| AM | Additive Manufacturing |
| AB | As-Built |
| ASTM | American Society for Testing and Materials |
| CAD | Computer-Aided Design |
| CW | Continuous Wave |
| EDM | Electrical Discharge Machining |
| FGA | Fine Granular Area |
| GBF | Granular Bright Faces |
| HIP | Hot Isostatic Pressing |
| LOF | Lack Of Fusion |
| M | Machined |
| NSR | Non-Stress-Relieved |
| PH | Precipitation Hardening |
| PBF | Powder Bed Fusion |
| R | Stress ratio |
| Ra | Arithmetic mean roughness value |
| Rz | Maximum height of the roughness profile |
| SEM | Scanning Electron Microscopy |
| SLM | Selective Laser Melting |
| SP | Shot-Peening/Shot-Peened |
| SR | Stress Relief/Stress-Relieved |
| SS | Stainless Steel |
| ST | Solution Treatment |
| STDEV | Standard deviation |
| UTS | Ultimate Tensile Strength |
| W | Wrought |
| WAXD | Wide-Angle X-ray Diffraction |
| XY | Horizontally built |
| ZX | Vertically built |
| σa | Stress amplitude |
| Nf | Number of cycles to failure or run-out cycle |
| 2θ | Diffraction angle |