| Acronym | Meaning |
| CPT | Coulomb Wave-plane Wave (description With) Truncated (treatment) |
| PAR | Population At Risk |
| MOSHO | Maximum Overlap Symmetry Hybrid Orbital |
| RRPA | Renormalized Random-phase Approxn. |
| HCI | Highly Charged Ion |
| PHO | Pseudoharmonic Oscillator |
| PSU | Practical Salinity Units |
| EST | Expressed Sequence Tag |
| IOSVR | Infinite Order Sudden Vib-rotor Approximation |
| PUFA | Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid |