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What does NBS stand for?

National Bureau of Standards (now NIST)


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National Biological Service (environmental spatial data)
National Biological Survey
National Biotechnology Strategy (Canada)
National Bird-Feeding Society
National Blood Service (England)
National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting for Scotland
National Bookstore
National Broadcasting Society
National Brotherhood of Skiers
National Building Specification (UK)
National Bureau of Statistics
National Bus Sales (Tulsa, OK)
National Button Society
Nationale Bewegung Schweiz (Suisse Nazi Party, 1940)
Nationwide Building Society (UK)
NATO Mailbox System
Natural and Behavioral Sciences (various schools)
Natural Born Skater
Natural Born Snipers (Unreal Tournament Gaming Clan)
Navy Broadcasting Service



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Byline: shiv03 The Uganda National Bureau of Standards budget has increased to USD 4.
The committee fashioned a report presented to Congress urging that the National Bureau of Standards be required to "approve a family of containers without delay.
A study by the National Bureau of Standards found that pupils were in more fatal accidents in January and February 1974 than one year earlier, but that increase did not apply to March and April.
Jouppi, a mechanical engineer with a seasoned interest in thermal management, questioned the accuracy of the existing current carrying capacity charts, which date back to work conducted in the 1950s by the National Bureau of Standards.
National Bureau of Standards (later the National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST), he published a number of scientific papers on the aging of paper.
The early National Bureau of Standards (NB S) Electronic Automatic Computer (SEAC) was the first electronic computer in the United States to store programs internally.
He then worked at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.
On a national level, there are codes or standards established by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), American National Standards Institute (ANSI), National Bureau of Standards and national building codes, such as Uniform Building Code (UBC), Building Officials Code Administrators (BOCA), National Building Code, Standard Building Code (SBC) and the South Florida Building Code.

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