| Acronym | Meaning |
| LAQL | Lowest Analytically Quantifiable Level |
| CAER | Community Awareness And Emergency Response |
| DVC-FISH | Direct Viable Count-fluorescent In Situ Hybridization |
| IAMAS | International Association Of Meteorological And Atmospheric Sciences |
| EIG | Electrostatic Ion Guide |
| FSGO | Floating Spherical Gaussian Orbital |
| VLP | Virus-like Particle |
| CTAB | Cetyl Trimethyl Ammonium Bromide (cationic Surfactant) |
| CLEC | Chiral Ligand-exchange Chromatography |
| GCLDA | Gradient-corrected Local Density Approximation |