| Acronym | Meaning |
| POY | Partially Oriented Yarn (usually Synthetics |
| LBZ | Local Brittle Zone |
| WEFT | Water Elimination By Fourier Transform |
| RISC | Reduced-instruction-set Computer |
| IRLG | Interagency Regulatory Liaison Group |
| TERA | Toxicology Excellence For Risk Assessment |
| FHBS | Finite Hilbert Basis Set |
| CV | Coeff. Of Variation |
| BRITE | Basic Research In Industrial Technologies For Europe |
| DASCO | Discriminant Analysis With Shrunken Covariances |