| Abbreviation | Full name |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| AM | Additive Manufacturing |
| ANDFO | Adaptive Normal Distribution Fiber Optimization |
| AFP | Automated Fiber Placement |
| BESO | Bi-Directional Evolutionary Structural Optimization |
| CCF | Continuous Carbon Fiber |
| CFRPC | Continuous-Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composite |
| DGTO | Derivable Geodesics-Coupled Topology Optimization |
| DoF | Degree of Freedom |
| FDM | Fused Deposition Modeling |
| FFF | Fused Filament Fabrication |
| HDI | Hybrid-Dispersion Impregnation |
| ILSS | Interlaminar Shear Strength |
| ISTO | Integrated Structure and Toolpath Optimization |
| LCE | Liquid-Crystal Elastomer |
| LDED | Laser Direct Energy Deposition |
| LLM | Large Language Model |
| MDD | Minimum Detectable Damage |
| MEX | Material Extrusion |
| MMC | Moving Morphable Components |
| MPACT-3D | Multimodal Physics-Aware Autonomous Control for 3D Printing |
| PA | Polyamide |
| PAEK | Polyaryletherketone |
| PEEK | Polyether ether ketone |
| PEI | Polyetherimide |
| PLA | Polylactic Acid |
| PPS | Polyphenylene Sulfide |
| RAAM | Robotic Additive Manufacturing |
| SOMP | Solid Orthotropic Material with Penalization |
| SMPC | Shape-Memory Polymer Composites |
| S–N | Stress–Number of Cycles |
| TO | Topology Optimization |
| UV | Ultraviolet |
| YOLO | You Only Look Once |
| 3DP-CFRPCs | 3D-Printed Continuous-Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites |