| Acronym | Meaning |
| IGS | Intergenic Spacer |
| ASW | Acoustic Surface Wave Measurements |
| SANDER | Simulated Annealing With NMR-derived Energy Restraints |
| CERL | Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (US Army) |
| J(Z)CCS | J(z) Conserving Centrifugal Sudden Approximation (in Molecular Collisions |
| HGP | Human Genome Project |
| EFPVN | Eastern Fine Particle And Visibility Network |
| AFEAS | Alternative Fluorocarbon Environmental Acceptability Study |
| TBNEM | Tight-binding Nearly Free Electron Model |
| DSIMS | Dynamic Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry |