| Acronym | Meaning |
| NERC | North American Electric Reliability Council |
| MSGC | Microstrip Gas Chamber |
| CMM | Compositionally Modulated Multilayers |
| CAMD | Computer Aided Material Design |
| ERT | Estrogen Replacement Therapy |
| DEFT | Driven Equilibrium Fourier Transform |
| AET | Apparent Effects Thresholds |
| CURE | Clean Use Of Reactor Energy |
| INEPT | Insensitive Nuclei Enhanced By Polarization Transfer |
| NRMS | Neutralization-reionization Mass Spectrometry |