| 3D | three-dimensional |
| 5D | five-dimensional |
| AI | artificial intelligence |
| AMDD | Accelerated Materials Design and Discovery |
| API | application programming interface |
| CAOM | Common Archive Observation Model |
| CECAM | Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire |
| CMPD | Center for Materials Processing Data |
| DFT | density functional theory |
| DMMI | Defense Materials, Manufacturing, and Its Infrastructure |
| DoD | Department of Defense |
| DOE | Department of Energy |
| DOI | digital object identifier |
| FAIR | Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable |
| HTE-MC | High-Throughput Experimental Materials Collaboratory |
| ICME | integrated computational materials engineering |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| IP | intellectual property |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| IVOA | International Virtual Observatory Alliance |
| MEC | Multidisciplinary Engineering Challenge |
| MGI | Materials Genome Initiative |
| MKS | Materials Knowledge System |
| ML | machine learning |
| MPDS | Materials Platform for Data Science |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NASMAT | NASA Multiscale Analysis Tool |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| NRC | National Research Council |
| OPTiMaDe | Open Databases Integration for Materials Design |
| OQMD | Open Quantum Materials Database |
| PSP | process-structure-property |
| PyMKS | Materials Knowledge System in Python |
| REST | representational state transfer |
| RTM | Revolutionary Tools and Methods |
| SaaS | Software as a Service |
| SARA | Scientific Autonomous Reasoning Agent |
| SBIR | Small Business Innovation Research |
| TRI | Toyota Research Institute |
| VO | Virtual Observatory |
| XRD | X-ray diffraction |