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B
B or b Electrical Susceptance
Bar or bar Pressure in atmospheres.
BASEEFA British Approvals Service for Electrical Equipment in
Flammable Atmospheres
BBM Break before Make
BCD Binary Coded Decimal
BCR Backspace card reader and Barcode reader
BER Bit Error Rate
BEV Billion Electron Volts
BGA Ball Grid Array
BIL Breakdown insulation level
BJT Bipolar Junction Transistor
BLAC Brushless AC
BLDC Brushless DC
BLDM Brushless DC Motor
BOM Bill Of Materials
BPF Band Pass Filter
bps Bit per second
Bps Byte per second
BSI, BS, CP British Standards Institution, or its publications
BTS Base Transceiver Station
BTU British thermal unit
BW Bandwidth, (difference between upper and lower limits
of a band of frequencies)
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d Day.
DAC Digital to Analog Converter
db(A) Measurement unit of sound, Decibels, absolute.
dBm Unit level for power ratio expressed in decibels (dB)
with reference to one mill watt (mW)
DB Distribution Board
DC Direct Current or Voltage
DCDB Direct Current Distribution Board
DCS Distributed Control System
DE Drive End of a shaft
DEMUX Demultiplexer, Single input into multiple outputs
DFT Discrete Fourier Transform
DIA Diameter
DIMM Dual-In-line Memory Module
DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung means German
Institute for Standardization
DIP Dual-in-Line Package
DIPS Dual-In-Line Sockets
DLD Digital Logic Design
DLL Delay Locked Loop
DMA Direct Memory Access
DMM Digital Multimeter
DMS Data management system
DMT Definite minimum time
DNC Do Not Connect
DO fuse Drop Out Fuse
DOL Direct-on-line starting of induction motors.
DOS Disk Operating System
DP Double Pole or Distribution Panel
DPDT Double Pole, Double Throw
DPI Dots Per Inch
DPIC Double Pole Iron Clad
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h or hr Hour.
HART Highway Addressable Remote Transducer
HBT Heterojunction bipolar transistor
HCL Hydrogen chloride, gas or acid
HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface
HED Hall Effect Device
HEMT High-electron-mobility transistor
HF High frequency
hFE Large-signal current gain of a BJT
HMI Human Machine Interface
HOA Hand-Off-Automatic Switch
HOFR Heat and oil resisting, flame retardant.
Hp Horse power, unit of power in fps system
HPF High Pass Filter
HRC High rupturing capacity
HT High Tension
HTS High-temperature semiconductor
HUI Human User Interface
HV High voltage, above 600 volts
HVAC Heating ventilation and air conditioning
Hz Frequency in cycles per second, or hertz
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J
J Energy in joules or newton-meters
J Current density, amps/mm2
JB Junction Box
JFET Junction field effect transistor
JEDEC Joint Electron Device Engineering Council
K
kA Kilo-amperes
KCL Kirchhoff’s Current Law
KCMIL Thousand Circular Mils
KEMA Short circuit testing authority in The Netherlands
kg Kilogram.
km Length in kilometers
kpm Kilometers per hour.
kV, Ku Kilo-volts.
kVA Kilo-volt-amperes.
kVAr Reactive kilo-volt-amperes.
KVL Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law
kW Kilowatts.
KWH Kilo Watt Hour
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N
N or n Number of items e.g. generators installed
N or n Number of turns in a winding
N or n Neutral terminal or line Neutral
NACE National Association of Corrosion Engineers (USA)
NBR Nitrile butadiene rubber
NC, N/C Normally closed switching device, No Connection
NCT Neutral Current Transformer
NDE Non-drive end of a shaft.
NEC National Electric Code (USA)
NEMA The National Electrical Manufacturer’s Association
(USA)
NER Neutral earth resistor.
NFPA National Fire Protection Association (USA)
Ni Nickel metal
NL Neutral Link, Night Light
NO, N/O Normally open switching device
NOx Nitrogen based gas emissions.
NPR Noise-power ratio
NPT National pipe threads (USA).
NRZ Non Return to Zero
NS Used to describe a type of variable speed AC motor
NTC Negative Temperature Coefficient
NTS Not to scale
NVM Non Volatile Memory
O
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Q
Q Reactive power, volt-amperes-reactive, Charge
QA Quality assurance
QAM Quadrature amplitude modulation
QC Quality control
QFP Quad Flat Package
QTY Quantity
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U
U Voltage, also used for energy
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver and Transmitter
UC, U/C Undercurrent
UCP Unit control panel
UDS Uniform Drawing System
UEL Upper explosive limit
UF, U/F Under frequency
UG Under Ground
UHF Ultra high frequency
UI, U/I Undercurrent
UJT Unijunction Transistor
UL, U/L Under load
UL Underwriters Laboratory (USA)
UVLO Under voltage lockout
UNO Unless noted otherwise
UPS Uninterruptible power supply unit
USART Universal Synchronous and Asynchronous Receiver
and Transmitter
USB Universal Serial Bus
UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair
UV, U/V Under voltage
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W
W or P Active power, watts
w or ω Frequency in radians per second.
wdg. Winding of a machine or transformer
WH Water Heater
WHRU Waste heat recovery unit
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
WP Weather Proof
WRIM Wound Rotor Induction Motor
WRSM Wound Rotor Synchronous Motor
WSN Wireless Sensor Network
X
X Electrical reactance
XFMR Transformer
XLPA Cross-linked polyalkene
XLPE Cross-linked polyethylene
XO Crystal Oscillator
Y
Y Electrical admittance (Also used for Star Connection)
y Year
Z
Z Electrical impedance
ZH Zero halogen, as used for cables
ZVC Zero voltage crossing
ZVS Zero voltage switching
Numerical
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