| Acronym | Meaning |
| KST | Max. Vol.-independent Pressure Increase Rate |
| EBSM | Extended Breathing Shell Model |
| BSI | British Standards Institute |
| NHFPT | Nonorthogonal Hartree-Fock Perturbation Theory |
| CCL | Carotenoid-carrying Lipoprotein |
| OPEC | Organization Of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
| THM | Traveling Heater Method |
| CAMP | Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate |
| POH | Purgeable Organic Halogen(s) |
| IAT | Island Arc Tholeiite |