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19F |
Fluorine-19 |
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1D |
One-Dimensional |
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1PI |
One Particle Irreducible |
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2-D |
Two Dimensional |
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2B1Q |
Two Binary One Quaternary |
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2D WAXD |
Two-Dimensional Wide-Angle X-ray Diffraction |
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2DEG |
Two-Dimensional Electron Gas |
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2DHG |
Two-Dimensional Hole Gas |
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2LOT |
2nd Law of Thermodynamics |
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2PE |
Two-Photon Excitation |
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2PH TDF |
Two-Particle-Hole Tamm-Dancoff Approximation |
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2PPE |
Two-Photon Photoemission |
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3D |
Three Dimensional |
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3DFFM |
Three-Dimensional Fourier Filtering Method |
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3DSSPP |
Three-Dimensional Static Strength Prediction Program |
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3DWBA |
Three-Body Distorted-Wave Born Approximation |
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3PE |
Three-Photon Excitation |
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4THD |
Fourth Dimension |
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4WM |
Four Wave Mixing |
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A |
Atomic |
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A |
Ampere |
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A-BOMB |
Atomic Bomb |
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AAA |
Advanced Applications of Accelerators |
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AAAC |
Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee |
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AAMI |
Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation |
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aapm |
American Association of Physicists in Medicine's |
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AAPP |
Association of Applied Physicists Pakistan |
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AAPT |
American Association of Physics Teachers |
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AAS |
Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry |
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ABEC |
Annular Bearing Engineering Committee |
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ABF |
All but Finitely |
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ABHP |
American Board of Health Physics |
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ABMP |
American Board of Medical Physics |
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AC |
Attenuation Coefficient |
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AC |
Alternating Current |
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AC |
Aerodynamic Center |
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ACB |
Annular Confinement Beam |
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ACCI |
Atlantic Canada Coral Initiative |
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ACCW |
Auxiliary Component Cooling Water |
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ACD |
Air Constrained Dampening |
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ACD |
Autoregressive Conditional Duration |
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ACDC |
Alternating Current/Direct Current |
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ACDM |
Automated Contour Detection Method |
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ACE |
Acoustic Compliance Enhancement |
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ACESJ |
Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal |
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ACFA |
Asian Committee for Future Accelerators. |
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ACFF |
Alternating Current Field Measurement |
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ACFM |
Advanced Coal Flow Measurement |
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ACIP |
Aerodynamic Coefficient Instituteumentation Package |
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ACIP |
Aerodynamic Coefficient Instrumentation Package |
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ACM |
Adiabatic Connection Model |
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AcouL |
Acoustics Letters |
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ACP |
American Center for Physics |
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ACP |
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics |
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ACPD |
Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics Discussions |
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ACR |
Absolute Cryogenic Radiometer |
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ACR |
Advanced Candu Reactor |
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ACRR |
Annular Core Research Reactor |
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ACRU |
Astrophysics and Cosmology Research Unit |
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ACS |
American Chemical Society |
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ACTS |
Automated Computer Time Service |
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AD |
Antimatter Decelerator |
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ADAM |
Absolute Disintegration of Available Mass |
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ADAP |
Aerodynamic Data Analysis Program |
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ADATS |
Analog Delayed Annihilation Time Spectra |
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ADB |
Aerodynamic Data Book |
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AdBMP |
Advances in Biological and Medical Physics |
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AdChP |
Advances in Chemical Physics |
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ADCL |
Accredited Dosimetry Calibration Laboratory |
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AdExG |
Advances in Exploration Geophysics |
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ADF |
Amplitude-Dependent Friction |
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AdGeo |
Advances in Geophysics |
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AdGR |
Advances in Geophysical Research |
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ADI |
Advanced Distance Integration |
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ADM |
Arnowitt-Deser-Misner |
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ADM |
Absolute Distance Meter |
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ADMIT |
Analytical Detection Methods for the Irradiation Treatment of foods |
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AdMPS |
Advances in Mechanics and Physics of Surfaces |
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AdPhy |
Advances in Physics |
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AdPlP |
Advances in Plasma Physics |
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AdPPR |
Advances in Plasma Physics Research |
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ADR |
Automatic Device Replacement |
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ADS |
Automated Dynamic Shear |
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AdSMP |
Advanced Series in Mathematical Physics |
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ADTM |
Alternate Density Transmission Medium |
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AdTMP |
Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics |
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AdTPh |
Advanced Texts in Physics |
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ADV |
Automatic Drain Valve |
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ADVP |
Acoustic Doppler Velocity Profiler |
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|
AEC |
Atomic Energy Commission (superseded by ERDA) |
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AEC |
Active Energy Control |
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|
aecl |
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited's |
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AECL |
Atomic Energy Canada Limited |
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AED |
g.l.c.-atomic emission detection |
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AEDC |
Arnold Engineering Development Center |
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AeDy |
Aerospace Dynamics |
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AeJ |
Aeronautical Journal |
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AEM |
Acoustical Emission Monitoring |
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AeQ |
Aeronautical Quarterly |
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|
AERD |
Alpha Energy Range Discrimination |
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|
AerTe |
Aerojet Technology |
|
|
AES |
Auger Electron Spectroscopy |
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AES |
Atomic Emission Spectroscopy |
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|
AeSIJ |
Aeronautical Society India Journal |
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|
AESR |
Array-Enhanced Stochastic Resonance |
|
|
AET |
Active Edge Table |
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|
AF |
Anisotropic Filtering |
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|
AF |
Audio Frequency |
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AF |
Acceleration Factor |
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AF |
Alternating Field |
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AFA |
Average Fock Approximation |
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AFB |
Air Force Base (USAF) |
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AFC |
Aerodynamic Flight Control |
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AFC |
Amplitude to Frequency Conversion |
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AFCP |
Atomic Flux Coating Process |
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AFFT |
Asymptotically Free Field Theories |
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|
AFGL |
Air Force Geophysics Laboratory |
|
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AFI |
Accordion Fringe Interferometry |
|
|
AFM |
Atomic Force Microscopy |
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|
AFM |
Atomic Force Microscope |
|
|
AFOSR |
Air Force Office Of Scientific Research(USA) |
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AFP |
Accelerated Freefall Progression |
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|
AFPL |
Air Force Phillips Laboratory |
|
|
AFPS |
Analyzing Fluid Power Systems |
|
|
AFRRI |
(U.S.) Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute |
|
|
AFS |
Abstract Force Simulator |
|
|
AFT |
Attractor Field Therapy |
|
|
AFT |
Aerodynamic Flight Test |
|
|
AFTA |
Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets |
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|
AFTA |
Acoustic Fatigue Test Article |
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|
AFV |
Alternative-Fuel Vehicle |
|
|
AFVH |
Anti- Ferromagnetic van Hove scenario |
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|
Ag |
Anti-Gravity |
|
|
AGO |
Automatic Geophysics Observatory |
|
|
AGp |
Annals of Geophysics |
|
|
AGS |
The Alternating Gradient Synchrotron at Brookhaven |
|
|
AGS |
Alternating-gradient Synchrotron |
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|
AGU |
American Geophysical Union |
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|
AGUFM |
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting |
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|
AGUSM |
American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting |
|
|
AGW |
Acoustic Gravity Wave |
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|
AI |
Associative Ionization |
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|
AIAA |
American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics |
|
|
AIC |
Analytical Instrument Control |
|
|
AICF |
Acoustic Inertial Confinement Fusion |
|
|
AICP |
Aerodynamic Instituteumental Coefficient Package |
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|
AICP |
Aerodynamic Instrumental Coefficient Package |
|
|
AID |
Also Includes Drugs |
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|
AIF |
Assumed Internal Force |
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|
AIGER |
American Industry Government Emissions Research Consortium |
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|
AIH |
Acoustical Imaging and Holography |
|
|
AIM |
Accurate, Intentional, Measurable |
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|
AIM |
Advanced Idea Mechanics |
|
|
AIP |
American Institute of Physics |
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|
AJP |
American Journal of Physics |
|
|
AKD |
Altered Kinetic Distance |
|
|
AL |
argon laser |
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|
ALARA |
As Long As Radiation Allows |
|
|
ALB |
Anti Lock Brake |
|
|
ALCPG |
American Linear Collider Physics Group |
|
|
ALCSG |
Asian Linear Collider Steering Committee. |
|
|
ALEPH |
Apparatus for LEP PHysics, at CERN |
|
|
ALG |
Advanced Lithography Group |
|
|
ALICE |
A Large Ion Collider Experiment |
|
|
ALPS |
Applications And Libraries For Physics Simulations |
|
|
ALR |
Active Lead Ring |
|
|
ALU |
Applied Laser Unit |
|
|
ALVIB |
algorithm payload vibration |
|
|
AM |
Amplitude Modulation |
|
|
AM1 |
First Launch in the morning series of EOS platforms |
|
|
AMA |
Actual Mechanical Advantage |
|
|
AMANDA |
Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array |
|
|
AMB |
As Measured By |
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|
AMD |
Area Mass Density |
|
|
AmJPh |
American Journal of Physics |
|
|
AMMAC |
Mexican Metrology Association |
|
|
AMO |
Atomic, Molecular and Optical |
|
|
AMP |
Amplitude |
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|
AMPC |
Advances in Materials Physics and Chemistry |
|
|
AMPS |
Atmosphere, Magnetosphere & Plasmas in Space |
|
|
AMPS |
Atmospheric Magnetospheric Plasma System |
|
|
AMS |
Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility |
|
|
AMS |
Acoustic Measurement System |
|
|
AMS |
Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer |
|
|
AMS |
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry |
|
|
AMS |
Accelerator-Mass Spectrometry |
|
|
AMSB |
Anomaly Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking |
|
|
AMSR |
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer |
|
|
AMTF |
Acoustic Model Test Facility |
|
|
AnIPS |
Annals of the Israel Physical Society |
|
|
ANL |
The Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill |
|
|
ANOVA |
Analysis of Variance (statistics) |
|
|
AnPhy |
Annals of Physics |
|
|
ANS |
American Nuclear Society |
|
|
ANSI |
American National Standards Institute, Inc. |
|
|
ANSOM |
Apertureless Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy |
|
|
ANTARES |
Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss Environmental Research |
|
|
ANVIS |
Aviator Night Vision Imaging System |
|
|
AO |
Adaptive Optics |
|
|
AO |
Advanced Optics |
|
|
AO |
Atomic Orbital |
|
|
AOI |
Areas of Interaction |
|
|
AOI |
Angle Of Incidence |
|
|
AOM |
acoustic-optic modulator |
|
|
AOM(s) |
acousto-optic modulator(s) |
|
|
AP |
Anti-Proton |
|
|
ApAc |
Applied Acoustics |
|
|
APAS |
Astrophysical Planetary and Atmospheric Sciences |
|
|
APAS |
Aerodynamic Performance and Sizing Program |
|
|
APCVD |
Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition |
|
|
APD |
VERP)/action potential duration |
|
|
APEX |
AntiProton Experiment |
|
|
APGR |
Association for Pushing Gravity Research |
|
|
APh |
Astroparticle Physics |
|
|
APHIS |
U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service |
|
|
APhy |
Acoustical Physics |
|
|
APIF |
Astroparticle Physics International Forum |
|
|
APL |
Advanced Physics Laboratory |
|
|
APL |
Applied Physics Letters |
|
|
APM |
Absolute Proper Motion |
|
|
APM |
Associated Particle Method |
|
|
APOMA |
American Precision Optics Manufacturers Association |
|
|
APOP |
Automatic Particle Orientation Procedure |
|
|
ApPhL |
Applied Physics Letters |
|
|
ApPhy |
Applied Physics |
|
|
APPL |
APplied Physics Letters |
|
|
APPMT |
Advanced Photon Processing and Measurement Technology |
|
|
APRF |
Army Pulse Radiation Facility |
|
|
APS |
American Physical Society |
|
|
APS |
Advanced Propagation Systems |
|
|
APS |
Advanced Photon Source |
|
|
APT |
Analytic Perturbation Theory |
|
|
APT |
Annular Proton Telescope |
|
|
APULVZ |
Altiplano-Puna Ultralow-Velocity Zone |
|
|
AQ |
Anomalous Quadrupole |
|
|
AR |
Absorptive Region |
|
|
AraC |
Arithmetic Robot Application Control |
|
|
ArAco |
Archives Acoustics |
|
|
ARB |
Active Rere Beam |
|
|
ARCP |
Annual Reviews of Computational Physics |
|
|
ARDS |
Analysis of Rotor Dynamic Systems |
|
|
ARES |
Advanced Rheometric Expansion System |
|
|
ArgoNeuT |
The Argon Neutrino Teststand |
|
|
ARIE |
Asynchronous Ratio Of Internal To External |
|
|
ARL |
Average Run Length |
|
|
ARO |
United States Army Research Office |
|
|
ARPA-E |
Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy |
|
|
ARPES |
Angle Resolved Photo Electron Spectroscopy |
|
|
ARPES |
Angle-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy |
|
|
ARROW |
Antiresonant Reflecting Optical Waveguide |
|
|
ART |
Algebraic Reconstruction Technique |
|
|
ART |
Adaptive Resonance Theory |
|
|
ARUPS |
Angle-Resolved Ultra-violet Photoemission Spectroscopy |
|
|
ARXPS |
Angle Resolved X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy |
|
|
ASA |
Aperture Setting Adjustment |
|
|
ASA |
Apparent Strength of Adhesion |
|
|
ASA |
Accessible Surface Area |
|
|
ASAC |
aerodynamic surfaces assembly and checkout |
|
|
ASAJ |
Acoustical Society of America Journal |
|
|
ASAS |
Aerodynamic Stability Augmentation System |
|
|
ASC |
Aerodynamic Surface Control |
|
|
ASCA |
Japan-NASA X-ray Satellite |
|
|
ASCA |
Advanced Spacecraft for Cosmology and Astrophysics |
|
|
ASCA |
Advanced Satellite for Cosmology & Astrophysics |
|
|
ASD |
Astrophysics Science Division |
|
|
ASD |
Active Surface Definition |
|
|
ASET |
Association of Super-advanced Electronics Technologies |
|
|
ASL |
Ambient Stress Level |
|
|
ASME |
American Society for Mechanical Engineers |
|
|
ASP |
Advanced Spectroscopic Portal |
|
|
ASPP |
Atmospheric and Space Plasma Physics |
|
|
ASSI |
Airglow Solar Spectrometer Instrument |
|
|
ASSP |
Advanced Solid-State Photonics |
|
|
ASTER |
Advance Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflectance Radiometer |
|
|
ASTM |
American Society for Testing and Materials (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
|
|
astp |
Advanced Studies in Theoretical Physics |
|
|
ASVIB |
algorithm scoreboard vibrations |
|
|
ASWT |
Arbitrary Shape Wavelet Transform |
|
|
AT&T |
Atlantic Telephone and Telegraph |
|
|
ATC |
Automatic Temperature Conversion |
|
|
ATC |
Active Thermal Cooling |
|
|
ATCS |
Active Thermal Convective System |
|
|
ATD |
Above-Threshold Dissociation |
|
|
ATDB |
Aerothermodynamic Data Book |
|
|
ATFT |
Affine Toda Field Theory |
|
|
ATI |
Above-Threshold Ionization |
|
|
ATLAS |
Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System |
|
|
ATLAS |
The Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator |
|
|
ATLAS |
A Toroidal LHC Apparatus |
|
|
ATLAS |
ACTIVITIES Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science |
|
|
ATP |
Advanced Technology Program |
|
|
ATR |
Attenuated Total Reflectance |
|
|
ATU |
Accumulated Thermal Unit |
|
|
ATW |
Accelerator Transmutation Of Waste (for Radioactive Waste) |
|
|
ATWE |
Annual Time Weighted Exposure |
|
|
AuJPA |
Australian Journal of Physics Astrophysical Supplement |
|
|
AuJPh |
Australian Journal of Physics |
|
|
AUM |
Arbitrary Unit of Mass |
|
|
AURA |
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. |
|
|
AVCOR |
algorithm vibration correlation |
|
|
AVN |
Accuracy Vanishing Now |
|
|
AWA |
The Argonne Wakefield Accelerator |
|
|
axaf |
Advanced X-ray Astrophysical Facility |
|
|
AXAF-I |
Imaging Advanced X-ray Astrophysical Facility |
|
|
AXAF-S |
Spectroscopy Advanced X-ray Astrophysical Facility |
|
|
B |
Baryon |
|
|
BaBar |
B-Bbar (anti-B) detector at SLAC'sB Factory |
|
|
BAPS |
Bulletin of the American Physical Society |
|
|
BARC |
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre |
|
|
BAS |
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists |
|
|
BaVL |
Barium Vapor Laser |
|
|
BAW |
Bulk Acoustic Wave |
|
|
BB |
Broad-bandwidth |
|
|
BB |
Back Bombardment |
|
|
BB |
Blackbody |
|
|
BBIR |
Broad Band Infrared |
|
|
BBN |
Brains And Backbone Network |
|
|
BBO |
Beta-Barium Borate |
|
|
BBR |
Back Bouncing Rod |
|
|
BBXRT |
Broadband XRay Telescope |
|
|
BC |
Boundary Condition |
|
|
BCC |
Broadband Calibration Chamber |
|
|
BCC |
Body-Centered Cubic |
|
|
BCMPA |
Billion Cubic Meters per Annum |
|
|
BCR |
Boron Control Rod |
|
|
BCS |
Bardeen Cooper Schrieffer theory of superconductivity |
|
|
BCS |
Bragg Crystal Spectrometer |
|
|
BCS |
Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory of superconductivity |
|
|
BCT |
Body-Centered Tetragonal |
|
|
BD |
Bunch-Davies vacuum state |
|
|
BD |
Bounded Distortion |
|
|
BD |
Below Detection |
|
|
BE |
Bose Einstein |
|
|
BEAM |
Bosiger Energy Alignment Method |
|
|
BEAR |
Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation |
|
|
BEB |
Binary-Encounter-Bethe |
|
|
BEC |
Bose Einstein Condensate |
|
|
BEC |
Bose-Einstein Condensation |
|
|
BED |
Binary-encounter-dipole |
|
|
BEDO |
Beitr. elektronenmikroskop. Direktabb. Oberfl. |
|
|
BEEM |
Ballistic Electron Emission Spectroscopy |
|
|
BEEM |
Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy |
|
|
BEFD |
Backward Euler centered Finite Difference |
|
|
BEFE |
Bio-Electric Field Enhancement |
|
|
BELLE |
B detector at KEK in Japan |
|
|
BENE |
Beams for European. Neutrino Experiments |
|
|
BEPC |
Beijing Electron Positron Colider |
|
|
BEPM |
Bielefeld Encounters in Physics and Mathematics |
|
|
BES |
Beijing Spectrometer (China) |
|
|
BESS |
Breaking Electroweak Symmetry Strongly |
|
|
BET |
Brunauer - Emmett - Teller |
|
|
Beta NMR |
Beta-radiation Nuclear Magnetic Resonance |
|
|
BEV |
Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen, Vienna, Austria |
|
|
BF |
Barcan Formula |
|
|
BF |
Back and Forth |
|
|
BF-TEM |
Bright-field transmission electron microscopy |
|
|
BFRL |
Building and Fire Research Laboratory |
|
|
BG |
Boltzmann Gibbs |
|
|
BGM |
Basis Generator Method |
|
|
BGO |
bismuth-germanate (scintillator) |
|
|
BGSM |
Bowman Gray School of Medicine |
|
|
BGT |
Brueckner-Gammel-Thaler potential |
|
|
BHLH |
Basic Helix-Loop-Helix |
|
|
BHN |
Brinell Hardness Number |
|
|
BHS |
Bachelet Hamann Schluter pseudopotentials |
|
|
BIA |
Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis |
|
|
BIB |
Blocked Impurity Band |
|
|
BID |
Buoyancy-Induced Dispersion |
|
|
BIFL |
Burst Integrated Fluorescence |
|
|
BIM |
Body In Motion |
|
|
BINP |
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, Russia. |
|
|
BIPM |
Bureau International des Poids et Mesures |
|
|
BIT |
Bulk Ion Temperature |
|
|
BJAP |
British Journal of Applied Physics |
|
|
BKT |
Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless crossover |
|
|
BL |
Beam Line at SURF-III |
|
|
BLAST |
The Bates Large Acceptance Spectrometer Toroid, located at MIT. |
|
|
BLB |
Black Light Bulb |
|
|
BLIP |
Blipbayesians Laboring In Physics |
|
|
BlJPh |
Bulgarian Journal of Physics |
|
|
BLP |
boron-loaded plastic (scintillator) |
|
|
BM |
Bending Magnet |
|
|
BM |
Bohr Magnetron |
|
|
BM |
Baryonic Mat |
|
|
BM |
Behavioral Model |
|
|
BMD |
Bending Moment Diagram |
|
|
BMDO |
(U.S.) Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (bim-do) |
|
|
BNC |
Boron Nitride Coating |
|
|
BNCT |
Boron Neutron Capture Therapy |
|
|
BNL |
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
|
|
BNM |
National Bureau of Metrology, France |
|
|
BOMAB |
Bottle Manikin Absorber |
|
|
BOMD |
Born Oppenheimer Molecular Dynamics |
|
|
BP |
Boiling Point |
|
|
BP |
Breaking Point |
|
|
BP |
Before Polarization |
|
|
BPAS |
Bulletin of Pure and Applied Science |
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|
BPC |
Boost Pressure Control |
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|
BPM |
Beam Position Monitor |
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BPPI |
Biophysics of Proteins and Protein Interactions |
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|
BPS |
Bogomolnyi-Prasad-Sommerfield |
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|
BPSD |
Biological Physics Structure and Design |
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BQ |
Becquerel |
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BQP |
Bounded-error Quantum Polynomial time |
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BR |
Bubble Renormalized |
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BR |
Branching Ratio |
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BR |
Barnes Reinecke |
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BRAHMS |
The Broad Range Hadron Magnetic Spectrometer located at Brookhaven. |
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BRAN |
Boulder Research and Administrative Network |
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BRDF |
Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function |
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BRP |
Barrier Ring Position |
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BRT |
Boundary Region Theory |
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BS |
Baryon Strangeness |
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BS |
Beam Splitter |
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BSDF |
Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Function |
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BSDM |
Biased Site Disordered Model |
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BSM |
Bell State Measurement |
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BSM |
Beam Simulation Method |
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BSS |
Beta Secondary System |
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BSS.2 |
Beta-Particle Secondary Standards System |
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BSSI |
British Superultramodern Scientific Institution |
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BT |
Beginning of Time |
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BTD |
Basic Thermodynamics |
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BTE |
Brake Thermal Efficiency |
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BTeV |
Proposed dedicated B physics experiment at Fermilab's Tevatron |
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|
BTFM |
Basic Two Fluid Model |
|
|
BTI |
Bubble Technology Inc |
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|
BTU |
British Thermal Unit |
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BuIPS |
Bulletin of the Israel Physical Society |
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BVF |
Brunt-Vaisala Frequency |
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BW |
Bottom of Wall |
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BWO |
Backward Wave Oscillator |
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|
BXR |
BMDO Transfer Radiometer |
|
|
BZ |
Band Zero |
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BZ |
Brillouin Zone |
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c |
Country |
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c |
Counter |
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C |
Countess |
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C |
Count |
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C&E |
Cause and Effect |
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C&EA |
Cause and Effect Analysis |
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CA |
Crash Avoid |
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CAA |
Computational Aeroacoustics |
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CAD |
Charged Area Development |
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cad |
Computer Aided Designer |
|
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CaJPh |
Canadian Journal of Physics |
|
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CAL |
Controlled Axial Lifetime |
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CAM |
Computer-Aided Machining |
|
|
CAMOS |
Committee on Atomic Molecular and Optical Sciences |
|
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cAMP |
Computational and Applied Mathematical Physics |
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|
CAO |
Carlsbad Area Office |
|
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CAP |
Current Applied Physics |
|
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CAPE |
Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics |
|
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CARB |
Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology |
|
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CARI |
combustion air requirement index |
|
|
CARS |
Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy |
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cars |
coherent antistokes raman scattering |
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|
CAS |
Common Analysis Structure |
|
|
casp |
Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics |
|
|
CASS |
Calibration Accuracy Support System |
|
|
CASS |
Center for Astrophysics Space Sciences |
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CAST |
Council of Agricultural Science and Technology |
|
|
CAT |
Computed Axial Tomography |
|
|
cat |
Cherenkov Array at Themis |
|
|
CAV |
Constant Angular Velocity |
|
|
CBA |
Center for Backyard Astrophysics |
|
|
CBH |
Correlated Barrier Hopping |
|
|
CBNM |
Central Bureau for Nuclear Measurements |
|
|
CBO |
Corrected Born-Oppenheimer (in Calcns. For Mol. Complexes) |
|
|
CBO |
Coherent Betatron Oscillations |
|
|
CBR |
California Bearing Ratio |
|
|
CBRN |
Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear |
|
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CBS |
Compton BackScattering |
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CBT |
Corrected Brake Torque |
|
|
CC |
Conservation of Charge |
|
|
CC |
Closed Circuit |
|
|
CCC |
Conformal Cyclic Cosmology |
|
|
CCD |
Charged Coupled Device |
|
|
CCDC |
Cyclic Channel Die Compression |
|
|
CCDM |
Consultative Committee for the Definition of the Meter |
|
|
CCDS |
Consultative Committee for the Definition of the Second |
|
|
CCE |
Consultative Committee on Electricity |
|
|
CCEMRI |
Consultative Committee for Ionizing Radiations, CIPM |
|
|
CCF |
Correlation Crystal Field |
|
|
CCF |
Carbonaceous Chondrite Fission |
|
|
CCFL |
Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp |
|
|
CCFL |
Countercurrent Flow Limitation |
|
|
CCFP |
Collaborative Convective Forecast Product |
|
|
CCFR |
Chicago Columbia Fermilab Rochester |
|
|
CCG |
Calibration Coordination Group |
|
|
CCM |
complementary contact model |
|
|
CCM |
Computational Continuum Mechanics |
|
|
cCMP |
Computational Condensed Matter Physics |
|
|
CCP6 |
Collaborative Computational Project 6 |
|
|
CCPCE |
Current Contents Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences |
|
|
CCPP |
Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics |
|
|
CCPP |
Combined Cycle Power Plant |
|
|
CCPP |
Collaborative Computational Plasma Physics |
|
|
CCPR |
Consultative Committee on Photometry and Radiometry |
|
|
CCR |
Centre for Chaotic Repeatability |
|
|
CCRI |
Comité Consultatif des Rayonnements Ionisants |
|
|
CCSM |
Cross Correlogram Spectral Matching |
|
|
CCT |
Circuit |
|
|
CCTF |
Consultative Committee for Time and Frequency |
|
|
CCV |
Continuing Calibration Verification |
|
|
CD |
Computational Dynamics |
|
|
CDC |
Controlled Dispersion Characteristic |
|
|
CDC |
Correlated-Double-Capture |
|
|
CDCC |
Continuum Discretized Coupled Channels |
|
|
CDCU |
Correlated Dimension Correlated Uniqueness |
|
|
CDDP |
Cellular Digital Data Packet |
|
|
CDF |
Collider Detector at Fermilab |
|
|
CDM |
Cold Dark Matter |
|
|
CdM |
Ceramic Discharge Metalhalide |
|
|
CDMS |
Cryogenic Dark Matter Search |
|
|
cdp |
Center for Defect Physics |
|
|
CDR |
Convection Dominant Reflow |
|
|
CDRH |
Center for Devices and Radiological Health (Food & Drug Administration) |
|
|
CDS |
Continuous Deflection Separation |
|
|
CDU |
Coolant Distribution Units |
|
|
CDW |
Continuum Distorted Wave |
|
|
CEA |
Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique |
|
|
CEBAF |
Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility |
|
|
CEC |
California Energy Commission |
|
|
CED |
Cohesive Energy Density |
|
|
CEI |
Comitato Elettrotecnico Italiano |
|
|
CEJPh |
Central European Journal of Physics |
|
|
CEL |
Correlated Emission Laser |
|
|
CEM |
Cascade Exciton Model |
|
|
CEM |
Colloquial Entropy Markup |
|
|
CEMRC |
Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring Research Center |
|
|
CER |
Controlled Energy Release |
|
|
CER |
Classical Estimation Ratio |
|
|
CERES |
Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System |
|
|
CERN |
Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire |
|
|
CES |
Constant Elasticity of Substitution |
|
|
CESR |
The Cornell Electron Storage Ring |
|
|
CET |
Constant Elasticity of Transformation |
|
|
CEV |
Constant Elasticity of Variance |
|
|
CF |
Cross Flow |
|
|
CF |
Curved Field |
|
|
CF |
Constant Flow |
|
|
CF |
Cold Fusion |
|
|
CfA |
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA |
|
|
CFCD |
Computational Fuel Cell Dynamics |
|
|
CFCP |
Copecenter For Cosmological Physics |
|
|
CFCT |
Combined Field Collisional Transitions |
|
|
CFE |
Coplaner Fluid Ejector |
|
|
CFE |
Classical Free Electron Model |
|
|
CFF |
Critical Flicker Fusion |
|
|
CFL |
Compact Fluorescent Lamp |
|
|
CFM |
Creates Forward Motion |
|
|
CFR |
Continuous Flow Recycling |
|
|
CFS |
Constant-Final-State Spectroscopy |
|
|
CFSE |
Crystal Field Stabilization Energy |
|
|
CFT |
Crystal Field Theory |
|
|
CFT |
Central Fiber Tracker |
|
|
CG |
Center of Gravity (DXS) |
|
|
CG |
Gas chromatography |
|
|
CGS |
Centimeter, Gram, Second |
|
|
CGU |
Canadian Geophysical Union |
|
|
CH |
Color Hold |
