| Acronym | Meaning |
| UCS | Unconfined Compressive Strength |
| MCT | Mercury Cadmium Telluride |
| PAL | Positron Annihilation Lifetime |
| NABSA | Nucleic Acid Based Sequence Amplification |
| INAA | Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis |
| JAM | Junctional Adhesion Molecule |
| HETG | High-energy Transmission Grating |
| QUAX | Quantitative Phase-Analysis With X-ray Powder Diffraction |
| ATRS | Attenuated Total Reflection Spectroscopy |
| UPES | Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy |