| Acronym | Meaning |
| CRM | Certified Reference Material |
| OSM | Overlapping Sphere Model |
| FVP | Flash Vacuum Pyrolysis |
| BOA | Bond Orientational Anisotropy |
| VA-LUMO | Vibrationally Active LUMO |
| HNF | Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor |
| GME | Generalized Master Equation (in Quantum Statistical Mechanics) |
| CCGT | Combined Cycle Gas Turbine |
| BFBR | Biological Fluidized Bed Reactor |
| ESMO | Excited-state Molecular Orbital |