| Acronym | Meaning |
| NORA | National Occupational Research Agenda |
| EHLS | Environmental Health Laboratory Sciences |
| ICAM-1 | Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 |
| NQR | Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance |
| RCF | Rolling Contact Fatigue |
| AFOSR | Air Force Office Of Scientific Research (USA) |
| CPHSDM | Constant Pattern Homogeneous Surface Diffusion Model |
| SCPP | Self-consistent Polarization Propagator |
| ETGAO | Even-tempered Gaussian Atomic Orbital |
| LCIF | Linear Combination Of Interacting Forces |