| Acronym | Meaning |
| CARE | Computed-aided Risk Evaluation |
| ASDWA | Association Of State Drinking Water Administrators |
| LISA | Library And Information Science Abstracts |
| PEUF | Polyelectrolyte Enhanced Ultrafiltration |
| CAIR | Comprehensive Assessment Information Rule (USEPA) |
| PMPO | Perturbed Morse Pekeris Oscillator (model Potential) |
| MACS | Magnetic Cell Sorting System |
| WSD | Water Saturation Deficit |
| ORSTB | Overlap-reduced Semiempirical Tight-binding |
| CIOS | Classical Infinite Order Sudden (in Atom-mol. Reaction Calcns.) |