| Acronym | Meaning |
| ECSC | European Coal And Steel Community |
| APWP | Apparent Polar Wander Path |
| BADGER | Bay Area Digital Geo-Resource |
| OMMSQA | Office Of Modeling |
| PBMS | Performance-based Measuring System |
| CDOC | Colored Dissolved Organic Carbon |
| TM | Thematic Mapper (Remote Sensing) |
| ZRL | Zero Risk Level |
| UBM | Under Bump Metallurgy |
| CMO | Complex Molecular Orbital Method |