| AM | Additive Manufacturing |
| CAD | Computer-Aided Design |
| CCD | Charge-Coupled Device |
| CMOS | Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
| DED | Direct Energy Deposition |
| DIC | Digital Image Correlation |
| DLD | Direct Laser Deposition |
| DMD | Direct Metal Deposition |
| DMLS | Direct Metal Laser Sintering |
| DVC | Digital Volume Correlation |
| ESPI | Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometry |
| FDM | Fused Deposition Modeling |
| FFF | Fused Filament Fabrication |
| FFOTs | Full-Field Optical Techniques |
| FGM | Functionally Graded Materials |
| GM | Grid Method |
| LED | Light-Emitting Diode |
| LENS | Laser Engineered Net Shaping |
| LMD | Laser Metal Deposition |
| LMP | Laser Manufacturing Process |
| MI | Moiré Interferometry |
| MSL | Metal Shaping Laser |
| NDT | Non-Destructive Testing |
| PBF | Powder Bed Fusion |
| RS | Residual Stresses |
| SLM | Selective Laser Melting |
| SLS | Selective Laser Sintering |
| WAAM | Wire and Arc Additive Manufacturing |
| ZNSSD | Zero-Normalized Sum of Squared Differences |