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2W Two-wire supply
3G Third Generation
3P Three-phase supply
3P-N Three-phase and neutral supply
3P-N-E Three-phase neutral and earth supply
3R3 33 ohm Resistor
3W Three-wire supply
4K 4,000 pixels
4P4T Quad-Pole Quad-Throw
4W Four-wire supply
4WJ Four-Way Junction
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A ampere - unit of electric current
A/C Air Conditioning
AA Anti-Aliasing
AAAC All Aluminum Alloy Conductor
AAC All Aluminum Conductor
AACSR Aluminum Alloy Conductor Steel Reinforced
AAF Anti-Aliasing Filter
AB switch Air Break switch
ABC Aerial Bundled Conductors or Cables
AC Alternating current or voltage
ACAR Aluminum Conductor Alloy Reinforced
ACB Air Circuit Breaker
ACCB Air Case Circuit Breaker
ACDB Alternating Current Distribution Board
ACSR Aluminium conductor steel reinforced
ACVS Air Conditioning & Ventilation System
ADC Analog to Digital Converter
AF Audio Frequency or Audible Frequency
AFC Automated Frequency Control
AFCB Arc Fault Circuit Breaker
AFCI Arc Fault Circuit Interrupter
AFL Amps Full Load
AFT Automatic Fine Tuning
AGC Automatic Gain Control
AGME American Gear Manufacturer’s Association
AGPS Assisted (or Aided) GPS
AH Ampere-hour capacity of batteries
AHU Air Handling Unit
AI Analog Input
AIC Ampere Interrupting Capacity
AL Aluminum
ALCI Appliance Leakage Current Interrupter

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ALTC Automatic Load Tap Changing
ALU Arithmetic and Logic Unit
AMOLED Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode
ANSI American National Standards Institute
AO Analog Output
AoA Angle of Arrival
AOI Automatic Optical Inspection
AP Access Point
APD Avalanche Photo Diode
APFC Automatic Power Factor Control
API American Petroleum Institute
App Peak-to-peak amperes
ARM Advanced Reduced instruction set computing Machine
ARMS Arc Flash Reduction Maintenance Switch
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASK Amplitude Shift Keying
ASME American Society for Testing and Materials
ASP Application Service Provider
ASTA Association of Short-circuit Testing Authorities
ATC Automatic Temperature Control
ATMega Microcontroller Cip created by Atmel in the megaAVR family
ATMEL Advanced Technology for Memory and Logic
ATS Automatic Transfer Switch
AV Audio/video
AVO-M Ampere-Volt-Ohm Meter
AVR Automatic Voltage Regulator
AWA Aluminium wire armour
AWG American Wire Gauge
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B or b Electrical Susceptance
Bar or bar Pressure in atmospheres
British Approvals Service for Electrical Equipment in
BASEEFA
Flammable Atmospheres
BBM Break before Make
BC bayonet cap
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
BSI, BS or CP British Standards Institution, or its publications Btu
BSI, BS, CP British Standards Institution, or its publications
BTS Base Transceiver Station
BTU British thermal unit
Bandwidth, (difference between upper and lower limits of a
BW
band of frequencies)
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C Conduit
Ca ambient temperature correction factor
CAAPS Circuit Assembly And Processing System
CACA Totally enclosed air circuit, air cooled
CACW Totally enclosed air circuit, water cooled
CAD Computer aided design
CAN Controller area network
CATV Cable Television or Community Antennae Television
CB Circuit breaker
CBCU Circuit breaker control unit
CBI Complementary Binary, referring to a system of codes
CBM Certified Ballast Manufacturer
CBR Constant Bit Rate
CC Constant Current
CCCS Current Controlled Current Source
CCD Charge-Coupled Device
CCR Central control room
CCT Circuit (also: CIR, CKT)
cct. Circuit
CCTV Closed Circuit Television
CCU Central control unit
CD Candela
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CEGB Central Electricity Generating Board (UK)
CENELEC European Committee for Electro technical Standardization
CFL Compact Fluorescent Light or Compact Fluorescent Lamp
CG Cable Glands
Ci thermal insulation correction factor
CIR Circuit (also: CCT, CKT)
CISC Complex Instruction Set Computer
CKT Circuit (also: CCT, CIR)
CLF Current Limiting Fuse

