| Acronym | Meaning |
| NBOD | Nitrogenous Biochemical Oxygen Demand |
| ECLIPS | Encoded Combinatorial Libraries On A Polymeric Surface |
| OR | Odds Ratio |
| DSDV | Dirac-Slater Discrete Variational |
| OAW | Oxyacetylene Welding |
| COPNA | Condensed Polynuclear Aromatics |
| CAM | Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (photosynthetic Pathway) |
| IDA | Interdigitated Array (microelectrodes) |
| MS-RHFR | Momentum-space Restricted Hartree-Fock-Roothaan |
| PKI | Public Key Infrastructure |