| Acronym | Meaning |
| NMEP | National Materials Exposure Programme |
| MARB | Methanotropic Air-tight Rotating Bioreactor |
| ASLE | American Society Of Lubrication Engineers (USA |
| ABR | Advanced Breeder Reactor |
| AM1 | Austin Model 1 |
| MMTV | Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus |
| SCOP | Spherical Complex Optical Potential (in Quantum Calcn. On Mol. Scattering) |
| VAMAS | Versailles Project On Advanced Materials And Stds. |
| ECSPM | Electrochemical Scanning Probe Microscopy |
| CHELP | CHarges From ELectrostatic Potential |