| Acronym | Meaning |
| FGHAZ | Fine Grain Heat-affected Zone |
| HEDS | Human Exploration And Development Of Space |
| STEAM | Stimulated Echo Acquisition Mode |
| IRS | Infrared Soldering |
| POF | Polymer Optical Fiber |
| ADAS | Angular-dependent Auger Spectroscopy |
| CELIAS | Charge, Element And Isotope Analysis System |
| GRNN | Generalized Regression Neural Network |
| OLDA | Ordinary Linear Discriminant Analysis |
| MDC | Minimum Detectable Concentration |