DO NOT USE! - see MHESA
| MEV | Mega Electron Volts
|
| MFA | Major Facilities Access grant (NSERC) - or - Multi-Factor Authentication
|
| MG | Motor - Generator set (e.g. engine & generator, frequency converter) - or - MaGnets (TRIUMF Central Control System: subsystem designator)
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| MGC-20 | Compact Cyclotron (Debreen, Hungary)
|
| MH | Meson Hall (TRIUMF) - or - Metal Halide (lamp)
|
| MHC | Meson Hall Coordinator (TRIUMF)
|
| MHE | Meson Hall Extension (TRIUMF)
|
| MHESA | Meson Hall Extension Service Annex (TRIUMF)
|
| MHGHS | Meson Hall Gas Handling System (TRIUMF)
|
| MHESAGHS | Meson Hall Extension Service Annex Gas Handling System
|
| MH-LCW | Meson Hall Low Conductivity Water (TRIUMF)
|
| MHV | Minature High Voltage connector
|
| MIC | Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion
|
| MIDAS | Maximum Integrated Data Acquisition System
|
| MIG | Metallic Inert Gas - or - Major Installation Grant (NSERC)
|
| MINA | Montreal Iodide of Sodium (Na) [crystal] "Na" from the Latin Natrium
|
| MINOS | Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (FNL)
|
| MIPS | Millions of Instructions Per Second
|
| MIRASPI | Multiple Input Range with Setpoint Indicator
|
| MIRF | Medical Industrial Radiation Facility (Gaithersberg, USA)
|
| MIS | Management Information Systems
|
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston, USA)
|
| MIT-BATES | MIT Linear Accelerator Lab (Boston, USA)
|
| MM | Main Magnet - or - Month (numerically)
|
| MMC | Multi Media Card
|
| MMS | Materials and Molecular Science
|
| MMS-EEC | Materials and Molecular Science Experiments Evaluation Committee
|
| MNT | MicroNano Technology (also see ACAMP)
|
| MOB | Main Office Building (TRIUMF)
|
| MOC | Multiple Output Converter
|
| MODEM | Modulator-Demodulator
|
| MOS | Metal-oxide Semiconductor
|
| MOSFET | Metal-oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
|
| MOT | Magneto Optical Trap
|
| MOU | Memorandum Of Understanding
|
| MOV | Metal Oxide Varistor - or - MOVie (Quicktime movie format)
|
| MP | Mechanical Pump (vacuum) - or - Machine Protect (interlock)- or - Melting Point
|
| MP3 | MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III digital format. Designed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)
|
| MPD | Machine Protection Device
|
| MPEG | Moving Pictures Experts Group (format standards) [MPEG-1, MP3, MPEG-2, MPEG-4]
|
| MPET | Measurement PEnning Trap
|
| MPETBL | Measurement PEnning Trap Beam Line
|
| MPI | Max Planck Institute (Stuttgart, Germany)
|
| MPM | Multi-Port Memory
|
| MPS | Magnet Power Supply - or - Machine Protection System
|
| MRASTR | Magnet RASTeR
|
| MRC | Medical Research Council (London, UK)
|
| MRI | Magnetic Resonance Imaging
|
| MRO | Maintenance Repair and Operation
|
| MRS | Medium Resolution Spectrometer
|
| MS | Military Specification - or - Machine Shop - or - Manual Station (Pull station, fire alarm system)
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| | - or - MiscellaneouS (TRIUMF Central Control System: subsystem designator)
|
| MS DOS | MicroSoft Disk Operating System
|
| MSA | Medical Services Association (B.C.)
|
| MSDS | Material Safety Data Sheet
|
| MSGR | MeSsaGe Reader (TRIUMF)
|
| MSI | MusculoSkeletal Injury
|
| MSP | Mass Seperator Pit - or - Medical Services Plan
|
| MSR | Mass Seperator Room - or - Mark to Space Ratio
|
| MSRV | Mechanical SeRVices (TRIUMF)
|
| MSU | Michigan State University (East Lansing, USA)
|
| MTBF | Mean Time Between Failure
|
| MTR | Motor
|
| MTS | Michigan Terminal System
|
| MTV | Mott polarimetry for T-Violation
|
| MUX | Multiplexer
|
| MV | Manual Valve
|
| MVM | Mechanical Ventilator Milano (Milano Ventilatore Meccanico)
|
| MW | Mega Watt or Micro Wave
|
| MWC | Multi Wire Chamber
|
| MWDC | Multi Wire Drift Chamber
|
| MWIC | Multi Wire Ionization Chamber
|
| MWPC | Multi Wire Proportional Chamber
|
| MWPIC | Multi Wire Proportional Ionization Chamber
|
| MWCD | Multi Wire Chamber Drift
|
| MWCI | Multi Wire Chamber Ionization
|
| MWCP | Multi Wire Chamber Proportional
|
| MWCPI | Multi Wire Chamber Proportional Ionization
|
| MWS | MicroWave Source
|
| MYRRHA | Multi-purpose hYbrid Research Reactor for High-tech Applications (Mol, Belgium)
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| N | North
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| NA, N/A | Not Available / Applicable
|
| NAC | National Accelerator Center (Johannesburg, South Africa)
|
| NACW | Non-Active Cooling Water
|
| NALCW | Non-Active Low-Conductivity Water
|
| NAG | Numerical Algorithms Group (INC)
|
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA)
|
| NBIF | Neutral Beam Irradiation Facility (TRIUMF)
|
| NCC | Network Command Centre (TRIUMF Fire Alarm System)
|
| NCD | Neutral Current Detector (SNO)
|
| NCE | Networks of Centres of Excellence of Canada (also see: AAPS and (FR.) RCE)
|
| NCP | Network Control Program - or - Network Command Protocol
|
| NCR | Non-Conformance Report (or Reporting system)
|
| NDT | Non Destructive Testing - or - No Down Time
|
| NEC | National Electrostatics Corporation - or - Nippon Electric Company
|
| NEG | NEGative
|
| NEMA | National Electrical Manufacturers Association (standards)
|
| NERL | Nuclear Engineering Research Laboratory (Tokyo, Japan)
|
| NETDZ | Nanjing Economic and Technological Development Zone (Nanjing, China)
|
| NEW | Nuclear Energy Worker
|
| NFPA | National Fire Protection Association
|
| NHC | North Hot Cell (TRIUMF-ISAC1)
|
| NI | Network Interconnect
|
| NIC | Network Interface Controller (or Card)
|
| NIF | Neutron Irradiation Facility (TRIUMF) - or - National Ignition Facility (at LLNL)
|
| NIKHEF | National Institute for Nuclear and High Energy Physics (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
