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| A | Adenin (DNA-Base/DNA base) |
| a... | Atto... (Präfix/prefix): 10-18 |
| AA | Anhydrous Ammonia |
| AA | Atomic Absorption |
| AA | Automatic (or: Automated) Attendant [Facility] (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AA | Automobile Association (UK) |
| AAA | Abdominal Aortic Aneurism (Medicine) |
| AAA | Akademisches Auslandsamt |
| AAA | American Association of Anatomists |
| AAA | American Automobile Association |
| AAA | Aromatic Amino Acid |
| AAA | Austrian Acoustics Association |
| AAA | Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AAAA | Alps-Adria Acoustics Association (seit/since Sept. 2002) |
| AAAA | Authentication, Authorization, Accounting and Auditing (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AAAF | Association Aéronautique et Astronautique de France |
| AAAI | American Association for Artificial Intelligence |
| AAAS | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| AABBA | Aural Assessment by Means of Binaural Algorithms (international expert group) |
| AAC | Academic Assistance Council (London, UK, since April 1933; later on: SPSL) |
| AAC | Advanced Audio Coding |
| AACG | American Association for Crystal Growth |
| AAC-LD | Low-Delay Advanced Audio Coding |
| AACR | American Association for Cancer Research |
| AAES | American Association of Engineering Societies |
| AAF | Anterior Auditory Field (im Gehirn/in the brain) |
| AAG | Aufwendungsausgleichsgesetz |
| AAI | Austrian Archeological Institute |
| AAID | American Academy of Implant Dentisty |
| AAL | Ambient Assisted Living (Fraunhofer-Allianz) |
| AAL | ATM Adaptation Layer |
| AALL | American Association of Law Libraries |
| AAM | Advanced Acoustic Model |
| AAP | Australian Academic Press |
| AAPM | American Association of Physicists in Medicine |
| AAPS | American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists |
| AAPPS | Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies |
| AAPT | American Association of Physics Teachers |
| AARD | Advanced Accelerator Research and Development |
| AARI | ([St. Petersburger] Institut für Arktis- und Antarktisforschung) |
| AARTFAAC | Amsterdam-ASTRON Radio Transients Facility and Analysis Centre |
| AARV | Arctic Area Research Vessel |
| AAS | Advanced Automation System |
| AAS | American Astronautical Society |
| AAS | American Astronomical Society |
| AAS | Atomic Absorption Spectrometry, Atom-Absorptions-Spektrometrie |
| AAS | Australian Acoustical Society |
| AASCU | American Association of State Colleges and Universities |
| AASF | Afrikanisch-Asiatische Studentenförderung e.V. (Göttingen) |
| AASHTO | American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials |
| AAT | Anglo-Australian Telescope |
| AATSR | Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ENVISAT) |
| AAU | Association of American Universities |
| AAUP | American Association of University Professors (or: Presses) (USA) |
| AAUW | American Association of University Women |
| AAV | adeno-assoziierte Viren |
| AAV | [Yakir] Aharonov, [David] Albert, [Lev] Vaidman (novel approach to quantum mechanics, published 1988) |
| AB | Alberta (Province of Canada) |
| ABA | American Board of Audiology |
| ABA | Applied Behavioural Analysis |
| ABB | Asea Brown Boveri AG (Mannheim, DE) |
| ABC | Absorbing Boundary Condition (acoustics) |
| ABC | Atanasoff-Berry Computer (Iowa State College, USA, 1938–1942) |
| ABDO | Allgemeine Bestimmungen für Diplomprüfungsordnungen |
| ABE | Amtliche Betriebserlaubnis (Typprüfung Kfz) |
| ABE | Automated Benthic Explorer |
| ABET | Accrediting Board of Engineering and Technology (USA) |
| ABG | Automatiserte biometriegestützte Grenzkontrolle |
| ABK | Allgemeine berufsqualifizierende Kompetenzen (im Bachelor-Studiengang) |
| ABL | [Yakir] Aharonov, [Peter] Bergmann, [Joel] Lebovitz (novel approach to quantum mechanics, published 1964) |
| ABL | Airborne Laser (US Waffe/weapon) |
| ABM | Advanced Buffer Material |
| ABM | Agent-Based Model |
| ABM | Anti-Ballistic Missile |
| ABMF | Account Balance Management Function (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ABPI | Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry |
| ABR | Auditory Brainstem Response |
| ABR | Available Bit Rate |
| ABRIXAS | A Broad-Band Imaging X-Ray All-Sky Survey (Satellit 1999, aufgegeben/satellite 1999, abandoned) |
| ABS | Accelerator and Beam Science |
| ABS | Acrylnitril-Butadien-Styrol |
| ABS | Alternate Billing Service |
| ABS | Antiblockiersystem; Anti-Lock Braking System (Kfz/motor vehicle) |
| ABS | Automatic Block Signaling (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| ABT | Ausschuss für Begutachtertraining (DAR, Normungsarbeit) |
| ABU | Asia(-Pacific) Broadcasting Union |
| ABV | Alcohol by Volume |
| AC | Accelerator Cluster (supercomputing) |
| AC | Access Controller (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AC | Admission Control (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AC | Air Conditioning |
| AC | Alternating Current (Wechselstrom) |
| AC | Attachment Circuit (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AC | Auditory Cortex |
| ACA | Academic Cooperation Association (europäische Organisation/European organisation) |
| ACA | Aircraft Carrier Alliance (GB) |
| ACA | American Crystallographic Association |
| ACA | Arms Control Association |
| ACA | Atacama Compact Array |
| ACACIA | Arid Climate, Adaptation and Cultural Innovation in Africa (SFB 389 der DFG) |
| ACAM | Aachen Center for Additive Manufacturing |
| ACAP | Advanced Common Application Platform (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ACAP | Automated Content Access Protocol (Urheberrecht/copyright) |
| A-CAPI | Accessnet®-T-Common Application Programming (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AC-APU | Air-Conditioning Auxiliary Power Unit |
| ACARE | Advisory Council for Aeronautic(s) (or: Aviation) Research (and Innovation) in Europe |
| A-CBC | Akkreditierungsagentur für die Studiengänge Chemie, Biochemie und Chemieingenieurwesen an Universitäten und Fachhochschulen |
| ACC | Active (or: Adaptive) Cruise Control (Kfz/motor vehicle) |
| ACC | Advanced Cruise Control |
| ACC | Antarctic Circumpolar Current (of the ocean) |
| ACC | Anterior Cingulate Cortex |
| ACC | Anticollision Code (Fingerabdruck für Multimedia/Fingerprint for Multimedia) |
| ACCase | Acetyl-CoA-Carboxylase (Enzym) |
| ACCES | Airport and Control Center Simulator (DLR) |
| ACCESS | Alternative Fuel Effects on Contrails and Cruise Emissions (aircraft fuel) |
| ACCESS | Attenuating Custom Communication Earpiece System (active noise reduction earplug) |
| ACCESS | Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator |
| ACCP | American College of Clinical Pharmacology |
| ACCU | Advisory Committee of CERN Users |
| ACD | Advanced Chemistry Development |
| ACD | Automatic Call Distribution |
| ACDA | Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (USA 1962) |
| A-CDM | Airport Collaborative Decision Making |
| ACE | Advanced Composition Explorer (NASA) |
| ACE | Advanced Computing Environment |
| ACE | Advanced Control Education |
| ACE | American Council on Exercise |
| ACE | Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme |
| ACE | Antenna Coupling Equipment (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ACE | Application Creation Environment (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ACE | Atmospheric Compensation Experiment (adaptive Optik/adaptive optics) |
| ACE | Community Action for Cooperation in the Field of Economics (EU) |
| ACELP | Adaptive Code-Excited Linear Prediction |
| ACEnet | Atlantic Computational Excellence Network |
| ACES | Active Control Evaluation for Systems |
| ACES | Atlantic Coral Ecosystem Study |
| ACES | Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space |
| ACES | Optimal Acoustic Equivalent Source Descriptors for Automotive Noise Modelling |
| ACESA | Advanced Composites with Embedded Sensors and Actuators |
| ACEX | Arctic Coring Expedition |
| ACF | Autocorrelation Function |
| ACI | Adjacent Channel Interference (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ACI | American Competitive Initiative |
| ACIA | Asynchronous Communication Interface Adapter |
| ACK | Acknowledege(ment) (Datenübertragung/data transfer) |
| ACL | Access Control List (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ACL | Active and Cooperative Learning (Signalverarbeitung/signal processing) |
| ACL | Agent Communication Languages |
| ACL | Asynchronous Connectionless Link (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ACLR | Adjacent Channel Leakage (Power) Ratio (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ACM | Acoustic Current Meter |
| ACM | Active Control Mount |
| ACM | Adaptive Coding (and) Modulation |
| ACM | Association for Computing Machinery |
| ACMA | Automotive Component Manufacturers Association |
| ACME | Advanced Cold Molecule Electron Restraint System (air bag) |
| ACMP | American College of Medical Physics |
| ACMP | Applied and Computational Mathematics Program (in DARPA) |
| ACO | Ant Colony Optimization |
| ACP | Advanced Computing Project (Fermilab, ≈ 1980) |
| ACP | Adjacent Channel Power (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ACP | American Center of (or: for) Physics (College Park, MD, USA) |
| ACP | American College of Physicians |
| ACPS | Advection-Dominated Accretion Flow (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| ACQ | Active Quenching Circuitry |
| ACRC | Advanced Computing Research Centre (University of Bristol, UK) |
| ACRE | Atmospheric Circulation Reconstruction |
| ACRIDICON | Aerosol, Cloud, Precipitation and Radiation Interactions and Dynamics of Convective Cloud Systems |
| ACRL | Adjacent Channel Leakage Power Ratio (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ACRL | Association of College & Research Libraries |
| ACRS | Air Cushion Restraint System |
| ACRV | Assured Crew Return Vehicle (Raumfahrt/spacecraft) |
| ACS | Advanced Camera for Surveys (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| ACS | akutes Koronarsyndrom |
| ACS | American Cancer Society |
| ACS | American Chemical Society |
| ACS | Assoziazione Controllo Strutturale (IT) |
| ACS | Attitude Control System (Raketentechnik/rocket control) |
| ACS | Automated Characterization Suite (software) |
| ACSI | American Customer Satisfaction Index |
| ACSI | Atari Computer System Interface |
| ACSR | Active Control of Structural Response |
| ACT | Active Control Technology (Flugzeug/aircraft) |
| ACT | Adaptive Cell Transfer, adaptiver Zelltransfer |
| ACT | Advanced Concepts Team (ESA) |
| ACT | African Centre for Technology Studies |
| ACT | Antichymotrypsin (Plasmaprotein) |
| ACT | Atacama Cosmology Telescope |
| ACT | autologe Chrondrozytentransplantation (körpereigene Knorpelzellen-Transplantation) |
| ACTA | Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement |
| ACTA | Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope Array |
| ACTD | Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (USA) |
| ACTH | Adrenocorticotropes Hormon |
| ACTS | Advanced Communication Technologies and Services (EC) |
| ACVB | Aortokoronarer Venen-Bypass (Gefäßchirurgie) |
| AD | Administration Module |
| AD | Alzheimer's Disease |
| AD | Andorra (ISO 3166) |
| AD | ante dominum |
| AD | Antiproton Decelerator |
| AD | Authorized Domain |
| ADA | Acoustic Distribution Array |
| ADA | American Disabilities Act |
| ADAC | Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobilclub |
| Adaline | Adaptive Linear Element |
| ADANO | Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Audiologen und Neurootologen |
| ADAPT | Accent on Developing Abstract Processes of Thought |
| ADAS | Advanced Driver Assistance System |
| ADASIS | Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Interface Specification |
| ADASIS RP | ADASIS Research Platform |
| ADAV | Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein (seit 1863) |
| ADBS | Association des professionels de l'information et de la documentation (FR) |
| ADC | Analog-to-Digital Converter |
| ADC | Animal Defence Corps (Tierversuchsgegner) |
| ADC | Antibody-Drug-Conjugate |
| ADC | Automatic Development Chamber |
| ADC | Automotive Distance Control |
| ADCP | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (oceanic flow measurement) |
| ADDRESS | Active Distribution Networks with Full Integration of Demand and Distributed Energy Resources |
| (EU project, 25 partners in 11 countries: BE, CH, DE, ES, FI, FR, IT, NL, RO, SE, UK) |
| ADEA | Age Discrimination in Employment Act (USA) |
| ADELE | Adiabatischer Druckluftspeicher für die Elektrizitätsversorgung |
| ADEPT | Advanced Dark Energy Physics Telescope |
| ADEPT | Antibody Directed Enzyme Prodrug Therapy (Krebstherapie/cancer therapy) |
| ADF | Allotrope Data Format |
| ADF | Annular Dark Field (electron detector) |
| ADFC | Allgemeiner Deutscher Fahrrad Club |
| ADFLICO | Adaptive Flight Control for Advanced Aircraft Concepts (DLR) |
| ADHD | Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (= ADHS) |
| ADHS | Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-Hyperaktivitätssyndrom (oder: -störung) (= ADHD) |
| ADI | Acceptable Daily Intake (Europäische Behörde für Lebensmittelrecht) |
| ADI | Angular Diffraction Imaging |
| AdL | Akademie der Landwirtschaftswissenschaften (ehem./former DDR) |
| ADL | All-Digital Loop (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ADLC | Adaptive Liquid-Crystal Lens |
| ADLIP | All Dome Laser Image Projector (Planetarium/planetarium) |
| ADM | Add/Drop Multiplexer (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ADM | Allotrope Data Model |
| ADM | Area Dimensional Model (Lärmbewertung/noise rating) |
| ADM | [Richard] Arnowitt, [Stanley] Deser, [Charles] Misner (gravitational equations) |
| ADM | Atmospheric Dynamics Mission (planned satellite with Lidar) |
| ADMIRE | Advanced Data Mining and Integration Research for Europe (at EPCC) |
| ADMX | Axion Dark Matter Experiment (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) |
| ADN | Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst (DDR) |
| ADN | Ammoniumdinitramid (Sprengstoff/explosive) |
| ADN | Automotive Design Network |
| ADOCS | Advanced Digital Optical Control System (Flugzeug/aircraft) |
| ADONIS | Acoustic Daylight Ocean Noise Imaging System |
| ADONIS | Adaptive Optics Near Infrared System (Teleskop/telescope, ESO, La Silla, Chile) |
| ADP | Adenosindiphosphat |
| ADP | Ammoniumdihydrogenphosphat |
| ADP | Avalanche Photodiode |
| ADPA | American Defense Preparedness Association |
| ADPCM | Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation |
| ADR | Accumulated Doppler Range (Satellitenortungsverfahren/satellite locating) |
| ADR | Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator |
| ADR | Automatic Defect Review (for semiconductor wafers) |
| ADR | Automatic (or: Automated) Dialog Replacement (movie development) |
| ADRCS | Automatic Data Recording and Control System |
| AdRIA | Adaptronik – Research, Innovation, Application |
| ADRIA | Advanced Displays Research Integration Action |
| ADS | Accelerator Driven System (trans-mutation of nuclear waste) |
| ADS | Active Denial System (a weapon) |
| AdS | Anti-de-Sitter (Raum, theoretische Physik) |
| ADS | Astrophysics Data System (SAO/NASA online) |
| ADSB | Auto(matic) Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (Flugverkehr/air traffic) |
| AdS/CFT | Anti–de Sitter/Conformal Field Theory (solid state physics) |
| ADSL | Asymmetric(al) Digital Subscriber Loop (or: Line) |
| ADT | Articulated Dump Trucks (off-road vehicles) |
| ADTF | Automotive Data and Time Triggered Framework (Kfz-Technik) |
| ADTM | [Fraunhofer-]Arbeitsgruppe für Drahtlose Kommunikations- und Multimediatechnik (Erlangen) |
| ADTV | Advanced Definition Television |
| ADUC | Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher Universitätsprofessoren für Chemie |
| ADV | Acoustic Droplet Vaporization |
| ADV | Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Verkehrsflughäfen |
| AdW | Akademie der Wissenschaften (ehem./former DDR) |
| AE | Acoustic Emission |
| AE | American English |
| AE | Application Enabler (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AE | Astronomische Einheit (Entfernung Erde–Sonne/distance Earth–Sun = 1.49 × 1011 m) |
| AE | Vereinigte Arabische Emirate/United Arab Emirates (ISO 3166) |
| AEB | Automatic Emergency Break |
| AEC | Architecture/Engineering/Construction (Industrie/industry) |
| AEC | Atomic Energy Commission (USA) |
| AECL | Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd. |
| AECSFE | Asymmetric Elliptic-Cone-Shaped Fibre Endface (Faseroptik/fiber optics) |
| AECSM | Asymmetric Elliptic-Cone-Shaped Microlens (Faseroptik/fiber optics) |
| AED | Automatisierter Externer Defibrillator |
| AED | Automotive Electronics Department (ARAI, India) |
| AEE | Office of Environment and Energy (FAA) |
| AEF | Normenausschuss Einheiten und Formelzeichen |
| AEG | Allgemeine Elektrizitätsgesellschaft |
| AEGOS | African-European Georesources Observation System (22 partners in 18 countries: |
| BE, BF, CZ, DE, ET, FI, FR, GH, GN, NL, PL, PT, SN, TZ, UG, UK, ZA, ZM) |
| AEI | Albert-Einstein-Institut (Hannover und Potsdam) |
| AEI | Automatic Equipment Identification |
| AEKOS | Australian Ecological Knowledge and Observations System |
| AEL | Accessible Emission Limit |
| AEM | Analytical Electron Microscopy |
| AEM | Area Equivalent Method (Lärmbewertung/noise rating) |
| AEMT | [Fraunhofer-]Arbeitsgruppe für Elektronische Medientechnologie |
| AEP | Academic Endorsement Point |
| AEP | Académie Européenne de Philatélie |
| AEP | Akustisch evozierte Potentiale, Auditory Evoked Potentials |
| AEPI | Atmospheric Emissions Photometric Imaging |
| AER | Astronomy-Education Research |
| AEROTROP | Impact of Aircraft Emissions on the Heterogeneous Chemistry of the Tropopause Region (DLR research group) |
| AERTOs | Associated European Research and Technology Organisations |
| AES | Academic Endorsement System |
| AES | Advanced Encryption Standard |
| AES | Application Environment Services |
| AES | Associate Executive Secretary |
| AES | Audio Engineering Society |
| AES | Auger-Elektronen-Spektroskopie / Auger Electron Spectroscopy |
| AESS | Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society |
| AEÜ | Archiv für elektrische Übertragung (Zeitschrift) |
| AEV | All-Electric Vehicle |
| AEV | FhAZ für Entsorgungs- und Verkehrslogistik (Wildau, Brandenburg) |
| AEWA | [Afrikanisch-Eurasisches Regionalabkommen zur Erhaltung der Wasservögel] |
| AF | Afghanistan (ISO 3166) |
| AF | Application Function (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AF | Assured Forwarding (Datenübertragung/data transfer) |
| AF | Audio Frequency |
| AFAL | Air Force Astronautics Laboratory |
| AFAS | Abteilung für Angewandte Systemanalyse (Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe) |
| AFB | Air Force Base (USA) |
| AFC | Alkali Fuel Cell |
| AFCRL | Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (Cambridge, MA, USA) |
| AFCS | Automatic Flight Control System |
| AFD | Anticipatory Failure Determination |
| AFDX | Avionics Full Duplex Switched Ethernet (Luftfahrttechnik/aircraft technology) |
| AFE | Analog Front End (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AFECT | Acoustical Foundation for Education and Charitable Trust (Indien/India) |
| AFEX | Ammonia Fiber Expansion (Chemie/chemistry) |
| AFFDL | Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, USA |
| Afis | [French Association for Science Education] |
| AFIT | Air Force Institute of Technology (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH, USA) |
| AFM | Atomic Force Microscope |
| AFMS | Advanced Flight Management System (DLR) |
| AFN | Alliance for Nature (Umweltorganisation) |
| AFN | Ammonia Fuel Network |
| AFNM | Arbeitsgemeinschaft Fachdidaktik der Naturwissenschaften und der Mathematik |
| AFO | Allotrope Foundation Ontology |
| AFO | Auftragsforschung [und -entwicklung] Ost (BMFT) |
| AFOB | Asian Federation of Biotechnology |
| AFOSR | Air Force Office of Scientific Research (USA) |
| AFOTEC | US Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center |
| AFP | Antifreeze Proteins |
| AFP | Automated Fibre Placement Technology |
| AFPAC | Anglo–French Physical Acoustics Conference |
| AFR | Air-Fuel Ratio (Verbrennungsmotor/internal combustion engine) |
| AFRL | Air Force Research Laboratory (Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH, USA) |
| AFRPL | Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory (Edwards Air Force Base, CA, USA) |
| AFS | Advanced Freephone Service |
| AFS | Advanced Frontlighting System (Kfz/motor vehicle) |
| AFS | Aluminum Foam Sandwich |
| AFS | American Field Service |
| AfSIS | Africa Soil Information Service (at CIAT) |
| AFSPC | Air Force Space Command (Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, USA) |
| AFSR | Array-Fed Shaped Reflector (Satellitenantenne/satellite antenna) |
| AFTEC | Acoustic Fusion Technology Energy Consortium (USA) |
| AFTN | Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunication Network |
| AG | Aktiengesellschaft |
| AG | Antigua and Barbuda (ISO 3166) |
| AG | Arbeitsgruppe |
| AG | Array Gain |
| AG | Astronomische Gesellschaft e.V. |
| AGARD | Advisory Group for Aeronautical (or: Aerospace) Research and Development, North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| AGASA | Akeno Giant Air Shower Array (Japan, zum Nachweis kosmischer Strahlung/detection of cosmic radiation) |
| AGASP | Arctic Gas and Aerosol Sampling Program |
| AGB | Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen |
| AGB | Asymptotic Giant Branch (Astronomie/astronomy) |
| AGB | Automatische Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung (Kfz/motor vehicle) |
| AG-BL | Arbeitsgemeinschaft Forschungseinrichtungen Blaue Liste |
| AGC | Automatic Gain Control |
| AGC | [Fraunhofer-] Anwendungszentrum für Computergraphik in Chemie und Pharmazie |
| AGC | Autorail Grande Capacité (Diesel-Zug/Diesel train) |
| AGCF | Access Gateway Control Function (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AGCH | Absolute Grant Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AGEE | Arbeitsgruppe Erneuerbare Energien |
| AGEG | Arbeitsgemeinschaft Europäischer Grenzregionen |
| AGF | Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Großforschungseinrichtungen |
| AGIL | Arbeitsgemeinschaft Internet und Linguistik (Göttingen) |
| AGIS | Advanced Gamma-Ray Imaging (US project) |
| AGIS | Astrometric Global Iterative Solution (astronomy) |
| AGK | aktiver galaktischer Kern (Astronomie/astronomy, = AGN) |
| AGKr | Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kristallographie |
| AGMA | American Gear Manufacturers Association |
| AGN | Active Galactic Nucleus (= AGK) |
| AGNSS | Assisted Global Navigation Satellite System |
| AGORA | Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture |
| AGP | Autism Genome Project |
| A-GPS | Assisted Global Positioning System |
| AGR | Architectural Gear Ratio (Muskelkontraktion/muscle contraction) |
| AGRE | Autism Genetic Resource Exchange |
| AGS | Alternating Gradient Synchrotron |
| AGTD | Applied Geoscience and Technology Division (of the Pacific Community, SPC) |
| AGU | American Geophysical Union |
| AGV | Arbeitgeberverband |
| AGV | Automatic Guided Vehicle |
| AGW | Access Gateway (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AGWN | Additive Gaussian White Noise, additives Gaußsches weißes Rauschen |
| AH | Adaptive Hypermedien |
| A.H. | Anno Hegirae (islamischer Kalender, ab 622 n. Chr.) |
| AHA | American Heart Association |
| AHAM | Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (USA) |
| AHDI | Atari Hard Disk Interface |
| AHMD | Advanced Helmet-Mounted Display |
| AHQP | Archive for the History of Quantum Physics |
| AHRC | Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) |
| AHRF | American Hearing Research Foundation |
| AHRI | Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute |
| AHRI | Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative |
| AHS | American Helicopter Society |
| AHS | Airborne Hyperspectral Scanner |
| AHSUM | Adaptable High-Speed Undersea Munition |
| AHT | Average Hamiltonian Theory (Teilchenphysik/particle physics) |
| AHU | Air Handling Unit (HVAC) |
| A&I | Abstracting and Indexing (data bases) |
| AI | Acoustical Imaging (Conference series) |
| AI | [IASTED International Conference on] Applied Informatics |
| AI | Anguilla (ISO 3166) |
| AI | Articulation Index (Psychoakustik/psychoacoustics) |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| AIA | American Institute of Architects |
| AIA | Associazione Italiana di Acustica |
| AIA | Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (at SDO, NASA) |
| AIAA | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
| AIAE | [Spanische Aeroakustische Gesellschaft/Spanish Aeroacoustical Society] |
| AIC | Akaike's Information Criterion |
| AICB | Association internationale contre le bruit |
| AICD | automatische implantierte Cardio-Defibrillatoren |
| AICES | Aachen Institute for Advanced Study in Computational Engineering Science (DE) |
| AICH | Acqusition Indicator Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AICOS | Assistive Information and Communication Solutions (software, developed at the Fraunhofer-Anwendungszentrum in PT) |
| AID | Aktiver Informationsdienst (EU) |
| AIDA | Asteroid Impact Deflection Assessment |
| AIDA | Attention, Interest, Desire, and Action |
| AIDAA | Assoziazione Italiana di Aeronautica e Astronautica |
| AIDC | Automotive Industry Developing Center (Südafrika, mit FhG-Unterstützung/South Africa, supported by the German Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) |
| AIDJEX | Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment |
| AIDS | Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
| AIDS | Almost Ideal Demand System (economy) |
| AIEE | American Institute of Electrical Engineers |
| AiF | Arbeitsgemeinschaft industrieller Forschungsvereinigungen ,,Otto von Guericke'' e.V. (Köln) |
| AIF | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Video-Datei/file name extension: video file] |
| AIHA | American Industrial Hygiene Association |
| AIJP | Association Internationale de Philatélie |
| AILU | Association of Industrial Laser Users (UK) |
| AIM | Advanced Informatics in Medicine |
| AIM | Advanced Interface Module (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AIM | Antarktisches Isotopenmaximum |
| AIM | Anwendungsplattform Intelligente Mobilität (Verkehrsforschung) |
| AIM | Asteroid Impact Mission |
| AIM | Auditory Image Model (Hörakustik/hearing research) |
| AIMD | Additive Increase, Multiplicative Decrease (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AIM-D | [Verband für] Automatische Identifikation, Datenerfassung und mobile Datenkommunikation |
| AIML | Astronomical Instrument Markup Language |
| AIMN | Association of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging |
| AIMR | Advanced Institute for Materials Research (Tohoku University, JP) |
| AIMS | African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Kapstadt, Südafrika/Cape Town, South Africa) |
| AIMS | Alliance for IP Media Solutions |
| AIN | Advanced Intelligent Network |
| AIP | The American Institute of Physics (gegründet/founded 1931) |
| AIP | Application Integrity Policy |
| AIP | Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (DE) |
| AIPP | American Institute of Physics Publishing |
| AIQ | Analytical Instrument Qualification |
| AIR | Automatic Image Refinement (Canon Laserdrucker/laser printer) |
| AIRS | Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (satellite) |
| AIRSAR | Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| AirSTAR | Airborne Subscale Transport Aircraft Research |
| AIRTO | Association of Independent Research and Technology Organisations (GB) |
| AIS | Abbreviated Injury Scale |
| AIS | Alarm Indication Signal |
| AIS | [Fraunhofer-] Arbeitsgruppe für Integrierte Schaltungen |
| AIS | Automatic Identification System, Automatisches Identifikationssystem (Schiffsortung) |
| AIS | idiopathische Adoleszenten-Skoliose |
| AIS | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Autonome Intelligente Systeme (St. Augustin, früher/formerly GMD) |
| AISA | Airborne Spectral Analyzer |
| AIS-A | [Fraunhofer-] Arbeitsgruppe für Integrierte Schaltungen, Abteilung Angewandte Elektronik |
| AIS-B | [Fraunhofer-] Arbeitsgruppe für Integrierte Schaltungen, Abteilung Bauelementetechnologie |
| AISEC | [Fraunhofer-Institut für] Angewandte und Integrierte Sicherheit (Garching bei München) |
| AISIS | Automatisierte Informationsgewinnung und Schutz kritischer Infrastruktur im Katastrophenfall |
| AIST | [National Institute for] Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan) |
| AIT | Application Information Table (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AIT | Asian Institute of Technology |
| AIT | Astrometric Imaging Telescope |
| AIT | Austrian Institute of Technology |
| AITRAM | Advanced Integrated Training in Aeronautics Maintenance |
| AIUM | American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine |
| AIV | Assembly, Integration and Validation |
| AIZ | Antiimperialistische Zelle |
| AIZ | Ausschuss für internationale Zusammenarbeit (DAR, Normungsarbeit/standardization) |
| AJA | Arbeitskreis gemeinnütziger Jugendaustauschorganisationen |
| AJAX | Asynchronous JavaScript and XML |
| AJC | American Jewish Committee |
| AJO | Arecibo Ionospheric Observatory (Puerto Rico) |
| AJOL | African Journals Online |
| AK | Alaska (US-Staat/US state) |
| a.k.a., aka | also known as |
| Akaflieg | Akademische Fliegergruppe |
| AKE | Arbeitskreis Energie (DPG) |
| AKF | Arbeitskreis Festkörperphysik (DPG) |
| AKO | Arbeitskreis ,,Optionen für die Zukunft'' (DPG) |
| AKR | Antikorruptionsrichtlinie |
| AKS | Akademische Software Kooperation |
| AKW | Atomkraftwerk |
| AL | Alabama (US-Staat/US state) |
| AL | Albanien/Albania (ISO 3166) |
| AL | Artificial Life |
| AL | Astronautics Laboratory (früher/formerly: AFRPL) |
| ALA | American Library Association |
| ALADIN | Algorithm for Learning and Architecture Determination |
| ALARP | As Low as Reasonably Possible |
| ALC | Automatic Level Control |
| ALCC | ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge |
| ALCF | Argonne Leadership Computing Facility |
| ALCM | Air-Launched Cruise Missile |
| ALCOA | Attributable, Contemporaneous, Original, and Accurate (required source data properties) |
| ALD | Arbeitsring Lärm der DEGA |
| ALD | Associate Laboratory Director |
| ALD | Atomic Layer Deposition, Atomlagenabscheidung |
| ALE | Antarctic Logistics and Expeditions |
| ALEX | Aerosol LIDAR Experiment |
| ALF | Auditory Localization Facility (at AFRL) |
| ALFA | Adaptive Optics with a Laser for Astronomy (Calar Alto, ES, 3.5 m Durchmesser/diameter) |
| ALFA | alternative faserfreie Schallabsorber |
| ALFA | América-Latina – Formación Académica (EU) |
| AL-FEC | Application-Layer Forward Error Correction (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ALG | Application Level Gateway (firewall) |
| ALGOL | Algorithmic Language |
| ALI | ATM Link Interconnect |
| ALI | Autofahrer-Leit- und Informationssystem |
| ALICE | A Large Ion Collision Experiment (LHC, CERN) |
| ALICE | America Latina Interconectada con Europa |
| ALIVE | Advanced High Volume Affordable Lightweighting for Future Electric Vehicles (EU project) |
| ALK | automatisierte Liegenschaftskarte |
| ALL | Akute lymphatische Leukämie |
| ALLEA | All European Academies |
| ALLFlight | Assisted Low Level Flight and Landing on Unprepared Landing Sites |
| ALM | Application Lifestyle Management |
| ALM | Archäologisches Landesmuseum (Baden-Württemberg) |
| ALMA | Atacama Large Millimeter/Submilimeter Array (Radioteleskop/radio telescope, seit/since Feb. 2013 in Chile) |
| ALMA | Additive Layer Manufacturing for Acoustic Metamaterials |
| ALMA | Association of Loudspeaker Manufacturing & Acoustics International |
| ALOP | Active Learning in Optics and Photonics (UNESCO-Programm/program) |
| ALP | Academic-Led Publishing |
| ALP | Axion-Like Particle |
| ALPACA | Advanced Liquid-Mirror Probe for Astrophysics, Cosmology and Asteroids |
| ALPHA | Absorption Low Plus High Aperture (Laserstrahlaufweitung/laser beam expansion) |
| ALPHA | Advanced Laboratory Physics Association |
| ALPHA | Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus (international collaboration) |
| ALPhA | Aquitaine Lasers, Photonique and Applications (Bordeaux, FR) |
| ALPS | Any Light Particle Search (experiment) |
| ALPSP | Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers |
| ALS | Advanced Light Source (LBNL) |
| ALS | Alternative Light Source |
| ALS | Amyotrophe Lateralsklerose (degenerative Nervenerkrankung/degenerative nervous disease) |
| ALSEP | Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Packages (auf dem Mond/on the moon) |
| ALSM | Airborne Laser Swath Mapping (Geodäsie/geodesy) |
| ALSYMPCA | Alpharidin in Symptomatic Prostate Cancer |
| ALU | Arithmetic Logic Unit |
| AM | Additive Manufacturing (3D printing) |
| AM | Amplitudenmodulation, Amplitude Modulation |
| AM | Armenien/Armenia (ISO 3166) |
| AM | Availability Manager |
| AMA | Advanced Measurement Approaches |
| AMA | American Medical Association |
| A-MAN | ATM Metropolitan Area Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AMANDA | Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector (or: Detection) Array (am Südpol/near the South Pole) |
| AMASE | Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition |
| Amass | Autonomous Maritime Surveillance System (10 partners in 7 countries: CZ, DE, ES, MT, NO, PL, UK) |
| AMBER | Airshower Microwave Bremsstrahlung Radiometer (astrophysics) |
| AMBER | Assisted Model Building with Energy Refinement (Computer program) |
| AMC | Adaptive Modulation and Coding (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AMC | Allied Military Currency (in Deutschland nach dem 2. Weltkrieg) |
| AMCD | Annular Momentum Control Device |
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices (Sunnyvale, CA, USA) |
| AMD | Age Related Macula Degeneration, altersbedingte Makula-Degeneration (Sehschwäche/visual deficiency) |
| AMDE | Atmospheric Mercury Depletion Event |
| AME | Actinide Migration Evaluation (Radioaktivität/radioactivity) |
| AMEL | Active Matrix Electroluminescence (Display) |
| AMFIS | Aufklärung und Überwachung mit Miniatur-Fluggeräten im Sensorverbund |
| AMG | Arzneimittelgesetz |
| AMHS | Automated Material Handling System |
| AMI | Adolphe Merkle Institute (University of Fribourg, CH) |
| AMI | Alternate Mark Inversion (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AMI | American Megatrends Inc. |
| AMIGOS | Automated Met-Ice-Geophysics Observatory Systems |
| AMINA | African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis |
| AML | Akute myeloische Leukämie |
| AML | Ambient Intelligence |
| AMLCD | Active-Matrix Liquid Crystal Display |
| AMLS | Automated Multilevel Substructuring |
| AMM | Acoustic Metamaterial |
| AMM | Automatischer Messmodus |
| AMMA | Afrikanischer Monsun: Multidisziplinäre Analyse |
| AMNOR | Adaptive Microphone Array for Noise Reduction |
| AMO | Atlantische Multidekadische Oszillation |
| AMOC | Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation |
| AMO(S) | Atomic, Molecular, and Optical (Science) |
| AMOLED | Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode |
| AMON | Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network |
| AMOP | Arbeitskreis „Atome, Moleküle, Quantenoptik und Plasmen“ (DPG) |
| AMOP | Atomic, Molecular, Optical, and Plasma Physics |
| AMP | Accelerated Massive Parallelism (computer architecture) |
| AMP | Adenosinmonophosphat |
| AMP | Antimikrobielles Peptid |
| AMP | Asymmetric Multi-Processing (Datenverarbeitung/data processing) |
| AMP | FhAZ für Metallpulvererzeugung (Clausthal) |
| AMPAC | Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center (UCF) |
| AMPAS | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (USA) |
| AMPD | Atomic and Molecular Physics Division |
| AMPOA | Amplitude of Arrival (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AMPS | Advanced Mobile Phone System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AMPTE | Artificial Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Experiment |
| AMQP | Advanced Message Queuing Protocol |
| AMR | Adaptive Mesh Refinement (e.g., for astrophysical modelling) |
| AMR | Adaptive Multirate (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AMR | Alignment-Free Monolithic Resonator |
| AMR | Anisotropic Magnetoresistance |
| AMRL | Army Medical Research Laboratory (Wright Field, OH, USA) |
| AMRO | Angular Magnetoresistance Oscillations |
| AMROS | Autonomer multisensorieller Roboter für Sicherheitsanwendungen |
| AMS | Accelerator Mass Spectrometry |
| AMS | Acute Mountain Sickness, Höhenkrankheit |
| AMS | Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (DLR, NASA, ISS, seit Mai/since May 2011) |
| AMS | American Mathematical Society |
| AMS | American Meteorological Society |
| AMS | ATM Main Switch |
| AMSEC | Advanced Materials Science and Engineering Center (Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, USA) |
| AMST | Association for Maximum Service Television, Inc. (USA) |
| AMT | Auditory Modeling Toolbox |
| AMT | Automated Mechanical Transmission (Kfz-Schaltgetriebe/automobile gear) |
| AMV | Acoustics Music & Video (ASA Students' Competition) |
| AMVER | Atlantic Merchant Vessel Emercency Reporting System |
| AN | Access Node (Rechnernetz/computer network) |
| AN | Auditory Nerve |
| AN | Niederländische Antillen/Netherlands Antilles (ISO 3166) |
| ANAE | Académie Nationale de l'Air et de l'Espace (FR) |
| ANAE | Atlas of North American English |
| ANB | American National Biography |
| ANC | Active Noise Control |
| ANC | Antenna Networks (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ANCF | Active Noise Control Fan (NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH, USA) |
| ANCHORS | UAV-Assisted Ad-Hoc Networks for Crisis Management and Hostile Environment Sensing |
| (German-French cooperation project) |
| ANCOVA | Analysis of Covariance |
| ANDES | Agua Negra Deep Experiment Site (Australia) |
| ANDF | Architecture-Neutral Distribution Format |
| ANDS | Australian National Data Service |
| ANEC | European Association for the Coordination of Consumer Representation in Standardization |
| ANF | Atomic Nanofabrication |
| ANFIS | Adaptive Network-Based Fuzzy Inference System |
| ANFO | Ammonium Nitrate plus Fuel Oil (Sprengstoff/explosive) |
| ANGIS | Australian National Genomic Information Service |
| ANI | Automatic Number Identification (Datennetz/data network) |
| AnIML | Analytical Information Markup Language |
| ANITA | Antarctic Impuls(iv)e Transient Array (or: Antenna) (neutrino detector) |
| ANKA | Angströmquelle Karlsruhe (DE) |
| ANL | Argonne National Laboratory (University of Chicago, IL, USA) |
| ANN | Artificial Neural Network |
| ANOVA | Analysis of Variance (statistischer Test/statistical test) |
| ANP | Active Noise Profiling |
| ANPR | Automatic Number Plate Recognition |
| ANR | Agence Nationale de la Recherche (FR, seit/since 2005) |
| ANRU | Antenna Receiver for UMTS (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ANS | Advanced Neutron Source (Oak Ridge) |
| ANS | American Nuclear Society |
| ANS | Approximate Number System |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| AnSiM | Anschluss-Sicherungs-Management (Verkehrstechnik/traffic control) |
| ANSSI | Agence Nationale de la Securité des Systèmes d'Information |
| ANT | ADSL Network Termination (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ANTARES | Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss Environmental Research (Project) (in the Mediterranian, near Toulon, FR) |
| ANU | Australian National University (Canberra) |
| ANVC | Active Noise and Vibration Control |
| ANX | American Network Exchange |
| ANZRC | Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification |
| AO | Acousto-Optic (Sensor, Aktor/sensor, actuator) |
| AO | Adaptive Optics |
| A/O | All Optical (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| AO | Angola (ISO 3166) |
| AO | Announcement of Opportunity |
| AO | Arctic Oscillation (atmosphärische Oszillation/atmospheric circulation) |
| AOA | Angle of Arrival (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AOC | Advanced Operational Capability |
| AOCS | Altitude (or: Attitude) (and) Orbit Control (Sub)system |
| AOD | Acousto-Optical Deflector, Akusto-optischer Deflektor |
| AOD | Aerosol Optical Depth |
| AODI | Always On/Dynamic ISDN |
| AOF | Authority on the Fly |
| AOI | Automatic (or: Automated) Optical Inspection |
| AOIA | Arizona Optics Industry Association (USA) |
| AOL | America Online (Internet Provider) |
| AOLS | All-Optical Label Swapping (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| AON | All Optical Network (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| AOP | Advanced Oxidation Process |
| AOP | Apparent Optical Properties (of water) |
| AOP | Aspect-Oriented Programming |
| AOSIS | African Online Scientific Information Systems |
| AOSS | Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences (Department, University of Michigan, USA) |
| AOT | Accelerator and Operations Technology |
| AOTF | Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter |
| AOV | Angle-of-View (Flüssigkristall-Bildschirm/liquid crystal display) |
| AOWC | All-Optical Wavelength Converter (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| AP | Access Point (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AP | Alternating Projection (Algorithmus/algorithm) |
| AP | Anthropisches Prinzip |
| AP | Artificial Photosynthesis |
| AP | Associated Press |
| APA | Administrative Procedure Act (Congress, USA) |
| APA | Altair Partner Alliance |
| APA | American Psychological Association |
| APA | Amplified Piezoelectric Actuator (Technology) |
| APA | Automatic Pre-Emphasis Adjustment (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| APAC | Asia Pacific (Region) |
| APAM | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics |
| APC | Accelerator Physics Center (Fermilab) |
| APC | Adaptive Predictive Coding |
| APC | Advanced Process Control |
| APC | Article Processing Charge (for publishing) |
| APC | Auto Power Control (Photodiode) |
| APCI | Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionisation |
| APCM | Adaptive Pulse Code Modulation |
| AP-CVD | Atmospheric Pressure CVD |
| APD | Avalanche Photodiode (or: Photo Detector) |
| APE | Academic Publishing in Europe (Conference Series) |
| APE | Acoustic Perturbation Equation |
| APE | Automatic (Program) Production Engine |
| APEC | Applied Power Electronics Conference [and Exposition] |
| APEC | Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (asiatischer Handelsblock) |
| APEX | Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (Chile, Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| APG | Alkylpolyglycosid |
| APH | [Institut für] Angewandte Physik (am KIT) |
| APhA | American Pharmacists Association |
| APHIS | Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service |
| APHV | Allgemeiner Postwertzeichen-Händlerverband (seit 8.3.1949/since March 8, 1949) |
| API | Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient |
| API | Application Program(ming) Interface |
| APIAN | Advanced Propulsion Integration Aerodynamics and Noise (EU Forschungsprojekt/research project) |
| APL | Applied Physics Laboratory (Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA) |
| APL | Applied Physics Letters (Journal) |
| APM | Advanced Protein Modelling |
| APM | Aktionskreis Deutsche Wirtschaft gegen Produkt- und Markenpiraterie |
| APM | Attached Pressurized Module (Raumfahrt/spacecraft) |
| APM | Automated People Mover (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| APN | Access Point Name (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| APN | Allotrope Foundation Network |
| APNEE | Air Pollution Network for Early Warning and Information Exchange (EU Projekt/project) |
| APO | Arbeitsplatzorientierte Weiterbildung |
| APO | außerparlamentarische Opposition |
| APOC | Airport Operation Center |
| APOD | Astronomy Picture of the Day |
| APOLT | APON Line Termination |
| APON | Asynchronous Transfer Mode Passive Optical Network |
| APONT | APON Network Termination |
| APP | Accelerated Parallel Processing |
| APP | Amyloid Precursor Protein |
| APP | Anwendungszentrum für Plasma und Photonik (HAWK, Göttingen) |
| APPA | Atomic, Plasma Physics, and Applications |
| APPLAUS | Auszeichnung der Programmplanung unabhängiger Spielstätten (deutscher Kulturpreis) |
| APR | Acoustic Pulse Reflectometry |
| APROSYS | Advanced Protective Systems (Autotechnik/automobile technology) |
| APRS | Advanced Plasma Reactive Sputtering (optische Beschichtung/optical coating) |
| APS | Active Pixel Sensors (Bildwandler/image converter) |
| APS | Advanced Photon Source (Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA) |
| APS | Air Traffic Planning System (DLR) |
| APS | The American Physical Society |
| APS | American Physiological Society |
| APSR | Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Research (FR) |
| APSU | Austin Peay State University (Clarksville, TN, USA) |
| APT | Advanced Processor Technologies Research Group (HPC) |
| APT | Apartment (US Mail) |
| APT | Asia Pacific Telecommunity |
| APT | Atom Probe Tomography |
| APTA | American Public Transportation Association |
| APTL | Aerosol and Particle Technology Laboratory |
| APTP | Asia-Pacific Technology Program |
| APU | Angular Processing Unit |
| APU | Auxiliary Power Unit |
| APUS | Auspicious High-Performance Ultrafast Lase System |
| APV | Agrarphotovoltaik |
| APVC | Asia Pacific Vibration Conference |
| APWG | Anti-Phishing Working Group |
| APXS | Alpha-Proton-Röntgenstrahlenspektrometer |
| AQ | Antarktis/Antarctica (ISO 3166) |
| AQA | Aqua Quality Austria |
| AQM | Active Queue Management (Datenübertragung/data transfer) |
| AQS | Air Quality System (für Autos/for cars) |
| AQS | Automotive Quality Saar (Fraunhofer-Innovationscluster, Saarbrücken, DE) |
| AR | Antireflection (optische Beschichtung/optical coating) |
| AR | Argentinien/Argentina (ISO 3166) |
| AR | Arkansas (US-Staat/US state) |
| AR | Assessment Report (of the International Panel on Climate Change) |
| AR | Augmented Reality |
| AR | Autoregressive (filter) |
| ARA | Ausfall-Raten-Analyse |
| ARAC | African Aquacultural Center (Port Hartcourt, Nigeria) |
| ARAGO | Advanced Robotic Agile Observatory (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| ARAI | Automotive Research Association of India |
| ARB | Angiostin-Rezeptor-Blocker (Herzmedikament) |
| ARB | Arbitrary Waveform (Generator) |
| ARB | Architecture Review Board (computer science) |
| ARB | Auxiliary Reference Burst |
| ARC | Aeroacoustic Research Complex (at AFRL) |
| ARC | Affordable, Robust, Compact |
| ARC | Angle-Resolved Coherent (Wave Mixing) |
| ARC | Antireflection Coating (von Laserspiegeln/of laser mirrors) |
| ARC | Application Research Center (Canton, MI, USA, bei Detroit) |
| ARC | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Archivdatei mit komprimierten Inhalten/file name extension: compressed archive file] |
| ARC | Audio Return Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ARC | Australian Research Council |
| ARCUS | Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. |
| ARD | Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Rundfunkanstalten Deutschlands |
| ARDEC | Army Research, Development and Engineering Center (USA) |
| ARDU | Aircraft Research and Development Unit (AU) |
| ARE | Antioxidans-Response-Element (auf DNA) |
| ARED | Advanced Resistive Exercise Device (power training for astronauts) |
| AREMA | American Railway Engineering and Maintainance of Way Association |
| ARENA | Active Research Environment for the Next Generation of Automobiles |
| ARES | Actively Reacting Flexible Structure (DLR) |
| ARES | Ausbau regnerativer Energiesysteme (DLR) |
| Arevir | Analyse von Resistenzmutationen bei Viren |
| ARFCN | Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number (Mobilfunk/mobile radio) |
| ARFI | Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (Imaging) |
| ARGOS | Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite |
| ARGOS | Airborne Wide Area High Altitude Monitoring System (DLR project) |
| ARI | Applied Research Institute (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) |
| ARI | Autofahrer-Rundfunk-Informationssystem |
| ARIB | Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (Japan) |
| ARIEL | Advanced Rare Isotope Laboratory (at TRIUMF) |
| ARIMA | Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (Modelling) |
| ARIS | Aggregate Route-Based IP Switching (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ARIS | Augmented Reality Image Synthesis |
| ARkStorm | Atmospheric River kilo Storm |
| ARL | Air Resources Laboratory (at NCEP) |
| ARL | Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung (Hannover) |
| ARL | Applied Research Laboratory (Pennstate, USA) |
| ARL | Army Research Laboratory (Adelphi, MD, USA) |
| ARL | Association of Research Libraries (USA) |
| ARLO | Acoustic Research Letters Online (JASA) |
| ARM | Advanced RISC Machine (EU supercomputer project) |
| ARMA | Advanced Robotics and Mechanism Laboratory (Columbia University, USA) |
| ARMA | Association of Research Managers and Administrators |
| ARMA | Autoregressive Moving Average (filter) |
| ARMAX | ARMA Process with Auxiliary Input |
| ARMCI | Aggregate Remote Memory Copy Interface (software) |
| ARMD | Age-Related Macular Degeneration |
| ARO | Army Research Office (USA) |
| ARP | Address Resolution Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ARPA | Advanced Research Projects Administration (or: Agency) (USA) |
| ARPA | Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell'Ambiente (Milano, IT) |
| ARPA-E | ARPA-Energy |
| ARPANET | ARPA Network (predecessor of the Internet) |
| ARPES | Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy |
| ARPHA | Authoring, Reviewing, Publishing, Hosting and Archiving |
| ARPU | Average (or: Annual) Revenue per User (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ARQ | Automatic Repeat Request (Datenübertragung/data transmission) |
| ARRA | American Recovery and Reinvestment Act |
| ARRIVAL | Algorithm for Robust and Online Railway Optimization: Improving the Validity and Reliability of Large Scale Systems (EU Project) |
| ARRIVE | Aspirin to Reduce Risk of Initial Vascular Events (Bayer-Studie) |
| ARRV | Arctic Region Research Vessel |
| ARS | Agricultural Research Service (USA) |
| ART | Advanced Rotorcraft Transmission |
| ART | Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie |
| ART | Auditory Research Team |
| ARTA | Ariane 5 Research and Technology Accompaniment (ESA) |
| ARTEMIS | Advanced Relay and Technology Mission (ESA) |
| ARTEMIS | Antenna Arrays for Terahertz Material Identification and Security Applications (research project) |
| ARTEMIS | Automatic Retrieval of Text from Europe's Multinational Information Service |
| ARTIS | Autonomous Rotorcraft Testbed for Intelligent Systems (DLR) |
| ARTS | Automotive Radar Target Simulator |
| ARV | Allgemeiner Rettungsverband |
| ARV | Antiretroviral Drugs |
| ARW | Advanced Research Weather Research and Forecasting Model |
| AS | Acoustic Segmentation (Sprachverarbeitung/speech processing) |
| AS | Alarm Surveillance (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AS | American Samoa (ISO 3166, US Mail) |
| AS | Application Server (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AS | Autonomous System |
| AS | Availability Server |
| ASA | The Acoustical Society of America |
| ASA | Air Services Australia |
| ASA | Alabama Supercomputer Authority |
| ASA | American Standards Association |
| ASA | Association of Subscription Agents and Intermediaries |
| ASA | Auditory Scene Analysis |
| ASAC | Active Structural Acoustic Control |
| ASACOS | Acoustical Society of America Committee on Standards |
| ASAL | Agence Spatiale Algérienne |
| ASAM | Advanced Services Access Manager (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ASAM | Association for Standardization of Automation and Measuring Systems |
| ASAM | ATM Subscriber Access Multiplexer (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ASANCA | Advanced Study for Active Noise Control in Aircraft (CEC) |
| ASAP | Advanced Sensor Application Program |
| ASAP | Advanced Systems Analysis Program |
| ASAP | Alarm Severity Assignment Profile |
| ASAP | as soon as possible |
| ASAP | [IEEE International Conference on] Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processes |
| ASAR | Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| ASAS | After School All Stars |
| ASAS-SN | All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae |
| ASAT | Antisatellite (Weapon) |
| ASC | Academic Search Complete (Full text data base) |
| ASC | Accredited Standards Committee |
| ASC | Acoustical Society of China |
| ASC | Aeroacoustics Specialists' Committee (in CEAS) |
| ASC | American Society for Composites (seit/since 1985) |
| ASC | American Superconductor Corporation |
| ASCA | Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics (Japan 1993) |
| ASCAT | Association des Emetteurs de Catalogues de Timbre Poste |
| ASCB | American Society for Cell Biology |
| ASCE | American Society of Civil Engineers |
| ASCI | Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (DoE, USA) |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASCO | American Society of Clinical Oncology |
| ASCPT | American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics |
| ASCR | Advanced Scientific Computing Research (DOE program) |
| ASCS | Automatic Shift Control System (Kfz-Schaltgetriebe/automobile gear) |
| ASD | Autism Spectrum Disorder |
| ASD | Accelerated Scientific Discovery (project at CISL) |
| ASDEX | Axial-Symmetric Divertor Experiment (Fusionsreaktortechnik/fusion reactor technology, Garching, DE) |
| ASDIC | Anti-Submarine Detection Submarine Committee |
| ASDL | Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line |
| ASDSP | Application Specific Digital Signal Processor |
| ASE | Amplified Spontaneous Emission (Laser) |
| ASE | Amplified Stimulated Emission (Laser) |
| ASE | Association of Space Explorers |
| ASE | ATM Switching Element |
| ASE | → ESA |
| ASEA | Analytical Statistical Energy Analysis |
| ASEAN | Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
| ASEE | American Society of Engineering Education (or: Educators) |
| ASEM | [asiatisch-europäisches Gipfeltreffen/Asian-European summit] |
| ASEPS-O | Astronomical Studies of Extrasolar Planetary Systems (Mount Palomar, CA, USA) |
| ASESMA | African School on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications |
| ASET | Applied Science and Environmental Technology (International Conference series) |
| ASEW | Arbeitsgemeinschaft für sparsame Energie- und Wasserverwendung |
| ASF | Additional Secondary Factors (LORAN-C corrections) |
| ASFB | Acoustical Society Foundation Board (USA) |
| ASFF | Acoustical Society Foundation Fund (USA) |
| ASG | Advanced Study Group |
| ASG | Array Signal Gain |
| ASG | Asymptotisch sichere Gravitation |
| ASH | Automated Storage and Handling (Forschungsroboter, Bayer AG) |
| ASHA | American Speech-Language-Hearing Association |
| ASHG | American Society of Human Genetics |
| ASHRAE | American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers |
| ASI | Agenza Spaziale Italiane |
| ASI | Amorph-Silizium-Glasmodule (Photovoltaik/photovoltaics) |
| ASI | Archeological Survey of India |
| ASI | Asynchronous Serial Interface (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ASI | Australian Solar Institute |
| ASIAA | Academica Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Taipei, TW) |
| AsianJLS | Asian Journal of Law and Society |
| ASIC | Acid-Sensitive Ion Channel |
| ASIC | Anwender-(Anwendungs-)spezifischer IC, Application-Specific Integrated Circuit |
| ASIIN | Akkreditierungsagentur für Studiengänge der Ingenieurwissenschaften, der Informatik, der Naturwissenschaften und der Mathematik |
| ASIL | Automotive Safety Integrity Level |
| ASIM | Arbeitsgemeinschaft Simulation in der Gesellschaft für Informatik |
| ASIP | Application Specific Set Information-Set Processor (Computer) |
| ASITF | Advanced Systems Integration Test Facility (aircraft development, Honda, JP) |
| ASJ | Acoustical Society of Japan |
| ASK | Akademische Software Kooperation (Universität Karlsruhe) |
| ASK | Amplitude Shift Keying (Digitales Modulationsverfahren/digital modulation) |
| ASKAP | Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder |
| ASL | Airbus Safran Launcher |
| ASL | American Sign Language (Taubstummen-Gebärdensprache/of deaf-mutes) |
| ASM | Automotive Simulation Model |
| ASME | American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
| A-SMGCS | Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (Flughafen-Bodenverkehr/airport ground traffic) |
| ASMP | Australian Species Management Program (für vom Aussterben bedrohte Tiere/for animals threatened by extinction) |
| ASMW | Amt für Standardisierung, Messwesen und Warenprüfung (ehem./former DDR) |
| ASN | American Society of Neurochemistry |
| ASN | ATM Switching Network |
| ASNA | Airport Safety and Noise Act (USA 1979) |
| ASNE | American Society of Naval Engineers |
| ASNT | American Society for Nondestructive Testing |
| ASN.1 | Abstract Syntax Notation 1 |
| ASOM | Adaptive Scanning Optical Microscope |
| ASON | Automatical(ly) Switched Optical Network (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| ASP | Adaptive Signal Processing |
| ASP | Advanced Spectroscopic Portal (Strahlungsnachweis/radiation detection) |
| ASP | Application Service Provider (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ASP | Arbeitsschwerpunkt |
| ASP | Astronomical Society Pacific |
| ASP | Average Selling Price |
| ASPEC | Audio Spectral Perceptual Entropic Coding |
| ASPEN | Adaptive Sample Picture Encapsulation |
| ASPERA | Astroparticle European Research Area (EU Project in Astrophysics) |
| ASPO | Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas |
| ASQ | Acoustic Source Quantification (Lärmschutz/noise protection) |
| ASQC | American Society for Quality Control |
| ASR | Antischlupfregelung (Kfz/automobile) |
| ASR | Automatic (or: Advanced) Speech Recognition |
| ASRC | Advanced Science and Research Center (CUNY) |
| ASREN | Arab Scientific Research and Education Network |
| ASRG | Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generator |
| ASS | Acetylsalicylsäure |
| ASSC | Association for the Scientific Study of Conciousness |
| ASSET | Assessing Sensitivity to Transport (EC Project) |
| ASSI | Akkreditierungsagentur für Studiengänge der Ingenieurwissenschaften und der Informatik |
| ASSID | [Fraunhofer-Zentrum] All Silicon System Integration Dresden (im IZM) |
| ASSIST | Alliance for Solid-State Illumination Systems and Technologies |
| ASSIST | Assessing the Social and Economic Impacts of Past and Future Sustainable Transport (FhG) |
| ASSP | Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (in IEEE) |
| ASSP | Application Specific Standard Product |
| Ast | Anrufsammeltaxi |
| AST | FhAZ für Angewandte Systemtechnik (Ilmenau, Thüringen) |
| AST | Automatic Spectroscopic Telescope |
| ASTA | Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator (Fermilab) |
| AStA | Allgemeiner Studentenausschuss |
| ASTAP | Asia-Pacific Telecommunity Standardization Program |
| ASTAR | Arctic Study of Tropospheric Aerosol [Clouds] and Radiation |
| A*STAR | Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (Singapore, since 1991) |
| ASTE | Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment (Infrarotastronomie/infrared astronomy) |
| ASTEM | Austrian Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (Graz, AT, 2011) |
| ASTER | Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (Erd-Fernerkundung/remote reconnaissance) |
| ASTIA | Armed Services Technical Informations Agency (USA) |
| ASTM | American Society of Testing Materials |
| ASTONISH | Atomic-Scale Studies of the Nature of and Conditions for Inducing Superconductivity at High-Temperature (ERC program, University of Hamburg, DE) |
| ASTREX | Advanced Space Structure Research Experiments |
| ASTRID | Aarhus Storage Ring, Denmark |
| ASTROSE | Autarker Strom-Sensor |
| ASTV | Aeroassisted Space Transfer Vehicle (Raumfahrt/spacecraft) |
| ASU | Abgas-Sonder-Untersuchung |
| ASU | Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ, USA) |
| ASU | ATM Service Unit |
| ASURA | Advanced Speech Understanding and Rendering System of ATR (Japan) |
| ASV | Automated Structure Verification (pharmaceutical chemistry) |
| ASVP | Application Specific Standard Products |
| ASW | Antisubmarine Warfare |
| ASWORG | Antisubmarine Warfare Operations Research Group (USA) |
| AT | Atomic Time (seit/since 1955) |
| AT | Österreich/Austria (ISO 3166 |
| ATB | Active Twist Blade (Hubschrauber/helicopter) |
| ATB | Institut für Agrartechnik Bornim (Potsdam-Bornim) |
| ATC | Abstract Test Case (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ATC | Adiabatic Toroidal Compressor (Fusionsreaktortechnik/fusion reactor technology, PPPL) |
| ATC | Air Traffic Control (Luftverkehrssteuerung) |
| ATC | [European] Altair Technology Conference |
| ATC | American Television and Communications Corporation |
| ATC | ATM Transfer Capabilities (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ATC | Automatic Train Control (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| ATDMA | Advanced TDMA |
| ATE | Application Test Environment (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ATE | Automatic (or: Automated) Test Equipment |
| ATF | Accelerator Test Facility |
| ATF | Acoustic Transfer Function |
| ATF | Advanced Tactical Fighter (USA, Luftwaffe/Air Force) |
| ATHENA | Advanced Telescope for High-Energy Astrophysics |
| ATI | Acoustics Today Interns |
| ATI | Above-Threshold Ionization |
| ATI | Any Time Interrogation (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ATI | Automated Target Identification |
| ATI | Automatic Telephony Interpretation (CAIR, Korea) |
| ATIC | Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter |
| ATIP | Asian Technology Information Program (US organization) |
| ATIS | Airport Terminal (or: Travel) Information Service |
| ATIS | Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (North America) |
| ATKIS | Amtliches Topographisch-Kartographisches Informations-System |
| ATL | [Fraunhofer-] Arbeitsgruppe für Technologien der Logistik-Dienstleistungswirtschaft (Nürnberg) |
| ATLAS | A Toroidal LHC Apparatus (LHC, CERN) |
| ATLAS | Argonne Tandem-Linac Accelerator System (Argonne National Laboratory, near Chicago, IL, USA) |
| ATLAS | Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science |
| ATM | Air Traffic Management |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode (Datennetz/data network) |
| ATM | Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated (Enzym) |
| ATM | Atmospheric Transport Modeling (CTBT) |
| ATM | Attached Pressurized Module (Raumfahrt/spacecraft) |
| ATM | Automated Teller Machine (Bankwesen/banking) |
| ATMF | ATM Forum |
| ATMF | ATM user connected via optical Fiber |
| ATMOS | Air Traffic Management and Operations Simulator (DLR) |
| ATMP | Advanced Therapy Medicinal Product |
| ATMT | [Fraunhofer-] Arbeitsgruppe für Telekommunikation und Multimediatechik |
| ATO | Automatic Train Operation (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| ATOC | Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate |
| ATON | Autonomous Terrain-Based Optical Navigation |
| ATP | Adenosintriphosphat |
| ATP | Advanced Technology Program (USA, Department of Commerce) |
| ATP | Advanced Turbo-Prop (Flugzeug/aircraft) |
| ATP | Automatic Train Protection (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| ATPC | Automatic Transmit Power Control (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ATPESC | Argonne Training Program on Extreme Scale Computing |
| ATR | Attenuated Total Reflection (Chemie: Analyse-Verfahren/chemical analysis) |
| ATR | Automatic (or: Automated) Target Recognition (Telekommunikation, Wasserschall/telecommunication, underwater sound) |
| ATRA | Advanced Technology Research Aircraft (DLR) |
| ATRIAS | Assume The Robot Is A Sphere |
| ATRP | Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization |
| ATS | Abstract Test Suite (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ATS | Advanced Tracking System (for waste material, using GPS – later on Galileo when available) |
| ATS | American Thoracic Society |
| ATS | Automated Tuner System |
| ATS | Automatic Train Supervision (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| ATSC | Advanced Television Systems Committee |
| ATSE | Antenna Technology Shuttle Experiment (NASA) |
| ATST | Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (geplant/planned) |
| ATT | Advanced Transport Telematics |
| ATTA | Atom Trap Trace Analysis |
| ATTAS | Advanced Technologies Testing Aircraft System (DLR, bis 27.6.2012/until June 27, 2012) |
| AT&T | American Telephone and Telegraph Company |
| ATTC | Advanced Television Test Center, Inc. (USA) |
| ATTHeS | Advanced Technology Testing Helicopter System (DLR) |
| atto | 10-18 (Vorsible/prefix) |
| ATTICA | European Assessment of Transport Impacts on Climate Change and Ozone Depletion |
| ATU | Access Termination Unit (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ATU | ADSL Terminal Unit |
| ATV | All-Terrain Vehicle |
| ATV | Area tegmentalis ventralis (im Gehirn/in the brain) |
| ATV | Automatic (or: Automated) Transport (or: Transfer) Vehicle, Automatisches Transfervehikel (Raumfahrt/spacecraft) |
| AU | African Union |
| AU | Astronomical Unit (Abstand Erde–Sonne/distance from earth to sun = 1.49 x 1011 m) |
| AU | Australien/Australia (ISO 3166) |
| a.u.c. | ab urbe condita (römische Zeitrechnung, ab Gründungsjahr Roms, 753 v. Chr.) |
| AUC | American University in Cairo (Egypt) |
| AuC | Authentication Center (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AUI | Associated Universities, Inc. (USA) |
| AURA | Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (USA) |
| AUT | Association of University Teachers (GB) |
| AUTEC | Atlantic Undersea Test(ing) and Evaluation Center (bei/near Andros Island in the Bahamas) |
| AUTM | Association of University Technology Managers |
| AutoBAHN | Automated Bandwidth Allocation across Homogeneous Networks (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| AUTOSAR | Automotive Open System Architecture |
| AUV | Autonomous Underwater Vehicle |
| AV | Audio- und Video-(Anschluss) |
| AV | Audiovisual (Sprachwahrnehmung/speech perception) |
| AVA | Aerodynamische Versuchsanstalt (Göttingen, 1907) |
| AVANTI | Autonome Visuelle Anflug-Navigation und Target Identifikation (DLR-Projekt) |
| AVB | Allgemeine Vertragsbedingungen |
| AVC | Advanced Video Coding |
| AvD | Arzt vom Dienst (Krankenhaus) |
| AVDP | Audio Video Delivery Platform |
| AVE | Alta Velocidad Española (Spanish high speed train) |
| AVE | Avenue (US Mail) |
| AVES | Air Vehicle Simulator (DLR, Braunschweig, DE) |
| AvH | Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung |
| AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (Fernerkundung/remote locating) |
| AVI | Akkreditierungsverbund für Ingenieurstudiengänge e.V. |
| AVI | Automatic Vehicle Identification |
| AVI | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Videodatei/file name extension: video file] |
| AVIRIS | Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer |
| AVISO | Archivage, validation, interprétation des données des satellites océanographiques |
| AVRCP | Audio Video Remote Control Profile |
| AVK | FhAZ für Verkehrslogistik und Kommunikationstechnik (Nürnberg) |
| AVL | Automatic Vehicle Location (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AVL | Advanced Visualization Laboratory (at the NCSA center) |
| A-VLAN | Authenticated VLAN (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AVM | Autarke verteilte Mikrosysteme (Computertechnologie/computer technology) |
| AVO | Astronomical Virtual Observatory (Europe) |
| AVO | Audio-Visual Object (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AVPE | Acoustic Velocity Potential Equation |
| AVRCP | Audio Video Remote Control Profile |
| AVS | Adult Verification System |
| AVS | Advanced Visual Systems |
| AVS | American Vacuum Society |
| AVT | [Labor für] Aufbau- und Verbindungstechnik (Fraunhofer IISB) |
| AVUS | Automobil-Versuchs- und Übungsstrecke (Berlin) |
| AVV | FhAZ für Verarbeitungsmaschinen und Verpackungstechnik (Dresden) |
| AW | Aruba (ISO 3166) |
| AWA | Argonne Wakefield Accelerator |
| AWC | All-Wheel Control (automotive drive control) |
| AW-CDM | Adaptive Weighted CDM |
| AWE | Arbeitsplatz-Wiedergabe-Einheit (digitales Sprachübertragungssystem/digital speech transmission) |
| AWFORS | Advanced Welding Technologies for Repair and Salvage of High Valued Engine Components |
| on Nickel and Titanium Based Alloys (zur Reparatur von Flugzeugtriebwerken/for aircraft engine repair) |
| AWG | American Wire Gauge |
| AWG | Arbitrary Waveform Generator |
| AWG | Array(ed) Waveguide Grating (filter, photonics) |
| AWGN | Additive (or: Average) White Gaussian Noise |
| AWI | Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung (Bremerhaven) |
| AWI | Außenwissenschaftsinitiative |
| AWIATOR | Aircraft Wing with Advanced Technology Operation |
| AWMA | Automated Working Memory Assessment |
| AWO | Arbeiterwohlfahrt |
| AWO | Auftragsforschung-West-Ost (BMFT) |
| AWOP | All Weather Operations Panel (Allwetter-Flugbetrieb/weather-independent air traffic) |
| AWRI | Australian Wine Research Institute |
| AWS | Absolute Wahrnehmbarkeitsschwelle (Psychoakustik) |
| AWS | Advanced Wireless Spectrum (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| AWS | Amazon Web Services |
| AWZ | ausschließliche Wirtschaftszone |
| AXAF | Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (Satellite, USA) |
| AZ | Arizona (US-Staat/US state) |
| AZ | Aserbeidschan/Azerbaijan (ISO 3166) |
| Azipod | Azimuthing Electric Podded Propulsion (Schiffsantrieb/ship propulsion) |
| AZOM | [Fraunhofer-] Anwendungszentrum für Optische Messtechnik und Oberflächentechnologie |
| AZT | Allianz Zentrum für Technik (Ismaning bei München) |
| AZT | Azidothymidin (HIV-Medikament) |
| A2DP | Advanced Audio Distribution Profile |
| A2LA | American Association for Laboratory Accreditation |
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| BA, B.A. | Bachelor of Arts |
| BA | Berufsakademie |
| BA | Bosnien und Herzegowina/Bosnia and Herzegovina (ISO 3166) |
| BA | Bremsassistent (Kfz/motor vehicle) |
| BA | Bundesagentur für Arbeit |
| BAAS | British Association for the Advancement of Science |
| BAB | Bundesarchiv Berlin |
| BAB | Bundesautobahn |
| BACODINE | Batse Coordinates Distribution Network (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| BACZ | Betriebsarchiv Carl Zeiss |
| BAdW | Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften |
| BAe | British Aerospace |
| BAEF | Belgian American Educational Foundation |
| BAFA | Bundesamt für Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle (DE) |
| BaFin | Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht |
| BAföG | Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz |
| BAFTA | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| BAFU | Bundesamt für Umwelt (Bern, CH) |
| BAG | Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Leitenden Kliniksärzte für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie |
| BAGMO | Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Motorrad |
| BAI | Beratender Ausschuss der Industriephysiker (in der DPG) |
| BAK | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Sicherungskopie/file name extension: backup file] |
| BAKOM | Bndesamt für Kommunikation (CH) |
| BALK | Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft leitender Krankenpflegepersonen e.V. |
| BAM | Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (Berlin) |
| BAME | Bayerische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mikroelektronik |
| BAN | Body Area Network |
| BAO | Baryonic (or: Baryon) Acoustic Oscillation (cosmology) |
| BAP | Benzo(a)pyren |
| BAPT | Bundesamt für Post und Telekommunikation (früher/formerly: FTZ, später/later on: RegTP) |
| BAR | Biologische Arbeitsstoff-Referenz(werte) |
| BARC | Bay Area Research Center (Microsoft-Forschungszentrum) |
| BARN | Bayer-Alzheimer Research Network |
| BAS | Bremsassistent (Kfz) |
| BAS | British Antarctic Survey |
| BAS | Broadband Access Server (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BASE | Bacterial Adaptation to Space Environment (ESA project) |
| BASE | Bioinformatics and Systems Engineering (Riken research group, JP) |
| BASF | Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik |
| BASIC | Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code |
| BASL | Building a Smart Laboratory |
| BAST | Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (Bergisch-Gladbach) |
| BASYS | Baltic Sea System Study |
| BAT | Bandwidth Allocation Threshold (Datennetz/data network) |
| BAT | Biologische Arbeitsstofftoleranz(werte) |
| BAT | Bonquet Association Table |
| BAT | British Antarctic Territory |
| BAT | Bundesangestelltentarif |
| BAT | Burst-Alert Telescope (an Bord von/aboard SWIFT Orbiter) |
| BAT | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Batchdatei/file name extension: batch file] |
| BATC | Technical Committee of Biomedical Acoustics (ASA) |
| BATSE | Burst and Transient Source Experiment (GRO) |
| B.A.U.M. | Bundesdeutscher Arbeitskreis für umweltbewusstes Management e.V. |
| BAW | Bulk Acoustic Wave |
| BAZL | Bundesamt für Zivilluftfahrt (Bern, CH) |
| BB | Barbados (ISO 3166) |
| BB | Baseband (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BB | Bottom Bounce (sonar ranging) |
| BB | Brandenburg (Bundesland/German Federal State) |
| BB | Broadband |
| BBAE | Breitband-Anschluss-Einheit |
| BBAW | Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften |
| BBB | Blood-Brain Border (or: Barrier), Blut-Hirn-Schranke |
| BBC | British Broadcasting Corporation |
| BBC | Broadband Coupler (Datennetz/data network) |
| BBCOR | Bat-Ball Coefficient of Restitution |
| BBE | Broadband Entertainment |
| BBI | Base Band to Base Band Interface (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BBiG | Berufsbildungsgesetz |
| BBK | Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe |
| BBMA | Baseband Module Revision A (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BBMC | Baseband Module Revision C (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BBN | Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (astrophysics) |
| BBN | Bolt, Beranek & Newman (USA) |
| BBNS | Big Bang Nucleosynthesis |
| BBO | Beta-Bariumborat (nichtlinearer Kristall/nonlinear crystal) |
| BBPPT | Balai Besar Pengujian Perangkat Telekomunikasi (Indonesien) |
| BBR | Black-Body Radiation |
| BBRAN | Broadband Remote Access Network (or: Node) |
| BBRAS | Broadband Remote Access Server |
| BBS | Behavioral and Brain Science (School and Journal) |
| BBS | Bulletin Board System (Internet) |
| BBSO | Big Bear Solar Observatory (Big Bear Lake, CA, USA) |
| BBW | Bundesverband der Brand- und Wasserschadenbeseitiger e.V. |
| BC | Before Christ |
| BC | British Columbia (Province of Canada) |
| BCA | Burst Cutting Area (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| B-CAS | Basic System Conditional Access System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BCAST | Broadcast |
| BCC | Base (Transceiver) Station Color Code (Mobilfunk/mobile radio) |
| bcc | blind carbon copy (Durchschlag, ohne Nachricht an andere Adressaten) |
| BCC | Body-Centered Cubic (Gitter/lattice) |
| BCC | Buffer Congestion Control (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BCCH | Broadcast Control Channel (Mobilfunk/mobile radio) |
| BCCN | Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (Göttingen, DE) |
| BCD | Binary Coded Decimal |
| BCE | Before Common Era (= vor Christus/before Christ) |
| BCG | Bacille Calmette-Guérin (Tbc-Impfstoff) |
| BCH | Bicentenario de Capital Humano (Chile) |
| BCH | Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (Fehler korrigierender Code/error correcting code) |
| BCI | Brain-Computer Interface |
| BCIS | Biodiversity Conservation Information System |
| BCP | Burst Control Packet |
| BCR | Biospecimen Core Resource |
| BCR | Bureau Communautaire de Référence |
| BCRT | Berlin-Brandenburgisches Zentrum für regenerative Therapien, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (Stammzellenforschung/stem cell research) |
| BCRU | British Committee on Radiation Units and Measurement |
| BCS | [John] Bardeen – [Leon N.] Cooper – [John R.] Schrieffer (Supraleitungstheorie/theory of superconductivity) |
| BCS | British Computer Society |
| BCSD | Business Council for Sustainable Development |
| BCU | Battery Control Unit (Hybridfahrzeug/hybrid vehicle) |
| BD | Bangladesh (ISO 3166) |
| BD | Business Division |
| BDA | Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände |
| BDC | Berlin Document Center |
| BDEW | Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft |
| BDF | Bundesverband Deutscher Fertigbau |
| BDI | Backward Defect Indication |
| BDI | Bearing Deviation Indicator (underwater acoustics) |
| BDI | Belief, Desire, Intent |
| BDI | Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e.V. (Köln) |
| BDJ | Biodiversity Data Journal |
| BdKEP | Bundesverband der Kurier-, Express- und Postdienste |
| BDLI | Bundesverband der Deutschen Luft- und Raumfahrtindustrie |
| BDNF | Brain-Derived Neurotrophic (or: Nerve) (Growth) Factor (Medizin/medicine) |
| BDO | Bundesverband der Organtransplantierten |
| BDP | Biologics Data Platform |
| BDPh | Bund Deutscher Philatelisten |
| BDR | Battery Discharge Module (Satellitentechnik/satellite technology) |
| BDSL | Boundary-Scan-Description Language |
| BDVD | Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus |
| BDZ | Bildungs- und Demonstrationszentrum für dezentrale Abwasserbehandlung e.V. (Leipzig) |
| BE | Belgien/Belgium (ISO 3166) |
| BE | Berlin (Bundesland/German Federal State) |
| BE | Best Effort |
| BE | Broteinheit (für Diabetiker) |
| BEAN | Bridging the European and Anatolian Neolithic (research project) |
| BEC | Backward Error Correction (Datenübertragung/data transmission) |
| BEC | Bose-Einstein Condensation |
| BECS | Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science |
| BEEM | Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy |
| BEESAT | Berlin Experimental and Educational Satellite (von TUB-Studenten) |
| BEF | Best Effort Forwarding (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BEH | [Robert] Brout, [François] Englert, [Peter W.] Higgs (elementary particle physics) |
| BEHGHK | Brout–Englert–Higgs–Guralnik–Hagen–Kibble (elementary particle physics) |
| BEIR | Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation |
| Bellcore | Bell Communications Research |
| BEM | Big Emerging Market (Welthandel/world trade) |
| BEM | Boundary Element Method (or: Model) |
| BEn | Biomasse-Energiekataster |
| BEO | Biologie, Energie, Ökologie (KFA Jülich, Projektträger) |
| BEP | Bit Error Probability |
| BEPC | Beijing Electron Positron Collider |
| BER | Binary Encoding Rule (ASN.1) |
| BER | Bit Error Rate (or: Ratio) |
| BERO | Backup Explicit Route Object (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BERR | Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (UK Government Department) |
| BERT | Bit Error Rate Testing |
| BES | Beijing Spectrometer |
| BES | Biomedical Engineering Society |
| BES | BlackBerry Enterprise Server (Computer) |
| BES | British Ecological Society |
| BESAC | Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee |
| BeSC | Belfast e-Science Centre (Ireland) |
| BESSY | Berliner Elektronen-Speicherring für Synchrotronstrahlung |
| BETHY | Biosphere Energy Transfer Hydrology Model |
| BEUC | European Consumer Organisation |
| BEV | Battery Electric Vehicle |
| BEV | Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen (Österreich) |
| BEXUS | Ballon-Experimente für Universitätsstudenten (seit Okt. 2008, SE) |
| BF | Burkina Faso (früher/formerly: Obervolta/Upper Volta, ISO 3166) |
| BfA | Bundesanstalt für Arbeit |
| BfArM | Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte (Bonn) |
| BFD | Bi-Directional Fault (or: Forwarding) Detection |
| BFD | Bundesfreiwilligendienst (= BuFDi, seit 2011) |
| bFGF | Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor (basischer Fibroblasten-Wachstumsfaktor) |
| BFH | Bundesfinanzhof |
| BFIO | Büro für Führungskräfte zu internationalen Organisationen (Frankfurt/M) |
| BFL | Back Focal Length (optische Linsen/optical lenses) |
| BFN | Beam Forming Network (Antenne/antenna) |
| BfN | Bundesamt für Naturschutz |
| BFNT | Bernstein Focus Neurotechnology (Göttingen, DE) |
| BFO | Beat Frequency Oscillator |
| BFP | Blue Fluorescent Protein |
| BFPP | Bound-Free Pair Production (particle physics) |
| BfR | Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung |
| BfS | Bundesinstitut für Strahlenschutz |
| BFY | Beyond the First Year |
| BG | Border Gateway (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BG | Bulgarien/Bulgaria (ISO 3166) |
| BGA | Ball Grid Array, Kugelgitteranordnung (Chipgehäuse/chip box) |
| BGAN | Broadband Ground Access Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BGB | Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch |
| BGCF | Breakout Gateway Control Function (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BGI | Beijing Genomics Institute (Shenzen, CN) |
| BGM | Betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement |
| BGO | Bismuth Germinate (Gammastrahlendetektor/gamma ray detector) |
| BGO | Burke-Gaffney Observatory (Saint Mary's University, Halifax, CDN) |
| BGP | Border Gateway Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BGR | Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (Hannover) |
| BGSU | Bowling Green State University (OH, USA) |
| BGU | Ben-Gurion University (Negev) |
| BGVV | Bundesanstalt für gesundheitlichen Verbraucherschutz und Veterinärmedizin |
| BH | Bahrain (ISO 3166) |
| BH | Buried Heterostructure (Laser) |
| BHC | Bayer Healthcare |
| BHCA | Busy Hour Call Attempt (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BHFP | Black Hole Finder Probe (Astronomie/astronomy) |
| BHKW | Blockheizkraftwerk |
| BHL | Biodiversity Heritage Library |
| BHSU | Black Hills State University (USA) |
| BI | Burundi (ISO 3166) |
| BI | Business Intelligence |
| BIAS | Bremer Institut für Angewandte Strahltechnik |
| BIBB | Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (Bonn) |
| BIC | Blind Interference Cancellation (DARP, Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BIC | Bound State in the Continuum (Festkörperphysik/solid state physics) |
| BIC | Business Identifier Code |
| BICC | Bearer Independent Call Control (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BICEP | Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization |
| BiCI | Bilateral Cochlear Implant |
| BICI | Broadband Inter-Carrier Interface (Datennetz/data network) |
| BiCMOS | bipolar CMOS |
| BIDS | Biological Integrated Detection System |
| BIE | Boundary Integral Equation |
| BIEK | Bundesverband Internationaler Express- und Kurierdienste |
| BIFS | Binary Format for Scenes (digitales Fernsehen/digital TV) |
| BILD | Binaural Intelligibility Level Difference (Hörakustik/hearing research) |
| BILL | Beacon Illuminator Laser (US Waffe/weapon) |
| BIM | Building Information Modelling |
| BIMR | Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research (McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, CA) |
| BIMS | Biobank Information Management System |
| BImSchG | Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetz |
| BIOP | Broadcast Inter ORB Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BioPoLiS | Bioproduktions-Labor am IPA in Stuttgart (FhG) |
| BIOS | Basic Input/Output System |
| BIOS | Biomedical Optics |
| BIOT | Broadcast Inter ORB Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BIP | Bruttoinlandsprodukt (Volkswirtschaft, = GDP) |
| BIPM | Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (Sèvres, Paris) |
| BIRC | Bio-Imaging Research Center (University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA) |
| BIROS | Bi-Spectral Infrared Optical System (Feuerdetektionssatellit) |
| BIS | Ballistik-Informations-System (in Jagdfernglas integriert) |
| BIS | Business, Innovation and Skills |
| B-ISDN | Broadband ISDN |
| BISG | Book Industry Study Group |
| BISP | Bio Imaging and Signal Proceessing |
| BISP TC | Bio Imaging and Signal Proceessing Technical Committee (in IEEE Signal Processing Society, since 2004) |
| BIT | Binary Digit |
| B-IT | Bonn–Aachen International Center for Information Technology |
| BITNET | Because It's Time Network |
| BITV | Barrierefreie Informationstechnik-Verordnung |
| BIW | Body in White |
| BIZ | Biblioteca Italiana Zanichelli |
| BJ | Benin (früher/formerly: Dahomey, ISO 3166) |
| BJPT | Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy |
| BJTU | Beijing Jiaotong University |
| BKA | Bundeskriminalamt |
| BKCI | Book Citation Index |
| BKG | Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie |
| BKJPP | Berufsverband für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik |
| BKS | Bohr-Kramers-Slater (-Theorie/theory) (1924) |
| BL | Blaue Liste (Deutsche Forschungsinstitute/German research institutes) |
| BLAG | Buffer-Layer Assisted Growth (Festkörperphysik/solid state physics) |
| BLAST | Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope |
| BLAST | Bates Large Acceptance Spectrometer Toroid (MIT) |
| Blazar | Blazing Quasi Stellar Object (astrophysics) |
| BLC | Back Light Compensation (Video-Kamera: Gegenlicht-Blendenvergrößerung) |
| BLC | Botswana Libraries Consortium |
| BLC | Broadband Loop Carrier (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BLDC | Brushless d.c. (Elektromotor/electromotor) |
| BLDL | Bergen Language Design Laboratory (University of Bergen, Norway) |
| BLER | Block Error Rate (or: Ratio) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BLI | Bioluminescence Imaging |
| BLISK | Blade Integrated Disk (Kompressorläuferscheibe für Flugzeuge/compressor rotor disk for aircraft) |
| BLK | Bund-Länder-Kommission für Bildungsplanung und Forschungsförderung |
| BLM | Bureau of Land Management (USA) |
| BLO | Bodleian Library, Oxford (GB) |
| BLOB | Binary Large Object |
| BLS | Bucerius Law School (Hamburg, DE) |
| BLSR | Bidirectional Line Switching Ring |
| BLTP | Bogoljubow Laboratory of Theoretical Physics (VIK, Dubna, Russia) |
| BLU | Backlight Unit (in LCD-Bildschirm/screen) |
| BLVD | Boulevard (US Mail) |
| BM | Basilar Membrane |
| BM | Bermuda (ISO 3166) |
| BM | Broadband Manager |
| BMA | British Medical Association |
| BMB | Baltic Marine Biologists |
| BMBF | Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (DE) |
| BMBW | Bundesministerium für Bildung und Wissenschaft (DE) |
| BMBWFT | Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (DE) |
| BMC | Benchmarking Center (am/at the IIS, Außenstelle/branch Nürnberg, DE) |
| BMC | Bone Mineral Content (medicine) |
| BMC | Broadcast/Multicast Control (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BMC | Burst Mode Controller (Datennetz/data network) |
| BMD | Bone Mineral Density |
| BMDS | Ballistic Missile Defense System (USA) |
| BME | Biomedical Engineering |
| BMELV | Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz |
| BMFT | Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie (DE) |
| BMG | Bulk Metallic Glass |
| BMG | Bundesministerium für Gesundheit |
| BMGS | Bundesministerium für Gesundheit und Soziale Sicherung |
| BMI | Body Mass Index (siehe/see KMI) |
| BMJ | British Medical Journal |
| BML | Broadcast(ing) Markup Language (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BMLD | Binaural Masking Level Difference |
| BMLVS | [Österreichisches] Bundesministerium für Landesverteidigung und Sport |
| BMMRO | Bahamas Marine Mammal Research Organisation |
| BMO | Institut für Biomedizinische Optik (Universität Lübeck) |
| BMP | Bone Morphogenetic Protein |
| BMP | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei/file name extension: graphic file] |
| BMR | Ballistic Magnetoresistance |
| BMS | Batterie-Management-System (Elektroauto) |
| BMS | Business Management System |
| BM-SC | Broadcast/Multicast Service Center (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BMT | Broadband Magnetotelluric (instrumentation) |
| BMU | Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit (DE) |
| BMV | Bundesministerium für Verkehr (DE) |
| BMVBS | Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung (DE) |
| BMVg | Bundesministerium für Verteidigung (DE) |
| BMVI | Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur |
| BMWi | Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (DE) |
| BMZ | Brandmeldezentrale |
| BMZ | Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (DE) |
| BN | Brunei (ISO 3166) |
| BNC | Bayonet Neill-Concelman (Steckverbindung/connector) |
| BNC | Berkeley Nucleonics Corporation |
| BNC | biotechnologisch gewonnene Nanozellulose |
| BNetzA | Bundesnetzagentur (vergibt Funklizenzen/assigns radio frequencies) |
| BNI | Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin (Hamburg) |
| BNL | Brookhaven National Laboratory (Long Island, NY, USA) |
| BNNT | Boron Nitride Nanotubes (Festkörperphysik/solid state physics) |
| BNP | Brain Natriuretic Peptide |
| BNSC | British National Space Centre |
| BNV | Belgische Natuurkundige Vereniging |
| BO | Bolivien/Bolivia (ISO 3166) |
| BOB | Break-Out Box |
| BOC | Binary Offset Carrier (Modulation) |
| BoD | Bandwidth on Demand (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BOD | Biochemical Oxygen Demand (Ireland, test) |
| BoF | Birds-of-a-Feather |
| BOG | Board of Governors |
| BOGRMC | Beijing Olympic Games Radio Management Committee (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BOLD | Blood Oxygen Level-Dependent (Hirnaktvität/brain activity) |
| BÖLW | Bund für Ökologische Lebensmittelwirtschaft |
| BOM | Bill of Materials |
| BONT | Broadband Optical Network Termination |
| BOOMERANG | Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geomagnetics |
| BOREXINO | Boron Solar Neutrino Experiment (Gran Sasso, IT) |
| BOS | Background Oriented Schlieren Method |
| BOS | Behörden und Organisationen mit Sicherheitsaufgaben |
| BOSS | Background Oriented Schlieren System |
| BOSS | Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (astrophysics) |
| BOSS | Big Optical Single Sector (Brennkammerforschung, DLR) |
| BOSS | Building Operating and Security System |
| BOT | Build, Operate and Transfer (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BPDU | Bridge Protocol Data Unit (Ethernet) |
| BPEL | Business Process Execution Language (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BPF | Band-Pass Filter, Bandpassfilter |
| BPF | Blade Passage Frequency (of propeller) |
| BPH | Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia |
| BPH | Bisphosphonate(s) (Medikamente/pharmacy) |
| BPIE | Buildings Performance Institute Europe (Belgium) |
| BPL | bayessches Programmlernen |
| BPMN | Business Process Notation Language (computer programming) |
| BPON | Broadband Passive Optical Network (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| BPP | Beam Parameter Product (Laserdioden/laser diodes) |
| BPP | Bund Philatelistischer Prüfer |
| BPR | Business Process Reengineering |
| BPS | Biophysical Society |
| BPS | The Bulgarian Physical Society |
| BPSK | Binary Phase Shift Keying (Modulation, Binäre Phasenumtastung) |
| BPSR | Bidirectional Path Switched Ring (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BPTI | Bovine Pancreatic Trypsin Inhibitor |
| BPtK | Bundespsychotherapeutenkammer |
| BPX | Burning Plasma Experiment (Fusionsreaktortechnik/fusion reactor technology, PPPL) |
| BQB | Bluetooth Qualification Body (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BQTF | Bluetooth Qualification Test Facility |
| bR | Bacteriorhodopsin |
| BR | Basic Research (ESPRIT) |
| BR | Biosphärenreservat (Naturschutz/nature conservation) |
| BR | Bottom Reflection (ocean acoustics) |
| BR | Brasilien/Brazil (ISO 3166) |
| BRA | Basic Rate Access (ISDN) |
| BRAC | Base Closure and Realignment Commission (USA) |
| BRAC | Building Resources Across Communities (Uganda) |
| BRAGECRIM | Brazilian German Collaborative Research Initiative in Manufacturing Technology |
| BRAHMS | Broad Range Hadron Spectrometer (RHIC) |
| BRAIN | [US] Brain Research for (or: through) Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (sincee 2013) |
| BRAN | Broadband Radio Access Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BRAS | Broadband Remote Access Server (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BRC | Bioenergy Research Center |
| BRDF | Bi-Directional Reflectance Distribution Function (Optik/optics) |
| BREMA | British Radio Equipment Manufacturers' Association |
| BREW | Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BRGM | Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (FR) |
| BRIC | Brazil, Russia, India and China/Brasilien, Russland, Indien und China |
| BRIDGE | Bilateral Research and Industrial Development Enhancing and Integrating Grid Enabled Technologies (EU-gefördertes |
| Europäisch-Chinesisches Computernetz-Projekt/EU sponsored European-Chinese computer network project) |
| BRIDGE | Broadening Participation Research Initiation Grants in Engineering (NSF Award, USA) |
| BRIR | Binaural Room Impulse Response (acoustics) |
| BRITE | Basic Research in Industrial Technologies for Europe |
| BRS | Behavioral Response Study (Meeresbiologie/marine biology) |
| BRS | Buried Ridge Stripe (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BRT | Bruttoregistertonne |
| BRT | Bus-Rapid-Transit (Verkehrssystem) |
| BS | Bahamas (ISO 3166) |
| BS | Bandstop (filter) |
| BS | Base Station (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BS | Basic System |
| BS | Beam Splitter (Optik/optics) |
| BS | British Standard |
| BS | Broadcast Satellite (Digitalrundfunk/digital broadcast) |
| BSA | Bovines Serumalbumin |
| BSA | Broadband Service Aggregator (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| B.Sc. | Bachelor of Science |
| BSC | Barcelona Supercomputing Center (ES) |
| BSC | Base Station Controller (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BSC | Buffalo State University (New York, USA) |
| BSCCO | Bismuth-Strontium-Calcium-Copper Oxide, Wismut-Strontium-Calcium-Kupfer-Oxid, Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3O10-x (HTSL) |
| BSD | Blind Signal Deconvolution |
| BSDL | Boundary-Scan Description Language |
