| Acronym | Meaning |
| NIRA | Near Infrared Reflection Analysis |
| MAVRIQ | Model Of Analysis Of Volatiles And Residential Indoor-air Quality |
| HFB | Hybrid Fluidized Bed |
| PPBA | Plane-wave Plane-wave Born Approximation |
| STI | Shallow Trench Isolation |
| ROSE | Remote Optical Sensing Of Emissions |
| FLIR | Forward-looking Infrared |
| NEAR | Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous |
| IPIRDW | Independent-process (and) Isolated-resonance (approxn. Using) Distorted Waves |
| VFT | Voguel-Fulcher-Tamman [equation] |