missile Approach Warner
MAXIMA Millimeter Anisotropy Experiment Imaging Array (Ballon-Experiment)
MB Marker Beacon
MB Mega Business
MB Megabyte (= 1024 kB = 1048576 Bit)
MB Memory Block
MBA Master of Business Administration
MBB Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm GmbH, München
MBE Molecular-Beam Epitaxy
MBI Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie (Berlin-
MBMS Adlershof)
Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service
MBO Management Buy Out
MBPC Model Based Predictive Control
MBSL Multi-Bubble Sonoluminescence, Mehrblasenlumineszenz
MBSP Mapping By Set Partioning
MBWA Mobile Broadband Wireless Access
MC Magnetic Compass
MC Main Computer
MC Master Caution
MC Megacycles
MC Monte-Carlo (Simulation)
MC Multipath Channel
MC(S/U) Mission Computer (System/Unit)
MCAO Multiconjugate Adaptive Optics
MCB Media Control Board
MCC Mobile Competence Center (Telekommunikation)
MCC Mobile Country Code
MCCDMA Multi Carrier Code Division Multiple Access
MCCH Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service Control Channel
MCCM Meterology Climate Chemistry Model
MCD Magnetic Circular Dichroism
MCD Mobile Communication Division
MCD Monitor Control Display
MCDAD Magnetic Circular Dichroism in Angular Distribution
M-CDR Mobility Management - Call Detail Record
MC-DS-CDMA Multi Carrier Direct Spread Multi Carrier Code Division Multiple Access
MCFC Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell
MCG Magneto-Cummulative Generator
MCHA Music and Concert Hall Acoustics (International Symposium)
MCI Multi Channel Interference
MCI Multimedia Control Interface
MCM Multi-Chip Module
MCO Mars Climate Observer
MCP Maximum Continuous Power
MCP Microchannel Plate, Mikrokanalplatte, Vielkanalplattendetektor
MCPC Multiple Channel per Carrier (Telekommunikation)
MCS Modulation Constellation Size
MCS Mathematics Subjects Classification
MCSCF Multi-Configuration Self-Consistent-Field (-Rechnung, Molekülphysik)
MCT Missile Carried Torpedo
MCT Mobile Communications Terminal
MCT Multimedia Communication Technology (Telecom)
MC-TDMA Multi Carrier Time Division Multiple Access
MCU Master Controller Unit
MCU Modular Concept Unit
MD Main Diagonal
MD Maryland (US-Staat)
MD Medical Doctor
MD Modular Design
MDA Missile Defense Agency (USA)
MDA/H Minimum Descent Altitude/Height
MDAQ Mediation and Data Acquisition (Telekommunikation)
MDB (Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft Access-Datenbank)
MDB Maintenance Data Base
MdB Mitglied der Bundestages
MdB Mitglied des Bundes Tages
MDC Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (Berlin-Buch)
MDC Miniature Detonation Card
MDCT Multidetektor-Spiral-Computertomograph
MdEP Mitglied des Europäischen Parlaments
MDF Main Distribution Frame
MDF mitteldichte Faserplatte
MDI Diphenylmethylendiisocyanat
MDI Michelson Doppler Imager (an Bord von SOHO)
MdL Mitglied des Landtages
MDM Multiplex/Demultiplex Module
MDOF Multi-Degree-of-Freedom (System)
MDR Multi-Drug Resistance (Gene)
MDS Monitoring and Diagnostic System
MDS Multipoint Distribution System (Telekommunikation)
MDS Multiple Data Stream
MDU Magnet Detector Unit
MDU Multiple Dwelling Units (Telekommunikation)
MDV Medizinische Datenverarbeitung
ME Magnitude Error (Telekommunikation)
ME Maine (US-Staat)
ME Manchester Encoding
ME Millenium Edition (Microsoft Windows)
ME Mobile Entity (or: Equipment) (Telekommunikation)
M-E Magneto-Electric
MEAS Measurement
MECCA Mechanized Catalog System
MED Minimum Euclidean Distance
SP Set Partitioning
MED Multi-Exit Discriminator
MEDEA Microelectronics Development for European Applications
MEDEVAC Medical Evacuation
MEET Man Models for Simulation of Electromagnetic, Elastomechanic and Thermic
MEF Behaviour of Man
Metropolitain Ethernet Forum (Telekommunikation)
MEF Mobile Entertainment Forum
MEFX Multiple Error Filtered-x (Algorithm)
MEG Magnet(o)enzephalographie, Magnetoencephalography
MeGaCo Media Gateway Control
MEGACO Media Gateway Controller (Telekommunikation)
MEI Maintenance and Engineering Inspection
MEL Master Equipment List
MEL Minimum Equipment List
MELCO Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
MELDOQ Melanomdokumentierung und -quantifizierung
MELECON Mediterraneau Electrotechnical Conference
MELP Mixed Excitation Linear Prediction (Sprachcodierung)
MEM Maximum Entropy Method
MEM Micro-Electronic Micro Machine
MEMS Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
MEO Medium Earth Orbit
MEOSS Monocular Electro-Optical Stereo Scanner
MEP Mission Equipment Package
MER Modulation Error Rate
MERIS Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (ENVISAT)
MERLIN Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer (Astrophysik)
MES Manufacturing Execution System
MES Manufacturing Execution Systems
MESA Microsystems and Engineering Science Application (Albuquerque, NM, USA:
MESFET geplant für 2004)
Metal Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
MET Memory Enhancement Technology
MET/Grp/O Meteorological/Group/Office
META Megachannel Extraterrestrial Assay (Suche nach außerirdischer Intelligenz)
METAR Aviation Routine Weather Report
METI Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Japan)
METRIC Exploitation of Bibliometric Data in National Bibliographic Databases
METS Modular Engine Test System
MExE Mobile Station Execution Environment (Telekommunikation)
MEXH Multiple-Energy X-Ray Holography
MEZ Missile Engangement Zone
MF Medium Frequency
MF Medium Frequency (0,3 - 3 MHz)
MF Motion Flag
MFAS Multi Frame Alignment Signal
MFC Microsoft Foundation Classes
MFCS Manual Flight Control System
MFD Multi Function Display
MFIE magnetic field integral equation
MFLAME Multi-Function Future Laser Atmospheric Equipment (Brite Euram Project)
MFM Magnetic Force Microscopy
MFP Multi Function Peripheral
MfS Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (DDR)
MFS Multi-BSS Fast Packet Server (Telekommunikation)
MG Media Gateway (Telekommunikation)
MGB Main Gear Box
MGC Media Gateway Controller (Telekommunikation)
MGC Micro-Gap Gas Counter
MGCF Media Gateway Control Function (Telekommunikation)
MGE Maintenance Ground Equipment
MGH Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA, USA)
MGS Mars Global Surveyor
MGT Measured Gas Temperatur
MGU (Moskauer Staatliche Universität)
MGW Media GateWay (Telekommunikation)
MHB Magnus-Haus Berlin (DPG)
MHC Major Histocompatibility Complex (Biochemie)
MHD Magnetohydrodynamic (Fusionsreaktortechnik)
MHDG Magnetic Heading
MHFK Maintenance Hour per Flight Hour
MHH Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
MI Michigan (US-Staat)
MIB Managament Information Base
MIC [IASTED International Conference on] Modelling, Identification and Control
MIC Mikroelektronik Centret (DK-Lyngby)
MIC Minimal-Invasive Chirurgie
MICAPEX Minimum Initial Capital Expenditure
MID (Dateinamenerweiterung: MIDI-Datei)
MIDI Musical Instruments Digital Interface
MIDP Mobile Intelligent Device Profile
MIEM Mission of the IEM
MIF Makrophagen-Inhibitionsfaktor
MIIR Méthode d'isolement et d'identification des résonances
MIKSS (gesprochen: "mix") Media Object Interlock and Synthesis (Video description
MIL language)
[Department of Defense] (Internet, USA)
MilAIP Military Aeronautical Information Publication
MILCOM Military Communications Conference
MILS Milli Inches
MIM Maintenance Instruction Manual
MIMD Multiple Instruction / Multiple Data (Parallelrechner)
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail(ing) Extension(s)
MIMIC Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits
MIMO Multiple Input - Multiple Output (Controller, System)
MIMO SMS Multiple Input - Multiple Output Spatial Multiplexing Systems
MIMOCC MIMO Communication Channel
MIMOS Miniaturisiertes Mössbauer-Spektrometer
MIMP Mega-Imperium
MIN Mobile Identification Number
MIND Malicious Intermediate Network Node
MINUET Minnesota Internet User's Essential Tool (Rechnernetz-Server)
MIO Memory Input Output
MIO Modular I/O (HP)
MIOT MIDI In, Out & Through
MIP Material Improvement Program
MIP Mesh Insertion Point (radiant network)
MIPAS Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (ENVISAT)
MIPS Million instructions (Mega-Instructions) per second
MIPS Million Instructions per Second
MIPS Münchner Informationszentrum für Proteinsequenzen
MIR Middle Infra Red
MIRV Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle
MIRV Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicles
MIS Management Information System
MISACT Multiple Interacting Sensors and Actuators
MISIM Metal-Isolator-Semiconductor-Isolator-Metal
MISO Multiple Input - Single Output (Controller, System)
MISR Multiangle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (Satelliten-Erd-Fernerkundung)
MIT Management Information Tree
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT minimal-invasives Therapieverfahren
MITI [Institut für] Minimalinvasive therapeutische Interventionen (TU München)
MITI Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Japan)
MIU Missile Interface Unit
MIUH Medizinisches Institut für Umwelthygiene (Düsseldorf)
MKG Magnetokardiographie
mks Meter - Kilogramm - Sekunde (SI-Maßsystem)
ML Maximum Likelihood
ML Mine Laying
MLA Modern Language Association
MLC Mobile Location Center (Telekommunikation)
MLC Multi Look Complex
MLC Multileaf Collimator (Röntgentechnik)
MLCF Maximum Likelihood Confidence Factor
MLD Maximum Likelyhood Detector (see e.g. EP1895726A1)
MLD Mission Launch Detector
MLD Multi Look Detected
MLDS MLD Scheme
MLE Maximum Likelihood Estimation
MLE Medium to Large Enterprise
MLG Main Landing Gear
MLH Medium Lift Helicopter
MLI Message Lenght Indication
MLI Message Lenght Information
MLO Mycoplasma-like Organism
MLP Mobile Location Protocol (Telekommunikation)
MLP Multi-Layer Perceptron
MLPR Maximum Likelihood Partial Response
MLRS Multi Launch Rocket System
MLS Microwave Landing System
MLS Mikrowellenlandesystem
MLTS Maximum Likelihood Transmit Signal
MLTSV Most Likely Transmit Signal Vector
MLTU Monitoring and Line Transmission Unit (Telekommunikation)
MM Middler marker
MM Missile Master
MM Mobile Management (Telekommunikation)
MM Multi Mode (Telekommunikation)
MM Multimedia
MMAS MultiMedia Application Server (Telekommunikation)
MMC Maintainance, Monitoring and Control
MMC Multimedia Multiparty Conferencing
MMCF Multimedia Communication Forum
MMCOI Multimedia Communication Comments of Interest
MMCOM Mobile Millimeter Communications (IEEE Workshop)
MMCP Master Mode Control Panel
MMCS MultiMedia Call Server (Telekommunikation)
MMD Mission Management Display
MMD Multimedia Domain
MMDS MultiMedia Distribution System (Telekommunikation)
MMDS Multi-Point Distribution Systems
MMG Massive Multi-Player Online Games
MMH/R Maintenance Han Hour/Rate
MMI Man-Machine Interface
MMIC Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit(ry)
MMIO Multimedia Input Output
MMP Matrix MetalloProteases (medicine)
MMPM Multimedia Presentation Manager (by IBM)
MMS Manufacturing Message Standard
MMS Mast Mounted Sight
MMS Mission Management System
MMS Multimedia Messaging Service (Telekommunikation)
MMSC Multimedia Message System Center
MMSE Minimum Mean Square Error
MMSE Multimedia Services Environment (Telekommunikation)
MMSEE MMSE Equalization
MMT Monolithic Mirror Telescope (University of Arizona)
MMTBF Mission Mean Time Between Failure
MMU Memory Management Unit
MMW Milimeter Wave
MMX Multi Media Extensions
MN Malcious Node
MN Minnesota (US-Staat)
MNC Mobile Network Codes
MNC Mobile Network Code
MNOS Mobile Network Operators
MNPQ Mess-, Normen-, Prüf- und Qualitätswesen
MNT Mononitrotoluol
MNU Deutscher Verein zur Förderung des mathematischen und
MO naturwissenschaftlichen
Missouri (US-Staat) Unterrichts
MO Master Oscillator
MOB Main Operational Base
MoB Member of the Board
MoBIC Mobilität für Blinde durch die Interaktion mit einem Computer
MOCS Modulated on Carrier Signal
MOCVD Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition
MOD Ministery Of Defence
MODFET Modulation-Doped Field Effect Transistor, Modulations-dotierter Feldeffekt-
MODIS Transistor
Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer (Satelliten-Erd-Fernerkundung)
MOE Molecular Operating Environment
MOEL Mittel- und Osteuropäische Länder
MOEMS Micro-Opto-Electromechanical System (Telekommunikation)
MOLA Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter
MOLI Microsoft Online Learning Institute
MOM Maintenance and Overhaul Manual
MOM Message Oriented Middleware
MOM Message Oriented Middleware
MOMBE Metallorganische Molekularstrahlepitaxie
MOMS Modularer Optoelektronischer Multispektral-Scanner
Mon Monitor
MON Monitor/Monitoring
MONET Mobile Network (Telekommunikation)
MOPA Master Oscillator Power Amplifier (Telekommunikation)
MOPITT Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere (Satelliten-Erd-Fernerkundung)
MOS Mean Opinion Score (Telekommunikation)
MOS Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
MOS Monitor-Server
MOSA Ministry of Science and the Arts (Israel)
MOSFET Metalloxid-Silicium-Feldeffekt-Transistor Metal Oxide Field-Effect Transistor
MOSIS Semiconductor
MOS Implementation System
MOST Ministry of Science and Technology (Korea)
MOT Magneto-Optic Trap
MOT Manufacturing Qualification Test
MOT Mean Operation Time
MoU Memorandum of Understanding
MOU Memorandum of Understanding
MOV (Dateinamenerweiterung: Video-Datei)
MOVIC International Conference on Motion and Vibration Control
MOVPE Metalorganic Vapor Phase Epitaxy
MOX Mixed-Oxide Fuel, Mischoxid (Kernreaktor)
MP Mock-up pup
MP Multilink PPP
MP North Mariana Island (US Mail)
MP.lambda.S Multi-Protocol Lambda Switching (optische Telekommunikation)
MP3 MPEG Layer 3 (Dateinamenerweiterung: Audio-Datei)
MPA Maritime Patrol Aircraft
MPAC Mission Preparation and Analysis Center
MPAe Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie (Lindau/Harz)
MPC Material Program Codes
MPC Model Predictive Control(ler)
MPD Multi-Purpose Display
MPDR Multipoint Digital Radio (Telekommunikation)
MPE Maximum Permissible Exposure
MPE Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (Garching)
MPEG (Dateinamenerweiterung: Video-Datei)
MPEG Motion (or: Moving) Picture(s) Expert(s) Group (Bildcodierung)
MPEP Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (Patent Bar)
MPG (Dateinamenerweiterung: Video-Datei)
MPG Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
MPI Max-Planck-Institut
MPI Message Passing Interface (Parallelrechner)
MPI Multi-Photonen-Ionisation
MPIC Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie (Mainz)
MPIF Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung (Stuttgart)
MPIRE Massively Parallel Interactive Rendering Environment
MPIZ Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung (Köln)
MPL Mars Polar Lander
MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching
MPLS Multi-Protocol Label Switching (Rechnernetze)
MPM Message Processing Module
MPM Microstructured Photonic Material
MPMP Microwave Point to Multipoint (Telekommunikation)
MPMS Magnetic Property Measurement System
MPOA Multi-Protocol over ATM (Rechnernetze)
MPP Massively Parallel Processing (Rechner)
MPPI Moore- Penrose Pseudo-Inverse
MPQ Max-Plack-Institut für Quantenoptik (Garching)
MPR Multi-Path Routing (Telekommunikation)
MPRESS (Mathematik-Literaturservice)
MPS Max Planck Society (MPG in englischen Texten)
MPS Mission Planning System
MPSR Multi-Path Self Routing (Telekommunikation)
MPT Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (Japan)
MPW Maximum Permissible Weight
MPWS Multi-Protocol Wavelength Switching (Telekommunikation)
MPX Multiplex
MQW Multiple Quantum Well
MR Magnetresonanz (-Tomographie)
MR Main Rotor
MR Maintenance Recorder
MRA Mutual Recognition Arrangement (Metrologie)
MRAALS Marine Remote Area Approach Landing System
MRAM Magnetic Random Access Memory
MRAO Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (bei Cambridge, UK)
MRB Material Review Board
MRBM Medium-Range Ballistic Missile
MRC Magnetic Recording Channel
MRF (Multi)Media Resource Function (Telekommunikation)
MRF Magnetorheological Fluid
MRF Multimedia Resource Function
MRFM Magnetic Resonance Force Microscope (und: ... Microscopy)
MRH Main Rotor Hub
MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MRI Monopulse Resolution Improvement
MRM Magnetresonanz-Mikroskopie
mRNA Messenger RNA
MRO Magdalena Ridge Observatory (New Mexico, USA)
MRO Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul
MRP Manufacturing Resource Planning
MRP Market Representation Partners (Telekommunikation)
MRP Material Resource Planning
MRP Mutual Recognition Procedure (Pharma)
MRRU Maximum Receive Reconstructed Unit
MRS Modified Received Signal
MRS Materials Research Society (USA)
MRS Media Ressource Service (SIPI)
MRT Magnetresonanz-Tomographie
MRU Maximum Receive Unit; Most Recently Used
MS Mass Spectrometry
MS Material Support
MS Media Server (Telekommunikation)
MS Member State
MS Miscellaneous System
MS Mississippi (US-Staat)
MS Mobile Station
MS Mobile Station (Telekommunikation)
MS Modulation Scheme
MS Multiple Sklerose
MS Mobile Service
MS(P) Material Support (Plan)
MSA Minimum safe altitude
MSAM Multi-Service Access Multiplexer (Telekommunikation)
MSAS Multi-Function Transport Satellite-Based Augmentation System
MSB (Satellitennavigation,
Most Significant Bit Japan)
MSC Major Subordinate Commander
MSC Message Sequence Chart (Telekommunikation)
MSC Mobile (Services) Switching Centre (Telekommunikation)
MSC Mobile Switching Center
MSD Mass Selective Detector
MS-DOS Microsoft Disk Operating System
MSE Mean Square Error
MSE Mission Success Evaluation
MSE Mobile Station Equipment
M-Sequence Maximal Length Sequence
MSG Message
MSG Meteosat Second Generation (geplant für 2000)
MSGC Micro-Strip Gas Detector
MSI Medium Scale Integration
MSIN Mobil Subscriber Identity Number
MSIP Multistage Improvement Program
MSISDN Mobile Station Integrated Services Digital Network
MSISDN Mobile Station ISDN Number
MSK Minimum (or: Maximum) Shift Keying (Datenübertragung)
MSL Mean Sea Level
MSL Missile
MSM Metal-Semiconductor-Metal (Photodetektoren)
MSMLD Multi-Step Maximum Likelyhood Decoder
MSMS Mutual security military sales
MSN Microsoft Network (Datennetz)
MSN Moscow Society of Naturalists
MSN Multi-Service Node (Telekommunikation)
MSO Multiple System Operators
MSO Multiple Systems Operators (Telekommunikation)
MSOP Mini Small Outline Package (SMD-Gehäuse)
MSP Mobile Service Provider (Telekommunikation)
MSP Multiplex Section Protection
MSRI Mathematical Science(s) Research Institute (Berkeley, CA, USA)
MSS MAN Switching System
MSS Mass Storage System
MSS Mobile Satellite System (Telekommunikation)
MSS Mobile Subscriber Station
MS-SP Multiple Section - Section Protection (Telekommunikation)
MS-SPRING Multiple(xer) Section Shared Protection Ring (Telekommunikation)
MST Mikrosystemtechnik
MST Multiple Spanning Tree (Telekommunikation)
MSTP Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (Telekommunikation)
MSTV Maximum Service Television
MSU Michigan State University (USA)
MSW Media Switch
MSW Most Signification Word
MSY Maximal Sustained Yield (Ökonomie)
MT Multipath Transmission
MT Message Transfer
MT mobile Terminal
MT Montana (US-Staat)
MTA Multiple Transmit Antennas
MTB Mountain Bike
MTBCD Mean Time Between Confirmed Defects
MTBF Mean Time Before Failure (or: Between Failures)
MTBF Mean Time Between Failure
MTBF Mean Time Between Failures
MTBM Mean Time Between Maintenence
MTBR Mean Time Between Removal
MTC MIDI Timecode
MTC Mission Tactical Computer
MT-CDMA Tone Multi Carrier Code Division Multiple Access
MTCH MBMS PTM traffic channel
MTCO Minimum Total Cost of Ownership
MTCR Missile Technology Control Regime
MTF Modulation Transfer Function
MTG Marine-Technik-Gesellschaft (Hamburg)
MTG Mikroelektronik- und Technologiegesellschaft (Ostdeutschland)
MTI Moving Targeting Indicator
MTJ Magnetic Tunnel Junction
MTMOS Methyl-Trimethoxysilane
MTN Mountain (US Mail)
MTN Multilateral Trade Negotiations
MTP Message Transfer Part
MTR Marked Target Receiver
MTR Meter
MTS Multiple Transmit Scheme
MTS Methods for Testing and Specification (TC im ETSI)
MTSat Multifunctional Transport Satellite
MTTR Mean Time to Repair
MTTR Mean Time To Repair (or: Restore) (Telekommunikation)
MTU Maximum Transmission Unit
MU Master Unit
MUAC Military Upper Area Control Center
MUC Munich
MUD Multi User Dungeon (or: Dimension, or: Dialog) (Rechnernetz-Spiele)
MUF Maximum Usable Frequency
MuK Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
MUK Multicast User Key
MULTOPS Multi-Level Tree for Online Packet Statistics (Telekommunikation)
MURA Midwest University Research Association (USA)
MUSC Microgravity User Support Center (DLR, Köln-Porz)
MUSE Multiple Sub-Nyquist-Sampling Encoding
MUSIC Multiple Signal Classification
MUSICAM Masking Pattern Adapted Universal Subband Integrated Coding and
MUX Multiplexing
Multiplexer (Digitalrundfunk)
MUX Multiplexer
Mux'ing Multiplexing
MV Mega Volt
MV Metric Value
MVC Metric Value Calculator
MVG Moving
MVIP Multi-Vendor Integration Protocol (Telekommunikation)
MVNO Mobile Virtual Network Operators (Telekommunikation)
MVNOs Mobile Virtual Network Operators
MVST Multilayer Vertically Stacked Capacitors
MVTS Multivariable Technological Systems (IFAC Symposium)
MWIF Mobile Wireless Internet Forum (Telekommunikation)
MWIR Micro-Wave Integrated Circuit
MWK Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst
MWM MMSE Weight Matrix
MWNT Multi Wall Nanotubes
MWR Microwave Radiometer (ENVISAT)
MXCD magnetischer Röntgenzirkulardichroismus
MZ Mach-Zehnder (Optical Telecom)
M-Z Mach-Zehnder (Interferometer, Modulator)
MZI Mach-Zehnder-Interferometer
N
N&CT Nulling And Canceling Technique
N.G. No Gear
N/A Next Assembly
N/A 0 Not Applicable
N2 Engine Output RPM (E-RPM)
NA Network Aspects (TC im ETSI)
NA Normenausschuss
NA Not Applicable
NA/STAG Network Aspects/Security Techniques Advisory Group (TC im ETSI)
NAAG NATO Army Armaments Group
NAB National Association of Broadcasters of America
NABU Naturschutzbund Deutschland
NACA National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (USA)
NACCB National Accreditation Council for Certification Bodies (UK)
NACCH Network Access and Connectivity Channel (Datenübertragung)
NACP National Aids Coordination Program (Simbabwe)
NAD Network Access Domain (Telekommunikation)
NAD Network Application Division (Telekommunikation)
NADDO NATO Design and Development Objective
NADGE NATO Air Defence Ground Environment
NADI National. Disengagement Intention
NAE National Academy of Engineering (USA)
NAECON National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (USA)
NAEW NATO Airborne Early Warning
NAF Network Application Function
NAFTA North American Free Trade Area
NAG Numerical Algorithms Group (UK)
NAH Nearfield Acoustic Holography
NAHEMA NATO Helicopter Management Agency
NAHEMO NATO Helicopter Management Organisiation
NAHSC National Automated Highway System Consortium (San Diego, CA, USA)
NAI Network Access Identity
NAK Negative Acknowledge Message
NALS Normenausschuss Akustik, Lärmminderung und Schwingungstechnik
NAMAS National Measurement Accreditation Service (UK)
NAMUR Normenausschuss Mess- und Regeltechnik
NAO Nordatlantische Oszillation (Wetter)
NAOS Nasmyth Adaptive Optics System (für ESO-VLT)
NAP Network Access Point (Internet)
NAP Network Access Provider
NAPO NATO Production Objective
NAPT Network Address and Port Translator (Telekommunikation)
NARIC National Academic Recognition Information Centre (EU)
NARPA National Advanced Research Projects Agency
NAS [Scandinavian Acoustical Society]
NAS National Academy of Sciences (USA)
NAS Network Access Server (Telekommunikation)
NAS Network Access Service
NAS Network Attached Storage
NAS Non Access Stratrum
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Agency (USA)
NASP National Aerospace Plane
NAT Network Address Translation (Telekommunikation)
NAT Nitric Acid Trihydrate (HNO3·3(H2O))
NATLAS National Testing Laboratory Accreditation Service (UK)
NATO North-Atlantic Treaty Organization
NAT-PT Network Address Translation and Protocol Translation
NAV Navigation
NAV Navigation, Navigate, Navigator
NB Narrowband
NB Normal Burst (Telekommunikation)
NBC Nuclear,Biological,Chemical
NBDSV Narrow Band Digital Secure Voice
NBFFC Narrow Band Flat Fading Channel
Nbg Nuremberg
NBI Neutral-Beam Injection (Fusionsreaktortechnik)
NBMA Non-Broadcast Multiple Access
NBR Acrylo-Nitrile Styrene-Butadiene Rubber
NB-RAS Narrowband Remote Access Server (Telekommunikation)
NBRF National Biomedical Research Foundation (USA)
NBS National Bureau of Standards (USA)
NC Network Computer
NC North Carolina (US-Staat)
NC Number of Personnnel per Helicopter Flight Crew
NC Numeric Control
NCA Netherlands Centre on Animal Use
NCAC National Council of Acoustical Consultants (USA)
NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, CO, USA)
NCC National Computing Centre (UK)
NCC Network Control Centre (Datennetz)
NCCA No Clearance to Civil Aircraft
NCEJ Noise Control Engineering Journal
NCH Notification Channel
NCI National Cancer Institute (Bethesda, MD, USA)
NCI Non-Coded Information
NCKU National Cheng Kung University (Tainan, Taiwan, ROC)
NCNR NIST Center for Neutron Research (Gaithersburg, MD, USA)
NCP National Contact Point (ESPRIT)
NCPA Number of Flight Crews per Helicopter
NCR Non Combat Ready
NCRP National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (USA)
NCS Natural Color System
NCS Network Control System (Datennetz)
NCSA National Center for (or: of) Supercomputing Applications (USA)
NCSA National Sound and Communications Association (USA)
NCSU North Carolina State University
NCT New Cellular Phone
NCTS National Cellular Telephone System
ND Navigation Display
ND North Dakota (US-Staat)
ND Nose Down
NDB Non-Directional Beacon
NDC Normalized Device Coordinates
NDDO New Drug Development Office (Amsterdam, EORTC)
NDE Non-Destructive Evaluation
NDI Non Destructive Inspection
NDI Non Development Item
NDRC National Defense Research Committee (USA)
NDS Netware Directory Services (Telekommunikation)
NDSC Network for Detection of Atmospheric Change
NDSU North Dakota State University
NDT Non Destructive Testing
NDT Nondestructive Testing
NE Nebraska (US-Staat)
NE Network Element
NE Network Element (Telekommunikation)
NE Noisy Estimates
NEA Near Earth Asteroid
NEACP National Emergency Airborne Command Post
NEAR Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous
NEBS Network Equipment Building System (Telekommunikation)
NED NASA Extragalactical Database
NEDLIB Networked European Deposit Library
NEHP Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse
NEI Niedrig-Energie-Institut
NEL National Engineering Laboratory (UK)
NEL Network Element Layer (Telekommunikation)
NEMS Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems
NEO Near-Earth Orbit
NEP Noise Equivalent Power (Optical Communication)
NEPM Network Event Protocol Messages
NERC National Environment Information Centre (UK)
net [Network Organization] (Internet, USA)
NET New Equipment Training
NetServ Network Service
NEW National Engineers Weck
NEX Narita Express (Zug zwischen Airport und Tokio)
NEXT Near-End Crosstalk
NEXUS Network of Excellence on Multifunctional Microsystems
NF Noise Factor
NF Nyquist Filter
NFD Near Field Device
NFD Noise Free Data
NFH NATO Frigate Helicopter
NFOEC National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
NFPR No Flight Plan Required
NFR NATO Frigate Replacement
NFR 90 NATO Frigate Replacement for the Nineties
NFS Network File System
NG New (or: Next) Generation
NGC New General Catalogue (Astronomie)
NGDLC Next Generation Digital Loop Carrier (Kommunikation)
NGF Nerve Growth Factor
NGL Next Generation Lithography
NGN Next Generation Network (Telekommunikation)
NGSO Non-Geostationary Satellite Orbit
NGST Next Generation Space Telescope (Nachfolger des Hubble-Teleskops,
NGWLAN geplant)
Next Generation Wireless Local Area Network
NH New Hampshire (US-Staat)
NH 90 NATO Helicopter for the Nineties
NHC Navigation Hand Controller
NHCA National Hearing Conservation Association (USA)
NHK Nippon hoso kyokai (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)
NHMFL National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (Tallahassee, FL; Los Alamos, NM)
NHS National Health Service (UK)
NI Network Interface (Telekommunikation)
NIAG NATO Industrial Advisory Group
NIAS Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social
NIAT Sciences
NASA Integrated Action Team
NIB Non-Interference Basis (Telekommunikation)
NIC John von Neumann Institute for Computing (Jülich)
NIC Network Information Center
NIC Network Interface Card
NICHD National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Bethesda, MD,
NID USA)
Network Integration Division (Telekommunikation)
NID Network Interface Device (Telekommunikation)
NIEHS National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (USA)
NIF National Ignition Facility (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, USA)
NIFS National Institute for Fusion Science (Toki City, Japan)
NIH National Institute of Health (USA)
NILEG Niedersächsische Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft
NILU Norwegisches Institut für Luftuntersuchungen
NIMA National Imagery and Mapping Agency (USA)
NIME Network Information Management Entities (Telekommunikation)
NiMH Nickel-Metal Hydride (Akku)
NIOSH National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (USA)
NIR Near Infrared
NIR Near-Infrared
NIRIM National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials (Japan)
NIRV Nederlands Instituut voor Ruimtevaart
NIS NATO Identification System
NIS New Independent States (frühere Sovietunion)
NISAC National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (USA, seit 1999)
NISEG NATO In-Service Goals
NISO National Information Standards Organization (USA)
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA, vormals NBS)
N-ISUP Narrowband ISDN User Part (Telekommunikation)
NIT Network Information Table
Nitinol Nickel-Titanium [intermetallic compound developed by the] Naval Ordnance
NJ Laboratory
New Jersey(1963)
(US-Staat)
NJIT New Jersey Institute of Technology
NJP New Journal of Physics
NK Nationalkomitee für Kristallographie
NKWD [Narodny Kommissariat Wnutrennich Del] (sowjetischer Geheimdienst)
Nl Engine Gas Producer RPM
NL Nonlinear
NLC Next Linear Collider
NLCTA Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator
NLE Non Linear Equation
NLE Non Limiting Example
NLE Non-Linear Editing
NLE Non-Linear Effect
NLfB-GGA Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Bodenforschung - Geowissenschaftliche
NLG Gemeinschaftsaufgaben
Nose Landing Gear (Hannover)
NLOS Non Line Of Sight
NLR Nationaal Lucht- en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium
NLR National Aerospace Laboratory
NLR Noise Level Reduction
NLRC NASA Langley Research Center (Hampton, VA, USA)
NLT Not Later Than
NM Network Manager (or: Management) (Telekommunikation)
NM Neuer Markt
NM New Mexico (US-Staat)
NMC Network Management Centre (Telekommunikation)
NMD National Missile Defense (USA)
NMG Network Management Gateway
NMI NSF Middleware Initiative
NML Network Management Layer (Telekommunikation)
NMN Network Management Node
NMN Niedersächsischer Monographiennachweis
NMOS N-Channel MOS
NMR Network Measure Radio (Telekommunikation)
NMR Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
NMS National Measurement System (UK)
NMS Network Management System (Rechnernetze)
NMT Nordic Mobile Telephone
NN Neural Network
NNAG NATO Naval Armaments Group
NNAPS Night Navigation and Pilotage System
NNI National Nanotechnology Initiative (USA)
NNI Network-Node (or: -Network) Interface (Rechnernetze)
NNI Noise/News International (Zeitschrift)
NNIS Network Node Interface Specification
NNPA Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act
NNSA National Nuclear Security Administration (DoE, USA)
NNTT National New Technology Telescope (USA, war geplant, ist aber nicht
NNV realisiert)
Nederlandse Natuurkundige Vereniging
NO Numerical Oscillator
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (USA)
NOAO National Optical Astronomy Observatory (USA)
NOC Network Operating (or: Operations) Center (Telekommunikation)
NODC National Oceanographic Data Center (NOAA, Silver Spring, MD, USA)
NODIS NASA On-Line Directives Information System
NOE Nap of the Earth
NOE Neutrino Oscillation Experiment (Gran Sasso, Italien)
NOEKS Nonlinear Optics and Excitation Kinetics in Semiconductors
NOESY Nuclear Overhauser Effect Spectroscopy
NOISE-CON National Conference on Noise Control Engineering (USA)
NOL Naval Ordnance Laboratory (USA)
NOLM Nonlinear Optical-Loop Mirror
NOMAD Neutrino Oscillation Magnetic Detector (CERN)
NOMS Network Operations and Management
NORAD North American Air Defense (Command)
NORS Not Operationally Ready Supply
NOS National Optical Society (in Europa)
NOS Network Operating System (Telekommunikation)
NOTAR No Tailrotor
NOW Network of Workstaions
NP Nondeterministic Polynomial
NP Nuclear Physics
NPA Network Performance Analysis (Telekommunikation)
NPC Nomadic Personal Communications
NPE Network Protection Equipment (Kommunikation)
NPE Nuclear Physics Electronic
NPG New General Catalogue (Astronomie)
NPL National Physical Laboratory (Teddington, UK)
NPOI Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer (Lowell Observatory, Anderson Mesa,
near Flagstaff, AZ, USA)
NPP Net Primary Production (Pflanzenmasse)
NPRM Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Telekommunikation)
NPT Non-Proliferation Treaty (Atomsperrvertrag)
NQAA National Quality Assurance Authority
NQAR National Quality Assurance Representative
NQR Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance
NR Number of Rounds
NR Rotor RPM
NRAO National Radio Astronomy Observatory (USA)
NRC National Research Council (USA)
NRC Network Resource Control (Telekommunikation)
NRC Non-Recurring Cost
NRC Non-Resonant Cavity (LED)
NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRDC National Research and Development Corporation (London)
NREL National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, CO, USA)
NREN National Research and Education Network (USA)
NRIM National Research Institute for Metals (Tsukuba, Japan)
NRIM Network Resource Information Model
NRL Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, DC, USA)
NRM Network Resource Model
NRM Notification Response Message
NRQM Nichtrelativistische Quantenmechanik
NRT Non-Real Time
NRV Non Return Valve
NRW Nordrhein-Westfalen
NRZ Nonreturn to Zero
NRZ Non-Return-To-Zero (Telekommunikation)
NRZI Nonreturn to Zero Inverted
NS Noise Sample
NS Noisy Superposition
NS Navigation Subsystem
NSA National Security Agency (USA)
NSAC Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (USA)
NSAID Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
NSAPI Network Layer Service Acces Point Identifier
NSAPI Network Layer Service Access Point Identifier
NSB National Science Board (USA)
NSBF National Scientific Balloon Facility (NASA)
NSC National Security Council (USA)
NSC North Sea Communications
NSCA National Sound and Communications Association (USA)
NSCL National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (USA)
NSD Network Services Division
NSE Next Symbol Estimate
NSERC Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (USA)
NSF National Science Foundation (USA)
NSFNET National Science Foundation Network (USA)
NSG Network Strategy Group (Telekommunikation)
NSG Nuclear Suppliers Group ("Londoner Gruppe'')
NSIC National Storage Industry Consortium, Inc. (Hersteller von Datenspeichern,
NSM USA)
National Society Member (EPS u. a.)
NSM Network and Service Management (Telekommunikation)
NSOM Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscope (und: ... Microscopy)
NSP Network Service Point (or: Provider, or: Platform) (Internet)
NSPE National Society of Professional Engineers
NSR NATO Staff Requirement
NSRP Neutral Seat Reference Point
NSRT Non-Sequential Ray Tracing (?)
NSS Network and Switching Subsystem
NSS Network Subsystem (Telekommunikation)
NSS Neutraler Salzsprühtest (auf Korrosionsbeständigkeit)
NSSA Neutron Scattering Society of America
NSSK North-South Station Keeping (Satelliten)
NST NATO Staff Target
NSTA National Science Teachers Association (USA)
NSTC National Science and Technology Council (USA)
NSTX National Spherical Torus Experiment (PPPL, Princeton, NJ, USA)
NSUB Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (Göttingen)
NSV Number of send Signal Vectors
NSWC Naval Surface Warfare [früher: Weapons] Center (Silver Spring, MD, USA)
NT Network Termination (Datennetze)
NTC Negative Temperature Coefficient
NTG Nachrichtentechnische Gesellschaft (im VDE)
NTIA National Telecommunications and Information Administration
NTIS (Telekommunikation)
National Technical Information Service (Datenbank, USA)
NTO Nitrotriazolon (Sprengstoff)
NTP Network Time Protocol (Telekommunikation)
NTS Nuclear Test Site
NTSC National Television System Committee (Fernsehnorm, USA)
NTSC Never the same Colour
NTT New Technology Telescope (ESO, La Silla, Chile)
NTU National Taiwan University
NTU Network Termination Unit (Datennetze)
NTZ Nachrichtentechnische Zeitschrift
NU Nose Up
NuPECC Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee
NUREG U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NUSC Naval Underwater Systems Center (USA)
NUWC Naval Undersea Warfare Center (Newport, RI, USA)
NV Noise Vector
NV Nevada (US-Staat)
NVG Night Vision Goggels
NVH Noise, Vibration and Harshness
NVM Non Volatile Memory
NVM Non-volatile Memory
NVO National Virtual Observatory (USA, geplant für 2010)
NVOD Near Video-On-Demand
NVT Night Vision Terminal
NVV Nichtverbreitungsvertrag (Atomwaffen, 1968)
NVvL [Niederländische Aeroakustische Gesellschaft]
NW Novell
NW Network
NW New York
NW North-West
NW Nordrhein Westphalen
NW Nowhere
NW Network (Telekommunikation)
NWB Niedergeschwindigkeits-Windkanal Braunschweig
NWK Network Analyser (DECT)
NWK Nuklearwaffenkonvention
NWO (Niederländische Wissenschaftsorganisation)
NXT Desired Track (Course) of Next Mission Leg
NY New York (US-Staat)
NYAS New York Academy of Sciences
NZDSF Non-Zero Dispersion Shifted Fiber (Glasfaser, Kommunikation)
NZN Niedersächsischer Zeitschriftennachweis
NZZ Neue Zürcher Zeitung
O
O&M Operations and Maintenance
O/E/O Optical Electronic Optical (optische Telekommunikation)
O/R On Request
O/R Overhaul and Rework
O/T Other Times
OA Operation Area
OA Optical Amplfier
OA Osteoarhritis
OA Outgoing Access
OAAC Optical Aerial Attached Cable
OADM Optical Add/Drop Multiplexing
OADM Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer (optische Telekommunikation)
OAE Otoakustische Emissionen
OAI Open Archives Initiative
ÖAL Österreichischer Arbeitsring für Lärmbekämpfung
OAM Operation and Maintenance
OAM Operation, Administration and Maintenance (Telekommunikation)
OAM & P OAM and Provisioning
OAM&P Operation, Administration and Maintenance and Provisioning
OAMP (Telekommunikation)
Operation, Administration and Maintenance and Provision
OAN Optical Access Node (Glasfasernetz)
OAS Open Access Service (Telekommunikation)
OAS Operator Assisted Service (Telekommunikation)
OAS Optical Aperture Synthesis
OASIS Optimal Architecture Sensor Interface System
OAT Operational air traffic
OAT Outside Air Temperature
OAT Overall Temperature
OAT/G Outside Air Temperature/Gauge
OATA Ornamental Aquatic Trade Association (Europäische Handelsorgaisation)
OATC Open Area Test Site
OAU Organization of African Unity
OBDMS Object-Oriented Database Management System
OBL Outside Broadcasting Link
OBMC On Board Multimedia Controller (Telekommunikation)
OBMP On Board Multimedia Processor (Telekommunikation)
OBP On Board Processing (or: Processor)
OBS Out of Band Signal
OBS Optical Burst Switch (Telekommunikation)
OBW Occupied Bandwidth (Telekommunikation)
OC Ordering Criterion
OCA Quick Change Assembly
OCA/H Obstacle Clearance Altitude/Height
OCaB Outgoing Call Barrier
OCAMS On-Board Checkout and Monitoring System
OCD Optical Core Device (optische Telekommunikation)
OCDM Optical Code Division Multiplexing (optische Telekommunikation)
O-CDMA Optical Code Division Multiple Access (Glasfasernetz)
OCE Office of the Chief Engineer
OCH Optical Channel (optische Telekommunikation)
OCh-SPRING Optical Channel Shared Protection Ring (optische Telekommunikation)
OCL Obstacle Clearance Limit
OCM One Condition Monitoring
OCM Operator Carrier Modulation
OCR Optical Character Recognition (Computer-lesbare Schrift)
OCS One Cylinder Storage
OCS Online Charging System
OCT Optical Coherence Tomography, Optische Kohärenztomographie
OCT Optical Component Test
OCX (Dateinamenerweiterung: Programmdatei)
OD Optimum Detector
OD Outer Diameter
ODA Open Document Architecture
ODAIS Omnidirectional Airspeed Indication System
ODBC OPen Data Base Connectivity (Telekommunikation)
ODC Ornithindecarboxylase
ODE Ordinary Differential Equation
ODL Object Definition Language (Telekommunikation)
ODL Open and Distance Learning (EU-Programm)
ODP Ocean Drilling Project (or: Program)
ODP Open Distributed Processing
ODP Order-Disorder Transition
ODT Optical Data Tributary Unit
ODTU Optical Channel Data Unit
ODTUGE Optical Data Tributary Unit for Gigabyte Ethernet
ODU Optical Channel Data Unit
ODUFE Optical Channel Data Unit for Fast Ethernet
ODUGE Optical Channel Data Unit for Gigabit Ethernet
ODUk Optical Channel Data Unit k
OEAB Overend absoulte Business
OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OEI One Engine Inoperative
OEIC Optoelectronic Integrated Circuit, opto-elektronischer IC
OELR Overall Echo Loudness Rating (Telekommunikation)
OEM Optoelectronic Modulator (or: Mixer)
OEM Original Equipment Manfacturer
OENN Optoelectronic Neural Network
OEST Outline European Staff Target
OET Office of Engineering and Technology
OFA Optical Fiber Amplifier
OFAC Office of Foreign Assets Control (USA)
OFAT One-Factor-at-a-Time (Experimentiertechnik)
OFC Optical Fiber Communication
OFCCC Optical Fiber Cable Competence Center
OfCom Office of Communications (UK)
OFCS Offline Charging System
OFDM Optical (or: Orthogonal) Frequency Division Multiplexing (Telekommunikation)
OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex
OFET Organischer Feldeffekt-Transistor (optische Telekommunikation)
OFFS Offset-Bombing
OFI Optical Field Ionization
OFI Ornamental Fish International (Handelsorganisation)
OFMeC Optical Fibre Measurement Club (UK)
OFP Operational Flight Program
OFS Offset
OFW Oberflächenwellen
OG Optical Gateway (optische Telekommunikation)
ÖGAI Österreichische Gesellschaft für Artificial Intelligence
OGE Out of Ground Effect
OGI Ott-Grebogi-Yorke (control)
OGS OLMOS Ground Station
OGSA Open Grid Services Architecture (Rechnernetz)
OGWIC Ordered Group-Wise Interference Cancellation
OH Ohio (US-Staat)
OH Overhaul
OHEAT Overheated
OHG Offene Handelsgesellschaft
OHG Operator Harmonization Group (Telekommunikation)
OI Other Information
ÖIB Örtliche Initiativen zur Beschäftigung von Frauen (EU)
OID Operational Instrument Departure
OIDA Optoelectronic Industry Development Association
OIF Optical Interworking Forum
OIF Optical Interworking Forum (optische Telekommunikation)
OIML International Organization of Legal Metrology
oIMP Over-Imperium
OJEC Official Journal of the European Council
OJPS Online Journal Publishing Services (AIP)
OK Oklahoma (US-Staat)
OL Output Layer (neuronales Netz)
OLA Optical Line Amplifier (optische Telekommunikation)
OLC Open Logic Channel
OLCU Off Line Control Unit
OLE Object Linking and Embedding (Programmierung)
OLE Opto & Laser Europe (Zeitschrift, Bristol, UK)
OLED Organic Light-Emitting Diode (or: Device)
OLM Organisation Level Maintenance
OLMOS On-Board Live Monitoring System
OLS On-Line Service (Internet)
OLT Optical Line Termination (optische Telekommunikation)
OLTE Optical Line Termination Equipment
OLTP Online Transaction Processing
OM Operation Module
OM Optical Monitor (XMM)
OM Outer Marker
OMA Open Mobile Alliance
OMAC Open Modular Architecture Controller
OMB Office of Management and Budget (USA, White House)
OMC Operations and Maintenance Center
OMC Operations and Maintenance Center (Telekommunikation)
OMC Optical Metrology Centre
OMF Observation Markup Format
OMG Object Management Group
OMI Open Microprocessor Systems Initiative
OMI Optical Modulation Index
OMLD Optimum Maximum Likelyhood Detector
OMO Optical Modulator Output
OMS Operations and Maintenance Station (Telekommunikation)
OMS Optical Multiplex Station (Telekommunikation)
OMSG OptinexTM (or: Optical) Multi-Service Gateway (optische Telekommunikation)
OMSN OptinexTM (or: Optical) Multi-Service Node (optische Telekommunikation)
OMT Object Modelling (and) Technique
OMUX Output Multiplexer (Telekommunikation)
ON Optical Network (Telekommunikation)
ONCV Orthogonal-Normal Column Vector
ONERA Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales
ONP Open Network Provision(ing)
ONR Office of Naval Research (Arlington, VA, USA)
ONSA Organization for Nucleotid Sequencing and Analysis (São Paulo, Brasilien)
ONST Outline NATO Staff Target
ONTA Oxynitrotriazol (Sprengstoff)
ONU Optical Network Unit
OO objektorientiert
OODB Object-Oriented Database
OOP objektorientierte(s) Programm(entwicklung)
OOT objektorientierter Test
OP Overall Performance
OP Operating Procedure
OP Organizational Partners
OP A/D Optical Packet Add/Drop (optische Telekommunikation)
OP&CAPEX Operational and Captial Expenditure
OPAC Online Public Access Catalog
OPAL Optical Access Line, optische Anschlussleitung (Telefon)
OPCON Operation and Control
OPCPA Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification
OPEC Organization of Petrol Exporting Countries, Organisation Erdöl exportierender
OPEN Staaten
Optical Pan-European Network
OPEP One-Pion Exchange Potential
Opex Operating Expenditure (or: Expenses)
OPEX Operational Expenditures
OPEX & CAPEX Operational Expenditure and Captial Expenditure
ÖPG Österreichische Physikalische Gesellschaft
OPGW Optical Ground Wire (Glasfasernetz)
OPIF Operator Interface
OPIT Oxide Powder in Tube
OPL Qualified Products List
ÖPNV Öffentlicher Personen-Nahverkehr
OPO Optical Parametric Oscillator
OPP Optical Precipitate Profiler
OPR Operate
OPS Official Production System
OPS Open Patent Service
OPS Optical Path Switch (Telekommunikation)
OPS Optical Protection System (optische Telekommunikation)
OPS Optically Pumped Semiconductor (Laser)
OPT Optional Equipment
OPU Optical Channel Payload Unit
OPU Optical Payload Unit
OPUGE Operationszentrale
OPZ Optical Payload Unit for Gigabit Ethernet
OR Operations Research
OR Oregon (US-Staat)
ORACLS Optimal Regulator Algorithms for the Control of Linear Systems (CAD-System,
ORB NASA
Object 1980)
Request Broker (Telekommunikation)
ORE Office de Recherche et d'Essais
ORF Österreichischer Rundfunk
ORF Outbound Route Filters
org [other organizations] (Internet, USA)
ORI Office of Research Integrity
ORIDE Override
ORM Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (La Palma)
ORM Optical Recording Medium
ORMAK Oak Ridge Tokamak (Fusionsreaktortechnik, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
ORMOCER Organically Modified Ceramic
ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory (TN, USA)
ORREQ Origination Request Message
ORSTOM (Internationale Hilfsorganisation Frankreichs)
OS Output Signal
OS Operating (or: Operations) System
O-S/N Operating Signalt To Noise Ratio
OSA Open Service Architecture (Telekommunikation)
OSA Optical Society of America
OSB Oriented Structural Board (Spanplatte)
OSC On Scene Command
OSC Optical Supervisory Channel (Glasfasernetz)
OSC Oscillator
OSC Outbound Signalling Channel (Telekommunikation)
OSD On Screen Display (Funktionsanzeige auf TV-Schirm)
OSDE Open Systems (or: Service) Development (or: Delivery) Environment
OSF (Telekommunikation)
Open Software Foundation
OSF Open Software Foundation
OSF Operation System Function
OSF Operations System Function
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Washington, DC, USA)
OSI Open Source Initiative
OSI Open System Interconnection
OSI Open Systems Interconnection (Datennetze)
OSI Optical Stellar Interferometer
O-SIC SSA Ordered Successive Interference Cancellation Sphere Searching Algorithm
OSIRIS Off-Shore Integrated Robotic Inspection System
OSNCP Optical Subnetwork Connection Protection (optische Telekommunikation)
OSNR Optical Signal-to-Noise Ratio (optische Telekommunikation)
OSP Octet Stream Protocol
OSP Open Services Platform (Telekommunikation)
OSPF Open Shortest Path First (Internet)
OSS Optimum Search Set
OSS Office of Strategical Services (USA)
OSS Operations Support System (Internet)
OSS Output Shaft Speed
OSSE Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment
OSSI Operations Support System Interface (Telekommunikation)
OST Observatoire des Sciences et des Techniques (Frankreich)
OST Office of Science and Technology (UK)
OSTNR Operating Signalt To Noise Ratio
OSTP Office of Science and Technology Policy (USA, White House)
OSZE Organisation für Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit in Europa
OT Operational Task End
OTA Office of Technology Assessment (USA, Congress)
OTC One Touch Com (Telekommunikation)
OTCH of Overrung Crossing Height
OTD Observed Time Difference (Telekommunikation)
OTDM Optical Time Division Multiplexing (optische Telekommunikation)
OTDOA OTD of Arrival (Telekommunikation)
OTDR Optical Time Domain Reflectometry
OTD-Sim Order to Delivery Simulation
OTF On-Top-Fix(ing)
OTH Optical Transport Hierarchy (optische Telekommunikation)
OTHT Over-the-Horizon Targeting
OTN Open Transport Network (Verkehrsleitsystem)
OTN Optical Transmission Network
OTN Optical Transmission Network (optische Telekommunikation)
OTN ODUk Path Optical Transmission Network Data Unit Path
OTP One Time Password
OTPI On-Top-Positioning Indicator
OTS Optical Transmission System (optische Telekommunikation)
OTU Optical Channel Transport Unit
OTUk Optical Channel Transport Unit k
OU Open University (UK)
OUTBD Outboard
OVC Output Variance Constraint
OvD Offizier vom Dienst
OVHT Overheat
OVLD Overload
OVLD Overlord (warfare)
OVRO Owens Valley Radio Observatory
OVSF Orthogonal Variable Spreading Factor
OWF Optimum Working Frequency
OWS Obstacle Warning System
OWS Optical Wavelength Switched (optische Telekommunikation)
ows Overload Warning System
OXC Optical Cross Connect (optische Telekommunikation)
OXC Optical Cross-Connect
OXID Exchange ID
OXRB Oxygen replacement bottles
OXY Oxygen
OZIPM Ozone Isopleth Plotting with Optional Mechanism
P
p.l.c. public limited company (UK)
p.t.o. please turn over (= b.w.)
P/C Part Card
P/M Tr Personal/Material and Troop Transport
P/N Part Number
P2P Peer-to-Peer Protocol
P2P Point-to-Point
P2PC Point-to-Point Communication
P2S Parallel-to-Serial (Converter)
PA Pennsylvania (US-Staat)
PA Power Amplifier
PA Product Assurance
PA 1 Proportion of all arisings that are
PA 2 Proportional of all arising that are
PA 2a rectified at intermediate level
PA 3 Proportion of all arising that are rectified at depot level
PA la rectified at organisational level
PABX Private Automatic Branch Exchange, Private digitale Nebenstellenanlage
PAC Password Access Control
PAC Perturbed Angular Correlation
PAC Processing and Archiving Center
PAC Programme Advisory Committee (TC im ETSI)
PACE Planar Articulating Controls Experiment
PACE Programme de recherche sur l'Aval du Cycle Electronucléaire (CNRS,
PACF Frankreich, zur Entsorgung
Phosphoric Acid radioaktiver Abfälle)
Fuel Cell (?)
PACS Photoconductor Array Camera and Spectrometer (FIRST)
PACS Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme
PACS Picture Archiving and Communication Systems
PAD Packet Assembly/Disassembly
PAD Perturbed Angular Distribution
PAFC Phosphoric Acid FC (?)
PAH Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon
PAIR Patent Aplication Information Retrieval
PAK Polyzyklische aromatische Kohlenwasserstoffe
PAL Phase Alternation Line (Fernsehen)
PAL Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (Korea)
PALC Plasma Addressed Liquid Crystal
PALS Photoacoustic Laser Spectroscopy
PALS Prague Asterix Laser System
PAM Pulse Amplitude Modulation (Signal-Rekonstruktions-Tiefpass, Nyquist Filter
PAMA f_c = f_s am D/A
Preassigned Wandler)
Multiple Access (Telekommunikation)
PAN Personal Area Network (Telekommunikation)
PAN Polyacrylonitrile
PAP Password Access Protocol
PAPI Precision approach path indicator
PAPS Periodic Armaments Planning System
PAR Precision Approach Radar
PARCOR Partial Correlation
PAS Power Amplifier Stage
PAS Pädagogische Arbeitsstelle des deutschen Volkshochschulverbandes
PAT (Frankfurt/M)
Port Address Translation (Telekommunikation)
PAT Production Acceptance Test
PATU PanAfrican Telecommunication Union
PAY Physics Achievement Year
PB Perfect Business
PB Power Beacon
PBA Pitch Bias Actuator
PBDE polybromierte Diphenylether
PBET Photonic Basis for Engineers and Technicians (California, USA)
PBH Physikzentrum Bad Honnef (DPG)
PBI Physics-Based Industries
PBM Point - Bit Mapping
PBN pyrolytisches Bornitrid
PBO Polybenzobioxazol
PBO Power Back Off
PBS Primer-Bindungsstelle (in RNA)
PBT Polybutylenterephthalat, Poly Butylene Terephthalate
PBWA Plasma Beat-Wave Accelerator
PBX Plastic Bonded Explosive (Sprengstoff)
PBX Private Branch Exchange
PBX Private Branch Exchange (Internet)
PBX-M Princeton Beta Experiment - Modified (Fusionsreaktortechnik)
PBZ Partialbruchzerlegung
PC Palmtop Computer
PC Personal Computer
PC Polycarbonat
PC Polycarbonat
PC Pseudo Code
PCA Physical Configuration Audit
PCA Proportional Counter Array (beim RXTE)
PCAST President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (USA)
PCB polychlorierte Biphenyle
PCB Printed Circuit Board
PCB Printed Circuit Board
PCC Partial Correlation Coefficient
PCC Policy Control and Charging
PCC polychloriertes Camphen
PCCPCH Primary Common Control Physical Channel
PCD Power Control Device
PCDE Peak Code Domain Error (Telekommunikation)
PCEF Policy and Charging Enforcement Function
PCF Photonic Crystal Fibre
PCF Polymer Cladded Fiber (optische Telekommunikation)
PCG Project Coordination Group (Telekommunikation)
PCH Paging Channel
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect (Datenbus)
PCIMG PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group
PCL Processor Control Logic
PCL Program Code Language
PCM Parallel Climate Model
PCM Phase Change Material
PCM Puls-Code-Modulation
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PCN Personal Communications Network
PCO Point of Control and Observation (Telekommunikation)
PCO Public Call Office (Telephon)
PCP Pentachlorphenol
PCR Peak Cell Rate (Telekommunikation)
PCR Polymerase Chain Reaction
PCR Predictive Control of Reactors
PCRF Policy Control and Charging Rules Function
PCS Personal Communications Service (or: System)
PCS Photon Correlation Spectroscopy
P-CSCF Proxy CSCF
P-CSCF Proxy-Call Session Control Function
PCSS Personal Communication Satellite Systems
PCT Patent Cooperation Treaty
PCU Packet Control Unit (Telekommunikation)
PCU Pilotvs Control Unit
PCU Power Conditioning Unit
PCU Power Control Unit
PCU Propeller Control Unit
PCX (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)
PCX Private Communication Exchange (Telekommunikation)
PD Pre-Decoder
PD Public Domain
PD Probabilitstic Data
PD Poor Detection
PD Privatdozent
PD Proportional-Derivative (Control), Proportional-Differential (Regler)
PD(P) Project Definition (Phase)
PD(R) Preliminary Design (Review)
PDA Personal Digital Assistent (Telekommunikation)
PDA persönlicher digitaler Assistent
PDA persönlicher digitaler Assistent
PDC Personal (or: Portable) Digital Cellular (or: Communication)
PDCH (Telekommunikation)
Packet Data Channels (Telekommunikation)
PDCP Packet Data Compression (or: Convergence) Protocol (Telekommunikation)
PDD Photodynamische Diagnostik
PDE Partial Differential Equation
PDE Phosphodiesterase
PDF Portable Document Format
PDF Postscript Document Format (Dateiformat von Adobe Systems Inc.)
PDF Probability Density Function
PDF Probability Distribution Funciton
PDG Packet Data Gateway
PDGF Platelet-Derived Growth Factor (Blutplättchen-Wachstumsfaktor)
PDGLES Pre-Decoder Guided Local Exhaustive Search
PDGLSA Pre-Decoder Guided Local Searching Algorithm
PDH Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (Telekommunikation)
PDI Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik (Berlin)
PDL Page Description Language (Printer Server)
PDL Polarization Dependent Loss (optische Telekommunikation)
PDLC Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystal
PDM Polarization Division Multiplexing (optische Telekommunikation)
PDM Product Data Management
PDM Pulse Duration Modulation
PDMS Polydimethylsiloxan
PDN Packet Data Network (Telekommunikation)
PDO Packet Data Optimized (Telekommunikation)
PDP Packet Data Protocol (Telekommunikation)
PDP Plasma Discharge (or: Display) Panel
PDR Preliminary Design Review
PDS Payload Data Segment (Telekommunikation)
PDS Permanent Data Storage System
PDS Polydioxanon
PDS Pure Disturbance Suppression
PDSN Packet Data Serving Node
PDT Photodynamic Therapy, Photodynamische Therapie
PDTS Programmable Data Terminal Set
PDU Packet Data Unit (Telekommunikation)
PDU Protocol Data Unit (Internet)
PDX Princeton Divertor Experiment (Fusionsreaktortechnik, PPPL)
PE Parabolic equation
PE Phase Error (Telekommunikation)
PE Polyethylen
PE Prediction Error
PE Provider Edge Router
PE Provider Edge (Telekommunikation)
PE Pre-Estimation
PEACE Process Execution and Communication Environment
PEAP Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (Telekommunikation)
PEC Personal Equipment Connector
PECVD Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition
PED Pedestal
PEEM Photo-Emission Electron Microscope, Photoemissions-Elektronenmikroskop
PEG Polyethylenglykol
PEI Preliminary Engineering Inspection
PEM Photon Emission Microscopy
PEM Polymer-Elektrolyt-Membran (Brennstoffzelle)
PEM Proton Exchange Membrane (Brennstoffzelle)
PEMFC Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell
PEN Physics Education News
PEO Polyethylenoxid
PEO Preliminary Engineering Order
PEP Peak Envelope Power
PEP Polymeric Electronics Packaging
PEP Producibility Engineering & Planning
PEPS Performance Evaluation of Parallel Systems (Europäisches
PER Forschungsprojekt)
Packed Encoding Rule (ASN.1)
Per Perchlorethen
PERL Passivated Emitter and Rear, Locally Diffused (Solarzellen)
Perl Practical Extraction and Report Language (scherzhaft auch: Pathologically
Perm Eclectic Rubbish Lister) (Textmanipulation)
Permutation
PESC Power Electronics Specialist Conference
PET Polyethylenterephthalat
PET Positronen-Emissions-Tomographie, Positron Emission Tomography
PETRA Positron-Elektron-Tandem-Ring-Anlage (DESY)
PEX Position Error Correction
PF Protein foam
PFAU Programm zur finanziellen Absicherung von Unternehmensgründern aus
PFCK Hochschulen
Pre Flight Check
PFCS Primary Flight Control System
PFD Primary Flight Display
PFD Power Flux Density
PFE Power Feeding Equipment
PFM Pulse Frequency Modulation
PFS Pre-Feasiblitity Study
PFS Programmable Frequency Synthesizer
PG Peer Group
PG Path Gain
PGA Pin Grid Array (Chipgehäuse)
PGA Polyglykolid
PGO (Hirn-Zellkomplex: pons, corpus geniculatum, occiput)
PGP Pretty Good Privacy
PHA Polyhydroxyalkanoat
PHA Preliminary Hazard Analysis
PHARE Poland and Hungary Action for Economic Restructuring
PHB Per-Hop Behavior
PHC Pilots Hand Controller
PhD Doctor of Philosophy
PHENIX Pioneering High Energy New Ion Experiment (RHIC)
PHI Planbasierte Hilfesysteme
PHI Position and Homing Indicator
PHM Prognostics and Health Managament
PHP Hypertext Processor (Telekommunikation)
PHS Peripheral High Speed (Bus)
PHS Personal Handyphone System
PHS & T Packaging, Handling, Storage & Transportation
PHT plötzlicher Herztod
PHY Physical Layer (DECT)
PI Present Invention
PI Pilot Interface
PI Proportional-Integral (Control), Proportional-Integral (Regler)
PIA Positronen-Intensitäts-Akkumulator (DESY)
PIAFE Projet d'Ionisation et d'Accélération de Faisceaux Exotiques (Grenoble,
PIB Frankreich)
Permanent Industrial Bureau
PIC (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)
PIC Photonic Integrated Circuit
PICA Picosecond Imaging Circuit Analysis
PICH Paging Indication Channel
PICS Protocol Implementation (or: Instance) Conformance Statement
PID (Telekommunikation)
Präimplantationsdiagnostik (Genetik)
PID Proportional, Integral, Derivative (Control), Proportional-Integral-Differential
PIDC (Regler)
Prototype International Data Center (Arlington, VA, USA)
PII Publisher Item Identifier
PIK Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung
PIM Personal Information Manager (Telekommunikation)
PIM Pseudo Inverse Matrix
PIM Pseudo-Inverse Matrix
PIMS Personal Information Managers
PIM-SM Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (Internet)
PIN [Photodiode aus 3 Schichten: 'p'-type, 'i'ntrinsic, 'n'-type semiconductor],
PIN Positive-Intrinsic-Negative
Personal Identification Number
PINET Physics Information Network
PINT PSTN/Internet Interworking Group (Internet)
PINV Pseudo Inverse
PINV Moore Penrose Pseudo Inverse Function
PIP Picture in Picture (TV: kleines Zusatzbild von anderem Sender)
PIPS Passivated, Implanted, Planar Silicon (detectors)
PIR Personal Interactivity Recorder
PIT Point in Time
PIU produktionsintegrierter Umweltschutz
PIV Particle Image Velocimetry
PIXEL Picture Element
PIXIT Protocol Information Extra Implementation for Testing (Telekommunikation)
PJ/NJ Public-Key Cryptography
PKC Postive Justification / Negative Justification
PKE Pluto-Kuiper Express (Raumfahrtprojekt)
PKI Public Key Infrastructure (Telekommunikation)
PKM Parallel Kinematic Machine (Robotik)
PKY Parkway (US Mail)
PL Packet Loss
PL Padding Lenght
PL Photoluminescence, Photolumineszenz
PL Place (US Mail)
PL Poland
PL Prefered Layer
PLA Polylactid
PLB Personal Locator Beacon
PLC Periodic Location Update
PLC Packet Loss Concealment (Telekommunikation)
PLC Patent Law of China
PLC Planar Lightwave Circuit (Photonik)
PLC Power Line Communication
PLC Programmable Logic Controller
PLC Programmable Logic Device
PLD Pulsed Laser Deposition
PLE Photolumineszenz-Anregungsspektroskopie
PLED Polymeric Light-Emitting Diode
PLF Panzer Löschfahrzeug
PLI Padding Lenght Information
PLI Payload Length Indicator
PLL Phase-Locked Loop
PLMN Public Land Mobile Network (Telekommunikation)
PLO Phase-Locked Oscillator
PLP Perceptual Linear Prediction
PLS Personal Locator System
PLS Pilot Initiated Locator System
PLSD Polygon Local Searchin Detector
PLT Plot (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)
PLT Princeton Large Experiment (Fusionsreaktortechnik, PPPL)
PLZ Plaza (US Mail)
PLZ Postleitzahl
PM Photomultiplier (tube)
PM Physical Modelling
PM Polarization Mode Dispersion
PM Polarisation Modulation
PM Polarization Modulation
PM Product Monograph (Pharma)
PM Program Management
PMA Physical Media Attachement
PMB Path Monitoring
PMC Personal Mobile Communicator
PMC Plant Management Computer
PMD Panel Mounted Display
PMD Physical Media dependent
PMD Polarization-Mode Dispersion (Glasfasernetz)
PMD Portable MAC Identity for Display (DECT)
PMD Program Management Organization
PMDE Precision Distance Measuring Equipment
PMDT Performance & Mission Data Terminal
PME Power Management Exchange
PMF Polarization Maintaining Fiber (optische Telekommunikation)
PMM Power Measurement Modulation
PMMA Polymethylmethacrylat
PMMA Polymetylmetaacrylat
PMMS Power Measurement Modulation Session
PMO Program Managament Office
PMOS P-Channel MOS
PMP Point-to-Multipoint (Telekommunikation)
PMS Puls-Magnetron-Sputtern (Dünne Schichten)
PMSJ Physico-Mathematical Society of Japan
PMSS Polymethylsilsesquioxan [Si(CH3)O1,5]n
PMT Photomultiplier Tube
PMT Programming Mapping Table
PMV Predicted Mean Vote
PMW Project Management Workbench
PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
PNE Peaceful Nuclear Explosion
PNG (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)
PNGV Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles
PNNI Private Network-Node (or: -Network) Interface (Internet)
PNNL Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Washington, USA)
PNO Private Network Operator
PNP Purinnucleosid-Phosphorylase
Pnt Point
PNU Physics News Update (USA)
PNVS Pilot Night Vision System
PO Physical optics
PO Place of Observation
POC Plurality of Channels
POC Particulate Organic Carbon
POC Point of Concentration (Telekommunikation)
POD Pay on Delivery
POD Probability of Decoding
POEM Programme for Observation of the Earth and its Environment
POF Polymer (or: Plastic) Optical Fiber
POI Point of Interest (Telekommunikation)
POINTS Precision Optical Interferometer in Space
POL Petrol, Oil, Lubrication
POL Program Operating Language
POLLENS Platform for Open, Light, Legible and Efficient Network Services
POLY (Telekommunikation)
Polymeric Materials for Microelectronics and Photonics (Kongress)
POM Polyoxymethylen (Kunststoff)
POM Product of a Matrix
POMS Profile of Mood States (medicine)
PON Passive Optical Network
PONS Prometheus Orthonormal System
POP Point of Presence (Internet)
POP Post Office Protocol (E-Mail Server)
POP Postoffice Protocol
POPA Panel on Public Affairs (APS)
PORSS Plurality of Reduced Search Sets
POS Plurality of Symbols
PoS Packet over SONET (or: SDH)
POS Positive
PosFL Post fade listen
POSIX Portable Operating System Interface (Telekommunikation)
POST Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (UK)
POST Postflight
POST Power on Self Test
POSTECH Pohang University of Science and Technology (Korea)
PostEurop Association of European Public Postal Operators
POTS Plain Old Telephone Service (or: System)
POTS Plain Ordinary Telephone Service
POW Prisoner of War
PP Point to Point (Telekommunikation)
PP Polypropylen (Kunststoff)
PP Portable Part (z.B. Handset) (DECT)
PP Present Position
PP Processing Program
PPADC Pulse Processing Analog-to-Digital Converter
PPARC Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (UK)
PPAU Packet Processor and Access Unit
ppb parts per billion, 10-9
PPD Predicted Percentage of Dissatisfied
PPF Positive Position Feedback
PPF Print Production Format
PPFRT Prototype Preliminary Flight Rating Test
PPG Pacific Proving Ground (Atombomben-Testgebiet)
PPH Pounds per Hour
PPL Passive Photonic Loop
PPLN Periodically-Poled Lithium Niobate
ppm parts per million, 10-6
PPM Pulse Position Modulation
PPMS Physical Property Measurement System
PPN Parametricized Post-Newtonian (Gravitationstheorie)
PPOS Present Positon
PPP Peer-to-Peer Protocol
PPP Point-to-Point Protocol
PPP Point-to-Point Protocol (Internet)
PPP Poly(p-Phenylen)
PPP Public/Private Partnership (Telekommunikation)
PPPL Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (Fusionsreaktortechnik)
PPPoA PPP over ATM (Telekommunikation)
PPPoE PPP over Ethernet (Telekommunikation)
PPR Pflegepersonalregelung
PPR Prior Permission Required
PPR Product Performance Requirement
PPS Prepaid Accounting Server
PPS The Polish Physical Society
PPT (Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft PowerPoint-Datei)
PPT Pre-Production Tests
PPTP Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (Internet)
PPU Present Position (Indication)
PPV Pay-per-View (Telekommunikation)
PPV Poly(p-Phenylen Vinylen)
PR Photo Resist
PR Power Rail
PR Public Relation
PR Puerto Rico (US Mail)
PRA Plurality of Receive Antennas
PRA Primary Rate Access (ISDN)
PRBS Pseudo Random Binary Sequence
PRBS Pseudorandom Bit Sequence
PRC Peoples Republic of China
PRC Physics Resources Center (AIP)
PRC Primary Reference Clock (Telekommunikation)
PRE Preflight
PreFL Pre fade listen
PRESS Pressure
PRF Pulse Repetition Frequency
PRI Primary
PRI Primary Rate Interface (Telekommunikation)
PRI Priority
PRIF Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
PRL Physical Review Letters
PRML Partial Response Maximum Likelihood
Probab Probability
PROLA Physical Review Online Archive
PROLOG Programming in Logic
PROM Programmable Read-Only Memory
PROMED Program to Monitor Emerging Diseases
PROMETHEUS Programme for a European Traffic with Highest Efficiency and Unprecedented
PROP Safety
Propeller
PrP Prion-Protein
PRS Processor Register Select
PS Packet Switched
PS Phone Splitter
PS Protocol Stack
PS Preamble Section
PSA Polygon Searching Algorithm
PSA Plataforma Solar de Almeria (Solarkraftwerk)
PSA Pressure Sensitive Adhesive
PSA Prostata-spezifisches Antigen
PSAB Physics, Space and Astronomy Board (UK)
PSAC The President's Advisory Committeee (USA)
PSBT Phase Shifted Binary Transmission (Telekommunikation)
PSC Parallel-to-Serial Converter
PSC Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (USA)
PSC Polar Stratospheric Cloud (siehe Ozonloch)
PSCF Pure Silica Core Fiber (optische Telekommunikation)
PSCP Probable Sent Constellation Point
PSD Polygon Searching Decoder
PSD Position-Sensing Detector
PSD Power Spectral Density
PSE Periodical System of Elements
PSE Personal Service Environment (Telekommunikation)
PSE please
PSE Programm- und Systementwicklung
PSF Point Spread Function
PSG Programmable Sound Generator
PSI Paul Scherrer Institut (Villingen, CH)
PSI Payload Structure Identifier
PSI Pound per Square Inch
PSI Program Specific Information
PSI Programmable Serial Interface
PSID Panel Study of Income Dynamics (USA)
PSJ The Physical Society of Japan
PSK Phase Shift Keying (Modulation)
PSM Phase Shift Mask
PSOLA Pitch-Synchronous Overlap Add (Sprachsynthese)
PSP Pierced steep plank
PSP Possible Signal Point
PSPC positionsempfindlicher Proportionalzähler (Röntgensatelliten)
PSPDN Packet Switched Public Data Network
PSR Precision Segmented Reflector (Satelliten)
PSR Proposed Searching Region
PSS Personalized Service Selector (Telekommunikation)
PSS Positive Status Stablitity
PSSC Physical Sciences Study Committee (USA)
PST [Fraunhofer-] Patentstelle für die Deutsche Forschung (München)
PSTM Photon Scanning Tunneling Microscope
PSTN Public Switched Telefone Network
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network (Öffentliches Fernsprechnetz)
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Networks
PSTN/CS Public Switched Telefone Network/Circuit Switched
PSTN/PS Public Switched Telefone Network/Packet Switched
PT Platin
Pt Platinum
PT Protocol Translation
PT Pseudoternary
PTA Pharmaceutical Technical Assistant
PTA Plurality of Transmit Antennas
PTA Personal Travel Assistent
PTB Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Braunschweig)
PTC Positive Temperature Coefficient
PTD Physical theory of diffraction
PTFE Polytetrafluoreth(yl)en
PTI Physikalisch-Technisches Institut (DDR, Jena)
PTM Point to Multipoint
PTO Public Telecommunications Operator
PtP Peer-to-Peer (Telekommunikation)
PTP Plain Text Protocol
PTQ Pattern Trigger Quantize
PTR Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (Berlin, ab 1887)
PTRA Physics Teaching Resource Agents
PTS Plurality of Transmit Sources
PTS Possible Transmit Symbol
PTS Possible Transmit Symbol Vector
PTSP PNNI Topology State Packet (Telekommunikation)
PTSV Posttraumatische Belastungsstörung (Medizin)
PTT Post, Telegraph and Telephone
PTT Push To Talk
PTV Projection Television
PTV Possible Transmit Vector