| BSE | Base Station Emulator (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BSE | Blind Signal Extraction |
| BSE | Bonn European School of Economics e.V. |
| BSE | Bovine spongiforme Enzephalopathie, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Rinderwahnsinn) |
| BSEE | Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering |
| BSF | Back Surface Field (Solarzellen/solar cells) |
| BSG | Biologische Schutzgemeinschaft |
| BSG | Blutsenkungsgeschwindigkeit |
| BSG | Bundessozialgericht |
| BSH | Boston Symphony Hall |
| BSH | Bundeamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie |
| BSH | [Medikament zur Tumorbehandlung mit Neutroneneinfangtherapie/medicine for tumour treatment with neutron capture therapy] |
| BSI | British Standards Institution |
| BSI | Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik |
| BSIC | Base Transceiver Station Identity (= NCC + BCC) |
| BSML | Biosequence Markup Language |
| BSMS | Brighton and Sussex Medical School |
| BSNR | Blurred Signal-to-Noise Ratio (Bildunschärfe/picture unsharpness) |
| BSO | Bismuth Silicon Oxide |
| BSP | Beam Synthesis Propagation (optical design) |
| BSP | Board Support Package (Maut-Erfassungssystem/toll registration system) |
| BSP | Bruttosozialprodukt |
| BSPC | Batch Statistical Process Control |
| BSR | Base Station Router (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BSR | Board of Standards Review (USA) |
| BSR | Bottom Simulating Reflector (Ozeanologie/oceanology) |
| BSR | Broadband Service Router (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BSR | Buzz/Squeeze/Rattle (noise sources) |
| BSRN | Baseline Surface Radiation Network |
| BSS | Base Station Subsystem (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BSS | Basic Service Set |
| BSS | Blind Signal (or: Source) Separation (algorithm) |
| BSS | Broadcasting Satellite Service |
| BSS | Business Support System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BSSI | Basic Space Science Initiative (UN) |
| BST | Band Segmented Transmission (Digitalrundfunk/digital broadcast) |
| BSTU | Bundesbehörde für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen DDR |
| BT | Bhutan (ISO 3166) |
| BT | Bluetooth |
| BT | Business Telecommunications (TC in ETSI) |
| BTA | Biologisch-technische(r) Assistent(in) |
| BTA | Broadcasting Technical Association (Japan) |
| BTBP | Bistriazinylbipyridin |
| BTC | Bayer–Tsinghua Joint Research Center for Innovative Drug Discovery (Peking, China) |
| BTE | Behind-the-Ear (hearing aid) |
| BTE | Boltzmann Transport Equation |
| BTEX | Benzol, Toluol, Ethylbenzol und Xylole (Aromaten, die das Grundwasser verunreinigen) |
| BTF | Broadcast Technology Futures Group |
| BTL | Biomass to Liquid (synthetischer Kraftstoff/synthetic fuel) |
| BTNRH | Boys Town National Research Hospital (Omaha, NE, USA) |
| BTP | Bistriazinylpyridin |
| BTPG | Boundary-Scan-Test-Program Generation |
| B/TQE | Project Group on Television Quality Evolution |
| BTS | Base Transceiver Station (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BTS | Broadcast Television Systems GmbH (Darmstadt, DE) |
| BTS | Broadcasting Transport Stream |
| BTU | Brandenburgische Technische Universität |
| BTV | Broadcast Television |
| BTW | by the way |
| Btx | Bildschirmtext |
| BU | Boston University (MA, USA) |
| BU | Branching (or: Business) Unit (Rechnernetze, Telekommunikation/computer networks, telecommunication) |
| BUA | Broadband Ultrasound Absorption |
| BUC | Break-Up Camera (DLR, Raumfahrt) |
| BuFDi | Bundesfreiwilligendienst (= BFD, seit 2011) |
| BUFORA | British UFO Research Association |
| Bull. P&I T.I.T. | Bulletin of Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Yokohama, Japan) |
| BUND | Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland e.V. |
| BUV | Backscatter UV (spectrometer) |
| BV | Bouvetinsel/Bouvet Island (ISO 3166) |
| BVA | Berufsverband der Augenärzte Deutschlands e.V. |
| BVA | British Radio Valve Manufacturers' Association |
| BvD | Berufsverband der Datenschutzbeauftragten Deutschlands |
| BVDD | Berufsverband der Deutschen Dermatologen |
| BVG | Berliner Verkehrsgesellschaft |
| BVL | Bundesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit |
| BVND | Berufsverband der niedergelassenen Diabetologen |
| BVPN | Broadband Virtual Private Network |
| BVW | Betriebliches Vorschlagswesen |
| BW | Baden-Württemberg (Bundesland/German Federal State) |
| BW | Bandwidth |
| b.w. | bitte wenden (engl.: p.t.o.) |
| BW | Botswana (ISO 3166) |
| BWA | Broadband Wireless Access (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| BWB | Beratungsgesellschaft für Wirtschaftliches Bauen |
| BWB | Blended Wing Body (Flugzeug/aircraft) |
| B-WiN | Breitband-Wissenschaftsnetz (Datennetz, bis/data network, up to 155 Mbit/s) |
| BWL | Beriebswirtschaftslehre |
| BWL | Burst Wave Lithotripsy |
| BWR | Boiling-Water Reactor (nuclear reactor) |
| BY | Bayern (Bundesland/German Federal State) |
| BY | Weißrussland/Belarus (ISO 3166) |
| BYOD | Bring Your Own Device |
| BYU | Brigham Young University (Provo, UT, USA) |
| BZ | Belize (ISO 3166) |
| BZ | Belousov-Zhabotinsky (oszillierende chemische Reaktion/oscillating chemical reaction) |
| BZ | Brennstoffzelle (= FC) |
| BZgA | Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung |
| BZMM | Berliner Zentrum für Mechatronische Medizintechnik |
| B2B | Business-to-Business |
| B2C | Business-to-Consumer (or: Customer) |
| B3G | Beyond Third Generation (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
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| c... | Zenti... (Präfix/prefix): 10-2 |
| C | Cytosin (DNA-Base/DNA base) |
| CA | California (US-Staat/US state) |
| CA | Call Agent (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CA | Cancer (Krebs) |
| CA | Carrier Aggregation (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CA | Cellular Automata |
| CA | Code Acquisition |
| CA | Computer Algebra |
| CA | Computer-Animation |
| CA | Conditional Access (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CA | Conservation Agriculture |
| CA | Kanada/Canada (ISO 3166) |
| C/A | Coarse/Acquisition (GPS) |
| CAA | Canadian Acoustical Society |
| CAA | Civil Aviation Authority (UK) |
| CAA | Clean Air Act |
| CAA | Computational Aeroacoustics |
| CAAT | Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA) |
| CABP | China Architecture and Building Press |
| CABR | Complex Auditory Brainstem Response |
| CAC | Call Acceptance (or: Admission) Control (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CAC | Center for Advanced Computing |
| CACSD | Computer Aided Control System Design |
| CAD | Computer Aided Design |
| CADE | Computer Algebra and Differential Equations (Programm bei der GMD/research program of the GMD) |
| CADSTI | Caribbean Diaspora for Science, Technology, and Innovation |
| CAE | Center for Astronomy Education (University of Arizona, USA) |
| CAE | Computer Aided Engineering |
| CAESAR | Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (Bonn, DE) |
| CAEX | Computer Aided Engineering Exchange (Maschinensprache) |
| CAFE | Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (or: Economy) |
| CAG | Computer Aided Gage (or: Gaging) (computerunterstützte Kfz-Schaltung/automobile gear) |
| CAGE | Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate |
| CAGR | Compound Annual Growth Rate |
| CAHA | Centro Astronómico Hispano-Aléman (= DSAZ) (Calar Alto) |
| CAI | Calcium-Aluminum Inclusion (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| CAI | Cavity as Interface |
| CAI | Computer-Aided (or: Assisted) Instruction |
| CAIMIS | Chemistry Analysis Information Management Interface System |
| CAIP | Center for Advanced Information Processing (Rutgers University, USA) |
| CAIR | Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (Korea) |
| CAL | Computer-Aided (or: Assisted) Learning |
| CALI | chromophorassistierte lichtgesteuerte Inaktivierung |
| CALIPSO | Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation |
| CALM | Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (act, USA 2010) |
| CALO | Cognitive Agent that Learns and Organizes |
| Caltech | California Institute of Technology (Los Angeles, CA, USA) |
| Caltrans | California Department of Transportation |
| CAM | Career Asset Manager (IEEE) |
| CAM | Centre of Advanced Materials (University of Heidelberg, DE) |
| CAM | Computer Aided Manufacturing |
| CAMA | Crew Assistant System for Military Aircraft |
| CAMEL | Cellular Automata Environment for Systems Modelling |
| CAMEL | Customized Applications for Mobile (Network) Enhanced Logic (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CAMEO | Computer Aided Mechanistic Evaluation of Organic Reactions |
| CAML | Census of Antarctic Marine Life |
| CAMP | Channel Amplifier |
| cAMP | Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate, cyclisches Adenosinmonophosphat |
| CAMPARE | California-Arizona Minority Partnership for Astronomy Research and Education |
| CAMPEP | Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Programs (USA) |
| CAMS | Card Application Management System (Smart Card) |
| CAMVis | Coupled Advanced Modeling and Visualization |
| CAN | Control(ler) Area Network |
| CAN | Customer Access Network |
| CANDU | Canada Deuterium Uranium (reactor) |
| CANIF | Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in Forest Soils |
| CANOLA | Canadian Oil, Low Acid (Raps-Neuzüchtung) |
| CAO | Carnegie Airborne Observatory |
| CAO | Computer Aided Optimization |
| CAOHC | Council for Accreditation in Occupational Hearing Conservation |
| CAP | Camel Applications Part (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CAP | Canadian Association of Physicists |
| CAP | Capabilities Application Part (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CAP | Carrierless Amplitude Phase (modulation) |
| CAP | Committee on Applied Physics (APS) |
| CAP | Common Agricultural Policy (EU) |
| CAP | Computer Aided Painting (Lackier-Roboter) |
| CAP | Council of the American Physical Society |
| CAPA | Corrective Actions and Preventive Actions |
| CAPE | Computer Assisted Process Engineering |
| CAPE | Convective Available Potential Energy (tornado research) |
| CAPES | Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (BR) |
| CAPEX | Capital Expenditure |
| CAPI | Common Application Programming (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CAPP | Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research (KAIST) |
| CAPR | Center for Advanced Preclinical Research (at NCI) |
| CAPRA | Concept to Amplify Plutonium Reduction in Advanced Fast Reactors (CEA) |
| CAPS | Call Attempts per Second (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CAPT | Center for Applied Physics and Technology (Peking University, China) |
| CAPTCHA | Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart (Internet) |
| CAQ | Computer Aided Quality |
| CAR | Center Automotive Research (FH Gelsenkirchen, DE) |
| CAR | Chimeric Antigen Receptor, chimärer Antigenrezeptor |
| CARA | California Association for Research Astronomy |
| CARAT | Computer Aided Radio and Television |
| CARB | California Air Resources Board |
| CARD | Controlled Access to Research Data Stored Securely |
| CARE | Comprehensive Approach for Recycling of Electronics |
| CARF | Council for Accreditation of Rehabilitative Facilities (USA) |
| CARIBIC | Civil Aircraft for the Regular Investigation of the Atmosphere Based on an Instrument Container |
| CARIBU | Californium Rare Isotope Beam Upgrade (Argonne National Laboratory, near Chicago, IL, USA) |
| CARICOM | Caribbean Community (Haiti, Guyana, Suriname, Belize, West Indies) |
| CARL | Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries |
| CARMA | Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-Wave Astronomy (Cedar Flat, CA, USA) |
| CARMA | Cooperative Arrival Manager (Flugverkehr/air traffic) |
| CarNak | Carbon Nanotube Aktuatorik |
| CAROD | Computer Aided Robust Design |
| CARPET | Cellular Programming Environment |
| CARROUSO | Creating, Assessing and Rendering in Real Time of High Quality Audio-Visual Environments in MPEG-4 Context (3D-Klangverfahren/3D sound reproduction) |
| CARS | Center for Advanced Radiation Sources (Chicago, IL, USA) |
| CARS | Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy (or: Scattering) |
| CART | Center for Advanced Radiotherapy Technologies (UCSD) |
| CART | Classification and Regression Trees (statistical analysis) |
| CART | Combination Antiretroviral Therapy |
| CAS | Calorimetric Absorption Spectroscopy |
| CAS | Catgut Acoustical Society (promoting violin acoustics) |
| CAS | Channel Associated Signaling |
| CAS | Chemical Abstracts Service (Datenbak, seit/data bank, since 1907) |
| CAS | Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, CN) |
| CAS | Committee on Assurance of Supply |
| CAS | Complex Adaptive Systems |
| CAS | Conditional Access System (Digitalrundfunk/digital broadcast) |
| CAS | Controlled Access Service |
| Cas | CRISPR-Associated |
| CASA | Computational Auditory Scene Analysis |
| CASAGRAS | Coordination and Support Action for Global RFID-Related Activities and Standardization (EU project in FP7) |
| CaSE | Campaign for Science and Engineering |
| CASE | Computer Aided Software Engineering |
| C2A2S2E | Center for Computer Applications in Aerospace Science and Engineering (DLR, Braunschweig, DE) |
| CASI | Canadian Aeronautic and Space Institute |
| CASIPS | Close to Application Study in Polymer Science (IAP-Förderprogramm/IAP grant program) |
| CISIS | Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (USA) |
| CASL | Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (ORNL, USA) |
| CASP | Center for Autonomous Solar Power (State University of New York, Binghamton, USA) |
| CASP | Competitive Access Service Provider (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CASP | Critical Assessment of [Techniques for] Protein Structure Prediction |
| CASRAI | Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information |
| CASSE | Comet Acoustical Surface Sounding |
| CASS-MT | Center for Adaptive Supercomputing Software for Multithreaded Architectures |
| CAST | Cardiac Arrythmia Suppression Trial |
| CAST | [Competence] Center for Applied Security Technology |
| CAST | CERN Axion Solar Telescope |
| CAST | Chinese Association for Science and Technology |
| CAT | Collaborative Access Team (at APS, Argonne) |
| CAT | Computer-Aided Teaching |
| CAT | Computer-Aided Tomography |
| CAT | Computerized Axial Tomography |
| CAT | Conditional Access Table (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CATC | Continuous Automatic Train Control (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| CATI | Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing |
| CATS | Capacitive Anti-Finger-Trap System (Einklemmschutz bei Autofenstern/vehicle windows) |
| CATS | Climate-Compatible Air Transport System |
| CATS | Collaboration of Astronomy Teaching Scholars (USA) |
| CATV | Cable Television |
| CATV | Coaxial Television |
| CATV | Community (or: Common) Antenna Television |
| CAU | Christian-Albrechts-Universität (Kiel) |
| CAUL | Council of Australian University Libraries |
| CAVE | Cave Automatic Virtual Environment |
| CAVE | Computer Aided Virtual Environment |
| CA9 | Carboanhydrase 9 (Tumorbekämpfung/cancer treatment) |
| CB | Cellular Broadcast |
| CB | Citizen Band (Mobilfunk/mobile radio, 26.565 – 27.405 MHz) |
| CB | Control Burst (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CBC | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
| CBC | Cell Broadcast Center (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CBDS | Connectionless Broadband Data Service |
| CBEN | Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (Rice University, USA) |
| CBI | Cosmic Background Imager (Radioteleskop–Array/radio telescope array in Chile) |
| CBIR | Center for Brain Injury and Repair (University of Pennsylvania, USA) |
| CBIR | Content-Based Image Retrieval |
| CBIIT | Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology |
| CBM | Compressed Baryonic Matter |
| CBMC | Convergence of Broadcast and Mobile Services (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CBME | Center of Business Model Engineering |
| CBN | Cubic Boron Nitride |
| CBO | Compact Base Station Outdoor (Mobilfunk/mobile radio) |
| CBO | Congressional Budget Office (USA) |
| CBOE | Chicago Board Options Exchange (Börsenhandel/stock exchange) |
| CBP | Customs and Border Protection (USA) |
| CBP | [Fraunhofer-Zentrum für] Chemisch-Biotechnologische Prozesse (Leuna) |
| CBPF | Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas (Brazilian Center for Research in Physics) |
| CBQ | Class Based Queuing (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CBR | Constant Bit Rate (Datenübertragung/data transfer) |
| CBR | Content-Based Retrieval |
| CBS | Cell Broadcast Service (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CBS | Centre for Biological Sequence Analysis (Technical Union of Denmark) |
| CBS | Centrum für Schlaganfall-Forschung Berlin (Charité) |
| CBSDM | Component-Based Scene Description Model |
| CBT | Computer Based Training |
| CBT | Coulomb Blockade Thermometer |
| CBTC | Communication Based Train Control (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| CBTL | Certification Body Testing Lab |
| CC | Call Control (Layer 3) |
| CC | Capital Cost |
| cc | Carbon Copy (Durchschlag) |
| CC | Competence Center (computer networks) |
| CC | Component Carrier (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CC | Connection Coordinator |
| CC | Continuity Checking (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CC | Copyright Compliant (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CC | Creative Commons (kostenlos nutzbar) |
| CC | Cross Connect (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CC | Kokosinseln/Cocos Islands (ISO 3166) |
| CCA | Center for Computational Astrophysics (University of Pensylvania, USA) |
| CCA | Clear Channel Assessment (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CCA | Continuum Computer Architecture |
| CCA | Copy Control Association |
| CCAPP | Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA) |
| CCAR | Climate Change and Atmospheric Research (Program, Canada) |
| CCAST | Center for Computationally Assisted Science and Technology (NDSU, USA) |
| CCAT | Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope |
| CCAT | Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope (Radioteleskop/radio telescope, geplant für/planned for 2013) |
| CCB | Climate-Culture-Building |
| CCB | Customer Care and Billing (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CCBS | Customer Care and Billing System (or: Service) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CCC | Capability Computing Campaign |
| CCC | Clatterbridge Cancer Centre (Liverpool, GB) |
| CCC | Comprehensive Cancer Center (Heidelberg, DE) |
| CCC | Cross-Correlation Coefficient |
| CCC | Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. |
| CCCH | Common Control Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CCD | Carbonate Compensation Depth (im Meer/in the Ocean) |
| CCD | Center for Coatings and Diamond Technologies (Michigan State University in East Lansing, USA) |
| CCD | Centre-to-Centre Displacement (microoptics) |
| CCD | Charge-Coupled Device |
| CCD | Click Change Detection (Wal-Laute/whale sounds) |
| CCD | Colony Collapse Disorder (Bienenkrankheit/honeybee disease) |
| CCDF | Complementary Cumulative Distribution Function (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CCDM | Consultive Committee for the Definition of the Metre |
| CCDS | Comité Consultatif pour la Definition de la Seconde |
| CCE | Cloud Center Efficiency |
| CCE | Comité Consultatif d'Electricité |
| CCEM | Centre for Emerging Device Technologies (McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, CA) |
| CCES | Center for Computational Engineering Science (RWTH Aachen, DE) |
| CCES | Climate Science Computational End Station (USA) |
| CCF | Call Control Function (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CCF | Capillary Channel Flow |
| CCF | Cross-Correlation Function |
| CCFL | Cold-Cathode Fluorescent Lamp |
| CCG | Chemical Computing Group (UK) |
| CCH | Congress Center Hamburg |
| CCHP | Combined Cooling, Heating, and Power (Kraftwerk/power station) |
| CCI | Climate Change Inititative (ESA program) |
| CCI | Co-Channel Interference (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CCI | Comité Consultatif International [des communications téléphoniques à grande distance] (seit/since 1924) |
| CCIB | Center for Computational and Integrative Biology (Rutgers University, USA) |
| CCID | Coordinating Center for Infectuous Disease (Atlanta, GA, USA) |
| CCIF | Comité Consultatif International Téléphonique (später/later on: CCIT) |
| CCIR | Comité Consultatif International des Radiocommunications |
| CCIT | Comité Consultatif International des Communications Télégraphiques (gegründet/founded 1925, |
| ab/since 1956: Comité Consultatif International de Communication Télégraphique et Téléphonique) |
| CCITT | Comité Consultatif International pour la Télégraphie et le Téléphone |
| CCK | Complementary Code Keying (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CCL | [Fraunhofer-] Center for Coatings and Laser Applications (Michigan, USA) |
| CCL | Commerce Control List (USA) |
| CCLD | Constant Current Line Drive (Konstantstromversorgung) |
| CCLRC | Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (UK) |
| CCM | Certified Consulting Meteorologist (American Meteorological Society program) |
| CCM | Climate Control Module (für Autos/for cars) |
| CCM | Cluster Compatibility Mode |
| CCM | Comité Consultatif pour la Masse et les Grandeurs Apparantées |
| CCM | CORBA Component Model (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CCMR | Collaborative Conference on Materials Research |
| CCMS | Center for Condensed Matter Sciences (National Taiwan University) |
| CCNY | City College of New York (USA) |
| CCO | Central Coordination Office |
| CCO | Chief Compliance Officer |
| CCP | Chinese Communist Party |
| CCP | Customer Convenience Port |
| CCPCH | Common Control Physical Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CCPR | Comité Consultatif de Photométrie et Radiométrie |
| CCQS | Center for Controlled Quantum Systems (Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA) |
| CCRA | Common Criteria Recognition Agreement |
| CCS | Carbon (Dioxide) Capture and Storage Technologies |
| CCS | Center for Computing Sciences (IDA) |
| CCS | College of Creative Studies (at UCSB) |
| CCS | Common Channel Signaling |
| CCS | Compute Cluster Server (Windows, 2003) |
| CCS | CO2 (or: Carbon) Capture and Storage (Umweltschutz/environment conservation) |
| CCS | Satellite Control Center |
| CCSA | China Communications Standard Association (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CCSM | Community Climate System Model (Klimaforschung/climate research) |
| CCSU | Central Connecticut State University |
| CCT | Center for Computation and Technology (at LSU) |
| CCT | Correlated Colo(u)r Temperature |
| CCT | Cyclic Corrosion Test, zyklischer Korrosionstest |
| CCTS | Carbon Capture, Transport and Storage |
| CCTV | China Central Television |
| CCTV | Closed Circuit Television |
| CCV | Control-Configured Vehicle (Flugzeug/aircraft) |
| CCVC | Capacitively Coupled Voltage Contrast |
| CCW | Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons |
| CCW | counterclockwise |
| CCXML | Call Control Extensible Markup Language (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CC0 | Creative Commons Zero |
| CD | Chromatic Dispersion (Glasfaser/glass fiber) |
| CD | Circular Dichroism (spectroscopy) |
| CD | Compact Disc |
| CD | Demokratische Republik Kongo (früher Zaire)/Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire) (ISO 3166) |
| CDA | Clinical Document Architecture (HLJ) |
| CDA | Committee on Diversity in Acoustics (ASA, USA) |
| CDA | Confirmatory Data Analysis |
| CDA | Continuous Descent Approach (Flugverkehr/air traffic) |
| CDA | Convent deutscher Akademikerverbände |
| CDA | [Dateinamenerweiterung: CD-Titel auf Musik-CD/file name extension: CD title on music CD] |
| CDA | Cosmic Dust Analyzer |
| CDC | Cell Division Cycle |
| CDC | Center for Disease Control [and Prevention] (e.g., Atlanta, GA, USA) |
| CDC | China Development Corporation (Taiwan) |
| CDC | Compact Diagnostic Chamber (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CDC | Continuous Damping Control |
| CDC | Control Data Corporation |
| CDD | Childhood Disintegrative Disorder |
| CDD | Collaborative Drug Discovery |
| CDDI | Copper Distributed Data Interface |
| CDE | Common Desktop Environment |
| CDE | Component Development Environment (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CDEX | China Dark Matter Experiment |
| CDF | Channel Definition Format |
| CDF | Collider Detector at Fermilab |
| CDF | Cumulative Density (or: Distribution) Function |
| CDG | Carl-Duisberg-Gesellschaft |
| CDG | Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft (Austria) |
| CDG | Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation |
| CDH | Completely Detached H-Regime (Fusionsreaktortechnik/fusion reactor technology) |
| CDI | Collaborative Data Infrastructure (EU project) |
| CD-I | Compact Disc-Interactive |
| CDK | Cyclin Dependent Kinase (Medizin/medicine) |
| CDL | Coordinated Development Laboratory (NRAO) |
| CDLCME | Christian Doppler Laboratory for Cavitation and Micro-Erosion (Göttingen, DE) |
| CDM | Clean Development Mechanism (Umweltschutz/environment conservation) |
| CDM | Code Division Multiplex(ing) |
| CDM | Cold Dark Matter (Kosmologie/cosmology) |
| CDMA | Code Division Multiple Access (Mobilfunk/mobile radio) |
| CDMS | Clinical Data Management System |
| CDMS | Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (Astrophysik/astrophysics, USA) |
| CDN | Content Delivery (or: Distribution) Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CDN | Coupling/Decoupling Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| cDNA | Complementary DNA |
| CDO | Collateral Debt Obligation (Wertpapierhandel/stock exchange) |
| CDO | Consortium Directory Online |
| CDP | Code Domain Power (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CDP | Core Description Profile (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CdPNo | Called Party Number (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CDR | Call Data (or: Detail) Record (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CDR | Carbon Dioxide Removal (climate engineering) |
| CDR | Clock Division (or Data) Recovery (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CDR | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Corel Draw-Graphikdatei/file name extension: Coral Draw graphic file] |
| CDR | Critical Design Review |
| CDRH | Center of Devices and Radiological Health (US Food and Drug Administration) |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disc Read-Only Memory |
| CDS | Chromatography (Handling) Data System |
| CDS | Clinical Decision Support (USA) |
| CDS | Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (an Bord von/aboard SOHO) |
| CDS | Correlated Double Sampling (Rauschunterdrückung/noise reduction) |
| CDS | Credit Default Swap (Börsenhandel/stock exchange) |
| CDS | Crosspoint Development System |
| CDT | Causal Dynamical Triangulation (Gravitationstheorie/theory of gravitation) |
| CDT | Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (sensors for marine research) |
| CDTI | Cockpit Display for Traffic Information (Flugsicherung/flight security) |
| CDU | Cooling (or: Coolant) Distribution Unit (HPC) |
| CDV | Cell Delay Variation |
| CDVT | Cell Delay Variation Tolerance |
| CDW | Charge-Density Wave |
| CDZ | Chinesisch-Deutsches Zentrum für Wissenschaftsförderung (Beijing) |
| CE | Capillary Electrophoresis |
| CE | Carrier Ethernet (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CE | Chief Executive |
| CE | Circuit Emulation (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CE | Communauté (oder/or: Conformité) Européenne |
| CE | Consumer Electronics |
| CE | Customer Edge (or: Equipment) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CE | Kapillarelektrophorese |
| CEA | Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics (Berkeley, CA, USA) |
| CEA | Commisariat à l'Energie Atomique (Fontenay aux Roses, FR) |
| CEA | Consumer Electronics Association (USA) |
| CEAASES | Consejo de Evaluacion Acreditacion y Aseguramemiento de la Calidad de la Educacion Superior |
| (Board of Assessment, Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education, Ecuador) |
| CEAS | Confederation (or: Council) of European Aerospace Societies |
| CEAUL | Centro de Estatística e Aplica¸ões da Universidade de Lisboa (PT) |
| CEBAF | Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (Newport News, VA, USA) |
| CeBIT | Centrum für Büro- und Informationstechnik (Messe, Hannover/Hanover fair, DE) |
| CEC | Commission of the European Communities |
| CEC | Consumer Electronics Control (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CEC | Countries of Central Europe (ehem. Ostblockländer/former Eastern Block countries) |
| CECS | Center for Energy and Climate Solutions (Annadale, VA, USA) |
| CEC-WYS | Central European Centre for Women and Youth in Science |
| CEDIA | Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association (USA) |
| CEDIM | Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology (Univ. Karlsruhe, DE) |
| CEDR | Clinical and Experimental Dental Research |
| CEDR | Conference of European Directors of Roads |
| CÈDRE | Centre of Documentation, Research and Experimentation on Accidental Water Pollution (French Organization) |
| CEDT | Centre for Emerging Device Technologies (McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, CA) |
| CEE | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| CEE | Controlled Exposure Experiment |
| CEEES | Committee of European Environmental Engineering Societies (at the ICT, Pfinztal, DE) |
| CEEM | Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter (Indiana University, USA) |
| CEET | Clean and Efficient Energy Technologies |
| CEF | Concurrent Engineering Facility (DLR, Bremen, DE) |
| CEFE | Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (Montpellier, FR) |
| CEFS | Centre for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies (TU München, DE) |
| CEGMR | Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research (King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia) |
| CEHMS | Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems (VPI&SU, Blacksburg, VA, USA) |
| CEI | Central European Initiative |
| CEI | Commission Electrotechnique Internationale (= IEC) |
| CEIC | Committee on Electronic Information and Communication |
| CEIN | Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (University of California at Los Angeles, USA) |
| CELIA | Centre for Lasers and Intense Applications (Bordeaux, FR) |
| CELIAS | Charge, Element and Isotope Analyses System (an Bord von/aboard SOHO) |
| CellID | Cell Identification (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CELP | Code-Excited Linear Prediction |
| CELT | California Extremely Large Telescope |
| CELTIC | Cooperation for a Sustained European Leadership in Telecommunications |
| CEM | Center for Electromechanics (University of Texas in Austin, USA) |
| CEM | Channel Electron Multiplier |
| CEMA | Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association |
| CeMAS | Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (University of Göttingen, DE) |
| CMaST | Center for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona) |
| CeMIS | Centre for Modern Indian Studies (University of Göttingen, DE) |
| CEMS | Conversion Electron Mössbauer Spectroscopy |
| CEN | Centre d'études nucléaires (Bordeuax-Gradignan, FR) |
| CEN | Comité Européen de Normalisation [European Committee for Standardization, Europäisches Komitee for Normung] |
| CENAM | Centro Nacional de Metrología (MX) |
| CENELEC | Comité Européen de Normalisation Électrotechnique |
| CENER | [National Renewable Energy Centre] (Spain) |
| CeNoS | Center for Nonlinear Science (University of Münster, DE) |
| CENPA | Center for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics (University of Washington, USA) |
| CeNS | Center for NanoScience (LMU, München, DE) |
| CentRec | Zentrifugalreceiver (DLR) |
| CEO | Chief Executive Officer (entspricht Vorstandschef bei einer AG) |
| CEOAE | Click-Evoked Otoacoustic Emission |
| CEOCT | Confocal Enhanced Optical Coherence Tomography |
| CEOS | Committee on Earth Observing Satellite |
| CEPBA | Centre for Parallelism of Barcelona (Spain, Computer Center) |
| CEPI | Confocal Fabry-Perot Interferometer |
| CEPII | Centre d'Études Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales (Paris, FR) |
| CEPR | Center for Economic Policy Research (FR) |
| CEPS | Centre for European Policy Studies (Bruxelles, BE) |
| CEPSAR | Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research (UK) |
| CEPT | Conférence Européenne des Postes et (des) Télécommunications |
| CER | Communicating European Research (Meeting) |
| CER | Community of European Railways |
| CERAM | Centre d'essais et de recherche automobile de Montefontaine (bei/near Paris, FR) |
| CeraStorE | Competence Center for Ceramic Materials and Thermal Storage in Energy Research (DLR, Köln) |
| CERC | Canadian Excellent (or: Canada Excellence) Research Chair (e.g., University of Ottawa, Canada) |
| CERC | Clean Energy Research Centre |
| CERCA | Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics (Case Western University, Cleveland, OH, USA) |
| CERC3 | Chairmen and Directors of European Research Council's Chemistry Committees |
| CEREQ | Centre d'Etude de Recherche sur les Qualifications |
| CERES | Chemical Evaluation and Risk Estimation System |
| CERES | Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (Satelliten-Erd-Fernerkundung/satellite remote earth sensing) |
| CERIF | Common European Research Information Format |
| CERN | Conseil Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire (jetzt/now: Organisation Européenne ...) |
| CERP | Centre of European Research Projects |
| CERRO | Central European Regional Research Organization |
| CERT | Computer Emergency Response Team |
| CERTH | Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (Thessaloniki, GR) |
| CES | Cambridge Engineering Selector [Database] (UK) |
| CES | Circuit Emulation Services (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CES | Computational Engineering Science |
| CES | Computer Earth Sciences Group (at BSC, Barcelona) |
| CES | Consumer Electronics Show |
| CESAR | Cost-Efficient Methods and Processes for Safety Relevant Embedded Systems |
| CESE | [Fraunhofer-] Center for Experimental Software Engineering (Maryland, USA) |
| CESGA | Centro de Supercomputatión de Galicia (ES) |
| CESM | Community Earth System Model |
| CeSMa | Center Smart Materials (FhG-ISC) |
| CESoE[TH] | Circuit Emulation Service(s) over Ethernet (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CESRA | Community of European Solar Astronomers |
| CEST | C Expert System Tools |
| CEST | Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (Biomedizin/biomedicine) |
| CET | Kryoelektronentomografie |
| CETA | Center of Excellence for Advanced Technology |
| CETA | College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture |
| CETHEDEC | Centre d'études théoriques de la détection et des communications (FR) |
| CETIM | Centre technique des industries mécaniques (FR) |
| CETUP | Center for Theoretical Underground Physics and Related Areas (South Dakota, USA) |
| CEZA | Curt-Engelhorn-Zentrum Archäometrie (Mannheim) |
| CF | Characteristic Frequency |
| cf | cubic foot, cubic feet |
| CF | Cystische Fibrose (Mukoviszidose) |
| C&F | Cost and Freight (Handelsverkehr/trade) |
| CF | Zentralafrikanische Republik/Central African Republic (ISO 3166) |
| CfA | Center for Astrophysics (Harvard-Smithonian, Cambridge, MA, USA) |
| CFA | Color Filter Array (Bildverarbeitung/picture processing) |
| CFAR | Constant-False-Alarm Rate (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CFC | Carbon Fiber Reinforced Carbon |
| CFC | Chlorofluorocarbon |
| CFCAS | Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences |
| CFD | Computational Fluid Dynamics, scherzhaft auch/jokingly also: Colorful Fluid Dynamics |
| CFDS | Center for Doctoral Studies (RWTH Aachen, DE) |
| CFEL | Centre for Free-Electron Laser Science (Hamburg, DE) |
| CFF | Consistent-Force-Field (molecular physics) |
| CFFL | Columbus Free Flying Laboratory (Raumfahrt/spacecraft) |
| CFFS | Conventional Fish-Finding Echo Sounder |
| CFG | Context-Free Grammar (Sprachverarbeitung/speech processing) |
| CFG | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Konfigurationsdatei/file name extension: configuration file] |
| CFHT | Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (Mauna Kea) |
| CFI | Canada Foundation for Innovation (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CA) |
| CFI | Canonical Format Indicator (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CFI | Color Flow Imaging (Ultraschall-Doppler-Verfahren/ultrasound Doppler method) |
| CFIT | Controlled Flight into Terrain |
| CFK | Kohlenstofffaser-verstärkte Kunststoffe |
| CFL | CAD Framework Laboratory |
| CFL | Compact Fluorescent (Bulb) |
| CFM | Confocal Microscopy |
| CFMS | Centre for Modelling and Simulation |
| CFN | Center for Functional Nanomaterials (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA) |
| CFO | Carrier Frequency Offset (Datenübertragung/data transfer) |
| CFO | Chief Financial Officer |
| CFP | Center for Fundamental Physics (Northwestern University, USA) |
| CFP | Common Fisheries Policy (Europe) |
| CFP | Contention Free Period (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CF-PEEK | kohlenstofffaserverstärktes PEEK |
| CFR | Code of Federal Regulations (FDA) |
| CFRP | Carbon-Fiber Reinforced Plastic |
| CFSAN | Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (USA) |
| CFSE | Center for Frontier Science and Engineering (Tokyo, JP) |
| CFT | Conformal Field Theory (cosmology) |
| CFTR | Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator |
| CFU | Colony Forming Units (Bakterien/bacteries) |
| CFV | Call for Votes (Rechnernetz/computer network) |
| CG | Charging Gateway |
| CG | Computer Graphics |
| CG | Chorion Gonadotropin (ein Hormon/a hormone) |
| CG | Volksrepublik Kongo/People's Republic of Congo (ISO 3166) |
| CGA | Cancer Genome Atlas |
| CGA | Ceramic Grid Array (Halbleitertechnik/semiconductor technology) |
| CGA | Color Graphics Adapter |
| CGC | Chemical Genomic Center (Dortmund, DE) |
| CGC | Complementary Ground Component (ergänzt/supplement to DVB-SH) |
| CGD | Coplanar Grid Detector |
| CGE | Compagnie Générale d'Electricité |
| CGH | Comparative Genomic Hybridisation (Mikroarraytechnik/microarray technology) |
| CGH | Computer-Generated Hologram |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CGIAR | Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research |
| CGM | Computer Graphics Metafile [Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei/file name extension: graphic file] |
| CGM | Consumer Generated Media |
| CGM | Continuous Glucose Monitoring |
| CGMP | Current Good Manufacturing Practice |
| CGMS | Copy Generation Management System |
| CGPM | Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures |
| CGRM | Centre Grenoblois de Résonance Magnétique (Grenoble, FR) |
| CGRO | Compton Gamma Ray Observatory |
| cgs | Centimeter – Gramm – Sekunde (Maßsystem/system of units) |
| CGS | Continuous Grain Silicon (Halbleitertechnik/semiconductor technology) |
| CGS | Corporate GSM Server (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CGS | Council of Graduate Schools (USA) |
| CGSU | Cornell Graduate Students United (USA) |
| CGWA | Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy (University of Texas, Brownsville, TX, USA) |
| CH | Schweiz/Switzerland (ISO 3166) |
| CHABA | [US National Academy of Sciences] Committee on Hearing, Acoustics, and Bioacoustics |
| CHAP | Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CHARM | CERN, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Rom, Moskau (Kernphysik-Kollaboration/nuclear physics collaboration) |
| CHARM | Chemistry at Harvard Molecular Mechanics (computer program) |
| CHARM | CH4 Airborne Remote Monitor(ing) |
| CHARM | Coherence-Advanced Regulation Mode (laser stabilization) |
| CHARM | Comprehensive Human Animation Resource Model |
| CHARMM | Chemistry at Harvard Macromolecular Mechanics |
| CHATT | Cryogenic Hypersonic Advanced Tank Technologies (EU project) |
| CHC | Chlorinated Hydrocarbon |
| CHDM | Cold + Hot Dark Matter (Kosmologie/cosmology) |
| CHE | Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung (Gütersloh) |
| ChEBI | Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (Datenbank/data bank) |
| CHEMFET | [FET mit chemischem Sensor als Gate-Elektrode/FET with chemical sensor as gate electrode] |
| CHEOPS | Characterizing Exoplanet Satellite (ESA, Start 2018) |
| CHEOPS | Chemistry of Ozone in the Polar Stratosphere |
| CHESS | Composition with Guarantees for High-Integrity Embedded Software Components Assembly (EU project) |
| CHESS | Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (Teilchenbeschleuniger/particle accelerator, Ithaca, NY, USA) |
| CHF | Congestive (or: Chronic) Heart Failure (Herzinsuffizienz) |
| CHG | Coherent Harmonic Generation |
| CHIEF | Combined Helmholtz Integral Equation Formulation |
| CHIL | Computers in the Human Interaction Loop (EU project) |
| CHILIAS | Children's Library – Information – Animation – Skills |
| CHIME | Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (astrophysics) |
| CHMM | Call Handling MultiMedia (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CHORUS | CERN Hybrid Oscillation Research Apparatus |
| CHORUS | Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States |
| CHP | Center for History of Physics (AIP) |
| CHP | Combined Heating and Power (Kraftwerk/power station) |
| CHRG | Concert Hall Research Group (Acoustics, USA) |
| CHRIS | Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer |
| CHTM | Center for High Technology Materials (at UNM) |
| C/I | Carrier-to-Interference Performance (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CI | Cell Identity (Mobilfunk/mobile radio) |
| CI | Chemical Ionisation (Massenspektrometer/mass spectrometer) |
| CI | Cochlear Implant |
| CI | Computation Institute |
| CI | Elfenbeinküste/Ivory Coast (ISO 3166) |
| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency (oberste US-Geheimdienstbehörde) |
| CiA | CERIF in Action |
| CIAO | Collaborative Institutional Assessment of Open Access |
| CIAO | Coronographic Imager with Adaptive Optics |
| CIAT | Centre for Tropical Agriculture |
| CIC | Cascaded Integrator-Comb (Signalverarbeitung/signal processing) |
| CIC | Center for International Cooperation (Bonn, DE) |
| CIC | Charge Injection Calibration |
| CIC | Conseil Internationale de la Chasse et de la Conservation du Gibier |
| CIC | Coronographic Imaging Camera |
| CiC | Corporate Information and Computing Service |
| CICADA | Centre for Interdiciplinary Computational and Dynamical Analysis (University of Manchester, UK) |
| CICQ | Combined Input and Central Queuing (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CICS | Customer Information Control System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CICYT | Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología (ES) |
| CID | Carrier Internetworking Division (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CID | Central Institute for the Deaf (Saint Louis, MO, USA) |
| CID | Charge-Injection Device |
| CID | Collision-Induced Dissociation |
| CIDL | Configuration Item Data List (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CIDR | Classless Interdomain Routing (Internet) |
| CIE | Commission Internationale d'Eclairage, International Commission of Illumination |
| CIEMAT | Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Technológicas (ES) |
| CIERA | Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (Northwestern University, USA) |
| CIESIN | Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network |
| CIF | Common Intermediate Format (Datennetz/data network) |
| C.I.F. | Cost, Insurance, Freight (Handelsverkehr/trade) |
| CIG | Cell Interconnection Gateway (Datennetz/data network) |
| CIGS | Copper Indium Gallium Selenium (or: Diselenide) (für Photovoltaik/for photovoltaics) |
| CII | Climate Impact Indicator |
| CILIP | Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals |
| CIM | Computer-integrated manufacturing |
| CIM | Corporate Information Management (USA) |
| CIME | Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Engineering |
| CIMSS | Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (VPI & SU, Blacksburg, VA, USA) |
| CINEFOGO | Civil Society and New Forms of Governance in Europe |
| CINEMA | Center for Innovative and Emerging Materials (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, DE) |
| CINEMA | Cubesat for Ions, Neutrals, Electrons, and Magnetic Fields (microsatellite to study Earth's ring-current region) |
| CINR | Carrier-to-Interference plus Noise Ratio (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CINT | Center for Integrated Nanotechnology (LANL) |
| CIO | Centrum Integrierte Onkologie |
| CIO | Chief Information (or: Integration) Officer |
| CIO | Corporate Information Office |
| CIOE | China International Optoelectronics Expo |
| CIOQ | Combined Input- and Output-Queued (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CIP | Cataloging in Publication |
| CIP | Centre for Integrated Photonics (UK) |
| CIP | Channelopathy-Associated Insensitivity to Pain |
| CIP | Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (EU) |
| CIP3 | International Cooperation for Integration of Prepress, Press and Postpress (Druckindustrie/printing industry) |
| CIPM | Comité International des Poids et Mesures |
| CIPRNet | Critical Infrastructure Preparedness and Resilience Research Network (EU project) |
| CIPT | Computer Integrated Public Transportation |
| CIR | Carrier to Interference Ratio (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CIR | Channel Impulse Response |
| CIR | Circle (US Mail) |
| CIR | Committed Information Rate (Datennetz/data network) |
| CIR | Computer Integrated Railroading |
| CIR | Corotating Interaction Region (heliosphere) |
| CIR | Cylindrical Internal Reflection (ATR-Technik/ATR technology) |
| CIRA | Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali [Italian Aerospace Research Center] (Capua, IT) |
| CIR ELKE | Computer Integrated Railroading for Raising Efficiency in the Core Network (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| CIRES | Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences |
| CIRIT | Conseil Interdepartamental de Recerca i Innovació Tecnòlogica (ES) |
| CIRMMT | Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (McGilll University, CA) |
| CIRS | Composite Infrared Spectrometer (Cassini) |
| CIS | Card Information Structure |
| CIS | Commonwealth (or: Confederation) of Independent States (= GUS) |
| CIS | Compensated Image System (adaptive Optik/adaptive optics) |
| CiS | Computing Infrastructure for Science (NRP) |
| CIS | Constant Initial-State (Photoemission) |
| CIS | Copper Indium Selenide, Kupferindiumdiselenid (für Photovoltaik/for photovoltaics) |
| CISAC | Committee on International Security and Arms Control (USA) |
| CISC | Complex Instruction Set Computer |
| CISCO | Cooled Infrared Spectrograph and Camera for OH-Airglow Suppression |
| CISE | Computer & Information Science & Engineering (Division of NSF, USA) |
| CiSE | Computing in Science and Engineering (AIP Magazine) |
| CISL | Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (at NCAR) |
| CISL | Contractual Index and Status List (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CISM | [International Centre for Mechanical Sciences], Udine, IT |
| CISPR | Comité International Spécial des Perturbations Radioélectriques (International Special Committee on Radio Interference, since 1933) |
| CIST | [Moskau-Fraunhofer] Institut für Chemische Technologie Pfinztal |
| CISTI | Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information |
| CIT | Carbon-Ion Therapy (cancer treatment) |
| CIT | Center for Information Technology (beim/at the NIH, USA) |
| CITA | Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (Toronto, ON, CA) |
| CITEL | InterAmerican Telecom Commission (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CITES | Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species [of Wild Fauna and Flora] |
| (Internationale Übereinkunft zum Handel mit bedrohten Arten) |
| CIVA | Charge-Induced Voltage Alteration |
| CJD | Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease |
| CJDA | Cambridge Journals Digital Archive |
| CJK | Creutzfeld-Jakob-Krankheit |
| CJO | Cambridge Journals Online (Cambridge University Press) |
| CJOm | Cambridge Journals Online Mobile (Cambridge University Press) |
| CJPL | China Jinping Deep Underground Laboratory |
| CJR | Central Japan Railway (Company) |
| CK | Clock (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CK | Cookinseln/Cook Islands (ISO 3166) |
| CKAN | Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network |
| CKM | [Nicola] Cabbibo, [Makoto] Kobayashi, [Toshihide] Maskawa [Matrix] (Elementarteilchentheorie/elementary particle theory) |
| CKW | chlorierte Kohlenwasserstoffe |
| CL | Chile (ISO 3166) |
| Cl. | Classification (Patentliteratur/patent literature) |
| CL | Connectionless (Internet) |
| CL | Control(led) Load |
| CLA | Canadian Library Association |
| CLA | Center for Laser Applications (Plymouth, Michigan, USA) |
| CLA | Copyright Licensing Agency |
| CLAD | Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction |
| CLAF | Centro Latino-Americano de Fisica |
| CLAIRE | Clean Air Engine (Flugzeugmotor/aircraft engine) |
| CLARIN | [European] Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure |
| CLASSE | Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator[-Based] Sciences and Education |
| CLC | Cholesteric Liquid Crystal |
| C.L.E. | Club zur ländlichen Elektrifizierung |
| CLE | Customer Located Edge (or: Equipment) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CLEAR | Center for Laser Experimental Astrophysics Research (University of Michigan, USA) |
| CLEAR | Coordinated Lysosomal Expression and Regulation, koordinierte lysosomale Expression und Regulation |
| CLEC | Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CLEO | Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics |
| CLEOPATRA | Cloud Experiment Oberpfaffenhofen and Transport |
| CLF | Connectivity Session Location and Repository Function (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CLFA | Coopération Laser Franco-Allemande |
| CLI | Calling Line Identification (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CLI | Command Line Interface (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CLI | Coupling Loop Interference (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CLIA | Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (US clinical testing guidelines) |
| CLIC | Compact Linear Collider (at CERN, planned) |
| CLIP | Calling Line Identification Presentation (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CLIP | Caribbean Large Igneous Province |
| CLL | Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, chronisch lymphatische Leukämie |
| CLO | Collateralized Loan Obligation (Börsenhandel/stock exchange) |
| CLONS | Closed Loop Neural Prosthesis for Vestibular Disorders |
| CLORA | Club des Organismes de Recherche Associés (FR) |
| CLOS | Common LISP Object System |
| CLP | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei/file name extension: graphic file] |
| CLR | Connection Loudness Rating (Telefon/telephone) |
| CLS | Call Server (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CLS | Canadian Light Source (Synchrotron-Strahlungsquelle beim CFI/synchrotron radiation source at the CFI) |
| CLS | Collecte localisation satellite |
| CLS | Confocal Laser Scanning (Microscope) |
| CLSM | Confocal Laser-Scanning Microscope (or: Microscopy) |
| CLT | Center for Laser Technology (Plymouth, MA, USA) |
| CLT | Central Limit Theorem |
| CL20 | Hexanitro-Isowurtzitan (Sprengstoff/explosive) |
| CM | Kamerun/Cameroon (ISO 3166) |
| CM | Cochlear Microphonic (physiological acoustics) |
| CM | Contract Manufacturer |
| CMA | Constant Modulus Algorithm |
| CMAC | Cerebellar Model Arithmetic Computer |
| CMAM | [Fraunhofer-] Center for Manufacturing and Advanced Materials (Newark, DE, USA) |
| CMB | [Fraunhofer-] Center for Molecular Biotechnology (Newark, DE, USA) |
| CMB | Cosmic Microwave Background |
| CMBR | Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation |
| CMC | Carboxymethylcellulose |
| CMC | Ceramic Matrix Composites |
| CMC | Critical Micelle Concentration |
| CMCSN | Computational Materials and Chemistry Science Network (Brookhaven National Laboratory) |
| CMD | Carrier Multiplication Device (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CMD | Circuit Mode Data |
| CMD | Condensed Matter Division (EPS) |
| CMD | Craniomandibuläre Dysfunktion (des Kiefers) |
| CME | Condensed Matter Experimental [Physics] |
| CME | Coronal Mass Ejection (Sonnenphysik/solar physics) |
| CMEM | [International Conference on] Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements |
| CMet | Chartered Meteorologist (UK Royal Meteorological Society's program) |
| CMI | [Fraunhofer-] Center for Manufacturing Innovations (Boston, MA, USA) |
| CMI | Center for Materials Innovation (Washington University in St. Louis, MN, USA) |
| CMI | Critical Materials Institute (Ames Laboratory) |
| CMIP | Common Management Information Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CMIP5 | Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 |
| CMIR | Center for Molecular Imaging Research (Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA) |
| CMIS | Common Management Information Services (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CMISE | Common Management Information Services (or: System) Element (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CML | [Fraunhofer-] Center für Maritime Logistik (und Dienstleistungen) (Hamburg) |
| CML | Chemical Markup Language |
| CML | Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, chronische myeloische Leukämie |
| CML | Current Mode Logic (Schaltungstechnik/circuitry) |
| CMM | Capability Maturity Model |
| CMM | Chassis Management Modulus |
| CMM | Condensed Matter/Materials |
| CMM | Coordinate Measuring Machine |
| CMM | Corporate Mobility Manager (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CMMB | China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting |
| CMMI | Capability Maturity Model Integration |
| CMMP | Condensed Matter and Materials Physics |
| CMN | Cerous Magnesium Nitrate (Temperaturnormal/temperature standard) |
| CMNS | Condensed-Matter Nuclear Science |
| CMO | Chief Medical Officer |
| CMO | Collateralized Mortgage Obligation (mit Hypotheken besichertes Wertpapier) |
| CMO | Complex Monolithic Optics |
| CMOS | Capacity-Coupled Metal-Oxide Silicon Device |
| CMOS | Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (Feldeffekt-Transistor/field effect transistor) |
| CMP | Chemical-Mechanical Polishing |
| CMP | Condensed Matter Physics |
| CMPB | Centre Molecular Physiology of the Brain, DFG Forschungszentrum Molekularphysiologie des Gehirns (Göttingen, DE, seit/since 2002) |
| CMR | Center for Materials Research |
| CMR | Colossal Magnetoresistance |
| CMRR | Common-Mode Rejection Ratio |
| CMRS | Climate Modelling and Research System |
| CMS | Cambridge Materials Selector [Database] (UK) |
| CMS | Cepstral Mean Subtraction (Sprachbearbeitung/speech processing) |
| CMS | Cluster Management System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CMS | Compact Muon Solenoid (detector, LHC, CERN) |
| CMS | Condensed Matter Science |
| CMS | Condition Monitoring System |
| CMS | Content-Management System (Wissensmanagement) |
| CMS | Corporate Mobile Server (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CMSE | Computational Math Science and Engineering (Michigan State University, USA) |
| CM/SM | Communication/Service Module (Satellitentechnik/satellite technology) |
| CMSP | Condensed Matter & Statistical Physics (at ICTP, Trieste, IT) |
| CMST | Center for Marine Science and Technology (Perth, WA, AUS) |
| CMSU | Central Missouri State University (USA) |
| CMT | Condensed Matter Theory |
| CMT | Condition Monitoring System |
| CMT | Construction Materials Testing |
| CMT | Criticality Management Tool |
| CMTS | Cable Modem Termination System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CMU | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) |
| CMUT | Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer |
| CMYK | Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black (Bildverarbeitung/picture processing) |
| C/N | Carrier-to-Noise [Ratio] |
| CN | Core Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CN | Volksrepublik China/Peoples Republic of China (ISO 3166) |
| CNAM | Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials (UMD) |
| CNAM | Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers (Paris, FR) |
| CNC | Colloidal Nanocrystal Cluster |
| CNC | Comisión Nacional de Communicaciones (AR) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CNC | Computer Numerical Control (Werkzeugmaschinen/machine tools) |
| CN/CS | Core Network/Circuit Switched (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CNEL | Community Noise Equivalent Level |
| CNES | Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (FR) |
| CNET | Centre National d'Etudes des Télécommunications |
| CNIL | Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés |
| CNIO | Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas [Spanish National Cancer Research Centre] (Madrid, ES) |
| CNM | Center for Nanoscale Materials (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) |
| CNM | Customer Network Management (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CNMPB | Zentrum für Mikroskopie im Nanometerbereich und Molekularphysiologie des Gehirns (Göttingen, seit November 2012) |
| CNMS | Center for Nanophase Materials Science (ORNL) |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Network |
| CNOT | Conditioned NOT (logisches Gatter/logical gate) |
| CNP | Center for Neutrino Physics (Virginia Tech Department of Physics, USA) |
| CNPIEC | China National Publications Import and Export Group Corporation |
| CNPq | Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnológico (BR) |
| CNR | Carrier-to-Noise Ratio |
| CNR | Community Noise Rating |
| CNR | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IT) |
| CNR | National Research Council (CA) |
| CNRM | Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques (Toulouse, FR) |
| CNRRI | China National Rice Research Institute |
| CNRS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR) |
| CNS | Central Nervous System |
| CNS | Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (FR) |
| CNS | Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (Barcelona, ES) |
| CNS | Communication, Navigation, Surveillance |
| CNS | Conseil National de la Science (FR) |
| CNS | Cosmological Natural Selection |
| CNSA | Chinese National Space Administration |
| CNSI | California Nanosystems Institute (UCSB and UCLA, CA, USA) |
| CNST | Center for Nanoscale Science & Technology (NIST) |
| CNT | Carbon Nanotube, Kohlenstoff-Nanoröhrchen |
| CNT | [Fraunhofer] Zentrum für Nanoelektronische Technologien (Dresden) |
| CNV | Choroidale Neovaskularisation (Augenkrankheit/eye disease) |
| CNY | Chinese Yuan |
| CO | Central Office (Rechnernetze/computer networks) |
| CO | Colorado (US-Staat/US state) |
| CO | Connection-Oriented (Internet) |
| CO | Kolumbien/Colombia (ISO 3166) |
| CoA | Certificate of Analysis |
| CoA | Core of Address (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| Coadec | Coalition for a Digital Economy (scientific publishing) |
| COAF | Charity Open Access Fund |
| COAR | Confederation of Open Access Repositories |
| COASP | Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing |
| COB | Chip-On-Board |
| COBE | Cosmic Background Explorer (Satellit/satellite) |
| COBOL | Common Business-Oriented Language (Programmiersprache/programming language) |
| CoBRA | Computerized Bibliographic Record Actions |
| COC | Chain of Custody |
| CoC | Council on Competitiveness (USA) |
| COCOM | Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls |
| COCOSDA | International Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and Speech I/O Systems Assessment |
| COD | Catastrophical Optical Damage |
| COD | Chemical Oxygen Demand |
| CODAC | Cosmic Dust Aggregation Experiment |
| CoDAS | Condensed Matter Direct Alerting Service (Datenbank/data bank) |
| CODATA | Committee on Data for Science and Technology (seit/since 1966) |
| Codec | Coder-Decoder |
| CODEST | Committee for the Development of European Science and Technology |
| CoDIS | Combined DNA Index System (zur Überführung von Kriminellen/for the conviction of criminals, USA) |
| CoDIT | [IEEE International Conference on] Control, Decision and Information Technologies |
| COE | Center of Excellence |
| COEHC | Coalition on Effective Hearing Conservation (USA) |
| COF | Columbus Orbit Facility (Weltraumlabor/space laboratory) |
| COFDM | Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex(ing) |
| COFRET | Carbon Footprint of Freight Transport (EU project) |
| COFS | Control of Flexible Structures Program (NASA) |
| COGA | Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (USA) |
| COGANGS | Comparative Genomics and Next Generation Sequencing |
| CoGeNT | Coherent Germanium Neutrino Technology |
| COGNAC | Comparing Orders of Genes Using Novel Algorithms and High-Performance Computers (drug development) |
| COGR | Council on Governmental Relations (USA) |
| COGS | Cost of Goods Sold |
| COHERENCE | Cooperativity in Highly Excited Rydberg Ensembles – Control and Entanglement (EU project) |
| COICH | Channel Quality Indicator Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| COIL | Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser |
| COL | Construction and Operating License |
| COLCIENCIAS | Instituto Colombiano para el Desarrollo de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (CO) |
| COLD | Cryogenic Optical Localization in Three Dimensions |
| COLTRIMS | Cold Target Recoil Momentum Spectroscopy |
| COM | Calcium Oxalate Monohydrate (kidney stones, Nierensteine) |
| CoM | Center of Mass |
| com | [Commercial Organization] (Internet, USA) |
| COM | Committee on Minorities in Physics (APS) |
| COM | Component (or: Common) Object Model |
| COM | [Dateinamenerweiterung: ausführbares Programm/file name extension: executable program] |
| COMBO | Classifying Objects by Medium-Band Observations |
| COMD | Catastrophical Optical Mirror Damage |
| COMEDD | [Fraunhofer-] Center for Organic Materials and Electronic Devices Dresden (am/at the IPMS) |
| CoMet | Carbon Dioxide and Methane Mission for HALO (DLR project) |
| COMET | C++ OSI Management Extended Toolchain |
| COMETT | Community Program for Education and Training in Technology |
| COMEX | Commence Exercise (underwater noise monitoring standard) |
| COMICS | Cooled Mid-Infrared Camera and Spectrograph |
| COMIQ | Cold Molecular Ions at the Quantum Limit (European research network) |
| CoML | Census of Marine Life Initiative |
| COMPASS | Common Muon Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy (CERN) |
| COMPENDEX | Computerized Engineering Index (Datenbank/data bank) |
| COMPETES | Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science (USA) |
| COMPLEX | Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (National Research Council, USA) |
| COMPOSITE | Comparative Police Studies in the EU |
| COMPRES | Consortium for Material Properties Research in Earth Sciences (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) |
| COMPTECH | Consortium for Material Properties Research in Earth Sciences Technology Center (at Argonne National Laboratory, USA) |
| COMPTEL | Imaging Compton Telescope |
| COMSAT | Communications Satellite Corporation (USA) |
| COMSEC | Communication(s) Security |
| COMSTECH | Committee on Scientific and Technical Cooperation |
| COMT | Cathechol-O-Methyltransferase (Genetik/genetics) |
| CONAE | Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (Argentina) |
| CONACYT | Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (MX) |
| ConCap | Constant Capacitance (Sensorik-Verfahren/sensoric method) |
| CONCERT | Contrial and Cirrus Experiment (DLR project) |
| CONICET | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas Técnicas (AR) |
| CONICYT | Comisión Nacional de Investigación Cientifica y Tecnológica (Chile) |
| CONIN | Cooperadora para la Nutrición Infantil (Kooperation für Kinderernährung, Peru) |
| CONNFFESSIT | Calculation of Non-Newtonian Flow: Finite Elements and Stochastic Simulation Technique |
| CONSIST | Comparison of Conservation Materials and Strategies for Sustainable Exploitation of Immovable Industrial Heritage Made of Iron and Steel |
| CONTRAIL | Comprehensive Observation Network for Trace Gases by Airliner |
| COO | Chief Operating Officer |
| COOMET | [Euro-Asian] Cooperation of National Meteorological Institutions |
| COORETEC | Kohlendioxid-Reduktions-Technologien (Kraftwerksforschungsprogramm des BMWi/German power plant research program) |
| COP | Chronisch obstruktive Lungenerkrankung |
| COP | Coefficient of Performance |
| COP | Colonizing Opportunistic Pathogens |
| COPASI | Complex Pathway Simulator |
| COPD | Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease [Chronisch obstruktive Lungenerkrankung] |
| COPS | Common Open Policy Service (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| COPS | Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (Meteorologie/meteorology) |
| COPUOS | Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNO) |
| CoQuS | [Vienna Doctoral Program on] Complex Quantum Systems (AT) |
| COR | Cellular Open Resource |
| Coral | Collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne, and Lawrence Livermore (on supercomputing) |
| CORALUS | Corrosion of Alpha-Active Glass in Underground Storage Conditions (for nuclear waste) |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CORDIS | Community Research and Development Information Service (EU) |
| CORINF | Correlated Multielectron Dynamics in Intense Light Fields (EU project) |
| CoRoT | Convection, Rotation and Planetary Transit (French satellite) |
| CORSAIR | Coprocessor RSA in a Rush |
| CORUS | Concept of Operation for European UTM Systems (EU project) |
| CORVETTE | Coordination and Validation of the Development of Advanced Transport Telematic Systems in the Alpine Area |
| COS | Carbon oxysulphide |
| COS | Centre for Open Science |
| CoS | Class(es) of Service(s) |
| COS | College of Optical Sciences (University of Arizona, USA) |
| COS | Core Operation Server (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| COSEPUP | Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (National Academy, USA) |
| COSI | Center of Science and Industry (Columbus, OH, USA) |
| COSINE | Cooperation for Open Systems Interconnection in Europe |
| CoSMIC | Combinatorial Sciences and Materials Information Collaboratory |
| COSMO-ART | Consortium for Small Scale Modelling – Aerosols and Reactive Trace Gases |
| COSMO-CLM | Consortium for Small Scale Modelling – Climate Mode |
| COSMOS | Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (Stephen Hawking) |
| COSMOS | Cosmic Evolution Survey (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| COSPA | Collection of Stratospheric Aerosol Particles (DLR project) |
| COSPAR | Committee on Space Research |
| COST | [European] Cooperation in Science and Technology (ESF), Coopération Européenne dans la domaine de la recherche scientifique et technique |
| COSTECH | [Tanzania] Commission for Science and Technology |
| COSTEP | Comprehensive Suprathermal and Energetic Particle (an Bord von/aboard SOHO) |
| COSY | Cooler Synchrotron (Jülich, DE) |
| COSY | Correlation Spectroscopy |
| COT | Customer Operation Team |
| COTS | Components (or: Commercial, or: Commodity, or: Configurable) Off-The-Shelf (hardware or software) |
| COUPP | Chicagoland Observatory for Underground Particle Physics (neuartige Blasenkammer/novel bubble chamber, USA) |
| COV | Calculus of Variation |
| COVER | Covariance Equivalent Realization |
| CoW | Correlates of War (database on war) |
| COX | Cyclo-Oxygenase (ein Enzym/an enzyme) |
| CO2RRECT | CO2-Reaction Using Regenerative Energies and Catalytic Technologies |
| CP | Charge-Parity (symmetry) |
| CP | Conference Proceedings (NASA etc.) |
| CP | Connection Performer |
| CP | Content Provider (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CP | Contention Period (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CP | Customer Premises (Rechnernetz/computer network) |
| CP | Cyclic Prefix |
| CPA | Closest Point of Approach (ocean acoustics) |
| CPA | Coherent Perfect Absorber (optics, "antilaser") |
| CPA | Chirped Pulse Amplification (or: Amplifier) (optische Pulskompression/optical pulse compression) |
| CPACS | Common Parametric Aircraft Configuration Scheme |
| CPAN | Comprehensive Perl Archive Network |
| CPB | Constant Percentage Bandwidth (Spektralanalyse/frequency analysis) |
| CPB | Cooper-Pair Box (Supraleitung/superconductivity) |
| CPC | Central Processing Center (Galileo) |
| CPC | Collaborative Product Commerce |
| CPC | Compound Parabolic Concentrator (optische Linsen/optical lenses) |
| CPC | Comprehensive Pneumology Center (München, DE) |
| CPC | Continuous Packet Connectivity |
| CPC | Cooperative Patent Classification |
| CPCB | Central Pollution Control Board (Umweltbehörde in Indien/environmental authority in India) |
| CPCM | Mission Planning Control Center (Satellitensystem/satellite system) |
| CPCT | Center for Photoinduced Charge Transfer (Rochester, NY, USA) |
| CPD | Committee on the Present Danger |
| CPD | Continuous Professional Development |
| CPDD | Clinical Pharmacology in Drug Development (Journal) |
| CPDLC | Controller Pilot Data Link Communication (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CPE | Common Phase Error (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CPE | Customer Premise(s) Equipment (Internet) |
| CPERI | Chemical Process Engineering Research Institute (at CERTH, GR) |
| CPG | Computational Physics Group (EPS) |
| CPhA | Canadian Pharmacists Association |
| CPHY | Control Interface for Physical Layer (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CPI | Consumer Products Inventory |
| CPI | Continuous Process Improvement |
| CPICH | Common Pilot Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CPJ | Canadian Pharmacists Journal |
| CPL | Call Processing Language (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CPL | Circularly Polarized Light |
| CPLD | Complex Programmable Logic Device |
| CPM | Cathode Pulse Memory |
| CPMG | [Herman] Carr, [Edward] Purcell, [Saul] Meiboom, [David] Gill (NMR pioneers) |
| CPMQ | Control Processor Module Queuing (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CPN | Customer Premises Network (Rechnernetz/computer network) |
| CPO | Coherent Population Oscillation (solid state physics) |
| CPP | Cell-Penetrating Peptide |
| CPP | Channel Plasmon Polariton (elektromagnetische Grenzflächenwellen/electromagnetic boundary layer waves) |
| CPP | Clean Power Plan |
| CPP | Current-Perpendicular-to-Plane (Festkörperphysik/solid state physics) |
| CPPM | Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials (University of Bath, UK) |
| CPR | Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (medicine) |
| CPRI | Common Public Radio Interface (Mobilfunk-Standard) |
| CPRIT | Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas |
| CPRM | Copy Protection for Recordable Media (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CPS | Carte de Professionel de Santé |
| CPS | Chinese Physical Society |
| CPS | Concentrated Solar Power |
| CPS | Cyberphysical System, Cyber-Physisches System |
| CPS | The Czech Physial Society |
| CPSA | Copy Protection System Architecture (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CPT | Charge, Parity, Time (Invarianz gegen ...umkehr/invariance against ... reversal) |
| CPT | Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (open-access journal) |
| CPTES | Center for Phononics and Thermal Energy Science (Tongji University, Shanghai, CN) |
| CPTWG | Copy Protection Technical Working Group (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit (Computer) |
| CPV | Concentrator (or: Concentrated) Photovoltaic(s) |
| CPV | [International] Conference on Concentrator Photovoltaics |
| CPV | Continuous Process Verification |
| CPVS | Central Payload Video System |
| CPX | Close Proximity Method (Fahrzeug-Lärmmesstechnik/vehicle noise measurement) |
| CPX | Control Panel Extension |
| CQB | Center for Quantitative Biology (Peking University, CN) |
| CQI | Center for Quantum Information (IIIS, Tsinghua University, CN) |
| CQI | Channel Quality Indicator (or: Indication) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CQIQC | Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (University of Toronto, ON, CA) |
| CQM | Constituent Quark Model |
| CR | Cell Relay (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CR | Cosmic Ray(s) |
| CR | Costa Rica (ISO 3166) |
| CRAC | Computer Room Air Conditioning |
| CRADA | Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (or: Award) [with private companies] (USA, staatl. Förderungsprogramm) |
| CRAFT | Cooperative Research Action For Technology (EU) |
| CRAH | Computer Room Air Handlers |
| CRAHVI | Crashworthyness of Aircraft for High Velocity Impact |
| C-RAM | Counter-Rocket Artillery and Mortar |
| CRB | Cramér-Rao Bound |
| CRBT | Color Ring Back Tone (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CRC | Clinical Research Center |
| CRC | Collaborative Research Centre (DFG) |
| CRC | Corporate Research Center |
| CRC | Courant Research Centre |
| CRC | Cyclic Redundancy Check (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CRC-ACS | Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures (Australia) |
| CRCG | [Fraunhofer-] Center for Research in Computer Graphics (Providence, RI, USA) |
| CRD | Color Rendering Dictionary (Bildverarbeitung/picture processing) |
| CRDA | Cooperative Research and Development Agreement |
| CRDF | Civilian Research and Development Foundation (USA) |
| CRDS | Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy |
| CREAL | Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (Barcelona, ES) |
| CREATIV | Creative Research Awards for Transformative Interdisciplinary Ventures (NSF, USA) |
| CREDO | Cluster of Research on Endocrine Disruption in Europe |
| CRENEL | Commission to Review the Effectiveness of the National Energy Laboratories (USA) |
| CREO | CO2 Reduction through Estimation Optimisation |
| CREOL | College of Optics and Photonics and Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (UCF) |
| CRESST | Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers |
| CREST | Center for Research in Extreme Scale Technologies |
| CREST | Comité de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (EU) |
| CREST | Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (Japan) |
| CRESTA | Collaborative Research into Exascale Systemware, Tools and Applications (at EPCC) |
| CREW | Center for Research in Economics and Well-Being (Univesität Basel, CH) |
| CRF | Centro Ricerche Fiat (in Italy) |
| CRF | Corticotropin-Releasing Factor (ein Hormon/a hormone) |
| CRG | Center for Genomic Regulation (Barcelona, ES) |
| CRG | Collaborating Research Group |
| CRH | Corticotropin-(or: Cortisol-)Releasing Hormone |
| CRI | Colour-Rendering Index |
| CRIM | Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Montréal (CA) |
| CRIMSON | Crisis Management Simulation (Software package, 6 partners in 4 countries: EE, FR, IT, NL) |
| CRIS | Center for Research on Innovation and Society (Santa Barbara, CA, USA, und/and Berlin, DE) |
| CRIS | Current Research Information System |
| CRISM | Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars |
| CRISP | Center for Research on Interface Structure and Phenomena (Yale, USA) |
| CRISP | Cluster of Research Infrastructures for Synergies in Physics |
| CRISP | Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Instruction Set Processor (Computer) |
| CRISP | Corrected Illumination Scanning Probe (im Transmissionselektronenmikroskop/in a transmission electron microscope) |
| CRISP | Counter Rotating Integrated Shrouded Propfan (DLR-Projekt) |
| CRISPR | Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (Bakterien-Genetik/genetics of bacteria) |
| CRISTAL | Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique (Lille, FR) |
| CRIStin | Current Research Information System in Norway |
| CRL | Certificate Revocation List (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| C.R.L. | Companhia ein Responsibilidao Limitida (PT, ES) |
| CRLB | Cramér-Rao Lower Bound |
| CRM | Certified Reference Material |
| CRM | Common Research Model (NASA aircraft) |
| CRM | Contract Research Manager |
| CRM | Customer Relations (or: Relationship) Management (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CRN | Committee of a Regulatory Nature (EU) |
| CRNC | Controlling Radio Network Controller (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CRO | Clinical Research Organisation |
| CRO | Contract Research Organization |
| CroBIT | Cross Border Information Technology |
| C.R.O.P., CROP | Combined Regenerative Organic Food Production (DLR Köln, Lebenserhaltungssystem) |
| CROR | Counter Rotative Open Rotor (Flugzeugantrieb/aircraft propeller) |
| CRP | C-reaktives Protein, Cyclic-AMP Receptor Protein (AMP: Adenosine Monophosphate) |
| CRPL | Central Radio Propagation Laboratory (1946) |
| CRR | Cooperative Research Report |
| CRS | Common Reflection Surface (geological survey) |
| CRS | Complementary Resistive Switch |
| CRSQA | Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance (Augenchirurgie/eye surgery, USA) |
| CRT | Cathode Ray Tube |
| CRT | Conformal Radio Therapy |
| CRT | Cosmic-Ray-Tracking Project |
| CRTD | Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (DE) |
| CRU | Climatic Research Unit (University of East Anglia (UK) et al.) |
| CRuSR | Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research (NASA program) |
| CRV | Crew Return Vehicle (Raumfahrt/spacecraft) |
| CR/W | Controller Read/Write |
| CRYRING | Cryebis Storage Ring (Stockholm, SE) |
| CS | Call Server (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CS | Central Secretariat (NIST) |
| CS | Circuit-Switched (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CS | Commercial Services (Galileo) |
| CS | Communications Satellite |
| CS | Serbien und Montenegro/Serbia and Montenegro (ISO 3166) |
| CS | Tschechoslowakei/Czechoslovakia (ISO 3166 bis/until 1993) |
| CSA | Canadian Space Agency |
| CSA | Canadian Standards Association |
| CSA | Carrier Serving Area (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CSA | Cryogenic Society of America |
| CSAC | Chip Scale Atomic Clock |
| CSAGI | Comité Spécial de l'Année Géophysique Internationale |
| CSAIL | Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT) |
| CSAR | Cryogenic Solar Absolute Radiometer |
| CSB | Center for Systems Biology at Dresden (DE) |
| CSB | Centrum für Schlaganfall-Forschung Berlin (DE) |
| CSB | Charge Symmetry Breaking (Elementarteilchenphysik/elementary particle physics) |
| CSBD | Center of Systems Biology at Dresden (DE) |
| CSBU | Communication Services Business Unit (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CSC | Call and Session Controller (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CSC | Center for Scientific Computing |
| CSC | China Scholarsip Council |
| CSCC | Concurrent Supercomputing Consortium (USA) |
| CSCF | Call State (or: Session) Control Function (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CSCL | Computer-Supported Cooperative (or: Collaborative) Learning |
| CSCS | Center for the Study of Complex Systems (University of Michigan, USA) |
| CSCS/SCSC | Swiss Centre for Scientific Computing (supercomputing centre) |
| CSCW | Computer Supported Cooperative (or: Collaborative) Work(ing) |
| CSD | Cambridge Structural Database (Chemie/chemistry) |
| CSD | Chemical Solution Deposition |
| CSD | Christopher Street Day |
| CSD | Circuit Switched Data (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CSDP | Customer Specific Development Process |
| CSE | [Fraunhofer-] Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (Cambridge, MA, USA) |
| CSE, CS&E | Computational Science and Engineering |
| CSE | Council of Science Editors |
| CSE | Critical Systems Engineering (DLR project) |
| CSE | Cystathionin-gamma-Lyase (ein Enzym) |
| CSEG | Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists |
| CSELT | Centro studi e laboratori telecomunicazioni (IT) |
| CSEM | Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique (Zürich, CH) |
| CSF | Carribean Science Foundation |
| CSF | Colony Stimulatingf Factor (a protein) |
| CSF | Compagnie Générale de Télégraphie Sans Fil |
| CSG | Centre Spatial Guyanais (Europäischer Weltraumbahnhof, Kourou, GY) |
| CSI | Channel State Information (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CSI | Control-Structure Interaction |
| CSIR | Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (Stellenbosch, Südafrika/South Africa) |
| CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Canberra, AU) |
| CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, DC, USA) |
| CSL | Chemical Safety Library |
| CSLI | Center for the Study of Language and Information (Stanford, CA, USA) |
| CSLP | [Fraunhofer-] Center for Surface and Laser Processing (Peoria, IL, USA) |
| CSM | Central Strength Member (Rechnernetz/computer network) |
| CSM | Communication Session Manager |
| CSM | Component and Supplier Management |
| CSM | Connection Session Management |
| CSM | Customer Service Management (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CSMA/CA | Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance (Datennetze/data networks) |
| CSMA/CD | Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection (Datennetze/data networks) |
| CSMBP | Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics (Virginia Tech) |
| CSME | College of Science and Education (University of Utah, USA) |
| CSN | Circuit Switched Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CSNS | China Spallation Neutron Source (geplant für/planned for 2013) |
| CSO | Chief Scientific Officer |
| CSO | Composite Second Order (Verzerrung 2. Ordnung/second order distortion) |
| CSP | Center for the Study of the Presidency (USA) |
| CSP | [Fraunhofer-] Center für Silizium-Photovoltaik (Halle/Saale) |
| CSP | Charge Sensitive Preamplifier |
| CSP | Chip-Scale Package (gedruckte Schaltung/printed circuit) |
| CSP | Concentrated (or: Concentrating) Solar Power (Kraftwerk, Parabolspiegelsystem/power plant, parabolic mirror facilities) |
| CSP | Constraint Satisfaction Problem |
| CSPF | Constraint Shortest Path First (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CSPI | Center for Science in the Public Interest (Washington, DC, USA) |
| CSR | Cell Switch Router (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CSR | Corporate Social Responsibility |
| CSR | Customer Service Representatives (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CSRC | Computational Science Research Center (Uiversity of Beijing, CN) |
| CSRZ | Carrier-Suppressed Return-to-Zero (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| CSS | Cascading Style Sheets (zur Programmierung von Webseiten) |
| CSS | Catalina Sky Survey (astronomy) |
| CSS | Committee of Soviet Scientists [for the Defense of Peace Against the Nuclear Threat] |
| CSS | Content Scramble (or: Scrambling) System (Verschlüsselungssystem) |
| CSS | Cyclic Steam Stimulation (Ölsanderschließung/oilsand exploration) |
| CSSME | Center for Secondary Science and Math Education (Northern Illinois University, USA) |
| CST | Concentrated Solar Thermal (Kraftwerk/power plant) |
| CSTA | Computer Supported Telecommunication(s) (or: Telephony) Application (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CSTAR | Chinese Small Telescope Array (in Antarctica) |
| CSTI | Civil Space Technology Initiative (NASA) |
| CSTN | Colour Super-Twisted Nematic (LCD) |
| CSTR | Center for Solar–Terrestrial Research (NJIT) |
| CSTR | Centre for Speech Technology Research (University of Edinburgh, UK) |
| CSU | Colorado State University (USA) |
| CSUDH | California Sate University Dominguez Hills |
| CSULB | California State University Long Beach (USA) |
| CSUN | California State University Northridge (USA) |
| CSV | Comma Separated Value |
| CSVE | Chinese Society for Vibration Engineering |
| CSW | Core Switch |
| CSWP | Committee on the Status of Women in Physics (APS) |
| CT | Colour Temperature |
| CT | Computed Tomography, Computer-Tomographie (Röntgentechnik/X-ray technology) |
| CT | Connecticut (US-Staat/US state) |
| CT | Cordless Telecommunications |
| CT | Court (US Mail) |
| CTA | Chemisch-technische(r) Assistent(in) |
| CTA | Cherenkov Telescope Array |
| CTAN | Comprehensive TeX Archive Network |
| CTB | Composite Triple Beat (Verzerrung 3. Ordnung/third order distortion) |
| CTBT | Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (Atomwaffenteststoppvertrag 1996) |
| CTBTO | Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisation (Wien, AT) |
| CTC | Central Traffic Control (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| CTC | Circulating Tumor Cell |
| CTC | Convolutional Turbo Code (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CTC | Crew Training Complex (DLR, Köln, Porz-Wahnheide, DE) |
| CTCSS | Continuous Tone Coded Squelsh System (Mobilfunk/mobile radio) |
| CTD | Coated (optische Linsen/optical lenses) |
| CTE | Coefficient of Thermal Expansion |
| CTEPH | chronisch-thrombo-embolischer Lungenhochdruck |
| CTH | Chalmers Tekniske Högskola (Göteborg, SE) |
| CTI | Colour Transient Improvement (Konturverbesserung beim TV-Bild/TV picture contour improvement) |
| CTI | Computer-Telephony Integration (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CTI | Computer Telephony Interface (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CTI | Critical Technologies Institute (USA) |
| CTIA | Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association |
| CTIA | Charge Trans-Impedance Amplifier |
| CTIM | Continuous-Flow Time-Integrated Method (road noise measurement) |
| CTIO | Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (La Serena, Chile) |
| CTIR | Center for Intelligent Transportation Research (Ohio State University, USA) |
| CTL | Coal to Liquid (synthetischer Kraftstoff/synthetic fuel) |
| CTL | Community Tolerance Level |
| CTL | Continuously Tunable Laser |
| CTMS | Clinical Trial Management System |
| CTO | Chief Technical Officer |
| CTO | Command Transfer Object |
| CTO | Configure to Order |
| CTP | Computer-to-Plate, Computer-to-Press, Computer-to-Paper (Drucktechnik/printing technology) |
| CTP | Cytisintriphosphat |
| CTR | Center (US Mail) |
| CTR | Common Technical Regulation(s) |
| CTR | Cooperative Threat Reduction |
| CTRANC | Crosstalk-Resistant Adaptive Noise Canceller |
| CTRW | Continuos-Time Random Walk (diffusion model) |
| CTS | Clear to Send (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CTS | Compliance Test Specification |
| CTS | Concept to Speech (Sprachsynthese/speech synthesis) |
| CTSEE | [Komitee für Toxikologie, Ökotoxikologie und Umwelt] (Europäische Kommission) |
| CTU | Control Tower Unit |
| CTU | Czech Technical University (Prague) |
| CTV | Crew Transfer (or: Transport) Vehicle (Raumfahrt/spacecraft) |
| CTW | [IEEE] Communication Theory Workshop |
| CTWG | Cook Stove Interagency Working Group |
| CU | Central Unit |
| CU | Control Unit |
| CU | Kuba/Cuba (ISO 3166) |
| CUA | Center for Ultracold Atoms (MIT-Harvard University program, USA) |
| cuagn | hope to see you again (Amateurfunkverkehr/amateur radio) |
| CUAHSI | Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (USA) |
| CUBED | Center for Ultralow Background Experiments at DUSEL |
| CUDOS | Centre for Ultra-High Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (AU) |
| CUDWR | Columbia University Division of War Research (New London, CT, USA, established 1941) |
| CUE | Carbon Usage Effectiveness |
| CUF | Channel Utilization Factor |
| CUFCT | Cooper Union Federation of College Teachers (New York City, USA) |
| CUG | Closed User Group (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CUHK | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| CUI | Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (University of Hamburg, DE) |
| CUL | Computer-unterstütztes Lernen |
| CUMC | Columbia University Medical Center (New York, USA) |
| CUNY | City University of New York |
| CUORE | Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Italy) |
| CUP | Cambridge University Press |
| CUP | Center for Underground Physics (Daejeon, KR) |
| CUPLE | Comprehensive Unified Physics Learning Environment |
| CUR | Council for Undergraduate Research |
| CUSP | Center for Urban Science and Progress (NYU) |
| Cuspea | China-US Physics Examination and Application Program |
| CUTCP | Clarkson University-TCP (Rechnernetz/computer network) |
| CUTE | Clarkson University Terminal Emulator (Rechnernetz/computer network) |
| CUTE | Clean Urban Transport for Europe (Busse mit Wasserstoffantrieb/hydrogen-powered buses) |
| CUWiP | Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics |
| CV | Card Verifiable |
| CV | Cartellverband [der Katholischen Deutschen Studentenverbindungen] |
| CV | Connection Verification (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CV | Kapverdische Inseln/Cape Verde (ISO 3166) |
| CVA | Credit Value Adjustment (Bankgeschäfte) |
| CVC | Common Vision Concept |
| CVB | Constrained Vapor Bubble |
| CVC | Common Vision Concept |
| CVCP | Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals (UK) |
| CVD | Cardio-Vascular Disease, Kardiovaskuläre Erkrankung |
| CVD | Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| CVE | Collaborative Virtual Environment |
| CVI | chronisch-venöse Insuffizienz |
| C-VLAN | Customer VLAN (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CVM | Control Volume Meshing |
| CVSD | Continuously Variable Slope Delta (modulation) |
| CVT | Continuously Variable Transmission (Kfz-Getriebe/vehicle gear) |
| CVVL | Continuous Variable Valve Lift (Kfz-Motor/automotive Engine) |
| CW | Clockwise |
| CW | Continuous Wave |
| CWD | Concealed Weapon Detection (USA) |
| CWDM | Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| CWMT | [Fraunhofer-] Center für Windenergie und Meerestechnik (Bremerhaven) |
| CWRU | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH, USA) |
| CWP | Controller Working Position (Flugsicherung/flight control) |
| CWU | Central Washington University (USA) |
| CWÜ | Chemiewaffenübereinkommen (1997, 65 Mitgliedsstaaten) |
| CX | Weihnachtsinsel/Christmas Island (ISO 3166) |
| CXC | Chandra X-Ray Center (NASA, USA) |
| CXO | Chandra X-Ray Observatory (Röntgensatellit/X-ray satellite) |
| CY | Zypern/Cyprus (ISO 3166) |
| CYCA | Chinese Youth Conference on Acoustics |
| CZ | Convergence Zone (Sonarortung/sonar ranging) |
| CZ | Tschechien/Czech Republik (ISO 3166) |
| CZCS | Coastal Zone Color Scanning (of the ocean) |
| CZM | Cohesive Zone Method |
| CZT | Chirp z-Transform |
| C²A²S²E | Center for Computer Applications in Aerospace Science and Engineering (DLR, Braunschweig, DE) |
| C2B | Customer-to-Business |
| C2C | Customer-to-Customer |
| C2ES | Center for Climate and Energy Solutions |
| C3 | Command, Control and Communication (System) |
| C3 | Cleaved-Coupled Cavity (Laser) |
| C3I | Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence (militärisch/military) |
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| d... | Dezi... (Präfix/prefix): 10-1 |
| da... | Deka... (Präfix/prefix): 10 |
| DA | Destination Address (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DA | Domestic Agency |
| DAAD | Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst e.V. |
| DAAK | Deutsch-Amerikanisches Akademisches Konzil |
| DAAP | Digital Archiving and Access Program |
| DAB | Digital Audio Broadcast(ing) |
| DAC | Deformation Analysis by Means of Correlation Methods |
| DAC | Digital-to-Analog Converter |
| DACCIWA | Dynamics-Aerosol-Chemistry-Cloud Interactions in West Africa |
| DACH | Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle Chemie GmbH |
| DADS | Dynamic Analysis and Design System |
| DAE | Differential Algebraic Equation |
| DAF | Deutsche Arbeitsfront (NS-Organisation) |
| DAF | Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Familientherapie |
| DAGA | Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Akustik (Kongresse seit 1970, etwa jährlich) |
| DAGV | Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vakuum |
| DAHC | Deutschsprachiges Apple-Hochschul-Consortium |
| DAI | Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (Berlin) |
| DAI | Distributed Artificial Intelligence |
| DAkkS | Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle |
| DAL | Deutscher Arbeitsring für Lärmbekämpfung e.V. (1952–2007) |
| DALY | Disability-Adjusted Life Year |
| DAM | Deutsche Akademie für Metrologie (München) |
| DAMA | Dark Matter [Search] (Astrophysik/astrophysics, Gran Sasso-Labor, IT) |
| DAMA | Demand Assignment (or: Assigned) Multiple Access (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DAMOP | Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (APS) |
| D-AMPS | Digital Advanced Mobile Phone System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DANA | Data Application Network Adapter |
| DANL | Displayed Average Noise Level (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DANTE | Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX e.V. |
| DANTE | Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe |
| DAO | Data Access Object |
| DAP | Deutsches Akkreditierungssystem Prüfwesen (Normungsarbeit/standardization) |
| DAQ | Data Acquisition |
| DAR | Deutscher Akkreditierungsrat (Normungsarbeit/standardization) |
| DAR | Digital Audio Recorder |
| DARA | Deutsche Agentur für Raumfahrtangelegenheiten GmbH (1989–1997) |
| DARC | Data Radio Channel |
| DARC | Deutscher Amateur-Radio-Club e.V. (Baunatal) |
| DARE | Dark Ages Radio Explorer (Radiosatellit, geplant) |
| DARHT | Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic (Test Facility at LANL, Los Alamos, NM, USA) |
| DARP | Downlink Advanced Receiver Performance (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (USA) |
