| Acronym | Meaning |
| CERL | Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (US Army) |
| ODR | Optical Double Resonance |
| VPC | Vapor-phase Chromatography |
| PFOE | Polarized First-order Exchange |
| STECS | Solar Thermal Electric Conversion Systems |
| COBE | Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (NASA) |
| HGHR | Human Growth Hormone Receptor |
| MOX | Mixed Oxide |
| SERHF | Symmetry-equivalenced Restricted Hartree-Fock |
| FZP | Fresnel Zone Plate |