| Acronym | Meaning |
| ACRE | Automatic Climatological Recording Equipment |
| GDAAS | Glow Discharge Atomic Absorption Spectrometry |
| WHMIS | Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (Canada) |
| OFA | Oil Fly Ash |
| CTD | C-terminal Domain |
| SRT | Sludge Or Solids Retention Time |
| DFG | Difference Frequency Generation |
| EFOCS | Evanescent Fiber Optic Chemical Sensors |
| BEST | Bare Essentials Of Surface Transfer |
| MR-MP | Multireference Moeller-Plesset (perturbation Theory) |