| Acronym | Meaning |
| MACS | Magnetic Cell Sorting System |
| CSO | Combined Sewage Overflow(s) |
| SOAP | Spectrometric Oil Analysis Program |
| HAOM | Hybrid Atomic Orbital Model |
| DDBJ | DNA Data Bank Of Japan |
| CEC | Commission Of The European Communities |
| GLISP | Great Lakes International Surveillance Plan |
| LLME | Liquid-liquid Micro Extraction |
| NAO | Natural Atomic Orbital |
| QHE | Quantum Hall Effect |