| Acronym | Meaning |
| OTDR | Optical Time Domain Reflectometry |
| TLM | Thermal Lens Microscopy |
| FMD | Foot And Mouth Disease |
| BOFSUW | Biodegradable Organic Fraction Of Solid Urban Waste |
| ECRIS | Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source |
| ARIMA | Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average Model |
| ABSA | American Biological Safety Association |
| LPVD | Laser Physical Vapor Deposition |
| EET | Electronic Energy Transfer |
| HERV | Human Endogenous Retrovirus |