| Acronym | Meaning |
| UAP | Utilization Associated Products |
| DQ-MBPT | Double And Quadruple Excitation Diagrams In Many-body Perturbation Theory |
| HW | Hazardous Waste |
| GBCD | Grain Boundary Character Distribution |
| HGP | Human Genome Project |
| SOPITA | South Pacific Isotopic And Thermal Anomaly |
| OVD | Outside Vapor Deposition |
| ESD | Element-Specific Detector |
| PBM | Probability-based Matching |
| ARDS | Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome |