Appendix Acronyms V

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Acronyms - V

VA Veterans Administration

VA Virginia

VAB Vehicle Assembly Building (formerly Vertical Assembly Building) [Space]

VAFB Vandenberg Air Force Base [Space]

VAN Value Added Network (e.g. Tymnet, Telenet, etc)

VANS Value-Added Network Services

VAR Value Added Remarketer (reseller)

VASI Visual Approach Slope Indicator

VAT Value Added Tax

VAX Virtual Address eXtended

VAXBI VAX Bus Interconnect

VC Viet Cong

VC Virtual Circuit

Vcc Voltage (Common Cathode?)

VCM Voice Coil Motor

VCO Voltage Controlled Oscillator

VCR VideoCassette Recorder

VCU Virginia Commonwealth University

VD Venereal Disease (see also STD)

VDFM Virtual Disk File Manager

VDI Virtual Device Interface

VDM Vienna Development Method

VDM Virtual Device Metafile

VDT Video Display Terminal

VEEGA Venus-Earth-Earth Gravity Assist (Galileo flight path) [Space]

VF Video Frequency

VF Voice Frequency

VFO Variable Frequency Oscillator

VFR Visual Flight Rules [Aviation]

VFW Veterans of Foreign Wars

VFW Volunteer Fire Department

VG Very Good

VG Vicar-General

VGA Video Graphics Array

Vgg Voltage (Gate to Ground?)

V&H Vertical and Horizontal (CO coordinate tape) [Telephony]

VHDL Vhsic Hardware Description Language

VHF Very High Frequency (30-300MHz)

VHS Video Home System (VCR)

VHSIC Very High Speed Integrated Circuit

VI VIsual editor

VIABLE Vertical Installation Automation BaseLinE

VILE VI Like Emacs

VINE Vine Is Not Emacs

VIP Very Important Person

VISTA Volunteers In Service To America

VITA Vme International Trade Association

VJ Video Jockey

VL Vulgar Latin

VLA Very Large Array [Space]

VLBA Very Long Baseline Array [Space]

VLBI Very Long Baseline Interferometry [Space]

VLF Very Low Frequency (3-30KHz)

VLIW Very Long Instruction Word

VLSI Very Large Scale Integration

VLT Very Large Telescope [Space]

VM Virtual Memory

VM/CMS Virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor System

VMM Virtual Memory Manager

VMOS Vertical Metal Oxide Semiconductor (V-MOS) (see MOS)

VMR Vertical Market Reseller

VMS Vertical Motion Simulator [Space]

VMS Virtual Memory System [DEC]

VOA Voice Of America

VOIR Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar (superseded by VRM) [Space]

VOIS Voice-Operated Information System

VOQ Visiting Officer's Quarters

VPI&SU Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

VRC Vertical Redundancy Character

VRM Venus Radar Mapper (now called Magellan) [Space]

VRM Virtual Resource Manager

VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal (satellite dish)

VSX X/open Verification Suite

VTAM Virtual Telecommunications Access Method [IBM]

VTOC Volume Table Of Contents

VTOL Vertical TakeOff and Landing

VTR VideoTape Recorder

VUP Vax Unit of Performance

V&V Villains & Vigilantes

VVSS Vertical Volute Spring Suspension