ALSO CALLED: NBS, Federal Information Processing Standards, National Bureau of Standards, and NIST DEFINITION: NIST is the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a unit of the U.S. Commerce Department. Formerly known as the National Bureau of Standards, NIST promotes and maintains measurement standards. It also has active programs for encouraging and assisting industry and science to develop and use
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