| Acronym | Meaning |
| LFAM | Line Focus Acoustic Microscope |
| ADCP | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler |
| APWP | Apparent Polar Wander Path |
| UARP | Upper Atmospheric Research Program |
| RS-LMTO-ASA | Real Space-linear Combination Of Muffin-tin Orbitals-atomic Sphere Approxn. |
| BPL | Bone Phosphate Of Lime (phosphate Content As Calcium Phosphate) |
| BZR | Benzodiazepine Receptor |
| AQF | American Quality Foundation |
| DPUMPN | Double-annihilation Procedure Unrestricted Moeller-Plesset Nth-order |
| STBF | Slater-type Basis Function |