| Acronym | Meaning |
| OEM | Original Equipment Manufacturer |
| CHIGFET | Complementary Heterostructure Insulated Gate Field Effect Transistor |
| RPIPC | Reversed-phase Ion-pair Chromatography |
| E-CATS | Electronic Catalog System |
| NWS | National Weather Service |
| CIEF | Capillary Isoelectric Focusing |
| BOT | Build-operate-transfer [an Agreement Or Contract] |
| DIM-3C | Diatomics-in-mols. Method Including 3-center Terms (integrals) |
| SPEELS | Spin-polarized Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy |
| FIMDA | Fluorescence Intensity Multiple Distributions Analysis |