|
| NIM | Non-Intercepting Monitor - or - Nuclear Instrument Module
|
| NIRS | National Institute for Radiological Sciences (Chiba-shi, Japan)
|
| NIS | Nier Spectrometer
|
| NISP | Non-reactor-based Isotope Supply contribution Program
|
| NIST | National Institute for Standards and Technology (Gaithersburg, USA)
|
| NLC | Next Linear Collider (SLAC)
|
| NLCTA | Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator (SLAC)
|
| NMP | Neutral Mask Probe
|
| NMR | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
|
| NMS | Neutron Monitoring System
|
| NNC | Nucleus Nucleus Collision (TRIUMF conference)
|
| NNPSS | National Nuclear Physics Summer School
|
| NOMAD | Neutrino Oscillation MAgnetic Detector (CERN)
|
| NORDION | Nord (french for North) ION (2018 SEE: BWXT)
|
| NP-EEC | Nuclear Physics Experiment Evaluation Committee (TRIUMF)
|
| NPL | Nuclear Physics Laboratory (Seattle, USA)
|
| NPPAP | Nuclear and Particle Physics Advisory Panel
|
| NPS | Non-interruptible Power Supply
|
| NRC | National Research Council (Canada) - or - Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USA)
|
| NRCan | Natural Resources Canada
|
| NRU | National Research Universal (Canadian reactor at AECL's Chalk River Laboratories)
|
| NSC | National Safety Council (USA)
|
| NSCA | Nuclear Safety Control Act (administered by CNSC)
|
| NSCL | National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (Michigan, USA)
|
| NSERC | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada)
|
| NSF | National Science Foundation (USA)
|
| NSFC | National Natural Science Foundation of China
|
| NSL | Nuclear Structure Laboratory (Notre Dame, USA)
|
| NSLS | National Synchrotron Light Source (BNL)
|
| NSRIT | Nova Scotia Research and Innovation Trust
|
| NSRF | Nuclear Science Research Facility (Kyoto, Japan)
|
| NSRL | National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (Hefei, China)
|
| NTS | Network Terminal System
|
| NTSC | National Television Standards Committee
|
| NuPECC | Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee
|
| NUCLOTRON | Accelerator Facility (see: JINR)
|
| NWMO | Nuclear Waste Management Organization (Canada)
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| O | Overtime (TRIUMF time sheet entry)
|
| OBOP | Output Break Out Panel
|
| OC | Outside Contractor - or - Over Current - or - On Contact
|
| OCB | Oil Circuit Breaker (TRIUMF Substation)
|
| OCT | OCTupole
|
| ODM | Oxygen Deficiency Monitor
|
| ODMS | Oxygen Deficiency Monitoring System
|
| OEM | Original Equipment Manufacture
|
| OHFA | Occupational Health and Fire Alarm (Fault Report group)
|
| OH&S | Occupational Health and Safety (group, TRIUMF)
|
| OH&SO | Occupational Health and Safety Officer (TRIUMF)
|
| OIT | Ontario Innovation Trust (Toronto, Canada)
|
| OJT | On the Job Training
|
| OLCF | Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (USA)
|
| OLED | Organic Light Emitting Diode
|
| OLIS | Off Line Ion Source
|
| OMA | Optimization of Medical Accelerators consortium
|
| OOD | Out Of Driven (RF)
|
| OOL | Out Of Limit
|
| OOP | Object Oriented Programming
|
| OORA | Object Oriented Requirements Analysis
|
| OPAL | Omni-Purpose Apparatus for LEP (CERN)
|
| OPCOM | OPerating COMmittee (TRIUMF)
|
| OPEX | Operational Experience
|
| OPN | OPeN
|
| OPPIS | Optically Pumped Polarized Ion Source
|
| OPS | OPerationS [520-MeV Operations Group] (TRIUMF)
|
| ORAN | Optical Regional Advanced Networks (Canada)
|
| ORELA | Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator (Oak Ridge, USA)
|
| ORIC | Oak Ridge Isochronous Cyclotron (Oak Ridge, USA)
|
| ORNL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, Tennessee USA)
|
| ORSNS | Oak Ridge Spallation Neutron Source (Oak Ridge, USA)
|
| OS | Operating System
|
| OSHA | Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Washington, USA)
|
| OSL | Optically-Stimulated Luminescence (TRIUMF - badge type radiation dosimeter)
|
| OSP | worked Overtime on Statutory holiday for Pay (TRIUMF time sheet entry)
|
| OST | worked Overtime on Statutory holiday for Time (TRIUMF time sheet entry)
|
| OT | Over Temperature - or - Overtime
|
| OTR | Optical Transition Radiation (beam monitoring)
|
| OVP | Occupational Vision Plan (TRIUMF)
|
| oz | ounce
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| P | Pump - or - Power - or - Proton - or - time off for Personal reasons (TRIUMF time sheet entry)
|
| P3 | People, Performance and Potential
|
| P-HALL | Proton HALL (TRIUMF) [decommissioned, future E-Hall]
|
| P & S | Professional and Supervisory staff (TRIUMF)
|
| PA | Power Amplifier , Public Address
|
| PAC | Particle Accelerator Conference - or - Polychlorinated Bipheny
- or - Perturbed Angular Correlation spectrometer
|
| PACT | Pulse Amplitude Charge-to-Time converter
|
| PAGHS | Proton Area Gas Handling Shack
|
| PAMELA | Particle Accelerator for MEdical Applications (Daresbury, UK)
|
| PANIC | Particles And Nuclei International Conference
|
| PAO | Pension Administration Office
|
| PAPR | Powered Air Purifying Respirator
|
| PAPRICAN | Pulp And Paper Research Institute of
Canada (Vancouver & Pointe-Claire, Canada)
|
| PAR | Preventive Action Request
|
| PBO | Proton Beam Only (TRIUMF, ARIEL RMS detectors)
|
| PBPL | Particle Beam Physics Lab (UCLA, USA)
|
| PC | Porportional Chamber - or - Personal Computer
|
| PCB | Printed Circuit Board - or - Polychlorinated Biphenyl
|
| PC-CANS | Prototype Canadian Compact Accelerator-based Neutron Source
|
| PCIC | Parents of Critically Ill Children
|
| PCL | Printer Control Language
|
| PCT | Proportional Counter Tube
|
| P-CYCLOTRON | Proton Cyclotron Spallation Neutron Source (PSI)
|
| PDA | Personal Digital Assistant (Sony Clie, Ipad, Smartphone etc.)