| DARS | Digital Audio Radio Service |
| DART | Data Acquisition in Real Time |
| DART | Direct Analysis in Real Time |
| Darwin | Detection and Analysis of Remote Worlds by Interferometric Nulling |
| DAS | Dansk Akustisk Selskab |
| DAS | Distributed Antenna Systems (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DASCH | Digital Access to a Sky Century at Harvard |
| DASI | Degree Angular Scale Interferometer |
| DASMIN | Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle Mineralöl |
| DAST | Drones for Aerodynamic and Structural Testing (NASA, unbemannte Flugzeuge/unmanned aircraft) |
| DAT | Digital Audio Tape |
| DATE | Dome A Terahertz Explorer (CN, planned for 2015) |
| DATech | Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle Technik |
| DAtF | Deutsches Atomforum |
| DAU | Data Application Unit |
| DAVE | Data Analysis and Visualisation of the Environment |
| DAVE | Definitely Affordable Virtual Environment |
| DAVIC | Digital Audiovisual Council |
| DAVO | Dynamic Analog of the Vocal Tract |
| DAWS | Digital Advanced Wireless Services (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DAX | Deutscher Aktienindex |
| DB | Data Base |
| dB | Dezibel |
| DB | Diffusion Boarding |
| DBA | Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DB AG | Deutsche Bahn AG |
| DBB | Deutscher Beamtenbund |
| DBC | Dansk Bibliotekscenter |
| DBEF | Dual Brightness Enhancement Foil (Polarisationsfolie im LCD-Monitor/polarization sheet for LCD monitor) |
| DBF | [Dateinamenerweiterung: dBase Datenbank-Datei/file name extension: dBase data bank file] |
| DBF | Distributed Feedback (Laser) |
| DBG | Deutsche Bunsengesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie |
| DBI | Deutsches Bibliotheksinstitut (Berlin) |
| DBIS | Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside Science (AIP, TV news) |
| DBM | Deutsches Bergbau-Museum (Bochum) |
| DBM | Double Beam Modulation |
| DBMS | Database Management System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DBN | Dynamic Bayesian Network (Sprachverarbeitung/speech processing) |
| DBO | Distributed Biological Observatory |
| DBP | Deutsches Bundespatent (nach 1945) |
| DBP | Division of Biological Physics (APS) |
| DBR | Distributed Bragg Reflector (Laser) |
| DBRM | Digital Broadcasting Receivers Using Metadata |
| DBS | Direct Broadcast(ing) (by) Satellite |
| DBSO | Digital Broadcast Satellite Operator (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DBU | Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt |
| dbv | Deutscher Bibliothekenverband |
| DC | Dendritic Cell |
| DC | Developing Countries |
| DC | Digital Cinema |
| DC | Digital Concentrator (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DC | Direct Current (Gleichstrom) |
| DC | District of Columbia (US-Staat/US state) |
| DC | Dünnschichtchromatographie |
| D-CAT | Diesel Clean Advanced Technology (Kfz/motor vehicle) |
| DCB | Data Center Bridging |
| DCB | Direct Copper Bonding (electronics) |
| DCC | Dicyclohexylcarbodiimid |
| DCC | Digital Compact Cassette |
| DCC | Distributed Checksum Clearing House (Antispamfilter/anti spam filter) |
| DCCC | Developing Countries Coordinating Committee |
| DCcE | Data Centre Compute Efficiency |
| DCD | Downlink Channel Descriptor (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DCD | Duty-Cycle Jitter (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DCE | Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DCE | Data (or: Digital) Communications Equipment |
| DCE | Distributed Computing Environment |
| DCE | Dynamic Channel Equalizer (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DCF | Dispersion Compensating Fiber (Glasfaser/glass fiber) |
| DCF | Distributed Coordination Function (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DCF | Double-Clad Fibre (Optik/optics) |
| DCFA | Digital Choice and Freedom Act (2002) |
| DCG | Dispersion-Compensating Grating (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| DCH | Dedicated Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| D-CHIP | Dynamic Clinical Health Insight Platform |
| DCI | Digital Cinema Initiative |
| DCI | Downlink Control Information |
| DCL | Detect, Classify and Locate |
| DCLC | Direct Contact Liquid Cooling (for HPC) |
| DCM | Dispersion Compensation Module (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| DCM | Dynamic Code Management (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DCMP | Division of Condensed Matter Physics (APS) |
| DCN | Data Communication Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DCN | Dynamic Circuit Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DCoD | Data Center on Demand |
| DCOM | Distributed Component Object Model (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DCOMP | Division of Computational Physics (APS) |
| DCP | Digital Cinema Package |
| DCP | Division of Chemical Physics (APS) |
| DCPN | Domestic Customer Premises Network |
| DCR | Dedicated Control Room (bei/at ESOC) |
| DCR | Digital Control of Reverberation |
| DCRAM | Dynamic Computing Random-Access Memory |
| DCS | Data Communicatinon System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DCS | Decompression Sickness (of divers) |
| DCS | Digital Coded Sective [Call] (Mobilfunk/mobile radio) |
| DCS | Digital Content Store |
| DCS | Digital Crossconnect (or: Communication) System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DCS | Distributed Control System |
| DCSC | Danish Center for Scientific Computing |
| DCT | Discovery Channel Telescope |
| DCT | Discrete Cosine Transform |
| DCT | Double Clutch Transmission (Kfz-Getriebe/motor vehicle) |
| DCU | Data Capture Utility |
| DCV | Deconvolution |
| DCV | Desktop Cloud Visualisation |
| DCV | Double concave (optische Linsen/optical lenses) |
| DCX | Double convex (optische Linsen/optical lenses) |
| DDA | Demand-Driven Acquisition (of e-books) |
| DDB | Die Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek |
| DDB | Download Data Block (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DDC | Digital Down Converter (or: Conversion) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DDC | Display Data Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DDCE | Dolby Digital Consumer Encoder |
| DDD | Directly Doubled Diode (Laser) |
| DDE | Dichlordiphenylchlorethylen (Abbauprodukt von DDT) |
| DDE | Dynamic Data Exchange |
| DDEC | Data-Driven Echo Canceller |
| DDG | Deutsche Diabetes-Gesellschaft |
| DDGI | Deutscher Dachverband für Geo-Information |
| DDI | [Universal] Description Discovery Integration (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DDI | Direct Dialing-In (Telefon/telephone) |
| DDJ | Data-Dependent Jitter (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DDK | Dialog Development Kit |
| ddI | Didesoxyinosin |
| DDL | Doubled (or: Direct) Diode Laser (blaue Laserdiode/blue laser diode) |
| DDM | Differential Depth Modulation (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DDN | Data Direct Network |
| DDN | Defense Data Network (USA) |
| DDoS | Distributed Denial-of-Service (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ddp | Deutscher Depeschendienst |
| DDR | Deutsche Demokratische Republik/German Democratic Republic (bis/until 1990) |
| DDR | Double Data Rate (5 Gb/s) |
| DDR&E | Directorate of Defense Research and Engineering (Pentagon, Washington, DC, USA) |
| DDS | Direct Digital Synthesis (Ein- und Ausgabeeinheit/input-output board) |
| DDS | Direct-Diode System (Photonik/photonics) |
| DDT | Dichlordiphenyltrichlorethan |
| DDT | Distributed Debugging Tool |
| DDV | Deutscher Dachgärtner Verband e.V. |
| DDV | Deutscher Dart-Verband |
| DE | Delaware (US-Staat/US state) |
| DE | Deutschland/Germany (ISO 3166) |
| DE | Discard Eligibility (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DE | Discovery Environment |
| DEA | dielektrischer Elastomeraktor |
| DECAF | Density Estimation for Cetaceans from Acoustic Fixed Sensors |
| DECam | Dark Energy Camera |
| DECHEMA | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chemisches Apparatewesen, chemische Technik und Biotechnologie e.V. |
| DeCSS | Descramble Content Scramble System |
| DECT | Digital Enhanced (or: European) Cordless Telecommunication (or: Telephony) |
| DEDAVE | Deep Diving Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Exploration (FhG) |
| DEDIG | Deutsche EDI-Gesellschaft e.V. |
| DEE | Daten-Endeinrichtung (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DEEP | Dynamical Exascale Entry Platform (Supercomputer-Entwicklung/supercomputer development) |
| Defra | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (UK) |
| DEGA | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. |
| DEGON | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ortung und Navigation |
| DEGREE | Diversity Effects in Grassland Ecosystems of Europe |
| DEGREEN | Dielektrische Elastomergeneratoren für regenerative Energien (ISC-Projekt) |
| DEGUM | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ultraschall in der Medizin |
| DEHP | Diethylhexylphthalat (Weichmacher/plasticizer) |
| DEI | Deutsches Evangelisches Institut für Altertumswissenschaft des Heiligen Landes (Jerusalem) |
| DEI | Diffraction-Enhanced Imaging |
| DEISA | Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications |
| DEKITZ | Deutsche Koordinierungsstelle für IT-Normenkonformitätsprüfung und -zertifizierung |
| DELICAT | Demonstration of LIDAR based Clear Air Turbulence Detection |
| DELIGHT | Delta Information System for Geo-Environmental and Human Habitat Transition (Chinese Yellow-River-Delta, 2013–2016) |
| DELNET | Developing Library Network |
| DELT | Dual-Ended Line Testing |
| DELTA | Dortmunder Elektronen Testspeicherring Anlage |
| DELTA | Dutch Expedition for Life Science, Technology and Atmospheric Research |
| DELTIC | Delay Line Time Compressor |
| DEM | Digital Elevation Model (Satelliten-Fernerkundung/satellite remote surveillance) |
| DEM | Discrete Element Method |
| demea | Deutsche Materialeffizienzagentur |
| DEMMIN | Durable Environmental Multidisciplinary Monitoring Information Network (DLR) |
| DEMS | Dezentrales Energiemanagementsystem |
| DENA | Deutsche Energieagentur |
| DENEFF | Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz |
| DE-NIC | Network Information Center für Deutschland (Karlsruhe, DE) |
| DENICAFC | Double-Enhanced Intracavity Frequency Conversion (Laser) |
| DEOS | Deutsche Orbitale Servicing-Mission |
| DEP | Department of Environmental Protection |
| DEP | Dielectrophoretic |
| DEPFET | Depleted Field Effect Transistor |
| Depresys | Decadal Climate Prediction System (weather forecast) |
| DER | Distributed Energy Resources |
| DERA | Defense Evaluation & Research Agency (MOD, GB) |
| DES | Dark Energy Survey (project since 2013) |
| DES | Data Encryption Standard (or: System) |
| DES | Department of Electrical Science (NPL, UK) |
| DES | Detached Eddy Simulation (turbulence model) |
| DES | dielektrischer Elastomersensor |
| DES | Diethylstilbestrol (Östrogen-Derivat/estrogen derivative) |
| DESC | Dutch Experiment Support Centre (gravity research) |
| DeSCAS | Design of Safety-Critical Automotive Systems |
| DESI | Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument |
| DeSiReH | Design, Simulation and Flight Reynolds Number Testing for Advanced High Lift Solutions (DLR project) |
| DESY | Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron |
| DESY-HH | DESY in Hamburg |
| DESY-Z | DESY in Zeuthen |
| DET | Detection Error Tradeoff (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DEUS | Dezentrale urbane Wasserinfrastruktursysteme |
| DEZ | Diethylzink (-Verfahren zur Papierkonservierung) |
| DF | Delay Factor |
| DFA | Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Lebensmittelchemie (Garching) |
| DFB | Distributed Feedback (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication, Laser) |
| DFC | Delayed Feedback Control |
| DFC | Difference Frequency Comb |
| DFD | Data Flow Diagram |
| DFD | Deutsches Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum (DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen) |
| DFD | Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS) |
| DFE | Decision Feedback Equalizer (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DFE | Digital Front End (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DFF | Deutscher Fernsehfunk (ehem./former DDR) |
| DFG | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
| DFH | Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Hubschrauber und Vertikalflugtechnik |
| DFH | Deutsch-Französische Hochschule (Saarbrücken) |
| DFI | Diabetes-Forschungsinstitut (Düsseldorf) |
| DFID | Department for International Development (UK) |
| DFJW | Deutsch-Französisches Jugendwerk |
| DFKI | Deutsches Forschungszentrum für künstliche Intelligenz (Saarbrücken) |
| DFL | Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luftfahrt (Braunschweig, 1936), Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (Braunschweig, 1962) |
| DFM | Design for Manufacturing |
| DFMA | Design for Manufacturing and Assembly |
| DFN | Deutsches Forschungsnetz (Datennetz/data network) |
| DFO | Department of Fisheries and Oceans (CA) |
| DFS | Dansk Fysisk Selskap |
| DFS | Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH |
| DFS | Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug |
| DFS | Diabetisches Fußsyndrom |
| DFS | Digital Frequency Synthesizer |
| DFS | Dynamic Flow Simulator (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DFS | Dynamic Frequency Selection (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DFT | Density Functional Theory, Dichtefunktionaltheorie (Kernphysik/nuclear physics) |
| DFT | Discrete Fourier Transform, diskrete Fouriertransformation |
| DFTD | Devil Facial Tumor Disease, Beutelteufel-Gesichtstumorerkrankung |
| DFÜ | Datenfernübertragung |
| DFVLR | Deutsche Forschungs- und Versuchsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt (1969–1989, danach/thereafter: DLR) |
| DFW | Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (Texas, USA) |
| DFWM | Degenerate Four Wave Mixing (Entartete Vier-Wellen-Mischung) |
| DG | Directorate-General (EU Commission) |
| DGaO | Deutsche Gesellschaft für angewandte Optik |
| DGAP | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik |
| DGBMT | Deutsche Gesellschaft für biomedizinische Technik |
| DGCA | Directorate General Civil Aviation (Indonesia) |
| DGE | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung |
| DGE | Dynamic Gain-Equalizer (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| DGEM | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährungsmedizin |
| DGF | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Flugwissenschaften e.V. (1959) |
| DGfB | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biophysik |
| DGfE | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft |
| DGFRS | Dubna Gas-Filled Recoil Separator (JINR) |
| DGfS | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft |
| DGG | Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft |
| DGG | Deutsche Glastechnische Gesellschaft e.V. |
| DGHO | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hämatologie und Medizinische Onkologie |
| DGHS | Deutsche Gesellschaft für humanes Sterben |
| DGHT | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde |
| DGK | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kristallographie |
| DGKJP | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik |
| DGKK | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kristallwachstum und Kristallzüchtung e.V. |
| DGLM | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Lasermedizin |
| DGLR | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt |
| DGM | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde e.V. |
| DGMK | Deutsche Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Erdöl, Erdgas und Kohle e.V. |
| DGMP | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Physik |
| DGNA | Dynamic Group Number Assignment (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DGNB | Deutsche Gesellschaft für nachhaltiges Bauen |
| DGNSS | Differential GNSS Station |
| DGPI | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Produktinformationen mbH |
| DGPs | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie |
| DGPS | Differential Global Positioning System |
| DGPT | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Post- und Telekommunikationsgeschichte e.V. |
| DGQ | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Qualität |
| DGS | Deutsche Gebärdensprache |
| DGS | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sonnenenergie |
| DGS | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie |
| DGSM | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schlafforschung und Schlafmedizin |
| DGT | Direction Générale des Télécommunications |
| DGUV | Deutsche Gesetzliche Unfallversicherung |
| DGW | Data Gateway |
| DGWK | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Warenkennzeichnung mbH |
| DGZ | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zellbiologie |
| DGZMK | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zahn-, Mund- und Kieferheilkunde |
| DGzRS | Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger |
| DH | Data – High Rate Data Packet Type (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| d.H. | der Hedschra (islamische Zeitrechnung, ab 622 n. Chr.) |
| DHA | Docosahexaensäure (Omega-3-Fettsäure) |
| DHAP | Dihydroxyacetonphosphat |
| DHBW | Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg (Villingen-Schwenningen) |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DHF | Deformed Helix Ferroelectrics |
| DHH | Deutscher Hochseesportverband Hansa |
| DHHS | Department of Health and Human Services (USA) |
| DHIP | Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris |
| DHN | Digital Home Network |
| DHO | Diversity Handover (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DHS | Demographic and Health Surveys |
| DHS | Department of Homeland Security (USA, seit/since 2002) |
| DHSG | Data Hiding Subgroup (of CPTWG) |
| DHT | Deutscher Handelstag |
| DHT | Dihydrotestosteron |
| DHT | Distribution Hash Table (Rundfunk/broadcast) |
| DHTML | Dynamic HTML |
| DHU | Data Handling Unit (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DHV | Deutscher Hochschulverband e.V. |
| dHvA | de Haas–van Alphen (Effect) |
| DI | Directivity Index (loudspeaker) |
| DIA | Digital Item Adaptation (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DIAL | Differential Absorption Lidar |
| DIAMEX | Diamide Extraction (nuclear waste processing) |
| DIANA | Dual Ion Accelerators for Nuclear Astrophysics |
| DIANE | Direct Information Access Network for Europe |
| DIB | Deutsches Institut für Betriebswirtschaft |
| DIBANET | Development of Integrated Biomass Biofuels Approaches Network |
| DiBEG | Digital Broadcasting Expert Group (seit/since 1977 in Japan) |
| DIBS | Digital In-Band Broadcasting System |
| DIC | Digital Image Correlation |
| DICE | Data Intensive Cyber Environment |
| DICOM | Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine |
| DID | Digital Item Declaration (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DID | Direct Inward Dialing (Telefon/telephone) |
| DIESIS | Design of an Interoperable European Federated Simulation Network for Critical Infrastructures (EU Project) |
| DIF | Data Interchange Format |
| DIfE | Deutsches Institut für Ernährungsforschung (Potsdam) |
| DIFF | Deutsches Institut für Fernstudien (Tübingen) |
| DiffServ | Differentiated Services |
| Difu | Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik |
| DIHK | Deutsche Industrie- und Handelskammer |
| DIHM | Digital In-Line Holographic Microscopy |
| DIHT | Deutscher Industrie- und Handelstag |
| DII | Download Info Indication (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DIII | Doublet III (Fusionsreaktortechnik/fusion reactor technology, General Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA) |
| DIII-D | Doublet III-D (Fusionsreaktortechnik/fusion reactor technology, General Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA) |
| DIKW | Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom |
| DIL | Deutsches Institut für Lebensmitteltechnik (Quakenbrück) |
| DIL | Dual In-Line (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DIMDI | Deutsches Institut für Medizinische Dokumentation und Information |
| DIMES | Descent Image Motion Estimation System (Raumfahrt/spacecraft) |
| DIMUS | Digital Multibeam Steering |
| DIN | Deutsches Institut für Normung |
| DINI | Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation e.V. |
| DINZERT | Deutscher Zertifizierungsrat im DIN |
| DIP | Digital Item Processing (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DIP | Diindenoperylen |
| DIP | Dual In-Line Package (MEMS) |
| DIPF | Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung (Frankfurt/M) |
| DIPS | Distributed Intelligent Piloting System |
| DIR | Data Intensive Research |
| DIRBE | Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment (Kosmologie/cosmology) |
| DIRC | Detection of Internally Reflected Cherenkov Light |
| DIS | Draft International Standard |
| DISC | Dynamic Instruction Set Computer (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DISCOS | Database and Information System Characterising Objects in Space |
| DISCUS | Distributed Source Coding Using Syndromes (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DISH | Digital Strategies for Heritage (Conference) |
| DISO | Dual Input – Single Output (Regler, System/controller, system) |
| DITC | Division of Information Technology and Computing (NPL, UK) |
| DITR | Deutsches Informationszentrum für technische Regeln |
| Diva | Deutsches Interferometer für Vielkanalphotometrie und Astrometrie |
| DIW | Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (Berlin) |
| DIW | Direct Ink Writing (nanotechnology) |
| DIY | Do it yourself |
| DJ | Deterministic Jitter (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DJ | Disk-Jockey |
| DJ | Dschibuti (früher Afara und Issa)/Djibouti (former Afar and Issa) (ISO 3166) |
| DJR | Double Jelly Roll (Genetik/genetics) |
| DK | Dänemark/Denmark (ISO 3166) |
| DK | Disk Key (für CDs und DVDs) |
| DKD | Deutscher Kalibrierdienst |
| DKE | Deutsche Kommission Elektrotechnik (DIN und VDE) |
| DKFI | Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (Karlsruhe, Saarbrücken) |
| DKFZ | Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (Heidelberg) |
| DKG | Deutsche Keramische Gesellschaft e.V. |
| DKI | Deutsche Kommission für Ingenieurausbildung |
| DKI | Deutsches Kunststoff-Institut |
| DKIM | Domainkey Identified Mail |
| DKMM | Deutsches Komitee für Meeresforschung und Meerestechnik |
| DKRZ | Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (Hamburg) |
| DL | Deep Learning |
| DL | Downlink (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DLA | Deutsches Literaturarchiv (Marbach) |
| DLA | Dielectric Laser Acceleration |
| DLA | Diffusion-Limited Aggregation |
| DLA | Dynamic Link Architecture (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DLaaS | Deep Learning as a Service |
| DLC | Data Link Control (or: Connection) [Layer] (DECT) |
| DLC | Diamond-like Carbon |
| DLC | Digital Loop Carrier (Internet) |
| DLC | Direct Lift Control (aircraft testing) |
| DLCI | Data Link Connection Identifier (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DLDC | Downlink Dual Carrier (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DLI | Delay-Line Interferometer |
| DLL | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Programmdatei/file name extension: program file] |
| DLL | Dynamic(ally) (or: Direct) Link(ed) Library (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DLMS | Direct Metal Laser Sintering (3D-Drucker/3D printing) |
| DLNA | Digital Living Network Alliance (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DLP | Digital Light Processing (or: Processor, or: Projection) |
| DLPFC, DLPFK | Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex, Dorsolateraler präfrontaler Kortex |
| DLR | Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt (ab/since 1989, früher/formerly: DFVLR) |
| Ab 1.10.1997/since Oct. 1, 1997: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. |
| DLRG | Deutsche Lebensrettungsgesellschft |
| DLS | Direct Access Logging System (Sprachaufzeichnungssystem/speech recorder, Philips) |
| DLS | Dynamic Light Scattering, dynamische Lichtstreuung |
| DLU | Digital Line Unit |
| DLV | Digital Light Valve |
| DLVO | Derjaguin–Landau–Verwey–Overbeek (soft-matter theory) |
| DLW | Direct Laser Writing |
| DM | Data Manager (or: Mining) |
| DM | Data – Medium Rate Data Packet Type (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DM | Deformable Mirror (adaptive Optik/adaptive optics) |
| DM | Deutsches Museum (München) |
| DM | Dialog Management (Sprachverarbeitung/speech processing) |
| DM | Dominica (ISO 3166) |
| DMA | Direct Memory Access |
| DMAIC | Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control |
| DMARD | Disease Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs (Antirheumatika/cure for rheumatism) |
| DMB-T | Digital Multimedia Broadcast – Terrestrial |
| DMC | Dense Multi-Carrier (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| DMCA | Digital Millenium Copyright Act (USA 2000) |
| DMD | Digital Micromirror Device |
| DME | Digital Motor Electronics (Kfz/motor vehicle) |
| DME | Distance Measuring Equipment (for air traffic) |
| DMF | Dimethylformamid (Lösungsmittel/solvent) |
| DMFC | Direct Methanol Fuel Cell, Direkt-Methanol-Brennstoffzelle |
| DMFT | Dynamic Mean Field Theory (Festkörperphysik/solid state physics) |
| DMG | Determinstic Micro Grinder (für asphärische Linsen/for aspheric lenses) |
| DMG | Deutsche Meteorologische Gesellschaft |
| DMG | Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft e.V. |
| DMI | Driver-Machine Interface |
| DML | Digital Mathematics Library |
| DMLS | Direct Metal Laser-Sintering |
| DMM | Deutsches Museum München |
| DMM | Digital-Multimeter |
| DMN | Default Mode Network (im Gehirn/in the brain) |
| DMO | Direct Mode Operation (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DMOM | Division of Mechanical and Optical Metrology (NPL, UK) |
| DMP | Data Management Plan |
| DMP | [Peter A.] Diamond, [Dale T.] Mortensen, [Christopher A.] Pissarides (Modell, Wirtschaftswissenschaften) |
| DMP | Digital Media Project (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DMP | Disease-Management-Programm |
| DMP | Division of Materials Physics (APS) |
| DMPK | Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics |
| DMR | Data Miner Recipes (statistical computations) |
| DMR | Differential Microwave Radiometer (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| DMR | Division of Materials Research (NSF, Arlington, VA, USA) |
| DMRC | Direct Manufacturing Research Center (Paderborn, DE) |
| DMS | Datenmanagementsystem (Fernerkundung/remote locating) |
| DMS | Dehn(ungs)messstreifen |
| DMS | Digital Moiré Subtraction (Metrologie/metrology) |
| DMS | Direct Measurement System |
| DMS | Document Management System (Wissensmanagement) |
| DMS | Dual-Magnetron-Sputter-System |
| DMSO | Dimethyl sulfoxide, Dimethylsulfoxid |
| DMSP | Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (USA) |
| DMT | Discrete Multi-Tone (Leitungscode, Mehrfach-Träger-Modulation/transmission code, multiple carrier) |
| DMT | Dough Moulding Compound |
| DMTA | Dental Microwear Texture Analysis |
| DMU | Digital Mock-Up (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DMU | Display and Metering Unit |
| DMV | Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung e.V. |
| DMX | Distributed Media Exchange (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DMZ | De-Militarized Zone |
| DNA | Desoxyribonucleic acid |
| DNA | Distributed Internet Architecture |
| DNB | Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Leipzig – Frankfurt am Main – Berlin) |
| DNCP | Deliver Using Network and Content Protection (Datentransfer/data transmission) |
| DNDi | Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative |
| DNDO | Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (USA) |
| DNEbM | Deutsches Netzwerk für Evidenz-basierte Medizin |
| DNK | Deutsches Nationales Komitee für IUPAP |
| DNL | Day-Night-Level (Lärmpegel) |
| DNMT | DNA-Methyltransferase |
| DNS | Data Network System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DNS | Desoxyribonucleinsäure |
| DNS | Direct Numerical Simulation (z.B. Verbrennungsvorgänge/e.g., internal combustion) |
| DNS | Domain Name Service (or: System, or: Server) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DNT | Digitale Nutzfahrzeugtechnologie (Innovationscluster/innovation cluster, Kaiserslautern) |
| DNT | Dinitrotoluol |
| DNW | Deutsch-Niederländischer Windkanal (bei/near Emmeloord, NL, 1980) |
| DO | Dominikanische Repubik/Dominican Republic (ISO 3166) |
| DOA | Direction of Arrival |
| DOAB | Directory of Open Access Books |
| DOAG | Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft |
| DOAJ | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| DOAR | Directory of Open Access Repositories |
| DOAS | Differentielle optische Absorptionsspektroskopie, Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy |
| DOB | Depth of Burial (for underground nuclear tests) |
| Dobes | Dokumentation bedrohter Sprachen (Projekt der Volkswagenstiftung, Nimwegen, NL) |
| Dobson-Unit | 2,7 × 1016 Moleküle/cm3 |
| DOC | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft-Word-Dokument/file name extension: Microsoft Word document] |
| DOC | Demonstration of Capability |
| DOC | Department of Commerce (USA) |
| DOC | Dissolved Organic Carbon (in water resources) |
| DOCSIS | Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DOD | Department of Defense (USA) |
| DODfast | Demonstration of an Optical Data Link Fast |
| DOE | Department of Energy (USA) |
| DoE | Design of Experiments |
| DOE | Diffractive Optical Element |
| DOES | differentielle optische Absorptionsspektroskopie |
| DOF | Degree-of-Freedom |
| DOF | Depth of Focus (Schärfentiefe) |
| DoH | Department of Health (UK) |
| DOI | Digital Object Identifier (Literatursuche im www/literature search in the www) |
| DOK | Deutsches Optisches Komitee |
| DOM | Digital Optical Module (neutrino detector) |
| DON | Department of the Navy |
| DOP | Degree of Polarization (Glasfaser/glass fiber) |
| DOP | Dioctylphthalat (Weichmacher/plasticizer) |
| DOPA | l-Dihydroxyphenylalanin |
| DOPS | Danish Optical Society |
| DOR | Director of Research |
| DORA | Declaration on Research Assessment |
| DORIS | Doppel-Ring-Speicher (DESY) |
| DORIS | Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositoning Integrated by Satellite (ENVISAT) |
| DoS | Denial-of-Service (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DOS | Density of States (Festkörperphysik/solid state physics) |
| DOS | Deutsche Offenlegungsschrift (Patent) |
| DOS | Digital Optical Switch (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DOS | Disk Operating System |
| DOSB | Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund |
| DOSITS | Discovery of Sound in the Sea |
| DOT | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft Word-Dokumentenvorlage/file name extension: Microsoft Word document template] |
| DOT | Department of Transportation (USA) |
| DOT | Diffuse Optical Tomography |
| DoV | Data over Voice |
| DP | Double Precision |
| DP | Drop Procedure |
| DPA | Demand Priority Access (Datennetze/data networks, AT&T and HP) |
| DPA, dpa | Deutsche Presse-Agentur |
| D-PAF | Deutsche Processing and Archiving Facility (Fernerkundung/remote locating) |
| DPCCH | Dedicated Physical Control Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DPCH | Dedicated Physical Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DPCM | Differential Pulse Code Modulation |
| DPD | Data Protection Directive (EU) |
| DPD | Deutscher Paketdienst, ab 1.1.2008/since Jan. 1, 2008: Dynamic Parcel Distribution |
| DPD | Digital Predistortion |
| DPDCH | Dedicated Physical Data Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DP-DQPSK | Dual-Polarization Differential Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying (Modulation) |
| DPE | Distributed Processing Environment (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DPF | Dieselpartikelfilter |
| DPF | Distributed Packet Filtering (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DPG | Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft |
| DPHEP | [Study Group on] Data Preservation and Long Term Analysis in High Energy Physics |
| DPI | Department of Primary Industries (Victoria, AU) |
| DPI | Drittes Physikalisches Institut [der Universität Göttingen] |
| DPhV | Deutscher Philologenverband |
| DPKK | Deutsches Prostatakarzinom Konsortium |
| DPLA | Digital Public Library of America |
| DPMA | Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt |
| DPMEM | Dual-Port Memory (auf Prozessorkarte/on processor card) |
| DPN | Dip-Pen-Nanolithography |
| DPNS | Digital Private Networking System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DPOAE | Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emission (physiological acoustics) |
| DPOLY | Division of Polymer Physics (APS) |
| DPP | Digital Photonic Production |
| DPP | Diketopyrrolopyrrole (organic polymer) |
| DPP | Division of Plasma Physics (AIP) |
| DP-QPSK | Dual-Polarization Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (optische Telekommunikation, Modulation/optical telecommunication, modulation) |
| DPRK | Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
| DPS | Dispersion-Relation Phase Spectroscopy |
| DPSK | Differential Phase-Shift Key |
| DPSS(L) | Diode-Pumped Solid State (Laser) |
| DPZ | Deutsches Primatenzentrum (Göttingen) |
| DQ | Development Qualification |
| DQA | Data Quality Analyzer (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DQDB | Distributed Queue Dual Basis (or: Bus) |
| DQPSK | Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (Modulation) |
| DQS | Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Zertifizierung von Qualitätsmanagementsystemen mbH |
| DR | dielektronische Rekombination |
| DR | Dilution Refrigerator |
| DR | Drive (US Mail) |
| DRA | Defence Research Agency (UK) |
| DRAGEN | Dynamic Read Analysis for Genomics |
| DRAGON | Dynamic Resource Allocation via GMPLS Optical Networks (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| DRAM | Dynamic Random Access Memory |
| DRAW | Development of Design Tools for Reduced Aerodynamic Noise Wind Turbines (EU research project) |
| DRC | DARPA Robotics Challenge |
| DRDC | Defence Research and Development Canada |
| DR-DOS | Digital Research DOS |
| DRESSMAN | Dummy Representing Suit for Simulation of Human Heatloss |
| DRET | Direction des Recherches, Etudes et Techniques |
| DRF | Deafness Research Foundation (USA) |
| DRG | Deutsche Röntgengesellschaft, Gesellschaft für medizinische Radiologie, Strahlenbiologie und Nuklearmedizin e.V. |
| DRG | Diagnosis Related Group |
| DRG | Dorsal Root Ganglion (Neurone/neurons) |
| DRIC | Defence Research Information Centre (Orpington, Kent, UK) |
| DRIVE | Dedicated Road Infrastructure for Vehicle Safety in Europe |
| DRIVER | Driving Innovation in Crisis Management for European Resilience (EU project) |
| DRM | Design Reference Mission (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| DRM | Digital Radio Mondiale (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DRM | Digital Rights Management |
| DRNC | Drift Radio Network Controller (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DRO | Dielectric Resonance (or: Resonator) Oscillator |
| DRO | Digital Read Out |
| DRP | Deutsches Reichspatent (1877 – 1945) |
| DRP | Digital Radio Promotion |
| DRR | Digitally Reconstructed Radiograph (Onkologie/oncology) |
| Dr. rer. nat. | Doctor rerum naturalium |
| DRS | Daten-Relaissatellit |
| DRS | Differential Reflectance Spectroscopy |
| DRV | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Treiberdatei/file name extension: driver file] |
| DRW | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Micrografix Designer-Graphikdatei/file name extension: Micrografix Designer graphic file] |
| DS | Differentiated Services (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DS | Downstream |
| DSA | Diffuse Shock Acceleration (supernova research) |
| DSA | Digital Signature Algorithm |
| DSAU | Digital Subscriber Access Unit (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DSAZ | Deutsch-Spanisches Astronomisches Zentrum (= CAHA) (auf/on Calar Alto, Chile) |
| DSB | Digital Sound Broadcasting |
| DSCDMA | Direct Sequence CDMA (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DSC | Deep Sound Channel (ocean acoustics) |
| DSC | Differential Scanning Calorimetry |
| DSC | Digital System Controller |
| DSC | Distributed Source Coding (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DSC | Dye-Sensitive Solar Cell |
| DSC | Dynamic Stability Control (Kfz/motor vehicle) |
| DSCH | Downlink Shared Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DSCOVR | Deep Space Climate Observatory |
| DSCP | Differentiated Services Code Point (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DSCS | Defense Satellite Communications System (USA) |
| DSD | Direct Stream Digital |
| DSE | Design Support Environment |
| DSE | Downstream Sequence Element |
| DSF | Dispersion Shifted Fiber (Glasfaser/glass fiber) |
| DSGV | Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband |
| DSHS | Deutsche Sporthochschule (Köln) |
| DSI | Deutsches SOFIA-Institut (Universität Stuttgart) |
| DSI | Diffusions-Spektrum-MRI (Bildgebungsverfahren/image processing) |
| DSI | Download Server Initiative (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DSIF | Deep Space Instrumentation Facility (antenna systems) |
| DSIR | Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (UK) |
| DSKLR | Dreiachsiges Strapdown Kurs-Lage-Referenzsystem |
| DSL | Deep Scattering Layer |
| DSL | Digital Subscriber Line (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DSL | Domain Specific Language (Programmiertrend) |
| DSLAM | Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DSM | Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum (Bremerhaven) |
| DSM | Diagnostisches und statistisches Manual [psychischer Störungen] |
| DSM | Distributed System Management |
| DSM | Dynamic Spectrum Management (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DSM-CC | Data (or: Digital) Storage Media – Command and Control (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DSN | Deep Space Network (for communication) |
| DSO | Digital Sampling Oscilloscope |
| DSO | Digital Storage Oscilloscope |
| DSP | Data Service Profile (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DSP | Defense Support Program (USA) |
| DSP | Diabetische Schwerpunktpraxis |
| DSP | Digital Signal Processor (or: Processing) |
| DSP | Digital Speech Processing |
| DSP | Downstream Processing |
| DSR | Delayed Sound Reinforcement |
| DSR | Differential Spectral Responsivity |
| DSR | Digital Satellite Radio; Digitaler Satellitenrundfunk |
| DSR | Distributed Speech Recognition |
| DSR | Doubly (or Deformed) Special Relativity |
| DSRC | Dedicated Short-Range Communication (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DSS | Decentralized Software Services (Computer-Programmentwicklung/program development) |
| DSS | Decision Support System |
| DSS | Digital Signature Standard |
| DSS | Digital Speaker System (Lautsprecher/loudspeaker) |
| DSSS | Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum |
| DST | Department of Science and Technology (Südafrika/South Africa) |
| DST | Discrete Sine Transform, diskrete Sinustransformation |
| DST | Dispersion Supported Transmission (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DSTO | Defence (or: Data) Science and Technology Organization (AU) |
| DSU | Digital Service Unit |
| Dsup | Damage Suppressor (a protein) |
| DSV | Deutscher Schwimm-Verband |
| DSW | Deutsche Stifung Weltbevölkerung |
| DS-Wert | durchschnittlicher Substitutionsgrad |
| DSX | Demonstrations and Science Experiments (NASA, geplant für/planned for 2012) |
| DT | Data Terminal |
| DTA | Deutsche Technische Akademie (Helmstedt) |
| DTA | Differential Thermal Analysis |
| DTAB | Demountable TAB |
| DTAB | Dodecyltrimethylammonium Bromide |
| DTAG | Digital Recording Tag |
| DTC | Defence Technology Centre (UK) |
| DTC | Direct Torque Control (für Elektroantrieb/for electric drive) |
| DTCP | Digital Transmission Content Protection (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DTD | Document Type Definition |
| DTE | Data Terminal Equipment (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DTFT | Discrete-Time Fourier Transform |
| DTH | Direct to Home (Satellitenfernsehen/satellite TV) |
| DTI | Danish Technological Institute |
| DTI | Department of Trade and Industry (UK) |
| DTI | Diffusion Tensor Imaging (Bildgebungsverfahren/image processing) |
| DTI | Display Technology Incorporated (Zusammenschluss von IBM und Toshiba zur Produktion |
| von Flachbildschirmen/cooperation of IBM and Toshiba for flat-screen manufacturing) |
| DTL | Diode-Transistor Logic |
| DTM | Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (Carnegie Institution of Washington, DC, USA) |
| DTM | Device Type Manager (Feldbussystem/field bus system) |
| DTM | Dual Transfer Mode (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DTMB | David Taylor Model Basin (MD, USA) |
| DTMF | Dual Tone Multifrequency (Telefon/telephone) |
| DTNSRDC | David Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center |
| DTO | Data Transfer Object |
| D/TOS | ESA Directorate of Technical and Operational Support |
| DTP | Desktop Publishing |
| DTP | Digital Transparent Processor (Satellitentechnik/satellite technology) |
| DTP | Diverter Test Platform (for ITER) |
| DTPP | Desktop Program Production |
| DTRA | Defense Threat Reduction Agency (USA) |
| DTS | Distributed Temperature Sensor |
| DTT | Digital Terrestrial Televison |
| DTTB | Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting (Japan) |
| DTTG | Digital Terrestrial Television Local Testing Group |
| DTV | Digital Television |
| DTW | Dynamic Time Warp(ing) |
| DTX | Discontinuous Transmission (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DU | Dobson Unit (for atmospheric ozone concentration) |
| DUACS | Developing Use of Altimetry for Climate Studies |
| DÜE | Datenübertragungseinrichtung (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DÜI | Deutsches Übersee-Institut (Hamburg) |
| DUI | Driving Under the Influence |
| DUMAND | Deep Underwater Myon and Neutrino Detector (bei/near Hawaii) |
| DUN | Dial-Up Networking (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DUNE | Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment |
| DUSEL | Deep Undergrond Science and Engineering Laboratory (Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota, USA) |
| DUT | Device Under Test |
| DUV | Deep-Ultraviolet |
| DUZ | Deutsche Universitätszeitung |
| DVA | Dynamic Visual Acuity |
| DVB | Digital Video Broadcast(ing) |
| DVB-C | DVB Cable |
| DVB-CMBS | DVB-Convergence of Broadcast and Mobile Services |
| DVB-DSNG | DVB Digital Satellite News Gathering |
| DVB-H | DVB (to) Handheld System |
| DVB-RCS | DVB Return Channel via Satellite |
| DVB-S | DVB Satellite |
| DVB-S | DVB-Standard (Downlink) |
| DVB-SH | DVB for Satellite Services to Handheld Devices |
| DVB-T | Terrestrial Digital Video Broadcast |
| DVCS | Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering |
| DVD | Digital Versatile (or: Video) Disk |
| DVDCCA | DVD Copy Control Association |
| DVE | Digital Video Encoder |
| DVE | Distributed Virtual Environment |
| DVFS | Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling |
| DVG | Deutsche Vakuumgesellschaft |
| DVL | Deutsche Versuchsanstalt für Luftfahrt (Berlin-Adlershof, 1912) |
| DVM | Deutscher Verband für Materialforschung und -prüfung |
| DVMT | Dynamic Video Memory Technology |
| DVP | Distributed Video Production |
| DVPT | Deutscher Verband für Post und Telekommunikation |
| DVPW | Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft |
| DVS | Deutscher Verband für Schweißtechnik (oder: ... für Schweißen und verwandte Verfahren e.V.) |
| DVS | Dynamic Vision Sensor (camera) |
| DVT | Deutscher Verband Technisch-Wissenschaftlicher Vereine e.V. |
| DWA | Deutsche Vereinigung für Wasserwirtschaft, Abwasserr und Abfall |
| DWA | Diebstahlwarnanlage |
| DWAF | Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (ZA) |
| DWC | Digital Waveform Capture (I/O Board) |
| DWC | Digital Wavefront Camera |
| DWD | Deutscher Wetterdienst |
| DWDM | Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| DWI | Drinking Water Inspectorate (UK) |
| DWIH | Deutsche Wissenschafts- und Innovationshäuser (an mehreren Standorten weltweit) |
| DWL | Data Window Length (underwater noise monitoring standard) |
| DWNT | Double Wall Nanotube |
| DWP | Data Window Period (underwater noise monitoring standard) |
| DWPI | Derwent World Patents Index |
| DwPTS | Downlink Pilot Time Slot (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DWT | Discrete Wavelet Transform |
| DXA | Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry |
| DXC | Digital Cross Connect (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| DXF | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Autodesk Autoload–Graphikdatei/file name extension: Autodesk Autoload graphic file] |
| DYNAMO | [MURI Center for] Dynamic Magneto-Optics (University of Michigan, USA) |
| DZ | Algerien/Algeria (ISO 3166) |
| DZA | Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen (Berlin) |
| DZfCh | Deutscher Zentralausschuss für Chemie |
| DZNE | Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (UMG, Tübingen) |
| D2B | Domestic Digital (or: Digital Domestic) Bus (Faseroptik/fiber optics) |
| D2D | Device-to-Device |
| D3ML | Device Independent Multi-Modal Markup Language |
|
| E-... | Electronic ... (-Business, -Commerce, -Economy, -Journal, -Procurement etc.) |
| E... | Exa (Präfix/prefix): 1018 |
| EA | Electroabsorption |
| EAA | European Acoustics Association |
| EAA | Experimental Aircraft Association |
| EAC | European Astronaut Centre (ESA) |
| EAC | Extended Access Control (Datensicherheit/data security) |
| EACOA | East Asian Core Observatories Association (astronomy) |
| EADQ | [Fraunhofer-] Einrichtung für Diagnose und Qualitätssteigerung |
| EADS | European Aeronautic Defence System |
| EADV | European Academy of Dermatology and Venerology |
| EAE | Experimentelle Autoimmunenzephalomyelitis |
| EAEG | Euroean Association of Exploration Geophysics |
| eag (EAG) | ether-à-go-go (ein Gen/a gene) |
| EAG | Europäische Atomgemeinschaft |
| E-AGCH | Enhanced [Uplink] Absolute Grant Channel |
| EAI | Emergency Access Initiative |
| EAI | Enterprise Application Integration (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EAL | Evangelische Akademie Loccum |
| EALM | Electro-Absorption Laser Modulator (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| EAM | Electro-Absorption Modulator (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EAM | Energie-Aktiengesellschaft Mitteldeutschland (früher/formerly: Elektrizitäts-Aktiengesellschaft Mitteldeutschland) |
| EAN | European Article Number, Europäische Artikelnummer (Strichcode/bar code) |
| EAP | [Bureau of] East Asian and Pacific [Affairs] |
| EAP | Electro-Active Polymer, elektroaktives Polymer |
| EAP | Encyclopedia of Applied Physics |
| EAP | Extensible Authentication Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EAPOL | Extensible Authentication Protocol over Local Area Networks (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EAPS | Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Sciences (Department at Purdue University, USA) |
| EAPS | Euro-Asian Physical Society |
| EAR | Edge Aggregation Router (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EAR | Environment for Acoustic Research (ARL, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, USA) |
| EARA | European Association for Research in Astronomy |
| EARLINET | European Aerosol Research Lidar Network (Fernerkundung/remote locating) |
| EARN | European Academic Research Network |
| EARN | European Asteroid Research Node (DLR) |
| EARS | Environmental Acoustic Recording System |
| EARSS | Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (Medizin/medicine) |
| EARTO | European Association of Research and Technology Organizations (Bruxelles, BE) |
| EAS | European Astronomical Society |
| EAS | Extraordinary Acoustic Screening |
| EASA | European Academic Software Award |
| EASA | European Aviation Safety Agency, Europäische Agentur für Flugsicherheit |
| EASI | End-to-End Application and Service Integration (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EASI | European Academic Supercomputing Initiative |
| EASInet | European Academic Supercomputing Initiative Network |
| EASIS | Electronic Architecture and System Engineering for Integrated Safety Systems (Zusammenschluss europäischer |
| Automobilhersteller/cooperation of European car manufacturers) |
| EASOE | European Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Experiment |
| EASSy | Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EAST | Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (Hefei, China) |
| EAT | Enquiring About Tolerance (Allergie-Studie) |
| EATC | European Altair Technology Conference |
| EB | Equivalent Bandwidth (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EBA | Eisenbahnbundesamt |
| EBA | Evidence-Based Acquisition (Cambridge University Press, UK) |
| EBASS | Essrange Balloon Service |
| EBCC | European Bird Census Committee |
| EBCOT | Embedded Block Coding with Optimal Truncation (Bildkompression/image compression) |
| EBD | [elektronische Bremskraftverteilung] (Kfz/motor vehicle) |
| EBDM | Electron Beam Direct Manufacturing (3D-Drucker/3D printer) |
| EBF | European Federation of Biology |
| EBHA | hydraulischer Aktor mit elektrischem Backup |
| EBI | European Bioinformatics Institute (Hinxton bei/near Cambridge, UK) |
| EBID | Electron-Beam Induced Deposition |
| EBiSC | European Bank for Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells |
| EBIT | Earnings Before Interest and Tax |
| EBIT | Electron Beam Ion Trap |
| EBITDA | Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortization |
| E-BIZ | E-Business Innovationszentrum (FhG) |
| EBL | E-Beam Lithography |
| EBL | Electron Blocking Layer (in LEDs) |
| EBLIDA | European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations |
| EBLIP | Evidence-Based Library and Information Practice |
| EBM | Electron Beam Melting |
| EbM | Evidenzbasierte Medizin |
| EBN | entwicklungsbegleitende Normung |
| EBP | Error Back Propagation (Algorithmus/algorithm) |
| EB-PVD | Electron-Beam Physical Vapor Deposition |
| EBR | Electronic Batch Record |
| EBRD | European Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
| EBS | Elektronisches Bremssystem (Kfz-Technik) |
| EBS | European Business School (in Oestrich-Winkel, DE) |
| EBSD | Electron Backscatter(ed) Diffraction |
| EBT | Electron-Beam Testing |
| EBU | European Broadcasting Union |
| EBV | [Michael] Epstein, [Yvonne] Barr Virus (herpes virus) |
| EC | Ecuador (ISO 3166) |
| EC | Electrochemical Capacitor |
| EC | European Commission |
| EC | Executive Council |
| ECA | European Congress on Acoustics |
| ECA | Evolution Cryotechnique Type A (Rakete/rocket) |
| ECAD | Electronic Computer Aided Design |
| ECAF | European Conservation Agriculture Federation |
| eCall | Emergency Call (Kfz-Unfallmeldesystem) |
| ECAP | Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (FAU, Erlangen, DE) |
| ECB | EcoCommercial Building |
| ECB | European Chemicals Bureau |
| ECC | Electrochemical Concentration Cell |
| ECC | Electronic Climate Control (für Autos/for cars) |
| ECC | Engineered Cementitious Composite (biegsamer Beton/flexible concrete) |
| ECC | Error Correcting Code |
| ECCC | Environment and Climate Change Canada |
| ECCO | Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (Forschungsprojekt/research project) |
| EC COST | European Cooperation in the Field Field of Scientific and Technical Research |
| ECD | Electrochromic Device |
| ECD | Electron Capture Detector |
| ECDF | Edinburgh Compute Data Facility (UK) |
| ECDIS | Elektronisches Kartendarstellungs- und Informationssystem (DLR- und Atlas Elektronik-Programm) |
| ECDL | External Cavity Diode Laser (gitterstabilisierter Diodenlaser) |
| ECDT | Engineering Career Development Team (IEEE) |
| ECE | Economic Commission of Europe (UN) |
| ECE | [Department of] Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| ECFA | European Committee for Future Accelerators |
| ECFRN | European Consulting Forum for Research Networking |
| ECHo | Electron Capture Holmium (experiment on neutrino mass) |
| EChO | Exoplanet Characterization Observatory (ESA, planned) |
| ECHR | European Convention on Human Rights |
| ECL | Emitter Coupled Logic |
| ECL | European Compliance Lab |
| ECL | External Cavity Laser |
| ECLA | European [Patent] Classification System |
| ECLIF | Emissions and Climate Impact of Alternative Fuels (for aircraft) |
| ECLS | Environmental Control and Life Support (Satelliten/satellites) |
| ECLSS | Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (Satelliten/satellites) |
| ECM | Electret Condenser Microphone |
| ECM | Electronic Content Management (Informationsverarbeitung/information processing) |
| ECM | Enterprise Content Management |
| ECM | Entitlement Control Message (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ECM | Error Correction Mode |
| ECM | European Crystallographic Meeting |
| ECMA | European Computer Manufacturers Association |
| ECMC | Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (Liverpool, GB) |
| ECMP | Equal Cost Multipath (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (Reading, UK) (= EZMW) |
| ECN | Energy Research Centre (NL) |
| ECO | Emergency On-Call Officer (Einsatzkoordinator) |
| ECOC | European Conference [and Exhibition] on Optical Communication |
| ECoG | Electrocortiography |
| ECOLE | European Collaborative Open Learning Environment |
| ECoMoS | Energieautarkes Condition-Monitoring System (Verbundprojekt BMBF-Fraunhofer) |
| ECOPS | European Committee on Ocean and Polar Sciences |
| ECORD | European Consortium on Research Drilling |
| ECOSA | European Conference on Optical Systems and Applications |
| ECOSAE | European Consumer Safety Organisation |
| ECOSSE | Estimating Carbon in Organic Soils – Sequestration and Emissions (Scotland and Wales) |
| ECPP | Elliptic Curve Primality Proving (algorithm) |
| ECR | Early-Career Researcher |
| ECS | Electrochemical Society (USA) |
| ECS | Electronics and Computer Science |
| ECS | Environmental Control System |
| ECSC | European Coal and Steel Community |
| ECSC | European Congress of Science Cities |
| ECSD | Enhanced Circuit Switched Data (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ECSEL | Extended-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser |
| Ecsite | European network of science centres and museums |
| ECSS | Extended Collaborative Support (XSEDE) |
| ECT | Elektrochemotherapie (gegen Krebs) |
| ECT | Explicit Call Tranfer (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| eCTD | Electronic Common Technical Document (Standard) |
| ECTF | Early Career Task Force |
| ECTS | European [Community Course] Credit Transfer Scheme (or: System) |
| ECU | East Carolina University (Greenville, NC, USA) |
| ECU | Electrical (or: Electronic) Control Unit |
| ECU | European Currency Unit |
| ECUA | European Conference on Underwater Acoustics |
| ECVAM | European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (Bologna, IT) |
| ECWP | Emirates Center for Wildlife Propagation |
| EC2 | Elastic Compute Cloud |
| ED | Erektile Dysfunktion |
| EDA | Electronic Design Automation |
| EDA | Engineering Design Activities (EC) |
| EDA | Exploratory Data Analysis |
| EDC | Electronic Damper Control (Kfz/motor vehicle) |
| EDC | Electronic Data Capture |
| EDC | Electronic Diesel Control (Kfz/motor vehicle) |
| EDC | Endocrine Disrupting Compounds |
| EDC | Energy Decay Curve (acoustics) |
| EDCC | Ecofriendly Ductile Cementitious Composite |
| EDCINE | Enhanced Digital Cinema (EU project) |
| EDCTP | European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (16 European and 45 African countries) |
| EDD | Electronic Data-Deliverable |
| EDELWEISS | Expérience pour Détecter les WIMPs en Site Souterrain |
| EDF | Electricité de France |
| EDF | Extended Depth of Field |
| EDFA | Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (Glasfaser/glass fiber) |
| EDG | Electronics Development Group (at EFI) |
| EDG | European Datagrid |
| EDGE | Enhanced Datarate(s) for GSM Evolution (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EDGE | Evolutionary Distinct and Globally Endangerd (Artenschutz/species protection) |
| EDI | Electronic Data (or: Document) Interchange |
| EDICI | Evolution, Development and Intentional Control of Initiation (EU project) |
| EDID | Extended Display Identification Data (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EDIF | Electronic Design Interchange Format |
| EDIFACT | Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport |
| EDL | Entry, Descent and Landing (Raumfahrt/spacecraft) |
| EDLC | Electric Double-Layer Capacitor |
| EDM | Electric Dipole Moment (Elementarteilchenphysik/elementary particle physics) |
| EDM | Electrical Discharge Machining |
| EDM | Electronic Distribution of Music |
| EDM | Europeana Data Model |
| EDMS | Electronic Document Mangement System |
| EDNA | European Data Network Agency |
| EDP | Electronic Data Processing |
| EDP | Energy Delay Product |
| E-DPCCH | Enhanced Dedicated Physical Control Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| E-DPDCH | Enhanced Dedicated Physical Data Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EDPS | European Data Protection Supervisor |
| EDQM | Europäische Direktion für die Qualität von Arzneimitteln und Gesundheitspflege |
| EDR | Enhanced Data Rate (25.78125 Gb/s) |
| EDR | Event Data Recorder (Kfz-Technik/automobile) |
| EDRN | Early Detection Research Network (National Cancer Institute) |
| EDRS | European Data Relay System (für Informationsaustausch zwischen Satelliten/for information exchange between satellites) |
| EDS | Earth Departure Stage (Raumfahrt/spacecraft) |
| EDS | Electronic Differential System, elektronische Differenzialsperre (Kfz/automobile) |
| EDS | Energy-Dispersive Spectrometer (or: Spectroscopy) |
| EDSAC | Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer (Cambridge University, 1949) |
| EDT | Early Decay Time (room acoustics) |
| EDT | Elektrodynamisches Tether-System |
| EDTA | Ethylendiamintetraacetat |
| edu | [Educational Organization] (Internet, USA) |
| EDV | Elektronische Datenverarbeitung |
| EDVAC | Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (University of Pennsylvania, USA, 1950) |
| EDWARD | Electric Diwheel with Active Rotation Damping (entwickelt/developed in Adelaide, AU, 2009–2011) |
| EDX | Energy Dispersive X-Ray (fluorescence spectroscopy)/Energiedispersive Röntgenspektroskopie |
| ED-XRF | Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence |
| EE | Equipment Engineering (TC im/in the ETSI) |
| EE | Estland/Estonia (ISO 3166) |
| EEA | European Environment(al) Agency |
| EEC | European Economic Community |
| EECONET | European Ecological Network (Naturschutz/nature conservation) |
| EECS | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
| E-EDID | Enhanced Extended Display Identification Data (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| eEDM | Electron's Electric Dipole Moment |
| EEE | [Department of] Electronic and Electrical Engineering (at UCL) |
| EEEL | Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory (NIST, USA) |
| EEF | Erleichterung für Existentzgründungen aus Forschungseinrichtungen (ein Fonds/a fund) |
| EEFAE | Efficient and Environmentally Friendly Aero-Engine (Flugzeugantrieb/aircraft engine) |
| EEG | Elektroenzephalogramm (-graphie), Electroencephalogram (-graphy) |
| EEG | Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz (DE, seit 1.4.2000) |
| EEHPC | Energy Efficient High Performance Computing |
| EEI | Edison Electric Institute (USA) |
| EEIG | European Economic Interest Group (EU) |
| EELS | Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy (or: Spectrometer) |
| EELT | European Extremely Large Telescope (geplant für/planned for 2017, Atacama Wüste/desert, Chile) |
| EEM | Electronic Engine Management (Kfz/motor vehicle) |
| EEN | Enterprise Europe Network |
| EEP | Europäisches Erhaltungszuchtprogramm (für vom Aussterben bedrohte Tierarten/program for breeding animals threatened by extinction) |
| EEPROM | Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory |
| EER | Equal-Error Rate (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EERE | [DOE Office of] Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy |
| eERG | End-Use Efficiency Research Group (Politecnico di Milano, IT) |
| EEROM | Electrically Erasable Read-Only Memory |
| EESC | Equivalent Effective Stratospheric Chlorine |
| EESE | Electrical/Electronic Systems Engineering |
| EET | Energy Efficient Transport (Flugzeugantrieb/aircraft engine) |
| EeV | Exaelektronenvolt (1018 eV) |
| EEW | Early Earthquake Warning |
| EEZ | Exclusive Economic Zone |
| EF | Expedited Forwarding (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| eFA | elektronische Fallakte (für Ärzte und Kliniken) |
| EFA | European Fighter Aircraft |
| EFAS | European Federation of Audiological Societies, Europäische Föderation Audiologischer Gesellschaften |
| EFD | Event Forwarding Discriminator (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EFDA | European Fusion Development Agreement |
| EFE | Einstein's Field Equations |
| EFF | Electronic Frontier Foundation (USA) |
| EFFESUS | Energy Efficiency for EU Historic Districts Sustainability |
| EFG | Edge-Defined Filmfed Growth |
| EFI | Enrico Fermi Institute (University of Chicago, IL, USA) |
| EFI | Expertenkommission für Forschung und Innovation (DE, seit 2007) |
| EFK | Eidgenössische Finanzkontrolle (CH) |
| EFL | Effective Focal Length (optische Linsen/optical lenses) |
| EFM | Ethernet in First Mile (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EFM | European Film Marker |
| EFPIA | European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations |
| EFR | Enhanced Full Rate (Vocoder) |
| EFRC | Energy Frontier Research Center |
| EFRE | Europäischer Fonds für regionale Entwicklung |
| EFS | Electric Field Sensing |
| EFS | Elektronische Flugstreifen (Flugsicherung) |
| EFSA | [Europäische Behörde für Lebensmittelsicherheit/European authority for food reliability] |
| EFT | Effective Field Theory (Kernphysik/nuclear physics) |
| EFTA | European Free Trade Association (NO, SE, FI, IS, CH, AT, FL) |
| EG | Ägypten/Egypt (ISO 3166) |
| EGA | Éléments de Géometrie Algébrique |
| EGA | Enhanced Graphics Adapter |
| EGA | Entwicklungsgesellschaft Adlershof |
| EGEE | Enabling Grid for E-Science in Europe |
| EGF | Epidermal Growth Factor |
| EGG | Electroglottography |
| EGG | Electronics Goes Green (conference series) |
| EGG | Energetics, Gestation, Growth (theory, concerning pregnancy) |
| EGI, EGI.eu | European Grid Initiative (or: Infrastructure) (seit/since 2010) |
| eGK | elektronische Gesundheitskarte |
| EGK | Europäisches Graduiertenkolleg |
| EGK | Extended Gate Keeper (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EGM | Extraordinary General Meeting |
| EGMR | Europäischer Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte |
| EGNOS | European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Satellite System (or: Service) (Satellitennavigation/satellite navigation) |
| EGO | European Gravitational Observatory (Pisa, IT) |
| EGP | Electronic Program Guide |
| EGP | Exterior Gateway Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EGPRS | Enhanced GPRS |
| EGRET | Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope |
| EGS | Enhanced Geothermal System |
| EGS | European Geophysical Society |
| EGSK | eGovernment Starter Kit (Microsoft) |
| E-GSM | Extended Global System for Mobile Communication (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EGT | European Geographical Technologies |
| EGU | European Geophysics Union |
| EGW | Edge Gateway |
| eGY | Electronic Geophysical Year (geplanter Nachfolger des IGY/planned successor of the IGY) |
| EH | Westsahara/Western Sahara (früher Spanisch-Sahara/former Spanish Sahara) (ISO 3166) |
| EHA | elektrohydrostatischer Aktor |
| EHB | Elly Hölterhoff-Böcking-Stiftung |
| EHEA | European Higher Education Area |
| EHEC | enterohämorrhagische Escherichia coli |
| EHESS | Enhanced Higher Education Supply Service |
| EHF | Extra High Frequency (30 – 300 GHz) |
| E-HICH | Enhanced Uplink HARQ Indicator Channel |
| EHL | extragalaktisches Hintergrundlicht |
| EHLA | Extremes Hochgeschwindigkeits-Laserauftragschweißen |
| EHRD | Education and Human Resources Development (University of Michigan, USA) |
| EHS | Environment, Health, and Safety |
| EHS | Environment and Human Security |
| EHT | Event Horizon Telescope/Ereignishorizont–Teleskop |
| EI | Electron Impact (Massenspektrometer/mass spectrometer) |
| EI | Engineering Information (Datenbank/data bank, Westbury, NY, USA) |
| EIA | Electronics Industries Association (or: Alliance) |
| EIA | Energy Information Administration (USA) |
| EIB | European Installation Bus (Haustechnik/domestic technology) |
| EIB | European Investment Bank |
| EIBA | European Installation Bus Association |
| EiC | Editor in Chief |
| EIC | Electron Induced Conduction |
| EIC | Euro Info Centre |
| EICTA | European Information and Communication Technology Industry Association |
| EID | Electronic Identification of Containers |
| EIGRP | Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EIN | Equivalent Input Noise |
| EIP | Early Implementation Program |
| EIPBN | [International Conference on] Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication |
| EIR | Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (US program) |
| EIR | Excessive Information Rate (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| e-IRG | e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (zur gemeinsamen Nutzung verteilter elektronischer Ressourcen/for the shared use of distributed electronic resources) |
| EIRO | European Intergovernmental Research Organisations |
| EIRP | Effective (or: Equivalent) Isotropic Radiated Power (Satelliten/satellites) |
| EIS | Effective Isotropic Sensitivity (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EIS | Environmental Impact Statement |
| EIS | Executive Information Service (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EISA | Energy Independence and Security Act (USA 2007) |
| EISA | Extended Industry Standard Architecture |
| EISCAT | European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association |
| EISL | Effektive isotrope Strahlungsleistung |
| EISS | Europäisches Institut für Systemsicherheit |
| EIT | Electromagnetically Induced Transparency, elektromagnetisch induzierte Transparenz |
| EIT | Elektrische Impedanz-Tomographie |
| EIT | European Institute of (Innovation and) Technology (Budapest, HU) |
| EIT | Event Information Table (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EIT | Extreme-Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (an Bord von/aboard SOHO) |
| EITC | European Information Technology Conference |
| EITO | European Information Technology Observatory |
| EJ | Exajoule (= 1018 Joule) |
| EJB | Enterprise Java Beans (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EJMC | EUROBALL Joint Management Committee |
| EJME | Enhaced Journals ... Made Easy (open access publishing project) |
| EJS | Easy Java Simulation (programming environment) |
| EJSM | Europe Jupiter System Mission (ESA–NASA project, planned for about 2020) |
| EKA | Expositions-Äquivalent für krebserzeugende Arbeitsstoffe |
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| EKB | Egyptian Knowledge Bank |
EKBO | Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt Object (Astronomie/astronomy) | | EKF | Extended Kalman Filter |
| EKG | Elektrokardiogramm (-graphie) |
| EKGS | Europäische Gemeinschaft für Kohle und Stahl |
| EKS | [Fraunhofer-] Einrichtung für Systeme der Kommunikationstechnik (München) |
| EKU | Eastern Kentucky University |
| EKV | → VDI-EKV |
| EL | Echo Loss (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EL | Electroluminescence, Elektrolumineszenz |
| EL | Esslöffel (in Rezepten) |
| ELA | Elektroakustik |
| ELA | Empoverment and Livelihood for Adolescents (Uganda) |
| ELA | l'Ensemble de Lancement Ariane (Weltraumbahnhof Kourou, GY) |
| ELAG | European Library Automation Group |
| E-LAN | Ethernet LAN Services |
| ELAP | Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (US DoD) |
| ELBE | Elektronenbeschleuniger hoher Brillanz und geringer Emittanz (FZR, Rossendorf) |
| ELCAT | Electrocatalytic Gas-Phase Conservation of CO2 in Confined Catalysts (EU 2004–2008, IT-FR-DE-GR) |
| ELDA | Evaluation and Languages Resources Distribution Agency |
| ELDEWAS | Early Landslide Detection and Warning System |
| ELDO | European Launcher Development Organization (Raumfahrt/spacecraft) |
| ELE | l'Ensemble de Lancement Europa (Weltraumbahnhof Kourou, GY) |
| ELEANNE | Efficient Learning Algorithm for Neural Networks |
| ELENA | Extra Low Energy Antiproton Ring (CERN) |
| ELF | Extremely Low Frequency (0,3 – 3 kHz) |
| ELFE | Electron Laboratory for Europe |
| ELFICOM | Elektronische Fachinformation und Kommunikation |
| ELGRA | European Low-Gravity Research Association |
| ELI | Eurocell Library and Interfaces |
| ELI | European Laser Institute (Aachen, DE, seit/since 2003) |
| ELI | Extreme Light Infrastructure (European project) |
| ELI | Extreme Light Intensity (short-pulse laser, planned for 2015) |
| Elinas | Erlanger Zentrum für Literatur- und Naturwissenschaften |
| E-LINE | Ethernet Line Services |
| ELINT | Electronic Intelligence |
| ELISA | Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay |
| eLISA | European Laser Interferometer Space Antenna |
| ELITE | European Laboratory for Intelligent Techniques Engineering (Aachen, DE) |
| ELM | Element Layer Management (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ELM | Event and Log Management (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ELMF | European Large Magnetic Field Facility |
| ELN | Electronic Lab(oratory) Notebook |
| ELOG | Epitaxially Laterally Overgrown |
| ELP | Enterprise Laboratory Platform |
| ELROB | European Land-Robot Trial |
| ELS | (-Modell/model) nach/after [Olin] Eggen, [Donald] Lynden-Bell und/and [Allan] Sandage (Astronomie/astronomy) |
| ELS | Egyptian Learning Society |
| ELS | l'Ensemble de Lancement Soyuz (Weltraumbahnhof Kourou, GY) |
| ELSA | Elektron-Stretcher-Anlage |
| ELSD | Evaporative Light-Scattering Detector |
| ELSI | Ethical, Legal and Social Issues |
| ELSTAM | Elektronische Lohnsteuerabzugsmerkmale |
| ELSTER | elektronische Steuererklärung |
| ELT | Extremely Large Telescope (planned for 2018) |
| ELU | Enhanced Learning Unlimited (EU project) |
| EM | Editorial Manager (e.g., JASA) |
| EM | Environmental Management (or: Monitoring) |
| EMA | elektromechanischer Aktor |
| EMA | European Medicines Agency, Europäische Arzneimittelagentur |
| EMA | Experimental Modal Analysis, Experimentelle Modalanalyse |
| EMAC | Ethernet Media Access Controller |
| E-Mail | Electronic Mail |
| E-MAN | Ethernet Metropolitan Area Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EMANI | Electronic Mathematics Archives Network Initiative (seit/since 2002) |
| EMB | [Fraunhofer-] Einrichtung für Marine Biologie (Lübeck) |
| EMBASSI | Elektronische Multimediale Bedien- und Service-Assistenz |
| EMBL | Europäisches Molekularbiologisches Laboratorium, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Heidelberg, DE) |
| eMBMS | Enhanced (or: Evolved) Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (ZK) |
| EMBO | European Molecular Biology Organization (Heidelberg, DE) |
| EMC | Electro-Magnetic Chamber |
| EMC | Electromagnetic Compatibility (= EMV) |
| EMC | Electron Microscopy Center (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) |
| EMC | European Muon Collaboration |
| EMCCD | Electron Multiplying Charge-Coupled Device (optischer Sensor/optical sensor) |
| EMD | Electronic Music Distribution |
| EMEA | Europe, Middle East and Africa |
| EMERGE | Emergency Monitoring Prevention (EU project) |
| EMER-T | Emergency Mobility of Rescue Forces and Regular Traffic (DLR) |
| EMF | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei/file name extension: graphic file] |
| EMF | Electromagnetic Field, elektromagnetisches Feld |
| EMF | European Multimedia Forum |
| EMFT | [Fraunhofer-] Einrichtung für Modulare (oder: Mikrosysteme und) Festkörpertechnologien (München) |
| EMG | Electro-Optical Materials Group (University of Toronto, ON, CA) |
| EMG | Electromyogram, Electromyography |
| EMH | Electromotor (or: Electric Motor)-HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop) |
| EMI | Electromagnetic Induction |
| EMI | Electromagnetic Interference (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EMI | Engineering Mechanics Institute (ASCE) |
| EMI | Ernst-Mach-Institut (Fraunhofer-Institut für Kurzzeitdynamik, Freiburg) |
| EMILI | Ergonomischer, mobiler, interaktiver Ladungsträger für die Intralogistik (Fraunhofer-Entwicklung) |
| EMILY | Emergency Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard (ONR) |
| EMIME | Effective Multilingual Interaction in Mobile Environments |
| EMIS | The European Mathematical Information Service |
| eMISK | Environmental Monitoring and Information System for Kuwait |
| EML | Electro-Absorption Modulated Laser (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| EML | Elektromagnetischer Levitator (auf der ISS) |
| EML | Element Management Layer (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EML | European Media Laboratory (Heidelberg, DE) |
| EMLACS | Efficient Manufacturing of Laser Assisted Cold-Sprayed Components |
| EMM | Entitlement Management Message (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EMM | EPS Mobility Management (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EMM | Experimental & Molecular Medicine (a journal) |
| EMMA | European Airport Movement Management by A-SMGCS (Flughafen-Bodenverkehr/airport ground traffic) |
| EMMI | Electrical Man Machine Interface |
| EMMI | ESA Multi-Mode Instrument |
| EMMI | Extreme Matter Institute (Darmstadt, DE) |
| EMP | Electromagnetic Pulse |
| EMP | Embedded-Media Processor (Datenverarbeitung/data processing) |
| EMPA | Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt (Dübendorf, CH) |
| EMPD | [International Conference on] Energy Management and Power Delivery |
| EMPS | European Mobility Scheme for Physics Students (EPS) |
| EMR | Electromagnetic Relay |
| EMR | Electron Magnetic Resonance |
| EMR | Electronic Medical Record |
| EMR | Enhanced Measurement Report |
| EMR | Extraordinary Magnetoresistance |
| EMRC | European Medical Research Council |
| EMRP | European Metrology Research Programme |
| EMRS | Electromagnetic Remote Sensing |
| EMS | Electrified Monorail System |
| EMS | Electromagnetic Susceptibiliy (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EMS | Electromechanical Suspension System |
| EMS | Electronic Manufacturing Service |
| EMS | Electronic Meeting System |
| EMS | Element Management System (Internet) |
| EMS | Engineering Management System |
| EMS | European Mathematical Society |
| EMSA | European Maritime Safety Agency |
| EMSec | Echtzeitdienste für die maritime Sicherheit – Security (DLR) |
| EMSL | Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (PNNL, USA) |
| EMSTP | European Medical Scientific Training Program |
| EMT | Electromagnetic Transient |
| EMT | Emergency Medical Technician |
| EMV | Elektromagnetische Verträglichkeit (= EMC) |
| EMVG | Gesetz über die elektromagnetische Verträglichkeit von Geräten |
| EMVU | Elektromagnetische Umweltverträglichkeit |
| EN | Europa-Norm, Europäische Norm (CENELEC) |
| ENAC | European Network and Applications Center |
| ENAS | [Fraunhofer-] Einrichtung (oder: -Institut) für Elektronische Nanosysteme (Paderborn und Chemnitz) |
| ENBIS | European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics |
| EnBW | Energie Baden-Württemberg AG |
| END | Enviromental (European) Noise Directive |
| ENES | European Network for Earth System Modelling |
| EnEV | Energieeinsparverordnung (seit/since 2007) |
| ENF | Equivalent Noise Floor (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ENI | Ethernet Network Interface (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ENI | Europäisches Neurowissenschaftliches Institut |
| ENIAC | Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA 1945) |
| ENIAC | European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council |
| ENI(-G) | European Neuroscience Institute (in Göttingen, DE) |
| ENLIGHT | Enhanced Lightweight Design (EU project) |
| ENM | Enviromenal Noise Management |
| EnMAP | Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program(me) (EOMAP and DLR) |
| ENNAH | European Network on Noise and Health |
| ENO | Essentially Non-Oscillatory (numerische Rechenverfahren/numerical computing) |
| ENS | Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris, FR) |
| ENSEEIHT | Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electrotechnique, d'Electronique, d'Informatique, d'Hydraulique et des Télécommunications (Toulouse, FR) |
| ENSIEG | Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs Electriciens de Grenoble |
| ENSO | El Niño Southern Oscillation (Klima/climate) |
| ENST | Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (Paris, FR) |
| ENSTA | Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées (Paris, FR) |
| ENT | Ear, Nose and Throat (= HNO) |
| ENT | Elektrische Nachrichtentechnik (Zeitschrift) |
| ENTIRE | European Network on Transport Innovation for the Rational Use of Energy |
| ENTRANCE | Energy Savings in Transport through Innovation in the Cities of Europe |
| ENTRANZE | [Politics to] Enforce the Transition to Nearly Zero Energy Buildings in Europe (EU project) |
| ENVI | Environment for Visualizing Images |
| :envihab | Environment Habitat (DLR: medizinische Forschungsanlage, Köln, 2011 im Bau) |
| ENVISAT | (Europäischer Umweltsatellit, ab 1.3.2002/European enviroment satellite, since March 1, 2002) |
| ENWISE | Enlarge Women in the East (Working group, European Commission, since 2003) |
| ENX | European Network Exchange (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ENV | Envelope |
| EO | Earth Observation (Satelliten/satellites) |
| EO | Electro-Optical (Effects or Sensors) |
| EOAE | evozierte otoakustische Emissionen |
| EOC | Earth Observation Center (DLR, Neustrelitz) |
| E-OCVM | European Operational Concept Validation Methodology (Flugverkehr/air traffic) |
| EOD | e-Books on Demand |
| EOE | Equal Opportunity Employer |
| EOF | Empirical Orthogonal Function |
| EOF | End of File |
| EOG | Elektrooculogramm, Electrooculogram |
| EOL | End of Life |
| EOMAP | Earth Observation and Mapping |
| EoMPLS | Ethernet over MPLS |
| EON | Enhanced Other Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EOP | Earth Observation Programmes |
| EORTC | European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer |
| EOS | Earth Observing System (or: Satellite) (NASA) |
| EOS | Earth, Oceans, and Space (Institute, New Hampshire, USA) |
| EOS | Electrical Overstress |
| EOS | Equation of State |
| EOS | European Optical Society |
| EOSAM | European Optical Society Annual Meeting |
| EOSDIS | Earth Observing System Data Information System |
| EOT | Energy Optimized Tyre |
| EOTC | European Organization for Testing and Certification |
| EOTD | Enhanced Observed Time Difference (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| E-OTDR | Extended Optical Time Domain Reflectometry |
| EOU | Ease-of-Use |
| EO2Heaven | Earth Observation and Environmental Modelling for the Mitigation of Health Risks (EU project) |
| EP | Europäisches Parlament |
| EP | Executive Plan |
| EPA | Eicosapentaensäure (Omega-3-Fettsäure) |
| ePA | elektronische Patientenakte |
| ePA | elektronischer Personalausweis |
| EPA | Environment(al) Protection Agency (in vielen Ländern/in many countries) |
| EPA | Europäisches Patentamt (München) |
| EPA | European Pressphoto Agency |
| EPAA | European Partnership on Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing |
| EPAD | Electronically Programmable Analog Device |
| EPAS | Electronic Power Assisted Steering (Kfz/motor vehicle) |
| EPB | Electric Power Boost (Kfz/motor vehicle) |
| EPB | Electronic Parking Brake, elektronische Parkbremse |
| EPBD | Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EU-Richtlinie) |
| EPC | Electronic Power Conditioner |
| EPC | Electronic Product Code (in the RFID) |
| EPC | Enhanced Packet Core |
| EPC | Enhanced Power Control (Kfz/automobile) |
| EPC | European Payments Council |
| EPC | European Publishers Council |
| EpCAM | Epithelial Cell Adhesion Molecule |
| EPCC | Edinburgh Parallel Computing (or: Compute) Centre (Scotland) |
| EPCCGU | Estación Polar Cientifica Conjunta Glaciar Unión |
| EPD | Environmental Product Declarations |
| EPDB | European Energy Performance of Buildings Directive |
| EPDC | Electronics Product Develoment Centre (Philippinen) |
| ePDG | Evolved Packet Data Gateway |
| EPEA | Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency |
| EPEAT | Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool |
| EPFD | Equivalent Power Flux Density (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EPFL | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
| EPG | Electronic Program(ming) Guide (Digitalrundfunk/digital broadcast) |
| EPHY | Ethernet Physical Transceiver |
| EPI | Eastern Pacific Investigations of Climate |
| EPI | Echo Planar Imaging (MRI) |
| EPIA | European Photovoltaic Industry Association |
| EPIC | Electronic and Photonic Integrated Circuits |
| EPIC | Electronic Privacy Information Center (Bürgerrechtsgruppe) |
| EPIC | European Photon Imaging Camera (XMM) |
| EPIC | European Photonics Industry Consortium |
| EPIC | European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition Study |
| EPICA | European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica |
| EPL | Ethernet Private Line |
| EPiQS | Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems |
| EPL | Europhysics Letters |
| EPLA | European Patent Litigation Agreement |
| EPNER | Ecole du Personnel Navigant d'Essai et de Reception |
| EPNL, EPNdB | Effective Perceived Noise Level |
| EPO | Education and Public Outreach (University of Oregon, USA, Physics Department) |
| EPO | Erythropoietin |
| EPO | European Patent Office (München, DE) |
| EPON | Ethernet Passive Optical Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EPOS | European Plate Observing System |
| EPOS | European Proximity Operations Simulator (DLR Oberpfaffenhoven, Satelliten-Reparatur) |
| EPOS | European PTT Open Learning Service |
| EPPO | European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization |
| EPR | Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen(-Paradoxon/paradox) |
| EPR | Electron Paramagnetic Resonance |
| EPR | Enhanced Permeability and Retention (effect) |
| EPR | European Pressurised Water Reactor (Kernreaktor, geplant für/nuclear reactor, planned for 2011 in Finland) |
| EPRE | Energy per Resource Element (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EPRI | Electron Parametric Resonance Imaging |
| EPRINT | Electronic Print Server for Research Information on Natural Science and Technology |
| EPROM | Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory |
| EPS | Earth, Planets and Space (Journal) |
| EPS | Encapsulated Postscript [Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei/file name extension: graphic file] |
| EPS | Electronic Power Steering (Kfz/motor vehicle) |
| EPS | Elektropneumatische Schaltung (Kfz/motor vehicle) |
| EPS | Encapsulated Postscript |
| EPS | Eumetsat Polar System |
| EPS | European Physical Society |
| EPS | European Polar Satellite |
| EPS | Evolved Packet System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EPS | Expandierter Polystyrol-Hartschaum (zur Wärmedämmung) |
| EPSC | European Planetary Science Congress |
| EPSC | Excitatory Postsynaptic Conductance (Neurologie/neurology) |
| epSOS | Smart Open Services for European Patients |
| EPSRC | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK) |
| EPTA | European Pulsar Timing Array (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| EPU | End-of-Pipe–Umweltschutz |
| EPÜ | Europäisches Patentübereinkommen |
| EPWS | European Platform of Women Scientists |
| EPXMA | Electron Probe X-Ray Microanalysis |
| EQ | Enzephalisationsquotient (Hirnforschung/brain research) |
| EQE | External Quantum Efficiency (e.g., of solar cells) |
| EQEC | European Quantum Electronics Conference |
| eQtv | e-Qualifikations-TV (für den Mittelstand/qualification for the middle class) |
| EQUIP | Equality in Publishing |
| ER | Edge Router (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ER | Eritrea (ISO 3166) |
| ER | Event Reporting |
| ER | Extinction Ratio |
| ERA | Eigensystem Realization Algorithm |
| ERA | European Research Area |
| ERA | Excellence in Research for Australia |
| ERAB | European Research Area Board |
| ERAM | Electronic Research Archive for Mathematics (DFG project) |
| ERASMUS | European Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students |
| ERATO | Etude d'un Rotor Aéroacoustique Technologiquement Optimale |
| ERATO | Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology Program (JRDC) |
| ERB | Equivalent Rectangular Bandwidth (hearing research) |
| ERBE | Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (Klimaforschung/climate research) |
| ERBS | Earth Radiation Budget Satellite |
| ERC | Engineering Research Center |
| ER-C | Ernst Ruska-Centrum (FZJ) |
| ERC | European Research Council (Bruxelles, BE) |
| ERCIM | European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics |
| ERCOFTAC | European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence and Combustion |
| ERCOT | Electric Reliability Council of Texas (USA) |
| ERDA | US Energy Research and Development Administration |
| ERDF | European Regional Development Fund |
| ERE | Energy Reuse Effectiveness |
| ERES | ESA Rams Expert System (Software) |
| ERF | Electrorheological Fluid |
| E-RGCH | Enhanced [Uplink] Relative Grant Channel |
| ERGO | European Research Gateways On-Line |
| ERIC | European Research Infrastructure Consortium |
| ERIS | External Region Integrity System (Galileo) |
| ERISA | European Regional Information Society Association |
| ERL | Energy Recovery Linac (CLASSE) |
| ER&L | Electronic Resources & Libraries (Conference series) |
| ERLE | Echo Return Loss Enhancement |
| ERM | Earth Resource Mapping |
| ERM | e-Resource Management |
| ERNE | Energetic and Relativistic Nuclei and Electron Experiment (an Bord von/aboard SOHO) |
| ERO | European Research Office (of US Army, in London, GB) |
| ERO | Explicit Route Object (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EROS | Earth Resources Observation System |
| eRosita | Extended Roentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array (Röntgenteleskop/X-ray telescope) |
| ERP | Effective Radiation (or: Radiated) Power (Sender/transmitter) |
| ERP | Energy Resource Planning |
| ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning |
| ERP | Event-Related Potential (Neurologie/Neuroscience) |
| ERS | European Remote Sensing Satellite |
| ERSAP | European Road Safety Action Programme |
| ErSE | Earth Sciences and Engineering (KAUST) |
| ERSI | Environment and Remote Sensing Institute (Harare, Simbabwe) |
| ERT | External Review Committee |
| ERTMS | European Rail Transport Management System (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| ertPS | Enhanced Real-Time Packet Service (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ERTRAC | European Road Transport Research Advisory Council |
| ERV | Earth Return Vehicle (bemannte Raumfahrt/manned spacecraft) |
| ES | Embryonale Stammzelle |
| ES | Expert System |
| ES | Spanien/Spain (ISO 3166) |
| ESA | Endangered Species Act (USA) |
| ESA/ASE | European Space Agency / Agence spatiale européenne |
| ESA BIC | ESA Business Incubation Center |
| ESAC | Efficiency and Standards for Artcicle Charges (open access literature) |
| ESAU | Electronic Subscriber Access Unit (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ESB | Environmental Specimen Bank |
| ESC | Elektronisches Stabilisierungsprogramm (Kfz) |
| ESC | European Society of Cardiology |
| ESCA | Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis |
| ESCA | European Speech Communication Association |
| ESCHILO | Esperimento di Schermatura in Low Orbit (Raumfahrt, Schirmungsexperiment/spacecraft, shielding experiment) |
| ESCON | Enterprise Systems Connections (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ESCPE | Ecole de Chimie, Physique et Electronique (Lyon, FR) |
| ESCU | Enhanced Services Control Unit (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ESD | Electrostatic Discharge |
| ESD | Expert System Development |
| ESDA | Engineering Systems Design and Analysis (ASME, Biennial Conference Series) |
| ESDA | Electronic Systems Design Automation |
| ESDAC | European Soil Data Centre |
| ESDIAD | Electron-Stimulated Desorption Ion Angular Distribution |
| ESDM | Early Start Denver Model (Autismus-Therapie) |
| ESE | Exonic Splicing Enhancer (Genetik/genetics) |
| ESE | Expo-Sciences Europe (Annual Exhibition and Meeting) |
| ESF | EUREKA Software Factory |
| ESF | European Science Foundation (seit/since 1974) |
| ESFRI | European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures |
| ESG | Electronic Service Guide (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ESG | Enterprise Strategy Group |
| ESG | Evangelische Studierenden-Gemeinde |
| esh | equivalent sun hours (Bestrahlungsstärke) |
| ESI | Elektronenspray-Ionisation |
| eSI | elektronischer Sicherheitsinspektor |
| ESIME | Escuela Superior de Ingenería Mecánica y Electrica (Mexico City) |
| ESIU | Environmental and Spatial Informatics Unit (of SEPA) |
| ESK | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Eingebettete Systeme und Kommunikationstechnik (München) |
| ESL | ESA Simulation Language (Software) |
| ES-Laser | Eckige-Schraube-Laser |
| ESM | Electrochemical Strain Microscopy |
| ESM | Embedded Server Module |
| ESM | Europäischer Stabilitätsmechanismus |
| ESMF | Earth System Modelling Framework |
| E-SMF | Enhanced SMF |
| ESMT | European School of Management and Technology (Berlin, DE) |
| ESMVal | Earth System Model Validation (DLR-Messkampagne) |
| ESNC | European Satellite Navigation Competition |
| ESnet | Energy Science Network |
| ESO | ESSI Service Organization |
| ESO | European Southern Observatory, Europäische Organisation für astronomische Forschung in der südlichen Hemisphäre (Garching) |
| ESOC | European Space Operations Centre (Darmstadt, DE) |
| ESOF | Euro(pean) Science Open Forum |
| ESOFTA | Embedded Software Association |
| ESONE | [Committee for] European Studies on Norms for Electronics |
| ESOPS | European Symposium on Polymer Spectroscopy |
| ESP | Electronic Stability Program, elektronisches Stabilitätsprogramm (Kfz/motor vehicle) |
| ESP | Embedded Signal Processing (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ESP | Equal-Spin-Pairing (superconductivity) |
| ESP | Extrasensory Perception |
| ESPCI | Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles [de la Ville de Paris] |
| ESPI | Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometry |
| ESPI | European Space Policy Institute |
| ESPON | European Spatial Planning Observation Network |
| ESPRI | Elektronenspringstrahlanlage |
| ESPRIT | Estimation of Signal Parameters via Rotational Invariance Techniques |
| ESPRIT | European Strategic Programme for Research and Development in Information Technology |
| ESR | Electrical Substitution Radiometer |
| ESR | Electron Spin Resonance, Elektronenspinresonanz |
| ESR | Experimentier-Speicher-Ring (bei der/at the GSI, Darmstadt) |
| ESRAB | European Security Research Advisory Board |
| ESRANGE | European Space Range (SE) |
| ESRF | European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (Grenoble, FR) |
| ESRIF | European Security Research and Innovation Forum (since September 2008) |
| ESRIN | European Space Research Institute |
| ESRL | Earth System Research Laboratory (at NOAA) |
| ESRO | European Space Research Organization |
| ESS | Earth and Space Science |
| ESS | Earth System Science |
| ESS | Electro-Seismic Signals (für Erbebenvorhersage/for earthquake forecast) |
| ESS | Ethernet Service Switch |
| ESS | European Spallation Source (Jülich, DE, and Lund, Sweden) |
| ESSA | Every Student Succeeds Act (USA) |
| ESSC | Earth Systems Science (research program, Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
| ESSCIRC | European Solid-State Circuit Conference |
| ESSI | European Software and Systems Initiative |
| ESSIC | Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (University of Maryland, USA) |
| ESSID | Extended Service Set Identifier (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ESSL | European Severe Storms Laboratory |
| EST | Eastern Standard Time (Zeitzone/time zone, USA, GMT–5) |
| EST | European Solar Telescope (geplant/planned) |
| EST | Expressed Sequence Tags (Genetik/genetics) |
| ESTA | European Science and Technology Assembly |
| ESTB | EGNOS System Test Bed |
| ESTEC | European Space Research and Technology Centre (Noordwijk, NL) |
| EST&H | Environment, Science, Technology, and Health |
| ESTO | European Science and Technology Observatory (EC) |
| ESTW | Elektronisches Stellwerk (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| ESWD | [Europäische Umwelt-Datenbank] (ESSL) |
| ESWL | Extracorporal Shockwave Lithotripsy |
| ESYS | Energiesysteme der Zukunft (Akademienprojekt) |
| E.T. | Einstein [Gravitational Wave] Telescope |
| ET | Äthiopien/Ethiopia (ISO 3166) |
| ET | Envelope Tracking (Hüllkurvendetektor) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ET | Ephemeris Time (since 1960, later on: TT) |
| ET | Extended Transmission (filter) |
| ETACS | European Total Access Communication System |
| ETAI | European Technology Assessment Infrastructue (EC) |
| ETAN | European Technology Assessment Network (EC) |
| ETANN | Electrically Trainable Artificial Neural Network |
| ETAP | Environmental Technology Action Plan (EU) |
| ETBE | Ethyl-tert-butylether |
| ETC | Electronic Toll Collection System (Einzugssystem für Mautgebühren) |
| ETC | [Action Group on] Erosion, Technology and Concentration (CA) |
| ETC | Executable Test Case (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ETCS | European Train Control System (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| ETD | Electronic Tuning Device |
