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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation National Institute of Standards and Technology
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- initialism government, US National Institute of Standards and Technology
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an agency in the Technology Administration that makes measurements and sets standards as needed by industry or government programs
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NIST is not only the best source of such research in the U.S.; they are the best single source in the world.
Matthew Yglesias » At The Department of Forgotten Cabinet Secretaries 2009
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Constituencies and political support aside, NIST is a very important entity that may fit uneasily within Commerce but would be an even poorer fit anywhere else. low-tech cyclist Says:
Matthew Yglesias » At The Department of Forgotten Cabinet Secretaries 2009
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NIST is considered as one of the reputed Engineering Colleges in Orissa.
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NIST is considered as one of the reputed Engineering Colleges in Orissa.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Finally, I went out to Boulder to give a talk to Dave Wineland's group in NIST labs.
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The Secretary mentioned that both of them had done work with NIST, which is our technology division within the Commerce Department.
President In Presenting Malcolm Baldridge Awards ITY National Archives 1996
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Clearwell also provides one-click filtering of data within EnCase images by NSRL database list (commonly known as NIST list) and custom known file lists, significantly reducing downstream processing and review costs.
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The Appropriations Committee also approved another $15 million for NIST, which is based in
Dallas Business News - Local Dallas News | Dallas Business Journal 2010
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The open-source software, called NIST's Integrated Colony Enumerator (NICE), takes a digital image that has been loaded into a computer and counts colonies grown from single pneumococcal cells.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009
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The open-source software, called NIST's Integrated Colony Enumerator (NICE), takes a digital image that has been loaded into a computer and counts colonies grown from single pneumococcal cells.
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