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Princeton's WordNet

  1. National Institute of Standards and Technology, NISTnoun

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

Wikipedia

  1. nist

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into physical science laboratory programs that include nanoscale science and technology, engineering, information technology, neutron research, material measurement, and physical measurement. From 1901 to 1988, the agency was named the National Bureau of Standards.

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  1. nist

    NIST is an acronym for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. It is a federal agency within the United States Department of Commerce that promotes and maintains measurement standards. NIST oversees a wide array of standards from timekeeping and industrial measurements to cybersecurity protocols.

Wikidata

  1. NIST

    NIST is a method for evaluating the quality of text which has been translated using machine translation. Its name comes from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology. It is based on the BLEU metric, but with some alterations. Where BLEU simply calculates n-gram precision adding equal weight to each one, NIST also calculates how informative a particular n-gram is. That is to say when a correct n-gram is found, the rarer that n-gram is, the more weight it will be given. For example, if the bigram "on the" is correctly matched, it will receive lower weight than the correct matching of bigram "interesting calculations", as this is less likely to occur. NIST also differs from BLEU in its calculation of the brevity penalty insofar as small variations in translation length do not impact the overall score as much.

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    What does NIST stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the NIST acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. NIST

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Nist is ranked #40554 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Nist surname appeared 539 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Nist.

    97.2% or 524 total occurrences were White.
    1.8% or 10 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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  1. inst.

  2. ints

  3. isn't

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of NIST in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of NIST in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of NIST in a Sentence

  1. Dan Recht:

    ( Fox News) What keeps the government from overreaching ? what keeps them from going the next step ? And it really is only another step or two, to a national ID where they know everything about you. One of the very first tenets is no national ID, Grassi said of the work NIST is doing. And the mobile driver's license would be no different. Each individual state will still be in control of driver's license information, as they are now, he said. Diane Johanssen manages the driver's license office in Lakewood, Colorado, which took part in field testing Gemalto's product. Everyone wants it right now and I think that the digital license is the wave of the future, personally and professionally, Diane Johanssen said. Diane Johanssen said one of the biggest advantages to going digital would be the ability to update license information remotely. It would basically keep them out of the office, and for all those people with special needs, that are in nursing homes that have an issue to just get to a driver's license office.

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