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• M3/H — Cubic Meters per Hour
• PRE — Proportional Reduction of Error
• PRDT — Physical Restraint Decision Tree
• PRC — Photometry, Radiometry, and Calorimetry
• PR — PRobability of ....
• POCOE — Principle Of Conservation Of Energy
• PPU — Physics processing unit
• PPP — Physics for Paper and Print
• PQ — Photon To Quark
• XMLL — X-ray Magnetic Linear Loop
• US — United States of America
• USA — United States of America
• BRDF — Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function
• CT — Computed Tomography
• A-BOMB — Atomic Bomb
• PI — Penning ionization [
• XMCD — X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism
• CPMG — Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill pulse sequence
• PN — PN (Pressure Nominal)
• PNEUM — pneumatic
• PHYY — Physics
• ANOVA — Analysis of Variance (statistics)
• LASER — Light Amplification By Stimulated Emission Of Radiation (cf. Maser)
• PM — Particle Multiplication
• 19F — Fluorine-19
• PHWR — Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor
• PME — Particle-Mesh Ewald
• MIM — Metal-Insulator-Metal (Diode)
• WAXD — Wide-Angle X-Ray Diffraction
• NTU — Nephelometric Turbidity Unit
• PIC — Precision Ion Chamber
• PMF — Predictor Model File
• YAEL — Yankee Atomic Environmental Laboratory
• ANSI — American National Standards Institute, Inc.
• PIF — Physics at the Information Frontier
• PI — 3.1415926535
• MM — Millimeter
• YB:YAG — Ytterbium: Yttrium-Aluminum-Garnet
• CBRN — Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear
• PHW — Potable Hot Water
• PHD — P-Helicity Decoupling Scheme (P=Momentum)
• PILAC — Pulsed Ion Linear ACcelerator
• QDVP — Quasi-Degenerate Variational Perturbation
• PIE — Possibility of Infinite Energy
• PISA — Photovoltaic Information System For Architects
• PML — Physical Measurement Laboratory
• Y' — Out-of-plane Velocity - vertical
• UK — United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• CPU — Central Processing Unit
• PL — Proton Loss

• PIV — Position Information Vector
• T-O-F — time of flight
• R- E/I — Ohms Law (not an acronym)
• UASER — Ultrasound Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
• KAMIOKANDE — A solar neutrino experiment at the Kamioka Observatory in Japan
• JMMM — Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
• α — angular acceleration
• KAMLAND — KAmioka Liquid Scintillator Anti-Neutrino Detector
• ZPDH — Z-Pinch-Driven Hohlraum
• A — Ampere
• WHO — World Health Organization
• DAMP — Division of Atomic and Molecular Physics
• HAPPEX — Hall A Proton Parity Experiment
• LAQL — Lowest Analytically Quantifiable Level
• ° C — Degree centigrade
• LAGOS — Laser Gravitational-wave Observatory in Space
• APCVD — Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition
• RF — Radio Frequency
• DT — Differential Temperature
• QEDA — Quantum Electrodynamics Atomic Theory
• ω — angular velocity
• FEMA — Federal Emergency Management Agency
• JASJA — Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan
• WANFCS — West Area Neutrino Facility Control System
• VAPEPS — Vibroacoustic Payload Environment Prediction System
• ISO — International Organization for Standardization
• LCD — Liquid Crystal Display
• QFEB — Quasi-Free Electron Bremsstrahlung
• LAMSCAL — Large Area Monochromatic Source for Calibrations
• FARCAL — Facility for Advanced Radiometric Calibrations
• HASYLAB — Hamburger Synchrotronstrahlungslabor
• KARMEN — Karlsruhe-Rutherford Medium-Energy Neutrino Experiment
• UNESCO — United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• NTSB — US National Transportation Safety Board
• LAPHY — Laser Physics
• URL — Universal Resource Locator
• N-FSBS — Near-Forward Stimulated Brillouin Scattering
• CFF — Critical Flicker Fusion
• SWAG — Scientific Wild-Ass Guess. A Close Approximation.
• IDMS — Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry
• FET — Field Effect Transistor
• SMYS — Specified Minimum Yield Strength
• AC — Alternating Current
• AAS — Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry
• 2DEG — Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
• WWW — World Wide Web
• ASTM — American Society for Testing and Materials (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
• KATRIN — KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino
• JAJAP — Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
• CY — Calendar Year

• LAFOC — Laser Focus
• GAMS4 — NIST High Resolution Spectrometer
• TQM — Total Quality Management
• BTU — British Thermal Unit
• EEO — Equal Employment Opportunity
• R&D — Research & Development
• ECR — Electron Cyclotron Resonance
• USDA — United States Department of Agriculture
• ESA — European Space Agency
• MDMT — Minimum Design Metal Temperature
• SRAM — Static Random Access Memory (ess-ram)
• MRI — Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• LOD — Limit Of Detection
• CMOS — Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
• EPA — Environmental Protection Agency (US)
• FOV — Field Of View (satellite)
• µ — Micro
• HACCP — Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point
• QA/QC — Quality Assurance/Quality Control
• GPS — Global Positioning System (ex-NAVSTAR)
• FAA — Federal Aviation Administration
• EMT — effective medium theory
• SOG — Spin-on Glass
• CRT — Cathode Ray Tube (type of TV)
• LTE — Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium
• PDL — Polarization Dependent Loss
• AM — Amplitude Modulation
• FM — frequency modulation
• DB — Decibel
• BP — Boiling Point
• COSPAR — Committee on Space Research (ICSU)
• NATO — North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
• MEG — Motionless Electromagnetic Generator
• DOD — United States Department of Defense
• PCB — Polychlorinated Biphenyls
• IFOV — Instantaneous Field Of View
• AIP — American Institute of Physics
• FY — Fiscal Year
• SIMOPS — SIMultaneous OPerationS
• MOCVD — Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition
• UPS — Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy
• NM — Nanometer
• CAD — Computer Aided Designer
• VHF — Very High Frequency
• STD — Standard
• DRAM — Dynamic Random Access Memory (dee-ram) (computing)
• AES — Auger Electron Spectroscopy
• RIU — Refractive Index Unit
• SPL — Sound Pressure Level
• VHS — Van Hove Singularity

• TPD — Temperature Programmed Desorption (for Gas Chromatography)
• DME — Distance Measuring Equipment
• IAEA — International Atomic Energy Agency
• KG — Kilogram
• SNOM — Scanning Near-field Optical Microscope
• MIL — Military
• FDA — Food Drug Administration
• FFT — Fast Fourier Transform
• HD — High Density
• DL — Deciliter
• NOE — Nuclear Overhauser Effect (NMR)
• PCS — Photon Correlation Spectroscopy
• DOE — United States Department of Energy (government)
• NQR — Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance
• PC — Personal computer (host)
• IC — Integrated Circuit
• ROYGBIV — Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet (Colors of the Rainbow)
• ACS — American Chemical Society
• UHF — Ultra High Frequency (300-3000 MHz; 1m-10cm)
• AF — Audio Frequency
• DQE — Detective Quantum Efficiency
• NIST — National Institute of Standards and Technology
• NCO — Numerically Controlled Oscillator
• WFI — Water For Injection (pharmaceutical Term)
• SPR — Surface Plasmon Resonance
• KLY — Kilo Langley
• SQL — Structured Query Language
• CMM — Coordinate Measuring Machine
• ITU — International Telecommunication Union
• CT — Current Transformer
• DNA — Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid
• NSF — National Sanitation Foundation
• CCT — Circuit
• H — Hot
• AEC — Atomic Energy Commission (superseded by ERDA)
• HOMESTAKE — A solar neutrino experiment in the Homestake Gold Mine in South Dakota
• NMR — Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
• DPM — Disintegrations Per Minute
• NSA — National Security Agency
• EMF — Electromotive Force
• LED — law enforcement desk; light emitting diode
• PECVD — Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition
• GND — Ground
• MAD — Mean Absolute Deviation
• MFP — Mass Flow Parameter
• BAPS — Bulletin of the American Physical Society
• UTC — Coordinated Universal Time
• WYSIWYG — What You See Is What You Get (pronounced Wizzy-wig. See Entry For Derived Acronyms)
• 2PE — Two-Photon Excitation
• MOBY — Marine Optical Buoy

• NAS — United States National Academy of Sciences
• FTG — Field Testing Group
• APHIS — U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
• BIT — Bulk Ion Temperature
• OASIS — Optically Adaptive System for Imaging Spectroscopy
• FMRI — Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• HZ — cycles per second (hertz)
• LFP — Local Field Potential
• PWH — PetaWatt-Hour
• AAMI — Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
• JB — Jacquet-Blondel method
• ISS — International Space Station
• 4WM — Four Wave Mixing
• DN — Diameter Nominal
• LF — Low Frequency
• CW — Continuous Wave
• NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
• LO — Local Oscillator
• HPLC — High Performance Liquid Chromatography
• CARS — Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy
• THD — Total Harmonic Distortion
• 2D WAXD — Two-Dimensional Wide-Angle X-ray Diffraction
• LVL — Level
• P — Pressure
• E=MC2 — Energy=Mass * (Velocity of light)**2
• FTF — Fundamental Train Frequency
• IRB — Institutional Review Board
• AEDY — Aerospace Dynamics
• AMS — Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
• KE — Kinetic Energy
• ESD — Electrostatic Discharge
• JPL — Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California Institute of Technology) (NASA)
• ESR — Electron Spin Resonance
• CW — Clockwise
• IEEE — Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc.
• HSI — Hue Saturation Intensity
• NIH — NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH
• RAI — Resident Assessment Instrument
• FOS — Faint Object Spectrograph
• APS — American Physical Society
• TLC — Thin Layer Chromatography
• IHPRPTP — Integrated High Payoff Rocket Propulsion Technology Program
• NESDIS — National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
• MQSA — Mammography Quality Standards Act
• NIST — National Institute of Standards & Technology (US)
• SC — South Carolina
• TOMO-SAR — Synthetic Aperture Radar TOMOgraphy
• IEC — International Electrotechnical Commission
• IR — Infrared
• TFT — Thin Film Transistor

• FWT — Fast Wavelet Transform
• EVM — Error Vector Magnitude
• SIG — Signal
• AAPM — American Association of Physicists in Medicine's
• EBIS — Electron Beam Ion Source
• COBE — Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (NASA)
• FDR — False Discovery Rate
• SUPER-K — Super-Kamiokande
• JND — Just Noticeable Difference
• NTP — normal temperature and pressure
• JXST — Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology
• XQC — X-ray Quantum Calorimeter
• AES — Atomic Emission Spectroscopy
• COIL — Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser
• NRC — National Response Center
• ACD — Autoregressive Conditional Duration
• UV — Ultraviolet (Light)
• GR — General Relativity
• HQSC — Heisenberg Quantum Spin Chain
• OPCPA — Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification
• EPR — Electron Paramagnetic Resonance
• IAU — International Astronomical Union
• 3PE — Three-Photon Excitation
• LANL — Los Alamos National Laboratory
• CDM — Cold Dark Matter
• DIBL — Drain-induced Barrier Lowering
• IID — independent and identically distributed random variables
• CW — Carrier Wave
• SME — Solar Mesosphere Explorer
• CDRH — Center for Devices and Radiological Health (Food & Drug Administration)
• RMS — root mean square (preferred over "RMS")
• KW — Kilowatt (one thousand watts) (measurement)
• RNA — Ribo Nucleic Acid
• ITL — Information Technology Laboratory
• USGS — United States Geological Survey (DOI)
• ER — Energy Research
• LMS — Least Mean Square
• ACP — Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
• EMC — Electromagnetic Compatibility
• WG — Working Group
• ID — Inside Diameter
• DOHC — Dual Overhead Cam
• TAG — Technical Advisory Group for Biological Control Agents of Weeds
• CMC — Calibration Measurement Capabilities
• CAV — Constant Angular Velocity
• IDCT — Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform
• NIF — National Ignition Facility
• PHCHE — Physics and Chemistry of Earth
• DOP — Dilution Of Precision
• ANS — American Nuclear Society

• UTD — Uniform Theory of Diffraction
• PM — Particulate Matter
• AFM — Atomic Force Microscope
• MOD — Minimum Object Distance
• P — Predicted
• FP — Freezing Point
• CV — Constant Velocity
• CG — Center of Gravity (DXS)
• DOAS — Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy
• HIC — Hydrogen Induced Cracking
• OSA — Optical Society of America
• PAGE — Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis
• APOMA — American Precision Optics Manufacturers Association
• AFB — Air Force Base (USAF)
• MIS — Magnetic Isolation System
• BNL — Brookhaven National Laboratory
• TKN — Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen
• AFGL — Air Force Geophysics Laboratory
• EF — Energy Factor
• MRA — Mutual Recognition Arrangement
• EMR — Electromagnetic Radiation
• LTL — Linear Temporal Logic
• ACDC — Alternating Current/Direct Current
• SCC — Standards Coordinating Committee
• DPA — Differential Power Analysis
• BS — Beam Splitter
• MO — Molecular Orbital
• OSTP — Office of Science and Technology Policy
• XMLD — X-ray Magnetic Linear Dichroism
• PO2 — Partial pressure of oxygen
• NEDT — Noise Equivalent Delta Temperature
• DNA — Defense Nuclear Agency
• FRET — Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer
• ILSS — Interlaminar Shear Strength
• JEWA — Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications
• FTMW — Fourier Transform Microwave
• STP — Standard Temperature Pressure
• C&E — Cause and Effect
• HAADF — high-angle annular dark field SEM
• 3D — Three Dimensional
• AMSR — Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
• TMDE — Test Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment
• AMS — Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
• SIA — Semiconductor Industry Association
• ERDA — Elastic Recoil Detection Analysis
• TLE — Two Line Elements
• UA — University of Arizona
• AMPC — Advances in Materials Physics and Chemistry
• ATR — Attenuated Total Reflectance
• PEM — Proton Exchange Membrane

• EGS — European Geophysical Society
• ACPD — Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics Discussions
• EDS — Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy
• A — Atomic
• MURR — University of Missouri Research Reactor
• TARDIS — Time And Relative Dimensions In Space. Dr Who's company car, so to speak. I can confirm that it is 'Dimensions' not 'Dimension'. This begs the follow-up question as to whether the Dimensions are relative to each other or to time, or to both, or to somethi
• PGNAA — Prompt Gamma Neutron Activation Analysis
• TDH — Total Dynamic Head
• PDSH — Pressure Differential Switch High
• LEP — Large Electron Positron
• AURA — Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.
• LBNL — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
• MV — Medium Voltage
• MTBF — Mean Time Between Failures
• CLSM — Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy
• PEL — Permissible Exposure Limit
• CFA — Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA
• CWT — Continuous Wavelet Transform
• MIRD — Medical Internal Radiation Dose
• EV — Electron Volt
• EOM — Electro-Optic Modulator
• NRL — Naval Research Laboratory
• ACD — Air Constrained Dampening
• AEDC — Arnold Engineering Development Center
• RAP — Reliable Acoustic Path
• PET — positron emission tomography
• ACIP — Aerodynamic Coefficient Instrumentation Package
• AFV — Alternative-Fuel Vehicle
• RFI — Relative Fluorescence Intensity
• PIV — Particle Image Velocimetry
• LIF — Laser Induced Fluorescence
• GSFC — Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD)
• AC — Aerodynamic Center
• ISP — INTERNATIONAL SPECIALTY PRODUCTS, INC.
• AT&T — Atlantic Telephone and Telegraph
• N — Normal
• NDT — Nondestructive Test
• EUVE — Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (NASA Satellite)
• CVAAS — Cold Vapor Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
• TOE — Theory of Everything
• NASA — National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US)
• CDF — Collider Detector at Fermilab
• GUE — Gaussian Unitary Ensemble (of Random Matrixes In Quantum-transport Studies)
• OPD — Optical Path Difference
• SNS — Spallation Neutron Source
• SAXS — Small Angle X-Ray Scattering
• HPS — Health Physics Society
• DSR — Dynamic Shear Rheometer
• WDXRF — Wavelength Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence
• S — Short

