Abbreviations/Acronyms

visible

video imaging system for detection, tracking and assessment

aviator's night vision imaging system

absolute (kelvin degrees), absorption, acoustic, alpha particle, analog, anode, ampere, amplitude, area, atomic, atomic mass, Helmholtz free energy, mass number, nucleon number

active-cavity radiometer

AC thin film electroluminescent display devices

Advisory Group on Electron Tubes

airborne intelligent display; area imaging device

angular sensitivity

Asynchronous Time Division Multiplexing

audiovisual

Automated Vision Association

active vibration cancellation

acoustic video processor integrated display station

broadband integrated services digital network

boresight television

backscatter ultraviolet

birefringent wavelength division multiplexing

community antenna television

charge-coupled device

closed-circuit television

Center for Devices and Radiological Health

compressed digital video

controlled environment vault

centigram; center of gravity

charge-injection device

communications, information and processing services

charge-primed device

charge-transfer device

chemical vapor deposition; compact videodisc

compact video-rate optical scanner

coarse wavelength division multiplexing

detectivity

division air defense

deformable membrane device

digital map processor; digital micromirror device

deep-ultraviolet

digital videodisc

direct-view diagnostic region

digital video interaction

direct-view storage tube

dense wavelength division multiplexing

emitter-coupled logic; external cavity laser

extrafield sensitivity

electromagnetic energy; electromagnetic environment

excimer moderate-power Raman shifted laser device

European Photonics Association; Environmental Protection Agency

environmental survey satellite

environmental thermal infrared

extreme ultraviolet