| Acronym | Meaning |
| GID | Grazing Incidence Diffraction |
| LHC | Large Hadron Collider |
| CAFE | Corporate Average Fuel Economy |
| STLE | Society Of Tribologists And Lubrication Engineers |
| CTOD | Crack Tip Opening Displacement |
| FOQELS | Fiber Optic Quasi Elastic Light Scattering |
| SRIM | Selected Research In Microfiche |
| RSMP | Rayleigh-Schroedinger-Moeller-Plesset Perturbation |
| EGU | European Geosciences Union |
| APRF | Army Pulse Radiation Facility |