• IDCY — Idle Cycle
• ISE — Ion Selective Electrode
• MMC — Maximum Material Condition
• CHIPS — Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer
• MIT — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.)
• ICARUS — Imaging Cosmic and Rare Underground Signal
• MBQ — Megabecquerel
• AGU — American Geophysical Union
• DPP — Division of Plasma Physics
• LOCF — Last Observation Carried Forward
• HPS — High Pressure Sodium
• DIN — Deutsches Institut für Normung.
• FCC — Face-Centered Cubic
• IAP — Institute of Atmospheric Physics
• ASCA — Advanced Satellite for Cosmology & Astrophysics
• PE — Potential Energy
• SHP — Shaft Horsepower
• FE — Finite Element
• AMPS — Atmospheric Magnetospheric Plasma System
• FEGT — Furnace Exit Gas Temperature
• AFM — Atomic Force Microscopy
• SBIR — Small Business Innovation Research
• PL&I — Plasmas and Ions
• ZQ — Zero-Quantum
• DN/DC — Specific refractive index increment
• BSDF — Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Function
• AC — Attenuation Coefficient
• HDR — High Dose Rate
• RAC — Research Advisory Committee
• LAF — Laminar Air Flow
• H — Hotel
• OD — Optical Density
• HPHT — high pressure, high temperature ammoniation procedure
• FCI — Full Configuration Interaction
• PCM — Phase Contrast Microscopy
• FEL — Free Electron Laser
• EDM — Electric Dipole Moment
• HE — High Energy
• ECD — Electron Capture Dissociation
• DOT — Diffuse Optical Tomography
• PTA — Pure Tone Average
• LE — Low Energy
• BCC — Body-Centered Cubic
• NG6, NG-6 — Monochromatic Beam Line near the end of NG6
• OTA — Optical Tube Assembly (telescopes)
• EP — Extreme Pressure
• RIXS — Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering
• ORNL — Oak Ridge National Laboratory's
• DFT — Density Functional Theory
• LLNL — The Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California

• BHN — Brinell Hardness Number
• AO — Adaptive Optics
• WDDL — Wave Dynamic Differential Logic
• PHR — Physics Reports
• ECD — Electron Capture Detector (gas Chromatography)
• PM — Phase Modulation
• RG — Radius of Gyration
• ICR — Ion Cyclotron Resonance
• SCF — Self-Consistent Field
• EDX — Energy-Dispersive X-ray Analysis
• 1D — One-Dimensional
• PE — Performance Evaluation
• VU — Volume Unit
• MPLB — Modern Physics Letters B
• LM — Lumen
• ICP-AES — Inductively Coupled Plasma-atomic Emission Spectrometry
• LT — Low Temperature
• BCT — Body-Centered Tetragonal
• GC — gonococcus (gonnorhea germ)
• IUE — International Ultraviolet Explorer
• EOS — Equation Of State
• CPS — Cycles Per Second (now Hertz)
• LS — Liquid Scintillation
• GFP — Green Fluorescent Protein
• SPM — Scanning Probe Microscope
• FFF — Field-Flow Fractionation
• JPCS — Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids
• EPC — Electronic Pressure Control
• PHYN — Physics Notes
• SWG — Standard Wire Gauge
• MJPS — Moldavian Journal of the Physical Sciences
• HVLP — high volume, low pressure
• VTZ — Valence Triple Zeta (basis Set)
• IRAS — Infrared Reflection Absorption Spectroscopy
• AAPT — American Association of Physics Teachers
• KAERI — Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute
• HID — high intensity discharge (electricity)
• GAM — Generalized Additive Model
• EELS — Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
• MPI — Multiphoton Ionization
• DLA — Diffusion-Limited Aggregation
• CARI — combustion air requirement index
• CC — Closed Circuit
• LFAE — Ligand Field Activation Energy
• VIV — Vortex Induced Vibration
• KELVIN — Scientific temperature scale
• PRL — Physical Review Letters
• ZPE — Zero Point Energy
• QD — Quantum Dot
• AO — Atomic Orbital

• AMA — Actual Mechanical Advantage
• DPF — Displacement Power Factor
• CNRS — Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
• EF — Electric Field
• SAO — Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
• QWIP — Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector
• PBC — Polarization-Beam Combiner
• LDA — Local Density Approximation
• ENDL — Evaluated Nuclear Data Library
• AFC — Aerodynamic Flight Control
• BIPM — Bureau International des Poids et Mesures
• FTNIR — Fourier Near Infra Red
• IK — Inverse Kinematics
• SIM — Selected ion monitoring
• CGU — Canadian Geophysical Union
• CHP — Combined heat and power
• CEA — Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique
• AFRRI — (U.S.) Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
• LMU — Location Measurement Unit
• HEA — High Energy Astrophysics
• RKR — Rydberg-Klein-Rees
• TOV — Threshold of Visibility
• RSP — Rapid Solidification Process
• AEM — Acoustical Emission Monitoring
• ESO — European Southern Observatory
• OPC — Optical Particle Counter
• NV — Night Vision
• TM — Transverse Magnetic
• XPS — X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
• QP — Quantization Parameter
• APS — Advanced Photon Source
• OPA — Optical Parametric Amplifier
• EM — Environmental Management
• E — Electra
• GP — General Physics Corporation
• SRM — Standard Reference Material
• ETC — Electron Transport Chain
• NCU — Nano Containment Unit
• LSND — Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector
• ASPP — Atmospheric and Space Plasma Physics
• C — Countess
• FP — Focal Plane
• RPT — Refractory Period of Transmission
• CQGRA — Classical and Quantum Gravity
• XBT — expendable bathythermograph (oceanography)
• AFT — Attractor Field Therapy
• NPC — Nuclear Pore Complex
• IOR — Index of Refraction
• JETP — Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics
• CEI — Comitato Elettrotecnico Italiano

• RTD — Resistance Temperature Detector
• AEQ — Aeronautical Quarterly
• 2-D — Two Dimensional
• PIV — Peak Inverse Voltage
• FLIR — Forward Looking Infrared Radiometer
• AFOSR — Air Force Office Of Scientific Research(USA)
• R — Roentgen
• TXM — Transmission X-ray Microscope
• SIMP — Strongly Interacting Massive Particle
• NG7 — Neutron Guide No. 7
• YP — Yield Point
• CJLTP — Chinese Journal of Low Temperature Physics
• IIT — Indian Institute of Technology
• CED — Cohesive Energy Density
• CQGRS — Classical and Quantum Gravity Supplement
• PHRV — Physical Review
• IFD — Indentation Force Deflection
• LWR — Light Water Reactor
• XRD — X-Ray Diffraction
• FDTD — Finite Difference Time Domain
• AICP — Aerodynamic Instrumental Coefficient Package
• LOA — Law of Attraction
• LSP — Lightest Supersymmetric Particle
• GRI — Gas Research Institute (US) (natural gas)
• CCV — Continuing Calibration Verification
• MOA — Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics
• MAG — Magnetic
• JCHPH — Journal of Chemical Physics
• FCA — Formal Concept Analysis
• AOM — acoustic-optic modulator
• BQ — Becquerel
• RTT — Round Trip Timer
• RMP — Reviews of Modern Physics
• RCF — Relative Centrifugal Force
• AIAA — American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics
• DDS — Direct Digital Synthesizer
• PDE — Partial Differential Equation
• DVM — Digital Voltmeter
• GOES — Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
• DSM — Design Structure Matrix
• OLED — Organic Light-Emitting Diode
• POC — Physical Optics Corporation
• MSX — Midcourse Space Experiment
• LSDA — Local Spin Density Approximation
• EGS — Electron Gamma Shower
• AJP — American Journal of Physics
• STSCI — Space Telescope Science Institute
• AMS — Acoustic Measurement System
• WLOG — Without Loss Of Generality. Mathematical term, and applicable more generally, to justify the use of an isolated case in proving an issue, when the need for wider evidence is not required or is irrelevant and would be a waste of time. (Thanks E Key)
• EMR — Electromagnetic Resonance

• ED — Electron Diffraction
• OPO — Optical Parametric Oscillator
• ETS — Energy Transfer System
• DOC — United States Department of Commerce
• ACESJ — Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal
• SI — International System of Units (Système international d'unités)
• PTFE — Polytetrafluoroethylene
• PHA — Physics And Astronomy
• JPCM — Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
• OOCA — Object Oriented Computing in Astrophysics
• VMD — Visual Molecular Dynamics
• PCF — Photonic Crystal Fiber
• ASAC — aerodynamic surfaces assembly and checkout
• OPS — Optical Physical Section
• LC — Liquid Chromatography
• MCM — Mobil Composition of Matter
• ILD — Indentation Load Deflection
• SSNMR — Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
• SPH — Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics
• EAA — Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
• QWW — Quantum Well Wire
• 2LOT — 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
• TC — Transmission Convergence (ATM)
• TMD — Tuned Mass Damper
• MFCG — Magnetic Flux Compression Generator
• ASD — Astrophysics Science Division
• ADCL — Accredited Dosimetry Calibration Laboratory
• CCPP — Combined Cycle Power Plant
• RST — Rapid Suspension Technology
• APH — Astroparticle Physics
• POGS — polar-orbiting geomagnetic survey
• MOT — Magneto Optical Trap
• CICP — Communications in Computational Physics
• ADB — Aerodynamic Data Book
• ANPHY — Annals of Physics
• HTD — Heat Transfer Division
• RBS — Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry
• APRF — Army Pulse Radiation Facility
• JJAPL — Japanese Journal of Applied Physics Letters
• PD — Propagation Delay
• TEMP — Temperature
• RHF — Restricted Hartree-Fock
• CPK — Corey, Pauling, Koltun
• AFT — Aerodynamic Flight Test
• EIE — electron impact excitation
• NIDR — National Institute of Dental Research (National Institutes of Health)
• NRC — Nuclear Regulatory Commission (US)
• PNNL — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE) (US)
• SD — Super Deformed
• CCPCE — Current Contents Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences

• ALICE — A Large Ion Collider Experiment
• COMPASS — COMPuter ASSurance Conference
• TEM — Transverse Electromagnetic
• HI — High Intensity
• K — Kelvin (absolute temperature scale)
• ADPHY — Advances in Physics
• ABEC — Annular Bearing Engineering Committee
• DE — Differential Equation(s)
• AMTF — Acoustic Model Test Facility
• ADM — Absolute Distance Meter
• RSE — Relative Standard Error
• STASA — Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations
• PEPSI — Proton Echo-Planar Spectroscopic Imaging
• SSBUV — shuttle solar backscatter ultraviolet (radiometer)
• AMPS — Atmosphere, Magnetosphere & Plasmas in Space
• BPM — Beam Position Monitor
• UTA — Unresolved Transition Array
• CLV — Constant Linear Velocity
• MOR — Modulus of Rupture
• ICRP — International Commission on Radiological Protection
• VRM — Vector Ruggedness Measure
• NM — Newton Meter
• ADAP — Aerodynamic Data Analysis Program
• NLC — Next Linear Collider
• NCI — National Cancer Institute, USA
• RLD — Reciprocal Linear Dispersion
• DIR — Direction Interdépartementale des Routes
• ECSED — Electronic Commerce in Scientific and Engineering Data
• IOT — Inductive Output Tube
• REST — Representational State Transfer
• IVR — Intramolecular Vibrational Relaxation
• AMP — Amplitude
• MOKE — Magneto-Optic Kerr Effect
• FIM — Field Intensity Meter
• TOMS — Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (satellite Instrument)
• GNO — Gallium Neutrino Observatory
• 1PI — One Particle Irreducible
• ASAS — Aerodynamic Stability Augmentation System
• DAP — Donor Acceptor Pair
• CARB — Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology
• SCF — Supercritical Fluid
• SRV — Safety Relief Valve
• NEI — Nuclear Energy Institute
• CCD — Charged Coupled Device
• CCDC — Cyclic Channel Die Compression
• EDAX — energy dispersive analysis of X-rays
• RSM — Response Surface Method
• WHHM — Werthamer Helfand Hohenberg and Maki
• WDM — Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
• HO — High Order

• JATP — Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics
• ICE — Internal combustion engine (transportation)
• UMIST — University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
• TEPC — Tissue Equivalent Proportional Counter
• MS/MS — Tandem Mass Spectrometry
• DMI — Dynamic Momentum Index
• PZT — Piezoelectric Transducer
• SVD — Shock Vibration Digest
• RJMP — Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics
• AFTA — Acoustic Fatigue Test Article
• EUV — Extreme Ultraviolet Vertical
• ULVZ — Ultra-Low Velocity Zone
• HDOP — Horizontal Dilution Of Position
• APAS — Aerodynamic Performance and Sizing Program
• AECL — Atomic Energy of Canada Limited's
• RC — Resistor-Capacitor
• LIPC — laser-induced plasma channel
• ITELC — IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility
• AIH — Acoustical Imaging and Holography
• AFI — Accordion Fringe Interferometry
• CF — Cold Fusion
• HV — High Vacuum
• PLL — Phase Locked Loop
• HST — Hubble Space Telescope
• AMS — Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility
• M — Mass
• CRADA — Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (with National Institutes of Health)
• PP2PP — proton-proton to proton-proton
• IRAS — Infrared Astronomy Satellite
• AAAC — Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee
• CHJCP — Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics
• FPD — Flame Photometric Detector
• LISS — Linear Imaging Self-Scanning
• CRPL — Cosmic Ray Physics Laboratory
• FFR — Fractional Flow Reserve
• IC — Internal Combustion
• MOKE — Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect
• CES — Constant Elasticity of Substitution
• ENR — Enrichment and Reprocessing (technology)
• UB — Upper Bound
• CBR — California Bearing Ratio
• ASC — Aerodynamic Surface Control
• TEF — Time-Energy-Frequency
• BC — Boundary Condition
• ITSU — IEEE Transactions on Sonics Ultrasonics
• ECRIS — Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source
• FWHM — Full Width, Half Maximum
• BMDO — (U.S.) Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (bim-do)
• CBNM — Central Bureau for Nuclear Measurements
• NJPH — New Journal of Physics

