| Acronym | Meaning |
| OMZ | Oxygen Min. Zone |
| BOFS | Biogeochemical Ocean Flux Study (UK) |
| ICHAZ | Intercritical Heat-affected Zone |
| WPCF | Water Pollution Control Federation |
| WWM | Wigner-Weyl-Moyal (formalism In Quantum Mechanics) |
| MMR | Magnetometric Restivity (method For Subsurface Characterization) |
| IWRA | International Water Resources Association (USA) |
| TS | Transition State |
| BHF | Broken-symmetry Hartree-Fock |
| CADE | Computer Aided Deposit Evaluation |