| Acronym | Meaning |
| VAMAS | Versailles Project On Advanced Materials And Stds. |
| ICOS | Inducible Co-stimulator |
| LAO | London Atomic Orbital |
| GM | Geometric Mean |
| MP4(DQ) | Moeller-Plesset Perturbation Treatment To Fourth Order In The Space Of Double And Quadruple Substitutions |
| ACWM | Asbestos Containing Waste Material |
| AM | Arithmetic Mean |
| AQSM | Air Quality Simulation Model |
| CAE | Capillary Affinity Electrophoresis |
| VBR | Variational Basis Representation (in Quantum Calcns.) |