| Acronym | Meaning |
| NDP | Net Driving Pressure (in Membrane Reverse Osmosis) |
| PSD | Position Sensitive Detector |
| BAC | Bacterial Artificial Chromosome |
| E-CATS | Electronic Catalog System |
| CFM | Contamination-free Manufacturing |
| ODFS | Optimized Dirac-Fock-Slater |
| HZ | Hertz (one Cycle Per Second) |
| LOPAC | Library Of Pharmacologically Active Compounds |
| SSHF | Spin-symmetrized Hartree-Fock (wave Function) |
| SEL | Surface Emitting Laser |