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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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