| ACS | American Chemical Society |
| AFM | atomic force microscopy |
| AMO | Atomic, Molecular, and Optical |
| ANL | Argonne National Laboratory |
| APS | Advanced Photon Source |
| ASC | Applied Superconductivity Center |
| ASG | ASG Superconductors (Company) |
| ASIPP | Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| AUP | Accelerator Upgrade Program (DOE) |
| BES | Office of Basic Energy Science |
| BEST | Burning plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak |
| BNL | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| BOLD | Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent imaging is used for measuring human brain activity in MRI |
| BSCCO | cuprate superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2Oy |
| CAS | Chemical Abstract Services |
| CE | Conformité Européenne product labeling indicating conformance to the European health, safety, and performance |
| CEA | French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission |
| CFETR | Chinese Fusion Engineering Test Reactor |
| CFS | Commonwealth Fusion Systems |
| CHMFL | Chinese High Magnetic Field Laboratory |
| CICC | cable-in-conduit conductor |
| CME | coronal mass ejection |
| CMP | condensed matter physics |
| CMRR | Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota |
| CNR | contrast-to-noise ratio |
| CNRS | French National Centre for Scientific Research |
| CORC | Conductor on Round Core |
| CRAFT | Comprehensive Research Facilities for Fusion Technology |
| CW | continuous-wave |
| DC | direct current |
| DEMO | demonstration power plant |
| DNP | Dynamic Nuclear Polarization |
| DoD | Department of Defense |
| DOE | Department of Energy |
| EAS | type of superconducting wire produced by Bruker |
| EAST | Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak |
| E-DEMO | European Demonstration Power Plant |
| EM | electron microscopy |
| EMF | electromagnetic forming |
| EMR | electromagnetic resonance |
| EPFL | École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne) |
| EPR | electron paramagnetic resonance |
| EU | European Union |
| FAIR | findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability |
| FAMU | Florida A&M University |
| FCC | future circular collider |
| fCNR | contrast to noise ratio |
| FDA | U.S. Food and Drug Administration |
| FEL | free-electron laser |
| FELBE | Free-Electron Laser at the Electron Linear Accelerator with High Brilliance and Low Emittance |
| FES | fusion energy sciences |
| FESS | fusion energy systems studies |
| fMRI | functional magnetic resonance imaging |
| FNAL | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
| FPP | fusion pilot plant |
| FQHE | Fractional Quantum Hall Effect |
| FSU | Florida State University |
| FT-ICR | Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance |
| HDX | hydrogen-deuterium exchange |
| HEP | high-energy physics |
| HEPAP | High Energy Physics Advisory Panel |
| HERA | Hadron–Electron Ring Accelerator |
| HFM | high-field magnets |
| HLD | Hochfeld-Magnetlabor Dresden |
| HMF | high magnetic field |
| HTS | high-temperature superconductor |
| ICAS | Innovation and Consulting on Applied Superconductivity (company) |
| ICR | ion cyclotron resonance |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IO | ITER Organization |
| ISSP | Institute of Solid State Physics (Kashiwa, Japan) |
| ITER | International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor |
| JACS | Journal of the American Chemical Society |
| J-DEMO | Japan Demonstration Power Plant |
| JET | Joint European Torus |
| JT-60 | Japan Torus-60 |
| KPFM | Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy |
| KSTAR | Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research |
| LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| LBNL | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| LDRD | Laboratory Directed Research and Development |
| LDX | Levitated Dipole Experiment |
| LHC | Large Hadron Collider |
| LHD | Large Helical Device |
| LSCO | La2–xSrxCuO4 |
| LTS | Low Temperature Superconductor |
| MagLab | National High Magnetic Field Laboratory |
| MAS | magic-angle-spinning |
| MCF | Magnetic Confinement Fusion |
| MDP | Magnet Development Program |
| MFM | Magnetic Force Microscopy |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| MOF | Metal-organic Frameworks |
| MOKE | Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect |
| MQO | Magneto Quantum Oscillations |
| MR | magnetic resonance (also Magnetoresistance P108) |
| MRI | magnetic resonance imaging |
| MRS | magnetic resonance spectroscopy |
| MRSI | magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NHMFL | National High Magnetic Field Laboratory |
| NHMFS | National High Magnetic Field School |
| NIGMS | National Institute of General Medical Sciences |
| NIH | National Institutes of Health |
| NMR | nuclear magnetic resonance |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| NSOM | near-field scanning optical microscopy |
| OHEP | Office of High Energy Physics |
| ORNL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| PFF | Pulsed Field Facility (Los Alamos) |
| PNAS | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
| QHE | Quantum Hall Effect |
| QIS | Quantum Information Science |
| R&D | research and development |
| REBCO | rare-earth barium copper oxide |
| RHIC | Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider |
| RMB | Chinese Yuan |
| RNA | ribonucleic acid |
| RRP | rod and restack process |
| SBIR | Small Business Innovation Research |
| SCH | Series-Connected Hybrid Magnet |
| SEI | Sumitomo Electric Industry |
| SLAC | Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory |
| SNR | signal to noise ratio |
| SNS | Spallation Neutron Source |
| SPARC | a compact, high-field, net fusion energy device from MIT Plasma Fusion Center |
| SPDC | spontaneous parametric down conversion |
| SPM | Scanning Probe Microscopy |
| STEM | science, technology, engineering, and mathematics |
| STM | scanning tunneling microscopy |
| SWI | Susceptibility Weighted Imaging in the context of MRI |
| TFMC | Toroidal Field Model Coil |
| TFTR | Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor |
| UHF | ultrahigh field |
| USGS | U.S. Geological Survey |
| USPAS | United States Particle Accelerator School |
| VAC | consortium Vacuumschmelze GmbH |
| XFEL | European X-ray Free-Electron Laser Facility |
| YBCO | cuprate superconductor YBa2Cu3O7 |