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1203 Diesel
.tau.-Code TAU: Triangular, Adaptive, Upwind (FVM-Variante)

2D Two-Dimensional
2DEG Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
2G Second Generation (Telekommunikation)
2nite to night
2R Receive, Reshape (optische Telekommunikation)
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)
(optische Datenübertragung)
3R reamplification, reshaping, and retiming
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 Army Air Field
AAES American Association of Engineering Societies
AAF Advanced Attack Helicopter
AAFS Afrikanisch-Asiatische Studentenförderung e.V. (Göttingen)
AAH Air to Air Missile
AAID American Academy of Implant Dentisty
AAL ATM Adaptation Layer
AAL5 ATM Adaptation Layer5
AAM Average Annual Aircrew Pay
aaO am Angegebenen Ort
AAP Air to Air Refueling
AAPA Applicant's Admitted Prior Art
AAPM American Association of Physicists in Medicine
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
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)
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
ACA Academic Cooperation Association (europäische Organisation)
ACA American Crystallographic Association
ACAP Active Cyclic Controller
A-CBC Akkreditierungsagentur für die Studiengänge Chemie, Biochemie und
Chemieingenieurwesen an Universitäten und Fachhochschulen
ACC Area Conrol Center
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
Modelling
ACES 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
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 Accumulated Doppler Range (Satellitenortungsverfahren)
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
Multimediatechnik (Erlangen)
ADTV Advanced Definition 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
AF Wasservögel]
Application Function
AF Assured Forwarding
AF Assured Forwarding (Datentransfer)
AF Audio Frequency
AFAL Air Force Astronautics Laboratory
AFAS Abteilung für Angewandte Systemanalyse (Kernforschungszentrum
AFB Karlsruhe)
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,
USA
AFFF Aqueous Film Forming Foam

AFIS Aerodrom Flight Information Service
AFLS Approach Flashlighting System
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
AFTE Automated Functinal Test Equipment
AFTN Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunication Network
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
Treaty Organization
AGASA Akeno 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
Pharmazie
AGC 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
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
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
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)
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
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)
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
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)

AMDB Aircraft Management Date Bus
AMEL Active Matrix Electroluminescence (Display)
AMG Access Media Gateway
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 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,
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
ANM Answer Message
ANN Artificial Neural Network
ANORS Anticipated Mot Operationally Ready Supply
ANORS Alert Not Operational Ready for Spares
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
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
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-
Forschungsprojekt)
APIS 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
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
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
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)
ASEE American Society of Enginering Education
ASEM (asiatisch-europäisches Gipfeltreffen)
ASEPS-O Astronomical Studies of Extrasolar Planetary Systems (Mount Palomar, CA,
USA)
ASF Advanced Systems Format
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
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 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
der Informatik
ASSP 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-
Fernerkundung)
ASTIA 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
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
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

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. 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
BA Bleed Air
BACODINE Batse Coordinates Distribution Network (Astrophysik)
BACS Bleed Air Cycle System
BAe British Aerospace
BAföG Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz
BAGMO Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Motorrad
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
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)
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 Bus Controller
BC Before Christ
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
BCIS Biodiversity Conservation Information System
BC-MS Broadcast/Multicast Service Center
BCP Burst Control Packet
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 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
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
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)
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
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)
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
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
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 Material
BOM Bill of Materials
BONT Broadband Optical Network Termination
BOOMERANG Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and
BOS Geomagnetics
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. 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)
BSC Base Station Controller (Telekommunikation)
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 Bootstraping Server Function
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)
BSR Baseline Surface Radiation Network
BSRN bootstrap routine, Startroutine, (to bootstrap, aus dem Sumpf ziehen)
BSS Base Station Subsystem
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)
BTag Bundestag
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)
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
Technology (Yokohama, Japan)
BUND Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland e.V.
BuxWV Buxdehude Werkeverzeichnis
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)
CA Conditional Access
CA Call 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)
CAA Civil Aviation Authority
CAA Civil Aviation Authority (UK)
CAAT Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD, USA)
CABS Carrier Access Billing 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
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
(Telekommunikation)
CAMEO 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
Environments (3D-Klangverfahren)
CARS 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
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
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 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 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/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
CDR Call Data Record (Telekommunikation)
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
CDVT Cell Delay Variation Tolerance
CE Customer Edge Router
CE Casualty Evacuation
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
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, Europäisches Komitee for Normung]
CENELEC Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
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
CEPT Conference of European Posts and Telegraphs
CEPT Conférence Européenne des Postes et (des) Télécommunications
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-
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 Centrifugal Force
CF Crossfade (Kreuzüberblenden)
CF Cystische Fibrose (Mukoviszidose)
CFC Carbonfibre Composite
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
CFM Confirm
CFO Chief Financial Officer
CFP Contention Free Period (Telekommunikation)
CFR Cell Framing Procedure
CFRP Carbon-Fiber Reinforced Plastic
CFV Call for Votes (Rechnernetz)
CG Centre of Gravity
CG Charging Gateway
CG Congrats
CG Charging Gateway
CGA Color Graphics Adapter
CGD Coplaner Grid Detector
CGE Compagnie Générale d'Electricité
CGF Charging Gateway Functionality
CGF Charging Gateway Function
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CGI Cruise Guide Indicator
CGI Common Gateway Interface
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)
CGW Charging Gateway
CH 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 Configuration Item
CI Chemical Ionisation (Massenspektrometer)
CIA Central Intelligence Agency (oberste US-Geheimdienstbehörde)
CIC Command Information Centre
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
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 Computer Image Generation
CIG Cell Interconnection Gateway (Datennetz)
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)
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,
VA, USA)
CIOQ Combined Input- and Output-Queued (Telekommunikation)
CIP3 International Cooperation for Integration of Prepress, Press and Postpress
(Druckindustrie)
CIPAP 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)
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 Ciphering Key
CK Clock (Telekommunikation)
CKL Check-List
CKW chlorierte Kohlenwasserstoffe
CL Center Line
CL Carrier Load
CL Connectionless (Internet)
CL Controlled Load
Cl. Classification (Patentliteratur)
CL20 Hexanitro-Isowurtzitan (Sprengstoff)
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)
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 Connection Management
CM Configuration Management
CM Countermeasures
CMAC Cerebellar Model Arithmetic Computer

CMAD Conference of National Armaments Directors
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)
CMD Command
CME Coronal Mass Ejection (Astrophysik)
CMEM [International] Conference on Computational Methods and Experimental
Measurements
CMIP Common Management Information Protocol
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 Complementary Metal Oxyd Semiconductor
CMOS Capacity-Coupled Metal-Oxide Silicon Device
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 Content Management System
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
CMTR Computer
CMTS Cable Termination Modem System
CMTS Cable Modem Termination System (Telekommunikation)
CMU Cockpit Mock-up
CMU Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
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 Collected Operating Bases
COB Chip-On-Board
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
Systems Assessment
CODAC 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)
COFDM Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex(ing)
COHO Coherent Heterodyne (receiver)
COIL Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser
COLL Collective
COLL Collision
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)
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
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
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)
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)
COSV 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 Circular Polarisation
CP Cyclic Prefix
CP Cruise Power
CP Copilot
CP Cockpit
CP Conference Proceedings (NASA etc.)
CP Connection Performer
CP Content Provider (Telekommunikation)
CP Contention Period (Telekommunikation)
CP Customer Premises (Rechnernetz)
CPA Critical Path Analysis
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 Customer Premises Equipment
CPE Common Phase Error (Telekommunikation)

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)
CPM Cycles Per Minute
CPM Cathode Pulse Memory
CPN Customer Premises Network (Rechnernetz)
CPO Complete Provisions only
CPO Certification Programme Outline
CPP Cockpit Panel
CPR Cabin/Cockpit Preasure
CPR Contingency Power Rating (2,5 min OEI)
CPS Cycles per Second
CPS Chinese Physical Society
CPS The Czech Physial Society
CPT Charge, Parity, Time (Invarianz gegen ...umkehr)
CPU Central Processing Unit
CPU Central Processing Unit (Computer)
CPVS Central Payload Video System
CPX Control Panel Extension
CR Crash Recorder
CR Combat Ready
CR Cell Relay (Telekommunikation)
CR Cosmic Rays
Cr. Condor
Cr. IEM Condor of the IEM
CR/W Controller Read/Write
CRADA Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (or: Award) [with private
companies] (USA, staatl. Förderungsprogramm)
CRAFT Cooperative Research Action For Technology (EU)
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRC Control and Reporting Center
CRC Collaborative Research Centre (DFG)
CRC Corporate Research Center
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check (Telekommunikation)
CRCC Combined Rescue Coordination Center
CRCG [Fraunhofer-] Center for Research in Computer Graphics (Providence, RI,
USA)
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 Berlin)
CRM Certified Reference Material
CRM Customer Relations Management (Telekommunikation)
CRN Committee of a Regulatory Nature (EU)
CRNC Controling Radio Network Controller
CroBIT Cross Border Information Technology
CRP Compulsory Reporting Point
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 Communication Subsystem
cs creasy speed
CS Call Server (Telekommunikation)
CS Circuit-Switched (Telekommunikation)
CS Communications Satellite
cs consuetudines
CSAR Combat Search and Rescue
CSAR Cryogenic Solar Absolute Radiometer
CSAS Control and Stability Augmentation System
CSAS Command and Stability Augmentation System
CSB Charge Symmetry Breaking (Elementarteilchenphysik)
CSBU Communication Services Business Unit (Telekommunikation)
CSC Computer Software Component
CSC Combat Support Center
CSCC Concurrent Supercomputing Consortium (USA)
CSCF Call State Control Function (Telekommunikation)
CSCF Call Session Control Function
CSCI Computer Software Configuration Item
CSCL Computer-Supported Cooperative Learning
CSCS/SCSC Swiss Centre for Scientific Computing
CSCW Computer Supported Cooperative/Colaborative Work
CSCW Computer Supported Cooperative/Colaborative Work
CSCW Computer Supported Cooperative Working
CSD Constant Speed Drive
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)

