Uncategorized Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Uncategorized Acronyms

• PV — Picovolt
• PVC — Permanent Virtual Circuit – PolyVinyl Chloride – Premature Ventricular Contraction – Primary Visual Cortex
• PVE — Player Versus Environment
• PVP — Player Versus Player
• PVR — Personal Video Recorder
• PW — Palau (postal Symbol; ISO 3166 Digram) – Petawatt
• PW — Picowatt
• PWA — Pirates With Attitude
• PWC — PieceWise Constant (describing A Mathematical Function)
• PWL — PieceWise Linear (describing A Mathematical Function)
• PWLC — PieceWise Linear And Concave/Convex (describing A Mathematical Function)
• PWP — Plot
• PWR — Pressurized Water Reactor
• PX — Post EXchange
• PY — Paraguay (ISO 3166 Digram) – Person-Year -Portsmouth Yardstick
• PYF — French Polynesia (ISO 3166 Trigram)
• PYG — Paraguayan Guarani (ISO 4217 Currency Code)
• PZ — Panama Canal Zone (ISO 3166 Digram; Obsolete 1980) -Pickup Zone
• Q1 — First Quarter
• Q2 — Second Quarter
• Q3 — Third Quarter
• Q4 — Fourth Quarter
• QA — Qatar (FIPS 10-4 Country Code; ISO 3166 Digram)
• QANTAS — Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Services
• QAP — Quadripartite Advisory Publication (kwapp)
• QAR — Qatari Rial (ISO 4217 Currency Code)
• QAT — Qatar (ISO 3166 Trigram)
• QB — Quarterback (football)
• QC — Quality Control -Qu?bec (postal Symbol) -Queen’s Counsel
• QCA — Qualifications And Curriculum Authority – Quality Council of Alberta
• QCD — Quantum ChromoDynamics
• QD — Quaque Die (Latin
• QDOS — Quick And Dirty Operating System (cue-doss)
• QDR — Quadrennial Defense Review
• QED — Quantum Electrodynamics -quid Es Demonstrata Or Quod Erat Demonstrandum (Latin
• QEH — Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital
• QFE — Quoted For Emphasis -Local Ground Level Atmospheric Pressure (aeronautical Q Code)
• QID — Quater In Die (Latin
• QIP — Quadrilateral Interoperability Programme (ancestor of MIP; Quip)
• QK — Air Canada Jazz (IATA Airline Designator)
• QLD — Queensland
• QM — Quality Management – Quantum Mechanics – Queen Mother
• QNH — Regional Mean Sea Level Atmospheric Pressure (aeronautical Q Code)
• QPR — Queens Park Rangers (English Football Team)
• QPS — Quark Publishing System
• QR — Quake Rally – Qualitative Reasoning – Queensland Rail – Queen’s Rangers – Quick Release – Quiet Riot -Qatar Airways (IATA Airline Designator)
• QS — Quantum Sufficit (Latin
• QSCAT — Quick Scatterometer Satellite
• QSL — Qu?bec Sign Language
• QSO — Quasi-Stellar Object
• QSTAG — Quadripartite Standardization Agreement (cue-stag)
• QT — Quentin Tarantino – QuickTime – QuikTrip
• QU — Quechua Language (ISO 639-1 Code)
• QUANGO — (British Commonwealth) QUasi Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation
• QUASAR — Quasi-stellar Radio Source
• QUE — Quechua Language (ISO 639-2 Code)
• QUIET — Q And U Imaging ExperimenT (Q And U Are The Stokes Parameters of The CMBR Polarization)
• QV — Quod Vide (Latin Which See)
• QVC — Quality
• QWG — Quadripartite Working Group (qwig)
• QWGAOR — Quadripartite Working Group On Army Operational Research (qwig-a-o-r)
• QZ — Awair (IATA Airline Designator)
• R — Reinforcing – Right -R?ntgen
• R&B — Rhythm And Blues
• R&D — Research & Development
• R&R — Rest & Relaxation
• R&S — Reconnaissance & Surveillance
• R2I — Resistance To Interrogation
• R3P — Rearm
• RA — Radium
• RA — Rain (METAR Code) -Rear Area – Reinforced Alert – Republican Army – Right Ascension – Royal Artillery (UK) – Royal Academy
• RAA — Rear Assembly Area
• RAAF — Royal Australian Air Force
• RAC — Royal Automobile Club (in The United Kingdom
• RACK — Risk Aware Consensual Kink (SM Phrase)
• RACON — RAdar BeaCON
• RADAR — RAdio Detection And Ranging
• RADB — Real America Database – Resource Assessment Database – Reunion Address DataBase – Rice Allelopathy Data Base – Routing Arbiter Data Base
• RADB — Routing Assets Data Base
• RADB — Rad51/Dmc1 Homologous Protein
• RADC — Region Air Defence Commander
• RAE — UK Royal Aircraft Establishment (?1991)
• RAF — Red Army Faction – Royal Air Force
• RAG — Raising And Giving – Rocket Antitank Grenade
• RAM — Random Access Memory – Rolling Airframe Missile – Royal Air Maroc
• RAMARK — RAdar MARKer
• RAOC — Rear Area Operation Centre
• RAP — Radio Access Point – Radiological Assistance Program (U.S. Department of Energy) – Rear Area Protection – Recognised [Operating/Operational] Air Picture – Recurring Advance Payment – Relational Associative Processor – Reliable Acoustic Path – Rocket-Assis
• RARDE — UK Royal Armament Research And Development Establishment (1962?1991)
• RATELO — Radiotelephone Operator
• RB — Running Back (football)
• RB — Rubidium
• RBCI — Radio Based Combat Identification
• RBI — Runs Batted In
• RBOC — Regional Bell Operating Company (Baby Bell)
• RC — See Entry
• RCA — Radio Corporation of America – Root Cause Analysis – Royal Canadian Artillery – Royal City Avenue (famous Entertainment Zone In Thailand)
• RCAF — Royal Canadian Air Force
• RCAR — Research Council For Automobile Repairs (are-car)
• RCC — Rescue Co-ordination Centre