PTZ Produktionstechnisches Zentrum (FhG, Berlin)
PU Participating Unit
PU Polyurethan
PU produktintegrierter Umweltschutz
PUB (Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft Publisher-Datei)
PUNE Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy
PUR Plutonium and Uranium Extraction (Radioaktiver Abfall)
PUR Polyurethan
PUSH Partnernetz für Unternehmensgründungen aus Stuttgarter Hochschulen
PUSH Public Understanding of the Sciences and Humanities
PUZ Pick-Up Zone
PV Photovoltaik
PV Polarisation Vector
PV Present Value
PV Principal Value (at Cauchy Integral)
PVB Polyvinyl Butyral
PVC Permanent Virtual Channels
PVC Permanent Virtual Circuit
PVC Permanent Virtual Circuit (or: Channel) (or: Connection) (Rechnernetz)
PVC Polyvinly Cloride
PVC Polyvinylchlorid
PVD Physical Vapor Deposition
PVDF Polyvinylidenfluorid
PVK Poly-N-vinylcarbazol
PVM Parallel Virtual Machine (Parallelrechner)
PVR Personal Video Recorder
PVR Personal Video Recording (or: Recorder)
PVS Pilot Vision System
PVT Protocol Version Translation
PWBS Printed Wiring Board
PWBS Programme Work Breakdown Structure
PWE3 Pseudo Wire Emulation Edge to Edge (Telekommunikation)
P-Wellen Kompressionswellen (Geophysik)
PWFA Plasma Wakefield Accelerator
PWLAN Public Wireless LAN (Telekommunikation)
PWM Pulse Width Modulation
PWR Power
PWT Private Wireless Telephony (Telekommunikation)
PX Passenger
PXI PCI Extensions for Instrumentation
PyC Pyrokohlenstoff
PZT Lead Zirconate Titanate
Q Q-Factor, Quality Factor, Gütefaktor
Q
Q&A Questions and Answers
QA Quality Assurance
QALY Quality-Adjusted Life Years
QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
QAR Quantitative Autoradiography (Medizin)
QAU Quality Assurance Unit
QBD Quasi-Birth-and-Death
QBER Quantum Bit-Error Rate
Qbone QoS Backbone
QC Quality Check
QC Quality Control
QC Quantum Cryptography
QCD Quantum Chromodynamics, Quantenchromodynamik
QCL Quantum Cascade Laser
QCR Quality Change Unit
QD Quantum Dot
QDRI Qualitative Development Requirement Information
QE Quality Evaluation
QED Quantenelektrodynamik
qed quod erat demonstrandum (= was zu beweisen war)
QELS Quantum Electronics and Laser Science (Conference)
QFD Quality Function Deployment
QFE Pressure value for altimeter setting (altimeter indicates the height above
QFL aerodrome)
Quantum Fountain Laser
QFM Quantized Frequency Modulation
QFT Quantenfeldtheorie
QFU Magnetic orientation of runway
QGP Quark-Gluon Plasma
QHE Quantum Hall Effect, Quanten-Hall-Effekt
QKD Quantum Key Distribution (Kryptographie)
QM Quality Management, Qualitätsmanagement
QM Quantum Magnetics
QMC Quanten-Monte-Carlo (-Technik)
QMS Quasi-monokristalline Siliziumschicht
QND Quantum Nondemolition Measurement (rückwirkungsfreie Quantenmessung)
QNH Pressure value for altimeter setting (altimeter indicates the altitude)
QO Quantisation Operation
QoS Quality of Service
QOS Quality of Service
QPAM Quadrature Phase and Amplitude Modulation
QPAM Quantized Pulse Amplitude Modulation
QPM Quantized Phase Modulation
QPO Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (Röntgensterne)
QPP Qualification Programme Plan
QPPM Quantized Pulse Position Modulation
QPSK Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (Modulation)
QPSK Quaternary Phase Shift Keying
QQ Quell-Codierung
QRY (Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft Datenbank-Abfrage)
QSAM Quadrature Sideband Amplitude Modulation
QSAR Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (Chemie)
QSBFWCM Quasi-Static-Block Fading Wireless Channel Model
QSIG Q Interface Signaling
QSM Qualitative Software Metrics
QSVD Quotient Singular Value Decomposition
QTP Qualification Test-Plan
QTVR Quick Time Virtual Reality
QTYR Quantity
QUAM Quantized Amplitude Modulation
QUANTOM Quantitative Tomographiedatenanalyse
QUIC Quantum Information and Computation Consortium
QW Quantum Well
QW Quadratic Weigth
QWI Quantum Well Intermixing (tunable laser)
QWIP Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector
R Red = 2,5-bis[4-[N-(4-methoxyphenyl)-N-phenylamino]]styrylbenzene-1,4-
R dicarbonitrile
Right
R
R ALT Radar Altimeter
R&D Research and Development
R&I Research and Innovation
R&S Retraction Actuator
R&T Research and Technology
R/A Radar Altimeter
R/A Rhode und Schwarz
R/C Rate of Climb
R/C Revenue/Cost Ratio
R/D Rate of Decsent
R5 Release 5
RA Receiving Antenna
RA Radar Altimeter
RA Radio Access (Telekommunikation)
RA Research Assistant (USA)
RA Restricted area
RA Rheumatoid Arthrits
RA Radio Astronomy
RAA Radar Air/Air
RAB Radio Access Bearer
RAB Radio Access Bearer (Telekommunikation)
RAB Remote Amplifier Box (Telekommunikation)
RAC Radio Admission Control (Telekommunikation)
RAC Routing Area Code
RAC Rules of the Air and Air Traffic Serv
RACE Research and Development in Advanced Communication Technologies in
RACH Europe
Random[or: Research
Access Channel(Programme) on (or: into) Advanced Communication(s)
RAD in Europe]
Radians
RAD Radiation Absorbed Dose
RAD Radio Altimeter
RAD Rapid Application Development
RAD ALT Radar Altimeter
RAD ALT Radar of Radio Altitude
RADAR Radio Detection And Ranging (Radio Aircraft Detection and Ranging)
RADHAZ Radiation Hazards
RADIUS Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (Telekommunication)
RADM Radom
RADSL Rate Adaptive DSL
RAeS Royal Aeronautical Society (UK)
RAFIS Radar-assisted flight information service
RAG Radar Air/Ground
RAHR Reversionary Attitude & Heading Ref.
RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RAINBOW Reduced and Internally Biased Oxide Wafer (piezoelektrischer Aktuator)
RAIRO Revue Française d'Automatique, Informatique et Recherche Opérationelle
RAIW Review Audit Inspection Walk trough
RAL Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory (Oxford-Chilton, UK)
RALT Radio Altitude
RAM Random Access Memory
RAM Reliability,Availability,Maintainability
RAM Remote Access Multiplexer (Internet)
RAM & T Reliability, Availability, Maintainability & Testability
RAMICS Rapid Airbore Mine Clearance System
RAN Radio Access Network (Telekommunikation)
RAN Remote Access Node (Telekommunikation)
RANAP Radio Access Network Application Part (Telekommunikation)
RAP Radio Access Profile (Telekommunikation)
RAP Radiological Assistence Program (DoE, USA)
RAPCON Radar approach control center
RAPID Research and Public Information and Dissemination (USA, Programm zu
RAPTOR EMF-Schäden)
Rapid Telescopes for Optical Response
RARDE Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment (UK)
RAS Reflectance Anisotropy Spectroscopy
RAS Registration, Admission and Status (Kommunikation)
RAS Remote Access Server (or: Service) (Telekommunikation)
RAS Royal Astronomical Society (UK)
RAS Russian Acoustical Society
RASS Radio Acoustic Sounding System
RAST Radio Allergo Sorbent Test
RAST Recovery Assist, Securing and Traversing System
RASTI Rapid Speech Transmission Index
RASU Rate Acceleration Sensor Unit
RAT Radio Access Technology
RB Radio Bearer (Telekommunikation)
RB Reference Book
RBOC Regional Bell Operating Company
RBW Resolution Bandwidth (Telekommunikation)
RC Reduced Complexitity
RC Rate Conversion
RC Routing Controller (Telekommunikation)
RCC Rescue Control Center
RCC Rescue Coordination Center
RCC Routing Control Channel (Telekommunikation)
RCCB Remote Control Circuit Breakers
RCE Request for Continuated Examination
RCF Resource Control Function
RCK Research Centre Karlsruhe
RCL Radio Communication Links
RCL Report Contents List
RCLED Resonant Cavity Light Emitting Diode
RCMLD Reduced Maximum Likelyhood Detector
RCMS Remote Control and Monitoring System
RCN Reconnaissance
RCP Radio Control Part
RCP Rapid Controller Prototyping
RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (USA)
RCS Radar Cross Section
RCS Reduced Complexity Scheme
RCS Radar Cross Section
RCS Radar Cross Section
RCSU Remote Control and Status Unit
RD Road (US Mail)
RD Route Distinguishers
RDBMS Relational Database Management System (Telekommunikation)
RDC Remote Digital Concentrator (Telekommunikation)
RDE Rapid Data Entry
RDF Resource Description Framework (Telekommunikation)
RDF Reverse Dispersion Fiber (optische Telekommunikation)
RDL Radial of Waypoint from Tacan
RDM Rayleigh-distributed Magnitude
RDP Received Data Points
RDR Radar
RDRB Radarbombing
RDS Radio Data System (Europe)
RDS Receive Data Streams
RDTH Rock Down the House
RDV Received Data Vector
RDX Trimethylentrinitramin (Hexogen, Sprengstoff)
RE Radar Equation
RE radiated emission
RE Relay Entity (Telecom)
REA Rauchgas-Entschwefelungs-Anlage
REACH Registerierung, Evaluierung und Authorisierung von Chemikalien (Pharma)
REACOL Réseau Européen pour l'Assemblage par Collage
READSL Reach Extended ADSL
REAP Reliability Evaluation and Analysis Program
REC Radiative Electron Capture
REC Receiver
RECOVER Remote Continual Verification (Atomenergie-Kontrolle)
RECT Rectifier
RED Random Early Detection
RED Reflection Electron Diffraction
REF Reference
Ref Reference
REG (Dateinamenerweiterung: Windows Registrierungs-Datei)
REG Regulator
REL Release
REL Release message
REM Rapid Eye Mount (Teleskop, Italien)
REM Rapid Eye Movement (Schlaf-Phase)
REM Rasterelektronenmikroskop
RERF Radiation Effects Research Foundation (Japan)
RES Radio Equipment and Systems (TC im ETSI)
RES Reciever/Exiter Synchronzier
Res Reservation
RES Resonance
RE-SEED Retirees Enhancing Science Education through Experiment and
RET Demonstration (USA) of Time (-> FG)
Request for Extension
RET Resolution Enhancement Technology (HP-Laserdrucker)
RETR Retract
REU Remote Control Electronic Unit
Rev Reverb
REV Reverse
Rev Revision
Rev. Revision
REWIMET Regionales Windfeld-Modell einschließlich Transport (Wettervorhersage)
REX Realtime Executive (ein Betriebssystem)
RF Radio Frequency
RF Radio Frequency
RF Risk Factor
RF Rocket Fuel
RFA Röntgenfluoreszenzanalyse
RFC Radio Frequency Carrier
RFC Request For Comment (Rechnernetz)
RFD Remote Frequency Display
RFD Request For Discussion (Rechnernetz)
RFI Radio Frequency Inteferences
RFI Radio frequency interface
RFI Remote Frequency Indicator
RFI Request for Informations
RFID Radio-Frequency Identification
RFM Radio Frequency Modulator
RFP Radio Frquency Part
RFP Request For Proposal
RFPI Radio Fixed Part Identity (DECT)
RFS Radio Frequency Signal
RFS Radio Frquency Stage
RFS Request for Skipper
RFX Radio Fix
Rg Range
RG Rate Gyro
Rg Roger, Range
RGA Residual Gas Analyzer
RGB Red-Green-Blue, Rot-Grün-Blau (TV)
RGO Reduced Gravity Office (NASA)
RGS Reflection Grating Spectrometer
RGS Royal Geographic Society (London, 1830)
RGW Rat für gegenseitige Wirtschaftshilfe
RGW Residential Gateway (Kommunikation)
RGZM Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Forschungsinstitut für Vor- und
RH Frühgeschichte
Relative Humidity(Mainz)
RH Right Hand
RHD Right Hemisphere Damage (Hirnschäden)
RHEED Reflection High Energy Electron Diffraction (Oberflächenanalyse,
RHF Radiation Health Foundation
Elektronenoptik)
RHIC Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island,
RHT USA)
Reheat
RI Rhode Island (US-Staat)
RIA Radio Industry Association
RIB Routing Information Base (Telekommunikation)
RIBE Reactive Ion Beam Etching
RID Remote Indicator Display
RIE Reactive Ion Etching
Rig Rigorosum
RIKEN [Institute of Physical and Chemical Research] (Japan)
RIMS Resonance Ionization Mass Spectroscopy
RIN Relative Intensity Noise
RIP Requiescat in pace (Ruhe in Frieden)
RIP Routing Information Protocol (Internet)
RIPL Reconnaissance and Interdication Planning Line
RIS Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy
RISC Reduced-Instruction-Set Computer
RISC Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (Linz, Österreich)
RIT Rocket Ignition Trigger
RITA Radio Frequency Ion Thruster Assembly
RITL Radio in the Loop (Telekommunikation)
RIU Radar Interface Unit
RKA [Russian Space Agency]
RKM Rasterkraftmikroskop
RKTS Rockets
RL Reduced Latency
RLAS Radio Login Access Server
RLC Radio Link Control(ler) (TK, Layer 2)
RLC Release Complete Message
RLC Resistor Loop Condenser (Oscillator circuit)
RLG Ring Laser Gyro
RLL Radio in the Local Loop (Telekommunikation)
RLMS Recursive Least Mean Square (Algorithmus)
rlogin remote login
RLR Receive Loudness Rating (Telekommunikation)
RLS Recursive Least Square (Algorithmus)
RM Redundancy Management
RM Remote Manager (Telekommunikation)
RM Resource Manager
RM Room (US Mail)
RMC RACE Management Committee
RMC-C Central Remote Maintenance Centre
RMC-R Regional Remote Maintenance Centre
RMI Radio Magnetic Indicator
RMI Remote Method Invocation (Telekommunikation)
RMMS Remote Maintenance and Monitoring System
RMON Remote Monitoring
RMR Remote Map Reader
RMS Resonant Macrosonic Synthesis
RMS Root Mean Square
RNA Ribonucleic Acid
RNC Radio (and) Network (or: Node) Controller (Telekommunikation)
RNC Radio Network Controller
RNEP Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (Atomwaffe, USA)
RNG Random Number Generator
RNG Range
RNLAF Royal Netherlands Air Force
RNLN Royal Netherlands Navy
RNO Radio Network Optimization (Telekommunikation)
RNP Radio Network Planning (Telekommunikation)
RNRT Réseau National de Recherche en Télécommunications (France Télécom)
RNS Radio Network Subsystem
RNS Ribonucleinsäure
RNTI Radio Network Temporal Identity
RO Ring Oscillator
R-OADM Reconfigurable Optical ADM
ROC Requirea Operational Capability
ROCCO Robust Checksum-Based Header Compression (Telekommunikation)
RoI Return On Investment
ROI Return On Investment (or: Instrument)
ROL Reverse Oscillating Layer
ROM Read Only Memory
ROMPLER Read Only Memory Player (= Sampler playing only from ROM)
ROP Reduced Order Problem
ROR Reliability of Reception
ROSAT (deutscher) Röntgensatellit, Roentgen Satellite (1990)
ROSIS Reflective Optics System Imaging Spectrometer
ROT Robustness of Transmission
ROT Reliability of Transmission
ROT Rotation
rot rotation
ROTEX Roboter-Technologie-Experiment (Spacelab)
ROTSE Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (Astrophysik)
ROV Remotely Operated Vehicle
RP Route Processor (Telekommunikation)
RPA Random Phase Approximation
RPC Remote Procedure Call
RPD Rapid
RPDP Routing Policy Decision Point
RPG Rising Pulse Generator (Circuit) (see also FPG; LPG, TPG)
RPI Runway Point of Intercept
RPM Radio Policy Matters (TC im ETSI)
RPM Revolutions Per Minute
RPM Rounds Per Minute
RPO Rahmenprüfungsordnung
RPP Realtime Phrase Pattern
RPR Resilence Ring Packet
RPR Resilient Package Ring (Telekommunikation)
RPRT Report Contents List
RPS Realtime Phrase Sequence
RPS The Romanian Physical Society
RPT Repeator
RPV Remotely Piloted Vehicles
RPWS Radio and Plasma Wave Science (Instrument an Bord des Saturn-Satelliten
RR Cassini)
radiative Rekombination
RR Radio Regulations
RR Radio Resource
RR Radioactive Radiation
RR Rate Rank, Ratengrad
rR regoR
RR Riva-Rocci (-Apparat zur Blutdruckmessung)
Rr Roger
RRC Radio Resource Control (Telekommunikation, Layer 3)
RRD Remote Readout Display
RRM Radio Resource Management
RRP Rapid Reconfiguration Protocol (Telekommunikation)
R-RPM Rotor-Revolutions per Minute
RRU Radio Remote Unit
RS radiated susceptibility
RS Reception Scheme
RS Raman Spectroscopy
RS Reed Solomon (cryptography)
RS-232 RS: Recommended Standard (EIA)
RSA [Ronald] Rivest, [Adi] Shamir, [Leonard A.] Adleman (asymmetrischer
RSC Kryptoalgorithmus, 1977)
Radio Station, Central (Telekommunikation)
RSCW Radio Station Central Wireless (Telekommunikation)
RSFQ Rapid Single Flux Quantum Device
rsh Remote Shell
RSM Remote Station Nodal (Telekommunikation)
RSMPWC Rich-Scattering Multi-Path Wireless Channel
RSRA Rotor Systems Research Aircraft
RSS Reduced Search Set
RSS Reduced Static Stability
RSSD Reduced State Sequence Detection
RSSI Receive Signal Strength Indication (DECT) (or Radio ...)
RST Radio Station, Terminal (Telekommunikation)
RST Repeater Station
RST Resonance Scattering Theory
RST Running Status Table
RSTP Rapid Spinning Tree Protocol (Telekommunikation)
RSTW Radio Station Terminal Wireless (Telekommunikation)
RSU Remote Subscriber Unit (Telekommunikation)
RSV Received Symbol Vector
RSV Receive Signal Vectors
RSV Received Signal Vector
RSVP Répond, s'il vout plaît (bitte antworten)
RSVP Resource Reservation Protocol (Internet)
RSVP-TE Resource Reservation Protocol - Traffic Engineering (Telekommunikation)
RT Radio Transceiver
RT Real-Time
RT Relay Tester
RT Remote Terminal
RT Route Target
RTA Real-Time Application
RTA Receiving Transmitting Antenna
RTAC Real-Time Atmospheric Compensation (Adaptive Optik)
RTAI Real-Time Application Interface (Telekommunikation)
RTCP Real-Time Transport Control Protocol (Telekommunikation)
RTD Real-Time Difference
RTD Receiver Target Distance
RTD Research and Technological Development (EC)
RTD Resistance Temperature Detector (z.B. Pt)
RTD Resonant Tunneling Device
RTD Round-Trip Delay
RTE Return From Exception
RTE Route
RTF Rich Text Format (Dateinamenerweiterung: Textdatei im Rich-Text-Format)
RTG Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
RTI Real-Time Interface
RTL Raster Transfer Language (HP)
RTL Real-Time Linux
RTLinux Real-Time Linux
RTM Raster-Tunnelmikroskop(ie)
RTM Real Time Monitoring
RTO Research and Technological Organization (EC)
RTOS Realtime Operating System
RTOS Real-Time Operating System
RTP Real Time Protocol
RTP Real-Time (Transport) Protocol (Telekommunikation)
RTS Rotor and Transmission System
RTSP Real-Time Streaming Protocol (Telekommunikation)
RTT Round Trip Time
RTTY Radio Teletype
RTU Remote Terminal Unit (Telekommunikation)
RTU Rock the Underridemaya
RTW Real-Time Workshop
RU Repeater Unit
RU Resources Unit
RULLI Remote Ultra-Low Light Imaging (Astrophysik)
RUS Rechenzentrum Universität Stuttgart
RV Random Variable
RV Receiver Vector
RV Receive Vector
RV Regionalverband (z. B. DPG)
RV Real Value
RVA Richtlinienverabschiedungsausschuss (NALS)
RVDT Rotary Variable Differential Transducer
RVDT Rotary Voltage Differential Transformer
RVR Runway Visual Range
RW Ridge Waveguide
RW Rotary wing
RWA Receive Wavelength Adapter (Kommunikation)
RWC Real World Computing
RWCP Real World Computing Partnership (1992-2002)
RWE Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerke (?)
RWI Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (Essen)
RWR Radar Warnig Receiver
RWTH Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (Aachen)
RWY Runway
Rx Receiver
RXID Receiving Swtich ID
RXPORT Receiving Port
RXTE Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (Röntgensatellit)
RZ Return to Zero (Kommunikation)
RZÜ Rechnergestützte Zugüberwachung
S
S Second
S & TE Support & Test Equipment
S of R (SoR) Society of Rheology (USA)
S&F Simplicity and Flexibilitiy
S&S Stealth & Surprise
S&T Science and Technology
S.SHDSL Single-pair High-speed Digital Subscriber Line
S/A Shock Absorber
S/D Self Defense
S/H Sample Hold
S/N Serial Number
S/R Switch/Router (Telekommunikation)
S/TE Support and Test Equipment
S/W Software
S2P Serial to Parallel
SA Structured Analysis
SA Service Area
SA Selective Availability (Satellitennavigation)
SA Service Activation (Telekommunikation)
SAA Standards Australia
SAAI Southern Africa Acoustics Institute
SAAL Signaling ATM Adaptation Layer (Telekommunikation)
SAARC South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation
SABM Set Asynchronous Balanced Model
SAC Service Area Code
SAC Service Admission Control (Telekommunikation)
SAC Strategic Air Command (USA)
SACD Super Audio Compact Disk
SACMOS Self Aligned Contacts MOS
SAD Spotless Activated Deposition (dünne Schichten)
SADC Southern Africa Development Cooperation
SADRC Subband Block Adaptive Quantization
SADT Sructured Analysis and Design Technique
SAE Society of Audio Engineers
SAE Society of Automotive Engineers (USA)
SAFISY Space Agency Forum on ISY
SAFTA South Asian Free Trade Association
SAG Selective Area Growth
SAGE Soviet-American Gallium Experiment (Sonnen-Neutrinos, im Kaukasus)
SAGM Separate Absorption, Grading and Multiplication (APD)
SAHR Secondary Attitude and Heating Reference System
SALT Southern African Large Telescope
SALT Speech Application Language Tags (Telekommunikation)
SALT Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (or: Talks)
SAM Scanning Acoustic Microscope
SAM selbstaggregierende Monolagen
SAM Separate Absorption and Multiplication (ADP)
SAM Speech Assessment Methodology
SAM Spherical Aberration Management
SAMC Single Action Multiple Command (Entry means like keyboard)
SAMPE Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering
SAMPE Society of Aerospace Material and Process Engineering
SAMPEX Solar, Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer (USA, Raumfahrt)
SAN Storage Area Network (Telekommunikation)
SANA Wissenschaftliches Begleitprogramm zur Sanierung der Atmosphäre über den
SANE neuen Bundesländern
Sustainable Accomodation for the New Economy (EU-Projekt)
SAP Service Access Point (Internet)
SAP Symbolic Assembler Program (IBM 704, 1956)
SAPAM Society of African Physicists and Mathematicians
SAPI Service Access Point Identifier
SAPPHIRE Satellite and Aircraft Data Base Project for System Integrity Research
SAPTA (Satellitennavigation)
South Asian Preference Trade Association
SAR Search and Rescue
SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar
SAR Second Assessment Report (IPCC, über globale Klimaveränderung, 1995)
SAR Specific Absorption Rate
SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar, Synthetik-Apertur-Radar
SARA Système Accélérateur Rhône-Alpes (Grenoble)
SARAS SAR Avionic System
SARDO Search and Rescue Duty Officer
SARLE SAR Locator Equipment
SARLO Search and Rescue Liaison
SAS Stability Augmentation System
SAS Stores Management System
SAS Statistics and Accounting Server
SAS Statistik-Server
SAS Swedish Acoustical Society, Svenska Akustiska Sällskapet
SASE Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission
SAT Stator Outlet Temperature
SAT SIM Application Toolkit (Telekommunikation)
SAT-CDMA Satellite CDMA
SATCO Senior Air Traffic Control Officer
SAVOIR Sound and Vibration Organisation Information Resources (assocation formed
SAW in 1990 with
Surface support
Acoustic Wavefrom the EG COMETT programme, located at ISVR,
SAW Southampton)
stop-and-wait
SAW Sawtooth (Synthesis)
SAXS Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering
SB Synchronization Burst (Telekommunikation)
SBC Single Board Computer
SBEC Subband Echo Canceler
SBIR Small Business Innovation Research (Program, USA)
SBIRS Space-Based Infrared System - Low Earth Orbit
SBL Space Based Laser
SBP Société Belge de Physique
SBR Strodyne Butadiene Rubber
SBR Sustainable Bit Rate (Datentransfer)
SBS Save British Science (Lobby Group)
SBS Stimulated Brillouin Scattering
SBSL Single-Bubble Sonoluminescence, Einzelblasensonolumineszenz
SBTA S-Band Test Accelerator
SBWAS Space Based Wide Area Surveillance
SBY Stand-By
SBZ Sowjetische Besatzungszone
SC Sub Carrier
SC System Controller
SC Signal Constellation
SC Software Code
SC Steering Committee
SC System Controller
SC Subcontract
SC South Carolina (US-Staat)
SC Switch-Capacitor (Filter)
SC Searching Complexity
SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (Telekommunikation)
SCAI [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Algorithmen und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen (St.
Augustin)
SCALPEL Scattering with Angular Limitation Projection Electron Beam Lithography
SCAMP Service Control and Monitoring Prototype
SCAR Scientific Committee on Arctic Research
SCAR Supersonic Cruise Aircraft Research
SCAS Stability Augmentation System
SCASSS Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (Uppsala)
SCBR Silicon Chip Bragg Reflector (Laser)
SCC Special Control Character
SCC Standards Council of Canada
SCC Software Configuration Controler
SCC Satellite Control Center (Telekommunikation)
SCC Signaling Congestion Control (Telekommunikation)
SCC Signaling Core System (Telecom)
SCCB SoftwareConfiguration Control Board
SCCP Signaling Connection and Control Part (or: Point) (Telekommunikation)
S-CCPCH Secondary Common Control Physical Channel
SCCR Software Configuration Control Record
SCCR Short-Circuit Current Response
S-CDR Serving General Packet Radio System - Call Detail Record
SCE Standard Calibration Equipment
SCE Service Creation Environment (Telekommunikation)
SCF Service Control Protocol
SCF Self-Consistent Field
SCF Service Control Function (Telekommunikation)
SCF La Sociedad Colombiana de Fisica
SCH Separate Confinement Heterostructure
SCI Software Configuration Item
SCI Send Charging Information
SCI Science Citation Index (beim ISI, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
SCIAMACHY Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography
SCID (ENVISAT)
Severe Combined Immune Deficiency
SCIM Subcarrier Intensity Modulation
SCL Syncronized Carrier Load
SCM Scanning Capacitance Microscopy
SCM Subcarrier Multiplexing
SCM Supply Chain Management
SCM(I/O) Software Configuration Management (Instruction/Organisation)
SCM(P) Software Configuration Management Plan
SCMFT Self-Consistent Mean Field Theory
SCN Switched Circuit Network (Telekommunikation)
SCO Synchronous Connection Oriented (Telekommunikation)
SCOLE Spacecraft Control Laboratory Experiment (NASA, etwa 1983)
SCON Signalling Congestion
SCOR Scientific Committee on Ocean Research
SCORE Spectral Self-Coherence Restoral (Algorithmus)
SCP Simplex Communication Protocol (see DCP)
SCP Service Control Point (Telekommunikation)
SCP Session Control Protocol (Telekommunikation)
SCPC Single Channel Per Carrier (Telekommunikation)
SCPI Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments
SCPP Standing Conference of Physics Professors (UK)
SCR Software Change Request
SCRI Supercomputer Computations Research Institute (Tallahassee, FL, USA)
SCS Self-Consistent Sequence
SCS Sonobuoy Communication System
S-CSCF Serving-Call Session Control Function
S-CSCF Serving CSCF
S-CSCF Serving Call Session Control Function
SCSI Small Computer Systems Interface
SCTP Stream Control Transmission Protocol
SCTP/IP Simple Control Transmission Protocol/Internet Protocol
SCU Signal Converting Unit
SCU Secondary Control Unit
SCU Signalling and Control Unit (Telekommunikation)
SCU Signalling Channel Unit (Telekommunikation)
SCUBA Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array
SCV Signal Column Vector
SD Software Decision
SD Schematic Diagram
SD Strap Down
SD Self Defense
SD Secure Digital (Memory Card)
SD South Dakota (US-Staat)
SD Suboptimal Detector
SD Sphere Decoder
SD Searching Dimension
SDA Signal Detection Accuracy
SDA Sphere Decoding Algorithm
SDAP Service Discovery Application Profile (Telekommunikation)
SD-AU Strap Down Accelerometer Unit
SDC Shaft Driven Compressor
SDC Signal Data Converter
SDCCH Standalone Dedicated Control Channel
SDD Software Design Document
SDDD Software Detailed Design Document
SDDS Scrambled Digital Data Stream
SDE System Development Environment
SDE Service Development Environment (Telekommunikation)
SDF Service Data Flow
SDFBCC Service Data Flow Based Credit Control
SDG Space Diversity Gain
SD-GU Strap Down Gyro Unit
SDH Synchcronous Digtial Hierarchy
SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (Übertragungsstandard)
SDH VC-n Path Synchcronous Digtial Hierarchy Virtual Container Path
SDI Strategic Defense Initiative
SDI Subscriber Distribution Interface (Telekommunikation)
SDI Serial Device Interface
SDIO Strategic Defense Initiative Organization
SDK Source Development Kit
SDL System Data Layer
SDLC Synchronous Data Link Control
SDLS Satellite Data Link System (Telekommunikation)
SDM Statistical Data Miner
SDMA Space Division Multiple Access (Telekommunikation)
S-DMB Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (Telekommunikation)
SDMI Secure Digital Music Initiative
SDMS Scientific Data Management System
SDO Standard Development Organizations
SDOF Single-Degree-of-Freedom (System)
SDP Software Development Plan
SDP Service Data Point (Telekommunikation)
SDP Service Delivery Point (Internet)
SDP Session Description Protocol (Telekommunikation)
SDR System Design Review
SDR Service Data Record (Telekommunikation)
SDR Software Defined Radio (Telekommunikation)
SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (Computer)
SDRL Supplies Data Requirement List
SDS Sodium dodecyl sulphate, Natriumlaurylsulfat
SDS Soft Decision Statistic
SDSC San Diego Supercomputer Center
SDSEG Scrambled Digital Data Segment
SDSL Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line
SDSP Stall Departure Spin Prevention
SDT Source Development Tool
SDT Service Definition Table
SDT Service Description Table (Telekommunikation)
SDT Spin-Dependent Tunneling
SD-T Stern-Dreieck-Transf
SDTS [ANSI] Spatial Data Transfer Standard
SDTV Standard-Definition Television [Format]
SDU Rio De Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil - Santos Dumont (Airport Code)
SDU Safety Disarm Unit (military aviation)
SDU Satellite Data Unit
SDU Seat Disconnect Unit
SDU Secure Data Unit
SDU Security Device Unit
SDU Selection/Distribution Unit
SDU Self Defense Upgrade
SDU Service Data Unit
SDU Service Delivery Unit
SDU Shipborne Disk Unit
SDU Signal Detection Unit
SDU Signal Distribution Unit
SDU Social Development Unit
SDU Software Development Unit
SDU Special Duties Unit (Hong Kong counter-terrorist group)
SDU Special Duty Unit
SDU Staatsdrukkerij/Uitgeverij
SDU Staff Development Unit
SDU Standalone Display Unit
SDU Standard Dial-Up
SDU State Disbursement Unit (child support enforcement)
SDU Storage Device Unit
SDU Structural Damage Underwriter (insurance)
SDU Students for a Democratic University (Canada)
SDU Subscriber Data Unit
SDU Subsea Distribution Unit (oil industry)
SDU Suleyman Demirel Universitesi (Turkey)
SDU Super-high Display Unit
SDU Sustainable Development Unit
SDU Switch Driver Unit
SDVNC [International Conference on] Structural Dynamics, Vibration, Noise and
SDZ Control
Showdown Zone
SE Systems Engineering
SE Schrödinger Equation
SE Spectral Efficiency
SEA Sociedad Española de Acústica
SEAF Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (USA)
SEA-ME-WE3 South East Asia - Middle East - Western Europe (Kommunikation)
SEATO South-East Asia Treaty Organization
SEC Secondary
SEC Security Managament (Telekommunikation)
SEC Solid Electrolyte Coulometry
Sec. Secundant
SECT Section
SECTAM Southeastern Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
SED Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (DDR)
SED Special Engineering Detachment (USA)
SEED Science Education through Experiment and Demonstration (USA)
SEED Self-Electrooptic-Effect Device
SEI Software Engineering Institute
SEL Select
SEL Sound Exposure Level
SELANE Secure Local Area Network Environment
SELCAL Selective Call
SELT Single Ended Loop Test (cable messurement in telecom)
SEM Scanning Electron Microscope (auch: Microscopy)
SEM Society for Experimental Mechanics (formerly: SESA)
SEM Spectrum Emission Mask
Sematech Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology (USA, IC-Firmen-Kooperation)
SEMOS sensorgestützte Montagesysteme
SEN Service Execution Node (Telekommunikation)
SENSO Sensor Operator
SEP Service Execution Point (Telekommunikation)
SEP Société Européenne de Propulsion
SEPG Software Engineering Project Group
SEPR Systems Engineering Processes and Requirements
SEQ Shape Equalizer (optische Telekommunikation)
SERC Science and Engineering Research Council (UK)
SERM Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator (?), selektive Östrogen Rezeptor-
SERS Modulatoren
Surface Enhancement Raman Spectroscopy
SES Satellite Earth Stations and Systems (TC im ETSI)
SES Single Electron Substance
SES Societé Européenne des Satellites (Luxembourg)
SES Spracherkennungssystem
SESA Society for Experimental Stress Analysis (now: SEM)
SESAM Semiconductor Saturable Absorber Mirrors
SESAME Second European Stratospheric Arctic and Midlatitude Experiments
SESAME Synchrotron Light for Experimental Science and Application in the Middle East
SET (Jordanien)
Science, Engineering, Technology
SET Secure Electronic Transaction (Internet, Verschlüsselung)
SET Single-Electron Transistor
SET Single-Electron Tunneling (Oscillations)
SETA Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance
SETI Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
SEV Smallest Error Variance
SEVA Self Validating (Sensor)
SEVERI Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (mit MSG, geplant für 2000)
SEVIS Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (USA)
SEWASIE Semantic Web and Agents in Integrated Economics
SF Spreading Factor
SF Silan Fuel
SF Step Function
SF Spreading Factor (Telekommunikation)
SFA Single Frequency Approach
SFA Société Française d'Acoustique
SFAEST Stabilized Fast A Posteri Error Sequential Technique (Algorithmus)
SFB Same Frequency Band
SFB Sonderforschungsbereich (DFG)
SFC Specific Fuel Consumption
SFC Supercritical Fluid Chromatography
SFCS Secondary Flight Control System
SFI Santa Fe Institute (NM, USA)
SFM Scanning Force Microscopy
SFM Société Française des Mécaniciens
SFN Single Frequency Network (Digital Broadcast)
SFN System Frame Number (Telekommunikation)
SFP Société Française de Physique
SFS Same Frequency Spectrum
SFZ Sekretariat für Zukunftsforschung (Gelsenkirchen)
SG Subgroup
SG Symbol Generator
SG Signaling Gateway (Telekommunikation)
SG ITU-R Study Group
SGA Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Akustik
SGCP Simple Gateway Control Protocol (Telekommunikation)
SGDBR Sampled-Grating Distributed-Bragg-Reflector (Laser)
SGI Silicon Graphics, Inc. (Mountain View, CA, USA)
SGIP China Union Short mesage Gateway Interface Protocol
SGML Standard General(ized) Markup Language
SGR Soft Gamma Repeaters (Astrophysik)
SGSN Serving GPRS (General Packet Radio System) Support Node
SGSN Serving GPRS Support Node (Telekommunikation)
SHA Sample-and-Hold Amplifier
SHA Staatshochbauamt
SHAPE Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
SHARF Simplified Hyperstable Adaptive Recursive Filter
SHAVE Shared Virtual Environment
SHD Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (optische Nachrichtenübertragung)
SHDSL Single Pair High Bit Rate DSL
SHDSL Single Pair High Speed (or: Symmetric High Density) Digital Subscriber Line
SHEFC (Telekommunikation)
Scottish Higher Education Funding Council
SHF Super High Frequency (3 - 30 GHz)
SHG Software Management Group
SHG Second Harmonic Generation
SHIP Separator for Heavy Ion Reaction Products (GSI, Darmstadt)
SHK Sanitär, Heizung, Klima [-Handwerk]
SHO Soft HandOver (Telekommunikation)
SHOP Shell Higher Olefin Process
SHP Shaft Horse Power
SHS Solar Home System
SHSI Electronic Horizontal Situation Indicator
SHTML Secure HTML (Telekommunikation)
SI Soft information
SI Singen (Kfz Kennzeichen)
SI Service Information
SI System International
SI Système International d'Unités (Maßsystem)
Si. Sister
SIA Semiconductor Industry Association
SIAM Scanning Infererometric Apertureless Microscopy
SIAM Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (USA)
SIB Service Independent Building Block (Telekommunikation)
SIBBS Simple Inter Domain Bandwidth Broker Signaling
SiC Siliziumkarbid
SIC Silizium Carbid, Silcon Carbide
SICM Scanning Ion Conduction Microscopy
SID Source ID
SID Standard Instrument Departure
SIEM Sire of the IEM
SIEM Sisterhood of the IEM
SIEM Sound of the IEM
SIF Selective Identification Feature
SIF Small Image Format (Bildcodierung)
SIF Società Italiana di Fisica
SIFT Scanning for Intensely Fluorescent Targets (Prionen-Nachweis)
SIG Special Interest Group
SIGMA Support for Improvement in Governance and Management (EU)
SIGTRAN Signalling Transport
SILEX Semiconductor Laser Inter-Satellite Link Experiment (1998)
SIM Single Inline Memory
SIM Subscriber Identity Module
SIM Skalierungs-Index-Methode (nichtlineare Dynamik)
SIM Space Interferometry Mission
SIM Subscriber Identity Module (Telekommunikation)
SIMBA Superhigh Intensity Mono-Beam Amplifier Chain (KrF-Laser)
SIMD Single Instruction, Multiple Data (Rechnerarchitektur)
SIMM Single Inline Memory Module
SIMMWIC Silicon Monolithic Millimeter Wave Integrated Circuit
SIMO Single Input - Multiple Output (Controller, System)
SIMS Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy
SI-MTM server initiated end-to-end message transfer mechanism
SIN Schweizer Institut für Nuklearforschung (Paul Scherrer-Institut, Villingen,
SINQ Schweiz)
[Schweizer Neutronenspallationsquelle] (Paul Scherrer-Institut, Villingen,
SINR Schweiz)
Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio
SiON Silicon Oxynitride
SIOP Single Integrated Operations Plan (USA)
SIP Sessions Initiations Protocol
SIP Session Initiation Protocol (Telekommunikation)
SIPI Scientists' Institute for Public Information (New York)
SIPS [Workshop on] Signal Processing Systems Design and Implementation
SIPS Simply Interactive Personal Computer
SIR Signal to Interference Ratio (Telecom)
SIR Shuttle (or: Spaceborne) Imaging Radar (Satellit)
SIR Signal-to-Interference Ratio
SIR Submission Information Rate (Datennetz)
SIR-C Spaceborne Imaging Radar - C
SIRM Scanning Infrared Microscopy
SIRTF Space Infrared Telescope Facility (Satellit)
SIS Schwerionen-Synchrotron (bei der GSI, Darmstadt)
SIS Spontaneous Information System (Telekommunikation)
SIS Stateful Inspection System (Firewall)
SIS Surface Inversion Strength (Meteorologie)
SISO Single Input - Single Output (Controller, System)
SIT Self-Induced Transparency
SIT [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Sichere Telekommunikation (Darmstadt)
SIT Structured Inventive Thinking
SIV Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (Aids-Virus bei Affen)
SIWL Single Wheel Load
SJ Selective Jettison
SK Station Keeping
SK Service Key
SKAN SkyBridge Access Node (Telekommunikation)
SKD Skid
SKED Schedule
SKM Scanning Kelvin Microscopy
SKS Station Keeping System
SKT SkyBridge Terminal (Telekommunikation)
SKT PRO SkyBridge Professional Terminal (Telekommunikation)
SKT RES SkyBridge Residential Terminal (Telekommunikation)
SL Sea Level
SL Schwere Löcher (Halbleiterphysik)
SL Sonoluminescence, Sonolumineszenz
SLA Service Level Agent
SLA Service Level Agreement
SLA Service Level Agreement (Telekommunikation)
SLAC Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
SLAM Scanning Laser Acoustical Microscope
SLAR Side-Looking Airborne Radar
SLAWS Selectable Low-Altitude Warning System
SLB Server Load Balancing (Telekommunikation)
SLBM Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile
SLC Single Look Complex
SLCM Sea-Launched Cruise Missile
SLD Sanfte Laser-Desorption
SLEE Service Logic Execution Environment (Telekommunikation)
SLEP Service Left Enhancement Program
SLG Schweizerische Liga gegen den Lärm
SLIC Subscriber Line Interface Circuit (Telekommunikation)
SLIS Scanning Linear Imager Sensor
SLM Selective Laser-Melting
SLM Service Level Management (Telekommunikation)
SLM Spatial Light Modulator (Optoelectronic, Laser)
SLO Scanning Laser Ophthalmoskop
SLP Service Location Protocol (Telekommunikation)
SLR Satelliten-Laser-Radar
SLR Send(ing) Loudness Rating (Telekommunikation)
SLS Service Level Specification (Telekommunikation)
SLS Sphere Local Seraching
SLSA Sphere Local Seraching Algorithm
SLSD Sphere Local Seraching Decoder
SLT Statistical Learning Theory
SLTE Standard Laboratory Test Equipment
SLTE Subscriber Line Terminal Equipment (Telekommunikation)
SM Safety Mechanism
SM Session Management (Telekommunikation)
SM Section Monitoring
SM Single Mode (optische Telekommunikation)
SM Software Manager
SM Software Module
SM Sub Matrix
SMA Spectrum Management Agency
SMA Small Business and Midrange Accounts (Telecom, Billing)
SMA Shape Memory Alloy [or: Actuator]
SMAD Sowjetische Militäradministration in Deutschland
SMB Small and Medium Size Business (= KMU)
SMC Signal Modulation Constellation
SMC Stores Management Computer
SMC Service Management Center (Internet)
SMC Sheet Moulding Compound
SMC Switch Management Center (Telekommunikation)
SMD Surface Mounted Device
SMDPP Short Message Delivery Peer-to-Peer
SMDS Switched Multimegabit Data Service
SME Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (ESPRIT) [= KMU]
SMES Superconductor Magnetic Energy Storage, supraleitender magnetischer
SMEX Energiespeicher
Small Explorer Program (USA, Raumfahrt)
SMF Service Management Function (Telekommunikation)
SMF Single Mode Fiber (optische Telekommunikation)
SMG Spatial Multiplexing Gain
SMG Special Mobile Group (TC im ETSI)
SMGCS Surface Movement Guidance and Control System
SMIF (Rollverkehrsführungssystem)
Standard Mechanical Interface
SMIL Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
SMILE Scientific Simulation Environment
SML Software Management Library
SML Service Management Layer (optische Telekommunikation)
SMLC Serving Mobile Location Center (Telekommunikation)
SMLWEA Self-Modulated Laser Wakefield Accelerator
SMP Service Management Point (or: Platform) (Telekommunikation)
SMP Symmetric Multiprocessing
SMPP Short Message Peer-to-Peer Protocol (Telekommunikation)
SMPT Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SMPTE Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers
SMR Surface Movement Radar
SMS Spatial Multiplexing Systems
SMS Short Message Service
SMS Store Management System
SMS Stores Management Subsystem
SMS Service Management System (Telekommunikation)
SMS Short Message Service (Telekommunikation)
SMS Single Molecule Spectroscopy
SMS Statistical Mode Sensor
SMS Short Message Service
SMS-C Short Message Service Center (Telekommunikation)
SMT Surface Mount Technology (Platinenherstellung)
SMTA Surface Mount Technology Association (Edina, MN, USA)
SMTP Simple Mail Transport Protocol (Telekommunikation)
SMU Source Measure Unit
SN soon
SN Service Node (Telekommunikation)
SNA Systems Network Architekture
SNA System of National Accounts (Volkswirtschaft)
SNAAP Study of Noise and Aerodynamics of Advanced Propellers (EU-
SNAM Forschungsprojekt)
Scanning Nearfield Acoustical Microscopy
SNCP Sub-Network Connection Protection (Telekommunikation)
SND [Alcatel] Submarine Networks Division (Seekabel)
SNDCP Sub-Network Dependent Convergence Protocol
SNDCP Sub-Network Dependent Convergence Protocol (Telekommunikation)
S-NE STM Network Element (Telekommunikation)
SNECMA Société Nationale d'étude et de construction de moteurs d'aviation (Paris,
SNF Frankreich)
Spent Nuclear Fuel (Radioaktiver Abfall)
SNI Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme
SNIU Subscriber's Network Interface Unit
SNM Signalling Network Management
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol (Internet)
SNN Statistical Neural Networks
SNO Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (Kanada)
SNOM Scanning Nearfield Optical Microscopy (or: Microscope)
SNP (gesprochen: "Snip") Single Nucleotide Polymorphism
SNR Signal-to-Noise Ratio
SNS Sensor
SNS Spallation Neutron Source (ORNL, TN, USA, Eröffnung geplant für 2006)
SNU Seoul National University (Korea)
SNU Solar Neutrino Unit (1 SNU = 1 Einfang/(1036 Targetatome·sec))
SNV Studiengesellschaft Nahverkehr Berlin
SO Sweep Oscillator
SOA Service-oriented architecture
SOA Software Quality Assurance
SOA Safe Operating Area
SOA Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (optische Telekommunikation)
SOAE spontane otoakustische Emissionen
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
SOAP Service Oriented Architecture Protocol (Telekommunikation)
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol (Telekommunikation)
SOAR Southern Observatory for Astronomical Research
SOB System on Board
SOBRAC Sociedade Brasileria de Acústica
SOC Sector Operating Center
SOC Self-Organized Criticality
SOC Science Observation Center (XMM)
SOCAP Smart Optical Correlator Auxiliary Processor
SODS Sub-Optimal Detection Scheme
SOE Sequence of Events
SOE Standard Operating Environment
SOEP Software Quality Evaluation Plan
SOFAR Sound Fixing and Ranging (Schall-Leitungskanal im Ozean)
SOFC Solid Oxide Fuel Cell; Solid Electrolyte Oxygen Fuel Cell
SOFI (Hochtemperaturbrennstoffzelle)
Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut (Göttingen)
SOFIA Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (geplant für 2003)
SOFIE Spectroscopy Using Optical Fibres in the Marine Environment (EU-Projekt)
SOG Spin On Glas
SOH Since Overhaul
SOHO Small Office, Home Office (Internet)
SOHO Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (Satellit, 1995)
SOI Silicon on Insulator
SOI Solar Oscillatins Investigation (an Bord von SOHO)
SOIF Standard Object Interchange Format (für Datenaustausch, Internet)
SOL Senioren Online
SOLIS Synoptic Optical Long-Term Investigations of the Sun (USA)
SOM Scanning Optical Microscope
SOMLD Soft output MLD
SONAR Sound Navigation and Ranging
SONATEC Selbstordnende Nanometer-Technologie
SONET Synchronous Optical Network (optische Telekommunikation)
SONO Sonar Operator
SOO Site of Origin
SOP Speed of Processing
SOP Standing operating procedure
SOP Standard Opening Procedure
SOQE Society for Optical and Quantum Electronics (McLean, VA, USA)
SOR Society of Rheology (USA)
SOS Soft Output Signal
SOS Silicon on Sapphire (substrate)
SOV Shut-Off Valve
SoW Statement of Work
SoW Scope of Work
SP Signal Path (defined by each pair of Transmit and Receive Antenna)
SP Signal Point
SP System Performance
SP Security Problem
SP Short Playing [record; recording mode]
SP Structurel Programming
SP Self-Pulsing (Telekommunikation)
SP Service Provider (Telekommunikation)
SP Signalling Points
SP Subspace Projection
SPAD Signals Passed at Danger
SPARC Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (USA)
SPAS Stick Position Augmentation System
SPC Serial to Parallel Converter
SPC Science Program Committee (ESA)
SPC Statistical Process Coontrol
SPC Signalling Point Code (Telecom)
SPEC System Performance Evaluation Cooperative (Computer-Prozessor-
SPECFP Leistungsfähigkeits-Test)
SPEC-fixed point
SPECINT SPEC-integer
SPECT Single Electron Emission Computer Tomography
SPELDA Structure porteuse pour lancement doubles Ariane (Ariane-Transportsystem)
SPF Shortest Path First (Telekommunikation)
SPF Super Plastic Forming
SPG Schweizerische Physikalische Gesellschaft
SPI Service Provider Interface (Telekommunikation)
SPI Software Process Improvement
SPIE Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (jetzt: International
SPIFR Society of Optical
Single Pilot Engineering)
Instrument (USA)
Flight Rules
SPL Splitter
SPL Sound Pressure Level
SPL Superconducting Proton Linac (CERN)
SPM Secure Protocol Message
SPM Scanning Probe Microscopy (or: Microscope)
SPM Self Phase Modulation (Telecom)
SPM Summary for Policy Makers (IPCC, über globale Klimaveränderung)
SPMD Single-Program Multiple-Data
SPO Secure Protocol Operation
SPOT Satellite pour l'observation de la terre
SPP Serial Port Profile
SPP Service Provisioning Point (Telekommunikation)
SPR Single Path Routing (Telekommunikation)
SPR Subscription Profile Repository
SPR Smith-Purcell Radiation
SPRINT Strategic Program for Innovation and Technology Transfer
SPRT Standard Platinum Resitance Thermometer
SP-RTM Spinpolarisierte Rastertunnelmikroskopie
SPS Signalling, Protocols and Switching (TC im ETSI)
SPS The Slovak Physical Society
SPS Society of Physics Students
SPS Super Proton Synchrotron (CERN)
SPS Secondary Power System
SPTS Single Program Transport Stream (Telekommunikation)
SPVC Soft (or: Signalized) Permanent Virtual Circuit (Telekommunikation)
SPW Special Weapon
Sq Square
SQ Squelch
SQC Software Quality Controler
SQL Structured Query Language
SQL Standard (or: Structural, or: Structured) Query Language (Telekommunikation)
SQN Sequence Number
SQUID Superconducting Quantum Interference Device
SQW Single Quantum Well
SR Signal Reconditioning
SR Sunrise
SR Search Retrieval
SR Signal Recognition
Sr. Sire
SRA Source-Receiver Array
SRAM Sequential RAM (?)
SRBM Short Range Ballistic Missiles
SRC Sample Rate Conversion
Src Source
SRC Strategic Committee and Review (TC im ETSI)
SRD Software Requirements Document
SRD Science Research Development (EU)
SRD Short Range Device (Funkgeräte)
SRET Scanning Reference Electrode Technique
SRF Specialized Resources Function (Telekommunikation)
SRF Strain Rate Feedback
SRG Shared Risk Group (Telekommunikation)
SRI Stanford Research Institute
SRM Standard Reference Material (Temperaturstandard, NBS)
SRMP Specialised Resource Management Part
SRN Software Release Notes
SRNC Serving Radio Network Controller (Telecom)
SRNC Servicing Radio Network Controller (Telekommunikation)
SRO Silicone Rich Oxide (semiconductor)
SRP Specialised Resource Part
SRP Special(ized) Resource(s) Point (Telekommunikation)
SRR Software Release Request
SRS Sonobuoy Reference System
SRS Software Requirements Specification
SRS Sequence Retrieval System (Bioinformatik)
SRS Synchrotron Radiation Source (Daresbury Laboratory, GB)
SRSP Specialised Resource Signaling Part
SRT Source/Receiver Transponder
SRTM Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
SRY Sex-Determining Region Y (Genetik)
SS Sent Symbol
SS Subset
SS Sturmstaffel
SS Sunset
SS System Specification
SS Spread Spectrum
SS Signal Space
SS7 Signaling System No. 7
SS7 Signaling System No. 7 (Telekommunikation)
SS7 Signaling System 7
SSA Sphere Searching Algorithm
SSA Standard-setting Association
SSA Sphere Searching Algorithm
SSB Single Side Band
SSC Satellite Station Controller
SSC Superconducting Super Collider (Texas, USA, geplant, aber 1993
SSC aufgegeben)
Survey Scientist Consortium (XMM)
SSCOP Service Specific Connection Oriented Protocol (Datennetz)
SSCU Signal Switching and Conditioning Unit (Telekommunikation)
SSD Switching System Division (Telekommunikation)
SSDE System Software Development Environment
SSEC Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (1947, Columbia, USA)
SSF Service Switching Function
SSF Service Switching Function (Telekommunikation)
SSG Service Selection Group (Telekommunikation)
SSG Special Study Group
SSH Secured Shell (Telekommunikation)
SSI Subscriber Subscription Information (Telecom)
SSI Solid State Imaging [Camera] (Galileo-Satellit)
SSI Stochastic Subspace Identification
SSK Strahlenschutzkommission
SSL Secure Socket Layer (Internet, offenes Verschlüsselungs-Protokoll)
SSL Superconducting Sensor Laboratory (Chiba, Japan)
SSM System Support Manager
SSM Sign Status Matrix
SSM Standard-Sonnenmodell (Astrophysik)
SSMF Standard Single Mode Fiber (optische Telekommunikation)
S-SMO-CDR SGSN delivered Short message Mobile Originated - Call Detail Record
S-SMO-CDR Serving GPRS Support Node delivered Short message Mobile Originated -
S-SMO-CDR Call Detail
Serving Record
General Packet Radio System Support Node delivered Short
S-SMT-CDR message Mobile Short
SGSN delivered Originated - CallMobile
message Detail Terminated
Record - Call Detail Record
S-SMT-CDR Serving General Packet Radio System Support Node delivered Short
SSO message
Single SignMobile
On Terminated - Call Detail Record
SSP Service Switching Point
SSP Société Suisse de Physique
SSPA Solid State Power Amplifier
SSPM Software Standard Procedure Manual
SSR Secondary Surveillance Radar
SSR Secondary Surveillance Radar
SSR Solid State Relay
SSS System/Segment Specification
SSS Space Segment
SSST Southeastern Symposium on System Theory
SST Spread Spectrum Transmission
SST Standard Serviceability Test
SST Special Service Tools
SSt Schallschutzstufen (Ruheschutz in Wohnungen, VDI-Richtlinie 4100)
SST Sea Surface Temperature
SST Subscriber Station (Teilnehmerstation)
SST Super Sharp Tube (Röntgenröhre, Philips)
SSTV Slow Scan Television
SSU Secondary Surveying Unit
SSU Synchronization Supply Unit (Telekommunikation)
SSV Sent Signal Vector
SSV Sent Symbol Vector
SSVF System Simulation and Verification Facility (ESTEC)
ST System Throughput
ST Standard Tooling
ST Sixteen Thirty-two (Atari: 16 Bit externer/32 Bit interner Datenbus)
ST Small Terminal
ST Street (US Mail)
STA Station
STA Science and Technology Agency (Japan)
STA Station (US Mail)
STAB Stability
STAG Source Tag
STALO Stable Local Oscillator
STAMAG NATO Stanardization Agreement
STAR GLOBALSTAR Satellite Technology
STAR Solenoidal Tracker of RHIC
STAR Standardization and R & D Links (CEN-Arbeitsgruppe)
STARS Software Technology for Adaptable Reliable Systems
START Small Tight Aspect Ratio Tokamak (Culham, UK)
START Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
STARTAP Science, Technology and Research Transit Point (Datennetz der NSF,
STAT Chicago,
Status IL, USA)
STAT Static
STB Set Top Box
STB Stabilized
STB Set Top Box (Telekommunikation)
STBY Standby
STC Space Time Coding
STC Sensity Time Control
STCPD Straight Toothed Crownwheel Pinion Drive
STD Space Time Decoding
STD Estimated Time of Departure
STD Standard
STD Software Test Description
STDF Space-Time Decoding Function
STDR Sequence Time Domain Reflectrometry
STE Special Test Equipment
STE Suite (US Mail)
ST-ECF Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ESO)
STEF Space-Time Encoding Function
STEM Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope
STEP Satellite Test of Equivalence Principle
STEP (German) Students Exchange Programme
STF Special Technical Feature
STFT Short Time Fourier Transform
STG Schiffbautechnische Gesellschaft
SThM Scanning Thermal Microscopy
STI Scientific and Technical Information
STI Standard Technical Instructions
STI Signal-Transduktions-Inhibitor (Medikamentenklasse)
STI Speech Transmission Index
STIRAP Stimulated Raman Scattering Involving Adiabatic Passage
STL Studio-to-Transmitter Link
STLDD Software Top Level Design Document
STM Synchronous Transmission Mode-1
STM Scanning Thermal Microscopy
STM Scanning Tunnel[ing] Microscopy
STM Synchronous Transfer (or: Transport) Module (Datennetz)
STN Signal to Noise, S/N
STN Stationline
STN The Scientific and Technical Information Network (Datenbank)
STN Supertwisted Nematic (Flüssigkristalle)
STNVE Signal to Noise Value Estimate
STOL Short Take-off and Landing
STP Software Test Plan
STP Shielded Twisted Pair (Datenkabel)
STP Signaling Transfer Point (Telekommunikation)
STP Silanterminierte Polyurethane (Kleb- und Dichtstoffe)
STP Spanning Tree Algorithm and Protocol (Telekommunikation)
STQ Save the Queen
STR Software Test Report
STR Self-Tuning Regulator
STRL Science and Technical Research Laboratories (NHK, Japan)
STS Same Time Slot
STS Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy
STS Section de Technicien Supérieure
STS Synchronous Transport Signal (Datennetz)
STS System Time Stamp (Telekommunikation)
STSF Spatial Transformation of Sound Fields (Brüel & Kjær)
STTD Space-Time Transmit Diversity
STTE Special-to-Type Test Equipment
STTE Special Type to Test Equipment
STTI-KL Software-Technologie-Transfer-Initiative Kaiserslautern
STTT Special To Type Tooling
Stupa Studentenparlament
SUB Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (Göttingen)
SUMER Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of Emitted Radiation (an Bord von SOHO)
SUNDIAL Speech Understanding and Dialogue
SUNY State University of New York (Buffalo, NY, USA)
SUP Sign-Up Server
SuperSmile Superior Semiconductor Mid-Infrared Laser
SURF Surface
SUSI Sydney University Stellar Interferometer
SUSY Supersymmetrie (Elementarteilchentheorie)
SUT System under Test
SV Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft e.V.
SVB Statistical Dialect of Visual Basic
SVC Switched Virtual Circuit (Internet)
SVD Singular Value Decomposition
SVF Serial Vector Format
S-VHS Super-VHS
SVM Skalierungs-Vektor-Methode (nichtlineare Dynamik)
SVO Spectroscopic Virtual Observatory
SVP Single Value Problem
SVP Set of vector Products
SVP S'il vous plaît (~ if you like; engl.: please)
SVR Shop Visit Rate
SVST Swedish Vacuum Solar Telescope
SW Scalar Wave
SW Short Wave
SW Switch
SW Software
SW Switch
SW Software
SW Software
SWA Scalar Wave Absorber, DE10005905A1
SWAN Solar Wind Anisotropy (an Bord von SOHO)
SWAS Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite
SW-CDMA Satellite Wideband CMDA
SW-CDTMA Satellite Wideband CDMA/TDMA (Telecommunication, Hybridverfahren)
SWDA Software Design Authority
S-Wellen Scherwellen (Geophysik)
SWNT Single Wall Nanotubes
SWP Switch Part
SWS Semesterwochenstunde
SXT Soft X-Ray Transient (Astrophysik)
SYD System Display
SYN Synchronize
SYNC Synchronise
SYS System
SYSCON System Control
SysCoP System for Copyright Protection
SZ Süddeutsche Zeitung
T
T Thymin (DNA-Base)
T&RA Transmit and Receive Antenna
T.O. Technical Order
T/0 Take Off
T/A Trailing Arm
T/R Transmit/Receive
T/R Transmit/Receive [Modus] (Telekommunikation)
t2r transition of rotation to translation at infinitive radius
TA Transmitting Antenna
TA Tankaufsatz
TA Temperature of Ambient
TA Terminal Adapter
TA Terrain Avoidance
TA Terminal Adapter
TA Teaching Assistent (USA)
TA Technikfolgen-Abschätzung
TA Technische Anleitung
TA Timing Advance (Telekommunikation)
TAA Traffic Analysis Attack
TAB Büro für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung
TAB Tape Automated Bonding
TAC Type Approval Code
TAC Technical Activity Committee (IEEE)
TAC Technical Assistance Center (Telekommunikation)
TACACS Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (Telekommunikation)
TACAMO Take Charge And Move Out (Milit.)
TACAN Tactical Air Navigation
TACAS Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System
TACCO Tactical Coordinator
TACCO Tactical Control Officer
TacIFR Tactical Instrument Flight Rules
TACIS Technical Assistence to the Commonwealth of Independent States (EU)
TACS Total Access Communication System (Telekommunikation)
TACTAS Tactical Tasks
TADS Target Aquisiton and Designation System
TAF Tactical Aerodrome Forecast
TAG Multi-Standard Identification Plate
TAI Temps Atomique International
TAL Technische Anleitung Luft
TAL Telephonic Acoustic Loss (Telekommunikation)
TAL [Deutsche] Transalpine Ölleitung
TALC Technology Adoption Life Cycle (Telekommunikation)
TAN Total Acid Number (Chemie)
TAN Transaktionsnummer (Homebanking)
TANS Tactical Air Navigation System
Tansf Transformation
TAO Telecommunications Advancement Organization (Japan)
TAP Test Access Board
TAPI Telephony Application Programming Interface (Telekommunikation)
TARA Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance (Japan)
TARMAC Taxi and Ramp Management and Control (DLR, Flughafenbetrieb)
TAROT Télescope à Action Rapide pour les Objets Transitoires (Frankreich)
TAS True Air Speed
TASCC Tandem Accelerator Superconducting Cyclotron (Ontario, Kanada)
TAT thematischer Apperzeptionstest (Psychologie)
TAT Turn Around Time
TAT 12/13 Transatlantic Ring (Glasfaserkabel USA - England - Frankreich)
TATB Triaminotrinitrobenzol (Sprengstoff)
TAZ Die Tageszeitung
TB Timebase
TB Total Bytes
TB Terra Byte
TB Time-Bandwidth (Product)
TB Text Block
TB&T Tail Boom & Tail
TBCCO Thallium-Barium-Calcium-Kupferoxid (HTSL)
TBD To Be Defined
TBD To Be Determined
TBF Temporary Block Flow (Telekommunikation)
tbg Technologie-Beteiligungs-Gesellschaft (Tochter der Deutschen
TBN Ausgleichsbank)
Total Base Number (Chemie)
TBO Time between Overhaul
TBP Text-based Protocol
TBR Technical Basis for Regulation (DECT)
TBT Turbine Beaving Temperature
TBT Tributylzinn (in Anti-Fouling-Anstrichen)
TBV Transmit Bit Vector
TBW Tank breaking Weapon
TC Tuned Channels
TC Technical Committee (im CEN und ETSI)
TC Traffic Conditioning
TC Transcoder (Telekommunikation)
TC Transmission Convergence (Internet)
TC Trellis Code (Modulation)
TC Total Carbon
TCA Threshold Crossing Alarms (Telekommunikation)
TCAP Transaction Capabilities Application Part (Telekommunikation)
TCDD 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlordibenzo-para-Dioxin (,,Seveso-Gift'')
TCH Threshold Crossing Height
TCH Traffic Channel
TCI Time Change Item
TCL Through Camera Lens (Autofocus-System für Videocameras)
TCM Tagungszentrum Messe (Hannover)
TCM Traditional Chinese Medicine
TCM Tandem Connection Monitoring
TCN Technical Committee on Noise (ASA)
TCNQ 8-Tetracyano-p-chinodimethan(id)
TCP Tactical Control Proce System Control Subsystem
TCP Technological Capabilities Panel (USA)
TCP Transmission Control Protocol (Rechnernetz)
TCP Tumor Control Probability
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
TCS Tactical Control
TCS Tactical
TCS Terminal Capabilty Set
TCSCP Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting
TCSS Tactical Control System Software
TCTP Tactical Combat Training Program
TD Turbo Diesel
TD Transdrive (Data xfer sw Sharp PC-1475)
TD Total Distortion
TD Total Disturbance
TDA Diaminotoluol
TDC Total Decoding Complexity
TDCMA Time Division CDMA (Telekommunikation)
TDD Time Division Duplex(ing) (Telekommunikation)
TDE Total Development Environment
TDF Train Describer Function
TDI Time-Delay Integration
TDI Toluylendiisocyanat
TDI Turbo Direct Injection (Motoren)
TDLHS Tunable Diode Laser Heterodyne Spectrometer (NPL, UK)
TDM Time Division Multiplexing
TDM Tactical Munitions Dispenser
TDM Time Division Multiplex(ing) (Telekommunikation)
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access (Telekommunikation)
TDN Transputer Digital Signal Processor Network
TDNN Time-Delay Neural Network
TDP Trigger Detection Point
TDP Technical Development Plan
TDR Time Domain Reflectrometry
TD-SCDMA Time Division-Synchronization Code Division Multiple Access
T-DSL Telekom DSL (zB. 768 kbps Empfangs- und 128 kbps Sende-
TDT Geschwindigkeit,
Transmit Diversitydaher asymmetrisch)
Technique
TDT Time Data Table
TDV Transmitted Data Vector
TDZ Touchdown Zone
TDZE Touchdown Zone Elevation
TE Transfer Efficiency
TE Tracking Error
TE Test Equipment
TE Terminal Equipment (TC im ETSI)
TE transversal elektrisch (Hohlleitermode)
TEC Technical Expertise Center (Telekommunikation)
TECM Transformed Entitlement Control Message
TED Transnational English Database
TEDS Transducer Electronic Data Sheet
TEF Trailing Edge Flaps
TEG [Fraunhofer-] Technologie-Entwicklungsgruppe (Stuttgart)
TEID Tunnel Endpoint Identifier
TEID Tunnel Identifier
TELI Technisch-Literarische Gesellschaft
TELNET [Terminalemulation] (Rechnernetz)
TEM Transmissionselektronenmikroskop(ie), Transmission Electron Microscope
TEMP (or: Microscopy)
Temperature
Temp. Rev. Temporary Revision
TEMPEST Temporary Emanation and Spurious Transmission
TEMPUS Trans-European Mobility Programme for University Students (EU)
TEN Trans-European Network (seit 1998, 155 Mbit/s)
TEN-IBK Transeuropäische Netze - Integrierte Breitbandkommunikation
TEOAE Transitorisch evozierte otoakustische Emissionen
TEOS Tetraethylorthosilicate
TEPAC Tube Engineering Panel Advisory Committee
TEQ Tilt Equalizer (optische Telekommunikation)
TER Terrace (US Mail)
TER AVD Terrain Avoidance
TER CLS Terrain Clearance
TER FLW Terrain Following
Terfenol-D Acronym aus Tb (Terbium), Dy (Dysprosium), Fe und NOL (Naval Ordnance
TERI Laboratory), sh. J. Appl.Research
Terrestrial Ecosystems Phys. 50 Initiative
(1979) 1674-1676
TERN Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Network
TES Terminal Server
TESLA TeV-Energy Superconducting Linear Accelerator (bei DESY, Hamburg,
TEST geplant)
Transferable European Space Technologies
TETRA Trans-European Trunked Radio Access
TEU Transmitter Equipment for UMTS (Telekommunikation)
TEXUS Technische Experimente unter Schwerelosigkeit
TF Terrain Following
TF2DST Time Frequency two-dimension spreading technique
TFB Transferbereich (im SFB)
TFEL Thin Film Electroluminescence
TFER Transfer
TFF Thin Film Filter
TFR Terrain Following Radar
TFT Thin-Film Transistor
TFT Traffic Flow Templates (Telekommunikation)
TFTA Terrain Following, Terrain Avoidance
TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol (Telekommunikation)
TFTR Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (Fusionsreaktortechnik, PPPL)
TFTS Terrestrial Flight Telephone System
TFU Timing and Frequency Unit (Telekommunikation)
TG Technical Group (INCE)
TG ITU-R Task Group
TG/CBE Technical Group on Computer and Business Equipment (INCE)
TGA Trägergemeinschaft für Akkreditierung
TGB Tail Gear Box
TGHI Time Gated Holographic Imaging
TGM Terminally Guided Missile
TGMS Third Generation Mobile Communication System (Telekommunikation)
TGS Ticket-Granting Service (Datennetz)
TGT Target
TGV Train à grande vitesse (?) (französische Bahn)
TGW Trunking Gateway (Telekommunikation)
TGZ Technologie- und Gründerzentrum
THAAD Theater High Altitude Area Defense (USA)
THD Total Harmonic Distortion
THEL Tactical High-Energy Laser
THEMIS Thermal Emission Imaging System (Mars-Sonde Odyssey)
THG Tempelhofgesellschaft
THR Threat
thru through
THTR Thorium-Hochtemperatur-Reaktor (Hamm i. Westf.)
TI Type Information
TI Transaction Identifier
TI Thermal Imaging
TI Institut für Telematik e.V. (Trier)
TI Texas Instruments
TIA Telecom(munications) Industry Association (USA)
TIB Technische Informationsbibliothek (Hannover)
TIC Total Inorganic Carbon
TICAM Texas Institute of Computational Mathematics (College Park, MD, USA)
TIDS Joint Tactical Information Distribution System
TIF (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)
TIFF Tag Image File Format (Graphikformat)
TIG Tungsten-Inert Gas (Schutzgasschweißen)
TIL Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes (Zellen)
TIM Terrestrial Interface Module (Telekommunikation)
TIM D Transintermodulation Distortion
TIMP Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteninase
TIMS Teaching Integrated Math and Science (Chicago, IL, USA)
TIMSS Third International Mathematics and Science Study
TINA Telecommunications Information Network Architecture
TIP Terabit IP Router (Telekommunikation)
TIPOR Terabit IP Optical Router (Telekommunikation)
TIPS Theory of Inventive Problem Solving
TIT Tokyo Institute of Technologie
TIT Turbine Inlet Temperature
TJNAF Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Newport News, CA, USA)
TK Telekommunikation
TKG Telekommunikationsgesetz (25.7.96)
TLC Thin Layer Chromatography
TLCSC Top-Level Computer Software Component
TLS Transport Layer Security
TLS Transparent LAN Services (Telekommunikation)
TLS Transport Layer Security (Telekommunikation)
TM Transfered Message
TM Torque Motor
TM Terminal Multiplexer (Telekommunikation)
TM Transmission and Multiplexing (TC im ETSI)
TM transversal magnetisch (Hohlleitermode)
TMC Tactical Mission Computer
TMC Traffic Message Channel
TMCC Transmission and Multiplexing Configuration Control (Telekommunikation)
TMF Thermomechanical Fatigue
TMF Tele-Management Forum (Telekommunikation)
TMGI Temporal Mobil Group Identity
TMI Texas Materials Institute
TMIT Transmit
TMN Telecommunication(s) Management Network (Telekommunikation)
TMR Training and Mobility of Researchers (EU-Programm)
TMR Tunneling Magnetoresistance
TMSI Temporary IMSI
TMSI Temporal Mobil Subscriber Identity
TMSN Transmission
TMTSF Tetramethyltetraselenanafulvalen (organischer Supraleiter)
TMUX Transparent Multiplexer
TMV Tooling Management Vehicle
TN Tennessee (US-Staat)
TN Twisted Nematic (Flüssigkristalle)
TNA Terminal Control Area
TNAZ Trinitroazetin (Sprengstoff)
TNCP Trunk Network Connection Point
TNF Tumor Nekrose Factor
TNL Transport Network Layer (Telekommunikation)
TNM Tumor, Nodi [Lymphknoten], Metastasen (Krebsstadium-Klassifizierung)
TNO [Nederlandse organisatie voor] Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk
TNOB Onderzoek
Total Number of Bits
TNPP Telocator Network Paging Protocol
TNT Trinitrotoluol
TNTR Transmitter
TO Technical Order
TO Thermo-Optical [Effects]
ToA Time of Arrival
TOC Total Organic Carbon
TOCL Take Off, Climb
TOD Technical Objective Document
TODA Take Off Distance Available
TOE Theory of Everything
TOEFL Test of English as a Foreign Language (Sprachtest für Austauschstudenten)
TOF Time-of-Flight (Massenspektrometer)
TOFMS Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer
Tokamak [russ. Abk.: Ringkammer mit Magnetspule] (Kernfusionsreaktor)
TOMS Total Ozone Mapping Sensor
TON Taiwan Oscillation Network
TOP Take-Off Power
TOP Tactical Operating Procedures
TOP Techical and Office Protocol (Datennetze)
TOP thermooptisch variabler Polymerwerkstoff
TOP Time-Averaged Orbiting Potential
TOPAS Tankfahrzeug mit optimierten passiven und aktiven Sicherheitseinrichtungen
TOPS Trends in Optics and Photonic Series (OSA, Buchreihe)
TORA Take Off Run Available
TORS Tool Order Reporting System
TOS Type of Service
TOS The Operating System
TOS Type of Service (Telekommunikation)
TOSS Take Off Safe Speed
TOT Timer Over Target
TOT Total Time on Target
TOT Turbine Outlet Temperature
TOT Time Offset Table
TOU Technologieorientierte Unternehmensgründungen (Modellversuch, neue
TOW Bundesländer)
Tube launched, Optically tracked, Wire guided
TOXC Transparent Optical Cross-Connect (optische Telekommunikation)
TP Transport Payload
TP&S Transmission Protocol and Standard
TPA Transient Program Area
TPC Transmission Power Control (Telekommunikation)
TPC Transmit Power Control (Telekommunikation)
TPC5 Transpacific Cable Link (Glasfaserkabel USA - Japan)
TPD Technisch Physische Dienst (TNO-TU Delft, NL)
TPF Traffic Plane Function
TPF Terrestrial Planet Finder (geplant)
TPFDDI Twisted Pair Fiber Distributed Data Interface
TPFM Two-Photon Fluorescence Microscopy
TPG Trailing Pulse Generator (Circuit) (see also LPG; RPG, FPG)
TPI Terahertz Pulse Imaging
TPKE Turnpike (US Mail)
TPS Turbine Powered Simulators (Modelltriebwerke)
TPV Thermophotovoltaik
TPW Transmit Power Width
TPX Tokamak Physics Experiment (Fusionsreaktortechnik, PPPL)
TQ Transmission Quality
TQM Total Quality Management
TR Tail Rotor
TR technical report
TRA(MON) Temporary Reserved Airspace (Monitoring Unit)
TRADE Transatlantic Research and Development Environment
TRANS Technologien aus der Raumfahrt für Anwendungen in Nicht-Raumfahrtsparten
Transceiver (DLR und MST
Transmitter andAerospace
Receiver GmbH, Köln)
Transceiver Transmitter + Receiver
Transponder Transmitter and Responder
Transponder Transmitter + Responder
TRAU Transcoder and Bitrateadaption Unit
TRBF Technische Regeln für brennbare Flüssigkeiten
TRC Transportation Research Center (Ohio State University)
TRC Tsukuba Research Consortium (Japan)
TRE Transceiver Equipment (Telekommunikation)
TREC Théorie des Réseaux et Communications
TREE Transient Radiation Effects on Electronics
TRELIBS Time-Resolved Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
TrFO Transcoder Free Operation
TRGS Technische Regeln für Gefahrstoffe
TRI Time Reversal Invariance
Tri Trichlorethen
TRIP Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property
TRIUMF (Kanadisches Kernforschungszentrum)
TRIZ Teoriya Resheniya Izobratelskikh Zadatch (russische Abkürzung für TIPS)
TRK Track
TRK Technische Richtkonzentration
TRM Time Reversal Mirror
TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
TRN Topology Representing Network (Selbstorganisation)
TROSY Transverse Relaxation-Optimized Spectroscopy
TRP Test Resource Partitioning
TRR Test Readiness Review
TRSN Transition
TRU Transformer Rectifier Unit
TRU Transuranic Waste (Radioaktiver Abfall)
TS Transmission Scheme
TS Training Sequence
TS Transmit Signals
TS Tri Strar
TS Time Slot (Datenübertragung)
TS Transport Stream (Digital Broadcast)
TSA Time Slot Allocation
TSAPI Telephone Services Application Programmming Interface
TSC-IP (Telekommunikation)
Transparent System Connector IP (Telekommunikation)
TSD Traditional Sphere Decoder
TSE Turbo-Shaft Engine
TSER Targeted Socio-Economic Research Programme (EC)
T-SGW Transport Signaling Gateway (Telekommunikation)
TSM Tandem Scanning Microscope
TSO Time Since Overhaul
TSO Technical Specifications Organizations
TSOM Traffic and Service Optimization Module (Telekommunikation)
TSP Thiele Small Parameter (Lautsprechertest)
TSP Traveling Salesman Problem
TSR Tag Switched Routing (Telekommunikation)
TSR Terminate and Stay Resident
TSR Test-Speicher-Ring (in Heidelberg)
TSS Teleworker Success Suite (Telekommunikation)
TST Tactile Sensor Transducer
TST Trusted Signature Terminal
TSV Transmitted Symbol Vector
TSV Transmitted Signal Vector
TSV Tenis Sport Verein
TT Total Time
TT Technology Transfer
TT Traffic Trunk (Telekommunikation)
TT Trust Territory (US Mail)
TT&C Tracking, Telemetry and Command (Telekommunikation)
TTC Telecommunications Technology Council (Japan)
TTC Telemetry and Telecommand
TTC The Telecommunications Technology Committee
TTCN Tree and Tabular Combined Notation
TTF Tactical Terrain Flight
TTF Tetrathiafulvalen
TTG Time to go
TTH Tactical Transport Helicopter
TTI Transmission Time Intervall
TTL Time to Live
TTLS Tunneld Transport Layer Security
TTLS Tunneld Transport Layer Security
TTP Thymidintriphosphat
TTR Time to Repair
TTS T-Tauri-Sterne
TTS Text-to-Speech (Sprachsynthese)
TU Terminal Unit
TUB Technische Universität Berlin
TUD Technische Universität Darmstadt
TUG (National astronomical observatory of Turkey)
TUG TeX User Group
TUHH Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
TUI Touristik Union International GmbH & Co. KG
TULIP The University Licensing Program
TUM Technische Universität München
TURR Total Unplanned Rejection Rats-
TUTB European Confederation of Trade Unions (Technical Bord) [Europäischer
TV Gewerkschaftsbund
Transmit Vector (Technisches Büro)]
TV Television
TV Transmitted Vector
TVA Tennessee Valley Authority (USA)
TVD Total Variation Diminishing (numerisches Rechenverfahren)
TVF Time Variant Filter
TVML TV Program Making Language
TVOR Terminal VHF omnidirectional radio range
TWA Time Weighted Average
TWA Transmit Wavelength Adapter (optische Kommunikation)
TWAS Third World Academy of Sciences
TWC Three Way Catalytic (Auspuff)
TWD Transparente Wärmedämmung
TWG Technical Working Group
TWR Two Way Radio
TWR Aerodrome control tower, Aerodrome control
TWR Two Way Radio
TWS Track While Scan
TWT Travelling Wave Tube
TWT Traveling Wave Tube (Mikrowellenverstärker)
TWY Taxiway
Tx Transmit
TX Texas (US-Staat)
TXT (Dateinamenerweiterung: Textdatei)
TZ Twilight Zone
TZC Track Zero Cross
U
u/c Undercarriage
UA User Agent (or: Access) (Telekommunikation)
UAC Upper area control center
UAC User Agent Client (Telekommunikation)
UAG Universal Access Gateway (Telekommunikation)
UAI Uplink Access Identifier
UARC Upper Atmosphere Research Collaboratory
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (Telekommunikation)
UAS Universal Access Server (Telekommunikation)
UAS User Agent Server (Telekommunikation)
UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (USA)
UB/TIB Universitätsbibliothek und Technische Informations-Bibliothek (Hannover)
UBA Umweltbundesamt (Berlin)
UBC Uniform Building Code (USA)
UBR Unspecific (or: Unspecified) Bit Rate (Datennetz)
UC Unit Circle
UC/PA Up-Conversion Power Amplifier
UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (USA)
UCL Universal Call Log (eg. a logging file)
UCLA University of California at Los Angeles
UCN Ultracold Neutrons
UCP Unidirectional Communication Protocol (see BCP)
UCP Universal Computer Protocol
UCS Utility Control System
UCS Uniform Communications System
UCS Union of Concerned Scientists
UCSB University of California at Santa Barbara
UCSC University of California at Santa Cruz
UCSD University of California at San Diego
UCSF University of California at San Francisco
UDA Upper Advisory Area
UDDI Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
UDDI Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
UDDI Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (Telekommunikation)
UDF Ultra high frequency direction findingstation
UDI Unrestricted Digital Information (Telekommunikation)
UDL Universität des Dritten Lebensalters
UDLR Uni-Directional Link Routing (Telekommunikation)
UDP User Data(gram) Protocol (Internet)
UDS Upper-Data-Strobe (Atari)
UE User Equipment
UE User Equipment
UE Unterhaltungselektronik
UE User Equipment (Telekommunikation)
UEM Universe of Electro Magnetic
UFB Ulta Fine Business
UFC Universities Funding Council (UK)
UFS United Feature Syndicate
UFZ Umweltforschungszentrum (Leipzig/Halle)
UGC User Ground Component (Telekommunikation)
UH Numer of flying hours per helicopter per month
UH Utility Helicopter
UHF Ultra High Frequency (0,3 - 3 GHz)
UHF Ultra High Frequency
UHM Universal Helicopter Model
UHTS Ultra-High Throughput Screening
UHV Ultra High Vacuum, Ultrahochvakuum
UIC Union internationale des chemins de fer
UIC University of Illinois, Chicago
UIME User Information Management Entities (Telekommunikation)
UIR Upper Flight Information Region
UITB Union Internationale des Transports Publics
UIUC University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
UK United Kingdom (auch im Internet)
UKAEA UK Atomic Energy Authority
UKSEDS UK Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
UL Upper Layer
ULDB Ultra Long Duration Balloon
ULEF Ultra Low Emission Vehicle (Kfz-Technik)
ULF-FORTH (Laserforschungslaboratorium, Iraklion, GR)
ULIRG Ultraluminous, Infrared-Emitting Galaxy
ULSI Ultra Large Scale Integration
ULTP Upper Layer Transfer Protocol
UM Universal Messaging (Telekommunikation)
Um I/F inter MS and GSM fixed Network part. The Um I/F is the GSM network I/F
UMIS for providing mobiles
universelles GPRS services over the radio to the MS. The MT part of the MS
Informationssystem
UMIST is used to access the GPRS services in GSMand
University of Manchester Institute of Science thruTechnology
this I/F
UMK Umweltministerkonferenz
UML Unified Modeling Language (Computerprogramm-Struktur)
UMLS Unified Medical Language System
UMMSE Unbiased Minimum Mean Square Error
UMS Unified Messaging Service (Telekommunikation)
UMSICHT [Fraunhofer-Institut für] Umwelt-, Sicherheits- und Energietechnik
UMTS (Oberhausen)
Universal Mobil Telecommunication System
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecom System
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunication(s) Standard (or: System)
UNAEC United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
UNC-CH University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
UNCED United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de
UNDP Janeiro, Juni 1992)
United Nations Development Programme
UNE Unbundled Network Element (Telekommunikation)
UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
UNI Ente Nazionale Italiano di Unificazione
UNI User Network Interface
UNI Union Network International (Gewerkschaftsorganisation, seit 1.1.2000)
UNI User-Network Interface (Datennetz)
UNIC United Nations Information Center (viele Standorte weltweit)
UNILAC Universal Linear Accelerator (GSI)
UNIX-CE UNIX-Based Control Element
UNL Universal Network Language
UNO United Nations Organization
UNSCEAR United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation
UNSCOM United Nations Special Commission
UNSW University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australien)
UPC Average unit production cost of a single helicopter
UPC Ultrafast Photonics Collaboration (UK)
UPC Universal Product Code (Strichcode)
UP-CAP Ultra Power Capacitor
UPD User Profile Directory (Telekommunikation)
UPS Unified Profile Scheme (Telekommunikation)
UPS Uninterruptable Power Supply (= USV)
UPSR Unidirectional Path Switching (or: Switched) Ring (optische Kommunikation)
UPT Universal Personal Telecommunications
UPV Unpiloted Vehicle
UR Universal Routing (Telekommunikation)
URA UTRAN Registration Area
URA Universal Terrestial Radio Access Network
URA Unité de recherche associée au CNRS
URA Universities Research Association (USA)
URAN UMTS Radio Access Network (Telekommunikation)
URETI University Research, Engineering, and Technology Institute (befristete NASA-
URI Gründungen in USA)
Uniform Resource Identifier
URI Uniform Resource Identifier
URI Uniform Resource Identifier (Telekommunikation)
URL Uniform Resource Locator
URL Universal Resource Locator (or: Location) (Internet)
URL Uniform Resource Locator
URS User Requirements Specification
URSI Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale
URT User Registration Tool (Telekommunikation)
US Undetected Symbol
US(A) United States (of America)
USAF US Air Force
USANS Ultrasmall-Angle Neutron Scattering
USARDSG-UK United States Army Research, Development and Standardization Group -
USART United Kingdom
Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
USB Universal Serial Bus (Datentransfer)
USC University of Southern California
USCM Universal Service Component Model
USG Undoped Silicate Glass
USGS US Geological Survey (Denver, CO)
USIM Universal Subscriber Identity Module
USIM UMTS Subscriber Identity Module (Telekommunikation)
USM User Service Manager (Telekommunikation)
USPAS US Particle Accelerator School
USPTO US Patent and Trademark Office
USSD Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (Telekommunikation)
USST Usage Specification and Specification Testing
UST Umweltsensortechnologie
USV unterbrechungsfreie Stromversorgung
UT Universal Time
UT Utah (US-Staat)
UTC Universal Time Coordinated
UTC Universal Time Coordinated (or: Continuous)
UTD uniform theory of diffraction
UTD Uniform Geometric Theory of Diffraction
UTECM Up-Triangular Eyuivalent Channel Matrix
UTM Universal Transversal Mercator Projection
UTOLED Ultra Thin Organic Light Emitting Device
UTOPIA Universal Test and Operations PHY Interface for ATM
UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair (Datenkabel)
UTR Untranslated Region (in RNA)
UTRA-FDD UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access - Frequency Division Duplex
UTRAN Universal Mobil Telecommunication System, UMTS, Terrestrial Radio Access Network
UTRAN Universal Terrestial Radio Access Network Registration Area
UTRAN UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (Telekommunikation)
UTRA-TDD UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access - Time Division Duplex
UUCP Unix-to-Unix Copy Program (Rechnernetz)
UUI User-to-User Information
UV Unit Variance
UV Ultraviolet, Ultraviolett
uv Ultra-Violet
UVCS Ultraviolet Coronograph Spectrometer (an Bord von SOHO)
UvD Unteroffizier vom Dienst
UVV Unfall-Verhütungs-Vorschrift
UWB Ultra Wide Band (Telekommunikation)
UWB Ultra Wide Band
UWCC Universal Wireless Communication Consortium (Telekommunikation)
UWG Gesellschaft für Umwelt- und Wirtschaftsgeologie mbH (Berlin)
V
V&D Voice and Data (Telekommunikation)
V. A. T. Vertical Axle Travel
V.S.O.P Very special old pale (Cognac)
V/L Vapor/Liquid Ratio
V/STDL Vertical/Short Take Off and Landing
VA Virginia (US-Staat)
VAC Vacuum
VAC Voltage of Alternatic Current
VAD Visual Approach and Departure
VAD Voice Activity Detection (Telekommunikation)
VALUE Valorisation and Utilisation for Europe (EU)
VAMAS Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards
VAR Variance, Variable
VAR Variation
VAS Value Added Service (Telekommunikation)
VASIS Visual Approach Slope Indicator System
VASP Value-added Service Provider
VBA [Microsoft] Visual Basic for Applications
VBC Vienna BioCenter (Wien)
VBD Voice Band Data (Telekommunikation)
VBG Verwaltungs-Berufsgenossenschaft
VBG Verzeichnis der Einzel-Unfallverhütungsvorschriften der gewerblichen
VBI Berufsgenossenschaften
Vertical-Blank-Interrupt, Vertical Blanking Interval
V-BLAST Vertical Bell Laboratories Layered Space Time
vBNS Very High Performance Backbone Network Service (USA, Gbit/s-Netz)
VBR Variable Bit Rate (Datenübertragung)
VC Venture Capital(ist)
VC Vinylchlorid
VC Virtual Circuit (Internet)
VC Virtual Channel (Internet)
VC Virtual Container (Kommunikation)
VC Virtual circuit
VCC Virtual Channel Connection (Internet)
VCG Venture Capital-Gesellschaft
VCGS Voice Group Call Service
VCI Verband der Chemischen Industrie
VCI Virtual Channel Identifier
VCI Voltage Contrast Imaging
VCIP Visual Communications and Image Processing Conference
VCO Voltage Controlled Oscillator
VCOSS Vibration Control of Space Structures
VCR Video Cassette Recorder
VCS VAPOR Cycle System
VCS V-Groove Connector System (Telefon, Steckverbinder)
VCSEL Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting [Semiconductor] Laser, Vertikalresonator-
VD Laserdiode
Drive Speed
VDBiol Verband Deutscher Biologen
VDC Voltage of Direct Current
VDC Volts/Direct Current
VDE Verband Deutscher Elektrotechniker e.V.
VDE Verein Deutscher Elektrotechniker
VDEh Verein Deutscher Eisenhüttenleute e.V.
VDF Virus Definition Files
VDF Very high frequency direction finding system
VDI Verein Deutscher Ingenieure e.V.
VDI Virtual Device Interface
VDI Verein Deutscher Ingenieure
VDI-EKV VDI-Gesellschaft Entwicklung Konstruktion Vertrieb
VDIV Dive Velocity
VDMA Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbauer
VDR Vertreter des Deutschen Reiches vor 1918
VDR Voltage Dependent Resistor
VDSÄ Vereinigung Deutscher Strahlenschutzärzte e.V.
VDSL Very High bite rate Digital Subscriber Line
VDSL Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Line
VDU Video Distribution Unit
VDU Visual Display Unit (= Monitor)
VDV Verband Deutscher Verkehrsunternehmen
VDW Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler
VE Virtual Environment
VEB Volkseigener Betrieb (DDR)
VEC Vectoring
VECSEL Vertical External Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser
VECTAC Vector Attack
VEGF vaskulärer endotheliarer Wachstumsfaktor
VELI Virtuell European Laser Institute
VENT Ventilation
VERITAS Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (Tucson, TX, USA,
VERONICA geplant
Very für Rodent-Oriented
Easy 2005) Net-Wide Index to Computerized Archives
VERTREP (Rechnernetz, Gopher)
Vertical Replenishment
VESA Video Electronic Standards Association
VEV Voice-Excited Vocoder
VF Vacuum Fluorescence
VFA Verband Forschender Arzneimittelhersteller
VFD Visual Flight Day
VFD Vacuum Fluorescent Display
VFH Modulation
VfK Vereinigung für Kristallographie
VFO Variable Frequency Oscillator
VFR Visual Flight Rules
VG Vertical Gyro
VGA Video Graphics Adapter
VGA Video Graphics Array
VGCS Voice Group Call Service
VGF Vertical Gradient Freeze (Kristallzucht)
VGI Vector Graphic Image
VH Maximum Level Speed
VHB Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern, www.vhb.org
VHDA Very-High-Density Amorphous (Ice)
VHDL VLSI Hardware Description Language
VHDL Virtual Hardware Description Language
VHE Very High Energy
VHE Virtual Home Environment (Telekommunikation)
VHF Very High Frequency (30 - 300 MHz)
VHF Very High Frequency - Frequency
VHSIC Very High Speed Integrated Circuits
VI Virgin Islands (US Mail)
VIB Vibration
VICKSI Van de Graaf-Isochron-Cyclotron-Kombination für Schwere Ionen
VICS Vehicle Information and Communication System
VIG Video Gateway (Telecommunication)
VIK Vereinigtes Institut für Kernforschung (Dubna, Russland)
VIP Vertical Intelligent Power
VIP Very Important Person
VIP Virtual Internet Protocol (Telekommunikation)
VIPeR Value-Added IP Routing (Telekommunikation)
VIPIC Vertical Intelligent Power Integrated Circuit
VIRGO Variability Irradiance and Gravity Oscillations (an Bord von SOHO)
VIRIM virtuelle Realität in der Medizin
VIROR Virtuelle Hochschule Oberrhein (seit Mitte 1998)
VIS Visible Imaging System
VIS Visual Instruction Set
VISA Virtual Instrument Software Architecture (Telekommunikation)
ViSEK Virtuelles Kompetenzzentrum für Software Engineering
VISS VHS-Index-Such-System
VISTA Voice Interactive System Technology
VISTA Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (UK)
VITA VME bus International Trade Association
VIVRE Interactive Virtual Reality Environment (EU)
VK Verbundkatalog maschinenlesbarer Daten
VKTA Verein für Kernverfahrenstechnik und Analytik Rossendorf e.V.
VL Virtual Laboratory
VLA Very Large Array (Radioteleskop)
VLAN Virtual Local Area Network
VLAN Virtual LAN (Internet)
VLAS Virtual Local Area Network Server
VLBA Very Long Baseline Array
VLBI Very Long Baseline Interferometry
VLF Very Low Frequency (3 - 30 kHz)
VLHC Very Large Hadron Collider (geplanter Nachfolger für LHC)
VLIW Very Long Instruction Word (Computertechnik)
VLL Virtual Leasing Line (Telekommunikation)
VLR Visitor Location Register (Telekommunikation)
VLSI Very Large-Scale Integration (Circuit)
VLSIC Very Large Speed Integrated Circuits
VLT Very Large Telescope (Chile)
VLY Valley (US Mail)
VM Vector Modulator
VM Virtual Machine
VM Vincence Murr
VMAN Virtual MAN (Telekommunikation)
VMC Voltmeter
VMO Visual Heterological Conditions max. Operating Speed
VMS Vertical Motion Simulator
VMS Virtual Modeling Synthesis
VMSC Visited Mobile Switching Center
VMU Video Management Unit
VNE Velocity never Exceed
VNO Normal Operating Velocity
VOA Variable Optical Attenuator (Photonik)
VoATM Voice over Asynchronous Transfer Mode
VoATM Voice over ATM (Telekommunikation)
VOB Verdingungsordnung für Bauleistungen
VOBB Voice Over Broadband
VOC Volatile Organic Carbon (or: Compound)
VoCM Voice over Cable Modem
VoD Video on Demand
VOD Video on Demand
VoD Video on Demand
VoDSL Voice over Digital Subscriber Line
VoFR Voice over Frame Relay (Telekommunikation)
VoHN Voice over Home Network
VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol (Telekommunikation)
VOL Volume
VOLMET Meteorological information for aircraft in flight
VOP Velocity of Propagation
VoP Voice over Packet (Telekommunikation)
VOR Very High Frequency Omni-Directional Range
VORS Vector of Received Symbols
VORTAC Very high frequency omnidirectional radio range co-located VOR and TACAN
VOX facilities
Voice-Operated Switch
VOXEL Volume Element
Voxel (volume pixel, quaderförmige Volumenelemente)
VP Vantage Point
VP Virtual Processor
VP Virtual Processor
VP Virtual Path (Internet)
VPC Virtual Path Connection (Internet)
VPI Virtual Path Identifier
VPI&SU Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, VA, USA)
VPL Virtual Programming Language
VPLS Virtual Private LAN Service (Telekommunikation)
VPN Virtual Private Network
VPN Virtual Private Network, Virtuelles Privates Netz (Internet)
VPS Video-Programm-System
VPS Virtual LAN Policy Server (Telekommunikation)
VPT Videotext-Programmier-System
VPU Voice Processing Unit (Telekommunikation)
VPWS Virtual Private Wire Services (Telekommunikation)
VQ Vector Quantization
VR Virtual Reality
VR Vulnerability Reduction
VR Virtual Reality
VR Visual Range
VRAS Virtual Reality Audio System
VRF Virtual Private Network Routing and Forwarding
VRF Virtual Routing and Forwarding (Telekommunikation)
VRID Virtual Router Identification (Telekommunikation)
VRML Virtual Reality Markup (or: Modeling) Language
VRRP Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (Telekommunikation)
VRS Vector of Received Symbols
VS Validating Signature
VS Vector Synthesis
vs Vertical Speed
VSA Vector Signal Analyzer
VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal (Fernerkundung, Datennetz)
VSB Vestigial Sideband (Modulation)
VSD Vertical Situation Display
VSDL Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Line (Telekommunikation)
VSELP Vector Sourcebook Excited Linear Predictive Coding
VSI (Sprachkompressionssystem)
Vertical Situation Indication
V-SK VIPeR System Kernel (Telekommunikation)
VSL Varying-Speed-of-Light (Theory) (Kosmologie)
VSM Vibrating Sample Magnetometer
VSMS Virtual School of Molecular Sciences (Nottingham, UK)
VSOP Versatile Scalable On Board Processing Unit (Einplatinenrechner)
VSPD Variable Sensitivity Photodetector Cell
VSTOL Vertical and Short Take-off and Landing
VSVR Voltage Standing Waive Ratio
VT Vermont (US-Staat)
VT Virtual Tributary (Kommunikation)
VTDL Vertical Take Off and Landing
VTEC Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control (Kfz-Technik)
VTOL Vertical Take-off and Landing
VTR Video Tape Recorder (?)
VTS Vessel Traffic Service (für Schiffsverkehr im Hafen)
VTT Valtion teknillinen tutkimuskeskus (Technical Research Centre of Finland,
VUB Espoo,
VirtuelleFinnland)
Universität Berlin
VUC Voltage of Universal Current
VUV Vakuumultraviolett, Vacuum-Ultraviolet
VV Vonvent
VV Velocity Vector
VWCS Voice Web Communications Server (Telekommunikation)
VWL Volkswirtschaftslehre
VWM Voice Web Manager (Telekommunikation)
VXML Voice Extensible Markup Language (Telekommunikation)
W
W(I) Vertical Velocity (Indicator)
w/o without
W/OWS Wire/Obstacle Warning System
W/S Windshield, Windscreen
w/t well temperated
W3C World-Wide Web Consortium
WA Washington (US-Staat)
WA/D Wavelength Add/Drop (Telekommunikation)
WAAS Wide Area Augmentation System (Telekommunikation)
WACN West Anglia Cancer Network (UK)
WAD Wide Area Differential (Satellitennavigation)
WADM Wavelength Add/Drop Multiplexer (optische Telekommunikation)
WAF (Dateinamenerweiterung: Sounddatei)
WAG WLAN Access Gate
WAIS Wide-Area Information Server (or: Service) (Rechnernetz)
WAK Wiederaufbereitungsanlage Karlsruhe
WAN Wide Area Network
WAN Wide Area Network
WAN Wide Area Network (Rechnernetze)
WAP Wirless Application Protocol
WAP wireless application protocool
WAP wireless application protocool
WAP Wireless Application Protocol (scherzhaft auch: Wait and Pay)
WAPGW (Telekommunikation)
Wireless Application Gateway
WARC World Administrative Radio Conference
WARN Warning
WBCO Waveguide Below Cutoff
WBEM Web Based Element Management (Telekommunikation)
WBGU Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale
WBL Umweltveränderungen
Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Blaue Liste
WBS Work Breakdown Structure
WBS Wireless Base Station (Telekommunikation)
WBS Work Breakdown Structure
WBT WEB-basierte Trainingssysteme
WCA Wind Correction Angle
WCD Wireless Communication Device
WCDMA Wide Code Division Multiple Access
W-CDMA Wideband CDMA (Telekommunikation)
WCS Wireless Communication System
WCS Wireless Communication Standard
WCS Wireless Communication System
WCT WIPO Copyright Treaty
WCU World Congress on Ultrasonics
WD Warning Display
WDM Wave(length) Division Multiplex(ing) (optische Telekommunikation)
WDMA Wavelength Division Multiple Access (optische Telekommunikation)
WDNS Weapon Delivery and Navigation System
WECA Wireless Ethernet Company Alliance (Telekommunikation)
WECC WEB Enabled Call Center (Telekommunikation)
WECC Western European Calibration Cooperation
WECPNL Weighted Equivalent Continuous Perceived Noise Level
WEEE Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment
WEH Wilhelm und Else Heraeus (Stiftung)
WELAC Western European Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation
WELMEC Western European Legal Metrology Cooperation
WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy (Telekommunikation)
WESCON Western Electronic Show and Convention (USA)
WESTP(R)AC Western Pacific Regional Acoustics Conference
WFBA Weighted Fair Buffer Allocation (Telekommunikation)
WFG Wave Form Generator
WFQ Weighted Fair Queuing (Telekommunikation)
Wfz Wasserfahrzeug
WG Working Group
WG Working Group
WGL Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
WGW Wireless Gateway (Telekommunikation)
WHG Wasserhaushaltsgesetz
WHH Werthamer-Helfand-Hohenberg (Supraleitungstheorie)
WHO World Health Organization
WHOI Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
WI Wisconsin (US-Staat)
WIDE Wide-Angle Imaging Lidar
WIEM Wave of the IEM
WiFS Wide Field Sensor (NASA-Satellit, seit 1997)
WiMax Worldwide Interoperability Microwave Access (Telecom, Networks)
WIMP Weakly Interacting Massive Particle
WiN Wissenschaftsnetz (Datennetz)
WIP Wissenschaftler-Integrationsprogramm (ehem. DDR)
WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization
WIPP Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (Radioaktiver Abfall, Carlsbad, NM, USA)
WIS WAN Interface Sublayer (Telekommunikation)
WISA Wirtschaftsorientierte Strategische Allianz (FhG)
WISP Wireless Internet Service Provider
WISTA Wissenschafts- und Technologiepark Berlin-Adlershof (oder: Wirtschafts- und
WIXC Wissenschaftszentrum
Wavelength InterchangingBerlin-Adlershof)
Cross-Connect (optische Telekommunikation)
WIYN Wisconsin-Indiana-Yale-NOAO
WKD Worked
WKI Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institut (Fraunhofer-Institut für Holzforschung,
WKN Braunschweig)
Wertpapierkennnummer
WL Water Line
WL Wechselsprech- und Lautsprecherkommunikation
WLA Wavelength Adapter (optische Telekommunikation)
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
WLAN Wireless LAN
WLC Wired-lined Communication
WLC Worm-Like Chain (Polymerphysik)
WLL Wireless Local Loop (Internet)
WLS Web Lecturing and Training System
WLT Wissenschaftlicher Arbeitskreis Lasertechnik
WMA (Dateinamenerweiterung: Videodatei)
WMA Windows Media Audio
WMAP Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (Kosmologie)
WMF (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)
WMF Windows-Metafile
WML Wireless Markup Language (Telekommunikation)
WMO World Meteorological Organization
WMS Weapon Stores Management System
WMV Window Media Video
WNT Wireless Network Termination (Telekommunikation)
WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment
WOKS [Allunionsgesellschaft für kulturelle Verbindungen mit dem Ausland] (russisch)
WORM Write Once - Read Many (Opto-Disk)
WOW Weight on Wheels
WP Working Paper
WPD Work Package Definition
WPG (Dateinamenerweiterung: WordPerfect-Graphikdatei)
WPL Work Package Leader
WPM Words per Minute
WPN Weapon
WPPT WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty
WPT Waypoint
WPU Weapon Processor Unit
WR Wissenschaftsrat
WRC World Radiocommunication(s) Conference
WRED Weighted Random Early Detection (or: Discard) (Telekommunikation)
WRI (Dateinamenerweiterung: Windows Writer-Textdatei)
WRR Weighted Round Robin (Telekommunikation)
WS Wavestation
WS Werkzeugstahl
WS Wireless Substation (Telekommunikation)
WSDL Web Services Description Language (Telekommunikation)
WSES World Scientific and Engineering Society
WSF Workstation Function
WSGE Work Shop Ground Equipment
WSi Wolfram Silizium, Thungsten Sillicide
WSP Wireless Session Protocol
WSPS Wire Strike Protection System
WSRT Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (NL)
WSS Wide Screen Signalling
WSS Worldwide Support Systems (HP)
WSSD Warning System Symbol Generator
WSTE Work Shop Test Equipment
WSTGE Work Shop Test and Ground Equipment
WSU Washington State University
WSXC Wavelength Selective Cross-Connect (optische Telekommunikation)
WT Wireless Transceiver
WT Wave Train
WTA Wireless Telephony Application (Telekommunikation)
WTAI Wireless Telephony Application Interface (Telekommunikation)
WTDMA Wideband Time Division Multiple Access (Telekommunikation)
WTO World Trade Organization
WT-OXC Wavelength-Translating Optical Cross Connect (optische Kommunikation)
WTR Wind-Temperatur-Radar
WTW Walking Through Walls
WTZ Wissenschaftlich-Technische Zusammenarbeit (BMBF)
WUSTL Washington University in St. Louis
WV West Virginia (US-Staat)
WV Wiedervorlage
WVU West Virginia University (USA)
WVV Wind Velocity Vector
WWF (alt:) World Wildlife Fund, (neu:) World-Wide Fund for Nature
WWG World Wide Grid (Rechnernetz)
WWMCCS World-Wide Military Control and Communication System
WWW World Wide Web (Rechnernetz)
www tma itloir when will we three meet again, in thunder, lightning or in rain
WX Weather
WX-R Weather Radar
WY Wyoming (US-Staat)
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
WZB Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung GmbH
WZH Wissenschaftliches Zentrum Heidelberg (der IBM)
X
XAFS X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure
XANES X-Ray Absorption Near Edge Structure
XAS X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy
xBIOS Extended BIOS
XBS Exchange Base(band) Station (Telekommunikation)
XC Cross Correlation
XCUS Excuse
XCVR Experimental Transceiver
xDSL any of the various types of Digital Subscriber Line/s (Telekommunikation)
XDSL any DSL
XFEED Cross Feed
XFER Transfer
XFER Transfer
XIPS Xenon Ion Propulsion Subsystem (Satellitenantrieb)
XLS (Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft Excel-Datei)
XLT (Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft Excel-Vorlage)
XM Cross Modulation
XM Cross Modulation (Distortion)
XMAS Chrismas
XMF Cros Modulation Function
XMIT Transmit
XMIT Transmit
XML Extensible Markup Language
XMM X-Ray Multi-Mirror Mission (Dez. 1999)
XMP X-Ray Microprobe
XMSN Transmission
XMTR Transmitter
XMTR Transmitter
XOR Exclusive Or
XP Transponder
XPCS X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy
X-PEEM X-Ray PEEM
XPM Cross-Phase Modulation
XPS X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
XQUL XML Query & Update Language (Telekommunikation)
XRB X-Ray Background (Astrophysik)
XRD X-Ray Diffraction [Sensors]
XRF X-Ray Fluorescence
X-SAR X-Band SAR
XSE Executive for Services Environment (Telekommunikation)
XSEM X-Ray Secondary-Emission Microscopy
XSL eXtensible Stylesheet Language
XSL Extensible Stylesheet Language
XTAL Crystal
xTU-C Central Terminal Unit of an xDSL
xTU-R Remote Terminal Unit of an xDSL
Y
Y2K Year 2000 [problem]
YAC Yeast Artificial Chromosome
YAG Yttrium-Aluminum Garnet (Laser)
YBCO Yttrium-Barium-Kupfer-Oxid YBa2Cu3O7 (HTSL)
YES Year of Engineering Scuccess
YL Young Lady
YOTO International Year of the Ocean (1998)
YSN Young Scientists Network (USA)
Z
Z Impedance
ZAE Bayern Bayerisches Zentrum für Angewandte Energieforschung (Würzburg)
ZALF Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung und -gestaltung (oder: Zentrum für
ZaPF Agrarlandschafts-
Zusammenkunft aller undPhysik-Fachschaften
Nutzungsforschung) (Müncheberg)
ZARM Zentrum für Angewandte Raumfahrttechnologie und Mikrogravitation
ZAV (,,Fallturm'',
ZentralstelleUniversität Bremen) (Frankfurt/M)
für Arbeitsvermittlung
ZAVIR Zurechenbarkeit von Aktionen in virtuellen Welten
ZBL Zentralbibliothek der Landesbauwissenschaften (Bonn)
ZCMN zero-configuration secure mobility networking
ZCMN zero-configuration secure mobility networking
ZD Zero Defects
ZDA Zero-Day-Attacks
ZDB Zeitschriftendatenbank
ZDC Zero Degree Calorimeter (CERN)
ZDF Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
ZDH Zentralverband des Deutschen Handwerks
ZDL Zivildienstleistender
ZEAM Zentraleinrichtung für Audiovisuelle Medien (FU Berlin)
ZEBET [Centre for the Evaluation of Alternative Methods to Animal Experiments] (DE)
ZEF Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (Bonn, seit 1997)
ZEI Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (Bonn, seit 1997)
ZEKE Zero Kinetic Energy (Spektroskopie)
ZEM Zentrale Einrichtung Medien (Göttingen)
ZENIT Zentrum für Innovation und Technik (Mühlheim, NRW)
ZENS Zentrum für Europa- und Nordamerika-Studien (Göttingen)
ZEvA Zentrale Akkreditierungs- und Evaluationsagentur Hannover
ZF Zero Forcing
ZF Zahnradfabrik (Friedrichshafen)
ZFE Zero Forcing Equalization
ZFK Zentralinstitut für Kernforschung (Rossendorf, bis 1991)
ZFMK Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander König (Bonn)
ZFO Forschungs[- und Entwicklungs]personal-Zuwachsförderung Ost (BMFT)
ZfP Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung
ZFW Zentralinstitut für Festkörperphysik und Werkstoffforschung (Akademie der
ZfW Wissenschaften, DDR)
Zentrum für Funktionswerkstoffe (Göttingen)
ZGDV Zentrum für Graphische Datenverarbeitung (Darmstadt)
ZGI Zentrales Geologisches Institut (DDR)
ZHG Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude
ZIE Zentralinstitut für Elektronenphysik (DDR)
ZiM Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Medienwissenschaft (Göttingen)
ZIP (Dateinamenerweiterung: Archivdatei, komprimiert)
ZIP Zone Improvement Plan (Postleitzahlen, USA)
ZIPE Zentralinstitut für die Physik der Erde (DDR)
ZISW Zentralinstitut für Sprachwissenschaft (Berlin)
ZK Zentralkomitee (der kommunistischen Partei, UdSSR)
ZKA Zentraler Kreditausschuss
ZKI Zentren für Kommunikation und Informationsverarbeitung in Lehre und
ZKRD Forschung e.V.
Zentrales Knochenmarkspender-Register Deutschland
ZL Zuloo Language
ZM Zero Mean (Statistics)
ZMB Zentralbibliothek der Medizin (Köln)
ZMCSCGVOUV Zero Mean Circularly Symmetric Complex Gaussian Variables of Unit-
ZMNH Variance
Zentrum für Molekulare Neurobiologie (Hamburg)
ZNS Zentralnervensystem
ZOS Zentralinstitut für Optik und Spektroskopie (DDR)
Zp Pressure altitude
ZPID Zentralstelle für Psychologische Information und Dokumentation (Trier)
ZSb Zentrale Studien- und Studentenberatung
ZUMA Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen (Mannheim)
ZVEI Zentralverband der Elektrotechnik- und Elektronikindustrie
ZWG Zentralinstitut für Wissenschaftlichen Gerätebau (Adlershof, DDR)
ZZZ
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ss Network
0 Source 3GPP TR 21.905 V8.5.0 (2008-06)
2G 2nd Generation
3G 3rd Generation
3GPP Third Generation Partnership Project
8-PSK 8-state Phase Shift Keying
A
A3 Authentication algorithm A3
A38 A single algorithm performing the functions of A3 and A8
A5/1 Encryption algorithm A5/1
A5/2 Encryption algorithm A5/2
A5/X Encryption algorithm A5/0-7
A8 Ciphering key generating algorithm A8
AAL ATM Adaptation Layer
AAL2 ATM Adaptation Layer type 2
AAL5 ATM Adaptation Layer type 5
AB Access Burst
AC Access Class (C0 to C15)
AC Access Condition
AC Application Context
AC Authentication Centre
ACC Automatic Congestion Control
ACCH Associated Control Channel
ACELP Algebraic Code Excited Linear Prediction
ACIR Adjacent Channel Interference Ratio
ACK Acknowledgement
ACL APN Control List
ACLR Adjacent Channel Leakage Power Ratio
ACM Accumulated Call Meter
ACM Address Complete Message
ACMmax ACM (Accumulated Call Meter) maximal value
ACS Adjacent Channel Selectivity
ACU Antenna Combining Unit
ADC Administration Centre
ADC Analogue to Digital Converter
ADCH Associated Dedicated CHannel
ADF Application Dedicated File
ADM Access condition to an EF which is under the control of the authority which creates this f
ADN Abbreviated Dialling Numbers
ADPCM Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation
AE Application Entity
AEC Acoustic Echo Control
AEF Additional Elementary Functions
AESA ATM End System Address
AFC Automatic Frequency Control
AGCH Access Grant CHannel
Ai Action indicator
AI Acquisition Indicator
AICH Acquisition Indicator Channel
AID Application IDentifier
AIUR Air Interface User Rate
AK Anonymity Key
AKA Authentication and Key Agreement
AKI Asymmetric Key Index
ALCAP Access Link Control Application Protocol
ALSI Application Level Subscriber Identity
ALW ALWays
AM Acknowledged Mode
AMF Authentication Management Field
AMR Adaptive Multi Rate
AMR-WB Adaptive Multi Rate Wide Band
AN Access Network
ANP Access Network Provider
AoC Advice of Charge
AoCC Advice of Charge Charging
AoCI Advice of Charge Information
AP Access preamble
APDU Application Protocol Data Unit
API Application Programming Interface
APN Access Point Name
ARFCN Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ARQ Automatic Repeat ReQuest
ARR Access Rule Reference
AS Access Stratum
ASC Access Service Class
ASCI Advanced Speech Call Items
ASE Application Service Element
A-SGW Access Signalling Gateway
ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One
AT commanATtention Command
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATR Answer To Reset
ATT (flag) Attach
AU Access Unit
AuC Authentication Centre
AUT(H) Authentication
AUTN Authentication token
AWGN Additive White Gaussian Noise
B
BA BCCH Allocation
BAIC Barring of All Incoming Calls
BAOC Barring of All Outgoing Calls
BCC Base Transceiver Station (BTS) Colour Code
BCCH Broadcast Control Channel
BCD Binary Coded Decimal
BCF Base station Control Function
BCFE Broadcast Control Functional Entity
BCH Broadcast Channel
BCIE Bearer Capability Information Element
BDN Barred Dialling Number
BER Bit Error Ratio
BER Basic Encoding Rules (of ASN.1)
BFI Bad Frame Indication
BG Border Gateway
BGT Block Guard Time
BI all Barring of Incoming call
BIC Baseline Implementation Capabilities
BIC-Roam Barring of Incoming Calls when Roaming outside the home PLMN country
BID Binding Identity
B-ISDN Broadband ISDN
BLER Block Error Ratio
Bm Full-rate traffic channel
BMC Broadcast/Multicast Control
BN Bit Number
BO all Barring of Outgoing call
BOC Bell Operating Company
BOIC Barring of Outgoing International Calls
BOIC-exHCBarring of Outgoing International Calls except those directed to the Home PLMN Country
BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying
BS Base Station
BS Basic Service (group)
BS Bearer Service
BSC Base Station Controller
BSG Basic Service Group
BSIC Base transceiver Station Identity Code
BSIC-NCELBSIC of an adjacent cell
BSS Base Station Subsystem
BSSAP Base Station Subsystem Application Part
BSSGP Base Station Subsystem GPRS Protocol
BSSMAP Base Station Subsystem Management Application Part
BSSOMAP Base Station Subsystem Operation and Maintenance Application Part
BTFD Blind Transport Format Detection
B-TID Bootstrapping-Transaction Identifier
BTS Base Transceiver Station
BVC BSS GPRS Protocol Virtual Connection
BVCI BSS GPRS Protocol Virtual Connection Identifier
BWT Block Waiting Time
C
C Conditional
C- Control-
C/R Command/Response field bit
CA Capacity Allocation
CA Cell Allocation
CA Certification Authority
CAA Capacity Allocation Acknowledgement
CAD Card Acceptance Device
CAI Charge Advice Information
CAMEL Customised Application for Mobile network Enhanced Logic
CAP CAMEL Application Part
C-APDU Command APDU
CB Cell Broadcast
CBC Cell Broadcast Centre
CBC Cipher Block Chaining
CBCH Cell Broadcast CHannel
CBMI Cell Broadcast Message Identifier
CBR Constant Bit Rate
CBS Cell Broadcast Service
CC Call Control
CC Country Code
CC Cryptographic Checksum
CC/PP Composite Capability/Preference Profiles
CCBS Completion of Calls to Busy Subscriber
CCCH Common Control Channel
CCF Call Control Function
CCH Control Channel
CCI Capability / Configuration Identifier
CCITT Comité Consultatif International Télégraphique et Téléphonique (The International Teleg
CCK Corporate Control Key
CCM Certificate Configuration Message
CCM Current Call Meter
CCP Capability/Configuration Parameter
CCPCH Common Control Physical Channel
Cct Circuit
CCTrCH Coded Composite Transport Channel
CD Capacity Deallocation
CD Collision Detection
CDA Capacity Deallocation Acknowledgement
CDCH Control-plane Dedicated CHannel
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CDR Charging Data Record
CDUR Chargeable DURation
CED called station identifier
CEIR Central Equipment Identity Register
CEND end of charge point
CEPT Conférence des administrations Européennes des Postes et Telecommunications
CF Conversion Facility
CF all Call Forwarding services
CFB Call Forwarding on mobile subscriber Busy
CFN Connection Frame Number
CFNRc Call Forwarding on mobile subscriber Not Reachable
CFNRy Call Forwarding on No Reply
CFU Call Forwarding Unconditional
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CGI Cell Global Identifier
CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
CHP CHarging Point
CHV Card Holder Verification information
CI Cell Identity
CI CUG index
CIM Common Information Model
CIR Carrier to Interference Ratio
CK Cipher Key
CKSN Ciphering Key Sequence Number
CLA CLAss
CLI Calling Line Identity
CLIP Calling Line Identification Presentation
CLIR Calling Line Identification Restriction
CLK Clock
CLNP Connectionless network protocol
CLNS Connectionless network service
CM Connection Management
CMD Command
CMIP Common Management Information Protocol
CMISE Common Management Information Service
CMM Channel Mode Modify
CN Core Network
CN Comfort Noise
CNAP Calling Name Presentation
CNG Calling Tone
CNL Co-operative Network List
CNTR Counter
COLI COnnected Line Identity
COLP COnnected Line identification Presentation
COLR COnnected Line identification Restriction
COM COMplete
CONNACK Connect Acknowledgement
CONS Connection-oriented network service
CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CP-Admin Certificate Present (in the MExE SIM)-Administrator
CPBCCH COMPACT Packet BCCH
CPCH Common Packet Channel
CPCS Common Part Convergence Sublayer
CPICH Common Pilot Channel
CPS Common Part Sublayer
CP-TP Certificate Present (in the MExE SIM)-Third Party
CPU Central Processing Unit
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRE Call Ree-establishment procedure
CRNC Controlling Radio Network Controller
C-RNTI Cell Radio Network Temporary Identity
CS Circuit Switched
CS Coding Scheme
CSCF Call Server Control Function
CSD Circuit Switched Data
CSE Camel Service Environment
CS-GW Circuit Switched Gateway
CSPDN Circuit Switched Public Data Network
CT Call Transfer supplementary service
CT Channel Tester
CT Channel Type
CTCH Common Traffic Channel
CTDMA Code Time Division Multiple Access
CTFC Calculated Transport Format Combination
CTM Cellular Text telephone Modem
C-TPDU Command TPDU
CTR Common Technical Regulation
CTS Cordless Telephony System
CUG Closed User Group
CW Call Waiting
CW Continuous Wave (unmodulated signal)
CWI Character Waiting Integer
CWT Character Waiting Time
D
DAC Digital to Analog Converter
DAD Destination ADress
DAM DECT Authentication Module
DB Dummy Burst
DC Dedicated Control (SAP)
DCA Dynamic Channel Allocation
DCCH Dedicated Control Channel
DCE Data Circuit terminating Equipment
DCF Data Communication Function
DCH Dedicated Channel
DCK Depersonalisation Control Key
DCN Data Communication Network
DCS Data Coding Scheme
DCS1800 Digital Cellular Network at 1800MHz
DDI Direct Dial In
DECT Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications
DES Data Encryption Standard
DET Detach
DF Dedicated File
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DHO Diversity Handover
diff-serv Differentiated services
DISC Disconnect
DL Data Layer
DL Downlink (Forward Link)
DLCI Data Link Connection Identifier
DLD Data Link Discriminator
Dm Control channel (ISDN terminology applied to mobile service)
DMR Digital Mobile Radio
DMTF Distributed Management Task Force
DN Destination Network
DNIC Data Network Identifier
DNS Directory Name Service
DO Data Object
DP Dial/Dialled Pulse
DPCCH Dedicated Physical Control Channel
DPCH Dedicated Physical Channel
DPDCH Dedicated Physical Data Channel
DRAC Dynamic Resource Allocation Control
DRNC Drift Radio Network Controller
DRNS Drift RNS
DRX Discontinuous Reception
DSAC Domain Specific Access Control
DS-CDMA Direct-Sequence Code Division Multiple Access
DSCH Downlink Shared Channel
DSE Data Switching Exchange
DSI Digital Speech Interpolation
DSS1 Digital Subscriber Signalling No1
DTAP Direct Transfer Application Part
DTCH Dedicated Traffic Channel
DTE Data Terminal Equipment
DTMF Dual Tone Multiple Frequency
DTX Discontinuous Transmission
E
EA External Alarms
EBSG Elementary Basic Service Group
Ec/No Ratio of energy per modulating bit to the noise spectral density
ECB Electronic Code-book
ECC Emergency Call Code
ECC Elliptic Curve Cryptography
ECM Error Correction Mode (facsimile)
ECSD Enhanced CSD
ECT Explicit Call Transfer supplementary service
ECTRA European Committee of Telecommunications Regulatory Affairs
EDC Error Detection Code byte
EDGE Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution
EEL Electric Echo Loss
EF Elementary File (on the UICC)
EF Elementary File
EFR Enhanced Full Rate
EFS Error free seconds
E-GGSN Enhanced GGSN
EGPRS Enhanced GPRS
E-HLR Enhanced HLR
EHPLMN Equivalent Home PLMN
EIR Equipment Identity Centre
EIR Equipment Identity Register
EIRP Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power
EL Echo Loss
EM Element Manager
EMC ElectroMagnetic Compatibility
eMLPP enhanced Multi-Level Precedence and Pre-emption
EMMI Electrical Man Machine Interface
EPC Enhanced Power Control
EPC Evolved Packet Core
EPCCH Enhanced Power Control Channel
EPROM Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EPS Evolved Packet System
ERP Ear Reference Point
ERP Equivalent Radiated Power
ERR Error
ETNS European Telecommunications Numbering Space
ETR ETSI Technical Report
ETS European Telecommunication Standard
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
etu elementary time unit
EUI End-User Identity
E-UTRA Evolved UTRA
E-UTRAN Evolved UTRAN
F
FA Full Allocation
FA Fax Adaptor
FAC Final Assembly Code
FACCH Fast Associated Control CHannel
FACCH/F Fast Associated Control Channel/Full rate
FACCH/H Fast Associated Control Channel/Half rate
FACH Forward Access Channel
FAUSCH Fast Uplink Signalling Channel
FAX Facsimile
FB Frequency correction Burst
FBI Feedback Information
FCCH Frequency Correction CHannel
FCI File Control Information
FCP File Control Parameter
FCS Frame Check Sequence
FDD Frequency Division Duplex
FDM Frequency Division Multiplex
FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
FDN Fixed Dialling Number
FDR False transmit format Detection Ratio
FEC Forward Error Correction
FER Frame Erasure Rate, Frame Error Rate
FFS For Further Study
FH Frequency Hopping
FLO Flexible Layer One
FM Fault Management
FMC Fixed Mobile Convergence
FN Frame Number
FNUR Fixed Network User Rate
FP Frame Protocol
FPLMN Forbidden PLMN
FR Full Rate
FTAM File Transfer Access and Management
ftn forwarded-to number
G
GC General Control (SAP)
GCR Group Call Register
GERAN GSM EDGE Radio Access Network
GGSN Gateway GPRS Support Node
GID1 Group Identifier (level 1)
GID2 Group Identifier (level 2)
GMLC Gateway Mobile Location Centre
GMM GPRS Mobility Management
GMSC Gateway MSC
GMSK Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying
GP Guard Period
GPA GSM PLMN Area
GPRS General Packet Radio Service
GRA GERAN Registration Area
G-RNTI GERAN Radio Network Temporary Identity
GSA GSM System Area
GSIM GSM Service Identity Module
GSM Global System for Mobile communications
GSN GPRS Support Nodes
GT Global Title
GTP GPRS Tunneling Protocol
GTP-U GPRS Tunnelling Protocol for User Plane
GTT Global Text Telephony
GUP 3GPP Generic User Profile
H
HANDO Handover
HCS Hierarchical Cell Structure
H-CSCF Home CSCF
HDLC High Level Data Link Control
HE Home Environment
HE-VASP Home Environment Value Added Service Provider
HF Human Factors
HFN HyperFrame Number
HHO Hard Handover
HLC High Layer Compatibility
HLR Home Location Register
HN Home Network
HO Handover
HOLD Call hold
HPLMN Home Public Land Mobile Network
HPS Handover Path Switching
HPU Hand Portable Unit
HR Half Rate
HRR Handover Resource Reservation
HSCSD High Speed Circuit Switched Data
HSN Hopping Sequence Number
HSS Home Subscriber Server
HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
HTTPS Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (https is http/1.1 over SSL, i.e. port 443)
HU Home Units
I
I Information frames (RLP)
I/O Input/Output
IA Incoming Access (closed user group SS)
IAM Initial Address Message
I-Block Information Block
IC Integrated Circuit
IC Interlock Code (CUG SS)
IC(pref) Interlock Code of the preferential CUG
ICB Incoming Calls Barred (within the CUG)
ICC Integrated Circuit Card
ICCID Integrated Circuit Card IDentification
ICGW Incoming Call Gateway
ICI Incoming Call Information
ICM In-Call Modification
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
ICT Incoming Call Timer
ID Identifier
IDL Interface Definition Language
IDN Integrated Digital Network
IDNNS Intra Domain NAS Node Selector
IE Information Element
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IED Information Element Data
IEI Information Element Identifier
IEIDL Information Element Identifier Data Length
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
I-ETS Interim European Telecommunications Standard
IF Infrastructure
IFD Interface Device
IFS Information Field Sizes
IFSC Information Field Size for the UICC
IFSD Information Field Size for the Terminal
IHOSS Internet Hosted Octet Stream Service
IIOP Internet Inter-ORB Protocol
IK Integrity key
IM Intermodulation
IM IP Multimedia
IMA Inverse Multiplexing on ATM
IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identity
IMGI International mobile group identity
IMPI IP Multimedia Private Identity
IMPU IP Multimedia PUblic identity
IMS IP Multimedia Subsystem
IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity
IMT-2000 International Mobile Telecommunications 2000
IMUN International Mobile User Number
IN Intelligent Network
IN Interrogating Node
INAP Intelligent Network Application Part
INF INFormation field
IP Internet Protocol
IP-CAN IP-Connectivity Access Network
IP-M IP Multicast
IPv4 Internet Protocol Version 4
IPv6 Internet Protocol Version 6
IR Infrared
IRP Integration Reference Point
ISC International Switching Centre
ISCP Interference Signal Code Power
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
ISIM IM Services Identity Module
ISO International Organisation for Standardisation
ISP Internet Service Provider
ISUP ISDN User Part
ITC Information Transfer Capability
ITU International Telecommunication Union
IUI International USIM Identifier
IUT Implementation Under Test
IWF InterWorking Function
I-WLAN Interworking WLAN
IWMSC InterWorking MSC
IWU Inter Working Unit
J
JAR file Java Archive File
JCRE Java Card™ Run Time Environment
JD Joint Detection
JNDI Java Naming Directory Interface
JP Joint Predistortion
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
JTAPI Java Telephony Application Programming Interface
JVM Java™ Virtual Machine
K
k Windows size
K Constraint length of the convolutional code
K USIM Individual key
kbps kilo-bits per second
Kc Ciphering key
Ki Individual subscriber authentication key
KSI Key Set Identifier
ksps kilo-symbols per second
L1 Layer 1 (physical layer)
L2 Layer 2 (data link layer)
L2ML Layer 2 Management Link
L2R Layer 2 Relay
L2R BOP L2R Bit Orientated Protocol
L2R COP L2R Character Orientated Protocol
L3 Layer 3 (network layer)
LA Location Area
LAC Link Access Control
LAC Location Area Code
LAI Location Area Identity
LAN Local Area Network
LAPB Link Access Protocol Balanced
LAPDm Link Access Protocol on the Dm channel
LATA Local Access and Transport Area
LAU Location Area Update
LCD Low Constrained Delay
LCN Local Communication Network
LCP Link Control Protocol
LCS Location Services
LCSC LCS Client
LCSS LCS Server
LE Local Exchange
LEN LENgth
LI Language Indication
LI Length Indicator
LI Line Identity
LLC Logical Link Control
LLC Low Layer Compatibility
Lm Traffic channel with capacity lower than a Bm
LMSI Local Mobile Station Identity
LMU Location Measurement Unit
LN Logical Name
LND Last Number Dialled
LNS L2TP Network Server
LPLMN Local PLMN
LR Location Register
LR Location Registration
LSA Localised Service Area
LSB Least Significant Bit
LSTR Listener SideTone Rating
LTE Local Terminal Emulator
LTZ Local Time Zone
LU Local Units
LU Location Update
LV Length and Value
M
M Mandatory
M Mandatory
MA Mobile Allocation
MA Multiple Access
MAC Medium Access Control (protocol layering context)
MAC Message authentication code (encryption context)
MAC-A MAC used for authentication and key agreement (TSG T WG3 context)
MAC-I MAC used for data integrity of signalling messages (TSG T WG3 context)
MACN Mobile Allocation Channel Number
MAF Mobile Additional Function
MAH Mobile Access Hunting supplementary service
MAHO Mobile Assisted Handover
MAI Mobile Allocation Index
MAIO Mobile Allocation Index Offset
MAP Mobile Application Part
MCC Mobile Country Code
MCI Malicious Call Identification supplementary service
MCML Multi-Class Multi-Link PPP
Mcps Mega-chips per second
MCS Modulation and Coding Scheme
MCU Media Control Unit
MD Mediation Device
MDL (mobile) Management (entity) - Data Link (layer)
MDS Multimedia Distribution Service
ME Maintenance Entity
ME Mobile Equipment
MEF Maintenance Entity Function
MEHO Mobile evaluated handover
MER Message Error Ratio
MExE Mobile Execution Environment
MF Master File
MF MultiFrame
MGCF Media Gateway Control Function
MGCP Media Gateway Control Part
MGT Mobile Global Title
MGW Media GateWay
MHEG Multimedia and Hypermedia Information Coding Expert Group
MHS Message Handling System
MIB Management Information Base
MIC Mobile Interface Controller
MIM Management Information Model
MIP Mobile IP
MIPS Million Instructions Per Second
MLC Mobile Location Centre
MM Man Machine
MM Mobility Management
MM Multimedia
MME Mobile Management Entity
MMI Man Machine Interface
MNC Mobile Network Code
MNP Mobile Number Portability
MO Mobile Originated
MOHO Mobile Originated Handover
MO-LR Mobile Originating Location Request
MOS Mean Opinion Score
MO-SMS Mobile Originated Short Message Service
MoU Memorandum of Understanding
MP Multi-link PPP
MPEG Moving Pictures Experts Group
MPH (mobile) Management (entity) - PHysical (layer) [primitive]
MPTY MultiParTY
MRF Media Resource Function
MRP Mouth Reference Point
MS Mobile Station
MSB Most Significant Bit
MSC Mobile Switching Centre
MSCM Mobile Station Class Mark
MSCU Mobile Station Control Unit
MSE MExE Service Environment
MSID Mobile Station Identifier
MSIN Mobile Station Identification Number
MSISDN Mobile Subscriber ISDN Number
MSP Multiple Subscriber Profile
MSRN Mobile Station Roaming Number
MT Mobile Terminated
MT Mobile Termination
MT-LR Mobile Terminating Location Request
MTM Mobile-To-Mobile (call)
MTP Message Transfer Part
MTP3-B Message Transfer Part level 3
MT-SMS Mobile Terminated Short Message Service
MTU Maximum Transfer Unit
MU Mark Up
MUI Mobile User Identifier
MUMS Multi User Mobile Station
MVNO Mobile Virtual Network Operator
N
NACC Network Assisted Cell Change
NAD Node Address byte
NAI Network Access Identifier
NAS Non-Access Stratum
NB Normal Burst
NBAP Node B Application Part
NBAP Node B Application Part
NBIN A parameter in the hopping sequence
NCC Network (PLMN) Colour Code
NCELL Neighbouring (of current serving) Cell
NCH Notification CHannel
NCK Network Control Key
NCP Network Control Protocol
NDC National Destination Code
NDUB Network Determined User Busy
NE Network Element
NEF Network Element Function
NEHO Network evaluated handover
NET NETwork
NET Norme Europeenne de Télécommunications
NEV NEVer
NF Network Function
NIC Network Independent Clocking
NI-LR Network Induced Location Request
NITZ Network Identity and Time Zone
NM Network Manager
NMC Network Management Centre
NMO Network Mode of Operation
NMR Network Measurement Results
NMS Network Management Subsystem
NMSI National Mobile Station Identifier
NNI Network-Node Interface
NO Network Operator
NP Network Performance
NPA Numbering Plan Area
NPI Numbering Plan Identifier
NRI Network Resource Identifier
NRM Network Resource Model
NRT Non-Real Time
NSAP Network Service Access Point
NSAPI Network Service Access Point Identifier
NSCK Network Subset Control Key
NSDU Network service data unit
NSS Network Sub System
Nt Notification (SAP)
NT Network Termination
NT Non Transparent
NTAAB New Type Approval Advisory Board
NTDD Narrow-band Time Division Duplexing
NUA Network User Access
NUI National User / USIM Identifier
NUI Network User Identification
NUP National User Part (SS7)
NW Network
O
O Optional
O&M Operations & Maintenance
OA Outgoing Access (CUG SS)
OACSU Off-Air-Call-Set-Up
OCB Outgoing Calls Barred within the CUG
OCCCH ODMA Common Control Channel
OCF Open Card Framework
OCI Outgoing Call Information
OCNS Orthogonal Channel Noise Simulator
OCT Outgoing Call Timer
OD Optional for operators to implement for their aim
ODB Operator Determined Barring
ODCCH ODMA Dedicated Control Channel
ODCH ODMA Dedicated Channel
ODMA Opportunity Driven Multiple Access
ODTCH ODMA Dedicated Traffic Channel
OFM Operational Feature Monitor
OID Object Identifier
OLR Overall Loudness Rating
OMC Operation and Maintenance Centre
OML Operations and Maintenance Link
OPLMN Operator Controlled PLMN (Selector List)
OR Optimal Routeing
ORACH ODMA Random Access CHannel
ORLCF Optimal Routeing for Late Call Forwarding
OS Operations System
OSA Open Service Access
OSI Open System Interconnection
OSI RM OSI Reference Model
OSP Octet Stream Protocol
OSP:IHOSSOctet Stream Protocol for Internet Hosted Octet Stream Service
OTA Over-The-Air
OTP One Time Password
OVSF Orthogonal Variable Spreading Factor
P
PABX Private Automatic Branch eXchange
PACCH Packet Associated Control Channel
PAD Packet Assember/Disassembler
PAGCH Packet Access Grant Channel
PAP Password Authentication Protocol
PAR Peak to Average Ratio
PBCCH Packet Broadcast Control Channel
PBID PhoneBook IDentifier
PBP Paging Block Periodicity
PBX Private Branch eXchange
PC Power Control
PC Personal Computer
PCB Protocol Control Byte
PCCC Parallel Concatenated Convolutional Code
PCCCH Packet Common Control Channel
PCCH Paging Control Channel
P-CCPCH Primary Common Control Physical Channel
PCDE Peak Code Domain Error
PCG Project Co-ordination Group
PCH Paging Channel
PCK Personalisation Control Key
PCM Pulse Code Modulation
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PCPCH Physical Common Packet Channel
P-CPIH Primary Common Pilot Channel
PCS Personal Communication System
PCU Packet Control Unit
PD Protocol Discriminator
PD Public Data
PDCH Packet Data Channel
PDCP Packet Data Convergence Protocol
PDH Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy
PDN Public Data Network
PDN Packet Data Network
PDP Packet Data Protocol
PDSCH Physical Downlink Shared Channel
PDTCH Packet Data Traffic Channel
PDU Protocol Data Unit
PG Processing Gain
PH Packet Handler
PH PHysical (layer)
PHF Packet Handler Function
PHI Packet Handler Interface
PHS Personal Handyphone System
PHY Physical layer
PhyCH Physical Channel
PI Page Indicator
PI Presentation Indicator
PICH Page Indicator Channel
PICS Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement
PID Packet Identification
PIN Personal Identification Number
PIXT Protocol Implementation eXtra information for Testing
PKCS Public-Key Cryptography Standards
PL Preferred Languages
PLMN Public Land Mobile Network
PMD Physical Media Dependent
PN Pseudo Noise
PNE Présentation des Normes Européennes
PNP Private Numbering Plan
POI Point Of Interconnection (with PSTN)
PoR Proof of Receipt
POTS Plain Old Telephony Service
power of the highest power class of MS (A)
PP Point-to-Point
PPCH Packet Paging Channel
PPE Primative Procedure Entity
PPF Paging Proceed Flag
PPM Parts Per Million
PPP Point-to-Point Protocol
PPS Protocol and Parameter Select (response to the ATR)
PRACH Physical Random Access Channel
PRACH Packet Random Access Channel
Pref CUG Preferential CUG
PS Packet Switched
PS Location Probability
PSC Primary Synchronisation Code
PSCH Physical Shared Channel
PSE Personal Service Environment
PSPDN Packet Switched Public Data Network
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
PTCCH Packet Timing advance Control Channel
PTM Point-to-Multipoint
PTM-G PTM Group Call
PTM-M PTM Multicast
P-TMSI Packet TMSI
PTP Point to point
PU Payload Unit
PUCT Price per Unit Currency Table
PUK PIN Unblocking Key
PUSCH Physical Uplink Shared Channel
PVC Permanent Virtual Circuit
PW Pass Word
Q
QA Q (Interface) - Adapter
QAF Q - Adapter Function
QoS Quality of Service
QPSK Quadrature (Quaternary) Phase Shift Keying
R
R Value of Reduction of the MS transmitted RF power relative to the maximum allowed out
R99 Release 1999
RA Routing Area
RA Random mode request information field
RAB Radio Access Bearer
RAB Random Access Burst
RAC Routing Area Code
RACH Random Access Channel
RADIUS Remote Authentication Dial In User Service
RAI Routing Area Identity
RAN Radio Access Network
RANAP Radio Access Network Application Part
RAND RANDom number (used for authentication)
R-APDU Response APDU
RAT Radio Access Technology
RAU Routing Area Update
RB Radio Bearer
RBER Residual Bit Error Ratio
R-Block Receive-ready Block
RDF Resource Description Format
RDI Restricted Digital Information
REC RECommendation
REJ REJect(ion)
REL RELease
Rel-4 Release 4
Rel-5 Release 5
REQ REQuest
RES user RESponse
RES 64-bit signed RESponse that is the output of the function f2 in a 3G AKA
RF Radio Frequency
RFC Request For Comments
RFC Radio Frequency Channel
RFCH Radio Frequency CHannel
RFE Routing Functional Identity
RFN Reduced TDMA Frame Number
RFU Reserved for Future Use
RIM RAN Information Management
RL Radio Link
RLC Radio Link Control
RLCP Radio Link Control Protocol
RLP Radio Link Protocol
RLR Receiver Loudness Rating
RLS Radio Link Set
RMS Root Mean Square (value)
RNC Radio Network Controller
RNS Radio Network Subsystem
RNSAP Radio Network Subsystem Application Part
RNTABLE Table of 128 integers in the hopping sequence
RNTI Radio Network Temporary Identity
RPLMN Registered Public Land Mobile Network
RPOA Recognised Private Operating Agency
RR Radio Resources
RRC Radio Resource Control
RRM Radio Resource Management
RSA Algorithm invented by Rivest, Adleman and Shamir
RSCP Received Signal Code Power
RSE Radio System Entity
R-SGW Roaming Signalling Gateway
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RSSI Received Signal Strength Indicator
RST Reset
RSVP Resource ReserVation Protocol
RSZI Regional Subscription Zone Identity
RT Real Time
RTE Remote Terminal Emulator
RTP Real Time Protocol
R-TPDU Response TPDU
RU Resource Unit
RWB Resolution Bandwidth
RX Receive
RXLEV Received signal level
RXQUAL Received Signal Quality
S
SAAL Signalling ATM Adaptation Layer
SABM Set Asynchronous Balanced Mode
SACCH Slow Associated Control Channel
SACCH/C4 Slow Associated Control CHannel/SDCCH/4
SACCH/C8 Slow Associated Control CHannel/SDCCH/8
SACCH/T Slow Associated Control CHannel/Traffic channel
SACCH/TF Slow Associated Control CHannel/Traffic channel Full rate
SACCH/TH Slow Associated Control CHannel/Traffic channel Half rate
SAD Source ADdress
SAP Service Access Point
SAPI Service Access Point Identifier
SAR Segmentation and Reassembly
SAT SIM Application Toolkit
SB Synchronization Burst
S-Block Supervisory Block
SBLP Service Based Local Policy
SBSC Serving Base Station Controller
SBSS Serving Base Station Subsystem
SC Service Centre (used for SMS)
SC Service Code
SCCH Synchronisation Control Channel
SCCP Signalling Connection Control Part
S-CCPCH Secondary Common Control Physical Channel
SCF Service Control Function (IN context), Service Capability Feature (VHE/OSA context)
SCH Synchronisation Channel
SCI Subscriber Controlled Input
SCN Sub-Channel Number
SCP Service Control Point
S-CPICH Secondary Common Pilot Channel
S-CSCF Serving CSCF
SCTP S Common Transport Protocol
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SDCCH Stand-Alone Dedicated Control Channel
SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SDL Specification Description Language
SDN Service Dialling Number
SDP Service Discovery Protocol (Bluetooth related)
SDP Session Description Protocol
SDT SDL Development Tool
SDU Service Data Unit
SE Security Environment
SE Sending Entity
SE Support Entity
SEF Support Entity Function
SF Spreading Factor
SFH Slow Frequency Hopping
SFI Short EF Identifier
SFN System Frame Number
SGSN Serving GPRS Support Node
SHCCH Shared Channel Control Channel
SHCV super high-capacitance varistor
SI Screening Indicator
SI Service Interworking
SI Supplementary Information (SIA=Supplemenatary Information A)
SIC Service Implementation Capabilities
SID SIlence Descriptor
SIM GSM Subscriber Identity Module
SIP Session Initiated Protocol
SIR Signal-to-Interference Ratio
SLA Service Level Agreement
SLPP Subscriber LCS Privacy Profile
SLR Send Loudness Rating
SLTM Signalling Link Test Message
SM Session Management
SM Short Message
SMDS Switched Multimegabit Data Service
SME Short Message Entity
SMG Special Mobile Group
SMI Structure of Management Information (RFC 1155)
SMLC Serving Mobile Location Centre
SMS Short Message Service
SMS-CB SMS Cell Broadcast
SMS-PP Short Message Service/Point-to-Point
SMS-SC Short Message Service - Service Centre
Smt Short message terminal
SN Serial Number
SN Serving Network
SN Subscriber Number
SNDCP Sub-Network Dependent Convergence Protocol
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
SNR Serial NumbeR
SOA Suppress Outgoing Access (CUG SS)
SoLSA Support of Localised Service Area
SoR Steering of Roaming
SP Switching Point
SP Service Provider
SPC Signalling Point Code
SPC Suppress Preferential CUG
SPCK Service Provider Control Key
SPI Security Parameters Indication
SQN Sequence number
SRB Signalling Radio Bearer
SRES Signed RESponse (authentication value returned by the SIM or by the USIM in 2G AKA)
SRNC Serving Radio Network Controller
SRNS Serving RNS
S-RNTI SRNC Radio Network Temporary Identity
SS Supplementary Service
SS System Simulator
SS7 Signalling System No. 7
SSC Secondary Synchronisation Code
SSC Supplementary Service Control string
SSCF Service Specific Co-ordination Function
SSCF-NNI Service Specific Coordination Function – Network Node Interface
SSCOP Service Specific Connection Oriented Protocol
SSCS Service Specific Convergence Sublayer
SSDT Site Selection Diversity Transmission
SSE Service Specific Entities
SSF Service Switching Function
SSN Sub-System Number
SSSAR Service Specific Segmentation and Re-assembly sublayer
STC Signalling Transport Converter
STMR SideTone Masking Rating
STP Signalling Transfer Point
STTD Space Time Transmit Diversity
SuM Subscription Management
SVC Switched virtual circuit
SVN Software Version Number
SW Status Word
SW Software
SW1/SW2 Status Word 1/Status Word 2
T
T Timer
T Transparent
T Type only
TA Terminal Adaptation
TA Timing Advance
TAC Type Approval Code
TAF Terminal Adaptation Function
TAR Toolkit Application Reference
TB Transport Block
TBF Temporary Block Flow
TBR Technical Basis for Regulation
TC Transaction Capabilities
TC TransCoder
TC Transmission Convergence
TCH Traffic Channel
TCH/F A full rate TCH
TCH/F2,4 A full rate data TCH (≤2,4kbit/s)
TCH/F4,8 A full rate date TCH (4,8kbit/s)
TCH/F9,6 A full rate data TCH (9,6kbit/s)
TCH/FS A full rate Speech TCH
TCH/H A half rate TCH
TCH/H2,4 A half rate data TCH (≤2,4kbit/s)
TCH/H4,8 A half rate data TCH (4,8kbit/s)
TCH/HS A half rate Speech TCH
TCI Transceiver Control Interface
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TC-TR Technical Committee Technical Report
TD-CDMA Time Division-Code Division Multiple Access
TDD Time Division Duplex
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
TDoc Temporary Document
TE Terminal Equipment
TE9 Terminal Equipment 9 (ETSI sub-technical committee)
Tei Terminal endpoint identifier
TEID Tunnel End Point Identifier
Telephone Consultative Committee)
TF Transport Format
TFA TransFer Allowed
TFC Transport Format Combination
TFCI Transport Format Combination Indicator
TFCS Transport Format Combination Set
TFI Transport Format Indicator
TFI Temporary Flow Identity
TFIN Transport Format INdicator
TFP TransFer Prohibited
TFS Transport Format Set
TFT Traffic Flow Template
TI Transaction Identifier
TLLI Temporary Logical Link Identity
TLS Transport Layer Security
TLV Tag Length Value
TM Telecom Management
TMF Telecom Management Forum
TMN Telecom Management Network
TMSI Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity
TN Termination Node
TN Timeslot Number
TO Telecom Operations Map
TOA Time of Arrival
TON Type Of Number
TP Third Party
TPC Transmit Power Control
TPDU Transfer Protocol Data Unit
TR Technical Report
TRAU Transcoder and Rate Adapter Unit
TrCH Transport Channel
TRX Transceiver
TS Technical Specification
TS Teleservice
TS Time Slot
TSC Training Sequence Code
TSDI Transceiver Speech & Data Interface
TSG Technical Specification Group
T-SGW Transport Signalling Gateway
TSTD Time Switched Transmit Diversity
TTCN Tree and Tabular Combined Notation
TTI Transmission Timing Interval
TUP Telephone User Part (SS7)
TV Type and Value
TX Transmit
TXPWR Transmit PoWeR; Tx power level in the MS_TXPWR_REQUEST and MS_TXPWR_CON
U
UARFCN UTRA Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number
UARFN UTRA Absolute Radio Frequency Number
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver and Transmitter
UCS2 Universal Character Set 2
UDCH User-plane Dedicated CHannel
UDD Unconstrained Delay Data
UDI Unrestricted Digital Information
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UDUB User Determined User Busy
UE User Equipment
UER User Equipment with ODMA relay operation enabled
UI User Interface
UI Unnumbered Information (Frame)
UIA 3G Integrity Algorithm
UIC Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer
UL Uplink (Reverse Link)
UM Unacknowledged Mode
UML Unified Modelling Language
UMS User Mobility Server
UMSC UMTS Mobile Services Switching Centre
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
UNI User-Network Interface
UP User Plane
UPCMI Uniform PCM Interface (13-bit)
UPD Up to date
UPT Universal Personal Telecommunication
URA User Registration Area
URA UTRAN Registration Area
URAN UMTS Radio Access Network
URB User Radio Bearer
URI Uniform Resource Identifier
URL Uniform Resource Locator
U-RNTI UTRAN Radio Network Temporary Identity
USAT USIM Application Toolkit
USB Universal Serial Bus
USC UE Service Capabilities
USCH Uplink Shared Channel
USF Uplink State Flag
USIM Universal Subscriber Identity Module
USSD Unstructured Supplementary Service Data
UT Universal Time
UTRA Universal Terrestrial Radio Access
UTRAN Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network
UUI User-to-User Information
UUS Uu Stratum
UUS User-to-User Signalling
V
V Value only
V(SD) Send state variable
VA Voice Activity factor
VAD Voice Activity Detection
VAP Videotex Access Point
VASP Value Added Service Provider
VBR Variable Bit Rate
VBS Voice Broadcast Service
VC Virtual Circuit
VGCS Voice Group Call Service
VHE Virtual Home Environment
VLR Visitor Location Register
VMSC Visited MSC
VoIP Voice Over IP
VPLMN Visited Public Land Mobile Network
VPN Virtual Private Network
VSC Videotex Service Centre
VTX host The components dedicated to Videotex service
W
WAE Wireless Application Environment
WAP Wireless Application Protocol
WBEM Web Based Enterprise Management
WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
WDP Wireless Datagram Protocol
WG Working Group
WIM Wireless Identity Module
WIN Wireless Intelligent Network
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
WLAN UE WLAN User Equipment
WPA Wrong Password Attempts (counter)
WS Work Station
WSP Wireless Session Protocol
WTA Wireless Telephony Applications
WTAI Wireless Telephony Applications Interface
WTDD Wideband Time Division Duplexing
WTLS Wireless Transport Layer Security
WTP Wireless Transaction Protocol
WTX Waiting Time eXtenstion
WWT Work Waiting Time
WWW World Wide Web
X
XID eXchange IDentifier
XMAC exXpected Message Authentication Code (calculated by the USIM application in 3G AKA
XML eXtensible Markup Language
XRES EXpected user RESponse
Y
Z
ZC Zone Code
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EST and MS_TXPWR_CONF parameters
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Life affirmating speech, expression and thought is very important to attract, gain or amplify SUCCESS.
You want to be successfull because you have selected to download, use, expand and improve this doc
Attractor free wording makes energy flow directly, with now resistances to surmount, thus no coupling,
My personal advice : Learn to do and to live without attractors, think and speak the direct way, and thu

attractored (energy reflecting short circuit) Fidelity ratio / lineari

eq. = equivalant
x 99%
does x ... eq.
does x require eq.
does x have
does x mention eq.
can x
can x be ...
are x
do x consider
x necessarily
x allowed
x prohibited
x limited
x changed
x included
x excluded
x guaranteed
but are x limited to
document D1 can x said to disclose or suggest
use x
x good
x bad
x to obscure
may x have sth.
Demorgan-Law
neither X nor Z

x possible
should x be used
should x be used to evaluate

x is impossible

Schwachsinn
x allowed to be established
x allowed to be established
x allowed to be established

D1 is to achieve the purpose of not simply

forwarding packets towards all ports but
forwarding toward a port having a device that
is active in a multicast group (D1, [0011]).

characterized in that
characterized by a …

x zu überdecken
x reagiert mit

comliant with Art. …

 ortant to attract, gain or amplify SUCCESS.
download, use, expand and improve this document
resistances to surmount, thus no coupling, matching or transmission loss
ors, think and speak the direct way, and thus success is guaranteed.

direct, matched, loadable

fairly, sparsely, scarly This approximation also is adva

fails to ... sharp reflections and short circu
is free of (requiring) if arguments are going to be ne
lacks to have against your free will, trying to n
lacks to mention ; is silent of
lacks the possibility to
lacks the possibility to be ...
are outside of (vertikals nach horizonal Transformation)
overlook, do without, neglect, omit
optionally
prohibited
allowed, free
open, unlimited, free, open-minded, without limits
kept, maintained, refreshed
excluded
included
is having a risk
and are open to
the possibility is missing to say that document D1 discloses or suggests
do without
bad
well
to keep transparent
may have ... sth.different

both X and Z; X as well as Z

impossible, excluded, lacks the possibility

should be kept away from being used
should have lost relevance for being used to evaluate

all and everything is possible

Flachsinn, Schwachfug
is kept outside from being allowed to be established
prohibited to be established
unallowed to be established

Beyond that D1 is to achieve the purpose of

simply forwarding packets towards all ports,
D1 is forwarding toward a port having a
device that is active in a multicast group (D1,
[0011]).

characterized in that this is of a …

ohne zu überdecken
gegenüber … reaktionsträge ist

in compliance with, complying with …

his approximation also is advantageous to avoide
harp reflections and short circuits states
arguments are going to be negated, distorted, interpreted
gainst your free will, trying to nail your words down (or nail down you with your words)

h horizonal Transformation)
Mutatis mutandis

Nyquist Filter

leading edge
circle
AC (at zero Hertz)
driving with zero speed
Bildungssprachliche Formel lateinischen Ursprungs (ablative absolute) mit der
Bedeutung: „mit den notwendigen Änderungen“ / „unter Abänderung des zu
Ändernden“ / „nach Anpassung an die neuen Umstände“ ~ zwangsläufig bzw.
gekoppelt angepasst bzw. analog

Nyquist filter is an ideal low pass filter with a cutoff frequency equal to the sampling
rate. This technique is used to convert PAM pulses to an analog signal in D/A
converters.

trailing edge
square
DC
standing
Abbreviation Long Title
ACT ACTING
ADJ ADJUNCT
ADJ CLIN ADJUNCT CLINICAL
ADJ RES ADJUNCT RESEARCH
ADJ VIS ADJUNCT VISITING
ADMIN ADMINISTRATIVE, ADMINISTRATION
ADVANC ADVANCED
AFF AFFAIRS
AFFL AFFILIATE
AFFL CLIN AFFILIATE CLINICAL
AFFL RES AFFILIATE RESEARCH
AFFL VIS AFFILIATE VISITING
AREC DR AREC DIRECTOR
AST ASSISTANT
AST IN ASSISTANT IN
AST/ASO ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE
AST/ASO/FULL ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE/FULL
ASO ASSOCIATE
ASO IN ASSOCIATE IN
ASO/FULL ASSOCIATE/FULL
AUDIOL AUDIOLOGIST
AUTO AUTOMOTIVE
BUSINESS SERVICES BUSINESS & FINANCIAL/AUXILLIARY SERVICES
CTR CENTER
CTR DIR CENTER DIRECTOR
CHAIR CHAIR
CHF/PTY CHIEF OF PARTY
CHIEF CHIEF OF SERVICE
CINEMA CINEMATOGRAPHER
CLIN CLINICAL
COLL COLLEGE
CONSTRUCT CONSTRUCTION
CRD COORDINATOR
COUNS COUNSELOR
CO COURTESY
CO CLIN COURTESY CLINICAL
CO RES COURTESY RESEARCH
CUR CURATOR
DEAN DEAN
DEAN/AA DEAN OF AA
DES DESIGNATR
DEVEL DEVELOPMENT
DIR DIRECTOR
DIS PRF DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
DIS RES CUR DISTINGUISHED RESEARCH CURATOR
DIS SER PRF DISTINGUISHED SERVICE PROFESSOR
DIS AGT DISTRICT AGENT
EDUC EDUCATION, EDUCATIONAL
EMER EMERITUS
EMIN SCH EMINENT SCHOLAR
ENFORCE ENFORCEMENT
ENG ENGINEER
ENGINEER ENGINEERING
ENVIRON ENVIRONMENTAL
EQUIP EQUIPMENT
EXEC EXECUTIVE
EXT EXTENSION
EXT AGT EXTENSION AGENT
FACIL FACILITY
FELL FELLOWSHIP
FINAN FINANCIAL
GRD AST-G GRADUATE ASSISTANT - GRADER
GRD AST-R GRADUATE ASSISTANT - RESEARCH
GRD AST-T GRADUATE ASSISTANT - TEACHING
GRD RES PRF GRADUATE RESEARCH PROFESSOR
GROUNDS GROUNDSKEEPING
HEAD HEAD
I-II I-II
I-III I-III
I-IV I-IV
IND INDUSTRY
INFO INFORMATION
INST/PKY INSTRUCTION PK YOUNG
INSTR INSTRUCTIONAL
INT INTERIM
INTERN INTERN
INVES INVESTIGATIONS, INVESTIGATOR
JNT JOINT
JNT RES JOINT RESEARCH
JNT VIS JOINT VISITING
LAB LABORATORY
LECT LECTURER
MGR MANAGER
MSTR MASTER
OPR OPERATOR
OPP OPPORTUNITY
PATHOL PATHOLOGIST
PHAS RET PHASED RETIREE
POST-DOC POST-DOCTORAL
PRACT PRACTITIONER
PRE-DOC PRE-DOCTORAL
PRES PRESIDENT
PRIN PRINCIPAL
PROCESS PROCESSING
PROD PRODUCTION
PROF PROFESSOR
PROF/PKY PROFESSOR PK YONGE
PRG PROGRAM
PRG DIR PROGRAM DIRECTOR
PROG PROGRAMMER
PROGS PROGRAMS
PROV PROVISIONAL
PROV VIS PROVISIONAL VISITING
PROV PROVOST
PROV&SRVP PROVOST & SR VP OF OAA
PUB PUBLICATIONS
RADIOL RADIOLOGIC
RCV RECEIVING
REG REGISTERED
REGISTR REGISTRAR
REL RELATIONS
REP REPRESENTATIVE
RES RESEARCH
RES ASO RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
RES GRAD AST RESEARCH GRADUATE ASSISTANT
RESIDENT RESIDENT
SAF SAFETY
SCHOL SCHOLAR
SCH DIR SCHOOL DIRECTOR
SCTST SCIENTIST
SR SENIOR
SR ASO SENIOR ASSOCIATE
SVCS SERVICE OR SERVICES
SPEC SPECIALIST
STU STUDENT
SUPT SUPERINTENDENT
SPV SUPERVISOR
SUPP SUPPORT
SYS SYSTEMS
TCH GRAD AST TEACHING GRADUATE ASSISTANT
HLTH TEALTH
TECH TECHNICIAN
TECHNOL TECHNOLOGIST
TELECOM TELECOMMUNICATIONS
TRAINEES TRAINEES
UNIV UNIVERSITY
UNIV LIB UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN
UN SCH DR UNIVERSITY SCHOOL DIRECTOR
VICE VICE
VP VICE PRESIDENT
VP&DEAN VICE PRESIDENT & DEAN
VIS VISITING
VIS CLIN VISITING CLINICAL
VIS RES VISITING RESEARCH
AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone Service
APDU Application Protocol Data Units
CAC Chanel Access Client
CCBS Customer Care and Billing System
CCD Charge Coupled Device - Ladungsspeicherelementanordnung
CDMA collision detect multiple access
CDPD Cellular Digital Packet Data
Centrex Central Office Exchange Services
CGI Common Gateway Interface
DFÜ Datenfernübertragung
DMIF Delivery Multimedia Integration Framework
DMP Device Managment Platform
DRM Digital-Rights-Management
EI Equiment Identity
ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
FTP File Transfer Protocol
GPRS General Packet Radio Standard
GSM global system mobile
GSM-OTA global system mobile - over-the-air
HSCSD High Speed Switched Data Mode
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
IAPP Inter-Access Point Protocol
ICAMU Intelligent Chanel Acess Manamgent Unit
ICMU Intelligent Chanel Managment Unit
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
ITU International Telecommunications Union
JBC Java Bytecode
JDBC Java Data Base Connectivity, SQL-Datenbankschnittstelle in Java
JIT Just-in-time compiler
JNLP Java Network Launch Protocol
JVM Java Virtual Machine
LAM Location Accuracy Matrix
LAN Local Area Network
LTS Location Tracker System
MAN Metroploitan Area Networks
MEF Mobile Entertainment Forum
MES Manufacturing Execution Systems
MGCP Media Gateway Control Protocol
MIDI musical instruments digital interface
MNOS Mobile Network Operators
MOM Message Oriented Middleware
MSC Mobile Switching Center
MT mobile Terminal
PACS Picture Archiving and Communication Systems
PBX Private Branch Exchange
PDA persönlicher digitaler Assistent
PIMS Personal Information Managers
POP Postoffice Protocol
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Networks
RTOS Realtime Operating System
SAN Storage Area Network
SIM Subscriber Identity Module
SIP Sessions Initiations Protocol
SMPT Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SMS(short message service
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
SQL Structured Query Language
TA Terminal Adapter
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
TLS Transport Layer Security
TRAU Transcoder and Bitrateadaption Unit
TTLS Tunneld Transport Layer Security
UDDI Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecom System
URI Uniform Resource Identifier
URL(Uniform Resource Locator
VLR Visitor Location Register
VP Virtual Processor
WAN Wide Area Network
WAP wireless application protocool
WWW World Wide Web
ZCMN zero-configuration secure mobility networking
SI-MTM server initiated end-to-end message transfer mechanism
XSL eXtensible Stylesheet Language
CSS Cascading Style Sheets
EPG electronic program guide
PVR Personal Video Recorder
PIR Personal Interactivity Recorder
ATVEF Advanced Television Enhancement Forum
CSCW Computer Supported Cooperative/Colaborative Work
PTT Push To Talk
BTS (Base Transceiver Station)
BSC (Base Station Controller)
MSC (Mobile Switching Center)
PDSN (Packet Data Serving Node)
PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol)
MIN (Mobile Identification Number)

A Adenin (DNA-Base)
AA Atomic Absorption
AA Automatic (or: Automated) Attendant [Facility] (Telekommunikation)
AA Automobile Association (UK)
AAA Akademisches Auslandsamt
AAA Austrian Acoustics Association
AAA Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (Telekommunikation)
AAAA Alps-Adria Acoustic Association (since Sept. 2002)
AAAA Authentication, Authorization, Accounting and Auditing (Telekommunikation)
AAAF [französische Aeroakustische Gesellschaft]
AAAI American Association for Artificial Intelligence
AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science
AAC Advanced Audio Coding
AACG American Association for Crystal Growth
AAES American Association of Engineering Societies
AAFS Afrikanisch-Asiatische Studentenförderung e.V. (Göttingen)
AAID American Academy of Implant Dentisty
AAL ATM Adaptation Layer
AAPM American Association of Physicists in Medicine
AAPPS Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies
AAPT American Association of Physics Teachers
AAS Advanced Automation System
AAS American Astronautical Society
AAS American Astronomical Society
AAS Atomic Absorption Spectrometry, Atom-Absorptions-Spektrometrie
AATSR Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ENVISAT)
AAV adeno-assoziierte Viren
ABB Asea Brown Boveri AG (Mannheim)
ABC Atanasoff-Berry Computer (Iowa State College, 1938-1942)
ABDO Allgemeine Bestimmungen für Diplomprüfungsordnungen
ABE Amtliche Betriebserlaubnis (Typprüfung Kfz)
ABET Accrediting Board of Engineering and Technology (USA)
ABM Advanced Buffer Material
ABM Anti-Ballistic Missile
ABR Available Bit Rate
ABRIXAS A Broad-Band Imaging X-Ray All-Sky Survey (Satellit 1999, gescheitert)
ABS Acrylnitril-Butadien-Styrol
ABS Alternate Billing Service
ABS Antiblockiersystem; Anti-Lock Braking System (Kfz)
ABT Ausschuss für Begutachtertraining (DAR, Normungsarbeit)
ABU Asia(-Pacific) Broadcasting Union
AC Admission Control (Telekommunikation)
AC Alternating Current (Wechselstrom)
ACA Academic Cooperation Association (europäische Organisation)
ACA American Crystallographic Association
A-CBC Akkreditierungsagentur für die Studiengänge Chemie, Biochemie und
A-CBC Chemieingenieurwesen an Universitäten und Fachhochschulen
ACCU Advisory Committee of CERN Users
ACD Advanced Chemistry Development
ACD Automatic Call Distribution
ACE Advanced Computing Environment
ACE American Council on Exercise
ACE Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme
ACE Application Creation Environment (Telekommunikation)
ACE Atmospheric Compensation Experiment (adaptive Optik)
ACE Community Action for Cooperation in the Field of Economics (EU)
ACELP Adaptive Code-Excited Linear Prediction
ACES Optimal Acoustic Equivalent Source Descriptors for Automotive Noise Modelling
ACES Atlantic Coral Ecosystem Study
ACESA Advanced Composites with Embedded Sensors and Actuators
ACIA Asynchronous Communication Interface Adapter
ACK Acknowledege(ment) (Datentransfer)
ACL Access Control List (Telekommunikation)
ACL Agent Communication Languages
ACL Asynchronous Connectionless Link (Telekommunikation)
ACLR Adjacent Channel Leakage Power Ratio (Telekommunikation)
ACM Association for Computing Machinery
ACMP American College of Medical Physics
ACP Advanced Computing Project (Fermilab, etwa 1980)
ACP American Center of Physics (College Park, MD)
ACPS Advection-Dominated Accretion Flow (Astrophysik)
ACRV Assured Crew Return Vehicle (Raumfahrt)
ACS American Chemical Society
ACSI Atari Computer System Interface
ACSR Active Control of Structural Response
ACT Active Control Technology (Flugzeug)
ACTH Adrenocorticotropes Hormon
ACTS Advanced Communication Technologies and Services (EC)
AD Administration Module
AD ante dominum
ADANO Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Audiologen und Neurootologen
ADC Analog-to-Digital Converter
ADC Automatic Development Chamber
ADC Automotive Distance Control
ADEA Age Discrimination in Employment Act (USA)
ADHD Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
AdL Akademie der Landwirtschaftswissenschaften (DDR)
ADL All-Digital Loop (Telekommunikation)
ADLC Adaptive Liquid-Crystal Lens
ADM Add/Drop Multiplexer (Telekommunikation)
ADM Area Dimensional Model (Lärmbewertung)
ADN Ammoniumdinitramid (Sprengstoff)
ADOCS Advanced Digital Optical Control System (Flugzeug)
ADONIS Acoustic Daylight Ocean Noise Imaging System
ADP Adenosindiphosphat
ADP Ammoniumdihydrogenphosphat
ADP Avalanche Photodiode
ADPA American Defense Preparedness Association
ADPCM Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation
ADR Accumulated Doppler Range (Satellitenortungsverfahren)
ADRCS Automatic Data Recording and Control System
ADSB Auto Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (Flugverkehr)
ADSL Asymmetric(al) Digital Subscriber Loop (or: Line)
ADTM [Fraunhofer-]Arbeitsgruppe für Drahtlose Kommunikations- und Multimediatechnik (Erlangen
ADTV Advanced Definition Television
ADUC Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher Universitätsprofessoren für Chemie
AdW Akademie der Wissenschaften (DDR)
AE Acoustic Emission
AE Astronomische Einheit (Entfernung Erde-Sonne = 1,49 × 1011 m)
AEC Architecture/Engineering/Construction (Industry)
AEC Atomic Energy Commission (USA)
AECL Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd.
AEE Office of Environment and Energy (FAA)
AEF Normenausschuss Einheiten und Formelzeichen
AEG Allgemeine Elektrizitätsgesellschaft
AEI Automatic Equipment Identification
AEL Accessible Emission Limit
AEM Area Equivalent Method (Lärmbewertung)
AEMT (Fraunhofer-)Arbeitsgruppe für Elektronische Medientechnologie
AEP Akustisch evozierte Potentiale
AEPI Atmospheric Emissions Photometric Imaging
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
AES Application Environment Services
AES Associate Executive Secretary
AES Audio Engineering Society
AES Auger-Elektronen-Spektroskopie / Auger Electron Spectroscopy
AESS Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society
AEV FhAZ für Entsorgungs- und Verkehrslogistik (Wildau, Brandenburg)
AEWA [Afrikanisch-Eurasisches Regionalabkommen zur Erhaltung der Wasservögel]
AF Assured Forwarding (Datentransfer)
AF Audio Frequency
AFAL Air Force Astronautics Laboratory
AFAS Abteilung für Angewandte Systemanalyse (Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe)
AFB Air Force Base (USA)
AFC Alkali Fuel Cell
AFD Anticipatory Failure Determination
AFE Analog Front End (Telekommunikation)
AFFDL Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, USA
AFM Atomic Force Microscope
AFNM Arbeitsgemeinschaft Fachdidaktik der Naturwissenschaften und der Mathematik
AFO Auftragsforschung [und -entwicklung] Ost (BMFT)
AFOSR Air Force Office of Scientific Research (USA)
AFOTEC US Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center
AFRPL Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory (Edwards Air Force Base, CA, USA)
AFS Advanced Freephone Service
AFS Aluminum Foam Sandwich
AG Aktiengesellschaft
AG Arbeitsgruppe
AG Astronomische Gesellschaft e.V.
AGARD Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research and Development, North Atlantic Treaty Organizati
AGASA Akeno Giant Air Shower Array (Japan, zum Nachweis kosmischer Strahlung)
AGASP Arctic Gas and Aerosol Sampling Program
AGB Asymptotic Giant Branch (Astronomie)
AGB Automatische Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung (Kfz)
AG-BL Arbeitsgemeinschaft Forschungseinrichtungen Blaue Liste
AGC Automatic Gain Control
AGC [Fraunhofer-] Anwendungszentrum für Computergraphik in Chemie und Pharmazie
AGEG Arbeitsgemeinschaft Europäischer Grenzregionen
AGF Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Großforschungseinrichtungen
AGIL Arbeitsgemeinschaft Internet und Linguistik (Göttingen)
AGKr Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kristallographie
AGN Active Galactic Nuclei
A-GPS Assisted Global Positioning System
AGS Alternating Gradient Synchrotron
AGU American Geophysical Union
AGV Automatic Guided Vehicle
AGW Access Gateway (Telekommunikation)
AH Adaptive Hypermedien
AHAM Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (USA)
AHDI Atari Hard Disk Interface
AHS American Helicopter Society
AHSUM Adaptable High-Speed Undersea Munition
AHU Air Handling Unit (HVAC)
AI [IASTED International Conference on] Applied Informatics
AI Articulation Index (Psychoakustik)
AI Artificial Intelligence
AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
AIAE [Spanische Aeroakustische Gesellschaft]
AICB Association internationale contre le bruit
AICD automatische implantierte Cardio-Defibrillatoren
AID Aktiver Informationsdienst (EU)
AIDAA [Italienische Aeroakustische Gesellschaft]
AIDC Automotive Industry Developing Center (Südafrika, mit FhG-Unterstützung)
AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AIEE American Institute of Electrical Engineers
AiF Arbeitsgemeinschaft industrieller Forschungsvereinigungen ,,Otto von Guericke'' e.V. (Köln)
AIF (Dateinamenerweiterung: Video-Datei)
AILU Association of Industrial Laser Users (UK)
AIM Advanced Informatics in Medicine
AIM Advanced Interface Module (Telekommunikation)
AIMD Additive Increase, Multiplicative Decrease (Telekommunikation)
AIML Astronomical Instrument Markup Language
AIN Advanced Intelligent Network
AIP The American Institute of Physics
AIP Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam
AIR Automatic Image Refinement (Canon-Laserdrucker)
AIRTO Association of Independent Research and Technology Organisations (GB)
AIRSAR Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar
AIS Abbreviated Injury Scale
AIS [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Autonome Intelligente Systeme (St. Augustin, früher GMD)
AITRAM Advanced Integrated Training in Aeronautics Maintenance
AIV Assembly, Integration and Validation
AIZ Ausschuss für internationale Zusammenarbeit (DAR, Normungsarbeit)
AK Alaska (US-Staat)
a.k.a. also known as
AKE Arbeitskreis Energie (DPG)
AKF Arbeitskreis Festkörperphysik (DPG)
AKO Arbeitskreis ,,Optionen für die Zukunft'' (DPG)
AKS Akademische Software Kooperation
AKW Atomkraftwerk
AL Alabama (US-Staat)
AL Artificial Life
AL Astronautics Laboratory (formerly: AFRPL)
ALADIN Algorithm for Learning and Architecture Determination
ALC Automatic Level Control
ALCM Air-Launched Cruise Missile
ALFA alternative faserfreie Schallabsorber
ALFA América-Latina - Formación Académica (EU)
ALG Application Level Gateway (Firewall)
ALGOL Algorithmic Language
ALI ATM Link Interconnect
ALI Autofahrer-Leit- und Informationssystem
ALICE A Large Ion Collision Experiment (CERN)
ALK automatisierte Liegenschaftskarte
ALLEA All European Academies
ALMA Atacama Large Millimeter Array (Radioteleskop, geplant für 2011)
ALS Advanced Light Source (LBNL)
ALU Arithmetic Logic Unit
AM Amplitudenmodulation, Amplitude Modulation
AM Availability Manager
A-MAN ATM Metropolitan Area Network (Telekommunikation)
AMANDA Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector (or: Detection) Array
AMCD Annular Momentum Control Device
AMD Advanced Micro Devices (Sunnyvale, CA, USA)
AMD Age Related Macula Degeneration (Sehschwäche)
AMEL Active Matrix Electroluminescence (Display)
AMHS Automated Material Handling System
AMI American Megatrends Inc.
AMLCD Active-Matrix Liquid Crystal Display
AMOP Arbeitskreis ,,Atome, Moleküle, Quantenoptik und Plasmen'' (DPG)
AMOP Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
AMP Adenosinmonophosphat
AMP FhAZ für Metallpulvererzeugung (Clausthal)
AMPD Atomic and Molecular Physics Division
AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone System (Telekommunikation)
AMPTE Artificial Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Experiment
AMR Adaptive Multirate (Telekommunikation)
AMS Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
AMS American Mathematical Society
AMS ATM Main Switch
AMST Association for Maximum Service Television, Inc. (USA)
AN Access Node (Rechnernetz)
ANC Active Noise Control
ANC Antenna Networks (Telekommunikation)
ANCF Active Noise Control Fan (NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH, USA)
ANDF Architecture-Neutral Distribution Format
ANFO Ammonium Nitrate plus Fuel Oil (Sprengstoff)
ANGIS Australian National Genomic Information Service
ANI Automatic Number Identification (Datennetz)
ANKA Angströmquelle Karlsruhe
ANN Artificial Neural Network
ANOVA Analysis of Variance (statistischer Test)
ANRU Antenna Receiver for UMTS (Telekommunikation)
ANS Advanced Neutron Source (Oak Ridge)
ANS American Nuclear Society
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ANT ADSL Network Termination (Telekommunikation)
ANU Australian National University (Canberra)
ANX American Network Exchange
A/O All Optical (optische Telekommunikation)
AO Arctic Oscillation (athmosphärische Zirkulation)
AOC Advanced Operational Capability
AOCS Altitude and Orbit Control System
AOD Aerosol Optical Depth
AODI Always On/Dynamic ISDN
AOF Authority on the Fly
AOI Automatic (or: Automated) Optical Inspection
AOL America Online (Internet Provider)
AOLS All-Optical Label Swapping (optische Telekommunikation)
AON All Optical Network (optische Telekommunikation)
AOV Angle-of-View (liquid crystal displays)
AOWC All-Optical Wavelength Converter (optische Telekommunikation)
AP Alternating Projection (Algorithmus)
APA Administrative Procedure Act (Congress, USA)
APA American Psychological Association
APAC Asia Pacific (Region)
APC Adaptive Predictive Coding
APC Advanced Process Control
APCI Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionisation
APCM Adaptive Pulse Code Modulation
AP-CVD Atmospheric Pressure CVD
APD Avalanche Photodiode (or: Photo Detector)
APEC Applied Power Electronics Conference [and Exposition]
APEC Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (asiatischer Handelsblock)
APG Alkylpolyglycosid
APHV Allgemeiner Postwertzeichen-Händlerverband (seit 8.3.1949)
API Application Program(ming) Interface
APIAN Advanced Propulsion Installation Aerodynamics and Noise (EU-Forschungsprojekt)
APM Attached Pressurized Module (Raumfahrt)
APO Arbeitsplatzorientierte Weiterbildung
APO außerparlamentarische Opposition
APOLT APON Line Termination
APON ATM Passive Optical Network
APONT APON Network Termination
APS Active Pixel Sensors (Bildwandler)
APS Advanced Photon Source (Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA)
APS Air Traffic Planning System (DLR)
APS The American Physical Society
APT Apartment (US Mail)
APT Asia Pacific Telecommunity
APTP Asia-Pacific Technology Program
APU Auxiliary Power Unit
APXS Alpha-Proton-Röntgenstrahlenspektrometer
AR Arkansas (US-Staat)
AR Augmented Reality
AR Autoregressive (Filter)
ARA Ausfall-Raten-Analyse
ARAC African Aquacultural Center (Port Hartcourt, Nigeria)
ARAGO Advanced Robotic Agile Observatory (Astrophysik)
ARC (Dateinamenerweiterung: Archivdatei mit komprimierten Inhalten)
ARD Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Rundfunkanstalten Deutschlands
ARDU Aircraft Research and Development Unit (Australien)
ARES Actively Reacting Flexible Structure (DLR)
ARGOS Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite
ARI Autofahrer-Rundfunk-Informationssystem
ARIB Association of Radio Industries and Business (Japan)
ARIMA Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (Modelling)
ARIS Aggregate Route-Based IP Switching (Telekommunikation)
ARIS Augmented Reality Image Synthesis
ARL Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung (Hannover)
ARL Applied Research Laboratory (Pennstate)
ARL Association of Research Libraries (USA)
ARLO Acoustic Research Letters Online (JASA)
ARMA Autoregressive Moving Average (Filter)
ARMAX ARMA process with Auxiliary Input
ARMD Age-Related Macular Degeneration
ARO Army Research Office (USA)
ARP Address Resolution Protocol (Telekommunikation)
ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency (USA)
ARPANET ARPA Network (Vorgänger des Internet)
ARPES Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy
ARPU Average Revenue per User (Telekommunikation)
ARQ Automatic Repeat Request (Datenübertragung)
ART Advanced Rotorcraft Transmission
ART Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie
ARTEMIS Automatic Retrieval of Text from Europe's Multinational Information Service
AS Alarm Surveillance (Telekommunikation)
AS American Samoa (US Mail)
AS Application Server (Telekommunikation)
AS Autonomous System
AS Availability Server
ASA The Acoustical Society of America
ASA Air Services Australia
ASA American Standards Association
ASAC Active Structural Acoustic Control
ASAM Advanced Services Access Manager (Telekommunikation)
ASAM ATM Subscriber Access Multiplexer (Telekommunikation)
ASANCA Advanced Study for Active Noise Control in Aircraft (CEC)
ASAP Alarm Severity Assignment Profile
ASAP as soon as possible
ASAR Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar
ASC Aeroacoustics Specialists' Committee (in CEAS)
ASC American Society for Composites (seit 1985)
ASC American Superconductor Corporation
ASCA Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics (Japan 1993)
ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers
ASCI Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (DoE, USA)
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASDEX Axial-Symmetric Divertor Experiment (Fusionsreaktortechnik, Garching)
ASDL Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line
ASE Amplified Spontaneous Emission (Röntgenlaser)
ASE ATM Switching Element
ASE siehe ESA
ASEAN (Südostasiatische regionale Zusammenarbeit)
ASEE American Society of Enginering Education
ASEM (asiatisch-europäisches Gipfeltreffen)
ASEPS-O Astronomical Studies of Extrasolar Planetary Systems (Mount Palomar, CA, USA)
ASHA American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
ASHRAE American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers
ASI Agenza Spaziale Italiane
ASI Amorph-Silizium-Glasmodule (Photovoltaik)
ASI Asynchronous Serial Interface (Telekommunikation)
ASIC Anwender-(Anwendungs-)spezifischer IC, Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
ASIM Arbeitsgemeinschaft Simulation in der Gesellschaft für Informatik
ASJ Acoustical Society of Japan
ASK Akademische Software Kooperation (Universität Karlsruhe)
ASK Amplitude Shift Keying (Digitales Modulationsverfahren)
ASL American Sign Language (Taubstummen-Gebärdensprache)
ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASMW Amt für Standardisierung, Messwesen und Warenprüfung (DDR)
ASN ATM Switching Network
ASNE American Society of Naval Engineers
ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation 1
ASP Adaptive Signal Processing
ASP Application Service Provider (Telekommunikation)
ASPEC Audio Spectral Perceptual Entropic Coding
ASQC American Society for Quality Control
ASR Antischlupfregelung (Kfz)
ASR Automatic (or: Advanced) Speech Recognition
ASS Acetylsalicylsäure
ASSI Akkreditierungsagentur für Studiengänge der Ingenieurwissenschaften und der Informatik
ASSP Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (IEEE)
ASSP Application Specific Standard Products
AST FhAZ für Systemtechnik (Illmenau, Thüringen)
AStA Allgemeiner Studentenausschuss
ASTAR Arctic Study of Tropospheric Aerosol and Radiation
ASTER Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (Erd-Fernerkundung)
ASTIA Armed Services Technical Informations Agency (USA)
ASTM American Society of Testing Materials
ASTRID Aarhus Storage Ring, Denmark
ASTV Aeroassisted Space Transfer Vehicle (Raumfahrt)
ASU Abgas-Sonder-Untersuchung
ASU ATM Service Unit
ASURA Advanced Speech Understanding and Rendering System of ATR (Japan)
ASVP Application Specific Standard Products
AT Austria (im Internet und Patentwesen)
ATB Institut für Agrartechnik Bornim (Potsdam-Bornim)
ATC Abstract Test Case (Telekommunikation)
ATC Adiabatic Toroidal Compressor (Fusionsreaktortechnik, PPPL)
ATC Air Traffic Control (Luftverkehrssteuerung)
ATC American Television and Communications Corporation
ATC ATM Transfer Capabilities (Telekommunikation)
ATDMA Advanced TDMA
ATE Automatic Test Equipment
ATF Accelerator Test Facility
ATF Advanced Tactical Fighter (USA, Flugzeug)
ATI Above-Threshold Ionization
ATI Automatic Telephony Interpretation (CAIR, Korea)
ATIP Asian Technology Information Program (US organization)
ATKIS Amtliches Topographisch-Kartographisches Informations-System
ATLAS A Toroidal LHC Apparatus (CERN)
ATLAS Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science
ATM Air Traffic Management
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode (Datennetz)
ATM Attached Pressurized Module (Raumfahrt)
ATM Automated Teller Machine (Bankwesen)
ATMF ATM Forum
ATMF ATM user connected via optical Fiber
ATMOS Air Traffic Management and Operations Simulator (DLR)
ATMT [Fraunhofer-] Arbeitsgruppe für Telekommunikation und Multimediatechik
ATP Adenosintriphosphat
ATP Advanced Technology Program (USA, Department of Commerce)
ATP Advanced Turbo-Prop (Flugzeug)
ATR Attenuated Total Reflection (chem. Analyse-Verfahren)
ATS Abstract Test Suite (Telekommunikation)
ATS Automated Tuner System
ATSC Advanced Television Systems Committee
ATSE Antenna Technology Shuttle Experiment (NASA)
ATST Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (geplant)
ATT Advanced Transport Telematics
ATTA Atom Trap Trace Analysis
ATTAS Advanced Technology Testing Aircraft System (DLR)
AT&T American Telephone and Telegraph Company
ATTC Advanced Television Test Center, Inc. (USA)
ATTHeS Advanced Technology Testing Helicopter System (DLR)
ATU Access Termination Unit (Telekommunikation)
ATU ADSL Terminal Unit
ATV Automatisches Transfervehikel (Raumfahrt)
AU Australia (im Internet)
AURA Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (USA)
AUT Association of University Teachers (GB)
AV Audio- und Video-(Anschluss)
AVA Aerodynamische Versuchsanstalt (Göttingen, 1907)
AVE Avenue (US Mail)
AvH Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (Fernerkundung)
AVI Akkreditierungsverbund für Ingenieurstudiengänge e.V.
AVI Automatic Vehicle Identification
AVI (Dateinamenerweiterung: Videodatei)
AVK FhAZ für Verkehrslogistik und Kommunikationstechnik (Nürnberg)
A-VLAN Authenticated VLAN (Telekommunikation)
AVO Astronomical Virtual Observatory (Europe)
AVS Advanced Visual Systems
AVS American Vacuum Society
AVV FhAZ für Verarbeitungsmaschinen und Verpackungstechnik (Dresden)
AW-CDM Adaptive Weighted CDM
AWE Arbeitsplatz-Wiedergabe-Einheit (digitales Sprachübertragungssystem)
AWG American Wire Gauge
AWG Arrayed Waveguide Grating (Filter, Photonik)
AWI Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung (Bremerhaven)
AWO Arbeiterwohlfahrt
AWO Auftragsforschung-West-Ost (BMFT)
AXAF Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (Satellit, USA)
AZ Arizona (US-Staat)
Azipod Azimuthing Electric Podded Propulsion (Schiffsantrieb)

BACODINE Batse Coordinates Distribution Network (Astrophysik)

BAe British Aerospace
BAföG Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz
BAGMO Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Motorrad
BAI Beratender Ausschuss der Industriephysiker (in der DPG)
BAK (Dateinamenerweiterung: Sicherungskopie)
BALK Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft leitender Krankenpflegepersonen e.V.
BAM Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (Berlin)
BAME Bayerische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mikroelektronik
BAN Body Area Network
BAPT Bundesamt für Post und Telekommunikation
BARC Bay Area Research Center (Microsoft-Forschungszentrum)
BARN Bayer-Alzheimer Research Network
BAS Broadband Access Server (Telekommunikation)
BASF Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik
BASIC Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BASYS Baltic Sea System Study
BAT Bandwidth Allocation Threshold (Datennetz)
BAT Biologische Arbeitsstofftoleranz(werte)
BAT Bonquet Association Table
BAT British Antarctic Territory
BAT Bundesangestelltentarif
BAT (Dateinamenerweiterung: Batchdatei)
BATSE Burst and Transient Source Experiment (GRO)
B.A.U.M. Bundesdeutscher Arbeitskreis für umweltbewusstes Management e.V.
BB Baseband (Telekommunikation)
BB Broadband
BBAW Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
BBC Broadband Coupler (Datennetz)
BBE Broadband Entertainment
BBiG Berufsbildungsgesetz
BBN Bolt, Beranek & Newman (USA)
BBRAN Broadband Remote Access Network (or: Node)
BBRAS Broadband Remote Access Server
BBS Behavioral and Brain Science (Zeitschrift)
BBS Bulletin Board System (Internet)
BBSO Big Bear Solar Observatory (Big Bear Lake, CA, USA)
BBW Bundesverband der Brand- und Wasserschadenbeseitiger e.V.
BC Before Christ
bcc blind carbon copy (Durchschlag, ohne Nachricht an andere Adressaten)
BCC Buffer Congestion Control (Telekommunikation)
BCD Binary Coded Decimal
BCIS Biodiversity Conservation Information System
BCP Burst Control Packet
BCR Bureau Communautaire de Référence
BCRU British Committee on Radiation Units and Measurement
BCS Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (Supraleitungstheorie)
BCSD Business Council for Sustainable Development
BD Business Division
BDA Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände
BDI Belief, Desire, Intent
BDI Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e.V. (Köln)
BDNF Brain-Derived Nerve Growth Factor
BDSL Boundary-Scan-Description Language
BDVD Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus
BEC Backward Error Correction (Datenübertragung)
BEC Bose-Einstein Condensation
BEEM Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy
BEF Best Effort Forwarding (Telekommunikation)
BEIR Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation
Bellcore Bell Communications Research
BEM Big Emerging Market (Welthandel)
BEO Biologie, Energie, Ökologie (KfK Jülich, Projektträger)
BEPC Beijing Electron Positron Collider
BER Binary Encoding Rule (ASN.1)
BER Bit Error Rate (or: Ratio)
BES Beijing Spectrometer
BESSY Berliner Elektronen-Speicherring für Synchrotronstrahlung
BfA Bundesanstalt für Arbeit
BfArM Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte (Bonn)
bFGF Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor (basischer Fibroblasten-Wachstumsfaktor)
BFH Bundesfinanzhof
BFIO Büro für Führungskräfte zu internationalen Organisationen (Frankfurt/M)
BFO Beat Frequency Oscillator
BFP Blue Fluorescent Protein
BG Border Gateway (Telekommunikation)
BGA Ball Grid Array, Kugelgitteranordnung (Chipgehäuse)
BGB Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch
BGO Bismuth Germinate (Gammastrahlen-Detektor)
BGP Border Gateway Protocol (Telekommunikation)
BGVV Bundesanstalt für gesundheitlichen Verbraucherschutz und Veterinärmedizin
BH Buried Heterostructure (Laser)
BHCA Busy Hour Call Attempt (Telekommunikation)
BHKW Blockheizkraftwerk
BIAS Bremer Institut für Angewandte Strahltechnik
BIBB Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (Bonn)
BICC Bearer Independent Call Control (Telekommunikation)
BICI Broadband Inter-Carrier Interface (Datennetz)
BiCMOS bipolar CMOS
BIDS Biological Integrated Detection System
BIE Boundary Integral Equation
BIFS Binary Format for Scenes (Digitals Fernsehen)
BImschG Bundes-Immissions-Schutzgesetz
BIOS Basic Input/Output System
BIP Bruttoinlandsprodukt
BIPM Bureau International des Poids et Mésures (Sèvres, Paris)
B-ISDN Broadband ISDN
BIT Binary Digit
BITNET Because It's Time Network
BKA Bundeskriminalamt
BKS Bohr-Kramers-Slater (-Theorie) (1924)
BL Blaue Liste (Deutsche Forschungsinstitute)
BLC Back Light Compensation (Video-Kamera: Gegenlicht-Blendenvergrößerung)
BLDC Brushless d.c. (Elektromotor)
BLER Block Error Rate (Telekommunikation)
BLK Bund-Länder-Kommission für Bildungsplanung und Forschungsförderung
BLS Bucerius Law School (Hamburg)
BLSR Bidirectional Line Switching Ring
BLTP Bogoljubow Laboratory of Theoretical Physics (VIK, Dubna, Russland)
BLVD Boulevard (US Mail)
BM Broadband Manager
BMB Baltic Marine Biologists
BMBF Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie
BMBW Bundesministerium für Bildung und Wissenschaft
BMBWFT Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie
BMC Benchmarking Center (am IIS, Außenstelle Nürnberg)
BMC Broadcast/Multicast Control (Telekommunikation)
BMC Burst Mode Controller (Datennetz)
BMFT Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie
BMG Bundesministerium für Gesundheit
BMGS Bundesministerium für Gesundheit und Soziale Sicherung
BMI Body Mass Index (siehe KMI)
BMLG Binaural Masking Level Difference
BMP Bone Morphogenetic Protein
BMP (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)
BMR Ballistic Magnetoresistance
BMS Business Management System
BM-SC Broadcast/Multicast Service Center (Telekommunikation)
BMU Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit
BMV Bundesministerium für Verkehr
BMWi Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft
BMZ Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung
BNC Berkeley Nucleonics Corporation
BNI Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin (Hamburg)
BNL Brookhaven National Laboratory
BNP Brain Natriuretic Peptide
BNSC British National Space Centre
BNV Belgische Natuurkundige Vereniging
BoD Bandwidth on Demand (Telekommunikation)
BOM Bill of Materials
BOOMERANG Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geomagnetics
BONT Broadband Optical Network Termination
BOS Behörden und Organisationen mit Sicherheitsaufgaben
BOT Build, Operate and Transfer (Telekommunikation)
BPF Blade Pass Frequency (Propeller)
BPON Broadband Passive Optical Network (optische Telekommunikation)
BPR Business Process Reengineering
BPS The Bulgarian Physical Society
BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying (Modulation, Binäre Phasenumtastung)
BPSR Bidirectional Path Switched Ring (Telekommunikation)
BPTI Bovine Pancreatic Trypsin Inhibitor
BPX Burning Plasma Experiment (Fusionsreaktortechnik, PPPL)
BQB Bluetooth Qualification Body (Telekommunikation)
BQTF Bluetooth Qualification Test Facility
bR Bacteriorhodopsin
BR Basic Research (ESPRIT)
BR Biosphärenreservat (Naturschutz)
BRA Basic Rate Access (ISDN)
BRAHMS Broad Range Hadron Spectrometer (RHIC)
BRAN Broadband Radio Access Network (Telekommunikation)
BRAS Broadband Remote Access Server (Telekommunikation)
BRITE Basic Research in Industrial Technologies for Europe
BRS Buried Ridge Stripe (Telekommunikation)
BRT Bruttoregistertonne
BS Base Station (Telekommunikation)
BS British Standard
BS Broadcast Satellite (Digital broadcast)
BSC Base Station Controller (Telekommunikation)
B.Sc. Bachelor of Science
BSCCO Barium-Strontium-Calcium-Copper Oxide, Barium-Strontium-Calcium-Kupfer-Oxid (HTSL)
BSDL Boundary-Scan Description Language
BSE Bonn European School of Economics e.V.
BSE Bovine spongiforme Enzephalopathie, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Rinderwahnsinn)
BSF Back Surface Field (Solarzellen)
BSG Bundessozialgericht
BSH (Medikament zur Tumorbehandlung mit Neutroneneinfangtherapie)
BSML Biosequence Markup Language
BSNR Blurred Signal-to-Noise Ratio (Bildunschärfe)
BSP Bruttosozialprodukt
BSR Board of Standards Review (USA)
BSR Bottom Simulating Reflector (Ozeanologie)
BSRN Baseline Surface Radiation Network
BSS Base Station Subsystem (Telekommunikation)
BSS Broadcasting Satellite Service
BST Band Segmented Transmission (Digital broadcast)
BT Business Telecommunications (TC im ETSI)
BTA Broadcasting Technical Association (Japan)
BTPG Boundary-Scan-Test-Program Generation
BTS Base Transceiver Station (Telekommunikation)
BTS Broadcast Television Systems GmbH (Darmstadt)
BTV Broadcast Television
BTW by the way
Btx Bildschirmtext
BU Branching (or: Business) Unit (Rechnernetze) (Telekommunikation)
Bull. P&I T.I.T. Bulletin of Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Yokohama, J
BUND Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland e.V.
BVPN Broadband Virtual Private Network
BVW Betriebliches Vorschlagswesen
b.w. bitte wenden (engl.: p.t.o.)
B-WiN Breitband-Wissenschaftsnetz (Datennetz, bis 155 Mbit/s)
BWL Beriebswirtschaftslehre
BZ Brennstoffzelle (= FC)
B2B Business-to-Business
B2C Business-to-Consumer

