| Acronym | Meaning |
| SFE | Stacking Fault Energy |
| SOCMI | Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturing Industry |
| EDM | Electrical Discharge Machining |
| MFVT | Mixed Flow Vectored Thrust |
| MRF | Municipal Recycle Facility |
| TBC | Thermal Barrier Coating |
| TFDW | Thomas-Fermi-Dirac-Von Weizsaecker (method For Electronic Structure Calcns. On Mols.) |
| UMINDO | Spin-unrestricted Modified Intermediate Neglect Of Differential Overlap |
| TCSPC | Time-correlated Single-photon Counting |
| LTMPF | Low-Temperature Microgravity Physics Facility |