| Acronym | Meaning |
| DFWM | Degenerate Four-wave Mixing |
| MPI | Modified Perturbation Iteration |
| APWA | American Public Works Association |
| EINECS | European Inventory Of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances |
| VLDL | Very Low Density Lipoprotein |
| QPMDA | Quasiparticle Mean Density Approxn. (assocd. With Local-d. Theory) |
| RAS | Renin-angiotensin System |
| CIOSA | Classical Infinite-order Sudden Approxn. |
| MIPAES | Microwave-induced Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry |
| AFIS | Advanced Fiber Information System |