C Cytosin (DNA-Base)
CA California (US-Staat)
CA Call Agent (Telekommunikation)
CA Canada (im Internet)
CA Cancer (Krebs)
CA Cellular Automata
CA Code Acquisition
CA Computer Algebra
CA Computer-Animation
CA Conditional Access (Telekommunikation)
CAA Civil Aviation Authority (UK)
CAAT Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA)
CAC Call Acceptance (or: Admission) Control (Telekommunikation)
CACSD Computer Aided Control System Design
CAD Computer Aided Design
CADE Computer Algebra and Differential Equations (Programm bei der GMD)
CAE Computer Aided Engineering
CAESAR Center for Advanced European Studies and Research (Bonn)
CAFE Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (or: Economy)
CAG Computer Aided Gage (or: Gaging) (computerunterstützte Kfz-Schaltung)
CAGR Compound Annual Growth Rate
CAI Computer-Aided (or: Assisted) Instruction
CAIR Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (Korea)
CAL Computer-Aided (or: Assisted) Learning
CAM Career Asset Manager (IEEE)
CAM Computer Aided Manufacturing
CAMA Crew Assistand System for Military Aircraft
CAMEL Cellular Automata Environment for Systems Modelling
CAMEL Customized Applications for Mobile Network Enhanced Logic (Telekommunikation)
CAMEO Computer Aided Mechanistic Evaluation of Organic Reactions
CAMP Channel Amplifier
cAMP cyclisches Adenosintriphosphat
CAN Control Area Network
CAN Customer Access Network
CANIF Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in Forest Soils
CAO Computer Aided Optimization
CAP Camel Applications Part (Telekommunikation)
CAP Canadian Association of Physics
CAP Carrierless Amplitude Phase (Modulation)
CAP Committee on Applied Physics (APS)
CAP Computer Aided Painting (Lackier-Roboter)
CAP Council of the American Physical Society
CAPE Computer Assisted Process Engineering
CAPEX Capital Expenditure
CAPRA Concept to Amplify Plutonium Reduction in Advanced Fast Reactors (CEA)
CAPS Call Attempts per Second (Telekommunikation)
CARAT Computer Aided Radio and Television
CARE Comprehensive Approach for Recycling of Electronics
CARL Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
CARMA Combined Array for Research in Millimeter Astronomy (Kalifornien, USA)
CARPET Cellular Programming Environment
CARROUSO Creating, Assessing and Rendering in Real Time of High Quality
Audio-Visual Environments (3D-Klangverfahren)
CARS Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy (or: Scattering)
CAS Calorimetric Absorption Spectroscopy
CAS Channel Associated Signaling
CAS Chemical Abstracts Service (Datenbank)
CAS Committee on Assurance of Supply
CAS Complex Adaptive Systems
CAS Conditional Access System (Digital broadcast)
CAS Controlled Access Service
CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering
CASI Canadian Aeronautic and Space Institute
CASIPS Close to Application Study in Polymer Science (IAP-Förderprogramm)
CASP Competitive Access Service Provider (Telekommunikation)
CAST Cardiac Arrythmia Suppression Trial
CAST [Competence] Center for Applied Security Technology
CAT Collaborative Access Team (beim APS, Argonne)
CAT Computer-Aided Teaching
CAT Computerized Axial Tomography
CAT Conditional Access Table (Telekommunikation)
CATI Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing
CATV Cable Television
CATV Coaxial Television
CATV Community (or: Common) Antenna Television
CAVE Cave Automatic Virtual Environment
CB Cellular Broadcast
CB Control Burst (Telekommunikation)
CBDS Connectionless Broadband Data Service
CBI Cosmic Background Imager (Radioteleskop-Array in Chile)
CBO Congressional Budget Office (USA)
CBQ Class Based Queuing (Telekommunikation)
CBR Constant Bit Rate (Datentransfer)
CBSDM Component-Based Scene Description Model
CBT Computer Based Training
CC Call Control (Layer 3)
CC Capital Cost
cc Carbon Copy (Durchschlag)
CC Competence Center (Rechnernetze)
CC Connection Coordinator
CCA Continuum Computer Architecture
CCB Customer Care and Billing (Telekommunikation)
CCBS Customer Care and Billing System (or: Service) (Telekommunikation)
CCD Charge-Coupled Device
CCDM Consultive Committee for the Definition of the Metre
CCDS Comité Consultatif pour la Definition de la Seconde
CCE Comité Consultatif d'Electricité
CCF Call Control Function (Telekommunikation)
CCFL Cold-Cathode Fluorescent Lamp
CCIR Comité Consultatif International des Radiocommunications
CCITT Comité Consultatif International pour la Télégraphie et le Téléphone
CCLD Constant Current Line Drive (Konstantstromversorgung)
CCLRC Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (UK)
CCM Comité Consultatif pour la Masse et les Grandeurs Apparantées
CCM CORBA Component Model (Telekommunikation)
CCPCH Common Control Physical Channel (Telekommunikation)
CCPR Comité Consultatif de Photométrie et Radiométrie
CCS Common Channel Signaling
CCT Cyclic Corrosion Test, zyklischer Korrosionstest
CCTV Closed Circuit Television
CCV Control-Configured Vehicle (Flugzeug)
CCVC Capacitively Coupled Voltage Contrast
CCW counterclockwise
CCXML Call Control Extensible Markup Language (Telekommunikation)
CD Chromatic Dispersion (Glasfaser)
CD Compact Disc
CDA (Dateinamenerweiterung: CD-Titel auf Musik-CD)
CDC Cell Division Cycle
CDC Center for Disease Control (Atlanta, GA, USA)
CDC China Development Corporation (Taiwan)
CDC Control Data Corporation
CDDI Copper Distributed Data Interface
CDE Common Desktop Environment
CDE Component Development Environment (Telekommunikation)
CDF Channel Definition Format
CDF Collider Detector at Fermilab
CDF Cumulative Density Function
CDG Carl-Duisberg-Gesellschaft
CDG Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation
CDH Completely Detached H-Regime (Fusionsreaktortechnik)
CD-I Compact Disc-Interactive
CDK Cyclin Dependent Kinase (Medizin)
CDM Clean Development Mechanism (Umweltschutz)
CDM Code Division Multiplex(ing)
CDM Cold Dark Matter (Kosmologie)
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access (Mobilfunk)
CDMS Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (Astrophysik, USA)
CDN Content Delivery (or: Distribution) Network (Telekommunikation)
cDNA Complementary DNA
CDP Code Domain Power (Telekommunikation)
CdPNo Called Party Number
CDR Call Data Record (Telekommunikation)
CDR Clock Division Recovery (Telekommunikation)
CDR (Dateinamenerweiterung: Corel Draw-Graphikdatei)
CD-ROM Compact Disc Read-Only Memory
CDS Chromatography Data System
CDS Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (an Bord von SOHO)
CDS Crosspoint Development System
CDV Cell Delay Variation
CDVT Cell Delay Variation Tolerance
CE Circuit Emulation (Telekommunikation)
CE Communauté (or: Conformité) Européenne
CE Customer Edge (Telekommunikation)
CE Kapillarelektrophorese
CEA Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics (Berkeley, CA, USA)
CEA Commisariat à l'Energie Atomique (Fontenay aux roses, Frankreich)
CEAS Confederation of European Aerospace Societies
CEBAF Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (Newport News, VA, USA)
CeBIT Centrum für Büro- und Informationstechnik (Messe, Hannover)
CEC Commission of the European Communities
CEC Countries of Central Europe (ehem. Ostblockländer)
CECS Center for Energy and Climate Solutions (Annadale, VA, USA)
CEEES Committee of European Environmental Engineering Societies (am ICT, Pfinztal)
CEET Clean and Efficient Energy Technologies
CEI Central European Initiative
CEIC Committee on Electronic Information and Communication
CELIAS Charge, Element and Isotope Analyses System (an Bord von SOHO)
CELP Code-Excited Linear Prediction
CEM Channel Electron Multiplier
CEMA Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association
CEN Centre d'études nucléaires (Bordeuax-Gradignan, Frankreich)
CEN Comité Européen de Normalisation [European Committee for Standardization,
Europäisches Komitee for Normung]
CENELEC Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
CeNS Center for NanoScience (LMU, München)
CEO Chief Executive Officer
CEOCT Confocal Enhanced Optical Coherence Tomography
CEPI Confocal Fabry-Perot Interferometer
CEPT Conférence Européenne des Postes et (des) Télécommunications
CEREQ Centre d'Etude de Recherche sur les Qualifications
CERES Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (Satelliten-Erd-Fernerkundung)
CERN Conseil Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire (jetzt: Organisation Européenne ...)
CERRO Central European Regional Research Organization
CERT Computer Emergency Response Team
CES Cambridge Engineering Selector [Database] (UK)
CES Circuit Emulation Services
CESRA Community of European Solar Astronomers
CEST C Expert System Tools
CETA Center of Excellence for Advanced Technology
CETHEDEC Centre d'études théoriques de la détection et des communications (France)
CETIM Centre technique des industries mécaniques (France)
CF Cystische Fibrose (Mukoviszidose)
C&F Cost and Freight (Handelsverkehr)
CFC Carbon Fiber Reinforced Carbon
CFC Chlorofluorocarbon
CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics, scherzhaft auch: Colorful Fluid Dynamics
CFFL Columbus Free Flying Laboratory (Raumfahrt)
CFG (Dateinamenerweiterung: Konfigurationsdatei)
CFHT Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (Mauna Kea)
CFI Canada Foundation for Innovation (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)
CFL CAD Framework Laboratory
CFO Chief Financial Officer
CFP Contention Free Period (Telekommunikation)
CFRP Carbon-Fiber Reinforced Plastic
CFV Call for Votes (Rechnernetz)
CG Charging Gateway
CGA Color Graphics Adapter
CGD Coplaner Grid Detector
CGE Compagnie Générale d'Electricité
CGI Common Gateway Interface (Telekommunikation)
CGIAR Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research
CGM Computer Graphics Metafile (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)
CGMS Copy Generation Management System
CGPM Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures
CGRO Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
cgs Centimeter - Gramm - Sekunde (Maßsystem)
CGS Continuous Grain Silicon (Halbleitertechnologie)
CGS Corporate GSM Server (Telekommunikation)
CH Switzerland (im Internet)
CHARM CERN, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Rom, Moskau (Kernphysik-Kollaboration)
CHARM Comprehensive Human Animation Resource Model
CHC Chlorinated Hydrocarbon
CHDM Cold + Hot Dark Matter (Kosmologie)
CHE Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung (Gütersloh)
CHEMFET [FET mit chemischem Sensor als Gate-Elektrode]
CHEOPS Chemistry of Ozone in the Polar Stratosphere
CHF Congestive Heart Failure (Herzinsuffizienz)
CHILIAS Children's Library - Information - Animation - Skills
CHMM Call Handling MultiMedia (Telekommunikation)
CHORUS CERN Hybrid Oscillation Research Apparatus
CI Chemical Ionisation (Massenspektrometer)
CIA Central Intelligence Agency (oberste US-Geheimdienstbehörde)
CIC Center for International Cooperation (Bonn)
CIC Conseil Internationale de la Chasse et de la Conservation du Gibier
CICQ Combined Input and Central Queuing (Telekommunikation)
CICS Customer Information Control System (Telekommunikation)
CID Carrier Internetworking Division (Telekommunikation)
CID Charge-Injection Device
CID Collision-Induced Dissociation
CIDL Configuration Item Data List (Telekommunikation)
CIDR Classless Interdomain Routing (Internet)
CIE Commission Internationale d'Eclairage
CIESIN Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
CIF Common Intermediate Format (Datennetz)
C.I.F. Cost, Insurance, Freight (Handelsverkehr)
CIG Cell Interconnection Gateway (Datennetz)
CIGS Copper Indium Gallium Diselenide
CIM Computer-integrated manufacturing
CIM Corporate Information Management (USA)
CIME Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Engineering
CIMSS Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (VPI & SU, Blacksburg, VA, USA)
CIOQ Combined Input- and Output-Queued (Telekommunikation)
CIP3 International Cooperation for Integration of Prepress, Press and Postpress (Druckindustrie)
CIPM Comité International des Poids et Mésures
CIPT Computer Integrated Public Transportation
CIR Carrier to Interference Ratio (Telekommunikation)
CIR Channel Impulse Response
CIR Circle (US Mail)
CIR Committed Information Rate (Datennetz)
CIR Computer Integrated Railroading
CIR Cylindrical Internal Reflection (ATR-Technik)
CIS Card Information Structure
CIS Commonwealth (or: Confederation) of Independent States (= GUS)
CIS Compensated Image System (adaptive Optik)
CIS Kupferindiumdiselenid, Copper Indium Selenide
CISC Complex Instruction Set Computer
CISL Contractual Index and Status List (Telekommunikation)
CISM [International Centre for Mechanical Sciences], Udine, Italien
CISPR (International Special Committee on Radio Interference)
CIST [Moskau-Fraunhofer] Institut für Chemische Technologie Pfinztal
CITEL InterAmerican Telecom Commission (Telekommunikation)
CITES Convention of the International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora
(Internationale Übereinkunft zum Handel mit bedrohten Arten)
CIVA Charge-Induced Voltage Alteration
CJD Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease
CJK Creutzfeld-Jakob-Krankheit
CK Clock (Telekommunikation)
CKW chlorierte Kohlenwasserstoffe
Cl. Classification (Patentliteratur)
CL Connectionless (Internet)
CL Controlled Load
CLDC Connected Limited Device Configuration
C.L.E. Club zur ländlichen Elektrifizierung
CLE Customer Located Edge (Telekommunikation)
CLEC Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (Telekommunikation)
CLEO Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
CLEOPATRA Cloud Experiment Oberpfaffenhofen and Transport
CLFA Coopération Laser Franco-Allemande
CLI Calling Line Identification (Telekommunikation)
CLI Command Line Interface (Telekommunikation)
CLIC CERN Linear Collider
CLIP Calling Line Identification Presentation (Telekommunikation)
CLORA Club des Organismes de Recherche Associés (Frankreich)
CLOS Common LISP Object System
CLP (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)
CLR Connection Loudness Rating (Telephon)
CLS Call Server (Telekommunikation)
CLS Canadian Light Source (Synchrotron-Strahlungsquelle am CFI)
CLS Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope
CLSM Confocal Laser-Scanning Microscope
CL20 Hexanitro-Isowurtzitan (Sprengstoff)
CMAC Cerebellar Model Arithmetic Computer
CMAM [Fraunhofer-] Center for Manufacturing and Advanced Materials (Newark, DE, USA)
CMB [Fraunhofer-] Center for Molecular Biotechnology (Newark, DE, USA)
CMB Cosmic Microwave Background
CMC Carboxymethylcellulose
CMD Condensed Matter Division (der EPS)
CME Coronal Mass Ejection (Astrophysik)
CMEM [International] Conference on Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements
CMIP Common Management Information Protocol (Telekommunikation)
CMIS Common Management Information Services (Telekommunikation)
CMISE Common Management Information Services (or: System) Element (Telekommunikation)
CML Chemical Markup Language
CML Current Mode Logic (Schaltungstechnik)
CMM Capability Maturity Model
CMM Chassis Management Modulus
CMM Coordinate Measuring Machine
CMN Cerous Magnesium Nitrate (Temperaturnormal)
CMOS Capacity-Coupled Metal-Oxide Silicon Device
CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (Feldeffekt-Transistor)
CMP Chemical-Mechanical Polishing
CMR Colossal Magnetoresistance
CMRR Common-Mode Rejection Ratio
CMS Cambridge Materials Selector [Database] (UK)
CMS Cluster Management System (Telekommunikation)
CMS Compact Muon Solenoid (CERN)
CMS Condensed Matter Science
CMS Content-Management System (Wissensmanagement)
CMS Corporate Mobile Server (Telekommunikation)
CMT Criticality Management Tool
CMTS Cable Modem Termination System (Telekommunikation)
CMU Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
C/N Carrier-to-Noise [Ratio]
CN Core Network (Telekommunikation)
CNAM Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers (Paris)
CNC Computer Numerical Control (Werkzeugmaschinen)
CNEL Community Noise Equivalent Level
CNES Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (Frankreich)
CNET Centre National d'Etudes des Télécommunications
CNM Customer Network Management (Telekommunikation)
CNR Carrier-to-Noise Ratio
CNR National Research Council (Kanada)
CNRS Centre national de la recherche scientifique (Frankreich)
CNS Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (Frankreich)
CNS Communication, Navigation, Surveillance
CNS Conseil nationale de la science (Frankreich)
CNT Carbon Nano Tube
CO Central Office (Rechnernetze)
CO Colorado (US-Staat)
CO Connection-Oriented (Internet)
COB Chip-On-Board
COBE Cosmic Background Explorer (Satellit)
COBOL Common Business-Oriented Language (Programmiersprache)
CoBRA Computerized Bibliographic Record Actions
COCOM Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls
COCOSDA International Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and Speech I/O Systems Assessme
CODAC Cosmic Dust Aggregation Experiment
CoDAS Condensed Matter Direct Alerting Service (Datenbank)
CODATA Committee on Data for Science and Technology (seit 1966)
CODEST Committee for the Development of European Science and Technology
COE Center of Excellence
COEHC Coalition on Effective Hearing Conservation (USA)
COF Columbus Orbit Facility (Weltraumlabor)
COFDM Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex(ing)
COIL Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser
COLTRIMS Cold Target Recoil Momentum Spectroscopy
com [Commercial Organization] (Internet, USA)
COM Committee on Minorities in Physics (APS)
COM Component Object Model
COM (Dateinamenerweiterung: ausführbares Programm)
COMET C++ OSI Management Extended Toolchain
COMETT Community Program for Education and Training in Technology
COMPENDEX Computerized Engineering Index (Datenbank)
COMPTEL Imaging Compton Telescope
COMSAT Communications Satellite Corporation (USA)
COMSEC Communications Security
ConCap Constant Capacitance (Sensorik-Verfahren)
CONNFFESSIT Calculation of Non-Newtonian Flow: Finite Elements and Stochastic Simulation Technique
COPS Common Open Policy Service (Telekommunikation)
CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture (Telekommunikation)
CORDIS Community Research and Development Information Service (EU)
CoS Class(es) of Service(s)
COSEPUP Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (National Academy, USA)
COSINE Cooperation for Open Systems Interconnection in Europe
COSPAR Committee on Space Research
COST Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research (EC),
Coopération Européenne dans la domaine de la recherche scientifique et technique
COSTEP Comprehensive Suprathermal and Energetic Particle (an Bord von SOHO)
COSY Cooler Synchrotron (Jülich)
COSY Correlation Spectroscopy
COTS Components (or: Commercial, or: Commodity) Off-The-Shelf
COV Calculus of Variation
COVER Covariance Equivalent Realization
COX Cyclo-Oxygenase
CP Conference Proceedings (NASA etc.)
CP Connection Performer
CP Content Provider (Telekommunikation)
CP Contention Period (Telekommunikation)
CP Customer Premises (Rechnernetz)
CPA Chirped Pulse Amplification (optische Pulskompression)
CPAN Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
CPB Constant Percentage Bandwidth (Frequenzanalyse)
CPC Collaborative Product Commerce
CPCT Center for Photoinduced Charge Transfer (Rochester, NY, USA)
CPE Common Phase Error (Telekommunikation)
CPE Customer Premises Equipment (Internet)
CPG Computational Physics Group (EPS)
CPICH Common Pilot Channel (Telekommunikation)
CPL Call Processing Language (Telekommunikation)
CPM Cathode Pulse Memory
CPN Customer Premises Network (Rechnernetz)
CPS Chinese Physical Society
CPS The Czech Physial Society
CPT Charge, Parity, Time (Invarianz gegen ...umkehr)
CPU Central Processing Unit (Computer)
CPVS Central Payload Video System
CPX Control Panel Extension
CR Cell Relay (Telekommunikation)
CR Cosmic Rays
CRADA Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (or: Award)
[with private companies] (USA, staatl. Förderungsprogramm)
CRAFT Cooperative Research Action For Technology (EU)
CRC Collaborative Research Centre (DFG)
CRC Corporate Research Center
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check (Telekommunikation)
CRCG [Fraunhofer-] Center for Research in Computer Graphics (Providence, RI, USA)
CRDF Civilian Research and Development Foundation (USA)
CRESST Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers
CREST Comité de la recherche scientifique et technique (EU)
CRG Collaborating Research Group
CRH Corticotropin-Releasing Hormon
CRIS Center for Research on Innovation and Society (Santa Barbara, CA, USA, und Berlin)
CRM Certified Reference Material
CRM Customer Relations Management (Telekommunikation)
CRN Committee of a Regulatory Nature (EU)
CroBIT Cross Border Information Technology
CRP C-reaktives Protein
CRSQA Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance (Augenchirurgie, USA)
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CRT Conformal Radio Therapy
CRT Cosmic-Ray-Tracking Project
CRV Crew Return Vehicle (Raumfahrt)
CR/W Controller Read/Write
CRYRING Cryebis Storage Ring (Stockholm)
CS Call Server (Telekommunikation)
CS Circuit-Switched (Telekommunikation)
CS Communications Satellite
CSAR Cryogenic Solar Absolute Radiometer
CSB Charge Symmetry Breaking (Elementarteilchenphysik)
CSBU Communication Services Business Unit (Telekommunikation)
CSCC Concurrent Supercomputing Consortium (USA)
CSCF Call State Control Function (Telekommunikation)
CSCS/SCSC Swiss Centre for Scientific Computing
CSCL Computer-Supported Cooperative Learning
CSCW Computer Supported Cooperative Working
CSD Chemical Solution Deposition
CSDP Customer Specific Development Process
CSELT Centro studi e laboratori telecomunicazioni (Italien)
CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique (Zürich)
CSI Control-Structure Interaction
CSIR Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (Südafrika)
CSIS Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, DC, USA)
CSLI Center for the Study of Language and Information (Stanford, CA, USA)
CSLP (Fraunhofer-)Center for Surface and Laser Proceessing (Peoria, IL, USA)
CSM Central Strength Member (Rechnernetz)
CSM Communication Session Manager
CSM Component and Supplier Management
CSM Connection Session Management
CSM Customer Service Management (Telekommunikation)
CSMA/CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance (Datennetze)
CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection (Datennetze)
CSN Circuit Switched Network (Telekommunikation)
CSP Chip-Scale Package (gedruckte Schaltung)
CSPF Constraint Shortest Path First (Telekommunikation)
CSR Cell Switch Router (Telekommunikation)
CSR Customer Service Representatives (Telekommunikation)
CSS Cascading Style Sheets
CSS Content Scramble System
CSTA Computer Supported Telecommunication(s) (or: Telephony) Application (Telekommunikation)
CSTI Civil Space Technology Initiative (NASA)
CSU Colorado State University (USA)
CSV Comma Separated Value
CSVE Chinese Society for Vibration Engineering
CSW Core Switch
CSWP Committee on the Status of Women in Physics (APS)
CT Computed Tomography, Computer-Tomographie (Röntgentechnik)
CT Connecticut (US-Staat)
CT Cordless Telecommunications
CT Court (US Mail)
CTAN Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
CTB Composite Triple Beat (Verzerrung 3. Ordnung)
CTBT Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (Atomwaffenteststoppvertrag 1996)
CTBTO Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisation (Wien)
CTC Crew Training Complex (DLR, Köln, Porz-Wahnheide)
CTE Coefficient of Thermal Expansion
CTH Chalmers Tekniske Högskola (Göteborg, Schweden)
CTI Colour Transient Improvement (Kontourverbesserung beim TV-Bild)
CTI Computer-Telephony Integration (Telekommunikation)
CTI Computer Telephony Interface (Telekommunikation)
CTI Critical Technologies Institute (USA)
CTIO Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (Chile)
CTIR Center for Intelligent Transportation Research (Ohio State University)
CTO Chief Technical Officer
CTP Computer-to-Plate, Computer-to-Press, Computer-to-Paper (Drucktechnik)
CTP Cytisintriphosphat
CTR Center (US Mail)
CTR Common Technical Regulation(s)
CTRANC Crosstalk-Resistant Adaptive Noise Canceller
CTS Concept to Speech (Sprachsynthese)
CTU Control Tower Unit
CTV Crew Transfer Vehicle (Raumfahrt)
CU Central Unit
CU Control Unit
CUF Channel Utilization Factor
CUG Closed User Group (Telekommunikation)
CUL Computer-unterstütztes Lernen
CUNY City University of New York
CUPLE Comprehensive Unified Physics Learning Environment
Cuspea China-US Physics Examination and Application Program
CUTCP Clarkson University-TCP (Rechnernetz)
CUTE Clarkson University Terminal Emulator (Rechnernetz)
CV Cartellverband [der Katholischen Deutschen Studentenverbindungen]
CVC Common Vision Concept
CVCP Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals (UK)
CVD Chemical Vapor Deposition
CVE Collaborative Virtual Environment
CVT Continuously Variable Transmission (Getriebe)
CW Clockwise
CW Continuous Wave
CWDM Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (Telekommunikation)
CXO Chandra X-Ray Observatory (Röntgensatellit)
C3 Command, Control and Communication (System)
C3 Cleaved-Coupled Cavity (Laser)
C3I Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence (Militärisch)

DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst e.V.

DAAK Deutsch-Amerikanisches Akademisches Konzil
DAB Digital Audio Broadcasting
DAC Digital-to-Analog Converter
DACH Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle Chemie GmbH
DAF Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Familientherapie
DAGA Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Akustik
DAGV Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vakuum
DAHC Deutschsprachiges Apple-Hochschul-Consortium
DAI Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (Bonn)
DAI Distributed Artificial Intelligence
DAL Deutscher Arbeitsring für Lärmbekämpfung e.V.
DAM Deutsche Akademie für Metrologie (München)
DAMA Dark Matter Search (Astrophysik, Gran Sasso-Labor, Italien)
DAMA Demand Assignment (or: Assigned) Multiple Access (Telekommunikation)
DAMOP Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (APS)
D-AMPS Digital Advanced Mobile Phone System (Telekommunikation)
DANA Data Application Network Adapter
DAP Deutsches Akkreditierungssystem Prüfwesen (Normungsarbeit)
DAR Deutscher Akkreditierungsrat (Normungsarbeit)
DARA Deutsche Agentur für Raumfahrtangelegenheiten GmbH (1989-1997)
DARC Data Radio Channel
DARHT Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic (Test) Facility (Los Alamos, NM, USA)
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (USA)
DARS Digital Audio Radio Service
DART Data Acquisition in Real Time
Darwin Detection and Analysis of Remote Worlds by Interferometric Nulling
DAS Dansk Akustisk Selskab
DAS Distributed Antenna Systems (Telekommunikation)
DASI Degree Angular Scale Interferometer
DASMIN Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle Mineralöl
DAST Drones for Aerodynamic and Structural Testing (NASA, Flugzeug)
DAT Digital Audio Tape
DATech Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle Technik
DAtF Deutsches Atomforum
DAVIC Digital Audiovisual Council
DAWS Digital Advanced Wireless Services (Telekommunikation)
DB Data Base
dB Dezibel
DB Diffusion Boarding
DBA Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (Telekommunikation)
DBF (Dateinamenerweiterung: dBase Datenbank-Datei)
DBF Distributed Feedback (Laser)
DBG Deutsche Bunsengesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie
DBI Deutsches Bibliotheksinstitut (Berlin)
DBM Deutsches Bergbau-Museum (Bochum)
DBM Double Beam Modulation
DBMS Database Management System (Telekommunikation)
DBP Division of Biological Physics (APS)
DBR Distributed Bragg Reflector (Laser)
DBS Direct Broadcast(ing) (by) Satellite
DC Developing Countries
DC Digital Concentrator (Telekommunikation)
DC Direct Current (Gleichstrom)
DC District of Columbia (US-Staat)
DC Dünnschichtchromatographie
DCC Digital Compact Cassette
DCE Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment (Telekommunikation)
DCE Data Communications Equipment
DCE Distributed Computing Environment
DCF Dispersion Compensating Fiber (Glasfaser)
DCF Distributed Coordination Function (Telekommunikation)
DCG Dispersion-Compensating Grating (optische Telekommunikation)
DCH Dedicated Channel (Telekommunikation)
DCM Dispersion Compensation Module (Telekommunikation)
DCMP Division of Condensed Matter Physics (APS)
DCN Data Communication Network (Telekommunikation)
DCOM Distributed Component Object Model
DCOMP Division of Computational Physics (APS)
DCP Division of Chemical Physics (APS)
DCPN Domestic Customer Premises Network
DCS Digital Crossconnect (or: Communication) System (Telekommunikation)
DCS Distributed Control System
DCT Disrete Cosine Transform
DCU Data Capture Utility
DDB Die Deutsche Bibliothek
DDCE Dolby Digital Consumer Encoder
DDD Directly Doubled Diode (Laser)
DDE Dynamic Data Exchange
DDEC Data-Driven Echo Canceller
DDGI Deutscher Dachverband für Geo-Information
DDK Dialog Development Kit
ddI Didesoxyinosin
DDI Direct Dialing-In (Telephon)
DDM Differential Depth Modulation
DDN Defense Data Network (USA)
DDoS Distributed Denial-of-Service (Telekommunikation)
DDR Deutsche Demokratische Republik
DDS Direct Digital Synthesis (I/O Board)
DDT Dichlordiphenyltrichlorethan
DDV Deutscher Dart-Verband
DE Delaware (US-Staat)
DE Discard Eligibility (Telekommunikation)
DE Germany (im Internet)
DECHEMA Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chemisches Apparatewesen, chemische Technik und Biotechnologie
DECT Digital Enhanced (früher: European) Cordless Telecommunication (or: Telephone)
DEDIG Deutsche EDI-Gesellschaft e.V.
DEE Daten-Endeinrichtung (Telekommunikation)
DEGA Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V.
DEGREE Diversity Effects in Grassland Ecosystems of Europe
DEI Diffraction-Enhanced Imaging
DEKITZ Deutsche Koordinierungsstelle für IT-Normenkonformitätsprüfung und -zertifizierung
DELTA Dortmunder Elektronen Testspeicherring Anlage
DE-NIC Network Information Center für Deutschland (Karlsruhe)
DERA Defense Evaluation & Research Agency (MOD, GB)
DES Data Encryption Standard (or: System)
DES Department of Electrical Science (NPL, UK)
DES Diethylstilbestrol (Östrogen-Derivat)
DESY Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (Hamburg)
DEZ Diethylzink (-Verfahren zur Papierkonservierung)
DFA Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Lebensmittelchemie (Garching)
DFB Distributed Feedback (Laser)
DFD Data Flow Diagram
DFD Deutsches Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum (Oberpfaffenhofen)
DFD Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS)
DFE Digital Front End (Telekommunikation)
DFF Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DDR)
DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
DFH Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Hubschrauber und Vertikalflugtechnik
DFI Diabetes-Forschungsinstitut (Düsseldorf)
DFJW Deutsch-Französisches Jugendwerk
DFKI Deutsches Forschungszentrum für künstliche Intelligenz (Saarbrücken)
DFL Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luftfahrt (Braunschweig, 1936)
Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (Braunschweig, 1962)
DFN Deutsches Forschungsnetz (Datennetz)
DFS Dansk Fysisk Selskap
DFS Dynamic Frequency Selection (Telekommunikation)
DFT Discrete Fourier Transform, diskrete Fouriertransformation
DFÜ Datenfernübertragung
DFVLR Deutsche Forschungs- und Versuchsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt (1969-1989, danach: DLR
DFWM Degenerate Four Wave Mixing (Entartete Vier-Wellen-Mischung)
DGaO Deutsche Gesellschaft für angewandte Optik
DGE Dynamic Gain-Equalizer (optische Telekommunikation)
DGF Deutsche Gesellschaft für Flugwissenschaften e.V. (1959)
DGfB Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biophysik
DGfE Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft
DGfS Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft
DGG Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft
DGG Deutsche Glastechnische Gesellschaft e.V.
DGHS Deutsche Gesellschaft für humanes Sterben
DGK Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kristallographie
DGLM Deutsche Gesellschaft für Lasermedizin
DGLR Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt
DGM Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde e.V.
DGMK Deutsche Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Erdöl, Erdgas und Kohle e.V.
DGMP Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Physik
DGPI Deutsche Gesellschaft für Produktinformationen mbH
DGPs Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie
DGPS Differential Global Positioning System
DGQ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Qualität
DGS Deutsche Gebärdensprache
DGS Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie
DGW Data Gateway
DGWK Deutsche Gesellschaft für Warenkennzeichnung mbH
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (Telekommunikation)
DHF Deformed Helix Ferroelectrics
DHN Digital Home Network
DHS Demographic and Health Surveys
DHS Department of Homeland Security (USA, seit 2002)
DHTML Dynamic HTML
DHU Data Handling Unit (Telekommunikation)
DHV Deutscher Hochschulverband e.V.
DIAL Differential Absorption Lidar
DIANE Direct Information Access Network for Europe
DIB Deutsches Institut für Betriebswirtschaft
DIBS Digital In-Band Broadcasting System
DICOM Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
DID Direct Inward Dialing (Telephon)
DIF Data Interchange Format
DIfE Deutsches Institut für Ernährungsforschung (Potsdam)
DIFF Deutsches Institut für Fernstudien (Tübingen)
DiffServ Differentiated Services
DIHT Deutscher Industrie- und Handelstag
DIII Doublet III (Fusionsreaktortechnik, General Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA)
DIII-D Doublet III-D (Fusionsreaktortechnik, General Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA)
DIL Dual In-Line (Telekommunikation)
DIMDI Deutsches Institut für Medizinische Dokumentation und Information
DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung
DINZERT Deutscher Zertifizierungsrat im DIN
DIPF Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung (Frankfurt/M)
DIPS Distributed Intelligent Piloting System
DIRC Detection of Internally Reflected Cherenkov Light
DIS Draft International Standard
DISO Dual Input - Single Output (Controller, System)
DITC Division of Information Technology and Computing (NPL, UK)
DITR Deutsches Informationszentrum für technische Regeln
Diva Deutsches Interferometer für Vielkanalphotometrie und Astrometrie
DIW Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (Berlin)
DIY Do it yourself
DKD Deutscher Kalibrierdienst
DKE Deutsche Elektrotechnische Kommission (im DIN und VDE)
DKFI Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (Saarbrücken)
DKFZ Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (Heidelberg)
DKG Deutsche Keramische Gesellschaft e.V.
DKI Deutsche Kommission für Ingenieurausbildung
DKMM Deutsches Komitee für Meeresforschung und Meerestechnik
DKRZ Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (Hamburg)
DLA Diffusion-Limited Aggregation
DLC Data Link Control (or: Connection) [Layer] (DECT)
DLC Diamond-like Carbon
DLC Digital Loop Carrier (Internet)
DLL (Dateinamenerweiterung: Programmdatei)
DLL Dynamic Link Library (Telekommunikation)
DLP Digital Light Processing
DLR Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt (ab 1989, früher: DFVLR).
Ab 1.10.1997: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.
DLS Direct Access Logging System (Sprachaufzeichnungssystem, Philips)
DLS Dynamic Light Scattering, dynamische Lichtstreuung
DLU Digital Line Unit
DLV Digital Light Valve
DM Data Manager
DM Deutsches Museum (München)
DMA Direct Memory Access
DMCA Digital Millenium Copyright Act (USA 1998)
DMD Digital Micromirror Device
DME Distance Measuring Equipment
DMFC Direct Methanol Fuel Cell
DMFT Dynamic Mean Field Theory (Festkörperphysik)
DMG Deutsche Meteorologische Gesellschaft
DMG Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft e.V.
DMLS Direct Metal Laser-Sintering
DMM Digital-Multimeter
DMO Direct Mode Operation (Telekommunikation)
DMOM Division of Mechanical and Optical Metrology (NPL, UK)
DMP Division of Materials Physics (APS)
DMS Datenmanagementsystem (Fernerkundung)
DMS Digital Moiré Subtraction (Metrologie)
DMS Direct Measurement System
DMS Document Management System (Wissensmanagement)
DMSO Dimethyl sulfoxide
DMT Discrete Multi-Tone (Leitungscode, Mehrfach-Träger-Modulation)
DMT Dough Moulding Compound
DMU Digital Mock-Up (Telekommunikation)
DMU Display and Metering Unit
DMV Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung e.V.
DMX Distributed Media Exchange (Telekommunikation)
DNA Desoxyribonucleic acid
DNA Distributed Internet Architecture
DNI Day-Night-Level (Lärmpegel)
DNK Deutsches Nationales Komitee für IUPAP
DNS Data Network System (Telekommunikation)
DNS Desoxyribonucleinsäure
DNS Domain Name Service (or: System, or: Server) (Telekommunikation)
DNT Dinitrotoluol
DNW Deutsch-Niederländischer Windkanal (bei Emmeloord, NL, 1980)
DOAS Differentielle optische Absorptionsspektroskopie, Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy
Dobson-Unit 2,7 × 1016 Moleküle/cm3
DOC (Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft-Word-Dokument)
DOC Dissolved Organic Carbon
DOCSIS Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (Telekommunikation)
DOD Department of Defense (USA)
DOE Department of Energy (USA)
DoE Design of Experiments
DOE Diffractive Optical Element
DOES differentielle optische Absorptionsspektroskopie
DOF Degree-of-Freedom
DOI Digital Object Identifier (Literatursuche im www)
DOK Deutsches Optisches Komitee
DOP Degree of Polarization (Glasfaser)
DOPA l-Dihydroxyphenylalanin
DORIS Doppel-Ring-Speicher (DESY)
DORIS Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositoning Integrated by Satellite (ENVISAT)
DoS Denial-of-Service (Telekommunikation)
DOS Deutsche Offenlegungsschrift (Patent)
DOS Digital Optical Switch (Telekommunikation)
DOS Disk Operating System
DOT (Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft Word-Dokumentenvorlage)
DoV Data over Voice
DP Drop Procedure
DPA Demand Priority Access (Datennetze, AT&T und HP)
D-PAF Deutsche Processing and Archiving Facility (Fernerkundung)
DPCM Differential Pulse Code Modulation
DPE Distributed Processing Environment (Telekommunikation)
DPF Distributed Packet Filtering (Telekommunikation)
DPG Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
DPI Drittes Physikalisches Institut [der Universität Göttingen]
DPhV Deutscher Philologenverband
DPMA Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt
DPNS Digital Private Networking System (Telekommunikation)
DPOLY Division of Polymer Physics (APS)
DPSK Differential Phase-Shift Key
DPSS(L) Diode-Pumped Solid State (Laser)
DPZ Deutsches Primatenzentrum (Göttingen)
DQDB Distributed Queue Dual Basis (or: Bus)
DQPSK Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (Modulation)
DQS Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Zertifizierung von Qualitätsmanagementsystemen mbH
DR dielektronische Rekombination
DR Drive (US Mail)
DRA Defence Research Agency (UK)
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
DRAW Development of Design Tools for Reduced Aerodynamic Noise WindTurbines (EU-Forschung
DR-DOS Digital Research DOS
DRET Direction des Recherches, Etudes et Techniques
DRG Deutsche Röntgengesellschaft, Gesellschaft für medizinische Radiologie, Strahlenbiologie und
Nuklearmedizin e.V.
DRIC Defence Research Information Centre (Orpington, Kent, UK)
DRIVE Dedicated Road Infrastructure for Vehicle Safety in Europe
DRM Digital Rights Management (Telekommunikation)
DRO Dielectric Resonance Oscillator
DRO Digital Read Out
Dr. rer. nat. Doctor rerum naturalium
DRS Daten-Relaissatellit
DRV (Dateinamenerweiterung: Treiberdatei)
DRW (Dateinamenerweiterung: Micrografx Designer-Graphikdatei)
DS Differentiated Services (Telekommunikation)
DSA Digital Signature Algorithm
DSAU Digital Subscriber Access Unit (Telekommunikation)
DSB Digital Sound Broadcasting
DS-CDMA Direct Sequence CDMA (Telekommunikation)
DSC Digital System Controller
DSCH Downlink Shared Channel (Telekommunikation)
DSCP Differentiated Services Code Point (Telekommunikation)
DSCS Defense Satellite Communications System (USA)
DSE Design Support Environment
DSF Dispersion Shifted Fiber (Glasfaser)
DSGV Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband
DSIR Department of Sientific and Industrial Research (UK)
DSKLR Dreiachsiges Strapdown Kurs-Lage-Referenzsystem
DSL Digital Subscriber Line (Telekommunikation)
DSLAM Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (Telekommunikation)
DSM Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum (Bremerhaven)
DSM Distributed System Management
DSO Digital Sampling Oscilloscope
DSO Digital Storage Oscilloscope
DSP Data Service Profile (Telekommunikation)
DSP Defense Support Program (USA)
DSP Digital Signal Processor (or: Processing)
DSR Differential Spectral Responsivity
DSR Digital Satellite Radio; Digitaler Satellitenrundfunk
DSR Distributed Speech Recognition
DSS Digital Signature Standard
DSS Digital Speaker System (Lautsprecher)
DS-SS Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
DST Dispersion Supported Transmission (Telekommunikation)
DSTO Defence Science and Technology Organization (Australien)
DSU Digital Service Unit
DSW Deutsche Stifung Weltbevölkerung
DS-Wert durchschnittlicher Substitutionsgrad
DT Data Terminal
DTA Deutsche Technische Akademie (Helmstedt)
DTAB Demountable TAB
DTC Direct Torque Control (Elektroantrieb)
DTD Document Type Definition
DTE Data Terminal Equipment (Telekommunikation)
DTH Direct to Home (Satellitenfernsehen)
DTI Department of Trade and Industry (UK)
DTI Display Technology Incorporated (Zusammenschluss von IBM und Toshiba zur Produktion
von Flachbildschirmen)
DTM Device Type Manager (Feldbussystem)
DTMF Dual Tone Multifrequency (Telephon)
DTNSRDC David Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center
DTP Desktop Publishing
DTPP Desktop Program Production
DTS Distributed Temperature Sensor
DTTB Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting (Japan)
DTV Digital Television
DTW Dynamic Time Warp(ing)
DÜE Datenübertragungseinrichtung (Telekommunikation)
DÜI Deutsches Übersee-Institut (Hamburg)
DUMAND Deep Underwater Myon and Neutrino Detector (bei Hawaii)
DUT Device Under Test
DUV Deep-Ultraviolet
DUZ Deutsche Universitätszeitung
DVB Digital Video Broadcast(ing)
DVB-T Terrestrial Digital Video Broadcast
DVE Digital Video Encoder
DVE Distributed Virtual Environment
DVD Digital Versatile (or: Video) Disk (CD)
DVG Deutsche Vakuumgesellschaft
DVL Deutsche Versuchsanstalt für Luftfahrt (Berlin-Adlershof, 1912)
DVP Distributed Video Production
DVPT Deutscher Verband für Post und Telekommunikation
DVS Deutscher Verband für Schweißtechnik
DVT Deutscher Verband Technisch-Wissenschaftlicher Vereine e.V.
DWC Digital Waveform Capture (I/O Board)
DWDM Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (optische Telekommunikation)
DXC Digital Cross Connect (Telekommunikation)
DXF (Dateinamenerweiterung: Autodesk Autoload-Graphikdatei)
DZfCh Deutscher Zentralausschuss für Chemie
D2B Domestic Digital Bus (Faseroptik)

E-... Electronic ... (-Business, -Commerce, -Economy, -Procurement etc.)

EA Electroabsorption
EAA European Acoustics Association
EADQ [Fraunhofer-] Einrichtung für Diagnose und Qualitätssteigerung
eag (EAG) ether-à-go-go (ein Gen)
EAG Europäische Atomgemeinschaft
EAI Enterprise Application Integration (Telekommunikation)
EAL Evangelische Akademie Loccum
EALM Electro-Absorption Laser Modulator (optische Telekommunikation)
EAM Electro-Absorption Modulator (Telekommunikation)

EAM Energie-Aktiengesellschaft Mitteldeutschland (früher: Elektrizitäts-Aktiengesellschaft Mittelde

EAN Europäische Artikelnummer (Strichcode)
EAP Encyclopedia of Applied Physics
EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol (Telekommunikation)
EAPS Euro-Asian Physical Society
EAR Edge Aggregation Router (Telekommunikation)
EARA European Association for Research in Astronomy
EARN European Academic Research Network
EARTO European Association of Research and Technology (Brüssel)
EAS European Astronomical Society
EASA European Academic Software Award
EASI European Academic Supercomputing Initiative
EASInet European Academic Supercomputing Initiative Network
EASOE European Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Experiment
EB Equivalent Bandwidth (Telekommunikation)

EBI European Bioinformatics Institute (bei Cambridge, UK)

EBIT Earnings Before Interest and Tax
EBIT Electron Beam Ion Trap
EBITDA Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortization

E-BIZ E-Business Innovationszentrum (FhG)

EBLIDA European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations
EBN entwicklungsbegleitende Normung
EBP Error Back Propagation (Algorithmus)
EBR Electronic Batch Record
EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
EBT Electron-Beam Testing
EBU European Broadcasting Union
EC European Commission
ECA European Congress on Acoustics
ECC Electrochemical Concentration Cell
EC COST European Cooperation in the Field Field of Scientific and Technical Research
ECDT Engineering Career Development Team (IEEE)
ECE Economic Commission of Europe (UN-Fachorganisation)

ECFA European Committee for Future Accelerators

ECFRN European Consulting Forum for Research Networking
ECL Emitter Coupled Logic
ECM European Crystallographic Meeting
ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association
ECMP Equal Cost Multipath (Telekommunikation)
ECMWF European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (= EZMW)
ECOC European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication
ECOLE European Collaborative Open Learning Environment
ECOPS European Committee on Ocean and Polar Sciences
ECOSA European Conference on Optical Systems and Applications

ECOSAE European Consumer Safety Organisation

ECSD Enhanced Circuit Switched Data (Telekommunikation)

ECT Explicit Call Tranfer (Telekommunikation)

ECTS European [Community Course] Credit Transfer Scheme (or: System)
ECU Electrical Control Unit
ECU European Currency Unit
ECVAM European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (Bologna, Italien)
ED Erektile Dysfunktion
EDA Electronic Design Automation
EDA Engineering Design Activities (EC)
EDC Electronic Diesel Control (Kfz)
EDELWEISS Expérience pour Détecter les WIMPs en Site Souterrain
EDFA Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (Glasfaser)
EDGE Enhanced Datarate(s) for GSM Evolution (Telekommunikation)
EDI Electronic Data (or: Document) Interchange
EDIF Electronic Design Interchange Format
EDIFACT Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport
EDM Electric Dipole Moment (Elementarteilchenphysik)
EDNA European Data Network Agency
EDP Electronic Data Processing
EDS Electronic Differential System (Kfz)
EDSAC Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer (Cambridge University, 1949)
EDT Elektrodynamisches Tether-System
EDTA Ethylendiamintetraacetat
edu [Educational Organization] (Internet, USA)
EDV Elektronische Datenverarbeitung
EDVAC Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (University of Pennsylvania, 1950)
EE Equipment Engineering (TC im ETSI)
EEA European Environmental Agency
EEC European Economic Community
EECONET European Ecological Network (Naturschutz)

EEF Erleichterung für Existentzgründungen aus Forschungseinrichtungen (ein Fonds)

EEG Elektroenzephalogramm (-graphie)
EEIG European Economic Interest Group (in der EU)
EELS Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
EEM Electronic Engine Management (Kfz)
EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EEROM Electrically Erasable Read-Only Memory
EET Energy Efficient Transport (Flugzeug)
EF Expedited Forwarding (Telekommunikation)
EFA European Fighter Aircraft
EFD Event Forwarding Discriminator (Telekommunikation)
EFDA (Fusionstechnik-Forschungsinstitut)
EFM Ethernet in First Mile (Telekommunikation)
EFR Enhanced Full Rate (Vocoder)
EFTA European Free Trade Association (N, S, SF, IS, CH, A, FL)
EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter
EGA Entwicklungsgesellschaft Adlershof
EGF Epidermal Growth Factor

EGK Extended Gate Keeper (Telekommunikation)

EGM Extraordinary General Meeting

EGNOS European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System (or: Service) (Satellitennavigation)
EGO European Gravitational Observatory (Pisa, Italien)
EGP Exterior Gateway Protocol (Telekommunikation)
EGPRS Enhanced GPRS
EGRET Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope
EGS European Geophysical Society
EGT European Geographical Technologies
EGW Edge Gateway
EHB Elly Hölterhoff-Böcking-Stiftung
EHEC enterohämorrhagische Escherichia coli
EHF Extra High Frequency (30 - 300 GHz)
EI Electron Impact (Massenspektrometer)
EI Engineering Information (Datenbank, Westbury, NY, USA)
EIA Electronics Industries Association
EIA Energy Information Administration

EIB European Installation Bus

EIB European Investment Bank
EIBA European Installation Bus Association
EIC Euro Info Centre
EICTA European Information and Communication Technology Industry Association
EID Electronic Identification of Containers
EIR Excessive Information Rate (Telekommunikation)
EIRO European Intergovernmental Research Organisations
EIRP Effective (or: Equivalent) Isotropic Radiated Power (Satelliten)
EIS Environmental Impact Statement
EIS Executive Information Service (Telekommunikation)

EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture

EISL Effektive isotrope Strahlungsleistung
EISS Europäisches Institut für Systemsicherheit
EIT Electromagnetically Induced Transparency, elektromagnetisch induzierte Transparenz
EIT Elektrische Impedanz-Tomographie
EIT Event Information Table (Telekommunikation)
EIT Extreme-Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (an Bord von SOHO)
EITC European Information Technology Conference
EITO European Information Technology Observatory
EJB Enterprie Java Beans (Telekommunikation)

EJMC EUROBALL Joint Management Committee

EKA Expositions-Äquivalent für krebserzeugende Arbeitsstoffe
EKG Elektrokardiogramm (-graphie)
EKGS Europäische Gemeinschaft für Kohle und Stahl
EKS [Fraunhofer-] Einrichtung für Systeme der Kommunikationstechnik (München)
EKV siehe VDI-EKV
EL Echo Loss (Telekommunikation)
EL Electroluminescence, Elektrolumineszenz
ELBE Elektronenbeschleuniger hoher Brillanz und geringer Emittanz (FZR, Rossendorf)
ELDO European Launcher Development Organization (Raumfahrt)
ELEANNE Efficient Learning Algorithm for Neural Networks
ELF Extremely Low Frequency (0,3 - 3 kHz)
ELFE Electron Laboratory for Europe
ELFICOM Elektronische Fachinformation und Kommunikation
ELI Eurocell Library and Interfaces
ELINT Electronic Intelligence
ELISA Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
ELITE European Laboratory for Intelligent Techniques Engineering (Aachen)
ELM Element Layer Management (Telekommunikation)
ELM Event and Log Management (Telekommunikation)
ELMF European Large Magnetic Field Facility
ELN Electronic Lab Notebook
ELOG Epitaxially Laterally Overgrown
ELS (-Modell) nach Olin Eggen, Donald Lynden-Bell und Allan Sandage (Astronomie)

ELSA Elektron-Stretcher-Anlage
ELSI Ethical, Legal, Social Issues
E-Mail Electronic Mail
E-MAN Ethernet Metropolitan Area Network (Telekommunikation)

EMBASSI Elektronische Multimediale Bedien- und Service-Assistenz

EMBI European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Heidelberg)
EMBL Europäisches Molkularbiologisches Laboratorium (Heidelberg)
EMC Electromagnetic Compatibility (= EMV)
EMC European Muon Collaboration
EMF (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)

EMF Electromagnetic Field

EMF European Multimedia Forum
EMG Elektromyogramm
EMI Electromagnetic Interference
EMI Ernst-Mach-Institut (Fraunhofer-Institut für Kurzzeitdynamik, Freiburg)
EMIS The European Mathematical Information Service
EML Element Management Layer (Telekommunikation)
EML European Media Laboratory (Heidelberg)

EMMI ESA Multi-Mode Instrument

EMP Electromagnetic Pulse
EMPA Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt (Dübendorf, CH)
EMPD [International Conference on] Energy Management and Power Delivery
EMPS European Mobility Scheme for Physics Students (EPS)
EMR Electromagnetic Relay
EMR Electron Magnetic Resonance

EMS Electrified Monorail System

EMS Element Management System (Internet)
EMS Engineering Management System
EMS European Mathematical Society
EMSL Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (PNNL, USA)
EMV Elektromagnetische Verträglichkeit (= EMC)
EMVG Gesetz über die elektromagnetische Verträglichkeit von Geräten
EN Europa-Norm, Europäische Norm (CENELEC)
ENAC European Network and Applications Center
ENF Equivalent Noise Floor (Telekommunikation)
ENI Ethernet Network Interface (Telekommunikation)
ENI European Neuroscience Institute
ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1945)
ENO Essentially Non-Oscillatory (numerische Rechenverfahren)
ENS Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris)
ENSO El Niño Southern Oscillation (Klima)
ENT Ear, Nose and Throat (= HNO)
ENTIRE European Network on Transport Innovation for the Rational Use of Energy
ENTRANCE Energy Savings in Transport through Innovation in the Cities of Europe
ENVI Environment for Visualizing Images
ENVISAT (Europäischer Umweltsatellit, ab 1.3.2002)

ENX European Network Exchange (Telekommunikation)

EO Electro-Optical (Effects)
EOAE evozierte otoakustische Emissionen
EOF Empirical Orthogonal Function
EOF End of File
EOG Elektrooculogramm
EORTC European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer
EOS Earth Observing System (or: Satellite) (NASA)
EOS Electrical Overstress
EOS European Optical Society
EOSDIS Earth Observing System Data Information System
EOT Energy Optimized Tyre
EOTC European Organization for Testing and Certification
EOTD Enhanced Observed Time Difference (Telekommunikation)
E-OTDR Extended Optical Time Domain Reflectometry
EP Europäisches Parlament
EPA Environmental Protection Agency (in vielen Ländern)
EPA Europäisches Patantamt (München)
EPAD Electronically Programmable Analog Device
EPAS Electronic Power Assisted Steering (Kfz)
EPC Electronic Power Conditioner
EPFD Equivalent Power Flux Density (Telekommunikation)
EPFL Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
EPG Electronic Program(ming) Guide (Digital broadcast)
EPI Eastern Pacific Investigations of Climate
EPI Echo Planar Imaging (MRI)
EPIC European Photon Imaging Camera (XMM)
EPL Europhysics Letters
EPNL Effective Perceived Noise Level
EPO European Patent Office (München)
EPON Ethernet Passive Optical Network (Telekommunikation)
EPOS European PTT Open Learning Service
EPR Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen(-Paradoxon)
EPRINT Electronic Print Server for Research Information on Natural Science and Technology
EPROM Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EPS (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)

EPS Elektropneumatische Schaltung (Kfz)

EPS Encapsulated Postscript
EPS Eumetsat Polar System
EPS European Physical Society
EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK)
EPU End-of-Pipe-Umweltschutz
EQEC European Quantum Electronics Conference
eQtv Ethernet-Based Qualification TV (?)
ER Edge Router (Telekommunikation)

ER Extinction Ratio
ERA Eigensystem Realization Algorithm
ERA European Research Area
ERASMUS European Community Action Scheme for the Mobiliy of University Students
ERATO Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology Program (JRDC)
ERC European Research Council
ERCOFTAC European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence and Combustion

ERDA US Energy Research and Development Administration

ERES ESA Rams Expert System (Software)
ERF Electrorheological Fluid
ERGO European Research Gateways On-Line
ERLE Echo Return Loss Enhancement
ERM Earth Resource Mapping
ERNE Energetic and Relativistic Nuclei and Electron Experiment (an Bord von SOHO)
ERO European Research Office (der US Army, in London)
EROS Earth Resources Observation System
ERP Energy Resource Planning
ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
ERS European Remote Sensing Satellite
ERSI Environment and Remote Sensing Institute (Harare, Simbabwe)
ERT External Review Committee
ERV Earth Return Vehicle (bemannte Raumfahrt)
ES Expert System
ESA/ASE European Space Agency
ESAU Electronic Subscriber Access Unit (Telekommunikation)
ESB Environmental Specimen Bank
ESCA Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis
ESCA European Speech Communication Association
ESCON Enterprise Systems Connections (Telekommunikation)

ESCU Enhanced Services Control Unit (Telekommunikation)

ESD Electrostatic Discharge
ESD Expert System Development
ESDA Electronic Systems Design Automation
ESF EUREKA Software Factory
ESF European Science Foundation (seit 1974)
ESG Evangelische Studierenden-Gemeinde
ESI Elektronenspray-Ionisation
ESK [Fraunhofer-] Einrichtung für Systeme der Kommunikationstechnik
ESL ESA Simulation Language (Software)
ES-Laser Eckige-Schraube-Laser
E-SMF Enhanced SMF

ESO ESSI Service Organization

ESO European Southern Observatory, Europäische Organisation für astronomische Forschung in der
südlichen Hemisphäre (Garching)
ESOC European Space Operations Centre (Darmstadt)
ESOFTA Embedded Software Association
ESONE (Committee for) European Studies on Norms for Electronics
ESP Electronic Stability Program, elektronisches Stabilitätsprogramm (Kfz)
ESP Extrasensory Perception
ESPCI Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris
ESPI Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometry
ESPRIT European Strategic Programme for Research and Development in Information Technology
ESR Electrical Substitution Radiometer
ESR Electron Spin Resonance, Elektronenspinresonanz
ESR Experimentier-Speicher-Ring (bei der GSI, Darmstadt)
ESRF European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (Grenoble, Frankreich)
ESRIN European Space Research Institute
ESRO European Space Research Organization
ESS European Spallation Source (Jülich)
ESSI European Software and Systems Initiative
EST Eastern Standard Time (Zeitzone, USA, GMT-5)
EST Expressed Sequence Tags (Genetik)
ESTA European Science and Technology Assembly
ESTB EGNOS System Test Bed
ESTEC European Space Research and Technology Centre (Noordwijk, NL)
ESTO European Science and Technology Observatory (EC)
ETACS European Total Access Communication System
ETAI European Technology Assessment Infrastructue (EC)
ETAN European Technology Assessment Network (EC)
ETANN Electrically Trainable Artificial Neural Network
ETC Executable Test Case (Telekommunikation)
ETDM Electric(al) (or: Electronic) Time Division Multiplexing (optische Telekommunikation)
ETECAL Electronically Tunable External Cavity Laser Diode
ETG European Tripartite Group
ETH Ethernet

ETH(Z) Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Zürich)

ETI Electrotechnology Industry Database
ETI European Teraflops Initiative
ETS Educational Testing Service (Princeton, NJ, USA)
ETS Executable Test Suite (Telekommunikation)
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute (seit 1988)
ETW Europäischer Transschall-Windkanal (Köln)
EU European Union; Europäische Union
EUCAS [Europäische Konferenz zur Angewandten Supraleitung]
EUCOR Europäische Konföderation der Oberrheinischen Universitäten
EUNET European Unix Network
EUPEN European Physics Education Network (EPS)
EUPRO European Union of Physics Research Organizations
EURAB European Research Advisory Board

EURASIP European Association for Signal Processing

EURATOM European Atomic Energy Community
EURECA European Retrievable Carrier (europäisches Weltraumlabor)
EUREKA European Research Coordination Agency
Eurocontrol (Europäische Organisation für die Sicherheit im Flugverkehr)
EUROGI European Umbrella Organization for Geo Information
EuroHORCs European Union Research Organisations - Heads of Research Councils
EUROMAR (Überwachung und Schutz der europäischen Meere)
EUROMAT European Congress on Advanced Materials and Processes
Euromech European Mechanics Colloquium
EUROMET European Collaboration on Measurement Standards, European Metrology Organization
EUROSCIENCE A European Association for the Promotion of Science and Technology
EUROSOLAR (Europäische Vereinigung für Erneuerbare Energien)
EUROTRAC (Erfassung von Schadstoffen in der Troposphäre)
EUT Equipment Under Test
Eutelsat European Telecommunications Satellite Organization
EUV Extremes Ultraviolett (.lambda. .le. 912 Å, Lyman-Kante)
EUVL EUV-Lithographie
EVA Economic Value Add
EUVE Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (Satellit)
EVM Error Vector Magnitude (Telekommunikation)
EVOH Ethylenvinylalkohol-Copolymer
EVPR External Virtual Private Router
EVR Eigenvalue Ratio
EVS Energieversorgungssystem (Satellit)
EVU Energieversorgungsunternehmen (früher: Elektrizitätsversorgungsunternehmen)
EWB Einwegbehälter
EWR Europäischer Wirtschaftsraum
EWSK East-West Station Keeping (Satelliten)
EWTF East-West Task Force (EPS)
EWvK Entwicklungsgesellschaft für die Wiederverwendung von Kunststoffen
EXAFS Extended X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure
EXE (Dateinamenerweiterung: ausführbares Programm)

Excimer Excited Dimer (Laser)

EXP Experimental
EXPY Expressway (US Mail)
ExWoSt Experimenteller Wohnungs- und Städtebau
EZfM Europäisches Zentrum für Medienkompetenz (Marl)
EZMW Europäisches Zentrum für mittelfristige Wettervorhersage (= ECMWF)
EZN Erfinderzentrum Norddeutschland
EZRT [Fraunhofer-] Entwicklungszentrum Röntgentechnik

FA Fachausschuss
FA Failure Analysis
Fa. Firma
FAA Federal Aviation Administration (USA)
FAB Fast Atom Bombardment (Massenspektrometer)
FACA Federal Advisory Committee Act (USA, 1972)
FAD Function Access Domain (Telekommunikation)
FAEST Fast A Posteriori Error Sequential Technique (Algorithmus)
FAIFC Fast Algorithms in Feedback Control (Algorithmus)
FAL Bundesforschungsanstalt für Landwirtschaft (Braunschweig)
FAMOS flexible automatisierte Montagesysteme
FANPAC Fan Noise Prediction and Control (EU-Forschungsprojekt)
FAPS [Lehrstuhl für] Fertigungsautomatisierung und Produktionssystematik
(Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization (UN)
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FAS Facility Associated Signaling (Telekommunikation)
FAS Federation of American Scientists (seit 1945, gegen Atomwaffen)

FAS Fettalkoholsulfat
F.A.S. Free Alongside Ship (Handelsverkehr)
FASE Federation of the Acoustical Societies of Europe
FASPIS Fast Algorithms Secondary Path Integration Scheme (Algorithmus)
FAST Fast Auroral Snapshot (Satellite, USA)
FAST Forecasting and Assessment in the Field of Science and Technology
FAT File Allocation Table
FATSS Fachausschuss Technischer Schall- und Schwingungsschutz (in der DEGA)
FAU Florida Atlantic University
FAU Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (Nürnberg)
FAW Flexible Automatisierte Waferproduktion
FAX Facsimile, Faksimile
FAZ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
FB Fachbereich
FB Function Block (Telekommunikation)

FBA Fair Buffer Allocation (Telekommunikation)

FBG Fiber Bragg Grating (Glasfaser)

fBGF Fibroblast Growth Factor
FBH Ferdinand-Braun-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (Berlin)
FBNML Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA)
FBP Fast Back Propagation (Algorithmus)
FBR Fachbereichsrat
FBR Forschungsberichte Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Datenbank)
FBW Fly by Wire (Flugzeugsteuerung)
FC Fuel Cell (= BZ, Brennstoffzelle)
FCA Fixed Capacity Agreement (Telekommunikation)

FCAPS Fault Configuration, Accounting, Performance and Security

FCC Federal Communication(s) Commission (USA)
FCCC Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN)
FCCSET Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (USA)
FCD Floating Car Data (für Verkehrslenkungssystem)
FCKW Fluorchlorkohlenwasserstoff
FCS Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
FCS Frame Check Sequence (Telekommunikation)
FCT Fixed Cellular Terminal (Telekommunikation)
FDA Food and Drug Administration (USA)
FDC Floppy-Disk-Controller
FDD Frequency Division Duplex (Telekommunikation)
FDD Frequency Domain Decomposition
FDDI Fiber Distributed (or: Digital) Data Interface
FDEM Frequency Dependent Electromagnetic Sensor
FDIP Fieldbus Device Implementation Package
FDL Fiber Delay Line
FDL Flight Dynamics Laboratory
FDM Finite Difference Method
FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing
FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
FDP Freie Demokratische Partei
FDR Final Design Report
FDRQ Floppycontroller-Data-Request
FDT Fieldbus Device Tool
FE Fast Ethernet (Telekommunikation)
FEA Field Emitter Array (Bildwandler)
FEAT Fusion Energy Advanced Tokamak (feat auch engl. "Meisterstück'')
FEC Fest-Elektrolyt-Coulometrie
FEC Forward Error-Correction (Datenübertragung)
FEC Forwarding Equivalence Class (Telekommunikation)
FECC Forward Error Correcting Code (Telekommunikation)

FED Field-Emission Display

FED Forum on Education (APS)

FEG Field Emission Gun

FEIS Final Environmental Impact Statement
FEL Free Electron Laser, Freie-Elektronen-Laser
FELASOFI Federation of Latin American Physical Societies
FELI Free Electron Laser Research Institute (Osaka, Japan)
FEM Finite Element Method
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency (USA)
FEP [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Elektronenstrahl- und Plasmaphysik
FER Frame Erasure Rate (Telekommunikation)

FER Fusion Experimental Reactor (Naka, Japan)

FERC Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (USA)
FERP Faculty Early Retirement Program (California State University)
FESAC Fusion Energy Science Advisory Committee (DoE, USA)
FET Field Effect Transistor, Feldeffekttransistor
FE-TEM Field Emission TEM
FEWS Fibre-Optic Evanescent Wave Sensing
FF Foundation Fieldbus
FF&P Falsification, Fabrication of Results, Plagiarism (Fälschung und Täuschung in der Wissenschaf
FFR&DC Federally Funded Research and Development Centers
FFT Fast Fourier Transform
FFTB Final Focus Test Beam (SLAC)
FG Fachgremium (z. B. DPG)
FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committeee (USA)
FGF Fibroblast Growth Factor, Fibroblasten-Wachstumsfaktor
FGK Forschungsgesellschaft Kunststoffe
FGM Functionally Gradient Material (Keramik/Metall)
FGSA Forum on Graduate Student Affairs (APS)

FH Fachhochschule
FhAZ Fraunhofer-Anwendungszentrum
FHD Flame Hydrolysis Deposition (Waferfertigung)
FhG Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
FhM Fraunhofer-Management-Gesellschaft mbH
FHP Forum on History of Physics (APS)

FHSS Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (Telekommunikation)

FHT Fachhochschule für Technik (Esslingen)
FHT Fast Hartley Transform
FHTW Fachhochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (Berlin)
FhV-.mu.E Fraunhofer-Verbund Mikroelektronik
FIA Federacion Iberoamericana de Acustica
FIA Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (Genf, Schweiz)
FIA Fibreoptic Industry Association (UK)
FIA Fließinjektionsanlage (Mikrosystemtechnik)
FIAP Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics (APS, USA)
FIB Forschungsinstitut Borstel, Institut für Experimentelle Biologie und Medizin
FIBAA Foundation for International Business Administration Accredititation
FIBS First International Backgammon Server (Rechnernetz)
FICON Fiber Channel Connection (optische Telekommunikation)

FID Flammen-Ionisations-Detektion
FIDO Field Integrated Design & Operations Rover (NASA, für Marslandemission)
FIEC [Verband der europäischen Bauindustrie, International European Construction Association]
FIFO First In, First Out
FIG Facility for Interactive Generation of Graphics (UNIX)
FIGE Forschungsinstitut für Geräusche und Erschütterungen (Herzogenrath (oder: Aachen))
FiNut Frauen in Naturwissenschaft und Technik
FIP Fédération Internationale de Philatélie
FIP Forum on International Physics (APS)

FiPS Früheinstieg ins Physikstudium

FIR Far-Infrared
FIR Finite Impulse Response (Digitalfilter)
FIRE Fusion-Ignition Research Experiment (Alternative zu ITER, USA)
FIRST Far Infrared and Submillimetre Telescope (IR-Satellit)
FIRST Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik (Berlin)
FIS Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Senckenberg der SNG (Frankfurt/M)
FISCO Fieldbus Intrinsically Safe Concept
FISH Fluoreszenz-in-situ-Hybridisierung
FIT Failures in Thousands of Hours
FIT Failures in Time (Kommunikation)
FiT Frauen in der Technik e.V.
FIT Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnik (St. Augustin)
FITL Fibre In The Loop
FITS [NASA-endorsed] Flexible Image Transport System
FIZ Fachinformationszentrum (Karlsruhe)
FIZCH Fachinformationszentrum Chemie (Berlin)
FIZKA FIZ Karlsruhe, Gesellschaft für wissenschaftlich-technische Information (Eggenstein-Leopolds
FJC Freely Jointed Chain (Polymerphysik)
FKE Forschungsinstitut für Kinderernährung (Dortmund)
FKW Fluorkohlenwasserstoff (ohne Chlor)
FL Floor (US Mail)
FL Florida (US-Staat)
FL Fuzzy Logic
FLAG Fibre Link Around the Globe (Glasfaser-Kabel UK-Europa-Nordafrika-Indien-Japan)
FLC Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal
FLCD FLC Display
FLIC Flexible Interdigital Cuff Electrode
FLL Fibre in the Local Loop (opt. Datenübertragung)
FM Facilities Management (Telekommunikation)
FM Frequency Modulation, Frequenzmodulation
FMC Fixed-Mobile Convergence (Telekommunikation)
FMCW Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (Radar)
FMD Fluorescent Multilayer Disk (optischer Datenspeicher)
FMD Forward Multiplicity Detector (CERN)
FMEA Fehlermöglichkeits- und Einflussanalyse, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
FMI Fluorescent Microthermiographic Imaging
FMP Flow Management Protocol (Telekommunikation)

FMP Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (Berlin)

FMS Flight Management System
FNAL Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
FNC Federal Networking Council (Datennetze, USA)
fNMR Functional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

FNTF Fast Newton Transversal Filter

F.O.B. Free on Board (Handelsverkehr)
FOCS Fiber-Optic Current Sensor
FOEI Friends of the Earth International (in Deutschland: BUND)
FOKUS Fraunhofer-Institut für Offene Kommunikationssysteme (Berlin)
FOLANT Focusing of Laser Radiation in the Nearfield of a Tip (Nanotechnologie)
FOMA Freedom of Multimedia Access (Telekommunikation)

FONAS Forschungsverbund Naturwissenschaft, Abrüstung und internationale Sicherheit

F.O.R. Free on Rail (Handelsverkehr)
FORKAT BMFT-Förderungskatalog
FORSUPRA Forschungsverbund Hochtemperatur-Supraleiter (Bayern)
Fortran Formula Translator
FOS Faseroptischer Sensor
FOS Finnish Optical Society
FOS Frontier of Science (interdisziplinäre internationale Symposien für Jungwissenschaftler)
FOTA Flat Optical Element Technology and Applications
FOV Field of View (Teleskop)
FÖV Forschungsinstitut für Öffentliche Verwaltung (Speyer)
FOX Fiber Optic Extender (optische Telekommunikation)
FP Fixed Part (z. B. Basestation, DECT)
FP Frame Protocol (Telekommunikation)

FPA Focal Plane Array

FPA Function Point Analysis
FPD Flat Panel Display
FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array (Computer)
FPLMTS Future Public and Land Mobile Telecommunication System
FPS Forum on Physics and Society (APS)

FPT Fachbereichstag Physikalische Technik

FPT Fast Polynomial Transform
FPU [Enrico] Fermi-[John] Pasta-[Stanislaw] Ulam (nichtlineares Schwingungssystem)
FQHE Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
FR Frame Relay (Datenübertragung)
FR France (im Internet)
FR Frankfurter Rundschau
FRAD Frame Relay Access Device (Datennetz)
FRAD Frame Relay Assembly-Disessembly (Datennetz)
FRAM Ferroelectric Random Access Memory
FrAM Fraunhofer-Arbeitsschutz-Managementsystem
FRAMTEC Framework for Advanced Monitoring, Telemetry and Control
FRC Fraunhofer Resource Center (Michigan, OH, USA)
FRC-DE Fraunhofer Resource Center Delaware (Newark, DE, USA)
FRF Frequency Response Function
FRISP Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf Programme
FRLS Fast Recursive Least Squares (Transversalfilter)
FRM Forschungsreaktor München
FS Fachverband für Strahlenschutz e.V.
FS Founder Societies
FSA Fixed Slot Allocation (Telekommunikation)

FSAN Full Service Access Network (Telekommunikation)

FSF Free Software Foundation
FSK Frequency Shift Keying (Modulation)
FSO Free-Space Optical (communication)
FSP Fachschaftsparlament
FSR Fachschaftsrat
FSR Free Spectral Range
FSRV Fachschaftsräteversammlung
FSS Fixed Satellite Service (or: System)
FST Fast Sine Transform
FST Femtosekunden-Technologie
FST Finite State Transducer (Sprachsynthese)
FSU Former Soviet Union, frühere Sowjetunion
FSU Friedrich-Schiller-Universität (Jena)
FTAM File Transfer, Access and Management (Datennetz-Protokoll)
FTD Fluorescent Tube Display
FTE Full Time Equivalent (Telekommunikation)
FTF Fast Transversal Filter
FTIR Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry
FTIR Frustrated Total Internel Reflection (Lichtmodulator)
FTP File Transfer Protocol (Datenübertragung)
FTS Festprogrammierbarer Titel-Speicher
FTS Fourier Transform Spectroscopy
FTTA Fiber to the Area
FTTB Fibre to the Building (Telefon, Glasfaser bis zum Haus)
FTTC Fibre to the Curb (Telefon, Glasfaser bis zum Kabelverzweiger)
FTTH Fibre to the Home (Telefon, Glasfaser bis ins Haus)
FTTU Fiber to the User
FTU Fortbildungszentrum für Technik und Umwelt (KfK, Karlsruhe)
FTZ Fernmeldetechnisches Zentralamt (der Bundespost)
FuE Forschung und Entwicklung
FUEG Förderung von Forschungs- und Entwicklungsgemeinschaftsvorhaben Ost (BMBF)
FUNET Finland's University and Research Network (Rechnernetz)
FUSE Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (Satellit)

FUTOUR Förderung und Unterstützung technologieorientierter Unternehmensgründungen (BMBF)

FV Fachverband (z. B. DPG)
FVK faserverstärkte Kunststoffe
FVM Finite Volume Method
FVS-Stiftung Freiherr-vom-Stein- [und zugleich] Friedrich-von-Schiller-Stiftung (Hamburg)
FW Fire Wall (Telekommunikation)
FWD Front-Wheel Drive
FWG Forschungsanstalt der Bundeswehr für Wasserschall und Geophysik (Kiel)
(scherzhaft auch: Flachwassergesellschaft)
FWHM Full Width Half Maximum (Fotofilm-Körnigkeit)
FWM Four Wave Mixing
FXC Fiber Optical (or: Switch) Cross Connect (optische Telekommunikation)
FY Fiscal Year
FYI for your information
FZR Forschungszentrum Rossendorf

G Guanin (DNA-Base)
GA Genetic Algorithm
GA Georgia (US-Staat)
GAAM Gesellschaft für Analytik und atomspektroskopische Messtechnik
GABA .gamma.-Aminobuttersäure
GABI (deutsche "Schwester" der Human Genome Organization)

GAC General Advisory Committee (AEC)

GAEB Gemeinsamer Ausschuss Elektronik im Bauwesen
GAFA Internationale Gartenfachmesse (Köln)
GAFOS German-American Symposia on Frontiers of Science
GAG Georg-Agricola-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der T
GAIA, Gaia Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics
GALILEO (Europäisches Satelliten-Navigationssystem, im Aufbau)
GALLEX Gallium-(Sonnen-Neutrino)-Experiment (Gran Sasso, Italien)
GAM Generalized Additive Model (Regressionsverfahren)
GAMESS General Atomic Electronic Structure Systems
GAMM Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik
GAMS Guide to Available Mathematics Software
GAN Global Area Network (Datennetze)
GANIL Grande Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (Frankreich)
GAO General Accounting Office (USA)
GAP Generic Access Profile (or: Protocol)
GARTEUR Group for Aeronautical Research and Technology in Europe
GARS German Antarctic Receiving Station
GAS Gesellschaft für Angewandte Supraleitung (KfK, Karlsruhe)
GAST Gemeinschaft Autofreier Schweizer Tourismusorte
GAST Gemeinschaftsausschuss Strahlenforschung
GAT Governmental Action Team
GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GAUSS Galaktisches Ultraweitwinkel Schmidt System (Spacelab, Kugelspiegelkamera)
GB Gigabyte
GB Great Britain
GBF Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung (Braunschweig)
GbR Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts
GBS Göttinger Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft
GC Gas Chromatography
GCC Global Climate Coalition
GCD Greatest Common Divisor (= ggT)
GCF GSM Certification Forum
GCMD Global Change Master Directory (NASA)
GCOS [globales Klimaüberwachungsprogramm]
GCRA Generic Cell Rate Algorithm (Telekommunikation)
GCSR Grating-assisted codirectional Coupler with rear Sampled Reflector (tunable laser)

GDCh Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V.

