| Acronym | Meaning |
| ARIPO | African Regional Intellectual Property Organization |
| IMPROVE | Interagency Monitoring For Protected Visual Environments |
| TFEL | Thin-film Electroluminescence |
| RCTM | Regional Chemical Transport Model |
| LITD | Lased Induced Thermal Desorption |
| ASCII | American Standard Code For Information Interchange |
| ORAC | Organic Reaction Accessed By Computer |
| CCLGO | Catalytic Cracked Light Gas Oil |
| MEED | Medium-energy Electron Diffraction |
| ATF | Activating Transcription Factor |