| Acronym | Meaning |
| OTEC | Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion |
| CDAF | Continuous Distributed Approximating Function |
| NTB | Nonorthogonal Tight-binding |
| PSHF | Pseudospectral Hartree-Fock |
| EFTIR | Emission Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy |
| ECB | European Chemicals Bureau |
| MFA | Molecular-field Approximation |
| MAREMF | MARtian Electrons And Magnetic Field |
| TAP | Toxic Air Pollutant |
| PPR | Projection Pursuit Regression |