| Acronym | Meaning |
| PFR | Plug Flow Reactor |
| SPW | Symmetrized Plane Wave |
| PIGS | Pesticides In Groundwater Strategy |
| MOS | Margin Of Safety |
| STFT | Short Time Fourier Transform |
| POC | Purgeable Organic Carbon |
| CCR | Close-coupled Representation |
| OVFF | Orbital Valence Force Field |
| ISCLT | Industrial Source Complex Long Term (dispersion Model) |
| FAOS | Fluorescent Activated Organelle Sorting |