Desert Electric Supply
Popular Acronyms
from NEMA.org

ASHTO = American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials

ABINEE = Brazilian Electrical and Electronic Industry Association

ABNT = Brazilian Association of Technical Standards

AC = Alternating current

ADSL = Asymmetric digital subscriber line

AENOR = Spanish National Committee of the IEC

AES = Audio Engineering Society

AHAM = Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers

AHG = Ad hoc group

AIE = International Association of Electrical Contractors

AIMD = Active implementable medical devices

AIS = Air insulated substation

ANCE = The Mexican standard writing, testing and certifying agency for the electrical sector.

ANSI = American National Standards Institute

ANWR = Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

AOPDDR = Active opto-electronic protective device responsive to diffuse reflection

APEC = Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

ARI = Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute

ASC = Accredited Standards Committee

ASIC = (programmable) Application specific IC (semi-custom IC)

ASQ = American Society for Quality

ASTM = American Society for Testing and Materials

AWG = American wire gauge

AWS = American Welding Society

BIAP = International Office for Audiophonology

BIPM = International Bureau of Weights and Measures

BoG = Board of Governors

BR = Radiocommunication Bureau

CANAME = Mexican National Chamber of Commerce

CANENA = The Council for Harmonization of Electrotechnical Standards of the Nations of the Americas

CASC = Conformity & Assessment Subcommittee

CD = Committee Draft

CDA = Copper Development Association

CDV = Committee Draft for Vote

CEC = Commission of the European Communities

CECC = CENELEC Electronic Components Committee

CEN = European Committee for Standardization

CENELEC = The European body that sets electrical standards

CEPT = European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations

CIB = International Council for Building Research Studies and Documentation

CIE = International Commission on Illumination

CIGRE = International Conference on Large High Voltage Electric Systems

CIRED = International Conference on Electricity Distribution

CIRM = International Maritime Radio Association

CLC = CENELEC = European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization

COBEI = Committee of Brazilian Electricity Industry

COPANT = Pan American Commission on Technical Standards

CPSC = U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

CSA = Canadian Standards Association

CTI = Comparative tracking index

CTL = Committee of testing laboratories of the IEC system

CWDM = Coarse wave division multiplexing

C&S = Codes and Standards Committee

DC = Direct current

DICOM = Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine

DTS = Draft of Technical Specification

DWDM = Dense wavelength division multiplexing

EBU = European Broadcasting Union

ECMA = European Computer Manufacturers Association

EDA = Electronic Design Automation

EFET = European Federation of Energy Traders

EFOMP = European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics

EHIMA = European Hearing Instrument Manufacturers Association

EHV = Extra high voltage

EIA = Electronic Industries Association

EICTA = European Information and Communications Technology Industry Association

ELSECOM = European Electrotechnical Standards Committee

EMC = Electromagnetic compatibility

EMI = Electromagnetic interference

EPDM = Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer

EPRI = Electric Power Research Institute

ESD = Electrostatic discharge

ETSI = European Telecommunications Standards Institute

ETSO = European Transmission Systems Operators

EURELECTRIC = The Union of the Electricity Industry

FDIS =Final Draft International Standard

FHWA = Federal Highway Administration

FID = International Federation for Information and Documentation

FIESP = Federation of Industries of the State of Sao Paulo

FTAA = Free Trade Agreement of the Americas

GIS = Gas insulated substation

HIA = Hearing Industries Association

HIMA = Health Industry Manufacturers Association

HPS = Health Physics Society

HTML = Hypertext markup language

HV = High voltage

IAAC = Inter-American Accreditation Council

IAEA = International Atomic Energy Agency/Authority

IAEI = International Association of Electrical Inspectors IARU = International Amateur Radio Union

IARU = International Amateur Radio Union

ICAO = International Civil Aviation Organization

ICNIRP = International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection

ICRP = International Commission on Radiological Protection

ICRU = International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements

IEC = International Electrotechnical Commission

IEEE = Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IEEE-SPDC = Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-Surge Protective Devices Committee

IEEJ = The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan

IIW = International Institute of Welding

IK codes = Degrees of protection provided by enclosures for electrical equipment against external mechanical impacts.

ILO = International Labour Office

INMETRO = The National System of Metrology, Standardization, and Industrial Quality

IOCU = International Organization of Consumers Unions

IPC = Institute for Interconnecting and Packaging of Electronic Circuits

IRPA = International Radiation Protection Association

IRSC = International and Regional Standardization Committee

ISO = International Organization for Standardization

ISO/CASCO = Committee on Conformity Assessment

ISSA = International Social Security Association

ITU = International Telecommunication Union

ITU-R = International Telecommunication Union - Radiocommunications

ITU-T = International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication

IUPAP = International Union of Pure and Applied Physics

JEDEC =Joint Electronic Device Engineering Council

JEITA = Japan Electronics and information Technology Industries Association

JPCA = Japanese Printed Circuit boards Association

JTF = Joint Task Force

JWES = Japan Welding Engineering Society

KCMIL = KCMIL wire size is the equivalent cross sectional area in thousands of circular mills. A circular mill is the are of a circle with a diameter of one thousandth (0.001) of an inch.

LAG = Advisory Group on Legal Aspects (TC 56)

LED = Light emitting diodes

MCM = Multi-chip module

MDMA = Medical Device Manufacturers Association

MERCOSUR = The Southern Common Market

MQSA = Mammography Quality Standards Act

MSDS = Material Safety Data Sheet

NACFAM = National Coalition for Advanced Manufacturing

NAESB = North American Energy Standards Board

NCRP = National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements

NECA = Nippon Electrical Control Association

NEMA = National Electrical Manufacturers Association

NERC = North American Electric Reliability Council

NOM = Norma Official Mexicana

NTCIP = National Transportation Communications for ITS Protocol

OEM = Original equipment manufacturer

OIDDI = Open Interoperable Domain Dictionary Initiative

OIML = International Organization for Legal Metrology

ORGALIME = Liaison group of the European mechanical, electrical, electronic and metalworking industries

PASC = Pacific Area Standards Congress

PCB = Polychlorinated biphenyls; or Printed circuit board

PELV = Protective extra low voltage

PLIB = Parts Libraries

QSAR = Quality System Assessment Recognition

RCD = Residual current device

RF = Radio frequency

RIV = Radio interference voltage

ROHS = Restriction on Hazardous Substances

SAB = Science Advisory Board

SAG = Strategic Advisory Group (TC 56)

SCAPC = Standards and Conformity Assessment Policy Committee

SELV = Safety extra-low voltage

SF6 = Sulphur hexafluoride

SGFS = Special Group on Functional Standardization

Si2 = Silicon Integration Initiative

SMPTE = Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

SPD = Surge Protective Device

STP = Standards Technical Panel

TAG = Technical Advisory Group

TEM = Transverse electromagnetic (mode)

TS = Technical Specification

UCIEE = Uniao Certificadora da Industria Electro-Electronica

UCPTE = Union for the Coordination of the Production and Transport of Electric Power

UIC = International Union of Railways

UIE = International Union for Electroheat

UITP = International Union of Public Transports

UL = Underwriters Laboratories Inc.

USNC = U.S. National Committee

VRLA = Valve regulated lead-acid (battery or cell)

WDM = Wavelength division multiplexing

WEEE = Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment

WHO = World Health Organization

WT =  Wind turbine