| Term | Definition / Meaning / Stand for |
| AA |
Aluminum Alloy |
| AHSS |
Advanced High-Strength Steel |
| AIP |
American Institute of Physics |
| AIS |
Alloy Steel |
| AM |
Additive Manufacturing |
| AMR |
Anisotropic Magnetoresistance |
| APS |
Advanced Photon Source |
| ARA |
Acoustic Resonance Analysis |
| ASM |
American Society for Metals |
| ASME |
American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
| ASTM |
American Society for Testing and Materials |
| ASTM |
American Society for Testing of Materials |
| ASTM |
American Society for the Testing of Materials |
| AT |
Annealing Temperature |
| ATEM |
Analytical Transmission Electron Microscope |
| ATR |
Attenuated Total Reflectance |
| BC |
Boundary Condition |
| BCCS |
Body-Centered Cubic Structure |
| BDL |
Below Detection Limit |
| BET |
Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (surface area measurement) |
| BFR |
Bulk Fracture Resistance |
| BGD |
Band Gap Density |
| BLT |
Bilayer Thickness |
| BN |
Boron Nitride |
| BOC |
Bulk Organic Coatings |
| BP |
Bulk Properties |
| BPR |
Bulk Property Relations |
| BSE |
Backscattered Electron |
| BWR |
Boiling Water Reactor |
| BiFC |
Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation |
| C-H |
Carbon-Hydrogen Bond |
| CBE |
Chemical Bonding Energy |
| CCD |
Charge-Coupled Device |
| CE |
Corrosion Engineering |
| CEF |
Charge Energy Fluctuations |
| CFE |
Crystalline Film Element |
| CFRC |
Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced Carbon |
| CIR |
Crystalline Interstitial Region |
| CIS |
Copper Indium Selenide |
| CKDs |
Cement Kiln Dusts |
| CPT |
Ceramic Processing Technology |
| CS |
Crystal Structure |
| CSIR |
Crystal Structure Investigation Report |
| CSP |
Crystal Structure Parameter |
| CT |
Computed Tomography |
| CTE |
Coefficient of Thermal Expansion |
| CTM |
Core Test Method |
| CVD |
Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| Cu |
Copper |
| DC |
Direct Current |
| DFD |
Directed Fracture Domains |
| DFT |
Damping Function Theory |
| DGF |
Dual Gradient Field |
| DIC |
Digital Image Correlation |
| DLD |
Directed Laser Deposition |
| DMF |
Dimethylformamide |
| DOE |
Design of Experiments |
| DP |
Deformation Path |
| DPD |
Dissipative Particle Dynamics |
| DRC |
Device Reliability Check |
| DRX |
Diffraction X-ray |
| DSB |
Deep Submicron Bonding |
| DSW |
Double Slip Work |
| EB |
Electron Beam |
| ECAP |
Equal-Channel Angular Pressing |
| ECT |
Electrical Capacitance Tomography |
| EDAX |
Energy Dispersive Analysis of X-rays |
| EDM |
Electrostatic Dielectric Modeling |
| EDS |
Energy-Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy |
| EELS |
Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy |