| Acronym | Meaning |
| FSGO | Floating Spherical Gaussian Orbital |
| APG | Alkyl Polyglycosidepar |
| APMI | American Powder Metallurgy Institute |
| FWA | Fluorescent Whitening Agent |
| BATNEEC | Best Available Technology Not Entailing Excessive Cost |
| AIST | Agency Of Industrial Science And Technology (Japan) |
| FAOS | Fluorescent Activated Organelle Sorting |
| ADPT | Auger Depth Profiling Technique |
| ESIC | Electrostatic Interaction Chromatography |
| IRS | Internal Reflection Spectroscopy |