| Acronym | Meaning |
| PID | Photoionization Detector (gas Chromatography) |
| IMCL | Intramyocellular Lipid |
| ANS | American National Standard |
| CCMC-T2 | Coupled-cluster Multiconfigurational (double-excitation Method With Cluster Operator Approximated By T2) |
| DWA | Distorted Wave Approximation |
| NASQAN | National Stream Quality Accounting Network |
| ADA | American Diabetes Association |
| RNR | Ribonucleotide Reductase |
| READS | Restriction Enzyme Analysis Of Differentially-expressed Sequences |
| TASP | Template-assembled Synthetic Proteins |