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        Popular Acronyms

        Commonly used term that is formed from a set of letters representing a word or words identifying a phrase or concept. These acronyms are for subjects typically addressed in NEMA (another example of an acronym) documents or activities.

        AASHTO = American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
        ABINEE = Brazilian Electrical and Electronic Industry Association
        ABNT = Brazilian Association of Technical Standards
        AC = Alternating current
        ADSL = Asymmetric digital subscriber line
        AENOR = Spanish National Committee of the IEC
        AES = Audio Engineering Society
        AHAM = Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers
        AHG = Ad hoc group
        AIE = International Association of Electrical Contractors
        AIMD = Active implementable medical devices
        AIS = Air insulated substation
        ANCE = The Mexican standard writing, testing and certifying agency for the electrical sector.
        ANSI = American National Standards Institute
        ANWR = Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
        AOPDDR = Active opto-electronic protective device responsive to diffuse reflection.
        APEC = Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
        ARI = Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute
        ASC = Accredited Standards Committee
        ASIC = (programmable) Application specific IC (semi-custom IC)
        ASQ = American Society for Quality
        ASTM = American Society for Testing and Materials
        AWG = American wire gauge
        AWS = American Welding Society
        BIAP = International Office for Audiophonology
        BIPM = International Bureau of Weights and Measures
        BoG = Board of Governors
        BR = Radiocommunication Bureau
        CANAME = Mexican National Chamber of Commerce
        CANENA = The Council for Harmonization of Electrotechnical Standards of the Nations of the Americas
        CASC = Conformity & Assessment Subcommittee
        CD = Committee Draft
        CDA = Copper Development Association
        CDV = Committee Draft for Vote
        CEC = Commission of the European Communities
        CECC = CENELEC Electronic Components Committee
        CEN = European Committee for Standardization
        CENELEC = The European body that sets electrical Standards.
        CEPT = European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations
        CIB = International Council for Building Research Studies and Documentation
        CIE = International Commission on Illumination
        CIGRE = International Conference on Large High Voltage Electric Systems
        CIRED = International Conference on Electricity Distribution
        CIRM = International Maritime Radio Association
        CLC = CENELEC = European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
        COBEI = Committee of Brazilian Electricity Industry
        COPANT = Pan American Commission on Technical Standards
        CPSC = U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
        CSA = Canadian Standards Association
        CTI = Comparative tracking index
        CTL = Committee of testing laboratories of the IEC system
        CWDM = Coarse wave division multiplexing
        C&S = Codes and Standards Committee
        DC = Direct current
        DICOM = Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
        DTS = Draft of Technical Specification
        DWDM = Dense wavelength division multiplexing
        EBU = European Broadcasting Union
        ECMA = European Computer Manufacturers Association
        EDA = Electronic Design Automation
        EFET = European Federation of Energy Traders
        EFOMP = European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics
        EHIMA = European Hearing Instrument Manufacturers Association
        EHV = Extra high voltage
        EIA = Electronic Industries Association
        EICTA = European Information and Communications Technology Industry Association
        ELSECOM = European Electrotechnical Standards Committee
        EMC = Electromagnetic compatibility
        EMI = Electromagnetic interference
        EPDM = Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer
        EPRI = Electric Power Research Institute
        ESD = Electrostatic discharge
        ETSI = European Telecommunications Standards Institute
        ETSO = European Transmission Systems Operators
        EURELECTRIC = The Union of the Electricity Industry
        FDIS =Final Draft International Standard
        FHWA = Federal Highway Administration
        FID = International Federation for Information and Documentation
        FIESP = Federation of Industries of the State of Sao Paulo
        FTAA = Free Trade Agreement of the Americas
        GIS = Gas insulated substation
        HIA = Hearing Industries Association
        HIMA = Health Industry Manufacturers Association
        HPS = Health Physics Society
        HTML = Hypertext markup language
        HV = High voltage
        IAAC = Inter-American Accreditation Council
