| Acronym | Meaning |
| NRW | Null Reflecting Water |
| OIA | Office Of International Activities |
| BOC-MP | Bond Order Conservation-morse Potential |
| EFTIR | Emission Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy |
| ASIC | Application Specific Integrated Circuit |
| ACRES | Australian Center For Remote Sensing |
| PMEL | Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory |
| GFPE | Generalized Fokker-Planck Equation |
| MAO | Modified Atomic Orbital |
| PCM | Phase Contrast Microscopy |