| aCORN | ‘a’ correlation in neutron decay |
| BTAC | beam time allocation committee |
| CANDOR | chromatic analysis neutron diffractometer or reflectometer |
| CHRNS | Center for High Resolution Neutron Scattering |
| DOE | Department of Energy |
| DCS | disk chopper spectrometer |
| HFBS | High Flux Backscattering Spectrometers |
| HFIR | high flux isotope reactor |
| ILL | Institut Laue-Langevin |
| MOF | metal organic framework compound |
| MACS | multi axis crystal spectrometer |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NCNR | NIST Center for Neutron Research |
| NGD | neutron-gamma density |
| NIH | National Institutes of Health |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| NRC | National Research Council |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| NSE | neutron spin echo |
| nSOFT | colloquium of companies that use neutron-based techniques to investigate the properties of soft materials relevant to technological applications |
| ORNL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| SANS | small angle neutron scattering |
| SNS | Spallation Neutron Source at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| SPINS | Spin Polarized Inelastic Neutron Spectrometer |
| SURF | Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship |
| vSANS | very small angle neutron scattering |