ExpertGlossary terms starting with V
- Vort Max Common slang reference to Vorticity Maximum; a center, or maximum, in the vorticity field of a fluid.
- Vortex A revolving mass of water (whirlpool) in which the streamlines are concentric circles and in which the total head is the same.
- Vorticity A measure of the rotation of air in a horizontal plane. Positive (counter-clockwise or cyclonic) vorticity can be correlated with surface low development…
- VOS (Voluntary Observing Ship Program) - An international voluntary marine observation program under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization…
- Vostok site in Antarctica (78°S, 106°E) where a 400,000 year long ice core was collected.
- VOT Vorticity
- vote Unless rules specify otherwise, the Senate may agree to any question by a majority of Senators voting, if a quorum is present.
- Vote Center See Countywide Polling Place Program.
- Voter Registrar The county tax assessor-collector is the voter registrar for the county unless the position of county elections administrator is created or the county…
- Voter Registration Certificate Initial Registration Certificate, also referred to as a Voter Registration Card.
- Voter Registration List Original List of Registered Voters - Before the beginning of early voting for the first election held in a county in each voting year, the registrar shall…
- Voter Unique Identification Number (VUID) i.e., a voter’s voter registration number.
- Voting Booth A small enclosure in which a person votes.
- Voting Machine An apparatus on which voters cast their votes, that records each vote, and that furnishes a total of the number of votes cast for the candidates and for…
- Voting right Investors who own shares of a common stock or shares in a mutual fund typically have voting rights, which allow them to participate in the election of…
- Voting Station The voting booth or other place where voters mark their ballots or otherwise indicate their votes at a polling place.
- Voting System A method of casting and processing votes that is designed to function wholly or partly by use of mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic apparatus…
- Voting System Ballot A ballot designed for use with a voting system.
- Voting System Certification Before a voting system or voting system equipment may be used in an election, the system and a unit of the equipment must be approved by the secretary of…
- Voting System Equipment Any kind of mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic apparatus for use in a voting system.
- Voting Year The 12-month period beginning January 1 of each year. See also Calendar Year.
- Voucher Documents that are exchanged for goods and service to substantiate payment that will be or already has been made.
- Voussoir A wedge-shaped component of an arch.
- VOX Voice Actuation.
- VPI Virtual path identifier. A field in the ATM cell header that indicates the virtual path over which the cell should be routed.
- VPN (Virtual Private Network) A secure network that is constructed by using public wires to connect nodes. For example, there are a number of systems that enable creation of networks…
- VPN connection Although VPN connection is a general term, we specifically mean the IPsec connection between a VPC and some other network, such as a corporate data…
- VR Veer
- VRI Vanguard Research, Inc., Fairfax, VA.
- VRS (Vital Record Specifications) are RMM retention and movement policies for data sets and volumes. See RMM.
- VRT MOTN Vertical motion
- VSAPI (Virus Scanning API) A virus-scanning API that is used by third-party antivirus service providers to protect computers that have the Exchange Server 2007 Mailbox server role…
- VSB Visible Satellite Imagery
- VSBY Visibility
- VSC (Volume Shadow Copy) service A service implemented in Windows Server 2003 and supported by Exchange Server 2003.
- VSG See Variable surface glycoprotein.
- VSM (Virtual Storage Manager) controls StorageTek's virtual tape system. It consists of software and disk cache.
- VSMP (Virtual Symmetric Multiprocessing) providing two or more virtual processors to a single virtual machine or partition.
- Vsnap Virtual snapshot: space-efficient snapshot available on Enterprise Virtual Array family products
- VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) The Volume Shadow Copy Service provides the backup infrastructure for the Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating systems, as…
- VSwitch (Virtual Switch) See virtual network.
- VSWR Abbreviation for voltage standing wave ratio.
- VT (Virtualization Technology) Intel's version of virtualization assist, included in some 64-bit Intel processors. See also Virtualization Assist.
- VT, Intel See virtualization hardware assist.
- VTC Video Teleconference.
- VTCS (Virtual Tape Control System) the name of the host software component in StorageTek's Virtual Storage Manager (VSM).
- VTD (Virtual Tape Drive) an emulation of a physical transport in the virtual tape storage subsystem (VTSS) that looks like a physical tape transport to the host.
- VTEC (Valid Time Event Code) - The Valid Time Event Code (VTEC) always is used in conjunction with, and provides supplementary information to, the Universal…
- VTOC (Volume Table Of Contents) the data set on a DASD volume that specifies the location of all non-SMS data sets on that volume. See VVDS.
- VTOL Vertical Takeoff and Landing [aircraft].
- VTOL-UAV Vertical Takeoff and Landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
- VTS (Virtual Tape Servers or Systems) comprise: a robotic library to perform automated tape mounts for backend requirements; real tape transports that read and write virtual volumes from…
- VTSS (Virtual Tape Storage Subsystem) a DASD buffer containing virtual tape volumes (VTV) and virtual tape drives (VTD). The VTSS is a StorageTek RAID 6 hardware device. See VTD and VTV.
- VTV (Virtual Tape Volume) a DASD buffer that appears to the operating system as a real tape volume. Data can be written to and read from the VTV, and the VTV can be migrated to and…
- vu Abbreviation for volume unit.
- VUE Visible Light/Ultraviolet Experiment. 318
- VUI (Voice User Interface) An interface that is used to navigate the menus of a Unified Messaging (UM) system using speech inputs. [Exchange 2007]
- Vulcan UK bomber.
- Vulnerability Weakness in an information system, system security procedures, internal controls, or implementation that could be exploited or triggered by a threat…
- Vulnerability Assessment Formal description and evaluation of the vulnerabilities in an information system.
- Vulture fund Like the scavenging bird of prey that lends its name to the fund, a vulture fund seeks out depressed or endangered investments.
- vulva The external female genital organs, including the clitoris, vaginal lips, and the opening to the vagina.
- vulvar cancer Cancer of the vulva (the external female genital organs, including the clitoris, vaginal lips, and the opening to the vagina).
- VV&A Verification, Validation, and Accreditation.
- VVDS (VSAM Volume Data Set) the part of the ICF catalog that resides on each DASD volume and contains information on the SMS-managed data sets on that volume. See VTOC.
- VVER Pressurized water type nuclear power reactor.
- VVIRF Verification and Validation Information Request Form. 319
- VVP Volume Velocity Processing - a way to guess the large-scale 2-dimensional winds, divergence and fall speeds from one-dimensional radial velocity data.
- VVSTORM Model-based convection algorithm.
- VW-1 Flammability rating established by Underwriters Laboratories for wires and cables that pass a specially designed vertical flame test formerly designated…
- VWP VAD Wind Profile - a radar plot of horizontal winds, derived from VAD data, as a function of height above a Doppler Radar.
- VX 853 A drug being studied to make cancer cells less resistant to the effects of chemotherapy.
- VX-710 A drug being studied to make cancer cells less resistant to the effects of chemotherapy.