| Acronym | Meaning |
| RITZ | Regulatory And Investigative Treatment Zone |
| VOFF | Valence Orbital Force Field |
| TDKS | Time-dependent Kohn-Sham (d.-functional Operator Equation) |
| SLAMS | State And Local Air Monitoring System |
| MEECC | Microemulsion Electrokinetic Capillary Chromatography |
| SAPW | Symmetrized Augmented Plane Wave |
| NEIS | National Environmental Information Service |
| MIPS | Million Instructions Per Second |
| BCA | Binary-collision Approximation |
| SAMOS | System For Automated Monitoring Of Org. Pollutants In Surface Water |