| Acronym | Meaning |
| HBSS | Hanks' Balanced Salt Solution |
| MDI | Methylene Di-p-phenylene Isocyanate |
| NCC | National Computing Center |
| CMA | Cylindrical Mirror Analyzer |
| GCL | Geosynthetic Clay Liner |
| MAGE | Melanoma-associated Antigen-encoding Gene |
| ISPGAA | In Situ Prompt Gamma-ray Activation Analysis |
| SCA-QD-MBPT | Self-consistently Adapted (core Reference State) Quasidegenerate Many-body Perturbation Theory |
| AAW | Air Acetylene Welding |
| SRE | Serum-responsive Element |