|
|
CH |
Continuum Hypothesis |
|
|
CHAOS |
Canadian High Acceptance Orbit Spectrometer |
|
|
CHEM-1 |
Chemistry |
|
|
CHIPS |
Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer |
|
|
ChJCP |
Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics |
|
|
ChJG |
Chinese Journal of Geophysics |
|
|
ChJPh |
Chinese Journal of Physics |
|
|
ChJS |
Chinese Journal of Semiconductors |
|
|
CHORUS |
CERN Hybrid Oscillation Research Apparatus |
|
|
CHP |
Combined heat and power |
|
|
ChPh |
Chemical Physics |
|
|
ChPhL |
Chinese Physics Letter |
|
|
ChPhy |
Chinese Physics |
|
|
CHTM |
Center for High Technology Materials |
|
|
CI |
Convective instability |
|
|
CI |
Constant Intensity |
|
|
CIAQ |
Committee on Indoor Air Quality |
|
|
CICP |
Communications in Computational Physics |
|
|
CIE |
Commission Internationale De L'Éclairage |
|
|
CIP |
Contact Ion Pair |
|
|
CIPM |
International Committee of Weights and Measures, France |
|
|
CIPT |
CNS Institute for Physics Teachers |
|
|
CIRF |
Circular Flow |
|
|
CIRMS |
Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements and Standards |
|
|
CIRRPC |
Committee on Interagency Radiation Research and Policy Coordination |
|
|
CIS |
Constant-Initial-State Spectroscopy |
|
|
CISR |
Canadian Institute for Synchrotron Radiation |
|
|
CJLTP |
Chinese Journal of Low Temperature Physics |
|
|
CJP |
Canadian Journal of Physics |
|
|
CKD |
Cyclic Ketogentic Dieting |
|
|
CKM |
Charged Kaons at the Main Injector |
|
|
CLA |
Condition Lever Angle |
|
|
CLA |
Couple Loads Analysis |
|
|
CLC |
Capillary Liquid Chromatography |
|
|
CLEAR |
Controlled Liquid Electrophoresis Absorption Reflection |
|
|
CLFR |
Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector |
|
|
CLIC |
Compact Linear Collider |
|
|
CLM |
Compound Light Microscope |
|
|
clo |
Colour Light Output |
|
|
CLR |
Center of Lateral Resistance |
|
|
CLSM |
Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy |
|
|
CLV |
Constant Linear Velocity |
|
|
CM |
Center of Mass |
|
|
CM |
Convenient Measure |
|
|
CMC |
Calibration Measurement Capabilities |
|
|
CMCV |
Charge Motion Control Valve |
|
|
CMD-2 |
Cryogenic Magnetci Detector |
|
|
CME |
Coronal Mass Ejection (usually Sun) |
|
|
CMH |
Cubic Meter per Hour |
|
|
CMM |
Coordinate Measuring Machine |
|
|
CMMPE |
Centre of Molecular Materials for Photonics and Electronics |
|
|
CMMPh |
Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics |
|
|
CMOS |
Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor |
|
|
CMP |
Colt Magnetic Particle |
|
|
CMPA |
Centre for mathematical Plasma Astrophysics |
|
|
CMPC |
Constrained Multivariable Predictive Control |
|
|
CMR |
Colossal Magnetoresistance |
|
|
CMS |
Compact Muon Solenoid |
|
|
CMT |
Chaos Magic Theory |
|
|
CN |
Canada's Neatest |
|
|
CNDD |
conspecific negative density dependence |
|
|
CNGS |
CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso |
|
|
CNIF |
Californium Neutron Irradiation Facility |
|
|
CNO |
Carbon Nitrogen And Oxygen |
|
|
CNRF |
Cold Neutron Research Facility |
|
|
CNRS |
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) |
|
|
CNT(s) |
carbon nanotube(s) |
|
|
CNTFGL |
Centrifugal |
|
|
CoASP |
Comments on Astrophysics and Space Physics |
|
|
COBE |
Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (NASA) |
|
|
COBR |
Continuous Oscillatory Baffle Reactor |
|
|
CODATA |
Committee on Data for Science and Technology (ICSU) |
|
|
COIL |
Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser |
|
|
COLTRIMS |
Cold Target Recoil-Ion Momentum Spectroscopy |
|
|
ComMP |
Comments in Modern Physics |
|
|
COMPASS |
COMPuter ASSurance Conference |
|
|
COMPASS |
Common Muon and Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy |
|
|
ComPh |
Computers in Physics |
|
|
ConCP |
Contemporary Concepts in Physics |
|
|
ConFP |
Contemporary Fundamental Physics |
|
|
ConPh |
Contemporary Physics |
|
|
COP |
Cooling Operating Procedures |
|
|
COP |
Coefficient Of Power |
|
|
CoPhC |
Computer Physics Communications |
|
|
COPP |
Contributions to Plasma Physics |
|
|
CORM |
Council for Optical Radiation Measurements |
|
|
COS |
Change of State |
|
|
COSMOS |
Cosmologically Significant Mass Oscillation Search at Fermilab to detect muon neutrino to tau neutrino oscillations. |
|
|
COSPAR |
Committee on Space Research (ICSU) |
|
|
CoTPh |
Communications in Theoretical Physics |
|
|
COUPP |
The Chicagoland Observatory for Underground Particle Physics |
|
|
CP |
Critical Pair |
|
|
CP |
Critical Power |
|
|
CP |
Coulomb potential |
|
|
CPA |
Chirped-Pulse Amplification |
|
|
CPB |
Center Point of Balance |
|
|
CPC |
Charged Particle Cannon |
|
|
CPCar |
Chemistry and Physics of Carbon |
|
|
CPEP |
Contemporary Physics Education Project |
|
|
CPhy |
Communications on Physics |
|
|
CPI |
Computational Physics Inc |
|
|
CPIC |
International Physics Center, Elba |
|
|
CPIP |
Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program |
|
|
CPK |
Corey, Pauling, Koltun |
|
|
CPL |
Chemical Physics Letters |
|
|
CPL |
Cloud Physics Lidar |
|
|
CPLip |
Chemistry and Physics of Lipids |
|
|
cpm |
Collision Probability Methods |
|
|
CPMG |
Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill pulse sequence |
|
|
CPPM |
Center for Particle Physics of Marseilles |
|
|
CPR |
Chemical Physics Reports |
|
|
CPS |
Constant Pressure System (toys) |
|
|
CPS |
Central Plasma Sheet |
|
|
CPS |
Cycles Per Second (now Hertz) |
|
|
CPS |
Centimeters Per Second |
|
|
CPSS |
Chemical Physics of Solid Surfaces |
|
|
CPSSH |
Chemical Physics of Solid Surfaces and Heterogeneous Catalysis |
|
|
CPT |
conjugation, parity, and time |
|
|
CPU |
Central Processing Unit |
|
|
CQGra |
Classical and Quantum Gravity |
|
|
CQGrS |
Classical and Quantum Gravity Supplement |
|
|
CQM |
constituent-quark model |
|
|
CQW |
Coupled Quantum Wells |
|
|
CR |
Curvature Radiation |
|
|
CR |
CRystalline solid |
|
|
CR |
Cascaded Rectifier Accelerator |
|
|
CRADA |
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (with National Institutes of Health) |
|
|
CRCPD |
Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors |
|
|
CRDS |
Cavity-Ring-Down Spectroscopy |
|
|
CREB |
Cern Reports Editorial Board |
|
|
CRESST |
Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers |
|
|
CRI |
Cambridge Research Instrumentation |
|
|
CRMMP |
Classical Reviews in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics |
|
|
CRNP |
Cooperative Research Network Physics |
|
|
CRP |
Coordinated Research Program |
|
|
CRPL |
Cosmic Ray Physics Laboratory |
|
|
CRR |
Center for Radiological Research |
|
|
CRS |
Comprehensive, Representative, or Selective |
|
|
CRT |
Conformal Radiation Therapy |
|
|
CRT |
Cathode Ray Tube (type of TV) |
|
|
CRYRING |
Electron Accelerator and Storage Ring Facility (Stockholm, Sweden) |
|
|
CS |
Chern-Simons |
|
|
CSD |
Computational Structural Dynamics |
|
|
CSDA |
Continuous-Slowing-Down Approximation |
|
|
CSE |
Compton Scattering Enhancement |
|
|
CSEWG |
Cross Section Evaluation Working Group |
|
|
CSI |
Compton Scatter Imaging |
|
|
CSI |
Contact Surface Imaging |
|
|
CSIC |
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Spanish |
|
|
CSIR |
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |
|
|
CSLPT |
Cambridge Studies in Low Temperature Physics |
|
|
CSTL |
Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory |
|
|
CSTN |
Color Super Twist Nematic |
|
|
CSU |
Complete Set of Unifiers |
|
|
CT |
Conductivity Temperature |
|
|
CT |
Computed tomographic scan |
|
|
CT |
Continuous-Time |
|
|
CT |
Computed Tomography |
|
|
CT |
Current Transformer |
|
|
CTD |
Central Tracking Detector |
|
|
CTD |
Conductivity, Temperature, Depth |
|
|
CTE |
Correlated Transfer And Excitation |
|
|
CTE |
Controlled Tractive Effort |
|
|
CTF |
CLIC (Compact Linear Collider) Test Facility |
|
|
CTI |
Critical Technologies Institute |
|
|
CTM |
Core Transport Model |
|
|
CTMC |
Classical Trajectory Monte Carlo |
|
|
CTMP |
Chemi Thermo Mechanical Pulp |
|
|
CTP |
Course of Theoretical Physics |
|
|
CTP |
Classical Turning Point |
|
|
CTP |
Center for Theoretical Physics |
|
|
CTPE |
Corrected Transient Potential Energy |
|
|
CTPhy |
Classical Theoretical Physics |
|
|
CTR |
Consolidated Time Rate |
|
|
CTR |
Controlled Thermonuclear Reaction |
|
|
CTRZ |
Central Torodial Recirculation Zone |
|
|
CTS |
Convert Texture Sequence |
|
|
CTWT |
Cross Trapezoid Wave Tape |
|
|
CU |
Collision Unconformity |
|
|
CU |
University of Colorado at Boulder |
|
|
CUP |
Copper Units Pressure |
|
|
CUP |
Curl Usability Productivity |
|
|
CV |
Constant Velocity |
|
|
Cv |
Flow Coefficient |
|
|
CVAAS |
Cold Vapor Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy |
|
|
CVD |
Chemical Vapor Deposition |
|
|
CW |
Continuous Wave |
|
|
CW |
Clockwise |
|
|
CW |
Carrier Wave |
|
|
CWP |
Century Women to Physics |
|
|
CWT |
Continuous Wavelet Transform |
|
|
CXRO |
Center for X-Ray Optics at Berkeley, CA |
|
|
CXRS |
Charge-Exchange Recombination Spectroscopy |
|
|
CY |
Calendar Year |
|
|
CzJPh |
Czechoslovak Journal of Physics |
|
|
D |
Doublet |
|
|
D |
Dense |
|
|
DAC |
Diamond Anvil high pressure Cell |
|
|
DACU |
Data Acquisition and Control Unit |
|
|
DAFNE |
Double Annular Factory for Nice Experiments |
|
|
DAFS |
Diffraction Anomalous Fine Structure |
|
|
DALR |
Dry Adiabatic Lapse Rate |
|
|
DAMA |
Dark Matter |
|
|
dAMP |
Division of Atomic and Molecular Physics |
|
|
DAP |
Donor Acceptor Pair |
|
|
DARD |
Dynamic Axial Rotational Device |
|
|
DARE |
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects |
|
|
DARPA |
Defense Advanced Research Project Agency |
|
|
dB |
Decibel |
|
|
DBB |
Double-Block and Bleed |
|
|
DBC |
Delicate Balance Collective |
|
|
dbg |
Disease Biophysics Group |
|
|
DBP |
Division of Biological Physics |
|
|
DC |
Double Capture |
|
|
DC |
Dynamic Conversion |
|
|
DCIC |
Drift-Corrected Image Composition |
|
|
DCMP |
Directions in Condensed Matter Physics |
|
|
DCOF |
Dynamic Coefficient of Friction |
|
|
DCOI |
Directional Cone Of Influence |
|
|
DCP |
Dielectronic Core Polarization |
|
|
DCPT |
Dual-Continuum Paticle Tracker |
|
|
DCS |
Differential Cross Section |
|
|
dct |
Discrete Cosine Transformer |
|
|
DD |
Diffractive Dissociation |
|
|
DD |
Differential Detection |
|
|
DDC |
Duplication, Degeneration, and Complementation |
|
|
DDD |
Dynamic Digital Depth |
|
|
DDDI |
Density Dependent Delta Interaction |
|
|
DDF |
Distance Distortion Factor |
|
|
DDFT |
Dynamic Density Functional Theory |
|
|
DDS |
Direct Digital Synthesizer |
|
|
DE |
Dynamic Effort |
|
|
DE |
Dynamic Equivalence |
|
|
DE |
Discharge Electrode |
|
|
DE |
Differential Equation(s) |
|
|
DE |
Discrete Event (program specification) |
|
|
DEA |
Downstream Endcap Array |
|
|
DEC |
Digital Electronics Corporation |
|
|
DEED |
Demonstration Of Energy Efficient Developments |
|
|
DEG |
Dimensional Electron Gas |
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DELPHI |
Detector with Lepton Photon and Hadron Identification at CERN'sLEP accelerator |
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DEPA |
Dynamic Elastic Properties Analyzer |
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DESY |
Deutches Elektronen SYnchrotron laboratory in Hamburg, Germany |
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DESY |
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron |
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DEXA |
dual energy Xray absorptiometry |
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DFIR |
Diffused Infrared |
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DFL |
density functional theory |
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DFL |
Distributed Feedback Laser |
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DFS |
Displaced Fermi Surface |
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DFT |
Density Functional Theory |
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DFTS |
Dispersive Fourier Transform Spectrometry |
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DGT |
Discrete Group Transform |
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DGT |
Denier Gradient Technology |
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DH |
Degree of Hardness |
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DHV |
Demonstrate Higher Value |
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DIA |
Dynamic Input Area |
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DIBL |
Drain-induced Barrier Lowering |
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DIGM |
Diffusion Induced Grain Motion |
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DIN |
Deutsches Institut für Normung. |
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DIP |
Diffraction Image Plate |
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DIR |
Direction Interdépartementale des Routes |
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DIW |
De-Ionzied Water |
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DL |
Deciliter |
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DLA |
Diffusion-Limited Aggregation |
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DLI |
Department of Leptonic Interactions |
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DLP |
Digital Light Processing |
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DLPM |
Doppler Laser Perfusion Monitoring |
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dLT |
Dynamic Laser Trimming |
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DLV |
Direct Linear Valve |
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DM |
Distance Measured |
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DM(S) |
Digital material(s) |
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DMA |
U.S. Defense Mapping Agency |
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DMC |
Diffusion Monte Carlo |
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DMC |
Dynamic Motion Control |
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DME |
Distance Measuring Equipment |
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DMF |
Decayed, Missing, Filled |
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DMF |
Dual Mass Flywheel |
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DMI |
Dynamic Momentum Index |
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DMIP |
Division of Medical Imaging Physics |
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DMM |
Deep Mixing Method |
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DMP |
Division of Material Physics |
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DN |
Diameter Nominal |
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DN/DC |
Specific refractive index increment |
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DNA |
Defense Nuclear Agency |
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DNA |
Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid |
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DNAA |
Delayed Neutron Activation Analysis |
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DNC |
Does Not Change |
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DNP |
Division of Nuclear Physics |
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DOAS |
Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy |
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DOC |
United States Department of Commerce |
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DOC |
Distribution Of Chaos |
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DOD |
United States Department of Defense |
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DOE |
Dynamic Operating Environment |
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DOE |
United States Department of Energy (government) |
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DOELAP |
Department Of Energy Laboratory Accreditation Program |
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DOG |
Double Optical Gating |
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DOHC |
Dual Overhead Cam |
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DOIM |
Dense Optical Interface Module |
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DONUT |
Direct Observation of the Nu Tau |
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DOP |
Degree of Polarization |
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DOP |
Dilution Of Precision |
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DORT |
Discrete Ordinates Code |
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DOT |
Degeneration Over Time |
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DOT |
Diffuse Optical Tomography |
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DOT |
Delivery Optimized Thermodynamics |
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DP |
Design Parameters |
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DP |
Data Point |
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DP |
Dynamically Positioned |
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DPA |
Differential Power Analysis |
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DPD |
Double Phase Distortion |
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DPF |
Displacement Power Factor |
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DPM |
Disintegrations Per Minute |
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DPP |
Division of Plasma Physics |
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DPPC |
Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine |
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DPR |
Differential Phase Residual |
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DPS |
Disintegrations Per Second |
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DQD |
Dissipative Quasigeostrophic Dynamics |
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DQE |
Detective Quantum Efficiency |
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DQS |
Discrete Quantum State |
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DR |
Direct Reading |
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DR |
Densified Region |
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DR-SFG |
Doubly Resonant Sum Frequency Generation |
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DRAM |
Dynamic Random Access Memory (dee-ram) (computing) |
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DREAMS |
Dynamic Range Enhancement Applied to Mass Spectrometry |
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DRI |
Differential Refractive Index |
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DRIP |
Detector Response Intercomparison Program |
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DRIP |
Diamagnetically Restored Inverted Pendulum |
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DRM |
Digital Radio Mondial |
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Ds |
Stokes diameter |
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DSA |
digital subtraction angiography |
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DSB |
Diagonal Spin Basis |
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DSC |
differential scattering cross section |
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DSEG |
Developments in Solid Earth Geophysics |
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DSFD |
Discrete Simulation of Fluid Dynamics |
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DSI |
Dimensional Stress Intensifier |
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DSM |
Differential Stress Model |
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DSM |
Design Structure Matrix |
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DSM |
Dynamic Scattering Mode |
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DSOG |
Discharge Singlet Oxygen Generator |
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DSR |
Dynamic Shear Rheometer |
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DT |
Differential Temperature |
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DTI |
Diesel Turbo Intercooled |
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DTM |
Dynamic Thermal Management |
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DTSS |
Distributed Temperature and Strain Sensor |
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DU |
Durability |
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DUS |
Distinctiveness, Uniformity, and Stability |
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DUS |
Duplex Ultrasound |
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DUV |
Deep Ultraviolet |
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DVM |
Digital Voltmeter |
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|
DW |
Dilution Well |
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DWNT(s) |
double-wall nanotube(s) |
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DWP |
Dispensing Well Plate |
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|
DXA |
dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry |
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E |
Electra |
|
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E |
Electric |
|
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E |
Efficiency |
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E |
Epsilon |
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E=MC2 |
Energy=Mass * (Velocity of light)**2 |
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EAA |
Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics |
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EAF |
Electric Arc Furnace |
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EAPF |
Evolutionary Artificial Potential Field |
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EAPL |
Electronic AstroPhysical Journal Letters |
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EB |
Energetic Barrier |
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EBAS |
Electron Bombardment Anneal System |
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EBEF |
Equivalent Beam on Elastic Foundation |
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EBIS |
Electron Beam Ion Source |
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EBIT |
Electron Beam Ion Trap |
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EBM |
Energy by Motion |
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EBR |
Enormous Black Rhombus |
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EBSD |
Electron Back Scatter Diffraction |
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EBSDA |
Electron BackScattered Diffraction Analysis |
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ec |
electron-capture |
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ECC |
Engineered Cementitious Composite |
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ECD |
Electron Capture Detector (gas Chromatography) |
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ECD |
Electron Capture Dissociation |
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ECFA |
European Committee for Future Accelerators |
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ECFA Study |
Study group Physics and Detectors of a Linear Collider. |
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ECH |
Eddy Current Heating |
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ECP |
Effective Core Potential Approxn.(in Electronic-structure Calcn.) |
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ECPR |
Electrically-Calibrated Pyroelectric Radiometer |
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ECR |
Electron Cyclotron Resonance |
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ECRIS |
Electron-Cyclotron-Resonance Ion Source |
|
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ECRIS |
Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source |
|
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ECS |
Eddy Covariance System |
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ECS |
Energy-Corrected-Sudden |
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ECSED |
Electronic Commerce in Scientific and Engineering Data |
|
|
ECT |
Edge Crush Testing |
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|
ECT |
Error Correction Term |
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ED |
Element Distinctness |
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ED |
Electron Diffraction |
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ED |
Expanded Discrimination |
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EDAX |
energy dispersive analysis of X-rays |
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EDF |
Enhanced Depth of Field |
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EDM |
Electric Dipole Moment |
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EDN |
Event Detection and Notification |
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EDR |
Equivalant Direct Radiation |
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EDS |
Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy |
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EDT |
Equivalent Difference Transmission |
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|
EDX |
Energy-Dispersive X-ray Analysis |
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EDXRF |
energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry |
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|
EEEL |
Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory |
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EELS |
Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy |
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EEO |
Equal Employment Opportunity |
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EEP |
Einstein Equivalence Principle |
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|
EEPROM |
Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory |
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|
EER |
Estimated Energy Requirement |
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EF |
Easy Flow |
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EF |
Extra Fine |
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EF |
Electric Field |
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|
EF |
Energy Factor |
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EFP |
Effective Fringing Property |
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|
EFS |
Enhanced Fujita [EF] scale (weather) |
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EFW |
Evanescent Floquet Wave |
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|
EGAS |
European Group for Atomic Spectroscopy |
|
|
EGG |
Energy Gradient Growth |
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EGO |
Eccentric Geophysical Observation |
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EGR |
Energy Generation Region |
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EGR |
Entropy Gradient Reversal |
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|
EGS |
European Geophysical Society |
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EGS |
Electron Gamma Shower |
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EHB |
Electronic Handbook |
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EHT |
Extra High Tension |
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EIC |
Electron Indifferent Cardinal |
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EIC |
Electron Ion Collider (nuclear physics) |
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EIE |
electron impact excitation |
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EIEIO |
Electron Impact Excitation of Ions from Organics |
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EIEO |
Energy In, Energy Out |
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EIES |
Electron Impact Emission Spectroscopy |
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EIPP |
Eastern Interconnect Phasor Project |
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|
EJPh |
European Journal of Physics |
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EJTP |
Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics |
|
|
EL |
Europhysics Letters |
|
|
EL |
Electro-luminescence |
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ELCSG |
European Linear Collider Steering Group |
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Elecm |
Electromagnetics |
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ELL |
Equivalent Loudness Level |
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ELM |
Emitted Light Modulation |
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ELMD |
Extended-LaGrangian Molecular Dynamics |
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|
ELNES |
Energy-loss near-edge structure |
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|
ELT |
Extremely Large Telescope |
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|
EM |
Environmental Management |
|
|
EMB |
Energy Multiplied Bandpass |
|
|
EMC |
Electromagnetic Compatibility |
|
|
EME |
Electromagnetic Effects |
|
|
EMF |
Electromotive Force |
|
|
EMG |
Electro Magnetic Grouping |
|
|
EMILY |
Extreme Monkey Indigestion Laryngitis Youngen |
|
|
EMIS |
Electro Magnetic Interpretation System |
|
|
EMMA |
Electro-Magnetic Mass Accelerator |
|
|
EMMA |
Euclidean Model MAtching |
|
|
EMP |
Electron MicroPulse |
|
|
EMR |
Electromagnetic Radiation |
|
|
EMR |
Electromagnetic Resonance |
|
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EMT |
effective medium theory |
|
|
EMW |
Electromagnetic Wave |
|
|
EnAPC |
Environmental Analytical and Physical Chemistry Series |
|
|
ENDF |
Evaluated Nuclear Data File |
|
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ENDL |
Evaluated Nuclear Data Library |
|
|
ENEA |
Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, L'Energia E L'Ambiente |
|
|
ENO |
Essentially Non-Oscillatory |
|
|
ENR |
Enrichment and Reprocessing (technology) |
|
|
ENSDF |
Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File |
|
|
ENZ |
Epsilon-Near-Zero |
|
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EOA |
Effective Orifice Opening |
|
|
EOM |
Equation of Motion |
|
|
EOM |
Electron-Optical Modulator |
|
|
EOM |
Electro-Optic Modulator |
|
|
EOP |
Earth and Ocean Physics |
|
|
EOPAP |
Earth and Ocean Physics Application Program |
|
|
EOS |
Earth Observing System (U.S.) |
|
|
EOS |
Equation Of State |
|
|
EOS TPC |
Equation of State Time Projection Chamber experiment |
|
|
EOTD |
Enhanced Observed Time Difference |
|
|
EP |
Electrostatic Potential |
|
|
EP |
Extreme Pressure |
|
|
EPA |
Electron Positron Accumulator |
|
|
EPA |
Environmental Protection Agency (US) |
|
|
EPAD |
Environmental Physics and Design |
|
|
EPB |
Extracted Proton Beam |
|
|
EPC |
Electronic Pressure Control |
|
|
EPI |
Echo Planar Imaging |
|
|
EPIC |
Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera |
|
|
EPICC |
Energy Policy Issues & Climate Change |
|
|
EPICS |
Experiment Physics and Industrial Control System |
|
|
EPICS |
Environmental Physics And Industrial Control System |
|
|
EPJ |
European Physical Journal |
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|
EPJAP |
European Physical Journal, Applied Physics |
|
|
EPR |
Einstein, Podonsky, Rosen |
|
|
EPR |
Electron Paramagnetic Resonance |
|
|
EPS |
European Physical Society |
|
|
EPT |
Exchange Perturbation Theory |
|
|
EPV |
Exclusion Principle Violating |
|
|
EQE |
External Quantum Efficiency |
|
|
ER |
Energy Research |
|
|
ER |
Elastic Recoil |
|
|
ERATO |
Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology Office |
|
|
ERCOFTAC |
European Research Community on Flow Turbulence and Combustion |
|
|
ERDA |
Elastic Recoil Detection Analysis |
|
|
ERF |
Energy Rejection Filter |
|
|
ERI |
Electron Repulsion Integral |
|
|
ERI |
Extended Range Imaging |
|
|
EROS |
Electric Resonance Optothermal Spectrometer |
|
|
ERP |
Event Related Potentials |
|
|
ES |
Event Set |
|
|
ES |
Exploratory Space |
|
|
ES |
Elementary Stream |
|
|
ES |
Elementary Scenario |
|
|
ESA |
European Space Agency |
|
|
ESB |
Electrical Substitution Bolometer |
|
|
ESC |
Environmental Stress Cracking |
|
|
ESCR |
Environmental Stress Cracking Resistance |
|
|
ESD |
Electrostatic Discharge |
|
|
ESDIAD |
Electron-Stimulated Desorption Ion Angular Distributions |
|
|
ESO |
European Southern Observatory |
|
|
ESP |
Easy Surface Preparation |
|
|
ESP |
Extended Superposition Principle |
|
|
espd |
European Solar Physics Division |
|
|
ESR |
Experimental Storage Ring |
|
|
ESR |
Electrical Substitution Radiometer |
|
|
ESR |
Electron Spin Resonance |
|
|
ESRF |
The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France. |
|
|
ESS |
European Spallation Source |
|
|
EssPh |
Essays in Physics |
|
|
ESU |
Energy Storage Unit |
|
|
ETC |
Electron Transport Chain |
|
|
ETDS |
Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems |
|
|
ETF |
Energy, Time, Frequency |
|
|
ETI |
Environmental Technology Initiative |
|
|
ETRAN |
Monte Carlo computer code for Electrons and Photons through Extended Media |
|
|
ETS |
Energy Transfer System |
|
|
EU |
Entropy Unit |
|
|
EURADOS |
European Radiation Dosimetry Group |
|
|
EURATOM |
European Nuclear Energy Organization |
|
|
EUROMET |
A European collaboration in measurement standards |
|
|
EUV |
Extreme Ultraviolet Vertical |
|
|
EUV |
Extreme Ultra-Violet 2 |
|
|
EUVE |
Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (NASA Satellite) |
|
|
EUVL-LLC |
EUV Lithography - Limited Liability Corporation |
|
|
EV |
Electron Volt |
|
|
EVM |
Error Vector Magnitude |
|
|
EW |
Echo Waveforms |
|
|
EXAFS |
Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure |
|
|
ExMPS |
Experimental Methods in the Physical Sciences |
|
|
EXO |
Enriched Xenon Observatory |
|
|
EZW |
Embedded Zero-tree Wavelet |
|
|
F |
Flux |
|
|
f&m |
Force and moment |
|
|
f. |
fiber(s) |
|
|
FA |
Fusion Array |
|
|
FA |
Flow Attributed |
|
|
FAA |
Federal Aviation Administration |
|
|
FACSS |
Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies |
|
|
FAD |
FASCAL Absolute Detector |
|
|
FANS |
Filter Analyzer Neutron Spectrometer |
|
|
FARCAL |
Facility for Advanced Radiometric Calibrations |
|
|
FASCAL |
Facility for Automatic Spectroradiometric Calibrations |
|
|
FAST |
Force, Angle, Speed, Torque |
|
|
FBAP |
Function Block Application Process |
|
|
FBG |
Fiber Bragg Grating |
|
|
FBM |
Fractional Brownian Motion |
|
|
FBP |
FEDERAL BUREAU OF PHYSICS |
|
|
FBS |
Few-Body Systems |
|
|
FC |
Flow Control |
|
|
FC |
Force Constant |
|
|
FC |
Flow Controller |
|
|
FC |
Footcandle |
|
|
FC |
Farben Centrum |
|
|
FC |
Flow Compensation |
|
|
FCA |
Formal Concept Analysis |
|
|
FCC |
Face-Centered Cubic |
|
|
FCC |
Fully Convoluted Concept |
|
|
FCC |
Fluidized Catalytic Cracker |
|
|
FCCSET |
Federal Coordinating Council Science, Engineering and Technology |
|
|
FCCU |
Fluidized Catalytic Cracker Unit |
|
|
FCDC |
Fundamental Constants Data Center |
|
|
FCF |
Fusion Component Failure |
|
|
FCFC |
Full-Coverage Film Cooling |
|
|
FCFR |
Fusion Component Failure Rate |
|
|
FCG |
Fatigue Crack Growth |
|
