| Acronym | Meaning |
| MMMF | Man-Made Mineral Fiber |
| CCDW | Commensurate Charge-density Wave |
| CANDA | Computer Aided New Drug Application |
| PIRL | Polyimide Release Layer |
| FBG | Fiber Bragg Grating |
| SIOS | Semiclassical Infinite-order Sudden (in Rotationally-inelastic Scattering Calcns.) |
| TPCF | Two-point Correlation Function |
| MEP | Matrix Effective Potential (for Scattering Calcns.) |
| CSI | Crystal Structure Imaging |
| AMSA | Association Of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies |