| Acronym | Meaning |
| SMOW | Standard Mean Ocean Water |
| GALT | Gut-associated Lymphoid Tissue |
| CVA | Canonical Variate Analysis |
| BOA | Bond Orbital Approximation |
| READS | Restriction Enzyme Analysis Of Differentially-expressed Sequences |
| IOA | International Ozone Association |
| MRL | Minimal Risk Levels |
| PIRSS | Polarization IR Surface Spectroscopy |
| LOGMO | Lowest Occupied Gaussian Molecular Orbital |
| STOCSY | Statistical Total Correlation Spectroscopy |