| Acronym | Meaning |
| PZEV | Partial Zero Emission Vehicle |
| CNDO/SW | Complete Neglect Of Differential Overlap / Sichel-Whitehead |
| ELIF | Excimer Laser Induced Fragmentationpar |
| SME | Static Model Exchange (approxn. In Electron-mol. Scattering) |
| TCA | Total Constituent Analysis |
| ELPAT | Environmental Lead Proficiency Analytical Testing |
| GPF | Gaussian Polarization Function |
| HBT | Hanbury Brown Twiss (interferometry) |
| DGNAA | Delayed Gamma-ray Neutron Activation Analysis |
| NLP | Natural Language Processing |