| Acronym | Meaning |
| MTF | Multiple Tube Fermentation |
| IAQMP | Indoor Air Quality Management Program |
| WSD | Water Saturation Deficit |
| OR | Odds Ratio |
| FAAS | Flame Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy |
| DZ | Dunning-Huzinaga (basis Sets) |
| HC | Hazardous Constituent |
| GAIIA | Global Alliance Of Information Industry Associations |
| SAAP | Spin Adapted Antisymmetrized Product (in MC-SCF Theory) |
| CNDO/S | Complete Neglect Of Differential Overlap/spectroscopic |