| Acronym | Meaning |
| COASTS | Coastal Ocean Advanced Science And Technology Study (IOC Program) |
| MARS | Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines |
| PTM | Perturbation Trajectory Method (in Gas-surface Collision Dynamics) |
| GFAAS | Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy |
| SCT | Stem Cell Transplantation |
| SNPS | Space Nuclear Power System |
| MFI | Modified Fouling Index |
| EPM | Empirical Pseudopotential Method |
| EBK | Einstein-Brillouin-Keller (quantization Method) |
| CIOSA | Classical Infinite-order Sudden Approxn. |