Browse Acronyms

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V Listing

V
– vanadium (element, Z = 23)
– volt

v
velocity

V·A
volt-ampere

V·C
volt-coulomb

V&R
vulnerability and risk

V&V
verification and validation

V-I
voltage-current

V.I.
Virgin Islands (use after city names in references, lists, tables, footnotes, bibliographies, and indexes; spell out in text)

v/c
volume to capacity

V/m
volts per meter

V₂O₅
vanadium oxide

VA
– Virginia (use only with ZIP code addresses)
– vulnerability analysis
– vulnerability assessment (see VAR)

Va.
Virginia (use after city names in references, lists, tables, footnotes, bibliographies, and indexes; spell out in text)

VAC
alternating current volt (also V_ac and Vac)

Vac
alternating current volt (also V_ac and VAC)

V_ac
alternating current volt (also Vac and VAC)

VACP
vital ac power

VAMA
Valley Alliance for Minority Achievement

VAMP
validation of assessment model prediction

VAMPS
Video and Motion Picture Services

VAR
vulnerability assessment report (see third entry under VA)

var
– variance (math)
– voltage and reactive power (volt-ampere reactive)

VAV
variable air volume

VAWT
vertical-axis wind turbine

VAX
computing system made by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

VC
– Values Council
– vinylchloride

VC7002
Vehicle and Equipment Cleaning Facility

VCAPCD
Ventura County Air Pollution Control District

VCC
Video Conference Center (OTT)

VCN
very cold neutron

VCO
voltage-controlled oscillator

VCR
video cassette recorder

VCS
virtual circuit server (computer term)

VCT
volume control tank

V_dc
direct current volt (also Vdc and VDC)

Vdc
direct current volt (also V_dc and VDC)

VDC
– direct current volt (also V_dc and Vdc)
– vertical drift chamber

vdf
video frequency

VDI
Virtual Device Interface

VDRIF
Variable Dose Rate Irradiation Facility

VDS
Visiting Distinguished Scientist

VDT
video display terminal

VDU
video display unit (same as CRT)

VE
value engineering

VEI
Volcano Explosivity Index

VEIKI
Hungarian Electric Power Research Institute

VEM
Varying Elasticity Model

VEMF
Vehicle and Equipment Maintenance Facility

VEMPS-II
vertically polarized electromagnetic pulse simulator

VEP
Value Engineering Program (Central Engineering Services)

VEPCO
Virginia Electric Power Company

vers
versed sine (trigonometric function)

VESA
Video Electronics Standards Association

VEU
(do not use; use VHE instead)

VF
– vertical field
– vitrification facility

VFMF
variable-frequency microwave furnace

VFR
visual flight rules

VGA
– video graphics adapter
– video graphics array

VHAP
volatile hazardous air pollutant

VHE
very highly enriched

VHEU
(do not use; use VHE instead)

vhf
very high frequency

VHLL
very high level language

VHS
vertical-horizontal spread

VHSA
variable hydrologic source areas

VI
– vertical irradiated fuel
– Virgin Islands (use only with ZIP code addresses)

vib
vibration

VIFRED^TM
Visual Forms Editor

VIOP
very intelligent input/output processor

ViSC
scientific visualization

ViSCLab
Visualization in Scientific Computing Lab (now VizLab) (C&TS)

VISITS
Very Important Small Institution Travel Support

VITA
Volunteers in Technical Assistance

VITEX
volume ionization transverse extraction

VizLab
Visualization in Scientific Computing Lab (formerly ViSCLab) (C&TS)

VLE
vapor-liquid equilibrium

vlf
very low frequency

VLS
Vertical Launching System

VLSI
very large scale integration/integrated (circuit)

VLUT
vertical look-up table

Vm
voltmeter

VME
– VersaModule European
– Volunteers for Medical Engineering, Inc.

VMOS
vertical metal-oxide semiconductor

VMS
virtual memory system

VMT
vehicle miles traveled

VOC
– volatile organic carbon
– volatile organic chemical
– volatile organic compound

V_oc
open-circuit voltage

VOG
– vacuum off-gas
– vessel off-gas

vol %
volume percent

Vol(s).
Volume(s) [use when followed by number(s) in citations]

VOST
volatile organic sampling train

VPD
vertically polarized dipole

VPI
Virginia Polytechnic Institute

VPIS
videodisk personnel identification system

V_pp
volt peak to peak

VPP
Voluntary Protection Program

VR
volume reduction

VRAM
video random access memory

VRIF
Voluntary Reduction in Force

V_rms
volt root mean square

VRS
Voice Response Service (C&TS)

VRT
Vault Response Team

vs
versus

VSAM
Virtual Storage Access Method

VSAT
very small aperture transceiver

VSG
Video Service Group

VSI
voltage source inverter

VSP
– vertical seismic profiling
– Vision Services Plan

VSVI
very simple, very inexpensive

VSWR
voltage standing wave ratio

VSWT
variable-speed wind turbine

VT
Vermont (use only with ZIP code addresses)

Vt.
Vermont (use after city names in references, lists, tables, footnotes, bibliographies, and indexes; spell out in text)

VTC
videoteleconference

VTD
vibrating-tube densimeter

VTK
Visualization Toolkit

VTX
VideoTex (videotext)

VUD
visitor use-day

VUV
vacuum ultraviolet

VV
vacuum vessel

VVF
Varme Verks Foreningen (European piping design standards)

VW
Volkswagon

VWF
Variable Weir Feeder

VWS
– VAX Workstation^TM
– Video Windowing System

VX
chemical nerve agent