ACRONYMS and TERMS 



A Angstrom unit 



ABS American Bureau of Shipping 



AC Alternating current 



AC Air conditioning 



AGS Auxiliary General Survey 



AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics & Astrinautics 



ALCOA Aluminum Co. of America 



AM Amplitude modulation 



amp ampeiie(s) 



amp-hr ampere-hour(s) 



ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineei-s 



ASR Auxiliary Submarine Rescue 



ASTM American Society of Testing & Materials 



ATA Atmosphere(s) 



ATM Atmosphere(s) 



AUTEC Atlantic Undei-sea Test & Evaluation Center 



AUWE Admiralty Undei-water Weapons Establishment 



AWG American Wire Gage 



B Center of buoyancy 



B A LAKE Buoyancy Actuated Launch & Retrieval Elevator 



BG Submerged metacentric height 



BL Base line 



Btu British thermal unit 



CB Civilian band 



CCTV Closed Circuit Television 



C0 Drag coefficient 



CEMA Centre D'Etudes Marine Avancees 



cfm Cubic feet per minute 



CG Center of gravity 



C[ Lift coefficient 



CNEXO Centre National pour I'Exploitation des Oceans 



CNM Chief of Naval Material 



CNO Chief of Naval Operations 



COF Capagnes Oceanographique Francais 



COMEX Compagnie Maritime d'Expertises 



cp candle power 



CPH Cycles per hour 



CPM Cycles per minute 



CRT Cathode Ray Tube 



CTFM Continuous Transmission Frequency Modulated 



CURV Controlled Underwater Research Vehicle 



CW Continuous wave 



D Displacement volume 



DC Direct current 



DDC Deck decompression chamber 



DDS Deep Dive System 



deg degree 



deg/sec degrees per second 



DOT Department of Transportation 



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