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CONTENTS
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Oddballs .......................................................................................................... 4
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Alpha ............................................................................................................... 7
Beta ............................................................................................................... 33
Charlie ........................................................................................................... 48
Delta.............................................................................................................. 74
Echo .............................................................................................................. 87
Foxtrot .......................................................................................................... 99
Golf.............................................................................................................. 109
Hotel ........................................................................................................... 116
India ............................................................................................................ 124
Juliet ........................................................................................................... 137
Kilo .............................................................................................................. 140
Lima ............................................................................................................ 143
Mike ............................................................................................................ 153
November.................................................................................................... 169
Oscar ........................................................................................................... 180
Papa ............................................................................................................ 188
Quebec ........................................................................................................ 207
Romeo ......................................................................................................... 209
Sierra........................................................................................................... 220
Tango .......................................................................................................... 239
Uniform ....................................................................................................... 252
Victor........................................................................................................... 257
Whiskey ...................................................................................................... 267
X-ray ........................................................................................................... 273
Yankee ........................................................................................................ 275
Zulu ............................................................................................................. 279
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Measures of Ale........................................................................................... 280
SI Number prefixes ..................................................................................... 281
Chemical elements and atomic numbers .................................................... 282
Greek alphabet ........................................................................................... 286
Airport Codes .............................................................................................. 288
DNS country codes ...................................................................................... 314
Internet Chat .............................................................................................. 320
Smileys ........................................................................................................ 335
Project Management................................................................................... 337
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1. Oddballs
'. Foot/Feet. Linear measure. 12" = 1' = 30,48 cm (Weights & Measures, Imperial/1.05)
!. I have a comment. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
". Inch/Inches. Linear measure. 1" = 25,4 mm (Weights & Measures, Imperial/1.05)
&&&&. Pretzels. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
(%>. Pizza. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
(::()::). Bandaid. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
(_). Mug of coffee or beer. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
(_\_)(_|_)(_/_). Dancing ass off. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
****. Popcorn. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
,,l,. The finger. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
.02. My two cents worth. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
:'. Crying. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
:-#. Lips are sealed. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
:-&. Tongue tied. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
:(. Frown. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
:'-(. Crying sadly. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
:-(. Sad. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
:( ). Can't stop talking. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
:'-). Crying with joy. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
:-). Smiley. The converse is :-( to understand tilt your head 90 degrees to the left, alternatively turn
the sheet you are holding or screen you are viewing 90 degrees clockwise. There are various
similar pictograms, which are a legacy from text based computer systems. However I do not feel
it is within the scope of this serious document to cover them all (Oh well I succumbed and added
some more). ;-) Gareth (IT, Pictograms/1.05)
:-------). Viagra smile. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
:*). Clowning, drunk, larking about. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
::POOF::. Goodbye (leaving the room). (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
:-@. Screaming. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
:-\. Undecided. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
:-{}. Blowing a kiss. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
:-|. Ambivalent. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
:~/. Mixed Up. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
:->. Devilish. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
:-6. Exhausted, wiped out. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
:-9. Delicious, yummy. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
:-c. Bummed out. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
:-I. Indifferent. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
:-O. Mouth open (surprised or shocked). (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
:P. Disgusted (sticking out tongue). (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
:-Гћ~. Drooling. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
;-). Wink. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
;->. Devilish wink. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
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?. I have a question. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
?€?€. Hiding, staring in the dark. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
@. At or each. This symbol has attained fame since it is used to separate the recipient from the
address in an internet email address. Which is a fortunate coincidence since the symbol also
means at. E.g. [email protected]. See DNS (General/1.06)
@[_]~~. Mug of hot coffee or tea. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
@}--{--{--. Rose. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
[$X$]. No spam!!. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
\_/. Glass (drink). (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
\~/. Full glass. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
\M/. Heavy metal music. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
\-o. Bored. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
^. Thumbs up. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
^5. High five. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
{\o/}. Angel. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
{{ }}:**. Hugs and kisses. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
{{{{{{name}}}}}}. Hug (warm cyber hug). (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
{{{name}}}. Hug (cyber hug). (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
|C|. Can of Coke. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
|-I. Asleep. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
|-O. Yawning. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
|P|. Can of Pepsi. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
<<{:}}. Ice cream. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
<chuckle>. The speaker chuckles. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
<frown>. The speaker is frowning. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
<g>. Grin. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
<grin>. The speaker is grinning. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
<o> <o>. Staring. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
<o>Вї~~. Wink. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
<sarcasm>. The one writing the message is being sarcastic. Written in the form of HTML tags, Eg:
<sarcasm>That makes sense!</sarcasm> (IT, Pictograms/2.14)
<smile>. The one writing the message is smiling. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
<smirk>. The one writing the message is smirking. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
<wink>. The one writing the message is winking. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
>:-(. Angry. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
>^-^<. Cat. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
0;-)-x-<. The saint. (IT, Pictograms/2.11)
1337. Elite (see leet). (IT, Internet Chat/2.14)
1G. First generation. Generic name for first generation of analogue mobile telephone systems
designed for voice transfer. (AMPS, NMT, TACS) (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
2G. Second generation. Generic name for second generation of digital mobile networks (GSM) (IT,
Telecommunications/2.04)
2i/c. Second in Command. (Military/1.10)
2MI. Too much information. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
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2U2. To You Too. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
3G. Third generation. Generic name for third generation digital mobile networks (Universal Mobile
Telecommunications System) (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
3GPP. 3G Partnership Project. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
404. I haven't a clue (inspired by Error 404). (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
4COL. For Crying Out Loud. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
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2. Alpha
a. Arterial. (Medical/1.05)
A. Amber. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
A. Adult. (Medical/1.05)
A. Angstrom. (Medical/1.05)
A. Ampere. See kA, mA (Weights & Measures, Electrical/2.11)
A. Anterior. (Medical/1.05)
A. Allergy. (Medical/1.05)
A&E. Accident and Emergency. (General/2.14)
A&P. Auscultation And Percussion. (Medical/1.05)
A.d. Anno domini. Of the Christian era. In the year of the Lord. (Latin, French, Greek/1.05)
A.m. Ante meridiem. Before noon. (Latin, French, Greek/1.05)
A/A. Air to Air. For example A/A missiles, A/A communications. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
A/C. Assist Control. (Medical/1.05)
A/G. Abumin Globulin Ratio. (Medical/1.05)
A/G. Air to Ground. For example A/G missiles, A/G communications. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
A/S/L?. Age/sex/location?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
A/S/M. Aperture priority / Shutter priority / Manual. (General/2.09)
A2. Aortic Second Sound. (Medical/1.05)
AA. Administrative Assistant. (General/2.10)
aa. Of Each. (Medical/1.05)
Aa. Alveolar Arterial. (Medical/1.05)
AA. Atomic Absorption. (General/2.10)
AA. Achievement Age. (Medical/1.05)
AA. Aluminium Association. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
AA. Alcoholics Anonymous. (Medical/1.05)
AA. Automobile Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.02)
AA. Anti Aircraft. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
AA. Association of Anaesthesists. (Medical/1.05)
AAA. Anti Aircraft Artillery. Rapid-firing cannon or machine guns, often aimed by computers and radar
(Aviation Civil and Military/1.08)
AAA. Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
AAA. Action on Alcohol Abuse. (General/2.10)
AAA. Amended Meteorological Message. AAB, AAC, etc. in sequence (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AAA. American Automobile Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.02)
AAAW. Advanced Air launched Anti armour Weapon. (Military/1.06)
AAC. Army Air Corps. (Military/1.06)
AACC. American Association for Containment Control. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
AACI. Airport Association Council International. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AADE. American Association of Drilling Engineers. (Drilling/2.16)
AAE. Acute Allergic Encephalitis. (Medical/1.05)
AAE. Annaba Airport. Algeria. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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AAIB. Air Accident Investigation Branch. (Government office/2.14)
AAK. Automatisk Adgangs Kontroll. Automatic Admission Control. Norwegian. Comprising card
readers, personal entry cards, card production equipment, and supervisory software
(Security/1.05)
AAL. Anterior Axilary Line. (Medical/1.05)
AAL. Aalborg Airport. Denmark. (Airport Codes/1.05)
AAL. ATM Adaptation Layer. (IT, Computing/1.05)
AAL. Above Aerodrome Level. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AALA. American Association for Laboratory Accreditation. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
AAMOF. As A Matter Of Fact. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
AAN. Al Ain Airport. United Arab Emirats. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AAR. Tirstrup. Г…rhus Airport. Denmark. (Airport Codes/1.07)
AAR. Air to Air Refuelling. (Military/1.06)
AATCC. American Association of Textile Chemicals and Colourists.
Institute/1.07)
(Association, Society,
AAV. Annulus Access Valve. (Drilling/2.16)
ab. Abortion. (Medical/1.05)
Ab. Antibody. (Medical/1.05)
AB. Apical Beat. (Medical/1.05)
AB. A blood type. (Medical/2.02)
ab initio. from first principles. (Latin, French, Greek/2.14)
ABA. Poly Acrylonitrile Butadiene Acrylate. (General/2.14)
Abandon. To stop production from an oil well, that is no longer productive. The well is plugged with
cement and equipment is salvaged (Petrochemical/1.08)
ABCA. Standards bodies of America, Britain, Canada and Australia.
Institute/2.10)
(Association, Society,
ABCB. Association of British Certification Bodies. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ABCC. Association of British Chambers of Commerce. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ABCL. Automatic Barrier Crossing, locally monitored. (General/2.10)
ABD. Abadan Airport. Iran. Duplicate see ABO (Airport Codes/1.06)
abd. Abdomen. (Medical/1.05)
ABE. Allentown Airport. PA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ABEG. Achieving Best Evidence Guidelines. (Policing/2.14)
ABF. Abaiang Airport. Atoll Kiribati. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ABG. Abingdon Airport. QL. Australia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ABG. Arterial Blood Gas. (Medical/1.05)
ABH. Actual Bodily Harm. (Policing/2.14)
ABI. Advanced Boundary Information. Or Advance Boundary Information (message) (Aviation Civil
and Military/1.05)
ABI. Abilene Airport. TX. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ABI. Association of British Insurers. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
ABJ. Abidjan Airport. Cote D'ivoire. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ABL. Axiobuccolingual. (Medical/1.05)
ABM. Anti Ballistic Missile. (Military/1.05)
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ABM. Asynchronous Balanced Mode. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ABM. ABeaM. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ABMA. American Bearing Manufacturing Association. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
ABMEC. Association of British Mining Equipment Companies. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ABMP. Association of British Meat Processors. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
abn. Abnormal. (Medical/1.05)
ABN. Aerodrome BeacoN. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ABNT. Associacao Brasileira de Normas (Brazil). (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ABO. A system for classifying blood types, A, B, AB, and O. (Medical/2.02)
ABO. Abadan Airport. Iran. Duplicate see ABD (Airport Codes/1.06)
ABPI. Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ABQ. Albuquerque Airport. NM. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ABR. Average Bit Rate. A term used in digital audio compression (The size of a VBR audio file divided
by the duration) (IT, Digital music/2.11)
ABR. Aberdeen Airport. SD. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ABR. Available Bit Rate. When using an ATM network there is a choice of classes for carrying traffic
(transmitting data). Available Bit Rate is one such class. See CBR, VBR, UBR (IT, Computing/1.05)
ABS. Poly Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene. (General/2.14)
ABS. American Bureau of Shipping. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
ABS. Abu Simbel Airport. Egypt. (Airport Codes/1.06)
abs. Absent. (Medical/1.05)
ABT. ABouT. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ABV. ABoVe. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ABV. Abuja Airport. Nigeria. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ABVD. Doxorubicin, Bleomycin, Vinblastine, Dacarbazine. (Medical/1.05)
ABY. Albany Airport. GA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ABZ. Aberdeen Airport. Scotland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
ac. Acute. (Medical/1.05)
Ac. Actinium. Atomic number 89. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
AC. Advisory Committee. (General/2.10)
AC. Advisory Circular. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
AC. Atriocarotid. (Medical/1.05)
AC. Axiocervical. (Medical/1.05)
AC. Adrenal Cortex. (Medical/1.05)
AC. Anodal Closure. (Medical/1.05)
ac. Ante Cibum (Before Meals). (Medical/1.05)
ac. Ascension Island. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
AC. Air Conditioning. (General/2.02)
AC. AltoCumulus. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AC. Alternating Current. (Electrical/1.05)
AC. Acetylcholine. (Medical/1.05)
ACA. Acapulco Airport. Mexico. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ACAI. Alkali and Clean Air Inspectorate. (General/2.10)
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ACARS. Airborne Addressing Communication & Reporting Systems. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
ACARS. American Communication And Report System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ACAS. Airborne Collision Avoidance System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ACAS. Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service. (General/1.05)
ACB. Assistance Call Button. (Security/2.13)
acc. Accident. (Medical/1.05)
ACC. Assistant Chief Constable. (Policing/2.14)
ACC. Air Command and Control. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ACC. Association of County Councils. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ACC. Area Control Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ACC. Accra Airport. Ghana. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ACCID. Notification of an aircraft accident. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ACCIS. Automated Command and Control Information System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ACCS. Air Command and Control System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ACD. Acandi Airport. Colombia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ACD. Automatic Call Distribution. (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
ACDN. Airport Common Data Network. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ACDP. Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ACDS. Advisory Committee on Dangerous Substances. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ACE. Allied Command Europe. (Military/1.05)
ACE. Angiotensin Convertring Enzime. (Medical/1.05)
ACE. Adrenocortical Extract. (Medical/1.05)
ACE. Actual Control Estimate. (Project Management/1.07)
ACE. Association of Consulting Engineers. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ACE. Lanzarote Airport. Spain. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ACE ADGE. Allied Command Europe Air Defence Ground Environment.
Military/1.05)
(Aviation Civil and
acet. Acetone. (Medical/1.05)
ACF. Accessory Clinical Findings. (Medical/1.05)
ACFT. AirCraFT. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ACGIH. American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists.
Institute/2.10)
(Association, Society,
ACGM. Advisory Committee on Genetic Modification. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ACHE. Air Cooled Heat Exchanger. (Drilling/2.16)
ACI. Airports Council International. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ACI. American Concrete Institute. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ACID. Aircraft Identification. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ACID. Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability. (IT, Computing/1.05)
Acid Rain. When sulphur oxides (SOx) and nitrogen oxides (NOx), released by the combustion of
fossil fuels (Eg coal), combine with moisture in the atmosphere to form sulphurous, sulphuric,
nitrous and nitric acids (Ie Acidic Rain). SOx and NOx are gases and because the formation of
acid rain takes time, damage from acid rain often occurs far from the source of the problem!
(Environment/2.01)
ACIO. Assistant Chief Inspecting Officer. (General/2.10)
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ACK. ACKnowledge. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ACL. Access Control List. (IT, Computing/2.12)
ACL. Application Command Link. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ACL. Altimeter Check Location. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ACL. Anticardiolipin (Antibody). (Medical/1.05)
ACLANT. Allied Command Atlantic. (Military/1.05)
ACLS. Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support. (Medical/1.05)
ACM. Air Combat Manoeuvring (dogfighting). (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ACMD. Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ACMS. AFTN Central Message Switch. (Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunication Network) (IT,
Computing/1.05)
ACN. Aircraft Classification Number. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ACO. Air Cadet Organisation. (Military/1.06)
ACOC. Air Command Operation Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ACOP. Approved Code of Practice. (General/2.10)
ACOP. Advisory Committee on Pollution of the Sea. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ACP. Advisory Committee on Pesticides. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ACP. Acceptance. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ACP. Azimuth Count Pulse. I do not know what this means but it possibly has something to do with
angles, compass bearings, or glide path (angle of descent) (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ACPC. Area Child Protection Committee. (Policing/2.14)
ACPI. Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. (IT, Computing/1.06)
ACPO. Association of Chief Police Officers. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
ACPT. Accept, Accepted. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ACQ. Annual Contract Quantity. (Project Management/1.07)
ACRE. Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ACS. Access Control System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.12)
ACS. American Chemical Society. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ACSE. Association Control Service Element. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ACSNI. Advisory Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations.
Institute/2.10)
(Association, Society,
ACT. Flight Activation. (Message) (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ACT. Activated Clotting Time. (Medical/1.05)
ACTA. Airport Construction Training Alliance. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
ACTH. Adrenocorticotropic Hormone. (Medical/1.05)
Activity. An element of work which forms the basic building block for a schedule/network. There are
different schools of thought on how detailed activity definition should be. A text I browsed
recently argued that too much detail is a waste of time and resources, a case of not being able to
see the wood for the trees. This maybe a valid point, however when my wife and I built our
house, we would not have dreamed of doing so without paying attention to detail, or being aware
of what we could expect for our money. See Task (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
Activity Calendar. An activities working pattern. An activity calendar defines the working and nonworking days applicable for an activity. For example engineers working a staff job in Europe might
be working 7,5 hours per day, 5 days a week, while construction personnel on a site in the desert
might be working 12 hours per day, 7 days a week. It is important to identify the working
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patterns for different activities as these parameters will ultimately affect the schedule (Project
Management, Planning/1.10)
Activity Description. A description of the work to be performed under the activity.
Management, Planning/1.10)
(Project
Activity ID. A unique reference number for the activity, required by most computerised planning
applications. In my opinion the number of characters should be kept to a bare minimum,
especially if man-hours are to be booked against them (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
ACTRAM. Advisory Committee on the Safe Transport of Radioactive Materials. (Association, Society,
Institute/2.10)
ACTS. Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ACTS. Advanced Communication Technology Satellite. (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
ACTS. Advanced Communication Technologies Services. An EU funded programme for review of third
generation telecommunication technologies (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
Actual Finish Date. The actual date on which an activity is completed.
(Project Management,
Actual Start Date. The actual date on which an activity commences.
(Project Management,
Planning/1.10)
Planning/1.10)
ACV. Assist Control Ventilation. (Medical/1.05)
ACV. Armoured Combat Vehicle. (Military/1.06)
ACWP. Actual Cost of Work Performed. (Project Management/1.07)
ACY. Atlantic City Pomona Field Airport. NJ. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ad. Andorra. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
AD. Drug Addict. (Medical/1.05)
AD. Auris Dextra (Right Ear). (Medical/1.05)
AD. Arbeids- og administrasjons Departementet. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
AD. Airport Design. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
AD. AeroDrome. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AD. Average Deviation. (Medical/1.05)
AD. Anodal Duration. (Medical/1.05)
AD. Antidepressant or After death. (Medical/2.11)
AD. Alcohol Dehydrogenase. (Medical/1.05)
Ad hoc. For a specific purpose. (Latin, French, Greek/1.05)
Ad infinitum. For ever. (Latin, French, Greek/1.05)
ad int. Ad Interim (Meanwhile). (General/1.05)
ad lib. As one pleases, improvise. (General/1.05)
ADA. Adana Airport. Turkey. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ADA. American Dental Association. (Medical/1.05)
ADA. ADvisory Area. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ADA. American Diabetic Association. (Medical/1.05)
ADA. American Dietetic Association. (Medical/1.05)
ADAM. Airport Data and Management. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.12)
ADAS. Agricultural Development and Advisory Service. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
ADAS. Agricultural Development Advisory Service. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ADB. Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport. Turkey. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ADC. Association of District Councils. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
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ADD. Addis Ababa Airport. Ethiopia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ADDN. Addition, Additional. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ADE. Aden Airport. Yemen. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ADELT. Automatically Deployable Emergency Locator Transmitter. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
ADF. Automatic Direction Finding equipment. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ADG. Airplane Design Group. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
ADH. Anti Diuretic Hormone. (Medical/1.05)
ADHC. Air Defence Hardware Committee. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ADHD. Hypo (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ADI. Acceptable Daily Intake. (General/2.10)
ADIRS. Air Data and Inertial Reference System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ADIZ. Air Defence Identification Zone. Pronounced "Ay-Diz" (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ADJ. Adjacent. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ADL. Activities of Daily Living. (Medical/1.05)
ADL. Adelaide Airport. SA. Australia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ADM. Arrow Diagramming Method. See AOA (Project Management, Planning/2.01)
ADM. Change of existing information expressed by the use of data element id. ASM Submessage
(Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
adm. Admission. (Medical/1.05)
ADMD. ADministration Management Domain. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ADMS. Assistant Director Medical Services. (Medical/1.05)
ADN. Any Day Now. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ADOC. Air Defence Operation Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ADONIS. Article Delivery Over Network Information Systems. (IT, Computing/1.08)
ADP. Automatic Data Processing. (General/2.10)
ADPCM. Adapted Differential Pulse Code Modulation. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
ADR. ADvisory Route. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ADR. Air Data Reference. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ADS. Artic Drilling Structure. (Petrochemical/1.07)
ADS. Approved Dosimetry Service. (General/2.10)
ADS. Administration and Data Server. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ADS. Automatic Dependent Surveillance. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ADSC. Air Defence Software Committee. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ADSL. Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line. High Speed Subscription line providing 6 Mb per second,
up to a range of 3,5 km. The shorter the range the higher the bandwidth. Asymmetric in this
context means that more information can be sent to the subscriber, than can be returned. ADSL
is a DSL variant, and an alternative to ISDN. See
VDSL, HDSL, SDSL (IT,
Telecommunications/1.05)
ADT. Atlantic Daylight Time. (US and Canada) (Time or Space/2.08)
ADT. Agar gel Difussion Test. (Medical/1.05)
ADT. Applied Drilling Technology. (Drilling/2.16)
ADV. Flughafenschilder. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.01)
ADZ. Advice. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ae. United Arab Emirates. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
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AE. Automatic Exposure. A camera's built-in exposure meter automatically sets the exposure
(General/2.08)
AE. Analyser Element. (Petrochemical/1.07)
AEA. Agricultural Engineering Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
AEA. Air Europa. (Airline Codes/1.05)
AEA. Abemama Airport. Atoll Kiribati. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AEA. Atomic Energy Authority. (General/2.10)
AEA. Association of European Airlines. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
AEAC. Atomic Energy Authority Constabulary. (Policing/2.14)
AEC. At Earliest Convenience. (General/1.05)
AEC. Administrative, Executive and Clerical. (General/2.10)
AEC. Atomic Energy Comission. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
AECB. Atomic Energy Control Board. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
AECL. Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
AECMA. Association Europeenne des Constructeurs de Materiel Aerospatial. (Association, Society,
Institute/2.10)
AED. United Arab Emirates Dirham. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
AEEC. Airline Electronic Engineering Committee. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
aeg. Aegra (The Patient). (Medical/1.05)
AEGIS. Airborne Early warning Ground environment Integration Segment.
Military/1.05)
(Aviation Civil and
AEGM. Association of Electronic Guard Manufacturers. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
AEH. Abecher Airport. Chad. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AELE. Association Europeenne de Libre Echange. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
AENOR. Asociacion Espantola de Normalizacion Certificacion. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
AEO. Aioun Airport. EL. Atro Mauritanie. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AEP. Buenos Aires Jorge Newbery Airport. Argentina. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AEq. Age Equivalent. (Medical/1.05)
AER. Adler Sochi Airport. Russia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AERE. Atomic Energy Research Establishment. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
AES. Poly Acrylonitrile Ethylene Styrene. (General/2.14)
AES. Aircraft Earth Station. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AES. Г…lesund Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.05)
AESA. ATM End System Address. (IT, Computing/1.05)
AEV. Akershus EnergiVerk. (OSL Project Related/1.05)
AEW. Airborne Early Warning. (Military/1.05)
AF. Auto Focus. (General/2.09)
AF. Auricular Fibrillation. (Medical/1.05)
AF. Audio Frquency. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
af. Afghanistan. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
AF. Air France. (Airline Codes/1.05)
AF. Acid Fast. (Medical/1.05)
AF. Atrial Fibrillation. (Medical/1.05)
AFA. Afghanistan Afghani. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
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AFA. San Rafael Airport. Argentina. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AFAIC. As Far As I'm Concerned. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
AFAIK. As Far As I Know. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
AFAIR. As Far As I Remember. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
AFB. Acid Fast Bacilli. (Medical/1.05)
AFBMA. Anti Friction Bearing Manufacturers. (Petrochemical/1.07)
AFC. Approved For Construction. A completed drawing that is released for construction after all
appropriate checks and controls have been performed. Same as IFC (Project Management/1.05)
AFC.
Automatic
Frequency
Telecommunications/1.08)
Control.
Automatic
fine
tuning
to
a
frequency
(IT,
AFCD. Automatic Flue Closing Device. (General/2.10)
AFCENT. Allied Forces Central Europe. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AFD. Approved For Design. A drawing that is approved for design work. A typical example would be
P&IDs and PFDs (Project Management/1.07)
AFE. Authorisation for Expenditure. (Drilling/2.16)
AFE. Approved For Engineering. (Project Management/1.07)
AFE. Approval For Expenditure. (General/2.06)
AFFF. Aqueous Film Forming Foam. (Petrochemical/1.07)
AFIL. Flight plan filed in the air. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AFIS. Aerodrome Flight Information System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AFISO. Aerodrome Flight Information Service Officer. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
AFJ. April Fools Joke. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
AFK. Away From the Keyboard. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
AFL. Air Field Lighting. Flugfeldbefeuerung (Aviation Civil and Military/2.01)
AFL. Abbreviated Flight Plan. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AFLS.
Approach
Military/2.01)
Flash
Lighting
System.
Anflugblitzbefeuerungssystem
(Aviation
Civil
and
AFM. Yes, Affirm, Affirmative. Yes that is correct (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AFNOR. Association Francaise de Normalisation. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
AFNORTH. Allied Forces Northern European Command. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AFNORTHWEST. Allied Forces North-western Europe. (Military/1.05)
AFO. Authorised Firearms Officer. (Policing/1.06)
AFO. Aerodrome Fire Officer. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
AFP. Active Fire Protection. (Drilling/2.16)
AFPRB. Armed Forces Pay Review Body. (Military/1.06)
AFR. Accident Frequency Rate. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
AFR. American Forces Radio. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
AFR. Automatic Fingerprint Recognition. (Policing/2.14)
AFR. Afore Airport. Papua New Guinea. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AFRC. Agricultural and Food Research Council. (General/2.10)
AFS. Aeronautical Fixed Service. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AFS. Air Force Station. (Military/1.05)
AFS. Aerodrome Fire Service. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
AFSOUTH. Allied Forces Southern Europe. (Military/1.05)
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AFT. Automatic FineTuning. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
AFT. Approved For Tender. (Project Management/1.07)
AFT. After .... (time or place). (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AFTN. Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunication Network. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
AFUE. Annual Fuel Utilisation Efficiency. (Weights & Measures, Imperial/2.14)
AFWP. Actual Float on Work Performed. (Project Management/1.07)
Ag. Silver. Atomic number 47. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
ag. Antigua And Barbuda. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
AG. Anion Gap. (Medical/1.05)
AG. Axiogingival. (Medical/1.05)
AG. Atrial Gallop. (Medical/1.05)
AG. Advisory Group. (Petrochemical/1.07)
AGA. Agadir Airport. Maroc. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AGA. American Gas Association. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
AGA. Aerodrome: Air routes and Ground Aids. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AGARD. Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development. (General/2.10)
AGC. Automatic Gain Control. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
AGF. Agen Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AGG. Agammaglobulinaemia. (Medical/1.05)
AGH. Angelholm. Helsingborg Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
AGJ. Aguni Airport. Japan. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AGL. Airfield Ground Lighting. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
AGL. Above Ground Level. An aeroplane's altimeter reads the height Above Mean Sea Level (AMSL);
another measurement over land is height Above Ground Level (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AGMA. American Gear Manufacturers Association. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
AGNIS. Aircraft Guidance Nose In Stand. A system that helps that pilot line the plane up correctly at
the stand (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
AGP. Malaga International Airport. Spain. (Airport Codes/1.05)
AGP. Accelerated Graphics Port. A dedicated data bus for the graphics card (IT, Computing/1.06)
AGQ. Agrinion Airport. Greece. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AGR. Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor. (General/2.10)
AGR. Agra Airport. India. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AGRU. Acid Gas Removal Unit. (Drilling/2.16)
AGS. Augusta Airport. GA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AGSRO. Association of Government Supervisors and Radio Officers.
Institute/2.10)
(Association, Society,
AGU. Aguascaliente Airport. Mexico. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AGV. Acarigua Airport. Venezuela. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AGZ. Aggenys Airport. South Africa. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Ah. Hypermetropic Astigmatism. (Medical/1.05)
AHB. Abha Airport. Saudi Arabia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AHB. Automatic Half Barrier. (General/2.10)
AHBDF. Along Hole Below Derrick Floor. (Drilling/2.16)
AHC. Airport Handling Commitee. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
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AHD. Alaska-Hawaii Daylight. (Time or Space/2.03)
AHL. Aishalton Airport. Guyana. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AHM. Airport Handling Manual. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
AHN. Assistant Head Nurse. (Medical/1.05)
AHO. Algero airpot. Sardinia. (Airport Codes/1.05)
AHP. Acute Hemorrhagic Pancreatitis. (Medical/1.05)
AHS. Ahuas Airport. Honduras. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AHS. Alaska-Hawaii Standard. (Time or Space/2.03)
AHTAG. Animal Health Trade Association Group. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
AHTS. Anchor Handling, Tug and Supply. (Petrochemical/1.07)
AHU. Air Handling Unit. (Petrochemical/1.07)
AHU. Al Hoceima Airport. Maroc. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AI. Active Ingredient. (General/2.10)
AI. Analogue Input. Analogue Inngang (Petrochemical/1.07)
AI. Aortic Insufficiency, Artificial Insemination. (Medical/1.05)
ai. Anguilla. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
AIA. Aerospace Industries Association of America. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
AIA. Asbestos International Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
AIA. Athens International Airport. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.01)
AIA. Automatisk Innbrudds Alarm. Automatic Break in Alarm. Norwegian. Infra red detector and
alarm systems (Security/1.05)
AIA. American Institute of Architects. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
AIAA. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
AIAA. Area of Intense Air Activity. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
AIB. Asbestos Insulation Board. (General/2.10)
AIC. Active Instability Control. (General/2.10)
AIC. Airok Airport. Marshall Islands. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AIC. Aeronautical Information Circular. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AICRO. Association of Independent Contract Research Organisations.
Institute/2.10)
(Association, Society,
AIDII. Associazone Italiana Degli Igienisti Industriali. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
AIDP. Acute Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculopathy. (Medical/1.05)
AIDS. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. (Medical/1.05)
AIE. Aiome Airport. Papua New Guinea. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AIFTA. Anglo-Irish Free Trade Agreement. (General/2.10)
AIHA. American Industrial Hygiene Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
AIIM. Association for Information and Image Management. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
AIM. Automatic Identification Manufacturers. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AIN. Auto Insert Notification. A process where Windows checks CD-ROM drives for any new media
that may have been inserted. If new media has been inserted, any Autorun files, which may be
present, are then executed (IT, Computing/1.10)
AIN. Advanced Intelligent Network. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
AIOSH. Associate of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.
Institute/2.10)
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AIP. Aeronautical Information Publisher. Or Aeronautical Information Publication (Aviation Civil and
Military/1.05)
AIP. Airport Improvement Program. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
AIR. Association of Independent Railways. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
AIRAC. Aeronautical Information Regulation And Control. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AIREP. Air Report. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AIRMIC. Association of Insurance and Risk Managers in Industry and Commerce.
Society, Institute/2.10)
(Association,
AIS. Aeronautical Information Service. Or Aeronautical Information System (Aviation Civil and
Military/1.05)
AISC. American Institute of Steel Construction. (Association, Society, Institute/2.11)
AISI. American Iron and Steel Institute. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
AISI. As I See It. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
AIST. Agency of Industrial Science and Technology. (General/2.10)
AIT. Assembly, Integration and Test. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
AIT. Array Induction Tool. (Drilling/2.16)
AIU. Accident Investigation Unit. (Policing/2.14)
AIV. Assembly, Integration and Validation. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
AIW. Airport Information Window. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AIY. Atlantic City Bader Field Airport. NJ. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AJ. Ankle Jerk. (Medical/1.05)
AJA. Ajaccio Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AJR. Arvidsjaur. (Airport Codes/1.07)
AJU. Aracaju Airport. SE. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AJY. Agades Airport. Niger. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AK. Arbeidstilsynets Kjelekontroll. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
AK. Above Knee. (Medical/1.05)
AKA. Also Known As. (General/1.05)
AKA. Above Knee Amputation. (Medical/1.05)
AKL. Auckland International Airport. New Zealand. (Airport Codes/1.05)
Al. Aluminium. Atomic number 13. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
AL. Appraisal Licence. (Drilling/2.16)
al. Albania. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
AL. Arterial Line. (Medical/1.05)
ALA. Association of London Authorities. (General/2.10)
ALA. Alighting Area. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ALA. Almaty Airport. Kazakstan. (Airport Codes/1.05)
ALARA. As Low As Reasonably Achievable. (General/2.10)
ALARP. As Low As Reasonably Practicable. (General/2.10)
ALB. Aircraft Loading Bridge. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.12)
alb. Albumin. (Medical/1.05)
ALB. Albany Airport. NY. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ALC. Alicante Airport. Spain. (Airport Codes/1.05)
ALCM. Air Launched Cruise Missile. (Military/1.05)
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ALCS. Airfield Lighting Control System. The control system for runway and taxiway lighting (Aviation
Civil and Military/1.06)
ALEM. Association of Loading and Elevating Equipment Manufacturers.
Institute/2.10)
(Association, Society,
ALERFA. Alert Phase. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ALF. Alta Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.05)
ALG. Houari Boumedienne. Alger Airport. Algeria. (Airport Codes/1.05)
ALH. Albany Airport. WA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ALI. Annual Limit of Intake. (General/2.10)
alk phos. Alkaline Phosphatase. (Medical/1.05)
ALL. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. (Medical/1.05)
ALL. Albanian Lek. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
ALO. Architect Liaison Officer. (Policing/2.14)
ALP. Airport Layout Plan. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
ALP. Aleppo Airport. Syria. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Alpha. First letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = First, angular acceleration, coefficient
of angular acceleration, coefficient of absorption, temperature coefficient, degree of electrolytic
dissociation, angle of optical rotation (Greek Alphabet/1.05)
Alpha. A very early version of software or hardware. See Beta. (IT, Computing/2.02)
Alpha Mike Foxtrot. Phonetics for Adios Mother F*cker. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.08)
Alphabet, Greek. alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu,
xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega. Search for the appropriate Greek
letter for more information. The symbols for the letters both upper and lower case are not
included in the description as i have not figured out how to store them in the database (Greek
Alphabet/1.05)
Alphabet, Phonetic. Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliet, Kilo, Lima,
Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whisky, X-ray,
Yankee, Zulu. International method of representing speech sounds (General/1.05)
ALPI. Asbestos Licensing Principal Inspector. (General/2.10)
ALR. Alerting {message type designator}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ALR. Acoustic Log Report. (Drilling/2.16)
ALRS. Alerting Service. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ALS. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. (Medical/1.05)
ALS. Alternate Line Service. Enables two lines and two different phone numbers on one subscription
for your mobile phone. This makes it possible to have separate numbers for business and
personal calls. To use this service, it must be supported by your network and by your phone. You
may also have to add this service to your subscription (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
ALS. Automatic Line Switching. A feature that allows an appliance to operate on input voltages
between 100-200v or 220-240v (Electrical/1.05)
ALS. Approach Landing System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ALS. Antilymphocytic Serum. (Medical/1.05)
ALT. Altitude. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ALT. Alanine Amino Transferase. (Medical/1.05)
alt dieb. Alternus Diebus (Every Other Day). (Medical/1.05)
ALTN. Alternate, Alternating {Light alternates in colour}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ALTN. Alternative {aerodrome}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
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ALU. Arithmetic Logic Unit. (IT, Computing/2.03)
ALU. Asbestos Licensing Unit. (General/2.10)
ALY. El Nouzha. Alexandria Airport. Egypt. (Airport Codes/1.05)
ALZ. Alice Springs Airport. NT. Australia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AM. Amplitude Modulation. Allows digital data to be transferred over an analogue network, such as a
switched telephone network. The amplitude of a frequency is varied between two levels one to
represent binary 0, and the other to represent binary 1. See Bits and Boolean (IT,
Telecommunications/1.05)
Am. Americium. Atomic number 95. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
AM. Airport Middleware. Middleware is an agent that allows different computer systems to
communicate with one another via a set of standards, and something called an API (Application
Programmable Interface). In order to introduce more jargon this is also known as working
“seamlessly”, i.e. the end user can not see the joins (IT, Computing/1.05)
AM. Administration Manager. (General/2.10)
am. Armenia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
AMA. American Medical Association. (Medical/1.05)
AMA. Amarillo Airport. TX. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AMA. Automatic Message Accounting. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
AMA. Area Minimum Altitude. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AMA. Against Medical Advise. (Medical/1.05)
AMA. Association of Metropolitan Authorities. (General/2.10)
AMA. Anti Mitochondrial Antibody. (Medical/1.05)
AMAG. Agricultural Machinery Advisory Group. (General/2.10)
AMB. AMBiguous track. (IT, Computing/1.05)
AMD. Archway Metal Detectors. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.12)
AMD. Ahmedabad Airport. India. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AMD. Armenian Dram. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
AMD. Active Matrix Display. (IT, Computing/2.03)
AMD. Amend, Amended {message type indicator}. Indicates amended meteorological message
(Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AMF. Allied Command Europe Mobile Force. (Military/1.05)
AMHS. Automated Message Handling System. (IT, Computing/1.05)
AMI. Acute Myocardial Infarction. (Medical/1.05)
AMK. Akutt Medisinsk Kommunikasjonssentral (Norwegian). Emergency Medical Communication
Centre (OSL Project Related/1.05)
AML. Acute Myelogenous Leukemia. (Medical/1.05)
AMM. Queen Alia International. Amman Airport. Jordan. (Airport Codes/1.05)
AMMA. Poly Acrylonitrile Methyl Methacrylate. (General/2.14)
Amp. Unit of electrical current. (Electrical/1.05)
AMP. Adenosine Monophosphate. (Medical/1.05)
amp. Ampute. (Medical/1.05)
AMPS. Advanced Mobile Phone System. Analogue cellular system, predominantly used in the US.
Frequency 800Mhz. See CDMA, CDPD, FDMA, GSM, TDMA (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
AMPS. Association of Management and Professional Staff. (General/2.10)
AMQ. Annual Minimum Quantity. (Petrochemical/1.07)
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AMRAAM. Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missile. (Military/1.05)
AMS. Area Management System. An application within a Resource Allocation System. See RAS
(Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AMS. Auxiliary Measurement Service. (Drilling/2.16)
AMS. Schiphol. Amsterdam Airport. Netherlands. (Airport Codes/1.05)
AMS. Aeronautical Mobile Service. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AMS. Approved Maintenance Schedule. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
AMSC. American Mobile Satellite Consortium. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AMSL. Above Mean Sea Level. See AGL (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AMSS. Aeronautical Mobile Satellite Service. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
amt. Amount. (Medical/1.05)
AMTRI. Advanced Manufacturing Technology Research Unit. (General/2.10)
AMV. Annulus Master Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
amy. Amylase. (Medical/1.05)
AN. AcrylonNtrile. (General/2.14)
an. Netherlands Antilles. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
AN. Ansett Australia. (Airline Codes/1.07)
ANA. Antinuclear Antibody. (Medical/1.05)
Analogue. An analogue signal is electrical and varies constantly in voltage, unlike a digital signal
(IT,
which varies between two constant values usually denoted as 0 and 1.
Telecommunications/1.07)
ANC. Association of Noise Consultants. (General/2.10)
ANC. Anchorage International Airport. AK. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ANCA. Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody. (Medical/1.05)
ANFAWFOS. And Now For A Word From Our Sponsor. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ANFO. Ammonium Nitrate/Fuel Oil. (General/2.10)
ANFSCD. And Now For Something Completely Different. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ANG. Angouleme Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ANG. Dutch Antilles Guilder. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
ANHMRC. Australian National Health and Medical Research Council. (General/2.10)
ANI. Automatic Number Identification. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
ANK. Ankara Airport. Turkey. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Anker. Measure of Ale. 10 gallons (80 pts). (Measure of Ale/1.05)
ANLL. Acute Nonlymphocytic Leukemia. (Medical/1.05)
Annulus. The space between the drill string and the well wall. (Petrochemical/1.08)
ANPAT. Association Nationale pour la Prevention des Accidents du Travail. (Association, Society,
Institute/2.10)
ANPR. Automatic Number Plate Recognition Reader. (IT, Computing/2.14)
ANPR. Automatic Number Plate Recognition. (Security/2.13)
ANR. Anvers Airport. Belgium. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ANS. Answer. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ANS. American Nuclear Society. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
ANS. American National Standard. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
ANSI. American National Standards Institute. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
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Anti-SMA. Anti-Smooth Muscle Antibody. (Medical/1.05)
ANU. Antigua Airport. Antigua. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AO. Antioxidant. (General/2.14)
AO. Aviaco. (Airline Codes/1.05)
ao. Angola. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
AO. Analogue Output. Analogue Utgang (Petrochemical/1.07)
AOA. Angle Of Attack. Angle of the wing relative to the forward flight path of the aeroplane. On any
aircraft, too great an angle of attack will cause the wing to stop flying (stall), as airflow across the
upper surface is disrupted (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AOA. Activities on the arrow. Arrow networks are diagrams where the activity is placed on the arrow,
between the nodes. The activities, together with the nodes and dummy activities (activities with
zero duration) represent the sequence in which activities will occur. The nodes for an arrow
network are drawn as circles, and dummy activities, (which act as constraints), are drawn as
dashed lines. See Network, AON, PERT, CPM, CPA (Project Management, Planning/1.08)
AOA. Airport Operator's Association. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
AOB. Angle Of Bank. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AOB. Any Other Business. (General/1.05)
AOC. Airport Operators Committee. (IT, Computing/1.06)
AOC. Aerodrome Obstacle Chart. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AOC. Airline Operators Committee. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
AOCI. Airport Operators Conference International. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AOCL. Automatic Open Crossing, locally monitored. (General/2.10)
AOCR. Automatic Open Crossing, remotely monitored. (General/2.10)
AOCS. Attitude and Orbit Control System. (Satellite Broadcasting/2.09)
AOCT. Associated Overseas Countries and Territories. (General/2.10)
AOD. Above Ordnance Datum. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
AOD. Abou Deia Airport. Chad. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AODB. Airport Operational DataBase. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.12)
AODM. Adult Onset Diabetes Mellitus. (Medical/1.05)
AOF. Absolute Open Flow. (Drilling/2.16)
AOFP. Absolute Open Flow Potential. (Drilling/2.16)
AOG. Aircraft On Ground. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
AoJ. Administration of Justice. (Policing/2.14)
AOK. Karpatos. Greece. (Airport Codes/1.05)
A-OLs. Administrators On-Line. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
AOMIS. Airport Operational Management and Information System. (IBM trademark) (Aviation Civil
and Military/2.12)
AON. Angolan New Kwanza. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
AON. Activities on the node. Precedence networks are diagrams where the activity is placed on the
node, and the arrows between the nodes represent the dependencies and sequence in which the
activities will occur. The significant difference from an arrow network is that dependencies of
different types are allowed. Finish to Start dependencies with negative lags, imply an overlap in
the activities. The nodes for a precedence network are drawn as rectangular boxes. See Network,
AOA, PERT, CPM, CPA (Project Management, Planning/1.08)
AOP. Aortic Pressure. (Medical/1.05)
AOPA. Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
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AOQ. Average Outgoing Quality. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
AOR. Airport Operational Readiness. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
AOR. Alor Setar Airport. Malaysia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AOS. Airport Operational Systems. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.12)
AOTC. Associated Offices Technical Committee. (General/2.10)
AOWG. AEW Operational Working Group. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AP. Approved. Cable Status. CABSYS (OSL Project Related/1.05)
AP. Application Profile. (IT, Computing/1.05)
AP. Airport. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AP. Action Potential. (Medical/1.05)
AP. Anterior Pituitary. (Medical/1.05)
AP. Alkaline Phosphatase. (Medical/1.05)
AP. Anteroposterior. (Medical/1.05)
AP. Aortic Pressure. (Medical/1.05)
AP. Apendectomy. (Medical/1.05)
APA. Association of Police Authorities. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
APAC. ACCS Policy Advisory Committee. (Air Command and Control System) (Aviation Civil and
Military/1.05)
Apache. A public domain web server that runs on Unix systems. (IT, Computing/2.02)
APAG. Antipseudomonal Aminoglycosidic Penicilin. (Medical/1.05)
APATSI. AirPort and Air Traffic Services Interface. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
APBL. Automatic Power Boom Lowering. (General/2.10)
APC. Armoured Personnel Carrier. (Military/1.10)
APC. Adult Protection Committee. (Policing/2.14)
APCA. American Pollution Control Association. (General/2.10)
APCH. Approach. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
APD. Application for Permit to Drill. (Drilling/2.16)
APD. Azimuth Position Data. I do not know what this means but it possibly has something to do with
angles, compass bearings, or glide path (angle of descent) (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
APDU. Application Protocol Data Unit. (IT, Computing/1.05)
APE. Aerosol Photoemission. (General/2.10)
APELL. Awareness and Preparedness for Emergencies at Local Level. (General/2.10)
APET. Amorphous Polyethylene Terephthlate. (General/2.14)
APEX. Advance Purchase EXcursion fare. (IT, Computing/1.06)
APG. Administration Planning Group. (General/2.10)
APH. Approach. Anflug (Aviation Civil and Military/2.01)
APHA. American Public Health Association. (General/2.10)
APHAZ. Aircraft Proximity Hazard. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
API. Application Programmable Interface. An agent that allows different computer systems to
communicate with one another via a set of standards. See CAPI, TAPI, TSAPI (IT,
Computing/1.05)
API. Oil Gravity. (Petrochemical/2.09)
API. American Petroleum Institute. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
APIS. Aircraft Positioning and Information System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
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APL. Advanced Production and Loading. (Petrochemical/1.07)
APM. Advanced Power Management. (IT, Computing/1.05)
APM. Automated People Mover. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
APO. Assigned Purchase Order. See PO (Project Management/1.05)
Apothecaries weight. Pharmaceutical measure. A system of weights based on a pound of 12
ounces. See Avoirdupois, Troy. An apothecaries pound = 5760 grains = 0,82286 pounds
avoirdupois = 373,2418 grams (Weights & Measures, Imperial/1.05)
APP. Approach Control Office, or Approach Control, or Approach Control Service. (Aviation Civil and
Military/1.05)
APPA. African Petroleum Producers Association. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
APPA. American Public Power Association. (General/2.10)
Appellation Controlee. Or V.D.O.S. The origin of the wine. (Wine Label Terms/1.05)
Applet. A small programme written in Java. Java is a multi platform object oriented programming
language from Sun Microsystems. The Microsoft equivalent is called ActiveX. Multi platform means
that a programme can be run on any computer or operating system (theoretically). The portability
of Java has lead to the language becoming widely adopted as a "defacto" standard for special
functions on web page, such as animation (IT, Computing/2.01)
Application. A term for software that helps you perform a specific activity. E.g. Excel is a
spreadsheet application. (IT, Computing/2.02)
Appraisal Well. A well drilled in the neighborhood of a discovery or wildcat well for the purpose of
evaluating the extent and the importance of the find. (Petrochemical/2.15)
appt. Appointment. (Medical/1.05)
APR. April. (Time or Space/1.05)
Apron. Flyoppstillingsplass. Hard surfaced area on an airfield, where aircraft are manoeuvred, loaded,
etc (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
APRV. Airway Pressure Release Ventilation. (Medical/1.05)
APRX. Approximate, Approximately. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
APS. Abandon Platform Shutdown. (Petrochemical/1.07)
APS. Aircraft Positioning System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
APS. Acting Police Sergeant. (Policing/2.14)
APS. Anti-Phospholipid Syndrome. (Medical/1.05)
APS. Active Pipe Support. (Drilling/2.16)
APSAC. Anisoylated Plasminogen Streptokinase Activator Complex. (Medical/1.05)
APSG. After passing. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
APST. Association of Professional Scientists and Technologists. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
APTT. Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time. (Medical/1.05)
APU. Auxiliary Power Unit. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
APUD. Amine Precursor Uptake Decarboxylase. (Medical/1.05)
APV. Apron Passenger Vehicle. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
APV. Airside Passenger Vehicles. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
APW. Apia Airport. Samoa. (Airport Codes/1.06)
aq. Antarctica. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
AQ. Achievement Quotient. Accomplishment (Medical/1.05)
aq. Aqua. Water (also pop group) (Medical/1.05)
AQJ. Aqaba Airport. Jordan. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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AQL. Acceptable Quality Level. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
AQL. Average Quality Level. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
AR. Aortic Regurgitation. (Medical/1.05)
ar. Argentina. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
AR. Attempted Routed. Cable Status. CABSYS (OSL Project Related/1.05)
AR. Acoustic Reflex. (General/2.10)
Ar. Argon. Atomic number 18. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
ARC. AIDS Related Complex. (Medical/1.05)
ARC. Accelerating Rate Calorimetry. (General/2.10)
ARC. Airport Reference Code. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
ARC. Aerodrome Reference Code. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
ARCA. Asbestos Removal Contractors Association. (General/2.10)
ARCC. Aeronautical Rescue Co-ordination Centre. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
ARCC. Aeronautical Rescue Coordinating Center. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.08)
ARCS. Astra Return Channel System. (Satellite Broadcasting/2.09)
ARCS. Admiralty Raster Chart Service. (Military/1.06)
ARDS. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. (Medical/1.05)
ARE. Acronym-Rich environment. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ARE. Area/Activity Responsible Engineer. (Petrochemical/1.07)
AREA. American Railway Engineering Association. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
ARF. Acute Renal Failure. (Medical/1.05)
ARF. Acaricuara Airport. Colombia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ARFOR. Area Forecast {in aeronautical meteorological code}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ARH. Arkhangelsk-Talagi Airport. Russia. (Airport Codes/1.05)
ARI. Air-conditioning and Refrigeration Institute. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
ARIN. Aeronautical Radio Incorporated. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ARM. Artificial Rupture of Membranes. (Medical/1.05)
ARN. Arlanda. Stockholm Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
ARNG. Arrange. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ARO. Air traffic services reporting. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ARP. Argentinean Peso. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
ARP. Air report {message type designator}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ARP. Applied Research Programme. (Military/1.06)
ARP. Airport Reference Point. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
ARP. Address Resolution Protocol. A protocol for automatically finding the Internet Protocol address
of a workstation connected to a network (IT, Computing/1.05)
ARP. Aerodrome Reference Point. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ARPA. Advance Research Projects Agency. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
ARPANet. Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. The network of interconnected computers
that served as the foundation for the modern Internet (IT, Internet/2.02)
ARPS. Association of Railway Preservation Societies. (General/2.10)
ARQ. Automatic error control. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ARR. Arrival {message type designator}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
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ARR. Arrive, Arrival. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ARRC. Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps. (Military/1.06)
ARS. Assistant Rig Supervisor. (Drilling/2.16)
ARS. Special air-report {message type designator}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ARST. Arresting {specify part of aircraft arresting equipment}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ART. Assesment, Review and Treatment. (Medical/1.05)
ARV. Armed Response Vehicle. A police car in which the officers carry weapons. UK (Policing/1.06)
AS. Aortic Stenosis. (Medical/1.05)
AS. Anti Static. (General/2.14)
AS. Agricultural Safety. (General/2.10)
AS. Aqueous Solution. (Medical/1.05)
AS. Arteriosclerosis. (Medical/1.05)
As. Arsenic. Atomic number 33. You've heard about the man that died of arsenic poisoning. He cut
his bum shaving! (Chemical Elements/1.05)
AS. Another Subject. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
AS. Air Supply. (Petrochemical/1.07)
as. American Samoa. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
AS. Atriosystolic. (Medical/1.05)
AS. Air Station. (Military/1.05)
AS. Ascend to, Ascending to. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ASA. American Association Of Anesthesiologists. (Medical/1.05)
ASA. Poly Acrylic Styrene Acrylonitrile. (General/2.14)
ASA. Acoustical Society of America. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
ASA. American Standards Association. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
ASA. Advanced Safety Assement. (Petrochemical/2.14)
ASA. Aspirin (Acetil-Salicic Acid). (Medical/1.05)
ASAC. Asian Standards Advisory Committee. (General/2.10)
ASAP. As Soon As Possible. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
ASAYGT. As Soon As You Get This. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ASB. Ashgabat Airport. Turkmenistan. (Airport Codes/1.05)
ASBM. Air to Surface Ballistic Missile. (Military/1.05)
ASBO. Anti Social Behavioural Order. (Policing/2.14)
ASC. AFTN Switch Centre. (Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunication Network) (IT, Computing/1.05)
ASC. Altostratus. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ASCE. American Society of Civil Engineers. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
ASCII. American Standard Code for Information Interchange. (American Standards Committee for
Information Interchange). A seven bit character code defined by this committee. E.g. A=1011001.
See bits, EBCDIC and BCD (IT, Coding/1.05)
ASD. Acoustic Sand Detector. (Petrochemical/2.15)
ASDA. Accelerate Stop Distance Available. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ASDE. Airport Surface Detection Equipment. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ASE. Aspen Airport. CO. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ASE. Application Service Element. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ASEA. American Society of Agricultural Engineers. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
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ASEE. Association of Supervisory and Executive Engineers. (General/2.10)
ASEMA. Asbestos Safety Equipment Manfacturer's Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
(Association,
ASFPCM. Association of Specialist Fire Protection Contractors and Manufacturers.
Society, Institute/2.10)
ASH. Action on Smoking and Health. (General/2.10)
ASH. Asymetric Septal Hypertrophy. (Medical/1.05)
ASHD. Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease. (Medical/1.05)
ASHRAE. American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers. (Association,
Society, Institute/1.07)
ASI. Air Speed Indicator. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
ASI. Active Safety Inspection. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
ASIC. Application Specific Integrated Circuit. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
ASIT. Adaptable Surface Interface Terminal. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ASL. Above Sea Level. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ASL. Advanced Safety Leadership. (Drilling/2.16)
ASL. Age, Sex, Location. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ASLI. Automatic Safe load Indicator. (General/2.10)
ASLO. Anti-Streptolysisn O. (Medical/1.05)
ASM. Air to Surface Missile. (Military/1.05)
ASM. Asmara Airport. Ethiopia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ASM. Air Space Management. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ASM. Ad-hoc Schedule Message. The following submessages may be used in the composition of an
Ad-hoc Schedule Message. NEW Insertion of new flight information. CNL Cancellation. RIN
Reinstatement. RPL Replacement. FLT Change of flight Identifier. EQT Change of equipment
information. TIM Change of time information. CON Change of aircraft configuration/version. RFT
Change of routing. ADM Change of existing information expressed by the use of data element id
(Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
ASME. American Society of Mechanical Engineers. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
A-SMGCS. Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control Systems.
Military/2.13)
(Aviation Civil and
ASMI. Airport Surface Movement Indicator. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ASN. Abstract Syntax Notation. A method of defining the structure of protocol data units associated
with a protocol (IT, Computing/1.05)
ASNT. Area Searched No Trace. (Policing/2.14)
ASNT. American Society for Non destructive Testing. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
ASO. Arbeidsgiverforeningen for Skip og OffshorefartГёyer. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
ASO. Assistant Scientific Officer. (General/2.10)
ASP. Accident Sequence Precursor. (General/2.10)
ASP. Access Simulation Platform. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
ASP. Active Server Page. An Active Server Page is a HTML (dynamic) document that contains script
that retrieves information from a database based on a query entered by a visitor to the page
(Does that make sense?) (IT, Computing/2.03)
ASPCA. American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Institute/2.02)
(Association, Society,
ASPENN. Aeronautical Fixed Service Planning Study. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ASPH. Asphalt. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
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Asphalt. A mixture of bitumen and aggregate used for road surfacing. (General/2.01)
ASPI. Advanced SCSI Programming Interface. An interface specification for sending commands to
SCSI host Adapters (IT, Computing/1.10)
ASQC. American Society for Quality Control. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
ASR. Area Surveillance Radar. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ASRAAM. Advanced Short Range Air to Air Missile. (Military/1.05)
ASSE. American Society of Safety Engineers. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
Assembler. A program that converts basic computer instructions into machine code (a pattern of bits
that the computer's processor can use). These basic instructions are known as assembler
language or assembly language. Assembler language is composed of mnemonics (IT,
Computing/2.02)
Associated Gas. Natural gas associated with oil deposits. Associated gas may be dissolved in the oil
or may form a cap of free gas above the oil (Petrochemical/1.08)
AST. Aspartate Amino Transferase. (Medical/1.05)
AST. Atlantic Standard Time. (US and Canada) (Time or Space/2.03)
ASTA. Association of Short-circuit Testing Authorities. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ASTERIX. All purpose STructured Eurocontrol Radar Information eXchange.
Military/1.05)
(Aviation Civil and
ASTM. American Society for Testing Materials. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
ASTM. American Society for Testing and Materials. (Drilling/2.16)
ASU. Asuncion Airport. Paraguay. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ASU. Auxiliary Service Unit. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
ASU. Air Support Unit. (Policing/2.14)
ASV. Annular Safety Valve. (Drilling/2.16)
ASW. Anti Submarine Warfare. (Military/1.05)
Asynchronous. Transmission type (from the Greek meaning 'not at the same time'). Consider that
the character A in ASCII code is a pulse train made up of 7 bits for the code, plus 3 bits for error
checking. Under asynchronous transmission the character pulse trains are transmitted singly as
they occur (possibly at irregular periods in time), however within the pulse train all bit
transmissions occur at a fixed rate. An example which illustrates this is typing at a keyboard, not
all keys are pressed regularly, however whenever one key is pressed all the bits representing that
key are transmitted at a fixed rate. Confused? You are not alone. See Synchronous (IT,
Computing/1.05)
AT. Administrative Trainee. (General/2.10)
AT. At {Followed by time at which weather is forecast to occur}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AT. Access Tandem. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
at. Austria. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
AT. Arbeidstilsynet. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
At. Astatine. Atomic number 85. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
at fib. Atrial Fibrilation. (Medical/1.05)
ATA. Air Transport Association of America. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
ATA. Actual Time of Arrival. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ATB. Agricultural Training Board. (General/2.10)
ATB. Automatic Ticket and Boarding system. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ATC. Air Traffic Control. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ATC. Automatic Train Control. (Railways/1.08)
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ATC. Around The Clock. (General/1.05)
ATCA. Air Traffic Control Assistant. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
ATCAS. Air Traffic Control Automation System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ATC-building. Air Traffic Controllers Building (Sikringsbygg). (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ATCC. Air Traffic Control Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ATCO. Air Traffic Control Officers. (General/2.10)
ATCT. Airport Traffic Control Tower. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
ATD. Actual Time of Departure. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ATFM. Air Traffic Flow Management. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ATG. Antithymocyte Globulin. (Medical/1.05)
ATH. Hellinikon. Athens Airport. Greece. (Airport Codes/1.05)
ATIS. Automatic Terminal Information System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ATL. WmB.Hartsfield International. Atlanta Airport. GA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
ATLAS. European Commission. For a single unified Air Traffic Management System (Aviation Civil and
Military/1.05)
ATM. Area Training Manager. (Policing/2.14)
ATM. Automatic Teller Machine. (IT, Computing/1.08)
ATM. Air Traffic Management. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ATM. Asynchronous Transfer Mode. Transmission method for information (in this context) across a
network. ATM is a fast method compared to Ethernet, both methods use asynchronous transfer.
There are as far as I know two alternatives for data transfer, synchronous and asynchronous
transfer. Synchronous transfer involves constant transfer of data, whereas asynchronous involves
intermittent transfer of data. See synchronous, asynchronous (IT, Computing/1.05)
ATM. Air Transport Movement. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
ATM. Air Traffic Monitor. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
ATM FUNI. ATM Frame Based User To Network. (IT, Computing/1.05)
Atmospheric pressure. The weight of the atmosphere on the surface of the Earth. (General/2.01)
ATN. Acute Tubular Necrosis. (Medical/1.05)
ATN. Aeronautical Telecommunication Network. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ATO. Area Training Officer. (Policing/2.14)
ATO. Automatic Train Operation. (General/2.10)
ATOC. Allied Tactical Operations Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ATP. Automatic Train Protection. (General/2.10)
ATP. Aitape Airport. Papua New Guinea. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ATP. At (Time or Place). (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ATS. Austrian Schilling. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
ATS. ArmГ©ns Tekniska Skola. Sweden. Army Technical College (Military/1.08)
ATS. Air Traffic Services. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ATS. Auto Thrust System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ATS. Aviation Training Ship. (Military/1.06)
ATS. Agreement for Technical Services. (Petrochemical/1.07)
ATSDR. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. (General/2.10)
ATSL. Along The Same Line. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ATSSD. Air Traffic Services Standards Department. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
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ATSU. Air Traffic Service Unit. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ATTIS. Aviation Transport and Travel Information Systems. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ATTN. Attention. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
atto. SI number prefix 0,000 000 000 000 000 001. Abbreviated as a (SI Number Prefixes/2.08)
ATTU. Atlantic To The Urals. (Military/1.06)
ATV. All Terrain Vehicle. (General/2.10)
ATVM. Automatic Ticket Vending Machine. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
ATWS. Anticipated Transient Without Scram. (General/2.10)
ATWT. Anticipated Transient Without Trip. (General/2.10)
ATZ. Aerodrome Traffic Zone. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AU. Access Unit. (IT, Computing/1.05)
AU. Accounting Unit. (General/2.10)
au. Australia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
Au. Gold. Atomic number 79. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
AUA. Aruba Airport. Aruba. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AUC. Authentication Centre. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
AUD. Australian Dollar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
Auditor. People who go in after the war is lost and bayonet the wounded. (Humour/1.05)
AUG. August. (Time or Space/1.05)
AUH. International. Abu Dhabi Airport. United Arab Emirates. (Airport Codes/1.05)
AUI. Attachment Unit Interface. (IT, Computing/1.05)
AUP. Aguan Airport. Papua New Guinea. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AUR. Aurriac Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AURPO. Association of University Radiation Protection Officers. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
AUS. Austin Airport. TX. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AUTH. Authorise or authorisation. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AUTHR. Authorisation Response. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
AUW. All Up Weight. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AV. Arteriovenous. (Medical/1.05)
AV. Annular Velocity. (Drilling/2.16)
AV. Atrioventricular. (Medical/1.05)
AV. Apparent Viscosity. (Drilling/2.16)
AVASIS. Abbreviated VASIS (Visual Approach Slope Indicator System).
Military/1.05)
(Aviation Civil and
AVBL. Available, Availability. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AVG. Average. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AVGAS. Aviation Gasoline. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AVI. Audi Video Interleave. A Microsoft video file format with the extension .avi (IT, Computing/1.05)
AVL. Ashville Airport. NC. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AVLB. Armoured Vehicle Launcher Bridge. (Military/1.06)
AVLS. Automatic Vehicle Location Systems. (IT, Computing/2.14)
AVM. Arteriovenous Malformation. (Medical/1.05)
AVN. Avignon Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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AVO. Amplitude Versus Offset. (Drilling/2.16)
Avoirdupois weight. Merchant measure. A system of weights based on a pound of 16 ounces. See
Apothecaries, Troy. (Weights & Measures, Imperial/1.05)
AVP. Scranton Airport. PA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AVP. Arginine Vasopresin. (Medical/1.05)
AVR. Automatic Voltage Regulator. (Petrochemical/1.07)
AVTAG. Aviation Turbine Fuel (Petrol/Gasoline based). (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
AVTUR. Aviation Turbine Fuel (Paraffin/Kerosene based). (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
aw. Aruba. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
AWACS. Airborne Warning And Control System. An airborne surveillance system that can track
distant aircraft (Military/1.05)
AWB. Annulus Wing Block. (Drilling/2.16)
AWC. After While, Crocodile. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
AWE. Atomic Weapons Establishment. (Military/1.06)
AWF. Aruba Florin. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
AWGTHTGTTA. Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
AWHFY. Are We Having Fun Yet?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
AWI. Afred Wegener Institut. Ny-Г…lesund, Spitsbergen Svalbard (General/1.05)
AWOL. Absence Without Official Leave or Away With Out Leave. In war time desertion is usually
punishable by death (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AWOP. All Weather Operations Panel. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AWOS. Airport Weather Observation System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AWRE. Atomic Weapons Research Establishment. (General/2.10)
AWS. Automatic Warning System. (General/2.10)
AWS. Automatic Weather Station. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AWS. American Welding Society. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
AWTTW. A Word To The Wise. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
AWWA. American Water Works Association. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
AWY. Airway. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AWZ. Ahwaz Airport. Iran. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AXA. Anguilla Airport. Netherlands Antilles. (Airport Codes/1.06)
AY. Finnair. (Airline Codes/1.05)
AYOR. At Your Own Risk. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
AYT. Are You There. (IT, Internet Chat/2.14)
AYT. Antalya. Turkey. (Airport Codes/1.05)
AZ. Alitalia. (Airline Codes/1.07)
az. Azerbaijan. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
Azimuth. Head Azimuth. The angle at which the read/write head of a disc drive is aligned in relation
to a disc's tracks, if the azimuth is bad (skewed) the disc will not be readable, if it is at the right
tangent the disc should be readable (IT, Computing/1.05)
AZM. Azerbaijanian Manat. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
AZM. Azimuth. In aviation terms I am unsure of what this means but it possibly has something to do
with angles, compass bearings, or glide path (angle of descent) (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
AZR. Adrar Airport. Algerie. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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AZT. Zidovudine. (Medical/1.05)
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3. Beta
B. Blue. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
B. Boron. Atomic number 5. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
B&G. Brann & Gass. (Petrochemical/1.07)
B/M. Barrels Per Minute. (Petrochemical/1.07)
B2B. Business to Business. (IT, Computing/2.12)
B2C. Business to Consumer. (IT, Computing/2.12)
B4N. Bye For Now. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
Ba. Barium. Atomic number 56. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
ba. Bosnia And Herzegowina. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
BA. Breathing Apparatus. (General/2.10)
BA. Ball Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
BA. Braking Action. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BA. British Airways. (Airline Codes/1.05)
BAA. British Airport Authority. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BAA. British Agrochemicals Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
BAAS. British Association for the Advancement of Science. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
BABS. Blind Approach Beacon System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BAC. Bad A**ed Chick. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BAC. Budget At Completion. See EAC (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
BACIE. British Association for Commercial and Industrial Education. (General/2.10)
Backbone. A high speed connection designed to interconnect multiple networks.
Computing/1.05)
Backward pass. The process of calculating late dates for a network. See CPA.
Management, Planning/1.10)
(IT,
(Project
BACM. British Association of Colliery Management. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
BACnet. Building Automation and Control network. (IT, Computing/2.12)
BACOD. Bleomycin, Doxorubicin
Dexamethasone. (Medical/1.05)
(Adriamycin),
Cyclophosphamide,
Vincristine
(Oncovin),
BACTA. British Amusement Catering Trades Association. (General/2.10)
BAH. Bahrein Airport. Bahrein. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BAK. Back At Keyboard. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BAK. Baku Airport. Azerbaijan. (Airport Codes/1.05)
BAL. Baltimore Airport. MD. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BAL. Britishanti-Lewisite (Dimercaprol). (Medical/1.05)
BALPA. British Air Line Pilots Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
BALPPA. British Association of Leisure Parks, Piers and Attractions.
Institute/2.10)
(Association, Society,
BAMA. British Adhesives Manufacturers Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
BAMA. British Aerosol Manufacturers Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
Bandit. The bad guy. A hostile aircraft. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.08)
Bandwidth. How fast data/information can be transferred over a given period of time. Measured in
hertz or bits per second. The transmission medium can be anything from a fibre optic cable, a
satellite dish, to a piece of string. The width in bandwidth does not refer to thickness as in a very
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fat cable (a fibre optic fibber is very fast and thin), it refers to the width of the frequency, or the
number of times the crest of a wave passes that crest in a given time period (IT,
Computing/1.05)
BAPCO. British Association of Public Safety Communication Officers.
Institute/2.14)
(Association, Society,
BAPE. Benign Asbestos Pleural Effusion. (General/2.10)
BAQ. Barranquilla Airport. Colombia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
bar. A unit of pressure. (Weights & Measures, Other/2.14)
Bar Chart. See Ganttchart. (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
Barrel. A unit of volume measurement used for petroleum and its products. 7.3 barrels = 1 ton. 6.29
barrels = 1 cubic metre. 1 barrel = ca. 35 Imperial gallons, or ca. 159 litres (Petrochemical/1.08)
Barrel. Measure of Ale. 32 gallons (2 kilderkins). (Measure of Ale/1.05)
BAS. Big A** Smile. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BAS. Basic Inspection. (General/2.10)
BAS. Building Advisory Service. (General/2.10)
BAS. Bygg Automatiserings System. Control Systems for buildings, climate etc. Norwegian (OSL
Project Related/1.05)
BAS. Broadband Access Server. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
BASE. Cloud Base. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Base Station. Radio station in a mobile telephone system. This station relays signals from mobile
telephones transmitting within a cell, which is the area covered by the base station (IT,
Telecommunications/1.07)
BASEEFA. British Approval Service for Electrical Equipment in Flammable Atmosphere. (Association,
Society, Institute/1.07)
Baseline. A scheduling benchmark. A Project Control Baseline is the benchmark from which
subsequent schedules are measured against for deviations. The idea of benchmarking comes from
the workshop, where the work bench was marked for measuring purposes. In effect a baseline is
a freeze of all scheduling information, for example dates and man-hours against which
subsequent changes can be measured. E.g.. schedule acceleration (Project Management,
Planning/1.05)
BASIC. Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. (IT, Languages/1.05)
BASICS. British ASsociation of Immediate Care Schemes. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
BAT. Biological Tolerance Value. (General/2.10)
BAT. Best Available Techniques. (General/2.10)
BATF. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
BATNEEC. Best Available Techniques Not Entailing Excessive Cost. (General/2.10)
BATSUB. British Army Training Support Unit Belize. (Military/1.06)
Baud. Used to indicate the rate at which data is transferred on a line. (IT, Computing/1.05)
BAV. Ball Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.05)
BAWP. British Association of Women Police. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
bb. Barbados. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
BB. Both Bones (Fractures). (Medical/1.05)
BBA. British Board of Agreement. (General/2.10)
BBA. Born Before Arrival. (Medical/1.05)
BBAC. British Balloon and Airship Club. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
BBB. Bundle Branch Block. (Medical/1.05)
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BBD. Barbadian Dollar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
BBE. Beveled Both Ends. Pipe end configuration. See BOE, TBE, TOE, SQC (Petrochemical,
Piping/1.05)
BBFN. Bye Bye For Now. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BBIAB. Be Back In A Bit. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BBIAF. Be Back In A Few. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BBL. Be Back Later. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
bbl. Barrel. (Petrochemical/2.07)
BBN. Bye Bye Now. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BBR. Burnt Beyond Repair. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BBS. Be Back Soon. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BBS. Bulletin Board System. A computer that can be remotely accessed by modem on which
messages and files which can be downloaded are stored. Some BBS are devoted to specific
topics, whilst others may be general (IT, Internet/1.05)
BBSM. Behavioural Based Safety Management System. (Drilling/2.16)
BBT. Basal Body Temperature. (Medical/1.05)
BBU. Baneasa. Bucharest Airport. Romania. (Airport Codes/1.05)
BC. Because. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BC. Buffer Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BC. Blood Culture. (Medical/1.05)
BCA. British Cement Association. (General/2.10)
BCC. Block Checking Character. (IT, Computing/1.05)
BCC. Blind Carbon Copy. Email. The other recipients of the message do not see that the recipient of
the BCC has received a BCC. See CC (General/1.05)
BCD. Binary Coded Decimal. A character coding system. BCD is a 4 bit code used for coding numeric
values only. E.g. 1=0001. The standard BCD 6 bit code is formed by extending the BCD 4 bit code
by a further two bits in order to allow non numeric characters to be coded. E.g. A=110001. See
ASCII, EBCDIC (IT, Coding/1.05)
BCECA. British Chemical Engineering Contractors Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
BCF. Billion cubic feet. (Petrochemical/1.08)
BCFG. Fog Patches. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BCG. Bacillus Calmette-Guerin. (Medical/1.05)
BCGA. British Compressed Gas Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
BCI. Board of Chief Inspectors. (General/2.10)
BCM. Billion cubic metres. (Petrochemical/1.08)
BCM. Bid Clarification Meeting. (Project Management/1.07)
BCMC. British Cable Makers Confederation. (General/2.10)
BCMF. British Ceramic Manufacturers' Federation. (General/2.10)
BCMS. Building Control and Management System. (IT, Computing/2.13)
BCN. Beacon. Aeronautical ground light (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BCN. Barcelona Airport. Spain. (Airport Codes/1.05)
BCNU. Carmustine. (Medical/1.05)
BCNU. Be seein’ you. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BCP. Birth Control Pill. (Medical/1.05)
BCP. Border Control Point. (General/2.10)
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BCRU. British Committee on Radiological Units. (General/2.10)
BCS. Binary Compatibility Specification. (IT, Computing/1.05)
BCS. British Computer Society. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
BCS. British Calibration Service. (General/2.10)
BCS. British Crime Survey. (Policing/2.14)
BCSA. British Constructional Steelwork Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
BCST. Broadcast. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BCU. Basic Command Unit. (Policing/2.14)
BCWP. Budget Cost of Work Performed. A term for the Earned Cost of work performed. See Earned
Value (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
BCWS. Budget Cost of Work Scheduled. The value of work which was scheduled to have been
completed by the Current Date (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
bd. Bangladesh. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
bd. Bis Die (Two Times A Day). (Medical/1.05)
BD. Blast Door. (Petrochemical/1.07)
BDA. Bermuda Airport. Bermuda. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BDF. Below Derrick Floor. (Drilling/2.16)
BDL. Bit Data Log. (Drilling/2.16)
BDL. Hartford Bradley Intl Airport. CT. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BDMA. Benzyl Dimethyl Amine. (General/2.14)
BDR. Bridgeport Airport. CT. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BDRY. Boundary. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BDS. Brendisi Airport. Italy. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BDT. Bangladesh Taka. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
BDU. Bardufoss Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.05)
BDW. Baggage Data Warehouse. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
BE. Barium Enema. (Medical/1.05)
be. Belgium. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
Be. Beryllium. Atomic number 4. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
BE. Bevelled End. (Petrochemical, Piping/1.07)
BEAMA. Federation of British Electrotechnical and Allied Manufacturers Association.
Society, Institute/2.10)
(Association,
BEC. Building Employers Confederation. (General/2.10)
BEC. Bid Evaluate Commit. (Project Management/1.07)
BECMG. Becoming. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BEE. Basal Energy Expenditure. (Medical/1.05)
BEF. Belgium Franc. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
BEG. Belgrade Airport. Yugoslavia. (Airport Codes/1.05)
BEG. Big Evil Grin. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BEL. Belem Airport. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BELS. Biological Exposure Limits. (General/2.10)
BEM. British Empire Medal. (General/2.14)
BEN. Benghazi Airport. Lybia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BER. Bit Error Rate. (IT, Computing/2.01)
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BER. Berlin Ouest Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BER. Basic Encoding Rules. (IT, Computing/1.05)
BERBOH. British Examining and Registration Board in Occupational Hygiene. (General/2.10)
BERSA. British Elastic Rope Sports Association. (General/2.10)
BES. Breste Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Beta. An early version of software or hardware. See Alpha. (IT, Computing/2.02)
Beta. Second letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Second, coefficient of pressure
change of a gas, ratio of the velocity of a body to the velocity of kight (Greek Alphabet/1.05)
Beta Distribution. A statistical distribution of activity durations used with PERT, these durations are
best case, expected case, and worst case. (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
BEW. Beira Airport. Mozambique. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BEWA. British Effluent And Water Association. (General/2.10)
BEY. Beyrouth Airport. Lebanon. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BF. Butterfly Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
BF. Boy Friend. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
bf. Burkina Faso. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
BFD. Big F**king Deal. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BFL. Bakersfield Airport. CA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BFMF. British Footwear Manufacturers Federation. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
BFN. Bye For Now. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
BFN. Bloemfontein Airport. South Africa. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BFO. Beat Frequency Oscillator. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
BFR. Before. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BFS. Belfast International Airport. Northern Ireland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
BFV. Butterfly Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.05)
BG. Big Grin. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
bg. Bulgaria. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
BG. Border Gateway. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
BG. British Gas. (General/2.10)
BGE. Butyl Glycidyl Ether. (General/2.14)
BGF. Bangui Airport. Centreafrique. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BGI. Barbados. (Airport Codes/1.05)
BGL. Bulgarian Lev. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
BGL. Borehole Geometry Log. (Drilling/2.16)
BGL. Below ground Level. (Drilling/2.16)
BGM. Binghampton Airport. NY. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BGO. Flesland. Bergen Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.05)
BGP. Border Gateway Protocol. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
BGR. Bangor Airport. ME. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BGS. British Geological Survey. (General/2.10)
BGT. Borehole Geometry Tool. (Drilling/2.16)
BGW. Bagdad Airport. Irak. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BGWP. Base of Ground Water Protection. (Drilling/2.16)
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BGY. Bergamo Airport. Italy. (Airport Codes/1.06)
bh. Bahrain. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
BHA. Bottom Hole Assembly. (Petrochemical/1.07)
BHD. Bahrain Dinar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
BHK. Birmingham Airport. England. (Airport Codes/1.05)
BHL. Bore Hole Log. (Drilling/2.16)
BHM. Birmingham Airport. AL. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BHMA. Builders Hardware Manufactures Association. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
BHP. Bottom Hole Pressure. (Petrochemical/1.07)
BHS. Baggage Handling System. BagasjehГҐndteringssystem (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BHSS. British Health and Safety Society. (General/2.10)
BHX. Birmingham Airport. UK. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BHZ. Belo Horizonte Airport. SP. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BI. Budget Item. (Petrochemical/1.07)
bi. Burundi. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
Bi. Bismuth. Atomic number 83. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
BIA. Bastia. Corsica, France. (Airport Codes/1.05)
BIA. British Insurance Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
BIBO. Beer In, Beer Out. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BICES. Battlefield Collection and Exploitation Systems. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BID. Brought In Dead. (Medical/1.05)
bid. Two Times A Day. (Medical/1.05)
Bid. A wild guess carried out to two decimal places. (Humour/1.05)
Bid Opening. A poker game. (Humour/1.05)
BIDS. Baggage Information and Display System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BIF. Burundi Franc. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
BIF. Before I Forget. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
Big Chicken Dinner. A bad conduct discharge. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.09)
BIH. Bureau International d'Heure. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
BIL. Billings Airport. MT. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
bilat. Bilateral. (Medical/1.05)
bili. Bilirubin. (Medical/1.05)
BIM. British Institute of Management. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
BIN. Baggege Identification Number. (IT, Computing/1.06)
Binary Numbers. Numbers to base 2. The binary number system uses two symbols 0 and 1 and
places values increasing in powers of two so that 1=0001, 2=0010, 3=0011, 4=0100, 5=0101,
6=0110, etc....See Decimal, Octal, Hexadecimal (IT, Coding/1.05)
BIO. Bilbao Airport. Spain. (Airport Codes/1.05)
Biodegradable. Material that can be decomposed or rotted by bacteria or other natural agents.
(Environment/2.01)
BION. Believe It Or Not. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BIOS. Basic Input Output System. (IT, Computing/1.05)
BIOYIOP. Blow It Out Your I/O Port. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BIPM. Bureau Intern ational des Poids et Mesures. (Association, Society, Institute/2.08)
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BIQ. Biarritz Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Bird. Aircraft. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.09)
BIS. Bank for International Settlements. (General/2.10)
BIS. Bismark Airport. ND. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BISYNC. Binary Synchronous Control. See BSC (IT, Computing/1.05)
BIT. Built In Test. (IT, Computing/1.05)
Bit depth. The number of bits used to define a devices capacity to reproduce grays or colours. The
greater the bit depth, the more colours will be available. Pictures are also defined in terms of bit
depth (e.g. 24 bit image) (IT, Computing/1.05)
BITE. Built In Test Equipment. (IT, Computing/1.05)
Bits. Binary digITS. A bit is a binary digit, the smallest unit of information a computer uses. It is
expressed as 1 or 0, meaning on or off, yes or no, positive or negative, something or nothing.
Seven bits are required to store one alphabet character in the ASCII character code set, (in
addition one start bit, one parity bit, and one stop bit). One and zero are represented by pulse
levels where zero is a low pulse, and one is a high pulse. The purpose of the parity bit is to allow
detection of errors in data transmission or recording. There are various parity checking methods,
even parity check, odd parity check, longitudinal parity check, and probably others that I have
never heard of. See bytes, ASCII, EBCDIC, BCD Kb, Mb, Gb, Tb, Pb (IT, Units/1.05)
Bitumen. Extremely heavy semi-solid product of oil refining, made up of heavy hydrocarbons, used
for road-building (in asphalt) and roofing. (Petrochemical/2.01)
bj. Benin. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
BJL. Banjul Airport. Gambia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BJM. Bujumbura Airport. Burundi. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BJV. Milas. Turkey. (Airport Codes/1.05)
Bk. Berkelium. Atomic number 97. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
BKA. Below Knee Amputation. (Medical/1.05)
BKI. Kota Kinabalu Airport. Malaysia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BKK. Don Muang International. Bangkok Airport. Thailand. (Airport Codes/1.05)
BKL. Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport. OH. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BKN. Broken. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BKO. Bamako Airport. Mali. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BL. Blowing (Followed by DU=DUst, SA=SAnd, SN=SNow). (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BL. Belly Laughing. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BLA. Barcelone Airport. Venezuela. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BlC. Blood Culture. (Medical/1.05)
BLDG. Building. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BLE. Dala. Borlange Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
BLEVE. Boiling Liquid Expansion Vapour Explosion. (Policing/2.14)
BLEVE. Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion. (Petrochemical/1.07)
BLF. British Lubricants Federation. (General/2.10)
BLI. Bottom of Logging Interval. (Drilling/2.16)
BLK. Blackpool Airport. UK. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BLL. Billund Airport. Denmark. (Airport Codes/1.05)
BLO. Below Clouds. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BLObs. Binary Large Objects. See MDD, OLAP, MOLAP, MDBMS, OODBMS (IT, Computing/1.05)
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Block. The North sea is divided into areas for exploration and exploitation. These areas are called
blocks. A block is part of a quadrant, so block 5/99, would be block 5 of quadrant 99
(Petrochemical/1.08)
Block Sum Check. A type of error checking when data is transmitted. See check sum, CRC (IT,
Computing/1.05)
Blog. A web log, a diary. See vlog (IT, Computing/2.14)
Blowout. An uncontrolled flow of gas, oil, or liquids from a well. (Petrochemical/2.15)
Blow-out. Hydrocarbons blowing out at the surface, in an uncontolled manner. This can occur when
the well pressure exceeds the rating of the wellhead blow-out prevention valves
(Petrochemical/1.08)
BLQ. Guglielmo Marconi. Bologna Airport. Italy. (Airport Codes/1.05)
BLR. Blue Light Radiation. (General/2.10)
BLR. Bangalore Airport. India. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BlS. Blood Sugar. (Medical/1.05)
BLS. Bureau of Labour Statistics. (General/2.10)
BLT. Baghdad Local Time. (Time or Space/2.03)
Bluetooth. Bluetooth is a specification for wireless technology. (IT, Telecommunications/2.12)
BLX. Britannia. (Airline Codes/1.05)
BLZ. Blantyre Airport. Malawi. (Airport Codes/1.06)
bm. Bermuda. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
BM. Bowel Movement. (Medical/1.05)
BMA. British Medical Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
BMAA. British Microlight Aircraft Association. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
BMC. Bulk Molding Compound. (General/2.14)
BMD. Bermuda Dollar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
BMD. Ballistic Missile Defence. (Military/1.06)
BMGA. British Machine Guarding Authority. (General/2.10)
BMGWL. Busting My Gut With Laughter. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BMHB. British Materials Handling Board. (General/2.10)
BMNS. Ballistic Missile Nuclear Submarine. (Military/1.05)
BMP. Bit Map. A standard file format called a bit map. An image formed by a rectangle grid of pixels.
A bit map is the set of bits that represent the position and binary state of a corresponding set of
items to form a bit image such as your display screen (IT, Computing/1.05)
BMP. Beats Per Minute. (Medical/1.05)
BMR. Basal Metabolic Rate. (Medical/1.05)
BMS. Building Management System. (IT, Computing/2.12)
BMTA. British Measurement and Testing Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
bn. Brunei Darussalam. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
BNA. Nashville Airport. TN. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BND. Brunei Darussalam Dollar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
BNE. Brisbane Airport. QL. Australia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BNFL. British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. (General/2.10)
BNFMF. British Non-ferrous Metals Federation. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
BNJ. Bonn Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BNS. Bureau de Normalisation de la Siderurgie. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
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BNTA. Bureau de Normalisation du Tube Acier. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
bo. Bolivia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
BO. Body Odour. (Medical/1.05)
BOB. Bolivian 'Bolivian'. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
BOC. British Oxygen Company. (General/2.10)
BOCP. Blow Out Contingency Plan. (Drilling/2.16)
BOD. Basis Of Design. (Petrochemical/2.13)
BOD. Board Of Directors. (General/1.05)
BOD. Merignac. Bordeaux Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.05)
BOE. Beveled Outer End(s). Pipe end configuration. See BBE, TBE, TOE, SQC (Petrochemical,
Piping/1.05)
boepd. Barrels of oil equivalent per day. (Petrochemical/2.07)
BOG. Eldarado. Bogota Airport. Colombia. (Airport Codes/1.05)
BOH. Bournemouth Airport. UK. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BOHICA. Bend Over, Here It Comes Again. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BOHS. British Occupational Hygiene Society. (General/2.10)
BOI. Boise Airport. ID. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BOJ. Bourgas. Bulgaria. (Airport Codes/1.05)
BOM. Bombay Airport. India. (Airport Codes/1.05)
BOMB. Bombing. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BON. Bonaire Airport. Netherlands Antilles. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BOO. BodГё Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.05)
Boolean Algebra. The algebra of logic. An English mathematician called George Boole wrote a book
in 1854 called "An investigation of the laws of thought on which are founded the mathematical
theories of logic and probabilities". In this book Boole described an algebra system now called
Boolean algebra (sometimes switching algebra) for representing and manipulating logical
expressions. Digital computers are designed, maintained, and analysed using techniques based on
Boolean algebra. Variables in Boolean algebra can only assume one of two values, 0 or 1, True or
False, Something or Nothing, Positive or Negative, as opposed to algebra where variables can
assume any value in the range of real numbers. Claude E Shannon first applied Boolean algebra
as a method for representing circuits as a set of mathematical expressions in 1938 (IT,
Coding/1.05)
Boot. Start a computer. (IT, Computing/1.05)
BOOT. Build, Own, Operate, Transfer. A form of contract where the contractor finances the project.
The boot is also what a lot of project personnel get when things go wrong (Project
Management/1.10)
Boot Virus. A virus which infects the original boot sector on a floppy disc. The boot sector is loaded
into memory first, so if you leave an infected disc in it's drive, and start the computer the virus is
loaded at once, before any virus protection software can be executed. (Assuming that the drive is
not disabled) (IT, Computing/1.05)
BOOTP. Bootstrap Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
BOP. Blow Out Preventer. Equipment that is installed on the wellhead to control pressures while
drilling, completion works, and workovers (Petrochemical/1.07)
BOP. Bottom of Pipe. (Drilling/2.16)
BOP. Balance of Plant. (General/2.10)
BOPD. Barrels of Oil Per Day. (Petrochemical/1.07)
BOPP. Biaxially Oriented Poly Propylene. (General/2.14)
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BOQ. Bill Of Quantities. (Project Management/1.10)
Borehole. The centre of the oil well, the hole which is drilled out by the drill bit.
(Petrochemical/1.08)
BORN. Blanket Order Release Note. (Petrochemical/1.07)
BOS. Logan International. Boston Airport. MA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
BOS. Bill Of Sale. (Petrochemical/1.07)
BOT. Back On Topic. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BOTB. British Overseas Trade Board. (General/2.10)
BOTEC. Back-Of-The-Envelope-Calculation. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BOW. Bag Of Waters (Amniotic Sac). (Medical/1.05)
Bow-Tie Analysis. A form of risk analysis. (Drilling/2.16)
BOY. Bobo Dioulasso Burkina Airport. Faso. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BP. Bed Pan. (Medical/1.05)
BP. Birth Place. (Medical/1.05)
BP. Bypass. (Medical/1.05)
BP. Blood Presure. (Medical/1.05)
BPA. British Paediatric Association. (General/2.10)
BPA. British Pipeline Agency. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
BPBIF. British Paper and Board Industry Federation. (General/2.10)
BPCA. British Pest Control Association. (General/2.10)
bpd. barrels per day. (Petrochemical/2.08)
BPEO. Best Practicable Environmental Option. (General/2.10)
BPF. British Plastics Federation. (General/2.10)
BPH. Barrels Per Hour. (Drilling/2.16)
BPH. Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy. (Medical/1.05)
BPIF. British Printing Industries Federation. (General/2.10)
BPM. Best Practicable Means. (General/2.10)
BPN. Balikpapan Airport. Indonesia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BPS. Bits Per Second. Note a bit is a different amount than a byte (IT, Computing/1.05)
BPSD. Barrels Per Stream Day. (Petrochemical/1.07)
BPT. Beaumont Airport. TX. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BPV. Back Pressure Valve. (Drilling/2.16)
BPVC. Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code. (Petrochemical/1.07)
Bq. Becquerel. (Petrochemical/1.07)
BQN. Aguadilla Airport. Puerto Rico. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BR. British Rail. (General/2.10)
Br. Bromine. Atomic number 35. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
BR. Mist. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BR. Bed Rest, Bathroom. (Medical/1.05)
br. Brazil. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
BRA. British Robot Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
BRA. Basic Rate Access. See BRI. Basic Rate Interface (IT, Computing/1.05)
BRAC. Building Regulations Advisory Committee. (General/2.10)
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BRAM. Battery-backed Random Access Memory. (IT, Computing/1.07)
BRAS. Broadband Remote Access Server. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
BRB. Be Right Back. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BRB. British Railways Board. (General/2.10)
BRE. Breme Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BRE. Building Research Establishment. (General/2.10)
BREL. British Rail Engineering Limited. (General/2.10)
BRF. Short. Used to indicate the type of landing approach desired or required (Aviation Civil and
Military/1.05)
BRG. Bearing. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BRI. Basic Rate Interface (ISDN). There are two types of ISDN Basic Rate Interface and Primary Rate
Interface. BRI is used primarily by residential and small business installations (IT,
Computing/1.05)
BRI. Bari Airport. Italy. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Brine. A saline liquid. Used during well service operations and when penetrating a pay zone
(Drilling/2.16)
BRKG. Braking. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BRL. Brazilian Real. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
BRL. Building Restriction Line. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
BRM. Barquisimeto Airport. Venezuela. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BRMA. British Rubber Manufacturers Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
BRN. Berne Airport. Switzerland. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BRO. Brownsville Airport. TX. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BROA. British Rig Owners Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
Broadband. A telecomms channel description. A channel with more bandwidth than a standard voice
grade channel which is usually a 48KHz link (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
Browser. A computer program. That allows the user to connect and navigate to sites on the WWW,
and display information received. E.g. MS Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mosaic, Opera
(IT, Internet/1.06)
BRP. Bathroom Privileges. (Medical/1.05)
BRPSU. British Rail Privatisation Safety Unit. (General/2.10)
BRQ. Brno Airport. Checoslovaquia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BRS. Building Research Station. (General/2.10)
BRS. Baggage Reconciliation System. A computerised system for ensuring that luggage loaded onto
an aircraft is matched to passengers boarded. For example security, a suitcase cannot be loaded
onto a plane without an 'owning' passenger boarding also (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BRS. Big Red Switch. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BRS. Bureau of Resource Science (Australia). (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
BRS. Bristol Airport. UK. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BRT. Below Rotary Table. (Drilling/2.16)
BRU. National. Brussels Airport. Belgium. (Airport Codes/1.05)
BS. British Standard. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
BS. Broadcasting Station (Commercial). (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
bs. Bahamas. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
BS. Black Start. (Petrochemical/1.07)
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BS or bs. Breath Sounds. (Medical/1.05)
BS&W. Bottom Sediments and Water. (Petrochemical/1.07)
BSA. Body Surface Area. (Medical/1.05)
BSAC. Black Start Air Compressor. (Petrochemical/1.07)
BSAR. Black Start Air Receiver. (Petrochemical/1.07)
BSB. Brasilia Airport. DF. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BSC. Base Station Controller. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
BSC. British Safety Council. (General/2.10)
Bsc. Bachelor of Science. (Qualification, Award, Title/1.05)
BSC. Binary Synchronous Control. (IT, Computing/1.05)
BSC. British Steel Corporation. (General/2.10)
BSC. British Sugar Corporation. (General/2.10)
BSC. Business Support Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
BSD. Bahamian Dollar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
BSE. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy. (Medical/2.10)
BSE. Breast Self-Examination. (Medical/1.05)
BSEE. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. (Drilling/2.16)
BSG. Bata Guinee Airport. Equatoriale. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BSI. Baggage Sorting Interface. Baggage System Interface. A BSI is a system that enables one or
more users to exchange baggage messages. These baggage messages contain information that is
needed for automated handling of passenger baggage at airports (IT, Computing/1.06)
BSI. British Standards Institute. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
BSI. Building Systems Integration. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.12)
BSI. British Standards Institution. (General/2.10)
BSL. Bestemmelser for Sivil Luftfart. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BSL. Basel/Mulhouse Airport. Switzerland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
BSMs. Baggage Source Messages. Baggage System Messages. (IT, Computing/1.06)
BSO. Basic Safety Objective. (General/2.10)
BSO. Bilateralsalpingo-Oophorectomy. (Medical/1.05)
BSoD. Blue Screen of Death. A security breach that makes a computer hang or unusable, or when
your operating systems hangs making your computer system unusable. See DoS (IT,
Computing/1.05)
BSP. British Standard Pipe. (Petrochemical, Piping/1.07)
BSPT. British Standard Pipe Thread. (Petrochemical, Piping/1.07)
BSR. Board of Standards Review. (General/2.10)
BSR. Blind Shear Ram. (Drilling/2.16)
BSR. Blood Sedimentation Rate. (Medical/1.05)
BSR. Basra Airport. Irak. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BSS. British Standards Society. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
BSS. Baggage Sorting System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BSSSID. Basic Service Set ID. (See SSID) (IT, Computing/2.13)
BST. British Summer Time. (Time or Space/2.03)
BSTSA. British Surface Treatment Suppliers Association. (General/2.10)
BSU. Base Station Unit. (IT, Computing/1.05)
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BSW. Basic Sediments and Water. (Drilling/2.16)
bt. Bhutan. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
BT. Bed Time, Bitemporal (Diameter Of Head), Body Temperature, Brain Tumor. (Medical/1.05)
BT. British Telecom. (General/2.14)
BTA. But Then Again. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BTAIM. Be That As It May. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BTC. Budget To Completion. See ETC (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
BTDT. Been There, Done That. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BTHOM. Beats The Hell Outta Me. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BTIC. Baggage Tag Issuer Code. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
BTL. Battle Creek Airport. MI. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BTL. Between Layers. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BTL. Bilateral Tubal Ligation. (Medical/1.05)
BTM. Baggage Transfer Message. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
BTN. Between. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
BTOBD. Be There Or Be Dead. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BTP. British Transport Police. (Policing/2.10)
BTR. Bhutanese Rupee. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
BTR. Baton Rouge Airport. LA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BTS. Base Transceiver Station. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
BTS. Bratislava Airport. Slovak Republic. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BTSOOM. Beats The S**t Out Of Me. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
BTU. British Thermal Unit. The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of
water by one degree Fahrenheit (Weights & Measures, Imperial/1.05)
BTU. Bintulu Airport. Malaysia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Btuh. Btu per hour. (Weights & Measures, Imperial/2.14)
BTV. Burlington Airport. VT. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BTW. By The Way. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
bu. Bushel. Measure of capacity Imperial. 8 gallons = 1 bushel = 36,37 l (Weights & Measures,
Imperial/1.05)
BUC. Block Up Converter. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
BUD. Ferihegy. Budapest Airport. Hungary. (Airport Codes/1.05)
BUE. Buenos Aires Airport. Argentina. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BUF. Buffalo Airport. NY. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Bug. An error in a computer program. Which results in the program functioning in an
unpredictable/unexpected manner. Debugging is the process of finding and fixing errors in a
computer program (IT, Computing/1.05)
BUH. Bucarest Airport. Rumania. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Bullheading. Forcing fluids in the well into the formation at pressure. (Drilling/2.16)
BUM. Baggage Unloaded Message. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
BUN. Blood Urea Nitrogen. (Medical/1.05)
BUQ. Bulawayo Airport. Zimbabwe. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BUR. Build Up Rate. (Petrochemical/1.07)
BUR. Burbank Airport. CA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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Burning. A term sometimes used for the writing of a CD. (IT, Computing/1.10)
Bus. A type of connector. The connector used to attach expansion boards (or components of the
computer) to a computers main circuit board (also called a mother board or system board). See
ISA, EISA, MCA, PCI, PCMCIA for different types of bus architecture (IT, Computing/1.05)
Bushel. Measure of Ale. 8 gallons (4 pecks). (Measure of Ale/1.05)
Butane. A hydrocarbon consisting of four carbon atoms and ten hydrogen atoms. Normally a gas,
but easily liquefied for transport and storage; used in gasolines, and for cooking and heating
(Petrochemical/2.01)
BV. Blood Volume. (Medical/1.05)
BV. Bureau Veritas. (Petrochemical/1.07)
BV. Block Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
bv. Bouvet Island. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
BVA. Beauvais. Paris, France. (Airport Codes/1.05)
BVA. British Veterinary Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
BVE. Brive La Gaillarde Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BVO. Ball Valve Operator. (Drilling/2.16)
BVPI. Best Value Performance Indicator. (Policing/2.14)
BVRLA. British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
bw. Botswana. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
BW. Body Weight. (Medical/1.05)
BW. Butt Weld. (Petrochemical, Welding/1.07)
bwd. barrels of water per day. (Petrochemical/2.08)
BWE. Brauschweig Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BWF. British Woodworking Federation. (General/2.10)
BWI. Baltimore Washington Intl Airport. MD. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BWK. Brac/Bol Airport. Croatia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BWL. Bursting With Laughter. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BWN. Bandar Seri Begawan Airport. Brunei. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BWP. Botswanian Pula. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
BWPA. British Wood Preserving Association. (General/2.10)
BWPD. Barrels of Water Per Day. (Petrochemical/2.06)
BWQ. Buzz Word Quotient. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BWR. Boiling Water Reactor. (Nuclear power/1.05)
BWTHDIK. But What The Heck Do I Know...?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
Bx. Biopsy. (Medical/1.05)
BXO. Bissau Airport. Guinee. Duplicate see OXB (Airport Codes/1.06)
by. Belarus. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
BYE. Response to BYE?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BYE?. Are you ready to say goodbye?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BYKT. But You Knew That. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BYOB. Bring Your Own Bottle. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BYOM. Bring Your Own Mac. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
BYR. Belarusian Ruble. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
Byte. One byte is equal to 8 bits. (IT, Units/1.05)
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BYU. Bayreuth Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.06)
bz. Belize. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
BZD. Belize Dollar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
BZE. Belize Airport. Belize. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BZR. Beziers Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
BZV. Brazzaville Airport. Congo. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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4. Charlie
C. Centre {runway identification}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
C. Degrees Celsius. Centigrade. A temperature scale with the freezing point of water at 0 degrees,
and the boiling point of water at 100 degrees. Normal body temperature is 37 degrees (Weights &
Measures, Temperature/1.05)
C. Carbon. Atomic number 6. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
C&G. Chuckle and Grin. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
C&I. Control and Instrumentation. (General/2.10)
C&K. Choke and Kill. (Drilling/2.16)
C&R. Commanding And Reporting. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
C&W. Control and Warning. (Military/1.05)
C/A. Clinitestand Acetone. (Medical/1.05)
C/L. Centreline. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
c/o. Complains Of. (Medical/1.05)
C/S. Culture And Sensitivity. (Medical/1.05)
C/sec. Cesarean Section. (Medical/1.05)
c[C]. Cup of coffee. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
c[T]. Cup of tea. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
C2I. Command, Control and Intelligence. (Military/1.06)
C3. Consultation, Command and Control. (Military/1.05)
C4I. Command Control Communication Computer Intelligence. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CA. Compressed Air. (General/2.10)
CA. Conditional Access. See Conax (Satellite Broadcasting/2.08)
CA. Conflict Alert. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CA. Computer Associates. Consulting Company (OSL Project Related/1.05)
CA. Construction Area. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CA. Certifying Authority. (General/2.10)
Ca. Cancer. (Medical/1.05)
CA. Cellulose Acetate. (General/2.14)
CA. Cardiac Arrest, Carcinoma, Chronological Age,. (Medical/1.05)
Ca. Calcium. Atomic number 20. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
ca. Canada. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
CAA. Civil Aviation Authority. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CAAPI. Call Accounting Application Program Interface. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CAB. Cellulose Acetate Butyrate. (General/2.14)
CAB. Coronary Artery Bypass. (Medical/1.05)
CAB. Citizens Advice Bureau. (General/2.10)
CAB. Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau. (General/2.10)
CABG. Coronary Artery Bypass Graft. (Medical/1.05)
Cable length ordinary. Nautical Measure. 100 fathoms = 1 cable length = 185 m. British (608
feet). US (608,2 feet) (Weights & Measures, Imperial/1.05)
Cable length US navy. Nautical Measure. 120 fathoms = 1 cable length = 219 m (Weights &
Measures, Imperial/1.05)
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CABSYS. Cable System. Computer Programme for registering, routing, and documentation of cabling,
(Trademark of ABB) (OSL Project Related/1.05)
Cache. Where the processor stores data it will frequently use so that it can access that data quickly.
