| Acronym | Meaning |
| BCS | British Chemical Standard |
| VIM | Video-intensified Microscopy |
| LIBD | Laser-induced Breakdown Detection |
| PSL | Polystyrene Latex |
| HAZCOM | Hazardous Communication Plan |
| DWRF | Drinking Water Research Foundation |
| DARMA | Deterministic Autoregressive Moving Average |
| SPA | Separated Pair Approxn. (wave Function) |
| CMC | Conditional Moment Closure [model] |
| FTU | Formazine Turbidity Unit |