| Acronym | Meaning |
| EFM | Electric Force Microscopy |
| FWHH | Full Width At The Half-height |
| 3A | Alumina Aluminide Alloys |
| GDC | Glow Discharge Cleaning |
| KDV | Korteweg-de Vries (equation For Solitons) |
| FRC | Free Residual Chlorine |
| DHBT | Double Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor |
| READS | Restriction Enzyme Analysis Of Differentially-expressed Sequences |
| YOS | Yttrium Orthosilicate |
| CVS | Constant Volume Sampler |