| Acronym | Meaning |
| CDCGE | Continuous Denaturing Capillary Gel Electrophoresis |
| CLTVD | Controlled Low-temperature Vacuum Dehydration |
| FVP | Flash Vacuum Pyrolysis |
| GRIN | Gradient Refractive Index |
| ADU | Analog-to-digital Unit |
| NEDT | Noise Equivalent Delta T |
| FOCSY | Foldover-corrected Correlation Spectroscopy |
| LPFG | Long-period Fiber Grating |
| IRF | Interferon Regulatory Factor |
| EGD | Evolved Gas Detection |