|
| PDC | Power Distribution Centre
|
| PDF | Portable Document Format - or - PostDoctoral Fellow - or - Personal Data Form
|
| PDM | Portable Document Management
|
| PDP | Proprietary Digital Processor (model 8, 11 etc.)
|
| PDS | Project Definition Study
|
| PDT | Pacific Daylight Time
|
| PE | Plasma Electrode
|
| PEB | Proton Electron Beam (TRIUMF, ARIEL RMS detectors)
|
| PED | Process Environment Display
|
| PEP | Positron Electron Project (SLAC) - or - Provincial Emergency Program (Province of BC)
|
| PET | Positron Emission Tomography
|
| PETRA | Positronen-Electronen Ring Anlage (Hamburg, Germany)
|
| PEX | PHIGS Environment for X
|
| PF | Power Factor - or - Protection Factor (for respirators)
|
| PFE | Portable Fire Extinguisher
|
| PFL | Pulse Forming Line
|
| PG | Pressure Gauge
|
| PH | Proton Hall (TRIUMF) [decommissioned, future E-Hall], PentHouse - or - Pulse Height
|
| PHA | Pulse Height Analyzer
|
| PHASOTRON | Accelerat- or - Facility (Dubna, Russia)
|
| PHE | Proton Hall Extension (TRIUMF)
|
| PHGHS | Proton Hall Gas Handling System
|
| PHIGS | Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphics Standard
|
| PHSA | Provincial Health Services Authority (B.C., Canada)
|
| PI | Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Canada)
|
| PICASSO | Project In CAnada to Search for Supersymmetric Objects (SNO)
|
| PID | Process Identification number - or - Proportional Integral Derivative (control)
|
| PIDC | Positron-sensitive Ionization Drift Chamber
|
| PIE | Process Interface Electronics
|
| PIENU | Pion decay to Electrons and muons along with their NeUtrinos
|
| PIF | Proton Irriadiation Facility (TRIUMF, BL2C1 & BL1B)
|
| PIFS | Pre-Incident Field Summary
|
| PIP | Pop In Probe (TRIUMF, #'s 1-6 where #1 is aka: Water Cooled Probe) - or - Pre-Incident Plan
|
| PIPA | Personal Information Protection Act (Province of British Columbia)
|
| PIPE | Prairie Isotope Production Enterprise (U of Winnipeg, Manitoba)
|
| PIPEDA | Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada)
|
| PIRE | Partnership in International Science and Engineering (a NSF program)
|
| PJB | Pre-Job Briefing
|
| PL | Pay in Lieu of Statutory holiday (TRIUMF time sheet entry)
|
| PLC | Programmable Logic Controller
|
| PLL | Phase Locked Loop
|
| PLOTCROSS | PLOT an X-Y CROSS vector display (X-windows)
|
| PLOTHIST | PLOT a HISTogram display (X-windows)
|
| PLS | Pohang Light Source (Pohang, Korea)
|
| PM | Preventive Maintenance - or - Permanent Magnet - or - Phase Modulation - or - Profile Monitor - or - Post Meridian (afternoon)
|
| PMB | Paid Meal Break
|
| PMEC | Project Management Evaluation Committee (TRIUMF)
|
| PMI | Person Machine Interface
|
| PMI-2 | Person Machine Interface (TRIUMF Fire Alarm System)
|
| PMO | Project Management Office (TRIUMF)
|
| PMOO | Project Management Oversight Office
|
| PMOG | Project Management Oversight Group (TRIUMF)
|
| PMT | Photo Multiplier Tube
|
| PNC | Parity Non-Conservation
|
| PNG | PeNning Gauge - or - Portable Network Graphics (format)
|
| PNL | PaNeL
|
| PNP | Pacific Neutrino Project
|
| PO | Purchase Order
|
| POM | Personal Operator's Manual
|
| POLISIS | Polarized Ion Source and Injection System (TRIUMF)
|
| POP | Proof Of Principle
|
| POOP | Proof Of Operating Principle
|
| POS | POSitive - or - POSition
|
| POSIX | Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments
|
| PPAC | Policy and Planning Advisory Committee (TRIUMF)
|
| PPARC | Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (UK)
|
| PPB | Parts Per Billion
|
| PPD | Personal* Protection Device (*or Personnel)
|
| PPE | Personal* Protection Equipment (* or Personnel)
|
| PP-EEC | Particle Physics Experiment Evaluation Committee (TRIUMF)
|
| PPM | Parts Per Million - or - Polarization Profile Monitor
|
| PPP | People, Performance and Potential Program (TRIUMF)
|
| PPPL | Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (NJ, USA)
|
| PPR | Performance Planning and Review system (TRIUMF)
|
| PPS | Personnel Protection System
|
| PPRC | Pacific Parkinson's Research Centre (Vancouver)
|
| PR | PRessure - or - PRint - or - Peer Review - or - Purchase Request
- or - Public Relations - or - Pay Rate - or - Pulse Rate
|
| PRIMELAB | Purdue Rare Isotope Measurement Laboratory (Lafayette, USA)
|
| PRISMA | Precision Physics, Fundamental Interactions and Structure of Matter (Germany)
|
| PRL | Physical Review Letters
|
| PROM | Programmable Read Only Memory
|
| PROT | Protect (monitor)
|
| PROTVINO | ring Accelerator Facility (Protvino, Russia)
|
| PS | Power Supply - or - Pressure Switch - or - Pull Station (fire alarm system) - or - Postscript - or - Proton Synchrotron (CERN)
|
| PSA | Position Sensitive Assembly
|
| PSB | Plant Services Building (TRIUMF)
|
| PSCOPE | PeriSCOPE (TRIUMF cyclotron tank viewing device)
|
| PSD | Physical Sciences Division (TRIUMF) - or - PhotoShop Direct (Adobe format)
|
| PSI | Pounds per Square Inch (pressure) - or - Paul Scherrer Institut (Switzerland)
|
| PSP | PaintShop Pro (format)
|
| PSR | Pulse Stretcher Ring (Saskatoon)
|
| PSRC | Professional and Supervisory Representative Committee (TRIUMF)
|
| PSU | Probe Scan Utility
|
| PST | Pacific Standard Time - or - Provincial Sales Tax
|
| PSWD | PasS WorD
|
| PT | Proton Therapy - or - Principal Technician (TRIUMF) - or - TRIUMF Central Control System: subsystem designator)
|
| PTF | Proton Therapy Facility (TRIUMF) - or - Photosensor Testing Facility (TRIUMF)
|
| PTNSR | Packaging and Transport of Nuclear Substances Regulations
|
| PTPNL | Proton Therapy PaNeL (X-windows)
|
| PUN | Program Update Notice
|
| PV | Pump Valve or Process Variable or Polarized source (I2) Vacuum
(TRIUMF Central Control System: subsystem designator)
|
| PWM | Pluse Width Modulation
|
| PWS | Pseudo Wire Scanner
|
| P-P | Peak to Peak
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| Q | Quadrupole - or - Quadrant (e.g. Cyclotron quadrant 1-4)
|
| QA | Quality Assurance [Quality Management System for TRIUMF]
|
| Q&A | Question and Answer
|
| QC | Quality Council (TRIUMF)
|
| QCD | Quantum Chromodynamics
|
| QDSS | Q-bus Device Subsystem
|
| QED | Quantum Electrodynamics - or - Quod Erat Demonstrandum (Latin for: "that which was to be demonstrated")
|
| QES | Quadrupole Electro-static
|
| QMS | Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer - or - Quality Management System (TRIUMF)
|
| QQD | Quadrupole Quadrupole Dipole
|
| QRPP | Quarterly Review of Projects and Priorities (TRIUMF)
|
| QUI | Queue Input/Output
|
| QVSS | Q-bus Video Subsystem
|
| QWR | Quarter Wave Resonator
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| R | Resistance (ohms) - or - Radius
|
| RA | Research Associate
|
| RAA | Radiation Area Audit
|
| RAD | Roentgen - or - Radiation Absorbed Dose
|
| RADNEXT | RADiation facility Network for the EXploration of effects for indusTry (TRIUMF)
|
| RAL | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Oxfordshire, UK)
|
| RAM | Random Access Memory
|
| RARF | Riken Accelerator Research Facility (Wako, Japan)
|
| RAW | RAW (binary format)
|
| RBE | Relative Biological Effectiveness
|
| RC | Resistance Capacitance - or - RemCon (Remote Control)
|
| RCA | Radio Chemistry Annex [RCA 1, 2 or 3] - or - Root Cause Analysis
|
| RCC | Remote Command Console (Fire Alarm System)
|
| RCE | Reseaux de Centres d'Excellence du Canada (FR. also see (EN) NCE)
|
| RCI | Royal Canadian Institute for the Advancement of Science
|
| RCMP | Royal Canadian Mounted Police
|
| RCNP | Research Center for Nuclear Physics (Osaka, Japan)
|
| RCR | Radio Chemistry Research Lab (TRIUMF, MHESA, level B1)
|
| RCUK | Research Coucils United Kingdom
|
| RDBMS | Relational Data Base Management System
|
| RDOS | Real-time Disk Operating System
