| Acronym | Meaning |
| OHC | Outer Hair Cell |
| CSA | Coupled States Approxn. |
| LSR | Lanthanide Shift Reagent |
| PAL | Positron Annihilation Lifetime |
| CSH | Centrifugal Sudden Hyperspherical (coordinate Reactive Scattering Code) |
| ABA | Abscisic Acid |
| PDFT | Perturbation Density-functional Theory |
| TEWI | Total Equivalent Warming Impact |
| NOV | Notice Of Violation |
| TRLIF | Time-resolved Laser-induced Fluorescence |