| ETD | Eye Tracking Device |
| ETDM | Electric(al) (or: Electronic) Time Division Multiplexing (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| ETECAL | Electronically Tunable External Cavity Laser Diode |
| ETFE | Ethylen-Tetrafluorethylen |
| ETG | European Tripartite Group |
| ETH | Ethernet |
| EThOS | Electronic Theses Online Service |
| ETHOS | Engineers in Technical and Humanitarian Opportunities of Service |
| ETH(Z) | Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Zürich, CH) |
| ETI | Electrotechnology Industry Database |
| ETI | Ensemble Transport Interface (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ETI | European Teraflops Initiative |
| ETIC | Europäisches Technologie- und Innovations-Centrum (Kaiserslautern) |
| eTIN | Electronic Taxpayer Identification Number |
| ETLA | Extended Three-Letter Acronyms |
| ETLS | Extended Least Squares (Algorithmus/algorithm) |
| ETM | Enhanced Turbulence Modelling |
| ETMS | Enterprise Translational Medicine Solution |
| ETO | Engineering to Order |
| ETP | European Technology Platform |
| ETP-SMR | European Technology Platform on Sustainable Mineral Resources |
| ETPS | Empire Test Pilots' School (GB) |
| ETP4HTP | European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing |
| ETR | Extended Temperature Range |
| ETS | Ecole de Technologie Supérieure (CA) |
| ETS | Educational Testing Service (Princeton, NJ, USA) |
| ETS | Emission Trading Scheme (Umweltschutz, Emissionshandel/environment conservation, emission trade) |
| ETS | Episodic Tremor and Slip (plate tectonics) |
| ETS | European Test Services (bei/at ESTEC) |
| ETS | Executable Test Suite (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ETSI | European Telecommunications Standards Institute (seit/since 1988) |
| ETSPL | Equivalent Threshold Sound Pressure Level |
| ETSU | East Tennessee State University (USA) |
| ETUCE | European Trade Union Committee for Education |
| ETW | Europäischer Transsonischer (Transschall-)Windkanal, European Transonic Windtunnel (Köln) |
| ETZ, etz | Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift |
| EU | European Union; Europäische Union |
| EUA | European Union Allowance (Umweltschutz, Emissionshandel/environment conservation, emission trade) |
| EUC | End User Computing |
| EUCAS | European Conference on Applied Superconductivity/Europäische Konferenz |
| zur Angewandten Supraleitung/European Conference on Applied Superconductivity] |
| EUCD | European Union Copyright Directive |
| EUCLIPSE | Eureopean Cloud Intercomparison, Process Study and Evaluation Project (climate research) |
| EU COST | European Cooperation in Science and Technology |
| EUCOR | Europäische Konföderation der Oberrheinischen Universitäten |
| Eu:CROPIS | Euglena and Confined Regenerative Organic-Food Production in Space (DLR project) |
| EUCYS | European Union Contest for Young Scientists |
| EUDAT | European Data Project |
| EU-DEEP | European Distributed Energy Partnership |
| EUFAR | European Fleet for Airborne Research |
| EUFOR | European Union Force (seit 21.12.2004/since Dec. 21, 2004, vorher/formerly: SFOR) |
| EuGH | Europäischer Gerichtshof |
| EUL | Enhanced Uplink |
| EuMEA | Europe, Middle East, and Asia |
| EUMETSAT | European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
| EUNEFRON | European Network for the Study of Orphan Nephropathies |
| EUNET | European Unix Network |
| EUPEN | European Physics Education Network (EPS) |
| EUPL | European Union Public Licence |
| EUPRO | European Union of Physics Research Organizations |
| EURAB | European Research Advisory Board |
| EURASIP | European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing |
| EURATOM | European Atomic Energy Community |
| EURCA | European Resource Centre for Alternatives in Higher Education |
| EURECA | European Retrievable Carrier (europäisches Weltraumlabor/European space laboratory) |
| EUREKA | European Research Coordination Agency |
| EURIBOR | Euro Interbank Offered Rate (Bankgeschäfte) |
| EuroAce | European Alliance of Companies for Energy Efficiency in Buildings |
| EUROCAE | European Organisation for Civil Aviation Equipment |
| EUROCARE | Euopean Cancer Registry-Based Study on Survival and Care of Cancer Patients |
| EUROCONTROL | [Europäische Organisation für die Sicherheit im Flugverkehr/European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation] |
| EUROGENE | European Renal Genome Project |
| EUROGI | European Umbrella Organization for Geo Information |
| EuroHORCs | European Union Research Organisations – Heads of Research Councils |
| EUROMAR | [Überwachung und Schutz der europäischen Meere/monitoring and protection of European seas] |
| EUROMAT | European Congress on Advanced Materials and Processes |
| Euromech | European Mechanics Colloquium |
| EUROMET | European Collaboration on Measurement Standards, European Metrology Organization |
| Euro-NCAP | European New Car Assessment Program |
| EuroNGI | European Next Generation Internet |
| EUROSCIENCE | A European Association for the Promotion of Science and Technology |
| EUROSOLAR | [Europäische Vereinigung für Erneuerbare Energien/European union for renewable energies] |
| EUROTRAC | [Erfassung von Schadstoffen in der Troposphäre/monitoring of pollutants in the troposphere] |
| EURYI | European Young Investigator (Award, given by the European Science Foundation) |
| EUSCEA | European Science Events Association |
| EUSIPCO | European Signal Processing Conference |
| EUSIS | European Soil Information System |
| EUSO | Extreme Universe Space Observatory (neutrino detector) |
| EUT | Equipment Under Test |
| Eutelsat | European Telecommunications Satellite Organization |
| EUTRA | Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access |
| EUTRAN | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EUV | Extreme Ultraviolet, Extremes Ultraviolett (λ ≤ 912 Å, Lyman-Kante/Lyman edge) |
| EUVE | Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (Satellit/satellite) |
| EUVL | Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography, EUV-Lithographie |
| e.V. | eingetragener Verein |
| EV | Electric Vehicle |
| EV | Enhanced Voice Packet (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EVA | Economic Value Add |
| EVA | Extravehicular Activity |
| eVADER | Electric Vehicle Alert for Detection and Emergency Response (EU project) |
| EVC | Electronic Valve Control (Kfz-Technik/internal combustion engine) |
| EVC | Ethernet Virtual Connection (or: Circuit) |
| EVC | European Vital Computer (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| EVCAM | European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods |
| EVER | European Association for Vision and Eye Research |
| EVG | Elektronisches Vorschaltgerät |
| EVI | Engineering Video Intelligence |
| EVM | Error Vector Magnitude (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| EVN | European VLBI Network |
| EvoDevo | Evolutionary Developmental Biology, evolutionäre Entwicklungsbiologie |
| EVOH | Ethylen-Vinylalkohol-Copolymer |
| EVOP | Evolutionary Operation |
| EVPL | Ethernet Virtual Private Line |
| EVPLAN | Ethernet Virtual Private LAN |
| EVR | Eigenvalue Ratio |
| EVREST | Evoked Response Study Tool |
| EVS | Energieversorgungssystem (Satellit/satellite) |
| EVS | Enhanced Voice Service |
| EVTS | Enhanced VFR Transport System (VFR: Visual Flight Rules) |
| EVU | Energieversorgungsunternehmen (früher/formerly: Elektrizitätsversorgungsunternehmen) |
| EWB | Einwegbehälter |
| EWB | Electronic Wedge Brake (für Autos/for cars) |
| EWBS | Emergency Warning Broadcasting System |
| EWEA | European Wind Energy Association |
| EWeLiNE | Erstellung innovativer Wetter- und Leistungsprognosemodelle für die Netzintegration wetterabhängiger Energieträger |
| EWF | European Federation for Welding, Joining and Cutting |
| EWG | Europäische Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft |
| EWOD | Electrowetting-on-Dielectric System |
| EWR | Europäischer Wirtschaftsraum |
| EWS | Emergency Warning System |
| EWSK | East-West Station Keeping (Satelliten/satellites) |
| EWSN | European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks |
| EWT | Emitter-Wrap-Through (Fotovoltaik-Zelle/photovoltaic cell) |
| EWTF | East-West Task Force (EPS) |
| EWvK | Entwicklungsgesellschaft für die Wiederverwendung von Kunststoffen |
| Exa.. | Exa (Präfix/prefix): 1018} |
| ExAC | Exome Aggregation Consortium |
| EXAFS | Extended X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure |
| EXE | [Dateinamenerweiterung: ausführbares Programm/file name extension: executable program] |
| Excimer | Excited Dimer (Laser) |
| EXO | Enriched Xenon Observatory |
| EXP | Experimental |
| EXPERT | European Experimental Reentry Testbed (Raumkapsel/space vehicle) |
| EXPY | Expressway (US Mail) |
| ExWoSt | Experimenteller Wohnungs- und Städtebau |
| EYCI | European Year of Creativity and Innovation (2009) |
| EZB | Europäische Zentralbank |
| EZfM | Europäisches Zentrum für Medienkompetenz (Marl) |
| EZMW | Europäisches Zentrum für mittelfristige Wettervorhersage (Reading, UK) (= ECMWF) |
| EZN | Erfinderzentrum Norddeutschland |
| EZRT | [Fraunhofer-] Entwicklungszentrum für Röntgentechnik (am IIS, Fürth) |
| e2e | End-to-End |
| E2R | End-to-End Reconfigurability |
| E3 | effizient – emissionsneutral – Einbindung Mensch (bessere industrielle Produktion, Fraunhofer-Projekt) |
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| f... | Femto... (Präfix/prefix): 10-15 |
| FA | Fachausschuss |
| FA | Factor Analysis |
| FA | Failure Analysis |
| FA | False Acceptance (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| Fa. | Firma |
| FA | Foreign Agent (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FAA | Federal Aviation Administration (USA) |
| FAARM | Facility for the Acquisition and Assay for Radiopure Materials (USA) |
| FAB | Fast Atom Bombardment (Massenspektrometer/mass spectrometer) |
| FAB | Forwarding Agency Builder (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FAB | Fulfillment, Assurance and Billing (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FAB | Functional Airspace Block |
| FABEC | Functional Airspace Block Europe Central |
| FACA | Federal Advisory Committee Act (USA, 1972) |
| FACE | Facility for Attitude Control Experiments (DLR, Bremen, DE) |
| FACE | Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (Klimaforschung/climate research) |
| FACE | Friendly Aircraft Cabin Environment (EU project) |
| FACET | Fast Analog Computing with Emergent Transition States |
| FACT | Fuels from Agriculture in Communal Technology (foundation) |
| FACTOR | Full Aerothermal Combustion–Turbine Interaction Research |
| FAD | Flavin-Adenin-Dinukleotid (Biochemie) |
| FAD | Function Access Domain (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FaDaF | Fachverband Deutsch als Fremdsprache |
| FADE | Framework for Auditory Discrimination Experiments |
| FADS | Flush Air Data System (Raumkapsel/spacecraft) |
| FAE | Field Application Engineer |
| FAEST | Fast A Posteriori Error Sequential Technique (Algorithmus/algorithm) |
| FAFA | Fachausschuss Fahrzeugakustik (DEGA) |
| FAGI | Future Air Ground Integration (Flugverkehr/air traffic) |
| FAI | Food Allergy Initiative (New York, NY, USA) |
| FAIFC | Fast Algorithms in Feedback Control (Algorithmus/algorithm) |
| FAIR | Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe GmbH (Darmstadt, DE) |
| FAIR | Fahrwerk/Antrieb-Integration ins Rad (Elektroauto) |
| FAL | Bundesforschungsanstalt für Landwirtschaft (Braunschweig) |
| FAMA | Fachausschuss „Musikalische Akustik“ (DEGA) |
| FAMOS | flexible automatisierte Montagesysteme |
| FANPAC | Fan Noise Prediction and Control (EU Forschungsprojekt/research project) |
| FANTASIA | Flexible and Near-Net-Shaped Generative Manufacturing Chains and Repair Techniques for Complex Shaped Aero Engine Parts (EU project, until May 2010) |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization (UN) |
| FAPESP | Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (BR) |
| FAPP | For all practical purposes |
| FAPS | [Lehrstuhl für] Fertigungsautomatisierung und Produktionssystematik (Univ. Erlangen–Nürnberg) |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions |
| FARS | Fatality Analysis Reporting System (US Datenbank/data bank) |
| FAS | Facility Associated Signaling (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FAS | Fahrerassistenzsystem (Kfz) |
| FAS | Federation of American Scientists (seit/since 1945, gegen Atomwaffen/against atomic weapons) |
| FAS | Fettalkoholsulfat |
| FAS | Flankarray Sonar |
| F.A.S. | Free Alongside Ship (Handelsverkehr/trade) |
| FASE | Federation of the Acoustical Societies of Europe |
| FASPIS | Fast Algorithms Secondary Path Integration Scheme (Algorithmus/algorithm) |
| FAST | Fast Auroral Snapshot (Satellit/satellite, USA) |
| FAST | Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (China) |
| FAST | Forecasting and Assessment in the Field of Science and Technology |
| FAST | Foundation for Assistive Technology |
| FAST | Fraunhofer Approach for Software Testing |
| FAST | Future Automotive Industry Structure |
| Fast20XX | Future High-Altitude High-Speed Transport (EU project) |
| FAT | File Allocation Table |
| FAT | Final Acceptance Test (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| FATCA | Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act |
| FATSS | Fachausschuss Technischer Schall- und Schwingungsschutz (in der DEGA) |
| FAU | Florida Atlantic University |
| FAU | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (Erlangen-Nürnberg) |
| FAW | Flexible Automatisierte Waferproduktion |
| FAX | Facsimile, Faksimile |
| FAZ | Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung |
| FB | Fachbereich |
| FB | Frequency Correction Burst (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FB | Function Block (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FBA | Fair Buffer Allocation (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FBA | Freshwater Biological Association (UK) |
| FBG | Fiber Bragg Grating (Glasfaser/glass fiber) |
| fBGF | Fibroblast Growth Factor |
| FBH | Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (Berlin) |
| FBK | [Bruno Kessler Foundation] (FR) |
| FBMC | Filter Bank Multi Carrier (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FBNML | Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA) |
| FBP | Fast Back Propagation (Algorithmus/algorithm) |
| FBR | Fachbereichsrat |
| FBR | Fast Burst Reactor (Kernreaktor/nuclear reactor) |
| FBR | Forschungsberichte Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Datenbank/data bank) |
| FBW | Fly by Wire (Flugzeugsteuerung/aircraft control) |
| FC | Fiber Channel |
| FC | Fuel Cell (= BZ, Brennstoffzelle) |
| FCA | Fixed Capacity Agreement (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FCAPS | Fault(-Mangement) Configuration, Accounting, Performance and Security |
| FCASST | Florida Cluster for Advanced Smart Sensor Technologies (at USF) |
| FCC | Face-Centered Cubic (Gitter/lattice) |
| FCC | Federal Communication(s) Commission (USA) |
| FCC | Flight Control Computer |
| FCCC | Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN) |
| FCCH | Frequency Correction Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FCCSET | Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (USA) |
| FCD | Floating Car Data (zur Verkehrslenkung/for traffic control system) |
| FCEPS | Fuel Cell Emergency Power System (Flugzeug/aircraft) |
| FCFS | First-Come, First-Serve |
| FCH | Frame Control Header (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FCH | Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Initiative (EU) |
| FCHAMP | Fractionally Charged Massive Particle |
| FCHB | Fuell Cell Hybrid Bus |
| FCI | Force Concept Inventory (physics education) |
| FCKW | Fluorchlorkohlenwasserstoff |
| FCP | Forschungsgemeinschaft China-Philatelie |
| FCP | Forward Commitment Procurement (UK innovation initiative) |
| FCPPL | France–China Particle Physics Laboratory |
| FCPS | Fuel Cell Propulsion System |
| FCS | Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy |
| FCS | Frame Check Sequence (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FCT | Fixed Cellular Terminal (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FCT | Flugkompatibilitätstest |
| FCV | Fuel Cell Vehicle |
| FD | Forced Degradation (Chemie/chemistry) |
| FDA | Food and Drug (or: Drink) Administration (USA) |
| FDA | Fused Deposition Modeling (polymer shaping method) |
| FDAC | Frequency Domain Assurance Criterion |
| FDBS | Federated Database System |
| FDC | Floppy-Disk-Controller |
| FDD | Frequency Division (or: Domain) Duplex (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FDD | Frequency Domain Decomposition |
| FDDI | Fiber Distributed (or: Digital) Data Interface |
| FDEM | Frequency Dependent Electromagnetic Sensor |
| FDH | Fibre Distribution Hub |
| FDHS | Field Deployable Hydrolysis System (Chemiewaffen-Abbau/chemical weapon destruction) |
| FDI | Feeder Distribution Interface (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FDI | Forward Defect Indication (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FDIP | Fieldbus Device Implementation Package |
| FDIS | Final Draft International Standard |
| FDL | Fiber Delay Line |
| FDL | Flight Dynamics Laboratory |
| FDLP | Frequency-Domain Linear Prediction |
| FDM | Finite Difference Method |
| FDM | Frequency Division Multiplexing |
| FDM | Fused Deposition Modeling (polymer shaping method) |
| FDMA | Frequency Division Multiple Access |
| F.D.P. | Freie Demokratische Partei |
| FDR | Final Design Report (or: Review) |
| FDR | Fourteen Data Rate (14.0625 Gb/s) |
| FDRQ | Floppycontroller-Data-Request |
| FDT | Fieldbus Device Tool |
| FDT | Fluctuation Dissipation Theorem |
| FDT | fotodynamische Therapie |
| FDTD | Finite-Difference Time-Domain (Analyse, Simulation/analysis, simulation) |
| FE | Fast Ethernet (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FEA | Field Emitter Array (Bildwandler/image converter) |
| FEA | Finite Element Analysis |
| FEAP | Federation of European Aquaculture Producers (Meeresfischerei/sea fishing) |
| FEAT | Fusion Energy Advanced Tokamak (feat auch engl. "Meisterstück'') |
| FEC | Fest-Elektrolyt-Coulometrie |
| FEC | Field Element Controller |
| FEC | Forward Error Correction (Datenübertragung/data transmission) |
| FEC | Forward(ing) Equivalence Class (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FEC | Full Economic Cost |
| FECC | Forward Error Correcting Code (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FED | Field-Emission Display |
| FED | Forum on Education (APS) |
| FedEx | Federal Express (USA) |
| FEG | Field Emission Gun |
| FEHRL | Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories |
| FEIS | Final Environmental Impact Statement |
| FEL | Free Electron Laser, Freie-Elektronen-Laser |
| FELASOFI | Federation of Latin American Physical Societies |
| FELD | Future Environment Laboratory Domain |
| FELI | Free Electron Laser Research Institute (Osaka, Japan) |
| FELICITAS | Fuel Cell Power Trains and Clustering in Heavy-Duty Transports |
| FEM | Finite Element Method (or: Model) |
| FEM | Front-End-Modul |
| FEMA | Federal Emergency Management Agency (USA) |
| FEMS | Federation of European Microbiological Societies |
| FENIX | Flexible Electricity Networks to Integrate the Expected Energy Evolution |
| FEP | Fluorethylenpropylen |
| FEP | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Organische Elektronik, Elektronenstrahl- und Plasmatechnik (Dresden) |
| FEPA | Failure of the Explanted Prostheses Analysis |
| FER | Frame Erasure (or: Error) Rate (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FER | Fusion Experimental Reactor (Naka, Japan) |
| FERC | Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (USA) |
| FERMI | Free Electron Laser for Multidisciplinary Investigations (Trieste, IT) |
| FERP | Faculty Early Retirement Program (California State University) |
| FERPA | Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (Datenschutzgesetz für Schülerdaten, 1974) |
| FES | Fusion Energy Sciences (DOE Office, USA) |
| FESAC | Fusion Energy Science Advisory Committee (DoE, USA) |
| FE-SEM | Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope |
| FET | Field Effect Transistor, Feldeffekttransistor |
| FET | Future and Emerging Technologies (European Commission) |
| FE-TEM | Field Emission TEM |
| FETT | Feature Extraction Toolbox for Transients |
| FEWS | Fibre-Optic Evanescent Wave Sensing |
| FEXT | Far-End Crosstalk |
| FF | Foundation Fieldbus |
| FFA | Fusiform Face Area (im Gehirn/in the brain) |
| FFAG | Fixed-Field Alternating Gradient (Synchrotron) |
| FFD | Fast Failure Detection |
| FFF | Feldflussfraktionierung |
| FFLO | [Peter] Fulde, [Richard] Ferrell, [Anatoly] Larkin, [Yurii] Ovchinnikov (state, Festkörperphysik/solid state physics, = LOFF) |
| FFM | [Material] Failure Forecast Method (Vulkanismus/volcanism) |
| FFM | Fixed Frequency Mode (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FFO | Flugforschungsinstitut Oberpfaffenhofen |
| FF&P | Falsification, Fabrication of Results, Plagiarism (Fälschung und Täuschung in der Wissenschaft/in science) |
| FFPE | Formalin Fixed, Paraffin Embedded (molecular analysis) |
| FFR | Frequency Following Response (on noise pollution) |
| FFR[&]DC | Federally Funded Research and Development Centers |
| FFT | Fast Fourier Transform |
| FFT | Free Field Technologies |
| FFTB | Final Focus Test Beam (SLAC) |
| FG | Fachgremium (DPG etc.) |
| FGAN | Forschungsgesellschaft für Angewandte Naturwissenschaften e.V. (seit 2008 in Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft integriert) |
| FGDC | Federal Geographic Data Committeee (USA) |
| FGF | Fibroblast Growth Factor, Fibroblasten-Wachstumsfaktor |
| FGFR | Fibroblast Growth Factor-Receptor |
| FGK | Forschungsgesellschaft Kunststoffe |
| FGL | Formgedächtnislegierung |
| FGM | Functionally Graded Material (Keramik–Metall/ceramics–metal) |
| FGSA | Forum on Graduate Student Affairs (APS) |
| FGSV | Forschungsgesellschaft für Straßen- und Verkehrswesen |
| FH | Fachhochschule |
| FhAZ | Fraunhofer-Anwendungszentrum |
| FHD | Flame Hydrolysis Deposition (Waferherstellung/wafer production) |
| FHE | Fully Homomorphic Encryption |
| FhG | Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft |
| FhM | Fraunhofer-Management-Gesellschaft mbH |
| FHNW | Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz |
| FHP | Forum on History of Physics (APS) |
| FHR | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Hochfrequenzphysik und Radartechnik (Wachtberg) |
| FHS | Flying Helicopter Simulator, Forschungshubschrauber (DLR) |
| FHS | Frequency Hop Synchronization (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FHSS | Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FHT | Fachhochschule für Technik (Esslingen) |
| FHT | Fast Hartley Transform |
| FHTW | Fachhochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (Berlin) |
| FhV-μE | Fraunhofer-Verbund Mikroelektronik |
| FHWA | Federal Highway Administration (USA) |
| FHWG | Fisheries Hydroacoustics Working Group (USA) |
| FI | Finnland/Finland (ISO 3166) |
| FIA | Federación Iberoamericana de Acústica |
| FIA | Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (Genf, CH) |
| FIA | Fibreoptic Industry Association (UK) |
| FIA | Fließinjektionsanlage (Mikrosystemtechnik/micro systems) |
| FIAP | Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics (APS, USA) |
| FIAS | Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (Frankfurt am Main, DE) |
| FIAT | Field Intelligence Agency, Technical |
| FIB | Focused Ion Beam |
| FIB | Forschungsinstitut Borstel, Institut für Experimentelle Biologie und Medizin |
| FIB | Forwarding Information Base (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FIBAA | Foundation for International Business Administration Accredititation |
| FIBO | Fibre-In – Beam-Out (Isolator: Photonik/photonics) |
| FIBS | First International Backgammon Server (Rechnernetz/computer network) |
| FICON | Federal Interagency Committee on Noise (USA, 1992) |
| FICON | Fiber (Channel) Connection (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| FICUN | Federal Interagency Committee on Urban Noise (USA, 1980) |
| FID | Flammen-Ionisations-Detektion |
| FIDIS | Future of Identity in the Information Society |
| FIDO | Field Integrated Design & Operations Rover (NASA, Marslandemission/Mars landing mission) |
| FIEC | [Verband der europäischen Bauindustrie, International European Construction Association] |
| FIF | Fahrzeugintelligenz und mechatronische Fahrwerke (DLR) |
| FIFA | Fédération Internationale de Football Association |
| FIFO | First In, First Out (Filter, System) |
| FIG | Facility for Interactive Generation of Graphics (UNIX) |
| FIGE | Forschungsinstitu, Feldionenmikroskopt für Geräusche und Erschütterungen (Herzogenrath oder Aachen) |
| FILIT | Fraunhofer-Innovationszentrum für Logistik und IT (Darmstadt) |
| FIM | Field Ion Microscope |
| FIM | Fisher Information Matrix |
| FIMP | Feebly Interacting Massive Particle |
| FIMS | Field Information Management System |
| FIND | Future Internet Network Design (USA) |
| FINEP | Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (BR) |
| FINESSE | Fast Infrared Exoplanet Spectroscopy Explorer (NASA, planned) |
| FINEX | Finish Exercise (underwater noise monitoring standard) |
| FiNut | Frauen in Naturwissenschaft und Technik |
| FIP | Fédération Internationale de Philatélie |
| FIP | Forum on International Physics (APS) |
| FI-PPP | Future Internet Public Private Partnership (EU project) |
| FIPS | Federal Information Processing Standard |
| FiPS | Früheinstieg ins Physikstudium |
| FIR | Far-Infrared |
| FIR | Finite Impulse Response (Digitalfilter/digital filter) |
| FIRAS | Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| FIRB | Far-Infrared Background (Astrophysics) |
| FIRE | Feedback in Realistic Environments (astronomy) |
| FIRE | Fusion-Ignition Research Experiment (Alternative zu/alternative of ITER, USA) |
| FIRE | Future Internet Research and Experimentation (EU project) |
| FireBIRD | Fire Bispectral Infrared Detector (Satelliten-Fernerkundung) |
| FIRST | Far Infrared Space (or: and Submillimetre) Telescope (IR Satellit/satellite) |
| FIRST | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik (Berlin) |
| FIS | Far-Infrared Surveyor (Astronomie/astronomy) |
| FIS | Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Senckenberg der SNG (Frankfurt/M) |
| FISCO | Fieldbus Intrinsically Safe Concept |
| FISH | Fluoreszenz-in-situ-Hybridisierung |
| FIT | Failures in Thousands of Hours |
| FIT | Failures in Time (Kommunikation/communication) |
| FiT | Frauen in der Technik e.V. |
| FIT | Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnik (St. Augustin) |
| FIT | Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnologie (Birlinghoven) |
| FIT | Future Information Technologies (at JARA) |
| FITL | Fibre In The Loop |
| FITS | [NASA-endorsed] Flexible Image Transport System |
| FIU | Florida International University (Miami, FL, USA) |
| FIW | Forschungsinstitut für Wärmeschutz |
| FIZ | Fachinformationszentrum (Karlsruhe) |
| FIZCH | Fachinformationszentrum Chemie (Berlin) |
| FIZKA | FIZ Karlsruhe, Gesellschaft für wissenschaftlich-technische Information (Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen) |
| FJ | Fidschi-Inseln/Fiji Islands (ISO 3166) |
| FJC | Freely Jointed Chain (Polymerphysik/polymer physics) |
| FK | Falkland-Inseln/Falkland Islands (ISO 3166) |
| FKE | Forschungsinstitut für Kinderernährung (Dortmund) |
| FKIE | [Fraunhofer-] Forschungsinstitut für Kommunikation, Informationsverarbeitung und Ergonomie (Wachtberg) |
| FKLG | Freikolbenlineargenerator |
| FKTG | Fernseh- und Kinotechnische Gesellschaft |
| FKV | Faser–Kunststoff–Verbundwerkstoff |
| FKW | Fluorkohlenwasserstoff (ohne Chlor/without chlorine) |
| FL | Floor (US Mail) |
| FL | Florida (US-Staat/US state) |
| FL | Fuzzy Logic |
| FLA | Forward Looking Activities (EU) |
| FLAG | Fibre Link Around the Globe (Glasfaserkabel/glass fiber cable UK-Europe-North Africa-India-Japan) |
| FLASH | Free Electron Laser in Hamburg (DE) |
| FLASHED | Flexible Large Area Sensors for Highly Enhanced Displays (FhG-Projekt) |
| FLAT | First Lady Astronaut Trainees |
| FLC | Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal |
| FLCD | FLC Display |
| FLIC | Flexible Interdigital Cuff Electrode |
| FLIM | Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy |
| FLIP | Floating Instrument Platform (Wasserschall-Messtechnik/hydroacoustic experimental facility) |
| FLL | Fibre in the Local Loop (optische Datenübertragung/optical data transmission) |
| FLO | Forward Link Only |
| FLOM | Fractional Lower Order Moment (algorithm) |
| FLOPs/s | Floating Point Operations per Second (Computer) |
| FLOWE | Field Laboratory for Optimized Wind Energy (Caltech) |
| FLOX | flammenlose Oxidation |
| FLS | Fluorescence Ligand Scanning |
| FluNet | Global Influenza Surveillance Network (WHO) |
| FLWO | Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (Arizona, USA) |
| FM | Facilities Management (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FM | Frequency Modulation, Frequenzmodulation |
| FM | Mikronesien (ISO 3166) |
| FMC | Fixed-Mobile Convergence (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FMCW | Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (Radar) |
| FMD | Fluorescent Multilayer Disk (optischer Datenspeicher/optical data storage) |
| FMD | Forward Multiplicity Detector (CERN) |
| FMEA | Fehlermöglichkeits- und Einflussanalyse, Failure Mode(s) and Effects Analysis |
| FMET | Failure Mode and Effects Testing |
| FMI | Fluorescent Microthermiographic Imaging |
| FMI | Functional Mock-Up Interface |
| FML | Faser–Metall–Laminat |
| FMO | Fenna-Matthews-Olson (Chlorophyllkomplex/chlorophyll complex) |
| FMO | Future Mode of Operation (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FMP | Flexible Material Plugin |
| FMP | Flow Management Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FMP | Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (Berlin) |
| FMR | Ferromagnetische Resonanz |
| fMRI | Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| fMRT | funktionale Magnetresonanztomographie |
| FMS | Fixed Monitoring Station (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FMS | Flight Management System (Flugverkehr/air traffic) |
| FMT | Frequency Mask Trigger, Frequenzmaskentrigger (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FNAL | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
| FNC | Federal Networking Council (Datennetze/data networks, USA) |
| fNMR | Functional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance |
| fNIRS | Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy |
| FNR | Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe |
| FNR | Forum for Negative Results |
| FNRS | [Belgian] Fonds National pour la Recherche Scientifique |
| FNS | Schweizer Nationalfonds (= SNF) |
| FNSF | Fusion Nuclear Science Facility |
| FNTF | Fast Newton Transversal Filter |
| FO | Färöer-Inseln/Faeroe Islands (ISO 3166) |
| FoaF | Friend of a Friend (Internet, Kommunikationsplattform/communication platform) |
| F.O.B., FOB | Free on Board (Handelsverkehr/trade) |
| FOC | Final Operational Capability (Galileo, 2010) |
| FOCAS | Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph (Astronomie/astronomy) |
| FOCS | Fiber-Optic Current Sensor |
| FOD | Flexible Optical Disk |
| FOEI | Friends of the Earth International (in Deutschland: BUND) |
| FOG | Fibre-Optic Gyroscope |
| FOKUS | Fraunhofer-Institut für Offene Kommunikationssysteme (Berlin) |
| FOLANT | Focusing of Laser Radiation in the Nearfield of a Tip (Nanotechnologie/nanotechnology) |
| FOLDS | First Order Logic with Dependent Sorts |
| FOLIO | The Future of Libraries is Open |
| FOM | Forschungsinstitut für Optronik und Mustererkennung (Ettlingen) |
| FOMA | Freedom of Multimedia Access (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FONAS | Forschungsverbund Naturwissenschaft, Abrüstung und internationale Sicherheit |
| FOP | Fiber Optic Plate |
| FOP | Flight Operations Plan (Satelliten/satellites) |
| FOPO | Fibre Optic Parametric Oscillator |
| FOR | Field(s) of Research |
| F.O.R., FOR | Free on Rail (Handelsverkehr/trade) |
| FORC | First-Order Reversal Curve |
| FORCAST | Faint Object Infrared Camera for the SOFIA Telescope |
| FORKAT | BMFT-Förderungskatalog |
| FORSUPRA | Forschungsverbund Hochtemperatur-Supraleiter (Bayern) |
| FORTH | Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (GR) |
| Fortran | Formula Translator (Programmiersprache/programming language) |
| FOS | Faseroptischer Sensor |
| FOS | Finnish Optical Society |
| FOS | Frontier of Science (interdisziplinäre internationale Symposien für Jungforscher/interdisciplinary international symposia for young scientists) |
| FOSHU | Foods for Specific Health Use |
| FOSS | Free and Open-Source Software |
| FOT | Fiber-Optic Transceiver |
| F.O.T., FOT | Free on Truck (Handelsverkehr/trade) |
| FOTA | Flat Optical Element Technology and Applications |
| FOV | Field of View (Teleskop/telescope) |
| FÖV | Forschungsinstitut für Öffentliche Verwaltung (Speyer) |
| FOX | Fiber Optic Extender (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| FP | Fixed Part (z.B./e.g., Basestation, DECT) |
| FP | Frame Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FP | Framework Programme (European Research and Technical Development programmes; FP5: 1998–2002, FP6: 2002–2006, FP7: since 2007) |
| FPA | Focal Plane Array |
| FPA | Function Point Analysis |
| FPC | Fraunhofer Project Center |
| FPD | Flat Panel Display |
| FPE | Final Prediction Error |
| FPGA | Field Programmable Gate Array (Computer) |
| FPI | Fabry-Pérot Interferometer |
| FPL | Forschungsinstitut für Pigmente und Lacke (in FhG integriert) |
| FPLMTS | Future Public and Land Mobile Telecommunication System |
| FPS | First Person Shooter (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FPS | Forum on Physics and Society (APS) |
| FPS | Fractal Photon Sieve |
| fps | frames per second |
| FPT | Fachbereichstag Physikalische Technik |
| FPT | Fast Polynomial Transform |
| FPU | [Enrico] Fermi–[John] Pasta–[Stanislaw] Ulam (nichtlineares Schwingungssystem, Solitonen/nonlinear oscillator, solitons) |
| FPU | Field Pick-Up Unit (Parabolantenne/parabolic antenna) |
| FPV | Vereinbarung zum Fallpauschalensystem für Krankenhäuser |
| FP7 | 7th Framework Programme (EU, 2007–2013) |
| FQHE | Fractional Quantum Hall Effect |
| FQXi | Foundational Questions Institute |
| FR | False Rejection |
| FR | Frame Relay (Datenübertragung/data transmission) |
| FR | Frankreich/France (ISO 3166) |
| FR | Frankfurter Rundschau (Zeitung/Journal) |
| FRA | Federal Railroad Administration (USA) |
| FRA | Fermi Research Alliance |
| FRA | Forward Rate Agreement (Bankgeschäfte) |
| FRA | Frequency Response Analyzer |
| FRAC | Frequency Response Assurance Criterion |
| FRAD | Frame Relay Access Device (Datennetz/data network) |
| FRAD | Frame Relay Assembly-Disessembly (Datennetz/data network) |
| FRAM | Ferroelectric Random Access Memory |
| FrAM | Fraunhofer-Arbeitsschutz-Managementsystem |
| FRAMTEC | Framework for Advanced Monitoring, Telemetry and Control |
| FRAP | Fluorescence Recovery after Photobleaching |
| FRB | Fast Radio Burst (astronomy) |
| FRC | Field-Reverse Configuration |
| FRC | Fraunhofer Resource Center (Michigan, OH, USA) |
| FRC | Frequency Response Correction |
| FRC-DE | Fraunhofer Resource Center Delaware (Newark, DE, USA) |
| FRCP | Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (USA) |
| FRDC | Fisheries Research and Development Corporation |
| FrEAC | Future Enhanced Aircraft Configuration |
| Frecc0 | Fraunhofer Electric Concept Car, Generation 0 |
| FRET | Förster- (or: Fluorescence) Resonance Energy Transfer (Biophysik/biophysics) |
| FRF | Frequency Response Function |
| FRIAS | Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (Freiburg i.B., DE) |
| FRIB | Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA) |
| FRIENT | Friendships in Inter-Ethnic Network |
| FRISP | Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf Programme |
| FRLA | Folded-Type Rectangular Loop Antenna |
| FRLS | Fast Recursive Least Squares (Transversalfilter/transversal filter) |
| FRM | Forschungsreaktor München |
| FROCC | For resolving obstinate conceptual conundrums |
| FROG | Frequency Resolved Optical Gating |
| FRPAA | Federal Research Public Access Act |
| FRPM | Fast Random Particle Mesh (Method) (sound radiation of grids) |
| FRPO | Firmware Reprogram |
| FRR | Fast Reroute (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FRS | Fellow of the Royal Society (GB) |
| FRS | Fragmentseparator (Kernphysik) |
| FS | Fachverband für Strahlenschutz e.V. |
| FS | Founder Societies |
| FSA | Fixed Slot Allocation (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FSA | Formal Safety Assessment |
| FSAN | Full Service Access Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FSC | Forest Stewardship Council (Umweltschutz/environment conservation) |
| FSC | Forward Scatter (laser technology) |
| FSC | Fusion Simulation Center (Peking University, CN) |
| FSEM | Fraunhofer-Systemforschung Elektromobilität (seit 2009) |
| FSF | Free Software Foundation |
| FSF | Frequency Sampling Filter |
| FSG | Flensburger Schiffbaugesellschaft |
| FSH | Follikelstimulierendes Hormon |
| FSI | Fluid–Structure (or: –Structural) Interaction (Analysis) |
| FSJ | Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr |
| FSK | Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle (Filmwirtschaft) |
| FSK | Frequency Shift Keying (Modulation) |
| FSL | Femtosecond Laser |
| FSM | Field Separation Method |
| FSMA | Food Service Modernization Act (USA 2011) |
| FSME | Frühsommer-Meningoenzephalitis |
| FSO | Free-Space Optical (or: Optics) (Kommunikation/communication) |
| FSP | Fachschaftsparlament |
| FSR | Fachschaftsrat |
| FSR | Free Spectral Range |
| FSRV | Fachschaftsräteversammlung |
| FSS | Fine-Scale Structures (jet noise) |
| FSS | Fixed Satellite Service (or: System) |
| FSS | Forensic Science Service |
| FST | Fast Sine Transform |
| FST | Femtosekunden-Technologie |
| FST | Finite State Transducer (Sprachsynthese/speech synthesis) |
| FSTC | Field Sound Transmisson Class |
| FSU | Florida State University (USA) |
| FSU | Former Soviet Union, frühere Sowjetunion |
| FSU | Friedrich-Schiller-Universität (Jena) |
| FSW | Friction Stir Welding (Reibrührschweißen) |
| FT | Fovea-Tablets (hochauflösende Tischdisplays/high-definition table displays) |
| FTA | Fault Tree Analysis |
| FTA | Federal Transit Administration (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| FTA | Free-to-Air |
| FTAM | File Transfer, Access and Management (Datennetzprotokoll/data network protocol) |
| FTD | Fluorescent Tube Display |
| FTE | Full Time Equivalent |
| FTF | Fahrerlose Transportfahrzeuge |
| FTF | Fast Transversal Filter |
| FTIR | Fourier Transform Infrared [Spectrometry] |
| FTIR | Frustrated Total Internel Reflection (Lichtmodulator/light modulator) |
| FTLE | Finite-Time Lyapunov-Exponent (field) |
| FTLS | Fourier-Transform Light Scattering |
| FTO | Fluordotiertes Zinnoxid |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol (Datenübertragung/data transmission) |
| FTRA | Future Technology Research Association International (Korea) |
| FTS | Festprogrammierbarer Titel-Speicher |
| FTS | Fischer-Tropsch-Synthese (von Kohlenwassrstoffen) |
| FTS | Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (or: Spectrometer) |
| FTTA | Fiber to the Area |
| FTTB | Fibre to the Building (Telefon, Glasfaser bis zum Haus/telephone) |
| FTTC | Fibre to the Cabinet |
| FTTC | Fibre to the Curb (Telefon, Glasfaser bis zum Kabelverzweiger/telephone) |
| FTTH | Fibre to the Home (Telefon, Glasfaser bis ins Haus/telephone) |
| FTTN | Fiber to the Node (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| FTTP | Fiber to the Premises (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| FTTU | Fiber to the User (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| FTU | Fortbildungszentrum für Technik und Umwelt (KfK, Karlsruhe) |
| FTX | Fulll Text Explorer |
| FTZ | Fernmeldetechnische Zeitschrift |
| FTZ | Fernmeldetechnisches Zentralamt (der Bundespost) (später/later on: BAPT, dann/later on: RegPT) |
| FuE | Forschung und Entwicklung |
| FUEG | Förderung von Forschungs- und Entwicklungsgemeinschaftsvorhaben Ost (BMBF) |
| FUNET | Finland's University and Research Network (Rechnernetz/computer network) |
| FUNGENES | Functional Genomics in Engineered ES Cells |
| FUS | Focused Ultrasound |
| FUSC | Fully Utilized Subchannel Allocation (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FUSE | Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (Satellit/satellite) |
| FUTOUR | Förderung und Unterstützung technologieorientierter Unternehmensgründungen (BMBF) |
| FV | Fachverband (DPG etc.) |
| FVK | faserverstärkte Kunststoffe, Faserverbundkunststoff |
| FVM | Finite Volume Method |
| FVS | Forschungsverbund Solarenergie |
| FVS-Stiftung | Freiherr-vom-Stein- [und zugleich] Friedrich-von-Schiller-Stiftung (Hamburg) |
| FVT | Fachstelle für Verkehrstechniken (WSV) |
| FVWE | Forschungsverbund Windenergie |
| FW | Fire Wall (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| FWD | Front-Wheel Drive |
| FWF | [Fonds zur] Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Österreich/Austria) |
| FWG | Forschungsanstalt der Bundeswehr für Wasserschall und Geophysik (Kiel) (scherzhaft auch: Flachwassergesellschaft) |
| FWHM | Full-Width Half Maximum (Fotofilm-Körnigkeit, Laser-Divergenz/photo-film granulation, laser beam divergence) |
| FWM | Four Wave Mixing |
| FXC | Fiber Optical (or: Switch) Cross Connect (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| FY | Fiscal Year |
| FYI | First Year Ice (in the Arctic Sea) |
| FYI | for your information (AIP Reports/information reports) |
| FZD | Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (DE) |
| FZI | Forschungszentrum für Informatik (Karlsruhe) |
| FZJ | Forschungszentrum Jülich (DE) |
| FZK | Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (DE) |
| FZP | Fresnel Zone Plate |
| FZR | Forschungszentrum Rossendorf (DE) |
| F3 | Flexible, Fast and Future (Factory) |
| F4E | Fusion for Energy (EU) |
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| G... | Giga... (Präfix/prefix): 109 |
| G | Guanin (DNA-Base/DNA base) |
| GA | Gabun/Gabon (ISO 3166) |
| GA | Genetic Algorithm |
| GA | Georgia (US-Staat/US state) |
| G&A | General and Administration |
| GA | Global Arrays (computer program) |
| GAAM | Gesellschaft für Analytik und atomspektroskopische Messtechnik |
| GABA | γ-Aminobuttersäure |
| GABI | [deutsche "Schwester" der/German "Sister" of the Human Genome Organization] |
| GAC | General Advisory Committee (AEC) |
| GAC | GMES Advisory Council |
| GADR | Global Analytical Data Repository (pharmaceutics) |
| GAEB | Gemeinsamer Ausschuss Elektronik im Bauwesen |
| GAFA | Internationale Gartenfachmesse (Köln) |
| GAFOS | German-American Symposia on Frontiers of Science |
| GAG | Georg-Agricola-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik e.V. |
| GAG | Group-Specific Antigen |
| GAIA, Gaia | Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics |
| GAID | Global Alliance for ICT [Information and Communication Technology] and Developent (UN) |
| GAIN | German Academic International Network |
| GALAH | Galactic Archeology with Hermes (astrophysics) |
| GALCIT | Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories at Caltech |
| GALILEO | [Europäisches Satelliten-Navigationssystem, im Aufbau/European satellite navigation system, still incomplete] |
| GALLEX | Gallium-(Sonnen-Neutrino)-Experiment (Gran Sasso, IT) |
| GAM | Generalized Additive Model (Regressionsverfahren) |
| GAMAB | Globalement au moins aussi bon (global mindestens ebenso gut/globally at least as good) |
| GAMESS | General Atomic Electronic Structure Systems |
| GAMM | Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik |
| GAMNI | Groupe pour l'Avencement des Méthodes Numériques de l'Ingénieur (FR) |
| GAMP | Good Automated Manufacturing Practice |
| GAMS | Guide to Available Mathematics Software |
| GAN | Generic Access Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GAN | Global Area Network (Datennetz/data network) |
| GANC | Generic Access Network Controller (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GANIL | Grande Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (FR) |
| GAO | General Accounting Office (USA) |
| GAO | Government Accountability Office (USA) |
| GAP | Generic Access Profile (or: Protocol) |
| GAPP | Gender Awareness Participation Process |
| GARP | General Access Registry Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GARTEUR | Group for Aeronautical Research and Technology in Europe |
| GARS | German Antarctic Receiving Station (since 1981) |
| GAS | Geomagnetic Aspect Sensor (Satelliten/satellites) |
| GAS | Gesellschaft für Angewandte Supraleitung (KfK, Karlsruhe) |
| GAS | Get-Away-Special (NASA program) |
| GA-SERI | Global Alliance of Solar Energy Research Institutes (since July 2012) |
| GAST | Gemeinschaft Autofreier Schweizer Tourismusorte |
| GAST | Gemeinschaftsausschuss Strahlenforschung |
| GAT | Governmental Action Team |
| GATE | Galileo Test- und Entwicklungsumgebung, Galileo Test and Development Environment (Berchtesgaden) |
| GATT | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
| GAUSS | Galaktisches Ultraweitwinkel Schmidt System (Spacelab, Kugelspiegelkamera) |
| GAUSS | Georg-August University School of Science (Göttingen, DE) |
| GAVI | Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation |
| GB | Gigabyte |
| GB | Großbritannien/Great Britain (ISO 3166) |
| GBAS | Ground Based Augmentation System (Satellitennavigation/satellite navigation) |
| GBD | Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study |
| GbE | Gigabit Ethernet |
| GBEP | Global Bioenergy Partnership |
| GBF | Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung (Braunschweig) |
| GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility (Internet) |
| GBM | Gamma(-Ray) Burst Monitor (on board of the NASA satellite Fermi) |
| GBM | Glioblastoma Multiforme (Hirntumore/brain tumors) |
| GbR | Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts |
| GBS | Göttinger Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft |
| GBSS | Granule Bound Starch Synthase |
| GBT | Green Bank Telescope |
| GC | Gas Chromatography |
| GCC | Generalized Cross-Correlator (or: -Correlation) |
| GCC | Global Climate Coalition |
| GCCV | Global Climate Change Viewer |
| GCD | Greatest Common Divisor (= ggT) |
| GCDC | Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge (Kolonnen-Fahrversuch) |
| GCF | Global Certification Forum (Mobilfunk/mobile radio) |
| GCF | GSM Certification Forum (Mobilfunk/mobile radio) |
| GCI | Green Chemistry Institute (ACS) |
| GCM | General Circulation Model (Wetter/weather) |
| GCM | Global Climate Model (Wetter/weather) |
| GCMD | Global Change Master Directory (NASA) |
| GCN | Global Caribbian Network (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| GCN | Graphic Core Next (architecture) |
| GCOS | Global Climate Observing System (globales Klimaüberwachungsprogramm) |
| GCP | Good Clinical Practice |
| GCP | Google Cloud Platform |
| GCRA | Generic Cell Rate Algorithm (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GCS | Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (in DE) |
| GCSR | Grating-assisted codirectional Coupler with rear Sampled Reflector (abstimmbarer Laser/tunable laser) |
| GCSU | Georgia College and State University (USA) |
| GCT | Great Canary Telescope (= GTC) (La Palma, ES) |
| GCTC | Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Russia) |
| GD | Grenada (ISO 3166) |
| GDCh | Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V. |
| GDCP | Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Chemie und Physik |
| GDD ICC | Global Drug Discovery Innovation Center China |
| GDF | Growth Differentiation Factor (Medizin/medicine) |
| GDL | Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokomotivführer |
| GDM | Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik |
| GDMO | Guidelines for Defining (or: the Definition) of Managed Objects |
| GDN | Global Development Network |
| GDNÄ | Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte e.V. |
| GDNF | Glia-Derived Neurotrophic Factor |
| GDOS | Graphics Device Operating System |
| GDP | General Drawing Primitive |
| GdP | Gewerkschaft der Polizei |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product (Volkswirtschaft/national economy, = BIP) |
| GDP | Guanosindiphosphat |
| GDPR | General Data Protecion Regulation (EU) |
| GDR | German Democratic Republic (= DDR) |
| GDSS | Group Decision Support Systems |
| GdT | Gemeinschaftsausschuss der Technik |
| GDV | Gesamtverband der deutschen Versicherungswirtschaft e.V. |
| GDZ | Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum |
| GE | Georgien/Georgia (ISO 3166) |
| GE | Gigabit Ethernet |
| GEA | Gigabit Ethernet Alliance |
| GEER | Glen Extreme Environments Rig |
| GEF | Global Environment Facility (Umweltfonds/environment fund, 1990) |
| Gefma | Groupe d'étude de la faune marine atlantique |
| GefStoffV | Gefahrstoff-Verordnung |
| GEM | Gas Electron Multiplier |
| GEM | Genetically Engineered Machine |
| GEM | Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (Report) |
| GEM | Graphics Environment Manager |
| GEMA | Gesellschaft für elektroakustische und mechanische Apparate |
| GEMA | Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungsrechte |
| GEMINGA | Gemini Gamma-Quelle (Neutronenstern/neutron star) |
| GEMIS | Globales Emissionsmodell Integrierter Systeme |
| GEMS | Galaxy Evolution from Morphologies and Spectral Energy Distributions (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| GEMS | Global Environment Monitoring System (Naturschutz, nature conservation) |
| Genafor | Gesellschaft für nachhaltige Forschung |
| GeNAS | Genome Network Analysis Service |
| GENCI | Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif (Bruyères-le-Châtel, FR) |
| GENESIS | General Neural Simulation System |
| GENI | Global Experimentation for Network Instantiation (Internet) |
| GENIUS | Germanium Detectors in Liquid Nitrogen in an Underground Set Up (Neutrinodetektor/neutrino detector) |
| GenMAPP | Gene MicroArray Pathway Profiler (Computerprogramm für genetische Analyse/computer program for genetic analysis) |
| GENTS | Generic Exploration and Navigation Tool for Structures (FWF, AT) |
| GEO | [britisch–deutscher Gravitationswellendetektor/British–German gravitational wave detector] (Ruthe bei/near Hannover, DE) |
| GEO | Geosynchronous (or: Geostationary) Earth Orbit |
| GEO | Group on Earth Observations |
| GEOMAR | Forschungszentrum für marine Geowissenschaften (Univ. Kiel) |
| GEOS | Goddard Earth Observing System (NASA) |
| GEOSS | Global Earth Observation System of Systems (Satelliten/satellites) |
| GEPRIS | geförderte Projekte der DFG (Suchmaschine/search engine, www.dfg.de/gepris) |
| GERAN | GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GERAD | Groupe d'Etude et de Recherche en Analyse des Décisions (Montreal, Canada) |
| GERD | Gross Expenditure on Research and Development |
| GERDA | Germanium Detector Array |
| GESA | Gepulste Elektronenstrahlanlage |
| GESAMP | Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (UNO) |
| GESIMA | Geesthachter Simulationsmodell der Atmosphäre |
| GESIS | Gesellschaft sozialwissenschaftliche Infrastruktureinrichtungen (Mannheim) |
| GET | Gesellschaft Energietechnik (im VDI) |
| GETV | Genesys Enterprise Telephony Software |
| GEUmbH | Gesellschaft für Energieanwendung und Umwelttechnik mbH (Leipzig) |
| GEW | Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft |
| GF | Französish-Guyana/French Guiana (ISO 3166) |
| GFA | Glass-Forming Ability |
| GFCC | Global Footwear Competence Center (Shanghai, CN) |
| GFDL | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA, Princeton, NJ, USA) |
| GFDM | Generalized Frequency Division Multiplexing (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GfdS | Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache |
| GFE | Großforschungseinrichtung |
| GFK | Glasfaser-verstärkte Kunststoffe |
| GFLOPs/s | Giga-FLOPs/s (= 109 FLOPs/s) |
| GFMC | Green's Function Monte Carlo (Technik, Kernphysik/technique, nuclear physics) |
| GFP | Generic Framing Procedure (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GFP | Green Fluorescent Protein, grün fluoreszierendes Protein |
| GfR | Gesellschaft für Raumfahrtanwendungen (DLR) |
| GFR | Guaranteed Frame Rate (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GFRP | Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastic |
| GFS | Gemeinsame Forschungsstelle (der/of the EU in Petten, NL) |
| GFS | Global Forecast System (US weather forecast) |
| GFSK | Gaussian(-Filtered) Frequency Shift Keying |
| GFZ | Geoforschungszentrum (Potsdam) |
| GGA | Generalized Gradient Approximation |
| GGA | Geowissenschaftliche Gemeinschaftsaufgaben (im/in the Geozentrum Hannover) |
| GGF | Glial Growth Factor (Medikament, evtl. gegen MS/medicine, possibly against MS) |
| GGF | Global Grid Forum |
| GGNB | Göttinger Graduiertenschule für Neurowissenschaften, Biophysik und Molekulare Biowissenschaften |
| GGSN | Gateway GPRS Support (or: Serving) Node (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GGT | Gesellschaft für Gerontotechnik |
| ggT | größter gemeinsamer Teiler (= GCD) |
| GGVS | Gefahrgut-Verordnung Straße |
| GH | Ghana (ISO 3166) |
| GHG | Greenhouse Gas |
| GHPDH | Glycerinaldehyd-3-Phosphat-Dehydrogenase |
| GHRH | Growth hormone-releasing hormone (Freisetzungshormon des Wachstumshormons) |
| GHRS | Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph |
| GHS | Globally Harmonised System |
| GHZ | Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger(-Zustand/state) |
| GI | Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. |
| GI | Gibraltar (ISO 3166) |
| GI | Glykämischer Index (Nahrungsmittel) |
| GI | Guard Interval (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GIC | Generalized Information Criterion |
| GIF | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei/file name extension: graphic file] |
| GIF | German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format (Datenkompression/data compression, CompuServe 1987) |
| GigE | Gigabit Ethernet |
| GIM | [Sheldon] Glashow, [John] Iliopoulos, [Luciano] Maiani [Model] (Elementarteilchenthorie/elementary particle theory) |
| GIMP | GNU Image Manipulation Program |
| GIMS | Topical Group on Instruments and Measurement Science (APS) |
| GIOD | Globally Interconnected Object Databases |
| GIOL | Global Imaging On-Line |
| GIP | Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide |
| GIP | Graphenisomorphie-Problem |
| Gips | Giga-Instructions per Second |
| GIRL | German Infrared Laboratory (Astrophysik/astrophysics, 1985) |
| GIS | Geographic(al) Information System, Geo-Informationssystem |
| GISAXS | Grazing-Incidence Small Angle X-Ray Scattering |
| GISI | Göttinger Informationssystem für Intensivmedizin und OP |
| GISI | Gruppo Imprese Strumentazione Italia (Association for Instrumentation, Control and Automation Companies) |
| GISP | Greenland Ice Shield Project |
| GISS | Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA) |
| GIT | Gesamtintegrationstest (Kfz-Elektronik) |
| GITEWS | German Tsunami Early Warning System |
| GIXD | Grazing-Incidence X-Ray Diffraction |
| GIZ | (Deutsche) Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit |
| GIZ | Giftinformationszentrum (Nord/North: in Göttingen) |
| GK | Gatekeeper (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GK | Graduiertenkolleg |
| GK | Grundkurs |
| GKS | Ganzkörperschwingung |
| GKS | Grafisches Kern-System |
| GKSS | [Forschungszentrum Geesthacht] |
| GL | Grönland/Greenland (ISO 3166) |
| GLA | Göttinger Linguistische Abhandlungen |
| G-Lab | Germany-Lab (Projekt zur Internet-Erweiterung, seit Okt. 2008) |
| GLAD | General Laser Analysis and Design |
| GLAST | Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope |
| GLBA | Gramm Leach Bliley Act (US health care) |
| GLBRC | Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (at the University of Wisconsin, Madison) |
| GLCM | Ground-Launched Cruise Missile |
| GLDV | Gesellschaft für linguistische Datenverarbeitung |
| GLE | Ginzburg-Landau Equation (nichtlineare Dynamik/nonlinear dynamics) |
| GLF | Grundlagenforschung |
| GLIF | Global Lambda Integrated Facility (Annual Workshops) |
| GLIMPSE | Galactic Legacy Infrared Midplane Survey Extraordinaire (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| GLM | General Linear Modelling |
| GLMZ | Gemeinsames Melde- und Lagezentrum |
| GLOBECOM | [IEEE] Global Telecommunications Conference |
| GLOBIS | Global Change and Biodiversity in Soils |
| GLOBUS | Generating Long-Term Options by Using Simulation |
| GLOMAP | Global Model of Aerosol Particles (UK, climate research) |
| GLONASS | Globalnaja Nawigazionnaja Sputnikowaja Sistema, Global Navigation Satellite System (RU) |
| GLORIAD | Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development |
| GLoSIS | Global Soil Information System (Boston, MA, USA, since Feb. 2008) |
| GLP | Glucagon-Like Peptide |
| GLP | Good Laboratory Practice, gute Labor-Praxis |
| GLS | General Logistics (Paketdienst/parcel service) |
| GLS | Global Locating Sensing |
| GLV | geschlossene Luftversorgung (Kfz-Federung/vehicle suspension) |
| GLZ | Generalized Linear Modelling |
| GM | Gambia (ISO 3166) |
| G–M | Geiger–Müller (Zähler/tube) |
| GM | General Motors |
| GMAC | Graduate Management Admission Council |
| GMAG | Topical Group on Magnetism and Its Applications (APS) |
| GMAT | Graduate Management Admission Test |
| GmbH | Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung |
| GMD | Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (vormals/formerly Bonn–Darmstadt–Berlin–St. Augustin– |
| Birlinghofen, später von der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft übernommen/later on taken over by the FhG) |
| GMES | Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (Satelliten/satellites, ESA mission) |
| GMK | Graphical Model Toolkit (Spracherkennung/speech recognition) |
| GML | Geographical Markup Language |
| GMLC | Gateway Mobile Location Center (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GMM | Gaussian Mixture Model (Sprachübertragung/speech transmission) |
| GMM | Generalized Method of Moments (Finanzmarkt-Forschung) |
| GMM | Global MultiMedia (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GMM | GPRS Mobility Management |
| GMO | Genetically Modified Organism |
| GMP | Good Manufacturing Practice |
| GMPLS | Generalized Multi Protocol Label Switching (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GMR | Giant Magnetoresistance |
| GMRP | GARP Multicast Registration Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GMS | Global Marketing Service |
| GMS | Ground Mission System (Galileo) |
| GMSC | Gateway Mobile Switching Center (Datenübertragung/data transmission) |
| GMSK | Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying (Modulation) |
| GMSS | Gateway Management Subsystem (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GMT | Giant Magellan Telescope (geplant für/planned for 2019 in Arizona, USA) |
| GMT | Global Mean Temperature |
| GMT | Greenwich Meantime (Weltstandard seit/world standard since 1884) |
| GMU | George Mason University (USA) |
| GN | Guinea (ISO 3166) |
| GNA | Gesellschaft für Naturschutz und Auenentwicklung |
| GNA | Global Network Academy (Texas, USA) |
| GNC | Guidance, Navigation, and Control |
| GNCI | Greater North China Initiative (geologische Forschung/geological research) |
| GNEP | Global Nuclear Energy Partnership |
| GNF | Graphite Nano-Fiber |
| GNF | Group of Blocks (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GNI | Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GNIRS | Gemini Near Infrared Spectrometer (USA) |
| GNLTM | Geometric Nonlinear Theory of Martensite |
| GNM | Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Nürnberg) |
| GNO | Gallex Neutrino Observatory (INFN, Gran Sasso, IT) |
| gnomAD | Genome Aggregation Database |
| GNOME | GNU Object Model Environment |
| GNP | Gross National Product (= Bruttosozialprodukt) |
| GnRH | Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone |
| GNSS | Global Navigation Satellite System |
| GNSS2 | Global Navigation Satellite System, 2nd generation |
| GNU | Gallium Neutrino Observatory (zuvor/formerly: GALLEX, Gran Sasso, IT) |
| GNU | GNU is not UNIX |
| GO | Gründungsoffensive |
| GOÄ | Gebührenordnung für Ärzte |
| GOARN | Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (WHO, 120 countries) |
| GoB | Good or Better |
| GoB | Group of Blocks (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GOBI | Global Online Bibliographic Information |
| GOC | Générateur d'Octets Chiffrants |
| GOCE | Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (Satelliten-Fernerkundung/satellite remote sensing) |
| GOCO | Government-Owned, Contractor-Operated |
| GODAE | Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (Satelliten-Altimetrie/satellite height measurement) |
| GOLF | Global Oscillations at Low Frequencies (an Bord von/aboard SOHO) |
| GOMAC | Government Microcircuit Applications Conference (USA) |
| GOME | Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (Fernerkundung/remote sensing, ERS 2, 1995) |
| GOMOS | Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Star (ENVISAT) |
| GONG | Global Oscillation Network Group (für Helioseismologie/for helio-seismology) |
| GOODS | Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| GoP | Group of Personalities (a panel, mandated by the European Council in 2003) |
| GOP | Group of Pictures (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GoS | Grade of Service (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GOSPEL | Governing the Speed of Light (EU project) |
| GOTS | Gesellschaft für Orthopädisch/Traumatologische Sportmedizin |
| gov | [Government] (Internet, USA) |
| GOW | Gesundheitliche Orientierungswerte |
| GOZ | Gebührenordnung für Zahnärzte |
| GP | Guadeloupe (ISO 3166) |
| GPA | Grade Point Average |
| GPC | Gel-Permeation Chromatography |
| GPC | Global Provisioning Center |
| GPCR | G-Protein Coupled Receptor |
| GPDS | Global Product Development System (Fahrzeugentwicklung/automotive design) |
| GPI | Gemini Planet Imager (astronomy) |
| GPI | Global Address Space Programming Interface (HPC) |
| GPFS | General Parallel File System (high-performance computing) |
| GPGPU | General Purpose Graphical Programming Unit |
| GPIB | General Purpose Interface Bus |
| GPIP | General Purpose Input/Output Interrupt Port |
| GPL | General (or: GNU) Public License (FSF) |
| GPM | Global Precipitation Measurement (satellite) |
| GPO | GMES Programme Office |
| GPON | Gigabit Passive Optical Network(ing) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GPP | General Purpose Processor |
| GPP | Global Performance Platform (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GPP | Gross Primary Production (photosynthesis) |
| GPR | Ground Penetrating Radar |
| GPRS | Global (or: General) Packet Radio Service (or: System) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GPS | Ganzheitliche Produktionssysteme |
| GPS | Germany Philatelic Society (USA) |
| GPS | Germline-Derived Pluripotent Stem Cells |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GPSG | Global Pharmaceutical Supply Group |
| GPU | General Purpose Unit (computer) |
| GPU | Graphic(al) Processing (or: Programming) Unit (Computergrafik) |
| GPWS | Ground Proximity Warning System |
| GQ | Äquatorialguinea/Equatorial Guinea (ISO 3166) |
| GR | Gigabit Router (Internet) |
| GR | Griechenland/Greece (ISO 3166) |
| GRA | Gamma Resonance Absorption |
| GRA | Geschwindigkeitsregelanlage (Kfz) |
| GRAB | Galactic Radiation and Background (US Aufklärungs-Satellit/reconnaissance satellite) |
| GRACE | Generalisation of Research on Accounts and Cost Estimation (EC Project) |
| GRACE | Genomics to Combat Resistance Against Antibiotics in Community-Acquired Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Europe (EU project) |
| GRACE | Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (satellites, launched in 2002) |
| GRACE-FO | Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (planned for 2016) |
| GRAI | Global Returnable Asset Identifier |
| GRAIL | Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (two Lunar satellites, since 2011) |
| GRANADA | Galileo Receiver Analysis and Design Application (Astrophysik/astrophysics, Software) |
| GRAS | Generally Recognized as Safe (Nahrungsergänzungsmittel/food additives) |
| GRATE | Generic Rules and Agent Model Test Bed Environment |
| GRB | Gamma-Ray Burst (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| GRC | Global Research Council (founded 2012) |
| GRC | Gordon Research Conference |
| GRC | Graphene Research Centre (at NUS) |
| GRD | Genomics Reviewer Desktop |
| GRDC | Grains Research and Development Corporation (Australia) |
| GRDDL | Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (semantisches Netz/semantic net) |
| GRE | Generic Routing Encapsulation |
| GRE | Graduate Record Exam |
| GREAT | German Receiver for Astronomy at Terahertz Frequencies (onboard SOFIA) |
| GREAT | Growing Education Achievement Training Academies for Teachers and Principals (Act, USA 2013) |
| GREEN | Groupe de Recherche en Electrotechnique et Electronique de Nancy (FR) |
| GREG | Georeferencing of Ethnic Groups |
| GRI | Gamma-Ray Imager (Satellit/satellite, NASA) |
| GRI | Group Repetition Interval (LORAN-C) |
| GRIFFIN | Gamma-Ray Infrastructure for Fundamental Investigations on Nuclei (University of British Columbia, CA) |
| GRIN | Gradient Refractive Index |
| GRIP | Greenland Icecore Project |
| GRIPS | Ground-Based Infrared P-Branch Spectrometer (DLR) |
| GRIS | Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometer |
| GRK | Graduiertenkolleg (DFG, seit 1990) |
| GRM | General Relationship Model |
| GRO | Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (Satellit/satellite) |
| GRO | Grimaldi Robotic Observatory (Teleskop auf dem Mond, vorgeschlagen/telescope on the moon, proposed) |
| GROMACS | Groningen Machine for Chemical Simulation (computer program) |
| GROWnet | Geographic Representations of War Network |
| GRS | Gamma-Ray Spectrometer |
| GRS | Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit |
| GRU | Georgia Regents University |
| GRU | Government Revitalization Unit (JP) |
| GRW | [GianCarlo] Ghirardi, [Alberto] Rimini, [Tullio] Weber (Modell, theoretische Physik/model, theoretical physics) |
| GS | Südgeorgien/South Georgia (ISO 3166) |
| GS | Guaranteed Service |
| GSA | General Service Administration (USA) |
| GSA | Geological Socitey of America |
| GSA | Global (Mobile) Suppliers Association (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GSAG | GOME Science Advisory Group |
| GSAS | Global School for Advanced Studies |
| GSCCM | Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter (APS) |
| GSD | Ground Sampling Distance (Satelliten-Fernerkundung/satellite remote sensing) |
| GSDSEF | Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair |
| GSE | geringe Schmerzempfindlichkeit |
| GSE | GMES Services Elements |
| GSE | Group of Scientific Experts (Genfer Abrüstungskonferenz 1976) |
| GSETT-1, -2, -3 | GSE Technical Test I (1984), ~ II (1991), ~ III (1995) |
| GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD, USA) |
| GSG | Gesundheitsstrukturgesetz |
| GSGG | Göttinger Graduiertenschule für Geisteswissenschaften |
| GSH | Granular Solid Hydrodynamics |
| GSI | Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (Darmstadt) |
| GSIC | Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (Tokyo, JP) |
| GSM | Global System for Mobile Communication(s) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GSM | Groupe Spéciale Mobile (Mobilfunk/mobile radio) |
| GSMA | GSM Association (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GSMBE | Gas Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy |
| GSMN | GSM Node |
| GSM-R | Global System for Mobile Communications – Railway (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| GSMS | GPRS Short Message Service (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GSMT | Giant Segmented-Mirror Telescope (geplant/planned) |
| GSN | Global Seismic (or: Seismographic) Network |
| GSN | GPRS Support Node |
| GSNP | Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (APS) |
| GSO | Geostationary Satellite Orbit |
| GSO | Graduate School of Oceanography (URI) |
| GSOC | German Space Operations Center (Weilheim and Oberpfaffenhofen, DE) |
| GSP | Gap Surface Plasmon (elektromagnetische Grenzflächenwellen/electromagnetic boundary layer waves) |
| GSP | Genomic Signal Processing |
| GSS | Ground Sensor Station (Galileo) |
| GSS | Group Support System |
| GSSN | Global Sustainable Soundscape Network |
| GST | Ge2Sb2Te5, Phasenwechselmaterial |
| GSTB | Galileo System Test Bed (Satellitennavigation/satellite navigation) |
| GSU | Georgia State University (USA) |
| GSW | GeoScience World |
| GSW | Glashow-Salam-Weinberg (Neutrinotheorie/neutrino theory) |
| GT | Gamow-Teller |
| GT | Georgia Tech (USA) |
| GT | Guatemala (ISO 3166) |
| GTC | General Purpose Unit Technology Conference |
| GTC | Gran Telescopio Canarias (= GCT) (La Palma, ES) |
| GTD | Geometrical Theory of Diffraction |
| GTF | Global Tiger Forum |
| GTL | Gas to Liquid (synthetischer Kraftstoff/synthetic fuel) |
| GTLS | Generalized Total Least Squares (Algorithmus/algorithm) |
| GTO | Geostationärer Transferorbit (Raketentechnik) |
| GTP | GPRS Tunneling Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GTP | Guanosintriphosphat |
| GTP-c | GPRS Tunneling Protocol Control Plane (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GTRI | Georgia Tech Research Institute (USA) |
| GTRI | Global Threat Reduction Initiative |
| GTÜ | Gesellschaft für Technische Überwachung |
| GTS | Global Transmission Services (ISS) |
| GTZ | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (Eschborn) |
| GU | Guam (ISO 3166) |
| GUD | Gas- und Dampfturbinen (-Kraftwerke) |
| GUE | Gauß'sches unitäres Ensemble |
| GUESS | General-Purpose Expert System Shell |
| GUI | Graphical (or: Guided) User Interface |
| GUID | Global Unique Identifier (weltweites PC-Netz/worldwide PC network) |
| GUIDE | Gentle User Interfaces for Elderly People (EU project) |
| GUP | Generic User Profile (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GUS | Gemeinschaft unabhängiger Staaten (ehem./former UdSSR) |
| GUT | Grand Unified Theory (theoretische Physik/theoretical physics) |
| GUTI | Globally Unique Temporary Identifier (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GUZ | Göttinger Universitätszeitung |
| GVD | Group Velocity Dispersion (Leitungen/transmission lines) |
| GVE | Großvieheinheit (Normrind, Masse:/standard cow, mass: 500 kg) |
| GVFI | Global Viral Forecasting Initiative |
| GVL | Gamma-Valerolacton |
| GVM | Global Voice Mail (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GVO | genetisch veränderter Organismus |
| GVP | Genesis Voice Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GVPP | Generic Visual Perception Processor |
| GVT | Ground Vibration Test (Flugzeugentwicklung/aircraft development) |
| GVZ | Güterverkehrszentrum |
| GW | Gateway (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| GW | Guinea-Bissau (früher Portugiesisch-Guinea/former Portuguese Guinea) (ISO 3166) |
| GWAS | Genome-Wide Association Studies |
| GWG | Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftsförderung Göttingen |
| G-WiN | Gigabit-Wissenschaftsnetz (geplant für/planned for 2000, bis/up to 2.4 Gbit/s) |
| GWK | Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz von Bund und Ländern |
| GWN | Gaussian White Noise, Gaußsches Weißes Rauschen |
| GWP | German Water Partnership |
| GWP | Global-Warming Potential |
| GWS | Glashow–Weinberg–Salam (Theoretische Physik, elektroschwache Wechselwirkung/theoretical physics, electro-weak interaction) |
| GWT | Google Web Toolkit |
| GWUP | Gesellschaft für die wissenschaftliche Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften |
| Gy | Gray (measure of ionizing energy absorption: 1 Gy is the dose of 1 joule per kilogram material) |
| GY | Guyana (ISO 3166) |
| Gyr | Gigayears (109 years) |
| GZG | Geowissenschaftliches Zentrum Göttingen |
| GZK | Grisen-[Georgii] Zatsepin-[Vladim] Kuzmin (Moscow; predicted cutoff of cosmic microwave background at 6 × 1019 eV) |
| GZMB | Göttinger Zentrum für Molekulare Biowissenschaften |
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| h... | Hekto... (Präfix/prefix): 102 |
| HA | Home Agent (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HAARP | High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project (or: Program) |
| HAART | hochaktive antiretrovirale Therapie (HIV-Behandlung) |
| HAB | Harmful Algae Bloom (Meeresbiologie/marine biology) |
| HAB | Herzog-August-Bibliothek (Wolfenbüttel) |
| HABLEG | High Altitude Balloon Launched Experimental Glider (DLR) |
| HAC | High Authority Control |
| HAC | Human Artificial Chromosome |
| HACORD | High Altitude Cosmic Ray Detector |
| HAD | Highly Automated Driving |
| HAD | Helium Abundance Detector (Galileo satellite 1989) |
| HAD | Hollow Cathode Activated Deposition (dünne Schichten/thin layers) |
| HADES | High-Activity Disposal Experiment Site (for nuclear waste, Mol, BE) |
| HAGRiD | Hybrid Array for Gamma Ray Detection |
| HAI | Helicopter Association International |
| HAL | Hardware Abstraction Layer (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HALAS | Hubschrauber-Außenlast-Assistenzsystem (DLR) |
| HALE | High Altitude, Long Endurance (Flugzeug/aircraft) |
| HALO | High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft (DLR) |
| HAMR | Head-Assisted Magnetic Recording |
| HANE | High-Altitude Nuclear Explosion |
| HANOHANO | Hawaiian Anti-Neutrino Observatory (2012: planned) |
| HAO | High Altitude Observatory (Harvard University) |
| HAP | Helmholtz-Allianz für Astroteilchenphysik |
| HAPS | High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite |
| HAPS | Historic Acoustic-Phonetic Collection (TU Dresden, DE) |
| HAR | Human Accelerated Region (Genetik/genetics) |
| HARF | Hyperstable Adaptive Recursive Filter |
| HARP | High-Frequency Acoustic Recording Package |
| HARP | High-Gain Avalanche Rushing Amorphous Photoconductor |
| HARPS | High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (astrophysics) |
| HARQ | Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HART | Highway Addressable Receiver/Transmitter (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HAS | Hadronischer Schauer |
| HASASEM | Haptisches Sensor-Aktor-System auf der Grundlage der Echtzeitelastographie sowie von elektro- und magnetorheologischen Materialien |
| HASI | Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument (Raumfahrt/spacecraft) |
| HASY | Hand-Arm-System (DLR, Roboter-Greifer) |
| HASYLAB | Hamburger Synchrotronstrahlungs-Laboratorium (bei/at DESY) |
| HAT | Heiß-Akustik-Teststand (DLR Berlin) |
| HAT | Histone-Acetyl Transferase, Histonazetyltransferase (Genetik/genetics) |
| HATPRO | Humidity and Temperature Profiler (Wetterdatenerfassung/weather data monitoring) |
| HATUM | Historisches Archiv der TU München |
| HAV | Hand-Arm Vibration |
| HAV | Hepatitis-A-Virus |
| HAVAG | Hallesche Verkehrs-AG (Halle an der Saale) |
| HAVEit | Highly Automated Vehicles – Intelligent Transportation (EU project) |
| HAVI | Home Audio/Video Interoperability |
| HAW | Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (Hamburg) |
| HAWC | High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory (Sierra Negra, MX) |
| HAWK | Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst (u.a. Göttingen) |
| HAWT | Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine |
| HAZOP | Hazardous Analysis and Operability (Problemlösungsmethode/problem solving method) |
| HB | (Hansestadt) Bremen (Bundesland/German Federal State) |
| HB | High-Brightness (LEDs) |
| HBCCO | HgBa2Can-1CunO2n+2 (HTSL) |
| HBCD | Hexabromcyclododecan (Flammschutzmittel) |
| HBCI | Homebanking Computing Interface |
| HBCU | Historically Black Colleges and Universities (USA) |
| HBFG | Hochschulbauförderungsgesetz |
| HBFR | High Flux Beam Reactor (Brookhaven, Long Island, NY, USA) |
| HBK | Hochdruckbrennkammer (-Prüfstand, DLR) |
| HBLED | High-Brightness Light Emitting Diode |
| HBM | High Bandwidth Memory |
| HBP | Human Brain Project |
| HBT | Hanbury Brown and Twiss (Quanteneffekt/quantum effect) |
| HBT | Hetero-Bipolartransistor, Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor |
| HBV | Hepatitis-B-Virus |
| HCA | High Content Analysis |
| HCB | Hexachlorbenzol |
| HCC | Heterogeneous Compute Compiler |
| HCCI | Homogeneous Charge-Compression Ignition (Verbrennungsmotor/internal combustion engine) |
| HCG | High-Index Contrast Sub-Wavelength Grating (Laserspiegel/laser mirror) |
| hCG | Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (Hormon/hormone) |
| HCH | Hexachlorcyclohexan |
| HCI | Host Controller Interface (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HCI | Human–Computer Interaction (or: Interface) |
| HCIS | Human-Centric Compution and Information Sciences (open-access journal) |
| HCM | High-Contrast Metastructure |
| HCM | Human Capital (and) Mobility (EU) |
| HCMV | Humanes Cytomegalovirus |
| HCO | Harvard College Observatory |
| HCP | Hearing Conservation Program |
| HCP | Hexagonal Closest Packing (Gitter/lattice) |
| HCR | High Chip Rate |
| HCS | Hard-Clad Silica (Faseroptik/fiber optics) |
| HCS | High Content Screening (Biochemie/biochemistry) |
| HCTMCP | Hexacyanotrimethylencyclopropanid |
| HCU | Hybrid Control Unit (Hybridfahrzeug/hybrid vehicle) |
| HCV | Hepatitis-C-Virus |
| HD | Harmonization Document (CENELEC) |
| HD | High Definition (Video) |
| HdA | Haus der Astronomie (Heidelberg) |
| HDA | High-Density Amorphous (Eis/ice) |
| HDAC | Histone-Deacetylase, Histondeazetylase (Genetik/genetics) |
| HDBR | Hybrid Distributed Bragg Reflector (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| HDBT | High Definition Broadcast Technology |
| HDCAM | [vom HDTV abgeleitetes Bildaufzeichnungsformat/picture recording format, derived from HDTV] |
| HDCP | High Definition (or: Digital) Content Protection (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HDCS | Hard Disk Controller Select |
| HDF | Hierarchical Data Format |
| HDF | hochdichte Faserplatte, High-Density Fiberboard |
| HDF | Hubble Deep Field (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| HDI | Human Development Index |
| HDL | Hardware Description Language |
| HDL | High-Density Lipoprotein ("gutes" Cholesterin/"good" cholesterol) |
| HDL | High-Density Liquid |
| HDL | High-Power Diode Laser |
| HDLC | High Level Data Link Control (Datenübertragung/data transmission) |
| HDM | Histondemethylase (Genetik) |
| HDM | Hot Dark Matter (Kosmologie/cosmology) |
| HDMI | High Definition Multimedia Interface |
| HDML | Handheld Device Markup Lnguage |
| HdO | hinter dem Ohr (Hörgeräte/hearing aids) |
| HDPE | High Density Polyethylene |
| HDR | High Data Rate (Datenübertragung/data transmission) |
| HDR | High Dynamic Range (Luftbildaufnahmen) |
| HDR | Hot Dry Rock (geothermy) |
| HDRI | High Dynamic Range Imaging (Bildsimulation/picture simulation) |
| HDRQ | Harddiskcontroller-Data-Request |
| HDS | High Dispersion Spectrograph |
| HDSL | High-Bit-Rate (or: High Speed) Digital Subscriber Line (or: Loop) |
| HDT | Hungaro DigiTel |
| HDTV | High Definition Television (hochauflösendes Fernsehen) |
| HE | Hessen (Bundesland/German Federal State) |
| HE-AAC | High Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding (Audio-Kompressions-Software/audio compression method) |
| HEAC | HDMI Ethernet Audio Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HEAO | High Energy Astrophysical Observatory |
| HEAT | High Elevation Antarctic Terahertz Telescope |
| HEATCO | Harmonised European Approaches for Transport Costing and Project Assessment (EC Project) |
| HEC | HDMI Ethernet Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HEC | Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (Montreal, Canada) |
| HECC | High-End Computer (or: Computing) Capability (NASA project) |
| HECHDMI | Ethernet Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HECToR | High End Computing Terascale Resource (UK) |
| HED | High-Energy-Density |
| HEDLP | High-Energy-Density Laboratory Plasmas (University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA) |
| HEDP | High-Energy-Density Physics |
| HEDRC | High Energy Density Research Center (RU) |
| HEED | High Efficiency Electron Emission Device (Bildwandler/image converter) |
| HEF | Helmholtz Enterprise Fonds |
| HEFA | Hydroprocessed Esters and Fatty Acids (Biotreibstoff/biofuel) |
| HEFC | Higher Education Funding Council (UK) |
| HEFCE | Higher Education Funding Council for England |
| HEI | Higher Education Institutions |
| HEK | Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler |
| HELCOM | Helsinki Commission on Baltic Marine Protection |
| HELM | Hierarchical Editing Language for Macromolecules |
| HELP | Heparin-vermittelte extrakorporale LDL + Fibrinogen Präzipitation |
| HEMI | Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA) |
| HEMT | High-Electron-Mobility Transistor |
| HEOS | Hit Explorer Operation System |
| HEP | Hochenergiephysik, High-Energy Physics |
| HEP | Hochschulerneuerungsprogramm (neue Bundesländer) |
| HEPAP | High-Energy Physics Advisory Panel (USA) |
| HEPCOS | High-Energy Physics and Cosmology Group (University at Buffalo, NY, USA) |
| HEPnet | High Energy Physics Network |
| HEPP | High Energy and Particle Physics Division (EPS) |
| HEPPA | High Energy Particle Physics and Astrophysics (Colorado State University, USA) |
| HER | Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor |
| HERA | Hadron-Electron Ring Accelerator, Hadron-Elektron-Ring-Anlage (DESY, bis/until 2007) |
| HERA | Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array |
| HERMES | Hotspot Ecosystem Research on the Margins of the European Seas |
| HERTZ | Hybrid European RF and Antenna Test Zone (ESA) |
| HERV | Humanes Endogenes Retrovirus |
| HES | High Energy Stereoscopic System (Gammastrahlenteleskop/gamma ray telescope array, Namibia) |
| HES | Home Electronic System |
| HES | Hybrid Evolutionary System (Systembeschreibung/system description) |
| HESA | Higher Education Statistics Agency (UK) |
| HESS | High Energy Seismic Survey (Meeresbiologie/marine biology) |
| HESS | High Energy Stereoscopic System (Teleskop/telescope in Namibia) |
| HET | Hall-Effect Thruster (electric propulsion system) |
| HET | High Energy Theoretical (Physics) |
| HET | High-Performance Computing in Europe Taskforce (seit/since 2006) |
| HET | Hobby-Eberly-Telescope (Davis Mountains, TX, USA) |
| HETDEX | HET Dark Energy Experiment |
| HETE | High Energy Transient Explorer (Satellite, NASA) |
| HETP | Height Equivalent to One Theoretical Plate (Maß für Trennleistung eines chemischen Analysesystems, |
| z.B. 20 µm bei Chromatographie/measure of separation resolution, e.g. 20 µm in chromatography) |
| HEU | Highly Enriched Uranium |
| HEV | Hybrid Electric Vehicle |
| HEVC | High Efficiency Video Coding |
| HEW | Half Energy Width (Teleskop/telescope) |
| HEW | Hamburgische Elektricitätswerke |
| HEXAFLY INT | High-Speed Experimental Fly Vehicles International |
| HF | Hochfrequenz, High Frequency (3 – 30 MHz) |
| HF | Human Factors (TC im/in the ETSI) |
| HFB | Hartree-Fock-Bogoljubow |
| HFBR | High Flux Beam Reactor (Brookhaven, Long Island, NY, USA) |
| HFC | Hybrid Fibre Coax(ial) (Cable) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| H-FDD | Hybrid Frequency Division Duplex (Telecommunication, Combination of Time and Frequency Division Duplex) |
| HFEA | Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority |
| HFF | Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film (München) |
| HFH | Hamburger Fernhochschule |
| HFIR | High Flux Isotope Reactor (ORNL) |
| HFM | Heißfilm-Luftmassenmesser |
| HFN | High-Frequency Notched (audiogram) |
| HFNL | Hefei National Laboratory [for Physical Sciences at Microscale] (CN) |
| HFO | Halbleiterwerk Frankfurt/Oder (DE) |
| HFOV | Hochfrequenz-Oszillationsventilation (künstliche Beatmung/artificial respiration) |
| HFP | Handsfree Profile (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HFR | High-Flux Reactor (GFS, Petten, NL) |
| HFR | Hybrid Fiber Radio |
| HFSP | Human Frontier Science Program |
| HfTL | Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig (DE) |
| HFU | High-Frequency Ultrasound |
| HG | Hermite Gaussian (Lasermode/laser mode) |
| HG | Hörgerät |
| HGAC | Human Genetic Advisory Commission |
| HGC | Hercules Graphics Card |
| HGF | Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren |
| HGL | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei/file name extension: graphic file] |
| HGP | Human Genome Project |
| HGS | Human Genome Sciences |
| HGSFP | Heidelberg Graduate School of Fundamental Physics (Universität/University of Heidelberg, DE) |
| HGÜ | Hochspannungs-Gleichstrom-Übertragung |
| HGV | Hochgeschwindigkeitsverkehr (Schienenverkehr/rail traffic) |
| HH | (Hansestadt) Hamburg (Bundesland/German Federal State) |
| HHC | Higher Harmonic Control |
| HHG | Hessisches Hochschulgesetz |
| HHG | High[-Order] Harmonic Generation (kurze Lichtimpulse/short light pulses) |
| HHI | Heinrich-Hertz-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik (Fraunhofer-Institut, Berlin, neuer Name) |
| HHI | Heinrich-Hertz-Institut für Schwingungsforschung (Berlin, alter Name) |
| HHMI | Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Ashburn, VA, USA) |
| HHNA | Hypothalamus-Hypophysen-Nebennierenrinden (-Achse) |
| HHS | Health and Human Services (US Government Department) |
| HI | Hawaii (US-Staat/US state) |
| HIC | Head Injury Criteria (Insassensicherheit/passenger safety) |
| HIC | Heterogeneous Interprocessor Communications and Standards |
| HIC | Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography |
| HICAS | High Velocity Impact of Composite Aircraft |
| HIDE | Heavy-Ion Demonstration Experiment |
| HIDIF | Heavy Ion Driven Intertial Fusion |
| HIDRA | Hybrid Illinois Device for Research and Applications (reactor) |
| HIF | Heavy-Ion Fusion |
| HIF | Hochschulinternes Fernsehen (Göttingen) |
| HIF | Hypoxie-induzierbarer Faktor (Protein) |
| HIFF | Hafnium Isomer Production Panel (DARPA) |
| HiFi | High Fidelity (Unterhaltungselektronik) |
| HIFI | Hawaii Imaging Fabry-Pérot Interferometer (Astronomie/astronomy) |
| HIFI | Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared |
| HIFRL | Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou (CN) |
| HIFT | Heard Island Feasibility Test |
| HIFU | High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound |
| HighPerFlex | High Performance Flexible Aircraft (DLR project) |
| HIGS | High-Intensity Gamma-Ray Source |
| HIH | Hertie-Institut für Klinische Hirnforschung (Tübingen) |
| HIIK | Heidelberger Institut für Internationale Konfliktforschung |
| HIL | Hardware-in-the-Loop |
| HILA | High Inertia – Low Acceleration |
| HILAC | Heavy Ion Linear Accelerator |
| HILES | HIL-Echtzeitsimulation |
| HIMB | Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology |
| HINARI | Health Internetwork Access to Research Initiative |
| HINVA | High Lift Inflight Validation (DLR + Airbus) |
| HIP | Heterogeneous-Compute Interface for Portability |
| HIPAA | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act(USA) |
| HiPEAC | High-Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers (Conference series) |
| HiPER | High Power Laser Energy Research (facility, planned for 2020, feasibility demonstration between 2010 and 2012, 26 partners in 9 countries) |
| HIPERLAN | High Performance Radio LAN (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HiPIE | High Performance Indoor Environment (laboratory, IBP) |
| HIPPARCOS | High Precision Parallax Collecting Satellite (ESA 1989) |
| HIPS | High Impact Polystyrene |
| HIPS | Homeland Innovative Prototypical Solutions |
| HIPSEC | High Pressure Science and Engineering Center (UNLV) |
| HiRes | High Resolution Fly's Eye (University of Utah, USA) |
| HiRISE | High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (Raumfahrt/spacecraft) |
| HIRMEOS | High Integration of Research Monographs in the European Open Science Infrastructure |
| HIS | Hinweis- und Informationssystem |
| HIS | Hochschul-Informationssystem |
| HIS | Hydrologic Information System (USA) |
| HI-SEAS | Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (project) |
| HISPICO | Hoch-integrierter S-Band-Sender für PICO- und Nano-Satelliten |
| HI-STEM | Heidelberger Institut für Stammzell-Technologie und Experimentelle Medizin |
| HIT | Heterojunction with Intrinsic Thin Layer (solar cells) |
| HIT | High-Intensity Training (Medizin/medicine) |
| HIT | Human Intestinal Tract |
| HITL | Hardware-in-the-Loop |
| HITRAN | High-Resolution Transmission Molecular Absorption Database (Harvard-Smithonian Center for Astrophysics) |
| HITRAP | Heavy Ion Trap |
| HITS | Heidelberger Institut für Theoretische Studien |
| HITS | High-Impact Technology Solutions |
| HiTS/ISAC | Highway to Security: Interoperability for Situation Awareness and Crisis Management |
| (EU, 10 partners in 9 countries: EE, ES, DK, FI, FR, LT, LV, PL, SE) |
| HITU | High Intensity Therapeutic Ultrasound |
| HIU | Helmholtz-Institut Ulm (für elektrochemische Energiespeicherung) |
| HIV | Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Human-Immunschwäche-Virus |
| HJ | Hitlerjugend (NS-Organisation) |
| HK | Hongkong/Hong Kong (ISO 3166) |
| HKA | Hauptkomponenten-Analyse (= PCA) |
| HKBU | Hong Kong Baptist University |
| HKI | Hans-Knöll-Institut für Naturstoffforschung (Jena) |
| HKIA, HKIOA | Hong Kong Institute of Acoustics (since 1993) |
| HKOES | Hong Kong Optical Engineering Society |
| HKP | Hochschulkooperationsprogramm (EU) |
| HKU | Hong Kong University |
| HKUST | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| HL | Hidden Layer (neuronale Netze/artificial neural networks) |
| HLA | Horizontal Line Array (ocean acoustics) |
| HLA | Human Leukocyte Antigen, humanes Leukozyten-Antigen (Biochemie/biochemistry) |
| HLD | High Magnetic Field Laboratory Dresden (DE, 2007) |
| HLDC | High-Level Data Link Control (UKW-Seefunk) |
| HLKO | Haager Landkriegsordnung |
| HLL | High-Speed Low-Voltage Low-Power (Logik-ICs/logical ICs) |
| HL-LHC | High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (CERN) |
| HLP | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Windows-Hilfe-Datei/file name extension: Windows help file] |
| HLR | Home Location Register (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HLRB | Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum in Bavaria |
| HLRS | Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart |
| HLRZ | Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum (Jülich) |
| HLU | Hilfe zum Lebensunterhalt (,,Sozialhilfe'') |
| HLW | Herz-Lungen-Wiederbelebung |
| HLW | High-Level Waste (radioaktiver Abfall/radioactive waste) |
| HL7 | Health Level Seven (US medical standard) |
| HM | Hardware Manager |
| HM | Heard und McDonald-Inseln/Heard and McDonald Islands (ISO 3166) |
| HMD | Head-Mounted Display (virtuelle Realität/virtual reality) |
| HMDO | Hexamethyldisiloxan |
| HMF | [International Conference on] High Magnetic Fields [in Semicondutor Physics] |
| HMGU | Helmholtz-Zentrum München – Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt |
| HMI | Hahn-Meitner-Institut (Berlin) |
| HMI | Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager |
| HMI | Human-Machine Interface |
| HMM | Hidden Markov Model |
| HMR | Home Location Register (Heimat-Datei) |
| HMRI | Helical Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| HMS | Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA, USA) |
| HMS | Headend Management System |
| HMS | Health Monitoring System (Flugzeug/aircraft) |
| HMS | Her Majesty's Ship |
| HMS | Hull Mounted Sonar |
| HMT | Histonmethyltransferase (Genetik) |
| HMWK | Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur |
| HMX | Tetramethylentetranitramin (Octogen, Sprengstoff/explosive) |
| HMXB | High-Mass X-Ray Binary (Röntgendoppelstern/X-ray double star) |
| HN | Honduras (ISO 3166) |
| HNLF | Highly Nonlinear Fibers (Laser) |
| HNM | Heliport Noise Model (Lärmbewertung/noise rating) |
| HNMC | Hub Network Management Computer |
| HNO | Hals-, Nasen- und Ohren(-Klinik oder -Patient/clinic or patient) |
| HO | HandOver (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HOBOS | Honeybee Online Studies (Universität Würzburg) |
| HOE | Holografisches optisches Element |
| HOG | Histograms of Oriented Gradients (human body detection) |
| HOLiCOW | H0 Lenses in COSMOGRAIL's Wellspring |
| HOLL | High (Ölsäure)-Low (Linolensäure) (haltbares Öl/well keeping oil) |
| HOLLI | High Oleic Low Linoleic (Raps) |
| HOLOMAR | High-Resolution in situ Holographic Recording and Analysis of Marine Organisms and Particles (EU project) |
| HOLT | High-Order Layerwise Theory (Verbundwerkstoffe/compounds) |
| HOMO | Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital |
| HONC | Hooked on Nicotin Checklist |
| HOPI | History of Physicists in Industry (AIP project) |
| HOPI | Hybrid Optical Packet Infrastructure (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| HOS | Higher-Order Statistics |
| HOSSANA | Holistic and Sustainable Abatement of Noise by Optimized Combinations of Natural and Artificial Means (EU project) |
| HOT | Highly Optimized Tolerance |
| HOT | Holographic Optical Tweezer |
| HOTS | Holographic Optical Telescope and Scanner |
| HP (hp) | Hewlett Packard |
| HP | High Priority |
| HPA | High Power Amplifier |
| HPA | Hypothalamus-Hypophysen-Nebennierenrinden-Achse |
| HPAI | Highly Potent Active Ingredient |
| HPC | Health Professional Card (smart card) |
| HPC | High Performance Computing (or: Computer) |
| HPC | High-Power Calculations |
| HPCaaS | High Performance Computing as a Service |
| HPCAC | High Performance Computing Advisory Council |
| HPCC | High Performance Computing and Communication (USA) |
| HPCC | High Performance Computing Cluster |
| HPCF | High Performance Computing Facility (UK) |
| HPCG | High Performance Conjugate Gradient |
| HPCI | High Performance Computing Initiative (Arizona State University, USA, and Japan) |
| HPCN | High Performance Computing and Networking (ESPRIT) |
| HPCS | High Performance Computing Symposium |
| HPCS | High Performance Computing Systems |
| HPC1 | Human Prostata Cancer 1 |
| HPC4Mfg | High Performance Computing for Manufacturing |
| HPC5 | High Performance and Cloud Computing Cross-Border Competence Consortium |
| HPD | Hearing Protection Device |
| HPDA | High-Performance Data Analysis |
