| HC | hand configuration |
| IMU | inertial measurement unit |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group, ISO/IEC 10918 |
| LIBRAS | Brazilian Sign Language (Língua Brasileira de Sinais) |
| LSA | Argentinian Sign Language (Lengua de Señas Argentina) |
| LSE | Spanish Sign Language (Lengua de Señas Española) |
| LSM | Mexican Sign Language (Lengua de Señas Mexicana) |
| LSTM | long short-term memory |
| MKV | Matroska video |
| MLP | multilayer perceptron |
| MSLR | Mexican Sign Language Recognition dataset |
| MP4 | MPEG-4 Part 14, ISO/IEC 14496-14:2003 |
| NHG | non-hand gesture |
| NN | neural network |
| NPY | NumPy standard binary file format |
| PJM | Polish Sign Language (Polski Język Migowy) |
| PSL | Pakistan Sign Language |
| RGBD | red, green, blue, and depth |
| RNN | recurrent neural network |
| sEMG | surface EMG |
| SL | sign language |
| SLR | sign language recognition |
| SVM | support vector machine |
| SWF | small web format |
| TSL | Turkish Sign Language |
| YOLO | you only look once |