| Acronym | Meaning |
| QTOF | Quadrupole Time-of-flight |
| NRA | National Rivers Authority (UK) |
| COMPREHEND | Community Programme Of Research On Environmental Hormones And Endocrine Disrupters |
| SLR | Spin-lattice Relaxation |
| CPE | Carbon Paste Electrode |
| OMVPE | Organometallic Vapor-phase Epitaxy |
| CTOF | Charge Time-of-Flight Spectrometer |
| PT-MVD | Perturbation Theory (with) Mass-velocity And Darwin (operators) |
| SME | Solar Mesosphere Explorer |
| AMOS | Automated Meteorological Observing System |