| Acronym | Meaning |
| OB/OD | Open Burn/open Detonation |
| ALS | Alternating Least Squares |
| ARIPO | African Regional Intellectual Property Organization |
| CARB | California Air Resources Board |
| JOFET | Josephson Field Effect Transistor |
| QAPW | Quadratic Augmented Plane Wave (in Band-structure Calcn.) |
| LFER | Linear Free Energy Relationship |
| MCQDT | Multichannel Quantum Defect Theory |
| VIM | Vacuum Induction Melting |
| REFET | Ref. Field Effect Transistor |