| Acronym | Meaning |
| PED | Pulsed Electrochemical Detection |
| FETI | Fire, Explosion And Toxicity Index |
| SASF | Straight Anisotropic Single-mode Fiber |
| IMF | Interplanetary Magnetic Field |
| CPBE | Coulomb-projected Born Approxn. With Exchange |
| HIAF | Heavy Ion Analytical Facility |
| MERIE | Magnetically Enhanced Reactive Ion Etching |
| PHF | Periodic Hartree-Fock |
| NIWG | National Interagency Work Group |
| FFM | Friction Force Microscopy |