CSG Computer Symbol Generator
CSI Channel Select Indicator
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 Computer Software Unit
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)
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 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 Combat Training Program
CTP Computer-to-Plate, Computer-to-Press, Computer-to-Paper (Drucktechnik)
CTP Cytisintriphosphat
CTR Control Zone
CTR Center
CTR Center (US Mail)
CTR Common Technical Regulation(s)
CTRANC Crosstalk-Resistant Adaptive Noise Canceller
CTS Central Tactical System
CTS Cost Time Share
CTS Concept to Speech (Sprachsynthese)
CTU Control Tower Unit
CTV Crew Transfer Vehicle (Raumfahrt)
CU Central Unit
CU Control Unit
CUAGN see you again
CUF Channel Utilization Factor
CUG Closed User Group (Telekommunikation)
CUL see you later
CUL Computer-unterstütztes Lernen
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]
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
CVT Continuously Variable Transmission (Getriebe)
Cw Clockwise
cw Carrier Wave
cw Continuous Wave
CW Clockwise
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 Convergence Zone
CZ Combat Zone
D
D&D(P) Design and Development (Phase)
D/A Digital-Analog
D2B Domestic Digital Bus (Faseroptik)
DA Decision Altitude
DA Drift Angle
DA Density Altitude
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 Display Adjustment Panel
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 Projects Agency
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)
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 Alignment Unit
DAU Data Acquisition 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
DC Direct Current
DC Developing Countries
DC Digital Concentrator (Telekommunikation)
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 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
DCPN Domestic Customer Premises Network
DCS Digital Crossconnect (or: Communication) System (Telekommunikation)
DCS Distributed Control System
DCT Disrete Cosine Transform
DCU Data Capture Utility
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)
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)
DDT Dichlordiphenyltrichlorethan
DDU Display Driver Unit
DDV Direct Drive Valve
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 e.V.
DECT Digital Enhanced (früher: European) Cordless Telecommunication (or:
Telephone)
DECU 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
-zertifizierung
DELTA 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 Detector
Det Detachment
DETRESFA Distress Phase
DEU Display Electronic Unit
DEZ Diethylzink (-Verfahren zur Papierkonservierung)
DF Direction Finder
DF Default Value
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)
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
Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (Braunschweig, 1962)
DFN Deutsches Forschungsnetz (Datennetz)
DFO Defined Flying Object
DFS Dynamic Frequency Selection
DFS Dansk Fysisk Selskap
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-
1989, danach: DLR)
DFWM Degenerate Four Wave Mixing (Entartete Vier-Wellen-Mischung)
DG Directional Gyro
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.
DHVZ Danger High Voltage Zone
DI Deliverable Item
DI Data 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 Direct Inward Dialing (Telephon)
DID Destination ID
DIF Data Interchange Format
DIFAR Dirction Finder and Ranger
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)
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 Display
DIS Disconnect
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)
DLM Depot Level Maintenance
DLP Digital Light Processing
DLQ Deck Landing Qualification
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 DOCS Monitor
DM Data Manager
DM Deutsches Museum (München)
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 Distance Measuring Equipment
DME DME Distance of Waypoint from Tacon
DME Distance Measuring Equipment
DME/N Distance Measuring Equipment/Normal
DME/P DME/Precision
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
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 Device Managment Platform
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)
DMSO Dimethyl sulfoxide
DMT Discrete Multi Tone
DMT Discrete Multi Tone
DMT Discrete Multi-Tone (Leitungscode, Mehrfach-Träger-Modulation)
DMT Dough Moulding Compound
DMU Distance Hesuring Unit
DMU Digital Mock-Up (Telekommunikation)
DMU Display and Metering 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
DOAS Differentielle optische Absorptionsspektroskopie, Differential Optical
Absorption Spectroscopy
Dobson-Unit 2,7 × 1016 Moleküle/cm3
DOC Distance off Course (or XTE)
DOC Direct Operation Cost
Doc Document
DOC (Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft-Word-Dokument)
DOC Dissolved Organic Carbon
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
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
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)
DPSK Differential Phase-Shift Key
DPSS(L) Diode-Pumped Solid State (Laser)
DPU Display Processing Unit
DPU Data Processing Unit
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 Drift
DR dielektronische Rekombination
DR Drive (US Mail)
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
(EU-Forschungsprojekt)
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
DRM Digital Rights Management (Telekommunikation)
DRNC Drift Radio Network Controller
DRO Dielectric Resonance Oscillator
DRO Digital Read Out
DRP Design Refernce Point
DRS Daten-Relaissatellit
DRV (Dateinamenerweiterung: Treiberdatei)
DRW (Dateinamenerweiterung: Micrografx Designer-Graphikdatei)
DRX Discontinuous Reception
DS Definition Study
DS Death Star
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 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)
DSL Digital Subscriber Line
DSLAM Digital Subscriber Line Acess Multiplexer
DSLAM Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (Telekommunikation)
DSM Design Stressing Mass
DSM Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum (Bremerhaven)
DSM Distributed System Management
DSO Digital Sampling Oscilloscope
DSO Digital Storage Oscilloscope
DSP Digital Signal Processor
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)
DS-T Dreieck-Stern-Transf
DSTB Digital Set Top Box
DSTO Defence Science and Technology Organization (Australien)
DSU Dynamic Sensor Unit
DSU Digital Service Unit
DSW Deutsche Stifung Weltbevölkerung
DS-Wert durchschnittlicher Substitutionsgrad
DT Data Terminal
DTA Deutsche Technische Akademie (Helmstedt)
DTAB Demountable TAB
DTAG Destination Tag
DTC Direct Torque Control (Elektroantrieb)
DTC Data Transmission Corporation
DTCH Dedicated Traffic Channel
DTD Data Transfer Device
DTD Document Type Definition
DTE Data Terminal Equipment (Telekommunikation)
DTG Dynamically Tuned Gyro
DTG Distance To-Go Along Active Leg to Waypoiont (ATD)
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)

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 Doppler Velocity Sensor
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 Autocad Vector Graphics File Standard
DXF (Dateinamenerweiterung: Autodesk Autoload-Graphikdatei)
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-
Aktiengesellschaft Mitteldeutschland)
EAN European Aerospace Network
EAN Europäische Artikelnummer (Strichcode)
EAP Encyclopedia of Applied Physics
EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol (Telekommunikation)
EAP Expandable Authentication Protocol
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)
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
EBT Electron-Beam Testing
EBU European Broadcasting Union
EC Echo Cancelation
EC European Commission
EC COST European Cooperation in the Field Field of Scientific and Technical
Research
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 Entitlement Control Message
ECM Electronic Counter Measures
ECM European Crystallographic Meeting
ECMA European Computer 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
ECR Engineering Change Request
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 Environmental Control Unit
ECU European Currency Unit
ECU Electrical Control Unit
ECU European Currency Unit
ECVAM European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (Bologna, Italien)
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
Mobile) Evolution
EDGE Enhanced Datarate(s) for GSM Evolution (Telekommunikation)
EDI Electronic Data Interchange
EDI Engineer Design Test
EDI Electronic Data (or: Document) Interchange
EDIF Electronic Design Interchange Format
EDIFACT Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport
EDL Edit Decision List

EDL Equipment Deviation List
EDM Electrical Discharge Machining
EDM Electric Dipole Moment (Elementarteilchenphysik)
EDNA European Data Network Agency
EDP Event Detection Point
EDP Electronic Data Processing
EDPI Engine Driven Pump Inlet
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 Eureopean Economic Community
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 Electricaly Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EEROM Electrically Erasable Read-Only Memory
EESS Earth Exploration Satellite Service
EET Estimated Elapsed Time
EET Energy Efficient Transport (Flugzeug)
EF Expedite Forwarding
EF Expedited Forwarding (Telekommunikation)
EFA European Fighter Aircraft
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 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
EGrlE Ethylen Glycol Monomethyl Ether
EGS European Geophysical Society
EGT Exhaust Gas Temperature
EGT European Geographical Technologies
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 Equiment Identity
EI Equiment Identity
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 equivalent isotropically radiated power
EIRP Effective (or: Equivalent) Isotropic Radiated Power (Satelliten)
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
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
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 Elektroluminescence
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)
ELF Extremely Low Frequency
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 Electrincai System
ELS (-Modell) nach Olin Eggen, Donald Lynden-Bell und Allan Sandage
(Astronomie)
ELSA Elektron-Stretcher-Anlage
ELSI Ethical, Legal, Social Issues
ELT Emergency Locator Transmitter
ELTAS Elevated Target Acquisition System
EM Error Multiplication
EM Emission
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 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 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
EMMADS Electronic Master Monitor Advisory Display System
EMMI ESA Multi-Mode Instrument
EMP Electro Magnetic Pulse
EMP Electromagnetic 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 Emergency Radio
EMR Electromagnetic Relay
EMR Electron Magnetic Resonance
EMS Electro Magnetic Storm
EMS Emergency Medical Service
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-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
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 Guide
EPG Electronic Program(ming) Guide (Digital broadcast)
EPG 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 Production Objective
EPO European Patent Office (München)
EPON Ethernet Passive Optical Network (Telekommunikation)
EPOS European PTT Open Learning Service
EPR Engineering Part Release
EPR Emergency Power Rating (30 sec OEI)
EPR Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen(-Paradoxon)
EPRINT Electronic Print Server for Research Information on Natural Science and
Technology
EPROM Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

EPS Emergency Power System
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 Electrical Power Unit
EPU External Power Unit
EPU End-of-Pipe-Umweltschutz
EQA Equipment Quality Analysis
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 Enterprise Resource Planning
ERP Energy Resource Planning
E-RP Engine Output RPM
ERS European Remote Sensing Satellite
ERSI Environment and Remote Sensing Institute (Harare, Simbabwe)
ERT External Review Committee
ERV Earth Return Vehicle (bemannte Raumfahrt)
ES Engine System
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 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 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 Engineering Support Program
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 European Staff Requirement
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
ESRO European Space Research Organization
ESS Essential Bus
ESS Essentail
ESS European Spallation Source (Jülich)
ESSI European Software and Systems Initiative
ESSS External Store Support System
EST European Staff Target
EST estimate, estimated
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)

ESTI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
ESTO European Science and Technology Observatory (EC)
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 Executable Test Case (Telekommunikation)
ETC Establish Temporary Connection
ETDM Electric(al) (or: Electronic) Time Division Multiplexing (optische
Telekommunikation)
ETE Estimated-Time-Enroute Betwenn Non-Acitve Waypoint Pair at Present
Grounds Speed
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
ETI Elapsed Time Indicator
ETO European Telework Online
ETS Educational Testing Service (Princeton, NJ, USA)
ETS Executable Test Suite (Telekommunikation)
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute (seit 1988)
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
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
EUROSCIENCEA 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
EVA Economic Value Add
E-VIB Engine-Vibration
EVM Error Vector Magnitude (Telekommunikation)
EVOH Ethylenvinylalkohol-Copolymer
EVPR External Virtual Private Router
EVR Eigenvalue Ratio
EVS Energieversorgungssystem (Satellit)
EVU Energieversorgungsunternehmen (früher:
Elektrizitätsversorgungsunternehmen)
EW 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 External
EXT Extension
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.
F.O.B. Free Alongside Ship (Handelsverkehr)
F.O.R. Free on Board (Handelsverkehr)
F/W Free on Rail (Handelsverkehr)
FA Firewall
FA Frequency Allocation
FA Functional Analysis
FA Fachausschuss
Fa. Failure Analysis
FAA Firma
FAA Federal Aviation Association Administration
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 Fast Algorithms in Feedback Control (Algorithmus)
FAL Facilitation of International Air Transport
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
(Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
FAR Frequently Asked Questions
FAS Federal Aviation Regulations
FAS Frame Alignment Signal
FAS Facility Associated Signaling (Telekommunikation)
FAS Federation of American Scientists (seit 1945, gegen Atomwaffen)
FAS Fatalcoholsulfate
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 Fine Business
FB Fachbereich
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 Forschungsberichte Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Datenbank)
FBW Fly by Wire (Flugzeugsteuerung)
FBW Fractional Bandwidth
FC Forecast center
FC Fiber Connection
FC Fire Control
FC Fuel Cell (= BZ, Brennstoffzelle)
FCA Functional Configuration Audit
FCA Fixed Capacity Agreement (Telekommunikation)
FCAPS Fault Configuration, Accounting, Performance and Security
FCC Flight Control Computer
FCC Federal Communication(s) Commission (USA)
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 Processor
FCP Flight Control Panel
FCR Facility Capability Report
FCS Flight Control System
FCS Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
FCS Frame Check Sequence (Telekommunikation)
FCT Functional Charts ?
FCT Fixed Cellular Terminal (Telekommunikation)
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
FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
FDO Flight Deck Officer
FDP Failure Detection Probability
FDP Freie Demokratische Partei

