| Acronym | Meaning |
| INDOEX | Indian Ocean Experiment |
| MDQ | Minimum Detectable Quantity |
| CCLRC | Council For The Central Laboratory Of The Research Councils |
| STRP | Short Tandem Repeat Polymorphism |
| CAE | Constant Analyzer Energy |
| SPF | Specific Pathogen-free |
| MIC | Microwave Integrated Circuit |
| BASTM | Beam-assisted Scanning Tunneling Microscope |
| OCEE | Overlap Corrected Electronegativity Equalization |
| AIUPS | Angle-integrated Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy |