| Acronym | Meaning |
| DCTS | Discharging Current Transient Spectroscopy |
| AAQS | Ambient Air Quality Standard (USEPA) |
| CATS | Corrective Action Tracking System |
| CILS | Core Ionization Loss Spectroscopy |
| SBMF | Slave-boson Mean Field (in Electronic-structure Calcns.) |
| STT | Surface Tension Transfer |
| I&C | Instrumentation And Control |
| FPEIS | Fine Particulate Emissions Information System |
| MIAME | Minimum Information About A Microarray Experiment |
| EDA | Electron Donor-acceptor |