| Acronym | Meaning |
| SLMTO | Surface Linear (combination) Of Muffin-tin Orbitals |
| CIG | Commonwealth Industrial Gases Limited (Australia) |
| WERC | Waste-management Education & Research Consortium |
| HASTE | Half-Fourier Acquisition With Single-shot Turbo Spin-echo |
| SIMD | Single-instruction Multiple-data |
| HVLP | High-volume Low Pressure [spray Gun] |
| ISLSCP | International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project |
| ARMS | Angle-resolved Mass Spectrometry |
| DVB | Diagrammatic Valence Bond (in Study Of Electronic Properties) |
| EDF | Environmental Defense Fund |