| Acronym | Meaning |
| PAIS | Public Affairs Information Service |
| SWPPP | Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan |
| COADS | Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set |
| PCD | Polycrystalline Diamond |
| CMIR | Carter Maximum Incremental Reactivity |
| EQS | Environmental Quality Standard |
| MOCVD | Metal Org. Chem. Vapor Deposition |
| TGN | Trans-Golgi Network |
| MCP | Microchannel Plate |
| LHASA | Logic And Heuristics Applied To Synthetic Analysis |