| Acronym | Meaning |
| SRBC | Sheep Red Blood Cell |
| DHCP | Double Hexagonal Close Packedpar |
| MIDAS | Metal Ion-dependent Adhesion Site |
| SSMBE | Solid Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy |
| CCWE | Constituent Concentrations In Waste Extract |
| ESR | Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate |
| PNP | Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase |
| TIWSLS | Time-independent Wave Packet Schroedinger (and) Lippmann-Schwinger (equation) |
| NAS | Naval Air Station |
| NOAO | National Optical Astronomy Observatories |