A Amperes, amps. App Peak-to-peak amperes AA Anti-Aliasing AAAC All Aluminum Alloy Conductor AAC All Aluminum Conductor AACSR Aluminum Alloy Conductor Steel Reinforced AAF Anti-Aliasing Filter ABC Aerial Bundled Conductors or Cables AB switch Air Break switch AC Alternating current or voltage A/C Air Conditioning ACAR Aluminum Conductor Alloy Reinforced ACB Air Circuit Breaker ACCB Air Case Circuit Breaker ACDB Alternating Current Distribution Board ACSR Aluminum Conductor Steel Reinforced ACVS Air Conditioning & Ventilation System ADC Analog to Digital Converter AF Audio Frequency or Audible Frequency AFC Automated Frequency Control AFC Available Fault Current AFCB Arc Fault Circuit Breake
Trang 1AAAC All Aluminum Alloy Conductor
AAC All Aluminum Conductor
AACSR Aluminum Alloy Conductor Steel Reinforced
AAF Anti-Aliasing Filter
ABC Aerial Bundled Conductors or Cables
AB switch Air Break switch
AC Alternating current or voltage
A/C Air Conditioning
ACAR Aluminum Conductor Alloy Reinforced
ACB Air Circuit Breaker
ACCB Air Case Circuit Breaker
ACDB Alternating Current Distribution Board
ACSR Aluminum Conductor Steel Reinforced
ACVS Air Conditioning & Ventilation System
ADC Analog to Digital Converter
AF Audio Frequency or Audible Frequency
AFC Automated Frequency Control
AFC Available Fault Current
AFCB Arc Fault Circuit Breaker
Trang 2AFCI Arc Fault Circuit Interrupter
AFL Amps Full Load
AFT Automatic Fine Tuning
AGC Automatic Gain Control
AGME American Gear Manufacturer’s Association
AGPS Assisted (or Aided) GPS
AH Ampere-Hour Capacity of Batteries
AHU Air Handling Unit
AI Analog Input
AI Artificial Intelligence
AIC Ampere Interrupting Capacity
ALCI Appliance Leakage Current Interrupter
ALTC Automatic Load Tap Changing
ALU Arithmetic and Logic Unit
AMOLED Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode
ANSI American National Standards Institute
AO Analog Output
AoA Angle of Arrival
AOI Automatic Optical Inspection
AP Access Point
APD Avalanche Photo Diode
APFC Automatic Power Factor Control
API American Petroleum Institute, Application
Pro-gram Interface
Trang 3ARM Advanced Reduced instruction set computing
MachineARMS Arc Flash Reduction Maintenance Switch
ASCII American Standard Code for Information
Inter-changeASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASK Amplitude Shift Keying
ASME American Society for Testing and Materials
ASP Application Service Provider
ASTA Association of Short-circuit Testing Authorities.ATS Automatic Transfer Switch
ATC Automatic Temperature Control
ATMega Microcontroller Cip created by Atmel in the
megaAVR familyATMEL Advanced Technology for Memory and Logic
AV Audio/video
AVO-M Ampere-Volt-Ohm Meter
AVR Automatic Voltage Regulator
AWA Aluminum Wire Armour
AWG American Wire Gauge
B or b Electrical Susceptance
Bar or bar Pressure in atmospheres
BASEEFA British Approvals Service for Electrical
Equip-ment in Flammable AtmospheresBBM Break before Make
BCD Binary Coded Decimal
Trang 4BCR Backspace card reader and Barcode reader
BER Bit Error Rate
BEV Billion Electron Volts
BGA Ball Grid Array
BIL Breakdown insulation level
BJT Bipolar Junction Transistor
BLAC Brushless AC
BLDC Brushless DC
BLDM Brushless DC Motor
BOM Bill Of Materials
BPF Band Pass Filter
bps Bit per second
Bps Byte per second
BSI, BS, CP British Standards Institution, or its publicationsBTS Base Transceiver Station
BTU British thermal unit
BW Bandwidth, (difference between upper and
lower limits of a band of frequencies)
C Electrical capacitance, Conduit
CA Criticality Analysis
CAAPS Circuit Assembly And Processing System
CACA Totally enclosed air circuit, air cooled
CACW Totally enclosed air circuit, water cooled
CAD Computer aided design
CAN Controller area network
Trang 5CATV Cable Television or Community Antennae
Tele-vision
CB Circuit breaker
CBCU Circuit breaker control unit
CBI Complementary Binary, referring to a system of
codesCBM Certified Ballast Manufacturer
CBR Constant Bit Rate
CC Constant Current
CCCS Current Controlled Current Source
CCD Charge-Coupled Device
CCR Central control room
CCT Circuit (also: CIR, CKT)
CCTV Closed Circuit Television
CCU Central control unit
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CEGB Central Electricity Generating Board (UK)
CENELEC European Committee for Electro technical
Stan-dardizationcont Continuous quantity
CFL Compact Fluorescent Light or Compact
Fluo-rescent Lamp
CG Cable Glands
CIR Circuit (also: CCT, CKT)
CISC Complex Instruction Set Computer
Trang 6CKT Circuit (also: CCT, CIR)
CLF Current Limiting Fuse
CMOS Complementary Metal – Oxide SemiconductorCMRR Common Mode Rejection Ratio
CNC Computer Numeric Control
COG Chip-on-glass
COR CU Corrugated Copper
cos θ Power factor
CPLD Complex Programmable Logic Device
CPT Control Power Transformer
CPU Central Processing Unit
CRO Cathode Ray Oscilloscope
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CSA, csa Cross-Sectional Area
CSI Current Source Inverter
CSP Chloro Sulphonated Polyethylene
CSS Computerized Synchronizing System
CT Current Transformer
CU Un-tinned Copper
CUWB Copper Wire Braid
CVT Constant Voltage Transformer
DAC Digital to Analog Converter
db(A) Measurement unit of sound, Decibels, absolute.dBm Unit level for power ratio expressed in decibels
(dB) with reference to one mill watt (mW)
Trang 7DB Distribution Board
DC Direct Current or Voltage
DCDB Direct Current Distribution Board
DCS Distributed Control System
DE Drive End of a shaft
DEMUX Demultiplexer, Single input into multiple
out-putsDFT Discrete Fourier Transform
DIA Diameter
DIMM Dual-In-line Memory Module
DIN Deutsches Institut f¨ur Normung means German
Institute for StandardizationDIP Dual-in-Line Package
DIPS Dual-In-Line Sockets
DLD Digital Logic Design
DLL Delay Locked Loop
DMA Direct Memory Access
DMM Digital Multimeter
DMS Data management system
DMT Definite minimum time
DNC Do Not Connect
DO fuse Drop Out Fuse
DOL Direct-on-line starting of induction motors
DOS Disk Operating System
DP Double Pole or Distribution Panel
DPDT Double Pole, Double Throw
Trang 8DPI Dots Per Inch
DPIC Double Pole Iron Clad
DPM Digital panel meter
DPR Dividing Pulse Relay
DPST Double Pole, Single Throw
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
DRC Design Rule Checking
DSP Differential Signal Processing
DTMF Dual Tone Multi-Frequency
DTL Diode Transistor Logic
DTSP Discrete Time Signal Processing
DUT Device Under Test
DVM Digital Volt Meter
DWR Divided winding rotor synchronous generator
E Earth or ground
EB Equipment Branch
EBIC Electron-Beam-Induced Current
EC Electrical Code or Electrical Contractor or
Elec-tronic CommutatorECAD Electronic Computer-Aided Design
ECHA Equipment certified for hazardous areas
ECL Emitter coupled logic
EEC European Economic Community
EEMVA Engineering Equipment and Materials Users
As-sociation
Trang 9EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only
Memory
EF Exhaust Fan
EFT Electrical fast transient
EHT Extra High Tension
EHV Extra high voltage
EIEMA Electrical Installation Equipment
Manufac-turer’s Association (UK)ELCB Earth Leakage Circuit Breaker
ELDC Electric Double-Layer Capacitors (supercap)
ELEV Elevator
ELV Extra low voltage, less than 51 volts
EMA Ethylene methyl acrylate
EMC Electromagnetic compatibility
EMI Electromagnetic interference
EMF, e.m.f Electromotive force
EMLDB Emergency Lighting Distribution Board
EMR Electro Mechanical Relay
EMT Electrical Metallic Tubing
EOCR Electronic Overcurrent Relay
EOS Electrical Over Stress
EP Emergency Power
EPDM Ethylene propylene diene monomer
EPO Emergency Power Off (Button or Switch)
EPR Ethylene propylene rubber
Trang 10EPROM Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
ERA Electrical Research Association (UK)
ERM Electronic restart module
ESD Emergency shutdown, Electrostatic dischargeESL Equivalent Series Inductance
ESP Electric submersible pump
ESR Equivalent Series Resistance
EST Extra Super Tension
Ex (), Ex ‘ ’ Certification symbol for hazardous area
equip-ment
eV Electron volt, a unit of energy similar to joulesEWC Electric Water Cooler
EWS Engineering work station
F, f or Hz Frequency, Fuse, Farad
FA Fire Alarm
FAA Fire Alarm Annunciator
FAT Factory acceptance testing
FBA Factory built assemblies
FBT Fly back Transformer
FCEV Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle
FCU Feeder control unit
FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing
FDNR Frequency Dependent Negative Resistor
