| Acronym | Meaning |
| CDE | Collective Dose Equivalent |
| HDC | Hydrodynamic Chromatography |
| MFP | Mean Free Path |
| ATDC | After Top Dead Center (gasoline And Diesel Engine Timing) |
| LMC | Laminated Metal Composite |
| PMIRRAS | Polarization Modulation Infrared Reflection Absorption Spectroscopy |
| CAR | Chemically Amplified Resist |
| GDOS | Glow Discharge Optical Spectroscopy |
| PWBA-R | Plane-wave Born Approxn. With Relativistic Effects |
| DMS | Dimethyl Sulfide |