| Acronym | Meaning |
| ICRF | Imperial Cancer Research Fund |
| CXMS | Conversion X-ray Mossbauer Spectroscopy |
| SCC | Self-consistent Charge Method |
| AGNIC | Agriculture Network Information Center |
| QTM | Quick-turnaround Method |
| ACE | Alternating Conditional Expectations |
| HPCA | Hierarchical Principal Component Analysis |
| NBSB | National Biomonitoring Specimen Bank |
| MIPS | Million Instructions Per Second |
| SE | Standard Error |