| Acronym | Meaning |
| LPCVD | Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| GCHAZ | Grain-coarsened Heat-affected Zone |
| CFU | Colony Forming Unit (for Bacteria Counting In Water Disinfection) |
| STLS | Singwi-Tosi-Land-Sjolander (generalized Random-phase Approxn. For Effective Pair Potentials Of Liq. Metals) |
| OFET | Organic Field Effect Transistor |
| GLS | Generalized Least Squares |
| PDI | Polydispersity Index |
| ADP | Auger Depth Profiling |
| PACE | Pacific Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment |
| MASIF | Measurement And Analysis Of Surface Interaction Forces |