| Acronym | Meaning |
| APOMA | American Precision Optics Manufacturers Association |
| FIRST | Field-portable Imaging Radiometric Spectrometer Technology |
| DEA | Dissociative Electron Attachment |
| PARC | Polycyclic Aromatic Ring Cleavage |
| BOS | Basic Oxygen Steelmaking |
| MSF | Multi-stage Flash Distillation Plant |
| DOSY | Diffusion-ordered Spectroscopy (NMR) |
| COF | Coefficient Of Friction |
| ACCDPPA | Approx. Coupled Cluster With Double Excitations Polarization Propagator Approxn. |
| MBPLS | Multiblock Partial Least Squares |