| Acronym | Meaning |
| IX | Ion Exchange |
| BPB | Blood Lead |
| AIRS | Atmospheric Information Retrieval System |
| MPSS | Massively Parallel Signature Sequencing |
| RIOMETER | Relative Ionospheric Opacity Meter |
| APL | Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia |
| ESR | Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate |
| ZORA | Zeroth-order Regular Approximation |
| MARG | Microarray Research Group |
| VAD | Vapor Axial Deposition |