Uncategorized Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Uncategorized Acronyms

• OSE — Own Separate Entrance
• OSERS — U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education And Rehabilitative Services
• OSETI — Optical SETI
• OSI — Office of Strategic Influence – Ontario Swine Improvement – Open Source Initiative – Open Systems Interconnection
• OSIA — (U.S.) On-Site Inspection Agency
• OSL — Open Source License – Optically Stimulated Luminescence – Orbiting Solar Laboratory
• OSS — Office of Strategic Services (1942?1945
• OSS — Ossetic Language (ISO 639-2 Code)
• OTA — Office of Technology Assessment -Orthodontic Technicians Association
• OTB — Off The Ball -OneSAF Testbed (a Descendant of ModSAF)
• OTC — Over-The-Counter (drugs)
• OTEA — (U.S. Army) Operational Test Evaluation Agency
• OTI — Office of Transition Initiatives (United States Agency For International Development)
• OTO — Ordo Templi Orientis (Latin
• OTOH — On The Other Hand
• OTSBH — Over The Shoulder Boulder Holder
• OVC — Overcast (METAR Code)
• OVV — Optically Visually Violent
• OW — Old Wykehamist
• P — Peta – Phosphorus
• P — Pico
• P2P — Peer-to-peer (networking)
• P3I OR P?I — PrePlanned Product Improvement
• PA — Panama (ISO 3166 Digram) – Paraguay (FIPS 10-4 Country Code) -Partial Agonist -Pennsylvania (postal Symbol) – Petampere -PolyAmide (Nylon) – Prince Albert Piercing – Public Address (vocal Amplification System) – Public Affairs
• PA — Pascal – Protactinium
• PA — Picoampere
• PA — Punjabi Language (ISO 639-1 Code)
• PA 6 — Nylon 6 (PolyAmide) (similarly For PA 11
• PAA — Position Area For Artillery
• PAB — Panamean Balboa (ISO 4217 Currency Code)
• PABX — Private Automated Branch EXchange (company Phone System)
• PAC — Pan Africanist Congress -Partial Solar Calibrator – Patriot Advanced Capabilities – Political Action Committee -Primary Auditory Cortex
• PACOM — (U.S.) Pacific Command
• PADI — Professional Association of Diving Instructors
• PAEK — PolyArylEtherKetone
• PAFC — Plymouth Argyle Football Club
• PAHO — Pan American Health Organization
• PAI — PolyAmide Imide
• PAK — Pakistan (ISO 3166 Trigram)
• PAKISTAN — Punjab
• PAL — Phase Alternating Line (TV Standard) -Philippine Airlines
• PAM — Precision Attack Missile
• PAMELA — Payload For Antimatter Matter Exploration And Light-nuclei Astrophysics
• PAMELA — Pedestrian Accessibility And Movement Environment Laboratory
• PAN — STARRS -Panoramic Survey Telescope And Rapid Response System
• PAN — Panama (ISO 3166 Trigram) -Personal Area Network -PolyAcryloNitrile
• PAN — Punjabi Language (ISO 639-2 Code)
• PANS — Pretty Advanced/Awesome Network Services (cf. POTS)
• PAO — Public Affairs Officer
• PAPI — Precision Approach Path Indicator (aviation)
• PARC — Palo Alto Research Center
• PAROS — Prevention of An Arms Race In Outer Space (treaty)
• PARP — (NATO Partnership For Peace) Planning And Review Process
• PARWIG — Power Augmented Ram Wing In Ground (aeroplane Wing Shape)
• PAS — See Entry
• PASA — PolyAmide
• PASGT — Personnel Armor System
• PASR — Personnel Accounting And Strength Reporting
• PATH — Port Authority Trans-Hudson
• PAWS — Phased Array Warning System – Progressive Animal Welfare Society
• PAYD — Pay As You Drive
• PAYE — Pay As You Earn
• PB — PolyButylene
• PB — Lead (Latin Plumbum)
• PBB — PolyBrominated Biphenyl
• PBCK — Problem Between Chair And Keyboard (computer Help Desk In-joke)
• PBD — PolyButaDiene
• PBDE — PolyBrominated Diphenyl Ether
• PBI — PolyBenzImidazole
• PBN — PolyButylene Naphthalate
• PBS — Public Broadcasting Service
• PBT — PolyButylene Terephthalate
• PBX — Private Branch EXchange (company Phone System)
• PC — Petacoulomb – U.S. Pacific Islands Trust Territory (ISO 3166 Digram; Obsolete 1986) -Personal Computer – Player Character (roleplaying) – Politically Correct / Political Correctness – Post Cibum (Latin
• PC — Picocoulomb
• PCAS — Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey
• PCB — See Entry
• PCC — NATO Partnership Coordination Cell – Posterior Cingulate Cortex – Pre-Command Course – Presidents Conference Committee
• PCCB — Porsche Ceramic Composite Brake
• PCCIP — President’s Commission On Critical Infrastructure Protection
• PCE — PerChlorEthylene
• PCI — U.S. Pacific Islands Trust Territory (ISO 3166 Trigram; Obsolete 1986) -Peripheral Component Interconnect (computer Bus)
• PCIE — Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (computer Bus)
• PCL — Passive Coherent Location
• PCMCIA — Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (People Can’t Memorise Computer-Industry Acronyms)
• PCN — Pitcairn Islands (ISO 3166 Trigram)
• PCP — Phencyclidine – Pneumocystis Jiroveci Pneumonia (formerly Peumocystis Carinii) -Probabilistically Checkable Proof
• PCR — Polymerase Chain Reaction
• PCTE — Portable Common Tool Environment;Punjab College of Technical Education
• PCZ — Panama Canal Zone (ISO 3166 Trigram; Obsolete 1980)
• PD — Per Diem (Latin: (calculated) By The Day) – Point of Departure – Police Department – Postal District – Potential Difference – Principal Deputy – Public Domain
• PD — Palladium
• PDA — Personal Digital Assistant – Predicted Drift Angle – Public Display of Affection – Push-Down Automaton
• PDD — Past Due Date – Presidential Decision Directive
• PDF — Panama[nian] Defense Forces (abolished 1990) – Portable Document Format – Principal Direction of Fire
• PDG — President Director General – Product Development Group
• PDL — Pure Dumb Luck (Texan Punk Band)
• PDN — Pull-Down Network
• PDQ — Pre-Defined Queries (Siebel Packages) – Pretty Damn Quick
• PDRY — People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (obsolete Since 1990)