| Acronym | Meaning |
| EQO | Environmental Quality Objective |
| AACVD | Aerosol-assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| LTO | Laguerre-type Orbital (an Ao) |
| RCRA | Resource Conservation And Recovery Act Of 1976 |
| OMZ | Oxygen Min. Zone |
| PTV | Particle-tracking Velocimetry |
| EFCE | European Federation Of Chemical Engineers |
| ICISS | Impact Collision Ion Scattering Spectroscopy |
| IRIS | Incorporated Research Institutes For Seismology |
| UGLCC | Upper Great Lakes Connecting Channels |