| Acronym | Meaning |
| BER | Base Excision Repair |
| TPAD | Temperature Programmed Ammonia Desorption |
| AFPAL | Air Force Phillips Astronautics Laboratory (USA) |
| HFE | Hot-feed Extrusion |
| ENCAT | Epoxy Nucleophile Catalyzed Transesterification |
| PAS | Positron Annihilation Spectrometry |
| EMG | Exponentially Modified Gaussian |
| ERNS | Emergency Response Notification System |
| EDXA | Energy-dispersive X-ray Analysis |
| EUV | Extreme Ultraviolet |