Cache is usually composed of SRAM. PC cache comes in two sizes 256kb or 512kb (IT,
Computing/1.05)
CaCO3. calcium carbonate. Chalk (Chemical Compounds/2.14)
CAD. Canadian Dollar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
CAD. Computer Aided Design. Data Assitert Konstruksjon (General/1.05)
CAD. Coronary Artery Disease. (Medical/1.05)
CADD. Computer Aided Design Drafting. (General/2.10)
CADET. Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
CAE. Columbia Airport. SC. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CAF. Cyclophosphamide, Doxorubicin (Adriamycin), 5-Fluoruracil. (Medical/1.05)
CAG. Cagliari Airport. Italy. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CAG. Chief Constables Advisory Group. (Policing/2.14)
CAI. Cairo International Airport. Egypt. (Airport Codes/1.05)
CAI. Centralised Accident Investigation. (General/2.10)
CAI. Common Air Interference. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
CAIAT. Computer Aided Inspection And Test. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
CAIRS. Canadian Institute for Radiation Safety. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
CAK. Akron Airport. OH. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
cal. Calorie. (Medical/1.05)
CALM. Catenary Anchor Leg Mooring. (Petrochemical/2.07)
CAM. Computer Aided Manufacture. (General/2.10)
CAM. Computer Aided Manufacturing. (Petrochemical/1.07)
Camel Case. Or camelCase. Words are run together. Without spaces, underscores or other
seperators, and only the initial letter of the second and subsequent words are upper case. For
example: trueVerticalDepth, iPod (IT, Computing/2.13)
CAMEO. Computer Aided Management of Emergency Operations. (General/2.10)
CAMR. Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research. (General/2.10)
CAMRA. CAMpaign for Real Ale. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
CAN. Guandong Airport. Canton. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CAN. Change Advice Note. (Project Management/1.07)
CANDU. Canadian Deuterium Uranium. A reactor (Nuclear power/2.10)
CANDU. Canadian deuterium-uranium (reactor). (Nuclear power/1.05)
CAP. Community and Police Groups. (Policing/2.14)
CAP. Cellulose Acetate Propionate. (General/2.14)
CAP. Common Agricultural Policy. (General/2.10)
CAP. Conformity Assurance Programme. (General/2.10)
CAP. Contract Award Price. (Project Management/1.07)
cap. Capsule. (Medical/1.05)
CAPEX. Capital Expenditure. (Project Management/1.07)
CAPI. Common API. See API (IT, Computing/1.05)
CAPITB. Clothing and Allied Products Industry Training Board. (General/2.10)
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CAPM. Computer Aided Production Management. (General/2.10)
CAPP. Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. (Petrochemical/2.15)
Capre diem. Seize the day. (Latin, French, Greek/1.05)
CAPS. Computer Aided Planning System. (General/2.10)
CAPTS. Co-operative Area Precision Tracking System (Cardions). (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CAR. Corrective Action Register. (Drilling/2.16)
CAR. Corrective Action Request. (Project Management/1.07)
Carb. Carburettor. (General/1.05)
Carbon. A solid element which exists in many forms, including diamonds, graphite, coke and
charcoal. A combination of carbon and hydrogen is known as a hydrocarbon and can consist of
very large molecules (Eg polypropylenes) or very short ones (Eg. methane) (Petrochemical/2.01)
Carbonate. Sediment formed from the hard parts of marine organisms mainly consisting of calcite,
aragonite and dolomite. (Petrochemical/2.15)
Carry Over Work. Work that should have been completed onshore, but is carried over to an
offshore phase. (Petrochemical/1.08)
CART. Cam Actuated Running Tool. (Petrochemical/2.15)
CAS. Chemical Abstracts Service. (General/2.10)
CAS. Check-in Allocation System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CAs. Certificate Authorities. I have to admit I do not know where to begin, or even if I know what a
CA is. I think the best analogy I can draw is that I have one written signature, but at least 18
electronic methods of identification. Recently I could not pay for my groceries because I was
trying to use the PIN for my Entry Card to work in conjunction with one of my debit cards! A CA
certifies the use of one digital signature. See SET, PGP, Digital Signatures (IT, Computing/1.05)
CAS. Casablanca Airport. Maroc. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CAS. Calibrated Air Speed. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
CASAM. Computer Aided Stand Allocation and Management. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
CASE. Common Application Service Element. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CASE. Computer Aided Software Engineering. (IT, Computing/1.05)
Casing string. The steel tubing that lines a well after it has been drilled. It is formed from sections
of steel tube screwed together. (Petrochemical/1.08)
CaSO4. calcium sulfate. Gypsum (Chemical Compounds/2.14)
CASOM. Conventionally Armed Stand Off Missile. (Military/1.06)
CAT. Computer Aided Testing. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
CAT. Computerised Axial Tomography. (Medical/1.05)
CAT. Cable Avoiding Tool. (General/2.10)
CAT. Clear Air Turbulence. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CAT. Central Alaska Time. (Time or Space/2.03)
CAT. Computer Assisted Training. (General/2.10)
CAT. Category. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
cath. Catheterisation. (Medical/1.05)
Cathodic protection. A method for reducing the rate of electrochemical corrosion of steel structures
(Eg. offshore structures, pipelines and storage tanks). (Petrochemical/2.01)
CATR. Compact Antenna Test Range. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
CATV. Community Antenna Television. (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
CAV. Cyclophosphamide, Doxorubicin (Adriamicin), Vincristine. (Medical/1.05)
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CAVOK. Cloud And Visibility OKay. Pronounced "KAV-OH-KAY". Present weather better than
prescribed values or conditions (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CAVU. Ceiling And Visibility Unlimited. Very good flying weather (Aviation Civil and Military/1.08)
CAY. Cayenne Airport. Guyane Francaise. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CB. Circuit Breaker. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CB. Cumulonimbus. Pronounced "CEE BEE" (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CB. Citizens Band. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
CBC. Complete Blood Cell Count. (Medical/1.05)
CBCP. Call Back Control Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CBD. Common Bile Duct. (Medical/1.05)
CBDE. Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment. (Military/1.06)
CBDS. Connectionless Broadband Data Service. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CBE. Commander of the British Empire. (Qualification, Award, Title/1.05)
CBEMA. Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association. (General/2.10)
CBF. Cerebral Blood Flow. (Medical/1.05)
CBG. Cambridge Airport. UK. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CBI. Confederation of British Industries. (General/2.10)
CBL. Contract Baseline. See Baseline (Project Management/1.07)
CBL. Cement Bond Log. (Drilling/2.16)
CBM. Choke Bridge Module. (Petrochemical/2.15)
CBM. Coal Bed Methane. (Petrochemical/2.15)
CBM. Conventional Buoy Mooring. (Drilling/2.16)
CBN. Cubic Boron Nitride. (General/2.10)
CBNM. Central Bureau for Nuclear Measurements. (General/2.10)
CBO. Community Beat Officer. (Policing/2.14)
CBR. Constant Bit Rate (2). If an audio file has been compressed using a CBR then the data is
distributed evenly. Ie every second of sound contains the same number of bits (IT, Digital
music/2.11)
CBR. Canberra Airport. NS. Australia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CBR. Constant Bit Rate (1). When using an ATM network there is a choice of classes for carrying
traffic (transmitting data). Constant Bit Rate maintains a steady stream of data. See VBR, UBR,
ABR (IT, Computing/1.05)
CBR. Cloud Base Recorder. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
CBRN. Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear. (Policing/2.14)
CBS. Cost Breakdown Structure. (Project Management/1.05)
CBS. Crown Block Saver. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CBT. Compulsory Basic Training. (Policing/2.14)
CBT. Computer Based Training. (General/2.10)
CBT. Case Building Team. (Policing/2.14)
CBU. Case Building Unit. (Policing/2.14)
CBW. Chemical and Biological Warfare. (Military/2.02)
CC. Chief Complaint, Current Complaints, Critical Condition. (Medical/1.05)
CC. Cabel TV channel. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
cc. Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
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CC. Carbon Copy. These days associated with email, memos, and MOMs. The term has it's roots in
the days prior to photocopiers, when if you wanted a copy of something you needed to place a
piece of carbon paper between two sheets of paper. See BCC (General/1.05)
cc. Cubic Centimeter. Measure of volume. 1 cubic cm = 0,061 cubic inches (Weights & Measures,
Metric/1.05)
CC. Common Control. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CCA. Conceptual Communication Area. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CCA. Contract Criticality Assessment. (Project Management/1.07)
CCA. Compliance Cost Assessments. (General/2.10)
CCB. Configuration Control Board. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CCB. Coast Centre Base. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CCBL. Current Contract Baseline. See Baseline (Project Management/1.07)
CCC. Central Computing Complex. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CCC. Customs Cooperation Council. (General/2.10)
CCC. Current Contract Contingency. (Project Management/1.07)
CCCN. Customs Cooperation Council Nomenclature. (General/2.10)
CCD. Charge Coupled Device. Converts light passing through a lens into electrical signals (IT,
Computing/1.05)
CCE. Current Control Estimate or Contract Control Estimate. (Project Management/1.07)
CCE. Computer Controlled Equipment. (General/2.10)
CCE. Commission of the European Communities. (General/2.10)
CCF. Congestive Cardiac Failure. (Medical/1.05)
CCF. Common Cause Failures. (General/2.10)
CCF. Carcassonne Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CCI. Chronic Coronary Insufficiency. (Medical/1.05)
CCIR.
Comite
Consultatif
Institute/1.08)
International
des
Radiocommunications.
(Association,
Society,
CCIS. Common Control Interoffice Signalling. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
CCIS. Command and Control Information System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CCITT. Comite Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique. Consultative Committee for
International Telephone and Telegraphy. The standards body for data transmission, the CCITT
have produced a series of standards numbered X1-X29 and V1-V57 (Association, Society,
Institute/1.05)
CCL. Casing Collar Locator. (Drilling/2.16)
CCL. Casing Collar Log. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CCLP. Casing Collar Locator Perforation. (Drilling/2.16)
CCLTP. Casing Collar Locator Through Tubing Plug. (Drilling/2.16)
CCM. Central Connectivity Module (RГёyken). Norwegian traffic Information node located at RГёyken
(Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CCOU. Construction Central Operations Unit. (General/2.10)
CCP. Compressor Control Panel. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CCP. Concepcion Airport. CL. Chili. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CCP. Current Contract Price. (Project Management/1.07)
CCP. Compression Control Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CCR. Constant Current Regulators. Konstantstromregler (Electrical/2.01)
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CCr. Creatinine Clearance. (Medical/1.05)
CCR. Central Control Room. (Petrochemical/1.05)
CCR. Concurrency, Commitment and Recovery. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CCRS. Change Control Record Sheet. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
CCS. Common Channel Signalling. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
CCS. Caracas Airport. Venezuela. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CCS. Common Communication Support. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CCSS. Current Contract Summary Schedule. (Project Management/1.07)
CCT. Continuous Cooling Transformation. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CCT. China Coast Time. (Time or Space/2.03)
CCTA. Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
CCTV. Closed Circuit TeleVision. Video Camera and monitoring system (Security/1.05)
CCU. Calcutta Airport. India. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CCU. Coronary Care Unit. (Medical/1.05)
CCW. Counter clockwise. (General/1.07)
CD. Compact Disc. (General/1.05)
cd. Congo, Democratic People's Republic. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
CD. Conflict Detection. (IT, Computing/1.05)
Cd. Cadmium. Atomic number 48. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
CD. Candela. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CD. Caesearean Delivered, Convulsive Disorder, Curative Dose. (Medical/1.05)
CD. Core Description. (Drilling/2.16)
CD. Committee Draft. (General/1.07)
CD4. Helper-Inducer Tcells. (Medical/1.05)
CD8. Suprerssor-Cytotoxic T Cells. (Medical/1.05)
CDA. Centre for Defence Analysis. (Military/1.06)
CDA. Chemical Damp-proofing Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
CDC. Construction Document Control. (Project Management/1.07)
CDC. Centre for Disease Control. (General/2.10)
CDD. Corporate Development Department. (Government office/2.14)
CDDB. Compact Disc DataBase. An online data base of disc information (artist, track titles, etc..)
Freedb is another one (IT, Digital music/2.11)
CDDI. Copper Distributed Data Interface. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CDE. Conference on Disarmament in Europe. (Military/1.05)
CDF. Congolese Franc. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
CDFR. Commercial Demonstration Fast Reactor. (General/2.10)
CDG. Charles de Gaulle. Paris Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.05)
CD-I. Compact Disc - Interactive. Video and Audio tracks together. Similar to Video CDs, cannot be
read in a PC without special hardware/software (IT, Computing/1.10)
CDM. Construction Design and Management. (General/2.10)
CDMA. Core Division Multiple Access. A digital standard for mobile telephone communications (IS
95), operating in the frequency range 800 and 1900 MHz. Competitor for TDMA in the US of A.
See AMPS, CDPD, FDMA, GSM, TDMA (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
CDN. Constanca. Romania. (Airport Codes/1.05)
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CDN. Common Data Network. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CDN. Co-ordination {message type designator}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CDO. Civilian Detention Officer. (Policing/2.14)
CDP. Comprehensive Drilling Plan. (Drilling/2.16)
CDP. Cost of Deferred Production. (Project Management/1.07)
CDPD. Cellular Digital Packet Data. A type of cellular telephone network, alternative to GSM. See
GSM AMPS, CDMA, FDMA, GSM, TDMA (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
CDR. Critical Design Review. (OSL Project Related/1.05)
CDR. Communicable Disease Report. (General/2.10)
CD-R. Compact Disc - Recordable. Write once blank CDs (IT, Computing/1.10)
CDRL. Contract Data Requirement List. (General/1.05)
CD-ROM. Compact Disc - Read Only Memory. Used to refer to 'computer' CDs rather than 'audio' CDs
(IT, Computing/1.10)
CDRP. Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership. (Policing/2.14)
CD-RW. Compact Disc - Re-Writable (or Read/Write). Re-writable CDs allow you to write, and over
write, (ie. re-use the CD). Formerly known as CD-E(rasable). See DVD (IT, Computing/1.06)
CDS. Contract Detail Schedule. (Project Management/1.07)
CDSC. Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre. (General/2.10)
CDT. Central Daylight Time. (US and Canada) (Time or Space/2.02)
CDTM. Controlled Depth Tow Method. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CDU. Central Data Unit. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CDU. Control Distribution Unit. (Drilling/2.16)
CDU. Corporate Development Unit. (General/2.14)
CE. Cardiac Enlargement. (Medical/1.05)
CE. The "CE" mark indicates that a product complies with European requirements for HSE and
customer protection. (General/2.09)
Ce. Cerium. Atomic number 58. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
CE. Carbon Equivalent. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CEA. Carcinoembryonic Antigen. (Medical/1.05)
CEA. Council for Educational Advance. (General/2.10)
CEA. Chemical Engineering Abstracts. (General/2.10)
CEB. Cebu Airport. Philippines. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CEC. Commission of the European Communities. (General/2.10)
CECA. Communaute Eurepeenne du Charbon et de l'Acier. (General/2.10)
CEE. Communaute Economique Europeenne (French for EEC). (General/2.10)
CEE. Communita Economica Europea (Italian for EEC). (General/2.10)
CEEFA. Committee for Electrical Equipment for use in Flammable Atmospheres. (General/2.10)
CEEMAC. Certification of Electrical Equipment for Mining Advisory Council. (General/2.10)
CEEP. Centre Europeen de l'Entreprise Publique. (General/2.10)
CEF. Comite Electrotechnique Francais. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
CEF. Cluster Enhanced Filter. (General/2.10)
CEFIC. Conseil Europeen des Federations de l'Industrie. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
CEFLC.
European
Institute/2.10)
Council
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Chemical
Manufacturers
Federation.
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CEFT. Combat Effectiveness. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CEHO. Chief Environmental Health Officer. (General/2.10)
CEI. Comitato Elettrotecnico Italiano. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
CEI. Council of Engineering Institutions. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
CEI. Centre d'Etudes Industrielles. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
CEIF. Council of European Industrial Federations. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
Cellular Mobile Telephone System. System where each geographic area is covered by a base
station. This area is known as a cell. Each telephone in the cell communicates with the base
station. If the phone moves to another cell, the call is automatically transferred to the base
station in the new cell (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
CEN. Comite Europeen de Normalisation. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
CENEL. Comite Europeen de Coordination des Normes Electriques.
Institute/2.10)
(Association, Society,
CENELEC. Comite Europeen de Normalisation Electrotechnique. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
centi. SI number prefix 0,01. Abbreviated as c. One hundreth (SI Number Prefixes/2.08)
CEO. Chief Executive Officer. (General/2.02)
CEOC. Colloque Europeen des Organismes de Controle. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
CEP. Contractors Execution Plan. (Project Management/1.07)
CEPO. County Emergency Planning Officer. (Policing/2.14)
(Association,
CEPT. Conference of European Postal and Telecommunications Administrations.
Society, Institute/2.10)
CEPT. Conference Europeenne des administrations des Postes et des Telecommunications. A bit long
winded, and sorry about the spelling (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
CEPU. Central Equipment Purchasing Unit. (General/2.10)
CER. Cherbourg Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CER. Control and Equipment Room. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CER. Central Equipment Room. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CERCHAR. Centre d'Etudes et Recherches des Charbonnages de France.
Institute/2.10)
(Association, Society,
CERD. Comite Europeen de Recherche et Developpment. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
CERIAC. Ceramics Industry Advisory Committee. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
CERN. Centre European de Researche Nucleare. The European research centre for particle physics
(Nuclear power/1.05)
CESD. Communications Electronics Security Department. (General/2.10)
CESG. Communication Electronics Security Group. (Policing/2.14)
CESI. Centro Elettrotecnico Sperimentale Italiano. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
CEST. Central European Summer Time. (Time or Space/2.08)
CET. Cement Evaluation Tool. (Drilling/2.16)
CET. Corrected Effective Temperature. (General/2.10)
CET. Central European Time. GMT + 1 hour. See GMT, UTC (Time or Space/1.06)
CEU. Central Executive Unit. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
cf. Central African Republic. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
Cf. Californium. Atomic number 98. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
CF. Complement Fixation, Conversion Factor. (Medical/1.05)
CF. Cresol Formaldehyde. (General/2.14)
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CF. Change Frequency to. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CF. Cystic Fibrosis. (Medical/2.02)
CFCP. Common Facilities Control Panel. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CFCs. Chlorofluorocarbons. Man-made gases contributing to ozone depletion and global warming
(Petrochemical/2.01)
CFD. Cubic Feet per Day. (Petrochemical/2.01)
CFD. Computational Fluid Dynamics. (General/2.10)
CFDS. Centralised Fault Display Unit. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CFE. Customer Furnished Equipment. (General/1.05)
CFE. Clermont-Ferrand Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CFE. Conventional Forces in Europe. (Military/1.05)
CFI. Cost, Freight and Insurance. (Freight and Shipping, Incoterms/1.07)
CFL. Cleared Flight Level. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CFMU. Central Flow Management Unit. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CFO. Chief Financial Officer. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
CFP. Central Fire Point. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CFR. Code of Federal Regulation. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
CFR. Code of Federal Regulations. (General/2.10)
CFR. Caen Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CFR. Cost and Freight. (Freight and Shipping, Incoterms/1.08)
CFRP. Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic. (General/2.10)
CFSP. Common Foreign and Security Policy. (Military/1.05)
CFU. Corfu. (Airport Codes/1.05)
CFW. Center Field Wind. (IT, Telecommunications/2.02)
cg. Congo, Republic Of. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
cg. Centigram. Measure of weight. 1000mg = 100cg = 10dg = 1g = 0,35 ounces (avoirdupois)
(Weights & Measures, Metric/1.05)
CGA. Colour Graphics Adapter. See Video Board (IT, Computing/1.05)
CGA. Compressed Gas Association. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CGE. Cresol Glycidyl Ether. (General/2.14)
CGI. Common Gateway Interface. A technique that allows web clients to pass input to web servers
(IT, Internet/1.05)
CGK. Soekarno-Hatta International. Jakarta Airport. Indonesia. (Airport Codes/1.05)
CGL. Core Gamma Log. (Drilling/2.16)
CGL. Chronic Grnulocytic (Myelogeous) Leukemia. (Medical/1.05)
CGL. Circling Guidance Light. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CGN. Cologne/Bonn Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.05)
CGO. Zhengzhou Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CGP. Chittagong Airport. Bangladesh. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CGPM. ConfГ©rence GГ©nГ©rale des Poids et Mesures. (Association, Society, Institute/2.08)
CGPM. General Conference of Weights and Measures. (General/2.10)
CGQ. Changchun Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CGR. Condensate Gas Ratio. (Drilling/2.16)
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CGS. Continuous Grain Silicon. A flat screen technology. See CRT, LCD, TFT, PDP, EL, FED (IT,
Computing/1.05)
CGTL. Compact Gas To Liquids. (Drilling/2.16)
CH. Channel. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ch. Switzerland. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
Ch. Chapter, Child, Chief, Chest. (Medical/1.05)
CHA. Chattanooga Airport. TN. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Change. A modification to the scope of work. See Variation (Project Management/1.10)
Change Control. The recording, control, and notification of changes also called Variation Control.
Which ever side of the fence you are sitting on the registering and control of changes is very
important. Uncontrolled changes can be a financial disaster for a project. Quantity surveyors who
register and estimate the cost affect of project changes should not be considered as an overhead,
but as a necessity. In a nutshell changes to the scope of work can be identified by any member of
the project organisation. A project control group should be responsible for verifying that a
variation does exist and raising the appropriate change notification to the Client. The change
should be immediately distributed to the planning department and incorporated into the working
schedule, for calculation of any schedule impact. Changes that are not identified or notified to the
Client within a reasonable time, may be considered to be a part of the contractual scope of work.
See DVO, DVOR, PVN, PVOR, VI, VO, VODC, VOF, VOR (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
CHAP. Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CHAPI. Compact Helicopter Approach Path Indicator. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
Charlie. Viet Cong (from the phonetics Victor Charlie). (Military/1.10)
Charlie Foxtrot. Phonetics for Cluster F*ck. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.08)
Charpy Test. Metal Impact Test. A test performed on a sample piece of metal to show its resistance
to impact at low temperatures. Most steel plates become increasingly brittle as temperatures
decrease particularly below -20 F. This test is performed on a test coupon which is machined with
a v notch or keyhole cut in one side. The coupon is then frozen to the test temperature and
quickly placed in a clamp fixture, and struck with a pendulum hammer. The hammer is connected
to a gauge which registers the impact resistance of the coupon as it breaks. The resistance is
measured in FT-LBS energy (Petrochemical/1.05)
CHASE. Complete Health and Safety Evaluation Scheme. (General/2.10)
Chateau. Chateau is the traditional designation in the Bordeaux district for a vineyard, with buildings
for the production of wine. The chateau designation may also be applied in other wine districts if
these have the right to the Appellation Controlee or V.D.O.S. designations (Wine Label
Terms/1.05)
CHC. Christchurch Airport. New Zealand. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CHD. Congenital Heart Disease, Coronary Heart Disease, Childhood Disease. (Medical/1.05)
Check Sum. A type of error checking when data is transmitted. See CRC, block sum check (IT,
Computing/1.05)
CHESM. Contractor, Health, Environment and Safety Management. (Drilling/2.16)
CHF. Congestive Heart Failure. (Medical/1.05)
CHF. Swiss Franc. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
CHG. Modification {message type indicator}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CHI. Chicago Airport. IL. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Chi. Twenty second letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Twenty second (Greek
Alphabet/1.05)
Chicksan. A flexible coupling used in high-pressure lines. (Drilling/2.16)
CHID. Chemicals and Hazardous Installations Division. (General/2.10)
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Chip. Integrated Circuit. A slip of silicon imprinted with a circuit designed to perform a specific set of
functions. See Boolean, RAM, CMOS, DTL, ECL, GTL, HLDTL, IIL, LPTTL, MOS, NMOS, PMOS,
RTL, TTL, LSI, VLSI (IT, Computing/2.01)
Chipset. A collection of chips that work together to perform a particular set of functions.
Computing/2.02)
(IT,
CHIS. Covert Human Intelligence Source. (Policing/2.14)
cho. Carbohydrate. (Medical/1.05)
CHOP. Cyclophosphamide, Doxorubicin, Vincristine (Oncovin), Prednisone. (Medical/1.05)
CHOP. Cold Heavy Oil Production. (Petrochemical/2.08)
CHP. Combined Heat and Power. (General/2.10)
CHP. Casing Hanger Pressure. (Drilling/2.16)
CHQ. Chania. Crete. (Airport Codes/1.05)
Christmas tree. The assembly of fittings and valves on top of the oil well which control the
production rate of oil. (Petrochemical/1.08)
CHRT. Casing Hanger Running Tool. (Drilling/2.16)
CHS. Charleston Airport. SC. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CHSC. Central Health and Safety Committee. (General/2.10)
CHSG. Construction Health and Safety Group. (General/2.10)
ci. Cote D'Ivoire. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
CI. Chief Inspector. (General/2.10)
CI. Contract Instruction. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CI. Corrosion Inhibitor. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CI. Chlorine. Atomic number 17. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
CI. Cardiac Index. (Medical/1.05)
CI. Configuration Item. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CI. Cirrus. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CIA. Crime Intelligence Analyst. (Policing/2.14)
CIA. Central Intelligence Agency. USA (General/1.05)
CIA. Chemical Industries Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
CIA. Ciampino. Roma Airport. Italy. (Airport Codes/1.05)
CIB. Complaints Investigation Bureau. (General/1.06)
CIBER. Cellular Intercarrier Billing Exchange Record. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
CIBP. Cast Iron Bridge Plug. (Drilling/2.16)
CIBSE. Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
CIC. Carrier Identification Code. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
CICA. Criminal Injuries Compensation Authorities. (Government office/2.14)
CICB. Criminal Injuries Compensation Board. (Government office/2.14)
CICO. Coffee In, Coffee Out. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
CID. Criminal Investigation Department. UK (General/1.05)
CID. Critical Incident Detection. (General/2.10)
CID. Consolidated Interface Document. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CID. Municipal. Cedar Rapids, Iowa City Airport. IA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
CID. Crying In Disgrace. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
CIDI. Central Index of Dose Information. (General/2.10)
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CIDIN. Common ICAO Data Interchange Network. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CIDST. Comite d'Information et de Documentation Scientifique et Technique. (Association, Society,
Institute/2.10)
CIE. Counterimmunoelectrophoresis. (Medical/1.05)
CIF. Chief Inspector of Factories. (General/2.10)
CIF. Cost, Insurance and Freight. Incoterm. (Komplettpreis einschlieГџlich Versicherung und Fracht)
(Freight and Shipping, Incoterms/2.01)
CIM. Computer Integrated Manufacturing. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
CIMV. Chemical Injection Metering Valve. (Drilling/2.16)
CINCC. Coal Industry National Consultative Council. (General/2.10)
CINCENT. Commander-In-Chief Allied Forces Central Europe. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CINCNORTHWEST. Commander In Chief Allied Forces North-western Europe. (Military/1.05)
CIOB. Chartered Institute of Building. (General/2.10)
CIOMS. Council for International Organisations of Medical Sciences.
Institute/2.10)
(Association, Society,
CIP. Commercially Important Passenger. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
CIP. Carriage and Insurance Paid to. (Freight and Shipping, Incoterms/1.08)
CIPM. ComitГ© International des Poids et Mesures. (Association, Society, Institute/2.08)
CIRC. Centre International de Recherche sur le Cancer. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
Circuit switched services. A communication service which applies circuit-switching for each call to
establish a circuit with the other party and then disconnect that circuit upon call completion. (IT,
Telecommunications/2.04)
Circuit Switching. A switched circuit is only open while the sender and recipient are communicating.
As opposed to a dedicated circuit which is held open regardless of whether data is being sent or
not (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
CIRIA. Construction Industry Research and Information Association. (General/2.10)
CIS. Colliery Information System. (General/2.10)
CIS. Communication and Information Systems. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CISC. Complex Instruction Set Computer. See RISC, EPIC (IT, Computing/1.05)
CIST. Communication Infrastructure Sub-project Team. (General/2.13)
CIT. Computer Integrated Telephone. (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
CIT. Conductivity Indicator Transmitter. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
CIT. Near or over large towns. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CITB. Construction Industry Training Board. (General/2.10)
CITHP. Closed In Tubing Head Pressure. (Drilling/2.16)
CIU. Collision Investigation Unit. (Policing/2.14)
CIV. Civil. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CIV. Chemical Injection Valve. (Drilling/2.16)
CJA. Criminal Justice Act. (Policing/2.14)
CJD. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. The human equivalent of mad cow disease. (Medical/1.10)
CJI. Controller Jurisdiction Indicator. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CJS. Controller Jurisdiction Symbol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CJS. Ciudad Juarez Airport. Mexico. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CJTF. Combined Joint Task Forces. (Military/1.05)
CJU. Criminal Justice Unit. (Policing/2.14)
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CJU. Cheju Airport. South Korea. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CK. Creatine Kinase. (Medical/1.05)
ck. Cook Islands. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
CK. Check Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
CK. Check. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CKG. Chongqing Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CK-MB. Creatinine Kinase Myocardial Band. (Medical/1.05)
CKV. Check Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.05)
CKY. Conakry Airport. Guinee. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CL. Centre Line. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
cl. Clear. (Medical/1.05)
cl. Chile. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
cl. Centiliter. Measure of capacity. 1000ml = 100cl = 10dl = 1l = 1,7596 pints = 0,21997 gallons
(imperial) (Weights & Measures, Metric/1.05)
CL. Core Log. (Drilling/2.16)
CL. Coefficient of Lift. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
CL. Connection Less. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CLA. Clear type of ice formation. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CLASS. Custom Local Area Signalling Services. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
CLBR. Calibration. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CLD. Clearance Delivery. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CLD. Cloud. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CLE. Cleveland Airport. OH. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CLER. Classification and Labelling of Explosives Regulations. (General/2.10)
CLG. Calling. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CLG. Core Log and Graph. (Drilling/2.16)
CLGA. Ceramic Land Grid Array. I suggest you buy a book on micro chip architecture (IT,
Computing/1.05)
CLI. Calling Line Identification. The telephone number that appears on your telephones display
screen, if your switchboard supports CLI, and the caller has this option enabled (IT,
Telecommunications/1.06)
CLI. Command Line Interpreter. Commands entered into the computer are interpreted line by line,
the command is normally executed by pressing return (IT, Computing/2.01)
Client. A computer program or user that requests information in a client-server relationship. For
example an internet user using a browser is the client, while the web site being browsed is the
server. Incidentally the web site (server) is more than likely stored on a piece of hardware also
called a server. See server (IT, Computing/1.05)
CLIP. Calling Line Identification Presentation. (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
CLL. Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. (Medical/1.05)
CLM. Crude oil Level Measurement. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CLNAP. Connectionless Network Access Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CLNP. Connection Less Network Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CLNS. Connection Less Network Service. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CLO. Cali Airport. Colombia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CLO. hypochlorite (Kloroksid). (Chemical Compounds/1.05)
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CLONO2. Chlorine Nitrate (klorinnitrat). (Chemical Compounds/1.05)
Clos. A walled or in other ways closed vineyard. This term may only be applied on a label as part of
the name of a wine, if such a "clos" exists (Wine Label Terms/1.05)
Close Out. The finalisation of a project. There is a lot of documentation and work involved with the
completion of a project, from the final invoice, through documentation for operations (user
manuals), to acceptance certificates (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
CLP. Chilean Peso. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
CLR. Clear, Cleared, Clearance. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CLSD. Close, Closed, Closing. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CLSF. Connectionless Service Function. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CLT. Charlotte Airport. SC. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CLT. Cairo Local Time. (Time or Space/2.03)
CLTP. Connectionless Transport Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CLTS. Connectionless Transport Service. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CLUB. CUTE Local User Board. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CLY. Calvi Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CM. Cooling Medium. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CM. Costal Margin. (Medical/1.05)
CM. Compression Molded. (General/2.14)
cm. Centimetre. Linear measure.1000mm = 100cm = 10dm = 1m = 3,281 feet (Weights & Measures,
Metric/1.05)
CM. Configuration Management. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CM. Choke Module. (Drilling/2.16)
Cm. Curium. Atomic number 96. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
cm. Cameroon. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
CMAS. ConfГЁdГЁration Mondiale des ActivitГЁs Subaquatiques. World Underwater Federation. Or
Confederacion Mindial de Actividades SubacГ ticas (Association, Society, Institute/2.08)
CMB. Bandaranaike International. Colombo Airport. Sri Lanka. (Airport Codes/1.05)
CMC. Carboxy Methyl Cellulose. (General/2.14)
CMC. Cellular Mobile Carrier. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
CMD. Control and Monitoring Display. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CMF. Chambery. (Airport Codes/1.05)
CMF. Cyclophosphamide, Methotrexate, 5-Fluoracil. (Medical/1.05)
CMH. Columbus Airport. OH. USA. Duplicate see LCK (Airport Codes/1.06)
CMI. Cordless Multicell Integration. Cordless Telephone. See DECT (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
CMI. Champaign Airport. IL. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CMIIW. Correct Me If I’m Wrong. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
CMIP. Common Management Information Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CMIS. Common Management Information Service. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CMISE. Common Management Information Service Element. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CML. Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia. (Medical/1.05)
CMM. Corrective Maintenance Man-hours. (Project Management/1.07)
CMN. Mohamed 5th. Casablanca Airport. Morocco. (Airport Codes/1.05)
CMO. Chief Medical Officer. (General/2.10)
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CMO. Contractor's Mechanical Outfitting. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CMO. Cardiac Minute Output. (Medical/1.05)
CMOS. Complimentary channel Metal Oxide Silicon. Type of chip. Buy a book on integrated circuits if
you need a description (IT, Computing/1.05)
CMOT. CMIP Over TCP. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CMP. Configuration Management Plan. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CMPL. Completion, Completed, Complete. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CMS. Construction Master Schedule. Contract Master Schedule (Project Management/1.07)
CMS. Corporate Management System. (Drilling/2.16)
CMS. Control and Management System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CMSP. Corrective Maintenance Spare Parts. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CMV. Cable Maintenance Vessel. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CMV. Controlled Mechanical Ventilation. (Medical/1.05)
CMYK. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CN. Cellulose Nitrate. (General/2.14)
cn. China. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
CNAD. Conference of National Armaments Directors. (Military/1.06)
CNC. Computer Network Communication. (IT, Computing/1.07)
CND. Compensated Neutron Density. (Drilling/2.16)
CNES. French National Space Research Centre. (Association, Society, Institute/2.09)
CNF. Belo Horizonte. Tancredo Neves (Airport Codes/1.07)
CNG. Compressed Natural Gas. (Petrochemical/2.15)
CNGF. Common New Generation Frigate. (Military/1.06)
CNI. Common Network Infrastructure. (IT, Computing/2.13)
CNL. Flight plan cancellation {message type designator}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CNL. Cancellation. ASM Submessage (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
CNL. Cancel, Cancelled. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CNL. Compensated Neutron Log. (Drilling/2.16)
CNP. Continued In Next Post. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
CNRS. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
CNS. Central Nervous System. (Medical/1.05)
CNS. Communication, Navigation, and Surveillance. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CNS. Central North Sea. (Drilling/2.16)
CNS. Cairns Airport. QL. Australia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CNS. Comite de Normalisation de la Soudure. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
CNS/ATM.
Communication
Telecommunications/2.09)
Navigation
Surveillance/Air
Traffic
Management.
(IT,
CNSE. Common Network Service Element. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CNX. Chiang Mai Airport. Thailand. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CNY. Chinese Yuan Renminbi. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
CO. Conference or Company. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
Co. Cobalt. Atomic number 27. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
CO. Cardiac Output, Carbon Monoxide. (Medical/1.05)
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CO. Crystal Oscillator. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
CO. Commanding Officer. (Military/1.05)
CO. Connection Oriented. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CO. Change Order. See VO (Project Management/1.05)
co. Colombia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
CO2. Carbon Dioxide. (Chemical Compounds/1.05)
CoA. Coenzime A. (Medical/1.05)
COA. Certificate Of Authenticity. (IT, Computing/1.05)
COAST. Cache On A STick. (IT, Computing/1.05)
Coaxial cable. Two cables sharing the same axis. The inner axis carries the signal and the outer axis
is the ground (earth). Both axis are separated by insulation. Coaxial is the type of cable used to
connect your TV to it’s antenna or cable TV company, and is also used in local area networks.
Coaxial cables were designed to carry analogue signals (IT, Computing/1.05)
COBOL. Common Business Orientated Language. (IT, Languages/1.05)
COBRA. Common Object Request Broker Architecture. (IT, Computing/1.05)
COBRA. Counter Battery Radar. (Military/1.06)
COC. Certificate Of Conformity. Certificate Of Compliance (Petrochemical/1.07)
COD. Cash On Delivery. (General/1.07)
COD. Crack Opening Displacement. (Petrochemical/1.07)
COD. Chief Of Defence. (Military/1.05)
CODAM. Corrosion Damages. (Petrochemical/1.07)
Code of Accounts. A coding structure where a cost code is a single element of the account, and
each cost code uniquely identifies an element of work. See Cost Code, CBS, WBS (Project
Management, Planning/1.10)
CODEC. Code Division Multiple Access. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
CODEC. Compression and Decompression. (of video streams) (IT, Computing/2.13)
CODEC. Coding/Decoding Device. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
COE. Council of Europe. (General/2.10)
COF. Coefficient of Friction. (General/2.14)
COG. Centre Of Gravity. (Petrochemical/1.05)
COI. Critical Oxygen Index. (General/2.10)
COIT. Central Office of Industrial Tribunals. (General/2.10)
Cold Platform. A platform that is shutdown. (Petrochemical/1.08)
Cold Stacked. . Cold stacking a rig involves reducing the crew to either none or just a few key
individuals and storing the rig in a harbour, shipyard or offshore location. Normally steps are
taken to protect the rig like applying protective coatings to fight corrosion and filling equipment
with protective fluids. The duration of cold stacking can vary depending on many factors, rigs that
are cold stacked or stacked up are typically out of service for a significant period of time and are
not considered to be readily usable. Bringing them back into service can incur considerable costs.
See Ready Stacked and Warm Stacked (Drilling/2.16)
COLP. Connected Line Identification Presentation. (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
COM. Communication. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
com. Commercial. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
COM. Component Object Model. (IT, Computing/2.02)
COMAH. Control of Major Accident Hazards. (Policing/2.14)
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COMARE. Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment. (Association, Society,
Institute/2.10)
COMET. Committee on Middle East Trade. (General/2.10)
COMLA. Cyclophosphamide, Vincristine (Oncovin), Methotrexate, Leucovorin, Cytosine Arabinoside.
(Medical/1.05)
Commercial field. An oil or gas field that is worth developing. I.e. the field is judged to be capable
of producing enough oil and or gas to make it profitable (Petrochemical/1.08)
Communication. The science, art, skill, practice of transmitting information effectively.
Communication can take many forms from body language, tone of voice, to the written word
(Project Management, Planning/1.10)
Completed Well. A well that is ready to produce oil or gas. (Petrochemical/2.15)
Completion Date. The point at which liquidated damages begin. (Humour/1.05)
Compound Impact. The cumulative and downstream affect of changes. A schedule impact which
comprises of a number of inter-related episodes, risks, and extra work that can not be absorbed
within the schedules time frame, the schedule impact is usually associated with the cumulative
consequence of an unreasonable amount of changes (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
Computer. A machine/device which processes data. There are three types of computer. Digital
(counting on your fingers is a digital operation). Analogue (usually measurement devices like a
voltmeter or thermometer). Hybrid (a combination of digital and analogue) (IT, Computing/1.05)
COMSONOR. Commander Allied Forces South Norway. (Military/1.05)
CON. Construction Order Notification. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CON. Change of aircraft configuration/version. ASM Submessage (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
Conax. Conditional access an encryption method for satellite TV. (Satellite Broadcasting/2.08)
CONC. Concrete. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
conc. Concentrate. (Medical/1.05)
COND. Condition. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Condensate. A mixture of pentanes and higher hydrocarbons. could be considered a by-product of
drilling for oil. Hydrocarbons which are in a gaseous state under reservoir conditions become
liquid when the temperature or pressure is reduced, (ie on the way to the surface)
(Petrochemical/1.08)
Connate water. Salt water mixed with oil and gas in the reservoir. (Petrochemical/1.08)
CONP. Connection Oriented Network Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CONS. Continuous. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CONS. Connection Oriented Network Service. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CONST. Construction, Constructed. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Constraint. A term used to describe restrictions and dependencies imposed on a schedule. There are
many factors that affect a schedule. E.g. beds available for the work force, lifting capacities,
scaffolding, logical (an activity can not start until the preceding activity is finished), working
hours, availability of skilled labour, etc (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
Consumable. Material, equipment, or resources that can only be used once. Welding Rods are a
consumable, once they have been used new ones need to be ordered to replace them. A welding
set on the other hand can be re-used and maintained from job to job, until it becomes irreparable
or obsolete (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
CONT. Continue, Continued. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Contingency. A value set aside to cover for the unforeseen, which is not expected to be used. Every
budget and schedule should have a contingency reserve, of cost and time to cover for unexpected overruns (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
Contractor. A gambler who never gets to shuffle, cut or deal. (Humour/1.05)
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Conventional Memory. Main Memory. A CPUs storage area for processing. The first 640k of a PCs
main memory is called conventional or sometimes base memory. When PC’s were first developed
they were designed around a main memory size of 640k, a large amount in 1977. A particular
chip (CPU) can only address a given size of memory, for older chips this was 640k, newer chips
can address gigabytes (billions-us). Normally k means kilo or one thousand. The exception is of
course computers where 1k=1024, so 640k=655.360 bytes. For older PC’s Conventional memory
was reserved for storage in the following order, 1) the Basic Input Output System, 2) Disc
Operating System, 3) Drivers, 4) Programs, 5) Data. (I think). See upper memory (IT,
Computing/1.05)
COO. Cotonou Airport. Benin. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Cookies. Internet authentication. On the Internet, a "cookie" is a file that a web site stores on your
computer for use by that web site. Sites that you can customise, use cookies to store the custom
choices you've made. With some browsers you can choose to be warned before a cookie is stored
on your computer and then decide whether or not to accept it (IT, Internet/1.05)
COOR. Co-Ordinate, Co-Ordination. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
COP. Code of Practice. (General/2.10)
COP. Colombian Peso. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
COP. Close Observation Platoon. (Military/1.10)
COP. Capillary Osmotic Pressure. (Medical/1.05)
COP. Change Over Point. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
COPA. Comite des Organisations Professionelles Agricoles de la CEE.
Institute/2.10)
(Association, Society,
COPD. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. (Medical/1.05)
COPS. Common Operational Performance Specification. (IT, Computing/1.05)
COQ. Cost Of Quality. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
COR. Cordoba Airport. AR. Argentina. (Airport Codes/1.06)
COR. Correct, Correction, Corrected. Used to indicate corrected meteorological message (Aviation
Civil and Military/1.05)
Core. A sample of rock cut during the drilling of a well that is used to analyse the underground
formation. (Petrochemical/2.15)
Coring. Rock samples taken from a well. (Petrochemical/1.08)
COS. Colorado Springs Airport. CO. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
COSAL. COntrol Systems for Airfield Lighting. System fГјr Flughafenbefeuerung (Aviation Civil and
Military/2.01)
COSHH. Control of Substances Hazardous to Health regulations. (Policing/2.14)
COSHH. Control of Substances Hazardous to Health. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
Cost Code. A Code which is an element of a code of accounts. The code is allocated to costs
(activities) which allows those costs to be summarised according to the elements of the coding
structure (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
COT. At the coast. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
COTS. Commercial Off The Shelf. (IT, Computing/1.05)
COTS. Connection Oriented Transport Service. (IT, Computing/1.05)
COV. Crossover Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
COW. Carry Over Work. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CP. Community Programme. (General/2.10)
CP. Cellulose Propionate. (General/2.14)
CP. Cerebral Palsy. (Medical/1.05)
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CP. Construction Plan. (Project Management/1.07)
CP. Central Processor. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CP. Command Post. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CP. Capillary Pressure. (Medical/1.05)
CP. Cor Pulmonale. (Medical/1.05)
CPA. Child Protection Agency. (Government office/2.14)
CPA. Crime Pattern Analysis. (Policing/2.14)
CPA. Critical Path Analysis. The process of calculating start and finish dates for a network. Which
provides the longest sequence of activities called the critical path. The same principles apply for
both arrow and precedence networks. CPA consists of three steps, a forward pass, a backward
pass, and float calculations. It is a simple process for a small network, but a complex and very
tedious process for large networks. The job is ideally suited for computer processing. See
Network, AON, AOA, CPM, PERT (Project Management, Planning/1.08)
CPAP. Continuous Positive Airway Pressure. (Medical/1.05)
CPBW. Community Penalty Breach Warrant. (Policing/2.14)
CPC. Chemical Protective Clothing. (General/2.10)
CPC. Chronic Passive Congestion. (Medical/1.05)
CPC. Cement Pump Control. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CPCS. Common Part Convergence Sublayer. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CPD. Continuing Professional Development. (General/2.10)
CPDA. Crime Prevention Design Advisor. (Policing/2.14)
CPE. Chlorinated PolyEthylene. (General/2.14)
CPE. Customer Premises Equipment. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CPH. Kastrup. Copenhagen Airport. Denmark. (Airport Codes/1.05)
CPI. Consumer Price Index. (General/2.02)
CPI. Cost Performance Index. An indication of the difference between budgeted and actual cost
BCWP / ACWP (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
CPI. Common Programming Interface. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CPIA. Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996. (Policing/2.14)
CPIU. Child Protection Investigation Unit. (Policing/2.14)
CPK. Creatinine Phosphokinase. (Medical/1.05)
CPL. Current flight plan {message type designator}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CPL. Capillary Pump Loop. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
CPM. Critical Path Method. A network model where each activity is considered to have a duration of
fixed length. This is sometimes referred to as a 'deterministic' approach. See Network, AON, AOA,
CPA, PERT (Project Management, Planning/1.07)
CPO. Central Pay Office. (General/2.10)
CPO. Community Punishment Orders. (Policing/2.14)
CPP. C Plus Plus or C++. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
CPQ. Viracopos De Caminas Airport. SP. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CPR. Cardiopulmonary Resucitation. (Medical/1.05)
CPR. Construction Performance Report. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
CPR. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. (General/2.10)
CPR. Casper Airport. WY. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CPRO. Community Punishment and Rehabilitation Orders. (Policing/2.14)
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CPS. Crown Protection Service. (General/1.06)
CPS. Crown Prosecution Service. (Government office/2.14)
CPSA. Civil and Public Services Association. (General/2.10)
CPSS. Composition of Proprietary Substances Scheme. (General/2.10)
CPST. Central Project System Tools. (Project Management/1.07)
CPT. Cape Town International Airport. South Africa. (Airport Codes/1.05)
CPT. Critical Pitting Temperature. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CPT. Carriage Paid To. (Freight and Shipping, Incoterms/1.05)
CPU. Central Processing Unit. The CPU determines how much memory the computer system can
address, what kind of software it can run, and how fast it can operate. A CPU consists of various
components amongst others registers and Arithmetic Logic Unit. Microprocessor examples are
Intel 8088, 80286, 80386, 80486, Pentium, Pentium MMX, Cyrix 686 P133, etc. See
microprocessor (IT, Computing/1.05)
CPU. Child Protection Unit. (Policing/2.14)
CPU Speed. Measured in MHz. In theory a 66MHz computer should be faster than a 33Mhz
computer. However the speed of a computer is dependant on many factors, for example the
speed and size of storage devices (RAM/Hard disc), the type of video board, etc (IT,
Computing/1.05)
CPV. Correlation Preference Value. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CPVC. Chlorinated Polyvinyl Chloride. (General/2.14)
CPX. Command Post Exercise. (Military/1.06)
CR. Criticality Rating. (Project Management/1.07)
cr. Costa Rica. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
Cr. Chromium. Atomic number 24. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
CR. Polychloroprene Rubber. (General/2.14)
CR. Cardiorespiratory. (Medical/1.05)
CR. Created. Cable Status (OSL Project Related/1.05)
CR. Clot Retraction. (Medical/1.05)
CRA. Corrosion Resistant Alloy. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CRA. Chemical Recovery Association. (General/2.10)
Cracker. Someone who breaks into computer systems without the authority to do so.
Computing/2.02)
(IT,
Cracking. A process in which large molecules of oil are broken down into smaller ones. Thermal
cracking, catalytic cracking, and hydro cracking are different methods used. (Petrochemical/2.01)
Crane barge. A floating crane. A large barge with a crane capable of lifting heavy equipment onto
offshore platforms (Petrochemical/1.08)
CRAP. Concur Rewrite All Paragraphs (Reasonably Rude!). (Humour/1.05)
CRAWHQ. Central Region Alternate War Headquarters. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CRB. Come Right Back. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
CRB. Crime Reporting Bureau. (Policing/2.14)
CRBT. Crying Real Big Tears. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
CRC. Cyclic Redundancy Check. A type of error checking when data is transmitted. See check sum,
block sum check (IT, Computing/1.05)
CRC. Corporate Research Centre. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CRC. Current Role Configuration. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CRC. Costa Rican Colon. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
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CRD. Chronic Renal Disease. (Medical/1.05)
CRD. Chronic Respiratory Disease. (Medical/1.05)
CRD. Comodoro Rivadavia Airport. Argentina. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CRE. Commission for Racial Equality. (Government office/1.06)
CREIPI. Central Research Institute of Electric Power Institute. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
CREST. Comite de Recherche Scientifique et Technique. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
CRH. Corticotropin Releasing Hormone. (Medical/1.05)
CRI. Concrete Re-Injection. (Drilling/2.16)
CRIS. Caravan Registration and Identification Scheme. (Government office/2.14)
Critical Path. The longest sequence of activities in a network, the critical path is only as accurate as
the network it is based on. See Network, AON, AOA, CPM, PERT, ES, EF, LS, LF, TF (Project
Management, Planning/1.10)
Critical Path Method. A managing technique for losing your shirt under perfect control.
(Humour/1.05)
CRM. Collision Risk Model. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
CRM. Cockpit Resource Management. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
CRM. Crew Resource Management. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CRM. Customer Relationship Management. (General/2.10)
CRO. Community Rehabilitation Orders. (Policing/2.14)
CRO. Criminal Records Office. (Policing/2.14)
CRO. Cave Rescue Organisation. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
CROP. Covert Rural Observation Point. (Policing/2.14)
CRP. Co-ordinated Research Programme. (General/1.05)
CRP. Corporate Research Programme. (Military/1.06)
CRP. Corpus Christi Intl Airport. TX. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CRP. Capacity Requirements Planning. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
CRR. Critical Review Report. (Project Management/1.05)
CRS or CRAS. Can't Remember a Sh**. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
CRT. Cathode Ray Tube. Your TV contains a CRT. A CRT traditionally has a curved surface, however
CRTs are being developed with flat viewing surfaces, which reduce reflection. See LCD, TFT, PDP,
EL, FED, CGS (IT, Computing/1.05)
CRT. Clamp Replacement Tool. (Drilling/2.16)
Cru. Growth. The growth site for wines with special characteristics depending on the sort of grape,
soil conditions, and micro climate (Wine Label Terms/1.05)
CRU. Crime Reporting Unit. (Policing/2.14)
CRW. Charleston Airport. WV. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
cryogenic gas. A gas that has been liquified by lowering its temperature. (Petrochemical/2.14)
CRZ. Cruise. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CS. Carbon Steel. (Petrochemical/1.07)
Cs. Caesium. Atomic number 55. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
CS. Civil Service. (General/2.10)
CS. Circuit Switched. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
CS. Convergence Sublayer. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CS. Cirrostratus. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
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CSA. Canadian Standards Association. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
CSAT. Civil Service Arbitration Tribunal. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
CSBF. Civil Service Benevolent Fund. (General/2.10)
CSBM. Confidence And Security Building Measures. (Military/1.05)
CSBS. Civil Service Building Society. (General/2.10)
CSBTS. China State Bureau of Technical Supervision. (General/2.10)
CSC. Civil Service Commission. (General/2.10)
CSC. Civil Service College. (General/2.10)
CSC. Computer Software Component. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CSC. Car Sealed Closed. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CSCFE. Civil Service Council for Further Education. (General/2.10)
CSCI. Computer Software Configuration Item. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CSD. Civil Service Department. (General/2.10)
CSE. Confined Space Entry. (Drilling/2.16)
CSE. Concept Safety Evaluation. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CSF. Critical Success Factor. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
CSF. Cerebrospinal Fluid. (Medical/1.05)
CSFSAC. Civil Service Foreign Service Allowances Committee. (General/2.10)
CSG. Casing. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CSG. Chuckle, Snicker, Grin. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
CSHA. Civil Service Housing Association. (General/2.10)
CSIS. Civil Service Insurance Society. (General/2.10)
CSMA/CD. Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection. IEEE Standard 802.3 (Ethernet)
(IT, Computing/1.05)
CSN. Channel Sequence Number. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CSNET. Computer Science Network. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CSNI. Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations. (General/2.10)
CSO. Central Statistical Office. (General/2.10)
CSO. Community Support Officer. (Policing/2.14)
CSO. Car Sealed Open. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CSOHS. Civil Service Occupational Health Service. (General/2.10)
CSP. Community Safety Partnership. (Policing/2.14)
CSP. Continuous Sampling Plan. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
CSPA. Civil Service Pensioners Alliance. (General/2.10)
CSPG. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists. (Drilling/2.16)
CSRF. Civil Service Retirement Fellowship. (General/2.10)
CSS. Contract Summary Schedule. (Project Management/1.07)
CSSB. Civil Service Selection Board. (General/2.10)
CSSR. Cost Schedule Status Report. (Project Management/1.10)
CST. Central Standard Time. (US and Canada) (Time or Space/2.02)
CST. Coast. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CSTA. Computer Supported Telecommunication Applications. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CSTP. Committee on Scientific and Technological Policy. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
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CSTU. Control Systems Technology Committee. (General/2.10)
CSU. Central Services Unit. (General/2.10)
CSU. Channel Service Unit. A device that terminates digital telephone channels. See DSU (IT,
Computing/1.05)
CSUG. Canadian Society for Unconventional Gas. (Drilling/2.16)
CSX. Changsha Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CT. Coiled Tubing. (Drilling/2.16)
CT. Cordless Telephony. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
CT. Computed Tomography. (Medical/1.05)
CT3. Cordless Telephony Version 3. (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
CTA. Catane Airport. Italy. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CTA. Control Area. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CTAM. Climb To And Maintain. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CTB. Central Tender Board. (Project Management/1.07)
CTB. Control Tower Building. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
CTB. Concrete Treated Base. Hydraulisch Gebundene Tragschicht (HGT) (Aviation Civil and
Military/2.01)
CTBT. Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. (Military/1.06)
CTC. Contact. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CTCF. Comments To Contractor Form. (Project Management/1.07)
CTCO. Coiled Tubing Clean Out. (Drilling/2.16)
CTCSS. Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
CTD. Cumulative Trauma Disorder. (General/2.10)
CTD. Coiled Tubing Drilling. (Drilling/2.16)
CTE. Coefficient of Thermal Expansion. (General/2.14)
CTF. Cut To Suit. (Petrochemical, Piping/1.07)
CTFS. Can't Type For S***. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
CTG. Cartagene Airport. Colombia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CTI. Comparative Tracking Index. (General/2.14)
CTI. Cooling Tower Institute. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CTI. Computer Telephone Integration. Telephone lines carry more than just voice messages, they
carry amongst other things fax signals and modem signals. CTI is a term that covers the area of
integration between computing and telecommunications services. For example sorting and
distribution of incoming calls to a switchboard, or Personal Digital Assistants with in-built
telecommunication capabilities. See TAPI, TSAPI, API, CAPI (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
CTIA. Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
CTL. Control. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CTMS. Central Technical Management System. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CTMU. Central Training Management Unit. (General/2.10)
CTN. Caution. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CTO. Central Ticket Office. (Policing/2.14)
CTOD. Crack Tip Opening Displacement. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CTOL. Conventional Take-Off and Landing. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
CTOT. Calculated Take Off Time. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
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CTP. Central Tower Processor. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CTPF. Central Treating and Pumping Facility. (Petrochemical/2.06)
CTPV. Coal tar pitch volatiles. (General/2.10)
CTR. Control zone. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CTR Sheet. Cost, Time, Resource Sheet. A sheet which for some reason I have always associated
with engineering companies, that describes the cost, time, resources, and deliverables associated
with an activity. The equivalent for a construction site or fabrication yard would be a task sheet,
or a job card (Project Management/1.06)
CTRIA. Construction Industry Research Association. (General/2.10)
CTS. Common Time Source. (General/1.05)
CTS. Counter Terrorist Search. (Policing/2.14)
CTS. Central Time Reference System. (General/1.05)
CTS. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. (Medical/1.05)
CTU. Chengdu Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CTU. Counter Terrorism Unit. (Policing/2.14)
CU. See You. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
Cu. Copper. Atomic number 29. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
cu. Cuba. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
CU. Cumulus. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CU2. See You, Too. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
CUBES. Common User Baggage Enterprise System. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CUF. Cumuliform. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CUI. Common User Interface. (IT, Computing/1.05)
CUL. See You Later. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
CUL8ER. See you later. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
CUL8R. See You Later. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
CULA. See You Later, Alligator. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
CUN. Cancun Airport. Mexico. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CUNT. Concur Until Next Topic (Very Rude!). This acronym is a very rude word in English, if you want
to upset people you can use it! (Humour/1.05)
CUP. Cuban Peso. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
CUR. Curacao Airport. Netherlands Antilles. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CUSTY. Customs. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CUTE. Commonly Used Terminal Equipment. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CV. Cost Variance. CV=BCWP-ACWP (Project Management/1.10)
cv. Cape Verde. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
CV. Calorific Value. (General/2.10)
CV. Cardiovascular. (Medical/1.05)
CV. Curriculum Vitae. (General/1.09)
CV. Check Visit. (General/2.10)
CV. Control Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
cva. Costovertebral Angle. (Medical/1.05)
CVA. Cerebrovascular Accident. (Medical/1.05)
CVC. Central Vacuum Cleaning System. (Petrochemical/1.05)
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CVCS. Chemical and volume control system. (General/2.10)
CVD. Cardiovascular Disease. (Medical/2.10)
CVD. Chemical Vapor Deposition. (General/2.14)
CVDC. Cables Via Drag Chain. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CVE. Cape Verdian Escudo. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
CVF. Courchevel Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CVG. Cincinnati Airport. OH. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CVL. Charpy V Longitudinal. See Charpy Test (Petrochemical/1.07)
CVM. Continuos Vibration Monitoring. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CVN. Charpy V Notch. (Petrochemical/2.11)
CVO. Albany Airport. OR. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CVP. Central Venous Pressure. (Medical/1.05)
CVR. Centre line Visual Range. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CVR. Cockpit Voice Recorder. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CVRS. Contract Vehicle Recovery Scheme. (Policing/2.14)
CVS. Council for Voluntary Services. (Government office/2.14)
CVS. Chronic Villus Sampling. (General/2.10)
CVT. Coventry Airport. UK. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CVT. Charpy V Transverse. See Charpy Test (Petrochemical/1.07)
CW. Continous Waves. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
CW. Continuous Wave. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CW. Cooling Water. (Petrochemical/1.07)
CWB. Curitiba Airport. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CWCS. Control of Work in Confined Spaces. (General/2.10)
CWE. Current Working Estimate. (Project Management/1.07)
CWIS. Completion Workover and Intervention Services. (Well services) (Drilling/2.16)
CWL. Cardiff Airport. UK. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CWOR. Completion Work Over Riser. (Drilling/2.16)
CWS. Current Working Schedule. (Project Management/1.07)
cwt. Short hundredweight. Avoirdupois system. 100 pounds = 1 short cwt = 45,36 kg (Weights &
Measures, Imperial/1.05)
CWY. Runway Clearway. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
CWY. Clearway. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
CWYL. Chat With You Later. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
cx. Christmas Island. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
CX. Cathay Pacific. (Airline Codes/1.07)
CXR. Chest X-Ray. (Medical/1.05)
cy. Cyprus. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
CYA. See Ya or Cover Your Ass. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
CYAL8R. See You All Later. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
Cyberspace. The system of all WWW servers is called cyberspace. The phrase originates from a
novel by William Gibson. See gopher (IT, Internet/1.05)
CYMB. Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, and Black. See RGB (IT, Computing/2.01)
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CYO. See You Online. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
CYP. Cypriot Pound. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
CYP. Children and Young Persons. (Policing/2.14)
cysto. Cystoscopy. (Medical/1.05)
CZ. China Southern. (Airline Codes/1.07)
cz. Czech Republic. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
CZK. Czech Republic Koruna. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
CZL. Constantine Airport. Algerie. (Airport Codes/1.06)
CZM. Cozumel Airport. Mexico. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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5. Delta
D. Danger area {followed by identification}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
D. Downward {tendency in RVR during previous 10 minutes}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
D&C. Dilatation And Curettage. (Medical/1.05)
D&ID. Ducting and Instrument Diagram. (Petrochemical/1.07)
D/C. Discontinue. (Medical/1.05)
D2O. Heavy water. (Chemical Compounds/2.14)
D5W. Dextrose (5%) In Water. (Medical/1.05)
DA. Decision Altitude. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DA. Delayed Action (Drugs). (Medical/1.05)
DAB. Digital Audio Broadcast. Digital Radio Transmission (replacement for FM radio) (General/1.05)
DAC. Dacca Airport. Bangladesh. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DAC. Distance Amplitude Curve. (Petrochemical/1.07)
DACL. Discretionary Access Control List. See SACL (IT, Computing/1.05)
DAD. Da Nang Airport. Vietnam. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DAE. Digital Audio Extraction. The process used to obtain data from an Audio CD digitally. Most
modern CD-ROMs will support this. (See ripping) (IT, Digital music/1.10)
Daemon. A program that runs continuously and exists for the purpose of handling periodic service
requests that a computer system expects to receive. The daemon program forwards the requests
to other programs (or processes) as appropriate. Web servers have an HTTPD (Hypertext
Transport Protocol Daemon) that continually waits for requests to come in from web clients and
their users (IT, Computing/2.09)
DAF. Delivered at Frontier. (Freight and Shipping, Incoterms/1.08)
DAFS. Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland. (Government office/2.10)
DAFWC. Days Away From Work Cases. (Project Management/2.14)
DAH. Disordered Action Of The Heart. (Medical/1.05)
DAK. Data Assistert Konstruksjon. Computer Aided Design (General/1.05)
DAL. Dallas Regional Airport. TX. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DAL. Data Access Line. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
DAM. Damascus International Airport. Syria. (Airport Codes/1.05)
DAM. Dry As Molded. (General/2.14)
D-AMPS. Digital Advanced Mobile Phone System. A digital network based on the IS-136 digital US
standard. Operates on frequency ranges 800Mhz and 1900Mhz (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
DAMSS. Data Acquisition and Monitoring Subsea System. (Petrochemical/1.07)
Dangle. An activity in a network that does not have any predecessors or successors.
Management, Planning/1.10)
(Project
DAP. Diallyl Phthalate. (General/2.14)
DAP. Document Application Profile. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DAP. Datamaskin Assistert Produksjon. (Petrochemical/1.07)
DAP. Data Analysis Programme. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DAR. Dar Es Salam Airport. Tanzania. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DARC. Direct Access Radar Channel. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DARG. Drug and Alcohol Reference Group. (Government office/2.14)
DARS. Digital Audio Radio System. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
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DAS. Dypvanns ArbeidsSystem. (Petrochemical/1.07)
DASD. Direct Access Storage Device. (IT, Computing/2.02)
DAT. Digital Audio Tape. (General/1.05)
DAT. Delayed Action Tablet. (Medical/1.05)
DAT. Diet As Tolerated. (Medical/1.05)
DAT. Drug Action Team. (Policing/2.14)
DAT. Direktoratet for Arbeidstilsynet. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
Data. Basic Facts. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DAY. Dayton Airport. OH. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DB. Deutsche Bundesbahn. German National Railway (Railways/1.08)
dB. Decibels. (General/2.10)
dB. deciBel. Unit for measuring the relative level of sound (Weights & Measures, Other/1.05)
dBA. Decibel Adjusted. (Petrochemical/1.07)
DBA. Doing Business As. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
DBA. Design Basis Accident. (General/2.10)
DBE. Direktoratet for Brann og Eksplosjonsvern. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
DBIL. Direct Bilirubin. (Medical/1.05)
DBL. DataBase Language. (IT, Languages/1.05)
DBM. Design Basis Memorandum. (Petrochemical/2.06)
DBMS. DataBase Management System. (IT, Languages/1.05)
DBS. Database Specialist. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DBS. Direct Broadcast Satellites. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
DBV. Dubrovnik Airport. Croatia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DC. District Command. (Military/1.05)
DC. Drill Centre. (Drilling/2.16)
DC. Direct Current. (Electrical/1.05)
DC. Discipline Check. (Petrochemical/1.07)
DCA. Washington DC National Airport. DC. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
DCASMA. Defence Contract Administration Services Management Area.
Military/1.05)
(Aviation Civil and
DCC. Document Control Centre. (Project Management/1.07)
DCC. Deputy Chief Constable. (Policing/2.14)
DCD. Double Channel Duplex. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DCD. Data Carrier Detect. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DCE. Distributed Computing Environment. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DCE. Data Communications Equipment. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DCF. Deoxycoformycin. (Medical/1.05)
DCF. Design rule for Camera File system. A file naming convention for images taken by a digital
camera (IT, Computing/2.08)
DCI. Data Communication Interface. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DCI. Detective Chief Inspector. (Policing/2.14)
DCKG. Docking. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DCM. Data Collection Module. (IT, Computing/1.05)
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DCM. Distinguished Conduct Medal. (Military/2.02)
DCM. Castres Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DCMS. Drilling Control and Monitoring System. (Petrochemical/1.07)
DCMS. Department for Culture, Media and Sport. (Government office/2.14)
DCOM. Distributed Component Object Model. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DCPD. Dicyclopentadiene. (General/2.10)
DCQ. Daily Contract Quantity. (Project Management/1.07)
DCR. Design Change Request. (Project Management/1.07)
DCS. Digital Communication System. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
DCS. Double Channel Simplex. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DCS. Departure Control System. An automated system for check-in, capacity, load, and dispatch of
flights (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
DCS. Distributed Control System. (Petrochemical/1.05)
DCT. Discrete Cosine Transformation. (IT, Telecommunications/2.14)
DCT. Digital Cordless Telephony. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
DCT. Direct {in relation to flight plan clearances and type of approach}.
Military/1.05)
(Aviation Civil and
DCTE. Data Circuit Terminating Equipment. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DCTU. Dominant Certified Telecommunications Utility. See TDMA, CDMA PACS (IT, Computing/1.05)
DCV. Directional Control Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
DD. Directional Driller. (Drilling/2.16)
DD. Directional Drilling. (Drilling/2.16)
DD. Defence District. (Military/1.05)
DD. Dishonourable Discharge. (Military/2.02)
DDAS. Drilling Data Acquisition System. (Petrochemical/1.07)
DDAVP. Desmopresin. (Medical/1.05)
DDI. Direct Dialling In. (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
DDL. Dedicated Data Link. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ddl. Dideoxyinosine. (Medical/1.05)
DDM. Derrick Drilling Machine. (Top Drive System) (Drilling/2.16)
DDP. Delivered Duty Paid. (Freight and Shipping, Incoterms/1.08)
DDPH. Deputy Director of Public Health. (General/2.10)
DDRS. Daily Drilling Report System. (Petrochemical/1.07)
DDR-SRAM. Dual Data Rate - Static Random Access Memory. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DDS. Dataphone Digital Services. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
DDS. DiaminoDiphenyl Sulfone. (General/2.14)
DDT. Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane. A toxic insecticide. (General/2.02)
DDU. Delivered Duty Unpaid. (Freight and Shipping, Incoterms/1.08)
DE. Deleted. Cable Status (OSL Project Related/1.05)
de. Germany. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
DE. Discipline Engineer. (Petrochemical/1.07)
DEA. Drug Enforcement Agency. USA (Association, Society, Institute/1.08)
DEC. December. (Time or Space/1.05)
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DECC. Department for Energy and Climate Change. (Drilling/2.16)
decd. Deceased. (Medical/1.05)
deci. SI number prefix 0,1. Abbreviated as d. One tenth (SI Number Prefixes/2.08)
Decimal Numbers. Numbers to base 10. Known also as deanery numbers, are the numbers we use
every day, where 10 is the basis of the numbering system. See Binary, Octal, Hexadecimal (IT,
Coding/1.05)
DECT. Digital European Cordless Telephone. System for wireless non-cellular telephones intended
mainly for office use (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
DEFCOM. Defence Command South Norway. (Military/1.05)
DEFCOMNON. Defence Command North Norway. (Military/1.05)
DEFRA. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. (Government office/2.14)
DEG. Degrees. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
deka. SI number prefix 10. Abbreviated as da (SI Number Prefixes/2.08)
del. Delusion. (Medical/1.05)
DEL. Indira Gandhi International. Delhi Airport. India. (Airport Codes/1.05)
DELAB. Data & Electronic Laboratory at NTH. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
Delayed Payment. A tourniquet applied at the pockets. (Humour/1.05)
Delta. Fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. Upper Case symbol = Increment, deflection, coefficient of
diffusion, lowering of the freezing point. Lower Case symbol = Fourth, elongation, angle of set
(Greek Alphabet/1.05)
Delta Sierra. Phonetics for Dumb Shit. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.08)
DEM. German Deutsche Mark. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
DEN. Denver International. Colarado Airport. CO. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
DENEB. Fog dispersal operations. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DEO. Divisional Enquiry Officer. (Policing/2.14)
DEP. Depart, Departure. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DEP. Departure {message type designator}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Dependencies. The logical links used in a precedence network to describe how activities are related
to each other. See SS, FF, FS, SF, network, CPA, AOA, AON, dummy (Project Management,
Planning/1.10)
DEQ. Delivered Ex Quay. (Freight and Shipping, Incoterms/1.08)
DERA. Defence Evaluation and Research Agency. (Military/1.06)
Derrick. A German detective series. The tower structure that houses the drilling equipment on a
drilling rig or platfom. (Petrochemical/1.08)
DES. Data Encryption Standard. A standard in the US for encryption (IT, Computing/1.05)
DES. Delivered Ex Ship. (Freight and Shipping, Incoterms/1.08)
DES. Descend to, Descending to. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DEST. Destination. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DET. Detroit City Airport. MI. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DETR. Department of Environment, Transport & Regions. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
DETR. Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions. (Government office/2.14)
DETRESFA. Distress phase. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DEV. Deviate, Deviating. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DF. Direction Finder. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DF. Derrick Floor. (Drilling/2.16)
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DFA. Direct Fluorescent Antibody. (Medical/1.05)
DFC. Delayed Function Call. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DFES. Department For Education and Skills (Government). (Government office/2.14)
DFI. Design, Fabrication, Installation. (Project Management/1.07)
DFID. Department For Developing International Development. (Government office/2.14)
DFLA. Disenhanced Four-Letter Acronym (that is, a TLA). (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
DFM. Dust, Fume and Mist. (General/2.10)
DfMA. Design for Manufacture and Assembly. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
DFO. Documentation For Operation. (Project Management/1.07)
DFR. Design Functional Requirements. (Project Management/1.07)
DFR. Department of Fisheries Research. (General/2.10)
DFR. Drilling Factual Report. (Drilling/2.16)
DFT. Dry Film Thickness. (Petrochemical/1.07)
DfT. Department for Transport. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
DFW. Dallas Fort Worth International, Texas Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
dg. Decigram. Measure of weight. 1000mg = 100cg = 10dg = 1g = 0,35 ounces (avoirdupois)
(Weights & Measures, Metric/1.05)
DGA. Delegation GГ©nГ©rale ГЎ l'Armement. (Association, Society, Institute/2.09)
DGH. Directorate General of Hydrocarbon. India (Petrochemical/1.07)
DGI. Disseminated Gonococcal Infection. (Medical/1.05)
DGP. Defence Group on Proliferation. (Military/1.06)
DGPS. Differential Global Positioning System. (OSL Project Related/1.05)
DH. Decision Height. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DH. Drilling History. (Drilling/2.16)
DHA. Dharan Airport. Saudi Arabia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DHA. District Health Authority. (General/2.10)
DHC. Depositional History Curve. (Drilling/2.16)
DHCP. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. Allows dynamic configuration of IP addresses (IT,
Computing/1.05)
DHE. Defence Housing Executive. (Military/1.06)
DHPG. Ganciclovir. (Medical/1.05)
DHPTT. Down Hole Pressure Temperature Transducer. (Drilling/2.16)
DHQ. Division Headquarters. (Policing/2.14)
DHS. Data Handling System. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
DHSV. Down Hole Safety Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
DHTML. Dynamic Hyper Text Mark-up Language. (IT, Internet/1.05)
DI. Digital Input. (Petrochemical/1.07)
DI. Detective Inspector. (Policing/2.14)
Dial. Dialysis. (Medical/1.05)
DIANE. Direct Information Access Network for Europe. (General/2.10)
DIAS. Directorate of Information and Advisory Services. (General/2.10)
DIC. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation. (Medical/1.05)
DID. Data Item Description. (IT, Computing/1.05)
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DID. Drink Impaired Drivers Programme. (Policing/2.14)
DIE. Diego-Suarez Airport. Madagascar. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DIF. Diffuse. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Digital Signal. A signal that only has two values during transmission. See Boolean and Analogue (IT,
Telecommunications/1.07)
Digital Signature. Confirmation of the identity of an electronic message sender. In theory a digital
signature is verifiable and non-repudiable, and ensures that the contents of an electronic message
(or transaction) has not been altered. Germany was the first country to pass a law on digital
signatures, (where the digital signature is not legally binding!?). My own views on this matter are
that cash can be stolen, travellers checks can be stolen, and credit cards can be stolen or used
without authorisation. If you deal on a bartering system your cows and goats can also be stolen!
At the end of the day who do you trust and who can rob you during the process of an exchange.
As a closing note smart cards, which are banking cards with a built in chip instead of a magnetic
strip, are widely in use in Europe and contain a type of digital signature called a unique key or
unique id which the card is never meant to reveal. (Has no one ever heard of torture). See SET,
PGP (IT, Computing/1.05)
Digitising. The conversion of an analogue audi signal into digital information (see ripping). (IT,
Digital music/2.11)
DIIK. Damned If I Know. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
DIJ. Dijon Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DIKU?. Do I Know You?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
dil. Dilute. (Medical/1.05)
DILLIGAD. Do I Look Like I Give A Darnn?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
DIMM. Dual Inline Memory Module. See SIMM (IT, Computing/1.05)
DIN. Deutche Industri Normen. also seen as (Deutsches Institut fur Normung). The German
standards institute (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
DINK. Double Income No Kids. (General/1.05)
DIP. Distal Interphalangeal. (Medical/1.05)
DIP. Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonitis. (Medical/1.05)
DIP. Dual Inline Plug. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DIP Switch. An on/off switch or a bank of them. (IT, Computing/2.01)
Directional well. A well drilled at an angle. (Petrochemical/2.15)
DIRO. Dial in, ring out. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DIS. Detailed Interface Specification. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.12)
DIS. Draft International Standard. (Petrochemical/1.07)
DIS. Defence Intelligence Staff. (Military/1.06)
DISC. Diversity Incorporating Safer Communities. (Policing/2.14)
Disc. English method of spelling disk. A disc is a circular platter coated with a magnetic medium on
which data is stored. Disc's may be rigid or flexible and may be permanently installed in your
computer, in a peripheral device or in removable cases (IT, Computing/1.05)
DISCOS. Distributed Supervisory Control and Safety System. (Petrochemical/1.07)
Disk. American method of spelling disc. God save the Queen, and her English. See disc (IT,
Computing/1.05)
DIST. Distance. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DITYID. Did I Tell You I'm Distressed?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
DIV. Divert, Diverting. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DIY. Do It Yourself. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
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dj. Djibouti. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
DJ. Disc Jockey. (General/2.02)
DJD. Degenerative Joint Disease. (Medical/1.05)
DJE. Djerba Airport. Tunisie. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DJF. Djibouti Franc. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
DJG. Djanet Airport. Algerie. (Airport Codes/1.06)
dk. Denmark. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
DK. Don’t Know. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
DK. Premiair. (Airline Codes/1.05)
DKA. Diabetic Ketoacidosis. (Medical/1.05)
dkg. Dekagram. Measure of weight. 1000g = 100dkg = 10hg = 1kg = 2,205 pounds (avoirdupois)
(Weights & Measures, Metric/1.05)
DKK. Danish Kroner. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
dkl. Dekaliters. Measure of capacity. 1000l = 100dkl = 10hl = 1kl = 220 gallons (imperial) (Weights &
Measures, Metric/1.05)
dkm. Dekameter. Linear measure. 1000m = 100dkm = 10hm = 1km = 0,621 miles (Weights &
Measures, Metric/1.05)
DKR. Dakar Airport. Senegal. (Airport Codes/1.06)
dl. Deciliter. Measure of capacity. 1000ml = 100cl = 10dl = 1l = 1,7596 pints = 0,21997 gallons
(imperial) (Weights & Measures, Metric/1.05)
DL. Development Licence. (Drilling/2.16)
DL. Dead Link. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
DL co. Diffusing Capacity Of Lung For Carbon Monoxide. (Medical/1.05)
DLA. Delay, Delayed. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DLA. Douala Airport. Cameroun. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DLC. Dalian Airport. China. Duplicate see DLI (Airport Codes/1.06)
DLC. Data Link Control. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DLE. Data Link Escape. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DLE. Drug-Related Lupus Erythematosus, Diseminated Lupus Erythematosus. (Medical/1.05)
DLH. Duluth Airport. MN. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DLI. Dalian Airport. China. Duplicate see DLC (Airport Codes/1.06)
DLM. Dalaman. Turkey. (Airport Codes/1.05)
DLR. Docklands Light Railway. (General/2.10)
DLSW. Data Link Switching. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DLTBBB. Don't Let The Bed Bugs Bite. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
DM. Maersk Air. (Airline Codes/1.05)
DM. Diabetes Mellitus. (Medical/1.05)
DM. Drain Mud. (Petrochemical/1.07)
dm. Decimeter. Linear measure. 1000mm = 100cm = 10dm = 1m = 3,281 feet (Weights &
Measures, Metric/1.05)
dm. Dominica. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
DM&A. Design, Manufacture and Assemble. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
DMA. Direct Memory Access. A process for transferring data directly to and from the main memory,
without passing through the CPU. DMA improves speed and efficiency by allowing the system to
continue processing even while it is retrieving new data from the drive (IT, Computing/1.05)
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DMA. Dead Man Anchor. (Drilling/2.16)
DMAF. Defence Military Assistance Fund. (Military/1.06)
DME. Domodedovo. Moscow Airport. Russia. (Airport Codes/1.05)
DME. Distance Measuring Equipment. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DMI. Desktop Management Interface. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DMM. Damman Airport. Saudi Arabia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DMS. Domain Management Service. Or Domain Management System (IT, Computing/1.05)
DMS. Database Management System. (IT, Languages/1.05)
DMU. Diesel Multiple Unit. (General/2.10)
DN. Direktoratet for Naturforvalting. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
DNA. Distributed Network Architecture. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DNA. Dynamic Network Agents. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DNA. Desoxyribonucleic Acid. A nucleic acid that carries the genetic information which determines
individual hereditary characteristics and which is the major constituent of chromosomes
(Medical/1.05)
DNA. Did Not Attend. (General/1.05)
DNG. Danger, Dangerous. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DNMI. Den Norsk Meteorologiske Institutt. The Norwegian Meteorological Institute (Association,
Society, Institute/1.05)
DNR. Dinard Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DNS. Domain Naming System. Internet address. For example [email protected] will
have an equivalent Internet Protocol address that may look like 200.83.40.73 (IT, Internet/1.05)
DNV. Det Norske Veritas. Norwegian Certification/Inspection Company. See TUV (Association,
Society, Institute/1.05)
DO. District Office. (General/2.10)
DO. Dangerous Occurrence. (General/2.10)
do. Dominican Republic. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
DO. Drawing Office. (General/2.10)
DOA. Dead On Arrival. (Medical/1.05)
DOA. Delegation of Authority. (Drilling/2.16)
DOA. Drawing Office Assistant. (General/2.10)
DOB. Date Of Birth. (General/2.02)
DOD. Department of Defence. UK (General/1.05)
DoE. Department of the Environment. (General/2.10)
DOE. Department of Energy. (General/2.10)
DOE. Department of Education. (General/2.15)
Doghouse. . A room adjacent to the rig floor used as a general purpose shelter it is a combination
tool shed, office, communications centre, coffee room, lunchroom and general meeting place for
the drilling crew (Drilling/2.16)
DOH. Doha Airport. Qatar. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DOH. Department of Health. (General/2.10)
DOJ. Department Of Justice. US (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
DoKoMo. Japanese mobile phone operator. Name derived from company slogan Do Communications
over the Mobile network. Doko mo is the Japanese for "anywhere" (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
DOL. Department of Labor. (General/2.10)
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DOL. Deauville Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DOM. Dirty Old Man. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
DOM. Dominica Airport. Dominica. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DOM. Department Organisation Manual. (Petrochemical/1.07)
DOM. Domestic. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DOM`. Drilling Operations Manual. (Drilling/2.16)
Domain. The character string address of a host computer. (IT, Computing/2.13)
Domaine. Applied in Burgundy about wine slopes or vine yards which form a single property. The
vineyards may be located in different local districts or villages. However, in Bordeaux and in
Provence, this term is applied quite synonymously with Chateau (Wine Label Terms/1.05)
DOORS. Dynamic Object Oriented Enterprise System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.12)
DOP. Dominican Republic Peso. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
DOP. Drop Off Point. (Military/1.10)
DOR. Drop Off Rate. (Petrochemical/1.07)
DORA. Directorate of Operational Research and Analysis. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DoS. Denial of Service. A security breach that makes a computer hang or unusable. See BSOD (IT,
Computing/1.05)
DOS. Dozing Off Soon. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
DOS. Disk Operating System. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DOT. Department of Transport. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
dotgov. A government official (from the .gov of government domain names).
Chat/2.11)
(IT, Internet
Downstream. Piping Located on outlet side of equipment, orifice, nozzle, turbine meter.
(Petrochemical/1.05)
Downstream. Refers to post production processes like refining and marketing. See upstream
(Petrochemical/2.15)
DP. Detained Person. (Policing/2.14)
DP. Drill Pipe. (Drilling/2.16)
DP. Dorsal Pedis. (Medical/1.05)
DP. Display Processor. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DP. Dynamisk Posisjonering. (Petrochemical/1.07)
DP. Diaphragm Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
DP. Dial Pulse. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
DP. Dew Point temperature. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DPAG. Dangerous Pathogens Advisory Group. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
DPAS. Drug Prevention Advisory Service. (Policing/2.14)
DPC. Defence Planning Committee In NATO. (Military/1.05)
DPDV. Dynamically Positioned Drilling Vessel. (Drilling/2.16)
DPI. Dots Per Inch. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DPL. Dual Propagation Log. (Drilling/2.16)
DPLD. Differential Pressure Levitated Device. (Drilling/2.16)
DPLL. Digital Phase Locked Loop. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DPM. Disrupted Pattern Material (camouflage). (Military/1.10)
DPOF. Digital Print Order Format. (IT, Computing/2.08)
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DPP. Director of Public Prosecutions. (Policing/2.14)
DPS. Den Pasar Airport. Indonesia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DPT. Depth. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DPT. Differential Pressure Transmitter. An instrument that converts differential pressure to an
electrical current by sensing motion/force. See SPT, TT, ST (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.05)
DPT. Dye Penetration Testing. (Petrochemical/1.07)
DPT. Diphteria, Pertussis, Tetanus. (Medical/1.05)
DPWS. Deepwater Production Work System. (Petrochemical/1.07)
DQDB. Dual Queue Dual Bus. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DQDB. Distributed Queue Dual Bus. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DQMOT. Don't Quote Me On This. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
DR. Low drifting {followed by SA=SAnd, DU=DUst, SN=SNow}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
dr. dram. Avoirdupois system. 27 11/32 grains = 1 dram = 1,772
Imperial/1.05)
g (Weights & Measures,
DR. Drilling Report. (Drilling/2.16)
DR. Directive. (Petrochemical/1.07)
DR. Dead Reckoning. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DR. Delivery Room. (Medical/1.05)
DRA. Defence Research Agency. (Military/1.06)
DRA. Direct Radar Access. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DRAM. Dynamic Random Access Memory. See RAM (IT, Computing/1.05)
DRAS. Direct Radar Access Server. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DRC. Disaster Research Centre. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
DRC. Direct Radiating Collector. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
DRDF. Digital Resolution Direction Finding equipment. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
DRF. Document Review Form. (Petrochemical/1.07)
DRF. Data Recording Facility. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DRG. During. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Drilling rig. A drilling unit that is not permanently fixed in one location. (Petrochemical/1.08)
DRO. Durango Airport. CO. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DROPS. Dropped Objects Prevention System. (Drilling/2.16)
DROPS. De-mountable Rack Off-loading and Pick-up System. (Military/1.06)
DROV. Dummy ROV. (Petrochemical/2.15)
DRS. Klotzsche. Dresden Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.05)
DRS. Driver Rectification Scheme. (Policing/2.14)
DRW. Darwin Airport. NT. Australia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Dry hole. A well without oil. (Petrochemical/1.08)
DS. Detective Sergant. (General/1.06)
DS. Detective Superintendent. (Policing/2.14)
DS. Detective Sergeant. (Policing/2.14)
DS. Distributed Services. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DS. Dust Storm. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DS. Deviation Survey. (Drilling/2.16)
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ds. Double Strand. (Medical/1.05)
DS. Dual Seal. A removable rubber seal ring. Normally Nitrile Rubber (Petrochemical/1.05)
DS. Danish Standard. (General/1.07)
DSA. Directory System Agent. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DSA. Draft Strategic Alliance. (Policing/2.14)
DSA. Distributed System Architecture. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DSB. Danska Stats Banan. Danish National Raiway (Railways/1.08)
DSB. Double Sideband. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DSC. Differential Scanning Calorimetry. (General/2.10)
DSD. Dry Sterile Dressing. (Medical/1.05)
DSE. Display Screen Equipment. (General/2.10)
DSI. Digital Speech Interpretation. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
DSL. Digital Subscriber Line. See ADSL, VDSL, HDSL, SDSL, ISDN (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
DSM. Des Moines Airport. IA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DSMA/CD. Digital Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detect. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
DSP. Domain Specific Part. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DSR. Data Set Ready. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DSS. Department of Social Security. (Government office/2.10)
DST. Daylight Saving Time. When the clocks are adjusted (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
DST. Dexamethasone Supression Test. (Medical/1.05)
DSTL. Drill Stem Test Log. (Drilling/2.16)
DSU. Data Service Unit. A device that terminates digital telephone channels. See CSU (IT,
Computing/1.05)
DSV. Drilling Supervisor. (Drilling/2.16)
DSV. Diving Support Vessel. See MSV (Petrochemical/1.05)
DT. Density Transmitter. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
DT. Delirium Tremens. (Medical/2.02)
DT. Diphteria Tetanus. (Medical/1.05)
DTA. Differential Thermal Analysis. (General/2.10)
DTAM. Descend To And Maintain. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DTD. Document Type Definition. Part of the SGML specification (IT, Computing/1.05)
DTE. Data Terminal Equipment. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DTEO. Defence Test and Evaluation Organisation. (Military/1.06)
DTF. Dairy Trades Federation. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
DTG. Date Time Group. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DTH. Direct-to-Home. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
DTI. Department of Trade and Industry. (Government office/1.07)
DTIC. Dacarbazine. (Medical/1.05)
DTL. Diode Transistor Logic. Type of chip. Buy a book on integrated circuits if you need a description
(IT, Computing/1.05)
DTLR. Transport Local Government Regions. (Government office/2.14)
DTM. Dortmund Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DTMF. Dual Tone Multi Frequency. (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
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DTN. Detroit Automotive Industries Airport. MI. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DTP. Desk Top Publishing. (IT, Computing/1.07)
DTP. Distributed Transaction Processing. (IT, Computing/1.05)
DTR. Deep Tendon Reflex. (Medical/1.05)
DTRT. Do The Right Thing. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
DTRT. Deteriorate, Deteriorating. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DTS. Data Transmission System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
DTs. Delirium Tremens. (Medical/1.05)
DTT. Depth To Time. (Drilling/2.16)
DTT. Detroit Airport. MI. USA. Duplicate see DTW (Airport Codes/1.06)
DTTO. Drug Treatment and Testing Order. (Policing/2.14)
DTUL. Deflection Temperature Under Load. (General/2.14)
DTW. Detroit Airport. MI. USA. Duplicate see DTT (Airport Codes/1.06)
DTW. Dual Tandem Wheels. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DU. DUst. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DU. Diagnosis Undetermined. (Medical/1.05)
DU. Duodenal Ulcer. (Medical/1.05)
DUA. Directory User Agent. (IT, Computing/1.05)
Dual Band. Handsets that can operate on two different frequency ranges Eg. 800 and 1900Mhz. (IT,
Telecommunications/1.07)
Dual Band Antenna. Antenna that can be used in two different frequency ranges.
