| Acronym | Meaning |
| CVF | Cobra Venom Factor |
| DCID | Dimensionless Circular Intensity Difference |
| COC | Cleveland Open Cup (Flash Point Test Method) |
| CAPS | Cleaved Amplified Polymorphic Sequence |
| ALOTS | Airborne Lightweight Optical Tracking System |
| CMB | Chemical Mass Balance |
| BMWI | Biomedical Waste Incinerator |
| PAES | Positron-induced Auger Electron Spectroscopy |
| SPLEED | Spin Polarized Low-energy Electron Diffraction |
| AHP | Average Hole-potential (method For Electronic-structure Calcns. On Mols.) |