| Acronym | Meaning |
| HSGFET | Hybrid Suspended Gate Field Effect Transistor |
| PC | Personal Computer |
| GSHV | Ground Squirrel Hepatitis Virus |
| PAIR | Patent Application Information Retrieval System |
| EMII | Enriched Mantle Component 2 (of S. R. Hart |
| NOC | Nonionic Organic Contaminants |
| FCI | Full Configuration Interaction |
| LIGS | Laser-induced Grating Spectroscopy |
| SOM | Self-organizing Map |
| PPO | Poly (phenylene Oxide) |