| Acronym | Meaning |
| DBR | Distributed Bragg Reflector |
| ALABC | Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium |
| ACGIH | American Conference Of Governmental Industrial Hygienists |
| CERDIP | Ceramic Dual-inline Package |
| ZQS | Zero-quantum Spectroscopy |
| ROP | Ring-opening Polymerization |
| ASCI | Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative |
| BKW | Bobylev-Krook-Wu (method For Solving The Boltzmann Equation For A Mol. System) |
| MEOR | Microbially Enhanced Oil Recovery |
| BEW | Base (or Biological) Equivalent Weight |