| Acronym | Meaning |
| MAST | Marine Science And Technology Programme |
| BO | Brueckner Orbital |
| BBXRT | Broad Band X-Ray Telescope |
| GID | Grazing Incidence Diffraction |
| NDLM | Nondiagonal Lagrange Multiplier |
| QPLDA | Quasiparticle Local-density Approxn. |
| CUSMAP | Conterminous United States Mineral Assessment Program |
| DCMD | Direct Contact Membrane Distillation |
| ESEDD | Excited State Electron Density Differential Method |
| RSM | Response Surface Method |