        IAEA = International Atomic Energy Agency/Authority
        IAEI = International Association of Electrical Inspectors
        IARU = International Amateur Radio Union
        ICAO = International Civil Aviation Organization
        ICNIRP = International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection
        ICRP = International Commission on Radiological Protection
        ICRU = International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements
        IEC = International Electrotechnical Commission
        IEEE = Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
        IEEE-SPDC = Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-Surge Protective Devices Committee
        IEEJ = The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan
        IIW = International Institute of Welding
        IK codes = Degrees of protection provided by enclosures for electrical equipment against external mechanical impacts.
        ILO = International Labour Office
        INMETRO = The National System of Metrology, Standardization, and Industrial Quality
        IOCU = International Organization of Consumers Unions
        IPC = Institute for Interconnecting and Packaging of Electronic Circuits
        IRPA = International Radiation Protection Association
        IRSC = International and Regional Standardization Committee
        ISO = International Organization for Standardization
        ISO/CASCO = Committee on Conformity Assessment
        ISSA = International Social Security Association
        ITU = International Telecommunication Union
        ITU-R = International Telecommunication Union - Radiocommunications
        ITU-T = International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication
        IUPAP = International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
        JEDEC =Joint Electronic Device Engineering Council
        JEITA = Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association ">JEITA = Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association
        JPCA = Japanese Printed Circuit boards Association
        JTF = Joint Task Force
        JWES = Japan Welding Engineering Society
        KCMIL = KCMIL wire size is the equivalent cross-sectional area in thousands of circular mills. A circular mill is the are of a circle with a diameter of one thousandth (0.001) of an inch.
        LAG = Advisory Group on Legal Aspects (TC 56)
        LED = Light emitting diodes
        MCM = Multi-chip module
        MDMA = Medical Device Manufacturers Association
        MERCOSUR = The Southern Common Market
        MQSA = Mammography Quality Standards Act
        MSDS = Material Safety Data Sheet
        NACFAM = National Coalition for Advanced Manufacturing
        NAESB = North American Energy Standards Board
        NCRP = National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements
        NECA = Nippon Electrical Control Association
        NEMA = National Electrical Manufacturers Association
        NERC = North American Electric Reliability Council
        NOM = Norma Official Mexicana
        NTCIP = National Transportation Communications for ITS Protocol
        OEM = Original equipment manufacturer
        OIDDI = Open Interoperable Domain Dictionary Initiative
        OIML = International Organization for Legal Metrology
        ORGALIME = Liaison group of the European mechanical, electrical, electronic and metalworking industries
        PASC = Pacific Area Standards Congress
        PCB = Polychlorinated biphenyls; or Printed circuit board
        PELV = Protective extra low voltage
        PLIB = Parts Libraries
        QSAR = Quality System Assessment Recognition
        RCD = Residual current device
        RF = Radio frequency
        RIV = Radio interference voltage
        ROHS = Restriction on Hazardous Substances
        SAB = Science Advisory Board
        SAG = Strategic Advisory Group (TC 56)
        SCAPC = Standards and Conformity Assessment Policy Committee
        SELV = Safety extra-low voltage
        SF6 = Sulphur hexafluoride
        SGFS = Special Group on Functional Standardization
        Si2 = Silicon Integration Initiative
        SMPTE = Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
        SPD = Surge Protective Device
        STP = Standards Technical Panel
        TAG = Technical Advisory Group
        TEM = Transverse electromagnetic (mode)
        TS = Technical Specification
        UCIEE = Uniao Certificadora da Industria Electro-Electronica
        UCPTE = Union for the Coordination of the Production and Transport of Electric Power
        UIC = International Union of Railways
        UIE = International Union for Electroheat
        UITP = International Union of Public Transports
        UL = Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
        USNC = U.S. National Committee
        VRLA = Valve regulated lead-acid (battery or cell)
        WDM = Wavelength division multiplexing
        WEEE = Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
        WHO = World Health Organization
        WT = Wind turbine

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