| Acronym | Meaning |
| ANMR | Acoustic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance |
| NAAQS | National Ambient Air Quality Standards |
| WHOI | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute |
| LEF | Large-amplitude Elec. Field Fluctuations |
| PET | Positron Emission Tomography |
| LWR | Locally Weighted Regression |
| APAES | Appearance Potential Auger Electron Spectroscopy |
| AFIS | Advanced Fiber Information System |
| BHT | Brinell Hardness Test |
| WURST | Wideband |