| Acronym | Meaning |
| SSF | Slow Sand Filtration (water Treatment) |
| CIP | Cold Isostatic Pressing |
| SPEELS | Spin-polarized Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy |
| VIMS | Visible And IR Mapping Spectrometer |
| DF-SCF | Dirac-Fock Self-consistent Field |
| SIIA | Software & Information Industry Association |
| SADP | Selected Area Diffraction Patterns |
| LTP | Lipid-transfer Protein |
| SAFIR | Smoke Gas Anal. By Fourier Transform IR Spectroscopy |
| APS | Air Plasma Spraying |