| Acronym | Meaning |
| WQI | Water Quality Index |
| JOIDES | Joint Oceanographic Institutions For Deep Earth Sampling |
| GPO | Government Printing Office |
| CML | Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia |
| BIA | Biochemical Induction Assay |
| ICTP | Telopeptide Of Type-I Collagen |
| QDA | Quadratic Discriminant Analysis |
| QXRD | Quantitative X-ray Diffraction |
| SALSA | Scoring Algorithm For Spectral Analysis |
| FIMS | Fine-split IR Multispectral Scanner (for Remote Sensing) |