F and G Fire and Gas
FEED Front-end engineering and design of a project.FET Field Effect Transistor
Trang 11FFC Flexible Flat Cable
FFT Fast Fourier Transform
FIFO First-In, First-Out (a queue)
FILO First-In, Last-Out (a stack)
FLA Full Load Amperes
Flex Flexible, used for cables
FM Frequency Modulation
FMC Flexible Metal Conduit
FPGA Field-Programmable Gate Array
Freq Frequency
FRLS Fire Resistance Low Smoke
FSC Final Sub Circuit
FSM Finite State Machine
FSK Frequency Shift Keying
FVC Frequency to Voltage Converter
G or g Electrical conductance, or ground
GBW Gain Bandwidth Product
GCB Gas circuit breaker
GCP Generator control panel
GFCI Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter
GFI Ground Fault Interrupter
GIC Generalized Impedance Converter
GIS Gas insulated switchgear
gm Transconductance
GO Gang Operated
Trang 12GOR Gas to oil ratio of oil well fluids
GOS Group Operated Switches
GPIO General Purpose Input / Output
GPRS General Packet Radio Service
GPS Global Positioning System
GRMC Galvanized Rigid Metal Conduit
GRP Glass reinforced plastic
GSM Global System for Mobile Communications
GSWA Galvanized steel wire armour
GSWB Galvanized steel wire braid
GTG or GT Gas-turbine generator
GTO Gate turn off thyristor
GUI Graphic User Interface
h or hr Hour
HART Highway Addressable Remote Transducer
HBT Heterojunction bipolar transistor
HCL Hydrogen chloride, gas or acid
HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface
HED Hall Effect Device
HEMT High-electron-mobility transistor
HF High frequency
hF E Large-signal current gain of a BJT
HMI Human Machine Interface
HOA Hand-Off-Automatic Switch
HOFR Heat and oil resisting, flame retardant
Hp Horse power, unit of power in fps system
Trang 13HPF High Pass Filter
HRC High rupturing capacity
HT High Tension
HTS High-temperature semiconductor
HUI Human User Interface
HV High voltage, above 600 volts
HVAC Heating ventilation and air conditioning
Hz Frequency in cycles per second, or hertz
I Current in amperes
IAC or Iac Alternating current
IALA International Association of Lighthouse
Author-ities
IC Integrated circuit
ICDB Iron Clad Distribution Board
ICI Imperial Chemical Industries plc (UK)
ICSP In Circuit Serial Programming
ICTP Iron Clad Triple Pole
IDC, Idc Direct current
IDMT Inverse definite minimum time
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IEE Institution of Electrical Engineers of UK
IEEE Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers
of USA
IF Intermediate Frequency
IFT Inverse Fourier Transform
IG Isolated Ground
Trang 14IGBT Insulated-gate Bipolar Transistor
IGFET Insulated Gate Field Effect Transistor
I/O Input or output signals or quantity
IOT Internet of Things
IMO International Maritime Organization
IMC Intermediate Metal Conduit
IMCS Integrated motor control system
IMS Information management system
inst Instantaneous quantity
INT Interlock
int Intermittent quantity
IP Institute of Petroleum (UK) and its publications
IP Ingress protection code, see IEC60529
IPMSM Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor
IR Insulation resistance
IS Intrinsically safe signal, circuit or equipment
Is/In, IS/IN Ratio of starting current to running current
ISO International Standards Organization
ISP Internet Service Provider
ITU International Telecommunication Union
J Energy in joules or newton-meters
J Current density, amps/mm2
JB Junction Box
JFET Junction field effect transistor
JEDEC Joint Electron Device Engineering Council
kA Kilo-amperes
Trang 15KCL Kirchhoff’s Current Law
KCMIL Thousand Circular Mils
KEMA Short circuit testing authority in The
kVAr Reactive kilo-volt-amperes
KVL Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law
kW Kilowatts
KWH Kilo Watt Hour
L Electrical inductance in henries
L Line (Phase, Live or Hot) or local control
oper-ation
LA Lightning Arrester
LAN Local area network
lbs Weight of a substance in pounds
LCD Liquid-crystal display
LDB Lighting Distribution Board
LDR Light Dependent Resistor
LDS Low density foam
LED Light emitting diode
LEL Lower explosive limit
LF Low frequency
Trang 16LFMC Liquid Tight Flexible Metal Conduit
LHS Left-hand side
Li–ion Lithium Ion, a type of rechargeable battery
Lloyds Lloyds Register of Shipping (UK)
