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SMG Glossary
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4GL: Fourth Generation Language
A
AAAS: American Association for the Advancement of Science
ABPR: Alberta Premier: currently, Danielle Smith
AGA: American Gas Association
AI: Artificial Intelligence
AIABC: Aerospace Industries Association of BC
AIBC: Architectural Institute of British Columbia
AICP: American Institute of Certified Planners
AIP: American Institute of Physics
API: Application Program Interface
APS: American Physical Society
ASA: Allied Signal Aerospace currently Honeywell Aerospace & Defense
ASES: American Solar Energy Society
ASHRAE: American Society of Heating, Refrigeration & Air-Conditioning Engineers
ATE: Automated Test Equipment
AVRO: A.V. Roe & Company, generally known as AVRO; founded by Alliott Verdon Roe, British aircraft pioneer & manufacturer; AVRO Canada, Canadian subsidiary of Hawker Siddeley, parent of AVRO
AWEA: American Wind Energy Association
B
BBB: Better Business Bureau
BC: British Columbia
BCAC: BC Aviation Council
BCIT: British Columbia Institute of Technology
BCTIA: British Columbia Technology Industry Association
BG3: Bill Gates III; Warren Buffett; Melinda Gates; Nathan Myhrvold; Steve Jobs; Seattle Computer; Paul Allen; Xerox PARC; Bill Gates II; Mary Gates; John Bardeen, Nobel Laureate (1956, 1972); Earth Physics Community…
BNL: Brookhaven National Laboratory
BOMA: Building Owners & Managers Association
BSDC: Business and Sustainable Development Commission
C
CAPM: Canada Prime Minister: currently, Justin Trudeau
CATA: Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance
CD: Compact Disc
CDN: Content Delivery Network
CDP: Carbon Disclosure Project
CDPD: Cellular Digital Packet Data
CGI: Common Gateway Interface
CMM: Coordinate Measurement Machinery
CMS: Content Management System
COP: Conference of the Parties or Countries that signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – a treaty agreed to in 1994.
CSMTS: Control Surface Measurement & Trim System
CSS: Cascading Style Sheet
CVI: C (language) Virtual Instrument
D
DAQ: Data Acquisition
DC: Direct Current
DJSI: Dow Jones Sustainability Indices
DMM: Digital Multimeter
DVD: Digital Versatile Disc, formerly Video Disc
E
EAA: Electric Auto Association
EADS: European Aeronautic Defense & Space company: formerly, Racal Instruments & Astronics
Earth 1.0: Natural Earth
Earth 2.0: Technological Earth
Earth 3.0: Sustainable Earth based on sustainability, self-sufficiency, efficient use of all resources including renewable energy, respect for & preservation of our priceless biosphere for all future generations…
EBITDA: Earnings Before Interest, Taxation, Depreciation, Amortisation
EEI: Edison Electric Institute
EESI: Environmental & Energy Study Institute
EEU: Efficient Energy Use
EFT: Electronic Fund Transfer
EMF: ElectroMagnetic Field
ESG: Environmental Social Governance
(I: Investing; Investment)
EU: Energy Use
EUU: Energy Use Unit
EV: Electric Vehicle
F
FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
FBU: Fuel Billing Unit
FDA: Food & Drug Administration
FDU: Fuel Demand Unit
FST: Fair Share Taxpayer
FTF: First Things First
FTSE: Financial Times Stock Exchange
G
GDP: Gross Domestic Product
GEAPP: Global Energy Alliance for People & Planet
GHG: GreenHouse Gas
GM: General Motors
GPIB: General Purpose Interface Bus
GPS: Global Positioning System
GPV: Goals Principles Values
GUI: Graphical User Interface
H
HMI: Human Machine Interface or Interaction
HP: Hewlett Packard
HPIB: Hewlett Packard Interface Bus
HTML: HyperText Markup Language
HVDC: High Voltage Direct Current
I
IATA: International Air Transport Association
ICA: Interface Connector Assembly
