| FT-MIR | Fourier-transform mid-infrared |
| FFA | Free Fatty Acids |
| SCFFA | Short-Chain Free Fatty Acids |
| MCFFA | Medium-Chain Free Fatty Acids |
| LCFFA | Long-Chain Free Fatty Acids |
| PLS | Partial Least Squares |
| KRR | Kernel Ridge Regression |
| SVR | Support Vector Regression |
| RF | Random Forest |
| GPR | Gaussian Process Regression |
| AMS | Automatic Milking System |
| AWE | Association Wallonne de l’Élevage |
| BDI | Bureau of Dairy Industries |
| CDL | Comité du Lait |
| CRA-W | Walloon Agricultural Research Centre |
| DHI | Dairy Herd Improvement |
| EMR | European Milk Recording |
| FABE | Fatty Acid Butyl Ester |
| GH | Standardized Mahalanobis Distance |
| GP | Gaussian Process |
| GPC | Gaussian Process Classification |
| ICAR | International Committee for Animal Recording |
| KRC | Kernel Ridge Classification |
| LPL | Lipoprotein Lipase |
| MFGM | Milk Fat Globule Membrane |
| MTBSTFA | N-Methyl-N-(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)trifluoroacetamide |
| PLS-DA | Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analysis |
| PLSR | Partial Least Squares Regression |
| RFC | Random Forest Classification |
| RFR | Random Forest Regression |
| SVC | Support Vector Classification |
| SVM | Support Vector Machine |
| TAG | Triacylglycerol |