• LDA — Laser Doppler Anemometry
• CME — Coronal Mass Ejection (usually Sun)
• HS — Hot Spot
• ACB — Annular Confinement Beam
• TC — Temperature Control
• PHEMT — Pseudomorphic High Electron Mobility Transistor
• IV — Input Voltage
• APHY — Acoustical Physics
• BBXRT — Broadband XRay Telescope
• HFS — Hydrogen Forward Scattering
• CEC — California Energy Commission
• HTBB — High-Temperature Black Body
• DE — Discrete Event (program specification)
• QO — Quasi-Optical
• PMTS — Predetermined Motion Time System
• 2B1Q — Two Binary One Quaternary
• SDI — Strategic Defense Initiative
• APAC — Applied Acoustics
• CMS — Compact Muon Solenoid
• TMA — Thermal Mechanical Analysis
• ADGEO — Advances in Geophysics
• PDE — Product Data Exchange
• PTCA — Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angiography
• COMPH — Computers in Physics
• NCAR — National Center for Atmospheric Research (US)
• SDIO — Strategic Defense Initiative Organization
• SR — Special Relativity
• ARES — Advanced Rheometric Expansion System
• GS — Gauss
• PMG — Permanent Magnet Generator
• ATI — Above-Threshold Ionization
• FTIR — Fourier transform infrared radiometer (spectroscopy)
• FWHM — Full Width at Half Maximum
• BNCT — Boron Neutron Capture Therapy
• EF — Extra Fine
• CCP6 — Collaborative Computational Project 6
• BGM — Basis Generator Method
• ATP — Advanced Technology Program
• FM — Ferromagnetic
• NEMS — National Energy Modeling System
• BWO — Backward Wave Oscillator
• FTIR — Frustrated Total Internal Reflection
• LBLRR — LBL Research Review
• AUJPA — Australian Journal of Physics Astrophysical Supplement
• ARL — Average Run Length
• STS — Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy
• PAC — Probably Approximately Correct
• MTXM — Magnetic Transmission X-Ray Microscopy
• XPS — X-Ray Photoemission Spectroscopy
• LNP — Lecture Notes in Physics

• CVD — Chemical Vapor Deposition
• QMS — Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer
• SEE — Secondary Electron Emission
• PMMA — Polymethylmethacrylate
• FHMM — Factorial Hidden Markov Model
• EER — Estimated Energy Requirement
• CH — Continuum Hypothesis
• FASCAL — Facility for Automatic Spectroradiometric Calibrations
• EOM — Equation of Motion
• HPPT — High Pressure Phase Transformation
• DUV — Deep Ultraviolet
• SW — Surface Wave
• QM — Quantum Mechanics
• YS — Yield Strength
• MODIS — Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
• KOPIO — AKlong decay experiment at Brookhaven.
• MUT — Material Under Test
• TIMS — Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry
• DMC — Dynamic Motion Control
• REL — Recommended Exposure Limit
• YAG — Yttrium Aluminum Garnet
• PZT — Piezoelectric Translator
• VAC — Vacuum Assisted Closure
• GUT — Grand Unification Theory
• COS — Change of State
• NVIS — Night Vision Imaging System
• LAMMA — Laser Microprobe Mass Analysis
• MPN — Most Probable Number
• PNL — Pacific Northwest Laboratory
• ATDB — Aerothermodynamic Data Book
• LTA — Low temperature (oxygen plasma) ashing
• SFG — Sum Frequency Generation
• BBO — Beta-Barium Borate
• WIPP — Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (for Nuclear Wastes)
• SWAP — Short-Wavelength Automated Perimetry
• LFCC — Linear Frequency Cepstral Coefficient
• CAM — Computer-Aided Machining
• BELLE — B detector at KEK in Japan
• EGO — Eccentric Geophysical Observation
• CMH — Cubic Meter per Hour
• AERTE — Aerojet Technology
• FI — Field Intensity
• WXRF — Wavelength-dispersive X- Ray Fluorescence
• TCS — Three-Dimensional Complex Space Theory
• PMR — Proton Magnetic Resonance
• BLB — Black Light Bulb
• JEPT — Journal of Engineering Physics and Thermophysics
• STEM — Storable Tubular Extendible Member
• CFM — Creates Forward Motion
• ACR — Absolute Cryogenic Radiometer

• ONR — Office of Naval Research (U.S.)
• PID — Photoionization Detector (gas Chromatography)
• SEA — Statistical Energy Analysis
• IMS — Institute for Molecular Science
• TJ — TeraJoule
• CSI — Compton Scatter Imaging
• TLI — Tilted Laser Image
• LVDT — Linear Variable Differential Transformer
• NAA — Neutron Activation Analysis
• CHPHY — Chinese Physics
• ELT — Extremely Large Telescope
• CPS — Central Plasma Sheet
• SCAMPY — Scanning Micro Pyrometer
• MICE — Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment
• EPI — Echo Planar Imaging
• ANL — The Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill
• FTL — Faster Than Light
• BIB — Blocked Impurity Band
• ND — Neutron Detector
• LBT — Large Binocular Telescope
• CCFL — Countercurrent Flow Limitation
• HRC — Rockwell Hardness C
• ST&A — Space Technology and Aeronautics
• ODC — Orthogonal Defect Classification
• TPP — Thermal Power Plant
• ABMP — American Board of Medical Physics
• FT-IRAS — Fourier Transform-Infrared Reflection Absorption Spectroscopy
• WAMW — Weight-Average Molecular Weight
• WTMM — Wavelet Transform Modulus Maxima
• SSCP — Springer Series on Chemical Physics
• TC — Thermal Control
• PFG — Pulsed Field Gradient
• GFDL — Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA US)
• HVT — High Velocity Thermocouple
• COASP — Comments on Astrophysics and Space Physics
• USGCRP — United States Global Change Research Program
• NERI — Nuclear Energy Research Initiative
• MDR — Mass Distribution Ratio
• RHEED — Reflection High Energy Electron Diffraction
• LC — Liquid Crystal
• SG — Specific Gravity
• ALVIB — algorithm payload vibration
• DLP — Digital Light Processing
• TC — Thermal Conductivity
• MOSFET — Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor
• QRHE — quantum anomalous Hall effect
• STAR — Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC
• TDR — Time-Domain Reflectometry
• CTMP — Chemi Thermo Mechanical Pulp
• AF — Acceleration Factor

• MEL — Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory
• FEC — Ferro-Electric liquid Crystal
• MIST — Microgravity Science and Technology
• SEAQUEST — A series of fixed target Drell-Yan experiments at Fermilab
• EPA — Electron Positron Accumulator
• AEJ — Aeronautical Journal
• TG — Temperature Gradient
• HSS — Hollow Structural Section
• XSV — Expendable Sound Velocimeter
• EIES — Electron Impact Emission Spectroscopy
• CU — University of Colorado at Boulder
• NISTAR — NIST Advanced Radiometer
• RHM — Roentgen Hour Meter
• 3DSSPP — Three-Dimensional Static Strength Prediction Program
• SERS — Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering
• UCSUSA — Union of Concerned Scientists, United States of America
• SQM — Square Meter
• MRIR — medium-resolution infrared radiometer
• VOX — Voice Operated EXchange
• BET — Brunauer - Emmett - Teller
• BBIR — Broad Band Infrared
• 2DHG — Two-Dimensional Hole Gas
• PHYR — Physical Research
• AD — Antimatter Decelerator
• LIM — Limit
• MFT — Mean Field Theory
• NIR — Near Infrared
• ASVIB — algorithm scoreboard vibrations
• CLFR — Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector
• PCPP — Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing
• DMA — U.S. Defense Mapping Agency
• IWG — Investigators Working Group
• CLC — Capillary Liquid Chromatography
• TC — Technical Committee (HL7)
• SBLC — S-Band Linear Collider
• UMRK — Utility Muffin Research Kitchen
• VCC — Voltage Collector-to-Collector (transistors)
• BPAS — Bulletin of Pure and Applied Science
• DREAMS — Dynamic Range Enhancement Applied to Mass Spectrometry
• MBE — Molecular Beam Epitaxy
• AF — Anisotropic Filtering
• TBB — Triple Beam Balance
• NVLAP — National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program
• LEACH — Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy
• LVR — Lever
• JSMAJ — Japan Society of Microgravity Application Journal
• ICP — Inductively Coupled Plasma
• VT — Valid Time
• VLT — Visible Light Transmission
• ATLAS — ACTIVITIES Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science

• JPSJS — Journal of the Physical Society of Japan Supplement
• CIPM — International Committee of Weights and Measures, France
• NRLM — National Research Laboratory of Metrology (Japan)
• RPN — Remote Plasma Nitridation
• LRSP — Living Reviews in Solar Physics
• TST — Time-Space-Time
• VEEL — Vibrational and Electronic Energy Levels
• ULTRA — Ultrasonics
• GEC — General Electrodynamics Corporation
• JKPS — Journal of Korean Physical Society
• CZJPH — Czechoslovak Journal of Physics
• LOQ — Limit of Quantitation
• NVH — Noise Vibration Harshness
• DALR — Dry Adiabatic Lapse Rate
• KWP — Kilowatt-Peak
• YKP — Yano- Koonin- Podgoretskii
• WAFAC — Wide-Angle Free-Air Chamber
• PNP — Positive-Negative-Positive
• HERO — High Energy Replicated Optics
• MSLD — Mass Spectrometer Leak Detector
• QMF — quadrature mirror filter banks
• SQ — Scalar Quantization
• ND — Neutron Density
• EPJ — European Physical Journal
• HWP — Half-Wave Plate
• VHSIC — Very-High-Speed Integrated Circuit
• RT — Reverberation Time
• WKB — Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (phase-shift Formula For Potential Scattering)
• PT — Peak Torque
• TJPH — Turkish Journal of Physics
• JETPL — Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters
• EMILY — Extreme Monkey Indigestion Laryngitis Youngen
• PSST — Plasma Sources Science Technology
• CPIP — Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program
• ARACO — Archives Acoustics
• CFT — Crystal Field Theory
• CLM — Compound Light Microscope
• HHPN — Hydraulic High Pressure Nebulization
• CPL — Chemical Physics Letters
• HTPPL — High Temperature Plasma Physics Lab
• AVCOR — algorithm vibration correlation
• EJTP — Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics
• JGE — Journal of Geophysics and Engineering
• PSML — Physical Systems Modeling Laboratory
• IO — Interactive Optimum
• VA — Volt Ampere
• CEJPH — Central European Journal of Physics
• HF — Hartree-Fock Method
• ARCP — Annual Reviews of Computational Physics
• ST — Spherical Tokamak

• BTI — Bubble Technology Inc
• CFSE — Crystal Field Stabilization Energy
• LO — Laser Optics
• STM — Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
• JJAPS — Japanese Journal of Applied Physics Supplement
• MBS — Minimum Breaking Strength
• NCF — Near Coherence of Filters
• HRTF — Head-Related Transfer Function
• GML — General Measurement Loop
• MMC — Moving Micro Cross
• CMR — Colossal Magnetoresistance
• COTPH — Communications in Theoretical Physics
• SEM — Scanning Electron Microscopes
• ENSDF — Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File
• PPHTS — Physical Properties of High Temperature Superconductors
• SUNY — State Universityrsity of New York
• BF-TEM — Bright-field transmission electron microscopy
• PASTI — Public Address Speech Transmission Index
• SI — Système International d'unités (International System of Units)
• FTICR — Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance
• ESR — Experimental Storage Ring
• FD — Finite Difference
• GFAAS — graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrophotometry
• EXO — Enriched Xenon Observatory
• ECT — Error Correction Term
• EMW — Electromagnetic Wave
• CRP — Coordinated Research Program
• PRF — Petroleum Research Fund
• BMD — Bending Moment Diagram
• TIB — Tracker Inner Barrel
• XSW — X-Ray Standing Wave
• ESR — Electrical Substitution Radiometer
• TL — Time Line
• FOC — Forward Only Conversion
• SCV — Squared Coefficient of Variation
• JVST — Journal of Vacuum Science Technology
• DONUT — Direct Observation of the Nu Tau
• JGP — Journal of Geometry and Physics
• ANIPS — Annals of the Israel Physical Society
• AUM — Arbitrary Unit of Mass
• 2PPE — Two-Photon Photoemission
• CXRO — Center for X-Ray Optics at Berkeley, CA
• LLG — Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation
• EOS — Earth Observing System (U.S.)
• UCLA — Harbor-University of California Los Angeles
• ABF — All but Finitely
• HBT — Hanbury Brown-Twiss
• SPE — solid phase extraction method
• FIR — Far Infrared
• JMP — Journal of Mathematical Physics

• NEANDC — Nuclear Energy Agency Nuclear Data Committee
• CPL — Cloud Physics Lidar
• MMCP — Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
• AFA — Average Fock Approximation
• SEU — Single Event Upset
• WIMP — Weakly Interacting Massive Particle
• SHWAV — Shock Waves
• LOMO — Lowest Occupied Molecular Orbital
• IMA — Ideal Mechanical Advantage
• OGB — Original Grain Boundary
• PTI — Proxima Therapeutics Inc.
• CHPHL — Chinese Physics Letter
• 3DWBA — Three-Body Distorted-Wave Born Approximation
• AESIJ — Aeronautical Society India Journal
• JPSJ — Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
• IBFM — Interacting Boson-Fermion Model
• SCR — Space Charge Region
• MEMS — Micro Electro Mechanical Systems
• RDP — Rubidium Di-Hydrogen Phosphate
• PCSE — Physical Chemistry: Science and Engineering
• ACCW — Auxiliary Component Cooling Water
• LAND — Large Area Neutron Detector
• PDE — Possible Duplicate Emission
• TMP — Turbo Molecular Pump
• JVC — Journal of Vibration and Control
• FDFD — Finite Difference Frequency Domain
• SANS — Small-Angle Neutron Scattering
• POPRV — Pilot Operated Pressure Relief Valve
• UARS — Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (NASA)
• SAJPH — South African Journal of Physics
• RECAN — Regional European and Central Asian ALARA Network
• SCF — Stress Concentration Factor
• CSLPT — Cambridge Studies in Low Temperature Physics
• PSL — Polystyrene-latex
• PHT — Physics Today
• ABHP — American Board of Health Physics
• VNIIFTRI — National Scientific and Russian Research Institute for Physical, Technical and Radiotechnical Measurements
• TISAB — total ionic strength adjustment buffer (analytical method)
• GPIB — General-Purpose Instrumentation Bus
• EGR — Entropy Gradient Reversal
• PEPI — Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors
• DCT — Discrete Cosine Transformer
• PFC — Parallel Flange Channel
• BHLH — Basic Helix-Loop-Helix
• IAPT — Indian Association of Physics Teachers
• PSSC — Physical Science Study Committee
• NEMP — Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse
• JSP — Journal of Statistical Physics
• MUNU — An experiment at the Bugey reactor in France studying electron - electron neutrino scattering.
• TQW — Triangular Quantum Well

