| Acronym | Meaning |
| TPSA | Total Prostate Specific Antigen |
| GDC | Global Drifter Center (of WOCE Data System) |
| EPM | Empirical Pseudopotential Method |
| PA-FTIR | Photoacoustic Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy |
| HHMI | Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| NAA | Nonattainment Area |
| DMAD | Dimethyl Acetylenedicarboxylate |
| BLC | B Lymphocyte Chemoattractant |
| UTP | Unitary Transformation (based) Perturbation (theory) |
| MSC | Multiplicative Scatter Correction |