International Electrotechnical Vocabulary

The International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) is grouped list of terms and definitions organized by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). It serves to promote the global unification of terminology in the field of electrotechnology, electronics and telecommunications. It is developed by the IEC Technical Committee 1 (Terminology), and published as both the IEC 60050 series of standards and online as the Electropedia. The Electropedia database contains English and French definitions for more than 22 000 concepts, and provides terms in up to 18 other languages.