FDR Final Design Report
FDRQ Floppycontroller-Data-Request
FDS Flight Direction System
FDT Fieldbus Device Tool
Fe Ferrum, Iron
FE Ferroelectric
FE Fast Ethernet (Telekommunikation)
FEA Front End Analysis
FEA Field Emitter Array (Bildwandler)
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)
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
der Wissenschaft)
FFCC Forward Facing Crew Concept
FFCC Forward Facing Crew Cockpit
FFCS Fire-Flight-Control System
FFR&DC Federally Funded Research and Development Centers
FFT Fixed Form Text
FFT Fast Fourier Transform
FFTB Final Focus Test Beam (SLAC)
FG Fachgremium (z. B. DPG)
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)
FH Flight Hours
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
FI Fuel Injected
FI Flight Idle
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
FIB Forwarding Information Base
FIB Focused Ion Beam
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 Association]
FIFO 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:
Aachen))
FiNut Frauen in Naturwissenschaft und Technik
FIP Fédération Internationale de Philatélie
FIP Forum on International Physics (APS)
FiPS Früheinstieg ins Physikstudium
FIR For Infrared
FIR Flight information region
FIR Far-Infrared
FIR Finite Impulse Response
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
(Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen)
FJC 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-
Japan)
FLC Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal
FLC Frequency Layer Convergence
FLC Flic, Dateiendung für Video Format
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 Fan Maker
FM Flexible Manufacturing Cell
FM Facilities Management (Telekommunikation)
FM Frequency Modulation, Frequenzmodulation
FM-7 DX-7 Succesor 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 Foreign Military Sales
FMS Flight Manamgent System
FMS Flight Manual Supplement Format
FMS Flight Management System
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 Full Operational Clearance
FOC Final Operation Clearance
FOCS Fiber-Optic Current Sensor
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
Sicherheit
FOR 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
Jungwissenschaftler)
FOT 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

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
Schwingungssystem)
FQDN 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 Form Forward Remote
FRU Filter System
FS Fuel System
FS Fire Support
FS File System
FS Fuselage Station
FS Fachverband für Strahlenschutz e.V.
FS Founder Societies
FS Fixed Service
FS1R DX-7 Succesor
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 Flight Test Instrumentation
FTI Fault Type Fault Location
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
(BMBF)
FUNET Finland's University and Research Network (Rechnernetz)
FUSE Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (Satellit)
FUTOUR Förderung und Unterstützung technologieorientierter

Unternehmensgründungen (BMBF)
FV Flight Vector
FV Fachverband (z. B. DPG)
FVA Field Vector Array
FVK faserverstärkte Kunststoffe
FVM Finite Volume Method
FVS-Stiftung Freiherr-vom-Stein- [und zugleich] Friedrich-von-Schiller-Stiftung (Hamburg)
FW Framework III (Dateiendung FW3)
FW Firmware
FW Field value
FW Fire Wall (Telekommunikation)
FWA Fixed Wireless Access
FWA Fixed Wireless Access
FWD Fowarward
FWD Fully well done
FWD Front-Wheel Drive
FWG Forschungsanstalt der Bundeswehr für Wasserschall und Geophysik (Kiel)
(scherzhaft auch: Flachwassergesellschaft)
FWHM Full Width Half Maxmimum (Halbwertsbreite)
FWHM Full Width Half Maximum (Fotofilm-Körnigkeit)
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
G Guanin (DNA-Base)
G. General
G/S Glide Slope
GA Go Around
Ga Charging data collection I/F between a CDR transmitting Unit (e.g. GGSN or
SGSN) and a CDR receiving functionality (CGF)
GA Go Ahead
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
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
Naturwissenschaften und der Technik e.V.
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)
IF/ between MSC and BSC
GB Great Britain
GB Good Bye
GB Gigabyte
GB Great Britain
GbE Gigabyte Ethernet
GBF Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung (Braunschweig)
GbR Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts
GBS Göttinger Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft
Gc I/F between GGSN and HLR
GC Gas Chromatography
GCA Ground Controlled Approach
GCC Global Climate Coalition
GCC Greatest Common Divisor (= ggT, größter gemeinsamer Teiler)
GCD General Communication Channel
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 Ground Control Station
GCSR Grating-assisted codirectional Coupler with rear Sampled Reflector (tunable
laser)
GCT Government Conducted Test
GD I/F inter SMS-GMSC and SGSN, and inter SMS-IWMSC and SGSN
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 Graphics Device Operating System
GDP General Drawing Primitive
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
(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 RAN
GERAN Enhanced Data Global System for Mobilcommunication Evolution Radio
Access Network
GERAN Enhanced Data Global System Mobile Evolution Radio Access Network
GERAN GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network (Telekommunikation)
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
GFI Government Furnished Information
GFK Glasfaser-verstärkte Kunststoffe
GFP Government Furnsihed Property
GFP Generic Framing Procedure (Telekommunikation)
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 Ground Idle
Gi Ref Pnt inter GPRS and an ext PDN
GI Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
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,
Control and Automation Companies)
GIZ Giftinformationszentrum (Göttingen)
GK Graduiertenkolleg
GK Grundkurs
GK Group Key
GKM Group Key Management
GKMP Group Key Management Protocol

GKS Grafisches Kern-System
GKSS [Forschungszentrum Geesthacht]
gl genium loci
GL Guideline
GL Good Luck
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 Global Locating Sensing
GLZ Generalized Linear Modelling
GM Gross Mass
GM General Motors
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
(Bonn/Darmstadt/Berlin/St. Augustin/Birlinghofen)
GMGO German Military Geophysical 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 Ground Mapping Reader
GMR Giant Magnetoresistance
GMSC Group Mobile Switching Center
GMSC Gateway Mobile Services Switching Center
GMSK Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying (Modulation)
GMT Greenwich Mean Time
GMX Global Mind Transmitter
Gn I/F inter 2 GSNs within the same PLMN
GN Good Night
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 Group
Gp I/F inter 2 GSNs in different PLMNs. The Gp I/F allows support of GPRS
NetServ across areas served by the co-operating GPRS PLMNs.
GPC General Purpose 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 System
GPRS General Packet Radio Standard
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 I/F inter SGSN and HLR
GR Gigabit Router (Internet)
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 Ground Speed
GS Glide Slope
Gs I/F inter SGSN and MSC/VLR
GS Guaranteed Service
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 Group Security Intermediaries
GSI Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (Darmstadt)
GSM Global System for Mobil communication (Global System Mobile)
GSM global system mobile
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
GSM-OTA global system mobile - over-the-air
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
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
H/C Helicopter
HA Higher Authorities
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 Height above landing area elevation
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
HASYLAB Materialien
Hamburger 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 Home Base
HB Helicopter 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
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]
HDCL Hybrid Data Link Control Standard
HDCS Hard Disk Controller Select
HDD Head-down Display
HDD Helmet Down Display
HDF Hierarchical Data Format
HDF Hubble Deep Field (Astrophysik)
HDG Heading
HDL High-Density Lipoprotein
HDL High-Density Liquid
HDL High-Power Diode Laser
HDL Hardware Description Language
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)
HDU Helmet Display Unit High Explosive and Incendiary
HE Hyperspace Energy
HEAO High Energy Astrophysical Observatory
HEC Header Error Control
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 HELOTHazardous 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,
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 µm bei Chromatographie)
HEU Highly Enriched Uranium
HEV Hybrid Electric Vehicle
HEW Half Energy Width (Teleskope)
HEW Hamburgische Elektricitätswerke
HF High Frequency
HF Heavyside Function
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 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
HGC Hercules Graphics Card
HGF Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren
HGL (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)
HGS Human Genome Sciences
HGS Growing Hemispherical Grains (semiconductor)

HGÜ Hochspannungs-Gleichstrom-Übertragung
HGV Hochgeschwindigkeitsverkehr (Schienenverkehr)
HH Higher Heavens
HHC Higher Harmonic Control
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)
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)
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
HIPERLAN High Performance Radio LAN (Telekommunikation)
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
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 Hybrid methods
HM Higher Mathematics
HM Hold Mode
HM Hardware Manager
HMC Metal-Matrix Composite
HMD Helmet Mounted Display
HMD Head-Mounted Display (VR)
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 Helmet Mounted Sight
HMS Helicopter Managenemt System
HMS Mission Management System
HMS Health Monitoring System (Aircraft)
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)
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
Organisms and Particles (EU-Projekt)
HOT Highly Optimized Tolerance
HOTS Holographic Optical Telescope and Scanner
HP High Pressure/Power
HP (hp) Hewlett Packard
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 Language
HPHT High Pressure High Temperature (Diamant)
HPI Heinrich-Pette-Institut für Experimentelle Virologie und Immunologie

(Hamburg)
HPI 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
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 Switched Data Mode
HSCSD High Speed Switched Data Mode
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 Horizontal Situation Indicator
HSI High Speed Internet (Telekommunikation)
HSIU Heavy Stores Interface Unit
HSP Hitzeschock-Protein
HSP Hochschulsonderprogramm
HSRV humanes Spuma-Retrovirus
HSS Home Subscriber Server
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 Height
HT High Temperature
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
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 Protocol
HTTP HyperText Transfer (or Transmission) Protocol (Rechnernetz, WWW)
HTTPS HTTP Secured
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
HVM Hyper-velocity Missile
HVR Hover
HW(CI) Hardware (Configuration Item)
HWC Hydrophobe Wechselwirkungschromatographie
HWY Highway (US Mail)
HYD Hydraulic
HYKAT Hydrodynamik- und Kavitationstunnel (HSVA)
HYSWIM Hydrogen Switchable Mirror
HZT High-Z Supernova Search Team
I
I&C PS Industrial & Commercial Power Systems [Technical Conference]
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
Experience
IAF Internal approach fix
IAF [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Angewandte Festkörperphysik
IAI Israel Aircraft Industries
IAKF Interessengemeinschaft für Autofreie Kur- und Fremdenverkehrsorte in
Bayern
IAKK interaurale Kreuzkorrelation
IAM Initial Address Message
IANUS Interdisziplinäre Arbeitsgruppe Naturwissenschaft, Technik und Sicherheit
(Darmstadt)
IAO [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation (Stuttgart)
IAP Instrument approach procedure
IAP [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Angewandte Polymerforschung (Golm)
IAP Institut für Atmosphärenphysik (Kühlungsborn, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
IAP Internet Access Provider
IAPP Inter-Access Point Protocol
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)
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
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 Interruptive BIT
IBIT Indicated Built-in Test

