IEEE
Organizations & Companies abbreviation · Professional Association and Labor Union
| Stands for | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
|---|---|
| Categories | Organizations & Companies |
IEEE stands for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a professional association and labor union abbreviation.
World's largest technical professional organization, with hundreds of thousands of members, which publishes journals and conference papers in electrical engineering and computing and develops standards such as IEEE 802.11 for Wi-Fi and 802.3 for Ethernet.
Example: The router supports the IEEE 802.11ax standard, marketed as Wi-Fi 6.
Usage notes
A 1963 merger created it from the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1884) and the Institute of Radio Engineers (1912). It is pronounced "eye-triple-E". Its publications include IEEE Spectrum magazine. Its standards association also wrote the 754 standard for floating-point arithmetic.
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