ICE: Internal Combustion Engine
ICEV: Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle
IEA: International Energy Agency
IEEE: Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
IO: Input Output
IP: Intellectual Property
IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPDF: Industrial Post-Doctoral Fellowship
IPO: Initial Public Offering
IRENA: International Renewable Energy Agency
ISA: Industry Standard Architecture
ISCP: Instrument Setup Capture Playback Program
ISES: International Solar Energy Society
ISO: International Standards Organization
ISS: Institutional Shareholder Services
ITA: Interface Test Adapter
IVI: Interchangeable Virtual Instrument
K
KVM: Keyboard Video Mouse
L
LAN: Local Area Network
LANL: Los Alamos National Laboratory
LCC: Life Cycle Costing
LCD: Liquid Crystal Device or Display
LCR: Inductance Capacitance Resistance (= Impedance)
LED: Light Emitting Device or Diode
LLC: Limited Liability Company
LSEG: London Stock Exchange Group
M
MAI: Management Assistance Inc
MASc: Master of Applied Science (Engineering)
MDI: Mobile Data Inc
MDSI: Mobile Data Solutions Inc
mJ: magicJack
MMI: Man Machine Interface
MPN: Microsoft Partner Network
MRO: Maintenance Repair Overhaul
MSc: Master of Science
MSCI: Morgan Stanley Capital International, an investment research firm that provides stock indexes, portfolio risk & performance analytics, & governance tools to institutional investors & hedge funds. The MSCI World is a market cap weighted stock market index of 1,508 constituents throughout the world. It is used as a common benchmark for ‘world’ or ‘global’ stock funds intended to represent a broad cross-section of global markets.
MTBF: Mean Time Before Failure
N
NAM: National Association of Manufacturers
NI: National Instruments
NIC: Network Interface Card
NRCC: National Research Council of Canada
NVH: Noise Vibration Harseness
O
OCR: Optical Character Recognition
ORNL: Oak Ridge National laboratory
P
PAC: Programmable Automation Controller
PARC: Palo Alto Research Center
PBX: Private Business eXchange
PC: Personal Computer
PCI: Personal Component Interconnect; PC Interface bus PCMCIA: PC Memory Card International Association; Peripheral Component Microchannel Interconnect Architecture (IBM); now called PC Cards
PDA: Personal Digital Assistant
PhD: Doctor of Philosophy
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
PIM: Personal Information Manager
PLC: Programmable Logic Controller
POS: Point of Sale
PRI: Principles for Responsible Investment
PSTN: Public Switched Telephone Network
PXI: PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation
Q
QA: Quality Assurance
QC: Quality Control
R
R&D: Research & Development
RANDC: Research ANd Development Corporation
RCIT: Residential Commercial Industrial Transportation
RD&D: Research Design & Development
Renewables1: Biomass Geothermal Tidal
Renewables2: Rain Solar Wave Wind
RERC: Real Estate Research Corporation
RF: Radio Frequency
RMI: Rocky Mountain Institute
ROI: Return On Investment
RS: Recommended Standard
RT: Real Time
RTOS: Real Time Operating System
S
SCADA: Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition
SciAm: Scientific American
SCO: Santa Cruz Operation
SCSI: Small Computer System, Standard or Serial Interface
SCXI: Signal Conditioning eXtensions for Instrumentation
SDG: Sustainable Development Goal(s) (I: Investing; Investment)
SE3LLC: Sustainable Earth 3.0 LLC
SEIA: Solar Energy Industries Association
SFU: Simon Fraser University
SI: International System of Units
SIC: Standard Industrial Classification
Sine Qua Non: An indispensable & essential action, condition, or ingredient; without which it could not be; without which [there is] nothing.
