abbr: abbreviated
ABET: Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology
ACE: American Council on Education
adm: administration
AFDC: Aid to Families with Dependent Children
AL: Alignment
AMT: amount
ANN: artificial neural net
Appl: Application
AT: Attenuation
BG: background
BPM: beats per minute
bwd: backward
C: centrigrade
CAD/CAM: computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing
CAT: computerized axial tomography
CBSD: component-based software development
CDC: Center for Disease Control
CISS: Common Internet Scheme Syntax
CL: cell loss
COA: certificate of authority
COBRA: Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
CONG: Congestion
CONV: conventional
CPT: Current Procedural Terminology
CRB: Cramer-Rao bound
CSAC: Computer Science Accreditation Commission
CT: Computed Tomography
CTS: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
CVPR: computer vision and pattern recognition
D: Diagonal
DA: delayed activation
DHHS: Department of Health and Human Services
DI: Document Index
DOH: Department of Health
DPDT: Double-Pole Double-Throw
DPST: Double-Pole Single-Throw
DRC: Data Resource Center
DSM: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
dup: duplicate