| Acronym | Meaning |
| TIGRA | Thermostimulated Inert Gas Release Analysis |
| SP | Surface Potential |
| NTD | Neutron Transmutation Doping |
| SETS | Superfund Enforcement Tracking System |
| BLS | Brillouin Light Scattering |
| RSV | Reduced Sp. Viscosity |
| RHFS | Restricted Hartree-Fock-Slater |
| AFGL | Air Force Geophysics Laboratory |
| NF-E1 | Nuclear Factor Erythroid 1 |
| VLWIR | Very Long Wavelength IR |