| Acronym | Meaning |
| MTOR | Mammalian Target Of Rapamycin |
| NCCLS | National Committee For Clinical Laboratory Standards |
| ROC | Receiver Operating Characteristics |
| COSCAT | Coherent Scatter System |
| NPP | Net Primary Productivity |
| PLAD | Pulsed Laser Ablation Deposition |
| DSN | Deep Space Network |
| COC | Chain Of Custody |
| CASS | Computer Assisted Stratification And Sampling |
| MC | Mclean-Chandler Basis Set |