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
IC Internal Combustion
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
ICAMU 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
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
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
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
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
ICOMOS International Council on Monuments and Sites
ICONIP International Conference on Neural Information Processing
ICP Infomation Service Control Part
ICP Inductively Coupled Plasma
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 Intercommunication System
ICS Inter Communication Subsystem
ICS Intrnal Communication System
I-CSCF Interrogating CSCF
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)
ICU Inertial Control Unit
ICW Internet Call Waiting (Telekommunikation)
ID Inner Diameter
ID Identification
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)
IDD Interface Design Document
IDE Integrated Development Environment
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 Internet Explorer
IE Information Element
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
IEE Institution of Electrical Engineers (UK)
IEEE Institut 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 In Ear Monitor (Medical, Physiology)
IEM Innovative Emergency Management (Business, General)
IEM Industrial Entrepreneur Memoranda (Business, General)
IEM Industrial Environmental Management (Academic & Science, Academic
Degrees)
IEM Installation Equipment Management (Governmental, Military)
IEM International Equity Market (Business, General)
IEM Inspiration Education And Motivation (Community, Educational)
IEM International Electronic Monitoring
IEM Intrinsic Electro Magnetics
IEM Interdimensional Electromagnetics
IEM Internet Engineering and Manufacturing
IEM Institut of Electricty and Magnetics
IEM Institut für Erhaltung und Modernisierung
IEM Immune Electron Microscope
IEM In Ear Monitor
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 Infinite Energy Magazine
IEM Information Engineering Methodology
IEM Initial Estimate of Manpower
IEM Innovative Emergency Management, Inc.
IEM Installation Equipment Manager/Management
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 Interim Examination and Maintenance
IEM Internal Electricity Market
IEM Interpretative / Explanatory Material (Joint Aviation Requirements)
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)
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 fix
IF Intermediate Frequency
IF Intentional Field
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 (Bremen)
IFC 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 Identification Friend/Foe
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 Inverst Fast Fourier Transform
IFFT Inverse Fast Fourier Transform
IFG Inter Frame Gaps (Telecom)
IFG Input Function Generator
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

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 Instrument Flight Rules
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
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 Interface Unit
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 Intelligence Gathering
IG Intrinsic Gettering
IGAPPI Interdivisional Group for Applied Physics and Physics in Industry (EPS)
IGB Intermediate Gearbox
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)
IGE 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 (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 Inlet Guide Vane
IGV Institut für Grenzflächenforschung und Vakuumphysik (Jülich)
IGZ Institut für Gemüse- und Zierpflanzenbau (Großbeeren und Kühnhausen bei
Erfurt)
ih. 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
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
(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
ILD Interlevel Dielectric Layer (semiconductor)
ILD Integrated Landing Device (avionics)
ILEC Incumbant Local Exchange Carrier (Telekommunikation)
ILL Institut Laue-Langevin (Grenoble)

ILM Intermediate Level Maintenance
ILM Integrated Laser Modulator (optische Telekommunikation)
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,
bis 31.12.97; danach: IVV)
ILW Intermediate-Level Waste (Radioaktiver Abfall)
IM Imperial Mind
IM Information Manager (Telekommunikation)
IM Instant Messaging (Telekommunikation)
IM Intensitätsmodulation
IM Intermodulation
IM Information Management
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
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 Organisation Level
IMHFH Inspection Manhours per Flying Hours of System at Intermediate Level
IMHFH Inspection Manhours per Flying Hours of System at Depot Level
IMIS Integriertes Mess- und Informationssystem zur Überwachung der
Umweltradioaktivität
IMK Integrated Multifunction Keyboard
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 International Management Office

IMO Institut für Mikrostrukturtechnologie und Optoelektronik (Wetzlar)
IMO International Maritime Organization
IMP Imperium
IMP Information Service Management Part
IMP Imperial
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)
IMRS Integrated Monitoring and Recording System
IMRT Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (Röntgentechnik)
IMS IP Multimedia Subsystem
IMS Integrated Multiplex System
IMS Integrated Machining System
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)
IMS IP multimedia subsystem
IMSA Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity
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 Inertial Measurement Unit
IMU International Mathematical Union
IMW Institut für Metallische Werkstoffe (am IFW)
IN Inertial Navigator
IN Indiana (US-Staat)
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
Organisations] (EC)
IND Indicator
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 "®" = Markenameldung
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
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
INS (Frankreich)
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 the New Independent States (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)
INTR Interior
IntServ Integrated Services (Telekommunikation)
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)
IOW Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde (Universität Rostock)
IP Initial Provisioning
IP Initial Point
IP Intelligence Platform
IP Internet Protocol (Rechnernetz)
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
Beschreibung umweltschädigender Auswirkungen menschlichen Verhaltens)
IPB Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie (Halle/Saale)
IPC Illustrated Parts Catalogue
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 Inverse Pole Figure
IPF Institut für Polymerforschung (Dresden)
IPG Industrial Project Group
IPG Information Power Grid (NASA)
IPHT Institut für Physikalische Hochtechnologie (Jena)
IPIEM Intelectual Property of the IEM
IPK Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (Gatersleben)
IPK [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Produktionsanlagen und Konstruktionstechnik
IPL (Berlin)
Initial Provisioning List
IPL Information-Processing Language
IPL Ionenprojektions-Lithographie
IPM Impulses per Minute
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 International Programme Office
IPO Initial Public Offering
IPO Institute for Perception Research (Eindhoven, NL)
IPoA IP over ATM
IPOA Internet Protocol over Asynchronous Transfer Mode
IPP Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (Garching)

IPPV impulse Pay per View
IPR Intermediate Power Rating (30 min)
IPR Intelectual Property Rights
IPRC Intellectual Property Rights Committee (TC im ETSI)
IPS Information Service Process Subsystem
IPS Integrated Particle Separator
IPS In-Plane Switching (LCD mit beiden Pixelelektroden auf einer Seite,
aufgeklappter Kondensator)
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)
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
IPv6 Internet protocol version 6
IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange (Telekommunikation)
IQEC International Quantum Electronics Conference
IQHE Integer Quantum Hall Effect
IR Infrared
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)
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
Intelligence (Esprit, Brüssel)
IRIS Infra-Red Imaging System

IRIS Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (USA)
IRS Inertial Reference System
IRS Infra-Red Suppressor
IRS Interface Requirements Specification
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)
IRTF Internet Research Task Force
IS Information Systems
IS Integrated Services
IS Island (US Mail)
is. in shalah
ISA International Standard Atmosphere
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 International Softswitch Consortium
ISC [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Silicatforschung (Würzburg)
ISD Introduction Schedule
ISD In Service Data
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 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)
ISL Inter Switch Link (Telekommunikation)
ISM In Situ Monitoring
ISM Industrial Scientific Medicine (433 MHz-Frequenzband) und Bluetooth: 2,45
GHz-Band (lizenzfrei)
ISM Interstellares Medium
ISMA Internet Streaming Media Alliance
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 International Standardisation Organisation
ISO Infrared Space Observatory (1995)
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 Internet service provider
ISP Internet Service Provider
ISP In-System Programmable (devices)
ISP Internet Service Provider
ISPRAM In Situ Processing of Aluminium Matrix Composites
ISR Integrated Switch Router (Internet)
ISR Interrupt Service Routine
ISR Initial Submission Rate (Datennetz)
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 Technology, Informationstechnik
ITA [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Toxikologie und Aerosolforschung (Hannover). (Ab
2003: ITEM)
ITAEG Information Technology Advisory Experts Group
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
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 Instrument Takeoff
ITO Indium Tin Oxide
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 International Telecommunications Union
ITU International Telecommunications Union
ITU [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Toxikologie und Umwelthygiene (München)
ITU International Telecommunication(s) Union (Genf, Schweiz)
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 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
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 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
1.1.98, vorher: ILV)
IWF Institut für Wild- und Zootierforschung (Berlin)
IWF Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen)
IWF Internationaler Währungsfonds
IWF Inter Working Function
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
München)
IZT 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 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,
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)
JIT Just-in-time compiler
JLC Japanese Linear Collider
JMS Java Message Service
JMX JAVA Management Extensions
JNLP Java Network Launch Protocol
JNLP Java Network Launch Protocol
JNX Japan Network Exchange
JOH Justification Overhead
Joides Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling
(Zusammenschluss von Meeresforschungsinstituten)
JOSA 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,
Japan)
JTC 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
neuen Bundesländern]
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
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
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)
(Optimum: 20 ... 25 kg/m2)
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)
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
Bundesrepublik Deutschland) (Bonn) (EU)
KPGLB Königlich Preußische Geologische Landesanstalt und Bergakademie
KQML Knowledge, Query and Manipulation Language
KR Kommunikationsrechner
KS Kingstone
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
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
L Left
L/M throughout D & D NH90
L2CAP Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol (Telekommunikation)
L2TP Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
L2TP Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (Datenübertragung)
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 Location Accuracy Matrix
LAM Location Accuracy Matrix
LAM Local Area Multicomputer
LAMA Large-Aperture Mirror Array (of LZTs)
LAMPF Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility
LAMPS Light Airborne Multi-purpose System
LAMS Local Anti Missile System
LAMS Load Alleviation and Mode Stabilization (Flugzeug)
LAN Local Area Network
LAN Local Area Network
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 Link Balance Detection
LBD (Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft Access-Lockdatei)
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
LCA Large Corporate Accounts
LCA Liquid Crystal Array
LCB Logistic Configuration Baseline
LCC Life-Cycle-Costs
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
LCD Liquid Crystal Display

