| Acronym | Meaning |
| NABSA | Nucleic Acid Based Sequence Amplification |
| FCC | Food Chemicals Codex |
| ICRF | Imperial Cancer Research Fund |
| SDC | Samaria-doped Ceria |
| HIRDLS | High-Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder |
| SRAM | Static Random Access Memory |
| HCP | Hexagonal Close Packed |
| SCSOPW | Self-consistent Symmetrized Orthogonalized-plane-wave |
| MIOSA | Modified (rotational) Infinite Order Sudden Approxn. |
| TACT | Trans Alaska Crustal Transect |