| Acronym | Meaning |
| LCMVAO | Linear Combination Of Modified Valence Atomic Orbital |
| IGEFET | Interdigitated-gate-electrode Field-effect Transistor |
| EARTOF | Energy And Angle Refocusing Time-of-flight Mass Spectrometry |
| RACE | Rapid Amplification Of CDNA Ends |
| ENSO | El Nino Southern Oscillation |
| CSWP | Centrifugal Sudden [or Coupled States] Wave Packet Method |
| FPGA | Field-programmable Gate Array |
| LAC | Liquid Adsorption Chromatography |
| USGCRP | U.S. Global Change Research Program |
| MOD | Metalorganic Decomposition |