Electronic's acronyms - Meanings

[Nama]

I think it would be very helpful for a acronym database of sorts. When I first started here and even now sometimes I'm thrown off by them and have to Google the definition. Some times this definition is way off. For instance "DMM" returns "Digital Molecular Matter" Anyone want to help us uneducated people figure them out!. Thanks, Jacob

1.VOM = volt/ohm meter

2.DMM = digital multimeter

3.CCFL = cold cathode fluorescent lamps

4.CRT = cathode ray tube

[Toasty]

http://www.ee.washington.edu/circuit.../acronyms.html

[Nama]

^bookmarked. Thank you

[PCBONEZ]

Not quite electronics but I always liked: "SCRAM"
SCRAM = Shutdown Control Reactor Axe Man.
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In the early days of experiments with things nuclear they used stacks of uranium bricks to make their experimental reactors. [Purity wasn't so good yet so they were -weak-.]
The reactors were literally brought critical buy pulling the rods with a rope.
The rope ran across a block of wood where the "Shutdown Control Reactor Axe Man" stood with an axe to cut the rope [thereby dropping the rods] if something went wrong.
If anyone yelled SCRAM, he cut the rope.

Can you say High Tech?

CRUD is another interesting one. - Chalk River Unidentified Deposits.
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-...sary/crud.html

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[Nama]

WOPR = War Operations Planned Response
Do You Want To Play A Game?

Scram, Sounds like good advice. I would run like the wind if I herd that while playing with nuclear reactors!

[Nama]

What do you guys mean when you say "deer" is this an inside joke or am I missing something.

[kc8adu]

deer is a brand of junk power supply.

[tmiha71]

And a pretty useful today:

DOA Dead On Arrival

[Jack Crow]

CLASOB

Conducts
Like
A
Son
Of a
Bitch

So if you have to put your project out with a fire extinguisher, it's a
CLASOB

BOHICA
Is more than a former Indian tribe on Long Island New York.
That is not what they called them selves, it's what the settlers called them.
Stands for
Bend
Over
Here
It
Comes
Again

They lost on every land deal and lost big.
Today the BOHICA reservation is the size of a phone booth.

Flame emitting resistor
Light emitting capacitor

I can go on, but who wants to hear more?

Got a few left.

Be well all
Jack Crow

[eccerr0r]

Funny, when you google for Light Emitting Capacitor and Light Emitting Transistor...

Of course, light emitting resistors are common. They're even PTC (positive temperature coefficient, so we're on topic here...)

[tom66]

D.E.A.D.D. = Darkness Emitting Arsenic-Doped Diode
(An L.E.D. becomes a D.E.A.D.D. if you try to pump too much current through it.)

[gmarius86]

ZDP - zero delay plane (for audio loudspeakers)

[donnyb]

Thanks for the info