| Acronym | Meaning |
| PCBN | Polycrystalline Cubic Boron Nitride |
| ANZECC | Australian And New Zealand Environment And Conservation Council |
| CBE | Chemical Beam Epitaxy |
| FLISA | Fluorescence-linked Immunosorbent Assay |
| ROA | Raman Optical Activity |
| CVFF | Consistent Valence Force Field |
| LCLS | Linac Coherent Light Source |
| ZHE | Zero-headspace Extractor (used In TCLP Determinations) |
| BRNO | Best Radial Natural Orbital |
| AVCC-IOS | Azimuthal (and) Vibrational Close-coupled (rotational) Infinite Order Sudden |