| Acronym | Meaning |
| VAWI | Variable Wavelength Interferometry |
| BMC | Benchmark Concentration |
| SS-OFMSW | Source Sorted Organic Fraction Of Municipal Solid Waste |
| GEMS | Global Environmental Monitoring Systems |
| CPBA | Coulomb-projected Born Approximation |
| IEMM | Incident Energy Modulation Method |
| GAMP | Global Atmospheric Measurements Program |
| SOGVB | Spin Optimized Generalized Valence Bond Method |
| QVE | Quasivibrational Energy (formalism In Multiphoton Dissocn.) |
| GCEC | Global Change And Ecological Complexity |