| Acronym | Meaning |
| BID | Brinell Indentation Diameter |
| BAPMON | Background Air Pollution Monitoring Network |
| USDW | Underground Source Drinking Water |
| AWG | Arrayed Waveguide Grating |
| ATLAS | Airborne Tunable Laser Absorption Spectrometer |
| ICCP | International Committee For Coal Petrology |
| GRVB | Generalized Resonating Valence Bond |
| ISAAC | International Study Of Asthma And Allergies In Childhood |
| MCB | Micro-carrier Bed |
| EMSA | Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay |