| Acronym | Meaning |
| MELAS | Mitochondrial Myopathy |
| MODS | Magneto-Optical Difference Spectroscopy |
| TGF | Transforming Growth Factor |
| JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| PPFD | Photosynthetic Photon Flux D. |
| CCMP | Capacitively Coupled Microwave Plasma |
| MPO | Metropolitan Planning Organization |
| CMAS | Completely Mixed Activated Sludge |
| HFF | Hellmann-Feynman Force Approximation |
| ASCII | American Standard Code For Information Interchange |