LMS Load management system
LNA Low noise amplifier
LNG Liquefied natural gas
loc or (L) Local operation
LOP Loss of power
LOPT Line Output Transformer
LOS Loss of signal
LPF Low Pass Filter
LPG Liquefied petroleum gas
LPS Lightning Protection System
LRA Locked Rotor Amperes
LSB Least Significant Bit
LSDS, LSS Load shedding system
LSF Low smoke and fumes, applied to cables and
wires
LSI Large-scale integration
LSLH Low smoke low halogen
LSRS, LSR Load sharing system
LT Low Tension
LTG Lighting
LV Low voltage, 50 to 600 volts
LVDT Linear Variable Differential Transformer
Trang 17L1, L2, L3, N Notation for line and neutral voltages and
cur-rents
LUT Look Up Table
LUX Level of illumination
LVDT Linear Variable Differential Transformer
m Length or dimension in meters, or month
mA Current in milli-amperes
MAD Mean Annual Discharge
man or (M) Manual operation
MBIF High-pressure discharge with metallic halides,
with phosphor coatingMBR Double-ended linear arc tube
MBTF Combination of MBF lamp and a filament lamp
MC Metal Clad Cable
MCB Miniature circuit breaker
MCC Motor control center
MCCB Moulded case circuit breaker
MCM Multi-Chip Module
MCP Motor Circuit Protection
Trang 18MCR Maximum continuous rating
MCU Motor control unit
MCu Microcontroller
MDB Main Distribution Board
MEC Micro Energy Cell
MEMS Micro ElectroMechanical Systems
MESFET Metal-Semiconductor Field-Effect-Transistor
MESG Maximum experimental safe gap
MF Multiplying Factor
MFSK Multiple frequency-shift keying
Mho Unit of electrical admittance
MI Mineral Insulated
MIC Minimum ignition current
MICC Mineral insulated calendar cable
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIMIC Mimic display panel
MISO Master Input Slave Output
MLDB Main Lighting Distribution Board
MLO Main Lugs Only
mm Length or dimension in millimeters
MMF, mmf Magneto-motive force
MMI Man–machine interface
MMSCF Million standard cubic feet of a gas
Mole % Molecular weight in %
MOSFET Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect
Tran-sistor
Trang 19MOSI Master Output Slave Input
MOV Metal oxide varistor
MPCB Motor Protection Circuit Breaker
MPDB Main Power Distribution Board
MPPT Maximum Power Point Tracking
MPU Microprocessor
MS Main Switch
MSB Most Significant Bit
MSW Module steelwork
MT Mica glass tape
MTBF Mean time between failures
MTTR Mean time to repair
MUX Multiplexer, several analog or digital inputs into
N or n Number of items e.g generators installed
N or n Number of turns in a winding
N or n Neutral terminal or line Neutral
NACE National Association of Corrosion Engineers
(USA)NBR Nitrile butadiene rubber
Trang 20NC, N/C Normally closed switching device, No
Connec-tionNCT Neutral Current Transformer
NDE Non-drive end of a shaft
NEC National Electric Code (USA)
NEMA The National Electrical Manufacturer’s
Associ-ation (USA)NER Neutral earth resistor
NFPA National Fire Protection Association (USA)
Ni Nickel metal
NL Neutral Link, Night Light
NO, N/O Normally open switching device
NOx Nitrogen based gas emissions
NPR Noise-power ratio
NPT National pipe threads (USA)
NRZ Non Return to Zero
NS Used to describe a type of variable speed AC
motorNTC Negative Temperature Coefficient
NTS Not to scale
NVM Non Volatile Memory
O Open, off or stop
OC, O/C Overcurrent or open circuit
OCB Oil circuit breaker
OCTC On-circuit Tap Changer
Trang 21OCV Open Circuit Voltage, the difference in electrical
potential when disconnected from a circuit
OF, O/F Over frequency
OFAF Forced circulation of internal liquid, forced heat
exchanging to external air
OFAN Forced circulation of internal liquid, natural
heat exchanging to external air
OHL, OHLine Overhead line
Ohms Unit of electrical resistance or impedance
OIM Offshore installation manager
OL, O/L Overload
OLED Organic light-emitting diode
OLP OverLoad Protection
OLR OverLoad Relay
OLTC On-load Tap Changer
ONAF Naturally circulated internal liquid, forced heat
exchanging to external airONAN Naturally circulated internal liquid, natural heat
exchanging to external airOpAmp Operational Amplifier
OSC Oscillator
OSHA Occupational Health and Safety Administration
(USA)OTA Operational Transconductance Amplifier
OV, O/V Overvoltage
OVP Overvoltage Protector