GDCP Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Chemie und Physik
GDM Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
GDMO Guidelines for Defining (or: the Definition) of Managed Objects
GDN Global Development Network
GDNÄ Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte e.V.
GDNF Glia-Derived Neurotrophic Factor
GDOS Graphics Device Operating System
GDP General Drawing Primitive
GDP Gross Domestic Product (Volkswirtschaft)
GDP Guanosindiphosphat
GdT Gemeinschaftsausschuss der Technik
GDV Gesamtverband der deutschen Versicherungswirtschaft e.V.
GE Gigabit Ethernet
GEA Gigabit Ethernet Alliance
GEF Global Environment Facility (Umweltfonds, 1990)
GefStoffV Gefahrstoff-Verordnung
GEM Gas Electron Multiplier
GEM Graphics Environment Manager
GEMA Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungsrechte
GEMINGA Gemini Gamma-Quelle (Neutronenstern)
GEMS Global Environment Monitoring System (Naturschutz)

GENIUS Germanium Detectors in Liquid Nitrogen in an Underground Set Up (Neutrinodetektor)

GenMAPP Gene MicroArray Pathway Profiler (Computerprogramm für genetische Analyse)
GEO [britisch-deutscher Gravitationswellendetektor] (Ruthe bei Hannover)
GEO Geosynchronous (or: Geostationary) Earth Orbit
GEOMAR Forschungszentrum für marine Geowissenschaften (Univ. Kiel)
GERAN GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network (Telekommunikation)

GESIMA Geesthachter Simulationsmodell der Atmosphäre

GESIS Gesellschaft sozialwissenschaftliche Infrastruktureinrichtungen (Mannheim)
GEUmbH Gesellschaft für Energieanwendung und Umwelttechnik mbH (Leipzig)
GEW Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft
GFDL Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA)

GFE Großforschungseinrichtung
GFK Glasfaser-verstärkte Kunststoffe
GFP Generic Framing Procedure (Telekommunikation)

GFP Green Fluorescent Protein

GFR Guaranteed Frame Rate (Telekommunikation)

GFS Gemeinsame Forschungsstelle (der EU in Petten, NL)

GFSK Gaussian-Filtered Frequency Shift Keying
GFZ Geoforschungszentrum (Potsdam)
GGF Glial Growth Factor (Medikament, evtl. gegen MS)

GGF Global Grid Forum

GGSN Gateway GPRS Support Node (Telekommunikation)

GGT Gesellschaft für Gerontotechnik
ggT größter gemeinsamer Teiler (= GCD)
GGVS Gefahrgut-Verordnung Straße
GHRS Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph
GHZ Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger(-Zustand)
GI Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
GIF (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)

GIF German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development

GIF Graphics Interchange Format (Datenkompression, Fa. CompuServe 1987)
GigE Gigabit Ethernet

GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program

GIMS Topical Group on Instruments and Measurement Science (APS)

GIOD Globally Interconnected Object Databases

Gips Giga-Instructions per Second
GIRL German Infrared Laboratory (Astrophysik, 1985)
GIS Geo-Informationssystem, Geographic(al) Information System
GISI Göttinger Informationssystem für Intensivmedizin und OP
GISI Gruppo Imprese Strumentazione Italia
(Association for Instrumentation, Control and Automation Companies)
GIZ Giftinformationszentrum (Göttingen)
GK Graduiertenkolleg
GK Grundkurs
GKS Grafisches Kern-System
GKSS [Forschungszentrum Geesthacht]
GLA Göttinger Linguistische Abhandlungen
GLAD General Laser Analysis and Design
GLAST amma Ray Large Area Space Telescope
GLCM Ground-Launched Cruise Missile
GLDV Gesellschaft für linguistische Datenverarbeitung
GLF Grundlagenforschung
GLM General Linear Modelling
GLOBIS Global Change and Biodiversity in Soils
GLOBUS Generating Long-Term Options by Using Simulation
GLONASS Global Navigation Satellite System (Russland)
GLP Good Laboratory Practice, gute Labor-Praxis
GLS Global Locating Sensing
GLZ Generalized Linear Modelling
GM General Motors
GMAG Topical Group on Magnetism and Its Applications (APS)

GmbH Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung

GMD Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (Bonn/Darmstadt/Berlin/St. Augustin/Birli
GMLC Gateway Mobile Location Center (Telekommunikation)

GMM Global MultiMedia (Telekommunikation)

GMM GPRS Mobility Management
GMO Genetically Modified Organism
GMPLS Generalized Multi Protocol Label Switching (Telekommunikation)

GMR Giant Magnetoresistance

GMSK Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying (Modulation)
GNA Global Network Academy (Texas)
GNI Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface (Telekommunikation)
GNIRS Gemini Near Infrared Spectrometer (USA)
GNM Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Nürnberg)
GNO Gallex Neutrino Observatory (INFN, Gran Sasso, Italien)
GNOME GNU Object Model Environment
GNP Gross National Product (= Bruttosozialprodukt)
GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System
GNSS2 Global Navigation Satellite System, 2nd generation
GNU Gallium Neutrino Observatory (zuvor: GALLEX, Gran Sasso, Italien)
GNU GNU is not UNIX
GO Gründungsoffensive
GoB Good or Better
GOLF Global Oscillations at Low Frequencies (an Bord von SOHO)
GOMAC Government Microcircuit Applications Conference (USA)
GOME Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (Fernerkundung, ERS 2, 1995)
GOMOS Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Star (ENVISAT)

GONG Global Oscillation Network Group (für Helioseismologie)

GoS Grade of Service (Telekommunikation)
GOTS Gesellschaft für Orthopädisch/Traumatologische Sportmedizin

gov [Government] (Internet, USA)

GPCR G-Protein Coupled Receptor
GPIB General Purpose Interface Bus
GPIP General Purpose Input/Output Interrupt Port
GPL General (or: GNU) Public License (FSF)
GPON Gigabit Passive Optical Network (Telekommunikation)
GPRS Global (or: General) Packet Radio Service (or: System) (Telekommunikation)
GPS Global Positioning System
GPWS Ground Proximity Warning System
GR Gigabit Router (Internet)
GRA Gamma Resonance Absorption
GRAB Galactic Radiation and Background (US Aufklärungs-Satellit)
GRATE Generic Rules and Agent Model Test Bed Environment
GRB Gamma-Ray Burst (Astrophysik)
GRC Gordon Research Conference
GRE Generic Routing Encapsulation
GRIP Greenland Icecore Project
GRK Graduiertenkolleg (DFG, seit 1990)
GRM General Relationship Model
GRO Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (Satellit)
GRS Gamma-Ray Spectrometer

GS Guaranteed Service
GSA Global Suppliers Association (Telekommunikation)

GSAG GOME Science Advisory Group

GSCCM Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter (APS)
GSE Group of Scientific Experts (Genfer Abrüstungskonferenz 1976)
GSETT-1, -2, -3 GSE Technical Test I (1984), ~ II (1991), ~ III (1995)
GSG Gesundheitsstrukturgesetz
GSI Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (Darmstadt)
GSM Global System for Mobile Communication(s) (Telekommunikation)
GSM Groupe Spéciale Mobile (Mobilfunk)
GSMA GSM Association (Telekommunikation)

GSMBE Gas Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy

GSMN GSM Node
GSMS GPRS Short Message Service (Telekommunikation)
GSMT Giant Segmented-Mirror Telescope (geplant)
GSN Global Seismographic Network
GSN GPRS Support Node
GSNP Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (APS)

GSO Geostationary Satellite Orbit

GSW Glashow-Salam-Weinberg (Neutrinotheorie)
GT Gamow-Teller
GTD Geometrical Theory of Diffraction
GTP GPRS Tunneling Protocol (Telekommunikation)
GTP Guanosintriphosphat
GTP-c GPRS Tunneling Protocol Control Plane (Telekommunikation)

GTRI Georgia Tech Research Institute (USA)

GTS Global Transmission Services (ISS)
GTZ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (Eschborn)
GU Guam (US Mail)
GUD Gas- und Dampfturbinen (-Kraftwerke)
GUESS General-Purpose Expert System Shell
GUI Graphical User Interface
GUID Global Unique Identifier (weltweites PC-Netz)

GUS Gemeinschaft unabhängiger Staaten (ehem. UdSSR)

GUT Grand Unified Theory (theoretische Physik)
GVD Group Velocity Dispersion (Leitungen)
GVE Großvieheinheit (Normrind, Masse 500 kg)
GVM Global Voice Mail (Telekommunikation)

GVP Genesis Voice Protocol (Telekommunikation)

GVPP Generic Visual Perception Processor
GW Gateway (Telekommunikation)
G-WiN Gigabit-Wissenschaftsnetz (geplant für 2000, bis 2,4 Gbit/s)
GWUP Gesellschaft für die wissenschaftliche Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften

GZMB Göttinger Zentrum für Molekulare Biowissenschaften

HAC High Authority Control

HAC Human Artificial Chromosome
HAD Helium Abundance Detector (Galileo-Satellit 1989)
HAD Hollow Cathode Activated Deposition (dünne Schichten)
HAI Helicopter Association International
HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer (Telekommunikation)
HARF Hyperstable Adaptive Recursive Filter

HARP High-gain Avalanche Rushing Amorphous Photoconductor

HART Highway Addressable Receiver/Transmitter (Telekommunikation)
HASASEM Haptisches Sensor-Aktor-System auf der Grundlage der Echtzeitelastographie
sowie von elektro- und magnetorheologischen Materialien
HASYLAB Hamburger Synchrotronstrahlungs-Laboratorium (bei DESY)
HAV Hepatitis-A-Virus
HAZOP Hazardous Analysis and Operability (Problemlösungsmethode)
HBCCO HgBa2Can-1CunO2n+2 (HTSL)
HBCI Homebanking Computing Interface
HBFG Hochschulbauförderungsgesetz
HBFR High Flux Beam Reactor (Brookhaven, Long Island, NY, USA)
HBT Hetero-Bipolartransistor, Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor
HBV Hepatitis-B-Virus
HCB Hexachlorbenzol
HCH Hexachlorcyclohexan
HCM Human Capital (and) Mobility (EU)
HCMV Humanes Cytomegalovirus
HCTMCP Hexacyanotrimethylencyclopropanid
HCV Hepatitis-C-Virus
HD Harmonization Document (CENELEC)
HDA High-Density Amorphous (Ice)
HDBR Hybrid Distributed Bragg Reflector (optische Telekommunikation)

HDBT High Definition Broadcast Technology

HDCAM [vom HDTV ageleitetes Bildaufzeichnungsformat]
HDCS Hard Disk Controller Select
HDF Hierarchical Data Format
HDF Hubble Deep Field (Astrophysik)
HDL High-Density Lipoprotein
HDL High-Density Liquid
HDL High-Power Diode Laser

HDLC High Level Data Link Control (Datenübertragung)

HDML Handheld Device Markup Lnguage
HdO hinter dem Ohr (Hörgeräte)
HDPE High Density Polyethylene
HDRQ Harddiskcontroller-Data-Request
HDSL High-Bit-Rate (or: High Speed) Digital Subscriber Line (or: Loop)
HDTV High Definition Television (hochauf lösendes Fernsehen)
HEAO High Energy Astrophysical Observatory
HEFC Higher Education Funding Council (UK)
HEFCE Higher Education Funding Council for England
HELCOM Helsinki Commission on Baltic Marine Protection
HEMT High Electron Mobility Transistor
HEP Hochenergiephysik, High-Energy Physics
HEP Hochschulerneuerungsprogramm (neue Bundesländer)
HEPAP High-Energy Physics Advisory Panel (USA)
HEPnet High Energy Physics Network
HEPP High Energy and Particle Physics Division (EPS)
HER Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor

HERA Hadron-Electron Ring Accelerator, Hadron-Elektron-Ring-Anlage (DESY)

HERV Humanes Endogenes Retrovirus
HES High Energy Stereoscopic System (Gamma-Strahlen-Teleskop-Array, Namibia)
HES Home Electronic System
HET Hobby-Eberly-Telescope (Davis Mountains, TX, USA)
HETE High Energy Transient Explorer
HETP Height Equivalent to One Theoretical Plate (Maß für Trennleistung
eines chemischen Analysesystems, z.B. 20 .mu.m bei Chromatographie)
HEU Highly Enriched Uranium
HEV Hybrid Electric Vehicle
HEW Half Energy Width (Teleskope)
HEW Hamburgische Elektricitätswerke
HF High Frequency (3 - 30 MHz)
HF Human Factors (TC im ETSI)
HFB Hartree-Fock-Bogoljubow
HFBR High Flux Beam Reactor (Brookhaven, Long Island, NY, USA)
HFC Hybrid Fibre Coax
HFEA Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
HFF Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film (München)
HFIR High Flux Isotope Reactor (ORNL)
HFO Halbleiterwerk Frankfurt/Oder
HFR High-Flux Reactor (GFS, Petten, NL)
HFR Hybrid Fiber Radio
HGAC Human Genetic Advisory Commission
HGC Hercules Graphics Card
HGF Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren
HGL (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)

HGS Human Genome Sciences

HGÜ Hochspannungs-Gleichstrom-Übertragung
HGV Hochgeschwindigkeitsverkehr (Schienenverkehr)
HHC Higher Harmonic Control
HHG High Harmonic Generation (kurze Lichtimpulse)
HHI Heinrich-Hertz-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik (Berlin, neuer Name)
HHI Heinrich-Hertz-Institut für Schwingungsforschung (Berlin, alter Name)
HHMI Howard Hughes Medical Institute
HHS Health and Human Services (US Government Department)
HI Hawaii (US-Staat)
HIC Heterogeneous Interprocessor Communications and Standards
HIC Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography
HIDIF Heavy Ion Driven Intertial Fusion
HIF Hochschulinternes Fernsehen (Göttingen)
HiFi High Fidelity (Unterhaltungselektronik)
HIFI Hawaii Imaging Fabry-Pérot Interferometer (Astronomie)
HIGS High-Intensity Gamma-Ray Source

HIL Hardware-in-the-Loop
HILES HIL-Echtzeitsimulation
HIPERLAN High Performance Radio LAN (Telekommunikation)

HIPPARCOS High Precision Parallax Collecting Satellite (ESA 1989)

HIS Hochschul-Informationssystem
HITL Hardware-in-the-Loop
HITRAP Heavy Ion Trap
HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Human-Immunschwäche-Virus
HKI Hans-Knöll-Institut für Naturstofforschung (Jena)
HKIOA Hong Kong Institute of Acoustics
HKP Hochschulkooperationsprogramm (EU)
HL Hidden Layer (neuronale Netze)
HLA Human Leukocyte Antigen (Biochemie)
HLL High-Speed Low-Voltage Low-Power (Logik-ICs)
HLP (Dateinamenerweiterung: Windows-Hilfe-Datei)

HLR Home Location Register (Telekommunikation)

HLRB Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum in Bavaria
HLRS Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart
HLRZ Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum (Jülich)
HLU Hilfe zum Lebensunterhalt (,,Sozialhilfe'')
HLW High-Level Waste (Radioaktiver Abfall)
HM Hardware Manager
HMD Head-Mounted Display (VR)
HMDO Hexamethyldisiloxan
HMI Hahn-Meitner-Institut (Berlin)
HMI Human-Machine Interface
HMM Hidden Markov Model
HMR Home Location Register (Heimat-Datei)
HMS Health Monitoring System (Aircraft)
HMX Tetramethylentetranitramin (Octogen, Sprengstoff)
HMXB High-Mass X-Ray Binary (Röntgendoppelstern)
HNM Heliport Noise Model (Lärmbewertung)
HNMC Hub Network Management Computer
HNO Hals-, Nasen- und Ohren(-Klinik oder -Kunde)
HO HandOver (Telekommunikation)

HOLOMAR High-Resolution in situ Holographic Recording and Analysis of Marine Organisms and Particle
HOT Highly Optimized Tolerance
HOTS Holographic Optical Telescope and Scanner
HP (hp) Hewlett Packard
HPC High Performance Computing
HPCC High Performance Computing and Communication (USA)
HPC1 Human Prostata Cancer 1
HPCN High Performance Computing and Networking (ESPRIT)
HPF High Performance Fortran
HPGL Hewlett Packard Graphics Language
HPHT High Pressure High Temperature (Diamant)
HPI Heinrich-Pette-Institut für Experimentelle Virologie und Immunologie (Hamburg)
HP-IB Hewlett Packard Interface Bus
HPLC High Performance Liquid Chromatography
HPNA Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (Telekommunikation)

HPS High Purity Standard (Analytische Chemie)

HPS Human Patient Simulator
HPS The Hungarian Physical Society
HPSS High Performance Storage System
HPV Human-Papillomviren
HPVM High Performance Visual Machine
HQ High Quality
HRC Harmonically Related Carrier
HRD Hertzsprung-Russell-Diagramm (Astronomie)
HREEL(S) High Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
HRI High Resolution Imager (Röntgen-Satellit)
HRK Hochschulrektorenkonferenz
HRTEM Hochaufgelöste Raster-Transmissions-Elektronenmikroskopie
HRTF Head-Related Transfer Function
HSARPA Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (USA)
HSC High Speed Cutting
HSCSD High Speed Circuit Switched Data (Telekommunikation)
HSDL Hierarchical Scan Description Language
HSE High Speed Ethernet
HSE High Surface Energy

HSFK Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

HSI High Speed Internet (Telekommunikation)

HSP Hitzeschock-Protein
HSP Hochschulsonderprogramm
HSRV humanes Spuma-Retrovirus
HSS harter Schnellstahl (Werkzeuge)

HSS High Speed Switch (Datennetz)

HSS Home Subscriber Server (Telekommunikation)

HST Hubble Space Telescope

HSVA Hamburgische Schiffbau-Versuchsanstalt
HSWS Hartmann-Shack Wavefront Sensor
HT High Temperature

HTB Heterobipolar-Transistor
HTDV Human Teratocarcinoma-Derived Virus
HTE High Throughput Experimentation
HTF Hub Terminal Facilities
HTG Hyperschall-Technologie Göttingen (DLR)
HTLV humanes T-lymphotropes Virus
HTM (Dateinamenerweiterung: Internet-Datei)

HTMC High Temperature Mechanical Testing Committee (UK)

HTML HyperText Markup Language (Dateinamenerweiterung: Internet-Datei)
HTMT Hybrid Technology/Multithreaded System (Supercomputer)

HTS Heights (US Mail)

HTS High-Throughput Screening (z.B. bei DNA-Analyse)
HTS(C) High Temperature Superconductor (High-Tc Superconductivity)
HTS(L) Hochtemperatur-Supraleiter (High-Tc-Supraleitung)
HTTP HyperText Transfer (or Transmission) Protocol (Rechnernetz, WWW)
HTTPS HTTP Secured
HU Humboldt-Universität (Berlin)
HUGO Human Genome Organization
HVAC Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning
HWC Hydrophobe Wechselwirkungschromatographie
HWY Highway (US Mail)
HYKAT Hydrodynamik- und Kavitationstunnel (HSVA)
HYSWIM Hydrogen Switchable Mirror
HZT High-Z Supernova Search Team

IA Ingoing Access
IA Iowa (US-Staat)
IAA Internationale Astronautische Akademie
IAAS Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik (Berlin)
IAB Institut für Akustik und Bauphysik (Oberursel/Ts.)
IAB Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (der Bundesanstalt für Arbeit)
IAB Internet Administration Board

IACC Interaural Cross-Correlation

IAD Integrated Access Device
IADC Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency (Wien)
IAEO International Atomic Energy Organisation
IAESTE International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience
IAF [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Angewandte Festkörperphysik
IAI Israel Aircraft Industries
IAKF Interessengemeinschaft für Autofreie Kur- und Fremdenverkehrsorte in Bayern
IAKK interaurale Kreuzkorrelation
IANUS Interdisziplinäre Arbeitsgruppe Naturwissenschaft, Technik und Sicherheit (Darmstadt)
IAO [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation (Stuttgart)
IAP [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Angewandte Polymerforschung (Golm)
IAP Institut für Atmosphärenphysik (Kühlungsborn, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
IAP Internet Access Provider
IAS Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ, USA)
IASI Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
IASP International Association for the Study of Pain
IASTED International Association of Science and Technology for Development
IAT Institut Arbeit und Technik (Gelsenkirchen)

IATA International Air Transport Association

IAU International Astronomical Union
IAV Informations-, Anlauf- und Vermittlungsstelle (Karlsruhe)
IBA Important Bird Area (Naturschutz)

IBC Integrated Broadband Communication

IBC International Broadcasting Convention

IBE Interaktive Bildschirmexperimente

IBFM Interacting Boson Fermion Model
IBM Interacting Boson Model
IBM International Business Machines Corporation
IBMS In-Beam Mössbauer Spectroscopy
IBMT [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Biomedizinische Technik (St. Ingbert)
IBP [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Bauphysik (Stuttgart)
IBR Institut für Bioanorganische und Radiopharmazeutische Chemie (FZR)
IBRO International Brain Research Organization
IC Integrated Circuit
IC Intercity (Bundesbahn)
IC Internal Combustion [Engine] (Verbrennungsmotor)
IC Ion Chromatography; Ionenchromatographie
ICA International Congress on Acoustics
ICaB Incoming Call Barrier
ICALEO International Conference on Applications of Lasers and Electrooptics
ICALEPCS International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems
ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization
ICARCF International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision
ICAS International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
ICASE Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering
(NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA)
ICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
ICB Institute for Collaborative Biotechnology (USA)
ICBEN International Commission on the Biological Effects of Noise
ICBM Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
ICBP International Council for Bird Preservation

ICC Intelligent Customer Care

ICCAD International Conference on Computer Aided Design
ICCL International Conference on Computer Languages
ICDP International Continental Drilling Program (= KTB)
ICE In-Car-Entertainment (Autoradio)
ICE Intercity Express (Bundesbahn)
ICER Industry Council for Electronic Equipment (UK)
ICES International Council for Exploration of the Sea
ICF Inertial Confinement Fusion (= Trägheitsfusion) (Reaktor)
ICFA International Committee for Future Accelerators
ICG Intellectual Capital Group (Franklin, MI, USA)
ICGRG International Commission on General Relativity and Gravitation
ICI Integrated Communication Interface (Telekommunikation)
ICI Inter-Carrier Interference (Telekommunikation)
ICIP International Conference on Image Processing
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol (Telekommunikation)
ICN Information and Communication Network (Siemens)

ICNN International Conference on Neural Networks

ICNP International Conference on Network Protocols
ICO International Commission for (or: on) Optics
ICOMOS International Council on Monuments and Sites
ICONIP International Conference on Neural Information Processing
ICP Inductively Coupled Plasma
ICP Interuniversity Cooperation Programme (Europe)
ICPNM International Certificate Program for New Media (FhG, CRCG)
I&C PS Industrial & Commercial Power Systems [Technical Conference]
ICR Ion Cyclotron Resonance

ICRM International Committee for Radionuclide Metrology

ICRP International Commission on Radiological Protection
ICRU International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements
ICSI International Computer Science Institute (Berkeley, CA, USA)
ICSOS International Conference on the Structure of Surfaces
ICSU International Council of Scientific Unions
ICSV International Conference on Sound and Vibration
ICT Information and Communication Technology
ICT [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Chemische Technologie (Pfinztal bei Karlsruhe)
ICTP International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Triest, seit 1964)
ICW Internet Call Waiting (Telekommunikation)
ID Idaho (US-Staat)
IDA Institute for Defense Analyses (USA)
IDA Interface for Distributed Automation
IDBS Interactive Data Business Solutions
IDC Insulation Displacement Connection

IDC International Data Corporation

IDC International Data Centre, Internationales Datenzentrum (zur CTBTO)
IDE Integrated Development Environment
IDEM Informations- und Dokumentationsstelle Ethik in der Medizin
IDF International Diabetes Federation
IDFT Inverse Discrete Fourier Transform, inverse diskrete Fourier-Transformation
IDL Interactive Data Language
IDL Interface Definition (or: Description) Language
IDNDR International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
IDR Inter-Domain Routing (Telekommunikation)
IDRFC Internal Dynamic Rate Flow Control (Telekommunikation)
IDS Institut für Deutsche Sprache (Mannheim)
IDS Intrusion Detection System (Firewall)
IDTV Improved Definition Television (100 Hz-Bild)
IEA International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IECE, IECEJ Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineers of Japan
IEE Institution of Electrical Engineers (UK)
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA)
IEER Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (USA)
IEICE, IEICEJ Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers of Japan
IEMB Institut für Erhaltung und Modernisierung von Bauwerken (Berlin)
IEN Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale Galileo Ferraris (Turin, Italien)
IEPE Integrated Electronic Piezoelectric
IERE Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers (London)
IESE [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Experimentelles Software Engineering (Kaiserslautern)
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IETS Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy
IF Intermediate Frequency
IFA Internationale Funkausstellung
IFAC International Federation of Automatic Control
IfADo Institut für Arbeitsphysiologie (Dortmund)
IFAM [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Fertigungstechnik und Angewandte Materialforschung (Bremen)
IFC Industry Foundation Class (Schnittstelle)
IFE In-Flight Entertainment System
IfE Institut für Erdölforschung (Clausthal-Zellerfeld)
IFE Institut für Festkörperphysik und Elektronenmikroskopie
IFF [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Fabrikbetrieb und -automatisierung (Magdeburg)
IFF Institut für Festkörperforschung [a): am IFW, b): am KFA, Jülich]
IFF Interchange File Format (Graphikformat)
IFFT Inverse Fast Fourier Transform
IfH Institut für Hochenergiephysik (DDR, Zeuthen, AdW)
IFIP International Federation of Information Processing Societies
und: International Federation for Information Processing
IfL Institut für Länderkunde (Leipzig)
IfL Institut für Leibesübungen
IfM Institut für Meereskunde (Kiel)
IfN Institut für Neurobioogie (Magdeburg)
ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (München)
IFOR (Internationale Friedenstruppe für Bosnien)
IFORS International Federation of Operational Research Societies

IFOS Institut für Oberflächen- und Schichtanalytik (Univ. Kaiserslautern)

IfR Institut für Radiochemie (FZR)
IFRB International Frequency Registration Board (in Genf)
IFS Institut für Festkörperanalytik und Strukturforschung (am IFW)
IfS Institut für Sicherheitsforschung (FZR)
IFSA International Forestry Students Association
IFT [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Festkörpertechnologie (München)
IfT Institut für Troposphärenforschung (Leipzig)
IFT(o)MM International Federation for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms
IFU [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Atmosphärische Umweltforschung
IFW Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstofforschung (Dresden, seit 1992)
IfW Institut für Weltwirtschaft (Kiel)
IFX Interactive Financial Exchange
IfZ Institut für Zeitgeschichte (München)
IG Intrinsic Gettering
IGAPPI Interdivisional Group for Applied Physics and Physics in Industry (EPS)
IGB Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (Berlin)
IGB [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Grenzflächen- und Bioverfahrenstechnik (Stuttgart)
IGBP Internationales Geosphären-Biosphären-Programm (Ökologie)
IGBT Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor
IGD [Fraunhofer-] Institut für graphische Datenverarbeitung (Darmstadt, Außenstelle in Rostock)
IGERT Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (NSF, USA)

IGK Integrated Gatekeeper (Telekommunikation)

IGLO Informal Group of RTD Liaison Officers in Brussels (EU)
IGMP Internet Group Management (or: Multicast) Protocol (Telekommunikation)

IGN Installations-Geräuschnormal (DIN 52218)

IGP Interior Gateway Protocol (Telekommunikation)
IGPD Interdivisional Group on Physics for Development (EPS)
IGS International GPS Service for Geodynamics (Satelliten-Geodäsie)
IGV Institut für Grenzflächenforschung und Vakuumphysik (Jülich)
IGZ Institut für Gemüse- und Zierpflanzenbau (Großbeeren und Kühnhausen bei Erfurt)
IHES Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (bei Paris)
IHP Institut für Halbleiterphysik (Frankfurt/Oder)
IHPT Institut für Physikalische Hochtechnologie e.V. (Jena)
IIASA International Institute of Applied System Analysis (Laxemburg bei Wien)
IID Independent and Identically-Distributed (Data; Filtertheorie)
IIJ Internet Initiative Japan
IIM Institut für Ionenstrahlphysik und Materialforschung (FZR)
IIMV Internationales Institut für Management und Verwaltung
I-INCE International Institute of Noise Control Engineering
IIR Infinite Impulse Response (Digitalfilter)
IIS [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen (Erlangen)
IITB [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Informations- und Datenverarbeitung (Karlsruhe)
IJCNN International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
IKAR (Landkarten-Datenbank) (im DBI)
IKARUS nstrumente für Klimagas-Reduktionsstrategien
IKBD Intelligent Keybord Chip
IKH Institut für Kern- und Hadronenphysik (FZR)
IKM Institut für elektronische Korrelationen und Magnetismus
IKRK Internationales Komitee vom Roten Kreuz
IKSE Internationale Kommission zum Schutz der Elbe
IKSR Internationale Kommission zum Schutz des Rheins
IKT Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien
IKTS [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Keramische Technologien und Sinterwerkstoffe (Dresden)
IKV Institut für Kunststoffverarbeitung (Aachen)
IKZ Institut für Kristallzüchtung (Berlin-Adlershof)
IL Illinois (US-Staat)
IL Insertion Loss (Einfügungsdämmung)
ILA In-Line Amplifier (Glasfaserkabel)
ILA Internationale Luft- und Raumfahrtausstellung (?)
ILAF Identical Location of Accelerometer and Force
ILC International Laser Center (Staatsuniversität Moskau)
ILD Intelligibility Level Difference
ILD Interaural Level Difference
ILEC Incumbant Local Exchange Carrier (Telekommunikation)
ILL Institut Laue-Langevin (Grenoble)
ILM Integrated Laser Modulator (optische Telekommunikation)
ILMI Integrated Local Management Interface (Telekommunikation)
ILS Instrumentenlandesystem
ILS Intracavity Laser Spectroscopy
ILSC International Laser Safety Conference
ILT [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Lasertechnik (Aachen)
ILV [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Lebensmitteltechnologie und Verpackung (München, bis 31.12.97; da
ILW Intermediate-Level Waste (Radioaktiver Abfall)
IM Information Manager (Telekommunikation)
IM Instant Messaging (Telekommunikation)
IM Intensitätsmodulation
IMA Integrated Motor Assist
IMA Interactive Multimedia Association
IMA International Marinelife Association

IMACS International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation

IMAGE Imager for Magnetopause to Aurora Global Exploration (NASA, Satellit)
IMAP Internet Mail (or: Message) Access Protocol (E-Mail Server)
IMB Institut für Molekulare Biotechnologie (Jena)
IMBA Institut für Molekulare Biotechnologie (Wien)

IMCC ISDN Management and Coordination Committee (TC im ETSI)

IMD Intermodulation Distortion
IMechE Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK)
IMEKO International Measurement Confederation (Budapest)
IMG (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)
IMIS Integriertes Mess- und Informationssystem zur Überwachung der Umweltradioaktivität
IMK [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Medienkommunikation (St. Augustin)
IML [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Materialfluss und Logistik (Dortmund)
IML International Microgravity Laboratory
IMM Institut für Mikrotechnik (Mainz)
I-MMS MSS Interconnection Network
IMO Institut für Mikrostrukturtechnologie und Optoelektronik (Wetzlar)
IMO International Maritime Organization
IMP Institut für Molekulare Pathologie (Wien)

IMP Intermodulation Product

IMPATT Impact Avalanche Transit-Time (Diode)
IMPRS International Max Planck Research School

IMPS Institute for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Porto Novo, Benin)
IMPT Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy (Röntgentechnik)
IMRT Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (Röntgentechnik)
IMS [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Mikroelektronische Schaltungen und Systeme (Dresden)
IMS Institute for Molecular Science (Okazaki, Japan)
IMS Integrated Management Solution (Telekommunikation)

IMS Intelligent Manufacturing System

IMS International Monitoring System (zum CTBT)
IMS Ionen-Mikrofabrikations-Systeme (Firma in Wien)
IMSA Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identification
IMT Institut für Mikrostrukturtechnik (KfK)
IMT Institute of Microtechnology (Universität von Neuchâtel, CH)
IMT International Mobile Telecommunications
IMTC Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE)
IMU International Mathematical Union
IMW Institut für Metallische Werkstoffe (am IFW)
IN Indiana (US-Staat)
IN Intelligentes Netz, Intelligent Network
INAP Intelligent Network Application Protocol (or: Part)
Inc. Incorporated (USA, entspricht Aktiengesellschaft)
INCE Institute of Noise Control Engineering (USA)
INCEMIC International Conference on Electromagnetic Interference and Compatibility
INCO International Cooperation [Cooperation with Third Countries
and International Organisations] (EC)
INEL Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
INES Informationsnetz Elbe-Sanierung
INES Innovative Navigation European System
INESAP International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation
INF Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces
INFCE International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation
INFN Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Frascati, Italien)
INGO Intensivierte Gewässerüberwachungsorganisation
INI (Dateinamenerweiterung: Programm-Initialisierungsdatei)

INIE Innovations in Nuclear Infrastructure and Education (DoE-Programm, USA)

INM Integrated (or: Intermediate) Network Management (optische Telekommunikation)

INM Integrated Noise Model (FAA)
Inmarsat International Maritime Satellite Organization (gegr. 1979)
INOK Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie (Berlin)
INP Institut für Niedertemperatur-Plasmaphysik (Greifswald)
INPAT Integration des Patentwesens in die ingenieurmäßige wissenschaftliche Hochschulausbildung
INQUA International Union for Quarternary Research
INRA International Research Associates
INRETS Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité (Frankreich)
INRIA Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Frankreich)
INSERM Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale
Int., Intnl. International

INTAS International Association for the Promotion of Cooperation with Scientists from the New Indep
(Internationale Assoziation zur Förderung der Zusammenarbeit mit Wissenschaftlern aus der
früheren Sovietunion) (Brüssel 1993)
INTEGRAL International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (geplant für 2001)
Internoise International Congress on Noise Control Engineering
INTOR International Tokamak Reactor (Fusionsreaktor)
IntServ Integrated Services (Telekommunikation)
I/O Input/Output
IOBB Input Output, Broadband (Telekommunikation)
IOC Intergovermental Oceanographic Commission (der UNESCO)
IODP Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
IOF [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Angewandte Optik und Feinmechanik (Jena)
IOM Individual Ordinary Member (EPS u.a.)
IOM Institut für Oberfläüchenmodifizierung (Leipzig)
IONDS Integrated Operational Nuclear Detection System
IOP The Institute of Physics (UK)
IOPP Institute of Physics Publishing (Bristol, UK)
IÖR Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung (Dresden)
IOT InterOperability Test (Telekommunikation)

IOTA Infrared-Optical Telescope Array (Mt. Hopkins, AZ, USA)

IOTA Institut d'Optique Théorique et Appliquée (Frankreich)
IOW Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde (Universität Rostock)
IP Intelligence Platform
IP Internet Protocol (Rechnernetz)
IPA [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung (Stuttgart)
IPA Intelligent Pilot Assistant (DLR, Flugführung)
IPAM Interface Analysis at Atomic Level and Properties of Advanced Materials
IPAT Impact, Population, level of Affluence, Technology (Gleichung zur Beschreibung
umweltschädigender Auswirkungen menschlichen Verhaltens)
IPB Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie (Halle/Saale)
IPC Integrated Plastic (or: Polymer) Circuit (Elektronik)
IPC Integrated Pollution Control
IPC Inter-Process Communication (Telekommunikation)
IPC International Patent Classification
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPCC International Professional Communication Conference
IPD Institut für Polymerforschung (Dresden)
IPDC Internet Protocol Device Control
IPDS Institut für Phonetik und digitale Sprachverarbeitung (Kiel)
IPF Institut für Polymerforschung (Dresden)
IPG Information Power Grid (NASA)
IPHT Institut für Physikalische Hochtechnologie (Jena)
IPK Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (Gatersleben)
IPK [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Produktionsanlagen und Konstruktionstechnik (Berlin)
IPL Information-Processing Language
IPL Ionenprojektions-Lithographie
IPM [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Physikalische Messtechnik (Freiburg)
IPMX Internet Protocol Media Exchange (Telekommunikation)
IPN Institut für die Pädagogik der Naturwissenschaften (Kiel)
IPNS Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA)
IPO Initial Public Offering
IPO Institute for Perception Research (Eindhoven, NL)
IPoA IP over ATM
IPP Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (Garching)
IPR Intelectual Property Rights
IPRC Intellectual Property Rights Committee (TC im ETSI)
IPS In-Plane Switching (LCD mit beiden Pixelelektroden auf einer Seite, aufgeklappter Kondensato
IPS Instructions per Second
IPS International Plutonium Storage
IPSD Intensified Position-Sensing Detector
IPSE Integrated Project Support Environment
IPSec Internet Protocol Security (Telekommunikation)
IPSI [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Integrierte Publikations- und Informationssysteme (Darmstadt)
IPSS Information Processing Systems and Software (ESPRIT)
IPT [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Produktionstechnologie (Aachen)
IPTS Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (EU, Sevilla, Spanien)
IP VPN IP Virtual Private Network(s) (Telekommunikation)
IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange (Telekommunikation)
IQEC International Quantum Electronics Conference
IQHE Integer Quantum Hall Effect
IR Information Retrieval
IR Infrared [Radiation]
IRAM Institute for Radio Astronomy at Millimeter Wavelengths (Grenoble, Frankreich)

IRAS Infrared Astronomical Satellite

IRB [Fraunhofer-] Informationszentrum Raum und Bau
IRBM Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile
IRC Internet Relay Chat (Rechnernetz)
IRCAM Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique Musique (Paris)
IRCH Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating (Fusionsreaktortechnik)
IRDA Infrared Data Exchange
IRDAC Industrial Research and Development Advisory Committee (EU)
IRDT Inflatable Reentry and Descent Technology (Raumfahrt)
IRE Institute of Radio Engineers (USA)
ISC International Softswitch Consortium
IRFU Integrated Radio Frequency Unit (Telekommunikation)
IRI Industrial Research Institute (Washington, DC, USA)
IRIDIA [Institute for] Interdisciplinary Research and Development in Artificial Intelligence (Esprit, Brü
IRIS Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (USA)
IRS Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung (Berlin)
IRS Internal Reference Specification
IRS International Revenue Service (USA)
IRS Intrusion Response System (Firewall)
IRSI Infrared Space Interferometry

IRST Infrared Search and Track (Radar)

IRSU ISDN Remote Subscriber Unit (RSU mit ISDN-Möglichkeit)
IRT Integrated Receiver-Transmitter (Telekommunikation)
IRTF Infrared Telescope Facility (Mauna Kea, Hawaii)
IS Information Systems
IS Integrated Services
IS Island (US Mail)
ISA Industry-Standard Architecture
ISA Integrated IP/SDH/ATM (or: STM/ATM) (Telekommunikation)
ISA Integrated Service Adapter (Telekommunikation)

ISA International Search Authority (Patente)

ISAAC Infrared Spectrometer and Array Camera (beim VLT der ESO)
ISAM Institut für Supercomputing und Angewandte Mathematik (Heidelberg)
ISAN Integrität bei der Satellitennavigation
ISAR Intelligentes System zur automatischen Radioskopie

ISARS International Society for Acoustic Remote Sensing

ISAS Institut für Spektrochemie und Angewandte Spektroskopie (Dortmund)
ISAS Institut of Space and Aeronautical Science (Japan)
ISB Intelligent Signalling Bus (Datennetz)
ISBN International Standard Book Number
ISC [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Silicatforschung (Würzburg)
IRENA (Internationale Agentur für Erneuerbare Energien)
ISDB Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting (Telekommunikation)
ISDB-S Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Satellite (Telekommunikation)
ISDB-T Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (Telekommunikation)
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network (Telekommunikation)
ISE [Fraunhofer-] Institut für solare Energiesysteme (Freiburg)
ISE Integrated Switching Element (Telekommunikation)
ISE Intelligent Synthesis Environment (NASA)
ISF [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Schwingungsforschung (1956, später: IITB)
ISF International Science Foundation
ISFET Ionen-sensitiver Feldeffekt-Transistor
ISFH Institut für Solarenergieforschung, Hameln
ISFM International Spent Fuel Management (Brennelement-Kontrolle)
ISG Informationszentrum für Sexualität und Gesundheit (Freiburg/Br)
ISH Internationale Fachmesse Sanitär Heizung Klima (Frankfurt/M)
ISI Institut für Schicht- und Ionentechnik (Jülich)
ISI [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Systemtechnik und Innovationsforschung (Karlsruhe)
ISI Institute for Scientific Information (Philadelphia, PA)
ISIC International Student Identity Card
ISIN International Securities Identification Number
ISIS Intelligentes Satellitendaten-Informationssystem (Fernerkundung)
IS-IS Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System
ISIT [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Siliziumtechnologie (Itzehoe)
ISL Imperceptible Structured Light

ISL Institut Franco-Allemand de Recherches de Saint-Louis,

Deutsch-Französisches Forschungsinstitut Sant-Louis
ISL Inter-Satellite Link (Telekommunikation)
ISM In Situ Monitoring
ISM Industrial Scientific Medicine (433 MHz-Frequenzband) und Bluetooth: 2,45 GHz-Band (lizenz
ISM Interstellares Medium
ISMA International Symposium on Musical Acoustics
ISN Institut des Sciences Nucléaires (Grenoble, Frankreich)
ISNA International Symposium on Nonlinear Acoustics
ISNR Improvement in SNR (Bildbearbeitung)
ISNS Inside Science News Service (USA)
ISO Infrared Space Observatory (1995)
ISO International Standards Organization
ISOL Isospin Separation Online
ISOL Isotope Separator Online
ISOLDE Innerstädtischer Service mit optimierten logistischen Dienstleistungen
ISORAC Infrared Spectroscopy of Ozone and Related Atmospheric Constituents
ISOS Internet-Spanning Operating System (noch hypothetisch)

ISO/SR ISO Search Retrieval

ISP In-System Programmable (devices)
ISP Internet Service Provider
ISPRAM In Situ Processing of Aluminium Matrix Composites
ISR Integrated Switch Router (Internet)
ISR Initial Submission Rate (Datennetz)
ISRN International Standard Technical Report Number
ISS International Space Station
ISSCC International Solid-State Circuits Conference
ISSN International Standard Series Number
ISSS International Society of Soil Sciences
ISST [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Software- und Systemtechnik (Berlin)
IST [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Schicht- und Oberflächentechnik (Braunschweig)
IST Internal Set Theory (Interne Mengenlehre)
ISTC International Science and Technology Center (Moskau)
ISTP Information Society Technologies Programme
ISTR Inverse Sequence-Tagged Repeat (DNA-Markertechnologie)
ISUP ISDN User Part
ISVR Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (Southampton, UK)
ISX-B Impurity Studies Experiment B (Fusionsreaktortechnik, Oak Ridge)
ISY International Space Year (1992)
IT Information Technology, Informationstechnik
ITA [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Toxikologie und Aerosolforschung (Hannover). (Ab 2003: ITEM)
ITAEG Information Technology Advisory Experts Group
ITB Internationale Tourismusbörse (Berlin)
ITC inferior-temporaler Cortex
ITC International Typeface Corporation
ITD Interaural Time Difference
ITEA Information Technology for European Advancement

I-TEC Innovations- und Technologie-Eigenkapital (EU-Programm)

ITEM [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Toxikologie und Aerosolforschung (Hannover). (Bis 2002: ITA)
ITER International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Fusionsreaktortechnik)
ITF Infrared Telescope Facility (Mauna Kea, HI, USA)
ITFS Instructional TV Fixed Service

ITG Informationstechnische Gesellschaft (im VDE)

ITGS Intelligent Traffic Guidance System (Tokio)
ITiS Informations-Technik in Schiffen
ITLR Institut für Thermodynamik der Luft- und Raumfahrt (Uni Stuttgart)
ITO Indium Tin Oxide
ITRI Industrial Technology Research Institute (Taiwan)
ITRI Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute (Albuquerque, NM, USA)
ITS Intelligent Transportation Systems
ITS Intelligentes Tutorsystem
ITSEC Information Technologies Security Evaluation Criteria (Telekommunikation)
ITSP Internet Telephony Service Provider
ITS-90 International Temperature Scale of 1990
ITU [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Toxikologie und Umwelthygiene (München)
ITU International Telecommunication(s) Union (Genf, Schweiz)
ITU-R ITU Radiocommunication Sector
ITU-T ITU-Telecommunications
ITU-TS ITU Telecommunication Standards
ITWM [Fraunhofer-]Institut für Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik (Kaiserslautern)
IUAES Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
IUCAF Inter-Union Commission on the Allocation of Frequencies for Radio and Space Sciences
IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
IUCr International Union of Crystallography
IUCT [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Umweltchemie und Ökotoxikologie (Schmallenberg)
IUE International Ultraviolet Explorer (Satellit)
IUGG International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
IuK Information und Kommunikation (eine Initiative der wissenschaftlichen Fachgesellschaften)
IUPAC International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
IUPAP International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
IUPUI Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianopolis
IUT Institut Universitaire de Technologie
IUTA Institut für Umwelttechnologie und Umweltanalytik (Duisburg)
IUTAM International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
IUVSTA International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique, and Applications
IVAS Internet Value Added Services
IVF In Vitro Fertilization
IVH Institut für Verkehrswirtschaft (Hannover)
IVK Intelligente Verteilerkästen
IVM Industrie-Verband Motorrad e.V.
IVoD Interaktives Video on Demand
IVPN International Virtual Private Network (Telekommunikation)
IVR Interactive (or: Integrated) Voice Response
IVSE Information and Voice Services Environment (Telekommunikation)
IVV [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Verfahrenstechnik und Verpackung (München, ab 1.1.98, vorher: ILV
IWF Institut für Wild- und Zootierforschung (Berlin)
IWF Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen)
IWF Internationaler Währungsfonds
IWH Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle
IWM [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Werkstoffmechanik (Freiburg)
IWMI International Water Management Institute (Sri Lanka)
IWR Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen (Univ. Heidelberg)
IWRB International Waterfowl Research Bureau

IWS [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Werkstoff- und Strahltechnik (Dresden)

IWS Institut für Werkstoffphysik und Strukturforschung
IWTZ Internationales Wissenschafts- und Technik-Zentrum (Moskau)
IWU [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Umformtechnik (Chemnitz)
IWU Inter Working Unit
IWZ Informationszentrum Wärmepumpen und Kältetechnik
IXC Inter-Exchange Carrier (Telekommunikation)
IYPT International Young Physicists Tournament
IZB Informationszentrum Benchmarking (am IPK)
IZE Informationszentrale der Elektrizitätswirtschaft
IZF Instituut voor Zintuigfysiologie (TNO, Soesterberg, NL) (Zintuig: Sinnes...)
IZFP [Fraunhofer-] Institut für zerstörungsfreie Prüfung (Saarbrücken)
IZM [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Zuverlässigkeit und Mikrointegration (Berlin und München)
IZT Institut für Zukunftsstudien und Technologiebewertung (Berlin)

J. Journal
J2ME Java 2 Micro Edition

JACC Joint Automatic Control Conference

JAERI Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute
JAIN JAVA for IN (Telekommunikation)
JASA Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
JCT Joint Central Team (ITER)
JCT Junction (US Mail)
JDBC JAVA Database Connectivity (Telekommunikation)
JDK JAVA Development Kit
JDMK JAVA Dynamic Management Kit (Telekommunikation)
JECC Joint ETSI/ECMA Committee (TC im ETSI)
JEDEC Joint Electronic Device Engineering Council
JEIDA Japan Electronic Industry Development Association
JEP Joint European Project
JES JAVA Embedded Server
JESSI Joint European Submicron Silicon
JET Joint European Torus (Fusionsreaktortechnik, Culham, Oxford, England)
JETRO Japanese External Trade Organization
JFT-2M Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (Fusionsreaktortechnik, Tokai, Japan)
JGHF Johann-Gottfried-Herder-Forschungsrat (Marburg)
JGOFS Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
JHP Japan Hadron Project (Protonenbeschleuniger)
JICST Japan Information Center of Science and Technology (Datenbank)
JIDM Joint Interdomain Management (Telekommunikation)
JIF (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)

JIF Joint Infrastructure Fund (UK)

JILA Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (Boulder, CO, USA)
JINR Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russland)
JLC Japanese Linear Collider
JMS Java Message Service
JMX JAVA Management Extensions
JNX Japan Network Exchange

Joides Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling (Zusammenschluss von Meeresforsc
JOSA Journal of the Optical Society of America
JPEG Joint Photographic (or: Pictures) Expert Group (Bildcodierung)
JPG siehe JPEG (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)

JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, CA, USA)

JPS Physical Society of Japan
JRC Joint Research Centre (EU)
JRDC Japanese Research and Development Corporation
JRS Japanese Rocket Society

JSAP The Japan Society of Applied Physics

JSASS Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences
JSC Johnson Space Center (USA)
JSME Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
JSNS Japan Spallation Neutron Source
JSP JAVA Server Pages
JSPMI Japan Society for the Promotion of Machine Industry
JSS Java Script Style
JST Japan Science and Technology Corporation
JT-60 Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (Fusionsreaktortechnik, Naka, Japan)
JTC EBU/ETSI Joint Technical Committee (TC im ETSI)
JTEC Japanese Technology Evaluation Center
JVC Japanese Victor Company
JVM Java Virtual Machine
J2EE Java 2 Enterprise Edition

J2SE Java 2 Standard Edition

KAFOR (Internationale Friedenstruppe für das Kosovo)

KAI Koordinierungs- und Aufbauinitiative e.V. [für die Forschung in Berlin und den neuen Bundesl
KAI-AdW Koordinierungs- und Abwicklungsstelle für die Akademie der Wissenschaften
KAIST Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
KAM-Theorie Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser-Theorie (nichtlineares Schwingungssystem),
[Andrej] Kolmogorov - [Wladimir] Arnold - [Jürgen] Moser
KAS Kanalserver
KASCADE Karlsruhe Shower Core and Array Detector (für kosmische Strahlung, seit 1996)
KATHY Key Authentication
KAVA Kommission für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Archäologie (Bonn)
KB Knowledge Base
kbps kilobit/Sekunde (= 1024 Bits/Sekunde)

KDC Key-Distribution Center

KDE K Desktop Environment
KDI Keybord and Display
KDP Kaliumdihdrogenphosphat
KDT Kammer der Technik (Ostdeutsche Ingenieure)
KDV Kriegsdienstverweigerer
KE Kentucky (US-Staat)
KEG Kommission der Europäischen Gemeinschaften
KEGG Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
KEK [National Laboratory for High-Energy Physics] (Tsukuba, Japan)
KEMAR Knowles Electronics Manikin for Acoustic Research
KEOPS Krystal European in-Orbit Positioning System
KEP Kurier, Express, Paket
KET Komitee für Elementarteilchenphysik
KFA Forschungszentrum Jülich
KFC Konferenz der Fachbereiche Chemie
KfK Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe
KFN Komitee für die Forschung mit Neutronen
KFP Konferenz der Fachbereiche Physik der Deutschen Hochschulen
KfW Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau
Kfz Kraftfahrzeug
KGN Körperschall-Geräuschnormal
kgV kleinstes gemeinsames Vielfaches
KHK Koronare Herzkrankheit
KHM Kunsthochschule für Medien (Köln)
KI künstliche Intelligenz
KIE Kintetsu International Express (Übersee-Büros von KNT)
KIF Knowledge Interchange Format
KIS Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik (Freiburg)
KIS Knowbot Information Service (Rechnernetz-Service)
KIS Kontaktstellen-Informations-Service
KIS Krankenhausinformationssystem
KIST Korean Institute for Science and Technology
KKK Kryo-Kanal Köln (DLR, Köln, Porz-Wahnheide)
KKW Kernkraftwerk
KL Kathodenlumineszenz
KL künstliches Leben
KMG Koordinatenmessgerät
KMI Knowledge Media Institute (UK, Fernuniversität)
KMI Körpermasse-Index (= BMI = M/L2, M: Körpermasse, L: Körperlänge) (Optimum: 20 ... 25 kg
KMK Ständige Konferenz der Kultusminister der Länder in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
KMU kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (bis 1000 Beschäftigte) [= SME]
KNN künstliches neuronales Netz(werk)
KNT Kinki Nippon Tourist (Japanisches Tourismus-Unternehmen)
KOSEF Korea Science Engineering Foundation
KOSIMO Konfliktsimulationsmodell (Institut für Politische Wissenschaft, Heidelberg)
KOWI Koordinierungsstelle (EG) der Wissenschaftsorganisationen (der Bundesrepublik Deutschland)
KPGLB Königlich Preußische Geologische Landesanstalt und Bergakademie
KQML Knowledge, Query and Manipulation Language
KR Kommunikationsrechner
KS Kansas (US-Staat)
KSE Konventionelle Streitkräfte in Europa (Vertrag über ...)
KSTAR Korean Superconductivity Tokamak Advanced Research (Fusionsreaktorprojekt)
KSZE Konferenz über Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit in Europa
KTB Kontinentales Tiefbohrprogramm der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (= ICDP)
KTG Kerntechnische Gesellschaft
KTP Kaliumtitanylphosphat
KTP Kontinentales Tiefbohrprogramm
KVK Krankenversicherungskarte
KWG Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
KWI Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut
KWIC Keyword in Context Index (,,permutierter Index'')
KWU Kraftwerk Union

LA Local Authority
LA Lousiana (US-Staat)
LAAPD Large-Area Avalanche Photodiode
LAC Low Authority Control
LACP Link Aggregation Control Protocol (Telekommunikation)
LAK Lymphokine Activated Killer (Zellen)
LAM Local Area Multicomputer
LAMA Large-Aperture Mirror Array (of LZTs)
LAMPF Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility
LAMS Load Alleviation and Mode Stabilization (Flugzeug)
LAN Local Area Network (Rechnernetze)
LANE Local Area Network Emulation (Telekommunikation)
LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA)
LANSCE Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANL)
LAP LAN Access Point
LaRC Langley Research Center (NASA)
LARC Livermore Automatic Research Computer (1955)
LAS Lateral Active Suspension
LASCO Large Angle Spectroscopic Coronograph (an Bord von SOHO)
Laser Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
LASIK Laser-Assisted in situ Keratomileusis (Augenchirurgie)
LASSO Langfristige Anwendungen seilgefesselter Systeme im Orbit
LBF [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Betriebsfestigkeit (Darmstadt)
LBG Lautsprachbegleitende Gebärden

LBL Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (CA, USA)

LBNL Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, CA, USA)
LBS Landesbausparkasse
LBS Location-Based Services (Telekommunikation)
LBSF Local Back Surface Field (Solarzellen)
LBT Large Binocular Telescope (Steward Observatory, AZ, USA)
LC Link Control (Telekommunikation)
LC Liquid Chromatography
LCA Liquid Crystal Array
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
LCLS LINAC Coherent Light Source
LCNP Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy (USA)
LCOS Liquid Crystal on Silicon (Chip)
LC-PCF Liquid Crystal Photonic Crystal Fibre
LCS Line Connection Subsystem (Datennetz)
LCS Location Services (Telekommunikation)

LCT Large Coil Task (Karlsruhe)

LCTC Low Cost Tooling for Composites
LCU Local Communications Unit
LCVD Laser Chemical Vapor Deposition
LD Laserdiode
LD letale Dosis
LDA Laser Doppler Anemometer, Laser Doppler Anemometry
LDA Low-Density Amorphous (Ice)
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (Telekommunikation)
LBD (Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft Access-Lockdatei)

LDF Local Density Functional

LDL Low-Density Lipoprotein
LDL Low-Density Liquid
LDP Label Distribution Path (Telekommunikation)

LDPE Low Density Polyethylene

LDR Large Disployable Reflector (Satelliten)
LDS Lower-Data-Strobe (Atari)
LDV Laser Doppler Velocimetry
LEAP Lasers and Electro-Optics Application Program (CLEO/LEAP)
LEAP Lightweight Extensible Agent Platform (Agenten-Plattform für Mobiltelefone)

LEAR Low Energy Antiproton Ring (CERN)

LEBU Large Eddy Break-up Device
LEC Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cell
LEC Liquid Encapsulated Czochralski (Kristallzuchtverfahren)
LEC Local Exchange Carrier (Telekommunikation)
LECIS Laboratory Equipment Control Interface Specification
LED Light-Emitting Diode
LEEM Low Energy Electron Microscopy
LEI Laser Enhanced Iionization
LEI Local Employment Initiatives for Women (EU)
LEM Local Element Manager (Kommunikation)
LEMS Long End Multiple System (militärisches Aufklärungssystem, USA)
LEN Laboratoire Energie Nuisances (Teil von INRETS)
LENS (Laserforschungslaboratorium, Florenz, I)
LEO Low Earth Orbit (Satellit)
LEOS Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (IEEE)
LEP Large Electron Positron Collider (CERN)
LER Label Edge Router (Telekommunikation)
LEST Large Earth-Based Solar Telescope
LET Linear Energy Transfer
LETI (Forschungslaboratorium der CEA in Grenoble)
LEU Low-Enriched Uranium (?) (niedrig angereichertes Uran)
LF Low Frequency (30 - 300 kHz)
LFC Laminar Flow Control
LFM Lateral Force Microscopy
LGPL Lesser General Public License
LHASA Logic and Heuristics Applied to Synthetic Analysis
LHC Large Hadron Collider (CERN, geplant für 2004-2005)
LHCC LHC Committee
LHD Large Helical Device (NIFS)
LHD Left Hemisphere Damage (Hirnschäden)

LHF Local Hidden Variable (Quantentheorie)

LIA Laser Institute of America (Toledo, OH, USA)
LIBS Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
LIC Local Interstellar Cloud
LID Local Injection and Detection (Kommunikation)
LIDAR Light Detection and Ranging
LIF Laser Induced Fluorescence
LIF Location Interoperability Forum (Telekommunikation)

LIF-ENSTA-X (Laserforschungslaboratorium, Palaiseau, Frankreich)

LIGA-Verfahren Lithographie, Galvanoformung, Abformtechnik [Röntgentiefenlithographie mit
Synchrotronstrahlung, kombiniert mit galvanischer Metallabscheidung und
verschiedenen Abformprozessen]
LIGO Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (Livingston, LA, USA,
Einweihung: Nov. 1999, Messungen ab 2002)
LIM Line Interface Module
LIMS Laboratory Information Management System,
Labor-Informations- und Managementsystem (Qualitätssicherung)
LINAC Linear Accelerator (50 GeV, Stanford, SLAC)
LIPS Light Intensity Pressure Sensor
LISA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (Gravitationswellendetektor aus 3 Satelliten, geplant für 20
LISB Leit- und Informationssystem Berlin (Verkehrsführung)
LISM Local Interstellar Medium
LISP List Programming (or: Processing)
LiST Laser-induziertes Spannungs-Trennverfahren (Glasschneiden)
LITE Lidar-in-Space Technology
LITT Laser-Induced Interstitial Tomography
LIVA Light-Induced Voltage Alteration
LK Lake (US Mail)
LK Leistungskurs
LL Leased Line (Telekommunikation)
LL Leichte Löcher (Halbleiterphysik)
LLC (Laserforschungslaboratorium, Lund, Schweden)
LLC Limited-Liability Company
LLC Logical Link Control (Telekommunikation)
LLCC Leadless Chip Carrier
LLDPE Linear Low Density Polyethylene
LLG Laser-Laboratium Göttingen
LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA, USA)
LLW Low-Level Waste (Radioaktiver Abfall)
LM Link Manager (Telekommunikation)
LMA, L.M.A. Laboratoire de la mécanique et d'acoustique (CNRS, Marseille, France)
LMDS Local Multichannel (or: Multipoint) Distribution Service(s)
LMIS Liquid Metal Ion Sources
LMS Least Mean Square (Algorithmus)
LMT Large Millimeter Telescope (Mexico)
LMT Local Maintenance Terminal (Telekommunikation)

LMU Local Mobile Unit (Telekommunikation)

LMU Location Measurement Unit (Telekommunikation)

LMU Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (München)

LMXB Low-Mass X-Ray Binary (Röntgendoppelstern)
LN Lane (US Mail)
LNA Low Noise Amplifier
LNB Low-Noise Block (Converter)
LNC Low-Noise Converter (Telekommunikation)
LNG Liquified Natural Gas (für den Transport verflüssigtes Erdgas)
LNGS [Nationallabor Gran Sasso] (Italien)
LNK (Dateinamenerweiterung: Windows-Linkdatei)

LO Local Oscillator (Telekommunikation)

LOA Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée (Ecole Polytechnique, Frankreich)
LOC Lab-on-a-Chip
LOCOS Local Oxidation of Silicon; Lokale Oxidation von Silizium
LOE Lasers and Optical Engineering (Conference)
LOKAL Leckortung durch Korrelationsanalyse
LORAN Long Range Navigation
LOS Line of Sight (Telekommunikation)

LOT Lapped Orthogonal Transform

LOTIS Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System (USA)

LOVA Low Vulnerability Ammunition (Sprengstoff)

LOVER Local Verification (Atomenergie-Kontrolle)
LP Larch Prover
LPC Laser Processing Consortium
LPC Linear Predictive Coding
LPCVD Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition
LPE Liquid Phase Epitaxy (Waferherstellung)
LPF Low Pass Filter
LP-MOVPE Low Pressure Metalorganic Vapour Phase Epitaxy
LPPP Poly(p-Phenylen)-Polymer (für Leuchtdioden)
LPS Lokales Positionssystem

LQG Linear Quadratic Gaussian (Control)

LQR Linear Quadratic Regulator (Control)
LRC Lokale realistische Theorie
LRL Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (Berkeley, CA, USA)
LRT Laser Ray Tracing
LRTNF Long-Range Theatre Nuclear Forces
LRZ Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (München)
LS Least Square(s)
LS Location Service (Telekommunikation)
LSA Link State Advertisement (Telekommunikation)
LSB Low-Surface-Brightness (Galaxien)
LS & C Local Space & Communications (Telekommunikation)
LSDB Link State Database (Telekommunikation)
LSE Low Surface Energy

LS-GMLC Location Server-Gateway Mobile Location Center (Telekommunikation)

LSM Laser Scanning Microscope

LSM La1-xSrxMnO3 (Material für Brennstoffzelle)
LSM Link Security Management (Telekommunikation)
LSND Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector
LSP Label(ed) Switch(ed) Path (Telekommunikation)
LSP Line Spectral Pair (LPC-Analyse)
LSPD Link State Path Database (Telekommunikation)
LSR Label Switched Router (Telekommunikation)
LSS Large Space Structure
LSST Large-Aperture Synoptic Survey Telescope (geplant)
LSSTP Large Space Structures Technology Program
LST Laser Scattering Tomograph
LT Line Termination (Kommunikation)
LTA Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit (Mannheim)
LTCC Low-Temperature Co-Fired Ceramic(s)
LTD Laser Display Technology
Ltd. Limited (GB, entspricht Aktiengesellschaft oder GmbH)
LTER Long Term Ecological Research
LTP Long-Term Potentiation (Neurologie)
LTR Long Terminal Repeats (Viren)
LTS Low-Tc Superconductor
LTV Life Time Value

LULI Laboratoire Utilisation des Lasers Intense (Laboratory for the Use of High Power Laser) (Franc
LUN Logical Unit Number
LUPO Luminescent Polymer
LURE Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation du Rayonnement Electromagnétique (Ile de France)
LURE Lunar Laser Ranging
LWA Landesamt für Wasser und Abfall (Düsseldorf)
LWDRM Light Weight Digital Rights Management
LWFA Laser Wakefield Accelerator (Plasmabeschleuniger)
LWL Lichtwellenleiter
LZB Linienzugbeeinflussung
LZF LZB-Fahrzeugeinrichtung
LZH (Dateinamenerweiterung: Archivdatei mit komprimierten Inhalten)

LZH Laser Zentrum Hannover

LZT Large Zenith Telescope (proposed, with spinning mercury mirror)
L2CAP Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol (Telekommunikation)
L2TP Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (Datenübertragung)

MA Massachusetts (US-Staat)
MA Moving Average (gleitende Mittelung, Glättungsfilter)
MAB Man and Biosphere (Naturschutz)

