| Acronym | Meaning |
| CAMEO | Computer Assisted Mechanistic Evaluation Of Organic Reactions |
| BMA | British Medical Association |
| DV-X(ALPHA) | Discrete Variational-x(alpha) (statistical Exchange Correlation) |
| CPT | Cluster Perturbation Theory |
| AEM | Acoustic Emission Monitoring |
| BMV | Berthier-Millie-Veillard Method (semiempirical MO-SCF) |
| DIM-3C | Diatomics-in-mols. Method Including 3-center Terms (integrals) |
| DDAB | Didodecyldimethylammonium Bromide |
| PIAD | Plasma-ion Assisted Deposition |
| HEUR | Hydrophobe Modified Ethoxylated Urethane [polymer] |