Telecommunications/1.07)
(IT,
Dual Mode. Handsets that can operate on two different access technologies, such as both analogue
and digital systems. (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
DUB. Dublin Airport. Ireland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
DUB. Disfuncional Uterine Bleeding. (Medical/1.05)
DUC. Dense Upper Cloud. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DUD. Dunedin Airport. New Zealand. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Dummy. A dependency/constraint used in an arrow network. See AOA.
Planning/1.10)
(Project Management,
DUMV. Damage to Unattended Motor Vehicle. (Policing/2.14)
Duplex. Double/Two Way. Duplex printing, double sided printing. Duplex comms, two way
communications (IT, Computing/1.05)
dur. Duration. (Project Management/1.05)
DUR. Durban Airport. South Africa. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DUS. Dusseldorf Rhein-Ruhr Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.05)
DV. Developed Vetting. (Policing/2.14)
DVB-RCS. Digital Video Broadcast Return Channel System. (Satellite Broadcasting/2.09)
DVB-S. Digital Video Broadcast Satellite. (Satellite Broadcasting/2.09)
DVD. Digital Versatile Disc. Sometimes referred to as Digital Video Disc, DVD is a replacement for CDROM/CD-RW drives. DVDs provide higher storage capacity, video, sound, data, read and write
capabilities. A DVD can store up to 17Gb of data on a two sided optical disc (IT, Computing/1.05)
DVLA. Driving Vehicle Licensing Authority. (Government office/2.14)
DVLC. Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre. (Government office/2.14)
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DVO. Disputed Variation Order. See Change Control, DVOR, PVN, PVOR, VI, VO, VODC, VOF, VOR
(Project Management, Planning/1.07)
DVOR. Doppler VHF Omnidirectional Radio. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DVOR. Disputed Variation Order Request. See Change Control, DVO, PVN, PVOR, VI, VO, VODC, VOF,
VOR (Project Management, Planning/1.05)
DVR. Digital Video Recording. (IT, Computing/2.13)
DVS. Dual Vulcanised Seal. A seal that is moulded on (Petrochemical/1.05)
DVT. Deep Venous Thrombosis. (Medical/1.05)
DW. Dual Wheels. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
DWB. Don't Write Back. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
DWIMC. Do What I Mean, Correctly. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
DWIMNWIS. Do What I Mean, Not What I Say. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
Dwt. Dead weight tonnage. The weight a ship can carry when fully loaded (Freight and
Shipping/2.01)
Dx. Diagnosis. (Medical/1.05)
DXB. Dubai International Airport. United Arab Emirates. (Airport Codes/1.05)
DXF. AutoCAD Drawing Interchange file format. (IT, Telecommunications/2.02)
Dy. Dysprosium. Atomic number 66. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
DYW. Metro Wayne Co. Detroit Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
DZ. Drizzle. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
dz. Algeria. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
DZA. Dzaoudzi Airport. Mayotte. (Airport Codes/1.06)
DZD. Algerian Dinar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
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6. Echo
E. East, Eastern Longitude. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
E&A. Exploration & Appraisal. (Petrochemical/1.07)
E&E. Escape and Evasion. (Military/1.10)
E&I. Electrical and Instrumentation. (Petrochemical/1.07)
E&M. Ear and Mouth. (General/1.05)
E&P. Exploration and Production. (Drilling/2.16)
E&P. Engineering and Procurement. (Petrochemical/1.07)
E.g.. Exempli gratia. For example (Latin, French, Greek/1.05)
EA. Environment Agency. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
EAB. Abbse Airport. Yemen. (Airport Codes/1.06)
EAC. Estimate at Completion. See BAC (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
EAC. European Agency for Cooperation. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
EAD. East Australian Daylight. (Time or Space/2.03)
EAEC. European Atomic Energy Community. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
EAG. Emergency Action Group. (Petrochemical/1.07)
EAGGF. European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
EAH. Early Administrative Hearing. (Policing/2.14)
EAI. Enterprise Application Integration. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.12)
EAM. Emergency Action Manager. (Petrochemical/1.07)
EAN. European Article Number. Known as Universal Product Code in the USA. EAN is the barcode
printed on the side of packages in supermarkets (General/1.05)
EANPG. European Air Navigation Planning Group. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
EAOS. Enterprise Airport Operational System. (IT, Computing/2.12)
EARA. European Asbestos Removal Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
EARN. European Academic Research Network. (IT, Computing/1.05)
Earned Value. The theoretical value of the work performed. Earned Value is an extension of either
an estimated base value or forecast value, and is used to aggregate progress upwards to higher
levels. The formula is Earned=(weighted value * percent complete)/100. Where the weighted
value could be just about anything from dollars, man-hours, quantities, in any permutation of
budget, forecast, multiplied by productivity and divided by my dob (Project Management,
Planning/1.10)
EAROM. Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory. (IT, Computing/1.05)
EAS. East Australian Standard. (Time or Space/2.03)
EAS. San Sebastian Airport. Spain. (Airport Codes/1.06)
EASE. Estimation and Assessment of Substance Exposure. (General/2.10)
Easter egg. An unexpected surprise hidden within the interface of an application like rarely-clicked
credit buttons. (IT, Computing/2.09)
EAT. Expected Approach Time. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
EAT. Employment Appeal Tribunal. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
EATCHIP. European ATC Harmonisation and Integration Programme.
Military/1.05)
(Aviation Civil and
EATMS. European Air Traffic Management System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
EB. Eastbound. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
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EBAA. European Business Aviation Association. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
EBAS. Engineering (Something, Something) System?. An ABB report generator for printing out
statistics from the backup generator system (OSL Project Related/1.05)
EBB. Entebbe Airport. Uganda. (Airport Codes/1.06)
EBCDIC. Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code. EBCDIC pronounced "Eb-see-Dick". An
8-bit character code. There are 256 characters in an the EBCDIC character code set but only 64
in the standard BCD 6 bit character code set. Representation of alphabetic characters is such:
A=1100 0001. See bit, BCD, ASCII (IT, Coding/1.05)
EBJ. Esbjerg Airport. Denmark. (Airport Codes/1.06)
EBl. Estimated Blood Loss. (Medical/1.05)
EBS. Enterprise Business System. (IT, Computing/2.12)
EBS. Early Baggage Storage. The area where baggage checked in a long time prior to an aircraft’s
departure time is stored (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
EBU. Saint Etienne Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
EBU. European Broadcasting Union. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
EBV. Epstein-Barr Virus. (Medical/1.05)
EBW. Electronic Beam Welding. (Petrochemical, Welding/1.07)
EC. European Commission. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
EC. Ethyl Cellulose. (General/2.14)
EC. European Community. (General/1.05)
ec. Ecuador. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
ECA. Euro Cybria. (Airline Codes/1.05)
ECAC. European Civil Aviation Conference. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
ECAFE. Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ECAM. Electronic Centralised Aircraft Monitoring. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ECB. European Central Bank. (Petrochemical/1.07)
ECC. Error Correction Code. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ECC. Emergency Control Centre. (Petrochemical/1.07)
ECCM. Electronic Counter-Counter Measures. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ECCS. Emergency Core Cooling System. (General/2.10)
ECDIN. Environmental Chemical Data Information Network. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ECDIS. Electronic Chart Display and Information System. (Military/1.06)
ECE. Economic Commission for Europe. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ECETOC. European Chemical Industry Ecology and Toxicology Centre.
Institute/2.10)
(Association, Society,
ECF. Extracellular Fluid. (Medical/1.05)
ECF. Extended Care Facility. (Medical/1.05)
ECFTUC. European Confederation of Free Trade Unions in the Community. (Association, Society,
Institute/2.10)
ECG. Electrocardiogram. (Medical/1.05)
ECG. Electrocardiograph. (General/1.05)
ECG. European Co-operation Grouping. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ECGD. Export Credits Guarantee Department. (General/2.10)
ECHR. European Convention on Human Rights. (General/2.14)
ECIS. European Communities Information Service. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
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ECISS. European Committee for Iron and Steel Standardisation. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
ECITC. European Committee for IT Testing and Certification. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ECL. Emitter Coupled Logic. Type of chip. Buy a book on integrated circuits if you need a description
(IT, Computing/1.05)
ECL. Exposure Control Limit. (General/2.10)
ECLA. Economic Commission for Latin America. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ECM. European Common Market. (General/2.02)
ECM. Electronic Counter Measures. A system for jamming or misleading enemy weapons,
communications, and radar (Aviation Civil and Military/1.08)
ECM. Erythema Chroniucum Migrans. (Medical/1.05)
ECMA. European Computer Manufacturers Association. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
ECMT. European Conference of Ministers of Transport. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ECN. Ercan Airport. Cyprus. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ECN. Epoxy Cresol Novolac. (General/2.14)
ECOIN. European Core Inventory. (General/2.10)
ECP. External Casing Packer. (Drilling/2.16)
ECR. Electrical Control Room. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
ECS. Electronic Chart System. Electronic Navigation system that is not type approved to the ECDIS
Performance Standard (Electronic Charting Systems/2.06)
ECS. Ecuadorian Sucre. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
ECSA. European Committee Ship owners Association. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
ECSA. Exchange Carriers Standard Association. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
ECU. European Currency Unit. (General/2.01)
ECWP. Estimated Cost of Work Performed. (Project Management/1.07)
ECWS. Estimated Cost of Work Scheduled. (Project Management/1.07)
EDA. Emergency Distance Available. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
EDB. Elektronisk Data Behandling. Electronic Data Processing. Norwegian (IT, Computing/1.05)
EDC. Estimate Date Of Confinement. (Medical/1.05)
EDF. European Development Fund. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
EDG. Employment Department Group. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
EDGE. Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution. Upgrade of GPRS systems that requires new base
stations and claims to increase bandwidth to 384 kbps (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
EDI. Electronic Data Interchange. (IT, Computing/1.05)
EDI. Electronic Data Interface. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
EDI. Edinburgh Airport. Scotland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
EDIFACT. Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce, and Transport. (Association,
Society, Institute/1.05)
EDMS.
Electronic
Computing/1.05)
Document
Management
Systems.
Examples
ODMA,
SGML,
HTML
(IT,
EDO. Extended Data Out. In connection with RAM. E.g. EDO RAM a method for speeding up the
throughput of data (IT, Computing/1.05)
EDP. Electronic Data Processing. (IT, Computing/1.05)
EDP. Emergency Disconnect Package. (Drilling/2.16)
EDR. Emergency Distance Required. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
EDS. Engineering Design Specification. (Petrochemical/2.06)
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EDS. Environmental Data Service. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
EDS. Engineering Delivery Service. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
EDT. Emergency Duty Team. (Policing/2.14)
EDT. Eastern Daylight Time. (US and Canada) (Time or Space/2.02)
EDTA. Ethylene Diaminetetraacetic Acid. (General/2.10)
EDTA. Ethylene Diamine Tetraacetate. (Medical/1.05)
edu. Colleges and universities. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
EDV. Elektronische DatenVerarbeitung (De). Electronic Data Processing (EDP) (General/2.01)
EDZ. Emergency Depressurising Zone. (Petrochemical/1.07)
ee. Estonia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
EEA. European Economic Area. (General/2.14)
EEA. PolyEthylene Ethyl Acrylate. (General/2.14)
EEC. European Economic Community. (General/2.10)
EECMB. Electrical Equipment Certification Management Board. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
EECS. Electrical Equipment Certification Service. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
EEF. Engineering Employers Federation. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
EEG. Europese Economische Gemeenschap (Dutch for EEC). (General/2.10)
EEG. Electroencephalograph. (Medical/2.02)
EEG. Electroencephalogram. (Medical/1.05)
EEI. Edison Electric Institute. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
EEK. Estonian Kroon. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
EEMUA.
Engineering
Institute/2.10)
Equipment
and
Materials
Users
Association.
(Association, Society,
EENT. Eyes, Ears, Nose And Throat. (Medical/1.05)
EER. Evacuation, Escape, and Rescue. (Petrochemical/1.07)
EEROM. Electrically Erasable Read Only Memory. (IT, Computing/1.05)
EESD. Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
EEST. Eastern Europe Summer Time. (Time or Space/2.08)
EET. Estimated Elapsed Time. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
EET. Eastern European Time. (Time or Space/2.03)
EETPU. Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union.
Institute/2.10)
(Association, Society,
EEW. Epoxy Equivalent Weight. (General/2.14)
EF. Early Finish. See ES for full description (Project Management, Planning/1.08)
EF. Ejection Fraction. (Medical/1.05)
EFAT. Extended Factory Acceptance Test. (Petrochemical/2.15)
EFC. European Frontiers Convention. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
EFC. Expected Further Clearance. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
EFCP. Estimated Final Contract Price. (Project Management/1.07)
EFCS. Electronic Flight Control System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
EFIS. Electronic Flight Information System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
EFL. Explosion and Flame Laboratory. (General/2.10)
EFOA. European Fuel Oxygenates Association. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
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EFQM. European Foundation of Quality Management. (General/2.14)
EFR. Engineering Factual Report. (Drilling/2.16)
EFR. Enhanced Full Rate. Automatic speech compression in a digital format which provides improved
voice quality on cellular system (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
EFSD. Electronic Flight Strip Display. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
EFT. Estimated Free Thyroxine. (Medical/1.05)
EFTA. European Free Trade Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
EFTPOS. Electronic Funds Transfer at Point Of Sale. Makes it easier for a merchant/retailer to get his
hands on your money, and faster to boot! Traditionally these terminals have relied on land lines,
which disqualifies them for use by for example taxi drivers, and others who rely on mobility to do
business. Now they can be connected to mobile telephones. See POS (IT,
Telecommunications/1.06)
eg. Egypt. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
EG or <eg>. Evil Grin. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
EGA. Enhanced Graphics Adapter. See Video Board (IT, Computing/1.05)
EGC. Bergerac Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
EGNOS. European Geostation Navigation Overlay System. (Satellite Broadcasting/2.09)
EGP. Exterior Gateway Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
EGP. Egyptian Pound. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
EGT. Exhaust Gas Temperature. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
EGT. Evidence Gathering Team. (Policing/2.14)
eh. Western Sahara. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
EHA. European Helicopter Association. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
EHF. Extremely High Frequency. (30 000 - 300 000 MHz). See ELF, HF, LF, MF, SHF, UHF, VHF, VLF
(Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
EHO. Environmental Health Officer. (General/2.10)
EHSR. Essential Health and Safety Requirement. (General/2.10)
EI. Aer Lingus. (Airline Codes/1.07)
EI. Explosives Inspectorate. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
EIA. Electroimmunoassay. (Medical/1.05)
EIA. Environmental Impact Assessment. (Petrochemical/1.07)
EIA. Electronic Industries Association. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
EIB. European Investment Bank. (General/2.10)
EIC. Energy Industries Council. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
EID. Emergency Isolation Device. (General/2.10)
EIDE. Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics. Hard disk drive interface. See SCSI, ESDI, IDE (IT,
Computing/1.05)
Eikon. Epoc's Graphical User Interface (GUI). Which may leave you wondering what a GUI is. A GUI
is a graphical interface to a computer (e.g. Windows) where you press buttons or icons, and open
pull down menus to perform actions, as opposed to a text based interface to a computer (e.g.
DOS), where you have to type in cryptic commands like cd and dir to perform actions (Epoc/2.03)
EIN. External Interface Network. (IT, Computing/1.05)
EIN. Eindhoven Airport. Holland. (Airport Codes/1.06)
EINECS. European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances. (General/2.10)
EIR. Equipment Identification Register. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
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EIRP. Effective Isotropic Radiated Power. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
EIS. Executive Information System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
EISA. Extended Industry Standard Architecture. Bus type. See Bus, ISA, PCI, MCA, PCMCIA (IT,
Computing/1.05)
EITB. Engineering Industry Training Board. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
EKG. Electrocardiogram. (Medical/1.05)
EL. Electric Log. (Drilling/2.16)
EL. Elevation. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
EL. Electro Luminescent. A flat screen technology. See CRT, LCD, TFT, PDP, FED, CGS (IT,
Computing/1.05)
ELBA. Emergency Location Beacon Aircraft. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ELC. Employee Learning Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
ELCB. Earth Leakage Circuit Breaker. (General/2.10)
ELCI. Employers Liability Compulsory Insurance. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ELCTEX. Enforcement Liaison Certification for Transport of Explosives. (General/2.10)
ELEC. European League for Economic Co-operation. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
elect. Electrolyte. (Medical/1.05)
ELEV. Elevation. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ELF. Extremely Low Frequency. See EHF, HF, LF, MF, SHF, UHF, VHF, VLF (IT, Computing/1.05)
ELF. Extra Low Frequency. (General/2.10)
ELINT. Electronic Intelligence. The gathering of electronic transmissions related to communications,
weapons control, or reconnaissance (Aviation Civil and Military/1.08)
ELISA. Ensyme-Linked Immunoassay. (Medical/1.05)
ELM. Elmira Airport. NY. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ELN. East London Airport. South Africa. Duplicate see ELS (Airport Codes/1.06)
ELO. Explosives Liaison Officer. (Policing/2.14)
ELP. El Paso Airport. TX. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ELR. Extra Long Range. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ELS. East London Airport. South Africa. Duplicate see ELN (Airport Codes/1.06)
ELSIE. Electronic Signalling and Indicating Equipment. (General/2.10)
ELT. Economic Limit Test. (Drilling/2.16)
ELT. Emergency Locator Transmitter. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
EM. Electric Motor. (Petrochemical/1.07)
EM. Environmental Monitoring. (Petrochemical/1.07)
EM. Emission. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
EMA. Engine Manufacturers Association. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
EMA. East Midlands Airport. Derby, Nottingham, Leicester. England. (Airport Codes/1.05)
E-Mail. Electronic Mail. The ability to correspond electronically. As its name suggests E-Mail has
features more familiar to the postal service, than the telephone service. The user of E-mail may
have the choice between sending information within their own organisation (via a LAN or
intranet), or further a field (via a WAN or the WWW) (IT, Computing/1.05)
EMBD. Embedded in a layer. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
EMBO. European Molecular Biology Organisation. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
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EMC. Electro Magnetic Compatibility. A set of standards/norms for avoiding Electro Magnetic
Interference. EMC also involves earthing for discharge of any static electricity. See EMI (IT,
Computing/1.05)
EMCF. European Monetary Co-operation Fund. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
EMD. Electromechanical Dissociation. (Medical/1.05)
EMDA. Emergency Distance Available. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
EMERG. Emergency. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
EMFBI. Excuse Me For Butting In. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
EMG. Electromyogram. (Medical/1.05)
EMI. Electro Magnetic Interference. Caused when electro magnetism is radiated or conducted to
areas where it is not wanted. Examples of EMI are crosstalk and Radio Frequency Interference
(RFI). Crosstalk interference occurs when two cables are too close and cause disruption to each
other. Solutions are, move the cables further apart, use twisted pairs, use shielded cable, or fibre
optic cable. RFI is high frequency radiation produced by things like, radios, mobile telephones,
computers, motors. RFI can cause disruption with high speed digital circuits found in computers
when for example the printer parallel cable starts acting like an antenna (IT, Computing/1.05)
EMM. Extended Memory Manager. Or Expanded Memory Manager. See Upper Memory (IT,
Computing/1.05)
EMR. Emergency. (General/1.05)
EMR. Electro Magnetic Radiation. What a Cathode Ray Tube monitor emits. See ELF, VLF (IT,
Computing/1.05)
EMS. Environmental Management System. (Petrochemical/2.09)
EMSG. E-mail message. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
EMSIC. Emergency Service Incident Control. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
EMSU. Epidemiology and Medical Statistics Unit. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
EMT. Eastern Mediterranean. (Time or Space/2.03)
EMU. Electrical Multiple Unit. (General/2.10)
EMW. Equivalent Mud Weight. (Drilling/2.16)
EN. European Norm. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
ENA. Etter Nærmere Avtale. Norwegian. (General/1.05)
ENC. Electronic Navigation Chart. Corresponding to the International Hydrographic Organization's
S57/3 specification for exchange-format (Electronic Charting Systems/2.06)
END. Stop-End (related to RVR). (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ENE. East North East. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ENG. Engine. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Engineer's Estimate. The cost of construction in heaven. (Humour/1.05)
Enhanced oil recovery. Oil recovered from a well by means other than the natural pressure in the
reservoir. (Petrochemical/1.08)
ENRT. En Route. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ENS. Engineering Numbering System. (Project Management/1.07)
ENS. Ehschede Airport. Holland. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ENS. Environment Northern Seas. (Petrochemical/1.07)
ENT. Ear, Nose And Throat. (Medical/1.05)
EO. Executive Officer. (General/2.10)
EO. Equal Opportunities. (General/2.14)
EO. Ethylene Oxide. (General/2.10)
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EO. Endrings Ordre. Norwegian for Change Order. See Change Control, OEO, DVO, PVN, PVOR, VI,
VO, VODC, VOF, VOR (Project Management/1.05)
EOBT. Estimated Off Block Time. In this context block means chock, as referred to in Biggles stories
"chocks away Ginger" (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
EOC. Equal Opportunities Commission. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
EOD. Explosives Ordnance Disposal. (Policing/2.14)
EOD. Explosive Ordnance Disposal. (Military/1.06)
EOF. End Of File. (IT, Computing/1.05)
EOF. Europaeiske Okonomiske Faellesskab (Danish for EEC). (General/2.10)
EOFL. End of Field Life. (Drilling/2.16)
EOL. End of Life. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
EOM. Extraocular Movements. (Medical/1.05)
EOM. End Of Message. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
EOP. End Of Picture. (IT, Computing/1.05)
EOQC. European Organisation for Quality Control. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
EOR. End Of Record. (IT, Computing/1.05)
EOR. Enhanced Oil Recovery. Any method that increases oil production (Petrochemical/1.07)
EOT. Electrical Overhead Travelling Crane. (Petrochemical/1.07)
EOT. End Of Thread. (meaning: end of discussion) (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
EOTC. European Organisation for Testing and Certification. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
EP. European Parliament. (General/2.10)
EPA. Environmental Protection Agency. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
EPAC. Engineering, Procurement, Assistance and Construction. (Project Management/1.07)
EPC. European Policy Committee. (General/2.10)
EPC. European Political Co-operation. (Military/1.05)
EPC. Engineering Procurement and Construction. (Project Management/1.05)
EPCI. Engineering. Procurement, Construction and Installation. (Project Management/1.07)
EPCM. Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management. (Project Management/1.07)
EPCS. Engineering, Procurement and Construction Supervision. (Project Management/1.07)
EPCU. Electrical Power Conditioning Unit. (Drilling/2.16)
EPHOS. Europeen Procurement Handbook for Open System. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
EPIC. Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing. See RISC, CISC (IT, Computing/1.05)
EPL. Epinal Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
EPMS. Engineering Procurement Manufacturing Schedule. (Project Management/1.07)
EPO. Erythropoietin. (Medical/1.05)
EPO. European Patent Organisation. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
EPOC. Epoc is an operating system (OS) developed by a company called Psion. Epoc Release 5 as
used on the Psion Series 5mx, is a 32 bit multitasking operating system. It has a Graphical User
Interface (GUI) called Eikon, navigation is not with a mouse, but by touching the screen or using
a keyboard. The Epoc OS is very compact and robust. Epoc Release 5 also contains office
applications Eg. word processor and spreadsheet (Epoc/2.03)
EPOS. Electronic Point Of Sale. See EFTPOS, POS (IT, Computing/1.06)
EPP. Emergency Preparedness Plan. (Project Management/1.07)
EPPS. Engineering Procurement Production Schedule. (Project Management/1.07)
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EPR. Insululation material. (Electrical/2.01)
EPROM. Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory. (IT, Computing/1.05)
EPS. Extrapyramidal Symptoms. (Medical/1.05)
EPS. Early Production Scheme. (Petrochemical/2.08)
EPS. Expanded Polystyrene. (General/2.14)
EPS. European Polar System. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
EPS. Electronic Power Supply. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
EPS/F. Encapsulated PostScript File. A graphic file format used to transfer PostScript picture
information between applications (IT, Computing/1.05)
Epsilon. Fifth letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Fifth, electrode potential, dielectric
constant, base of natural algorithms, angle of downwash (Greek Alphabet/1.05)
EPV. Electric Passenger Vehicles. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
EQM. Engineering Qualification Model. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
EQPT. Equipment. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
EQT. Change of equipment information. ASM Submessage (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
Er. Erbium. Atomic number 68. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
ER. Emergency Room. (Medical/1.05)
ER. Here, Herewith. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
er. Eritrea. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
ER. Estrogen Receptor. (Medical/1.05)
ER. Emergency Response. (Drilling/2.16)
ER. Explicit Rate. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ERA. Electrical Research Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ERAs. Elected Regional Assemblies. (Government office/2.14)
ERB. Emergency Response Belt. (Policing/2.14)
ERCP. Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography. (Medical/1.05)
ERCS. ECM Resistant Communication System. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ERDF. European Rural Development Fund. (General/2.14)
ERF. Erfurt Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ERI. Erie Airport. PA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ERL. Emergency Reference Level. (General/2.10)
ERMES. European Radio Messaging System. A paging network for Europe, the Middle East and Asia
(IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
ER-MODEL. Entity Relationship Model. This is a technique used to describe individual data entities,
and the relationship between them. ER modelling is a method of analysing, designing, and
describing a relational database. The attributes of each entity in the model eventually become
columns in a table, while relationships between entities become keys (one table pointing to
another). Another type of modelling is called object modelling. Object oriented analysis and
design assumes a process oriented approach rather than a data oriented one (IT,
Computing/1.05)
ERN. Eritrean Nakfa. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
ERP. Emergency Response Plan. (Drilling/2.16)
ERP. Effective Radiated Power. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
ERP. Enterprise Resource Planning. (General/2.10)
ERP. Error Recovery Procedure. (IT, Computing/1.05)
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ERS. Evacuation Retained Secundines. (Medical/1.05)
ERS. European Remote Sensing. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
ERS. Emergency Radio System. (General/1.05)
ERSP. Electronic Reservation Services Providers. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
ERST. Electronic Reservation Service Providers. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
ERV. Emergency Rendezvous. (Military/1.10)
ERV. ECM Resistant Voice. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ES. Early Start. Early start and finish dates are calculated during a forward pass of the network. If the
first activity starts on day 1 and has a duration of 5 days its ES will be day 1 and it's EF day 5.
Any activities succeeding it will start on day 6. However when the start of an activity is dependent
on more than one preceding activity it's ES date is the maximum EF date of the preceding
activities. EF = ES + Duration. The EF date of the last activity in the network is the expected
completion date of the project. The expected completion date represents the longest sequence of
activities in the network, this sequence of activities is called the critical path. See FS, SS, TF, FF,
ES, EF, LS, LF, Network, AON, AOA, CPM, CPA (Project Management, Planning/1.08)
es. Spain. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
Es. Einsteinium. Atomic number 99. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
ESA. European Space Agency. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ESAC. Education Services Advisory Committee. (General/2.10)
ESAD. Eat Sh** And Die. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ESB. Esenboga. Ankara Airport. Turkey. (Airport Codes/1.05)
ESC. Economic and Social Committee. (General/2.10)
ESCAP. Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific. (General/2.10)
ESCAPE. Electrostatic Charging in Artificial Plasma Environment. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
ESCR. Environmental Stress Cracking Resistance. (General/2.14)
ESD. Emergency Shut Down. (Petrochemical/1.05)
ESD. Electrostatic Discharge. (General/1.05)
ESDI. European Spatial Data Infrastructure. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
ESDI. Enhanced Small Drive Interface. Hard disk drive interface. See SCSI, IDE, EIDE (IT,
Computing/1.05)
ESDRAM. Enhanced Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory. First there was RAM, then came
Static RAM, then came Dynamic RAM and also EDO-RAM, followed by Synchronous Dynamic RAM
followed by DDR-SRAM. From my school days I remember text books about the industrial
revolution and the impact of the spinning jenny. I wonder if historians in ages to come will be
able to describe this technological revolution in easy to understand terms. ESDRAM is the latest
emerging volatile memory type, along with believe it or not DDR-SDRAM. What it all boils down to
at the end of the day is something called bandwidth, which is how fast this piece of computer
architecture can transfer data (process information) (IT, Computing/1.05)
ESDV. Emergency Shut Down Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
ESE. East South East. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ESF. European Social Fund. (General/2.10)
ESF. Alexandria Airport. LA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ESFR. Early Suppression Fast Response. (General/2.10)
ESH. Electric Surface Heating. (General/2.10)
ESN. Electronic Serial Number. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
ESP. Spanish Peseta. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
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ESP. Electrostatic Precipitator. (General/2.10)
ESP. Electric Submersible Pump. (Drilling/2.16)
ESP. Extra Sensory Perception. (General/2.02)
ESPRIT. European Strategic Programme for Research and development in IT. (Association, Society,
Institute/2.10)
Esprit de corps. Loyalty uniting a group. (Latin, French, Greek/1.05)
ESR. Erythrocite Sedimentation Rate. (Medical/1.05)
ESRD. End-Stage Renal Disease. (Medical/1.05)
ESRO. European Space Research Organisation. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ESSF. Egnos System Simulation Facility. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
EST. Eastern Standard Time. (US and Canada) (Time or Space/2.02)
EST. Estimate, Estimated. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
EST, ECT. Electroshock Therapy. (Medical/1.05)
ESTB. Egnos System Test Bed. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
et. Ethiopia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
ET. Electronic Ticket. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
ETA. Estimated Time of Arrival. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Eta. Seventh letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Seventh, efficiency, viscosity,
electrolytic polarisation (Greek Alphabet/1.05)
ETACS. Extended Total Access Communications System. An analog mobile phone network developed
in the UK and available in Europe and Asia (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
ETB. Ethiopian Birr. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
ETC. Estimate To Completion. See BTC (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
Etc. Et cetera. And other things of the same kind. Not to be confused with excreta (Latin, French,
Greek/1.05)
ETD. Estimated Time of Departure. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ETD. Extended Trunk Dialling. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
ETDMA. Enhanced Time Division Multiple Access. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
ETH. Elat Airport. Italy. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Ethernet. International standard for LAN communication. A popular Local Area Network pioneered by
Xerox. Ethernet uses coaxial cable. Featuring 10Mbps transmission speeds, running over thin
coaxial (10Base-2), thick coaxial (10Base-5), or twisted pair (10Base-T) cables (IT,
Computing/1.07)
ETIS. Electronic Traffic Information System. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ETLA. Extended Three-letter acronym (that is, an FLA). (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ETO. Estimated Time Over {significant point}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ETS. European Telecommunication Standards. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
ETSI. European Telecommunications Standard Institute. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
ETT. Electromagnetic Thickness Test. (Drilling/2.16)
ETU. Electrical Test Unit. (Drilling/2.16)
ETZ. Metz- Nancy Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Eu. Europium. Atomic number 63. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
EU. European Union. (General/1.05)
EUA. Examination Under Anesthesia. (Medical/1.05)
EUCLID. European Co-operation for the Long Term in Defence. (Military/1.06)
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EUR. Euro. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
EUROCAE. European Organisation for Civil Aviation Electronics. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
EV. Every. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
EVA. Earned Value Analysis. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
EVE. Harstad/Narvik. Evenes Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.05)
Event. A happening of importance. A milestone. The circle used to indicate the start point and finish
point of an activity in an Activity on the Arrow Network. (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
EVG. Sveg. (Airport Codes/1.07)
EVV. Evansville Airport. IN. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
EWB. New Bedford Airport. MA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
EWOS. European Workshop on Open Systems. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
EWR. End of Well Report. (Drilling/2.16)
EWR. Newark International. New York Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
EWS. Engineering Work Station. (Petrochemical/1.07)
EX. Norving. (Airline Codes/1.05)
Exa. SI number prefix 1.000.000.000.000.000.000. Abbreviated as E (SI Number Prefixes/2.08)
EXC. Except. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
EXER. Exercise, Exercising. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
EXIS. Expert Information System. (General/2.10)
EXP. Expect, Expecting, Expected. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Exploration drilling. Drilling carried out to determine whether hydrocarbons are present in a
particular area. (Petrochemical/1.08)
EXT. Exeter Airport. UK. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ext. Extremities, Extract. (Medical/1.05)
EXTD. Extend, Extending. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Extranet. Limited public access to an Intranet. An intranet is a private internet for the use of a single
organisation, an extranet allows public access to this intranet, but restricts access to sensitive
areas of information. For example you might have visitors home, and give them a sightseeing tour
of the house, without showing them the contents of all the cupboards and drawers. See Intranet,
Internet, WWW, LAN, WAN (IT, Internet/1.05)
EXW. Ex-Works. Delivery at factory (Freight and Shipping, Incoterms/1.05)
EZE. M. Pistarini. Buenos Aires Airport. Argentina. (Airport Codes/1.05)
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F. Fahrenheit. A temperature scale with the freezing point of water at 32 degrees, and the boiling
point of water at 212 degrees. Normal body temperature is 98,6 degrees (Weights & Measures,
Temperature/1.05)
F. Flourine. Atomic number 9. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
F. Fixed. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
F&G. Fire and Gas. (Petrochemical/1.07)
F2F. Face to Face. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
FA. Flow Alarm. (Petrochemical/1.07)
FAA. Federal Aviation Authority. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FAC. Facilities. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FAC. Flight Augmentation Computer. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FAC. Forecast At Completion. See BAC, EAC (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
FACE. Field Artillery Computer Equipment. British Army (IT, Computing/1.05)
FADU. File Access Data Unit. (IT, Computing/1.05)
FAE. Faroe Islands Airport. Denmark. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FAF. Final Approach Fix. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FAI. Fairbanks Airport. AK. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FAI. Federation Aeronautique Internationale. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
FAL. Facilitation of International Air Transport. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FAN. Farsund Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FANS. Future Air Navigation Systems. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FAO. Faro Airport. Portugal. (Airport Codes/1.05)
FAO. Food and Agriculture Organisation. (General/2.10)
FAP. Final Approach Point. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FAQ. Frequently Asked Questions. (IT, Computing/1.05)
FAR. Fatal Accident Rate. (Petrochemical/1.07)
FAS. Fire Alarm System. (IT, Computing/2.13)
FAS. Free Along Side. (Freight and Shipping, Incoterms/1.05)
FAS. Final Acceptance Sheet. (Petrochemical/1.07)
FAST. Forecasting and Assessment of Science and Technology. (General/2.10)
Fast Packet Switching. A packet-orientated digital technology. (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
FAT. Factory Acceptance Test. Tests performed at the factory prior to dispatch to site (Project
Management/1.05)
FAT. File Allocation Table. An index for keeping track of where files are located on a disc (IT,
Computing/1.05)
FAT. Fresno Airport. CA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Fathom. Nautical Measure. 6 feet = 1 fathom = 1,829 m (Weights & Measures, Imperial/1.05)
FATT. Fracture Appearance Transition Temperature. (Petrochemical/1.07)
FAX. Facsimile Transmission. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FAY. Fayetteville Airport. NC. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FB. Full Bore. (Petrochemical/1.07)
FBA. Freshwater Biological Association. (General/2.10)
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FBE. Fusion Bonded Epoxy. (Drilling/2.16)
FBE. Fiber Bonded Epoxy. A coating for piping/pipelines (Petrochemical, Piping/2.08)
FBI. Federal Bureau of Investigations. USA (General/1.05)
FBL. Light. Used to indicate the intensity of weather phenomena, interference or static reports, e.g.
FBL RA = Light Rain (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FBM. Lubumbashi Airport. Zaire. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FBO. Football Banning Order. (Policing/2.14)
FBO. Fixed Base Operator. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
FBOA. Football Banning Order Authority. (Policing/2.14)
FBR. Fort Bridger. (Airline Codes/1.05)
FBS. Fasting Blood Sugar. (Medical/1.05)
FBU. Fornebu. Oslo Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.05)
FBU. Fire Brigades Union. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
FC. Fingers crossed. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
FC. Force Command. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FC. Funnel Cloud. Tornado or water spout (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FC. Finance Committee. (Petrochemical/1.07)
FC. Fail-Closed. (Petrochemical/1.07)
FC. Flow Control. (Petrochemical/1.07)
FC. Float Collar. (Drilling/2.16)
FCA. Free Carrier. (Freight and Shipping, Incoterms/1.08)
FCAW. Flux Corded Arc Welding. (Petrochemical, Welding/2.11)
FCC. Federal Communications Commission. USA. Regulatory body governing communications
technologies in the US (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
FCEC. Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
FCFS. First Come First Serve. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
FCO. Leonardo da Vinci. Rome Airport. Italy. (Airport Codes/1.05)
FCO. Foreign and Commonwealth Office. (Government office/2.10)
FCP. Freight and Carriage Paid. (Freight and Shipping, Incoterms/1.05)
FCP. Final Circulating Pressure. (Drilling/2.16)
FCR. Force Control Room. (Policing/2.14)
FCS. Frame Check Sequence. (IT, Computing/1.05)
FCST. Forecast. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FCT. Friction Coefficient. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FCV. Flow Control Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.05)
FD. Fabrication Dossier. (Project Management/1.07)
FDA. Food And Drug Administration. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
FDB. Full Data Block. (IT, Computing/1.05)
FDB. Flyplass Data Base. Airport Database. Norwegian (IT, Computing/1.05)
FDD. Fixed Disc Drive. (IT, Computing/1.05)
FDD. Freight, Demurrage and Defence. (Petrochemical/1.07)
FDD. Frequency Division Duplex. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
FDD. Flight Data Display. (IT, Computing/1.05)
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FDDI. Fibre Data Distributed Interface. An optical fibre based network (IT, Computing/1.05)
FDF. Fort De France Airport. Martinique. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FDH. Lowenthal. Friedrichshafen Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.05)
FDIR. Failure Detection, Isolation and Recovery. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
FDM. Frequency Division Multiplexing. (IT, Computing/1.05)
FDMA. Frequency Division Multiple Access. Analogue standard for mobile telephone communications.
(A method of sharing the radio spectrum, i.e. assigning specific frequencies to each cellular
phone). See AMPS, CDMA, CDPD, GSM, TDMA (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
FDN. Forsvarets Digitale Nettverk. Norway. MODs digital network (IT, Computing/1.05)
FDP. Fibrin Degradation Product. (Medical/1.05)
FDP. Flight Data Processing. (IT, Computing/1.05)
FDP. Field Development Plan. (Petrochemical/1.07)
FDPS. Flight Data Processing System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FDR. Final Design Review. (OSL Project Related/1.05)
FDR. Flight Data Recorder. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FDS. Functional Design Specification. (Petrochemical/2.11)
FDV. Forvaltning, Drift og Vedlikehold. Administration, Operations, and Maintenance. Norwegian (OSL
Project Related/1.05)
FE. Flow Element. (Petrochemical/1.07)
FE. Fractional Excretion. (Medical/1.05)
Fe. Iron, ferrum. Atomic number 26. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
FE. Further Education. (General/2.10)
FEATS. Future European Air Traffic System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FEB. February. (Time or Space/1.05)
FEBI. Federations Europeennes des Branches d'Industries. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
FEC. Forward Error Correction. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
FED. Federal. USA (General/1.05)
FEED. Front End Engineering Design. (Petrochemical/2.06)
FEEP. Field Effect Electrical Propulsion. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
FEGP. Fixed Electrical Ground Power. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
femto. SI number prefix 0,000 000 000 000 001. Abbreviated as f (SI Number Prefixes/2.08)
FEO. Firearms Enquiry Officer. (Policing/2.14)
FEOGA. Fonds Europeen d'Orientation et de Garantie Agricole. (General/2.10)
FEP. Front End Processing. (IT, Computing/1.05)
FEP. Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene. (General/2.14)
FER. Field Equipment Room. (Drilling/2.16)
FERC. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. (Petrochemical/2.01)
FEV. Forced Expiratory Volume. (Medical/1.05)
FEWD. Formation Evaluation While Drilling. (Drilling/2.16)
FEZ. Fez Airport. Maroc. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FF. Finish to Finish. Precedence network constraint. FF constraints are drawn from the finish of a
node to the finish of the succeeding node, and imply that the succeeding activity can not finish
until the preceding activity is completed. See FS, SS, TF, FF, Network, AON, AOA, CPM, CPA,
PERT (Project Management, Planning/1.08)
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FF. Tower Air. (Airline Codes/1.05)
FF. Flat Face. Flange Facing. See RF (Petrochemical, Piping/1.05)
FF. Free Float. The difference between the EF of an activity and the minimum ES of any succeeding
activities. FF represents the amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying any
succeeding activities. FF = EF - minimum (ES of any succeeding activities) (Project Management,
Planning/1.08)
FF. Force Fluids. (Medical/1.05)
FF. Furan Formaldehyde. (General/2.14)
FFM. Full Field Model. (Drilling/2.16)
FFO. Full Functional Operability. Additional functionality that will ensure that the airport can be
operated in a flexible, rational, and effective method, as the total scope of the contract specifies
(OSL Project Related/1.05)
FFP. Fresh Frozen Plasma. (Medical/1.05)
FG. Fuel Gas. (Petrochemical/1.07)
FG. Feature Group. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
FG. Fog. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FH. Fibre Hub. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
FH. Flight Hours. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FH. Family History. (Medical/1.05)
FHC. Family Health Center. (Medical/1.05)
FHM. Fetal Heart Monitor. (Medical/1.05)
FHR. Fetal Heart Rate. (Medical/1.05)
fi. Finland. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
FI. Flow Indicator. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
FI. Iceland Air. (Airline Codes/1.05)
Fiber Optic Cable. See Optic fiber. (IT, Computing/1.05)
FIC. Flight Information Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FIDS. Flight Information and Display System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Field. A geographical area under which an oil or gas reservoir lies. (Petrochemical/1.08)
FIFO. First In First Out. See LIFO (Petrochemical/1.07)
FIH. Kinshasa Airport. Zaire. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FIM. Finish Markka. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
FIO. Field Intelligence Officer. (Policing/2.14)
FIR. Flight Information Region. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FIR. Force Information Room. (Policing/2.14)
FIR. Functional Interface Register. (General/2.13)
Firewall. A security measure. The process of blocking transmission of certain traffic in order to
secure an internal network from illegal access. A firewall can consist of either hardware or
software, but usually is a combination of both (IT, Computing/1.06)
FireWire. Apple Computer’s trademarked name for the IEEE 1394 serial data protocol..
Telecommunications/2.14)
(IT,
Firkin. Measure of Ale. 9 gallons (72 pts). (Measure of Ale/1.05)
FIS. Flight Information Service. Or Flight Information System (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FISA. Flight Information Service Automated. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FISH. First In, Still Here. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
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FIT. Flow Indicator Transmitter. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
FIT. Formation Integrity Test. (Drilling/2.16)
FITB. Fill In The Blank. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
FITL. Fibre In The Loop. (IT, Computing/1.05)
FIU. Force Intelligence Unit. (Policing/2.14)
FIV. Formation Isolation Valve. (Drilling/2.16)
FIW. Flightplan Input Workstation. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
fj. Fiji. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
FJD. Fijian Dollar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
fk. Falkland Islands (Malvinas). Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
FKP. Falkland Island Pound. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
fl. Fluid. (Medical/1.05)
FL. Flight Level. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FL. Fail Locked. (Petrochemical/1.07)
fl.dr. Fluid dram. Measure of capacity Imperial. 60 minims = 3,551 ml (Weights & Measures,
Imperial/1.05)
fl.oz. Fluid ounce. Measure of capacity Imperial. 8 fluid drams = 1 fl.oz = 28,41 ml (not to be
confused with the US liquid measure which equals 29,57 ml) (Weights & Measures, Imperial/1.05)
FLA. Future Large Aircraft. (Military/1.06)
FLA. Four-letter acronym. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
Flagon. Measure of Ale. 2 pts (ca 1,14l). (Measure of Ale/1.05)
Flash Memory. PC Card. A peripheral device that can add a variety of capabilities to computers
including system memory, mass storage, LAN, fax/modem and wireless communications. The
PCMCIA standardised PC Card is roughly the dimensions of a thick credit card and has a 68-pin
connector at one end. See PCMCIA (IT, Computing/1.05)
FLD. Field. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FLG. Flashing. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FLIR. Forward-Looking Infra-Red. (Military/1.06)
FLIV. Flow Line Injection Valve. (Drilling/2.16)
FLIV. Flow Line Isolation Valve. (Drilling/2.16)
FLL. International. Fort Lauderdale. Florida Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
FLMPTS. Future Land Mobile Personal Telephone Service. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
FLN. Florianopo Airport. SC. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FLO. Family Liaison Officer. (Policing/2.14)
Flo2. Fraction Of Inspired Oxygen. (Medical/1.05)
Float. The amount of time an activity can slip without having a knock-on effect on other activities.
See CPA, TF, FF, IF (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
Flotel. Floating accommodation used as living quarters for offshore personnel. (Petrochemical/2.01)
FLR. Flares. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FLR. Florence Airport. Italy. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FLRA. Field Level Risk Assessment. (Drilling/2.16)
FLT. Change of flight Identifier. ASM Submessage (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
FLT. Flight. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FLT. Fork Lift Truck. (General/2.10)
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FLTCK. Flight Check. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FLUC. Fluctuating, Fluctuation, Fluctuated. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FLW. Four-letter word (bad language, swearword like f*** or s***). (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
FLW. Follows, Following. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FLY. Fly, Flying. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Fly By Wire. Computer-controlled operation of aircraft control surfaces. An alternative to
mechanical/hydraulic actuation of control surfaces common in older jets (Aviation Civil and
Military/1.08)
fm. Micronesia, Federal States Of. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
Fm. Fermium. Atomic number 100. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
FM. From {followed by time weather change is forecast to begin}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FM. Frequency Modulation. (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
FMA. Fertiliser Manufacturers Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
FMAS. Financial Management Accounting System. (General/2.10)
FMCS. Flight Movement Control System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FMEA. Failure Modes Effects Analysis. (Petrochemical/2.07)
FMECA. Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis. (IT, Computing/1.05)
FMF. Familial Mediterranean Fever. (Medical/1.05)
FMGC. Flight Management and Guidance Computer. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FMI. Financial Management Initiative. (General/2.10)
FMN. Farmington Airport. NM. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FMO. Munster-Osnabruck Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.05)
FMP. Flow Management Positions. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FMRAAM. Future Medium Range Air to Air Missile. (Military/1.06)
FMS. Flight Management System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
FMTYEWTK. Far more than you ever want to know. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
FMU. Flow Management Unit. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FMY. Fort Myers Airport. FL. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FN. Fibre Node. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
FNA. Final Approach. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FNA. Fine Needle Aspiration. (Medical/1.05)
FNA. Freetown Airport. Sierra Leone. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FNC. Funchal. Madeira. (Airport Codes/1.05)
FNI. Nimes Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FNJ. Pyongyang Airport. North Korea. (Airport Codes/1.06)
fo. Faroe Islands. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
FO. Fred Olsen. (Airline Codes/1.05)
FO/LST. Forsvarets Overkommando/Luftforsvarsstaben. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FOAD. F*** off and die. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
FOAF. Friend Of A Friend. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
FOAG. F*** Off And Google. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
FOB. Freight On Board. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
FOB. Free On Board. (Freight and Shipping, Incoterms/1.05)
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FOC. Fuzhou Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FOE. Friends of the Earth. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
FOI. Folds Of Increase. (Petrochemical/2.08)
FOIRL. Fibre Optic Inter Repeater Link. (IT, Computing/1.05)
FOMC. Fell Off My Chair. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
FOMCL. Falling off my chair laughing. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
FOPS. Falling Object Protective Structure. (General/2.10)
FOR. Fortaleza Airport. CE. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FOR. Frame Of Reference. (Petrochemical/1.07)
FOR. Free On Rail. (Freight and Shipping, Incoterms/1.07)
Force majeure. Act of God. (General/1.05)
FORTRAN. FORmula TRANslation language. (IT, Languages/1.05)
Forward pass. The process of calculating early dates for a network. See CPA. (Project Management,
Planning/1.10)
FOSV. Full Opening Safety Valve. (Drilling/2.16)
FP. Flight Plan. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FP&P. Finances Policies and Procedures. (Petrochemical/1.07)
FPA. Fire Protection Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
FPDA. Five Power Defence Arrangement. (Military/1.06)
FPDPS. Flight Plan Data Processing System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FPGA. Field Programmable Gate Array. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
FPIT. Free Point Indicator Tool. (Drilling/2.16)
FPL. Filed Flight Plan {message type designator}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FPM. Feet Per Minute. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FPM. Fast Page Mode. See EDO (IT, Computing/1.05)
FPN. Fixed Penalty Notice. (Policing/2.14)
FPO. Freeport Airport. Bahamas. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FPO. Fire Prevention Officer. (General/2.10)
FPP. Flight Plan Processor. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FPR. Flight Plan Route. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FPRI. Fine Payment Rate Indicator. (Policing/2.14)
FPS. Flight Progress Strip. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FPS. Fast Packet Switching. (IT, Computing/1.05)
FPSO. Floating Production, Storage and Offloading. (Petrochemical/1.07)
FPT. Fixed Penalty Ticket. (Policing/2.14)
FPU. Floating Processing Unit. (Drilling/2.16)
FPU. Family Protection Unit. (Policing/2.14)
FPVC. Flexible Polyvinyl Chloride. (General/2.14)
FQI. Flow Quantity Indicator. (Petrochemical/1.07)
FQT. Final Quality Test. (OSL Project Related/1.05)
fr. France. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
Fr. Francium. Atomic number 87. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
FR. Flame Retardant. (General/2.14)
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FR. Fuel Remaining. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FRA. Frankfurt International Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.05)
FRA. Frame Relay Adaptor. (IT, Computing/1.05)
FRC. Franca Airport. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FREEWARE. A copyrighted program that is released into the public domain, and distributed free of
charge. See Shareware (IT, Computing/1.07)
FREQ. Frequency. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Frequency. The number of times the crest of a radio wave passes that crest in a given time period.
Frequency is measured in hertz, (cycles per second) and is abbreviated as Hz, or in it's variations
as, kHz, MHz, GHz. See Hz (General/1.05)
FRF. French Franc. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
FRI. Friday. (Time or Space/1.05)
FRNG. Firing. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FRO. FlГёro Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FROG. Free Rocket Over Ground. (Military/1.05)
FRONT. Front (relating to weather). (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FRQ. Frequent. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FRR. Fibre Rope Restraints. (Drilling/2.16)
FRW. Francistown Airport. Botswana. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FS. For Sale. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
FS. Flow Switch. (Petrochemical/1.07)
FS. Finish to Start. Precedence network constraint. FS constraints are drawn from the end of a node
to the start of the succeeding node, and imply that the succeeding activity can not start until the
preceding activity is completed. See SS, FF, TF, FF, Network, AON, AOA, CPM, CPA, PERT (Project
Management, Planning/1.08)
FS. Frozen Section. (Medical/1.05)
FSA. Foreign Service Allowances. (General/2.10)
FSA. Final Site Acceptance. (Project Management/1.05)
FSAC. Food Safety Advisory Centre. (General/2.10)
FSBP. Finger systolic blood pressure. (Medical/2.10)
FSD. Sioux Falls Airport. SD. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FSE. Flow Safety Element. (Petrochemical/1.07)
FSH. Folicle Stimulating Hormone. (Medical/1.05)
FSH. Full Screen Height. (Petrochemical/1.07)
FSK. Frequency Shift Keying. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
FSL. Full Stop Landing. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FSM. Fort Smith Airport. AR. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FSO. Fire Safety Officer. (General/2.10)
FSO. Floating Storage and Offloading. (Petrochemical/2.06)
FSO. Field Storage and Offshore units. (Petrochemical/1.07)
FSP. Saint Pierre Airport. St Pierre Et Miquelon. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FSP. Flight Strip Printer. (IT, Computing/1.05)
FSP. F&G System Panel. (Petrochemical/2.11)
FSR. Fuel Stroke Reference. (Petrochemical/1.07)
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FSR. Funksjonelle spesifikasjoner. (OSL Project Related/1.05)
FSS. Forensic Science Service. (Policing/2.14)
FSS. Fixed Satellite Service. (Satellite Broadcasting/2.09)
FSS. Flight Service Station. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FSSL. Forensic Science Service Laboratory. (Policing/2.14)
FST. First. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FSU. Floating Storage Unit. (Petrochemical/2.01)
FT. Flow Transmitter. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
FT. Feet (dimensional unit). (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ft. Foot/Feet. Linear measure. 12" = 1' = 30,48cm. See ' (Weights & Measures, Imperial/1.05)
FTA. Fault Tree Analysis. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
FTA. Free Trade Agreements. (General/2.10)
FTA-ABS. Fluorescent Treponemal Antibody Absorbed. (Medical/1.05)
FTAM. File Transfer Access and Management. (IT, Computing/1.05)
FTASB. Faster Than A Speeding Bullet. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
FTBOMH. From the bottom of my heart. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
FTC. Federal Trade Commission. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
FTC. Forecast To Completion. See BTC, ETC (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
FTD. Forsvarets Tele og Datatjeneste. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FTE. Full Time Employed. (General/2.14)
FTF. Face To Face. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
FTI. Free Thyroxine Index. (Medical/1.05)
FTL. Faster Than Light. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
FTP. File Transfer Protocol. A standard (convention) for transferring files between a local computer
and a remote computer. Use of a FTP usually implies that files are being transferred between two
computers running different operating systems. E.g. DOS to Unix (IT, Computing/1.06)
FU. F**ked Up. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
FU. Smoke. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FUBAR. F**ked Up Beyond All Recognition. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
FUBB. F***ed Up Beyond Belief. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
FUD. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
FUD. Fear, Uncertainty, Disinformation. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
FUE. Fuerteventura Iles Airport. Canaries Spain. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FUK. Fukuoka Airport. Japan. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FUO. Fever Of Undetermined Origin. (Medical/1.05)
fur. Furlong/Furlongs. Linear measure. 660' = 1 furlong = 201,2 m (Weights & Measures,
Imperial/1.05)
FURTB. Full Up Ready To Burst. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
FV. Viva Air. (Airline Codes/1.05)
FVC. Forced Vital Capacity. (Medical/1.05)
FVWM. Full View Window Manager. (IT, Computing/1.05)
FWA. Fort Wayne Airport. IN. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FWB. Full Weight Bearing. (Medical/1.05)
FWH. Flexible Working Hours. (General/2.10)
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FWHP. Flowing Well Head Pressure. (Drilling/2.16)
FWIW. For What It's Worth. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
FWKO. Free Water Knock Out. (Petrochemical/2.08)
FWL. Free Water Level. (Drilling/2.16)
FWR. Final Well Report. (Drilling/2.16)
FWV. Flow Wing Valve. (Drilling/2.16)
fx. Fracture. (Medical/1.05)
FYA. For Your Amusement. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
FYI. For Your Information. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
FYV. Fayetteville Airport. AR. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
FZ. Freezing. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FZDZ. Freezing Drizzle. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FZFG. Freezing Fog. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
FZRA. Freezing Rain. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
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8. Golf
g. Gram. Measure of weight. 1000mg = 100cg = 10dg = 1g = 0,35 ounces (avoirdupois) (Weights &
Measures, Metric/1.05)
G. Giga. SI number prefix 1.000.000.000. Abbreviated as G. One billion, or a thousand million
(Weights & Measures, Systeme Internationale prefixes/1.05)
G. Green. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
G. Grin, or Giggle. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
G/A. Ground to Air. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
G/A/G. Ground to Air and Air to Ground. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
G/C. Gas Condensate. (Petrochemical/1.08)
G/W enema. Glycerine And Water Enema. (Medical/1.05)
G1. Good One. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
G2G. Got to Go. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
G4U. Good For You. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
G6PD. Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase. (Medical/1.05)
GA. General Aviation. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
GA. General Anesthesia. (Medical/1.05)
GA. Gate Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
GA. General Arrangement. (Petrochemical/1.07)
GA. Go Ahead. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ga. Gabon. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
Ga. Gallium. Atomic number 31. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
GAIN. Government Agency Intelligence Network. (/2.14)
gal. Gallon. Measure of capacity Imperial.160 fl.oz = 8 pints = 1 gallon = 4,546 l (Weights &
Measures, Imperial/1.05)
GAL. Get A Life. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
GAMA. Gas Appliance Manufacturer’s Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
Gamma. Third letter of the Greek alphabet. Upper Case symbol = Gamma function. Lower Case
symbol = Third, conductivity, dihedral angle, surface tension, ionisation, micro gram, Eulerian
constant (Greek Alphabet/1.05)
Gantt Chart. During the 1800’s Mr. Henry Gantt suggested pictorially illustrating when different tasks
should be completed. A ganttchart or barchart is named after Mr Gantt and shows a list of
activities with their start and finish dates represented by bars which are proportional in length to
their Duration. The bars are positioned along a horizontal time scale, in the sequence that they
are to be performed (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
GAP. Generic Access Profile. Standard for DECT equipment (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
GAQ. Gao Airport. Mali. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Gas. Gas Composition. Natural Gas is composed of a variety of hydrocarbons and inert products,
including methane, ethane, propane, nitrogen, water, carbon dioxide, etc., (like last nights
vindaloo!) (Petrochemical/1.05)
Gas field. A field containing natural gas but no oil. (Petrochemical/1.08)
Gas injection. Injection of separated associated gas into a reservoir. The gas is pumped back into
the reservoir either for conservation purposes or to maintain the pressure in the reservoir, or even
both (Petrochemical/1.08)
Gas/oil ratio. The volume of gas at atmospheric pressure per unit of oil produced.
(Petrochemical/1.08)
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GAT. General Aviation Terminal. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
GAT. General Aviation Traffic. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Gateway. A network point that acts as an entrance to another network. (IT, Computing/2.09)
GATT. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. (General/1.05)
GAV. Gate Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.05)
GB. Gall bladder. (Medical/1.05)
gb. United Kingdom. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
Gb. Gigabyte. One billion bytes. See bits, bytes, Kb, Mb, Gb, Tb, Pb (IT, Units/2.08)
GBE. Gaborone Airport. Botswana. (Airport Codes/1.06)
GBH. Grievous Bodily Harm. (Policing/2.14)
GBP. Great British Pound (Sterling). Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
GBS. Gravity Base Structure. (Petrochemical/1.07)
GBT. Gravity Base Tank. (Drilling/2.16)
Gc. Gonococcus. (Medical/1.05)
GCA. Ground Controlled Approach. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
GCHQ. Government Communications Head Quarters. (General/2.10)
GCI. Guernsey Airport. UK. (Airport Codes/1.06)
GCM. Grand Cayman Airport. Cayman Islands. (Airport Codes/1.06)
GCP. Generator Control Panel. (Petrochemical/1.07)
GCV. Gross Calorific Value. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
gd. Grenada. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
Gd. gadolinium. Atomic number 64. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
GD&R. Grinning, Ducking and Running. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
GD&RF. Grinning, Ducking and Running Fast. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
GD&WVF. Grinning, Ducking, and Walking Very Fast. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
GDL. Guadalajara Airport. Mexico. (Airport Codes/1.06)
GDMS. Global Document Management System. (Petrochemical/1.07)
GDN. Rebiechowo. Gdansk Airport. Poland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
GDP. Gross Domestic Product. (Military/1.06)
GDW. Grin, Duck and Weave. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ge. Georgia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
Ge. Germanium. Atomic number 32. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
GEAS. Gardermoen Energi AS. (OSL Project Related/1.05)
GEG. Spokane Airport. WA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
GEL. Georgian Lari. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
GEMS. Global Environment Monitoring System. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
GEN. Gardermoen. Oslo Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.05)
GEN. General. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
GEO. Geosynchronous Earth Orbit. A type of satellite orbit. See MEO, LEO and HALE (Time or
Space/1.05)
GEO. Georgetown Airport. Guyana. (Airport Codes/1.06)
GEO. Geographic. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
GERD. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease. (Medical/1.05)
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GES. Ground Earth Station. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
GEV. Gallivare. (Airport Codes/1.07)
GF. Girl Friend. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
gf. French Guiana. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
GFG. Graphics Function Generator. (IT, Computing/1.05)
GFN. Gone For Now. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
GFR. Glomerular Filtration Rate. (Medical/1.05)
GFR. Glass Fiber Reinforced. (General/2.14)
GFR. Grim File Reaper. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
gg. Guernsey. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
GG. Good Game. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
GGP. Gotta Go Pee. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
GGSN. Gateway GPRS Support Node. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
GGT. Gamma-Glutamyltransferase. (Medical/1.05)
GGTP. Gamma-Glutamiltranspeptidase. (Medical/1.05)
gh. Ghana. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
GHC. Gahanna Cedi. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
GHz. Gigahertz. A frequency measurement which equals one million hertz. One hertz equals one
cycle per second (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
gi. Gill. Measure of capacity Imperial. 5 fl.oz = 142,1 ml (Weights & Measures, Imperial/1.05)
gi. Gibraltar. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
GI. Gastrointestinal. (Medical/1.05)
GIDK. Gee I Don't Know. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
GIF. CompuServe picture format. (IT, Computing/1.05)
GIG. Rio de Janeiro Internacional Airport. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.05)
Giga. SI number prefix 1.000.000.000. Abbreviated as G (SI Number Prefixes/1.05)
Gigajoule. A measure of energy. 1 gigajoule equals 1 billion joules.
Other/2.01)
(Weights & Measures,
GIIP. Gas Initially In Place. (Petrochemical/2.15)
GIP. Gastric Inhibitory Polypeptide. (Medical/1.05)
GIP. Gibraltar Pound. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
GIP. Gas In Place. The amount of gas in a reservoir at any given time (Petrochemical/2.15)
GIS. Geographic Information System. (Drilling/2.16)
GITS. Gastrointestinal Therapeutic System. (Medical/1.05)
GIWIST. Gee, I Wish I’d Said That. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
GIWU. GSM Inter Working Unit. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
GJT. Grand Junction Airport. CO. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
GL. Globe Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
GL. Good Luck. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
GL. Gas Lift. (Drilling/2.16)
GL. Ground Level. (Drilling/2.16)
gl. Greenland. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
GLA. Glasgow Airport. Scotland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
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GLC. Gas Liquid Chromatography. (General/2.10)
GLD. Glider. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
GLGH. Good Luck and Good Hunting. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
GLONASS. GLObal NAvigation Satellite System. See GNSS (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
GLR. Gas Liquid Ratio. (Drilling/2.16)
GLS. Galveston Airport. TX. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
glu. Glucose. (Medical/1.05)
GLV. Globe Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.05)
GLV. Gas Lift Valve. (Drilling/2.16)
GLW. Gross Laden Weight. (General/2.10)
gm. Gambia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
GM. Gross Margin. (Petrochemical/1.07)
GMAB. Give Me A Break. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
GMAW. Gas Metal Arc Welding. (Petrochemical, Welding/1.07)
GMC. Ground Movement Control. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
GMD. Gambian Dalasi. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
GMDSS. Global Maritime Distress and Safety System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
GMES. Global Monitoring for Environment and Security. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
GMI. Ground Movement Indicator. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
GMR. Ground Movement Radar. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
GMS. Gate Management System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
GMSC. Gateway Mobile Services Switching Center. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
GMT. Greenwich Mean Time. International Standard Time. See CET, UTC (Time or Space/1.06)
GMTA. Great Minds Think Alike. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
GN. Glomerulonephritis. (Medical/1.05)
GN. Graduate Nurse. (Medical/1.05)
gn. Guinea. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
GNB. Grenoble Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
GND. Ground. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
GND. Grenada Airport. Grenada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
GNDCK. Ground Check. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
GNF. Guinean Franc. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
GNP. Gross National Product. (General/2.10)
GNSS. Global Navigation Satellite System. See GLONASS (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
GNVQ. General National Vocational Qualification. (General/2.10)
GOA. Genoa. Italia. (Airport Codes/1.05)
GOC. Gas Oil Contact. (Drilling/2.16)
GOI. Goa Airport. India. (Airport Codes/1.06)
GOL. Giggling out loud. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
GOM. Gulf of Mexico. (Drilling/2.16)
GON. New London Airport. CT. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Gopher. Predecessor of HTTP. A system that enables computer users to find servers and files on the
Internet. The system of all Gopher servers is called Gopherspace (IT, Computing/1.05)
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GOR. Gas Oil Ratio. (Petrochemical/1.07)
GOSIP. Governmental OSI Profile. (IT, Computing/1.05)
GOSP. Gas/Oil Separation Plant. (Drilling/2.16)
GOT. Landvetter. Gothenburg Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
GOU. Garoua Airport. Cameroun. (Airport Codes/1.06)
gov. Agencies and branches of the United States Federal Government. Country code part of DNS.
(IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
GOWI. Get On With It. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
GP. Glide Path. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
gp. Guadeloupe. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
GP. General Practitioner. (Medical/2.14)
GPA. Guided Percutaneous Aspiration. (Medical/1.05)
gph. Gallons per hour. (Weights & Measures, Imperial/2.14)
gpm. Gallons per minute. (Weights & Measures, Imperial/2.14)
GPMG. General Purpose Machine Gun. (Military/1.10)
GPO. Propylene Oxide Rubber. (General/2.14)
GPPS. General Purpose PolyStyrene. (General/2.14)
GPR. Guilty Plea Rate. (Policing/2.14)
GPRS. General Packet Radio Service. This enables high speed data communications across wireless
networks, Eg. Faster email and Internet access for GSM phones. The current GSM network in
Norway is limited to a baud rate of 9600 (9.6 KBS), when the new GPRS network is constructed
speeds of 170 KBS should be possible). This means faster internet access using mobile telephones
(IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
GPS. Global Positioning System. Allows you to pinpoint your exact position via satellite (IT,
Telecommunications/1.06)
GPT. Gulfport Airport. MS. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
GPU. Ground Power Unit. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
gq. Equatorial Guinea. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
gr. Greece. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
gr. Grain. Avoirdupois system. 1/7000 of a pound = 64,80 mg (Weights & Measures, Imperial/1.05)
GR. Hail. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
GR&D. Grinning, Running, & Ducking. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
GR&D. Grinning, Running and Ducking. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
GRA. Generic Risk Assessment. (Drilling/2.16)
Grand Cru. Quality designation. Especially applied to wines from Bordeaux and Burgundy (Wine
Label Terms/1.05)
Grand Cru Classe. Quality indication for Bordeaux wines, and Bordeaux only. Indicates that the wine
in question is admitted into one of the classifications of the Bordeaux districts (Wine Label
Terms/1.05)
Grand Vin. Reveals nothing about the quality of the wine. It may appear on any bottle of wine, also
wine not produced in France (Wine Label Terms/1.05)
GRASS. Grass landing area. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
GRB. Green Bay Airport. WI. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
GRD. Greek Drachma. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
GRE. Glass fibre Reinforced Epoxy. Glass fibre reinforced plastic made with epoxy resin
(Petrochemical/1.07)
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GRID. Processed meteorological data in the form of grid point values.
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GRP. Ground Running Pen. A pen for aircraft engine testing (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
GRP. Glass fibre Reinforced Plastic. (Petrochemical/1.07)
GRQ. Groningen Airport. Holland. (Airport Codes/1.06)
GRR. Grand Rapids Airport. MI. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
GRS. Grosseto. (Airport Codes/1.05)
GRST. Global Rig Startup Team. (Drilling/2.16)
GRU. Guarulhos. Sao Paulo Airport. Brasil. (Airport Codes/1.05)
GRVL. Gravel. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
GRZ. Thalerhof. Graz Airport. Austria. (Airport Codes/1.05)
GS. Small Hail, Snow Pellets. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
GS. Glide Slope. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
gs. South Georgia And Sandwich Isl. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
GS. Ground Speed. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
GSE. Global Security Environment. (Policing/2.14)
GSM. Global System for Mobile communications. An international digital standard for mobile
telephone communications. Most widely used in Europe, but also used sparsely in the US of A.
See AMPS, CDMA, CDPD, FDMA, TDMA, UMTS (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
GSN. GPRS Support Node (xGSN). (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
GSO. Greensboro Airport. NC. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
GSP. Greenville Spartanburg Airport. SC. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
GSR. Gun Shot Residues. (General/1.06)
GSW. Gun Shot Wound. (Medical/1.05)
GT. Grade Track. (Petrochemical/1.07)
GT. Gifted and Talented. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
gt. Guatemala. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
GTA. Government Technical Adviser. (Policing/2.14)
GTAW. Gas Tungsten Arc Welding. (Petrochemical, Welding/1.07)
GTC. Ground Traffic Control. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
GTF. Great Falls Airport. MT. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
GTG. Got to Og. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
GTL. Gunning Transistor Logic. Type of chip. Buy a book on integrated circuits if you need a
description (IT, Computing/1.05)
GTL. Global Title Translation. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
GTL. Gas To Liquids. (Drilling/2.16)
GTO. Geostationary Transfer Orbit. (Satellite Broadcasting/2.09)
GTP. GPRS Tunnelling Protocol. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
GTQ. Guatemalan Quetzal. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
GTRM. Going to read mail. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
GTS. General Technical Specification. (Petrochemical/1.07)
GTSY. Great To See You. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
GTT. Glucose Tolerance Test. (Medical/1.05)
gtt. Drop. (Medical/1.05)
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GTTS. Got The T-Shirt. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
GTW. Gas To Wire. (Drilling/2.16)
GU. Genitourinary. (Medical/1.05)
gu. Guam. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
GUA. Guatemala Airport. Guatemala. (Airport Codes/1.06)
GUI. Graphical User Interface. For example MS Windows is a GUI whereas MS DOS is not (IT,
Computing/1.05)
GUM. Guam International Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
GVA. Geneva Airport. Switzerland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
GVGI. Generic Visual Slope Indicator. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
GVHD. Graft Versus Host Disease. (Medical/1.05)
GVX. Gavle Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.06)
gw. Guinea Bissau. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
GWC. Gas Water Contact. (Drilling/2.16)
GWD. Gwadar Airport. Pakistan. (Airport Codes/1.06)
gy. Guyana. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
GYD. Guyanan Dollar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
GYE. Guayaquil Airport. Equador. (Airport Codes/1.06)
GYN. Goiania Airport. GO. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Gyn. Gynaecology. (Medical/1.05)
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9. Hotel
H. Hydrogen. Atomic number 1. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
H&K. Hugs and Kisses. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
H&L. Heart And Lungs. (Medical/1.05)
H&P. History And Physical Exam. (Medical/1.05)
H/A. Headache. (Medical/1.05)
H/H. Hemoglobin. (Medical/1.05)
H/O. HandOff. (General/1.05)
H24. Continuos day and night service. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
H2O. Water (Vann). A compound of hydrogen and oxygen (Chemical Compounds/1.05)
H2S. Hydrogen Sulfide. (Petrochemical/2.09)
H4U. Hot For You. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
HA. Hyperalimentation. (Medical/1.05)
HACCP. Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point. (General/2.10)
HACCP. Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points. (Drilling/2.16)
Hacker. A computer buff, someone who likes programming, see Cracker. (IT, Computing/2.02)
HACMP. High Availability Cluster Multi Processing. (IT, Computing/1.05)
HAGN. Have a good night. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
HAH. Hahaya Intl Airport. Moroni Comorres. (Airport Codes/1.06)
HAJ. Langenhagen. Hanover Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.05)
HAK. Haikou Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
HAK. Hugs And Kisses. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
HAL. Heathrow Airport Limited. (T5 Project Related/2.13)
HALE. High Altitude Long Endurance. A solar platform that hovers unmoving above the earth’s
surface. Theoretical See GEO, MEO, and LEO (Time or Space/1.05)
HAM. Fuhlsbuttel. Hamburg Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.05)
HAN. Gia Lam. Hanoi Airport. Vietnam. (Airport Codes/1.05)
HAND. Have a nice day. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
Hand Off. The passing of a call signal from one base station to the next. This occurs when the caller
moves out of range of the base station or when the network software re-routes the call (IT,
Telecommunications/1.07)
HAPI. Helicopter Approach Path Indicator. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
HAR. Helicopter Alternate Route. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
HAR. Harrisburg Airport. PA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Hardware. Name given to all the physical devices found in a computer system. The converse is
software which is the term given to programs which are required to put ВґlifeВґ into the hardware
(IT, Computing/1.05)
HAU. KarmГёy. Haugesund Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.05)
HAV. Hepatitis A Virus. (Medical/1.05)
HAV. Jose Marti International. Havana Airport. Cuba. (Airport Codes/1.05)
HAW. Hazardous Airspace Warning. Or Hazardous Area Warning (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Hawk. 66kV ACSR conductor cable for Overhead Power Lines. In this industry all conductor cables
and components are named after birds (Electrical/1.05)
HAZAN. Hazardous Analysis. (Petrochemical/1.07)
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HAZCHEM. HAZardous CHEMicals. (General/2.14)
HAZID. HAZard Identification. (Petrochemical/2.07)
HAZOP. HAZardous OPerations study. A review of the basic design engineering and P&IDs, normally
carried out by a third party (Petrochemical/1.05)
Hb. Hemoglobin. (Medical/1.05)
HBA. Hobart Airport. TS. Australia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
HBASTD. Hitting Bottom And Starting To Dig. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
HBcAg. Hepatitis B Core Antigen. (Medical/1.05)
HBIG. Hepatitis B Immune Globulin. (Medical/1.05)
HBN. Hazard Beacon. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
HBP. High Blood Pressure. (Medical/1.05)
HBsAg. Hepatitis B Surface Antigen. (Medical/1.05)
HBV. Hepatitis B Virus. (Medical/1.05)
HC. Host Computer. (Petrochemical/1.07)
HCAA. Hellenic Civil Aviation Administration. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.01)
HCCS. Horizontal Clamp Connection System. (Drilling/2.16)
HCFCs. Hydrochlorofluorocarbons. A cooling agent. An alternative to the more ozone depleting CFCs
(Petrochemical/2.01)
HCL. Hardware Control List. (IT, Computing/1.05)
HCLD. Hydro Carbon Leak Detector. (Petrochemical/2.15)
HCM. Ho Chi Minh Ville Airport. Vietnam. Duplicate see SGN (Airport Codes/1.06)
HCO3. Bicarbonate. (Medical/1.05)
HCPV. Hydrocarbon Pore Volume. (Petrochemical/1.07)
HCR. High Closing Rate valves. (Drilling/2.16)
hct. Hematocrit. (Medical/1.05)
HCV. Hand Control Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
HCV. Hepatitis C Virus. (Medical/1.05)
HD. Hospital Discharge. (Medical/1.05)
HDA. Helicopter Deck Assistant. (Drilling/2.16)
HDB. Historical Data Base. (Petrochemical/1.07)
HDD. Hard Disc Drive. (IT, Computing/1.05)
HDF. High frequency Direction Finding system. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
HDG. Heading. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
HDL. Highdensity Lipoprotein. (Medical/1.05)
HDLC. High Level Data Link Control. (IT, Computing/1.05)
HDM. Hydrogen content, deposit metal. (Petrochemical/1.07)
HDPE. High Density PolyEthylene. (General/2.14)
HDSL. High data rate Digital Subscriber Line. A DSL variant. See ADSL, VDSL, SDSL, ISDN (IT,
Telecommunications/1.05)
HDT. Hawaiin Daylight Time. (Time or Space/2.02)
HDT. Heat Deflection Temperature. (General/2.14)
HDTV. High Definition TeleVision. (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
HDV. Hepatitis D Virus. (Medical/1.05)
HDY. Hat Yai Airport. Thailand. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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HE. Heat Exchanger. (Petrochemical/1.07)
He. Helium. Atomic number 2. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
HEART. Heathrow airport Engineering Automation and Remote Telemetry.
Military/2.13)
(Aviation Civil and
hecto. SI number prefix 100. Abbreviated as h (SI Number Prefixes/2.08)
HEENT. Head, Eyes, Ears, Nose, Throat. (Medical/1.05)
HEL. Helsinki-Vantaa Airport. Finland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
HEL. Helicopter. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
HEMA. Hydraulic Equipment Manufacturers Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
HEMPAS. Hereditary Erytroblastic Multinuclerity Associated With Possitive Acidified Serum.
(Medical/1.05)
HER. Heraklion. Crete. (Airport Codes/1.05)
HES. Health, Environment, & Safety. (Project Management/1.05)
HESS. Health, Environment, Safety, Security. (Petrochemical/1.07)
HEX. Heathrow Express. (General/2.12)
Hexadecimal Numbers. Numbers to base 16. Usually abbreviated to Hex. The sixteen symbols in
the hex numbering system are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, and F. See Decimal, Octal,
Binary (IT, Coding/1.05)
Hf. Hafnium. Atomic number 72. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
HF. High Frequency 3 000 to 30 000 MHZ. See ELF, ELF, LF, MF, SHF, UHF, VHF, VLF (Aviation Civil
and Military/1.05)
HFA. Haifa Airport. Israel. (Airport Codes/1.06)
HFD. Hartford Airport. CT. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
HFE. Human Factors Engineering. (General/1.05)
HFE. Hefei Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
HFIS. Helicopter Flight Information Service. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
HFL. Highly Flammable Liquid. (General/2.10)
HFO. Heavy Fuel Oil. (Petrochemical/1.07)
HFT. Hammerfest Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.06)
hg. Hectogram. Measure of weight. 1000g = 100dkg = 10hg = 1kg = 2,205 pounds (avoirdupois)
(Weights & Measures, Metric/1.05)
HG. Home Guard. (Military/1.05)
Hg. Mercury. Atomic number 80. Quicksilver (Chemical Elements/1.05)
Hg hemoglobin. Hemoglobin. (Medical/1.05)
HGH. Hangzhou Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
HGS. High Gravity Solids. (Drilling/2.16)
HGT. Hydraulisch Gebundene Tragschich (De). Concrete Treated Base (CTB) (Aviation Civil and
Military/2.01)
HGT. Height, Height above. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
HGГњ.
HochspannungsgleichstromГјbertragung
(Electrical/2.01)
(De).
High
Voltage
Direct
Current
(HVDC)
HGV. Heavy Goods Vehicle. (General/2.10)
HHIS. Hanging Head In Shame. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
HHOJ. Ha Ha Only Joking. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
HHOK. Ha Ha Only Kidding. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
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HHOS. Ha Ha Only Serious. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
HHTYAY. Happy Holidays to You and Yours. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
HIC. Hand Indicator Controller. (Petrochemical/1.07)
HiFi. High Fidelity. High quality reproduction of sound (General/2.14)
HIG. How's It Going. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
HIJ. Hiroshima Airport. JP. Japan. (Airport Codes/1.06)
HIJ. Hijack. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
HIP. Hot Isostatic Pressing. (Petrochemical/1.07)
HIP. High Impact Projects. (Petrochemical/1.07)
HIPP. High Integrity Pressure Pipelines. (Petrochemical/1.07)
HIPPI. HIgh Performace Parallel Interface. (IT, Computing/2.13)
HIPPS. High Integrity Pressure Protection System. (Petrochemical/1.07)
HIPS. High Impact Polystyrene. (General/2.14)
HIR. Honiara Airport. Solomon Islands. (Airport Codes/1.06)
HIRA. Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment. (Petrochemical/2.15)
HIS. Hughes Information Systems. (IT, Computing/1.05)
HISC. Hydrogen Induced Stress Cracking. (Drilling/2.16)
HIV. Human Immunodeficiency Virus. (Medical/1.05)
HJ. Sunrise to Sunset. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
hk. Hong Kong. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
HKD. Hong Kong Dollar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
HKG. Kai Tak International Airport. Hong Kong SAR. (Airport Codes/1.05)
HKT. Phuket Airport. Thailand. (Airport Codes/1.06)
HL. Hook Load. (Drilling/2.16)
hl. Hectoliter. Measure of capacity. 1000l = 100dkl = 10hl = 1kl = 220 gallons (imperial) (Weights &
Measures, Metric/1.05)
HLA. Human Leukocyte Antigen. (Medical/1.05)
HLDG. Holding. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
HLDTL. High Level Diode Transistor Logic. Type of chip. Buy a book on integrated circuits if you need
a description (IT, Computing/1.05)
HLF. Hultsfred. (Airport Codes/1.07)
HLO. Helicopter Landing Officer. (Drilling/2.16)
HLO. Heavy Load Out. (Drilling/2.16)
HLP. Djakarta Halim Perdana Airport. Indonesia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
HLR. Home Location Register. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
hm. Hectometer. Linear measure. 1000m = 100dkm = 10hm = 1km = 0,621 miles (Weights &
Measures, Metric/1.05)
hm. Heard And Mcdonald Islands. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
HMA. Malmo City International Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
HMC. Her Majesty's Customs. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
HMC&E. Her Majesty's Customs and Excise. (Association, Society, Institute/2.13)
HMCE. Her Majesty's Customs and Excise. (Government office/2.14)
HMCG. Her Majesty's Coast Guard. (Government office/2.14)
HMG-CoA. 3-Hydroxy-3-Methylglutaryl Coenzyme A. (Medical/1.05)
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HMI. Her Majesty's Immigration. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
HMI. Human Machine Interface. (IT, Computing/1.05)
HMIC. Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary. (Government office/2.14)
HMP. Her Majesty's Prison. (Government office/2.14)
HMR. Helicopter Main Route. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
HMRI. Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
HMS. Health, Environment, & Safety. Norwegian. (Project Management/1.05)
HMS. His or Her Majesty's Ship. (Qualification, Award, Title/1.05)
HMSO. Her Majesty's Stationary Office. (Government office/2.14)
HMY. His or Her Majesty's Yacht. (Military/1.06)
HN. Sunset to Sunrise. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
hn. Honduras. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
HNC. Higher National Certificate. England. Obtained through evening classes (Qualification, Award,
Title/1.05)
HND. Haneda. Tokyo Airport. Japan. (Airport Codes/1.05)
HND. Higher National Diploma. England. Obtained through full time attendance at college
(Qualification, Award, Title/1.05)
HNL. Honduran Lempira. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
HNL. Honolulu Airport. HI. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
HNO3. Nitric Acid (Saltpetersyre). (Chemical Compounds/1.05)
HNP. Herniated Nucleus Pulposus. (Medical/1.05)
HNY. Happy New Year. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
HO. Home Office. (Government office/2.14)
HO. Service available to meet operational requirements. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Ho. Holmium. Atomic number 67. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
HOCM. Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy. (Medical/1.05)
HOD. Hodeidah Airport. Yemen. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Hogshead. Measure of Ale. 54 gallons (432 pts). (Measure of Ale/1.05)
Hogshead. Imperial system. Measure of capacity Imperial. 52,5 gallons = 1 hogshead = 238,5 l
(Weights & Measures, Imperial/1.05)
HOL. Holiday. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
HOL. High Order Language. (IT, Languages/1.05)
HOPD. Home Office Prison Department. (Government office/2.14)
HORF. High-Output Renal Failure. (Medical/1.05)
HOSP. Hospital aircraft. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
HOST. Hinge Over Subsea Template. (Petrochemical/1.07)
HOT. Hold Over Time. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Hot Platform. A platform that is operational. (Petrochemical/1.08)
HOU. Houston Airport. TX. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Hovedkabel. Main Cable. Computer/Telecomm cabling structured as a mesh network between
central IT rooms and main telematikk rooms. See Stigekabel, Utjevningskabel, Spredenett (OSL
Project Related/1.05)
HOYEW. Hanging On Your Every Word. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
HP. Horse Power. (Weights & Measures, Imperial/1.05)
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HP. Higher Purchase or a type of brown sauce. (General/1.05)
HP. Hydrostatic Pressure. (Drilling/2.16)
HP. High Pressure. (Petrochemical/1.07)
HPA. High Power Amplifier. (Petrochemical/1.07)
HPA. Hectopascal. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
HPC. Handheld Personal Computer (Palmtop). A small personal computer (organiser). Typically
palmtops run word processors, spreadsheets, diaries, address books, and the like. They can be
connected to a desktop, and to mobile telephones for communication. See PDA (IT,
Computing/1.05)
HPCM. Hydraulic Power Control Module. (Petrochemical/1.07)
HPD. Hearing Protection Device. (General/2.10)
HPHT. High Pressure High Temperature. (Petrochemical/1.07)
HPI. High Potential Incident. (Drilling/2.16)
HPI. Hystory Of Present Illness. (Medical/1.05)
HPN. White Plains Airport. NY. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
HPU. Hydraulic Power Unit. (Drilling/2.16)
HPZ. Helicopter Protected Zone service. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
HQ. Head Quarters. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
HQ DEFCOM. Head Quarters Defence Command. (Military/1.05)
HR. Human Resources. (General/2.14)
HR. Heart Rate. (Medical/1.05)
HR. Hours. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
hr. Croatia/Hrvatska. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
HRB. Harbin Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
HRE. Harare Airport. Zimbabwe. (Airport Codes/1.06)
HRH. His or Her Royal Highness. (Qualification, Award, Title/1.05)
HRK. Croatian Kuna. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
HRL. Harlingen Airport. TX. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
HRM. Human Resource Management. (Project Management/1.05)
HRM. His or Her Royal Majesty. (Qualification, Award, Title/1.05)
HRS. Hardware Requirement Specification. (IT, Computing/1.05)
HRS. Hovedredningssentralen. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
HRS. Hepatorenal Syndrome. (Medical/1.05)
HS. Home Service. (Military/1.06)
HS. Service available during hours of scheduled operations. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
hs. Hours Of Sleep (At Bedtime). (Medical/1.05)
HSC. Health and Safety Commission. (Government office/2.14)
HSCSD. High Speed Circuit Switched Data. A compression technology (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
HSCT. High Speed Civil Transport. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
HSE. Health, Safety and Environment. (Project Management/1.07)
HSE-MS. HSE Management Systems. (Drilling/2.16)
HSEP. Health Safety and Environmental Plan. (Drilling/2.16)
HSFO. High Sulphur Fuel Oil. (Petrochemical/2.07)
HSIK. How Should I Know. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
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HSLA. High Strength Low Alloy. (Petrochemical/1.07)
HSSEC. Health, Safety, Security & Environment Committee. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
HST. Hawaiin Standard Time. (Time or Space/2.02)
HST. High Speed Train. (Railways/2.10)
HSTF. High Side Tool Face. (Petrochemical/1.07)
HSV. Huntsville Airport. AL. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
HSV. Herpes Simplex Virus. (Medical/1.05)
HSW. Health and Safety at Work. (Drilling/2.16)
ht. Height. (Medical/1.05)
HT. Hi There. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
HT. High Tension. (Electrical/1.05)
ht. Haiti. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
HT. Heat Tracing. (Petrochemical/1.07)
HTA. Hochtief AG - BГјro Athen (Spata). (General/2.01)
HTE. Hochtief AG - BГјro Essen. (General/2.01)
HTG. Haitian Gourde. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
HTGR. High Temperature Gas cooled Reactor. (Nuclear power/1.05)
HTH. Hope This (or That) Helps!. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
HTH. Hope This Helps. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
HTHP. High Temperature High Pressure. (Drilling/2.16)
HTID. Hand over of Technical Information and Documentation. (Petrochemical/1.07)
HTLV. Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus. A retrovirus that causes diseases similar to multiple sclerosis
(Medical/2.02)
HTML. Hyper Text Mark-up Language. A subset of SGML that has evolved into a standard of it's own.
HTML is the standard format for web documents (IT, Internet/1.05)
HTN. Hypertension. (Medical/1.05)
HTPL. Hyper Text Programming Language. (IT, Internet/1.05)
HTTP. Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. A descendant of the gopher service. HTTP can read and
interpret files on a remote machine, not only text, but pictures, sounds, and video information.
HTTP is the information transfer protocol that is the basis for the collection of distributed
information called the World Wide Web (IT, Internet/1.05)
HTZ. Helicopter Traffic Zone. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
hu. Hungary. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
HUB. Head Up Butt. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
HUB. A computer network concentrator for connection of equipment. A computer hub can be
compared to the hub of a bicycle wheel, where all the spokes “radiate” outwards. In this analogy
the bicycle spokes are computer cables, or telephone lines, connected to equipment/computers at
the other end. See Mux, Router, Switch (IT, Computing/1.06)
HUD. Heads Up Display. A transparent screen mounted on the dashboard on which pertinent data
from flight instruments and weapons systems are projected. The HUD eliminates the need to look
down into the cockpit to read instruments (Aviation Civil and Military/1.07)
HUD. Hold Up Depth. (Drilling/2.16)
HUF. Hungarian Forint. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
HURCN. Hurricane. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
HUY. Humberside Airport. UK. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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HV. Transavia. (Airline Codes/1.05)
HV. Hand Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
HV. High Voltage. (Petrochemical/1.07)
HVAC. Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning. (Petrochemical/1.05)
HVDC. High Voltage Direct Current. HochspannungsgleichstromГјbertragung (HGГњ) (Electrical/2.01)
HVDF. High and Very High Frequency Direction Finding Station. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
HVN. New Haven Airport. CT. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
HVTR. High Voltage Tracking Rate. (General/2.14)
HVY. Heavy. Used to indicate the intensity of weather phenomena. HVY RA = Heavy rain (Aviation
Civil and Military/1.05)
HWCI. HardWare Configuration Item. (IT, Computing/1.05)
HWDP. Heavy Weight Drill Pipe. (Drilling/2.16)
HWI. Hot Wire Ignition. (General/2.14)
HWR. Heavy Water Reactor. (Nuclear power/1.05)
HX. History. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
HX. No specific working hours. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
HXT. Horizontal Christmas Tree. (Drilling/2.16)
HYD. Hyderabad Airport. India. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Hydrocarbon. Oil, gas or condensate. A compound containing only the elements hydrogen and
carbon (Petrochemical/1.08)
Hydrotest. Pressure test. Pressurisation of any component by filling completely with water and
applying an established amount of pressure by use of a pumping device. All openings must be
plugged or capped prior to test. Normally a pressure and temperature recording chart is hooked
up to the test unit to produce a permanent record of the test. The test pressure and duration
must be specified. See Leak Test (Petrochemical/1.05)
HYR. Higher. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Hz. Hertz. Unit of frequency of electromagnetic waves. One hertz = one cycle per second. See
frequency (Weights & Measures, Other/1.05)
HZ. Haze. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
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10. India
I. Iodine. Atomic number 53. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
i Node. The node at the start of an activity in a AOA network. (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
I&D. Incision And Drainage. (Medical/1.05)
I&O. Intake And Output. (Medical/1.05)
I&T. Integration And Test. (IT, Computing/1.05)
I.e.. Id est. That is (Latin, French, Greek/1.05)
I/F. InterFace. (IT, Computing/1.05)
i18n. internationalisation. There are 18 letters between the "i" and the "n" (General/2.09)
IABP. Intraaortic Baloon Pump. (Medical/1.05)
IAC. In Any Case. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IAC. Instrument Approach Chart. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IACA. International Air Carrier Association. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IAD. Dulles International. Washington D.C Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
IADC. International Association of Drilling Contractors. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
IAE. In Any Event. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
IAEA. International Atomic Energy Agency. (Military/1.05)
IAEE. International Association for Energy Economics. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
IAES. International Academy of Environmental Safety. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
IAF. Initial Approach Fix. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IAH. Intercontinental. Houston. Texas Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
IAL. Interim Arrangement Letter. (Petrochemical/2.11)
IALA. International Aid & Lighthouse Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.12)
IALI. International Association of Labour Inspection. (General/2.10)
IANAL. I Am Not A Lawyer. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
IAO. In And Out of clouds. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IAOPA. International Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IAR. Intersection of Air Routes. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IAS. Indicated Air Speed. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IASI. Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
IAT. Interface Acceptance Test. (IT, Computing/2.13)
IAT. Internal Acceptance Test. An internal test the supplier performs prior to a witnessed Factory
Acceptance Test. The supplier performs an IAT in order to satisfy himself that the FAT will be
successful (IT, Computing/1.05)
IATA. International Air Transport Association. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
IATC. International Air Traffic Control. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IAU. Infrastructure Account Unit. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IAW. In Accordance With. iht (i henhold til) (IT, Internet Chat/1.07)
IB. IBERIA. (Airline Codes/1.07)
IB. Interface Broker. Sometimes also referred to as information broker. A system that receives
messages/alarms from other systems, re-formats the message/alarm if necessary and forwards it
to an interfacing system. E.g. A security system might send an alarm that an illegal entry has
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been made, this is forwarded through the interface broker to the CCTV system so that cameras in
the area can be activated (IT, Computing/2.12)
IBAC. International Business Aviation Council. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IBC. Iron-Binding Capacity. (Medical/1.05)
IBC. Intermediate Bulk Container. (Drilling/2.16)
IBD. Inflamatory Bowel Disease. (Medical/1.05)
ibid. Ibidem. in the same place (General/1.07)
IBK. Idiot Behind Keyboard. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IBN. Identification Beacon. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IBOP. Internal Blowout Preventer. (Drilling/2.16)
IBRM. Institute of Boiler and Radiation Manufacturers. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
IBS. Irritable Bowel Syndrome. (Medical/1.05)
IBS. Interactive Blowing System. (General/2.14)
IBTD. I Beg To Differ. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IBV. Injection Bypass Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
IBZ. Ibiza. Spain. (Airport Codes/1.05)
IC. Diamond Dust. Very small ice crystals in suspension (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IC. I See. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IC. Integrated Circuit. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
ICAA. International Civil Airports Association. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ICAO. International Civil Aviation Organisation. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
ICB. International Competitive Bid. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ICBM. Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile. (Military/1.06)
ICC. Interline Communications Commitee. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
ICC. Isolation Confirmation Certificate. (Drilling/2.16)
ICD. Interface Control Document. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ICD. Inflow Control Device. (Drilling/2.16)
ICE. Icing. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ICI. Interface Control Information. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ICM. Interline Communications Manual. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
ICMP. Internet Control Message Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ICP. Intracranial Pressure. (Medical/1.05)
ICP. Intermediate Casing Point. (Drilling/2.16)
ICPO. International Criminal Police Organisation. (Policing/2.14)
ICQ. I seek you. (IT, Computing/2.09)
ICRP. International Commission on Radiological Protection. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
ICRU. International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements.
Institute/1.05)
(Association, Society,
ICS. International Chamber of Shipping. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
ICSU. Integrated Commissioning and Start Up. (Drilling/2.16)
ICT. Information and Communication Technology. (IT, Computing/2.13)
ICT. Wichita Airport. KS. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ICTP. International Centre for Theoretical Physics. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
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ICU. Intensive Care Unit. (Medical/1.05)
ICU. Internal Complaints Unit. (General/1.06)
ICV. Interval Control Valve. (Drilling/2.16)
ICVA. Independent Custody Visitors Association. (Policing/2.14)
ICW. Integrated Controller Workstation. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ID. Internal Diameter. (Drilling/2.16)
ID. Inside Diameter. (Petrochemical, Piping/1.07)
id. Indonesia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
ID. Intradermal. (Medical/1.05)
ID. Identifier, Identity. Or Identification (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IDA. Indirect Access. (IT, Computing/1.05)
IDA. Idaho Falls Airport. ID. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
IDAHO. Information Database for Airlines and Handling Organisations.
Military/2.12)
(Aviation Civil and
IDBN. Intelligent DataBase Network. (IT, Computing/1.05)
IDC. Inter Discipline Check. Clash check. A check performed on a drawing by all disciplines to insure
that there are no clashes (collisions) between them (Project Management/1.05)
IDC. Intangible Drilling Costs. (Drilling/2.16)
IDCP. Identification Data Combining Processing. (IT, Computing/1.05)
IDD. Interface Design Document. (IT, Computing/1.05)
IDDM. Insulin Dependent Diabetes Melitus. (Medical/1.05)
IDE. Integrated Development Environment. (IT, Computing/1.05)
IDE. Integrated Drive Electronics. Hard disk drive interface. Or for that matter a CD drive interface.
See SCSI, ESDI, EIDE (IT, Computing/1.05)
IDEA. Improvement and Development Agency. (Government office/2.14)
IDEAS. International Data Exchange on Aviation Safety. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IDENT. Identification. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IDF. Intermediate Connection Frame. (IT, Computing/1.05)
IDI. Initial Domain Identifier. (IT, Computing/1.05)
IDK. I Don't Know. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IDL. International Departures Lounge. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
IDP. Initial Domain Part. (IT, Computing/1.05)
IDR. Indonesian Rupiah. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
IDR. Integrated Design Review. (OSL Project Related/1.05)
IDU. In Door Unit. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
ie. Ireland. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
IEA. International Energy Agency. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
IEC. International Electrotechnical Commission. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
IED. Improvised Explosive Device. (Policing/2.14)
IEEE. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
IEEE 1394. Developed by Apple Computers also known as FireWire, a serial data transmission
protocol with rates up to 400 Mbits/sec. (IT, Telecommunications/2.14)
IEL. Induction Electrical Log. (Drilling/2.16)
IEP. Irish Punt. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
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IETF. Internet Engineering Task Force. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
IF. Intermediate approach Fix. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IF. Intermediate Frequency. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
IF. Independent Float. See TF, FF, Float, CPA, Slack (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
IF. Idiopathic Flushing. (Medical/1.05)
IFA. Immunofluorescent Assay. (Medical/1.05)
IFALPA. International Federation of Airline Pilots Association. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IFAT. Integration Factory Acceptance Test. (OSL Project Related/1.05)
IFATCA. International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers Association.
Military/1.05)
(Aviation Civil and
IFB. Invitation For Bid. (General/1.05)
IFC. Issued For Construction. A completed drawing that is released for construction after all
appropriate checks and controls have been taken. Same as AFC (Project Management/1.05)
IFE. In Flight Entertainment. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
IFEA. Industriens Forening for Elektro og Automatisering. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
IFF. Identification Friend or Foe. Mode 2=Military Ssr Iff Mode_Mode 3=Ssr Utility Mode _Mode
C=Ssr Flight Level Reporting Mode (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IFO. Interim Functional Operability. Interim Funksjonell Operabilitet. The level of functional
operability required so that the control tower, east runway, and sections of the terminal building,
and pier A, can be operated in a responsible manner (OSL Project Related/1.05)
IFOR. Implementation Force (NATO Bosnia Herzegovina). (Military/1.05)
IFPS. Integrated Initial Flightplan Processing System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IFPU. Initial Flight Plan Processing Unit. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IFR. Instrument Flight Rules. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IFT. Issued For Tender. (Project Management/1.07)
Ig. Immunoglobulin. (Medical/1.05)
IG. Interoperability Guidelines. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IGA. International General Aviation. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IGC. Inter Governmental Conference. (Military/1.06)
IGES. Initial Graphics Exchange Specification file format. (IT, Telecommunications/2.02)
IGMP. Internet Group Management Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
IGN. National Geographical Institute (France). (Association, Society, Institute/2.09)
IGP. Interior Gateway Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
IGP. I Gotta Pee. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IGU. International Gas Union. (General/2.10)
IGU. Iguassu Fa Pr Airport. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
IGUS. International Group for Unstable Substances. (General/2.10)
IH. Inspection Hatch. (Petrochemical/1.07)
IHA. I Hate Acronyms. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IHAC. Industrial Health Advisory Committee. (General/2.10)
IHO. International Hydrographic Organisation. (Association, Society, Institute/2.12)
IHSS. Idiopathic Hypertophic Subaortic Stenosis. (Medical/1.05)
IHSSF. International Healthcare Safety and Security Foundation. (General/2.10)
IHT. Institution of Highways and Transportation. (General/2.10)
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IHU. I Hear You. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IHU. Installation and Hook-Up. (Petrochemical/1.07)
IHVE. Institution of Heating and Ventilating Engineers. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
IIABDFI. If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IIAC. Industrial Injuries Advisory Council. (General/2.10)
IIASA. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
IIL. Integrated Injection Logic. Type of chip. Buy a book on integrated circuits if you need a
description (IT, Computing/1.05)
IIRC. If I Recall/Remember/Recollect Correctly. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IIRSM. International Institute of Risk and Safety Management. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
IIS. Internet Information Server (Microsoft). (IT, Computing/1.07)
IISM. International Institute of Safety Management. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
IISP. Interim Inter Switch Protocol. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IISS. International Institute For Strategic Studies. (Military/1.05)
IISSP. Interim Inter Switch Signalling Protocol (P-NNI). (IT, Computing/1.05)
IIW. International Institute of Welding. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
IIWDFI. If It Works, Don't Fix It. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IIWM. If It Were Me. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IJ. Air Liberte. Duplicate see LIB (Airline Codes/1.05)
IJWTK. I Just Want To Know. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IJWTS. I Just Want To Say. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IK. Internkontroll. (Petrochemical/1.07)
IKT. Informasjon og Kommunikasjons Teknologi. (IT, Computing/2.13)
IKU. Institutt for KontinentalsokkelundersГёkelse. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
IKWUM. I Know What You Mean. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IKYABWAI. I Know You Are But What Am I?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
il. Israel. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
ILAC. International Laboratory Accreditation Scheme. (General/2.10)
ILD. Interstitial Lung Disease. (Medical/1.05)
ILE. Institute of Lighting Engineers. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ILG. Wilmington Airport. DE. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ILGRA. Interdepartmental Liaison Group on Risk Assessment. (General/2.10)
ILM. Wilmington Airport. NC. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ILMI. Interim Local Management Interface. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ILO. International Labour Organisation. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
ILS. Industrial Law Society. (General/2.10)
ILS. Israeli Shekel. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
ILS. Instrument Landing System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ILU or ILY. I Love You. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ILWS. Inductive Loop Warning System. (General/2.10)
IM. Injection Molded. (General/2.14)
IM. Inner Marker. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IM. Interface Module. (Petrochemical/1.07)
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IM. Immediate Message. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IM. Intramuscular. (Medical/1.05)
im. Isle Of Man. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
IMA. I Might Add. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IMAO. In My Arrogant Opinion. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IMAP. Internet Message Access Protocol. (IT, Internet/2.03)
IMC. Instrument Meteorological Conditions. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IMC. International Maritime Committee. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
IMCA. International Marine Contractors Association. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
IMCO. In My Considered Opinion. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
IMDG. International Maritime Dangerous Goods. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
IME. Institute of Mining Engineers. (General/2.10)
IME. In My Experience. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IMF. International Metalworkers Federation. (General/2.10)
IMF. International Monetary Fund. (Association, Society, Institute/2.02)
IMG. Immigration. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IMHO. In My Humble Opinion. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
IMing. Chatting with someone online usually while doing other things such as playing trivia or other
interactive game. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IMNSHO. In My Not So Humble Opinion. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
IMO. International Maritime Organisation. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
IMO. In My Opinion. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
Imp. Impression. (Medical/1.05)
IMPOV. In My Point Of View. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IMPR. Improve, Improving. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IMR. Internal Mold Release. (General/2.14)
IMS. I Am Sorry. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IMS. Industrial Methylated Spirit. (General/2.10)
IMS. International Military Staff (NATO). (Military/1.05)
IMT. Immediate, Immediately. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IMT-2000. International Mobile Telecommunication Systems. Global standard for third generation
technology being developed by ITU (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
IMV. Intermitent Mandatory Ventilation. (Medical/1.05)
in. Inch. Linear measure. 1" = 25,4mm. See " (Weights & Measures, Imperial/1.05)
in. India. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
In. Indium. Atomic number 49. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
IN. Installed. Cable Status (OSL Project Related/1.05)
INA. Initial Approach. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
INAM. Inter Nordic Airport Meeting. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
INBD. Inbound. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
INC. In Cloud. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
INCERFA. Uncertainty phase. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Incoterms. International rules for interpretation of shipping terms.
Incoterms/2.10)
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IND. Indianapolis Airport. IN. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
IND. Immigration and Nationality Directorate. (Government office/2.14)
INDC. International Nuclear Data Committee. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
inf. Infusion. (Medical/1.05)
INF. Intermediate Nuclear Forces. (Military/1.05)
INFO. Information. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Information. Facts. Data and information are often used interchangeably. However there is a subtle
difference, Information is the result of processing data (basic facts) into a useful or intelligible
form. Help "I can no longer see the wood for the trees" (IT, Computing/1.05)
Information Superhighway. Eventual successor of today’s WWW. A theoretical goal of computer
communications to provide schools, libraries, businesses, and homes universal access to quality
information that will educate, inform, and entertain. See Internet, WWW (IT, Internet/1.05)
INFOTERRA.
International
(General/2.10)
Referral
System
for
Sources
of
Environmental
Information.
Infrastruktur Integrator. Infrastructure Integrator. The Contractor that is responsible for coordinating interface activities between the technical infrastructure and different IT system
solutions (OSL Project Related/1.05)
inh. Inhalation. (Medical/1.05)
INI. Nis Airport. Yougoslavia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
INIS. International Nuclear Information System. (Nuclear power/1.05)
init.. Initio. in the beginning (General/1.07)
inj. Injection. (Medical/1.05)
Injection well. A well used for pumping water or gas into the reservoir. (Petrochemical/1.08)
INM. Institute of Naval Medicine. (General/2.10)
INN. Innsbruck Airport. Austria. (Airport Codes/1.06)
INOP. Inoperative. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
INP. If Not Possible. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
INPACT. Institut pour l'Amelioration des Conditions de Travail. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
INPO. In No Particular Order. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
INPO. Institute of Nuclear Power Operations. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
INPR. In Progress. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
INR. International Normalised Ratio. (Medical/1.05)
INR. Indian Rupee. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
INRS. Institut National de Recherche et de Securite. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
INS. Instrument Navigation System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
INSEAD. Institut Europeen d'Administration des Affaires. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
INST. Installasjon pГҐ Gardermoen. (OSL Project Related/1.05)
INSTL. Install, Installed, Installation. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
INSTR. Instrument. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
INT. Winston Salem Airport. NC. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
INT. Intersection. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Integration. Combining parts into a whole. Joining together into equal membership of community
disregarding race or religion. Buzz word for making a team perform effectively (Project
Management, Planning/1.10)
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Interface. A common boundary between two regions. A place, a piece of equipment, or an element
of information where interaction occurs between two systems (Project Management,
Planning/1.10)
Internet. Interconnection of computer networks that enables connected machines to communicate
directly. The term internet refers to a global interconnection of government, education, and
business computer networks that is available to the public. There also exists smaller internets,
usually for the private use of a single organisation, called intranets. Internet technology is a
primitive precursor of the Information Superhighway, which is a theoretical goal of computer
communications to provide schools, libraries, businesses, and homes universal access to quality
information that will educate, inform, and entertain. Internets allow information to pass between
computers, and a variety of services have been built upon this function. Including logging onto
and operating a computer from a remote location (telnet). Transferring files between a local
computer and a remote computer, File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Reading and interpreting files on
remote computers (gopher). The newest and most important internet service is Hyper Text
Transfer Protocol (HTTP), a descendant of the gopher service. HTTP can read and interpret files
on a remote machine, not only text, but pictures, sounds, and video information. HTTP is the
information transfer protocol that is the basis for the collection of distributed information called
the World Wide Web (IT, Internet/1.06)
INTL. International. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Intranet. A private internet for the use of a single organisation. See Internet, Extranet, WWW, LAN,
WAN (IT, Internet/1.05)
INTRG. Interrogator. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
INTRP. Interrupt, Interruption, Interrupted. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
INTSF. Intensify, Intensifying. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
INTST. Intensity. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
io. British Indian Ocean Territory. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
IO. Input/Output. (IT, Computing/1.05)
IO. Investigating Officer. (Policing/2.14)
IOC. International Oil Company. (Drilling/2.16)
IOC. Input/Output Controller. (IT, Computing/1.05)
IOC. Initial Operational Capability. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IOD. Identified Outline Design. (General/2.01)
IOEM. Invert Oil Emulsion Mud. (Petrochemical/1.07)
IOM. Installation, Operation and Maintenance. (Petrochemical/1.07)
IONL. Internal Organisation of the Network Layer. (IT, Computing/1.05)
IOP. Intraocular Pressure. (Medical/1.05)
IOR. Improved Oil Recovery. (Petrochemical/1.07)
IOS. International Organisation for Standardisation. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
IOSH. Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
IOT. Interface interOperability acceptance Test. (IT, Computing/2.13)
Iota. Ninth letter of the Greek alphabet. A very small amount. Lower Case symbol = Ninth (Greek
Alphabet/1.05)
IOU. I Owe You. Signed paper given as a receipt for money borrowed (General/1.05)
IOV. Injection Outer Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
IOW. In Other Words. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
IP. Injured Party. (Policing/2.14)
IP. Institute of Physics. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
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IP. Internet Protocol. Internet Protocol provides the addressing needed to move information across
networks to their target/destination, the address looks like 000.111.222.3. See HTTP, TCP/IP,
URL, Protocol (IT, Computing/1.06)
IP. Institute of Petroleum. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
IP. Intermediate Pressure. (Petrochemical/1.07)
IPA. Isopropyl Alcohol. (Medical/2.10)
IPA. International Police Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
IPAA. Independent Petroleum Association of America. (Drilling/2.16)
IPC. Installed Production Capacity. (Drilling/2.16)
IPC. Integrated Pollution Control. (General/2.10)
IPC. International Protection Category. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
IPCP. Internet Protocl Control Protocl. (IT, Computing/1.05)
IPCS. Institute of Professional Civil Servants. (General/2.10)
IPG. Impedance Plethysmography. (Medical/1.05)
IPG. Information Planning Group. (General/2.10)
IPH. Ipoh Airport. Malaysia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
IPHE. Institute of Public Health Engineers. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
IPIECA.
International
(Petrochemical/2.01)
Petroleum
Industry
Environmental
and
Conservation
Association.
IPLDP. Initial Police Learning and Development Programme. (Policing/2.14)
IPM. Internet Protocol Multicast. (IT, Computing/2.13)
IPM. Institute of Personnel Management. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
IPN. I'm Posting Naked. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IPPB. Intermitent Positive Pressure Breathing. (Medical/1.05)
IPPC. Infrastructure Payments and Progress Committee. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IPR. Integrated Pollution Regulation. (General/2.10)
IPR. Investment Performance Review. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
IPR. Inflow Performance Relationship. (Drilling/2.16)
IPR. Intellectual Property Rights. (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
IPS. Internet Protocol Suite. (IT, Computing/1.05)
IPS. Integrated Protection System. (General/2.10)
IPT. Williamsport Airport. PA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
IPT. Interface Performance acceptance Test. (IT, Computing/2.13)
IPTF. International Police Task Force. (Policing/2.14)
iPTH. Parathyroid Hormone By Radioimmunoassay. (Medical/1.05)
IPU. International Police Unit. (Policing/2.14)
IPX. Network protocol in the Novel Network protocol stack. A convention used to control the
transmission of data is called a protocol (IT, Computing/1.05)
iq. Iraq. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
IQ. Intelligence Quotient. (Medical/1.05)
IQA. Institute of Quality Assurance. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
IQD. Iraqi Dinar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
IQI. Image Quality Indicator. (Petrochemical/1.07)
IQQ. Iquique Airport. Chili. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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IQS. Institute of Quantity Surveyors. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ir. Iran. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
IR. Interpretation Report. (Drilling/2.16)
IR. Ionising Radiation. (General/2.10)
IR. Ice on the Runway. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IR. Infrared. (IT, Computing/1.05)
Ir. Iridium. Atomic number 77. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
IRA. Irish Republican Army. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
IRACIS. Increase Revenue, Avoid Cost, Improve Service. (General/1.05)
IRC. Internet Relay Chat. (IT, Internet Chat/2.02)
IRCM. Infra Red Counter Measures. (Military/1.06)
IRD. Interface Requirement Document. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.12)
IRD. Independent Rotary Drive. (Petrochemical/1.07)
IRD. International Research and Development. (General/2.10)
IrDa. Infra Red Data Association. (IT, Computing/1.05)
IRF. Immediate Reaction Force. (Military/1.05)
IRF. International Regulators Forum. (Petrochemical/1.07)
IRHD. International Rubber Hardness Degrees. (Petrochemical/1.07)
IRIG-B. Inter Range Instrumentation Group, Format B. (IT, Computing/1.05)
IRL. In Real Life (that is, when not chatting). (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IRM. Institute of Risk Management. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
Iron Roughneck. . Iron roughnecks connect and disconnect drill pipe. Whether pipe is being fed
into the wellbore or it is being taken out, the iron roughneck uses a rotary table and torque
wrenches to make up or break down drill pipe (Drilling/2.16)
IRP. Institute of Radiation Protection. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
IRPA. International Radiation Protection Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
IRPTC. International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals. (General/2.10)
IRR. Ionising Radiation Regulations. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
IRR. Iranian Rial. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
IRU. Industrial Rehabilitation Unit. (General/2.10)
IRV. Inverse Ratio Ventilation. (Medical/1.05)
IRVR. Instrumented Runway Visual Range. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
IRWS. Integrated Remote Work Station. (IT, Computing/1.05)
IS. Intrinsic Safety or Intrinsically Safe. (General/2.10)
is. Iceland. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
IS. Information Specialist. (General/2.10)
IS. Information Systems. (IT, Computing/2.14)
IS. International Staff. (Military/1.05)
IS-136. Latest digital standard implemented in D-AMPS systems. Replaces the initial D-AMPS digital
standard IS-54 with major enhancements and advanced features. Developed specifically for onephone (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
IS-41. Inter-network connection protocol for connecting systems based on both analogue and digital
US standards. (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
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IS-54. Original D-AMPS digital standard. Implemented in 1992 and then upgraded to the latest IS136 digital standard in 1996 (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
IS-95. US standard for implementing CDMA cellular technology on narrowband systems.
Telecommunications/1.07)
(IT,
ISA. Instrument Society of America. (Petrochemical/1.07)
ISA. International Standard Atmosphere. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ISA. Industry Standard Architecture. Bus type. See Bus, EISA, PCI, MCA, PCMCIA (IT,
Computing/1.05)
ISASI. International Society of Air Safety Investigators. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ISB. Independent Sideband. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ISB. Islamabad Airport. Pakistan. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ISBN. International Standard Book Numbering. (General/2.10)
ISD. In Service Date. (Military/1.06)
ISDN. Integrated Services Digital Network. Digital high speed telephone line. ISDN is in fact to lines
each line capable of transferring 64Kbs of data, giving a total transfer rate of 128Kbs, as opposed
to 33.6Kbs on a traditional analogue line (under good conditions). See BRI-ISDN, PRI-ISDN, ADSL
and VDSL, or DSL (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
ISF. International Shipping Federation. (Petrochemical/1.07)
ISG. Immune Serum Globulin. (Medical/1.05)
ISGOTT. International Safety Guide for Oil Tankers and Terminals. (General/2.10)
ISHM. International Society for Hybrid Microelectronics. (Petrochemical/1.07)
ISK. Icelandic Krona. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
ISL. Internett Service LeverandГёr. Norwegian for ISP (IT, Internet/1.05)
ISN. Information Systems Network. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
ISO.
International
Organisation
for
(Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
Standardisation.
(International
Standards
Organisation)
ISO. Isometric. (Petrochemical, Piping/1.07)
ISO 9000. An independent accreditation for a quality management system.
Military/2.13)
(Aviation Civil and
ISOL. Isolated. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ISP. Internet Service Provider. (IT, Internet/1.05)
ISPEMA. Industrial Safety and Protective Equipment Manufacturers Association.
Society, Institute/2.10)
(Association,
ISR. Interrupt Service Routine. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ISR. Grensesnitt spesifikasjoner. (OSL Project Related/1.05)
ISS. I’m So Sure. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ISSA. International Ship Suppliers Association. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
ISSP. Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme. (Policing/2.14)
ISSYGTI. I’m So Sure You Get The Idea!. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IST. Irish Summer Time. (Time or Space/2.08)
IST. Ataturk. Istanbul Airport. Turkey. (Airport Codes/1.05)
ISUP. Integrated Services User Part. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
ISWYM. I See What You Mean. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
it. Italy. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
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IT. Information Technology. A term used to designate computer and telecommunication technology
elements. E.g. computers, switchboards, radios, personal beepers, public address systems,
programme distribution, traffic information systems, electronic security systems, etc (IT,
Computing/1.05)
ITB. Insurance Technical Bureau. (General/2.10)
ITF. Interface Testing Facility. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.12)
ITFA. In The Final Analysis. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ITIGBS. I Think I'm Going To Be Sick. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ITL. Italian Lira. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
ITM. Osaka. Itami (Airport Codes/1.07)
ITP. Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura. (Medical/1.05)
ITP. Information Technology Platform. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ITP. Inspection and Test Plan. (Petrochemical/1.07)
ITRS. International Terrestrial Reference System. (Satellite Broadcasting/2.09)
ITS. Influx To Surface. (Drilling/2.16)
ITS. Information Technology Services. (General/2.10)
ITSA. Independent Tank Storage Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ITSFWI. If The Shoe Fits Wear It. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ITSI. Information Technology Standards Institute. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ITT. Invitation To Tender. (Military/1.06)
ITU. International Telecommunication Union. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
ITV. Internal TV Surveillance. Same as CCTV (Security/1.05)
IUAT. International Union Against Tuberculosis. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
IUD. Intrauterine Device. (Medical/1.05)
IUMI. International Union Marine Insurers. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
IUPAC. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
IV. Intravenous. (General/1.05)
IVC. Inlet Vane Controller. (Petrochemical/1.07)
IVC. Inferior Vena Cava. (Medical/1.05)
IVP. Intravenous Pyelogram. (Medical/1.05)
IVPN. Internet Virtual Private Networks. (IT, Computing/2.03)
IVR. Interactive Voice Response. Distribution of information automatically via telephone. For example
you can ring up your bank account and be told your balance, and last transactions. You can ring
up an airport and be told about the latest traffic information. You can ring up the talking clock
(froken ur) and be told the time (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
IVSN. Initial Voice Switched Network. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
IWALU. I Will Always Love You. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IWBNI. It Would Be Nice If. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IWCF. International Well Control Forum. (Drilling/2.16)
IWCF. International Well Control Federation. (Drilling/2.16)
IWD. Iber World. (Airline Codes/1.05)
IWEM. Institute of Water and Environmental Management. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
IWHP. Injection Wellhead Pressure. (Petrochemical/1.07)
IWM. Institute of Waste Management. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
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IWRC. Independent Wire Rope Core. (Petrochemical/1.07)
IXA. Agartala Airport. India. (Airport Codes/1.06)
IXD. Allahbad Airport. India. (Airport Codes/1.06)
IYFEG. Insert Your Favorite Ethnic Group. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IYSS. If You Say So. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IYSWIM. If You See What I Mean. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
IZM. Izmir Airport. Turkey. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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11. Juliet
J. Joule. A measure of energy. (Weights & Measures, Other/1.05)
j Node. The node at the end of an activity in a AOA network. (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
J4F. Just For Fun. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
J4G. Just For Grins. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
JAA. Joint Aviation Authorities. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
JAA. Joint Association Authority. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
JAC. Joint Advisory Committee. (General/2.10)
Jacket. The structural support for an offshore platform. (Petrochemical/1.08)
JAM. Just A Minute. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
JAN. Jackson Ms Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
JAN. January. (Time or Space/1.05)
JAR. Joint Airworthiness Requirements. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
JAR. Joint Aviation Rules. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
JAS. Just A Second. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
Java. An object oriented programming language. From Sun Microsystems. The Microsoft equivalent is
called ActiveX (IT, Languages/1.05)
JAX. Jacksonville Fl Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
JB. Junction Box. (Petrochemical/1.07)
JBB. Joint Branch Board. (Policing/2.14)
JBOD. Just a Bunch Of Disks. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
JC. Just Chilling. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
JCC. Joint Central Committee. (Policing/2.14)
JCL. Job Control Language. (IT, Languages/1.05)
JCOC. Joint Command Operation Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
JCSI. Joint Command Systems Initiative. (Military/1.06)
JDBC. Java DataBase Connectivity. See Java (IT, Languages/1.05)
je. Jersey. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
JED. King Abdul Aziz International. Jiddah Airport. Saudi Arabia. (Airport Codes/1.05)
JEDEC. Joint Electronic Device Engineering Council. (IT, Computing/1.05)
JEIDA. Japan Electronic Industry Development Association. A sister organisation to PCMCIA that has
been responsible for the definition and publication of a variety of Japanese industry standards.
Together, JEIDA and PCMCIA have made the PCMCIA standard a world-wide standard (IT,
Computing/1.05)
JEITA. Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association. (Association, Society,
Institute/2.09)
JER. Jersey. (Airport Codes/1.05)
JET A-1. Aviation Turbine Fuel. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
JFAI. Joint Formal Acceptance Inspection. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
JFI. Just For Information. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
JFK. John F. Kennedy International. New York Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
JG. Juxtaglomerular. (Medical/1.05)
JGR. Joint Geological Review. (Petrochemical/1.07)
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JHB. Johore Bahru Airport. Malaysia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
JI. Midway Airlines. (Airline Codes/1.07)
JIB. Djibouti Airport. Jibouti. (Airport Codes/1.06)
JIB. Joint Industry Board for the Electrical Contracting Industry. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
JIC. Joint Industrial Council. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
JIC. Just In Case. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
JIC. Joint Intelligence Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
JIS. Japanese Standard Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
JIS. Japanese Industrial Standards. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
JISC. Japanese Industrial Standards Committee. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
JIU. Jiuzhou Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
JK. Just Kidding. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
JK. Spanair. (Airline Codes/1.07)
JKG. Axamo. Jonkoping Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
JKH. Chios. Greece. (Airport Codes/1.05)
JKK. Spanair. (Airline Codes/1.05)
JKT. Djakarta Airport. Indonesia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
JL. Japan Airlines. (Airline Codes/1.07)
JLN. Joplin Airport. MO. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
jm. Jamaica. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
JMC. Joint Maritime Course. (Military/1.06)
JMD. Jamaican Dollar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
JMHO. Just My Humble Opinion. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
JML. Japanese Ministry of Labour. (General/2.10)
JMO. Just My Opinion. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
JMS. Java Message Service. (IT, Computing/2.12)
JNB. Johannesburg International Airport. SouthAfrica. (Airport Codes/1.05)
JNC. Joint National Committee. (General/2.10)
JNCC. Joint Negotiating and Consultative Committee. (Policing/2.14)
JNU. Juneau Airport. AK. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
jo. Jordan. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
JOC. Joint Operations Centre. (Policing/2.14)
JOCC. Joint Operations Control Centre. (Policing/2.14)
JOCE. Journal Officiel des Communautes Europeennes. (General/2.10)
JOD. Jordanian Dinar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
JOE. Joensuu Airport. Finland. (Airport Codes/1.06)
JOI. Joinville Airport. SC. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
JOPI. Joint Operational Instructions. (Policing/2.14)
Jorden. Dannet for 4,6 mrd. ГҐr siden. Malmen funnet i Isua pГҐ GrГёnnland viser at det fantes vann
allerede for 3,8 mrd. ГҐr siden. En ny type ionesonde brukes til ГҐ ana (General/1.05)
Joule. Unit of energy or work. (Weights & Measures, Other/2.08)
jp. Japan. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
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JPEG. Joint Photographic Experts Group. A data compression standard file format that is commonly
used for digital pictures (IT, Computing/1.05)
JPM. Joint Performance Monitoring. (Policing/2.14)
JPY. Japanese Yen. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
JR. Yogoslav Airlines. (Airline Codes/1.05)
JRDF. Joint Rapid Deployment Force. (Military/1.06)
JSA. Job Safety Analysis. (Drilling/2.16)
JSCSC. Joint Service Command and Staff College. (Military/1.06)
JSEODC. Joint Service Explosive Ordnance Disposal Report Centre. (Policing/2.14)
JSI. Skiathos. Greece. (Airport Codes/1.05)
JST. Japanese Standard Time. (Time or Space/2.03)
JT. Joule Thompson. (Weights & Measures, Other/1.07)
JTIDS. Joint Tactical Information Distribution System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
JTLYK. Just To Let You Know. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
JTM. Job Transfer and Manipulation. (IT, Computing/1.05)
JTR. Santorini. Greece. (Airport Codes/1.05)
JTST. Jet stream. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
JUL. July. (Time or Space/1.05)
JUN. June. (Time or Space/1.05)
JVD. Jugular Venous Distention. (Medical/1.05)
JVM. Java Virtual Machine. (IT, Computing/2.12)
JVP. Jugular Vein Pulse. (Medical/1.05)
JWG. Joint Working Group. (General/2.10)
JWK. Just Wondering. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
JWP. Joint Working Party. (General/2.10)
JYV. Jyvaskyla Airport. Finland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
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12. Kilo
k. Kilo. SI number prefix 1.000. (Weights & Measures, Systeme Internationale prefixes/1.05)
K. Potassium. Atomic number 19. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
k. Kiribati. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
K. Okay. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
KA. Dragon Air. (Airline Codes/1.07)
kA. Kiloampere. (Weights & Measures, Electrical/2.11)
KAD. Kommunal og arbeidsdepartementet. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
Kappa. Tenth letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Tenth, modulus of elasticity,
specific heat ration, susceptibility to magnetism (Greek Alphabet/1.05)
kat. Kata (Mole, Sec). (Medical/1.05)
KB. Kelly Bushing. (Drilling/2.16)
Kb. Kilobyte. One thousand bytes. See bits, bytes, Kb, Mb, Gb, Tb, Pb (IT, Units/1.05)
Kbps. Kilobytes per second. Data transfer rate over for example a telephone line (IT,
Computing/1.05)
KBR. Kota Bharu Airport. Malaysia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
KCH. Kuching Airport. Malaysia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
KD. Kystdirektoratet. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
ke. Kenya. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
KE. Korean Air. (Airline Codes/1.07)
KEF. Keflavik. Reykjavik Airport. Iceland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
Kelvin. A base unit of temperature. (Weights & Measures, Other/2.14)
KEMS. Kinetic Energy Monitoring System. (Drilling/2.16)
Kernel. The center of a computer operating system. The kernel is the core that provides basic
services for all other parts of the operating system. Whereas the shell of an operating system is
the outermost part that interacts with user commands (IT, Computing/2.09)
KES. Kenyan Shilling. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
Ketchup Bottle Effect. An undesirable situation where everything comes at once. A syndrome that
many people have experienced on a project, the term is derived from the concept 'shake oh,
shake the ketchup bottle, none will come and then a lot will' (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
KF. Air Botnia. (Airline Codes/1.07)
kg. Kilograms. Measure of weight. 1000g = 100dkg = 10hg = 1kg = 2,205 pounds (avoirdupois)
(Weights & Measures, Metric/1.05)
kg. Kyrgzstan. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
KGD. Khrabrovo. Kaliningrad Airport. Russia. (Airport Codes/1.05)
KGS. Kyrgyzstanish Som. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
KGS. Kos. Greece. (Airport Codes/1.05)
kh. Cambodia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
KHH. Kaohsiung. International (Airport Codes/1.07)
KHI. Karachi Airport. Pakistan. (Airport Codes/1.05)
KHN. Nanchang Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
KHR. Cambodian Riel. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
KHYF. Know How You Feel. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
KHz. Kilohertz. (Weights & Measures, Other/1.05)
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KIA. Killed In Action. (Military/1.10)
KIBO. Knowledge In, Bullshit Out. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
KID. Kristianstad Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
KIJ. Niigata Airport. Japan. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Kilderkin. Measure of Ale. 16 gallons (2 bushels). (Measure of Ale/1.05)
Kilo. SI number prefix 1.000. Abbreviated as k. One Thousand (SI Number Prefixes/1.05)
KIPROS. Norwegian CID. Also German CID (General/1.05)
KISS. Keep It Simple Stupid. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
KIT. Keep In Touch. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
KJ. Knee Jerk. (Medical/1.05)
KJA. Krasnoyarsk Airport. Cis. (Airport Codes/1.06)
KKN. HГёybuktmoen. Kirknes Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.05)
kl. Kiloliter. Measure of capacity. 1000l = 100dkl = 10hl = 1kl = 220 gallons (imperial) (Weights &
Measures, Metric/1.05)
KL. KLM. (Airline Codes/1.05)
Klick. Kilometer. (Military/1.10)
KLR. Kalmar Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
KLU. Klagenfurt Airport. Austria. (Airport Codes/1.06)
km. Kilometre. Linear measure. 1000m = 100dkm = 10hm = 1km = 0,621 miles (Weights &
Measures, Metric/1.05)
km. Comoros. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
KMA. Kiss My Ass. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
KMF. Comorosian Franc. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
KMG. Kunming Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
KMIA. Kiss My Italian Ass. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
kn. Saint Kitts And Nevis. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
Knocking. A metallic rattling sound made by a car engine. See Pinking. (General/2.01)
KO. Knock Out. (Petrochemical/1.07)
KOK. Kokkola Airport. Finland. (Airport Codes/1.06)
KOM. Kommunaldepartementet. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
KOP. Kick Off Plug. (Drilling/2.16)
KOP. Kick Off Point. (Petrochemical/1.07)
KOTC. Kiss On The Cheek. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
KOTL. Kiss On The Lips. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
KP. Kiwi International. (Airline Codes/1.07)
kp. Korea, Democratic People's Rep. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
KPA. Kilopascal. (Weights & Measures, Other/1.05)
kph. Kilometres Per Hour. Measure of speed (Weights & Measures, Metric/1.05)
KPI. Key Performance Indicator. (General/2.13)
KPR. Key Performance Report. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
KPW. North Korean Won. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
Kr. Krypton. Atomic number 36. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
kr. Korea, Republic Of. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
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KRF. Kramfors. (Airport Codes/1.07)
KRK. Krakow. Poland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
KRN. Kiruna Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
KRP. Kill Rate Pressure. (Drilling/2.16)
KRP. Karup Airport. Denmark. (Airport Codes/1.05)
KRS. Kristiansand. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.05)
KRT. Khartoum Airport. Sudan. (Airport Codes/1.05)
KRW. South Korean Won. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
KS. Kvalitetssikring. Norwegian for Quality Control. (Project Management/1.07)
KSC. Kosice Airport. Slovak Republic. (Airport Codes/1.06)
KSD. Karlstad Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
KSU. Kristiansund. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.05)
KT. Knots. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
KUA. Kuala. (Airport Codes/1.05)
KUB. Kidney, Ureter, Bladder. (Medical/1.05)
KUB. Kuala Belait Airport. Brunei. (Airport Codes/1.06)
KUD. Kudat Airport. Malaysia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
KUF. Kirke-, utdannings- og forskningsdepartementet. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
KUL. Subang Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Malaysia. (Airport Codes/1.05)
KUO. Kuopio Airport. Finland. (Airport Codes/1.06)
kV. Kilo Volt. 1.000 Volts (Weights & Measures, Electrical/1.05)
kVA. Kilo Volt Ampere. (Weights & Measures, Electrical/2.11)
kW. Kilo Watt. 1.000 Watts (Weights & Measures, Electrical/1.05)
kw. Kuwait. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
KWD. Kuwait Dinar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
KWE. Guiyang Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
kWh. Kilowatt hour. (Electrical/2.01)
KWI. Kuwait International Airport. Kuwait. (Airport Codes/1.05)
KWIM. Know What I Mean?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
KWJ. Kwangju Airport. South Korea. (Airport Codes/1.06)
KWL. Guilin Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ky. Cayman Islands. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
KYD. Cayman Islands Dollar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
KYFC. Keep Your Fingers Crossed. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
kz. Kazakhstan. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
KZT. Kazakstanian Tenge. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
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13. Lima
l. Liter. Measure of capacity. 1l = 1,7596 pints = 0,21997 gallons (imperial) (Weights & Measures,
Metric/1.05)
L. Laugh. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
L. Left {runway identification}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
L2TP. Layer two Tunnelling Protocol. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
L8R. Later. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
L8R G8R. Later Gator. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
la. Lao, People's Democratic Republic. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
LA. Left Atrium. (Medical/1.05)
La. Lanthanum. Atomic number 57. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
LA. Level Alarm. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
LAA. Local Authority Associations. (General/2.10)
LABATYD or LAB&TYD. Life's A Bitch And Then You Die. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
lac. Laceration. (Medical/1.05)
LACT. Lease Automatic Custody Transfer. (Petrochemical/2.11)
LAD. Luanda Airport. Angola. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LAD. Left Axis Deviation. (Medical/1.05)
LADD. Lifetime Average Daily Dose. (General/2.10)
LAESI. Local Authority and Emergency Service Information. (Military/1.06)
LAF. Load Alleviation Function. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LAFTA. Latin American Free Trade Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
LAHB. Eft Anterior Hemiblock. (Medical/1.05)
LAK. Laos Kip. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
LAM. Logical Acknowledgement Message {message type designator}.
Military/1.05)
(Aviation Civil and
LAM. Laughing At Myself. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
Lambda. Eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet. Upper Case symbol = Equivalent conductivity. Lower
Case symbol = Eleventh, wave length, angstrom unit, radioactive constant, cosmical constant,
damping coefficient, area ratio, microliter, latitude (Greek Alphabet/1.05)
LAN. Inland. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LAN. Local Area Network. Networks used to connect computers in a single room, rooms within a
building, or buildings on one site are normally called Local Area Networks (LANs). LANs tend to be
privately owned networks. Networks that connect computers on separate sites, cities or countries
are called Wide Area Networks. (Sometimes Long Haul Networks (LHNs) (IT, Computing/1.05)
LANE. LAN Emulation. (IT, Computing/1.05)
LAP. Local Area Policing. (Policing/2.14)
LAP. Leukocyte Alkaline Phosphatase. (Medical/1.05)
lap. Laparotomy. (Medical/1.05)
LAPB. Link Access Procedure Balanced. (IT, Computing/1.05)
LAPD. Link Access Procedure D. (IT, Computing/1.05)
LAPG. Local Adult Protection Groups. (Policing/2.14)
Large. Measure of Ale. 1 pt (ca 0,57l). (Measure of Ale/1.05)
LARS. Launch And Recovery System. (Drilling/2.16)
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LAS. McCarran International. Las Vegas. Nevada Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
LASER. Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. (General/1.05)
LAT. Latitude. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LAT. Lowest Astronomical Tide. (General/1.07)
LATA. Local Access and Transport Area. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
LAV. Lymphadenopathy-Associated Virus (Same As HIV). (Medical/1.05)
Lawyer. People who go in after the auditors and strip the bodies. (Humour/1.05)
LAX. LA International. Los Angeles Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
LB. Lloyd Aero Boliviano. (Airline Codes/1.05)
lb. Pound. Avoirdupois system. 16 ounces = 1 pound = 453,59 g (Weights & Measures,
Imperial/1.05)
lb. Lebanon. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
LBA. Leeds Bedford Airport. UK. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LBA. London Boroughs Association. (General/2.10)
LBAC. Logical Burst Access Channel. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
LBB. Lubbock Airport. TX. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LBBB. Left Bundle Branch Block. (Medical/1.05)
LBC. Local Baggage Committee. (IT, Computing/1.06)
LBG. Paris Le Bourget Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LBP. Lebanese Pound. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
LBP. Low Back Pain. (Medical/1.05)
LBT. Air Liberte Tunisie. (Airline Codes/1.05)
LBV. Libreville Airport. Gabon. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LBW. Leg Before Wicket. A foul in cricket (General/1.06)
LC. Locked Closed. (Petrochemical/1.07)
lc. Saint Lucia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
LCA. Life Cycle Assessment. (Project Management/1.05)
LCA. Larnaca International Airport. Cyprus. (Airport Codes/1.05)
LCC. Life Cycle Cost. The estimate of the total expected cost of an element or product over it's
expected life time (Project Management/1.06)
LCD. Liquid Crystal Display. A flat screen technology. See CRT, TFT, PDP, EL, FED, CGS (IT,
Computing/1.05)
LCF. Legal Contract and Finance committee. (General/1.05)
LCH. Lake Charles Airport. LA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LCI. Life Cycle Information. (Project Management/1.07)
LCIE. Laboratoire Central des Industries Electriques. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
LCJB. Local Criminal Justice Board. (Policing/2.14)
LCK. Columbus Airport. OH. USA. Duplicate see CMH (Airport Codes/1.06)
LCM. Lost Circulation Material. (Drilling/2.16)
LCN. Load Classification Number. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LCOC. Land Command Operation Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LCP. Local Control Panel. (Petrochemical/1.07)
LCP. Life Cycle Profit. The estimate of the total expected economic profit that may be gained from an
element or product over it's expected life time (Project Management/1.05)
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LCP. Liquid Crystal Polymer. (General/2.14)
LCP. Link Control Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
LCPC. Local area Child Protection Committee. (Policing/2.14)
LCR. Local Control Room. (Petrochemical/1.07)
LCS. Lighting Control System. (IT, Computing/2.13)
LCV. Level Control Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
lcwt. Long hundredweight. Avoirdupois system. 112 pounds = 1 long cwt = 50,80 kg (Weights &
Measures, Imperial/1.05)
LD. Lethal Dose. (Petrochemical/1.07)
LD. Later Dude. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
LD. Learning Disability or Learning Disabled. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
LDA. Landing Distance Available. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LDAP. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. (IT, Computing/2.12)
LDB. Limited Data Blocks. (IT, Computing/1.05)
LDC. Land Defence Command. (Military/1.05)
LDD. Land Defence District. (Military/1.05)
LDE. Lead Discipline Engineer. (Petrochemical/1.07)
LDE. Lourdes/Tarbes Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LDG. List of Dangerous Goods. (General/2.10)
LDG. Landing. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LDH. Lactate Dehydrogenase. (Medical/1.05)
LDI. Landing Direction Indicator. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LDIN. Lead-In Lights. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
LDL. Litho Density Log. (Drilling/2.16)
LDL. Low Density Lipoprotein. (Medical/1.05)
LDL. LeverandГёr dokumentasjonsliste. (Petrochemical/1.07)
LDPE. Low Density Polyethylene. (General/2.14)
LDR. Landing Distance Required. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
LDR. Long Distance Relationship. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
LDRCR. Low Density Radio Communications Link. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
LDU. Lahad Datu Airport. Malaysia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LEA. Local Education Authority. (Government office/2.14)
Leak Test. Pressure Test. Pressurisation of a component by filling completely with nitrogen, or air
and applying an established amount of pressure with a pumping device. All openings must be
plugged or capped prior to test. Normally a pressure and temperature recording chart is hooked
up to the test unit to produce a permanent record of the test. The test pressure and duration
must be specified. Normally a leak test is combined with a soapy bubble test, where joints are
coated in a soapy water solution and visually inspected for bubbles. This type of test is associated
with hazardous operations, E.g. pipes carrying gas, aviation fuel hydrant systems
(Petrochemical/1.05)
LEC. Local Exchange Carrier. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
LED. Light Emitting Diode. (IT, Computing/1.05)
LED. Pulkovo. St Petesburg Airport. Russia. (Airport Codes/1.05)
Leet. Elite (see 1337). The opposite of n00b somene who does not have a clue (IT, Internet
Chat/2.14)
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LEH. Le Havre Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LEJ. Leipzig Halle Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.05)
LEL. Lower Explosion Limit. (Petrochemical/1.07)
LEN. Length. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LENA. Lean Experimental Network For Alternates. (IT, Computing/1.05)
LEO. Low Earth Orbit. A type of satellite orbit. See GEO, MEO, and HALE (Time or Space/1.05)
LEP. Light Emitting Polymer. A flat screen technology. Large format and super thin TV screens and
computer monitors made of plastic that glows? See CRT, LCD, TFT, PDP, EL, FED, CGS (IT,
Computing/1.05)
LER. Local Equipment Room. (Petrochemical/1.07)
LES. Lower Esophageal Sphinter. (Medical/1.05)
LETIS. LVs Elektroniske Trafikk Informasjon System. Norwegian Civil Aviation Authorities Traffic
Information System (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LEV. Local Exhaust Ventilation. (Drilling/2.16)
LEX. Lexington Airport. Cayman Islands. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LF. Line Feed. (IT, Computing/1.05)
LF. Low Frequency 30 to 300 KHz. See EHF, ELF, HF, MF, SHF, UHF, VHF, VLF (Aviation Civil and
Military/1.05)
LF. Late Finish. See LS for full description (Project Management, Planning/1.08)
LFDCA. London Fire and Civil Defence Authority. (General/2.10)
LFT. Liver Function Test. (Medical/1.05)
LFW. Lome Airport. Togo. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LG. Level Gauge. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
LGA. Local Government Association. (Government office/2.14)
LGA. La Guardia. New York Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
LGB. Long Beach Airport. CA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LGC. Laboratory of the Government Chemist. (Government office/2.14)
LGCIU. Landing Gear Control and Interface Unit. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LGIS. LVs Geografiske Informasjon System. Norwegian Civil Aviation Authorities Geographical
Information System (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LGK. Pulau Langkawi Airport. Malaysia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LGR. Liquid Gas Ratio. (Drilling/2.16)
LGS. Low Gravity Solids. (Drilling/2.16)
LGT. Light, Lighting. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LGTD. Lighted. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LGV. Lymphogranuloma Venereum. (Medical/1.05)
LGV. Light Goods Vehicle. (General/2.14)
LGW. Gatwick. London Airport. England. (Airport Codes/1.05)
LH. Lufthansa. (Airline Codes/1.05)
LH. Luteinizing Hormone. (Medical/1.05)
LHD. Left Hand Drive. (General/1.05)
LHE. Le Havre. France. (Airport Codes/1.05)
LHN. Long Haul Network. (See WAN) (IT, Computing/2.13)
LHO. Laughing Head Off. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
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LHP. Loop Heat Pipe. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
LHR. Heathrow. London Airport. England. (Airport Codes/1.05)
LH-RH. Luteinizing Hormone Releasing Hormone. (Medical/1.05)
LHS. Left Hand Side. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LHT. LuftHavnTjeneste. Norwegian. Airport services. E.g. terminal, fire fighting (Aviation Civil and
Military/1.05)
LHW. Lanzhou Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Li. Lithium. Atomic number 3. Atomic weight 6,939. Melting point 179 degrees c. (Litium. Det letteste
av alle metaller. Brukes til det meste fra glass til drifstoff for romfartГёyer. Virker ogsГҐ beroligende
pГҐ Manisk-deepresive. Thankyou DFOS i know who to contact when i reach this state) (Chemical
Elements/1.05)
li. Liechtenstein. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
LI. Level Indicator. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
LIB. Air Liberte. Duplicate see IJ (Airline Codes/1.05)
LIBOR. London Inter Bank Offered Rate. (General/1.07)
LIC. Level Indicator Controller. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
Lidar. Light Detection and Ranging. Optisk radar for mГҐling av Ozonlagets vertikale profil vha
lysimpulser pГҐ 2 forskjellige frekvenser. Svalbard (General/1.05)
LIF. Lighting Industry Federation. (General/2.10)
LIF. Laser Induced Fluorescence. (General/2.10)
LIFO. Last In First Out. See FIFO (Petrochemical/1.10)
LIH. Light Intensity High. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LIL. Lille Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LIL. Light Intensity Low. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LIM. Jorge Chavez International. Lima Airport. Peru. (Airport Codes/1.05)
LIM. Light Intensity Medium. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LIN. Linate. Milan Airport. Italy. Duplicate see MXP (Airport Codes/1.05)
LIO. Local Intelligence Officer. (Policing/2.14)
Lip. Lipid. (Medical/1.05)
liq. Liquid. (Medical/1.05)
Liquidated Damages. A penalty for failing to achieve the impossible. (Humour/1.05)
LIRS. Low Impact Resistant Supports. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
LIS. Lisboa. Lisbon Airport. Portugal. (Airport Codes/1.05)
Lisp. LISt Processing language. (IT, Languages/1.05)
LIT. Little Rock Airport. AR. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LJBF. Let’s Just Be Friends. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
LJU. Ljubljana Airport. Slovenia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
lk. Sri Lanka. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
LKL. Banak. Lakselv Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.05)
LKO. Lowest Known Oil. (Drilling/2.16)
LKR. Sri Lankan Rupee. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
LKS. Liver, Kidney, Spleen. (Medical/1.05)
LLA. Kallax. LuleГҐ Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
LLC. Logical Link Control. (General/1.05)
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LLDPE. Linear Low Density Polyethylene. (General/2.14)
LLL. Low Liquid Level. (Petrochemical/1.07)
LLL. Left Lower Lobe. (Medical/1.05)
LLQ. Left Lower Quadrant. (Medical/1.05)
LLTA. Lots and Lots of Thunderous Applause. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
LLW. Lilongwe Airport. Malawi. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LLZ. Localiser. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LM. Locator Middle. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LMAO. Laughing My Ass Off. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
LMD. Local Medical Doctor. (Medical/1.05)
LMDPE. Linear Medium Density Polyethylene. (General/2.14)
LMDS. Local Multipoint Distribution Services. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
LMFBR. Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor. (Nuclear power/2.10)
LMHO. Laughing My Head Off. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
LMIRL. Lets Meet In Real Life. (IT, Internet Chat/2.14)
LMN. Limbang Airport. Malaysia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LMP. Last Menstrual Period, Lumbar Puncture. (Medical/1.05)
LMSO. Laughing My Socks Off. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
LMT. Local Mean Time. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LMV. Lower Master Valve. (Drilling/2.16)
LNB. Low Noise Block. The head on a satellite dish (Satellite Broadcasting/2.09)
LNG. Liquefied Natural Gas. (Petrochemical/1.07)
LNG. Long (used to indicate type of approach desired or required). (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LNMP. Last Normal Menstrual Period. (Medical/1.05)
LNN. Lausanne Airport. Switzerland. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LNZ. Linz Airport. Austria. (Airport Codes/1.05)
LO. Lube Oil. (Petrochemical/1.07)
LO. Locator Outer. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LOA. Letter Of Agreement. (Petrochemical/1.07)
LOC. Localiser. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
LOC. Letter Of Conformity. or Compliance (Petrochemical/1.07)
LOC. Level Of Consciousness. (Medical/1.05)
LOC. Local, Locally, Location, Located. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LOFS. Life of Field Scheme. (Petrochemical/2.08)
LOI. Letter of Intent. (Petrochemical/2.11)
LOIS. Landing & Operational Information System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
LOL. Lots Of Luck. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
LOL. Laughing Out Loud. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
LOLER. Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations. (Drilling/2.16)
LON. London Airport. UK. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LON. Longitude. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LORAN. Long Range Air Navigation System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LOS. Murtala Muhammed. Lagos Airport. Nigeria. (Airport Codes/1.05)
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LOT. Lock Open Tool. (Drilling/2.16)
LOT. Leak Off Test. (Petrochemical/1.07)
LOT. Linear Override Tool. (Drilling/2.16)
LOTO. Lock Out Tag Out. (Drilling/2.16)
Low Bidder. A contractor wondering what he left out. (Humour/1.05)
LP. Lumbar Puncture. (Medical/1.05)
LP. Low Pressure. (Petrochemical/1.07)
LP. Liquefied Petroleum. (General/2.10)
LP. Long Playing. Record / Vinyl (General/2.10)
LPA. Gran Canaria. Las Palmas Airport. Spain. (Airport Codes/1.05)
LPA. Local Planning Authority. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
LPAS. LVs Parkeringsanlegg AS. Norwegian Civil Aviation Authorities Parking Facility (registered
company) (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LPB. La Paz. El Alto (Airport Codes/1.07)
LPC. Linear Prediction Code. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
LPE. Liquid Penetrant Examination. (Petrochemical/1.07)
LPG. Liquified Petroleum Gas. (Drilling/2.16)
LPG. Liquefied Petroleum Gas. (Petrochemical/1.07)
LPGA. Liquefied Petroleum Gas Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
LPH. Landing Platform Helicopter. (Military/1.06)
LPHB. Left Posterior Hemiblock. (Medical/1.05)
LPI. Lines Per Inch. The number of lines a printer can print in a linear inch (IT, Computing/1.05)
LPI. Linkoping Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
LPL. Liverpool Airport. UK. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LPN. Licenced Practical Nurse. (Medical/1.05)
LPP. Lappeenranta. (Airport Codes/1.07)
LPTTL. Low Power Transistor Transistor Logic. Type of chip. Buy a book on integrated circuits if you
need a description (IT, Computing/1.05)
LQ. Living Quarters (Accommodation). (Petrochemical/1.05)
LR. Level Recorder. (Petrochemical/1.07)
LR. Long Radius. On an elbow (Petrochemical, Piping/1.07)
lr. Liberia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
LRD. Laredo Airport. TX. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LRD. Liberian Dollar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
LRE. Last Revised Estimate. LRE=ACWP+ETC (Project Management/1.10)
LRF. Little Rubber Feet. (the little pads on the bottom of displays and other equipment) (IT, Internet
Chat/2.11)
LRG. Long Range. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LRID. Logical Record Identification. (IT, Computing/1.05)
LRM. Last Responsible Moment. (IT, Computing/2.12)
LRM. Lowest Replaceable Module. (IT, Computing/1.05)
LRP. Lower Riser Package. (Drilling/2.16)
LRS. Lloyds Register of Shipping. (General/1.07)
LRT. Lorient Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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LRU. Line Replaceable Unit. Lowest Replaceable Unit (LRM - Module) (IT, Computing/1.05)
LS. Lump Sum. (Project Management/1.07)
ls. Lesotho. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
LS. Late Start. Late start and finish dates are calculated during a backward pass of the network.
Calculations are started with a completion date, which may be the expected completion date
computed during the forward pass, or a target completion date that is imposed. If the last activity
in the network has a LF on day 10 and a duration of 5 days its LS date will be day 6. Any activities
preceding it will have a LF date of day 5. However when the Late Finish of an activity is
dependent on more than one succeeding activity it's LF date is the minimum LS date of the
succeeding activities. LS = LF - Duration. The LS date of the first activity in the network is the
latest date that the project must start on if the objectives of the network are to be met. If the
expected completion date of the project calculated during the forward pass was used as the LF
date of the last activity in the network, then the LS date of the first activity in the network will be
equal to it's ES date. See FS, SS, TF, FF, ES, EF, LS, LF, Network, AON, AOA, CPM, CPA (Project
Management, Planning/1.08)
LSAP. Link Service Access Point. (IT, Computing/1.05)
LSB. Least Significant Byte. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
LSB. Left Sternal Border. (Medical/1.05)
LSB. Least Significant bit. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
LSE. Local Security Environment. (Policing/2.14)
LSFROH. Low Smoke Flame Retarding Halogen Free. (General/1.05)
LSHMBA. Laughing So Hard My Belly Aches. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
LSHMBH. Laughing So Hard My Belly Hurts. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
LSI. Large Scale Integration. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
LSL. Landing Ship Logistic. (Military/1.06)
LSL. Lesothoian Loti. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
LSOBM. Low Solids Oil Based Mud. (Drilling/2.16)
LSQ. Line Squall. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LSR. Life Saving Rules. (Drilling/2.16)
LSV. Light Strike Vehicle. (Military/1.10)
LSZ. Losinj Airport. Croatia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LT. Level Transmitter. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
lt. Lithuania. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
LTA. Lost Time Accident. (Petrochemical/2.10)
LTB. Local Tender Board. (Petrochemical/1.07)
LTCP. Long Term Car Park. (General/2.13)
LTD. Limited. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LTDR. LeverandГёrens tegninger og dokumentregister. (Petrochemical/1.07)
LTHTT. Laughing Too Hard To Type. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
LTI. Lost Time Injury. A measure of safety performance. An injury that results in a worker not being
able to continue working (Project Management/1.07)
LTIF. Lost Time Injury Frequency. A measure of safety performance (Project Management/1.07)
LTK. Latakia Airport. Syria. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LTL. Lithuanian Lita. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
LTM. Laughing To Myself. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
LTN. Luton Airport. England. (Airport Codes/1.05)
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ltn. Long ton. Avoirdupois system. 2240 pounds = 1 long ton = 1016,0416 kg (Weights & Measures,
Imperial/1.05)
LTNS. Long Time No See. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
LTNT. Long Time, No Type. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
LTO. Low Toxic Oil. (Petrochemical/1.07)
LTOBM. Low Toxicity Oil Based Mud. (Drilling/2.16)
LTPS. Low Temperature PolySilicon. A technology used in manufacturing LCDs (IT, Computing/1.05)
LTR. Long Term Relationship. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
LTT. Landline TeleTypewriter. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LTT. LuftTrafikkTjeneste. Norwegian. Air Traffic Services. E.g. Tower, Meteorology (Aviation Civil and
Military/1.05)
Lu. Lutetium. Atomic number 71. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
lu. Luxembourg. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
Lubeoil. Luricating oil. Used to grease mechanical joints and moving parts (Petrochemical/2.01)
LUF. Luxembourg Franc. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
LUG. Lugano Airport. Switzerland. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LUL. London Underground Limited. (General/2.12)
LUL. Left Upper Lobe. (Medical/1.05)
LULAB. Love You Like/Love A Brother. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
LULAS. Love You Like A Sister. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
LUN. Lusaka Airport. Zambia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LUP. Lying Up Point. (Military/1.10)
LUQ. Left Upper Quadrant. (Medical/1.05)
LUR. Lokalt utstyrsrom. (Petrochemical/1.07)
LUWAMH. Love You With All My Heart. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
LUX. Findel. Luxembourg Airport. (Airport Codes/1.05)
LV. Low Voltage. (Petrochemical/1.07)
lv. Latvia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
LV. Luftfartsverket. Norwegian. Civil Aviation Authority (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LV. Light and Variable (relating to wind). (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LVDT. Linear Variable Differential Transformer. (Petrochemical/1.07)
LVE. Leave, Leaving. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LVEDP. Left Ventricular End Diastolic Pressure. (Medical/1.05)
LVH. Left Ventricular Hypertrophy. (Medical/1.05)
LVL. Latvian Lat. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
LVL. Level. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LW. Long Wave. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
Lw. Lawrencium. Atomic number 103. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
LWD. Logging While Drilling. (Petrochemical/2.06)
LWGR. Light Water Graphite Moderated Reactor. (Nuclear power/1.05)
LWR. Light Water Reactor. (Nuclear power/1.05)
LWY. Lawas Airport. Malaysia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LXA. Lhaza Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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LXR. Luxor Airport. Egypt. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ly. Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
LY. Love You. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
LY4E. Love You Forever. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
LYC. Lycksele. (Airport Codes/1.07)
LYD. Libyan Dinar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
LYLAB. Love You Like A Brother. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
LYLAS. Love You Like A Sister. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
LYP. Faisalabad Airport. Pakistan. (Airport Codes/1.06)
LYR. Svalbard. Longyearbyen Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.05)
LYR. Layer, Layered. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
LYS. Satolas. Lyon Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.05)
LZ. Landing Zone. (Military/1.10)
LZ. Balkanair. (Airline Codes/1.05)
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14. Mike
M. Mach number (followed by figures). (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
m. Metres. Linear measure. 1m = 3,281 feet (Weights & Measures, Metric/1.05)
m. Murmur. (Medical/1.05)
M. Midnight, Monoclonal. (Medical/1.05)
ma. Morocco. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
mA. Milliampere. (Weights & Measures, Electrical/2.11)
MA. Moisture Alarm. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MA. Malev. (Airline Codes/1.07)
MAA. Madras Airport. India. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MAA. Maximum Authorised Altitude. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MAASP. Maximum Allowable Annular Surface Pressure. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MAASP. Maximum Acceptable Annular Shut in Pressure. (Drilling/2.16)
MAB. Marine Amphibious Brigade. (Military/1.05)
MAC. Macao Airport. Macau. Duplicate see MFM (Airport Codes/1.06)
MAC. Mechanical Acceptance Certificate. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MAC. Mycobacterium Avium Complex. (Medical/1.05)
MAC. Multiplex Analog Component. TV Satellite Standard (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
MAC. Mobile Attenuation Code. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
MAC. Medium Access Control. A unique identifier for PC cards (IT, Computing/1.05)
MACC. Military Aid to the Civil Community. (Policing/2.14)
MACE.
Methotrexate,
(Medical/1.05)
Doxorubicin
(Adriamycin),
Cyclophosphamide,
Epipodophyllotoxin.
MACF. Multiple Association Control Function. (IT, Computing/1.05)
MACP. Military Aid to the Civil Power. (Military/1.06)
Macro. A series of special instructions for a program. Macros enable a user to automate repetitive
tasks with programs like MS Word or Excel (Modern day equivalent of batch processing) (IT,
Languages/1.05)
Macro virus. A self replicating piece of code written in an application's macro language. Macro
viruses are very easy to create or modify. The distinguishing factor that makes it possible to
create a virus with a macro is the existence of auto-execute macros in the macro language. An
auto-execute macro is one that is executed in response to an event such as opening or closing a
file, and not in response to an explicit user command. Once a Macro virus is running, it can copy
itself to other documents, delete files, and create general problems in a system. These things
occur without the user explicitly running the macro. Macro viruses spread by having one or more
auto-execute macros in a document. Opening or closing the document or using the "replace"
command, activates the virus macro. When the macro is activated, it copies itself and any other
macros it needs, to the global macro file NORMAL.DOT. After they are stored in NORMAL.DOT
they are available in all open documents. At this point, the macro viruses try to spread themselves
to other documents, usually by including an Autoclose macro that attaches the virus macro to the
document and saves it. The Macro viruses that cause damage contain a trigger that starts the
damage routines. The trigger is some event that the virus writer has programmed the virus to
watch for, such as a date or the number of days since the infection occurred (IT,
Computing/1.05)
MAD. Mean Absolute Deviation. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
MAD. Barajas. Madrid Airport. Spain. (Airport Codes/1.05)
MAD. Moroccan Dirham. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
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MADS. Modified Automatic Dependant Surveillance. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MAF. Midland Airport. TX. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MAFF. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. (Government office/2.13)
MAG. Magnetic. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MAH. Moisture Alarm High. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MAIB. Marine Accident Investigation Branch. (Government office/2.14)
MAINT. Maintenance. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MALS. Medium Intensity Approach Lighting System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
MALSF. Medium Intensity Approach Lighting System with Sequenced Flashers. (Aviation Civil and
Military/2.02)
MALSR. Medium Intensity Approach Lighting System with Runway Alignment Indicator Lights.
(Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
MAN. Manchester Airport. England. (Airport Codes/1.05)
MAN. Metroplitan Area Network. See LAN, WAN (IT, Computing/1.05)
Management by Project. The term used to describe the process of applying project management
techniques to traditional management processes. (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
MAO. Manaus Airport. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MAO. Monoamine Oxidase. (Medical/1.05)
MAOC. Maritime Air Operation Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MAP. Aeronautical maps and charts. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MAP. Mean Arterial Pressure. (Medical/1.05)
MAPE. Mean Absolute Percentage Errors. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
MAPI. Messaging Application Programming Interface. Microsoft standard (IT, Computing/1.05)
MAPPA. Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements. (Policing/2.14)
MAPPP. Multi Agency Public Protection Panel. (Policing/2.14)
MAPT. Missed Approach Point. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MAR. At sea. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MAR. March. (Time or Space/1.05)
MAR. Maracaibo Airport. Venezuela. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MARS. Multiple Aircraft Ramp System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
MAS. Manual A1 simplex. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MAS. Multiplexer Alarm System. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MAS. Main Air Station. (Military/1.05)
MAST. Mutual Aid Support Team. (Policing/2.14)
MASU. Manoeuvring Area Safety Unit. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
MAT. Multi-focal Atrial Tachycardia. (Medical/1.05)
MATO. Military Air Traffic Operations. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.14)
MATS. Manual of Air Traffic Services. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
MAU. Media Adapter Units. (IT, Computing/1.05)
MAWP. Maximum Acceptable Working Pressure. (Drilling/2.16)
MAWP. Maximum Allowable Working Pressure. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MAX. Maximum. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MAY. The month of May. (Time or Space/1.05)
Mayday. An international distress word used by ships and aircraft. (General/2.02)
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MB. Izoenzyme Of Cardiac Origin. (Medical/1.05)
Mb. Megabyte. One million Bytes. See bits, bytes, Kb, Mb, Gb, Tb, Pb (IT, Units/1.05)
MB. Megged Both ends. Cable Status (OSL Project Related/1.05)
MBA. Mombasa Airport. Kenya. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MBC. Minimum Bactericidal Concentration. (Medical/1.05)
MBE. Member of the British Empire. (Qualification, Award, Title/1.05)
MBh. 1,000 BTU per Hour. (Weights & Measures, Imperial/2.14)
MBJ. Montego Bay Airport. Jamaica. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MBM. Multi Bit Map. A standard Epoc OS file format called multi bit map. One or several image(s)
formed by a rectangular grid of pixels, stored after each other in the file (Epoc/2.03)
MBO. Management by Objectives. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
MBOE. Million Barrels Oil Equivalent. (Petrochemical/1.08)
Mbps. Megabytes per second. (Or Million bits per second). Data transfer rate over for example a
telephone line (IT, Computing/1.05)
MBS. Saginaw Airport. MI. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MBX. Maribor Airport. Slovenia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MC. Mechanical Completion. (Petrochemical/1.07)
mc. Monaco. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
MC. Military Committee. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MCA. Micro Channel Architecture. IBM PS/2 bus. See Bus, ISA, EISA, PCI, PCMCIA (IT,
Computing/1.05)
MCA. Maritime & Coastguard Agency. (Government office/2.14)
MCA. Middle Cerebral Artery. (Medical/1.05)
MCA. Minimum Crossing Altitude. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MCAC. Mechanical Completion Acceptance Certificate. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MCB. Miniature Circuit Breaker. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MCC. Motor Control Centre. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MCDDD. Multi-Carrier Demultiplexer/Demodulator/Decoder. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
MCFD. Millions of cubic feet per day. (Petrochemical/1.08)
MCI. Kansas City International Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
MCI. Media Control Interface. (IT, Telecommunications/2.14)
MCL. Midclavicular Line. (Medical/1.05)
MCM. Manifold Choke Module. (Drilling/2.16)
MCMV. Mine Counter Measures Vessel. (Military/1.06)
MCO. Miscellaneous Charges Order. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
MCO. Orlando International. Florida Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
MCP. Metacarpophalangeal. (Medical/1.05)
MCP. Motor Control Panel. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MCP. Management and Control Protocol. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
MCR. Motor Control Room. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MCR. Marine Control Room. (Petrochemical/1.05)
MCS. Manifold and Connection System. (Drilling/2.16)
MCS. Master Control Schedule. (Project Management/1.07)
MCS. Master Control Station. (Drilling/2.16)
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MCS. Manifold Connection System. (Petrochemical/2.15)
MCT. Muscat Airport. Oman. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MCT. Minimum Connecting Time. Guaranteed (IT, Computing/1.05)
MCT. Minimum Connection Time. For transfer passengers (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
MCT. Multi Cable Transit. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MCTD. Mixed Connective Tissue Disease. (Medical/1.05)
MCU. Master Control Unit. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
MCV. Mean Cell Volume. (Medical/1.05)
MCW. Modulated Continuous Wave. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
md. Moldova, Republic Of. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
Md. Mendelium. Atomic number 101. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
MD. Military District. (Military/1.05)
MD. Measured Depth. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MD. Metal Deactivator. (General/2.14)
MDA. Minimum Descent Altitude. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MDA. Monochrome Adapter. See Video Board (IT, Computing/1.05)
MDB. Main Distribution Board. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MDBM. Materials Design Basis Memorandum. (Petrochemical/2.11)
MDBMS. Multidimensional DataBase Management Systems. Traditional databases are two
dimensional, consisting of rows (records) and columns (fields). A MDBMS allows storage and
retrieval of data as a cubed matrix. An example application is storage of geographical data from a
drilling survey program. See MDD, OLAP, MOLAP, BLObs, OODBMS (IT, Languages/1.05)
MDC. Manado Airport. Indonesia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MDC. Main Display Controller. (IT, Computing/1.05)
MDD. Multidimensional Discrete Data. An array of data which is variable in size and dimension. See
MDBMS, OLAP, MOLAP, BLObs, OODBMS (IT, Languages/1.05)
MDE. Medellin Airport. Colombia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MDF. Medium frequency Direction Finding station. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MDF. Maritime Directional Finding. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MDFT. Minimum Dry Film Thickness. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MDH. Minimum Descent Height. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MDI. Main Data Ingest. (IT, Computing/1.05)
MDL. Moldavian Leu. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
MDO. Medium Diesel Oil. (Petrochemical/2.07)
MDP. Ministry of Defence Police. (Government office/2.14)
MDPE. Medium Density Polyethylene. (General/2.14)
MDR. Multimode Digital Radio. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
MDR. Master Document Register. See SDR (Project Management/1.06)
MDS. Message Data Store. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
MDS. Material Data Sheet. (Petrochemical/2.15)
MDS. Main Deck Structure. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MDSS. Measured Depth Sub Sea. (Drilling/2.16)
MDT. Minimum Design Temperature. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MDT. Mountain Daylight Time. (US and Canada) (Time or Space/2.03)
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MEA. Minimun En-route Altitude. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MEA. East Midlands Airport. UK. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Measure of Capacity. There are three systems of measurement, the British imperial system, the US
liquid measure, and the US dry measure. Liquid and dry goods were once measured using
different systems with varying measures, wine gallon, ale gallon, Winchester bushel, etc. The
liquid measures used in the US today are similar to the now defunct wine gallon. While the
standard US bushel (dry measure) used in the US is similar to the defunct Winchester bushel. The
Imperial system for measuring capacity was established in England in 1824 for measurement of
both liquid and dry goods. The metric system of measurement is a lot easier than these systems
but is not as quaint. Eg. "We downed a hogshead of ale last night", loses a lot in the conversion
to "We downed 238,5 litres of pils last night" (Weights & Measures, Imperial/1.05)
MEB. Marine Expeditionary Brigade. (Military/1.05)
MEB. Melbourne Airport. VI. Australia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MED. Medical. (Medical/1.05)
med. Medication. (Medical/1.05)
MEG. Monoethylene Glycol. (Petrochemical/1.07)
Mega. SI number prefix 1.000.000. Abbreviated as M. One Million (SI Number Prefixes/2.08)
MEGO. My Eyes Glaze Over. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
MEHT. Minimum Eye Height over Threshold. For visual approach slope indicator systems (Aviation
Civil and Military/1.05)
MEL. Master Equipment List. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MEL. Tullamarine. Melbourne Airport. Australia. (Airport Codes/1.05)
MEM. Memphis Airport. TN. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Memes. In relation to the WWW a catchword or concept that spreads in a fast way over the Internet.
(IT, Computing/2.14)
Memory. The name given to a computers storage area for processing. E.g. Random Access memory
holds information fed to it by the hard drive for the processor (CPU) to access and process at
quick speeds. Memory is usually manufactured on a (silicon) chip. The most common type of
memory is volatile, which means that all data is lost if the power source is removed. See RAM and
ROM (IT, Computing/1.05)
MEN. Mutiple Endocrine Neoplasia. (Medical/1.05)
MEO. Medium Earth Orbit. A type of satellite orbit. See GEO, LEO, and HALE (Time or Space/1.05)
mEq. Milliequivalent. (Medical/1.05)
MER. Relative to mean sea level. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MERCAD. Measurement Electronically Recorded Computer Aided Design. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MERP. Medical Emergency Response Procedure. (Drilling/2.16)
MERP. Medical Emergency Response Plan. (Drilling/2.16)
MERSA. Methicilin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus. (Medical/1.05)
MES. Medan Airport. Indonesia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MET. Middle European Time. (Time or Space/2.03)
MET. Meteorological, Meteorology. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
METAR. Aviation Routine Weather Report. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
METBRIEF. METeorological selfBRIEFing station. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
mets. Metastases. (Medical/1.05)
MeV. Million electron Volts. (Electrical/2.10)
MEX. Benito Juarez International. Mexico City Airport. Mexico. (Airport Codes/1.05)
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MEZ. Missile Engagement Zone. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MF. Megged From end. Cable Status (OSL Project Related/1.05)
MF. Medium Frequency. (300 to 3 000 KHz). See EHF, ELF, HF, LF, SHF, UHF, VHF, VLF (Aviation
Civil and Military/1.05)
MF. Maturation Factor. (Medical/1.05)
MFC. Multi Frequency Code. (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
MFD. Mechanical Flow Diagram. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MFE. Mac Allen Airport. TX. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MFH. Missing From Home. (Policing/2.14)
MFI. Melt Flow Index. (General/2.14)
MFM. Macao Airport. Macau. Duplicate see MAC (Airport Codes/1.06)
MFR. Medford Airport. OR. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
mg. Madagascar. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
mg. Milligram. 1/1000 of a gram. Measure of weight. 1000mg = 100cg = 10dg = 1g = 0,35 ounces
(avoirdupois) (Weights & Measures, Metric/1.05)
Mg. Magnesium. Atomic number 12. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
MGA. Managua Airport. Nicaragua. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MGF. Malagasian Franc. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
MGM. Montgomery Airport. AL. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MGQ. Mogadishu Airport. Somalia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MGS. Mud Gas Separator. (Drilling/2.16)
MgSO4. Magnesium Sulfate. (Chemical Compounds/2.14)
mh. Marshall Islands. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
MH. Malignant Hyperthermia. (Medical/1.05)
MHDF. Medium and High frequency Direction Finding Stations. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MHIC. My Husband Is Coming. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
MHOTY. My Hat's Off To You. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
MHQ. Mariehamn Airport. Finland. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MHS. Message Handling System or Message Handling Service. (IT, Computing/1.05)
MHT. Manchester Airport. NH. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MHTAP. Microhemmagglutination Assay For Antibody To Treponema Pallidum. (Medical/1.05)
MHVDF. Medium High and Very high frequency Direction Finding stations.
Military/1.05)
(Aviation Civil and
MHz. Megahertz. See Frequency (Weights & Measures, Other/1.05)
MI. Moisture Indicator. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
MI. Military Intelligence. (Military/1.10)
MI. Mentally Ill. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
mi. Mile. Linear measure. 5280' = 1 mile = 1,6093 km (Weights & Measures, Imperial/1.05)
MI. Meteorologiske Institutt. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
MI. Miocardial Infarction. (Medical/1.05)
MIA. Miami International Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
MIA. Missing In Action. (Military/1.05)
MIB. Management Information Base. (IT, Computing/1.05)
MIBG. Meta-Iodobenzyl Guanidine. (Medical/1.05)
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MIC. Minimum Inhibitory Concentration. (Medical/1.05)
MIC. Moisture Indicator Controller. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
micro. SI number prefix 0,000 001. Abbreviated as Вµ. One millionth (SI Number Prefixes/2.08)
Micro Processor. A small processor manufactured on a single chip. The first micro processor was
produced in 1972 by the Intel corporation it was the model 4004 (IT, Computing/1.05)
MICS. Mineral Insulated Copper Sheathed. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
MID. Motor Insurance Database. (Policing/2.14)
MID. Multiplex Identifier. (IT, Computing/1.05)
MID. Mid point (related to RVR). (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MIDI. Musical Instrument Digital Interface. (IT, Computing/1.05)
MIFG. Shallow Fog. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MIK. Mikkeli. (Airport Codes/1.07)
MIL. Milan Airport. Italy. (Airport Codes/1.06)
mil. United States military. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
MIL. Military. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Milestone. An event. An activity of zero duration which represents a significant deliverable or stage
of the project. (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
Milestone Plan. A plan containing the project milestones that represent the significant deliverables
or stages of a project. (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
MILJ�SOK. Miljøutfordringer for norsk sokkelvirksomhet. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
milli. SI number prefix 0,001. Abbreviated as m. One thousandth (SI Number Prefixes/2.08)
MIME. Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension. (IT, Computing/1.05)
MIN. Mobile Identification Number. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
MIN. Minutes. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
min. Minim. Measure of capacity Imperial. 1 minims = 0,0592 ml (Weights & Measures,
Imperial/1.05)
MIPS. Million Instructions Per Second. (IT, Computing/1.05)
MIR. Monastir. Tunisa. (Airport Codes/1.05)
MIR. Material Integrity Report. (Petrochemical/2.11)
MIRV. Multiple Independently targetable Re-entry Vehicle. (Military/1.05)
MIS. Management Information System. (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
MIS. Meteorological Information System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Mis en Bouteille au Chateau or au Domaine. A "chateau vintage" This may be a quality criterion,
but is not necessarily so. An indication of the origin of the wine, and that the bottling has taken
place at the ideal time in the development of the wine (Wine Label Terms/1.05)
MISPER. Missing Person. (Policing/2.14)
mixt. Mixture. (Medical/1.05)
MIYP. maximum internal yield pressure. (Drilling/2.16)
MJF. Mosjoen Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MJN. Majunga Airport. Madagascar. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MJT. Mitlini. (Airport Codes/1.05)
mk. Macedonia, Former Yugoslavia Rep. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
MKD. Macedonian Denar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
MKE. Milwaukee Airport. WI. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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MKG. Muskegon Airport. MI. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MKR. Marker Radio Beacon. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ML. Malignant Lymphoma. (Medical/1.05)
ml. Mali. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
ml. Millilitre. 1/1000 of a litre. Measure of capacity. 1000ml = 100cl = 10dl = 1l = 1,7596 pints =
0,21997 gallons (imperial) (Weights & Measures, Metric/1.05)
MLA. Multiple Letter Acronym. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
MLA. Malta. (Airport Codes/1.05)
MLB. Melbourne Airport. FL. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MLE. Male Airport. Indonesia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MLF. Marine Loading Facility. (Drilling/2.16)
MLH. Mulhouse. (Airport Codes/1.05)
MLI. Moline Airport. IL. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MLS. Microwave Landing System. Instrument Landing System based on microwave transmissions
(Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MLS. Maximum Length Sequence. Measurement for analysing sound (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
MLV. Medium Launch Vehicle. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MLW. Maximum Landing Weight. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
MLW. Monrovia Airport. Liberia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MLWA. Maximum Landing Weight Authorised. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
mm. Millimeter. 1/1000 of a meter. Linear measure.1000mm = 100cm = 10dm = 1m = 3,281 feet
(Weights & Measures, Metric/1.05)
MM. Mobility Management. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
mm. Myanmar. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
MM. Middle Marker. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MM. Multimode fibre. (IT, Computing/1.05)
MM. Million. (Petrochemical/2.07)
MMA. Malmo Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.06)
mmbbls. Million barrels. (Petrochemical/2.07)
mmboe. Million barrels of oil equivalent. (Petrochemical/2.07)
MMC. Multi Media Cards. An MMC is a small solid state storage device (IT, Computing/1.05)
MMC. Man Machine Communication. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MME. Teeside International Airport. England. (Airport Codes/1.05)
MMI. Man Machine Interface. (IT, Computing/1.05)
MMK. Murmansk Airport. Russia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MMK. Myanmarian Kyat. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
MMMF. Man Made Mineral Fibres. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
MMMI. (M3I) Managing Monitoring Mapping and Inferencing. (IT, Computing/1.05)
MMO. Main Mechanical Outfitting. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MMS. Maintenance Management System. (IT, Computing/1.05)
MMS. Multimedia Message Service. (IT, Telecommunications/2.12)
MMS. Manufacturing Messaging Service. (IT, Computing/1.05)
mmscf. million standard cubic feet. (Petrochemical/2.08)
mmscfd. Million standard cubic feet per day. (Petrochemical/2.07)
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MMSE. Mini Mental State Exam. (Medical/1.05)
mmstb. millions of stock tank barrels. (Petrochemical/2.08)
MMT. Material Movement Ticket. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MMTPA. Millions of Metric Tonnes per Annum. (Drilling/2.16)
MMX. Multi Media eXtensions. MMX technology includes new instructions and data types. Using the
Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD) technique, these instructions process multiple data
elements in parallel which can enhance performance. Application types that benefit most from
MMX technology are 2D and 3D graphics, audio, video, and data compression. MMX instructions
using the SIMD technique are designed to speed up the algorithms in these applications to
improve the performance and quality of activities such as interactive video, virtual reality, and
realistic 3D environments (IT, Computing/1.05)
MMX. Sturup. Malmo Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
Mn. Manganese. Atomic number 25. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
mn. Mongolia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
MNC. Major NATO Commands. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Mnemonic. Programming abbreviation where the sound suggests the meaning. (Mnemosyne a Titan,
was the Greek goddess of memory). Eg. The command LDA means LoaD Accumulator, MOV
means move, ADD means add (IT, Languages/1.05)
MNL. Ninoy Akino. Manila Airport. Philipines. (Airport Codes/1.05)
MNM. Minimum. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MNPS. Minimum Navigation Performance System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MNR. Minimum Noise Route. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
MNS. Message Normalisation Server. (IT, Computing/1.05)
MNT. Monitor, Monitoring, Monitored. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MNT. Mongolian Tugrik. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
MNTN. Maintain. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MO. Modus Operandi. (Policing/2.14)
Mo. Molybdenum. Atomic number 42. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
mo. Macau. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
MOA. Military Operating Area. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MOB. Man Overboard Boat. (Petrochemical/1.05)
MOB. Mobile Airport. AL. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MOC. Minimum Obstacle Clearance. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MOC. Management Of Change. (Drilling/2.16)
MOD. Moderate. Used to indicate the intensity of weather phenomena interference or static e.g. MOD
RA = Moderate Rain (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MOD. Ministry Of Defence. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MOD. Modification. (General/1.05)
MODACE. Management of Disaster and Civil Emergency. (Policing/2.14)
Modem. MODulator/DEModulator. A device which allows two computers to communicate with each
other over a telephone line. The modulator converts digital to analogue, and the demodulator
converts back to digital (IT, Computing/1.05)
MODU. Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit. (Drilling/2.16)
MOE. Method of Entry. (Policing/2.14)
MOF. Marine Offloading Facility. (Drilling/2.16)
MOF. Matter Of Fact. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
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MOIS. Meteorological Observation and Information System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MOL. Molde. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.05)
MOLAP. Multidimensional OnLine Analytical Programming. See MDD, OLAP, MDBMS, BLObs,
OODBMS (IT, Languages/1.05)
MOM. Milk Of Magnesia. (Medical/1.05)
MOM. Minutes Of Meeting. (General/1.05)
MOME. Management Of Major Emergencies. (Drilling/2.16)
MON. Above mountains. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MON. Monday. (Time or Space/1.05)
MON. Mo I Rana Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Monkey Board. . The catwalk along the side of a drilling derrick about 35 or 40 feet above the drill
floor, the monkey board is where the derrick man works while tripping drill pipe (Drilling/2.16)
MONTE. Meteorological Operational Telecommunications Network Europe.
Military/1.05)
(Aviation Civil and
Monte Carlo Analysis. A risk/probability analysis performed on a network. See PERT (Project
Management, Planning/1.10)
MOP. Macau Pataca. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
MOPO. Manual Of Permitted Operations. (Drilling/2.16)
MOPP. Mechlorethamine, Vincristine (Oncovin), Procabarbazine, Prednisone. (Medical/1.05)
MOPS. Minimum Operational Performance Standards. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MOPU. Mobile Offshore Production Unit. (Drilling/2.16)
MOR. Military Operational Requirements. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MOR. Meteorological Optical Range. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MorF. Male or Female. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
Morgan. A great British sports car. (General/1.05)
Morgan. Welsh buccaneer. Sir Henry Morgan (1635-88), was born in Llanrhymny. It is believed that
he was kidnapped in Bristol when a boy and sold as a servant on the West Indian island of
Barbados. From there he worked his way to Jamaica, and joined the buccaneers, pirates who
preyed on Spanish settlements and shipping. By 1666 he was in command of his own vessel.
Commissioned by the governor of Jamaica to carry on hostilities against the Spanish, Morgan
captured and sacked settlements in Cuba, Panama, and Venezuela. He was brought to England in
1672 to be tried for plundering Panama City after a treaty had been signed between England and
Spain. Convinced of his loyalty, King Charles II knighted Morgan and appointed him lieutenant
governor of Jamaica. The difference between a buccaneer and a privateer is that a buccaneer is a
state sponsored pirate, whilst a privateer is a self employed pirate, ie. he is not bothered about
the nationality of the ships and settlements he plunders! Captain Morgan was the most feared
and renowned of the buccaneers, he achieved state recognition for his state commissioned
exploits against the Spanish. On the other hand Blackbeard (an Englishman) was the most feared
of the privateers, Blackbeard died a bloody death off the coast of America at the hands of two
English frigates (General/1.05)
MOS. Meteorological Observation System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MOS. Maintenance Override Switch. (Petrochemical/2.11)
MOS. Metal Oxide Silicon. Type of chip. Buy a book on integrated circuits if you need a description
(IT, Computing/1.05)
mOsm. Milliosmol. (Medical/1.05)
MOSS. Member Of Same Sex. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
MOT. Ministry of Transport. (General/2.10)
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MOT. Marine Offloading Terminal. (Drilling/2.16)
MOTAS. Member Of The Appropriate Sex. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
MOTD. Message Of The Day. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
MOTIS. Message Oriented Text Interchange System. (IT, Computing/1.05)
MOTOS. Member Of The Opposite Sex. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
MOTSS. Member Of The Same Sex. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
MOU. Memorandum Of Understanding. (General/1.05)
MOU. Mobile Offshore Units. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MOV. Move, Moving, Movement. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MOW. Moscow Airport. Russia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MP. Metacarpophalangeal. (Medical/1.05)
mp. Northern Mariana Islands. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
MP. Member of Parliament. (General/2.14)
MP. Medium Pressure. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MPa. Megapascal. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MPA. Micropalaeo Analysis Report. (Drilling/2.16)
MPAPI. Mobile Phone Application Programme Interface. (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
MPB. Male Pattern Baldness. (Medical/1.05)
MPC. Maximum Permissible Concentrations. (General/2.10)
MPC. Mud Pump Control. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MPD. Multi Purpose Document. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
MPE. Maximum Permissible Exposure. (General/2.10)
MPEG. Motion Picture Experts Group. MPEG is a standard for compressing and decompressing
digitised audio and video. The difference between MPEG1 and MPEG2 is the rate at which bit
information is processed and the ability of MPEG2 to support fully interlaced video. This provides
MPEG2 with the ability to process information at a rate of up to four times that of MPEG1. The
result is improved video playback, crisper resolution and full-screen digital video. MPEG2 is fully
backward-compatible with MPEG1 (IT, Computing/1.05)
MPFM. Multi Phase Flow Meter. (Petrochemical/2.15)
MPFMRT. Multi Phase Flow Meter Running Tool. (Petrochemical/2.15)
MPGN. Membrane Proliferative Glomerulonephritis. (Medical/1.05)
MPH. Miles Per Hour. See KPH (Weights & Measures, Imperial/1.05)
MPI. Magnetic Particle Inspection. (Petrochemical/2.11)
MPL. Montpellier Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MPLS. Multi Protocol Label Switching. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
MPM. Maputo Airport. Mozambique. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MPP. Manpower Projection Plan. (Project Management/1.07)
MPPA. Million Passengers Per Annum. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
MPQT. Manufacturing Procedure Qualification Test. (Drilling/2.16)
MPS. Manufacturing Procedure Specification. (Drilling/2.16)
MPS. Metres Per Second. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MPT. Ministry of Post and Telegraph. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
MPT. Magnetic Particle Testing. (Petrochemical/1.07)
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MPT 1327. Ministry of Post and Telecommunication, Industry standard for Private Mobile Radio
(signalling). Norway (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
MPT 1343. Ministry of Post and Telecommunication, Industry standard for Private Mobile Radio
(radio interface). Norway (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
MPTP. Analog Of Mepoeridine (Uses By Drug Addicts). (Medical/1.05)
MPV. Multi Purpose Vessel. (Drilling/2.16)
MPWP. Maximum Permissible Working Pressure. (General/2.10)
mq. Martinique. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
MQC. Miquelon St Pierre Airport. ET. Miquelon. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MR. Material Requirements. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MR. Mitral Regurgitation. (Medical/1.05)
MR. Mentally Retarded. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
MR. Manufacturing Records. (Petrochemical/1.07)
mr. Mauritania. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
MRA. Moving Right Along. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
MRA. Minimum Reception Altitude. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MRB. Manufacturing Record Book. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MRBM. Medium Range Ballistic Missile. (Military/1.05)
MRC. Medical Research Council. (General/2.10)
MRCC. Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre. (Policing/2.14)
MRDP. Multi Radar Data Processing. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MRG. Medium Range. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MRI. Anchorage Merril Field Airport. AK. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MRI. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. (Medical/1.05)
MRL. Maximum Residue Limit. (General/2.10)
MRO. Mauritanian Ouguiya. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
MRP. ATS/MET Reporting Point. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MRR. Material Receipt Report. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MRS. Provence. Marseille Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.05)
MRSA. Methicilin Rresistant Staphylococcus Aureus. (Medical/1.05)
MRSC. Marine Rescue Sub-Centre. (Policing/2.14)
MRT. Mountain Rescue Team. (General/2.14)
MRT. Multi Radar Tracker. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MRU. Maurice Airport. Mauritius. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MRU. Maximum Receive Unit. (IT, Computing/2.13)
MRY. Monterey Airport. CA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MS. Multiple Sclerosis. (Medical/1.05)
MS. Store Message. (General/1.05)
MS. Minus. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MS. Mobile Station. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
MS. Mitral Stenosis. (Medical/1.05)
ms. Montserrat. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
MS. Egypt Air. (Airline Codes/1.05)
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MS. Mental Status. (Medical/1.05)
MS. Muscle Strength. (Medical/1.05)
MSA. Metropolitan Serving Area. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
MSA. Minimum Sector Altitude. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MSÆH. Med Særlig Ærbødig Hilsen. (Humour/1.05)
MSAS. Multi-function Space Augmentation System. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
MSAW. Minimum Safe Altitude Warning. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MSB. Most Significant Byte. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
MSB. Most Significant Bit. (IT, Computing/1.07)
MSC. Master Supervisory Computer. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MSC. Mobile Switching Centre. (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
Msc. Master of Science. (Qualification, Award, Title/1.05)
MSC. Message Sequence Chart. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MSC. Major Subordinate Command. (Military/1.05)
mscfd. thousand cubic feet per day. (Petrochemical/2.08)
MSCP. Master Shutdown Control Panel. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MSCP. Multi Storey Car Park. (General/2.12)
MSDS. Material Safety Data Sheets. (General/2.10)
MSE. Manston Airport. UK. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MSF. Module Support Frame. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MSF. Most Similar Force. (Policing/2.14)
MSG. Message. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MSK. Moscow Time. (Time or Space/2.08)
MSL. Micro Spherical Log. (Drilling/2.16)
MSL. Mean Sea Level. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MSm3/d. Million standard meters cubed per day. (Petrochemical/2.15)
MSN. Madison Airport. WI. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MSN. Multiple Subscriber Number. (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
MSO. Main Signal Office. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MSO. Multiple System Operator. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
MSP. Minneapolis/St. Paul International. Minnesota Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
MSP. Manual Shutoff Plate. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MSQ. Minsk Airport. Belarus. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MSR. Main Supply Route. (Military/1.10)
MSS. Mobile Satellite System. (Satellite Broadcasting/2.09)
MSS. Manufacturers Standardisation Society. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
MSS. Magnetic Single Shot. (Drilling/2.16)
MSSR. Monopulse Secondary Surveillance Radar. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MST. Multi-purpose Shuttle Tankers. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MST. Mountain Standard Time. (US and Canada) (Time or Space/2.03)
MST. Maastricht Airport. Holland. (Airport Codes/1.06)
mstb. thousand stock-tank barrels. (Petrochemical/2.08)
mstbd. thousand stock-tank barrels per day. (Petrochemical/2.08)
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MSU. Maseru Airport. Guyana. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MSU. Monosodium Urate. (Medical/1.05)
MSV. Marine Support Vessel. Multi Service Vessel. See DSV (Petrochemical/1.05)
MSVT. Multimedia System Validation Test-bed. (Satellite Broadcasting/2.09)
MSWHP. Maximum Shut-in Wellhead Pressure. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MSY. New Orleans Airport. LA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MT. Mountain. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MT. Megged To end. Cable Status (OSL Project Related/1.05)
MT. Mountain Time (MST or MDT). (Time or Space/2.08)
MT. Moisture Transmitter. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
mt. Malta. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
MT. Military Task. (Military/1.06)
MTA. Message Transfer Agent. (IT, Computing/1.05)
MTB. Motor Torpedo Boat. (Military/1.05)
MTB. Major Tender Board. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MTBF. Mean Time Between Failure. (IT, Computing/1.05)
MTBUR. Mean Time Between Unscheduled Removal. (IT, Computing/1.05)
MTC. Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma. (Medical/1.05)
MTD. Moving Target Detector. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MTD. Marine Technology Directorate. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MTD. Moscow Time Daylight. (Time or Space/2.03)
MTF. More To Follow. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
MTFBWY. May The Force Be With You. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
MTL. Maltese Lira. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
MTO. Material Take Off. (Project Management/1.07)
MTOW. Maximum Take-Off Weight. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
MTP. Metatarsophalangeal. (Medical/1.05)
MTPY. Metric Tons Per Year. (Petrochemical/2.15)
MTS.
Message
Telecommunications
Telecommunications/1.06)
Service.
Mobile
Telephone
Service.
