| Acronym | Meaning |
| NAMT | National Advanced Manufacturing Testbed |
| PACAP | Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-activating Polypeptide |
| AAR | Accumulation-area Ratio (for Glaciers) |
| STEM | Scaled Taylor Exponential Model |
| REFET | Ref. Field Effect Transistor |
| RCNDO/S | Rydberg CNDO/screened |
| IBM | International Business Machines |
| HMI | Hornbeck-Molnar Ionization (homonuclear Associative Ionization In At. Collisions) |
| CTAB | Cetyl Trimethyl Ammonium Bromide (cationic Surfactant) |
| GIXD | Grazing Incidence X-ray Diffraction |