| Acronym | Meaning |
| IASC | International Arctic Science Committee |
| SIV | Simian Immunodeficiency Virus |
| CBOA | Crude Born-Oppenheimer Approximation |
| CABG | Coronary Artery Bypass Graft |
| EGA | Evolved Gas Analysis |
| IRGCHAZ | Intercritically Reheated Grain-coarsened Heat-affected Zone |
| CCDW | Coupled-channel Distorted-wave (quantum Method) |
| NHFPT | Nonorthogonal Hartree-Fock Perturbation Theory |
| IUMS | International Union Of Microbiological Societies |
| KTFPB | Potassium Tetrakis[3 |