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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 |
|
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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 CientÃficas-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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
ECS |
Energy-Corrected-Sudden |
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ECSED |
Electronic Commerce in Scientific and Engineering Data |
|
|
ECT |
Edge Crush Testing |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
EJPh |
European Journal of Physics |
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|
EJTP |
Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics |
|
|
EL |
Europhysics Letters |
|
|
EL |
Electro-luminescence |
|
|
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 |
|
|
ELT |
Extremely Large Telescope |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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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