| Acronym | Meaning |
| TLPS | Transient Liquid Phase Sintering [adhesive] |
| CESARS | Chemical Evaluation Search And Retrieval System |
| NCP | Net Community Productivity |
| DWBA3(3DWBA) | Three-body Distorted-wave Born Approximation |
| SC-1 | Standard Clean Solution #1 |
| BIOS | British Intelligence Objectives Sub-committee |
| CCM | Chemical Cleavage Of Mismatch |
| INRS | Institut National De Recherche Et De Securite (Paris |
| PNC | Parity Nonconservation |
| PASH | Polycyclic Aromatic Sulfur-containing Hydrocarbons |