| Acronym | Meaning |
| SAMI | Southern Appalachian Mountains Initiative |
| CCD | Chemical Composition Distribution [of Polymers] |
| CMBH | Capped Mesa Buried Heterostructure |
| KSS | Kearns-Sayre Syndrome |
| NELC | Non-exclusion Liquid Chromatography |
| ATRA | All-trans-retinoic Acid |
| TRIS | Toxic Release Inventory System |
| FPLA | Field-programmable Logic Array |
| TDM | Time-division Multiplexing |
| GBS | Guillain-Barre Syndrome |