Abbreviations/Acronyms

machine intelligence

Also referred to as military standard (MIL-STD),  a military specification is a defense specification or standard utilized by the United States and established by the U.S. department of defense to achieve standardization and regulation of defense related products and objectives.

U.S. military standard. See MIL-SPEC.

metal-insulator-metal

multiple-instruction/multiple-data

multistage interconnection network

minimum; minute

minimum radiation requirements

missile precision instrumentation radar

million instructions per second

mid-infrared advanced chemical laser

microreciprocal degree

microreciprocal kelvin

modulation-inducing retrodirective optical system

molecular infrared track

Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Japan)

millilambert; milliliter

multilayer ceramic

millimeter

man-machine interface

monolothic microwave integrated circuit

metal nitride oxide semiconductor

metal nitride semiconductor

metallorganic chemical vapor deposition

minimum object distance

micro-optoelectromechanical systems

micro-optic gyroscope

microwave and optical generation and amplification

million operations per second

metal-oxide semiconductor

metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor

maximum permissible exposure

Michelson polarizing inter-ferometer; multiphoton ionization

milliradian

minimum resolvable contrast

minimum resolvable temperature

millisecond

microchannel spatial light modulator

modulated transmission ellipsometry

millivolt

milliwatt

medium-wavelength infrared; mid-wave infrared

nonsymmetrical modified chemical vapor deposition

nonlinear amplifying loop mirror

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

narrowband mirror

nominal hazard zone

N-type metal-oxide semiconductor

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

nominal ocular hazard distance