| Acronym | Meaning |
| CMP | Chemical Measurement Process |
| BSO | Basic Symmetric Operator (in Second-quantization Calculations) |
| RLF | Radially Localized (wave) Function |
| NAAQS | National Ambient Air Quality Standards |
| SDOSS | Sodium Dioctylsulfosuccinate |
| HHMI | Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| ASIS | American Society For Information Science |
| BCRLM | Bending-corrected Rotating Linear Model (for Reactive Scattering) |
| SIMBA | Selective Inverse Multiple Bond Analysis |
| PKS | Polyketide Synthase |