| Acronym | Meaning |
| CBE | Chemical Beam Epitaxy |
| INPI | The French National Institute Of Industrial Property |
| PAB | Passenger-side Air Bag |
| TILIBS | Time-integrated Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy |
| ADDC | Ammonium Diethyldithiocarbamate |
| MIRA | Multivariate Image Rank Analysis |
| MERLIN | Multi-element Radio-linked Interferometer Network |
| NHLBI | National Heart |
| LAPS | Light-Addressable Potentiometric Sensor |
| BWR | Boiling Water Reactor |