| Acronym | Meaning |
| HBSS | Hanks' Balanced Salt Solution |
| PISA | Pharmaceutical Information Systems Association |
| QSEX | Quadrature Selective Excitation |
| CPDAM | Cumulative Potential-derived Atomic Multipole (calcn. Method) |
| EXELFS | Extended Energy-loss Fine Structure |
| CPCCSD | Coupled-perturbed Coupled-cluster (with) Single (and) Double Excitation |
| CAS-MC-SCF | Complete Active Space-multiconfiguration-SCF |
| VETESS | Vehicle Transient Emissions Simulation Software |
| PEO | Poly(ethylene Oxide) |
| SNS | Separation Network Synthesis (chemical Engineering Design) |