| Acronym | Meaning |
| SLD | Superluminescent Diode |
| AFV | Alternatively Fueled Vehicle |
| GFAP | Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein |
| R-GVB | Resonating-generalized Valence Bond (wave Function) |
| AACE | American Association Of Coast Engineers |
| IAB | Information Access Branch |
| SNOM | Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy |
| AHMM | Academy Of Hazardous Materials Management |
| ADCP | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler |
| SEHRS | Surface-enhanced Hyper-Raman Scattering |