| Acronym | Meaning |
| CWISE | Coated-wire Ion-selective Electrode |
| NCP | Net Community Productivity |
| ILM | Immobilized Liquid Membrane |
| ORFEUS | Orbiting Retrievable Far And Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometers |
| AHP | Average Hole-potential (method For Electronic-structure Calcns. On Mols.) |
| BICINE | N N Bis 2 Hydroxyethyl Glycine |
| SPV | Surface Photovoltage |
| MCRRPA | Multiconfiguration Relativistic Random Phase Approxn. |
| OIRM | Office Of Information Resources Management |
| SSRS | Subtracted Shifted Raman Spectroscopy |