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CMOS Complementary Metal – Oxide Semiconductor
CMRR Common Mode Rejection Ratio
CNC Computer Numeric Control
CNE combined neutral and earth
COG Chip-on-glass
cont. Continuous quantity
COR CU Corrugated Copper
cos 0 power factor (sinusoidal systems)
Cos θ Power factor
CPC circuit protective conductor
CPLD Complex Programmable Logic Device
CPT Control Power Transformer
CPU Central Processing Unit
CRO Cathode Ray Oscilloscope
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CSA or csa Cross-Sectional Area
CSI Current Source Inverter
CSP Chloro Sulphonated Polyethylene
CSS Computerised synchronising system
Ct correction factor for the conductor operating temperature
CU Copper
CUWB Copper Wire Braid
CVT Constant Voltage Transformer
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d Day
D .C. or DC
Direct current or voltage
or d.c.
DAC Digital to Analog Converter
dB Decibel
db(A) Measurement unit of sound, Decibels, absolute
Unit level for power ratio expressed in decibels (dB) with
dBm
reference to one mill watt (mW)
DC Direct Current or Voltage
DCDB Direct Current Distribution Board
DCS Distributed Control System
DE Drive End of a shaft
deg C or ◦C Thermal temperature in degrees Celsius or Centigrade
deg F or ◦F Thermal temperature in degrees Fahrenheit
deg K or ◦K Thermal temperature in degrees Kelvin
DEMUX Demultiplexer, Single input into multiple outputs
DFT Discrete Fourier Transform
DIA Diameter
DIMM Dual-In-line Memory Module
Deutsches Institut für Normung means German Institute for
DIN
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
DnV Det Norsk Veritas (Norway)
DO fuse Drop Out Fuse

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DOL or
Direct-on-line starting of induction motors
D.O.L.
DOS Disk Operating System
DP Double Pole or Distribution Panel
DPDT Double Pole, Double Throw
DPI Dots Per Inch
DPIC Double Pole Iron Clad
DPM Digital panel meter
DPR Dividing Pulse Relay
DPST Double Pole, Single Throw
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
DRC Design Rule Checking
DSP Differential Signal Processing
DTL Diode Transistor Logic
DTMF Dual Tone Multi-Frequency
DTSP Discrete Time Signal Processing
DUT Device Under Test
DVM Digital Volt Meter
DWR Divided winding rotor synchronous generator
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E Earth or ground
e.m.f. or EMF Electromotive force
EB Equipment Branch
EBIC Electron-Beam-Induced Current
EC Electrical Code or Electrical Contractor
ECA Electrical Contractors Association
ECAD Electronic Computer-Aided Design
ECHA Equipment certified for hazardous areas
ECL Emitter coupled logic
EEBAD Earthed equipotential bonding & automatic disconnection
EEC European Economic Community
EEMVA Engineering Equipment and Materials Users Association
EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
Certification symbol for hazardous area equipment, with
EEx (), EEx ‘ ’
European harmonisation of standards
EF Exhaust Fan
EFT Electrical fast transient
EHT Extra High Tension
EHV Extra high voltage
Electrical Installation Equipment Manufacturer’s Association
EIEMA
(UK)
ELCB Earth Leakage Circuit Breaker
ELDC Electric Double-Layer Capacitors (supercap)
ELEV Elevator
ELV Extra low voltage, less than 51 volts
EM Emergency
EMA Ethylene methyl acrylate
EMC Electromagnetic compatibility
EMI Electromagnetic interference
EMLDB Emergency Lighting Distribution Board
EMR Electro Mechanical Relay

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EMT Electrical Metallic Tubing
EOCR Electronic Overcurrent Relay
EOS Electrical Over Stress
EP Emergency Power
EPDM Ethylene propylene diene monomer
EPO Emergency Power Off (Button or Switch)
EPR Ethylene propylene rubber
EPROM Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
ERA Electrical Research Association (UK)
ERM Electronic restart module
ES edison screw
ESD Electrostatic Discharge
ESL Equivalent Series Inductance
ESP Electric submersible pump
ESR Equivalent Series Resistance
EST Extra Super Tension
EV Electron volt, a unit of energy similar to joules
EWC Electric Water Cooler
EWS Engineering work station
Ex (), Ex ‘ ’ Certification symbol for hazardous area equipment
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F Fuse
F and G Fire and Gas
F, f or Hz Frequency, Fuse, Farad
FA Fire Alarm
FAA Fire Alarm Annunciator
FAT Factory acceptance testing
FBA Factory built assemblies
FBT Fly back Transformer
FCEV Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle
FCU Feeder control unit
FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing
FDNR Frequency Dependent Negative Resistor
FEED Front-end engineering and design of a project
FELV functional extra-low voltage
FET Field Effect Transistor
FFC Flexible Flat Cable
FFT Fast Fourier Transform
FIFO First-In, First-Out (a queue)
Fig. Figure
FILO First-In, Last-Out (a stack)
FIR Field-Induced Reversal
FLA Full Load Amperes
Flex Flexible, used for cables
FM Frequency Modulation
FMC Flexible Metal Conduit
FPGA Field-Programmable Gate Array
Freq Frequency
FRLS Fire Resistance Low Smoke
FSC Final Sub Circuit
FSK Frequency Shift Keying
FSM Finite State Machine
FVC Frequency to Voltage Converter

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G or g Electrical conductance, or ground
GBW Gain Bandwidth Product
GCB Gas circuit breaker
GCP Generator control panel
GFCI Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter
GFI Ground Fault Interrupter
GIC Generalized Impedance Converter
GIS Gas insulated switchgear
gm Transconductance
GN guidance note
GND Ground
GO Gang Operated
GOR Gas to oil ratio of oil well fluids
GOS Group Operated Switches
GPIO General Purpose Input / Output
GPRS General Packet Radio Service
GPS Global Positioning System
GRMC Galvanized Rigid Metal Conduit
GRP Glass reinforced plastic
GSM Global System for Mobile Communications
GSWA Galvanised steel wire armour
GSWB Galvanised steel wire braid
GTG or GT Gas-turbine generator
GTO Gate turn off thyristor
GUI Graphic User Interface
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h or hr Hour
HART Highway Addressable Remote Transducer
HBC high breaking capacity (fuse)
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
HVD High-Voltage Differential
Hz Frequency in cycles per second, or hertz
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I Current in amperes
I/O Input or output signals or quantity
I2 operating current (fuse or circuit breaker)
Ia current to operate protective device
IAC or Iac Alternating current
IALA International Association of Lighthouse Authorities
Ib design current
IC Integrated circuit
ICDB Iron Clad Distribution Board
ICI Imperial Chemical Industries plc (UK)
ICSP In Circuit Serial Programming
ICTP Iron Clad Triple Pole
Id fault current
IDC, Idc Direct current
IDMT Inverse definite minimum time
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IEE Institution of Electrical Engineers
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IF Intermediate Frequency
IFT Inverse Fourier Transform
IG Isolated Ground
IGBT Insulated-gate Bipolar Transistor
IGFET Insulated Gate Field Effect Transistor
IMC Intermediate Metal Conduit
IMCS Integrated motor control system
IMO International Maritime Organisation
IMS Information management system
In current setting of protective device
inst. Instantaneous quantity
INT Interlock
int. Intermittent quantity
IOT Internet of Things

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IP Ingress protection
IPMSM Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor
IR Insulation resistance
IS Intrinsically safe signal, circuit or equipment
Is/In or IS/IN Ratio of starting current to running current
ISO International Standards Organisation
ISP Internet Service Provider
IT Earthing system
ITU International Telecommunication Union
Iz current carrying capacity
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J Current density, amps/mm²
JB Junction Box
JEDEC Joint Electron Device Engineering Council
JFET Junction field effect transistor
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k kilo - one thousand times
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 kilovolt (1000 V)
kV or Ku Kilo-volts
KVA Kilovolt-Amperes
KVAR Kilovolt-Amperes Reactive
KVL Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law
kW Kilowatts
kWH Kilo Watt Hour
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L Electrical inductance in henries
L1, L2, L3, N Notation for line and neutral voltages and currents
LA Lightning Arrester
LAN Local area network
lbs Weight of a substance in pounds
LCD Liquid-crystal display
LDB Lighting Distribution Board
LDR Light Dependent Resistor
LDS Low density foam
LED Light emitting diode
LEL Lower explosive limit
LF Low frequency
LFMC Liquid Tight Flexible Metal Conduit
LHS Left-hand side
Li–ion Lithium Ion, a type of rechargeable battery
Lloyds Lloyds Register of Shipping (UK)
LMS Load management system
LNA Low noise amplifier
LNG Liquefied natural gas
loc or (L) Local operation
LOP Loss of power
LOPT Line Output Transformer
LOS Loss of signal
LPF Low Pass Filter
LPG Liquefied petroleum gas
LPS Lightning Protection System
LRA Lock Rotor Amps
LSB Least Significant Bit
LSDS, LSS Load shedding system
LSF Low smoke and fumes, applied to cables and wires
LSI Large-scale integration
LSLH Low smoke low halogen

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LSRS, LSR Load sharing system
LT Low Tension
LTG Lighting
LUT Look Up Table
LUX Level of illumination
LV Low voltage, 50 to 600 volts
LVDT Linear Variable Differential Transformer
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m Length or dimension in meters, or month
m.i. mineral-insulated
mA Current in milli-amperes
MAD Mean Annual Discharge
man or (M) Manual operation
MB High-pressure mercury, without phosphor coating
mbar Milli-bar
MBB Make-before-break
MBF High-pressure mercury, with phosphor coating
High-pressure mercury, with phosphor coating and internal
MBFR
reflector
MBI High-pressure discharge with metallic halides
High-pressure discharge with metallic halides, with phosphor
MBIF
coating
MBR Double-ended linear arc tube
MBTF Combination of MBF lamp and a filament lamp
MC Metal Clad Cable
MCB Main Circuit Breaker
MCC Motor control center
MCCB Moulded case circuit breaker
Switch-start lamp, also used for tubular fluorescent lamps in
MCF
general
Starterless lamp, with earth strip, mainly used in cold
MCFA
environments
MCFE Starterless lamp, coated with silicone
MCM Multi-Chip Module
MCP Motor Circuit Protection
MCR Maximum continuous rating
MCu Microcontroller
MD maximum demand
MDB Main Distribution Board
MEC Micro Energy Cell

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MEMS Micro ElectroMechanical Systems
MESFET Metal Semiconductor Field-Effect-Transistor
MESG Maximum experimental safe gap
MF Multiplying Factor
MFSK Multiple frequency-shift keying
Mho Unit of electrical admittance
MI Mineral Insulated
MIC Minimum ignition current
MICC Mineral insulated calander cable
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIMIC Mimic display panel
MISO Master Input Slave Output
MLDB Main Lighting Distribution Board
MLO Main Lugs Only
mm Length or dimension in millimeters
MMF, mmf Magnetomotive force
MMI Manmachine interface
MMSCF Million standard cubic feet of a gas
Mole% Molecular weight in %
MOSFET Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
MOSI Master Output Slave Input
MOV Metal oxide varistor
MPCB Motor Protection Circuit Breaker
MPDB Main Power Distribution Board
MPPT Maximum Power Point Tracking
MPU Microprocessor
MS Main Switch
MSB Most Significant Bit
MSW Module steelwork
MT Mica glass tape
MTBF Mean time between failures
MTTR Mean time to repair
MUX Multiplexer, several analog or digital inputs into single output
MV Medium voltage

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MVA Mega-volt-amperes
MVAr Reactive mega-volt-amperes
MW Megawatt
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N or n Neutral terminal or line
NACE National Association of Corrosion Engineers (USA)
NBR Nitrile butadiene rubber
NC Normally Closed
NC or N/C Normally closed switching device
NCT Neutral Current Transformer
NDE Non-drive end of a shaft
NEC National Electric Code (USA)
NEMA National Electrical Manufacturers Association
NER Neutral earth resistor
NFPA National Fire Protection Association
Ni Nickel metal
National Inspection Council for Electrical Installation
NICEIC
Contracting
NL Neutral Link, Night Light
NO Normally Open or Number
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
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O Open, off or stop
OC, O/C Overcurrent or open circuit
OCB Oil circuit breaker
OCTC On-circuit Tap Changer
Open Circuit Voltage, the difference in electrical potential
OCV
when disconnected from a circuit
OF or O/F Overfrequency
Forced circulation of internal liquid, forced heat exchanging to
OFAF
external air
Forced circulation of internal liquid, natural heat exchanging
OFAN
to external air
OHL OHLine Overhead line
OHL or
Overhead line
OHLine
Ohms Unit of electrical resistance or impedance
OIM Offshore installation manager
OL, O/L Overload
OLED Organic light-emitting diode
OLP OverLoad Protection
OLR OverLoad Relay
OLTC On-load Tap Changer
Naturally circulated internal liquid, forced heat exchanging to
ONAF
external air
Oil Natural, Air Natural Naturally circulated internal liquid,
ONAN
natural heat exchanging to external air
OpAmp Operational Amplifier
OSC Oscillator
OSHA Occupational Health and Safety Administration (USA)
OTA Operational Transconductance Amplifier
OV or O/V Overvoltage
OVP Overvoltage Protector
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P Pole
P & ID Piping and instrument diagram
P or W Active power, watts, Pole
p, s Laplace operator in mathematics, for transfer functions
p.d. potential difference
p.v.c. poly-vinyl chloride
PA Public address system
PAL Programmable Array Logic
PAM Pulse or pole amplitude modulation
PB Push Button or Panic Button or Pull Box
PB, Pb Lead metal
PBCU, TCU Tinned copper
PBWB Phosphor bronze wire braid
PC Programmable controller or personal computer
PCB Printed circuit board
PCC Point of common connection
PCM Pulse-code modulation
PDA Personal digital assistant
PDB Power Distribution Board
PDM Pulse density modulation
PDP Power Distribution Panel
PEC PhotoElectric Cell
An extra-low voltage system similar to SELV but connected to
PELV
earth at some point
PEN combined protective and neutral
PFD Phase/frequency detector
PFM Pulse Frequency Modulation
PGA Programmable Gain Amplifier
Ph, ph Phases of an electrical circuit
Proportional, Integral, Derivative A type of controller used in
PID
control systems
PIR Passive Infrared

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PIV Peak Inverse Voltage
pk, peak Peak value of an instantaneous quantity
PLA Programmable logic array
PLC Programmable logic controller
PLCC Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier
PLL Phase-Locked Loop
PM Permanent Magnet
PME protective multiple earthing
PMIC Power Management Integrated
pMOS P-channel metal-oxide semiconductor
PMS Power management system
PMSM Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor
P-N Positive-Negative (junction in semiconductors)
PNL Panel
POL Polyethylene
POR Power-on reset
Pot Potentiometer
POV Peak Operating Voltage
PPM Pulse Position Modulation, Parts Per Million
PRC Parasitic resistance cancellation
PRV Peak Reverse Voltage
PSC prospective short-circuit current
PSI Pounds per Square Inch
PSK Phase Shift Keying
PSR Power-supply rejection
PSRR Power Supply Rejection Ratio
PT Potential Transformer
PTB Physilalish Technische Bundesanstalt
PTC Positive Temperature Coefficient
PTFE Poly tetra fluoro ethylene
PTP Polyethylene terephthalate
Pu, p.u. Per unit
PUT Programmable Unijunction Transistor
PV PhotoVoltaic
PVC Polyvinyl chloride

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PVDF Polyvinylidene fluoride
PWD Pulse-width distortion
PWM Pulse width modulation
PWR Power
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Q Reactive power, volt-amperes-reactive
QA Quality assurance
QAM Quadrature amplitude modulation
QC Quality control
QFP Quad Flat Package
QTY Quantity
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R resistance (electrical)
R or r Electrical resistance
r.m.s. root-mean-square (effective value)
the total resistance of the earth electrode and the protective
Ra
conductor onnecting it to exposed conductive parts