(IT,
MTS. Message Transfer System. (IT, Computing/1.05)
MTS. Moscow Time Standard. (Time or Space/2.03)
MTS. Manzini Airport. Swaziland. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MTSO. Mobile Telephone Switching Office. (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
MTTR. Mean Time To Repair. (IT, Computing/1.05)
MTU. Master Terminal Unit. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/2.11)
MTU. Maximum Transmission Unit. (IT, Computing/1.05)
MTU. Metric Units. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MTW. Manitowoc Airport. WI. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MTW. Maximum Taxi Weight. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
MTW. Mountain Waves. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MTWA. Maximum Total Weight Authorised. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
MTY. Monterrey Airport. Mexico. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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mu. Mauritius. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
Mu. Twelfth letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Twelfth, micron, micro, permeability,
modulusm coefficient of viscosity, index of refraction, amplication factor, chemical potential,
dipole moment, coefficient of friction, molar conductance (Greek Alphabet/1.05)
MUB. MГҐling Under Boring. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MUC. Franz Josef Strauss. Munich Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.05)
Mud. A lubricant used when drilling. (Petrochemical/1.08)
MUGA. Multiple Gated (Image) Acquisition (Analysis). (Medical/1.05)
MUM. Marked, Utvikling, og MiljГё. Marketing, Development, and Environment Division OSL (OSL
Project Related/1.05)
MUP. MГҐling Under Produksjon. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MUR. Mauritician Rupee. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
MUSM. Miss You So Much. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
MUX. Multiplexer. A device that allows a number of lower bit rate devices to share a single higher bit
rate transmission line. The data carrying capacity of the multiplexed must be higher than the
combined bit rates of the devices attached. See Hub, Router, Switch (IT, Computing/1.06)
MUX. Multan Airport. Pakistan. (Airport Codes/1.06)
mv. Maldives. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
mV. Millivolt. (Weights & Measures, Electrical/2.11)
MVA. Megavolt Ampere. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MVA. Motor Vehicle Accident. (Medical/1.05)
MVB. Master Valve Block. (Drilling/2.16)
MVB. Franceville Airport. Gabon. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MVD. Montevideo Airport. Uruguay. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MVDF. Medium and Very high frequency Direction Finding stations. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MVL. Mekaniske Verksteders Landsforening. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
MVP. Mitral Valve Prolapse. (Medical/1.05)
MVR. Maldivian Rufiyaa. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
MVR. Maroua Airport. Cameroun. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MVS. Multiple Virtual Storage. (IT, Computing/1.05)
MVV. Maximum Voluntary Ventilation. (Medical/1.05)
mw. Malawi. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
MW. Medium Wave. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
MWD. Measurement While Drilling. (Drilling/2.16)
MWD. Molecular Weight Distribution. (General/2.14)
MWIC. My Wife Is Coming. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
MWK. Malawian Kwacha. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
MWL. Mean Water Level. (Petrochemical/1.07)
MWO. Meteorological Watch Office. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
MX. Mixed type of ice formation (white and clear). (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
mx. Mexico. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
MXP. Linate. Milan Airport. Italy. Duplicate see LIN (Airport Codes/1.05)
MXP. Mexican Peso. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
MXX. Mora. (Airport Codes/1.07)
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my. Malaysia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
MYJ. Matsuyama Airport. Japan. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MYOB. Mind Your Own Business. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
MYR. Malaysian Ringgit. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
MYY. Miri Airport. Malaysia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
mz. Mozambique. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
MZI. Mopti Airport. Mali. (Airport Codes/1.06)
MZM. Mozambique Metical. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
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15. November
N. Nitrogen. Atomic number 7. A colorless, odorless and tasteless gas that makes up about 80% of
the earth's atmosphere (Chemical Elements/1.05)
N. No distinct tendency (in RVR during previous 10 minutes). (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
N. North, Northern Latitude. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
N. Normal. (Medical/1.05)
N.b.. Nota bene. Note well, Remember, Obs(ervere) (Latin, French, Greek/1.05)
n00b. Newbie, new comer. A way to insult someone who does not know much (IT, Internet
Chat/2.14)
N2. Nitrogen. (Chemical Compounds/2.14)
Na. Sodium, natrium. Atomic number 11. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
NA. Not Applicable. (General/1.05)
na. Namibia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
NГ…. Normalt ГҐpen. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
NAC. North Atlantic Council. (Military/1.05)
NACC. North Atlantic Co-operation Council. (Military/1.05)
NACE. National Association of Corrosion Engineers. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NaCHO3. Sodium bicarbonate. (Chemical Compounds/2.14)
NACISA. NATO Communication and Information Systems Agency. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NaCl. Sodium Chloride. Salt (Chemical Compounds/2.14)
NACOSS. National Approval Council for Security Systems. (Policing/2.14)
NACRO. National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders. (Policing/2.14)
NAD. Namibian Dollar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
NADGE. NATO Air Defence Ground Environment. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NADT. Not A Darn Thing. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
NAE. National Administrative Expenses. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NAEW. NATO Airborne Early Warning. (Military/1.05)
NAFIS. National Automatic Fingerprint Identification System. (Policing/2.14)
NAFTA. North American Free Trade Agreement. US, Canada, and Mexico (Petrochemical/2.01)
NAI. Non-Accidental Injury. (Policing/2.14)
NAIR. National Arrangements for Incidents involving Radioactivity. (Policing/2.14)
NAIS. Norwegian Aeronautical Information System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NAK. Negative Acknowledgement. (IT, Computing/1.05)
NALF. Norges Arbeidslederforbund. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NAM. North America Region. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NAM. Number Assignment Module. Memory position in a mobile phone where the telephone number
is stored (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
NAMSA. NATO Materiel Supply Agency. (Military/1.05)
NAN. Nandi Airport. Fiji. (Airport Codes/1.06)
NaN. Not a Number. An invalid value in computing for example 0/0=NaN (IT, Computing/2.16)
nano. SI number prefix 0,000 000 001. Abbreviated as n (SI Number Prefixes/2.08)
NAP. Capodichino. Naples Airport. Italy. (Airport Codes/1.05)
NAPA. N-Acetyl-Procainamide, N-Acetyl-Paraaminophenol. (Medical/1.05)
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NARDS. Norwegian Automated Radar Display System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NAS. Network Access Server. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
NAS. No Added Sodium. (Medical/1.05)
NAS. Nassau Airport. Bahamas. (Airport Codes/1.06)
NAS. Northern Airspace System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NASA. North American Space Association. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
NASA. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (Association, Society, Institute/1.08)
NASC. National Aviation Security Committee. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
NASP. National Aviation Security Programme. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
NASS. National Asylum Seekers Service. (Policing/2.14)
NAT. Network Address Translation. (IT, Computing/2.13)
NAT. North Atlantic. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NATM. New Austrian Tunnelling Method. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
NATMAC. National Air Traffic Management Advisory Committee. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
NATO. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
Natural gas. Gas occurring naturally. often found in association with crude oil. See gas composition
(Petrochemical/1.08)
Nautical Leauge. Nautical Measure. 3 admiralty miles = 1 nautical league = 5560 m (Weights &
Measures, Imperial/1.05)
Nautical Mile. Nautical Measure. 10 cable lengths = 1.1516 statute miles. However an Admiralty
mile. 6080 feet = 1853,2 m. Whereas a US sea mile. 6080,2 feet = 1853,248 m. Finally to put
the icing on the cake an International nautical mile = 1851,8 m (Weights & Measures,
Imperial/1.05)
NAV. Navigation. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NAVAID. Navigational Aids. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NAVF. Norges Almennvitenskaplige ForskningsrГҐd. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NAVY. Never Again Voluneer Yourself. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
Nb. Niobium. Atomic number 41. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
NB. Newborn. (Medical/1.05)
NB. Nominal Bore. (Drilling/2.16)
NB. North Bound. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NB. Sterling. (Airline Codes/1.05)
NBC. Nuclear, Biological, Chemical. (Military/1.05)
NBD. No Big Deal. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
NBF. Norges Byggtekniske Forening. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NBFR. Not before. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NBJ. Narrow Bodied Jet. E.g. Avro Avroliner. Boeing 727, 737, 757. Fokker F28, 70, 100. McDonnell
Douglas DC9, MD81, MD82, MD83, MD87, MD90 (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NBM. National Briefing Model. (Policing/2.14)
NBO. Jomo Kenyatta International. Nairobi Airport. Kenya. (Airport Codes/1.05)
NBR. Norges Byggstandardiserings RГҐd. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NBS. National Bureau of Standards. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
NC. No Change. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NC. Normally Closed. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
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nc. New Calendonia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
NCAA. Norwegian Civil Aviation Authority. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NCC. Network Configuration Computer. (Petrochemical/1.07)
NCCDPC. NATO Command Control and information systems, and Automatic Data Processing
Committee. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NCCIS. NATO Command Control And Information System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NCDC. National Climatic Data Center. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
NCE. Cote D'azur. Nice Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.05)
NCEC. National Chemical Emergency Centre. (Policing/2.14)
NCF. NATO Composite Force. (Military/1.05)
NCF. National Competency Framework. (Policing/2.14)
NCF. National Crime Faculty. (Policing/2.14)
NCF. Network Computing Framework. (IT, Computing/1.05)
NCIS. National Criminal Intelligence Service. (Policing/2.14)
NCL. Newcastle International Airport. England. (Airport Codes/1.05)
NCMP. Network Connection Management Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
NCOC. Naval Command Operation Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NCOF. National Crime and operations Faculty. (Policing/2.14)
NCP. Network Core Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
NCP. Nursing Care Plan. (Medical/1.05)
NCR. Non Conformance Report. (Petrochemical/2.15)
NCS. National Crime Squad. (Policing/2.14)
NCS. Norwegian Continental Shelf. (Petrochemical/1.07)
ND. Naval District. (Military/1.05)
Nd. Neodymium. Atomic number 60. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
NDB. Nouadibou Airport. Mauritanie. (Airport Codes/1.06)
NDB. Non Directional radio Beacon. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NDE. Non Destructive Examination. (Petrochemical, Welding/1.07)
NDFT. Nominal Dry Film Thickness. (Petrochemical/1.07)
NDIS. Network Driver Interface Specification. (IT, Computing/1.05)
NDJ. N'djamena Airport. Chad. (Airport Codes/1.06)
NDT. Non Destructive Testing. Normally associated with welding, where welds are x-rayed "bombed"
to check for defects in the weld. Standing in close proximity to gamma rays can lead to sterility
(Petrochemical/1.05)
NE. Normally Energised. (Petrochemical/1.07)
Ne. Neon. Atomic number 10. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
ne. Niger. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
NE. North East. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NE14KFC?. Anyone For KFC. (Kentuckey Fried Chicken) (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
NEA. Nuclear Energy Agency. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
NEB. North East Bound. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NEC. Northern European Command. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NEG. Nedre EksplosjonsGrense. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NEG. Negative, No, Permission not granted, That is not correct. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
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neg. Negative. (Medical/1.05)
Negative Float. Where total float is computed to a minus figure. Minus float in theory represents
how many time units the expected completion date of a network has been delayed. In practice
however it depends on the quality of the logic that the network is built on and the size of it's
activities. See CPA, network, TF, ES, EF, LS, LF (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
NEK. Norsk Elektroteknisk Komite. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NELFO. Norges ElektroentrepenГёrforbund. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NEMA. National Electrical Manufacturers Association. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
net. Entities and computers that represent part of the Internet's infrastructure. Country code part of
DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
NET. Network Entity Title. (IT, Computing/1.05)
NET. Norm Europeenne de Telecommunication. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
NETCU. National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit. (Policing/2.14)
NETT. Nasal Endotracheal Tube. (Medical/1.05)
Network. A network in a scheduling context is a chain of interconnected activities that describe the
sequence and the duration required to complete a particular project. A network is a model of the
execution philosophy for a project, just as an electrical nodal diagram is a two-dimensional model
of cable conduits, trays, and racks. See AOA, AON, PERT, CPM, CPA (Project Management,
Planning/1.08)
NEU. Non European Union. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
Neuro. Neurology. (Medical/1.05)
NEW. Insertion of new flight information. ASM Submessage (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
NEXCOM. Next-Generation Air/Ground Communications. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
nf. Norfolk Island. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
NFA. No Further Action. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NFG. No F*****g Good. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
NFI. Nordic Forum for Information. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NFIU. National Football Intelligence Unit. (Policing/2.14)
NFM. Near Field Monitor. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
NFO. Necessary Functional Operability. The level of functional operability required so that the airport,
all buildings, equipment, and infrastructure, can be operated in a responsible manner (OSL
Project Related/1.05)
NFP. Net Flight Path. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
NFPA. National Fire Protection Association. USA. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
NFPA. National Fire Protection Association. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
NFR. Norges ForskningsRГҐd. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NFS. Network File System. (IT, Computing/1.05)
NFU. National Farmers Union. (Policing/2.14)
NFW. No F**king Way. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
NFW. New Field Wildcat. (Drilling/2.16)
NFW. No Feasible Way. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ng. Nanogram. Measure of weight. 1ng the approximate weight of my brain (Weights & Measures,
Metric/1.05)
NG. Nasogastric. (Medical/1.05)
ng. Nigeria. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
NGB. Ningbo Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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NGLA. New Generation Large Aircraft. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
NGLs.
Natural
gas
liquids.
(Petrochemical/1.08)
Liquid
hydrocarbons
found
in
association
with
natural
gas
NGN. Nigerian Naira. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
NGO. Nagoya Airport. Japan. (Airport Codes/1.06)
NGO. Non Governmental Organisation. (General/2.10)
NGRC. National Geological Records Centre. (Drilling/2.16)
NGS. Nordic Group of Steel regulations. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NGST. Next Generation Space Telescope. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
NGT. Night. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NGU. Nongonococcal Urethritis. (Medical/1.05)
NHDA. National Hydrocarbons Data Archive. (Drilling/2.16)
NHFR. Non Halogen Flame Retardant. (General/2.14)
NHK. Norsk HeisKontroll. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NHL. Non-Hodgkin Limphoma. (Medical/1.05)
NHO. Næringslivets HovedOrganisasjon. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NHOH. Never Heard Of Him/Her. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
NHPV. Net Hydrocarbon Pore Volume. (Drilling/2.16)
NHS. National Health Service. (General/2.10)
ni. Nicaragua. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
NI. National Insurance. (General/2.14)
Ni. Nickel. Atomic number 28. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
NI. Network Interconnect. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
NIA. Norges Industriattacheer. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NIC. Network Interface Card. (IT, Computing/2.13)
NIC. Nicosie Airport. Cyprus. (Airport Codes/1.06)
NiCd. Nickel Cadium. Old fashioned rechargeable batteries (Electrical/1.05)
NICS. NATO Integrated Communication System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NID. Network Interface Device. (IT, Computing/1.06)
NIDDM. Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus. (Medical/1.05)
NIF. Norsk SivilingeniГёrers Forening. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NIFO. Norsk Industriforening for OperatГёrselskaper. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NIFOC. Naked In Front Of Computer. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
NIH. National Institutes Of Health. (Medical/1.05)
NIH. Not Invented Here. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
NIHHS. Notification of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances. (General/2.14)
NIL. Nothing to send. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NIM. Niamey Airport. Niger. (Airport Codes/1.06)
NIM. National Intelligence Model. (Policing/2.14)
NIMBY. Not In My Back Yard. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
NiMh. Nickel Metal hydrate. Longer lasting rechargeable batteries (Electrical/1.05)
NINO. Nothing In, Nothing Out or No Input, No Output. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
NIO. Nicaraguan Cordoba Oro. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
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NIOSH. National Institute Of Occupational Safety And Health, USA.
Institute/1.05)
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(Association, Society,
Nip. Measure of Ale. 1/4 pt. (Measure of Ale/1.05)
NIP. Notice of Intended Prosecution. (Policing/2.14)
Nipple down. Opposite of nipple up. (Drilling/2.16)
Nipple up. . To connect parts and plumbing, making a blowout preventer stack ready for use
(Drilling/2.16)
NIREP. Nuclear Industry Road Emergency Plan. (Policing/2.14)
NIS. NATO Identification System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NIS. National Identification Service. (Policing/2.14)
NIS. Network Information System. A network directory service that stores information such as host
names, usernames, and passwords (IT, Computing/1.05)
NIS. NATO International Staff. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NISDN. NATO Integrated Services Digital Network. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NISO. National Information Standards Organisation. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NITL. Not In This Lifetime. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
NITO. Norges IngeniГёrorganisasjon. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NITS. Network Independent Transport Service. (IT, Computing/2.13)
NIU. Network Interface Unit. (Petrochemical/1.07)
NIVA. Norsk Institutt for Vannforskning. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NK. Spirit Airlines. (Airline Codes/1.07)
NKA. No Known Allergy. (Medical/1.05)
NKC. Nouakchott Airport. Mauritanie. (Airport Codes/1.06)
NKDA. No Known Drug Allergy. (Medical/1.05)
NKF. Norsk Korrosjonsteknisk Forening. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NKG. Nanjing Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
nl. Netherlands. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
NL. Nordiske leveringsbetingelser. (Petrochemical/1.07)
nl. Nanoliter. Measure of capacity (Weights & Measures, Metric/1.05)
NLA. N'dola Airport. Zambia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
NLES. Navigation Land Earth Station. (Satellite Broadcasting/2.09)
NLG. Dutch Guilder. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
NLG. Natural Liquid Gas. (Petrochemical/1.07)
NLGI. National Lubricating Grease Institute. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NLL. Normal Liquid Level. (Petrochemical/1.07)
NLM. Nordiske Leveringsbetingelser med Montasje. (Petrochemical/1.07)
NLSP. Netware Link Service Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
NM. Neuromuscular. (Medical/1.05)
NM. Nautical Miles. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
nm. Nanometer. Linear measure. 1nm the approximate length of my john thomas (Weights &
Measures, Metric/1.05)
NM. Never Mind. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
NMD. Norwegian Maritime Directorate. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
NMDC. Nonmagnetic Drillcollar. (Petrochemical/1.07)
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NMI. Norges Meterologiske Institutt. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NMI. Need More Input. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
NMICC. NATO Maritime Intelligence Co-ordination. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NMIS. National Management Information Systems. (Policing/2.14)
NML. Norske Maritime LeverandГёrer. (Petrochemical/1.07)
NML. Normal. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NMOS. NATO Maritime Opintel Support. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NMOS. N channel Metal Oxide Silicon. Type of chip. Buy a book on integrated circuits if you need a
description (IT, Computing/1.05)
NMOS. NATO Maritime Operation System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NMS. Network Management System. (IT, Computing/1.05)
NMT 450. Nordic Mobile Telephone. Nordic Analogue mobile telephone system operating in the
frequency range 450MHz (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
NMT 900. Nordic Mobile Telephone. Nordic Analogue mobile telephone system operating in the
frequency range 900MHz (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
NNE. North North East. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NNG. Nanning Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
NNI. Network to Network Interface. (IT, Computing/1.05)
NNS. Northern North Sea. (Drilling/2.16)
NNTP. Network News Transfer Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
NNW. North North West. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
no. Norway. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
No. Nobelium. Atomic number 102. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
no. Number. (Medical/1.05)
NO. Normally Open. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
NO2. Nitrate (Nitrat). Formed from nitric acid, used as fertiliser (Chemical Compounds/1.05)
NOAA. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (Association, Society, Institute/2.09)
NOAH. Norwegian Adapted Hawk System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
noc. Nocturnal (Night). (Medical/1.05)
NOC. National Oil Company. (Drilling/2.16)
Node. A junction or connection point. Eg. a modem with a lot of incoming lines. Eg. a modem with a
lot of incoming lines belonging to an Internet Service Provider. The node is where you ring when
you connect to the WWW. If you are sensible you will only call nodes that provide cheap local
telephone rates! (IT, Computing/1.05)
Node. A junction or connection point. E.g. the main foot nodes on a north sea module are the
foundation for the module, and also a connection point for structural columns, diagonals, and
bracing’s, which give the structure it's strength (Petrochemical/1.05)
Node. A junction or connection point. Eg. used in precedence and arrow networks. Eg. used in
precedence and arrow networks as connection points for the logic of the network. With
Precedence networks the activity is on the node, and with arrow networks the activity is on the
connector (Project Management/1.05)
NOE. Nærings- og energidepartementet. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NOF. International NOTAM office. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NOI. Notice of Inquiry. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
NOK. Norwegian Kroner. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
nomenclature. A system for naming things. (General/2.14)
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NOPEF. Norsk olje- og petrokjemisk fagforbund. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NORAIDS. Nordic Accident Incident Data System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NORCCIS. Norwegian Command and Control Information System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NORRET. Norsk Oljeforening for Rettighetshavere. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NORSOK. Norsk Sokkels Konkurranseposisjon. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NOS. Network Operating System. Or Network Operating Software (IT, Computing/1.05)
NOS. Nosy Be No Airport. Madagascar. (Airport Codes/1.06)
NOSIG. No significant change expected. in Meteorological Forecasts (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
NOSIG. No Significant change. Used in trend type landing forecast (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NOSIP. Norsk OSI Profil. (IT, Computing/1.05)
NOTAM. Notice to Airmen. A notice containing information concerning the establishment, condition,
or change in any aeronautical facility, service, procedure, or hazard, the timely knowledge of
which is essential to personal concerned with flight operations (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NOU. Noumea Nouvelle Airport. Caledonie. (Airport Codes/1.06)
NOV. November. (Time or Space/1.05)
NOx. Nitrogen Oxide. (Petrochemical/2.01)
NOYB. None Of Your Business. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
np. Nepal. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
NP. Norsk Petroleumsinstitutt. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
Np. Neptunium. Atomic number 93. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
NP or N/P. No Problem. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
NPAI. Network Protocol Access Information. (IT, Computing/1.05)
NPC. NATO Programming Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NPD. Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
NPDN. Norwegian Public Data Network. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NPDU. Network Protocol Data Unit. (IT, Computing/1.05)
NPG. Nuclear Planning Group. (Military/1.05)
NPH. Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, Neutral Protamine Hagedorn (Insuline). (Medical/1.05)
NPL. New Plymouth Airport. New Zealand. (Airport Codes/1.06)
NPO. Nothing By Mouth. (Medical/1.05)
NPR. Nepalese Rupee. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
NPR. Noise Preferential Route. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
NPS. Nominal Pipe Size. (Petrochemical, Piping/1.07)
NPSH. Net Positive Suction Head. (Petrochemical/2.08)
NPT. National Pipe Thread. (Petrochemical, Piping/1.07)
NPT. Newport Airport. RI. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
NPT. Non Proliferation Treaty. (Military/1.05)
NPV. Net Present Value. (General/2.08)
NPW. New Pool Wildcat. (Drilling/2.16)
NQA. No Questions Asked. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
NQN. Neuquen Airport. Argentina. (Airport Codes/1.06)
NR. Norsk Rederiforbund. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NR. Do Not Repeat (In Prescriptions). (Medical/1.05)
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nr. Nauru. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
NR. Non-Rebreathing. (Medical/1.05)
NR. Number. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NR. Normal Range. (Medical/1.05)
NR. Nutritive Ratio. (Medical/1.05)
NRH. No Reply Heard. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NRK. Kungsangen. Norrkoping Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
NRK. Norsk Riks Kringkasting. Norweigian Broadcasting Corporation (Association, Society,
Institute/1.08)
NRM. Normal Response Mode. (IT, Computing/1.05)
NRM. Non Return to Zero. (IT, Computing/1.05)
NRN. No Response Necessary. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
NRN. No Reply Necessary. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
NRPB. National Radiological Protection Board. (Policing/2.14)
NRT. Narita. Tokyo Airport. Japan. (Airport Codes/1.05)
NRV. Non Return Valve. (Drilling/2.16)
NRZI. Non Return to Zero Inverted. (IT, Computing/1.05)
NS. Norwegian Standard. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
NS. Normal Saline. (Medical/1.05)
NS. Network Service. (IT, Computing/1.05)
NS. Normal Serum. (Medical/1.05)
NS. Nimbostratus. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NS. Neuro Surgery. (Medical/1.05)
NS. Nervous System. (Medical/1.05)
NSAID. Nonesteroidal Antiinflamatory Drug. (Medical/1.05)
NSAP. Network Service Access Point. (IT, Computing/1.05)
NSB. Norges StatsBaner. Norwegian National Railway (Railways/1.05)
NSC. No Significant Cloud. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NSC. National Security Council. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NSF. Norges Standardiseringsforbund. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NSFI. Norges Skipsforskningsinstitutt. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NSI. Yaounde Nsimalen Airport Airport. Cameroun. (Airport Codes/1.06)
NSILA. Nonsuppressable Insulin-Like Activity. (Medical/1.05)
NSNR. National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal. (Policing/2.14)
NSOAF. North Sea Offshore Authorities Forum. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NSPCA. National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Institute/2.02)
(Association, Society,
NSPCC. National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. (Policing/2.14)
NSR. Normal Sinus Rhythm. (Medical/1.05)
NST. Nuclear and Space arms Talks. (Military/1.05)
NSW. No Significant Weather. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NT. No Text. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
NT. New Technology. (IT, Computing/1.05)
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NTA. Norwegian Telecommunication Authority. (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
NTE. Nantes. France. (Airport Codes/1.05)
NTG. Nitroglycerin. (Medical/1.05)
NTH. Norwegian Institute of Technology. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
NTIM. Not That It Matters. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
NTIMM. Not That It Matters Much. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
NTIS. National Technical Information Service. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
NTNF. Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskaplige ForskningsrГҐd. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NTNU. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskaplige universitet. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NTP. Network Time Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
NTPD. Normal Temperature, Pressure, Dry. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NTS. Norsk Teknologistandardisering. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NTS. Norsk Teknologistandard. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NTSB. National Transportation Safety Board. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NTSC. National Television Standards Committee. Colour system for American TVs. PAL is the
standard used in Europe (Association, Society, Institute/1.08)
NTSS. No Trace Suspect Stolen. (Policing/2.14)
NTT. Nippon Telegraph & Telephone. Analogue mobile telephone system operating in the frequency
ranges 800 and 1500Mhz. (Japanese) (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
NTTS. NATO Terrestrial Transmission System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NTW. Not To Worry. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
NTYMI. Now That You Mention It. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
NTZ. No Transgression Zone. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
nu. Niue. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
Nu. Thirteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Thirteenth, kinematic viscosity,
frequency, reluctivity (Greek Alphabet/1.05)
NUE. Nuremberg Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.05)
Nuking. Sending a packet of information that the recipients system can not process resulting in it
hanging. Eg during an IRC session. See DoS and BSoD. (IT, Internet/2.02)
NUPI. Norsk Utenrikspolitiske Institutt. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NUTEC. Norwegian Underwater Technology Centre. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NVA. Night Viewing Aid. (Military/1.10)
NVASEC. National Voluntary Aid Societies' Emergency Committee. (Policing/2.14)
NVC. Non Verbal Communication. (Policing/2.14)
NVE. Norges Vassdrags og Elektrisitetsvesen. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
NVG. Night Viewing Goggles. (Military/1.10)
NVP. Network Voice Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
NVQ. National Vocational Qualification. (General/1.06)
NVR. Networked Video Recording. (IT, Computing/2.13)
NVS. Norsk Verkstedindustris Standardiseringssentral. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
NVT. Navegantes Airport. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
NVT. Network Virtual Terminal. (IT, Computing/1.05)
NW. North West. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NWB. North West Bound. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
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NWI. Norwich Airport. UK. (Airport Codes/1.06)
NWK. Norwalk Airport. CT. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
NWN. National Wireless Network. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
NXT. Next. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
NYC. New York Airport. NY. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
NYHA. New York Heart Association. (Medical/1.05)
NYSE. New York Stock Exchange. (Association, Society, Institute/2.02)
NZ. Air New Zealand. (Airline Codes/1.07)
nz. New Zealand. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
NZD. New Zealand Dollar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
NZT. New Zealand Time. (Time or Space/2.03)
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16. Oscar
O. Over. (Indicates the end of a communication) (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
O. Oxygen. Atomic number 8. Atomic weight 15.9994, a colorless, odorless gas (Chemical
Elements/1.05)
O&D. Origin and Destination. (IT, Computing/1.06)
O&M. Operation and Maintenance. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
O&S. Operation And Support. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
O/R. On Request. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
o:-). Angelic. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
O2. Oxygen, Dioxygen. (Chemical Compounds/2.14)
O3. Ozone molecule (Ozonmolekyl). (Chemical Compounds/1.05)
OA. Oral Airway. (Medical/1.05)
OA&M. Operations, Administration, and Management. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
OAC. Oceanic Area Control Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OAF. Osteoclast Activating Factor. (Medical/1.05)
OAK. Oakland International. California Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
OAM. Operation And Maintenance. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OAPEC. Organisation of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries. (Petrochemical/2.01)
OAS. Obstacle Assessment Surface. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OAT. Organic Acid Technology. (General/2.12)
OATUS. On A Totally Unrelated Subject. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
OAU. Organisation for African Unity. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
OAUS. On An Unrelated Subject. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
OB. Obligatory. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
OB. Obstetrics. (Medical/1.05)
OBE. Order of the British Empire. (Qualification, Award, Title/1.05)
OBO. Or Best Offer. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
OBP. On Board Processor. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
OBR. Oil Brine Ratio. (Drilling/2.16)
OBS. Organisational Breakdown Structure. (Project Management/1.05)
OBS. Observe, Observed, Observation. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OBSC. Obscure, Obscured, Obscuring. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OBST. Obstacle. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OBTJ. Offences Brought to Justice. (Policing/2.14)
OBTW. Oh By The Way. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
OCA. Obstacle Clearance Altitude. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OCA. Oceanic Control Area. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OCC. Other Common Carrier. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
OCC. Occulting. Light (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OCH. Obstacle Clearance Height. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OCIC. Operations Control Incident Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
OCIMF. Oil Companies International Marine Forum. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
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OCMA. Oil Companies Material Association. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
OCNL. Occasional, Occasionally. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OCR. Optical Character Recognition. A scanning device in conjunction with a computer programme
recognises each character by the amount of light reflected. See OMR (IT, Computing/1.05)
OCS. Obstacle Clearance Surface. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OCSC. Operations Control Sub Commitee. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
OCT. October. (Time or Space/1.05)
Octal Numbers. Numbers to base 8. There are eight symbols used in the octal numbering system, 0,
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, place values increase in powers of 8. See Binary, Decimal, Hexadecimal
(IT, Coding/1.05)
OCU. Operational Conversion Unit. (Military/1.06)
OD. Optical Density. (Medical/1.05)
OD. Over Dose. (Medical/1.05)
OD. Oculus Dexter (Right Eye). (Medical/1.05)
OD. Outside Diameter. (Medical/1.05)
OD. Occupational Disease. (Medical/1.05)
OD. Oljedirektoratet. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
OD. Outer Diameter. (Drilling/2.16)
ODA. Open Document Architecture. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ODA. Office Document Architecture. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ODALS. Omnidirectional Approach Lighting System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
ODBC. Open DataBase Connectivity. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ODE. Odense Airport. Denmark. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ODI. Open Data-link Interface. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ODIF. ODA Interchange Format. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ODMA. Open Document Management API. A set of interfaces between desktop applications and
document management clients, allowing access to a repository without running another
application (IT, Computing/1.05)
ODP. Ozone Depletion Potential. (General/2.14)
ODU. Out Door Unit. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
OEB. Orebro-Borfos Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
OECD. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Institute/1.05)
(Association, Society,
OEM. Original Equipment Manufacturer. An OEM (original equipment manufacturer) is a company
that provides a component to another company for use in that company's brand name product.
Many computer hardware manufacturers that have their own brand-name products derive
considerable revenue by reselling the product or key parts of it to companies that seem to be
competing in the same market. Arguments for being an OEM are that you may be able to make
money from a market sector that your competitor already owns (perhaps because they have an
existing customer base) and that you can be a more efficient producer because you sell and
manufacture more of your product. Frequently, a company that incorporates OEM parts or
products differentiates itself from the OEM's brand-name products by adding features or using
different selling concepts (IT, Computing/1.05)
OEO. Omtvistet Endrings Ordre. Norwegian for Disputed Change Order. See Change Control, EO,
DVO, PVN, PVOR, VI, VO, VODC, VOF, VOR (Project Management/1.05)
OER. Ornskoldsvik Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
OETT. Oral Endotracheal Tube. (Medical/1.05)
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OFA. Object Free Area. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
OFDM. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
OFG. Operational Firearms Group. (Policing/2.14)
OFIR. Oceanic Flight Information Region. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OFS. Oljeindustriens Fellessammenslutning. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
OFT. Office of Fair Trading. (Government office/2.14)
OFU. Orifice Flange Union. (Petrochemical/1.05)
OFZ. Obstacle Free Zone. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
OGC. Office of Government Commerce. (Government office/2.14)
OGJ. Oil and Gas Journal. (Petrochemical/1.07)
OGO. Abengourou Airport. Cote D'ivoire. (Airport Codes/1.06)
OHAS. Oslo Hovedflyplass AS. The Norwegian Civil Aviation Authorities Daughter Company for
Construction of the New Oslo Airport at Gardermoen. Renamed 1996 to Oslo Lufthavn AS. See
OSL (OSL Project Related/1.05)
OHD. Ohrid Airport. Macedonia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
OHD. Overhead. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OHG. Oslo Hovedflyplass Gardermoen. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OHLE. OverHead Line Electrification. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
Ohm. Unit of electrical resistance. (Weights & Measures, Electrical/1.05)
OHP. Over Head Projector. (General/2.08)
OHRAT. Offshore Hazard and Risk Analysis Toolkit. (Petrochemical/1.07)
OHSW. Over Head Shield Wire. (Electrical/1.05)
OIC. Officer in Charge. (Policing/2.14)
OIC. Oh I See. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
Oil. A mixture of liquid Hydrocarbons of different molecular weights. (Petrochemical/1.08)
Oil field. A geographic area under which a reservoir of oil lies. (Petrochemical/1.08)
OIM. Offshore Installation Manager. (Drilling/2.16)
oint. Ointment. (Medical/1.05)
OIWR. Offshore Installation and Well Regulations. (Petrochemical/1.07)
OJEC. Official Journal of the European Communities. (General/2.14)
OJT. On the Job Training. (Petrochemical/1.07)
OKA. Okinawa Airport. Japan. (Airport Codes/1.06)
OKC. Will Rogers. Oklahoma City Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
OLA. Г�rlandet Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.05)
OLADE. OrganizaciГіn Latino-Americana De EnergГ­a. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
OLAP. On Line Analytical Processing. This type of program has something to do with
multidimensional data analysis. (Traditional databases are two dimensional consisting of rows and
columns) (IT, Languages/1.05)
OLB. Olbia Airport. Italy. (Airport Codes/1.06)
OLE. Object Linking and Embedding. (IT, Computing/2.12)
OLF. Oljeindustriens Landsforening. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
OLL. OnLine Love. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
OLM. Olympia Airport. WA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
OLS. Overlastsystem. (Petrochemical/1.07)
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OLTP. OnLine Transaction Processing. (IT, Computing/1.05)
OM. Outer Marker. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
om. Oman. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
OMA. Omaha Airport. NE. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Omega. Twenty fourth and last letter of the Greek alphabet. Upper Case symbol = Ohm. Lower Case
symbol = Twenty fourth, the last, angular velocity, angular frequency (Greek Alphabet/1.05)
OMEMS. Optical Micro Electro-Mechanical System. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
OMG. Oh My God. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
OMG. Operational Manoeuvre Group. (Military/1.05)
Omicron. Fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Fifteenth (Greek
Alphabet/1.05)
OMO. Mostar Airport. Bosnia Herzegovinia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
OMR. Optical Mark Recognition. An OMR scans a document for a mark in a particular position that
will trigger a response. An example is bar code. or a questionnaire, where the OMR scans for
crosses against questions (IT, Computing/1.05)
OMR. Oman Sul Rial. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
On Line. Connected to a computer. (IT, Computing/1.06)
on the fly. A process that takes place in real time. (IT, Telecommunications/2.11)
ONA. Open Network Architecture. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
ONNA. Oh No Not Again. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ONNTA. Oh No Not This Again. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ONS. Offshore Northern Seas. (Petrochemical/1.07)
ONT. Ontario Airport. CA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
OO. Over and Out. (End of communication) (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
OOB. Out Of Band. (IT, Computing/2.09)
OOB. Out Of Bed. (Medical/1.05)
OODBMS. Object Oriented DataBase Management Systems. See MDD, OLAP, MOLAP, BLObs,
MDBMS (IT, Languages/1.05)
OOE. Offshore Operation Engineer. (Drilling/2.16)
OOG. Out Of Gauge. Baggage handling (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
OOIP. Original Oil In Place. (Petrochemical/2.09)
OOP. Object Oriented Programming. (IT, Languages/1.05)
OOP. Out On Pass. (Medical/1.05)
OOR. Out Of Range. (Petrochemical/1.07)
OOT. Out Of Tolerance. (Drilling/2.16)
OOTB. Out Of The Box. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
OOTC. Obligatory On-Topic Comment. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
OP. Observation Post. (Military/1.10)
OP. Output signal. (Petrochemical/1.07)
OPA. Oppgaveansvarlig (innen OD-tilsyn). (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
OPA. Opaque, white type of ice formation. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OPC. Operational Control. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OPC. OLE for Process Control. Or Open Process Control (IT, Computing/2.12)
OPD. Outpatient Department. (Medical/1.05)
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OPD. Optical Path Difference. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
OPEC. Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Formed in 1960, the member countries are
Algeria, Ecuador, Gabon, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United
Arab Emirates and Venezuela (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
Operator. The company that has a concession or legal authority to drill wells and undertake
production of hydrocarbons in a particular area. The Operator is usually part of a consortium that
acts on behalf of the owners (Petrochemical/1.08)
Operator. Company that operates a mobile telephone network. (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
Opex. Operating Expenditure. (General/2.07)
ophth. Ophthalmology. (Medical/1.05)
OPL. Oppgaveleder (innen OD-tilsyn). (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
OPL. Over Prescribed Limit. (Policing/2.14)
OPL. Organiser Programming Language. A basic like programming language for Psion PDAs
(Epoc/2.03)
OPM. Office for Public Management. (Military/1.06)
OPMET. Operational Meteorological (information). (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OPN. Open, Opening, Opened. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OPO. Francisco Sa Carneiro. Porto Airport. Portugal. (Airport Codes/1.05)
OPO. One Person Operation. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
OPP. Oriented Polypropylene. (General/2.14)
OPR. Operator, Operate, Operative, Operating, Operational. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OPS. Operations. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OPS. Oriented Polystyrene. (General/2.14)
OPSR. Office of Public Services Reform. (Government office/2.14)
OPSYS. Operational System. (IT, Computing/1.05)
opt. Optimum. (Medical/1.05)
OPTAT. Off Premises Transitional Automated Ticket. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
Optic fiber. A glass or plastic wire as thin as a human hair, which carries signals using pulses of light
emitted by a laser. Fibre optic cable is not subject to electro magnetic or radio frequency
interference, and is capable of carrying a lot more information than copper wire. Fibre optic cable
is constructed of a core which is the glass in the centre of the cable, and the region through
which the light pulses travel. A cladding which surrounds the core and keeps the light from
escaping the core, and a coating or sheath, which surrounds, protects, and acts as a cushion for
the glass fibre. Light travels fast and digital signals are based on pulses (imagine a Morse code
message). A laser can be turned on and off a billion times per second, and a single strand of glass
fibre can carry multiple wavelengths (different colours) of light simultaneously. See Boolean, Bits,
Twisted pair, Coaxial (IT, Computing/1.05)
OPX. Organiser Programming eXtension. OPX's are written in C++ and provide additional commands
and functions that do not exist in OPL. There are many OPX's available from Symbian, and quite a
lot written by developers (Epoc/2.03)
OQC. Offshore Qualification Course. (Petrochemical/1.07)
OR. Operating Room. (Medical/1.05)
ORB. Orebro Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ORC. Operator Remote Control. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ORCA. Objectives, Risk, Controls & Actions. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
ORD. O'Hare. Chicago Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
ORD. Indication of an order. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
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ORF. Norfolk Airport. VA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
org. Entities that do not fit under any of the other top level domains. Country code part of DNS. (IT,
Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
Orifice Fitting. Any device which allows orifice plate insertion into and removal from a pipeline
without "breaking" the line. May be either a "deadline" fitting (pipe section must be depressurised
before plate removal) or a "liveline" fitting which allows plate removal under flowing conditions.
An orifice plate is used in gas metering runs to measure the volume of gas passing through the
run, this is achieved by measuring the pressure on both sides of the orifice plate, the differential
is then used to calculate the volume of gas transferred. This process is called custody transfer.
See SCF (Petrochemical/1.05)
ORK. Cork. Ireland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
ORL. Orlando Airport. FL. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ORN. Oran Airport. Algerie. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ORP. Operational Readiness Platform. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
ORS. Operational Radio System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
Orth or Ortho. Orthopedics. (Medical/1.05)
ORV. Off Road Vehicle. See SUV. (General/2.02)
ORY. Orly. Paris Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.05)
OS. Left Eye. (Medical/1.05)
Os. Osmium. Atomic number 76. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
OS. OperatГёrstasjon. (Petrochemical/1.07)
OS. Ordinance Survey. (General/2.14)
OS. Oil Seal. (Petrochemical/1.07)
OS. Operating System. (IT, Computing/1.05)
OS&D. Overage, Shortage and Damage. (Report) (Petrochemical/1.07)
OSA. Itami. Osaka Airport. Japan. (Airport Codes/1.05)
OSAT. On Site Acceptance Test. (Petrochemical/1.07)
OSC. Office of the Surveillance Commissioners. (/2.14)
OSC. On Scene Commander. (Petrochemical/1.07)
OSCE. Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe. (Military/1.05)
OSD. Ostersund/Froso Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
Osha. A protective coating made by halfbaking a mixture of fine print, split hairs, red tape and
baloney. (Humour/1.05)
OSHA. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. USA. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
OSI. Open System Interconnection. A basis for standardising all layers in network architecture. The
international Standards Organisation (ISO) devised a model of network architecture known as the
reference model for Open System Interconnection (OSI). The OSI model has several layers,
Physical Control, Data Link, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation, and Application (IT,
Computing/1.05)
OSI. Operational Safety Instruction. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
OSIS. Ocean Surveillance and Intelligence Satellite. US (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OSK. Oskarshamn. (Airport Codes/1.07)
OSL. Gardermoen. Oslo Airport. Norway. The IATA code for the New Oslo Airport at Gardermoen,
Norway. Acronym for the Norwegian Civil Aviation Authorities Daughter Company for Construction
and Operation of the New Oslo Airport at Gardermoen (Airport Codes/1.05)
osm. Osmolality. (Medical/1.05)
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OSO. Offshore Supply Office. (Petrochemical/1.07)
OSO. Operational Support Officer. (Policing/2.14)
OSP. Operator Service Provider. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
OSPF. Open Shortest Path First. (IT, Computing/1.05)
OSPRE. Objective Structured Performance Related Examination. (Policing/2.14)
OSR. Ostrava Airport. Czech Republic. (Airport Codes/1.06)
OSRP. Oil Spill Response Plan. (Drilling/2.16)
OSS. Operations Support System. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
OSS. Operator Service Switch. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
OSSL. Olje Service Selskapenes Landsforening. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
OST. Ostend Airport. Belgium. (Airport Codes/1.06)
OST. On Second Thoughts. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
OSTA. Optical Storage Technology Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.13)
OSV. Ocean Station Vessel. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OSY. Namsos Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.06)
OT. Occupational Therapy. (Medical/1.05)
OTD. Other Than Dwelling. (Policing/2.14)
OTF. On the Floor. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
OTFL. On the Floor Laughing. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
OTH. North Bend Airport. OR. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
OTL. Out To Lunch. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
OTL. Operations Team Leader. (Drilling/2.16)
OTLK. Outlook. Used in SIGMET message for volcanic ash and tropical cyclones (Aviation Civil and
Military/1.05)
OTOH. On The Other Hand. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
OTOOH. On The Other Other Hand. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
OTP. Bucarest Otopeni Airport. Rumania. (Airport Codes/1.06)
OTP. On top. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OTS. Operational Technical and Support Committee. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OTS. Organised Track System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OTT. Over The Top. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
OTTH. On The Third Hand. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
OTTOMH. Off The Top Of My Head. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
OTWPBB. Over the Wing Passenger Boarding Bridge. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
OU. Each Eye. (Medical/1.05)
OUA. Ouagadougou Burkina Airport. Faso. (Airport Codes/1.06)
OUBD. Outbound. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OUD. Oujda Airport. Maroc. (Airport Codes/1.06)
OUL. Oulu Airport. Finland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
Outsourcing. One company provides services for another company that could have been provided
in-house. This is a similar concept to sub-contracting, however sub-contracting involves services
that are not available in-house (General/1.06)
OVC. Overcast. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
OWC. Oscillating Water Column. (Petrochemical/1.07)
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OWC. Oil-Water Contact. (Petrochemical/2.08)
OWC. Oil Water Contact. (Drilling/2.16)
OWR. Outstanding Work Register. (Petrochemical/1.07)
OWTTE. Or Words To That Effect. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
OXB. Bissau Airport. Guinee. Duplicate see BXO (Airport Codes/1.06)
oz. Ounce. Avoirdupois system. 16 drams = 1 ounce = 28,35 g (Weights & Measures, Imperial/1.05)
Ozone. Yes It's being depleted. 90% of ozone is found at a height of 10-50km. Between 20.1 and
9.4.96 ozone concentration over the arctic was depleted by 46%! A form of oxygen ozone in the
stratosphere acts as a filter against ultraviolet radiation. Ozone is destroyed by CFCs and halons.
Norsk. 90% av all Ozon ligger i en hГёyde mellom 10-50 km. Mellom 20.1 og 9.4.1996 minket
konsentrasjonen over Arktisk med 64 prosent! (Chemical Compounds/1.05)
OZZ. Ouarzazate Airport. Maroc. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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17. Papa
P. Phosphorus. Atomic number 15. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
P. Prohibited area {followed by identification}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
p. Pulse, After. (Medical/1.05)
P and P COM. Payment And Progress Committee. (General/1.05)
P&A. Percussion And Auscultation. (Medical/1.05)
P&ID. Piping & Instrument Diagram. A schematic diagram showing all process and instrumentation,
these drawings are never to scale (Petrochemical/1.05)
P.m. Post meridiem. After noon (Latin, French, Greek/1.05)
P.p.s. Post postscript. Post, post script (Latin, French, Greek/1.05)
P.s. Postscript. Additional paragraph at the end of a letter (Latin, French, Greek/1.05)
P2. Pulmonic Second Sound. (Medical/1.05)
P2P. Peer to Peer. Direct online contact between computers (IT, Computing/2.10)
PA. Posteroanterior, Pulmonary Artery. (Medical/1.05)
PA. Point of Attachment. (IT, Computing/1.05)
Pa. Protactinium. Atomic number 91. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
PA. Public Affairs. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PA. Product Assurance. (Project Management/1.05)
pa. Panama. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
PA. Public Address. Public address and announcement system (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
PAA. Police Athletic Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
PAAMS. Principal Anti Air Missile System. (Military/1.06)
PAB. Panamanian Balboa. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
PABG. Packing A Big Gun. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
PABX.
Private
Automatic
Telecommunications/1.05)
Branch
eXchange.
Automatic
telephone
switchboard
(IT,
PACC. Police Authority Community Consultation. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
PACE. Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. (Policing/2.14)
PACF. Performance Assessment and Checkout Facility. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
Packet switching services. A communication service where data is transmitted in packets of set
size. (Eg GPRS). Communication between terminals with differing speeds and formats is possible
as transmission and reception is performed after data has first been stored at the exchange. In
contrast to circuit-switching where a circuit is occupied until all data transfer has been completed,
(IT,
packet-switching
improves
efficiency
through
common
use
of
circuits
Telecommunications/2.04)
PaCO2. Partial Pressure Of CO2 In Arterial Blood. (Medical/1.05)
PACS. Personal Access Communications Systems. See TDMA, CDMA, DCTU (IT, Computing/1.05)
PAD. Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.05)
PAD. Packet Assembler-Disassembler. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PAD. Plan for anlegg og drift. (Petrochemical/1.07)
Padear. Lifting point/connection point. Lifting point shaped like an ear to accommodate lifting slings,
a padear is also a node (Petrochemical/1.05)
Padeye. Lifting point/connection point. See Node. Lifting point shaped like an eye to accommodate
hooks, a padeye is also a node (Petrochemical/1.05)
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PADP. Pulmonary Artery Diastolic Pressure. (Medical/1.05)
PAG. Police Advisory Group. (Policing/2.14)
PAGA. Public Address General Alarm. (Drilling/2.16)
PAH. Pressure Alarm High. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PAL. Phase Alternation Line / Phase Alternating Line. Colour system for Euopean TVs. NTSC is the
standard used in America and Japan (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
PAL. Pressure Alarm Low. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PALS. Precision Approach Lighting System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PAM. Pulse Amplitude Modulation. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
PAM. Project, Accounting and Management. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PAMCS. Panel on Airspace Management and Control Systems. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PAN. Project Administration Notes. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PANS. Pretty Awesome New Stuff (as opposed to "POTS"). (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
PANS. Procedures for Air Navigation Services. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PaO2. Partial Pressure Of O2 In Arterial Blood. (Medical/1.05)
pap. Papanicolaou. (Medical/1.05)
PAP. Port Au Prince Airport. Haiti. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PAP. Password Authentication Protocol. See CHAP (IT, Computing/1.05)
PAP. Pulmonary Artery Pressure. (Medical/1.05)
PAPA. Parallax Aircraft Parking Aid. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
PAPI. Precision Approach Path Indicator. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PAR. Paris Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PAR. Pre Assembled Rack. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PAR. Precision Approach Radar. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
para. Number Of Pregnancies. (Medical/1.05)
PARL. Parallel. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PARP. Planning and Review Process. (Military/1.06)
PARROT. Position Adjustable Range Reference Orientation Transponder.
Military/1.05)
(Aviation Civil and
PAS. Prosessavstenging. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PAS. Paraaminosalicylic Acid. (Medical/1.05)
PASP. Pulmonary Artery Systolic Pressure. (Medical/1.05)
PAT. Paroxysmal Atrial Tachycardia. (Medical/1.05)
PATMS. Passenger Air Transport Movements. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
PAU. Pre Assembled Unit. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PAU. Pau Airport. France. Duplicate see PUF (Airport Codes/1.06)
PAVA. Public Address and Video Annunciation. (IT, Computing/2.13)
PAW. Plasma Arc Welding. (Petrochemical, Welding/1.07)
PAW. Parents Are Watching. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
PAWP. Pulmonary Artery Wedge Pressure. (Medical/1.05)
PAX. Passenger(s). (Also Latin for peace) (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PAYE. Pay As You Earn. A tax collection scheme (General/1.05)
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Pb. Petabyte. I can not count this high as I have only ten fingers, ten toes, and one other digit.
However a Petabyte is a measurement along the lines of Gigabyte. See Peta, Kb, Mb, Gb, Tb, Pb
(IT, Units/1.05)
Pb. Lead. Atomic number 82. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
PB. Process Blow down. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PBB. Passenger Boarding Bridge. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
PBC. Puebla Airport. Mexico. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PBC. Parallel Bus Connection. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PBC. Pprimary Biliary Cirrhosis. (Medical/1.05)
PBI. West Palm Beach Airport. FL. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PBL. Puerto Cabello Airport. Venezuela. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PBL. Project Baseline. See Baseline (Project Management/1.07)
PBM. Paramaribo Airport. Surinam. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PBR. Polished Bore Receptacle. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PBSRAM. Pipelined Burst Static Random Access Memory. Cache (IT, Computing/1.05)
PBT. Polybutylene Terephthalate. (General/2.14)
PBTD. Plug Back Total Depth. (Drilling/2.16)
PBU. Pressure Build Up. (Drilling/2.16)
PBX. Private Branch eXchange. A telephone exchange system, generally for a company or other
private body, providing the capability to allow internal and external calls and also operate the
internal traffic (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
PC. Police Constable. (Policing/1.06)
PC. Project Completion. (Petrochemical/1.07)
pc. After Meals. (Medical/1.05)
PC. PolyCarbonate. (General/2.14)
PC. Personal Computer. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PC. Progressing Cavity. (Petrochemical/2.08)
PCA. Police Complaints Authority. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
PCA. Pre-Conditioned Air. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
PCA. Procurement Criticality Assessment. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PCB. Poly Chlorinated Biphenyl. (General/2.02)
PCB. Project Control Baseline. See Baseline (Project Management, Planning/1.05)
PCB. Printed Circuit Board. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PCC. Project Commissioning Concept. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PCC. Proof of Core Capability. Tests to be performed prior to installation in order to prove fitness for
purpose (OSL Project Related/1.05)
PCC. Pre-Cast Concrete. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
PCD. Proceed, Proceeding. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PCDA. Process Control and Data Acquisition. (Petrochemical/1.05)
PCDM. Power and Control Distribution Module. (Drilling/2.16)
PCE. Preliminary Control Estimate. (Project Management/1.07)
PCE. Pressure Control Equipment. (Drilling/2.16)
PCI. Protocol Control Information. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PCI. Peripheral Connect Interface. Bus type. See Bus, ISA, EISA, MCA, PCMCIA (IT, Computing/1.05)
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PCIA. Personal Communications Industry Association. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
PCM. Process Corrosion Monitoring. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PCM. Pulse Coded Modulation. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
PCM. Pulse Code Modulation. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PCMCIA. People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
PCMCIA. Personal Computer Memory Card Industry Association. Now known as a PC Card since it is
easier to pronounce. PCMCIA is a technical design standard and an international industry trade
association. The PCMCIA interface is a series of hardware and software standards for PC Cards.
These credit-card sized devices can expand the memory, storage, I/O and processing capabilities
of host machines. A host machine can be any computer based device including notebooks,
palmtops, desktop PCs, personal communicators, laser printers, digital cameras, fax machines,
test equipment and medical imaging equipment. See Bus, ISA, EISA, MCA, PCI, Flash memory
(IT, Computing/1.05)
PCN. Personal Communications Network. Refers to GSM based systems, eg DCS1800 and PCS1900
(IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
PCN. Pavement Classification Number. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PCO2. Carbon Dioxide Tension. (Medical/1.05)
PCP. Progressing Cavity Pump. (Petrochemical/2.08)
PCP. Provisional Contracts Plan. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PCP. Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia. (Medical/1.05)
PCR. Project Change Request. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PCR. Polymerase Chain Reaction. (Medical/1.05)
PCS. Platform Completion System. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PCS. Preliminary Control Schedule. (Project Management/1.07)
PCS. Process Control System. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PCS. Personal Communication Services. Frequency range from 1850-2200MHz used in north America
for mobile phones (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
PCSO. Police Community Safety Officer. (Policing/2.14)
PCT. Polycyclohexylenedimethylene Terephthalate. (General/2.14)
PCU. PolyCarbonate Urethane. (General/2.14)
PCU. Packet Control Unit. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
PCV. Pressure Control Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.05)
PCV. Passenger Carrying Vehicle. (Policing/2.14)
PCWP. Pulmonary Capilary Wedge Pressure. (Medical/1.05)
Pd. Palladium. Atomic number 46. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
PD. Public Domain. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
PD. Project Documentation. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PD. Process Data. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PD. Programme Distribution. (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
PDA. Personal Digital Assistant. See HPC (IT, Computing/1.05)
PDA. Public Display of Affection. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
PDAU. Physical Delivery Access Unit. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PDC. Pressure Differential Controller. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
PDC. Perforation Depth Control. (Drilling/2.16)
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PDC. Personal Digital Cellular. Digital mobile telephone system. Japanese standard operating in the
frequency ranges 800 and 1500Mhz (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
PDCP. Power Distribution Control Panel. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PDF. Personal Descriptive Form. (Policing/2.14)
PDF. Portable Document Format. (IT, Telecommunications/2.08)
PDG. Permanent Downhole Gauge. (Drilling/2.16)
PDG. Padang Airport. Indonesia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PDH. Plesisynchronous Digital Hierarchy. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PDI. Pressure Differential Indicator. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
PDIC. Pressure Differential Indicating Controller. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
PDIS. Pressure Differential Indicating Switch. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
PDL. Program Design Language. (IT, Languages/1.05)
PDL. Ponta Delgada Airport. Portugal. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PDM. Precedence Diagramming Method. See AON (Project Management, Planning/2.01)
PDM. Precedence Diagram Method. See AON, Network, CPA (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
PDN. Public Data Network. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PDN. Packet Data Network. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
PDO. Plan for Development and Operation. (Petrochemical/1.07)
Pdoc. Psychiatrist. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
PDP. Plasma Display Panel. A flat screen technology. See CRT, LCD, TFT, EL, FED, CGS (IT,
Computing/1.05)
PDP. Program Definition Phase. (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
PDP. Professional Development Profile. (Policing/2.14)
PDP. Performance Development Plan. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
PDP. Packet Data Protocol. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
PDQ. Production, Drilling and living Quarters. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PDQ. Pretty Damned Quick. (General/2.01)
PDR. Packaged Drilling Rig. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PDR. Personal Development Review. (Policing/2.14)
PDR. Preliminary Design Review. (OSL Project Related/1.05)
PDS. Power Distribution System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
PDS. Programme Definition Stage. (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
PDS. Pressure Differential Switch. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
PDS. Please Don't Shout (typing all in capital letters is rude). (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
PDT. Pacific Daylight Time. (US and Canada) (Time or Space/2.02)
PDT. Pressure Differential Transmitter. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
PDU. Protocol Data Unit. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PDX. Portland Airport. OR. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PE. Plain End. (Petrochemical/1.07)
pe. Peru. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
PE. PolyEthylene. (General/2.14)
PE. Permanent Echo. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PE. Ice pellets. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
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PE. Procurement Executive. (Military/1.06)
PE. Produkt og elektrisitetstilsynet. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PE. Physical Exam, Pulmonary Embolism. (Medical/1.05)
PEARL. Pupils Equal And Reactive To Light. (Medical/1.05)
PEBCAK. Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
Peck. Measure of Ale. 2 gallons (16 pts). (Measure of Ale/1.05)
PECU. PCDA/ESD Communication Unit. (Petrochemical/1.07)
ped. Pediatric. (Medical/1.05)
PED. Positional Entry Device. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PED. Pin Entry Device. Card Reader/Kort leser (Security/1.06)
PEEP. Possitive End-Expiratory Pressure. (Medical/1.05)
PEFR. Peak Expiratory Flow Rate. (Medical/1.05)
PEG. Polyethylene Glycol. (General/2.14)
PEI. Polyetherimide. (General/2.14)
PEI. Pereira Airport. Colombia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PEK. PolyEtherKetone. (General/2.14)
PEK. Capital. Beijing (Peking) Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.05)
PEN. Peruvian Nuevo Sol. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
PEN. Penang Airport. Malaysia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PEN. Polyethylene Naphthalate. (General/2.14)
PEP. Project Execution Plan. (Project Management/1.07)
PEP. Production Execution Plan. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
PER. Performance. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PER. Perth Airport. WA. Australia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PER. Project Expenditure Request. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
Per. For each, in accordance with. (General/1.05)
Percent Complete. An assessment of the progress achieved. The definition of progress is 'to
advance', while the terms physical progress or percent complete used in status reporting are a
percentage expression of the proportion of completeness of a given activity or task (Project
Management, Planning/1.10)
Perl. A programming language. (IT, Languages/1.05)
PERM. Permanent. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PERRLA. Pupils Equal, Round, Reactive To Light And Accomodation. (Medical/1.05)
Persona grata. Acceptable Person. (Latin, French, Greek/1.05)
Persona non grata. Unacceptable Person. (Latin, French, Greek/1.05)
PERT. Program Evaluation Review Technique. PERT was developed in the mid 50s by the United
States Navy for use on it's Polaris missile programme. It is a method of evaluating probable
outcomes based on three scenarios. Best case, expected case, and worst case. The term is often
misused to mean critical path analysis. The model allows for variable activity duration. a =
optimistic duration, m = realistic duration, b = pessimistic duration. See Network, AON, AOA,
CPM, CPA (Project Management, Planning/1.07)
PES. Petrozavodsk Airport. Russia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PET. Performance Evaluation Test. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PET. Polyethylene Terephthalate. (General/2.14)
Peta. SI number prefix 1.000.000.000.000.000. Abbreviated as P (SI Number Prefixes/2.08)
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PETE. Polyethylene Terephthalate. (General/2.14)
Petroleum. From the Latin petra (rocks) and oleum (oil). Petroleum is a generic name for
hydrocarbons, including crude oil, natural gas and NGLs (Petrochemical/2.01)
PEW. Peshawar Airport. Pakistan. (Airport Codes/1.06)
pf. French Polynesia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
PF. Polyteknisk Forening. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
PF. Panel Front. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PF. Phenol Formaldehyde. (General/2.14)
PF. Piston engined aircraft fuel. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PFD. Process Flow Diagram. A PFD is a flow chart representing the main processes and equipment,
and excludes any information about instrumentation. Normally basic design data is included on
the diagram such as flow rates, flow pressures, temperature (Petrochemical/1.05)
PFD. Primary Flight Display. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PFG. Platform Fire and Gas. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PFI. Private Finance Initiative. (Military/1.06)
PFI. Papirindustriens Forskningsinstitutt. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
PFI. Pipe Fabrication Institute. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
PFN. Panama City Airport. FL. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PFO. Paphos Airport. Cyprus. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PfP. Partnership for Peace. (Military/1.06)
PFR. Police Federation Regulations. (Policing/2.14)
PFS. Project Functional Specifications. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PFT. Pulmonary Function Test. (Medical/1.05)
pg. Papua New Guinea. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
pg. Picogram. (Medical/1.05)
PGB. Permanent Guide Base. (Drilling/2.16)
PGE. Prostaglandin E. (Medical/1.05)
PGF. Perpignan Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PGK. Papua New Guinea Kina. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
PGOR. Produced Gas Oil Ratio. (Drilling/2.16)
PGP. Pretty Good Privacy. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PGT. Pegasus Airlines. (Airline Codes/1.05)
pH. Potential Hydrogen. Measure of the acidity/alkalinity of a solution. Equals 7 for neutral solutions,
increasing with increasing alkalinity and decreasing with increasing acidity (General/2.02)
ph. Philippines. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
PH. Past History. (Medical/1.05)
Pharming. Farming is the redirection of internet traffic from one web site to another identical looking
site operated by charlatans. The intention of pharming is to acquire your user name, password,
banking details, etc in order to steal your identity and empty your account. Pharming sounds a bit
like phishing, however it is more sinister because you can be redirected to a bogus site without
your knowledge. See phishing. Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharming (IT, Computing/2.14)
PHC. Port Harcourt Airport. Nigeria. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PhD. Philosophiae Doctor (Doctor of Philosophy). (Qualification, Award, Title/2.02)
PHF. Newport News Airport. VA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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Phi. Twenty first letter of the Greek alphabet. Upper Case symbol = Magnetic flux, radiant flux. Lower
Case symbol = Twenty first, phase, angular phase difference, potential, peripheral speed,
longitude (Greek Alphabet/1.05)
Phishing. Phishing (fishing) is an attempt to extract sensitive information out of people over the
internet, for example user names, passwords, credit card details, etc. See pharming. For more
details
follow
these
links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/phishing (IT, Computing/2.14)
PHL. Philadelphia International Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
phos. Phosphorus. (Medical/1.05)
PHP. Philippino Peso. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
PHP. Pseudohypoparathyroidism. (Medical/1.05)
PHR. Peak Heart Rate. (Medical/1.05)
PHR. Peak Hour Rate. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
PHR. Project Hand over Requirement. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PHS. Personal Handyphone System. Digital mobile telephone system. Japanese standard operating in
the frequency range 1900Mhz (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
PHWR. Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor. (Nuclear power/1.05)
PHX. Sky Harbour. Phoenix. Arizona Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
Physical Progress. See Percent Complete. (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
PI. Pressure Indicator. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
PI. Present Illness. (Medical/1.05)
Pi. Sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. Upper Case symbol = Pressure, product. Lower Case
symbol = Sixteenth, the ratio of a circle's circumference to it's diameter ca. 3.141, product,
osmetic pressure (Greek Alphabet/1.05)
PIA. Peoria Airport. IL. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PIA. Pakistan International Airlines. (Airline Codes/2.02)
PIB. Pre-flight Information Bulletin. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
PIBKAC. Problem Is Between Keyboard And Chair. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
PIC. Pilot In Command. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
PIC. Pressure Indicating Controller. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
pico. SI number prefix 0,000 000 000 001. Abbreviated as p (SI Number Prefixes/2.08)
Pico Cell. Very small cell for boosting capacity within buildings. (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
PICS. Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PID. Project Initiation Document. (Policing/2.14)
PID. Pelvic Inflamatory Disease. (Medical/1.05)
PID. Proportional Integral Derivative. (Petrochemical/1.07)
Pig. A plug used for cleaning a pipeline or separating two liquids being moved down the pipeline. The
pig is inserted into the pipeline and carried along by the flow of oil or gas. An intelligent pig is
fitted with sensors which check for corrosion or defects in the pipeline. A pig launcher projects the
pig into the pipeline, while a pig receiver catches the pig at the other end (Petrochemical/2.01)
Pigeon. 20kV ACSR conductor cable for Overhead Power Lines. In this industry all conductor cables
and components are named after birds. Another type of conductor cable for example is Quail
(Electrical/1.05)
PIH. Pocatello Airport. ID. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PII. Public Interest Immunity. (Policing/2.14)
PIK. Glasgow Prestwick Airport. UK. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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PIL. Prosess og foredlingsindustriens Landsforening. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
PIM. Personal Information Manager. A computer program which you can use to store information like
birthdays, appointments, notes, etc (General/1.06)
PIMS. Police Informant Management System. (Policing/2.14)
PIN. Personal Identification Number. A secret code designed to control unauthorised access/use of
for example, SIM cards, bank cards, security access cards. See PUK (Security/1.05)
Pin. Measure of Ale. 4 1/2 gallons (36 pts). (Measure of Ale/1.05)
Ping. Packet INternt Groper. A diagnostics program that checks whether a device is correctly
connected to a host. (Pinging). (IT, Computing/2.02)
Pinking. A metallic rattling sound made by a car engine, also known as knocking. Pinking is caused
by using the wrong octane fuel resulting in pre-ignition, or when the distributor points are not set
correctly (General/2.01)
PIO. Principle Investigating Officer. (Policing/2.14)
PIP. Proximal Interphalangeal. (Medical/1.05)
Pipe. Measure of Ale. 128 gallons (4 barrels). (Measure of Ale/1.05)
PIR. Parents In Room. (IT, Internet Chat/2.14)
PIR. Passive Infra Red Detector. (Security/1.05)
PIRA. Provisional Irish Republican Army. (Military/1.06)
PIT. Greater Pittsburgh International Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
PITA. Pain In The Arse. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
PITA. Pain In The Ass. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
PITCL. Procedure Inspection Testing Certificate List. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PITF. Petroleum Industry Training Forum. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
Pixel. A pixel is the smallest unit (dot) used to make up a digital image. Clear images require a lot of
pixels. (IT, Computing/2.08)
Pixels. Points on a screen. Each pixel (point) is identified by two numbers, usually giving the pixels
position across and down from the top left hand corner of the screen. Therefore a screen with a
resolution of 640 x 240, has a total of 153.600 pixels, where 0,0 is the pixel in the top left hand
corner, and 0,240 is the pixel in the bottom left hand corner (IT, Computing/1.05)
PJE. Parachute Jumping Exercise. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PJHQ. Permanent Joint Headquarters. (Military/1.06)
pk. Pakistan. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
PKR. Pakistani Rupee. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
PKU. Phenilketonuria. (Medical/1.05)
PL. Plug Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
pl. Poland. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
PL. Petroleumsloven. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
PL. Power Level. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
PLA. Practice Low Approach. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PLA. Plasminogen Activator. (Medical/1.05)
PLASI. Pulse Light Approach Slope Indicator. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Platform. An offshore structure that is fixed to the seabed. (Petrochemical/1.08)
PLC. Programmable Logic Control. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PLC. Public Limited Company. (General/2.10)
PLEM. Pipeline End Manifold. (Drilling/2.16)
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PLES. Pipeline End Structure. (Drilling/2.16)
PLET. Pipeline End Termination. (Drilling/2.16)
PLH. Plymouth Airport. UK. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PLL. Phase Locked Loop. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
PLM. Pulse Length Modulation. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
PLM. Palembang Airport. Indonesia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PLMN. Public Land Mobile Network. Generic name for all mobile wireless networks that use earth
base stations rather than satellites. The mobile equivalent of the PSTN (IT,
Telecommunications/2.04)
PLN. Flight Plan. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PLOKTA. Press Lots Of Keys To Abort. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
PLOWR. Punch List and Outstanding Work Register. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PLP. Packet Level Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PLS. Programmerbar Logisk Styring. Norwegian, PLC in English. Sammenheng SRO.
under Г©n SRO (IT, Computing/1.05)
Flere PLS'er
PLS. Providenciales Airport. Turks And Caicos Islands. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PLS. Position Location System. (Drilling/2.16)
PLT. Production Logging Tool. (Drilling/2.16)
PLVL. Present Level. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PLZ. Port Elizabeth Airport. South Africa. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PLZ. Polish Zloty. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
PM. Performance Management. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PM. Programme Manager. Preventive Maintenance, or Project Manager (IT, Computing/1.05)
Pm. Promethium. Atomic number 61. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
PM. Private message. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
PM. Post Mortem. (Policing/2.14)
PM. Performance Monitoring. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PM. Program Manager. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PM. Preventive Maintenance. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PM. Platform Manager. (Petrochemical/1.07)
pm. St. Pierre And Miquelon. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
PM. Planned Maintenance. (Drilling/2.16)
PM. Phase Modulation. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
PM&R. Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation. (Medical/1.05)
PMAS. Police Mutual Assurance Society. (Policing/2.14)
PMB. Police Monitoring Board. (Policing/2.14)
PMBI. Pardon My Butting In. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
PMBX. Private Manual Branch eXchange. See PABX (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
PMF. Pardon My French or Pure Freaking Magic. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
PMFBI. Pardon Me For Butting In. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
PMFJI. Pardon Me For Jumping In. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
PMFJIB. Pardon Me For Jumping In But. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
PMI. Palma de Mallorca Airport. Spain. (Airport Codes/1.05)
PMI. Positive Material Identification. (Petrochemical/1.07)
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PMI. Point of Maximum Impulse. (Medical/1.05)
PMIGBOM. Put Mind In Gear Before Opening Mouth. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
PMJI. Pardon My Jumping In. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
PMM. Preventive Maintenance Man-hours. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PMN. Polymorphonuclear Leukocyte. (Medical/1.05)
PMO. Palermo. (Airport Codes/1.05)
PMOS. P channel Metal Oxide Silicon. Type of chip. Buy a book on integrated circuits if you need a
description (IT, Computing/1.05)
PMP. Previous Menstrual Period. (Medical/1.05)
PMP. Peeing My Pants. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
PMR. Private Mobile Radio. Walky-Talky generally for use within a defined user group such as the
emergency services or by an airport authority. See Trans European Trunked Radio (IT,
Telecommunications/1.05)
PMR. Polymyalgia Rheumatica. (Medical/1.05)
PMS. Planned Maintenance System. (Drilling/2.16)
PMS. Project Master Schedule. (Project Management/1.07)
PMSP. Preventive Maintenance Spare Parts. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PMV. Production Master Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
PMV. Porlamar Airport. Venezuela. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PN. Prior Notice Required. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
pn. Pitcairn Island. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
PNB. Police Negotiating Board. (Policing/2.14)
PNC. Police National Computer. (Policing/2.14)
PNCAH. Please No Cursing Allowed Here. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
PNCB. Police National Computer Bureau. (Policing/2.14)
PNCD. Police National Computer Database. (Policing/2.14)
PND. Peroxysmal Nocturnal Dyspnea. (Medical/1.05)
PNE. Private Network Emulators. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PNH. Phnom-Penh Airport. Cambodia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PNH. Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria. (Medical/1.05)
PNL. Passenger Name List. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
PNLD. Police National Legal Database. (Policing/2.14)
P-NNI. Private Network-To-Network. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PNR. Pointe Noire Airport. Congo. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PNR. Point of No Return. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PNR. Passenger Name Record. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
PNS. Pensacola Airport. FL. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PNT. Private Network Terminators. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PO. Purchase Order. (Project Management/1.05)
PO. Dust devils. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Po. Polonium. Atomic number 84. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
PO. By Mouth. (Medical/1.05)
POA. Porto Alegre Airport. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
POAHF. Put On A Happy Face. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
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POB. Personnel On Board. (Drilling/2.16)
POB. Persons On Board. Personnel On Board (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
POBM. Pseudo Oil Based Mud. (Drilling/2.16)
POC. Proof Of Capability. (OSL Project Related/1.05)
POC. Point Of Contract. (OSL Project Related/1.05)
POC. Proof Of Concept. (IT, Computing/2.13)
POD. Pay On Demand. (General/1.05)
PoD. Plan of Development. (Petrochemical/2.07)
PODS. Policing on Doorsteps. (Policing/2.14)
POE. Port of Entry. (Freight and Shipping/1.05)
POE. Point of Entry. (Policing/2.14)
POETS. Piss Off Early Tomorrow’s Saturday. (General/1.05)
POF. Permanent Operations Facility. (Drilling/2.16)
POG. Port Gentil Airport. Gabon. (Airport Codes/1.06)
POH. Path OverHead. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
POM. Port Moresby Airport. Papua New Guinea. (Airport Codes/1.06)
POM. Project Organisation Manual. (Project Management/1.07)
PONQ. Price of Non-Quality. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
POOH. Pull Out Of Hole. (Petrochemical/1.07)
POP. Puerto Plata Airport. Dominican Republic. (Airport Codes/1.06)
POP. Point of Presence. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
POP. Post Office Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
POR. Pori Airport. Finland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
POs. Persistent Offenders. (Policing/2.14)
POS. Parent Over Shoulder. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
POS. Port Of Spain Airport. Trinidad And Tobago. (Airport Codes/1.06)
POS. Piece Of S**t. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
POS. Point Of Sale. A POS unit/terminal is an electronic cash register. E.g. a debit/credit card reader
at supermarket. See EFTPOS, POS (IT, Computing/1.05)
POSIX. Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments. (IT, Computing/1.05)
POSS. Possible. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
POSSLQ. Person Of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
Postop. Postoperative. (Medical/1.05)
POTS. Plain Old Telephone Service. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
POTUS. President Of The United States. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
POU. Poughkeepsie Airport. NY. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
POW. Prisoner Of War. (Military/2.02)
POZ. Lawica. Poznan Airport. Poland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
PP. Postpartum. (Medical/1.05)
PP. PolyPropylene. (General/2.14)
PP. Project Procedures. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PPA. Polyphthalamide. (General/2.14)
PPAF. Police Performance Accountability Framework. (Policing/2.14)
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ppcf. Pounds Per Cubic Foot. (Drilling/2.16)
PPD. Purified Protein Derivative. (Medical/1.05)
PPE. Personal Protective Equipment. (Petrochemical/2.10)
PPE. PolyPhenylene Ether. (General/2.14)
PPF. Phenol-Furfural. (General/2.14)
PPFP. Procurement Package and Follow-up Plan. (Project Management/1.07)
PPG. Pounds Per Gallon. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PPG. PolyPropylene Glycol. (General/2.14)
Pphpd. persons per hour per direction. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
PPI. Plan Position Indicator. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PPL. People. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ppm. parts per million. (Petrochemical/2.08)
PPNG. Penicilinase-Producing Neisseria Gonorrhoeae. (Medical/1.05)
PPO. PolyPhenylene Oxide. (General/2.14)
PPO. Prior Permission Only. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
PPOs. Prolific and other Priority Offenders. (Policing/2.14)
PPOX. Polypropylene Oxide. (General/2.14)
PPP. Point to Point Protocol. A standard for connecting your computer to your Internet Service
Providers host computer (IT, Computing/1.05)
PPPoE. Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet. (IT, Computing/2.13)
PPR. Prior Permission Required. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PPS. Plasmic Propulsion System. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
PPS. Present Position Symbol. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PPS. PolyPhenylene Sulfide. (General/2.14)
PPS. Precise Position Service. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PPSDN. Public Packet Switched Data Network. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PPSN. Present position. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PPSU. Polyphenylsulfone. (General/2.14)
PPT. Prisoner Processing Team. (Policing/2.14)
PPT. Papeete Polynesie Airport. Francaise. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PPTP. Point to Point Tunneling Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PPX. Parallel Packet Express. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PQC. Pavement Quality Concrete. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
PR. Public Relations. (General/2.02)
PR. Pipe Rack. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PR. Progesterone Receptor. (Medical/1.05)
PR. Pulmonic Regurgitation. (Medical/1.05)
PR. Procedure. Prosedyre (Petrochemical/1.07)
Pr. Praseodymium. Atomic number 59. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
PR. Per Rectum. (Medical/1.05)
pr. Puerto Rico. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
PRA. Primary Rate Access. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PRB. Package Responsible Buyer. (Petrochemical/1.07)
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PRC. Primary Rate Channel. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
PRCU. Policing and Reducing Crime Unit. (Policing/2.14)
PRE. Package Responsible Engineer. (Petrochemical/1.07)
Predecessor. The activity or activities that come before the current activity. See Successor, CPA,
Network, AOA, AON (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
Preop. Preoperative. (Medical/1.05)
Prep. Preparation. (Medical/1.05)
PRF. Pulse Repetition Frequency. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PRF. Plastics Recovery Facility. (General/2.14)
PRG. Ruzyne. Prauge Airport. Czech Republic. (Airport Codes/1.05)
PRI. Primary. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PRI. Petroleum Recovery Institute. Canada (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
PRI. Primary Rate Interface (ISDN). There are two types of ISDN Basic Rate Interface and Primary
Rate Interface (IT, Computing/1.05)
PRIME. Problem Solving in Multi agency Environments. (Policing/2.14)
PRINCE. PRojects IN Controlled Environments. A project management methodology developed by
the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) for IT projects (Association,
Society, Institute/2.05)
Priority. Ranking activities to be performed in the order that they need to be performed. Ensuring
that priorities are set and met (being goal orientated) is essential. See ketchup affect (Project
Management, Planning/1.10)
PRISM. Programme Reducing Individual Substance Misuse. (Policing/2.14)
PRKG. Parking. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PRM. Program Review Meeting. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PRM. Passenger Reservation Manual. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
PRMD. Private Management Domain. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PRML. Partial Response Maximum Likelihood. (IT, Computing/1.05)
prn. As Needed. (Medical/1.05)
PRN. Pristina Airport. Yougoslavia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PROB. Probability. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PROC. Procedure. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Produced water. Water naturally present in a reservoir or water injected into a reservoir to enhance
production. (Petrochemical/2.01)
Productivity Factor. A theoretical measurement of effectivness. The ratio of actual manhours
expended to estimated manhours earned. The formula is Productivity=Actual/Earned. If the value
is greater than 1 then productivity is poor, or the estimate is poor, or too little progress is being
claimed, etc, etc. On the other hand if the value is less than 1 then productivity is good, or there
is a lot of slack in the estimate, or too much progress is being claimed, etc, etc. As a footnote
some organisations calculate productivity factor as Earned/Actual which can be confusing (Project
Management, Planning/1.10)
Program. A series of instructions that make a computer perform a specific task.
Computing/1.05)
(IT,
Project. An undertaking with a clearly defined goal, that is undertaken within a given time scale and
budget. Some contemporary texts on the subject attempt to argue that in addition, a project is a
unique venture carried out by a temporary organisation. This maybe the case, all snow flakes are
undoubtedly unique, snow however is still snow (Project Management/1.05)
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Project Manager. The conductor of an orchestra in which every musician is from a different union.
(Humour/1.05)
Project Phase. Specific periods within a project. Project phases vary according to the undertaking,
and the type of industry involved. Phases tend to overlap, and as one phase reaches completion
the next phase tends to attract more attention. An example of project phases, Engineering,
Procurement, Fabrication, Installation, Commissioning, Operations (Project Management/1.05)
PROM. Premature Rupture of Membranes. (Medical/1.05)
PROM. Programmable Read Only Memory. (IT, Computing/1.05)
Protocol. Convention for data transmission. A convention used to control the transmission of data is
called a protocol. The use of start and stop bits is an example of a very simple protocol. See
HTTP, TCP/IP, URL, Protocol (IT, Computing/1.06)
PROV. Provisional. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PRP. Prop Jet Aircraft. Aerospatiale ATR. de Havilland DHC7. Fokker 50 (Aviation Civil and
Military/1.05)
PRSP. Penicillinase-Resistant Synthetic Peicillin. (Medical/1.05)
PRU. Pupil Referral Unit. (Policing/2.14)
PRW. Parents Are Watching. (IT, Internet Chat/2.14)
PS. PolyStyrene. (General/2.14)
PS. Pulmonic Stenosis. (Medical/1.05)
PS. Provisional Sum. (Project Management/1.07)
PS. Pressure Switch. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
PS. Plus. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PS. Person SГёker. Personal Beeper (General/1.05)
PS. Pulling Slip printed. Cable Status (OSL Project Related/1.05)
PSA. Preliminary Site Acceptance. (OSL Project Related/1.05)
PSA. Prostatic Specific Antigen. (Medical/1.05)
PSA. Production Sharing Agreement. (Drilling/2.16)
PSA. Pisa. Italy. (Airport Codes/1.05)
PSA. Public Service Agreement. (Policing/2.14)
PSAP. Presentation Service Access Point. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PSC. Principal Subordinate Command. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PSC. Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis. (Medical/1.05)
PSC. Pasco Airport. WA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PSC. Passenger Service Conference. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
PSC. Product Sharing Contracts. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PSC. Pointer Symbol Communication. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PSC. Production Sharing Contract. (Drilling/2.16)
PSD. Process Shut Down. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PSD. Planned Shut Down. (Drilling/2.16)
PSD. Prosjekt Styring Drift. Norwegian. (OSL Project Related/1.05)
PSDB. Police Scientific Development Branch. (Policing/2.14)
PSDN. Packet Switched Data Network. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PSDV. Process Shut Down Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
PSE. Pressure Safety Element. (Petrochemical/1.07)
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PSF. Pounds per Square Foot. Compound unit (pressure) = 4,8824 kg/cm squared (Weights &
Measures, Imperial/1.05)
PSG. Passing. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PSGN. Post-Streptococcal Glomerulonephritis. (Medical/1.05)
PSH. Pressure Switch High. (Petrochemical/1.07)
Psi. Twenty third letter of the Greek alphabet. Upper Case symbol = Dielectric flux, electrostatic flux.
Lower Case symbol = Twenty third, yaw (Greek Alphabet/1.05)
PSI. Pounds per Square Inch. Compound unit (pressure) = 0,0703 kg/cm squared (Weights &
Measures, Imperial/1.05)
psia. pounds per square inch absolute. (Petrochemical/2.09)
PSIA. Pounds per Square Inch Atmospheric. (Drilling/2.16)
psig. pounds per square inch gauge. (Petrochemical/2.09)
PSK. Phase Shift Keying. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
PSL. Pressure Switch Low. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PSL. Product Specification Level. (Drilling/2.16)
PSM. Passenger Service Message. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PSN. Packet Switch Node. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PSN. Position. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PSP. Pierced Steel Plank. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PSPDN. Packet Switched Public Data Network. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
PSR. Primary Surveillance Radar. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PSS. Prosjekt Styring Sentralt. Norwegian. (OSL Project Related/1.05)
PSS. Project Summary Schedule. (Project Management/1.07)
PSS. PolySuperSulfone. (General/2.14)
PSSO. Police Skills and Standards Organisation. (Policing/2.14)
PST. Pacific Standard Time. (US and Canada) (Time or Space/2.02)
PSTN. Public Switched Telephone Network. (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
PSU. PolySulfone. (General/2.14)
PSU. Prosjekt Styring Utbyggning. Norwegian. (OSL Project Related/1.05)
PSU. Police Support Unit. (Policing/2.14)
PSV. Pressure Safety Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.05)
PSV. Pipe Supply Vessel. (Drilling/2.16)
PSV. Public Service Vehicle. (Policing/2.14)
PSV. Pressure Support Ventilation. (Medical/1.05)
PSVT. Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia. (Medical/1.05)
Psych. Psychiatry. (Medical/1.05)
PSZ. Public Safety Zone. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
PT. Posterior Tibia. (Medical/1.05)
PT. Physical Training. (Military/1.10)
pt. Portugal. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
PT. Physical Therapy. (Medical/1.05)
Pt. Platinum. Atomic number 78. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
pt. Pint. Measure of capacity Imperial. 20 fl.oz = 4 gills = 1 pint = 0,5683 l (Weights & Measures,
Imperial/1.05)
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PT. Pressure Transmitter. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
pt. Patient. (Medical/1.05)
PT. Pacific Time (PST or PDT). (Time or Space/2.08)
PT. Pocket Telephone. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
PT. Prothrombin Time. (Medical/1.05)
PTA. Prepaid Ticket Advice. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
PTA. Prior To Admission. (Medical/1.05)
PTB. Parts per Thousand Barrels. (Petrochemical/2.10)
PTC. Permission To Commit. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PTC. Police Training Centre. (Policing/2.14)
PTC. Percutaneous Transhepatic Cholangiography. (Medical/1.05)
PTCA. Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty. (Medical/1.05)
PTCE. Pre-Tender Cost Estimate. (Project Management/1.07)
PTE. Portuguese Escudo. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
PTFE. Polytetrafluoroethylene. (General/2.14)
PTH. Parathormone. (Medical/1.05)
Pth. Pathology. (Medical/1.05)
PTHrP. Parathyroid Hormone-Related Protein. (Medical/1.05)
PTI. Physical Training Instructor. (Policing/2.14)
PTI. Public Transport Interchange. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
PTL. Predicted Track Line. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PTMM. Please Tell Me More. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
PTN. Personal Telephone Number. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
PTN. Morgan City Patterson Airport. LA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PTN. Procedure Turn. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PTO. Power Take Off. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PTP. Pointe A Pitre Airport. Guadeloupe. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PTP. Point To Point. Or in Norwegian Punkt Til Punkt (IT, Computing/1.05)
PTRA. Percutaneouus Transluminal Renal Angioplasty. (Medical/1.05)
PTS. Polar Track Structure. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PTS. Personnel Tracking System. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PTS. Post-traumatic Stress. (Policing/2.14)
PTS. Pipeline Termination Structure. (Drilling/2.16)
PTSD. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
PTT. Partial Thromblopastin Time. (Medical/1.05)
PTT. Post, Telephone & Telecommunications. (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
PTT. Push To Talk. A radio that will not transmit until the PTT button is pressed (IT,
Telecommunications/1.07)
PTU. Propylthiouracil. (Medical/1.05)
PTU. Power Transfer Unit. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PTV. Passenger Transfer Vehicle. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
PTW. Permit To Work. (General/2.10)
PTY. Panama City Airport. Panama. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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PTZ. Pan, Tilt, & Zoom. A description of the capabilities of a closed circuit video camera
(Security/1.05)
PU. Polyurethene. (General/2.14)
PU. That stinks!. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
PU. Processing Unit. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PU. Polyurethane. (General/2.10)
PU. Pulled. Cable Status (OSL Project Related/1.05)
Pu. Plutonium. Atomic number 94. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
PUBLIC DOMAIN. Programs that are available to everyone as their authors want to share them with
everyone. Programs in the public domain can be used without restriction as components of other
programs. When using public domain code or programs, it is prudent to know the programs
origins, so that you can be sure that it is in fact public domain. See Shareware, Freeware (IT,
Computing/1.07)
PUD. Plan for Utbygging og Drift. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PUD. Peptic Ulcer Disease. (Medical/1.05)
PUF. Polyurethane Foam. (General/2.10)
PUF. Pau Airport. France. Duplicate see PAU (Airport Codes/1.06)
PUK. Personal Unblocking Key. A code designed to unblock cards that have been "blocked" (closed
down) due to repeated entry of an incorrect PIN number. See PIN (Security/1.05)
PUQ. Punta Arenas Airport. Chili. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PUS. Pusan Airport. Kenya. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Push Technology. Information is sent to you from the WWW. Instead of searching (browsing) the
web for information, you subscribe to an information channel, (usually for free) and the
information channel that you have subscribed to sends (pushes) information to you automatically
every time you connect to your ISP (Internet Service Provider). The program that I use
remembers how much of a file has been pushed (downloaded) so that if you disconnect in the
middle of the download, it begins again at the break-off point (IT, Internet/1.05)
PUST. Power Up Self Test. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PUWER. Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations. (Drilling/2.16)
PUY. Pula Airport. Croatia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PVAC. PolyVinyl Acetate. (General/2.14)
PVAL. PolyVinyl Alcohol. (General/2.14)
PVB. PolyVinyl Butyral. (General/2.14)
PVC. Premature Ventricular Contraction. (Medical/1.05)
PVC. Polyvinyl Chloride. Plastic (General/1.05)
PVC. Permanent Virtual Circuit. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PVCA. PolyVinyl Chloride Acetate. (General/2.14)
PVD. Plan View Display. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PVD. Providence Airport. RI. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PVFM. PolyVinyl Formal. (General/2.14)
PVK. Preveza. Greece. (Airport Codes/1.05)
PVN. Project Variation Notice. See Change Control, DVO, DVOR, PVOR, VI, VO, VODC, VOF, VOR
(Project Management, Planning/1.07)
PVOR. Pending Variation Order Request. A preliminary notification to the client that contractor
believes a variation to the scope of work exists. See Change Control, DVO, DVOR, PVN, VI, VO,
VODC, VOF, VOR (Project Management/1.10)
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PVR. Premature Voluntary Release. (Military/1.06)
PVR. Puertoi Vallarta Airport. Mexico. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PVR. Pulmonary Vascular Resistance. (Medical/1.05)
PVT. Pressure Volume Temperature. (Petrochemical/1.07)
pw. Palau. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
PW. Produced Water. (Drilling/2.16)
PWB. Printed Wiring Board. (IT, Computing/1.05)
PWB. Production Wing Block. (Drilling/2.16)
PWHT. Post Weld Heat Treatment. Also known as stress relieving. After welding of steel (pipe,
plates, girders) Heating elements are wrapped around the weld & immediate vicinity to heat up
the area and relieve stresses caused by welding (Petrochemical, Welding/1.05)
PWM. Portland Airport. ME. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
PWP. Pulmonary Wedge Pressure. (Medical/1.05)
PWR. Pressurised Water Reactor. (Nuclear power/1.05)
PWR. Power. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
PWS. Produced Water Separator. (Petrochemical/1.07)
PWV. Production Wing Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
PX. Post eXchange. Military Duty Free Shop. (Military/1.09)
PX. Physical. (Medical/1.05)
py. Paraguay. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
PYG. Paraguayan Guarani. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
PYO. Persistent Young Offender. (Policing/2.14)
PZO. Puerto Ordaz Airport. Venezuela. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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18. Quebec
q. Every. (Medical/1.05)
QA. Quality Assurance. (Project Management/1.07)
qa. Qatar. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
QAM. Quadrature Amplitude Modulation. Some sort of a system where two transmissions can occur
simultaneously on the same frequency (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
QAR. Qatar Rial. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
QBI. Compulsory IFR flight. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
QC. Quality Control. (Project Management/1.07)
QCR. Quality Control Report. (Drilling/2.16)
qd. Every Day. (Medical/1.05)
QDM. Magnetic heading (zero wind). (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
QDR. Magnetic bearing. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
QDR. Quality Design Review. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
QED. Quod Erat Demonstrandum. (Latin, French, Greek/2.02)
QEMM. Quarterdecks Extended Memory Manager. See Upper Memory (IT, Computing/1.05)
QF. Qantas Airways. (Airline Codes/1.07)
QFE. Atmospheric pressure at aerodrome elevation. Or at runway threshold (Aviation Civil and
Military/1.05)
QFU. Magnetic orientation of runway. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
QGM. Queen's Gallantry Medal. (General/2.14)
qh. Every Hour. (Medical/1.05)
qhs. Every Bed Time. (Medical/1.05)
qid. Four Times A Day. (Medical/1.05)
QNH. Barometric Pressure Above Mean Sea Level. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
QNH. Altimeter sub-scale setting to obtain elevation when on the ground.
Military/1.05)
(Aviation Civil and
qns. Quantity Not Sufficient. (Medical/1.05)
qod. Every Other Day. (Medical/1.05)
QOS. Quality Of Service. (Project Management/1.05)
QP. Quality Plan. (Project Management/1.07)
QPI. Pietarsaari Airport. Finland. (Airport Codes/1.06)
QPM. Queens Police Medal. (General/2.14)
QPSK. Quadrature Phase Shift Keying. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
QPSX. Queued Packet, Distributed Switch. (IT, Computing/1.05)
QQ. Reno Air. (Airline Codes/1.07)
QRA. Quantitative Risk Assessment. (Petrochemical/1.07)
qs. Quantity Sufficient. (Medical/1.05)
QS. Quantity Surveyor. (Project Management/1.07)
QS. Quality Surveillance. (Project Management/1.07)
QSIF. Quarter Standard Image Format. (IT, Telecommunications/2.14)
Q-Sig. Signalling at Q reference point in ISDN model. (IT, Computing/1.05)
QSR. Quality System Requirement. (Petrochemical/1.07)
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qt. Quart. Measure of capacity Imperial. 40 fl.oz = 2 pints = 1 quart = 1,1365 l (Weights & Measures,
Imperial/1.05)
QT. Cutie. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
QTE. True bearing. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
QTS. Quick Test Sub. (Drilling/2.16)
QUAD. Quadrant. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Quail. 66kV ACSR conductor cable for Overhead Power Lines. In this industry all conductor cables
and components are named after birds (Electrical/1.05)
QUEST. Query Using Extended Search Techniques. (Policing/2.14)
QWERTY. A type of keyboard layout. The name refers to the six leftmost characters in the top row of
alphabetic characters on a keyboard. Designed in 1873, the layout of a qwerty keyboard was
originally designed to slow down typing speeds, in order to reduce the number of typing errors
(IT, Computing/1.07)
QWL. Quality of Working Life. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
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19. Romeo
R. Runway {runway identification}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
R. Respiratory Rate (Per Min). (Medical/1.05)
R. Red. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
R. Restricted area {followed by identification}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
R U THERE?. Are you there?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
R&D. Research and Development. (General/1.07)
R&E. Round and Equal. (Medical/1.05)
R&I. Research and Innovation. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
R&R. Rest and Recuperation. (General/1.05)
R&R. Recovery and Reconfiguration. (IT, Computing/1.05)
R/O. Rule Out. (Medical/1.05)
R/T. Related To. (Medical/1.05)
RA. Regional Assembly. (Government office/2.14)
RA. Risk Assessment. (Drilling/2.16)
RA. Royal Artillery. (Military/1.06)
RA. Reumathoid Arthritis, Rightatrium. (Medical/1.05)
Ra. Radium. Atomic number 88. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
RA. Receipt Acknowledged. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RA. Radio Altimeter. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RA. Rain. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RAC. Rules of the air and air traffic services. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RAC. Royal Automobile Club. (General/2.14)
RAD. Rapid Application Development. (IT, Computing/1.05)
RADIUS. Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
RADSL. Rate Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line. An alternative to ASDL and ISDN. See DSL, ISDN (IT,
Computing/1.05)
RAEBNC. Read And Enjoyed But No Comment. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
RAF. Royal Air Force. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RAFC. Regional Area Forecast Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RAFVR. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. (Military/1.06)
RAG. Runway Arresting Gear. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RAG. Ragged. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RAI. Runway Alignment Indicator. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RAI. Radioactive Iodine. (Medical/1.05)
RAID. Redundant Array of Independent Disks. An array of multiple hard discs which appears to the
computer as one storage device (IT, Computing/1.05)
RAID. Remote Access Integrated Dialler. (IT, Telecommunications/2.07)
RAIL. Runway Alignment Indicator Lights. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
RAIME. Research Institute of Applied Mechanics and Electrodynamics (Moscow).
Society, Institute/2.09)
(Association,
RAK. Marrakech Airport. Maroc. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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RAM. Random Access Memory. Semiconductor memory. Volatile. Each bit in RAM is represented by a
cell with one of two states (yes believe it or not, see Boolean and Bits). Each cell can be
electrically charged or not electrically charged representing 1 or 0 respectively. Semiconductor
memories are constructed in different ways. Examples are Bipolar, Static MOS, Dynamic MOS,
CMOS, Silicon On Sapphire, and Integrated Injection Logic. Static RAM does not require refreshing
with power due to power leakage. Dynamic RAM does require refreshing with power due to power
leakage (dissipation). A power failure empties the cell contents of both dynamic and static RAM.
