| Acronym | Meaning |
| CEPH | Centre D'Etudes Du Polymorphisme Humain |
| APD | Avalanche Photodiode |
| AWWARF | American Water Works Association Research Foundation |
| CPM | Crucible Particle Metallurgy |
| APD | Action Potential Duration |
| IFOT | Invariant Fock Operator Technique |
| PFU | Plaque-forming Units |
| GEMI | Global Environmental Management Initiative |
| CISC | Configuration Interaction (with) Size-consistency (correction) |
| CGH | Comparative Genomic Hybridization |