| Acronym | Meaning |
| MIAME | Minimum Information About A Microarray Experiment |
| FMEA | Failure Mode And Effect Analysis |
| VLT | Very Large Telescope |
| SCMP | Self-consistent Madelung Potential |
| BPFT | Bohm-Pines-Fock-Tani (Hamiltonian In Calcns. On Plasmons) |
| CCGT | Closed Cycle Gas Turbine |
| CDIR | Carbon Dioxide Information Repository |
| RO | Reverse Osmosis |
| EBA | Exponentiated Born Approximation |
| CHFEP | Coreless Hartree-Fock Effective Potential |