• IQEC — International Quantum Electronics Conference
• CRT — Conformal Radiation Therapy
• SLM(S) — spatial light modulator(s)
• CLR — Center of Lateral Resistance
• IDC — Insulation Displacement Contact (connector)
• JMOA — Journal of Microwaves Optics and Acoustics
• IRIS — Internal Rotary Inspection System
• JFLU — Journal of Fluorescence
• PCM — Phase Change Materials
• NA — Neutral Axis
• LCLS — Linac Coherent Light Source
• OPTLE — Optics and Lasers in Engineering
• LAL — The Laboratoire de L'Accelerateur Lineaire at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay, France
• LPCVD — Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition
• QFT — Quantitative Fluorescence Technique
• BEB — Binary-Encounter-Bethe
• COMMP — Comments in Modern Physics
• CPSSH — Chemical Physics of Solid Surfaces and Heterogeneous Catalysis
• GGA — Generalized Gradient Approximation
• URA — Universities Research Association, Inc.
• SCCM — standard cubic centimeters per minute
• IGC — International Gravity Commission
• AICF — Acoustic Inertial Confinement Fusion
• PMT — Photo Multiplier Tube
• EEEL — Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory
• SBR — Spectral Band Replication
• PHL — Physics Letters
• 3DFFM — Three-Dimensional Fourier Filtering Method
• DSM — Dynamic Scattering Mode
• CERN — Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire
• TRFM — Time Resolved Fluorescence Microscopy
• BJAP — British Journal of Applied Physics
• NPIC — Nuclear Power Institute of China
• MAP — Maximum A Posteriori estimate
• WL — Weak Localization
• DEG — Dimensional Electron Gas
• MTF — Magnetized Target Fusion
• NEANSC — Nuclear Energy Agency Nuclear Science Committee
• SSADM — Structured System Analysis and Design Methodology
• CPR — Chemical Physics Reports
• MCU — Microcontroller Unit
• PAES — Positron-Induced Auger Electron Spectroscopy
• SGORS — Studies in Geophysical Optics and Remote Sensing
• IUCR — International Union of Crystallography
• EPIC — Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera
• CPCAR — Chemistry and Physics of Carbon
• MICGQ — Microgravity Quarterly
• DOP — Degree of Polarization
• DSA — digital subtraction angiography
• SWATH — Small-Waterplane Area Twin-Hull

• EIEIO — Electron Impact Excitation of Ions from Organics
• ACRU — Astrophysics and Cosmology Research Unit
• CR — Curvature Radiation
• AOM(S) — acousto-optic modulator(s)
• GUIDE — Generalized Unbiased Interaction Detection and Estimation
• DQS — Discrete Quantum State
• DDF — Distance Distortion Factor
• OAM — Orbital Angular Momentum
• VIS — Visible
• VHT — Very High Temperature
• NSOM — Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy
• TCPH — Topics in Current Physics
• AMJPH — American Journal of Physics
• ATU — Accumulated Thermal Unit
• RIBD — Reactive Ion Beam Deposition
• RXS — Resonant X-Ray Scattering
• AMANDA — Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array
• CSIR — Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
• PPCF — Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
• GCK — Geiger Counter Kit
• ASA — Accessible Surface Area
• FRET — fluorescence resonant energy transfer
• KN — Kilo Newton
• MS — MilliSeconds
• FFE — Far Field Extension
• AAPP — Association of Applied Physicists Pakistan
• JPCRD — Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data
• USSR — Union of Soviet Socialist Republic
• MJD — Modified Julian Date
• MOP — Maximum Operating Pressure
• IMGC — Istituto di Metrologia "G. Colonnetti" (Italy)
• CDW — Continuum Distorted Wave
• EL — Europhysics Letters
• BES — Beijing Spectrometer (China)
• PTCP — Progress in Theoretical Chemistry and Physics
• EBIT — Electron Beam Ion Trap
• GCA — Gradual Channel Approximation
• ITPS — IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
• HYPER-CP — A Search for Direct CP Violation in Hyperon Decays
• AMMAC — Mexican Metrology Association
• MPMS — Magnetic Property Measurement System
• BIA — Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis
• NPOESS — National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
• CCFL — Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp
• LENR — Low Energy Nuclear Reactions
• EFW — Evanescent Floquet Wave
• BFRL — Building and Fire Research Laboratory
• DWP — Dispensing Well Plate
• FPS — foot-pound-second [cf. cgs and mks]
• SCOT — Support Coated Open Tubular

• PAPGE — Pure and Applied Geophysics
• ACOUL — Acoustics Letters
• TWA — time-weighted averaged
• CERES — Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System
• K2K — KEK to Kamioka
• LCTE — Linear Coefficient of Thermal Expansion
• AFVH — Anti- Ferromagnetic van Hove scenario
• HYAAS — Hydride generation atomic absorption spectrophotom etry.
• NOBCCHE — National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists & Chemical Engineers
• MQA — measurement quality assurance
• LRR — Living Reviews in Relativity
• OSRD — Office of Standard Reference Data
• LI-ION — Lithium-ion rechargeable battery
• DUS — Duplex Ultrasound
• SDSS — Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• TZFC — Triple Zeta Frozen Core
• ZPF — Zero Point Field
• GR&R — Gauge Reproducibility And Repeatability
• CMCV — Charge Motion Control Valve
• ASME — American Society for Mechanical Engineers
• VCM — Voice-Coil Motor
• JDS — Joint Density of States
• CPB — Center Point of Balance
• CCSM — Cross Correlogram Spectral Matching
• APD — VERP)/action potential duration
• XRF — X-Ray Fluorescence
• DPPC — Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine
• NPSS — Native Plant Society of Saskatchewan
• AECL — Atomic Energy Canada Limited
• QGT — Quantum Graph Theory
• ADCHP — Advances in Chemical Physics
• ICRU — International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements
• GB — Grain Boundary
• ACFA — Asian Committee for Future Accelerators.
• MO — Magneto-optic
• NELAC — National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference
• J — Torsional Constant for a structural Section
• JMPS — Journal of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
• NREL — National Renewable Energy Laboratory (formerly SERI)
• JAERI — Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute
• ACE — Acoustic Compliance Enhancement
• SCD — Single Crystal Diffraction
• RVMP — Reviews of Modern Physics
• MEA — Membrane Electrode Assembly
• PLPHR — Plasma Physics Reports
• CRYRING — Electron Accelerator and Storage Ring Facility (Stockholm, Sweden)
• TD — Time Differential
• ETRAN — Monte Carlo computer code for Electrons and Photons through Extended Media
• ITD — Inlet Temperature Difference
• PRVP — Proceedings of Vibration Problems

• DARD — Dynamic Axial Rotational Device
• HOQS — Highest Occupied Quantum State
• JLUM — Journal of Luminescence
• JAE — Journal of Acoustic Emission
• CRI — Cambridge Research Instrumentation
• JVE — Journal of Vibration Engineering
• ADTPH — Advanced Texts in Physics
• ARPES — Angle-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy
• FBM — Fractional Brownian Motion
• GDOG — Generalized Double Optical Gating
• JMAPH — Journal of Mathematics and Physics
• CIRRPC — Committee on Interagency Radiation Research and Policy Coordination
• GMC — Global Motion Compensation
• ITAS — IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
• PO2 — Pressure of Oxygen
• NP — Neper
• CNIF — Californium Neutron Irradiation Facility
• ITUFF — IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control
• CEL — Correlated Emission Laser
• HFB — Hartree Fock Bogoliubov
• IPM — Ionization Profile Monitor
• NR — Nuclear Reactor
• AGS — Alternating-gradient Synchrotron
• DSFD — Discrete Simulation of Fluid Dynamics
• AMB — As Measured By
• FOC — Forward of Center
• IVBT — Intravascular brachytherapy
• ADMPS — Advances in Mechanics and Physics of Surfaces
• JRLR — Journal of Russian Laser Research
• CCPR — Consultative Committee on Photometry and Radiometry
• HPM — High Power Microwave
• HVLA — High-Velocity Low Amplitude
• MPAG — Mathematical Physics Analysis and Geometry
• PCL — Physics and Chemistry of Liquids
• HVL — Half Value Layer
• PES — Photoelectron Spectroscopy
• CCPP — Collaborative Computational Plasma Physics
• PFD — Photon Flux Density
• LPB — Laser and Particle Beams
• GRASP — Graphical Representation and Analysis of Surface Properties
• JAG — Journal of Applied Geophysics
• FUV — Far Ultraviolet
• ADEXG — Advances in Exploration Geophysics
• INDC — International Nuclear Data Committee
• FZK — Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
• MBH — Thousand BTU per Hour
• TI — Thermal Inertia
• 2PH TDF — Two-Particle-Hole Tamm-Dancoff Approximation
• NPA — Nuclear Physics Apparatus
• ISAC — Isotope Separator and Accelerator Facility

• APT — Analytic Perturbation Theory
• JPLPH — Journal of Plasma Physics
• VP — Vapor Pressure
• LSC — Liquid Scintillation Counting
• CONPH — Contemporary Physics
• QCD — Quantum Chromodynamics
• OSU — Ohio State University Airport, Columbus, Ohio, United States
• UHT — Ultra High Temperature
• ADGR — Advances in Geophysical Research
• ICAMDATA — International Conference on Atomic and Molecular Data and Their Applications
• RHIC — Brookhaven'sRelativistic Heavy Ion Collider began operation in 2000
• CPSS — Chemical Physics of Solid Surfaces
• KCDB — Key Comparison and Calibration Database
• JAP — Journal of Applied Physics
• RTTR — Real Time Thermal Rating
• DNAA — Delayed Neutron Activation Analysis
• GEC — Gaseous Electronics Conference
• BABAR — B-Bbar (anti-B) detector at SLAC'sB Factory
• STSSP — Selected Topics in Solid State Physics
• ECP — Effective Core Potential Approxn.(in Electronic-structure Calcn.)
• TDCR — Triple-to-Double Coincidence Ratio
• JLWT — Journal of Lightwave Technology
• TCB — Temporal Coherence Boundary
• SVGL — Silicon Valley Group Lithography
• QMF — Quadrature Mirror Filter
• HUT — Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope
• RVMAP — Reviews in Mathematical Physics
• ARO — United States Army Research Office
• RG — renormalization group
• MIMIC — Microscopy and Microanalysis
• ARROW — Antiresonant Reflecting Optical Waveguide
• BEFE — Bio-Electric Field Enhancement
• ICBP — International Conference on Biological Physics
• GEOS — Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Satellite
• LCAP — Laser Cooling and Atomic Physics
• PTF — Physics of Thin Films
• PCED — Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Delta
• JSCI — Journal of Scientific Instruments
• MKSA — Meter, Kilogram, Second, Ampere
• FRAC — Fracture Research and Application Consortium
• LISA — Laser Inferometer Space Antenna
• CPLIP — Chemistry and Physics of Lipids
• PFID — Perturbed Free Induction Decay
• CAJPH — Canadian Journal of Physics
• ES — Elementary Stream
• LTP — Low Temperature Physics
• HEI — Heat Exchange Institute Inc.
• FCPM — Fundamental Constants and Precision Measurements
• CBA — Center for Backyard Astrophysics
• ZDR — Z-Differential Reflectivity

• SOC — Second-Order Cone
• SPDF — Space Physics Data Facility
• FIOP — Field Induced Ordered Phase
• JLVEN — Journal of Light & Visual Environment
• CLA — Condition Lever Angle
• MGG — Methods in Geochemistry and Geophysics
• ADTM — Alternate Density Transmission Medium
• AWA — The Argonne Wakefield Accelerator
• RVMPS — Reviews of Modern Physics Supplement
• TRM — Time-Reversal Mirror
• CEBAF — Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
• RGS — Reflection Grating Spectrometer
• EHT — Extra High Tension
• ASSP — Advanced Solid-State Photonics
• ETI — Environmental Technology Initiative
• IN2P3 — Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules
• FTG — Full Tensor Gradient
• FCFC — Full-Coverage Film Cooling
• JCA — Journal of Computational Acoustics
• RDCMP — Recent Development in Condensed Matter Physics
• TIMED — Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics
• SHC — Specific Heat Capacity
• IPTS — International Practical Temperature Scale
• QMC — Quantum Monte Carlo
• SSION — Solid State Ionics
• LPM — Light-Particle Monitor
• HELEN — High Energy Laser Embodying Neodymium
• PAW — Physics Analysis Workstation
• MPLA — Modern Physics Letters A
• PHPL — Physics of Plasmas
• AOI — Angle Of Incidence
• PVT — Position Velocity Time
• CTRZ — Central Torodial Recirculation Zone
• JGGS — Journal of Geomagnetism and Geoelectricity Supplement
• KANUPP — Karachi Nuclear Power Plant
• CER — Controlled Energy Release
• JESRP — Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena
• CODATA — Committee on Data for Science and Technology (ICSU)
• NCRP — National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements
• SPIE — The Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
• ASAJ — Acoustical Society of America Journal
• EPAD — Environmental Physics and Design
• WDXS — Wavelength Dispersive Xray Spectroscopy
• CTPHY — Classical Theoretical Physics
• LITA — Laser-Induced Thermal Acoustics
• ENZ — Epsilon-Near-Zero
• PZM — Pressure Zone Microphone
• PHRVL — Physical Review Letters
• ILC — International Linear Collider
• GXR — Grazing X-ray Reflectometry

• LEFM — Linear Elasticity Fracture Mechanics
• ASD — Active Surface Definition
• EGAS — European Group for Atomic Spectroscopy
• RTPC — Radial Time Projection Chamber
• RRDSP — Recent Research Development in Statistical Physics
• SOLSTICE — Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment
• TCD — Thermal Conductivity response Detector
• DCMP — Directions in Condensed Matter Physics
• TW — Top of Wall
• CAT — Computed Axial Tomography
• HPGE — High Purity Germanium
• FDR — Failure Divergence Refinement
• RUPHJ — Russian Physics Journal
• AL — argon laser
• ITM — IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
• PAW — Plasma Arc Weld
• CTI — Critical Technologies Institute
• FCG — Fatigue Crack Growth
• BUIPS — Bulletin of the Israel Physical Society
• NIKHEF — National Institute for Subatomic Physics
• PRC — Pressure Regulator Control
• XRR — X-ray Reflectivity
• SCC — Spectral Calibration Chamber
• EBSD — Electron Back Scatter Diffraction
• LIGO — Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
• POF — Physics of Fluids
• C&EA — Cause and Effect Analysis
• ER — Elastic Recoil
• GLCP — Global Linear Collider Project
• ESU — Energy Storage Unit
• MOTRIMS — Magneto-Optical Trap Recoil-Ion Momentum Spectroscopy
• DMF — Decayed, Missing, Filled
• JSGEO — Journal of Series Geophysics
• ARPES — Angle Resolved Photo Electron Spectroscopy
• CTF — CLIC (Compact Linear Collider) Test Facility
• SSTEC — Solid State Technology
• CGS — Centimeter, Gram, Second
• ENDF — Evaluated Nuclear Data File
• RTP — Research Trends in Physics
• NSCANS — National Steering Committee for the Advanced Neutron Source
• APAS — Astrophysical Planetary and Atmospheric Sciences
• HB — Hydrogen Bond
• DDFT — Dynamic Density Functional Theory
• AUJPH — Australian Journal of Physics
• RCU — Rapid Cooling Unit
• BIM — Body In Motion
• VAT — Vibro-Acoustic Test
• MMF — Magneto Motive Force
• SSCOM — Solid State Communications
• JMAGR — Journal of Magnetic Resonance

