| American National Standards Institute The American National Standards Institute or ANSI () is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organization also coordinates U. American_National_Standards_Institute
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| Control character In computing and telecommunication, a control character or non-printing character is a code point (a number) in a character set that does not in itself represent a written symbol. All entries in the ASCII table below code 32 (technically the C0 control code set) and 127 are of this kind, including BEL (which is intended to cause an audible signal in the receiving terminal), SYN (which is a synchronization signal), and ENQ (a signal that is intended to trigger a response at the receiving end, to see if it is still present). Control_character
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| Common Lisp Common Lisp, commonly abbreviated CL, is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, published in ANSI standard document Information Technology - Programming Language - Common Lisp, formerly X3.226-1994 (R1999). Common_Lisp
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| International Organization for Standardization Geneva, Switzerland International_Organization_for_Standardization
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| International Electrotechnical Commission The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental international standards organization that prepares and publishes International Standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies – collectively known as "electrotechnology". IEC standards cover a vast range of technologies from power generation, transmission and distribution to home appliances and office equipment, semiconductors, fibre optics, batteries, solar energy, nanotechnology and marine energy as well as many others. International_Electrotechnical_Commission
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| ISO 3864 ISO 3864 specifies international standards for safety symbols. These labels are graphical, to overcome language barriers. ISO_3864
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| International standard International standards are standards developed by international standards organisations. International standards are available for consideration and use, worldwide. International_standard
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| International System of Units The International System of Units (abbreviated SI from the French Bureau International des Poids et Mesures) is the modern form of the metric system and is generally a system devised around the convenience of the number ten. It is the world's most widely used system of measurement, both in everyday commerce and in science. International_System_of_Units
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| Synchronous optical networking Synchronous optical networking (SONET) and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH), are two closely related multiplexing protocols for transferring multiple digital bit streams using lasers or light-emitting diodes (LEDs) over the same optical fiber. The method was developed to replace the Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH) system for transporting larger amounts of telephone calls and data traffic over the same fiber wire without synchronization problems. Synchronous_optical_networking
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| Red Book (audio CD standard) Red Book is the standard for audio CDs (Compact Disc Digital Audio system, or CDDA). It is named after one of a set of color-bound books that contain the technical specifications for all CD and CD-ROM formats. Red_Book_(audio_CD_standard)
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| United States Department of Homeland Security The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), commonly known in the United States as "Homeland Security", is a Cabinet department of the U.S. United_States_Department_of_Homeland_Security
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| Glasses Glasses, also called eyeglasses or spectacles, are frames bearing lenses worn in front of the eyes, normally for vision correction, eye protection, or for protection from UV rays. Glasses
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| Smoot The smoot is a nonstandard unit of length created as part of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) fraternity prank. It is named after Oliver R. Smoot
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| Ramstein airshow disaster The Ramstein airshow disaster was one of the world's worst airshow disasters. It took place in front of an audience of about 300,000 people on 28 August 1988, in Ramstein, state of Rheinland-Pfalz, West Germany, near the city of Kaiserslautern at the U. Ramstein_airshow_disaster
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| Airsoft Airsoft is a modern combat sport or recreational hobby in which participants eliminate opponents by hitting each other with spherical non-metallic pellets launched from a compressed-air gun (or Soft Air gun) powered by gas, manual spring-load, or an electrically-powered gearbox. Airsoft
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| International Organization for Standardization Talk:International_Organization_for_Standardization
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| 12-hour clock Talk:12-hour_clock
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| Chair A chair is a kind of furniture for sitting, consisting of a back, and sometimes arm rests, commonly for use by one person. Chairs also often have four legs to support the seat raised above the floor. Chair
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| ANSEL ANSEL, American National Standard for Extended Latin Alphabet Coded Character Set for Bibliographic Use, is a character set used in text encoding, and is also known as ANSI/NISO Z39.47 or American Library Association character set (as used in library systems including the MARC format). ANSEL
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| Oliver R. Smoot Oliver Reed Smoot, Jr. was Chairman of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) from 2001 to 2002 and President of the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO) from 2003 to 2004. Oliver_R._Smoot
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