SMG: The S-MATRIX Group
SPC: Statistical Process Control
SQL: Structured (database) Query Language
SR: Socially Responsible (I: Investing; Investment)
SRII: Stanford Research Institute International
STEM: Science Technology Engineering Mathematics; Scientist Technologist Engineer Mathematician
T
TENS: Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulator or Electrical Neural Stimulation
TOC: Table of Contents
U
UBC: University of British Columbia
UN: United Nations
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme
UNFAO: United Nations Food & Agricultural Organization
UPS: Uninterruptible Power Supply or System
URI: Uniform Resource Identifier
URL: Uniform Resource Locator, colloquially termed a web address, is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network & a mechanism for retrieving it. A URL is a specific type of URI, although many use the two terms interchangeably. URLs occur most commonly to reference web pages (http), but are also used for file transfer (ftp), email (mailto), database access (JDBCURI), & many other applications.
USACE: US Army Corps of Engineers
USB: Universal Serial Bus
USDOC: US Department of Commerce
USDOE: US Department of Energy
USDOI: US Department of the Interior
USDOL: US Department of Labor
USDOT: US Department of Transportation
USEIA: US Energy Information Administration
USEPA: US Environmental Protection Agency
USFAA: US Federal Aviation Administration
USFDA: US Food & Drug Administration
USFERC: US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
USGPO: US Government Printing Office
USNIST: US National Institute of Standards & Technology
USNREL: US National Renewable Energy Lab
UUT: Unit Under Test
V
VA$: Value Added $
VAE: Value Added Economy
VAT: Value Added Tax
VBT: Vancouver Board of Trade
VEVA: Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association
VIP: Very Important Person
VISA: Virtual Instrumentation Software Architecture
VME: Versa Modular Eurocard
VoIP: Voice over Internet Protocol
VPN: Virtual Private Network
VPS: Virtual Private Server
VXI: VME eXtensions for Instrumentation
W
W3: World Wide Web
WAN: Wide Area Network
WB: Warren Buffett; Uncle Warren; Charlie Munger; Benjamin Graham…
WIP: Work In Progress
0-9
4GL: Fourth Generation Language
A
AAAS: American Association for the Advancement of Science
ABPR: Alberta Premier: currently, Danielle Smith
AGA: American Gas Association
AI: Artificial Intelligence
AIABC: Aerospace Industries Association of BC
AIBC: Architectural Institute of British Columbia
AICP: American Institute of Certified Planners
AIP: American Institute of Physics
API: Application Program Interface
APS: American Physical Society
ASA: Allied Signal Aerospace currently Honeywell Aerospace & Defense
ASES: American Solar Energy Society
ASHRAE: American Society of Heating, Refrigeration & Air-Conditioning Engineers
ATE: Automated Test Equipment
AVRO: A.V. Roe & Company, generally known as AVRO; founded by Alliott Verdon Roe, British aircraft pioneer & manufacturer; AVRO Canada, Canadian subsidiary of Hawker Siddeley, parent of AVRO
AWEA: American Wind Energy Association
B
BBB: Better Business Bureau
BC: British Columbia
BCAC: BC Aviation Council
BCIT: British Columbia Institute of Technology
BCTIA: British Columbia Technology Industry Association
BG3: Bill Gates III; Warren Buffett; Melinda Gates; Nathan Myhrvold; Steve Jobs; Seattle Computer; Paul Allen; Xerox PARC; Bill Gates II; Mary Gates; John Bardeen, Nobel Laureate (1956, 1972); Earth Physics Community…
BNL: Brookhaven National Laboratory
BOMA: Building Owners & Managers Association
BSDC: Business and Sustainable Development Commission
C
CAPM: Canada Prime Minister: currently, Justin Trudeau
CATA: Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance
CD: Compact Disc
CDN: Content Delivery Network
CDP: Carbon Disclosure Project
CDPD: Cellular Digital Packet Data
CGI: Common Gateway Interface
CMM: Coordinate Measurement Machinery
CMS: Content Management System
COP: Conference of the Parties or Countries that signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – a treaty agreed to in 1994.
