| Acronym | Meaning |
| PSES | Pretreatment Standards For Existing Sources |
| HUVEC | Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cell |
| ARM | Agricultural Runoff Model |
| MPHF | Maximally Paired Hartree Fock |
| EPBRE | External Pressure Balanced Ref. Electrode |
| AET | Acoustic Emission Technique |
| WPPD | Whole-powder-pattern Decomposition |
| TDKS | Time-dependent Kohn-Sham (d.-functional Operator Equation) |
| AOML | Atlantic Oceanographic And Meteorological Laboratory (of NOAA |
| DBR | Distributed Bragg Reflector |