Acronyms
2D | two dimensional |
3D | three dimensional |
4D | four dimensional |
AAPM | American Association of Physicists in Medicine |
API | American Petroleum Institute |
APS | American Physical Society |
ASME | American Society for Mechanical Engineering |
ASTM | ASTM International, formerly the American Society for Testing and Materials |
AVS | American Vacuum Society |
BBM | Biophysical and Biomedical Measurement Group |
BIPM | Bureau International des Poids et Mesures |
CAVS | cold-atom vacuum standard |
CDC | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
CEESI | Colorado Engineering Experiment Station, Inc. |
CMM | coordinate measuring machine |
CODATA | Committee on Data for Science and Technology |
COVID-19 | Coronavirus disease 2019 |
CRADA | cooperative research and development agreement |
DoD | Department of Defense |
DOE | Department of Energy |
EPR | electron paramagnetic resonance |
EUV | extreme ultraviolet |
GPU | graphics processing unit |
GUV | germicidal ultraviolet |
IDEA | Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Alliance |
JAWS | Josephson-junction based arbitrary waveform synthesizer |
JQI | Joint Quantum Institute |
LCT | Laser Cooling and Trapping Group |
MDA | Missile Defense Agency |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NCNR | NIST Center for Neutron Research |
nEDM | neutron electric dipole moment |
NeXT | neutron/X-ray tomography |
NFM | Nanostructure Fabrication and Measurement Group |
NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
NMI | national measurement institute |
NOAC | NIST-on-a-chip |
NRC | National Research Council (of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) |
NRCP | National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements |
NSF | National Science Foundation |
PEEM | photoemission electron microscopy |
PhAND | photon-assisted neutron detector |
PI | principal investigator |
PML | Physical Measurement Laboratory |
PROSPECT | Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum experiment |
QED-C | Quantum Economic Development Consortium |
QHR | Quantum Hall Resistance Standard |
QuICS | Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science |
RF | radiofrequency |
SI | International System of Units |
SIRCUS | spectral irradiance and radiance responsivity calibration with uniform sources |
SPIE | International Society for Optics and Photonics |
SRI | Standard Reference Instrument |
SSD | Sensor Science Division |
STEM | science, technology, engineering, and mathematics |
STM | scanning tunneling microscopy |
SURF III | Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility |
TLS | two-level system |
UV | ultraviolet |