| Acronym | Meaning |
| NLLSQ | Nonlinear Least Squares |
| NIXSW | Normal Incidence X-ray Standing Wave |
| FLMS | Femtosecond Laser Mass Spectrometry |
| SUVR | Solar Ultraviolet Radiation |
| IABO | International Association Of Biological Oceanography (ICSU) |
| ADA | N-(2-acetamido) Iminodiacetic Acid |
| VCAM-1 | Vascular Cell Adhesion Mol. 1 |
| IAG | Island-arc Granitoids |
| GFF | Green Function Formalism |
| BPFT | Bohm-Pines-Fock-Tani (Hamiltonian In Calcns. On Plasmons) |