Scientific and technical acronyms,symbols and abbreviations

Today, a bewildering amount of abbreviations, symbols, and acronyms are used to denote everything from communications and computer systems to scientific societies and journals to chemical names to mathematical constants. This title is the most comprehensive guide in existence for deciphering the acronyms, symbols, and abbreviations used in science and technology, containing over 200,000 entries.

This book provides explanations of acronyms, symbols, abbreviations, and combinations, covers over 80 scientific, medical, and technical fields, provides appendices containing important lists of units, unit conversion factors, and unit prefixes.