| HPDDL | High-Power Direct-Diode Laser |
| HPDL | High-Power Diode Laser |
| HPEL | High-Precision Electrostatic Laminate |
| HPF | Habitable Zone Planet Finder (HET) |
| HPF | High Performance Fortran |
| HPGe | High-Purity Germanium (detectors) |
| HPGL | Hewlett Packard Graphics Language |
| HPHT | High Pressure High Temperature (Diamant/diamond) |
| HPI | Heinrich-Pette-Institut für Experimentelle Virologie und Immunologie (Hamburg) |
| HP-IB | Hewlett Packard Interface Bus |
| HPLC | High Performance Liquid Chromatography |
| HPLMN | Home Public (and) Land Mobile Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HPNA | Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HPS | Heavy Photon Search |
| HPS | High Performance Storage |
| HPS | High Purity Standard (analytische Chemie/analytical chemistry) |
| HPS | Human Patient Simulator |
| HPS | The Hungarian Physical Society |
| HPSK | Hybrid Phase Shift Keying (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HPSS | High Performance Storage System |
| HPT | Hexapod-Telescope |
| HPTR | Heterodyne Picosecond Thermoreflectance |
| HPUE | High Power User Equipment |
| HPV | Human Papillomavirus, Human-Papillomavirus |
| HPVM | High Performance Visual Machine |
| HPWT | High Performance Work Team |
| HP3 | Heat Flow and Physical Property Package (DLR instrument for InSight (Marsprobe)) |
| HQ | Headquarters |
| HQ | High Quality |
| HQOC | Harvard Quantum Optics Center (Harvard University, USA) |
| HQV | Half-Quantum Vortex (superconductivity) |
| HR | Hertzsprung–Russell (diagram, astrophysics) |
| HR | Hessischer Rundfunk |
| HR | High Resolution |
| HR | Kroatien/Hrvatska (ISO 3166) |
| HRC | Harmonically Related Carrier |
| HRD | Hertzsprung-Russell-Diagramm (Astronomie/astronomy) |
| HRDC | Hybrid Rice Research and Development Consortium |
| HRED | Human Research and Engineering Directorate (ARL, USA) |
| HREEL(S) | High Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy |
| HRG | Histidinreiches Glykoprotein |
| HRH | Her Royal Highness |
| HRI | High Resolution Imager (Röntgenstrahl-Satellit/X-ray satellite) |
| HRIBF | Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility (ORNL, USA) |
| HRIIS | High-Resolution Infrared Imaging Spectrometer |
| HRIR | Head-Related Impulse Response (Akustik/acoustics) |
| HRJ | Hydrotreated Renewable Jet (alternativer Flugzeugtreibstoff/alternative aircraft fuel) |
| HRK | Hochschulrektorenkonferenz |
| HRS | Hyper-Raman Scattering |
| HRSC | High Resolution Stereo Camera (ESA-Sonde/probe) |
| HRST | Human Resources in Science and Technology |
| HRTEM | High-Resolution Transmssion Electron Microscopy, Hochaufgelöste Raster-Transmissions-Elektronenmikroskopie |
| HRTF | Head-Related Transfer Function |
| HRU | Helium Recovery Unit |
| HRV | Herzfrequenzvariabilität |
| HRW | Human Rights Watch (Menschenrechtsorganisation) |
| HSAM | Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (hochgradig überlegenes autobiografisches Gedächtnis) |
| HSARPA | Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (USA) |
| HSC | High Speed Club |
| HSC | High Speed Cutting |
| HSCSD | High Speed Circuit Switched Data (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HSCT | hämatopoetische Stammzell-Transplantation |
| HSDL | Hierarchical Scan Description Language |
| HSDPA | High Speed Downlink Packet Access (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HS-DPCCH | High Speed Dedicated Physical Control Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HS-DSCH | High Speed Downlink Shared Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HSE | High Speed Ethernet |
| HSE | High Surface Energy |
| HSE | Highly Siderophile Element (astrophysics) |
| HSE | hohe Schmerzempfindlichkeit |
| HSEAS | Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences |
| HSFK | Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung |
| HSI | High Speed Internet |
| HSI | Hyperspectral Imaging |
| HSIA | High Speed Internet Access |
| HSK | Heizungs-, Sanitär- und Klimatechnik |
| HSL | Homoserinlacton |
| HSP | Hitzeschock-Protein |
| HSP | Hochschulsonderprogramm |
| HSPA | High Speed Packet Access (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HS-PDSCH | High Speed Physical Downlink Shared Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HSRS | Hot Spot Recognition System (Satelliten–Feuer–Erkundung) |
| HSRV | humanes Spuma-Retrovirus |
| HSS | harter Schnellstahl (Werkzeuge/tools) |
| HSS | High Speed Switch (Datennetz/data network) |
| HSS | Home Subscriber Server (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HSS | Humanities and Social Sciences |
| HS-SCCH | High Speed Shared Control Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HST | Hubble Space Telescope |
| HStAH | Hauptstaatsarchiv Hannover |
| HSUPA | High Speed Uplink Packet Access (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HSVA | Hamburgische Schiffbau-Versuchsanstalt |
| HSWS | Hartmann-Shack Wavefront Sensor |
| HT | Haiti (ISO 3166) |
| HT | High Temperature |
| HT | High Throughput |
| HT | High Transmission (filter) |
| HTB | Heterobipolar-Transistor |
| HTC | Hubbard Theory Consortium (established 2010) |
| HTC | Hyperwork Technology Conference |
| HT-CMC | High Temperature Ceramic Matrix Composites |
| HTDV | Human Teratocarcinoma-Derived Virus |
| HTE | High-Temperature Electrolysis (Wasserstoff-Kraftwerk/hydrogen power plant) |
| HTE | High Throughput Experimentation |
| HTF | Hub Terminal Facilities |
| HTG | Hyperschall-Technologie Göttingen (DLR) |
| HT-HPLC | High Temperature High Perfomance Liquid Chromatography, Hochtemperatur-Flüssigkeitschromatographie |
| HTLV | humanes T-lymphotropes Virus |
| HTM | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Internet-Datei/file name extension: Internet file] |
| HTMB | Hamburger Test für mathematische Begabung |
| HTMC | High Temperature Mechanical Testing Committee (UK) |
| HTML | HyperText Markup Language [Dateinamenerweiterung: Internet-Datei/file name extension: Internet file] |
| HTMT | Hybrid Technology/Multithreaded System (Supercomputer) |
| HTP | High Test Peroxide |
| HTR | Handwritten Text Recognition |
| HTS | Heights (US Mail) |
| HTS | High-Throughput Screening |
| HTS(C) | High Temperature Superconductor (Hochtemperatur-Supraleiter) |
| HTS(L) | Hochtemperatur-Supraleiter (High-Tc superconductor) |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer (or Transmission) Protocol (Computer-Netzwerk/computer network, WWW) |
| HTTPS | HTTP Secured |
| HTW | Hochschule für Technik und Wissenschaft (Berlin) |
| HU | Howard University (Washington, DC, USA) |
| HU | Humboldt-Universität (Berlin) |
| HU | Ungarn/Hungary (ISO 3166) |
| HUA | Harvard University Archive |
| HUAC | House Un-American Activities Committee (Antispionage-Maßnahme der USA) |
| HUD | Housing and Urban Development |
| HUGO | Human Genome Organization |
| HUPAS | Howard University Program in Atmospheric Sciences (Washington, DC, USA) |
| HUS | hämolytisch-urämisches Syndrom |
| HUSL | Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory |
| HUST | Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, CN) |
| HUTT | High-Resolution Ultrasonic Transmission Tomography |
| HV | High Quality Voice Packet (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HV | Obervolta/Upper Volta (ISO 3166 bis/until 1984) |
| HvA | Hogeschool van Amsterdam |
| HVAC | Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning |
| HVC | High-Velocity Cloud (astronomy) |
| HVDC | High-Voltage Direct-Current (verlustarme Hochspannungsleitung/low-loss power line) |
| HVM | High-Volume Manufacturing |
| HVO | Hawaiian Volcano Observatory |
| HVPE | Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy (semiconductor technology) |
| HVPLS | Hierarchical Virtual Private LAN Service (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| HWB | Halbwertsbreite |
| HWC | Hydrophobe Wechselwirkungschromatographie |
| HWEC | Hyperworks Enabled Community |
| HWI | Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (Buffalo, NY, USA) |
| HWW | Harzwasserwerke |
| HWY | Highway (US Mail) |
| HXMT | Hard X-Ray Modulated Telescope (Chinesischer Satellit/Chinese satellite) |
| HyCoMET | Hybrid-Composite Experimental Rocket |
| HYKAT | Hydrodynamik- und Kavitationstunnel (HSVA) |
| HYPOS | Hydrogen Power Storage and Solutions East Germany |
| HYSWIM | Hydrogen Switchable Mirror |
| HYSOP | Hybrid Silicide-Based Ligthweight Components for Turbine and Energy Applications |
| HyspIRI | Hyperspectral Infrared Imager (JPL) |
| HZDR | Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V. |
| HZG | Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht – Zentrum für Material- und Küstenforschung |
| HZI | Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung (Braunschweig) |
| HZT | High-Z Supernova Search Team |
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| IA | Ingoing Access |
| IA | Iowa (US-Staat/US state) |
| IAA | Internationale Astronautische Akademie |
| IAA | Internationale Automobilausstellung (Berlin, jeweils im/always in September) |
| IAA | Irish Aviation Authority (Flugsicherungsbehörde) |
| IaaS | Infrastructure as a Service (for research computation) |
| IAAS | Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik (Berlin) |
| IAB | Institut für Akustik und Bauphysik (Oberursel/Ts.) |
| IAB | Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (der Bundesanstalt für Arbeit) |
| IAB | Internet Administration (or: Architecture) Board |
| IABAG | Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgemeinschaft |
| IAC | Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias |
| IAC | International Astronautical Congress |
| IACC | Interaural Cross-Correlation |
| IACIS | International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists |
| IACM | International Association for (or: of) Computational Mechanics |
| IACS | Image-Activated Cell Spacing (Biotechnologie/biotechnology) |
| IAD | Integrated Access Device |
| IAD | Ion-Assisted Deposition |
| IADC | Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee |
| IADS | Integrated Active Drive System (Kfz-Fahrdynamik-Management/vehicle) |
| IADS | International Affective Digitized Sounds |
| IAE | Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço (Brazil) |
| IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency (Wien, AT) |
| IAEO | International Atomic Energy Organisation |
| IAES | Institute for Advanced Energy Solutions (USA) |
| IAESTE | International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience |
| IAF | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Angewandte Festkörperphysik (Freiburg/Br.) |
| IAGC | International Association of Geophysical Contractors |
| IAGOS | In-Service Aircraft for a Global Observing System |
| IAI | Israel Aircraft Industries, Israel Aerospace Industry |
| IAIS | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Intelligente Analyse- und Informationssysteme (Sankt Augustin) |
| IAKF | Interessengemeinschaft für Autofreie Kur- und Fremdenverkehrsorte in Bayern |
| IAKK | interaurale Kreuzkorrelation |
| IAM | Identity and Access Management |
| IAM | Integrated Assessment Model |
| IAMP | International Association for Mathematical Physics |
| IAMS | Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) |
| IANUS | Interdisziplinäre Arbeitsgruppe Naturwissenschaft, Technik und Sicherheit (TU Darmstadt) |
| IAO | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation (Stuttgart) |
| IAP | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Angewandte Polymerforschung (Potsdam-Golm) |
| IAP | Institut für Atmosphärenphysik (Kühlungsborn, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) |
| IAP | Internet Access Provider |
| IAP | Internet Protocol Access Point |
| IAPCM | Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (Beijing, China) |
| IAPP | Institut für Angewandte Photophysik (TU Dresden) |
| IAPS | International Affective Picture System |
| iAQC | Integrated Active Quenching Circuitry |
| IARC | International Agency for Research on Cancer |
| IARPC | Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee |
| IARU | International Amateur Radio Union |
| IAS | Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ, USA, and Shenzhen University, CN) |
| IAS | Interactive Assessment Score (education) |
| IAS | Internationaler Antwortschein |
| IAS | Islamic Academy of Sciences |
| IASB | Industry Association Synthetic Biology |
| IASC | Internaional Arctic Science Committee |
| IASI | Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer |
| IASOA | International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere |
| IASP | International Association for the Study of Pain |
| IASPEI | International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior |
| IASTED | International Association of Science and Technology for Development |
| IASTU | Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University (Beijing, CN) |
| IAT | Implizierter Assoziationstest (Psychologie) |
| IAT | Institut Arbeit und Technik (Gelsenkirchen) |
| IATA | International Air Transport Association |
| IATC | Intermittent Automatic Train Control (z.B./e.g., INDUSI) (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| IAU | International Astronomical Union |
| IAV | Informations-, Anlauf- und Vermittlungsstelle (Karlsruhe) |
| IAVI | International AIDS Vaccine Initiative |
| iaw | Institut für angewandtes Wissen (Köln) |
| IAWN | International Asteroid Warning Network |
| IAXO | International Axion Observatory |
| IBA | Important Bird Area (Naturschutz/nature conservation) |
| IBAC | International Bioacoustics Congress |
| IBAD | Ion Beam Assisted Deposition |
| IBAN | International Bank Account Number |
| IBBA | Interval Branch and Bound Algorithm |
| IBC | Integrated Broadband Communication |
| IBC | International Broadcast(ing) Convention (conference series) |
| IBE | Interaktive Bildschirmexperimente |
| IBEM | Inverse Boundary Element Method |
| IBEX | Interstellar Boundary Explorer (Astronomie/astronomy) |
| IBFM | Interacting Boson Fermion Model |
| IBID | India Business Insight Database |
| IBM | Interacting Boson Model |
| IBM | International Business Machines Corporation |
| IBM | Internationale Briefmarken-Messe |
| iBMB | Institut für Baustoffe, Massivbau und Brandschutz (TU Braunschweig) |
| IBMP | Institut für Biomedizinische Probleme (Moskau) |
| IBMS | In-Beam Mössbauer Spectroscopy |
| IBMT | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Biomedizinische Technik (St. Ingbert und Potsdam-Golm) |
| IBOC | In-Band On-Channel (high-definition radio) |
| IbO:LES | Integrierte betriebliche Optimierung: Lärm, Energie, Stabilität (DLR-Projekt für Bahnverkehr) |
| IBP | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Bauphysik (Stuttgart und Holzkirchen) |
| IBR | Institut für Bioanorganische und Radiopharmazeutische Chemie (FZR) |
| IBRO | International Brain Research Organization |
| IBS | Institute for Basic Science (Daejeon, Korea) |
| IBS | International Business Service |
| IBS | Ion Beam Sputtering |
| IBSB | International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Systems |
| IBTA | InfiniBand Trade Association |
| IBW | Internationales Bureau des Welttelegraphenvereins (gegründet/founded: 1868) |
| Ab/since 1908: Bureau international de l'union télégraphique |
| IC | Inertial Cloak (acoustic metamaterials) |
| IC | Integrated Circuit |
| IC | Intelligence Community |
| IC | Intercity (Bundesbahn/German train) |
| IC | Internal Combustion [Engine] (Verbrennungsmotor) |
| IC | Ion Chromatography; Ionenchromatographie |
| ICA | Independent Component Analysis |
| ICA | Infrared Camera for Car |
| ICA | International Commission for Acoustics |
| ICA | International Congress on Acoustics (since 1953, every three years) |
| ICaB | Incoming Call Barrier |
| ICAB | International Customer Advisory Board |
| ICABEE | International Conference on Advances in Bio-Informatics and Environmental Engineering |
| ICADL | International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries |
| ICAE | International Conference on Acoustic Emission |
| ICAF | International Committee on Aeronautical Fatigue |
| iCAIR | International Consortium for Anti-Infective Research (Fraunhofer-Projekt) |
| ICAL | Iron Calorimeter Detector (Neutrinodetektor/neutrino detector) |
| ICALEO | International Conference on Applications of Lasers and Electrooptics |
| ICALEPCS | International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems |
| ICAM | Industry Circle Additive Manufacturing |
| I-CAMP | Inter-Continental Advanced Materials and Photonics Summer School |
| ICAMS | Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Material Simulations (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, DE) |
| ICAO | International Civil Aviation Organization |
| ICARCF | International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision |
| iCARE | Improving Children's Auditory Rehabilitation (EU-ITN project) |
| ICARUS | International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space |
| ICAS | International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences |
| ICASE | Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA) |
| ICASSP | [IEEE] International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing |
| ICAST | Interational Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technology |
| ICB | Institute for Collaborative Biotechnology (USA) |
| ICBEN | International Commission on the Biological Effects of Noise |
| ICBM | Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
| ICBP | International Council for Bird Preservation |
| ICC | In-Car Communication |
| ICC | Institute of Computational Cosmology (Durham University) |
| ICC | Intelligent Customer Care |
| ICC | International Convention Centre (Birmingham, UK) |
| ICC | Internationales Congress Centrum (Berlin) |
| ICCAD | International Conference on Computer Aided Design |
| ICCAS | Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery (Universität Leipzig, DE) |
| ICCAT | International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas |
| ICCD | Intensified CCD |
| ICCE | International Conference on Consumer Electronics |
| ICCL | International Conference on Computer Languages |
| ICCT | International Council of Clean Transportation |
| ICDD | International Centre for Diffraction Data |
| ICDI | Institut Charles Darwin International |
| ICDP | International Continental Drilling Program (= KTB) |
| ICE | In-Car-Entertainment (Autoradio) |
| ICE | Intercity Express (Bundesbahn/German railway) |
| ICEM | International Conference on Experimental Mechanics |
| ICER | Industry Council for Electronic Equipment (UK) |
| ICES | Institute for Chemical and Engineering Sciences (Singapore) |
| ICES | Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (at University of Texas at Austin, USA) |
| ICES | International Council for the Exploration of the Sea |
| ICESat | Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite (NASA, since 2003) |
| ICF | Inertial Confinement Fusion (= Trägheitsfusion) (Reaktor/reactor) |
| ICFA | International Committee for Future Accelerators |
| ICFO | Institute of Photonic Sciences (Barcelona, ES) |
| ICFP | International Centre for Fundamental Physics and Its Interfaces (ENS, Paris, FR) |
| ICF-UNAM | Instituto de Ciencias Físicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
| ICG | Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation (University of Portsmouth, GB) |
| ICG | Intellectual Capital Group (Franklin, MI, USA) |
| ICGC | International Cancer Genome Consortium |
| ICGRG | International Commission on General Relativity and Gravitation |
| ICHEC | Irish Centre for High-End Computing (Dublin and Galway, Ireland) |
| ICI | Integrated Communication Interface (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ICI | Inter-Carrier Interference (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ICI | Interchannel Interference (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ICIJ | International Cosortium of Investigative Journalists |
| ICIMOD | International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development |
| ICIP | International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE) |
| ICIS | International Council of Independent States (seit/since 1984) |
| ICIT | Interactive Corpus of Indus Texts |
| ICL | Ice Cube Laboratory (Antarktis-Forschungsstation/antarctic research station) |
| ICM | Infotainment Cluster Module (Kfz-Technik) |
| ICM | International Congress Center München |
| ICM | Intracluster Medium (Astronomie/astronomy) |
| ICME | Integrated Computational Materials Engineering |
| ICMI | International Commission for Mathematical Instruction |
| ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ICMPC | International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition |
| ICMR | International Center for Materials Research |
| ICM2ST | International Conference on Methods and Models in Science and Technology |
| ICN | Information and Communication Network (Siemens) |
| ICNDT | Internatinal Conference “Application of Contemporary Non-Destructive Testing in Engineering&lrquo; |
| ICNN | International Conference on Neural Networks |
| ICNP | International Conference on Network Protocols |
| ICO | International Commission for (or: on) Optics |
| ICOMOS | International Council on Monuments and Sites |
| ICON | International Council on Nanotechnology (Rice University, USA) |
| ICONIP | International Conference on Neural Information Processing |
| ICOO | International Congress on Optics and Optoelectronics |
| ICOS | Integrated Carbon Observation System (EU project) |
| ICOS | International Catalog of Sources for History and Allied Sciences (AIP) |
| ICP | Inductively Coupled Plasma |
| ICP | Interuniversity Cooperation Programme (Europe) |
| ICPChS | International Congress of Phonetic Sciences |
| ICPM | Internationall Conference on Plasma Medicine |
| ICPNM | International Certificate Program for New Media (FhG, CRCG) |
| ICP-OES | Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy |
| ICP-QQQ | Triple Quadrupole Inductively Coupled Plasma |
| I&C PS | Industrial & Commercial Power Systems [Technical Conference] |
| ICPS | Industrial Consortium of Polynucleotide Synthesis |
| ICPS | International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors |
| ICQD | International Center for Quantum Design of Functional Materials |
| (University of Science and Technology, Hefei, CN, seit/since 2008) |
| ICQM | International Center for Quantum Materials (Peking University, CN) |
| ICR | Institute of Cancer Research (London, UK) |
| ICR | International Conflict Research (group) |
| ICR | Ion Cyclotron Resonance |
| ICRA | International Conference on Robotics and Automation |
| ICRAC | International Committee for Robot Arms Control |
| ICRF | Imperial Cancer Research Fund (London, UK) |
| ICRM | International Committee for Radionuclide Metrology |
| ICRP | International Commission on Radiological Protection |
| ICRU | International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements |
| ICS | Interactive Supercomputing |
| ICS | International Commission on Stratigraphy |
| ICSA | International Congress on Spatial Audio |
| ICSAI | International Conference on Systems and Informatics |
| I-CSCF | Interrogating Call Session Control Function (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ICSI | International Computer Science Institute (Berkeley, CA, USA) |
| ICSI | Intracytoplasmatische Spermieninjektion (künstliche Befruchtung) |
| ICSLP | International Conference on Spoken Language Processing |
| ICSOS | International Conference on the Structure of Surfaces |
| ICSS | Integrated Communications and Solutions Services (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ICSTI | International Council for Scientific and Technical Information |
| ICSU | International Council of Scientific Unions (seit/since 1931; umbenannt in/renamed into International Council for Science) |
| ICSV | International Conference on Sound and Vibration |
| ICT | Inductive-Core Transformer |
| ICT | Information and Communication Technology |
| ICT | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Chemische Technologie (Pfinztal bei/near Karlsruhe) |
| ICTA | International Center for Technology Assessment (USA) |
| ICTAM | International Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics |
| ICTCA | International Conference on Theoretical and Computational Acoustics |
| ICTP | [Abdus Salam] International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trieste, IT, seit/since 1964; also in Sao Paulo, BR, since 2012. See also SAIFR and MAIS) |
| ICTT | International Conference on Transport Theory |
| ICU | Intensive Care Unit (Krankenhaus/hospital) |
| ICU | International Congress on Ultrasonics |
| ICUME | International Conference on Uncertainty in Mechanical Engineering |
| I-CVUE | Incentives for Cleaner Vehicles in Urban Europe |
| ICW | Internet Call Waiting (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ICZM | Integrated Coastal Zone Management (Meeresküstenschutz/sea shore conservation) |
| ID | Idaho (US-Staat/US state) |
| ID | Identifier |
| ID | Indonesien/Indonesia (ISO 3166) |
| ID | Intelligent Design |
| IDA | Institute for Defense Analyses (USA) |
| IDA | Interface for Distributed Automation |
| Idaflieg | Interessengemeinschaft deutscher akademischer Fliegergruppen |
| IDB | Intelligent Transportation System Data Bus |
| IDBS | Interactive Data Business Solutions |
| IDC | Insulation Displacement Connection |
| IDC | International Data Corporation |
| IDC | International Data Centre, Internationales Datenzentrum (CTBTO, Wien/Vienna) |
| IDDP | Iceland Deep Drilling Project |
| IDDS | Integrated Dynamic Drive System (Kfz/automobile) |
| IDE | Integrated Development Environment |
| IDEM | Informations- und Dokumentationsstelle Ethik in der Medizin |
| IDF | Intermediate Data File |
| IDF | International Diabetes Federation |
| IDF | International DOI Foundation |
| IDFT | Inverse Discrete Fourier Transform, inverse diskrete Fourier-Transformation |
| IDIES | Institute for Data Intensive Science and Engineering (JHU) |
| IDL | Interactive Data Language |
| IDL | Interface Definition (or: Description) Language |
| IDLC | Integrated Digital Loop Carrier (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IDMP | Identification of Medical Products |
| IDMT | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Digitale Medientechnologie (Ilmenau) |
| IDNDR | International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction |
| IDnet | Intelligent Design Network |
| I-DOT | Immediate Drop on Demand Technology |
| IdP | Identity Provider (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IDP | Institut für Datenanalyse und Prozessdesign (Wintherthur, CH) |
| IDP | Intrinsically Disordered Protein |
| IDPF | International Digital Publishing Forum |
| i.d.R. | in der Regel |
| IDR | Inter-Domain Routing (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IDR | Intermediate Data Rate (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IDRD | Investigation of the Discourse of Interdisciplinary Research |
| IDRFC | Internal Dynamic Rate Flow Control (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IDS | Institut für Deutsche Sprache (Mannheim) |
| IDS | Intrusion Detection System (Firewall) |
| IDTV | Improved Definition Television (100 Hz-Bild/picture) |
| IDTV | Interactive Digital Television |
| IDV | Interactive Data Visualization |
| IDW | International Display Workshop (conference series) |
| IDWT | Inverse Discrete Wavelet Transform |
| IE | Irland/Ireland (ISO 3166) |
| IEA | International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement |
| IEA | International Energy Agency, Internationale Energieagentur (Paris, FR) |
| IEB | Inner Ear Biology |
| IEC | International Electrotechnical Commission (gegründet/founded 1904) |
| IECAS | Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| IECE, IECEJ | Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineers of Japan |
| IECON | Industrial Electronics Conference |
| IED | Improvised Explosive Device |
| IEDCR | Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (Bangladesh) |
| IEE | Institution of Electrical Engineers (UK) |
| IEE | Intelligent Energy Europe (EU Project 2006–2008) |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA) |
| IEEPA | International Emergency Economic Powers Act (1977) |
| IEER | Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (USA) |
| IEICE, IEICEJ | Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers of Japan |
| IEMB | Institut für Erhaltung und Modernisierung von Bauwerken (Berlin) |
| IEMN | [Carnot] Institut d'Electronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie (Lille, FR) |
| IEN | Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale Galileo Ferraris (Torino, IT) |
| IEO | Inner Earth Object (asteroid) |
| IEPE | Integrated Electronic Piezoelectric (sensor) |
| IERE | Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers (London, GB) |
| IERS | International Earth Rotation Service |
| IES | Institute for Environment and Suitability (EU) |
| IES | Internet Enhanced Services |
| IESE | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Experimentelles Software Engineering (Kaiserslautern) |
| IET | Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK) |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IETS | Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy |
| I/F | Interface |
| IF | Intermediate Frequency |
| IFA | Institut für Automobilwirtschaft |
| IFA | Internationale Funkausstellung |
| IFAB | International Football Association Board |
| IFAC | International Federation of Automatic Control |
| IfADo | Institut für Arbeitsphysiologie (Dortmund) |
| IFAE | Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies (University of Barcelona, ES) |
| IfAK | Institut für Automation und Kommunikation (Magdeburg) |
| IFALPA | International Federation of Airline Pilots |
| IFAM | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Fertigungstechnik und Angewandte Materialforschung (Bremen und Dresden) |
| IFAO | Institut Française d'Archéologie Orientale (Kairo, Egypt) |
| IFAR | International Forum for Aviation Research |
| IFATS | Innovative Future Air Transport System |
| IfBB | Institut für Biokunststoffe und Bioverbundwerkstoffe (Universität Hannover) |
| IFC | Industry Foundation Class (Schnittstelle/interface) |
| IFC | International Finance Corporation (Dakar) |
| IFE | In-Flight Entertainment System |
| IFE | Inertial Fusion Energy |
| IfE | Institut für Erdölforschung (Clausthal-Zellerfeld) |
| IFE | Institut für Festkörperphysik und Elektronenmikroskopie |
| IFEM | Infinite Element Method |
| IFERC | International Fusion Energy Research Center (Rokkasho, JP) |
| Ifeu | Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung |
| IFF | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Fabrikbetrieb und -automatisierung (Magdeburg) |
| IfF | Institut für Fahrzeugtechnik (TU Braunschweig) |
| IFF | Institut für Festkörperforschung [a): am/at the IFW, b): am/at the KFA, Jülich] |
| IFF | Interchange File Format (Graphikformat) |
| IFFT | Inverse Fast Fourier Transform |
| IfG | Institute for Glycomics (Griffith University, AUS) |
| IfH | Institut für Hochenergiephysik (ehem./former DDR, Zeuthen, AdW) |
| IFIP | International Federation of Information Processing Societies and: International Federation for Information Processing |
| IFIR | Interpolation Finite-Impulse Response (Filter) |
| IFJ | Inferior Frontal Junction (Gehirn/brain) |
| IfL | Institut für Länderkunde (Leipzig) |
| IfL | Institut für Leibesübungen |
| IFLA | International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions |
| IfM | Institut für Meereskunde (Kiel) |
| IFM | Interfacial Force Microscope |
| IFME | Institut für Mechanik (Universität Magdeburg) |
| IFMIF | International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility |
| ifmo | Institut für Mobilitätsforschung (BMW Group) |
| IfN | Institut für Neurobioogie (Magdeburg) |
| IFN | Institute for Functional Nanomaterials (University of Puerto Rico) |
| ifo | Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (München) |
| IFOK | Institut für Organisationskommunikation (Bensheim) |
| IFOR | Implementation Force (1995–1996, später/thereafter SFOR) |
| IFORS | International Federation of Operational Research Societies |
| IFOS | Institut für Oberflächen- und Schichtanalytik (Univ. Kaiserslautern) |
| IFP | Institut für Festkörperphysik (KIT) |
| IFPI | International Federation of the Phonographic Industry |
| iFQ | Institut für Forschungsentwicklung und Qualitätssicherung |
| IfR | Institut für Radiochemie (FZR) |
| IFR | Instrumental Flight Rules |
| IFR | International Federation of Robotics |
| IFRB | International Frequency Registration Board (in Genf/Genova, CH) |
| IFREMER | Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer |
| IFS | In-Flight-Simulation (aircraft testing) |
| IFS | Institut für Festkörperanalytik und Strukturforschung (am/at the IFW) |
| IfS | Institut für Sicherheitsforschung (FZR) |
| IFS | Integrated Forecast System (weather forecast) |
| IFSA | International Forestry Students Association |
| IFSC | Instituto di Fisica de Sao Carlos (BR) |
| IFSDA | International Federation of Stamp Dealers Association |
| IFT | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Festkörpertechnologie (München) |
| IfT | Institut für Troposphärenforschung (Leipzig) |
| IFT | Instituto de Fisica Teorica (Sao Paulo, BR) |
| IFToM | IT Future of Medicine (EU project) |
| IFT(o)MM | International Federation for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms |
| IFU | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Atmosphärische Umweltforschung |
| IFW | [Leibniz-] Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung (Dresden, seit 1992) |
| IfW | Institut für Weltwirtschaft (Kiel) |
| IFWS | Integrierte Flughafenwettersysteme |
| IFX | Interactive Financial Exchange |
| IfZ | Institut für Zeitgeschichte (München) |
| IG | Intrinsic Gettering |
| IGA | Inter-Governmental Agreement |
| IGAPPI | Interdivisional Group for Applied Physics and Physics in Industry (EPS) |
| IGB | Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (Berlin) |
| IGB | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Grenzflächen- und Bioverfahrenstechnik (Stuttgart) |
| IGBP | Internationales Geosphären-Biosphären-Programm (Ökologie/ecology) |
| IGBT | Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor |
| IGC | International Genomics Consortium |
| IGCC | Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (Kohlekraftwerk/coal power plant) |
| IGCV | [Fraunhofer-] Einrichtung für Gießerei-, Composite- und Verarbeitungstechnik (Augsburg) |
| IGD | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für graphische Datenverarbeitung (Darmstadt, Außenstelle/branch in Rostock) |
| IGDP | Intercollege Graduate Degree Program (Pennstate, USA) |
| IGeL | individuelle Gesundheitsleistungen |
| iGEM | International Genetically Engineered Machine [Competition] |
| IGERT | Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (NSF, USA) |
| IGF | Insulinlike Growth Factor |
| IGG | Intergovernmental Group |
| I-GGSN | Intelligent Gateway GPRS Support Node (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IGI | Information Governance Initiative |
| IGI | Italian Grid Infrastructure (or: Initiative) (computing) |
| IGK | Integrated Gatekeeper (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IGK | Internationales Graduiertenkolleg |
| IGLO | Informal Group of RTD Liaison Officers in Brussels (EU) |
| IGM | Intergalactic Medium |
| IGMP | Internet Group Management (or: Multicast) Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IGN | Installations-Geräuschnormal (DIN 52218) |
| IGP | Interior Gateway Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IGPD | Interdivisional Group on Physics for Development (EPS) |
| IGPDT | Image-Guided Treatment Planning System (health care) |
| iGREEN | Integrated Green Aircraft (DLR project) |
| IGRT | Image-Guided Radiation Therapy (health care) |
| IGS | [Laboratoire] Information Génomique et Structurale (Marseille, FR) |
| IGS | Integrierte Gesamtschule |
| IGS | Intergenic Spacer (Genetik/genetics) |
| IGS | International GPS Service for Geodynamics (Satellitengeodäsie/satellite geodesy) |
| IGT | Indicazione Geografica Tipica (italienische Wein-Kennzeichnung, entspricht deutschem Landwein/Italian wine classification) |
| IGTF | International Grid Test Federation |
| IGV | Institut für Grenzflächenforschung und Vakuumphysik (Jülich) |
| IGVK | Integriertes Gesamtverkehrskonzept |
| IGW | Internationale Grüne Woche (Berlin) |
| IGY | International Geophysical Year (1957/58) |
| IGZ | Informations- und Geschäftszentrum (DEGA, Berlin) |
| IGZ | Institut für Gemüse- und Zierpflanzenbau (Großbeeren und/and Kühnhausen bei/near Erfurt) |
| IHC | Immunhistochemie, Immunohistochemistry |
| IHC | Inner Hair Cell (in the ear) |
| IHCP | Institute for Health and Consumer Protection |
| IHD | Ischemic Heart Disease |
| IHEP | Institue of High Energy Physics (CERN, CH, and Beijing, CN) |
| IHÉS | Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (bei/near Paris, FR) |
| IHK | Industrie- und Handelskammer |
| IHM | Internationale Handwerkswoche |
| IHMC | Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (Pensacola, FL, USA) |
| IHMC | International Human Microbiome Consortium (since Oct. 2008) |
| IHME | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) |
| IHP | Institut für Halbleiterphysik, Leibniz-Institut für innovative Mikroelektronik (Frankfurt/Oder) |
| IHPT | Institut für Physikalische Hochtechnologie e.V. (Jena) |
| IHST | International Helicopter Safety Team |
| IHU | Innenhochdruck-Umformen (= Hydroforming) |
| IIASA | International Institute of Applied System Analysis (Laxemburg bei/near Wien, AT) |
| IIAV | International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration |
| IIC | Impact Insulation Class (building acoustics) |
| IICQI | International Iran Conference on Quantum Information (1st: Sept. 2007) |
| IICWG | International Ice Charting Working Group |
| IID | Independent and Identically-Distributed (Data; Filtertheorie/filter theory) |
| IID | Interaural Intensity Difference (Richtungshören/directional hearing) |
| IIHS | Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (USA) |
| IIIS | Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (Tsinghua University, CN) |
| IIIS | International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (University of Tsukuba, JP) |
| IIJ | Internet Initiative Japan |
| IIM | Institut für Ionenstrahlphysik und Materialforschung (FZR) |
| IIMV | Internationales Institut für Management und Verwaltung |
| I-INCE | International Institute of Noise Control Engineering |
| IIP | International Institute of Physics (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil) |
| IIR | Infinite Impulse Response (Digitalfilter/digital filter) |
| IIS | Indian Institute of Sciences (Bangalore, IN) |
| IIS | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen (Erlangen, Dresden und Ilmenau) |
| IISB | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Integrierte Systeme und Bauelementetechnologie (Erlangen) |
| IISER | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (a group of universities) |
| IIT | Illinois Institute of Technology (USA) |
| IIT | Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur, IN) |
| IITA | International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (Nigeria) |
| IITB | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Informations- und Datenverarbeitung (Karlsruhe) |
| IITM | Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (Pune, IN) |
| IJCNN | International Joint Conference on Neural Networks |
| IJM | International Journal of Mathematics |
| IJOS | International Journal of Oral Science |
| IJSC | International Journal of Systems Control |
| IJSSD | International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics |
| IKAR | [Landkarten-Datenbank/map data bank] (im/in the DBI) |
| IKARUS | Instrumente für Klimagas-Reduktionsstrategien |
| IKARUS | Internet-Katalog betrieblicher Umweltinformationssysteme |
| IKBD | Intelligent Keybord Chip |
| IKC | Integrated Knowledge Centre (UK) |
| IKE | Internet Key Exchange (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IKET | Institut für Kern- und Energietechnik (KIT) |
| IKH | Institut für Kern- und Hadronenphysik (FZR) |
| IKIT | Institut für klinische Immunologie und Transfusionsmedizin (Leipzig) |
| IKM | Institut für elektronische Korrelationen und Magnetismus |
| IKRK | Internationales Komitee vom Roten Kreuz |
| IKRN | Institut für Klinische Radiologie und Nuklearmedizin (Mannheim) |
| IKSD | Internationale Kommission zum Schutz der Donau |
| IKSE | Internationale Kommission zum Schutz der Elbe |
| IKSO | Internationale Kommission zum Schutz der Oder |
| IKSR | Internationale Kommission zum Schutz des Rheins |
| IKT | Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien |
| IKTS | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Keramische Technologien und Systeme (oder: Sinterwerkstoffe) (Dresden) |
| IKV | Institut für Kunststoffverarbeitung (Aachen) |
| IKZ | Institut für Kristallzüchtung (Berlin-Adlershof) |
| IL | Illinois (US-Staat/US state) |
| IL | Insertion Loss (Einfügungsdämmung) |
| IL | Israel (ISO 3166) |
| ILA | In-Line Amplifier (Glasfaserkabel/glass fiber cable) |
| ILA | Internationale Luft[- und Raum]fahrtausstellung |
| ILAC | International Laboratory Accreditation Corporation |
| ILAF | Identical Location of Accelerometer and Force |
| ILC | International Laser Center (Staatsuniversität Moskau/State University Moscow) |
| ILC | International Linear Collider (Fermilab) |
| ILD | Intelligibility Level Difference |
| ILD | Interaural Level Difference |
| ILD | International Large Detector (for the International Linear Collider) |
| ILE | Institute of Laser Engineering (Osaka, JP) |
| ILEC | Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ILED | Inorganic Light-Emitting Diode |
| ILEK | Institut für Leichtbau Entwerfen und Konstruieren (Universität Stuttgart) |
| iLeNa | Intelligente lernende Navigation (Kfz-Entwicklung) |
| ILI | Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement |
| ILI | Internet Librarian International (Conference series) |
| ILIPT | Intelligent Logistics for Innovative Product Technologies |
| ILL | Institut Laue-Langevin (Grenoble, FR) |
| ILM | Industrial Light & Magic (Flüssigkeitssimulation/fluid simulation system) |
| ILM | Integrated Laser Modulator (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| ILM | Intrinsic Localized Modes (Festkörperphysik/solid state physics) |
| ILMI | Integrated Local Management Interface (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ILMZ | Integrated Laser Mach-Zehnder (modulator, optical telecommunication) |
| ILP | Institute of Lasers and Plasmas (Bordeaux, FR) |
| ILR | Induced Loudness Reduction |
| ILS | Instrument Landing System, Instrumentenlandesystem |
| ILS | Integrated Library System |
| ILS | Integrated Logistic Support |
| ILS | Intracavity Laser Spectroscopy |
| ILSC | International Laser Safety Conference |
| ILT | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Lasertechnologie (Aachen, seit/since 1985) |
| ILV | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Lebensmitteltechnologie und Verpackung (München, bis 31.12.97/until Dec. 31, 1997; danach/thereafter: IVV) |
| ILW | Intermediate-Level Waste (radioaktiver Abfall/radioactive waste) |
| IM | Information Manager (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IM | Instant Messaging (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IM | Intensitätsmodulation |
| IM | Interlocking Module (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| IMA | Instituto Mexicano de Acústica |
| IMA | Integrated Motor Assist |
| IMA | Interactive Multimedia Association |
| IMA | International Marinelife Association |
| IMA | Inverse Multiplex ATM (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IMACS | International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation |
| IMAGE | Imager for Magnetopause to Aurora Global Exploration (NASA, Satellit/satellite) |
| IMAGES | International Marine Past Global Changes Study |
| IMAP | Internet Mail (or: Message) Access Protocol (E-Mail Server) |
| IMAPP | Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics (at Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL) |
| IMARES | Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies (NL) |
| IMAT | Intensity Modulated Arc Therapy |
| IMB | Institut für Molekulare Biotechnologie (Jena) |
| IMBA | Institut für Molekulare Biotechnologie (Wien, AT) |
| IMBP | Institut für Medizinisch-biologische Probleme/Institute for Biomedical Problems (Moskau, RU) |
| IMCA | International Marine Contractors Association |
| IMCC | ISDN Management and Coordination Committee (TC im/in the ETSI) |
| IMCRC | Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre |
| IMD | Intermodulation Distortion |
| IME | Infinite Memory Engine (computer) |
| IME | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Molekularbiologie und Angewandte Ökologie (Schmallenberg und Münster) |
| IME | Institute for Molecular Engineering (University of Chicago, USA) |
| IME | Institute of Microelectronics (Singapore) |
| IMEC | Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (BE) |
| IMechE | Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK) |
| IMEI | International Mobile Equipment Identity (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IMEKO | International Measurement Confederation (Budapest, HU) |
| IMES | Injectable Myoelectric Sensors (Prothesen/prosthetics) |
| IMF | Infinite Momentum Frame (neutron research) |
| IMF | [DLR-] Institut für Methodik der Fernerkundung |
| IMG | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei/file name extension: graphic file] |
| IMI | Innovative Medicines Initiative (EU) |
| IMI | International Materials Institutes |
| IMID | International Meeting on Information Display (conference series) |
| IMINT | Imaginary Intelligence |
| IMIS | Integriertes Mess- und Informationssystem zur Überwachung der Umweltradioaktivität |
| IMK | Innenministerkonferenz |
| IMK | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Medienkommunikation (St. Augustin) |
| IML | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Materialfluss und Logistik (Dortmund) |
| IML | International Microgravity Laboratory |
| IMM | Institut für Mikrotechnik (Mainz) |
| IMM | Institute of Microelectronics and Microsystems (z.B. in Neapel/e.g. in Naples, IT) |
| I-MMS | MSS Interconnection Network |
| IMO | Institut für Mikrostrukturtechnologie und Optoelektronik (Wetzlar) |
| IMO | International Maritime Organization |
| IMO | Internationale Mathematik-Olympiade |
| IMOS | Internationale Motivgruppen Olympiaden und Sport e.V. (Briefmarken-Verein) |
| IMP | Inosinmonophosphat |
| IMP | Institut für Molekulare Pathologie (Wien, AT) |
| IMP | Intermodulation Product |
| IMP | Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (spacecraft program, 1977) |
| IMPACCT | Innovative Materials and Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies |
| IMPACT | Identification of Novel Targets for Cancer Therapy (EU project) |
| IMPACT | Illinois Microarchitecture Project Utilizing Advanced Computer Technology |
| IMPACT | In Situ Measurements of Particle and Coronal Mass Ejections Transients (Sonnenphysik/solar physics) |
| IMPATT | Impact Avalanche Transit-Time (Diode) |
| IMPC | Ionosphere Monitoring and Prediction Center (DLR, Neustrelitz) |
| IMPECC | Infrared Microsystems for Pollution Emission Control on Cars |
| IMPRESS | Intermetallic Materials Processing in Relation to Earth and Space Solidification (ESA project, 2004–2009) |
| IMPRS(-QD) | International Max Planck Research School (for Quantum Dynamics) (Heidelberg, DE) |
| IMPS | Institute for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Porto Novo, Benin) |
| IMPT | Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy |
| IMR | Intelligent Mobile Redirect (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IMRT | Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (Onkologie, Röntgentechnik/oncology, X-ray technology) |
| IMS | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Mehl- und Süßspeisen (Castrop-Rauxel) |
| IMS | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Mikroelektronische Schaltungen und Systeme (Duisburg) |
| IMS | Institute of Materials Science (University of Connecticut, USA) |
| IMS | Institute for Molecular Science (Okazaki, JP) |
| IMS | Integrated Management Solution (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IMS | Intelligent Manufacturing System |
| IMS | Interactive Multimedia Service (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IMS | International Monitoring System (CTBT) |
| IMS | Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem |
| IMS | Ionen-Mikrofabrikations-Systeme (Firma/company in Wien, AT) |
| IMS | Ionenmobilitätsspektrometer, Ion-Mobility Spectrometer (analyzer) |
| IMS | IP Multimedia Subsystem (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IMSA | Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy |
| IMSBF | Information Management System Betriebsfestigkeit |
| IMSF | Institut für Multiple-Sklerose-Forschung (Göttingen) |
| IMSI | International Mobile Subscriber Identification (or: Identity) |
| IMT | Institut für Mikrostrukturtechnik (KfK) |
| IMT | Institute of Microtechnology (Univ. Neuchâtel, CH) |
| IMT | International Mobile Telecommunications |
| IMTA | integrierte multitrophe Aquakultur |
| IMTC | Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE) |
| IMTEK | Institut für Mikrosystemtechnik (Univ. Freiburg) |
| IMU | Inertial Measurement Unit (Verkehr, Trägheitsnavigation) |
| IMU | International Mathematical Union |
| IMUK | Internationale Mathematische Unterrichtskommission (seit/since 1908; später/later on: ICMI) |
| IMW | Institut für Metallische Werkstoffe (am/at the IFW) |
| IMWS | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Mikrostruktur von Werkstoffen und Systemen (Halle) |
| IN | Indiana (US-Staat/US state) |
| IN | Indien/India (ISO 3166) |
| IN | Intelligentes Netz, Intelligent Network |
| INACH | Instituto Antártico Chileno |
| INAP | Intelligent Network Application Protocol (or: Part) |
| INASP | International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications |
| Inc. | Incorporated (USA, entspricht Aktiengesellschaft) |
| INCA | Interhemispheric Differences in Cirrus Properties from Anthropogenetic Emissions |
| INCE | Institute of Noise Control Engineering (USA) |
| INCEMIC | International Conference on Electromagnetic Interference and Compatibility |
| INCITE | Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (EU Project since 2003) |
| INCITE | Institute of Neuronal Computational Intelligence and Technology (Univ. of Stirling, Schottland/Scotland) |
| INCO | International Cooperation [Cooperation with Third Countries and International Organisations] (EC) |
| INCREASE | International Cooperation on Research in Environmental Protection, Process Safety and Energy Technology |
| IND | Improvised Nuclear Device |
| IND | Investigational New Drug Application |
| INDC | Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (to climate change) |
| INDEST | Indian National Digital Library in Engineering Science and Technology |
| INDUSI | Induktive Zugsicherung (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| IND2UCE | Integrated Distributed Data Usage Control Enforcement |
| INE | Institut für Nukleare Entsorgung (KIT) |
| INEL | Idaho National Engineering Laboratory |
| INEP | Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira (Brazil) |
| INES | Informationsnetz Elbe-Sanierung |
| INES | Innovative Navigation European System |
| INES | International Nuclear Event Scale (IAEA) |
| INESAP | International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation |
| INET | Institute for New Economic Thinking (since 2009) |
| INETI | [National Institute of Engineering, Technology and Innovation] (Lisbon, PT) |
| INEX | International/External Security Continuum (EU, 9 partners in 8 countries: BE, ES, FR, NL, NO, PL, SE, TR) |
| INF | Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces |
| INFCE | International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation |
| INFN | Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (at several locations in Italy) |
| InGaAs | Indium-Gallium-Arsenid |
| INGO | Intensivierte Gewässerüberwachungsorganisation |
| INHA | Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (MX) |
| INI | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Programm-Initialisierungsdatei/file name extension: program initialization file] |
| INIE | Innovations in Nuclear Infrastructure and Education (DoE Program, USA) |
| INL | International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (Braga, PT) |
| INM | Institut National de Métrologie |
| INM | Integrated (or: Intermediate) Network Management (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| INM | Integrated Noise Model (FAA) |
| INMAPS | Isolated N-Well Monolythic Active Pixel Sensor |
| INMAR | Intelligent Materials for Active Noise Reduction |
| Inmarsat | International Maritime Satellite Organization (gegründet/founded 1979) |
| InnoCaT | Innovationsallianz Green Carbody Technologies |
| Inno.CNT | Innovationsallianz CNT [Carbon Nanotubes] |
| InnoMed | Innovative Medicine for Europe |
| INO | India-Based Neutrino Observatory |
| INO | Iranian National Observatory |
| INOK | Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie (Berlin) |
| INP | [Leibniz-] Institut für Niedertemperatur-Plasmaphysik (Greifswald) |
| INPAT | Integration des Patentwesens in die ingenieurmäßige wissenschaftliche Hochschulausbildung |
| INPI | Institut National de la Proprieté Industrielle (FR) |
| INPRO | International Project (on Innovative Nuclear Reactors and Fuel Cycles) |
| INQUA | International Union for Quarternary Research |
| INRA | International Research Associates |
| INRAP | Institut National de Recherches archéologiques préventives (Basse-Normandie, FR) |
| INRETS | Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité (FR) |
| INRIA | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (FR) |
| INROS | Innovative Rotorsteuerung (Hubschrauber/helicopter) |
| INRS | Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (Varennes, PQ, CA) |
| INS | Inertiales Navigationssystem |
| INS | Institute for Nuclear Study (University of Tokyo, JP) |
| INSA | Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (Lyon, FR) |
| INSAM | International Society for Agricultural Meteorology |
| InSAR | Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| INSEL | Integrated Simulation Environment Language |
| INSERM | Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, FR) |
| InSight | Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (Mars probe, proposed for 2016) |
| INSIGNEO | Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Modelling |
| INSM | Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft |
| INSNA | International Network for Social Network Analysis |
| INSPIRE | Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community |
| INSPIRE | Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (India) |
| INSPIRE | Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education |
| INT | Information Notification Table (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| INT | Istitut für Nanotechnologie (am KIT) |
| INT | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Trendanalysen (Euskirchen) |
| INT | Institute for Nuclear Theory (University of Washington, USA) |
| Int., Intnl. | International |
| INT | IP/MAC Notification Table (für/for DVB-H) |
| INTA | Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aerospacial (Madrid, ES) |
| INTAS | International Association for the Promotion of Cooperation with Scientists from the New Independent States (Internationale Assoziation |
| zur Förderung der Zusammenarbeit mit Wissenschaftlern aus der früheren Sowjetunion) (Brüssel/Brussels, BE 1993) |
| INTEGRAL | International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (Satellit/satellite) |
| Intelsat | Intercontinental Telecommunication Satellite Organization |
| Internoise | International Congress on Noise Control Engineering |
| InterPARES | International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems |
| INT-MANUS | Intelligent Networked Manufacturing System |
| INTOR | International Tokamak Reactor (Fusionsreaktor/fusion reactor) |
| IntServ | Integrated Services (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| INUMAC | Imaging of Neuro Disease Using High Field Magnetic Resonance and Contrastophores |
| INVITE | Innovationen, Visionen und Technologien; Innovation, Vision, Technology (Forschungszentrum, Leverkusen) |
| IO | Britisches Territorium im Indischen Ozean/British Indian Ocean Territory (ISO 3166) |
| I/O | Input/Output |
| IOBB | Input Output, Broadband (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IOC | Integrated Optical Circuits |
| IOC | Intergovermental Oceanographic Commission (UNESCO) |
| IOCNET | Input/Output Carrier Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IODA | Integrated Ocean Dynamics and Acoustics (ONR program) |
| IODP | Integrated Ocean Drilling Program |
| IODT | Inter-Operability Development Testing (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IOF | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Angewandte Optik und Feinmechanik (Jena) |
| IOI | International Olympics of Information |
| IOL | Intraokularlinse |
| IoLT | Internet of Laboratory Things |
| IOM | Individual Ordinary Member (EPS etc.) |
| IOM | Institut für Oberflächenmodifizierung (Leipzig) |
| IONDS | Integrated Operational Nuclear Detection System (USA) |
| IOP | Inherent Optical Properties (of water) |
| IOP | The Institute of Physics (UK) |
| IOPP | Institute of Physics Publishing (Bristol, UK) |
| IÖR | Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung (Dresden) |
| IOS | International Organization for Standardization |
| IOSB | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Optronik, Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung (Karlsruhe, Ilmenau, Ettlingen) |
| IOSB-INA | [Fraunhofer-Anwendungszentrum] Industrial Automation |
| IOSN | International Open Source Network |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| IOT | Inter Operability Test(ing), Interoperabilitätstest (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IOTA | Infrared-Optical Telescope Array (Mt. Hopkins, AZ, USA) |
| IOTA | Institut d'Optique Théorique et Appliquée (FR) |
| IOV | In-Orbit Validation (Galileo, 2008) |
| IOW | Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde (Univ. Rostock) |
| IP | Image Processing |
| IP | Integral Photography (TV) |
| IP | Intellectual Property |
| IP | Intelligence Platform |
| IP | Intentional Programming |
| IP | International Protection |
| IP | Internet Protocol (Rechnernetz/computer network) |
| IPA | [DLR-] Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre |
| IPA | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung (Stuttgart und Mannheim) |
| IPA | Intelligent Park Assist (Kfz-Einparkhilfe/vehicle) |
| IPA | Intelligent Pilot Assistant (DLR, Flugführung/flight control) |
| IPA | Intergovernmental Personnel Act (USA) |
| IPA | International Permafrost Association |
| IPAB | International Publisher Advisory Board |
| IPAC | International Particle Accelerator Conference |
| IPAM | Interface Analysis at Atomic Level and Properties of Advanced Materials |
| IPAT | Impact, Population, level of Affluence, Technology (Gleichung zur Beschreibung umweltschädigender |
| Auswirkungen menschlichen Verhaltens/equation describing human-induced environment pollution) |
| IPB | Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie (Halle/Saale) |
| IPBC | Institut de Physiologie et Biologie Cellulaires (CNRS, Université de Poitiers, FR) |
| IPC | Integrated Plastic (or: Polymer) Circuit (Elektronik/electronics) |
| IPC | Integrated Pollution Control |
| IPC | Inter-Process Communication (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IPC | International Patent Classification |
| IP-CAN | IP Connectivity Access Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| IPCC | International Professional Communication Conference |
| IPCdF | Institute of Physics of Collège de France (Paris) |
| IPD | Institut für Polymerforschung (Dresden) |
| IPD | Integrated Project Delivery |
| IPD | Interaural Phase Difference |
| IPD | Investment Property Datenbank |
| IPD | Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma |
| IPDA | Integrated Path Differential Absorption (Lidar) |
| IPDC | Internet Protocol Device Control |
| IPDPS | IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium |
| IPDS | Institut für Phonetik und digitale Sprachverarbeitung (Kiel) |
| IPEDS | Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (USA) |
| iPEPICO | Imaging Photoelectron Photoion Coincidence (spectroscopy) |
| IPF | Idiopathische pulmonale Fibrose |
| IPF | Industrial Physics Forum (AIP) |
| IPF | Infozentrum für Prävention und Früherkennung |
| IPF | Institut für Polymerforschung (Dresden) |
| IPF | International Polar Foundation |
| IPFN | [Institute for Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion] (Lisbon, PT) |
| IPFW | Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne (USA) |
| IPG | Independent Publishers Guild |
| IPG | Information Power Grid (NASA) |
| IPHE | International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy (seit/since 2003, 17 members, including EU and USA) |
| IPHLA | Internationale Philatelistische Literaturausstellung |
| iPHO | International Physics Olympiad |
| IPHT | Institut für Physikalische Hochtechnologie (oder: Photonische Technologien) (Jena) |
| IPIDS | Intellectual Property Identification Data Set (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IPIPSB | International Patents Information Professionals Standards Board |
| IPK | Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (Gatersleben) |
| IPK | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Produktionsanlagen und Konstruktionstechnik (Berlin) |
| IPK | Internationaler Prototyp des Kilogramms, International Prototype of the Kilogram |
| IPL | Information-Processing Language |
| IPL | Intense Pulsed Light |
| IPL | Ionenprojektions-Lithographie |
| IPLS | Introductory Physics for Life Scíences |
| IPLS | IP-Only LAN Service (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IPM | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Physikalische Messtechnik (Freiburg) |
| IPM | Institute of Policy and Management (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing) |
| IPMC | Ionic Polymer Metal Composite (Aktor für künstliche Muskeln etc./actuator, for artificial muscles etc.) |
| IPMP | Intellectual Property Management and Protection (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IPMS | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Photonische Mikrosysteme (Dresden) |
| IPMU | Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (University of Tokyo, JP) |
| IPMX | Internet Protocol Media Exchange (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IPN | [Leibniz-] Institut für die Pädagogik der Naturwissenschaften (und Mathematik) (Kiel) |
| IPNM | IP Network Management (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IPNS | Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA) |
| IPO | Initial Public Offering |
| IPO | Institute for Perception Research (Eindhoven, NL) |
| IPoA | IP over ATM |
| IPP | Institute of Particle Physics (University of Toronto, ON, CA) |
| IPP | Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (Garching) |
| IPP | Internet Print Protocol |
| IPR | Intelectual Property Rights |
| IPRC | Intellectual Property Rights Committee (TC im/in the ETSI) |
| iPS, ipS | induzierte pluripotente Stammzelle |
| IPS | In-Plane Switching (LCD mit beiden Pixelelektroden auf einer Seite, aufgeklappter |
| Kondensator/LCD with both pixel electrodes on the same side, unfolded capacitor) |
| IPS | Instructions per Second |
| IPS | International Plutonium Storage |
| iPSC | Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell |
| IPSC | Inhibitory Postsynaptic Conductance |
| IPSC | Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen |
| IPSD | Intensified Position-Sensing Detector |
| IPSE | Integrated Project Support Environment |
| IPSec | Internet Protocol Security (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IPSI | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Integrierte Publikations- und Informationssysteme (Darmstadt, aufgelöst/closed 2006) |
| IPSS | Information Processing Systems and Software (ESPRIT) |
| IPT | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Produktionstechnologie (Aachen) |
| IPTA | International Pulsar Timing Array (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| IPTC | Internet Protocol Transformation Center |
| IPTC | Modelldeformations- und Positionserfassung (Windkanal) |
| IPTS | Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (EU, Sevilla, ES) |
| IPTV | Internet Protocol Television |
| IPU | Intelligent Power Unit (Hybridfahrzeug/hybrid vehicle) |
| IPVM | Integrated Packaging Value Model |
| IP VPN | IP Virtual Private Network(s) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IPVS | Institut für Parallele und Verteilte Systeme (Univ. Stuttgart) |
| IPWR | Integral Pressurized Water Reactor |
| IPX | Internetwork Packet Exchange (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IPY | International Polar Year (März/March 2007 – März/March 2009) |
| IQ | Installation Qualification |
| IQ | Irak/Iraq (ISO 3166) |
| IQC | Institute for Quantum Computing (University of Waterloo, ON, CA) |
| IQE | Internal Quantum Efficiency (Festkörperphysik/solid state physics) |
| IQEC | International Quantum Electronics Conference |
| IQHE | Integer Quantum Hall Effect |
| IQM | Institute for Quantum Matter (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA) |
| IQOE | International Quiet Ocean Experiment |
| IQOQI | Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation (Innsbruck, AT) |
| IQST | Integrated Quantum Science and Technology |
| IQWiG | Institut für Qualität und Wirtschaftlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen |
| IR | Information Retrieval |
| IR | Infrared [Radiation] |
| IR | Institutional Repository |
| IR | Iran (ISO 3166) |
| IRAM | Institute for Radio Astronomy at Millimeter Wavelengths (Pico del Veleta, ES, and Grenoble, FR) |
| IRAS | Infrared Astronomical Satellite (1983) |
| IRB | [Fraunhofer-] Informationszentrum Raum und Bau (Stuttgart) |
| IRBM | Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile |
| IRC | Internet Relay Chat (Rechnernetz/computer network) |
| IRC | Intrinsic Reaction Coordinate (Molekülphysik/molecular physics) |
| IRCAM | Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique (Paris, FR) |
| IRCH | Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating (Fusionsreaktortechnik/fusion reactor technology) |
| IRCNPC | International Research Center for Nuclei and Particles in the Cosmos (Beihang University, Beijing, CN) |
| IRCS | Infrared Camera and Spectrograph |
| IRD | Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (FR) |
| IRDA | Infrared Data Exchange |
| IRDAC | Industrial Research and Development Advisory Committee (EU) |
| IRDT | Inflatable Reentry and Descent Technology (Raumfahrt/spacecraft) |
| IRE | Institute of Radio Engineers (USA) |
| IRE | Irreversible Elktroporation (gegen Krebs) |
| IREES | Institut für Ressourceneffizienz und Energiestrategien (Karlsruhe) |
| IRENA | International Renewable Energy Agency (Internationale Agentur für Erneuerbare Energien) |
| IRERP | Izmir Region Excavations and Research Project (Univ. of Ankara, TR) |
| IRFPA | Infrared Focal Plane Array (Mikrobolometer) |
| IRFU | Integrated Radio Frequency Unit (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IRI | Industrial Research Institute (Washington, DC, USA) |
| IRIC | Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (Montreal, CA) |
| IRIDIA | [Institute for] Interdisciplinary Research and Development in Artificial Intelligence (Esprit, Brüssel/Bussels, BE) |
| IRIS | Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (USA) |
| IRIS | Infrared Imaging Surveyor (Satellit/satellite) |
| IRM | Impurity Resolution Management |
| IRM | Intelligent Resource Management |
| IRM | Interference Reflection Microscopy |
| IRMI | Intelligente und innovative Reise- und Maintenance-Informationsplattform |
| IRMM | Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (Geel, BE) |
| iRNA | interferierende RNA |
| iRODS | Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System |
| IRP | International Foundation for Research in Paraplegia (Zürich, CH) |
| IRPHE | Institute for Research on Nonequilibrium Phenomena (Marseille, FR) |
| IRPL | (NBS) Interservice Radio Propagation Laboratory |
| IRR | Internal Rate of Return (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IRRI | International Rice Research Institute (Los Baños, Philippines) |
| IRS | Institut für Raumfahrtsysteme (Universität Stuttgart) |
| IRS | Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung (Berlin) |
| IRS | Insulin Receptor Substrate |
| IRS | Internal Reference Specification |
| IRS | International Revenue Service (USA) |
| IRS | Intrusion Response System (Firewall) |
| IRSI | Infrared Space Interferometry |
| IRSIX | Injury Severity Index (Insassensicherheit/passenger safety) |
| IRST | Infrared Search and Track (Radar) |
| IRSU | ISDN Remote Subscriber Unit (RSU mit ISDN-Möglichkeit/RSU with ISDN facility) |
| IRT | Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (FR) |
| IRT | Integrated Receiver-Transmitter (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IRTF | Infrared Telescope Facility (Mauna Kea, Hawaii) |
| IS | Information Systems |
| IS | Integrated Services |
| IS | Island/Iceland (ISO 3166) |
| ISA | Industry-Standard Architecture |
| ISA | Instruction Set Architecture (Computer software) |
| ISA | Integrated IP/SDH/ATM (or: STM/ATM) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ISA | Integrated Service Adapter (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ISA | International Seabed Authority (UNO) |
| ISA | International Search Authority (Patente/patents) |
| ISA | International Society of Automation |
| ISAAC | Infrared Spectrometer and Array Camera (at the VLT of the ESO) |
| ISAAC | International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood |
| ISAC | Isotope Accelerator (nuclear physics group, University of British Columbia, CA) |
| ISAF | International Security and Assistance Force |
| ISAM | Institut für Supercomputing und Angewandte Mathematik (Heidelberg) |
| ISAM | Intelligent Services Access Multiplexer (or: Manager) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ISAN | Integrität bei der Satellitennavigation |
| ISAR | Intelligentes System zur automatischen Radioskopie |
| I.S.A.R. | International Search and Rescue |
| ISARS | International Society for Acoustic Remote Sensing |
| ISAS | Institut für Spektrochemie und Angewandte Spektroskopie (Dortmund) |
| ISAS | Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (Japan) |
| ISAT | Innovative Space Based Radar Antenna Technology (Satellitenprogramm/satellite program) |
| ISAVE | Institute of Sound and Vibration Engineering (FH Düsseldorf, DE) |
| ISAVIA | Icelandic Civil Aviation Administration (Flugsicherungsbehörde) |
| ISB | Intelligent Signalling Bus (Datennetz/data network) |
| ISB | Intelligent Storage Bridge |
| ISBB | International Science and Business Belt (planned in Daejeon, Korea) |
| ISBF | International Sonic Boom Forum |
| ISBI | International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging |
| ISBN | International Standard Book Number |
| ISC | Inner Space Center (URI/GSO) |
| ISC | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Silicatforschung (Würzburg) |
| ISC | Interactive Multimedia Service Control (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ISC | International Softswitch Consortium |
| ISC | International Supercomputing Conference |
| ISCA | International Speech Communication Association |
| ISD | Integraton and Services Division |
| ISD | International Subscriber Dialing (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ISDB | Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ISDB-S | Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Satellite (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ISDB-T | Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ISE | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für solare Energiesysteme (Freiburg) |
| ISE | Integrated Switching Element (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ISE | Intelligent Synthesis Environment (NASA) |
| ISEE | International Sun-Earth Explorer |
| ISEF | International Science and Engineering Fair (seit/since 1950) |
| ISEN | Initiative for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (Northwestern University, USA) |
| ISESCO | Islamic Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization |
| ISET | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Solare Energieversorgungstechnik (Kassel) |
| ISET | Isolation by Size of Epithelial Tumor Cells |
| ISF | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Schwingungsforschung (1956, später/later on: IITB) |
| ISF | International Science Foundation |
| ISFET | Ionen-sensitiver Feldeffekt-Transistor |
| ISFH | Institut für Solarenergieforschung, Hameln (DE) |
| ISFM | International Spent Fuel Management (Brennelement-Kontrolle) |
| ISFRS | International Symposium on Food Rheology and Structure |
| ISG | Informationszentrum für Sexualität und Gesundheit (Freiburg/Br.) |
| ISG | Intelligent Solutions Group (at ETIC) |
| ISGE | Inverse Spin Galvanic Effect |
| ISH | Internationale Fachmesse Sanitär Heizung Klima (Frankfurt/M) |
| ISHE | Inverse Spin Hall Effect |
| ISI | Institut für Schicht- und Ionentechnik (Jülich) |
| ISI | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung (Karlsruhe) |
| ISI | Institute for Scientific Information (Philadelphia, PA, USA) |
| ISI | Intersymbol Interference, Inter-Symbol-Interferenz |
| ISIC | International Student Identity Card |
| ISIM | Integrated Science Instrument Module (NGST) |
| ISIN | International Securities Identification Number |
| ISi-PADAS | Integrated Human Modelling and Simuation to Support Human Error Risk Analysis of Partially Autonomous Driver Assistance Systems (EU research project) |
| ISIR | Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris) |
| ISIS | Institut for Science and International Security (Washington, DC, USA) |
| ISIS | Intelligentes Satellitendaten-Informationssystem (Fernerkundung/remote sensing) |
| IS-IS | Intermediate System–to–Intermediate System |
| ISIT | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Siliziumtechnologie (Itzehoe) |
| ISIT | [IEEE] International Symposium on Information Theory |
| ISITA | International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications |
| ISL | Imperceptible Structured Light |
| ISL | Institut Franco-Allemand de Recherches de Saint-Louis, Deutsch-Französisches Forschungsinstitut Saint-Louis |
| ISL | Inter-Satellite Link (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ISLSWG | International Space Life Science Working Group |
| ISM | In Situ Monitoring |
| ISM | Industrial, Scientific, Medical (433 MHz-Frequenzband/frequency band) und/and Bluetooth: 2,45 GHz-Band (lizenzfrei)/2.45 GHz band (license-free) |
| ISM | Interstellar Medium, Interstellares Medium |
| ISMA | International Conference on Noise and Vibration |
| ISMA | International Symposium on Musical Acoustics |
| ISMTE | International Society of Managing and Technical Editors |
| ISN | Institut des Sciences Nucléaires (Grenoble, FR) |
| ISNA | International Symposium on Nonlinear Acoustics |
| ISNR | Improvement in SNR (Bildverarbeitung/picture processing) |
| ISNS | Inside Science News Service (AIP Service) |
| ISO | Independent System Operator |
| ISO | Infrared Space Observatory (1995–1998) |
| ISO | International Standards (or: Standardization) Organization |
| ISOC | Internet Society |
| ISOL | Isospin Separation Online |
| ISOL | Isotope Separator Online |
| ISOLDE | Innerstädtischer Service mit optimierten logistischen Dienstleistungen |
| ISOM | International Symposium on Optical Memory (conference series) |
| ISORAC | Infrared Spectroscopy of Ozone and Related Atmospheric Constituents |
| ISOS | Internet-Spanning Operating System (noch hypothetisch/still hypothetical) |
| ISO/SR | ISO Search Retrieval |
| ISP | Ice Structuring Proteins |
| ISP | In-System Programmable (Devices) |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| ISPE | International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering |
| iSPIM | Inverted Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy |
| ISPR | International Standard Payload Rack (Raumfahrt/spacecraft) |
| ISPRAM | In Situ Processing of Aluminium Matrix Composites |
| ISPRS | International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing |
| ISQ | International System of Quantities |
| ISR | Incoherent Scatter Radar |
| ISR | Incurred Sample Reanalysis |
| ISR | Initial Submission Rate (Datennetz/data network) |
| ISR | Integrated Switch Router (Internet) |
| ISR | Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (Satelliten/satellites) |
| ISR | Intersecting Storage Rings (CERN) |
| ISRA | International Symposium on Room Acoustics (conference series) |
| ISRN | International Standard Technical Report Number |
| ISRO | Indian Space Research Organisation |
| ISRSE | International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment |
| ISRU | Industrial Statistics Research Unit |
| ISS | Imaging Subsystem (Cassini, Bordkamera) |
| ISS | Integrated Safety System |
| ISS | International Space Station |
| ISSCC | [IEEE] International Solid-State Circuits Conference |
| ISSE | Information Security Solutions Europe (Conference series) |
| ISSN | International Standard Series Number |
| ISSPA | International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications |
| ISSS | International Society of Soil Sciences |
| ISST | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Software- und Systemtechnik (Dortmund) |
| ISSTA | [IEEE] International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications |
| IST | Information Society Technologies |
| IST | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Schicht- und Oberflächentechnik |
| (Braunschweig und Göttingen: Anwendungszentrum für Plasma und Photonik) |
| IST | Internal Set Theory (Interne Mengenlehre) |
| IST Austria | Institute of Science and Technology (in Maria Gugging, near Klosterneuburg, north of Vienna) |
| ISTC | International Science and Technology Center (Moscow, RU) |
| ISTP | Information Society Technologies Programme |
| ISTQB | International Software Testing Qualifications Board |
| ISTR | Inverse Sequence-Tagged Repeat (DNA Marker-Technik/marker technology) |
| ISTS | International Speech Test Signal |
| ISTU | International Society (or: Symposium) for Therapeutic Ultrasound |
| ISU | Iowa State University (Ames, IA, USA) |
| ISUP | ISDN User Part |
| ISV | Independent Software Vendor |
| ISV | Invertebrate Sound and Vibration (Conference series) |
| ISVL | Iraqi Virtual Science Library |
| ISVR | Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (University of Southampton, UK) |
| ISVR | Instrument Science Verification Review (FIRST) |
| ISW | Integrierter Sachs-Wolfe–Effekt (Kosmologie) |
| ISWA | Institut für Siedlungswassserbau, Wassergüte- und Abfallwirtschaft (Universität Stuttgart) |
| ISX-B | Impurity Studies Experiment B (Fusionsreaktortechnik/fusion reactor technology, Oak Ridge, USA) |
| ISY | International Space Year (1992) |
| ISYS | Institut für Systemdynamik (Universität Stuttgart) |
| IT | Information Technology, Informationstechnik |
| IT | Italien/Italy (ISO 3166) |
| ITA | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Toxikologie und Aerosolforschung (Hannover, jetzt: ITEM) |
| ITAE | Integral Time-Weighted Absolute Error |
| ITAEG | Information Technology Advisory Experts Group |
| ITAMP | Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA) |
| ITAP | Isotope Technology Acceleration Program |
| ITAR | International Traffic in Arms Regulation (export control) |
| ITB | Internationale Tourismusbörse (Berlin) |
| ITC | inferior-temporaler Cortex |
| ITC | Infotonics Technology Centre (Rochester, GB) |
| ITC | Intelligent Traction Control (Kfz/automobile) |
| ITC | International Trade Commission |
| ITC | International Typeface Corporation |
| ITCZ | Innertropische Konvergenzzone (Klimaforschung) |
| ITD | Interaural Time Difference (Richtungshören/directional hearing) |
| ITE | In-the-Ear (hearing aid) |
| ITEA | Information Technology for European Advancement |
| I-TEC | Innovations- und Technologie-Eigenkapital (EU-Programm) |
| ITEM | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Toxikologie und Experimentelle Medizin (Hannover, früher: ITA, und Regensburg) |
| ITER | International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Fusionsreaktortechnik/fusion reactor technology, |
| bei/near Cadarache, FR, project partners: EU, US, CN, RU, IN, JP, KR) |
| ITF | Infrared Telescope Facility (Mauna Kea, HI, USA) |
| ITFS | Instructional TV Fixed Service |
| ITG | Informationstechnische Gesellschaft (im/in the VDE) |
| ITGS | Intelligent Traffic Guidance System (Tokio, JP) |
| ITIF | Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (Washington, DC, USA) |
| ITiS | Informations-Technik in Schiffen |
| ITKZ | Innertropische Konvergenzzone (Meteorologie) |
| ITLR | Institut für Thermodynamik der Luft- und Raumfahrt (Universität Stuttgart) |
| iTMC | Ionic Transition Metal Complex |
| ITN | Initial Training Network |
| ITO | Indium Tin Oxide |
| ITOPF | International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation |
| ITP | Institute of Theoretical Physics (e.g., EPFL) |
| ITR | Inverted Terminal Repeats (Genetik/genetics) |
| iTREN-2030 | Integrated Transport and Energy Baseline Until 2030 |
| ITRF | International Terrestrial Reference Frame (Geodäsie/geodesy) |
| ITRI | Industrial Technology Research Institute (Taiwan) |
| ITRI | Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute (Albuquerque, NM, USA) |
| ITRM | Iterative Time Reversal Mirror |
| ITRS | International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors |
| ITS | Intelligent Transport(ation) Systems |
| ITS | Intelligentes Tutorsystem |
| ITS | Interoperability Tool Set (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ITSEC | Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ITSP | Internet Telephony Service Provider |
| ITST | Institute for Terahertz Science and Technology (at University of California Santa Barbara) |
| ITS-90 | International Temperature Scale of 1990 |
| ITU | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Toxikologie und Umwelthygiene (München) |
| ITU | Institute for Transuranium Elements (Karlsruhe, DE) |
| ITU | International Telecommunication(s) Union (Genf, CH) |
| ITU-R | ITU Radiocommunication Sector |
| ITU-T | ITU-Telecommunications |
| ITU-TS | ITU Telecommunication Standards |
| ITW | [IEEE] Information Theory Workshop |
| ITWM | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik (Kaiserslautern) |
| IU | Indiana University (USA) |
| IUAES | Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences |
| IUB | Indiana University at Bloomington (USA) |
| IUC | International Union for Crystallography |
| IUCAF | Inter-Union Commission on the Allocation of Frequencies for Radio and Space Sciences |
| IUCF | Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (Bloomington, IN, USA) |
| IUCLID | International Uniform Chemical Information Database |
| IUCN | International Union for the Conservation of Nature (and Natural Resources) |
| IUCr | International Union of Crystallography |
| IUCT | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Umweltchemie und Ökotoxikologie (Schmallenberg) |
| IUE | International Ultraviolet Explorer (Satellit/satellite) |
| IUF | Institut Universitaire de France |
| IUGG | International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics |
| IuK | Information(s) und Kommunikation(s) (-technik-Forschung, eine Initiative der wissenschaftlichen Fachgesellschaften/an initiative of German scientific societies) |
| IUPAC | International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry |
| IUPAP | International Union of Pure and Applied Physics |
| IUPUI | Indiana University – Purdue University at Indianopolis |
| IUT | Institut Universitaire de Technologie |
| IUTA | Institut für Umwelttechnologie und Umweltanalytik (Duisburg) |
| IUTAM | International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics |
| IUVSTA | International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique, and Applications |
| IUW | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Umformtechnik und Werkzeugmaschinen (seit 1991, ab 1995: IWU) |
| IVAR | Increased Volcanic Ash Resistance (for aircraft engines) |
| IVAS | Internet Value Added Services |
| IVCC | Innovative Vector Control Consortium (Medizin/medicine) |
| IVD | In Vitro Diagnostics |
| IVF | In Vitro Fertilization |
| IVG | Industrie-Verwaltungs-Gesellschaft |
| IVG | In-Vitro-Gametogenese |
| IVH | Institut für Verkehrswirtschaft (Hannover) |
| IVI | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Verkehrs- und Infrastruktursysteme |
| IVI | Interchangeable Virtual Instrument (für vernetzte Messinstrumente) |
| IVI-C | Interchangeable Virtual Instrument based on ANSI C |
| IVI-COM | Interchangeable Virtual Instrument for Compatibility with Component Object Model Technology |
| IVK | Intelligente Verteilerkästen |
| IVM | Industrie-Verband Motorrad e.V. |
| IVoD | Interaktives Video on Demand |
| IVPN | International Virtual Private Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IVR | Interactive (or: Integrated) Voice Response |
| IVS | Infrared Vision System |
| IVS | In-Vehicle System (KfZ-Technik) |
| IVSE | Information and Voice Services Environment (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IVTIP | In Vitro Testing Industrial Platform |
| IVUS | Intravascular Ultrasound (Chirurgie/surgery) |
| IVV | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Verfahrenstechnik und Verpackung (München-Freising, ab 1.1.98/since Jan. 1, 1998, vorher/formerly: ILV) |
| IW | Institut der Wirtschaft (Köln) |
| IWA | International Workshop Agreement |
| IWAENC | International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control |
| IWARD | Intelligent Robot Swarm for Attendence, Recognition, Cleaning and Delivery (Krankenhausroboter/hospital robots, EU project) |
| iWARP | Internet Wide Area RDMA Protocol |
| IWAS | Internationale Wasserforschungsallianz Sachsen |
| IWC | International Whaling Commission |
| IWES | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Windenergie und Energiesystemtechnik (Bremerhaven und Kassel, 2009) |
| IWF | Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Fabrikbetrieb (TU Berlin, 1904) |
| IWF | Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Fertigungstechnik (TU Braunschweig) |
| IWF | Institut für Wild- und Zootierforschung (Berlin) |
| IWF | Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen) |
| IWF | Internationaler Währungsfonds |
| IWF | Interworking Function (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IWGSC | International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium |
| IWH | Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle |
| IWKS | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Werkstoffkreisläufe und Ressourcenstrategie (Alzenau und Hanau) |
| IWM | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Werkstoffmechanik (Freiburg und Halle) |
| IWMI | International Water Management Institute (Colombo, Sri Lanka) |
| IWR | Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen (Universität Heidelberg) |
| IWRB | International Waterfowl Research Bureau |
| IWRM | Integriertes Wasserressourcen-Management (z.B. Indonesien und Mongolei) |
| IWRN | International Workshop on Railway Noise (conference series) |
| IWS | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Werkstoff- und Strahltechnik (Dresden) |
| IWS | Institut für Werkstoffphysik und Strukturforschung |
| IWTZ | Internationales Wissenschafts- und Technik-Zentrum (Moskau/Moscow, RU) |
| IWU | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Umformtechnik (Augsburg) |
| IWU | Inter Working Unit |
| IWYP | International Wheat Yield Partnership |
| IWZ | Informationszentrum Wärmepumpen und Kältetechnik |
| IXC | Inter-Exchange Carrier (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| IXO | International X-Ray Observatory |
| IYA | International Year of Astronomy (2009) |
| IYPT | International Young Physicists Tournament |
| IZB | Informationszentrum Benchmarking (am/at the IPK) |
| izbs | Institut für Zuverlässigkeit von Bauteilen und Systemen (am KIT) |
| IZE | Informationszentrale der Elektrizitätswirtschaft |
| IZF | Instituut voor Zintuigfysiologie (TNO, Soesterberg, NL) (Zintuig: Sinnes...) |
| IZFP | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für zerstörungsfreie Prüfverfahren (Saarbrücken) |
| IZI | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Zelltherapie und Immunologie (Leipzig und Halle) |
| IZKK | Internationales Zentrum für Kulturgüterschutz und Konservierungsforschung (Kloster Brombach) |
| IZM | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Zuverlässigkeit und Mikrointegration (Berlin und Moritzburg) |
| IZT | Innovationszentrum für Telekommunikationstechnik (Erlangen) |
| IZT | Institut für Zukunftsstudien und Technologiebewertung (Berlin) |
| I2CAM | International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter |
| I2C | Inter-Integrated Circuit (serieller Datenbus) |
| I2WEB | Inclusive Future-Internet Web Services (EU project) |
| I4OP | Initiative for Open Citiations |
|
| LA | Laos/Lao People's Democratic Republic (ISO 3166) |
| LA | Local Authority |
| LA | Lousiana (US-Staat/US state) |
| LAAMP | Lightsources for Africa, the Americas and Middle East Project |
| LAAPD | Large-Area Avalanche Photodiode |
| LAAS | Laboratoire d'Analyse et l'Architecture des Systèmes |
| LAASP | Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA) |
| LAC | Location Area Code (Mobilfunk/mobile radio) |
| LAC | Lousiana Accelerator Center (University of Lousiana at Lafayette, USA) |
| LAC | Low Authority Control (Regelungstechnik/control theory) |
| LACA | Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance |
| LACAME | Latin American Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect |
| LACE | Lignocellulosic Conversion to Ethanol (Biokraftstoff-Technik/bio fuel technology) |
| LACONA | Lasers in the Conservation of Artworks (Tagungsserie/Conference series) |
| LACP | Link Aggregation Control Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LADAR | Laser Detection and Ranging (Laser-Radar) |
| LADC | Littoral Acoustic Demonstration Center (marine bioacoustics) |
| LAEQ | A-Weighted Equivalent Sound Level |
| LAGUNA | Large Apparatus for Grand Unification and Neutrino Astrophysics (Neutrino-Detektor/neutrino detector) |
| LAI | Länder-Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Immissionsschutz |
| LA-ICP | Laser Ablation – Inductively Coupled Plasma (Massenspektrometrie/mass spectrometry) |
| LAK | Lymphokine Activated Killer (Zellen/cells) |
| LAM | Local Area Multicomputer |
| LAMA | Lande- und Mobiltätstestanlage, Landing and Mobility Test Facility (DLR, Bremen) |
| LAMA | Large-Aperture Mirror Array (von/of LZTs) |
| LamAiR | Laminar Aircraft Research (DLR project) |
| ΛCDM | Lambda-Cold-Dark-Matter (Modell, Kosmologie/model, cosmology) |
| LAMOST | Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (near Beijing, CN) |
| LAMP | Library Analytics and Metrics Project |
| LAMPF | Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility (now: LANSCE) |
| LAMS | Laboratoire d'Archéologie Moléculaire et Structurale (Université Paris 06) |
| LAMS | Load Alleviation and Mode Stabilization (Flugzeug/aircraft) |
| LAMUS | Language Archive Management and Upload System |
| LAN | Local Area Network (Rechnernetz/computer network) |
| LANCE | Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANL) |
| LANE | Local Area Network Emulation (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory (NM, USA) |
| LANS | Los Alamos National Security |
| LANSCE | Los Alamos Neutron Scattering Center (LANL) |
| LAO | Lanthanaluminat, LaAlO3 |
| LAOG | Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (FR) |
| LAP | LAN Access Point |
| LAP | Lärmaktionsplanung |
| LAPCAT | Long Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies (Überschall-Passagierflugzeug/supersonic passenger aircraft) |
| LaRC | Langley Research Center (NASA) |
| LARC | Livermore Automatic Research Computer (1955) |
| LARS | Ligament Replacement and Augmentation System (Implantat/implant) |
| LAS | Laser Absorption Spectroscopy |
| LAS | Lateral Active Suspension |
| LAS | Launch Abort System (Raumfahrt/spacecraft) |
| LASCO | Large Angle Spectroscopic (or: Spectrometric) Coronograph (an Bord von/aboard SOHO) |
| LASE | Lasers and Applications in Science and Engineering |
| LASEK | Laser Epithelial Keratomileusis (Augenchirurgie/eye surgery) |
| Laser | Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
| LASIK | Laser-Assisted in situ Keratomileusis (Augenchirurgie/eye surgery) |
| LASR | Laboratory for Autonomous System Research (Washington, DC, USA) |
| LASSI | Laser Airspeed Sensor Instrument |
| LASSO | Langfristige Anwendungen seilgefesselter Systeme im Orbit |
| LASSP | Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics (Cornell University, USA) |
| LAT | Large Area Telescope (on board of NASA satellite Fermi) |
| LATAM | Latin America |
| LATI | Linee Aeree Transcontinentali Italiane S.A. (Rom–Südamerika, 1939–1941) |
| LAV | Lymphadenopathie-assoziiertes Virus |
| LAVA | Launch Ascent and Vehicle Aerodynamics |
| LAW | Low Activity Waste (radioactive waste) |
| LAWS | Lethal Autonomous Weapon System (Flugroboter) |
| LAYF | Lärmemission und Aerodynamik von Fahrzeugen |
| LB | Libanon/Lebanon (ISO 3166) |
| LBA | Low-Band Antenna (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| LBA | Luftfahrtbundesamt (DE) |
| LBAT | Late Babylonian Astronomical Texts |
| LBC | Large Binocular Camera (beim/at the LBT) |
| LBD | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft Access-Lockdatei/file name extension: Microsoft access lock file] |
| LBEG | Landesamt für Bergbau, Energie und Geologie (Hannover) |
| LBF | Laboratorium für Betriebsfestigkeit (später: Fraunhofer-Institut für Betriebsfestigkeit, seit 2004: und Systemzuverlässigkeit) (Darmstadt) |
| LBF | London Book Fair |
| LBG | Lautsprachbegleitende Gebärden |
| LBI | Ludwig Boltzmann-Institut [für Lungengefäßforschung] (Graz, AT) |
| LBK | lichtbogenbeheizter Kanal (DLR, Köln) |
| LBL | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (CA, USA) |