MAC Marine Aquatic Council (Internationale nichtkommerzielle Organisation)

MAC Medium Access Control (Layer) (DECT)

MAC Message Authenticity Check (or: Code) (Datennetz)
MACH Multiple Active Computer-Generated Hologram
MACHO Massive Astrophysical Compact Halo Objects
MacOS Macintosh Operating System
MACRO Monopole, Astrophysics and Cosmic Ray Observatory (Gran Sasso, Italien)
MAD Magnetron Activated Deposition (Dünne Schichten)
MAGIC Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cerenkov Telescope (La Palma, Kanarische Inseln)
Maglev Magnetic Levitation
MAHRSI Middle Atmosphere High Resolution Spectrograph Investigation
MAISEC Material-Informationssystem für elektronische Komponenten
MAK Maximale Arbeitsplatzkonzentration
MALDI Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization
MALVINE Manuscripts and Letters via Integrated Networks in Europe
MAMI Mainzer Mikrotron (Elektronenbeschleuniger)
MAN Maschinenfabrik Augsburg/Nürnberg
MAN Metropolitan Area Network (Rechnernetze)
MANIAC Mathematical Analyzer, Numerical Integrator, and Computer (Los Alamos, NM, USA, ca. 1950
MAO Methylaluminoxan (Katalysator)
MAP Manufacturing Automation Protocol (Datennetz von GM)
MAP Medium Access Protocol
MAP Microwave Anisotropy Probe (Satellit, Astrophysik)

MAP Miniaturisierung, Automatisierung und Parallelisierung (Chemie-Forschung)

MAP Mobile Application Part (Telekommunikation)
MAP Multimedia-Arbeitsplatz

MAPL Maximum Allowable Path Loss (Telekommunikation)

MAPLE Matrix-Assisted Pulsed-Laser Evaporation

MAPOS Multi-Agent Platform for Online Services (Telekommunikation)
MARAS Marine Radiometric Spectrometer
MAS Master of Advanced Studies
Maser Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
MASIF Mobile Agent Systems Interoperability Facility (Telekommunikation)
MAST Mega-Amp Spherical Tokamak (Culham, UK)
MathML Mathematical Markup Language
MATLAB Matrix Laboratory (Software)
MAU Million Accounting Units (Europ. Raumfahrt; 1988: 1 MAU = 1,14 Mill.$)
MAXIMA Millimeter Anisotropy Experiment Imaging Array (Ballon-Experiment)
MB Megabyte (= 1024 kB = 1048576 Bit)

MBA Master of Business Administration

MBB Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm GmbH, München
MBE Molecular-Beam Epitaxy
MBI Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie (Berlin-Adlershof)
MBO Management Buy Out
MBPC Model Based Predictive Control
MBSL Multi-Bubble Sonoluminescence, Mehrblasenlumineszenz
MC Monte-Carlo (Simulation)
MCAO Multiconjugate Adaptive Optics
MCB Media Control Board
MCC Mobile Competence Center (Telekommunikation)

MCCM Meterology Climate Chemistry Model

MCD Magnetic Circular Dichroism
MCD Mobile Communication Division
MCDAD Magnetic Circular Dichroism in Angular Distribution
MCFC Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell
MCG Magneto-Cummulative Generator
MCHA Music and Concert Hall Acoustics (International Symposium)
MCM Multi-Chip Module
MCO Mars Climate Observer
MCP Microchannel Plate, Mikrokanalplatte, Vielkanalplattendetektor
MCPC Multiple Channel per Carrier (Telekommunikation)
MCS Mathematics Subjects Classification
MCSCF Multi-Configuration Self-Consistent-Field (-Rechnung, Molekülphysik)
MCT Mobile Communications Terminal
MCU Master Controller Unit
MD Maryland (US-Staat)
MD Medical Doctor
MDA Missile Defense Agency (USA)
MDAQ Mediation and Data Acquisition (Telekommunikation)
MDB (Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft Access-Datenbank)

MdB Mitglied der Bundestages

MDC Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (Berlin-Buch)
MDCT Multidetektor-Spiral-Computertomograph

MdEP Mitglied des Europäischen Parlaments

MDF mitteldichte Faserplatte
MDI Diphenylmethylendiisocyanat
MDI Michelson Doppler Imager (an Bord von SOHO)
MdL Mitglied des Landtages
MDOF Multi-Degree-of-Freedom (System)
MDR Multi-Drug Resistance (Gene)
MDS Multipoint Distribution System (Telekommunikation)
MDU Multiple Dwelling Units (Telekommunikation)
MDV Medizinische Datenverarbeitung
ME Magnitude Error (Telekommunikation)
ME Maine (US-Staat)
ME Millenium Edition (Microsoft Windows)
ME Mobile Entity (or: Equipment) (Telekommunikation)
MEDEA Microelectronics Development for European Applications

MEET Man Models for Simulation of Electromagnetic, Elastomechanic and Thermic Behaviour of Ma
MEF Metropolitain Ethernet Forum (Telekommunikation)
MEFX Multiple Error Filtered-x (Algorithm)
MEG Magnet(o)enzephalographie, Magnetoencephalography
MEGACO Media Gateway Controller (Telekommunikation)

MELCO Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

MELDOQ Melanomdokumentierung und -quantifizierung
MELECON Mediterraneau Electrotechnical Conference
MELP Mixed Excitation Linear Prediction (Sprachcodierung)
MEM Maximum Entropy Method
MEM Micro-Electronic Micro Machine

MEMS Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems

MEO Medium Earth Orbit
MEOSS Monocular Electro-Optical Stereo Scanner
MER Modulation Error Rate
MERIS Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (ENVISAT)
MERLIN Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer (Astrophysik)
MES Manufacturing Execution System
MESA Microsystems and Engineering Science Application (Albuquerque, NM, USA: geplant für 2004
MESFET Metal Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
MET Memory Enhancement Technology
META Megachannel Extraterrestrial Assay (Suche nach außerirdischer Intelligenz)
METI Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Japan)
METRIC Exploitation of Bibliometric Data in National Bibliographic Databases
MExE Mobile Station Execution Environment (Telekommunikation)
MEXH Multiple-Energy X-Ray Holography
MF Medium Frequency (0,3 - 3 MHz)
MFC Microsoft Foundation Classes
MFLAME Multi-Function Future Laser Atmospheric Equipment (Brite Euram Project)
MFM Magnetic Force Microscopy
MFP Multi Function Peripheral
MfS Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (DDR)
MFS Multi-BSS Fast Packet Server (Telekommunikation)
MG Media Gateway (Telekommunikation)
MGC Media Gateway Controller (Telekommunikation)
MGC Micro-Gap Gas Counter
MGCF Media Gateway Control Function (Telekommunikation)

MGCP Media Gateway Control Protocol (Telekommunikation)

MGH Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA, USA)
MGS Mars Global Surveyor
MGU (Moskauer Staatliche Universität)
MGW Media GateWay (Telekommunikation)

MHB Magnus-Haus Berlin (DPG)

MHC Major Histocompatibility Complex (Biochemie)
MHD Magnetohydrodynamic (Fusionsreaktortechnik)
MIB Managament Information Base
MI Michigan (US-Staat)
MIC Mikroelektronik Centret (DK-Lyngby)
MIC Minimal-Invasive Chirurgie

MIC [IASTED International Conference on] Modelling, Identification and Control

MICAPEX Minimum Initial Capital Expenditure
MID (Dateinamenerweiterung: MIDI-Datei)

MIDI Musical Instruments Digital Interface

MIDP Mobile Intelligent Device Profile
MIF Makrophagen-Inhibitionsfaktor
MIIR Méthode d'isolement et d'identification des résonances
MIKSS (gesprochen: "mix") Media Object Interlock and Synthesis (Video description language)

MIL [Department of Defense] (Internet, USA)

MILCOM Military Communications Conference
MIMD Multiple Instruction / Multiple Data (Parallelrechner)
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail(ing) Extension(s)
MIMIC Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits
MIMO Multiple Input - Multiple Output (Controller, System)
MIMOS Miniaturisiertes Mössbauer-Spektrometer
MINUET Minnesota Internet User's Essential Tool (Rechnernetz-Server)
MIO Modular I/O (HP)
MIPAS Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (ENVISAT)
MIPS Million instructions (Mega-Instructions) per second
MIPS Münchner Informationszentrum für Proteinsequenzen
MIRV Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicles
MIS Management Information System
MISACT Multiple Interacting Sensors and Actuators
MISIM Metal-Isolator-Semiconductor-Isolator-Metal
MISO Multiple Input - Single Output (Controller, System)
MISR Multiangle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (Satelliten-Erd-Fernerkundung)
MIT Management Information Tree
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT minimal-invasives Therapieverfahren
MITI [Institut für] Minimalinvasive therapeutische Interventionen (TU München)
MITI Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Japan)
MIUH Medizinisches Institut für Umwelthygiene (Düsseldorf)
MKG Magnetokardiographie
mks Meter - Kilogramm - Sekunde (Maßsystem)
ML Maximum Likelihood
MLA Modern Language Association

MLC Mobile Location Center (Telekommunikation)

MLC Multileaf Collimator (Röntgentechnik)
MLCF Maximum Likelihood Confidence Factor
MLE Maximum Likelihood Estimation

MLE Medium to Large Enterprise

MLO Mycoplasma-like Organism
MLP Mobile Location Protocol (Telekommunikation)

MLP Multi-Layer Perceptron

MLS Mikrowellenlandesystem
MLTU Monitoring and Line Transmission Unit (Telekommunikation)
MM Mobile Management (Telekommunikation)

MM Multi Mode (Telekommunikation)

MMAS MultiMedia Application Server (Telekommunikation)

MMC Maintainance, Monitoring and Control
MMC Multimedia Multiparty Conferencing
MMCF Multimedia Communication Forum
MMCOI Multimedia Communication Comments of Interest
MMCS MultiMedia Call Server (Telekommunikation)
MMDS MultiMedia Distribution System (Telekommunikation)

MMG Massive Multi-Player Online Games

MMI Man Machine Interface
MMIC Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit(ry)
MMCOM Mobile Millimeter Communications (IEEE Workshop)
MMS Manufacturing Message Standard
MMS Mission Management System
MMS Multimedia Messaging Service (Telekommunikation)

MMSE Multimedia Services Environment (Telekommunikation)

MMSE Minimum Mean Square Error
MMT Monolithic Mirror Telescope (University of Arizona)
MMU Memory Management Unit
MMX Multi Media Extensions
MN Minnesota (US-Staat)
MNPQ Mess-, Normen-, Prüf- und Qualitätswesen
MNT Mononitrotoluol
MNU Deutscher Verein zur Förderung des mathematischen und naturwissenschaftlichen Unterrichts
MO Missouri (US-Staat)
MoBIC Mobilität für Blinde durch die Interaktion mit einem Computer
MOCVD Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition
MODFET Modulation-Doped Field Effect Transistor, Modulations-dotierter Feldeffekt-Transistor
MODIS Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer (Satelliten-Erd-Fernerkundung)
MOE Molecular Operating Environment
MOEL Mittel- und Osteuropäische Länder
MOEMS Micro-Opto-Electromechanical System (Telekommunikation)
MOLA Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter
MOLI Microsoft Online Learning Institute
MOMBE Metallorganische Molekularstrahlepitaxie
MOMS Modularer Optoelektronischer Multispektral-Scanner
MONET Mobile Network (Telekommunikation)

MOPA Master Oscillator Power Amplifier (Telekommunikation)

MOPITT Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere (Satelliten-Erd-Fernerkundung)
MOS Mean Opinion Score (Telekommunikation)
MOS Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
MOS Monitor-Server
MOSA Ministry of Science and the Arts (Israel)
MOSFET Metalloxid-Silicium-Feldeffekt-Transistor Metal Oxide Field-Effect Transistor Semiconductor
MOSIS MOS Implementation System
MOST Ministry of Science and Technology (Korea)
MOT Magneto-Optic Trap
MOU Memorandum of Understanding
MOV (Dateinamenerweiterung: Video-Datei)

MOVIC International Conference on Motion and Vibration Control

MOVPE Metalorganic Vapor Phase Epitaxy
MOX Mixed-Oxide Fuel, Mischoxid (Kernreaktor)
MP North Mariana Island (US Mail)
MPAe Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie (Lindau/Harz)
MPC Model Predictive Control(ler)
MPDR Multipoint Digital Radio (Telekommunikation)
MPE Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (Garching)
MPE Maximum Permissible Exposure
MPEG (Dateinamenerweiterung: Video-Datei)

MPEG Motion (or: Moving) Picture(s) Expert(s) Group (Bildcodierung)

MPG (Dateinamenerweiterung: Video-Datei)

MPG Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.

MPI Max-Planck-Institut
MPI Message Passing Interface (Parallelrechner)
MPI Multi-Photonen-Ionisation
MPIC Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie (Mainz)
MPIF Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung (Stuttgart)
MPIRE Massively Parallel Interactive Rendering Environment
MPIZ Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung (Köln)
MPL Mars Polar Lander
MPLS Multi-Protocol Label Switching (Rechnernetze)
MP.lambda.S Multi-Protocol Lambda Switching (optische Telekommunikation)
MPM Microstructured Photonic Material
MPMP Microwave Point to Multipoint (Telekommunikation)
MPMS Magnetic Property Measurement System
MPOA Multi-Protocol over ATM (Rechnernetze)
MPP Massively Parallel Processing (Rechner)
MPQ Max-Plack-Institut für Quantenoptik (Garching)
MPR Multi-Path Routing (Telekommunikation)
MPRESS (Mathematik-Literaturservice)

MPS Max Planck Society (MPG in englischen Texten)

MPS Mission Planning System
MPSR Multi-Path Self Routing (Telekommunikation)
MPT Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (Japan)
MPWS Multi-Protocol Wavelength Switching (Telekommunikation)

MP3 MPEG Layer 3 (Dateinamenerweiterung: Audio-Datei)

MQW Multiple Quantum Well
MR Magnetresonanz (-Tomographie)
MRA Mutual Recognition Arrangement (Metrologie)
MRAM Magnetic Random Access Memory
MRAO Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (bei Cambridge, UK)
MRBM Medium-Range Ballistic Missile
MRF Magnetorheological Fluid
MRF (Multi)Media Resource Function (Telekommunikation)
MRFM Magnetic Resonance Force Microscope (und: ... Microscopy)
MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MRM Magnetresonanz-Mikroskopie
mRNA Messenger RNA
MRO Magdalena Ridge Observatory (New Mexico, USA)
MRO Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul
MRP Market Representation Partners (Telekommunikation)

MRP Material Resource Planning

MRS Materials Research Society (USA)
MRS Media Ressource Service (SIPI)
MRT Magnetresonanz-Tomographie
MS Mass Spectrometry
M/S Master/Slave
M.S. Master of Science
MS Media Server (Telekommunikation)

MS Member State
MS Mississippi (US-Staat)
MS Mobile Station (Telekommunikation)
MS Multiple Sklerose

MSAM Multi-Service Access Multiplexer (Telekommunikation)

MSAS Multi-Function Transport Satellite-Based Augmentation System (Satellitennavigation, Japan)
M.Sc. Master of Science

MSC Message Sequence Chart (Telekommunikation)

MSC Mobile (Services) Switching Centre (Telekommunikation)
MSD Mass Selective Detector
MS-DOS Microsoft Disk Operating System
MSE Mission Success Evaluation
MSE Mean Square Error
MSG Meteosat Second Generation (geplant für 2000)
MSGC Micro-Strip Gas Detector
MSI Medium Scale Integration
MSISDN Mobile Station ISDN Number
MSK Minimum (or: Maximum) Shift Keying (Datenübertragung)
MSM Metal-Semiconductor-Metal (Photodetektoren)
MSN Microsoft Network (Datennetz)
MSN Moscow Society of Naturalists
MSN Multi-Service Node (Telekommunikation)
MSO Multiple Systems Operators (Telekommunikation)
MSOP Mini Small Outline Package (SMD-Gehäuse)
MSP Mobile Service Provider (Telekommunikation)

MSP Multiplex Section Protection

MSRI Mathematical Science(s) Research Institute (Berkeley, CA, USA)
MSS MAN Switching System
MSS Mass Storage System
MSS Mobile Satellite System (Telekommunikation)
MS-SP Multiple Section - Section Protection (Telekommunikation)
MS-SPRING Multiple(xer) Section Shared Protection Ring (Telekommunikation)
MST Mikrosystemtechnik
MST Multiple Spanning Tree (Telekommunikation)
MSTP Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (Telekommunikation)
MSTV Maximum Service Television
MSU Michigan State University (USA)
MSW Media Switch
MSY Maximal Sustained Yield (Ökonomie)
MT Montana (US-Staat)
MTBF Mean Time Before Failure (or: Between Failures)
MTCO Minimum Total Cost of Ownership
MTCR Missile Technology Control Regime
MTF Modulation Transfer Function
MTG Marine-Technik-Gesellschaft (Hamburg)
MTG Mikroelektronik- und Technologiegesellschaft (Ostdeutschland)
MTJ Magnetic Tunnel Junction
MTMOS Methyl-Trimethoxysilane
MTN Mountain (US Mail)
MTN Multilateral Trade Negotiations
MTP Message Transfer Part
MTS Methods for Testing and Specification (TC im ETSI)
MTSat Multifunctional Transport Satellite
MTTR Mean Time To Repair (or: Restore) (Telekommunikation)
MUD Multi User Dungeon (or: Dimension, or: Dialog) (Rechnernetz-Spiele)
MuK Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
MULTOPS Multi-Level Tree for Online Packet Statistics (Telekommunikation)
MURA Midwest University Research Association (USA)
MUSC Microgravity User Support Center (DLR, Köln-Porz)
MUSE Multiple Sub-Nyquist-Sampling Encoding
MUSIC Multiple Signal Classification
MUSICAM Masking Pattern Adapted Universal Subband Integrated Coding and Multiplexing (Digitalrundf
MVIP Multi-Vendor Integration Protocol (Telekommunikation)
MVNO Mobile Virtual Network Operators (Telekommunikation)

MVST Multilayer Vertically Stacked Capacitors

MVTS Multivariable Technological Systems (IFAC Symposium)
MWIF Mobile Wireless Internet Forum (Telekommunikation)

MWK Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst

MWNT Multi Wall Nanotubes
MWR Microwave Radiometer (ENVISAT)

MXCD magnetischer Röntgenzirkulardichroismus

M-Z Mach-Zehnder (Interferometer, Modulator)
MZI Mach-Zehnder-Interferometer
M2E Mouth-to-Ear (Telekommunikation)

NA Network Aspects (TC im ETSI)

NA Normenausschuss
NAB National Association of Broadcasters of America
NABU Naturschutzbund Deutschland

NACA National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (USA)

NACCH Network Access and Connectivity Channel (Datenübertragung)
NACCB National Accreditation Council for Certification Bodies (UK)
NACP National Aids Coordination Program (Simbabwe)
NAD Network Access Domain (Telekommunikation)
NAD Network Application Division (Telekommunikation)
NAE National Academy of Engineering (USA)
NAECON National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (USA)

NAFTA North American Free Trade Area

NAG Numerical Algorithms Group (UK)
NAH Nearfield Acoustic Holography
NAHSC National Automated Highway System Consortium (San Diego, CA, USA)
NALS Normenausschuss Akustik, Lärmminderung und Schwingungstechnik
NAMAS National Measurement Accreditation Service (UK)
NAMUR Normenausschuss Mess- und Regeltechnik
NAO Nordatlantische Oszillation (Wetter)
NAOS Nasmyth Adaptive Optics System (für ESO-VLT)

NAP Network Access Point (Internet)

NAPT Network Address and Port Translator (Telekommunikation)
NARIC National Academic Recognition Information Centre (EU)
NARPA National Advanced Research Projects Agency
NAS National Academy of Sciences (USA)
NAS Network Access Server (Telekommunikation)
NAS [Scandinavian Acoustical Society]
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Agency (USA)
NASP National Aerospace Plane
NA/STAG Network Aspects/Security Techniques Advisory Group (TC im ETSI)
NAT Network Address Translation (Telekommunikation)
NAT Nitric Acid Trihydrate (HNO3·3(H2O))
NATLAS National Testing Laboratory Accreditation Service (UK)
NATO North-Atlantic Treaty Organization
NAV Navigation

NB Narrowband
NB Normal Burst (Telekommunikation)
NBI Neutral-Beam Injection (Fusionsreaktortechnik)
NBMA Non-Broadcast Multiple Access
NB-RAS Narrowband Remote Access Server (Telekommunikation)
NBRF National Biomedical Research Foundation (USA)
NBS National Bureau of Standards (USA)
NC Network Computer
NC North Carolina (US-Staat)
NC Numeric Control
NCA Netherlands Centre on Animal Use
NCAC National Council of Acoustical Consultants (USA)
NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, CO, USA)
NCC National Computing Centre (UK)
NCC Network Control Centre (Datennetz)
NCEJ Noise Control Engineering Journal
NCI National Cancer Institute (Bethesda, MD, USA)
NCI Non-Coded Information
NCKU National Cheng Kung University (Tainan, Taiwan, ROC)

NCNR NIST Center for Neutron Research (Gaithersburg, MD, USA)

NCP National Contact Point (ESPRIT)
NCRP National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (USA)
NCS Natural Color System
NCS Network Control System (Datennetz)
NCSA National Center for (or: of) Supercomputing Applications (USA)
NCSA National Sound and Communications Association (USA)
NCSU North Carolina State University
ND North Dakota (US-Staat)
NDC Normalized Device Coordinates
NDDO New Drug Development Office (Amsterdam, EORTC)
NDE Non-Destructive Evaluation
NDRC National Defense Research Committee (USA)
NDS Netware Directory Services (Telekommunikation)
NDSC Network for Detection of Atmospheric Change
NDSU North Dakota State University
NDT Nondestructive Testing
NE Nebraska (US-Staat)
NE Network Element (Telekommunikation)
NEA Near Earth Asteroid
NEACP National Emergency Airborne Command Post
NEAR Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous
NEBS Network Equipment Building System (Telekommunikation)

NED NASA Extragalactical Database

NEDLIB Networked European Deposit Library
NEI Niedrig-Energie-Institut
NEL National Engineering Laboratory (UK)
NEL Network Element Layer (Telekommunikation)
NEMS Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems
NEO Near-Earth Orbit
NERC National Environment Information Centre (UK)
net [Network Organization] (Internet, USA)
NEW National Engineers Weck
NEX Narita Express (Zug zwischen Airport und Tokio)
NEXT Near-End Crosstalk
NEXUS Network of Excellence on Multifunctional Microsystems
NF Noise Factor
NFOEC National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
NFS Network File System
NG New (or: Next) Generation

NGC New General Catalogue (Astronomie)

NGDLC Next Generation Digital Loop Carrier (Kommunikation)
NGF Nerve Growth Factor
NGL Next Generation Lithography
NGN Next Generation Network (Telekommunikation)

NGSO Non-Geostationary Satellite Orbit

NGST Next Generation Space Telescope (Nachfolger des Hubble-Teleskops, geplant)
NH New Hampshire (US-Staat)
NHCA National Hearing Conservation Association (USA)
NHK Nippon hoso kyokai (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)
NHMFL National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (Tallahassee, FL; Los Alamos, NM)
NHS National Health Service (UK)
NI Network Interface (Telekommunikation)
NIAS Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
NIB Non-Interference Basis (Telekommunikation)

NIC Network Information Center

NIC Network Interface Card
NIC John von Neumann Institute for Computing (Jülich)
NICHD National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Bethesda, MD, USA)
NID Network Integration Division (Telekommunikation)
NID Network Interface Device (Telekommunikation)

NIEHS National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (USA)

NIF National Ignition Facility (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, USA)
NIFS National Institute for Fusion Science (Toki City, Japan)
NIH National Institute of Health (USA)
NILEG Niedersächsische Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft
NILU Norwegisches Institut für Luftuntersuchungen
NIMA National Imagery and Mapping Agency (USA)
NIME Network Information Management Entities (Telekommunikation)
NiMH Nickel-Metal Hydride (Akku)
NIOSH National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (USA)
NIR Near-Infrared
NIRIM National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials (Japan)
NIRV Nederlands Instituut voor Ruimtevaart
NIS New Independent States (frühere Sovietunion)
NISAC National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (USA, seit 1999)

NISO National Information Standards Organization (USA)

NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA, vormals NBS)
N-ISUP Narrowband ISDN User Part (Telekommunikation)
NIT Network Information Table
Nitinol Nickel-Titanium [intermetallic compound developed by the] Naval Ordnance Laboratory (1963
NJ New Jersey (US-Staat)
NJIT New Jersey Institute of Technology
NJP New Journal of Physics
NK Nationalkomitee für Kristallographie
NKWD [Narodny Kommissariat Wnutrennich Del] (sowjetischer Geheimdienst)
NL Nonlinear

NLC Next Linear Collider

NLCTA Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator
NLE Non-Linear Effect
NLfB-GGA Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Bodenforschung - Geowissenschaftliche Gemeinschaftsaufga
NLR Nationaal Lucht- en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium
NLR Noise Level Reduction
NLRC NASA Langley Research Center (Hampton, VA, USA)

NM Network Manager (or: Management) (Telekommunikation)

NM New Mexico (US-Staat)
NM Neuer Markt
NMC Network Management Centre (Telekommunikation)
NMD National Missile Defense (USA)
NMI NSF Middleware Initiative

NML Network Management Layer (Telekommunikation)

NMN Niedersächsischer Monographiennachweis
NMOS N-Channel MOS
NMR Network Measure Radio (Telekommunikation)
NMR Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
NMS National Measurement System (UK)
NMS Network Management System (Rechnernetze)
NMT Nordic Mobile Telephone

NN Neural Network
NNI National Nanotechnology Initiative (USA)
NNI Network-Node (or: -Network) Interface (Rechnernetze)
NNI Noise/News International (Zeitschrift)
NNPA Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act
NNSA National Nuclear Security Administration (DoE, USA)
NNTT National New Technology Telescope (USA, war geplant, ist aber nicht realisiert)
NNV Nederlandse Natuurkundige Vereniging
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (USA)
NOAO National Optical Astronomy Observatory (USA)
NOC Network Operating (or: Operations) Center (Telekommunikation)
NODC National Oceanographic Data Center (NOAA, Silver Spring, MD, USA)

NOE Neutrino Oscillation Experiment (Gran Sasso, Italien)

NOEKS Nonlinear Optics and Excitation Kinetics in Semiconductors
NOESY Nuclear Overhauser Effect Spectroscopy
NOISE-CON National Conference on Noise Control Engineering (USA)

NOL Naval Ordnance Laboratory (USA)

NOLM Nonlinear Optical-Loop Mirror
NOMAD Neutrino Oscillation Magnetic Detector (CERN)
NOMS Network Operations and Management
NORAD North American Air Defense (Command)
NOS National Optical Society (in Europa)
NOS Network Operating System (Telekommunikation)
NOW Network of Workstaions
NP Nondeterministic Polynomial
NP Nuclear Physics
NPA Network Performance Analysis (Telekommunikation)

NPC Nomadic Personal Communications

NPE Network Protection Equipment (Kommunikation)
NPE Nuclear Physics Electronic
NPG New General Catalogue (Astronomie)
NPL National Physical Laboratory (Teddington, UK)
NPOI Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer (Lowell Observatory, Anderson Mesa, near Flagstaff, A
NPP Net Primary Production (Pflanzenmasse)
NPRM Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Telekommunikation)

NPT Non-Proliferation Treaty (Atomsperrvertrag)

NQR Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance
NRAO National Radio Astronomy Observatory (USA)
NRC National Research Council (USA)
NRC Network Resource Control (Telekommunikation)
NRC Non-Resonant Cavity (LED)
NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRDC National Research and Development Corporation (London)
NREL National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, CO, USA)
NREN National Research and Education Network (USA)
NRIM National Research Institute for Metals (Tsukuba, Japan)
NRIM Network Resource Information Model
NRL Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, DC, USA)
NRQM Nichtrelativistische Quantenmechanik
NRT Non-Real Time

NRW Nordrhein-Westfalen
NRZ Non-Return-To-Zero (Telekommunikation)
NSA National Security Agency (USA)
NSAC Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (USA)
NSAID Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
NSB National Science Board (USA)

NSBF National Scientific Balloon Facility (NASA)

NSC National Security Council (USA)
NSCA National Sound and Communications Association (USA)
NSCL National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (USA)
NSD Network Services Division
NSERC Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (USA)
NSF National Science Foundation (USA)
NSFNET National Science Foundation Network (USA)
NSG Network Strategy Group (Telekommunikation)

NSG Nuclear Suppliers Group ("Londoner Gruppe'')

NSIC National Storage Industry Consortium, Inc. (Hersteller von Datenspeichern, USA)

NSM National Society Member (EPS u. a.)

NSM Network and Service Management (Telekommunikation)
NSOM Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscope (und: ... Microscopy)
NSP Network Service Point (or: Provider, or: Platform) (Internet)
NSPE National Society of Professional Engineers
NSRT Non-Sequential Ray Tracing (?)
NSS Network Subsystem (Telekommunikation)
NSS Neutraler Salzsprühtest (auf Korrosionsbeständigkeit)
NSSA Neutron Scattering Society of America
NSSK North-South Station Keeping (Satelliten)
NSTA National Science Teachers Association (USA)
NSTC National Science and Technology Council (USA)
NSTX National Spherical Torus Experiment (PPPL, Princeton, NJ, USA)
NSUB Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (Göttingen)
NSWC Naval Surface Warfare [früher: Weapons] Center (Silver Spring, MD, USA)
NT Network Termination (Datennetze)
NTG Nachrichtentechnische Gesellschaft (im VDE)
NTIA National Telecommunications and Information Administration (Telekommunikation)

NTIS National Technical Information Service (Datenbank, USA)

NTO Nitrotriazolon (Sprengstoff)
NTP Network Time Protocol (Telekommunikation)

NTS Nuclear Test Site

NTSC National Television System Committee (Fernsehnorm, USA)
NTT New Technology Telescope (ESO, La Silla, Chile)
NTU National Taiwan University
NTZ Nachrichtentechnische Zeitschrift
NuPECC Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee
NUREG U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NUSC Naval Underwater Systems Center (USA)
NUWC Naval Undersea Warfare Center (Newport, RI, USA)

NV Nevada (US-Staat)
NVH Noise, Vibration and Harshness
NVM Non Volatile Memory
NVO National Virtual Observatory (USA, geplant für 2010)

NVOD Near Video-On-Demand

NVV Nichtverbreitungsvertrag (Atomwaffen, 1968)
NVvL [Niederländische Aeroakustische Gesellschaft]
NW Network (Telekommunikation)
NWB Niedergeschwindigkeits-Windkanal Braunschweig
NWK Network Analyser (DECT)
NWK Nuklearwaffenkonvention
NWO (Niederländische Wissenschaftsorganisation)
NY New York (US-Staat)
NYAS New York Academy of Sciences
NZDSF Non-Zero Dispersion Shifted Fiber (Glasfaser, Kommunikation)
NZN Niedersächsischer Zeitschriftennachweis
NZZ Neue Zürcher Zeitung

OA Outgoing Access
OAAC Optical Aerial Attached Cable
OADM Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer (optische Telekommunikation)
OAE Otoakustische Emissionen
OAI Open Archives Initiative
ÖAL Österreichischer Arbeitsring für Lärmbekämpfung
OAM Operation, Administration and Maintenance (Telekommunikation)
OAMP OAM Provisioning
OAN Optical Access Node (Glasfasernetz)
OAS Open Access Service (Telekommunikation)
OAS Operator Assisted Service (Telekommunikation)
OAS Optical Aperture Synthesis
OASIS Optimal Architecture Sensor Interface System
OATA Ornamental Aquatic Trade Association (Europäische Handelsorgaisation)

OATC Open Area Test Site

OAU Organization of African Unity
OBDMS Object-Oriented Database Management System
OBL Outside Broadcasting Link
OBMC On Board Multimedia Controller (Telekommunikation)
OBMP On Board Multimedia Processor (Telekommunikation)
OBP On Board Processing (or: Processor)
OBS Optical Burst Switch (Telekommunikation)
OBW Occupied Bandwidth (Telekommunikation)
OCaB Outgoing Call Barrier
OCD Optical Core Device (optische Telekommunikation)
OCDM Optical Code Division Multiplexing (optische Telekommunikation)
O-CDMA Optical Code Division Multiple Access (Glasfasernetz)
OCH Optical Channel (optische Telekommunikation)
OCh-SPRING Optical Channel Shared Protection Ring (optische Telekommunikation)
OCR Optical Character Recognition (Computer-lesbare Schrift)
OCT Optical Coherence Tomography, Optische Kohärenztomographie
OCT Optical Component Test
OCX (Dateinamenerweiterung: Programmdatei)

ODBC OPen Data Base Connectivity (Telekommunikation)

ODC Ornithindecarboxylase
ODE Ordinary Differential Equation
ODL Object Definition Language (Telekommunikation)
ODL Open and Distance Learning (EU-Programm)
ODP Ocean Drilling Project (or: Program)
ODP Open Distributed Processing
ODT Order-Disorder Transition
OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OEIC Optoelectronic Integrated Circuit, opto-elektronischer IC
OELR Overall Echo Loudness Rating (Telekommunikation)
OEM Optoelectronic Modulator (or: Mixer)
OEM Original Equipment Manfacturer
OENN Optoelectronic Neural Network
O/E/O Optical Electronic Optical (optische Telekommunikation)
OFA Optical Fiber Amplifier
OFAC Office of Foreign Assets Control (USA)
OFAT One-Factor-at-a-Time (Experimentiertechnik)
OFC Optical Fiber Communication
OFCCC Optical Fiber Cable Competence Center
OFDM Optical (or: Orthogonal) Frequency Division Multiplexing (Telekommunikation)
OFET Organischer Feldeffekt-Transistor (optische Telekommunikation)
OFI Optical Field Ionization
OFI Ornamental Fish International (Handelsorganisation)

OFMeC Optical Fibre Measurement Club (UK)

OFW Oberflächenwellen
OG Optical Gateway (optische Telekommunikation)
ÖGAI Österreichische Gesellschaft für Artificial Intelligence
OGI Ott-Grebogi-Yorke (control)

OGSA Open Grid Services Architecture (Rechnernetz)

OH Ohio (US-Staat)
OHG Offene Handelsgesellschaft
OHG Operator Harmonization Group (Telekommunikation)

ÖIB Örtliche Initiativen zur Beschäftigung von Frauen (EU)

OIDA Optoelectronic Industry Development Association
OIF Optical Interworking Forum (optische Telekommunikation)
OJPS Online Journal Publishing Services (AIP)
OK Oklahoma (US-Staat)
OL Output Layer (neuronales Netz)
OLA Optical Line Amplifier (optische Telekommunikation)
OLE Object Linking and Embedding (Programmierung)
OLE Opto & Laser Europe (Zeitschrift, Bristol, UK)
OLED Organic Light-Emitting Diode (or: Device)
OLS On-Line Service (Internet)
OLT Optical Line Termination (optische Telekommunikation)
OLTE Optical Line Termination Equipment
OLTP Online Transaction Processing
OM Optical Monitor (XMM)
O&M Operations and Maintenance
OMAC Open Modular Architecture Controller
OMB Office of Management and Budget (USA, White House)
OMC Operations and Maintenance Center (Telekommunikation)
OMC Optical Metrology Centre
OMF Observation Markup Format
OMG Object Management Group
OMI Open Microprocessor Systems Initiative
OMI Optical Modulation Index
OMS Operations and Maintenance Station (Telekommunikation)
OMS Optical Multiplex Station (Telekommunikation)
OMSG OptinexTM (or: Optical) Multi-Service Gateway (optische Telekommunikation)
OMSN OptinexTM (or: Optical) Multi-Service Node (optische Telekommunikation)
OMT Object Modelling (and) Technique
OMUX Output Multiplexer (Telekommunikation)
ON Optical Network (Telekommunikation)
ONERA Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales
ONP Open Network Provision(ing)
ONR Office of Naval Research (Arlington, VA, USA)
ONSA Organization for Nucleotid Sequencing and Analysis (São Paulo, Brasilien)
ONTA Oxynitrotriazol (Sprengstoff)
ONU Optical Network Unit
OO objektorientiert
OODB Object-Oriented Database
OOP objektorientierte(s) Programm(entwicklung)
OOT objektorientierter Test
OP Organizational Partners

OP A/D Optical Packet Add/Drop (optische Telekommunikation)

OPAL Optical Access Line, optische Anschlussleitung (Telefon)

OPCPA Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification
OPEC Organization of Petrol Exporting Countries, Organisation Erdöl exportierender Staaten
OPEN Optical Pan-European Network
OPEP One-Pion Exchange Potential
Opex Operating Expenditure (or: Expenses)

ÖPG Österreichische Physikalische Gesellschaft

OPGW Optical Ground Wire (Glasfasernetz)
OPIT Oxide Powder in Tube
ÖPNV Öffentlicher Personen-Nahverkehr
OPO Optical Parametric Oscillator
OPP Optical Precipitate Profiler
OPS Official Production System
OPS Optical Path Switch (Telekommunikation)
OPS Optical Protection System (optische Telekommunikation)
OPS Optically Pumped Semiconductor (Laser)
OPZ Operationszentrale
OR Oregon (US-Staat)
ORACLS Optimal Regulator Algorithms for the Control of Linear Systems (CAD-System, NASA 1980)

ORB Object Request Broker (Telekommunikation)

ORE Office de Recherche et d'Essais
ORF Österreichischer Rundfunk
ORF Outbound Route Filters
org [other organizations] (Internet, USA)
ORI Office of Research Integrity
ORM Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (La Palma)
ORMAK Oak Ridge Tokamak (Fusionsreaktortechnik, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
ORMOCER Organically Modified Ceramic
ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory (TN, USA)
ORSTOM (Internationale Hilfsorganisation Frankreichs)
OS Operating (or: Operations) System
OSA Open Service Architecture (Telekommunikation)
OSA Optical Society of America
OSB Oriented Structural Board (Spanplatte)
OSC Optical Supervisory Channel (Glasfasernetz)
OSC Outbound Signalling Channel (Telekommunikation)
OSD On Screen Display (Funktionsanzeige auf TV-Schirm)
OSDE Open Systems (or: Service) Development (or: Delivery) Environment (Telekommunikation)
OSF Open Software Foundation
OSF Operation System Function
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Washington, DC, USA)
OSI Open Source Initiative
OSI Open Systems Interconnection (Datennetze)
OSI Optical Stellar Interferometer
OSIRIS Off-Shore Integrated Robotic Inspection System
OSNCP Optical Subnetwork Connection Protection (optische Telekommunikation)
OSNR Optical Signal-to-Noise Ratio (optische Telekommunikation)
OSP Open Services Platform (Telekommunikation)
OSPF Open Shortest Path First (Internet)
OSS Office of Strategical Services (USA)
OSS Operations Support System (Internet)
OSSE Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment
OSSI Operations Support System Interface (Telekommunikation)
OST Observatoire des Sciences et des Techniques (Frankreich)
OST Office of Science and Technology (UK)
OSTP Office of Science and Technology Policy (USA, White House)
OSZE Organisation für Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit in Europa
OTA Office of Technology Assessment (USA, Congress)
OTC One Touch Com (Telekommunikation)
OTD Observed Time Difference (Telekommunikation)

OTDM Optical Time Division Multiplexing (optische Telekommunikation)

OTDOA OTD of Arrival (Telekommunikation)

OTDR Optical Time Domain Reflectometry

OTD-Sim Order to Delivery Simulation
OTH Optical Transport Hierarchy (optische Telekommunikation)

OTN Open Transport Network (Verkehrsleitsystem)

OTN Optical Transmission Network (optische Telekommunikation)

OTP One Time Password

OTS Optical Transmission System (optische Telekommunikation)
OU Open University (UK)
OVC Output Variance Constraint
OVRO Owens Valley Radio Observatory
OWS Optical Wavelength Switched (optische Telekommunikation)

OXC Optical Cross Connect (optische Telekommunikation)

OZIPM Ozone Isopleth Plotting with Optional Mechanism

P-Wellen Kompressionswellen (Geophysik)

PA Pennsylvania (US-Staat)
PA Power Amplifier

PABX Private Automatic Branch Exchange, Private digitale Nebenstellenanlage

PAC Perturbed Angular Correlation
PAC Processing and Archiving Center
PAC Programme Advisory Committee (TC im ETSI)
PACE Planar Articulating Controls Experiment
PACE Programme de recherche sur l'Aval du Cycle Electronucléaire

PACF Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell (?)

PACS Photoconductor Array Camera and Spectrometer (FIRST)
PACS Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme
PAD Packet Assembly/Disassembly
PAD Perturbed Angular Distribution
PAFC Phosphoric Acid FC (?)
PAH Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon
PAK Polyzyklische aromatische Kohlenwasserstoffe
PAL Phase Alternation Line (Fernsehen)
PAL Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (Korea)
PALC Plasma Addressed Liquid Crystal
PALS Photoacoustic Laser Spectroscopy
PALS Prague Asterix Laser System
PAMA Preassigned Multiple Access (Telekommunikation)
PAN Personal Area Network (Telekommunikation)

PAN Polyacrylonitrile
PARCOR Partial Correlation
PAS Pädagogische Arbeitsstelle des deutschen Volkshochschulverbandes (Frankfurt/M)
PAT Port Address Translation (Telekommunikation)

PATU PanAfrican Telecommunication Union

PAY Physics Achievement Year

PBDE polybromierte Diphenylether
PBET Photonic Basis for Engineers and Technicians (California, USA)
PBH Physikzentrum Bad Honnef (DPG)
PBI Physics-Based Industries
PBN pyrolytisches Bornitrid
PBO Polybenzobioxazol
PBS Primer-Bindungsstelle (in RNA)
PBT Polybutylenterephthalat, Poly Butylene Terephthalate
PBWA Plasma Beat-Wave Accelerator
PBX Plastic Bonded Explosive (Sprengstoff)
PBX Private Branch Exchange (Internet)
PBX-M Princeton Beta Experiment - Modified (Fusionsreaktortechnik)
PC Personal Computer
PC Polycarbonat
PCA Proportional Counter Array (beim RXTE)
PCAST President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (USA)
PCB polychlorierte Biphenyle
PCB Printed Circuit Board
PCC Partial Correlation Coefficient
PCC polychloriertes Camphen
PCD Power Control Device
PCDE Peak Code Domain Error (Telekommunikation)
PCF Photonic Crystal Fibre
PCF Polymer Cladded Fiber (optische Telekommunikation)
PCG Project Coordination Group (Telekommunikation)

PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect (Datenbus)

PCIMG PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group
PCM Parallel Climate Model

PCM Phase Change Material

PCM Puls-Code-Modulation
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PCN Personal Communications Network
PCO Point of Control and Observation (Telekommunikation)
PCO Public Call Office (Telephon)
PCP Pentachlorphenol
PCR Peak Cell Rate (Telekommunikation)
PCR Polymerase Chain Reaction
PCR Predictive Control of Reactors
PCS Personal Communications Service (or: System)
PCS Photon Correlation Spectroscopy
PCSS Personal Communication Satellite Systems
PCT Patent Cooperation Treaty
PCU Packet Control Unit (Telekommunikation)
PCU Power Conditioning Unit
PCU Power Control Unit
PCX (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)

PCX Private Communication Exchange (Telekommunikation)

PD Privatdozent
PD Proportional-Derivative (Control), Proportional-Differential (Regler)
PDA Personal Digital Assistent (Telekommunikation)
PDC Personal (or: Portable) Digital Cellular (or: Communication) (Telekommunikation)
PDCH Packet Data Channels (Telekommunikation)
PDCP Packet Data Compression (or: Convergence) Protocol (Telekommunikation)

PDD Photodynamische Diagnostik

PDE Partial Differential Equation
PDE Phosphodiesterase
PDF Portable Document Format
PDF Probability Density Function
PDGF Platelet-Derived Growth Factor (Blutplättchen-Wachstumsfaktor)
PDH Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (Telekommunikation)
PDI Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik (Berlin)
PDL Page Description Language (Printer Server)
PDL Polarization Dependent Loss (optische Telekommunikation)
PDLC Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystal
PDM Polarization Division Multiplexing (optische Telekommunikation)

PDM Product Data Management

PDMS Polydimethylsiloxan
PDN Packet Data Network (Telekommunikation)
PDO Packet Data Optimized (Telekommunikation)
PDP Packet Data Protocol (Telekommunikation)
PDP Plasma Discharge (or: Display) Panel
PDR Preliminary Design Review
PDS Payload Data Segment (Telekommunikation)
PDS Permanent Data Storage System
PDS Polydioxanon
PDT Photodynamic Therapy, Photodynamische Therapie
PDU Packet Data Unit (Telekommunikation)
PDU Protocol Data Unit (Internet)
PDX Princeton Divertor Experiment (Fusionsreaktortechnik, PPPL)
PE Phase Error (Telekommunikation)
PE Polyethylen
PE Prediction Error
PE Provider Edge (Telekommunikation)
PEACE Process Execution and Communication Environment
PEAP Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (Telekommunikation)
PECVD Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition
PEEM Photo-Emission Electron Microscope, Photoemissions-Elektronenmikroskop
PEG Polyethylenglykol
PEM Photon Emission Microscopy
PEM Polymer-Elektrolyt-Membran (Brennstoffzelle)
PEM Proton Exchange Membrane (Brennstoffzelle)
PEMFC Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell
PEN Physics Education News
PEO Polyethylenoxid
PEP Polymeric Electronics Packaging

PEPS Performance Evaluation of Parallel Systems (Europäisches Forschungsprojekt)

PER Packed Encoding Rule (ASN.1)

Per Perchlorethen
PERL Passivated Emitter and Rear, Locally Diffused (Solarzellen)
Perl Practical Extraction and Report Language (scherzhaft auch: Pathologically
Eclectic Rubbish Lister) (Textmanipulation)
PESC Power Electronics Specialist Conference
PET Polyethylenterephthalat
PET Positronen-Emissions-Tomographie, Positron Emission Tomography
PETRA Positron-Elektron-Tandem-Ring-Anlage (DESY)
PFAU Programm zur finanziellen Absicherung von Unternehmensgründern aus Hochschulen
PFD Power Flux Density
PFE Power Feeding Equipment
PG Peer Group
PGA Pin Grid Array (Chipgehäuse)
PGA Polyglykolid
PGO (Hirn-Zellkomplex: pons, corpus geniculatum, occiput)
PGP Pretty Good Privacy
PHA Polyhydroxyalkanoat
PHARE Poland and Hungary Action for Economic Restructuring
PHB Per-Hop Behavior
PhD Doctor of Philosophy
PHENIX Pioneering High Energy New Ion Experiment (RHIC)
PHI Planbasierte Hilfesysteme
PHM Prognostics and Health Managament
PHP Hypertext Processor (Telekommunikation)

PHS Personal Handyphone System

PHS Peripheral High Speed (Bus)
PHT plötzlicher Herztod
PHY Physical Layer (DECT)
PI Proportional-Integral (Control), Proportional-Integral (Regler)
PIA Positronen-Intensitäts-Akkumulator (DESY)
PIAFE Projet d'Ionisation et d'Accélération de Faisceaux Exotiques (Grenoble, Frankreich)
PIC (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)

PIC Photonic Integrated Circuit

PICA Picosecond Imaging Circuit Analysis
PICS Protocol Implementation (or: Instance) Conformance Statement (Telekommunikation)
PID Präimplantationsdiagnostik (Genetik)
PID Proportional, Integral, Derivative (Control), Proportional-Integral-Differential (Regler)
PIDC Prototype International Data Center (Arlington, VA, USA)
PII Publisher Item Identifier
PIK Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung
PIM Personal Information Manager (Telekommunikation)

PIM-SM Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (Internet)

PIN Personal Identification Number
PIN [Photodiode aus 3 Schichten: 'p'-type, 'i'ntrinsic, 'n'-type semiconductor], Positive-Intrinsic-Neg
PINET Physics Information Network
PINT PSTN/Internet Interworking Group (Internet)
PIP Picture in Picture (TV: kleines Zusatzbild von anderem Sender)
PIPS Passivated, Implanted, Planar Silicon (detectors)
PIU produktionsintegrierter Umweltschutz
PIV Particle Image Velocimetry
PIXIT Protocol Information Extra Implementation for Testing (Telekommunikation)
PKC Public-Key Cryptography
PKE Pluto-Kuiper Express (Raumfahrtprojekt)
PKI Public Key Infrastructure (Telekommunikation)
PKM Parallel Kinematic Machine (Robotik)
PKY Parkway (US Mail)
PL Photoluminescence, Photolumineszenz
PL Place (US Mail)
PLA Polylactid
PLC Packet Loss Concealment (Telekommunikation)
PLC Planar Lightwave Circuit (Photonik)

PLC Powerline Communication

PLC Programmable Logic Controller
p.l.c. public limited company (UK)
PLD Pulsed Laser Deposition
PLE Photolumineszenz-Anregungsspektroskopie
PLED Polymeric Light-Emitting Diode
PLL Phase-Locked Loop
PLMN Public Land Mobile Network (Telekommunikation)
PLO Phase-Locked Oscillator
PLP Perceptual Linear Prediction
PLT (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)

PLT Princeton Large Experiment (Fusionsreaktortechnik, PPPL)

PLZ Plaza (US Mail)
PLZ Postleitzahl
PM Photomultiplier (tube)
PMB Polarization Mode Dispersion
PMC Personal Mobile Communicator
PMD Polarization-Mode Dispersion (Glasfasernetz)
PMD Portable MAC Identity for Display (DECT)
PMF Polarization Maintaining Fiber (optische Telekommunikation)
PMMA Polymethylmethacrylat
PMO Program Managament Office
PMOS P-Channel MOS
PMP Point-to-Multipoint (Telekommunikation)
PMS Puls-Magnetron-Sputtern (Dünne Schichten)
PMSJ Physico-Mathematical Society of Japan
PMSS Polymethylsilsesquioxan [Si(CH3)O1,5]n
PMT Photomultiplier Tube
PMV Predicted Mean Vote
PMW Project Management Workbench
PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
PNE Peaceful Nuclear Explosion
PNG (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)

PNGV Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles

PNNI Private Network-Node (or: -Network) Interface (Internet)
PNNL Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Washington, USA)
PNO Private Network Operator
PNP Purinnucleosid-Phosphorylase
PNU Physics News Update (USA)
POC Particulate Organic Carbon
POC Point of Concentration (Telekommunikation)

POF Polymer (or: Plastic) Optical Fiber

POEM Programme for Observation of the Earth and its Environment
POI Point of Interest (Telekommunikation)

POINTS Precision Optical Interferometer in Space

POLLENS Platform for Open, Light, Legible and Efficient Network Services (Telekommunikation)

POLY Polymeric Materials for Microelectronics and Photonics (Kongress)

PON Passive Optical Network

PONS Prometheus Orthonormal System
POP Point of Presence (Internet)
POP Post Office Protocol (E-Mail Server)
POPA Panel on Public Affairs (APS)
PoS Packet over SONET (or: SDH)
POSIX Portable Operating System Interface (Telekommunikation)
POST Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (UK)
POSTECH Pohang University of Science and Technology (Korea)
PostEurop Association of European Public Postal Operators
POTS Plain Old Telephone Service (or: System)
POW Prisoner of War
PP Point to Point (Telekommunikation)
PP Polypropylen
PP Portable Part (z.B. Handset) (DECT)
PPADC Pulse Processing Analog-to-Digital Converter
PPARC Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (UK)
PPAU Packet Processor and Access Unit
ppb parts per billion, 10-9
PPD Predicted Percentage of Dissatisfied
PPF Positive Position Feedback
PPF Print Production Format
PPG Pacific Proving Ground (Atombomben-Testgebiet)
PPL Passive Photonic Loop
PPLN Periodically-Poled Lithium Niobate
ppm parts per million, 10-6
PPMS Physical Property Measurement System
PPN Parametricized Post-Newtonian (Gravitationstheorie)
PPP Point-to-Point Protocol (Internet)
PPP Poly(p-Phenylen)
PPP Public/Private Partnership (Telekommunikation)
PPPL Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (Fusionsreaktortechnik)
PPPoA PPP over ATM (Telekommunikation)
PPPoE PPP over Ethernet (Telekommunikation)
PPR Pflegepersonalregelung
PPS The Polish Physical Society
PPT (Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft PowerPoint-Datei)

PPTP Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (Internet)

PPV Pay-per-View (Telekommunikation)

PPV Poly(p-Phenylen Vinylen)

PR Puerto Rico (US Mail)
PRA Primary Rate Access (ISDN)
PRBS Pseudorandom Bit Sequence
PRC Physics Resources Center (AIP)
PRC Primary Reference Clock (Telekommunikation)
PRI Primary Rate Interface (Telekommunikation)
PRIF Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
PRL Physical Review Letters
PROLA Physical Review Online Archive
PROLOG Programming in Logic
PROM Programmable Read-Only Memory
PROMED Program to Monitor Emerging Diseases
PROMETHEUS Programme for a European Traffic with Highest Efficiency and Unprecedented Safety
PrP Prion-Protein

PS Phone Splitter
PSA Plataforma Solar de Almeria (Solarkraftwerk)
PSA Pressure Sensitive Adhesive

PSA Prostata-spezifisches Antigen

PSAB Physics, Space and Astronomy Board (UK)
PSAC The President's Advisory Committeee (USA)
PSBT Phase Shifted Binary Transmission (Telekommunikation)
PSC Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (USA)
PSC Polar Stratospheric Cloud (siehe Ozonloch)
PSCF Pure Silica Core Fiber (optische Telekommunikation)
PSD Position-Sensing Detector
PSD Power Spectral Density
PSE Personal Service Environment (Telekommunikation)
PSE Programm- und Systementwicklung
PSF Point Spread Function
PSG Programmable Sound Generator
PSI Paul Scherrer Institut (Villingen, CH)
PSI Program Specific Information
PSI Programmable Serial Interface
PSID Panel Study of Income Dynamics (USA)
PSJ The Physical Society of Japan
PSK Phase Shift Keying (Modulation)
PSOLA Pitch-Synchronous Overlap Add (Sprachsynthese)
PSPC positionsempfindlicher Proportionalzähler (Röntgensatelliten)
PSR Precision Segmented Reflector (Satelliten)
PSS Personalized Service Selector (Telekommunikation)

PSSC Physical Sciences Study Committee (USA)

PST [Fraunhofer-] Patentstelle für die Deutsche Forschung (München)
PSTM Photon Scanning Tunneling Microscope
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network (Öffentliches Fernsprechnetz)
PTA Personal Travel Assistent
PTB Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Braunschweig)
PTFE Polytetrafluoreth(yl)en
PTI Physikalisch-Technisches Institut (DDR, Jena)
p.t.o. please turn over (= b.w.)
PTO Public Telecommunications Operator
PtP Peer-to-Peer (Telekommunikation)
PTR Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (Berlin, ab 1887)
PTRA Physics Teaching Resource Agents
PTSB Posttraumatische Belastungsstörung (Medizin)
PTSP PNNI Topology State Packet (Telekommunikation)
PTT Post, Telegraph and Telephone
PTV Projection Television
PTZ Produktionstechnisches Zentrum (FhG, Berlin)
PU Polyurethan
PU produktintegrierter Umweltschutz
PUB (Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft Publisher-Datei)

PUNE Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy

PUR Plutonium and Uranium Extraction (Radioaktiver Abfall)
PUR Polyurethan
PUSH Partnernetz für Unternehmensgründungen aus Stuttgarter Hochschulen
PUSH Public Understanding of the Sciences and Humanities
PV Photovoltaik
PV Present Value
PVB Polyvinyl Butyral
PVC Permanent Virtual Circuit (or: Channel) (Rechnernetz)
PVC Polyvinylchlorid
PVD Physical Vapor Deposition
PVDF Polyvinylidenfluorid
PVK Poly-N-vinylcarbazol
PVM Parallel Virtual Machine (Parallelrechner)
PVR Personal Video Recording (or: Recorder)
PWE3 Pseudo Wire Emulation Edge to Edge (Telekommunikation)
PWFA Plasma Wakefield Accelerator
PWLAN Public Wireless LAN (Telekommunikation)
PWM Pulse Width Modulation
PWT Private Wireless Telephony (Telekommunikation)
PXI PCI Extensions for Instrumentation
PyC Pyrokohlenstoff
PZT Lead Zirconate Titanate

Q Q-Factor, Quality Factor, Gütefaktor

QA Quality Assurance
Q&A Questions and Answers
QALY Quality-Adjusted Life Years
QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
QAR Quantitative Autoradiography (Medizin)
QAU Quality Assurance Unit
QBD Quasi-Birth-and-Death
QBER Quantum Bit-Error Rate
QC Quality Control
QC Quantum Cryptography
QCD Quantum Chromodynamics, Quantenchromodynamik
QCL Quantum Cascade Laser
QD Quantum Dot
QED Quantenelektrodynamik
qed quod erat demonstrandum (= was zu beweisen war)
QELS Quantum Electronics and Laser Science (Conference)
QFD Quality Function Deployment
QFL Quantum Fountain Laser
QFT Quantenfeldtheorie
QGP Quark-Gluon Plasma
QHE Quantum Hall Effect, Quanten-Hall-Effekt
QKD Quantum Key Distribution (Kryptographie)
QM Quality Management, Qualitätsmanagement
QM Quantum Magnetics
QMC Quanten-Monte-Carlo (-Technik)
QMS Quasi-monokristalline Siliziumschicht
QND Quantum Nondemolition Measurement (rückwirkungsfreie Quantenmessung)
QOS Quality of Service
QPO Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (Röntgensterne)
QPSK Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (Modulation)
QRY (Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft Datenbank-Abfrage)

QSAR Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (Chemie)

QSIG Q Interface Signaling
QSM Qualitative Software Metrics
QSVD Quotient Singular Value Decomposition
QTVR Quick Time Virtual Reality
QUANTOM Quantitative Tomographiedatenanalyse
QUIC Quantum Information and Computation Consortium
QW Quantum Well
QWI Quantum Well Intermixing (tunable laser)

QWIP Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector

RA Radio Access (Telekommunikation)

RA Research Assistant (USA)
RAB Radio Access Bearer (Telekommunikation)

RAB Remote Amplifier Box (Telekommunikation)

RAC Radio Admission Control (Telekommunikation)

RACE Research and Development in Advanced Communication Technologies in Europe

[or: Research (Programme) on (or: into) Advanced Communication(s) in Europe]
RAD Rapid Application Development
RADAR Radio Detection and Ranging
RADIUS Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (Telekommunikation)
RAeS Royal Aeronautical Society (UK)
RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RAINBOW Reduced and Internally Biased Oxide Wafer (piezoelektrischer Aktuator)
RAIRO Revue Française d'Automatique, Informatique et Recherche Opérationelle
RAL Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory (Oxford-Chilton, UK)
RAM Random Access Memory
RAM Remote Access Multiplexer (Internet)
RAMICS Rapid Airbore Mine Clearance System

RAN Radio Access Network (Telekommunikation)

RAN Remote Access Node (Telekommunikation)

RANAP Radio Access Network Application Part (Telekommunikation)
RAP Radio Access Profile (Telekommunikation)
RAP Radiological Assistence Program (DoE, USA)

RAPID Research and Public Information and Dissemination (USA, Programm zu EMF-Schäden)
RAPTOR Rapid Telescopes for Optical Response

RARDE Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment (UK)

RAS Reflectance Anisotropy Spectroscopy
RAS Registration, Admission and Status (Kommunikation)
RAS Remote Access Server (or: Service) (Telekommunikation)
RAS Royal Astronomical Society (UK)
RAS Russian Acoustical Society
RASS Radio Acoustic Sounding System
RAST Radio Allergo Sorbent Test
RASTI Rapid Speech Transmission Index
RB Radio Bearer (Telekommunikation)
RBOC Regional Bell Operating Company
RBW Resolution Bandwidth (Telekommunikation)
RC Routing Controller (Telekommunikation)
R/C Revenue/Cost Ratio
RCC Routing Control Channel (Telekommunikation)
RCK Research Centre Karlsruhe
RCL Radio Communication Links
RCLED Resonant Cavity Light Emitting Diode
RCMS Remote Control and Monitoring System
RCP Radio Control Part
RCP Rapid Controller Prototyping
RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (USA)
RCSU Remote Control and Status Unit
RD Route Distinguishers
RD Road (US Mail)
R&D Research and Development
RDBMS Relational Database Management System (Telekommunikation)

RDC Remote Digital Concentrator (Telekommunikation)

RDF Resource Description Framework (Telekommunikation)

RDF Reverse Dispersion Fiber (optische Telekommunikation)

RDS Radio Data System (Europe)
RDX Trimethylentrinitramin (Hexogen, Sprengstoff)
REA Rauchgas-Entschwefelungs-Anlage
REACOL Réseau Européen pour l'Assemblage par Collage
REC Radiative Electron Capture
RECOVER Remote Continual Verification (Atomenergie-Kontrolle)
RED Random Early Detection
REG (Dateinamenerweiterung: Windows Registrierungs-Datei)

REM Rapid Eye Mount (Teleskop, Italien)

REM Rapid Eye Movement (Schlaf-Phase)

REM Rasterelektronenmikroskop
RERF Radiation Effects Research Foundation (Japan)
RES Radio Equipment and Systems (TC im ETSI)
RE-SEED Retirees Enhancing Science Education through Experiment and Demonstration (USA)

RET Resolution Enhancement Technology (HP-Laserdrucker)

REU Remote Control Electronic Unit
REWIMET Regionales Windfeld-Modell einschließlich Transport (Wettervorhersage)
REX Realtime Executive (ein Betriebssystem)
RF Radio Frequency
RFA Röntgenfluoreszenzanalyse
RFC Request For Comment (Rechnernetz)
RFD Request For Discussion (Rechnernetz)
RFID Radio-Frequency Identification
RFPI Radio Fixed Part Identity (DECT)
RGA Residual Gas Analyzer
RGB Red-Green-Blue, Rot-Grün-Blau (TV)
RGO Reduced Gravity Office (NASA)
RGS Reflection Grating Spectrometer
RGS Royal Geographic Society (London, 1830)
RGW Rat für gegenseitige Wirtschaftshilfe
RGW Residential Gateway (Kommunikation)
RGZM Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Forschungsinstitut für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Main
RH Relative Humidity
RHD Right Hemisphere Damage (Hirnschäden)

RHEED Reflection High Energy Electron Diffraction (Oberflächenanalyse, Elektronenoptik)

RHIC Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, USA)
RI Rhode Island (US-Staat)
R&I Research and Innovation
RIB Routing Information Base (Telekommunikation)
RIBE Reactive Ion Beam Etching
RIE Reactive Ion Etching
RIKEN [Institute of Physical and Chemical Research] (Japan)
RIMS Resonance Ionization Mass Spectroscopy
RIN Relative Intensity Noise
RIP Requiescat in pace (Ruhe in Frieden)
RIP Routing Information Protocol (Internet)
RIS Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy
RISC Reduced-Instruction-Set Computer
RISC Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (Linz, Österreich)
RITA Radio Frequency Ion Thruster Assembly
RITL Radio in the Loop (Telekommunikation)
RKA [Russian Space Agency]
RKM Rasterkraftmikroskop
RLC Radio Link Control(ler) (TK, Layer 2)

RLL Radio in the Local Loop (Telekommunikation)

RLMS Recursive Least Mean Square (Algorithmus)
rlogin remote login
RLR Receive Loudness Rating (Telekommunikation)
RLS Recursive Least Square (Algorithmus)
RM Remote Manager (Telekommunikation)
RM Room (US Mail)
RMC RACE Management Committee
RMC-C Central Remote Maintenance Centre
RMC-R Regional Remote Maintenance Centre
RMI Remote Method Invocation (Telekommunikation)
RMON Remote Monitoring
RMS Resonant Macrosonic Synthesis
RMS Root Mean Square
RMMS Remote Maintenance and Monitoring System
RNA Ribonucleic Acid
RNC Radio (and) Network (or: Node) Controller (Telekommunikation)
RNEP Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (Atomwaffe, USA)
RNG Random Number Generator
RNO Radio Network Optimization (Telekommunikation)

RNP Radio Network Planning (Telekommunikation)

RNRT Réseau National de Recherche en Télécommunications (France Télécom)
RNS Ribonucleinsäure
R-OADM Reconfigurable Optical ADM
ROCCO Robust Checksum-Based Header Compression (Telekommunikation)

ROI Return On Investment (or: Instrument)

ROL Reverse Oscillating Layer
ROM Read Only Memory
ROSAT (deutscher) Röntgensatellit, Roentgen Satellite (1990)
ROSIS Reflective Optics System Imaging Spectrometer
ROTEX Roboter-Technologie-Experiment (Spacelab)
ROTSE Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (Astrophysik)

ROV Remotely Operated Vehicle

RP Route Processor (Telekommunikation)
RPA Random Phase Approximation
RPC Remote Procedure Call
RPM Radio Policy Matters (TC im ETSI)
RPO Rahmenprüfungsordnung
RPR Resilient Package Ring (Telekommunikation)
RPS The Romanian Physical Society
RPWS Radio and Plasma Wave Science (Instrument an Bord des Saturn-Satelliten Cassini)
RR radiative Rekombination
RR Riva-Rocci (-Apparat zur Blutdruckmessung)
RRC Radio Resource Control (Telekommunikation, Layer 3)

RRP Rapid Reconfiguration Protocol (Telekommunikation)

RS Raman Spectroscopy
RS-232 RS: Recommended Standard (EIA)
RSA [Ronald] Rivest, [Adi] Shamir, [Leonard A.] Adleman (asymmetrischer Kryptoalgorithmus, 19
RSC Radio Station, Central (Telekommunikation)
RSCW Radio Station Central Wireless (Telekommunikation)
RSFQ Rapid Single Flux Quantum Device
rsh Remote Shell
RSM Remote Station Nodal (Telekommunikation)
RSSI Receive Signal Strength Indication (DECT) (or Radio ...)
RST Radio Station, Terminal (Telekommunikation)
RST Repeater Station
RST Resonance Scattering Theory
RST Running Status Table
RSTP Rapid Spinning Tree Protocol (Telekommunikation)
RSTW Radio Station Terminal Wireless (Telekommunikation)
RSU Remote Subscriber Unit (Telekommunikation)
RSVP Répond, s'il vout plaît (bitte antworten)
RSVP Resource Reservation Protocol (Internet)
RSVP-TE Resource Reservation Protocol - Traffic Engineering (Telekommunikation)
RT Real-Time
RT Route Target

RTAC Real-Time Atmospheric Compensation (Adaptive Optik)

RTAI Real-Time Application Interface (Telekommunikation)
RTCP Real-Time Transport Control Protocol (Telekommunikation)
RTD Real-Time Difference

RTD Research and Technological Development (EC)

RTD Resistance Temperature Detector (z.B. Pt)
RTD Resonant Tunneling Device
RTD Round-Trip Delay
RTE Return From Exception
RTF Rich Text Format (Dateinamenerweiterung: Textdatei im Rich-Text-Format)
RTG Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
RTI Real-Time Interface
RTL Raster Transfer Language (HP)
RTL Real-Time Linux
RTLinux Real-Time Linux
RTM Raster-Tunnelmikroskop(ie)
RTM Real Time Monitoring
RTO Research and Technological Organization (EC)
RTOS Real-Time Operating System
RTP Real-Time (Transport) Protocol (Telekommunikation)
RTSP Real-Time Streaming Protocol (Telekommunikation)

RTT Round Trip Time

RTU Remote Terminal Unit (Telekommunikation)

RTW Real-Time Workshop
RU Repeater Unit
RU Resources Unit
RULLI Remote Ultra-Low Light Imaging (Astrophysik)
RUS Rechenzentrum Universität Stuttgart
RV Regionalverband (z. B. DPG)
RVA Richtlinienverabschiedungsausschuss (NALS)
RVR Runway Visual Range
RW Ridge Waveguide
RWA Receive Wavelength Adapter (Kommunikation)
RWC Real World Computing
RWCP Real World Computing Partnership (1992-2002)
RWE Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerke (?)
RWI Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (Essen)
RWTH Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (Aachen)
RXTE Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (Röntgensatellit)
RZ Return to Zero (Kommunikation)
RZÜ Rechnergestützte Zugüberwachung

S-Wellen Scherwellen (Geophysik)

SA Selective Availability (Satellitennavigation)
SA Service Activation (Telekommunikation)
SAAI Southern Africa Acoustics Institute
SAAL Signaling ATM Adaptation Layer (Telekommunikation)
SAARC South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation
SAC Service Admission Control (Telekommunikation)
SAC Strategic Air Command (USA)
SACD Super Audio Compact Disk

