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• acceleration due to gravity
• ADA
• ADT
• AFM
• AGU
• AILS
• albedo
• APS
• ASTM
• ATR
• attenuation meter
• AYM

AVPS - aerodynamic-vacuum particle sizing (or sizer). A method or instrument which sizes a particle according to its aerodynamic (hydrodynamic) diameter and density by measuring terminal velocity in vacuum of the particle accelerated with an air jet into the sensing zone of the instrument. See aerodynamic-vacuum particle sizing in Index and also aerodynamic particle sizing