|
| RDY | Ready
|
| REA | Request for Engineering Assistance - or - Assessment
|
| REG | Register - or - VAX 11780 mainframe computer (name)
|
| REGIS | Remote Graphics Instruction Set
|
| REM | Radiation Equivalent Man
|
| REMCON | REMote CONtrol - or - CONsole (TRIUMF)
|
| RES | Resonator - or - Resistor
|
| REV | Reverse - or - Revision
|
| REX | Request to EXit detector/sensor (also see TREX)
|
| RF | Radio Frequency - or - Radial Flag or Radio Frequency (TRIUMF Central Control System: subsystem designator)
|
| RFA | Radio Frequency Amplifier
|
| RFB | Radio Frequency Booster
|
| RFC | Radio Frequency Cavity - or - Radio Frequency Controls
|
| RFCS | Radio Frequency Control System
|
| RFD | Radio Frequency Deflector
|
| RFI | Radio Frequency Interference
|
| RFQ | Radio Frequency Quadrupole - or - RFQ accelerator - or - Request For Quotation
|
| RFSEP | RF SEParator
|
| RFSH | RF SHield
|
| RFT | Radio Frequency Transmission line
|
| RFTWV | RF Three-Way Valve (control) (Al-ALCW temperature control , TRIUMF)
|
| RG | Radio Guide (coaxial cable designation, ie RG-58, RG-59)
|
| RGA | Residual Gas Analyzer
|
| RGB | Red Green Blue (additive colour model)
|
| RGO | Redirect Graphical Output
|
| RH | Remote Handling - or - Handable
|
| RHEPP | Repetitive High-Energy Pulsed Power (SNL)
|
| RHIC | Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (BNL)
|
| RHV | Radiation Hard Valve
|
| RIB | Radioactive Ion Beam - or - Rare Isotope Beam
|
| RIBOPS | Rare Isotope Beam OPerationS group (TRIUMF)
|
| RILAC | Riken Variable Frequency Heavy Ion Linac (Wako, Japan)
|
| RILIS | Resonance Ionization Laser Ion Source (CERN)
|
| RISC | Reduced Instruction Set Computing
|
| RISP | Rare Isotope Science Project (Korea)
|
| RK-TBA | Relativistic Klystron Two Beam Accelerator (LBL)
|
| RL | Roughing Line
|
| RLCG | Roughing Line Convectron Gauge
|
| RLNR | Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors (Tokyo, Japan)
|
| RMA | Return Merchandise Authorization
|
| RMC | Radiative Muon Capture
|
| RMS | Radiation Monitoring System (TRIUMF) - or - Root-Mean-Square - or - Record Management Services
|
| RO | Reverse Osmosis
|
| ROM | Read Only Memory
|
| RP | Roughing Pump - or - Radiation Protection
|
| RPG | Radiation Protection Group (TRIUMF)
|
| RPM | Revolutions Per Minute - or - Rotary Profile Monitor
|
| RPS | Radiation Protection Surveyor
|
| RPT | Radiation Protection Technician
|
| RRMF | Riken-Ral Muon Facility at ISIS (Chilton, England)
|
| RRMS | Residual Radiation Monitoring System (TRIUMF)
|
| RRR | Residual Resistivity Ratio - or - Recycle , Resuse , Reduce Program (3 R's)
|
| RRU | Research Ramp-Up (TRIUMF)
|
| RS | Receive Send protocol (e.g. RS-232, RS-485)
|
| RSC | (The) Royal Society of Canada
|
| RSO | Radiation Safety Officer (TRIUMF)
|
| RSS | Radiation Safety Surveyors (TRIUMF)
|
| RSVP | Rare Symmetry Violating Processes experiment (BNL) - or - Repondez S'il Vous Plait (French: Please reply)
|
| RSX | Resource Sharing eXecutive
|
| RTA | Relativistic Two-Beam Accelerator (LBL)
|
| RTC | Real Time Clock
|
| RTL | Resistor Transistor Logic
|
| RTME | Racetrack Microtron Eindhoven (Eindhoven, Germany)
|
| RTS | Resonator Tuning Signal (TRIUMF) - or - Return To Sender - or - Return To Site (TRIUMF)
|
| RTT | Round Trip Time
|
| RTU | Roof Top Unit (also see HVAC)
|
| RU | Rack Unit (19 or 24" rack panel height ; 1 RU = 1.75")
|
| RV | Roughing Valve
|
| RVD | Resonator Voltage Detector
|
| RWS | Rotary Wire Scanner
|
| RX | Receive - or - Receiver
|
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| S | Second - or - Sievert - or - Sextupole - or - South - or - Entropy - or - Sick leave (TRIUMF time sheet entry)
|
| SA | Service Annex (TRIUMF)
|
| SAB | Service Annex Basement (TRIUMF)
|
| SAC | Small Angle Configuration (e.g. for the MRS)
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| SAE | Service Annex Extension (TRIUMF)
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| SAF | Safety Approval Form (TRIUMF)
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| SAGE | Soviet-American Gallium Experiment (Russia)
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| SAL | Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory (Canada)
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| SAN | SANitary
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| SAP | Subatomic Physics - or - Subatmospheric Pump
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| SAP-EEC | Subatomic Physics Experiments Evaluation Committee (TRIUMF)
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| SAP-LRP | Subatomic Physics Long Range Plan / Planning committee (TRIUMF)
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| SAR | Safety Analysis Report (TRIUMF) - or - Specific Absorption Rate
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| SARA | Systeme Accelerateur Rhone-Alpes (Grenoble, France)
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| SAS | Systematic Approach to Shutdown(s) (TRIUMF)
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| SASP | Second Arm SPectrometer (TRIUMF)
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| SAT | Systematic Approach to Training
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| SATURNE | Accelerator Facility (Saclay, France)
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| SAW | Surface Acoustic Wave
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| SAX | Service Annex EXtension
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| SB | ShineBlocker - or - Secondary Beamline (TRIUMF Central Control System: subsystem designator) - or - StandBy (TRIUMF time sheet entry)
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| SBFEL | Santa Barbara Free Electron Laser
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| SBLC | S-Band Linear Collider (DESY, Germany)
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| SBTF | S-Band Collider Test Facility (Hamburg, Germany)
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| SC | Safety Critical - or - Shift Change (TRIUMF time sheet entry)
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| SCA | Safety Control Area - or - Single Channel Amplifier - or -
Switched Capacitor Array (ATLAS) - or - SuperConducting Linac A - or - Sudden Cardiac Arrest
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| SCA/FEL | Stanford Picosecond FEL (Stanford, USA)
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| SCB | SuperConducting Linac B
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| SCBA | Self Contained Breathing Apparatus
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| SCBCD | Safety Critical Beam Control Device
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| SCBSM | Safety Critical Beam Spill Monitor
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| SCC | SuperConducting Linac C
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| SCCS | Saskatchewan Centre for Cyclotron Sciences (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)
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| SCDMS | Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search
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| SCINT | SCINTillator
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| SCO | Surface Contaminated Object
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| SCQ | Skew Correction Quadrupole
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| SCR | Silicon Controlled Rectifier
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| SCRF | SuperConducting Radio Frequency (cavities)
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| SCRM | Safety Critical Radiation Monitor(ing) system (also for starting test HISTOPLOT)