The result is you loose whatever you were working on at the time, unless you’ve been smart and
backed up often. In PC terms it gets even more confusing because there are different �logical’
types of memory called conventional memory, upper memory, expanded memory, and extended
memory (IT, Computing/1.05)
RAMC. Royal Army Medical Corps. (Military/1.06)
RAMS. Reliability, Availability, Maintainability & Safety. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
RAN. Resident's Admission Note. (Medical/1.05)
RAP. Rapid City Airport. SD. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
RAP. Right Atrial Pressure. (Medical/1.05)
RAR. Rarotonga Airport. Cook Islands. (Airport Codes/1.06)
RAS. Remote Access Server. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
RAS. Resource Allocation System. A system for effective use of airport resources, for example gates
(Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RASP. Remote Antenna Signal Processor. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
RAT. Rapid Access Taxiway. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
RAuxAF. Royal Auxiliary Air Force. (Military/1.06)
RB. Rescue Boat. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RB. Reduced Bore. (Petrochemical/1.07)
Rb. Rubidium. Atomic number 37. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
RBA. Rabat Airport. Maroc. (Airport Codes/1.06)
RBBB. Right Bundle Branch Block. (Medical/1.05)
RBC. Red Blood Cells. (Medical/1.05)
RBL. Range Bearing Line. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RBP. Retrievable Bridge Plug. (Drilling/2.16)
RC. Regional Command. (Military/1.05)
RC. Radar Controller. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RCA. Reach Cruising Altitude. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RCA. Root Cause Analysis. (Drilling/2.16)
RCC. Rescue Co-ordination Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RCC. Radio Common Carrier. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
RCD. Rotating Control Device. (Drilling/2.16)
RCF. Radio Communication Failure {message type designator}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RCF. Radio Control Facility. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
RCH. Reach, Reaching. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RCL. Runway Centre Line. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RCL. Retainer Correlation Log. (Drilling/2.16)
RCLL. Runways Centre Line Light. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RCLR. Recleared. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RCM. Remote Control and Monitoring. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
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RCM. Reliability Centred Maintenance. (Petrochemical/1.07)
RCMP. Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Gendarmerie royale du Canada (General/2.08)
RCO. Route Charge Office. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RCR. Remote Component Replacement. (Drilling/2.16)
RCSU. Remote Control and Status Unit. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RCU. Remote Communication Unit. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RCU. Remote Cell Unit. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
rd. Rod/Rods sometimes called a perch or a pole. Linear measure. 16,5' = 1 rod = 5,029 m (Weights
& Measures, Imperial/1.05)
RDA. Regional Development Agency. (Government office/2.14)
RDA. Remote Database Access. (IT, Computing/1.05)
RDBMS. Relation Data Base Management System. (IT, Languages/1.05)
RDH. Reference Datum Height. For Instrument Landing System (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RDI. Remote Data Ingest (file- and application server at OSL). (IT, Computing/1.05)
RDL. Radial. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RDN. Radar Distribution Network. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RDO. Radio. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RDOP. Radar Data Output Processing. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RDP. Reservoir Development Plan. (Petrochemical/2.08)
RDPS. Radar Data Processing System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RDS. Rural Development Service. (Government office/2.14)
RDS. Respiratory Distress Syndrome. (Medical/1.05)
RDS. Radio Data System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RDU. Remaining Duration. (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
RDU. Raleigh Durham Airport. NC. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
RDW. Red Cell Distribution Width. (Medical/1.05)
Re. Rhenium. Atomic number 75. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
RE. Royal Engineers. (Military/1.06)
RE. Released. Cable Status (OSL Project Related/1.05)
RE. Hello again or In Regard to. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
RE. Radiographic Examination. (Petrochemical/1.07)
re. Reunion Island. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
RE. Reservoir Engineer. (Drilling/2.16)
RE. Recent. Used to qualify weather phenomena, e.g. RERA = Recent Rain (Aviation Civil and
Military/1.05)
readm. Readmission. (Medical/1.05)
Ready Stacked. . Ready stacked or warm stacked means that a drilling rig is idle but operational. A
ready stacked rig retains most of its crew and can deploy quickly if an operator requires its
services. In a ready stacked state, normal maintenance operations similar to those performed
when the rig is active are continued by the crew so that the rig remains ready to work. See Cold
Stacked (Drilling/2.16)
Real Time. A computer system which processes input and gives a response immediatley or very
quickly. (IT, Computing/1.06)
REC. Receive, Receiver. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
REC. Recife Airport. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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REC. Racial Equality Councils. (Government office/2.14)
REDL. Runway EDge Lights. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
REF. Reference to, Refer to. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
REG. Registration. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
REG. Reggio Calabria Airport. Italy. (Airport Codes/1.06)
REHI. Hi again. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
REK. Reykjavik Airport. Iceland. (Airport Codes/1.06)
REM. Rapid Eye Movement. (Medical/1.05)
REME. Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. (Military/1.06)
REMF. Rear Echelon Mother F*cker. (Military/1.10)
REN. Ringer Equivalent Number. (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
RENL. Runway ENd Lights. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
REP. Report, Reporting, Reporting point. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Repeater. Receives radio signals from a base station. The signals are amplified and re-transmitted to
areas where radio shadow occurs. Repeats also work in the opposite direction, i.e. receiving radio
signals from mobile telephones, then amplifying and re-transmitting them to the base station (IT,
Telecommunications/1.07)
REQ. Request, Requesting. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RERTE. Reroute. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RESA. Runway End Safety Area. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RГ©servГ©. A commercial designation without any specific meaning. (Wine Label Terms/1.05)
Reservoir. An underground formation of oil and gas. (Petrochemical/1.08)
RET. Rapid Exit Taxiway. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
RETILS. Rapid Exit Taxiway Indicator Lights System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
REVEX. Revenue expenditure. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
RF. Respiratory Failure. (Medical/1.05)
RF. Raised Face. Flange Facing. See FF (Petrochemical, Piping/1.05)
RF. Radio Frequency. (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
RF. Rheumatic Fever. (Medical/1.05)
RF. Rheumatoid Factor. (Medical/1.05)
RFA. Royal Fleet Auxiliary. (Military/1.06)
RFC. Ready For Commissioning. (Petrochemical/1.07)
RFC. Request For Comment. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RFFS. Rescue and Fire Fighting Service. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
RFG. Ready For Gas. (Petrochemical/1.07)
RFI. Radio Frequency Interference. See EMI and EMC (IT, Computing/1.05)
RFID. Radio Frequency Identification Device. (IT, Computing/1.06)
RFL. Requested Flight Level. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RFO. Ready For Operation. (Petrochemical/1.07)
RFP. (External) Repetitive Flight Plan (File). (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RFP. Request for Proposal. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
RFQ. Request for Quote. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
RFQ. Request for Quotation. (Project Management/1.05)
RFS. Ready For Start-up. (Petrochemical/1.07)
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RFS. Remote File Sharing. (IT, Computing/1.05)
RFSU. Ready For Start Up. (Drilling/2.16)
RFT. Right First Time. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
RFT. Repeat Formation Tester. (Drilling/2.16)
RG. Range. Of lights (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RGA. Revenue General Aviation. Or even Regional General Aviation (OSL Project Related/1.05)
RGB. Red, Green, Blue. (IT, Computing/1.05)
RGN. Yangoon Airport. Myanmar. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Rh. Rhesus Blood Factor. (Medical/1.05)
Rh. Rhodium. Atomic number 45. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
RHA. Royal Horse Artillery. (Military/1.06)
RHD. Right Hand Drive. (General/1.05)
RHIP. Rank Has Its Privileges. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
RHO. Rhodos airport. (Airport Codes/1.05)
Rho. Seventeenth letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Seventeenth, density,
resistivity, refractive power, coefficient of reflection, radius of curvature (Greek Alphabet/1.05)
RI. Runway Instrumentation. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RIA. Radio Immunoassay. (Medical/1.05)
RIAA. Recording Industry Association of America. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
Ribbon. A graphical user interface. With Office 2007 the menu structure has disappeared and has
been replaced by something called the ribbon. What is the ribbon you may or may not be asking
yourself? The ribbon is something called a fluid user interface. Microsoft describe it as “a user
interface that makes it easier for people to get more out of Microsoft Office applications so they
can deliver better results faster”. Well that is bollo*ks it takes me three times as long (at the
moment) to navigate around and search for items. Why could they just not include a classic
view!! I used to be able to say that will take six hours to do, meaning it will take me two hours to
do now og away and leave me alone. Not anymore, thanks Bill! (IT, Computing/2.14)
RIC. Richmond Airport. VA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
RID. Review Item Discrepancy. (General/1.05)
RIDDOR. Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations. (Policing/2.14)
RIDS. Ramp Information and Display System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RIF. Right Iliac Fosa. (Medical/1.05)
RIF. Reclearance In Flight. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RIH. Run In Hole. (Petrochemical/1.07)
RIH. Run Into Hole. (Drilling/2.16)
RIM. Reaction Injection Molding. (General/2.14)
RIMS. Ranging and Integrity Monitoring Station. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
RIMS. Risk Management Services. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
RIN. Runway Instrumentation Network. (IT, Computing/1.05)
RIN. Reinstatement. ASM Submessage (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
RIND. Reversible Ischemic Neurologic Deficit. (Medical/1.05)
RIO. Rail Incident Officer. (Policing/2.14)
RIO. Rio De Janiero Airport. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
RIP. Raster Image Processor. (IT, Computing/1.05)
RIP. Routing Information Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
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RIP. Requiescat in pace (Rest In Peace). (Latin, French, Greek/2.02)
Ripping. The process of reading and copying digital information stored on an audio CD (see
digitising, and DAE). (IT, Digital music/2.11)
RIRO. Ring in, ring out. (IT, Computing/1.05)
RIS. Runway Instrumentation System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RISC. Reduced Instruction Set Computer. See CISC, EPIC (IT, Computing/1.05)
Riser. A pipe between the seabed and a floating drilling rig, or the pipe that joins a seabed wellhead
to a Christmas tree. (Petrochemical/1.08)
Risk Analysis. The examination of the potential risks involved with the execution of a project. Risk
Analysis is the assessment of the likelihood or probability of a risk occurring and what it's impact
on the project will be. A technique like PERT or Monte Carlo might be employed, 'brainstorming' is
also quite a good technique, as well as good old common sense, and a nice fat contingency
(which of course is not to be used) (Project Management/1.10)
RITE. Right. Direction of turn (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RIU. Radio Interface Unit. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
RIX. Riga International Airport. Latvia. (Airport Codes/1.05)
RIY. Riyan Mukalla Airport. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
RJE. Remote Job Entry. (IT, Languages/1.05)
RJK. Rijeka Airport. Croatia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
RK. Registered Keeper. (Policing/2.14)
RKB. Rotary Kelly Bushings. (Drilling/2.16)
RL. Report Leaving. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RL. Real Life (that is, when not chatting). (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
RL. Ringer's Lactate, Coarse Rales (Chest Auscultation). (Medical/1.05)
RLA. Relay to. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RLC. Royal Logistic Corps. (Military/1.06)
RLCE. Request Level Change Enroute. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RLCO. Real Life Conference. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
RLE. Run Length Encoding. (IT, Telecommunications/2.14)
RLL. Right Lower Lobe. (Medical/1.05)
RLLS. Runway Lead-in Lighting System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RLNA. Requested Level Not Available. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RLP. Radio Link Protocol. Improves transmission for data communication over wireless networks (IT,
Telecommunications/2.04)
RLQ. Right Lower Quadrant. (Medical/1.05)
RM. Royal Marines. (Military/1.06)
RMA. Reliability, Maintainability and Availability. (General/1.05)
RMI. Rimini airport. (Airport Codes/1.05)
RMI. Radio Magnetic Indicator. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RMK. Remark. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RML. Right Middle Lobe. (Medical/1.05)
RMM. Remote Monitoring Maintenance. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RMON. Remote Monitoring. (General/1.05)
RMP. Reservoir Management Plan. (Drilling/2.16)
RMPE. Royal Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
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RMR. Royal Marines Reserve. (Military/1.06)
RMU. Remote Monitoring Unit. (IT, Computing/2.13)
Rn. Randon. Atomic number 86. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
RN. Royal Navy. (Military/1.06)
RN. Aural Air. (Airline Codes/1.05)
RN. Registered Nurse. (Medical/1.05)
RNA. Ribonucleic Acid. (Medical/1.05)
RNAS. Royal Naval Air Station. (Military/1.06)
RNAV. Area navigation. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RNB. Kallinge. Ronneby Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
RNC. Radio Network Controller. (General/1.05)
RNG. Radio range. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RNN. Bornholm Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
RNO. Reno Airport. NV. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
RNP. Required Navigation Performance. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RNR. Royal Naval Reserve. (Military/1.06)
RNTR. French National Telecommunications Research Centre. (Association, Society, Institute/2.09)
RO. Routed. Cable Status (OSL Project Related/1.05)
ro. Romania. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
ROA. Roanoke Airport. VA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Roaming. A GSM networks ability to identify a portable telephone via base stations and SIM cards.
Roaming gives the user of the mobile telephone freedom to roam from location to location, and
across national borders (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
ROB. Monrovia Roberts Intl Airport. Liberia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ROBEX. Regional Opmet Bulletin EXchange. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Robot. A program that collects data that is used in the indexes of web search engines. A robot
automatically surfs (browses) the internet seeking and recording information about documents.
Associated words: spider, wanderer (IT, Internet/1.05)
ROC. Rochester Airport. NY. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ROC. Rate Of Climb. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ROCIS. Remote Operated Crack Inspection System. (Petrochemical/1.07)
ROD. Rate Of Descent. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RODS. Referral Order Division Scheme. (Policing/2.14)
ROFA. Runway Object Free Area. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
ROFL. Rolling On Floor Laughing. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ROFLAS. Rolling On Floor Laughing And Screaming. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ROFLMAO. Roll On Floor Laughing My Ass Off. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ROFLPMP. Rolling On the Floor Laughing Peeing in My Pants. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ROFOR. Route Forecast. In meteorological code (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ROI. Return On Investment. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ROL. Romanian Leu. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
ROM. Range Of Motion. (Medical/1.05)
ROM. Read Only Memory. A non volatile alternative to RAM in which all the cell states of the
semiconductor are set permanently during manufacture. A set of instructions stored in this way is
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sometimes referred to as Вґhard wiredВґ or even ВґfirmwareВґ. ROM is frequently used to store data
or instructions a computer needs all the time from the moment it is switched on, like BIOS. See
PROM, EPROM, EAROM, EEROM for other types of ROM (IT, Computing/1.05)
ROM. Rome Airport. Italy. (Airport Codes/1.06)
RON. Receiving Only. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ROP. Runway Observation Post. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
ROP. Rate Of Penetration. (Petrochemical/1.07)
ROR. Raffing Out Roud (Engrish for "laughing out loud"). (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
RoRo. Roll on Roll off. (General/2.10)
ROS. Review Of Systems. (Medical/1.05)
ROSE. Remote Operation Service Element. (General/1.05)
ROSPA. Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
ROT. Tarom. (Airline Codes/1.05)
ROTF. Rolling On The Floor Laughing. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ROTFL. Rolling on the floor laughing. Type of abbreviation you are likely to encounter on the internet
(IT, Computing/1.05)
ROTFLMAO. Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A** Off. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ROTFLMAOTID. Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off Till I Die. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ROTFLMAOWPIMP. Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off While Peeing In My Pants. (IT,
Internet Chat/2.11)
ROTFLMBO. Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Butt Off. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ROTFLOL. Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ROTFLOLAPMP. Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud And Peeing My Pants.
Chat/2.11)
(IT, Internet
ROTFLTIC. Rolling On The Floor Laughing Till I Cry. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ROTI. Record of Taped Interview. (Policing/2.14)
Roughneck. Someone who works on the derrick floor, screwing together the sections of drillpipe
when running or pulling a drillstring. (Petrochemical/1.08)
Roustabout. Someone who handles the loading and unloading of equipment and assists in general
operations on the rig. (Petrochemical/1.08)
Router. A dedicated computer hardware and/or software package that manages the connection
between two or more networks. See Hub, Mux, Switch (IT, Computing/1.06)
ROV. Remotely Operated Vehicle. (Petrochemical/1.05)
ROVI. Record of Video Interview. (Policing/2.14)
ROZ. Recoverable Oil Zone. (Drilling/2.16)
RP. Reporting Person. (Policing/2.14)
RPC. Remote Procedure Call. (IT, Computing/1.05)
RPD. Robust Product Design. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
RPG. Rocket Propelled Grenade. (Military/1.10)
RPG. Road Policing Group. (Policing/2.14)
RPG. Role-Playing Games. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
RPGN. Rapid Progressive Glomerulonephritis. (Medical/1.05)
RPI. Reticulocyte Production Index. (Medical/1.05)
RPL. Replacement. ASM Submessage (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
RPL. Repetitive Flight Plan. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
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RPLC. Replace, Replaced. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RPM. Revolutions Per Minute. (Weights & Measures, Other/1.05)
RPO. Regional Programme Office. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RPR. Rapid Plasma Reagin. (Medical/1.05)
RPS. Radar Positioning System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RPSU. Redundant Power Supply Unit. (Electrical/1.05)
rpt. Repeat. (Medical/1.05)
RPT. Registered Physical Therapist. (Medical/1.05)
RPVC. Rigid Polyvinyl Chloride. (General/2.14)
RPZ. Runway Protection Zone. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
RQMNTS. Requirements. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RQP. Request flight Plan {message type designator}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RQS. Request supplementary flight plan {message type designator}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RR. Report Reaching. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RR. Recovery Room. (Medical/1.05)
RRA. Delayed meteorological message {message type indicator}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RRF. Rapid Reaction Forces (In NATO). (Military/1.05)
RRIM. Reinforced Reaction Injection Molding. (General/2.14)
RRM. Re Route Message. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
RRP. Rapid Reinforcement Plan. (Military/1.05)
RRQ. Return Receipt Request. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
RRR. Rapid Runway Repair. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RRS. Roros Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.06)
RRT. Change of routing. ASM Submessage (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
RSA. Rural Serving Area. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
RSA. Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman. A public key encryption technology named after its authors (IT,
Computing/2.12)
RSA. Runway Safety Area. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
RSC. Rescue Sub Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RSCD. Runway Surface Condition. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RSE. Radar Site Equipment. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RSF. Riser Support Frame. (Petrochemical/1.07)
RSI. Roadside Interview. (Policing/2.14)
RSN. Real Soon Now. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
RSO. Registered Sex Offender. (Policing/2.14)
RSP. Responder Beacon. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RSPB. Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
RSPCA. Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Animals. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
RSR. Regular Sinus Rhythm. (Medical/1.05)
RSR. Enroute surveillance radar. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RSS. Really Simple Syndication. (IT, Computing/2.14)
RSVP. Resource reSerVation Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
RSVP. Rig Start Validation Process. (Drilling/2.16)
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RSVP. Réspondez s’il vous paît. Please reply (Latin, French, Greek/1.05)
RT. Remote Terminal. (Meldingsterminal) (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RT. Real Time. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
RT. Radiographic Testing. (Petrochemical/2.11)
RT. Radio Telephony. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
rT3. Reverse Triiodothyronine. (Medical/1.05)
RTA. Road Traffic Accident. (Medical/1.05)
RTA. Renal Tubular Acidosis. (Medical/1.05)
RTBM. Read The Bloody Manual. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
RTC. Real Time Clock. (IT, Computing/1.05)
RTC. Return To Clinic. (Medical/1.05)
RTC. Road Traffic Collision. (Policing/2.14)
RTCA. Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RTCP. Real time Transport Control Protocol. (IT, Computing/2.13)
RTD. Resistance Temperature Detector. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
RTD. Delayed {message type designator}. Used to indicate delayed meteorological message (Aviation
Civil and Military/1.05)
RTE. French Earth and Space Network. (Satellite Broadcasting/2.09)
RTE. Route. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RTF. Rich Text Format. (IT, Computing/1.05)
RTF. Radio Telephone. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RTFAQ. Read The Frequently Asked Questions. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
RTFF. Read The F**king FAQ. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
RTFM. Read The F**king Manual. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
RTG. Radio telegraph. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RTHL. Runway THreshold Light(s). (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RTI. Relative Thermal Index. (General/2.14)
RTJ. Ring Type Joint. (Petrochemical, Piping/1.07)
rtl. Rectal. (Medical/1.05)
RTL. Resistor Transistor Logic. Type of chip. Buy a book on integrated circuits if you need a
description (IT, Computing/1.05)
RTM. Read The Manual. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
RTM. Rotterdam Airport. Holland. (Airport Codes/1.06)
RTN. Return, Returned, Returning. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RTOL. Reduced Take-Off and Landing. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
RTOS. Real-Time (network) Operating System. (IT, Computing/1.05)
RTOW. Regulated Take-Off Weight. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
RTP. Real time Transport Protocol. (IT, Computing/2.13)
rt-PA. Recombinant Tissue Plasminogen Activator. (Medical/1.05)
RTPU. Rigid Thermoplastic PolyUrethane. (General/2.14)
RTQC. Real Time Quality Control. (IT, Computing/1.05)
RTS. Reliable Transfer Service. (IT, Computing/1.05)
RTSE. Reliable Transfer Service Element. (IT, Computing/1.05)
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RTSM. Read The Silly Manual. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
RTSP. Real Time Streaming Protocol. (IT, Computing/2.13)
RTT. Radio teletypewriter. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RTU. Remote Telemetry Unit. (IT, Computing/2.13)
RTU. Remote Termination Unit. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/2.11)
RTV. Room Temperature Vulcanizing. (General/2.14)
RTWFQ. Read The Whole F**king Question. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
RTZL. Runway Touchdown Zone Light(s). (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Ru. Ruthenium. Atomic number 44. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
ru. Russian Federation. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
RUC. Royal Ulster Constabulary. (Military/1.06)
RUH. King Khalid International. Riyadh Airport. Saudia Arabia. (Airport Codes/1.05)
RUL. Right Upper Lobe. (Medical/1.05)
RUMORF. Are You Male Or Female. (IT, Internet Chat/2.14)
RUN. Saint Denis Airport. Reunion. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Runaway Project. A project that is like a runaway train, hard to bring under control. Typified by a
constantly changing design, changing scope, lack of change control, slippage, and budget
problems (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
RUQ. Right Upper Quadrant. (Medical/1.05)
RUR. Russian Ruble. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
RUT. Standard region route transmitting frequencies. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RUTH. Reservoir Utilisation through advanced Technological Help. (Petrochemical/1.07)
RUUP4IT. Are You Up For It. (IT, Internet Chat/2.14)
RV. Rendezvous Point. (Military/1.10)
RV. Rubella Vaccine. (Medical/1.05)
RV. Retro Version. (Medical/1.05)
RV. Residual Volume. (Medical/1.05)
RV. Right Ventricle. (Medical/1.05)
RV. Rescue Vessel. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RVH. Right Ventricular Hypertrophy. (Medical/1.05)
RVH. Renovascular Hypertension. (Medical/1.05)
RVP. Reid Vapour Pressure. (Petrochemical/1.07)
RVR. Runway Visual Range. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
rw. Rwanda. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
RW. Runway. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
RWF. Rwanda Franc. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
RWMA. Resistance Welder Manufacturers Association. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
RWP. Replaceable Wear Pad. (Petrochemical/1.07)
RWY. Runway. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
RX. Prescription. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
RYFM. Read Your Friendly Manual. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
RYO. Roll Your Own. (write your own program; derived from cigarettes rolled yourself with tobacco
and paper) (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
RYS. Read Your Screen. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
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20. Sierra
S. Sulphur. Atomic number 16. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
S. South, Southern latitude. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
S. Smile. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
s. Without. (Medical/1.05)
S&WE. Safety & Work Environment. (Petrochemical/1.07)
S/A. Sugar And Acetone. (Medical/1.05)
S/P. Status Post. (Medical/1.05)
S/S. Signs Andsymptoms. (Medical/1.05)
S^ or S'up. what's up. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
S1. First Heart Sound. (Medical/1.05)
S2. Second Heart Sound. (Medical/1.05)
S3. Third Heart Sound. (Medical/1.05)
S4. Fourth Heart Sound. (Medical/1.05)
S4L. Spam for Life. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SA. Sinoatrial. (Medical/1.05)
SA. Speed Alarm. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SA. Selective Availability. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
sa. Saudi Arabia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
SA. Separation Assurance. (General/1.05)
SA. Sand. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SA. System Administrator. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SAA. System Application Architecture. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SAC. Strategic Air Command. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SAC. Sacramento Airport. CA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SAC. Sortation Allocation Computer. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.12)
SAC. Subsea Atmospheric Chamber. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SACEUR. Supreme Allied Command Europe. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SACF. Single Association Control Function. (General/1.05)
SACINTNET. Strategic Air Command Intelligence Network. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SACL. System Access Control List. See DACL (IT, Computing/1.05)
SACLANT. Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SAE. Society of Automative Engineers. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
SAFOP. Safety and Operability. Review (Petrochemical/1.07)
SAGD. Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage. (Petrochemical/2.08)
SAH. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. (Medical/1.05)
SAH. Sanaa Airport. Yemen. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SAIL. Safety Action Item List. (Drilling/2.16)
SAL. San Salvador Airport. El Salvador. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SALM. Single Anchor Leg Mooring. (Drilling/2.16)
SALS. Simple Approach Lighting System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SALT. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. (Military/1.05)
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SAM. Surface to Air Missile. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SAM. Subsea Accumulator Module. (Drilling/2.16)
SAML. Security Assertion Markup Language. (IT, Telecommunications/2.13)
SAMS. Shape ACCIS Maintenance System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SAN. Sanitary. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SAN. San Diego International. California Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
SAO. Sao Paulo Airport. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SAO. Single Association Object. (General/1.05)
SAP. San Pedro Sula Airport. Honduras. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SAP. Service Advertising Protocol. (General/1.05)
SAP. Soon As Possible. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SAP. Special Application Program. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SAP. Service Access Point. (General/1.05)
SAPFU. Surpassing All Previous F**k Ups. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SAR. Site Anomaly Report. (General/1.05)
SAR. Search And Rescue. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SAR. Segmentation And Reassembly. (General/1.05)
SAR. Saudi Arabian Riyal. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
SARDA. Search and Rescue Dog Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
SARPS. Standards and Recommended Practices. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
SARPS. Standards And Recommended Practices ICAO. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SARSAT. Search and Rescue Satellite System. (Policing/2.14)
SAS. Safety and Automation System. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SAS. Scandinavian Airline System. (Airline Codes/1.08)
SAS. Special Air Service. (Military/1.06)
SASE. Specific Application Service Element. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SAT. Saturday. (Time or Space/1.05)
SAT. Site Acceptance Test. (OSL Project Related/1.05)
SAT. Supervisory Audio Tone. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
sat. Saturated. (Medical/1.05)
SAT. San Antonio Airport. TX. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SATCO. Senior Air Traffic Control Officer. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
SATCOM. Satellite Communication. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SATT. Systems Assurance Task Team. (IT, Computing/2.13)
SATURN. Second generation Anti-jam Tactical UHF Radio for NATO. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SAU. Signal Acquisition Unit. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SAV. Savannah Airport. GA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SAW. Submerged Arc Welding. (Petrochemical, Welding/1.07)
SAYE. Save as You Earn. (General/2.14)
SB. Special Branch. (Policing/2.14)
SB. Starboard. (Petrochemical/1.07)
sb. Solomon Islands. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
SB. Southbound. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
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SB. Stillbirth. (Medical/1.05)
Sb. Antimony. Atomic number 51. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
SBA. Sovereign Base Area. (Military/1.06)
SBA. Santa Barbara Airport. CA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SBA. Standard Beam Approach. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SBAS. Space-Based Augmentation System. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
SBD. Solomon Islands Dollar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
SBE. Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis. (Medical/1.05)
SBF. Synthetic Base Fluid. (Drilling/2.16)
SBI. Steel Boiler Institute. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
SBL. Seborgian Luigino. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
SBM. Synthetic Base Mud. (Drilling/2.16)
SBM. Single Buoy Mooring. (Petrochemical/2.01)
SBN. South Bend Airport. IN. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SBP. Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis. (Medical/1.05)
SBS. Special Boat Service. (Military/1.06)
SBS. Static Bypass Switch. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SBT. Serum Bactericidal Titer. (Medical/1.05)
SBU. Strategic Business Unit. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
SBW. Sibu Airport. Malaysia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SBY. Salisbury Airport. MD. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
sc. Seychelles. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
SC. Stratocumulus. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Sc. Scandium. Atomic number 21. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
SC. Subcutaneous. (Medical/1.05)
SC. Signal Converter. (General/1.05)
SCA. Site Control Agency. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SCA. Subsidiary Communications Authorisation. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
SCADA. Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition. See PCDA and DCS (Petrochemical/1.05)
SCAM. SCSI Configure AutoMatically. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SCAN. Scientific Content Analysis. (Policing/2.14)
SCAS. Serious Crime Analysis Section. (Policing/2.14)
SCBA. Self Contained Breathing Apparatus. (Drilling/2.16)
SCC. Senior Command Course. (Policing/2.14)
SCC. Schedule Coordination Conference. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
SCCS. Standard Cost Coding System. (Project Management/1.07)
SCE. Solids Control Equipment. (Drilling/2.16)
SCF. Standard Cubic Foot. A standard cubic foot of gas is a cubic foot measured under standard
conditions of, 60 F and 14.73 psi (Weights & Measures, Imperial/1.05)
SCFD. Standard Cubic Feet per Day. (Petrochemical/2.07)
SCG. Special Consultative Group. (Military/1.05)
SCI. Convergence Sublayer Indication. (General/1.05)
SCI. System Configuration Index. (Petrochemical/1.07)
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SCL. Comodoro Arturo Merino Benitez. Santiago Airport. Chile. (Airport Codes/1.05)
SCL. Sprayed concrete lining. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
SCM. Station Class Mark. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
SCN. Saarbrucken Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SCNR. Sorry Could Not Resist. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
ScOACC. Scottish and Oceanic Area Control Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
SCP. Service Control Point. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
SCP. Session Control Protocol. (IT, Computing/2.13)
SCP. Standard Care Plan. (Medical/1.05)
SCQ. Santiago Compostelle Airport. Spain. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SCQL. Structured Card Query Language. (IT, Computing/1.06)
SCR. Schedule Clearance Request. See SCR, SMA, SIR, TLQ (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
SCR. Security Council Resolution. (Military/1.06)
SCR. Seychellian, Rupee. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
SCR. Specification Clarification Request. (General/1.05)
SCSI. Small Computer System Interface. Hard disk drive interface pronounced "scuzzy". See ESDI,
IDE, EIDE (IT, Computing/1.05)
SCSSV. Surface Controlled Subsurface Safety Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
SCT. Scattered. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SCUBA. Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus. Invented by Yves le Prieur (General/2.08)
SCV. Safety Cut-Off Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.05)
sd. Sudan. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
SD. Sentralt Driftssystem. Central Technical Management System. Computer System located in the
Civil Aviation Authorities Compound which receives and collates technical data from localised
"SRO" systems (OSL Project Related/1.05)
SD and IC. System Design And Integration Contract. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SDA. Saddam International. Baghdad Airport. Iraq. (Airport Codes/1.05)
SDAC. System Data Acquisition Concentrator. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SDBY. Standby. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SDD. Sudanese Dinar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
SDD. System Design Document. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SDD. Situation Data Display. SDDW Workstation (IT, Computing/1.05)
SDDR. Supplier's Drawing and Document Register. (Project Management/1.07)
SDF. Louisville Airport. KY. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SDFN. Shut Down For the Night. (Drilling/2.16)
SDH. Synchronous Digital Hierarchy. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SDI. Strategic Defence Initiative. (Military/1.05)
SDJ. Sendai Airport. Japan. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SDK. Sandakan Airport. Malaysia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SDK. Software Development Kit. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SDL. Sundsvall Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
SDLC. Synchronous Data Link Control. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SDM. System Design Manual. (Petrochemical/1.07)
S-DMB. Satellite - Digital Multimedia Broadcasting. (Satellite Broadcasting/2.09)
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SD�E. Statens Direkte �konomiske Engasjement. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
SDP. Software Development Plan. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SDP. Simultaneous Drilling and Production. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SDQ. Saint Domingue Airport. Dominican Republic. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SDR. Supplier Document Register. See MDR (Project Management/1.06)
SDRAM. Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory. Replacement for DRAM. Increases the
bandwidth fourfold. The latest type of PC memory architecture. SDRAM provides a significant
performance improvement over conventional Fast Page Mode (FPM) or Extended Data Output
(EDO). The main difference is that SDRAM is synchronised to the system clock signal, which
means that all operations run at the same speed as the processor bus, compared to conventional
memory architectures which run asynchronously to the processor bus. Due to this
synchronisation, data bits are retrieved faster and thereby increase system performance (IT,
Computing/1.05)
SDRL. Standard Document Requirement List. (Project Management/1.07)
SDSL. Single line Digital Subscriber Line. A DSL variant. See ADSL, HDSL, VDSL, ISDN (IT,
Telecommunications/1.05)
SDU. Service Data Unit. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SDU. Rio De Janiero Santos Dumont Airport. RJ. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SDV. Shut Down Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.05)
Se. Selenium. Atomic number 34. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
se. Sweden. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
SE. South East. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SE. Service Element, Service Entity. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SEA. Seattle-Tacoma International. Washington Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
Seamless. No Joins. An example of working seamlessly is that you can copy information from an
excel spreadsheet and paste that same information into a word document (IT, Computing/1.05)
SEB. South East Bound. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SEC. Wait A Second. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SEC. Seconds. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SECAM. SГ©quentiel Couleur Г MГ©moire. a colour TV transmission system used in France and Eastern
Europe (IT, Telecommunications/2.14)
SECT. Sector. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SEG. Special Escort Group. (Policing/2.14)
SEG. Stand Entry Guidance. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
SEG. S***-eating grin. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SEGS. Stand Entry Guidance System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.12)
SEK. Swedish Kroner. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
SEL. Kimpo International. Seoul Airport. South Korea. (Airport Codes/1.05)
SELCAL. Selective Calling system. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SELV. Safety Extra Low Voltage. (Electrical/1.05)
SENC. System Electronic Navigation Chart. ENC after being converted to any Industrial binary
storage-format for use in a navigation computer (Electronic Charting Systems/2.06)
SEP. September. (Time or Space/1.05)
SEQUEL. Structured English QUEry Language. (IT, Languages/1.05)
SER. Service, Servicing, Served. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SER. Signal Equipment Room. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
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SER. Sequence of Events Recorder. (Petrochemical/2.11)
Server. Can be used to mean either software or hardware. A server is a computer program that
provides information and services to other computer programs in a client-server relationship. Just
to confuse matters the computer that a server program runs on is also known as a server. See
Client (IT, Computing/1.05)
SES. SociГ©tГ© EuropГ©enne des Satellites. (Association, Society, Institute/2.09)
SESAME. Secure European System for Applications in a Multivendor Environment.
Computing/1.05)
(IT,
SET. Secure Electronic Transaction. Standard for providing confidentiality, payment integrity, security,
and authentication, electronically (IT, Computing/1.05)
SETE. Smiling Ear To Ear. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SETUP. Configuration of computer hardware or a computer programme. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SEU. Star Europa. (Airline Codes/1.05)
SEU. Social Exclusion Unit. (Policing/2.14)
SEV. Severity. Used to qualify e.g. icing and turbulence reports (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SEWOP. Self Elevating Work Over Platform. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SEZ. Mahe Airport. Seychelles. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SF. Surfer-Friendly. (low-graphics Web site) (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SF. Special Forces. (Military/1.06)
SF. Sikkerhetsforskriften. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
SFA. Sfax Airport. Tunisie. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SFAT. System Factory Acceptance Test. (OSL Project Related/1.05)
SFC. Surface. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SFCC. Slat Flap Control Computer. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SFD. SjГёfartsdirektoratet. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
SFEMG. Single Fiber Electromyography. (Medical/1.05)
SFJ. Kangerlussuaq Airport. Greenland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
SFLA. Stupid Four Letter Acronym. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SFO. San Francisco International. California Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
SFT. SkellefteГҐ Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
SFT. Statens forurensningstilsyn. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
SG. Snow Grains. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
sg. Singapore. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
sg. Specific gravity. (General/1.07)
SGA. Small For Gestational Age. (Medical/1.05)
SGD. Singapore Dollar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
SGD. Sonderborg Airport. Denmark. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SGF. Springfield Airport. MO. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SGHWR. Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor. (General/2.10)
SGL. Signal. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SGLR. Senior Government Liaison Representative. (Policing/2.14)
SGML. Standard Generalised Mark-up Language. An ISO standard for creating platform and
application independent documents. See HTML (IT, Internet/1.05)
SGN. Ho Chi Minh Ville Airport. Vietnam. Duplicate see HCM (Airport Codes/1.06)
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SGOT. Serum Glutamic Oxalacetic Transaminase (Aspartateaminotransferase, AST). (Medical/1.05)
SGPT. Serum Glutamic Pyruvate Transaminase (Alanine Aminotransferase, ALT). (Medical/1.05)
SGSN. Serving GPRS Support Node. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
SH. Showers. Followed by RA=Rain, SN=Snow, PE=Pellets, GR=Grain (Aviation Civil and
Military/1.05)
sh. St. Helena. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
SH. Air Toulouse. (Airline Codes/1.05)
SHA. Hongqiao. Shanghai Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.05)
SHAPE. Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe. (Military/1.05)
SHAREWARE. A program that is distributed on a trial basis. Usually shareware programs have an inbuilt expiry date, after which they will no longer work. Alternatively certain functions maybe
disabled. Shareware is usually distributed/redistributed on the understanding that the user may
have or want to pay for it after trying it out. See Freeware (IT, Computing/1.07)
SHCOON. Shoot Hot Coffee Out Of Nose. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SHE. Safety, Health, and Environment. (Project Management/1.07)
SHE. Shengyang Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SHE. Safety, Health & Environment. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
shell. The outermost section of a computer operating system that interacts with user commands. See
kernel (IT, Computing/2.09)
SHEWS. Shapes Early Warning System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SHF. Super High Frequency. See EHF, ELF, HF, LF, MF, UHF, VHF, VLF (Aviation Civil and
Military/1.05)
SHID. Slaps Head In Disgust. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SHJ. Sharjah Airport. United Arab Emirats. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SHK. Sharok Air. (Airline Codes/1.05)
SHK. Sharemel El Seikh. (Airport Codes/1.05)
SHNC. Scottish Higher National Certificate. Obtained through evening classes (Qualification, Award,
Title/1.05)
SHND. Scottish Higher National Diploma. Obtained through full time attendance at college
(Qualification, Award, Title/1.05)
SHP. Saint Helena Pound. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
Shutdown. To stop production, for maintenance or modification work. (Petrochemical/1.08)
SHV. Shreveport Airport. LA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SI. Site Instruction. (Project Management/1.07)
SI. Silicone. (General/2.14)
SI. Systeme Internationale. (Medical/1.05)
Si. Silicon. Atomic number 14. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
si. Slovenia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
SIA. Xian Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SIADH. Syndrome Of Inappropriate Secretion Of Antidiuretic Hormone. (Medical/1.05)
SIB. System Implementation Branch. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SIBO. SIxteen Bit Operating system. (Epoc/2.03)
SIC. Standard Industrial Code. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
SICP. Shut In Casing Pressure. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SICS. Sitting In Chair Snickering. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
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SID. Sal Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SID. System Identification. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
SID. Standard Instrument of Departure. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SID. Source Input Document. (Policing/2.14)
SIDPP. Shut In Drill Pipe Pressure. (Petrochemical/1.07)
Sierra Hotel. Phonetics for Shit Hot. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.08)
SIESO. Society of Industrial Emergency Services Officers. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
SIF. Standard Image Format. (IT, Telecommunications/2.14)
SIF. Selective Identification Feature. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SIFO. Statens institutt for forbruksforskning. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
Sigma. Eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. Upper Case symbol = Sum of. Lower Case symbol =
Eighteenth, standard deviation, surface tension, density, current density, charge density,
resistivity, normal stress, 1/1000 of a second, diameter of a molecule (Greek Alphabet/1.05)
SIGMET. Weather information. Information concerning enroute phenomena which may affect the
safety of aircraft operations (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SIGWX. Significant weather. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Sikringsbygg. ATC Building. (OSL Project Related/1.05)
SIM. Space Interferometry Mission. (Satellite Broadcasting/2.09)
SIM. Subscriber Identification Module. SIM cards are used in mobile telephones and contain all
subscriber related information such as the users telephone number, home operator, and home
area. The sim card is required for billing purposes (Security/1.05)
SIMD. Single Instruction Multiple Data. These instructions process multiple data elements in parallel
(at the same time), which increases processing speed. See MMX (IT, Computing/1.05)
SIMM. Single Inline Memory Module. See DIMM (IT, Computing/1.05)
SIMUL. Simultaneous, Simultaneously. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SIMV. Syncronised Intermittent Mandatory Ventilation. (Medical/1.05)
SIN. Changi. Singapore Airport. (Airport Codes/1.05)
SINDRE. Silo Nedsenkbar Dekkbar Radarenhet. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SIO. Senior Investigating Officer. (Policing/2.14)
SIP. Subscriber Interface Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SIP. SMDS Interface Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SIPD. Standard Interface Policy Document. (IT, Computing/2.13)
SIR. Schedule Information Request. See SCR, SMA, SIR, TLQ (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
SIR. Serial InfraRed. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SIS. Statens Institutt for StrГҐlehygiene. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
SIS. Staff Information System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.12)
SIS. Social Information Systems. (Policing/2.14)
SISC. Schedules Information Standards Committe. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
SISG. System Integration Steering Group. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.12)
SISI. Surface Independent Subsea Intervention. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SIT. Slovenian Tolar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
SITA. Societe International de Telecommunication Aeronautique. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SITD. Still In The Dark. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
SITP. Shut In Tubing head Pressure. (Petrochemical/1.07)
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SITT. Systems Integration Task Team. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.12)
SIWL. Single Isolated Wheel Load. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SJ. Statens Järnvägar. Swedish National Railway (Railways/1.08)
sj. Svalbard And Jan Mayen Isl. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
SJA. Safe Job Analysis. (Petrochemical/2.15)
SJC. San Jose International. California Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
SJJ. Sarajevo. (Airport Codes/1.05)
SJO. San Jose Airport. Costa Rica. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SJU. San Juan Airport. PR. Puerto Rico. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SJY. Seinajoki. Ilmajoki (Airport Codes/1.07)
SK. SAS Scandinavian Airlines. (Airline Codes/1.07)
sk. Slovakia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
SKB. Basseterre Airport. Saint Kitts. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SKC. Sky Clear. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SKD. Schedule Update Message. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
SKED. Schedule, Scheduled. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SKG. Thessaloniki. Greece. (Airport Codes/1.05)
SKK. Slovakian Koruna. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
SKP. Skopje Airport. Macedonia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SKS. Skrydstrup Airport. Denmark. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SL. Sublingual. (Medical/1.05)
sl. Sierra Leone. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
SLA. Service Level Agreement. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
SLA. Soluble Liver Antigens. (Medical/1.05)
SLBM. Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles. (Military/1.05)
SLBM. Submarine-launched Ballistic Missile. (Military/1.06)
SLC. Self Loading Cargo. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
SLC. Salt Lake City Airport. UT. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SLCA. Slant Range Correct Altitude. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SLCC. Switch Logic Control Cabinet. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
SLCM. Sea Launched Cruise Missile. (Military/1.05)
SLD. Single Line Diagram. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SLE. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. (Medical/1.05)
SLIP. Serial Line Internet Protocol. See PPP (IT, Computing/1.05)
Slippage. Quantifiable delays to the schedule. The time difference between the latest scheduled
dates for an Activity and the Baseline dates (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
SLL. Sierra Leonian Leone. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
SLM. See Last Mail. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SLOC. Source Lines Of Code. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SLOC. Sea Lines Of Communication. (Military/1.05)
SLP. Self-Loading Pistol. (Policing/2.14)
SLP. Speed Limiting Point. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SLR. Straight Leg Raising. (Medical/1.05)
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SLU. Sainte Lucie Airport. Saint Lucia. Duplicate see UVF (Airport Codes/1.06)
SLW. Slow. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Sm. Samarium. Atomic number 62. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
SM. Single Mode fibre. (IT, Computing/1.05)
sm. San Marino. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
SMA. Schedule Movement Advice. See SCR, SMA, SIR, TLQ (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
SMA. Memory Alloy. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
Small. Measure of Ale. 1/2 pt. (Measure of Ale/1.05)
SMAP. System Management Application Process. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SMART. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-framed. (Policing/2.14)
SMART. Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology. In connection with hard disc drives (IT,
Computing/1.05)
SMAW. Shielded Metal Arc Welding. (Petrochemical, Welding/1.07)
SMB. Server Message Block. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SMC. System Monitoring and Control. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SMC. Surface Movement and Control. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SMC. Sheet Molding Compound. (General/2.14)
SMDL. Standard Master Document List. (Project Management/1.07)
SMDR. Suppliers Master Document Register. (Project Management/1.07)
SMDS. Switched Multimegabit Data Service. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SMDS. Software Maintenance and Development System. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SME. Small and Medium-size Enterprise. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
SME. Single Model Environment. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.12)
SMF. Metropolitan. Sacramento. California Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
SMGCS. Surface Movement and Ground Control System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SMI. Structure of Management Information. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SMI. Samos airport. Greece. (Airport Codes/1.05)
SMI. Suggested Minimum Increment. (Medical/1.05)
SMIRF. Safety Management Information Retrieval Facility(BAA). (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
SMIS. Seamless. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SMLT. Storage and Marine Loading Terminal. (Petrochemical/2.06)
SMM. Shipbuilding, Machinery and Marine. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SMM. Semporna Airport. Malaysia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SMMA. Styrene Methyl Methacrylate Copolymer. (General/2.14)
SMOP. Small Matter of Programming. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SMP. Symmetrisk Multi Prosessing. Norwegian. For systemer med mange prosessorer (32). Windows
NT (IT, Computing/1.05)
SMP. Simple Management Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SMR. Surface Movement Radar. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SMR. Special Mobile Radio. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
SMS. Somatostatin. (Medical/1.05)
SMS. Short Message Service. Short text messages that can be sent or received via a GSM mobile
telephone. The current SMS is restricted to 160 characters (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
SMS. Supervisory Monitoring System. (Petrochemical/1.07)
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SMS. Service Management System. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
SMS. Surface Movement and Surveillance. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SMS. Software Maintenance System. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SMS. System Management Server. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SMS. Safety Management System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
SMSC. Short Message Service Centre. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
SMTP. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SMX. Santa Maria Airport. CA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SMYS. Specified Minimum Yield Strength. (Petrochemical/1.07)
Sn. Tin. Atomic number 50. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
SN. Service Node. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
SN. Sabena. (Airline Codes/1.05)
SN. Snow. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SN. Serial Number. (General/2.03)
sn. Senegal. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
SNA. System Network Architecture. IBM communication protocol (IT, Computing/1.05)
SNAFU. Situation Normal All F**ked Up. (Humour/1.05)
Snail Mail. Derogative term for a traditional postal service. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SNAP. SubNetwork Access Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SNAP. Shape Nuclear Analysis Programme. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SNARE. SubNetwork Address Resolution Entity. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SND. Statens nærings- og distriktsutviklingsfond. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
SNEN. Single Non Emergency Number. (Policing/2.14)
SNF. Skilled Nurse Facility. (Medical/1.05)
SNI. Subscriber Network Interface. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SNI. Stand Number Indicator. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
SNMP. Simple Network Management Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SNN. Dublin. Ireland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
SNOWTAM. Special notice to airmen. A special series NOTAM notifying the presence or removal of
hazardous conditions due to snow, ice, slush, or standing water associated with snow, ice, and
slush on the movement area, by means of a specified format (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SNPA. SubNetwork Point of Attachment. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SNR. Signal to Noise Ratio. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SNS. Social Network Service. Facebook is an example of a SNS site (IT, Computing/2.14)
SNTP. Simple Network Time Protocol. (IT, Computing/2.13)
SO. Significant Other. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SO. Slip On. Flange connection. See WN, SW, T (Petrochemical, Piping/1.05)
SO. Seal Oil. (Petrochemical/1.07)
so. Somalia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
SO2. Sulphur Dioxide. Contributes to acid rain and other air quality problems such as arctic haze
formation (Chemical Compounds/1.05)
SOAP. Simple Object Access Protocol. Imposes a header and body structure on XML messages (IT,
Computing/2.12)
SOB. Short Of Breath. (Medical/1.05)
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SOB. Stressd Out Bigtime. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SOC. State Of Cosciousness. (Medical/1.05)
SOC. Scenes of Crime. (Policing/2.14)
SOCO. Scenes Of Crime Officer. (Policing/2.14)
SODS. Senior Officers Dining club. (Policing/2.14)
SOE. Start of Exchange. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SOER. Scottish Office Emergency Room. (Government office/2.14)
SOF. Sofia Airport. Bulgaria. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Software. A term to describe programs which can be used on a computer system. See Hardware,
program (IT, Computing/1.05)
SOHO. Small Office - Home Office. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
SOL. Scandinavia OnLine (an ISP). (IT, Computing/1.05)
sol. Solution. (Medical/1.05)
SOL. Smilling Out Loud or Sh*t Out of Luck. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SOL. Sockolet. (Petrochemical, Piping/1.07)
SOLAP. Student Officer Learning and Assessment Portfolio. (Policing/2.14)
SOLAS. Safety Of Life At Sea. (Petrochemical/1.05)
SOMY. Sick Of Me Yet?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SONET. Synchronous Optical NETwork. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SOO. Soderhamn. (Airport Codes/1.07)
SOOB. Summary Of Operational Boundaries. (Drilling/2.16)
SOP. Start of Picture. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SOP. Standard Operating Procedure. (Military/1.10)
SOS. Somalian Shilling. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
SOS. Distress signal. A call or transmission for help. (General/2.02)
SOS. Same Old Stuff or Help!. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SOSB. System Operating and Support Branch. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SOT. Short On Time. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SOTMG. Short On Time Must Go. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SOU. Southampton Airport. UK. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Sour Gas (Liquid). Any Gas (or liquid) containing sufficient H2S (hydrogen sulphide) to be
considered sour. Actual amount of H2S is a variable depending on pressure and other parameters.
When a fluid is established as being sour, certain metallurgical considerations are required. One
of the main considerations is that of material hardness. H2S is not as much a corrosion problem
as it is a potential cause of metal failure (Sulphide Stress Cracking). Some metals are more
susceptible to SSC than others. Very small concentrations of H2S when breathed can be Fatal
(Petrochemical/1.05)
SOW. Speaking Of Which. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SOW. Scope Of Work. The definition of work to be performed, usually accompanied by a specification
of the work to be performed (Project Management/1.05)
SOx. Sulphur oxides. (Petrochemical/2.01)
SP. Switching Point. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
SP. Set Point. Sett punkt (Petrochemical/1.07)
SP. Speared. Cable Status (OSL Project Related/1.05)
SP. Air Azores. (Airline Codes/1.05)
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Spam. Junk e-mail. I.e. un-solicited e-mail sent over the Internet. (A tinned meat product). I would
imagine that the term originates from the Monty Python Spam sketch "Well, there's egg and
bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and
spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage
spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam", leading onto the song "Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam,
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, everybody loves Spam" sung by a group of Vikings (IT, Internet/1.10)
SPARC. Scaleable Processor Architecture. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SPB. System Policy Branch. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SPBM. Single Point Buoy Mooring. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SPC. Special Condition. (General/1.05)
SPC. Scheduling Procedures Committee. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
SPCS. Stored Program Controlled Switch. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
SPDL. Standard Page Description Language. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SPE. Synchronous Payload Envelope. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SPECI. Aviation selected special weather report. In aeronautical meteorological code (Aviation Civil
and Military/1.05)
SPECIAL. Special meteorological report. In abbreviated plain language (Aviation Civil and
Military/1.05)
SPF. Shortest Path First. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SPFM. Single Phase Flow Meter. (Petrochemical/2.15)
SPI. Special Purpose Identification. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SPI. Schedule Performance Indicator. SPI = BCWP / BCWS (Project Management, Planning/2.14)
Spider. See Robot (I'm not sure if there is a difference in definition). (IT, Computing/1.05)
SPIE. International Society for Optical Engineering. (Association, Society, Institute/2.09)
SPIR. Spare Parts Inter changeability Record. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SPK. Sapporo Airport. Japan. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SPL. Amsterdam Schipol Intl Airport. Holland. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SPL. Sound Pressure Level. (Weights & Measures, Other/1.05)
SPL. Supplementary Flight Plan. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SPM. Stand Pipe Manifold. (Drilling/2.16)
SPM. Single Point Mooring. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SPN. Saipan Airport. Mariana Islands. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SPOC. Single Point Of Contact. (Policing/2.14)
Spook. Member of the Intelligence Corps. (Military/1.10)
SPOOL. Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On Line. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SPOT. Spot wind. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Spot market. An international market in which oil products are traded for immediate delivery at the
current price. (Petrochemical/2.01)
SPP. Special Priority Payment. (Policing/2.14)
Spredenett. Distribution Network. Computer/Telecomm cabling from local telematikk rooms to
installed equipment, units, points (OSL Project Related/1.05)
SPS. Standard Positioning Service. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SPT. Static Pressure Transmitter. See DPT, TT, ST (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.05)
SPT. Stationary Plasma Thruster. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
SPT. Smoothing Parameters Table. (IT, Computing/1.05)
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SPU. Split Airport. Croatia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Spudding. To start drilling an oil/gas/water well (To spud a well). (Petrochemical/2.09)
SQ. Squall. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SQ. Subcutaneous. (Medical/1.05)
SQ. Site Query. What you send the engineer when you are unclear of the intention of the drawing, or
wish to construct it another way (Project Management/1.05)
SQA. Software Quality Assurance. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SQC. Square Cut. Pipe end configuration. See BOE, BBE, TBE, TOE (Petrochemical, Piping/1.05)
SQL. Structured Query Language. A standard language used for querying, updating, and managing
relational database (IT, Computing/1.05)
SQO. Storuman. (Airport Codes/1.07)
Squaddy. Soldier. (Military/1.10)
Sr. Strontium. Atomic number 38. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
SR. Sunrise. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SR. Swissair. (Airline Codes/1.05)
SR. Slow Release. (Medical/1.05)
sr. Suriname. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
SRA. Surveillance Radar Approach. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SRAM. Static Random Access Memory. See RAM (IT, Computing/1.05)
SRB. Single Regeneration Budget. (Policing/2.14)
SRB. Software Review Board. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SRBM. Short Range Ballistic Missiles. (Military/1.05)
SRCA. Slant Range Correction Altitude. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SRD. System Requirement Document. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.12)
SRE. Sucre Airport. Bolivia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SRE. Signal Reference Earth. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SRE. Surveillance Radar Element. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SRG. Surinamese Guilder. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
SRG. Short Range. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SRINF. Short Range Intermediate Nuclear Forces. (Military/1.05)
SRM. Spontaneous Rupture Of Membranes. (Medical/1.05)
SRO. Styring, Regulering og OvervГҐking. Control, Regulation, & Surveillance System (OSL Project
Related/1.05)
SRP. Self Reinforcing Polymer. (General/2.14)
SRP. Stord. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.07)
SRQ. Sarasota/ Bradenton Airport. FL. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SRR. System Requirement Report. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SRR. Search and Rescue Region. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SRS. Software Requirement Specification. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SRT. Single Radar Tracker. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SRY. Secondary. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SRZ. Santa Cruz Airport. Bolivia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SS. Sunset. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SS. Sjorgen Syndrome. (Medical/1.05)
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SS. Start to Start. Precedence network constraint. SS constraints are drawn from the start of a node
to the start of the succeeding node, and imply that the succeeding activity can not start until the
preceding activity has started. See FS, FF, TF, FF, Network, AON, AOA, CPM, CPA, PERT (Project
Management, Planning/1.08)
ss. Half. (Medical/1.05)
SS. Stainless Steel. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SS. Sandstorm. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SSA. Serial Storage Architecture. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SSA. Salvador Bahia Airport. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SSAIB. Security Systems and Alarm Inspections Board. (Policing/2.14)
SSAP. Session Service Access Point. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SSB. Single SideBand. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SSBN. Ship Submersible Nuclear. Nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (Military/1.06)
SSC. Sulphide Stress Cracking. Metal fatigue caused by concentrations of H2S in sour gas pipelines.
See Sour Gas (Petrochemical/1.05)
SSCOP. Service Specific Connection Oriented Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SSCS. Service Specific Convergence Sublayer. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SSCV. Semi-Submersible Crane Vessel. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SSD. Shared Secret Data. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
SSD. Solid State Disc. See Flash Memory (IT, Computing/1.05)
SSDD. System Segment Design Document. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SSE. Soap Suds Enema. (Medical/1.05)
SSE. South South East. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SSEB. South of Scotland Electricity Board. (General/2.10)
SSG. Malabo Airport. Guinee Equatoriale. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SSG. Sidewall Sample Gun. (Drilling/2.16)
SSI. System Service Interface. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SSI. Synchronous Serial Interface. (IT, Computing/1.06)
SSID. Service Set ID. (IT, Computing/2.13)
SSIM. Standard Schedules Information Manual. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
SSIV. Subsea Isolation Valve. (Drilling/2.16)
SSJ. Sandnessjoen Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SSKI. Saturated Solution Potassium Iodide. (Medical/1.05)
SSL. Secure Socket Layer. A protocol that uses public key encryption to transmit data securely over a
network (IT, Computing/2.12)
SSM. Standard Schedule Message. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
SSM. Surface To Surface Missile. (Military/1.05)
SSP. Service Switching Point. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
SSPC. Steel Structures Painting Council. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
SSR. Secondary Surveillance Radar. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SSRB. Senior Salaries Review Body. (Military/1.06)
SSS. Sick Sinus Syndrome. (Medical/1.05)
SSS. System Segment Specification. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SSSB. Ship-Shore-Ship Buffer. (IT, Computing/1.05)
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SSSV. Sub-Surface Safety Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/2.11)
SST. SuperSonic Transport. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SSTV. Slow Scanning TeleVision. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
SSV. Subsurface Safety Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
SSV. Slam Shut Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.05)
SSV. Surface Safety Valve. (Drilling/2.16)
SSW. South South West. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ST. Speed Transmitter. Stroke Transmitter (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
ST. Stratus. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
st. Stone. Avoirdupois system. 14 pounds = 1 stone = 6,35 kg (Weights & Measures, Imperial/1.05)
ST. Signalling Tone. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
ST. Satellite Terminal. (Satellite Broadcasting/2.09)
ST. Smart Transmitter. See DPT, SPT, TT (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.05)
st. Sao Tome And Principe. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
STA. Straight in approach. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
STA. Stauning Airport. Denmark. (Airport Codes/1.06)
STA. Scheduled Time of Arrival. Refers to the scheduled on-block time of an aircraft (Aviation Civil
and Military/1.06)
STAMI. Statens ArbeidsmiljГёinstitutt. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
STAMINA. Standard Automated Message Interface for NATO Automated CCIS. (IT, Computing/1.05)
STAR. Standard Arrival Route. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
START. Strategic Arms Reduction Talks. (Military/1.05)
stat. Inmediately. (Medical/1.05)
Status. Standing or progress of a project, activity, or task in relation to a schedule at any given time.
(Project Management, Planning/1.10)
STB. Saint Barthelemy Airport. Guadeloupe. (Airport Codes/1.06)
STB. Stock Tank Barrels. (Petrochemical/2.08)
stb. stock tank barrel. (Drilling/2.16)
STBD. Stock Tank Barrels per Day. (Petrochemical/2.08)
STCA. Short Term Conflict Alert. (IT, Computing/1.05)
STD. Scheduled Time of Departure. Refers to the scheduled off-block time of an aircraft (Aviation
Civil and Military/1.06)
STD. SГЈo Tome and Principe Dobra. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
STD. Sexually Transmited Disease. (Medical/1.05)
STD. Subscriber Trunk Dialling. (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
STD. Standard. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
STECO. Steering Committee. (Petrochemical/1.07)
Stenching. The process of adding an odour to odourless natural gas, so that it is noticable in the
event of a leakage. (Petrochemical/2.01)
STF. Stratiform. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
STF. Statens TeleForvaltning. National Telecommunications Administration Norway (Association,
Society, Institute/1.05)
STFL. Steel Tube Fly Lead. (Drilling/2.16)
STFU. Shut The F*** Up. (IT, Internet Chat/2.14)
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STFW. Search The F**king Web. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
STI. Speech Transmission Index. (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
STI. Steel Tank Institute. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
Stigekabel. Cable Riser (Literal Translation). Computer/Telecomm cabling between main telematikk
room and local telematik room. See Utjevningskabel (OSL Project Related/1.05)
STL. Lambert St Louis International Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
STL. Submerged Turret Loading. (Petrochemical/1.07)
STM. Synchronous Transfer Mode. (IT, Computing/1.05)
STN. Stansted. London Airport. England. (Airport Codes/1.05)
STN. Station. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
STNR. Stationary. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
STO. Stockholm Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.06)
STOIIP. Stock Tank Oil Initially In Place. (Petrochemical/2.08)
STOL. Short Take Off and Landing. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
stone. Unit of mass, 1 stone = 14 pounds = 6.35026 kg. (Weights & Measures, Imperial/2.10)
STOP. Safety Training Observation Program. (Drilling/2.16)
STP. Software Through Picture. (IT, Computing/1.05)
STP. Shielded Twisted Pair. Or Screened Twisted Pair. The sheath protection of twisted pair cable
acts as a ground (earth). See Twisted pair, UTP (IT, Computing/1.05)
STP. Submerged Turret Production. (Petrochemical/1.07)
STP. Signal Transfer Point. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
STP. System Test Plan. (IT, Computing/1.05)
STR. Stuttgart Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.05)
STR. System Trouble Report. (IT, Computing/1.05)
STRADIS. Structured Analysis Design and Implementation of Information Systems.
Computing/1.05)
(IT,
Straightening vanes. A bundle of tubes welded together to fit closely inside the upstream section of
a meter run. This bundle breaks up swirls caused by upstream piping configurations. The use of
vanes will normally shorten upstream piping configurations (Petrochemical/1.05)
Strike. An effort to increase egg production by strangling the chicken. (Humour/1.05)
Strukturert. Structured. Easily identifiable data (information) for a computer. Normally held within a
DBMS or table form, but can also be stored as ASCII flat format (IT, Computing/1.05)
STS. Status. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
STS. Serologic Test for Syphilis. (Medical/1.05)
STS. Special Technical Specification. (Petrochemical/1.07)
STT. Saint Thomas Airport. U.S. Virgin Islands. (Airport Codes/1.06)
STW. Search the Web. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
STWL. Stopway Lights. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
STX. Saint Croix Airport. U.S. Virgin Islands. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SU. Shut Up. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SU. Aeroflot. (Airline Codes/1.05)
SU. Suspended. Cable Status (OSL Project Related/1.05)
SUAKM. Shut Up And Kiss Me. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SUB. Surabaya Airport. Indonesia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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subcu, SC. Subcutaneous. (Medical/1.05)
SUBJ. Subject to. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SubrГёr. Norwegian. Plastic Sleeve (pipe) pulled through concrete cable ducts.
Related/1.05)
(OSL Project
Successor. The activity or activities that come after the current activity. See Predecessor, CPA,
Network, AON, AOA (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
SUFID. Screwing Up Face In Disgust. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SUL. Snooze You Loose. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SUN. Sunday. (Time or Space/1.05)
SUN. Start Up Notice. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SUP. What's up. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SUP. Supplement. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
supp. Suppository. (Medical/1.05)
SUPPS. Regional supplementary procedures. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SURF. Subsea Umbilical Risers and Flowlines. (Petrochemical/2.15)
SURF. Subsea, Umbilical’s, Risers, Flowlines. (Drilling/2.16)
susp. Suspension. (Medical/1.05)
SUTU. Subsea Umbilical Termination Unit. (Petrochemical/2.15)
SUV. Suva Airport. Fiji. (Airport Codes/1.06)
sv. El Salvador. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
SV. Schedule Variance. SV=BCWP-BCWS (Project Management/1.10)
SVC. Service message. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SVC. Switched Virtual Connection. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SVC. El Salvadoran Colon. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
SVC. Superior Vena Cava. (Medical/1.05)
SVCBL. Serviceable. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SVD. Saint Vincent Airport. Saint Vincent. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SVFR. Special Visual Flight Rules. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
SVG. Sola. Stavanger Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.05)
SVGA. Super Video Graphics Accelerator. See Video Board (IT, Computing/1.05)
SVID. (AT&T) System V Interface Definition (Unix). (IT, Computing/1.05)
SVJ. Svolvaer Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SVL. Savonlinna. (Airport Codes/1.07)
SVN. System Variable Number. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SVO. Sheremetyevo. Moscow Airport. Russia. (Airport Codes/1.05)
SVP. Senior Vice President. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SVQ. Seville Airport. Spain. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SVR. Systemic Vascular Resistance. (Medical/1.05)
SVR4. (Unix) System V Release 4. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SVT. Supraventricular Tachycardia. (Medical/1.05)
SW. South West. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SW. Short Wave. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
SW. Socket Weld. Flange connection. See WN, SO, T (Petrochemical, Piping/1.05)
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SWA. Shantou Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SWAG. Stupid Wild-A** Guess. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SWAK. Sealed With A Kiss. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SWATH. Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SWE. Senior Well Engineer. (Drilling/2.16)
Sweet Gas. Natural Gas with either no H2S (hydrogen sulphide) or so small amount that it is not a
consideration. See Sour Gas (Petrochemical/1.05)
SWF. Newburgh Airport. NY. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SWG. Switchgear. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SWIFT. Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. (Banking and Finance/2.03)
SWIM. See What I Mean?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
Switch. A higher capacity hub. See Hub, Mux, Router (IT, Computing/1.06)
SWL. Screaming With Laughter. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SWL. Safe Working Load. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SWOPS. Single Well Oil Production System. (Petrochemical/1.07)
SWP. Safe Working Pressure. (General/2.10)
SWT. Socket Weld Tee. (Petrochemical, Piping/1.07)
SWU. Switching Unit. (IT, Computing/1.05)
SWY. Stopway. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Sx. Symptoms. (Medical/1.05)
SXB. Strasbourg Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SXF. Schoenefeld. Berlin Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.05)
SXM. Saint Martin Airport. Guadeloupe. (Airport Codes/1.06)
sy. Syrian Arab Republic. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
SYD. Kingsford Smith. Sydney Airport. Australia. (Airport Codes/1.05)
Synchronous. Transmission Type. Synchronous transmissions occur at fixed intervals and at fixed
rates. E.g. a prepared set of characters maybe transmitted as a single block of characters, which
is more efficient than transmitting them singly by asynchronous means. Confused then look up
asynchronous (IT, Computing/1.05)
SYNOP. Report of Surface Observation. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
SYP. Syrian Pound. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
SYR. Syracuse Airport. NY. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
syr. Syrup. (Medical/1.05)
SYS. See You Soon. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
SYY. Stornoway Airport. UK. (Airport Codes/1.06)
sz. Swaziland. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
SZG. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Salzburg Airport. Austria. (Airport Codes/1.05)
SZL. Swaziland Lilangeni. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
SZX. Shenzhen Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
SZZ. Goleniow. Szczecin Airport. Poland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
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21. Tango
T. Temperature. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
T. Threaded. Flange connection. See WN, SO, SW (Petrochemical, Piping/1.05)
T. Tera. SI number prefix 1.000.000.000.000.
prefixes/1.05)
(Weights & Measures, Systeme Internationale
T&A. Tonsillectomy And Adenoidectomy. (Medical/1.05)
T&C. Threaded and Coupled. (Petrochemical, Piping/1.07)
T/C. Throat Culture. (Medical/1.05)
T/R. Transceiver. (Satellite Broadcasting/2.09)
T3. Triiodothyronine. (Medical/1.05)
T3RU. T3 Resin Uptake. (Medical/1.05)
T4. Thyroxine. (Medical/1.05)
TA. Temperature Alarm. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
TA. Territorial Army. (Military/1.06)
Ta. Tantalum. Atomic number 73. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
TA. Thanks Again. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TA. Transition Altitude. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TAB. Tobago Airport. Trinidad And Tobago. (Airport Codes/1.06)
tab. Tablet. (Medical/1.05)
TAC. Topping Air Compressor. (Petrochemical/1.07)
TACAN. UHF tactical air navigation aid. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TACAS. Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TACE. Type A Cost Estimate. (General/1.05)
TACS. Total Access Communications System. British standard analogue mobile telephone system
operating in the frequency range 900Mhz (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
TADCOM. Tactical Digital Communications System. (Military/1.05)
TAF. That's All Folks!. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TAF. Technical Aerodrome Forecast. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TAFN. That’s All For Now. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TAG. Technical Advisory Group. (General/2.10)
TAGON. TRI-MNCS Advisory Group On NAEW. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TAH. Total Abdominal Hysterectomy. (Medical/1.05)
TAH. Temperature Alarm High. (Petrochemical/1.07)
TAIL. Tail wind. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TAK. Takamatsu Airport. Japan. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TAKS. That's A Knee Slapper. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TAL. Temperature Alarm Low. (Petrochemical/1.07)
TANJ. There Ain’t No Justice. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TANSTAAFL. There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TAO. Quingdao Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TAOC. Tactical Air Operation Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
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TAPI. Telephony API. A Microsoft Application Programmable Interface for sorting and sending
incoming telecom messages to the correct device. Eg. voice to telephone, email to computer, fax
to fax machine. See CTI, TSAPI, API, CAPI (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
TAR. Terminal Area Radar. Or, Terminal Area surveillance Radar, or even Terminal Acquisition Radar
(Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TAR. Tartous Airport. Syria. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TAR. True Amplitude Recovery. (Drilling/2.16)
TARE. Telegraphic Automatic Relay Equipment. (IT, Computing/1.05)
TARFU. Things Are Really Fouled Up. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TAS. True Air Speed. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TAS. Tashkent Airport. Uzbekistan. (Airport Codes/1.05)
Task. An item of work to be performed. A task is a detailed definition of the scope of work and is
related to an activity in a many to one, or possibly one to one relationship. Referenced
information for each task should include a work description, required engineering information,
material requirements and estimated man-hours. In addition codes to uniquely number the task
and identify it with it's corresponding activity, location, sub-system, the originator, and whether
the task is original contract scope or varied scope. Quite often the term task is misused to mean
activity, when infact tasks are a breakdown of an activity into smaller packets of work. For
example an activity maybe defined as 'Foundation for heat exchanger abc', the tasks for which
might be defined as, excavate, lean concrete, formwork, re-bar, anchor bolts, pour concrete,
curing time. See Activity, MTO, BOQ (Project Management, Planning/1.10)
TAT. Tatry/ Poprad Airport. Slovak Republic. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TAT. Transitional Automated Ticket. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
Tau. Nineteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Nineteenth, time (when t is used
to symbolise something else), half life, temperature, volume, shear stress, transmission factor
(Greek Alphabet/1.05)
TAX. Taxiing, Taxi. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TB. Terminated Both ends. Cable Status (OSL Project Related/1.05)
Tb. Terabyte. One billion bytes. See bits, bytes, Kb, Mb, Gb, Tb, Pb (IT, Units/1.05)
TB. Tuberculosis. An infectious wasting disease affecting the lungs (Medical/1.05)
Tb. Terbium. Atomic number 65. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
TBA. Tekniske Bygg og Anlegg. Technical Buildings and Facilities (OSL Project Related/1.05)
TBA. To Be Advised. (General/1.05)
TBAV. Tender Board Award Price. (General/1.07)
TBC. Thyroxine Binding Capacity. (Medical/1.05)
TBC. To Be Confirmed. (General/2.13)
TBCE. Type B Cost Estimate. (General/1.05)
TBD. To Be Determined. (General/1.05)
TBD. To Be Decided. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TBE. Threaded Both Ends. Pipe end configuration. See BOE, BBE, TOE, SQC (Petrochemical,
Piping/1.05)
TBG. Total Blood Gases, Thyroxine Binding Globulin. (Medical/1.05)
TBIL. Total Bilirubin. (Medical/1.05)
TBK. Trykkbeholderkomiteen. (Petrochemical/1.07)
TBL. Teknologi Bedriftenes Landforening. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
TBM. Tunnel Boring Machine. (General/2.12)
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TBNa. Total Body Sodium. (Medical/1.05)
TBS. To Be Supplied. (General/1.05)
TBS. Transfer Baggage System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
Tbsp. Tablespoon. (General/1.05)
TBT. Tool Box Talk. (Drilling/2.16)
TBT. Through Bore Tree. (Drilling/2.16)
TBW. Total Body Water. (Medical/1.05)
TBYB. Try Before You Buy. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
Tc. Technetium. Atomic number 43. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
TC. Tropical Cyclone. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
tc. Turks And Ciacos Islands. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
TC. Traffic Constable. (Policing/2.14)
TC. Technical Committee. (Petrochemical/1.07)
TCA. Total Corrosion Allowance. (Drilling/2.16)
TCAP. Transaction Capabilities Application Part. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
TCAS. Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
TCC. Transportation Control Centre. (Petrochemical/1.07)
TCE. Trichloroethane. A solvent, when vaporised contributing to ozone depletion. See CFCs, Halons
and HCFCs (Petrochemical/2.01)
TCF. Temporary Construction Facilities. (Drilling/2.16)
TCF. Trillion Cubic Feet. (Petrochemical/1.08)
TCF. Time Critical Functions. (IT, Computing/1.05)
TCG. Tasking and Coordinating Group. (Policing/2.14)
TCI. Tenerife Airport. Spain. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TCM. Time Critical Manoeuvre. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
TCO. Total Cost of Ownership. (IT, Computing/1.05)
TCOY. Take Care Of Yourself. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TCP. Turbine Control Panel. (Petrochemical/1.07)
TCP. Transmission Control Protocol. A convention used to control the transmission of data is called a
protocol. TCP Controls data transmission, ensuring that data reaches it's destination by detecting
and re-sending corrupt or lost data. See HTTP, TCP, IP, URL, Protocol (IT, Computing/1.06)
TCP/IP. Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. Designation for a family of protocols
defined by ITEF (Internet Engineering Task Force). See HTTP, TCP, IP, URL, Protocol (IT,
Computing/1.06)
TCS. Tele Communication Server. (IT, Computing/1.05)
TCU. Terminal Control Unit. (IT, Computing/1.05)
TCU. Towering Cumulus. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TCV. Temperature Control Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.05)
TD. Total Depth. (Petrochemical/1.07)
td. Chad. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
TDA. Take and Drive away. (Policing/2.14)
TDAS. Transportation Data Acquisition System. (Petrochemical/1.07)
TDB. Technical Data Book. (Petrochemical/1.07)
TDD. Time Division Duplex. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
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TDG. Test Data Generator. (IT, Computing/1.05)
TDH. Traffic Data Handling. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.07)
TDM. Time Division Multiplexing. (IT, Computing/1.05)
TDM. Too Darn Many. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TDMA. Time Division Multiple Access. A digital standard for mobile telephone communications. Most
widely used in the USA. See AMPS, CDMA, CDPD, FDMA, GSM (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
TDO. Tornado. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Tdoc. Therapist. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TDS. Total Dissolved Solids. (Drilling/2.16)
TDS. Top Drive System. (Drilling/2.16)
TDTM. Talk Dirty To Me. (IT, Internet Chat/2.14)
TDU. Telephone Dial-up Unit. (IT, Computing/1.05)
TDWR. Terminal Doppler Weather Radar. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TDZ. Touchdown zone. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TE. Tender Evaluation. (Petrochemical/1.07)
Te. Tellurium. Atomic number 52. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
TE. Temperature Element. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
TEA. Tema Airport. Ghana. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TECR. Technical reason. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TED. Thisted Airport. Denmark. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TEL. Telephone. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Telematikkrom. Computer and Telecomms Room. (OSL Project Related/1.05)
Teleslynger. Norwegian. A device to help the hard of hearing. An amplifying loop built into check in
desks (IT, Computing/1.05)
TELNET. Teletypewriter Network Protocol. (Terminal Network Protocol) (IT, Computing/1.05)
TEMA. Tubular Exchanger Manufacturers Association. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
Temp. Temperature. (General/1.05)
TEMPO. Temporary, Temporarily. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TEND. Trend forecast. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TENS. Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation. (Medical/1.05)
Tera. SI number prefix 1.000.000.000.000. Abbreviated as T (SI Number Prefixes/1.05)
TERPS. Terminal Instrument Procedures. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
TETRA. Trans European Trunked Radio. A digital standard for walkie-talkies (Private Mobile Radios)
(IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
TF. Turbine engined aircraft Fuel. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TF. Total Float. The difference between the late dates and the early dates. TF represents the amount
of time an activity can be delayed without affecting the expected completion date computed
during the forward pass. TF = EF - ES or TF = LF - EF (Project Management, Planning/1.08)
TF. Terminated From end. Cable Status (OSL Project Related/1.05)
tf. French Southern Territories. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
TFC. Traffic. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TFDPS. Tower Flight Data Processing System. (IT, Computing/1.05)
TFH. Thread From Hell. (a discussion that just won't die and is often irrelevant to the purpose of the
forum or group) (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
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TFL. Through Flow Line. (Drilling/2.16)
TFL. Through Flowline. (Petrochemical/1.07)
TFN. Tenerife. Tenerife Norte (Airport Codes/1.07)
TFS. Tenerife. (Airport Codes/1.05)
TFS. Three Finger Salute (Ctl-Alt-Del). (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TFT. Thin Film Transistor. A flat screen LCD technology, normally associated with portable computers,
however LCDs are beginning to replace the CRT monitors traditionally used with desktop
computers. See CRT, LCD, PDP, EL, FED, CGS (IT, Computing/1.05)
TFT. Thyroid Function Test (T4+TBP+TSH). (Medical/1.05)
TFT. Tactical Firearms Team. (Policing/2.14)
TFTHAOT. Thanks For The Help Ahead Of Time. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TFTP. Trivial File Transfer Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
TFTT. Thanks For The Thought. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TFU. Tactical Firearms Unit. (Policing/2.14)
Tg. Thyroglobulin. (Medical/1.05)
tg. Togo. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
TGAL. Think Globally Act Locally. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TGB. Temporary Guide Base. (Drilling/2.16)
TGD. Podgorica Airport. Yougoslavia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TGG. Kuala Terengganu Airport. Malaysia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TGH. Tonga Airport. Vanuatu. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TGIF. Thank God It's Friday. (IT, Internet Chat/2.02)
TGL. Touch and Go Landing. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TGOR. Total Gas Oil Ratio. (Drilling/2.16)
TGS. Taxiing Guidance System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TGU. Tegucigualpa Airport. Honduras. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Th. Thorium. Atomic number 90. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
TH. Threshold. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
th. Thailand. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
TH. Tubing Hanger. (Drilling/2.16)
THB. Thai Baht. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
THBR. Thyroid Hormone-Binding Ratio. (Medical/1.05)
THC. TetraHydroCannabinol. The primary intoxicant in pot. (Medical/2.02)
Theta. Eighth letter of the Greek alphabet. Upper Case symbol = Temperature (when t is used to
symbolise something else). Lower Case symbol = Eighth, angular distance, angle, angular phase
difference, temperature in degrees above 0 centigrade, Curie point, pitch (Greek Alphabet/1.05)
THF. Berlin Tempel Hof Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.06)
THN. Trollhattan. (Airport Codes/1.07)
THP. Tubing Hanger Pressure. (Drilling/2.16)
THR. Mehrabad International. Tehran Airport. Iran. (Airport Codes/1.05)
THR. Threshold. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Thrd. Threaded. Flange connection. See WN, SO, SW (Petrochemical, Piping/1.07)
THRU. Through. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
THT. Tubing Head Temperature. (Petrochemical/1.07)
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THU. Thursday. (Time or Space/1.05)
THX. Thanks. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
THz. Terrahertz. 1 THz 1000 GHz. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
Ti. Titanium. Atomic number 22. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
TIA. Tirana Airport. Albania. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TIA. Telecommunications Industry Association. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
TIA. Transient Ischemic Attack. (Medical/1.05)
TIA. Thanks In Advance. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
TIALD. Thermal Imaging Airborne Laser Designator. (Military/1.06)
TIBC. Total Iron-Binding Capacity. (Medical/1.05)
TIC. Temperature Indicator Controller. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
TIC. Taken into Consideration. (Policing/2.14)
TIC. Tongue In Cheek (trying hard to do something right). (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TICM. Technical Integrity Committee Meeting. (Petrochemical/1.07)
tid. Three Times Daily. (Medical/1.05)
TID. Touch Input Device. (IT, Computing/1.05)
TIES. Ticketing Information Exchange Standard. A specification for electronic transfer of ticketing
information (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
TIFF. Tagged Image File Format. A standard file format that is commonly used for digital pictures
(IT, Computing/1.05)
TIG. Trials Issues Group. (Policing/2.14)
TILII. Tell It Like It Is. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TIM. Change of time information. ASM Submessage (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
TIME. Time Reference System. (General/1.05)
TINA. Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture. (IT, Computing/1.05)
tinc. Tincture. (Medical/1.05)
TINWIS. That Is Not What I Said. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TIP. Until past {place}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TIP. Tripoli Airport. Lybia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TIPS. Trnasjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt. (Medical/1.05)
TIS. Technical Interface Specification. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TIS. Traffic Information System. (IT, Computing/1.05)
TIS. Test Information Sheet. (IT, Computing/1.05)
TIV. Tivat Airport. Yougoslavia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TIZ. Traffic Information Zone. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
tj. Tajikistan. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
TJ. Terajoule. A measure of energy. One trillion joules (Weights & Measures, Other/2.01)
TJR. Tajikistan Ruble. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
tk. Tokelau. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
TK. Turkish Airlines. (Airline Codes/1.07)
TKOF. Take-off. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TKU. Turku Airport. Finland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
TL. Till. Followed by time by which weather change is forecast to end (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
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TL. Taxilane. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
Tl. Thallium. Atomic number 81. (Chemical Elements/1.06)
TLA. Three-Letter Acronym. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TLA. Three Letter Acronym(s). (Humour/1.05)
TLB. Top Level Budget. (Military/1.06)
TLC. Total Lung Capacity. (Medical/1.05)
TLC. Toluca Airport. Mexico. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TLH. Tallahassee Airport. FL. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TLK2UL8R. Talk To You Later. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TLL. Tallinn Airport. Estonia. (Airport Codes/1.05)
TLM. Tlemcen Airport. Maroc. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TLN. Toulon/ Hyeres Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TLOF. Touchdown and Lift-OFf area. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TLP. Tension Leg Platform. (Petrochemical/1.07)
TLQ. Slot Information Request. See SCR, SMA, SIR, TLQ (Aviation Civil and Military/1.06)
TLS. Toulouse-Blagnac International Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.05)
TLV. Ben Gurion International . Tel Aviv/Jerusalem Airport. Israel. (Airport Codes/1.05)
TM. Transfer Molded. (General/2.14)
TM. Tympanic Membrane. (Medical/1.05)
Tm. Thulium. Atomic number 69. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
tm. Turkmenistan. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
TMA. Terminal control area. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TMD. Total Measured Depth. (Drilling/2.16)
TMFLW. Too Much Four Letter Words. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TMI. Too Much Information. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TML. Text Mark-up Language. (IT, Computing/1.05)
TMM. Tamatave Airport. Madagascar. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TMM. Turkmenistan Manat. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
TMP. Tampere-Pirkkala Airport. Finland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
TMP-SMX. Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole. (Medical/1.05)
TMR. Tamanrasset Airport. Algerie. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TMR. Trunked Mobile Radio. (IT, Computing/2.13)
TMS. Time Multiplexing Switching. (IT, Computing/1.05)
TMS. Sao Tome Airport. Guyana. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TMT. Technology Management Team. (Petrochemical/1.07)
TMTH. Too Much To Handle. (IT, Internet Chat/2.14)
tn. Tunisia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
tn. Short ton. Avoirdupois system. 2000 pounds = 1 short ton = 907,2 kg (Weights & Measures,
Imperial/1.05)
TNA. Turn altitude. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TNA. Jinan Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TND. Tunisian Dinar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
TNG. Tanger Airport. Maroc. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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TNH. Turn height. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TNM. Tumor-Nodes-Metastases. (Medical/1.05)
TNR. Antananarivo Airport. Madagascar. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TNSTAAFL. There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TNT. Till Next Time. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TNTL. Trying Not To Laugh. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TNX. Thanks. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TNXE6. Thanks A Million. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
to. Tonga. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
TO. Telephone Order. (Medical/1.05)
TO. To {place}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TOBAL. There Oughta Be A Law. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TOBG. This Oughta Be Good. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TOC. Top Of Cement. (Drilling/2.16)
TOC. Table Of Contents. (General/1.10)
TOC. Top Of Climb. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TOCS. Take-Off Climb Surface. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
TODA. Take Off Distance Available. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TODC. Time Of Day Clock. (IT, Computing/2.13)
TODR. Take-Off Distance Required. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
TOE. Threaded Outer End(s). Pipe end configuration. See BOE, BBE, TBE, SQC (Petrochemical,
Piping/1.05)
TOE. Tonnes of Oil Equivalent. A measure of calorific value of different sources of energy in terms
relating to one tonne of oil (Petrochemical/2.01)
TOF. Top Of File. or Top Of Form (IT, Computing/1.06)
TOFS. Time Out For Safety (Time Out For a Smoke). (Drilling/2.16)
TOGA. Take Off and Go Around. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Token Ring Network. International standard for LAN communication. A local area network cabled in
a closed loop. Called a token ring network as information is passed around with the use of tokens.
See Ethernet (IT, Computing/1.05)
TOL. Top Of Liner. (Drilling/2.16)
TOL. Toledo Airport. OH. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TOL. Thredolet. (Petrochemical, Piping/1.07)
Tonne. A metric measure of weight: 1 tonne equals 1000 kg. 1 kilotonne equals 1000 tonnes.
(Petrochemical/2.01)
TOOH. Trip Out Of Hole. (Drilling/2.16)
TOP. Cloud Top. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TOP. Tonga Pa'anga. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
TOP. Technical and Office Protocol. (General/1.05)
top. Topical. (Medical/1.05)
TOPCA. Til Our Paths Cross Again. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TOPS. Traffic Operator Position System. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
Topsides. The superstructure of an offshore platform. The section that is supported by either a
Gravity Base Structure or a Jacket (Petrochemical/1.08)
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TOR. Terms Of Reference. (General/1.05)
TORA. Take Off Run Available. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TOS. Langnes. TromsГё Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.05)
TOTE. Text Oriented Tabular Entry. (IT, Computing/1.05)
TOV. Tortola Airport. Vanuatu. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TOW. Tube launched Optically controlled Wire guided bomb. (Military/1.06)
TOY. Thinking Of You. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TOY. Toyama Airport. Japan. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TP. ThermoPlastic. (General/2.14)
TP. Turning Point. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TP. Transaction Protocol. Or Transaction Processing (IT, Computing/1.05)
TP. Total Protein. (Medical/1.05)
tp. East Timor. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
TP-0. Transport Protocol - class 0. (IT, Computing/1.05)
tPA. Tissue Plasminogen Activator. (Medical/1.05)
TPA. Tampa International. Florida Airport. USA. (Airport Codes/1.05)
TPAC. Tactical Pursuit and Containment. (Policing/2.14)
TPDU. Transport Protocol Data Unit. (IT, Computing/1.05)
TPE. Chiang Kai Shek International. Taipei Airport. Taiwan. (Airport Codes/1.05)
TPI. Tracks Per Inch. The number of tracks per inch on a disc (IT, Computing/1.05)
TPI. Treponema Pallidum Immobilisation. (Medical/1.05)
TPN. Temperature, Pulse, Repiration. (Medical/1.05)
TPPM. Transaction Processing Protocol Machine. (IT, Computing/1.05)
TPS. Trapani Airport. Italy. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TPS. Training Plan Specification. (IT, Computing/1.05)
TPSUI. TP Service User Innovation. (IT, Computing/1.05)
TPTB. The Powers That Be. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TPU. Tactical Planning Unit. (Policing/2.14)
TPW. Temporary Pipe Work. (Drilling/2.16)
TQ. Transwede. (Airline Codes/1.05)
TQM. Total Quality Management. (Project Management/1.07)
TR. Temperature Recorder. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
tr. Turkey. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
TR. Tricuspid Regurgitation. (Medical/1.05)
TR. Track. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TRA. Temporary Reserved Airspace. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TRA. Total Risk Analysis. (Petrochemical/1.07)
TRANS. Transmits, Transmitter. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TRAP. Tartrate-Resistant Acid Phosphatase. (Medical/1.05)
TRB. Test Review Board. (IT, Computing/1.05)
TRC. Total Reportable Cases. (Petrochemical/2.01)
TRCF. Total Reportable Case Frequency. (Petrochemical/2.01)
TRD. Værnes. Trondheim Airport. Norway. (Airport Codes/1.05)
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TRDMC. Tears Running Down My Cheeks. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TREND. Landing Forecast. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TRF. Thyrotropin Releasing Factor. (Medical/1.05)
TRH. Thyrotropin Releasing Hormone. (Medical/1.05)
TRI. Bristol Airport. TN. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TRIC. Toolbox Risk Identification Card. (Drilling/2.16)
TRIG. Triglycerides. (Medical/1.05)
TRIGAT. Third Generation Anti Tank Guided Weapon. (Military/1.06)
TRI-MNCS. Three Major NATO Commands. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Tri-Mode. Triple mode phones. New D-AMPS handsets that can operate on 800 MHz Analogue
(AMPS) and 800 MHz Digital (D-AMPS) and 1900 MHz Digital (D-AMPS) (IT,
Telecommunications/1.07)
TRL. Turkish Lira. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
TRL. Transition Level. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TRN. Citta di Torino. Turin Airport. Italy. (Airport Codes/1.05)
TRNDC. Transducer. (Petrochemical/1.07)
TROI. Total Reportable Occupational Illness. (Petrochemical/2.01)
TROIF. Total Reportable Occupational Illness Frequency. (Petrochemical/2.01)
Trojan Horse. A program that performs an unsolicited act by pretending to have a beneficial set of
features. But which instead (or in addition), contains a damaging payload. Trojan Horses are not
viruses. They do not replicate or attach themselves to other files, They just do damage or display
tiresome messages (IT, Computing/1.05)
TROP. Tropopause. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Troy weight. A system of weights based on a pound equaling 12 ounces. See Apothecaries,
Avoirdupois. Goldsmiths measure. A troy pound = 5760 grains = 0,82286 pounds avoirdupois =
373,2418 grams (Weights & Measures, Imperial/1.05)
TRR. Test Readiness Review. (General/1.05)
TRS. Trieste Airport. Italy. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TRSB. Time Reference Scanning Beam. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TRSCSSSV. Tubing Retrievable Surface Controlled Sub Surface Safety Valve. (Drilling/2.16)
TRSCSSV. Tubing Retrievable Surface Controlled Sub Surface Valve. (Drilling/2.16)
TRSSSV. Tubing Retrievable Sub Surface Safety Valve. (Drilling/2.16)
TRSV. Tubing Retrievable Safety Valve. (Drilling/2.16)
TRV. Trivandrum Airport. India. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TS. Totally Stinks. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TS. Temporary Strainer. (Petrochemical, Piping/1.07)
TS. Termination Slip printed. Cable Status (OSL Project Related/1.05)
TS. Tricuspid Stenosis. (Medical/1.05)
TS. Thunderstorm. In aerodrome reports and forecasts. TS used alone means thunder heard but no
precipitation at the aerodrome. {TS followed by RA=Rain, SN=Snow, etc} (Aviation Civil and
Military/1.05)
TS. ThermoSet. (General/2.14)
TS. Teflon Seal. Two piece removable seal ring made from virgin Teflon (Petrochemical/1.05)
TS. Traffic Sergeant. (Policing/2.14)
TSA. Taxiway Safety Area. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
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TSAb. Thyroid Stimulating Antibodies. (Medical/1.05)
TSAP. Transport Service Access Point. (General/1.05)
TSAPI. Telephone Server Application Programmable Interface. A Novell API for sorting and sending
incoming telecom messages to the correct device. Eg. voice to telephone, email to computer, fax
to fax machine. See CTI, TAPI, API, CAPI (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
TSC. Terminal Service Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.12)
TSH. Thyroid Stimulating Hormone. (Medical/1.05)
TSI. Temporarily Shut In. (Drilling/2.16)
TSN. Tianjin Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TSO. Technical Standard Order. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TSO. Terminating Screening Office. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
Tsp. Teaspoon. (General/1.05)
TSPS. Traffic Service Position System. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
TSR. Tekniske spesifikasjoner. (OSL Project Related/1.05)
TSR. Timisoara Airport. Rumania. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TSR. Terminate and Stay Resident. A program that remains active in memory while other programs
are run on the system (IT, Computing/1.05)
TSR. Totally Stupid Rules. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TSU. Technical Support Unit. (Policing/2.14)
TSV. Townsville Airport. QL. Australia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TSV. Temperature Safety Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
TT. Teletypewriter. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TT. Thrombin Time. (Medical/1.05)
tt. Trinidad And Tobago. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
TT. Terminated To end. Cable Status (OSL Project Related/1.05)
TT. Temperature Transmitter. See DPT, SPT, ST (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.05)
TT. Torque Tool. (Petrochemical/2.15)
TT&C. Tracking, Telemetry and Control. (Satellite Broadcasting/2.09)
TTBOMK. To The Best Of My Knowledge. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TTC. Telemetry and Tele Command. (Satellite Broadcasting/2.09)
TTD. Trinidadian Dollar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
TTFN. Ta-Ta For Now. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TTKSF. Trying To Keep a Straight Face. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TTL. Transistor Transistor Logic. Type of chip. Buy a book on integrated circuits if you need a
description (IT, Computing/1.05)
TTL. Time To Live. (General/1.05)
TTL. Through The Lens. (General/2.08)
TTN. Trenton Airport. NJ. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TTP. Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, Ribothymidine 5' Triphosphate. (Medical/1.05)
TTS. Track Transit System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.12)
TTS. Transdermal Therapeutic System. (Medical/1.05)
TTT. Thought That Too. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TTTT. To Tell The Truth. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TTUL. Talk To You Later. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
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TTYAWFN. Talk To You A While From Now. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TTYL. Talk To You Later. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
TTYT. Talk To You Tomorrow. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TTYTT. To Tell You The Truth. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TU. Tuberculin Unit. (Medical/1.05)
TUC. Trades Union Congress. (General/2.10)
TUCOWS. The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software. (IT, Computing/2.03)
TUE. Tuesday. (Time or Space/1.05)
TUL. Tulsa Airport. OK. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
T-UMTS. Terrestrial UMTS. (Satellite Broadcasting/2.09)
TUMV. Theft from Unattended Motor Vehicle. (Policing/2.14)
Tun. Measure of Ale. 256 gallons (2 pipes). (Measure of Ale/1.05)
TUN. Carthage. Tunis Airport. Tunisia. (Airport Codes/1.05)
TUR. Transurethral Resection. (Medical/1.05)
TURB. Turbulence. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Turnkey. Delivery of a product ready for use. (Project Management/1.05)
TURP. Transurethral Resection Prostate. (Medical/1.05)
TUS. Tucson Airport. AZ. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TUV. German Inspection Authority. See DNV (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
tv. Tuvalu. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
TV. Temperature Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.07)
TV. Tidal Volume. (Medical/1.05)
TV. TeleVision. (General/1.05)
TVC. Traverse City Airport. MI. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TVD. True Vertical Depth / Total Vertical Depth. (Petrochemical/1.07)
TVD. True Vertical Depth. (Drilling/2.16)
TVOR. Terminal VHF Omindirectional Radio. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TVP. True Vapour Pressure. (Petrochemical/1.07)
TW. Taxiway. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
TW. TWA Trans World Airlines. (Airline Codes/1.07)
tw. Taiwan, Republic Of China. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
TW. Thermowell. (Petrochemical, Instrumentation/1.07)
TWAIN compliant application. Thing Without An Imaginative Name. Image Acquisition Interface
Standard. Some software applications support the TWAIN interface standard. Two commands are
typically used when working with TWAIN compliant applications. One to select the external device
that you would like to work with (E.g. Digital camera or Scanner), and the second command to
activate the TWAIN interface software for the selected device (IT, Computing/1.06)
TWAR. Chlamydia Psittaci. (Medical/1.05)
TWB. Twin Falls Airport. Indonesia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TWCU. Tactical Weapons Conversion Unit. (Military/1.06)
TWD. Taiwanese Dollar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
TWF. Twin Falls Airport. ID. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TWI. The Welding Institute. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
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Twisted pair. Two insulated copper wires twisted around each other, and incased in a sheath or
shield. If the shield acts as a ground (earth) the cable is called shielded twisted pair (STP). If it
does not act as a ground (earth) it is called unshielded twisted pair (UTP). Both wires are required
to transmit a signal. Usually more than one signal needs to be transmitted by a cable, this is
achieved by adding an extra pair of cables. The cable is then denoted as 2 par, or 4 par, etc.
