| Acronym | Meaning |
| HIRBS | Heavy-ion Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry |
| OAO | Orthogonalized Atomic Orbital |
| NCDC | National Climatic Data Center |
| CPS | Centimeter/second Viscosity Measurement |
| NTD | Nuclear Track Detector |
| ICM | Injection Compression Molding |
| CHEST | Combined Higher Education Software Team |
| SDI | Silt Density Index |
| LPED | Low-pressure Electric Discharge |
| NVSM | Nonvolatile Semiconductor Memory |