| Acronym | Meaning |
| GIST | Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor |
| EGP | Evolved Gas Profile |
| DOVAM-S | Detection Of Virtually All Mutations-SSCP |
| LPM | Liters Per Minute |
| ERPA | Extended Random Phase Approximation |
| IPIB | Intense Pulsed Ion Beam |
| SUTRA | Saturated Unsaturated Transport Model |
| MAGW | Momentum-averaged Gaussian-weighted (method In Calcns. Of Electron-momentum Distributions) |
| CHEMFET | Chem. Modified Field Effect Transistor |
| COSTR | Collaborative Solar-Terrestrial Research |