Globalisation, coupled with the accessibility of the Internet in the modern world, can result in things meaning very different things to different people. Common terms can be misused too; we have seen some very interesting interpretations of meanings in our various lifetimes! We have decided to put a lexicon on the website so we can keep the pages tight to the usually defined and abbreviated form. Apologies if that makes them a little awkward to read. Rather than a straight glossary, herein is a lexicon to aid better the background as often a little more context is needed in this highly specialist field and easily stated, yet difficult to actually do set of technologies and problems.

This is not going to be exhaustive, but will list many of the acronyms and areas where an explanation is best served. We will assume most of the common Telecommunications and Military Signals terms are standard, for the avoidance of doubt we will always use the UK meaning. If we choose to alter that to a NATO or other jurisdiction then it will be listed below. Feel free to Contact Us to ask us to update this page with something we haven't yet put on here.

The common Electronic Warfare acronyms are excluded.

The following links are the various pages in alphabetic order for our site's use of various abbreviations and our intended meaning, {use the links to relevant pages}:

KDD - Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Data mining techniques to understand much more than raw associations.

LED - Light-Emitting Diode. An Electroluminescent electronic component that is a semiconductor [Diode] which when energised with the correct potential and conduction, the resultant energy flow causes photons to be released in wavelengths specific to the treatment of the semiconductor {typically visible light is designed - however UV through to Infrared}. Laser diodes are slightly different designs with an intrinsic layer as well as the P and N junctions with special geometries and doping to achieve coherence. Collimated Beams are achieved with negligible beam divergence using a special lens in the packaging.

LIBOR - London Inter-Bank Offered Rate. The context of use in this website is actually "LIBOR Banking Fines", which the UK Government imposed on the financial institutions after alleged irregularities were found. These were aggregated to achieve good causes across the UK and considerable funds were put to Veterans and Charity work related to such. 

LV - Low Voltage. Defined as 50V to 1,000V AC or 120V to 1,500V DC. Scientists and Electronic Engineers would consider those somewhat high! Hence this is somewhat a relative term. Extra Low Voltage is sparingly used to describe the voltages less than 50V AC and less than 120V DC. For the avoidance of doubt the AC voltages are root mean squared and the figures quoted are between conductors [not to earth which reduces the figures quoted]. See BS 7671.