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| SCRMTR | Safety Critical Radiation Monitor Trip Report
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| SCS | SuperConducting Solenoid
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| SCSOL | SuperConducting SOLenoid
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| SCSI | Small Computer Systems Interconnect
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| S-DALINAC | Superconducting Darmstadt Linac (Darmstadt, Germany)
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| SD | Smoke Detector - or - Safety Defeat - or - ShutDown (TRIUMF) - or - Secure Digital (memory card)
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| SD2 | Shift Differential for working afternoon shift (TRIUMF time sheet entry)
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| SD3 | Shift Differential for working night shift (TRIUMF time sheet entry)
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| SDB | Stores Receiving and Design Office Building
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| SDF | Stores & Design office Facility (new TRIUMF Stores Building)
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| SDHC | Secure Digital High Capacity (multi-media card)
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| SDLC | Synchronous Data Link Control
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| SDS | Safety Data Sheet
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| SDXC | Secure Digital Extended Capacity (multi-media card)
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| SE | Suppressor Electrode
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| SEBT | Superconducting LINAC to Experiments Beam Transport system
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| SEC | SECured
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| SEG | Scientific Ecology Group
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| SEL | SELected
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| SELEX | SEgmented Large X baryon EXperiment (FNL)
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| SEM | Secondary Emission Monitor
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| SEPT | SEPTum magnet
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| SEPTUM | SEPTUM magnet
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| SET | Science and Engineering Technologists (TRIUMF)
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| SF | SaFety (TRIUMF Central Control System: subsystem designator) or Stairwell Fan
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| SFU | Simon Fraser University (British Columbia, Canada)
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| SGLAM | Serial Graded Look At Me
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| SHARC | Silicon Highly-segmented Array for Reactions and Coulex detector (TRIUMF)
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| SHC | South Hot Cell (TRIUMF-ISAC1)
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| SHUT | SHUTter
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| SHV | Safe High Voltage connector
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| SI | Systeme International d'Unites (International System of Units)
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| SIB | Stable Ion Beam
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| SIBIR | Accelerator Facility (Moscow, Russia)
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| SID | Silicon Detector
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| SIMM | Single In-line Memory Module
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| SIMS | Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
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| SIN | Schweizerishces Institut fur Nuklearforschuug
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| SINP | Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (Kolkata, India)
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| SIRASPI | Single Input RAnge with SetPoint Indicator
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| SIS | Schwer Heavy Ion Synchrotron (Darmstadt, Germany)
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| SK | SKimmer - or - Super-Kamiokande (Kamioka Observatory, Japan)
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| SKIM | Skimmer
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| SLAC | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (Stanford, USA)
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| SLC | SLAC Linear electron-positron Collider (SLAC)
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| SLD | SLAC Large Detector (SLAC)
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| SLS | Swiss synchrotron Light Source (Villigen, Switzerland)
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| SM | Steering Magnet
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| SMART | Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Timebound
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| SMC | Stepping - or - Synchronous Motor Controller
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| SMD | Surface Mounted Device/Design
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| SMI | Stopping and Manipulatopn of Ions (International Workshop)
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| SMK | SMoKe detector (fire alarm system)
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| SMKB | SMoKe detector Linear Beam (Fire Alarm System detector)
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| SML | Saturday Morning Lectures (TRIUMF)
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| SMM | Safety Management Meetings (TRIUMF)
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| SMR | Small Modular Reactor (CNL, Canada)
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| SMT | Stepping Motor Translator
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| SNIT | Summer Nuclear Institute at TRIUMF
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| SNL | Sandia National Laboratory (Albuquerque, USA)
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| SNMMI | Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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| SNO | Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
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| SNOLAB | Sudbury Neutrino Observatory LABoratory (SNO expansion)
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| SNR | Signal to Noise Ratio
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| SOB | Start Of Beam
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| SOCT | Skew OCTupole
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| SOL | SOLenoid
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| SOLEIL | Source Optimisee de Lumiere d'Energie Intermediaire du LURE (LURE optimised intermediary energy light source)
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| SOP | Standard Operating Procedure
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| SPARRO | Subatomic Physics At Regina with Research Offshore (Saskatchewan, Canada)
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| SPC | Setpoint Controller
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| SPCO | Strategic Planning and Communications Office (TRIUMF)
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| SPEAR | Stanford Positron Electron Accelerating Ring (SLAC)
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| SPECT | Single Photon Emmission Computed Tomography
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| SPICE | SPectrometer for Internal Conversion Electrons (TRIUMF)
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| SPIRAL | Grand Accelerateur National D'Ions Lourds (Caen, France)
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| SPL | Superconducting Proton Linac (CERN) - or - Sound Pressure Level (dB)
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| SPLT | RF amplifier SPLiTer (TRIUMF)
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| SPRING-8 | Super Photon Ring 8-GEV (Japan)
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| SPRNK | SPRiNKler (fire suppression system)
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| SPS | Super Proton Synchrotron (CERN)
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| SQL | Structured Query Language
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| SQM | Safety and Quality Management
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| SQMRM | Safety and Quality Management Review Meeting (TRIUMF)
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| SQUID | Superconducting Quantum Interference Detector
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| SRA | Society of Research Administrators
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| SRC | Source - or - Synchrotron Radiation Center (Stoughton, USA)
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| SRCD | Safety Review Completion Document (TRIUMF)
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| SRF | Superconducting Radio Frequency (2015 Conference, 13-18 September, Whistler BC Canada)
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| SRM | Slow Roughing Mode
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| SRRC | Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (Hsinchu City, Taiwan)
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| SRS | Superconduction Refrigeration System - or - Synchrotron Radiation Source (DL) or Society of Radiopharmaceutical Sciences
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| SSA | Solid State Amplifier
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| SSD-C | System-Status Display and Control (TRIUMF Fire Alarm System)
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| SSDD | Single Sided Double Density
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| SS | Superconducting Solenoid - or - Shift Supervisor - or - Summer Student - or - Safety Systems (Group)
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| SSC | Superconducting Super Collider (Texas) ( cancelled Oct 1993 )
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| SSCL | Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
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| SSG | Safety Systems Group (TRIUMF)
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| SSM | Standard Solar Model
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| SSP | Seal Space Pump
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| SSRC | Siberian Synchrotron Radiation Center (Novosibrisk, Russia)
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| SSRL | Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (Stanford, USA)
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| SSX | Skew SeXtupole
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| STACEE | Solar Tower Atmospheric Cerenkov Effect Experiment (NM, USA)
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| STAT | STATutory day owed in lieu of statutory holiday (TRIUMF time sheet entry)
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| STEM | Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
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| STD | State Transition Diagram - or - Standard
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| ST&I | Science Technology and Innovation
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| STF | Solid Target Facility (BL2C4 , Solid Target irradiation Facility at TRIUMF)
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| STFC | Science & Technology Facilities Council (Swindon, UK)
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| STOG | Science & Technology Oversight Group (TRIUMF)
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| STP | Standard Temperature and Pressure 273.15 K (0C) and 1 atmosphere (101.325 kPa)
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| STR | Space-Time Relation
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| SUN | Safety Update Notice
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| SUPEARCO | Accelerator Facility (LURE)
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| SURA | Southeastern Universities Research Association (USA)
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| SURF | Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility (Gaithersburg, USA)
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| SUSY | SUper SYmmetry model theory
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| SU(5) | Special Unitary group with 5 degrees of freedom
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| SV | Solenoid Valve
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| SW | SWitch
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| SWB | SWitchBoard [or SWBD] (telephone system)
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| SWL | Safe Working Load
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| SWOT | Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, & Threats (analysis) (TRIUMF)
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| SWP | Safe Work Procedue
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| SX | SeXtupole
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| SYS | SYStem
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| T | Target - or - Temperature - or - Transformer - or - Tesla
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| T2K | Tokai to Kamioka (Japan)
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| TAC | Time to Amplitude Converter
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| TACTIC | TRIUMF Annular Chamber for Tracking and Identification of Charged particles
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| TAH | Temperature Alarm High
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| TAI | TRIUMF Accelerators Inc.
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| TAL | Temperature Alarm Low - or - Tandem Linear Accelerator (Roskilde, Denmark)
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| TAMU | Texas A&M University
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| TANDAR | Tandem Van de Graff, Argentina (Buenos Aires)
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| TANDETRON | Tandetron Accelerator Facility (Ithaca, USA)
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| TAPC | TRIUMF Accident Prevention Committee
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| TARA | TRIUMF Alumni and Retirees Association
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| TASCC | Tandem Accelerating Superconducting Cyclotron (CRNL)
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| TAT | Targeted Alpha Therapy(s)
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| TAU-FEL | Tel Aviv University Free Electron Laser (Tel Aviv, Israel)
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| TBA | To Be Announced - or - To Be Appointed
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| TBD | To Be Determined
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| TBHT | TuBe HeaTer
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| TC | Trim Coil - or - ThermoCouple
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| TCC | TRIUMF Control Centre
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| TCLI | TRIUMF Command Language Interpreter [typ cmds: TYPE,TYDF, SAVE, LOAD REVFIND etc.]