|
FCI |
Fast Causal Inference |
|
|
FCI |
Full Configuration Interaction |
|
|
FCPM |
Fundamental Constants and Precision Measurements |
|
|
FD |
Fusion Device |
|
|
FD |
Finite Difference |
|
|
FDA |
Food Drug Administration |
|
|
FDFD |
Finite Difference Frequency Domain |
|
|
FDM |
fused deposition modeling |
|
|
FDR |
Failure Divergence Refinement |
|
|
FDR |
False Discovery Rate |
|
|
FDTD |
Finite Difference Time Domain |
|
|
FE |
Finite Element |
|
|
FEA |
Field-Emitter Array |
|
|
FEAT |
Fusion Energy Advanced Tokamak |
|
|
FEC |
Ferro-Electric liquid Crystal |
|
|
FED |
Field-Emitter Display |
|
|
FEDEM |
Finite Element Dynamics in Elastic Mechanisms |
|
|
FEGT |
Furnace Exit Gas Temperature |
|
|
FEL |
Free Electron Laser |
|
|
FEMA |
Federal Emergency Management Agency |
|
|
FET |
Field Effect Transistor |
|
|
FF |
Forward Facing |
|
|
FF |
Fission Fragments |
|
|
FFAG |
Fixed-Field Alternating Gradient |
|
|
FFAH |
Filament-Filled Annular Helical |
|
|
FFAI |
Field-Free Associative Ionization |
|
|
FFE |
Far Field Extension |
|
|
FFF |
Field-Flow Fractionation |
|
|
FFP |
Field-Free Point |
|
|
FFR |
Fractional Flow Reserve |
|
|
FFT |
Fast Fourier Transform |
|
|
FH |
Finite Height |
|
|
FH |
Fermi Hole |
|
|
FHM |
Fast Harmonic Method |
|
|
FHMM |
Factorial Hidden Markov Model |
|
|
FHP |
Forum on the History of Physics |
|
|
FI |
Field Intensity |
|
|
FID |
Free Induction Decay (Fourier Transform Spectroscopy) |
|
|
FIM |
Far-Infrared Maser |
|
|
FIM |
Functional Imaging Methods |
|
|
FIM |
Field Intensity Meter |
|
|
FIM |
Field Ion Microscope |
|
|
FIMD |
Fluorescence-Imaged MicroDeformation |
|
|
FIMS |
Fast Integrated Mobility Spectrometer |
|
|
FIMS |
Fissionable Isotope Mass Standards |
|
|
FIMS |
Field Intensity Measuring Sustem |
|
|
FIOA |
Fellow of the Institute of Acoustics |
|
|
FIOP |
Field Induced Ordered Phase |
|
|
FIPS |
First Interactive Partition Splitter |
|
|
FIR |
Far Infrared |
|
|
FIR |
far-infrared radiation |
|
|
FIRI |
Fourth International Radiocarbon Intercomparison |
|
|
FISCO |
Fieldbus Instrinsic Safety Concept |
|
|
FIT |
Frequency Intensity Time |
|
|
FLAP |
Flexible Learning Approach to Physics |
|
|
FLEX |
Fluorescence Explorer |
|
|
FLIR |
Forward Looking InfraRed (sensor) |
|
|
FLIR |
Forward Looking Infrared Radiometer |
|
|
FM |
frequency modulation |
|
|
FM |
Fluid Mechanics |
|
|
FM |
Ferromagnetic |
|
|
FMI |
The Fermilab Main Injector |
|
|
FMRI |
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
|
|
FMSF |
Fissile Material Storage Facility |
|
|
FMSS |
Fast Mode Stationary Shock |
|
|
FMSS |
Fermi Mass Storage System |
|
|
FMUP |
Flawed Modern Ultramodern Physics |
|
|
FNAL |
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) |
|
|
FNAL |
The Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois |
|
|
FND |
Folded Normal Density |
|
|
FNR |
Ford Nuclear Reactor |
|
|
FOAM |
Foam Optics and Mechanics |
|
|
FOC |
Forward of Center |
|
|
FOC |
Forward Only Conversion |
|
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FOCUS |
FOtoproduction of Charm: Upgraded Spectrometer |
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FOE |
Force of Energy |
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FORATOM |
FORum ATOMique Européen |
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FOS |
Faint Object Spectrograph |
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FOV |
Field Of View (satellite) |
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FP |
Focal Plane |
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FP |
Freezing Point |
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FPC |
Fullerene Production Chamber |
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FPD |
Flame Photometric Detector |
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FPL |
Frequent Power Loss |
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FPL |
Fluroscent Pulse Light |
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fps |
foot-pound-second [cf. cgs and mks] |
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FR |
Filtered Radiometer |
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FRAC |
Fracture Research and Application Consortium |
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FRAM |
Functional Resonance Accident Model |
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FRAP |
FRibourg Atomic Physics |
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FRET |
Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer |
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FRET |
fluorescence resonant energy transfer |
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FRIB |
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams |
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FRSE |
Freundeskreis Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn |
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FSBS |
Forward Stimulated Brillouin Scattering |
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FSC |
Free Space Coil |
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FSI |
Fluid Solid Interaction |
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FSS |
Final Steady State |
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FST |
Full Scale Tunnel |
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fsw |
Fast Spherical Wavelet |
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FT |
Fourier transformation |
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FT |
Fermion Term |
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FT-IR |
Fourier Transform Infrared spectoscopy |
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FT-IRAS |
Fourier Transform-Infrared Reflection Absorption Spectroscopy |
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FT/MS |
Fourier Transform / Mass Spectroscopy |
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FTAM |
Flow Through Alpha Monitor |
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FTF |
Fundamental Train Frequency |
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FTG |
Full Tensor Gradient |
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FTG |
Field Testing Group |
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FTICR |
Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance |
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FTIR |
Frustrated Total Internal Reflection |
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FTIR |
Fourier transform infrared radiometer (spectroscopy) |
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FTIR |
Fourier Transform Infra-Red |
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FTL |
Faster Than Light |
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FTM |
Fluid Transfer Management |
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FTMD |
Field procedure for determining Test Maximum Density |
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ftms |
Fourier Transform Microwave Spectroscopy |
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FTMS |
Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry |
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FTMS |
Fluid Transfer Management System |
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FTMW |
Fourier Transform Microwave |
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FTNIR |
Fourier Near Infra Red |
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FTS |
Fusion Termination Shockwave |
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FTS |
Fourier Transform Spectroscopy |
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FTSI |
Fourier Transform Spectral Interferometry |
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FUSE |
Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopy Explorer |
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FUV |
Far Ultraviolet |
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FVL |
Future of Vertical Lift |
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FW |
Forward Wavelet |
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FWHM |
Full Width at Half Maximum |
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FWHM |
Full Width, Half Maximum |
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FWT |
Fast Wavelet Transform |
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FY |
Fiscal Year |
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FZ |
Far Zone |
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FZK |
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe |
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FZS |
Far Zone Scattering |
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G-E |
Grazing-Exit |
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GAC |
Generic Application Concept |
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GALLEX |
The Gallium EXperiment at Gran Sasso |
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GAM |
Generalized Additive Model |
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GAMS4 |
NIST High Resolution Spectrometer |
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GAPP |
Global Analysis of Particle Properties |
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GARD |
Graviton Atom Relocation Disruptor |
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GB |
Grain Boundary |
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GC |
Geometrical Correction |
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gc |
gonococcus (gonnorhea germ) |
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GC |
Gamma Corrected |
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GCA |
Gradual Channel Approximation |
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GCFC |
Generalized Complementary Flux Condition |
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GCK |
Geiger Counter Kit |
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GCR |
Gapped Conserved Regions |
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GD |
Good Deformation |
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GDOG |
Generalized Double Optical Gating |
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GDRIMS |
Glow-Discharge Resonance Ionization Mass Spectrometry |
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GDT |
Gas Discharge Tube |
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GEC |
General Electrodynamics Corporation |
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GEC |
Gaseous Electronics Conference |
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GEM |
Graviton Electro Magnetic |
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GEMS |
General Electro Magnetic Solvers |
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GEMS |
Glottal Electromagnetic Micropower Sensor |
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GENIUS |
Germanium Nitrogen Underground Setup |
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GEOS |
Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Satellite |
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GERDA |
The GERmanium Detector Array |
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GFAAS |
graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrophotometry |
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GFDL |
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA US) |
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GFP |
Green Fluorescent Protein |
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GG |
Gaussian Geminals |
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GG |
Global Geophysics |
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GG |
The Gamma Gamma |
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GGA |
Generalized Gradient Approximation |
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GGCP |
Generalized Grand Canonical Potential |
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GHP |
Group on Hadronic Physics |
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GHRS |
Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph |
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GIBI- |
2 ^ 30 |
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GIM |
Grazing-Incidence Monochromator |
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GINGA |
Japanese X-ray Satellite |
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glast |
Gammaray Large Area Space Telescope |
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GLC |
Global Linear Collider |
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GLCP |
Global Linear Collider Project |
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GLM |
Generalized Linear Model |
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GLOMU |
GLObal MUon track matching |
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GLR |
Generalized Left-Right |
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GMC |
Global Motion Compensation |
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GML |
Galvanometer - Mirror Lightbeam |
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GML |
General Measurement Loop |
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GMR |
Giant Magnetoresistance Recording |
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GMRI |
Gated Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
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GMTI |
Global Magnetization Transfer Imaging |
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GN |
Gaussian Noise |
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GND |
Ground |
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GNO |
Gallium Neutrino Observatory |
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GOD |
Geometrical Oriented Dynamics |
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GOES |
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
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GP |
General Physics Corporation |
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GPH |
Gas Permeable Hollow |
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GPIB |
General-Purpose Instrumentation Bus |
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GPS |
Global Positioning System (ex-NAVSTAR) |
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GPT |
Gabidulin Paramonov and Trietakov |
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GPU |
Georgia Physics Unintelligible |
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GR |
General Relativity |
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GR |
Gunning Refractory |
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GR&R |
Gauge Reproducibility And Repeatability |
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GRAIL |
Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory |
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GRaND |
gamma ray and neutron detector |
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GRASP |
General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception |
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GRASP |
Graphical Representation and Analysis of Surface Properties |
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GRF |
Gaussian Random Force |
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GRI |
Gas Research Institute (US) (natural gas) |
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GRNS |
Gamma-Ray and Neutron Spectrometer |
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GRS |
Gamma Ray Spectrometer |
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GRT |
Germanium Resistance Thermometer |
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GS |
Gauss |
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GSFC |
Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD) |
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GSI |
Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung |
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GSL |
Generalized Second Law |
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GSP |
Generalized Sequential Pattern |
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GSQM |
General Superfield Quantization Method |
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GTR |
Generalized Threshold Replenishment |
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GTRD |
Generalized Transverse Resonance-Diffraction |
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GUE |
Gaussian Unitary Ensemble (of Random Matrixes In Quantum-transport Studies) |
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GUIDE |
Generalized Unbiased Interaction Detection and Estimation |
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GURFRIP |
Global Utility Restructure For Relative Intelligent Process |
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GUT |
Grand Unification Theory |
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GVHD |
Graft-Versus Host Disease |
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GWC |
Generalized Wave Continuity |
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GWCE |
Generalized Wave Continuity Equation |
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GWR |
Guided Wave Radar |
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GWRI |
Gravitonic Wave Resonance Imaging |
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GXR |
Grazing X-ray Reflectometry |
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h |
Hotness |
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h |
Hotline |
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H |
Hotel |
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H |
Hot |
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H1 |
Collider experiment at DESY |
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HAADF |
high-angle annular dark field SEM |
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HAARP |
Hf Active Auroral Research Program (Hf being "high frequency") |
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HACCP |
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point |
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HACR |
High Accuracy Cryogenic Radiometer |
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HADES |
High Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer |
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HAI |
Horizontal Advance Increment |
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HALO |
Hypersonic Aircraft Launch Option |
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HAM |
Hoshino Anniversary Model |
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HAPPEX |
Hall A Proton Parity Experiment |
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HARPS |
High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (spectrography) |
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HASYLAB |
Hamburger Synchrotronstrahlungslabor |
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HB |
Hydrogen Bond |
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HB |
Hot Bands |
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HBM |
Hybrid Bilayer Membrane |
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HBT |
Hanbury Brown-Twiss |
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HC |
Heteroclinic Connection |
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HC |
Hard Condition |
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HCCD |
Mono-deuterated Acetylene |
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HCL |
Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory |
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HCP |
hexagonally close-packed |
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HD |
High Density |
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HD |
Heavy Density |
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HDMS |
Heidelberg Dark Matter Search |
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HDOP |
Horizontal Dilution Of Position |
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HDR |
High Dose Rate |
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HDT |
Heat Distortion Temperature |
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HE |
High Energy |
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HEA |
High Energy Astrophysics |
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HEAD |
High Energy Astrophysics Division |
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HEAT |
High-Energy Antimatter Telescope |
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HECT |
High-Energy Computed Tomography |
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HEI |
Heat Exchange Institute Inc. |
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HELEN |
High Energy physics Latin-American-European Network |
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HELEN |
High Energy Laser Embodying Neodymium |
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HELP |
High Energy Laser Propagation |
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HENP |
Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics |
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HEP |
DOE's Division of High Energy Physics, part of HENP. |
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HEPA |
high efficiency particulate air (filter) |
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HEPA |
High-Efficiency Particulate Arresting |
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HEPA |
High Energy Particulate Arresting |
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HEPAP |
High Energy Physics Advisory Panel |
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HEPIC |
High Energy Physics Information Center |
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HEPL |
High Energy Physics Laboratory |
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HERA |
Hadron-Electron Ring Accelerator at DESY |
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HERA-B |
Fixed-target experiment at DESY, to investigate CP violation in the B meson |
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HERMES |
DESY fixed-target experiment to explore spin |
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HERO |
High Energy Replicated Optics |
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HET |
High Energy Transformation |
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HF |
High Flange |
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HF |
Hartree-Fock Method |
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HF |
Hybrid Feeder |
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HFA |
Hot Flow Anomaly |
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HFB |
Hartree Fock Bogoliubov |
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HFD |
High Frequency Detection |
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HFIR |
High Flux Isotope Reactor |
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HFM |
Highly Friction Modified |
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HFS |
High Friction Solid |
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HFS |
Hydrogen Forward Scattering |
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HHF |
High Heat Flow |
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HHPN |
Hydraulic High Pressure Nebulization |
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HI |
High Intensity |
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HI |
High-impact |
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HI |
Heat Intercept |
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HI |
Heavy Ion |
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|
Hi Res Fly'sEye |
High-energy cosmic ray experiment in Dugway, Utah |
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HIC |
Hydrogen Induced Cracking |
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HID |
high intensity discharge (electricity) |
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HIP |
Hot Isostatic Process |
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HIP |
Hot Isostatic Press |
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HIPA |
High Intensity Proton Accelerator |
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HIPD |
High-Intensity Powder Diffractometer |
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HIPE |
Helium Image Processing Engine |
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HIR |
Halogen Infra Red |
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HIRDLS |
High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder |
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HIRES |
High Resolution Echellle Spectrometer |
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HISR |
Heavy Ion Storage Ring |
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HL |
Heat Loss |
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HLBC |
Heavy Liquid Bubble Chamber |
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HLBL |
Hadronic Light-By-Light scattering |
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HLC |
Holographic Label Converting |
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HLM |
Hierarchical Linear Modeling |
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HMD |
Hyper-Magnetization Device |
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HMT |
Hybrid Metamorphose Theory |
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HO |
High Order |
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HOMESTAKE |
A solar neutrino experiment in the Homestake Gold Mine in South Dakota |
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HOQS |
Highest Occupied Quantum State |
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HP |
High Pressure |
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Hpd |
Holistic Probabilistic Design |
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HPGE |
High Purity Germanium |
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HPHT |
high pressure, high temperature ammoniation procedure |
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HPI |
Hybrid Polarization Interferometry |
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HPL |
High Pressure Lanes |
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HPL |
Hot-electron Photo-Luminescence |
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HPLA |
Horizontal Plane Large Amplitude |
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HPLA |
High Power Large Aperture |
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HPLC |
High Performance Liquid Chromatography |
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HPLC |
High Pressure Liquid Chromatographic |
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HPM |
High Power Microwave |
|
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hPP |
Hydropower Plant P |
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HPPT |
HIGH PRESSURE PHYSICS AND TECHNICS |
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HPPT |
High Pressure Phase Transformation |
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HPS |
High Pressure Sodium |
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HPS |
Health Physics Society |
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HPSSC |
Health Physics Society Standards Committee |
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HPSSC |
Health Physics Society Student Chapter |
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HQM |
Hemi-Quantal Mechanics |
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HQSC |
Heisenberg Quantum Spin Chain |
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HR3DCT |
High Resolution 3-D Computed Tomography |
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HRC |
Rockwell Hardness C |
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HRDE |
High Resolution Digital Extensometer |
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HRE |
Heterogeneity Recency Exit |
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HRG |
High Radius of Gyration |
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HRTEM |
high-resolution transition electron microscopy |
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HRTF |
Head-Related Transfer Function |
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HRTS |
High Resolution Telescope Spectrograph |
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|
HRW |
Halliday, Resnick, and Walker |
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HS |
High Sampling |
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HS |
Horseshoe Symbol |
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Hs |
Hard Scattering |
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HS |
Hot Spot |
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Hs |
High Strength |
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Hs |
Hard Sphere |
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HSD |
Hadron String Dynamics |
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HSE |
Hard Sphere Expansion |
|
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HSI |
Hot Surface Igniter |
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HSI |
Hue Saturation Intensity |
|
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HSS |
High Speed Synchronization |
|
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HSS |
Hollow Structural Section |
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HSST |
Heavy-Section Steel Technology |
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HST |
Hubble Space Telescope |
|
|
HT |
high-temperature |
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HT |
High Tension |
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HTBB |
High-Temperature Black Body |
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HTD |
Heat Transfer Division |
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HTN |
Horizontal Transfer N items |
|
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HTOL |
High Temperature Operating Lifetest |
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HTPPL |
High Temperature Plasma Physics Lab |
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HTPS |
Hierarchical Tangent Plane Scan |
|
|
HTRA |
High Time Resolution Astrophysics |
|
|
HTS |
High Tear Strength |
|
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HTS |
High-Temperature Superconductivity |
|
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HUT |
Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope |
|
|
HV |
High Vacuum |
|
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HV |
High Volume |
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HVC |
High-Velocity Core |
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HVD |
Hyper Vortex Dimension |
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HVL |
Half-Value Layer |
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HVL |
Half Value Layer |
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HVLA |
High-Velocity Low Amplitude |
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HVLP |
high volume, low pressure |
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HVLS |
High volume low speed |
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HVT |
High Velocity Thermocouple |
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|
HW |
Hazen-Williams |
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HW |
Hard Wall |
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HWP |
Half Wavelength Plate |
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|
HWP |
Half-Wave Plate |
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|
HYAAS |
Hydride generation atomic absorption spectrophotom etry. |
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HYPER-CP |
A Search for Direct CP Violation in Hyperon Decays |
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Hz |
cycles per second (hertz) |
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I |
Amperage |
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IACS |
Institute for Astrophysics and Computational Sciences |
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IAEA |
International Atomic Energy Agency |
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IAG |
International Association of Gravity |
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IAP |
Institute of Atmospheric Physics |
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|
IAPT |
Indian Association of Physics Teachers |
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|
IAU |
International Astronomical Union |
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|
IBB |
Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics |
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IBFM |
Interacting Boson-Fermion Model |
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|
IBFW |
Incidence of the reflected Beam from the Front Wall |
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|
IBIS |
Ion Beam Information System |
|
|
IC |
Integrated Circuit |
|
|
IC |
indirect calorimetry |
|
|
IC |
Internal Combustion |
|
|
IC |
Influence Curve |
|
|
IC |
Initial Condition |
|
|
ICAMDATA |
International Conference on Atomic and Molecular Data and Their Applications |
|
|
ICARUS |
Imaging Cosmic and Rare Underground Signal |
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|
ICBM |
Iogen Configuration Building Module |
|
|
ICBP |
International Conference on Biological Physics |
|
|
ICE |
Internal combustion engine (transportation) |
|
|
ICFA |
International Committee for Future Accelerators |
|
|
ICM |
Internal Coordinate Mechanics |
|
|
ICMP |
Institute of Condensed Matter Physics |
|
|
ICNIRP |
International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection |
|
|
ICP |
Inductively Coupled Plasma |
|
|
ICP |
Injector Control Pressure |
|
|
ICP-AES |
Inductively Coupled Plasma-atomic Emission Spectrometry |
|
|
ICPEAC |
International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions |
|
|
ICPS |
International Conference of Physics Students |
|
|
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 |
Incredible Cross-Section |
|
|
ID |
Inside Diameter |
|
|
IDC |
Insulation Displacement Contact (connector) |
|
|
IDCL |
Inverse Dynamics Control Law |
|
|
IDCT |
Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform |
|
|
IDCY |
Idle Cycle |
|
|
IDES |
Integrated Distributed Energy Simulation |
|
|
IDMS |
Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry |
|
|
IDRG |
Interaction Design Reading Group |
|
|
IE |
Independent Expression |
|
|
IE |
Independent Event |
|
|
IEC |
International Electrotechnical Commission |
|
|
IEEE |
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. |
|
|
IEN |
Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale (Italy) |
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IES |
Illumination Engineering Society |
|
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IESNA |
Illumination Engineering Society of North America |
|
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IET |
Integrated Energy Technique |
|
|
IETS |
Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy |
|
|
IF |
Intrinsic Field |
|
|
IFD |
Indentation Force Deflection |
|
|
IFD |
Internal Force Deflection |
|
|
IFEL |
Inverse Free Electron Laser |
|
|
IFOV |
Instantaneous Field Of View |
|
|
IG |
Infinitesimally Generating |
|
|
IG |
Inverse Gamma |
|
|
IGC |
International Gravity Commission |
|
|
IGEX |
International Germanium Experiment in Spain. |
|
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IGRA |
interferon-gamma release assay |
|
|
IGRF |
International Geomagnetic Reference Field |
|
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IHEP |
Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing, China. |
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IHPRPTP |
Integrated High Payoff Rocket Propulsion Technology Program |
|
|
iid |
independent and identically distributed random variables |
|
|
IIP |
International Institute of Physics |
|
|
IIT |
Indian Institute of Technology |
|
|
IK |
Inverse Kinematics |
|
|
ILC |
International Linear Collider |
|
|
ILC-TRC |
International Linear Collider-Technical Reviewing Committee |
|
|
ILCSG |
International Linear Collider Steering Group |
|
|
ILD |
Indentation Load Deflection |
|
|
ILL |
L'Institut Laue Langevin |
|
|
ILS |
International Laser Spectroscopy |
|
|
ILSS |
Interlaminar Shear Strength |
|
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ILV |
Indicative Limit Values |
|
|
IMA |
Ideal Mechanical Advantage |
|
|
IMB |
Irvine, Michigan and Brookhaven |
|
|
IMB |
Irvine / Michigan / Brookhaven experiment |
|
|
IMC |
Integrated Magnetic Concentrator |
|
|
IMD |
Interactive Molecular Dynamics |
|
|
IMECE |
International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition |
|
|
IMF |
Intermediate Mass Fragments |
|
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IMGC |
Istituto di Metrologia "G. Colonnetti" (Italy) |
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IMPEC |
Integrated Mathematics, Physics, Engineering and Chemistry |
|
|
IMRT |
intensity-modulated radiation therapy |
|
|
IMS |
Institute for Molecular Science |
|
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IN2P3 |
Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules |
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IND |
Induced Nuclear Disintegration |
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INDC |
International Nuclear Data Committee |
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inf. |
infinity |
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INFN |
Italy's Institute Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare |
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INFN-LNF |
The National Institute for Nuclear Physics in Italy |
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ING |
Intense Neutron Generator |
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INISO-TTC |
Experimental Radiochromic Film |
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INM |
Institute National de Metrologie |
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INMM |
Institute for Nuclear Materials Management |
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INMRI-ENEA |
Istituto Nazionale di Metrologia delle Radiazioni Ionizzanti - Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie |
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INPE |
National Space Research Institute (Brazil) |
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INS |
Ion-Neutralization Spectroscopy |
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INS |
Inelastic Neutron Scattering |
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InSAR |
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar |
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IO |
Interactive Optimum |
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IOCF |
Instantaneous Ordinary Coherence Function |
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IOP |
Institute Of Physics |
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IOPD |
Integrated Optical Path Difference |
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IOPP |
Institute Of Particle Physics |
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IOPP |
Institute of Physics Publishing |
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IOR |
Index of Refraction |
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IOT |
Inductive Output Tube |
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IP |
Induced Potential |
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IP |
Internal Pressure |
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IP |
Interaction Point |
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IPAP |
Institute of Pure and Applied Physics |
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IPC |
Individual Particle Correlation |
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IPC |
Integrated Proton Current |
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IPCP |
Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics |
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IPhO |
International Physics Olympiad |
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IPL |
Intense Pulsed Light |
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IPM |
Ionization Profile Monitor |
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IPNS |
Intense Pulsed Neutron Source |
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IPP |
Institute of Particle Physics |
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IPP |
Institute of Plasma Physics |
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IPPP |
Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology |
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IPS |
Inverted Polygon Shield |
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IPS |
Impulsive Phase Start |
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IPSN |
L'Institut de Protection et de Sûreté Nucléaire |
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IPT |
Inductive Power Transfer |
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IPTS |
International Practical Temperature Scale |
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IPVD |
Interior Physical Vapor Deposition |
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IPVDC |
Interior Physical Vapor Deposition Coating |
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IQ |
isoperimetric quotient |
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IQEC |
International Quantum Electronics Conference |
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IQI |
Image Quality Indicator |
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IR |
Infrared |
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IR |
Interface Region |
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IRAS |
Infrared Astronomy Satellite |
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IRAS |
Infrared Reflection Absorption Spectroscopy |
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IRB |
Institutional Review Board |
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IRDCF |
Infrared Detector Calibration Facility |
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IRIS |
Integrated Radiation Information System |
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IRIS |
International Reactor Innovative and Secure |
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IRIS |
Internal Rotary Inspection System |
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IRMM |
Institute of Reference Materials and Measurements |
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ISAC |
Isotope Separator and Accelerator Facility |
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ISBR |
Inter-SubBand Radiation |
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ISCC |
Information System to Support Calibrations |
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ISCC |
Inter-Society Color Council |
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ISE |
Intensional Sequential Evaluator |
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ISE |
Ion Selective Electrode |
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ISI |
In-Situ Interferometer |
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ISO |
International Organization for Standardization |
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ISOLDE |
Isotype On-Line separator at CERN |
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ISP |
INTERNATIONAL SPECIALTY PRODUCTS, INC. |
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ISPP |
Illinois State Physics Project |
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ISR |
Initial State Radiation |
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ISS |
Input-to-State Stability |
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ISS |
International Space Station |
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ISSD |
Isocyclic Stress-Strain Diagram |
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ISSI |
International Space Science Institute (Bern, Switzerland) |
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ISSP |
Institute Of Solid State Physics |
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ITAMP |
International Meeting of Theory of Atomic and Molecular Physics |
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ITAP |
Isentropic Trajectory Analysis Project |
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ITAS |
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity |
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ITASS |
IEEE Transactions on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing |
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ITBS |
Imaging Technologies in Biomedical Sciences |
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ITD |
Inlet Temperature Difference |
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ITElC |
IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility |
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ITEP |
Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics |
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ITER |
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor |
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ITGR |
Interstitial Time Generation Ring |
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ITL |
Information Technology Laboratory |
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ITM |
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics |
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ITOP |
Improving the Teaching of Physics |
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ITP |
Institute for Theoretical Physics |
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ITPS |
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science |
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ITRP |
International Technology Recommendation Panel |
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ITS |
International Temperature Scale |
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ITSU |
IEEE Transactions on Sonics Ultrasonics |
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ITU |
International Telecommunication Union |
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ITU |
Institut für Transurane |
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ITUFF |
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control |
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IUCr |
International Union of Crystallography |
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IUE |
International Ultraviolet Explorer |
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IUGG |
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics |
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IUPAP |
International Union for Pure and Applied Physics. |
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IUPAP-C11 |
Commission on Particles and Fields |
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IV |
Input Voltage |
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IVBT |
Intravascular brachytherapy |
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IVR |
intramolecular vibrational redistribution |
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IVR |
Intramolecular Vibrational Relaxation |
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IW |
Incident Wave |
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IWB |
Improved Wigner Brillouin |
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IWEPNM |
International Winterschool on Electronic Properties of Novel Materials |
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IWG |
Investigators Working Group |
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J |
Torsional Constant for a structural Section |
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JADE |
Joint Analysis of Dynamics and Equilibrium |
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JAE |
Journal of Acoustic Emission |
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JAERI |
Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute |
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JAES |
Journal of Audio Engineering Society |
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JAG |
Journal of Applied Geophysics |
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JaJAP |
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics |
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JANNAF |
Joint Army-Navy-NASA-Air Force |
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JAP |
Journal of Applied Physics |
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JASJa |
Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan |
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JASPER |
Joint Actinide Shock Physics Experimental Research |
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JATP |
Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics |
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JB |
Jacquet-Blondel method |
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JC |
Journey Cycles |
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JCA |
Journal of Computational Acoustics |
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JCCRER |
U.S.-Russia Joint Coordinating Committee on Radiation Effects Research |
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JCGM |
Joint Committee for Guides on Metrology |
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JChPh |
Journal of Chemical Physics |
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JCMT |
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope |
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JCoPh |
Journal of Computational Physics |
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JCV |
Joule - Clausius Velocity |
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JDEM |
The Joint Dark Energy Mission |
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JDP |
Joint Displacement Principle |
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JDS |
Joint Density of States |
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JEMT |
Journal of Electron Microscopy Technique |
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JEOL |
JEOL USA, Inc. |
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JEPT |
Journal of Engineering Physics and Thermophysics |
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JESRP |
Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena |
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JET |
Joint European Torus |
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JETP |
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics |
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JETPL |
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters |
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JEWA |
Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications |
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JFlu |
Journal of Fluorescence |
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JGE |
Journal of Geophysics and Engineering |
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JGeo |
Journal of Geodynamics |
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JGG |
Journal of Geomagnetism and Geoelectricity |
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JGGS |
Journal of Geomagnetism and Geoelectricity Supplement |
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JGP |
Journal of Geometry and Physics |
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JGR |
Journal of Geophysical Research |
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JGRS |
Journal of Geophysical Research Supplement |
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JILA |
formerly Joint Institute Laboratory for Astrophysics |
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JILA |
Joint Institute Laboratory for Astrophysics |
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JIMW |
Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves |
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JINR |
The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia. |
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JJAPL |
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics Letters |
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JJAPS |
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics Supplement |
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JKPS |
Journal of Korean Physical Society |
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JLAB |
The Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson Newport National Accelerator Facility |
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JLasA |
Journal of Laser Applications |
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JLum |
Journal of Luminescence |
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JLVEn |
Journal of Light & Visual Environment |
|
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JLwT |
Journal of Lightwave Technology |
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JMagR |
Journal of Magnetic Resonance |
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JMaPh |
Journal of Mathematics and Physics |
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JMMM |
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials |
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JMOA |
Journal of Microwaves Optics and Acoustics |
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JMP |
Journal of Mathematical Physics |
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JMPC |
Journal of Materials Physics and Chemistry |
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JMPS |
Journal of Mathematical and Physical Sciences |
|
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JND |
Just Noticeable Difference |
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JNLM |
Journal of Non Linear Mechanics |
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JNMP |
Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics |
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JPARC |
Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex |
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JPCM |
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter |
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JPCRD |
Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data |
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JPCS |
Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids |
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JPG |
Journal of Physics G |
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JPhCS |
Journal of Physics - Conference Series |
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JPL |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California Institute of Technology) (NASA) |
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JPlPh |
Journal of Plasma Physics |
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JPSJ |
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan |
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JPSJS |
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan Supplement |
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JPTEO |
Journal of Physics - Teacher Education Online |
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JRLR |
Journal of Russian Laser Research |
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JScI |
Journal of Scientific Instruments |
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JSGeo |
Journal of Series Geophysics |
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JSLR |
Journal of Soviet Laser Research |
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JSMAJ |
Japan Society of Microgravity Application Journal |
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JSN |
Japanese Singularities Network |
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JSP |
Journal of Statistical Physics |
|
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JSup |
Journal of Superconductivity |
|
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JT |
Joule-Thompson effect |
|
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JTurb |
Journal of Turbulence |
|
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JULIA |
Jena University Laboratory of Ion Acceleration |
|
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JULIE |
Joint Utilization of Laser Integrated Experiments |
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JVC |
Journal of Vibration and Control |
|
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JVE |
Journal of Vibration Engineering |
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JVST |
Journal of Vacuum Science Technology |
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JXST |
Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology |
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K |
Kelvin (absolute temperature scale) |
|
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k |
Boltzmann constant |
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K2K |
KEK to Kamioka |
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KAERI |
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute |
|
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KAMIOKANDE |
A solar neutrino experiment at the Kamioka Observatory in Japan |
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KAMLAND |
KAmioka Liquid Scintillator Anti-Neutrino Detector |
|
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KaNuPP |
Karachi Nuclear Power Plant |
|
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Karmen |
Karlsruhe-Rutherford Medium-Energy Neutrino Experiment |
|
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KATRIN |
KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino |
|
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KB |
Kleinman-Bylander |
|
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KCDB |
Key Comparison and Calibration Database |
|
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KD |
Kelvin Doublet |
|
|
KE |
Kinetic Energy |
|
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KEK |
Koo Energy Ken |
|
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KELVIN |
Scientific temperature scale |
|
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KET |
Komitee für ElementarTeilchenphysik |
|
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KF |
Kinematical Factor |
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kg |
Kilogram |
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KHUD |
Killowatt Hour Under Demand |
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KIAA |
Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics |
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KIK |
Konvektion Im Kugelspalt |
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KIP |
Kenya Ict Policy |
|
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kips |
Thousand Pounds |
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KISS |
Keep It Simple Solutions |
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KIT |
Kinetic Interactive Technology |
|
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KK |
Kaluza Klein theory |
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KKR |
Korringa Kohn Rostoker approximation |
|
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KLOE |
K LOng Experiment |
|
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KLY |
Kilo Langley |
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KN |
Kilo Newton |
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KOPIO |
AKlong decay experiment at Brookhaven. |
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KP |
Kinetic Pulse |
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KP |
Kunzel-Ploog |
|
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KP |
Knowles and Physics |
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KSU |
King Saud University |
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KTeV |
Kaons at the Tevatron |
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KTG |
Kinetic Theory of Gases |
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Kw |
Kilowatt (one thousand watts) (measurement) |
|
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kWp |
Kilowatt-Peak |
|
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LAD |
Laboratory Astrophysics Division |
|
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LADD |
Linear to Angular Displacement Device |
|
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LAF |
Laminar Air Flow |
|
|
LaFoc |
Laser Focus |
|
|
LAGOS |
Laser Gravitational-wave Observatory in Space |
|
|
LAL |
The Laboratoire de L'Accelerateur Lineaire at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay, France |
|
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LAL |
The Laboratoire de L’Accelerateur Lineaire |
|
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LAMMA |
Laser Microprobe Mass Analysis |
|
|
LAMPF |
Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility |
|
|
LAMSCAL |
Large Area Monochromatic Source for Calibrations |
|
|
LAND |
Large Area Neutron Detector |
|
|
LANL |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
|
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Lansce |
Los Alamos Neutron Scattering Center |
|
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LANSCE |
Los Alamos Neutron Science Center |
|
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LaPhy |
Laser Physics |
|
|
LAQL |
Lowest Analytically Quantifiable Level |
|
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LARP |
LHC Accelerator Research Program |
|
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LASER |
Light Amplification By Stimulated Emission Of Radiation (cf. Maser) |
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LasJ |
Laser Journal |
|
|
LASP |
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado |
|
|
LAT |
Lowest Achievable Temperature |
|
|
LB |
Line Broadening |
|
|
LB |
Laser Box |
|
|
LB |
Laser Beam |
|
|
LBIR |
Low Background Infrared Radiometry |
|
|
LBL |
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (University of California) |
|
|
LBLRR |
LBL Research Review |
|
|
LBNE |
long baseline neutrino experiment |
|
|
LBNL |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US) |
|
|
LBRS |
Low Background Reference System |
|
|
LBS |
Lipid Binding Site |
|
|
LBT |
Large Binocular Telescope |
|
|
LC |
Liquid Crystal |
|
|
LC |
Liquid Chromatography |
|
|
LC |
Lateral Confinement |
|
|
LCAP |
Laser Cooling and Atomic Physics |
|
|
LCD |
Liquid Crystal Display |
|
|
LCED |
Liquid Chromatography and Electrochemical Detection |
|
|
LCF |
Load Combination Factors |
|
|
LCG |
light curve generator |
|
|
LCIF |
Laser-Collision-Induced Fluorescence |
|
|
LCL |
Lamp Center Length |
|
|
LCL |
lifting condensation level |
|
|
LCLS |
Linac Coherent Light Source |
|
|
LCMT |
Load Compression Mechanical Test |
|
|
LCR |
Longitudinal Critically Reflected |
|
|
LCRD |
Linear Collider Research and Development |
|
|
LCS |
Lagrangian Coherent Structure |
|
|
Lct |
Lattice Compatibility Theory |
|
|
LCTE |
Linear Coefficient of Thermal Expansion |
|
|
LDA |
Laser Doppler Anemometry |
|
|
LDA |
Local Density Approximation |
|
|
LDDV |
Least Distance of Distinct Vision (optometry) |
|
|
LDMS |
Laser Desorption Mass Spectrometry |
|
|
LDP |
Low Density Plasma |
|
|
LE |
Light Entry |
|
|
LE |
Local Entropy |
|
|
LE |
Low Energy |
|
|
LEACH |
Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy |
|
|
LEAR |
Low Energy Antiproton Ring |
|
|
LEC |
Law of Energy Conservation |
|
|
LED |
law enforcement desk; light emitting diode |
|
|
LEED |
Low Energy Electron Diffraction |
|
|
LEFM |
Linear Elasticity Fracture Mechanics |
|
|
LEI |
Laser-Enhanced Ionization |
|
|
LEIR |
Low Energy Ion Ring |
|
|
LEIR |
Low-Energy Ion Ring |
|
|
LENA |
Laboratory For Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics (Duke University) |
|
|
LENR |
Low Energy Nuclear Reactions |
|
|
LENS |
Low Energy Neutrino Spectroscopy, at Heidelberg. |
|
|
LEP |
Large Electron Positron |
|
|
LEP |
Large Electron-Positron collider |
|
|
LEPP |
Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York |
|
|
LET |
Linear Energy Transfer (in Spacecraft Power Systems) |
|
|
LF |
Low Friction |
|
|
LF |
Low Frequency |
|
|
LF |
Latency Factor |
|
|
LFAE |
Ligand Field Activation Energy |
|
|
LFAJ |
Liquid Film Assisted Joining |
|
|
LFAM |
Line Focus Acoustic Microscopy |
|
|
LFCC |
Linear Frequency Cepstral Coefficient |
|
|
LFO |
Low Frequency Oscillation / Oscillator |
|
|
LFO |
literature-low frequency oscillations |
|
|
LFP |
Local Field Potential |
|
|
LFTR |
Liquid-Fluoride Thorium Reactor |
|
|
LGA |
lattice gas automaton |
|
|
LGG |
Least General Generalization |
|
|
LH |
Left Handed |
|
|
LH |
Light Hole |
|
|
LH |
Light Hadrons |
|
|
LHC |
The Large Hadron Collider |
|
|
LHC-B |
Large Hadron Collider B Experiment |
|
|
LHCb |
Large Hadron Collider beauty Experiment |
|
|
LHCf |
Large Hadron Collider forward experiment |
|
|
LHEP |
Left Hand Elliptical Polarization |
|
|
LHM |
Liquide Hydraulique Minerale |
|
|
Li-ion |
Lithium-ion rechargeable battery |
|
|
LIF |
Laser Induced Fluorescence |
|
|
LIGO |
Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory |
|
|
LIGO |
Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory |
|
|
LIL |
Linear Injector for LEP |
|
|
LIM |
Limit |
|
|
LIPC |
laser-induced plasma channel |
|
|
LIPS |
Lorentz Invariant Phase Space |
|
|
LISA |
Local Indicators of Spatial Association |
|
|
LISA |
Laser Inferometer Space Antenna |
|
|
LISS |
Linear Imaging Self-Scanning |
|
|
LITA |
Laser-Induced Thermal Acoustics |
|
|
LJP |
Lennard-Jones Potential |
|
|
LLB |
Laboratoire Leon Brillouin |
|
|
LLD |
Laser Light Detector |
|
|
LLD |
Lamp Lumen Depreciation |
|
|
LLG |
Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation |
|
|
LLI |
Laser-Induced Incandescence |
|
|
LLNL |
The Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California |
|
|
LM |
Lumen |
|
|
LMA |
Large Mode Area |
|
|
LMaPh |
Letters in Mathematical Physics |
|
|
LMFC |
Liquid Mass Flow Controller |
|
|
LMP |
Letters in Mathematical Physics |
|
|
LMR |
Laser Magnetic Resonance |
|
|
LMRI |
Laboratoire de Mesure des Rayonnements Ionisants (France) |
|
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LMS |
Least Mean Square |
|
|
LMT |
Load and Motion Transfer |
|
|
LMU |
Location Measurement Unit |
|
|
LNF |
Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, near Rome, Italy |
|
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LNGS |
Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, in L'Aquila, Italy |
|
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LNL |
Laboratori Nazionali di Leganaro, in northern Italy. |
|
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LNLS |
National Synchrotron Light Laboratory (Brazil) |
|
|
LNP |
Lecture Notes in Physics |
|
|
LNS |
Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, in southern Italy. |
|
|
LNV |
Lepton-Number Violating |
|
|
LO |
Local Orbitals |
|
|
LO |
Laser Optics |
|
|
LO |
Local Oscillator |
|
|
LOA |
Law of Attraction |
|
|
LOCA |
Longitudinal Chromatic Aberration (when capitalized as "LoCA") |
|
|
LOCA |
Loss of Coolant Accident |
|
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LOCF |
Last Observation Carried Forward |
|
|
LOD |
Limit Of Detection |
|
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LOMO |
Lowest Occupied Molecular Orbital |
|
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LOPI |
Loss of Piping Integrity |
|
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LOQ |
Limit of Quantitation |
|
|
LORAN-C |
A Radio Navigation System Operated by the U.S. Coast Guard |
|
|
LOT |
Loss of Tension |
|
|
LOT |
Laser-Optic Technology |
|
|
LP |
Linear Polarization |
|
|
LPA |
Long Path Absorption |
|
|
LPB |
Laser and Particle Beams |
|
|
LPC |
LHC Physics Center |
|
|
LPCC |
LHC Physics Centre at CERN |
|
|
LPCVD |
Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition |
|
|
LPE |
Little Physics Engine |
|
|
LPI |
Light Particle Irreducibility |
|
|
LPM |
Light-Particle Monitor |
|
|
LPMS |
Laser Power Measurement System |
|
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LPOP |
Little Pairs Out of Position |
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LPP |
Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, Inc. |
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LPRI |
Laboratoire Primaire des Rayonnements Ionisants, Gif-sur-Yvette, France |
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LPRT |
Light-Pipe Radiation Thermometers |
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LPTF |
Laboratoire Primaire du Temps et des Fréquencies |
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LRA |
Locked Rotor Ampere |
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LRM |
Line of Relative Motion |
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LRR |
Living Reviews in Relativity |
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LRR |
Laser RetroReflector |
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LRSP |
Living Reviews in Solar Physics |
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LRV |
Light Refraction Value |
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LS |
Liquid Scintillation |
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LS |
Linear Superposition |
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LSA |
Limited Speed Arouser |
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Lsc |
Liquid Scintillation Counting |
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LSDA |
Local Spin Density Approximation |
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LSND |
Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector |
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LSOP |
Little Shop Of Physics |
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LSP |
Lightest Supersymmetric Particle |
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LSP |
Laser Stand Point |
