| Acronym | Meaning |
| QUASIMEME | Quality Assurance Of Information For Marine Environmental Monitoring In Europe |
| CIG | Commonwealth Industrial Gases Limited (Australia) |
| DF-OCE | Dirac-Fock One-center Expansion |
| IOS-BS | Infinite Order Sudden-breathing Sphere |
| BK | Brinkman-Kramers (approxn. In Ion-mol. Collision Quantum Calcn.) |
| NHEJ | Nonhomologous End Joining |
| DWE | Distorted-wave (approxn. With) Exchange |
| PERL | Passivated Emitter And Rear Locally Diffused (solar Cells) |
| BRS | Bibliographic Retrieval Service |
| NSIDC | National Snow And Ice Data Center (University Of Colorado) |