| Acronym | Meaning |
| VDI | Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (German Engineers Society) |
| SPR | Surface Plasmon Resonance |
| WSE | Wool Scouring Effluent |
| TNAA | Thermal Neutron Activation Analysis |
| HSPF | Hydrological Simulation Program-Fortran |
| VSWIR | Very Short Wavelength IR |
| STARS | Strategic Targeting Activities Reporting System |
| MMMF | Man-Made Mineral Fiber |
| EIS | Eikonal Initial State (in Scattering Calcns.) |
| MRD-CI | Multireference Double-excitation Configuration Interaction |