Rad, rad Angular displacement in radians

RADAR Radio Detection and Ranging
RAM Random access memory
RCBO Residual Current Circuit Breaker with Overload Protection
RCCB means Residual Current Circuit Breaker
RCCB, RCB Residual-Current Circuit Breaker
RCD Residual current device
RCU Remote control unit
RDOL Reverse Duty On Line Starter
Ref. Reference
rem or R Remote operation
REQ Required
RF Radio Frequency
RFDS Radio frequency design system
RFID Radio Frequency Identification
RGB Red Green Blue
RGS Rigid Galvanized Steel Conduit
RHS Right-hand side
RIO Remote Input Output
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer
RJ45 Registered Jack 45 An 8 pin Ethernet Jack
RLA Rated Load Amperes
RLC Resistance Inductance Capacitance
RMC Rigid Metal Conduit
RMG Ring Main Gear

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RMS Root Mean Squared
RMS, rm Root mean square
RMU Ring main unit
RNC Rigid Non-Metallic Conduit
ROM Read only memory
Rp resistance of the human body
RPM Revolutions per Minute
RPR Reverse Power Relay
RPS Revolutions per Second
RSC Rigid Steel Conduit
RTC Real-time clock
RTD Resistance temperature detector
RTOS Real Time Operating System
RTS Remote Test Station
RTU Remote transmitter unit
Rx Receiver
Red, Yellow, Blue (Old Color Codes used for three phase
RYB
Wiring – UK)
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S Apparent power in volt-amperes
SAR Successive Approximation Register
SAW Surface Acoustic Wave
SB Switch Board
SBM Single buoy mooring
SC, S/C Short circuit
SCADA Supervisory control and data acquisition system
SCF Standard cubic feet of a gas
SCIM Squirrel Cage Induction Motor
SCK Serial Clock
SCR Silicon Controlled Rectifier
SCS Silicon Controller Switch
SCSI Small Computer System Interface
SDR Single discipline review
SE Service Entrance
SEB Service End Line Box or Service Electrical Box
SECT Skin effect current trace heating
SELV Safety extra-low voltage
SF6 Sulphur hexafluoride
SFU Switch Fuse Unit
SI Syste`me Internationale d’Unite´s
SIM Subscriber identity module
SIO Serial Input and (serial) Output
SIPO Serial In Parallel Out
SLDB Secondary Lighting Distribution Board
SLI Double-ended, linear arc tube
SMD Surface Mount Device
SMPS Switch-mode power supply
SMSB Sub Main Switchboard
SMT Surface mount technologies
SNR Signal-to-Noise Ratio
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SOIC Small Outline Integrated Circuit
SOL CU Solid copper
SOLAS Safety of life at sea, a document relating to marine practice
SON Diffused ellipsoidal outer bulb, single-ended lamp
SONAR SOund NAvigation and Ranging
SON-R SON lamp, with internal reflector
SON-T Clear tubular outer bulb, single-ended lamp
SON-TD or –
Clear tubular outer bulb, double-ended lamp
L
SON-TD, – L Clear tubular outer bulb, double-ended lamp
SOP Small Outline Package
SOT Small outline transistor
Sox Sulphur based gas emissions
SP Single phase
SPDT Single Pole Double Throw
SPI Serial Peripheral Interface
SPICE Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis
SPMSM Surface Permanent magnet Synchronous Motor
SPST Single Pole Single Throw
SPT Stranded Parallel Thermoplastic
sq Square, eg sq mm is square millimeters
SR Shift Register, Slew Rate
SRAM Static Random Access Memory
SRF Self-resonant frequency
SRIM Slip Ring Induction Motor
SRM Switched Reluctance Motor
SSB Single SideBand
SSI Small Scale Integration
SSR Solid State Relay
ST Shunt Trip
STA Steel Tape Armoure
STG Steam turbine generator
STP Shielded Twisted Pair
STR Statimax Trip Release

