| Acronym | Meaning |
| AAMI | Association For The Advancement Of Medical Instrumentation |
| SML | Surface Microlayer |
| LASTO | Linear Augmented Slater-type Orbital (for Electronic Structure) |
| TDLDA | Time-dependent Local-density Approximation |
| BAL | Bronchoalveolar Lavage |
| STS | Space Transportation System |
| MRAIRS | Multiple Reflection-absorption Infrared Spectroscopy |
| MCEB-NEV | Multiconfigurational Energy Bound-natural Eigenvalue Method |
| PSDF | Power Systems Development Facility |
| PHEMT | Pseudomorphic High Electron Mobility Transistor |