| Acronym | Meaning |
| MCT | Mercury Cadmium Telluride |
| NRC | Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
| LFECA | Low Frequency Eddy Current Array |
| CUSMAP | Conterminous United States Mineral Assessment Program |
| SVT | Silicon Vertex Tracker |
| FV-CAS-SCF | Full Valence-complete Active Space-SCF |
| CPCC | Complex-potential Close-coupling |
| ISTS | Impulsive Stimulated Thermal Scattering [a Laser-based Ultrasonic Technique] |
| HIV | Human Immunodeficiency Virus |
| PCA | Principal Component Analysis |