| Acronym | Meaning |
| PSC | Polar Stratospheric Clouds (in Antarctic) |
| LVAD | Left Ventricular Assist Device |
| CN | Condensation Nucleus |
| MBRSPT | Many-body Rayleigh-Schroedinger Perturbation Theory |
| WPI | Whey Protein Isolate |
| SAN | Styrene-acrylonitrile Copolymer |
| DCC | Dextran-coated Charcoalpar |
| ORACLE | Ozone Research Using Advanced Cooperative Lidar Experiment |
| GWPM | Gaussian Wave-packet Method |
| TIG | Tungsten Inert Gas (welding) |