| Acronym | Meaning |
| TBC | Thermal Barrier Coating |
| DSA | Digital Subtraction Angiography |
| REE | Rare Earth Element(s) |
| ODFS | Optimized Dirac-Fock-Slater |
| NSERC | Natural Sciences And Engineering Research Council (Canada) |
| SHG | Second Harmonic Generation |
| CAK | Cdk-activating Kinase |
| PPGA | Plastic Pin Grid Array [electronic Package] |
| MARDIGRAS | Matrix Analysis Of Relaxation For DIscerning The Geometry Of An Aqueous Structure |
| VOD | Veno-occlusive Disease |