| Acronym | Meaning |
| BNL | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| PMTR | Photomodulated Thermoreflectance |
| DAW | Dry Active Waste |
| SSC | Superconducting Super Collider |
| MRB | Multi-stage Reverse-flow Bioreactor |
| GRK | G Protein Coupled Receptor Kinase |
| VERI | Visual-empirical Region Of Influence |
| PED | Plasma Emission Detector |
| CFE | Colony-forming Efficiency |
| MLVA | Multiple-locus Variable-number Tandem Repeat Analysispar |