| Acronym | Meaning |
| PMDL | Practical Method Detection Limit |
| BEC | Bose-Einstein Condensation |
| CQED | Consortium For Quality Environmental Data |
| KBES | Knowledge-based Expert System |
| OEBR | Optical Edge Bead Removal |
| APSG | Antisymmetrized Product Of Strongly Orthogonal Geminals (variant Of Multiconfiguration Self-consistent Field Method) |
| SUTRA | Saturated Unsaturated Transport Model |
| APS | Advanced Photon Source |
| BO | Brueckner Orbital |
| MTTP | Maximum Total Trihalomethane Potential |