| Acronym | Meaning |
| PBMS | Photon Burst Mass Spectrometry |
| DASP | Discontinuous Activated Sludge Process |
| SCPF | Self-consistent Polarization Field Method |
| DIGE | Deuteron Induced Gamma-ray Emission |
| EHMI | Environmental Hazards Management Institute |
| DFP | Diisopropyl Fluorophosphate |
| PTGS | Post-transcriptional Gene Silencing |
| ANS | Advanced Neutron Source |
| NLXC | Nonlocal Exchange Correlation (potential) |
| AXAF | Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility |