| Acronym | Meaning |
| NDTT | Nil Ductility Transition Temperature |
| AFPAL | Air Force Phillips Astronautics Laboratory (USA) |
| PAI | Pesticide Active Ingredient |
| AHRQ | Agency For Healthcare Research And Quality |
| DFT | Density-functional Theory |
| IRPDS | Infrared Photothermal Deflection Spectroscopy |
| MWM | Meandering Winding Magnetometer |
| VFET | Vertical Field-effect Transistor |
| TNN-TB | Third Neighbor Nonorthogonal (basis) Tight Binding |
| MDPE | Medium-density Polyethylene |