| Acronym | Meaning |
| CBED | Convergent-beam Electron Diffraction |
| AISIT | Automatic Intelligent Sampler For Inorganic Trace Constituents |
| MMC | Metal-Matrix Composite |
| DSDP | Deep Sea Drilling Project |
| CRF | Corticotropin-releasing Factor |
| CGI | Combustible Gas Indicator |
| CESARS | Chemical Evaluation Search And Retrieval System |
| CCD | Coupled-cluster Doubles |
| CCSD-ED | Coupled-cluster Method With Single And Double Excitations-energy Derivative |
| SFE | Stacking Fault Energy |