| Acronym | Meaning |
| NVSM | Nonvolatile Semiconductor Memory |
| FOND | Fiber-optic Neutron Detector |
| MIPS | Million Instructions Per Second |
| BWCCD | Brillouin-Wigner Coupled-cluster (with) Double (excitation) |
| CFT | Conformal Field Theory |
| WSD | Water Saturation Deficit |
| CFSL | Cavitation-field Sonoluminescence |
| CIBO | Council Of Industrial Boiler Owners |
| SAR | Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| BACR | British Association For Cancer Research |