| Acronym | Meaning |
| NAVORDSTA | Naval Ordnance Station (US) |
| FNSI | Finding Of No Significant Impact |
| NVR | Non-volatile Residue |
| GEML | Gene Expression Markup Language |
| APC | Anaphase-promoting Complex |
| HFS | Hartree Fock Slater |
| AFRL | Air Force Research Laboratory |
| DR-RWA | Dominant Resonance-rotating Wave Approximation |
| RTFDW | Relativistic Thomas-Fermi-Dirac-Weizsaecker (electron-d. Theory) |
| CDOM | Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter |