| Acronym | Meaning |
| HIC | Hydrogen-induced Cracking |
| MSD | Mean Square Displacement |
| GDR | Geophysical Data Record |
| CCM | Crucible Ceramic Mold |
| BPC | British Pharmaceutical Codex |
| MPSS | Massively Parallel Signature Sequencing |
| ISST | International Subcommission On Stratigraphic Terminology |
| EDQNM | Eddy-damped Quasinormal Markovian [mathematics In Engineering] |
| CDPT | Constant Denominator Perturbation Theory |
| ASCII | American Standard Code For Information Interchange |