| Acronym | Meaning |
| PFZ | Polar Frontal Zone |
| SPRI | Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging |
| MCZDO | Many Center Zero Differential Overlap |
| CERL | Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (US Army) |
| DISC | Death-inducing Signaling Complex |
| ADONIS | Article Delivery Over Network Information Systems |
| MTD | Mean Therapeutic Dose |
| TERRA | Tandem Accelerator For Environmental Research And Radiocarbon Analysis |
| MCPA | Molecular Coherent-potential Approximation |
| RFM | Relativistic Mean Field |