| Acronym | Meaning |
| NISO | National Information Standards Organization |
| AABW | Antarctic Bottom Water |
| NAME | Nuclear Accident Modeling Exercise [a Model] |
| GLP | Good Laboratory Practices (US FDA) |
| AIM | Adiabatic Invariance Method (in Ion-mol. Reactions) |
| OFW | Organic Free Water |
| SSM | Synthetic Soil Matrix (US EPA) |
| DIM-3C | Diatomics-in-mols. Method Including 3-center Terms (integrals) |
| LTTS | Low-Temperature Thermal Separation (for Waste Soil Treatment) |
| CCDW | Coupled-channel Distorted-wave (quantum Method) |