| Acronym | Meaning |
| MTD | Maximum Tolerated Dose |
| SIMCA | Soft Independent Modeling Of Class Analogy (principal Component Analysis) |
| SAGE II | Stratospheric Aerosol And Gas Expt. II |
| MSPC | Multivariate Statistical Process Control |
| TDM | Therapeutic Drug Monitoring |
| TRPH | Total Recoverable Petroleum Hydrocarbons |
| NESHAP | National Emission Standards For Hazardous Air Pollutants |
| BEWS | Biological Early Warning Systems |
| DAEM | Distributed Activation Energy Model |
| CD | Critical Dimension |