| Acronym | Meaning |
| EBI | Equivalent Background Illumination |
| CE/ESIMS | Capillary Electrophoresis/electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry |
| DRUM | Davis Rotating-drum Universal-size-cut Monitoring [cascade Impactor] Sampler |
| FSR | Fractional Synthesis Rate |
| PAWS | Portable Acoustic Wave Sensor |
| KFRP | Kevlar Fiber-epoxy Reinforced Plastic |
| AOMA | American Occupational Medical Association |
| CEN | Comite Europeen De Normalization |
| LSW | Localized Spherical Wave (in Electronic Structure Calcns.) |
| MCV | Mean Corpuscular Volume |