| Acronym | Meaning |
| STP | Sewage Treatment Plant |
| FFF | Field-flow Fractionation |
| CASS | Cyclic Activated Sludge System |
| DWC | Deasphalted Whole Crude |
| ITRS | International Technology Roadmap For Semiconductors |
| LLNL | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| PCM | Phase-change Material (in Heat Storage) |
| PBM | Photochem. Box Model |
| SRC-1 | Steroid Receptor Coactivator-1 |
| SDTQ-MBPT | Single-double-triple-quadruple Excitation (contribution) MBPT |