| Acronym | Meaning |
| FIRST | Far Infrared And Submillimetre Space Telescope |
| PMF | Positive Matrix Factorization |
| SCALPEM | Scanning Laser Photoelectrochemical Microscopy |
| APE | Aerosol Photoemission |
| CLF | Current Literature File |
| CEF | Chicken Embryo Fibroblast |
| PAWS | Portable Acoustic Wave Sensor |
| CESE | Complex Eigenvalue Shroedinger Equation |
| EFA | Envelope Function (i.e. |
| MASE | Microwave-assisted Solvent Extraction |