| Acronym | Meaning |
| NPRI | National Pollutant Release Inventory |
| BOFT | Bearing Oil Film Thickness |
| AQMD | Air Quality Management District |
| STA | Simultaneous Thermal Analysis |
| PFGSE | Pulsed Field-gradient Spin-echo |
| AFBBR | Anaerobic Fluidized Bed Biofilm Reactor |
| ARSCFC | Approximate Relativistic SCF (with) Corrections |
| SIRS | Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome |
| HCV | Hepatitis C Virus |
| NDBEPR | Nitrification-denitrification Biological Excess Phosphorus Removal |