| Acronym | Meaning |
| BEST | Bare Essentials Of Surface Transfer |
| ODC | Optimized Double Configuration |
| BKC | Born-von Karman Cell (model For Electronic-structure Calcn.) |
| GFIS | Gas Field Ion Source |
| HDC | Hydrodynamic Chromatography |
| SOMBT | Second-order Many-body Theory |
| GRD | Growth Rate Dispersion [crystallization] |
| DIB | Diffuse Interstellar Band |
| SPPES | Spin Polarized Photoelectron Spectroscopy |
| NLP | Natural Language Processing |