| Acronym | Meaning |
| ASQC | American Society For Quality Control |
| LOEC | Lowest Observed Effect Concentration |
| PPI | Proton Pump Inhibitor |
| FCC | Fluidized Catalytic Cracking |
| TIRFM | Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy |
| WKB | Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (phase-shift Formula For Potential Scattering) |
| HOC | Halogenated Organic Carbons |
| I&C | Instrumentation And Control |
| RAMAN | Regional Atmospheric Measurement And Analytical Network |
| EFS | Event-free Survival |