| Acronym | Meaning |
| AIPA | American Inventors Protection Act |
| LIFR | Leukemia Inhibitory Factor Receptor |
| PHANTOMM | Photo-activated Nonintrusive Tracking Of Molecular Motion |
| RRM | RNA Recognition Motif |
| AAD | Atomic Absorption Detector |
| WANO | World Association Of Nuclear Operators |
| WHOI | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute |
| FIM | Friable Insulation Material |
| CMM | Compositionally Modulated Multilayers |
| HH-GLF | Hyperspherical Harmonic-generalized Laguerre Function |