| Acronym | Meaning |
| SIAM | Society For Industrial And Applied Mathematics |
| SAGE | Stratospheric Aerosol And Gas Experiment |
| AR | Attributive Risk |
| P-T-T-D | Pressure-temperature-time-deformation Path (for Metamorphic Rocks) |
| GIXAS | Grazing Incidence X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy |
| PVB | Poly(vinyl Butyral) |
| HSGFET | Hybrid Suspended Gate Field Effect Transistor |
| BEFS | Berkeley Extreme And Far-UV Spectrometer |
| VAD | Vapor Axial Deposition |
| CC-EH | Coupled-cluster Effective Hamiltonian |