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LST |
Light Stabilizer Technology |
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LT |
Low-Temperature |
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LT |
Low Temperature |
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LTA |
Low temperature (oxygen plasma) ashing |
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LTE |
Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium |
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LTEC |
Lamp Testing Engineers Conference |
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LTG |
Low-Temperature Growth |
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LTL |
Linear Temporal Logic |
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LTP |
Low Temperature Physics |
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LTTR |
Long-Term Thermal Resistance |
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LTW |
Linearly Transformed Wave |
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LUNA |
Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Astrophysics at Gran Sasso. |
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LUX |
large underground xenon dark-matter experiment |
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LVD |
Gran Sasso's Large Volume Detector |
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LVDT |
Linear Variable Differential Transformer |
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LVE |
Light Vibrational Energy |
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LVIS |
Low Velocity Intense Source |
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LVL |
Level |
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LVR |
Lever |
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LVSEM |
Low-Voltage Scanning Electron Microscopy |
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LWC |
Large Water Cherenkov |
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LWGR |
Light-Water-cooled, Graphite-moderated Reactor |
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LWIR |
Long-Wave Infrared |
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LWR |
Light Water Reactor |
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LZT |
Laser Zone Texturing |
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LZT |
Lead Zirconate Titanate |
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M |
Mass |
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M |
Magic |
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M3/H |
Cubic Meters per Hour |
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MAC |
Magnitude Amplification Cavity |
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MACH |
Modelo Acoplado de Coordinacion Hidrotermica |
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MACHO |
Massive Compact Halo Object |
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MACRO |
Monopole, Astrophysics and Cosmic Ray Observatory |
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MAD |
Mean Absolute Deviation |
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MAF |
Mass Air Filter |
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MAFF |
Munich Accelerator for Fission Fragments |
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MAG |
Magnetic |
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MAG |
Modern Approaches in Geophysics |
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MAP |
Maximum A Posteriori estimate |
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MaPhS |
Mathematical Physics Studies |
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MAPLE |
Multipurpose Applied Physics Lattice Experiment |
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MarGR |
Marine Geophysical Researches |
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MARLAP |
Multi-Agency Radiological Laboratory Procedures |
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MARS |
Multiple-Angle Reference System |
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MAT |
Manifold Air Temperature |
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MB |
Muon Barrel |
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MBB |
Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics |
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MBE |
Molecular Beam Epitaxy |
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MBH |
Thousand BTU per Hour |
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MBIR |
Medium Background Infrared Facility |
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MBOS |
Molecular-Beam Optothermal Spectrometer |
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MBq |
Megabecquerel |
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MBS |
Minimum Breaking Strength |
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MBS |
Many Body Systems |
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MC |
magnetic coil |
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MCC |
Mesoscale Compressible Community |
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MCHF |
Multi-Configuration Hartree-Fock |
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MCI |
Maximum Circumference Increase |
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MCM |
Mobil Composition of Matter |
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MCM |
Metal Cold Mirror |
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MCMS |
Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structures |
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MCNP |
Monte Carlo Neutron Photon (computer code) |
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MCP |
Multichannel Plate |
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MCQDT |
Multi Channel Quantum Defect Theory |
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MCT |
Mercury-cadmium-telluride |
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MCU |
Mobile Calibration Unit |
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MCU |
Microcontroller Unit |
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MD |
Motion Dynamics |
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MD |
Most Dominant |
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MD |
Magnetic Dipole |
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MDAP |
Momentum Density of Annihilation Pairs |
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MDI |
Mesh Direction Insensitive |
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MDL |
Method Detection Levels |
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MDL |
Maximum Discharge Level |
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MDMT |
Minimum Design Metal Temperature |
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MDNF |
Momentum Dominated Near Field |
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MDO |
Modified Density Overlay |
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MDR |
Maximum Detectable Rigidity |
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MDR |
Mass Distribution Ratio |
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MDRE |
Minimum Dynamic Residual Expansion |
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MDRF |
Materials Dosimetry Reference Facility |
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MDS |
Measurement Data Set |
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ME |
Mechanic Energy |
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MEA |
Materials Engineering Associates |
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MEA |
Membrane Electrode Assembly |
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Meas |
Measurements |
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MEBI- |
2 ^ 20 |
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MECO |
Muon to Electron COnversion |
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MEDEA |
Microelectronics Development for European Applications |
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MEG |
Maker, Etonic, and Gandalf |
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MEG |
Motionless Electromagnetic Generator |
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MEIBEL |
Merged Electron-Ion Beam Energy Loss |
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MEL |
Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory |
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MEMS |
Micro Electro Mechanical Systems |
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MES |
Minimum Efficient Scale |
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MESM |
Multifunctional Energetic Structural Material |
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MESSIAEN |
Methods for the Efficient Simulation of Aircraft Engine Noise |
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MEST |
Matter Energy Space Time |
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MET |
Medium Energy Telescope |
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MEVVA |
Metal Vapor Vacuum Arc |
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MEW |
Mary Elizabeth Wallace |
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MExP |
Methods of Experimental Physics |
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MFCG |
Magnetic Flux Compression Generator |
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MFCS |
Microbial Fuel Cells |
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MFP |
Mass Flow Parameter |
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MFP |
Maximal Fixed Point |
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MFP |
Mixed Fission Products |
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MFPG |
Mixed Fission Products Generator |
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MFPL |
MAP (Multiple Application Platform) Fabry-Perot Laser |
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MFR |
Maximum Field Radius |
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MFR |
Mass Flow Rate |
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MFT |
Mean Field Theory |
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MGG |
Methods in Geochemistry and Geophysics |
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MGLT |
Micro-Gravity Linear acceleration Tolerance |
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Mi |
Mebi- (2^20) |
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MIC |
Measuring Ionization Chamber |
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MIC |
Microbial Influenced Corrosion |
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MICE |
Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment |
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MICE |
Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment |
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MicgQ |
Microgravity Quarterly |
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MIDAS |
Modular Interactive Data Acquisition System |
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MIL |
Military |
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MILAGRO |
Detector to study cosmic ray air showers in the Jemez Mountains near Los Alamos, New Mexico |
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MIM |
Metal-Insulator-Metal (Diode) |
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MiMic |
Microscopy and Microanalysis |
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MINERvA |
A neutrino-scattering experiment that uses the NuMI beamline at Fermilab to search for low-energy neutrino interactions |
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MiniBooNE |
Booster Neutrino Experiment, petite size |
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MINIMAX/ T-864 |
A search for disoriented chiral condensates at Fermilab. |
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MINOS |
Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search |
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MIP |
Minimum Ionizing Particle |
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MIPP |
Main Injector Particle Production |
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MIPT |
Moscow Institute Of Physics And Technology |
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MIR |
Maximum incremental reactivity in 'foot pounds' |
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MIRD |
Medical Internal Radiation Dose |
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MIRF |
Medical and Industrial Radiation Facility |
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MIS |
Mirror Image Stimulation |
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MIS |
Magnetic Isolation System |
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MISR |
Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer |
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MiST |
Microgravity Science and Technology |
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MIT |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.) |
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MJD |
Modified Julian Date |
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MJPS |
Moldavian Journal of the Physical Sciences |
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mks |
metre-kilogram-second [cf. cgs and fps] |
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MKSA |
Meter, Kilogram, Second, Ampere |
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MLA |
Magnetic Linear Accelerator |
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MLDA |
Modified Local Density Approximation |
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MLIA |
Molecular Libraries of Imaging Agents |
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MLL |
multilayer Laue lens |
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MLS |
Magnetic Levitation System |
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mm |
Millimeter |
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MM |
Molecular Manufacturing |
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MM |
Molecular Mechanics |
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MMC |
Moving Micro Cross |
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MMC |
Maximum Material Condition |
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MmCP |
Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics |
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MME |
Magnetic Molecular Energizer |
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MME |
Methanol Maser Emission |
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MME |
Minimizing Maximum Entropy |
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MMF |
Magneto Motive Force |
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MMFT |
Multivariate Mixed Frequency-Time |
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MMFT |
Many Mode Floquet Theory |
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MMI |
Mallinckrodt Medical Inc |
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MMKT |
Methods and Models of Kinetic Theory |
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MML |
Material Measurement Laboratory |
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MMMA |
Magnetically Modulated Microwave Absorption |
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MMPDS |
Metallic Materials Properties Development and Standardization |
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MMX |
A Multi Media Xtensions |
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MND |
Mahan-Nozieres-DeDominicis |
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MNR |
Mark Not Recorded |
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MNX |
Magnetic Nozzle Experiment |
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MO |
Molecular Orbital |
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MO |
Magneto-optic |
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MOA |
Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics |
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MOA |
Model of Attraction |
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MOBI |
Microgravity Observations of Bubble Interactions |
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MOBY |
Marine Optical Buoy |
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MOCVD |
Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition |
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MOD |
Minimum Object Distance |
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MOD |
Metal Oxide Deposition |
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MODIL |
Manufacturing Operations Development & Integration Laboratory |
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MODIS |
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer |
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MOEMS |
Micro-Optical Electro-Mechanical System |
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MOEMS |
Micro Optp Electro Mechanical Systems |
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MOI |
moments of inertia |
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MOKE |
Magneto-Optic Kerr Effect |
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MOKE |
Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect |
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MOM |
Modification of Mu |
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MONO |
MONOphonic |
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MONOLITH |
Massive Observatory for Neutrino Oscillations or LImits on THeir existence |
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MOP |
Maximum Operating Pressure |
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MOP |
Minds on Physics |
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MOPITT |
Measurement of Pollution In The Troposphere |
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MOR |
Modulus of Rupture |
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MOS |
Marine Optical Spectrograph |
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MOS |
Marine Optical System |
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MOSFET |
Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor |
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MOT |
Magneto Optical Trap |
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MOT |
Magnetooptical Trap |
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MOTA |
Man Of The Atom |
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MOTRIMS |
Magneto-Optical Trap Recoil-Ion Momentum Spectroscopy |
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MP |
Medium Prismatic |
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MP |
magnetic particle |
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MP |
Modal Particle |
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MP |
Multi Physics |
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MPAG |
Mathematical Physics Analysis and Geometry |
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MPAM |
Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics |
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MPB |
Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
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MPD |
Multiphoton Detector |
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MPDS |
Mechanics and Physics of Discrete Systems |
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MPE |
Multi Photo Electron |
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MPI |
Multiphoton Ionization |
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MPI |
Magnetic Particle Inspection |
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MPLA |
Modern Physics Letters A |
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MPLB |
Modern Physics Letters B |
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MPMS |
Magnetic Property Measurement System |
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MPN |
Most Probable Number |
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MPP |
Multi-Pinned Phasing |
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mppcf |
Million particles per cubic foot |
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MPS |
The Microdrop Particle Search at SLAC |
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MPSD |
Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter |
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MQA |
measurement quality assurance |
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MQDT |
Multichannel Quantum Defect Theory |
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MQF |
Multiple Quantum Filtered |
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MQFS |
Multiple Quantum Filtered Spectra |
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MQSA |
Mammography Quality Standards Act |
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MQT |
Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling |
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MR |
Minimal Relativity |
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MR |
Maximal Reachable |
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MR |
Magneto Rheological |
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MRA |
Magnetic Resonance Analyzer |
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MRA |
Mutual Recognition Arrangement |
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MRC |
Minimal Remanent Change |
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MRF |
Magnetorheological Fluid |
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MRFM |
magnetic resonance force microscopy |
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MRI |
Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
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MRIR |
medium-resolution infrared radiometer |
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MRO |
medium-range order |
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MRPI |
Magnetic Resonance Perfusion Imaging |
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MRR |
Metric Reaming Rate |
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MRSE |
Manifest Refractive Spherical Equivalent |
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MRSM |
Multiple Response Surface Modeling |
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MRSM |
Multi Resolution Spatial Model |
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MRT |
Minimal Resolvable Temperature |
|
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MS |
Meta Stable |
|
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MS |
Multiple Surface |
|
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MS |
mass spectrometry |
|
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MS |
Multi State |
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MS |
Microphotography Standard |
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MS |
MilliSeconds |
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MS |
Mean Squared |
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MS/MS |
Tandem Mass Spectrometry |
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MSA |
Meridian Stress Assessment |
|
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MSA |
Multiple Shear Angle |
|
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MSC |
Multiple Scatter Correction |
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MSDB |
Magnetically Stabilized Fluidized Bed |
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MSEL |
Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory |
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MSIS |
Mass Spectrometer and Incoherent Scatter |
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MSLD |
Mass Spectrometer Leak Detector |
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|
MST |
Modular Spectroscopy Technology |
|
|
MST |
Memotron Storage Tube |
|
|
MSV |
Molecular Surface Viewer |
|
|
MSW |
Mikheev Smirnov Wolfenstein |
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MSX |
Midcourse Space Experiment |
|
|
MT |
Multiple transformations |
|
|
MT |
Mechanical Transfer |
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MTBF |
Mean Time Between Failures |
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MTD |
Minimum Translation Distance |
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MTF |
Magnetized Target Fusion |
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|
MTF |
Modulation transfer function. |
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|
MTG |
Methanol To Gasoline |
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|
MTS |
Muffin Tin Surface |
|
|
MTS |
Merlin Tube Specification |
|
|
MTS |
Momentum Throttle Slide |
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MTTF |
Muon Trigger Track Finder |
|
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MTU |
Modal Test Union |
|
|
MTXM |
Magnetic Transmission X-Ray Microscopy |
|
|
Mu2e |
A Fermilab experiment that will search for the conversion of a muon into an electron |
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|
MUCOOL |
MUon COOLing experiment |
|
|
MUNU |
An experiment at the Bugey reactor in France studying electron - electron neutrino scattering. |
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MURMEMWC |
'MURMURING MEMORIAL WATER CLOSET' PRE-DATED BY 1913 MODEL YEAR AND PATENT; aka; Ed Loud Memorial Toilet |
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MURR |
University of Missouri Research Reactor |
|
|
MUT |
Material Under Test |
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MV |
Medium Voltage |
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MW |
Microwave |
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MWE |
Meters of Water Equivalent |
|
|
MWI |
Many-Worlds Interpretation |
|
|
MWIR |
Medium Wavelength Infrared |
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|
MWNT(s) |
multi-wall nanotube(s) |
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MY |
Mattocks And Young |
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N |
Neutrino |
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N |
Normal |
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N-FSBS |
Near-Forward Stimulated Brillouin Scattering |
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NA |
Neutral Axis |
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|
NAA |
Neutron Activation Analysis |
|
|
NAAL |
North American Aerodynamic Laboratory (Wind Tunnel) |
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NACME |
Non Adiabatic Coupling Matrix Elements |
|
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NACT |
Nonlinear Asymptotic Coupling Theory |
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|
NAD |
Nihilistic Animation Data |
|
|
NAM |
Nihilistic Animated Material |
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NAMP |
National Analytical Management Program |
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|
NAMT |
National Advanced Manufacturing Testbed |
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|
NANO |
Nanostructural Analysis Network Organisation |
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NAPM |
National Association of Photographic Manufacturers |
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NAS |
United States National Academy of Sciences |
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NAS |
Net Analyte Signal |
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NAS/NRC |
National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council |
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NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US) |
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NASSP |
National Astrophysics and Space Science Programme |
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NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation |
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NBD |
Neutron Beta Decay |
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|
NBPC |
Novel Binuclear Palladium Complex |
|
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NBS |
Numeric Backspace |
|
|
NBS-4 |
Older Primary Frequency Standard |
|
|
NBS-6 |
Previous Primary Frequency Standard |
|
|
NBSR |
National Bureau of Standards Reactor |
|
|
NC |
Non-Conservative |
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|
NC |
New Coherence |
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NCAR |
National Center for Atmospheric Research (US) |
|
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NCF |
Non-linear Connecting Force |
|
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NCF |
Near Coherence of Filters |
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|
NCI |
National Cancer Institute, USA |
|
|
NCNR |
NIST Center for Neutron Research |
|
|
NCO |
Numerically Controlled Oscillator |
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NCOGH |
Nuclear Coal Oil Gas Hydroelectric |
|
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NCP |
National Centre for Physics |
|
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NCRA |
National Centre for Radio Astrophysics |
|
|
NCRP |
National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements |
|
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NCs |
nanoclusters |
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NCSCANS |
National Steering Committee for the Advanced Neutron Source |
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NCSL |
National Conference of Standards Laboratories |
|
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NCU |
Nano Containment Unit |
|
|
ND |
Non-preferred Direction |
|
|
ND |
Neutron Detector |
|
|
ND |
None Detected |
|
|
ND |
Non-Dissipative |
|
|
ND |
Neutron Density |
|
|
Nd:YAG |
Neodymium: Yttrium-Aluminum-Garnet |
|
|
NDA |
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority |
|
|
NDE |
Neutrino Detector Experiment |
|
|
NDE |
Nucleon Decay Experiment |
|
|
NDSM |
Non-Dimensional Schmidt Model |
|
|
NDT |
Nondestructive Test |
|
|
NEANDC |
Nuclear Energy Agency Nuclear Data Committee |
|
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NEANSC |
Nuclear Energy Agency Nuclear Science Committee |
|
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near-infrared |
NIR |
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NEBM |
Nudged Elastic Band Method |
|
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NEC |
Nippon Electric Corporation |
|
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NED |
Nuclear Effects Directorate |
|
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NEDT |
Noise Equivalent Delta Temperature |
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NEEP |
Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics |
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NEI |
Nuclear Energy Institute |
|
|
NEK |
Nuclear Extract Kit |
|
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NELAC |
National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference |
|
|
NEMP |
Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse |
|
|
NEMS |
Nanoelectromechanical Systems |
|
|
NEMS |
National Energy Modeling System |
|
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NEOS |
Newport Electro-Optic Systems |
|
|
NERI |
Nuclear Energy Research Initiative |
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NESDIS |
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service |
|
|
NESTOR |
Neutrino Extended Submarine Telescope with Oceanographic Research |
|
|
NET |
Next European Torus |
|
|
NEWRAD |
New Radiometry |
|
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NFAB |
Near Field Adaptive Beamforming |
|
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NFAH |
Near Field Acoustic Holography |
|
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NFAL |
Near Field Acoustic Levitation |
|
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NFAP |
Nano Fountain Active Probe |
|
|
NG6, NG-6 |
Monochromatic Beam Line near the end of NG6 |
|
|
NG6M |
Neutron Guide No. 6 |
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|
NG7 |
Neutron Guide No. 7 |
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NGB |
New Grain Boundary |
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NGS |
National Geological Society |
|
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NH |
Number of Holes |
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NHE |
Nuclear Hypersensitive Element |
|
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NI&D |
Nuclear Interactions and Dosimetry |
|
|
NICE |
Nuclear Information Compendium Europe |
|
|
NICE-OHMS |
Noise-Immune Cavity Enhanced Optical Heterodyne Molecular Spectroscopy |
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NIDR |
National Institute of Dental Research (National Institutes of Health) |
|
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NIF |
National Ignition Facility |
|
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NIH |
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH |
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NIKHEF |
National Institute for Subatomic Physics |
|
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NIM |
Normal-Incidence Monochromator |
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NIM |
National Instrumentation Methods |
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NIM |
Nuclear Interaction Module |
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NIMP |
National Institute of Materials Physics |
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NIOF |
Neutron Interferometry and Optics Facility |
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NIP |
Negative Interdimensional Plasma |
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NIPDE |
National Initiative for Product Data Exchange |
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NIR |
Near Infrared |
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|
NIST |
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
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NIST |
National Institute of Standards & Technology (US) |
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NIST-7 |
Former NIST Primary Frequency Standard |
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NIST-F1 |
Current NIST Primary Frequency Standard |
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|
NISTAR |
NIST Advanced Radiometer |
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|
NJCH |
New Journal of Chemistry |
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NJPh |
New Journal of Physics |
|
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NL |
Non-Linearly |
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NL |
Net Light |
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NL |
No Laser |
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NLC |
Next Linear Collider |
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NLCTA |
Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator |
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NLDFT |
