| Acronym | Meaning |
| ASNOM | Aperture Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy |
| RMTO | Relativistic Muffin-tin Orbital |
| IFOT | Invariant Fock Operator Technique |
| PSZ | Partially-stabilized Zirconia |
| SOUR | Specific Oxygen Uptake Rate |
| XEDS | X-ray Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy |
| BDA | Biotinylated Dextran Amine |
| MFO | Mixed-function Oxidase |
| HDC | Hydrodynamic Chromatography |
| GFCI | Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter |