| Acronym | Meaning |
| RAA | Rigid-atom Approxn. (in Electronic Structure Calcns.) |
| APWP | Apparent Polar Wander Path |
| MALS | Multi-angle Light Scattering |
| MPDS | Moment-polarized Dirac-Slater |
| MBIE | Mixed-bed Ion Exchange |
| INEGA | Instituto Nacional De Estadistica |
| TCM | Total Capacitance Method |
| VBSCF | Valence Bond Self-consistent Field |
| RT | Reverse Transcriptase |
| GSR | Gunshot Residue |