Electronics and Technology Acronyms

    A-C        D-F        G-I        J-L        M-O        P-R        S-U      V-Z    

VAR        - Volt-Ampere Reactive.

VCA        - Voltage-Controlled Amplifier.

VCO        - Voltage-Controlled Oscillator.

VCR        - Video Cassette Recorder.

VGA        - Variable Gain Amplifier./ Video Graphics Adapter.

VHF         - Very High Frequency.

VHDL     - VHSIC Hardware Description Language.

VHSIC    - Very High Speed Integrated Circuit.

VHS        - Video Home System.

VLF         - Vertical Laminar Flow.

VLSI        - Very Large Scale Integration.

VM          - Virtual Machine.

V-MOS    - V-groove Metal Oxide Semiconductor.

VMS       - Virtual Memory System.

VPD        - Vapor Phase Deposition.

VPE         - Vapor Phase Epitaxy.

VRAM    - Video Random Access Memory.

VRML    - Virtual Reality Modeling Language.

VSAT      - Very Small Aperture Terminal. (satellite communications)

VSB        - Vestigial Sideband.

VSWR    - Voltage Standing Wave Ratio.

VTVM    - Vacuum Tube Voltmeter.

W                 - Tungsten.

W3               - World Wide Web.

W3C             - World Wide Web Consortium.

WAN            - Wide Area Network.

WDM          - Wavelength Division Multiplex.

WLAN         - Wireless Local Area Network.

WMF           - Windows Meta File.

WSI              - Wafer Scale Integration.

WYSIWYG  - What You See Is What You Get. (graphical interface)

WWAN        - Wireless Wide Area Networks.

WWW          - World Wide Web.

XHTML- Extended Hyper-Text Markup Language.

XLS       - Excimer Laser System.

XML     - Extensible Markup Language.

XMP      - X-ray Micro-Probe.

XPS       - X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy.

XOR      - Exclusive-OR Gate.

XRF       - X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry.

XSEM   - Cross-sectional Scanning Electron Microscopy.

XTP       - Express Transfer Protocol.

Y            - Yttrium.

YAG      - Yttrium-Aluminum-Garnet.

YIG       - Yttrium-Iron-Garnet.

YIQ       - Y(luminance) Intensity Q(crominance).

YMT     - Yield Management Tools.

ZCC      - Zone Control Conveyor.

ZIF        - Zero Insertion Force.

ZIP        - Zigzag Inline Package: archived file format.