The Wassenaar Arrangement - Dual-Use and Munitions Lists - July 1996


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ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
USED IN THESE LISTS

An acronym or abbreviation, when used as a defined term, will be found in 'Definitions of Terms used in this List'.

ACRONYM OR
ABBREVIATION

MEANING

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ABEC Annular Bearing Engineers Committee
AGMA American Gear Manufacturers' Association
AHRS attitude and heading reference systems
ALU arithmetic logic unit
ATC air traffic control
C3I command, communications, control & intelligence
CAD computer-aided-design
CDU control and display unit
CEP circular error probable
CNTD controlled nucleation thermal deposition
CVD chemical vapour deposition
CW chemical warfare
CW (for lasers) continuous wave
DEW directed energy weapon systems
DME distance measuring equipment
DS directionally solidified
EB-PVD electron beam physical vapour deposition
ECM electro-chemical machining
ECR electron cyclotron resonance
EDM electrical discharge machines
EEPROMS electrically erasable programmable read only memory
EIA Electronic Industries Association
EMC electromagnetic compatibility
EMCDB elastomer modified cast double based propellants
FFT Fast Fourier Transform
GLONASS global navigation satellite system
GPS global positioning system
HBT hetero-bipolar transistors
HDDR high density digital recording
HEMT high electron mobility transistors
ICAO International Civil Aviation Organisation
IFOV instantaneous-field-of-view
ILS instrument landing system
IRIG inter-range instrumentation group
ISAR inverse synthetic aperture radar
ISO International Organization for Standardization
ITU International Telecommunication Union
JIS Japanese Industrial Standard
JT Joule-Thomson
LIDAR light detection and ranging
LRU line replaceable unit


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ACRONYM OR
ABBREVIATION

MEANING

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MAC message authentication code
Mach ratio of speed of an object to speed of sound (after Ernst Mach)
MLS microwave landing systems
MOCVD metal organic chemical vapour deposition
MRI magnetic resonance imaging
MTBF mean-time-between-failures
Mtops million theoretical operations per second
MTTF mean-time-to-failure
NBC Nuclear, Biological and Chemical
NDT non-destructive test
PAR precision approach radar
PIN personal identification number
ppm parts per million
PSD power spectral density
QAM quadrature-amplitude-modulation
RF radio frequency
RPV remotely piloted air vehicles
SACMA Suppliers of Advanced Composite Materials Association
SAR synthetic aperture radar
SC single crystal
SLAR sidelooking airborne radar
SRA shop replaceable assembly
SRAM static random access memory
SRM SACMA Recommended Methods
SSB single sideband
SSR secondary surveillance radar
TCSEC trusted computer system evaluation criteria
TIR total indicated reading
UV ultraviolet
UTS ultimate tensile strength
VOR very high frequency omni-directional range
YAG yttrium/aluminum garnet


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