Acronyms And Abbreviations - GE RPV311 Technical Manual

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Acronyms and Abbreviations

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We would like to highlight the following changes of nomenclature however:
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British English is used throughout this manual
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The British term 'Earth' is used in favour of the American term 'Ground'
AC - Alternating Current;
CF - Constituição Federal (Federal Constitution);
COMNAME - IEEE C37.232 Recommended Practice for Naming Time Sequence Data
Files;
COMTRADE - IEEE C37.111 Common Format for Transient Data Exchange;
DC - Direct Current;
DFR - DataFlex file extension;
EMC - Electromagnetic Compatibility;
FRQ - Frequency;
FUT - Firmware Upgrade Tool;
GOOSE - Generic Object Oriented Substation Events;
GPS - Global Positioning System;
HDD - Hard disk drive;
HTML - HyperText Markup Language;
IMB - Imbalance;
IEEE - Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers;
IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission;
IED - Intelligent Electronic Devices;
IP - Internet Protocol;
IRIG-B -Inter Range Instrumentation Group (Rate Designation B);
KML - Keyhole Markup Language;
MAC - Media Access Control;
MODBUS - Modicon Bus;
PC - Computer;
PMU - Phasor Measurement Unit;
PST - Product Support Tools;
Pst - Short-term flicker severity;
Plt - Long-term flicker severity;
RAM - Random-access Memory;
RFC, DEFLATE - RFC 1951, DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification;
RMS - Root Mean Square;
RPV - Multifunction Digital Fault Recorder;
SCADA - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition;
SCD, CID - Input files extensions for the IED GOOSE messages;
SCL - Edit Configuration File for the GOOSE Configurator;
SNTP - Simple Network Time Protocol;
SOE - Sequency of Events;
SQL - Structured Query Language;
SSD - Solid-state Drive;
TCP - Transmission Control Protocol;
THD - Total harmonic distortion;
Chapter 1 – Introduction
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