| Acronym | Meaning |
| BICFET | Bipolar Inversion Channel Field-effect Transistor |
| CRDS | Cavity Ring-down Spectroscopy |
| DPT | Degenerate Perturbation Theory |
| ROC | Receptor-operated Ca2+ Channel |
| RGA | Residual Gas Analysis |
| FLA | Fluorescence Lifetime Analysis |
| FAM | Friable Asbestos-containing Material |
| DUT | Device Under Test |
| NEMI | National Environmental Methods Index |
| VLHC | Very Large Hadron Collider |