| Acronym | Meaning |
| GIP | Gastric Inhibitory Polypeptide |
| PA-FTIR | Photoacoustic Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy |
| BTEM | Band Target Entropy Minimization |
| BACR | British Association For Cancer Research |
| CMAS | Completely Mixed Activated Sludge |
| AM | Arithmetic Mean |
| FHNC | Fermi Hypernetted Chain Method (in Quantum Statistics) |
| CMP | Cartilage Matrix Protein |
| ODS | Oxide Dispersion-strengthened |
| AECMA | European Association Of Aerospace Manufacturers |