| Acronym | Meaning |
| DC | Blood-air Distribution Coefficient |
| LAOS | Light Amplifying Optical Switch |
| ISTS | Impulsive Stimulated Thermal Scattering [a Laser-based Ultrasonic Technique] |
| MINDO/SR | MINDO S=overlap Integral R=internuclear Distance |
| DSTD | Dynamic Surface Tension Detection |
| SCC | Standards Council Of Canada |
| SSCAD | Spherical Self-consistent Atomic Deformation |
| DVR-REV | Discrete Variable Representation-ray Eigenvector |
| TESS | Transform Method For Extinction-scattering With Spatial Resoln. |
| EDXRF | Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence |