| Acronym | Meaning |
| NIWG | National Interagency Work Group |
| QUASIMEME | Quality Assurance Of Information For Marine Environmental Monitoring In Europe |
| BKCM | Burkhardt-Konya-Coulson-March (for Electron Momentum Densities) |
| SASA | Solvent-accessible Surface Area |
| DWA | Digital Waveform Acquisition |
| MFS | Molecular Fluorescence Spectroscopy |
| SPIES | Surface Penning Ionization Electron Spectroscopy |
| TLV | Threshold Limit Value |
| FOCSY | Foldover-corrected Correlation Spectroscopy |
| STEP | Science And Technology For Environmental Protection |