| Acronym | Meaning |
| WQS | Water Quality Standard |
| CARIBIC | Civil Aircraft For Remote Sensing And In Situ Measurements In Troposphere And Lower Stratosphere Based On The Instrumentation |
| NIBSC | National Institute For Biological Standards And Control |
| IFCC | International Federation Of Clin. Chem. |
| RPC | Rotation Planar Chromatography |
| BBGKY | Bogoliubov-Born-Green-Kirkwood-Yvon Equations (in Kinetic Theory Of Fluids) |
| GACT | Generally Available Control Technology |
| ARIM | Accelerator And Reactor Improvement And Modification |
| SPEED | Selective Potentiostatic Etching By Electrolytic Dissolution |
| AR | Angle Resolved (technique Prefix) |