| Acronym | Meaning |
| SGBD | Steam Generator Blowdown |
| COD | Crack Opening Displacement |
| NOC | Nonionic Organic Contaminants |
| RCM | Ring-closing Metathesis |
| PAW | Plasma Arc Welding |
| SDRAM | Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory |
| IEMA | Immunoenzymometric Assay |
| CBOX | Coulomb-Born With No Exchange |
| PIAD | Plasma-ion Assisted Deposition |
| HCA | Hierarchical Cluster Analysis |