| Acronym | Meaning |
| ASEC | Applied Solar Energy Corporation |
| BCRW | Bridge Contacted Ridge Waveguide |
| MC | Metal Carbide |
| SCAS | Stability And Command Augmentation System |
| ESCORT | Error Self-compensation Reached By Tau-scrambling |
| DHPLC | Denaturing High-performance Liquid Chromatography |
| CNDO SP | Complete Neglect Of Differential Overlap Spin Polarization |
| SBSR | Single Bead String Reactor |
| IF DRM | Inversion-free Direct Recursion Method (for Surface Electronic Structure) |
| ROC | Receptor-operated Ca2+ Channel |