| Acronym | Meaning |
| CPSC | Consumer Product Safety Commission |
| AIEE | American Institute For Electrical Engineers |
| IBAD | Ion-Beam-Assisted Deposition |
| PAF | Platelet Activating Factor |
| DVB | Diagrammatic Valence Bond (in Study Of Electronic Properties) |
| CERT | Const. Extension Rate Tensile |
| CRM | Chemical Remanent Magnetization |
| QISM | Quantum Inverse Scattering Method |
| QLDA | Quasilocal Density Functional Approxn. |
| EPCE | Enhanced Pre-coat Engineering |