| LBNE | Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (planned, Fermilab) |
| LBNF | Long Baseline Neutrino Facility |
| LBNL | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, CA, USA) |
| LBNP | Lower Body Negative Pressure (Fitness) |
| LBO | Lithium(tri)borat (nichtlinearer Kristall/nonlinear crystal) |
| LBS | Landesbausparkasse |
| LBS | Location-Based Services (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LBSF | Local Back Surface Field (Solarzellen/solar cells) |
| LBT | Large Binocular Telescope (Steward Observatory, Mount Graham, AZ, USA) |
| LBT | Listen before Talk (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LBV | Landesbund für Vogelschutz (Bayern) |
| LC | Link Control (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LC | Liquid Chromatography |
| LC | St. Lucia (ISO 3166) |
| LCA | Library Copyright Alliance |
| LCA | Life Cycle Assessment (Fahrzeugentwicklung/vehicle development) |
| LCA | Liquid Crystal Array |
| L-Camp | Linearized Channel Amplifier (Satelliten/satellites) |
| LCAS | Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LC-ATC | Low Complexity Adaptive Transform Codec (Musikkompression/music compression) |
| LCC | Linked Content Coalition (scientific publishing) |
| LCD | Liquid Crystal Display |
| LCE | Liquid-Crystal Elastomer |
| LCG | Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (CERN) |
| LCGT | Large-Scale Cryogenic Gravitational-Wave Telescope (JP) |
| LCH | Lightness-Chroma-Hue (Bildverarbeitung/picture processing) |
| LCLS | LINAC Coherent Light Source (at SLAC) |
| LC/MS | Liquid Chromatography – Mass Spectrometry |
| LCN | London Centre for Nanotechnology (at UCL) |
| LCNP | Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy (USA) |
| LCO | Las Campanas Observatory (Chile) |
| LCO | Las Cumbres Observatory (telescope network) |
| LCOS | Liquid Crystal on Silicon (Chip) |
| LCP | Liquid Crystal Polymer |
| LC-PCF | Liquid Crystal Photonic Crystal Fibre |
| LCR | Low Chip Rate (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LCROSS | Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite |
| LCS | Lagrangian Coherent Structure |
| LCS | Levenorgestrel Contraceptive System |
| LCS | Line Connection Subsystem (Datennetz/data network) |
| LCS | Location Services (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LCSI | Low-Coherence Speckle Interferometry |
| LCT | Large Coil Task (Karlsruhe, DE) |
| LCT | Laser Communication Terminal, Laser-Kommunikationsterminal |
| LCTC | Low Cost Tooling for Composites |
| LCU | Local Communications Unit |
| LCVD | Laser Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| LCX | Leaky Coaxial Cable |
| LD | Laser Diode, Laserdiode |
| LD | letale Dosis |
| LDA | Laser Doppler Anemometer, Laser Doppler Anemometry |
| LDA | Linear Discriminant Analysis (Signalanalyse/signal analysis) |
| LDA | Low-Density Amorphous (ice) |
| LDACS | L-Band Digital Aeronautical Communication System |
| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LDC | Least Developed Countries |
| LDC | Low Duty Cycle (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LDF | Local Density Functional |
| LDGM | Low-Density Generator Matrix |
| LDL | Low-Density Lipoprotein ("schlechtes" Cholesterin/"bad" cholesterol) |
| LDL | Low-Density Liquid |
| LDM | Laboratory Detector Module (gamma-ray spectrometer) |
| LDM | Laser Diode Module |
| LDMOS | Lateral Diffused Metal Oxide Silicon (Halbleiter/semiconductor) |
| LDP | Label Distribution Path (or: Protocol) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LDPC | Low Density Parity Check |
| LDPE | Low Density Polyethylene |
| LDR | Large Disployable Reflector (Satelliten/satellites) |
| LDRD | Laboratory-Directed Research and Development |
| LDRS | Lateral-Directed Reflection Sequence (room acoustics) |
| LDS | Lower-Data-Strobe (Atari) |
| LDV | Laser Doppler Velocimetry (or: Vibrometer, or: Vibrometry) |
| LDX | Levitated Dipole Experiment (fusion reactor) |
| LE | Large Enterprise |
| LEAF | Large Effective Area Fibre (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| LEAP | Large European Array for Pulsars (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| LEAP | Lasers and Electro-Optics Application Program (CLEO/LEAP) |
| LEAP | Learning Early About Peanut Allergy |
| LEAP | Lightweight Extensible Agent Platform (Agenten-Plattform für Mobiltelefone/for mobile phones) |
| LEAP | Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol |
| LEAR | Low Energy Antiproton Ring (CERN) |
| LEBU | Large Eddy Break-up Device |
| LEC | Laboratory Expertise Center (USA) |
| LEC | Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cell |
| LEC | Liquid Encapsulated Czochralski (Kristallzuchtverfahren/crystal growing method) |
| LEC | Local Exchange Carrier (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LeCHE | Lactase Persistence in the Early Cultural History of Europe (research project 2009&ndash)2013) |
| LECIS | Laboratory Equipment Control Interface Specification |
| LECM | Local Enforced Copy Management (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LeCosPA | Leung Center for Cosmology and Particle Atsrophysics (National Taiwan University) |
| LED | Light-Emitting Diode |
| LEDE | Live-End-Dead-End (room acoustics) |
| LEED | Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design (USA) |
| LEED | Low Energy Electron Diffraction |
| LEEM | Low Energy Electron Microscopy |
| LEEN | Lernende Energieffizienz-Netzwerke |
| LEGI | Local Excitation, Global Inhibition |
| LEHGS | Local Electrical Hydraulic Generation System (Flugzeuglandung und -steuerung/for aircraft landing and steering systems) |
| LEI | Laser Enhanced Iionization |
| LEI | Local Employment Initiatives for Women (EU) |
| LEM | Laboratory Executive Manager |
| LEM | Local Element Manager (Communication) |
| LEMS | Long End Multiple System (militärisches Aufklärungssystem/military surveillance, USA) |
| LEN | Laboratoire Energie Nuisances (part of INRETS) |
| LENA | Laboratory for Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics (Triangle University, Durham, NC, USA) |
| LENA | Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy (European project) |
| LENP | Low Energy Nuclear Physics |
| LENS | [Laserforschungslaboratorium, Florenz, IT] |
| LENS | Low Energy Neutron Source (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA) |
| LEO | Low Earth Orbit (Satellit/satellite) |
| LEO | Lunarer Erkundungsorbiter (deutsches Mondprojekt) |
| LEOP | Launch and Early Orbit (or: Operation) Phase (Satelliten/satellites) |
| LEOS | Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (IEEE) |
| LEP | Large Electron-Positron Collider (CERN, till 2000) |
| LEP | Life Extension Program (USA, für Waffen/for weapons) |
| LEP | Light-Emitting Polymer |
| LER | Label Edge Router (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LES | Lab[oratory] Execution System |
| LES | Large Eddy Simulation (Wettervorhersage, Verbrennungsvorgänge etc./weather forecast, internal combustion etc.) |
| LES | Livraison Electronique Sécurisée |
| LEST | Large Earth-Based Solar Telescope |
| LET | Laser Ethernet Transceiver |
| LET | Linear Energy Transfer |
| LETI | [Forschungslaboratorium der CEA in Grenoble, FR] |
| LEU | Low-Enriched Uranium (niedrig angereichertes Uran) |
| LEV | Leading Edge Vortex |
| LEV | Light Electric Vehicle (Zweirad mit Elektromotor) |
| LEVoGs | Leading-Edge Vortex Generators |
| LF | Low Frequency (30 – 300 kHz) |
| LFA | Low Frequency Active (military sonar) |
| LFA | Lupus Foundation of America |
| LFAS | Low Frequency Active Sonar |
| LFC | Laminar Flow Control |
| LFC | Laser Fired Contact (Solarzellenproduktion/solar cell production) |
| LFE | Low-Frequency Effects (UHDTV) |
| LFF | Low-Frequency Fluctuations |
| LFM | Lateral Force Microscopy |
| LFM | Linear Frequency-Swept Modulation |
| LFP | Local Flat Panel |
| LFSR | Linear Feedback Shift Register |
| LFT | Langfaserverstärkte Thermoplaste |
| LG | Laguerre-Gaussian (Spiral-Lasermode/helical laser mode) |
| LGIT | [Laboratory of Internal Geophysics and Tectonophysics] (Grenoble, FR) |
| LGPL | Lesser General Public License |
| LGPT | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (minority) |
| LGRC | Lung Genomics Research Consortium |
| LH | Left Hand |
| LH | Long Haul (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LH | Luteinisierendes Hormon |
| LHAASO | Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (cosmic ray observatory, Shangrila, Yunnan Provinces, southwest China) |
| LHASA | Logic and Heuristics Applied to Synthetic Analysis |
| LHb | Laterale Habenula (im Gehirn) |
| LHC | Large Hadron Collider (CERN, Konstruktion seit/construction since 2004, fertig/ready 2008) |
| LHCb | LHC Beauty |
| LHCC | LHC Committee |
| LHCP | Left-Handed Circularly Polarized |
| LHCSR | Light-Harvesting Complex Stress-Related (a protein) |
| LHD | Large Helical Device (NIFS) |
| LHD | Left Hemisphere Damage (Gehirn/brain) |
| LHF | Local Hidden Variable (Quantentheorie/quantum theory) |
| LHG | Landeshochschulgesetz |
| LHT | Lufthansa Technik |
| LI | Liechtenstein (ISO 3166) |
| LIA | Laser Institute of America (Toledo, OH, USA) |
| LIA | Little Ice Age |
| LIAA | Lean Intelligent Assembly Automation (EU project) |
| LIB | Lithium-Ion Battery, Lithium-Ionen Batterie |
| LIBOR | London Interbank Offered Rate (Bankgeschäfte) |
| LIBS | Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy |
| LIBWE | Laser-Induced Backside Wet Etching |
| LIC | Local Interstellar Cloud |
| LID | Local Injection and Detection (Communication) |
| LIDAR | Light (or: Laser-Induced) Detection and Ranging |
| LIF | Laser Induced Fluorescence |
| LIF | Location Interoperability Forum (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LIFE | Laser Inertial Fusion Engine (or: Energy) (research program at LLNL) |
| LIF-ENSTA-X | [Laserforschungslaboratorium, Palaiseau, FR] |
| LIFT | Laboratory Information for Tomorrow |
| LIFT | Laser Induced Forward Transfer (of cells) |
| LIFT | Leadership in Fibre Laser Technologies (Fraunhofer project) |
| LIFTSYS | Laser Induced Forward Transfer System |
| LIGA-Verfahren | Lithographie, Galvanoformung, Abformtechnik [Röntgentiefenlithographie mit Synchrotronstrahlung, |
| kombiniert mit galvanischer Metallabscheidung und verschiedenen Abformprozessen] |
| LIGO | Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (Livingston, LA, USA, |
| Einweihung/opening: November 1999, Messungen ab/measurements since 2002) |
| LII | London Info International (Conference) |
| LIL-PW | Laser Integration Line – Petawatt (Bordeaux, FR, geplant für/planned for 2008) |
| LIM | Line Interface Module |
| LIMA | Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica |
| LIMS | Laboratory Information Management System, Labor-Informations- und Managementsystem (Qualitätssicherung/quality assurance) |
| LIMS | Laser-Ionenmobilitätsspektrometer |
| LIN | Local Interconnect Network (Kfz-Technik/vehicle technology) |
| LINAC | Linear Accelerator (50 GeV, Stanford, SLAC) |
| LINC-NIRVANA | LBT Interferometric Camera – Near-Infrared Visible Adaptive Interferometer for Astronomy |
| LINE | Long Interspersed Element (Genetik/genetics) |
| LINEAR | Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (NASA program) |
| LINES | Long Interspaced Nuclear Elements (Genetik/genetics) |
| L.I.N.K. | Lokalisation, Identifikation, Navigation, Kommunikation (Fraunhofer-Anwendungszentrum, Nürnberg) |
| LIPA | Long Island Power Authority (USA) |
| LIPCA | Lightweight Piezo-Composite Actuator |
| LIPS | Light Intensity Pressure Sensor |
| LIS | Labor für Intelligente Systeme (Polytechnische Hochschule Lausanne, CH) |
| LIS | Laboratory Information System |
| LIS | Library and Information Studies |
| LIS | Literaturversorgungs- und Informationssysteme |
| LISA | Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (Gravitationswellendetektor aus 3 Satelliten, |
| geplant für 2034/gravitational wave detector with 3 satellites, planned for 2034) |
| L.I.S.A. | Lucent International Science Award |
| LISB | Leit- und Informationssystem Berlin (Verkehrsführung/traffic control) |
| LISC | [Laboratory for Computational Sciences] (FR) |
| LISM | Local Interstellar Medium |
| LISNA | Light-Induced Scattering Around a Nano-Absorber |
| LISP | List Programming (or: Processing) |
| LISSEN | Lithium Sulfur Superbattery Exploiting Nanotechnology [Modelling and Simulation] (EU project) |
| LIST | Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies |
| LiST | Laser-induziertes Spannungs-Trennverfahren (Glasschneiden/glass cutting) |
| LIT | Landesbetrieb für Informationstechnik (Berlin) |
| LITE | Lidar-in-Space Technology |
| LITE | Liverpool Insect Testing Establishment |
| LITEN | Laboratoire d'Innovation pour les Technologies des Energies Nouvelles et les Nanomatériaux (Grenoble, FR) |
| LITT | Laser-Induced Interstitial Thermo-Therapy, Laserinduzierte interstitielle Thermotherapie (Krebsbehandlung/cancer therapy) |
| LIVA | Light-Induced Voltage Alteration |
| LJ | Lichtjahr (= ly) |
| LK | Lake (US Mail) |
| LK | Leistungskurs |
| LK | Sri Lanka (früher/former Ceylon) (ISO 3166) |
| LKA | Landeskriminalamt |
| LKEs | Lang-Kobayashi Equations (nichtlineare Dynamik/nonlinear dynamics) |
| LKH | Landeskrankenhaus |
| LKR | Large-Scale Knowledge Resources (Conference series) |
| LKS | leichte kognitive Störungen (Alzheimer-Vorstadium, = MCI) |
| LL | Leased Line (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LL | Leichte Löcher (Halbleiterphysik/semiconductor physics) |
| LLAPI | Low Level Application Programming Interface (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LLC | Limited-Liability Company |
| LLC | Logical Link Control (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LLC | Lund Laser Centre (Laserforschungslaboratorium, Lund, SE) |
| LLCC | Leadless Chip Carrier |
| LLDPE | Linear Low Density Polyethylene |
| LLE | Laboratory for Laser Energetics (Rochester, GB) |
| LLE-CUP | Lossless-Encoding Compressed Utrafast Photography |
| LLF | Large Low-Speed Facility (wind tunnel, NL) |
| LLG | Laser-Laboratium Göttingen |
| LLLT | Low Level Light Therapy |
| LLNL | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA, USA) |
| LLP | Long-Lived Particles |
| LLS | Lunar Logistics System (1964) |
| LLS | Lyman-Limit System (astrophysics) |
| LLT | Lehrstuhl für Lasertechnik (RWTH Aachen) |
| LLT | Linear Layerwise Theory (Verbundwerkstoffe/compounds) |
| LLU | Local Loop Unbundling (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LLW | Low-Level Waste (radioaktiver Abfall/radioactive waste) |
| LM | Link Manager (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LMA, L.M.A. | Laboratoire de la Mécanique et d'Acoustique (CNRS, Marseille, FR) |
| LMA | Large Mode Area (Glasfaser/optical fibres) |
| LMC | Large Magellanic Cloud (Astronomie/astronomy) |
| LMD | Laboratoire de Météorlogie Dynamique (Palaiseau et Paris, FR) |
| LMD | Laser Metal Deposition |
| LMDS | Local Multichannel (or: Multipoint) Distribution Service(s) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LMG | Last Major Glaciation (geology) |
| LMIS | Liquid Metal Ion Sources |
| LMJ | Laser Project Megajoule |
| LMK | Lang-, Mittel- und Kurzwelle |
| LMP | Lärmminderungsplanung |
| LMP | Link Management Protocol (Internet) |
| LMS | Labor-Managementsystem |
| LMS | Least Mean Squares (Algorithmus/algorithm) |
| LMSA | Large Millimeter and Submillimeter Array (Infrarotastronomie/infrared astronomy) |
| LMT | Large Millimeter Telescope (on Volcán Sierra Negra, MX) |
| LMT | Liquid Mirror Telescope |
| LMT | Local Maintenance Terminal (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LMT | Low Frequency Magnetotelluric (instrumentation) |
| LMU | Local Mobile Unit (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LMU | Location Measurement Unit (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LMU | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (München) |
| LMXB | Low-Mass X-Ray Binary (Röntgendoppelstern/X-ray double star) |
| LN | Lane (US Mail) |
| LNA | Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence |
| LNA | Low Noise Amplifier |
| LNAS | Low Noise Augmentation System (DLR-Pilotenassistenzsystem) |
| LNB | Low-Noise Block (Converter) |
| LNC | Low-Noise Converter (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| lncRNA | lange nichtkodierende RNA |
| LNG | Liquified Natural Gas (für den Transport verflüssigtes Erdgas/for the transport) |
| LNGS | Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (IT) |
| LNK | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Windows-Linkdatei/file name extension: Windows link file] |
| LO | Local Oscillator (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LOA | Laboratoire Ondes et Acoustique (Université Paris VII) |
| LOA | Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, FR) |
| LOC | Lab-on-a-Chip |
| LOCE | Light and Optics Conceptual Evaluation |
| LOCKSS | Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe (literature preservation, Stanford University, CA, USA) |
| LOCOS | Local Oxidation of Silicon; Lokale Oxidation von Silizium |
| LOD | Linked Open Data (scientific publishing) |
| LOE | Lasers and Optical Engineering (Konferenz/Conference) |
| LOET | Lateral-Field Electrooptical Tweezers |
| LOEWE | Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz (Hessen) |
| LOFAR | Low-Frequency Array (Astrophysik/astrophysics, Antennen/antennae) |
| LOFF | [Anatoly] Larkin, [Yurii] Ovchinnikov, [Peter] Fulde, [Richard] Ferrell (state, Festkörperphysik/solid state physics, = FFLO) |
| LOHAS | Life Style of Health and Sustainability |
| LOHC | Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier |
| LOKAL | Leckortung durch Korrelationsanalyse |
| LOM | Learning Object Metadata |
| LOM | Leistungsorientierte Mittelvergabe (DFG) |
| LONI | Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (USA) |
| LORAN | Long Range Navigation |
| LORELEI | Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents |
| LOS | Line of Sight (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LoST | Location-to-Service Translation (Protocol) |
| LOT | Lapped Orthogonal Transform |
| LOTIS | Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System (USA) |
| LOVA | Low Vulnerability Ammunition (Sprengstoff/explosive) |
| LOVER | Local Verification (Atomenergie-Kontrolle/atomic energy supervision) |
| LOX | Liquid Oxygen |
| LP | Larch Prover |
| LP | Linear Prediction |
| LP | Linear Programming |
| lp | log period (earthquakes) |
| LP | Low Priority |
| LPA | Laser-Plasma Accelerator |
| LPAS | Laser Photoacoustic Spectroscopy |
| LPC | Laser Physics Centre (AU) |
| LPC | Laser Processing Consortium |
| LPC | Linear Predictive Coding |
| LPCC | Linear Predictive Coding Cepstrum |
| LPCVD | Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| LPD | Low Power Device (Mobilfunk/mobile radio, 433 MHz) |
| LPE | Liquid Phase Epitaxy (Waferherstellung/wafer production) |
| LPF | Low Pass Filter |
| LPG | Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft (DDR) |
| LPG | Liquid Propane (or: Petroleum) Gas |
| LPL | Laser Physics Laboratory (Paris, FR) |
| LPL | Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (University of Arizona, USA) |
| LP-MOVPE | Low Pressure Metalorganic Vapor Phase Epitaxy |
| LPPP | Poly(p-Phenylen)-Polymer (für Leuchtdioden/for light emitting diodes) |
| LPR | Local Positioning Radar |
| LPS | Leak Prevention System (HPC) |
| LPS | Lipopolysaccharid |
| LPS | Lokales Positionssystem |
| LPSOL | Lecturer with Potential Security of Employment (USA) |
| LPSS(L) | Lamp-Pumped Solid State (Laser) |
| LQG | Linear Quadratic Gaussian (Control) |
| LQG | Loop Quantum Gravity (Gravitationstheorie/theory) |
| LQR | Linear Quadratic Regulator (Control) |
| LR | Liberia (ISO 3166) |
| LR | Loss Rate (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LR | Low Resolution |
| LRAD | Long Range Acoustic Device (Richtlautsprecher, "Schallkanone") |
| LRC | Learning Resources Center (UB Göttingen, DE) |
| LRC | Lokale realistische Theorie |
| LRC | Long Range Correlation |
| LRCS | Laboratoire de Réactivité et Chimie des Solides (Amiens, FR) |
| LRD | Long-Range Dependent |
| LRIT | Long Range Identification and Tracking (Meeresküstenschutz/sea shore preservation) |
| LRL | Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (Berkeley, CA, USA) |
| LRM | Lehrstuhl für Röntgenmikroskopie (Universität Würzburg) |
| LRO | Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter |
| LROC | Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera |
| LRP | Long-Range Plan |
| LRS | Lese-Rechtschreibstörung |
| LRSP | Long-Range Surface Plasma |
| LRT | Laser Ray Tracing |
| LRT | Light Rapid Transport (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| LRTNF | Long-Range Theatre Nuclear Forces |
| LRU | Least Recently Used |
| LRU | Light Weight Rover Unit |
| LRU | Line Replaceable Unit |
| LRV | Lunar Roving Vehicle (1964) |
| LRZ | Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (München) |
| LS | Least Square(s) |
| LS | Lesotho (ISO 3166) |
| LS | Location Service (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LSA | Laser Surface Authentication Technology (Maßnahmen gegen Produktpiraterie/measures against product piracy) |
| LSA | Latent Semantic Analysis (Sprachverarbeitung/speech processing) |
| LSA | Lichtsignalanlage (= Verkehrsampel) |
| LSA | Line Source Array |
| LSA | Linguistic Society of America |
| LSA | Link State Advertisement (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LSAG | LHC Safety Assessment Group (CERN) |
| LSAT | Law School Admission Test (USA) |
| LSB | Least Significant Bit |
| LSB | Low-Surface-Brightness (Galaxien/galaxies) |
| LSC | LIGO Scientific Collaboration |
| LS & C | Local Space & Communications (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LSCI | Light and Spectroscopy Concept Inventory (astronomy education) |
| LSD | Lost Smell Disorder |
| LSDB | Link State Database (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LSDF | Large Scale Data Facility |
| LSDG | Latitudinal Species Diversity Gradient (Meeresfauna/marine fauna) |
| LSDI | Large Screen Digital Imagery (TV) |
| LSE | Least Squares Error (or: Estimator) |
| LSE | London School of Economics (and Political Science) |
| LSE | Low Surface Energy |
| LSF | Line Spread Function (Optik/optics) |
| LSF | Load Sharing Facility |
| LSFM | Light-Shield Fluorescence Microscopy, Lichtscheibenfluoreszenzmikroskopie |
| LS-GMLC | Location Server–Gateway Mobile Location Center (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LSI | Liquid Silicon Infiltration |
| LSK | Lysosomale Speicherkrankheit |
| LSM | Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane |
| LSM | Laboratory for Surface Modification (Rutgers University, NJ, USA) |
| LSM | Laser Scanning Microscope |
| LSM | La1-xSrxMnO3 (Material für Brennstoffzelle/material for fuel cell) |
| LSM | Link Security Management (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LSND | Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (Los Alamos, NM, USA) |
| LSP | Label(ed) Switch(ed) Path (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LSP | Line Spectral Pair (LPC-Analyse/analysis) |
| LSPD | Link State Path Database (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LSPR | Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance |
| LSR | Label Switched Router (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LSS | Large-Scale Structure (jet noise) |
| LSS | Large Space Structure |
| LSS | Large Straight Section (LHC, CERN) |
| LSST | Large(-Aperture) Synoptic Survey Telescope (geplant/planned in Chile) |
| LSSTP | Large Space Structures Technology Program |
| LST | Laser Scattering Tomograph |
| LST | Leit- und Sicherungstechnik (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| LSTI | LTE/SAE Trial Initiative (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) (Long Term Evolution/System Architecture Evolution) |
| LSU | Louisiana State University (USA) |
| LSVRC | Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (Bilderkennung/picture recognition) |
| LSWG | Life Sciences Working Group (ESA) |
| LT | Lecture Tutorial (education) |
| LT | Line Termination (Kommunikation/communication) |
| LT | Litauen/Lithuania (ISO 3166) |
| LTA | Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit (Mannheim) |
| LTAS | Long-Term Average Spectra (Linguistik/linguistics) |
| LTBT | Limited Test Ban Treaty |
| LTCC | Low-Temperature Co-Fired Ceramic(s) |
| LTD | Laser Display Technology |
| Ltd. | Limited (GB, entspricht GmbH) |
| LTE | Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium |
| LTE | Long Term Evolution (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| LTE-A | Long Term Evolution Advanced |
| LTER | Long Term Ecological Research |
| LTF | Loudness-Transfer Function |
| LTG | Low-Temperature-Grown (Kristall/crystal) |
| LTI | Learning Tools Interface |
| LTP | Long-Term Potentiation (Neurologie/neurology) |
| LTR | Long Terminal Repeats (Genetik/genetics) |
| LTRC | Lung Tissue Research Consortium |
| LTS | Low-Tc (or: Temperature) Superconductor |
| LTV | Life Time Value |
| LU | Luxemburg/Luxembourg (ISO 3166) |
| LUCA | Last Universal Common (or: Cellular) Ancestor (Genetik/genetics) |
| LUCE | Laser-Utilizing Communications Equipment |
| LUCIFER | LBT Near-Infared Spectroscopic Utility with Camera and Integrated Field Unit for Extragalactic Research |
| LUDA | Large Urban Distressed Areas |
| LUKO | Lumineszenz-Konversion (LED) |
| LULI | Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses (Laboratory for the Use of High Power Laser) (FR) |
| LUMO | Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital |
| LUN | Logical Unit Number |
| LUP | Liverpool University Press |
| LUPO | Luminescent Polymer |
| LURE | Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation du Rayonnement Electromagnétique (Ile de France) |
| LURE | Lunar Laser Ranging |
| LUT | Lookup Table |
| LUVOIR | Large Ultraviolet/Optical/Infrared Surveyor |
| LUX | Large Underground Xenon (dark-matter experiment) |
| LV | Lettland/Latvia (ISO 3166) |
| LVAD | Left Ventricular Assist Device (Herzchirurgie/heart surgery) |
| LVC | Large Vesicle Cell |
| LVCSR | Large-Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition |
| LVDS | Low-Voltage Differential Signaling (interface standard for high-speed data transmission) |
| LVF | Lagerverwaltung |
| LVS | Lawinenverschütteten-Such[geräte] |
| LWA | Landesamt für Wasser und Abfall (Düsseldorf) |
| LWB | Laser-Welded Blank |
| LWDRM | Light Weight Digital Rights Management |
| LWE | Learning with Errors (encryption) |
| LWFA | Laser Wakefield Accelerator (Plasmabeschleuniger/plasma accelerator) |
| LWIR | Long Wavelength Infrared (λ = 8...14 µm) |
| LWL | Lichtwellenleiter |
| LWQHPR | Longest Weighted Queue Highest Possible Rate (Datenübertragung/data transmission) |
| LWR | Leuchtweitenregelung (Kfz/motor vehicle) |
| LWR | Light Water Reactor |
| LWRT | Low Weight Reinforced Thermoplastics |
| LWS | Lendenwirbelsäule |
| LWS | Living With a Star (NASA program) |
| LXI | LAN Extensions for Instrumentation (Messgeräte-Vernetzung/network of measuring instruments) |
| ly | Light Year(s) (= LJ) |
| LZarG | Leiser Zug auf realem Gleis (Forschungsprojekt) |
| LZB | Landeszentralbank |
| LZB | Linienzugbeeinflussung (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| LZE | Leistungszentrum Eektroniksysteme (Erlangen) |
| LZF | LZB-Fahrzeugeinrichtung |
| LZH | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Archivdatei mit komprimierten Inhalten/file name extension: compressed archive file] |
| LZH | Laser Zentrum Hannover (DE) |
| LZT | Large Zenith Telescope (geplant, mit rotierendem Quecksilberspiegel/proposed, with spinning mercury mirror) |
| L2CAP | Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| L2TP | Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (Datenübertragung/data transmission) |
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| M... | Mega... (Präfix/prefix): 106 |
| m... | Milli... (Präfix/prefix): 10-3 |
| μ... | Mikro... (Präfix/prefix): 10-6 |
| MA | Marokko/Morocco (ISO 3166) |
| MA | Massachusetts (US-Staat/US state) |
| MA | Master of Arts |
| MA | Morbus Alzheimer |
| MA | Movement Authority (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| MA | Moving Average (gleitende Mittelung, Glättungsfilter) |
| MAA | Minimum Audible Angle (Hörvermögen/hearing research) |
| MAAB | MathWorks Automotive Advisory Board |
| MAB | Man and Biosphere (Naturschutz/nature conservation) |
| MAC | Marine Aquatic Council (Internationale nichtkommerzielle Organisation/international non-commercial organization) |
| MAC | Medium (or: Media) Access Control (Layer) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MAC | Message Authenticity (or: Authentication) Check (or: Code) (Datennetz/data network) |
| MAC | Metropolitain Airports Commission |
| MAC | Modal Assurance Criterion |
| MACClim | Middle Atmosphere in a Changing Climate |
| MAC-d | Medium Access Control Dedicated (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MACH | Multiple Active Computer-Generated Hologram |
| MACHO | Massive Astrophysical Compact Halo Objects |
| MAC-hs | Medium Access Control High Speed (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MACO | Multi-Objective Ant Colony Optimization |
| MacOS | Macintosh Operating System |
| MACRO | Monopole, Astrophysics and Cosmic Ray Observatory (Gran Sasso, IT) |
| MACS | Membership and Customer Services (AIP) |
| MACS | Modular Airborne Camera System |
| MAD | Magnet-Anomalie-Detektor |
| MAD | Magnetron Activated Deposition (dünne Schichten/thin layers) |
| MAD | Metalorganic Aerosol Deposition |
| MAD | Militärischer Abschirmdienst |
| MAD | Multiple Anomalous Diffraction |
| MAD | Mutually Assured Destruction ("Star Wars") |
| Madaline | Multiple Adaptive Linear Elements |
| MADE | Mitigating Adverse Ecological Impacts of Open Ocean Fisheries (EU project) |
| MAE | Mechanical and Astronautical (or: Aerospace) Engineering |
| MAES | [Society of] Mexican American Engineers and Scientists |
| MAGIC | Major Atmospheric Gamma-Ray Imaging Cerenkov (Telescope) (La Palma, Kanarische Inseln/Canaries) |
| MAGIS | Magnetically Activated and Guided Isotope Separation |
| Maglev | Magnetic Levitation |
| MAHRSI | Middle Atmosphere High Resolution Spectrograph Investigation |
| MAI | Multiple Access Interface (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MAIA | Medical Artificial Intelligence and Automation (Lab at UTSW) |
| MAIA | Mental Augmentation through Determination of Intended Action (EU project) |
| MAIS | Meso-American Institute for Science (ICTP, in Mexico) |
| MAISEC | Material-Informationssystem für elektronische Komponenten |
| MAK | Maximale Arbeitsplatzkonzentration |
| MAk | Monoklonale Antikörper (Biomedizin/biomedicine) |
| MALDI | Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption and Ionization (molecular imaging) |
| MALVINE | Manuscripts and Letters via Integrated Networks in Europe |
| MAMI | Mainzer Mikrotron (Elektronenbeschleuniger/electron accelerator) |
| MAN | Maschinenfabrik Augsburg/Nürnberg (DE) |
| MAN | Metropolitan Area Network (Rechnernetz/computer network) |
| MANA | [International Center for] Materials Nanoarchitectonics (Tsukuba, Japan) |
| MANIAC | Mathematical Analyzer, Numerical Integrator, and Computer (Los Alamos, NM, USA, ca. 1950) |
| MANPADS | Man-Portable Air Defence Systems |
| MAO | Methylaluminoxan (Katalysator/catalyst) |
| MAP | Malaria Atlas Project |
| MAP | Manufacturing Automation Protocol (Datennetz bei GM/data network of GM) |
| MAP | Maximum a posteriori (probability) (Schätzwert/estimate) |
| MAP | Measures of Academic Progress (test) |
| MAP | Medically Assisted Procreation |
| MAP | Medium Access Protocol |
| MAP | Microwave Anisotropy Probe (Satellit, Astrophysik/satellite, astrophysics) |
| MAP | Miniaturisierung, Automatisierung und Parallelisierung (Chemie-Forschung/chemical research) |
| MAP | Mobile Application Part (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MAP | Modular Automated Processing (system) |
| MAP | Multichannel Astrometric Photometer |
| MAP | Multimedia-Arbeitsplatz |
| MAP | Mussel Adhesive Protein, Muschel-Adhäsionsprotein |
| MAPL | Maximum Allowable Path Loss (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MAPLE | Matrix-Assisted Pulsed-Laser Evaporation |
| MAPOS | Multi-Agent Platform for Online Services (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MAPS | Mobile Acquisition and Processing Station (Satelliten/satellite system) |
| MAQCM | Microarray Quality Control (Biochemie/biochemistry) |
| MARAS | Marine Radiometric Spectrometer |
| MARAS | Mobile, Adaptable and Rapidly Assembled Structure (Conference series) |
| MARC | Machine-Readable Cataloging |
| MARGI | Multidisciplinary Academic Research & Global Innovation (Conference series) |
| MaRIUS | Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Ultrasound |
| MARMOT | Method for Component-Based Real-Time Object-Oriented Development and Testing |
| MARS | Media Arts and Research Studies |
| MARS | Monitoring Agricultural Remote Sensing |
| MARUM | [Zentrum für] Marine Umweltwissenschaften (Universität Bremen) |
| MAS | Marker-Assisted Selection, Marker-assistierte Selektion (Pflanzenzucht/plant cultivation) |
| MAS | Master of Advanced Studies |
| MASCIPO | Mondes Américains, Sociétés, Circulations, Pouvoirs (French research organization) |
| MASCOT | Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (Start: 3.12.2014, Landung geplant für 2019, DLR + CNES + JAXAg) |
| MASCOT | Multi-Angle Scattering and Optical Transmission (detector) |
| Maser | Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
| MASH | Material Absorbing Sound and Heat |
| MASIF | Mobile Agent Systems Interoperability Facility (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MAST | Mega-Amp Spherical Tokamak (Culham, UK) |
| MathML | Mathematical Markup Language |
| MATHUSLA | Massive Timing Hodoscope for Ultra-Stable Neutral Particles |
| MATLAB | Matrix Laboratory (Software) |
| MAU | Million Accounting Units (Europäische Raumfahrt/European spacecraft; 1988: 1 MAU = 1.14 Mill.$) |
| MAU | Movement Authority Unit (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| MAV | Micro-Aerial Vehicle |
| MAVEN | Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (Orbiter) |
| MAVI | Modulare Algorithmen für Volumenbilder (Software für 3D-Bildverarbeitung, ITWM) |
| MAW | Mission Adaptive Wing |
| MAX | Multiton Argon and Xenon (at UCLA) |
| MAXAT | Maximum Aperture Telescope |
| MAX-C | Mars Astrobiology Explorer-Cacher (Mars landing 2018) |
| MAXI | Monitor of All-Sky X-Ray Image (astronomy) |
| MAXIMA | Millimeter Anisotropy Experiment Imaging Array (Ballon-Experiment/balloon experiment) |
| MaxNDVI | Maximum Normalized Difference Vegetation Index |
| MAZ | magnetische Bildaufzeichnung |
| MB | Manitoba (Province of Canada) |
| MB | Megabyte (= 1024 kB = 1048576 Bytes) |
| MB | Mössbauer (spectroscopy) |
| MBA | Master of Business Administration |
| MBARI | Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (Moss Landing, CA, USA) |
| MBB | Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm GmbH, München (DE) |
| MBCS | Managed Business Communication Services (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MBD | Model-Based Design |
| MBD | Multi-Body Dynamics |
| MBD | Multichannel Blind Deconvolution |
| MBDD | Model-Based Drug Development |
| MBE | Molecular-Beam Epitaxy |
| MBES | Multi Beam Echo Sounder (Wasserschall/underwater acoustics) |
| MBF | Minimum Bow Force (musical acoustics) |
| MBI | Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie (Berlin-Adlershof) |
| MBI | Mechanobiology Institute (National University of Singapore) |
| MBL | Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, MA, USA) |
| MBML | Memory-Based Machine Learning |
| MBMS | Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Service (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MBO | Management Buy Out |
| MBP | Model-Based Processor (or: Processing) (Signalverarbeitung/signal processing) |
| MBPC | Model Based Predictive Control |
| MBS | Maximum Burst Size |
| MBS | Multi-Standard Base Station (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MBSFN | Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network |
| MBSL | Multi-Bubble Sonoluminescence, Mehrblasenlumineszenz |
| MBSR | Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, achtsamkeitsbasierte Stressreduktion |
| MC | Monaco (ISO 3166) |
| MC | Monte-Carlo (Simulation) |
| MCA | Middle Cerebral Artery |
| MCA | Minor Component Analysis |
| MCA | Modal Contribution Analysis (Schwingungsanalyse/vibration analysis) |
| MCA | Multichannel Analyzer (for spectroscopy) |
| MCAEC | Multichannel Acoustic Echo Canceller |
| MCAO | Multiconjugate Adaptive Optics |
| MCAT | Medical College Admission Test (USA) |
| MCB | Media Control Board |
| MCC | Master Control Center (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MCC | Metro(politain) Core Connect (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MCC | Mission Control Center (spacecraft) |
| MCC | Mobile Competence Center (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MCC | Mobile Country Code (Mobilfunk/mobile radio) |
| MCCM | Meterology Climate Chemistry Model |
| MCCP | Microchannel-Cooled Package (Laser) |
| MCD | Magnetic Circular Dichroism |
| MCD | Measurement, Calibration, Diagnostics |
| MCD | Mobile Communication Division |
| MCDAD | Magnetic Circular Dichroism in Angular Distribution |
| MCE | Magnetocaloric Effect |
| MCE | Media Center Edition (Windows XP) |
| MCF | Multimedia Content Forum (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MCFC | Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell |
| MCG | Magneto-Cumulative Generator |
| MCHA | Music and Concert Hall Acoustics (International Symposium) |
| M-CHiPS | Multi-Conditional Hybridization Intensity Processing System (Krebsforschung/cancer research) |
| MCI | Mild Cognitive Impairment (Alzheimer-Vorstufe, = LKS) |
| MCIS | Managed Customer Interaction Services (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MCM | Machine Condition Monitoring |
| MCM | Mine Countermeasure |
| MCM | Multi-Chip Module |
| MCMC | Monte Carlo Markov Chain |
| MCO | Mars Climate Observer |
| MCP | Microchannel Plate, Mikrokanalplatte, Vielkanalplattendetektor |
| MCPA | Multi Carrier Power Amplifier (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MCPC | Multiple Channel per Carrier (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MCR | Main Control Room (ESOC) |
| MCR | Microfibre Coil Resonator (Faseroptik/fiber optics) |
| MCR | Multiple Channel Amplification of Reverberation (Raumakustik/room acoustics) |
| MCS | Managed Communication Services (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MCS | Mathematics Subjects Classification |
| MCS | Minimal Conscious State (Koma-Patienten/coma patients) |
| MCS | Modulation and Coding Scheme (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MCSCF | Multi-Configuration Self-Consistent-Field (Rechenverfahren, Molekülphysik/calculation, molecular physics) |
| MC-SS | [International Workshop on] Multi-Carrier Spread-Spectrum |
| MCT | Mercury Cadmium Telluride (Infrarotsensor/infrared sensor) |
| μCT | Microcomputed Tomography (X-ray processing) |
| MCT | Mobile Communications Terminal |
| MCTS | Monte Carlo Tree Search |
| MCU | Master Controller Unit |
| MCU | Microcontroller Unit |
| MCW | Medical College of Wisconsin (USA) |
| MD | Maryland (US-Staat/US state) |
| MD | Medical Doctor |
| MD | Moldawien/Moldova (ISO 3166) |
| MD | Molecular Dynamics |
| MDA | Missile Defense Agency (USA) |
| MDA | Multiple Diskriminantenanalyse |
| MDAQ | Mediation and Data Acquisition (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MDB | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft Access-Datenbank/file name extension: Microsoft Access data bank] |
| MdB | Mitglied der Bundestages |
| MDC | Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (Berlin-Buch) |
| MDC | Modular Data Centre |
| MDCT | Modified Discrete Cosine Transformation |
| MDCT | Multidetektor-Spiral-Computertomograph |
| MDD | Multivariate Discrete Distribution (statistics) |
| MdEP | Mitglied des Europäischen Parlaments |
| MDF | mitteldichte Faserplatte/Medium Density Fiberboard |
| MDFC | Multiple Delay Feedback Control |
| MDFF | Molecular Dynamics Flexible Fitting (computer program) |
| MDG | Millenium Development Goals (Entwicklungshilfe/foreign aid) |
| MDI | Media Delivery Index (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MDI | Methylendiphenyldiisocyanat (oder: Diphenylmethylendiisocyanat) |
| MDI | Michelson Doppler Imager (an Bord von/aboard SOHO) |
| MDIS | Mercury Dual Imaging System (Merkur-Satellit) |
| MDL | Minimum Description Length |
| MdL | Mitglied des Landtages |
| MDO | Multi-Disciplinary Design Optimization |
| MDOF | Multi-Degree-of-Freedom (System) |
| MDP | Monoclinic Double Tungstate (Crystals) |
| MDPI | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
| MDR | Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk |
| MDR | Multi-Drug Resistance (Gene/genes) |
| MDS | Mobile Data Server (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MDS | Multi-Access Data Server (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MDS | Multidimensional Scaling |
| MDS | Multipoint Distribution System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MDS | Myelodysplastisches Syndrom |
| MDSS | Mobile Data Service System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MDST | Modified Discrete Sine Transformation |
| MDU | Multiple Dwelling Units (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MDV | Mechatronic Development and Validation |
| MDV | Medizinische Datenverarbeitung |
| MDX | Multidisciplinary Design Exploration |
| ME | Magnitude Error (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ME | Maine (US-Staat/US state) |
| ME | Maximum Entropy |
| ME | Millenium Edition (Microsoft Windows) |
| ME | Mobile Entity (or: Equipment) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MEA | Membrane Electrode Assembly (Brenstoffzelle/fuel cell) |
| MEA | Monoethanol Amine |
| M.Ed. | Master of Education |
| MED | Maximum Entropy Distribution |
| MED | Multi-Effect Distillation (zur Meerwasserentsalzung) |
| MED-CSP | Concentrating Solar Power for the Mediterranean Region |
| MEDEA | Microelectronics Development for European Applications |
| MEDIA | Metadata Encapsulation for Digital Information and Assets |
| MeDICi | Middleware for Data Intensive Computing |
| MEDYNA | Euro–Mediterranian Conference on Structural Dynamics and Vibroacoustics |
| MEEI | Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Boston, MA, USA) |
| MEET Man | Models for Simulation of Electromagnetic, Elastomechanic and Thermic Behaviour of Man |
| MEF | Metro(politain) Ethernet Forum (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MEFX | Multiple Error Filtered-x (Algorithmus/algorithm) |
| MEG | Magnet(o)enzephalographie, Magnetoencephalography |
| MEG | Multiple Exiton Generation (Festkörperphysik/solid state physics) |
| MEGA | Multiquellen-Magnetron-Sputteranlage |
| MEGACO | Media Gateway Controller (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MEGAPIE | Megawatt Pilot Experiment (PSI) |
| MEIS | Managed Employee Interaction Services (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MELCO | Mitsubishi Electric Corporation |
| MELDOQ | Melanomdokumentierung und -quantifizierung |
| MELECON | Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference |
| MELP | Mixed Excitation Linear Prediction (Sprachcodierung/speech coding) |
| MEM | Maximum Entropy Method |
| MEM | Micro-Electronic Micro Machine |
| MEMRO | Middle-Ear Mechanics in Research and Otology (Conference series) |
| MEMS | Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems |
| MEN | Metropolitain Ethernet |
| MENA | Middle East and North Africa (States) |
| MEO | Medium Earth Orbit |
| MEOSS | Monocular Electro-Optical Stereo Scanner |
| MEP | Manufacturing Extension Partnership (USA) |
| MEP | Mars Exploration Program |
| MEP | Medium Energy Physics |
| MER | Mars Exploration Rover (Raumfahrt/spacecraft) |
| MER | Modulation Error Rate (or: Ratio) |
| MERIS | Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer Instrument (ENVISAT) |
| MERLIN | Methane Remote Sensing Lidar Mission (climate satellite) |
| MERLIN | Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| MErLiN | Mutitouch-Based Electronic Reliable Lab-Integrated Notebook |
| MERS | Middle East Respiratory Syndrome |
| MES | Manufacturing Execution System |
| MESA | Microsystems and Engineering Science Application (Albuquerque, NM, USA, 2007) |
| MESAP | Modulare Energie-System-Analyse und Planung |
| MESEMA | Magnetoelastic Energy System for Even More Electric Aircraft (EU project) |
| MESFET | Metal Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor |
| MESSENGER | Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (Raumfahrt/spacecraft) |
| MESZ | Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit |
| MET | Memory Enhancement Technology |
| META | Megachannel Extraterrestrial Assay (Suche nach außerirdischer Intelligenz/search for extraterrestrial intelligence) |
| META | Mehrfachtaumelscheibe (Hubschraubertests) |
| METAHIT | Metagenomics of the Human Intestinal Tract (EU project) |
| METAS | Bundesamt für Metrologie (Schweiz) |
| METERON | Multi-Purpose-End-to-End-Robotic Operation Network |
| METI | Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Japan) |
| METIS | Meldesystem für Texte auf Internet-Seiten (VG WORT) |
| METRIC | Exploitation of Bibliometric Data in National Bibliographic Databases |
| METS | Metabolisches Syndrom |
| METS | Modeling the Epidemiologic Transition Study |
| MeVis, MEVIS | Centrum für Medizinische Diagnosesysteme und Visualisierung (Bremen, 1995). Seit 1.1.2008: Fraunhofer-Institut für Bildgestützte Medizin |
| MEX | Mars Express (spacecraft) |
| MExE | Mobile Station Execution Environment (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MEXH | Multiple-Energy X-Ray Holography |
| MEXT | Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan) |
| MEZIS | Mein Essen zahl ich selbst (Deutsche Ärzteinitiative) |
| MF | [DLR-] Institut für Methodik der Fernerkundung |
| MF | Medium Frequency (0,3 – 3 MHz) |
| MFA | Mid Frequency Active (military sonar) |
| MFA | Multifunktionsanzeige (Kfz) |
| MFC | Macro Fiber Composites |
| MFC | Mass Flow Control |
| MFC | Microsoft Foundation Classes |
| MFCC | Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (automatische Sprach- oder Musik-Analyse/automatic speech or music analysis) |
| mFDAS | Miniature Flight Data Acquisition System |
| MFI | Matched-Field Imaging (Signalverarbeitung/signal processing) |
| MFLAME | Multi-Function Future Laser Atmospheric Equipment (Brite Euram Project) |
| MFLOPs/s | Mega FLOPs/s (= 106 FLOPs/s) |
| MFM | Magnetic Force Microscopy |
| MFN | Multi Frame Number (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MFN | Multi Frequency Network, Mehrfrequenznetz (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MFP | Matched Field Processing |
| MFP | Mean Free Path |
| MFP | Multi Function Peripheral |
| MFS | Method of Fundamental Solutions |
| MfS | Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (ehem./former DDR) |
| MFS | Multi-BSS Fast Packet Server (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MFZ | Multifunktionale Roboterzelle (DLR, ZLP, Augsburg) |
| MG | Madagaskar/Madagascar (ISO 3166) |
| MG | Makroglobulin (Plasmaprotein) |
| MG | Media Gateway (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MGA | Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm |
| MGC | Media Gateway Controller (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MGC | Micro-Gap Gas Counter |
| MGCF | Media Gateway Control Function (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MGCP | Media Gateway Control Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MGED | Microarray and Gene Expression (Society) |
| MGG | Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart |
| MGH | Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA, USA) |
| MGR | Media and Government Relations (USA) |
| MGS | Mars Global Surveyor (spacecraft) |
| MGT | Multi Gigabit Transceiver (Satelliten-Telekommunikation) |
| MGU | [Moskauer Staatliche Universität/Moscow State University] |
| MGW | Media Gateway (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MH | Marschallinseln/Marshall Islands (ISO 3166) |
| MHB | Magnus-Haus Berlin (DPG) |
| MHC | Major Histocompatibility Complex, Hauptgewebeverträglichkeitskomplex (Biochemie/biochemistry) |
| MHD | Magnetohydrodynamics (Fusionsreaktortechnik/fusion reactor technology) |
| MHEG | Multimedia and Hypermedia Information Coding Experts Group (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MHIA | Material Handling Institute of America (Atlanta, GA, USA) |
| MHL | Mobile High-Definition Link (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MHP | Mouse Hepatitis Virus |
| MHP | Multimedia Home Platform (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MHRA | Medicine and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (GB) |
| MHT | Magnetische Hyperthermie |
| MHV | Marie Heim-Vöglin (Preis des SNF) |
| MHV | Mouse Hepatitis Virus |
| MIAME | Minimum Information about a Microarray Experiment (Bioinformatik/bioinformatics) |
| MIB | Managament Information Base |
| MI | Michigan (US-Staat/US state) |
| MIC | Mikroelektronik Centret (DK-Lyngby) |
| MIC | Minimal-Invasive Chirurgie |
| MIC | [IASTED International Conference on] Modelling, Identification and Control |
| MICAPEX | Minimum Initial Capital Expenditure |
| MICE | (International) Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (UK) |
| MICROSCOPE | MICRO Satellite à Traînée Compensée pour l'Observation du Principe d'Equivalence (CNES) |
| MID | [Dateinamenerweiterung: MIDI-Datei/file name extension: MIDI file] |
| MIDI | Musical Instruments Digital Interface |
| MIDP | Mobile Information Device Profile (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MIF | Makrophagen-Inhibitionsfaktor |
| MIF | Mass-Independent Fractionation |
| MIIPS | Multiphoton Intrapulse Interference Phase Scan |
| MIIR | Méthode d'isolement et d'identification des résonances |
| MIKSS | (gesprochen/pronounced: "mix") Media Object Interlock and Synthesis (Video description language) |
| MIL | (Department of Defense) (Internet, USA) |
| MIL | Material des Instituts Lavoisier |
| MIL | Model-in-the-Loop |
| MILCOM | Military Communications Conference |
| MILSET | International Movement for Leisure Activities in Science and Technology |
| MIMD | Multiple Instruction / Multiple Data (Parallelrechner/parallel processor) |
| MIME | Multipurpose Internet Mail(ing) Extension(s) |
| MIMIC | Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits |
| MIMO | Multiple Input – Multiple Output (Controller, System) |
| MIMOS | Miniaturisiertes Mössbauer-Spektrometer |
| MINDS | Mobile Information and News Data Services |
| MINFLUX | Minimal Emission Fluxes (fluorescence microscopy) |
| MINT | Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaft und Technik |
| MINUET | Minnesota Internet User's Essential Tool (Computer-Netzwerkserver/computer network server) |
| MIO | Modular I/O (HP) |
| MIP | Megaframe Initilization Packet (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MIP | Mobile Internet Protocol |
| MIP | Model Intercomparison Project (climate research) |
| MIPAS | Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (ENVISAT) |
| MIPI | Mobile Industry Processor Interface |
| MIPS | Million instructions (Mega-Instructions) per second |
| MIPS | Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (Chemie/chemistry) |
| MIPS | Münchner Informationszentrum für Proteinsequenzen |
| MIR | Mid-Infrared |
| MIREX | Music Information Retrieval Evaluation Exchange |
| MIRI | Mid-Infrared Instrument (Spektrometer für das/spectrometer for the James West Space Telescope) |
| MIRIFISENS | Mid Infrared Innovative Lasers for Improved Sensors of Hazardous Substances (EU project) |
| miRNA | Micro-RNA (length: about 21 nucleotides) |
| MIRV | Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicles |
| MIS | Management Information System |
| MISACT | Multiple Interacting Sensors and Actuators |
| MISIM | Metal-Isolator-Semiconductor-Isolator-Metal |
| MISO | Multiple Input – Single Output (Controller, System) |
| MISR | Multiangle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (Satelliten-Erd-Fernerkundung/satellite remote reconnaissance) |
| MISRA | Motor Industry Software Reliability Association |
| MIT | Management Information Tree |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| MIT | minimal-invasives Therapieverfahren |
| MITES | Miniature Inverted-Repeat Transposable Elements (Genetik/genetics) |
| MITI | [Institut für] Minimalinvasive therapeutische Interventionen (TU München) |
| MITI | Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Japan) |
| MITLL | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory |
| MIUH | Medizinisches Institut für Umwelthygiene (Düsseldorf) |
| MIXSEL | Modelocked Integrated External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser |
| MIZ | Marginal Ice Zone Program |
| MJFF | Michael J. Fox Foundation (funder of Parkinson's Research) |
| MJO | Madden-Julian-Oscillation (meteorology) |
| MK | Mazedonien/Macedonia (ISO 3166) |
| MKB | Media Key Block (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MKB | Motorkennbuchstabe (Kfz) |
| MKG | Magnetokardiographie |
| MKG | Mund-Kiefer-Gesicht (Chirurgie/surgery) |
| mks | Meter – Kilogramm – Sekunde, meter – kilogram – second (Maßsystem/system of units) |
| MKV | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Videodatei] |
| ML | Machine Learning |
| ML | Mali (ISO 3166) |
| ML | Maximum Likelihood (Statistik/statistics) |
| MLA | Mercury Laser Altimeter (Raumfahrt/spacecraft) |
| MLA | Modern Language Association |
| MLAPI | Medium Level Application Programming Interface (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MLB | Major (or: Minor) League Baseball |
| MLB | Modularer Längsbaukasten (Kfz-Entwicklung) |
| MLC | Mobile Location Center (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MLC | Multileaf Collimator (Röntgentechnik/X-ray technology) |
| MLCD | Mars Laser Communications Demonstration System |
| MLCF | Maximum Likelihood Confidence Factor |
| MLD | Multicast Listeners Discovery Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MLD | Multi-Layer-Dielectric (Spiegelbeschichtung/optical mirror coating) |
| MLE | Maximum Likelihood Estimation |
| MLE | Medium to Large Enterprise |
| MLI | Multi-Layer Insulation |
| MLLR | Maximum Likelihood Linear Regression (Signalverarbeitung/signal processing) |
| MLM | Maximum Likelihood Method (Parameterschätzung/parameter estimation) |
| MLO | Mycoplasma-like Organism |
| MLP | Medium- to Long-Term Plan |
| MLP | Mobile Location Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MLP | Multi-Layer Perceptron |
| MLS | Maximum Length Sequence (Maximalfolge) |
| MLS | Mikrowellenlandesystem |
| MLT | Micro Laser Terminal |
| MLTT | Martin-Löfs Typentheorie |
| MLTU | Monitoring and Line Transmission Unit (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| M-LVDS | Multipoint Low Voltage Differential Signaling (für vernetzte Messgeräte/for crosslinked measuring instruments) |
| MM | Mobile Management (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MM | Multi Mode (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MM | Myanmar (früher/former Burma) (ISO 3166) |
| MMA | Multi-Moment Analysis |
| MMAE | Monomethylauristatin E |
| MMAF | Multimodal Adaptive Filter |
| MMAS | Multimedia Application Server (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MMC | Maintainance, Monitoring and Control |
| MMC | Micromaching Center (in USA: Boston, MA, und/and Silicon Valley, CA) |
| MMC | Multimedia Card |
| MMC | Multimedia Multiparty Conferencing |
| MMCF | Multimedia Communication Forum |
| MMCOI | Multimedia Communication Comments of Interest |
| MMCS | Multimedia Call Server (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MMD | Multimedia Domain (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MMDS | Microwave (or: Multichannel) Multipoint Distribution System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MMDS | Mobile Molecular Datasheet |
| MMDS | Multimedia Distribution System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MMFN | Metromedia Fiber Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MMG | Massive Multi-Player Online Games |
| MMI | Man Machine Interface |
| MMIC | Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit(ry) |
| µ-MIM | [Mikro-Metallpulver-Spritzgießen] |
| MMCOM | Mobile Millimeter Communications (IEEE Workshop) |
| MMN | Mismatch Negativity (Neurologie/neuroscience) |
| MMOD | Micro-Meteorids Orbital Debris (Raumfahrt/spacecraft) |
| MMOG | Massively Multiplayer Online Games (Computerspiele/computer games) |
| MMoIP | Multimedia over IP (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MMPA | Marine Mammal Protection Act (USA) |
| MMPU | Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (Universität Heidelberg) |
| MMRC | Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium (USA) |
| MMRP | Marine Mammal Research Program (bei/related to ATOC) |
| MMS | Manufacturing Message Standard |
| MMS | Mission Management System |
| MMS | Mobile Monitoring System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MMS | Multimedia Messaging (or: Message) Service (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MMSC | Multimedia Messaging Service Center (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MMSE | Minimum Mean Square Error (or: Estimation) |
| MMSE | Multimedia Services Environment (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| M-MSN | Multiple Maximum Signal-to-Noise Ratio |
| MMT | Megasite Management Toolsuite |
| MMT | Monolithic Mirror Telescope (University of Arizona, USA) |
| MMT | Multiple Mirror Telescope |
| MMU | Memory Management Unit |
| MMW | Millimeter-Wave (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MMZ | Mikro-Mechatronik Zentrum (Oberpfaffenhofen) |
| MMX | Multi Media Extensions |
| MN | Minnesota (US-Staat/US state) |
| MN | Mongolei/Mongolia (ISO 3166) |
| MNC | Mobile Network Code (Mobilfunk/mobile radio) |
| MNC | Multinational Corporations |
| MNO | Mobile Network Operator |
| MNPQ | Mess-, Normen-, Prüf- und Qualitätswesen |
| MNS | Managed Network Services (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MNT | Mononitrotoluol |
| MNU | Deutscher Verein zur Förderung des mathematischen und naturwissenschaftlichen Unterrichts |
| MO | Macao (ISO 3166) |
| MO | Missouri (US-Staat/US state) |
| MOA | Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics |
| MOA | Mixed-Order Ambisonics |
| MoBIC | Mobilität für Blinde durch die Interaktion mit einem Computer |
| MOBICOS | Mobile Aquatic Mesocosmos (Wasser-Ressourcen-Forschung) |
| MOC | Mars Orbiter Camera |
| MOC | Mission Operations Center |
| MOCVD | Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| MoD | Music on Demand (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MODFET | Modulation-Doped Field Effect Transistor, Modulations-dotierter Feldeffekt-Transistor |
| MODIS | Moderate (Resolution) Imaging Spectroradiometer (Satelliten-Erd-Fernerkundung/satellite remote reconnaissance) |
| MOE | Molecular Operating Environment |
| MOEL | Mittel- und Osteuropäische Länder |
| MOEMS | Micro-Opto-Electromechanical System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MOEN | Meridional Overturning Exchange with the Nordic Seas |
| MoES | Ministry of Earth Sciences (India) |
| MOEZ | [Fraunhofer-] Zentrum für Mittel- und Osteuropa (Leipzig) |
| MOF | Metal-Organic Framework |
| MOF | Microstructured Optical Fibre |
| MOFA | Multispectral Optical Filter Assembly |
| MOG | Modified Gravity (theory) |
| MOKE | Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect, Magneto-optischer Kerr-Effekt (Festkörperphysik/solid state physics) |
| MOLA | Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter |
| MOLI | Microsoft Online Learning Institute |
| MoM | Moment of Methods (analysis software) |
| MOMA | Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer |
| MoMA | Museum of Modern Arts (New York City) |
| MOMBE | Metallorganische Molekularstrahlepitaxie |
| MOMS | Modularer Optoelektronischer Multispektral-Scanner |
| MONA | Merging Optics and Nanotechnologies (EU project) |
| MOND | Modified (or: Modification of) Newtonian Dynamics, Modifizierte Newton'sche Dynamik |
| MONET | Mobile Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MOO | Multi-Objective Optimization |
| MOOC | Massive Open Online Course |
| MOPA | Master Oscillator Power Amplifier (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MOPITT | Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere (Satelliten-Erd-Fernerkundung/satellite remote sensing) |
| MORABA | Mobile Raketenbasis (DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, seit 1.1.1967) |
| MORDO | Multiobject Robust Design Optimisation |
| MORE | Maney Online Research E-Journal (digital archives) |
| MORE | Mobility for Young Researchers from Central and Eastern Europe |
| MOS | Mean Opinion Score (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MOS | Metal-Oxide Semiconductor |
| MOS | Monitor-Server |
| MOS | Multiobject Spectrograph |
| MOSA | Ministry of Science and the Arts (Israel) |
| MOSAIC | Model Driven Site Assessment, Information and Control |
| MoSAIC | Modular and Scalable Application Platform for ITS-Components (ITS: Intelligent Transportation System) |
| MOSE | Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico (Hochwasserschutz/flood protection, Venedig, IT) |
| MOSFET | Metalloxid-Silicium-Feldeffekt-Transistor, Metal Oxide Field-Effect Transistor |
| MOSIS | MOS Implementation System |
| MOST | Media Oriented Systems Transfer (or: Transport) |
| MOST | Microvariabilty and Oscillations of Stars (Canadian Satellite) |
| MOST | Ministry of Science and Technology (China, Korea, Vietnam etc.) |
| MOT | Magneto-Optical Trap |
| MOT | Multimedia Object Transfer Protocol |
| MOTT | Multi-Funktionale On-Top Technologie |
| MOU | Memorandum of Understanding |
| MOV | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Video-Datei/file name extension: video file] |
| MOV | Modal Output Value (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MOVIC | International Conference on Motion and Vibration Control |
| MOVPE | Metalorganic Vapor Phase Epitaxy |
| MOWGLY | Mobile Wideband Global Link System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MOX | Mixed-Oxide Fuel, Mischoxid (Kernreaktor/nuclear reactor) |
| MOZAIC | Measurements of Ozone and Water Vapor by Airbus In-Service Aircraft |
| MP | Marianen/Northern Mariana Islands (ISO 3166 and US Mail) |
| MP | Maximum Parsimony (Statistik/statistics) |
| MP | Message Passing |
| MP | Motion Picture |
| MPA | Marine Protected Area (Meeresfischerei/sea fishing) |
| MPA | Materialprüfungsamt (oder: -prüfanstalt) |
| MPA | Micro-Perforated Absorber |
| MPA | Multiport Amplifier (Architecture) |
| MPAe | Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie (Lindau/Harz) |
| m:Pal | Modular Process Automation Laboratory |
| MPC | Magnetic Photonic Crystal |
| MPC | Model Predictive Control(ler) |
| MPCA | Multicarrier Power Amplifier (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MPC&A | Material Protection, Control, and Accounting (US-Russian nuclear cooperation) |
| MpCCI | Mesh-Based Parallel Code Coupling Interface |
| MPCV-SM | Multi Purpose Crew Vehicle – Service Module |
| MPD | magnetoplasmadynamisch (-er Raketenantrieb) |
| MPDL | Max Planck Digital Library (München) |
| MPDR | Multipoint Digital Radio (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MPE | Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (Garching) |
| MPE | Maximum Permissible Exposure |
| MPE | Multi-Photon Excitation |
| MPE | Multiprotocol Encapsulation (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MPEG | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Video-Datei/file name extension: video file] |
| MPEG | Motion (or: Moving) Picture(s) Expert(s) Group (Bildcodierung/picture coding) |
| MPEG2-TS | Moving Pictures Experts Group – Transport Stream |
| MPF | Metadata Production Framework (for Video Media) |
| MPF | Modern Pit Facility |
| MPG | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Video-Datei/file name extension: video file] |
| MPG | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. |
| MPG | Miles per Gallon (Kraftstoffverbrauch, etwa 5,75 l/100 km) |
| MPI | Magnetic Particle Imaging |
| MPI | Max-Planck-Institut |
| MPI | Message Passing Interface (Parallelrechner/parallel computer) |
| MPI | Multi-Photonen-Ionisation |
| MPIbpc | Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie (Göttingen) |
| MPIC | Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie (Mainz) |
| MPICBG | Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics |
| MPIDS | Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (Göttingen, DE) |
| MPIE | Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung (Düsseldorf) |
| MPI-Eva | Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie (Leipzig) |
| MPIF | Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung (Stuttgart) |
| MPIfG | Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (Köln) |
| MPI(f)R | Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (Bonn) |
| MPIK | Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (Heidelberg) |
| MPIPKS | Max-Planck-Institut für die Physik komplexer Systeme (Dresden) |
| MPIRE | Massively Parallel Interactive Rendering Environment |
| MPISD | Max-Planck-Institut für die Struktur und Dynamik der Materie (Hamburg) |
| MPIZ | Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung (Köln) |
| MPL | Marine Physical Laboratory (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA, USA) |
| MPL | Mars Polar Lander |
| MPL | Max-Planck-Institut für die Physik des Lichts (Erlangen) |
| MPL | Monophosphoryl-Lipid (Biomedizin) |
| MPLM | Multipurpose Pressurized Logistic Modules (Satelliten/satellites) |
| MPLP | Multi-Pulse Linear Prediction |
| MPLS | Multi-Protocol Label Switching (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| MPλS | Multi-Protocol Lambda Switching (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| MPM | Microstructured Photonic Material |
| MPM | Microwave Power Module |
| MPMP | Microwave Point to Multipoint (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MPMS | Magnetic Property Measurement System |
| MPO | Multi-Parameter Optimization |
| MPOA | Multi-Protocol over ATM (Rechnernetze/computer networks) |
| mPOF | Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibre |
| MPP | Massively Parallel Processing (Rechner/computer) |
| MPP | Maximum Power Point (Photovoltaik/photovoltaics) |
| MPP | Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (München) |
| MPP | Most Probable Path (Kfz-Fahrerassistenzsystem/vehicle driver assistance sytem) |
| MPP | Multi Purpose Plattform (Flugzeug mit Überwachungselektronik) |
| MPPC | Multi-Pixel Photon Counter |
| MPPP | Methylphenylpropionoxypiperidin (eine Designerdroge) |
| MPPT | Maximum Power-Point Tracking (Photovoltaik/photovoltaics) |
| MPQ | Max-Plack-Institut für Quantenoptik (Garching) |
| MPQF | MPEG Query Format |
| MPR | Multi-Path Routing (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MPRESS | [Mathematik-Literaturservice/mathematics literature service] |
| MPS | Mathematical and Physical Sciences |
| MPS | Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung (Katlenburg-Lindau) |
| MPS | Max Planck Society (= MPG in deutschen Texten) |
| MPS | Mission Planning System (Satelliten-Fernerkundung/satellie remote sensing) |
| MPS | Mononuclear Phagocyte System |
| MPSD | Max Planck Research Group (or: Department) for Structural Dynamics (Hamburg) |
| MPSR | Multi-Path Self Routing (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MPT | Mid-Pleistocene Transition (Klimageschichte/climate history) |
| MPT | Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (Japan) |
| MPT | Multi-Port Tubing (HPC) |
| MPTP | Methylphenyltetrahydropyridin (löst Parkinson-Krankheit aus) |
| MPU | Master Processing Unit (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MPV | Multi-Purpose Vehicle |
| MPWS | Multi-Protocol Wavelength Switching (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MP3 | MPEG Layer 3 [Dateinamenerweiterung: Audio-Datei/file name extension: audio file] |
| MQ | Martinique (ISO 3166) |
| MQW | Multiple Quantum Well |
| MR | Magnetresonanz (-Tomographie) |
| MR | Mauretanien/Mauritania (ISO 3166) |
| MR | Measurement Report |
| MR | Mineralocorticoid-Rezeptor |
| MRA | Mutual Recognition Arrangement (Metrologie/metrology) |
| MRAM | Magnetic (or: Magnetoresistive) Random Access Memory |
| MRAO | Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (bei/near Cambridge, UK) |
| MRAV | Mixed Reality Audio-Visual (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MRB | Main Reference Burst |
| MRBM | Medium-Range Ballistic Missile |
| MRC | Medical Research Council (UK) |
| M.R.C.S. | Member(ship) of Royal College of Surgeons (UK) |
| MRCT | Mobile Radio Conformance Test |
| MRD | Mobile Radio Division (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MRE | Magnetic Resonance Elastography |
| MRE | magnetorheologisches Elastomer |
| MREFC | Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (NSF) |
| MRF | Magnetorheological Finishing (optische Linsen/optical lenses) |
| MRF | Magnetorheological Fluid |
| MRF | (Multi)Media Resource Function (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MRFM | Magnetic Resonance Force Microscope (or: Microscopy) |
| MRI | Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| MRI | Magnetorotational Instability, Magnetorotationsinstabilität (Astronomie/astronomy) |
| MRM | Magnetresonanz-Mikroskopie |
| MRM | Mesh Reduction Method(s) |
| mRNA | Messenger RNA |
| MRO | Magdalena Ridge Observatory (New Mexico, USA) |
| MRO | Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul |
| MRP | Market Representation Partners (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MRP | Material(s) (or: Manufacturing) Resource Planning |
| MRS | Magnetic-Recoil Spectrometer |
| MRS | Major Resources Support (Canadian grant program) |
| MRS | Materials Research Society (USA) |
| MRS | Media Resource Service (SIPI) |
| MRSA | Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (Medizin/medicine) |
| MRSEC | Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (NSF, Arlington, VA, USA) |
| MRT | Magnetresonanz-Tomographie |
| MRT | Multi Role Transporter (der Luftwaffe/of the Air Force) |
| MS | Magnetic Field Surveying |
| MS | Mass Spectrometry (or: Spectrometer) |
| M.S. | Master of Science |
| M/S | Master/Slave |
| MS | Media Server (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MS | Member State |
| MS | Mississippi (US-Staat/US state) |
| MS | Mobile Station (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MS | Montserrat (ISO 3166) |
| MS | Multiple Sklerose/Multiple Sklerosis |
| MSA | Microscopy Society of America |
| MSA | Multisource Agreement (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| MSAM | Multi-Service Access Multiplexer (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MSAN | Multi-Service Access Node (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MSAS | Multi-Function Transport Satellite-Based Augmentation System (Satellitennavigation/satellite navigation, Japan) |
| MSBB | Multi-Standard Baseband (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MSC | Maritime Safety Committee |
| M.Sc. | Master of Science |
| MSC | Mesenchymale Stammzellen |
| MSC | Message Sequence Chart (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MSC | Mobile (Services) Switching Centre (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MSD | Mass Selective Detector |
| MSD | Mean Square Displacement |
| MSD | Minimum Set of Data (Kfz-Notrufsystem) |
| MS-DOS | Microsoft Disk Operating System |
| MSE | Mission Success Evaluation |
| MSE | Mean Square Error |
| MSE | mittlere Schmerzempfindlichkeit |
| MSE | Mobilstations-Emulator (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MSEC | Materials Science, Engineering, and Commercialization (Texas State University Program, USA) |
| MSF | Mid-Spatial Frequency |
| MSF | Multi Stage Flash Exploration (Meerwasserentsalzung/method for seawater desalting) |
| MSFC | Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA, Huntsville, AL, USA) |
| MSG | Meteosat Second Generation (seit/since 2003) |
| MSG | Microgravity Science Glovebox (ISS) |
| MSGC | Micro-Strip Gas Detector |
| MSI | Master in Scientific Instrumentation |
| MSI | Medium Scale Integration |
| MSISDN | Mobile Station ISDN Number |
| MSK | Minimum (or: Maximum) Shift Keying (Datenübertragung/data transmission) |
| MSL | Mars Science Laboratory |
| MSL | Materials Science Laboratory (at ISS) |
| MSM | Magnetic Shape Memory (actuator) |
| MSM | Metal-Semiconductor-Metal (Photodetektoren/photodetectors) |
| MSN | Microsoft Network (Datennetz/data network) |
| MSN | Moscow Society of Naturalists |
| MSN | Multi-Service Node (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MSO | Mixed-Signal Oscilloscope |
| MSO | Multi-Service Operator (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MSO | Multiple Systems Operators (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MSOE | Milwaukee School of Engineering (WI, USA) |
| MSOP | Mini Small Outline Package (SMD-Gehäuse/casing) |
| MSOT | Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography |
| MSP | Male Shopping Pattern |
| MSP | Mobile Service Provider (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MSP | Multiplex Section Protection |
| MSPP | Multi-Service Provisioning Platform (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MSR | Mobile Station Receiver Diversity (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MSR | Molten-Salt Reactor |
| μSR | Muon Spin Rotation |
| MSRA | Multistandard Radio Analyzer (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MSRC | Microsoft Research in Cambridge (UK) |
| MSRI | Mathematical Science(s) Research Institute (Berkeley, CA, USA) |
| MSRT | Multi Standard Real-Time (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MSS | MAN Switching System |
| MSS | Managed Security Services (Datensicherheit/data security) |
| MSS | Mass Storage System |
| MSS | Mobile Satellite System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MSSM | Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (Elementarteilchen/elementary particles) |
| MS-SP | Multiple Section – Section Protection (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MS-SPRING | Multiple(xer) Section Shared Protection Ring (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MSSU | Missouri Southern State University (USA) |
| MST | Mikrosystemtechnik |
| MST | Minimal Spanning Tree (Signalanalyse/signal analysis) |
| MST | Multiple Spanning Tree (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MSTP | Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MSTP | Multi-Service Transmission Platform (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MSTV | Maximum Service Television |
| MSU | Michigan State University (USA) |
| MSU | Mississippi State University (USA) |
| MSU | Montana State University (USA) |
| MSU | Moscow State University |
| MSV | Modularized Start Version (FAIR) |
| MSW | Media Switch |
| MSY | Maximal Sustained Yield (Ökonomie/economy) |
| MT | Malta (ISO 3166) |
| MT | Montana (US-Staat/US state) |
| MTA | Magyar Tudományos Akadáemia (Ungarische Akademie der Wissenschaften/Hungarian Academy of Sciences) |
| MTA | Materials Testing Accelerator |
| MTA | Medizinisch-technische(r) Assistent(in) |
| MTA | Multi-Threaded Computing (Parallelrechner/parallel computer) |
| mTAN | mobile Transaktionsnummer |
| MTAR | Multidisciplinary Trends in Academic Research (Conference series) |
| Mtb | Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Tbc-Erreger) |
| MTB | Motion-Tracked Binaural (sound recording) |
| MTBE | Mean Time Between Error Events |
| MTBF | Mean Time Before Failure (or: Between Failures) |
| MTBR | Mean Time Before Resynchronization |
| MTBSE | Mean Time Between Service Events |
| μTC | Mikrotribologie Centrum (Karlsruhe) |
| MTCO | Minimum Total Cost of Ownership |
| MTCR | Missile Technology Control Regime |
| MTD | Mounted (optische Linsen/optical lenses) |
| mtDNA | mitochondriale DNA |
| MTF | Modulation Transfer Function |
| MTFF | Man-Tended Free-Flyer (Raumfahrt/spaceccraft) |
| MTG | Marine-Technik-Gesellschaft (Hamburg) |
| MTG | Mikroelektronik- und Technologiegesellschaft (Ostdeutschland) |
| MTHEL | Mobile Testbed High-Energy Laser (US Army) |
| MTJ | Magnetic Tunnel Junction |
| MTM | Mechanical Test Model |
| MTMOS | Methyl-Trimethoxysilane |
| MTN | Mountain (US Mail) |
| MTN | Multilateral Trade Negotiations |
| MTO | Mars Telecom Orbiter |
| mTOR | Mammal (or: Mechanistic) Target of Rapamycin (a protein) |
| MTP | Message Transfer Part |
| MTS | Methods for Testing and Specification (TC im/in the ETSI) |
| MTSat | Multifunctional Transport Satellite |
| MTSU | Middle Tennessee State University (USA) |
| MTTF | Mean Time to Failure |
| MTTR | Mean Time to Repair (or: Restore) |
| MTU | Multi-Tenant Unit |
| MTV | Music Television Video |
| MU | Mauritius (ISO 3166) |
| MUD | Multi User Dungeon (or: Dimension, or: Dialog, or: Detection) (Rechnernetz-Spiele/computer-net games) |
| MUFA | Mono Unsaturated Fatty Acids (einfach ungesättigte Fettsäuren) |
| MuK | Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft |
| MULTOPS | Multi-Level Tree for Online Packet Statistics (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MU-MIMO | Multi-User MIMO |
| MUNIN | Maritime Unmanned Navigation through Intelligence and Networks (EU project, since Sep. 2012) |
| MuPAD | Multi-Processing Algebra Data (Tool) |
| MUPUS | Multi-Purpose Sensors for Surface and Sub-Surface Science (Rosetta project) |
| MURA | Midwestern Universities Research Association (USA) |
| MURI | Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative |
| MURR | Missouri–Columbia's University Research Reactor |
| MUSC | Microgravity User Support Center (DLR, Köln-Porz, DE) |
| MUSE | Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer |
| MUSE | Multiple Sub-Nyquist-Sampling Encoding |
| MUSE | Myon Proton Scattering Experiment |
| MUSES | Multi-User Systems for Earth Sensing (DLR, ISS) |
| MUSIC | Multiple Signal Classification |
| MUSIC | Self-Adapting Applications for Mobile Users in Ubiquitous Computing Environmentals |
| MUSICAM | Masking Pattern Adapted Universal Subband Integrated Coding and Multiplexing (Digitalrundfunk/digital broadcast) |
| MUSICES | Musical Instrument Computed Tomography Examination Standard |
| MUT | Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer |
| MV | Malediven/Maldives (ISO 3166) |
| MV | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Bundesland/German Federal State) |
| MVA | Market Value Added |
| MVA | Müllverbrennungsanlage |
| MVA | Multivariate Data Analysis |
| MVB | Multi-Vehicle Bus (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| MVC | Model-View-Controller |
| MVD | Minimum Vector Dispersion (Bildverarbeitung/picture processing) |
| MVDR | Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (Signalverarbeitung/signal processing) |
| MVIP | Multi-Vendor Integration Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MVL | Minenvernichtungsladung |
| MVNO | Mobile Virtual Network Operator(s) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MVST | Multilayer Vertically Stacked Capacitors |
| MVTS | Multivariable Technological Systems (IFAC Symposium) |
| MW | Malawi (ISO 3166) |
| MWA | Mileura Widefield Array (Astrophysik/astrophysics, Antennen/antennae) |
| MWBD | Marine Wildlife Behavior Database |
| MWIF | Mobile Wireless Internet Forum (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MWK | Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst |
| MWLI | Multiwavelength Interferometer |
| MWN | Münchner Wissenschaftsnetz |
| MWNT | Multi Wall(ed) Nanotubes |
| MWP | Mountain Wave Project |
| MWR | Microwave Radiometer (ENVISAT) |
| MWR | Mikrowellen-Radio |
| MX | Mexiko/Mexico (ISO 3166) |
| MXCD | magnetischer Röntgenzirkulardichroismus |
| MXF | Material Exchange Format |
| Mx-MAC | Multi-Standard Medium Access Control (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| MXPA | Multicore Cross-Platform Architecture (computer design) |
| MY | Malaysia (ISO 3166) |
| Mya | Million years ago |
| MYI | Multilayer Ice (in the Arctic Sea) |
| Myr | Megayears (106 years) |
| M-Z | Mach-Zehnder (Interferometer, Modulator) |
| MZ | Moçambique/Mozambique (ISO 3166) |
| MZI | Mach-Zehnder-Interferometer |
| M2E | Mouth-to-Ear (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| M2M | Machine-to-Machine |
| M2M | Mohole to the Mantle (ocean drilling project) |
| M2OLIE | Mannheim Molecular Intervention Environment (Krebsforschung/cancer research) |
| M3D | Maskless Mesoscale Material Deposition |
| M3R | Marine Mammal Monitoring (Meeresbiologie/marine biology) |
|
| n... | Nano... (Präfix/prefix): 10-9 |
| NA | Namibia (ISO 3166) |
| NA | Network Aspects (TC im/in the ETSI) |
| NA | Normenausschuss |
| NA | numerische Apertur (Optik) |
| NAAL | Network of Alabama Academic Libraries |
| NAASC | North American ALMA Science Center (Charlottesville, VA, USA) |
| NAB | National Association of Broadcasters (of America) |
| NABU | Naturschutzbund Deutschland |
| NAC | Noise Abatement Criteria (FHWA) |
| NACA | National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (USA) |
| NACCH | Network Access and Connectivity Channel (Datenübertragung/data transmission) |
| NACCB | National Accreditation Council for Certification Bodies (UK) |
| NACF | Network Access Configuration Function (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NACK | No Acknowledgement (or: Not Acknowledged) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NACLIM | North Atlantic Climate |
| NACP | National Aids Coordination Program (Simbabwe) |
| NACRE | New Aircraft Concepts Research |
| NAD | Network Access Domain (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NAD | Network Application Division (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NAD | Nicotinamid-adenin-dinucleotid |
| NAD | North Atlantic Drift (Golfstrom/Gulf Stream) |
| NAE | National Academy of Engineering (USA) |
| NAECON | National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (USA) |
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Area |
| NAG | Numerical Algorithms Group (UK) |
| NAGINELS | Non-Aggressive Glass Internal Engraving System |
| NAH | Nearfield Acoustic Holography |
| NAHSC | National Automated Highway System Consortium (San Diego, CA, USA) |
| NAIAS | North American International Auto Show |
| NAIS | Nationally Adopted International Standards |
| NAL | Network Abstraction Layer (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NALS | Normenausschuss Akustik, Lärmminderung und Schwingungstechnik |
| NAM | Nominally Anhydrous Mineral (Geologie/geology) |
| NAM | Non-Absorbing Mirror (laser technology) |
| NAMAS | National Measurement Accreditation Service (UK) |
| NAMC | [Laboratoire de] Neurobiologie de l'Apprentissage de la Mémoire et de la Communication |
| (Neurobiology of Learning, Memory and Commmunication) (CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, FR) |
| NAMD | Nanoscale Molecular Dynamics Program |
| NAMEM | National Agency of Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring (Ulanbator, Mongolia) |
| NAMUR | Normenausschuss Mess- und Regeltechnik |
| NAND | Neurotechnologies for Analysis and of Neural Dynamics (course at Princeton University, USA) |
| NANGOGrav | Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Observatory (at WVU et al.) |
| NANOTHER | Integration of Novel Nanoparticle Based Technology for Therapeutics and Diagnosis of Different Types of Cancer (EU project) |
| NANSC | National Air Navigation Service Company (Cairo Airport, Egypt) |
| NAO | Nordatlantische Oszillation (Meteorologie/meteorology) |
| NAOC | National Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Science |
| NAOJ | National Astronomical Observatory of Japan |
| NAOS | Nasmyth Adaptive Optics System (für/for ESO-VLT) |
| NAP | Network Access Point (Internet) |
| NA-PAC | North American Particle Accelerator Conference |
| NAPLEX | North American Pharmacists Licensure Exam |
| NAPLS | North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study |
| NAPP | National Association of Patent Practitioners (USA) |
| NAPT | Network Address and Port Translator (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NARA | United States National Archives and Records Administration (College Park, MD, USA) |
| NARDI | National Agricultural Research and Development Institute (Funduela, RO) |
| NARIC | National Academic Recognition Information Centre (EU) |
| NARMAX | Nonlinear Autoregressive Moving Average with Exogeneous Input |
| NARPA | National Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| NARTB | National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters (USA) |
| NAS | NASA Advanced Supercomputing (division) |
| NAS | National Academy of Sciences (USA) |
| NAS | Network Access Server (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NAS | Network Attached Storage |
| NAS | Noise Abatement Society |
| NAS | Non Access Stratum (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NAS | [Scandinavian Acoustical Society] |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Agency (or: Administration) (USA) |
| NASBR | North American Society for Bat Research |
| NASDA | National Aeronautics and Space Development Agency (Japan) |
| NASM | National Air and Space Museum (Washington, DC, USA) |
| NASP | National Aerospace Plane |
| NASS | Network Access Subsystem (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NA/STAG | Network Aspects/Security Techniques Advisory Group (TC im/in the ETSI) |
| NASTAR | National Aerospace Training and Research (Center in Pennsylvania, USA) |
| NAT | National Accreditation Board (HU) |
| NAT | Network Address Translation (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NAT | Nitric Acid Trihydrate (HNO3·3(H2O)) |
| NATLAS | National Testing Laboratory Accreditation Service (UK) |
| NATO | North-Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| NAU | Northern Arizona University |
| NAV | Navigation |
| NAVA | Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist (künstliche Beatmung/artificial respiration) |
| NAVSTAR | Navigational Satellite Timing and Ranging (GPS-System, seit 17. Juli 1995) |
| NAWDEX | North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream Impact Experiment (DLR) |
| NB | Narrowband |
| NB | New Brunswick (Province of Canada) |
| NB | Normal Burst (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NBAP | Node B Application Part (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NBAP-d | Node B Application Part Dedicated (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NBBL | Nachwuchs-Basketballbundesliga |
| NBI | National Bureau of Investigation (SF) |
| NBI | Neutral-Beam Injection (Fusionsreaktortechnik/fusion reactor technology) |
| NBIC | Nanotechnologies, Biotechnologies, Information and Communication Technologies |
| NBIFL | National Bureau of Investigation Forensic Laboratory (SF) |
| NBL | Niels Bohr Library |
| NBMA | Non-Broadcast Multiple Access |
| NB-RAS | Narrowband Remote Access Server (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NBRF | National Biomedical Research Foundation (USA) |
| NBS | National Blood Service (UK) |
| NBS | National Bureau of Standards (USA), now: NIST |
| NC | Network Computer |
| NC | Neukaledonien/New Caledonia (ISO 3166) |
| NC | Noise Criteria |
| NC | Non-Copyright Compliant (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NC | North Carolina (US-Staat/US state) |
| NC | Numeric Control |
| NCA | Netherlands Centre on Animal Use |
| NCAC | National Council of Acoustical Consultants (USA) |
| nc-AFM | Non-Contact Atomic Force Microscopy |
| NCALM | National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NSF, USA) |
| NCAP | New Car Assessment Program (EU-Norm, Kfz/EU standard for cars) |
| NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, CO, USA) |
| NCAS | National Centre for Atmospheric Science (UK) |
| Ncats | National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA) |
| NCB | Balanced Noise Criteria |
| NCC | National Computing Centre (UK) |
| NCC | Network Color Code (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NCC | Network Control Centre (Datennetz/data network) |
| NCCR | National Centre of Competence in Research |
| NCCU | North Carolina Central University (Durham, NC, USA) |
| NCDC | National Climatic Data Center (USA) |
| NCDS | National Consortium for Data Science (USA) |
| NCEJ | Noise Control Engineering Journal |
| NCEP | National Center for Environmental Prediction (weather forecast) |
| NCES | National Center for Education Statistics (USA) |
| NCHRP | National Cooperative Highway Research Program (USA) |
| NCI | National Cancer Institute (Bethesda, MD, USA) |
| NCI | National Computing Infrastructure (Australian National University in Canberra) |
| NCI | Non-Coded Information |
| NCICB | National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics (Bethesda, MD, USA) |
| NCKU | National Cheng Kung University (Tainan, Taiwan, ROC) |
| NCL | Nidopallium Caudolaterale (im Vogelgehirn/in birds' brain) |
| NCLB | No Child Left Behind Act (USA) |
| NCLDV | Nucleocytoplasmic Large DNA Virus |
| NCLR | Netherlands Centrum voor Laser Research |
| NCMH | National Centre for Mental Health (Wales, UK) |
| NCMN | Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience (USA) |
| NCMRWF | National Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (Noida, India) |
| NCNR | NIST Center for Neutron Research (Gaithersburg, MD, USA) |
| NCO | Numerically Controlled Oscillator (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NCP | National Contact Point (ESPRIT) |
| NCPA | National Center for Physical Acoustics (University of Mississippi, USA) |
| ncRNA | Non-Coding RNA |
| NCRC | National Canada Research Council |
| NCRC | National Consumer Research Centre (Finland) |
| NCRIS | National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (Australia) |
| NCRP | National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (USA) |
| NCRR | National Center for Research Resources (NIH, USA) |
| NCS | Natural Color System |
| NCS | Network Control System (Datennetz/data network) |
| NCS | Non-Crystallographic Symmetry (Festkörperphysik/solid state physics) |
| NCSA | National Center for (or: of) Supercomputing Applications (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) |
| NCSA | National Sound and Communications Association (USA) |
| NCSE | National Center for Science Education (USA) |
| NCSU | North Carolina State University |
| NCSX | National Compact Stellarator Experiment (Fusionsreaktorprojekt, USA, aufgegeben/US fusion reactor project, abandoned 2008) |
| NCT | Nationales Centrum für Tumorerkrankungen (Heidelberg) |
| NCTU | National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan) |
| NCU | National Central University (Jhongli City, Taiwan) |
| ND | North Dakota (US-Staat/US state) |
| NDA | New Drug Application |
| NDAA | National Defense Authorization Act (USA) |
| NDBC | National Data Buoy Center (USA) |
| NDC | Normalized Device Coordinates |
| NDDO | New Drug Development Office (Amsterdam, NL, EORTC) |
| NDE | Non-Destructive Evaluation |
| NDGF | Nordic Data Grid Facility (DK, FI, NO, SE Allianz/alliance) |
| NDI | Naphthalindiimid (Schadstoffdetektor) |
| NDI | Nondestructive Inspection |
| NDIA | National Defense Industrial Association (USA) |
| NDMA | Network Diversity Multiple Access (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NDNAD | National DNA Database (UK) |
| NDR | Norddeutscher Rundfunk |
| NDR | Next Data Rate (Datenübertragung/data transmission) |
| NDRC | National Defense Research Committee (USA) |
| NDS | Netware Directory Services (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NDS | Nuclear Detection System (USA) |
| NDSC | Network for Detection of Atmospheric Change |
| NDSU | North Dakota State University (USA) |
| NDT | Nondestructive Testing |
| NDVI | Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, Normierter differenzierter Vegetationsindex |
| n.d.Z. | nach der Zeitenwende (= nach Christus/after Christ) |
| NE | Nebraska (US-Staat/US state) |
| NE | Network Element (or: Equipment) (Internet) |
| NE | Niger (ISO 3166) |
| NEA | Near Earth Asteroid |
| NEA | Nuclear Energy Agency |
| NEACP | National Emergency Airborne Command Post |
| NEAR | Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous |
| NEASR | Near-Earth Asteroid Sample Return (Satelliten/satellites) |
| NEBS | Network Equipment Building System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NECSA | Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa |
| NeCTAR | National e-Research Collaboration Tools and Resources (AU) |
| NED | Nanoemissive Display (Flachbildschirm/flat screen) |
| NED | NASA Extragalactical Database |
| NED | Non-Exponentially Degraded (protein) |
| NEDLIB | Networked European Deposit Library |
| NEDO | New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (Japan) |
| NEEM | North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling Project |
| Nef | Negative Factor (Protein) |
| NEF | Noise Exposure Forecast |
| NEFZ | Neuer Europäischer Fahrzyklus (Kfz-Test/car standard test) |
| NEHERC | New England Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (USA) |
| NEHI | Nanotechnology Environmental and Health Implications (USA) |
| NEI | Neural-Electrical Interface (Gehirn-Implantat/brain implant) |
| NEI | Niedrig-Energie-Institut |
| NEI | Nuclear Energy Institute |
| NEIU | Northeastern Illinois University (USA) |
| NEJM | New England Journal of Medicine |
| NEL | National Engineering Laboratory (UK) |
| NEL | Network Element Layer (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NELAP | National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program |
| NELE | Near-End Listening Enhancement (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NELHA | Natural Energy Lab of Hawaii Authority |
| NELS | North European LORAN-C System |
| NELTA | Netzwerk Elektrische Leichtbau-Traktionsantriebe (LBF) |
| NEM | Network Element Manager (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NEMA | National Electrical Manufacturers' Association |
| NEMO | Nano-Based Capsule-Endoscopy with Molecular Imaging and Optical Biopsy (Medizintechnik/medicine technology) |
| NeMo | Network and Money (or: Modem) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NEMO | Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean |
| NEMS | Nano-Electro-Mechanical System |