CSMTS: Control Surface Measurement & Trim System
CSS: Cascading Style Sheet
CVI: C (language) Virtual Instrument
D
DAQ: Data Acquisition
DC: Direct Current
DJSI: Dow Jones Sustainability Indices
DMM: Digital Multimeter
DVD: Digital Versatile Disc, formerly Video Disc
E
EAA: Electric Auto Association
EADS: European Aeronautic Defense & Space company; formerly, Racal Instruments & Astronics
Earth 1.0: Natural Earth
Earth 2.0: Technological Earth
Earth 3.0: Sustainable Earth based on sustainability, self-sufficiency, efficient use of all resources including renewable energy, respect for & preservation of our priceless biosphere for all future generations…
EBITDA: Earnings Before Interest, Taxation, Depreciation, Amortisation
EEI: Edison Electric Institute
EESI: Environmental & Energy Study Institute
EEU: Efficient Energy Use
EFT: Electronic Fund Transfer
EMF: ElectroMagnetic Field
ESG: Environmental Social Governance
(I: Investing; Investment)
EU: Energy Use
EUU: Energy Use Unit
EV: Electric Vehicle
F
FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
FBU: Fuel Billing Unit
FDA: Food & Drug Administration
FDU: Fuel Demand Unit
FST: Fair Share Taxpayer
FTF: First Things First
FTSE: Financial Times Stock Exchange
G
GDP: Gross Domestic Product
GEAPP: Global Energy Alliance for People & Planet
GHG: GreenHouse Gas
GM: General Motors
GPIB: General Purpose Interface Bus
GPS: Global Positioning System
GPV: Goals Principles Values
GUI: Graphical User Interface
H
HMI: Human Machine Interface or Interaction
HP: Hewlett Packard
HPIB: Hewlett Packard Interface Bus
HTML: HyperText Markup Language
HVDC: High Voltage Direct Current
I
IATA: International Air Transport Association
ICA: Interface Connector Assembly
ICE: Internal Combustion Engine
ICEV: Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle
IEA: International Energy Agency
IEEE: Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
IO: Input Output
IP: Intellectual Property
IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPDF: Industrial Post-Doctoral Fellowship
IPO: Initial Public Offering
IRENA: International Renewable Energy Agency
ISA: Industry Standard Architecture
ISCP: Instrument Setup & Capture Program
ISES: International Solar Energy Society
ISO: International Standards Organization
ISS: Institutional Shareholder Services
ITA: Interface Test Adapter
IVI: Interchangeable Virtual Instrument
K
KVM: Keyboard Video Mouse
L
LAN: Local Area Network
LANL: Los Alamos National Laboratory
LCC: Life Cycle Costing
LCD: Liquid Crystal Diode or Display
LCR: Inductance Capacitance Resistance (= Impedance)
LED: Light Emitting Device or Diode
LLC: Limited Liability Company
LSEG: London Stock Exchange Group
M
MAI: Management Assistance Inc
MASc: Master of Applied Science (Engineering)
MDI: Mobile Data Inc
MDSI: Mobile Data Solutions Inc
mJ: magicJack
MMI: Man Machine Interface
MPN: Microsoft Partner Network
MRO: Maintenance Repair Overhaul
MSc: Master of Science
MSCI: Morgan Stanley Capital International, an investment research firm that provides stock indexes, portfolio risk & performance analytics, & governance tools to institutional investors & hedge funds. The MSCI World is a market cap weighted stock market index of 1,508 constituents throughout the world. It is used as a common benchmark for ‘world’ or ‘global’ stock funds intended to represent a broad cross-section of global markets.