SACMOS Self Aligned Contacts MOS

SAD Spotless Activated Deposition (dünne Schichten)
SADC Southern Africa Development Cooperation
SAE Society of Automotive Engineers (USA)
SAFISY Space Agency Forum on ISY
SAFTA South Asian Free Trade Association
SAG Selective Area Growth
SAGE Soviet-American Gallium Experiment (Sonnen-Neutrinos, im Kaukasus)
SAGM Separate Absorption, Grading and Multiplication (APD)
SALT Southern African Large Telescope
SALT Speech Application Language Tags (Telekommunikation)
SALT Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (or: Talks)
SAM Scanning Acoustic Microscope
SAM selbstaggregierende Monolagen
SAM Separate Absorption and Multiplication (ADP)
SAM Speech Assessment Methodology
SAM Spherical Aberration Management
SAMPE Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering
SAMPE Society of Aerospace Material and Process Engineering
SAMPEX Solar, Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer (USA, Raumfahrt)
SAN Storage Area Network (Telekommunikation)

SANA Wissenschaftliches Begleitprogramm zur Sanierung der Atmosphäre über den neuen Bundeslän
SANE Sustainable Accomodation for the New Economy (EU-Projekt)
SAP Service Access Point (Internet)
SAP Symbolic Assembler Program (IBM 704, 1956)
SAPAM Society of African Physicists and Mathematicians
SAPPHIRE Satellite and Aircraft Data Base Project for System Integrity Research (Satellitennavigation)
SAPTA South Asian Preference Trade Association
SAR Second Assessment Report (IPCC, über globale Klimaveränderung, 1995)
SAR Specific Absorption Rate
SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar, Synthetik-Apertur-Radar
SARA Système Accélérateur Rhône-Alpes (Grenoble)
SAS Statistik-Server
SAS Swedish Acoustical Society, Svenska Akustiska Sällskapet
SASE Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission
SAT SIM Application Toolkit (Telekommunikation)
SAVOIR Sound and Vibration Organisation Information Resources (assocation formed in 1990
with support from the EG COMETT programme, located at ISVR, Southampton)
SAW Surface Acoustic Wave
SAXS Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering
SB Synchronization Burst (Telekommunikation)
SBC Single Board Computer
SBEC Subband Echo Canceler
SBIR Small Business Innovation Research (Program, USA)
SBIRS Space-Based Infrared System - Low Earth Orbit
SBL Space Based Laser
SBP Société Belge de Physique
SBR Sustainable Bit Rate (Datentransfer)
SBS Save British Science (Lobby Group)
SBS Stimulated Brillouin Scattering

SBSL Single-Bubble Sonoluminescence, Einzelblasensonolumineszenz

SBTA S-Band Test Accelerator
SBWAS Space Based Wide Area Surveillance
SBZ Sowjetische Besatzungszone
SC South Carolina (US-Staat)
SC Switch-Capacitor (Filter)
SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (Telekommunikation)
SCAI [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Algorithmen und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen (St. Augustin)
SCALPEL Scattering with Angular Limitation Projection Electron Beam Lithography
SCAMP Service Control and Monitoring Prototype
SCAR Scientific Committee on Arctic Research
SCAR Supersonic Cruise Aircraft Research
SCASSS Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (Uppsala)
SCBR Silicon Chip Bragg Reflector (Laser)
SCC Satellite Control Center (Telekommunikation)
SCC Signaling Congestion Control (Telekommunikation)
SCCP Signaling Connection and Control Part (or: Point) (Telekommunikation)
SCCR Short-Circuit Current Response
SCE Service Creation Environment (Telekommunikation)
SCF Self-Consistent Field
SCF Service Control Function (Telekommunikation)
SCF La Sociedad Colombiana de Fisica
SCH Separate Confinement Heterostructure
SCI Science Citation Index (beim ISI, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
SCIAMACHY Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography (ENVISAT)
SCID Severe Combined Immune Deficiency
SCIM Subcarrier Intensity Modulation
SCM Scanning Capacitance Microscopy
SCM Subcarrier Multiplexing
SCM Supply Chain Management
SCMFT Self-Consistent Mean Field Theory
SCN Switched Circuit Network (Telekommunikation)
SCO Synchronous Connection Oriented (Telekommunikation)
SCOLE Spacecraft Control Laboratory Experiment (NASA, etwa 1983)
SCOR Scientific Committee on Ocean Research
SCORE Spectral Self-Coherence Restoral (Algorithmus)
SCP Service Control Point (Telekommunikation)
SCP Session Control Protocol (Telekommunikation)
SCPC Single Channel Per Carrier (Telekommunikation)
SCPI Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments
SCPP Standing Conference of Physics Professors (UK)
SCRI Supersomputer Computations Research Institute (Tallahassee, FL, USA)
SCSI Small Computer Systems Interface
SCU Signalling and Control Unit (Telekommunikation)
SCU Signalling Channel Unit (Telekommunikation)
SCUBA Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array
SD Secure Digital (Memory Card)
SD South Dakota (US-Staat)
SDAP Service Discovery Application Profile (Telekommunikation)
SDE Service Development Environment (Telekommunikation)
SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (Übertragungsstandard)
SDI Strategic Defense Initiative
SDI Subscriber Distribution Interface (Telekommunikation)
SDIO Strategic Defense Initiative Organization
SDLC Synchronous Data Link Control
SDLS Satellite Data Link System (Telekommunikation)
SDM Statistical Data Miner
SDMA Space Division Multiple Access (Telekommunikation)

S-DMB Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (Telekommunikation)

SDMI Secure Digital Music Initiative

SDMS Scientific Data Management System
SDO Standard Development Organizations

SDOF Single-Degree-of-Freedom (System)

SDP Service Data Point (Telekommunikation)
SDP Service Delivery Point (Internet)
SDP Session Description Protocol (Telekommunikation)
SDR Service Data Record (Telekommunikation)

SDR Software Defined Radio (Telekommunikation)

SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (Computer)

SDS Sodium dodecyl sulphate, Natriumlaurylsulfat
SDSC San Diego Supercomputer Center
SDSL Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line
SDT Service Description Table (Telekommunikation)
SDT Spin-Dependent Tunneling
SDTS [ANSI] Spatial Data Transfer Standard
SDTV Standard-Definition Television [Format]
SDVNC [International Conference on] Structural Dynamics, Vibration, Noise and Control
SE Schrödinger Equation
SEA Sociedad Española de Acústica
SEA-ME-WE3 South East Asia - Middle East - Western Europe (Kommunikation)
SEAF Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (USA)
SEATO South-East Asia Treaty Organization
SEC Security Managament (Telekommunikation)
SEC Solid Electrolyte Coulometry
SECTAM Southeastern Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

SED Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (DDR)

SED Special Engineering Detachment (USA)
SEED Science Education through Experiment and Demonstration (USA)

SEED Self-Electrooptic-Effect Device

SEI Software Engineering Institute
SEL Sound Exposure Level
SELANE Secure Local Area Network Environment
SEM Scanning Electron Microscope (auch: Microscopy)
SEM Society for Experimental Mechanics (formerly: SESA)
SEM Spectrum Emission Mask
Sematech Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology (USA, IC-Firmen-Kooperation)
SEMOS sensorgestützte Montagesysteme
SEN Service Execution Node (Telekommunikation)
SEP Service Execution Point (Telekommunikation)
SEP Société Européenne de Propulsion
SEPG Software Engineering Project Group
SEQ Shape Equalizer (optische Telekommunikation)
SERC Science and Engineering Research Council (UK)
SERM Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator (?), selektive Östrogen Rezeptor-Modulatoren
SERS Surface Enhancement Raman Spectroscopy
SES Satellite Earth Stations and Systems (TC im ETSI)
SES Single Electron Substance
SES Societé Européenne des Satellites (Luxembourg)
SES Spracherkennungssystem
SESA Society for Experimental Stress Analysis (now: SEM)
SESAM Semiconductor Saturable Absorber Mirrors
SESAME Second European Stratospheric Arctic and Midlatitude Experiments
SESAME Synchrotron Light for Experimental Science and Application in the Middle East (Jordanien)
SET Science, Engineering, Technology
SET Secure Electronic Transaction (Internet, Verschlüsselung)
SET Single-Electron Transistor
SET Single-Electron Tunneling (Oscillations)
SETA Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance
SETI Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
SEVA Self Validating (Sensor)
SEVERI Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (mit MSG, geplant für 2000)
SEVIS Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (USA)
SEWASIE Semantic Web and Agents in Integrated Economics
SF Spreading Factor (Telekommunikation)

SFA Société Française d'Acoustique

SFAEST Stabilized Fast A Posteri Error Sequential Technique (Algorithmus)
SFB Sonderforschungsbereich (DFG)
SFC Supercritical Fluid Chromatography
SFI Santa Fe Institute (NM, USA)
SFM Scanning Force Microscopy
SFM Société Française des Mécaniciens
SFN Single Frequency Network (Digital Broadcast)
SFN System Frame Number (Telekommunikation)

SFP Société Française de Physique

SFZ Sekretariat für Zukunftsforschung (Gelsenkirchen)

SG Signaling Gateway (Telekommunikation)

SGA Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Akustik
SGCP Simple Gateway Control Protocol (Telekommunikation)
SGDBR Sampled-Grating Distributed-Bragg-Reflector (Laser)

SGI Silicon Graphics, Inc. (Mountain View, CA, USA)

SGML Standard General(ized) Markup Language
SGR Soft Gamma Repeaters (Astrophysik)
SGSN Serving GPRS Support Node (Telekommunikation)
SHA Sample-and-Hold Amplifier
SHA Staatshochbauamt
SHAPE Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
SHARF Simplified Hyperstable Adaptive Recursive Filter

SHAVE Shared Virtual Environment

SHD Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (optische Nachrichtenübertragung)
SHDSL Single Pair High Speed (or: Symmetric High Density) Digital Subscriber Line (Telekommunika
SHEFC Scottish Higher Education Funding Council
SHF Super High Frequency (3 - 30 GHz)
SHG Second Harmonic Generation
SHIP Separator for Heavy Ion Reaction Products (GSI, Darmstadt)
SHK Sanitär, Heizung, Klima [-Handwerk]
SHO Soft HandOver (Telekommunikation)

SHOP Shell Higher Olefin Process

SHS Solar Home System
SHTML Secure HTML (Telekommunikation)
SI Service Information
SI Système International d'Unités
SIA Semiconductor Industry Association
SIAM Scanning Infererometric Apertureless Microscopy
SIAM Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (USA)
SIB Service Independent Building Block (Telekommunikation)
SiC Siliziumkarbid
SICM Scanning Ion Conduction Microscopy
SIF Small Image Format (Bildcodierung)
SIF Società Italiana di Fisica
SIFT Scanning for Intensely Fluorescent Targets (Prionen-Nachweis)
SIG Special Interest Group
SIGMA Support for Improvement in Governance and Management (EU)
SILEX Semiconductor Laser Inter-Satellite Link Experiment (1998)
SIM Skalierungs-Index-Methode (nichtlineare Dynamik)
SIM Space Interferometry Mission
SIM Subscriber Identity Module (Telekommunikation)
SIMBA Superhigh Intensity Mono-Beam Amplifier Chain (KrF-Laser)
SIMD Single Instruction, Multiple Data (Rechnerarchitektur)
SIMM Single Inline Memory Module
SIMMWIC Silicon Monolithic Millimeter Wave Integrated Circuit
SIMO Single Input - Multiple Output (Controller, System)
SIMS Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy
SIN Schweizer Institut für Nuklearforschung (Paul Scherrer-Institut, Villingen, Schweiz)

SINQ [Schweizer Neutronenspallationsquelle] (Paul Scherrer-Institut, Villingen, Schweiz)

SiON Silicon Oxynitride

SIOP Single Integrated Operations Plan (USA)
SIP Session Initiation Protocol (Telekommunikation)
SIPI Scientists' Institute for Public Information (New York)
SIPS [Workshop on] Signal Processing Systems Design and Implementation
SIPS Simply Interactive Personal Computer
SIR Shuttle (or: Spaceborne) Imaging Radar (Satellit)
SIR Signal-to-Interference Ratio
SIR Submission Information Rate (Datennetz)
SIRM Scanning Infrared Microscopy
SIRTF Space Infrared Telescope Facility (Satellit)
SIS Schwerionen-Synchrotron (bei der GSI, Darmstadt)
SIS Spontaneous Information System (Telekommunikation)

SIS Stateful Inspection System (Firewall)

SIS Surface Inversion Strength (Meteorologie)
SISO Single Input - Single Output (Controller, System)
SIT Self-Induced Transparency
SIT [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Sichere Telekommunikation (Darmstadt)
SIT Structured Inventive Thinking
SIV Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (Aids-Virus bei Affen)
SKAN SkyBridge Access Node (Telekommunikation)
SKM Scanning Kelvin Microscopy
SKT SkyBridge Terminal (Telekommunikation)
SKT PRO SkyBridge Professional Terminal (Telekommunikation)
SKT RES SkyBridge Residential Terminal (Telekommunikation)
SL Schwere Löcher (Halbleiterphysik)
SL Sonoluminescence, Sonolumineszenz
SLA Service Level Agreement (Telekommunikation)
SLAC Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
SLAM Scanning Laser Acoustical Microscope
SLB Server Load Balancing (Telekommunikation)
SLBM Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile
SLCM Sea-Launched Cruise Missile
SLD Sanfte Laser-Desorption
SLEE Service Logic Execution Environment (Telekommunikation)

SLG Schweizerische Liga gegen den Lärm

SLIC Subscriber Line Interface Circuit (Telekommunikation)

SLIS Scanning Linear Imager Sensor

SLM Selective Laser-Melting
SLM Service Level Management (Telekommunikation)
SLM Spatial Light Modulator
SLO Scanning Laser Ophthalmoskop

SLP Service Location Protocol (Telekommunikation)

SLR Satelliten-Laser-Radar
SLR Send(ing) Loudness Rating (Telekommunikation)
SLS Service Level Specification (Telekommunikation)
SLT Statistical Learning Theory
SLTE Subscriber Line Terminal Equipment (Telekommunikation)
SM Session Management (Telekommunikation)
SM Single Mode (optische Telekommunikation)

SM Software Manager
SM Software Module
SMA Shape Memory Alloy [or: Actuator]
SMAD Sowjetische Militäradministration in Deutschland
SMB Small and Medium Size Business (= KMU)
SMC Service Management Center (Internet)
SMC Sheet Moulding Compound
SMC Switch Management Center (Telekommunikation)
SMD Surface Mounted Device
SMDS Switched Multimegabit Data Service
SME Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (ESPRIT) [= KMU]
SMES Superconductor Magnetic Energy Storage, supraleitender magnetischer Energiespeicher
SMEX Small Explorer Program (USA, Raumfahrt)
SMF Service Management Function (Telekommunikation)
SMF Single Mode Fiber (optische Telekommunikation)
SMG Special Mobile Group (TC im ETSI)
SMGCS Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (Rollverkehrsführungssystem)
SMIF Standard Mechanical Interface
SMILE Scientific Simulation Environment
SML Service Management Layer (optische Telekommunikation)
SMLC Serving Mobile Location Center (Telekommunikation)

SMLWEA Self-Modulated Laser Wakefield Accelerator

SMP Service Management Point (or: Platform) (Telekommunikation)
SMP Symmetric Multiprocessing
SMPP Short Message Peer-to-Peer Protocol (Telekommunikation)

SMPTE Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers

SMR Surface Movement Radar
SMS Service Management System (Telekommunikation)
SMS Short Message Service (Telekommunikation)
SMS Single Molecule Spectroscopy
SMS Statistical Mode Sensor
SMS-C Short Message Service Center (Telekommunikation)
SMT Surface Mount Technology (Platinenherstellung)
SMTA Surface Mount Technology Association (Edina, MN, USA)
SMTP Simple Mail Transport Protocol (Telekommunikation)
SMU Source Measure Unit
SN Service Node (Telekommunikation)

SNA System of National Accounts (Volkswirtschaft)

SNAAP Study of Noise and Aerodynamics of Advanced Propellers (EU-Forschungsprojekt)
SNAM Scanning Nearfield Acoustical Microscopy
SNCP Sub-Network Connection Protection (Telekommunikation)
SND [Alcatel] Submarine Networks Division (Seekabel)
SNDCP Sub-Network Dependent Convergence Protocol (Telekommunikation)
S-NE STM Network Element (Telekommunikation)
SNECMA Société Nationale d'étude et de construction de moteurs d'aviation (Paris, Frankreich)
SNF Spent Nuclear Fuel (Radioaktiver Abfall)
SNI Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme
SNIU Subscriber's Network Interface Unit
SNN Statistical Neural Networks
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol (Internet)
SNO Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (Kanada)
SNOM Scanning Nearfield Optical Microscopy (or: Microscope)
SNP (gesprochen: "Snip") Single Nucleotide Polymorphism
SNR Signal-to-Noise Ratio
SNS Spallation Neutron Source (ORNL, TN, USA, Eröffnung geplant für 2006)
SNU Seoul National University (Korea)
SNU Solar Neutrino Unit (1 SNU = 1 Einfang/(1036 Targetatome·sec))
SNV Studiengesellschaft Nahverkehr Berlin
SOA Safe Operating Area
SOA Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (optische Telekommunikation)
SOAE spontane otoakustische Emissionen
SOAP Service Oriented Architecture Protocol (Telekommunikation)
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol (Telekommunikation)

SOAR Southern Observatory for Astronomical Research

SOBRAC Sociedade Brasileria de Acústica
SOC Self-Organized Criticality
SOC Science Observation Center (XMM)
SOCAP Smart Optical Correlator Auxiliary Processor
SOE Sequence of Events
SOE Standard Operating Environment
SOFAR Sound Fixing and Ranging (Schall-Leitungskanal im Ozean)
SOFC Solid Oxide Fuel Cell; Solid Electrolyte Oxygen Fuel Cell (Hochtemperaturbrennstoffzelle)
SOFI Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut (Göttingen)
SOFIA Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (geplant für 2003)
SOFIE Spectroscopy Using Optical Fibres in the Marine Environment (EU-Projekt)
S of R (SoR) Society of Rheology (USA)
SOHO Small Office, Home Office (Internet)
SOHO Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (Satellit, 1995)
SOI Silicon on Insulator
SOI Solar Oscillatins Investigation (an Bord von SOHO)
SOIF Standard Object Interchange Format (für Datenaustausch, Internet)
SOL Senioren Online
SOLIS Synoptic Optical Long-Term Investigations of the Sun (USA)
SOM Scanning Optical Microscope
SONAR Sound Navigation and Ranging
SONATEC Selbstordnende Nanometer-Technologie
SONET Synchronous Optical Network (optische Telekommunikation)
SOO Site of Origin
SOP Standard Opening Procedure
SOQE Society for Optical and Quantum Electronics (McLean, VA, USA)
SOR Society of Rheology (USA)
SP Self-Pulsing (Telekommunikation)
SP Service Provider (Telekommunikation)
SPAD Signals Passed at Danger
SPARC Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (USA)
SPC Science Program Committee (ESA)
SPC Statistical Process Coontrol
SPEC System Performance Evaluation Cooperative (Computer-Prozessor-Leistungsfähigkeits-Test)
SPECFP SPEC-fixed point
SPECINT SPEC-integer
SPECT Single Electron Emission Computer Tomography
SPELDA Structure porteuse pour lancement doubles Ariane (Ariane-Transportsystem)
SPF Shortest Path First (Telekommunikation)
SPF Super Plastic Forming
SPG Schweizerische Physikalische Gesellschaft
SPI Service Provider Interface (Telekommunikation)
SPI Software Process Improvement
SPIE Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (jetzt: International Society of Optical Eng
SPL Superconducting Proton Linac (CERN)
SPM Scanning Probe Microscopy (or: Microscope)
SPM Self Phase Modulation
SPM Summary for Policy Makers (IPCC, über globale Klimaveränderung)
SPMD Single-Program Multiple-Data
SPOT Satellite pour l'observation de la terre
SPP Serial Port Profile
SPP Service Provisioning Point (Telekommunikation)
SPR Single Path Routing (Telekommunikation)
SPR Smith-Purcell Radiation
SPRINT Strategic Program for Innovation and Technology Transfer
SPRT Standard Platinum Resitance Thermometer
SP-RTM Spinpolarisierte Rastertunnelmikroskopie
SPS Signalling, Protocols and Switching (TC im ETSI)
SPS The Slovak Physical Society
SPS Society of Physics Students
SPS Super Proton Synchrotron (CERN)
SPTS Single Program Transport Stream (Telekommunikation)

SPVC Soft (or: Signalized) Permanent Virtual Circuit (Telekommunikation)

SQL Standard (or: Structural, or: Structured) Query Language (Telekommunikation)
SQUID Superconducting Quantum Interference Device
SQW Single Quantum Well
SR Search Retrieval
SR Signal Recognition
S/R Switch/Router (Telekommunikation)
SRA Source-Receiver Array
SRAM Sequential RAM (?)
SRC Strategic Committee and Review (TC im ETSI)
SRD Science Research Development (EU)
SRD Short Range Device (Funkgeräte)
SRET Scanning Reference Electrode Technique
SRF Specialized Resources Function (Telekommunikation)
SRF Strain Rate Feedback
SRG Shared Risk Group (Telekommunikation)
SRI Stanford Research Institute
SRM Standard Reference Material (Temperaturstandard, NBS)
SRNC Servicing Radio Network Controller (Telekommunikation)

SRP Special(ized) Resource(s) Point (Telekommunikation)

SRS Sequence Retrieval System (Bioinformatik)
SRS Synchrotron Radiation Source (Daresbury Laboratory, GB)
SRT Source/Receiver Transponder
SRTM Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
SRY Sex-Determining Region Y (Genetik)
SSC Satellite Station Controller
SSC Superconducting Super Collider (Texas, USA, geplant, aber 1993 aufgegeben)
SSC Survey Scientist Consortium (XMM)
SSCOP Service Specific Connection Oriented Protocol (Datennetz)
SSCU Signal Switching and Conditioning Unit (Telekommunikation)

SSD Switching System Division (Telekommunikation)

SSEC Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (1947, Columbia, USA)
SSF Service Switching Function (Telekommunikation)
SSG Service Selection Group (Telekommunikation)

SSG Special Study Group

SSH Secured Shell (Telekommunikation)

SSI Solid State Imaging [Camera] (Galileo-Satellit)
SSI Stochastic Subspace Identification
SSK Strahlenschutzkommission
SSL Secure Socket Layer (Internet, offenes Verschlüsselungs-Protokoll)
SSL Superconducting Sensor Laboratory (Chiba, Japan)
SSM Standard-Sonnenmodell (Astrophysik)
SSMF Standard Single Mode Fiber (optische Telekommunikation)
SSO Single Sign On
SSP Service Switching Point
SSP Société Suisse de Physique
SSPA Solid State Power Amplifier
SSR Secondary Surveillance Radar
SSR Solid State Relay
SSS Space Segment
SSST Southeastern Symposium on System Theory
SSt Schallschutzstufen (Ruheschutz in Wohnungen, VDI-Richtlinie 4100)
SST Sea Surface Temperature
SST Subscriber Station (Teilnehmerstation)
SST Super Sharp Tube (Röntgenröhre, Philips)
SSU Synchronization Supply Unit (Telekommunikation)
SSVF System Simulation and Verification Facility (ESTEC)
SS7 Signaling System No. 7 (Telekommunikation)
S&T Science and Technology
ST Sixteen Thirty-two (Atari: 16 Bit externer/32 Bit interner Datenbus)
ST Small Terminal
ST Street (US Mail)
STA Science and Technology Agency (Japan)
STA Station (US Mail)
STAR GLOBALSTAR Satellite Technology
STAR Solenoidal Tracker of RHIC
STAR Standardization and R & D Links (CEN-Arbeitsgruppe)
STARS Software Technology for Adaptable Reliable Systems
START Small Tight Aspect Ratio Tokamak (Culham, UK)
START Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
STARTAP Science, Technology and Research Transit Point (Datennetz der NSF, Chicago, IL, USA)
STB Set Top Box (Telekommunikation)

STE Suite (US Mail)

ST-ECF Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ESO)
STEM Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope
STEP Satellite Test of Equivalence Principle
STEP (German) Students Exchange Programme
STFT Short Time Fourier Transform
STG Schiffbautechnische Gesellschaft
SThM Scanning Thermal Microscopy
STI Signal-Transduktions-Inhibitor (Medikamentenklasse)

STI Speech Transmission Index

STIRAP Stimulated Raman Scattering Involving Adiabatic Passage
STL Studio-to-Transmitter Link
STM Scanning Thermal Microscopy
STM Scanning Tunnel[ing] Microscopy
STM Synchronous Transfer (or: Transport) Module (Datennetz)
STN The Scientific and Technical Information Network (Datenbank)
STN Supertwisted Nematic (Flüssigkristalle)
STOL Short Take-off and Landing
STP Shielded Twisted Pair (Datenkabel)
STP Signaling Transfer Point (Telekommunikation)
STP Silanterminierte Polyurethane (Kleb- und Dichtstoffe)
STP Spanning Tree Algorithm and Protocol (Telekommunikation)
STR Self-Tuning Regulator
STRL Science and Technical Research Laboratories (NHK, Japan)
STS Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy
STS Section de Technicien Supérieure
STS Synchronous Transport Signal (Datennetz)
STS System Time Stamp (Telekommunikation)
STSF Spatial Transformation of Sound Fields (Brüel & Kjær)
STTI-KL Software-Technologie-Transfer-Initiative Kaiserslautern
Stupa Studentenparlament
SUB Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (Göttingen)
SUMER Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of Emitted Radiation (an Bord von SOHO)
SUNDIAL Speech Understanding and Dialogue
SUNY State University of New York (Buffalo, NY, USA)
SuperSmile Superior Semiconductor Mid-Infrared Laser
SUSI Sydney University Stellar Interferometer
SUSY Supersymmetrie (Elementarteilchentheorie)
SV Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft e.V.
SVB Statistical Dialect of Visual Basic
SVC Switched Virtual Circuit (Internet)
SVD Singular Value Decomposition
SVF Serial Vector Format
S-VHS Super-VHS
SVM Skalierungs-Vektor-Methode (nichtlineare Dynamik)
SVO Spectroscopic Virtual Observatory
SVST Swedish Vacuum Solar Telescope
SW Software
SWAN Solar Wind Anisotropy (an Bord von SOHO)
SWAS Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite
SWNT Single Wall Nanotubes
SWS Semesterwochenstunde
SXT Soft X-Ray Transient (Astrophysik)
SYN Synchronize
SysCoP System for Copyright Protection
SZ Süddeutsche Zeitung

T Thymin (DNA-Base)
TA Teaching Assistent (USA)
TA Technikfolgen-Abschätzung
TA Technische Anleitung
TA Timing Advance (Telekommunikation)

TAB Büro für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung

TAB Tape Automated Bonding
TAC Technical Activity Committee (IEEE)
TAC Technical Assistance Center (Telekommunikation)
TACAMO Take Charge And Move Out (Milit.)
TACACS Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (Telekommunikation)
TACAS Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System
TACIS Technical Assistence to the Commonwealth of Independent States (EU)
TACS Total Access Communication System (Telekommunikation)
TAG Multi-Standard Identification Plate
TAI Temps Atomique International
TAL Telephonic Acoustic Loss (Telekommunikation)
TAL [Deutsche] Transalpine Ölleitung
TALC Technology Adoption Life Cycle (Telekommunikation)
TAN Total Acid Number (Chemie)
TAN Transaktionsnummer (Homebanking)
TAO Telecommunications Advancement Organization (Japan)
TAP Test Access Board
TAPI Telephony Application Programming Interface (Telekommunikation)
TARA Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance (Japan)
TARMAC Taxi and Ramp Management and Control (DLR, Flughafenbetrieb)
TAROT Télescope à Action Rapide pour les Objets Transitoires (Frankreich)

TASCC Tandem Accelerator Superconducting Cyclotron (Ontario, Kanada)

TAT thematischer Apperzeptionstest (Psychologie)

TAT Turn Around Time

TAT 12/13 Transatlantic Ring (Glasfaserkabel USA - England - Frankreich)
TATB Triaminotrinitrobenzol (Sprengstoff)
.tau.-Code TAU: Triangular, Adaptive, Upwind (FVM-Variante)
TAZ Die Tageszeitung
TB Time-Bandwidth (Product)
TBCCO Thallium-Barium-Calcium-Kupferoxid (HTSL)
TBF Temporary Block Flow (Telekommunikation)
tbg Technologie-Beteiligungs-Gesellschaft (Tochter der Deutschen Ausgleichsbank)
TBN Total Base Number (Chemie)
TBR Technical Basis for Regulation (DECT)
TBT Tributylzinn (in Anti-Fouling-Anstrichen)

TC Technical Committee (im CEN und ETSI)

TC Traffic Conditioning
TC Transcoder (Telekommunikation)

TC Transmission Convergence (Internet)

TC Trellis Code (Modulation)
TC Total Carbon
TCA Threshold Crossing Alarms (Telekommunikation)
TCAP Transaction Capabilities Application Part (Telekommunikation)
TCDD 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlordibenzo-para-Dioxin (,,Seveso-Gift'')
TCH Traffic Channel
TCL Through Camera Lens (Autofocus-System für Videocameras)
TCM Tagungszentrum Messe (Hannover)
TCN Technical Committee on Noise (ASA)
TCNQ 8-Tetracyano-p-chinodimethan(id)
TCP Technological Capabilities Panel (USA)
TCP Transmission Control Protocol (Rechnernetz)
TCP Tumor Control Probability
TCSCP Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting
TDA Diaminotoluol
TDCMA Time Division CDMA (Telekommunikation)

TDD Time Division Duplex(ing) (Telekommunikation)

TDE Total Development Environment
TDF Train Describer Function
TDI Time-Delay Integration
TDI Toluylendiisocyanat
TDI Turbo Direct Injection (Motoren)
TDLHS Tunable Diode Laser Heterodyne Spectrometer (NPL, UK)
TDM Time Division Multiplex(ing) (Telekommunikation)
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access (Telekommunikation)
TDNN Time-Delay Neural Network
T-DSL Telekom DSL (768 kbps Empfangs- und 128 kbps Sende-Geschwindigkeit)
TDT Time Data Table
TE Terminal Equipment (TC im ETSI)
TE transversal elektrisch (Hohlleitermode)
TEC Technical Expertise Center (Telekommunikation)
TED Transnational English Database
TEDS Transducer Electronic Data Sheet
TEG [Fraunhofer-] Technologie-Entwicklungsgruppe (Stuttgart)
TELI Technisch-Literarische Gesellschaft
TELNET [Terminalemulation] (Rechnernetz)
TEM Transmissionselektronenmikroskop(ie), Transmission Electron Microscope (or: Microscopy)
TEMPUS Trans-European Mobility Programme for University Students (EU)
TEN Trans-European Network (seit 1998, 155 Mbit/s)
TEN-IBK Transeuropäische Netze - Integrierte Breitbandkommunikation
TEOAE Transitorisch evozierte otoakustische Emissionen
TEPAC Tube Engineering Panel Advisory Committee
TEQ Tilt Equalizer (optische Telekommunikation)
TER Terrace (US Mail)
Terfenol-D Acronym aus Tb (Terbium), Dy (Dysprosium), Fe und NOL (Naval Ordnance
Laboratory), sh. J. Appl. Phys. 50 (1979) 1674-1676
TERI Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Initiative
TERN Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Network
TES Terminal Server
TESLA TeV-Energy Superconducting Linear Accelerator (bei DESY, Hamburg, geplant)
TEST Transferable European Space Technologies
TETRA Trans-European Trunked Radio Access
TEU Transmitter Equipment for UMTS (Telekommunikation)

TEXUS Technische Experimente unter Schwerelosigkeit

TFB Transferbereich (im SFB)
TFF Thin Film Filter

TFT Thin-Film Transistor

TFT Traffic Flow Templates (Telekommunikation)

TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol (Telekommunikation)

TFTR Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (Fusionsreaktortechnik, PPPL)
TFTS Terrestrial Flight Telephone System
TFU Timing and Frequency Unit (Telekommunikation)
TG Technical Group (INCE)
TGA Trägergemeinschaft für Akkreditierung
TG/CBE Technical Group on Computer and Business Equipment (INCE)
TGHI Time Gated Holographic Imaging
TGMS Third Generation Mobile Communication System (Telekommunikation)
TGS Ticket-Granting Service (Datennetz)
TGV Train à grande vitesse (?) (französische Bahn)
TGW Trunking Gateway (Telekommunikation)
TGZ Technologie- und Gründerzentrum
THAAD Theater High Altitude Area Defense (USA)
THD Total Harmonic Distortion
THEL Tactical High-Energy Laser
THEMIS Thermal Emission Imaging System (Mars-Sonde Odyssey)

THTR Thorium-Hochtemperatur-Reaktor (Hamm i. Westf.)

TI Institut für Telematik e.V. (Trier)
TI Texas Instruments
TIA Telecom(munications) Industry Association (USA)
TIB Technische Informationsbibliothek (Hannover)
TIC Total Inorganic Carbon
TICAM Texas Institute of Computational Mathematics (College Park, MD, USA)
TIF (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)

TIFF Tag Image File Format (Graphikformat)

TIG Tungsten-Inert Gas (Schutzgasschweißen)
TIL Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes (Zellen)
TIM Terrestrial Interface Module (Telekommunikation)
TIMS Teaching Integrated Math and Science (Chicago, IL, USA)
TIMSS Third International Mathematics and Science Study
TINA Telecommunications Information Network Architecture
TIP Terabit IP Router (Telekommunikation)

TIPOR Terabit IP Optical Router (Telekommunikation)

TIPS Theory of Inventive Problem Solving
TJNAF Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Newport News, CA, USA)
TK Telekommunikation
TKG Telekommunikationsgesetz (25.7.96)
TLC Thin Layer Chromatography
TLS Transparent LAN Services (Telekommunikation)
TLS Transport Layer Security (Telekommunikation)
TM Terminal Multiplexer (Telekommunikation)
TM Transmission and Multiplexing (TC im ETSI)
TM transversal magnetisch (Hohlleitermode)
TMC Traffic Message Channel
TMCC Transmission and Multiplexing Configuration Control (Telekommunikation)
TMF Tele-Management Forum (Telekommunikation)
TMI Texas Materials Institute
TMN Telecommunication(s) Management Network (Telekommunikation)
TMR Training and Mobility of Researchers (EU-Programm)
TMR Tunneling Magnetoresistance

TMTSF Tetramethyltetraselenanafulvalen (organischer Supraleiter)

TN Tennessee (US-Staat)
TN Twisted Nematic (Flüssigkristalle)
TNAZ Trinitroazetin (Sprengstoff)
TNF Tumor Nekrose Factor
TNL Transport Network Layer (Telekommunikation)

TNM Tumor, Nodi [Lymphknoten], Metastasen (Krebsstadium-Klassifizierung)

TNO [Nederlandse organisatie voor] Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek
TNPP Telocator Network Paging Protocol
TNT Trinitrotoluol
TO Thermo-Optical [Effects]
ToA Time of Arrival
TOC Total Organic Carbon
TOE Theory of Everything
TOEFL Test of English as a Foreign Language (Sprachtest für Austauschstudenten)
TOF Time-of-Flight (Massenspektrometer)
TOFMS Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer
Tokamak [russ. Abk.: Ringkammer mit Magnetspule] (Kernfusionsreaktor)
TOMS Total Ozone Mapping Sensor
TON Taiwan Oscillation Network
TOP Techical and Office Protocol (Datennetze)
TOP thermooptisch variabler Polymerwerkstoff
TOP Time-Averaged Orbiting Potential
TOPAS Tankfahrzeug mit optimierten passiven und aktiven Sicherheitseinrichtungen
TOPS Trends in Optics and Photonic Series (OSA, Buchreihe)
TOS The Operating System
TOS Type of Service (Telekommunikation)
TOT Time Offset Table
TOU Technologieorientierte Unternehmensgründungen (Modellversuch, neue Bundesländer)
TOXC Transparent Optical Cross-Connect (optische Telekommunikation)

TPA Transient Program Area

TPC Transmission Power Control (Telekommunikation)

TPC5 Transpacific Cable Link (Glasfaserkabel USA - Japan)

TPD Technisch Physische Dienst (TNO-TU Delft, NL)
TPF Terrestrial Planet Finder (geplant)
TPFM Two-Photon Fluorescence Microscopy
TPI Terahertz Pulse Imaging
TPKE Turnpike (US Mail)
TPS Turbine Powered Simulators (Modelltriebwerke)
TPV Thermophotovoltaik
TPX Tokamak Physics Experiment (Fusionsreaktortechnik, PPPL)
TQM Total Quality Management
T/R Transmit/Receive [Modus] (Telekommunikation)
TRADE Transatlantic Research and Development Environment
TRANS Technologien aus der Raumfahrt für Anwendungen in Nicht-Raumfahrtsparten
(DLR und MST Aerospace GmbH, Köln)
Transceiver Transmitter + Receiver
Transponder Transmitter + Responder
TRBF Technische Regeln für brennbare Flüssigkeiten
TRC Transportation Research Center (Ohio State University)
TRC Tsukuba Research Consortium (Japan)
TRE Transceiver Equipment (Telekommunikation)

TREC Théorie des Réseaux et Communications

TRELIBS Time-Resolved Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy

TRGS Technische Regeln für Gefahrstoffe
TRI Time Reversal Invariance
Tri Trichlorethen
TRIP Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property
TRIUMF (Kanadisches Kernforschungszentrum)
TRIZ Teoriya Resheniya Izobratelskikh Zadatch (russische Abkürzung für TIPS)
TRK Technische Richtkonzentration
TRM Time Reversal Mirror
TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
TRN Topology Representing Network (Selbstorganisation)
TROSY Transverse Relaxation-Optimized Spectroscopy
TRP Test Resource Partitioning
TRU Transuranic Waste (Radioaktiver Abfall)
TS Time Slot (Datenübertragung)
TS Transport Stream (Digital Broadcast)
TSAPI Telephone Services Application Programmming Interface (Telekommunikation)
TSC-IP Transparent System Connector IP (Telekommunikation)
TSER Targeted Socio-Economic Research Programme (EC)
T-SGW Transport Signaling Gateway (Telekommunikation)

TSM Tandem Scanning Microscope

TSO Technical Specifications Organizations

TSOM Traffic and Service Optimization Module (Telekommunikation)

TSP Thiele Small Parameter (Lautsprechertest)
TSP Traveling Salesman Problem
TSR Tag Switched Routing (Telekommunikation)

TSR Terminate and Stay Resident

TSR Test-Speicher-Ring (in Heidelberg)
TSS Teleworker Success Suite (Telekommunikation)
TST Trusted Signature Terminal
TT Technology Transfer
TT Traffic Trunk (Telekommunikation)
TT Trust Territory (US Mail)
TTC Telecommunications Technology Council (Japan)
TTC Telemetry and Telecommand
TT&C Tracking, Telemetry and Command (Telekommunikation)
TTCN Tree and Tabular Combined Notation
TTF Tetrathiafulvalen
TTL Time to Live
TTP Thymidintriphosphat
TTR Time to Repair
TTS T-Tauri-Sterne
TTS Text-to-Speech (Sprachsynthese)
TU Terminal Unit
TUB Technische Universität Berlin
TUD Technische Universität Darmstadt
TUG (National astronomical observatory of Turkey)

TUG TeX User Group

TUHH Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
TUI Touristik Union International GmbH & Co. KG
TULIP The University Licensing Program
TUM Technische Universität München
TUTB European Confederation of Trade Unions (Technical Bord) [Europäischer Gewerkschaftsbund
(Technisches Büro)]
TV Television
TVA Tennessee Valley Authority (USA)
TVD Total Variation Diminishing (numerisches Rechenverfahren)
TVML TV Program Making Language
TWA Time Weighted Average
TWA Transmit Wavelength Adapter (optische Kommunikation)
TWAS Third World Academy of Sciences
TWC Three Way Catalytic (Auspuff)
TWD Transparente Wärmedämmung
TWT Traveling Wave Tube (Mikrowellenverstärker)
TX Texas (US-Staat)
TXT (Dateinamenerweiterung: Textdatei)

UA User Agent (or: Access) (Telekommunikation)

UAC User Agent Client (Telekommunikation)
UAG Universal Access Gateway (Telekommunikation)
UARC Upper Atmosphere Research Collaboratory
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (Telekommunikation)
UAS Universal Access Server (Telekommunikation)
UAS User Agent Server (Telekommunikation)
UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (USA)
UBA Umweltbundesamt (Berlin)
UBC Uniform Building Code (USA)
UBR Unspecific (or: Unspecified) Bit Rate (Datennetz)
UB/TIB Universitätsbibliothek und Technische Informations-Bibliothek (Hannover)
UC Unit Circle
UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (USA)
UCLA University of California at Los Angeles
UCN Ultracold Neutrons
UCS Uniform Communications System
UCS Union of Concerned Scientists
UCSB University of California at Santa Barbara
UCSC University of California at Santa Cruz
UCSD University of California at San Diego
UCSF University of California at San Francisco
UDDI Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (Telekommunikation)
UDI Unrestricted Digital Information (Telekommunikation)
UDL Universität des Dritten Lebensalters
UDLR Uni-Directional Link Routing (Telekommunikation)
UDP User Data(gram) Protocol (Internet)
UDS Upper-Data-Strobe (Atari)
UE Unterhaltungselektronik
UE User Equipment (Telekommunikation)

UFC Universities Funding Council (UK)

UFZ Umweltforschungszentrum (Leipzig/Halle)
UGC User Ground Component (Telekommunikation)
UHF Ultra High Frequency (0,3 - 3 GHz)
UHTS Ultra-High Throughput Screening
UHV Ultra High Vacuum, Ultrahochvakuum
UIC Union internationale des chemins de fer
UIC University of Illinois, Chicago
UIME User Information Management Entities (Telekommunikation)
UITB Union Internationale des Transports Publics
UIUC University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
UK United Kingdom (auch im Internet)
UKAEA UK Atomic Energy Authority
UKSEDS UK Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
ULDB Ultra Long Duration Balloon
ULEF Ultra Low Emission Vehicle (Kfz-Technik)
ULF-FORTH (Laserforschungslaboratorium, Iraklion, GR)
ULIRG Ultraluminous, Infrared-Emitting Galaxy
ULSI Ultra Large Scale Integration
UM Universal Messaging (Telekommunikation)
UMIS universelles mobiles Informationssystem
UMIST University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
UMK Umweltministerkonferenz
UML Unified Modeling Language (Computerprogramm-Struktur)
UMLS Unified Medical Language System
UMS Unified Messaging Service (Telekommunikation)
UMSICHT [Fraunhofer-Institut für] Umwelt-, Sicherheits- und Energietechnik (Oberhausen)
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunication(s) Standard (or: System)
UNAEC United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
UNC-CH University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
UNCED United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro, Juni 1992)
UNDP United Nations Development Programme
UNE Unbundled Network Element (Telekommunikation)

UNEP United Nations Environment Programme

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
UNI Union Network International (Gewerkschaftsorganisation, seit 1.1.2000)
UNI User-Network Interface (Datennetz)
UNIC United Nations Information Center (viele Standorte weltweit)
UNILAC Universal Linear Accelerator (GSI)
UNIX-CE UNIX-Based Control Element
UNL Universal Network Language
UNO United Nations Organization
UNSCEAR United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation
UNSCOM United Nations Special Commission

UNSW University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australien)

UPC Ultrafast Photonics Collaboration (UK)

UPC Universal Product Code (Strichcode)
UP-CAP Ultra Power Capacitor
UPD User Profile Directory (Telekommunikation)

UPS Unified Profile Scheme (Telekommunikation)

UPS Uninterruptable Power Supply (= USV)

UPSR Unidirectional Path Switching (or: Switched) Ring (optische Kommunikation)
UPT Universal Personal Telecommunications
UPV Unpiloted Vehicle
UR Universal Routing (Telekommunikation)
URA Unité de recherche associée au CNRS
URA Universities Research Association (USA)
URAN UMTS Radio Access Network (Telekommunikation)
URETI University Research, Engineering, and Technology Institute

(befristete NASA-Gründungen in USA)

URI Uniform Resource Identifier (Telekommunikation)

URL Universal Resource Locator (or: Location) (Internet)
URS User Requirements Specification
URSI Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale

URT User Registration Tool (Telekommunikation)

US(A) United States (of America)
USAF US Air Force
USANS Ultrasmall-Angle Neutron Scattering

USARDSG-UK United States Army Research, Development and Standardization Group - United Kingdom
USART Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
USB Universal Serial Bus (Datentransfer)
USC University of Southern California
USCM Universal Service Component Model
USGS US Geological Survey (Denver, CO)
USIM UMTS Subscriber Identity Module (Telekommunikation)

USM User Service Manager (Telekommunikation)

USPAS US Particle Accelerator School
USPTO US Patent and Trademark Office
USSD Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (Telekommunikation)
USST Usage Specification and Specification Testing
UST Umweltsensortechnologie
USV unterbrechungsfreie Stromversorgung
UT Universal Time
UT Utah (US-Staat)
UTC Universal Time Coordinated (or: Continuous)
UTD Uniform Geometric Theory of Diffraction
UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair (Datenkabel)
UTR Untranslated Region (in RNA)
UTRAN UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (Telekommunikation)
UUCP Unix-to-Unix Copy Program (Rechnernetz)
UV Ultraviolet, Ultraviolett
UVCS Ultraviolet Coronograph Spectrometer (an Bord von SOHO)
UVV Unfall-Verhütungs-Vorschrift
UWB Ultra Wide Band (Telekommunikation)

UWCC Universal Wireless Communication Consortium (Telekommunikation)

UWG Gesellschaft für Umwelt- und Wirtschaftsgeologie mbH (Berlin)

VA Virginia (US-Staat)
VAD Voice Activity Detection (Telekommunikation)
VALUE Valorisation and Utilisation for Europe (EU)
VAMAS Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards
VAS Value Added Service (Telekommunikation)
VBA [Microsoft] Visual Basic for Applications
VBC Vienna BioCenter (Wien)

VBD Voice Band Data (Telekommunikation)

VBG Verwaltungs-Berufsgenossenschaft
VBG Verzeichnis der Einzel-Unfallverhütungsvorschriften der gewerblichen Berufsgenossenschaften
VBI Vertical-Blank-Interrupt, Vertical Blanking Interval
vBNS Very High Performance Backbone Network Service (USA, Gbit/s-Netz)
VBR Variable Bit Rate (Datenübertragung)
VC Venture Capital(ist)
VC Vinylchlorid
VC Virtual Circuit (Internet)
VC Virtual Channel (Internet)
VC Virtual Container (Kommunikation)
VCC Virtual Channel Connection (Internet)
VCG Venture Capital-Gesellschaft
VCI Verband der Chemischen Industrie
VCI Virtual Channel Identifier
VCI Voltage Contrast Imaging
VCIP Visual Communications and Image Processing Conference
VCO Voltage Controlled Oscillator
VCOSS Vibration Control of Space Structures
VCR Video Cassette Recorder

VCS V-Groove Connector System (Telefon, Steckverbinder)

VCSEL Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting [Semiconductor] Laser, Vertikalresonator-Laserdiode
V&D Voice and Data (Telekommunikation)
VDBiol Verband Deutscher Biologen
VDE Verband Deutscher Elektrotechniker e.V.
VDEh Verein Deutscher Eisenhüttenleute e.V.
VDI Verein Deutscher Ingenieure e.V.
VDI Virtual Device Interface
VDI-EKV VDI-Gesellschaft Entwicklung Konstruktion Vertrieb
VDMA Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbauer
VDSÄ Vereinigung Deutscher Strahlenschutzärzte e.V.
VDSL Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Line
VDU Visual Display Unit (= Monitor)
VDV Verband Deutscher Verkehrsunternehmen
VDW Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler
VE Virtual Environment
VEB Volkseigener Betrieb (DDR)
VECSEL Vertical External Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser
VEGF vaskulärer endotheliarer Wachstumsfaktor
VELI Virtuell European Laser Institute
VERITAS Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (Tucson, TX, USA, geplant für 200
VERONICA Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-Wide Index to Computerized Archives (Rechnernetz, Gopher)
VESA Video Electronic Standards Association
VEV Voice-Excited Vocoder
VF Vacuum Fluorescence
VFA Verband Forschender Arzneimittelhersteller
VFD Vacuum Fluorescent Display
VfK Vereinigung für Kristallographie
VGA Video Graphics Adapter
VGA Video Graphics Array
VGF Vertical Gradient Freeze (Kristallzucht)
VHB Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern
VHDA Very-High-Density Amorphous (Ice)
VHDL VLSI Hardware Description Language
VHE Very High Energy
VHE Virtual Home Environemnt (Telekommunikation)
VHF Very High Frequency (30 - 300 MHz)
VI Virgin Islands (US Mail)
VICKSI Van de Graaf-Isochron-Cyclotron-Kombination für Schwere Ionen
VICS Vehicle Information and Communication System
VIK Vereinigtes Institut für Kernforschung (Dubna, Russland)
VIP Very Important Person
VIP Virtual Internet Protocol (Telekommunikation)
VIPeR Value-Added IP Routing (Telekommunikation)

VIRGO Variability Irradiance and Gravity Oscillations (an Bord von SOHO)
VIRIM virtuelle Realität in der Medizin
VIROR Virtuelle Hochschule Oberrhein (seit Mitte 1998)
VIS Visible Imaging System
VIS Visual Instruction Set
VISA Virtual Instrument Software Architecture (Telekommunikation)
ViSEK Virtuelles Kompetenzzentrum für Software Engineering
VISS VHS-Index-Such-System
VISTA Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (UK)
VITA VME bus International Trade Association
VIVRE Interactive Virtual Reality Environment (EU)
VK Verbundkatalog maschinenlesbarer Daten
VKTA Verein für Kernverfahrenstechnik und Analytik Rossendorf e.V.
VL Virtual Laboratory

VLA Very Large Array (Radioteleskop)

VLAN Virtual LAN (Internet)
VLBA Very Long Baseline Array
VLBI Very Long Baseline Interferometry
VLF Very Low Frequency (3 - 30 kHz)
VLHC Very Large Hadron Collider (geplanter Nachfolger für LHC)
VLIW Very Long Instruction Word (Computertechnik)
VLL Virtual Leasing Line (Telekommunikation)
VLR Visitor Location Register (Telekommunikation)
VLSI Very Large-Scale Integration (Circuit)
VLT Very Large Telescope (Chile)
VLY Valley (US Mail)
VMAN Virtual MAN (Telekommunikation)
VOA Variable Optical Attenuator (Photonik)

VoATM Voice over ATM (Telekommunikation)

VOB Verdingungsordnung für Bauleistungen
VOC Volatile Organic Carbon (or: Compound)
VoD Video on Demand
VoFR Voice over Frame Relay (Telekommunikation)
VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol (Telekommunikation)
VoP Voice over Packet (Telekommunikation)
VOX Voice-Operated Switch
Voxel (volume pixel, quaderförmige Volumenelemente)
VP Virtual Path (Internet)
VPC Virtual Path Connection (Internet)
VPI Virtual Path Identifier
VPI&SU Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, VA, USA)
VPL Virtual Programming Language

VPLS Virtual Private LAN Service (Telekommunikation)

VPN Virtual Private Network, Virtuelles Privates Netz (Internet)
VPS Video-Programm-System
VPS Virtual LAN Policy Server (Telekommunikation)
VPT Videotext-Programmier-System
VPU Voice Processing Unit (Telekommunikation)
VPWS Virtual Private Wire Services (Telekommunikation)
VQ Vector Quantization
VR Virtual Reality
VRAS Virtual Reality Audio System
VRF Virtual Routing and Forwarding (Telekommunikation)
VRID Virtual Router Identification (Telekommunikation)
VRML Virtual Reality Markup (or: Modeling) Language
VRRP Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (Telekommunikation)
VSA Vector Signal Analyzer
VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal (Fernerkundung, Datennetz)
VSB Vestigial Sideband (Modulation)
VSDL Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Line (Telekommunikation)
VSELP Vector Sourcebook Excited Linear Predictive Coding (Sprachkompressionssystem)
V-SK VIPeR System Kernel (Telekommunikation)

VSL Varying-Speed-of-Light (Theory) (Kosmologie)

VSM Vibrating Sample Magnetometer
VSMS Virtual School of Molecular Sciences (Nottingham, UK)
VSOP Versatile Scalable On Board Processing Unit (Einplatinenrechner)
V.S.O.P Very special old pale (Cognac)
VSPD Variable Sensitivity Photodetector Cell
VSTOL Vertical and Short Take-off and Landing
VT Vermont (US-Staat)
VT Virtual Tributary (Kommunikation)
VTEC Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control (Kfz-Technik)
VTOL Vertical Take-off and Landing
VTR Video Tape Recorder (?)
VTS Vessel Traffic Service (für Schiffsverkehr im Hafen)
VTT Valtion teknillinen tutkimuskeskus (Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finnland)

VUB Virtuelle Universität Berlin

VUV Vakuumultraviolett, Vacuum-Ultraviolet
VWCS Voice Web Communications Server (Telekommunikation)
VWL Volkswirtschaftslehre
VWM Voice Web Manager (Telekommunikation)
VXML Voice Extensible Markup Language (Telekommunikation)

WA Washington (US-Staat)
WAAS Wide Area Augmentation System (Telekommunikation)
WACN West Anglia Cancer Network (UK)
WA/D Wavelength Add/Drop (Telekommunikation)

WAD Wide Area Differential (Satellitennavigation)

WADM Wavelength Add/Drop Multiplexer (optische Telekommunikation)
WAF (Dateinamenerweiterung: Sounddatei)

WAIS Wide-Area Information Server (or: Service) (Rechnernetz)

WAK Wiederaufbereitungsanlage Karlsruhe
WAN Wide Area Network (Rechnernetze)
WAP Wireless Application Protocol (scherzhaft auch: Wait and Pay) (Telekommunikation)
WARC World Administrative Radio Conference
WBCO Waveguide Below Cutoff
WBEM Web Based Element Management (Telekommunikation)
WBGU Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen
WBL Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Blaue Liste
WBS Wireless Base Station (Telekommunikation)
WBS Work Breakdown Structure
WBT WEB-basierte Trainingssysteme
W-CDMA Wideband CDMA (Telekommunikation)
WCT WIPO Copyright Treaty
WCU World Congress on Ultrasonics
WDM Wave(length) Division Multiplex(ing) (optische Telekommunikation)
WDMA Wavelength Division Multiple Access (optische Telekommunikation)
WECA Wireless Ethernet Company Alliance (Telekommunikation)
WECC WEB Enabled Call Center (Telekommunikation)
WECC Western European Calibration Cooperation
WECPNL Weighted Equivalent Continuous Perceived Noise Level
WEEE Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment
WEH Wilhelm und Else Heraeus (Stiftung)
WELAC Western European Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation
WELMEC Western European Legal Metrology Cooperation
WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy (Telekommunikation)
WESCON Western Electronic Show and Convention (USA)
WESTP(R)AC Western Pacific Regional Acoustics Conference
WFBA Weighted Fair Buffer Allocation (Telekommunikation)

WFQ Weighted Fair Queuing (Telekommunikation)

WG Working Group
WGL Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
WGW Wireless Gateway (Telekommunikation)
WHG Wasserhaushaltsgesetz
WHH Werthamer-Helfand-Hohenberg (Supraleitungstheorie)
WHO World Health Organization
WHOI Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
WI Wisconsin (US-Staat)
WIDE Wide-Angle Imaging Lidar
WiFS Wide Field Sensor (NASA-Satellit, seit 1997)
WIMP Weakly Interacting Massive Particle
WiN Wissenschaftsnetz (Datennetz)
WIP Wissenschaftler-Integrationsprogramm (ehem. DDR)
WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization
WIPP Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (Radioaktiver Abfall, Carlsbad, NM, USA)
WIS WAN Interface Sublayer (Telekommunikation)
WISA Wirtschaftsorientierte Strategische Allianz (FhG)
WISTA Wissenschafts- und Technologiepark Berlin-Adlershof
(oder: Wirtschafts- und Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin-Adlershof)
WIXC Wavelength Interchanging Cross-Connect (optische Telekommunikation)
WIYN Wisconsin-Indiana-Yale-NOAO
WKI Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institut (Fraunhofer-Institut für Holzforschung, Braunschweig)
WKN Wertpapierkennnummer
WL Wechselsprech- und Lautsprecherkommunikation
WLA Wavelength Adapter (optische Telekommunikation)
WLAN Wireless LAN
WLC Worm-Like Chain (Polymerphysik)
WLL Wireless Local Loop (Internet)
WLS Web Lecturing and Training System

WLT Wissenschaftlicher Arbeitskreis Lasertechnik

WMA (Dateinamenerweiterung: Videodatei)

WMA Windows Media Audio

WMAP Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (Kosmologie)
WMF (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)

WMF Windows-Metafile
WML Wireless Markup Language (Telekommunikation)
WMO World Meteorological Organization
WNT Wireless Network Termination (Telekommunikation)
WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment
WOKS [Allunionsgesellschaft für kulturelle Verbindungen mit dem Ausland] (russisch)
WORM Write Once - Read Many (Opto-Disk)
WPD Work Package Definition
WPG (Dateinamenerweiterung: WordPerfect-Graphikdatei)

WPPT WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty

WR Wissenschaftsrat
WRC World Radiocommunication(s) Conference
WRED Weighted Random Early Detection (or: Discard) (Telekommunikation)
WRI (Dateinamenerweiterung: Windows Writer-Textdatei)

WRR Weighted Round Robin (Telekommunikation)

WS Werkzeugstahl

WS Wireless Substation (Telekommunikation)

WSDL Web Services Description Language (Telekommunikation)
WSES World Scientific and Engineering Society
WSF Workstation Function
WSP Wireless Session Protocol
WSRT Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (NL)
WSS Wide Screen Signalling
WSS Worldwide Support Systems (HP)
WSU Washington State University
WSXC Wavelength Selective Cross-Connect (optische Telekommunikation)
WTA Wireless Telephony Application (Telekommunikation)
WTAI Wireless Telephony Application Interface (Telekommunikation)
WTDMA Wideband Time Division Multiple Access (Telekommunikation)

WTO World Trade Organization

WT-OXC Wavelength-Translating Optical Cross Connect (optische Kommunikation)
WTR Wind-Temperatur-Radar
WTZ Wissenschaftlich-Technische Zusammenarbeit (BMBF)
WUSTL Washington University in St. Louis
WV West Virginia (US-Staat)
WV Wiedervorlage
WVU West Virginia University (USA)

WWF (alt:) World Wildlife Fund, (neu:) World-Wide Fund for Nature
WWG World Wide Grid (Rechnernetz)
WWMCCS World-Wide Military Control and Communication System
WWW World Wide Web (Rechnernetz)
WY Wyoming (US-Staat)
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
WZB Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung GmbH
WZH Wissenschaftliches Zentrum Heidelberg (der IBM)
W3C World-Wide Web Consortium

XAFS X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure

XANES X-Ray Absorption Near Edge Structure
XAS X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy
xBIOS Extended BIOS
XBS Exchange Base(band) Station (Telekommunikation)
xDSL Digital Subscriber Line (Telekommunikation)

XIPS Xenon Ion Propulsion Subsystem (Satellitenantrieb)

XLS (Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft Excel-Datei)

XLT (Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft Excel-Vorlage)

XM Cross Modulation (Distortion)

XML Extensible Markup Language
XMM X-Ray Multi-Mirror Mission (Dez. 1999)
XMP X-Ray Microprobe
XOR Exclusive Or
XPCS X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy
X-PEEM X-Ray PEEM
XPM Cross-Phase Modulation
XPS X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
XQUL XML Query & Update Language (Telekommunikation)

XRB X-Ray Background (Astrophysik)

XRD X-Ray Diffraction [Sensors]
XRF X-Ray Fluorescence
X-SAR X-Band SAR
XSE Executive for Services Environment (Telekommunikation)
XSEM X-Ray Secondary-Emission Microscopy
XSL Extensible Stylesheet Language

YAC Yeast Artificial Chromosome

YAG Yttrium-Aluminum Garnet (Laser)
YBCO Yttrium-Barium-Kupfer-Oxid YBa2Cu3O7 (HTSL)
YES Year of Engineering Scuccess
YOTO International Year of the Ocean (1998)
YSN Young Scientists Network (USA)
Y2K Year 2000 [problem]

ZAE Bayern Bayerisches Zentrum für Angewandte Energieforschung (Würzburg)

ZALF Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung und -gestaltung
(oder: Zentrum für Agrarlandschafts- und Nutzungsforschung) (Müncheberg)
ZaPF Zusammenkunft aller Physik-Fachschaften
ZARM Zentrum für Angewandte Raumfahrttechnologie und Mikrogravitation (,,Fallturm'', Universität
ZAV Zentralstelle für Arbeitsvermittlung (Frankfurt/M)
ZAVIR Zurechenbarkeit von Aktionen in virtuellen Welten
ZBL Zentralbibliothek der Landesbauwissenschaften (Bonn)
ZDB Zeitschriftendatenbank
ZDC Zero Degree Calorimeter (CERN)
ZDF Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
ZDH Zentralverband des Deutschen Handwerks
ZDL Zivildienstleistender
ZEAM Zentraleinrichtung für Audiovisuelle Medien (FU Berlin)
ZEBET [Centre for the Evaluation of Alternative Methods to Animal Experiments] (DE)
ZEF Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (Bonn, seit 1997)
ZEI Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (Bonn, seit 1997)
ZEKE Zero Kinetic Energy (Spektroskopie)
ZEM Zentrale Einrichtung Medien (Göttingen)
ZENIT Zentrum für Innovation und Technik (Mühlheim, NRW)
ZENS Zentrum für Europa- und Nordamerika-Studien (Göttingen)
ZEvA Zentrale Akkreditierungs- und Evaluationsagentur Hannover
ZFK Zentralinstitut für Kernforschung (Rossendorf, bis 1991)
ZFMK Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander König (Bonn)
ZFO Forschungs[- und Entwicklungs]personal-Zuwachsförderung Ost (BMFT)
ZfP Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung
ZFW Zentralinstitut für Festkörperphysik und Werkstoffforschung (Akademie der Wissenschaften, D
ZfW Zentrum für Funktionswerkstoffe (Göttingen)
ZGDV Zentrum für Graphische Datenverarbeitung (Darmstadt)
ZGI Zentrales Geologisches Institut (DDR)
ZHG Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude
ZIE Zentralinstitut für Elektronenphysik (DDR)
ZiM Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Medienwissenschaft (Göttingen)
ZIP (Dateinamenerweiterung: Archivdatei, komprimiert)

ZIP Zone Improvement Plan (Postleitzahlen, USA)

ZIPE Zentralinstitut für die Physik der Erde (DDR)
ZISW Zentralinstitut für Sprachwissenschaft (Berlin)
ZK Zentralkomitee (der kommunistischen Partei, UdSSR)
ZKA Zentraler Kreditausschuss
ZKI Zentren für Kommunikation und Informationsverarbeitung in Lehre und Forschung e.V.
ZKRD Zentrales Knochenmarkspender-Register Deutschland
ZMB Zentralbibliothek der Medizin (Köln)
ZMNH Zentrum für Molekulare Neurobiologie (Hamburg)
ZNS Zentralnervensystem
ZOS Zentralinstitut für Optik und Spektroskopie (DDR)
ZPID Zentralstelle für Psychologische Information und Dokumentation (Trier)
ZSb Zentrale Studien- und Studentenberatung
ZUMA Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen (Mannheim)
ZVEI Zentralverband der Elektrotechnik- und Elektronikindustrie
ZWG Zentralinstitut für Wissenschaftlichen Gerätebau (Adlershof, DDR)

Ziffern

2D Two-Dimensional
2DEG Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
2G Second Generation (Telekommunikation)

2R Receive, Reshape (optische Telekommunikation)

3D Three-Dimensional
3DCRT 3-Dimensional Conformal Radiotherapy
3G Third Generation (Telekommunikation)
3G.IP 3G Mobile Internet (Telekommunikation)

3GL Third Generation Language

3GPP Third Generation Partnership Project (Telekommunikation)
3G3P Third Generation Patents Platform Partnership (Telekommunikation)

3R Retime, Reshape and Regenerate (or: Reshaping, Retiming, Reamplification) (optische Datenüb
8PSK 8 Phase Shift Keying (Modulation)

Liste von Abkürzungen

Gesammelt von Dr. Dieter Guicking, Göttingen, http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~guicking.
Fehlernachrichten und Ergänzungsvorschläge bitte an: guicking@physik3.gdwg.de.
Stand: 11.01.2004.

Bearbeitet von Dd. Roger Wolf, München

Stand 11.06.2008
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SV El Salvador (country top level domain)
SV Schülervertretung
SV Sacra Virgra (Latin: Consecrated Virgin; religious inscription)
SV Sacral Vertebrae
SV Safety Valve
SV Sahel Vert (Burkina Faso)
SV Sailing Vessel
SV Salva Trucha (Guatemala gang)
SV Sampling Visit
SV Sapper Vehicle
SV Satellite Vehicle
SV Saudi Arabian Airlines
SV Save (baseball relief pitcher statistic)
SV Savona, Liguria (Italian province)
SV Scalar Value (programming)
SV Schedule Variance
SV Schülervertretung
SV Science Verification (Hubble Telescope)
SV Scout Vehicle
SV Se Vende (Spanish)
SV Secure Voice
SV Security Version (Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2)
SV Seed Vector
SV Service Vendor (Bellcore)
SV Service View
SV Shipment Visibility
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SV Sievert (radiation dose unit of measure)
SV Significant Violator
SV Silicon Valley
SV Simi Valley (California)
SV Simian Virus
SV Sims Vacation (game)
SV Singular Vector
SV Sisters of Life (Sorores Vitae) (religious order)
SV Site Visit
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SV Sluice Valve
SV Smallville
SV Software Visualization
SV Solenoid Valve
SV Sonoma Valley (California)
SV Sosialistisk Venstreparti (Norwegian political party)
SV Sound Velocity
SV South Vietnam
SV Space Vehicle
SV Speech Voltmeter
SV Speed Value
SV Spiritus Vini (Latin: alcoholic Spirit)
SV Sport Veloce (Lamborghini model)
SV Staff Vacancy (on overtime forms)
SV Star Vipers (gaming club)
SV Starting Vector
SV State Vector (physics)
SV Steam Valve
SV Steve Vai (musician)
SV Stochastic Volatility
SV Stop Valve
SV Stroke Volume
SV Student Venture
SV Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan (Sweden)
SV Sub Verbo (Latin: Under the Word, Under the Heading of)
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SV Sudden Victory (wrestling)
SV Süddeutscher Verlag (German publisher)
SV Suggested Viewing
SV Summer Vacation
SV Sun Valley High School (Aston, Pennsylvania)
SV Super Value
SV Super Villain
SV Support Vector (learning algorithms)
SV Surface Vehicle
SV Survivability/Vulnerability
SV Survival
SV Survival Vest
SV Sweet Vermouth (alcoholic beverage)
SV Systems View
SVC Service/Serviced/Servicing
SVC Switched Virtual Circuit
SVC Safety Verification Condition(s)
SVC Saginaw Valley College (Michigan)
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SVC Salvadorian Colón (ISO currency code)
SVC SAN Volume Controller (IBM)
SVC Satellite Vulnerability Report
SVC Scalable Video Coding
SVC School of Visual Concepts (Seattle, WA)
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SVC Section Vice-Chief (Order of the Arrow, Boy Scouts of America)
SVC Secure Voice Communication(s)
SVC Selective Vertical Conveyor
SVC Seniors Versus Crime (Florida)
SVC Sensorless Vector Control
SVC Service (logging abbreviation)
SVC Service Command
SVC Service Message
SVC Shaped Virtual Clock
SVC Shell Vacations Club
SVC Siemens Venture Capital
SVC Silicon Valley Campus (Microsoft)
SVC Silicon Valley Communications, Inc (Santa Clara, CA)
SVC Sine Vibration Control
SVC Single Variable Control
SVC Single Voice Coil
SVC Skagit Valley College (Mt Vernon, Washington)
SVC Slow Vital Capacity (lung function test)
SVC Smallwood Village Council (Waldorf, Maryland)
SVC Smart Virtual Circuit
SVC SNK Vs Capcom Chaos (video game)
SVC Sociedad Venezolana de Cardiología (Venezuelan Society of Cardiology)
SVC Society of Vacuum Coaters
SVC Soft Value Calculation
SVC Soft Virtual Circuit
SVC Softbank Venture Capital (Japan)
SVC Southern Vermont College (Bennington, Vermont)
SVC Space Vehicle Code
SVC Special Verification Commission
SVC Spring Viremia of Carp (viral disease)
SVC Sprint Video Conferencing
SVC St. Vincent College (Pennsylvania)
SVC Standing Veterinary Committee (UN-FAO)
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SVC Superior Vena Cava
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SVC Supervisor(y) Call
SVC Switch Valued Circuit
SVC Switched Virtual Call
SVC Switched Virtual Channel
SVC Switched Virtual Connection
SVC Saab Variable Compression
SVC Self Validating Code
SVC Service Call
SVC Simple Visual Compiler
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