| Acronym | Meaning |
| UCP | Uncoupling Protein |
| BOTDR | Brillouin Optical Time Domain Reflectometry |
| EIL | Electron Injection Layer |
| PAL | Positron Annihilation Lifetime |
| NCTN | NASA Commercial Technology Network |
| DLTFS | Deep Level Transient Fourier Spectroscopy |
| DCC | Deleted In Colorectal Cancer |
| HKS | Hohenberg-Kohn-Sham (quantum Theory) |
| GMAD | Geometric Mean Aerodynamic Diameter |
| IAB | Information Access Branch |