| Acronym | Meaning |
| FOREGS | Forum Of European Geological Surveys |
| ICR | Intensified Controlled Rolling |
| SVR | Systemic Vascular Resistance |
| GSMT | Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope |
| CTE | Charge-transfer Efficiency |
| FOISD | Fiber Optic Isolated Spherical Dipole Antenna |
| LIPS | Laser-induced Plasma Spectroscopy |
| CTGF | Connective Tissue Growth Factor |
| PV-RR | Perturbational-variational-Rayleigh-Ritz (matrix Method In Mol. Calcns.) |
| PFZ | Polar Frontal Zone |