| Acronym | Meaning |
| PSU | Practical Salinity Units |
| SAR | Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| ICPAC | International Committee On Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds |
| ROC | Receptor-operated Ca2+ Channel |
| SXPS | Soft X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy |
| NDWBA | Normalized Distorted-wave Born Approximation |
| CIAQ | Canadian Indoor Air Quality |
| AGARD | Advisory Group For Aerospace Research And Development |
| DIC | Differential Interference Contrast |
| SLP | Static Linear Polarization |