| Acronym | Meaning |
| PRESS | Point Resolved Spectroscopy |
| MDA | Metal Deactivator |
| LDT | Light Duty Truck |
| PEANUT | Phase-inverted Echo-amplitude Detected Nutation |
| MIC | Microbially Induced Corrosion |
| GCO | General Coupling Operator (in Calcns. Of Vector Coupling For Atoms And Ions) |
| ICRP | International Commission On Radiological Protection |
| LEF | Large-amplitude Elec. Field Fluctuations |
| RFA | Regulatory Flexibility Act |
| GRI | Geosynthetics Research Institute (Drexel University |