Twisted pair uses a colour coding system, when multiple pairs are used. See crosstalk, EMI, RFI,
coaxial, fibre optic, STP, UTP (IT, Computing/1.05)
TWLA. Taken Without Lawful Authority. (Policing/2.14)
TWOC. Taken Without Owners Consent. (Policing/2.14)
TWR. Aerodrome Control Tower, Aerodrome Control. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TWR. Tower Remote or Tower System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TWTA. Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
TWU. Tawau Airport. Malaysia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TWY. Taxiway. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TWYK. Taxiway link. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Tx. Therapy. (Medical/1.05)
TX. Treatment. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TXL. Tegel. Berlin Airport. Germany. (Airport Codes/1.05)
TY. Thank You. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TYCLO. Turn Your CAPS LOCK Off. (Stop Shouting) (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
TYN. Taiyuan Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TYO. Tokyo Airport. Japan. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TYP. Type of aircraft. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TYPH. Typhoom. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
TYS. Knoxville Airport. TN. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
TYS. Tensile Yield Strength. (General/2.14)
TYVM. Thank You Very Much. (IT, Internet Chat/1.05)
TZ. American Transair Inc. (Airline Codes/1.05)
tz. Tanzania. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
TZS. Tanzanian Shilling. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
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22. Uniform
U. Uranium. Atomic number 92. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
U. Unit. (Medical/1.05)
U. Upwards {tendency in RVR during previous 10 minutes}. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
U/A. Urinalysis. (Medical/1.05)
U/P. Urine, Plasma Ratio (Concentration). (Medical/1.05)
U/S. Unserviceable. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
U3. UtbyggningsomrГҐde U3 Ekspedisjonsbygningen. Construction Division U3 Terminal Building (OSL
Project Related/1.05)
U4. UtbyggningsomrГҐde U4 Banesystem. Construction Division U4 Runway systems (OSL Project
Related/1.05)
U5. UtbyggningsomrГҐde U5 Tekniske Bygg og Anlegg. Construction Division U5 Technical Buildings
and Facilities (OSL Project Related/1.05)
UA. Umbilical Artery. (Medical/1.05)
ua. Ukraine. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
UA. User Agent. (General/1.05)
UAA. Unsafe Act Awareness. (Petrochemical/1.07)
UAB. Until Advised By. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
UAC. User Account Control. (IT, Computing/2.14)
UAC. Upper Area Control centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
UAH. Ukrainese Hryvnia. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
UAPITA. You're A Pain In The Ass. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
UAR. Upper Air Route. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
UART. Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter. Part of the gunk surrounding what is called the
comms port on the back of your computer, or sometimes called RS-232, or sometimes called EIA232D. If your com port has 25 pins it is also capable of synchronous transmission. See USRT (IT,
Computing/1.05)
UAS. University Air Squadron. (Military/1.06)
UBR. Unspecified Bit Rate. When using an ATM network there is a choice of classes for carrying
traffic (transmitting data). See CBR, VBR, ABR (IT, Computing/1.05)
UCA. Utica Airport. NY. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
UCL. Upper Control Limit. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
UCP. Unit Control Panel. (Petrochemical/2.11)
UCT. Universal Co-ordinated Time. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
UDDI. Universal Description Discovery and Integration. (IT, Computing/2.14)
UDF. Universal Disc Format. (IT, Computing/2.13)
UDF. Ultra high frequency direction finding station. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
UDLR. Unidirectional Link Routing. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
UDP. User Datagram Protocol. (IT, Computing/1.05)
UDT. Unarmed Defensive Tactic. (Policing/2.14)
UE. Ultrasonic Examination. (Petrochemical, Welding/1.07)
UES. User Event System. (Petrochemical/1.07)
UET. Quetta Airport. Pakistan. (Airport Codes/1.06)
UF. Urea Formaldehyde. (General/2.14)
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UFD. Utility Flow Diagram. (Petrochemical/1.07)
UFH. Unfractionated Heparin. (Medical/1.05)
UFN. Until Further Notice. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
ug. Uganda. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
UGH. Hangzou Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
UGI. Upper Gastrointestinal. (Medical/1.05)
UGX. Ugandan Shilling. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
UHDT. Unable Higher Due Traffic. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
UHF. Ultra High Frequency. See EHF, ELF, HF, LF, MF, SHF, VHF, VLF (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
UI. User Interface. (IT, Computing/1.06)
UIC. Upper Information Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
UIO. Quito Airport. Equador. (Airport Codes/1.06)
UIP. Quimper Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
UIR. Upper flight Information Region. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
uk. United Kingdom. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
UK. KLM UK. (Airline Codes/1.07)
UK. United Kingdom (The country). (General/2.14)
UKBC. United Kingdom Based Civilians. (Military/1.06)
UKCA. United Kingdom Central Authority. (/2.14)
UKCS. United Kingdom Continental Shelf. (Petrochemical/2.01)
UKFSC. United Kingdom Flight Safety Commitee. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
UKIS. United Kingdom Immigration Service. (Association, Society, Institute/2.13)
UKOOA. United Kingdom Offshore Operators Association. (Association, Society, Institute/1.08)
UKOOG. United Kingdom Onshore Operators Group. (Drilling/2.16)
UKPIA. United Kingdom Petroleum Industry Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
UL. Underwriters Laboratories. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
ULCC. Ultra Large Crude Carrier. An extremely large ocean going tanker used to transport crude oil.
See VLCC (Petrochemical/2.01)
ULDPE. Ultra Low Density Polyethylene. (General/2.14)
ULR. Ultra Long Range. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
um. US Minor Outlying Islands. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
UM. Unaccompanied Minor. (IT, Computing/1.06)
UMB. Upper Memory Block. See Upper memory (IT, Computing/1.05)
UME. UmeГҐ Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
UML. Unified Modelling Language. (IT, Computing/1.05)
UMTS. Universal Mobile Telecommunications System. The third
telecommunication systems. See GSM (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
generation
of
mobile
UMV. Upper Master Valve. (Drilling/2.16)
UN. United Nations. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
UN/ECE. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. (General/1.06)
UNA. Unable. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
UNAP. Unable to approve. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
UNAVEM. United Nations Angola Verification Mission. (Military/1.05)
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UNC. Universal Naming Convention. (IT, Computing/1.05)
UNC. Unified Coarse Thread. (Petrochemical/1.07)
UNCLOS. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. (Military/1.06)
UNEF. United Nations Emergency Force. (Military/1.05)
UNESCO. United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation.
Institute/2.14)
(Association, Society,
UNF. Unified Fine Thread. (Petrochemical/1.07)
UNFICYP. United Nations Force in Cyprus. (Military/1.06)
ung. Ointment. (Medical/1.05)
UNHQ. United Nations Headquarters. (Military/1.06)
UNI. User Network Interface. (IT, Computing/1.05)
UNIFIL. United Nations Interim Forces In Lebanon. (Military/1.05)
UNIKOM. United Nations Iraq Kuwait Observer Mission. (Military/1.06)
UNIX. Operating System. Or more precisely a multi-user, multi-tasking operating system (IT,
Computing/1.05)
UNL. Unlimited. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
UNM. Union de Normalisation de la Mecanique. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
UNMOGIP. United Nations Military Observer Group In India And Pakistan. (Military/1.05)
UNOMIG. United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia. (Military/1.06)
UNPROFOR. United Nations Protection Force (Former Yugoslavia). (Military/1.05)
UNREL. Unreliable. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
UNS. Unified Numbering System. (Petrochemical/1.07)
UNSCOM. United Nations Special Commission. (Military/1.06)
UNTSO. United Nations Truce Supervisory Organisation. (Military/1.05)
UOK. Are You OK?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
UOS&D. Under, Over, Short and Damaged. (Petrochemical/1.07)
UPC. Universal Product Code (USA). Known as European Article Number in Europe. Barcode printed
on the side of articles/packages (General/1.05)
UPnP. Universal Plug and Play. (IT, Computing/2.13)
Upper Camel Case. Words are run together. Without spaces, underscores or other seperators, and
the initial letter of words are upper case. For example: DepartureFlightCode. See camel case (IT,
Computing/2.13)
Upper memory. Refers to the area of memory between 640 KB and 1024 KB, or 1 megabyte (Mb).
Traditionally, this area, also known as system memory, was only accessible to the system, and
not to user applications such as word processors and spreadsheets. To solve the need for more
memory space, programs called memory managers were created to provide access to upper
memory. Upper memory is allocated in pre-sized chunks called upper memory blocks (UMBs) (IT,
Computing/1.05)
UPR. Upper Pipe Ram. (Drilling/2.16)
UPS. Unified Propulsion System. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
UPS. Uninterruptable Power Supply. (Electrical/1.05)
Upsilon. Twentieth letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Twentieth (Greek
Alphabet/1.05)
Upstream. Piping located on Inlet side of equipment, orifice, nozzle, turbine meter. See downstream
(Petrochemical/1.05)
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Upstream. Exploration and production aspects of the petroleum industry. See downstream
(Petrochemical/2.15)
URAC. Uric Acid. (Medical/1.05)
URB. Umbilical Riser Bridge. (Petrochemical/2.15)
URC. Urungqi Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
URD. User Requirement Document. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.12)
URI. Uniform Resource Identifier. (IT, Computing/1.05)
URI. Upper Respiratory Tract Infection. (Medical/1.05)
URL. Universal Resource Locator. The World Wide Web is a collection of files, called web sites or web
pages. A URL is the address for locating and identifying these files. A URL specifies the transfer
protocol, the machine's internet address, the path, and the file name. For example, a URL might
read: http://serverx.company.mil/report/index.html. The first part of the address is the transfer
protocol, e.g., http://, ftp://. The second part is the location, and the last part is the path and file
name. A URL maybe absolute or relative. An absolute URL contains the full address of a page
“file”, whereas a relative URL maybe missing some of the information, e.g. the transfer protocol.
URL's are case sensitive. See HTTP, TCP, IP, URL, Protocol (IT, Computing/1.06)
URO. Rouen Airport. France. (Airport Codes/1.06)
URT. Universal Running Tool. (Drilling/2.16)
us. United States. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
US. US Airways. (Airline Codes/1.07)
US time zones. Pacific, Mountain +1, Central +1, Eastern +1, Atlantic +1. See GMT, CET
(General/1.05)
USAF. United States Air Force. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
USB. Universal Serial Bus. Replacement for the serial bus (port). Bus type. A USB port is used for
connecting for example a video camera, mouse, monitor, keyboard, etc. See Bus (IT,
Computing/1.05)
USCG. United States Coast Guard. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
USD. United States Dollar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
USGS. United States Geological Survey. (Drilling/2.16)
USGS. United States Geological Service. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.02)
USMC. US Marine Corps. (Military/1.05)
USNO. United States Naval Observatory. (Association, Society, Institute/2.09)
USP. United States Pharmacopeia. (Medical/1.05)
USRT. Universal Synchronous Receiver-Transmitter. See UART (IT, Computing/1.05)
Ustrukturert. Unstructured. Information that can not be easily identified by a computer. E.g. pure
text about many different subjects (IT, Computing/1.05)
UT. Ultrasonic Testing. (Petrochemical/2.11)
UTA. Upper Control Area. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
UTA. Umbilical Termination Assembly. (Drilling/2.16)
UTC. Universal Time Co-ordinated. Or Universal Time Constant. UTC=GMT (Aviation Civil and
Military/1.06)
UTI. Urinary Tract Infection. (Medical/1.05)
Utjevningskabel. Intermediate Cable. Computer/Telecomm cabling between local telematikk rooms
and buildings. See Hovedkabel, Stigekabel, and Spredenett (OSL Project Related/1.05)
UTM. Universal Transverse Mercator. (Drilling/2.16)
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UTP. Unshielded Twisted Pair. The sheath protection of twisted pair cable does not act as a ground
(earth). See Twisted pair, STP (IT, Computing/1.05)
UTS. Ultimate Tensile Strength. (Petrochemical/1.07)
UV. Ultraviolet. (Medical/1.05)
UV. Universal Air, Houston. (Airline Codes/1.05)
UVF. Sainte Lucie Airport. Saint Lucia. Duplicate see SLU (Airport Codes/1.06)
UW. You're Welcome. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
UWC. Universal Wireless Consortium. (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
UX. Air Europa. (Airline Codes/1.07)
uy. Uruguay. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
UYU. Uruguay Peso. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
uz. Uzbekistan. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
UZS. Uzbekistanian Som. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
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23. Victor
v. Mixed Venous. (Medical/1.05)
V. Volume. (Medical/1.05)
V. Volt. Unit of electromotive force (See kV, mV) (Weights & Measures, Electrical/1.05)
V. Vanadium. Atomic number 23. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
va. Vatican City State (Holy See). Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
VA. Norwegian. Vann og AvlГёp. Water and Sewage (OSL Project Related/1.05)
VA. Volcanic Ash. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VAA. Vaasa Airport. Finland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
VAC. Visual Approach Chart. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VAD. Vehicle Audit Document. (Policing/2.14)
vag hyst. Vaginal Hysterectomy. (Medical/1.05)
VAL. In valleys. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VAL. Valparaiso Airport. Chili. (Airport Codes/1.06)
VAMP. Vincristine, Doxorubicin (Adriamycin), Methylprednisolone. (Medical/1.05)
VAN. Runway control van. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Var. Norwegian abbreviation for duration (varighet). (Project Management/1.06)
VAR. Magnetic variation. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VAR. Value Added Retailer or Reseller. See OEM (General/1.05)
VAR. Varna. Bulgaria. (Airport Codes/1.05)
Variation. A modification to the scope of work. See Change (Project Management/1.10)
VAS. Value Added Services. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
VAS. Voluntary Aid Societies. (Policing/2.14)
VASCAR. Visual Average Speed Computer And Recorder. (Policing/2.14)
VASIS. Visual Approach Slope Indicator System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VAT. Ventricular Activation Time. (Medical/1.05)
VAT. Value Added Tax. (General/1.07)
VBG. Very Big Grin. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
VBR. Variable Bit Rate (2). If an audio file has been compressed using VBR then the data is not
distributed evenly. Ie every second of sound contains a different number of bits (IT, Digital
music/2.11)
VBR. Variable Bit Rate (1). When using an ATM network there is a choice of classes for carrying
traffic (transmitting data). Variable Bit Rate defines a sustained rate for normal use and a faster
burst rate for occasional use, used by applications like video conferencing that run at an uneven
rate but need a given additional capacity on demand. See CBR, UBR, ABR (IT, Computing/1.05)
VBSEG. Very Big S***-Eating Grin. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
VBY. Visby. (Airport Codes/1.07)
VC. Virtual Channel. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VC. Vicinity of aerodrome. {followed by FG=Fog, etc.} (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
vc. Saint Vincent And The Grenadines. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
VC. Victoria Cross. (Qualification, Award, Title/2.02)
VC. Vital Capacity. (Medical/1.05)
VCC. Virtual Channel Connection. (IT, Computing/1.05)
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VCCS. Voice Communication and Control System. (General/1.05)
VCD. Variable Control Damper. (Drilling/2.16)
VCE. Marco Polo-Tessera. Venice Airport. Italy. (Airport Codes/1.05)
VCI. Virtual Channel Identifier. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VCO. Voltage Controlled Oscillator. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
VCP. Vehicle Check Point. (Military/1.10)
VCP. Sao Paulo- Viracopos Airport. SP. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
VCR. Video Cassete Recorder. (General/2.02)
VCS. Voice Communication System. (General/1.05)
VCY. Vicinity. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VD. Venereal Disease. (Medical/1.05)
VDA. Ovda Airport. Israel. (Airport Codes/1.06)
VDD. Virtual Device Drivers. These type of drivers allow MS DOS based programs and 16 bit
programs to run on 32 bit machines (IT, Computing/1.05)
VDD. Version Description Document. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VDF. VHF direction finding station. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VDGS. Visual Docking Guidance System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
VDL. Vendor Documentation List. (Project Management/1.07)
VDR. Vehicle Defect Rectification. (Policing/2.14)
VDRL. Venereal Disease Research Laboratories. (Medical/1.05)
VDRS. Vehicle Defect Rectification Scheme. (Policing/2.14)
VDS. Valve Data Sheet. (Petrochemical/1.07)
VDSL. Very high speed Digital Subscriber Line. A DSL variant. See ADSL, HDSL, SDSL, ISDN (IT,
Telecommunications/1.05)
VDT. Visual Display Terminal. (IT, Computing/2.02)
VDU. Visual Display Unit. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ve. Venezuela. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
VE. Victory in Europe. (Military/1.06)
VEB. Venezuelan Bolivar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
VEJ. Vejle Airport. Denmark. (Airport Codes/1.06)
VEL. Vehicle Excise License. (Policing/2.14)
VER. Vera Cruz Airport. Mexico. (Airport Codes/1.06)
VER. Visual Evoked Response. (Medical/1.05)
VF. Ventricular Fibrilation. (Medical/1.05)
VFA. Victoria Falls Airport. Zimbabwe. (Airport Codes/1.06)
VFD. Variable Frequency Drive. (Petrochemical/2.09)
VFO. Variable Frequency Oscillator. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
VFOP. Visual Flight rules Operational Panel. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VFR. Visual Flight Rules. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
vg. Virgin Islands (British). Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
VGA. Video Graphics Accelerator. See Video Board (IT, Computing/1.05)
VHF. Very High Frequency. See EHF, ELF, HF, LF, MF, SHF, UHF, VLF (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
VHM. Vilhelmina. (Airport Codes/1.07)
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VHS. Video Home System. (General/1.05)
vi. Virgin Islands (US). Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
VI. Variation Instruction. See Change Control, DVO, DVOR, PVN, PVOR, VO, VODC, VOF, VOR
(Project Management, Planning/1.07)
VID. Variable Information Display. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
Video Board. Limits/Controls what appears on a computer screen, and what software you can run.
Also called graphics card. A Video board can be 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit or 128-bit, the higher the
bits the better the performance. The most frequently quoted feature of a video card by
manufacturer's is it's resolution, this is the number of pixels the card is capable of displaying on a
monitor eg. 1024 x 768. Refresh rate measured in Hz refers to the number of times the screen is
repainted per second. 1Mb of on board memory can display 8-bit colour (256 colours), 2Mb can
display 16-bit colour (65,000 colours), 4Mb can display 24-bit colour (16 million colours). See
MDA, CGA, EGA, VGA, SVGA for different types (evolution) (IT, Computing/1.05)
VIE. Schwechat. Vienna Airport. Austria. (Airport Codes/1.05)
Vin de Coupage. Indicates that the wine in question is a blend of wines from different districts.
Although the label is written in French there is no guarantee that the wine has been produced in
France (Wine Label Terms/1.05)
VIP. Very Important Person. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VIP. Vasoactive Intestinal Polypeptide. (Medical/1.05)
VIP. Visual Project. Det verktГёy OSL bruker til kostnadsstyring - utviklet av Terramar (ikke bare Very
Important Person) (OSL Project Related/1.05)
VIPER. Video Identification Parade Electronic Recording. (Policing/2.14)
Virtual Memory. An area on the hard disc used as an extension for RAM. (MS Windows Swap File)
(IT, Computing/1.05)
Virus. Computer Virus. A software program that attaches itself to another program in computer
memory or on a disk. The virus spreads from one program to another. Viruses can damage data,
crash computers, or display offending/tiresome messages. Viruses tend to lie dormant until such
time that they are set to activate (IT, Computing/1.05)
VIS. Visibility. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VIX. Vitoria Airport. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
VJ. Victory over Japan. (Military/1.06)
VKO. Vnukovo. Moscow Airport. Russia. (Airport Codes/1.05)
VL. Voice Logger. (General/1.05)
VLAN. Virtual LAN. With a virtual LAN a user can connect to the LAN of his choice seamlessly, for
example on starting his computer he may be presented with a choice of Administration LAN, or
Security LAN. (A simplified definition) (IT, Computing/1.05)
VLC. Valencia Airport. Spain. (Airport Codes/1.05)
VLCC. Very Large Crude Carrier. As the name suggests a large ocean going tanker that is used to
transport crude oil. See ULCC (Petrochemical/1.07)
VLDL. Very Low Density Lipoprotein. (Medical/1.05)
VLF. Very Low Frequency. See EHF, ELF, HF, LF, MF, SHF, UHF, VHF (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VLI. Port Vila Airport. Vanuatu. (Airport Codes/1.06)
VLIW. Very Long Instruction Word. (IT, Computing/1.06)
VLL. Valladolid Airport. Spain. (Airport Codes/1.06)
VLN. Valencia Airport. Venezuela. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Vlog. Video log. See blog (IT, Computing/2.15)
VLP. Vertical Lift Performance. (Drilling/2.16)
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VLR. Visitor Location Register. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
VLR. Very Long Range. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VLSI. Very Large Scale Integration. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VLSMS. Vehicle Launched Scatterable Mine System. (Military/1.06)
VLTCS. Very Low Temperature Carbon Steel. (Drilling/2.16)
VLTI. Very Large Telescope Interferometer. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
VM. Virtual Machine. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VMA. Vanillylmandelic Acid. (Medical/1.05)
VMC. Visual Meteorological Conditions. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VME. Virtual Memory Extension. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VME. Virtual Machine Environment. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VMI. Vertical Movement Indicator. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VMS. Virtual Memory System. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VMS. Voice Mail System. A telephone answering machine. These days computerised (IT,
Telecommunications/1.05)
vn. Vietnam. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
VND. Vietnamese Dong. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
VNO. Vilnius Airport. lithuania. (Airport Codes/1.05)
VO. Variation Order. A formal client approved order that the scope of work has changed. A variation
order can be initiated either by the client or by the contractor through a notification routine. See
Change Control, DVO, DVOR, PVN, PVOR, VI, VODC, VOF, VOR (Project Management,
Planning/1.05)
VO. Verbal Order. (Medical/1.05)
VOC. Volatile Organic Compound. (Petrochemical/2.01)
VOD. Video On Demand. Subscriber service for videos, similar concept to pay TV (IT,
Telecommunications/1.05)
VODC. Variation Order with Disputed Consequences. See Change Control, DVO, DVOR, PVN, PVOR,
VI, VO, VOF, VOR (Project Management, Planning/1.07)
VODS. Vehicle Object Detection System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
VODS. Vehicle On-line Descriptive Search. (Policing/2.14)
VOF. Variation Order Forecast. See Change Control, DVO, DVOR, PVN, PVOR, VI, VO, VODC, VOR
(Project Management, Planning/1.07)
VOIP. Voice Over IP. (IT, Computing/2.03)
Volatile. Information is lost if the power source is removed. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VOLMET. Meteorological information for aircraft in flight. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Volt. Unit of electromotive force. (Weights & Measures, Electrical/1.05)
VOR. VHF Omnidirectional Radio. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VOR. Variation Order Request. A notification to the client that contractor believes a variation to the
scope of work exists. See Change Control, DVO, DVOR, PVN, PVOR, VI, VO, VODC, VOF (Project
Management, Planning/1.05)
VORTAC. VOR and TACAN combination. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VOT. VOR airborne equipment test facility. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VP. Virtual Path. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VP-16. Epipodophyllotoxin. (Medical/1.05)
VPC. Ventricular Premature Contraction. (Medical/1.05)
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VPC. Virtual Path Connection. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VPI. Virtual Path Identifier. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VPN. Virtual Private Network. An intranet, extranet, or even remote access to a LAN/WAN. See the
relevant descriptions (IT, Computing/1.06)
VR. Virtual Reality. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VRA. Varadero. Cuba. (Airport Codes/1.05)
VRB. Variable. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VRF. Volunteer Reserve Forces. (Policing/2.14)
VRK. Varkaus. (Airport Codes/1.07)
VRML. Virtual Reality Modelling Language. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VRN. Verone Airport. Italy. (Airport Codes/1.06)
VRU. Vapour Recovery Unit. (Petrochemical/2.09)
VRZ. Voronege Airport. Russia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
vs. Visit. (Medical/1.05)
VS. Vital Signs. (Medical/1.05)
VSA. By visual reference to the ground. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VSAT. Very Small Aperture Terminal. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
VSCS. Voice Switching and Control System. (General/1.05)
VSD. Variable Speed Drive. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
VSD. Ventricular Septal Defect. (Medical/1.05)
VSP. Variable System Parameter. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VSP. Vertical speed. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VSS. Victim Support Scheme. (Policing/2.14)
VST. Haslo. VasterГҐs Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
VSTOL. Very Short Take-Off and Landing. See VTOL (Aviation Civil and Military/1.08)
VSWR. Voltage Standing Wave Radio. (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
VT. Virtual Terminal. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VTE. Vientiane Airport. Laos. (Airport Codes/1.06)
VTE. Virtual Terminal Environment. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VTF. Ventriculat Tachycardia, Fibrilation. (Medical/1.05)
VTOL. Vertical Take Off and Landing. Or Very Short Take-Off and Landing, the Harrier is a
VSTOL/VTOL aircraft. Capable of vectoring its jet thrust to shorten its take-off roll or even to rise
and descend vertically (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VTR. Video Tape Recorder. (General/2.02)
vu. Vanuatu. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
VUV. Vanuatuese Vatu. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
VXO. Vaxjo Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
VXT. Vertical Christmas Tree. (Drilling/2.16)
v. Mixed Venous. (Medical/1.05)
V. Volume. (Medical/1.05)
V. Volt. Unit of electromotive force (See kV, mV) (Weights & Measures, Electrical/1.05)
V. Vanadium. Atomic number 23. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
va. Vatican City State (Holy See). Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
VA. Norwegian. Vann og AvlГёp. Water and Sewage (OSL Project Related/1.05)
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VA. Volcanic Ash. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VAA. Vaasa Airport. Finland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
VAC. Visual Approach Chart. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VAD. Vehicle Audit Document. (Policing/2.14)
vag hyst. Vaginal Hysterectomy. (Medical/1.05)
VAL. In valleys. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VAL. Valparaiso Airport. Chili. (Airport Codes/1.06)
VAMP. Vincristine, Doxorubicin (Adriamycin), Methylprednisolone. (Medical/1.05)
VAN. Runway control van. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Var. Norwegian abbreviation for duration (varighet). (Project Management/1.06)
VAR. Magnetic variation. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VAR. Value Added Retailer or Reseller. See OEM (General/1.05)
VAR. Varna. Bulgaria. (Airport Codes/1.05)
Variation. A modification to the scope of work. See Change (Project Management/1.10)
VAS. Value Added Services. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
VAS. Voluntary Aid Societies. (Policing/2.14)
VASCAR. Visual Average Speed Computer And Recorder. (Policing/2.14)
VASIS. Visual Approach Slope Indicator System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VAT. Ventricular Activation Time. (Medical/1.05)
VAT. Value Added Tax. (General/1.07)
VBG. Very Big Grin. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
VBR. Variable Bit Rate (2). If an audio file has been compressed using VBR then the data is not
distributed evenly. Ie every second of sound contains a different number of bits (IT, Digital
music/2.11)
VBR. Variable Bit Rate (1). When using an ATM network there is a choice of classes for carrying
traffic (transmitting data). Variable Bit Rate defines a sustained rate for normal use and a faster
burst rate for occasional use, used by applications like video conferencing that run at an uneven
rate but need a given additional capacity on demand. See CBR, UBR, ABR (IT, Computing/1.05)
VBSEG. Very Big S***-Eating Grin. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
VBY. Visby. (Airport Codes/1.07)
VC. Virtual Channel. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VC. Vicinity of aerodrome. {followed by FG=Fog, etc.} (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
vc. Saint Vincent And The Grenadines. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
VC. Victoria Cross. (Qualification, Award, Title/2.02)
VC. Vital Capacity. (Medical/1.05)
VCC. Virtual Channel Connection. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VCCS. Voice Communication and Control System. (General/1.05)
VCD. Variable Control Damper. (Drilling/2.16)
VCE. Marco Polo-Tessera. Venice Airport. Italy. (Airport Codes/1.05)
VCI. Virtual Channel Identifier. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VCO. Voltage Controlled Oscillator. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
VCP. Vehicle Check Point. (Military/1.10)
VCP. Sao Paulo- Viracopos Airport. SP. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
VCR. Video Cassete Recorder. (General/2.02)
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VCS. Voice Communication System. (General/1.05)
VCY. Vicinity. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VD. Venereal Disease. (Medical/1.05)
VDA. Ovda Airport. Israel. (Airport Codes/1.06)
VDD. Virtual Device Drivers. These type of drivers allow MS DOS based programs and 16 bit
programs to run on 32 bit machines (IT, Computing/1.05)
VDD. Version Description Document. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VDF. VHF direction finding station. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VDGS. Visual Docking Guidance System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
VDL. Vendor Documentation List. (Project Management/1.07)
VDR. Vehicle Defect Rectification. (Policing/2.14)
VDRL. Venereal Disease Research Laboratories. (Medical/1.05)
VDRS. Vehicle Defect Rectification Scheme. (Policing/2.14)
VDS. Valve Data Sheet. (Petrochemical/1.07)
VDSL. Very high speed Digital Subscriber Line. A DSL variant. See ADSL, HDSL, SDSL, ISDN (IT,
Telecommunications/1.05)
VDT. Visual Display Terminal. (IT, Computing/2.02)
VDU. Visual Display Unit. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ve. Venezuela. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
VE. Victory in Europe. (Military/1.06)
VEB. Venezuelan Bolivar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
VEJ. Vejle Airport. Denmark. (Airport Codes/1.06)
VEL. Vehicle Excise License. (Policing/2.14)
VER. Vera Cruz Airport. Mexico. (Airport Codes/1.06)
VER. Visual Evoked Response. (Medical/1.05)
VF. Ventricular Fibrilation. (Medical/1.05)
VFA. Victoria Falls Airport. Zimbabwe. (Airport Codes/1.06)
VFD. Variable Frequency Drive. (Petrochemical/2.09)
VFO. Variable Frequency Oscillator. (IT, Telecommunications/1.08)
VFOP. Visual Flight rules Operational Panel. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VFR. Visual Flight Rules. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
vg. Virgin Islands (British). Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
VGA. Video Graphics Accelerator. See Video Board (IT, Computing/1.05)
VHF. Very High Frequency. See EHF, ELF, HF, LF, MF, SHF, UHF, VLF (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
VHM. Vilhelmina. (Airport Codes/1.07)
VHS. Video Home System. (General/1.05)
vi. Virgin Islands (US). Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
VI. Variation Instruction. See Change Control, DVO, DVOR, PVN, PVOR, VO, VODC, VOF, VOR
(Project Management, Planning/1.07)
VID. Variable Information Display. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
Video Board. Limits/Controls what appears on a computer screen, and what software you can run.
Also called graphics card. A Video board can be 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit or 128-bit, the higher the
bits the better the performance. The most frequently quoted feature of a video card by
manufacturer's is it's resolution, this is the number of pixels the card is capable of displaying on a
monitor eg. 1024 x 768. Refresh rate measured in Hz refers to the number of times the screen is
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repainted per second. 1Mb of on board memory can display 8-bit colour (256 colours), 2Mb can
display 16-bit colour (65,000 colours), 4Mb can display 24-bit colour (16 million colours). See
MDA, CGA, EGA, VGA, SVGA for different types (evolution) (IT, Computing/1.05)
VIE. Schwechat. Vienna Airport. Austria. (Airport Codes/1.05)
Vin de Coupage. Indicates that the wine in question is a blend of wines from different districts.
Although the label is written in French there is no guarantee that the wine has been produced in
France (Wine Label Terms/1.05)
VIP. Very Important Person. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VIP. Vasoactive Intestinal Polypeptide. (Medical/1.05)
VIP. Visual Project. Det verktГёy OSL bruker til kostnadsstyring - utviklet av Terramar (ikke bare Very
Important Person) (OSL Project Related/1.05)
VIPER. Video Identification Parade Electronic Recording. (Policing/2.14)
Virtual Memory. An area on the hard disc used as an extension for RAM. (MS Windows Swap File)
(IT, Computing/1.05)
Virus. Computer Virus. A software program that attaches itself to another program in computer
memory or on a disk. The virus spreads from one program to another. Viruses can damage data,
crash computers, or display offending/tiresome messages. Viruses tend to lie dormant until such
time that they are set to activate (IT, Computing/1.05)
VIS. Visibility. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VIX. Vitoria Airport. Brazil. (Airport Codes/1.06)
VJ. Victory over Japan. (Military/1.06)
VKO. Vnukovo. Moscow Airport. Russia. (Airport Codes/1.05)
VL. Voice Logger. (General/1.05)
VLAN. Virtual LAN. With a virtual LAN a user can connect to the LAN of his choice seamlessly, for
example on starting his computer he may be presented with a choice of Administration LAN, or
Security LAN. (A simplified definition) (IT, Computing/1.05)
VLC. Valencia Airport. Spain. (Airport Codes/1.05)
VLCC. Very Large Crude Carrier. As the name suggests a large ocean going tanker that is used to
transport crude oil. See ULCC (Petrochemical/1.07)
VLDL. Very Low Density Lipoprotein. (Medical/1.05)
VLF. Very Low Frequency. See EHF, ELF, HF, LF, MF, SHF, UHF, VHF (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VLI. Port Vila Airport. Vanuatu. (Airport Codes/1.06)
VLIW. Very Long Instruction Word. (IT, Computing/1.06)
VLL. Valladolid Airport. Spain. (Airport Codes/1.06)
VLN. Valencia Airport. Venezuela. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Vlog. Video log. See blog (IT, Computing/2.15)
VLP. Vertical Lift Performance. (Drilling/2.16)
VLR. Visitor Location Register. (IT, Telecommunications/2.04)
VLR. Very Long Range. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VLSI. Very Large Scale Integration. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VLSMS. Vehicle Launched Scatterable Mine System. (Military/1.06)
VLTCS. Very Low Temperature Carbon Steel. (Drilling/2.16)
VLTI. Very Large Telescope Interferometer. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
VM. Virtual Machine. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VMA. Vanillylmandelic Acid. (Medical/1.05)
VMC. Visual Meteorological Conditions. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
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VME. Virtual Memory Extension. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VME. Virtual Machine Environment. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VMI. Vertical Movement Indicator. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VMS. Virtual Memory System. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VMS. Voice Mail System. A telephone answering machine. These days computerised (IT,
Telecommunications/1.05)
vn. Vietnam. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
VND. Vietnamese Dong. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
VNO. Vilnius Airport. lithuania. (Airport Codes/1.05)
VO. Variation Order. A formal client approved order that the scope of work has changed. A variation
order can be initiated either by the client or by the contractor through a notification routine. See
Change Control, DVO, DVOR, PVN, PVOR, VI, VODC, VOF, VOR (Project Management,
Planning/1.05)
VO. Verbal Order. (Medical/1.05)
VOC. Volatile Organic Compound. (Petrochemical/2.01)
VOD. Video On Demand. Subscriber service for videos, similar concept to pay TV (IT,
Telecommunications/1.05)
VODC. Variation Order with Disputed Consequences. See Change Control, DVO, DVOR, PVN, PVOR,
VI, VO, VOF, VOR (Project Management, Planning/1.07)
VODS. Vehicle Object Detection System. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
VODS. Vehicle On-line Descriptive Search. (Policing/2.14)
VOF. Variation Order Forecast. See Change Control, DVO, DVOR, PVN, PVOR, VI, VO, VODC, VOR
(Project Management, Planning/1.07)
VOIP. Voice Over IP. (IT, Computing/2.03)
Volatile. Information is lost if the power source is removed. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VOLMET. Meteorological information for aircraft in flight. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Volt. Unit of electromotive force. (Weights & Measures, Electrical/1.05)
VOR. VHF Omnidirectional Radio. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VOR. Variation Order Request. A notification to the client that contractor believes a variation to the
scope of work exists. See Change Control, DVO, DVOR, PVN, PVOR, VI, VO, VODC, VOF (Project
Management, Planning/1.05)
VORTAC. VOR and TACAN combination. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VOT. VOR airborne equipment test facility. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VP. Virtual Path. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VP-16. Epipodophyllotoxin. (Medical/1.05)
VPC. Ventricular Premature Contraction. (Medical/1.05)
VPC. Virtual Path Connection. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VPI. Virtual Path Identifier. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VPN. Virtual Private Network. An intranet, extranet, or even remote access to a LAN/WAN. See the
relevant descriptions (IT, Computing/1.06)
VR. Virtual Reality. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VRA. Varadero. Cuba. (Airport Codes/1.05)
VRB. Variable. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VRF. Volunteer Reserve Forces. (Policing/2.14)
VRK. Varkaus. (Airport Codes/1.07)
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VRML. Virtual Reality Modelling Language. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VRN. Verone Airport. Italy. (Airport Codes/1.06)
VRU. Vapour Recovery Unit. (Petrochemical/2.09)
VRZ. Voronege Airport. Russia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
vs. Visit. (Medical/1.05)
VS. Vital Signs. (Medical/1.05)
VSA. By visual reference to the ground. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VSAT. Very Small Aperture Terminal. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
VSCS. Voice Switching and Control System. (General/1.05)
VSD. Variable Speed Drive. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
VSD. Ventricular Septal Defect. (Medical/1.05)
VSP. Variable System Parameter. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VSP. Vertical speed. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VSS. Victim Support Scheme. (Policing/2.14)
VST. Haslo. VasterГҐs Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
VSTOL. Very Short Take-Off and Landing. See VTOL (Aviation Civil and Military/1.08)
VSWR. Voltage Standing Wave Radio. (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
VT. Virtual Terminal. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VTE. Vientiane Airport. Laos. (Airport Codes/1.06)
VTE. Virtual Terminal Environment. (IT, Computing/1.05)
VTF. Ventriculat Tachycardia, Fibrilation. (Medical/1.05)
VTOL. Vertical Take Off and Landing. Or Very Short Take-Off and Landing, the Harrier is a
VSTOL/VTOL aircraft. Capable of vectoring its jet thrust to shorten its take-off roll or even to rise
and descend vertically (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
VTR. Video Tape Recorder. (General/2.02)
vu. Vanuatu. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
VUV. Vanuatuese Vatu. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
VXO. Vaxjo Airport. Sweden. (Airport Codes/1.05)
VXT. Vertical Christmas Tree. (Drilling/2.16)
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24. Whiskey
W. Watt. Unit of electrical power (Weights & Measures, Electrical/1.05)
W. Tungsten. Atomic number 74. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
W. White. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
W. West, Western longitude. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
w/c. Wheel Chair. (Medical/1.05)
W3C. World Wide Web Consortium. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
WA. HГёyspent > 1000 V. Cable segregation code (OSL Project Related/1.05)
WAAS. Wide Area Augmentation System. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
WAC. World Aeronautical Chart. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
WAD. Weeks After Delivery. (Freight and Shipping/1.07)
WAEF. When All Else Fails. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WAFC. World Area Forecast Centre. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
WAFO. Weeks After Firm Order. (Freight and Shipping/1.07)
WAG. Wild A** Guess. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WAIS. Wide Area Information Server. (IT, Computing/1.05)
WAN. Wide Area Network. Networks used to connect computers in a single room, rooms within a
building, or buildings on one site are normally called Local Area Networks (LANs). Networks that
connect computers on separate sites, cities or countries are called Wide Area Networks.
(Sometimes Long Haul Networks (LHNs)) (IT, Computing/1.05)
WAP. Wireless Application Protocol. A protocol for advanced messaging via GSM. The current SMS is
restricted to 160 characters. The aim of this protocol is to attain WWW capabilities for mobile
GSM telephones. WML Wireless Mark-up Language is this protocols equivalent of HTML (IT,
Telecommunications/1.05)
WARC. World Administrative Radio Conference. (Association, Society, Institute/2.09)
Warez. Software that has been stripped of it's copy protection. (IT, Computing/2.02)
Warm Stacked. See Ready Stacked. (Drilling/2.16)
WAS. West Australian Standard. (Time or Space/2.03)
WAS. Washington Airport. DC. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
WAT. Weight, Altitude and Temperature Limit. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
WAT. Weeks After Test. (Freight and Shipping/1.07)
WAT. West Africa Time. (Time or Space/2.03)
WATS. Wide Area Telecommunications Service. (IT, Telecommunications/1.06)
Watt. Unit of electrical power. (Weights & Measures, Electrical/1.05)
WAW. Okecie. Warsaw Airport. Poland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
WAYD. What Are You Doing. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WB. Welcome Back. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WB. Westbound. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
WB. Banelys. Cable segregation code (OSL Project Related/1.05)
WBAR. Wing bar lights. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
WBC. White Blood (Cell) Count. (Medical/1.05)
WBJ. Wide Bodied Jet. E.g. Airbus A300, A310, A320. Boeing 747, 767, 777. McDonnell Douglas
DC10, MD11 (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
WBM. Water Based Mud. (Drilling/2.16)
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WBS. Work Breakdown Structure. A hierarchical definition of the scope of work, where a work
package is an element of the WBS. As with most things a simple WBS works best. A common
WBS breakdown is into project phases, where work packages may be defined as Engineering,
Procurement, Fabrication, Installation, and Commissioning. These work packages might be further
sub-divided into disciplines, and then into elements of work, like procedures, drawings, studies.
Another approach is to define each work package as a major element of work. For example each
module in a North Sea platform. Each work package is then sub-divided into project phases, and
disciplines. There are of course many ways to skin a cat, and the most suitable breakdown will
ultimately depend on the type of project, and it's complexity (Project Management/1.05)
WBS. Write Back Soon. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WC. Water Closet (Toilet). (General/2.02)
WC. Kraft 0 - 1000 V. Cable segregation code (OSL Project Related/1.05)
WCDMA. Wideband Code Division Multiple Access. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
WCE. Well Control Equipment. (Drilling/2.16)
WCV. Wafer Check Valve. (Petrochemical, Valves/1.05)
WD. IT. Cable segregation code (OSL Project Related/1.05)
WD. Well Developed. (Medical/1.05)
WD. Working Draft. (Petrochemical/1.07)
WDA. Waste Disposal Authority. (Government office/2.14)
WDALYIC. Who Died And Left You In Charge?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WDH. Windhoek Airport. Guyana. (Airport Codes/1.06)
WDI. Wind Direction Indicator. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
WDM. Wavelength Division Multiplexing. (IT, Computing/1.05)
WDSPR. Widespread. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
WDYMBT. What Do You Mean By That?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WDYT. What Do You Think?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WE. Whatever. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WE. Working Environment. (Petrochemical/1.07)
WE. 400 Hz. Cable segregation code (OSL Project Related/1.05)
WE. Well Engineer. (Drilling/2.16)
WEAG. Western European Armaments Group. (Military/1.05)
WEC. World Energy Council. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
WED. Wednesday. (Time or Space/1.05)
WED. Western Europe Daylight. (Time or Space/2.03)
WEF. With Effect From. Effective from (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
WEG. Wicked Evil Grin. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
Wellhead. Equipment used to maintain surface control of a well. (Petrochemical/2.15)
WEP. Wired Equivalent Privacy. (IT, Computing/2.13)
WES. Western Europe Standard. (Time or Space/2.03)
WEST. Western European Summer Time. (Time or Space/2.08)
WET. Western European Time. (Time or Space/2.08)
WEU. Western European Union. (Military/1.06)
wf. Wallis And Futuna Islands. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
WF. Middlertidig Segrl. Cable segregation code (OSL Project Related/1.05)
WF. WiderГёe. (Airline Codes/1.05)
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WF. White Female. (Medical/1.05)
WFE. Wave Front Error. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
WFM. Works For Me. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WG. Water Gauge. (Petrochemical/1.07)
WGM. Wet Gas Meter. (Petrochemical/2.15)
WHB. Waste Heat Boiler. (Petrochemical/1.07)
WHIDDS. War HQS Information and Display System. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
WHO. World Health Organisation. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
WHP. Well Head Pressure. (Drilling/2.16)
WHP. Wellhead Pressure. (Petrochemical/1.07)
WHP. Wellhead Platform. (Petrochemical/1.07)
WHRU. Waste Heat Recovery Unit. (Petrochemical/1.07)
WI. Work Instruction. (Petrochemical/1.07)
WI. Within. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
WIBAMU. Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WIBNI. Wouldn't It Be Nice If. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WID. Width. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
WID. Wireless Information Device. (IT, Computing/1.07)
Widget. An element of a graphical user interface. (IT, Computing/2.14)
WIE. With Immediate Effect. Effective from (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
WiFi. Wireless Fidelity. WiFi is a trade name for a wireless local area network technology.
Http://www.wi-fi.org/ (IT, Computing/2.14)
WILCO. Will comply. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Wildcat. An exploration well. A well drilled to determine whether hydrocarbons are present in a
particular area (Petrochemical/1.08)
Windsock. VindpГёlse. A device shaped like a sock that provides an indication of wind direction and
strength. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Winsock. Windows Sockets. Winsock is the interface between a browser (eg Netscape or Microsoft
Internet Explorer) and the internet protocol (TCP/IP) on a computer running a windows operating
system (IT, Computing/2.03)
WINTEM. Forecast upper wind and temperature for aviation. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
WIP. Work In Progress. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Wireline. . A cabling technology used by operators of oil and gas wells to lower equipment or
measurement devices (tools) into a oil well for the purposes of well intervention and reservoir
evaluation. Braided line can contain an inner core of insulated wires which provide power to
equipment located at the end of the cable, normally referred to as electric line, and provides a
pathway for electrical telemetry for communication between the surface and equipment at the
end of the cable (Drilling/2.16)
WKN. Weaken, Weakening. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
WLAN. Wireless Local Area Network. (See LAN) (IT, Computing/2.13)
WLG. Wellington Airport. New Zealand. (Airport Codes/1.06)
WLL. Wireless Local Loop. Wireless connection of a telephone in a home or office, for example, to a
fixed telephone network (IT, Telecommunications/1.07)
WLS. Wallis Airport. Wallis And Futuna. (Airport Codes/1.06)
WMA. Windows Media Audio. Microsofts version of MP3 (IT, Digital music/2.11)
WMD. Weapons of Mass Destruction. (Military/1.06)
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WML. Wireless Mark-up Language. See WAP, HTML (IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
WMMOWS. Wash My Mouth Out With Soap. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WMO. World Meteorological Organisation. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
WMP. Waste Management Plan. (Drilling/2.16)
WN. Weld Neck. Flange connection. See SO, SW, T (Petrochemical, Piping/1.05)
WN. Well Nourished. (Medical/1.05)
WNL. Within Normal Limits. (Medical/1.05)
WNOHGB. Where No One Has Gone Before. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WNW. West North West. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
WO. Without. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
WO. World Airways. (Airline Codes/1.05)
WO. Work Order. (Petrochemical/1.07)
WOA. Work Of Art. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WOAD. World wide Offshore Accident Databank. (Association, Society, Institute/1.07)
WOB. Weight On Bit. (Drilling/2.16)
WOCS. Worldstar Overall Chain Simulator. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
WOFF. Write Off. (Policing/2.14)
WOL. Weldolet. (Petrochemical, Piping/1.07)
WOR. Water Oil Ratio. (Petrochemical/1.07)
Work Package. A work package is an element of a Work Breakdown Structure.
Management, Planning/1.10)
(Project
Workover. Remedial work on a well to increase the flow rate. (Petrochemical/1.08)
WORM. Write Once Read Many. Non re-writable media e.g. CD-R (IT, Computing/1.10)
WOTAM. Waste Of Time And Money. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WOW. Waiting On Weather. (Petrochemical/1.07)
WP. Working Position. (IT, Computing/1.05)
WP. Work Package. (Project Management/1.07)
WPA. WiFi Protected Access. (IT, Computing/2.14)
WPAR. Welding Procedure Approval Record. (Petrochemical, Welding/1.07)
WPC. Woman Police Constable. (General/1.06)
wppm. weight parts per million. (General/2.09)
WPQR. Welding Procedure Qualification Record. (Petrochemical, Welding/1.07)
WPS. Welding Procedure Specification. (Petrochemical, Welding/1.07)
WPT. Waypoint. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
WPTD. Weeks Prior To Delivery. (Freight and Shipping/1.07)
WPTP. Weeks Prior To Production. (Freight and Shipping/1.07)
WPTT. Weeks Prior To Tests. (Freight and Shipping/1.07)
WPW. Wolff Parkinson White. (Medical/1.05)
WR. Water Release. (Petrochemical/1.07)
WR. HГёyspent Reserve. Cable segregation code (OSL Project Related/1.05)
WRAM. Window RAM. I think somebody’s just making this up as they go along! (IT, Computing/1.05)
WRNG. Warning. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
WRO. Wroclaw. (Airport Codes/1.07)
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WRSCSSV. Wireline Retrievable Surface Controlled Subsurface Safety. (Petrochemical/1.07)
WRT. With Regard To, or With Respect To. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WRT. Weld Reducing Tee. (Petrochemical, Piping/1.07)
WRVS. Women's Royal Voluntary Service. (Association, Society, Institute/2.14)
WS. Wind Shear. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
WS. Banelys Reserve. Cable segregation code (OSL Project Related/1.05)
ws. Samoa. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
WSDL. Web Services Description Language. (IT, Computing/2.14)
WSG. Washington Airport. PA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
WSO. World Safety Organisation. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
WSP. Wave-form Simulation Platform. (IT, Telecommunications/2.09)
WST. West Samoaian Tala. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
WSW. West South West. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
WSY. Airliebea Airport. QL. Australia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
WT. Kraft Reserve. Cable segregation code (OSL Project Related/1.05)
WT. Wall Thickness. (Petrochemical, Piping/1.07)
WT. Weight. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
WT. Without Thinking. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WT?. What/Who The?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WTB. Want To Buy. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WTF. What The F***?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WTFO. What the F***! Over!. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WTG. Way To Go!. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WTGP. Want To Go Private?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WTH. What The Hell?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WTN. What/Who Then Now?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WTO. World Trade Organisation. (Association, Society, Institute/1.05)
WTSPT. Water spout. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
WTTM. Without Thinking Too Much. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WU. It Spesielt. Cable segregation code (OSL Project Related/1.05)
WU?. What's Up?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WUF?. Where are You From?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WUH. Wuhan Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
WUT. Water Up To. (Drilling/2.16)
WWW. World Wide Web. The WWW is the multimedia part of the Internet. It is composed of
different web sites, which are created by people and organisations around the world on different
servers (computers). You can move from one web site to another with a browser, and search for
topics you are interested in. The WWW can be compared to a library, where Web sites are books,
and web pages are the pages in the books. WWW Pages can contain whatever information their
creators want to make available eg, news, pictures, movies, sounds, opinions, company profiles,
etc, etc, etc. These WWW sites can be located on servers anywhere in the world. The analogy
with a library ends when it comes to indexing, you can usually easily find the book you want in a
library! See Int A number of search engines have emerged to resolve this problem. See Internet,
Intranet, LAN, WAN, YAHOO (IT, Computing/1.05)
WX. Weather. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
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WYGISWYPF. What You Get Is What You Pay For. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
WYSIWYG. What You See Is What You Get. In theory. What appears on the computer screen is the
same as what will be printed out as hard copy (IT, Computing/1.05)
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25. X-ray
X. Cross. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
X.400. Transmission Standard. For transfer of messages (Email) between different computer systems
(IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
XACML. XML Access Control Markup Language. (IT, Telecommunications/2.13)
XBAR. Crossbar. Of approach lighting system (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
XCD. East Caribbean Dollar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
XDR. External Data Representation. (IT, Computing/1.05)
Xe. Xenon. Atomic number 54. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
Xi. Fourteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Fourteenth (Greek Alphabet/1.05)
XLC. Extended Life Coolant. (General/2.12)
XLPE. Insulation material. (Electrical/2.01)
XML. Extensible Markup Language. A method of presenting data in a consistent way on the web, XML
is different from HTML as it is a set of markup symbols for data presentation rather than
formatting and layout (IT, Computing/1.06)
XMN. Xiamen Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
XOV. Cross Over Valve. (Drilling/2.16)
XOXOXO. Kisses and hugs. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
XPD. Palladium Ounces. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
XPF. CFP Franc. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
XS. Atmospherics. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
XSD. XML Schema Definition. (IT, Computing/2.13)
XSLT. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation. (IT, Computing/2.13)
XSLT. eXtensible Style Language Transition. (IT, Computing/2.12)
XSVCD. eXtended Super Video Compact Disc. (IT, Computing/2.13)
XVCD. eXtended Video Compact Disc. (IT, Computing/2.13)
X. Cross. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
X.400. Transmission Standard. For transfer of messages (Email) between different computer systems
(IT, Telecommunications/1.05)
XACML. XML Access Control Markup Language. (IT, Telecommunications/2.13)
XBAR. Crossbar. Of approach lighting system (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
XCD. East Caribbean Dollar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
XDR. External Data Representation. (IT, Computing/1.05)
Xe. Xenon. Atomic number 54. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
Xi. Fourteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Fourteenth (Greek Alphabet/1.05)
XLC. Extended Life Coolant. (General/2.12)
XLPE. Insulation material. (Electrical/2.01)
XML. Extensible Markup Language. A method of presenting data in a consistent way on the web, XML
is different from HTML as it is a set of markup symbols for data presentation rather than
formatting and layout (IT, Computing/1.06)
XMN. Xiamen Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
XOV. Cross Over Valve. (Drilling/2.16)
XOXOXO. Kisses and hugs. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
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XPD. Palladium Ounces. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
XPF. CFP Franc. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
XS. Atmospherics. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
XSD. XML Schema Definition. (IT, Computing/2.13)
XSLT. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation. (IT, Computing/2.13)
XSLT. eXtensible Style Language Transition. (IT, Computing/2.12)
XSVCD. eXtended Super Video Compact Disc. (IT, Computing/2.13)
XVCD. eXtended Video Compact Disc. (IT, Computing/2.13)
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26. Yankee
Y. Yellow. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Y. Yttrium. Atomic number 39. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
y/o. Years Old. (Medical/1.05)
Y2K. Year 2000. A problem with date storage in computer systems (both software and firmware),
that caused a deal of anxiety in the year 1999 (IT, Computing/1.05)
YABA. Yet Another Bloody Acronym. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YACAB. Youth Action Combating Anti Social Behaviour. (Policing/2.14)
YAHOO. Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle. An Internet Search Engine. See WWW (IT,
Computing/1.05)
YAM. Sault Sainte Marie Airport. PQ. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YAO. Yaounde Airport. Cameroun. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YAO. Youth Action Officer. (Policing/2.14)
YAOTM. Yet Another Off-Topic Message. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YAUN. Yet Another Unix Nerd. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
Yb. Ytterbium. Atomic number 70. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
YBS. You'll Be Sorry. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YBYSA. You Bet Your Sweet A**. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YCZ. Yellow Caution Zone. Runway lighting (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
yd. Yard/Yards. Linear measure. 36" = 1 yard = 91,44 cm. If you wish to be precise, the British
Imperial yard is equal to 0,914399 meters, while the US yard is equal to 0,9144 meters. Prior to
1959 the US yard was equal to 0,9144018 meters (Weights & Measures, Imperial/1.05)
ye. Yemen. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
YEG. International. Edmonton. Alberta Airport. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.05)
YER. Yemenese Rial. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
YER. Fort Severn Airport. OT. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YFC. Fredericton Airport. NB. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YG. Young Gentleman. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YGBSM. You Gotta Be S***tin' Me!. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YGLT. You're Gonna Love This. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YGTBK. You've Got To Be Kidding. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YGTI. You Get The Idea?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YGWYPF. You Get What You Pay For. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YHM. Hamilton Airport. OT. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YHZ. International. Halifax. Nova Scotia Airport. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.05)
YIP. Youth Inclusion Programmes. (Policing/2.14)
YIU. Yes I Understand. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YIWGP. Yes I Will Go Private. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YKF. Kitchener Airport. OT. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YKM. Yakima Airport. WA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YKWIM. You Know What I Mean. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YKYARW. You Know You're A Redneck When. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YL. Young Lady. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
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YM. Young Man. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YMCA. Young Mens Christian Association. (General/2.14)
YMMV. Your Mileage May Vary. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YMX. Montreal Mirabel Intl Airport. PQ. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
yocto. SI number prefix 0,000 000 000 000 000 000 000 001. Abbreviated as y (SI Number
Prefixes/2.08)
YOP. Youth Opportunities Programme. (General/2.10)
YOT. Youth Offending Team. (Policing/2.14)
Yotta. SI number prefix 1.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000. Abbreviated as Y (SI Number
Prefixes/2.08)
YOW. International. Ottawa. Ontarion Airport. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.05)
YP. Young Person. (General/2.10)
YQB. Quebec City Airport. QU. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YQI. Yarmouth Airport. NS. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YQM. Moncton Airport. NB. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YQR. Regina Airport. SK. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YQT. Thunder Bay Airport. OT. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YQX. Gander airport. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.05)
YQY. Sydney Airport. NS. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YR. Yours. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
YSB. Sudbury Airport. OT. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YSJ. Saint John Airport. NB. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
yt. Mayotte. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
YTO. Pearson International. Toronto. Ontario Airport. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.05)
YTS. Youth Training Scheme. (General/2.10)
yu. Yugoslavia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
YUL. Dorval International. Montreal. Quebec Airport. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.05)
YUN. Yugoslavian New Dinar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
YVA. Moroni Airport. Comorres. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YVR. International. Vancouver. BC Airport. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.05)
YW. You're Welcome. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YWCA. Young Womens Christian Association. (General/2.14)
YWG. Winnipeg Airport. MB. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YXD. Edmonton Municipal Airport. AL. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YXE. Saskatoon Airport. SK. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YXS. Prince George Airport. BC. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YXU. London Ot Airport. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YXX. Abbotsford Airport. BC. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YYC. International. Calgary. Alberta Airport. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.05)
YYG. Charlottetown Airport. PE. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YYJ. Victoria Airport. BC. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YYT. Saint Johns Airport. NF. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YYY. Mont Joli Airport. PQ. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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YYZ. Toronto Airport. ON. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
Y. Yellow. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
Y. Yttrium. Atomic number 39. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
y/o. Years Old. (Medical/1.05)
Y2K. Year 2000. A problem with date storage in computer systems (both software and firmware),
that caused a deal of anxiety in the year 1999 (IT, Computing/1.05)
YABA. Yet Another Bloody Acronym. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YACAB. Youth Action Combating Anti Social Behaviour. (Policing/2.14)
YAHOO. Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle. An Internet Search Engine. See WWW (IT,
Computing/1.05)
YAM. Sault Sainte Marie Airport. PQ. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YAO. Yaounde Airport. Cameroun. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YAO. Youth Action Officer. (Policing/2.14)
YAOTM. Yet Another Off-Topic Message. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YAUN. Yet Another Unix Nerd. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
Yb. Ytterbium. Atomic number 70. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
YBS. You'll Be Sorry. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YBYSA. You Bet Your Sweet A**. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YCZ. Yellow Caution Zone. Runway lighting (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
yd. Yard/Yards. Linear measure. 36" = 1 yard = 91,44 cm. If you wish to be precise, the British
Imperial yard is equal to 0,914399 meters, while the US yard is equal to 0,9144 meters. Prior to
1959 the US yard was equal to 0,9144018 meters (Weights & Measures, Imperial/1.05)
ye. Yemen. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
YEG. International. Edmonton. Alberta Airport. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.05)
YER. Yemenese Rial. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
YER. Fort Severn Airport. OT. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YFC. Fredericton Airport. NB. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YG. Young Gentleman. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YGBSM. You Gotta Be S***tin' Me!. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YGLT. You're Gonna Love This. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YGTBK. You've Got To Be Kidding. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YGTI. You Get The Idea?. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YGWYPF. You Get What You Pay For. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YHM. Hamilton Airport. OT. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YHZ. International. Halifax. Nova Scotia Airport. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.05)
YIP. Youth Inclusion Programmes. (Policing/2.14)
YIU. Yes I Understand. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YIWGP. Yes I Will Go Private. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YKF. Kitchener Airport. OT. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YKM. Yakima Airport. WA. USA. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YKWIM. You Know What I Mean. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YKYARW. You Know You're A Redneck When. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YL. Young Lady. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YM. Young Man. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
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YMCA. Young Mens Christian Association. (General/2.14)
YMMV. Your Mileage May Vary. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YMX. Montreal Mirabel Intl Airport. PQ. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
yocto. SI number prefix 0,000 000 000 000 000 000 000 001. Abbreviated as y (SI Number
Prefixes/2.08)
YOP. Youth Opportunities Programme. (General/2.10)
YOT. Youth Offending Team. (Policing/2.14)
Yotta. SI number prefix 1.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000. Abbreviated as Y (SI Number
Prefixes/2.08)
YOW. International. Ottawa. Ontarion Airport. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.05)
YP. Young Person. (General/2.10)
YQB. Quebec City Airport. QU. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YQI. Yarmouth Airport. NS. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YQM. Moncton Airport. NB. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YQR. Regina Airport. SK. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YQT. Thunder Bay Airport. OT. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YQX. Gander airport. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.05)
YQY. Sydney Airport. NS. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YR. Yours. (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
YSB. Sudbury Airport. OT. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YSJ. Saint John Airport. NB. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
yt. Mayotte. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
YTO. Pearson International. Toronto. Ontario Airport. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.05)
YTS. Youth Training Scheme. (General/2.10)
yu. Yugoslavia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
YUL. Dorval International. Montreal. Quebec Airport. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.05)
YUN. Yugoslavian New Dinar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
YVA. Moroni Airport. Comorres. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YVR. International. Vancouver. BC Airport. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.05)
YW. You're Welcome. (IT, Internet Chat/2.11)
YWCA. Young Womens Christian Association. (General/2.14)
YWG. Winnipeg Airport. MB. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YXD. Edmonton Municipal Airport. AL. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YXE. Saskatoon Airport. SK. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YXS. Prince George Airport. BC. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YXU. London Ot Airport. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YXX. Abbotsford Airport. BC. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YYC. International. Calgary. Alberta Airport. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.05)
YYG. Charlottetown Airport. PE. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YYJ. Victoria Airport. BC. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YYT. Saint Johns Airport. NF. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YYY. Mont Joli Airport. PQ. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
YYZ. Toronto Airport. ON. Canada. (Airport Codes/1.06)
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27. Zulu
Z. Universal Co-ordinated Time. In meteorological messages (Aviation Civil and Military/1.05)
za. South Africa. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
ZAD. Zadar Airport. Croatia. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ZADCA. Zinc Alloy Die Caster's Association. (Association, Society, Institute/2.10)
ZAG. Pleso. Zagreb Airport. Croatia. (Airport Codes/1.05)
ZAR. South African Rand. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
ZAW. Zero Administration for Windows. (IT, Computing/1.05)
ZAZ. Zaragoza Airport. Spain. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ZDV. Zidovudine. (Medical/1.05)
Z-E. Zollinger Ellison (Syndrome). (Medical/1.05)
zepto. SI number prefix 0,000 000 000 000 000 000 001. Abbreviated as z (SI Number Prefixes/2.08)
Zeta. Sixth letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Sixth, electrokinetic potential (Greek
Alphabet/1.05)
Zetta. SI number prefix 1.000.000.000.000.000.000.000. Abbreviated as Z (SI Number Prefixes/2.08)
ZEV. Zero Emission Vehicle. (General/2.14)
ZHA. Zhanjiang Airport. China. (Airport Codes/1.06)
ZHLS. Zero Halon Low Smoke. (Aviation Civil and Military/2.13)
zm. Zambia. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
ZMK. Zambian Kwacha. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
Zn. Zink. Atomic number 30. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
Zr. Zirconium. Atomic number 40. (Chemical Elements/1.05)
zr. Zaire. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
ZRH. Zurich Airport. Switzerland. (Airport Codes/1.05)
ZTH. Zakinthos airport. Greece. (Airport Codes/1.05)
zw. Zimbabwe. Country code part of DNS. (IT, Internet DNS Codes/1.08)
ZWD. Zimbabwe Dollar. Currency Code (Banking and Finance/2.08)
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28. Measures of Ale
Anker. 10 gallons (80 pts)
Barrel. 32 gallons (2 kilderkins)
Bushel. 8 gallons (4 pecks)
Firkin. 9 gallons (72 pts)
Flagon. 2 pts (ca 1,14l)
Hogshead. 54 gallons (432 pts)
Kilderkin. 16 gallons (2 bushels)
Large. 1 pt (ca 0,57l)
Nip. 1/4 pt
Peck. 2 gallons (16 pts)
Pin. 4 1/2 gallons (36 pts)
Pipe. 128 gallons (4 barrels)
Small. 1/2 pt
Tun. 256 gallons (2 pipes)
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29. SI Number prefixes
Yotta.
1.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000. Abbreviated as Y
Zetta.
1.000.000.000.000.000.000.000. Abbreviated as Z
Exa.
1.000.000.000.000.000.000. Abbreviated as E
Peta.
1.000.000.000.000.000. Abbreviated as P
Tera.
1.000.000.000.000. Abbreviated as T
Giga.
1.000.000.000. Abbreviated as G
Mega.
1.000.000. Abbreviated as M. One Million
Kilo.
1.000. Abbreviated as k. One Thousand
hecto.
100. Abbreviated as h. One Hundred
deka.
10. Abbreviated as da
deci.
0,1. Abbreviated as d. One tenth
centi.
0,01. Abbreviated as c. One hundreth
milli.
0,001. Abbreviated as m. One thousandth
micro.
0,000 001. Abbreviated as Вµ. One millionth
nano.
0,000 000 001. Abbreviated as n
pico.
0,000 000 000 001. Abbreviated as p
femto.
0,000 000 000 000 001. Abbreviated as f
atto.
0,000 000 000 000 000 001. Abbreviated as a
zepto.
0,000 000 000 000 000 000 001. Abbreviated as z
yocto.
0,000 000 000 000 000 000 000 001. Abbreviated as y
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30. Atomic numbers
Ac. Actinium. Atomic number 89.
Ag. Silver. Atomic number 47.
Al. Aluminium. Atomic number 13.
Am. Americium. Atomic number 95.
Ar. Argon. Atomic number 18.
As. Arsenic. Atomic number 33. You've heard about the man that died of arsenic poisoning. He cut
his bum shaving!
At. Astatine. Atomic number 85.
Au. Gold. Atomic number 79.
B. Boron. Atomic number 5.
Ba. Barium. Atomic number 56.
Be. Beryllium. Atomic number 4.
Bi. Bismuth. Atomic number 83.
Bk. Berkelium. Atomic number 97.
Br. Bromine. Atomic number 35.
C. Carbon. Atomic number 6.
Ca. Calcium. Atomic number 20.
Cd. Cadmium. Atomic number 48.
Ce. Cerium. Atomic number 58.
Cf. Californium. Atomic number 98.
CI. Chlorine. Atomic number 17.
Cm. Curium. Atomic number 96.
Co. Cobalt. Atomic number 27.
Cr. Chromium. Atomic number 24.
Cs. Caesium. Atomic number 55.
Cu. Copper. Atomic number 29.
Dy. Dysprosium. Atomic number 66.
Er. Erbium. Atomic number 68.
Es. Einsteinium. Atomic number 99.
Eu. Europium. Atomic number 63.
F. Flourine. Atomic number 9.
Fe. Iron, ferrum. Atomic number 26.
Fm. Fermium. Atomic number 100.
Fr. Francium. Atomic number 87.
Ga. Gallium. Atomic number 31.
Gd. gadolinium. Atomic number 64.
Ge. Germanium. Atomic number 32.
H. Hydrogen. Atomic number 1.
He. Helium. Atomic number 2.
Hf. Hafnium. Atomic number 72.
Hg. Mercury. Atomic number 80. Quicksilver
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Ho. Holmium. Atomic number 67.
I. Iodine. Atomic number 53.
In. Indium. Atomic number 49.
Ir. Iridium. Atomic number 77.
K. Potassium. Atomic number 19.
Kr. Krypton. Atomic number 36.
La. Lanthanum. Atomic number 57.
Li. Lithium. Atomic number 3. Atomic weight 6,939. Melting point 179 degrees c. (Litium. Det letteste
av alle metaller. Brukes til det meste fra glass til drifstoff for romfartГёyer. Virker ogsГҐ beroligende
pГҐ Manisk-deepresive. Thankyou DFOS i know who to contact when i reach this state)
Lu. Lutetium. Atomic number 71.
Lw. Lawrencium. Atomic number 103.
Md. Mendelium. Atomic number 101.
Mg. Magnesium. Atomic number 12.
Mn. Manganese. Atomic number 25.
Mo. Molybdenum. Atomic number 42.
N. Nitrogen. Atomic number 7. A colorless, odorless and tasteless gas that makes up about 80% of
the earth's atmosphere
Na. Sodium, natrium. Atomic number 11.
Nb. Niobium. Atomic number 41.
Nd. Neodymium. Atomic number 60.
Ne. Neon. Atomic number 10.
Ni. Nickel. Atomic number 28.
No. Nobelium. Atomic number 102.
Np. Neptunium. Atomic number 93.
O. Oxygen. Atomic number 8. Atomic weight 15.9994, a colorless, odorless gas
Os. Osmium. Atomic number 76.
P. Phosphorus. Atomic number 15.
Pa. Protactinium. Atomic number 91.
Pb. Lead. Atomic number 82.
Pd. Palladium. Atomic number 46.
Pm. Promethium. Atomic number 61.
Po. Polonium. Atomic number 84.
Pr. Praseodymium. Atomic number 59.
Pt. Platinum. Atomic number 78.
Pu. Plutonium. Atomic number 94.
Ra. Radium. Atomic number 88.
Rb. Rubidium. Atomic number 37.
Re. Rhenium. Atomic number 75.
Rh. Rhodium. Atomic number 45.
Rn. Randon. Atomic number 86.
Ru. Ruthenium. Atomic number 44.
S. Sulphur. Atomic number 16.
Sb. Antimony. Atomic number 51.
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Sc. Scandium. Atomic number 21.
Se. Selenium. Atomic number 34.
Si. Silicon. Atomic number 14.
Sm. Samarium. Atomic number 62.
Sn. Tin. Atomic number 50.
Sr. Strontium. Atomic number 38.
Ta. Tantalum. Atomic number 73.
Tb. Terbium. Atomic number 65.
Tc. Technetium. Atomic number 43.
Te. Tellurium. Atomic number 52.
Th. Thorium. Atomic number 90.
Ti. Titanium. Atomic number 22.
Tl. Thallium. Atomic number 81.
Tm. Thulium. Atomic number 69.
U. Uranium. Atomic number 92.
V. Vanadium. Atomic number 23.
W. Tungsten. Atomic number 74.
Xe. Xenon. Atomic number 54.
Y. Yttrium. Atomic number 39.
Yb. Ytterbium. Atomic number 70.
Zn. Zink. Atomic number 30.
Zr. Zirconium. Atomic number 40.
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31. Chemical elements
CaCO3. calcium carbonate. Chalk
CaSO4. calcium sulfate. Gypsum
CLO. hypochlorite (Kloroksid).
CLONO2. Chlorine Nitrate (klorinnitrat).
CO2. Carbon Dioxide.
D2O. Heavy water.
H2O. Water (Vann). A compound of hydrogen and oxygen
HNO3. Nitric Acid (Saltpetersyre).
MgSO4. Magnesium Sulfate.
N2. Nitrogen.
NaCHO3. Sodium bicarbonate.
NaCl. Sodium Chloride. Salt
NO2. Nitrate (Nitrat). Formed from nitric acid, used as fertiliser
O2. Oxygen, Dioxygen.
O3. Ozone molecule (Ozonmolekyl).
Ozone. Yes It's being depleted. 90% of ozone is found at a height of 10-50km. Between 20.1 and
9.4.96 ozone concentration over the arctic was depleted by 46%! A form of oxygen ozone in the
stratosphere acts as a filter against ultraviolet radiation. Ozone is destroyed by CFCs and halons.
Norsk. 90% av all Ozon ligger i en hГёyde mellom 10-50 km. Mellom 20.1 og 9.4.1996 minket
konsentrasjonen over Arktisk med 64 prosent!
SO2. Sulphur Dioxide. Contributes to acid rain and other air quality problems such as arctic haze
formation
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32. Greek alphabet
Greek Alphabet. alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu,
xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega. Search for the appropriate Greek
letter for more information. The symbols for the letters both upper and lower case are not
included in the description as i have not figured out how to store them in the database
Alpha. First letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = First, angular acceleration, coefficient
of angular acceleration, coefficient of absorption, temperature coefficient, degree of electrolytic
dissociation, angle of optical rotation
Beta. Second letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Second, coefficient of pressure
change of a gas, ratio of the velocity of a body to the velocity of kight
Chi. Twenty second letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Twenty second
Delta. Fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. Upper Case symbol = Increment, deflection, coefficient of
diffusion, lowering of the freezing point. Lower Case symbol = Fourth, elongation, angle of set
Epsilon. Fifth letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Fifth, electrode potential, dielectric
constant, base of natural algorithms, angle of downwash
Eta. Seventh letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Seventh, efficiency, viscosity,
electrolytic polarisation
Gamma. Third letter of the Greek alphabet. Upper Case symbol = Gamma function. Lower Case
symbol = Third, conductivity, dihedral angle, surface tension, ionisation, micro gram, Eulerian
constant
Iota. Ninth letter of the Greek alphabet. A very small amount. Lower Case symbol = Ninth
Kappa. Tenth letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case
specific heat ration, susceptibility to magnetism
symbol = Tenth, modulus of elasticity,
Lambda. Eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet. Upper Case symbol = Equivalent conductivity. Lower
Case symbol = Eleventh, wave length, angstrom unit, radioactive constant, cosmical constant,
damping coefficient, area ratio, microliter, latitude
Mu. Twelfth letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Twelfth, micron, micro, permeability,
modulusm coefficient of viscosity, index of refraction, amplication factor, chemical potential,
dipole moment, coefficient of friction, molar conductance
Nu. Thirteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Thirteenth, kinematic viscosity,
frequency, reluctivity
Omega. Twenty fourth and last letter of the Greek alphabet. Upper Case symbol = Ohm. Lower Case
symbol = Twenty fourth, the last, angular velocity, angular frequency
Omicron. Fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Fifteenth
Phi. Twenty first letter of the Greek alphabet. Upper Case symbol = Magnetic flux, radiant flux. Lower
Case symbol = Twenty first, phase, angular phase difference, potential, peripheral speed,
longitude
Pi. Sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. Upper Case symbol = Pressure, product. Lower Case
symbol = Sixteenth, the ratio of a circle's circumference to it's diameter ca. 3.141, product,
osmetic pressure
Psi. Twenty third letter of the Greek alphabet. Upper Case symbol = Dielectric flux, electrostatic flux.
Lower Case symbol = Twenty third, yaw
Rho. Seventeenth letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Seventeenth, density,
resistivity, refractive power, coefficient of reflection, radius of curvature
Sigma. Eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. Upper Case symbol = Sum of. Lower Case symbol =
Eighteenth, standard deviation, surface tension, density, current density, charge density,
resistivity, normal stress, 1/1000 of a second, diameter of a molecule
Tau. Nineteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Nineteenth, time (when t is used
to symbolise something else), half life, temperature, volume, shear stress, transmission factor
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Theta. Eighth letter of the Greek alphabet. Upper Case symbol = Temperature (when t is used to
symbolise something else). Lower Case symbol = Eighth, angular distance, angle, angular phase
difference, temperature in degrees above 0 centigrade, Curie point, pitch
Upsilon. Twentieth letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Twentieth
Xi. Fourteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Fourteenth
Zeta. Sixth letter of the Greek alphabet. Lower Case symbol = Sixth, electrokinetic potential
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33. Airport Codes
AAE. Annaba Airport. Algeria.
AAL. Aalborg Airport. Denmark.
AAN. Al Ain Airport. United Arab Emirats.
AAR. Tirstrup. Г…rhus Airport. Denmark.
ABD. Abadan Airport. Iran. Duplicate see ABO
ABE. Allentown Airport. PA. USA.
ABF. Abaiang Airport. Atoll Kiribati.
ABG. Abingdon Airport. QL. Australia.
ABI. Abilene Airport. TX. USA.
ABJ. Abidjan Airport. Cote D'ivoire.
ABO. Abadan Airport. Iran. Duplicate see ABD
ABQ. Albuquerque Airport. NM. USA.
ABR. Aberdeen Airport. SD. USA.
ABS. Abu Simbel Airport. Egypt.
ABV. Abuja Airport. Nigeria.
ABY. Albany Airport. GA. USA.
ABZ. Aberdeen Airport. Scotland.
ACA. Acapulco Airport. Mexico.
ACC. Accra Airport. Ghana.
ACD. Acandi Airport. Colombia.
ACE. Lanzarote Airport. Spain.
ACY. Atlantic City Pomona Field Airport. NJ. USA.
ADA. Adana Airport. Turkey.
ADB. Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport. Turkey.
ADD. Addis Ababa Airport. Ethiopia.
ADE. Aden Airport. Yemen.
ADL. Adelaide Airport. SA. Australia.
AEA. Abemama Airport. Atoll Kiribati.
AEH. Abecher Airport. Chad.
AEO. Aioun Airport. EL. Atro Mauritanie.
AEP. Buenos Aires Jorge Newbery Airport. Argentina.
AER. Adler Sochi Airport. Russia.
AES. Г…lesund Airport. Norway.
AFA. San Rafael Airport. Argentina.
AFR. Afore Airport. Papua New Guinea.
AGA. Agadir Airport. Maroc.
AGF. Agen Airport. France.
AGH. Angelholm. Helsingborg Airport. Sweden.
AGJ. Aguni Airport. Japan.
AGP. Malaga International Airport. Spain.
AGQ. Agrinion Airport. Greece.
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AGR. Agra Airport. India.
AGS. Augusta Airport. GA. USA.
AGU. Aguascaliente Airport. Mexico.
AGV. Acarigua Airport. Venezuela.
AGZ. Aggenys Airport. South Africa.
AHB. Abha Airport. Saudi Arabia.
AHL. Aishalton Airport. Guyana.
AHO. Algero airpot. Sardinia.
AHS. Ahuas Airport. Honduras.
AHU. Al Hoceima Airport. Maroc.
AIC. Airok Airport. Marshall Islands.
AIE. Aiome Airport. Papua New Guinea.
AIY. Atlantic City Bader Field Airport. NJ. USA.
AJA. Ajaccio Airport. France.
AJR. Arvidsjaur.
AJU. Aracaju Airport. SE. Brazil.
AJY. Agades Airport. Niger.
AKL. Auckland International Airport. New Zealand.
ALA. Almaty Airport. Kazakstan.
ALB. Albany Airport. NY. USA.
ALC. Alicante Airport. Spain.
ALF. Alta Airport. Norway.
ALG. Houari Boumedienne. Alger Airport. Algeria.
ALH. Albany Airport. WA. USA.
ALP. Aleppo Airport. Syria.
ALY. El Nouzha. Alexandria Airport. Egypt.
ALZ. Alice Springs Airport. NT. Australia.
AMA. Amarillo Airport. TX. USA.
AMD. Ahmedabad Airport. India.
AMM. Queen Alia International. Amman Airport. Jordan.
AMS. Schiphol. Amsterdam Airport. Netherlands.
ANC. Anchorage International Airport. AK. USA.
ANG. Angouleme Airport. France.
ANK. Ankara Airport. Turkey.
ANR. Anvers Airport. Belgium.
ANU. Antigua Airport. Antigua.
AOD. Abou Deia Airport. Chad.
AOK. Karpatos. Greece.
AOR. Alor Setar Airport. Malaysia.
APW. Apia Airport. Samoa.
AQJ. Aqaba Airport. Jordan.
ARF. Acaricuara Airport. Colombia.
ARH. Arkhangelsk-Talagi Airport. Russia.
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ARN. Arlanda. Stockholm Airport. Sweden.
ASB. Ashgabat Airport. Turkmenistan.
ASE. Aspen Airport. CO. USA.
ASM. Asmara Airport. Ethiopia.
ASU. Asuncion Airport. Paraguay.
ATH. Hellinikon. Athens Airport. Greece.
ATL. WmB.Hartsfield International. Atlanta Airport. GA. USA.
ATP. Aitape Airport. Papua New Guinea.
AUA. Aruba Airport. Aruba.
AUH. International. Abu Dhabi Airport. United Arab Emirates.
AUP. Aguan Airport. Papua New Guinea.
AUR. Aurriac Airport. France.
AUS. Austin Airport. TX. USA.
AVL. Ashville Airport. NC. USA.
AVN. Avignon Airport. France.
AVP. Scranton Airport. PA. USA.
AWZ. Ahwaz Airport. Iran.
AXA. Anguilla Airport. Netherlands Antilles.
AYT. Antalya. Turkey.
AZR. Adrar Airport. Algerie.
BAH. Bahrein Airport. Bahrein.
BAK. Baku Airport. Azerbaijan.
BAL. Baltimore Airport. MD. USA.
BAQ. Barranquilla Airport. Colombia.
BBU. Baneasa. Bucharest Airport. Romania.
BCN. Barcelona Airport. Spain.
BDA. Bermuda Airport. Bermuda.
BDL. Hartford Bradley Intl Airport. CT. USA.
BDR. Bridgeport Airport. CT. USA.
BDS. Brendisi Airport. Italy.
BDU. Bardufoss Airport. Norway.
BEG. Belgrade Airport. Yugoslavia.
BEL. Belem Airport. Brazil.
BEN. Benghazi Airport. Lybia.
BER. Berlin Ouest Airport. Germany.
BES. Breste Airport. France.
BEW. Beira Airport. Mozambique.
BEY. Beyrouth Airport. Lebanon.
BFL. Bakersfield Airport. CA. USA.
BFN. Bloemfontein Airport. South Africa.
BFS. Belfast International Airport. Northern Ireland.
BGF. Bangui Airport. Centreafrique.
BGI. Barbados.
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BGM. Binghampton Airport. NY. USA.
BGO. Flesland. Bergen Airport. Norway.
BGR. Bangor Airport. ME. USA.
BGW. Bagdad Airport. Irak.
BGY. Bergamo Airport. Italy.
BHK. Birmingham Airport. England.
BHM. Birmingham Airport. AL. USA.
BHX. Birmingham Airport. UK.
BHZ. Belo Horizonte Airport. SP. Brazil.
BIA. Bastia. Corsica, France.
BIL. Billings Airport. MT. USA.
BIO. Bilbao Airport. Spain.
BIQ. Biarritz Airport. France.
BIS. Bismark Airport. ND. USA.
BJL. Banjul Airport. Gambia.
BJM. Bujumbura Airport. Burundi.
BJV. Milas. Turkey.
BKI. Kota Kinabalu Airport. Malaysia.
BKK. Don Muang International. Bangkok Airport. Thailand.
BKL. Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport. OH. USA.
BKO. Bamako Airport. Mali.
BLA. Barcelone Airport. Venezuela.
BLE. Dala. Borlange Airport. Sweden.
BLK. Blackpool Airport. UK.
BLL. Billund Airport. Denmark.
BLQ. Guglielmo Marconi. Bologna Airport. Italy.
BLR. Bangalore Airport. India.
BLZ. Blantyre Airport. Malawi.
BNA. Nashville Airport. TN. USA.
BNE. Brisbane Airport. QL. Australia.
BNJ. Bonn Airport. Germany.
BOD. Merignac. Bordeaux Airport. France.
BOG. Eldarado. Bogota Airport. Colombia.
BOH. Bournemouth Airport. UK.
BOI. Boise Airport. ID. USA.
BOJ. Bourgas. Bulgaria.
BOM. Bombay Airport. India.
BON. Bonaire Airport. Netherlands Antilles.
BOO. BodГё Airport. Norway.
BOS. Logan International. Boston Airport. MA. USA.
BOY. Bobo Dioulasso Burkina Airport. Faso.
BPN. Balikpapan Airport. Indonesia.
BPT. Beaumont Airport. TX. USA.
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BQN. Aguadilla Airport. Puerto Rico.
BRE. Breme Airport. Germany.
BRI. Bari Airport. Italy.
BRM. Barquisimeto Airport. Venezuela.
BRN. Berne Airport. Switzerland.
BRO. Brownsville Airport. TX. USA.
BRQ. Brno Airport. Checoslovaquia.
BRS. Bristol Airport. UK.
BRU. National. Brussels Airport. Belgium.
BSB. Brasilia Airport. DF. Brazil.
BSG. Bata Guinee Airport. Equatoriale.
BSL. Basel/Mulhouse Airport. Switzerland.
BSR. Basra Airport. Irak.
BTL. Battle Creek Airport. MI. USA.
BTR. Baton Rouge Airport. LA. USA.
BTS. Bratislava Airport. Slovak Republic.
BTU. Bintulu Airport. Malaysia.
BTV. Burlington Airport. VT. USA.
BUD. Ferihegy. Budapest Airport. Hungary.
BUE. Buenos Aires Airport. Argentina.
BUF. Buffalo Airport. NY. USA.
BUH. Bucarest Airport. Rumania.
BUQ. Bulawayo Airport. Zimbabwe.
BUR. Burbank Airport. CA. USA.
BVA. Beauvais. Paris, France.
BVE. Brive La Gaillarde Airport. France.
BWE. Brauschweig Airport. Germany.
BWI. Baltimore Washington Intl Airport. MD. USA.
BWK. Brac/Bol Airport. Croatia.
BWN. Bandar Seri Begawan Airport. Brunei.
BXO. Bissau Airport. Guinee. Duplicate see OXB
BYU. Bayreuth Airport. Germany.
BZE. Belize Airport. Belize.
BZR. Beziers Airport. France.
BZV. Brazzaville Airport. Congo.
CAE. Columbia Airport. SC. USA.
CAG. Cagliari Airport. Italy.
CAI. Cairo International Airport. Egypt.
CAK. Akron Airport. OH. USA.
CAN. Guandong Airport. Canton. China.
CAS. Casablanca Airport. Maroc.
CAY. Cayenne Airport. Guyane Francaise.
CBG. Cambridge Airport. UK.
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CBR. Canberra Airport. NS. Australia.
CCF. Carcassonne Airport. France.
CCP. Concepcion Airport. CL. Chili.
CCS. Caracas Airport. Venezuela.
CCU. Calcutta Airport. India.
CDG. Charles de Gaulle. Paris Airport. France.
CDN. Constanca. Romania.
CEB. Cebu Airport. Philippines.
CER. Cherbourg Airport. France.
CFE. Clermont-Ferrand Airport. France.
CFR. Caen Airport. France.
CFU. Corfu.
CGK. Soekarno-Hatta International. Jakarta Airport. Indonesia.
CGN. Cologne/Bonn Airport. Germany.
CGO. Zhengzhou Airport. China.
CGP. Chittagong Airport. Bangladesh.
CGQ. Changchun Airport. China.
CHA. Chattanooga Airport. TN. USA.
CHC. Christchurch Airport. New Zealand.
CHI. Chicago Airport. IL. USA.
CHQ. Chania. Crete.
CHS. Charleston Airport. SC. USA.
CIA. Ciampino. Roma Airport. Italy.
CID. Municipal. Cedar Rapids, Iowa City Airport. IA. USA.
CJS. Ciudad Juarez Airport. Mexico.
CJU. Cheju Airport. South Korea.
CKG. Chongqing Airport. China.
CKY. Conakry Airport. Guinee.
CLE. Cleveland Airport. OH. USA.
CLO. Cali Airport. Colombia.
CLT. Charlotte Airport. SC. USA.
CLY. Calvi Airport. France.
CMB. Bandaranaike International. Colombo Airport. Sri Lanka.
CMF. Chambery.
CMH. Columbus Airport. OH. USA. Duplicate see LCK
CMI. Champaign Airport. IL. USA.
CMN. Mohamed 5th. Casablanca Airport. Morocco.
CNF. Belo Horizonte. Tancredo Neves
CNS. Cairns Airport. QL. Australia.
CNX. Chiang Mai Airport. Thailand.
COO. Cotonou Airport. Benin.
COR. Cordoba Airport. AR. Argentina.
COS. Colorado Springs Airport. CO. USA.
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CPH. Kastrup. Copenhagen Airport. Denmark.
CPQ. Viracopos De Caminas Airport. SP. Brazil.
CPR. Casper Airport. WY. USA.
CPT. Cape Town International Airport. South Africa.
CRD. Comodoro Rivadavia Airport. Argentina.
CRP. Corpus Christi Intl Airport. TX. USA.
CRW. Charleston Airport. WV. USA.
CSX. Changsha Airport. China.
CTA. Catane Airport. Italy.
CTG. Cartagene Airport. Colombia.
CTU. Chengdu Airport. China.
CUN. Cancun Airport. Mexico.
CUR. Curacao Airport. Netherlands Antilles.
CVF. Courchevel Airport. France.
CVG. Cincinnati Airport. OH. USA.
CVO. Albany Airport. OR. USA.
CVT. Coventry Airport. UK.
CWB. Curitiba Airport. Brazil.
CWL. Cardiff Airport. UK.
CZL. Constantine Airport. Algerie.
CZM. Cozumel Airport. Mexico.
DAC. Dacca Airport. Bangladesh.
DAD. Da Nang Airport. Vietnam.
DAL. Dallas Regional Airport. TX. USA.
DAM. Damascus International Airport. Syria.
DAR. Dar Es Salam Airport. Tanzania.
DAY. Dayton Airport. OH. USA.
DBV. Dubrovnik Airport. Croatia.
DCA. Washington DC National Airport. DC. USA.
DCM. Castres Airport. France.
DEL. Indira Gandhi International. Delhi Airport. India.
DEN. Denver International. Colarado Airport. CO. USA.
DET. Detroit City Airport. MI. USA.
DFW. Dallas Fort Worth International, Texas Airport. USA.
DHA. Dharan Airport. Saudi Arabia.
DIE. Diego-Suarez Airport. Madagascar.
DIJ. Dijon Airport. France.
DJE. Djerba Airport. Tunisie.
DJG. Djanet Airport. Algerie.
DKR. Dakar Airport. Senegal.
DLA. Douala Airport. Cameroun.
DLC. Dalian Airport. China. Duplicate see DLI
DLH. Duluth Airport. MN. USA.
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DLI. Dalian Airport. China. Duplicate see DLC
DLM. Dalaman. Turkey.
DME. Domodedovo. Moscow Airport. Russia.
DMM. Damman Airport. Saudi Arabia.
DNR. Dinard Airport. France.
DOH. Doha Airport. Qatar.
DOL. Deauville Airport. France.
DOM. Dominica Airport. Dominica.
DPS. Den Pasar Airport. Indonesia.
DRO. Durango Airport. CO. USA.
DRS. Klotzsche. Dresden Airport. Germany.
DRW. Darwin Airport. NT. Australia.
DSM. Des Moines Airport. IA. USA.
DTM. Dortmund Airport. Germany.
DTN. Detroit Automotive Industries Airport. MI. USA.
DTT. Detroit Airport. MI. USA. Duplicate see DTW
DTW. Detroit Airport. MI. USA. Duplicate see DTT
DUB. Dublin Airport. Ireland.
DUD. Dunedin Airport. New Zealand.
DUR. Durban Airport. South Africa.
DUS. Dusseldorf Rhein-Ruhr Airport. Germany.
DXB. Dubai International Airport. United Arab Emirates.
DYW. Metro Wayne Co. Detroit Airport. USA.
DZA. Dzaoudzi Airport. Mayotte.
EAB. Abbse Airport. Yemen.
EAS. San Sebastian Airport. Spain.
EBB. Entebbe Airport. Uganda.
EBJ. Esbjerg Airport. Denmark.
EBU. Saint Etienne Airport. France.
ECN. Ercan Airport. Cyprus.
EDI. Edinburgh Airport. Scotland.
EGC. Bergerac Airport. France.
EIN. Eindhoven Airport. Holland.
ELM. Elmira Airport. NY. USA.
ELN. East London Airport. South Africa. Duplicate see ELS
ELP. El Paso Airport. TX. USA.
ELS. East London Airport. South Africa. Duplicate see ELN
EMA. East Midlands Airport. Derby, Nottingham, Leicester. England.
ENS. Ehschede Airport. Holland.
EPL. Epinal Airport. France.
ERF. Erfurt Airport. Germany.
ERI. Erie Airport. PA. USA.
ESB. Esenboga. Ankara Airport. Turkey.
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ESF. Alexandria Airport. LA. USA.
ETH. Elat Airport. Italy.
ETZ. Metz- Nancy Airport. France.
EVE. Harstad/Narvik. Evenes Airport. Norway.
EVG. Sveg.
EVV. Evansville Airport. IN. USA.
EWB. New Bedford Airport. MA. USA.
EWR. Newark International. New York Airport. USA.
EXT. Exeter Airport. UK.
EZE. M. Pistarini. Buenos Aires Airport. Argentina.
FAE. Faroe Islands Airport. Denmark.
FAI. Fairbanks Airport. AK. USA.
FAN. Farsund Airport. Norway.
FAO. Faro Airport. Portugal.
FAT. Fresno Airport. CA. USA.
FAY. Fayetteville Airport. NC. USA.
FBM. Lubumbashi Airport. Zaire.
FBU. Fornebu. Oslo Airport. Norway.
FCO. Leonardo da Vinci. Rome Airport. Italy.
FDF. Fort De France Airport. Martinique.
FDH. Lowenthal. Friedrichshafen Airport. Germany.
FEZ. Fez Airport. Maroc.
FIH. Kinshasa Airport. Zaire.
FLL. International. Fort Lauderdale. Florida Airport. USA.
FLN. Florianopo Airport. SC. Brazil.
FLR. Florence Airport. Italy.
FMN. Farmington Airport. NM. USA.
FMO. Munster-Osnabruck Airport. Germany.
FMY. Fort Myers Airport. FL. USA.
FNA. Freetown Airport. Sierra Leone.
FNC. Funchal. Madeira.
FNI. Nimes Airport. France.
