| Acronym | Meaning |
| CLIA-88 | Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments Of 1988 |
| DAS | Dendrite Arm Spacing |
| LCAO CO | Linear Combination Of Atomic Orbitals Crystal Orbital |
| LMSA | Linear Multivariate Statistical Analysis |
| GRASP | Gradient Accelerated Spectroscopy |
| ISP | In-line Strip Production |
| IMA | International Mineralogical Association |
| SOP | Standard Operating Procedure |
| UDI | Utility Data Institute (power Generation) |
| CPCA | Consensus Principal Component Analysis |