| Acronym | Meaning |
| CDW | Circumpolar Deep Water |
| REP | Rotating Electrode Process |
| CVG | Chemical Vapor Generation |
| PICA | Picosecond Imaging Circuit Analysis |
| CTEM | Conventional Transmission Electron Microscopy |
| ACQM | Arrangement-channel Quantum Mechanics |
| SIDAMS | Simultaneous Ion Detection In Atmospheric Mass Spectrometry |
| STB | Semiempirical Tight Binding |
| NSS | National Stream Survey (USA) |
| UW-PG | Uniformly Weighted Planar Grid (method In Calcns. Of Electron-momentum Distributions) |