| Acronym | Meaning |
| HCA | Hierarchical Cluster Analysis |
| VSA | Vacuum Swing Adsorption |
| SPARS | Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy |
| CK | Creatine Kinase |
| SEGS | Solar Electric Generating System |
| AMESA | Adsorption Method For Sampling Of Dioxins |
| SIA | Self-interstitial Atom |
| EBOM | Effective Bond-orbital Method |
| FP | Finite Perturbation |
| RDA | Regularized Discriminant Analysis |