Nonlocal Density Functional Theory |
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NLO |
Next-to-Leading-Order |
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NM |
Non-Moment |
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NM |
Nano Modified |
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NM |
Non-Mechanical |
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nm |
Nanometer |
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NM |
No Motion |
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NM |
No Mass |
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NM |
Non-Magnetic |
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NM |
Newton Meter |
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NMI |
National Metrology Institute |
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NMI |
National Measurement Institute |
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NML |
National Measurement Laboratory (Japan) |
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NMR |
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance |
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NMS |
Nihilistic Motion Set |
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NMS |
Natural Matrix Standard |
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NMT |
Nuclear Materials Technology |
|
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NMUM |
Neutron and Muon User Meeting |
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|
NMUO |
Number of Muons |
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NNP |
Non Neutral Plasma |
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|
NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US) |
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|
NOAO |
National Optical Astronomy Observatory |
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NOBCCHE |
National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists & Chemical Engineers |
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NOE |
Neutrino Oscillation Experiment, at Gran Sasso. |
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|
NOE |
Nuclear Overhauser Effect (NMR) |
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NOL |
Neutrino Oscillation Length |
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NOLR |
Neutrino Oscillation Length Resonance |
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NOMAD |
Neutrino Oscillation Magnetic Detector |
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NORA |
Non-Overlapping Redundant Array |
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NORAMET |
A North American regional collaboration in national measurement standards and services |
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NOvA |
The NuMI Off-axis ve Appearance experiment |
|
|
NP |
Neper |
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|
NP(s) |
nanoparticle(s) |
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|
NPA |
Nuclear Physics Apparatus |
|
|
NPB |
Nuclear Physics B |
|
|
NPB |
Nuclear Physics Board |
|
|
NPC |
Nuclear Pore Complex |
|
|
NPDF |
Nuclear Parton Distribution Function |
|
|
NPGeo |
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics |
|
|
NPGS |
Nanometer Pattern Generation System |
|
|
NPhS |
Nature Physical Science |
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NPIC |
Nuclear Power Institute of China |
|
|
NPL |
National Physical Laboratory (U.K.) |
|
|
NPL |
Nuclear Plasma Laboratory |
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|
NPOESS |
National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System |
|
|
NPPSB |
Nonequilibrium Problems in the Physical Sciences and Biology |
|
|
NPs |
nanoparticle(s) |
|
|
NPSS |
Native Plant Society of Saskatchewan |
|
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NPSS |
Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society |
|
|
NPSS |
Nuclear Physics Summer School |
|
|
NPSs |
Nuclear Power Sources |
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|
NQA |
Nuclear Quality Assurance |
|
|
NQG |
Naive Quantum Gravity |
|
|
NQR |
Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance |
|
|
NR |
Non-Relativistic |
|
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NR |
Nuclear Reactor |
|
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NRC |
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (US) |
|
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NRC |
National Response Center |
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|
NRCC |
National Research Council Canada |
|
|
NREL |
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (formerly SERI) |
|
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NRG |
Neutron Radiated Glodents |
|
|
NRIP |
NIST Radiochemistry Intercomparison Program |
|
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NRL |
Naval Research Laboratory |
|
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NRLM |
National Research Laboratory of Metrology (Japan) |
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|
NRRS |
Near Resonance Rayleigh Scattering |
|
|
nrrt |
Normal Reference Range Table |
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NRS |
Nuclear Reaction Spectrometry |
|
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NRU |
National Research Universal nuclear reactor, Chalk River, Ontario |
|
|
NS |
Navier-Stokes |
|
|
NSA |
National Security Agency |
|
|
NSBP |
National Society of Black Physicists |
|
|
NSCANS |
National Steering Committee for the Advanced Neutron Source |
|
|
NSEP |
National Standard Examination in Physics |
|
|
NSF |
Nuclear Science Foundation |
|
|
NSF |
National Sanitation Foundation |
|
|
NSFD |
Net Shape Forming Development |
|
|
NSLS |
National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory |
|
|
NSOM |
Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy |
|
|
NSRP |
Neutron Science Research Program |
|
|
NSTP |
Non-Spatial Thinking Process Theory |
|
|
NTC |
Negative Temperature Coefficeint |
|
|
NTIMS |
Negative Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer |
|
|
NTP |
normal temperature and pressure |
|
|
NTSB |
US National Transportation Safety Board |
|
|
NTU |
Nephelometric Turbidity Unit |
|
|
NuGeo |
Nuclear Geophysics |
|
|
NuMI |
Neutrinos at the Main Injector |
|
|
NUS |
Nuclear Safety Standard |
|
|
NuSea |
Nucleon Sea |
|
|
NUSL |
The National Underground Science Laboratory in the Homestake Mine, S.D. |
|
|
NuTeV |
Neutrinos At the Tevatron |
|
|
NV |
Night Vision |
|
|
NV |
No Vacuum |
|
|
NV |
Nitrogen Vacancy |
|
|
NVD |
Noise & Vibration Detection |
|
|
NVH |
Noise Vibration Harshness |
|
|
NVIS |
Night Vision Imaging System |
|
|
NVLAP |
National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program |
|
|
NZJGG |
New Zealand Journal Geology and Geophysics |
|
|
O |
Ohm |
|
|
OACC |
ordered amorphous carbon clusters |
|
|
OAI |
Optical Associates Inc. |
|
|
OAM |
Orbital Angular Momentum |
|
|
OASIS |
Optically Adaptive System for Imaging Spectroscopy |
|
|
OBM |
Over-the-Barrier Model |
|
|
OBQ |
Optimize Beam Quality |
|
|
OC |
Old Coherence |
|
|
OCLI |
Optical Cooling Laboratory Incorporated |
|
|
OCQ |
Old Covariant Quantization |
|
|
oCS |
Optical Calibration Sphere |
|
|
OCS |
On-Chip Spectroscopy |
|
|
OD |
Other Dimension |
|
|
OD |
Optical Density |
|
|
OD |
Originally Detectable |
|
|
ODC |
Orthogonal Defect Classification |
|
|
ODE |
Ordinary Differential Equation |
|
|
ODEND |
Optical Detected Electron Nuclear Double Resonance |
|
|
ODEPR |
Optical Detected Electron Paramagnetic Resonance |
|
|
ODS |
Optimized Deformation System |
|
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OE |
optical engineering |
|
|
OFR |
Optics for Research |
|
|
OFS |
Österreichisches Forschungszentrum |
|
|
OG |
Orientation Group |
|
|
OGB |
Original Grain Boundary |
|
|
OHEP |
Office of High Energy Physics |
|
|
OIML |
International Organization of Legal Metrology |
|
|
OITD |
Overlap Induced Ternary Dipole |
|
|
OLED |
Organic Light-Emitting Diode |
|
|
OMEGA |
24-Beam Laser Facility at Rochester |
|
|
OMH |
National Office of Measures (Hungary) |
|
|
OMNIS |
Observatory For Multiflavor Neutrinos From Supernovae |
|
|
OMPI |
Ottawa Medical Physics Institute |
|
|
ONR |
Office of Naval Research (U.S.) |
|
|
OOCA |
Object Oriented Computing in Astrophysics |
|
|
OOS |
Optics Online Store |
|
|
OP |
Opening Pressure |
|
|
OPA |
Optical Parametric Amplifier |
|
|
OPAL |
Omni Purpose Apparatus for LEP, at CERN |
|
|
OPAL |
Open Physics Abstraction Layer |
|
|
OPALS |
Optronic, Photonic, and Advanced Laser Simulator |
|
|
OPC |
Optical Particle Counter |
|
|
OPCPA |
Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification |
|
|
OPD |
Optical Path Difference |
|
|
OPD |
Ocean Physics Department |
|
|
OPEB |
Ordinary Potential Energy Box |
|
|
OPERA |
Oscillation Project with EmulsiontRacking Apparatus |
|
|
OPMAS |
Optical Pumping and Magic Angle Spinning |
|
|
OPO |
Optical Parametric Oscillator |
|
|
OPS |
Optical Physical Section |
|
|
OPSL |
Optically Pumped Semiconductor Laser |
|
|
OPSn |
Optical Physical Section n |
|
|
OPSO |
Optimized Particle Swarm Optimization |
|
|
OptLE |
Optics and Lasers in Engineering |
|
|
OptLT |
Optics Laser Technology |
|
|
OptPN |
Optics & Photonics News |
|
|
OptSp |
Optics and Spectroscopy |
|
|
OQS |
Occupied Quantum State |
|
|
ORELA |
Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator |
|
|
ORLaND |
Oak Ridge Large Neutrino Detector |
|
|
ORM |
Office of Radiation Measurement |
|
|
ORNL |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's |
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|
ORP |
Optimization of Radiation Protection |
|
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ORT |
Oak Ridge Tennessee |
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|
OSA |
Optical Society of America |
|
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OSL |
Optical Stimulated Luminescence |
|
|
OSP |
Of Open Source Physics |
|
|
OSPL |
Output Sound Pressure Level |
|
|
OSQ |
Orientation Space Quantization |
|
|
OSRD |
Office of Standard Reference Data |
|
|
OSTP |
One Step Transition Probability |
|
|
OSTP |
Office of Science and Technology Policy |
|
|
OSU |
Ohio State University Airport, Columbus, Ohio, United States |
|
|
OSV |
Optically Strong Variable |
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OTA |
Optical Tube Assembly (telescopes) |
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|
OTD |
Optical Technology Division |
|
|
OTT |
optical topological transition |
|
|
OW |
One Wave |
|
|
OXS |
Objective Crystal Spectrometer |
|
|
P |
Pressure |
|
|
P |
The Proportion |
|
|
P |
Propagation |
|
|
P |
Predicted |
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|
P&S |
Permanent and Stationary |
|
|
P-P |
Peak-to-Peak (Value) |
|
|
p6 |
physics |
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|
PA |
Proton Affinity |
|
|
PA |
polar accelerometer |
|
|
pAB |
Physics Astronomy Building |
|
|
PAC |
Probably Approximately Correct |
|
|
PAC |
Probe Aerodynamic Center |
|
|
PACS |
Physics and Astronomy Classification Schemex |
|
|
PADE |
Parallel Applications Development Environment |
|
|
PAES |
Positron-Induced Auger Electron Spectroscopy |
|
|
PAGE |
Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis |
|
|
PAIS |
Photo Acoustic Infrared Spectroscopy |
|
|
PAMA |
Professional Audio Manufacturers Alliance |
|
|
PApGe |
Pure and Applied Geophysics |
|
|
PApPh |
Pure and Applied Physics |
|
|
PAR |
Parabolic Aluminum Reflector |
|
|
PAR |
Partially Absorbed or Reflected |
|
|
PARCS |
Primary Atomic Reference Clock in Space |
|
|
PASS |
Particle Accelerator Security System |
|
|
PASTI |
Public Address Speech Transmission Index |
|
|
PASU |
Physics Astronomy Students Union |
|
|
PAW |
Physics Analysis Workstation |
|
|
PAW |
Plasma Arc Weld |
|
|
PB |
Property Bivalence |
|
|
Pb |
Plackett Burman |
|
|
Pb |
Parabolic Barrier |
|
|
Pb |
Primary Beam |
|
|
PBC |
Polarization-Beam Combiner |
|
|
PBCS |
Physics of Biological and Complex Systems |
|
|
PBE |
Pool Boiling Experiment |
|
|
PBG |
Photonic Band Gap |
|
|
PBO |
Particle Beam Optics |
|
|
PBQ |
PhotoBeam Quantum |
|
|
PBR |
Pinned Beam Roll |
|
|
PBS |
Polarizing Beam Splitter |
|
|
PC |
Personal computer (host) |
|
|
Pc2 |
Continuous Pulsations type 2 |
|
|
PCAP |
Physics and Computing Advisory Panel |
|
|
PCB |
Polychlorinated Biphenyls |
|
|
PCE |
Physics and Chemistry of the Earth |
|
|
PCE |
Plasma Crystal Experiment |
|
|
PCED |
Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Delta |
|
|
PCF |
Photonic Crystal Fiber |
|
|
PCL |
Physics and Chemistry of Liquids |
|
|
PCLS |
Postulate of Constant Light Speed |
|
|
PCM |
Phase Contrast Microscopy |
|
|
PCM |
Phase Change Materials |
|
|
PCN |
Physics and Contemporary Needs |
|
|
PCN |
Physics Computer Network |
|
|
PCPP |
Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing |
|
|
PCR |
Preliminary Chain Reaction |
|
|
PCS |
Passive Cross Section |
|
|
PCS |
Pion Cloud System |
|
|
PCS |
Photon Correlation Spectroscopy |
|
|
PCSE |
Physical Chemistry: Science and Engineering |
|
|
PD |
Poincare duality |
|
|
PD |
Propagation Delay |
|
|
PD |
Phase-change Device |
|
|
PD |
Polarization Difference |
|
|
PD |
Prismatic Diffuser |
|
|
PD |
Projective Dimension |
|
|
PDC |
Pulsating Direct Current |
|
|
PDC |
Parametric down-conversion |
|
|
PDE |
Possible Duplicate Emission |
|
|
PDE |
Product Data Exchange |
|
|
PDE |
Partial Differential Equation |
|
|
PDI |
percent depth ionization |
|
|
PDL |
Polarization Dependent Loss |
|
|
PDML |
Photovoltaic Device Measurement Laboratory |
|
|
PDOS |
phononic density of states |
|
|
PDS |
power density spectra |
|
|
PDSF |
Physics Detector Simulation Facility |
|
|
PDSH |
Pressure Differential Switch High |
|
|
PE |
Plasma Effects |
|
|
PE |
Positron Emission |
|
|
PE |
Performance Evaluation |
|
|
PE |
Potential Energy |
|
|
PEAQ |
Perceptual Evaluation of Audio Quality |
|
|
PECVD |
Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition |
|
|
PEEI |
Physics and Evolution of the Earth's Interior |
|
|
PEEP |
Physics Ethics Education Project |
|
|
PEL |
Particle Emission Level |
|
|
PEL |
Permissible Exposure Limit |
|
|
PEM |
polymer-electrolyte-membrane |
|
|
PEM |
Proton Exchange Membrane |
|
|
PEMF |
Pulsed Electro-Magnetic Field |
|
|
PEMFD |
Pulsed Electro-Magnetic Field Device |
|
|
PEMI |
Portable Engineering Moire Interferometer |
|
|
PEMI II |
Portable Engineering Moire Interferometer, Second generation |
|
|
PEMR |
Pulsed Electro-Magnetic Radiation |
|
|
PEP |
Pauli Exclusion Principle |
|
|
PEP |
Positron Electron Project |
|
|
PEP-II |
The official name for the SLAC B Factory |
|
|
PEPI |
Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors |
|
|
PEPSI |
Proton Echo-Planar Spectroscopic Imaging |
|
|
PER |
Physics Education Research |
|
|
PERTRAN |
Perturbation Transport |
|
|
PES |
Photoelectron Spectroscopy |
|
|
PET |
positron emission tomography |
|
|
PET |
photosynthetic electron transport |
|
|
PETT |
Positron Emission Transverse of Transaxial |
|
|
PEWD |
Potential Energy Well Depth |
|
|
PF |
Particle Flow |
|
|
PF |
Photon Flux |
|
|
PFC |
Physics Frontiers Centers |
|
|
PFC |
Parallel Flange Channel |
|
|
PFD |
Photon Flux Density |
|
|
PFG |
Pulsed Field Gradient |
|
|
PFID |
Perturbed Free Induction Decay |
|
|
PFL |
Pre-Fade Listen |
|
|
PFU |
Proton Flux Unit |
|
|
PFW |
Propagating Floquet Wave |
|
|
PFX |
Penning Fusion EXperiment |
|
|
PFX-I |
Penning Fusion eXperiment - Ions |
|
|
PGA |
Peak Ground Accerleration |
|
|
PGNAA |
Prompt Gamma Neutron Activation Analysis |
|
|
PGP |
Physics of Geological Processes |
|
|
PGs |
Plane Grating Spectrometer |
|
|
PGs |
Physics Grad Society |
|
|
PH |
Percentage Hydrogen |
|
|
PHA |
Physics And Astronomy |
|
|
PhAco |
Physical Acoustics |
|
|
PhApp |
Physics and its Applications |
|
|
PhB |
Physics Bulletin |
|
|
PhChE |
Physics and Chemistry of Earth |
|
|
PHD |
P-Helicity Decoupling Scheme (P=Momentum) |
|
|
PHEMT |
Pseudomorphic High Electron Mobility Transistor |
|
|
PHENIX |
Pioneering High-Energy Nuclear Interaction eXperiment, at Brookhaven. |
|
|
PhFl |
Physics of Fluids |
|
|
PhL |
Physics Letters |
|
|
PhLRv |
Physics of Life Reviews |
|
|
PhP |
Physics in Perspective |
|
|
PhPl |
Physics of Plasmas |
|
|
PhR |
Physics Reports |
|
|
PhRv |
Physical Review |
|
|
PhRvL |
Physical Review Letters |
|
|
PhSS |
Physics of the Solid State |
|
|
PhT |
Physics Today |
|
|
PhT |
Pseudo Hadamard Transformation |
|
|
PHW |
Potable Hot Water |
|
|
PHWC |
Pseudo Horizontally Weakly Conformal |
|
|
PHWR |
Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor |
|
|
PhyEd |
Physics Education |
|
|
PhyEs |
Physics Essays |
|
|
PhyN |
Physics Notes |
|
|
PhyNY |
Physics New York |
|
|
PhyR |
Physical Research |
|
|
PhyW |
Physics World |
|
|
Phyy |
Physics |
|
|
PI |
Penning ionization [ |
|
|
PI |
Polarisation Index |
|
|
PI |
3.1415926535 |
|
|
PIB |
Particle In a Box |
|
|
PIC |
Precision Ion Chamber |
|
|
PID |
Proportional, Integral, and Derivative |
|
|
PID |
Photoionization Detector (gas Chromatography) |
|
|
PIE |
Possibility of Infinite Energy |
|
|
PIF |
Physics at the Information Frontier |
|
|
PIGP |
Proceedings of the Institute of General Physics |
|
|
PILAC |
Pulsed Ion Linear ACcelerator |
|
|
PIMA |
Photonic Ionization Manipulation and Augmentation |
|
|
PINS |
Portable Isotopic Neutron Spectroscopy |
|
|
PIPA |
Pulsed Integrating Pendulous Accelerometer |
|
|
PISA |
Position Intensity and Shape Analysis |
|
|
PISA |
Photovoltaic Information System For Architects |
|
|
PISCO |
Parallel Imager for Southern Cosmological Observations |
|
|
PIV |
Position Information Vector |
|
|
PIV |
Peak Inverse Voltage |
|
|
PIV |
Particle Image Velocimetry |
|
|
PIXE |
Particle Induced Xray Emission |
|
|
PL |
Planck length |
|
|
PL |
Proton Loss |
|
|
PL |
Physics Laboratory |
|
|
Pl&I |
Plasmas and Ions |
|
|
PLA |
Physics Letters A |
|
|
PLDS |
Physics of Low-Dimensional Structures |
|
|
PLL |
Phase Locked Loop |
|
|
PLM |
Polarized Light Microscopy |
|
|
PlPhR |
Plasma Physics Reports |
|
|
PLTP |
Progress in Low Temperature Physics |
|
|
PM |
Particle Multiplication |
|
|
PM |
Particulate Matter |
|
|
PM |
particulate material |
|
|
PM |
Phase Modulation |
|
|
PMatP |
Progress in Mathematical Physics |
|
|
PMB |
Physics in Medicine and Biology |
|
|
PMB |
Program in Molecular Biophysics |
|
|
PMBC |
Process-Model Based Control |
|
|
PME |
Particle-Mesh Ewald |
|
|
PMF |
Predictor Model File |
|
|
PMG |
Precision Measurement Grant |
|
|
PMG |
Permanent Magnet Generator |
|
|
PMG |
Papers in Meteorology and Geophysics |
|
|
PML |
Physical Measurement Laboratory |
|
|
PML |
Perfect Matched Layer |
|
|
PMM |
Perpetual Motion Machine |
|
|
PMMA |
Polymethylmethacrylate |
|
|
PMMC |
Permanent Magnet Moving Coil |
|
|
PMPO |
Peak Momentary Performance Output |
|
|
PMR |
Proton Magnetic Resonance |
|
|
PMRS |
Proton magnetic resonance Spectroscopy |
|
|
PMS |
Particle Measurement System |
|
|
PMT |
Photo Multiplier Tube |
|
|
PMTS |
Predetermined Motion Time System |
|
|
PN |
Proton Neutron |
|
|
PN |
PN (Pressure Nominal) |
|
|
PNEUM |
pneumatic |
|
|
Pnl |
Pacific Northwest Laboratory |
|
|
PNNL |
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE) (US) |
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PNP |
Positive-Negative-Positive |
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PNR |
Polarized Neutron Reflectivity |
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PO2 |
Partial pressure of oxygen |
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PO2 |
Pressure of Oxygen |
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POC |
Physical Optics Corporation |
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POCOE |
Principle Of Conservation Of Energy |
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POF |
Plane of Focus |
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POF |
Physics of Fluids |
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POGS |
polar-orbiting geomagnetic survey |
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POP |
Plasma Oscillation Probe |
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POPA |
Panel on Public Affairs of American Physical Society |
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POPRV |
Pilot Operated Pressure Relief Valve |
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PORT |
Photo-Optical Recorder Tracker |
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POS |
Point of Stress |
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PoT |
Power Over Time |
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PP |
Physical Principle |
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pp2pp |
proton-proton to proton-proton |
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PPAP |
Particle Physics Advisory Panel |
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PPCF |
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion |
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PPcPp |
Progress in Photochemistry and Photophysics |
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PPD |
Particle Physics Division |
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PPEP |
Plasma Physics and Environmental Perturbation |
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PPHTS |
Physical Properties of High Temperature Superconductors |
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PPM |
Peak Program Meter |
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|
PPP |
Physics for Paper and Print |
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PPPL |
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory |
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PPS |
Proceedings of the Physical Society |
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PPSL |
Proceedings of the Physical Society of London |
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PPU |
Physics processing unit |
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PQ |
Photon To Quark |
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PQs |
Parallel Quantum Solutions |
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PR |
PRobability of .... |
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pRb |
Physics Research Building |
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PRC |
Photometry, Radiometry, and Calorimetry |
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PRC |
Pressure Regulator Control |
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PRDT |
Physical Restraint Decision Tree |
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PRE |
Proportional Reduction of Error |
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PREP |
Professional Research Experience Program |
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PRF |
Petroleum Research Fund |
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PRL |
Physical Review Letters |
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PRM |
Precision Radiation Measurement |
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PrPh |
Progress of Physics |
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PrVP |
Proceedings of Vibration Problems |
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PS |
Proton Synchrotron (CERN) |
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PS |
polystyren |
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PSD |
Physical Sciences Data |
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PSD |
Photon-Stimulated Desorption |
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PSI |
Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland, Joint Institute of ETH) |
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PSJ |
Pivoted Shoe Journal |
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PSL |
Physics of Solids and Liquids |
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PSL |
Polystyrene-latex |
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PSML |
Physical Systems Modeling Laboratory |
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PSS |
Physics Selection Strategy |
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PSSC |
Physical Science Study Committee |
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PSST |
Plasma Sources Science Technology |
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PSTM |
Photon Scanning Tunneling Microscope |
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PT |
Peak Torque |
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PT |
Performance Testing |
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PTA |
Pure Tone Average |
|
|
PTB |
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig |
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PTCA |
Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angiography |
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PTCP |
Progress in Theoretical Chemistry and Physics |
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PTET |
Physics And Technology Energy Team |
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PTF |
Physics of Thin Films |
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PTFE |
Polytetrafluoroethylene |
|
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PThPh |
Progress of Theoretical Physics |
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PThPS |
Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement |
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PTI |
Proxima Therapeutics Inc. |
|
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PTP |
Phase Transition Phenomena |
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PTPT |
Pure Time Preference Theory |
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PTPV |
Point-To-Point Velocity |
|
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PTR |
Proton Transfer Reaction |
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PU |
Parallel Undirected |
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Pud |
Paired Uranium Detectors |
|
|
PUM |
Physics Union Mathematics |
|
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PV |
Pressure Vessel |
|
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PV |
Product Volume |
|
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PV |
plasma volume |
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PVA |
Powerful Vacuum Action |
|
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PVC |
Porous Vent Coaxative |
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PVST |
Pressure Vacuum Stability Test |
|
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PVT |
Position Velocity Time |
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PW |
Plan of Windmoving |
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PWH |
PetaWatt-Hour |
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PWHS |
Post-Welded Heat Stress |
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PWR |
Pressurized-Water Reactor |
|
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PWS |
Primary Working Standard |
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|
PWV |
Physics with Vernier |
|
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PZM |
Pressure Zone Microphone |
|
|
PZT |
Piezoelectric Translator |
|
|
PZT |
Piezoelectric Transducer |
|
|
Q |
Quantizer |
|
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Q |
Quark |
|
|
QA/QC |
Quality Assurance/Quality Control |
|
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QAH |
Quantum anomalous Hall |
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QBM |
Quantal Brownian Motion (model) |
|
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QC |
Questionable Causation |
|
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QC |
Quantum Counter |
|
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QC |
Quantum Correction |
|
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QC |
Quantum Critical |
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QCA |
Quasi- Crystalline Approximation |
|
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QCC |
Quadrupole Coupling Constant |
|
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QCD |
Quantum Chromo Dynamics |
|
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QCD |
Quantum Chromodynamics |
|
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QCI |
Quadratic Configuration Interaction |
|
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QCL |
Quantum Cascade Laser |
|
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QCT |
Quasi-Classical Trajectory |
|
|
QCT |
Quantitative Computed Tomography |
|
|
QD |
Quantum Dot |
|
|
QDT |
Quantum-Defect Theory |
|
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QDVP |
Quasi-Degenerate Variational Perturbation |
|
|
QDW |
Quantum Density- Wave |
|
|
QED |
Quantum Electrodynamics |
|
|
QEDA |
Quantum Electrodynamics Atomic Theory |
|
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QEG |
Quantum Einstein Gravity |
|
|
QELS |
Quantum Electronics and Laser Science |
|
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QEQ |
Charge Equilibration |
|
|
QF |
The Quasiconvexification of F |
|
|
QFEB |
Quasi-Free Electron Bremsstrahlung |
|
|
QFED |
Quantum Field-Effect Directional coupler |
|
|
QFEP |
Quantum Free Energy Perturbation (calcn. Method) |
|
|
QFEX |
Quantim Field Theory under the influence of EXternal conditions |
|
|
QFM |
Quench Flow Monitor |
|
|
QFP |
Quantum Future Physics |
|
|
QFS |
Quantum Filtered Spectra |
|
|
QFT |
Quantitative Fluorescence Technique |
|
|
QFT |
Quantum Field Theory |
|
|
QG |
Quantum GRavity |
|
|
QGC |
Quantum Gas Chromatography |
|
|
QGD |
Gate - Drain Charge |
|
|
QGD |
Quantum-Geometry Dynamics |
|
|
QGD |
Quantum Gravodynamics |
|
|
QGD |
Quantum Generating Diffusion |
|
|
QGM |
Quantitative Gas Measurement |
|
|
QGR |
Quantum GRavity |
|
|
QGS |
Quantitative Gated Spectroscopy |
|
|
QGT |
Quantum Graph Theory |
|
|
QHB |
Quantum Nature of the Hydrogen Bond |
|
|
QHD |
Quantum Hydro- Ddynamic |
|
|
QHE |
Quantum Hall Effect |
|
|
QHF |
Quantum Heisenberg Ferromagnet |
|
|
QHO |
Quantum Harmonic Oscillator |
|
|
QHS |
Quantum Hall System |
|
|
QIO |
Quantum Infinite-Order |
|
|
QKE |
Quadrupolar Kondo Effect |
|
|
QM |
Quantum Mechanics |
|
|
QM |
Quark Model |
|
|
QMC |
Quantum Monte Carlo |
|
|
QMD |
Quantum Molecular Dynamics (for Calcns. On The Dynamics Of A Quantum Particle Coupled To A Classical Many-body System) |
|
|
QMD |
Quantum Metrology Division |
|
|
QMF |
Quadrature Mirror Filter |
|
|
QMF |
quadrature mirror filter banks |
|
|
QMIS |
Quantum Mechanics of Individual Systems |
|
|
QMs |
Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer |
|
|
QNH |
Quasi Non-Hydrostatic |
|
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QNLC |
quenched narrow-line laser cooling |
|
|
QNP |
Quattro Nuclear Probe |
|
|
QO |
Quasi-Optical |
|
|
QOA |
Quasi-Optical Amplifier |
|
|
QOG |
Quasi-Optical Grill |
|
|
QP |
quasiparticle |
|
|
QP |
Quantization Parameter |
|
|
Qp |
quasi periodic |
|
|
QPD |
Quantum Physics Division |
|
|
QPM |
Quadrature Phase Microscope |
|
|
QPN |
quantum projection noise |
|
|
QPT |
Quantum Process Tomography |
|
|
QPT |
Quasi Punch-Through |
|
|
QPT |
Quantum Phase Transition |
|
|
QPY |
Quantum Photoelectron Yield |
|
|
QRB |
Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics |
|
|
QRHE |
quantum anomalous Hall effect |
|
|
QSA |
Quantitative Surface Analysis |
|
|
QSW |
Q-switched laser |
|
|
QT |
Quantum Theory |
|
|
QTC |
Quantum Tai Chi Gauge Theory |
|
|
QTE |
Quantum Transport Equation |
|
|
QTG |
Quantum Theory of Gravity |
|
|
QTI |
Quantum Theory of Immortality |
|
|
QTM |
Quantum Tunneling of Magnetization |
|
|
QTN |
Quasi-Thermal Noise |
|
|
QVB |
Quasiempirical Valence Bond (method) |
|
|
QVE |
Quasi-Vibrational Energy |
|
|
QWH |
Quasigroups With Holes |
|
|
QWI |
Quantum Well Intermixing |
|
|
QWIP |
Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector |
|
|
QWW |
Quantum Well Wire |
|
|
QZD |
Quantum Zero Dynamics |
|
|
QZE |
Quantum Zeno Effect |
|
|
QZP |
Quantum Zeno Paradox |
|
|
R |
Roentgen |
|
|
R |
Result |
|
|
R |
Radiation |
|
|
R&D |
Research & Development |
|
|
R- E/i |
Ohms Law (not an acronym) |
|
|
RAA |
Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics |
|
|
RAC |
Research Advisory Committee |
|
|
RAI |
Resident Assessment Instrument |
|
|
RAND |
Radio Neutrino Detector array |
|
|
RAP |
Roentgen area product |
|
|
RAP |
Reliable Acoustic Path |
|
|
RB |
Rigid Body |
|
|
RBE |
Relative Biological Efficiency |
|
|
RBF |
radial basis function network |
|
|
RBMK |
Reactor Bolshoi Moshchnosti Kanalni |
|
|
RBNP |
Reverse Brazil Nut Problem |
|
|
RBS |
Rutherford Back-Scattering |
|
|
RBS |
Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry |
|
|
RBUU |
Relativistic Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck |
|
|
RC |
Radiative Correction |
|
|
RC |
Reaction Co-efficient |
|
|
RC |
Resistor-Capacitor |
|
|
RC |
Relativistic Correction |
|
|
RCE |
Resonant Cavity Enhanced |
|
|
RCF |
Relative Centrifugal Force |
|
|
Rcs |
Real Compton Scattering |
|
|
RCU |
Rapid Cooling Unit |
|
|
RCV |
Reactor Control Volume |
|
|
Rd |
relative dispersion |
|
|
RDC |
Reactor Dosimetry Center |
|
|
RDCMP |
Recent Development in Condensed Matter Physics |
|
|
RDD |
Reactor Development and Demonstration |
|
|
RDP |
Rubidium Di-Hydrogen Phosphate |
|
|
RDQ |
Rate Distortion Quantization |
|
|
RDTP |
Restricted Delay Test Pair |
|
|
REB |
Relativistic Electron Beam |
|
|
REBA |
Relativistic Electron Beam Accelerator |
|
|
REBA |
Restricted Bandwidth |
|
|
REBAT |
Restricted Bandwidth Technique |
|
|
RECAN |
Regional European and Central Asian ALARA Network |
|
|
red |
reverse electrodialysis |
|
|
REDA |
Resonant-Excitation-Double-Autoionization |
|
|
REI |
Rad Elec Inc. |
|
|
REIXS |
Resonant Elastic and Inelastic Xray Scattering |
|
|
REL |
Recommended Exposure Limit |
|
|
REM |
Roentgen Equivalent Man (Unit of Dose Equivalent) |
|
|
RESL |
Radiological and Environmental Science Laboratory |
|
|
REST |
Representational State Transfer |
|
|
REV |
Reversible |
|
|
REXS |
resonant elastic x-ray scattering |
|
|
RF |
Radio Frequency |
|
|
RF |
Range Folding |
|
|
RF |
Restriction Fragments |
|
|
RF |
Reference Factor |
|
|
RFI |
Relative Fluorescence Intensity |
|
|
RFIM |
Random Field Ising Magnet |
|
|
RFLP |
Restriction Fragment Length Position |
|
|
RFP |
Random Free Process |
|
|
RFP |
Relativistic Fokker Planck |
|
|
RFP |
Radiation Flux Parameter |
|
|
RFs |
Receptive Field Size |
|
|
RFZ |
Reflection Free Zone |
|
|
RFZ |
Reverse Flow Zone |
|
|
Rg |
renormalization group |
|
|
RG |
Rapid Gravity |
|
|
RG |
Radius of Gyration |
|
|
RGM |
Resonating Group Method |
|
|
RGS |
Reflection Grating Spectrometer |
|
|
RH |
Reference Height |
|
|
RHED |
Regions of High Electron Density |
|
|
RHEED |
reflection high-energy electron diffracton |
|
|
RHEED |
Reflection High Energy Electron Diffraction |
|
|
RHF |
Restricted Hartree-Fock |
|
|
RHIC |
Brookhaven'sRelativistic Heavy Ion Collider began operation in 2000 |
|
|
RHIP |
Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics |
|
|
RHM |
Roentgen Hour Meter |
|
|
RHR |
Right Hand Rule |
|
|
RIBD |
Reactive Ion Beam Deposition |
|
|
RIBF |
Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory |
|
|
RIBG |
Relativistic Ideal Bose Gas |
|
|
RIBM |
Resistive-Inertia Ballooning Mode |
|
|
RICE |
Radio Ice Cerenkov Experiment |
|
|
RIDIC |
Radiation Internal Dose Information Center |
|
|
RIMS |
Resonance Ionization Mass Spectrometry |
|
|
RIMS |
Recoil-Ion Momentum Spectroscopy |
|
|
RINF |
Retinoid Inducible Nuclear Factor |
|
|
RITA |
Re-Invented Triple Axis |
|
|
RIU |
Refractive Index Unit |
|
|
RIXS |
Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering |
|
|
RJMP |
Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics |
|
|
RKB |
Restricted Kinetic Balance (method In Calcns. Of Wave Functions And Energies) |
|
|
RKE |
Rotational Kinetic Energy |
|
|
RKR |
Rydberg-Klein-Rees |
|
|
RL |
Remove Linear |
|
|
RL |
Relative length |
|
|
RL |
Rigid Layer |
|
|
RLD |
Reciprocal Linear Dispersion |
|
|
RLP |
Right Lifting Property |
|
|
RMC |
Raymer, Mostowski, and Carlsten |
|
|
RMC |
Radiative Muon Capture |
|
|
RMP |
Reviews in Mathematical Physics |
|
|
RMP |
Reviews of Modern Physics |
|
|
rms |
root mean square (preferred over "RMS") |
|
|
RMU |
Ring Main Unit |
|
|
Rn |
Reynolds Number |
|
|
RNA |
Ribo Nucleic Acid |
|
|
RNC |
Relativisitic Nuclear Collision |
|
|
RO |
Read Only |
|
|
RO |
Results Of |
|
|
ROC |
Receiver Operator Characteristic Curve |
|
|
ROCK |
Rigidity Optimized Confirmation Kinetics |
|
|
ROCK |
Rigidity Optimized Conformational Kinetics |
|
|
ROII |
Relative Optical Interference Intensity |
|
|
Rosat |
Roentgensatellit004 Ger |
|
|
ROSPEC |
Rotating Spectrometer for Neutrons |
|
|
ROYGBIV |
Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet (Colors of the Rainbow) |
|
|
RP |
Riemannian Polyeder |
|
|
RPD |
Reactor Physics Division |
|
|
RPG |
Rate Per Generation |
|
|
rpm |
revoluation per minute |
|
|
RpMP |
Reports on Mathematical Physics |
|
|
RPN |
Remote Plasma Nitridation |
|
|
RPPh |
Reports of Progress in Physics |
|
|
RPSS |
Resonance Peak Spectral Splitting |
|
|
RPT |
Rapid-Phase Transformation |
|
|
RPT |
Refractory Period of Transmission |
|
|
RPT |
Reference Point Tracking |
|
|
RPV |
Reactor Pressure Vessel |
|
|
RRDAP |
Recent Research Development in Applied Physics |
|
|
RRDCP |
Recent Research Development in Chemical Physics |
|
|
RRDP |
Recent Research Development in Physics |
|
|
RRDPC |
Recent Research Development in Physical Chemistry |
|
|
RRDSP |
Recent Research Development in Statistical Physics |
|
|
RRP |
Research Reports in Physics |
|
|
RRV |
Record Relocation Vector |
|
|
RS |
Rotation Spin |
|
|
RS |
Resample Scheme |
|
|
RS |
Resonance Strength |
|
|
RS-232 |
An IEEE Standard Bus |
|
|
RSA |
rheometrics solids analyzer |
|
|
RSD |
Response Surface Design |
|
|
RSE |
Relative Standard Error |
|
|
RSM |
Regional Spectral Model |
|
|
RSM |
Response Surface Method |
|
|
RSP |
Rapid Solidification Process |
|
|
RSPS |
Rochester Symposium for Physics Students |
|
|
RSS |
Regression Sum of Squares |
|
|
RST |
Rotation, Stretch, and Translation |
|
|
RST |
Rapid Suspension Technology |
|
|
RT |
Reverberation Time |
|
|
RT |
Reference Time |
|
|
RT |
Ray Tracing |
|
|
RTA |
Reactivity Test Assembly |
|
|
RTBT |
Ring to Target Beam Transport |
|
|
RTC |
Radiochromic Film Task Group |
|
|
RTD |
Resistance Temperature Detector |
|
|
RTI |
Relative to the Input |
|
|
RTL |
Rotary To Linear |
|
|
RTP |
Rapid Thermal Processing |
|
|
RTP |
Real-Time Physics |
|
|
RTP |
Research Trends in Physics |
|
|
RTPC |
Radial Time Projection Chamber |
|
|
RTPS |
Reflective Type Phase Shifters |
|
|
RTT |
Round Trip Timer |
|
|
RTTR |
Real Time Thermal Rating |
|
|
RuPhJ |
Russian Physics Journal |
|
|
RV |
Reference Value |
|
|
RV |
Radial Velocity |
|
|
RvGeo |
Reviews of Geophysics |
|
|
RvGeS |
Reviews of Geophysics Supplement |
|
|
RvGSP |
Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics |
|
|
RvMaP |
Reviews in Mathematical Physics |
|
|
RVMP |
Reviews of Modern Physics |
|
|
RvMPS |
Reviews of Modern Physics Supplement |
|
|
RvPP |
Reviews of Plasma Physics |
|
|
RVR |
Reactor Vessel Rupture |
|
|
RVST |
Resonance Vibrating Screening Technology |
|
|
RW |
Reverse Well |
|
|
RWB |
Recirculating Walking Beam |
|
|
RXF |
Refracted X-ray Fluorescence |
|
|
RXS |
Resonant X-Ray Scattering |
|
|
S |
Squarely |
|
|
S |
Short |
|
|
SA |
Small Area |
|
|
SA |
Spatial Analysis |
|
|
SACR |
Space-based Active Cavity Radiometer |
|
|
SAFE |
Simulated Atomic Fission Engine |
|
|
SAFT |
Statistical Associating Fluid Theory |
|
|
SAGE |
Soviet-American Gallium Experiment |
|
|
SAGENAP |
Scientific Assessment Group for Experiments in Non-Accelerator Physics |
|
|
SAJPh |
South African Journal of Physics |
|
|
sam |
Self-Assembled Monolayers |
|
|
SAM |
Super Accelerator Machine |
|
|
SAM |
Square Aperture Matrix |
|
|
SANS |
Small-Angle Neutron Scattering |
|
|
SAO |
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
|
|
SASER |
Soud Amplification by Stimulated Emmision of Radiation |
|
|
SAVA |
Strange Attractor Variable Animator |
|
|
SAXES |
Super Advanced Xray Emission Spectrometer |
|
|
SAXS |
Small Angle X-Ray Scattering |
|
|
SB |
Small Body |
|
|
SBIR |
Small Business Innovation Research |
|
|
SBLC |
S-Band Linear Collider |
|
|
SBLOCA |
Small-Break Loss-Of-Coolant Accident |
|
|
SBR |
Spectral Band Replication |
|
|
SC |
Schwartzschild Constant |
|
|
SC |
South Carolina |
|
|
SC |
Scattering Chamber |
|
|
SCAMPY |
Scanning Micro Pyrometer |
|
|
SCANS |
Software for Computer Aided Neutron Scattering |
|
|
SCATMECH |
Consortium of 14 U.S. Semiconductor Manufacturers |
|
|
SCC |
Spectral Calibration Chamber |
|
|
SCC |
Stress Crack Corrosion |
|
|
SCC |
Standards Coordinating Committee |
|
|
sccm |
standard cubic centimeters per minute |
|
|
SCD |
Single Crystal Diffraction |
|
|
SCD |
SuperCritical Drying |
|
|
SCET |
Soft Collinear Effective Theory |
|
|
SCF |
Spectral Comparator Facility |
|
|
SCF |
Supercritical Fluid |
|
|
SCF |
Standard Chromatogram File |
|
|
SCF |
Super Condensed Fusion |
|
|
SCF |
Self-Consistent Field |
|
|
SCF |
Stress Concentration Factor |
|
|
SCFL |
Self-Consistent Field Lattice |
|
|
SciBooNE |
The SciBar Booster Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab |
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SCLIR |
Secondary Calibration Laboratories for Ionizing Radiation |
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SCM |
Surface Complexation Model (of Adsorption) |
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SCMP |
Studies in Condensed Matter Physics |
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SCOF |
Static Coefficient of Friction |
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SCOT |
Support Coated Open Tubular |
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SCR |
Space Charge Region |
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SCR |
Silicon Controlled Rectifier |
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SCRAM |
Safety Control Rod Activator Mechanism |
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SCU |
Strong-Cobb Unit |
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SCV |
Squared Coefficient of Variation |
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SD |
Super Deformed |
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SD |
Schwinger-Dyson (equation) |
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SDF |
Spectral Density Function |
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SDFF |
Spectroscopically Determined Force Field |
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SDI |
Strategic Defense Initiative |
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SDIF |
Sony Digital Interface Format |
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SDIO |
Strategic Defense Initiative Organization |
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SDIU |
Scanivalve Digital Interface Unit |
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SDL |
Space Dynamics Laboratory |
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SDLA |
Serial Data Link Analysis |
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SDSS |
Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
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SE |
Stimulated Emission |
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SEA |
Statistical Energy Analysis |
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SEAM |
Spatially Extended Anchor Mechanism |
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SeaQuest |
A series of fixed target Drell-Yan experiments at Fermilab |
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SEAWIFS |
Sea-Viewing of Wide Field Sensor |
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SEBA |
Standards Employees Benefit Association |
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SEE |
Secondary Electron Emission |
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SEF |
Spectral Energy Flux |
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SEGeo |
Seismology and Exploration Geophysics |
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SEI |
Specific Energy Input |
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SELEX |
SEgmented Large X baryon spectrometer EXperiment |
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SEM |
Secondary Electron Multiplier |
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SEM |
Standard Error of Measurement |
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sem |
Scanning Electron Microscopes |
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SEM |
Structural Equation Models |
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SEMATECH |
Consortium of 14 U.S. Semiconductor Manufacturers |
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SEMPA |
Scanning Electron Microscopy with Polarization Analysis |
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SEO |
Super Entity Obstructer |
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SERS |
Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering |
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SERS |
Surfaced Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy |
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SET |
Single-Electron Transistor |
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SET |
Sound Emission Transmission |
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SEU |
Single Event Upset |
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SEY |
Secondary Electron Yield |
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SF |
Singular Field |
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SF |
Schrodinger functional |
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SF |
Strong Field |
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SF |
Surface Friction |
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SF |
Shield Fusion |
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SF |
Speed Figure |
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SF |
Static force |
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SF |
Structured Field |
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SF |
Super Free |
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SF |
Symmetry Factor |
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SFA |
Sachs Freeman and Associates |
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SFBI |
Shear Flow Ballooning Instability |
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SFC |
Sideway Force Coefficient |
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SFCP |
Special Foreign Currency Program |
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SFD |
Shear Force Diagram |
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SFF |
Scientific Fudge Factor |
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SFG |
Sum Frequency Generation |
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SFP |
Synthetic Ferromagnetic Pinned |
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SG |
Specific Gravity |
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SGE |
Stimulus Generation Event |
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sgeo |
Surveys in Geophysics |
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sgl |
Sander Geophysics Ltd |
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SGORS |
Studies in Geophysical Optics and Remote Sensing |
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SGR |
Soft Gamma Repeater |
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SHC |
Specific Heat Capacity |
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SHEL |
Surface High-Energy Laser |
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SHEP |
Southampton High Energy Physics |
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SHM |
Simple Harmonic Motion |
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SHMPS |
Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences |
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SHOPO |
Small High-power Optics Program |
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SHP |
Shaft Horsepower |
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SHTF |
Secondary Heat Transfer Fluid |
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SHTR |
Standard Heat Transfer Rate |
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ShWav |
Shock Waves |
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SI |
International System of Units (Système international d'unités) |
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SI |
Système International d'unités (International System of Units) |
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SI |
Slight Inclusion |
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SI |
selectivity index |
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SIA |
Semiconductor Industry Association |
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SIAD |
Synergistic Isogenous Activated Decontamination |
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SIAP |
System for Improved Acoustic Performance |
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SID |
Spin Inverted Determinant |
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SID |
Society for Information Display |
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SIFC |
Stable Isotope Fractionation Calculator |
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SIG |
Signaling Interworking Gateway |
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SIG |
Signaling equipment |
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SIG |
Signaling Channel |
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SIG |
Signal |
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SIM |
Selected ion monitoring |
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SIMOPS |
SIMultaneous OPerationS |
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SIMP |
Strongly Interacting Massive Particle |
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SIMS |
Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry |
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sinh |
hyperbolic sine function |
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SIP |
Simulations in Physics |
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SIR |
Selective Internal Radiation |
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SIRCUS |
Spectral Irradiance and Radiance Calibration with Uniform Sources |
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SIRREX-3 |
SeaWiFS Intercalibration Round-Robin Experiment |
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SKA |
Square Kilometre Array |
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SKACR |
Superconducting Kinetic-inductance Absolute Cryogenic Radiometer |
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SL |
Super Lattice |
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SL |
Super Linear |
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SLAC |
The Department of Energy'sStanford Linear Accelerator Center in Palo Alto, California |
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SLC |
Slit Loss Correction |
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SLC |
SLAC Linear Electron-Positron Collider |
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SLD |
SLAC Large Detector |
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SLM |
Single Longitudinal Mode |
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SLM |
Synthetic Layer Microstructures |
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SLM(s) |
spatial light modulator(s) |
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SLS |
Selective Laser Sintering |
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SLS |
Single light source |
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SM |
Standard Model |
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sm |
Single-molecule |
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SMBI |
Supersonic Molecular Beam Injection |
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SME |
Solar Mesosphere Explorer |
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SMKW |
Secondary Magneto- Kinetic Wave |
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SMM |
Statistical Multifragmentational Model |
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SMS |
Spectral Modeling Synthesis |
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SMSI |
Strong Metal-support Interaction |
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SMYS |
Specified Minimum Yield Strength |
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SMZ |
Strong Measure Zero |
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SN |
Self Normalizing |
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SNAP |
SuperNova Acceleration Probe, proposed space telescope |
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SND |
Spherical Neutral Detector |
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SNGR |
Stochastic Noise Generation and Radiation |
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SNIM |
Spectrometer for Neutron Studies of Condensed Matter in a Pulsed Magnetic Field |
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SNIM-2 |
Spectrometer for Neutron Studies of Condensed Matter in a Pulsed Magnetic Field, Second generation |
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SNO |
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory |
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SNOM |
Scanning Near-field Optical Microscope |
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SNPA |
Standard Nuclear Physics Approach |
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SNR |
SuperNova Remnant |
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SNS |
Spallation Neutron Source |
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SOA |
Spin Orbit Axis |
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SOC |
Start of Combustion |
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SOC |
Second-Order Cone |
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SOF |
Separated Oscillatory Field |
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SOG |
Spin-on Glass |
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SOLSPEC |
Solar Spectrometer |
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SOLSTICE |
Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment |
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som |
School of Metaphysics |
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SOP |
Spin Orbit Parallel |
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SOS |
Spin Orbital Splitting |
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SOS |
Stimulated Orientational Scattering |
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SOSF |
Scanning Ocular SpectroFluorophotometer |
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SOT |
Space Or Time |
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SOUDAN II |
Soudan II underground detector |
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SOURDINE |
Study of Optimisation procedURes for Decreasing the Impact of NoisE |
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SP |
Standard Pressure |
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SP |
Singular Perturbation |
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SP |
Superultramodern Physics |
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SPA |
Single Pole Approximations |
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SPARS |
Society of Professional Audio Recording Services |
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SPC-E |
simple point charge extended |
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SPD |
Solar Physics Division |
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SPDF |
Space Physics Data Facility |
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SPE |
solid phase extraction method |
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SPE |
solid phase extraction column |
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SPEAR |
The Stanford Positron Electron Accelerating Ring |
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SPECT |
single-photon emission computed tomography |
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SPH |
Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics |
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SPIE |
The Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers |
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SPIRES |
Stanford Public Information Retrieval System |
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SPL |
Sound Pressure Level |
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SPM |
Scanning Probe Microscope |
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SPP |
Storage Photostimulable Phosphor |
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SPP(s) |
surface plasmon polariton(s) |
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SPPL |
Stanford Plasma Physics Lab |
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SPPs |
surface plasmon polaritons |
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SPR |
Surface Plasmon Resonance |
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SPS |
Super Proton Synchrotron |
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SPT |
Supporting Physics Teaching |
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SPTR |
Scottish Physics Teaching Resources |
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SPU |
Single Particle Unit |
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SPY |
Secondary Particle Yield |
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SQ |
Scalar Quantization |
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SQK |
Sub- Quantum Kinetics |
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SQL |
Structured Query Language |
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SQM |
Square Meter |
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SQM |
Super Quantum Mechanics |
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SQW |
Single Quantum Well |
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SR |
Special Relativity |
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SR |
Surface Representation |
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SRAM |
Static Random Access Memory (ess-ram) |
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SRDP |
Standard Reference Data Program |
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SRF |
Structural Reinforcement Field |
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SRI |
Slope Rising In .... |
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SRL |
Structural Return Loss |
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SRM |
Standard Reference Material |
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SRO |
Short Range Order |
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SRV |
Safety Relief Valve |
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SS |
Secondary Structure |
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SS |
Short Stress |
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SS |
Spectral Subtraction |
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SSADM |
Structured System Analysis and Design Methodology |
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SSBD |
Steady State Beam Deflection |
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SSBUV |
shuttle solar backscatter ultraviolet (radiometer) |
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SSC |
Superconducting Super Collider |
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ssc |
Superconductor Super Collider |
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SSCom |
Solid State Communications |
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sscp |
Springer Series on Chemical Physics |
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SSDL |
Secondary Standard Dosimetry Laboratories |
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SSE |
Sum of Squares for Error |
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SSEle |
Solid State Electronics |
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SSGSR |
Springer Verlag Springer Series on Group Geophysics Space Research |
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SSH |
Spatial-Spectral Holographic |
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SSIon |
Solid State Ionics |
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SSNMR |
Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance |
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SSP |
Spontaneous Sound Phenomena |
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SSP |
Static Strength Prediction |
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Ssp |
Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh |
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SSPG |
Solid State Physics Group |
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SSPL |
Solid State Physics Laboratory |
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SSPM |
Solid State Photomultipliers |
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SSPP |
Static Strength Prediction Program |
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SSRCR |
State Suggested Regulations for Controlling Ionizing Radiations |
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SSRL |
SLAC Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory |
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SSS |
Sub Surface Scattering |
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SSS |
Symmetric Steady State |
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SSS |
Solid State Simulation |
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SSSSS |
Springer Series on Solid State Sciences |
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SSSyn |
Springer Series on Synergetics |
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SST |
Steady State Temperature |
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SSTec |
Solid State Technology |
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SSTR |
Solid State Track Recorder |
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SSUV |
Shuttle Solar Ultraviolet |
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sswp |
Springer Series on Wave Phenomena |
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St |
State Transformation |
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ST |
Spherical Tokamak |
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ST&A |
Space Technology and Aeronautics |
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STAR |
Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) |
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STAR |
Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC |
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STARR |
Spectral Tri-function Automated Reference Reflectometer |
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STARS |
Space-Time Analysis of Regional Systems |
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STASA |
Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations |
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STD |
Standard |
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STEM |
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope |
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STEM |
Storable Tubular Extendible Member |
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STEM |
Stress Trajectories Element Method |
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STF |
Space-Time-Frequency |
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STFC |
The Science & Technology Facilities Council |
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StGeo |
Studies in Geophysics |
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STIM |
Scanning Transmission Ion Microscopy |
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STKC |
Sonic-Tails-Knuckles-Channel |
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STL |
Solid To Layer |
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STLR |
Safety Thermal Limit Recorder |
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STM |
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy |
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StMaP |
Studies in Mathematical Physics |
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STMP |
Springer Tracts in Modern Physics |
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stn |
Supertwisted Nematic |
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STP |
Standard Temperature Pressure |
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STP |
Space Time Product |
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STPD |
Solar Terrestrial Physics Division |
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STS |
Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy |
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STSCI |
Space Telescope Science Institute |
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STSP |
Solar Terrestrial and Space Physics |
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STSSP |
Selected Topics in Solid State Physics |
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STV |
Space-Time Velocity |
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SU |
Superultramodern Unification |
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SUBI |
Southern Urals Biophysics Institute |
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SUNY |
State Universityrsity of New York |
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SUPER-K |
Super-Kamiokande |
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SURF |
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship |
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SURF-III |
The NIST Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility Electron Storage Ring |
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SUSIM |
Solar Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitor |
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SUSY |
Super Symmetry |
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SV |
Short Vector |
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SV |
Shock and Vibration |
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SVD |
Shock Vibration Digest |
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SVGL |
Silicon Valley Group Lithography |
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SvJPP |
Soviet Journal of Plasma Physics |
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SvPAC |
Soviet Physics Acoustics |
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SVPCS |
Springer Series on Physics Chemistry Space |
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SvPSS |
Soviet Physics Solid State |
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SVT |
Silicon Vertex Trigger |
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SW |
Same Wave |
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SW |
Surface Wave |
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SWAG |
Scientific Wild-Ass Guess. A Close Approximation. |
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SWAM |
Standing Wave Area Monitor |
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SWAP |
Short-Wavelength Automated Perimetry |
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SWATH |
Small-Waterplane Area Twin-Hull |
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SWBXT |
Synchrotron White Beam X-Ray Topography |
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SWCNT |
Single-Wall Carbon NanoTubes |
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SWG |
Standard Wire Gauge |
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SWIP |
Society of Women in Physics |
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SWIR |
Short Wave Infrared |
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SWIXR |
Short Wave Infrared Transfer Radiometer |
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SWNT(s) |
single-wall nanotube(s) |
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SXF |
Soft Xray Fluorescence |
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SXR |
SeaWiFS Transfer Radiometer |
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SYM |
Super Yang-Mills Theory |
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SZB |
Single Zone Boundary |
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T-O-F |
time of flight |
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TA |
Torque Amplifier |
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TAD |
time-averaged difference |
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TAF |
turbulent air flow |
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TAG |
Technical Advisory Group for Biological Control Agents of Weeds |
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TAGU |
Transactions of the American Geophysical Union |
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TAI |
International Atomic Time |
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TAM |
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics |
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TAMOC |
Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Community |
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TApPh |
Topics in Applied Physics |
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TAPS |
Three Arm Photon Spectrometer |
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TAPS |
Two-Arm Photon Spectrometer |
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TARDIS |
Time And Relative Dimensions In Space. Dr Who's company car, so to speak. I can confirm that it is 'Dimensions' not 'Dimension'. This begs the follow-up question as to whether the Dimensions are relative to each other or to time, or to both, or to somethi |
