| Acronym | Meaning |
| HBL | Health Based Level |
| ESAD | Electron-stimulated Associative Desorption |
| AEOS | Advanced Electro-Optical System |
| DC | Direct Current |
| UASB | Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket |
| I-TEQ | International Toxic Equivalent |
| STP | Similarity Transformation (based) Perturbation (theory) |
| QDIP | Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetector |
| NSH | Normalized Spherical Harmonic (hamiltonian) |
| FTTA | Federal Technology Transfer Act |