| Abbreviations | Description |
| 1H NMR | proton nuclear magnetic resonance |
| 2D | two-dimensional |
| 3D | three-dimensional |
| Am-241 | americium-241 |
| ANN | artificial neural networks |
| ANOVA | one-way analysis of variance |
| APPI | atmospheric pressure photo ionization |
| Bias | systematic error |
| CC | capillary column |
| CCS | collision cross section |
| CD | corona discharge |
| Ctr | mean centering |
| CV | cross validation |
| D(I)MS | differential ion mobility spectrometry |
| DHS | dynamic headspace extraction |
| DTIMS | drift-tube ion mobility spectrometry |
| E-nose | electric nose |
| EVOO | extra-virgin olive oil |
| FAIMS | high-field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry |
| ft | film thickness |
| FT-IR | Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy |
| GC | gas chromatography |
| GC–IMS | gas chromatography-ion mobility spectrometry |
| H+[H2O]n | proton-water clusters with n number of water molecules |
| H-3 | tritium |
| HCA | hierarchical cluster analysis |
| HOG | histograms of oriented gradients |
| HS | headspace |
| ID | inner diameter |
| IMS | ion mobility spectrometry |
| K0 | reduced ion mobility |
| KMO | Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin |
| kNN | k-nearest neighbors |
| L(V)OO | lampante (virgin) olive oil |
| LC | liquid chromatography |
| LDA | linear discriminant analysis |
| LDI | laser desorption/ionization technique |
| LOO | leave-one-out |
| LS | library search |
| M2H+ | proton-bound dimers |
| MCC | multicapillary column |
| MCR-ALS | multivariate curve resolution alternating least squares |
| MH+ | protonated monomers |
| MPCA | multiway principal component analysis |
| MVA | multivariate variate data analysis |
| Ni-63 | nickel-63 |
| NTS | non-targeted screening |
| OPLS-DA | orthogonal partial least-squares discriminant analysis |
| Par | Pareto |
| PC(A) | principal component (analysis) |
| PLS(R) | partial least squares (regression) |
| POO | pomace olive oil |
| (Q)DA | (quadratic) discriminant analysis |
| R² | determination coefficient |
| RE | relative error of prediction |
| Regressor | logistic regression |
| RIP | reactant ion peak |
| RMSE | root mean square error |
| RS | reference substances |
| (R)-SVM | (recursive) support vector machine |
| SEP | standard error of prediction |
| SHS | static headspace extraction |
| SIMCA | soft independent modeling of class analogy |
| SPME | solid-phase microextraction |
| TIMS | trapped ion mobility spectrometry |
| Tree | decision tree classification |
| TWIMS | travelling tube ion mobility spectrometry |
| UnVa | unit variance |
| UR | univariate regression |
| UV | ultraviolet light |
| VIP | variable importance in projection |
| VOC | volatile organic compound |
| (V)OO | (virgin) olive oil |