| Acronym | Meaning |
| TEA | Thermal Energy Analyzer |
| ECP | Exponential Corrugated Potential |
| FCD | Fault Consequence Digraph |
| PDVB | Poly(divinyl Benzene) |
| NESC | National Environmental Supercomputing Center |
| HST | Hubble Space Telescope |
| HOESY | Heteronuclear Overhauser Enhancement Spectroscopy |
| HNLC | High-nutrient Low-chlorophyll |
| SLEEP | Scanning Low Energy Electron Probe |
| MC | Mclean-Chandler Basis Set |