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)
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)
LDD Logical Data Dictionary
LDF Local Density Functional
LDL Low-Density Lipoprotein
LDL Low-Density Liquid
LDNS Lightweight Doppler Navigation System
LDP Landing Decision Point
LDP Label Distribution Path (Telekommunikation)
LDPE Low Density Polyethylene
LDR Light Dependent Resistor
LDR Location Deferred Request
LDR Large Disployable Reflector (Satelliten)
LDS Lower-Data-Strobe (Atari)
LDV Laser Doppler Velocimetry
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)
LEOS Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (IEEE)
LEP Linear Error Prediction
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
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
LG Landing Gear
LGN Law of Great Numbers
LGPL Lesser General Public License
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
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)
LIN Linear
LINAC Linear Accelerator (50 GeV, Stanford, SLAC)
LIPS Light Intensity Pressure Sensor
LISA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (Gravitationswellendetektor aus 3
Satelliten, geplant für 2011)
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
LIVE Liquid Inertia Vibration Eliminator
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
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
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
LLTV Low Light Television
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)
LOAL Lock on after Launch
LOBL Lock on before Launch
LOC Localizer
LOC Lab-on-a-Chip
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 Low Pressure
Lp Loop
LP Larch Prover
LPC Laser Processing Consortium
LPC Linear Predictive Coding
LPCVD Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition
LPE Linear Prediction Encoding
LPE Liquid Phase Epitaxy (Waferherstellung)
LPF Low Pass Filter
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 Lokales Positionssystem
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 Least Square(s)
LS Location Service (Telekommunikation)
LS & C Local Space & Communications (Telekommunikation)
LS(A/D) Logistic Support (Analysis/Date)
LSA Least Square Algorithm
LSA Logistic Support Analysis
LSA Link State Advertisement (Telekommunikation)
LSB Lower Side Band
LSB Least Significant Bit
LSB Low-Surface-Brightness (Galaxien)
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 Laser Scanning Microscope
LSM La1-xSrxMnO3 (Material für Brennstoffzelle)
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 Laser Range Finder
LSR Label Switched Router (Telekommunikation)
LSS Large Space Structure
LSST Large-Aperture Synoptic Survey Telescope (geplant)
LSSTP Large Space Structures Technology Program
LST Low Speed Tunnel
LST Laser Scattering Tomograph
LSW Least Signification Word
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
LTG Light
LTP Long-Term Potentiation (Neurologie)
LTR Long Terminal Repeats (Viren)
LTS Location Tracker System

LTS Lights
LTS Location Tracker System
LTS Low-Tc Superconductor
LTV Light Tactical Vehicle
LTV Life Time Value
LUF Lowest Usable Frequency
LUF Lowest usable Frequency
LULI Laboratoire Utilisation des Lasers Intense (Laboratory for the Use of High
Power Laser) (France)
LUN Logical Unit Number
LUPO Luminescent Polymer
LURE Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation du Rayonnement Electromagnétique (Ile de
France)
LURE Lunar Laser Ranging
LVDT Linear Variable Differential Transducer
LVDT Linear Voltage Differential Transformer
LW Longitudinal Wave
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
M Mode
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 Mission Analysis
MA Massachusetts (US-Staat)
MA Moving Average (gleitende Mittelung, Glättungsfilter)
MAB Man and Biosphere (Naturschutz)
MAC Military Airlift Command
MAC Marine Aquatic Council (Internationale nichtkommerzielle Organisation)
MAC Medium Access Control (Layer) (DECT)
MAC Message Authenticity Check (or: Code) (Datennetz)
MACC Military area control center
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 Magnetic Anomaly Detector
MAD Missile Approach Detector
MAD Magnetron Activated Deposition (Dünne Schichten)
MADCAP Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocatin Protocol (cryptography)
MAF Maritime Amphibious Forces
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
MAM Missed Approach Point
MAMI Mainzer Mikrotron (Elektronenbeschleuniger)
MAMS Master Avionic Management System
MAN Metropolitan Area Network
MAN Metroploitan Area Networks
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 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
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)
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)
MBMS Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service
MBO Management Buy Out
MBPC Model Based Predictive Control
MBSL Multi-Bubble Sonoluminescence, Mehrblasenlumineszenz
MBWA Mobile Broadband Wireless Access
MC Magnetic Compass
MC Master Caution
MC Main Computer
MC Megacycles
MC Monte-Carlo (Simulation)
MC(S/U) Mission Computer (System/Unit)
MCAO Multiconjugate Adaptive Optics
MCB Media Control Board
MCC Mobile Country Code
MCC Mobile Competence Center (Telekommunikation)
MCCDMA Multi Carrier Code Division Multiple Access
MCCH Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service Control Channel
MCCM Meterology Climate Chemistry Model
MCD Monitor Control Display
MCD Magnetic Circular Dichroism
MCD Mobile Communication Division
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 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 Mathematics Subjects Classification
MCSCF Multi-Configuration Self-Consistent-Field (-Rechnung, Molekülphysik)
MCT Multimedia Communication Technology (Telecom)
MCT Missile Carried Torpedo
MCT Mobile Communications Terminal

MC-TDMA Multi Carrier Time Division Multiple Access
MCU Modular Concept Unit
MCU Master Controller Unit
MD Modular Design
MD Maryland (US-Staat)
MD Medical Doctor
MDA Missile Defense Agency (USA)
MDA/H Minimum Descent Altitude/Height
MDAQ Mediation and Data Acquisition (Telekommunikation)
MDB Maintenance Data Base
MDB (Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft Access-Datenbank)
MdB Mitglied der Bundestages
MdB Mitglied des Bundes Tages
MDC Miniature Detonation Card
MDC Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (Berlin-Buch)
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
MDOF Multi-Degree-of-Freedom (System)
MDR Multi-Drug Resistance (Gene)
MDS Monitoring and Diagnostic System
MDS Multipoint Distribution System (Telekommunikation)
MDU Magnet Detector Unit
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)
M-E Magneto-Electric
MEAS Measurement
MECCA Mechanized Catalog System
MED Multi-Exit Discriminator
MEDEA Microelectronics Development for European Applications
MEDEVAC Medical Evacuation
MEET Man Models for Simulation of Electromagnetic, Elastomechanic and Thermic
Behaviour of Man
MEF Mobile Entertainment Forum
MEF Metropolitain Ethernet Forum (Telekommunikation)
MEFX Multiple Error Filtered-x (Algorithm)
MEG Magnet(o)enzephalographie, Magnetoencephalography
MEGACO Media Gateway Controller (Telekommunikation)
MeGaCo Media Gateway Control
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 Systems
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
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)
MFAS Microsoft Foundation Classes
MFC Multi Frame Alignment Signal
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)
MGCF Media Gateway Control Function
MGCP Media Gateway Control Protocol (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
MI Michigan (US-Staat)
MIB Managament Information Base
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
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
language)
MIL [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 Multiple Input Multiple Output
MIMOS Miniaturisiertes Mössbauer-Spektrometer
MIMP Mega-Imperium
MIN Mobile Identification Number
MINUET Minnesota Internet User's Essential Tool (Rechnernetz-Server)
MIO Modular I/O (HP)
MIOT MIDI In, Out & Through
MIP Material Improvement Program
MIPAS Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (ENVISAT)
MIPS Million Instructions per Second
MIPS Million instructions (Mega-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 (Maßsystem)
ML Mine Laying
ML Maximum Likelihood
MLA Modern Language Association
MLC Multi Look Complex
MLC Mobile Location Center (Telekommunikation)
MLC Multileaf Collimator (Röntgentechnik)
MLCF Maximum Likelihood Confidence Factor
MLD Multi Look Detected
MLD Mission Launch Detector
MLE Maximum Likelihood Estimation
MLE Medium to Large Enterprise
MLG Main Landing Gear
MLH Medium Lift Helicopter
MLO Mycoplasma-like Organism
MLP Mobile Location Protocol (Telekommunikation)
MLP Multi-Layer Perceptron
MLRS Multi Launch Rocket System
MLS Microwave Landing System
MLS Mikrowellenlandesystem
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)

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
MMPM Multimedia Presentation Manager (by IBM)
MMS Mast Mounted Sight
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)
MMTBF Mission Mean Time Between Failure
MMU Memory Management Unit
MMX Multi Media Extensions
MN Minnesota (US-Staat)
MNC Mobile Network Code
MNOS Mobile Network Operators
MNOS Mobile Network Operators
MNPQ Mess-, Normen-, Prüf- und Qualitätswesen
MNT Mononitrotoluol
MNU Deutscher Verein zur Förderung des mathematischen und
naturwissenschaftlichen Unterrichts
MO Missouri (US-Staat)
MO Master Oscillator
MOB Main Operational Base
MoB Member of the Board
MoBIC Mobilität für Blinde durch die Interaktion mit einem Computer
MOCVD Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition
MOD Ministery Of Defence
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
MOM Message Oriented Middleware
MOM Maintenance and Overhaul Manual
MOM Message Oriented Middleware
MOMBE Metallorganische Molekularstrahlepitaxie
MOMS Modularer Optoelektronischer Multispektral-Scanner
MON Monitor/Monitoring
Mon Monitor
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 Manufacturing Qualification Test
MOT Magneto-Optic Trap
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 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 Multiprotocol Label Switching
MPLS Multi-Protocol Label Switching (Rechnernetze)
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)
MPW Maximum Permissible Weight
MPWS Multi-Protocol Wavelength Switching (Telekommunikation)
MQW Multiple Quantum Well
MR Maintenance Recorder
MR Main Rotor
MR Magnetresonanz (-Tomographie)
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
MRF Magnetorheological Fluid
MRF (Multi)Media Resource Function (Telekommunikation)
MRF Multimedia Resource Function
MRFM Magnetic Resonance Force Microscope (und: ... Microscopy)
MRH Main Rotor Hub
MRI Monopulse Resolution Improvement
MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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
MRRU Maximum Receive Reconstructed Unit
MRS Materials Research Society (USA)
MRS Media Ressource Service (SIPI)
MRT Magnetresonanz-Tomographie
MRU Maximum Receive Unit; Most Recently Used
MS Material Support
MS Miscellaneous System
MS Mobile Station
MS Mass Spectrometry
MS Media Server (Telekommunikation)
MS Member State
MS Mississippi (US-Staat)
MS Mobile Station (Telekommunikation)
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
(Satellitennavigation, Japan)
MSB Most Significant Bit
MSC Mobile Switching Center
MSC Major Subordinate Commander
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 Mobile Station Equipment
MSE Mean Square Error
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)
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)
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 Most Signification Word
MSW Media Switch
MSY Maximal Sustained Yield (Ökonomie)
MT mobile Terminal
MT Montana (US-Staat)
MTB Mountain Bike
MTBCD Mean Time Between Confirmed Defects
MTBF Mean Time Between Failure
MTBF Mean Time Between Failures
MTBF Mean Time Before Failure (or: Between Failures)
MTBM Mean Time Between Maintenence
MTBR Mean Time Between Removal
MTC Mission Tactical Computer
MTC MIDI Timecode
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 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
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 (Digitalrundfunk)
MUX Multiplexer
MUX Multiplexer
MVG Moving
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)
MWIR Micro-Wave Integrated Circuit
MWK Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst
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.G. No Gear
N/A Next Assembly
N/A 0 Not Applicable
N2 Engine Output RPM (E-RPM)
NA Not Applicable
NA Network Aspects (TC im ETSI)
NA Normenausschuss
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
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 Provider
NAP Network Access Point (Internet)
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 Non Access Stratrum
NAS National Academy of Sciences (USA)
NAS Network Access Server (Telekommunikation)
NAS [Scandinavian Acoustical Society]
NAS Network Attached Storage
NAS Network Access Service
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, Navigate, Navigator
NAV Navigation
NB Narrowband
NB Normal Burst (Telekommunikation)
NBC Nuclear,Biological,Chemical
NBDSV Narrow Band Digital Secure Voice
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 Number of Personnnel per Helicopter Flight Crew
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)
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
ND Navigation Display
ND Nose Down
ND North Dakota (US-Staat)
NDB Non-Directional Beacon
NDC Normalized Device Coordinates
NDDO New Drug Development Office (Amsterdam, EORTC)
NDE Non-Destructive Evaluation
NDI Non Development Item
NDI Non Destructive Inspection
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 Network Element
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
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
NERC National Environment Information Centre (UK)
NET New Equipment Training
net [Network Organization] (Internet, USA)
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
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
NGN Next Generation Network (Telekommunikation)
NGN Next Generation Network
NGSO Non-Geostationary Satellite Orbit
NGST Next Generation Space Telescope (Nachfolger des Hubble-Teleskops,
NH geplant)
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
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
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
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 Engine Gas Producer RPM
NL Nonlinear
NLC Next Linear Collider
NLCTA Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator
NLE Non-Linear Effect
NLE Non-Linear Editing
NLfB-GGA Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Bodenforschung - Geowissenschaftliche
Gemeinschaftsaufgaben (Hannover)
NLG Nose Landing Gear
NLOS Non Line Of Sight
NLR National Aerospace Laboratory
NLR Nationaal Lucht- en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium
NLR Noise Level Reduction
NLRC NASA Langley Research Center (Hampton, VA, USA)
NLT Not Later Than
NM Network Manager (or: Management) (Telekommunikation)
NM New Mexico (US-Staat)
NM Neuer Markt
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
realisiert)
NNV 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)
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 Non-Recurring Cost
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)
NRM Notification Response Message
NRQM Nichtrelativistische Quantenmechanik
NRT Non-Real Time
NRV Non Return Valve
NRW Nordrhein-Westfalen
NRZ Non-Return-To-Zero (Telekommunikation)
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
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
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)
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 Never the same Colour
NTSC National Television System Committee (Fernsehnorm, USA)
NTT New Technology Telescope (ESO, La Silla, Chile)
NTU National Taiwan University
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 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 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 Overhaul and Rework
O/R On Request
O/T Other Times
OA Optical Amplfier
OA Operation Area
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 Provisioning
OAMP 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 Overall Temperature
OAT Outside Air Temperature
OAT Operational air traffic
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 Optical Burst Switch (Telekommunikation)
OBW Occupied Bandwidth (Telekommunikation)
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)
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 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
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 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
OFDM Optical (or: Orthogonal) Frequency Division Multiplexing (Telekommunikation)
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)
OH Overhaul
OH Ohio (US-Staat)
OHEAT Overheated
OHG Offene Handelsgesellschaft
OHG Operator Harmonization Group (Telekommunikation)
ÖIB Örtliche Initiativen zur Beschäftigung von Frauen (EU)
OID Operational Instrument Departure
OIDA Optoelectronic Industry Development Association
OIF Optical Interworking Forum (optische Telekommunikation)
oIMP Over-Imperium
OJPS Online Journal Publishing Services (AIP)
OK Oklahoma (US-Staat)
OL Output Layer (neuronales Netz)
OLA Optical Line Amplifier (optische Telekommunikation)
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 Outer Marker
OM Operation Module
OM Optical Monitor (XMM)
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
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)
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 Operating Procedure
OP Organizational Partners
OP A/D Optical Packet Add/Drop (optische Telekommunikation)
OP&CAPEX Operational and Captial Expenditure
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
Staaten
OPEN Optical Pan-European Network
OPEP One-Pion Exchange Potential
OPEX Operational Expenditures
Opex Operating Expenditure (or: Expenses)
OPEX & CAPEXOperational 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 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, 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
ORIDE Override
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)
ORREQ Origination Request Message
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 On Scene Command
OSC Oscillator
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 Operations System Function
OSF Open Software Foundation
OSF Operation System Function
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Washington, DC, USA)
OSI Open System Interconnection
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 Octet Stream Protocol
OSP Open Services Platform (Telekommunikation)
OSPF Open Shortest Path First (Internet)
OSS Output Shaft Speed
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

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 Optical Transmission Network
OTN Open Transport Network (Verkehrsleitsystem)
OTN Optical Transmission Network (optische Telekommunikation)
OTN ODUk PathOptical 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
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
P2S Parallel-to-Serial (Converter)
PA Product Assurance
PA Pennsylvania (US-Staat)
PA Power Amplifier
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,
Frankreich, zur Entsorgung radioaktiver Abfälle)
PACF Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell (?)
PACS Picture Archiving and Communication Systems
PACS Picture Archiving and Communication Systems
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
PAP Password Access Protocol
PAPI Precision approach path indicator
PAPS Periodic Armaments Planning System
PAR Precision Approach Radar
PARCOR Partial Correlation
PAS Pädagogische Arbeitsstelle des deutschen Volkshochschulverbandes
(Frankfurt/M)
PAT Production Acceptance Test
PAT Port Address Translation (Telekommunikation)
PATU PanAfrican Telecommunication Union
PAY Physics Achievement Year
PB Power Beacon
PB Perfect Business
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
PBN pyrolytisches Bornitrid
PBO Polybenzobioxazol
PBS Primer-Bindungsstelle (in RNA)
PBT Polybutylenterephthalat, Poly Butylene Terephthalate
PBWA Plasma Beat-Wave Accelerator
PBX Private Branch Exchange
PBX Private Branch Exchange
PBX Plastic Bonded Explosive (Sprengstoff)
PBX Private Branch Exchange (Internet)
PBX-M Princeton Beta Experiment - Modified (Fusionsreaktortechnik)
PBZ Partialbruchzerlegung
PC Polycarbonat
PC Pseudo Code
PC Personal Computer
PC Personal Computer
PC Polycarbonat
PCA Physical Configuration Audit
PCA Proportional Counter Array (beim RXTE)
PCAST President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (USA)
PCB Printed Circuit Board
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)
PCH Paging Channel
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
P-CSCF Proxy CSCF
PCSS Personal Communication Satellite Systems
PCT Patent Cooperation Treaty

PCU Pilotvs Control Unit
PCU Propeller Control Unit
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)
PD(P) Project Definition (Phase)
PD(R) Preliminary Design (Review)
PDA persönlicher digitaler Assistent
PDA persönlicher digitaler Assistent
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 Probability Distribution Funciton
PDF Postscript Document Format (Dateiformat von Adobe Systems Inc.)
PDF Portable Document Format
PDF Probability Density Function
PDG Packet Data Gateway
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
PDSN (Packet Data Serving Node)
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 Provider Edge Router
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)
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 Preliminary Engineering Order
PEO Polyethylenoxid
PEP Producibility Engineering & Planning
PEP Peak Envelope Power
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)
Perm 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
Hochschulen
PFCK Pre Flight Check
PFCS Primary Flight Control System
PFD Primary Flight Display
PFD Power Flux Density
PFD Power Flux Density
PFE Power Feeding Equipment
PFS Pre-Feasiblitity Study
PG Peer Group
PGA Pin Grid Array (Chipgehäuse)
PGA Polyglykolid
PGO (Hirn-Zellkomplex: pons, corpus geniculatum, occiput)
PGP Pretty Good Privacy
PHA Preliminary Hazard Analysis
PHA Polyhydroxyalkanoat
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 Position and Homing Indicator
PHI Planbasierte Hilfesysteme
PHM Prognostics and Health Managament
PHP Hypertext Processor (Telekommunikation)
PHS Personal Handyphone System
PHS Peripheral High Speed (Bus)
PHS & T Packaging, Handling, Storage & Transportation
PHT plötzlicher Herztod
PHY Physical Layer (DECT)
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,
Frankreich)
PIB 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
(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)
PIMS Personal Information Managers
PIMS Personal Information Managers
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-Negative
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)

PIR Personal Interactivity Recorder
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 Photoluminescence, Photolumineszenz
PL Place (US Mail)
PL Prefered Layer
PLA Polylactid
PLB Personal Locator Beacon
PLC Packet Loss Concealment (Telekommunikation)
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
PLI Payload Length Indicator
PLL Phase-Locked Loop
PLMN Public Land Mobile Network (Telekommunikation)
PLO Phase-Locked Oscillator
PLP Perceptual Linear Prediction
PLS Pilot Initiated Locator System
PLS Personal Locator System
PLT Plot (Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei)
PLT Princeton Large Experiment (Fusionsreaktortechnik, PPPL)
PLZ Plaza (US Mail)
PLZ Postleitzahl
PM Program Management
PM Photomultiplier (tube)
PM Polarization Mode Dispersion
PMA Physical Media Attachement
PMB Path Monitoring
PMC Plant Management Computer
PMC Personal Mobile Communicator
PMD Panel Mounted Display
PMD Program Management Organization
PMD Physical Media dependent
PMD Polarization-Mode Dispersion (Glasfasernetz)
PMD Portable MAC Identity for Display (DECT)

PMDE Precision Distance Measuring Equipment
PMDT Performance & Mission Data Terminal
PMF Polarization Maintaining Fiber (optische Telekommunikation)
PMMA Polymetylmetaacrylat
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
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 Particulate Organic Carbon
POC Point of Concentration (Telekommunikation)
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
(Telekommunikation)
POLY Polymeric Materials for Microelectronics and Photonics (Kongress)
PON Passive Optical Network
PONS Prometheus Orthonormal System
POP Postoffice Protocol
POP Postoffice Protocol
POP Point of Presence (Internet)
POP Post Office Protocol (E-Mail Server)
POPA Panel on Public Affairs (APS)
POS Positive
PoS Packet over SONET (or: SDH)
PosFL Post fade listen

POSIX Portable Operating System Interface (Telekommunikation)
POST Power on Self Test
POST Postflight
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 Ordinary Telephone Service
POTS Plain Old Telephone Service (or: System)
POW Prisoner of War
PP Present Position
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
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
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)
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 Product Performance Requirement
PPR Prior Permission Required
PPR Pflegepersonalregelung
PPS The Polish Physical Society
PPT Pre-Production Tests
PPT (Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft PowerPoint-Datei)
PPTP Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (Internet)
PPU Present Position (Indication)
PPV Pay-per-View (Telekommunikation)
PPV Poly(p-Phenylen Vinylen)
PR Power Rail
PR Photo Resist
PR Public Relation
PR Puerto Rico (US Mail)
PRA Primary Rate Access (ISDN)
PRBS Pseudo Random Binary Sequence
PRBS Pseudorandom Bit Sequence
PRC Physics Resources Center (AIP)
PRC Peoples Republic of China
PRC Primary Reference Clock (Telekommunikation)
PRE Preflight
PreFL Pre fade listen
PRESS Pressure
PRF Pulse Repetition Frequency
PRI Priority
PRI Primary
PRI Primary Rate Interface (Telekommunikation)
PRIF Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
PRL Physical Review Letters
Probab Probability
PROLA Physical Review Online Archive
PROLOG Programming in Logic
PROM Programmable Read Only Memory
PROM Programmable Read-Only Memory
PROMED Program to Monitor Emerging Diseases
PROMETHEUS Programme for a European Traffic with Highest Efficiency and
Unprecedented Safety
PROP Propeller
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 Parallel-to-Serial Converter
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
PSD Power Spectral Density
PSE Periodical System of Elements
PSE please
PSE Personal Service Environment (Telekommunikation)
PSE Programm- und Systementwicklung
PSF Point Spread Function
PSG Programmable Sound Generator
PSI Payload Structure Identifier

