| Acronym | Meaning |
| ACI | Alloy Casting Institute |
| FAMOS | Floating-gate Avalanche-injection Metal-oxide Semiconductor |
| BPP | Bloembergen |
| EAROM | Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory |
| TOFD | Time Of Flight Diffraction |
| LAP | Laboratory Analytical Protocol |
| CVI | Chemical Vapor Infiltration (impregnation) |
| VX | O-ethyl-S-2-diisopropylaminoethyl Methylphosphonothiolate |
| ESQUIRE | External Source QUIstor With Resonance Ejection |
| PECAM | Platelet Endothelial Cell Adhesion Molecule |