| Acronym | Meaning |
| AERL | Air And Energy Engineering Research Laboratory |
| RMT | Random Matrix Theory |
| CHR | Conventional Hot Rolling |
| SIMCA | Soft Independent Modeling Of Class Analogy (principal Component Analysis) |
| EFPVN | Eastern Fine Particle And Visibility Network |
| IPNO | Independent-pair Natural Orbital |
| STS | Surface Tunnelling Spectroscopy |
| FIRST | Field-portable Imaging Radiometric Spectrometer Technology |
| XSAD | X-ray Small Angle Diffraction |
| FLIR | Forward-looking Infrared |