• EOPAP — Earth and Ocean Physics Application Program
• DARE — Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects
• SCMP — Studies in Condensed Matter Physics
• ARDS — Analysis of Rotor Dynamic Systems
• ACDM — Automated Contour Detection Method
• ADPPR — Advances in Plasma Physics Research
• BCMPA — Billion Cubic Meters per Annum
• RO — Read Only
• MBB — Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics
• OIML — International Organization of Legal Metrology
• GWCE — Generalized Wave Continuity Equation
• ICP — Injector Control Pressure
• DIW — De-Ionzied Water
• COPP — Contributions to Plasma Physics
• PHYNY — Physics New York
• MTF — Modulation transfer function.
• HADES — High Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer
• POF — Plane of Focus
• EEP — Einstein Equivalence Principle
• FUSE — Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopy Explorer
• HACR — High Accuracy Cryogenic Radiometer
• RRDPC — Recent Research Development in Physical Chemistry
• CHJS — Chinese Journal of Semiconductors
• CSIC — Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Spanish
• BSS.2 — Beta-Particle Secondary Standards System
• EPJAP — European Physical Journal, Applied Physics
• JPHCS — Journal of Physics - Conference Series
• DLV — Direct Linear Valve
• IPL — Intense Pulsed Light
• W/F — Wandel/ Fietstochten
• SDIF — Sony Digital Interface Format
• ACTS — Automated Computer Time Service
• XDB — X-Ray Data Booklet
• WLLN — Weak Law of Large Numbers
• RMU — Ring Main Unit
• QZE — Quantum Zeno Effect
• RBF — radial basis function network
• ODEND — Optical Detected Electron Nuclear Double Resonance
• GRNS — Gamma-Ray and Neutron Spectrometer
• JNMP — Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics
• SUSIM — Solar Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitor
• MOI — moments of inertia
• CTP — Course of Theoretical Physics
• QMD — Quantum Molecular Dynamics (for Calcns. On The Dynamics Of A Quantum Particle Coupled To A Classical Many-body System)
• LBL — Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (University of California)
• HVL — Half-Value Layer
• HEPAP — High Energy Physics Advisory Panel
• VR-SFG — Vibrationally Resonant Sum-frequency Generation
• ACRR — Annular Core Research Reactor
• AGW — Acoustic Gravity Wave

• GRS — Gamma Ray Spectrometer
• BINP — Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, Russia.
• TLD — Thermo-Luminescent Dosimeter systems
• HHF — High Heat Flow
• F&M — Force and moment
• ADV — Automatic Drain Valve
• ELECM — Electromagnetics
• GRT — Germanium Resistance Thermometer
• XRL — X-Ray Lithography
• JIMW — Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves
• ESRF — The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France.
• RVGSP — Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics
• LAMPF — Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility
• SVPAC — Soviet Physics Acoustics
• IUGG — International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
• CLIC — Compact Linear Collider
• ZFF — Zero Forcing Function
• MIS — Mirror Image Stimulation
• WAXS — Wide Angle X-ray Scattering
• BM — Bending Magnet
• MNX — Magnetic Nozzle Experiment
• CCTF — Consultative Committee for Time and Frequency
• LRA — Locked Rotor Ampere
• PPM — Peak Program Meter
• PHB — Physics Bulletin
• SPP — Storage Photostimulable Phosphor
• TLP — Thread-Level Parallelism
• TMP — Thermo Mechanical Pulping
• IAG — International Association of Gravity
• TIRF — Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence
• HFIR — High Flux Isotope Reactor
• HWP — Half Wavelength Plate
• QDT — Quantum-Defect Theory
• MRSE — Manifest Refractive Spherical Equivalent
• AXAF — Advanced X-ray Astrophysical Facility
• OSTP — One Step Transition Probability
• ISSI — International Space Science Institute (Bern, Switzerland)
• ALCPG — American Linear Collider Physics Group
• ICPEAC — International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions
• DTM — Dynamic Thermal Management
• XLS — Xenon Light Source
• PDS — power density spectra
• EUV — Extreme Ultra-Violet 2
• SINH — hyperbolic sine function
• NEBM — Nudged Elastic Band Method
• MACHO — Massive Compact Halo Object
• IACS — Institute for Astrophysics and Computational Sciences
• LET — Linear Energy Transfer (in Spacecraft Power Systems)
• ADPLP — Advances in Plasma Physics
• CIRMS — Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements and Standards

• TTY — Torque to Yield
• CPHY — Communications on Physics
• TTSP — Transport Theory and Statistical Physics
• HALO — Hypersonic Aircraft Launch Option
• REI — Rad Elec Inc.
• PPPL — Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
• QEG — Quantum Einstein Gravity
• BR — Branching Ratio
• JGRS — Journal of Geophysical Research Supplement
• CSTN — Color Super Twist Nematic
• CDM — Ceramic Discharge Metalhalide
• MW — Microwave
• GHRS — Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph
• AET — Active Edge Table
• PHSS — Physics of the Solid State
• VRV — Variable Radial Velocity
• FIM — Field Ion Microscope
• WWV — Call letters for NIST short-wave radio station in Colorado
• EXMPS — Experimental Methods in the Physical Sciences
• EUROMET — A European collaboration in measurement standards
• AEC — Active Energy Control
• DOT — Degeneration Over Time
• CIPT — CNS Institute for Physics Teachers
• LHEP — Left Hand Elliptical Polarization
• BARC — Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
• CSEWG — Cross Section Evaluation Working Group
• LMRI — Laboratoire de Mesure des Rayonnements Ionisants (France)
• ODE — Ordinary Differential Equation
• PPCPP — Progress in Photochemistry and Photophysics
• ENO — Essentially Non-Oscillatory
• NQA — Nuclear Quality Assurance
• PMMC — Permanent Magnet Moving Coil
• DAMA — Dark Matter
• OPTLT — Optics Laser Technology
• DU — Durability
• KIAA — Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics
• JGR — Journal of Geophysical Research
• SEMPA — Scanning Electron Microscopy with Polarization Analysis
• IOP — Institute Of Physics
• MFPL — MAP (Multiple Application Platform) Fabry-Perot Laser
• PRPH — Progress of Physics
• WGCV — Working Group on Calibration and Validation
• HCCD — Mono-deuterated Acetylene
• JCOPH — Journal of Computational Physics
• P6 — physics
• JSUP — Journal of Superconductivity
• WLF — Williams-Landel-Ferry equation
• RRDAP — Recent Research Development in Applied Physics
• ALEPH — Apparatus for LEP PHysics, at CERN
• TPHY — Techniques of Physics

• ISCC — Inter-Society Color Council
• NAPM — National Association of Photographic Manufacturers
• DMIP — Division of Medical Imaging Physics
• EZW — Embedded Zero-tree Wavelet
• UVB — Ultraviolet B
• KKR — Korringa Kohn Rostoker approximation
• ORELA — Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator
• BTE — Brake Thermal Efficiency
• CCG — Calibration Coordination Group
• RRDP — Recent Research Development in Physics
• DMC — Diffusion Monte Carlo
• APL — Advanced Physics Laboratory
• ARPA-E — Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy
• SDFF — Spectroscopically Determined Force Field
• QCL — Quantum Cascade Laser
• LWIR — Long-Wave Infrared
• ASTP — Advanced Studies in Theoretical Physics
• ITASS — IEEE Transactions on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing
• DNP — Division of Nuclear Physics
• PEP — Positron Electron Project
• UCB — University of California, Berkeley
• IGRF — International Geomagnetic Reference Field
• GSP — Generalized Sequential Pattern
• LANSCE — Los Alamos Neutron Science Center
• NOMAD — Neutrino Oscillation Magnetic Detector
• TASSII — Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Investigation
• EPS — European Physical Society
• PEAQ — Perceptual Evaluation of Audio Quality
• FMSF — Fissile Material Storage Facility
• DARPA — Defense Advanced Research Project Agency
• LGA — lattice gas automaton
• DOT — Delivery Optimized Thermodynamics
• ATCS — Active Thermal Convective System
• MQT — Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling
• CESR — The Cornell Electron Storage Ring
• CRCPD — Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors
• MPPCF — Million particles per cubic foot
• GTRD — Generalized Transverse Resonance-Diffraction
• QED — Quantum Electrodynamics
• LUNA — Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Astrophysics at Gran Sasso.
• FTMS — Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry
• STMP — Springer Tracts in Modern Physics
• PLA — Physics Letters A
• ROC — Receiver Operator Characteristic Curve
• NPGEO — Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
• LORAN-C — A Radio Navigation System Operated by the U.S. Coast Guard
• LEAR — Low Energy Antiproton Ring
• BGSM — Bowman Gray School of Medicine
• JSLR — Journal of Soviet Laser Research
• ICNIRP — International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection

• AF — Alternating Field
• VLA — Very Large Array
• BTFM — Basic Two Fluid Model
• ERF — Energy Rejection Filter
• JGG — Journal of Geomagnetism and Geoelectricity
• ADSMP — Advanced Series in Mathematical Physics
• PWS — Primary Working Standard
• FCCSET — Federal Coordinating Council Science, Engineering and Technology
• PVST — Pressure Vacuum Stability Test
• FLIR — Forward Looking InfraRed (sensor)
• EOP — Earth and Ocean Physics
• IMECE — International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
• QFS — Quantum Filtered Spectra
• PHYES — Physics Essays
• FFAG — Fixed-Field Alternating Gradient
• E — Electric
• FFAH — Filament-Filled Annular Helical
• OBQ — Optimize Beam Quality
• MU2E — A Fermilab experiment that will search for the conversion of a muon into an electron
• TT — Torsion Twist
• MEVVA — Metal Vapor Vacuum Arc
• CFT — Central Fiber Tracker
• HRE — Heterogeneity Recency Exit
• TPM — Transport in Porous Media
• CHJPH — Chinese Journal of Physics
• HTOL — High Temperature Operating Lifetest
• MCMS — Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structures
• TWT — Transonic Wind Tunnel
• IPPP — Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology
• FRIB — Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
• QNH — Quasi Non-Hydrostatic
• MQDT — Multichannel Quantum Defect Theory
• PACS — Physics and Astronomy Classification Schemex
• GAPP — Global Analysis of Particle Properties
• PHFL — Physics of Fluids
• ACFM — Advanced Coal Flow Measurement
• CONFP — Contemporary Fundamental Physics
• HFA — Hot Flow Anomaly
• PSTM — Photon Scanning Tunneling Microscope
• RSPS — Rochester Symposium for Physics Students
• HAARP — Hf Active Auroral Research Program (Hf being "high frequency")
• FCI — Fast Causal Inference
• QFEP — Quantum Free Energy Perturbation (calcn. Method)
• OPTSP — Optics and Spectroscopy
• PEP-II — The official name for the SLAC B Factory
• EAF — Electric Arc Furnace
• LDMS — Laser Desorption Mass Spectrometry
• ERCOFTAC — European Research Community on Flow Turbulence and Combustion
• BEC — Bose-Einstein Condensation
• COBR — Continuous Oscillatory Baffle Reactor

• COPHC — Computer Physics Communications
• ENAPC — Environmental Analytical and Physical Chemistry Series
• ESB — Electrical Substitution Bolometer
• MBIR — Medium Background Infrared Facility
• FIMS — Fissionable Isotope Mass Standards
• JGEO — Journal of Geodynamics
• CAMOS — Committee on Atomic Molecular and Optical Sciences
• LHC — The Large Hadron Collider
• PTHPH — Progress of Theoretical Physics
• ANSOM — Apertureless Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy
• CPA — Chirped-Pulse Amplification
• BEAM — Bosiger Energy Alignment Method
• IPSN — L'Institut de Protection et de Sûreté Nucléaire
• NZJGG — New Zealand Journal Geology and Geophysics
• HEAD — High Energy Astrophysics Division
• DCOF — Dynamic Coefficient of Friction
• PREP — Professional Research Experience Program
• AGUFM — American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
• FCDC — Fundamental Constants Data Center
• WTCQ — Wavelet Trellis Coded Quantization
• ESSPH — Essays in Physics
• LEED — Low Energy Electron Diffraction
• ICFA — International Committee for Future Accelerators
• HIPD — High-Intensity Powder Diffractometer
• EOS TPC — Equation of State Time Projection Chamber experiment
• CHJG — Chinese Journal of Geophysics
• OFR — Optics for Research
• FSBS — Forward Stimulated Brillouin Scattering
• NACT — Nonlinear Asymptotic Coupling Theory
• QGD — Quantum-Geometry Dynamics
• CASS — Calibration Accuracy Support System
• STMAP — Studies in Mathematical Physics
• CPS — Constant Pressure System (toys)
• BOMD — Born Oppenheimer Molecular Dynamics
• HFD — High Frequency Detection
• PAR — Parabolic Aluminum Reflector
• ASET — Association of Super-advanced Electronics Technologies
• ADVP — Acoustic Doppler Velocity Profiler
• QGM — Quantitative Gas Measurement
• FBS — Few-Body Systems
• GDT — Gas Discharge Tube
• MOP — Minds on Physics
• VWC — Vector Wavelet Coding
• ZI — Zone Industrielle
• JNLM — Journal of Non Linear Mechanics
• QP — quasiparticle
• BEEM — Ballistic Electron Emission Spectroscopy
• RPT — Reference Point Tracking
• SPECT — single-photon emission computed tomography
• APPHL — Applied Physics Letters

• MSA — Meridian Stress Assessment
• WDFF — Weak Dipole Form Factor
• GCFC — Generalized Complementary Flux Condition
• RSM — Regional Spectral Model
• CRR — Center for Radiological Research
• DD — Differential Detection
• PHP — Physics in Perspective
• ARAC — Arithmetic Robot Application Control
• VUV — Vacuum Ultraviolet
• F — Flux
• FTMS — Fluid Transfer Management System
• SASER — Soud Amplification by Stimulated Emmision of Radiation
• UVC — Ultra-Violet C (250-260nm)
• PTHPS — Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement
• IC — indirect calorimetry
• CFCD — Computational Fuel Cell Dynamics
• ADS — Automated Dynamic Shear
• NMS — Natural Matrix Standard
• NLCTA — Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator
• FOAM — Foam Optics and Mechanics
• LOPI — Loss of Piping Integrity
• LCIF — Laser-Collision-Induced Fluorescence
• HSST — Heavy-Section Steel Technology
• HEPIC — High Energy Physics Information Center
• FST — Full Scale Tunnel
• INSAR — Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
• FRSE — Freundeskreis Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn
• ECH — Eddy Current Heating
• ARIE — Asynchronous Ratio Of Internal To External
• LLD — Lamp Lumen Depreciation
• OSL — Optical Stimulated Luminescence
• OPERA — Oscillation Project with EmulsiontRacking Apparatus
• PTB — Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig
• BB — Blackbody
• HDT — Heat Distortion Temperature
• DOG — Double Optical Gating
• ADBMP — Advances in Biological and Medical Physics
• IWEPNM — International Winterschool on Electronic Properties of Novel Materials
• FDM — fused deposition modeling
• ISS — Input-to-State Stability
• MML — Material Measurement Laboratory
• CQW — Coupled Quantum Wells
• BEPC — Beijing Electron Positron Colider
• SCLIR — Secondary Calibration Laboratories for Ionizing Radiation
• JEMT — Journal of Electron Microscopy Technique
• ALG — Advanced Lithography Group
• TL — Temporal Logic
• TDM — Two Dimensional Material
• WMAP — Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
• PER — Physics Education Research

• GLM — Generalized Linear Model
• DIA — Dynamic Input Area
• NPPSB — Nonequilibrium Problems in the Physical Sciences and Biology
• HPLC — High Pressure Liquid Chromatographic
• FACSS — Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies
• AXAF-I — Imaging Advanced X-ray Astrophysical Facility
• IBB — Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics
• ETDS — Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems
• TQ — Time Quotient
• SFC — Sideway Force Coefficient
• YAG — Holmium:yttrium-aluminum-garnet
• TME — Theory Model Elimination
• DR-SFG — Doubly Resonant Sum Frequency Generation
• DRI — Differential Refractive Index
• AICP — Aerodynamic Instituteumental Coefficient Package
• CRMMP — Classical Reviews in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics
• PB — Primary Beam
• ZL — Zyklon Loop
• QTI — Quantum Theory of Immortality
• XUV — Extreme Ultraviolet
• GWR — Guided Wave Radar
• TNO — Trans-Neptunian Object
• PFW — Propagating Floquet Wave
• EJPH — European Journal of Physics
• TRU — Transuranic
• SQW — Single Quantum Well
• PISCO — Parallel Imager for Southern Cosmological Observations
• HEP — DOE's Division of High Energy Physics, part of HENP.
• IEN — Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale (Italy)
• CCMP — Computational Condensed Matter Physics
• P-P — Peak-to-Peak (Value)
• PV — plasma volume
• PCN — Physics and Contemporary Needs
• IRIS — Integrated Radiation Information System
• CPI — Computational Physics Inc
• TPF — Two Photon Fluorescence
• DSEG — Developments in Solid Earth Geophysics
• IRDCF — Infrared Detector Calibration Facility
• NS — Navier-Stokes
• RPV — Reactor Pressure Vessel
• FF — Fission Fragments
• BZ — Band Zero
• CCPP — Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics
• EDF — Enhanced Depth of Field
• NIM — National Instrumentation Methods
• KEK — Koo Energy Ken
• ECRIS — Electron-Cyclotron-Resonance Ion Source
• IBIS — Ion Beam Information System
• PSD — Physical Sciences Data
• PGP — Physics of Geological Processes

• MPDS — Mechanics and Physics of Discrete Systems
• MOEMS — Micro-Optical Electro-Mechanical System
• FT — Fourier transformation
• AFPL — Air Force Phillips Laboratory
• SMKW — Secondary Magneto- Kinetic Wave
• PETT — Positron Emission Transverse of Transaxial
• BHS — Bachelet Hamann Schluter pseudopotentials
• ZDC — Zero-Degree Calorimeter
• NAS — Net Analyte Signal
• CHPH — Chemical Physics
• HPLA — High Power Large Aperture
• ATD — Above-Threshold Dissociation
• IHEP — Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing, China.
• PLDS — Physics of Low-Dimensional Structures
• SSELE — Solid State Electronics
• NAMT — National Advanced Manufacturing Testbed
• PEM — polymer-electrolyte-membrane
• Q — Quantizer
• H — Hotness
• GWC — Generalized Wave Continuity
• DM — Distance Measured
• MUCOOL — MUon COOLing experiment
• CAST — Council of Agricultural Science and Technology
• JDEM — The Joint Dark Energy Mission
• BSS — Beta Secondary System
• FTM — Fluid Transfer Management
• DTSS — Distributed Temperature and Strain Sensor
• BPS — Bogomolnyi-Prasad-Sommerfield
• LOCA — Loss of Coolant Accident
• ECFA STUDY — Study group Physics and Detectors of a Linear Collider.
• QCC — Quadrupole Coupling Constant
• OSPL — Output Sound Pressure Level
• CCM — Computational Continuum Mechanics
• MTD — Minimum Translation Distance
• TUT — Time Under Tension
• GRAND — gamma ray and neutron detector
• ISI — In-Situ Interferometer
• SM — Standard Model
• EOTD — Enhanced Observed Time Difference
• DLT — Dynamic Laser Trimming
• JAES — Journal of Audio Engineering Society
• BQP — Bounded-error Quantum Polynomial time
• FEDEM — Finite Element Dynamics in Elastic Mechanisms
• EFP — Effective Fringing Property
• IOPD — Integrated Optical Path Difference
• NSEP — National Standard Examination in Physics
• HELP — High Energy Laser Propagation
• QCA — Quasi- Crystalline Approximation
• AGS — The Alternating Gradient Synchrotron at Brookhaven
• COSMOS — Cosmologically Significant Mass Oscillation Search at Fermilab to detect muon neutrino to tau neutrino oscillations.

• ASCA — Japan-NASA X-ray Satellite
• AED — g.l.c.-atomic emission detection
• FTAM — Flow Through Alpha Monitor
• TAM — Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
• MPAM — Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics
• QOA — Quasi-Optical Amplifier
• JCCRER — U.S.-Russia Joint Coordinating Committee on Radiation Effects Research
• ESS — European Spallation Source
• QCI — Quadratic Configuration Interaction
• RFP — Radiation Flux Parameter
• NG6M — Neutron Guide No. 6
• AESR — Array-Enhanced Stochastic Resonance
• HI RES FLY'SEYE — High-energy cosmic ray experiment in Dugway, Utah
• QPT — Quantum Phase Transition
• AVN — Accuracy Vanishing Now
• LFO — literature-low frequency oscillations
• ECT — Edge Crush Testing
• PET — photosynthetic electron transport
• NORAMET — A North American regional collaboration in national measurement standards and services
• CRESST — Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers
• DEPA — Dynamic Elastic Properties Analyzer
• OCQ — Old Covariant Quantization
• SLM — Single Longitudinal Mode
• ZPD — Zeta Potential Distribution
• RMP — Reviews in Mathematical Physics
• GSI — Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung
• NMI — National Measurement Institute
• SCF — Spectral Comparator Facility
• GLC — Global Linear Collider
• PSL — Physics of Solids and Liquids
• PBG — Photonic Band Gap
• APM — Absolute Proper Motion
• BRAN — Boulder Research and Administrative Network
• PWR — Pressurized-Water Reactor
• SLAC — The Department of Energy'sStanford Linear Accelerator Center in Palo Alto, California
• FR — Filtered Radiometer
• EME — Electromagnetic Effects
• APT — Annular Proton Telescope
• FC — Flow Controller
• UHV-SPM — Ultra High Vacuum Scanning Probe Microscopy
• VATF — Vibration and Acoustic Test Facility
• NPDF — Nuclear Parton Distribution Function
• SKACR — Superconducting Kinetic-inductance Absolute Cryogenic Radiometer
• COP — Coefficient Of Power
• CMMPE — Centre of Molecular Materials for Photonics and Electronics
• CBO — Corrected Born-Oppenheimer (in Calcns. For Mol. Complexes)
• ELNES — Energy-loss near-edge structure
• FID — Free Induction Decay (Fourier Transform Spectroscopy)
• CTD — Central Tracking Detector
• IPAP — Institute of Pure and Applied Physics

• FOCUS — FOtoproduction of Charm: Upgraded Spectrometer
• CMMPH — Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics
• BETA NMR — Beta-radiation Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
• MC — magnetic coil
• WICM — Waves in Complex Media
• VLHC — Very Large Hadron Collider
• VXR — Visible Transfer Radiometer
• NAS/NRC — National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council
• RESL — Radiological and Environmental Science Laboratory
• NUGEO — Nuclear Geophysics
• UFM — Ultrasonic Force Microscopy
• CFL — Compact Fluorescent Lamp
• MOPITT — Measurement of Pollution In The Troposphere
• CQM — constituent-quark model
• JULIE — Joint Utilization of Laser Integrated Experiments
• PAPPH — Pure and Applied Physics
• PBE — Pool Boiling Experiment
• DOELAP — Department Of Energy Laboratory Accreditation Program
• CTMC — Classical Trajectory Monte Carlo
• DHV — Demonstrate Higher Value
• MARGR — Marine Geophysical Researches
• MCT — Mercury-cadmium-telluride
• NEAR-INFRARED — NIR
• PDI — percent depth ionization
• VRS — Vortex Ring State
• EQE — External Quantum Efficiency
• ZDR — Zeroth-order Design Report
• CTD — Conductivity, Temperature, Depth
• HEAT — High-Energy Antimatter Telescope
• EIPP — Eastern Interconnect Phasor Project
• EHB — Electronic Handbook
• IESNA — Illumination Engineering Society of North America
• CCFP — Collaborative Convective Forecast Product
• CEV — Constant Elasticity of Variance
• SEI — Specific Energy Input
• KP — Knowles and Physics
• LMR — Laser Magnetic Resonance
• BCS — Bragg Crystal Spectrometer
• LCT — Lattice Compatibility Theory
• CISR — Canadian Institute for Synchrotron Radiation
• HFM — Highly Friction Modified
• AGP — Annals of Geophysics
• FORATOM — FORum ATOMique Européen
• HPSSC — Health Physics Society Standards Committee
• MPS — The Microdrop Particle Search at SLAC
• CTP — Center for Theoretical Physics
• RIDIC — Radiation Internal Dose Information Center
• ITER — International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
• LBRS — Low Background Reference System
• BTD — Basic Thermodynamics

• CIE — Commission Internationale De L'Éclairage
• INFN — Italy's Institute Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
• EMMA — Euclidean Model MAtching
• KTG — Kinetic Theory of Gases
• MCHF — Multi-Configuration Hartree-Fock
• ENEA — Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, L'Energia E L'Ambiente
• AGUSM — American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting
• C — Counter
• UVA — University of Virginia
• SQM — Super Quantum Mechanics
• BAVL — Barium Vapor Laser
• SPE — solid phase extraction column
• PADE — Parallel Applications Development Environment
• RHIP — Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics
• SCIBOONE — The SciBar Booster Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab
• UVL — UltraViolet Lamp
• FIRI — Fourth International Radiocarbon Intercomparison
• ING — Intense Neutron Generator
• 4THD — Fourth Dimension
• IVR — intramolecular vibrational redistribution
• WHC — Washington Hospital Center
• PMRS — Proton magnetic resonance Spectroscopy
• BB — Broad-bandwidth
• MAPLE — Multipurpose Applied Physics Lattice Experiment
• NUMI — Neutrinos at the Main Injector
• OFS — Österreichisches Forschungszentrum
• JULIA — Jena University Laboratory of Ion Acceleration
• FRAM — Functional Resonance Accident Model
• HVLS — High volume low speed
• CFR — Continuous Flow Recycling
• LVE — Light Vibrational Energy
• REM — Roentgen Equivalent Man (Unit of Dose Equivalent)
• NEMS — Nanoelectromechanical Systems
• PS — polystyren
• ERI — Extended Range Imaging
• FF — Forward Facing
• R — Radiation
• BW — Bottom of Wall
• NORA — Non-Overlapping Redundant Array
• HIRDLS — High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder
• UATD — Uniform Asymptotic Theory of Diffraction
• NCNR — NIST Center for Neutron Research
• EP — Electrostatic Potential
• APEX — AntiProton Experiment
• JILA — formerly Joint Institute Laboratory for Astrophysics
• CSD — Computational Structural Dynamics
• SFCP — Special Foreign Currency Program
• TCAOCC — Two-Center Atomic Orbital Close Coupling
• NBSR — National Bureau of Standards Reactor
• MAFF — Munich Accelerator for Fission Fragments

• WD — Weak Dipole
• EGR — Energy Generation Region
• ARXPS — Angle Resolved X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy
• ACFF — Alternating Current Field Measurement
• CR — CRystalline solid
• CTE — Correlated Transfer And Excitation
• SFD — Shear Force Diagram
• UVB — Ultraviolet Beta
• MCU — Mobile Calibration Unit
• MINOS — Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search
• TGF — Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flash
• TOBSY — Total ThroughBond Correlation Spectroscopy
• TD-FW — Time Domain Floquet Wave
• RBMK — Reactor Bolshoi Moshchnosti Kanalni
• SSPM — Solid State Photomultipliers
• DBG — Disease Biophysics Group
• BSDM — Biased Site Disordered Model
• AFCP — Atomic Flux Coating Process
• NOAO — National Optical Astronomy Observatory
• BEV — Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen, Vienna, Austria
• LTEC — Lamp Testing Engineers Conference
• SEM — Standard Error of Measurement
• FC — Footcandle
• DNC — Does Not Change
• VLG — Varying Localized Geminal
• HVC — High-Velocity Core
• DEA — Downstream Endcap Array
• CCDM — Consultative Committee for the Definition of the Meter
• EDT — Equivalent Difference Transmission
• BEC — Bose Einstein Condensate
• ACP — American Center for Physics
• MICE — Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment
• ATLAS — Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System
• FCCU — Fluidized Catalytic Cracker Unit
• MLDA — Modified Local Density Approximation
• DMF — Dual Mass Flywheel
• CIAQ — Committee on Indoor Air Quality
• GVHD — Graft-Versus Host Disease
• QTN — Quasi-Thermal Noise
• MONO — MONOphonic
• FOE — Force of Energy
• FSI — Fluid Solid Interaction
• PEMF — Pulsed Electro-Magnetic Field
• ALR — Active Lead Ring
• TDIF — Teac Digital Interface Format
• BBN — Brains And Backbone Network
• EOM — Electron-Optical Modulator
• CDMS — Cryogenic Dark Matter Search
• PHAPP — Physics and its Applications
• HERA-B — Fixed-target experiment at DESY, to investigate CP violation in the B meson

• LP — Linear Polarization
• SNAP — SuperNova Acceleration Probe, proposed space telescope
• IC — Initial Condition
• PL — Physics Laboratory
• TAGU — Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
• CSDA — Continuous-Slowing-Down Approximation
• OTD — Optical Technology Division
• IPT — Inductive Power Transfer
• ASL — Ambient Stress Level
• LWGR — Light-Water-cooled, Graphite-moderated Reactor
• CCRI — Comité Consultatif des Rayonnements Ionisants
• SGL — Sander Geophysics Ltd
• LEPP — Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York
• RRDCP — Recent Research Development in Chemical Physics
• DWNT(S) — double-wall nanotube(s)
• ECC — Engineered Cementitious Composite
• STF — Space-Time-Frequency
• ATW — Accelerator Transmutation Of Waste (for Radioactive Waste)
• VSV — Vacuum Switching Valve
• TID — Total Ionizing Dose
• SEBA — Standards Employees Benefit Association
• BD — Below Detection
• SFA — Sachs Freeman and Associates
• LEIR — Low Energy Ion Ring
• ITS — International Temperature Scale
• NIPDE — National Initiative for Product Data Exchange
• MAG — Modern Approaches in Geophysics
• FIMS — Fast Integrated Mobility Spectrometer
• PD — Prismatic Diffuser
• SSDL — Secondary Standard Dosimetry Laboratories
• PMPO — Peak Momentary Performance Output
• AP — Anti-Proton
• QTG — Quantum Theory of Gravity
• DFS — Displaced Fermi Surface
• HIRES — High Resolution Echellle Spectrometer
• BP — Before Polarization
• WFS — Wave Field Synthesis
• ACCI — Atlantic Canada Coral Initiative
• WNM — Warm Neutral Medium
• DBC — Delicate Balance Collective
• MP — magnetic particle
• INFN-LNF — The National Institute for Nuclear Physics in Italy
• WWVB — Call letters for NIST lf radio station in Colorado
• PMB — Physics in Medicine and Biology
• SI — selectivity index
• HW — Hard Wall
• QIO — Quantum Infinite-Order
• CPEP — Contemporary Physics Education Project
• UXT — Uniaxial Strain Test
• CNT(S) — carbon nanotube(s)

