Is it acceptable to use an acronym for a set of adjectives? In science, it is very common to shorten nouns with acronyms (e.g. deoxyribonucleic acid -&gt; DNA). However, I am struggling to think of any examples of sets of adjectives that are written as an acronym.
I am writing a scientific document, in which I must describe my data in a specific way. For the sake of this question, let's say it's &quot;high time resolution data&quot;. It is important to distinguish the data as high time resolution data, as it is a unique type of data in the field, and the document requires justification of the significance of analysis of this data. I do not think it is appropriate to drop the adjectives and simply describe it as &quot;the data&quot; due to the context of the document. Is it fine/acceptable to refer to it as &quot;HTR data&quot;, in order to improve the brevity and readability of the text?
I should note that I would prefer to use &quot;HTR data&quot; instead of &quot;HTRD&quot; to allow for interchanging the word &quot;data&quot; for something else, like &quot;measurements&quot;, where appropriate.
I think that in general it would be fine as long as you use it consistently and introduce it properly again in every chapter. For example, in a sentence you could write something like this:

The High Time Resolution (HTR) data was analyzed using tool ABC. We found that the HTR data has X-property among Y observations.

However, this might be cumbersome and become repetitive at some point. If this HTR data is the only type of data in your paper, it would be an option to refer simply to the data since no confusion can occur about the data being High Time Resolution instead of some other type.