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TASSII |
Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Investigation |
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TBB |
Triple Beam Balance |
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TBDM |
Tissue Bubble Diffusion Model |
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TBL |
Turbulent Boundary Layer |
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TC |
Transmission Convergence (ATM) |
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TC |
Temperature Control |
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TC |
Thermal Conductivity |
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TC |
Technical Committee (HL7) |
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TC |
Thermal Control |
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TCAOCC |
Two-Center Atomic Orbital Close Coupling |
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TCAP |
Time-Correlated Associated Particle |
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TCB |
Temporal Coherence Boundary |
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TCBG |
Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group |
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TCD |
Thermal Conductivity response Detector |
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TCH |
Transmission Converter Hydraulic |
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TCM |
Temporally Consistent Mode |
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TCP |
topologically close-packed |
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TCPh |
Topics in Current Physics |
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TCS |
Three-Dimensional Complex Space Theory |
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TCT |
Tangent Chord Theorem |
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TCV |
Tokamak à Configuration Variable |
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TD |
Time Definite |
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Td |
temporal difference |
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TD |
Time Differential |
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TD-FW |
Time Domain Floquet Wave |
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TDC |
Time-To-Digital Convertor |
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TDCR |
Triple-to-Double Coincidence Ratio |
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TDH |
Total Dynamic Head |
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TDIF |
Teac Digital Interface Format |
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TDM |
Two Dimensional Material |
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TDR |
Time-Domain Reflectometry |
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TDS |
Time-Delay Spectrometry |
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TE |
Total energy |
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TEA |
Transverse Excitation At .... |
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TEC |
Thermally Expanded Core |
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Tectp |
Tectonophysics |
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TEF |
Time-Energy-Frequency |
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TEI |
Theorized Expansion Indicator |
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TEM |
Transparent Electron Microscope |
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TEM |
Tunneling Electron Microscopy |
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TEM |
Transverse Electromagnetic |
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TEMP |
Temperature |
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TEMPO |
Temporal Expressions Managing Parallel Objects |
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TEPC |
Tissue Equivalent Proportional Counter |
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TERC |
Tuned Electromagnetic Resonance Collar |
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TERS |
Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy |
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TERS |
Tip-Enhanced Raman Scattering |
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TESLA |
TeV-Energy Superconducting Linear Accelerator |
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TEV |
Tera (Billion) Electron Volts |
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TEXT |
Texas Experimental Tokamak |
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TF |
Temporal Formula |
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TFCS |
The Feedback Control of Sound |
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TFD |
Thermo Fluid Dynamics |
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TFT |
Turbulent Flow Technology |
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TFT |
Thin Film Transistor |
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TFTC |
Thin-Film Thermocouple |
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TFWM |
transient four-wave-mixing |
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TG |
Temperature Gradient |
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TGD |
Topological Geometro Dynamics |
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TGF |
Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flash |
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TGM |
Toroidal-Grating Monochromator |
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THD |
Total Harmonic Distortion |
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thermal and epithermal neutrons |
thermal and epithermal neutrons |
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THF |
Tunnel Hull Formula |
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THR |
Total Heat Rejection |
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THR |
Thru Hole Reflow |
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TI |
Transfer Ionization |
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TI |
Thermal Inertia |
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TIB |
Tracker Inner Barrel |
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TID |
Total Ionizing Dose |
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TID |
Time- Invariant Deterministic |
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TIM |
Total Imaging Matrix |
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TIMED |
Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics |
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TIMPAN |
Technology to IMProve Airframe Noise |
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TIMS |
Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry |
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TIP |
Timecal Imaging Process |
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TIRF |
Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence |
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TISAB |
total ionic strength adjustment buffer (analytical method) |
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TISOL |
TRIUMF Isotope Separator OnLine. |
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TJ |
TeraJoule |
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TJPH |
Turkish Journal of Physics |
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TKF |
Trifari Krussman and Fishel |
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TKN |
Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen |
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TL |
Total Length |
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TL |
Temporal Logic |
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TL |
Top Layer |
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TL |
Time Line |
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TLA |
Two Level Analysis |
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TLA |
Temporal Logic of Actions |
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TLC |
Theoretical Length of Cut |
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TLC |
Thin Layer Chromatography |
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TLC |
Transferring Linear Cubic |
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TLD |
Thermo-Luminescent Dosimeter systems |
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TLD |
Thermoluminescent Detector |
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TLE |
Two Line Elements |
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TLI |
Tilted Laser Image |
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TLIF |
Thin Layer Isoperichoric Focusing |
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TLK |
Two-Lesion Kinetic model |
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TLP |
Thread-Level Parallelism |
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TLS |
Two-Level tunneling System |
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TM |
Transverse Magnetic |
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TM |
Translation Modified |
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TMA |
Thermal Mechanical Analysis |
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tma |
Trimethylaluminum |
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TMBP |
Thermal Mechanical Back Plate |
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TMC |
Time Minimal Control |
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TMD |
Tuned Mass Damper |
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TMDE |
Test Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment |
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TME |
Theory Model Elimination |
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TME |
Total Mechanical Energy |
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TMP |
Thermo Mechanical Pulping |
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TMP |
Turbo Molecular Pump |
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TMP |
Theoretical and Mathematical Physics |
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TMS |
Tele Meter Setting |
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TN |
Temporary Number |
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TNA |
Thermal Neutron Analysis |
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TNO |
Trans-Neptunian Object |
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TNZ |
thermal neutrality zone |
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TOBSY |
Total ThroughBond Correlation Spectroscopy |
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TOE |
Theory of Everything |
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TOF |
Time-of-Flight Spectrometer |
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TOFMS |
Time-of-flight mass spectrometry |
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TOMO-SAR |
Synthetic Aperture Radar TOMOgraphy |
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TOMS |
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (satellite Instrument) |
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TOP |
Time Optimized Process |
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TOP |
Time-Orbiting-Potential Trap |
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TOR |
Total Outflow Resistance |
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TOSCA |
Toplological Oscillation Search with kinematic analysis |
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TOT |
Test of Time |
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TOT |
Typical Operating Temperature |
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TOTEM |
TOTal Elastic and diffractive cross section Measurement |
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TOV |
Threshold of Visibility |
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TP |
Toroidal Poloidal |
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TP |
Time Polygon |
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TP |
Transmission Projection |
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TP |
Terrain Polycount |
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TPAG |
Theory and Practice of Applied Geophysics |
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TPB |
Tetraphenyl Butadiene |
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TPD |
Temperature Programmed Desorption (for Gas Chromatography) |
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TPE |
thermal plus epithermal |
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TPF |
Two Photon Fluorescence |
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|
TPhy |
Techniques of Physics |
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|
TPIF |
Two-Photon Induced Fluorescence |
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TPM |
Transport in Porous Media |
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TPP |
Thermal Power Plant |
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TPR |
Tangential Pond Return |
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TPV |
Total Power Velocity |
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TQ |
Time Quotient |
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TQ |
Third Quantization |
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TQF |
Triple- Quantum- Filtered |
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TQM |
Total Quality Management |
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TQMD |
Temperature Quench Molecular Dynamics |
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TQW |
Triangular Quantum Well |
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|
TQW |
Time to Quasi-eXtinction |
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|
TR |
Time Reactor |
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|
TRFM |
Time Resolved Fluorescence Microscopy |
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TRIGA |
Training, Research and Isotope Reactor, General Atomics |
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|
TRIGA |
Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics |
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|
TRIUMF |
Tri-University Meson Facility |
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TRM |
Time-Reversal Mirror |
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TRU |
Transuranic |
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TS |
Temporal Synchronization |
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TS |
Time-Space |
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TS |
Tangential Section |
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TS |
Transition State |
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TSCC |
Tevatron Serial Crate Controller |
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TSCE |
Thermally Stimulated Charge Emission |
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TSD |
Time Speed Distance |
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TSFU |
Two Scale Factor Universality |
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TSLO |
Tracking Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope |
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TSM |
Time, Space, Matter |
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TSPM |
Time State Preference Model |
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|
TST |
Time-Space-Time |
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|
TsV |
Time Space Visualiser |
|
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TT |
Torsion Twist |
|
|
TTD |
transit-time distribution |
|
|
ttf |
TESLA Test Facility |
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|
ttp |
Trends in Theoretical Physics |
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|
TTSP |
Transport Theory and Statistical Physics |
|
|
TTY |
Torque to Yield |
|
|
TTZ |
Teisseyre Tornquist Zone |
|
|
TuFIR |
Tunable Far Infrared (Radiation) |
|
|
TUT |
Time Under Tension |
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|
TVS |
Temporal Variables Speaking |
|
|
TW |
Tietjen And Witters |
|
|
TW |
Top of Wall |
|
|
TWA |
time-weighted averaged |
|
|
TWF |
Time-Warped Field |
|
|
TWL |
Traveling Wave Laser |
|
|
TWRI |
Three-Wave Resonant Interaction |
|
|
TWT |
TimeWave Theory |
|
|
TWT |
Transonic Wind Tunnel |
|
|
TWT |
traveling-wave tube |
|
|
TWTA |
traveling-wave tube amplifier |
|
|
TWZ |
TimeWave Zero |
|
|
TXM |
Transmission X-ray Microscope |
|
|
TXR |
Thermal-infrared Transfer Radiometer |
|
|
TZFC |
Triple Zeta Frozen Core |
|
|
TZP |
Triple Zeta Plus |
|
|
U |
Uninterpretable |
|
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UA |
University of Arizona |
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UAM |
United Atom Model |
|
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UARS |
Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (NASA) |
|
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UASER |
Ultrasound Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
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|
UATD |
Uniform Asymptotic Theory of Diffraction |
|
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UB |
Upper Bound |
|
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UC |
Unit Cells |
|
|
UCB |
University of California, Berkeley |
|
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UCLA |
Harbor-University of California Los Angeles |
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UCLC |
University Consortium for Linear Collider Research & Development |
|
|
UCN |
Ultra Cold Neutron |
|
|
UCSUSA |
Union of Concerned Scientists, United States of America |
|
|
udc |
University of the District of Columbia's |
|
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UDD |
Neutron, one up quark (u) and two down quarks (d) |
|
|
UDM |
Unified Dimensional Model |
|
|
UE |
Universal Energy |
|
|
UEB |
Universal Energetic Balancing |
|
|
UEBP |
Universal Energetic Balancing Program |
|
|
UED |
Units, Events, and Dynamics |
|
|
UEQ |
Universal Energy Quanta |
|
|
UFM |
Ultrasonic Force Microscopy |
|
|
UFP |
Ultra-Fine Particle |
|
|
UFT |
Unified Field Test |
|
|
UHE |
Ultra High Energy |
|
|
UHF |
Ultra High Fidelity |
|
|
UHF |
Ultra High Frequency (300-3000 MHz; 1m-10cm) |
|
|
UHMW |
Ultra-High Molecular Weight |
|
|
UHSDS |
Ulta High Speed Deluge System |
|
|
UHT |
Ultra High Temperature |
|
|
UHV |
Use An Ultrahigh Vacuum |
|
|
UHV-SPM |
Ultra High Vacuum Scanning Probe Microscopy |
|
|
Uk |
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
|
|
UKB |
Unrestricted Kinetic Balance (in Calcns. Of Wave Functions And Energies) |
|
|
ULE |
Ultra Light Engineering |
|
|
ULP |
Ultra-short Light Pulse |
|
|
UltIm |
Ultrasonic Imaging |
|
|
ultra |
Ultrasonics |
|
|
ULV |
Ultra Low Volume |
|
|
ULVZ |
Ultra-Low Velocity Zone |
|
|
UMIST |
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology |
|
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UMRK |
Utility Muffin Research Kitchen |
|
|
UNESCO |
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
|
|
UNI |
Ultrafast Nonlinear Interferometer |
|
|
UNO |
Underground Nucleon decay and neutrino Observatory, located at WIPP. |
|
|
UPS |
Unilateral Phase System |
|
|
UPS |
Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy |
|
|
UPWT |
Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel |
|
|
URA |
Universities Research Association, Inc. |
|
|
URIA |
Undergraduate Research Institute in Astrophysics |
|
|
URL |
Universal Resource Locator |
|
|
URNC |
Ultra- Relativisitic Nuclear Collision |
|
|
URP |
Uniform Random Pattern |
|
|
URPT |
Upper Right corner PoinT |
|
|
URSA |
Universal Radiation Spectrum Analyzer |
|
|
US |
United States of America |
|
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USA |
United States of America |
|
|
USAE |
Ultrasound-Stimulated Acoustic Emission |
|
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USAIDR |
US Army Institute of Dental Research |
|
|
USAL |
Urban Spectra Artificial Light |
|
|
USCEA |
US Council for Energy Awareness |
|
|
USDA |
United States Department of Agriculture |
|
|
USEE |
Utilization of Stored Elastic Energy |
|
|
USFDA |
U.S. Food and Drug Administration |
|
|
USGCRP |
United States Global Change Research Program |
|
|
USGS |
United States Geological Survey (DOI) |
|
|
USM |
Unifying Semantic Model |
|
|
USNA |
U.S. Naval Academy |
|
|
USNC |
United States National Committee |
|
|
USNL |
Urban Spectra Natural Light |
|
|
USNO |
U.S. Naval Observatory |
|
|
USS |
Ultimate Shear Stress |
|
|
ussr |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republic |
|
|
UTA |
Unresolved Transition Array |
|
|
UTC |
Coordinated Universal Time |
|
|
UTD |
Uniform Theory of Diffraction |
|
|
UTE |
Universal Theory of Existence |
|
|
UTNF |
Ultraweak Thermalized Neutron Field |
|
|
UUD |
Proton, two up quarks (u) and one down quark (d) |
|
|
UV |
Ultraviolet (Light) |
|
|
UV-B |
Ultraviolet-Biological |
|
|
UVA |
University of Virginia |
|
|
uvb |
Ultraviolet Beta |
|
|
UVB |
Ultraviolet B |
|
|
UVC |
Ultra-Violet C (250-260nm) |
|
|
UVL |
UltraViolet Lamp |
|
|
UVV |
Ultra-Violet V (395-445nm) |
|
|
UVW |
Ultra-Violet Wave |
|
|
UXE |
Uniaxial Strain eXtension |
|
|
UXT |
Uniaxial Strain Test |
|
|
VA |
Volt Ampere |
|
|
VA |
Voltage Ampere |
|
|
VAC |
Voltage A C |
|
|
VAC |
Vacuum Assisted Closure |
|
|
VAC |
Volts Of Alternating Current |
|
|
VAPEPS |
Vibroacoustic Payload Environment Prediction System |
|
|
vars |
Variable Room Acoustic System |
|
|
VAT |
Vibro-Acoustic Test |
|
|
vata |
Vibroacoustic Test Article |
|
|
VATF |
Vibration and Acoustic Test Facility |
|
|
VBB |
Vortex Balance Board |
|
|
VCC |
Vertical Concrete Cask |
|
|
Vcc |
Voltage Collector-to-Collector (transistors) |
|
|
VCM |
Voice-Coil Motor |
|
|
VCO |
voltage control oscillator |
|
|
VCS |
Virtual Compton Scattering |
|
|
VCSEL |
Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser |
|
|
VCZ |
Van Cittert-Zernicke theorem |
|
|
VDG |
Van de Graaff |
|
|
VEEL |
Vibrational and Electronic Energy Levels |
|
|
VET |
Vibration Energy Transfer |
|
|
VFD |
Vector Field Diffusion |
|
|
VFH |
Vector Field Histogram |
|
|
VGL |
VIrtual Geophysics Laboratory |
|
|
VGX |
Virtual Gravity Experiment |
|
|
VHF |
Variable Hertz Frequency |
|
|
VHF |
Very High Frequency |
|
|
VHS |
Van Hove Singularity |
|
|
VHSIC |
Very-High-Speed Integrated Circuit |
|
|
VHT |
Very High Temperature |
|
|
VIA |
Vacuum Insertion Approximation |
|
|
VIBGYOR |
Violet,Indigo,Blue,Green,Yellow,Orange,Red |
|
|
VICTOR |
Velocity Induced Creation Transitory Optical Receiver |
|
|
Vis |
Visible |
|
|
VIV |
Vortex Induced Vibration |
|
|
VL |
Vacuum Level |
|
|
VLA |
Very Large Array |
|
|
VLBA |
Very Long Baseline Array |
|
|
VLBI |
Very Long Baseline Interferometer |
|
|
VLG |
Varying Localized Geminal |
|
|
VLHC |
Very Large Hadron Collider |
|
|
VLHC |
Very-Large Hadron Collider |
|
|
VLJ |
Lennard- Jones Velocity |
|
|
VLT |
Visible Light Transmission |
|
|
VLT |
Very Large Telescope |
|
|
VMD |
Visual Molecular Dynamics |
|
|
VNIIFTRI |
National Scientific and Russian Research Institute for Physical, Technical and Radiotechnical Measurements |
|
|
VNIIM |
Mendeleyev Institute of Metrology |
|
|
VNIIOF |
All-Union Research Institute for Optical and Physical Measurements |
|
|
VOC |
Volts, Open-Circuit |
|
|
VOX |
Voice Operated EXchange |
|
|
VP |
Vapor Pressure |
|
|
VP |
Velocity Precision |
|
|
VPI |
Virtual Plane Imaging |
|
|
VPM |
Virtual Phase Microscope |
|
|
VPSF |
Vacuum Plasma Spray Forming |
|
|
vpt |
Vizag Port Trust |
|
|
VQL |
Variable Quantizing Level |
|
|
VQM |
Visual Quantum Mechanics |
|
|
VQN |
Vibrational Quantum Number |
|
|
VQW |
Vertical Quantum Well |
|
|
VQW |
Voronoi Quantized Crossover |
|
|
VR |
Vertex Replacement |
|
|
VR |
Vibration Resistance |
|
|
vr |
Vibrationally resonant |
|
|
VR |
Vibrational Rotational |
|
|
VR-SFG |
Vibrationally Resonant Sum-frequency Generation |
|
|
VRM |
Vector Ruggedness Measure |
|
|
VRML |
Virtual Reality Markup Language |
|
|
VRS |
Vortex Ring State |
|
|
VRSF |
Vickers Residual Stress Field |
|
|
VRV |
Variable Radial Velocity |
|
|
Vs |
Voltage Source |
|
|
VS |
Viscous Stress |
|
|
VS |
Voltage Sags |
|
|
VSV |
Vacuum Switching Valve |
|
|
VSV |
Vacant Surrounding Volume |
|
|
VT |
Valid Time |
|
|
VTC |
Vibration Thermal Chamber |
|
|
VTD |
Variable Torque Differential |
|
|
vtps |
Vibroacoustic Test Plan Summary |
|
|
vts |
Vibroacoustic Test Summary |
|
|
VTZ |
Valence Triple Zeta (basis Set) |
|
|
VU |
Volume Unit |
|
|
VUV |
Vacuum Ultraviolet |
|
|
VVT |
Variable Volume and Temperature |
|
|
VWC |
Vector Wavelet Coding |
|
|
VWN |
Vosko- Wilk- Nusair |
|
|
VXR |
Visible Transfer Radiometer |
|
|
VXT |
Virtual Axis Tilt |
|
|
W |
Weak |
|
|
W/F |
Wandel/ Fietstochten |
|
|
WAFAC |
Wide-Angle Free-Air Chamber |
|
|
WAMW |
Weight-Average Molecular Weight |
|
|
WANF |
West Area Neutrino Facility |
|
|
WANFCS |
West Area Neutrino Facility Control System |
|
|
WAVE |
Wavelength Absorption For Visual Enhancement |
|
|
WAVT |
Wave Type |
|
|
WAXD |
Wide-Angle X-Ray Diffraction |
|
|
WAXS |
Wide Angle X-ray Scattering |
|
|
WBCT |
Wavelet Based Contourlet Transform |
|
|
WBFA |
Wavelet Based Fractal Approximation |
|
|
WBFT |
Wavelet Based Fractal Transform |
|
|
WBGT |
Wet-Bulb Globe Thermometer |
|
|
WBNR |
Wavelet Based Noise Removal |
|
|
WBTF |
Water Balance Transfer Function |
|
|
WCA |
Wide Cavity Application |
|
|
WCFF |
Worst Case Fractionated Formulation |
|
|
WCFG |
Weighted Control Flow Graph |
|
|
WCFG |
Weakly Complete Finitely Generated |
|
|
WCFZ |
Worst Case Fresnel Zone |
|
|
WCMB |
Weighted Combined Phase |
|
|
WCPE |
World Conference on Physics Education |
|
|
WCVF |
Wavelet Coefficient Variance Function |
|
|
WD |
Weak Dipole |
|
|
WDBF |
Work Done By Friction |
|
|
WDDL |
Wave Dynamic Differential Logic |
|
|
WDFF |
Weak Dipole Form Factor |
|
|
WDFT |
Warped Discrete Fourier Transform |
|
|
WDM |
Wavelength-Division Multiplexing |
|
|
WDM |
Without Deviation Mode |
|
|
WDW |
Wheeler De- Witt equation |
|
|
WDWF |
Wavelet- Domain Wiener Filter |
|
|
WDXRF |
Wavelength Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence |
|
|
WDXS |
Wavelength Dispersive Xray Spectroscopy |
|
|
WEDG |
Wire Electro-Discharge Grinding |
|
|
WEMC |
Western European Metrology Club |
|
|
WERB |
Washington Editorial Review Board |
|
|
WETT |
Water Energy Technology Team |
|
|
WF |
Weak Field |
|
|
WFBD |
Wavelet And Filter Banks Design |
|
|
WFEM |
Waveguide Finite Element Method |
|
|
WFI |
Water For Injection (pharmaceutical Term) |
|
|
WFPP |
Weak Fixed Point Property |
|
|
WFS |
Wave Field Synthesis |
|
|
WFSM |
Wave Front Steering Mirror |
|
|
WFSM |
Weak Field And Slow Motion |
|
|
WFSS |
Weak Field Seeking State |
|
|
wfst |
Weighted Finite State Transducers |
|
|
WFTE |
Wigner Function Transport Equation |
|
|
WFTF |
Well Formed Temporal Formula |
|
|
WFVS |
Weighted Feedback Vertex Set |
|
|
WFWA |
Wavelength First Weight Assignment |
|
|
WFWS |
Weak Formal Weierstrass System |
|
|
WG |
Working Group |
|
|
WGCM |
Working Group on Coupled Modelling |
|
|
WGCV |
Working Group on Calibration and Validation |
|
|
WGDM |
Working Group For Dimensional Metrology |
|
|
WGFF |
Working Group for Fluid Flow |
|
|
WGFS |
Working Gas Flow Standard |
|
|
WGRS |
Word Graphic Rating Scale |
|
|
WGTS |
Windowless Gaseous Tritium Source |
|
|
WHC |
Washington Hospital Center |
|
|
WHHM |
Werthamer Helfand Hohenberg and Maki |
|
|
WHIP |
Wide Horizontal Image Plane |
|
|
WHO |
World Health Organization |
|
|
WHVQ |
Wavelet-based Hierarchical Vector Quantization |
|
|
WI |
Wavelet Image |
|
|
WIAS |
Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics |
|
|
WICM |
Waves in Complex Media |
|
|
WIM |
Warm Ionized Medium |
|
|
WIMP |
Weakly Interacting Massive Particle |
|
|
WIMPS |
Weakly Interacting Massive Particles Scientists |
|
|
WIP |
Wire Ionized Plasma |
|
|
WIPG |
Weakly Ionized Plasma Group |
|
|
WIPM |
Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics |
|
|
WIPP |
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (for Nuclear Wastes) |
|
|
WISE |
Women in Science and Engineering |
|
|
WISF |
Weakly Interacting Spinless Fields |
|
|
WIT |
Wavelinks Interpreting Time |
|
|
WKB |
Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (phase-shift Formula For Potential Scattering) |
|
|
WL |
Wood's Light [uv] |
|
|
WL |
Weak Localization |
|
|
WLF |
Williams-Landel-Ferry equation |
|
|
WLLN |
Weak Law of Large Numbers |
|
|
WLM |
Weak Localization Model |
|
|
WLOG |
Without Loss Of Generality. Mathematical term, and applicable more generally, to justify the use of an isolated case in proving an issue, when the need for wider evidence is not required or is irrelevant and would be a waste of time. (Thanks E Key) |
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|
WMAP |
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe |
|
|
WMFI |
Wave, Mean Flow Interaction |
|
|
WMO |
World Metrological Organization |
|
|
WMVA |
Wavepath Migration Velocity Analysis |
|
|
WMVQ |
Wavelet-based Multiscale Vector Quantizer |
|
|
WN |
Weak Normalization |
|
|
WNM |
Warm Neutral Medium |
|
|
WNO |
Weakly Non- Oscillatory |
|
|
WOG |
Wicked Old Gnome |
|
|
WONP |
Workshop on Nuclear Physics |
|
|
WPAG |
Workshop Physics Activity Guide |
|
|
WPMA |
Working Party on Measurement Activities |
|
|
WPOA |
Weak-Phase-Object Approximation |
|
|
WRR |
Weakly Regular Relation |
|
|
WSPG |
water surface pressure gradient |
|
|
WSPM |
Wavelet-based Statistical Parametric Mapping |
|
|
WSQ |
Wavelet Scalar Quantization |
|
|
WSQS |
Winter School on Quantum Simulations |
|
|
WSTC |
Westinghouse Science and Technology Center |
|
|
WTCQ |
Wavelet Trellis Coded Quantization |
|
|
WTMM |
Wavelet Transform Modulus Maxima |
|
|
WVAV |
Wavelet Volume Analysis and Visualization |
|
|
WVQ |
Wavelet Vector Quantization |
|
|
WWGM |
Weyl- Wigner- Groenewold- Moyal quantization |
|
|
WWV |
Call letters for NIST short-wave radio station in Colorado |
|
|
WWVB |
Call letters for NIST lf radio station in Colorado |
|
|
WWVH |
Call letters for NIST short-wave radio station in Hawaii |
|
|
WWW |
World Wide Web |
|
|
WXRF |
Wavelength-dispersive X- Ray Fluorescence |
|
|
WYP |
World Year of Physics |
|
|
WYSIWYG |
What You See Is What You Get (pronounced Wizzy-wig. See Entry For Derived Acronyms) |
|
|
WZW |
Wess-Zumino-Witten |
|
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X |
Horizontal axis in Cartesian coordinate system |
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xanes |
X-ray absorption near-edge structure spectroscopy |
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XAS |
X-ray absorption |
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XBT |
expendable bathythermograph (oceanography) |
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XDB |
X-Ray Data Booklet |
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XL |
eXpanding Limit |
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XLS |
Xenon Light Source |
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XMCD |
X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism |
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XMLD |
X-ray Magnetic Linear Dichroism |
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XMLL |
X-ray Magnetic Linear Loop |
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XPOP |
X is Perpendicular to Orbit Plane |
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XPS |
X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy |
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XPS |
X-Ray Photoemission Spectroscopy |
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XQ |
X-ray Quantum |
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XQC |
X-ray Quantum Calorimeter |
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XRD |
X-Ray Diffraction |
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XRF |
X-Ray Fluorescence |
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XRL |
X-Ray Lithography |
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XROI |
X-Ray Optical Interferometer |
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XRR |
X-ray Reflectivity |
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XRR |
X-Ray Reflectometry |
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XRS |
X-Ray Spectrometer |
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XSV |
Expendable Sound Velocimeter |
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XSW |
X-Ray Standing Wave |
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XT |
X Transpose |
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XTE/PCA |
X-ray Timing Explorer/Proportional Counter Array |
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XTI |
Cross-Track Interferometric |
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XUV |
Extreme Ultraviolet |
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Y |
Young's Modulus of elasticity |
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Y' |
Out-of-plane Velocity - vertical |
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YAEL |
Yankee Atomic Environmental Laboratory |
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Yag |
Holmium:yttrium-aluminum-garnet |
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YAG |
Yttrium Aluminum Garnet |
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Yb:YAG |
Ytterbium: Yttrium-Aluminum-Garnet |
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YBCO |
Yttrium-Barium-Cuprate |
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YKP |
Yano- Koonin- Podgoretskii |
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YM |
Yang Mills method |
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YP |
Yield Point |
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YPP |
Young Particle Physicists |
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YS |
Yield Strength |
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YSE |
Yield Stress Envelope |
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YY |
Yoboseyo And Yeu |
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Z |
Depth axis in Cartesian coordinate system |
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ZC |
Zeta Current |
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ZDC |
Zero-Degree Calorimeter |
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ZDR |
Zeroth-order Design Report |
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ZDR |
Z-Differential Reflectivity |
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ZETA |
Zero Energy Thermonuclear Apparatus |
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ZEV |
Zero Electron Volts |
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ZF |
Zero Field |
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ZFF |
Zero Forcing Function |
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ZGS |
Zero Gradient Synchrotron |
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ZH |
Z Hole |
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