| Acronym | Meaning |
| MIRO | Mineral Industry Research Organization (UK) |
| MARS | Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines |
| FOCI | First-order Configuration Interaction |
| MCM | Mesoporous Crystalline Material |
| URA | Universities Research Association |
| EHMO | Extended Hueckel Molecular Orbital |
| LMO | Localized Molecular Orbital |
| DMAD | Dimethyl Acetylenedicarboxylate |
| MCVD | Modified Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| ABMR | Atomic Beam Magnetic Resonance |