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| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
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| TCS | TRIUMF Computer Services - or - Text Control System
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| TCSC | TRIUMF Computing Security Committee
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| TD | Theory Department
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| TDC | Time to Digital Converter
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| TDG | Transportation of Dangerous Goods
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| TDM | Time Division Multiplexing
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| TDR | Time Domain Reflectometer
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| TDS | Total Dissolved Solids
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| TED | Technology Entertainment Design (TED talks)
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| TELC | Technician Employees Liaison Committee (TRIUMF)
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| TELL | Tsukuba Electrotechnical Laboratory Linac (Tsukuba, Japan)
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| TEM | Transmission Electron Microscope / Microscopy - or - TRIUMF Electron Microscope / Microscopy
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| TEMP | Temperature - or - Temporary
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| TEPP | TRIUMF Emergency Preparedness Plan
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| TERAS | Tsukuba Electrotechnical Laboratory Storage Ring (Tsukuba, Japan)
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| TERC | Technical Employee Representative Committee (TRIUMF)
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| TERP | TRIUMF Emergency Response Plan
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| TESLA | TeV Superconducting Linear Accelerator (DESY, Germany)
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| TEVATRON | proton-antiproton Accelerator Facility (FNL)
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| TG | Thermocouple Gauge - or - TarGet - or - TarGets (TRIUMF Central Control System: subsystem designator)
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| TGHT | TarGet HeaTer
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| TGT | TarGeT
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| TH | Target Hall - or - TRIUMF House
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| THA | Target Hall Annex
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| THIA | Toledo Heavy Ion Accelerator (Toledo, USA)
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| TICS | TRIUMF (I is not defined) Control System
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| TIFF | Tagged Imaged File Format
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| TIG | Tungsten Inert Gas
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| TIGRESS | TRIUMF-ISAC Gamma-Ray Escape Suppressed Spectrometer
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| TINA | TRIUMF Iodide of Sodium (Na) The symbol Na derives from the Neo-Latin Natrium
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| TI-STAR | TIGRESS Silicon Tracker ARray
|
| TIS | Target/Ion Source - or - Test Ion Source - or - TITAN Ion Source
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| TISA | Target Ion Source Acceptance stand (TRIUMF)
|
| TISS | Target and Ion-Source Systems
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| TISOL | Test Isotope Separator On Line
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| TITAN | TRIUMF's Ion Trap for Atomic and Nuclear science
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| TJNAF | Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab)
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| TK | TanK (TRIUMF Central Control System: subsystem designator)
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| TLC | Technicians' Liaison Committee - or - Tender Loving Care
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| TLD | Thermo-Luminescent Dosimeter
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| TLR | Trailer (TRIUMF)
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| TM | Target Module or TeMperature
|
| TMB | Target Maintenance Building (official designation of ISAC south building complex)
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| TMH | Target Maintenance Hall
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| TNC | Threaded Navy Connector
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| TNIM | Toroidial Non-Intercepting Monitor
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| TNF | Thermal Neutron Facility (TRIUMF, BL1A beam dump)
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| TNL | TuNneL
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| TOCASPI | Thermocouple Amplifier with Setpoint Indicator
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| TOE | Theory Of Everything
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| TOF | Time Of Flight
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| TOR | Toroid (Toroidal pickup probe) - or - Time of Reference
|
| TOTEM | Total Cross Section, Elastic Scattering and Diffraction Dissociation Measurement detector (LHC, CERN)
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| TP | Turbomolecular Pump
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| TPC | Time Projection Chamber
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| TPU | Text Processing Utility
|
| TRA | Technical Research Assistant (TRIUMF)
|
| TRAC-32 | TRIUMF Auto-ranging Converter 32 channels
|
| TREK | Time Reversal Experiment with Kaons (J-PARC)
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| TREX | Targeting Request to EXit detector/sensor (also see REX)
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| TRFC | TITAN RF Cooler
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| TRFCBL | TITAN RF Cooler Beam Line
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| TRI | TRansponder Intelligent (fire alarm system)
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| TRIC | TRansverse field Ionization Chamber
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| TRILIS | TRIUMF Resonant Ionization Laser Ion Source
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| TRIM | TRIUMF Radio-Isotopes for Medicine
|
| TRIMAC | TRIUMF caMAC auxiliary crate controller
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| TRINAT | TRIUMF Neutral Atom Trap
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| TRISEP | Tri-Institute Summer School on Elementary Particles
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| TRISTAN | Accelerator Facility (Tsukuba, Japan)
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| TRITON | Tandem Van de Graff Accelerator (Munich, Germany)
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| TRIUMF | Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics (formerly an acronym: Tri-University Meson Facility)
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| TRIUMF (Fr) | Laboratoire National Canadien pour la Recherche en Physique Nucleaire et en Physique des Particules
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| TS | Tamper Switch
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| TSA | Technical Support Agreement
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| TSAC | TRIUMF Safety Advisory Committee
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| TSBC | Technical Safety British Columbia
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| TSI | TRIUMF Summer Institute
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| TSG | TRIUMF Safety Group
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| TSN | TRIUMF Safety Note
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| TSOP | TRIUMF Standard Operating Procedure
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| TSP | Titanium Sublimation Pump - or - Tri-Sodium Phosphate
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| TSR | Heavy Ion Storage Ring (Heidelberg, Germany)
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| TSW | Temperature SWitch
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| TSYBL | Titan Switch Yard Beam Line
|
| TTC | TESLA Technology Collaboration
|
| TTD | Technology Transfer Division
|
| TTF | TESLA Test Facility (Milano, Italy)
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| TTL | Transistor Transistor Logic - or - Time To Live
|
| TTY | Teletype
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| TUCAN | TRIUMF UltraCold Advanced Neutron source (TRIUMF)
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| TUDA | TRIUMF U.K. Detector Array
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| TUEC | TRIUMF Users' group Executive Committee
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| TUG | TRIUMF Users' Group
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| TUM | Technische Universitat Munchen
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| TUNL | Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (Durham, USA)
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| TV | Tank Vacuum (TRIUMF Central Control System: subsystem designator)
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| TVG | Tank Vacuum Gauge
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| TVL | Tenth Value Layer
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| TW | ThumbWheel (number)
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| TWIST | TRIUMF Weak Interaction Symmerty Test (TRIUMF experiment E614)
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| TWV | Three-Way Valve
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| TX | Transmit - or - Transmitter
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| TXT | TeXT (ASCII file format)
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| UART | Universal Asynchronous Receiver and Transmitter
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| UBC | University of British Columbia (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
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| UCF-FEL | University of Central Florida Free Electron Laser (Orlando, USA)
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| UCLA | University of California, Los Angeles (USA)
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| UCN | Ultra Cold Neutrons
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| UEL | University Endowment Lands (UBC, Vancouver)
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| UH | Unit Heater
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| UHP | Ultra High Purity
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| UHV | Ultra High Vacuum
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| UNILAC | Accelerator Facility (Darmstadt, Germany)
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| UIS | User Interface Services
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| UL | Underwriters Laboratories (USA)
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| ULC | Underwriters Laboratories of Canada
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| UNBC | University of Northern British Columbia (Prince George, Canada)
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| UNIX | computer operating system
|
| UPS | Un-interruptible Power Supply
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| URL | Uniform Resource Locator
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| USB | Universal Serial Buss
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| UTC | Universal Time Coordinated / Coordinated Universal Time (Fr: Temps Universel Coordonne)
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| UTRA | Ultralinear Thermocouple Reference Amplifier
