NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does National Institute of Standards and Technology mean? 

• NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (noun)
  The noun NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. an agency in the Technology Administration that makes measurements and sets standards as needed by industry or government programs

  Familiarity information: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An agency in the Technology Administration that makes measurements and sets standards as needed by industry or government programs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

National Institute of Standards and Technology; NIST

Hypernyms ("National Institute of Standards and Technology" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Holonyms ("National Institute of Standards and Technology" is a part of...):

Technology Administration (an agency in the Department of Commerce that works with United States industries to promote competitiveness and maximize the impact of technology on economic growth)

 Context examples 

Standards developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to address Federal requirements for the interoperability of different systems, for the portability of data and software, and for computer security.

(Federal Information Processing Standards, NCI Thesaurus)