| Acronym | Meaning |
| NIA | National Institute On Aging |
| GOOMEX | The Gulf Of Mexico Offshore Operations Monitoring Expt. |
| BWCC | Brillouin-Wigner Coupled-cluster (theory) |
| BS | Breathing Sphere (approxn. In Mol.-scattering Calcns.) |
| JESSI | Joint European Submicron Silicon Initiative |
| HPLC | High-performance Liquid Chromatography |
| PCM | Phase-change Medium |
| DSO-GF | Diagonal Second Order (approxn. To)-Green Function |
| ACT | Alternative Control Technique |
| EERU | Environmental Emergency Response Unit |