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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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