| Acronym | Meaning |
| SBCOD | Slowly Biodegradable Chemical Oxygen Demand |
| DIOS | Direct Iron Ore Smelting |
| DV-X(ALPHA) | Discrete Variational-x(alpha) (statistical Exchange Correlation) |
| SECV | Standard Error Of Cross-validation |
| IRIS | Incorporated Research Institutes For Seismology |
| MIPS | Million Instructions Per Second |
| CMX(2) | Second-order Connected Moments Expansion (method For Calcg. Correlation Energies Of Mols.) |
| CNPGAA | Cold Neutron Prompt Gamma-ray Activation Analysis |
| HMIG | Hazardous Materials Identification Guide |
| BOM | Benthic Organic Matter |