| Acronym | Meaning |
| AMIA | American Medical Informatics Association |
| CLS | Core Level Spectroscopy |
| CNDO/B | Complete Neglect Of Differential Overlap / Boyd |
| NCAR | National Center For Atmospheric Research (USA) |
| SRT | Sludge Or Solids Retention Time |
| CPDAM | Cumulative Potential-derived Atomic Multipole (calcn. Method) |
| CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific And Industrial Research Organization |
| STM | Scanning Tunneling Microscopy |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Expert Group |
| CCA | Crystalline Colloidal Array |