| Acronym | Meaning |
| MIQ | Minimum Identifiable Quantities |
| AEAPS | Auger-electron Appearance-potential Spectroscopy |
| SF-PNM | Step Function Perturbative Numerical Method |
| IAMAS | International Association Of Meteorological And Atmospheric Sciences |
| AODP | Advanced Ocean Drilling Program |
| NHOMO | Next Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital |
| ERRD | Emergency And Remedial Response Division |
| ABO | Antibonding Bond Orbital |
| IOC | Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission |
| PW-TDSE | Plane Wave-time Dependent Schroedinger Equation |