| THz-TDS | Terahertz frequency-domain spectroscopy |
| ATR | Attenuated total reflection |
| 2,4-D | 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid |
| DFT | Density functional theory |
| LOD | Limit of detection |
| USM | Umbrella-shaped metamaterial |
| RMSE | Root mean square error |
| COF | Covalent organic frameworks |
| PI | Polyimide |
| PCA | Principal component analysis |
| FQs | Fluoroquinolones |
| FMFs | Fish meal feeds |
| SPA | Successive projections algorithm |
| NF | Norfloxacin |
| ENR | Enrofloxacin |
| BPNN | Backpropagation neural network |
| PEF | Pefloxacin |
| FLE | Fleroxacin |
| CARS | Competitive adaptive reweighted sampling |
| TC4 | Three-concentric C4-symmetrical split-ring |
| MRR-CSF | Multiple resonance response competition and selection fusion |
| KNN | K-Nearest Neighbor |
| CAP | Chloramphenicol |
| AuF-MM | Gold film metamaterial |
| CAP-BSA | CAP–bovine serum albumin |
| AuNPs-mAb | Colloidal gold-labeled CAP monoclonal antibodies |
| CSs | Citrate salts |
| ADA | Azodicarbonamide |
| SG | Savitzky–Golay |
| LSTM | Long short-term memory |
| LS-SVM | Least squares support vector machine |
| S. aureus | Staphylococcus aureus |
| E. coli | Escherichia coli |
| STDN | Single-bacterium terahertz dielectric nanoimaging |
| S. epidermidis | Staphylococcus epidermidis |
| AgNCs | Ag nanocubes |
| AFB2 | Aflatoxin B2 |
| MC | Moisture content |
| PFBD | Pulsed fluidized bed dryer |
| CNNs | Convolutional neural networks |
| PLSR | Partial least squares regression |
| SVR | Support vector regression |
| HSI | Hyperspectral imaging |
| NIR-HSI | Near-infrared hyperspectral imaging |
| GPR | Gaussian process regression |
| SVM | Support vector machine |
| FSS | Frequency-selective surface |
| FT-THz | Fourier-transform terahertz |
| HMT | Heat-moisture treatment |
| XRD | X-ray diffraction |
| SSA-SVM | Sparrow algorithm optimised support vector machines |
| UVE | Uninformative variable elimination |
| Meta-Sticker | Metamaterial sticker |
| SCARS | Stability competitive adaptive reweighted sampling |
| RF | Random forest |
| MCUVE | Monte Carlo uninformative variable elimination |
| PLS | Partial least squares |
| FCNN | Fully connected neural network |