Glossary
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Abbreviation
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Description
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ACATS
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Advisors Committee on Advanced Television Service
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ACC
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Adaptive Cruise Control
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AFC
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Automatic Frequency Control
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AIMO
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Advanced Inverted Mode
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AINiCo
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Magnetic material - Aluminium/Nickel/Cobalt
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AO
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Adaptive Optics
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ASi
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Amorphous Silicon
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BITE
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Built-In Test Equipment
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BST
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Barium Strontium Titanate
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Be
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Magnetic Field
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CCD
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Charge Coupled Device
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CCTWT
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Coupled-Cavity Travelling Wave Tube
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CHRIS
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Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
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CNC
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Computer Numeric Control
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COROT
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Convection and Rotation
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CRT
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Cathode Ray Tube
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CW
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Continuous Wave
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DBS
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Direct Broadcast by Satellite
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DC
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Direct Current
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DCIXS
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Demonstration Compact Imaging X-Ray Spectrometer
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DSNG
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Digital Satellite News Gathering
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ECCM
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Electric Counter Counter Measures
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ECM
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Electronic Counter Measures
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ECU
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Entry Control Unit
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EDM
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Electro-discharge Machining
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EEV
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English Electric Valve Ltd
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EFI
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Exploding Foil Initiations
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EIS
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Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer
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EMP
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Electric Magnetic Pulse
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EPIC
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European Photos Imaging Camera
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EPSRC
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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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ESA
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European Space Agency
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ESAU
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Electronic Safety and Arming Units
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ESC
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Energy Saving Collector
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ESCIOT
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Energy Saving Collector Inductive Output Tube
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EW
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Early Warning
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Ef
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Electric Field
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GEC
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General Electric Company
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GOMOS
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Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars
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GaN
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Gallium Nitride
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HEP
|
High Energy Physics
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HV
|
High Voltage
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IMO
|
Inverted Mode
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IOT
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Inductive Output Tubes
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LCD
|
Liquid Crystal Display
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LEL
|
Lower Explosive Limit
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LNA
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Low-Noise Amplifiers
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LWIR
|
Long Wavelength Infra Red
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MDF
|
Medium Density Fibreboard
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MEA
|
Microwave Endometrial Ablation
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MEDL
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Marconi Electronic Devices Limited
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MERIS
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MEdium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
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MOSFET
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Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
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MPP
|
Multi Phase Pinned
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MRI
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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NASA
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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NATO
|
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
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NDIR
|
Non-Dispersive Infrared
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NFTI
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Naval Firefighters Thermal Imager
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OEM
|
Original Equipment Manufacturer
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OM
|
Optical Monitor
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OMI
|
Ozone Monitoring Instrument
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OMPS
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Ozone Monitoring and Profiling Suite
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PCB
|
Printed Circuit Board
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PFN
|
Pulse Forming Network
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PROBA
|
Project On Board Autonomy
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PRUN
|
Photo Response Non-Uniformity
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QE
|
Quantum Efficiencies
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RDSU
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Radio Distress Signalling Unit
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REDS
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Radio Evacuation Distress System
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RF
|
Radio Frequency
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RGS
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Reflection Grating Spectrometer
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RRV
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Rate of Rise of Voltage
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RWR
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Radar Warning Receiver
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SA
|
Societe Anonyme
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SAS
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Societe par Actions Simplifiee (An SAS is a simplified SA. It is a form of company which is more appropriate to a sales office/subsidiary requiring less statuatory formalities)
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SCBA
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Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus
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SMEI
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Solar Mass Ejection Imager
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SNG
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Satellite News Gathering
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SOT
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Solar Optical Telescope
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STEREO
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Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory
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SW
|
Short Wave
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SXI
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Solar X-Ray Imager
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TE
|
Thermo Electric
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TIC
|
Thermal Imaging Camera
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TR
|
Transmit/receive
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TWT
|
Travelling Wave Tube
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TWTA
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Travelling Wave Tube Amplifiers
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UHF
|
Ultra High Frequency
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USB
|
Universal Serial Bus
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UV
|
Ultra Violet
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VCO
|
Voltage Controlled Oscillators
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VOx
|
Vanadium Oxide
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VI
|
Volts/AMP
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WFC3
|
Wide Field Camera 3
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XRT
|
X-Ray Telescope
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db
|
decibel
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di/at
|
rate of change of current
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mm-wave
|
millimeter wave
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ns
|
nano second
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µ
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MICRO or PERMEABILITY
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é
|
electron
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