MTBF: Mean Time Before Failure
N
NAM: National Association of Manufacturers
NI: National Instruments
NIC: Network Interface Card
NRCC: National Research Council of Canada
NVH: Noise Vibration Harseness
0
OCR: Optical Character Recognition
ORNL: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P
PAC: Programmable Automation Controller
PARC: Palo Alto Research Center
PBX: Private Business eXchange
PC: Personal Computer
PCI: Personal Component Interconnect; PC Interface bus
PCMCIA: PC Memory Card International Association; Peripheral Component Microchannel Interconnect Architecture (IBM); now called PC Cards
PDA: Personal Digital Assistant
PhD: Doctor of Philosophy
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
PIM: Personal Information Manager
PLC: Programmable Logic Controller
POS: Point of Sale
PRI: Principles for Responsible Investment
PSTN: Public Switched Telephone Network
PXI: PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation
Q
QA: Quality Assurance
QC: Quality Control
R
R&D: Research & Development
RANDC: Research ANd Development Corporation
RCIT: Residential Commercial Industrial Transportation
RD&D: Research Design & Development
Renewables1: Biomass Geothermal Tidal
Renewables2: Rain Solar Wave Wind
RERC: Real Estate Research Corporation
RF: Radio Frequency
RMI: Rocky Mountain Institute
ROI: Return On Investment
RS: Recommended Standard
RT: Real Time
RTOS: Real Time Operating System
S
SCADA: Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition
SciAm: Scientific American
SCO: Santa Cruz Operation
SCSI: Small Computer System, Standard or Serial Interface
SCXI: Signal Conditioning eXtensions for Instrumentation
SDG: Sustainable Development Goal(s) (I: Investing; Investment)
SE3LLC: Sustainable Earth 3.0 LLC
SEIA: Solar Energy Industries Association
SFU: Simon Fraser University
SI: International System of Units
SIC: Standard Industrial Classification
Sine Qua Non: An indispensable & essential action, condition, or ingredient; without which it could not be; without which [there is] nothing.
SMG: The S-MATRIX Group
SPC: Statistical Process Control
SQL: Structured (database) Query Language
SR: Socially Responsible (I: Investing; Investment)
SRII: Stanford Research Institute International
STEM: Science Technology Engineering Mathematics; Scientist Technologist Engineer Mathematician
T
TENS: Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulator or Electrical Neural Stimulation
TOC: Table of Contents
U
UBC: University of British Columbia
UN: United Nations
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme
UNFAO: United Nations Food & Agricultural Organization
UPS: Uninterruptible Power Supply or System
URI: Uniform Resource Identifier
URL: Uniform Resource Locator, colloquially termed a web address, is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network & a mechanism for retrieving it. A URL is a specific type of URI, although many use the two terms interchangeably. URLs occur most commonly to reference web pages (http), but are also used for file transfer (ftp), email (mailto), database access (JDBCURI), & many other applications.
USACE: US Army Corps of Engineers
USB: Universal Serial Bus
USDOC: US Department of Commerce
USDOE: US Department of Energy
USDOI: US Department of the Interior
USDOL: US Department of Labor
USDOT: US Department of Transportation
USEIA: US Energy Information Administration
USEPA: US Environmental Protection Agency
USFAA: US Federal Aviation Administration
USFDA: US Food & Drug Administration
USFERC: US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
USGPO: US Government Printing Office
USNIST: US National Institute of Standards & Technology
USNREL: US National Renewable Energy Lab
UUT: Unit Under Test
V
VA$: Value Added $
VAE: Value Added Economy
VAT: Valued Added Tax
VBT: Vancouver Board of Trade
VEVA: Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association
VIP: Very Important Person
VISA: Virtual Instrumentation Software Architecture
VME: Versa Modular Eurocard
VoIP: Voice over Internet Protocol
VPN: Virtual Private Network
VPS: Virtual Private Server
VXI: VME eXtensions for Instrumentation
W
W3: World Wide Web
WAN: Wide Area Network
WB: Warren Buffett; Uncle Warren; Charlie Munger; Benjamin Graham…
WIP: Work In Progress