| ADC | Analgoue Digital Converter | Electronics | | | |
| AFCK | AMC FMC Carrier Kintex (Board) | Electronics | a prototype of Data Processing Board (DPB) | | |
| AGWB | Address Generator for WishBone | Electronics | | https://github.com/wzab/agwb | |
| ALICE | A Large Hadron Collider Experiment | Experiment | | | |
| AMBA | Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture | Electronics | | | |
| ASIC | Application Specific Integrated Circut | Electronics | | | |
| AXI | Advanced Extensible Interface | Electronics | | | |
| BNL | Brookhaven National Lab | General | | | |
| CA | Cellular Automaton (Tracking) | Algorithms | | | |
| CAD | Computer Aided Design | General | | | |
| CATIA | Computer Aided Three-Dimensional Interactive Application | General | | | |
| CBM | Compressed Baryonic Matter | Experiment | | | |
| CRC | Cyclic Redundancy Check | Programming | | | |
| CRI | Common Readout Interface | Electronics | | | |
| CROB | Common Readout Board | Electronics | | | |
| DAQ | Data Aquisition (System) | Experiment | | | |
| DCS | Detector Control System | Experiment | | | |
| DPB | Data Processing Board | Electronics | | | |
| DPF | Data Processing Framework | Electronics | | | |
| ECAL | Electromagnetic Calorimeter | Experiment | | | |
| eLINK | Electrical Link | Electronics | | | |
| eq_id | Equipment identifier | Electronics | | | |
| ESR | Experimental Storage Ring | Experiment | | | |
| FAIR | Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research | General | | | |
| FEB | Frontend Board | Electronics | | | |
| FEE | Front End Electronics | Electronics | | | |
| FFT | Fast Fourier Transform | Algorithms | | | |
| FIFO | First In First Out | General | | | |
| FLES | First Level Event Selector | Experiment | | | |
| FLES EN | FLES Entry Node | Experiment | | | |
| FLES IPC | FLES Inter-process Communication | Experiment | | | |
| FLES PN | FLES Processing Node | Experiment | | | |
| FLIB | FLES Interface Board | Experiment | | | |
| FLIM | FLES Interface Module | Experiment | | | |
| FPGA | Field Programmable Gate Array | Electronics | | | |
| FW | Firmware | Electronics | | | |
| GBT | Giga Bit Transceiver | Electronics | A radiation hard ASIC | | |
| GEM | Gas Electron Multiplier | Experiment | | | |
| GET4 | GSI Event Driven TDC with four channels | Electronics | A type of ASIC | | |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface | General | | | |
| gDPB | GET4-DPB | Electronics | (TOF and T0) | | |
| HADES | High Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer | Experiment | | | |
| HDL | Hardware Description Language | Programming | | | |
| HSD | Hadron String Dynamics | Physics | | | |
| HW | Hardware | Electronics | | | |
| JSON | Java Script Object Notation | Programming | | | |
| LSB | Least Significant Bit | Programming | | | |
| mDPB | MUCH-DPB | Electronics | | | |
| MS | Microslice | Experiment | | | |
| MUCH | Muon Chamber | Experiment | | | |
| MSB | Most Significant Bit | Programming | | | |
| MVD | Micro Vertex Detector | Experiment | | | |
| PANDA | antiProton ANnihilation at DArmstadt | Experiment | | | |
| pDPB | PSD-DPB | Electronics | | | |
| PGA | Programmable Gate Array | Electronics | | | |
| PHENIX | Pioneering High Energy Nuclear Interactions eXperiment | Experiment | An experiment at BNL | | |
| PHSD | Parton Hadron String Dynamics | Physics | | | |
| PID | Particle Identification | Experiment | | | |
| PMT | Photomultiplier Tube | Experiment | | | |
| PSD | Projectile Spectator Detector | Experiment | | | |
| PWG | Physics Working Group | General | | | |
| QCD | Quantum Chromo Dynamics | Physics | | | |
| QED | Quantum Electro Dynamics | Physics | | | |
| QGP | Quark Gluon Plasma | Physics | | | |
| rDPB | RICH-DPB | Electronics | | | |
| RHIC | Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider | Experiment | A particle accelerator at BNL | | |
| RICH | Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detector | Experiment | | | |
| ROB | Readout Board | Electronics | | | |
| RPC | Resistive Plate Chamber | Experiment | | | |
| SCA | Slow Control Adapter | Electronics | | | |
| sDPB | STS(XYTER)-DPB | Electronics | | | |
| SIS100 | Schwerionensynchroton mit 100 Teslametern | Experiment | | | |
| SLR | Super Logic Region | Electronics | A single FPGA die slice contained in an SSI device | | |
| SMX | STS/MUCH-XYTER | Electronics | | | |
| STAR | Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC | Experiment | An experiment at BNL | | |
| STS | Silicon Tracking Station | Experiment | | | |
| SSI | Stacked Silicon Interconnect (Technology) | Electronics | Multiple SLR components mounted on a passive Silicon Interposer. | | |
| SW | Software | Programming | | | |
| TDC | time-to-digital converter | Electronics | | | |
| tDPB | Timing-DPB | Electronics | | | |
| TDR | Technical Design Report | General | | | |
| TOF | Time Of Flight Detector | Experiment | | | |
| TOT | Time Over Threshold | Experiment | Corresponds to charge of a measured particle | | |
| TRB | Trigger Readout Board | Electronics | | | |
| TRB3 | Trigger Readout Board Version 3 | Electronics | | | |
| TRD | Transition Radiation Detector | Experiment | | | |
| TS | Timeslice | Experiment | | | |
| TS | Timestamp | Experiment | | | |
| TS MSB | Timestamp Most Significant Bit | Experiment | | | |
| UrQMD | Ultra Relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics | Physics | | | |
| VHDL | Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language | Programming | | | |
| VLDB | Versatile Link Demonstrator Board | Electronics | | | |
| VTRx | Versatile Link Transceiver | Electronics | | | |
| XYTER | | Electronics | ASIC which has position(XY),time(T), energy(E) and resolution(R) | | |
| ZIF | Zero Insertion Force (Connector) | Electronics | | | |
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