PSI Pound per Square Inch
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)
PSM Phase Shift Mask
PSOLA Pitch-Synchronous Overlap Add (Sprachsynthese)
PSP Pierced steep plank
PSPC positionsempfindlicher Proportionalzähler (Röntgensatelliten)
PSPDN Packet Switched Public Data Network
PSR Precision Segmented Reflector (Satelliten)
PSS Positive Status Stablitity
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 Telefone Network
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Networks
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Networks
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network (Öffentliches Fernsprechnetz)
Pt Platinum
PT Protocol Translation
PTA Personal Travel Assistent
PTB Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Braunschweig)
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)
PTR Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (Berlin, ab 1887)
PTRA Physics Teaching Resource Agents
PTSB Posttraumatische Belastungsstörung (Medizin)
PTSP PNNI Topology State Packet (Telekommunikation)
PTT Push To Talk
PTT Push To Talk
PTT Post, Telegraph and Telephone
PTV Projection Television
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 Principal Value (at Cauchy Integral)
PV Polarisation Vector
PV Photovoltaik
PV Present Value
PVB Polyvinyl Butyral
PVC Polyvinly Cloride
PVC Permanent Virtual Circuit
PVC Permanent Virtual Circuit (or: Channel) (or: Connection) (Rechnernetz)
PVC Polyvinylchlorid
PVC Permanent Virtual Channels
PVD Physical Vapor Deposition
PVDF Polyvinylidenfluorid
PVK Poly-N-vinylcarbazol
PVM Parallel Virtual Machine (Parallelrechner)
PVR Personal Video Recorder
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 Q-Factor, Quality Factor, Gütefaktor
Q&A Questions and Answers
QA Quality Assurance
QA Quality Assurance
QALY Quality-Adjusted Life Years
QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
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 Control
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
aerodrome)
QFL Quantum Fountain Laser
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)
QoS Quality of Service
QOS Quality of Service
QPO Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (Röntgensterne)
QPP Qualification Programme Plan
QPSK Quaternary Phase Shift Keying
QPSK Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (Modulation)
QQ Quell-Codierung
QRY (Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft Datenbank-Abfrage)
QSAR Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (Chemie)
QSIG Q Interface Signaling
QSM Qualitative Software Metrics
QSVD Quotient Singular Value Decomposition
QTP Qualification Test-Plan
QTVR Quick Time Virtual Reality
QTYR Quantity
QUANTOM Quantitative Tomographiedatenanalyse
QUIC Quantum Information and Computation Consortium
QW Quantum Well
QWI Quantum Well Intermixing (tunable laser)
QWIP Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector
R
R Right
R ALT Radar Altimeter
R&D Research and Development

R&I Research and Innovation
R&S Retraction Actuator
R/A Rhode und Schwarz
R/A Radar Altimeter
R/C Rate of Climb
R/C Revenue/Cost Ratio
R/D Rate of Decsent
R5 Release 5
RA Restricted area
RA Radar Altimeter
RA Radio Access (Telekommunikation)
RA Research Assistant (USA)
RA Radio Astronomy
RAA Radar Air/Air
RAB Radio Access Bearer
RAB Radio Access Bearer (Telekommunikation)
RAB Remote Amplifier Box (Telekommunikation)
RAC Routing Area Code
RAC Rules of the Air and Air Traffic Serv
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]
RACH Random Access Channel
RAD Radio Altimeter
RAD Radiation Absorbed Dose
RAD Rapid Application Development
RAD ALT Radar of Radio Altitude
RAD ALT Radar Altimeter
RADAR Radio Detection and Ranging
RADHAZ Radiation Hazards
RADIUS Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (Telekommunication)
RADM Radom
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 Reliability,Availability,Maintainability
RAM Random Access Memory
RAM Random Access Memory
RAM Remote Access Multiplexer (Internet)
RAM & T Reliability, Availability, Maintainability & Testability
RAMICS Rapid Airbore Mine Clearance System

RAN Radio Access Network
RAN Radio Access Network
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
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 Recovery Assist, Securing and Traversing System
RAST Radio Allergo Sorbent Test
RASTI Rapid Speech Transmission Index
RASU Rate Acceleration Sensor Unit
RAT Radio Access Technology
RB Radio Bearer (Telekommunikation)
RBOC Regional Bell Operating Company
RBW Resolution Bandwidth (Telekommunikation)
RC Rate Conversion
RC Routing Controller (Telekommunikation)
RCC Rescue Coordination Center
RCC Rescue Control Center
RCC Routing Control Channel (Telekommunikation)
RCCB Remote Control Circuit Breakers
RCK Research Centre Karlsruhe
RCL Report Contents List
RCL Radio Communication Links
RCLED Resonant Cavity Light Emitting Diode
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 Radar Cross Section
RCSU Remote Control and Status Unit
RD Route Distinguishers
RD Road (US Mail)
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
RDR Radar
RDRB Radarbombing
RDS Radio Data System (Europe)
RDTH Rock Down the House
RDX Trimethylentrinitramin (Hexogen, Sprengstoff)
RE Radar Equation
REA Rauchgas-Entschwefelungs-Anlage
REACOL Réseau Européen pour l'Assemblage par Collage
REAP Reliability Evaluation and Analysis Program
REC Receiver
REC Radiative Electron Capture
RECOVER Remote Continual Verification (Atomenergie-Kontrolle)
RECT Rectifier
RED Reflection Electron Diffraction
RED Random Early Detection
REF Reference
Ref Reference
REG Regulator
REG (Dateinamenerweiterung: Windows Registrierungs-Datei)
REL Release message
REL Release
REM Rapid Eye Mount (Teleskop, Italien)
REM Rapid Eye Movement (Schlaf-Phase)
REM Rasterelektronenmikroskop
RERF Radiation Effects Research Foundation (Japan)
RES Reciever/Exiter Synchronzier
RES Resonance
Res Reservation
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)
RETR Retract
REU Remote Control Electronic Unit
REV Reverse
Rev Reverb
Rev Revision
Rev. Revision
REWIMET Regionales Windfeld-Modell einschließlich Transport (Wettervorhersage)
REX Realtime Executive (ein Betriebssystem)
RF Rocket Fuel
RF Radio Frequency
RF Risk Factor
RF Radio Frequency
RF Radio Frequency
RFA Röntgenfluoreszenzanalyse
RFC Request For Comment (Rechnernetz)
RFD Remote Frequency Display
RFD Request For Discussion (Rechnernetz)
RFI Request for Informations
RFI Remote Frequency Indicator
RFI Radio Frequency Inteferences
RFID Radio-Frequency Identification
RFP Request For Proposal
RFPI Radio Fixed Part Identity (DECT)
RFS Request for Skipper
RFX Radio Fix
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
Frühgeschichte (Mainz)
RH Right Hand
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)
RHT Reheat
RI Rhode Island (US-Staat)
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
RLAS Radio Login Access Server
RLC Resistor Loop Condenser (Oscillator circuit)
RLC Release Complete Message
RLC Radio Link Control(ler) (TK, Layer 2)
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 Resource Manager
RM Redundancy Management
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 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 Network Controller
RNC Radio (and) Network (or: Node) Controller (Telekommunikation)
RNEP Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (Atomwaffe, USA)
RNG Range
RNG Random Number Generator
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)
ROSAT (deutscher) Röntgensatellit, Roentgen Satellite (1990)
ROSIS Reflective Optics System Imaging Spectrometer
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
RPI Runway Point of Intercept
RPM Revolutions Per Minute
RPM Rounds Per Minute
RPM Radio Policy Matters (TC im ETSI)
RPO Rahmenprüfungsordnung
RPR Resilence Ring Packet
RPR Resilient Package Ring (Telekommunikation)
RPRT Report Contents List
RPS The Romanian Physical Society
RPT Repeator
RPV Remotely Piloted Vehicles
RPWS Radio and Plasma Wave Science (Instrument an Bord des Saturn-Satelliten
Cassini)
Rr Roger
RR Rate Rank, Ratengrad
RR Radioactive Radiation
RR Radio Resource
RR Radio Regulations
RR radiative Rekombination
RR Riva-Rocci (-Apparat zur Blutdruckmessung)
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
RS Reed Solomon (cryptography)
RS Raman Spectroscopy
RS-232 RS: Recommended Standard (EIA)
RSA [Ronald] Rivest, [Adi] Shamir, [Leonard A.] Adleman (asymmetrischer
Kryptoalgorithmus, 1977)
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)
RSRA Rotor Systems Research Aircraft
RSS Reduced Static Stability
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 Relay Tester
RT Route Target
RT Remote Terminal
RT Real-Time
RT Route Target
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 Receiver Target Distance
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 Route
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 Realtime Operating System
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
RTU Rock the Underridemaya
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)
RVDT Rotary Variable Differential Transducer
RVDT Rotary Voltage Differential Transformer
RVR Runway Visual Range
RW Rotary wing
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)
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&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)
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
SADT Sructured Analysis and Design Technique
SAE Society of Automotive 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
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 Bundesländern
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
SAPI Service Access Point Identifier
SAPPHIRE Satellite and Aircraft Data Base Project for System Integrity Research
(Satellitennavigation)
SAPTA 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)
SATCO Senior Air Traffic Control Officer
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 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 Steering Committee
SC System Controller
SC Subcontract
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
SCAS Stability Augmentation System
SCASSS Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (Uppsala)
SCBR Silicon Chip Bragg Reflector (Laser)
SCC Software Configuration Controler
SCC Satellite Control Center (Telekommunikation)
SCC Signaling Congestion Control (Telekommunikation)
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 Service Control Function
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
(ENVISAT)
SCID 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)
SCN Switched Circuit Network
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 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 Sonobuoy Communication System
S-CSCF Serving CSCF
S-CSCF Serving Call Session Control Function
SCSI Small Computer Systems Interface
SCTP Stream Control Transmission 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
SD Strap Down
SD Self Defense
SD Secure Digital (Memory Card)
SD South Dakota (US-Staat)
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
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
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
Control
SDZ Showdown Zone
SE Schrödinger Equation
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
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 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 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
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 Speed (or: Symmetric High Density) Digital Subscriber Line
(Telekommunikation)
SHEFC Scottish Higher Education Funding Council
SHF Super High Frequency
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 Service Information
SI System International
SI Service Information
SI Système International d'Unités
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
SI-MTM server initiated end-to-end message transfer mechanism
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 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
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
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
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 Standard Laboratory Test Equipment
SLTE Subscriber Line Terminal Equipment (Telekommunikation)
SM Session Management (Telekommunikation)
SM Section Monitoring
SM Single Mode (optische Telekommunikation)
SM Software Manager
SM Software Module
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 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
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 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
SMPT Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SMPTE Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers
SMR Surface Movement Radar
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-
Forschungsprojekt)
SNAM 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,
Frankreich)
SNF 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 Software Quality Assurance
SOA Safe Operating Area
SOA Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (optische Telekommunikation)
SOAE spontane otoakustische Emissionen

SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
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
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
(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)
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
SONAR Sound Navigation and Ranging
SONAR Sound Navigation and Ranging
SONATEC Selbstordnende Nanometer-Technologie
SONET Synchronous Optical Network (optische Telekommunikation)
SONO Sonar Operator
SOO Site of Origin
SOP Standing operating procedure
SOP Standard Opening Procedure
SOQE Society for Optical and Quantum Electronics (McLean, VA, USA)
SOR Society of Rheology (USA)
SOS Silicon on Sapphire (substrate)
SOV Shut-Off Valve
SoW Statement of Work
SoW Scope of Work
SP Structurel Programming
SP Self-Pulsing (Telekommunikation)
SP Service Provider (Telekommunikation)
SP Signalling Points
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-
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 Engineering) (USA)
SPIFR Single Pilot Instrument Flight Rules
SPL Splitter
SPL Sound Pressure Level
SPL Superconducting Proton Linac (CERN)
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
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)
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 Structured Query Language
SQL Standard (or: Structural, or: Structured) Query Language

(Telekommunikation)
SQUID Superconducting Quantum Interference Device
SQW Single Quantum Well
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
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 Sunset
SS System Specification
SS Spread Spectrum
SS7 Signaling System No. 7
SS7 Signaling System No. 7 (Telekommunikation)
SS7 Signaling System 7
SSB Single Side Band
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)
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 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 -
Call Detail Record
S-SMO-CDR Serving General Packet Radio System Support Node delivered Short
message Mobile Originated - Call Detail Record
S-SMT-CDR SGSN delivered Short message Mobile Terminated - Call Detail Record
S-SMT-CDR Serving General Packet Radio System Support Node delivered Short
message Mobile Terminated - Call Detail Record
SSO Single Sign On
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)
SSVF System Simulation and Verification Facility (ESTEC)

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,
Chicago, IL, USA)
STAT Status
STAT Static
STB Set Top Box
STB Stabilized
STB Set Top Box (Telekommunikation)
STBY Standby
STC Sensity Time Control
STCPD Straight Toothed Crownwheel Pinion Drive
STD Estimated Time of Departure
STD Standard
STD Software Test Description
STDR Sequence Time Domain Reflectrometry
STE Special Test Equipment
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
STF Special Technical Feature
STFT Short Time Fourier Transform
STG Schiffbautechnische Gesellschaft
SThM Scanning Thermal Microscopy
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 Stationline
STN The Scientific and Technical Information Network (Datenbank)
STN Supertwisted Nematic (Flüssigkristalle)
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 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)
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
SVR Shop Visit Rate
SVST Swedish Vacuum Solar Telescope
SW Scalar Wave
SW Short Wave
SW Switch
SW Software
SW Switch
SW Software
SWAN Solar Wind Anisotropy (an Bord von SOHO)
SWAS Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite
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.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 Terminal Adapter
TA Terrain Avoidance
TA Terminal Adapter
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)
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 Terra Byte
TB Time-Bandwidth (Product)
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
Ausgleichsbank)
TBN Total Base Number (Chemie)
TBO Time between Overhaul
TBR Technical Basis for Regulation (DECT)
TBT Turbine Beaving Temperature
TBT Tributylzinn (in Anti-Fouling-Anstrichen)
TBW Tank breaking Weapon
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 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
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
TCS Tactical Control
TCS Tactical
TCSCP Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting
TCSS Tactical Control System Software
TCTP Tactical Combat Training Program
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 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 (768 kbps Empfangs- und 128 kbps Sende-Geschwindigkeit)
TDT Time Data Table
TDZ Touchdown Zone
TDZE Touchdown Zone Elevation
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
(or: Microscopy)
TEMP Temperature
Temp. Rev. Temporary Revision
TEMPEST Temporary Emanation and Spurious
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
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
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)
THR Threat
thru through
THTR Thorium-Hochtemperatur-Reaktor (Hamm i. Westf.)
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
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 Transport Layer Security
TLS Transparent LAN Services (Telekommunikation)
TLS Transport Layer Security (Telekommunikation)

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 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)
TNF Tumor Nekrose Factor
TNL Transport Network Layer (Telekommunikation)
TNM Tumor, Nodi [Lymphknoten], Metastasen (Krebsstadium-Klassifizierung)
TNO [Nederlandse organisatie voor] Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk
TNPP Onderzoek
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
Bundesländer)
TOW Tube launched, Optically tracked, Wire guided
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 Traffic Plane Function
TPF Terrestrial Planet Finder (geplant)
TPFDDI Twisted Pair Fiber Distributed Data Interface
TPFM Two-Photon Fluorescence Microscopy
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)
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 (DLR und MST Aerospace GmbH, Köln)
Transceiver Transmitter + Receiver
Transponder Transmitter + Responder
TRAU Transcoder and Bitrateadaption Unit
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

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 Tri Strar
TS Time Slot (Datenübertragung)
TS Transport Stream (Digital Broadcast)
TSAPI Telephone Services Application Programmming Interface
TSC-IP (Telekommunikation)
Transparent System Connector IP (Telekommunikation)
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
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
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
Gewerkschaftsbund (Technisches Büro)]
TV Television
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 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
U
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)

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
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 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)
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
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)
Um I/F inter MS and GSM fixed Network part. The Um I/F is the GSM network I/F
for providing GPRS services over the radio to the MS. The MT part of the MS
is used to access the GPRS services in GSM thru this I/F
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 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
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 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-
Gründungen in USA)
URI 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(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
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
UTM Universal Transversal Mercator Projection
UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair (Datenkabel)
UTR Untranslated Region (in RNA)
UTRAN Universal Terrestial Radio Access Network Registration Area
UTRAN UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (Telekommunikation)
UUCP Unix-to-Unix Copy Program (Rechnernetz)
UUI User-to-User Information
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 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
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)

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-
Laserdiode
VD Drive Speed
VDBiol Verband Deutscher Biologen
VDC Voltage of Direct Current
VDC Volts/Direct Current
VDE Verband Deutscher Elektrotechniker e.V.
VDEh Verein Deutscher Eisenhüttenleute e.V.
VDF Very high frequency direction finding system
VDI Verein Deutscher Ingenieure e.V.
VDI Virtual Device Interface
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, geplant für 2005)
VERONICA Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-Wide Index to Computerized Archives
(Rechnernetz, Gopher)
VERTREP 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
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
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
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 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 Virtual Machine
VM Vincence Murr
VMAN Virtual MAN (Telekommunikation)
VMC Voltmeter
VMO Visual Heterological Conditions max. Operating Speed
VMS Vertical Motion Simulator
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
VORTAC Very high frequency omnidirectional radio range co-located VOR and TACAN
facilities
VOX 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 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)
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
(Sprachkompressionssystem)
VSI 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,
Espoo, Finnland)
VUB Virtuelle 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)
(Telekommunikation)
WAPGW 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
Umweltveränderungen
WBL Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Blaue Liste
WBS Work Breakdown Structure
WBS Wireless Base Station (Telekommunikation)
WBS Work Breakdown Structure
WBT WEB-basierte Trainingssysteme
WCA Wind Correction Angle

WCDMA Wide Code Division Multiple Access
W-CDMA Wideband CDMA (Telekommunikation)
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)
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)
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
WKD Worked
WKI Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institut (Fraunhofer-Institut für Holzforschung,
Braunschweig)
WKN 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 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]
WORM (russisch)
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 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)
XCUS Excuse
XCVR Experimental Transceiver
xDSL Digital Subscriber Line (Telekommunikation)
XFEED Cross Feed
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
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
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
Agrarlandschafts- und Nutzungsforschung) (Müncheberg)
ZaPF Zusammenkunft aller Physik-Fachschaften
ZARM Zentrum für Angewandte Raumfahrttechnologie und Mikrogravitation
(,,Fallturm'', Universität Bremen)
ZAV Zentralstelle für Arbeitsvermittlung (Frankfurt/M)
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
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, DDR)
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)
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)

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Abreviations In Engineering (AIE) 1 of 193

.tau.-Code TAU: Triangular, Adaptive, Upwind (FVM-Variante)

AACG American Association for Crystal Growth

ACT Active Control Technology (Flugzeug)

ADSR Attack Decay Sustain Release (stages of Envelope of a sound)

AFFF Aqueous Film Forming Foam

AMD Age Related Macula Degeneration (Sehschwäche)

ANTS Airborne Night Television System

APOLT APON Line Termination

ARMAX ARMA process with Auxiliary Input

ASE ATM Switching Element

ASSW Anti-Surface Ship Warfare

ATMF ATM Forum

AVS American Vacuum Society

BAT Biologische Arbeitsstofftoleranz(werte)

BEEM Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy

BIPM Bureau International des Poids et Mésures (Sèvres, Paris)

BNI Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin (Hamburg)

BWV Bach Werke Verzeichnis

CAL Computer-Aided (or: Assisted) Learning

CAS Chemical Abstracts Service (Datenbank)

CCB Customer Care and Billing (Telekommunikation)

CDC Control Data Corporation

CETA Center of Excellence for Advanced Technology

CHE Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung (Gütersloh)

CIR Computer Integrated Railroading

CMAC Cerebellar Model Arithmetic Computer

CNEL Community Noise Equivalent Level

CPE Common Phase Error (Telekommunikation)

CRH Corticotropin-Releasing Hormon

CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique (Zürich)

CTIO Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (Chile)

CXO Chandra X-Ray Observatory (Röntgensatellit)

DAST Drones for Aerodynamic and Structural Testing (NASA, Flugzeug)

DCOMP Division of Computational Physics (APS)

DEMFT Domain of the Electro Magnetic Field Theory

DGE Dynamic Gain-Equalizer (optische Telekommunikation)

DIHT Deutscher Industrie- und Handelstag

DLU Digital Line Unit

DNI Day-Night-Level (Lärmpegel)

DPMA Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt

DSE Design Support Environment

DTM Device Type Manager (Feldbussystem)

EAA European Acoustics Association

ECC Electrochemical Concentration Cell

EDL Edit Decision List

EGM Extraordinary General Meeting

EKA Expositions-Äquivalent für krebserzeugende Arbeitsstoffe

EMF Electromagnetic Field

EPROM Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

ESCU Enhanced Services Control Unit (Telekommunikation)

ESTEC European Space Research and Technology Centre (Noordwijk, NL)

EUROTRAC Erfassung von Schadstoffen in der Troposphäre

FAB Federal Aviation Administration (USA)

FBP Fast Back Propagation (Algorithmus)

FDP Freie Demokratische Partei

FGK Forschungsgesellschaft Kunststoffe

FIRST Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik (Berlin)

FMEA Failure Modes and Effects Analysis

FPF Fluorprotein foam

FSC(FP) Flight Safety Critical (Failure Probability)

FUTOUR Förderung und Unterstützung technologieorientierter

GALILEO (Europäisches Satelliten-Navigationssystem, im Aufbau)

GDM Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Chemie und Physik