| Acronym | Meaning |
| CPA | Chirped Pulse Amplification |
| MSL | Mean Sea Level |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| HCWP | Hard Corrugated Wall Potential |
| WTQA | Waste Testing And Quality Assurance |
| MPDS | Moment-polarized Dirac-Slater |
| CMF | Clay Minerals File (of Digitized X-ray Diffraction Traces) |
| SIPOS | Semi-insulating Polycrystalline Silicon |
| OSA | Optical Society Of America |
| EAAPS | Electron-excited Auger-electron Appearance Potential Spectroscopy |