| Acronym | Meaning |
| FLAIR | Fluid Attenuated Inversion Recovery |
| PLAD | Pulsed Laser Ablation Deposition |
| SBAR | Sequencing Batch Anaerobic Reactor(s) |
| PGE | Platinum Group Elements |
| PCS | Permit Compliance System |
| GRF | Growth Hormone Releasing Factor |
| PRFT | Partially Relaxed Fourier Transform |
| OMCVD | Organometallic Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| IMOA | Iterative Maximum Overlap Approximation |
| HGF | Hepatocyte Growth Factor |