| Acronym | Meaning |
| NEMS | Nanoelectromechanical Systems |
| PSD | Passive Sampling Device(s) (for Air Pollution) |
| CLF | Current Literature File |
| AIHC | American Industrial Health Council |
| IAQINFO | Indoor Air Quality Information Clearinghouse |
| FSG | Fluorosilicate Glass |
| GEM | Genetically Engineered Microorganism |
| DCBOX | Distorted Coulomb-Born No-exchange Approxn. |
| PIPS | Passivated Implanted Planar Silicon |
| ECP | Exchange Core Polarization |