| NEnA | Nano-Entrepreneurship Academy |
| NEO | Near-Earth Object (or: Orbit) |
| NEOCam | Near-Earth Object Camera |
| NEODyS | Near-Earth Objects Dynamic Site (astronomy) |
| NEOMA | Near Earth Objects Mission Advisory Panel (USA) |
| NEOShield | (Asteroidenabwehr) |
| NEPA | National Environmental Policy Act (USA) |
| NEPAD | New Partnership for Africa's Development |
| NepJOL | Nepal Journals Online |
| NERC | National Environment Information Centre (UK) |
| NERC | North American Electric Reliability Corporation |
| NERSC | National Energy Research Scientific Computing [Center] (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA, USA) |
| NeSC | National e-Science Centre (UK) |
| NESS | Nonequilibrium Steady State |
| NEST | New and Emerging Science and Technology (EU, FP6) |
| NEST | Nuclear Energy Search (or: Support) Team (USA, seit/since 1974) |
| net | [Network Organization] (Internet, USA) |
| NET | New Energy Technology (Solartechnik/solar technology) |
| NETL | National Energy Technology Laboratory (USA) |
| NEURONANO | Towards New Generations of Neuro-Implantable Devices: Engineering Neurons/Carbon Nanotubes Integrated Functional Units (EU project) |
| NEW | National Engineers Weck |
| NEWS | Development of a Next Generation European Inland Waterway Ship and Logistics System |
| NEWS | Nonlinear Elastic Wave Spectroscopy |
| NEX | Narita Express (Zug zwischen Flughafen und Tokio/train between airport and Tokyo, JP) |
| NExScI | NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (USA) |
| NEXT | Near-End Crosstalk |
| NEXUS | Network of Excellence on Multifunctional Microsystems |
| NF | New Foundland (Province of Canada) |
| NF | Noise Factor |
| NF | Norfolkinsel/Norfolk Island (ISO 3166) |
| NFA | National Fire Agency (z.B./e.g. Taiwan) |
| NFC | Near Field Communication (Smart Card) |
| NFCF | Nanoscale Fabrication and Characterization Facility (University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA) |
| NFD | Natural Frequency Deviation |
| NfD | Nur für den Dienstgebrauch (Geheimhaltung/secrecy) |
| NFF | Niedersächsisches Forschungszentrum Fahrzeugtechnik (Braunschweig) |
| NFH | Near-Field Holography |
| NFIB | National Federation of Independent Business (USA) |
| NFL | National Football League (USA) |
| NFL | Niedersächsisches Forschungszentrum für Luftfahrt (Braunschweig) |
| NFO | New-Forest Observatory (kleines Teleskop in einem Wald in Südengland/a small telescope in Southern England) |
| NFODD | Near-Field Optical Disk Drive (Datenspeicher/data storage) |
| NFOEC | National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference |
| NFP | Nationales Forschungsprogramm (Schweiz) |
| NFS | Nationale Forschungsschwerpunkte (Schweiz) |
| NFS | Network File System |
| NFS | Neuartige Fahrzeugstrukturen |
| NG | New (or: Next) Generation |
| NG | Nigeria (ISO 3166) |
| NGBF | Next Generation Broadcasting Forum |
| NGC | New General Catalogue (Astronomie/astronomy) |
| NGC | Next Generation Car |
| NGDLC | Next Generation Digital Loop Carrier (Kommunikation/communication) |
| NGF | Nerve Growth Factor |
| NGI | National Grid Initiative |
| NGI | Norwegian Geotechnical Institute |
| ngHLR | Next Generation Home Location Register |
| NGL | Next Generation Lithography |
| NGLS | Next Generation Light Source |
| NGMN | Next Generation Mobile Networks (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NGN | Next Generation Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NGNP | Next Generation Nuclear Plant (USA, geplant für etwa 2020/planned for around 2020) |
| NGO | New Gravitational-Wave Observatory |
| NGO | Non-Government Organization |
| NGOSS | New Generation Operations Systems and Software |
| NGOSS | Next Generation Operations Support Systems |
| NGRIP | North Greenland Ice Core Project |
| NGS | National Grid Service (UK) |
| NGS | Next-Generation Sequence (or: Sequencing) (analysis) |
| NGSO | Non-Geostationary Satellite Orbit |
| NGST | Next Generation Space Telescope (Nachfolger des Hubble-Teleskops, geplant/planned successor of the Hubble Space Telescope) |
| NGT | Next Generation Train (DLR-Projekt, 2007–2013) |
| NG-TURB | Next Generation Turbíne (for aircraft) |
| NH | New Hampshire (US-Staat/US state) |
| NHANES | National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (USA) |
| NHCA | National Hearing Conservation Association (USA) |
| NHETC | New High Energy Theory Center (Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA) |
| NHI | National Heart Institute (USA) |
| NHI | National Highway Institute (USA) |
| NHK | Nippon hoso kyokai (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) |
| NHL | Non-Hodkin-Lymphom |
| NHLI | National Heart and Lung Institute (USA) |
| NHM | Natural History Museum (London) |
| NHMFL | National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (Tallahassee, FL; Los Alamos, NM, USA) |
| NHN | nachhaltige Holznutzung |
| NHS | National Health Service (UK) |
| NHS | Newborne Hearing Screening |
| NHS | Nurses Health Study (USA) |
| NHTSA | National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (USA) |
| NI | Network Infrastructure (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NI | Network Intelligence (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NI | Network Interface (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NI | Nicaragua (ISO 3166) |
| NI | Niedersachsen (Bundesland/German Federal State) |
| NI | Northern Ireland |
| NIA | National Information Agency (South Korea) |
| NIAID | National Institute of Allergy and Infectuous Diseases (USA) |
| NIAME | Necessary Information About a Microarray Experiment |
| NIAMS | National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases |
| NIAS | Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences |
| NIB | Non-Interference Basis (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NIBHI | Northwest Institute for Biohealth Informatics (Manchester, UK) |
| NIBIB | National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering |
| NIC | National Ignition Campaign (USA) |
| NIC | Network Information Center |
| NIC | Network Interface Card (or: Chip) |
| NIC | John von Neumann Institute for Computing (Jülich, DE) |
| NICA | Nuclotron-Based Ion Collider (JINR, RU) |
| NICER | Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer |
| NICETRIP | Novel Innovative Competitive Effective Tilt Rotor Integrated Project (EU) |
| NICHD | National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Bethesda, MD, USA) |
| NICHES | New and Innovative Concepts for Helping European Transport Sustainability (EU Projekt/project) |
| NICMOS | Near Infared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| NICO | Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (Northwestern University, USA) |
| NICPB | National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (Tallinn, Estonia) |
| NICS | National Institute for Computational Sciences (University of Tennessee, USA) |
| NICS | Nucleus Independent Chemical Shift |
| NICT | National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Japan) |
| NICTA | National Information and Communication Technology Center Australia |
| NICU | Neonatal Intensive Care Unit |
| NID | Network Integration Division (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NID | Network Interface Device (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NIDA | National Institute on Drug Abuse (Rockville, MD, USA) |
| NIDCD | National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (Bethesda, MD, USA) |
| NIDDK | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (USA) |
| NIEHS | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (USA) |
| NIF | National Ignition Facility (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, CA, USA) |
| NIFFTE | Neutron Induced Fission Fragment Tracking Experiment |
| NIFS | National Institute for Fusion Science (Toki City, Japan) |
| NIH | National Institute of Health (USA) |
| NIHL | Noise-Induced Hearing Loss |
| NIHR | National Institute for Health Research (London, UK) |
| NIL | Nanoimprint Lithography |
| NILEG | Niedersächsische Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft |
| NILU | Norwegisches Institut für Luftuntersuchungen |
| NIM | Nanosystems Initiative Munich (DE) |
| NIM | Negative Index Material (negativer optischer Brechungsindex/negative optical diffraction index) |
| NIMA | National Imagery and Mapping Agency (USA) |
| NIME | Network Information Management Entities (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NIMET | Nanoscience Institute for Medical and Engineering Technologies (University of Florida, USA) |
| NIMH | National Institute of Mental Health (Bethesda, MD, USA) |
| NiMH | Nickel-Metal Hydride (Akku/accumulator) |
| NIMS | National Institute for Materials Science (Tsukuba, Japan) |
| NIMS | Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (Galileo) |
| NIN | Normal Metal–Insulator–Normal Metal (Nanostructure) |
| NINE | National Institute for Nano-Engineering (Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico, USA) |
| NINJA | Numerical Injection Analysis (astrophysics) |
| NINP | National Institute of Nuclear Physics (IT) |
| NINT | Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology (China) |
| NIOSH | National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (USA) |
| NIPA | N-Isopropylacrylamide (hydrogel) |
| NIR | Near-Infrared |
| NIRIM | National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials (Japan) |
| NIRS | Near Infrared Spectroscopy, Nahinfrarotspektroskopie |
| NIRV | Nederlands Instituut voor Ruimtevaart |
| NIS | New Independent States (frühere Sowjetunion/former Soviet Union) |
| NIS | Normal Metal–Insulator–Superconductor (Nanostructure) |
| NISAC | National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (USA, seit/since 1999) |
| NISCAIR | National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (India) |
| NISE | Nanoscale Informal Science Education (Network; NSF, USA, seit/since 2005) |
| NISM | Noninvasive Stability Margin (measurement for electronic equipment) |
| NISO | National Information Standards Organization (USA) |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA, vormals/formerly NBS) |
| N-ISUP | Narrowband ISDN User Part (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NIT | National Institute of Technology (India) |
| NIT | Network Information Table |
| NITheP | National Institute of Theoretical Physics (South Africa) |
| Nitinol | Nickel-Titanium [intermetallic compound developed by the] Naval Ordnance Laboratory (1963) |
| NITS | Noise-Induced Threshold Shift |
| NIZEMI | Niedergeschwindigkeitszentrifugenmikroskop |
| NJ | New Jersey (US-Staat/US state) |
| NJIT | New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| NJP | New Journal of Physics |
| NK | Nationalkomitee für Kristallographie |
| N.K.V.M. | Neue Künstlervereinigung München (1909, Expressionisten) |
| NKWD | [Narodny Kommissariat Wnutrennich Del] (sowjetischer Geheimdienst/Soviet Secret Service) |
| NL | Niederlande/Netherlands (ISO 3166) |
| NL | Nonlinear |
| NLBV | Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Bezüge und Versorgung |
| NLC | National Laser Center (South Africa) |
| NLC | Next Linear Collider |
| NLCTA | Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator |
| NLE | Non-Linear Effect |
| NLES | Navigation Land Earth Stations (GPS) |
| NLfB-GGA | Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Bodenforschung – Geowissenschaftliche Gemeinschaftsaufgaben (Hannover) |
| NLM | National Library of Medicine (UK and USA) |
| NLM | Nearest-Loudspeaker Mapping |
| NLOS | None Line of Sight (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NLP | Natural Language Processing |
| NLP | Neuro-Linguistic Programming |
| NLR | Nationaal Lucht- en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium, Niederländisches Luft- und Raumfahrtlaboratorium |
| NLR | Noise Level Reduction |
| NLRB | National Labor Relations Board (USA) |
| NLRC | NASA Langley Research Center (Hampton, VA, USA) |
| NLS | New Light Source (UK) |
| NLS | Nonlinear Least Squares (Parameterschätzung/parameter estimation) |
| NLU | Natural Language Understanding (Sprachverarbeitung/speech processing) |
| NLWKN | Niedersächsischer Landesbetrieb für Wasserwirtschaft, Küsten- und Naturschutz |
| NM | Nautical Mile/nautische Meile (1 NM = 1852 m) |
| NM | Network Manager (or: Management) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NM | New Mexico (US-Staat/US state) |
| NM | Neuer Markt |
| NMA | Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority |
| NMC | Network Management Centre (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NMC | New Mexico Consortium |
| NMD | National Missile Defense (USA) |
| NMD | Neuromuscular Disease |
| NMEA | National Marine Electronics Organization (GPS, Galileo) |
| NMFS | National Marine Fisheries Service (USA) |
| NMI | Natural Marketing Institute (USA) |
| NMI | Network Management Interface (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NMI | NSF Middleware Initiative |
| NMiTE | New Model in Technology & Engineering (UK) |
| NML | Network Management Layer (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NMN | Niedersächsischer Monographiennachweis |
| NMO | Network Mode of Operation (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NMOS | N-Channel MOS |
| NMP | Nitroxide-Mediated Polymerization |
| NMR | Network Measure Radio (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NMR | Network Measurement Results (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NMR | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance |
| NMR-MOUSE | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Mobile Universal Surface Explorer |
| NMS | National Measurement System (UK) |
| NMS | Network Management System (Rechnernetz/computer network) |
| NMSI | National Math and Science Initiative (USA) |
| NMSU | New Mexico State University (Las Cruces, NM, USA) |
| NMT | Noise Monitoring Terminal |
| NMT | Nordic Mobile Telephone |
| NN | Neural Network |
| NNCI | National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (USA) |
| NNI | National Nanotechnology Initiative (USA) |
| NNI | Network to Node (or: Network) Interface (Rechnernetz/computer network) |
| NNI | Noise/News International (Journal) |
| NNIN | National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network |
| NNL | National Nuclear Laboratory (UK) |
| NNMI | National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (USA) |
| NNPA | Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act |
| NNSA | National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE, USA) |
| NNSS | Navy Navigation Satellite System (USA) |
| NNSS | Navada National Security Site |
| NNTT | National New Technology Telescope (USA, war geplant, ist aber nicht realisiert/abandoned) |
| NNV | Nederlandse Natuurkundige Vereniging |
| NO | Norwegen/Norway (ISO 3166) |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Princeton, NJ, USA) |
| NOAE | Network of Automotive Excellence |
| NOAO | National Optical Astronomy Observatory (USA) |
| NOC | Network Operating (or: Operation(s)) Center (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NODC | National Oceanographic Data Center (NOAA, Silver Spring, MD, USA) |
| NODE | Nanowire-Based One-Dimensional Electronics (EU project) |
| NoE | Network of Excellence |
| NOE | Neutrino Oscillation Experiment (Gran Sasso, IT) |
| NOEKS | Nonlinear Optics and Excitation Kinetics in Semiconductors |
| NOESY | Nuclear Overhauser Effect Spectroscopy |
| NOISE | Noise Observation and Information Service for Europe |
| NOISE-CON | National Conference on Noise Control Engineering (USA) |
| NOL | Naval Ordnance Laboratory (USA) |
| NOLM | Nonlinear Optical-Loop Mirror |
| NOMAD | Neutrino Oscillation Magnetic Detector (CERN) |
| NOMAD | Novel Materials Discovery |
| NOMS | Network Operations and Management |
| NOνA | NuMi Off-Axis Electron Neutrino Appearance |
| NOPSEMA | National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (Australia) |
| NORA | Non-Obvious Relationship Analysis |
| NORAD | North American Air (or: Aerospace) Defense (Command) |
| NORDITA | Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Copenhagen, DK; since autumn 2006: Stockholm, SE) |
| Nord/LB | Norddeutsche Landesbank |
| NOS | National Optical Society (in Europe) |
| NOS | Network Operating System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NOSAMS | National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (facility at WHOI) |
| NoSQL | Not only SQL |
| NOVEM | Noise and Vibration: Emerging Methods (Conference series) |
| NOW | Nationale Organisation Wasserstoff- und Brennstoffzellentechnologie |
| NOW | Network of Workstaions |
| NoW | Networks on Wheels |
| NP | Nanoparticle |
| NP | Nepal (ISO 3166) |
| NP | Nondeterministic Polynomial |
| NP | Nuclear Physics |
| NPA | Network Performance Analysis (or: Analyzer) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NPC | Nomadic Personal Communications |
| NPC | Nuclear Pore Complex (Zellbiologie/cell biology) |
| NPDGamma | Reaction n + p → D + γ (neutron and proton converted into deuteron and photon) |
| NPE | Nationale Plattform Elektromobilität (in Deutschland) |
| NPE | Network Protection Equipment (Kommunikation/communication) |
| NPE | Nuclear Physics Electronic |
| NPG | Nature Publishing Group |
| NPI | Norwegian Polar Institute |
| NPL | National Physical Laboratory (Teddington, UK) |
| NPL | Non-Patent Literature |
| NPML | Nearly Perfect Matched Layer (absorber of structure-borne sound) |
| NPOI | Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer (Lowell Observatory, Anderson Mesa, near Flagstaff, AZ, USA) |
| NPOESS | National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (Wettersatellit/weather satellite) |
| NPP | National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project |
| NPP | Net Primary Production (Pflanzenmasse/plant mass) |
| NPPP | Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project |
| NPR | National Public Radio |
| NPRC | Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium |
| NPRE | [Department of] Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) |
| NPRM | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NPS | Nanoplasmatic Sensing |
| NPS | National Park Service (USA) |
| NPS | Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, CA, USA) |
| NPT | [Nuclear] Non-Proliferation Treaty (Atomsperrvertrag) |
| NPU | Neuromorphic Processing Unit |
| NPV | Net Present Value (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NQDI | Network Quality Data Investigator (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NQR | Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance |
| NR | Nauru (ISO 3166) |
| NR | Naval Reactors (US Government office) |
| NR | Noise Rating |
| NRAO | National Radio Astronomy Observatory (Green Banks, WV, USA) |
| NRAR | Numerical-Relativity and Analytical-Relativity (astrophysics) |
| NRC | National Research Council (USA) |
| NRC | Network Resource Control (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NRC | Network Routing Chip |
| NRC | Non-Resonant Cavity (LED) |
| NRC | Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
| NRCan | Canadian Ministry of Natural Resources |
| NRCT | National Research Council of Thailand |
| NRDC | National Research and Development Corporation (London, GB) |
| NRDC | Natural Resources Defense Council (New York, NY, USA) |
| NRE | Non-Recurring Engineering and Tooling (Produktions-Kostenanalyse/analysis of production costs) |
| NREL | National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, CO, USA) |
| NREN | National Research and Education Network (USA et al.) |
| NRF | Nanoscale Research Facility (University of Florida, USA) |
| NRF | National Research Foundation (Singapore) |
| NRI | Newton-Raphson Inverse (Algorithmus/algorithm) |
| NRIM | National Research Institute for Metals (Tsukuba, Japan) |
| NRIM | Network Resource Information Model |
| NRL | Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, DC, USA) |
| NRL | Neural Retina-Specific Leucine Zipper Protein |
| NRMP | National Resident Matching Program (USA) |
| NRO | National Reconnaissance Office (USA) |
| NRP | Norwich Research Park |
| NRQM | Nichtrelativistische Quantenmechanik |
| NRR | Noise Reduction Rating (acoustics) |
| NRSA | National Research Service Award (USA) |
| NRSL | Navy Radio and Sound Laboratory (San Diego, CA, USA) |
| NRT | Non-Real Time |
| nrtPS | Non Real-Time Packet Service (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NRU | National Research Universal (facility, Canada) |
| NRW | Nordrhein-Westfalen |
| NRZ | Nationales Referenzzentrum |
| NRZ | Non-Return-To-Zero (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NS | Nationalsozialismus |
| NS | Nova Scotia (Province of Canada) |
| NSA | National Security Agency (USA) |
| NSABB | National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (USA) |
| NSAC | Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (USA) |
| NSACI | Nuclear Science Advisory Committee Isotopes Subcommittee (DOE) |
| NSAID | Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (Antirheumatika/cure for rheumatism) |
| NSAR | nichtsteroidale Antirheumatika |
| NSB | National Science Board (USA) |
| NSB | New Steel Body (Automobiltechnik/vehicle technology) |
| NSBDT | Nationalsozialistischer Bund Deutscher Technik |
| NSBF | National Scientific Balloon Facility (NASA) |
| NSBO | Nationalsozialistische Betriebszellenorganisation |
| NSBP | National Society of Black Physicists (USA) |
| NSBRI | National Space Biomedical Research Institute (USA) |
| NSC | National Security Council (USA) |
| NSC | National Supercomputing Center (Tianjin, China) |
| NSCA | National Sound and Communications Association (USA) |
| NScD | Neutron Sciences Directorate (at ORNL) |
| NSCL | National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (Michigan State University, USA) |
| NSCLC | Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer |
| NSCM | No-Core Shell Model (Kernphysik/nuclear physics) |
| NSD | Network Services Division |
| NSDDB | Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Dozentenbund |
| NSDStB | Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund |
| NSE | Nuclear Statistical Equilibrium (Kosmologie/cosmology) |
| NSEC | Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (USA, NSF) |
| NSED | Nuclear Science and Engineering Directorate (ORNL, USA) |
| NSERC | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada) |
| NSF | National Sanitary Foundation |
| NSF | National Science Foundation (USA) |
| NSFB | Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Frontkämpferbund |
| NSFC | Natural Science Foundation of China |
| NSFK | Nationalsozialistisches Fliegerkorps |
| NSFNET | National Science Foundation Network (USA) |
| NSG | Network Strategy Group (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NSG | Nuclear Suppliers Group ("Londoner Gruppe'') |
| NSHP | National Society of Hispanic Physicists (USA) |
| NSI | Negatively Scarfed Intake (neue Flugzeug-Düsenform/new aircraft nozzle shape) |
| NSIC | National Storage Industry Consortium, Inc. (Hersteller von Datenspeichern, USA) |
| NSIDC | National Snow and Ice Data Center (USA) |
| NSIM | Neurogram Similarity |
| NSKK | Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps |
| NSLB | Nationalsozialistischer Lehrerbund |
| NSLS | National Synchrotron Light Source (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, NY, USA) |
| NSM | National Society Member (EPS etc.) |
| NSM | Network and Service Management (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NSM | Neutron Scattering and Magnetism (Group, ETH Zürich, CH) |
| NSO | National Solar Observatory (USA) |
| NSOM | Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscope (or: Microscopy) |
| NSP | National Space Policy (USA) |
| NSP | Network Service Point (or: Provider, or: Platform) (Internet) |
| NSPE | National Society of Professional Engineers |
| NSRRC | National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (Hsinchu, Taiwan) |
| NSRT | Non-Sequential Ray Tracing |
| NSS | Network Subsystem (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NSS | Neutraler Salzsprühtest (auf Korrosionsbeständigkeit/test on corrosion resistance) |
| NSS | Non-Stop Service (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NSSA | Neutron Scattering Society of America |
| NSSD | Neutron Scattering Science Division (ORNL, USA) |
| NSSEFF | National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship (DOD, USA) |
| NSSK | North-South Station Keeping (Satelliten/satellites) |
| NS&T | Nanoscale Science and Technology (University of Florida, USA) |
| NST | Nanoscience and Technology |
| NSTA | National Science Teachers Association (USA) |
| NSTC | National Science and Technology Council (USA) |
| NSTL | [China] National Science and Technology Library |
| NSTM | Near-Surface Temperature Maximum |
| NSTX | National Spherical Torus Experiment (PPPL, Princeton, NJ, USA) |
| NSUB | Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (Göttingen) |
| NSV | Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt |
| NSVF | New Schools Venture Fund (USA) |
| NSWC | Naval Surface Warfare [früher/formerly: Weapons] Center (e.g., Silver Spring, MD, USA) |
| NSWCCD | Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (West-Bethesda, MD, USA) |
| NSWC PCD | Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City Division (USA) |
| NSYSU | National Sun Yat-Sen University (Taiwan) |
| NT | Network Termination (Datennetze/data networks) |
| NTCC | National Theatre Company of China |
| NTCP | Normal Tissue Complication Probability (Onkologie/oncology) |
| NTF | National Transonic Facility (NASA, Langley Research Center) |
| NTG | Nachrichtentechnische Gesellschaft (im/in the VDE) |
| NTI | Nuclear Threat Initiative |
| NTIA | National Telecommunications and Information Administration (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NTIS | National Technical Information Service (Datenbank/data bank, USA) |
| NTO | Nitrotriazolon (Sprengstoff/explosive) |
| NTP | Network Time Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NTP | Nuclear-Thermal Propulsion |
| NTPS | National Test Pilot School (Mojave Desert, CA, USA) |
| NTS | Nevada Test Site (Kernwaffentest/nuclear weapons tests) |
| NTS | Nuclear Test Site |
| NTSC | National Television System Committee (Fernsehnorm/TV standard, USA) |
| NTT | New Technology Telescope (ESO, La Silla, Chile, 3,5 m Durchmesser/3.5 m diameter) |
| NTT | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (Japan) |
| NTU | Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) |
| NTU | National Taiwan University |
| NTV | Niedersächsischer Tennisverband |
| NTZ, ntz | Nachrichtentechnische Zeitschrift |
| NU | Niue (ISO 3166) |
| NUDT | National University of Defence Technology (Guangzhou, CN) |
| NUI | National University of Ireland |
| NUMA | Non-Uniform Memory Access |
| NUP | New University Press |
| NuPECC | Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee |
| NUPRL | Northwestern University Prosthetics Rehabilitation Laboratory (USA) |
| NURC | NATO Undersea Research Centre (La Spezia, IT) |
| NUREG | U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
| NUS | National University of Singapore |
| NUSC | Naval Underwater Systems Center (USA) |
| NuSI | Nutrition Science Initiative |
| NUSTAR | Nuclear Structure Astrophysics, and Reactions |
| NUV | Near Ultraviolet, nahes Ultraviolett |
| NUWC | Naval Undersea Warfare Center (Newport, RI, USA) |
| NV | Nevada (US-Staat/US state) |
| NV | Nitrogen Vacancy (Stickstoff-Fehlstelle, für Quantenkryptographie interessant/of interest for quantum cryptography) |
| NVDA | Nonvisual Desktop Access |
| NVDI | Normalized Differenced Vegetation Index |
| NVH | Noise, Vibration and Harshness |
| NVLAP | National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (USA) |
| NVM | Non-Volatile Memory |
| NVO | National Virtual Observatory (USA, geplant für/planned for 2010) |
| NVOD | Near Video-On-Demand |
| NVP | Network Voice Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NVRAM | Non-Volatile RAM |
| NVS | Night Vision Safety (Auto-Blendschutzspiegel) |
| NVT | National Variety Trials (Datenbank/database, AU) |
| NVV | Nichtverbreitungsvertrag (Atomwaffen/non-proliferation treaty, 1968) |
| NVvL | [Niederländische Aeroakustische Gesellschaft/Netherland's Aeroacoustic Society] |
| NW | Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| NW | Nordrhein-Westfalen (Bundesland/German Federal State) |
| NWB | Niedergeschwindigkeits-Windkanal Braunschweig (DE) |
| NWCF | Navy Working Capital Fund (USA) |
| NWDR | Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk |
| NWK | Network Analyser (DECT) |
| NWK | Nuklearwaffenkonvention |
| NWO | Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Niederländische Wissenschaftsorganisation/Netherland's science organization) |
| NWS | National Weather Service (USA) |
| NWT | North West Territories (Province of Canada) |
| NY | New York (US-Staat/US state) |
| NYAS | New York Academy of Sciences |
| NYC | New York City (USA) |
| NYC DEP | New York City, Department of Environmental Protection (USA) |
| NYCTA | New York City Transit Authority (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| NYEX | Network for Youth Excellence |
| NYHA | New York Heart Association |
| NYSCI | New York Hall of Science (USA) |
| NYSE | New York Stock Exchange |
| NYU | Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) |
| NYU | New York University |
| NYUAD | New York University Abu Dhabi |
| NYYC | New York Yacht Club |
| NZ | Neuseeland/New Zealand (ISO 3166) |
| NZDSF | Non-Zero Dispersion Shifted Fiber (Glasfaser/glass fiber) |
| NZN | Niedersächsischer Zeitschriftennachweis |
| NZZ | Neue Zürcher Zeitung |
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| OA | Open Access |
| OA | Outgoing Access |
| OAA | Outstanding Alumni of Achievement (US Universities) |
| OAAC | Optical Aerial Attached Cable |
| OADM | Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| OAE | Otoacoustic Emission, Otoakustische Emission(en) |
| OAI | Open Archives Initiative |
| OAIG | Open Access Implementation Group |
| OAIS | Open Archival Information System |
| ÖAL | Österreichischer Arbeitsring für Lärmbekämpfung |
| OA[&]M | Operation, Administration and Maintenance (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OAM | Orbital Angular Momentum (ultrasonics) |
| OAMP | OAM Provisioning |
| OAN | Optical Access Node (Glasfasernetz/glass fiber net) |
| OAP | Ophthalmologischer Arbeitsplatz |
| OAPEN | Open Access Publishing in European Networks |
| OARE | Online Access to Research in Environment |
| OAS | Open Access Service (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OAS | Operator Assisted Service (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OAS | Optical Aperture Synthesis |
| OASIS | Optimal Architecture Sensor Interface System |
| OASIS | Organization for the Advancement of Structural Information Standards |
| OASPA | Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association |
| OASPL | Overall Sound Pressure Level |
| OAT | Ocean Acoustic Tomography |
| OATA | Ornamental Aquatic Trade Association (Europäische Handelsorganisation) |
| OATS | Open Area Test Site (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OAU | Organization of African Unity |
| ÖAW | Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften |
| OAWRS | Ocean Acoustics Waveguide Remote Sensing |
| ÖBB | Österreichische Bundesbahn |
| OBD | Optical Duobinary (Modulation) |
| OBDH | On Board Data Handling Subsystem (Satelliten/satellites) |
| OBDMS | Object-Oriented Database Management System |
| OBIRCH | Optical Beam Induced Resistance Change |
| OBL | Outside Broadcasting Link |
| OBMC | On Board Multimedia Controller (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OBMM | On Board MPEG Processor (Satelliten-Telekommunikation/satellite telecommunication) |
| OBMP | On Board Multimedia Processor (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OBP | On Board Processing (or: Processor) |
| OBS | Optical Burst Switch (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OBSI | On-Board Sound Intensity (tire–road noise measurement device) |
| OBU | On-Board Unit |
| OBW | Occupied Bandwidth (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OCaB | Outgoing Call Barrier |
| OCAP | Open Cable Application Platform (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OCC | Operation Control Center (ESOC) |
| OCCAM | Open Conditional Content Analysis Management (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OCCI | Ocean and Climate Change Institute |
| OCCI | Open Cloud Computing Interface |
| OCD | Optical Core Device (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| OCDM | Optical Code Division Multiplexing (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| O-CDMA | Optical Code Division Multiple Access (Glasfasernetz/glass fiber net) |
| OCF | On-Line Charging Function |
| OCH | Optical Channel (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| OCHRIEST | International Crops Research Institue for Semi-Arid Tropics |
| OCh-SPRING | Optical Channel Shared Protection Ring (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| OCME | Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (New York City) |
| OCP | Open Compute Project |
| OCR | Optical Character Recognition (Computer-lesbare Schrift/computer-reading of letters) |
| OCRWM | Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (USA) |
| OCS | One Channel Safe (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OCT | Optical Coherence Tomography, Optische Kohärenztomographie (Augendiagnostik/eye diagnostics etc.) |
| OCT | Optical Component Test |
| OCX | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Programmdatei/file name extension: program file] |
| OC3 | Optical Carrier 3 (155.52 Mbit/s) (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| ODAC | Oil Depletion Analysis Centre |
| ODB | Operations Database (Satelliten/satellites) |
| ODBC | Open Data Base Connectivity (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ODC | Ornithindecarboxylase |
| ODD | Optical Disk Drive |
| ODE | Ordinary Differential Equation |
| ODFM | Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ODG | Objective Difference Grade (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ODL | Object Definition Language (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ODL | Open and Distance Learning (EU-Programm/EU program) |
| ODN | Own-Ship Doppler Nullification (sonar technology) |
| ODP | Ocean Drilling Project (or: Program) |
| ODP | Open Directory Project (in the www) |
| ODP | Open Distributed Processing |
| ODS | Ozone-Depleting Substance |
| ODT | Order–Disorder Transition |
| ODU | Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA, USA) |
| ODX | Open Diagnostic Data Exchange |
| OE | Orientierungseinheit (Vorstudium) |
| OEA | Organic Electronics Association |
| OEB | Office Européen des brevets (München, DE) |
| OEC | Oro-Esophageal Cavity (in songbird's vocal tract) |
| OECD | Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
| OED | Oxford English Dictionary |
| OEIC | Optoelectronic Integrated Circuit, opto-elektronischer IC |
| OEIS | Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences |
| OEL | Organic Electro-Luminescent (Display) |
| OELR | Overall Echo Loudness Rating (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OEM | Optoelectronic Modulator (or: Mixer) |
| OEM | Original Equipment Manfacturer |
| OENN | Optoelectronic Neural Network |
| O/E/O | Optical Electronic Optical (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| OEOB | Old Executive Office Building (USA, White House) |
| OER | Office of Extramural Research (NIH) |
| OER | Open Education Resource |
| OES | Oceanic Engineering Society (IEEE) |
| OET | Optoelectronic Tweezers |
| OFA | Open Fabrics Alliance |
| OFA | Optical Fiber Amplifier |
| OFAC | Office of Foreign Assets Control (USA) |
| OFAT | One-Factor-at-a-Time (Experimentiertechnik/experimental technique) |
| OFC | Optical Fiber Communication |
| OFC | Optical Frequency Comb |
| OFCCC | Optical Fiber Cable Competence Center |
| OFD | Oberfinanzdirektion |
| OFDM | Optical (or: Orthogonal) Frequency Division Multiplex(ing) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OFDMA | Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OFES | Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (USA) |
| OFET | Organischer Feldeffekt-Transistor (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| OFI | Optical Field Ionization |
| OFI | Ornamental Fish International (Handelsorganisation/trade organisation) |
| OFIS | Optical Fiber Infrasound Sensor |
| OFM | Optofluidic Microscopy |
| OFMeC | Optical Fibre Measurement Club (UK) |
| OFW | Oberflächenwellen |
| OG | Optical Gateway (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| ÖGAI | Österreichische Gesellschaft für Artificial Intelligence |
| OGC | Open Geospatial Consortium |
| OGE | Office of Governmental Ethics (USA) |
| OGH | Oberster Gerichtshof |
| OGLE | Optical Gravitational Lens(ing) Experiment |
| OGP | Orientierungsgeschwindigkeitsprofil (Kfz-Simulation/car simulation) |
| OGS | Optical Ground Station |
| OGSA | Open Grid Services Architecture (Rechnernetz/computer network) |
| OGSI | Opportunity, Growth, and Security Initiative (USA) |
| OGY | Ott–Grebogi–Yorke (Control) |
| OH | Ohio (US-Staat/US state) |
| OHANA | Optical Hawaii(an) Array for Nanoradiation Astronomy |
| O.H.B.M.S. | On His (or: Her) British Majesties Service |
| OHC | Ocean Heat Content |
| OHC | Outer Hair Cell (in the ear) |
| OHEP | Office of High Energy Physics (DOE, Germantown, MD, USA) |
| OHG | Offene Handelsgesellschaft |
| OHG | Operator Harmonization Group (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OHMi | Observatoire Hommes-Milieux International |
| OHS | OH-Airglow-Suppression (Spectrograph) |
| OIB | Operation Icebridge |
| ÖIB | Örtliche Initiativen zur Beschäftigung von Frauen (EU) |
| OIC | Organization of the Islamic Conference |
| OICETS | Optical Inter-Orbit Communications Engineering Test Satellite (JAXA) |
| OID | Object Identifier |
| OIDA | Optoelectronic Industry Development Association (USA) |
| OIE | Office International des Épizooties (Weltgesundheitsorganisation/World Health Organization) |
| OIF | Ocean Iron Fertilization (zur CO2-Bindung im Meerwasser/for seawater CO2 deposition) |
| OIF | Optical Internet Working Forum (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| OIM | Optical Inline Metrology |
| OIM | Orientation Imaging Microscopy |
| OIS | Optical Image Stabilizer, optischer Bildstabilisator |
| OIST | Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (Graduate University, Okinawa, JP) |
| OIT | Oxidationsinduktionszeit |
| OJMS | Open Journal Management System |
| OJPS | Online Journal Publishing Services (AIP) |
| OJS | Open Journal Systems |
| OK | Oklahoma (US-Staat/US state) |
| OKH | Oberkommando des Heeres (im "Dritten Reich") |
| OKM | Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine (im "Dritten Reich") |
| OL | Output Layer (neuronales Netz/artificial neural network) |
| OLA | Optical Line Amplifier (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| OLCF | Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility |
| OLE | Object Linking and Embedding (Programmierung/programming) |
| OLE | Open Library Environment |
| OLE | Opto (since 2006: Optics) & Laser Europe (Journal, Bristol, UK) |
| OLED | Organic Light-Emitting Diode (or: Device), organische Licht emittierende Diode |
| OLEDoS | OLED on Silicon |
| OLEV | Orbital Life Extension Vehicle (for satellites) |
| OLEX | Ozone LIDAR Experiment |
| OLGA | Online Guideline Assist (Medizintechnik/medicine technology) |
| OLH | Open Library of the Humanities |
| OLLA | Organic LEDs for ICT and Lighting Application (EU project) |
| OLPC | One Laptop per Child (Initiative für Entwicklungsländer/initiative for developing countries) |
| OLR | Outer Lindblad Resonance (astronomy) |
| OLS | On-Line Service (Internet) |
| OLT | Optical Line Termination (or: Terminal) (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| OLTE | Optical Line Termination Equipment |
| OLTP | Online Transaction Processing |
| OM | Oman (früher Maskat und Oman/former Muscat and Oman) (ISO 3166) |
| OM | Operational Mode (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OM | Optical Monitor (XMM) |
| O&M | Operation(s) and Maintenance |
| OMA | Open Mobile Alliance (Mobilfunk/mobile radio) |
| OMA | Operational Modal Analysis |
| OMA-BCAST | Open Mobile Alliance – Broadcast (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OMAC | Open Modular Architecture Controller |
| OMAP | Open Multimedia Applications Platform (processor) |
| OMB | Office of Management and Budget (USA, White House) |
| OMC | Operation(s) and Maintenance Center (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OMC | Optical Metrology Centre |
| OMC-CN | Operation and Maintainance Center – Care Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OMCI | Optical Network Termination Management and Control Interface |
| (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| OMCR | Operation and Maintainance Center – Radio (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OMF | Observation Markup Format |
| OMG | Object Management (or: Modelling) Group |
| OMI | Open Microprocessor Systems Initiative |
| OMI | Optical Modulation Index |
| OMI | Ozone Monitoring Instrument |
| OMO | Oxidation Mechanism Observations (Research project for HALO) |
| OMO | Oxford Medicine Online |
| OMS | Operations and Maintenance Station (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OMS, OµS | Optical Microsystems (Congress) |
| OMS | Optical Monitoring System |
| OMS | Optical Multiplex Station (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OMSG | OptinexTM (or: Optical) Multi-Service Gateway (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| OMSN | OptinexTM (or: Optical) Multi-Service Node (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| OMT | Object Modelling (and) Technique |
| OMUX | Output Multiplexer (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ON | Ontario (Province of Canada) |
| ON | Optical Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ONAC | Office of Noise Abatement and Control (Environment Protection Agency, USA) |
| ONDRAF | Organisme National des Déchets Radioactifs et des Matières Fissiles Enrichies (BE) |
| One-P | Organic Nanomaterials for Electronics and Photonics (EU project) |
| ONERA | Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales |
| ONG | Optical Networking Group (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ONP | Open Network Provision(ing) |
| OnQA | Online Qualitätssicherung im Autoklaven (DLR) |
| ONR | Office of Naval Research (Arlington, VA, USA) |
| ONS | Office of National Statistics (UK) |
| ONSA | Organization for Nucleotid Sequencing and Analysis (São Paulo, BR) |
| ONT | Optical Network(ing) Termination (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| ONTA | Oxynitrotriazol (Sprengstoff/explosive) |
| ONU | Optical Network Unit |
| OO | Object-Oriented, objektorientiert |
| OODB | Object-Oriented Database |
| OOK | On-Off Keying (Datenübertragung/data transfer) |
| OOP | Object-Oriented Program(ming), objektorientierte(s) Programm(entwicklung) |
| OOR | Object-Oriented Rendering (Algorithmen/algorithms) |
| OOS | Out of Spec |
| OOT | objektorientierter Test |
| OOT | Oxidationsinduktionstemperatur |
| OOTC | Old Oldtimer Club (USA) |
| O&P | Optics and Photonics |
| OP | Organizational Partners |
| OP | Organophosphorus (nerve gas) |
| OP A/D | Optical Packet Add/Drop (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| OPA | Operational Path Analysis |
| OPAE | Open Programmable Acceleration Engine |
| OPAL | Offene Post-Automations-Lösung (Österreich) |
| OPAL | Optical Access Line, optische Anschlussleitung (Telefon/telephone) |
| OPAL | Organische Phosphorezenzleuchtdioden für Applikationen im Lichtmarkt (BMBF-Projekt) |
| OPC | Optical Phase Conjugator |
| OPCPA | Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification |
| OPCW | Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons |
| OPDL | Optically Powered Data Link (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| OPEC | Organization of Petrol Exporting Countries, Organisation Erdöl exportierender Staaten |
| OPEN | Optical Pan-European Network |
| OPEP | One-Pion Exchange Potential |
| OPERA | Open Repository for Research Data in Acoustics |
| OPERA | Optics and Photonics in the European Research Area |
| OPERA | Oscillation Project with Emulsion-Tracking Apparatus (Neutrino-Detektor/neutrino detector, Gran Sasso, IT) |
| OPEX | Operating (or: Operational) Expenditure (or: Expenses) |
| OPF | Open Planets Foundation (UK forum for digital document preservation) |
| OPG | Ontario Power Generation (Canadian power plant) |
| ÖPG | Österreichische Physikalische Gesellschaft |
| OPGW | Optical Ground Wire (Glasfasernetz/glass fiber net) |
| OPIMA | Open Platform Initiative for Multimedia Access (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OPIC | [US] Overseas Private Investment Corporation |
| OPIT | Oxide Powder in Tube |
| OPJ | Origin Project (file name extension) |
| ÖPNV | Öffentlicher Personen-Nahverkehr |
| OPO | Optical Parametric Oscillator |
| OPP | Optical Precipitate Profiler |
| OPQSK | Offset QPSK (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OPS | Official Production System |
| OPS | Optical Path Switch (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OPS | Optical Protection System (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| OPS | Optically Pumped Semiconductor (Laser) |
| OPSL | Optically Pumped Semiconductor Laser |
| OPZ | Operationszentrale |
| OQ | Operation Qualification |
| OR | Operation Room |
| OR | Oregon (US-Staat/US state) |
| ORACLE | Opportunistic Radio Communications in Unlicensed Environments |
| ORACLS | Optimal Regulator Algorithms for the Control of Linear Systems (CAD-System, NASA 1980) |
| ORATOS | Orbit and Attitude Operations Subsystem (Satelliten/satellites) |
| ORB | Object Request Broker (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ORB | Ocean Research Buoy |
| ORC | Organic Rankine Cycle (Geothermie/geothermy) |
| ORCHESTRA | Open Architecture and Spatial Data Infrastructure for Risk Management (EU project) |
| ORCID | Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier |
| ORDA | Online Research Data |
| ORE | Office de Recherche et d'Essais |
| ORF | Österreichischer Rundfunk |
| ORFEO | Optical and Radar Federation for Earth Observation |
| org | [other organizations] (Internet, USA) |
| ORI | Office of Research Integrity (USA) |
| ORINOKO | Operative regionale integrierte und optimierte Korridorsteuerung (Straßenverkehrssteuerung/road traffic control) |
| ORISE | Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education |
| ORL | Ordnance Research Laboratory (Pennstate, USA) |
| ORM | Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (La Palma) |
| ORMAK | Oak Ridge Tokamak (Fusionsreaktortechnik/fusion reactor technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, USA) |
| ORMOCER | Organically Modified Ceramic |
| ORNL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, TN, USA) |
| ORSTOM | [Internationale Hilfsorganisation Frankreichs/international relief organisation of France] |
| ORW | Open Reed Waving (Webtechnologie) |
| OS | Open Services |
| OS | Operating (or: Operations) System |
| OSA | Open Service Architecture (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OSA | Optical Society of America (founded 1916), since 2008: The Optical Society |
| OSA | Optical Spectrum Analyzer |
| OSAPS | Ohio-Region Section of the American Physical Society |
| OSB | Oriented Structural (or: Strand) Board (Spanplatte/chipboard) |
| OSC | Ohio Supercomputer Center (USA) |
| OSC | Omics Science Center (Riken, JP) |
| OSC | Optical Supervisory Channel (Glasfasernetz/glass fiber net) |
| OSC | Outbound Signalling Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OSC | Oxford Supercomputing Centre (UK) |
| OSD | On Screen Display (or: Dialog) (Funktionsanzeige auf TV-Schirm) |
| OSDE | Open Systems (or: Service) Development (or: Delivery) Environment (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OSETI | Optical Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence |
| OSF | Open Software Foundation |
| OSF | Operation System Function |
| OSHA | Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Washington, DC, USA) |
| OSI | Open Source Initiative |
| OSI | Open Systems Interconnection (Datennetze/data networks) |
| OSI | Optical (or: Orbiting) Stellar Interferometer |
| OSIRIS | Off-Shore Integrated Robotic Inspection System |
| OSIRIS | Optical Spectroscopic (or: Spectrograph) and Infrared Imager System |
| OSIRIS | Optical System for Imaging and Low Resolution Integrated Spectroscopy |
| OSL | Optically Stimulated Luminescence, optisch stimulierte Lumineszenz |
| OSNCP | Optical Subnetwork Connection Protection (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| OSNR | Optical Signal-to-Noise Ratio (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| OSO | Oxford Scholarship Online (Oxford University Press) |
| OSP | Open Services Platform (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OSPF | Open Shortest Path First (Internet) |
| OSPP | Open Science Policy Platform |
| OSRD | Office of Scientific Research and Development (USA) |
| OSS | Object Storage Server |
| OSS | Office of Strategical Services (USA) |
| OSS | Operation(s) (or: Operational) Support System (Internet) |
| OSSE | Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment |
| OSSI | Operations Support System Interface (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OST | Observatoire des Sciences et des Techniques (FR) |
| OST | Office of Science and Technology (UK, USA) |
| OSTI | Office of Scientific and Technical Information (DOE) |
| OSTP | Office of Science and Technology Policy (USA, White House) |
| OSU | Ohio State University (USA) |
| OSU | Oklahoma State University (USA) |
| OSU | Oregon State University (USA) |
| OSZE | Organisation für Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit in Europa |
| OTA | Office of Technology Assessment (USA, Congress) |
| OTA | Optical Telescope Assembly |
| OTA | Over-the-Air (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OTAP | Over the Air Performance (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OTAR | Over the Air Refill (Handy/Mobile Phone) |
| OTC | One Touch Com (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OTC | Optical Coherence Tomography, Optische Kohärenztomographie |
| OTC | Over the Corner (frei verkäufliche Waren) |
| OTC | Over the Counter (Börsenhandel/stock exchange) |
| OTCCD | Orthogonal Transfer Array CCD (Gigapixel-Kamera, Teleskop/gigapixel camera, telescope in Maui, HI, USA) |
| OTD | Observed Time Difference (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OTDM | Optical Time Division Multiplexing (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| OTDOA | Observed Time (or: Timing) Difference of Arrival (Ortung/localization) |
| OTDR | Optical Time Delay (or: Domain) Reflectometry |
| OTD-Sim | Order to Delivery Simulation |
| OTEC | Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion |
| OTFT | Organic Thin-Film Transistor |
| OTH | Optical Transport Hierarchy (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| OTIMA | Optical Time-Domain Ionizing Matter-Wave |
| OTN | Open Transport Network (Verkehrsleitsystem/traffic guidance) |
| OTN | Optical Transmission (or: Transport) Network (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| OTP | Offcie de Timbres-Postes |
| OTP | One Time Password |
| OTRI | Oficinas de Transferencia de los Resultados de Investigación (ES) |
| OTS | Off-the-Shelf |
| OTS | Operativ-Technischer Sektor (DDR) |
| OTS | Optical Transmission System (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| OTT | Over-the-Top (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OU | Open University (UK) |
| OUHSC | Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center (Oklahoma City, OK, USA) |
| OUP | Oxford University Press |
| OVC | Optical Variance Coronagraph (Astronomie/astronomy) |
| OVC | Output Variance Constraint |
| OVF | Open Virtualization Format (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| OVL | Optical Vortex Lens (Astronomie/astronomy) |
| OVRO | Owens Valley Radio Observatory |
| OWL | Ostwestfalen-Lippe |
| OWL | Overwhelmingly Large (Teleskop/telescope) |
| OWL | Web Ontology Language (semantisches Netz/semantic net) |
| OWS | Optical Wavelength Switched (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| OXC | Optical Cross Connect (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| OZIPM | Ozone Isopleth Plotting with Optional Mechanism |
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| P... | Peta... (Präfix/prefix): 1015 |
| p... | Pico... (Präfix/prefix): 10-12 |
| P-Wellen | Kompressionswellen (Geophysik/geophysics) |
| PA | Panama (ISO 3166) |
| PA | Parametric Array (underwater sound transmitter) |
| PA | Pennsylvania (US-Staat/US state) |
| PA | Photoacoustics |
| PA | Plasminogenaktivator (Genetik/genetics) |
| PA | Polyhexamethylenadipinsäureamin (Nylon) |
| PA | Power Amplifier |
| PA | Press Association (multimedia news agency) |
| PA | Publishers Association (UK) |
| PAA | Polyacrylic Acid |
| PaaS | Platform as a Service (cloud computing) |
| PABX | Private Automatic Branch Exchange, Private digitale Nebenstellenanlage (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PAC | Particle Accelerator Conference (alle 3 Jahre/every 3 years) |
| PAC | Perturbed Angular Correlation |
| PAC | Planetary Astronomy Committee (NASA) |
| PAC | Processing and Archiving Center |
| PAC | Programme Advisory Committee (TC im/in the ETSI) |
| PACA | Preventive Actions and Corrective Actions |
| PACAP | Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase Activating Polypeptide (ein Neuropeptid/a neuropeptide) |
| PACC | Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology Center (University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA) |
| PACE | Planar Articulating Controls Experiment |
| PACE | Programme de recherche sur l'Aval du Cycle Electronucléaire |
| (CNRS, FR, zur Entsorgung radioaktiver Abfälle/disposal of radioactive waste) |
| PACF | Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell (auch/also: PAFC) |
| PACS | Photoconductor Array Camera and Spectrometer (FIRST) |
| PACS | Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme |
| PACS | Picture Archiving and Communications System |
| PACT | Parallel Architecture and Compilation Techniques (Conference) |
| PAD | Packet Assembly/Disassembly |
| PAD | Perturbed Angular Distribution |
| PAD | Pixel Array Detector |
| PAE | Power Added Efficiency (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PAF | Portable Application Format (PDF converter) |
| PAF | Posterior Auditory Field (im Gehirn/in the brain) |
| PAFC | Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell (auch/also: PACF) |
| PAH | Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon |
| PAH | Pulmonale arterielle Hypertonie |
| PAHL | Portable Automated Helium Liquefier |
| PAI | Plasminogenaktivator-Inhibitor (Genetik/genetics) |
| PAK | Polyzyklische aromatische Kohlenwasserstoffe |
| PAL | Permissive Action Link |
| PAL | Phase Alternation Line (Fernsehen/TV) |
| PAL | Photo-Activated Localization (Microscopy) |
| PAL | Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (Korea) |
| PALA | Platform of Applications of Lasers in Aquitaine (Bordeaux, FR) |
| PALAOA | Perenniel Acoustic Observatory in the Antarctic Ocean |
| PALC | Plasma Addressed Liquid Crystal |
| PALC | Polygonal Audience Line Curving |
| PALM | Photoactivated Localization Microscopy |
| PALS | Photoacoustic Laser Spectroscopy |
| PALS | Prague Asterix Laser System |
| PALV | Personal Air and Land Vehicle |
| PAM | Passive Acoustic Monitoring (Meeresbiologie/marine biology) |
| PAM | Photoacoustic Microscopy |
| PAM | Piezo Amplifier Module |
| PAM | Puls-Amplituden-Modulation, Pulse-Amplitude Modulation |
| PAMA | Preassigned Multiple Access (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PAMB | Projektgruppe für Automatisierung in der Medizin und Biotechnologie (am Fraunhofer-IPA) |
| PAMELA | Payload for Antimatter Exploration and Light-Nuclei Astrophysics (ESA) |
| PAN | Personal Area Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PAN | Polyacrylonitrile |
| PAN | Poroxyacetylnitrat |
| PANDA | Antiproton Annihilation in Darmstadt |
| PANDAS | Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey |
| PANDOWAE | Predictability and Dynamics of Weather Systems in the Atlantic–European Sector (for better weather forecast) |
| PANS | Probing Acceleration now with Supernovae (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| PanSTARRS | Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Astrophysik/astrophysics, on Hawaii) |
| PAP | Password Authentication Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PAP | Prostatic Acid Phosphatase (a protein) |
| PAPER | Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionisation (Südafrika, Teleskop) |
| PAPS | Personal Assistent for Public Transport Systems |
| PAR | Personal Attenuation Rating (noise control) |
| PAR | Photoacoustic Radar |
| PARALAB | Parachute and Airdrop Evaluation Laboratory (DLR, Braunschweig) |
| PARASOL | Polarization and Anisotropy of Reflectances for Atmospheric Sciences Coupled with Observations from Lidar |
| PARAVAL | PARALAB Validation |
| PARC | Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox) |
| PARCC | Paris Centre de Recherche Cardiovasculaire |
| PARCOR | Partial Correlation |
| PARES | Permanent Authenitc Records in Electronic Systems |
| PARFuMS | Parallel Annotation and Reassembly of Functional Metagenome Selections |
| PARI | Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (Rosman, NC, USA) |
| PARTNER | Partnership for Air Transportation Noise and Emissions Reduction (gegründet/founded Sept. 2003) |
| PAS | Pädagogische Arbeitsstelle des deutschen Volkshochschulverbandes (Frankfurt/M.) |
| PAS | Photoacoustic Spectroscopy |
| PASA | Pre-Applicable Structural Adhesives |
| PASJ | Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan |
| PASR | Preparatory Action on the Enhancement of the European Industrial Potential in the Field of Security Research |
| PASS | Physial Acoustics Summer School (zweijährig/biennially) |
| PAT | Persistent Association Technology (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PAT | Photoacoustic Tomography |
| PAT | Pilot-Assisted Transmission (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PAT | Port Address Translation (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PAT | Process Analytical Technology (or: Technique) |
| PAT | Program Association Table (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PATC | PRACE Advanced Training Centre |
| PATH | Patienten-Tumorbank der Hoffnung (Stiftung) |
| PATU | PanAfrican Telecommunication Union |
| PAV | Personal Aerial Vehicle |
| PAVK | Periphere arterielle Verschlusskrankheit |
| PAY | Physics Achievement Year |
| PAZ | [Fraunhofer-] Pilotanlagenzentrum für Polymersynthese und -verarbeitung (Schkopau) |
| PB | Petabyte (= 1015 Bytes) |
| PBB | Polybrominated Biphenyl |
| PBB | Provider Backbone Bridge (Telekommunikation/telecommunication, Ethernet) |
| PBCC | Packet Binary Convolutional Coding (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PBDE | polybromierter Diphenylether, Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether |
| PBET | Photonic Basis for Engineers and Technicians (California, USA) |
| PBG | Phononic Band Gap |
| PBH | Physikzentrum Bad Honnef (DPG) |
| PBI | Physics-Based Industries |
| PBI | Public Broadcaster International (Conference series) |
| PBMR | [Gas-] Pebble-Bed Modular Reactor (Kernreaktor, geplant für 2014 in Südafrika/nuclear plant, planned for 2014 in South Africa) |
| PBN | Performance Based Navigation |
| PBN | pyrolytisches Bornitrid |
| PBO | Plate Boundary Observatory (Geodäsie/geodesy) |
| PBO | Polybenzobioxazol |
| PBPK | Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic(s) |
| PBS | Polarizing Beamsplitter (Optik/optics) |
| PBS | Primer-Bindungsstelle (in RNA) |
| PBS | Public Broadcasting Service |
| PBT | Polybutylenterephthalat, Poly Butylene Terephthalate |
| PBT | Proton-Beam Therapy (cancer treatment) |
| PBWA | Plasma Beat-Wave Accelerator |
| PBX | Plastic Bonded Explosive (Sprengstoff/explosive) |
| PBX | Private Branch Exchange (Internet) |
| PBX-M | Princeton Beta Experiment – Modified (Fusionsreaktortechnik/fusion reactor technology) |
| pc | parsec (astronomische Einheit/astronomical unit) |
| PC | Personal Computer |
| PC | Phononic Crystal |
| PC | Polycarbonat |
| PC | Project Completion |
| PCA | Principal Component Analysis (= HKA) |
| PCA | Proportional Counter Array (beim/at the RXTE) |
| PCAST | President's Committee (or: Council) of Advisors on Science and Technology (USA) |
| PCB | polychlorierte Biphenyle |
| PCB | Printed Circuit Board |
| PCC | Partial Correlation Coefficient |
| PCC | polychloriertes Camphen |
| PCC | Product Compliance Center (Fujitsu, Augsburg and Paderborn, DE) |
| PCCM | Princeton Center for Complex Materials |
| P-CCPCH | Primary Common Control Physical Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PCD | Passive Cavitation Detector |
| PCD | Power Control Device |
| PCD | primäre ziliäre Dyskinesie (Krankheit) |
| PCDE | Peak Code Domain Error (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PCE | Power Consumption Efficiency |
| PCF | Photonic Crystal Fibre |
| PCF | Polymer Cladded Fiber (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| PcG | Polycomb Group (Genetik/genetics) |
| PCG | Project Coordination Group (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PCG | Publisher Communication Group |
| PCI | Parallel Computing Institute (Illinois College of Engineering, USA) |
| PCI | Peripheral Component Interconnect (Datenbus/data bus) |
| PCIMG | PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group |
| PCINR | Physical Carrier to Interference plus Noise Ratio (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PCL | Polycaprolacton (ein Kunststoff) |
| PCM | Parallel Climate Model |
| PCM | Phase Change Material |
| PCM | Puls-Code-Modulation |
| PCMAE | Platform Cluster Manager Advanced Edition |
| PCMCIA | Personal Computer Memory Card International Association |
| PCMDI | Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison |
| PCN | Personal Communications Network |
| PCNL | Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy |
| PCO | Point of Control and Observation (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PCO | Public Call Office (Telefon/telephone) |
| PCP | Pentachlorphenol |
| PCPEP | Primary Common Control Physical Power (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PCR | Peak Cell Rate (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PCR | Polymerase Chain Reaction, Polymerase-Kettenreaktion (Biotechnologie/biotechnology) |
| PCR | Predictive Control of Reactors |
| PCR | Principal Component Regression |
| PCR | Program Clock Reference (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PCS | Personal Communications Service (or: System) |
| PCS | Photon Correlation Spectroscopy |
| PCS | Plastic-Clad Silica |
| PCS | Pulse Chemisorption |
| P-CSCF | Proxy-Call State (or: Session) Control Function (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PCSI | Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces (conference series) |
| PCSS | Personal Communication Satellite Systems |
| PCST | [International Network on] Public Communication of Science and Technology |
| PCT | Parity, Charge Conjugation, and Time Reversal (symmetry in particle physics) |
| PCT | Patent Cooperation Treaty |
| PCTF | Plated Copper on Thick and Thin Film (Technology) |
| PCTJ | Parallel Connected Twin Junction (Infrarotastronomie/infrared astronomy) |
| PCTR | Prominence–Corona Transition Region (solar plasma) |
| PCU | Packet Control Unit (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PCU | Polycarbonaturethan |
| PCU | Power Conditioning Unit |
| PCU | Power Control Unit |
| PCV | Planoconcave (optische Linsen/optical lenses) |
| PCWE | Perturbed Convective Wave Equation |
| PCX | Planoconvex (optische Linsen/optical lenses) |
| PCX | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei/file name extension: graphic file] |
| PCX | Private Communication Exchange (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PD | Photodiode |
| PD | Privatdozent |
| PD | Probability of Detection |
| PD | Proportional–Derivative (Control), Proportional–Differential (Regler) |
| PDA | Patron-Driven Acquisition (e-books) |
| PDA | Personal Digital Assistent (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PDA | Photo Diode Array (Detector) |
| PDBF | Profile Database Function (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PdBI | Plateau de Bure Interferometer (FR) |
| PDC | Personal (or: Portable) Digital Cellular (or: Communication) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PDCC | Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control (Kfz-Entwicklung/car development) |
| PDCH | Packet Data Channels (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PDCP | Packet Data Compression (or: Convergence) Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PDD | Pervasive Developmental Disorder |
| PDD | Photodynamische Diagnostik |
| PDD | Platform Data Distribution (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| PDD | Presidential Decision Directive (USA) |
| PDE | Partial Differential Equation |
| PDE | Phosphodiesterase |
| PDF | Policy Decision Function (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PDF | Portable Document Format |
| PDF | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| PDF | Probability Density Function |
| PDG | Packet Data Gateway (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PDGF | Platelet-Derived Growth Factor (Blutplättchen-Wachstumsfaktor/blood platelets) |
| PDH | Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PDI | Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik (Berlin) |
| PDL | Page Description Language (Printer Server) |
| PDL | Panjab Digital Library (India) |
| PDL | Polarization Dependent Loss (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| PDLC | Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystal |
| PDM | Polarization Division Multiplexing (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| PDM | Product Data Management |
| PDMS | Polydimethylsiloxan(e) |
| PDN | Packet Data Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PDN-GW | Packet Data Network Gateway (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PDO | Packet Data Optimized (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PDO | Pazifische Dekadenoszillation (Meeresklima/marine climate) |
| PDP | Packet Data Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PDP | Plasma Discharge (or: Display) Panel |
| PDP | Policy Decision Point (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PDP | Power Delay Profile (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PDP | Protein Data Bank |
| PDR | Personal Disk Recorder |
| PDR | Preliminary Design Review |
| PDRA | Post-Doctoral Research Associate |
| PDS | Payload Data Segment (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PDS | Permanent Data Storage System |
| PDS | Personal Data Store |
| PDS | Planetary Data System |
| PDS | Polydioxanon |
| PDSN | Packet Data Serving Node (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PDSS | Protected Data Storage System |
| PDT | Photodynamic Therapy, Photodynamische Therapie (Augenheilkunde und Hautkrebstherapie/ophthalmology and skin cancer therapy) |
| PDU | Packet Data Unit (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PDU | Protocol Data Unit (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PDX | Princeton Divertor Experiment (Fusionsreaktortechnik/fusion reactor technology, PPPL) |
| PE | Peru (ISO 3166) |
| PE | Phase Error (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PE | Polyethylen |
| PE | Prediction Error |
| PE | Provider Edge (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PE | Pulse Echo |
| PEACE | Process Execution and Communication Environment |
| PEAP | Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PEAQ | Perceived Evaluation of Audio Quality |
| PEARL | Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (Canadian arctic station) |
| PEC | Photoelectrocatalytic (Brennstoffzellen/fuel cells) |
| PECASE | Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (Acoustical Society of America) |
| PECBMS | Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme |
| PECVD | Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| PED | Precession Electron Diffraction |
| PEDOT | Polyethylendioxytiophen |
| PEEK | Poly-Ether-Ether-Keton |
| PEEM | Photo-Emission Electron Microscopy, Photoemissions-Elektronenmikroskop(ie) |
| PEER | Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (EU project) |
| PEF | Polyethylen-2,5-furandicarboxylat |
| PEF | Pulsed Electric Field |
| PEG | Polyethylenglykol, Polyethylene Glykol |
| PEI | Peripheral Equipment Interface |
| PEI | Prince Edward Island (Province of Canada) |
| PEM | Photon Emission Microscopy |
| PEM | Polymer-Elektrolyt-Membran (Brennstoffzelle/fuel cell) |
| PEM | Proton Exchange Membrane, Protonen-Austausch-Membran (Brennstoffzelle/fuel cell) |
| PEMFC | Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell |
| PEN | Physics Education News |
| PEN | Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (USA) |
| PEO | Polyethylene Oxide, Polyethylenoxid |
| PEP | Peak Envelope Power |
| PEP | Performance Enhancing Proxies (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PEP | Physics and Engineering Physics |
| PEP | Physics Entrepreneurship Program (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA, since 1999) |
| PEP | Polymeric Electronics Packaging |
| PEP | Positron-Electron Project (SLAC) |
| PEP | Produktentstehungsprozess (Kfz-Elektronik) |
| PEPS | Passive-Entry – Passive-Start (Kfz) |
| PEPS | Performance Evaluation of Parallel Systems (EU research project) |
| PEPSI | Potsdam Echelle Polarimetric and Spectroscopic Instrument (fertig/completed 2008) |
| PEQ | Peerage Essay Quality |
| PER | Packed Encoding Rule (ASN.1) |
| PER | Packet Error Ratio (or: Rate) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| Per | Perchlorethen |
| PER | Physis Education Research |
| PER | Polarization Extinction Ratio |
| PERC | Physics Education Research Conference |
| PERL | Passivated Emitter and Rear, Locally Diffused (Solarzellen/solar cells) |
| Perl | Practical Extraction and Report Language (scherzhaft auch/ironically also: Pathologically |
| Eclectic Rubbish Lister) (Textmanipulation/text manipulation) |
| PERS | Poroelastic Road Surface |
| PERV | Porcine Endogenous Retro-Virus |
| PES | Packetized Elementary Stream (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PES | Photoelektronenspektroskopie |
| PES | Polyethersulfone (piezoelectric polymer) |
| PES | Potential Energy Surface (Molekülphysik/molecular physics) |
| PESC | Power Electronics Specialist Conference |
| PESP | Periodic Event Scheduling Problem (Kombinatorik) |
| PESQ | Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PEST | Princeton Equilibrium and Stability in Tokomak (Fusion Experiment) |
| PET, PETP | Polyethylenterephthalat |
| PET | Positronen-Emissions-Tomographie, Positron Emission Tomography |
| PET | Productivity Enhancement Technology Transfer |
| PETA | People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals |
| PETAL | Petwatt Aquitaine Laser (for HiPER, planned for 2011) |
| PETG | Polyethylenterephthalat mit Glykol |
| PETM | Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum/Paläozän–Eozän–Temperaturmaximum (Erderwärmung/earth warming)/td> |
| PETRA | Positron-Elektron-Tandem-Ring-Anlage (DESY) |
| PETS | Power Extraction and Transfer Structures (for the International Linear Collider) |
| PF | Particle Filter (ocean acoustics) |
| PF | Petaflops/s |
| PF | Französisch-Polynesien/French Polynesia (ISO 3166) |
| PFA | Probability of False Alarm |
| PFAU | Programm zur finanziellen Absicherung von Unternehmensgründern aus Hochschulen |
| PFC | Perfluorcarbon |
| PFC | Power Factor Correction (airplane electrification) |
| PFD | Power Flux Density |
| PfD | Publisher for Development (conference) |
| PFE | Power Feeding Equipment |
| PFEP | Princeton Fellowship in Experimental Physics (USA) |
| PFH | Private Fachhochschule |
| PFI | Partner-Furnished Items (Satelliten/satellite system) |
| PFI | Private Finance Initiative |
| PFM | Piezoresponse Force Microscopy |
| PFOA | Perfluoroctansäure |
| PFOS | Perfluoroctansulfonsäure |
| PFP | Picture Failure Point (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PFT | Palomar Transient Factory (Supernova search) |
| PG | Papua-Neuguniea/Papua New Guinea (ISO 3166) |
| PG | Peer Group |
| PGA | Pin Grid Array (Chipgehäuse/electronic-chip box) |
| PGA | Polyglykolid |
| PGAS | Partitioned Global Address Space (multicore computers) |
| PGI | Programmable Generic Interface |
| PGO | [Hirn-Zellkomplex: pons, corpus geniculatum, occiput] |
| PGP | Personal Genome Project |
| PGP | Pretty Good Privacy |
| PGSA | Physics Graduate Student Association |
| PGSA | Poly-Glycerin-Sebacat-Acrylat (elastischer Kunststoff/an elastic polymeric material) |
| PGSCA | Polish-German Structured Conference on Acoustics (since 2004) |
| PGzB | Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin |
| PH | Philippinen/Philippines (ISO 3166) |
| PH | Pulmonale Hypertonie (Lungenhochdruck) |
| PHA | Polyhydroxyalkanoat |
| PHARE | Poland and Hungary Action for Economic Restructuring |
| PhAST | Photonic(s) Applications, Systems, and Technologies (Conference) |
| PHB | Per-Hop Behavior |
| PHB | Polyhydroxybutyrat(e) |
| Ph.D. | Philosophiae Doctor, Doctor of Philosophy |
| PHENIX | Pioneering High Energy New Ion (or: Nuclear Interaction) Experiment (RHIC) |
| PHERES | Printed Circuit Boards for Higher Frequency Systems (Elektronik/electronics) |
| PHEV | Plugin Hybrid Electric Vehicle |
| PHGEN | Public Health Genomics European Network |
| PHI | Planbasierte Hilfesysteme |
| PHI | Public (or: Protected) Health Information |
| PH-ILD | Pulmonale Hypertonie mit interstitieller Lungenerkrankung |
| PHIP | Parahydrogen-Induced Polarization |
| PHM | Prognostics and Health Managament |
| Phorce21 | Photonics Research Coordination Europe – Photonics 21 |
| PHP | Hypertext Processor (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PHS | Packet Header Suppression (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PHS | Personal Handyphone System |
| PHS | Peripheral High Speed (Bus) |
| PHT | plötzlicher Herztod |
| PHY | Physical Layer (DECT) |
| PhysTEC | Physics Teacher Education Coalition |
| PHz | Petahertz (= 1015 Hz) |
| PI | Peer Instruction (educational concept) |
| PI | Perimeter Institute (for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON, CA) |
| PI | Principal Investigator |
| PI | Proportional–Integral (Control), Proportional–Integral (Regelung) |
| PIA | Photonic Integrated Amplifier (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| PIA | Positronen-Intensitäts-Akkumulator (DESY) |
| PIAAC | Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies |
| PIAFE | Projet d'Ionisation et d'Accélération de Faisceaux Exotiques (Grenoble, FR) |
| PIANO | Perturbation Investigation of Aerodynamic Noise |
| PIC | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei/file name extension: graphic file] |
| PIC | Particle-in-Cell (plasma simulation) |
| PIC | Photonic Integrated Circuit |
| PICA | Advanced Picometric Resolution Project (ER-C) |
| PICA | Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator (Material für Raumfahrzeug-Hitzeschild/material for spacecraft heat shield) |
| PICA | Picosecond Imaging Circuit Analysis |
| PICH | Pilot Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PICS | Protocol Implementation (or: Instance) Conformance Statement (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PICU | Pediatric Intensive Care Unit |
| PID | Packet Identifier (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PID | Präimplantationsdiagnostik (Genetik/genetics) |
| PID | Proportional, Integral, Derivative (Control), Proportional-Integral-Differential (Regelung) |
| PIDA | Photonics Industry and Technology Development Association (Taiwan) |
| PIDC | Prototype International Data Center (Arlington, VA, USA) |
| PIEMAN | Photonic Integrated Extended Metro and Access Network (EU project, optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| PIF | Pooled Income Fund (ASFF) |
| PIG | Pipeline Inspection Gauge |
| PII | Publisher Item Identifier |
| PIINTEC | Pyongyang International Informatiion Center of New Technology and Economy (North Korea NGO) |
| PIK | Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung |
| PIK | Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation (Zeitschrift) |
| PIL | Polarity Inversion Line (solar corona) |
| PIL | Processor-in-the-Loop |
| PiLoNav | Precise and Integer Localisation and Navigation in Rail and Inlandwater Traffic |
| PILZ | Pilotprojekt Interdisziplinäres Lernen und Zusammenarbeit (Univ. Göttingen) |
| PIM | Personal Information Manager (or: Management) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PIM | Processes in Isotopes and Molecules (Conference series) |
| PImMS | Pixel Imaging Mass Spectroscopy |
| PIMMS | Photonic Integrated-Multimode Microspectrograph |
| PIMRC | [IEEE International Symposium on] Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications |
| PIMS | Process Information Management System |
| PIM-SM | Protocol Independent Multicast – Sparse Mode (Internet) |
| PIN | Personal Identification Number, persönliche Identfikationsnummer |
| PIN | [Photodiode aus 3 Schichten/three-layer photodiode: 'p'-type, 'i'ntrinsic, 'n'-type semiconductor], |
| Positive-Intrinsic-Negative |
| PINET | Physics Information Network |
| PINGU | Precision Icecube Next Generation Upgrade (University of Alabama, USA) |
| PINS | Project Initiation Notification System |
| PINSE | Petersen Institute of Nanoscience and Engineering (University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA) |
| PINT | PSTN/Internet Interworking Group (Internet) |
| PIO | Public Information Officer |
| PIOC | Pilot Innovation Office China (Shanghai) |
| pIOD | Positive Indian Ocean Dipole (meteorology) |
| PIONIER | Precision Integrated-Optics Near-Infrared Imaging Experiment (at LAOG) |
| PIP | Picture in Picture (TV: kleines Zusatzbild von anderem Sender/small insert from a different channel) |
| PIPA | Protect IP Act |
| PIPEDA | Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (CA) |
| PIPS | Passivated, Implanted, Planar Silicon (Detektoren/detectors) |
| PIR | Peak Information Rate |
| PIR | Polyisocyanurat |
| PIRATE | Physics Innovations Robotic Astronomical Telescope Explorer |
| PIRE | Partnership for International Research and Education (West Virginia University, USA) |
| PISA | Programme for International Student Assessment |
| PISM | Parallel Ice Sheet Model |
| PITTCON | Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy |
| PITT PACC | Pittsburgh Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology Center (University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA) |
| PIU | produktionsintegrierter Umweltschutz |
| PIV | Particle Image Velocimetry |
| Piwi | P-Element Induced Wimpy Testis (Protein) |
| PIXE | Proton-Induced X-Ray Emission |
| PIXIE | Primordial Inflation Explorer |
| PIXIT | Protocol Information Extra Implementation for Testing (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PIZ | Projektförderung in der internationalen Zusammenarbeit (DLR) |
| π/4 DQPSK | π/4 Rotated Differential Quaternary Phase Shift Keying (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PJ | Periodic Jitter (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PK | Pakistan (ISO 3166) |
| PKC | Public-Key Cryptography |
| PKE | Plasma-Kristall-Experiment (DLR - RU) |
| PKE | Pluto-Kuiper Express (Raumfahrt-Projekt/spacecraft project) |
| PKI | Public (or: Private) Key Infrastructure (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PKM | Parallel Kinematic Machine (Robotik/robotics) |
| PKP | Public Knowledge Project |
| PKS | Physik komplexer Systeme |
| PKU | Peking University (CN) |
| PKV | Verband der Privaten Krankenversicherung |
| PKY | Parkway (US Mail) |
| PL | Photoluminescence, Photolumineszenz |
| PL | Place (US Mail) |
| PL | Polen/Poland (ISO 3166) |
| PL | Procedural Language (programming language) |
| PLA | Paperless Lab Academy |
| PLA | Polylactid(acid) (Polymilchsäure) |
| PLANET | Probing Lensing Anomalies Network (Astrophysik: Gravitationslinsen/astrophysics: gravitational lenses) |
| PLASTIC | Plasma and Suprathermal Ion and Composition (Sonnenphysik/solar physics) |
| PLATO | Planetary Transits and Stellar Oscillations of Stars (planned search for exoplanets, ESA, start 2026) |
| PLATO | Plateau Observatory (Antarctica) |
| PLC | Packet Loss Concealment (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PLC | Planar Lightwave Circuit (Photonik/photonics) |
| PLC | Powerline Communication |
| PLC | Programmable Logic Controller |
| p.l.c. | public limited company (UK) |
| PLCCO | Pr0.88LaCe0.12CuO4-δ (Hochtemperatursupraleiter/high-temperature superconductor) |
| PLCP | Physical Layer Convergence Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PLD | Pulsed Laser Deposition |
| PLdB | Mark VII Perceived Loudness in dB |
| PLDIU | Payload Distribution and Interface Units (Satellitentechnik/satellite technology) |
| PLE | Photolumineszenz-Anregungsspektroskopie |
| PLED | Polymeric Light-Emitting Diode |
| PLL | Phase-Locked Loop |
| PLM | Product Lifecycle Management, Produkt-Lebenszyklus-Management |
| PLMN | Public Land Mobile Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PLO | Phase-Locked Oscillator |
| PLOAM | Physical Layer Operations, Administration and Maintainance (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| PLoS, PLOS | Public Library of Science |
| PLP | Perceptual Linear Prediction |
| PLP | Phantom Limb Pain |
| PLP | Physical Layer Pipe (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PLR | Point of Local Repair |
| PLS | Publishers Licensing Society |
| PLSA | Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (Sprachverarbeitung/speech processing) |
| PLSB | Provider Link State Bridging (Telekommunikation/telecommunication, Ethernet) |
| PLSV | Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle |
| PLT | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei/file name extension: graphic file] |
| PLT | Polar Large Telescope (geplant/planned) |
| PLT | Princeton Large Experiment (Fusionsreaktortechnik/fusion reactor technology, PPPL) |
| PluTO | Plasma und optische Technologien (BMBF-Verbundprojekt) |
| PLZ | Plaza (US Mail) |
| PLZ | Postleitzahl |
| PM | Pentamode Material (acoustic metamaterial) |
| PM | Performance Monitoring |
| PM | Perona-Malik (Diffusionsgleichung/diffusion equation |
| PM | Phasenmodulation |
| PM | Photomultiplier (tube) |
| PM | St. Pierre et Miquelon (ISO 3166) |
| PMA | Porphol-Myristat-Acetat |
| PMAS | Potsdamer Multi-Apertur Spektralphotometer |
| PMB | Polarization Mode Dispersion |
| PMC | Personal Mobile Communicator |
| PMC | Phys Math Central (open access Internet Journal) |
| PMC | PubMed Central (biomedical and life sciences journal free archive) |
| PMCA | Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification |
| PMD | Polarization-Mode Dispersion (Glasfasernetz/glass fiber net) |
| PMD | Portable MAC Identity for Display (DECT) |
| PMD | Project Management Dashboard |
| PMEM | permanenterregte elektrische Maschine |
| PMet | Professional Meteorologist (Canada's certification) |
| PMF | Polarization Maintaining Fiber (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| PMI | Postmortem-Intervall (Forensik) |
| PMI | Precoding Matrix Indicator (data transmission) |
| PML | Perfectly Matched Layer (Körperschallausbreitung/propagation of structure-borne sound) |
| PMLB | Plans Municipaux de Lutte contre le Bruit |
| PMLS | Posteromedial Lateral Suprasylvian Area (im Gehirn/in the brain) |
| PMMA | Polymethylmethacrylat |
| PMN-PT | Lead Magnesium Niobate–Lead Titanate |
| PMO | Pine Mountain Observatory (University of Oregon, USA) |
| PMO | Program Managament Office |
| PMOLED | Passive Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode |
| PMOS | P-Channel MOS |
| PMP | Point-to-Multipoint (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PMR | Professional (or: Private) Mobile Radio (UHF: 446.0–446.1 MHz) |
| PMRF | Pacific Missile Range Facility (US Navy) |
| PMS | Portable Monitoring System (Telecommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PMS | Puls-Magnetron-Sputtern (Dünne Schichten/thin layers) |
| PMSJ | Physico-Mathematical Society of Japan |
| PMSM | permanentmagneterregter Synchronmotor |
| PMSS | Polymethylsilsesquioxan [Si(CH3)O1,5]n |
| PMT | Photomultiplier Tube |
| PMT | Program Map Table (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PMUT | Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer |
| PMV | Predicted Mean Vote |
| PMW | Project Management Workbench |
| PN | Pitcairn (ISO 3166) |
| PN | Pseudo-Random Noise (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PNA | Peptide Nucleic Acid |
| PNAS | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) |
| PnC | Phononic Crystal |
| PNE | Peaceful Nuclear Explosion |
| PNG | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Graphikdatei/file name extension: graphic file] |
| PNGV | Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles |
| PNI | Psychoneuroimmunologie |
| PNNI | Private Network-Node (or: -Network) Interface (Internet) |
| PNNL | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Washington State University, Richmond, WA, USA) |
| PNO | Private Network Operator |
| PNP | Polyneuropathie |
| PNP | Purinnucleosid-Phosphorylase |
| PNR | Product Noise Rating |
| PNS | Peripheral Nervous System |
| PNT | Position, Navigation and Time (DLR measuring system) |
| PNU | Physics News Update (USA) |
| PNVG | Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles |
| POC | Particulate Organic Carbon |
| POC | Point of Care |
| POC | Point of Concentration (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PoC | Proof-of-Concept |
| PoC | Push(-to-Talk) over Cellular (Mobiltelefone/mobile phones) |
| PoCL | Power-over-Camera Link (Kamera-Stromversorgung/camera power supply) |
| POCS | Projection onto Convex Set (Bildverarbeitung/picture processing) |
| POD | Print on Demand |
| POD | Proper Orthogonal Decomposition |
| POEM | Programme for Observation of the Earth and its Environment |
| POETS | Power Optimization of Electro-Thermal Systems |
| POF | Polymer (or: Plastic) Optical Fiber |
| POFTO | Plastic Optical Fiber Trade Organization |
| POG | Personal Office Gateway |
| POI | Point of Interest (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| POI | Probability of Intercept (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| POINTS | Precision Optical Interferometer in Space |
| POLARCAT | Polar Study Using Aircraft, Remote Sensing, Surface Measurements and Models, of Climate, Chemistry, Aerosols and Transports |
| POLLENS | Platform for Open, Light, Legible and Efficient Network Services (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| POLO | [Fraunhofer-Themenverbund] Polymere Oberflächen |
| POLSTRACC | The Polar Stratosphere in a Changing Climate (Research project for HALO) |
| POLY | Polymeric Materials for Microelectronics and Photonics (Congress) |
| POMA | Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (Acoustical Society of America, online Journal) |
| POMC | Proopiomelanocortin-Zellen |
| PON | Passive Optical Network (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| PONS | Prometheus Orthonormal System |
| POP | Persistent Organic Pollutant |
| POP | Point of Presence (Internet) |
| POP | Point of Purchase (Verkaufsstrategie/sales strategy) |
| POP | Post Office Protocol (E-Mail Server) |
| POPA | Panel on Public Affairs (APS) |
| POPP | Panel on Public Policy (Acoustical Society of America) |
| PoS | Packet over SONET (or: SDH) |
| POS | Part-of-Speech (Sprachverarbeitung/speech processing) |
| POS | Point of Sale (Verkaufsstrategie) |
| POSIX | Portable Operating System Interface (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| POSME | Principle of Supercritical Microemulsion Expansion |
| POST | Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (UK) |
| POSTECH | Pohang University of Science and Technology (South Korea) |
| PostEurop | Association of European Public Postal Operators |
| POTS | Plain Old Telephone Service (or: System) |
| POW | Prisoner of War |
| PP | Point to Point (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PP | Polypropylen |
| PP | Portable Part (z.B. Handset) (DECT) |
| PPA | Power Purchase Agrreement |
| PPA | Princeton-Pennsylvania Accelerator (proton synchrotron, since 1963) |
| PPA | Professional Publishers Association (UK) |
| PPA | Public Policy and Administration (Journal) |
| PPADC | Pulse Processing Analog-to-Digital Converter |
| PPARC | Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (London, UK) |
| PPAU | Packet Processor and Access Unit |
| ppb | parts per billion, 10-9 |
| PPBE | Plans de Prévention du Bruit dans l'Environnement |
| ppbm | parts per billion by mass |
| ppbv | parts per billion by volume |
| PPC | Photovoltaic Power Converter (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| PPD | Posterior Pobability Density |
| PPD | Predicted Percentage of Dissatisfied |
| PPDU | PLCP Data Unit (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PPF | Positive Position Feedback |
| PPF | Print Production Format |
| PPF | Private Project Financing (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| PPG | Pacific Proving Ground (Atombomben-Testgebiet/atomic bombs test site) |
| PPI | Plane Position Indication (sonar technology) |
| PPL | Passive Photonic Loop |
| PPLN | Periodically-Poled Lithium Niobate (Wellenleiter/waveguide) |
| ppm | parts per million, 10-6 |
| PPM | Photonic Power Module (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| PPM | Pulse Position Modulation |
| PPMS | Physical Property Measurement System |
| PPN | Parametricized Post-Newtonian (Gravitationstheorie/theory of gravitation) |
| PPN | Personal Private Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PPP | Point-to-Point Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PPP | Polyetherpolycarbonat-Polyole |
| PPP | Poly(p-Phenylen) |
| PPP | Public/Private Partnership (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PPPL | Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (Fusionsreaktortechnik/fusion reactor technology) |
| PPPoA | Point-to-Point over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PPPoE | Point-to-Point over Ethernet (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PPPoUSB | Point-to-Point over Universal Serial Bus (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PPR | Pflegepersonalregelung |
| PPS | Pavement Profile Scanner (Straßenbau/street construction) |
| PPS | Prepaid Postpaid Suite (Handy/Mobile Phone) |
| PPS | The Polish Physical Society |
| PPS | Polymer Processing Society |
| PPS | Precision Positioning Service (GPS) |
| PPS | Programmable Pulse Stimulus |
| PPS | Pulses per Second (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ppt | parts per trillion, 10-12 |
| PPT | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft PowerPoint-Datei/file name extension: Microsoft PowerPoint file] |
| PPTA | Parks Pulsar Timing Array (Australia) |
| PPTP | Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (Internet) |
| PPV | Pay-per-View (scientific publication) |
| PPV | Poly(p-Phenylen Vinylen) |
| PPVPN | Provider-Provisioned Virtual Private Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PQ | Performance (or: Process) Qualification |
| PQ | Priority Queue |
| PQ | Québec (Province of Canada) |
| pQCD | Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics |
| pQCT | periphere quantitative Computertomographie |
| PQI | Pittsburgh Quantum Institute |
| PR | Physical Review (Journal) |
| PR | Public Relations |
| PR | Puerto Rico (ISO 3166) |
| PRA | Primary Rate Access (ISDN) |
| PRACE | Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (EU project) |
| PRACLAY | Preliminary Demonstration Test for Clay Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste (planned for 2010 at Mol, BE) |
| Prakla | Gesellschaft für praktische Lagerstättenforschung |
| PRAM | Phase-Change Random Access Memory |
| PRBS | Pseudorandom Bit (or: Binary) Sequence |
| PRC | Physics Resources Center (AIP) |
| PRC | Primary Reference Clock (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PRC | Product Realization Center (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PRDC | Polymer Research and Development Center (Shanghai, CN) |
| PRE | Peer Review Evaluation |
| PRE | Physical Review E (journal for statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics) |
| PRFM | Piezo Response Force Microscopy |
| PRI | Primary Rate Interface (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PRIF | Peace Research Institute Frankfurt |
| PRiMaT | Präventives Risikomanagement in der Trinkwasserversorgung |
| PRIME | Privacy and Identity Management for Europe (EU project) |
| PRIME | Produktions- und Projektionstechniken für Immersive Medien (3D-TV) |
| PRIME | Purdue Rare Isotope Measurement (Laboratory) (Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA) |
| PRINT | Particle Replication in Nonwetting Templates |
| PRIO | Peace Research Institute (NO) |
| PRISE | Privacy Enhancing Shaping of Security Research and Technology (EU, 4 partners in 4 countries: AT, DE, DK, NO) |
| PRISMA | Precision Physics, Fundamental Interactioons and Structure of Matter (at JGU) |
| PRK | Photorefraktive Keratektomie (Augenchirurgie/eye surgery) |
| PRL | Physical Review Letters |
| PRN | Pseudo-Random Noise |
| PRO | Public Record Office |
| ProcPoS | Proceedings of Peerage of Science (Journal) |
| ProDes | Promotion of Renewable Energy for Water Production through Desalination |
| PRODEX | Programme de Dévéloppement d'Expériences Scientifiques (ESA program) |
| PROLA | Physical Review Online Archive |
| PROLOG | Programming in Logic |
| PROM | Programmable Read-Only Memory |
| PROMED | Program to Monitor Emerging Diseases |
| PROMETHEUS | Programme for a European Traffic with Highest Efficiency and Unprecedented Safety |
| PrP | Prion-Protein |
| PRR | Pattern Recognition Receptor |
| PRRS | Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (Schweinevirus-Infektion) |
| PRRT | Peptid-Rezeptor-Radionuklid-Therapie (Krebstherapie) |
| PRS | Packet Ring Switch (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PRS | Position Reference Signal |
| PRS | Program Request Service (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PRS | Public Regulated Services (Galileo) |
| PRT | Personal Rapid Transport (führerloser Personentransfer auf Flughäfen/driver-free transport on airports) |
| PRT | Precomputed Radiance Transfer (Bildsimulation/picture simulation) |
| PRUAC | Pacific Rim Underwater Acoustics Conference |
| PS | Packet Switched (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PS | Palästina/Palestinian Territory (ISO 3166) |
| PS | Paradoxical Sleep |
| PS | Parametric Stereo |
| PS | Phone Splitter |
| PS | Polystyrol, Polystyrene |
| PSA | Plataforma Solar de Almería (Solarkraftwerk/solar power plant, ES) |
| PSA | Polysaccharid A |
| PSA | Pressure Sensitive Adhesive |
| PSA | Prostata-spezifisches Antigen |
| PSAB | Physics, Space and Astronomy Board (UK) |
| PSAC | The President's Science Advisory Committeee (USA) |
| PSAM | Pilot Symbol Assisted Modulation (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PSAP | Public Safety Answering Point (Telekommunikation, Notrufzentrale/telecommunication, emergency call center) |
| PSAT | Pop-Up Satellite Archival Transmitter |
| PSBT | Phase Shifted Binary Transmission (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PSC | Pension Support Centre (zur Förderung der Mobilität von Forschern in Europa) |
| PSC | Personal Supercomputer (seit/since 2006) |
| PSC | Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (USA) |
| PSC | Polar Stratospheric Cloud (Ozonloch/hole in the ozone layer) |
| PSCE | Presidential Specialized Council for Education and Scientific Research (Egypt) |
| PSCF | Pure Silica Core Fiber (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| PSD | Position-Sensing Detector |
| PSD | Power Spectral Density |
| PSE | Personal Service Environment (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PSE | Plasma Surface Engineering |
| PSE | Programm- und Systementwicklung |
| PSE | Pulse Shape Equalization (Laser) |
| PSF | Point Spread Function |
| PSG | Programmable Sound Generator |
| PSI | Paul Scherrer Institut (Villingen, CH) |
| PSI | Persistente Streuungsinterferometrie |
| PSI | Phasenschiebende Interferometrie |
| PSI | Photon Science Institute (Manchester, UK) |
| PSI | Planetary Science Institute (Tucson, AZ, USA) |
| PSI | Program Specific (or: Service) Information |
| PSI | Programmable Serial Interface |
| PSID | Panel Study of Income Dynamics (USA) |
| PSJ | The Physical Society of Japan |
| PSK | Phase Shift Keying (Modulation) |
| PSLV | Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle |
| PSM | Performance Scale Messaging |
| PSM | Power Supply Module |
| PSM | Professional Science Master |
| PSNR | Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio |
| PS-NSOM | Phase-Sensitive Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscope |
| PSOLA | Pitch-Synchronous Overlap Add (Sprachsynthese/speech synthesis) |
| PSP | Pressure Sensitive Paint |
| PSP | Professional Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers |
| PSPC | [positionsempfindlicher Proportionalzähler] (Röntgensatellit/X-ray satellite) |
| PSQM | Perceptual Speech Quality Measure (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PSR | Permanent Shadowed Region (of the Moon) |
| PSR | Precision Segmented Reflector (Satelliten/satellites) |
| PSS | Packet Streaming Service (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PSS | Personalized Service Selector (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PSS | Position Sensor Simulation |
| PSS | PSTN Simulation (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PSSC | Physical Sciences Study Committee (USA) |
| PSSC | Product and Solution Support Center (IBM, Montpellier, FR) |
| PST | [Fraunhofer-] Patentstelle für die Deutsche Forschung (München) |
| PSTH | Post-Stimulus Time Histogram (behavioral physiology research) |
| PSTM | Photon Scanning Tunneling Microscope |
| PSTN | Public Switched Telephone Network (Öffentliches Fernsprechnetz) |
| PSTS | Polish Speech Test Signal |
| PSTVd | Potato Spindle Tuber Viroid (Genetik/genetics) |
| PSU | Pennsylvania State University (USA) |
| PSU | Portland State University (USA) |
| PT | Portugal (ISO 3166) |
| P&T | Partitioning and Transmutation (of nuclear waste) |
| PTA | Perkutane Transluminale Angioplastie |
| PTA | Personal Travel Assistent |
| PTA | Pharmazeutisch-technische(r) Assistent(in) |
| PTA | Physikalisch-technische(r) Assistent(in) |
| PTA | Polskie Towarzystwo Akustyczne |
| PTA | Pulsar Timing Array (astronomy) |
| PTA | Pure Tone Average (acoustics) |
| PTAP | Photonics Technology Access Programme |
| PTB | Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Braunschweig, ab/since 1949, vorher/formerly: PTR) |
| PTBS | Posttraumatische Belastungsstörung (Medizin/medicine) |
| PTC | Phenylthiocarbamid (ein pflanzlicher Bitterstoff) |
| PTC | Psychophysical Tuning Curve |
| PTCA | perkutane transluminale Coronar-Angioplastie (Chirurgie/surgery) |
| PTCN | Pysics Today Career Network (AIP) |
| PTCRB | PCS Type Certification Review Board (Mobilfunk/mobile radio) |
| PTE | Physics Teacher Education (Illinois State University program) |
| PTF | Palomar Transient Factory (astrophyics) |
| PTFE | Polytetrafluoreth(yl)en |
| PTI | Physikalisch-Technisches Institut (ehem./former DDR, Jena) |
| PTM | Polynomial Texture Map |
| PTM | Posttranslational Modification (biomedicine) |
| PTMT | Point to Mult-Point (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| p.t.o. | please turn over (= b.w.) |
| PTO | Project Tracking and Optimization |
| PTO | Public Telecommunications Operator |
| PTOL | Physics Today Online (Journal) |
| PtP | Peer-to-Peer (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PTP | Point to Point (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PTR | Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (Berlin, 1887–1948, später/ later on: PTB) |
| PTRA | Physics Teaching Resource Agents |
| PTS | Part-Time-Scientists (deutsch-österreichische Ingenieurgruppe für Mondrover-Mission) |
| PTS | Permanent Threshold Shift (Gehör/in hearing) |
| PTS | Phosphotransferase System |
| PTS | Presentation Time Stamp (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PTS | Protein Tracking System |
| PTSD | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Medizin/medicine) |
| PTSP | PNNI Topology State Packet (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PTT | Post, Telegraph and Telephone |
| PTT | Push-to-Talk (Telekommunikation, Mobiltelefone/telecommunication, mobile phones) |
| PTV | Projection Television |
| PTV | Push-to-View (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PTZ | Produktionstechnisches Zentrum (FhG, Berlin) |
| PU | Perceived Usefulness |
| PU | Polyurethan, Polyurethane |
| PU | produktintegrierter Umweltschutz |
| PUB | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Microsoft Publisher-Datei/file name extension: Microsoft Publisher file] |
| PUC | Pontifical Catholic University (Santiago de Chile) |
| PUCRS | Pontifícia Universidade Católico do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) |
| PUE | Power Usage Effectiveness |
| PUF | Physical Unclonable Functions |
| PUFA | Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (mehrfach ungesättigte Fettsäuren) |
| PUK | Personal Unlocking Key |
| PULSAR | Pump Laser Stacks with Aerospace Reliability (EU-Programm) |
| PULSE | Program in Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering (DARPA) |
| PUMA | Dreiachsenspektrometer mit Polarisationsanalyse und Multi-Analysator |
| PUMC | Peking Union Medical College |
| PUNE | Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy |
| PUR | Plutonium and Uranium Extraction (radioaktiver Abfall/radioactive waste) |
| PUR | Polyurethan, Polyurethane |
| PUREX | Plutonium and Uranium Recovery by Extraction |
| PUSC | Partial Usage of Subchannels, Partially Utilized Subchannel Allocation (or: Subchannelisation) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PUSD | Permanent Undersecretary's Department (UK) |
| PUSH | Partnernetz für Unternehmensgründungen aus Stuttgarter Hochschulen |
| PUSH | Public Understanding of the Sciences and Humanities |
| PV | Photovoltaik, Photovoltaics |
| PV | Present Value |
| PVA | Polyvinyl Alcohol, Polyvinylalkohol |
| PVB | Polyvinyl Butyral |
| PVC | Permanent Virtual Circuit (or: Channel) (Rechnernetz/computer network) |
| PVC | Polyvinylchlorid |
| PVD | Physical Vapor Deposition |
| PVDF | Polyvinylidenfluorid |
| PVDI | [Fraunhofer-] Photovoltaic Module Durability Initiative |
| PVGIS | Photovoltaic Geographical Information System |
| PVK | Poly-N-vinylcarbazol |
| P-VLAN | Provider VLAN (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PVM | Parallel Virtual Machine (Parallelrechner/parallel computer) |
| PVR | Personal Video Recording (or: Recorder) |
| PVSC | [IEEE] Photovoltaic Specialists Conference |
| PVT | Photovoltaic–Thermal |
| PVT | Polyvinyl Toluene (Strahlungsnachweis/radiation monitoring) |
| PvT | Power versus Time (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PV-TEC | Photovoltaik Technologie Evaluations Center (FhG-ISE) |
| PV-4D | Parallele Visualisierung in vier Dimensionen |
| PW | Palau (ISO 3166) |
| PW | Photonics West (Conference and Exhibition, USA) |
| PW | Pseudo Wire (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PWAM | Pilot Waveform Assisted Modulation (Datenübertragung/data transfer) |
| PWE3 | Pseudo Wire Emulation Edge to Edge (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PWFA | Plasma Wakefield Accelerator |
| PWI | Preliminary Work Item |
| PWLAN | Public Wireless LAN (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PWM | Pulse Width Modulation |
| PWR | Pressurized-Water Reactor (Kernreaktor/nuclear reactor) |
| PWT | Private Wireless Telephony (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| PXI | PCI Extensions for Instrumentation |
| PXP | Peer X-Press (AIP) |
| PY | Paraguay (ISO 3166) |
| P/Y | Precicion Encrypted (GPS) |
| PyC | Pyrokohlenstoff |
| PYCO | [Fraunhofer-] Einrichtung für Polymermaterialien und Composite |
| PZ | Panama-Kanalzone/Panama Canal Zone (ISO 3166 bis/until 1980) |
| PZEV | Partial Zero Emission Vehicle |
| PZN | Pharmazentralnummer |
| PZR | Professionelle Zahnreinigung |
| PZT | Lead Zirconate Titanate, Blei-Zirkonat-Titanat |
| P2IL | Pathways to Information Leadership |
| P2M | Point-to-Multipoint (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| P2P | Peer-to-Peer |
| P2P | Point-to-Point (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| P2W | Powered Two-Wheelers (motorcycles etc.) |
| P4 | Plug-and-Play Pharma Package (LIMS) |
| P5 | Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel |
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| R | Router (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RA | Radio Access (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RA | Radio Astronomy |
| RA | Research Assistant (USA) |
| RA | Routing Area (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RAB | Radio Access Bearer (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RAB | Remote Amplifier Box (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RABiTS | Rolling Assisted Biaxially Textured Substrates |
| RAC | Radio (or: Resource) Admission Control (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RACE | Regional Atlantic Circulation and Global Change |
| RACE | Research and Development in Advanced Communication Technologies in Europe |
| [or: Research (Programme) on (or: into) Advanced Communication(s) in Europe] |
| RACER | Rapid and Cost-Effective Rotorcraft |
| RACH | Random Access Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RACS | Resource Admission Control Subsystem (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RAD | Radiation Assessment Detector (on board of the NASA Marsrover “Curiosity”) |
| RAD | Rapid Application Development |
| RADAR | Radio Detection and Ranging |
| RADIUS | Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RADIUS | Research and Development in the US |
| RADS | [International Symposium on] Room Acoustics: Design and Science |
| RADWASS | Radioactive Waste Safety Standards (IAEA) |
| RaDyO | Radiance in a Dynamic Ocean |
| RAE | Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) |
| RAeS | Royal Aeronautical Society (UK) |
| RAFT | Reversible Addition/Fragmentation Chain Transfer/Reversibler Additions-Fragmentierungs-Ketten-Transfer (Polymerisation) |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent (or: Inexpensive) Disks |
| RAIM | Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (Satellitentechnik/satellite technology) |
| RAINBOW | Reduced and Internally Biased Oxide Wafer (piezoelektrischer Aktor/piezoelectric actuator) |
| RAIRO | Revue Française d'Automatique, Informatique et Recherche Opérationelle |
| RAL | Radio Astronomy Laboratory (UCB) |
| RAL | Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory (Oxford-Chilton, UK) |
| RALIMS | Research and Laboratory Information Management System |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| RAM | Remote Access Multiplexer (Internet) |
| RAMICS | Rapid Airbore Mine Clearance System |
| RAMONA | Realisierung automatisierter Mobilitätskonzepte im Öffentlichen Nahverkehr |
| RAMS | Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety |
| RAN | Radio Access Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RAN | Remote Access Node (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RANAP | Radio Access Network Application Part (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RANGE | Robust Affordable Next Generation Energy Storage Systems (ARPA-E) |
| RANS | Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (simulations) |
| RAP | Radio Access Profile (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RAP | Radiological Assistence Program (DoE, USA) |
| RAP | Research Assistance Professor |
| RAPID | Research and Public Information and Dissemination (USA, Programm zu EMF-Schäden/program concerning EMF hazards) |
| RAPO | Room Acoustic Property Optimizer |
| RAPTOR | Rapid Telescopes for Optical Response |
| RAR | Radio Access Router (Datenübertragung/data transfer) |
| RARDE | Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment (UK) |
| RAS | Reflectance Anisotropy Spectroscopy |
| RAS | Registration, Admission and Status (Kommunikation/communication) |
| RAS | Remote Access Server (or: Service) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RAS | Royal Astronomical Society (UK) |
| RAS | Russian Acoustical Society |
| RASEI | Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (University of Colorado, USA) |
| RASS | Radio Acoustic Sounding System |
| RAST | Radio Allergo Sorbent Test |
| RASTI | Rapid Speech Transmission Index |
| RAT | Radio Access Technology (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RAT | Ram-Air Turbine (Flugzeug/aircraft) |
| RAT | Readiness Assessment Test |
| RATP | Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiennes (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| RAVE | Research at Alpha Ventus (offshore wind parks) |
| RAZ | Radial Azimuth (Survey) |
| RB | Radio Bearer (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RBAC | Role-Based Access Control |
| RBC | Radio Block Center (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RBC | Red Blood Cell |
| RBD | Recurrent Brief Depression |
| RBD | Reference-Beam Diffraction (Festkörperphysik/solid state physics) |
| RBD | Reliability Block Diagram |
| RBD | REM Sleep Behavior Disorder |
| RBOC | Regional Bell Operating Company |
| RBR | Radiation Belt Remediation (Strahlungsgürtel der Erde/earth radiation belt) |
| RBRC | RIKEN BNL Research Center |
| RBSP | Radiation Belt Storm Probe (astronomy) |
| RBW | Resolution Bandwidth (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RC | Remote Control |
| RC | Room Criteria (zur Lärmbeurteilung/for noise rating) |
| RC | Routing Controller (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| R/C | Revenue/Cost Ratio |
| RCA | Radio Corporation of America |
| RCA | Research Collaboration Agreement (USA) |
| RCAS | Railway Collision Avoidance System (DLR) |
| RCC | Routing Control Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RCE | Radiative Convective Equilibrium (in the atmosphere) |
| RCE | Reconfigurable Computing Environment |
| RCE | Relative Constellation Error (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RCE | Remote Component Environment |
| RCGI | Research Centre for Gas Innovation (University of São Paulo, BR) |
| RCK | Research Centre Karlsruhe |
| RCL | Radio Communication Links |
| RCLCF | Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation (UK) |
| RCLED | Resonant Cavity Light Emitting Diode |
| RCM/OCS | Restraints Control Module/Occupant Classification System (Kfz-Technik) |
| RCMS | Remote Control and Monitoring System |
| RCNST | Research Center for Nuclear Science and Technology (Beihang University, Beijing, CN) |
| RCP | Radio Control Part (or: Point) |
| RCP | Random Closed Packing, zufällige geschlossene Packung (Festkörperphysik, solid state physics) |
| RCP | Rapid Control(ler) Prototyping |
| RCP | Representative Concentration Pathways (climate research) |
| RCP | Royal College of Physicians (UK) |
| RCPA | References to Contemporary Papers in Acoustics (JASA section) |
| RCRA | Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (USA) |
| RCRV | Regional Class Research Vessel |
| RCS | Rate Control System (Raketentechnik/rocket control) |
| RCS | Remote Control System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RCS | Return Channel by Satellite (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RCS | Return Channel System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RCSA | Research Corporation for Science Advancement |
| RCST | Return Channel Satellite Terminal |
| RCSU | Remote Control and Status Unit |
| RCT | Regionale Chemotherapie (Krebsbekämpfung/cancer therapy) |
| RCTT | Radio Conformance Test Tester (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RCUK | Research Council UK |
| RD | Road (US Mail) |
| RD | Route Distinguisher (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| R&D | Research and Development |
| RDA | Results-Dependent Analysis |
| RDBMS | Relational Database Management System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RDC | Reifendruck Control |
| RDC | Remote Digital Concentrator (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RDD | Radioactive Disposal Device |
| RDD | Rights Data Dictionary (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RDF | Resource Description Framework (or: Format) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RDF | Reverse Dispersion Fiber (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| RDI | Reverse Defect Indication |
| RDK | Reifendruckkontrollsystem (= TPMS) |
| RdL | Reichsminister der Luftfahrt (im "Dritten Reich") |
| RDM | Research Data Management |
| RDMA | Remote Direct Memory Access |
| RD&NS | Radiation Detection and Nuclear Sciences (PNNL) |
| RDS | Radio Data Service (or: System) (Europe) |
| RDS | Resource Discovery System |
| RDS | Respiratory Distress Syndrome |
| RDSI | Research Data Storage Infrastructure (AU) |
| RDSS | Research Data Shared Service (JISC) |
| RDX | Trimethylentrinitramin (Hexogen, Sprengstoff/explosive) |
| RE | Radio Equipment (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RE | Reunion (ISO 3166) |
| RE | Rough Environment |
| REA | Rauchgas-Entschwefelungs-Anlage |
| REACH | Registration, Evaluation, (and) Authorization (and Restriction) of Chemicals |
| REACOL | Réseau Européen pour l'Assemblage par Collage |
| REAT | Real Ear Attenuation at Threshold |
| REBCO | Rare-Earth Barium Copper Oxide |
| REBL | Reflection Electron-Beam Lithography (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| REC | Radiative Electron Capture (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| REC | Radio Equipment Control (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ReCFI | Research Center for Functional Interfaces (Seoul National University, KR) |
| RECMA | Radio and Electronics Component Manufacturers' Association |
| RECOVER | Remote Continual Verification (Atomenergie-Kontrolle/atomic energy surveillance) |
| RED | Radio Equipment Directive |
| RED | Random Early Detection |
| REDERC | Réseau de Développement de Réserves Naturelles Communautaires |
| REDI | Rapid E-Form Development and Implementation |
| REF | Research Education (or: Excellence) Framework |
| REG | [Dateinamenerweiterung: Windows Registrierungs-Datei/file name extension: Windows registration file] |
| REGINA | Regenerative Medizin in der Gesundheitsregion Neckar-Alb und Stuttgart |
| RegTP | Regulierungsbehörde für Telekommunikation und Post (vorher/formerly: BAPT, davor/still earlier: FTZ) |
| REIPPPP | Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (South Africa) |
| REKLIM | Regionale Klimaänderungen (Helmholtz-Verbund) |
| REL | Rights Expression Language (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| REM | Rapid Eye Mount (telescope, IT) |
| REM | Rapid Eye Movement (Schlaf-Phase/sleep period) |
| REM | Rasterelektronenmikroskop |
| REM | Reichserziehungsministerium (im "Dritten Reich") |
| REMix | Renewable Energy Mix for Sustainable Electricity Supply (DLR-Modellierungsprogramm) |
| REMOS | Recession Monitoring System |
| REMSIM | Radiation Exposure and Mission Strategies for Interplenetary Manned Missions |
| REMUS | Remote Environmental Monitoring Unit System (an AUV) |
| REN | Research and Education Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ReNaSS | Réseau National de Surveillance Seismique (Strasbourg, FR) |
| RENCI | Renaissance Computing Institute (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA) |
| RENCON | Music Performance Rendering Contest for Computer |
| RePEc | Research Papers in Economics |
| RepRap | Replicating Rapid Prototyping (3D-Drucker/3D printer) |
| RERF | Radiation Effects Research Foundation (Japan) |
| RES | Radio Equipment and Systems (TC im/in the ETSI) |
| RES | Red Española de Supercomputación (Spanish Supercomputing Network) |
| RESA | RapidEye Science Archive (Satellitensystem/satellite system) |
| RE-SEED | Retirees Enhancing Science Education through Experiment and Demonstration (USA) |
| RESM | Regional Earth System Model, Regionales Erdsystemmodell |
| RESOLFT | Reversible Saturable/Switchable Optical Fluorescent Transitions (hochauflösende Abbildung/super-resolution imaging) |
| REST | Representational State Transfer |
| RET | Resolution Enhancement Technology |
| RETSPL | Reference Equivalent Threshold Sound Pressure Level |
| RETTINA | Reliable Turbulence and Transition Modelling for Industrial Aerodynamics (DLR project) |
| REU | Remote Control Electronic Unit |
| REU | Research Experience for Undergraduates (NSF program, USA) |
| REV | Robotic Extraction Vehicle |
| REWIMET | Regionales Windfeld-Modell einschließlich Transport (Wettervorhersage/weather forecast) |
| REX | Radio Science Eperiment (astrophysics) |
| REX | Realtime Executive (ein Betriebssystem/an operating system) |
| REXUS | Raketenexperimente für Universitätsstudenten (seit Okt. 2008, SE) |
| RF | Radiative Forcing (unit: W/m2) |
| RF | Radio Frequency |
| RF | Rating Function |
| RF | Receptive Field (im Gehirn/in the brain) |
| RFA | Röntgenfluoreszenzanalyse |
| RFC | Request for Comment(s) (Rechnernetz/computer network) |
| RFCP | Radio-Fluorogenic Copolymerization |
| RFD | Request for Discussion (Rechnernetz/computer network) |
| RFETS | Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site (Kernwaffenproduktion/nuclear weapon production) |
| RFI | Radio Frequency Interference |
| RFI | Request for Information |
| RFI | Rete Ferroviaria Italiana |
| RFID | Radio Frequency Identification (Device) |
| RFP | Red Fluorescent Protein, rot-fluoreszierendes Protein |
| RFP | Request for Proposal |
| RFPI | Radio Fixed Part Identity (DECT) |
| RFQ | Radio Frequency – Quadrupole |
| RFR | Reichsforschungsrat (im "Dritten Reich") |
| RFSQ | Rapid Single Flux Quantum (logic integrated circuit) |
| RFT | Resistive Force Theory (fluid mechanics) |
| RFT | Run-Flat Tyre (Kfz-Reifen mit Notlaufeigenschaften) |
| RFZ | Reflection-Free Zone (in Mars radar reflectograms) |
| RG | Routing Gateway (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RGA | Residual Gas Analyzer |
| RGB | Red-Green-Blue, Rot-Grün-Blau (Bildverarbeitung/picture processing) |
| RGCH | Relative Grant Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RGO | Reduced Gravity Office (NASA) |
| RGS | Reflection Grating Spectrometer |
| RGS | Royal Geographic Society (London, 1830) |
| RGW | Rat für gegenseitige Wirtschaftshilfe |
| RGW | Residential Gateway (Kommunikation/communication) |
| RGZM | Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Forschungsinstitut für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Mainz) |
| RH | Relative Humidity |
| RH | Right Hand |
| RH | Südrhodesien/Southern Rhodesia (ISO 3166 bis/until 1980) |
| RHCP | Right-Handed Circularly Polarized |
| RHD | Right Hemisphere Damage (Hirnschäden/brain damage) |
| RHEED | Reflection High Energy Electron Diffraction (Oberflächenanalyse, Elektronenoptik/surface analysis, electron optics) |
| RHESSI | Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (NASA 2002, Satellit/satellite) |
| RHex | Robotic Hexapod |
| RHIC | Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, USA) |
| RI | Rank Indicator (data transmission) |
| RI | Research Infrastructure |
| RI | Rhode Island (US-Staat/US state) |
| R&I | Research and Innovation |
| RIA | Rare Isotope Accelerator (USA, cancelled 2006) |
| RIAA | Recording Industry Association of America |
| RIB | Rare Isotope Beam |
| RIB | Routing Information Base (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RIBE | Reactive Ion Beam Etching |
| RIC | Rehabilitation Institue of Chicago |
| RICH | Ring Imaging Cherenkov (LHC, CERN) |
| RIE | Reactive Ion Etching |
| RIG | Retinsäure-induzierbares Gen |
| RIKEN | [Institute of Physical and Chemical Research] (Japan) |
| RIKEN AICS | RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (Kobe, JP) |
| RILM | Répertoire International de Litterature Musicale |
| RIM | Regulatory Information Management |
| RIMS | Ranging and Integrity Monitoring Stations (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RIMS | Resonance Ionization Mass Spectroscopy |
| RIN | Relative Intensity Noise |
| RIN | Research Information Network (UK) |
| RINEX | Receiver Independent Exchange Format (GPS, Galileo) |
| RIP | Raster Imaging Processing (Bildverarbeitung/picture processing) |
| RIP | Requiescat in pace (Ruhe in Frieden/Rest in Peace) |
| RIP | Routing Information Protocol (Internet) |
| RIR | Room Impulse Response (acoustics) |
| RIS | Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy |
| RISC | Reduced-Instruction-Set Computer |
| RISC | Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (Linz, AT) |
| RISC | RNA Induced Silencing Complex (Genetik/genetics) |
| RISE | Raman Imaging and Scanning Electron (microscopy) |
| RISE | Research Internship in Science and Engineering (DAAD-program) |
| RISET | Reprogramming the Immune System for the Establishment of Tolerance (EU research programme) |
| RISING | Rare Isotope Spectroscopic Investigations at GSI (Darmstadt, DE) |
| RiSKWa | Risikomanagement von neuen Schadstoffen und Krankheitserregern im Wasserkreislauf (BMBF, 2011–2016) |
| RISM | Research Institute for Scientific Measurements (Tohoku University, Sendai, JP) |
| RISP | Rare Isotope Science Project (at IBS, South Korea) |
| RIST | Research Organisation for Information Science and Technology (Japan) |
| RIT | Radio-Ionen-Triebwerk |
| RIT | Reference Inhouse Test (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RIT | Rochester Institute of Technology |
| RITA | Radio Frequency Ion Thruster Assembly |
| RITL | Radio in the Loop (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RITS | Repair Information Tracking System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RIXS | Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering (in superconductors) |
| RJ | Random Jitter (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RKA | [Russian Space Agency] |
| RKE | Remote-Keyless-Entry (Kfz-Schlüssel) |
| RKI | Robert-Koch-Institut (Berlin) |
| RKM | Rasterkraftmikroskop |
| RLC | Radio Link Control(ler) (Telekommunikation, Layer 2) |
| RLC | Resistor/Inductor/Capacitor (equivalent circuit) |
| RLE | Refractive Lens Exchange (Augenchirurgie/eye surgery) |
| RLE | Research Laboratory for Electronics (MIT) |
| RLL | Radio in the Local Loop (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RLM | Reichsluftfahrtministerium (im "Dritten Reich") |
| RLMS | Recursive Least Mean Squares (Algorithmus/algorithm) |
| rlogin | remote login |
| RLR | Receive Loudness Rating (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RLS | Recursive Least Squares (Algorithmus/algorithm) |
| RLT | Reformulation-Linearization Technique (algorithm) |
| RLUK | Research Libraries UK |
| RLVIP | Reactive Low-Voltage Ion Plating |
| RM | Radiation Management (climate engineering) |
| RM | Racetrack Memory (Datenspeicher/data memory) |
| RM | Remote (or: Regional) Manager (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RM | Room (US Mail) |
| RMA | Radio Manufacturers' Association |
| RMA | Remote Memory Access (computer) |
| RMC | RACE Management Committee |
| RMC | Robotik und Mechatronik Zentrum (DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen) |
| RMC-C | Central Remote Maintenance Centre |
| RMC-R | Regional Remote Maintenance Centre |
| RMI | Remote Method Invocation (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RMMS | Remote Maintenance and Monitoring System |
| RMON | Remote Monitoring |
| RMP | Rights Management and Protection |
| RMS | Radio Monitoring System |
| RMS | Resonant Macrosonic Synthesis |
| RMS | Root Mean Square |
| RMT | Real Money Trade (Spieler-Jargon/gambler slang) |
| RMV | Ressourceneffiziente mechatronische Verarbeitungsmaschine (Projektgruppe am IWU) |
| RNA | Ribonucleic Acid (Genetik/genetics) |
| RNAi | RNA-Interferenz (Genetik/genetics) |
| RNAP | RNA-Polymerase (Enzym) |
| RNC | Radio (and) Network (or: Node) Controller (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RND | RedaktionsNetwork Deutschland |
| RNEP | Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (Atomwaffe/atomic weapon, USA) |
| RNFL | Retinale Nervenfaserschicht (Auge/eye) |
| RNG | Random Number Generator |
| RNL | Radio Network Layer (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RNN | Recurrent Neural Net |
| RNO | Radio Network Optimization (or: Optimizer) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RNP | Radio Network Planning (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RNRT | Réseau National de Recherche en Télécommunications (France Télécom) |
| RNS | Radio Network Subsystem (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RNS | Ribonucleinsäure |
| RNSS | Radio Navigation Satellite Services |
| RO | Reverse Osmosis (Umkehrosmose für Merwasserentsalzung) |
| RO | Rumänien/Romania (ISO 3166) |
| ROAD | Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources |
| ROADM | Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| ROAR | Registry of Open Access Repository |
| ROARMAP | ROAR Mandates and Policies |
| ROB | Royal Observatory of Belgium |
| ROBEX | Robotische Exploration unter Extrembedingungen (DLR-Projekt) |
| ROC | Radius of Curvature |
| ROC | Receiver (or: Relative) Operating Characteristic (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| ROC | Republic of China (Taiwan) |
| ROCCO | Robust Checksum-Based Header Compression (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RoCE | RDMA over Converged Ethernet |
| ROGER | Robotic Geostationary Robotic Restorer (DLR/ESA) |
| RoHC | Robust Header Compression (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RoHS | Restriction of (or: on) (Certain) Hazardous Substances |
| ROI | Region of Interest (Bildverarbeitung/picture processing) |
| ROI | Return On Investment (or: Instrument) |
| ROIC | Readout Integrated Circuit |
| ROKVISS | Robotik-Komponenten-Verifikation auf der ISS (DLR-Entwicklung) |
| ROL | Reverse Oscillating Layer |
| ROLIS | Rosetta Landing Imaging System |
| ROM | Read Only Memory |
| RON | Resilient Overlay Network (Internet) |
| RoRo | Roll-on, Roll-off (Autofähren/car ferries) |
| ROS | Reactive Oxygen Species, reaktive Sauerstoffspezies |
| ROS | Research Outcomes Service |
| ROSA | Receiver Optical Subassembly (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| ROSAT | [deutscher] Röntgensatellit, German X-ray Satellite (1990) |
| ROSIS | Reflective Optics System Imaging Spectrometer |
| ROTEX | Robot Technology Experiment, Roboter-Technologie-Experiment (Spacelab) |
| ROTSE | Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| ROV | Remotely Operated Vehicle |
| ROZ | Research-Oktan-Zahl (Kfz) |
| RP | Rheinland-Pfalz (Bundesland/German Federal State) |
| RP | Route Processor (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RPA | Random Phase Approximation |
| RPC | Remote Procedure Call (für vernetzte Messgeräte/for crosslinked measuring instruments) |
| RPCR | Robust Principal Component Regression |
| RPF | Reichspost-Forschungsanstalt |
| RPG | Role Playing Game |
| RPI | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY, USA) |
| RPIF | Regional Planetary Image Facility (worldwide 17 libraries, Nov. 2010) |
| RPM | Radiation Portal Monitoring (Strahlungsnachweis/radiation detection) |
| RPM | Radio Policy Matters (TC im/in the ETSI) |
| RPM | Random Particle Mesh Model (für aeroakustische Simulationen/for aeroacoustic simulations) |
| RPM | Reichspostministerium |
| RPO | Rahmenprüfungsordnung |
| RPR | Resilient Package (or: Packet) Ring (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RPS | The Romanian Physical Society |
| RPTV | Rear-Projection Television |
| RPU | Ray Processing Unit (Computergrafik/computer graphics) |
| RPWS | Radio and Plasma Wave Science (Instrument an Bord des Saturn-Satelliten Cassini/instrument on board of the Saturn satellite Cassini) |
| RPZ | Reichspostzentralamt (Berlin, ab 1.4.1928; vorher: Telegraphentechnisches Reichsamt, TRA) |
| RQI | RNA Quality Indicator |
| RR | radiative Rekombination |
| RR | Radio Regulations (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RR | Riva-Rocci (-Apparat zur Blutdruckmessung/blood pressure measuring device) |
| RR | Round Robin |
| RRAM | Resistive Random Access Memory |
| RRC | Radio Resource Control (Telekommunikation, Layer 3) |
| RRC | Root Raised Cosine |
| rrd | Reti Radiotelevisive Digitali (IT) |
| RREA | Relativistic Runaway Electron Avalanche |
| RRG | Reichsrundfunkgesellschaft |
| RRL | Radio Research Laboratory (Korea) |
| RRM | Radio Resource Management (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RRO | Record Route Object (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RRP | Rapid Reconfiguration Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RRSTP | Ring Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (Ethernet) |
| RRW | Reliable Replacement Warhead (USA: Ersatzsprengkopf/weapon) |
| RS | Raman Spectroscopy |
| RS | Retinolsäure |
| RS-232 | RS: Recommended Standard (EIA) |
| RSA | Respiratorische Sinus-Arrhythmie (Physiologie) |
| RSA | [Ronald] Rivest, [Adi] Shamir, [Leonard A.] Adleman (Verschlüsselungssystem) (asymmetrischer Kryptoalgorithmus/asymmetric encryption algorithm, 1977) |
| RSAL | Radionuclide Soil Action Level (Umweltschutz/environment conservation |
| RSC | Radio Station, Central (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RSC | Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) |
| RSCW | Radio Station Central Wireless (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RSE | Radiated Spurious Emission |
| RS EPRE | Energy per Resource Element of the Reference Signal (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RSET | renormierter Spannungs-Energie-Tensor |
| RSFF | Risk-Sharing Financing Facility (EU-Initiative für riskante Vorhaben/EU initiative) |
| RSFQ | Rapid Single Flux Quantum Device |
| RSG | Resource Systems Group |
| rsh | Remote Shell |
| RSHA | Reichssicherheitshauptamt (im "Dritten Reich") |
| RSK | Reaktorsicherheitskommission |
| RSI | Review of Scientific Instruments (Journal) |
| RSI | Rotational Shearing Interferometer |
| RSL | Recurring Slope Lineae (on the Mars surface) |
| RSM | Remote Station Nodal (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RSM | Response Surface Model (or: Modeling) (Motorsport-Simulation/motor sports simulation) |
| RSNP | Regular-Spiking Nonpyramidal Cells |
| RSP | [Office of] Regional and Security Policy [Affairs] |
| RSPB | Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (UK) |
| RS&R | Repairsystem and Returns (Telekommunikation/telecommunication, USA) |
| RSRP | Reference Signal Received Power (Ortung/localization) |
| RSRQ | Reference Signal Received Quality (Ortung/localization) |
| RSS | Radio Science Subsystem (onboard Cassini) |
| RSS | Really Simple Syndication |
| RSS | Received-Signal Strength (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RSSI | Receiver Signal Strength Indicator (DECT) (or: Radio ...) |
| RST | Radio Station, Terminal (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RST | Repeater Station |
| RST | Resonance Scattering Theory |
| RST | Running Status Table |
| RSTP | Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RSTW | Radio Station Terminal Wireless (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RSU | Remote Subscriber Unit (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RSU | Road-Side Unit (traffic communication) |
| RSV | respiratorisches Syncytialvirus |
| RSVP | Répond, s'il vout plaît (bitte antworten/please respond) |
| RSVP | Rare Symmetry-Violating Processes |
| RSVP | Resource Reservation Protocol (Telekommunikation, Internet) |
| RSVP-TE | Resource Reservation Protocol – Traffic Engineering (Telekommunikation, Internet) |
| RSX | Reconnection Scaling Experiment (at LANL) |
| RS3 | Reliably Secure Software Systems (DFG-Schwerpunkt) |
| RT | Radiative-Transfer (equation) |
| RT | Ranking Task (educational concept) |
| RT | Real-Time |
| RT | Route Target (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RTAC | Real-Time Atmospheric Compensation (Adaptive Optik/adaptive optics) |
| RTAI | Real-Time Application Interface (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RTCP | Real-Time (Transport) Control Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RTD | Real-Time Difference |
| RTD | Research and Technological Development (EC) |
| RTD | Resistance Temperature Detector (z.B./e.g., Pt) |
| RTD | Resonant Tunneling Device |
| RTD | Round-Trip Delay |
| RTE | Return From Exception |
| RTE | Run-Time Environment (für Kfz-Entwicklung/for car development) |
| RTF | Resistenz-Transfer-Faktor |
| RTF | Rich Text Format [Dateinamenerweiterung: Textdatei im Rich-Text-Format/file name extension: Rich Text file] |
| RTG | Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator |
| RTG | Receive Transition Gap (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RTI | Real-Time Interface |
| RTI | Research Tools and Instruments (Canadian grant program) |
| RTI-MP | Real-Time Interface for Multiprocessor Systems |
| RTL | Raster Transfer Language (HP) |
| RTL | Real-Time Linux |
| RTL | Register Transfer Level |
| RTL | Resistor-Transistor Logic |
| RTLinux | Real-Time Linux |
| RTLS | Realtime Location System |
| RTM | Raster-Tunnelmikroskop(ie) |
| RTM | Real Time Monitoring |
| RTM | Resin Transfer Molding |
| RTM | Reverse Time Migration (for subsurface geological imaging) |
| RTM | Rundfunktechnische Mitteilungen (Zeitschrift) |
| RTMA | Radio-Television Manufacturers' Association |
| RTO | Research and Technological Organization (EC) |
| RTOS | Real-Time Operating System |
| RTP | Real-Time (Transport) Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RTPJ | Right Temporoparietal Junction (brain research) |
| rtPS | Real Time Packet Service (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RTS | Royal Television Society (GB) |
| RTS | Rubinstein-Taylor-Syndrom (Erbkrankheit) |
| RTSP | Real-Time Streaming Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RTT | Real-Time Testing (or: Technology) |
| RTT | Round Trip Time (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RTU | Remote Terminal Unit (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RTVISC | Rail Transit Vehicle Interface Standards Committee (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| RTW | Real-Time Workshop |
| RU | Repeater Unit |
| RU | Resources Unit |
| RU | Russland/Russian Union (ISO 3166) |
| RUB | Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| RUBI | Remote User Bus Interface |
| RUCDR | Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository (Datenbank/data bank, USA) |
| RULLI | Remote Ultra-Low Light Imaging (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| RUM | Remote Underwater Manipulator |
| RUS | Rechenzentrum Universität Stuttgart |
| RUS | Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy |
| RV | Regionalverband (z.B. DPG) |
| RVA | Richtlinienverabschiedungsausschuss (NALS) |
| RVB | Resonating Valence Bonds (Molekülphysik/molecular physics) |
| RVC | Royal Veterinary College |
| RVR | Runway Visual Range |
| RVS | Radial Velocity Spectrometer |
| RW | Ridge Waveguide |
| RW | Ruanda/Rwanda (ISO 3166) |
| RWA | Receive Wavelength Adapter (Kommunikation/communication) |
| RWA | Research Works Art |
| RWC | Real World Computing |
| RWCP | Real World Computing Partnership (1992–2002) |
| RWE | Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk |
| RWI | Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (Essen) |
| RWTH | Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (Aachen) |
| RX | Receive (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RxLev | Reception Level (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RxQual | Reception Quality (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| RXTE | Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (Röntgensatellit/X-ray satellite) |
| RYS | Royal Yacht Squadron |
| RZ | Return to Zero (Kommunikation/communication) |
| RZG | Rechenzentrum Garching |
| RZÜ | Rechnergestützte Zugüberwachung |
| R2D | Roll to Device |
| R2R | Researcher to Reader (Conference series) |
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| S-Wellen | Scherwellen (Geophysik/geophysics) |
| SA | Saturable Absorber (Faseroptik/fiber optics) |
| SA | Saudi-Arabien/Saudi Arabia (ISO 3166) |
| SA | Selective Availability (Satellitennavigation/satellite navigation) |
| SA | Service Activation (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SA | Simulated Annealing |
| SA | Source Address (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SA | Station Adapter (Eisenbahntechnik/railway technology) |
| SAA | Society of American Archivists |
| SAA | South Atlantic Anomaly (Erdmagnetfeld/earth magnetic field) |
| SAAI | Southern Africa Acoustics Institute |
| SAAL | Signaling ATM Adaptation Layer (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SAAO | South African Astronomical Observatory |
| SAARC | South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation |
| SaaS | Software as a Service (for research computation) |
| SABIO-RK | System for the Analysis of Biochemical Pathways – Reaction Kinetics (Datenbank am HITS/data bank at the HITS) |
| SAC | Science Advisory Committee |
| SAC | Semi-Anechoic Chamber |
| SAC | Service Admission Control (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SAC | Strategic Air Command (USA) |
| SACD | Super Audio Compact Disk |
| SACLANT | Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (NATO) |
| SACMOS | Self Aligned Contacts MOS |
| SACNAS | Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science |
| SACODY | Structure Allégée à Commande Dynamique (EU–ESPRIT research program 1987–1991) |
| SAD | Single Anomalous Diffraction |
| SAD | Spotless Activated Deposition (dünne Schichten/thin layers) |
| SADC | South(ern) Africa(n) Development Cooperation (or: Community) |
| SAE | Society of Automotive Engineers (USA) |
| SAE | System Achitecture Evolution (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SAEM | Stochastic Approximation Expectation–Maximisation |
| SAET | Satellite Access for European Trains (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SAFE | Sensor-Aktor-gestütztes Frühwarnsystem bei Extremwetter |
| SAFIRE | Service des Avions Français Instrumentés pour la Recherche en Environnement |
| SAFISY | Space Agency Forum on ISY |
| SAFOD | San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (a borehole) |
| SAFT | Synthetic Aperture Focus Technique (Signalverarbeitung/signal processing) |
| SAFTA | South Asian Free Trade Association |
| SAG | Sammlung von Algenkulturen der Universität Göttingen |
| SAG | Selective Area Growth |
| SAGD | Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (Ölsandverarbeitung/oil sand exploration) |
| SAGE | Soviet-American Gallium Experiment (Sonnen-Neutrinos, im Kaukasus/solar neutrinos, in the Caucasus) |
| SAGM | Separate Absorption, Grading and Multiplication (APD) |
| SAHA | Suberoylanilidhydoxamsäure (Genetik) |
| SAI | Service Area Identifier (or: Interface) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SAI | Silent Aicraft Initiative |
| SAIC | Science Applications International Corporation |
| SAIC | Single Antenna Interference Cancellation (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SAIFR | South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP) |
| SAIL | Speech Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (University of Southern California) |
| SAL | Scientific Algorithm Library |
| SALSA | Solvers for Algebraic Systems and Applications (Software) |
| SALSA | Systemauslegung eines Alkohol-LoX-Antriebs als Substitut für lagerfähige Antriebsstoffe |
| SALT | Southern African Large Telescope |
| SALT | Speech Application Language Tags (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SALT | Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (or: Talks) |
| SALTRACE | Saharan Aerosol Long-Range Transport and Aerosol–Cloud Interaction Experiment (DLR) |
| SAM | Sample Analysis at Mars (mobile laboratory) |
| SAM | Saturable Absorber Mirror (Lasertechnik/laser technology) |
| SAM | Scanning Acoustic Microscope |
| SAM | Self-Assembled Monolayer, selbstaggregierende Monolagen (ein Molekül dicke Schicht/one molecule thin layer) |
| SAM | [IEEE] Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing (Conference) |
| SAM | Separate Absorption and Multiplication (ADP) |
| SAM | Service Activation Module (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SAM | Service Aware Manager (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SAM | Speech Assessment Methodology |
| SAM | Spherical Aberration Management |
| SAM | Systemzuverlässigkeit, Adaptronik und Maschinenakustik |
| SAML | Security Assertion Markup Language (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SAMP | Systems Analysis, Modelling and Prediction |
| SAMPE | Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering |
| SAMPE | Society of Aerospace Material and Process Engineering |
| SAMPEX | Solar, Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer (USA, Satellit/spacecraft) |
| SAMS | Sediment Acoustic Speed Measurement System |
| SAMUM | Saharan Mineral Dust Experiment |
| SAMURAI | Synergy of Advanced Measurement Techniques for Unsteady and High Reynolds Number |
| Aerodynamic Investigations (DLR-Projekt) |
| SAN | Storage Area Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SANA | Wissenschaftliches Begleitprogramm zur Sanierung der Atmosphäre über den neuen Bundesländern |
| SAND | Self-Assembled Nanodielectrics |
| SANE | Sustainable Accomodation for the New Economy (EU project) |
| SANEX | Selctive Actinide Extraction (nuclear waste processing) |
| SAO | Smithonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| SAO | Special Awards Organization |
| SAON | Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks |
| SAP | Scientific Advisory Panel (to US President) |
| SAP | Service Access Point (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SAP | Symbolic Assembler Program (IBM 704, 1956) |
| SAP | Systeme, Applikationen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung |
| SAPAM | Society of African Physicists and Mathematicians |
| SAPEM | Symposium on the Acoustics of Poro-Elastic Materials |
| SAPHARI | Safe and Autonomous Physical Human-Aware Robot Interaction |
| SAPOS | Satellitenpositionierungsdienst der deutschen Landvermessung (Geodäsie) |
| SAPPHIRE | Satellite and Aircraft Data Base Project for System Integrity Research (Satellitennavigation/satellite navigation) |
| SAPPHIRE | Situational Awareness and Preparedness for Public Health Incidences Using Reasoning Engines (semantisches Netz/semantic net) |
| SAPTA | South Asian Preference Trade Association |
| SAQI | Spatial Audio Quality Inventory |
| SAR | Search and Rescue (Service) (Galileo) |
| SAR | Second Assessment Report (IPCC, über globale Klimaveränderung/on global climate change, 1995) |
| SAR | Specific Absorption Rate |
| SAR | Synthetic Aperture Radar, Synthetik-Apertur-Radar |
| SARA | Système Accélérateur Rhône-Alpes (Grenoble, FR) |
| SARE | Solar and Advanced Renewable Energy |
| SARFT | State Administration for Radio Film and Television (China) |
| SARP | Severe Asthma Research Program (USA) |
| SARS | Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome |
| SART | Save and Rescue Transmitter (Seenotrettungssender) |
| SART | Systemanalyse Raumtransport (DLR, Bremen) |
| SAS | Scale Adaptive Simulation (turbulence model) |
| SAS | Society of Applied Spectroscopy |
| SAS | Special Air Service (UK) |
| SAS | Statistik-Server |
| SAS | Svenska Akustiska Sällskapet, Swedish Acoustical Society |
| SAS | Synthetic Aperture Sonar (Wasserschall/underwater acoustics) |
| SASA | South African Sugar Association |
| SASE | Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission |
| SASER | Sound Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
| SASP | Seneszenz-assoziierter sekretorischer Phänotyp (Zellalterung) |
| SAT | SIM Application Toolkit (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SAT-M | Scholastic Aptitude Test: Mathematics |
| SatWas | Satellitengestütztes Warnsystem |
| SAVE | Software Architecture Visualization and Evaluation |
| SAVOIR | Sound and Vibration Organisation Information Resources (Gesellschaft gegründet 1990, mit Unterstützung des EG COMETT-Programms, |
| Sitz: ISVR, Southampton, GB/assocation formed in 1990 with support from the EG COMETT programme, located at ISVR, Southampton, GB) |
| SAW | Surface Acoustic Wave |
| S-AWC | Super All-Wheel Control (automotive drive control) |
| SAX | Satellite per l'Astronomia X (italienischer Röntgensatellit/Italian X-ray satellite) |
| SAXS | Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering |
| SB | Salomon-Inseln/Solomon Islands (früher Britische Salomoninseln/former British Solomon Islands) (ISO 3166) |
| SB | Synchronization Burst (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SBAS | Satellite-Based Augmentation System (GPS) |
| SBC | Session Border Controller (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SBC | Single Board Computer |
| SBC | Subband Codec |
| SBE | Society of Broadcast Engineers (USA) |
| SBEC | Subband Echo Canceler |
| SBIR | Small Business Innovation Research (Program, USA) |
| SBIRS | Space-Based Infrared System – Low Earth Orbit |
| SBL | Space Based Laser |
| SBLE | Sub-Block Error (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SBLER | Sub-Block Error Rate (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SBML | Systems Biology Markup Language |
| SBND | Short-Baseline Near Detector (neutrino detector) |
| SBP | Société Belge de Physique |
| SBP | Sugar Beet Pulp (Rübenschnitzel) |
| SBR | Space-Based Radar |
| SBR | Spectral Band Replication (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SBR | Sustainable Bit Rate (Datenübertragung/data transfer) |
| SBRT | Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (Krebsbekämpfung mit Röntgenstrahlen/X-ray cancer treatment) |
| SBS | Save British Science (Lobby Group) |
| SBS | Stimulated Brillouin Scattering |
| SBSL | Single-Bubble Sonoluminescence, Einzelblasensonolumineszenz |
| SBSS | Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship |
| SBTA | S-Band Test Accelerator |
| SBTVD | Sistema Brazileiro Televisão–Digital |
| SBWAS | Space Based Wide Area Surveillance |
| SBZ | Sowjetische Besatzungszone |
| SC | Seychellen/Seychelles (ISO 3166) |
| SC | Solarkonstante/Solar Constant (≈ 1.4 kW/m²) |
| SC | South Carolina (US-Staat/US state) |
| SC | Subcommittee |
| SC | Substantial Completion |
| SC | Supercomputing Conference |
| SC | Superconductivity |
| SC | Supercontinuum (Weißlichtlaser/white light laser) |
| SC | Switch-Capacitor (Filter) |
| SCA | Software Communications Architecture (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SCADA | Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SCADTA | Sociedad Colombo Alemana de Transporto Aéro |
| SCAI | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Algorithmen und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen (St. Augustin) |
| SCALPEL | Scattering with Angular Limitation Projection Electron Beam Lithography |
| SCAMP | Service Control and Monitoring Prototype |
| SCAR | Saturated-Absorption Cavity Ring-Down (Spectroscopy) |
| SCAR | Scientific Committee on Arctic Research |
| SCAR | Standing Committee on Agriculture Research (EU) |
| SCAR | Supersonic Cruise Aircraft Research |
| SCART | Simulation Center for Aerodynamic Research in Transportation (DLR) |
| SCASSS | Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (Uppsala, SE) |
| SCB | Single Cooper-Pair Box |
| SCBR | Silicon Chip Bragg Reflector (Laser) |
| SCC | Satellite Control Center (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SCC | Signaling Congestion Control (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SCC | Source Code Control (Microsoft-Interface) |
| SCC | Steinbuch Centre for Computing (Karlsruhe, KIT) |
| SCC | Student Cluster Competition |
| SCCP | Signaling Connection and Control Part (or: Point) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SCCP | Smart Connected Control Platform |
| S-CCPCH | Secondary Common Control Physical Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SCCR | Short-Circuit Current Response |
| SCD | Sudden Cardiac Death |
| SCDMA | Synchronous Code Division Multiplex Access (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SCENIHR | Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (EU) |
| ScE | Server Compute Efficiency |
| SCE | Service Creation Environment (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SCE | Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| SCF | Self-Consistent Field |
| SCF | Service Control Function (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SCF | La Sociedad Colombiana de Fisica (CO) |
| SCFT | Self-Consistent Field Theory |
| SCH | Separate Confinement Heterostructure |
| SCH | Synchronization Channel (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SCI | Science Citation Index (beim/at ISI, Philadelphia, PA, USA) |
| SCIAMACHY | Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography (ENVISAT) |
| SCID | Severe Combined Immune Deficiency |
| SciELO | Scientific Electronic Library Online |
| SCIL | Systems and Control Innovation Lab (DLR) |
| SCIM | Subcarrier Intensity Modulation |
| SCINI | Submersible Capable of Under Ice Navigation (Tauchroboter) |
| SCIRAB | Science in Radio Broadcasting |
| SCK-CEN | Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie – Centre d'Etudes de l'Energie Nucléaire (BE) |
| SCL | Society of Chief Librarians |
| SCLDGM | Serially Concatenated Low-Density Generator Matrix |
| SCM | Safe Communication Module (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SCM | Scanning Capacitance Microscopy |
| SCM | Subcarrier Multiplexing |
| SCM | Supply Chain Management |
| SCMFT | Self-Consistent Mean Field Theory |
| SCN | Scholarly Collaboration Network |
| SCN | Suprachiasmatischer Nucleus (im Gehirn; "Zentraluhr" für circadiane Rhythmen/in the brain; "central clock" for circadian rhythms) |
| SCN | Switched Circuit Network (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SCNCER | Sub-Committee on Non-Conventional Energy Research (ASEAN) |
| SCNT | Somatic-Cell Nuclear Transfer (stem cell research) |
| SCO | Synchronous Connection Oriented (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SCOAP3 | Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics |
| SCOLE | Spacecraft Control Laboratory Experiment (NASA, etwa/about 1983) |
| SCONUL | Society of College, National and University Libraries (UK) |
| SCOOP | Solar Collectors Made of Polymers |
| SCOPE | Scientific Committee on the Problems of the Environment |
| SCOR | Scientific Committee on Ocean Research |
| SCORE | Spectral Self-Coherence Restoral (Algorithmus/algorithm) |
| SCORE | Stove for Cooking, Refrigeration and Electricity (Thermoakustik/thermoacoustic device) |
| SCORM | Sharable Content Object Reference Model |
| SCOUT | Stratospheric Climate Links with Emphasis on the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere |
| SCP | Service Control Point (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SCP | Session Control Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SCP | Slow Cortical Potential (Gehirnwellen/brain waves) |
| SCP | Supernova Cosmology Project |
| SCPC | Single Channel Per Carrier (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SCPI | Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments |
| SCPP | Standing Conference of Physics Professors (UK) |
| SCR | Selective Catalytic Reduction |
| SCR | Spatial Capture Recapture (Raubtierforschung) |
| SCRAMJET | Supersonic Combustion Ramjet (Überschall-Verbrennungsstrahltriebwerk) |
| SCRF | Superconducting Radio Frequency (TESLA) |
| SCRG | Satellite Climate Research Group (NOAA) |
| SCRI | Supersomputer Computations Research Institute (Tallahassee, FL, USA) |
| SCS | South China Sea |
| SCS | Supply Chain Services (Fraunhofer-Arbeitsgruppe, Nürnberg) |
| S-CSCF | Service (or: Serving) Call State (or: Session) Control Function (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SCSI | Small Computer Systems Interface |
| SCSSI | Service Central de la Securité des systèmes d'information |
| SCTC | Speech Communication Technical Committee |
| SCU | Santa Clara University (USA) |
| SCU | Signalling and Control Unit (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SCU | Signalling Channel Unit (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SCUBA | Submillimeter Common-User Bolometer Array (Mauna Kea, HI, USA) |
| SCUBA | System-on-Chip Solutions for Advanced UMTS Base Stations |
| SCW | Scientific Computing World (Journal) |
| SD | Secure Digital (Memory Card) |
| SD | Security Device |
| SD | South Dakota (US-Staat/US state) |
| SD | Standard Definition (Television) |
| SD | Standard Deviation (statistics) |
| SD | Sudan (ISO 3166) |
| SDAP | Service Discovery Application Profile (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SDARS | Satellite Digital Audio Radio Services (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SDB | Safety Deposit Box |
| SDBV | Scientific Databases and Visualization (HITS-group) |
| SDD | Silicon Drift Detector, Silizium-Driftdetektor |
| SDE | Service Development (or: Delivery) Environment (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SDG | Subjective Difference Grade (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SDG | Sustainable Development Goal |
| SdH | Shubnikov – de Haas (effect) |
| SDH | Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (Übertragungsstandard/transmission standard) |
| SDHC | Secure Digital High Capacity (memory cards) |
| SDI | Spectral Differential Imager (beim/at the Very Large Telescope) |
| SDI | Strategic Defense Initiative |
| SDI | Subscriber Distribution Interface (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SDIO | Strategic Defense Initiative Organization |
| SDK | Software Development Kit |
| SDLC | Synchronous Data Link Control |
| SDLS | Satellite Data Link System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SDM | Sequence Data Management (genome data) |
| SDM | Spectral Division Method (acoustics) |
| SDM | Statistical Data Miner |
| SDMA | Space Division Multiple Access (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| S-DMB | Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SDMI | Secure Digital Music Initiative |
| SDMS | Scientific Data (or: Document) Management System |
| SDMT | Similarity-Driven Machine Translation |
| SDO | Service Development Architecture |
| SDO | Solar Dynamics Observatory (NASA) |
| SDO | Standard Development Organizations |
| SDOF | Single-Degree-of-Freedom (System) |
| SDP | Service Data (or: Delivery) Point (or: Platform) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SDP | Service Delivery Point (Internet) |
| SDP | Session Description Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SDR | Satellite Digital Radio |
| SDR | Service Data Record (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SDR | Single Data Rate (2.5 Gb/s) |
| SDR | Software-Defined Radio (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SDR | Standard Dynamic Range (TV) |
| SDR | Süddeutscher Rundfunk |
| SDRAM | Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (Computer) |
| SDRF | Software-Defined Radio Forum (seit/since 1996) |
| SDS | Secure Data Store |
| SDS | Short Data Service (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SDS | Sodium dodecyl sulphate, Natriumlaurylsulfat |
| SDS | Solar Disk Sextant |
| SDSC | San Diego Supercomputer Center |
| SDSL | Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line |
| SDSS | Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| SDSU | San Diego State University (USA) |
| SDSU | South Dakota State University (USA) |
| SDT | Service Description Table (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SDT | Spin-Dependent Tunneling |
| SDTB | Stiftung Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin |
| SDTS | [ANSI] Spatial Data Transfer Standard |
| SDTV | Standard-Definition Television [Format] |
| SDU | Service Data Unit (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SDVNC | [International Conference on] Structural Dynamics, Vibration, Noise and Control |
| SDW | Spin-Density Wave |
| SE | Schrödinger Equation |
| SE | Schweden/Sweden (ISO 3166) |
| S&E | Science and Engineering |
| SEA | Scientists and Engineers for America (seit/since Sept. 2006) |
| SEA | Sociedad Española de Acústica |
| SEAB | Secretary of Energy Advisory Board |
| SEAC | Standard Eastern Automatic Computer (1952, 3 kB memory, 1 MHz clock speed) |
| SEAF | Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (USA) |
| SEAM | Single-Ended Assessment Model (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SEA-ME-WE3 | South East Asia – Middle East – Western Europe (Kommunikation/communication) |
| SEAS | School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Unversity of Pennsylvania and Harvard, USA) |
| SEATO | South-East Asia Treaty Organization |
| SEB | Scientific Executive Board |
| SEB | Sende-, Empfangs- und Bedienungseinheit |
| SEC | Secondary Electron Conduction |
| SEC | Securities and Exchange Commission (USA) |
| SEC | Size Exclusion Chromatography |
| SEC | Software Engineering Center (Tokyo) |
| SEC | Solid Electrolyte Coulometry |
| SecaaS | Security as a Service |
| SECAM | Séquential à Mémoire |
| SECCHI | Sun–Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation |
| SECCRIT | Secure Cloud Computing for Critical Infrastructure IT |
| SECOQC | Secure Communication Based on Quantum Cryptography (EU Project, Wien, AT) |
| SECR | Spatially Explicit Capture Recapture |
| SECTAM | Southeastern Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics |
| SECUF | Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility (proposed 2013 in China) |
| Secur-ED | Secure Urban Mass Transportation European Demonstrator |
| SED | Schweizerischer Erdbebendienst |
| SED | Single-Electron Device |
| SED | Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (ehem./former DDR) |
| SED | Special Engineering Detachment (USA) |
| SED | Stochastic Electrodynamics |
| SED | Strategic Engineering Division |
| SED | Surface-Conduction Electron-Emitter Display |
| SEE | Software Engineering Explained |
| SEED | Science Education through Experiment and Demonstration (USA) |
| SEED | Self-Electrooptic-Effect Device |
| SEG | Society of Exploration Geophysicists (USA) |
| SEGW | Security Gateway (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SEHRS | Surface-Enhanced Hyper-Raman Scattering |
| SEI | Seebeck Effect Imaging |
| SEI | Software Engineering Institute |
| SEIA | Solar Energy Industries Association |
| SEL | Sound Exposure Level |
| SELANE | Secure Local Area Network Environment |
| SELENE | Selenological and Engineering Explorer (japanische Raumsonde zur Monderkundung) |
| SelK | Selbstständige evangelisch-lutherische Kirche |
| SELT | Single-Ended Line Testing |
| SEM | Scanning Electron Microscope (or: Microscopy) |
| SEM | Shop Efficiency Monitoring |
| SEM | Society for Experimental Mechanics (früher/formerly: SESA) |
| SEM | Spectrum Emission Mask |
| Sematech | Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology (USA, IC-Firmen-Kooperation) |
| SEMIC.EU | Semantic Interoperability Centre Europe |
| SEMOS | sensorgestützte Montagesysteme |
| SEN | Service Execution Node (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SENAI | Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial (Brasilien) |
| SENEKA | Sensornetzwerk mit mobilen Robotern für das Katastrophenmanagement |
| SENTHA | seniorengerechte Technik im häuslichen Alltag (DFG-Forschergruppe) |
| SEO | Search Engine Optimization |
| SEP | Service Execution Point (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SEP | Société Européenne de Propulsion |
| SEP | Solar Energetic Particle |
| SEP | Standard Evaluation Protocol |
| SEPA | Scottish Environment Protection Agency |
| SEPA | Single Euro Payments Area |
| SEPAC | Small European Postal Administrations Cooperation |
| SEPG | Software Engineering Project Group |
| SEPNET | South East [England] Photonics Network |
| SEPSDA | Sino-European Project on SARS Diagnostics and Antivirals |
| SEQ | Shape Equalizer (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| SER | SIP Express Router (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SERC | Science and Engineering Research Council (UK) |
| SERCC | Scientific Ethics and Research Conduct Committee (Univ. Tsukuba, JP) |
| SERDP | Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (USA) |
| SEReC | South-East Regional e-Research Centre (UK) |
| SERI | Science and Engineering Readiness Index |
| SERIS | Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore |
| SERM | Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator, selektive Östrogen Rezeptor-Modulatoren |
| SERS | Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (or: Scattering) |
| SERU | Shared E-Resource Understanding |
| SES | Satellite Earth Stations and Systems (TC im/in the ETSI) |
| SES | Senior Executive Service |
| SES | Single Electron Substance |
| SES | Societé Européenne des Satellites (Luxembourg) |
| SES | Spin Excitation Spectroscopy |
| SES | Spracherkennungssystem |
| SESA | Society for Experimental Stress Analysis (jetzt/now: SEM) |
| SESAM | Semiconductor Saturable Absorber Mirror |
| SESAME | Second European Stratospheric Arctic and Midlatitude Experiments |
| SESAME | Surface Electric (or: Electrical, Seismic) Sounding and Acoustic Monitoring Experiment (Rosetta project) |
| SESAME | Synchrotron Light for Experimental Science and Application in the Middle East (JO) |
| SESAR | Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research |
| SESE | School of Earth and Space Exploration (at Arizona State University, USA) |
| SESE | School of Earth, Society, and Environment (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) |
| SESIS | Schiffbauliches Entwurfs- und Simulationssystem |
| SESS | Smart Embedded Sensor System |
| SET | Science, Engineering, Technology |
| SET | Secure Electronic Transaction (Internet, Verschlüsselung/encryption) |
| SET | Single-Electron Transistor |
| SET | Single-Electron Tunneling (Oscillations) |
| SET | Spannungs-Energie-Tensor |
| SET | Supercomputing Engine Technology |
| SETA | Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance |
| SETI | Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence |
| SEVA | Self Validating (Sensor) |
| SEVERI | Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (telescope onboard MSG) |
| SEVIS | Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (USA) |
| SEWASIE | Semantic Web and Agents in Integrated Economics |
| SF | Spreading Factor (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SFA | Saturated Fatty Acids (gesättigte Fettsäuren) |
| SFA | Société Française d'Acoustique |
| SFA | Storage Fusion Architecture |
| SFA | Surface Force Apparatus |
| SFAEST | Stabilized Fast A Posteri Error Sequential Technique (Algorithmus/algorithm) |
| SFB | Sender Freies Berlin |
| SFB | Sonderforschungsbereich (DFG) |
| SFB | Surface Force Balance |
| SFC | Solid Fat Content |
| SFC | Supercritical Fluid Chromatography |
| SFF CAVE | Small Form Factor Computer-Aided Virtual Environment |
| SFG | Sum-Frequency Generation (spectroscopy) |
| SFI | Santa Fe Institute (NM, USA) |
| SFI | Strong-Field Ionization |
| SFIC | Strategic Forum for International Cooperation (EU) |
| SFL | Space Flight Laboratory (at UTIAS) |
| SFM | Scanning Force Microscopy |
| SFM | Société Française des Mécaniciens |
| SFN | Single Frequency Network, Gleichwellennetz (Digitalrundfunk/digital broadcast) |
| SFN | System Frame Number (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SFOAE | Stimulus Frequency Otoacoustic Emission |
| SFOBB | San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge |
| SFOR | Stabilization Force (21.12.1996 bis 21.12.2004/Dec. 21, 1996 through Dec. 21, 2004, davor/formerly: IFOR, danach/thereafter: EUFOR) |
| SFP | Société Française de Physique |
| SFR | Societé Française Radio-électrique |
| SFS | Sound Field Synthesis |
| SFSU | San Franciso State University (USA) |
| SFV | Simian Foamy Virus (a retrovirus) |
| SFZ | Sekretariat für Zukunftsforschung (Gelsenkirchen) |
| SG | Security Gateway (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SG | Signaling Gateway (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SG | Singapur/Singapore (ISO 3166) |
| SG | Strain Gage |
| SG | Study Group |
| SGA | Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Akustik |
| SGA | Séminaire de Géométrie Algébrique |
| SGC | Spiral Ganglion Cell |
| SGC | Structural Genomics Consortium |
| SGCP | Simple Gateway Control Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SGDBR | Sampled-Grating Distributed-Bragg-Reflector (Laser) |
| SGE | Sun Grid Engine |
| SGESS | Smart Grid Energy Storage System (FhG-IFF) |
| SGG | Superconducting Gravity Gradiometer |
| SGI | Silicon Graphics, Inc. (Mountain View, CA, USA) |
| SGIMRI | Sino-German Intelligent Manufacturing Research Institute (Provinz Jiangsu, China) |
| SGM | Semi-Global Matching (DLR algorithm for photogrammetry) |
| SGML | Standard General(ized) Markup Language |
| SGR | Soft Gamma Repeaters (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| SGS | Southeastern Geophysical Society (USA) |
| SGSN | Serving GPRS (Support) Node (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SGW | Security Gateway (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SH | Schleswig-Holstein (Bundesland/German Federal State) |
| SH | St. Helena (ISO 3166) |
| SHA | Sample-and-Hold Amplifier |
| SHA | Staatshochbauamt |
| SHA | State Highway Agency (USA) |
| SHAPE | Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe |
| SHARAD | Shallow Radar (Mars sounding instrument) |
| SHARE | Shared Access Research Ecosystem |
| SHARE | Supporting Rescue Forcrews with Data Services and Multimodality (EU project) |
| SHARF | Simplified Hyperstable Adaptive Recursive Filter |
| SHARP | Stratospheric Change and its Role for Climate Prediction (DFG-Forschergruppe) |
| SHAVE | Shared Virtual Environment |
| SHD | Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (optische Nachrichtenübertragung/optical data transfer) |
| SHDSL | Single Pair (or: Synchronous) High Speed (or: Symmetric High Density) Digital Subscriber Line (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SHE | Spin Hall Effect |
| SHE | Superheavy Element |
| SHEDS | Super-High-Efficiency Diode Sources |
| SHEFC | Scottish Higher Education Funding Council |
| SHEFEX | Sharp Edge Flight Experiment (Raumfahrt/spacecraft) |
| SHEMIC | Sharp Edge Microgravity Capsule (Raumfahrt/spacecraft) |
| SHeQUID | Superfluid Helium Quantum Interference Device |
| SHF | Super High Frequency (3 – 30 GHz) |
| SHG | Second Harmonic Generation |
| SHiP | Search for Hidden Particles |
| SHIP | Separator for Heavy Ion Reaction Products (GSI, Darmstadt, DE) |
| SHK | Sanitär-, Heizungs- und Klimatechnik |
| SHM | Structural Health Monitoring |
| SHO | Soft Handover (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SHOP | Shell Higher Olefin Process |
| SHPM | Scanning Hall Probe Microscopy |
| SHQP | Sources for the History of Quantum Physics |
| SHRIMP | Sensitive High-Resolution Ion Microprobe |
| SHS | Solar Home System |
| SHT | Systemhaus Technik (DLR, Köln) |
| SHTML | Secure HTML (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SHV | Super High-Vision (höchstauflösendes Fernsehen/TV) |
| SHY | Synaptic Homeostasis Hypothesis |
| SI | Scintillation Index> |
| SI | Service Information |
| SI | Slowenien/Slovenia (ISO 3166) |
| SI | Speech Intelligibility |
| SI | Système International d'Unités |
| SIA | Semiconductor Industry Association |
| SIAM | Scanning Infererometric Apertureless Microscopy |
| SIAM | Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (USA) |
| SIB | Service Independent Building Block (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SIB | System Information Block |
| SiC | Siliziumkarbid |
| SIC | System Integration Center(Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SICAHF | Studies Investigating Comorbidities Aggrevating Heart Failure (heart analysis software, UK) |
| SICM | Scanning-Ion Conduction Microscopy |
| SID | Shared Information Data Model (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SID | Signal Interface Device |
| SiD | Silicon Detector (for the International Linear Collider) |
| SID | Society of Information Display |
| SIDO | Single-In, Dual-Out |
| SIF | Small Image Format (Bildcodierung/picture coding) |
| SIF | Società Italiana di Fisica |
| SIF | Solar-Induced Fluorescence |
| SIFT | Scale Invariant Feature Transform |
| SIFT | Scanning for Intensely Fluorescent Targets (Prionen-Nachweis/prion monitoring) |
| SIG | Special Interest Group |
| SIGIS | Scanning Infrared Gas Imaging System |
| SIGMA | Support for Improvement in Governance and Management (EU) |
| SIGN | Schutz von Ideen für die gewerbliche Nutzung (Programm des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie) |
| SII | Speech Intelligibility Index |
| SIL | Safety Integrity Level |
| SIL | Software-in-the-Loop |
| SiLA | Standardisation in Lab Automation |
| SILEX | Semiconductor Laser Inter-Satellite Link Experiment (1998) |
| SILEX | Separation of Isotopes by Laser Excitation |
| SILKS | Supercomputing Institute for Learning and Knowledge Systems (Albuquerque, NM, USA) |
| SILL | Strategic Illuminator Laser (US-Waffe/weapon) |
| SIM | Skalierungs-Index-Methode (nichtlineare Dynamik/nonlinear dynamics) |
| SIM | Space Interferometry Mission |
| SIM | Structured Illumination Microscopy |
| SIM | Subscriber Identification (or: Identity) Module (Mobiltelefon/mobile phone) |
| SIMBA | Silizium-Implantationsdetektor und Beta-Absorber (Kernphysik, GSI) |
| SIMBA | Superhigh Intensity Mono-Beam Amplifier Chain (KrF-Laser) |
| SIMBAD | Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis and Recognition (EU project, FP7) |
| SIMCOS | Advanced Simulation and Control of Dynamic Stall (DLR/ONERA cooperation on helicopter technology) |
| SIMD | Single Instruction, Multiple Data (Rechnerarchitektur/computer architecture) |
| SIMM | Single Inline Memory Module |
| SIMMWIC | Silicon Monolithic Millimeter Wave Integrated Circuit |
| SIMO | Single Input – Multiple Output (Regelung oder System/controller or system) |
| SIMPLE | Session Initiation Protocol for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extension (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SIMS | Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy (or: Spectrometry, or: Spectrometer) |
| SimSAC | Simulating Aircraft Stability and Control Characteristics for Use in Conceptual Design (EU project) |
| SIN | Schweizer Institut für Nuklearforschung (Paul Scherrer-Institut, Villingen, CH) |
| SINE | Short Interspersed Element (Genetik/genetics) |
| SINFONI | Spectrograph for Integral Field Observation in the Near Infrared |
| SINQ | [Schweizer Neutronenspallationsquelle] (Paul Scherrer-Institut, Villingen, CH) |
| SINP | Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (Kolkata, IN) |
| SINR | Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research |
| SINR | Signal-to-Interference Noise Ratio |
| SIO | Scripps Institution (or: Institute) of Oceanography |
| SIOC | Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry |
| SIOF | Società Italiana di Ottica e Fotonica |
| SiON | Silicon Oxynitride |
| SIOP | Single Integrated Operations Plan (USA) |
| SIOS | Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observation System (at UNIS) |
| SIP | Session Initiation Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SIP | Statistical Isolated Pass-By (road noise measurement method) |
| SiP | System-in-Packages |
| SiPEO | Modern Signal Processing Methods for the Next Generation of Earth Observation Satellite Missions |
| SIPI | Scientists' Institute for Public Information (New York) |
| SIPI | Short Interpulse Interval (hearing acoustics) |
| SiPM | Silicon-Photo-Multiplier, Silizium-Photomultiplier |
| SIPO | State Intellectual Property Office (CN) |
| SIPOC | Suppliers, Inputs, Process, Outputs, Customers |
| SIPRI | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute |
| SIPS | [Workshop on] Signal Processing Systems Design and Implementation |
| SIPS | Simply Interactive Personal Computer |
| SIR | Shuttle (or: Spaceborne) Imaging Radar (Satellit/satellite) |
| SIR | Signal-to-Interference Ratio |
| SIR | Silent Information Regulator (Molekularbiologie/molecular biology) |
| SIR | Submission Information Rate (Datennetz/data network) |
| Siri | Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface (Apple-Software) |
| SIRM | Scanning Infrared Microscopy |
| siRNA | Small Interfering Ribonucleic Acid |
| SIRP | Signalregulatorisches Protein |
| SIRTF | Space Infrared Telescope Facility (Satellit/satellite) |
| SIS | Schengen Information System (EU, Steckbrief-Liste/information on persons and objects sought by national judiciaries) |
| SIS | Schwerionen-Synchrotron (bei der/at the GSI, Darmstadt) |
| SIS | Semiconductor–Insulator–Semiconductor (solar cells) |
| SIS | Spontaneous Information System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SIS | Stateful Inspection System (Firewall) |
| SIS | Superconductor–Insulator–Superconductor (nanostructure) |
| SIS | Surface Inversion Strength (Meteorologie/meteorology) |
| SISAB | Sound Insulation and Sound Absorption |
| SISAL | Sicherheitsrelevante Systeme und Ansätze in der Luftfahrt |
| SISO | Single Input – Single Output (Regelung oder System/controller or system) |
| SISTEC | Simulations- und Softwaretechnik (DLR-Einrichtung) |
| SIT | Self-Induced Transparency |
| SIT | [Fraunhofer-] Institut für Sichere Telekommunikation (Darmstadt) |
| SIT | Sterile Insekten-Technik (FhG) |
| SIT | Structured Inventive Thinking |
| SITA | Societé Internationale de Télécommunication Aéronautique |
| SIUC | Southern Illinois University Carbondale (USA) |
| SIUE | Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (USA) |
| SIV | Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (Aids-Virus bei Affen/Aids virus of apes) |
| SIZ | Strategisches Innovationszentrum (der Bayerischen Polizei/of the Bavarian police) |
| SJ | Svalbard und Jan Mayen-Inseln/Svalbard & Jan Mayen Islands (ISO 3166) |
| SJTU | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| SK | Saskatchewan (Province of Canada) |
| SK | Sikkim (ISO 3166 bis/until 1975) |
| SK | Slowakei/Slovakia (ISO 3166) |
| SKA | Square Kilometre Array (Radioteleskop, geplant für/radio telescope, planned for 2020 in UK) |
| SKAN | SkyBridge Access Node (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SKAT | Skalierbarkeit und Risikominimierung von Technologie bei innovativem Design (DLR und Airbus, Hubschrauberentwicklung, 2014–2017) |
| SKIP | Spezies-, Kontinuitäts-, Identitäts- und Potentialitäts(argumente) (in der Diskussion über Stammzellenforschung) |
| SKM | Scanning Kelvin Microscopy |
| SKT | SkyBridge Terminal (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SKT PRO | SkyBridge Professional Terminal (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SKT RES | SkyBridge Residential Terminal (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SKZ | Süddeutsches Kunststoffzentrum |
| SL | Saarland (Bundesland/German Federal State) |
| SL | Schwere Löcher (Halbleiterphysik/semiconductor physics) |
| SL | Service Level |
| SL | Sierra Leone (ISO 3166) |
| SL | Sonoluminescence, Sonolumineszenz |
| SLA | Service Level Agreement (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SLA | Special Libraries Association |
| SLAC | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
| SLAM | Scanning Laser Acoustical Microscope |
| SLAM | Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping |
| SLB | Server Load Balancing (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SLBM | Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile |
| SLC | Stanford Linear Collider |
| SLC | Super-Light Car (EU project) |
| SLCM | Sea-Launched Cruise Missile |
| SLD | Sanfte Laser-Desorption |
| SLD | Sequential-Level Difference (auditory acoustics) |
| SLD | Supercooled Large Droplets |
| SLED | Superluminescent Light-Emitting Diode |
| SLEE | Service Logic Execution Environment (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SLF | Subscription Location Function (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SLG | Schweizerische Liga gegen den Lärm |
| SLHS | Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences |
| SLI | Single Line Injection (Faserverbund-Herstellungsverfahren/production method for fiber compounds) |
| SLIC | Subscriber Line Interface Circuit (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SLIP | Spring-Loaded Inverted Pendulum |
| SLIS | Scanning Linear Imager Sensor |
| SLM | Selective Laser Melting |
| SLM | Service Level Management (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SLM | Spatial Light Modulator |
| SLO | Scanning Laser Ophthalmoskop(ie) |
| SLP | Scanning Laser Polarimetrie (Augenheilkunde/ophthalmology) |
| SLP | Service Location Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SLR | Satelliten-Laser-Radar |
| SLR | Send(ing) Loudness Rating (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SLRI | Short-Lived Radioactive Isotope |
| SLRV | Safe Light Regional Vehicle (DLR, Stuttgart) |
| SLS | Selektives Lasersintern (3D-Drucker/3D printer) |
| SLS | Service Level Specification (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SLS | Space Launch System (NASA) |
| SLS | Swiss Light Source, Synchron-Lichtquelle Schweiz (am Paul-Scherrer-Institut) |
| SLSA | Schweizerisch-Liechtensteinische Stiftung für Archäologische Forschung im Ausland |
| SLSC | Scitation Library Service Center (AIP) |
| SLT | Statistical Learning Theory |
| SLTE | Subscriber Line Terminal Equipment (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SLU | Spoken Language Understanding (automatische Spracherkennung/automatic speech recognition) |
| SLURM | Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management |
| SM | San Marino (ISO 3166) |
| SM | Session Management (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SM | Single Mode (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| SM | Software Manager |
| SM | Software Module |
| SM | Standard Model (Elementarteilchentheorie/elementary particle theory) |
| SMA | Shape Memory Alloy [or: Actuator] |
| SMA | Sub-Millimeter Array (Mauna Kea, HI, USA) |
| SMAC | Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference |
| SMAD | Sowjetische Militäradministration in Deutschland |
| SmARPRo | Smart Assistence for Humans in Production Systems (BMBF-Projekt) |
| SMART | Selection with Markers and Advanced Reproductive Technologies (Pflanzenzüchtung) |
| SMART | Sustainable Management of Available Water Resources with Innovative Technologies (since 2007) |
| SmartLED | Smart Leading Edge Device (airfoil) |
| SMATE | Science, Math, and Technology Education |
| Smavnet | Swarming Micro Air Vehicle Network for Communication Relay |
| SMB | Server Message Block |
| SMB | Small and Medium (Size) Business (= KMU) |
| SMBH | Supermassive Black Hole (astronomy) |
| SMC | Service Management Center (Internet) |
| SMC | Sheet Moulding Compound |
| SMC | Switch Management Center (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SMD | Shaped Metal Deposition |
| SMD | Surface Mounted Device |
| SMDC | Space and Missile Defense Command (US Army) |
| SMDP | Semi-Markov Decision Process |
| SMDS | Switched Multimegabit Data Service |
| SME | Small and Medium-Size(d) Enterprise(s) (ESPRIT) [= KMU] |
| SMES | Superconductor Magnetic Energy Storage, supraleitender magnetischer Energiespeicher |
| SMEX | Small Explorer Program (USA, Raumfahrt/spacecraft) |
| SMF | Service Management Function (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SMF | Single Mode Fiber (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| SMG | Special Mobile Group (TC im/in the ETSI) |
| SMGCS | Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (Rollverkehrsführungssystem/rolling traffic guidance system) |
| SMI | Soil Moisture Index |
| SMIF | Standard Mechanical Interface |
| SMIL | Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SMILE | Scientific Simulation Environment |
| sMIM | Scanning Microwave Impedance Microscopy |
| SMIS | Stanford Molecular Imaging Scholars (Program) |
| SML | Selective Laser Melting (Pulvermetallurgie/powder metallurgy) |
| SML | Service Management Layer (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| SMLC | Serving Mobile Location Center (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SMLWEA | Self-Modulated Laser Wakefield Accelerator |
| SMM | Solar Maximum Mission (NASA) |
| SMM | Submillimeter (Infrarotastronomie/infrared astronomy) |
| smORF | Small Open Reading Frame (Genetik/genetics) |
| SMOW | Standard Mean Ocean Water |
| SMP | Service Management Point (or: Platform) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SMP | Shape Memory Polymer (or: Plastic) |
| SMP | Strategic Military Panel (USA) |
| SMP | Symmetric Multiprocessing |
| SMPAG | Space Mission Planning Advisory Group |
| SMPE | Society of Motion Picture Engineers (USA) |
| SMPLab | Straightforward Modular Prototyping Laboratory (DLR) |
| SMPP | Short Message Peer-to-Peer (Protocol) (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SMPTE | Society of Motion Picture(s) and Television Engineers (USA) |
| SMR | Small Modular Reactor |
| SMR | Surface Movement Radar |
| SMS | Service Management System (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SMS | Short Message Service (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SMS | Single Molecule Spectroscopy |
| SMS | Statistical Mode Sensor |
| SMS | Stromlo Milky Way Satellites (survey, astrophysics) [Mount Stromlo, AU] |
| SMS-C | Short Message Service Center (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SMSL | Supermassereiches Schwarzes Loch (Astrophysik) |
| SMT | Submillimeter Telescope (USA) |
| SMT | Surface Mount Technology (Platinenherstellung/printed circuits) |
| SMTA | Surface Mount Technology Association (Edina, MN, USA) |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transport (or: Transfer) Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SMU | Satellite Management Unit |
| SMU | Source Measure Unit |
| SMU | Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX, USA) |
| SN | Sachsen (Bundesland/German Federal State) |
| SN | Senegal (ISO 3166) |
| SN | Service Node (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SNA | Social Network Analysis |
| SNA | System of National Accounts (Volkswirtschaft/national economy) |
| SNAAP | Study of Noise and Aerodynamics of Advanced Propellers (EU Forschungsprogramm/research project) |
| SNAH | Spherical Near-Field Acoustic(al) Holography |
| SNAM | Scanning Nearfield Acoustical Microscopy |
| SNAP | Supernova Acceleration Probe (Astrophysik/astrophysics) |
| SNCF | Societé Nationale des Chemins de Fer (FR) |
| SNCP | Sub-Network Connection Protection (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SND | [Alcatel] Submarine Networks Division (Seekabel/transatlantic cable) |
| SNDCP | Sub-Network Dependent Convergence Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| S-NE | STM Network Element (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SNECMA | Société Nationale d'étude et de construction de moteurs d'aviation (Paris, FR) |
| SNF | Schweizerischer Nationalfonds |
| SNF | Spent Nuclear Fuel (rdioaktiver Abfall/radioactive waste) |
| SNFUH | Scanning Near-Field Ultrasound Holography |
| SNG | Satellite News Gathering |
| SNHL | Sensorineural Hearing Loss |
| SNI | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme |
| SNIA | Storage Networking Industry Association |
| SNIEC | Shanghai New International Exhibition Center (CN) |
| SNIU | Subscriber's Network Interface Unit |
| SNL | Sandia National Laboratories (USA) |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol (Internet) |
| SNMS | Secondary Neutral Mass Spectroscopy |
| SNN | Statistical Neural Networks |
| SNO | Sudbury (or: Solar) Neutrino Observatory (Sudbury, ON, CA) |
| SNOM | Scanning Nearfield Optical Microscopy (or: Microscope) |
| SNOW | Services for Nomadic Workers |
| SNP | (gesprochen: "Snip") Single Nucleotide Polymorphism |
| SNR | Signal-to-Noise Ratio |
| SNR | Supernova Remnant (astrophysics) |
| SNS | Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, IT) |
| SNS | Social Network(ing) Services |
| SNS | Spallation Neutron Source (ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, USA, eröffnet/completed 2006) |
| SNS | Superconductor–Normal Metal–Superconductor (Nanostructure) |
| SNSM | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA) |
| SNU | Seoul National University (Korea) |
| SNU | Solar Neutrino Unit (1 SNU = 1 Einfang pro (1036 Targetatome·sec)/1 capture per (1036 targetatoms·sec)) |
| SNV | Studiengesellschaft Nahverkehr Berlin |
| SO | Somalia (ISO 3166) |
| SOA | Safe Operating Area |
| SOA | Scottish Optoelectronics Association |
| SOA | Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (optische Telekommunikation/optical telecommunication) |
| SOA | Service(s)-Oriented Architecture (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SOAE | Spontaneous Otoacoustic Emission, spontane otoakustische Emission |
| SOAP | Service Oriented Architecture Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SOAR | Southern Observatory for Astronomical Research |
| SOARS-B | Study of Oxytocin in Autism to Improve Reciprocal Social Behaviors |
| SOBER | Sonic Boom European Research |
| SOBIC | [Fraunhofer-] Solar Building Innovation Center (Freiburg i.B., DE) |
| SOBRAC | Sociedade Brasileria de Acústica |
| SOC | Security Operations Center (Datensicherheit/data security) |
| SOC | Self-Organized Criticality |
| SOC | Science Observation Center (XMM) |
| SOC | Science Operations Center (NASA) |
| SOC | Server-On-Chip (cmputer card) |
| SOC | Spin-Orbit Coupling |
| SOC | State of Charge (Batterieüberwachung/battery control) |
| SoC | System on a Chip (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SOCAP | Smart Optical Correlator Auxiliary Processor |
| SOCCOM | Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling Project (since 2014) |
| SOCK | Science Outreach Catalyst Kit (AIP, Ausbildungsprogramm/education program) |
| SOCS | Second-Order Cyclostationary Statistics |
| SODAR | Sonic Detection and Ranging |
| SOE | Sequence of Events |
| SOE | Standard Operating Environment |
| SOEH | School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene (Vancouver, CA) |
| SOEP | Sozio-oekonomisches Panel |
| SOFAR | Sound Fixing and Ranging (Schall-Leitungskanal im Ozean/sound transmission channel in the ocean) |
| SOFC | Solid Oxide Fuel Cell; Solid Electrolyte Oxygen Fuel Cell (Hochtemperaturbrennstoffzelle/high-temperature fuel cell) |
| SOFDMA | Scalable Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SOFE | Simulated Open Field Environment (acoustics) |
| SOFENA | Sofia Energy Agency (BG) |
| SOFI | Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut (Göttingen) |
| SOFI | Superresolution Optical Fluctuation Imaging |
| SOFIA | Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (NASA/DLR, seit/since 2006) |
| SOFIE | Spectroscopy Using Optical Fibres in the Marine Environment (EU Project) |
| S of R (SoR) | Society of Rheology (USA) |
| SOG | Spin-On Glass (silicate coating of electronic components) |
| SOH | Section Overhead (Telekommunikation/telecommunication) |
| SOH | State of Health (Batterieüberwachung/battery control) |
| SOHO | Small Office, Home Office (Internet) |
| SOHO | Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (Satellit/satellite, seit/since 1996) |
| SOI | Silicon on Insulator (Photonik/photonics) |
| SOI | Solar Oscillations Investigation (an Bord von/aboard SOHO) |
| SOIF | Standard Object Interchange Format (für Datenaustausch/for data exchange, Internet) |
| SOIL | Soil Data and Information Systems Action |
| SoL | Safety of Life (Satellitentechnik/satellite technology) |
| SOL | Senioren Online |
| SOL | Sustainable Organization Library |
| SolACES | Solar Autocalibrating EUV/UV Spectrophotometer |
| SOLAM | Solares Schmelzen von Aluminium in einem direkt bestrahlten Drehrohrofen |
| SOLAS | International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea |
| Solasys | Next Generation Solar Cell and Module Laser Processing System (EU project) |
| SOLEMI | Solar Energy Mining (DLR) |
| SOLIS | Synoptic Optical Long-Term Investigations of the Sun (USA) |
| SOM | Scanning Optical Microscope |
| SOMAREM | Societé Marocaine de Recherches et d'Exploitations Minières |
| SOMED | Societ |