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SW Switch
SWA Steel wire armour
SWBD Switchboard
SWG Standard Wire Gauge
SWGR Switchgear
SYM Symmetrical
SYNC or
Synchronising
Sync
SYNC, Sync Synchronizing
SyRM Synchronous Reluctance Motor
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t time
T/F Transformer
TB Terminal Block
TC Temperature Coefficient
TCP Gas-turbine control panel
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
Td Time constant in seconds for the quantity ‘d’
TDRM Time delayed restart relay
TEFC Totally enclosed fan cooled
TEL Telephone
TEL, TELE Telecommunications, Telephone
TEM Transverse Electromagnetic (wave)
temp. Temperature
Totally enclosed separate fan cooled, fan attached to an
TESFC
auxiliary motor Shaft
TF Transfer Function
TFD Thin Film Detector
TFT Thin Film Transistor
TG Turbo-generator, gas or steam
TGB Telecommunications Grounding Bus bar
THD Total Harmonic Distortion
THF Telephone harmonic factor
TLX Cold starting tubular fluorescent lamp, with single-pin caps
TM Technical measurement system of units
TMCB Thermal Magnetic Circuit Breaker
TN-C earthing system
TN-C-S earthing system
TN-S earthing system
Gas-turbine operating temperature (hot-end blade
TOP
temperature)
TPDT Triple Pole Double Throw

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TPIC Triple Pole Iron Clad
TPN Three-phase and neutral power supply
TPPL Total plant peak load
TPRL Total plant running load
TPS Triple Pole Switch
TPST Triple Pole Single Throw
TRS Tough Rubber Sheathed
TT earthing system
TTL Transistor-Transistor Logic
TVS- Diode Transient Voltage Suppression Diode
Tx Transmitter
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U symbol for voltage (alternative for V)
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver and Transmitter
UC, U/C Undercurrent
UCP Unit control panel
UDS Uniform Drawing System
UEL Upper explosive limit
UF or U/F Underfrequency
UF, U/F Under frequency
UG Under Ground
UHF Ultra high frequency
UJT Unijunction Transistor
UL Underwriters Laboratory
UL or U/L Underload
UL, U/L Under load
UNO Unless noted otherwise
Uo phase voltage
UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply
Universal Synchronous and Asynchronous Receiver and
USART
Transmitter
USB Universal Serial Bus
UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair
UV or U/V Undervoltage
UV, U/V Under voltage
UVLO Under voltage lockout
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V Volt
V, U Voltage or volts
V.T., VT Voltage transformer
v/v Comparison by volume, per-unit
VA Volt-Ampere
VAC, Vac Alternating voltage
VAr, Var Reactive volt-amperes
VCA Voltage Controlled Amplifier
VCB Vacuum Circuit Breaker
VCC Voltage at the common collector
VCCS Voltage Controlled Current Source
VCD Variable Capacitance Diode
VCO Voltage Controlled Oscillator
VCXO Voltage-Controlled Crystal Oscillator
VDC, Vdc Direct voltage
VDE Verband Deutscher Electrechniker (Germany)
VDI Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (Germany)
VDU Visual display unit
VFD Variable Frequency Drive
VFDP Variable Frequency Drive Panel
VFO Variable-frequency oscillator
VGA Video Graphics Adapter
VHF Very high frequency
VIR Vulcanized Indian Rubber
VLSI Very Large Scale Integration
Volt Ohm Meter, a device also known as a millimeter or
VOM
multitester
VSD, VSDS Variable speed drive systems
VSI Voltage source inverter
VSWR Voltage Standing Wave Ratio
VVVF Variable Voltage Variable Frequency Drive
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W watt - unit of power
W or P Active power, watts
w or ω Frequency in radians per second
WAN Wide Area Network
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
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X Electrical reactance
XLPA Cross-linked polyalkene
XLPE Cross-linked polyethylene
XO Crystal Oscillator
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Y Electrical admittance
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Z Electrical impedance
Ze earth loop impedance external to installation
ZH Zero halogen, as used for cables
Zs earth fault loop impedance
ZVC Zero voltage crossing
ZVS Zero voltage switching
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θ phase angle
Φ Phase
Ω Ohm
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