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Aabsolute (kelvin degrees), absorption, acoustic, alpha particle, analog, anode, ampere, amplitude, area, atomic, atomic mass, Helmholtz free energy, mass number, nucleon number
AAanalog to analog, anti-aliasing (AA optical filter e.g. low pass filter), approximate absolute temperature, atomic absorption
AAASAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science
ABGThe ABg model or Harvey-Shack is a method of describing bidirectional scattering from isotropic or polished surfaces.
ACORNsoftware package Atmospheric Correction Now
ACPacquisition control processor
ACRactive-cavity radiometer
ACTSadvanced communication technology satellite
ADMadaptive delta modulation; add-drop multiplexer
ADPCMadaptive differential pulse code modulation; varies the binary step interval for the required bandwidth for a given signal-to-noise ratio.
ADTautomatic data transmission; anthradithiophene
AELaccessible emission limit
AESAuger electron spectroscopy; atomic emission spectrometry
AFaudio frequency; autofocusing
AFCEAArmed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
AHantihalation
AIAAutomated Imaging Association
ALDatomic layer deposition
AMactive matrix; air mass; amplitude modulation
AMOLEDactive-matrix organic light-emitting diode
ANMCAmerican National Metric Council
ANRTAssociation Nationale de la Recherche Technique
ANSIAmerican National Standards Institute
ANVISaviator's night vision imaging system
AOIarea of interest; automatic optical inspection
APCVDatmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition
APDavalanche photodiode
APIapplication programming interface
APOMAAmerican Precision Optics Manufacturers Association
APTautomatic picture transmission
ARAbbe refractometer; acoustic radiometer; acoustic resonance; active region; alpha ray; amplitude ratio; antireflective; aperture ratio; applied research; argon; aspect ratio; atomic reactor; augmented reality
AREactivated reactive evaporation
ARMantiradiation missile
ASCIIAmerican Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASDSRSautomatic spectrum display and signal recognition system
ASEamplified spontaneous emission
ASICapplication-specific integrated circuit
ASIIAmerican Science Information Institute
ASISAmerican Society for Information Science
ATDMAsynchronous Time Division Multiplexing
ATEautomatic test and evaluation
ATLISautomatic tracking laser illumination system
ATRattenuated total reflectance; automatic target recognition
AVaudiovisual
AVAAutomated Vision Association
AVCactive vibration cancellation
AVDaxial vapor deposition
AVLISatomic vapor laser isotope separation
AVPIDSacoustic video processor integrated display station
BBARbroadband antireflection
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