| Acronym | Meaning |
| PHS | Public Health Service |
| EBL | Electron-beam Lithography |
| LVSEM | Low Vacuum Scanning Electron Microscopy |
| CAICISS | Coaxial Impact Collision Ion Scattering Spectroscopy |
| IRI | Immunoreactive Insulin |
| WQC | Water Quality Criteria |
| NLLS | Nonlinear Least Squares |
| MAST | Mega-Amp Spherical Tokamak |
| HEED | High Energy Electron Diffraction |
| VPT | Variational Perturbation Theory |