| Acronym | Meaning |
| IDMA | Isotopic Dilution And Mass Analysis |
| ETB | Extended Tight-binding (method For Electronic-structure Calcns.) |
| ADMIS | Agfa Document Management Information System |
| ECAO | Environmental Criteria And Assessment Office |
| CFM | Contamination-free Manufacturing |
| PAS | Photoacoustic Spectroscopy |
| UHTS | Ultra High-throughput Screening |
| FRAP | Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching |
| COLD | Computer Output To Laser Disk |
| AA | Activation Analysis |