| Acronym | Meaning |
| SETOC | International Sediment Exchange For Tests On Organic Contaminants |
| SART | Specific Alternation Of Rhythm In Temperature |
| CDE | Collective Dose Equivalent |
| ACSR | Aluminum Conductor Steel Reinforced |
| MSA | Many-trajectory Semiclassical Approxn. (in At.-collision Theory) |
| MIH | Method Of Intermediate Hamiltonians |
| BATNEEC | Best Available Technology Not Entailing Excessive Cost |
| LTMED | Low Temperature Multi-effect Distillation |
| NBS | National Bureau Of Standards |
| PDRM | Post-depositional Remanent Magnetization |