ANSI

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ANSI
Stands forAmerican National Standards Institute
CategoriesOrganizations & Companies

ANSI stands for American National Standards Institute, a professional association and labor union abbreviation.

Private nonprofit that coordinates the US voluntary standards system, accrediting the organizations that write standards and approving them as American National Standards. It represents the United States in ISO.

Example: The safety glasses are marked Z87.1, the ANSI standard for eye protection.

Usage notes

Founded in 1918 as the American Engineering Standards Committee, it does not write most standards itself. Familiar ANSI standards include the ANSI Z87.1 marking on protective eyewear. In computing, "ANSI" often refers to character encodings and the ANSI C standard of the C programming language.

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