• FFP — Field-Free Point
• H — Hotline
• FANS — Filter Analyzer Neutron Spectrometer
• CT — Computed tomographic scan
• BSM — Bell State Measurement
• FIR — far-infrared radiation
• CHORUS — CERN Hybrid Oscillation Research Apparatus
• HT — High Tension
• RRP — Research Reports in Physics
• C — Country
• QSA — Quantitative Surface Analysis
• EDR — Equivalant Direct Radiation
• BM — Behavioral Model
• APS — Advanced Propagation Systems
• ACM — Adiabatic Connection Model
• GIBI- — 2 ^ 30
• BAS — Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• AIF — Assumed Internal Force
• RAND — Radio Neutrino Detector array
• QGD — Gate - Drain Charge
• OHEP — Office of High Energy Physics
• FPC — Fullerene Production Chamber
• MSDB — Magnetically Stabilized Fluidized Bed
• DM(S) — Digital material(s)
• DC — Double Capture
• REDA — Resonant-Excitation-Double-Autoionization
• HERA — Hadron-Electron Ring Accelerator at DESY
• QNP — Quattro Nuclear Probe
• RDQ — Rate Distortion Quantization
• ASCA — Advanced Spacecraft for Cosmology and Astrophysics
• DQD — Dissipative Quasigeostrophic Dynamics
• QOG — Quasi-Optical Grill
• CHAOS — Canadian High Acceptance Orbit Spectrometer
• TL — Total Length
• MINERVA — A neutrino-scattering experiment that uses the NuMI beamline at Fermilab to search for low-energy neutrino interactions
• MACRO — Monopole, Astrophysics and Cosmic Ray Observatory
• NPHS — Nature Physical Science
• EBM — Energy by Motion
• ZPV — Zero Pressure Volume
• RPPH — Reports of Progress in Physics
• PINS — Portable Isotopic Neutron Spectroscopy
• OPAL — Omni Purpose Apparatus for LEP, at CERN
• JANNAF — Joint Army-Navy-NASA-Air Force
• ECFA — European Committee for Future Accelerators
• SAXES — Super Advanced Xray Emission Spectrometer
• QHB — Quantum Nature of the Hydrogen Bond
• AOI — Areas of Interaction
• BSSI — British Superultramodern Scientific Institution
• NIMP — National Institute of Materials Physics
• ZGS — Zero Gradient Synchrotron

• RKB — Restricted Kinetic Balance (method In Calcns. Of Wave Functions And Energies)
• RHR — Right Hand Rule
• QFT — Quantum Field Theory
• OPSL — Optically Pumped Semiconductor Laser
• APPHY — Applied Physics
• ERATO — Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology Office
• PAMA — Professional Audio Manufacturers Alliance
• WFTE — Wigner Function Transport Equation
• ORT — Oak Ridge Tennessee
• FFAI — Field-Free Associative Ionization
• IMRT — intensity-modulated radiation therapy
• CDCU — Correlated Dimension Correlated Uniqueness
• WSPM — Wavelet-based Statistical Parametric Mapping
• BAW — Bulk Acoustic Wave
• FMUP — Flawed Modern Ultramodern Physics
• MACH — Modelo Acoplado de Coordinacion Hidrotermica
• ECS — Eddy Covariance System
• NPS — nanoparticle(s)
• DOIM — Dense Optical Interface Module
• BPC — Boost Pressure Control
• FIM — Functional Imaging Methods
• JPTEO — Journal of Physics - Teacher Education Online
• DESY — Deutches Elektronen SYnchrotron laboratory in Hamburg, Germany
• PHENIX — Pioneering High-Energy Nuclear Interaction eXperiment, at Brookhaven.
• IPNS — Intense Pulsed Neutron Source
• OQS — Occupied Quantum State
• RVPP — Reviews of Plasma Physics
• UV-B — Ultraviolet-Biological
• CONCP — Contemporary Concepts in Physics
• FT/MS — Fourier Transform / Mass Spectroscopy
• EPV — Exclusion Principle Violating
• LHCB — Large Hadron Collider beauty Experiment
• RIMS — Recoil-Ion Momentum Spectroscopy
• EDN — Event Detection and Notification
• BTEV — Proposed dedicated B physics experiment at Fermilab's Tevatron
• CHTM — Center for High Technology Materials
• MOTA — Man Of The Atom
• AIGER — American Industry Government Emissions Research Consortium
• SNO — Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
• APPMT — Advanced Photon Processing and Measurement Technology
• SPIRES — Stanford Public Information Retrieval System
• MEXP — Methods of Experimental Physics
• CTP — Classical Turning Point
• IPHO — International Physics Olympiad
• JINR — The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia.
• PPSL — Proceedings of the Physical Society of London
• FMI — The Fermilab Main Injector
• P&S — Permanent and Stationary
• GINGA — Japanese X-ray Satellite
• NESTOR — Neutrino Extended Submarine Telescope with Oceanographic Research

• OSP — Of Open Source Physics
• MOS — Marine Optical System
• BKT — Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless crossover
• FSW — Fast Spherical Wavelet
• TNA — Thermal Neutron Analysis
• INS — Ion-Neutralization Spectroscopy
• ROCK — Rigidity Optimized Conformational Kinetics
• ODEPR — Optical Detected Electron Paramagnetic Resonance
• ESDIAD — Electron-Stimulated Desorption Ion Angular Distributions
• LHC-B — Large Hadron Collider B Experiment
• FZ — Far Zone
• CAO — Carlsbad Area Office
• SPD — Solar Physics Division
• DFL — Distributed Feedback Laser
• OMNIS — Observatory For Multiflavor Neutrinos From Supernovae
• WSQ — Wavelet Scalar Quantization
• MMFT — Many Mode Floquet Theory
• INMRI-ENEA — Istituto Nazionale di Metrologia delle Radiazioni Ionizzanti - Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie
• GSQM — General Superfield Quantization Method
• KTEV — Kaons at the Tevatron
• QCT — Quasi-Classical Trajectory
• KET — Komitee für ElementarTeilchenphysik
• DESY — Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
• QVB — Quasiempirical Valence Bond (method)
• TCH — Transmission Converter Hydraulic
• ULE — Ultra Light Engineering
• LANSCE — Los Alamos Neutron Scattering Center
• TAD — time-averaged difference
• CAP — Current Applied Physics
• WERB — Washington Editorial Review Board
• LO — Local Orbitals
• TTZ — Teisseyre Tornquist Zone
• CTS — Convert Texture Sequence
• CAMP — Computational and Applied Mathematical Physics
• MOEMS — Micro Optp Electro Mechanical Systems
• WONP — Workshop on Nuclear Physics
• BZ — Brillouin Zone
• MCQDT — Multi Channel Quantum Defect Theory
• SFF — Scientific Fudge Factor
• CSTL — Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory
• TTP — Trends in Theoretical Physics
• SLC — SLAC Linear Electron-Positron Collider
• EFS — Enhanced Fujita [EF] scale (weather)
• ULP — Ultra-short Light Pulse
• BCR — Boron Control Rod
• FED — Field-Emitter Display
• ART — Adaptive Resonance Theory
• EU — Entropy Unit
• MPD — Multiphoton Detector
• FTSI — Fourier Transform Spectral Interferometry

• NCRA — National Centre for Radio Astrophysics
• HTS — High Tear Strength
• NPL — Nuclear Plasma Laboratory
• HDMS — Heidelberg Dark Matter Search
• NPB — Nuclear Physics B
• NRRS — Near Resonance Rayleigh Scattering
• CCFR — Chicago Columbia Fermilab Rochester
• ULTIM — Ultrasonic Imaging
• ADI — Advanced Distance Integration
• CFS — Constant-Final-State Spectroscopy
• ILC-TRC — International Linear Collider-Technical Reviewing Committee
• BBR — Back Bouncing Rod
• GMRI — Gated Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• RGM — Resonating Group Method
• HPL — High Pressure Lanes
• ISPP — Illinois State Physics Project
• RTP — Rapid Thermal Processing
• LMAPH — Letters in Mathematical Physics
• SOUDAN II — Soudan II underground detector
• PSJ — Pivoted Shoe Journal
• RRV — Record Relocation Vector
• HEPA — High-Efficiency Particulate Arresting
• CEM — Cascade Exciton Model
• RAP — Roentgen area product
• MFP — Maximal Fixed Point
• SIFC — Stable Isotope Fractionation Calculator
• AFC — Amplitude to Frequency Conversion
• WBCT — Wavelet Based Contourlet Transform
• NPGS — Nanometer Pattern Generation System
• CM — Center of Mass
• JTURB — Journal of Turbulence
• CM — Convenient Measure
• DGT — Discrete Group Transform
• EIEO — Energy In, Energy Out
• PGS — Plane Grating Spectrometer
• WSTC — Westinghouse Science and Technology Center
• PV — Pressure Vessel
• FZS — Far Zone Scattering
• REB — Relativistic Electron Beam
• BLJPH — Bulgarian Journal of Physics
• IUPAP — International Union for Pure and Applied Physics.
• EBAS — Electron Bombardment Anneal System
• LFAM — Line Focus Acoustic Microscopy
• GERDA — The GERmanium Detector Array
• ELL — Equivalent Loudness Level
• FISCO — Fieldbus Instrinsic Safety Concept
• WIPM — Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics
• PLTP — Progress in Low Temperature Physics
• TLA — Temporal Logic of Actions
• LF — Low Friction

• SPS — Super Proton Synchrotron
• SIMS — Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
• EIC — Electron Ion Collider (nuclear physics)
• NEOS — Newport Electro-Optic Systems
• SV — Shock and Vibration
• IPVD — Interior Physical Vapor Deposition
• ILL — L'Institut Laue Langevin
• AFS — Abstract Force Simulator
• LST — Light Stabilizer Technology
• DIGM — Diffusion Induced Grain Motion
• UDD — Neutron, one up quark (u) and two down quarks (d)
• TLS — Two-Level tunneling System
• PIGP — Proceedings of the Institute of General Physics
• HPSSC — Health Physics Society Student Chapter
• CCM — complementary contact model
• RVST — Resonance Vibrating Screening Technology
• SPEAR — The Stanford Positron Electron Accelerating Ring
• DAFNE — Double Annular Factory for Nice Experiments
• ITRP — International Technology Recommendation Panel
• NIST-F1 — Current NIST Primary Frequency Standard
• HIPA — High Intensity Proton Accelerator
• ICRM — International Committee for Radionuclide Metrology
• PSI — Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland, Joint Institute of ETH)
• MPSD — Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter
• PFX-I — Penning Fusion eXperiment - Ions
• BLP — boron-loaded plastic (scintillator)
• PE — Plasma Effects
• NDE — Nucleon Decay Experiment
• CREB — Cern Reports Editorial Board
• ANVIS — Aviator Night Vision Imaging System
• BNM — National Bureau of Metrology, France
• MEST — Matter Energy Space Time
• CXRS — Charge-Exchange Recombination Spectroscopy
• TSLO — Tracking Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope
• PEEI — Physics and Evolution of the Earth's Interior
• GRASP — General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception
• EPB — Extracted Proton Beam
• LASJ — Laser Journal
• NEC — Nippon Electric Corporation
• TESLA — TeV-Energy Superconducting Linear Accelerator
• GMTI — Global Magnetization Transfer Imaging
• SMZ — Strong Measure Zero
• X — Horizontal axis in Cartesian coordinate system
• REIXS — Resonant Elastic and Inelastic Xray Scattering
• NBS-4 — Older Primary Frequency Standard
• PHYED — Physics Education
• RFZ — Reflection Free Zone
• NAAL — North American Aerodynamic Laboratory (Wind Tunnel)
• IBFW — Incidence of the reflected Beam from the Front Wall
• ULV — Ultra Low Volume

• MM — Molecular Mechanics
• ASTER — Advance Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflectance Radiometer
• ANTARES — Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss Environmental Research
• RBE — Relative Biological Efficiency
• MDRF — Materials Dosimetry Reference Facility
• QHF — Quantum Heisenberg Ferromagnet
• SDIU — Scanivalve Digital Interface Unit
• HR3DCT — High Resolution 3-D Computed Tomography
• OCLI — Optical Cooling Laboratory Incorporated
• SIG — Signaling Channel
• TPB — Tetraphenyl Butadiene
• SPT — Supporting Physics Teaching
• NAD — Nihilistic Animation Data
• PAR — Partially Absorbed or Reflected
• VRML — Virtual Reality Markup Language
• FIMS — Field Intensity Measuring Sustem
• PHT — Pseudo Hadamard Transformation
• TPAG — Theory and Practice of Applied Geophysics
• MME — Methanol Maser Emission
• RBUU — Relativistic Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck
• FBAP — Function Block Application Process
• HRTS — High Resolution Telescope Spectrograph
• FCF — Fusion Component Failure
• HPL — Hot-electron Photo-Luminescence
• RHED — Regions of High Electron Density
• ATWE — Annual Time Weighted Exposure
• MLIA — Molecular Libraries of Imaging Agents
• UDM — Unified Dimensional Model
• QMD — Quantum Metrology Division
• NI&D — Nuclear Interactions and Dosimetry
• TPR — Tangential Pond Return
• JCMT — James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
• DFTS — Dispersive Fourier Transform Spectrometry
• SPU — Single Particle Unit
• INPE — National Space Research Institute (Brazil)
• SET — Single-Electron Transistor
• FIT — Frequency Intensity Time
• LLB — Laboratoire Leon Brillouin
• VR — Vibrationally resonant
• GN — Gaussian Noise
• ITAMP — International Meeting of Theory of Atomic and Molecular Physics
• SEY — Secondary Electron Yield
• UHE — Ultra High Energy
• ALCSG — Asian Linear Collider Steering Committee.
• RVGES — Reviews of Geophysics Supplement
• QELS — Quantum Electronics and Laser Science
• DACU — Data Acquisition and Control Unit
• HARPS — High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (spectrography)
• HPPT — HIGH PRESSURE PHYSICS AND TECHNICS
• QM — Quark Model

• AFFT — Asymptotically Free Field Theories
• EEPROM — Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
• RKE — Rotational Kinetic Energy
• CT — Conductivity Temperature
• FCFR — Fusion Component Failure Rate
• TUFIR — Tunable Far Infrared (Radiation)
• YPP — Young Particle Physicists
• UHF — Ultra High Fidelity
• PFU — Proton Flux Unit
• FTMD — Field procedure for determining Test Maximum Density
• ESPD — European Solar Physics Division
• TME — Total Mechanical Energy
• NEWRAD — New Radiometry
• IQI — Image Quality Indicator
• LPRI — Laboratoire Primaire des Rayonnements Ionisants, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
• LOT — Laser-Optic Technology
• ATLAS — A Toroidal LHC Apparatus
• LNV — Lepton-Number Violating
• HPP — Hydropower Plant P
• ALARA — As Long As Radiation Allows
• RSS — Regression Sum of Squares
• HIP — Hot Isostatic Process
• EOA — Effective Orifice Opening
• TAI — International Atomic Time
• PD — Poincare duality
• ADTMP — Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
• FEA — Field-Emitter Array
• MRFM — magnetic resonance force microscopy
• LVIS — Low Velocity Intense Source
• E — Efficiency
• HTRA — High Time Resolution Astrophysics
• MCNP — Monte Carlo Neutron Photon (computer code)
• MT — Mechanical Transfer
• DOE — Dynamic Operating Environment
• WFSM — Weak Field And Slow Motion
• MDAP — Momentum Density of Annihilation Pairs
• LJP — Lennard-Jones Potential
• MDS — Measurement Data Set
• SGR — Soft Gamma Repeater
• RFS — Receptive Field Size
• CFCP — Copecenter For Cosmological Physics
• PEMI II — Portable Engineering Moire Interferometer, Second generation
• ARGONEUT — The Argon Neutrino Teststand
• SPPS — surface plasmon polaritons
• NUTEV — Neutrinos At the Tevatron
• LCL — lifting condensation level
• HELEN — High Energy physics Latin-American-European Network
• PVA — Powerful Vacuum Action
• PHACO — Physical Acoustics
• CNDD — conspecific negative density dependence

