A Shortlist Of Common Engineering Abbreviations:

A
AC Alternating Current
AF Audio Frequency
AMLCD Active-Matrix Liquid Crystal Display
APSU Alarm Power Supply Unit

B
B2B Business to Business
BEng Bachelor Of Engineering
BIOS Basic Input Output System
BSc Bachelor of Science
BU Business Unit

C
CAD Computer Aided Design
CADMID Concept Assessment Development Manufacturing In-Service Disposal
CCTV Closed Circuit Television
CD Compact Disk
CIP Continuous Improvement Processes
CNC Computer Numerical Control
CPU Central Processing Unit
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CSO Country Sales Organisation

D
DAB Digital Audio Broadcasting
DACs Digital-to-Analog Converters
DC Direct Current
DFM Design for Manufacture
DLL Dynamic Link Library
DLP Digital Light Processing
DOS Disk Operating System
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
DSP Digital Signal Processor
DVB Digital Video Broadcasting
DVD Digital Versatile Disk

E
EDM Electronic Distance Measurement
ERP Enterprise Resource P1anning

F
FAT File Allocation Table
FCAW Flux-Cored Arc Welding
FEA Finite Element Analysis
FEM Finite Element Method
FET Field Effect Transistor
FMEA Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array
FTA Factor Tree Analysis

G
GB Gigabyte
GDT Gas Discharge Tube
GMAW Gas Metal Arc Welding
GNVQ General National Vocational Qualification
GPS Global Positioning System
GTAW Gas Tungsten Arc Welding

H
HD High Definition
HDPE High-Density PolyEthylene
HNC Higher National Certificate
HND Higher National Diploma
HPFS High Performance File System
HTML HyperText Markup Language

I
IC Integrated Circuit
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IET Institution of Engineering and Technology
IFS International Financial Standards
IGBT Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor
ILS Intergrated Logistic Support
IS Information System
IT Information Technology

J
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group

K

L
LAN Local Area Network
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
LDPE Low-Density PolyEthylene
LDR Light Dependent Resistor
LED Light Emmiting Diode
LSA Logistics Support Analysis
LVDT Linear Variable Differential Transformer

M
MB Megabyte
MEMS Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems
MEng Master of Engineering
MMA Manual Metal Arc-welding
MOSFET Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group
MSc Master of Science

N
NTFS New Technology File System
NVQ National Vocational Qualification

O
OCR Optical Character Recognition
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OJEU Official Journal of European Union
OSTA Optical Storage Technology Association

P
PCB Printed Circuit Board
PCC Portland Cement Concrete
PDF Portable Document Format
PDP Plasma Display Panel
PFI Private Finance Initiative
PLC Programmable Logic Control
PQQ Pre-Qualification Questionnaire
PRD Product Range Development
PRM Product Review Meeting
PSU Power Supply Unit
PVC PolyVinylChlorides

Q
QFD Quality Function Deployment

R
RAD Rapid Application Development
RF Radio Frequency
RFI Request For Information
RFP Request For Proposal
RFQ Request For Quotation
ROM Read Only Memory

S
SATA Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
SAW Submerged Arc Welding
SCP Short Circuit Protection
SCR Silicon Controlled Rectifier
SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SLA Service Level Agreement
SMAW Shielded Metal Arc Welding
SOP Start Of Production
SPC Statistical Process Control
SRAM Static Random Access Memory
SVGA Super Video Graphics Array

T
TCP Transmisison Control Protocol
TIF Tagged Image File
TPO Transmitter Power Output
TFT Thin Film Transistor

U
UDF Universal Disk Format
UDO Ultra Density Optical
UHF Ultra High Frequency
UPS Uninterruptable Power Supply
USB Universal Serial Bus

V
VBA Visual Basic for Applications
VC Variable Capacitor
VDU Visual Display Unit
VFD Vacuum Fluorescent Display
VGA Video Graphics Array
VHF Very High Frequency
VLSI Very Large Scale Integration
VMM Virtual Machine Manager
VR Variable Resistor

W
WAN Wide Area Network
WMF Windows Meta File

X
XML eXtensible Markup Language

Y
YAG Yttrium Aluminum Garnet
YIG Yttrium Iron Garnet

Z
ZBT Zero-Bus Turnaround
ZCS Zero Current Switching
ZIF Zero Insertion Force

If you would like to add an abbreviation please click here.

Home

Press To Print This Page