| Acronym | Meaning |
| AIPA | American Inventors Protection Act |
| STOIIP | Stock Tank Oil Initially In Place |
| HITRAN | High-Resolution Transmission Molecular Absorption Database |
| ARGOS | Advanced Research And Global Observation Satellite |
| QA/QC | Quality Assurance/quality Control |
| SSB | Semiclassical Sudden Born (approxn. In Ion-atom Collisions) |
| DZDP | (double Zeta)-diffuse-polarization (basis Set In Configuration-mixing Mo Calcns. On Mols.) |
| HHPN | Hydraulic High Pressure Nebulization |
| CDHR | Center For Devices And Radiological Health |
| OPAL | Optical Pumping Absorption Lidar |