| Acronym | Meaning |
| HMPSA | Hot-melt Pressure-sensitive Adhesive |
| CHESS | Community Health And Environmental Surveillance System |
| AOI | Automatic Optical Inspection |
| ILSI | International Life Sciences Institute |
| GM | Geometric Mean |
| SOFAR | Sound Fixing And Ranging |
| FESTEM | Field-emission Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy |
| CASE | Computer Aided Software Engineering |
| MERT | Medical Emergency Response Team |
| LPME | Liquid-phase Microextraction |