| Acronym | Meaning |
| CDV | Capacitor Discharge Vaporization |
| AMBR | Anaerobic Migrating Blanket Reactor [for Wastewater Treatment] |
| SMA | Steel Manufacturers Association |
| TLV | Threshold Limit Value |
| NSERC | Natural Sciences And Engineering Research Council (Canada) |
| SCPA | Self-consistent Phonon Approximation (for Lattice Dynamics Of Quantum Crystals) |
| FABMS | Fast Atom Bombardment Mass Spectrometry |
| PSA | Potentiometric Stripping Analysis |
| TROESY | Transverse Rotating-frame Overhauser Effect Spectroscopy |
| PSEP | Polyhedral Skeletal Electron Pair (for Metal Clusters) |