FNJ. Pyongyang Airport. North Korea.
FOC. Fuzhou Airport. China.
FOR. Fortaleza Airport. CE. Brazil.
FPO. Freeport Airport. Bahamas.
FRA. Frankfurt International Airport. Germany.
FRC. Franca Airport. Brazil.
FRO. FlГёro Airport. Norway.
FRW. Francistown Airport. Botswana.
FSD. Sioux Falls Airport. SD. USA.
FSM. Fort Smith Airport. AR. USA.
FSP. Saint Pierre Airport. St Pierre Et Miquelon.
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FUE. Fuerteventura Iles Airport. Canaries Spain.
FUK. Fukuoka Airport. Japan.
FWA. Fort Wayne Airport. IN. USA.
FYV. Fayetteville Airport. AR. USA.
GAQ. Gao Airport. Mali.
GBE. Gaborone Airport. Botswana.
GCI. Guernsey Airport. UK.
GCM. Grand Cayman Airport. Cayman Islands.
GDL. Guadalajara Airport. Mexico.
GDN. Rebiechowo. Gdansk Airport. Poland.
GEG. Spokane Airport. WA. USA.
GEN. Gardermoen. Oslo Airport. Norway.
GEO. Georgetown Airport. Guyana.
GEV. Gallivare.
GIG. Rio de Janeiro Internacional Airport. Brazil.
GJT. Grand Junction Airport. CO. USA.
GLA. Glasgow Airport. Scotland.
GLS. Galveston Airport. TX. USA.
GNB. Grenoble Airport. France.
GND. Grenada Airport. Grenada.
GOA. Genoa. Italia.
GOI. Goa Airport. India.
GON. New London Airport. CT. USA.
GOT. Landvetter. Gothenburg Airport. Sweden.
GOU. Garoua Airport. Cameroun.
GPT. Gulfport Airport. MS. USA.
GRB. Green Bay Airport. WI. USA.
GRQ. Groningen Airport. Holland.
GRR. Grand Rapids Airport. MI. USA.
GRS. Grosseto.
GRU. Guarulhos. Sao Paulo Airport. Brasil.
GRZ. Thalerhof. Graz Airport. Austria.
GSO. Greensboro Airport. NC. USA.
GSP. Greenville Spartanburg Airport. SC. USA.
GTF. Great Falls Airport. MT. USA.
GUA. Guatemala Airport. Guatemala.
GUM. Guam International Airport. USA.
GVA. Geneva Airport. Switzerland.
GVX. Gavle Airport. Sweden.
GWD. Gwadar Airport. Pakistan.
GYE. Guayaquil Airport. Equador.
GYN. Goiania Airport. GO. Brazil.
HAH. Hahaya Intl Airport. Moroni Comorres.
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HAJ. Langenhagen. Hanover Airport. Germany.
HAK. Haikou Airport. China.
HAM. Fuhlsbuttel. Hamburg Airport. Germany.
HAN. Gia Lam. Hanoi Airport. Vietnam.
HAR. Harrisburg Airport. PA. USA.
HAU. KarmГёy. Haugesund Airport. Norway.
HAV. Jose Marti International. Havana Airport. Cuba.
HBA. Hobart Airport. TS. Australia.
HCM. Ho Chi Minh Ville Airport. Vietnam. Duplicate see SGN
HDY. Hat Yai Airport. Thailand.
HEL. Helsinki-Vantaa Airport. Finland.
HER. Heraklion. Crete.
HFA. Haifa Airport. Israel.
HFD. Hartford Airport. CT. USA.
HFE. Hefei Airport. China.
HFT. Hammerfest Airport. Norway.
HGH. Hangzhou Airport. China.
HIJ. Hiroshima Airport. JP. Japan.
HIR. Honiara Airport. Solomon Islands.
HKG. Kai Tak International Airport. Hong Kong SAR.
HKT. Phuket Airport. Thailand.
HLF. Hultsfred.
HLP. Djakarta Halim Perdana Airport. Indonesia.
HMA. Malmo City International Airport. Sweden.
HND. Haneda. Tokyo Airport. Japan.
HNL. Honolulu Airport. HI. USA.
HOD. Hodeidah Airport. Yemen.
HOU. Houston Airport. TX. USA.
HPN. White Plains Airport. NY. USA.
HRB. Harbin Airport. China.
HRE. Harare Airport. Zimbabwe.
HRL. Harlingen Airport. TX. USA.
HSV. Huntsville Airport. AL. USA.
HUY. Humberside Airport. UK.
HVN. New Haven Airport. CT. USA.
HYD. Hyderabad Airport. India.
IAD. Dulles International. Washington D.C Airport. USA.
IAH. Intercontinental. Houston. Texas Airport. USA.
IBZ. Ibiza. Spain.
ICT. Wichita Airport. KS. USA.
IDA. Idaho Falls Airport. ID. USA.
IGU. Iguassu Fa Pr Airport. Brazil.
ILG. Wilmington Airport. DE. USA.
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ILM. Wilmington Airport. NC. USA.
IND. Indianapolis Airport. IN. USA.
INI. Nis Airport. Yougoslavia.
INN. Innsbruck Airport. Austria.
INT. Winston Salem Airport. NC. USA.
IPH. Ipoh Airport. Malaysia.
IPT. Williamsport Airport. PA. USA.
IQQ. Iquique Airport. Chili.
ISB. Islamabad Airport. Pakistan.
IST. Ataturk. Istanbul Airport. Turkey.
ITM. Osaka. Itami
IXA. Agartala Airport. India.
IXD. Allahbad Airport. India.
IZM. Izmir Airport. Turkey.
JAN. Jackson Ms Airport. USA.
JAX. Jacksonville Fl Airport. USA.
JED. King Abdul Aziz International. Jiddah Airport. Saudi Arabia.
JER. Jersey.
JFK. John F. Kennedy International. New York Airport. USA.
JHB. Johore Bahru Airport. Malaysia.
JIB. Djibouti Airport. Jibouti.
JIU. Jiuzhou Airport. China.
JKG. Axamo. Jonkoping Airport. Sweden.
JKH. Chios. Greece.
JKT. Djakarta Airport. Indonesia.
JLN. Joplin Airport. MO. USA.
JNB. Johannesburg International Airport. SouthAfrica.
JNU. Juneau Airport. AK. USA.
JOE. Joensuu Airport. Finland.
JOI. Joinville Airport. SC. Brazil.
JSI. Skiathos. Greece.
JTR. Santorini. Greece.
JYV. Jyvaskyla Airport. Finland.
KBR. Kota Bharu Airport. Malaysia.
KCH. Kuching Airport. Malaysia.
KEF. Keflavik. Reykjavik Airport. Iceland.
KGD. Khrabrovo. Kaliningrad Airport. Russia.
KGS. Kos. Greece.
KHH. Kaohsiung. International
KHI. Karachi Airport. Pakistan.
KHN. Nanchang Airport. China.
KID. Kristianstad Airport. Sweden.
KIJ. Niigata Airport. Japan.
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KJA. Krasnoyarsk Airport. Cis.
KKN. HГёybuktmoen. Kirknes Airport. Norway.
KLR. Kalmar Airport. Sweden.
KLU. Klagenfurt Airport. Austria.
KMG. Kunming Airport. China.
KOK. Kokkola Airport. Finland.
KRF. Kramfors.
KRK. Krakow. Poland.
KRN. Kiruna Airport. Sweden.
KRP. Karup Airport. Denmark.
KRS. Kristiansand. Norway.
KRT. Khartoum Airport. Sudan.
KSC. Kosice Airport. Slovak Republic.
KSD. Karlstad Airport. Sweden.
KSU. Kristiansund. Norway.
KUA. Kuala.
KUB. Kuala Belait Airport. Brunei.
KUD. Kudat Airport. Malaysia.
KUL. Subang Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Malaysia.
KUO. Kuopio Airport. Finland.
KWE. Guiyang Airport. China.
KWI. Kuwait International Airport. Kuwait.
KWJ. Kwangju Airport. South Korea.
KWL. Guilin Airport. China.
LAD. Luanda Airport. Angola.
LAS. McCarran International. Las Vegas. Nevada Airport. USA.
LAX. LA International. Los Angeles Airport. USA.
LBA. Leeds Bedford Airport. UK.
LBB. Lubbock Airport. TX. USA.
LBG. Paris Le Bourget Airport. France.
LBV. Libreville Airport. Gabon.
LCA. Larnaca International Airport. Cyprus.
LCH. Lake Charles Airport. LA. USA.
LCK. Columbus Airport. OH. USA. Duplicate see CMH
LDE. Lourdes/Tarbes Airport. France.
LDU. Lahad Datu Airport. Malaysia.
LED. Pulkovo. St Petesburg Airport. Russia.
LEH. Le Havre Airport. France.
LEJ. Leipzig Halle Airport. Germany.
LEX. Lexington Airport. Cayman Islands.
LFW. Lome Airport. Togo.
LGA. La Guardia. New York Airport. USA.
LGB. Long Beach Airport. CA. USA.
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LGK. Pulau Langkawi Airport. Malaysia.
LGW. Gatwick. London Airport. England.
LHE. Le Havre. France.
LHR. Heathrow. London Airport. England.
LHW. Lanzhou Airport. China.
LIL. Lille Airport. France.
LIM. Jorge Chavez International. Lima Airport. Peru.
LIN. Linate. Milan Airport. Italy. Duplicate see MXP
LIS. Lisboa. Lisbon Airport. Portugal.
LIT. Little Rock Airport. AR. USA.
LJU. Ljubljana Airport. Slovenia.
LKL. Banak. Lakselv Airport. Norway.
LLA. Kallax. LuleГҐ Airport. Sweden.
LLW. Lilongwe Airport. Malawi.
LMN. Limbang Airport. Malaysia.
LNN. Lausanne Airport. Switzerland.
LNZ. Linz Airport. Austria.
LON. London Airport. UK.
LOS. Murtala Muhammed. Lagos Airport. Nigeria.
LPA. Gran Canaria. Las Palmas Airport. Spain.
LPB. La Paz. El Alto
LPI. Linkoping Airport. Sweden.
LPL. Liverpool Airport. UK.
LPP. Lappeenranta.
LRD. Laredo Airport. TX. USA.
LRT. Lorient Airport. France.
LSZ. Losinj Airport. Croatia.
LTK. Latakia Airport. Syria.
LTN. Luton Airport. England.
LUG. Lugano Airport. Switzerland.
LUN. Lusaka Airport. Zambia.
LUX. Findel. Luxembourg Airport.
LWY. Lawas Airport. Malaysia.
LXA. Lhaza Airport. China.
LXR. Luxor Airport. Egypt.
LYC. Lycksele.
LYP. Faisalabad Airport. Pakistan.
LYR. Svalbard. Longyearbyen Airport. Norway.
LYS. Satolas. Lyon Airport. France.
MAA. Madras Airport. India.
MAC. Macao Airport. Macau. Duplicate see MFM
MAD. Barajas. Madrid Airport. Spain.
MAF. Midland Airport. TX. USA.
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MAN. Manchester Airport. England.
MAO. Manaus Airport. Brazil.
MAR. Maracaibo Airport. Venezuela.
MBA. Mombasa Airport. Kenya.
MBJ. Montego Bay Airport. Jamaica.
MBS. Saginaw Airport. MI. USA.
MBX. Maribor Airport. Slovenia.
MCI. Kansas City International Airport. USA.
MCO. Orlando International. Florida Airport. USA.
MCT. Muscat Airport. Oman.
MDC. Manado Airport. Indonesia.
MDE. Medellin Airport. Colombia.
MEA. East Midlands Airport. UK.
MEB. Melbourne Airport. VI. Australia.
MEL. Tullamarine. Melbourne Airport. Australia.
MEM. Memphis Airport. TN. USA.
MES. Medan Airport. Indonesia.
MEX. Benito Juarez International. Mexico City Airport. Mexico.
MFE. Mac Allen Airport. TX. USA.
MFM. Macao Airport. Macau. Duplicate see MAC
MFR. Medford Airport. OR. USA.
MGA. Managua Airport. Nicaragua.
MGM. Montgomery Airport. AL. USA.
MGQ. Mogadishu Airport. Somalia.
MHQ. Mariehamn Airport. Finland.
MHT. Manchester Airport. NH. USA.
MIA. Miami International Airport. USA.
MIK. Mikkeli.
MIL. Milan Airport. Italy.
MIR. Monastir. Tunisa.
MJF. Mosjoen Airport. Norway.
MJN. Majunga Airport. Madagascar.
MJT. Mitlini.
MKE. Milwaukee Airport. WI. USA.
MKG. Muskegon Airport. MI. USA.
MLA. Malta.
MLB. Melbourne Airport. FL. USA.
MLE. Male Airport. Indonesia.
MLH. Mulhouse.
MLI. Moline Airport. IL. USA.
MLW. Monrovia Airport. Liberia.
MMA. Malmo Airport. Sweden.
MME. Teeside International Airport. England.
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MMK. Murmansk Airport. Russia.
MMX. Sturup. Malmo Airport. Sweden.
MNL. Ninoy Akino. Manila Airport. Philipines.
MOB. Mobile Airport. AL. USA.
MOL. Molde. Norway.
MON. Mo I Rana Airport. Norway.
MOW. Moscow Airport. Russia.
MPL. Montpellier Airport. France.
MPM. Maputo Airport. Mozambique.
MQC. Miquelon St Pierre Airport. ET. Miquelon.
MRI. Anchorage Merril Field Airport. AK. USA.
MRS. Provence. Marseille Airport. France.
MRU. Maurice Airport. Mauritius.
MRY. Monterey Airport. CA. USA.
MSE. Manston Airport. UK.
MSN. Madison Airport. WI. USA.
MSP. Minneapolis/St. Paul International. Minnesota Airport. USA.
MSQ. Minsk Airport. Belarus.
MST. Maastricht Airport. Holland.
MSU. Maseru Airport. Guyana.
MSY. New Orleans Airport. LA. USA.
MTS. Manzini Airport. Swaziland.
MTW. Manitowoc Airport. WI. USA.
MTY. Monterrey Airport. Mexico.
MUC. Franz Josef Strauss. Munich Airport. Germany.
MUX. Multan Airport. Pakistan.
MVB. Franceville Airport. Gabon.
MVD. Montevideo Airport. Uruguay.
MVR. Maroua Airport. Cameroun.
MXP. Linate. Milan Airport. Italy. Duplicate see LIN
MXX. Mora.
MYJ. Matsuyama Airport. Japan.
MYY. Miri Airport. Malaysia.
MZI. Mopti Airport. Mali.
NAN. Nandi Airport. Fiji.
NAP. Capodichino. Naples Airport. Italy.
NAS. Nassau Airport. Bahamas.
NBO. Jomo Kenyatta International. Nairobi Airport. Kenya.
NCE. Cote D'azur. Nice Airport. France.
NCL. Newcastle International Airport. England.
NDB. Nouadibou Airport. Mauritanie.
NDJ. N'djamena Airport. Chad.
NGB. Ningbo Airport. China.
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NGO. Nagoya Airport. Japan.
NIC. Nicosie Airport. Cyprus.
NIM. Niamey Airport. Niger.
NKC. Nouakchott Airport. Mauritanie.
NKG. Nanjing Airport. China.
NLA. N'dola Airport. Zambia.
NNG. Nanning Airport. China.
NOS. Nosy Be No Airport. Madagascar.
NOU. Noumea Nouvelle Airport. Caledonie.
NPL. New Plymouth Airport. New Zealand.
NPT. Newport Airport. RI. USA.
NQN. Neuquen Airport. Argentina.
NRK. Kungsangen. Norrkoping Airport. Sweden.
NRT. Narita. Tokyo Airport. Japan.
NSI. Yaounde Nsimalen Airport Airport. Cameroun.
NTE. Nantes. France.
NUE. Nuremberg Airport. Germany.
NVT. Navegantes Airport. Brazil.
NWI. Norwich Airport. UK.
NWK. Norwalk Airport. CT. USA.
NYC. New York Airport. NY. USA.
OAK. Oakland International. California Airport. USA.
ODE. Odense Airport. Denmark.
OEB. Orebro-Borfos Airport. Sweden.
OER. Ornskoldsvik Airport. Sweden.
OGO. Abengourou Airport. Cote D'ivoire.
OHD. Ohrid Airport. Macedonia.
OKA. Okinawa Airport. Japan.
OKC. Will Rogers. Oklahoma City Airport. USA.
OLA. Г�rlandet Airport. Norway.
OLB. Olbia Airport. Italy.
OLM. Olympia Airport. WA. USA.
OMA. Omaha Airport. NE. USA.
OMO. Mostar Airport. Bosnia Herzegovinia.
ONT. Ontario Airport. CA. USA.
OPO. Francisco Sa Carneiro. Porto Airport. Portugal.
ORB. Orebro Airport. Sweden.
ORD. O'Hare. Chicago Airport. USA.
ORF. Norfolk Airport. VA. USA.
ORK. Cork. Ireland.
ORL. Orlando Airport. FL. USA.
ORN. Oran Airport. Algerie.
ORY. Orly. Paris Airport. France.
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OSA. Itami. Osaka Airport. Japan.
OSD. Ostersund/Froso Airport. Sweden.
OSK. Oskarshamn.
OSL. Gardermoen. Oslo Airport. Norway. The IATA code for the New Oslo Airport at Gardermoen,
Norway. Acronym for the Norwegian Civil Aviation Authorities Daughter Company for Construction
and Operation of the New Oslo Airport at Gardermoen (New? Well it was in 1998!)
OSR. Ostrava Airport. Czech Republic.
OST. Ostend Airport. Belgium.
OSY. Namsos Airport. Norway.
OTH. North Bend Airport. OR. USA.
OTP. Bucarest Otopeni Airport. Rumania.
OUA. Ouagadougou Burkina Airport. Faso.
OUD. Oujda Airport. Maroc.
OUL. Oulu Airport. Finland.
OXB. Bissau Airport. Guinee. Duplicate see BXO
OZZ. Ouarzazate Airport. Maroc.
PAD. Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport. Germany.
PAP. Port Au Prince Airport. Haiti.
PAR. Paris Airport. France.
PAU. Pau Airport. France. Duplicate see PUF
PBC. Puebla Airport. Mexico.
PBI. West Palm Beach Airport. FL. USA.
PBL. Puerto Cabello Airport. Venezuela.
PBM. Paramaribo Airport. Surinam.
PDG. Padang Airport. Indonesia.
PDL. Ponta Delgada Airport. Portugal.
PDX. Portland Airport. OR. USA.
PEI. Pereira Airport. Colombia.
PEK. Capital. Beijing (Peking) Airport. China.
PEN. Penang Airport. Malaysia.
PER. Perth Airport. WA. Australia.
PES. Petrozavodsk Airport. Russia.
PEW. Peshawar Airport. Pakistan.
PFN. Panama City Airport. FL. USA.
PFO. Paphos Airport. Cyprus.
PGF. Perpignan Airport. France.
PHC. Port Harcourt Airport. Nigeria.
PHF. Newport News Airport. VA. USA.
PHL. Philadelphia International Airport. USA.
PHX. Sky Harbour. Phoenix. Arizona Airport. USA.
PIA. Peoria Airport. IL. USA.
PIH. Pocatello Airport. ID. USA.
PIK. Glasgow Prestwick Airport. UK.
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PIT. Greater Pittsburgh International Airport. USA.
PLH. Plymouth Airport. UK.
PLM. Palembang Airport. Indonesia.
PLS. Providenciales Airport. Turks And Caicos Islands.
PLZ. Port Elizabeth Airport. South Africa.
PMI. Palma de Mallorca Airport. Spain.
PMO. Palermo.
PMV. Porlamar Airport. Venezuela.
PNH. Phnom-Penh Airport. Cambodia.
PNR. Pointe Noire Airport. Congo.
PNS. Pensacola Airport. FL. USA.
POA. Porto Alegre Airport. Brazil.
POG. Port Gentil Airport. Gabon.
POM. Port Moresby Airport. Papua New Guinea.
POP. Puerto Plata Airport. Dominican Republic.
POR. Pori Airport. Finland.
POS. Port Of Spain Airport. Trinidad And Tobago.
POU. Poughkeepsie Airport. NY. USA.
POZ. Lawica. Poznan Airport. Poland.
PPT. Papeete Polynesie Airport. Francaise.
PRG. Ruzyne. Prauge Airport. Czech Republic.
PRN. Pristina Airport. Yougoslavia.
PSA. Pisa. Italy.
PSC. Pasco Airport. WA. USA.
PTN. Morgan City Patterson Airport. LA. USA.
PTP. Pointe A Pitre Airport. Guadeloupe.
PTY. Panama City Airport. Panama.
PUF. Pau Airport. France. Duplicate see PAU
PUQ. Punta Arenas Airport. Chili.
PUS. Pusan Airport. Kenya.
PUY. Pula Airport. Croatia.
PVD. Providence Airport. RI. USA.
PVK. Preveza. Greece.
PVR. Puertoi Vallarta Airport. Mexico.
PWM. Portland Airport. ME. USA.
PZO. Puerto Ordaz Airport. Venezuela.
QPI. Pietarsaari Airport. Finland.
RAK. Marrakech Airport. Maroc.
RAP. Rapid City Airport. SD. USA.
RAR. Rarotonga Airport. Cook Islands.
RBA. Rabat Airport. Maroc.
RDU. Raleigh Durham Airport. NC. USA.
REC. Recife Airport. Brazil.
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REG. Reggio Calabria Airport. Italy.
REK. Reykjavik Airport. Iceland.
RGN. Yangoon Airport. Myanmar.
RHO. Rhodos airport.
RIC. Richmond Airport. VA. USA.
RIO. Rio De Janiero Airport. Brazil.
RIX. Riga International Airport. Latvia.
RIY. Riyan Mukalla Airport. Brazil.
RJK. Rijeka Airport. Croatia.
RMI. Rimini airport.
RNB. Kallinge. Ronneby Airport. Sweden.
RNN. Bornholm Airport. Sweden.
RNO. Reno Airport. NV. USA.
ROA. Roanoke Airport. VA. USA.
ROB. Monrovia Roberts Intl Airport. Liberia.
ROC. Rochester Airport. NY. USA.
ROM. Rome Airport. Italy.
RRS. Roros Airport. Norway.
RTM. Rotterdam Airport. Holland.
RUH. King Khalid International. Riyadh Airport. Saudia Arabia.
RUN. Saint Denis Airport. Reunion.
SAC. Sacramento Airport. CA. USA.
SAH. Sanaa Airport. Yemen.
SAL. San Salvador Airport. El Salvador.
SAN. San Diego International. California Airport. USA.
SAO. Sao Paulo Airport. Brazil.
SAP. San Pedro Sula Airport. Honduras.
SAT. San Antonio Airport. TX. USA.
SAV. Savannah Airport. GA. USA.
SBA. Santa Barbara Airport. CA. USA.
SBN. South Bend Airport. IN. USA.
SBW. Sibu Airport. Malaysia.
SBY. Salisbury Airport. MD. USA.
SCL. Comodoro Arturo Merino Benitez. Santiago Airport. Chile.
SCN. Saarbrucken Airport. Germany.
SCQ. Santiago Compostelle Airport. Spain.
SDA. Saddam International. Baghdad Airport. Iraq.
SDF. Louisville Airport. KY. USA.
SDJ. Sendai Airport. Japan.
SDK. Sandakan Airport. Malaysia.
SDL. Sundsvall Airport. Sweden.
SDQ. Saint Domingue Airport. Dominican Republic.
SDU. Rio De Janiero Santos Dumont Airport. RJ. Brazil.
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SEA. Seattle-Tacoma International. Washington Airport. USA.
SEL. Kimpo International. Seoul Airport. South Korea.
SEZ. Mahe Airport. Seychelles.
SFA. Sfax Airport. Tunisie.
SFJ. Kangerlussuaq Airport. Greenland.
SFO. San Francisco International. California Airport. USA.
SFT. SkellefteГҐ Airport. Sweden.
SGD. Sonderborg Airport. Denmark.
SGF. Springfield Airport. MO. USA.
SGN. Ho Chi Minh Ville Airport. Vietnam. Duplicate see HCM
SHA. Hongqiao. Shanghai Airport. China.
SHE. Shengyang Airport. China.
SHJ. Sharjah Airport. United Arab Emirats.
SHK. Sharemel El Seikh.
SHV. Shreveport Airport. LA. USA.
SIA. Xian Airport. China.
SID. Sal Airport. Germany.
SIN. Changi. Singapore Airport.
SJC. San Jose International. California Airport. USA.
SJJ. Sarajevo.
SJO. San Jose Airport. Costa Rica.
SJU. San Juan Airport. PR. Puerto Rico.
SJY. Seinajoki. Ilmajoki
SKB. Basseterre Airport. Saint Kitts.
SKG. Thessaloniki. Greece.
SKP. Skopje Airport. Macedonia.
SKS. Skrydstrup Airport. Denmark.
SLC. Salt Lake City Airport. UT. USA.
SLU. Sainte Lucie Airport. Saint Lucia. Duplicate see UVF
SMF. Metropolitan. Sacramento. California Airport. USA.
SMI. Samos airport. Greece.
SMM. Semporna Airport. Malaysia.
SMX. Santa Maria Airport. CA. USA.
SNN. Dublin. Ireland.
SOF. Sofia Airport. Bulgaria.
SOO. Soderhamn.
SOU. Southampton Airport. UK.
SPK. Sapporo Airport. Japan.
SPL. Amsterdam Schipol Intl Airport. Holland.
SPN. Saipan Airport. Mariana Islands.
SPU. Split Airport. Croatia.
SQO. Storuman.
SRE. Sucre Airport. Bolivia.
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SRP. Stord. Norway.
SRQ. Sarasota/ Bradenton Airport. FL. USA.
SRZ. Santa Cruz Airport. Bolivia.
SSA. Salvador Bahia Airport. Brazil.
SSG. Malabo Airport. Guinee Equatoriale.
SSJ. Sandnessjoen Airport. Norway.
STA. Stauning Airport. Denmark.
STB. Saint Barthelemy Airport. Guadeloupe.
STL. Lambert St Louis International Airport. USA.
STN. Stansted. London Airport. England.
STO. Stockholm Airport. Sweden.
STR. Stuttgart Airport. Germany.
STT. Saint Thomas Airport. U.S. Virgin Islands.
STX. Saint Croix Airport. U.S. Virgin Islands.
SUB. Surabaya Airport. Indonesia.
SUV. Suva Airport. Fiji.
SVD. Saint Vincent Airport. Saint Vincent.
SVG. Sola. Stavanger Airport. Norway.
SVJ. Svolvaer Airport. Norway.
SVL. Savonlinna.
SVO. Sheremetyevo. Moscow Airport. Russia.
SVQ. Seville Airport. Spain.
SWA. Shantou Airport. China.
SWF. Newburgh Airport. NY. USA.
SXB. Strasbourg Airport. France.
SXF. Schoenefeld. Berlin Airport. Germany.
SXM. Saint Martin Airport. Guadeloupe.
SYD. Kingsford Smith. Sydney Airport. Australia.
SYR. Syracuse Airport. NY. USA.
SYY. Stornoway Airport. UK.
SZG. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Salzburg Airport. Austria.
SZX. Shenzhen Airport. China.
SZZ. Goleniow. Szczecin Airport. Poland.
TAB. Tobago Airport. Trinidad And Tobago.
TAK. Takamatsu Airport. Japan.
TAO. Quingdao Airport. China.
TAR. Tartous Airport. Syria.
TAS. Tashkent Airport. Uzbekistan.
TAT. Tatry/ Poprad Airport. Slovak Republic.
TCI. Tenerife Airport. Spain.
TEA. Tema Airport. Ghana.
TED. Thisted Airport. Denmark.
TFN. Tenerife. Tenerife Norte
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TFS. Tenerife.
TGD. Podgorica Airport. Yougoslavia.
TGG. Kuala Terengganu Airport. Malaysia.
TGH. Tonga Airport. Vanuatu.
TGU. Tegucigualpa Airport. Honduras.
THF. Berlin Tempel Hof Airport. Germany.
THN. Trollhattan.
THR. Mehrabad International. Tehran Airport. Iran.
TIA. Tirana Airport. Albania.
TIP. Tripoli Airport. Lybia.
TIV. Tivat Airport. Yougoslavia.
TKU. Turku Airport. Finland.
TLC. Toluca Airport. Mexico.
TLH. Tallahassee Airport. FL. USA.
TLL. Tallinn Airport. Estonia.
TLM. Tlemcen Airport. Maroc.
TLN. Toulon/ Hyeres Airport. France.
TLS. Toulouse-Blagnac International Airport. France.
TLV. Ben Gurion International . Tel Aviv/Jerusalem Airport. Israel.
TMM. Tamatave Airport. Madagascar.
TMP. Tampere-Pirkkala Airport. Finland.
TMR. Tamanrasset Airport. Algerie.
TMS. Sao Tome Airport. Guyana.
TNA. Jinan Airport. China.
TNG. Tanger Airport. Maroc.
TNR. Antananarivo Airport. Madagascar.
TOL. Toledo Airport. OH. USA.
TOS. Langnes. TromsГё Airport. Norway.
TOV. Tortola Airport. Vanuatu.
TOY. Toyama Airport. Japan.
TPA. Tampa International. Florida Airport. USA.
TPE. Chiang Kai Shek International. Taipei Airport. Taiwan.
TPS. Trapani Airport. Italy.
TRD. Værnes. Trondheim Airport. Norway.
TRI. Bristol Airport. TN. USA.
TRN. Citta di Torino. Turin Airport. Italy.
TRS. Trieste Airport. Italy.
TRV. Trivandrum Airport. India.
TSN. Tianjin Airport. China.
TSR. Timisoara Airport. Rumania.
TSV. Townsville Airport. QL. Australia.
TTN. Trenton Airport. NJ. USA.
TUL. Tulsa Airport. OK. USA.
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TUN. Carthage. Tunis Airport. Tunisia.
TUS. Tucson Airport. AZ. USA.
TVC. Traverse City Airport. MI. USA.
TWB. Twin Falls Airport. Indonesia.
TWF. Twin Falls Airport. ID. USA.
TWU. Tawau Airport. Malaysia.
TXL. Tegel. Berlin Airport. Germany.
TYN. Taiyuan Airport. China.
TYO. Tokyo Airport. Japan.
TYS. Knoxville Airport. TN. USA.
UCA. Utica Airport. NY. USA.
UET. Quetta Airport. Pakistan.
UGH. Hangzou Airport. China.
UIO. Quito Airport. Equador.
UIP. Quimper Airport. France.
UME. UmeГҐ Airport. Sweden.
URC. Urungqi Airport. China.
URO. Rouen Airport. France.
UVF. Sainte Lucie Airport. Saint Lucia. Duplicate see SLU
VAA. Vaasa Airport. Finland.
VAL. Valparaiso Airport. Chili.
VAR. Varna. Bulgaria.
VBY. Visby.
VCE. Marco Polo-Tessera. Venice Airport. Italy.
VCP. Sao Paulo- Viracopos Airport. SP. Brazil.
VDA. Ovda Airport. Israel.
VEJ. Vejle Airport. Denmark.
VER. Vera Cruz Airport. Mexico.
VFA. Victoria Falls Airport. Zimbabwe.
VHM. Vilhelmina.
VIE. Schwechat. Vienna Airport. Austria.
VIX. Vitoria Airport. Brazil.
VKO. Vnukovo. Moscow Airport. Russia.
VLC. Valencia Airport. Spain.
VLI. Port Vila Airport. Vanuatu.
VLL. Valladolid Airport. Spain.
VLN. Valencia Airport. Venezuela.
VNO. Vilnius Airport. lithuania.
VRA. Varadero. Cuba.
VRK. Varkaus.
VRN. Verone Airport. Italy.
VRZ. Voronege Airport. Russia.
VST. Haslo. VasterГҐs Airport. Sweden.
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VTE. Vientiane Airport. Laos.
VXO. Vaxjo Airport. Sweden.
WAS. Washington Airport. DC. USA.
WAW. Okecie. Warsaw Airport. Poland.
WDH. Windhoek Airport. Guyana.
WLG. Wellington Airport. New Zealand.
WLS. Wallis Airport. Wallis And Futuna.
WRO. Wroclaw.
WSG. Washington Airport. PA. USA.
WSY. Airliebea Airport. QL. Australia.
WUH. Wuhan Airport. China.
XMN. Xiamen Airport. China.
YAM. Sault Sainte Marie Airport. PQ. Canada.
YAO. Yaounde Airport. Cameroun.
YEG. International. Edmonton. Alberta Airport. Canada.
YER. Fort Severn Airport. OT. Canada.
YFC. Fredericton Airport. NB. Canada.
YHM. Hamilton Airport. OT. Canada.
YHZ. International. Halifax. Nova Scotia Airport. Canada.
YKF. Kitchener Airport. OT. Canada.
YKM. Yakima Airport. WA. USA.
YMX. Montreal Mirabel Intl Airport. PQ. Canada.
YOW. International. Ottawa. Ontarion Airport. Canada.
YQB. Quebec City Airport. QU. Canada.
YQI. Yarmouth Airport. NS. Canada.
YQM. Moncton Airport. NB. Canada.
YQR. Regina Airport. SK. Canada.
YQT. Thunder Bay Airport. OT. Canada.
YQX. Gander airport. Canada.
YQY. Sydney Airport. NS. Canada.
YSB. Sudbury Airport. OT. Canada.
YSJ. Saint John Airport. NB. Canada.
YTO. Pearson International. Toronto. Ontario Airport. Canada.
YUL. Dorval International. Montreal. Quebec Airport. Canada.
YVA. Moroni Airport. Comorres.
YVR. International. Vancouver. BC Airport. Canada.
YWG. Winnipeg Airport. MB. Canada.
YXD. Edmonton Municipal Airport. AL. Canada.
YXE. Saskatoon Airport. SK. Canada.
YXS. Prince George Airport. BC. Canada.
YXU. London Ot Airport. Canada.
YXX. Abbotsford Airport. BC. Canada.
YYC. International. Calgary. Alberta Airport. Canada.
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YYG. Charlottetown Airport. PE. Canada.
YYJ. Victoria Airport. BC. Canada.
YYT. Saint Johns Airport. NF. Canada.
YYY. Mont Joli Airport. PQ. Canada.
YYZ. Toronto Airport. ON. Canada.
ZAD. Zadar Airport. Croatia.
ZAG. Pleso. Zagreb Airport. Croatia.
ZAZ. Zaragoza Airport. Spain.
ZHA. Zhanjiang Airport. China.
ZRH. Zurich Airport. Switzerland.
ZTH. Zakinthos airport. Greece.
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34. DNS country codes
ac. Ascension Island. Country code part of DNS.
ad. Andorra. Country code part of DNS.
ae. United Arab Emirates. Country code part of DNS.
af. Afghanistan. Country code part of DNS.
ag. Antigua And Barbuda. Country code part of DNS.
ai. Anguilla. Country code part of DNS.
al. Albania. Country code part of DNS.
am. Armenia. Country code part of DNS.
an. Netherlands Antilles. Country code part of DNS.
ao. Angola. Country code part of DNS.
aq. Antarctica. Country code part of DNS.
ar. Argentina. Country code part of DNS.
as. American Samoa. Country code part of DNS.
at. Austria. Country code part of DNS.
au. Australia. Country code part of DNS.
aw. Aruba. Country code part of DNS.
az. Azerbaijan. Country code part of DNS.
ba. Bosnia And Herzegowina. Country code part of DNS.
bb. Barbados. Country code part of DNS.
bd. Bangladesh. Country code part of DNS.
be. Belgium. Country code part of DNS.
bf. Burkina Faso. Country code part of DNS.
bg. Bulgaria. Country code part of DNS.
bh. Bahrain. Country code part of DNS.
bi. Burundi. Country code part of DNS.
bj. Benin. Country code part of DNS.
bm. Bermuda. Country code part of DNS.
bn. Brunei Darussalam. Country code part of DNS.
bo. Bolivia. Country code part of DNS.
br. Brazil. Country code part of DNS.
bs. Bahamas. Country code part of DNS.
bt. Bhutan. Country code part of DNS.
bv. Bouvet Island. Country code part of DNS.
bw. Botswana. Country code part of DNS.
by. Belarus. Country code part of DNS.
bz. Belize. Country code part of DNS.
ca. Canada. Country code part of DNS.
cc. Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Country code part of DNS.
cd. Congo, Democratic People's Republic. Country code part of DNS.
cf. Central African Republic. Country code part of DNS.
cg. Congo, Republic Of. Country code part of DNS.
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ch. Switzerland. Country code part of DNS.
ci. Cote D'Ivoire. Country code part of DNS.
ck. Cook Islands. Country code part of DNS.
cl. Chile. Country code part of DNS.
cm. Cameroon. Country code part of DNS.
cn. China. Country code part of DNS.
co. Colombia. Country code part of DNS.
com. Commercial. Country code part of DNS.
cr. Costa Rica. Country code part of DNS.
cu. Cuba. Country code part of DNS.
cv. Cape Verde. Country code part of DNS.
cx. Christmas Island. Country code part of DNS.
cy. Cyprus. Country code part of DNS.
cz. Czech Republic. Country code part of DNS.
de. Germany. Country code part of DNS.
dj. Djibouti. Country code part of DNS.
dk. Denmark. Country code part of DNS.
dm. Dominica. Country code part of DNS.
do. Dominican Republic. Country code part of DNS.
dz. Algeria. Country code part of DNS.
ec. Ecuador. Country code part of DNS.
edu. Colleges and universities. Country code part of DNS.
ee. Estonia. Country code part of DNS.
eg. Egypt. Country code part of DNS.
eh. Western Sahara. Country code part of DNS.
er. Eritrea. Country code part of DNS.
es. Spain. Country code part of DNS.
et. Ethiopia. Country code part of DNS.
fi. Finland. Country code part of DNS.
fj. Fiji. Country code part of DNS.
fk. Falkland Islands (Malvinas). Country code part of DNS.
fm. Micronesia, Federal States Of. Country code part of DNS.
fo. Faroe Islands. Country code part of DNS.
fr. France. Country code part of DNS.
ga. Gabon. Country code part of DNS.
gb. United Kingdom. Country code part of DNS.
gd. Grenada. Country code part of DNS.
ge. Georgia. Country code part of DNS.
gf. French Guiana. Country code part of DNS.
gg. Guernsey. Country code part of DNS.
gh. Ghana. Country code part of DNS.
gi. Gibraltar. Country code part of DNS.
gl. Greenland. Country code part of DNS.
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gm. Gambia. Country code part of DNS.
gn. Guinea. Country code part of DNS.
gov. Agencies and branches of the United States Federal Government. Country code part of DNS.
gp. Guadeloupe. Country code part of DNS.
gq. Equatorial Guinea. Country code part of DNS.
gr. Greece. Country code part of DNS.
gs. South Georgia And Sandwich Isl. Country code part of DNS.
gt. Guatemala. Country code part of DNS.
gu. Guam. Country code part of DNS.
gw. Guinea Bissau. Country code part of DNS.
gy. Guyana. Country code part of DNS.
hk. Hong Kong. Country code part of DNS.
hm. Heard And Mcdonald Islands. Country code part of DNS.
hn. Honduras. Country code part of DNS.
hr. Croatia/Hrvatska. Country code part of DNS.
ht. Haiti. Country code part of DNS.
hu. Hungary. Country code part of DNS.
id. Indonesia. Country code part of DNS.
ie. Ireland. Country code part of DNS.
il. Israel. Country code part of DNS.
im. Isle Of Man. Country code part of DNS.
in. India. Country code part of DNS.
io. British Indian Ocean Territory. Country code part of DNS.
iq. Iraq. Country code part of DNS.
ir. Iran. Country code part of DNS.
is. Iceland. Country code part of DNS.
it. Italy. Country code part of DNS.
je. Jersey. Country code part of DNS.
jm. Jamaica. Country code part of DNS.
jo. Jordan. Country code part of DNS.
jp. Japan. Country code part of DNS.
k. Kiribati. Country code part of DNS.
ke. Kenya. Country code part of DNS.
kg. Kyrgzstan. Country code part of DNS.
kh. Cambodia. Country code part of DNS.
km. Comoros. Country code part of DNS.
kn. Saint Kitts And Nevis. Country code part of DNS.
kp. Korea, Democratic People's Rep. Country code part of DNS.
kr. Korea, Republic Of. Country code part of DNS.
kw. Kuwait. Country code part of DNS.
ky. Cayman Islands. Country code part of DNS.
kz. Kazakhstan. Country code part of DNS.
la. Lao, People's Democratic Republic. Country code part of DNS.
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lb. Lebanon. Country code part of DNS.
lc. Saint Lucia. Country code part of DNS.
li. Liechtenstein. Country code part of DNS.
lk. Sri Lanka. Country code part of DNS.
lr. Liberia. Country code part of DNS.
ls. Lesotho. Country code part of DNS.
lt. Lithuania. Country code part of DNS.
lu. Luxembourg. Country code part of DNS.
lv. Latvia. Country code part of DNS.
ly. Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. Country code part of DNS.
ma. Morocco. Country code part of DNS.
mc. Monaco. Country code part of DNS.
md. Moldova, Republic Of. Country code part of DNS.
mg. Madagascar. Country code part of DNS.
mh. Marshall Islands. Country code part of DNS.
mil. United States military. Country code part of DNS.
mk. Macedonia, Former Yugoslavia Rep. Country code part of DNS.
ml. Mali. Country code part of DNS.
mm. Myanmar. Country code part of DNS.
mn. Mongolia. Country code part of DNS.
mo. Macau. Country code part of DNS.
mp. Northern Mariana Islands. Country code part of DNS.
mq. Martinique. Country code part of DNS.
mr. Mauritania. Country code part of DNS.
ms. Montserrat. Country code part of DNS.
mt. Malta. Country code part of DNS.
mu. Mauritius. Country code part of DNS.
mv. Maldives. Country code part of DNS.
mw. Malawi. Country code part of DNS.
mx. Mexico. Country code part of DNS.
my. Malaysia. Country code part of DNS.
mz. Mozambique. Country code part of DNS.
na. Namibia. Country code part of DNS.
nc. New Calendonia. Country code part of DNS.
ne. Niger. Country code part of DNS.
net. Entities and computers that represent part of the Internet's infrastructure. Country code part of
DNS.
nf. Norfolk Island. Country code part of DNS.
ng. Nigeria. Country code part of DNS.
ni. Nicaragua. Country code part of DNS.
nl. Netherlands. Country code part of DNS.
no. Norway. Country code part of DNS.
np. Nepal. Country code part of DNS.
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nr. Nauru. Country code part of DNS.
nu. Niue. Country code part of DNS.
nz. New Zealand. Country code part of DNS.
om. Oman. Country code part of DNS.
org. Entities that do not fit under any of the other top level domains. Country code part of DNS.
pa. Panama. Country code part of DNS.
pe. Peru. Country code part of DNS.
pf. French Polynesia. Country code part of DNS.
pg. Papua New Guinea. Country code part of DNS.
ph. Philippines. Country code part of DNS.
pk. Pakistan. Country code part of DNS.
pl. Poland. Country code part of DNS.
pm. St. Pierre And Miquelon. Country code part of DNS.
pn. Pitcairn Island. Country code part of DNS.
pr. Puerto Rico. Country code part of DNS.
pt. Portugal. Country code part of DNS.
pw. Palau. Country code part of DNS.
py. Paraguay. Country code part of DNS.
qa. Qatar. Country code part of DNS.
re. Reunion Island. Country code part of DNS.
ro. Romania. Country code part of DNS.
ru. Russian Federation. Country code part of DNS.
rw. Rwanda. Country code part of DNS.
sa. Saudi Arabia. Country code part of DNS.
sb. Solomon Islands. Country code part of DNS.
sc. Seychelles. Country code part of DNS.
sd. Sudan. Country code part of DNS.
se. Sweden. Country code part of DNS.
sg. Singapore. Country code part of DNS.
sh. St. Helena. Country code part of DNS.
si. Slovenia. Country code part of DNS.
sj. Svalbard And Jan Mayen Isl. Country code part of DNS.
sk. Slovakia. Country code part of DNS.
sl. Sierra Leone. Country code part of DNS.
sm. San Marino. Country code part of DNS.
sn. Senegal. Country code part of DNS.
so. Somalia. Country code part of DNS.
sr. Suriname. Country code part of DNS.
st. Sao Tome And Principe. Country code part of DNS.
sv. El Salvador. Country code part of DNS.
sy. Syrian Arab Republic. Country code part of DNS.
sz. Swaziland. Country code part of DNS.
tc. Turks And Ciacos Islands. Country code part of DNS.
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td. Chad. Country code part of DNS.
tf. French Southern Territories. Country code part of DNS.
tg. Togo. Country code part of DNS.
th. Thailand. Country code part of DNS.
tj. Tajikistan. Country code part of DNS.
tk. Tokelau. Country code part of DNS.
tm. Turkmenistan. Country code part of DNS.
tn. Tunisia. Country code part of DNS.
to. Tonga. Country code part of DNS.
tp. East Timor. Country code part of DNS.
tr. Turkey. Country code part of DNS.
tt. Trinidad And Tobago. Country code part of DNS.
tv. Tuvalu. Country code part of DNS.
tw. Taiwan, Republic Of China. Country code part of DNS.
tz. Tanzania. Country code part of DNS.
ua. Ukraine. Country code part of DNS.
ug. Uganda. Country code part of DNS.
uk. United Kingdom. Country code part of DNS.
um. US Minor Outlying Islands. Country code part of DNS.
us. United States. Country code part of DNS.
uy. Uruguay. Country code part of DNS.
uz. Uzbekistan. Country code part of DNS.
va. Vatican City State (Holy See). Country code part of DNS.
vc. Saint Vincent And The Grenadines. Country code part of DNS.
ve. Venezuela. Country code part of DNS.
vg. Virgin Islands (British). Country code part of DNS.
vi. Virgin Islands (US). Country code part of DNS.
vn. Vietnam. Country code part of DNS.
vu. Vanuatu. Country code part of DNS.
wf. Wallis And Futuna Islands. Country code part of DNS.
ws. Samoa. Country code part of DNS.
ye. Yemen. Country code part of DNS.
yt. Mayotte. Country code part of DNS.
yu. Yugoslavia. Country code part of DNS.
za. South Africa. Country code part of DNS.
zm. Zambia. Country code part of DNS.
zr. Zaire. Country code part of DNS.
zw. Zimbabwe. Country code part of DNS.
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35. Internet Chat
1337. Elite (see leet).
2MI. Too much information.
2U2. To You Too.
404. I haven't a clue (inspired by Error 404).
4COL. For Crying Out Loud.
A/S/L?. Age/sex/location?.
AAMOF. As A Matter Of Fact.
ADHD. Hypo (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder).
ADN. Any Day Now.
AFAIC. As Far As I'm Concerned.
AFAIK. As Far As I Know.
AFAIR. As Far As I Remember.
AFJ. April Fools Joke.
AFK. Away From the Keyboard.
AISI. As I See It.
ANFAWFOS. And Now For A Word From Our Sponsor.
ANFSCD. And Now For Something Completely Different.
A-OLs. Administrators On-Line.
ARE. Acronym-Rich environment.
AS. Another Subject.
ASAP. As Soon As Possible.
ASAYGT. As Soon As You Get This.
ASL. Age, Sex, Location.
ATSL. Along The Same Line.
AWC. After While, Crocodile.
AWGTHTGTTA. Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again?.
AWHFY. Are We Having Fun Yet?.
AWTTW. A Word To The Wise.
AYOR. At Your Own Risk.
AYT. Are You There.
B4N. Bye For Now.
BAC. Bad A**ed Chick.
BAK. Back At Keyboard.
BAS. Big A** Smile.
BBFN. Bye Bye For Now.
BBIAB. Be Back In A Bit.
BBIAF. Be Back In A Few.
BBL. Be Back Later.
BBN. Bye Bye Now.
BBR. Burnt Beyond Repair.
BBS. Be Back Soon.
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BC. Because.
BCNU. Be seein’ you.
BEG. Big Evil Grin.
BF. Boy Friend.
BFD. Big F**king Deal.
BFN. Bye For Now.
BG. Big Grin.
BIBO. Beer In, Beer Out.
BIF. Before I Forget.
BION. Believe It Or Not.
BIOYIOP. Blow It Out Your I/O Port.
BL. Belly Laughing.
BMGWL. Busting My Gut With Laughter.
BOHICA. Bend Over, Here It Comes Again.
BOT. Back On Topic.
BOTEC. Back-Of-The-Envelope-Calculation.
BRB. Be Right Back.
BRS. Big Red Switch.
BTA. But Then Again.
BTAIM. Be That As It May.
BTDT. Been There, Done That.
BTHOM. Beats The Hell Outta Me.
BTOBD. Be There Or Be Dead.
BTSOOM. Beats The S**t Out Of Me.
BTW. By The Way.
BWL. Bursting With Laughter.
BWQ. Buzz Word Quotient.
BWTHDIK. But What The Heck Do I Know...?.
BYE. Response to BYE?.
BYE?. Are you ready to say goodbye?.
BYKT. But You Knew That.
BYOB. Bring Your Own Bottle.
BYOM. Bring Your Own Mac.
C&G. Chuckle and Grin.
c[C]. Cup of coffee.
c[T]. Cup of tea.
CADET. Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try.
CICO. Coffee In, Coffee Out.
CID. Crying In Disgrace.
CMIIW. Correct Me If I’m Wrong.
CNP. Continued In Next Post.
CO. Conference or Company.
CPP. C Plus Plus or C++.
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CRB. Come Right Back.
CRBT. Crying Real Big Tears.
CRS or CRAS. Can't Remember a Sh**.
CSG. Chuckle, Snicker, Grin.
CTFS. Can't Type For S***.
CU. See You.
CU2. See You, Too.
CUL. See You Later.
CUL8ER. See you later.
CUL8R. See You Later.
CULA. See You Later, Alligator.
CWYL. Chat With You Later.
CYA. See Ya or Cover Your Ass.
CYAL8R. See You All Later.
CYO. See You Online.
DBA. Doing Business As.
DFLA. Disenhanced Four-Letter Acronym (that is, a TLA).
DIIK. Damned If I Know.
DIKU?. Do I Know You?.
DILLIGAD. Do I Look Like I Give A Darnn?.
DITYID. Did I Tell You I'm Distressed?.
DIY. Do It Yourself.
DK. Don’t Know.
DL. Dead Link.
DLTBBB. Don't Let The Bed Bugs Bite.
DOM. Dirty Old Man.
DOS. Dozing Off Soon.
dotgov. A government official (from the .gov of government domain names).
DQMOT. Don't Quote Me On This.
DTRT. Do The Right Thing.
DWB. Don't Write Back.
DWIMC. Do What I Mean, Correctly.
DWIMNWIS. Do What I Mean, Not What I Say.
EG or <eg>. Evil Grin.
EMFBI. Excuse Me For Butting In.
EMSG. E-mail message.
EOL. End of Life.
EOM. End Of Message.
EOT. End Of Thread. (meaning: end of discussion)
ESAD. Eat Sh** And Die.
ETLA. Extended Three-letter acronym (that is, an FLA).
F2F. Face to Face.
FC. Fingers crossed.
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FCFS. First Come First Serve.
FISH. First In, Still Here.
FITB. Fill In The Blank.
FLA. Four-letter acronym.
FLW. Four-letter word (bad language, swearword like f*** or s***).
FMTYEWTK. Far more than you ever want to know.
FOAD. F*** off and die.
FOAF. Friend Of A Friend.
FOAG. F*** Off And Google.
FOMC. Fell Off My Chair.
FOMCL. Falling off my chair laughing.
FS. For Sale.
FTASB. Faster Than A Speeding Bullet.
FTBOMH. From the bottom of my heart.
FTF. Face To Face.
FTL. Faster Than Light.
FU. F**ked Up.
FUBAR. F**ked Up Beyond All Recognition.
FUBB. F***ed Up Beyond Belief.
FUD. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
FUD. Fear, Uncertainty, Disinformation.
FURTB. Full Up Ready To Burst.
FWIW. For What It's Worth.
FYA. For Your Amusement.
FYI. For Your Information.
G. Grin, or Giggle.
G1. Good One.
G2G. Got to Go.
G4U. Good For You.
GA. Go Ahead.
GAL. Get A Life.
GD&R. Grinning, Ducking and Running.
GD&RF. Grinning, Ducking and Running Fast.
GD&WVF. Grinning, Ducking, and Walking Very Fast.
GDW. Grin, Duck and Weave.
GF. Girl Friend.
GFN. Gone For Now.
GFR. Grim File Reaper.
GG. Good Game.
GGP. Gotta Go Pee.
GIDK. Gee I Don't Know.
GIWIST. Gee, I Wish I’d Said That.
GL. Good Luck.
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GLGH. Good Luck and Good Hunting.
GMAB. Give Me A Break.
GMTA. Great Minds Think Alike.
GOL. Giggling out loud.
GOWI. Get On With It.
GR&D. Grinning, Running and Ducking.
GR&D. Grinning, Running, & Ducking.
GT. Gifted and Talented.
GTG. Got to Og.
GTRM. Going to read mail.
GTSY. Great To See You.
GTTS. Got The T-Shirt.
H&K. Hugs and Kisses.
H4U. Hot For You.
HAGN. Have a good night.
HAK. Hugs And Kisses.
HAND. Have a nice day.
HBASTD. Hitting Bottom And Starting To Dig.
HHIS. Hanging Head In Shame.
HHOJ. Ha Ha Only Joking.
HHOK. Ha Ha Only Kidding.
HHOS. Ha Ha Only Serious.
HHTYAY. Happy Holidays to You and Yours.
HIG. How's It Going.
HNY. Happy New Year.
HOYEW. Hanging On Your Every Word.
HSIK. How Should I Know.
HT. Hi There.
HTH. Hope This Helps.
HTH. Hope This (or That) Helps!.
HUB. Head Up Butt.
HX. History.
IAC. In Any Case.
IAE. In Any Event.
IANAL. I Am Not A Lawyer.
IAW. In Accordance With. iht (i henhold til)
IBK. Idiot Behind Keyboard.
IBTD. I Beg To Differ.
IC. I See.
IDK. I Don't Know.
IGP. I Gotta Pee.
IHA. I Hate Acronyms.
IHU. I Hear You.
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IIABDFI. If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It.
IIRC. If I Recall/Remember/Recollect Correctly.
IIWDFI. If It Works, Don't Fix It.
IIWM. If It Were Me.
IJWTK. I Just Want To Know.
IJWTS. I Just Want To Say.
IKWUM. I Know What You Mean.
IKYABWAI. I Know You Are But What Am I?.
ILU or ILY. I Love You.
IM. Immediate Message.
IMA. I Might Add.
IMAO. In My Arrogant Opinion.
IMCO. In My Considered Opinion.
IME. In My Experience.
IMHO. In My Humble Opinion.
IMing. Chatting with someone online usually while doing other things such as playing trivia or other
interactive game.
IMNSHO. In My Not So Humble Opinion.
IMO. In My Opinion.
IMPOV. In My Point Of View.
IMS. I Am Sorry.
INPO. In No Particular Order.
IOW. In Other Words.
IPN. I'm Posting Naked.
IRC. Internet Relay Chat.
IRL. In Real Life (that is, when not chatting).
ISS. I’m So Sure.
ISSYGTI. I’m So Sure You Get The Idea!.
ISWYM. I See What You Mean.
ITFA. In The Final Analysis.
ITIGBS. I Think I'm Going To Be Sick.
ITSFWI. If The Shoe Fits Wear It.
IWALU. I Will Always Love You.
IWBNI. It Would Be Nice If.
IYFEG. Insert Your Favorite Ethnic Group.
IYSS. If You Say So.
IYSWIM. If You See What I Mean.
J4F. Just For Fun.
J4G. Just For Grins.
JAM. Just A Minute.
JAS. Just A Second.
JBOD. Just a Bunch Of Disks.
JC. Just Chilling.
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JFI. Just For Information.
JIC. Just In Case.
JK. Just Kidding.
JMHO. Just My Humble Opinion.
JMO. Just My Opinion.
JTLYK. Just To Let You Know.
JWK. Just Wondering.
K. Okay.
KHYF. Know How You Feel.
KIBO. Knowledge In, Bullshit Out.
KISS. Keep It Simple Stupid.
KIT. Keep In Touch.
KMA. Kiss My Ass.
KMIA. Kiss My Italian Ass.
KOTC. Kiss On The Cheek.
KOTL. Kiss On The Lips.
KWIM. Know What I Mean?.
KYFC. Keep Your Fingers Crossed.
L. Laugh.
L8R. Later.
L8R G8R. Later Gator.
LABATYD or LAB&TYD. Life's A Bitch And Then You Die.
LAM. Laughing At Myself.
LD. Later Dude.
LD. Learning Disability or Learning Disabled.
LDR. Long Distance Relationship.
Leet. Elite (see 1337). The opposite of n00b somene who does not have a clue
LHO. Laughing Head Off.
LJBF. Let’s Just Be Friends.
LLTA. Lots and Lots of Thunderous Applause.
LMAO. Laughing My Ass Off.
LMHO. Laughing My Head Off.
LMIRL. Lets Meet In Real Life.
LMSO. Laughing My Socks Off.
LOL. Laughing Out Loud.
LOL. Lots Of Luck.
LRF. Little Rubber Feet. (the little pads on the bottom of displays and other equipment)
LSHMBA. Laughing So Hard My Belly Aches.
LSHMBH. Laughing So Hard My Belly Hurts.
LTHTT. Laughing Too Hard To Type.
LTM. Laughing To Myself.
LTNS. Long Time No See.
LTNT. Long Time, No Type.
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LTR. Long Term Relationship.
LULAB. Love You Like/Love A Brother.
LULAS. Love You Like A Sister.
LUWAMH. Love You With All My Heart.
LY. Love You.
LY4E. Love You Forever.
LYLAB. Love You Like A Brother.
LYLAS. Love You Like A Sister.
MEGO. My Eyes Glaze Over.
MHIC. My Husband Is Coming.
MHOTY. My Hat's Off To You.
MI. Mentally Ill.
MLA. Multiple Letter Acronym.
MOF. Matter Of Fact.
MorF. Male or Female.
MOSS. Member Of Same Sex.
MOTAS. Member Of The Appropriate Sex.
MOTD. Message Of The Day.
MOTOS. Member Of The Opposite Sex.
MOTSS. Member Of The Same Sex.
MR. Mentally Retarded.
MRA. Moving Right Along.
MTF. More To Follow.
MTFBWY. May The Force Be With You.
MUSM. Miss You So Much.
MWIC. My Wife Is Coming.
MYOB. Mind Your Own Business.
n00b. Newbie, new comer. A way to insult someone who does not know much
NADT. Not A Darn Thing.
NAVY. Never Again Voluneer Yourself.
NBD. No Big Deal.
NE14KFC?. Anyone For KFC. (Kentuckey Fried Chicken)
NFG. No F*****g Good.
NFW. No F**king Way.
NFW. No Feasible Way.
NHOH. Never Heard Of Him/Her.
NIFOC. Naked In Front Of Computer.
NIH. Not Invented Here.
NIMBY. Not In My Back Yard.
NINO. Nothing In, Nothing Out or No Input, No Output.
NITL. Not In This Lifetime.
NM. Never Mind.
NMI. Need More Input.
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NOYB. None Of Your Business.
NP or N/P. No Problem.
NQA. No Questions Asked.
NRN. No Reply Necessary.
NRN. No Response Necessary.
NT. No Text.
NTIM. Not That It Matters.
NTIMM. Not That It Matters Much.
NTW. Not To Worry.
NTYMI. Now That You Mention It.
O. Over. (Indicates the end of a communication)
o:-). Angelic.
OATUS. On A Totally Unrelated Subject.
OAUS. On An Unrelated Subject.
OB. Obligatory.
OBO. Or Best Offer.
OBTW. Oh By The Way.
OIC. Oh I See.
OLL. OnLine Love.
OMG. Oh My God.
ONNA. Oh No Not Again.
ONNTA. Oh No Not This Again.
OO. Over and Out. (End of communication)
OOTB. Out Of The Box.
OOTC. Obligatory On-Topic Comment.
OST. On Second Thoughts.
OTF. On the Floor.
OTFL. On the Floor Laughing.
OTL. Out To Lunch.
OTOH. On The Other Hand.
OTOOH. On The Other Other Hand.
OTT. Over The Top.
OTTH. On The Third Hand.
OTTOMH. Off The Top Of My Head.
OWTTE. Or Words To That Effect.
PABG. Packing A Big Gun.
PANS. Pretty Awesome New Stuff (as opposed to "POTS").
PAW. Parents Are Watching.
PCMCIA. People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms.
PD. Public Domain.
PDA. Public Display of Affection.
Pdoc. Psychiatrist.
PDS. Please Don't Shout (typing all in capital letters is rude).
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PEBCAK. Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard.
PIBKAC. Problem Is Between Keyboard And Chair.
PIR. Parents In Room.
PITA. Pain In The Ass.
PITA. Pain In The Arse.
PLOKTA. Press Lots Of Keys To Abort.
PM. Private message.
PMBI. Pardon My Butting In.
PMF. Pardon My French or Pure Freaking Magic.
PMFBI. Pardon Me For Butting In.
PMFJI. Pardon Me For Jumping In.
PMFJIB. Pardon Me For Jumping In But.
PMIGBOM. Put Mind In Gear Before Opening Mouth.
PMJI. Pardon My Jumping In.
PMP. Peeing My Pants.
PNCAH. Please No Cursing Allowed Here.
POAHF. Put On A Happy Face.
POS. Piece Of S**t.
POS. Parent Over Shoulder.
POSSLQ. Person Of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters.
POTS. Plain Old Telephone Service.
POTUS. President Of The United States.
PPL. People.
PRW. Parents Are Watching.
PTMM. Please Tell Me More.
PTSD. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
PU. That stinks!.
QT. Cutie.
R U THERE?. Are you there?.
RAEBNC. Read And Enjoyed But No Comment.
RE. Hello again or In Regard to.
REHI. Hi again.
RHIP. Rank Has Its Privileges.
RL. Real Life (that is, when not chatting).
RLCO. Real Life Conference.
ROFL. Rolling On Floor Laughing.
ROFLAS. Rolling On Floor Laughing And Screaming.
ROFLMAO. Roll On Floor Laughing My Ass Off.
ROFLPMP. Rolling On the Floor Laughing Peeing in My Pants.
ROI. Return On Investment.
ROR. Raffing Out Roud (Engrish for "laughing out loud").
ROTF. Rolling On The Floor Laughing.
ROTFLMAO. Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A** Off.
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ROTFLMAOTID. Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off Till I Die.
ROTFLMAOWPIMP. Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off While Peeing In My Pants.
ROTFLMBO. Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Butt Off.
ROTFLOL. Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud.
ROTFLOLAPMP. Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud And Peeing My Pants.
ROTFLTIC. Rolling On The Floor Laughing Till I Cry.
RPG. Role-Playing Games.
RRQ. Return Receipt Request.
RSN. Real Soon Now.
RT. Real Time.
RTBM. Read The Bloody Manual.
RTFAQ. Read The Frequently Asked Questions.
RTFF. Read The F**king FAQ.
RTFM. Read The F**king Manual.
RTM. Read The Manual.
RTSM. Read The Silly Manual.
RTWFQ. Read The Whole F**king Question.
RUMORF. Are You Male Or Female.
RUUP4IT. Are You Up For It.
RX. Prescription.
RYFM. Read Your Friendly Manual.
RYO. Roll Your Own. (write your own program; derived from cigarettes rolled yourself with tobacco
and paper)
RYS. Read Your Screen.
S. Smile.
S^ or S'up. what's up.
S4L. Spam for Life.
SAPFU. Surpassing All Previous F**k Ups.
SCNR. Sorry Could Not Resist.
SEC. Wait A Second.
SEG. S***-eating grin.
SETE. Smiling Ear To Ear.
SF. Surfer-Friendly. (low-graphics Web site)
SFLA. Stupid Four Letter Acronym.
SHCOON. Shoot Hot Coffee Out Of Nose.
SHID. Slaps Head In Disgust.
SICS. Sitting In Chair Snickering.
SITD. Still In The Dark.
SLM. See Last Mail.
SMOP. Small Matter of Programming.
SO. Significant Other.
SOB. Stressd Out Bigtime.
SOL. Smilling Out Loud or Sh*t Out of Luck.
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SOMY. Sick Of Me Yet?.
SOS. Same Old Stuff or Help!.
SOT. Short On Time.
SOTMG. Short On Time Must Go.
SOW. Speaking Of Which.
STFU. Shut The F*** Up.
STFW. Search The F**king Web.
STW. Search the Web.
SU. Shut Up.
SUAKM. Shut Up And Kiss Me.
SUFID. Screwing Up Face In Disgust.
SUL. Snooze You Loose.
SUP. What's up.
SWAG. Stupid Wild-A** Guess.
SWAK. Sealed With A Kiss.
SWIM. See What I Mean?.
SWL. Screaming With Laughter.
SYS. See You Soon.
TA. Thanks Again.
TAF. That's All Folks!.
TAFN. That’s All For Now.
TAKS. That's A Knee Slapper.
TANJ. There Ain’t No Justice.
TANSTAAFL. There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.
TARFU. Things Are Really Fouled Up.
TBD. To Be Decided.
TBYB. Try Before You Buy.
TCOY. Take Care Of Yourself.
TDM. Too Darn Many.
Tdoc. Therapist.
TDTM. Talk Dirty To Me.
TFH. Thread From Hell. (a discussion that just won't die and is often irrelevant to the purpose of the
forum or group)
TFS. Three Finger Salute (Ctl-Alt-Del).
TFTHAOT. Thanks For The Help Ahead Of Time.
TFTT. Thanks For The Thought.
TGAL. Think Globally Act Locally.
TGIF. Thank God It's Friday.
THX. Thanks.
TIA. Thanks In Advance.
TIC. Tongue In Cheek (trying hard to do something right).
TILII. Tell It Like It Is.
TINWIS. That Is Not What I Said.
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TLA. Three-Letter Acronym.
TLK2UL8R. Talk To You Later.
TMFLW. Too Much Four Letter Words.
TMI. Too Much Information.
TMTH. Too Much To Handle.
TNSTAAFL. There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.
TNT. Till Next Time.
TNTL. Trying Not To Laugh.
TNX. Thanks.
TNXE6. Thanks A Million.
TOBAL. There Oughta Be A Law.
TOBG. This Oughta Be Good.
TOPCA. Til Our Paths Cross Again.
TOY. Thinking Of You.
TPTB. The Powers That Be.
TRDMC. Tears Running Down My Cheeks.
TS. Totally Stinks.
TSR. Totally Stupid Rules.
TTBOMK. To The Best Of My Knowledge.
TTFN. Ta-Ta For Now.
TTKSF. Trying To Keep a Straight Face.
TTT. Thought That Too.
TTTT. To Tell The Truth.
TTUL. Talk To You Later.
TTYAWFN. Talk To You A While From Now.
TTYL. Talk To You Later.
TTYT. Talk To You Tomorrow.
TTYTT. To Tell You The Truth.
TX. Treatment.
TY. Thank You.
TYCLO. Turn Your CAPS LOCK Off. (Stop Shouting)
TYVM. Thank You Very Much.
UAPITA. You're A Pain In The Ass.
UOK. Are You OK?.
UW. You're Welcome.
VBG. Very Big Grin.
VBSEG. Very Big S***-Eating Grin.
WAEF. When All Else Fails.
WAG. Wild A** Guess.
WAYD. What Are You Doing.
WB. Welcome Back.
WBS. Write Back Soon.
WDALYIC. Who Died And Left You In Charge?.
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WDYMBT. What Do You Mean By That?.
WDYT. What Do You Think?.
WE. Whatever.
WEG. Wicked Evil Grin.
WFM. Works For Me.
WIBAMU. Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle.
WIBNI. Wouldn't It Be Nice If.
WMMOWS. Wash My Mouth Out With Soap.
WNOHGB. Where No One Has Gone Before.
WOA. Work Of Art.
WOTAM. Waste Of Time And Money.
WRT. With Regard To, or With Respect To.
WT. Without Thinking.
WT?. What/Who The?.
WTB. Want To Buy.
WTF. What The F***?.
WTFO. What the F***! Over!.
WTG. Way To Go!.
WTGP. Want To Go Private?.
WTH. What The Hell?.
WTN. What/Who Then Now?.
WTTM. Without Thinking Too Much.
WU?. What's Up?.
WUF?. Where are You From?.
WYGISWYPF. What You Get Is What You Pay For.
XOXOXO. Kisses and hugs.
YABA. Yet Another Bloody Acronym.
YAOTM. Yet Another Off-Topic Message.
YAUN. Yet Another Unix Nerd.
YBS. You'll Be Sorry.
YBYSA. You Bet Your Sweet A**.
YG. Young Gentleman.
YGBSM. You Gotta Be S***tin' Me!.
YGLT. You're Gonna Love This.
YGTBK. You've Got To Be Kidding.
YGTI. You Get The Idea?.
YGWYPF. You Get What You Pay For.
YIU. Yes I Understand.
YIWGP. Yes I Will Go Private.
YKWIM. You Know What I Mean.
YKYARW. You Know You're A Redneck When.
YL. Young Lady.
YM. Young Man.
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YMMV. Your Mileage May Vary.
YW. You're Welcome.
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36. Smileys
!. I have a comment.
&&&&. Pretzels.
(%>. Pizza.
(::()::). Bandaid.
(_). Mug of coffee or beer.
(_\_)(_|_)(_/_). Dancing ass off.
****. Popcorn.
,,l,. The finger.
.02. My two cents worth.
:'. Crying.
:-#. Lips are sealed.
:-&. Tongue tied.
:(. Frown.
:'-(. Crying sadly.
:-(. Sad.
:( ). Can't stop talking.
:'-). Crying with joy.
:-). Smiley. The converse is :-( to understand tilt your head 90 degrees to the left, alternatively turn
the sheet you are holding or screen you are viewing 90 degrees clockwise. There are various
similar pictograms, which are a legacy from text based computer systems. However I do not feel
it is within the scope of this serious document to cover them all (Oh well I succumbed and added
some more). ;-) Gareth
:-------). Viagra smile.
:*). Clowning, drunk, larking about.
::POOF::. Goodbye (leaving the room).
:-@. Screaming.
:-\. Undecided.
:-{}. Blowing a kiss.
:-|. Ambivalent.
:~/. Mixed Up.
:->. Devilish.
:-6. Exhausted, wiped out.
:-9. Delicious, yummy.
:-c. Bummed out.
:-I. Indifferent.
:-O. Mouth open (surprised or shocked).
:P. Disgusted (sticking out tongue).
:-Гћ~. Drooling.
;-). Wink.
;->. Devilish wink.
?. I have a question.
?€?€. Hiding, staring in the dark.
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@[_]~~. Mug of hot coffee or tea.
@}--{--{--. Rose.
[$X$]. No spam!!.
\_/. Glass (drink).
\~/. Full glass.
\M/. Heavy metal music.
\-o. Bored.
^. Thumbs up.
^5. High five.
{\o/}. Angel.
{{ }}:**. Hugs and kisses.
{{{{{{name}}}}}}. Hug (warm cyber hug).
{{{name}}}. Hug (cyber hug).
|C|. Can of Coke.
|-I. Asleep.
|-O. Yawning.
|P|. Can of Pepsi.
<<{:}}. Ice cream.
<chuckle>. The speaker chuckles.
<frown>. The speaker is frowning.
<g>. Grin.
<grin>. The speaker is grinning.
<o> <o>. Staring.
<o>Вї~~. Wink.
<sarcasm>. The one writing the message is being sarcastic. Written in the form of HTML tags, Eg:
<sarcasm>That makes sense!</sarcasm>
<smile>. The one writing the message is smiling.
<smirk>. The one writing the message is smirking.
<wink>. The one writing the message is winking.
>:-(. Angry.
>^-^<. Cat.
0;-)-x-<. The saint.
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37. Project Management
ACE. Actual Control Estimate.
ACQ. Annual Contract Quantity.
Activity. An element of work which forms the basic building block for a schedule/network. There are
different schools of thought on how detailed activity definition should be. A text I browsed
recently argued that too much detail is a waste of time and resources, a case of not being able to
see the wood for the trees. This maybe a valid point, however when my wife and I built our
house, we would not have dreamed of doing so without paying attention to detail, or being aware
of what we could expect for our money. See Task
Activity Calendar. An activities working pattern. An activity calendar defines the working and nonworking days applicable for an activity. For example engineers working a staff job in Europe might
be working 7,5 hours per day, 5 days a week, while construction personnel on a site in the desert
might be working 12 hours per day, 7 days a week. It is important to identify the working
patterns for different activities as these parameters will ultimately affect the schedule
Activity Description. A description of the work to be performed under the activity.
Activity ID. A unique reference number for the activity, required by most computerised planning
applications. In my opinion the number of characters should be kept to a bare minimum,
especially if man-hours are to be booked against them
Actual Finish Date. The actual date on which an activity is completed.
Actual Start Date. The actual date on which an activity commences.
ACWP. Actual Cost of Work Performed.
ADM. Arrow Diagramming Method. See AOA
AFC. Approved For Construction. A completed drawing that is released for construction after all
appropriate checks and controls have been performed. Same as IFC
AFD. Approved For Design. A drawing that is approved for design work. A typical example would be
P&IDs and PFDs
AFE. Approved For Engineering.
AFT. Approved For Tender.
AFWP. Actual Float on Work Performed.
AOA. Activities on the arrow. Arrow networks are diagrams where the activity is placed on the arrow,
between the nodes. The activities, together with the nodes and dummy activities (activities with
zero duration) represent the sequence in which activities will occur. The nodes for an arrow
network are drawn as circles, and dummy activities, (which act as constraints), are drawn as
dashed lines. See Network, AON, PERT, CPM, CPA
AON. Activities on the node. Precedence networks are diagrams where the activity is placed on the
node, and the arrows between the nodes represent the dependencies and sequence in which the
activities will occur. The significant difference from an arrow network is that dependencies of
different types are allowed. Finish to Start dependencies with negative lags, imply an overlap in
the activities. The nodes for a precedence network are drawn as rectangular boxes. See Network,
AOA, PERT, CPM, CPA
APO. Assigned Purchase Order. See PO
BAC. Budget At Completion. See EAC
Backward pass. The process of calculating late dates for a network. See CPA.
Bar Chart. See Ganttchart.
Baseline. A scheduling benchmark. A Project Control Baseline is the benchmark from which
subsequent schedules are measured against for deviations. The idea of benchmarking comes from
the workshop, where the work bench was marked for measuring purposes. In effect a baseline is
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a freeze of all scheduling information, for example dates and man-hours against which
subsequent changes can be measured. E.g.. schedule acceleration
BCM. Bid Clarification Meeting.
BCWP. Budget Cost of Work Performed. A term for the Earned Cost of work performed. See Earned
Value
BCWS. Budget Cost of Work Scheduled. The value of work which was scheduled to have been
completed by the Current Date
BEC. Bid Evaluate Commit.
Beta Distribution. A statistical distribution of activity durations used with PERT, these durations are
best case, expected case, and worst case.
BOOT. Build, Own, Operate, Transfer. A form of contract where the contractor finances the project.
The boot is also what a lot of project personnel get when things go wrong
BOQ. Bill Of Quantities.
BTC. Budget To Completion. See ETC
CAN. Change Advice Note.
CAP. Contract Award Price.
CAPEX. Capital Expenditure.
CAR. Corrective Action Request.
CBL. Contract Baseline. See Baseline
CBS. Cost Breakdown Structure.
CCA. Contract Criticality Assessment.
CCBL. Current Contract Baseline. See Baseline
CCC. Current Contract Contingency.
CCE. Current Control Estimate or Contract Control Estimate.
CCP. Current Contract Price.
CCSS. Current Contract Summary Schedule.
CDC. Construction Document Control.
CDP. Cost of Deferred Production.
CDS. Contract Detail Schedule.
CEP. Contractors Execution Plan.
Change. A modification to the scope of work. See Variation
Change Control. The recording, control, and notification of changes also called Variation Control.
Which ever side of the fence you are sitting on the registering and control of changes is very
important. Uncontrolled changes can be a financial disaster for a project. Quantity surveyors who
register and estimate the cost affect of project changes should not be considered as an overhead,
but as a necessity. In a nutshell changes to the scope of work can be identified by any member of
the project organisation. A project control group should be responsible for verifying that a
variation does exist and raising the appropriate change notification to the Client. The change
should be immediately distributed to the planning department and incorporated into the working
schedule, for calculation of any schedule impact. Changes that are not identified or notified to the
Client within a reasonable time, may be considered to be a part of the contractual scope of work.
See DVO, DVOR, PVN, PVOR, VI, VO, VODC, VOF, VOR
Close Out. The finalisation of a project. There is a lot of documentation and work involved with the
completion of a project, from the final invoice, through documentation for operations (user
manuals), to acceptance certificates
CMM. Corrective Maintenance Man-hours.
CMS. Construction Master Schedule. Contract Master Schedule
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CO. Change Order. See VO
Code of Accounts. A coding structure where a cost code is a single element of the account, and
each cost code uniquely identifies an element of work. See Cost Code, CBS, WBS
Communication. The science, art, skill, practice of transmitting information effectively.
Communication can take many forms from body language, tone of voice, to the written word
Compound Impact. The cumulative and downstream affect of changes. A schedule impact which
comprises of a number of inter-related episodes, risks, and extra work that can not be absorbed
within the schedules time frame, the schedule impact is usually associated with the cumulative
consequence of an unreasonable amount of changes
Constraint. A term used to describe restrictions and dependencies imposed on a schedule. There are
many factors that affect a schedule. E.g. beds available for the work force, lifting capacities,
scaffolding, logical (an activity can not start until the preceding activity is finished), working
hours, availability of skilled labour, etc
Consumable. Material, equipment, or resources that can only be used once. Welding Rods are a
consumable, once they have been used new ones need to be ordered to replace them. A welding
set on the other hand can be re-used and maintained from job to job, until it becomes irreparable
or obsolete
Contingency. A value set aside to cover for the unforeseen, which is not expected to be used. Every
budget and schedule should have a contingency reserve, of cost and time to cover for unexpected overruns
Cost Code. A Code which is an element of a code of accounts. The code is allocated to costs
(activities) which allows those costs to be summarised according to the elements of the coding
structure
CP. Construction Plan.
CPA. Critical Path Analysis. The process of calculating start and finish dates for a network. Which
provides the longest sequence of activities called the critical path. The same principles apply for
both arrow and precedence networks. CPA consists of three steps, a forward pass, a backward
pass, and float calculations. It is a simple process for a small network, but a complex and very
tedious process for large networks. The job is ideally suited for computer processing. See
Network, AON, AOA, CPM, PERT
CPI. Cost Performance Index. An indication of the difference between budgeted and actual cost
BCWP / ACWP
CPM. Critical Path Method. A network model where each activity is considered to have a duration of
fixed length. This is sometimes referred to as a 'deterministic' approach. See Network, AON, AOA,
CPA, PERT
CPST. Central Project System Tools.
CR. Criticality Rating.
Critical Path. The longest sequence of activities in a network, the critical path is only as accurate as
the network it is based on. See Network, AON, AOA, CPM, PERT, ES, EF, LS, LF, TF
CRR. Critical Review Report.
CSS. Contract Summary Schedule.
CSSR. Cost Schedule Status Report.
CTB. Central Tender Board.
CTCF. Comments To Contractor Form.
CTR Sheet. Cost, Time, Resource Sheet. A sheet which for some reason I have always associated
with engineering companies, that describes the cost, time, resources, and deliverables associated
with an activity. The equivalent for a construction site or fabrication yard would be a task sheet,
or a job card
CV. Cost Variance. CV=BCWP-ACWP
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CWE. Current Working Estimate.
CWS. Current Working Schedule.
DAFWC. Days Away From Work Cases.
Dangle. An activity in a network that does not have any predecessors or successors.
DCC. Document Control Centre.
DCQ. Daily Contract Quantity.
DCR. Design Change Request.
Dependencies. The logical links used in a precedence network to describe how activities are related
to each other. See SS, FF, FS, SF, network, CPA, AOA, AON, dummy
DFI. Design, Fabrication, Installation.
DFO. Documentation For Operation.
DFR. Design Functional Requirements.
Dummy. A dependency/constraint used in an arrow network. See AOA.
dur. Duration.
DVO. Disputed Variation Order. See Change Control, DVOR, PVN, PVOR, VI, VO, VODC, VOF, VOR
DVOR. Disputed Variation Order Request. See Change Control, DVO, PVN, PVOR, VI, VO, VODC, VOF,
VOR
EAC. Estimate at Completion. See BAC
Earned Value. The theoretical value of the work performed. Earned Value is an extension of either
an estimated base value or forecast value, and is used to aggregate progress upwards to higher
levels. The formula is Earned=(weighted value * percent complete)/100. Where the weighted
value could be just about anything from dollars, man-hours, quantities, in any permutation of
budget, forecast, multiplied by productivity and divided by my dob
ECWP. Estimated Cost of Work Performed.
ECWS. Estimated Cost of Work Scheduled.
EF. Early Finish. See ES for full description
EFCP. Estimated Final Contract Price.
ENS. Engineering Numbering System.
EO. Endrings Ordre. Norwegian for Change Order. See Change Control, OEO, DVO, PVN, PVOR, VI,
VO, VODC, VOF, VOR
EPAC. Engineering, Procurement, Assistance and Construction.
EPC. Engineering Procurement and Construction.
EPCI. Engineering. Procurement, Construction and Installation.
EPCM. Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management.
EPCS. Engineering, Procurement and Construction Supervision.
EPMS. Engineering Procurement Manufacturing Schedule.
EPP. Emergency Preparedness Plan.
EPPS. Engineering Procurement Production Schedule.
ES. Early Start. Early start and finish dates are calculated during a forward pass of the network. If the
first activity starts on day 1 and has a duration of 5 days its ES will be day 1 and it's EF day 5.
Any activities succeeding it will start on day 6. However when the start of an activity is dependent
on more than one preceding activity it's ES date is the maximum EF date of the preceding
activities. EF = ES + Duration. The EF date of the last activity in the network is the expected
completion date of the project. The expected completion date represents the longest sequence of
activities in the network, this sequence of activities is called the critical path. See FS, SS, TF, FF,
ES, EF, LS, LF, Network, AON, AOA, CPM, CPA
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ETC. Estimate To Completion. See BTC
Event. A happening of importance. A milestone. The circle used to indicate the start point and finish
point of an activity in an Activity on the Arrow Network.
FAC. Forecast At Completion. See BAC, EAC
FAT. Factory Acceptance Test. Tests performed at the factory prior to dispatch to site
FD. Fabrication Dossier.
FF. Finish to Finish. Precedence network constraint. FF constraints are drawn from the finish of a
node to the finish of the succeeding node, and imply that the succeeding activity can not finish
until the preceding activity is completed. See FS, SS, TF, FF, Network, AON, AOA, CPM, CPA,
PERT
FF. Free Float. The difference between the EF of an activity and the minimum ES of any succeeding
activities. FF represents the amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying any
succeeding activities. FF = EF - minimum (ES of any succeeding activities)
Float. The amount of time an activity can slip without having a knock-on effect on other activities.
See CPA, TF, FF, IF
Forward pass. The process of calculating early dates for a network. See CPA.
FS. Finish to Start. Precedence network constraint. FS constraints are drawn from the end of a node
to the start of the succeeding node, and imply that the succeeding activity can not start until the
preceding activity is completed. See SS, FF, TF, FF, Network, AON, AOA, CPM, CPA, PERT
FSA. Final Site Acceptance.
FTC. Forecast To Completion. See BTC, ETC
Gantt Chart. During the 1800’s Mr. Henry Gantt suggested pictorially illustrating when different tasks
should be completed. A ganttchart or barchart is named after Mr Gantt and shows a list of
activities with their start and finish dates represented by bars which are proportional in length to
their Duration. The bars are positioned along a horizontal time scale, in the sequence that they
are to be performed
HES. Health, Environment, & Safety.
HMS. Health, Environment, & Safety. Norwegian.
HRM. Human Resource Management.
HSE. Health, Safety and Environment.
i Node. The node at the start of an activity in a AOA network.
IDC. Inter Discipline Check. Clash check. A check performed on a drawing by all disciplines to insure
that there are no clashes (collisions) between them
IF. Independent Float. See TF, FF, Float, CPA, Slack
IFC. Issued For Construction. A completed drawing that is released for construction after all
appropriate checks and controls have been taken. Same as AFC
IFT. Issued For Tender.
Integration. Combining parts into a whole. Joining together into equal membership of community
disregarding race or religion. Buzz word for making a team perform effectively
Interface. A common boundary between two regions. A place, a piece of equipment, or an element
of information where interaction occurs between two systems
j Node. The node at the end of an activity in a AOA network.
Ketchup Bottle Effect. An undesirable situation where everything comes at once. A syndrome that
many people have experienced on a project, the term is derived from the concept 'shake oh,
shake the ketchup bottle, none will come and then a lot will'
KS. Kvalitetssikring. Norwegian for Quality Control.
LCA. Life Cycle Assessment.
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LCC. Life Cycle Cost. The estimate of the total expected cost of an element or product over it's
expected life time
LCI. Life Cycle Information.
LCP. Life Cycle Profit. The estimate of the total expected economic profit that may be gained from an
element or product over it's expected life time
LF. Late Finish. See LS for full description
LRE. Last Revised Estimate. LRE=ACWP+ETC
LS. Late Start. Late start and finish dates are calculated during a backward pass of the network.
Calculations are started with a completion date, which may be the expected completion date
computed during the forward pass, or a target completion date that is imposed. If the last activity
in the network has a LF on day 10 and a duration of 5 days its LS date will be day 6. Any activities
preceding it will have a LF date of day 5. However when the Late Finish of an activity is
dependent on more than one succeeding activity it's LF date is the minimum LS date of the
succeeding activities. LS = LF - Duration. The LS date of the first activity in the network is the
latest date that the project must start on if the objectives of the network are to be met. If the
expected completion date of the project calculated during the forward pass was used as the LF
date of the last activity in the network, then the LS date of the first activity in the network will be
equal to it's ES date. See FS, SS, TF, FF, ES, EF, LS, LF, Network, AON, AOA, CPM, CPA
LS. Lump Sum.
LTI. Lost Time Injury. A measure of safety performance. An injury that results in a worker not being
able to continue working
LTIF. Lost Time Injury Frequency. A measure of safety performance
Management by Project. The term used to describe the process of applying project management
techniques to traditional management processes.
MCS. Master Control Schedule.
MDR. Master Document Register. See SDR
Milestone. An event. An activity of zero duration which represents a significant deliverable or stage
of the project.
Milestone Plan. A plan containing the project milestones that represent the significant deliverables
or stages of a project.
MIS. Management Information System.
Monte Carlo Analysis. A risk/probability analysis performed on a network. See PERT
MPP. Manpower Projection Plan.
MTO. Material Take Off.
Negative Float. Where total float is computed to a minus figure. Minus float in theory represents
how many time units the expected completion date of a network has been delayed. In practice
however it depends on the quality of the logic that the network is built on and the size of it's
activities. See CPA, network, TF, ES, EF, LS, LF
Network. A network in a scheduling context is a chain of interconnected activities that describe the
sequence and the duration required to complete a particular project. A network is a model of the
execution philosophy for a project, just as an electrical nodal diagram is a two-dimensional model
of cable conduits, trays, and racks. See AOA, AON, PERT, CPM, CPA
Node. A junction or connection point. Eg. used in precedence and arrow networks. Eg. used in
precedence and arrow networks as connection points for the logic of the network. With
Precedence networks the activity is on the node, and with arrow networks the activity is on the
connector
OBS. Organisational Breakdown Structure.
OEO. Omtvistet Endrings Ordre. Norwegian for Disputed Change Order. See Change Control, EO,
DVO, PVN, PVOR, VI, VO, VODC, VOF, VOR
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PA. Product Assurance.
PBL. Project Baseline. See Baseline
PCB. Project Control Baseline. See Baseline
PCE. Preliminary Control Estimate.
PCS. Preliminary Control Schedule.
PDM. Precedence Diagramming Method. See AON
PDM. Precedence Diagram Method. See AON, Network, CPA
PDP. Program Definition Phase.
PDS. Programme Definition Stage.
PEP. Project Execution Plan.
Percent Complete. An assessment of the progress achieved. The definition of progress is 'to
advance', while the terms physical progress or percent complete used in status reporting are a
percentage expression of the proportion of completeness of a given activity or task
PERT. Program Evaluation Review Technique. PERT was developed in the mid 50s by the United
States Navy for use on it's Polaris missile programme. It is a method of evaluating probable
outcomes based on three scenarios. Best case, expected case, and worst case. The term is often
misused to mean critical path analysis. The model allows for variable activity duration. a =
optimistic duration, m = realistic duration, b = pessimistic duration. See Network, AON, AOA,
CPM, CPA
Physical Progress. See Percent Complete.
PMS. Project Master Schedule.
PO. Purchase Order.
POM. Project Organisation Manual.
PPFP. Procurement Package and Follow-up Plan.
Predecessor. The activity or activities that come before the current activity. See Successor, CPA,
Network, AOA, AON
Priority. Ranking activities to be performed in the order that they need to be performed. Ensuring
that priorities are set and met (being goal orientated) is essential. See ketchup affect
Productivity Factor. A theoretical measurement of effectivness. The ratio of actual manhours
expended to estimated manhours earned. The formula is Productivity=Actual/Earned. If the value
is greater than 1 then productivity is poor, or the estimate is poor, or too little progress is being
claimed, etc, etc. On the other hand if the value is less than 1 then productivity is good, or there
is a lot of slack in the estimate, or too much progress is being claimed, etc, etc. As a footnote
some organisations calculate productivity factor as Earned/Actual which can be confusing
Project. An undertaking with a clearly defined goal, that is undertaken within a given time scale and
budget. Some contemporary texts on the subject attempt to argue that in addition, a project is a
unique venture carried out by a temporary organisation. This maybe the case, all snow flakes are
undoubtedly unique, snow however is still snow
Project Phase. Specific periods within a project. Project phases vary according to the undertaking,
and the type of industry involved. Phases tend to overlap, and as one phase reaches completion
the next phase tends to attract more attention. An example of project phases, Engineering,
Procurement, Fabrication, Installation, Commissioning, Operations
PS. Provisional Sum.
PSS. Project Summary Schedule.
PTCE. Pre-Tender Cost Estimate.
PVN. Project Variation Notice. See Change Control, DVO, DVOR, PVOR, VI, VO, VODC, VOF, VOR
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PVOR. Pending Variation Order Request. A preliminary notification to the client that contractor
believes a variation to the scope of work exists. See Change Control, DVO, DVOR, PVN, VI, VO,
VODC, VOF, VOR
QA. Quality Assurance.
QC. Quality Control.
QOS. Quality Of Service.
QP. Quality Plan.
QS. Quantity Surveyor.
QS. Quality Surveillance.
RDU. Remaining Duration.
RFQ. Request for Quotation.
Risk Analysis. The examination of the potential risks involved with the execution of a project. Risk
Analysis is the assessment of the likelihood or probability of a risk occurring and what it's impact
on the project will be. A technique like PERT or Monte Carlo might be employed, 'brainstorming' is
also quite a good technique, as well as good old common sense, and a nice fat contingency
(which of course is not to be used)
Runaway Project. A project that is like a runaway train, hard to bring under control. Typified by a
constantly changing design, changing scope, lack of change control, slippage, and budget
problems
SCCS. Standard Cost Coding System.
SDDR. Supplier's Drawing and Document Register.
SDR. Supplier Document Register. See MDR
SDRL. Standard Document Requirement List.
SHE. Safety, Health, and Environment.
SI. Site Instruction.
Slippage. Quantifiable delays to the schedule. The time difference between the latest scheduled
dates for an Activity and the Baseline dates
SMDL. Standard Master Document List.
SMDR. Suppliers Master Document Register.
SOW. Scope Of Work. The definition of work to be performed, usually accompanied by a specification
of the work to be performed
SPI. Schedule Performance Indicator. SPI = BCWP / BCWS
SQ. Site Query. What you send the engineer when you are unclear of the intention of the drawing, or
wish to construct it another way
SS. Start to Start. Precedence network constraint. SS constraints are drawn from the start of a node
to the start of the succeeding node, and imply that the succeeding activity can not start until the
preceding activity has started. See FS, FF, TF, FF, Network, AON, AOA, CPM, CPA, PERT
Status. Standing or progress of a project, activity, or task in relation to a schedule at any given time.
Successor. The activity or activities that come after the current activity. See Predecessor, CPA,
Network, AON, AOA
SV. Schedule Variance. SV=BCWP-BCWS
Task. An item of work to be performed. A task is a detailed definition of the scope of work and is
related to an activity in a many to one, or possibly one to one relationship. Referenced
information for each task should include a work description, required engineering information,
material requirements and estimated man-hours. In addition codes to uniquely number the task
and identify it with it's corresponding activity, location, sub-system, the originator, and whether
the task is original contract scope or varied scope. Quite often the term task is misused to mean
activity, when infact tasks are a breakdown of an activity into smaller packets of work. For
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example an activity maybe defined as 'Foundation for heat exchanger abc', the tasks for which
might be defined as, excavate, lean concrete, formwork, re-bar, anchor bolts, pour concrete,
curing time. See Activity, MTO, BOQ
TF. Total Float. The difference between the late dates and the early dates. TF represents the amount
of time an activity can be delayed without affecting the expected completion date computed
during the forward pass. TF = EF - ES or TF = LF - EF
TQM. Total Quality Management.
Turnkey. Delivery of a product ready for use.
Var. Norwegian abbreviation for duration (varighet).
Variation. A modification to the scope of work. See Change
VDL. Vendor Documentation List.
VI. Variation Instruction. See Change Control, DVO, DVOR, PVN, PVOR, VO, VODC, VOF, VOR
VO. Variation Order. A formal client approved order that the scope of work has changed. A variation
order can be initiated either by the client or by the contractor through a notification routine. See
Change Control, DVO, DVOR, PVN, PVOR, VI, VODC, VOF, VOR
VODC. Variation Order with Disputed Consequences. See Change Control, DVO, DVOR, PVN, PVOR,
VI, VO, VOF, VOR
VOF. Variation Order Forecast. See Change Control, DVO, DVOR, PVN, PVOR, VI, VO, VODC, VOR
VOR. Variation Order Request. A notification to the client that contractor believes a variation to the
scope of work exists. See Change Control, DVO, DVOR, PVN, PVOR, VI, VO, VODC, VOF
WBS. Work Breakdown Structure. A hierarchical definition of the scope of work, where a work
package is an element of the WBS. As with most things a simple WBS works best. A common
WBS breakdown is into project phases, where work packages may be defined as Engineering,
Procurement, Fabrication, Installation, and Commissioning. These work packages might be further
sub-divided into disciplines, and then into elements of work, like procedures, drawings, studies.
Another approach is to define each work package as a major element of work. For example each
module in a North Sea platform. Each work package is then sub-divided into project phases, and
disciplines. There are of course many ways to skin a cat, and the most suitable breakdown will
ultimately depend on the type of project, and it's complexity
Work Package. A work package is an element of a Work Breakdown Structure.
WP. Work Package.
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