| Acronym | Meaning |
| OS | Overlapping Spheres (method) |
| MERD | Metal-enhanced Reductive Dehalogenation |
| PSS | Perturbed Stationary State |
| TPU | Thermoplastic Polyurethane |
| DFP | Diisopropyl Fluorophosphate |
| MLCPA | Maximum Likelihood Principal Component Analysis |
| EBD | Electron Beam Doping |
| CRC | Combined Residual Chlorine |
| ODT | Order-disorder Transition |
| NARSTO-NE-OP | North American Research Strategy For Tropospheric Ozone-Northeast Oxidant And Particle Study |