| Acronym | Meaning |
| UKAS | United Kingdom Accreditation Service |
| TBT | Tributyl Tin |
| ACP | Automatic Correlation Partitioning |
| OSBG | Optimized Support For Biological Growth |
| QDM | Quantum Defect Method |
| ICZN | International Commission On Zoological Nomenclature |
| HWI | Hazardous Waste Incineration |
| LSRA | Least-squares Regression Analysis |
| HUGO | Human Genome Organization |
| LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory |