| Acronym | Meaning |
| ORV | Optical Retardation Velocity |
| BLS | Bare Lymphocyte Syndrome |
| DXRL | Deep X-ray Lithography |
| SMILETRAP | Stockholm-Mainz-Ion Levitation Trap |
| HOLZ | Higher Order Laue Zone |
| APCE | Affinity Probe Capillary Electrophoresis |
| SCAQS | Southern California Air Quality Study |
| CGC | Capillary Gas Chromatography |
| NPCR | Nonlinear Principal Components Regression |
| WINS | Well Impactor Ninety-Six |