ANSI

ANSI

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Acronym for American National Standards Institute. A voluntary, nonprofit organization of U.S. business and industry groups that was formed in 1918 for the development of trade and communication standards. ANSI is the American representative of the International Standards Organization and has developed recommendations for the use of programming languages, including FORTRAN, C, and COBOL.