| Acronym | Meaning |
| CCM | Chemical Cleavage Of Mismatch |
| CEDE | Committed Effective Dose Equivalent |
| CAGE | Capillary Affinity Gel Electrophoresis |
| RIOS | Reactive Infinite-order Sudden (at.-mol. Reactive Collisions) |
| ISEC | Inverse Steric Exclusion Chromatography |
| SELDI | Surface-enhanced Laser Desorption Ionization Spectrometry |
| HGNC | HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee |
| DQO | Data Quality Objectives |
| AOA | Angle Of Attack [propulsion] |
| BADT | Best Available Demonstrated Technology |