| Acronym | Meaning |
| TBBA | Tightly-bound-on-the-bond Approxn. (band Structure Crystal) |
| BWPT | Brillouin-Wigner Perturbation Theory |
| CET | Collisional Energy Transfer |
| AMS | Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Or Spectroscopy |
| HPV | Hypoxic Pulmonary Vasoconstriction |
| LIMS | Limb Infrared Monitor Of The Stratosphere |
| RRPA | Renormalized Random-phase Approxn. |
| SOLSE | Shuttle Ozone Limb Sounding Experiment |
| SUMO | Small Ubiquitin-related Modifier |
| NIHL | Noise-Induced Hearing Loss |