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| UV | Ultraviolet
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| UVIC | University of VICtoria (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada)
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| UVS | Upper Vault Section (TRIUMF, injection beamline ; see also LVS & VRS)
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| UWO | University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario, Canada)
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| V | Valve - or - Voltage - or - Vault - or - Visual (warning device) - or - Vacation (TRIUMF time sheet entry)
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| V1 | Beamline 1 Vacuum (TRIUMF Central Control System: subsystem designator)
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| V4 | Beamline 4 Vacuum (TRIUMF Central Control System: subsystem designator)
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| VA | Valve Automatic
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| VAC | Vacuum - or - Voltage - Alternating Current
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| VAV | Variable Air Volume - or - Valve
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| VAX | Virtual Address Extension
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| VB | Vertical Bend - or - Vault Bender (magnet, e.g. 1VB1)
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| VBE | Voltage Base to Emitter
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| VCA | Voltage Controlled Amplifier
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| VCB | Voltage Collector to Base - or - Vacuum Circuit Breaker
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| VCC | Voltage to Current Converter - or - Voltage Collector to Collector
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| VCE | Voltage Collector to Emitter
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| VCO | Voltage Controlled Oscillator
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| VCR | Video Cassette Recorder
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| VDC | Voltage - Direct Current
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| VDT | Video Display Terminal
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| VDU | Video Display Unit
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| VECC | Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (Kolkata (Calcutta), India)
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| VELO | VErtex LOcator (for the LHCb, CERN)
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| VEPP | Accelerator Facility (Novosibrisk, Russia)
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| VERITAS | Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (AZ, USA)
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| VESA | Video Electronics Standards Association
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| VESDA | Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus (aspirator type smoke detector)
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| VF | Vertical Flag
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| VFD | Variable Frequency Drive (Alt: VSD)
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| VFRS | Vancouver Fire Rescue Services (Vancouver/UBC Fire Department)
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| VGA | Video Graphics Array
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| VHS | Video Home System
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| VIB | Vertical Injection Beamline (TRIUMF, ISIS)
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| VICKSY | Accelerator Facility (Berlin, Germany)
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| VIRASPI | Variable Input Range with Setpoint Indicator
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| VIRGO | Interferometer at EGO , "Virgo" is named after the constellation, (see EGO)
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| VITO | Versatile Ion-polarized Techniques Online (ISOLDE-CERN)
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| VIVITRON | Van de Graff Accelerator Facility (Strasbourg, France)
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| VLHC | Very Large Hadron Collider (CERN, follow-up to the LHC)
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| VLV | VaLVe
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| VM | Valve, Manual - or - Virtual Machine
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| VMD | Video Motion Detection
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| VME | Virtual Machine Environment - or - Virtual Memory Environment - or - Versa Module European
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| VMS | Virtual Memory System
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| VNC | Virtual Network Computing
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| VOIP | Voice Over Internet Protocol
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| VOM | Volt-Ohm Meter
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| VPN | Virtual Private Network
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| VRML | Virtual Reality Mark-up Language
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| VRS | Vertical Removable Section (TRIUMF, injection beamline ; see also UVS & LVS)
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| VS | View Screen
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| VSD | Variable Speed Drive (Alt: VFD)
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| VSWR | Voltage Standing Wave Ratio
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| VTR | Video Tape Recorder
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| VUIT | Visual User Interface Tool
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| VV | Vent Valve - or - Vault Valve
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| VWS | VMS Workstation Software
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| VXT | Vax X Terminal
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| W | Watt - or - West
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| WAN | Wide Area Network
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| WAO | Workshop on Accelerator Operations
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| WAV | Windows WAVeform audio file (format)
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| WBS | Work Breakdown Structure - or - Weakly Bound State
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| WC | Water Column (inches of water) - or -Water Closet (washroom)
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| WCA | Workers' Compensation Act (B.C.)
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| WCB | Workers' Compensation Board of B.C. - Now: WorkSafe BC - or - WCB Workers Compensation (TRIUMF time sheet entry)
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| WCP | Water Cooled Probe (PIP #1)
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| WD | WatchDog
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| WFS | Water Flow Switch
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| WG | Working Group
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| WHMIS | Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System
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| WIL | Work Integrated Learning environment
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| WIMP | Weakly Interacting Massive Particles
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| WIP | Watchdog Input Processor
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| WITS | Wightman Institute for Theroretical Studies
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| WL | Waster Load
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| WLCG | Worldwide LHC Computing Grid
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| WMA | Windows Media Audio (format)
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| WMF | Windows Metafile Format
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| WNPPC | Winter Nuclear and Particle Physics Conference (usually Banff, Alberta)
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| WP | Work Permit - or - Word Processor - or - Word Processing - or - WordPerfect
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| WPD | WordPerfect Document (COREL WP document format)
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| WS | Wire Scanner (also see BLWS) - or - Watchman Station
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| WSBC | WorkSafe B.C.
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| WSBCOHS | WorkSafe B.C. Occupational Health and Safety
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| WSL | Wire Scanner Linear
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| WSP | Worked on Statutory holiday for Pay (TRIUMF time sheet entry)
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| WST | Worked on Statutory holiday for Time (TRIUMF time sheet entry)
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| WTTC | Workshop on Targetry and Target Chemistry
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| WWW | World Wide Web
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| X | reactance (Ohms) - or - magnification - or - "trans..." as in xfer (transfer), xfmr (transformer) - or - course/eXam study (TRIUMF time sheet entry)
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| XBL | X terminal Blue Light (CCS node monitor, TRIUMF)
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| XBM | X Bit Map
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| XCB | X direction Correction Bender
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| XRC | X-windows Remote Control window
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| XPS | X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
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| XFEL | X-ray Free-Electron Laser (DESY)
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| XLR | eXtra Low Resistance (connector)
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| XMTR | X(trans)mitter
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| XNS | Xerox Network Systems
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| XSLIT | X direction opening SLIT
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| XT-ADS | eXperimental demonstration of Transmutation in ADS
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| XTP | X Terminal Page
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| XTR | eXTRaction (probe , also see EXTR)
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| Y | Year - or - Admittance (Siemens - or - mhO)
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| YCB | Y direction Correction Bender
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| YES! | Young Engineers and Scientists Fellowship Program
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| YSLIT | Y direction opening SLIT
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| YVR | Vancouver International Airport code: Y (Canada) VancouveR
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| YY | Year (numerically, two digits)
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| Z | Impedence (Ohms)
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| ZEEP | Zero Energy Experimental Pile (Chalk River, Canada)
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| ZEUS | Detector for HERA (DESY)
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| ZN | Zone
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| ZnS | Zinc Sulfide (scintillation screen)
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| ZOT | Zeeman Optical Trap
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