• PAIS — Photo Acoustic Infrared Spectroscopy
• AAA — Advanced Applications of Accelerators
• CPPM — Center for Particle Physics of Marseilles
• EDXRF — energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry
• TCV — Tokamak à Configuration Variable
• RLP — Right Lifting Property
• KSU — King Saud University
• ASSI — Airglow Solar Spectrometer Instrument
• CBH — Correlated Barrier Hopping
• IFEL — Inverse Free Electron Laser
• POP — Plasma Oscillation Probe
• FNR — Ford Nuclear Reactor
• LCG — light curve generator
• QTE — Quantum Transport Equation
• TLA — Two Level Analysis
• VDG — Van de Graaff
• SVJPP — Soviet Journal of Plasma Physics
• PHYW — Physics World
• MET — Medium Energy Telescope
• CCDS — Consultative Committee for the Definition of the Second
• MDL — Method Detection Levels
• APPL — APplied Physics Letters
• FIOA — Fellow of the Institute of Acoustics
• PIXE — Particle Induced Xray Emission
• DRM — Digital Radio Mondial
• SACR — Space-based Active Cavity Radiometer
• ATFT — Affine Toda Field Theory
• BEAR — Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation
• LBIR — Low Background Infrared Radiometry
• TEXT — Texas Experimental Tokamak
• LGG — Least General Generalization
• JPG — Journal of Physics G
• SYM — Super Yang-Mills Theory
• WEDG — Wire Electro-Discharge Grinding
• QVE — Quasi-Vibrational Energy
• NRRT — Normal Reference Range Table
• PMBC — Process-Model Based Control
• KLOE — K LOng Experiment
• HQM — Hemi-Quantal Mechanics
• DMM — Deep Mixing Method
• SSPP — Static Strength Prediction Program
• THERMAL AND EPITHERMAL NEUTRONS — thermal and epithermal neutrons
• BSM — Beam Simulation Method
• FHM — Fast Harmonic Method
• FBG — Fiber Bragg Grating
• PPS — Proceedings of the Physical Society
• MMPDS — Metallic Materials Properties Development and Standardization
• AXAF-S — Spectroscopy Advanced X-ray Astrophysical Facility
• WGCM — Working Group on Coupled Modelling
• HEPL — High Energy Physics Laboratory

• MME — Magnetic Molecular Energizer
• PMG — Papers in Meteorology and Geophysics
• MIRF — Medical and Industrial Radiation Facility
• TQF — Triple- Quantum- Filtered
• PQS — Parallel Quantum Solutions
• APGR — Association for Pushing Gravity Research
• SERS — Surfaced Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
• ACR — Advanced Candu Reactor
• CSE — Compton Scattering Enhancement
• MDR — Maximum Detectable Rigidity
• ELCSG — European Linear Collider Steering Group
• TXR — Thermal-infrared Transfer Radiometer
• IPVDC — Interior Physical Vapor Deposition Coating
• SPARS — Society of Professional Audio Recording Services
• CMPC — Constrained Multivariable Predictive Control
• SCET — Soft Collinear Effective Theory
• CMT — Chaos Magic Theory
• RCS — Real Compton Scattering
• MIP — Minimum Ionizing Particle
• FMSS — Fast Mode Stationary Shock
• MISR — Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer
• AFPS — Analyzing Fluid Power Systems
• EC — electron-capture
• ROSPEC — Rotating Spectrometer for Neutrons
• FAD — FASCAL Absolute Detector
• TWTA — traveling-wave tube amplifier
• SRO — Short Range Order
• SDL — Space Dynamics Laboratory
• RINF — Retinoid Inducible Nuclear Factor
• CNRF — Cold Neutron Research Facility
• HECT — High-Energy Computed Tomography
• CORM — Council for Optical Radiation Measurements
• HSE — Hard Sphere Expansion
• VLT — Very Large Telescope
• UNI — Ultrafast Nonlinear Interferometer
• DC — Dynamic Conversion
• STLR — Safety Thermal Limit Recorder
• APL — Applied Physics Letters
• QT — Quantum Theory
• EURATOM — European Nuclear Energy Organization
• BOMAB — Bottle Manikin Absorber
• NAMP — National Analytical Management Program
• SSSYN — Springer Series on Synergetics
• SIAP — System for Improved Acoustic Performance
• SSPL — Solid State Physics Laboratory
• ESCR — Environmental Stress Cracking Resistance
• E — Epsilon
• CDC — Correlated-Double-Capture
• FNAL — Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)
• RB — Rigid Body

• QHO — Quantum Harmonic Oscillator
• MINIMAX/ T-864 — A search for disoriented chiral condensates at Fermilab.
• WFST — Weighted Finite State Transducers
• NED — Nuclear Effects Directorate
• SWBXT — Synchrotron White Beam X-Ray Topography
• LENS — Low Energy Neutrino Spectroscopy, at Heidelberg.
• BEEM — Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy
• CBO — Coherent Betatron Oscillations
• CDP — Center for Defect Physics
• VOC — Volts, Open-Circuit
• CNO — Carbon Nitrogen And Oxygen
• MAC — Magnitude Amplification Cavity
• ARUPS — Angle-Resolved Ultra-violet Photoemission Spectroscopy
• GSL — Generalized Second Law
• PFX — Penning Fusion EXperiment
• HPI — Hybrid Polarization Interferometry
• GGCP — Generalized Grand Canonical Potential
• HRG — High Radius of Gyration
• FND — Folded Normal Density
• RT — Reference Time
• MES — Minimum Efficient Scale
• NCSCANS — National Steering Committee for the Advanced Neutron Source
• DDDI — Density Dependent Delta Interaction
• ISOLDE — Isotype On-Line separator at CERN
• GDRIMS — Glow-Discharge Resonance Ionization Mass Spectrometry
• CP — Coulomb potential
• AMD — Area Mass Density
• EAPL — Electronic AstroPhysical Journal Letters
• CLEAR — Controlled Liquid Electrophoresis Absorption Reflection
• LPA — Long Path Absorption
• MAF — Mass Air Filter
• JPARC — Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex
• IGRA — interferon-gamma release assay
• NUS — Nuclear Safety Standard
• NRCC — National Research Council Canada
• BEDO — Beitr. elektronenmikroskop. Direktabb. Oberfl.
• AIC — Analytical Instrument Control
• QFED — Quantum Field-Effect Directional coupler
• WWVH — Call letters for NIST short-wave radio station in Hawaii
• HENP — Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics
• SAGE — Soviet-American Gallium Experiment
• OPTPN — Optics & Photonics News
• QWI — Quantum Well Intermixing
• DP — Data Point
• CET — Constant Elasticity of Transformation
• EPICS — Experiment Physics and Industrial Control System
• MTS — Muffin Tin Surface
• WNO — Weakly Non- Oscillatory
• CPM — Collision Probability Methods
• SIR — Selective Internal Radiation

• CF — Cross Flow
• CAD — Charged Area Development
• DORT — Discrete Ordinates Code
• CAA — Computational Aeroacoustics
• CKM — Charged Kaons at the Main Injector
• CRDS — Cavity-Ring-Down Spectroscopy
• OPAL — Open Physics Abstraction Layer
• MCC — Mesoscale Compressible Community
• ISSP — Institute Of Solid State Physics
• PCAP — Physics and Computing Advisory Panel
• WBGT — Wet-Bulb Globe Thermometer
• SUBI — Southern Urals Biophysics Institute
• ZETA — Zero Energy Thermonuclear Apparatus
• VFH — Vector Field Histogram
• INMM — Institute for Nuclear Materials Management
• QFM — Quench Flow Monitor
• FTS — Fourier Transform Spectroscopy
• QG — Quantum GRavity
• HF — High Flange
• LZT — Lead Zirconate Titanate
• LASP — Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado
• C — Count
• VLHC — Very-Large Hadron Collider
• NRIP — NIST Radiochemistry Intercomparison Program
• AMO — Atomic, Molecular and Optical
• GRAIL — Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory
• AKD — Altered Kinetic Distance
• ITAP — Isentropic Trajectory Analysis Project
• IMB — Irvine / Michigan / Brookhaven experiment
• MURMEMWC — 'MURMURING MEMORIAL WATER CLOSET' PRE-DATED BY 1913 MODEL YEAR AND PATENT; aka; Ed Loud Memorial Toilet
• SSPG — Solid State Physics Group
• MIPP — Main Injector Particle Production
• FCC — Fluidized Catalytic Cracker
• SSUV — Shuttle Solar Ultraviolet
• MRPI — Magnetic Resonance Perfusion Imaging
• QGS — Quantitative Gated Spectroscopy
• LIPS — Lorentz Invariant Phase Space
• DAFS — Diffraction Anomalous Fine Structure
• PDML — Photovoltaic Device Measurement Laboratory
• CIRF — Circular Flow
• VET — Vibration Energy Transfer
• TOP — Time Optimized Process
• QP — quasi periodic
• VTD — Variable Torque Differential
• PBQ — PhotoBeam Quantum
• ERI — Electron Repulsion Integral
• CSI — Contact Surface Imaging
• URNC — Ultra- Relativisitic Nuclear Collision
• OBM — Over-the-Barrier Model
• FEAT — Fusion Energy Advanced Tokamak

• MND — Mahan-Nozieres-DeDominicis
• LCRD — Linear Collider Research and Development
• SSGSR — Springer Verlag Springer Series on Group Geophysics Space Research
• MD — Magnetic Dipole
• NANO — Nanostructural Analysis Network Organisation
• COLTRIMS — Cold Target Recoil-Ion Momentum Spectroscopy
• POPA — Panel on Public Affairs of American Physical Society
• PAB — Physics Astronomy Building
• DR — Direct Reading
• CASP — Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics
• CCE — Consultative Committee on Electricity
• VPM — Virtual Phase Microscope
• JDP — Joint Displacement Principle
• MGLT — Micro-Gravity Linear acceleration Tolerance
• LPE — Little Physics Engine
• MWNT(S) — multi-wall nanotube(s)
• NNP — Non Neutral Plasma
• HRDE — High Resolution Digital Extensometer
• AFTA — Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets
• DRIP — Diamagnetically Restored Inverted Pendulum
• CAPE — Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics
• IPP — Institute of Particle Physics
• QZP — Quantum Zeno Paradox
• BGO — bismuth-germanate (scintillator)
• PPEP — Plasma Physics and Environmental Perturbation
• LENA — Laboratory For Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics (Duke University)
• VQW — Voronoi Quantized Crossover
• SDF — Spectral Density Function
• WIAS — Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics
• PML — Perfect Matched Layer
• ORLAND — Oak Ridge Large Neutrino Detector
• WGFF — Working Group for Fluid Flow
• LBNE — long baseline neutrino experiment
• BESS — Breaking Electroweak Symmetry Strongly
• JET — Joint European Torus
• RFZ — Reverse Flow Zone
• MR — Magneto Rheological
• TTD — transit-time distribution
• ICMP — Institute of Condensed Matter Physics
• GLAST — Gammaray Large Area Space Telescope
• CBS — Compton BackScattering
• B — Baryon
• IPC — Integrated Proton Current
• MPI — Magnetic Particle Inspection
• COMPASS — Common Muon and Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy
• P — Propagation
• SID — Society for Information Display
• SURF-III — The NIST Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility Electron Storage Ring
• AIM — Advanced Idea Mechanics
• TE — Total energy

• HSI — Hot Surface Igniter
• CFE — Coplaner Fluid Ejector
• DCP — Dielectronic Core Polarization
• TSFU — Two Scale Factor Universality
• CTM — Core Transport Model
• GPT — Gabidulin Paramonov and Trietakov
• EXAFS — Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure
• SNR — SuperNova Remnant
• GIM — Grazing-Incidence Monochromator
• NGS — National Geological Society
• MAPHS — Mathematical Physics Studies
• IMB — Irvine, Michigan and Brookhaven
• AM1 — First Launch in the morning series of EOS platforms
• TD — Time Definite
• UEB — Universal Energetic Balancing
• BPPI — Biophysics of Proteins and Protein Interactions
• ASA — Aperture Setting Adjustment
• CC — Conservation of Charge
• FTIR — Fourier Transform Infra-Red
• MMKT — Methods and Models of Kinetic Theory
• FPL — Fluroscent Pulse Light
• SZB — Single Zone Boundary
• XROI — X-Ray Optical Interferometer
• SAM — Super Accelerator Machine
• NIM — Normal-Incidence Monochromator
• MAT — Manifold Air Temperature
• SAGENAP — Scientific Assessment Group for Experiments in Non-Accelerator Physics
• LHM — Liquide Hydraulique Minerale
• GARD — Graviton Atom Relocation Disruptor
• PEEP — Physics Ethics Education Project
• VPI — Virtual Plane Imaging
• ILV — Indicative Limit Values
• EPT — Exchange Perturbation Theory
• DPS — Disintegrations Per Second
• HPD — Holistic Probabilistic Design
• AIM — Accurate, Intentional, Measurable
• TRIUMF — Tri-University Meson Facility
• VNIIOF — All-Union Research Institute for Optical and Physical Measurements
• DDD — Dynamic Digital Depth
• ITEP — Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
• RIMS — Resonance Ionization Mass Spectrometry
• MTG — Methanol To Gasoline
• MECO — Muon to Electron COnversion
• RC — Reaction Co-efficient
• HFS — High Friction Solid
• CMPA — Centre for mathematical Plasma Astrophysics
• LLI — Laser-Induced Incandescence
• TERS — Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
• TOR — Total Outflow Resistance
• AFP — Accelerated Freefall Progression

• URIA — Undergraduate Research Institute in Astrophysics
• XPOP — X is Perpendicular to Orbit Plane
• SI — Slight Inclusion
• NUSL — The National Underground Science Laboratory in the Homestake Mine, S.D.
• NOVA — The NuMI Off-axis ve Appearance experiment
• DFIR — Diffused Infrared
• QRB — Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics
• MMI — Mallinckrodt Medical Inc
• AMS — Accelerator-Mass Spectrometry
• CA — Crash Avoid
• TTF — TESLA Test Facility
• DRIP — Detector Response Intercomparison Program
• SWIR — Short Wave Infrared
• ICBM — Iogen Configuration Building Module
• CARS — coherent antistokes raman scattering
• Z — Depth axis in Cartesian coordinate system
• MRSM — Multiple Response Surface Modeling
• GCR — Gapped Conserved Regions
• MOT — Magnetooptical Trap
• MWE — Meters of Water Equivalent
• NL — Net Light
• RMC — Radiative Muon Capture
• HLBC — Heavy Liquid Bubble Chamber
• PEMI — Portable Engineering Moire Interferometer
• CDC — Controlled Dispersion Characteristic
• CI — Constant Intensity
• SBLOCA — Small-Break Loss-Of-Coolant Accident
• NML — National Measurement Laboratory (Japan)
• NASSP — National Astrophysics and Space Science Programme
• TOT — Test of Time
• AI — Associative Ionization