| Acronym | Meaning |
| IBS | Ion Beam Sputtering |
| AQLV | Air Quality Limit Values |
| LCC | Leadless Chip Carrier |
| CVO | Canonical Virtual Orbital |
| TLS | Thermal Lens Spectrometry |
| BDT | Brittle-ductile Transition |
| TAFE | Transverse Alternating-field Electrophoresis |
| QMAR | Quantitative Migration-activity Relationship |
| PTI | Positive Thermal Ionization (for Mass Spectrometry) |
| SAE | Society Of Automotive Engineers |