| Acronym | Meaning |
| RI | Refractive Index |
| RNAI | RNA Interference |
| GFAA | Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption |
| BMI | Body Mass Index |
| OHC | Outer Hair Cell |
| SIS | Stepwise Isothermal Segregation |
| FLMTO | Film Linearized Muffin-tin Orbital (for Surface Electronic Structure Calcns.) |
| PTGS | Post-transcriptional Gene Silencing |
| EIA | Energy Information Administration (DOE) |
| MFP | Magnetic Field Perturbative (method) |