| Acronym | Meaning |
| CARL | Colorado Association Of Research Libraries |
| FIM | Forced Impulse Method (in Atom Ion-impact Ionization) |
| PVD | Physical Vapor Deposition |
| FIE | Flow-injection Extraction |
| SLE | Stochastic Liouville Equation (in Quantum Statistical Mechanics) |
| EHS | Environment |
| ERD | Emergency Response Division |
| OEO | Overlap-enhanced Orbital |
| CSE | Cigarette Smoke Extract |
| TDTF | Time-dependent Thomas-Fermi |